Angry Comedians
October 16th, 2009 by ComputerBob
From what I’ve seen, it appears to me that former Saturday Night Live cast member Adam Sandler has pretty much made his entire movie career out of re-playing one character over and over: An extremely self-centered, mean-tempered guy who — they want us to believe — reveals that he has a heart of gold through the unconditional love of a beautiful woman.
In other words, if you’ve seen Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, you’ve seen Sandler’s movies.
That routine got old for me very quickly, but apparently, the Sesame Street movie audience has either a lot higher tolerance for repetition, or a lot lower comedy standards, than I do.
Naturally, I suspect the latter.
I may be wrong, but now that I think of it, from what I’ve seen of him on talk shows, Jim Carrey strikes me as a man who has some serious underlying anger issues. So does Robin Williams. Don’t ask me why I think that, because I haven’t thought about it a lot, and I don’t know anything about either of their personal lives. There’s just something about each of them that sets off my anger sensors.
Ironically, while comedians manage to keep strangers laughing, several famous ones have struggled with the task of trying to maintain healthy relationships in their personal and professional lives. Richard Pryor, John Belushi, Rosie O’Donnell, Andy Kaufman, Sam Kinison, Eddie Murphy, Roseanne Barr, Krusty the Clown, Margaret Cho and Michael Richards come to mind, though I’m sure there are many more.
Lots of laughs.
Lots of anger.
There’s a thin line between attracting audiences by being “dark and edgy” and driving away audiences by being bitter and hateful.
Some of the most popular comedians have managed to stay on the profitable side of that line. Others haven’t.
But maybe one of the least funny situations is when two comedians are angry at each other.
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