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How To with John Wilson
https://play.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX1pL-A4sIcMslAEAAAAy
‘How to With John Wilson’: Where Digression Meets Delight
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/how-to-with-john-wilson-hbo-review-1078976/
When my children were younger, they loved a series of books by Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond with titles like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Each book follows an animal along a series of random adventures where one thing leads to another (the cookie makes the mouse thirsty for milk), then another (the milk prompts him to check his reflection to see if he has a milk mustache), then another (he realizes his whiskers need a trim), until he inevitably, improbably returns to the moment it all started.
I have no idea if documentary filmmaker John Wilson read Numeroff’s books when he was a kid. But as I watched the six episodes of Wilson’s sometimes hilarious, often beautiful, perpetually odd new HBO docu-comedy series How to With John Wilson, the most comparable work of art I could think of was Mouse and its many sequels and spin-offs, including If You Give a Pig a Pancake and If You Give a Moose a Muffin.
The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/arts/television/john-wilson-scaffolding-hbo.html
On Friday, a show with the blandest title on television (“How To With John Wilson”) dedicated an episode to the most boring subject imaginable (scaffolding) and produced the most fascinating comedy I have seen in years.
This startlingly original new series, airing Friday nights on HBO, has no stars or any kind of traditional story, and its main character, John Wilson, who co-writes, directs and narrates, stays offscreen. That it manages to be a poignant, hilarious and topical self-portrait is a small miracle.
Like the best art, “How To With John Wilson” defies categorization, but as a critic, I can’t resist. It joins a growing genre of documentary comedy, which uses tools of journalism (like interviews with real people) for comic ends. The most famous examples, like the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, have a streak of cruelty that is absent here. Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish.
https://play.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX1pL-A4sIcMslAEAAAAy
‘How to With John Wilson’: Where Digression Meets Delight
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/how-to-with-john-wilson-hbo-review-1078976/
When my children were younger, they loved a series of books by Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond with titles like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Each book follows an animal along a series of random adventures where one thing leads to another (the cookie makes the mouse thirsty for milk), then another (the milk prompts him to check his reflection to see if he has a milk mustache), then another (he realizes his whiskers need a trim), until he inevitably, improbably returns to the moment it all started.
I have no idea if documentary filmmaker John Wilson read Numeroff’s books when he was a kid. But as I watched the six episodes of Wilson’s sometimes hilarious, often beautiful, perpetually odd new HBO docu-comedy series How to With John Wilson, the most comparable work of art I could think of was Mouse and its many sequels and spin-offs, including If You Give a Pig a Pancake and If You Give a Moose a Muffin.
The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/arts/television/john-wilson-scaffolding-hbo.html
On Friday, a show with the blandest title on television (“How To With John Wilson”) dedicated an episode to the most boring subject imaginable (scaffolding) and produced the most fascinating comedy I have seen in years.
This startlingly original new series, airing Friday nights on HBO, has no stars or any kind of traditional story, and its main character, John Wilson, who co-writes, directs and narrates, stays offscreen. That it manages to be a poignant, hilarious and topical self-portrait is a small miracle.
Like the best art, “How To With John Wilson” defies categorization, but as a critic, I can’t resist. It joins a growing genre of documentary comedy, which uses tools of journalism (like interviews with real people) for comic ends. The most famous examples, like the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, have a streak of cruelty that is absent here. Wilson’s sensibility is more humane than harsh, poetic than prankish.
BigDaddyV
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Not Carlin hicks or Bruce but one of my personal favorites
FR0Z3N_B0MB3RRR
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I freakin love Key & Peele... and I should post every skit of them... Ricky Gervais is a great comedian but his Afterlife is an outstanding piece of art... that’s dramatic and comic.. a fuckin masterpiece... so touching... genius... cant say its a funny show because it isn’t...
I really love Louis CK too... same for Key & Peele, all his shows are fantastics
I really love Louis CK too... same for Key & Peele, all his shows are fantastics
MaxVolume
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So my gf and I have been going out with our friends (another couple) to the comedy club in downtown Phoenix, Stand Up Live, turning it into a monthly ritual. It’s a smaller venue, which is cool because we typically eat at the restaurant next door and end up getting VIP front table reserved seating right against the stage.
We’ve seen some hilarious comedians, including several I had never heard of before, but the best were Jo Koy (super cool, hung out with us a bit after the show and gave us a bunch of his merchandise - shirts, bobble heads, etc) and, to my surprise because I thought he was washed up and a has-been, Pauli Shore, who we saw a few weeks ago and he was incredibly funny.
Don’t remember his name, but the guy in pink, who was on just before Koy, was f’n hilarious too.
We’ve seen some hilarious comedians, including several I had never heard of before, but the best were Jo Koy (super cool, hung out with us a bit after the show and gave us a bunch of his merchandise - shirts, bobble heads, etc) and, to my surprise because I thought he was washed up and a has-been, Pauli Shore, who we saw a few weeks ago and he was incredibly funny.
Don’t remember his name, but the guy in pink, who was on just before Koy, was f’n hilarious too.
My only true love in comedy was Monty Python and... Wow. so many new names here... Good reason to know some more)
