Stamets

How?

My Karlach usually has a Berserker throwing build. I feel your pain, my friend. So many shots ruined.

If they're anything like me then each character they make is focused on a different facet of themselves or something they've dealt with. The rest bleed into it in more minor 'supporting' ways while one mental illness takes the main stage.

I wouldn't say he was a celebrity. Queer as Folk wasn't enormous, at least I don't remember it being so. It was mostly for queer folk. Was a slice of life drama of a group of friends in the queer community dealing with stuff the queer community has to. It was a show for us. Mikey was real cute though and he ends up marrying a professor, a big beefy slab of a man. All the characters have a sort of single trait that can seem like bad writing at first but is just a way to focus on certain sections of the community and showing the things they have to deal with. The beefyboi has HIV and considering the show came out in the 2000s it was a big deal. I thought they did it super super well. The whole show was very good. Very sexual mind you, it was on Showtime and us gays are sluts, but it was super well done.

Here's a random scene from the show that's quite funny if you're interested. Mikey, the husband and Brian (the 'main character' of the show) - https://youtu.be/d4Y-FH0CaIY

Alternatively.... Queer as folk out of context. Just saw this video recommende to me. I'm dying. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FmRjHV7ZM

Thanks <3 After working in comedy for years, I've had some time to think about that answer. Definitely not the first time I've heard the question.

But the rest don't

Richard Pryor laid himself completely bare on stage, talking about his own personal trauma, racial injustice, addiction and America itself.

Dave Chappelle (as much as he's a dick) went hard into racism making you both laugh and sort of flinch at the same time.

Bill Hicks would deliver basically full on sermons against capitalism, consumerism and conformity with the same passion as a street preacher.

Hannah Gadsby and Daniel Sloss both turn their inner hell and struggles into stand up acts that make you cry from empathy and laughter.

Bo Burnham rips apart every section of culture he can get his little twink hands on.

Norm MacDonald often turned jokes into full on thought experiments where you're suddenly contemplating death and futility while he's staring at you with zen-like calm and a smile on his face. James Acaster isn't too different, you're just replacing the Zen-like calm with excitable energy and a goofy grin.

Frankie Boyle gets dismissed as being nothing but crass humor but is EXCEPTIONALLY sharp at taking apart inequality, classism and politics in general.

Sarah Silverman has been pissing on social norms for decades and pointing out how ridiculous they are.

Tig Notaro could also be arguably classed in the Daniel Sloss/Hannah Gadsby one but has a different type of hell and as personally a big fan I wanted to just call her out on her own.

Lewis Black uses screaming indignant rage to lash out at bureaucratic idiocy, corruption, the death of common sense and the sliding of society.

Louis CK, however you feel about him, also tends to line up a lot of his comedy with the second guy considering how big of a fan he was. Louis spoke, with this dudes families permission, at a ceremony honoring said man and has tried (and failed in a lot of ways, succeeded in some others) to carry the torch of...

George Carlin who was less of a comedian than a prophet with a punchline. Dude deconstructed language, religion, social constructs, politics, capitalism, and every ounce of hypocrisy he could find. He was doing stand up and talking about aging and death from when he had a full head of hair until he was shuffling around in slippers. Shuffling around and STILL BEING HYSTERICALLY SHARP might I add. Man used comedy as a weapon against anything he found distasteful to humanity. If Plato had a sense of humor and access to HBO, he'd have sounded like George Carlin.

As much as douchebros like to abuse the statement, the statement does have truth. You don't have philosophers who sit down and wax about the world anymore, at least none that are given much attention on the whole. Comedians bridge that gap. They make you laugh, sure, but to laugh you've got to think. A joke requires you to make a mental leap at some point, it's just one you weren't expecting. A good comedian can make that leap not just funny but also mean something.

And I didn't downvote you, nor do I think people should. It's a valid question. The answers are not always obvious. Not everyone is going to know everything or see everything from a certain point of view.

My cat.

That is literally it.

The day I lose her is the day the my world loses its tiny ember of light.

To some minor degree of success but I couldn't ever get control of my anxiety

Edit: Sorry I was on my way out the door to an appointment.

I did it for a few years and wasn't outright hated. Did fairly well for myself but relatively minor all things considered. Was on TV here in Canada a couple times. There are clips out there floating around of me doing stand up and it's always a mixed reaction, like any comedy. Some people like it and some people don't which isn't helped by the fact that my style was kind of a cross-over of Robin Williams, Dylan Moran and Lewis Black. Fast, surreal and angry. If I was able to afford therapy and get some medication then I'd probably still be doing it. But, then again, trauma seems to be a prerequesite for being a comic.

And hell no I'm not finding a clip.

It never does. Only time seems to make any difference. They seem to forget why they hated it, watch it and get over it going "Huh this isn't as bad as I remember" and then pretend they never acted like it in the first place.

Give it 10 years and people will be offering me money for my Stamets username on like... everything.

Thus the title lol

I vaguely remember a dude hosting it. Now I'm wondering if it wasn't the Amanda Bynes show or something

Well I guess now that Eidos doesn't have the argument "Oh but the mo-cap!" they're willing to bring the goat back.

That being said... still say that the best version of Garrett that Stephen ever voiced was in Dishonored 2. I mean, hey. If Eidos is going to just throw him by the wayside, you might as well take advantage. And boy did they.