Steven Wright called - he wants his schtick back.

Sorry to hear that your experience of comedy is so limited that any slight resemblance of one comic to another prevents you from appreciating them.

Steven Wright wasn't the first deadpan one liner either!

The resemblance is a lot more than slight. And it's not just the delivery. No, Wright wasn't the first to do deadpan one-liners, but what he did/does is original. This, not so much.

I dunno, I respect your opinion but disagree almost entirely. It's pretty easy to delineate what's original in stand-up comedy. These are all his own jokes, so they're original. A lack of emotion in delivery isn't the exclusive domain of Wright, so any perceived similarity there isn't really relevant. No one else in the reddit thread where I found this video made the same association. There was one comment comparing him to Anthony Jeselnik, though, which was just as weird to see. Dunno why people insist on having to compare every comic to every other one. Regardless, I think Chris here would take it as a compliment to be seen as in the same vein as Steven Wright.

^Don't care if he curls his hair; these are new jokes, and they're good.

I'm glad the element of surprise wasn't uranium or this video would have been half as funny.

SPOILER ALERT!

I am probably being too critical based on a 5 minute routine. And I never said he wasn't funny. But again, it's more than the delivery. He doesn't have to outright copy a joke to be unoriginal (though some get pretty close). The stylistic content as well as the delivery is just too similar for me not to notice. It's more than just using puns, it's the nature of the word play he's using that is so similar. (I'm having a difficult time describing that nature, mainly because I've never found it necessary to deconstruct a comedic act this way.) In any case, I realize it is worth an upvote - if only to counter ant's inscrutable whims.

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Whatever, this is genuinely to notch comedy.

He's very good. He'll definitely be around for a long time, just got that feeling.

Personally I see him as a morose Englishman rather than a morose Wright. And who cares if he directly builds on Wright or is unoriginal? All culture is accumulative. The point is you *add* to what has gone before.

Same here, I expect to see more of him. The braces are off by now, too!

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