Amy Schumer’s Not-So-Funny Netflix Gun Rant Revealed

After reading Bourdain’s filthy insults at Trump over Trumps culinary choices I refuse to watch anything he does.
Just because he is a trained COOK doesn’t make him the expert of anybody’s food choices.

Shits given: ZERO.

Oh no, did you say illegal? Hmm, who is the sucker here? The one paying 100’s to cable and other services or those that don’t? I have never paid for a single song, application, movie, or cable in 15 years. The internet is a wonderful place. I say cancel Netflix, I just watched the first season of Iron Fist for free (BTW it blows). There are plenty of sites that let you watch any show you want from any season for free.

Like I said in another comment, fortunately there ARE some good comediennes out there. Rachel Feinstein is my favorite.

Joan Rivers. What a BITCH! So funny she brought tears to my eyes, even when she was insulting me.

Let’s not forget the broads on SCTV!

Of all of those on your list, I’ve seen none of them in a stand-up situation, eg, at a comedy club, alone, on stage telling jokes. Several of them were funny in skits with other comic actors. Burnett is obviously a legend in her production of her show, which was hysterically funny and had an excellent collection of talent into one place.

What Schumer is doing here is going out on stage, alone, with no props, trying to amuse an audience. I used to take in many shows at the Comedy Store when I lived in LA, watching people try to do just this: Go out on a stage alone, with no safety net, and try to make a room of people laugh. I cannot recall even one female comic who could come out on stage and really have the audience laughing. To be fair, most men fail at it too. Most women I remember from then, even in the 80’s, were running pre-cursors of Schumer’s act: Try to look like a nice girl, then juxtaposition their (then) shocking language.

You mentioned Phyillis Diller. Here’s an observation about Ms. Diller. While I never saw her in a stand-up situation, I agree that on TV and in film, she was often very funny. There’s two things to NB:

1. I don’t recall her using vulgar humor, ever. Perhaps it was because her venue was mostly TV and shows, perhaps it was a real deal. I think she’d be appalled at what female comics are using as “humor” today in their jokes. I mean, seriously, when a woman is telling the sort of stuff on-stage that Schumer does… there’s not a lot of room left for become more off-putting other than watching an autopsy.

2. Diller was often self-deprecating. Rodney Dangerfield used this same formula to go a long, long ways too. Diller’s self-deprication was in her act, in her writing, in her jokes. She was self-deprecating about her looks, which is something most women will never touch. Diller joked about getting face lifts – in a day and age when no one talked about such things. Today’s female comics possess more than a little hubris and self-entitlement about their looks.

Lastly, I’ll NB that few comics of the era/age of the women you listed would start making such overtly political tirades (posing as humor) on stage. To this day, I have no idea what Carol Burnett’s politics are. She had many, many of hours of TV in which she could have let that slip, but there’s nothing I can recall being overtly political.

Today’s female comics bash the audience over their heads with the comic’s politics, and it gets tiresome after about two minutes.

To be fair, a lot of male comics are just overt with their low-info leftist politics these days.

“Today’s female comics bash the audience over their heads with the comic’s politics, and it gets tiresome after about two minutes.”

Which was my point. 🙂 I never went to stage shows or such things, only saw the good old comedians on TV. They were funny without being insulting, vulgar or ugly as far as I saw. I wouldn’t cross the street to see any of the modern actors and actresses myself. I’m so old I still miss the radio shows such as Fibber Magee and Molly. It was seriously painful to watch some of the Lucy shows, and others, simply because of the graphic portrayal of sheer dumb human nature. But they were hysterically funny because I could see myself in so much of it and could not avoid enjoying my membership in the human family – warts, mistakes and all.

not standup, but as far as gals go the skits performed by elaine may with mike nichols (we went ‘cuz mom was a fan, same with peter cook and dudley moore post firesign theatre) were very entertaining for my pre teen self.
and again, not standup, but fran allison was hysterical live at goodman’s, and that was as the foil for burr tillstrom and his puppets.

“you’ve got herpes ‘cuz i’ve got herpes. byeee.”

i think a notable exception may be moms mabley. in the vein of pigmeat markham, not quite rudy ray moore.

I’ll agree with you that there were many women who were funny in their parts as members of a group or in a skit. Tons of women fit into a comedy act or skit, and get huge laughs.

But I’m talking about the stand-up role, where there’s no one else to be funny, or a foil, for the woman to play off of. In stand-up, it’s down to “Is this one person funny, or not?” and in that role, I’ve yet to see a woman be actually funny.

And hitlary signed off on the uranium deal to the Russians, lied constantly, was buddy buddy with that clan guy, and well how much more time do you have to read? The left and the demoscum don’t care about what the person has done as long as they racebait, claim to be for the little welfare guys/gals, say they’ll change the environmental cycle of the earth. Dumb is dumb and votes for louder dumb.

Right? The attack ads would play like a telling of The Aristocrats (probably literally). Would be an odd course of action on the heels of Trump. As with Trump, Schumer could eventually become palatable as our culture continues to corrode and become coarser and more primitive, but I think that won’t be for a good number of years, yet. Maybe when she has some grey hairs and can pretend to be a grown up, like Al Franken (she’s already got the vote-rigging machine in place, so she’s a step ahead of where he was)

You’re right! I must have it confused with one of his other acts. I KNOW I’ve heard him say that somewhere.