Comment on Stand-up comic, Steve Hofstetter, explains firing his agency for signing Kanye West

Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Isn’t he that guy that used to have hecklers planted in the audience that would say very specific things in order to set things up for the perfect “Watch as I Put a Heckler in Their Place.” videos?

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes. He is exactly that person.

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    • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember that. So cringy! I think I filtered him from my YouTube feen back in the day.

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Virtue signaling is a large part of many peoples personality

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• ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s his whole act. He really doesn’t have any martial. He just attracts heckling and riffs on that.

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m guessing you meant to say ‘material’, and yeah. You’re not wrong. Every single clip I’ve ever seen of this dude is heckling material. I remember him releasing an album for free like a decade ago so I downloaded it and listened to it. It was just… mid. His heckling stuff is fine but his actual stand up is severely lacking. He can deal with a heckler, like Jimmy Carr, but he doesn’t have any material to actually perform otherwise. Some of it is just heckler bait while most of it is just tired tropes and angles.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I always hear comedians release their heckling stuff on YouTube cause releasing their actual material spoils their act for them.

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      • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The argument isn’t typically that it spoils the act, it’s that other comedians will steal your material. However, the complaint is just moronic. Comedians are always going to steal your material regardless. Just because you don’t upload it online doesn’t mean anything other than you’re limiting your viewer base. That’s the more obvious answer. The less obvious answer?

        How are you supposed to argue that a Comedian stole your material if you don’t even have a record of you performing the material first?

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And I worked the stand up circuit in Toronto.

  So, you’re jealous because you faded into obscurity, and he hasn’t yet? He seems to be living rent-free in your head, that’s for sure. One little post about him, and you write a two hundred word rant about it.

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  • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not interested in getting a rise out of you, because like rest of the world, I don’t know or care who you even are. I’m just pointing out how fragile your ego seems to be, if you lose your shit on Lemmy about some mediocre comic.

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      • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ha. It’s ok for people to not like things and it not be jealousy. You don’t like this opinion, but does that mean you’re envious that they stated it before you got a chance to? Some people don’t like things and that’s ok.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  He started it off by saying Kanye caused him to lose a huge part of his career. Then went on to say he quit because of Kanye. That was my first clue something was off about this dude.

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