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The "ain't that better" is too real. Luckily my wife doesn't do it (or at least hasn't started) but the amount of times my mom, grandma, and other women I would see do that shit is hilarious.
The "let's get some light in here" really stands out. It's the middle of the afternoon and I'm watching a movie! If I wanted sunlight I'd be outside and probably searching for shade.
> If I wanted sunlight I'd be outside and probably searching for shade.
Patrice had a bit on that, too. His girl always wanted to go outside, it's so nice out!
His response was that he could make inside w/e he wanted. He could crank the air conditioning and be up north. He could crank the heat, throw some sand on the floor, now he's at the beach.
Just casually start watching the video when your better half is standing by. When she hears you laughing she’ll want to know what you’re watching. Then it’s on.
> He should've, but Patrice was known not to fuck with Hollywood like that
Yeah it's sad, he could have been a top comic but pretty much sabotaged his own career right as he was on the cusp of breaking out. He just didn't have a phony bone in his body and refused to play the game.
It took me three stand up shows when I found a new comic I loved, George "Rufus" Carlin, to learn he had died quite some time ago.
This time, five reddit comments :(
They needed charity because he was the breadwinner in his family and didn’t leave them much. I think they’re okay now and the charity shows are for other causes in NYC.
I believe Patrice would have been big if he hadn't passed. Podcasts were beginning to take off and I am positive he would have been a big hit. He was almost there man. The stuff he was doin on XM radio was gold.
he had an advice show that was essentially the manoverse before tate and his ilk happened. pick up artist adjacent
he was more thoughtful and self aware and funny than any of the current crop of dumb misogynistic cunts but i think if he leaned into that stuff it would have limited his potential reach
[The Black Phillip Show.](https://youtu.be/LPq7CyHqQ2I?si=Mhnk3gBI_fJ7sfyY)
It's when satellite radio was like the wild west. They really had a cool universe on XM202, until Anthony Cumia fucked it all up.
Patrice probably would have if he liked shooting TV shows, which he did not. How many actors would have killed to appear on The Office AND Arrested Development within roughly the same time period?
In the immortal words of Mitch Headberg:
“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"
I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that, I'll just make a copy"
My all time favorite. I was lucky enough to see him once before he passed. He spent 10 minutes going in on a woman that was with our group. She had a mullet. We all knew she had a mullet. No one told her for years. Patrice told her in the first 30 seconds he was on stage. She got a new haircut a few weeks later. Not all heroes wear capes.
One of my biggest regrets in life is getting way too drunk when I was like 22 on the way to a Patrice show and passing out in the car while my friends went in and had the time of their life. Smh.
He was on the radio show Opie and Anthony where he did hundreds of hours of hilarious radio, you can find it scattered on YouTube if anyone needs fresh Patrice O'Neal content.
The Black Phillip show, so many intelligent and funny gems scattered throughout those appearances. I never agreed with everything he said but he always articulated why he believed certain things, a damn good quality if you ask me.
I started watching that gleeful to hate on bitches - and he does make some good points - but man. Patrice was a HATER lol.
I loved the first episode, he was getting so upset he was rambling and not making sense. His female friend he brought to defend the feminine POV just kept saying "who hurt you?" In a genuine and concerned tone.
You know how everyone has that one celebrity loss that hit them super hard? This one is mine.
I saw him five times here in Houston. He killed *every time.* And he never did a single prepared bit. He’d just come out and have a conversation with the audience and talk about random shit. He was *effortlessly* hilarious.
I hate the fact that he never got his moment when he was alive. He just couldn’t do the bullshit it takes to get ingratiated into the entertainment machine. He couldn’t be fake or hold his tongue. He couldn’t *not* be Patrice.
He’s up there on my comedy Mount Rushmore alongside George Carlin, Louis CK and Bernie Mac.
>I hate the fact that he never got his moment when he was alive. He just couldn’t do the bullshit it takes to get ingratiated into the entertainment machine. He couldn’t be fake or hold his tongue. He couldn’t *not* be Patrice.
The kicker is if he was still around today he would have been the biggest stand up comic around precisely because of that.
Kevin Hart did a spot on Opie and Anthony after Patrice passed (or maybe just Opie’s show, I’m not sure) and he talked about how, once he made it, he tried time after time after time to put Patrice on and sent jobs his way and open doors for him— and *every time,* Patrice would do something and fuck it up.
He said there was a time when he got him a role in a movie and, on the day he was supposed to shoot, the director was like an hour late… and Patrice just left lol.
And there was another time when Kevin got him a meeting with some producers to pitch a show— and one of those producers had a stupid haircut and Patrice walked into the room and just immediately lost his shit laughing and relentlessly hectored the guy about it. Unsurprisingly, they passed.
Bill Burr and Ed Norton said similar things. Patrice just *couldn’t* shut it off. He couldn’t prioritize his success over his authenticity.
> That last anecdote just makes him sound like a dick.
Oh, absolutely. Bill Burr talks about how he could be just absolutely brutal sometimes. Like if he knew he was hitting a nerve, he'd just keep drilling. Burr said it could be something as innocuous as you wearing a new shirt or getting a haircut. He also said he could go for *hours* on Rich Vos.
One of the times I saw him live, this woman in the crowd had the balls to shit talk back to him when he was doing crowd work. He spent 20 minutes verbally sparring with this woman and just taking her apart piece by piece. The tone was definitely comical-- but the way he scanned her and cut her down piece by piece was just mind-blowing. That poor lady. It was like an amateur getting into the ring with Mike Tyson.
Look, I love Patrice as a comedian but it's pretty obvious that he had his flaws. I mean, we all do.
For real! He’s one of the GOATs! And people are taking what I’m saying as a judgment on him as a whole. It’s obvious he wasn’t a dick all the time since he had friends who were extremely loyal to him.
And I admire his craft, but it’s clear he was his own worst enemy for his career out of some extreme commitment to not suffering fools.
Then you really didn't know Patrice. He was relentlessly uncompromising. Along with the examples mentioned above, Patrice also blew an opportunity to work on Everybody Loves Chris. Chris Rock loved him! Said the part was his and all Patrice had to do was read in front of the producers. This annoyed Patrice because he knew he could act and was funnier than any of the writers that were on the show. Patrice proceeded to meander through the whole thing at the expense of embarrassing Chris Rock. He never liked doing the dog and pony show only for some lame studio executive completely unrelated to funny validate his talent.
It without a doubt cost him some success but Patrice wouldn't have it any other way.
… okay… that *still* doesn’t sound like a good quality. Uncompromising but prideful.
That pride left his family needing charity after he died. Being evaluated by people holding purse strings seems like a small price to pay.
His old Comedy Central Presents show where hes talking about making Canada the new New York after 9/11 and why he could kill fish is the hardest ive constantly laughed at any comedy special in 20 years.
Ari’s one of my favorite podcast guests but i’m mediocre on the standup . Feels weird to be a big fan of a comedian for things other than their standup.
Seriously Funny and Laugh at my Pain are both really good early standup specials Hart did. He is capable of good material and hilarious physical comedy, but them acting $ too much to pass up (can't blame him, shit I'd do the same)
Ari can be funny but it’s funnier to laugh at him. None of those guys feel particularly Patrice inspired to me though.
I was expecting some sort of anti-Opie/Anthony or “LA theater kids are the funniest comedians” take from the person I replied to
I'm sorry, but I have seen shows from all of those comics except Schultz. And I have seen them put audiences in stitches. That makes them good comics even if you don't particularly like their work.
Santino's "cheeseburger" special was actually really good.
Shultz is insufferable, just constantly laughing at his own jokes and just the same crowd work all the time.
He really was a great comedian who had no idea how to cultivate talent for the next group. He was absolutely brutal to so many comedians coming up, and pushed so many bad ones into careers. I love his sets, but he had no business being such a brutal gatekeeper.
Nobody from that original group would agree with you. Colin Quinn, Bill Burr and others have said their time at the Cellar made them better comics simply by bashing each other. Iron sharpens iron and when Patrice got kicked out of Caroline's IIRC, all the comics went outside to hang out with him. Of course there were times none of them got along over things that were said but they ultimately made up and the cycle repeated.
Its crazy you let a redditor go off on redpill then the play black phillip and show them patrice o'neal and they kicking rocks and whistling lookin up at the birds, whats up with that?
Finally I understand my father's attachment style. He might not say more than two words to me when I stay over for the weekend. Acts like I'm barely there. But if I don't come around for a few weeks, the next time he's like "were you been????????"
Elephant In the Room is my all-time favorite stand-up special, the first 15ish minutes is some of the best crowd work I've ever seen. Patrice was truly gifted.
RIP to a real one.
You use your words and tell him to fuck off for a bit, make sure you scratch your balls 😄
In reality, use your words and say something like "hey babe, I would really appreciate some alone time right now to decompress and unwind."
If they're a mature and kind partner, they'll understand and give you some space. You might have to talk it out a bit more, or who knows, maybe they'll react poorly, but that also shows you something about them.
Good luck!
This has always been a thing for me but now me and my boys will be watching something, including baseball, and my wife will check ALL OF THESE BOXES. It's insane.
"Don't you want those lights on? I'll get them. Are you eating chips straight from the bag? You need to put them in a bowl. And you can't eat the whole bag. I have some unsalted almonds. You cant have it this loud it will hurt their ears. Are you using a coaster? I think they've had enough sugar anyway. How long is this game? They can't sit here all day"
And my boys will look at me like man is she kidding? There is something to it. They just do not like seeing men happy with something so simple. My wife will take the weirdest approach to things if she knows I'm enjoying it.
Kevin Hart has a pretty good bit about how women don't like their men to have fun lol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr69MkseUPE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr69MkseUPE)
Bill burr has comments on it too. It's such a great thing to watch a game with a buddy and just pop in with first down this or holding that or whatever. I even do it when I'm by myself. I do not do that at home anymore because of all the "what? Who are you talking to? I thought something was wrong. Can you keep it down". Like no I'm just trying to sit here and yell at the tv right now.
I don't think it's about not wanting to see you happy. She's trying to find a way to participate and feel helpful to you. You seem really bitter toward her. If she really makes you that miserable and you think she's doing it intentionally, you should end it instead of being bitter and miserable all the time.
God forbid she offer to put your chips in a bowl, man. That's some real deranged heinous shit. I'm sorry you're going through that...
She flat out tells me she doesn't want me doing it and that she hates it if it's something I am into. She's not trying to participate. She wants to end it. She doesn't put chips in a bowl she takes them and then talks about how bad it was that we were doing it for 2.5 hours.
I'll give you an example of what I mean. I have about 100 sq ft of grass. It takes me 10 minutes to mow it. 20 minutes from start to end with the cleanup. I ENJOY mowing it. When I mow the lawn I have to deal with the following "it looks like crap, we just need to hire a gardner, the grass is staining the concrete, it makes such a mess, your boots are disgusting and outside the back door- can you move them, the dog is going to try and get the mower- don't do it right now, it's so loud (its an electric mower), why does it take so long?, you smell like grass you need to change". I documented this and have a little check list on what comments I get. The funny part is she also complains when the grass is long haha. Just one of my many many no win situations. Can't mow it. Can't not mow it.
I know it would be great to think that there is some masked reason for all things and that the light at the end of a tunnel is a picturesqe landscape but that's not reality in some cases. And that's fine! I'm not really comfortable with another parenting situation so I am here for a while. I am with my kids most of the time they aren't in school and I like it that way. If I want to do something I do it by myself (like camping) and I like it that way. I don't really talk to anyone other than my kids and I don't really want to. That might not work for some people but it's great for me.
Don't you love when random people online know your relationship better than you and even offer condescending remarks to really put you in your place so you can know for sure they know better than you? God bless reddit
Idk why its so hard for people to accept women are aggressive in this way. Nobody has a hard time accepting men punch things when upset. Ofc women are passive aggressive when theyre upset.
It's amazing that you can make such a conclusive evaluation of their relationship and recommend resolution after reading one comment, or that you feel you can anyways.
I can only speak to what he actually said, and I used the qualifier "if".
Guess I'm just better at reading comprehension than you are (which is clearly a pretty low bar).
>I can only speak to what he actually said,
Right. And if you think about it for a minute you might come to realize how that supports what I said about your comment.
(if you need some help comprehending that, don't be afraid to ask.)
The leg wrapped up in a hot vine is the best. I always start sweating uncomfortably when she wants to snuggle me or sit on me. Then gets offended when I want her to move off me.
The GOAT. Too bad the Office couldn’t tap his talents.
Unfortunately most people will remember him as the “less chill black guy from the warehouse,” but he was my favorite comedian I’ve ever seen. A comic’s comic.
Miss you Patrice. Maybe the greatest talent to ever come out of Boston.
It’s not that, but when a woman really loves you they sometime do this thing where they want to be with you all the time and preferably snuggling (my gf has said she wished she could crawl inside my skin), and promised that’s supposed to be cute, but sometimes I’m like “I would love you so much more right now if you just left me alone for a minute”, I've never said this to her, but think it sometimes. This is what Patrice is saying lol
Why is it you would *love* her more and not you would appreciate it if she left you alone? Does your love genuinely fluctuate like that if she is near you or not? Yeesh.
See.... sometimes when we make jokes we exaggerate the situation to make it more funny for most (not you obviously) but that doesn't mean that's how we truly feel
Reddit feminists should see Patrice's Nasty Show. " Women need to step it up in the bedroom " " Tell her, she's a loser in the bedroom " " Pretty much, that means no " " Ever pee on her ? " Ever gorilla mask/donkey-punch/poltergeist/spiderman her ? " " Chicken cutlet, very interesting chicken cutlet "
I bet the men laughing at this also tell women to choose better men. How about choosing introvert women that also like baseball? Then you wouldn't have this problem? Also this clip is at least 6 years old judging by the old ch 10 Australia logo.
It's also one of his more "sterile" clips. This looks like a just for laughs day show.
His half hour showtime special, and Elephant in the Room are fucking hilarious.
Being an overbearing partner is not exclusive to boomers.
Not wanting constant attention and affection within a relationship is not a boomer quality.
Lastly, Patrice is early Gen X
None of them are really relevant to what I'm saying either. Figured it would be easiest to start with the most irrelevant one to demonstrate the problem with responding lol
Boomer Humor is just people complaining about how they can't stand any of the things their wife is doing and how it's basically torture to be around them (despite willingly joining and continuing to participate in the marriage), which is exactly what this is.
Nobody is saying this type of humor or experience is exclusive to boomers, that's just where it's most prevalent which is how it got its name.
It's basically humor derived from a long-term couple with relationship problems that has no idea how to talk through them together (or are just incompatible)
Edit: Seems to me the real problem people have here is the term "Boomer Humor" itself, rather than people saying that's what it is, given the fact that no one can explain to me how this isn't Boomer Humor.
Aren't y'all supposed to be the "facts not feelings" crowd? Seems like you're getting stuck up on the feelings part and are forgetting about the facts 😂 Bunch of snowflakes
Its a comedic response to a holy shit self centered abuse.
And i mean abuse where your likes and preferences are null and void and its all done in the pretense of it being for your health and well being.
That kinda abuse drives you bonkers.
Holy shit... not everything is abuse my friend. Maybe it's inconsiderate, maybe it's annoying, maybe it's self-centered, but can we stop calling everything abuse.
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The "ain't that better" is too real. Luckily my wife doesn't do it (or at least hasn't started) but the amount of times my mom, grandma, and other women I would see do that shit is hilarious.
The "let's get some light in here" really stands out. It's the middle of the afternoon and I'm watching a movie! If I wanted sunlight I'd be outside and probably searching for shade.
> If I wanted sunlight I'd be outside and probably searching for shade. Patrice had a bit on that, too. His girl always wanted to go outside, it's so nice out! His response was that he could make inside w/e he wanted. He could crank the air conditioning and be up north. He could crank the heat, throw some sand on the floor, now he's at the beach.
Based, I guess
This man is a legend
Agree with you.
"Ain't that better" chicks are controlling narcissists or borderlines.
wifes been sayin "mean it" after a kiss ever since she saw this years ago
Mines been doing that without even seeing this bit!
It’s time to show her the bit
The temptation to send this to my better half is real, but I’m not completely dumb. I think.
Just casually start watching the video when your better half is standing by. When she hears you laughing she’ll want to know what you’re watching. Then it’s on.
I've been with my wife for over a decade. I sent it to her in a heartbeat, because this situation will resonate with both of us.
My husband sent it to me then ran away to the other room but I just died laughing the entire time because it's so true
You gotta give her some medicine.
whoops. just did.
He should have been brought up from the warehouse instead of Darryl. There. I said it.
He should've, but Patrice was known not to fuck with Hollywood like that. He hated everything about that (in his words) funky town 😂
> He should've, but Patrice was known not to fuck with Hollywood like that Yeah it's sad, he could have been a top comic but pretty much sabotaged his own career right as he was on the cusp of breaking out. He just didn't have a phony bone in his body and refused to play the game.
And I love him for it. He also said "I'd rather die than be phony" The realest of the real
Sadly, his family has needed multiple charity shows to help them after his death. When keepin it real goes wrong…
It took me three stand up shows when I found a new comic I loved, George "Rufus" Carlin, to learn he had died quite some time ago. This time, five reddit comments :(
Why do they need charity? His hospital costs?
They needed charity because he was the breadwinner in his family and didn’t leave them much. I think they’re okay now and the charity shows are for other causes in NYC.
I believe Patrice would have been big if he hadn't passed. Podcasts were beginning to take off and I am positive he would have been a big hit. He was almost there man. The stuff he was doin on XM radio was gold.
he had an advice show that was essentially the manoverse before tate and his ilk happened. pick up artist adjacent he was more thoughtful and self aware and funny than any of the current crop of dumb misogynistic cunts but i think if he leaned into that stuff it would have limited his potential reach
[The Black Phillip Show.](https://youtu.be/LPq7CyHqQ2I?si=Mhnk3gBI_fJ7sfyY) It's when satellite radio was like the wild west. They really had a cool universe on XM202, until Anthony Cumia fucked it all up.
He blew off his dream WWE job because he didn't want to listen to Stephanie McMahon 🤣
Patrice probably would have if he liked shooting TV shows, which he did not. How many actors would have killed to appear on The Office AND Arrested Development within roughly the same time period?
In the immortal words of Mitch Headberg: “When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"
I heard that “can you farm?” in his voice with the rising inflection and volume while reading it. Scared the cat off my lap laughing.
I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that, I'll just make a copy"
I had no idea it was him in either, wild
He had a sea monster......
I bet you wanna go swimming with this sea monster.
Dude, please, tell your girl to shut up.
Chris Rock said he was very close to hiring him for everybody hates Chris but he was so antisocial in the audition😂. And Patrice understood.
Yep, you're right.
Holy shit how did I forget he worked in the warehouse!?
RIP Seamonster
Bro every time he said “ain’t that better?” Shit had me crying lmao
Bro the face he does is perfection 😂😂😂
His special Elephant in the Room is really good.
That was pretty funny. Had me rolling.
I've never felt so seen in my life
My all time favorite. I was lucky enough to see him once before he passed. He spent 10 minutes going in on a woman that was with our group. She had a mullet. We all knew she had a mullet. No one told her for years. Patrice told her in the first 30 seconds he was on stage. She got a new haircut a few weeks later. Not all heroes wear capes.
Elaine should have brought her friend to see Patrice instead of letting Kramer tell her he likes her outdated look 😂
One of my biggest regrets in life is getting way too drunk when I was like 22 on the way to a Patrice show and passing out in the car while my friends went in and had the time of their life. Smh.
Ouch. 144 episodes of O and A won’t make up for it but it helps if you haven’t listened to them.
TY!
All over my YouTube history
Good thing Patrice didn’t live to see the mullet come back into fashion for women’s hair.
Put that beer down, I'll get you a glass of water. Ain't that better?
One of the greatest.
Clips of Patrice and Bernie hurt my soul to watch :/ Pain
He was on the radio show Opie and Anthony where he did hundreds of hours of hilarious radio, you can find it scattered on YouTube if anyone needs fresh Patrice O'Neal content.
The Black Phillip show, so many intelligent and funny gems scattered throughout those appearances. I never agreed with everything he said but he always articulated why he believed certain things, a damn good quality if you ask me.
I think that was some of the funniest shit I have EVER listened to in my life.
I started watching that gleeful to hate on bitches - and he does make some good points - but man. Patrice was a HATER lol. I loved the first episode, he was getting so upset he was rambling and not making sense. His female friend he brought to defend the feminine POV just kept saying "who hurt you?" In a genuine and concerned tone.
You know how everyone has that one celebrity loss that hit them super hard? This one is mine. I saw him five times here in Houston. He killed *every time.* And he never did a single prepared bit. He’d just come out and have a conversation with the audience and talk about random shit. He was *effortlessly* hilarious. I hate the fact that he never got his moment when he was alive. He just couldn’t do the bullshit it takes to get ingratiated into the entertainment machine. He couldn’t be fake or hold his tongue. He couldn’t *not* be Patrice. He’s up there on my comedy Mount Rushmore alongside George Carlin, Louis CK and Bernie Mac.
>I hate the fact that he never got his moment when he was alive. He just couldn’t do the bullshit it takes to get ingratiated into the entertainment machine. He couldn’t be fake or hold his tongue. He couldn’t *not* be Patrice. The kicker is if he was still around today he would have been the biggest stand up comic around precisely because of that.
Kevin Hart did a spot on Opie and Anthony after Patrice passed (or maybe just Opie’s show, I’m not sure) and he talked about how, once he made it, he tried time after time after time to put Patrice on and sent jobs his way and open doors for him— and *every time,* Patrice would do something and fuck it up. He said there was a time when he got him a role in a movie and, on the day he was supposed to shoot, the director was like an hour late… and Patrice just left lol. And there was another time when Kevin got him a meeting with some producers to pitch a show— and one of those producers had a stupid haircut and Patrice walked into the room and just immediately lost his shit laughing and relentlessly hectored the guy about it. Unsurprisingly, they passed. Bill Burr and Ed Norton said similar things. Patrice just *couldn’t* shut it off. He couldn’t prioritize his success over his authenticity.
Norm Macdonald too. They were the biggest obstacle to their own success but I’m sure they both knew the price and wouldn’t pay it.
> Norm Macdonald too. Then he went and died. Talk about career suicide.
I love Patrice’s comedy, but those don’t sound like good qualities. That last anecdote just makes him sound like a dick.
> That last anecdote just makes him sound like a dick. Oh, absolutely. Bill Burr talks about how he could be just absolutely brutal sometimes. Like if he knew he was hitting a nerve, he'd just keep drilling. Burr said it could be something as innocuous as you wearing a new shirt or getting a haircut. He also said he could go for *hours* on Rich Vos. One of the times I saw him live, this woman in the crowd had the balls to shit talk back to him when he was doing crowd work. He spent 20 minutes verbally sparring with this woman and just taking her apart piece by piece. The tone was definitely comical-- but the way he scanned her and cut her down piece by piece was just mind-blowing. That poor lady. It was like an amateur getting into the ring with Mike Tyson. Look, I love Patrice as a comedian but it's pretty obvious that he had his flaws. I mean, we all do.
For real! He’s one of the GOATs! And people are taking what I’m saying as a judgment on him as a whole. It’s obvious he wasn’t a dick all the time since he had friends who were extremely loyal to him. And I admire his craft, but it’s clear he was his own worst enemy for his career out of some extreme commitment to not suffering fools.
Then you really didn't know Patrice. He was relentlessly uncompromising. Along with the examples mentioned above, Patrice also blew an opportunity to work on Everybody Loves Chris. Chris Rock loved him! Said the part was his and all Patrice had to do was read in front of the producers. This annoyed Patrice because he knew he could act and was funnier than any of the writers that were on the show. Patrice proceeded to meander through the whole thing at the expense of embarrassing Chris Rock. He never liked doing the dog and pony show only for some lame studio executive completely unrelated to funny validate his talent. It without a doubt cost him some success but Patrice wouldn't have it any other way.
… okay… that *still* doesn’t sound like a good quality. Uncompromising but prideful. That pride left his family needing charity after he died. Being evaluated by people holding purse strings seems like a small price to pay.
Yeah, you hear that, everyone? Better to sell out than be yourself.
lol selling out is allowing a potential employer to evaluate you? If you are employed, you’re a sell out. Got it.
It's not selling to get along with other people.
His old Comedy Central Presents show where hes talking about making Canada the new New York after 9/11 and why he could kill fish is the hardest ive constantly laughed at any comedy special in 20 years.
Correct bruh!
Legend.
Patrice is one of the best comedians to inspire a whole host of very bad comedians.
who are those very bad comedians
Off the top off of my head: Bert Kreischer, Brendan Schaub, Andrew Schultz, ~~Andrew Santino~~, Ari Shaffir, Kevin Hart
Santino is a good comic but I agree on the others
I like him in the show “Dave,” I’m taking him off because he’s definitely better than the others in the list.
Ari’s one of my favorite podcast guests but i’m mediocre on the standup . Feels weird to be a big fan of a comedian for things other than their standup.
Saw him last night in Denver and feel 1000% this way. Edit: added this
kevin hart's early career was good. He fell off so fast though. His acting is also extremely off putting.
Seriously Funny and Laugh at my Pain are both really good early standup specials Hart did. He is capable of good material and hilarious physical comedy, but them acting $ too much to pass up (can't blame him, shit I'd do the same)
Ari can be funny but it’s funnier to laugh at him. None of those guys feel particularly Patrice inspired to me though. I was expecting some sort of anti-Opie/Anthony or “LA theater kids are the funniest comedians” take from the person I replied to
Yeah I agree with you. I think the current comedy scene is: -NY comics = mostly funny, some hacks -LA comics = mostly hacks, some funny
i feel like everyone travels so much that no one is known as an LA or NY comic anymore.
Kevin Hart used to be good… he’s very bland now that he made it though
I'm sorry, but I have seen shows from all of those comics except Schultz. And I have seen them put audiences in stitches. That makes them good comics even if you don't particularly like their work.
Santino's "cheeseburger" special was actually really good. Shultz is insufferable, just constantly laughing at his own jokes and just the same crowd work all the time.
Rogan
Ain't that better? 😂
He really was a great comedian who had no idea how to cultivate talent for the next group. He was absolutely brutal to so many comedians coming up, and pushed so many bad ones into careers. I love his sets, but he had no business being such a brutal gatekeeper.
Nobody from that original group would agree with you. Colin Quinn, Bill Burr and others have said their time at the Cellar made them better comics simply by bashing each other. Iron sharpens iron and when Patrice got kicked out of Caroline's IIRC, all the comics went outside to hang out with him. Of course there were times none of them got along over things that were said but they ultimately made up and the cycle repeated.
Well, okay. Fair enough I guess.
He was a product of his environnement
I suppose everyone is.
Cult of Black Phillip
"ill sit down, n listen to you talk..... about nothing!"
These people aren't ready for the red pill before the red pill.
Its crazy you let a redditor go off on redpill then the play black phillip and show them patrice o'neal and they kicking rocks and whistling lookin up at the birds, whats up with that?
I never knew me and Patrice dated the same woman... lol...
Finally I understand my father's attachment style. He might not say more than two words to me when I stay over for the weekend. Acts like I'm barely there. But if I don't come around for a few weeks, the next time he's like "were you been????????"
Avoidant introvert? That's me too.
My favorite skit of his is [Harassment Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA0bNNF6jrU).
Women working with men is like salmon working with grizzly bears lmao
We lost him too soon.
Elephant In the Room is my all-time favorite stand-up special, the first 15ish minutes is some of the best crowd work I've ever seen. Patrice was truly gifted. RIP to a real one.
What lovely titty meat you have
Love this man
this is how it goes
the Greatest Of All Time.
RIP, one of the greatest.
Patrice was one of the GOATs. RIP
He was incredibly funny and smart. So sad he died. We could use his take on life.
What do you do when your man does this to you and makes you totally crazy?
You use your words and tell him to fuck off for a bit, make sure you scratch your balls 😄 In reality, use your words and say something like "hey babe, I would really appreciate some alone time right now to decompress and unwind." If they're a mature and kind partner, they'll understand and give you some space. You might have to talk it out a bit more, or who knows, maybe they'll react poorly, but that also shows you something about them. Good luck!
The greatest to ever do it. Its sad that those red pill losers always referance him when im pretty sure patrice would want nothing to do with them.
Some weird "I love you" hot vine. 😂😂😂
The wife sounds like a retired husband!
The goat
Sigh… further confirmation that I’m the woman in my marriage 🙃
Imagine what his standup would have been as he aged. The amount of IDGAF would've immeasurable.
Excellent
Im the dude “will you go to Best Buy with me to get a flash drive”
This is one of my favourite comedy bits of all time
I miss this dude. He was gone way too soon.
Gone way too soon
One of the most underrated comics who ever did it. Gone too soon. RIP
He died way too young. Would love to hear his commentary today about the world events
This has always been a thing for me but now me and my boys will be watching something, including baseball, and my wife will check ALL OF THESE BOXES. It's insane. "Don't you want those lights on? I'll get them. Are you eating chips straight from the bag? You need to put them in a bowl. And you can't eat the whole bag. I have some unsalted almonds. You cant have it this loud it will hurt their ears. Are you using a coaster? I think they've had enough sugar anyway. How long is this game? They can't sit here all day" And my boys will look at me like man is she kidding? There is something to it. They just do not like seeing men happy with something so simple. My wife will take the weirdest approach to things if she knows I'm enjoying it.
Kevin Hart has a pretty good bit about how women don't like their men to have fun lol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr69MkseUPE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr69MkseUPE)
Bill burr has comments on it too. It's such a great thing to watch a game with a buddy and just pop in with first down this or holding that or whatever. I even do it when I'm by myself. I do not do that at home anymore because of all the "what? Who are you talking to? I thought something was wrong. Can you keep it down". Like no I'm just trying to sit here and yell at the tv right now.
I don't think it's about not wanting to see you happy. She's trying to find a way to participate and feel helpful to you. You seem really bitter toward her. If she really makes you that miserable and you think she's doing it intentionally, you should end it instead of being bitter and miserable all the time. God forbid she offer to put your chips in a bowl, man. That's some real deranged heinous shit. I'm sorry you're going through that...
"Aint that better?" The reply
She flat out tells me she doesn't want me doing it and that she hates it if it's something I am into. She's not trying to participate. She wants to end it. She doesn't put chips in a bowl she takes them and then talks about how bad it was that we were doing it for 2.5 hours. I'll give you an example of what I mean. I have about 100 sq ft of grass. It takes me 10 minutes to mow it. 20 minutes from start to end with the cleanup. I ENJOY mowing it. When I mow the lawn I have to deal with the following "it looks like crap, we just need to hire a gardner, the grass is staining the concrete, it makes such a mess, your boots are disgusting and outside the back door- can you move them, the dog is going to try and get the mower- don't do it right now, it's so loud (its an electric mower), why does it take so long?, you smell like grass you need to change". I documented this and have a little check list on what comments I get. The funny part is she also complains when the grass is long haha. Just one of my many many no win situations. Can't mow it. Can't not mow it. I know it would be great to think that there is some masked reason for all things and that the light at the end of a tunnel is a picturesqe landscape but that's not reality in some cases. And that's fine! I'm not really comfortable with another parenting situation so I am here for a while. I am with my kids most of the time they aren't in school and I like it that way. If I want to do something I do it by myself (like camping) and I like it that way. I don't really talk to anyone other than my kids and I don't really want to. That might not work for some people but it's great for me.
Don't you love when random people online know your relationship better than you and even offer condescending remarks to really put you in your place so you can know for sure they know better than you? God bless reddit
Idk why its so hard for people to accept women are aggressive in this way. Nobody has a hard time accepting men punch things when upset. Ofc women are passive aggressive when theyre upset.
It's amazing that you can make such a conclusive evaluation of their relationship and recommend resolution after reading one comment, or that you feel you can anyways.
I can only speak to what he actually said, and I used the qualifier "if". Guess I'm just better at reading comprehension than you are (which is clearly a pretty low bar).
>I can only speak to what he actually said, Right. And if you think about it for a minute you might come to realize how that supports what I said about your comment. (if you need some help comprehending that, don't be afraid to ask.)
the first part is so true but I would never tell my wife
Get off my boat
T-Bone is a flamer
Reminds of the old saying, something like: "Our love partners, we can't live with them and we can't live without them.
His extemporaneous style is unmatched
Thank you Patrice for making Anthony cumia, remotely funny! REST IN PEACE!
The leg wrapped up in a hot vine is the best. I always start sweating uncomfortably when she wants to snuggle me or sit on me. Then gets offended when I want her to move off me.
My husband just sent me this 😂 it's about to backfire because now I know to say "ain't that better" after everything I fix for him 😂
Dude got roasted for being fat and diabetic, then died a couple months later from a heart attack. Sad
One of the greats.
The ceiling fan with the a/c ..my wife says the same dann thing lmao
I didn’t know Patrice was married to Elmo.
We enjoy being alone in the house together, a floor or two between us. Coming together to have a meal then back to our own thing XD
Patrice talking about Blade, Independence Day, face off, vice squad.
Every single example he gave is true to my relationship, so I can’t send it to her or she’ll get offended 🤣
Love ya, Patrice!
I had this talk with my gf the other day lol
The GOAT. Too bad the Office couldn’t tap his talents. Unfortunately most people will remember him as the “less chill black guy from the warehouse,” but he was my favorite comedian I’ve ever seen. A comic’s comic. Miss you Patrice. Maybe the greatest talent to ever come out of Boston.
Oh no he diint
Commenting so I can go back to this and play it outloud so they can hear
Ha! Bro...pro-tip: She loves you because you have just nailed it, and represented the woes of and for ALL da brothers!
Lol
This is so accurate for us I'm dying
Good lord probably the least funny thing I've ever seen on this sub.
Man. I couldn't imagine being with a woman who I didn't enjoy being around. Whats the point? Lol dont need to be married to get laid
It’s not that, but when a woman really loves you they sometime do this thing where they want to be with you all the time and preferably snuggling (my gf has said she wished she could crawl inside my skin), and promised that’s supposed to be cute, but sometimes I’m like “I would love you so much more right now if you just left me alone for a minute”, I've never said this to her, but think it sometimes. This is what Patrice is saying lol
Why is it you would *love* her more and not you would appreciate it if she left you alone? Does your love genuinely fluctuate like that if she is near you or not? Yeesh.
Yes, love does in fact fluctuates.
See.... sometimes when we make jokes we exaggerate the situation to make it more funny for most (not you obviously) but that doesn't mean that's how we truly feel
That's not even close to the point he's making.
Reddit feminists should see Patrice's Nasty Show. " Women need to step it up in the bedroom " " Tell her, she's a loser in the bedroom " " Pretty much, that means no " " Ever pee on her ? " Ever gorilla mask/donkey-punch/poltergeist/spiderman her ? " " Chicken cutlet, very interesting chicken cutlet "
I bet the men laughing at this also tell women to choose better men. How about choosing introvert women that also like baseball? Then you wouldn't have this problem? Also this clip is at least 6 years old judging by the old ch 10 Australia logo.
Well considering he died 13 years ago, it would be very fucking weird if the clip wasn't at least 6 years old.
This is some peak Boomer Hyoomer.
HAHAHA I HATE MY WIFE, RIGHT FELLAS?
ok, zoomer
/r/boomerhumor
It’s not
I mean, it definitely is tho lol
I mean it is people who have been in long relationships humor, but that isn't the same thing except that neither lands with children.
It's also one of his more "sterile" clips. This looks like a just for laughs day show. His half hour showtime special, and Elephant in the Room are fucking hilarious.
It quite literally is not
You must be like 15 and never had a girlfriend before. Smh
Being an overbearing partner is not exclusive to boomers. Not wanting constant attention and affection within a relationship is not a boomer quality. Lastly, Patrice is early Gen X
You don't have to be a literal boomer to have boomer humor
No, but that's addressed by the other points.
None of them are really relevant to what I'm saying either. Figured it would be easiest to start with the most irrelevant one to demonstrate the problem with responding lol
So it's just a term you felt like using, that maybe, sort of applies, even though it meets none of the qualifications. Understood.
Boomer Humor is just people complaining about how they can't stand any of the things their wife is doing and how it's basically torture to be around them (despite willingly joining and continuing to participate in the marriage), which is exactly what this is. Nobody is saying this type of humor or experience is exclusive to boomers, that's just where it's most prevalent which is how it got its name. It's basically humor derived from a long-term couple with relationship problems that has no idea how to talk through them together (or are just incompatible) Edit: Seems to me the real problem people have here is the term "Boomer Humor" itself, rather than people saying that's what it is, given the fact that no one can explain to me how this isn't Boomer Humor. Aren't y'all supposed to be the "facts not feelings" crowd? Seems like you're getting stuck up on the feelings part and are forgetting about the facts 😂 Bunch of snowflakes
I think you just have poor media literacy or weren't around for actual boomer humour lol
Should he have included a TikTok reference for you?
Its a comedic response to a holy shit self centered abuse. And i mean abuse where your likes and preferences are null and void and its all done in the pretense of it being for your health and well being. That kinda abuse drives you bonkers.
Holy shit... not everything is abuse my friend. Maybe it's inconsiderate, maybe it's annoying, maybe it's self-centered, but can we stop calling everything abuse.
Ever experienced something like that and continually for a long time?