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I have noticed in certain threads on General Chat that Gremmill has been listening to a lot of marginally funny comedians such as Patrice O'Neal, Jim Jeffries (who apprently lifts material from Doug Stanhope), and, crucially, Bill Burr. These comedians are not at the height of their profession. The first one is so fat he died, and the second two belong in the mid-lower leagues of stand up comics currently working. Despite this, Gremmill has recommended a podcast involving the so-called comedian Bill Burr, and, judging by the responses to his recommendation, several people are planning to listen to this podcast to see if it's any good. I have a word of advice for those people: DON'T. You will save time and aggravation if you avoid this podcast; I have never heard it, but if Bill Burr is involved in it it cannot be more than marginally funny, and is likely to be much worse. Gremmill notes with shock that upon hearing the podcast, people have told him it's shit--this includes a poster on this website and a work colleague--well let me tell you something, if you had seen a segment of stand up by Bill Burr, this would not have come as a shock. If people do actually listen to this podcast on the recommendation of Gremmill I fear it could lead to the eventual destruction of this forum; the anger felt upon realising that you have just wasted 30 minutes listening to a shit podcast because of a well-regarded poster on this website will lead to an outpouring of vitriol and abuse never before seen in these quarters. I therefore felt it necessary to start this thread in an attempt to educate people as to how shit a recommendation the Bill Burr podcast is. As for Gremmill himself, YOU should be ashamed. I don't know whether to put this episode down to a moral lapse or something more serious--whatever it is, you need to STOP. If you want to listen to mediocre comedians that is fine, but to then recommend them to other people is unseemly and plainly wrong. Feel free to sticky this.
