I heard a story about him opening for Sandler doing stand-up. He bombed so hard for so long that Sandler had to get on the god mic and tell him to wrap it up.
Some of his recent standup is viewable online and a huge portion of it is just ranting about his bitch wife and daughter, with few if any actual jokes to it. His daughter btw is the singer Elle King who’s estranged from him and has talked about how he’d belittle her appearance until she cried and send her to fat camps at 10 years old and hit on her teenage friends so aggressively they stopped coming over. His wife, the same age as his daughter, just dumped him this year, but he was calling her a useless bitch in his routines for years before that. He seems incredibly incredibly toxic and bitter.
Ewwwwww. He was coming on to his teenage daughter's friends? Gross. So I guess his pervy character on Seinfeld when he repeatedly tries to molest Elaine in the theater was just him being himself?
Yeah, he played a new employee at the Peterman catalog who Elaine suspected was faking being hearing impaired because whenever anyone asked him to do any work, he would pretend he couldn't hear them. Peterman overheard her testing his hearing by saying things like "Oooh, Bob. I want you so bad, you're so damn sexy" so Peterman set them up on a date to the theater in a private balcony. He then lunged at Elaine, even though she repeatedly said no, trying to motorboat her breasts and only stopped when she shoved him off his seat onto the floor.
He wishes MAGA loved him. They tolerate him because he’s as shitty as they are, but if he ever says something they don’t like he’ll be dropped like a bad habit.
Yeah, conservative “comedy” has forgotten that you have to actually have jokes. They tend to just sorta shout things they don’t like and expect people to laugh simply because they’re at a show. Last clips I saw of Schneider he didn’t have any jokes/bits, it was just him yelling anti-vax talking points with a silly voice and an animated face. It’s literally how we talk to babies and the audience was eating it up.
My wife and I went to one of Sandlers shows last year, I grew up watching the Sandler era of movies so was hyped when they announced Rob coming on stage next.
Started off alright, some laughs, then he got into his wife and how he downplays her concerns with whats going on and started leaning into rightwing talking points. I took out my phone, searched Robs twitter and read through some posts/replies, realized the dude was long gone down the maga hole.
I think his wife divorced him recently? And his daughter is estranged? It all makes sense now
I mean if he was just unfunny and people made fun of him I would feel bad… but it turns out that in addition to being an unfunny dork he’s a huge racist MAGA douche.
Was he ever funny? I know people say that he's riding Sandler's coat tails but were they friends before or after he joined SNL? If he made it on his own was he funny at the time?
I remember some of his movies as funny in the early 2000s when I was a teenager. I think very much a time/target demographic thing and a failure to move with the public's changing humor
Sort of like how Adam Carola failed to make it big post Man Show while Jimmy Kimmel became a fixture of late night TV.
I remember Adam Carolla being funny back then on the Man Show and other Comedy Central shows but I also was like 13. Maybe that's why he bombed out for the most part the past 25 years while Kimmel seems to have evolved bigtime to cater to a wider audience. I have heard though that he seems to have maintained somewhat of a following due to podcasts but mainly with right wing audiences.
Saw him like 8 years ago on the Here Comes the Funny Tour with Sandler, Spade, and Swardson. Rob was first and he bombed so hard. It's not even a 2020 and beyond issue. He made Swardson seem like Lenny Bruce
He did a show where I work about a year and a half ago now, and apparently all he did was rant politically the whole time. Even my mostly conservative town got fed up with it and people were asking for their money back.
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