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Maybe shitty frozen waffles do. Real waffles certainly don't. Nigga, I made waffles. They're stingier than pancakes.

I think Lil Wayne is sort of in a "post-album" mindset.

God damn it, Damaramu, Oklahoma City is not a big city because it sprawls. OKC is smaller than Portland, Oregon. PDX isn't a big city. Charlotte isn't a big city. New York, LA, Phila, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco... these are big cities. I don't have misconceptions about the place, but apparently you do, like how - for example - it's a big city. I know OKC has museums and theaters and hip neighborhoods and all that, maybe it's just a matter of perception, but I don't think the 30th largest city in this country qualifies.

There you go. Sooooo... did you actually watch that video or are you just posting it? Because the only one of those that seemed even a little like joke stealing was the first one. Are you telling me that ONLY Louis C.K. can joke about naming his kids or having an itchy asshole?

Yeah, you don't like him, and I don't really either, but you're telling me you can't learn things about how to work a comedy audience from him?

Is that Call Tyrone ad like the song "Tyrone" by Erykah Badu?

In LA?! Either I went to the wrong stores, or I got taken for a ride. I got a Burberry suit for around 300 or so. They were running commercials for months! 3 suits! 3 pants! 3 shoes! 3 shirts! 3 ties! $399! I can't remember the particular store, but they were pretty decent brands. edit: Burberry does good work. Their cologne is great, too.

He became cool to hate... well... he became cool to hate on the internet or if you're a working comedian. I don't really understand why the internet hates him... it's the joke stealing rumor (which is way overblown with Dane Cook) combined with the whole phenomenon of hating what's popular. Comedians hate on him for his success, and because of his youth-groupy frat-boy personality... which is compounded by the fact that a lot of these young comics are the elite nerd types who shun anything modern that isn't Patton Oswalt or Zach Galifianakis (who are both great, I'm just saying.) I think Dane Cook has some good material, but the thing that I really like him for is his ability to run a room. He played Madison Square Garden. He played The Boston Garden. He rocked them. His energy is transcendent, he's super physical and he uses that to grab a room by the throat. I really believe that most of the people who talk shit about Dane Cook would crack-up if they saw him in person, especially if you took away the 'DANE COOK!!!!!!!!11!!!DMB!!!1!!OAR!11!" aura he's got. That wasn't addressed to you CCB, I just meant it in a general way... I don't really blame you for being tired of him. Over-saturation.

All I'm saying is, waffles put up way more of a fight when you're going fork-edge on them.

Pancakes! I dont want to have to use a knife when I'm eating breakfast.

No you don't, you live in Oklahoma City. You can't be a big city if the two biggest things you're famous for are 1- A bombing 2- ... You live in a city. I mean a big city - New York/LA/Chicago/Dallas maybe... somewhere that would have a garment district. In downtown LA I could have gotten 3 suits (the whole shebang plus shoes) for $400. Good suits too. It isn't important, you didn't pay for it, but just know... if you gotta get a suit... don't pay that much unless it's Italian. Like, from Italy. Not "Pronto Uomo".

I don't think he's terribly funny, but I respect his ability.

FINALLY. FUCK. Who would shit on you for liking this and why?

That you got it at Men's Wearhouse for that price makes it worse. You gotta shop around, nigga. I got two suits at Men's Wearhouse for around $400. That's shirt/tie/pants/jacket/socks... the only thing I didn't get was the shoes... which I had. Next time you're in a big city, just go to the garment district and get one. Way cheap.

Count me in

Are we talking about the "itchy asshole" joke? Because that was a case of "rehashing an idea" rather than stealing a joke.

It's part of the season long blacklist that ESPN has been pulling on the Celtics.

Unless I'm mistaken, Sir Elton Brand is a UFA.

On the Waterfront - 1954 Such a great movie. Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando at their best, in my opinion. Add to that a Leonard Bernstein score and a screenplay that was originally written by Arthur Miller before Budd Schulberg took it over. It's touching, dramatic and it's the first "old" movie that ever took me in. Plus, Brando is perfect in this. Perfect. I can't really do this movie justice with my reasons for picking it, so I'll just leave this. Charlie: Look, kid, I… How much you weigh, son? When you weighed 168 pounds,you were beautiful. You could have been another Billy Conn. And that skunk we got you for a manager. He brought you along too fast. Terry: It wasn’t him, Charlie, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and said, ‘Kid, this ain’t your night, we’re going for the price on Wilson.’ You remember that? ‘This ain’t your night.’ My night--I could have taken Wilson apart. So what happens he gets the title shot out doors in a ballpark. And what do I get? A one way ticket to palookaville. You was my brother, Charlie. You should have looked out for me a little bit. You should have taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn’t have them dives for the short end money. Charlie: Well, I had some bets down for ya. You saw some money. Terry: You don’t understand! I could have had class, I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charlie….

Goodfellas - 1990 This has been my favorite movie since the day I saw it. It is both romantic and gritty. Ray Liotta is at his best, DeNiro puts in one of his last great performances, Bracco is sexy, Pesci is fantastic. It's got everything, including a lot of comedy. The famous scene is Pesci doing his "funny how?" scene, but I think the scene where Pesci is talking to his mom about THIS painting is even funnier. The first hour of the movie made me want to be in the mafia SO bad. It made me long for my New York City roots and a time when neighborhoods were run by gangs that wore ties and smiled. It made prison look great! It made me, to this day, use a razor to slice garlic so thin it melts in the pan. I'll be honest, it falls apart a little at the end... but so does Henry's life... so it feels appropriate. The dream is exposed, the romanticism wilts, and all that's left is Ray Liotta's craggy face. Whatever. I love this movie.

Can I have his spot? I'll pick twice and then take his order.

"I think the biggest challenge Iraq will face is the conflict between the Kurds and the Hutu.... the Tutsi... er... the Hmong. Err..." I actually like McCain... I think. He makes me feel safe.

LT - Anthony Munoz I gotta run out the door right now, but I'll just say he's the best offensive lineman of all time. 11 Pro-Bowls 10 All-Pro selections More later.

Okay... Kanye isn't a better rapper than Lil Wayne. That isn't even an opinion you can have. I'm removing that from the options.

QUOTE (Тайг @ Jun 2 2008, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Mencia is fucking awesome, stfu. Let me start this off by saying I like a LOT of different comedy, from Will Ferrell to The Kids in the Hall to Richard Pryor to Dane Cook. I tend to see the best in what these people are doing and even if I don't think it's all that funny, I learn from it. Dane Cook, for instance, can take a joke that most comics couldn't sell, and he'll milk it for every single drop of humor and do it with enough energy to get the room laughing so hard it shakes the windows. The ABSOLUTE BEST thing I can say about Carlos Mencia is that his stand-up act is high energy and is sometimes funny. He also had this section at the end of one of his shows where he spoke frankly about racism, without making jokes, and talking about why he makes so many racial jokes. I thought that was pretty cool. Beyond that... he is the WORST comedian who has achieved any significant amount of success in his field. He his loathed by other comedians at a level that I have never witnessed before. When I was performing at The Comedy Store he was brought up and it was like Nuremberg... and he came up at The Comedy Store! That's his home court! You could call them bitter, but there were some very succesful comedians back there who hated him too! He steals jokes for his comedy act, and that's fucking horrible. It makes you an instant-fuck-up and nearly irredeemable. I've also heard that he isn't that funny one-on-one, which is forgivable (neither was Phil Hartman, evidently) but it isn't a good sign. His sketch comedy show, Mind of Mencia, is the worst thing I've seen on television. I mean that sincerely. I've tried to watch it several times and I can't understand why anyone would bother watching it. It is horrible at first glance, it is horrible over time, it is horrible as red meat, it is horrible in an academic sense. His jokes are cheap, one-dimensional abominations that rely on racism, shock value and cultural fabrications and are executed in such a stale way that they make second-hand dime-store joke books seem fresh. Yelling a lot and saying "beaner" isn't a joke. Finally, "dee dee dee." This is his signature! His calling card! This is something I'm pretty sure I was using to make fun of retarded people when I was in grade school! I mean that. Maybe it wasn't "dee dee dee" but it was fucking close, and it carried the exact same meaning. It's unforgivably unfunny. People who like it are less intelligent than people who don't. It's that simple. Dumb people think this is funny. I don't think that about anything else on earth! I think people who believe in Bigfoot or love new country music or DVR Flavor of Love or read into Coheed and Cambria lyrics or follow Dave Mathews Band around the country or fuck animals or believe in 30 different gods can still be intelligent people (they might be, they might not be) but ANYONE who thinks "dee dee dee" is funny, is a fucking idiot. A FUCKING IDIOT. They also posses woefully underdeveloped senses of humor and are only funny when observed physically and NEVER when taken audibly. There may be some spelling or punctuation errors there. I wrote it pretty quick and I'm not fine-tuning a rant about Ned fucking Mencia.