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They might be people of the same IQ level, who the hell knows. Many of such comedians really came from Joe-Rogan-like circles. I do wonder who the hell helped make comedians such as Handler and Schumer.
So I'm not going to defend Bert Kreischer and say he is gut busting hilarious however I will say I'm a fan and do find him funny. I think he has his moments and I actually got to meet him briefly and he just seems like a good dude. Now I know being a "good dude" doesn't equal funny and over the years the novelty has worn off for me. I think he is better in a podcast setting and his older podcasts that are long are some of my favorites. However as he has become more successful it just seems like a very repetitive joke structure. My kids are idiots, my dad thinks I'm an idiot. My wife sucks but I love her and I know Joe Rogan and Tom Segura and they think I'm a fat alcoholic. After rinsing and repeating that a few times I saw the cracks. However him drinking so much Kool-Aid was funny when it happened. Now it just seems like a running sitcom bit that isn't creative but the first time it happened you were like damn that's pretty funny. It may sound like I'm wishy washy here and maybe I am. I guess for me I still enjoy him and would see him live, but he certainly isn't as good to me as a Shane Gillis, Joe List, Louis Katz just to name a few.
@@theadvocatespodcast Joe Rogan, is that you?! Calm your tits down you unit. Joe Rogan isn't as funny as he thinks he is. The one thing about comedy, is that everyone's taste and everyone's views on what they each find funny, is incredibly wide ranging. This means that inevitably someone as unfunny as Joe Rogan, will have someone show up for his shows. But the thing is, he is incredibly niche. He isn't that funny, despite what he and the small handful of people paying to see him, might think.
He doesn't seem to have much of a proper standup comedy history but his show is a comedy show, and yes he is a comedian. Nobody said he's good but he is a comedian not a "comedian". In some way I could agree he may have stopped being one when most of his shows dump the comedy and he's pretty much doing straight ahead political and social commentary..
Somebody was boring at parties, that’s what the problem with observers are, they’re not even close to being noticed, people who are noticed by everyone, don’t even know what the observer is seeing, your commentary is fuel.
Joe Rogan has convinced more unfunny people to do standup than anyone in history -- including himself. You can be a jock. You can be cool. But funny people aren't the "winners" in life - they're the outsiders, the perennially misunderstood. Joe is a popular jock stereotype and he's an old man to boot -- and cringe is too nice a word for his attempts to be funny. Joe: you're. Not. Funny. Enjoy your millions and accept it.
American stand-up in general is mostly dull as dishwater. There's just something wrong with it. Joe isn't funny and his stand-up is cringe, but you could say the same about Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock or Jay Leno. They're absurdly wealthy and absurdly dull. Not a hint of misery, bile or wit, because where would it come from? They don't take any risks, they live ludicrous fantasy lives, want for nothing and no one has the balls to tell them how bad they are. The Beige Frequency video on Jeff Foxworthy is full of comments defending his dismal boomer-humour. Shane Gillis is such a breath of fresh air. People like Chris Fleming and Bo Burnham shit all over this boring slop, because they're weird.
@@notspacekeeper I mostly agree, but I'd still say American comedy is better than comedy in other places/countries. I do like a few British comedians though, but overall comedy has been shit for a lot of years. I miss 90s to mid, maybe even late, 2000s the most.
I met Dane Cook in college when his Tourgasn tour came to Tulane. He was standing outside McAlister auditorium smoking a cigarette after everyone had left, and I was walking back to my dorm from the gym. Being a big fan at the time, I walked up just to say hi and say "Great show tonight." He looked me in the eye and shook my hand and asked where I was from and how I liked school, etc... I know that doesn't sound like anything special, but I was just a random kid and he didn't have to say anything to me, let alone engage me in conversation. I don't care what anybody says about him, he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. I also met Mark Normand after a comedy show before he blew up, and he was extremely nice to everyone too.
I think that’s cool you met him. Dane Cook was huge back in the day! Don’t let others give you shit though, they are strangers to you and don’t matter :)
Met Tom Segura after a show and he was an arrogant insufferable prick. I made a comment about my wife as a joke as she was standing next to me and he snapped back with something that was totally unexpected. It’s been about 10 years ago so I don’t remember what exactly was said but I walked away thinking wow what a dick
@SuperCrazyPsycho731 truth be told in the early 2000’s almost everyone liked Dane Cook’s comedy it just didn’t age very well…either that or just like when people make fun of a famous band they used to like so they can fit in with everyone else saying they’re lame
strongly agreed. He has admitted he got caught with massive arena shows and was just 'snowballing it' and filler and even just saying things he joked about in gaming chats that week etc. He's not great but something like Nickelback he gets hoisted as 'the worst/lamest' and yet there are 10 others I can think of worse. I mean, worse that Dane Cook and for that matter 10 bands worse than Nickelback.
@@topsuperseven7910 I just don’t think you can get that huge if you are truly unfunny. I don’t mean this to sound as bad as it will, but I feel like only female comics get that kind of artificial push. A lot of people just didn’t like his frat bro persona, and the fact that he’s a good looking dude. His comedy might not be for you, but to say he’s not funny at all is just disingenuous.
@@TChalla616that still would have been mencia making endless excuses instead of acknowledging or simply just saying he doesn't agree, it's always him awkwardly spewing out excuses upon excuses which compounds the problem
I'm only up to Minhaj, but it seems like you're ranking people on how terrible they are, rather than their actual comedy. I've got no love for Rosie O'Donnell, Ellen, or especially Steven Crowder, but not only are these people not even really comedians any more, but you're not even critiquing their comedy.
I was disappointed in Minhaj's 2nd Netflix special, but his first is more like a one man show and it's an all timer. If you don't don't like it, it's likely politically motivated or you just don't have a sense of humor.
I thought there was a chance he was going to leave him off the list because in reality he's not a household name but then he did it! And all is right in the world.
I'll admit that I was prime age for the rise of Dane Cook. I saw that first night he was on comedy central when it originally aired and the xenomorph impression had me cracking up. Today I can understand why he's considered a hack comedian, but hearing his stuff does bring back some great memories. So thanks, Dane.
Well Dane and joe are pioneers no matter how you feel. Enough people like them clearly. They get peoples attention somehow. A full lol cow can’t go that far. Yea I had my friend burn a Dane cook audio cd 💿 I used to listen to on my Walkman. In the hoodie pocket.
Xenomorph ?? Lol Like the " xenomorph hunter ' mode on the area 51 console machine? Two things pain me All the comedy we missed because of the Roganites clan of the chair humpers... And that Patrice O'Neil isn't around to lose his mind on our current culture.
I wouldn't have put him on here because I don't think of him as a comic, but in Steven's mind, he is. He is the best at taking any idea that has some potential and ruining it in a similar terrible trademark way every time.
It's always so weird to me how most other comics only have photos from their shows or from press events, but Bert seems to have an endless supply of studio shots of him with his shirt off and with some stupid hat on
Now? He's always been super unlikable I never understood why ppl let Joe rogan force shitty comics on them and why ppl were acting like any of them were even worth listening to let alone funny. Bert, Schultz, Segura, that annoying little Muslim dude that's attached to Schultz nuts,Ari, shuab...I know I'm blanking on a few, but they're all complete trash like so bad they make Kevin hart seem hilarious it's insane any of them can call themselves comics let alone funny. Its insanity I thought I was in bizarro world for couple years, so glad everyone is finally realizing how awful they all are
You can tell that Bert really expected those kids to be amazed when he told them he got involved with the Russian Mafia, and figured they'd ask how, so he could go right into his shtick. But instead they didn't get it, or care, and he was left with nothing lol
Imagine paying people to write jokes for you because you don't have any comedic talent and then those jokes are somebody else's 😭 That whole affair broke her brain btw, she has not been the same since then. You love to see it.
To say Dane Cook wasnt funny is just absurd. He was one of the biggest comedians of his time for a reason, it wasnt all because of marketing he was funny to a lot people
We had a comedian in the UK called Bob monkhouse who's jokes were stolen literally, someone broke into his home and walked off with his joke book ,jokes he'd accumulated over decades.
When Monkhouse became famous, people in the UK were still watching 'the Comedians', where working men's club comedians told endless anecdotes with no punchlines, while drinking a pint of bitter
Although Monkhouse was a bit hammy and old school, he was a literal genius. He had the largest personal film archive in the world and obsessively recorded TV shows and films. There's a good documentary about him on RU-vid called 'The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse'. It's worth a watch.
The amazing thing about Bob Monkhouse is that you could have put him in front of an audience of Squaddies, or WI, or Students and he'd have made them all laugh.
Kimmel, fallon, corden, d'elia, melissa McCarthy, bobby lee, andrew santino, whitney cummings, tom segura and many of joes friends deserve to be on this list
Dunham is one of those things that isn't for me. Given that he's something like a 'family act' Vegas act sort of thing he's not bad. I do like his Biden puppet in short doses. it's a wacky 1 minute smile and chuckle.
I remember how upset he got when he asked an 18 year old if he knew who he was, when she said no, he got all butthurt. his Demo is anyone over the age of 65, racists and very very small children.... or people with learning disabilities.
It's comedy that's almost 30 years old at this point. You can't try to understand it compared to what's new today. Comedy, especially standup, often doesn't have a long shelf life. I can appreciate Pryor and Carlin, but they don't really make me laugh.
I think Dane is the Nickleback of comedy. He gets so much hate for so little reason. And in reality, we’ve all listened to him and laughed at least a few times.
@@kenmcnutt2Nickelback was has insane accolades and albums that are diamond and multiplatinum lmao they took the world by storm. I was a little kid and I even remember all of it.
Good analogy. I think both Dane Cook and Nickelback are hated for the same reason: they were undeservedly #1 in the world for a little while. If Nickelback's popularity had peaked at say, Puddle of Mudd level, and Dane Cook's popularity had peaked at Gary Gusman level, neither would be that hated.
As an Aussie, I can’t believe that Hannah Gadsby didn’t earn a top 10 place. Unearned Netflix specials, unending Australian Broadcasting Corp gigs…. How? Why? Quite possibly the unfunniest human on the planet that essentially monetized her identity by presenting material deaf people wouldn’t want to hear.
Here’s the thing with Carlos Mencia, it wasn’t that he stole jokes from famous comedians, he would bring up and coming comedians on the road. Let them open for him. If he liked any jokes, the following night he would open with their jokes. And in a documentary twenty years he admitted point blank. Check out a clip from Opie and Anthony with Patrice O’Neal where they play that clip
@@Carmine_Lupertazzithe fact that it's worse because a well established comedian will have people that will vouch for them and back up their story, as well as audiences who have witnessed their stuff and experience to write new material. Up and coming comedians will not only never be believed over carlos mencia but will also likely just give up knowing that anything they write will just be stolen by bigger comedians. It makes him a way bigger pos
Bobby Lee had Ned (real name)on his podcast to try and salvage whatever career he still has. Bobby kinda feels bad because they used to be friends or something, yet Ned never really apologized for what he did. He claimed everyone was just jealous of him. I never found him funny at all. To me he sounded like every hackie comedian doing border wall and who’s going to cut your lawn- lame jokes
Bert deserves to be on this list!!! He needs help with his problems!!! The Machine is a terrible movie!!! It’s a stand-up story that gets turned to a stinker of a movie!!! That idea never works!!!
It’s not just that she is not funny - and boy is she not funny -even when she is trying to be. It’s that her whole schtick is that being funny is by nature degrading to the comic and the audience is complicit in abuse by laughing. I cannot think of a stupider idea or one that diminishes the human experience more.
Joe isn't a bad comic. he's average and happens to be super famous for something else. That's kinda true for most people on the list. Cook isn't a bad comic either, he just has a style that resonates with the same people who enjoy watching trashy Sitcoms. He's still probably the best at that particular brand of comedy. I don't like it but he's good at what he does. And Ellen is a legitimately good comic who happens to be a shitty person who has had a shit sitcom and a boring talk show watched mostly by housewives. I also don't think Crowder is a comic. He's a talking head with a podcast who sometimes thinks he's funny because he yells loudly.
Sorry kid, but both Dane Cook and Bro Rogan are 2 of the least funny comedians in the history of stand up. Bro Rogan is probably the least self-aware comedian ever. The guy literally has no idea how unfunny he is. Dane Cook is just a douche
A man goes to prison and one day someone yells out 11 and everyone laughs. Another man yells out 22 and they all laugh even harder. The man asks what is going on. His cell mate says we have all of our jokes memorized so all we have to do is say the number. The guy says let me try. He yells out 3 and nobody laughs. He asks his cell mate was that a bad joke? His cell mate says no it was more the way you told it.
I thought Dane was pretty good but the collection of clips in this video are eye opening lol, he's pretty corny i guess but he is good at telling a story and grabbing attention
@@Freud_Mayweatherbeing high energy, charismatic, and a bit of a wordsmith can take you pretty far. Dane was also young and attractive so he also got the Matt Rife audience and that gave him a huge bump. I think thats one of the reasons why Eddie Murphy became a sensation. He was a very attractive 21 year old man, so he got the female audience too, and exploded even more because he is a legitimate world class comedian.
As much as I've become a comedy "elitist" now, in 2005-2006 Dane could make college-aged me laugh more than anyone else. He still can if I listen to that stuff, but I'm not sure how much of that is nostalgia at this point. I assume it's a lot
It seems like it would disarm a lot of haters if you said, "this is just my opinion." But controversy gets clicks and comments. So bravo brother 🤷🏾♂️ I love your channel.
Rogan shouldn't be on the list though. I'm not saying he's good but top ten worst? We just gonna ignore Hannah Gadsby? Ally Wong? Whitney Cummings? Andre Schulz? Dennis Leary? Patton Oswalt!? I mean I'm not going to go to the mat for Joe's mediocre ass comedy but, there are way worse. I'll also add. If you look up Joe and the stool jokes. It's genuinely side splitting. Just how long this maniac was running down. Trying to make humping a stool funny. Genuinely my guy it's a thing and it's absolutely hysterical. Comedians on his pod telling him it isn't funny and him saying that he thinks it can work under the right conditions. Holy shit it's a hoot.
@user-dc2zh2il3w Denis Leary was funny in his stand-up special "No Cure For Cancer." I loved it when I was younger. But then you find out that he stole most of that material from Bill Hicks, and on top of that you watch his follow-up special after that one with all his own material and find out how much of an unfunny and terrible most of his own jokes are.
"I refuse to watch any award ceremony unless it's hosted by Ricky Gervais." Out of everything you said in this video, this is the one statement I can wholeheartedly agree with.
Ricky can be funny, but he also can be super hack. His atheist stuff is just so fucking old hat, and his trans jokes are lifted straight from old and overused internet jokes, and sometimes he just seems very thin skinned. I like his story telling though, and sometimes he has funny jokes. But he just kind of skipped the years of doing clubs and went straight to theater dates. He didn’t really pay dues as a stand up. Not that it totally matters, but I think it makes some kind of difference
@@opaljk4835I'm a Gervais fan, but yeah, you nailed it there. His latest special is by far his weakest yet, I think his lack of hitting the clubs and testing material is really getting exposed...
Paulie Shore should be high on the list considering his mom owned The Comedy Store and he had the ability to watch so many Comedians and still wound up Hacky as Hell.
That one and the one with cats having killer DNA and equating it to a man never seeing a woman until he's in his 20s and he he'd innately "know" what to do. Great bit. Joe's very funny he's just and the spotlight too long.
I agree that he’s much funnier in his podcast but I wouldn’t put him anywhere near the top 10 worst comedians. So many comics I can name off the top of my head that are way worst.
Rogan is just not a funny person. He's just loud and tries to portray this insightful and rageful reaction to social phenomena that everyone has figured out already. It's just so damn boring.
I always thought of Dane Cook as an entertainer more than an out an out comedian. His delivery and stage presence was always entertaining even if I wasn’t laughing at the time. I think he’s a lot better than some comedians and he’s great in interviews. I think history is being a little more kind in recent years. Dude sold out the garden like it was nothing a couple of times over. He must have been on to something.
As someone who did a lot of open mics 10 years ago in a college town, I know exactly why comedians hated Dane Cook. At that time, 90% of young male comedians at open mics were doing Dane Cook impression. They just cussed a lot and walked back and forth across the stage very cockily. Its not that I hated Dane Cook, I hated how every guy that thought he was "cool" or good looking thought he could be a comedian by doing a shitty Dane Cook impression.
@amyk6319 yes I was just commenting about this. Dane cooks main problem is that repetitive problem. He gets repetitive then all the other cook clones doing the same persona makes it all that much more repetitive which takes likeability away from cook himself. If the cook clones didn't come out then he would be more popular for this reason.
If anything you have to respect the hustle. He wasn't handed anything, he was just really good at marketing himself. There was a period when it was just cool for other comedians to just trash him and bring him up as the example of a bad comedian and I always thought it was really really cringe.
I discovered this channel a few days ago, and I love it. Good job brother. I agree with the list, it should have been top 20, so many horrible “comedians”😂
@@Doomsense Nobody claimed this guy's channel invented anything. @anderthons point was that there's enough people who are sick of shitty comedians and podcast culture that this channel on that topic is doing well.
Actually for some reason I keep showing up for these videos every week to hear bad takes over and over again, rarely do I actually agree with anything this guy says
I agree that Ellen Degeneres "degenerated" as a person, but her stand up was truly funny. I laughed a lot and she had a great sense of timing and misdirecting the audience.
What are you talking about? No one calls comedians in movies sell outs! Murphy, pryor, chapelle, Williams, chase, Burr, James, Mac, Shore, Barr, Short, Martin, Sandler, etc etc. This is just another video of hate and riding Rogan nutz.
I loved Dane Cook when he first came out, he had the sort of delivery and story telling that I had never seen before. Maybe I just hadn’t been exposed to better comedians that had done the same thing better? Who knows. But I found it extremely funny and engaging, and thought his recent special was great too
It's really fashionable to hate on him, but, like it or not, you simply can't get that successful as a stand-up comedian without being actually funny. His sets weren't exactly intellectual, but "Harmful If Swallowed" had some crazy funny bits and boy did he know how to work a crowd. I think he suffered from that "getting too popular too fast" thing, and it suddenly became uncool to like him as a result. Too bad, really.
@@PatrickRob82 The narrator explained his fame pretty well. Dane Cook got popular by pioneering advertising on social media. He put in a lot of leg work to spread shorts of his act everywhere, and had like the most followers on Myspace. The problem was that a lot of his jokes/stories were stolen and he just delivered them in his style. It wasn't just one or two, many of his famous bits were were just written stolen jokes. There are several videos on YT that break down the issues around him.
@@PatrickRob82Patrick Cc does a good breakdown on him. The dude was definitely a hustler. The model of releasing shorts and gaining a social media following is the standard today, and he was doing it over a decade before anyone else. Some of his original bits are really good. I don't think his style is completely unique as imo is just a more aggressive Jim Carrey. It played well at the time though.
Part of the issue with unfunny comedians is when their is a media campaign behind them with someone constantly telling you how funny they are… “if someone has to tell you something about themselves it’s usually not true”… I live in Philly and on the radio station 94.1 WYSP there’s a local “comedian” Joe Conklin… the radio station is a sports talk station that is constantly pushing this guy, advertising his standup, playing his bit on air, and overly hyping up and laughing at his terrible jokes and impressions. They never stop telling you HOW FUNNY this guy is, which just takes a guy who is you thought wasn’t funny and turns him into a guy who isn’t funny and now you hate.
@@GHMYahookayou mean you don’t believe all of his “whacky, zany, out-of-control-master-criminal” stories? 😂 he’s interesting on podcasts but i’ve only seen a little of his standup and he’s funnier on pods (when he’s saying something believable). i could be wrong. he does seem like he would be fun to hang out with though
Calling Amy a joke thief gives her too much credit. She actually just independently came up with incredibly hacky throw away jokes of slightly better comedians
Bert said he was one of the biggest comics IN THE WORLD!!😂😂😂😂 Anyway I can't say I disagree with anyone on this list lol I may switch the order on a couple of them but well done overall.....I'm not sure how to get in touch with you for a recommendation but if you check out the latest "protect our parks" episode on Rogan. Ari Shaffer is definitely someone who should be on this list, he's right there with Bert imo. An unfunny comic hyped by Rogan. Great job brother catch you on the next one 👍
You nailed it with this list. The one critique is that it's not long enough. No Chevy Chase? No Hannah Gatsby? No Lilly Singh? We need a part 2 of this. EDIT: The title of the vid just says comedians, you guys. It doesn't specify stand up... but then I realize every entry in the vid IS a stand-up. So I guess just swap out Chevy for Jerry Seinfeld. They're both unfunny, talentless hacks.
36:34 Rogan's biggest problem is delivery... like Dane Cook, he's performing his material rather than conversing it... The greats seem to be having a conversation with the audience, whereas Rogan is putting on a one-man show... And because he's putting so much effort into weak material, he just comes across as a total hack.. I have a theory that Rogan only broke into Hollywood because producers saw him as the next Tony Danza...
He got on Fear Factor and he just continued to get parts because he was out there. One thing led to another. sometimes they just need someone and he was lucky enough to be that someone.
@@PodcastCringeGood list but curious if you forgot or liked some of the most Crnge Comedian I could think of who sold out stadiums.. It was combination of identity politics, low fruit comparison observations, and overly animated which is only funny to children and BET comedy sitcoms. 1. Martin 2. George Lopez 3. Bernie Mac 4. Marlin Wayans 5. Seinfeld (not the sitcom thanks to Larry David) 6. The pop tart guy 7. The fat guy at a chinese buffet one hit wonder joke. Those were rough years in comedy combined with boy band music and Tyler Perry Dynasty
This is a really respectable list! It’s a pretty telling sign about the state of the standup scene in 2023 that some of the most famous, best selling, and popular comedians are really bad at standup. The clip of Rogan on the flagrant podcast is a microcosm of the Joe Rogan comedy clique. The worst part is that Rogan wasn’t even joking until Schultz (also not funny) started paying his dues to daddy by laughing way over the top. As soon as Rogan saw that, he just started repeating the word “stomp” since that seemed to be getting laughs… kind of reminiscent of him, repeating “donkey”. 🤯🔫
I finally saw Dane Cook this year in person and he cracked me up. I still will never understand why he gets the hate he gets. Not everyone can do his thing. That's what makes comedians so good when they are. They find their style. Whatever.
Like many things it comes from riding a hate train, jealousy following the crowd. Obviously the worst comedians ever didn’t even get famous… But there are so many with specials to pick from that are just utter garbage you could pick from
Dane did steal a few jokes, but he apologized and owned up to it. He was great at telling jokes and the delivery. Even a boring joke can be made funny if you tell it great. I don’t think Cook qualifies as a “worst” candidate.
I just want to say, this is by far the best RU-vid channel. It’s literally the only channel where I regularly check for new vids (don’t have notifications turned on) and have gone back and pretty much watched every video on here. Keep up the awesome work mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I remember cracking up when Rogan went on stage to call him out. That was such beautiful karma at the time. Like the kid who was willing to stand up to the bully.
