FIND ME AT / dorystentorian - FOR PART TWO of this, hit • STEVEN WRIGHT - COMPL... This is FORTY-FOUR MINUTES of the King of Surreal Standup, in 1985, delivering pretty much the WHOLE BOOK! And for another laugh, hit damienatloppers...
Everyone is different...I didn't find him funny at all. Clever sometimes but nothing that tickles my funny bone. We can't help it! 😏 I have listened to a lot of dry bar specials and I've learned that if I don't laugh in the first 5 minutes, I won't laugh for the next 30 so I might as well skip it. Give your girlfriend a chance and have her find something she laughs at. You probably won't. 🙄
@@metooo-zo6dd It's easy to insult strangers on the Internet, but why would you say that? Everyone's sense of humor is a little different. If you don't know it yet, you must be very young. I have a friend who laughs her head off watching The Three Stooges. I don't find anything to laugh at. To me it's just men acting really dumb. But I can LOL at lines from Jane Austen that others don't find funny or don't understand. I like my humor extra dry. Whatever happened to "live and let live"? Can't we all be different but still okay? Sheesh.
You find Jane Austen (an author that almost invented dry humor) funny but not the funniest dry humor guy of the 20th-21st century? Your so called sense of humor is way off kilter. (You may have to look up ‘off kilter’ 😅)
@@joanbrown2929 well, yeah. Thats how Bell curves work. If he wasn't in a minority as a very smart person, then "very smart" would be average, and not worthy of comment.
I had an uncle who worked for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and when he died all of his friends went to the funeral in one car. - Steven Wright
omg, u are right. i never thought of that. Steven invented twitter indeed. Each day, i read over 200 steven wright type one liners on twitter. WOW. the man was a GENIUS.
I'm not a prude or easily offended at all but it's so refreshing to see a comedian telling jokes that don't just rely on racial humour/stereotypes/"edgy" shock value, "it's funny because I shouldn't be laughing" crap. Can be done well enough but rarely and it gets old fast.
One hell of a comic AND extraordinarily prolific. Even has an Academy Award! Definitely worth looking at his wiki page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wright
I think he's hilarious! Very dry sense of humor and it's funny to watch him try not to laugh. I saw him in Vegas years ago too. I guess some people just don't get him....he does it w/o being raunchy too.
Agree with Far Side reference, and difficulty picking a favorite. Wonder if Gary and Steven knew each other. I’ll bet they at least appreciated each other. My favorite Steven Wrightism: Have you ever tried to imagine a world with no hypothetical situations?
“How come you don’t call me anymore?” “I can’t call anyone I want, my phone has no 5 on it.” “That’s weird, how long have you had it ?” “I don’t know my calendar has no sevens” 💀
Think if our experts were anywhere close to this level of organic intelligence rather than just being trained in their field. I bet he's a Mensa level brain.
Very very clever man. Deserved much more kudos than what he got. But hey, it`s the world we live in. The joke about the short story in which a photographer goes completely insane trying to take a close-up of the horizon is my fav joke ever.
His delivery is impeccable. So dull contrasting the outlandish statements. It scratches my ear and funny bone so much, I love it. I also find it amusing to see which of his jokes are relatable these days.
One time my father and I had coffee and pastry in a crowded coffee place and this man was there and shared our table. I was really young child and didn’t yet realize who he is.
Absolute comedic genius.... Funny story.... When I moved to Los Angeles in November of ‘99 from Brookfield, WI, my girlfriend at the time came out to visit me, and like any newbie to LA, we went to the 3rd street Promenade in Santa Monica. We ran into Steven Wright there with a hot chick on a date that a guy like him could never pull if he wasn’t famous, and being the Midwest tool I am, I said : “Steven Wright? He said: “Yes” I said: “You’re an Amazing comic!” He looked at me, winked, and said “THANKS!” To this day, I just hope I helped him get laid that night.... not that he needed it...
Not assuming anyone cares: 9:12 In the old days, if your rotary dialer was broken, you could dial the number five by dialing one very fast five times, or by clicking the hook switch very fast five times, or get the operator to do the call for you and get the operator by clicking the hook switch randomly. One can see this in action in the movie 'Cellular' with a broken landline phone as the victim is doing this with the internal phone wires. Modern phones when they break (in many more ways now, then was possible before) leaves no one to improvise in cases of an emergency.
"For the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my shows are like a 90 minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is." ∼ Steven Wright
@Surgio1 - ...the "Etch-O Sketch" is a Seventies TOY - that traces a point over a screen with silver dust on its inside. There are two knobs - one makes the point go up and down - the other makes it go from side to side. Thus, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to draw a CIRCLE with it! You're welcome!
One time I called a cemetery to make a reservation, they said I couldn’t do that until I buy a plot. I’ve been thinking about how expensive plans are ever since
I know you posted this comment 4 years ago, but Jesus Christ if that's not the best damn observation I've ever seen on this god forsaken website. Your connection between Steven Wright and the film Half baked boggles my mind on the daily. You sir, deserve some kind of medal, and have certainly earned my eternal respect. Thank you.
I’ve met him twice he lives not far from me and both times people I was with assumed he was a homeless person or “vagrant” of some sort. He was sort of surprised that I knew who he was.
My friend's father came up with a brilliant line. He says, "I'm either going to commit suicide or die trying." I added, "I'll get it done by tomorrow night if it kills me."
6,000 ant 🐜s marching all over in a Chinese restaurant! In court 👨🏿⚖️ due to that - Steven Wright! He's talking about the Dirty Dining Report yeah 👍🏿🙏🏿👼🏿⛪😇! 7:42
