watching numerous CC presents, not every special is gold but enough of them are great (particularly impressed by black comedians back then) that really proves to me that comedy used to be better, I could watch the same amount of stand up specials today and it would be half as entertaining at best, people were just better back then, they were edgy in a good way and they weren't sensitive about race and they certainly didn't ignore it
>>217105051I can still hear the opening theme. How bout that.
>>217105051I remember Kyle Grooms, I remember at the time thinking he’d be bigger, he appeared on tough crowd a time or two and played a gay stereotype in a Chappelle sketch then I never saw him again. So many of those CCP comedians from the 2000s I expected to be bigger pretty much disappeared (look at the episode guides from Premium Blend sometime, so many literal whos who seemed to just do premium blend and maybe have 2 or 3 credits to their name on IMDb just to vanish. Wonder what happened to guys like that, did they just change professions and give up comedy after only a few years? Before podcasts I guess it was harder to take off as a comedian if you didn’t become big
if anyone cares watch Dov Davidoffs special (either season 11 or 12), I thought his behavior was really bizarre as a kid and this time I realized he makes a joke about being on acid I think its legit truth, its sorta cringe kino, he made one joke about how little boys are being molested by priests, camp counsilors, michael jackson etc and he says maybe we should be focusing on the one common denominator here these fine ass young boys, reminded me of Anthony Jeselnik but without the total smugness, just that bit though a lot of the rest was misses
>>217105105watching these specials I had the exact same train of thought, many of these guys are pretty funny but only a fraction of them got another televised special and then a few of them showed up on random podcasts but most of them vanished presumably making peanuts or surviving some other way, its uncanny because same as you I just assumed these guys (most of who live in LA or NYC) were gonna have an upward traectory
>>217105144Rob Davidoffs joke from his CCP that “gay guys always look like they just smelled freshly baked cookies” has stuck with me for the last 20 years lol I never forgot that because it was always so hilariously accurate to me anytime I see a really gay looking gay I’ll always reference that like “he’s got the just smelled cookies face”
>>217105297Dov* not rob
>>217105189Some I look up and some seemed to become writers on sitcoms and don’t seem to do standup anymore (Laura Kightlinger for example was a huge standup in the 90s and up to the 2000s but seems to just write on a million different sitcoms now
>>217105051People were more individualistic then and that made them more interesting and surprising as comedian characters. Now we're in more of a prison situation where we feel the need to gang up based on race and politics for survival, wrong or right.
>>217105189There was a guy I remember always seeing on Comedy Central when I first started watching it naked Anthony Clarke who seemed huge back then but he seems to have quit standup suddenly after the 2000s and there’s pretty much no info on whatever happened to him, so many of his old bits always pop up in my head like the one about the COPS theme song and nobody understanding the rest of the lyrics besides bad boys watcha gonna do, his guess of the next line being “nobodies gonna give you no chicken!” still always makes me laugh
>>217105422>when I first started watching Comedy Central nakedLmao I don’t know what the fuck I tried to type there or how it got autocorrected to that
>immediately starts joking about being a fat southerner and picks on "skinny" girl in the crowdfetish unlocked
>>217105297ha yeah that smelled cookie joke was good, his whole special is him slowly losing the crowd and then miraculously having a decent enough bit (some bordering on anticomedy) to reel you back
>>217105051Who was the Mexican guy who did all the voices and sound effects? That was one I remember watching a million times as a kid and always made me laugh, he would do the “in a world” movie announcer voice a lot
i dont understand how the bumping works on this board after all these years, the latest post ITT was much sooner than the last in that walmart cuties thread yet its closer to the top
>>217105631is it freddy soto? i thought he was funny in a kinda bad way
>>217105631Pablo Francisco that guy was hilarious when I was like 13 and first saw his act Lol
I forgot about Maria Bamford, she was probably in the top 5 females on CCP
>>217105422>>217105189>>217105105Some comedians don't write their own material. Writers probably dropped out of the industry after the 2007 Writer's Strike. On top of that they probably signed some gay contract with CC.
