I've only seen this guy a couple of times. He's very funny.
I hope he gets treatment for the Manic-Depression.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I hope he gets treatment for the Manic-Depression.


I hope that was sarcasm on your part (if so, pardon my rant). I also hope the average Sifter is intelligent enough to pick up cues in others' body language to be able to tell when one is acting and furthermore, knowledgeable enough about contemporary comedy to realize that a stand-up artist's stage persona and his actual personality are, in the vast majority of cases, two entirely different things.

>> ^EDD:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
I hope he gets treatment for the Manic-Depression.

I hope that was sarcasm on your part (if so, pardon my rant). I also hope the average Sifter is intelligent enough to pick up cues in others' body language to be able to tell when one is acting and furthermore, knowledgeable enough about contemporary comedy to realize that a stand-up artist's stage persona and his actual personality are, in the vast majority of cases, two entirely different things.


You're right EDD; I should have labeled my sarcastic remark as such.
I'm Manic-Depressive myself, so should know not to joke about a serious disease which plagues many people.

Wow the quantized sound of the audience is really distracting.

But I'm with him on the Whippy Men thing.

>> ^spoco2:
But I'm with him on the Whippy Men thing.
which specific part?

the African joke was funny.. but that's only because, if God exists, s/he'd be a sadistic S.O.B.

>> ^Boise_Lib:


You're right EDD; I should have labeled my sarcastic remark as such.
I'm Manic-Depressive myself, so should know not to joke about a serious disease which plagues many people.


Fuck that, I'm a bipolar type 1 myself. does that mean i can't laugh ass off about it? and why should i not be able to do that? is all humbug. i laugh _with_ cripples, retards, asians, africans, europeans, americans, australians, _and_ normal people. try and stop me.

>> ^EDD:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
I hope he gets treatment for the Manic-Depression.

I hope that was sarcasm on your part (if so, pardon my rant). I also hope the average Sifter is intelligent enough to pick up cues in others' body language to be able to tell when one is acting and furthermore, knowledgeable enough about contemporary comedy to realize that a stand-up artist's stage persona and his actual personality are, in the vast majority of cases, two entirely different things.


Minchin would raze you to the ground for even THINKING that P.C.

*british

Where's the parody? Am I missing something with this tag?

Adding video to channels (British) - requested by brycewi19.

>> ^brycewi19:

british
Where's the parody? Am I missing something with this tag?


Why the british tag?

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^brycewi19:
british
Where's the parody? Am I missing something with this tag?

Why the british tag?


Presumably for the opening line "I live in north London."

Out of interest, is Mr Whippy a British only phenomenon or does his aura of influence extend across the old commonwealth or indeed globally?

Mr Whippy is an Australian thing, soft serve ice cream.

http://www.whippykiosk.com.au/images/Whippy1960.jpg

As you can see, it's suspect as hell. X D

>> ^spoco2:

Wow the quantized sound of the audience is really distracting.


That's not quantization, that's phasing - caused when 2 out-of-phase signals (possibly the sound of the audience having been imperfectly captured in stereo in the theater, perhaps due to microphone placement) are bounced down to mono or otherwise combined using panning (could have occured when the clip was ripped and converted to a youtube clip).

Note that Minchin's voice is uneffected as it's a mono signal already (one microphone). If it was quantization noise it would be more audible on Minchin's voice.

e.g.
http://www.recordingeq.com/EQ/req1001/mmi.htm
http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/microphones/placement.html

I thought the audience were robots but if you audio geeks know better, I'll go with your conclusion.