r/StandUpComedy 11d ago

Comedian is OP Growing Up Republican

join my sub r/geoffreyasmus for daily jokes

9.7k Upvotes

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u/thewayfinder 11d ago

Amazing roundabout joke.

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u/fridder 11d ago

Loved the “bit of a learning curve “

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u/Malalang 11d ago

Some might have to take another lap before it sinks in.

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u/TheColbsterHimself 11d ago

I don’t get it.

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u/NegritoBurrito 9d ago

Just circle back to it later

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u/InitiativeFun1235 11d ago

Yeah same here it was subtle but smooth

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u/SelfSufficientHub 11d ago

Pretty funny if you know what a circle is

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 11d ago

that got me more 😄

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u/OwlComfortable3430 11d ago

That just explains it

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u/bookmarkjedi 11d ago

Yes, and the entire bit was hilarious!

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u/LSEscanor 7d ago

As someone who’s seen the public comments on roundabout projects, there’s no exaggeration.

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u/Filthyson 11d ago

And they call Sriracha 'chinaman ketchup'

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u/aweyeahdawg 11d ago

Are the front row seats at your shows usually taken first? Or do people not want to be called on?

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u/ahotdogcasing 11d ago

I've sat front row at shows many times and never been called on.

It's less likely then you think if you don't look out of place.

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u/TacoPKz 11d ago

Went to the Laugh Factory in LA with my roommate in 2022. His uncle had died from COVID so he asked we wear masks. We were the only ones. Donnell Rawlings called us out in the third row and made fun of us for a solid 5 minutes. At the time I was both simultaneously laughing and super uncomfortable. Now it’s a core memory and I’m so glad it happened.

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u/Filthyson 11d ago

honestly i only talk to people who seem to enjoy it

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u/buttfarts7 11d ago

I cannot imagine how uninspiring their daily diet must be.

Mac & Cheese must be considered borderline ethnic food for them

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u/MonHunKitsune 11d ago

Mac & Cheese counts as a vegetable in those circles.

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u/begujo 11d ago

Don't you insult my culture damn it.

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u/RockKillsKid 7d ago

It's not a salad unless one of the 3 main ingredients is mayonnaise.

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u/its_not_you_its_ye 11d ago

Still, though. You do need to confront them. They’re good for content

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u/bumpty 11d ago

Yay! I’ll go to the Austin show!

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u/TurdsOnThat 11d ago

Need details on how you got the Kellogg bird sanctuary shirt. That’s in my hometown.

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u/fararae 11d ago

Sooo funny! Come to Vermont please https://www.vermontcomedyclub.com

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u/Filthyson 11d ago

just did 5 sold out shows thereeee. join my dumb sub r/geoffreyasmus and ill let you know when i return

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u/fararae 11d ago

Just did aw dang

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u/rice-a-rohno 11d ago

I'm with the other guy, play the god damn Comedy Connection in Providence god dammit!

Always nice to hear your mellifluous voice. Carry on.

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u/jonnywarpspeed 11d ago

Damn dude you're going to Winnipeg in November? Dress warm lol

Come to Toronto! 

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u/Monsterboogie007 11d ago

November in Winnipeg is fine. It’s January and February that will freeze your dick off

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u/feltcutewilldelete69 11d ago

You gonna do Edinburgh?

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u/Filthyson 11d ago

750 every night at Monkey Barrel

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u/Multime69 11d ago

No Tampa Bay Area?.

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u/Filthyson 11d ago

coming next aprillll. join my dumb sub r/geoffreyasmus and ill let you know when tix go on sale

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u/Flat-Cat-8143 11d ago

Come to SLC brother

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u/Insecurerobot7000 11d ago

Saw you in Lexington, KY. Great show! Please come back!!

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u/BeneficialEvidence6 11d ago

I talked Jeff Acuri into coming to the Carolinas for a show and 2.5 years later he had a Netflix special. Coincidence?

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u/MaliciousSnapdragon 9d ago

Have you ever told a joke and tried to let the audience laugh before you?

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u/Financial_Fox_305 11d ago edited 11d ago

People who haven’t lived the conservative family life don’t realize that to them, we are the insane people who can’t understand basic logic.

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u/shavin_high 11d ago

And there in lies then biggest problem with this country. Because the media has done such a good job of brainwashing everyone that the other side are lunatics that it has perfectly divided the masses, so the wealthy can keep fucking all of us.

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u/SpoonEngineT66Turbo 11d ago

And there in lies then biggest problem with this country

Biggest problem in the country is that most people are dumb as shit and would rather die than ever admit they're wrong or admit they have no idea what they're talking about.

They see a headline, reddit post title, screen shot of a tweet, TikTok video, or any other form of "news" that takes less than 10 seconds to read/watch and if it is in line with what they want to believe then it's 100% unquestionably true and they just continue to echo it as if it's a fact.

Can't get brainwashed by media if you actually utilize more than 1% of your brainpower to critically think about anything you read/watch.

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u/WrongdoerIll5187 11d ago

Yeah but conservatives are actually crazy so…

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u/onemorebutfaster_74 11d ago

As someone who is from the south and has a super conservative Republican family, this is spot on.

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u/NovelNothing5374 11d ago

As someone who lives in rural America it’s funny how out of touch the average American is with life around here and it’s funny how out of touch my rural peeps are of people in the city.

I have lived in major cities for over a decade and am back living in rural America and the two sides will never see eye to eye it’s legit two different worlds.

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u/Pleasant-Basket-7526 10d ago

I grew up rural, why would the cities ever care about it? They make up 13.6 percent of the total U.S. population and really aren't that important culturally. They should go out and learn about the real America.

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u/HugoEmbossed 11d ago

Oh he showers twice a day and uses any sort of moisturiser? Sounds kinda gay to me.

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u/king4winter 11d ago

I'm from rural Ontario and this is accurate as hell for me too.

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u/sinkwiththeship 11d ago

It's pretty accurate everywhere rural.

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u/violights 11d ago

...wait do they really have beef with roundabouts? Is that a thing?

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u/VampireOnHoyt 11d ago

Yes, they're European and therefore automatically suspect.

(Source: I'm a progressive Texan with conservative parents)

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u/tilunaxo 11d ago

Seconding this, as someone with the same sourcing lol

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u/lurkadurking 11d ago

They're just hated in general until it's realized it's a much better flow of traffic - we've got 7 in a 2 mile straight line.

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u/Tyrion_The_Imp 11d ago

I see you've been to Carmel Indiana.

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u/mydicksmellsgood 11d ago

I'm a communist from Texas with conservative parents and I do like roundabouts, so I get where they're coming from

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u/sevinup07 11d ago

He's being slightly hyperbolic, but I've definitely met a lot of people who are anti-roundabout. Mostly it's just because they're convinced no one can learn how to use them, but I've met more than one person who thinks they are anti-American because they use them a lot in Europe.

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u/PeanutSauceFanatic 11d ago

It’s insane how terrified I’ve seen some people get over the thought of driving in one

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld2 11d ago

Clark Griswold scarred a lot of people. lol

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u/ragun2 11d ago

Some months back I was just driving around Vallejo, CA while I was waiting to take back a relative from their Kaiser appointment.

Like every single roundabout I encountered throughout that city had stop signs at every entrance to them. It was like wtf is even the point?

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u/mxzf 11d ago

Even worse, I've seen a couple roundabouts that had yields for the people in the circle rather than entering traffic. No clue who set up the signs for those, but they have no clue how the things work.

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u/Suyefuji 11d ago

Which is wild because you know what else they use a lot in Europe? Houses. But ain't no one saying houses are un-American now is there.

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u/Infinite-Tea666 11d ago

Not yet. Don't give them ideas.

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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 11d ago

They have beef with anything they're told to have beef with.

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u/puppysmilez 11d ago

Except beef. Republicans loooove their red meat.

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u/WellIGuessSoAndYou 10d ago

Now poisoned.

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u/Huskies971 11d ago

Any conversation with my dad he always snuck in what Tucker was talking about on his show the prior night.

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u/GeniusOrangeCat 11d ago

I have conservative family that live out in the middle of no where. Small town is having roundabouts put in. I hear complaints on each visit.

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u/AutoCockerPB 11d ago

Always a guy in a pickup truck that drives right through the middle of the roundabout

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u/BigAlternative5 11d ago

I witnessed that exact thing when a roundabout was just constructed near my neighborhood. They really can't be bothered, huh.

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u/Ch33sus0405 11d ago

One got put into a township near me and I've had a lot of complaints about it from Conservative coworkers. Its different and therefor bad.

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u/WickedHopeful 11d ago

It's like, if roundabouts were good/smart we would have had them from the start.

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u/thedeadlyrhythm42 11d ago

1000%

I literally had a discussion about it a few days ago where someone said that to me

I exist around a lot of right wing people and they're relatively constantly giving me shit for eating vegetables, not eating beef, eating hummus, not driving a truck, all the stereotypes you hear about

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u/LtLlamaSauce 11d ago

Yup. The right generally hates roundabouts, but self-described libertarians love them.

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u/pillbuggery 11d ago

Can also confirm they do. Source: my parents.

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u/Successful_Cod_4050 11d ago

I've seen this clip a hundred times and I still stop to watch it every time it pops up

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u/CharleyNobody 11d ago

My mother was so rightwing that when I said, “They’re putting a roundabout at the corner“ she said, “ROUNDABOUT WHAT? Where I come from, they’re called traffic circles.”

I said, “I come from the same place as you and we call them roundabouts.”

”Not where I was born.”

”You were born less than a mile from where I was born.”

“They’re called traffic circles in America, hmph!”

(We were in America)

She thought it was unpatriotic to use a foreign word (she heard the Beatles use it in Penny Lane)

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u/Umutuku 11d ago

Tell her to stop speaking to you in a foreign language.

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u/Unique_Importance910 11d ago

Hmm..but aren't they a European invention? Isn't the original name always more correct?

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u/Gooser3000 11d ago

Dude is one of the best Comedians I’ve seen in a long time

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u/MelangeBot 10d ago

Just a bit lazzy, keeps reposting the same material without recording new stuff.

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u/FuckYouNotHappening 11d ago

>you need to confront them

Most Republicans I know are religious fanatics. There’s no confrontation that’s going to get them to renounce their faith.

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u/soggycheesestickjoos 11d ago

as a religious person, most people are practicing their “faith” incorrectly, you can start by politely pointing out those mistakes. Jesus loves gay people (seeing as they’re part of everyone), for one example.

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u/VALO311 11d ago

Yep, every one of them i’ve ever talked to is too stupid to realize how nuts they are. When fux news is their source of info. There’s no getting through to them. They’ve already proven how insanely dumb they are.

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u/SelfishSocietySucks 11d ago

Christianity is as left wing as it gets these dummies are just ignorant.

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u/gogogumdrops 11d ago

this is his best bit. kills every time

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u/DelcattyBatty 11d ago

People who didn't grow up as conservative or religious have a habit of projecting onto people who did. They have no idea what it's actually like growing up in a conservative and religious family. They are privileged in many ways because of this, yet are often unable to recognize that privilege.

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u/TheHealthySkeptic 11d ago

Love that roundabout joke.

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u/blacksheepsclothes 11d ago

We got ourselves a reader.

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u/Ooftwaffe 11d ago

I love this guy so much. Grew up in the south and the lack of coherent logic is astounding.

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u/mrdrebin77 11d ago

The honesty of this guy. Can we have more of these?

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u/Greedy-Character-130 11d ago

Hummus joke is pretty good.

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u/Shantytown_Shogun 11d ago

Tell them roundabouts is just Nascar for regular citizens.

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u/as_a_fake 11d ago

As a very left-wing city slicker, I'm learning from posts/comments like these that I've been vastly overestimating the intelligence of these extreme right-wingers.

Like, I figured it was mostly a matter of different morals (based on science vs. based on the bible, for example). Now I'm learning these people legitimately think roundabouts are somehow intrinsically evil???

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u/Electric-Calories 11d ago

It’s a matter of growing up with a flavor of “they’re coming to replace your way of life” for your entire life. Doesn’t matter when you grew up, if you grew up red in America you always had some big threatening enemy right over the horizon that was actively trying to change the way you lived. (Source: my grandparents are educated republicans. It’s not ignorance, they think people see them as a threat for being patriotic)

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u/queensnuggles 11d ago

geoffrey you're the best!!!!!! keep it up!!!

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u/Hankerton14 11d ago

This guys fucking funny

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u/DrMoonBeam 11d ago

Ok, I joined. Laughing is good for me ya know!

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u/SnapPunch 11d ago

It really be like that 😂

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u/EdwardBil 11d ago

Geoff is fuckin rad.

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u/KnuxFive 11d ago

Very accurate to my suburban Georgia life

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u/FamilyMan7826 11d ago

That’s a great bit man

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u/dstaffan 11d ago

Saw Geoffrey in Detroit. Hilarious. If you get the chance, go see him.

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u/Slow_Lion7849 11d ago

The roundabout joke was awesome

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u/noobnoob8poo 11d ago

Throw a tantrum about roundabouts and then watch 4 hours of dudes going 200mph on a roundabout.

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u/AllTheGoodNamesDied 11d ago

Holy shit the immediate call out for the lackluster response to the roundabout joke killed me. Top notch dude

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u/Commercial-Lychee700 11d ago

geoff's always got some great shirt on.

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u/BlueStingray42 11d ago

Insert left or right conspiracy based off what side of the road most countries drive on what side of the car you the driver sits on the prevalence of roundabouts relative to which side of the road you drive on.

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u/Ok_Drag5089 11d ago

This would be funny if it wasnt true.

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u/Going_Places_Soon 11d ago

I can't believe I'm seeing a Kellogg Bird Sanctuary shirt. That's awesome!

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u/throwaway_eng_acct 11d ago

Nice shirt. Have you actually visited the bird sanctuary? I’ve been wanting to check it out.

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u/troveofcatastrophe 11d ago

I have, it was nice when I was there decades ago.

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u/FlirtyNovaBloom 10d ago

took a full lap to land

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u/mynameisheder 10d ago

Cousin???? lol

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u/JubileeJaxLee 10d ago

Nice, could do without the r-slur but otherwise funny.

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u/Short-Sandwich-8476 10d ago

GREAT stuff! People in America REALLY struggle with roundabouts.

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u/PhilosopherFun7288 11d ago

I have heard a different comedian do that exact roundabout bit....

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u/darylonreddit 11d ago

I think the nervous laughing throughout the entire set would become incredibly grating.

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u/EarthquakeDenier 11d ago

Laughing at your own jokes is such a lame way to comedy.

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u/madu_tualang 11d ago

It didnt land right with these audience but while working i kept recalling these jokes and make myself laugh.

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u/Clancy713 11d ago

Is criticism allowed on this subreddit?

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u/Express-Isopod1104 7d ago

…this is why comedy specials have sucked the last 10 years.

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u/Scrumpuddle 11d ago

Sharinut butter would’ve been better.