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    VelocirapstarMarah Eakin
    10/16/15 12:18am

    Anthony Jeselnick made two great albums. Caligula and Shakespeare are both hilarious. I assume that he isn't actually the giant asshole that his comedy persona embodies, because, jokes, and sometimes he lets the mask slip a little. But at the end of the day, I don't really care that much, because he makes some fantastic comedy

    Edit - Watched his Netflix special. It was fantastic.

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      FactfindingmissionVelocirapstar
      10/16/15 12:47am

      I really like his comedy as well, think his comedic persona is extreme enough that it is pretty easy to see it as a separate construct rather than a real person.

      I do think the real Jeselnik is probably a bit of a pretentious jackass though, he seems very impressed with how much he reads in general. I know I know, he studied literature. Still…

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      The KappaVelocirapstar
      10/16/15 12:55am

      He is a pretty cool guy. When I saw him live, he did about a 20 minute Q&A out of character and was really complimentary about his fellow acts and was really talking up some up and comers. It seemed really genuine.

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      Meth Lab ShenanigansKinja!
      10/16/15 12:18am

      He's funny for 15 minutes at a time. There's only so much "look at me, I'm shocking" I can take before it starts to get predictable.

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      EnkidumKinja!
      10/16/15 7:14am

      Best answer to the supervision question thus far, anyways.

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    sky-cakeMarah Eakin
    10/16/15 11:04am

    Am I the only one who saw the interview subject, clicked and immediately scrolled down to see how he answered the supervillain question? I'm a little disappointed that even he couldn't come up with a specific villainous scheme, but at least he seemed properly evil.

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      Chuksky-cake
      10/16/15 12:21pm

      That is one of the better supervillain answers, sadly.

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      Dān Jurzōnsky-cake
      10/16/15 12:52pm

      Actually no, I do not particularly care about the supervillain question because, for starters, I'm not 12 years old, and anyway, my supervillain power is not caring about other people's supervillain power. Yoink!

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    ShulkieSmashMarah Eakin
    10/16/15 9:51am

    I was with Jeselnik when he said "Maryland steamed blue crabs with Old Bay" and then he immediately lost me by saying "and drawn butter." Jeselnik, nobody in Maryland eats drawn fucking butter with crabs. It just gets in the way of your can of Natty Boh.

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      Dān JurzōnShulkieSmash
      10/16/15 12:57pm

      Maryland steamed blue crabs with Old Bay and drawn butter?! That is some seriously fucked up shit there, man.

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      ShulkieSmashDān Jurzōn
      10/16/15 3:12pm

      Well, he is from Pittsburgh. Those people wouldn't know how to steam a crab if they got knocked over the head with one.

      (Someday I'll have to scan and post a picture to the TI of me at about age three, helping my dad season a pot of blue crabs.)

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      euripides trousersKinja!
      10/16/15 7:35am

      You're not alone Mr. Coogin

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      ShulkieSmashKinja!
      10/16/15 9:47am

      I laughed at that, and then I felt bad, and then I walked to the kitchen still laughing, and then I felt bad about that, and then I was still laughing when I got back to my desk so. It was a good fucking joke.

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      bradleyKinja!
      10/16/15 10:37am

      I was just responding to the "predictable" comment, because I love his unpredictability. Wasn't trying to answer a referendum on his whole persona.

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      Dān JurzōnKinja!
      10/16/15 1:17pm

      His jokes don't have to age well because he'll just keep making up new ones, that is if he isn't first run over by a steamroller while getting to one of his punchlines. Kapow! See, that's how you critique a comic.

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    Sweet DeeMarah Eakin
    10/16/15 5:26am

    I love his stand up but his show was horrible IMO. Saying the word panel over and over again was the most annoying thing I've ever seen on a talk show, which is saying a lot.

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      souse chefSweet Dee
      10/16/15 5:30am

      If you stuck around it became the rake joke. The first time it was funny in a smarmy way. The next episode it was stupid. Then it got annoying. Then I started anticipating what stupid way he was going to Panel this week. Then it became hilarious.

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      Sweet Deesouse chef
      10/16/15 5:48am

      I watched most of the episodes because, as I mentioned, I adore his standup. I got what he was trying to accomplish with the long running joke, it just didn't work for me. Although, there was one episode where one of the comedians on the panel appeared bewildered at Jeselnik's repetitive use of the word. At the end, they cut his mic off right after he asked, "Why the fuck do you keep saying panel?"

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      bradleyKinja!
      10/16/15 10:11am

      I actually find him unpredictable. That's what I like about him. He sets up a basic one-liner, then twists it. Its predictable he'll do that, but where the joke ends up is usually not where i was expecting at all.

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      Maniac CopKinja!
      10/16/15 11:45am

      You may be right on the predictability, but Jeselnik is playing a smarmy douche archetype in his standup. Perhaps it's the Andrew Dice Clay/Larry the Cable Guy problem: The people who like it assume the persona as the hero.

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      Monte Hellman's MayonnaiseKinja!
      10/16/15 10:58am

      Well, I just have to say I respectfully disagree. Plus, I mean, they're comedians! That's the kind of stuff they do to each other! It's all in fun.

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      Dān JurzōnKinja!
      10/16/15 11:14am

      Watch TJ Miller's episode of In Bed With Joan (Rivers) and you'll see he's actually a very sweet and thoughtful guy, when he wants to be. Eric Andre, too.

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    Kinja!Marah Eakin
    12/31/69 6:00pm

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      IngmarTurdmanKinja!
      10/16/15 10:55am

      I don't find Tosh's standup that brutal. Except for a few jokes, he's more raunchy than dark, I think.

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      Bart, That's A Bran MuffinKinja!
      10/16/15 2:30pm

      I feel the worst thing you could say about Jeselnik is that Tosh planted the flag of Quasi-Satirical White Asshole Comedy at the top of the mountain and chose to look away from Jeselnik tumbling down the other side of it.

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