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[theinevitable]

I remember the days when occasionally I'd wake up to find that no one had made a thread for the day's new comic. Am I imagining that?

This is moving rapidly towards funny.

[Bimmicus]

Gratuitous squirrel abuse is always funny.

[littlefallsmets]

Y'know... the idea of Martha Stewart in the shower as portrayed by a teddy bear in a body stocking is pretty funny?

But, man, there ain't nothing funny about Jack Nicholson impressions. Not even ironically. Played out on every level of funny imaginable. Even if your joke is specifically that Nicholson impressions are terrible things, it's no longer funny.

Jokes ABOUT Nicholson can be funny. The idea that he is immortal and is pictured throughout history on cavepaintings and carvings at Pompeii and such could be funny.

But impressions of him... no. Nuh... no. No. Sorry, no.

[dejavroom]

However... carcinogenerosity does it for me so good.

[melack]

Y'know... the idea of Martha Stewart in the shower as portrayed by a teddy bear in a body stocking is pretty funny?

But, man, there ain't nothing funny about Jack Nicholson impressions. Not even ironically. Played out on every level of funny imaginable. Even if your joke is specifically that Nicholson impressions are terrible things, it's no longer funny.

Jokes ABOUT Nicholson can be funny. The idea that he is immortal and is pictured throughout history on cavepaintings and carvings at Pompeii and such could be funny.

But impressions of him... no. Nuh... no. No. Sorry, no.

And they're twice as unfunny when aired in the form of constant TBS promos.

[littlefallsmets]

The baseball playoffs left me wondering... who do I hate more, Dane Cook or Frank Caliendo?

I always knew that I hate Dane Cook, it is impossible not to hate Dane Cook...

But I used to just be slightly annoyed by Frank Caliendo. No hate whatsoever.

Now I am not so sure.

[CortJstr]

The baseball playoffs left me wondering... who do I hate more, Dane Cook or Frank Caliendo?

I always knew that I hate Dane Cook, it is impossible not to hate Dane Cook...

But I used to just be slightly annoyed by Frank Caliendo. No hate whatsoever.

Now I am not so sure.

Is that the "you been here 4 hour" guy or the "John Madden says a lot of obvious stuff" guy?

[jaydub]

The baseball playoffs left me wondering... who do I hate more, Dane Cook or Frank Caliendo?
I always knew that I hate Dane Cook, it is impossible not to hate Dane Cook...
But I used to just be slightly annoyed by Frank Caliendo. No hate whatsoever.

Caliendo does Madden better than Madden himself.  Now, if you hate Madden...

[littlefallsmets]

"John Madden says a lot of obvious stuff" guy.

I think his stuff would be less annoying if, like, he did impressions on albums or on a radio show or something. Something audio-only.

As it is, he seems to make no attempt to look like any of the people he's doing impressions of. At all. Except for John Madden who he kinda naturally looks a little like already.

But that might be giving him too much credit. When your main impressions are people EVERYONE has a goddamn impression of... Nicholson, Generalissimo W, Robin Williams (for fucks sake), Madden, Al Pacino... you probably don't deserve any credit at all.

Who doesn't have a bad Williams or a bad Pacino?

Blah.

But then again, Dane Cook is so smarmy and frattish and unfunny and not only steals everyone else's stuff but then ALSO waters it down until Topeka gets it... AND will defend himself and his unfunniness to the death on the merit of the fact that he "has a lot of fans" but half his act is sucking up to his fans to a disgusting degree.

Aggggggh.

I guess I gotta hate Dane Cook more than Frank Caliendo for the same reason I gotta hate Springsteen more than I hate Billy Joel. At least Billy Joel seems to kinda know/admit that he's a total fraud... not taking your crap too seriously DOES get you tie-breaker points.

[melack]

Man, I was totally with you on everything until you got to the Springsteen part.

[CortJstr]

"John Madden says a lot of obvious stuff" guy.

I think his stuff would be less annoying if, like, he did impressions on albums or on a radio show or something. Something audio-only.

As it is, he seems to make no attempt to look like any of the people he's doing impressions of. At all. Except for John Madden who he kinda naturally looks a little like already.

But that might be giving him too much credit. When your main impressions are people EVERYONE has a goddamn impression of... Nicholson, Generalissimo W, Robin Williams (for fucks sake), Madden, Al Pacino... you probably don't deserve any credit at all.

Who doesn't have a bad Williams or a bad Pacino?

Blah.

But then again, Dane Cook is so smarmy and frattish and unfunny and not only steals everyone else's stuff but then ALSO waters it down until Topeka gets it... AND will defend himself and his unfunniness to the death on the merit of the fact that he "has a lot of fans" but half his act is sucking up to his fans to a disgusting degree.

Aggggggh.

I guess I gotta hate Dane Cook more than Frank Caliendo for the same reason I gotta hate Springsteen more than I hate Billy Joel. At least Billy Joel seems to kinda know/admit that he's a total fraud... not taking your crap too seriously DOES get you tie-breaker points.

I've only heard Frank Caliendo on the radio because he was at the Improv that weekend or something. What connection does he have to baseball?

When Dane Cook's first Comedy Central special came on I would always confuse him with Nick Swardson. I think just because they aired close together and have similar body types.

Dane Cook would have to try really really hard to be the most hateable "name" comic, though. I think Mario Cantone has that title pretty much locked up. He's got the annoying-voice/obnoxious-style/not-even-one-funny-bit trifecta.

[melack]

Frank Caliendo has a new show coming up on TBS. Since the baseball playoffs have been shown on TBS, they've been showing a shit-ton of promos for his show. These usualyl amount to quick 15 second impersonations of predictable celebrities. His Madden one is eerily good, his GWB is okay, but the rest are pretty bad. Especially the Robin Williams and Al Pacino numbers. Yikes.

Also, what I hate about Dane Cook is that there's just no substance whatsoever to his comedy. There's no risk. It's always just "have you ever noticed how some people do this? haha! they do!"

[littlefallsmets]

Frank is starting some sketch show on TBS and, since TBS had part of the baseball playoffs, basically every third ad was him doing a really really bad impression of somebody to promote the new show.

It got tedious and painful.

Another third of the ads were Dane Cook ranting about how awesome October is, screaming out names of players and teams that he'd clearly just been told by the lady holding the cue cards but completely pretending to know and care.

The other third were your usual crappy beer ads and the like.

Never before was I looking forward to crappy beer ads.

And... Mario Cantone doesn't count because he's only appreciated for his camp value whereas...

Some people swear that they appreciate Dane Cook on a straightforward level.

[CortJstr]

His Christ Chex bit is amusing. Apparently much of his popularity stems from the fact that he personally replies to every single e-mail he gets. Or at least did when I first heard of him 7 or 8 years ago.

Mario Cantone has no camp value. He has needing a swift kick to the head value. Gilbert Godfried and Bobcat Gothwait (sp?) can both pull off horrifying voices, why can't he? Lack of any redeeming value whatsoever, that's why.

I thought baseball was done already. Because The Simpsons is new and they usually don't start the new season until after the baseball season is finished. Which is why I always root for whichever team is leading because sweep=Simpsons before Thanksgiving

[theinevitable]

some people = every person on my college campus. yeesh.