The comedians that treat the occupation as some erudite, high brow, high society, protected occupation just really get me. I can't wait till Joe tells us all about how special the Cawlmedy Club was again.
Fr, comedians that think too deeply about what it means to be a comedian suck the funny right out of their material. Comedians that fancy themselves as philosophers first, and funny secondarily literary shouldn’t be called comedians.
Comedy is about our need for attention and enjoying the feeling of making people laugh at the shit we find funny. That’s it’s. Only a couple special comedians have had the privilege of being elevated to a philosophical level of commentary, and cause those few made it, they now all feel like they’re on the same level of social commentary as Carlin or Chapelle.
The way Rock spit the word "bitch" with so much venom and vitriol, it felt like that must have been a really cathartic moment for him. I could appreciate that part, but overall, the special wasn't nearly as funny as I was expecting.
When you use the term 'edgy' as a metric, without defining who/what tries to define the edge 'overton window' There isn't a moral foundational claim to start off from. While I don't give a flying pelvic thrust about Chris Rock's comedy, his show's title is right on the money, and I guess that is 'problematic'TM? 'Follow the money' as par, and you will find Bl@ckrock and their ESG corporate investor credit rating, dictating the afore the mentioned edge of acceptable discourse.
It's weird how many comedians are stuck on this topic of "being censored" or "cancel culture" when stand up comedy is the biggest it's ever been. Multiple comedians are doing stadiums and/or arenas and you've got podcasts like Kill Tony getting massive where they say outrageous shit weekly. I saw Anthony Jeselnik on Theo Von's pod quote Andy Warhol saying "art is getting away with it" and it's so fucking poignant. You can always say almost anything as long as it's actually funny. If you're just being a dick and no one laughs than you're just being a dick
Comedy is bigger than ever, but definitely many topics are off limits more than ever. Dave Chappelle lost many theater gigs for very light trans jokes. Not everyone wants to ramble on podcasts for their patreon pay pigs.
I felt the same way here after watching the latest Seinfeld special. These dudes are in a vacuum where people are probably to "respectful" to critique their shit. This is where Patrice was the GOAT. He didn't care how famous or legendary someone was.
The Internet and social media killed observational/cultural commentary in standup. You can’t possibly come up with fresh takes on a subject when everyone all the time has made every joke and possible opinion on a subject hundreds of times within 48 hours of a story breaking. It used to be that a comic could make a joke about a year-old story and people would find it funny and refreshing and still care about it. By the time a special is ready for release now, the joke and story are already old hat
I think it killed hack observational comedy. Good comics can still find interesting angles on theses stories, but you can't just regurgitate mid takes anymore because the internet has made those available to everyone. you have to come up with more interesting and niche takes.
@Beige Frequency Shane Gillis managed to have funny Trump material years after he was out of office, anything can be funny when a talented comic puts in some kind of effort
@@5liter As funny as it was I feel like Shane's Trump stuff was cheating because it was mostly just quoting insane things Trump said, I'm surprised Trump wasn't on Rogan claiming he was doing his bits.
@@mightymoeish Can people reply to a comment about the topic they are discussing? Every other replier (and a lot of youtube) is just about how they want to talk about the things they want. Your own logic at work, see how easy/dumb that is? Now run along little puppy, you are wasting time posting nonsense instead of getting an education that would prevent you from sounding like an ignorant twatwaffle.
@@neenster69 zebras are black with white stripes. At first glance, it may appear the opposite is true-after all, the black stripes of many zebras end on the belly and towards the inside of the legs, revealing the rest as white.
the thing about comedians living in echo-chambers is so true.. most of them nowadays reframe/recycle the same jokes about cancel culture w/o any innovation
You honestly just nail these videos every single fucking time. Well done brother, one of the most refreshingly genuine channels on TH-cam! Keep them coming!
It was absolutely rushed and you pointed out every hacky trick he was doing that I was also noticing. Pretty much agree with this. The dating stuff was unusually painful, the stuff about his kids was really good, and while he def doesn't have the worst take on woke culture, it certainly wasn't anything thought provoking or new. I think I'd give it a 5 tho. 3 is really bottom of the barrell for me, like Schumer's last (and 1s are for BPapa of course), and a lot of that is because you expect so much more from a recognized master and legend of the form. Also, I liked his take on the Will Smith incident a lot more than you did, and while yeah he didn't say anything particularly new, hearing his personal take I think made it work very well, and def tons of people agree, as it's usually considered the one bit to go find. Also on the Smith bit, I think you're a person like me that is way more tuned into comedy and SM culture than a lot of people (especially his aging target audience), so there were def a lot of people that hadn't heard all the takes on Will Smith out there, or possibly even knew about their swinger lifestyle (which like nearly every other hot take on it, he misrepresented as a straight one-sided cheating, but that's a story for another day) that went wrong. Anyways, highly enjoyed your take as always, brotha.
He did not misrepresent it you idiot. The way those arrangements go is you don't put it in the person's face and embarrass them. Being in an open relationship and banging Friends of the family that have vacationed with you are two totally different things. You and Jada would work perfectly together swirling in emotions with one another.
The bit about dating young women was fucking creepy. The stuff about his daughter being privileged was out of touch and hacky, how many times have I heard an aging comedian do material about how rich they were. Give me Katt Williams over this any day
I saw this live at the Hard Rock in Hollywood. Sadly. I have been a Fan since Bring the Pain…I started noticing a decline since Never Scared which I was really looking forward to. The same style that was fresh and worked on Bring the Pain and even Bigger and Blacker felt old and stale by the time Never Scared came…his edginess was lost now that he was a millionaire and lacked those stories we can relate to. Tambourine, I felt, wasn’t that funny and I only watched once never wanting to see it again. I laughed a bit at Selective Outrage but it was still sad. It was not a sold out crowd which made it even sadder we had reached this point in his career. This is the same place I had gone and laughed my ass off watching Trevor Noah and Anthony Jeselnik do their thing. Most comedians lose their edge and are less funny the more famous and rich they get. The only one I can remember being filthy rich and famous and still be funny is Chapelle. Carlin was my favorite for years but his last specials were kinda cringy. Joe Rogan is a good example of someone who has become rich and famous yet his quality has not changed. He sucked then and he sucks now. Guy has never been funny. I hope Chris regains his edge and would love to see if Eddie Murphy still has something in the tank but perhaps he is saving us from having to find out the sad truth. Please like and subscribe. Oh, wait…this is not a video. Nevermind.
Let's be honest here: Between a mediocre Saw movie and traumatic brain injuries, Chris Rock just threw some stuff together and pitched the Will Smith jokes to Netflix to sell a new special
He basically has a writing staff. He buys most of his jokes and it was painfully obvious here. You can tell which bits are actually his and which aren’t. _cawlmiddy_
It's like the 90's all over again - very few original, funny comedy folks out there. If you are bitching about having your tongue suppressed, you have no proper material.
@@Flameb0 Yeah. I enjoy Stavros Halkias. I don't watch enough comedy to say if he's original or not. Watched his special with my family and we all liked it though.
I saw him perform this live in St. Louis and the timing and cadence of the whole show felt much more natural and entertaining versus the Netflix special.
This was perfectly said and presented. I wish I had seen this video months ago before I made the mistake of watching Selective Outrage and then mentally throwing up at how terrible it was.
yesterday I tried to watch it, closed it when he started talking about the capitol thing in USA, very weak overall, I'm so glad a day later you confirm it wasn't only me
Part of the problem with comedy being stuck in the past is that audiences keep going back to the same tired comedians. Partly that’s just because they can: name recognition amongst a sea of talent is super important, and all social media platforms care about is engagement. Thus: comedians who can get lots of clicks but who can no longer tell a joke from this century.
i had 2 of my friends over and we ended up watching this. we started watching this at around 1 am, and they are both the type to fall asleep 30 after getting tired. it was...difficult to explain this special to them the next day
THANK YOU!!! I saw all these people posting Chris talking about Will Smith and saying things like “Chris goes after Will Smith!” And “Chris burns Will smith so bad don’t mess with Chris rock!” And I’m like this was so underwhelming. This should’ve been Eminem/MGK levels of destruction. He should’ve made it so Will Smith could’ve never gone out in public again. Hell I think Dave Chapelle burned Smith harder in his last special didn’t he?
I tried watching this special and by the time the daughter portion came in it felt like a generic top 10 topics to discuss to be edgy. It felt like it was made in some standup comedy marketing group's boardroom. Turned it off and forgot it even existed until this video cropped up in my feed.
I felt a bit embarrassed by most of the first 30 minutes, feeling like he was swinging at 10-15 year old talking points. A few of the bits made me think of similar, better bits by other comics. The stuff about his kids made me think of when CK used to rip on his kids, and Burr has done similar stuff about how brutal kids can be. One bit made me think of Stanhope (my favourite of all time), although I can't remember which bit that was now. Mostly I just felt embarrassed for him... but worse than that, I felt embarrassed for myself that I've talked him up so much to younger people at work. Cheers Chris - you've made me look like an out of touch old fucker by proxy.
I had an old co worker who did the same thing. He came back after this special muttering “his old stuff was better…” We forgave him lol Oh shit did we work together? Lol
It's brilliant... Like Chris rock once said...(very very paraphrased...) . "It's all how it starts and how it ends..no matter what happens in the middle if you got those two sorted you're golden "
Currently recovering from a bad migraine and this video helps a lot. I watched the special when it came out and I feel the same way. The repetition, the half ass bits and the tired old “Back in me day” segments were exhausting. I almost fell asleep until he mentioned the Will Smith stuff. Which was like if I watched a video by a TH-camr. You would think Chris would have more to say but it was really just there, which is worse than it being bad. It felt like Chris wanted an excuse to say something but Netflix is like “We need an hour of content” so he went into his junk drawer. There’s even a part where he flubs a joke. The art here is fantastic and I loved your video man 💙
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this. I swear you look into Chris Rock's eyes, slightly jaundiced as they are, and it's almost like you're looking at a man whose lost his sense of humor. I think this started happening to him after his divorce. Tambourine suuuucked!
Surprisingly? People just gave a shit for this special because Will Smith slapped his face a year ago. Chris Rock did something smart, he capitalized the slap to earn a lot of money from the people who didn't have anything better to waste their time on
I just watched your brenden shaub review and now this review. Earned you a sub! Your reviews are spot on and done with more humour than the specials themselves. Thanks.
Great work! Glad you listened to MY comment on your last video. As a fellow artist, once again, I commend your digital painting skills. It'd be really cool to see you if you could push yourself to do a full 30-40 hour long portrait painting for some of your videos as a sort of cracked out timelapse. And just to push your skills in general. Keep it up!
Dude… i completely agree with you on this I was so disappointed watching this standup Your view on how he gave us nothing new … said all the things everyone already said about him and will…. Was SPOT ON
Yeah I thought the same....it was ok, but it felt like he was telling his jokes to 5th graders. Repeating himself so many times to drag out the time. I kept finding myself saying ok dude get to the joke in my head.
Though I do think there is a rational line, I have never fully understand people acting like words shouldn't hurt. You should consider who is saying it and know the context. But if words aren't used to illicit feelings then why do we use them at all? Words hold weight, have meaning and a history behind them. Its one of the, if not the biggest way we communicate or express our feelings to one another. Of course words can hurt. Just like they can make you happy, sad, etc.
He needed to cash in on the slap before it went stale. I would've done the same thing. He owes us nothing and it was a crap special but man am I happy for him.
Agreed. He wanted to use this years Oscars instead of earlier but waiting a whole year almost made this stale. Everyone wanted to finally hear his take on the slap.... And he delivered on that. The rest was filler. Professional comedy watchers might care that the rest isn't up to snuff but most people that I know saw the slap clip have not seen the whole special. They either have no intention to see the rest because the slap is all they want to hear or that "they'll try to listen to it when I get the time."
I could be wrong, but from what I've seen, stand-up goes through booms and busts. I think the way it happens is - a given comic puts in the years of grinding, gets good, starts doing well, playing bigger and bigger shows, growing their fanbase bigger and bigger. At some point their fanbase becomes so big, that they can make a very good living from just their existing fanbase, and there's need to keep growing it. At that point their material begins to change. It becomes more aimed at their fanbase. Inside jokes begin making it into specials. They begin to give the audience more and more of what they think the audience originally became their fans for. That increases until they become almost a parody of themselves. Ticket sales decline and they begin to play smaller and smaller venues, until the scene, for lack of a better term, dies. It happened in the late 80's at the end of a huge standup boom, and I think it's about to happen again. The market has become oversaturated, and the artists are starting to get lazy and complacent. In the late 80's / early 90's all the formerly funny standup comics went into sitcoms. Now they're going into podcasts.
@@troy801 it made the jokes more intense, I wasn't in a k hole or anything. I did watch Rogans burn the boats on K too and I was legit cringing 95% of it wondering if it was legit that bad or just me. I like Rogan and don't hate his Standup in general but that was pretty bad, mid at best. I laughed once
I'd say you were fair with the 3/10. I enjoyed the special and I would give it a 6. Above average, but not great. But I have yet to watch tamborine. I don't really do any social media so I don't get 1000 takes on every subject on earth every day. So that helps me watch comedy at times, I think.
i wonder how chris feels about the other types of commercials, how whenever theres a black guy and a white guy literally 100% of the time the white guy plays the fool and the black guy plays the smart guy. i wonder if he thinks that its cringe, unnecessary and patronizing, or if he just laughs and feels superior.
As usual I agree with the vast majority of the analysis but I do think that Rock's closing punch line about being raised was brutal and super effective but it it's heavily undercut by a section that goes on way too long about Jada.
you mean the line about not fighting in front of white people? it was a dumb line that made no sense whatsoever. White people had nothing to do with the oscar slap. Im not really even sure what the hell it meant, but i am sure that it wasn't funny. All the people that went nuts over it like he dropped the MOAB was odd, and were probably told before hand to go nuts because they were going to be live and needed the crowd to really play up their reaction to the jokes.
@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access they type of logic only apply to movies not stand up. When stand up is BAD it's just BAD! Look at Joe Rogan & Brenden Schuab. Comedy definitely has a middle ground.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I seriously was feeling bad about thinking how bad this special was and I'm glad I wasn't the only one. To be honest, none of the comedians who've done a netflix special has been funny. And it is shocking. Because they are so good!
I didn't bother finishing Tambourine, which while shot well due to Bo Burnham's involvement had subpar material. I liked Selective Outrage more, but it suffers from being livestreamed. Chris drags a lot of jokes on and on and even makes a few mistakes which they had to keep in. You could cut out 15 minutes from the special probably and it'd be much better for it. At the very least, the Will and Jada Smith material was pretty brutal and funny, bringing me back to Chris's earlier, better days as a stand up comic like in Bigger and Blacker.
I think Tamborine was better just because there was less shouting and repetition. But I also think he did actually go out on a limb and say some genuinely edgy/offensive jokes instead of phoning it in the way he did on selective outrage.
i thought the will and jada material was the weakest part. like wow chris you called him a bitch 20 times. so funny man. you really got him back with that one. yawn.
The comedians that treat the occupation as some erudite, high brow, high society, protected occupation just really get me. I can't wait till Joe tells us all about how special the Cawlmedy Club was again.
‘I take my craft seriously’ - Toe Rogan while humping a stool
Fr, comedians that think too deeply about what it means to be a comedian suck the funny right out of their material. Comedians that fancy themselves as philosophers first, and funny secondarily literary shouldn’t be called comedians.
Only a thousand. Us civilians couldn’t understand what these muwlderers do every day.
Comedy is about our need for attention and enjoying the feeling of making people laugh at the shit we find funny. That’s it’s. Only a couple special comedians have had the privilege of being elevated to a philosophical level of commentary, and cause those few made it, they now all feel like they’re on the same level of social commentary as Carlin or Chapelle.
This is exactly why I’m sending fuckin cognitive lightning bolts at Bert Kreischer (and hoping Tom Segura catches an arc).
The way Rock spit the word "bitch" with so much venom and vitriol, it felt like that must have been a really cathartic moment for him. I could appreciate that part, but overall, the special wasn't nearly as funny as I was expecting.
When you use the term 'edgy' as a metric, without defining who/what tries to define the edge 'overton window'
There isn't a moral foundational claim to start off from.
While I don't give a flying pelvic thrust about Chris Rock's comedy, his show's title is right on the money, and I guess that is 'problematic'TM?
'Follow the money' as par, and you will find Bl@ckrock and their ESG corporate investor credit rating, dictating the afore the mentioned edge of acceptable discourse.
That part was enjoyable more due to passion and the backstory. It was a good section for me but the special was weak.
I've never found him funny. Just loud and insanely annoying
Agreed
I loved that part
It's weird how many comedians are stuck on this topic of "being censored" or "cancel culture" when stand up comedy is the biggest it's ever been. Multiple comedians are doing stadiums and/or arenas and you've got podcasts like Kill Tony getting massive where they say outrageous shit weekly. I saw Anthony Jeselnik on Theo Von's pod quote Andy Warhol saying "art is getting away with it" and it's so fucking poignant. You can always say almost anything as long as it's actually funny. If you're just being a dick and no one laughs than you're just being a dick
Comedy is bigger than ever, but definitely many topics are off limits more than ever. Dave Chappelle lost many theater gigs for very light trans jokes.
Not everyone wants to ramble on podcasts for their patreon pay pigs.
@@mightymoeish Dave Chapelle is not hurting for work. He's literally on a giant Arena tour rn
@@BrandonGiordano missed the point, retard
With all due respect, Chris Rock's best days are behind him and this was running entirely on the momentum of "the slap".
damn give him more time lol
You're absolutely right! He hasn't been funny in years.
His special before this was in 2018. He's just done a few shitty movies since. What's he done in all that time?
you are clown shoes...
@@mightymoeish He got slapped at the Oscars.
Imagine spending $400 to see this live
It's only marginally worse than spending $600 to watch Joe Rogan hump a stool and scream even more often than Rock
@@MechaJutaro no, that's way worst
U lost me after 'spending'😂😂😂
Being that rock is still a big name people will pay that to see him i wouldn’t personally though an im a fan of his
@@ZoDiAc352u lost me after "U"
If it wasn't for the slap nobody would've even talked about the special..
it’s the only reason it came out, he should have marinated his material for a couple more years so we could have gotten a good one
@mosaabtwice3999
Yeah, Chapelle’s opening monologue on SNL was as cringe as it gets. Soo awful.
@mosaabtwice3999 I'm so very glad someone else finally mentioned this!
Chris Rock is hilarious AND a legend. stfu
this drives me nuts. the tour was amazing
I felt the same way here after watching the latest Seinfeld special. These dudes are in a vacuum where people are probably to "respectful" to critique their shit. This is where Patrice was the GOAT. He didn't care how famous or legendary someone was.
Patrice needs to check Burr and Coco Ono
LOL invoking Patrice’s name (first only, to show you’re in the know) as a standard bearer is wildly delusional.
It's a trend nowadays. Mofos watched 2 clips of him from 20 years ago. So they know for sure he's the GOAT and how he would be nowadays...@@DABA2024
Y'all only admire Patrice because he died early. Had he lived he'd have been just as bad.
@@salildeshpande7He was quite trash in his own right. His appeal was just being a rude black dude who could dunk on women easily
It's like willenium smith slapped the last bit of funny right out of him.
The Internet and social media killed observational/cultural commentary in standup. You can’t possibly come up with fresh takes on a subject when everyone all the time has made every joke and possible opinion on a subject hundreds of times within 48 hours of a story breaking. It used to be that a comic could make a joke about a year-old story and people would find it funny and refreshing and still care about it. By the time a special is ready for release now, the joke and story are already old hat
I think it killed hack observational comedy. Good comics can still find interesting angles on theses stories, but you can't just regurgitate mid takes anymore because the internet has made those available to everyone. you have to come up with more interesting and niche takes.
@Beige Frequency Shane Gillis managed to have funny Trump material years after he was out of office, anything can be funny when a talented comic puts in some kind of effort
@@BeigeFrequency I think you are just a miserable prick, grow up kid
Good insight
@@5liter As funny as it was I feel like Shane's Trump stuff was cheating because it was mostly just quoting insane things Trump said, I'm surprised Trump wasn't on Rogan claiming he was doing his bits.
Beige always has a way of uploading when I’m at my most bored. Please make a part 2 to the Brendan Schaub documentary covering the tiger belly saga!
This^
can someone hit me with a brief rundown of the tiger belly saga? im out of the loop on this one
Can people actually comment about the video? Every too beige comment (and a lot of youtube) is just about how the creator barely posts.
@@mightymoeish Can people reply to a comment about the topic they are discussing? Every other replier (and a lot of youtube) is just about how they want to talk about the things they want. Your own logic at work, see how easy/dumb that is? Now run along little puppy, you are wasting time posting nonsense instead of getting an education that would prevent you from sounding like an ignorant twatwaffle.
God, no! I dislike Brendan so much that I can't even watch hate videos.
he fills an hour with about 20 minutes of material by repeating every line three times
That’s been his whole thing since the early 90s.
Comedians are the last people that should be complaining about others seeking attention.
Beige is the Roger Ebert of TH-cam commentary.
Yeah, cancer to the face
@@flyin_ryan_james
Too soon!
So your saying he's an obnoxious and pretentious moron. I agree.
So you're saying he has shit takes?
This must mean Beige himself has a bad standup special much like Ebert wrote a terrible movie.
It's upsetting to hear Chris talk about wokeness like this when he played Marty the Zebra, and he isn't even half white...
White with black stripes or black with white stripes?
@@neenster69 zebras are black with white stripes. At first glance, it may appear the opposite is true-after all, the black stripes of many zebras end on the belly and towards the inside of the legs, revealing the rest as white.
Dumb comment of the day, congrats bozo.
5:05 "a point so stale that even amy schumer got to it before him" savage
the thing about comedians living in echo-chambers is so true.. most of them nowadays reframe/recycle the same jokes about cancel culture w/o any innovation
They, more than any other group, are addicted to social media the worst
Speed art is getting dangerously good, inspiring to see your improvement
Does he do this ? I was always curious if this was his art or not. Phew, good shit beige.
@@gravy3858Yeah it’s him.
I miss the little Egyptian guitar melody that would kick off your videos
You honestly just nail these videos every single fucking time. Well done brother, one of the most refreshingly genuine channels on TH-cam! Keep them coming!
Spot On!
Touch his butt then
I thought he was banking on the Will Smith bit way too hard and the rest of the spacial suffered for it.
He probably wanted to get a special out on the topic before it got stale. Maybe he felt he was running out of time. Or overthought this one.
I felt the same way about Marlon Wayans special after his Will & Jada bit.
@@ConanTheCimmerianno way lol he was a superstar in the 90s and 2000s like famous as famous can be and everyone loved him
@@ConanTheCimmerian well he was undeniably one of the most famous entertainers in america around that time
@@ConanTheCimmerian youre entitled to that opinion for sure
I thought the special needed more stool humping and cold plunge related material.
JR ‘s stoolhumping will forever haunt the catacombs and backrooms of our collective minds
Right on time with this my man 💜
Much love to ur art I’ve failed to mimic ur mike Perry several times.
Summed up this special perfectly. I thought I was wrong for how underwhelming I thought it was.
It was absolutely rushed and you pointed out every hacky trick he was doing that I was also noticing. Pretty much agree with this. The dating stuff was unusually painful, the stuff about his kids was really good, and while he def doesn't have the worst take on woke culture, it certainly wasn't anything thought provoking or new. I think I'd give it a 5 tho. 3 is really bottom of the barrell for me, like Schumer's last (and 1s are for BPapa of course), and a lot of that is because you expect so much more from a recognized master and legend of the form. Also, I liked his take on the Will Smith incident a lot more than you did, and while yeah he didn't say anything particularly new, hearing his personal take I think made it work very well, and def tons of people agree, as it's usually considered the one bit to go find.
Also on the Smith bit, I think you're a person like me that is way more tuned into comedy and SM culture than a lot of people (especially his aging target audience), so there were def a lot of people that hadn't heard all the takes on Will Smith out there, or possibly even knew about their swinger lifestyle (which like nearly every other hot take on it, he misrepresented as a straight one-sided cheating, but that's a story for another day) that went wrong.
Anyways, highly enjoyed your take as always, brotha.
He did not misrepresent it you idiot. The way those arrangements go is you don't put it in the person's face and embarrass them. Being in an open relationship and banging Friends of the family that have vacationed with you are two totally different things. You and Jada would work perfectly together swirling in emotions with one another.
I love the PROFESSIONAL COMEDIAN whining about people being hungry for attention 😂
The evolution of beige’s artwork has been cool to watch over the years
I feel like he's becoming too famous and rich that he can't relate with the common people
_"...he's becoming too famous and rich.."_
*Lmao this take is decades late*
The bit about dating young women was fucking creepy. The stuff about his daughter being privileged was out of touch and hacky, how many times have I heard an aging comedian do material about how rich they were. Give me Katt Williams over this any day
I saw this live at the Hard Rock in Hollywood. Sadly. I have been a Fan since Bring the Pain…I started noticing a decline since Never Scared which I was really looking forward to. The same style that was fresh and worked on Bring the Pain and even Bigger and Blacker felt old and stale by the time Never Scared came…his edginess was lost now that he was a millionaire and lacked those stories we can relate to. Tambourine, I felt, wasn’t that funny and I only watched once never wanting to see it again. I laughed a bit at Selective Outrage but it was still sad. It was not a sold out crowd which made it even sadder we had reached this point in his career. This is the same place I had gone and laughed my ass off watching Trevor Noah and Anthony Jeselnik do their thing. Most comedians lose their edge and are less funny the more famous and rich they get. The only one I can remember being filthy rich and famous and still be funny is Chapelle. Carlin was my favorite for years but his last specials were kinda cringy. Joe Rogan is a good example of someone who has become rich and famous yet his quality has not changed. He sucked then and he sucks now. Guy has never been funny. I hope Chris regains his edge and would love to see if Eddie Murphy still has something in the tank but perhaps he is saving us from having to find out the sad truth. Please like and subscribe. Oh, wait…this is not a video. Nevermind.
Let's be honest here:
Between a mediocre Saw movie and traumatic brain injuries, Chris Rock just threw some stuff together and pitched the Will Smith jokes to Netflix to sell a new special
But he's never been a lazy guy. His last special was 2018. Aside from the few bad movies, what was he doing with all his time??
@@mightymoeish making women get abortions apparently
@@mightymoeish being rich and getting divorced and shit
He basically has a writing staff. He buys most of his jokes and it was painfully obvious here. You can tell which bits are actually his and which aren’t. _cawlmiddy_
Hack unfunny comic Kurt Metzger writes for Chris Rock.
It's like the 90's all over again - very few original, funny comedy folks out there. If you are bitching about having your tongue suppressed, you have no proper material.
there are a ton of great standups right now
@@Flameb0 Yeah. I enjoy Stavros Halkias. I don't watch enough comedy to say if he's original or not. Watched his special with my family and we all liked it though.
@Elohim stavvy has good crowd work but his jokes are mid. He'll fizzle out without the Mulldog.
I saw him perform this live in St. Louis and the timing and cadence of the whole show felt much more natural and entertaining versus the Netflix special.
I heard he puts his weiner in a hot dog bun when you go see him live?
Your portray a great illustration of this Chris Rock. Your drawings are also great.
Yes! Thank you. I have heard nothing but praise for it while it doesn't stand up to Chapelle's worst.
thanks to "Julius Caesar has jungle fever" for that screen name, that literally made me laugh out loud.
I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was.
This was perfectly said and presented. I wish I had seen this video months ago before I made the mistake of watching Selective Outrage and then mentally throwing up at how terrible it was.
Another great video. I'm getting tattooed rn and this makes it a bit better.
Your videos are so calm and relaxed, not like the usual commentary stuff
yesterday I tried to watch it, closed it when he started talking about the capitol thing in USA, very weak overall, I'm so glad a day later you confirm it wasn't only me
While it also has problems with repetition, I think Marlon Wayans actually capitalized off of the Oscar slap with a much better special
Dafuq does Marlon Wayans have to do with the slap?
Always love seeing a new Beige vid. Great content as always, sir.
Chris Rock mistakes volume for funny. Dave Chapelle mistakes philosophy for funny🤷♂️
Part of the problem with comedy being stuck in the past is that audiences keep going back to the same tired comedians. Partly that’s just because they can: name recognition amongst a sea of talent is super important, and all social media platforms care about is engagement. Thus: comedians who can get lots of clicks but who can no longer tell a joke from this century.
i had 2 of my friends over and we ended up watching this. we started watching this at around 1 am, and they are both the type to fall asleep 30 after getting tired. it was...difficult to explain this special to them the next day
You fell asleep with your two "friends" and everyone felt awkward the following morning putting your clothes back on. Got it.
@@vlada calm down basement dweller
@@vlada he was 1 of the friends, they watched it is the basement 😂
Yeah I remember seeing the will Smith part and saw people saying it was insane but I found it incredibly basic
Nobody is more put upon than these millionaire comedians. The real victims of the world
Good stuff dude - killin' it with the artwork!
Love your work. “Uncomfortability” is not a word. Thanks.
I am glad I wasn’t the only one that thought this. I did not laugh out loud that many times with this special.
THANK YOU!!! I saw all these people posting Chris talking about Will Smith and saying things like “Chris goes after Will Smith!” And “Chris burns Will smith so bad don’t mess with Chris rock!” And I’m like this was so underwhelming. This should’ve been Eminem/MGK levels of destruction. He should’ve made it so Will Smith could’ve never gone out in public again. Hell I think Dave Chapelle burned Smith harder in his last special didn’t he?
New beige content im in !
I agree. I was super excited and was very let down
I tried watching this special and by the time the daughter portion came in it felt like a generic top 10 topics to discuss to be edgy. It felt like it was made in some standup comedy marketing group's boardroom. Turned it off and forgot it even existed until this video cropped up in my feed.
I would say that you're probably exactly right how these things are put together
I felt a bit embarrassed by most of the first 30 minutes, feeling like he was swinging at 10-15 year old talking points. A few of the bits made me think of similar, better bits by other comics. The stuff about his kids made me think of when CK used to rip on his kids, and Burr has done similar stuff about how brutal kids can be. One bit made me think of Stanhope (my favourite of all time), although I can't remember which bit that was now.
Mostly I just felt embarrassed for him... but worse than that, I felt embarrassed for myself that I've talked him up so much to younger people at work. Cheers Chris - you've made me look like an out of touch old fucker by proxy.
Just tell them to watch his old material. It holds up amazingly well.
What is the deal with airplane peanuts. Lots of these comics are in stasis, creatively.
But unfrozen caveman lawyers they are not.
I had an old co worker who did the same thing. He came back after this special muttering “his old stuff was better…”
We forgave him lol
Oh shit did we work together? Lol
I know you had trouble with this painting, but I think it turned out pretty nice.
It really was giving me problems lol . Thank you though
It's brilliant... Like Chris rock once said...(very very paraphrased...)
. "It's all how it starts and how it ends..no matter what happens in the middle if you got those two sorted you're golden "
If you had made him say "shoes" one more time I was going to exit out of the video.
Currently recovering from a bad migraine and this video helps a lot. I watched the special when it came out and I feel the same way. The repetition, the half ass bits and the tired old “Back in me day” segments were exhausting. I almost fell asleep until he mentioned the Will Smith stuff. Which was like if I watched a video by a TH-camr. You would think Chris would have more to say but it was really just there, which is worse than it being bad. It felt like Chris wanted an excuse to say something but Netflix is like “We need an hour of content” so he went into his junk drawer. There’s even a part where he flubs a joke. The art here is fantastic and I loved your video man 💙
Sounds like that's how you got the migraine in the first place...? 😅
@@justinklenk 😂
His abortion joke is almost word for word the same one Louis does
Will slapped the funny out of him :(
Ok wow. I didn’t see your points coming. ThAnks for pointing out these issues.
Stand up is a dead artform
^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this. I swear you look into Chris Rock's eyes, slightly jaundiced as they are, and it's almost like you're looking at a man whose lost his sense of humor. I think this started happening to him after his divorce. Tambourine suuuucked!
Surprisingly? People just gave a shit for this special because Will Smith slapped his face a year ago. Chris Rock did something smart, he capitalized the slap to earn a lot of money from the people who didn't have anything better to waste their time on
It wasn't his best, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's bad.
definitely is his worst special but I still enjoyed it
I just watched your brenden shaub review and now this review. Earned you a sub! Your reviews are spot on and done with more humour than the specials themselves. Thanks.
Part of the issue is specials are not as special as they used to be.
Nothing is.
The Michael Jackson R Kelly “same crime one got punished” joke doesn’t even make sense, it’s like saying Diddy and Emmett Till did the same crime
No ones ever thought “I don’t know what to think…quick, someone get me Chris fucking Rock!”
Great work! Glad you listened to MY comment on your last video. As a fellow artist, once again, I commend your digital painting skills. It'd be really cool to see you if you could push yourself to do a full 30-40 hour long portrait painting for some of your videos as a sort of cracked out timelapse. And just to push your skills in general. Keep it up!
I've thought about it but I don't know how well it would translate in a video.
"I'm glad you listened to MY comment." 🤣 what a parasocial dick riding loser.
This was also live, and didn't have the benefit of being edited and polished
I don't think it gets enough love, you're art work is getting really good!
Completely agree, his last special tambourine was way better. He was more calm and only got loud for the punch line.
As a deaf person who can't figure out subtitles on TH-cam, your videos are still great!
*Forget about the CC, it's probably auto generated anyway. You're viewing it the way it should be viewed*
Super cool to hear you get a shout out on Lemon Party ❤
Beige do an addies and baddies video.
Dude… i completely agree with you on this
I was so disappointed watching this standup
Your view on how he gave us nothing new … said all the things everyone already said about him and will…. Was SPOT ON
I've heard Rock's jokes described as a fatty steak. He can hammer a punchline so hard it makes George Lopez blush.
Did not know 'uncomfortability' was an actual word, have to recall that for the Scrabble board. Great vid as usual.
Yeah I thought the same....it was ok, but it felt like he was telling his jokes to 5th graders. Repeating himself so many times to drag out the time. I kept finding myself saying ok dude get to the joke in my head.
Most people are dumb
Do Andrew Schulz special next! Or Bert’s Razzle Dazzle
New Beige Banger just dropped 🚨🚨
Though I do think there is a rational line, I have never fully understand people acting like words shouldn't hurt. You should consider who is saying it and know the context. But if words aren't used to illicit feelings then why do we use them at all? Words hold weight, have meaning and a history behind them. Its one of the, if not the biggest way we communicate or express our feelings to one another. Of course words can hurt. Just like they can make you happy, sad, etc.
You should do a video on Roy Chubby Brown..
He needed to cash in on the slap before it went stale. I would've done the same thing. He owes us nothing and it was a crap special but man am I happy for him.
Agreed. He wanted to use this years Oscars instead of earlier but waiting a whole year almost made this stale. Everyone wanted to finally hear his take on the slap.... And he delivered on that. The rest was filler.
Professional comedy watchers might care that the rest isn't up to snuff but most people that I know saw the slap clip have not seen the whole special. They either have no intention to see the rest because the slap is all they want to hear or that "they'll try to listen to it when I get the time."
The image came together so quickly. Great work
I could be wrong, but from what I've seen, stand-up goes through booms and busts. I think the way it happens is - a given comic puts in the years of grinding, gets good, starts doing well, playing bigger and bigger shows, growing their fanbase bigger and bigger. At some point their fanbase becomes so big, that they can make a very good living from just their existing fanbase, and there's need to keep growing it. At that point their material begins to change. It becomes more aimed at their fanbase. Inside jokes begin making it into specials. They begin to give the audience more and more of what they think the audience originally became their fans for. That increases until they become almost a parody of themselves. Ticket sales decline and they begin to play smaller and smaller venues, until the scene, for lack of a better term, dies. It happened in the late 80's at the end of a huge standup boom, and I think it's about to happen again. The market has become oversaturated, and the artists are starting to get lazy and complacent. In the late 80's / early 90's all the formerly funny standup comics went into sitcoms. Now they're going into podcasts.
Your drawings are getting amazing man
Finally someone said it
Bro, you are one amazing artist
I thought it was really good but I did watch it pretty high on ketamine so there's that.
that was the same state I was in watching Taylor Tomlison and I kept recommending her to my friends lol
How do you know you watched it, you might very well have been dancing in a field
@@troy801 it made the jokes more intense, I wasn't in a k hole or anything.
I did watch Rogans burn the boats on K too and I was legit cringing 95% of it wondering if it was legit that bad or just me.
I like Rogan and don't hate his Standup in general but that was pretty bad, mid at best.
I laughed once
this is some of the lamest shit i can think of to watch while high on ket lmao
Very nuanced take 3:23 always felt this as an explanation for many boomer behaviors
I'd say you were fair with the 3/10. I enjoyed the special and I would give it a 6. Above average, but not great. But I have yet to watch tamborine. I don't really do any social media so I don't get 1000 takes on every subject on earth every day. So that helps me watch comedy at times, I think.
tambourine was really good imo
I'll try to check it out sometime then. You miss a lot of comedy specials when you don't have Netflix for a while.
i wonder how chris feels about the other types of commercials, how whenever theres a black guy and a white guy literally 100% of the time the white guy plays the fool and the black guy plays the smart guy. i wonder if he thinks that its cringe, unnecessary and patronizing, or if he just laughs and feels superior.
As usual I agree with the vast majority of the analysis but I do think that Rock's closing punch line about being raised was brutal and super effective but it it's heavily undercut by a section that goes on way too long about Jada.
Yea that one flew over a lot of people's heads but when you know Will's family history, it is absolutely brutal.
you mean the line about not fighting in front of white people? it was a dumb line that made no sense whatsoever. White people had nothing to do with the oscar slap. Im not really even sure what the hell it meant, but i am sure that it wasn't funny. All the people that went nuts over it like he dropped the MOAB was odd, and were probably told before hand to go nuts because they were going to be live and needed the crowd to really play up their reaction to the jokes.
He's done. I couldn't possibly watch his bug eyed, stomping across the stage nonsense.
Worse than being unfunny as a rich comedian is being boring.
Definitely wasnt his best but was no where near as bad as u makin it out to be. Shit was MID.
Which in show business, is worse than bad. Bad can be funny. Mid is forgettable.
@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access they type of logic only apply to movies not stand up. When stand up is BAD it's just BAD! Look at Joe Rogan & Brenden Schuab. Comedy definitely has a middle ground.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I seriously was feeling bad about thinking how bad this special was and I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
To be honest, none of the comedians who've done a netflix special has been funny.
And it is shocking. Because they are so good!
Beige is a straight savage on those portraits.... the man's talent is uncanny
Awww shit beige stepping the frequency up
I didn't bother finishing Tambourine, which while shot well due to Bo Burnham's involvement had subpar material. I liked Selective Outrage more, but it suffers from being livestreamed. Chris drags a lot of jokes on and on and even makes a few mistakes which they had to keep in. You could cut out 15 minutes from the special probably and it'd be much better for it. At the very least, the Will and Jada Smith material was pretty brutal and funny, bringing me back to Chris's earlier, better days as a stand up comic like in Bigger and Blacker.
I think Tamborine was better just because there was less shouting and repetition. But I also think he did actually go out on a limb and say some genuinely edgy/offensive jokes instead of phoning it in the way he did on selective outrage.
There is a big difference between a slickly produced comedy special and a live stream.
i thought the will and jada material was the weakest part. like wow chris you called him a bitch 20 times. so funny man. you really got him back with that one. yawn.