Anyone a fan of stand up comedy?  Well, okay that is a bit broad of a question; so what all you favorite stand up peoples and things?  I'll be going to my first like legit stand-up show (which is more than just happening to wander into a bar and there is some dude doing stand-up) in March (seeing Aziz Ansari), and what sort of things should I expect; or is it pretty straightforward?   Have anyone of you guys seen any stand up-ers?

I saw one of those Whose Line is It Anyway live shows once, and I also saw that guy from Half-Baked who was laying on the couch the entire movie

usually you just go and watch a couple of comedians do their routines. interacting with the audience isn't that popular, especially for the Big Time comedians like aziz, tho I never actually saw any of his stand up
 
I saw Hannibal Buress about a year ago, that was good
 
maria bamford, neil hamburger, tig notaro are also comedians who do stand up that I thought was good

yeah I'm a big stand up fan but actually there aren't that many comedians i could wholeheartedly recommend. i really like the form of it so i'll put up with a lot of stuff that i don't think is funny, or is annoying, just because i enjoy a person standing in a stream of consciousness trying to be funny like that. some of the ones i do like have already been mentioned so far. aziz ansari isn't bad, i'd go see him, so hope you have a good time! but basically yeah think of it like a one person performance. the better the comedians are the less they necessarily want to have a dialogue with the crowd and if people are heckling they generally get shut down pretty quickly. it's not really supposed to be an interactive medium beyond the audible reaction you have to the jokes, which the comedians will generally respond to in one way of another (even if not in words).

yeah, pretty much every stand-up special I have sen has been simply comedian talking to audience - gets some laffs,  I'm all good with that.   I've only seen heckling at one shitty comedy club I went to with a friend once for some yucks - we didn't get very many; turns out people are dumb and jerks sometimes (and also most of the jokes sucked).  regardless though; should be fun
 
i've seen a few stand up specials on netflix recently - the george carlin one up there is great because duh its george carlin

My favourite stand up by far is Reggie Watts. He mostly improvises, so you can watch as many shows as you want (which bugs me about certain comedians like Zach Galifianakis)
 
some good stuff: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNrm8I5zF8 << absolutely essential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBc6XhTYGYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQLTwIIHXo

his best is when he makes fun of TED to their faces
 
--ahab chip

yeah those are fantastic

im gonna watch them later to day; i am interested , also i watched a louis ck special on netflix i haven't watched any of his stuff before - took me a while to warm up to it, its not my favorite that i've seen but i laughed a bunch towards the end of it?

oh also, Bo Burnham did an incredible and unique show recently
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejc5zic4q2A

I've seen some past Bo Burnham stuff and this wasn't my favorite, but it was still really good overall.  I was a bit disappointed that a lot of it was pre-recorded stuff rather than his actual stand-up bits, but it was still pretty good overall.   One of the benefits of the studio recorded stuff he has done in the past is that it keeps his voice from getting really nasally, but he is still an excellent musician and performer.   #deep

This was a while ago now I guess - saw Aziz it was pretty good; not as spectular as I would have liked because the audience was rude; not in a heckling or anything like that way, but literally people would walk down the aisles every 20 seconds for whatever reason -get a drink take a pee I don't know.   People like bolted right away after the end of show - literally half the crowd was putting on coats and shit in the 20 seconds between ending and him coming back on for an encore .  What was weird was that its seemed like the audience that wasn't getting up every fucking few seconds seemed to really connect to the material and it was about as good as any of the Netflix specials that he has done in the past.   What the shit.   Still really funny though; material did not seem as varied as in the past and was primarily based on relationships and dating.  He did well with improv and convinced some dudes to let him read their texts between him and some flirt; funny but also a little lazy?    Opener was some dude I think his name was Drew Michaels, or something; funny but I'm not going  to google him to actually check because I don't give no shits