Look, if you're hoping to read an argument that agrees with all your reasons for why Dane Cook sucks, then go read the comments on every one of George Carlin's YouTube videos. Go there, write 'Carlin rules! Cook's a tool!' and your incisive analysis will get all the fuck yeah's it deserves.
If you're looking for someone to argue about who should win Last Comic Standing, go find someone who believes that show is really about stand-up. There are great comics on that show. And some of them who deserve attention will get it. It's good to see. I watch it. I even enjoy it. I'll write about it. But the show is an executive meeting dressed down as an applause-o-meter.
I watch stand-up a lot. I watch the good stuff. The bad stuff. New ones and dead ones. The polished ones that are losing their edge, and the beginners that make my jaw drop with envy. (Yes, polish can of course give an edge, and a few beginners out there are hacks.) I record sets and watch them several times; I love comparing different delivery of the same joke. I have a file full of Rodney Dangerfield's one-liners. I have another folder full of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck jokes." (Hey, some of them are pretty good.) I have a folder of clips of comedians going after hecklers. And I have another file full of RedTube girl-on-girl scenes. That's relevant. No, seriously.
Good comedy is like good porn. If it gets you off, it's done its job.
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