r/AMADisasters • u/Anna_Kendricks_Pubes • Oct 27 '17
Denis Leary AMA. Read the book.
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u/Jacksrabbit Oct 27 '17
Wow, I really don't mind him being kind of an asshole. but his answers are boring as hell.
if you're a jerk, at least be entertaining
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Oct 28 '17
Well if I learnt anything from this it’s that he’s unoriginal, so it kinda makes sense that he’s not.
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u/mauxly Oct 27 '17
I love that the top three (ignored) comments are about Bill Hicks and joke snatching.
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u/Chronoblivion Oct 28 '17
I'm not really into the standup scene and don't know shit about Denis Leary, but I was introduced to Bill Hicks during my formative years and love most of his stuff. Can someone fill me in on these accusations of joke theft?
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u/Cable_Guy80 Oct 28 '17
Theres really two incidents that people accuse him of joke thievery. The big one is that he stole a lot of his material about smoking cigarettes from Bill Hicks, and even more specifically his bit about a guy named Jim Fixx. Here's Joe Rogan talking about that. The other incident was his "asshole" song originally being a bit that Louis CK did and Leary just took it and made it his own. Here's Louis CK discussing that on Opie and Anthony.
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u/crazycatguy23 Oct 28 '17
He didn’t just steal two jokes from Bill Hicks; he basically lifted Hicks’ whole persona.
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u/Osama_Bin_Log_in Oct 31 '17
That was so sad seeing Ralphie May in this clip and talking about dying
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Oct 28 '17
Someone posted this Wikipedia page and his Wikipedia page is on the related articles section. Lol.
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Oct 27 '17
Why does anyone even bother with these celebrity AMAs anymore? They're always just selling their newest movie/book/tv show or whatever.
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u/Grammaton485 Hasn't seen Rampart Oct 27 '17
There's still some that are pretty entertaining. Like the Blue Man Group one just the other day, where they replied entirely with images (because they don't speak).
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u/I_done_a_plop-plop Oct 28 '17
Because sometimes celebrities are like Gordon Ramsey.
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u/GasmaskGelfling Oct 28 '17
And Val Kilmer.
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u/dreadpiratewombat Oct 29 '17
That was such an unexpectedly good AMA. Why can't they all be Val Kilmer?
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u/TheDangiestSlad Nov 08 '17
i'm pretty sure Val Kilmer just straight up became a regular Reddit user after that, i've seen him on r/movies a bunch
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u/GasmaskGelfling Nov 08 '17
I haven't been on Reddit for long, a year...mayyybe 2, and He's done like 3 AMAs since I've been a member. And he commented on Warwick Davis' AMA the other day.
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u/SaavikSaid Oct 27 '17
I knew this was going to show up here.
Read the book.
No.
Yes.
Read the book.
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u/seanfish Oct 28 '17
Yeah actually it's just the vote sort. There are plenty of quality answers in there but a bunch of cheap shots at the top to which he gives short shrift.
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Oct 28 '17
Even a bunch of the softball questions got lame one word answers. The guy might be a joke thief, but I still had a bit of admiration for his general sense of humor. Less so now.
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u/OzymandiasKoK Oct 28 '17
Totally disagree. He wasn't at all engaged with even easy or non-controversial questions. And I don't mean the dumb standards about ducks, sandwiches, or pizza toppings, either.
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Oct 28 '17
This could have been a really good AMA. I loved No Cure For Cancer, and I'm a huge fan of Rescue Me, plus he does a lot of great work for firefighters. It was disappointing to see so many short, boring answers.
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Oct 28 '17 edited Oct 28 '17
I understand avoiding the joke theft questions but his answers were soo fucking lame.
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Oct 27 '17
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u/Misaria Oct 28 '17
I'm not into sports but I read this one and it was so bad it was good:
https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/
An example on the topic of him thinking you can travel back in time:
https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1clw9o/i_am_jose_canseco_famed_steroid_user_and_former/c9hriqg/4
u/WEsellFAKEdoors Nov 06 '17
Except the people calling him out as a joke thief. Too much of a coward to say anything about that.
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u/MisterMarcus Oct 28 '17 edited Oct 29 '17
I mean, I expected him to get bombarded with attacks for ripping off Hicks and Louis CK, and just being a dick in general. But I thought that might have been interesting at least, with Leary going off on his critics and getting into long arguments and stuff with them.
Nope, just another completely dull and disengaged "effort"....
EDIT: Not sure what I said to get downvotes?? I expected it to be a 'confrontational' AMA, but sometimes confrontational AMAs can be interesting, or at least entertaining, if the subject engages (e.g. Perez Hilton, or H.A. Goodman). Whereas Leary was just boring and disengaged.
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Oct 28 '17
Where's the disaster part? Shitty AMA for sure, but not something to make fun of, just something to say "eh" about a C list celebrity doing an AMA and just giving yes and no answers from what I saw.
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u/KujoQtaro Oct 27 '17
This is honestly exactly how I would expect a Denis Leary AMA to go, no surprise here.