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The ten most overrated stand up comedians of all time...
1. George Carlin
Carlin doesn't tell jokes - he preaches viewpoints. This would be okay, were it not for the fact that he looks like the kind of guy who would get an erection in a crèche.
So you pay to see someone to make you laugh, and, yes, think, but instead you've got a guy who looks like he sniffs the knicker drawer at a kindergarten getting on his pulpit about some progressive-yet-sill-reactionary bullshit that would have the average BS Lounge member think was inspired. The success of Carlin comes down to the stupidity of your average Fat Yank, whereby his smugly pointing out something that is blindingly obvious can be seen as "eye opening material":
"You ever notice that when you take a shit, it comes out of your ass? And then you have to wipe it afterwards, otherwise you get shit in your pants?"
"Fuck yeeeeeeeeeeeah, George! That's hilarious! I'd never freakin' thought of that before!"
One of my least-favourite (favorite, Fat Yanks) routines of his that he did was that knee-jerk one he performed called "My Buddy Beercules":
"You ever notice that we've grown up spoon-fed and pussyish in this country these days? That if you went into a Bar Mitzvah and asked for a pork sandwich people would be so soft and entitled they'd take offence? This is what's happened to bring this country down, people. These days we're forced to refer to Beercules as "of the persuasion of a derogatory term for a vagina". That's just pure corporate speak, invented by the CIA to stop us wondering why there's poverty in Baltimore. That's right, folks. Seriously, just consider all the syllables there... "of the persuasion of a derogatory term for a vagina". Who talks like that? Only the companies who control all the money and tell us what we can and can't say, that's right, folks. We all know that Beercules is a ****."
He's a comic genius... if you're easily impressed and easily pleased.
Carlin doesn't tell jokes - he preaches viewpoints. This would be okay, were it not for the fact that he looks like the kind of guy who would get an erection in a crèche.
So you pay to see someone to make you laugh, and, yes, think, but instead you've got a guy who looks like he sniffs the knicker drawer at a kindergarten getting on his pulpit about some progressive-yet-sill-reactionary bullshit that would have the average BS Lounge member think was inspired. The success of Carlin comes down to the stupidity of your average Fat Yank, whereby his smugly pointing out something that is blindingly obvious can be seen as "eye opening material":
"You ever notice that when you take a shit, it comes out of your ass? And then you have to wipe it afterwards, otherwise you get shit in your pants?"
"Fuck yeeeeeeeeeeeah, George! That's hilarious! I'd never freakin' thought of that before!"
One of my least-favourite (favorite, Fat Yanks) routines of his that he did was that knee-jerk one he performed called "My Buddy Beercules":
"You ever notice that we've grown up spoon-fed and pussyish in this country these days? That if you went into a Bar Mitzvah and asked for a pork sandwich people would be so soft and entitled they'd take offence? This is what's happened to bring this country down, people. These days we're forced to refer to Beercules as "of the persuasion of a derogatory term for a vagina". That's just pure corporate speak, invented by the CIA to stop us wondering why there's poverty in Baltimore. That's right, folks. Seriously, just consider all the syllables there... "of the persuasion of a derogatory term for a vagina". Who talks like that? Only the companies who control all the money and tell us what we can and can't say, that's right, folks. We all know that Beercules is a ****."
He's a comic genius... if you're easily impressed and easily pleased.
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