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Not freakin funny!

posted 17 years ago by Godsmack04
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LEWIS BLACK SUCKS!!!!!! I don't understand why people think he's funny because he defintely isn't. He's just annoying and to me he seems like a wanna be George Carlin. I freakin hate Lewis Black!!!!!! Anyone else hate him as mush as I do?

[–] Khan_Drichthyes 17 years ago

Considering that nobody has agreed with you for three month, I'd say you're wrong.

This means wine, women, and song... and women.

[–] Dispositioner 17 years ago

It's true that he's nowhere near as good as the master, George Carlin, but Black is still pretty amusing. You have to be pretty out of touch to not find him at least somewhat funny.

[–] g_wingsm 17 years ago

I watched his HBO special for about half an hour but I turned it off because I got tired of waiting for him to tell a joke.

[–] rdogg_3 16 years ago

I question the intelligence of anyone who listens to godsmack...

[–] WayTFTC 16 years ago

yea godsmack sucks

dont look!

[–] michaela_myers87 16 years ago

Just because he's angry about the way the world has turned out doesn't mean he's trying to be George Carlin... Other than that, I really can't see any similarities. They're both jerks, but in different ways. Have you seen some of Carlin's latest material? He's become quite the twisted individual (not that I'm complaining; he's still hilarious). Black's just pissed off at stupid people... pretty general subject matter.

Anyway, Lewis Black has always been angry, whereas George Carlin has only become bitter in his old age. Listn to some of his earlier stuff. He used to do much "cuter" stuff in the old days.

Carlin will always be my favorite of all time, But Black is certainly high on my list.

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[–] jaakola-1 16 years ago

hes dead

[–] michaela_myers87 16 years ago

Who Black or Carlin? Cos George I knew about. He did have a bum ticker tho. Probably all that coke in the hyper years...

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[–] lordhack_99 14 years ago

Acting like a twitchy, over-caffeinated loon does not disguise the fact that his bits are lame and unfunny, and it is clear that he KNOWS that they stink, so he gets laughs from his pre-masticated audience with, now get this, actual jibes at George Bush. Whew. Not even witty ones, at that. But your audience is convinced that this is FUNNY HA HA and we're having a blast hah hah... ha.
Black upchucks a chewed-over Bobcat Goldthwait impression, and it does not work . It. does. not. work. Hey, dummy, I tuned in for laughs. Tuned out for lack of same.
Laughed my ass off with Richard Jeni, and then he killed himself. What's Black's excuse?

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

So... the fact that people are laughing is NOT INDICATIVE of people finding him funny, but that we've actually been tricked into laughing?

EGADS, WE'VE BEEN HOODWINKED! QUICK WATSON, CALL SCOTLAND YARD!

Fail.

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[–] lordhack_99 14 years ago

YOU might indeed be easily tricked into laughing at Black. There is always at least one who finds JOE VS THE VOLCANO breathtakingly hilarious, too.

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

And I'm so sure all those tricksters in the audience were just paid off.
Listen, if you don't like him, that's fine. No one's going to give a damn, but to declare him unfunny despite his fanbase is pretty dickish... You're just one person. What makes you think your opinion should be considered so highly? You do know it is an opinion, right? As in not a fact?

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[–] lordhack_99 14 years ago

So is everyone else's an "opinion", and I find Black boring and a blatant rip-off of Goldthwait. This is not his fansite, and I agree with the original poster that he bit. If one other agrees with me, then it "matters". I should be happy to help dent Black's career. Dearie me, how hateful.

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

Good for you. Never said you couldn't have an opinion, but insisting anyone who thinks he is is a sheep is a predictable and unoriginal dick move. Go ahead and try and mar his career this way. Those that agree with you blindly are the sheep, rather than us that see and hear and make up their own mind about a comic with a schtick just like the rest of them.

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[–] lordhack_99 14 years ago

Just like NY intellectuals do it: a herd of independent minds.

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

Could it be possible that more than one person could have the same opinion and *gasp* AGREE on something without doing it for conformist reasons?
I'm certainly not going to begin disliking Lewis Black's comedy because you say so... So does that make me a sheep or are you trying to make me one?
Honestly, at this point, I'm just curious...

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[–] lordhack_99 14 years ago

You seem to be obsessed with compulsion and conformity, when all I said was, in essence, that Black is unfunny. You keep protesting that you are not going to be bullied, which sounds like someone who is easily bullied. Whether you wilt or not is something to which I am indifferent.

[–] michaela_myers87 14 years ago

Interesting. I'm the one who is obsessed with conformity?
Quotes from you:

But your audience is convinced that this is FUNNY HA HA and we're having a blast hah hah... ha.

YOU might indeed be easily tricked into laughing at Black.

Just like NY intellectuals do it: a herd of independent minds.

All of my posts on conformity were only in response to this. I simply resented the assumption that everyone who finds Black funny is following the crowd. Not that it's entirely bad to blend into the scenery sometimes, but I don't make a habit of making choices of personal taste based on what others think. That would make my personal life incredibly boring when I wasn't around people I was trying to impress.
I don't really know where you get the idea that I've been trying to tell you that you are wrong for thinking Black isn't funny. I never said that. I even specifically stated that in an earlier post, but I will reiterate it now: You are entitled to your opinion (not that you needed my permission, anyway), but I will add that the way you handled this opinion did sound like you were accusing him or the network he aired on of some sort of bandwagon trickery, and that everyone who falls for it is weak-minded and conformist.
In response to the bullying comment, this is not a sensitive issue for me. I'm just killing some time. I like to argue, especially when I actually have a point to make.

What we've accomplished:
You don't think Lewis Black is funny.
I do.
Disagreements like this will happen no matter what anyone says.
That's okay.

Could've ended there, but hey, this has been an experience...

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