There was a time when the “Just for Laughs” festival was the only real thing to do in Montreal besides strippers, drinking and poutine eating.
It came through every summer and I’d get free tickets thrown at me, not because I am popular or seen as some influencer in the comedy circuit, but because people I know had friends in the right places and couldn’t use the tickets, so as a charitable donation, probably in hopes of lifting my depressive spirit, or to teach me how real comedy is made or designed, because maybe it could help me manipulate the minds of the retards on the internet and offer me a future…..
Anyway, I would go to these shows, sometimes for free, sometimes with press passes, sometimes in hopes of actually laughing at a professional comics rehearsed stage show, because I want things to be funny, I don’t want to be some bitter hater who never laughs…
Unfortunately, out of ALL the shows I’ve been to over the years, none cured my depression but only made me more depressed….LAUGHTER is probably a form of medicine, but these fuckers couldn’t make me laugh, even though they were high profile talent who made great lives out of that one skill. If the best comics in the world can’t do it, am I just doomed?
The truth is that only a few actually made me laugh….shockingly, Tom Green was one of them, which I can’t really explain because other than his cable access show people used to pass around on VHS in the late 90s before he was MTV, I generally disliked his overall brand. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was for whatever reason incredible…..I saw Don Rickles before he died, legend, hilariously being racist to the crowd in a more genuine way than these TikTok comics looking for viral moments…
.I don’t remember anyone else really, but Chevy Chase, Seinfeld, just a ton of these shows sucked….there was one comic who I trolled pre-website, just because I am a sick fuck, by emailing a famous enough comic and pretending that he got my stripper sister pregnant when he was in Canada 7 or 8 months earlier, demanding he take a part in her upbringing….to which the married comic freaked out and threatened me with lawsuits and police involvement…it was actually an epic troll all from the goodness of my heart and for my own sick entertainment instead of for an audience, making it far more pure comedy than the staged, hostess twinkie, hollywood fluff I was seeing. Especially since that comic, couldn’t handle it, dude lost it….oh the good old trolling days….
That said – one of weirdest or most awkward shows I went to was a Judd Apatow special, where he had Russell Brand before he found god and right wing extremism after being married to Demon Katy Perry…and Seth Rogan who I’ve never been able to stand, his voice and his laugh are worse than his jokes, even if his bro humor defined a generation, it wasn’t my generation….
Apatow himself, who I’ve learned was a stand-up comedy groupie growing up, where he had interviewed all the famous comics before he even turned 18, and made a life in comedy, just not performing…..decided that now that he was a near billionaire from his huge hits, it was time for his big attempt at something he loved…
I don’t remember the show very well but I do remember one bit where Apatow just talked about his daughter’s vagina, which made me uncomfortable and I’m a fucking pervert who can handle jokes about basically anything.
This was close to 20 years ago, you’d have to look to see when Sarah Marshall was released because they were promoting that..
His daughters would have been 5 or 10 at the time and dude’s making vagina jokes about them…
It was disturbing, unfunny and I get that it was probably trying to be an honest and relatable take on a dad dealing with a daughter and her different body parts, but it didn’t quite hit for me, but instead made me leave the event.
His daughter’s not 5 or 10 anymore but she is in a bikini…and that’s what counts….
She survived her dad who really was probably making innocent jokes to a group of strangers about her vagina for stand-up comic clickbait, cheap laughs and edginess….but jokes about that kind of thing is just weird and should be kept for your wife or child services….
Vagina jokes should always be about vagina that is 18+…..but not when you’re a billionaire comedy producer apparently…which just goes to show you how off the mark my comedic tone or insight is….since I am a negative hundred-thousandaire off my brand of internet comedy….but who says money is a measure of successs….
Oh right…EVERYONE…
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