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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.
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.
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.
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 CZcams! Keep them coming!
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 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 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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 CZcamsr. 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 💙
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 "
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.
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.
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.
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!
For someone who is friends with Dave Chappelle, it doesn’t seem like Chris took a single piece of advice from him in preparation for this special. And ironically, after this special came out, Will Smith’s image is becoming more positive and relevant on social media now.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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 stories about his kids were the most entertaining bits. The Will Smith part was satisfying but everything else was pretty tedious to sit through. 4/10
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?
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.
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'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 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.
I was fully expecting this to be a cringey special, but it actually exceeded my expectations. I was crying at the end with the whole, "hit him again, massa!" bit.
People got nuts and thought it was the best thing of all time, being as they are incapable of comparing with past experiences. Selective Outrage is an "OK" special. I forgot it instantly once I was done but I don't regret watching it.
His team probably rushed him to put a special together due to the hype over the will Smith thing, plus he's only done 2 specials since Bigger and Blacker which imo was his best standup, and that was in 1999. They knew everyone would tune in to see if he spoke on the slap. It's good marketing but gives him no time to refine an actual good special...
![Every Comedian's Reaction to Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock [PART THREE]](/img/n.gif)
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.
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
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
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
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).
Beige is the Roger Ebert of CZcams commentary.
Yeah, cancer to the face
@@rajapajapop
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?
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
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.
5:05 "a point so stale that even amy schumer got to it before him" savage
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.
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.
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 CZcams! Keep them coming!
Spot On!
Touch his butt then
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
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
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
I miss the little Egyptian guitar melody that would kick off your videos
I thought the special needed more stool humping and cold plunge related material.
I love the PROFESSIONAL COMEDIAN whining about people being hungry for attention 😂
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*
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.
The evolution of beige’s artwork has been cool to watch over the years
Right on time with this my man 💜
Much love to ur art I’ve failed to mimic ur mike Perry several times.
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.
Summed up this special perfectly. I thought I was wrong for how underwhelming I thought it was.
I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was.
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?
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
Your portray a great illustration of this Chris Rock. Your drawings are also great.
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.
Always love seeing a new Beige vid. Great content as always, sir.
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?
His abortion joke is almost word for word the same one Louis does
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
I've heard Rock's jokes described as a fatty steak. He can hammer a punchline so hard it makes George Lopez blush.
Beige is a straight savage on those portraits.... the man's talent is uncanny
Part of the issue is specials are not as special as they used to be.
I am glad I wasn’t the only one that thought this. I did not laugh out loud that many times with this special.
thanks to "Julius Caesar has jungle fever" for that screen name, that literally made me laugh out loud.
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 😂
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 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.
Good stuff dude - killin' it with the artwork!
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 CZcamsr. 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 😂
Yes! Thank you. I have heard nothing but praise for it while it doesn't stand up to Chapelle's worst.
Yeah I remember seeing the will Smith part and saw people saying it was insane but I found it incredibly basic
Stand up is a dead artform
^^^^^^^^^^^
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 "
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
Beige do an addies and baddies video.
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.
D.L. Hughley has been doing the same act for over thirty years.
I agree. I was super excited and was very let down
Do Andrew Schulz special next! Or Bert’s Razzle Dazzle
If he didn't get slapped. This comedy special would have been better. The power of the slap gave him the power to put out this
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.
I don't think it gets enough love, you're art work is getting really good!
New beige content im in !
The soundbites out of context are actually hilarious
No....they're really not.....
The racist yoga pants bit was pretty funny
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.
Will slapped the funny out of him :(
Any chance on an updated Contra Points video? Not sure if there's any major updates, but if there are, I'd love to see a video on it
For someone who is friends with Dave Chappelle, it doesn’t seem like Chris took a single piece of advice from him in preparation for this special. And ironically, after this special came out, Will Smith’s image is becoming more positive and relevant on social media now.
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.
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!
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.
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
Thank you. God damn. I've never laughed at even one single word hes said.
Wow, you actually said "But I digress..." instead of "But, I digest..." you're learning the language!!
no fucking way
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.
I think what actually happened was someone got cold feet about the original material in this special and swapped a bunch of bits at the last minute.
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 stories about his kids were the most entertaining bits. The Will Smith part was satisfying but everything else was pretty tedious to sit through. 4/10
Did not know 'uncomfortability' was an actual word, have to recall that for the Scrabble board. Great vid as usual.
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?
Finally someone said it
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.
The image came together so quickly. Great work
Chris Rock mistakes volume for funny. Dave Chapelle mistakes philosophy for funny🤷♂️
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Comedians are the last people that should be complaining about others seeking attention.
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'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.
Definitely wasnt his best but was no where near as bad as u makin it out to be. Shit was MID.
It's like willenium smith slapped the last bit of funny right out of him.
Completely agree, his last special tambourine was way better. He was more calm and only got loud for the punch line.
Chris was always more of a funny social commentator than a comedian tbh
As a deaf person who can't figure out subtitles on CZcams, 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*
Your drawings are getting amazing man
The ab*rtion joke is also a remix of a Corey Holcomb bit
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.
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"draw a caricature, lose a friend"😂Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes)
I was fully expecting this to be a cringey special, but it actually exceeded my expectations. I was crying at the end with the whole, "hit him again, massa!" bit.
People got nuts and thought it was the best thing of all time, being as they are incapable of comparing with past experiences. Selective Outrage is an "OK" special. I forgot it instantly once I was done but I don't regret watching it.
Good take 👍
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His team probably rushed him to put a special together due to the hype over the will Smith thing, plus he's only done 2 specials since Bigger and Blacker which imo was his best standup, and that was in 1999. They knew everyone would tune in to see if he spoke on the slap. It's good marketing but gives him no time to refine an actual good special...