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his story is hilarious (he has an absolutely stacked resume full of stuff he never actually did), and all around he just seems like the most regular guy comedian ever. i love his style, just super relatable. his standup special from austin was great. this story of his kills me every time though:

really really like this guy. i hope he becomes a mainstay in austin with joe rogan's new comedy club and running. i saw that he's already performed there once, so maybe it'll happen. 

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6 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

he’s coming to cedar park in april. just got two tickets through stubhub.

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$82 to have them text me my tickets. biggest racket currently running in this country. whatevs. really looking forward to this.

$100 for a stand up show is up there as well

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6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

$100 for a stand up show is up there as well

i saw louis ck 10-11 years ago here and his policy was great: all tickets to all shows are $50, first come, first serve. anyone caught trying to sell tickets in a secondary market for more than face value loses those tickets. it was louie’s policy to make sure that his actual fans were able to get in the building for a reasonable price.

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Saw him back when he came to Houston....good shit. I love super offensive comedians.

Crazy hes getting to host SNL seeing as though they fired him like 4 years ago. Now they come running back lol.

His free youtube special from around that time was pretty funny also...i just watched it last week.

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On 7/18/2024 at 11:12 AM, Scraps said:

This episode of Kill Tony was great
 

Seconded. I laughed my ass for the 2.5 hours. People at work were knocking on my door to ask if I was OK. 

Shane’s Trump impression is unbelievable. His bit in Beautiful Dogs had me slapping the floor. 

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54 minutes ago, Derka said:

 

hahaha to be fair to silverman, I vaguely remember that and I think it was funny. but of course she should shut the fuck up about "jew-face" or whatever it is

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He opened at the Texas One Fund event held in DKR in May. There were around 1,000 people there across a spread of tables on the floor of the stadium. It was a really awkward set-up for a comedian, with a ton on unfamiliar blue hairs not taking much interest in a bunch of his jokes. 

He literally says “fuck it” into the microphone and just starts hatefucking the crowd with comedy, including a bunch of political jokes and shit talk about Texas. Towards the end, he mentioned he’s not sure why he was asked to do this gig. He and the crowd were bewildered with one another.

I was fucking howling. Making a fool of myself at a table because it was the funniest, most uncomfortable shit I had seen in years. 

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On 11/23/2024 at 6:11 AM, closetojumping said:

He opened at the Texas One Fund event held in DKR in May. There were around 1,000 people there across a spread of tables on the floor of the stadium. It was a really awkward set-up for a comedian, with a ton on unfamiliar blue hairs not taking much interest in a bunch of his jokes. 

He literally says “fuck it” into the microphone and just starts hatefucking the crowd with comedy, including a bunch of political jokes and shit talk about Texas. Towards the end, he mentioned he’s not sure why he was asked to do this gig. He and the crowd were bewildered with one another.

I was fucking howling. Making a fool of myself at a table because it was the funniest, most uncomfortable shit I had seen in years. 

This pretty much describes his opening monologue when he hosted SNL a few weeks ago. I guess hosting SNL is just an awkward situation for a stand-up comedian, right? He was pretty good on the skits but damn the monologue was brutal.

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that luis j gomez roast is one of my top 3 favorite toast performances ever. it was almost like he really didn’t want to be there, so instead of coming up with a bunch of really creative and on-topic jokes for the panel, he did a few of those, and then mostly just crushed their souls with really mean stuff about them followed by uproarious laughter. so good.

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shane gillis and the bros just sitting around talking is funnier than 90% of the specials that other comedians are putting out.

 

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8 hours ago, ztejas said:

Who is Bob in Houston?

Also "I knew that's what they were doing" got a lol from me. 

he was one of the two main people who inadvertently led the mass exodus from hornfans with his incredibly overbearing, straight up fascist ways as a site mod. people viscerally hated this fucker, even though several other posters swore he was an ok guy in real life. still, he and katy agnor were the two people who drive everyone away from HF back in the day, and the impetus for shaggy being a free speech/self policing site.

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also for some reason that gillis clip was edited to not show what he actually said. when he was first bringing up how they “need to chill” with these commercials, he stopped and let Lemaire (a black comedian) take it away and explain the commercial, but it wasn’t the jalen green commercial, it was the one where the family is playing jenga and then they dangle some fried chicken in the dad’s face and he gets distracted and topples it structure. the jalen green talk was a follow-up to that.

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The podcast below is 2 years old but it's a cool look into his personality and background. 

It's when I started digging him as he seemed grounded, self aware, no filter and humble. It's cool to see in comedians, particularly when they are take no prisoners on their comedy. I have maintained for a long time great comedians are society's canary in the coal mine for social and political issues/tropes/liberties going back to Carlin and Pryor. Even before but those certainly jump out in my own history. I like to think Shane is among those.

 

 

 

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I’ve seen the espy clips going around and there was some good stuff but even on good jokes his delivery felt weird, like super stiff and strange. I also heard a radio clip of him doing the Norm joke about OJ, felt odd. Fuck Philly though.

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6 minutes ago, 'stache said:

even on good jokes his delivery felt weird, like super stiff and strange.

look i don’t using this word in the pejorative, because it makes me sound like a right wing turd, but shane knew just how “woke” that crowd was going to be, and that a lot of his jokes weren’t going to be embraced by that particular crowd. it’s something he talked about leading up to the event. he talked about how difficult it was and how many jokes he had to reject because he knew they wouldn’t go over well. so he’s in a tough spot- he’s not going to turn down the gig, but he also knows that a lot of the audience already doesn’t like him (because like so many other people they think that he’s maga), and that his style of jokes is just not well received by people who easily get offended. the awkward, stiff, out-loud self awareness bit is part of his act, even on his specials. it simply goes over a lot better when the audience is actually excited to see him. when they aren’t, yeah, it can get awkward. he’s a lot like norm in that sense. 

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6 minutes ago, Derka said:

look i don’t using this word in the pejorative, because it makes me sound like a right wing turd, but shane knew just how “woke” that crowd was going to be, and that a lot of his jokes weren’t going to be embraced by that particular crowd. it’s something he talked about leading up to the event. he talked about how difficult it was and how many jokes he had to reject because he knew they wouldn’t go over well. so he’s in a tough spot- he’s not going to turn down the gig, but he also knows that a lot of the audience already doesn’t like him (because like so many other people they think that he’s maga), and that his style of jokes is just not well received by people who easily get offended. the awkward, stiff, out-loud self awareness bit is part of his act, even on his specials. it simply goes over a lot better when the audience is actually excited to see him. when they aren’t, yeah, it can get awkward. he’s a lot like norm in that sense. 

Why not turn it down if it is such a difficult needle to thread?

I don't like him,  seen small bits and just didn't find him funny or even thought provoking, seemed like he focuses on low hanging fruit,  but each to their own.  I also can't recall the last time I watched the ESPY's and found the network has gone from what it was in its early days to the presumption they are a new organization taking themselves WAY TOO seriously.

Based upon what you described and from what people describe his comedy it seems this was a situation he would relish because he would get to insult and offend as many people as possible which I never understood that style of comedy.  Responding to a heckler is one thing, but insulting others? 

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