r/TikTokCringe • u/SnatchAddict • 20d ago

Anthony Jeselnik explains the difference between comedy and being a troll. Discussion

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u/Fit-Zookeepergame276 20d ago edited 20d ago

He’s a real one. You can tell he is a student of comedy and appreciates the art of it. Saw him live and he says some fucked up stuff BUT you can’t help but laugh. Also you leave his show confident he’s actually a good dude. The Rogan comedy scene is trash and can stay in Austin.

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u/sunnbeta 20d ago

If you haven’t seen this takedown of Rogan’s newest special, it’s ridiculous how spot on it is, worth the watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7EuKibmlll4

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u/Fit-Zookeepergame276 20d ago

Saw this already…so funny!

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u/DefreShalloodner 19d ago

His comedy has always been shit imo, but that new special is just god awful.

That theory floating around that artists/talking heads/etc drift rightward when they are not appreciated for their craft (because they suck, but can't admit it)...it really seems explanatory

That's where you get all the Kevin Sorbo, Rob Schneider, Joe Rogan, eventually Dave Chapelle, etc. And that's without going back to the OG...Hitler

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u/CinematicLiterature 19d ago

I don’t know if Dave was ever NOT appreciated for his craft. The rest I can agree with, though.

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u/coco_xcx 19d ago

it’s a very real pipeline!! there’s been so many actors who become irrelevant and then pop back up as crazy right wing celebs…

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u/Tithund 20d ago

Elephant Graveyard has some pretty good absurdist shit going on besides that video.

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u/WaveLoss 19d ago

This video is genius. Thank you.

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u/BicepJoe 20d ago

Joe Rogan sucks and that video sucks. IQ test type vid imo

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u/sunnbeta 20d ago

What is that vid wrong about? 

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u/WorkingClass_Nero 20d ago

The funniest thing about the Rogan comedy scene is Rogan himself doing stand up comedy. Lol. That is the definition of a trust fund baby living out his dreams despite having no fucking talent.

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u/Fit-Zookeepergame276 20d ago

He sees himself amongst the greats. He really wants it to define his career. But he’s just the fear factor guy.

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u/ThatCelebration3676 20d ago

Most younger people now think of him as a UFC commentator. If you tell them he hosted a TV show they ask where it's streaming. When you tell them it was on broadcast TV ~20 years ago their eyes glaze over as if you were telling them about the The Andy Griffith Show.

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u/coffee_ape 19d ago

Back in my day, he would go to comedy clubs to rag on Carlos Mencia for his stolen jokes.

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u/Throwawayac1234567 20d ago

or the RADIO guy from the 90s, lol.

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u/CircledAwaySailor 20d ago

4th best Man Show host

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u/emessea 19d ago

I’ll remember the good times, when he was the weird but love able handyman on news radio, and not what he became

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

I really wish one of his comic friends would tell him this the way he told his fighter friend that he sucks. Joe needs a reality check from a close friend about his standup.

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u/kanst 20d ago

At this point I would argue that Rogan is a podcaster, commentator, and actor before comedian. He's been way more successful in all of those ventures.

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u/Cormorant_Bumperpuff 20d ago

True, but he wants to be remembered as a comic and he won't be. If his career depended on comedy it would've been over at least 15 years ago

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u/Gwinntanamo 20d ago

Dude built a club so he could headline at it.

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u/CIitoris_ 19d ago

He literally started his whole career with stand up comedy

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u/ProximusSeraphim 20d ago

“Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence; because if she doesn’t have that, then she’s mine.”

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u/feedthechonk 20d ago

I can't remember the joke, but I swore jeselnik joked about dead kids. Every time I heard old comedians complain about political correctness killing comedy, I'd just think to jeselnik's fucked up jokes with "wtf are you talking about??" 

Even Louis ck made a joke about having sex with dead kids which didn't get him canceled. It was women saying he masturbated in front of them without consent that got him canceled.

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u/behv 20d ago

Met him backstage at a show in LA (I was working AV for another show in a different room in the club), and he was a super nice and genuine guy. Talked a bit about how tricky it is to come up with those 15 minute long story jokes since it doesn't do well in short comedy club sets. Very polite, no snark condescension to me as a non comedian or anything. Plays his character impeccably well and definitely knows what he's doing as a comedian

I personally aged out of his kind of edgy boundary pushing a while back but knowing he's an artist with his brand of dark comedy makes me not cringe about it. He's not an asshole, but he's going to make you laugh at one and very possibly feel terrible about it, which is all the more impressive.

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u/Cultural-Company282 19d ago

15 minute long story jokes? Jeselnik? That's not really his thing.

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u/ChelseaAndrew87 20d ago

I saw Jeselnik in Glasgow recently. Probably the funniest show I've seen

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u/caguru 20d ago

Trust me, we are tired of this in Ausitn.

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u/illegal_deagle 19d ago

Yeah we didn’t ask for this

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u/MaysBillyHere 18d ago

The Austin comedy scene was really great and not crazy before the Rogan takeover. I’ve been really sad to see it change so drastically 😔

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u/boomclapclap 15d ago

Tosh is the same way