speaking of bo, i enjoyed this tweet the other day:

Oh wow! Got a link?

That's odd to hear, I was incredibly impressed his "what" stand-up on netflix, looked like a ton of work.

Bill Burr
Jim Norton
Mitch Hedburg
Steven Wright

try emo philips. similar to steven wright, and like wright a big hedberg influence.

3 minute set from a festival:

If you like crowd work check out Ian Bagg, have seen him twice at the local Improv and he is great working some of the audience into his shows.

Going to go see John Mulaney this Saturday, pretty excited.

I'm very interested in how this show is. Mulaney was such a horrid show, and he's such a great standup. Hoping his focus is on point, cause I'd love to hear new material from him.

I'm glad to hear mulaney is getting back out there. I was fearful he'd pack it in after his show, because his two specials are two of my absolute favorites

I can't find the second one, but this one he def says a lot of that in it:

Mulaney was great. Stronger material than his Netflix special IMO . Also a nice mix of shorter jokes, crowd work and longer stories. Pacing felt like a Jim Jeffries special with barrage of shorter jokes in to medium length story based joke in to a longer story at the end except with more crowd work during transitions. Me and my wife laughed really hard and my wife remarked that her face hurt afterwards.

So, about that "With Bob And David" taping...

First off, lets be clear. Its Mr. Show, plain and simple. I know they can't call it that, and I actually thought it might be a little different, but its exactly the same (in a good way), down the entire cast. And they were pretty much all there. Some sketches were good, some great, some not so good. Pretty standard.

As amazing as the experience was to see this be filmed, the coolest part was the people seated in the "Friends and Family section." Kumail Nanjiani, Derrick Waters, Mae Whitman, Brie Larson and a few others I can't remember the names of. And the clear winner of the night:

Paul F Tompkins was the "host" for the evening. I've been a fan for many years and have all of his specials and albums. He's known for having the best riffs in the game. And having now seen him do a night of riffing, I feel pretty confident saying that PFT might be the funniest wittiest guy on the planet. Just freaking phenomenal. He's taping a special in June I'm hoping I can make it to.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of Mulaney but his sitcom was downright terrible.

Bill Burr and Bo Burnham at Largo on Wednesday. Not sure if I can make it, but I'mma try!!!

oh snap ty for the heads up just snagged 2 tix.
guessing it will sell out quick.

Just bought two tickets to see Jim Jefferies later this year. The 7:30pm show was already limited on seats so went with the 10:30pm show. Now I'm thinking that might have been dumb because most people will be wasted by then. Oh well.

that can be a bad thing but i'd say more often than not it's good. ******s at a jim show could certainly be the exception tho.

When I saw Jim in Milwaukee a couple months ago, he got drunk by the end, screwed up a joke then just started making fun of people in the audience. It was fantastic.

For anyone who has seen him recently, the joke he screwed up:

hey for anyone who's seen Jim jefferies lately is his freedumb tour new material from his bare special?

is he doing the bits about:

freedumb tour is totally diff to bare

yes to the spoiler, can't off the top of my head remember the first of the two, though i assume it was in there

i can give you a full list of what he did if you want, i PMed it to rafiki, some of it is in post 1194 tho.

i'm referring to a show that was a couple of weeks prior to freedumb, has to be the same set

thanks ya would def appreciate that PM.
really want to go but not if I've seen all the material.

I saw him at the Hollywood improv after the bare special aired so was all new material but it was right after so not sure how much of the very rough/new stuff he was working on he's still doing.

Saw Todd barry last week at the arlington draft house. Great show, he is really a master at delivering with his pace and energy and he had some really amazing riffs when people gave him **** answers to crowd work questions.

Saw Rory scovel a few weeks before at the dc improv, was good at times, but nowhere near the level as the first time I'd seen him. Maybe he's just getting into it again/starting a new hour, but he really didn't have many jokes. It was a fun, but forgettable show.

I saw Todd Barry at that same venue a few years ago and it was just as great of a show, one of the most surprising, didnt really know who he was went for random reasons and was quite pleasantly surprised.

on phone so can't link but check out norms last appearance on the letterman show.
amazing.

Agreed. It couldn't have been better. I was crying and laughing.