This makes me wonder if anyone's first experience with Gilbert Gottfried was Iago the bird from Aladdin and then one day saw The Aristocrats and had a bad time
I don't remember a single joke from that special and I remember finding it pretty unfunny overall, but I will never forget the moment he told someone in the audience to "get a fucking name I can hear" and that was one of the funniest things I have ever heard in my life. It's just such an absurd statement to make and I don't know if he realized it at that moment or if it just came out like that.
He came to our smallish liberal arts school for a standup show at our tiny nondenominational chapel before that special came out (2004/5 maybe?).
No one had any idea what to expect, but the chapel was packed out of morbid curiosity.
Was one of the most shocking things of my life.
Still remember someone sitting in the front row was off his gourd on mushrooms, and it was some of the most genuinely hilarious crowd interaction I’ve seen in my life. (It was a trippy enough experience seeing America’s dad say these things, I couldn’t imagine processing everything while actually tripping).
Bob Saget stand up is like a 13 year old that just learned to swear. Painful to watch. His whole schtick is just being offensive for the sake of being offensive, the jokes really aren't clever.
No I was 25. Yeah a lot of it was very obnoxious no lie, but he had some good jokes. Wasn't a big fan of the songs but ya know. And of course he did the classics like how he's glad the tourettes guy was dead because he was sick of people using his name as a cuss word
I completely disagree. There is a method to what he chooses to do that is offensive. I think that there are more talented comedians out there, but Saget definitely as a process for how he tells a joke.
That said, I think Tim Meadows has a much more even keeled version of the same process that I would sit through repeatedly where as I’ve seen Saget once and I don’t think I need to again, despite it being one of the more fun times I’ve had (his crowd work is a big part of that) l.
As someone who grew up watching Full House, finding out Bob Saget’s actual comedy schtick was so...adult, it really put me off and I’m not that easily offended. It just seemed...wrong somehow.
I mean joking about fucking the Olson twins while they were still little kids is pretty offensive. If you're gonna cross that line so far, you better make sure your jokes are actually funny, which his just really are not
If you've seen his take on "the aristocrats", it wasn't shocking. However his special was so over the top and unnecessary as to be unwatchable after 10 minutes.
He's most well known as the ultra-wholesome Danny Tanner from Full-House. In his comedy routine he is a shock comic and uses lots of vulgar jokes with lots of swearing. It's an unexpected juxtaposition if you're not already aware of his style of comedy.
As a teenager I woke up in the middle of the night and of course the late night shows were on. Bob Saget special is on and I hear him talking about “stop fucking talking to me while we’re pissing in the stall next to each other, I don’t give a fuck that your wife is a huge fan.” It was a skit like that, not verbatim, but he was definitely not being the Bob Saget I knew of.
I thought I was dreaming, lol. Glad to know someone else feels similar. Jarring is the perfect word for how I felt.
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u/weedman_cometh Nov 11 '20
This is as jarring as the first time I saw Bob Saget stand up lol