Stavvy's in the clip but he declined as well

Hi, this is Tom Segura and I just released my 4th Netflix special, Ball Hog world-wide today (March 24th). I will be filming my 5th special for the streaming service this fall and it will be completely in Spanish. I’m also the host of several podcasts including, Your Mom’s House which will hit its 10 year anniversary this October. Check out Ball Hog on Netflix and Ask Me Anything!

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On the show The Regz they discussed a comedian with a big podcast and does theatres who pays his openers a measly $100. (For context they're making over 100k on theater gigs for sure). They bleeped out the name to avoid conflict. However:

1.(Main evidence) In the YT comments someone said "I saw Theo Von at a theatre in Amsterdam in early 2020 and his opener Ari Mannis said during his set that he gets paid 100 dollars".

2 .You can see Luis mouth "Theo Von".

3. After Dan texts Bobby the name of the comedian, Bobby emphasises the "thee" in "theater" as a joke, at around 6:30 of the podcast.

4.It's someone who has a "big podcast"

5.It's someone who has never had those 4 guys on their podcast (checks out)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNeeWMNy98 about 5-10 minutes in

Like the title says, how does a clever, quick comedian such as himself go from telling really interesting jokes to pretty much being my sister-in-law telling stories about his kids that no one finds funny? It's literally baffling to me. He has to realize that his kids stories are only entertaining to him because they are his kids, is he poor or something?

This is a post to say, you can get creative with your promo!! We're comics, we should have fun.

(that said -- people always say to us, "it sounds so scary to get up on stage and tell jokes" but I assure you, the morning I was driving to see the first billboard was muuuuuuch scarier than getting onstage.)

Tomorrow night, Oct 27th at 9pm EST, my first standup special Eyes Down Here is premiering...on Comedy Central Standup's YouTube channel. It'll be the first full-length live standup special that Comedy Central has put out in five years (!!).

Basically CC is kind of in the wild west now, so I pitched them this billboards idea as promo, and they were like.........yeah guess so? The whole thing - the special, the billboards, this video, all of it - is the proudest I've ever been of something I've made.

I went to a comedy show at a prominent, expensive comedy club. It was a sold out show.

Maybe a dozen comedians came up.

So many of them did not have any material, instead coming up and just looking at someone and saying "so what do you do?" And then not having any material or joke to build on.

None of the comedians watched each other's bits, so awkwardly many comedians called on the same eccentric looking people in the crowd. People were groaning the third time they called on the same person with the same question.

Everyone was so ready and willing to laugh, one guy who did a pretty funny set about homeless people had everyone dying.

It's fucking lazy, and I don't care if you're tryna get some good content for your Instagram reels. I felt scammed.

I'm begging you stop this shit, if you can't be funny without crowd work then maybe you're not a good comedian

Edit: dude please stop commenting with examples of stand up comedians that you think do it well. You're missing the point, and even then none of these people are that funny during crowdwork compared to their stories imo

Edit edit: just saw that Netflix has a "matt rife crowd work special" I'm so sorry what's happened to your industry.

Why the far right hates Bill Burr now [The Rubesletter]:

The real problem these guys have is Burr doesn’t play by the rules of the algorithm. Tribal politics may get these guys clicks/subscribers, but it’s a yawn. We all know where guys like Kirk and Shapiro are going. Burr’s mission is to be funny, interesting, and surprising. It’s the opposite of partisan hackery and audience capture.

Great comedians aim to point out BS wherever they see it. It ain’t about acting like a tribalist sheep who strictly follows party lines. We shouldn’t already know exactly where you’re going. That’s why preach-to-the-choir political comedy ain’t funny. There’s no twist.

Online pundits may profit from telling fans exactly what they want to hear, but Burr’s bread and butter is surprising his fans. He makes art while these pundits churn out clickbait.

Also:

Burr’s gone to therapy, takes psychedelics, makes art, married a confident woman who speaks her mind, and continually works to manage his anger issues. It’s no wonder so many of these hateful bros have turned on him. His path is the antidote to the toxic masculinity they embody.

Read the rest.

I'm sure there is gonna be tons of posts and commentary on it in the coming days but I had to come post about it somewhere.

This was Brendan Schaub level bad. Maybe worse. No I'm not exaggerating. Go watch it for yourself. Honestly, it makes the entire Rogansphere/Mothership crew of comics look worse. It was that bad.

Rogan is always going on about how he's honest with his friends and how they bounce material off each other. I don't know how any of them let Tony think this was a good idea. It was atrocious.

Change my mind

Let me elaborate, so my new job keeps me on the road for long periods and among other things I tune into are the comedy channels on SiriusXM. Recently I’ve tried Joe Rogan and friends (Ari Shaffir, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Tony Hinchcliffe, Joey Diaz, Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen) and those guys are unfunny. Last night they have a whole Shaffir presentation and I don’t recall laughing at any of his jokes, granted Sirius doesn’t usually have whole gigs but just extracts….I guess Katt Williams was also right about this when he went to Shanon’s podcast

I knew this was gonna suck ... but good Lordt! just wow. He fell off HARD.

The first 20 minutes of the special include brilliant bits about:

- ranking his favourite bodily functions (I did this in grade 6 with classmates)

- talking about sharting (I discussed this with my brother, when we were 15)

- pickleball is a makebelieve sport (insert funny noises) lololol

- he flew with the blue angels (because he's super famous) and, you guessed it, he had concerns about puking and shitting

- a super original bit about trusting a fart and he thought it was a shart but it was a shit!

- He thinks a pilot is so hot he called him "daddy" wow, so modern! such an ally!

- Timely jokes about Jared from Subway

- Timely jokes about Guantanamo Bay

Is this even standup comedy anymore? It's just stupid stories and childish observations sprinkled with him telling us how famous and rich he is.

Yah, I can't watch anymore. It's a no from me, dawg (get it? american idol reference? I can be timely and funny, too!)

I used to be a fan of Tom but after his "poors" outburst, his assosciating with Bort, his absolutely horrendous show "Bad Thoughts" and now this? He sucks, and it is for that reason, that I'm out (HAHA GET IT? A SHARK TANK REFERENCE)

Just rewatched Live at the Purple Onion, and I still love it so much. If I remember right, this is the first comedy special that was produced by Netflix, back when it was a DVD by Mail rental company.

They shouldn't have been there. They're just a couple guys Joe Rogan and now Netflix have been forcing into the comedy spotlight for years. I'm not a huge Shultz fan but he's a legit comedian and delivered a great roast set, these guys were straight bad. Pretty sure Bert thought wheezing was supposed to make people laugh. Nikki, Tony absolutely killed though.