Nyuck-Nyuck Goes Bye-Bye
Nyuck-Nyuck Goes Bye-Bye by Roxanne McDonald
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Maybe she is funnier in person. Nya. I don’t think so. Think it was past time for Debra DiGiovanni to go home. |
Don’t be mad, DiGiovanni fans. [Hello???? Anyone out there?] And don’t worry too much about where she’ll go from here. Debra is, according to the
“Last Comic Standing” blurbs, “one of Canada’s fastest-rising stand-up talents,” “the Best Stand Up to see after a Messy Break Up” [NOW, Toronto], and “presently a sought after headliner with a growing fan base.”
And evidently, I am in the minority (not caring for that style of nyuck nyuck hyberbolic hilarity), for she won the first round between her and Matt Kirshen.
But Matt came back with a voice bigger than his diminutive body, and nailed the head-to-head—I suspect with the bacon-eating Jew bit and the most clever and last-minute addition of the joke that piggybacked on Debra’s set minutes earlier. Clever boy. Witty boy. One of my favs.
Yes, we all know appreciation is subjective, and our criteria for “funniest” is all over the program’s playbill (if there was one). But how many years one has been doing stand-up just miiiight. not. be the deciding factor. (Though we sure appreciate the subtext, which so many reality shows fail to use, thereby lending to many mistakes for recappers. I love NBC.)
And I’m not cappin on Debra because she is Canadian [so all you troll-the-web-for-racism people can relax], for several, SEVeral of the best comics have come form our neighbor, including a whole short bus full of SNL veterans, and, if it makes any matter beyond a common denominator hasty generalization in efforts to be anti-racist, I have
French-Canadian blood all the way back to ancestors who were all Jews.
And I so don’t care about the weight, for, again, favorites. John Candy. Chris Farley. Funneeeee. Debra DiGiovanni and her “you know what I mean?” signature tag and how fat am I attempts at self-deprecation? Not so much.
She was/is about as funny as, as, well…, Amy Schumer.
Next!
Take my fledgling comics, puhlease.
*And, oh, by the way, this piece in no way is intended to be funny. Too tired for that. And too prostrated to the likes of the funnier, way more hilarious reviewers…, whom you can find lurking about at the following:
SirLinksAlot Last Comic Standing links
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