The cow plop card shuffle had me giggling uncontrollably.

Funny how much other people/shows took from this act, omelette du fromage caught me completely off guard.

Nice, thanks! :D

Can recommend seeing these guys live.

Found a link to the full show https://youtu.be/rbW0BHwrua8

Ah... those were the days.

Maria Bamford (US) and Stewart Lee (UK)

On it!

Managing a crowd is always so... whoof.

I used to be a rather madcap karoake singer, really good with impersonating various singers, but my timing was shaky as hell. I was always running ahead or behind the words, altho TBF I was usually banging my bodhrán at the same time, an extra skill I was working on, hehe. 😅

Steve Martin's stand-up is brilliant. So whacky and surreal. He was probably amongst the first comics I came across when I first discovered it, along with Bill Cosby and Billy Connolly. His first ever TV appearance was on The Smothers Brothers Comedy hour, which came up as a recommendation when I watched that other clip you posted, which I'd never seen before.

I'm familiar with Andy Kaufman, but haven't seen much of his stuff.

I also recommend Maria Bamford (US) and Stewart Lee (UK).

Just out of curiosity...

My two favorite American standups are Steve Martin & Andy Kaufman. Much of that is based on how absurdly innovative they were, working within fairly tight, traditional parameters, as they did. But that's just me.

Did we manage to crack you up, two skips and a pond over there, as such? :P

My pleasure. The Umbies are great, and one of the most unique comedy duos ever. One is a mime, and the other does sound effects, but they are so much more inventive than how that sounds.

Yeah, and I hadn't even gotten to your next suggestion yet, from that other thread.

Mate, thank you so much.
...most productive comedy discussion / share I've had in years!

TBH, I get 'stuck' at times, and need a boost to explore other excellent material, 'cross the world. Living in the States for most of my life... hehe, *gulp*.

Glad you liked them. I have that full show on DVD. Also, I was in the audience at the taping of The Island, which is also great.

"Take that into your back-face" still cracks me up.

Oh yes, this is quite nice...
Thanks, @almacca@aussie.zone!

(eh, slightly reminds me of that olde Irish Pogues' tune "Almaria" or how did that go?)

Thanks!!

Nah, mid fifties, but a life-long fan of stand-up.

For younger Aussie comics, I've been enjoying Daniel Muggleton and Daniel Connell. Both have full shows on YouTube.

And for the classics, you can't beat Lano and Woodley and The Umbilical Brothers.

Ah, interesting. As a late middle-aged bloke, I'm going to risk assuming that you're younger gen than me, and I must say it's always pleasant to hear about younger gens enjoying 'the good ol' stuff.' (eh, 'pologies if I presumed too much there)

Hey if you want to return the favor? I was a big fan of Jim Jefferies, until he seemed to get started on his fairly recent misogynistic line of jokes. So, could you possibly recommend a favorite standup comic from Straya, to sort of balance the scales? 😅

I came to them late in the mid aughts via an internet stand-up 'radio' channel on Windows Media Player of all things, so I never saw any original airings of their stuff. I'm not sure anyone else in Aus has even heard of them, much the shame. I've mostly just watched them on YouTube and downloading stuff.

Glad you liked, and I'm impressed that the show seems to have been shown in Oz, I take it?

I love how Tommy was the greatest internal creative force in the show & act, but he routinely played the slow, bumbling, excitable guy of the duo. I did read a book about the show, and it sounded like it was a constant, grueling struggle to keep the show's vision pure (so to speak), set against the network's constant pressure to censor or water it down. A battle they ultimately lost, sadly.

Also interesting in that right around the same time, there was a growing movement to essentially tear down American democracy, as first exemplified by the Nixon admin. Of course that's a long story, so.

That was great!

The Smothers Brothers are awesome. I've been a fan for years. Tommy is a comic genius, and their show 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' was super progressive and frequently controversial. Highly recommend it if you can find it. There's plenty of clips on YouTube.

Well, it certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.

Sounds like they were getting a pretty insulated source of English, and didn't realise it.

I also have to wonder what their source of English was

Well, you would pick something like that up eventually if you were living in an English-speaking country. But we are talking about a continental European country that has fully dubbed TV so unless you travel a lot, you do not really come in contact with this sort of expression.

Hah, that's a good one. I also have to wonder what their source of English was, because these expressions seem pretty common across the UK, Oz, and the States.

As someone at only the A2 level of French, I run in to slang sometimes and it's almost always something I didn't hear before via my learning tools & methods. Even if I ever do finish book-learning French, I know that street / regional French is going to be like a bonus language I'll have to grapple with.

I'm oddly proud to have understood this shit at an early stage in my internet days. maybe because me talking in many forum sites and shit really makes you have to learn slangs quick or you will get your shit knocked out of you. it really puts the test of what I know from school and reading novels against casual conversations

I actually had a really funny moment at a business telephone conference back in the days. I was sitting there with my colleges, all non-native English speakers, and we were talking to some guys in the US. One of our people was not in the call, and one of the 'mericans said "Yeah, he's the shit".

My guys went apeshit over this, fucking livid, and all my best attempts to cool them down and explain what the 'mericans meant were in vain. The 'mericans, meanwhile, had no idea (none!) what all the commotion was all about.

After the call, I calmly tried to explain the conceptual difference between "shit" and "the shit" again to my guys, but I do not believe they ever understood it or even believed me.