Aziz Ansari's one man show at UCB

[ComedySnobedy]

Monday, May 9 - Aziz Ansari Punched a Wall at UCB Theatre (SPANK) - 9:30 pm

This is the one man show he's been working on. I think the title is fairly self explanatory.



side note: I made the choice of this one over the Todd Barry show, but it wasn't easy.

[5InchTaint]

How was the show?

[ComedySnobedy]

Aziz's show was really funny... but it was prefaced by a girl doing 25 minutes of how her dad didn't pay attention to her and doesn't respect her. The fact that Aziz got any laughs with that kind of warmup was a testament to his incredible talent.

[5InchTaint]

Female comedians suck. I don't understand why it's so difficult for a woman to be funny. I can only think of a couple of female comedians I've laughed out loud at. Does the Y chromosome contain the 'funny' gene? It doesn't make sense.

[agent_PUNT]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
Female comedians suck. I don't understand why it's so difficult for a woman to be funny. I can only think of a couple of female comedians I've laughed out loud at. Does the Y chromosome contain the 'funny' gene? It doesn't make sense.

here we go again!

if you say "there are no good american soccer players today" you have to look at why that is. It's because growing up american kids had no american role models to look up to in the soccer world. So there was no influence to follow those role models. (they didn't exist, therefore no interest was shown)

You follow me?

It's the same with female comedians. Little girls don't have many role models to look up to. Because they're are no good female comedians around from the 80's and 90's. What? Roseanne Barr? Paula Poundstone? Joan Rivers?

You follow me?

God I can't make that any more simple.

[AndersLevant]

I don't know, Punt. I'm with Taint. Pretty much everything boils down to genetics.

[ME!!!!]

It's a fact. A scientific fact!

[teengirlsquad]

punt's right. but in addition... its easier for men to connect with a male comic and not even just because of the material -even just linguistically.

Does the Y chromosome contain the 'funny' gene?
shut the fuck up with your annoying pointless theories that aren't even funny. if you are going to offend me at least put some effort into it and make me laugh.

[5InchTaint]

The soccer comparison doesn't work. There aren't any good American Soccer players (not true, but who cares) because the sport of Soccer isn't popular here. Comedy is. It's not split up between Men/Women like sports are. Look at the reason girls don't have comedy role models. There are so few role models because so few women are funny. There is no Boy's Club with stand up anymore. If a female was funny she would have just as good a chance to become famous as a guy. Probably more so because of the lack of funny females. I think it's something in the genetic code. An evolutionary trait maybe. Men had to deal with other men and if they were funny they could avoid having their brain's smashed in with a rock.

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by teengirlsquad
punt's right. but in addition... its easier for men to connect with a male comic and not even just because of the material -even just linguistically.

If that were true, women would be saying that male comedians aren't funny. So, you're wrong.

Originally posted by teengirlsquad
shut the fuck up with your annoying pointless theories that aren't even funny. if you are going to offend me at least put some effort into it and make me laugh.

The truth hurts, doesn't it?

[Brain Stew]

I've tried to say that women aren't funny before and I have met the same resistance on BUTM. We had a heated discussion in my Tina Fey bashing thread about this.

To say that the reason most comediennes aren't funny because they had no one to look up to in the 80s/90s is a stretch. Most alt-comics like Bob & David's influence went back to SCTV and Monty Python which where in the 70s and 60s respectively. Now, in the seventies there certainly were plenty of prominent commediennes such as Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and Catherine O'Hara.

Did I think they were funny? Occasionally, but nothing compared to their male counterparts.

It's only when a comedienne emulates a male comedian, they actually become funny. Such is the case with Sarah Silverman.

[5InchTaint]

See, what I'm saying is: I find it perplexing that there have not been more female stand-ups who have made me laugh. Do males have more of a disposition towards comedy? Am I just being biased or is there more to it?

What Brain Stew is saying: Due to my closeted homosexuality and the shame resultant of it, I have become a venemous misogynist.

[Brain Stew]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
What Brain Stew is saying: Due to my closeted homosexuality and the shame resultant of it, I have become a venemous misogynist.
:confused:

Hardly. I just don't think that the current crop of comediennes are funny. There are more women in the population, so logicially there should be more (or at least better) comediennes. But there aren't for some reason.

[5InchTaint]

It was just a joke. I know what you're saying though.

[Brain Stew]

I don't get jokes, they are foreign to me :(.

Maybe it has something do with gender bias? I know that as a male I don't connect with a lot of their bits just like I don't connect with a lot of the songs female singers write.

But that goes back to what Taint said earlier, if gender bias is the case why do male comedians have universal appeal? Very tricky.

[tjamick]

I don't think anyones funny.

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by tjamick
I don't think anyones funny.
You forgot the apostrophe in "anyone's". It's a contraction and therefore requires said apostrophe. The apostrophe replaces the missing letter i (anyone is). You would also use the apostrophe if you were using the word in a possessive manner (Is this anyone's shotgun or can I blow my brains out with it?).










You asked for this.

[Pali]

There aren't that many good female comedians around, this is a fact. Women can be funny, however, and I think that if we ever see a more level playing field in terms of opportunities
for women in comedy (and manage to shed ourselves of that assumption that women can't be funny) then we will see more female comedians and subsequently, more good ones.

Anyone who thinks there is something inherent to being female that prevents them from being a laugh-riot is, simply put, a dickhead. The sad fact of the matter is that at the moment, we have a tiny amount of women trying their hand at comedy in comparison to men. It is my opinion that the majority of male comedians aren't funny, and that only a small percentage of male comedians who are in the public eye are actually funny. This same ratio most likely applies to women also, except the actual amount of female comedians is so much smaller, that we end up with very few female comedians (whether it's in writing or whatever) becoming known, with the majority of them being talentless cunts (oops!). Just as it is with men. Also, men have the majority of comedy in the smaller amount of people who exist. Therefore the assumption develops that men are the funnier of the people who enter into the realm of comedy. Comedy is what we in the realm describe as funny, women are funny, but only a few. What? I say that women and men are funny when given a chance to be funny and there are enough of them being funny. But comedy is a fickle beast in the eye of the beholder. When one thinks of comedy one thinks of men, men. This develops into a coherent arguement around august, look forward to it.

But seriously, most of what I said there I meant, I just got bored.

Taint is a dickhead.

[5InchTaint]

Go fuck yourself, you twat.

[scotch-romanian]

Originally posted by Pali
But seriously, most of what I said there I meant, I just got bored.so did I.

but in all seriousness... i really do agree with you. taint is a dickhead.

[Pali]

Yeah... I get it.

[5InchTaint]

I'm surprised it took you guys so long to realize that I'm a bell end.





Nobody likes me here...just like real life.:(

[scotch-romanian]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
Nobody likes me here...just like real life.:( I like you over the phone. That's more expensive than liking you in real life or over the internet so fucking appreciate it.

[Charlie Church]

Hasn't anybody seen World's Funniest Mom?

It proved that women ARE funny but that kind of humor should be kept in the kitchen !

[valmont]

The lack of role-models idea doesn't wash. I saw plenty of funny women on TV when I was growing up, and they were almost always funnier than the men. Just watch some old Mary Tyler Moore episodes.

Genetics? I dunno - I always found Jane Curtin and Gilda Radner vastly funnier than any of the guys on SNL. I found Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara every bit as funny as Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty, and funnier than the rest of the guys on SCTV. I think Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the funniest member of the Seinfeld cast.

It's interesting that they discussed this very issue on the DVD commentary. Jill agreed that women aren't funny. But I think all the women on Mr. Show are brilliantly funny, especially Jill. I'm amazed by her physical mastery, the precision of her facial expressions and body movement, as well as the conviction of her characterizations. Just thinking of her work in "Superpan" or "Coupon the movie" makes me chuckle.

[ME!!!!]

This thread better end soon, because I'm about to start my period.

[Brain Stew]

Originally posted by valmont
I think Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the funniest member of the Seinfeld cast.
Lay off the drugs.

[ComedySnobedy]

I agree, Julia Louis Dreyfuss was easily the funniest woman on the cast of Seinfeld.

[ME!!!!]

Originally posted by ComedySnobedy
I agree, Julia Louis Dreyfuss was easily the funniest woman on the cast of Seinfeld.

This is true. You know, in a needy, whiny, unfunny way.