Tosh.0

Wondering if people around here watch/enjoy/hate this show. I realize it's basically "The Soup + Youtube" but I find myself looking forward to new eps of this more than anything else these days. The idea of making fun of Internet videos isn't really new but Tosh is one of the most quick-witted people on TV right now and takes it to another level. I don't know if he's an acquired taste or if people find it easy to put up with his self-important asshole shtick but he really makes the show tick. Also, the "Web Redemption" idea is brilliant. Your thoughts???

Web Redemption is a nice idea, but otherwise I can't stand this guy, and prefer my web clips au naturel.

absolutely hate

i was in a bar a few weeks ago and it was just a few people in there watching this show. they were really into it! didn't really dig his wiseass hayseed persona.

absolutely hate

― am0n, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:09 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

web redemption is pretty funny but he mostly seems like kind of a dbag.

yeah it's the seeming like a dbag thing that is so bad. he just seems like he'd be so obnoxious.

You have to watch a few episodes...he is self-aware of what he's doing, at least. Like he does make references to his "asshole" persona and what it means to host a show on Comedy Central and it's pretty funny.

show costs about $5 to produce i guess. i assumed it was a public access show when i started watching

I don't think I could make it through a few episodes.

I will give him this much: he is better than Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia.

ive seen part of this show twice and it was racist/sexist/creepy/entitled to an extent where i was kind of like 'HAY!'

xp No kidding...super glad he's starting to gain some popularity while Cook is fading rapidly and Mencia is basically a nobody at the moment

Wish it was Jeselnik.0 tbh

he can be very funny, and i like the web redemptions and some of the other pre-filmed gags. but it's a shame he has to lean on the self aware-racist-irony thing so much. more than once every third episode or so and it really loses its punch really fast.

unusually tight body for a comedian

the show would obviously be improved if he were deleted from it, but would people watch a show of clips presented without comment?
what a strange paradox.

Dude seems racist, unless it's supposed to be ironic hipster racism but either way fuck him.

I suddenly feel nostalgic for the days when annoying clipshow hosts were just faceless voiceovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAg-3hd6ko

like 'gods biggest boners' from wonder showzen

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/127372/wonder-showzen-gods-biggest-boners.jhtml

this show is pretty funny, feel like he's got enough wit to kind of elevate the show above other lame attempts to turn web videos into a TV show. i like that his humor has a 'mean' edge, when he says offensive stuff it definitely feels a little more purposeful and self-aware button-pushing than anything else, although i can see how that doesn't make it any better to some people.

Kinda wanted to like this show, especially after seeing him smoke salvia and try to eat crackers, but dude is really racist.

sub-talk soup

my feelings from the stand up thread

i like tosh.0 a lot as a show but he definitely crosses the line b/w making race jokes & using comedy as an excuse to be a racist

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:23 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tosh.0 is good! like it's entertaining & it deals w/ internet memes in a better & funnier fashion than the whole internet & most other pop culture mediums -- i think it has a great balance b/w 'the soup'-style playing a video and saying zingy one liners & field pieces (one of the best ones is w/ the guy from the nyer article that was stuck in an elevator) -- his field pieces are almost always amazing

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:54 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest

the web redemption segments are usually much more entertaining than anything else on the show. i think he just must be funnier when interacting with people.

excepting that whole saltine/cinnamon/coconut/salvia challenge thing from the first episode. that makes me laugh every time i watch it.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/kid-car-breakdown

i always assumed i'd hate this show but i sat down and watched a few episodes of it and he's actually pretty sharp and funny. hard to excuse the ironic racism/sexism though.

can you post clips of this supposedly good stuff? everything I've seen so far is worse than leno.
when bob saget delivered those terrible lines there was a look in his eyes like his soul was withering away bit by bit.
when tosh.o delivers those terrible lines there's nothing there to wither away.

nunez going ham

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/web-redemption---stuck-in-an-elevator

also the one with the news reporter kid that kept trying to break the window w/ a hammer

yikes, had to post after that PP link. yeah, can't rep for this dude. the stuff i saw wasn't that level.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/web-redemption---reporter-who-can-t-break-glass

i like that he asks his subjects about masturbation whenever possible

altho getting gallagher involved is certainly not going to help w/ the whole racism thing

i think it was just on comedy central's website, but the uncut version of him doing the Human Centipede spoiler alert was lols

did the elevator guy play the one-armed supply-store manager in sunshine cleaning?
I agree it's much better than the web-clip carnival of snide remarks I've seen so far.
you've raised my estimation of tosh.o to slightly below jamie kennedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgNK_r47TOc

i like that his humor has a 'mean' edge, when he says offensive stuff it definitely feels a little more purposeful and self-aware button-pushing than anything else, although i can see how that doesn't make it any better to some people.

Yeah he definitely straddles the line pretty hard; I mean it's not like he doesn't rip on white people all the time too. One of my favorite Tosh bits was this video made by a 7-year old that basically took apart the show for how unfunny and lazy it could be. I think he just runs and says whatever he thinks is funny regardless of who it may offend. Like he's trying to hit one demographic really hard (people who are like Daniel Tosh) rather than appeal to a wider base (something he references quite a bit, actually)

Some of the Web Redemptions are classic BTW. The Average Homeboy one is incredible. In addition to being funny they are actually pretty good as character pieces. Definitely some interesting people out there and I like how Tosh is pretty much comfortable with everyone. My only complaint is that they haven't featured Eli Porter...that would be such a slam dunk

ok, that salvia bit was pretty great.

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/extreme-salvia-challenge

Wish it was Jeselnik.0 tbh

Is he not writing for Fallon's show anymore? I haven't seen him do a bit in forever. (Still think he's a jackass, but was curious.)

I think he's still with Fallon? Not sure.

I haven't seen enough to get a comprehensive picture of his meanness, but it comes across as standard obligatory meanness. He's mean because the culture of commentary demands that he be mean, and I don't even sense that he particularly delights in being mean (and in the two web redemptions posted, he's not mean at all). It's a joyless meanness. At least on TMZ there's a kind of cheer to their meanness.

Maybe there can be an Andrew WK of being mean who can topple Tosh.O from his perch.

the show -- like the soup -- needs to be mean to be successful, but it doesn't need to be casually racist/sexist/homophobic etc

Mean is fine as long as it's also funny. I just don't find Tosh funny.

Has a non-mean web clips show ever been tried? I figure one hosted by concerned grandmothers would be a hit.
After every atrocity clip you can cut to them going, "Oh dear! I hope that fellow is okay."
And then they can give grandmotherly advice, like, "baking soda will get that murder stain right out."
Or, "I, too, saw a double rainbow... the day we were rescued from Dachau"

I haven't seen enough to get a comprehensive picture of his meanness, but it comes across as standard obligatory meanness. He's mean because the culture of commentary demands that he be mean, and I don't even sense that he particularly delights in being mean (and in the two web redemptions posted, he's not mean at all). It's a joyless meanness. At least on TMZ there's a kind of cheer to their meanness.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

if you ever saw Tosh's standup you'd know that being mean is his m.o., it's not just something he adapted for the format of the show. and ymmv i guess but i totally think he's having fun with it.

Has a non-mean web clips show ever been tried? I figure one hosted by concerned grandmothers would be a hit.
After every atrocity clip you can cut to them going, "Oh dear! I hope that fellow is okay."

this would be the greatest thing on tv

America's Funniest Home Videos was pretty much the proto-YouTube clip show and the jokes/commentary on there was generally pretty toothless

the show -- like the soup -- needs to be mean to be successful, but it doesn't need to be casually racist/sexist/homophobic etc

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:37 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't get why this show exists. bring "memes" "out in to the world" for people to laugh at together, i guess. but then i don't get why this tosh dude has to host it, it's not like he makes any of this shit funnier. just seems really cheap. millions of ppl have already laughed at what's on your show!

Maybe those memes are ready to cash in?

ha well when i say "i don't get why this show exists" the answer is "$$", sure

idk... i think most of the time the show highlights youtube videos that most ppl haven't seen? like, the big field pieces are saved for your antoine dodsons or the elevator guy that had a new yorker article written about him, but on a segment-to-segment basis i don't think it's touching on too well known of meems

and i think it's a good idea for a show, if you can pull it off -- like ppl bullshit about meme videos all the time & if you just get a super funny (subjective) guy to shoot off one liners about those videos mixed in w/ some real tv show pieces... i see the appeal, even tho it seemed redundant to me on paper too

like, my old roommate was a massive fan of the show and he spent all day on reddit & shit like that & was all meme'd up, i think it appeals to that audience a lot instead of repelling them by bringing them content they're already familiar w/

there's a reeeeally horrible syndicated show called Smash Cuts that's total worse case scenario check out these hacky comics cracking wise about YouTube videos, people who think Tosh.0 is completely lazy need to see it for comparison

the only lazy thing about tosh.0 is how they have all these different recurring 'segments' that all amount in tosh just delivering one liners

should just drop the pretense imo

Episodes are hit and miss, I'm lollered pretty hard at some of his comments and just changed the channel when the jokes came weakly (usually able to tell in the first :40secs). I don't hate the dude, and homemade videos will be forever funny. But I'd rather watch something like An Idiot Abroad or so.

if they have to include casual racism, at least get someone funny like canks or something

factoid, arsenio hall had a viral video tv show recently

ive never really watched this show cuz w/e but the tosh dude is just the sorta person u want 2 punch in the face imo

...while you're fucking him.

I haven't seen enough of Tosh.0 to judge, but isn't Sarah Silverman "ironically racist" sometimes?

i dont think 'ironically racist' is a particularly good description of what hes up to tbh

i think the point is that he's willing to go all the way for a joke and doesn't hold back. i think a few weeks ago he tried to replicate this stunt where he takes a bowling ball in the crotch by rolling it down a slide...the next week he showed off his gigantic bruise; it was ridiculous. dude's committed

Telling spic jokes and taking a bowling ball in the nuts shouldn't garner praise just because he "doesn't hold back."

well, wd take the bowling ball every time (and so should Carlos Mencia)

the casual bigotry gives it more internet authenticity. like if you want the jokes, you have to wade through some awfulness.

get outta here

4chan without the dick pix and child pr0n.

yeah I mean that's why his shtick works for the show. look at the youtube comments for any popular video

I couldn't find it in my heart to ever endorse a show that models itself after YouTube comments.

The casual bigotry that exists on the internet is pretty much just as prevalent in real life. So saying that, I guess every show should throw in a little casual racism from time to time, and not just the "learning a life lesson" kind either. If you want to make fun of those KFC gifs, fine, but you're only showing that you're an authentic ass by joining in.

I do find it interesting that people praised Chappelle's show for it's "creative take on racism" while Tosh gets slammed for beating bigoted. My point with all the stuff about "not holding back" is more about how you're not supposed to take anything seriously, everything is a cruel joke, regardless of what group he's talking about (including his own), or even if he's talking about his own show or audience or network. In the end I think it's just about whether or not you find him funny. If Carlos Mencia was actually funny I don't think he'd get slammed for his offensive jokes.

see Don Rickles

frogbullshit

let's all just pretend that forgbs didn't compare daniel tosh to dave chappelle

dude tosh.0 is like comedy central's #1 show right now, why shouldn't you compare them?

i'm not, i would say, easily offended but i tend not to be big on 'edgy' race-oriented humor and haven't found that to be a huge part of Tosh's appeal or prominent enough to be off-putting, so i'm kinda surprised that that's become so central to this thread.

jeez -- well for one chappelle is like a million times funnier/better/more worthy of caring about -- secondly are basically 100% different aside from the fact that comedy central airs them -- tosh's show is comparable to soup, daily show, colbert maybe onion sportsdome etc

mencia/chappelle made sense as iirc mecia's show was skit based like chappelle's

the shows are 100% different, is what that should say

i'm not, i would say, easily offended but i tend not to be big on 'edgy' race-oriented humor and haven't found that to be a huge part of Tosh's appeal or prominent enough to be off-putting, so i'm kinda surprised that that's become so central to this thread.

― some dude, Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:13 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

well you can def watch an episode of his show and not see anything racial but i could see how catching the wrong segment (i.e. the one w/ the black guy who does insane workouts on playground equipment) would really push the racial elements of his show into the forefront of your mind

jesus j0rdan, he was talking about how both shows are full of racial humor, not saying tosh is as good as chappelle, stop being an oversensitive chappelle stan

the format of the show really isn't what i was talking about at all though

as far as Soup comparisons, i've always felt like part of the greatness of that show is that Joel McHale brings a little bit of Jon Stewart-style gravity to it and lets you know when he's honestly appalled by what he has to cover. Tosh is more about jumping into the fray, and becoming a part of the whole ridiculous mess, which is a pretty different approach but i think has its own merits.

hey now we're at the "white guys should be able to say that too!!!!" part of the thread

like chappelle says some incredibly racist stuff on his show but he's given a pass...why??? I mean you can't enjoy that style of humor then call Tosh bigotted or whatever because you dont like it as much. They do the same thing

Tosh was born in Germany fyi so i think we've got a pretty good endpoint set up for this discussion

now you guys are making me nostalgic for when the Village Voice published my letter on Public Enemy's rancid homophobia.

They do the same thing

― frogbs, Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:22 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

uh huh

all comedy about race is created equally

whose sock is frogbs

jesus j0rdan, he was talking about how both shows are full of racial humor, not saying tosh is as good as chappelle, stop being an oversensitive chappelle stan

― some dude, Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:19 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

go watch "mr. sunshine"

also isn't your point that tosh's show actually ISN'T full of racial humor

anyway i'll address the point -- the shows are basically incomparable in this regard because the whole nature of chappelle's show means that his race jokes weren't "lol black people died in katrina" which is very often the extent of tosh's racial "humor", and that has nothing to do w/ race

not to mention that i doubt at any point that tosh's is gonna step back and go "you know, i think maybe a large portion of my ever growing fanbase may be taking my racial humor in the wrong way & using it as a starting point for something gross and harmful, so i'm gonna take a break from my show"

uhhh yeah i mean he does usually toss off a few racial comments on the show but that is by no mean the focus of it, I'm surprised its such a focus here

my point was that the racist or sexist stuff doesn't break the format. he's always "in character" and makes fun of everything. honestly the way the show is I would think it weirder if he stayed away from racial humor

anyway i'll address the point -- the shows are basically incomparable in this regard because the whole nature of chappelle's show means that his race jokes weren't "lol black people died in katrina" which is very often the extent of tosh's racial "humor", and that has nothing to do w/ race

ummm no I'm pretty sure chappelle does a lot of dumb broad racial humor like that too

thinking about just going all the way troll here and asking j0rdan how he feels when Odd Future or whoever says "faggot"

never go full troll

shipley how is my "don't compare tosh to chappelle" stance any different than your "don't compare the-dream to r kelly" stance

Wondering how you guys would've responded to "Children's Letters to Hitler" in the '70s National Lampoon.

shipley how is my "don't compare tosh to chappelle" stance any different than your "don't compare the-dream to r kelly" stance

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

my stance there was "there are many points of comparison, but if you think they're anywhere near equal or that one isn't clearly greater you're high"

okay cool, that's what i'm saying

i dig this show.

pretty obv to me that daniel tosh is playing a self-loathing character bit here - even in early stand up he played off this noxious upper middle class vibe but i dont think you have to dig too deep to see that it is strongly based on parody. and yeah im sure that some of his audience is laughing for the wrong reasons but so were large swaths of chappelle show viewers - just ask chappelle.

i do think the chappelle paralell is a little wrongheaded mainly because chappelle show was really very centered around issues/discussions of race and tosh.0 is decidedly not, i just think that doing an edgy internet clip show is kinda impossible without addressing casual racism/homophobia because uh thats sadly what half of the internet kinda is.

okay cool, that's what i'm saying

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:37 AM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah but the dream/kelly comparison was about the relative quality or worth of their work, which is not what the tosh/chappelle comparison was about at all

yeah but there's a line b/w "addressing casual racism/homophobia" and "participating in casual racism/homophobia" & if your argument is that tosh is working on some levels of parody then i don't think he does a very good job of it

pretty obv to me that daniel tosh is playing a self-loathing character bit here - even in early stand up he played off this noxious upper middle class vibe but i dont think you have to dig too deep to see that it is strongly based on parody. and yeah im sure that some of his audience is laughing for the wrong reasons but so were large swaths of chappelle show viewers - just ask chappelle.

this is very perceptive and otm, wish i could've phrased it this well earlier. Tosh's standup is totally about him being willing to be unlikeable to the audience as long as he can still make them laugh.

yeah but there's a line b/w "addressing casual racism/homophobia" and "participating in casual racism/homophobia" & if your argument is that tosh is working on some levels of parody then i don't think he does a very good job of it

Uhhh Chappelle did both, he talked about race issues mostly as they pertain to black people but was pretty cruel towards Hispanics and Asians, I mean I'm not calling him out but I don't really see how he was necessarily "profound" outside of doing pretty good racial humor

Chappelle was satire. Tosh just comes across as a frat boy making en sotto jokes in a bar.

i'm sayin

And I admit the conflict I have with the show. Safe to say, I'd enjoy it a lot more without the racisty parts. I don't get this unlikeable vibe from Tosh, pretty much the opposite.

pp completely otm

http://www.joethepeacock.com/images/fistbump/cheneyfistbump.jpg

preach, brother

"pretty obv to me that daniel tosh is playing a self-loathing character bit here"

can you post a link to earlier standup? I think going out of his way to be hatable would be an improvement,
because the vibe he's giving off now is more pomplamouse than richard lewis.
I was never a huge fan of chappelle show, but chappelle being bothered enough to quit shows at least a kind of investment in the racist stuff
that I can't imagine toshlamouse mustering.

can anyone show me a video of this guy being funny and/or offensive?

how the hell does this compare to pomplamoose

of course tosh isn't going to flip out and quit. the racist thing is like 5% of his act and probably 90% of chappelle's. like i keep saying tosh makes it pretty clear that you can't take a single thing he says seriously.

"tosh makes it pretty clear that you can't take a single thing he says seriously."
that's exactly how he compares to pomplamouse, a lack of investment, pro-forma expressiveness.

just to be clear: pomplamoose is that band from the car commercials right?

Huh? I never said there was a lack of investment. He's a comedian not some dipshit folk duo tossing off "ironic" bad songs. I think Tosh works pretty hard...

the standup special from a few years ago that Comedy Central airs a lot is called Completely Serious, i think that's pretty representative of his pre-Tosh.0 standup

I think most of the successful terrible comedians have an admirable work ethic -- carrot top, dane cook -- all dudes with remarkable stamina by all reports. Also pomplamoose in their way likely put in plenty of time cultivating ... whatever it is they do.
But by investment I mean putting themselves into how they express themselves, having some kind of ownership of it, but there's such a lack of affect in tosh's delivery... Do you think that maybe he has PTSD? Is tosh.o a Gulf War vet?

the salvia video looked like someone who'd done that enough times under duress to be numb to it.

the standup special from a few years ago that Comedy Central airs a lot is called Completely Serious, i think that's pretty representative of his pre-Tosh.0 standup

― some dude, Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:01 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just watched first 10 mins and noooooooo thank you!

I think the Web Redepmtion with the "aspiring actor" Brian Atene (the "Good Evening, Mr. Kubrick" guy) was a good indicator of what the show was about. Tosh was pretty harsh on him but in the end did get him a bit part in an actual TV series. If you watch a few episodes you don't really get the impression that he's really that big of a dick which makes things a lot more watchable. I guess if you go into the show having not seen it and being skeptical I can totally see him rubbing you the wrong way though.

just watched first 10 mins and noooooooo thank you!

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:18 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUotyR3WEA

i can't seem to remember instances of homophobia in Tosh.0. his character has always seemed to have ambiguous sexuality.

(i could be totally wrong, though, if anyone wants to link me otherwise)

one of the most hilarious things they ever did on the show was when they did a comedy bit involving Tommy Lee, and directly afterward showed an e-mail from Tommy's assistant asking whether Tosh was gay or straight.

I loved the bit where they pretended to give the N64 kid a Jetski, followed by all the voice mails the kid left with the show's receptionist asking where it was...in their defense that kid was kind of douchey

Dude seems racist, unless it's supposed to be ironic hipster racism but either way fuck him.

― Peyton Flanders (Nicole), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've heard this stuff called "machete comedy" - all edge, no point

yeah well I'm kind of sick of comedians who have a point

Quelle surprise

Joel McHale is hosting the Independent Spirit Awards and he just made a joke about how Daniel Tosh will be hosting it next year #shotsfired

loool

They had Phil Davidson on this week (the guy who gave that ridiculously amped up campaign speech for county Treasurer); it was really awesome to find out that the guy apparently does a lot of drugs (and has no problem admitting it) and that a bunch of people got freaked out and walked out on his speech. Some of it was really funny - "do you think you would have won had you apologized for your tone that night?", but I really thought they were going to do so much more with the presidential campaign joke, it really seemed like it could be Tosh.0's funniest moment ever but instead kind of devolved into a stupid and unrelated joke...still one of the best Web Redemptions

dont get why this show is so great. annoying.

a recent episode had a bunch of vague references to Tosh having beef with Conan, what was that about?

his racial stuff seems 2011 version of Howard Stern, who seems to be generally worshipped by hipsters, so I don't get it.

yeah what's the deal with hipsters all worshiping Howard Stern

some dude, i'm flattered by the hard-on you have for me, but others may be bored

you can take it personal if you want, but saying that hipsters love Howard Stern is hilariously strange and i would've responded like that if anyone else had said it! but anyway tell us more about your hard-on for Tosh, that's never boring.

al, was he not talking about mchale?

i just assumed he was bcuz of the joke he made at the SAG awards or w/e it was that he was hosting

Joel McHale, not Tosh, has 'racial stuff'?

a recent episode had a bunch of vague references to Tosh having beef with Conan, what was that about?

― JaySeanLilWayne (some dude), Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:19 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

i was referring to this

oh (how was i supposed to know that?) -- nah Tosh was specifically referencing a 'late night host' and at one point they teased it with the Conan silhouette logo on the greenscreen.

http://deadspin.com/5803183/who-wants-to-see-daniel-tosh-get-punched-in-the-face-by-manny-pacquiao

i could watch this all day!

just laughed at one of his race jokes, not saying what in this post-Tracy Morgan world

once upon a post-tracy morgan world, a little girl gazed across the veldt

she looked against the sunset, where a black man stood

– or was it a white man, silhouetted by the sun? –

but nevermind, she gazed at him nonetheless and decided that he would be her true love

she decided this based upon no racial, genetic, or cultural markers, for she stood at such a distance that such things were inscrutable and, for that matter, so was his gender

the little girl stood puzzled (or did she sit, crippled by the sickening water of some apocolyptic plague?) and wondered at the patriarchal construct of her love

she was pretty drunk

looks like Rob Drydek is essentially re-doing this show on MTV

the sudden fame of this is astounding. from what I've heard, Comedy Central definitely nearly pulled the plug on this one right away too (as they're known to do) but kept it as it was so cheap to produce.

This show is great. Does all the work for me when I want to laugh at people breaking their limbs.

i'm already on the internet and tosh himself isn't funny. this show is pointless.

well done remy, 2 months ago

xp - I've heard this criticism a lot and honestly don't get it, I agree the show can feel a lot like clicking random youtube videos but there's really a lot more to it, plus the "web redemption" idea is genius

more like Racist.1

omg remy

I for one cannot believe that this show A) had Eli Porter on, B) did not find Envy, and C) didn't even do another rap battle. This had the potential to be the best Web Redemption ever and instead turned into a Skylar Gray showcase, which for Tosh is way out of character.

pretty ambivalent about the CC show, but me & gf had free tickets to see him last night and not gonna lie: the dude killed.

also opener kyle kinane def worth your time

kyle kinane is one of my favorite comedians right now, SUCH a good storyteller.

lot of talk about kinane in the stand-up 2011 thread iirc

there's not much in life that I'm willing to disregard out of hand without having seen it but Tosh.0 fits the bill.
also applause to remy.

Wow, remy's posts from last summer!

I like the term 'machete humor'. His whole persona is that guy who did or could have made high school a living hell so it's weird when he dorks out and when he's nice to people. He's part bully, part clown and part desperate for approval while at the same time pushing loads of buttons and grinning about it.

Def high school vibe. He reminds me of the popular guy who talks to ugly people while his friends watched from a distance, and makes it totally seem like he's a nice guy but he's really playing some long con with you and uggggghhhh I just get so many bad high school memory vibes off him I can barely stand to watch even a few minutes of him.

the season finale was pretty amazing - they auctioned off all the show memorabilia from seasons past and put all the proceeds on one hand of blackjack (they lost)

yeah this guy and his show are awful

http://gawker.com/5924948/comedy-central-host-daniel-tosh-should-not-tell-people-how-funny-it-would-be-if-they-were-raped

yeah this guy's a winner

whose sock is frogbs

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