Standups can be great, I keep forgetting about those

 I write this on Saturday morning. Not morning anymore technically it's noon exactly but the clouds are out, the sun is low in the sky, the energy level is at lazy and unmotivated so might as well be the morning. Why fall for those technical exact stupid definitions of words when they are so devoid of emotions and meanings when you can communicate at a more human-to-human level.

Last night, which is Friday evening, for those of you who don't know the days of the week, I didn't feel like doing anything productive or good, have been feeling like that most Friday evenings lately. If I could be more 'grounded' or balanced, that wouldn't be a problem, but we aren't there yet unfortunately.

So with nothing else to do and nowhere to go, after I had my dinner and we watched Moneyballs or is it Moneyball anyway it was still 8 in the evening I didn't want to sleep so early but didn't feel like writing either. It's strange, how the human brain works, if I'd done like four or five posts yesterday, I could have enjoyed my day today fun and festivities, alas that's not the person I am so now we here. ND and PK were playing chess, I tried coming up with something interesting cool to watch they wouldn't object to right away. Decided to watch some standup comedy. Haven't watched good standup in a long while.

First was Aisling Bea's. I knew she had a Netlix special, figured it would be a couple of hours at least so that would be the rest of my night. Alas it was only fifteen minutes, ten out of which -- and they were the good parts too mind -- I'd already seen on Youtube. She's funny, she's observant, love her expressions, it was amazing, it wasn't enough for the night though.

I went back to the search screen to check if there's something else by the comedian that I'd like. I've written about Living with Yourself, the dark dramedy starring Rudd Paul and Aisling Bea and how I watched through all the eight episodes in like one night. Didn't feel in rewatching it, Aisling's comedy chops don't show, and I don't like watching drama in general.

I was dredging for any sort of British standup at this point because American humor gets stale and tiring after a while. Russell Peters -- he's Canadian but same difference -- gets annoying irritating boring real quick. British humor has that bit of edge in it, a lack of fear but not in a Russellian 'honh honh honh I can do ridiculous asian accents because I'm brown' way but a more confident 'if its funny you won't think its offensive, its offensive only when its not funny' route. Which one might argue is the OPPOSITE of dredging for shit.

In any case, Greg Davies came up he's the Principal from Inbetweeners and also the 'host' of taskmaster, funny dude that man. Put on his comedy bit, he's dirty af, in a white middle aged dad-bod dude, but it works. It really does. Right from the 'you know you're middle-aged when you gotta pee twice at night', to the 'trimming your privates was not a thing and I massively screwed it up', to doing an adorable tribute for his father by getting a Welsh Orchestra to sing ridiculous rude offensive self-written song in Welsh, it was quite well done. They say humor in standup comes from the standup exposing themselves to the audience, and the onlookers not knowing how to react at the awkwardness. Laughter works. IN this case it works beautifully.

Don't watch too my of those routines, roommates are fans of a bunch of American comedians but they've got this same...take...that's not very provocative. Truth be told, Russell Peters' 2017 tour was the end of my thing with American standup -- we've discussed that to death here, but it always hurts to see how low he's gone and he keeps digging. Don't complain about your ex-wife and what a bitch she is when in your last show you were braggin' about what a wonderful person she was. It's over man, get over with it, nobody wants to listen to a jilted husband, that's the comedy of the 1950's. Update, uprade, adapt. Doing caricatures of poor people from poor countries speaking the language of their oppressors who've actually really truly fucked them over is not edgy, it's mean insensitive and nonsensial. Comedy's about punching up, hitting those who are untouchable, not kicking the dog, hitting at somebody who's already down. Doesn't seem to have gotten the memo, that dude.

ND may not have enjoyed the dude humor or my constant guffawing but it was a good night, a fantastic one. Enjoyed it thoroughly.