Schaub's Comedy Special: Gringo Papi

[Eredin]

Schaub is a hack, a moron, and a douche. However I'll give him credit for hustling. The guy has made a career for himself despite being terrible. I won't watch this comedy special just like I didn't the last one.

What I seriously don't get is the legion of losers that have nothing better to do with their time than obsessively follow the guy. They are only giving him more attention and importance. Rather than just ignore him and find a better hobby. The Bobby Lee thing is classic YouTube beef for more views. Who gives a fuck? Goddamn, get a life.

I could never hate watch/listen to hours of podcasts like people are but I'm glad they do, it's entertaining as shit.

As for the feud, Schaub's ego is way too fragile to fake it.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I would like to see all of it, besides videos with Ethan Klein…. Don’t really follow it all enough to have a more informed idea of what all is going on, it seems.

Definitely shitty if true.

Could someone please tell me why anyone watches Ethan Klein? What is he bringing to the table? He’s not incredibly smart, funny, insightful, or anything else from what I can tell. The only thing I have seen him do that was any good was make Steven Crowder shit his pants by bringing in Sam Seder to debate him. That was hilarious. But what is Klein bringing to the table? He’s really fucking famous and I have no idea why.

 

[Morning Star]

Could someone please tell me why anyone watches Ethan Klein? What is he bringing to the table? He’s not incredibly smart, funny, insightful, or anything else from what I can tell. The only thing I have seen him do that was any good was make Steven Crowder shit his pants by bringing in Sam Seder to debate him. That was hilarious. But what is Klein bringing to the table? He’s really fucking famous and I have no idea why.

1st to market. Lot of people made it big on YouTube for this reason. Really good production values for a YouTube show. There's a lot of people working out of their Kitchen/Bedroom on YouTube, they got a nice looking studio. They also got good sponsors and are heavily promoted by the Platform. It's hard not to run into H3H3 if you use YouTube with any regularity. But I'm with you. The guy is a complete slob, not particularly good at interviewing, and not all that funny, charismatic, or intelligent. The Bill Burr interview was hilariously awkward.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

1st to market. Lot of people made it big on YouTube for this reason. Really good production values for a YouTube show. There's a lot of people working out of their Kitchen/Bedroom on YouTube, they got a nice looking studio. They also got good sponsors and are heavily promoted by the Platform. It's hard not to run into H3H3 if you use YouTube with an regularity. But I'm with you. The guy is a complete slob, not particularly good at interviewing, and not all that funny, charismatic, or intelligent. The Bill Burr interview was hilariously awkward.

Thanks. That explains it. He’s like 50 but he dresses like an 8 year old. Honestly, I hardly ever run into their content. The only reason I know who he is was the whole Seder/Crowder thing.

 

[Satur9]

Could someone please tell me why anyone watches Ethan Klein? What is he bringing to the table? He’s not incredibly smart, funny, insightful, or anything else from what I can tell. The only thing I have seen him do that was any good was make Steven Crowder shit his pants by bringing in Sam Seder to debate him. That was hilarious. But what is Klein bringing to the table? He’s really fucking famous and I have no idea why.

Guess what the dude above said. I don’t get it at all. “They” say he used to be good, but I don’t know how. He is so uninteresting and just has this slovenly way about him I find utterly repulsive. He is honestly gross just to watch

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Guess what the dude above said. I don’t get it at all. “They” say he used to be good, but I don’t know how. He is so uninterested and just has this slovenly way about him I find utterly repulsive. He is honestly gross just to watch

I really wish I could have a YouTube show where I bring absolutely nothing to the table, and just sloppily talk about whatever the fuck I want, making tons of money the whole time.

 

[Morning Star]

Thanks. That explains it. He’s like 50 but he dresses like an 8 year old. Honestly, I hardly ever run into their content. The only reason I know who he is was the whole Seder/Crowder thing.

Lmao I had to look up his age but it's like the Brian Stelter thing. Ethan is only 36, he just looks terrible and is lazy. I feel like he dresses like it's laundry day everyday. They trend a lot and get some big interviews so they show up a lot for me. The Bill Burr interview was everywhere for me since I watch a lot of standup and comedy podcasts on YT. It amazes me some of the people that made it on the platform but 1st to market really pushed a lot of people to a cush living.

 

[TestosterOWN]

His YT special has 90k downvotes 30k up.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Lmao I had to look up his age but it's like the Brian Stelter thing. Ethan is only 36, he just looks terrible and is lazy. I feel like he dresses like it's laundry day everyday. They trend a lot and get some big interviews so they show up a lot for me. The Bill Burr interview was everywhere for me since I watch a lot of standup and comedy podcasts on YT. It amazes me some of the people that made it on the platform but 1st to market really pushed a lot of people to a cush living.

He’s 36? Holy shit.

 

[melvinj0]

Could someone please tell me why anyone watches Ethan Klein? What is he bringing to the table? He’s not incredibly smart, funny, insightful, or anything else from what I can tell. The only thing I have seen him do that was any good was make Steven Crowder shit his pants by bringing in Sam Seder to debate him. That was hilarious. But what is Klein bringing to the table? He’s really fucking famous and I have no idea why.

I liked his videos when it was just him and his wife making fun of cringey videos, they chose interesting videos to cover and the commentary wasn’t the best but it was sometimes funny. Then like with most YouTubers they got really big and likely got pushed to put out content even when they really didn’t have any. Which lead to them doing a podcast, neither of them are particularly good at carrying a podcast and they usually just talk about stupid pointless internet beef, so I tuned out.

Also honestly I thought the crowder shit was lame, Ethan is suppose to be a comedic personality, should have just gone through with the debate and made fun of crowder the whole time.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I liked his videos when it was just him and his wife making fun of cringey videos, they chose interesting videos to cover and the commentary wasn’t the best but it was sometimes funny. Then like with most YouTubers they got really big and likely got pushed to put out content even when they really didn’t have any. Which lead to them doing a podcast, neither of them are particularly good at carrying a podcast and they usually just talk about stupid pointless internet beef, so I tuned out.

Also honestly I thought the crowder shit was lame, Ethan is suppose to be a comedic personality, should have just gone through with the debate and made fun of crowder the whole time.

Damn, I thought he was gay. Just a sloppy gay guy.

 

[Fugazy]

It's not like he sends someone to walk out on the stage the night of the show to tell the audience who paid and traveled to the venue, "Sorry, Schaub's not here and there's no show so go home." If you're not Chappelle or Burr and you're not a guaranteed sell out at every venue in every market, you book shows and you watch the ticket sales and if the tickets move then you do the show and if they don't you maybe reschedule or you combine dates or worst-case scenario you scrap the show. All of it is done as far out from the actual date as possible. It's by no means uncommon practice specific only to Schaub as further proof that he's the worst person ever.



Knowing more ≠ Caring more. You can go ahead and project that onto me if you want, but I just know what I'm talking about and have decided to come in here and offer some informed opinions for the uninformed haters to chew on.



And to reiterate, I don't think that Schaub's very funny. He's still incredibly green and his special is undoubtedly clunky with tremendous room for improvement. My only issue is with the people who actually go out of their way to say that they've watched all of 75 seconds of Schaub's entire stand-up career and then try to speak authoritatively on his comedy. If you don't like him and you won't watch him, that's fine. Like you said, your taste is your taste. But you can't watch a minute of a dude on stage and then try to act like you're the expert. You can still hate him and think that he's unfunny, but if you don't think that there's evidence of improvement between his first special and his second special, then you have no clue what you're talking about, or, even more likely, you're just hating with no interest in actually getting a clue.



First, I asked if it was resentment/envy fueling the hatred, meaning are his haters just mad/jealous. If you personally aren't jealous/envious of him and if you personally don't hate him, fair enough. But clearly he's inspired quite vitriolic hatred from the Internet and your own assessment of the situation seemed to paint a picture of people jealous of his success lashing out because he's more fortunate than they are.



Privilege is - or should be - privilege tout court. But whatever. I won't harp on conceptual specificity. As for the PF Chang's thing, I'm pretty sure that comes from him talking about how someone not in the business hating on him or trying to give him advice to change what he's doing - when what he's doing has been extremely successful and profitable for him - is silly. Like how we make fun of keyboard warriors on here. If a keyboard warrior works at a PF Chang's and is trying to criticize Ngannou, there's a point where you have to draw the line and say, "You work at fucking PF Chang's and Ngannou's the champ." That's not coming from a place of privilege where the "lower class" are spit on as scum. But, again, whatever. The tables will always be tilted against Schaub and no benefits of the doubt will be extended to him. To your last point, your Kardashian comparison is perhaps more apt, although even if you hate Schaub, he was never famous for being famous, he did actually work to achieve things. But at this point, yeah, I guess they're in similar boats, consistently hated by ignorant people who know/care nothing about what they're actually doing with their lives. For the record, I don't care at all about any of the Kardashians, but I'd find Kardashian haters just as sad as Schaub haters. It's being a hater that I find so puzzling.



This is the least charitable interpretation of this possible. See above.



So if it's funny, it's not racist, but if it's not funny, it's racist? If a joke doesn't land, it just means that it isn't funny. It's fine if you don't find that shit funny - although exaggerating if not straight-up inventing shit to tell stories in a comedy set is par for the course, so if there's a difference between Schaub fictionalizing that story about the UFC doctor and Segura fictionalizing his Wu-Tang story, I'll be interested to hear it - but leveling charges of racism should have a much higher threshold.

It's the classic "Necessity is the mother of invention." The subscription streaming model has been the way you do things in the comedy world for so long, and so it's of course still deeply entrenched in that industry. You still want Netflix, you still want to lesser degrees HBO or Showtime. I'm not saying that comedians have all decided to say no to everything except YouTube. I'm saying that it's no longer Netflix or nothing. Comedians have realized that there are other ways to find success, and so a shit ton of people have started uploading specials to YouTube, initially because it was their only option but increasingly because they're finding it the best option, and "best" meaning the most effective way to get their content to their fans and the most productive way to get their content to potential new fans and increase ticket sales. So from people like Schulz and Gillis to Mark Normand, Joe List, Sam Morrill, Akaash Singh, Yannis Pappas, DC Benny, they've all put shit out on YouTube either by themselves or with All Things Comedy or what have you and it's provided tremendous bumps, and bumps that they're starting to realize are likely bigger than the bumps that they would've gotten even from a Netflix or a Showtime.

Within the last year or so, there's been a groundswell. YouTube isn't just for the losers who can't hack it in the majors. As the subscription streaming model starts to break apart, YouTube is poised to be the next comedy hot spot. That's why Distefano is constantly joking about him FINALLY getting a Netflix special as the company announces that it's starting to die, and it's why he's said he's either going to put most of the clips up on YouTube anyway or just upload an entirely separate special so that he can have one on Netflix and one on YouTube.

Independently producing and distributing your own content on your own platform is becoming the new model.

Bro.


Stop.

 

[lowlife]

Bro.


Stop.

please don't get that clown writing essays in lawyer speak again, no one wants to read that nonsense.

 

[Eredin]

 

[ARW]

For some reason I really enjoy people crapping on Schwab and exposing him.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Could someone please tell me why anyone watches Ethan Klein? What is he bringing to the table? He’s not incredibly smart, funny, insightful, or anything else from what I can tell. The only thing I have seen him do that was any good was make Steven Crowder shit his pants by bringing in Sam Seder to debate him. That was hilarious. But what is Klein bringing to the table? He’s really fucking famous and I have no idea why.

The only thing he’s good for is being a laughingstock lol

https://youtube.com/shorts/CFgYy9FMIng?feature=share

 

[RemyR]

Comedy Goat in the making

 

[MrMeth]

His opening joke about an anti-vaxxer refusing to get the jab because, "My body is a temple," while eating nachos was pretty funny.

Yeah I mean that joke has only been made 10 million times online since the vaccine came out, right?

 

[M.U.S.C.L.E.]

Yeah I mean that joke has only been made 10 million times online since the vaccine came out, right?

Let's hear your Covid joke, Mr. Originality.

 

[Jesus X]

Saint eat eight so bapa

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