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Simplest rule of being a comedian, if the audience isn't laughing, tell a different joke.
The audience isn't wrong just because you can't stick anything with them, and if you bomb out then you just sucked for that audience and that is also, not their fault.
Seinfeld at least had the common sense to bow out of the college circuit when he realized his material wasn't landing anymore, even if he made a spectacle of being a crying little pansy about it.
And don't even get me started about Bill Maher, if you ever wanna snap a Millenial or Zoomer out of a weed phase, tell them that if they don't stop they could turn out like Bill Maher, and those youngins will be sober as mormons by the time you've finished the sentence.
I'm painfully out of the loop with most pop culture. I blame the isopods I live with under this rock; they only like to watch live stream gaming which bores me to tears. Because of this, I'm unaware of the Seinfeld crying like a pansy bit you reference. Mind filling me in a bit? Even if it's just enough to give me bits to search, that would be great.
It was a few years ago, like pre-covid, he made a big statement about how he isn't doing colleges anymore because college students are "too sensitive" and "don't appreciate a good joke anymore."
Yeah Jerry it's definitely the jokes and certainly had nothing to do with you dating a 17 year old at 38.
Sure it's the college that is blowing things out of proportion...
From an episode of Animaniacs.
Bernadette Peters was playing a cat.
"The worst sin in life is playing too hip for the room."
I would say that the audience can be "wrong", where I mostly mean "inappropriate for the specific comedian" at least.
One example that comes to mind is this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ckxcHx1q4 (Which unfortunately is in Italian). This monologue is an incredible piece on feminism, and the audience was extremely silent and unresponsive, probably because they were a "TV crowd" with a stand-up comedian (the best Italy has ever had IMHO) who was totally out of their league. In this case, the comedian ended up "rebuking" the audience and I think he was right at that.
The guy might have had a noble cause but the second he started talking at them instead of trying to change up the set or whatever it broke with being a comedy act and became a public speech, and you and I may agree that some people need to hear that shit, but what I don't imagine is that this guy went into that speech expecting the audience to be doing much more laughing before he left the stage.
That's what I mean when I talk about the audience isn't wrong, calling out bullshit is fine, lecturing from the stand is a bit self righteous but fine, but throwing a fit because you think you're entitled to the audience finding you funny is what I'm raising the point against. Not calling out crowd misogyny, but telling them they're all backwards hicks because your theory heavy set that doubles as a thesis statement on the works of Andrea Dworken sailed over all their heads.
Yeah, I can see your point and I would say I generally agree.
Stand up comedy though I think is quite a gray area. Ultimately cannot be seen as pure entertainment as that's exactly what it distanced from when it was born. Laughing ultimately is just the mean but not the goal of this particular form of comedy.
But I agree about not being entitled to a crowd that finds you funny and throwing a fit about that.
There are always exceptions though. Like Bill Burr roasting a crowd in Philly. https://youtu.be/dEKNLxjZLNU?feature=shared
That's his thing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bill-burr-hates-on-liberals-battles-heckler-at-berkeley-show/ar-BB1nY5oM
They appreciated it by the end.
Except for the fact that there are audiences that laugh at jokes like those, but those jokes cannot be made anymore. Some of the most recognizable comedy songs for people in Poland in the noughties were like this. They just wouldn't be accepted nowadays. There is a band called "Big Cyc" which translates to "large tit" (as in breast, a singular one). They parodied everything around . So they had an extremely racist anti-racism song. They had "Every man is a pig". They had songs taking a piss out of the typical old conservative, comparing them to a military army.
None of those are played in the radio despite most Poles knowing the lyrics and loving those songs. Songs like those, like "Little tiny mustache" can't be sung anymore.