Comedians Who Have Nothing but Contempt for their Audience

I saw Jerry Lewis in that Robert DeNiro movie, and he really seemed to be smoldering with audience-hate.
Besides him, I can think of David Letterman, but who else gives the impression that they think their own audience is stupid?

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Andrew Dice Clay. When I was a kid I thought that guy was real.

burt stanton?

dr morbius

all of them?

Petey Wheatstraw, The Devil's Son In-Law

It's what killed Dennis Day.

neil hamburger

I don't mean like as a confrontational persona or schtick, I mean someone filled with genuine contempt.
(I guess if the dude behind neil hamburger did it because he hates comedy audiences, that would count.)

I read this as "Canadians Who Have Nothing but Contempt for their Audience." Don't I wish. It would never be permitted by the CRTC, CanWest Global, and Rogers.

yes, me! Have you ever been in front of an audience? They're all stupid, drunk or both.

I would like to see the Dr. Morbius stand up routine

hell yes

I would like to see the Dr. Morbius stand up routine

― Dan I., Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

q: how many democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?

why did the Obama cross the aisle?

plz Morbz come on out and play the Chuckle Hut

lol @ Chuckle Hut

all of them?

lock thread

nail hamburger again - btw what has he done lately, wouldn't mind watching a youtube

Lately:
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he's not really that funny is he

q: how many democrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?

a: they just take GE's cash and let THEM do the screwing!

burt_stanton i believe adc is approx as real as you are

I found that being onstage as a comedian often spawned simultaneous self- and audience-loathing. "I shouldn't be up here, and shame on you for listening." A musician told me he hed the same feeling sometimes.

I saw Eno said that too, in Word recently.

Comedians Who Have Nothing but Contempt for Themselves

it's CW they are superstars of neurosis

I felt that way at times too in my past musician's career. Some schmoe would come up to me after a show and tell me how great we were (it happened once or twice over a five-year period!), and I would sooo question his taste and frankly, his mental health.

This is veering a bit off-topic, but yeah, fat-kid-in-Slow-Century-DVD to thread.

Let's not forget
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u gotta be kidding

I saw Jerry Lewis in that Robert DeNiro movie, and he really seemed to be smoldering with audience-hate.

You realize this was part of his character in the movie?

ya but let's be honest that's probably a big part of why he was cast

discovered andy kaufman recently, who has a really low profile in the UK, and he seems to derive a pretty solipsistic pleasure in making the audience into the joke. I'm pretty keen on that. been on/off reading the tosches dean martin biography and jerry lewis is painted as pretty miserable and bitter in that.

they orig wanted Johnny Carson, but yes, Lewis works better, and he clearly wrote some of his lines about showbiz leeches. "SO DID HITLER!"

They used Lewis' NY apartment, his dog, etc.

xp

The scene where they're walking down the sidewalk and all the construction guys go "Hey, Jerry!" wasn't staged.

what about sketch comedy where the comedians have nothing but contempt for the characters they play? i get this feeling every time i watch mad tv.

discovered andy kaufman recently, who has a really low profile in the UK

Except for the millions of people who've watched Taxi.

Andy Kaufman played a lot of audience-hating characters (Tony Clifton, redneck-baiting rassler Andy) but it seemed like he had a genuine fondness for his audience even as he is mercilessly screwing with them. Maybe Michael Richards...?

Bill Murray?? Tina Fey?? Whuh??

Doesn't Bill Murray have contempt for his audience?

No.

Just everyone else in the room except you?

Smart ass != contempt

did anybody else read the tina fey profile in vanity fair a few months back? she came off as a bit priggish IMO surprizingly

what a shocker from a middlebrow Guiliani-supporting sitcomedian

she can be an asshole sometimes (this is true of most people)

I wonder how priggish Morbs would be to Vanity Fucking Fair.

Larry the Cable Guy