The only thing funnier than this video of a guy dressed as Dr. Doom doing stand-up, is that all of the awful jokes are about the Fantastic Four. It’s really a hoot!
Warning, some jokes NSFW. Enjoy:
Tag: comedy
Ernie & Bert
I saw a book recently on comedy teams, and one great one that I thought was missing was Jim Henson & Frank Oz as Ernie & Bert.
It's not just nostalgia, Ernie and Bert were comedy genius. Enjoy these as proof:
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Jon Stewart on “Sit Down Comedy”
I know I’ve discussed this with other cartoonists before, but I don’t think I could say it better than Jon Stewart did recently on TV Land’s “Sit Down Comedy”:
Humor is by its very essence incredibly subjective and not seen as something that is in any way… It’s not like singing and painting… Singing and painting is magic.
Somebody can paint a beautiful picture; people can look at that and think ‘that’s magic. I don’t know how to do that.’
Singing, when people sing beautifully, you know. You can hear your own voice.
Everyone thinks they’re funny.
So, for a comedian, no one thinks that what we’re doing is anything, they just think we’re f**king lucky.
He goes on a minute later…
It’s a very interesting… because it’s so accessible to peoples’ own… everyone can be funny, or knows that they’re funny. It’s a very accessible form, so in terms of any artistic merit, it ranks between, let’s say, mime and stripping.
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The Aristocrats/Iron Toon
I really want to see The Aristocrats, in fact it’s #1 in my Netflix queue.
Having grown up with jazz and stand-up comedy as two of my main influences, I’m curious to see how different comedians traverse the joke’s raunchy ‘changes.’
It kind of makes me wish there were something similar in the cartoonist’s world. Not the raunch per se, but…
Sure, there’s the old desert island gag, but the opportunity for real live improvisation still attracts me.
How ’bout some sort of Iron Chef thingy? Someone throws in a few pieces of inspiration and cartoonists have so much time to come up with an original finished cartoon. (Not to self: call Bravo…)
Whatcha think?