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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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Handyman said:
Maron is a personal fave...seen him 3 times and met him twice. BTW it is weird you cant type the three letters for What The Fuck but you can type out the word.
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I've never seen a real comedian live. I've only seen crap local clubs called Ha Has or whatever.

Bad comics are really bad. It's like watching high school hockey. In Virginia.
 
geezer said:
It occurs to me that the timing of this "be a shame if something happened to your little club", at the moment when Biden has expressed how we ought to be taking a more progressive view on gun control laws and the right to shoot other people, isn't a coincidence.
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FDR had to threaten the Plutes to reform the last Gilded Age. The math checks.

+6. 9 American to 6 Nazi, and then let's see what happens.
 
Kepler said:
I've never seen a real comedian live. I've only seen crap local clubs called Ha Has or whatever.

Bad comics are really bad. It's like watching high school hockey. In Virginia.
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That is definitely something you need to do.

I've been to a lot of high end comedy shows and enjoyed them all, but maybe the one that I'll remember the most was one years ago. Unfortunately the name of the comic escapes me today, but he'd had a special on Showtime and was a recognizable name.

Before his show started, they had some local up and coming comic come out and do a half hour bit. It wasn't like he was terrible, but it was obvious that he lacked a lot of experience. There were two couples off to the side of the stage, and the two guys started in on this comic ten minutes into his show. It really threw the guy off, and he never really recovered. Of course the two idiots got some chuckles from the audience, so they were pretty proud.

Then the main act came out. Fifteen minutes in they started heckling the pro. Big mistake. At first the comic just made a little insult joke back that was pretty funny, but when they persisted, he opened up on them. After about four minutes of the most hilarious gutting of two human beings that you'll ever see, one of the women at the table stood up and looked at the two clowns and shouted, "will you two just shut up." I don't think she liked what was being publicly said about her by the comic.

That demonstrated to me a significant difference between a professional and amateur comic.
 
SJHovey said:
That is definitely something you need to do.

I've been to a lot of high end comedy shows and enjoyed them all, but maybe the one that I'll remember the most was one years ago. Unfortunately the name of the comic escapes me today, but he'd had a special on Showtime and was a recognizable name.

Before his show started, they had some local up and coming comic come out and do a half hour bit. It wasn't like he was terrible, but it was obvious that he lacked a lot of experience. There were two couples off to the side of the stage, and the two guys started in on this comic ten minutes into his show. It really threw the guy off, and he never really recovered. Of course the two idiots got some chuckles from the audience, so they were pretty proud.

Then the main act came out. Fifteen minutes in they started heckling the pro. Big mistake. At first the comic just made a little insult joke back that was pretty funny, but when they persisted, he opened up on them. After about four minutes of the most hilarious gutting of two human beings that you'll ever see, one of the women at the table stood up and looked at the two clowns and shouted, "will you two just shut up." I don't think she liked what was being publicly said about her by the comic.

That demonstrated to me a significant difference between a professional and amateur comic.
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I saw Seinfeld live once, only major comedy show I've been to. The opener was pretty funny, but Seinfeld was a whole 'nother level. He started and then before you realized it 90 minutes had passed and he's wrapping up.

And yeah, he could handle hecklers better than Reggie Miller handling Spike Lee back in the day.
 
I have been to dozens of shows Louis C.K., Maron, (including the special he taped here) Bill Burr, Aziz Ansari, Bert Kreischer, (drank with him at Acme too!) Greg Giraldo, Emo Phillips and many other smaller acts who were great. ACME Comedy Club is a wonderful spot in Minneapolis but all of the theaters around here are fun for shows.
 
Sam Kinison live was a sight to behold. I saw him in person after he really began to break big. People were walking out and I thought to myself "surely you knew how crude this dude could be." I guess not.
 
Kepler said:
I've never seen a real comedian live. I've only seen crap local clubs called Ha Has or whatever.

Bad comics are really bad. It's like watching high school hockey. In Virginia.
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Kep

I run the MD HS hockey league. Somehow all 3 public school leagues in the DMV area (MSHL, NVSHL, CSHL) managed to get a season in while the private schools and regular varsity sports programs were shut down. Our "luck" was due to our volunteers, parents, coaches and players following the rules and not doing anything stupid.

Sure, teams lost games due our 14 day lockdown if somebody on the team was exposed to COVID, but, to the best of our knowledge, nobody caught COVID via a HS game or practice.

As for the play, it is what it is. Because we're not sanctioned and every program needs bodies to make ends meet, nobody cuts a kid who comes out. You get wide a disparity of talent on every team from ankle benders to AAA players. But they're playing for their school and that's all that matters. Plus the local pro team says they care about youth and HS hockey, but it's all talk.

It's not Minnesota or Massachusetts or New Jersey or even Pennsylvania. We don't even attempt to think we're at that level. We're the MASCAC compared to the NCHC.

If you go to a HS hockey game, enjoy the experience. You're not going to find Broadway in a dinner theater.
 
MinnesotaNorthStar said:
He’s not even Texas’ worst senator...
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He probably has a plaque on his wall saying that...

I love that he is so lame he actually stole his comment from a Politico story.

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(From the Matt Negrin Tweet DGF linked)

I get the feeling Chucky "The Enabler" Todd is gonna end up as EIC of Politico one of these days...
 
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French Rage said:
When I see a President and his people giving clear, focused, and concise information to the American people during times of tenseness and crisis, the first thing I think is that he's lost control.
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I'm blown away by how well he's doing. Maybe it's because while he talks the unity BS he is under no illusions about the evil of the Right.

Obama was Ivory Tower. He really believed that if you brought a sane proposal and a willingness to negotiate to them and were sincere and respectful you would get a compromise. He was having tea with scorpions. Biden keeps a truncheon under his togetherness cloak. He talks the same, but he has no fucks to give about these traitors.
 
Kepler said:
I'm blown away by how well he's doing. Maybe it's because while he talks the unity BS he is under no illusions about the evil of the Right.
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I want to credit Kamala with being a (legislative) realist, and (executive) idealist, and helping hold the (philosophical) resolve, after seeing his tweet today about how she’s the last voice in the room and she always gives him the straight truth. Kamala 2028.
 
geezer said:
I want to credit Kamala with being a (legislative) realist, and (executive) idealist, and helping hold the (philosophical) resolve, after seeing his tweet today about how she’s the last voice in the room and she always gives him the straight truth. Kamala 2028.
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I'm on board with that.
 
geezer said:
I want to credit Kamala with being a (legislative) realist, and (executive) idealist, and helping hold the (philosophical) resolve, after seeing his tweet today about how she’s the last voice in the room and she always gives him the straight truth. Kamala 2028.
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I agree completely.

So far they have been exemplary. We need more results -- we need a newer, far more radical and intrusive voting rights act and civil rights act* -- and that means the end of the filibuster and unDumping the Court, but in ambition this is the closest so far to what the Presidency would be if you let me set the agenda.

* What we really need is to finish Reconstruction.


 
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