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January 30, 2007
O&A vs. Daniel Negreanu
Does anyone have the audio of Opie and Anthony cracking on Daniel Negreanu? I'd love to hear that.
I like their show, but what Daniel says is often true. They are sometimes unorganized and don't know anything about their guests. That can be pretty funny for the listener at times, but I'm sure less fun for the interviewee. Jim Norton is hilarious, pretty much every day. He is, I think, one of the better stand-ups around. And I've seen/heard them all.
And Joe Rogan, who is a frequent guest but not a show regular, is one of the least funny comedians I know of. He's a low budget version of some of the more popular unfunny comedians like Dave Attell and Dane Cook. Rogan does pretty much the same bad jokes as those comedians but doesn't have the superb delivery they do, so he gets nowhere.
Daniel's right, a lot of comedians use vulgarity to mask their poor performances and go for the cheap laughs, and Rogan is definitely one of them. And I should qualify that statement by saying that I'm not a Tim Allen fan. A little swearing (or a lot) doesn't bother me. My favorite comedians are Lewis Black, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, etc. I just think vulgarity in comedy is a lot like aggression in poker, it's often used to compensate for fundamental flaws.
Either way though the O&A show is often the funniest on the radio, so I'm curious to hear what they said. And I'd love to know what Rogan said about Daniel's wife that pissed him off.
Posted by themaroon at January 30, 2007 2:35 PM
Comments
I don't have the original audio, but can probably dig it up. I'm going to clip their comments from today on the post you linked...
Posted by: Andrew Hime at January 30, 2007 3:41 PM
I think I saw a video of this a long time ago. Joe Rogan made some remark about some guy "gorilla fucking the shit" out of his wife or some such nonsense.
Posted by: Mep at January 30, 2007 10:37 PM
Hey Matt- not sure if you heard about this..
Posted by: dave at January 31, 2007 1:13 PM
Someone commented in one of the forums that the subject got started when Daniel mentioned he had just broken up with his girlfried and Joe asked Daniel if he imagined his ex-girlfriend getting railed by some big black guy. Joe ran with that line of thought for a while.
Posted by: Alan at January 31, 2007 4:12 PM
"O&A is some of the funniest stuff on radio." Wow.
You gotta get satellite dude. It's well worth the 13 bucks a month! Love the blog too.
Posted by: scott at February 1, 2007 11:21 PM
Here is Rogan's response and it has an audio link to the conversation
Posted by: Guest at February 2, 2007 11:52 AM