Interaction with the audience is a big part of Carr's stand-up, and the basis of the interaction is that Carr is quicker and wittier than the audience members. People who go to his show deliberately heckle him just to see him tear them to shreds. That part of Carr's on-stage persona is very much the sort of wise-cracking "my-knob-is-bigger-than-yours" thing that Fry attributes to American comedy.

I also don't think the self-deprecating "hapless loser" style of comedy is a new thing in America. Self-deprecation has always been a big part of Jewish comedy (Woody Allen is a good example), which has been central to the American comic tradition. Besides that, I already mentioned Lucille Ball, who certainly isn't a recent phenomenon. You can add the Three Stooges to that list. Also Phyllis Diller and (more recently) Chris Farley.

It might be true that self-deprecating humor is more common in British comedy, but it has been a big enough part of American comedy that I find it a little misleading to characterize it as a specifically British trait.

Oh yeah, I know who it is. He is a fucking genius.


>> ^kir_mokum:

>> ^shagen454:
It is pretty amazing that there are more than one and you can actually see em. And that someone has access and knows how to hit those old school drum machines pads and twiddle those analog synth knobs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin

>> ^shagen454:

It is pretty amazing that there are more than one and you can actually see em. And that someone has access and knows how to hit those old school drum machines pads and twiddle those analog synth knobs


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin

It is pretty amazing that there are more than one and you can actually see em. And that someone has access and knows how to hit those old school drum machines pads and twiddle those analog synth knobs

Bet Block and Faust wish they thought of the little knob on the wheel to steer with.

You're welcome! Doesn't seem to have done much good so far. I voted for it when I discovered the link... it may yet get sifted!


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Thanks for putting up a link to my video bb : I thought Ashton made a total knob of himself here by the way!

Thanks for putting up a link to my video bb I thought Ashton made a total knob of himself here by the way!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pet peeve, house centipede, cookie, sexually harrassed by a door knob' to 'pet peeve, house centipede, cookie, sexually harrassed by a door knob, ze frank' - edited by fissionchips

Holy Cow ... those knobs sure do get a work out! [teehee] =oD

The part that gets me is his pretension that the haters "hate him." Some of us just don't like DJ pushing' play and the knob wobblers. Sorry. His music makes me want to Van Gogh my ears.

>> ^pho3n1x:

I've watched this twice now, and at the risk of sounding ignorant...
Is he playing left handed position with right handed string layout?


sure looks like it. looks like a left handed bass too (judging from where the knobs are). and despite what the tag says, with frets.
he'd def running through a compressor. maybe an auto filter too.

>> ^Shepppard:

Not caused by being either drunk, or clumsy. Merely stupidity (admittedly though, potentially caused by drunken clumsiness)
I watched this a couple times and thought to myself "Hell, I've jack-rabbited my bike a more than a few times, why the hell did he get so much air on a wheelie right away?"
Upon closer inspection, I realized he's sitting stupidly far back on his bike, and if you watch in full screen it becomes clear that he's actually sitting on his passenger seat. Meaning that his center of mass is located directly above his rear wheel, the one that gives the power. After that it just becomes simple pivot physics.
jack-rabbiting, taking off very quickly from a dead stop.


Aye. Noticed he was sitting WAY too far back from the get go. What a knob

>> ^deathcow:

Wow that was a beauty eh? He shoulda told the driver to Take Off!


Geeze, you knob! Crack two, eh?

>> ^littledragon_79:

>> ^marbles:
Barney Frank: The epitome of corrupt politicians.
For all you knob gobblers drooling over Frank, you do realize Frank was front and center to the Wall Street corruption in Congress? That he was one of the main enablers of Wall Street creating a system of fraud and collusion?

Screenshot or it didn't happen..


I'm assuming you're kidding. I'll link some articles if you want. Or you could try doing some research on your own instead of being spoon-fed what to believe.

>> ^marbles:

Barney Frank: The epitome of corrupt politicians.
For all you knob gobblers drooling over Frank, you do realize Frank was front and center to the Wall Street corruption in Congress? That he was one of the main enablers of Wall Street creating a system of fraud and collusion?


Screenshot or it didn't happen..