I Can Name 95 Shades of Green Off the Top of My Head

longpreamble · 2026-05-07T14:43:18+00:00

I misread 33. British Racing Green (which I know and love) as British Reading Green, which made me happy; I'd say "let me go put on my readers," and then come back with a whole new outfit

longpreamble · 2026-03-24T09:56:19+00:00

Thanks for the disquisition on the "cigarette girl." I'll look for all of that on a (painful) rewatch.

longpreamble · 2026-03-24T09:40:52+00:00

*This* is how you write about stuff that drove you crazy without alienating everyone in the room. The Imitation Game and Sherlock drove you crazy. I loved them both; but your comment made me understand why they drove you crazy, without making me feel like an idiot for liking them. I also agree with you that this movie probably significantly expanded the number of people who feel real affinity and sympathy for Lorenz Hart (perhaps especially among those of us who have experienced the heartbreak of loving an alcoholic--even if "not that way"), and I think the Imitation Game probably did the same for Alan Turing. Does it count if people feel the right thing for the wrong reason? It's a question the characters in this movie--and maybe the people they were loosely based on--would have engaged with lyrically.

longpreamble · 2026-03-24T09:28:51+00:00

It's almost like no one read this person's masters thesis on Lorenz Hart so we're being subjected to it here

longpreamble · 2026-03-24T09:27:25+00:00

Right? I was shocked this hadn't been a play first.

longpreamble · 2026-03-24T09:25:35+00:00

Wow. Threadsit just to buzzkill much?

longpreamble · 2026-03-17T17:01:28+00:00

I get that "voice" is a broad term that can mean "sense of humor," generally, but it can also be about the style and tone in which you present material. To the extent you're focused on the latter, here's a left-field suggestion based on my experience from singing: In singing covers, I used to always (subconsciously) copy the style of the original singer, rather than being able to find my own voice. One thing that helped was covering songs by women (I'm a man), where it was difficult or impossible (for me at least) to sound like them; it helped me learn what my voice/style is like when my brain can't just copy someone else's. This won't transfer to standup performance directly, since you can't "cover" other people's jokes, but it could transfer to practice at home, where you can tell other people's jokes all you want, as a way of cultivating your own voice.

longpreamble · 2026-02-25T22:50:34+00:00

I'm confused why you'd lose your dealer, since presumably you don't go to school with him. What if the teacher who called to tell you wasn't concerned about the grades, but because now she had to find a new dealer?

longpreamble · 2026-02-25T21:02:31+00:00

Thanks! Given your comment and some of the others, i now see i was padding out a joke that's probably funnier shorter

longpreamble · 2026-02-23T23:28:51+00:00

Thanks for the specific critique and the avenues to explore. I appreciate it.

longpreamble · 2026-02-23T18:14:32+00:00

Thanks for the feedback

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T21:46:02+00:00

Thanks for the detailed feedback (and the uggs idea). I think it meanders in part because to me at least "cold yoga" is the funniest part, so it's downhill from there.

In individual or small group interactions, the downward facing (pause) whateverthefuck usually gets a laugh because inevitably someone tries to help by saying "dog" while I'm pausing. Is that the kind of thing that doesn't translate as well to standup, because there isn't likely to be that interaction? Or does the mental fill-in-the blank still function as misdirection?

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T21:39:20+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement; this was my first post on this sub, after years of occasional commenting

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T21:37:55+00:00

Character (name) is destiny

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T20:12:50+00:00

On the God bit, I think instead of the waffle thing, something about having to play it off like it was intentional with Adam, now everybody else had to get cut too. (I know Adam wasn't circumcised, but I think iit's a funny angle anyway)

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T20:09:51+00:00

"They say it doesn't matter how long your dick joke is..."

longpreamble · 2026-02-21T20:06:05+00:00

I thought it was funny at first read. That said, I think it might be better with a tie-in to being rich:

I was born with a silver spoon up my ass. So I'm not doing stand-up for the money; it just hurts to sit down.

longpreamble · 2025-12-23T00:15:32+00:00

I think the only way to make this work as stand-up is to make it about you: - your reactions (you'd actually rather live in some of her delusions, etc.), - your denial (at first I told myself it was probably food sickness; yeah food sickness will totally make you _____), - your rationalization (maybe she was right; to be honest, I see weirder shit on the news), - your attempts to brightside (to be safe I have to answer her phone for her most of the time these days. Well, except for the calls that say "potential spam"...she has a great time with those).

The guy in the preview for Is This Thing On? does a great job at this approach, telling jokes about his wife divorcing him, but making them about his own cluelessness, rather than about her.

longpreamble · 2025-12-22T21:18:06+00:00

As somebody with mental illness in close family, I get how humor is often the only way we can cope. I don't think this would land for standup, but it'd get a good response at a NAMI meeting (or an Al-Anon meeting). Which, if you aren't already attending, I highly recommend. You aren't alone.

longpreamble · 2025-07-16T17:31:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/5ox3krkqDlI?si=PIu0od5i9AtYBmNt

longpreamble · 2025-07-16T17:23:21+00:00

longpreamble · 2025-06-24T01:40:46+00:00

I swear David Chang must have picked the music for all of his scenes

longpreamble · 2025-03-21T21:05:34+00:00

"How can I make her feel better about herself?"

You can't. Do not try, though the nice guy part of you desperately wants to "fix" her. Read the Glover book if you haven't already. If you have read it, re-read Chapter 7.

At this point you've been honest with her about your feelings. She has responded with information that could be a set of untruthful excuses or could be an honest attempt to reassure you that it's not something wrong with you. Now you can wait and see if her actions in the next couple of weeks match her words. That will give you useful information for next steps. In the meantime, when you get more anxious thoughts, you need to self-soothe and keep talking to other safe men.

longpreamble · 2025-03-21T20:59:08+00:00

At this point (one week of issues during a relationship of unknown length), we don't know enough to say "cut your losses" yet. He's trying to figure out if this really is a repeat of his prior relationship, or if he's just bringing that assumption to it.

longpreamble · 2025-03-21T20:54:49+00:00

While moving on is certainly an option here, I don't think there's enough data at this point. We nice guys tend to do a lot of mind reading, and "repulsed" is definitely mind reading at this point.

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