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Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady. My Dad Wrote A Porno. My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres. Top cast Edit. Self as Self. Ricky Gervais Self as Self. Chris Rock Self as Self. Jerry Seinfeld Self as Self. John Moffitt. More like this. Storyline Edit. Did you know Edit. Trivia According to CK, the entire conversation was actually 4 to 5 hours long. Quotes Louis C. Ricky Gervais : but you're laughing ironically Louis C.
Jerry Seinfeld : No, no that's Louis C. I laughed ironically Louis C. You can only laugh at that because we're intelligent, educated people, knowing that you shouldn't go out, and go "sittin' on a cock 'cause I'm gay" Chris Rock : Would I be upset if Jerry Seinfeld did it?
User reviews 4 Review. Top review. Comics share a language that sounds much like our own but is somehow heightened to a more sophisticated level of communicative release. It's smart that this one-off special opens by fading up as these four contemporary comedy giantsleft to right, Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis C.
Just lounging, talking about nothing important. Then Seinfeld poses a question to Louis, who earnestly answers. Seinfeld elaborates, then Rock interjects. They effortlessly tackle subjects inimitably true to a stand-up comedian's life. Are you more likely to sustain an audience by doing your signature bits, or by constantly churning out new material? What first drew them each to the microphone and why did they keep coming back to it?
Is it a professional comedian's inherent responsibility to keep the public's standards for comedy high, or is it OK to get a few cheap laughs? Does one's style of humor necessarily dictate one's sense of humor?
We begin to see the many fine lines these guys have to walk in order to be as funny, successful and memorable as they each are. It's fascinating watching them argue with each other from experience, and see the distinctions and associations between them.
Gervais initially seems like an inquisitive moderator, which informs his subsequent intellectualizing on the nature of comedy, artistic integrity and one's audience, while the other three draw upon decades of history. The selection of these four high-fliers is clever in that it inevitably brings out contrasts, such as Rock and Louis' raunchy envelope-pushing as opposed to Seinfeld's old-school joke-telling and the overall polish of his and Gervais' routines.
That difference likely involves what socioeconomic backgrounds they do or don't have in common, which in turn is intriguingly elucidated in how they interact. The quintessential distillation of this element is in Louis' priceless reflection on Seinfeld's analogy for the F-word in comedy.
Little has felt more candid and charming recently than Seinfeld doing one of Louis' lines, and we realize that he's instinctively taken Louis' stream-of-consciousness and made it a well-packaged, bona fide joke. Or when he riffs on Rock's old bit about the difference between black and white porn, taking a gag all about black and white stereotypes and sponging out Jewish ones. Yet still distinctions come purely from their innate styles: Seinfeld and Louis work with a dry, unadorned wit, while Rock and Gervais present erudite ideas in intricately crafted routines and on-stage personas.
A crucial conversational thread that weaves its way through the four-way exchange is the debunking of the myth that "anybody can do it. Why did one kid become a comedy legend while another kid, very funny, didn't? The answer is in various points, as when Rock highlights the importance of premise in comedy, which not every young stand-up on TV knows much about, and not many of them we see much again. Or when Louis recalls old Seinfeld advice on handling laughter and keeping it going without losing focus, by using whatever mood got the laugh and holding onto it, or as he put it: "Stay in the bit.
Gervais believes it's ironically funny. Seinfeld admits it's viscerally funny. Gervais makes a valid case, but all Seinfeld has to do is give one off-the-cuff retort to this cheapie gag to crack the room up. And he does it with pure form. There's no explanation for why it's funny. It just is. And like a pro, he proves it. Even still, it's impressive to see Gervais, who's been doing stand-up for the shortest time of the four, hold his own in debates on fundamental comedy trade principles with Seinfeld, by far the group's veteran.
There's something equally valuable to glean from each guy.
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