Fascinating how he reworked some of these ideas into masterpieces in later specials. The plane stuff and the bank stuff definitely is an early form of later material. I guess all comedians do that, rework old premises and find something new in them. Very interesting to watch.
He started out as every other comedian. Young and optimistic, saying unconnected jokes. But he evolved to an amazing story teller and a real life philosopher. And yeah, he achieved the "hilarious" status in my book at least.
Another good example of comedians getting enormously funnier over decades. This is a good short bit. But nowhere near the level of nowadays where all you have to do is hear him talk for 10 seconds and you’re rolling on the floor. Standup is extremely difficult. Often takes a really long time for them to find their prime. I have a lot of respect for the people that do it, regardless of how funny they are.
He just started to find his comedic voice around that time. He struggled for a lot of years. I'm righting this in 2022. I'd say about 5 years ago he was the best in the world. Now he's still one of my favorites. Still top 5 for me
I jokingly do a bad spanish accent on purpose cause i don't want to seem like i'm showing off (especially since i can't speak it that fluently). Only when i'm having an actual conversation i'll try to speak to the best of my abilities.
@@84Elenai None of them should be a top 3 except Chappelle. It's observational comedy. Even in their TV shows they basically just them recounting life events they had. They don't actually tell any jokes.
@@TrueMartin wow, how pretentious can a person be? You do understand humor is subjective yeah? Telling another person who should or shouldn't be on their list of favorite anything is about the most ignorant endeavor.
Damn, Louis was naturally talented but he honed his comedy into a sharp knife. This guy knows his audience and further more his delivery just got better and better.
I'm from Maine and got excited because I thought he was going to really say something in the Maine accent like "how's the weathah bub?" and then he just did that.. 😂
What's amazing about this video is that he was good, but he wasn't anything spectacular. Probably on par with most other comedians. But now, he's one of the best, and you can see exactly how he tightened up his craft to get to that point.
Very «Seinfeldy» here. I saw an interview he talked about doing stand up on Conan and he had to re write a lot to fit the Conan audience. I guess this would have been more funny if he didn’t have to clean it up.
What makes his comedy work is how stupid and obvious the punchlines are/should be. And how simple his premises are. Simple, effective, minimalist but provocative
Yea they were weakly provocative here… Although the act probably had to be entirely clean for television. He probably hadn’t starting jacking-off in front of women at this point too… That made him funny.
Boy did Louis ever step up his game at some point! This should be a requirement for every struggling comic to watch, and see that pretty much the funniest guy around used to absolutely SUCK too!
It's crazy how good he eventually became at stand up. He look very uncomfortable here despite doing it for over a decade at this point. He got super excited when the crowd reacted to his plane joke which he ended up retelling on Conan not too long ago. I've always hated how comics repeat things to the crowd like Jimmy does in South Park. It just ruins the flow and makes you look insecure and banal.
