i never got the chance to see it on tv, but i'm glad i found the clip online. :)
http://www.tuvok3of11.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gta4real.mpg
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i never got the chance to see it on tv, but i'm glad i found the clip online. :)
http://www.tuvok3of11.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gta4real.mpg
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Excellent. Since my lousy comedy channel hasn't picked up Chappelle yet, I need to get my view on with mpeg rips and clips from comedycentral.com. And I've wanted to see this for a while now. :chick:
I'm really happy to see his show catch on. He's done some great skits so far.
I didn't think it was all that. They did something similar on MadTV recently. Can't they ever imitate Metal Slug?;) Franky, I had more laughs when Tobey Maguire was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and he kept raving about GTA, and how you could have sex with hookers and then run them over and steal their money. I keep expecting Chapelle to be more funny than he is... Maybe he just has shit writers. His stand-up was definitely funnier than his series. I like how he's devoted to hip-hop though, and those performances at the end. Mos Def and De La Soul are the shit.
I'm going to see Chapelle live next week. Can't wait, he's funny as hell.
-Kevin
Chapelle Show is GREAT... Some of the stuff he executes so perfectly. It sounds like crap when it is explained, but once you see it, it's hysterical.
My only negative comment is that it lacks consistency. Some skits will have me laughing until I'm in tears, and others will have me scratching my head wondering how anybody could find them funny.
Heh...Funny.
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Originally posted by seen
I didn't think it was all that
Dave Chapelle is the shiznit..
I like his white painted news-man skit the most.
I hate the crack-head one.
lol that's funny
Bah! The crack-head skit is the best one yet. That or Mad Real World.Quote:
Originally posted by seen
I like his white painted news-man skit the most.
I hate the crack-head one.
*Watches the clip. Eh, that was pretty funny. Not the funniest thing ever, but it got the job done.
pretty much for me, never played the game, but i get the jump cut weapons thing, cute.Quote:
Originally posted by Jeremy
*Watches the clip. Eh, that was pretty funny. Not the funniest thing ever, but it got the job done.
The intervention one was funny, but the rest are crappy. Real Real World gave me a chuckle. I would say that in overall his show is just as painful to watch sometimes as Larry David's Curb Your Inthusiasm. I know I'm comparing apples and oranges, but they do share some similarities. I like humor with a lot of depth and thought behind it. Like Futurama, written by a computer scientist, mucho depth. I'd watch it if I could figure out it's schedule. When you're writing something in haste, you'll never produce anything provocative. You might however produce something shocking and mildly entertaining. Case in point, SNL and most of the humor nowadays.Quote:
Originally posted by OmniGear
Bah! The crack-head skit is the best one yet. That or Mad Real World.
Ehh, but that's just my opinion. In a movie theater, I am usually the guy that's laughing at stuff that no-one else laughs at or laugh at 5 mins later when they get to the punchline.
I thought the skit where he was talking to the kids (the crack head) was one of the funniest things ever. Well, not really, but it was damn funny.
And his stand-ups are some of the best I've ever seen. So overall I think he's a really funny guy.
Yeah, comedy with depth is good (Futurama, though? You can't cite a better example? ;)) but sometimes brainless, silly stuff can be great as well. This is not to say that Chapelle's humor is brainless; just trying to make a point.
I mentioned Futurama because it doesn't rank high on the shit-o-meter. The few funny moments that it has more than make up for a thousand braindead ones. Which makes that cartoon better than most. I just feel that people are not exploring humor as well as they should have by now and are mostly relying on shocking the audience with racial stereotypes or other "taboo" subjects, be they funny or not.
I like humorous situations that I can actually consider telling someone else without thinking that I sound stupid.
I do think that Dave is probably the best stand-up comic and an excellent story-teller. But, he wrote his own stand up material, never stole from anyone. That takes an enourmous amount of research and time. You can't put the same energy into a weekly show, or even a daily one for that matter. That being said, the Daily Show is probably the best at putting a humorous spin on daily events.
"Pee on you"
Funniest thing ive seen in a while.
Silly stuff is good, but I too prefer humor with depth...examples I would cite would be independent films such as Ghost World, and bigger stuff like Royal Tenebaums, Bottle Rockets, etc...and at one time Kevin Smith's work before he just started to suck...recent stuff like the Good Girl and others have a humor that is sort of perverse and doesn't really go over with the main stream...Quote:
Originally posted by OmniGear
I thought the skit where he was talking to the kids (the crack head) was one of the funniest things ever. Well, not really, but it was damn funny.
And his stand-ups are some of the best I've ever seen. So overall I think he's a really funny guy.
Yeah, comedy with depth is good (Futurama, though? You can't cite a better example? ;)) but sometimes brainless, silly stuff can be great as well. This is not to say that Chapelle's humor is brainless; just trying to make a point.
I can't tell you how many people just don't get this type of humor...
But also, I would say well executed simple humor works as well, especially older members of the SNL crew and their early movie and TV work -- such as Ghost Busters -- one of my all time favorites and pure comedy genius...
But I think the biggest problem with humor today is that it is too dependent on current events and watching them in retrospect means you need to know that event A was happening at the time for the gag to be funny...I prefer stuff that is funny regardless of time frame...kinda like Calvin and Hobbes was...