He shouldn't go back to stealing jokes. Demetri Martin and Louis CK are funnier comedians. He shouldn't have ripped off good jokes and made them unfunny.
Retaliation is the most boring piece of *beep* I've ever listened to. I laughed, maybe, once per disc. It just wasn't funny. Vicious Circle had some funny parts but overall still too much physical comedy, which is an oxymoron. I really enjoyed Rough Around the Edges and I can see huge improvements in his act throughout the years. This still wasn't quite as funny as the MSG show but it is so much better than Retaliation and some of the other bits of his I've seen (The Insomniac Tour, Harmful if Swallowed, Comedy Central Presents).
He didn't "used to be funny." He used to be over-the-top awful. But I'm really starting to dig his stuff now.
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