Strange but true, Doug Stanhope is best mates with Johnny Depp.

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    Fair play to Homegrove, it was him who first got me into Roy ā€˜Chubbyā€™ Brown.

    LT42 Anyone seen Gervaisā€™ new show?

    Half way through, patchy but worth a look.

      LT42 Why strange?

      Because Stanhope isnā€™t anywhere near the level of fame as Depp, and I had the impression he was someone who wasnā€™t so keen on the limelight off of stage.

      But there are clear overlaps in their personalities and interests.

          LT42 Anyone seen Gervaisā€™ new show?

          Just watched it, nothing particularly groundbreaking but quite funny.

            The opening 5-10 minutes of Gervais are pretty good. A lot of the rest of it is meh, but some is quite funny.

              hugopal Because Stanhope isnā€™t anywhere near the level of fame as Depp

              Depp also appeared on the Fast Show and is friends (to a degree) with Paul Whitehouse.

                  bosstrabs Iā€™d forgotten about that.

                  I think at least one of Whitehouseā€™s kids went to my secondary school.

                    Some line up on that Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill thatā€™s on Netflix today. He closes it, with Dave Attell, Michelle Wolf, Jessica Kirson and Jimmy Carr going before him. And a few others. Just shame that with a running time of 70 minutes they each get about 10 minutes. Burr has already shot a full special, he just is not ready to lose the material yet because heā€™s got a full touring special. Kudos for him not being like Jimmy Carr. Saw him a week after his first Netflix-special. And he did nothing but that. Usually comedians are expected to retire the material once the special is out.

                      Homegrove This was the first ā€œcollectiveā€ special that I really enjoyed. Felt Ronnie Chieng was wasted but otherwise loved all the sets. Steph Tolev was insane and hilarious, and I loved that Michelle Wolf played it like a female version of Burr, going at white women mercilessly. The token black guy was great as well.

                        Homegrove The one time I saw Dave Chappelle in 2002, he did a few original bits about Orange County (where my college was) at the start, but most of it was Killing Them Softly, which released in 2000.

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                          That Bill Burr Netflix is a Joke-special was just bad all around. Burrā€™s disease blankets, and Michelle Wolfā€™s white women twerking were the only things I really laughed at. Even Dave Attel was not funny.

                          Homegrove Dave Attell

                          Saw him once. He was hilarious. Seems like one of those guys who knows how to work a room. Not sure how well that translates to television.

                          Had an old roomie who worked at Cobbs, the biggest comedy club in SF. She used to get us in all the time and I saw pretty much all the big acts for a while there. Most unexpectedly hilarious comedian? Sinbad. That dude was incredible.