ANTHONY JESELNIK SH*TS THE BED IN HIS NEW NETFLIX SPECIAL

ANTHONY JESELNIK PROVES HOW HARD IT IS TO SUSTAIN A ONE NOTE ACT.

…..OKAY. HOLD UP. WRONG! WRONG! TAKE 2….

This is what I wanted to write. Damn it. I was pissed. My ego almost got the best of me. I was good and fired up when I was sent a copy of a recent Magazine article with an interview with Anthony Jeselnik, who I thought was my friend, trashing me along with several other comedians.

First off, if you’re wondering what he said about me to piss me off, here it is:

Nikki Glaser recalls seeing Jeselnik perform early in his career. “He had his notes onstage and said, ‘I don’t have these notes because I don’t know my jokes. I brought these notes because I don’t respect any of you.’ That was a formative moment for me,” she says.

Jeselnik comments on this “That’s one of my favorite jokes. I always do it when I’m trying out jokes, and then in the Showtime documentary about the Comedy Store that Mike Binder fucked up, he used it without my permission. He put it in there. And listen, no one saw that thing, so I can still do it.”

For the record, I’m pretty sure Jeselnik did in fact know I was using it. I remember it that he told me he wasn’t thrilled but said he was fine with it. I thought it was a great comedy club moment, and he agreed. The Comedy Store documentary did well on Showtime, Hulu, Amazon, Sky, and around the world. Maybe Anthony thinks it didn’t because we only included one or two of his interview segments in the entire  five-hour documentary. Why? Because all he wanted to talk about was how much better he was than everyone else at the Store during his time there and even before, which pretty much matches what he says in the Vulture interview.

He’s brutally honest about his views on the state of stand-up comedy: “I would guess that most of my comic friends think I’m a better comic—that I’m more pure, that I do things they would not try to do.”

On Matt Rife, a comedian with growing popularity, Jeselnik says, “I truly believe all roads lead to me. I also take exception to the idea that the country prefers Matt Rife over me. I just don’t know why you’d eat steak and then want cow shit.”

Does it bother him that audiences are drawn to Rife? “I’m sure Gordon Ramsay doesn’t lose sleep at night because McDonald’s sells billions of hamburgers.”

When asked about Tony Hinchcliffe, Jeselnik doesn’t hold back: “He thought the Brady roast was his big moment, even though I think those jokes were hack as hell. He’s a troll, basking in the shadow of Joe Rogan.”

I GOT WAY BENT OUT OF SHAPE

Like I’m want to do, and I thought, well, fine, as a rule, I’ve been only writing about specials that I’m genuinely nuts over. I haven’t wanted to waste any time writing about specials unless I loved them, or thought I truly got something out of them. Then I thought, good, here’s a chance to trash the shit out of someone’s special. I’m gonna write a hate letter to Jeselnik’s new fucking hour. Let’s go!

So I sat down in a bitch squat and wrote a hissy fit of a review about what a one-note comic the guy is and how his tired mean boy one liners are brilliant, yeah, okay, but they’re all the same and it’s now just one retreaded  special after another. I went after him. Compared him positively to my friend Steven Wright but I cleverly pointed out that Steve knew the limits to the form of what’s basically stand up pointillism,  was smart enough not to milk it by doing too many specials, bla, bla, bla,…

Then I just wrote lots of more real whiny ass shit and basically proclaimed in what I was sure was a witty and clever way that it was a lame, waste of a special, and Netflix needs to wise up and move on from this wafer thin talent of a nobody.

Then, right before I posted it, I thought. Hmmm. Maybe I should at least watch a little of it.

So I did. I went onto Netflix. Watched the special that I had already reviewed.

AH FUCK!

This asshole made another brilliant special. God damn it!!!! And he’s not anywhere close to one note. Number one, it’s funny as hell. Flat out hysterical. Number two, maybe more important, I think he may be the best living joke writer there is right now.  I really believe that. Nikki Glasser is correct. You just don’t know where he’s going.  And he’s not doing one liner sixty second Wright, Mitch Hedberg style jokes. That’s not what he does anymore. Really hasn’t for awhile,  but this show is much more story-telling, more chunks and themes that all piece together in a unique way. It’s a  fast hour. So fast.

A great hour. I was so pissed off.  Was beside myself. He is in fact high end steak. I mean, honestly,  I don’t know what he’s doing slagging off other comedians in articles, that doesn’t seem to be the side of him I’ve seen, but maybe when you’re that good you can do that shit.

But damn. I can’t recommend his new special enough.

Go to Netflix and watch this thing. You’re going to love it. FUCK!!! FUCK!!!!!

 

ALSO, if you’re in LA,  come out tomorrow, Mon, Dec 2nd to the Laugh Factory for another great show.

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