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May 26, 2010

This Guy's Pretty Damn Funny
— Ace

I don't know if he's Will Folks Funny, but he'll do for you morons.

Yesterday in my Law and Order cliches thread, a commenter linked John Mulaney's bit about Law and Order cliches. Very funny. (The last joke is a bit too much set-up for a good payoff -- a good one, but still too much set-up -- so you might just want to listen through the taxonomy of cliched characters on Law and Order.)

He's got that old-timey 1930s style voice/delivery I dig. Another comic I like, Dan Naturman, does that too. Maybe I have a bias towards the 30's motor-mouth palaver.

But anyway, back to John Mulaney. Never heard of him until yesterday, but wound up listening to his whole show on YouTube. Very funny stuff. Here are some of the best clips in the batch (mild content warning for some occasional f-bomb and, uh, what HBO calls "Adult Content and Adult Situations"):

Accidentally chasing a woman in the subway at 2 am.

He discusses his problems with the way crime stories are presented in tabloid newspapers like the Post.

This one destroyed me -- First part is math, which is pretty funny, second part is his quibbles with the story of King Solomon and the disputed-parentage baby ("Cut it down the middle").

If you like those the other ones are good, too; but these are the ones that had me laughing out loud.

And This One... Blacking out and making money.

Posted by: Ace at 11:12 AM | Comments (42)
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better than Dice?

Posted by: Dr Benton Quest at May 26, 2010 11:16 AM (uFokq)

2 eh... well with the caveat that dice's stuff doesn't seem funny now (but comedy always ages badly like that), no, he isn't as funny as Dice seemed at the time. But still funny.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 11:17 AM (66DVY)

3 HA! I've been reading Ace for years, randomly decide to post, and get a shout out! Sweet!

Posted by: Reed at May 26, 2010 11:20 AM (QHTAG)

4 NO ONE IS BETTER* THAN DICE *at comedy-based performance art

Posted by: oblig. at May 26, 2010 11:20 AM (x7Ao8)

5 reed, thanks for that, he's funny, and I never would have heard of him otherwise.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 11:21 AM (66DVY)

6 Oh, and Ace--if possible, check out John's actual presentation of some of the bits...it's classic. The Subway bit is 2x as funny as you watch him act out chasing the woman.

Posted by: Reed at May 26, 2010 11:21 AM (QHTAG)

7 A Salon blogger posted a short piece this morning on Ace's coverage of the Nikki Haley-Will Folks story. The upside is that it's very complimentary on how Ace is getting to the nub. The downside is that the blogger is promoting some kind of moral equivalency meme to suggest why it is that Ace is so successful in getting into Folks' head.

Posted by: Columbine Freepster Times at May 26, 2010 11:23 AM (zfRju)

Ahahaha this is funny as shit.

He's like Dane Cook, but intelligent and funny.

Posted by: Sir Elliot at May 26, 2010 11:23 AM (DUNS7)

9 reed, I tried some of the visual clips, but the quality was so crappy... I'll look for that one.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 11:24 AM (66DVY)

He's got that old-timey 1930s style voice/delivery I dig.

Treat Williams is like that in every movie. In The Phantom he ramped it up to the next level.

Posted by: peanut gallery at May 26, 2010 11:25 AM (17rZm)

11 sock

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 26, 2010 11:27 AM (17rZm)

his take on $100 million dollar movies is pretty clever

Posted by: Dr Benton Quest at May 26, 2010 11:28 AM (uFokq)

13 He was sorta funny.

Posted by: eman at May 26, 2010 11:29 AM (hVdJG)

14 I really like his parody on Orly Taitz running for in a GOP primary for Congress. As if that could ever happen.

Posted by: Neddy at May 26, 2010 11:29 AM (zfRju)

15 it kind of killed me that he was rating murder victims for their hotness.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 11:30 AM (66DVY)

He's like Dane Cook, but intelligent and funny.

Yeah, and he's like Tosh but doesn't make you want slap the shit out of him after a minute.

Posted by: Dr Benton Quest at May 26, 2010 11:30 AM (uFokq)

17 ot
I took a look see at the stock market it was at about +20 points. I went back less than 2 minute it's at -65 points.

Posted by: YIKES! at May 26, 2010 11:32 AM (E5V01)

18 OT: James O'Keefe and three friends pled guilty today to tampering with a senator's phone lines, and were sentenced to probation, community service, and $1500 fines. tiny.cc/7ll4f

Posted by: sauropod at May 26, 2010 11:32 AM (GPm6P)

19 So this guy is a writer for SNL and he reused the "guy who won't stop loading crates" thing for a sketch about an NYC improv class that does nothing but L&O bit part training. Decently funny.

Posted by: tachyonshuggy at May 26, 2010 11:39 AM (yUybe)

20 Funny? Like a clown?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 26, 2010 11:40 AM (QMtmy)

21 Ace, why are you using your influence to entertain your readers rather than leading the fight against the socialist menace?

Cowboy and I want you to stop wasting time and get onto all the important issues that we want you to talk about

Whenever Cowboy or I fall asleep, we electroshock ourselves awake to get back to the job of telling everyone else to get off their asses and stop punching down

Posted by: someguy blog consulting inc at May 26, 2010 11:41 AM (sYxEE)

22 He is no Mitch Hedberg.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 26, 2010 11:44 AM (yQWNf)

Mulaney's bit on the Salt and Pepper diner is great.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 26, 2010 12:01 PM (17rZm)

24 Be About It, indeed!

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 12:08 PM (66DVY)

25 "School's out"
That was good.

Posted by: buster at May 26, 2010 12:17 PM (4nxhP)

26 He's pretty funny, but it's creepy how he stares at me the whole time I'm watching the clips.

Posted by: lorien1973 at May 26, 2010 12:19 PM (IhQuA)

27 the snl improv class for L&O that tachonyshuggy mentioned: http://tinyurl.com/3ym8rfs I think his stand-up version of it is better.

Posted by: ace at May 26, 2010 12:23 PM (66DVY)

28 @rdbrewer, That is the reason I even know about John Mulaney. I think I caught him on Comedy Central telling that story. Funniest thing ever.

Posted by: Adlib at May 26, 2010 12:43 PM (k/CNO)

29 I've heard a similar thing with Solomon where he gives the 2nd woman the child and the first woman is angry and he says "I don't CARE if you're the kid's real mother or not. You were gonna let me cut the baby in half! I figure the kid'll be better off with some strange woman who doesn't want to allow king to chop him in half! What are you? Retarded?"

Posted by: cackfinger at May 26, 2010 02:04 PM (TUBcJ)

30 Sounds kinda like a rip off of Mike Birbiglia. Still good but....

Posted by: Alex at May 26, 2010 02:27 PM (o0C2G)

31 Pretty damn funny stuff. Thanks!

Posted by: Corona at May 26, 2010 04:49 PM (woZIc)

32 Love Mulaney. When I was reading the L&O thread I kept thinking of "The Murder Police.'

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Two of the best comedians: Sam Kinison (rest his soul) and Ron White.

Sorry, I didn't find Mulaney all that funny.

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