I watch these roast battles involving mostly nobodies on their youtube channel from time to time. Some of them are pretty good. I saw this one the other day and it was by far the worst one I've seen yet, and there were some real stinkers.
The guy was making it worse by only staring at his notes, he tried telling every joke word for word. I felt like I was watching a child give a presentation the didn't prepare for. Does Voss judge there regularly?
Vos, bonnie, Big Jay, Aaron Berg, Mark Normand, Joe list and generally people around that level tend to be the Judges. Vos is there a lot it seems. Luis is always the host. Most of them bring notes up (or use their phone) actually, but you can tell who actually practiced a little beforehand and probably wrote most of their own shit. The off the cuff comebacks are usually the best stuff but they don't happen that often.
I personally dont see the entertainment value in these...its just a few nobodies going back and forth throwing out random references saying "you look like ______ with syphillis" and it could pretty much be said about anybody...youre better off watching old grindtime rap battles...they are way funnier the jokes make way more sense and theyre delivered funny since they rhyme...way better than this crap
Some of the good ones tend to get pretty personal, not just "you look like an X that Y" jokes. The ones that aren't good are definitely a waste of time though.
The best part of these roasts typically are the judges shitting on the roasters. The exceptions are when they actually have strong writers on stage like Amico.
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10 EskimoEscrow 2016-09-08
These kids get up on stage with nothing to say, get a few polite chuckles and then go home and call themselves comedians for the rest of their lives.
7 WaddleLikeACuck 2016-09-08
Standup comedy is fucking gay
4 racemic_mixture 2016-09-08
I watch these roast battles involving mostly nobodies on their youtube channel from time to time. Some of them are pretty good. I saw this one the other day and it was by far the worst one I've seen yet, and there were some real stinkers.
2 RocketeerJones 2016-09-08
The guy was making it worse by only staring at his notes, he tried telling every joke word for word. I felt like I was watching a child give a presentation the didn't prepare for. Does Voss judge there regularly?
2 racemic_mixture 2016-09-08
Vos, bonnie, Big Jay, Aaron Berg, Mark Normand, Joe list and generally people around that level tend to be the Judges. Vos is there a lot it seems. Luis is always the host. Most of them bring notes up (or use their phone) actually, but you can tell who actually practiced a little beforehand and probably wrote most of their own shit. The off the cuff comebacks are usually the best stuff but they don't happen that often.
1 sanfrancisco69er 2016-09-08
I personally dont see the entertainment value in these...its just a few nobodies going back and forth throwing out random references saying "you look like ______ with syphillis" and it could pretty much be said about anybody...youre better off watching old grindtime rap battles...they are way funnier the jokes make way more sense and theyre delivered funny since they rhyme...way better than this crap
3 racemic_mixture 2016-09-08
Some of the good ones tend to get pretty personal, not just "you look like an X that Y" jokes. The ones that aren't good are definitely a waste of time though.
This one was decent IIRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFbYTyqod4
3 Joemomma101 2016-09-08
I watch all of these roasts on their you tube page. They are usually very funny.
1 Slippery_Slope_Guy 2016-09-08
Oh damn that Jackson Pollack joke. "If this joke works I'm gonna get so much hipster puss."
1 eastriverdriveII 2016-09-08
Beanshhhhhh...She has amazing legs. I would eat them up like august corn on the cob!
1 Fat_People_Hydra 2016-09-08
The best part of these roasts typically are the judges shitting on the roasters. The exceptions are when they actually have strong writers on stage like Amico.
1 LAMF92 2016-09-08
Please keep hipsters away from comedy stages
1 PassProtect15 2016-09-08
competitive comedy is pretty cringey in general