Marga Gomez
March 9, 2008 3:42 PM Subscribe
One very funny woman (NSFW for some f-bombs)
I've never even seen "The L-Word", but this bit about it kills me.
I've never even seen "The L-Word", but this bit about it kills me.
This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn
This would be a good addition to the thread still going about female comedians. Not so much as a post of its own.
posted by slimepuppy at 3:57 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by slimepuppy at 3:57 PM on March 9, 2008
Much like my theory about the music of Melissa Etheridge, I believe this is the sort of thing that the target audience pretends is better than it actually is as a means of solidarity I guess.
Not that there arent great queer (not using that as a pejorative) comedians, but this seems like the sort of bland performer that NPR/Whole Foods/etc people go see more because it makes them feel pleased with themselves and not so much because the material is all that great.
I hate to be a hater and have railed against that sort of thing in the blue many times, but if youre gonna make such a flimsy FPP then what is there should be stellar. At least enough to overcome it.
But hey, laughter is subjective and I could be completely wrong. Wouldnt be the first time.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 3:57 PM on March 9, 2008
Not that there arent great queer (not using that as a pejorative) comedians, but this seems like the sort of bland performer that NPR/Whole Foods/etc people go see more because it makes them feel pleased with themselves and not so much because the material is all that great.
I hate to be a hater and have railed against that sort of thing in the blue many times, but if youre gonna make such a flimsy FPP then what is there should be stellar. At least enough to overcome it.
But hey, laughter is subjective and I could be completely wrong. Wouldnt be the first time.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 3:57 PM on March 9, 2008
Was there even a joke in the first video?
I think I'll pass on the rest.
posted by empath at 3:59 PM on March 9, 2008
I think I'll pass on the rest.
posted by empath at 3:59 PM on March 9, 2008
Much like my theory about the music of Melissa Etheridge, I believe this is the sort of thing that the target audience pretends is better than it actually is as a means of solidarity I guess.
Enh. Etheridge was bigger before she came out, I think.
That said, I didn't find Gomez funny at all, and I don't think this has anything to do with me not being gay, female, Hispanic, American, short or gap-toothed. She's just not very entertaining, and the length of her list of credits seems to indicate that this is a pretty common viewpoint.
posted by ten pounds of inedita at 4:02 PM on March 9, 2008
Enh. Etheridge was bigger before she came out, I think.
That said, I didn't find Gomez funny at all, and I don't think this has anything to do with me not being gay, female, Hispanic, American, short or gap-toothed. She's just not very entertaining, and the length of her list of credits seems to indicate that this is a pretty common viewpoint.
posted by ten pounds of inedita at 4:02 PM on March 9, 2008
Is she tweakin? Looks like she's high.
posted by freshundies at 4:04 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by freshundies at 4:04 PM on March 9, 2008
She obviously connects with her audience very well. I'm not sue that translates on YouTube. Her jokes don't seem like the sorts of honed setup-punchline bits that can be teased out from the main of the show and still kill. Instead, it seems like there is a lot of little witticisms that are vaguely funny on their own, but gain power within the context of a comedian-storyteller building a story, with callbacks to earlier comments and amusing little digressions that are enjoyable in the context of a larger story. That kind of a comic is never well-represented by soundbites, even soundbites that are three or four minutes long.
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:06 PM on March 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Astro Zombie at 4:06 PM on March 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
AZ may be correct.
Some people dont find Eric Bogosian funny (I love him) and he works in much the same way.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 4:08 PM on March 9, 2008
Some people dont find Eric Bogosian funny (I love him) and he works in much the same way.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 4:08 PM on March 9, 2008
Enh. Etheridge was bigger before she came out, I think.
Nope. She became vastly bigger after coming out.
And again nothing wrong with that at all.
The problem is that her music is the worst kind off reheated AOR classic-rock Chevy commerical crap which somehow gets imbued with some unearned credibility simply due to her sexuality.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 4:14 PM on March 9, 2008
Nope. She became vastly bigger after coming out.
And again nothing wrong with that at all.
The problem is that her music is the worst kind off reheated AOR classic-rock Chevy commerical crap which somehow gets imbued with some unearned credibility simply due to her sexuality.
posted by Senor Cardgage at 4:14 PM on March 9, 2008
MetaFilter: NPR/Whole Foods/etc people
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 4:26 PM on March 9, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 4:26 PM on March 9, 2008 [3 favorites]
i watched the first video and i have two questions..
1. why is she making constant eye-contact with the camera?
2. why is she purple?
not that spectacular-- kinda reminds me of 60s-era Cosby, which was great then...
posted by ianaces at 4:27 PM on March 9, 2008
1. why is she making constant eye-contact with the camera?
2. why is she purple?
not that spectacular-- kinda reminds me of 60s-era Cosby, which was great then...
posted by ianaces at 4:27 PM on March 9, 2008
The L-Word thing about Pam Grier was pretty funny. Ditto on YouTube being an unforgiving medium as far as demonstrating Marga's ability to rock a room.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 4:32 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 4:32 PM on March 9, 2008
Well the Anne Nicole Smith bit looks like some form of roasting + commentary of the absurdity of all the media inquiry on all the most mundane details of her life and death.
The Christmas with Cochina bit seems to be about uncomfortable obsession she lived when she was a kid , clearly it flies over the head of these who didn't have extremely protective mothers obsessed by hygiene ; similarly the respect for the elders bit is a satire of the behavior of some old relative , so much indoctrinated about what is ok to not and not OK and obsessing a youngster with their rules ; only hoar bitches no good ladies wear miniskirt, I bet many ladies can remember this line.
posted by elpapacito at 4:52 PM on March 9, 2008
The Christmas with Cochina bit seems to be about uncomfortable obsession she lived when she was a kid , clearly it flies over the head of these who didn't have extremely protective mothers obsessed by hygiene ; similarly the respect for the elders bit is a satire of the behavior of some old relative , so much indoctrinated about what is ok to not and not OK and obsessing a youngster with their rules ; only hoar bitches no good ladies wear miniskirt, I bet many ladies can remember this line.
posted by elpapacito at 4:52 PM on March 9, 2008
Uggg...
i just hope this fpp doesn't brings the same mediocre/vile commentary as the one slimepuppy is referencing. Seems like it might.
posted by [son] QUAALUDE at 4:56 PM on March 9, 2008
i just hope this fpp doesn't brings the same mediocre/vile commentary as the one slimepuppy is referencing. Seems like it might.
posted by [son] QUAALUDE at 4:56 PM on March 9, 2008
My name is Marga Go meh zzzzzzzz
posted by hal9k at 5:44 PM on March 9, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by hal9k at 5:44 PM on March 9, 2008 [2 favorites]
NSFW: not (even) somewhat funny woman
sorry, it was too easy
posted by Frank Grimes at 6:16 PM on March 9, 2008
sorry, it was too easy
posted by Frank Grimes at 6:16 PM on March 9, 2008
That's not funny. That's just saying what happens.
posted by stevil at 6:22 PM on March 9, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by stevil at 6:22 PM on March 9, 2008 [3 favorites]
I feel bad about critiquing standup comics from the safety of my keyboard, but the first video was meh. Not really convinced this merited a post.
posted by gsteff at 6:41 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by gsteff at 6:41 PM on March 9, 2008
Thanks for reminding me about one of the best woman-oriented gap-toothed humorists in the biz!
posted by Fennel B. at 7:32 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by Fennel B. at 7:32 PM on March 9, 2008
You're welcome. I'm glad at least one person likes it (on some level). Taste is weird --
I'm straight, Norwegian/Irish and male and those YTs slayed me. Sorry, people, I'll stick to Obama like a good Mefite.
posted by msalt at 8:04 PM on March 9, 2008
I'm straight, Norwegian/Irish and male and those YTs slayed me. Sorry, people, I'll stick to Obama like a good Mefite.
posted by msalt at 8:04 PM on March 9, 2008
if you know ricans, i don't see how you could not find the aunt bit funny. if you don't know ricans, well, that's on you.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 8:31 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by gorgor_balabala at 8:31 PM on March 9, 2008
"...and you can't, like, fast forward through Jenny."
Okay, that was a little funny, but only because I've never heard anyone say it and I always used to do it when I was watching that show.
posted by 517 at 8:41 PM on March 9, 2008
Okay, that was a little funny, but only because I've never heard anyone say it and I always used to do it when I was watching that show.
posted by 517 at 8:41 PM on March 9, 2008
I'll stick to Obama like a good Mefite.
Oh, please.
posted by The Bellman at 9:10 PM on March 9, 2008
Oh, please.
posted by The Bellman at 9:10 PM on March 9, 2008
oh, please.
I know, I regretted that the moment I clicked. Moral: no more posts after a dozen hours online.
posted by msalt at 9:16 PM on March 9, 2008
I know, I regretted that the moment I clicked. Moral: no more posts after a dozen hours online.
posted by msalt at 9:16 PM on March 9, 2008
Do you mean "really boring woman?"
posted by autodidact at 10:56 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by autodidact at 10:56 PM on March 9, 2008
She seems like she'd be that really funny friend who makes everyone laugh with her comments about what's on the show you all just watched together, or the way the waiter talked or that funny-looking chick at the mall. That Really Funny Friend's shtick doesn't often work so well on the stage.
posted by katillathehun at 11:34 PM on March 9, 2008
posted by katillathehun at 11:34 PM on March 9, 2008
I remember thinking the same thing about cannon balls when I was a kid. What's the big deal about a cannon ball? It'd just take out that one guy, or the one line of guys, there's plenty more to keep fighting, right?
Grapeshot is serious business. It's like turning the cannon into a huge shotgun. Then there's chain and bar shot, expanding several feet and spinning as it travels.
Of course, against sailors aboard those wooden ships, a cannonball worked just fine as one blasting through a ship would turn a wooden bulkhead into an explosion of deadly splinters.
Ouchie.
posted by Andrew Brinton at 12:24 AM on March 10, 2008
Grapeshot is serious business. It's like turning the cannon into a huge shotgun. Then there's chain and bar shot, expanding several feet and spinning as it travels.
Of course, against sailors aboard those wooden ships, a cannonball worked just fine as one blasting through a ship would turn a wooden bulkhead into an explosion of deadly splinters.
Ouchie.
posted by Andrew Brinton at 12:24 AM on March 10, 2008
Funnier than a punch in the ... um ...
posted by From Bklyn at 3:07 AM on March 10, 2008
posted by From Bklyn at 3:07 AM on March 10, 2008
Jeez, people are such haters. I mean, she's not the funniest person ever, but she's certainly funnier than, say, most of the really lame, trying-to-sound-clever put-downs of the post. I mean, "My name is Marga Go meh zzzzzzzz?" Really? Some people should ask themselves, if this post is a waste of time because it's not even funny, then what is your snarky comment?
(A waste of time because it's not even funny.)
Anyway, the cannonball bit made me chuckle a lot and I'm glad that this post exists, rather than an absence of this post.
posted by 1 at 5:05 AM on March 10, 2008
(A waste of time because it's not even funny.)
Anyway, the cannonball bit made me chuckle a lot and I'm glad that this post exists, rather than an absence of this post.
posted by 1 at 5:05 AM on March 10, 2008
"Of course, against sailors aboard those wooden ships, a cannonball worked just fine as one blasting through a ship would turn a wooden bulkhead into an explosion of deadly splinters."
Andrew Brinton,
Of course you're right.
But she's mining a seam of comic observational truth about how some of us wonder (dubiously and ignorantly) about the deadly effectiveness of cannon balls while being forced to contemplate cannons during vacation trips to forts!
(Now we've both killed what was potentially funny about that bit in the first place!)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 5:31 AM on March 10, 2008
Andrew Brinton,
Of course you're right.
But she's mining a seam of comic observational truth about how some of us wonder (dubiously and ignorantly) about the deadly effectiveness of cannon balls while being forced to contemplate cannons during vacation trips to forts!
(Now we've both killed what was potentially funny about that bit in the first place!)
posted by Jody Tresidder at 5:31 AM on March 10, 2008
So Puerto Ricans AND Cubans are crazy lol
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:46 AM on March 10, 2008
posted by Joseph Gurl at 5:46 AM on March 10, 2008
Hahahaha!
12 hours after watching the videos I start getting the jokes. This is hilarious! Thanks for posting.
posted by Dr. Curare at 6:00 AM on March 10, 2008
12 hours after watching the videos I start getting the jokes. This is hilarious! Thanks for posting.
posted by Dr. Curare at 6:00 AM on March 10, 2008
I mean, "My name is Marga Go meh zzzzzzzz?" Really?
Call me crazy, but I thought that was the point of that particular snark. Similar but intentional lameness.
posted by katillathehun at 10:26 AM on March 10, 2008
Call me crazy, but I thought that was the point of that particular snark. Similar but intentional lameness.
posted by katillathehun at 10:26 AM on March 10, 2008
I was totally enjoying the absence of this post and then blam along comes this post. I'm going to have to go on to enjoying the absence of this post now.
posted by rusty at 12:10 PM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by rusty at 12:10 PM on March 10, 2008 [1 favorite]
Did she post this herself? Funny? Meh. Ugly? Hellzzzz yes.
posted by dasheekeejones at 4:25 PM on March 10, 2008
posted by dasheekeejones at 4:25 PM on March 10, 2008
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posted by msalt at 3:50 PM on March 9, 2008