I listened this morning. He was REALLY funny. I was laughing out loud. His Madden was just dead-on. Super talented guy. His Jim Rome was hilarious, too!!
He is funny, especially if you have not seen him before. If you have heard or seen him before it's the same thing, same delivery just talking about different topics. He is adding some additional impressions to his repertoire, but Madden still seems to dominate his act.
AB, Do you think impersonations are the most impressive form of comedy, is that like a comedian's plateau to reach? It seems to me, if you can do impersonations, you don't even have to come up with real jokes. People are going to laugh just hearing you do a dead on voice of some other famous person.
Nah. To be commercially and critically successful is actually the plateau. Impersonations are cool but some comics view it as cheating. Prop comics(carrot top) and musical acts (me) always raise the ire of comedy purists, but as long as your monologue is somewhat profound you are cool.
He was really funny making fun of Rome...Rome tends to take himself pretty seriously, and this is the first time I've seen someone take an effective jab at all that.
I hate rome (notice it's so bad I do not capitalize his name) so that was a breath of fresh air. I doubt he would do it on stage bc half the people would have no idea what he was doing, but on a sports show it was good
You ever notice how Matt Jackson tries to be Rome. I was listening to Matt last week, and he was doing that annoying pause that Caliendo was talking about, and I was thinking "man, Rome does that same annoying s**t, and also to crumpling of paper. I want to call him one night and tell him that 3 hrs of Rome is enough on that station in one day.
Rome rules. I'd much rather listen to an interview of David Stern than some local idiots have a Bon Jovi soundalike contest.
i agree that rome gets great interviews....but when he's not interviewing someone, i have a hard time not turning the dial. that's a big change, because i really used to love the show...but the schtick wears thin over time.
Interviews are probably the last good thing about his show. Everything else is so played out. The negativity is what gets me the most. If there is an event like the SuperBowl, he will talk 15min about the loser before he gives his thoughts on the winners. His hatred for soccer, and I don't watch it, is unprofessional, and is hypocritical when you consider his love for hockey, another sport that is low scoring and often ends in ties. And finally, the way he will berate a player, like he did when Payton Manning was getting drafted, calling him Pinkett Manning, saying he couldn't have Walter Payton's name, so he named him after Allen Pinkett, and then he rides the guy's jock after he is successful. He doesn't apologize when he is wrong, remember when David Wells criticized Frank Thomas for not playing saying he was faking. Rome was all over Thomas, siding with fat a** David Wells, and it turned out Thomas had a season ending injury, he never said anything when Thomas went down for the season. I was so glad when Allen Pinkett called him out about the Payton Manning deal, he looked like a fool. The guy's act is just tired.
AB, What did you think about the old stuff Howie Mandell would do? He used to spend 60-70% of his show doing audience interaction. "What's your name" or "what do you do" type questions and build his act off of that.
i agree entirely...he berates a player down to his very character...then kisses his ass when he comes on his show. "i love that guy....he's a solid, solid guy....i'm out!"
