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Sun Jun-22-08 02:11 PM
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Poll question: Who is unfunnier? |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:15 PM
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1. Why the visceral hatred for Dane Cook on this site? |
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I find him merely amusing at best and he seems to be a narcissist. That is about all the thought I'm willing to put towards him. Some people on DU just really, really, really hate him. I'm curious as to why, really.
Mencia is just a hack.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:16 PM
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2. I'm just polling the zeigeist |
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And if that doesn't sound dirty, I don't know what does!
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:26 PM
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Because he's fucking annoying
Imagine getting a wet willy from a twenty-something frat boy and imagine that it happens every time you come across him. That's Dane Cook.
The stupidity is stupefying.
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:42 PM
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32. He is a fucking tool. |
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The only person worse than Dane Cook is a person who enjoys his comedy.
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Sun Jun-22-08 11:30 PM
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35. DU is all about hating. |
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Cook, Kincade, Cruise, someone-who-just-catches-the-fancy-this-week. Hate is cool, I guess. Or people feel superior when they hate, who knows.
I hate Cook's act. I find him unfunny in the extreme. It took me a long time to even understand that he was attempting humor, rather than just monologuing. So I don't watch him. It's a lot easier than hating him or posting endless barrages of name-calling at him. And for all I know, he's a wonderful person who doesn't deserve my hate, anyway. Life's too short, there are too many other channels to worry about what I don't like.
Just my bored response for the evening. I should be doing other stuff, but here I am.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:22 PM
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43. Because he's not funny. |
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He poses as a stand-up, but has no jokes, and his ramblings do not amuse.
I don't hate him, but I flip away whenever he comes on my radio or TV. Whenever I try to give him a chance, I don't even crack a smile.
Mencia, at least, is freakin' funny sometimes, when he's not being deliberately offensive.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:26 PM
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44. His best bits are from other, better comedians. |
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And even then he manages to make it less funny.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:27 PM
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4. I don't like Mencia, but at least he's made me laugh once or twice. |
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Dane Cook has yet to accomplish that.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:31 PM
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5. Dane Cook is entertaining. |
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Carlos mencia is just a string of racial stereotypes padded by self-righteous complaining about how anyone who doesn't find his "jokes" funny is too uptight. Fuck Mencia.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:34 PM
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Edited on Sun Jun-22-08 02:50 PM by 1Hippiechick
edited to add quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_n8z3auC4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nsI02gnUk"Opinions that deviate from the ruling zeitgeist always aggravate the crowd." - Germaine de Staël
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:35 PM
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7. Every time I see Mencia I feel like I have to toss up |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:39 PM
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8. Pauly Shore..... Buddy.... nt |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:41 PM
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9. Sure, but he's the nuclear option of unfunny |
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:06 PM
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Andrew "Dice" Clay is not funny.
His character, "The Dice Man", was real funny for about five minutes when I was in my early twenties.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:41 PM
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10. I like Carlos Mencia and think he is pretty funny |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:43 PM
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:46 PM
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13. Worse than both of them? Wow. |
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That's a tall order. I'll need to think about that.
I heard Silverman on Fresh Air a year or so back, and she had moments of actual haha funny.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:48 PM
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15. Except for a spectacular stint in Gregg the Bunny nt |
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:27 PM
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45. Yup. She may suck elsewhere, but she was good on that one. |
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Of course, the whole show is friggin' hilarious.
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Sun Jun-22-08 05:52 PM
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23. I forgot about her, thanks for mentioning! |
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What I did see of her show... yuck. Just yuck.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:54 PM
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48. NO WAY. She was funny in the Aristocrats. |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:45 PM
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Mencia can be funny once in a while.
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:46 PM
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14. You reply to this thread but not my other one? |
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You totally suck, you sucker.
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:48 AM
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36. Stop casting asparagus! SERIESLY! |
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Mon Jun-23-08 10:34 AM
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37. Inventor of the Brazillion joke. |
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Sun Jun-22-08 02:49 PM
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Sun Jun-22-08 04:45 PM
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Carlos Mencia made me smile once, about 3 years ago.
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Sun Jun-22-08 04:50 PM
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Comedy Central insists on broadcasting that goddamned "Blue Collar Tour" thing every so often and one time I watched it. Godalmighty, that disgusting right wing pig was the opposite of funny. Larry the Cable Guy is the anti-funny.
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:04 PM
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He walked into a room with the ten funniest comedians of all time. A terrific explosion ensued, in which the ten funny comedians were wiped out by the anti-funny of one Larry the Cable Guy, and there was still enough of him remaining to leave us with a complete Larry the Cable Guy.
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Sun Jun-22-08 11:21 PM
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Dane Cook makes me giggle sometimes still, and the first time I saw his act I just about died!
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Sun Jun-22-08 04:51 PM
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19. There is not a human being alive, not a carbon-based life-form in existence... |
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...that is less funny than Sarah Silverman.
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:03 PM
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24. Not even Jeff Foxworthy? |
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Sun Jun-22-08 11:00 PM
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33. Yakov Smirnoff has died???!!! |
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the flags in Branson must be flying at halfmast
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:55 PM
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49. In Soviet Russia Branson flies YOU at half mast. |
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Sun Jun-22-08 05:23 PM
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20. This is like choosing between Ebola and Marburg fever |
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I'd also have to agree with others who say that Sarah Silverman also brings the unfunny.
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Sun Jun-22-08 05:28 PM
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21. After last week's show, Carlos definitely moved up in the rankings |
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Yeah, I've been guilty of watching his show, but I probably won't do so anymore. I'm not offended by his decidely non-PC humor, for the most part, but when he says he won't vote for Obama just because his name is "too ethnic", that's just fucking ridiculous.
He also says he wouldn't vote for a Latino named "Julio" so it's not a racial thing. It's just fucking dumb.
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:15 PM
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28. He's not even a latino. He just pretends to be one so he can get away with his racist act. |
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He also steals his best jokes from better comedians than him. He's a shit.
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Mon Jun-23-08 10:41 AM
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38. He has an infamous reputation for plagiarizing and stealing other people's |
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work. :puke: That's the biggest nasty in comedy.
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Sun Jun-22-08 05:51 PM
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22. they both suck, from what I recall |
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and I try to forget unfunny comedians, so I dunno any other ones
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:04 PM
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25. shit or shit sandwich? |
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:09 PM
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27. I'd rather be punched in the nuts with a spiked fist than endure Menstealia's act. |
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:30 PM
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I met Jimmy Fallon once...it was a lot like being cubed by a three year old. That act...not an act, he really is a spastic tool. What little he says that's funny...the result of writers. The guy couldn't be funny if he tried.
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:32 PM
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30. yes, good pick, i forgot he existed. Colin Quinn is also an extremely unfunny bastard. |
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Sun Jun-22-08 09:34 PM
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31. dennis miller is the unfunniest thing labelled "comedian" for my money. |
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but Mencia and Cooke have a certain aroma about them.
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Mon Jun-23-08 10:49 AM
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39. You've missed out on the religious right's stable of comedians, then. I don't know their names but |
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they turn up on XM's LAughUSA now and then and I cringe all through their stuff while waiting for someone good to come on. It's far more sermon than anything else, and very often I disagree with what they are saying.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:08 PM
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41. Colin Quinn is worse. |
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At least Mencia steals a good joke now and then. Quinn is just scum.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:28 PM
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46. Is Colin Quinn a comedian? |
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I thought that he was just pointlessly pissed off for a living.
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:56 PM
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50. Quin is worse than either. He doesn't joke, he just acts cranky. |
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Mon Jun-23-08 12:09 PM
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42. Dane Cook just isn't funny. |
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