Carlin had such a firm grip on language while Kinison yelled a lot. 

Sam Kinison was exhausting as Fuck! AHHHH AHHHHH!!!

I watched his Netflix special when it dropped— never heard of the dude- but love stand up. Half way thru I was like— this dude is like the second coming of Dane Cook. Just meh, half ass, no edge, no danger, no insight comedy your gramma might like. Gramady. I wanted to turn it off half way. But I was convinced that he …

Acaster’s appearance on a podcast I’m too stoned to remember, but one where they break down one specific routine, included him talking about Bill Burr doing a domestic violence joke and what he thought about it (for the record, he doesn’t trash Burr or anything, just notes a different take.) It was really thoughtful,…

He...made his non-apology “to anyone he offended" a link to special needs helmets, so...

Just because it keeps coming up: Yes, ffs, Rife is very well known for TikTok crowd work videos. So is Jeff Arcuri. So is Matteo Lane. So is Gareth Reynolds. Natalie Cuomo. Taylor Tomlinson. Randy fucking Feltface. EVERY currently working standup comedian is on social media doing crowd work bits. So let’s just…

You have nothing but complaints about this place. Why come here? It’s like being a whinging cunt is your kink.

The whole thing is grade school humor. What’s bad about that joke is more than it’s in poor taste — it’s not even funny. It’s a rip off of a million old jokes a million hack comedians have said before. AND what’s worse is that even the setup of the joke shows how he and his friends are terrible: they don’t think a…

Maybe he’s been cancelled already, an I’m about to step in it, but nobody plays with fire better than Anthony Jeselnik. The dude specializes in taking you to really dark, uncomfortable, and emotionally incriminating places, and then pulls the rug out from underneath you. You don’t have to like his humor to appreciate…

Oh, it gets worse. Towards the end he jokes about fat-shaming a woman on Twitter because she called out him out on his selfish airplane behavior in a story that he himself posted.

Sam Kinison proved (to me at least) that anything can be made funny, But you have to be good, you have to have a clear take on comedy, and on that specific bit you’re doing. Just deciding “I’m going to make people laugh by talking about battered women” isn’t enough.

i have a long-standing hatred of people - usually men - who disparage young girls that make up their core audience.
mostly because it just shows how dumb these ‘artists’ are. young girls make or break pop culture.

This guys sounds like a hack but he does seem to know how to play his audience like a violin. Nothing gets you more exposure with the forever on Tik Tok Gen Zs than controversial boomer humor.   In a week he will be “cancelled” and his Netflix special will be number 1.  

I have a sneaking suspicion that Mr. Pebbles’ reference went over your head. It’s a bit by the excellent James Acaster:

My “I hate the AV Club” comment on the AV Club is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my comment.

I think the important element that this explainer misses is that, since Rife came up on TikTok, a very large percentage of his audience is young girls. Rife himself has confirmed that and, from recent interviews, it seems to be something he’s not thrilled about. Hard to be taken serious by your comedy elders when half…

That’s the thing. I’ve seen some of his clips, and his work vacillates between be sophomoric and just kind of done. There’s no real *spark* there for me, which you get when a truly gifted comic is working a room. And I think it’s because ultimately his work is pretty shallow. He goes for the low-hanging fruit, whereas…

He’s just a hack comic who looks like Handsome Squidward. That’s his entire claim to fame. He’s not that funny. His crowd work is mid. He’s just meh all around. I would expect nothing less from an untalented comedian.

Bad luck! That’s my job! I’m a standup comedian, I’m meant to challenge people! If you don’t like being challenged, don’t watch my shows! What’s the matter, guys? Toooo challenging for yah?!?

Yeah, offensive jokes aside, really none of this guy’s material is funny. I watched a few of his tiktoks, and literally none of them were funny.