Birbiglia's "What I should have said was nothing" is a great special, too... the encore includes his song parody(parodies) of Christian rock which is always worth a laugh.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to recommend two excellent stand-up shows on Netflix, Jim > Gaffigan’s “Cinco,” which came out a couple of months ago, and Mike > Birbiglia’s “Mike Birbiglia: Thank God for Jokes.” > > I’ve been watching a lot of stand-up specials in the last few months > and most are just meh. Bill Burr’s latest didn’t do much for me. I > watched a Louis C.K. – I don’t know how recent it was – and it also > didn’t do much for me. It’s the one where Louis simulates bringing a > rat to orgasm. Craig Ferguson’s stand up show on Amazon seemed too > much like his stand up on his show. Not that special. By the way, > Ferguson spends a lot of time ranting about Mick Jagger on the > special. Was Jagger a target on his show? I don’t remember that. > > Gaffigan’s show, like Dave Attell’s show last year, has lots of good > jokes I want to steal. Much of his humor focuses on his family. Much > of the rest on himself, particularly his love of food. I followed > Gaffigan and his wife, Jeannie Gaffigan, last year when they did a lot > of broadcasting over Periscope. Jeannie Gaffigan, for instance, did a > Periscope one night from the floor of her bathroom where she was > sleeping with the children because they were sick and had it coming > out both ends, so it was better to get them closer to the toilet. I > have that false sense of intimacy with the Gaffigan family. > > Birbiglia is a comic who is also making films. He says at the > beginning of his Netflix special that he’s a niche comedian, but I > think he would do well with people in this group. He spins a story > well and much of his humor landed on the mark. > > Both Gaffigan and Birbiglia tell Catholic jokes. I’m a lapsed Catholic > but they generally ring true with me. > > Birbiglia wraps up his hour with a moral. I guess I don’t need my > comedy to be didactic, so I could have done without it. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
