It Sucks Being Me
When Dat Phan ridicules the hell out of the nail biz, people laugh. When I say something about it, people get furious. I guess he’s a comedian and I am not. I am not mad at him though. Albeit I find his mother-mocking accents to be annoying, he is one funny muthaflucker. Mad props to him. As for me, I like what someone has told me: “It sucks being you.” Damn right, baby!
it’s official, i have a crush, on dat phan
also, don’t be to beat, it’s alright being you donny, at least we have something in common, i like dat phan better when he doesn’t speak english like his mom
as much as I proud as having Dat Phan is the first Vietnamese comedian that made his name in mainstream American comedy, I found him not funny. From his first appearance on “Last Comic Standing” on NBC, he seems to use same material over and over again. OK, I admit I laughed when he first put out accent-mocking, nail profession, his mom, etc.. but he keeps using them over and over again. It made me tired of him. I just visited Diem Thuyen’s blog and watched his clip. I just couldn’t laugh at all.
Dat Phan was so funny with his Vietnamese background jokes. I like his “two Asians went into a bar, two weeks later they own it” joke. I used to LMAO. But they are getting old. I am really tired of hearing his same old jokes. He has to come up with new materials. May be he cannot. He probably a “one hit wonder.” That would be too bad because I really like him.
And Donny, we don’t come to your website for your comic relief. So don’t be too hard on yourself. Keep up the good work. Cheers.
I don’t know we have the Vietnamese Comedian ( I rarely watch comedy show :-) Too bad that I can’t follow his joke fully from Donny’s link because it hang once in a while. But I don’t like the way he imitates his mom’s voice.
Personally I found Dat Phan not very funny. His brand was physical humor (the accent), and ethnic cliches — which get tired very quickly. Each to his own, I guess.
To Ducster,
Most stand-ups have only a catalog of core jokes from which to make a career. Only a couple exceptions I can currently think of are George Carlin and Richard Pryor (RIP, MF!). Jeff Foxworthy is also trying to move away from his “you are a redneck when …” schtick but he now sucks.
7h@ch, you’re probably right. I’m no authority on stand-ups comics. But someone like Jerry Seinfeld has managed to have fresh materials.
I think in big shows like Seinfeld or Jay Leno, there’s a team of people behind the scene that wrote all those fresh jokes for him. I don’t think he comes up w/ all the jokes himself. For a little guy like Dat Phan & especially Asian, I gave him credit for venturing out of the comfort zone & started a challenging career. However, like most of your comments, his ethnic jokes do not last long. In comedy, you need new, creative punch lines all the time. Back in school time, I remembered one of my teachers told us (when we tried to put together a comedy skit) was that we needed to come up w/ a punch line every 4 sentences and the punch line cannot be repeated too often because the general public would get bored easily.
I guess there’s a talent there inside of Dat Phan, but he needs more skills & more creativity to be successful in his career. I do wish him the best.