Never liked Tosh.0, but very few specials made me laugh this hard when I first heard it in high school, and I’m happy to report the whole thing still slaps.
Tosh’s delivery is like lightning when it comes to building on a certain topic and sounding direct and passionate, only to go off on a diatribe that only sorta sometimes is part of the topic, and even MORE direct and passionate. A rant about the Amish turns into something about getting a snuggie as a joke-gift, and it’s both completely sensical (in his mind) and certainly not as joke cringey as it sounds.
The material is so well-written that one could see the lesser comics of today delivering it and still getting laughs, but Tosh’s stage persona is something else, and always felt far more organic than the show he was popular for. He has an uncanny way of remaining as monotone as possible, while still allowing the audience to clearly recognize and pick up the constant annoyance of everything and everyone in that voice. We are all losers to Tosh, and that hilariously cheerful and disconcerting smile is gonna make us accept that.
Oh, and because we’re in the late 00s/early 10s of edgy comedy, everyone’s gotta have a lazy sectioned bit about sports and steroids, except this one’s (gasp) funny!! Yeah, the topic that Robin fucking Williams couldn’t make funny, Tosh said “hold my beer” and did the impossible.
Never liked Tosh.0, but very few specials made me laugh this hard when I first heard it in high school, and I’m happy to report the whole thing still slaps.
Tosh’s delivery is like lightning when it comes to building on a certain topic and sounding direct and passionate, only to go off on a diatribe that only sorta sometimes is part of the topic, and even MORE direct and passionate. A rant about the Amish turns into something about getting a snuggie as a joke-gift, and it’s both completely sensical (in his mind) and certainly not as joke cringey as it sounds.
The material is so well-written that one could see the lesser comics of today delivering it and still getting laughs, but Tosh’s stage persona is something else, and always felt far more organic than the show he was popular for. He has an uncanny way of remaining as monotone as possible, while still allowing the audience to clearly recognize and pick up the constant annoyance of everything and everyone in that voice. We are all losers to Tosh, and that hilariously cheerful and disconcerting smile is gonna make us accept that.
Oh, and because we’re in the late 00s/early 10s of edgy comedy, everyone’s gotta have a lazy sectioned bit about sports and steroids, except this one’s (gasp) funny!! Yeah, the topic that Robin fucking Williams couldn’t make funny, Tosh said “hold my beer” and did the impossible.
