Every time I’ve seen him perform in the last few years he seems really burnt out and a shadow of his former self. His voice is really groggy, speech is slow and muddled and he’s just not as witty as he once was. What do you suppose happened? He’s not THAT old. Shit George Carlin was sharp as a tack right up to the very end and he was a fossil.
shareWhen are you comparing him to? He had a huge mental breakdown during his show and I'm not sure he ever got the spark back.
shareYeah I thought about that. Why did that happen?
sharea lot of money & pressure, topping the last thing, coming up with something new, keeping it real.....
hard to say, but i can imagine that pressure building on a cat.
Yeah but doesn’t every celebrity experience that?
shareIt does, but different people have different coping abilities.
sharethe money & expectations on him at that time were huge - but you know, can't get inside someone else's head - clearly, he had to walk away
dylan walked away too, for i think probably similar reasons - had been at the top of his game for years, and was exhausted
JUST SPRINKLE SOME CRACK ON HIM.
shareI just think he lets the whole “wiser and important celebrity” thing go to his head a bit. He used to be a comedian who didn’t care about anything doing drug jokes left and right. When he came back all of a sudden people treat him like malcom x or something, so he just pretends to have some authority when he talks.
Deep inside he is still funny, his latest special (not that youtube BLM stuff) was really funny
the netflix special was fine
sharehis latest youtube standup was not funny. it was not comedy. it was just a speech.
if u are looking for lol's, skip it
Exactly
sharei thought it was very powerful & articulate, though. i didn't agree with some of it, but it didn't lack for urgency or clarity or anything.
it certainly wasn't funny, but he wasn't trying to be funny. except for the few moments where he did. and when he did try, he was funny.
i'm in a slightly different position, i guess, in that i had never seen his shows except for the famous rick james & prince bits, and had never seen his standup at all. but i watched the netflix special 'sticks & stones' from last year, and thought it was great. genuinely funny, and i was completely aligned with everything he said in that one.
Sticks & Stones (2019) I thought was pretty good-but have to admit haven't seen anything of his after that
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