editors note: the bigger this list gets, the more i become unsure of the minutae of the placings for specials i havent watched enough times. soon i might switch to some sort of ranking system, but for now ill just mark those specials with an asterisk (*) also, as most comedians are varying flavors of reactionary, i wont take great pains to mention everything i dislike or disagree with in a special, just take for granted that things being higher up in the rankings doesn't necessarily mean i endorse the views of the comic
- A+
- Stewart Lee - Carpet Remnant World
- best bit: entire second half but especially jungle canyon rope bridges
- A
- Andy Kindler - I Wish I Was Bitter
- best bit: hes just a regular super MAN
- worst bit: mister sister mister
- Katt Williams - The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1
- best bit: i dont have not one insurgent friend + n---- did you know that i can see you? + fuck michael how you gon be a muslim half your face is pork michael
- James Acaster - Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999
- best bit: top of the tea
- best bit: the bittenbinder method
- best bit: do mayors smoke crack?
- worst bit: the trump/obama material, but thats par for the course
- best bit:
- worst bit: every time he starts talking about charlie hebdo lol
- best bit: cross between matt damon and bill o reilly (he really does look like that)
- best bit:
- worst bit: bill clinton
- best bit: if youre “one of the guys”, youre actually a woman
- worst bit: like half of it is fairly unfunny libfem stuff + #married to a man stuff
- best bit: "you ever smell-"
- best bit: thats right, you a pedophile for my baby + all the sunset singles
- worst bit: that whole extended bit about wanting to hurt his students
- best bit: probably egypt
- best bit: the indigo girls
- worst bit: i love tig but i appreciate her more than she makes me laugh per se
- best bit: beefheart
- worst bit: the anti-semitic stuff (although it does illustrate that point about the secularism of zionism well) + the bit about israel (which doesnt even mention palestine)
- best bit:
- worst bit: i am an american
- best bit: baby on the corner
- worst bit: the entire end section on women but especially "just because im dressed this way"
- best bit: theresa may, hitler, suck my dick
- worst bit: the bit on trans women and pretty much everything after it which devolved into fairly boring reactionary material
- best bit: some biiig fuckin brontosaurus
- worst bit: drag queens & native americans
- best bit: you got dual syndromes?! + him singing what a fool believes
- worst bit: talking about his young wife
- best bit: the only proof of jesus' carpentry
- worst bit: i need proof in liquid form
- best bit: now i gotta fucking love you now?
- worst bit: most of it, marc is not immune from the trump era comedy recession. the rolling stones bit in particular nearly put me to sleep both times i saw this
- best bit: a thousand kids!!!
- worst bit: i hate when comedians do that thing where theyre like "were all pieces of shit" like no mf its just you!!! especially bad coming from a guy doing his first special after a sexual misconduct scandal, which he also definitely did not handle well here
- best bit: but you know, we hung out
- worst bit: the whole turmeric bit which doubly fails for me as an iranian ibd sufferer
- best bit: master says i got seasonal depression
- worst bit: most of it which is unfunny blatant reaction like a worse version of chapelle
- best bit: he said something funny at the beginning, i can't remember what it is though, which says something given it's one of about 3 funny things he said the whole special
- worst bit: pretty much all of it, right there with kevin hart in the hideous pantheon of stadium comedy
- best bit: you either fuck monkeys or you fuck people... once you fuck a monkey thats a firm decision
- worst bit: forgot how early dave started spouting off unfunny reactionary shit. if it was just the low hanging fruit racist jokes (koreans, native americans, etc.) i might place this slightly higher but the whole section essentially going to bat for cosby, mj, and r kelly is nightmarishly bad and aged like milk. see pimp chronicles for the antidote.
- best bit: the recording of his hypnotist
- worst bit: pretty much all of it, he should stick to tv
- Hannah Gadsby - Nanette
- excellent, doesnt make sense to try to rank
- Richard Pryor - Live In Concert
- Fred Armisen - Standup for Drummers
- best bit: im starting this thing called the circus
- worst bit: the jazz bit, i will not tolerate jazz slander
- note: fred is a great sketch comic/all around funny guy, and as an autistic musician its fun to watch him nerd out about drums (plus the letter from john waters thing was really touching), so altogether its a fun show but it just doesnt work very well as standup mostly because he doesnt seem to understand or be interested much in the form or conventions of standup so it ends up just being a series of disconnected observations/anecdotes
- James Acaster - Hecklers Welcome*
- steven wright
- mitch hedberg
- demetri martin
- jenny slate special
- chelsea peretti
- bridget christie
- all of stews stuff
- bob saget
- brent weinbach
- hans teeuwen
- andy kindler
- norm macdonald
- jo mande
- kamau bell
- reggie watts
- hari kondabalu
- pete davidson
- daniel kitson
- harry hill
- demetri martin
- stavros
- patton oswalt
- marc maron
- nick vatterot
- hampton yount
- chris fleming
- tig notaro
- simon amstell (paddy rec)
- greg davies - firing chinese balls at a dog (paddy rec)
- sara pascoe (paddy rec)
- sam jay's hbo special
- keep an eye out for marie faustin if she drops a special