rant · moment 14 of 34
LA Comic Scene Word Association and Brendan Schaub's Gay Stage Persona
from #298 - Puerto Rican Papi | The Tim Dillon Show · #298
6 min
A word-association bit about LA comedy names (Bobby Lee, Ryan Cowan, Gringo Poppy) leads into an extended riff on Brendan Schaub's stage persona being weirdly effeminate despite being a tough ex-fighter, and a broader meditation on comedy's inherent neediness and validation-seeking.
- Whitney Cummings association: drugs.
- Gringo Poppy is brilliant and mysterious in ways no comedy special has been.
- Tim questions whether Brendan Schaub's special needed to exist at all.
- Schaub is charming and probably funny with friends, excels at podcasting for his specific MMA audience.
- Everyone stinks at comedy for five to thirty years; getting good in under five years is extremely rare.
- Stand-up is kind of gay and dumb when you really think about it.
- Comedy itself is cringe; if aliens watched humans do it, they'd see how pathetic it is to need strangers' validation.
- David Tell puts out a special every eight years and is one of the greatest comedians; Brendan keeps putting out multiple specials constantly.
Brendan SchaubWhitney CummingsDavid ChappelleBobby LeeRyan Cowan