I absolutely despise Joe Rogan and everything he stands for, but this video creator really started to lose me as soon as he began shitting on Dane Cook for no particular reason. Sure, Dane Cook's...
I absolutely despise Joe Rogan and everything he stands for, but this video creator really started to lose me as soon as he began shitting on Dane Cook for no particular reason. Sure, Dane Cook's brand of humor was pretty low-brow and a bit lame, but basically just saying "Dane Cook sucks, amirite!?" and leaving it at that, is itself pretty fucking lame, IMO. Talk about flogging a dead horse.
And then him gushing over Tom Green immediately afterwards is also super weird to me. As a Canadian that grew up watching Tom Green back when he was on Rogers public access TV, he wasn't much better than Dane Cook in many ways. His entire schtick was (and largely still is) "lol, look at how random I am", while also kinda being a dick to random strangers and his guests, being a nuisance in public places, and making his parents' life miserable by constantly "pranking" them (like when he painted their house pink). He is basically the Canadian version of Eric Andre before Eric Andre, mixed with a bit of Bam Margera.
BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Tom Green, have been a fan of his ever since those Rogers TV days, and have even listened to a bunch of episodes of his podcast myself over the years (although none recently). And IMO, he has also had some moments of true comedic genius in his career (e.g. Freddy Got Fingered). But he is hardly someone I would hold up as being an exemplary comedian and podcaster, even compared to Rogan, which is an incredibly low bar. Doug Benson (Getting Doug with High), Marc Maron (WTF with M.M.), or Doug Stanhope (The DS Podcast) are far far far better examples of actually great comedians who have also been doing podcasts since the early early days of podcasting.
The overall tone of this video is also super weird to me too. The way it's edited, with the grainy video clips, ominous music, and dry narration felt like one of those shitty 90s true crime documentaries. I don't know if doing that is meant as a meta-commentary or something, but I honestly couldn't get through it all because of it. So someone else will have to finish up the topic tags, since after 13m I totally lost interest in watching the rest. :/
p.s. Sorry for shitting on this video, @heraplem. Nothing personal against you, or anyone that does enjoy this video. Unfortunately, it was just really not my cup of tea. I was expecting a lot more depth to the critiques than it provided, which left me feeling pretty disappointed, since Rogan definitely deserves to be seriously critiqued.
I watched most of the video but I skipped around a lot. For example, during clips of Joe Rogan speaking because listening to him speak about anything is basically torture for me. But yeah, I was...
I watched most of the video but I skipped around a lot. For example, during clips of Joe Rogan speaking because listening to him speak about anything is basically torture for me. But yeah, I was also a bit confused about the video. It could have been called "Shitting on Joe Rogan for 46 minutes, plus some other random comedians". Otherwise I had a bit of trouble discerning a real point to it. I basically agree with the video that Joe Rogan sucks and has been corrupted by money and power, and also the whole shallow dudebro culture sucks and is harming society.
So that seems to be another minor theme of the video, the hyper-masculine thing that is going on in comedy and with billionaires. There have been a few articles recently about all those guys (Zuckererg, Musk, Bezos, and others) are getting hair plugs and makeovers and talk about doing martial arts and hunting with bows and grilling meat or whatever. So they really want you to know how incredibly masculine they are and it seems to be a little bit mentally unwell. Besides the fact that they are billionaires which means they have other psychological/hoarding problems.
Related to that, here is a video by Angela Collier that I watched recently: Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics:
It's a pretty funny video and she makes a lot of good points in it. But I will point out that her videos are a bit too long and she tends to repeat herself a bit. One of her quotes is something like "everyone gets 27 skill points to distribute. Billionaires want to you think they put 20 points on intelligence and 7 on luck, but actually they put all 27 on evil".
I admit to not having much of a horse in the comedy race. My experience with standup comedy is shallow enough that my opinions can be boiled down to "George Carlin good, Dane Cook bad". I'm pretty...
I admit to not having much of a horse in the comedy race. My experience with standup comedy is shallow enough that my opinions can be boiled down to "George Carlin good, Dane Cook bad".
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I'm pretty sure the voice is AI-generated. This creator actually uses AI voices to do a lot of creative and interesting things (and I say this as an overall AI pessimist). See Dominant Masculinity for a superb example.
Sorry for shitting on this video, @heraplem. Nothing personal against you, or anyone that does enjoy this video. Unfortunately, it was just really not my cup of tea.
None taken! This one is a bit out there, for sure.
This was the first video of this channel that I stumbled across, and having watched several videos from it now, it's giving me a a lot of old Web vibes. It's all about remixing and synthesizing to communicate ideas through association, along with a large dose of absurdist humor. And the creator (who IMO is extremely talented) is something of an enigma—I don't think they've ever once used their own voice in a video, and they don't have any social media presence that I'm aware of. It's very much like the sort of thing you might have randomly come across late at night in the 2008–2014 era.
And frankly, I'm just happy that someone on the left is doing something new and interesting and compelling in an outsider-ey way. The left has gotten too "insider" for my tastes in the last decade and a half.
I absolutely despise Joe Rogan and everything he stands for, but this video creator really started to lose me as soon as he began shitting on Dane Cook for no particular reason. Sure, Dane Cook's brand of humor was pretty low-brow and a bit lame, but basically just saying "Dane Cook sucks, amirite!?" and leaving it at that, is itself pretty fucking lame, IMO. Talk about flogging a dead horse.
And then him gushing over Tom Green immediately afterwards is also super weird to me. As a Canadian that grew up watching Tom Green back when he was on Rogers public access TV, he wasn't much better than Dane Cook in many ways. His entire schtick was (and largely still is) "lol, look at how random I am", while also kinda being a dick to random strangers and his guests, being a nuisance in public places, and making his parents' life miserable by constantly "pranking" them (like when he painted their house pink). He is basically the Canadian version of Eric Andre before Eric Andre, mixed with a bit of Bam Margera.
BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Tom Green, have been a fan of his ever since those Rogers TV days, and have even listened to a bunch of episodes of his podcast myself over the years (although none recently). And IMO, he has also had some moments of true comedic genius in his career (e.g. Freddy Got Fingered). But he is hardly someone I would hold up as being an exemplary comedian and podcaster, even compared to Rogan, which is an incredibly low bar. Doug Benson (Getting Doug with High), Marc Maron (WTF with M.M.), or Doug Stanhope (The DS Podcast) are far far far better examples of actually great comedians who have also been doing podcasts since the early early days of podcasting.
The overall tone of this video is also super weird to me too. The way it's edited, with the grainy video clips, ominous music, and dry narration felt like one of those shitty 90s true crime documentaries. I don't know if doing that is meant as a meta-commentary or something, but I honestly couldn't get through it all because of it. So someone else will have to finish up the topic tags, since after 13m I totally lost interest in watching the rest. :/
p.s. Sorry for shitting on this video, @heraplem. Nothing personal against you, or anyone that does enjoy this video. Unfortunately, it was just really not my cup of tea. I was expecting a lot more depth to the critiques than it provided, which left me feeling pretty disappointed, since Rogan definitely deserves to be seriously critiqued.
I watched most of the video but I skipped around a lot. For example, during clips of Joe Rogan speaking because listening to him speak about anything is basically torture for me. But yeah, I was also a bit confused about the video. It could have been called "Shitting on Joe Rogan for 46 minutes, plus some other random comedians". Otherwise I had a bit of trouble discerning a real point to it. I basically agree with the video that Joe Rogan sucks and has been corrupted by money and power, and also the whole shallow dudebro culture sucks and is harming society.
So that seems to be another minor theme of the video, the hyper-masculine thing that is going on in comedy and with billionaires. There have been a few articles recently about all those guys (Zuckererg, Musk, Bezos, and others) are getting hair plugs and makeovers and talk about doing martial arts and hunting with bows and grilling meat or whatever. So they really want you to know how incredibly masculine they are and it seems to be a little bit mentally unwell. Besides the fact that they are billionaires which means they have other psychological/hoarding problems.
Related to that, here is a video by Angela Collier that I watched recently: Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics:
It's a pretty funny video and she makes a lot of good points in it. But I will point out that her videos are a bit too long and she tends to repeat herself a bit. One of her quotes is something like "everyone gets 27 skill points to distribute. Billionaires want to you think they put 20 points on intelligence and 7 on luck, but actually they put all 27 on evil".
I've seen a few of her videos before and enjoyed them, IIRC. But I haven't yet seen that one, so I will check it out. Thanks for the rec. :)
I admit to not having much of a horse in the comedy race. My experience with standup comedy is shallow enough that my opinions can be boiled down to "George Carlin good, Dane Cook bad".
I'm pretty sure the voice is AI-generated. This creator actually uses AI voices to do a lot of creative and interesting things (and I say this as an overall AI pessimist). See Dominant Masculinity for a superb example.
None taken! This one is a bit out there, for sure.
This was the first video of this channel that I stumbled across, and having watched several videos from it now, it's giving me a a lot of old Web vibes. It's all about remixing and synthesizing to communicate ideas through association, along with a large dose of absurdist humor. And the creator (who IMO is extremely talented) is something of an enigma—I don't think they've ever once used their own voice in a video, and they don't have any social media presence that I'm aware of. It's very much like the sort of thing you might have randomly come across late at night in the 2008–2014 era.
And frankly, I'm just happy that someone on the left is doing something new and interesting and compelling in an outsider-ey way. The left has gotten too "insider" for my tastes in the last decade and a half.