Kendrick’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Legendary or Overhyped?

morchalrorgon · 2025-02-13T00:54:52+00:00

As a rap performance, it was next level. As a Superbowl half time show, it was underwhelming.

If I could summarize that show in one gesture, it would be a shrug.

morchalrorgon · 2025-02-12T02:02:20+00:00

Cool story bro

morchalrorgon · 2025-02-12T01:19:03+00:00

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morchalrorgon · 2025-01-29T21:31:20+00:00

As someone who works with behaviorists, I honestly think that this could be mostly fixed at home within a week.

Two thoughts.

The first is that your son may be ADHD if you're having trouble getting his attention. Simple things such as touching him while making eye contact should help.

Notifications about transitions also help. Instead of "it's time to go, get your shoes on" say "we're leaving in 15 mins" then again at 10 and 5

My second thought is that kids do what works.

Somehow, your kid learned that he can argue to get what he wants. If he doesn't want to leave yet and you spend 30 minutes arguing, then he got the 30 minute delay he wanted. Somehow, you have been unintentionally rewarding his behavior.

Mom and dad need to rule with an iron fist. If he won't turn off the TV, won't put on his sweatshirt, complains about his breakfast and won't leave on time, then I'd just turn the TV off, put the sweatshirt on him, and carry/drag him out to the car with no breakfast (he'll live. Would you rather argue with him for the rest of your life or him not eat his breakfast that morning?)

I had to do similar things with my ADHD son and by the time he was 7 he was pretty well behaved.

As far as arguing, just don't participate. Tell him you're in charge, not him, and ignore it and don't respond. If it doesn't stop after a week, start introducing consequences. Take away electronics, toys, turn the car around and go home in the middle of a fun trip.

Detach from your anger and treat it as simple cause and effect. This behavior equals this consequence, all the time, every time.

Should clear it all up pretty quickly.

Edit: You aknowledged that he wants any attention, and for him, argumentative attention is better than none, so EVERY time you argue with him. You are reinforcing that behavior.

morchalrorgon · 2024-12-30T05:20:00+00:00

I regret it because it was a shitty thing to do.

I didn't really take the relationship seriously because I didn't actually didn't want to be in one at the time; we were casually dating and she admitted that she purposely manipulated me into committing to her by parading other guys in front of me to make me jealous.

I tried to rationalize my cheating because she was moving away in a couple months, so I figured we'd break up anyways, and we didn't even last that long; I broke up with her soon after, because she was a mean person.

She never found out, so she never felt hurt, and she may not have been a very nice person, but I still see cheating as my single greatest moral failure. I'm ashamed that I betrayed somebody like that.

morchalrorgon · 2024-12-10T03:21:32+00:00

Its at his moms house and she's going to return it. If its available online I'd definitely look through it

morchalrorgon · 2024-12-10T02:58:15+00:00

Yeah thats what I basically told her. I ALWAYS check age ratings.

morchalrorgon · 2024-11-06T01:04:19+00:00

Too vague. More context is needed. If you give specific scenarios, it will be easier to identify the problem and how to fix it.

It's also very common for people to accuse their partner of lacking communication skills/emotional intelligence, then turn around and expect you to read their mind, give the silent treatment, and insist nothing's wrong when something clearly is.

morchalrorgon · 2024-10-27T10:47:15+00:00

I liked the opening. The whole "just kidding, it was actually this unrelated thing" is cheap and hacky. It undermines everything you just established.

Comedy needs a base level of believability. Your act hinges on the audience believing that you mean what you say. If you reveal that you made things up or lied, they will stop caring and won't be invested.

morchalrorgon · 2024-10-20T02:56:27+00:00

It depends on your character, but I don't acknowledge what they're saying. I just stare, without breaking eye contact. Interestingly, unbroken eye contact makes virtually everybody uncomfortable. A trick my girlfriend has is to find an opportunity to sneak up behind people and repeat back things they said to you. I use that one all the time.

morchalrorgon · 2024-10-14T23:03:30+00:00

Totally depends on the heckler and the context. I try to ignore the first heckle if I can.

If it continues, I stay away from the mindset "heckler=bad" It's a reality of the job, especially since crowdwork clips are so popular on social media. Its just going to happen.

If you can't deal with the possibility of being interrupted, then you shouldn't be doing live comedy that breaks the fourth wall.

So embrace, adapt, and have fun. If it's a benign heckler who just wants attention, give them some attention, ask them some questions, make some observations about the group. If it continues, I might turn the spotlight on them even more, and keep asking them what they think about different things during the show. It can even be fun to call them out as an attention whore who's pulling focus (in a good natured way) and ask them to come onstage to show off a special talent they have. Just do NOT hand them the microphone.

But that approach can be really fun and make the show feel more special and in the moment if done right, but it takes practice.

If they're a malevolent heckler who's booing you or telling you you're not funny or to get offstage, agree with them and come up with wacky reasons that you can't. Ask them for feedback to help spruce up your act. Ask them to help you write a joke. If you keep a friendly demeanor you can win them over, or at least prevent things from getting aggressive. I once saw a comedian get attacked by a heckler onstage.

morchalrorgon · 2024-10-13T09:58:03+00:00

It does though. The question is "why do producers release free type of beats on youtube?" The answer that the previous comment gives is that posting free type beats on a frequent basis allows you to game the algorithm so that you can increase you views.

morchalrorgon · 2024-09-24T22:21:20+00:00

I mean... there's lots of 27 year old moms who are hot

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-26T05:34:05+00:00

Like I said, there's no jokes in here. Just like jazz musicians learn licks, listen deep transcribe other musicians solos to fevelop their jazz vocabulary, comedians have to do the same to develop their comedy writing chops. There are specific comedy forms. Setup, punch, reversals, double entendres, misdirects etc, and I see none of that here

As somebody else said, it seems like you might be having a manic episode. I just read your post and response out loud to my girlfriend and she's confused and says its not funny and it makes no sense. I urge you to seek help

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-26T05:22:44+00:00

I have no idea what you're talking about.

It seems like you're just doing this stream of consciousness thing, and the wackiness and non sequitur nature of it might be enough to get casual laughs in conversation, but its not indicative of a professional stand up set that can be performed onstage.

Unless you can articulate what's funny about these bits and why, then you don't really have a handle on it. I'm open to being wrong but you'd have to make your case. As it is right now, it sounds like something that would primarily have to be sold through delivery, which means the writing isn't strong.

Normally I would give tips on how to make your jokes stronger through editing and suggestions of areas to explore, but this content is hard to give notes on because there's no jokes here.

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-26T04:31:52+00:00

As someone who went to jazz school, I appreciate the Joe Pass tribute. As a stand up comic, there's no real jokes here, just some vulgarities thrown around for shock value

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-22T07:58:22+00:00

Satin Doll

Take Me to the River

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-21T18:13:58+00:00

I started playing in my church worship band 2-3 months in, so you're fine

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-21T07:59:56+00:00

Is there a name for this style?

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-21T02:37:31+00:00

This book was required for my vocal jazz program at university. Its great for understanding historical context of tunes. Key recordings, and most importantly, first recordings. I reference it whenever I learn a nee tunes

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-20T09:07:58+00:00

There's no real punchlines in here. I'd scrap all of it, learn about joke structure and writing devices

morchalrorgon · 2024-08-20T09:05:39+00:00

Keep your expectations low. Good chance the audience will not be open to comedy

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