Wolf’s set was exactly consistent with her act. What I never get about this show is how they howl (I just heard none stuffed shirt journalist all a titter that she used the word “tampon”) when comics use their well established voice. If you don’t like Wolf (like Dave, I do not - I don’t mute her TDS, but I have been known to FF, or at least read my e-mail) then do not invite her in the first place. One thing comics absolutely can not do, for their own professional reasons, is be seen as being too intimidated to speak in their regular comic voice. The Room a comic is playing to when they do that gig is not really the actual room, but the audience of their peers. They don’t have to be funnier than they usually they are, they just have to be as honest as they usually are. She was.
Wolf is not incapable of saying something funny - its just that her funny ratio is so low that it rarely seems worth the effort to mine through it. She seems to base a lot of her act on playing against the loud and annoying quality of her voice (I have no idea if that is how she sounds in normal conversation) - her act is basically being an annoying woman who speaks truth to patriarchy. If she were like 75% better she would probably be an ideal comic in the Age of Trump. So, I don’t know what Kevin means by is she indicative of other political comics these days. No, in that some are much better and some are excellent. Sam Bee is much (much) better, as is Seth Meyers, as is Colbert, each of whom speak in their own voices, but I think manage to be more eloquent and on target, with a better hit rate, than Wolf. But of course that is always true - the quality of comics varies, objectively, and to the taste of each viewer. Michael Beschloss tweeted out an original typed page of Bob Hope’s jokes from like the 1945 WHCD yesterday (I highly recommend his Twitter feed by the way) and even when I understood the context (which was not always) the jokes were lame, even by Bob Hope standards. What is not always true, and what makes spending more than a few minutes by tv talking heads clucking over her act obscene, is living in an age in which the President of the United States tweets out 3 things every morning more offensive than anything Wolf said last night. In that sense, as mediocre as she is, Wolfe hit a home run last night with her closing line, and for me it justified every bad joke she told before... On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 2:33 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > I can't speak to Wolf's standup, but I invariably muted her appearances on > The Daily Show. It wasn't just her incredibly-annoying voice; it was that I > found her material particularly unfunny, and the combination made it time > to turn down the volume. > > I'm glad, though, she called the Correspondents on their syncophancy and > am utterly unsurprised that so many in the media are more outraged at her > than at the crap Sanders spews every day. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 11:45:28 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > (SNIP) So my question: Is Wolf indicative of the state of the genre these days? I > ask because I am so detached from the genre that I honestly can't rate her > performance with any degree of self-confidence. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
