To: “Live From Here”
From: Mitch Berg, ornery peasant
Re: “Out In America” with Tom Papa
Have you ever listened to a putative “comic” bit where a “comedian” reads a (for purposes of argument) “comic” monologue of intermittently (very very intermittently) amusing observations, interrupted with a tag line that isn’t especially funny the first time, but gets repeated 3-5 times every episode, to the point where you want to spray him with spray cheese on stage?
I have.
Yes, it’s an inside joke unless you listen to “Live from Here” with Chris Thile.
The music is amazing. Chris Thile is an astounding musician and an agreeable MC who does a much better job of keeping politics out of the proceedings than Garrison Keillor.
But the sketch comedy is hit or miss at best, the standup comics are almost (almost) always miss,
And “Out in America” with Tom Papa couldn’t “hit” if “Hit” was an ocean and Papa was in a kayak.
Modern comedy blows, its been taken over by leftists, the one exception is Dave Chapelle, he absolutely nails it in his latest Netflix special, dont let kids watch it though. If it was a movie it wouldnt be rated R, it’d be rated NC-17
it was a good show.
Dennis Miller’s latest special was really good, too.