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Comment on Stand-up comic, Steve Hofstetter, explains firing his agency for signing Kanye West
Stamets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never in my life have I ever met a comedian so desperate to be the center of attention. And I worked the stand up circuit in Toronto.
Every single thing that happens in the world this man has to try and somehow connect back to himself.
Kanye comes out as a psychotic, unapologetic Nazi and what does Steve do? Make it about him.
Jesus fucking Christ can this man please fade into obscurity already?
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s his whole act. He really doesn’t have any martial. He just attracts heckling and riffs on that.
Stamets@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I always hear comedians release their heckling stuff on YouTube cause releasing their actual material spoils their act for them.
Stamets@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
Stamets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
Stamets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes. He is exactly that person.
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember that. So cringy! I think I filtered him from my YouTube feen back in the day.