Callaroga Shark Media. This one's a short bonus episode. I just kind of
get something off my chest. I was just watching a comedy special I was
excited about from a comedian. I like a comedian. I think is an
ascendancy. And as I'm watching it, my spidy sense started tingling about the
crowd. Comedians, please stop sweetening the audience. The special I just watched
and I bailed after about seventeen minutes. The material was very strong, but
the presentation was It reminded me of Big Bang Theory, where everybody said something
and there was a laugh line. And I'm going to illustrate it for you.
I had the AI write a really lame comedy routine about boats. No,
I'm not a comedian, I'm not a performer. I don't have to
perform jokes. But I'm going to do this here and add in the crowd
mix to illustrate what I'm hearing when I watch these comedy specials. Right,
here's a little set about boats, but in the style of what keeps happening
on these specials now with way too much crowd. Okay, let's compare the
material to the crowd. So I tried to buy a boat, but my
bank wouldn't float me alone. They said my credit was underwater. I guess
too much peer pressure. Okay, not the strong as material, right,
But the crowd went not it's hilarious. Jerry Hams. It was George Carlin's
manager. I got to spend some time with Jerry when we were putting together
Carlin's Corner for Serious x M, and Jerry explained to me that Carlin would
let a set breathe, he'd come out and do a few rat attack jokes.
This one is an actual Carland joke, but a rat attad joke is
something quick like did you ever notice it when you have a hat on for
a long time? It feels like it's not there? Right? A bunch
of those? Do a bunch of those. Then he would go into a
long sweeping arc of his main thesis. And Jerry explained, you can't just
keep going bam bam, bam, bam, bam bam bam, because the
audience fatigues. And that's what happened to me on this special that I was
watching this evening good material, comedian, I like comedian and ascendancy, but
to my ears, it sounded like somebody added laughter, and if everything is
at peak optimum laughs, then there's nowhere to go. If you're at your
top, there's nowhere to go. You're already at your top. So if
every joke is getting a massive laugh, it's very fatiguing. So comedians,
I beseech you dial it down. Not everything has to be at max,
and don't have your production team at laughs. I can hear it back in
the morning with a normal episode