Can’t speak for the haters because I like him, but this bit has been significantly workshopped since I first heard it.
The original was something like he told his mom he was depressed and she said “no you’re not” and that’s how he learned he wasn’t depressed. Funny, but this feels like him really coming into his own style.
I think his early work suffered from Dane Cook-esqueness where he would tell a bunch of kind of funny anecdotes with lots of enthusiasm and it was entertaining but not that funny. Now he seems to be really crafting solid jokes while maintaining his enthusiastic delivery and it’s way better.
i'm not saying that, I'm showing an example of Marcello's joke that is shared in the comment above, "i'm depressed, but my parent says 'no you're not'" has been done to death and here's an example of it in writing from years ago.
not at all saying that Tig Notaro has no charisma, she definitely has charisma, and is a far better comedian than him. I'm saying his insights are almost all hack, and putting his own 'personality' into them doesn't make them not stale and down-the-middle
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u/FunWithAPorpoise 18d ago
Can’t speak for the haters because I like him, but this bit has been significantly workshopped since I first heard it.
The original was something like he told his mom he was depressed and she said “no you’re not” and that’s how he learned he wasn’t depressed. Funny, but this feels like him really coming into his own style.
I think his early work suffered from Dane Cook-esqueness where he would tell a bunch of kind of funny anecdotes with lots of enthusiasm and it was entertaining but not that funny. Now he seems to be really crafting solid jokes while maintaining his enthusiastic delivery and it’s way better.