Maron is right. The “eh it was okay” form is comedy of Bert, Rogan, Callen, Hinchcliffe sucks. I’d rather listen to a Tom Myers than any Chris D’Elia. Because at least Myers is trying to be funny and not aww shucks he’s so nice.
Bert is like the “bad at his job but nice guy co-worker”. He sucks at work and you wonder how he got hired. But because he’ll buy everyone lunch & a box of Entenmanns on Friday and isn’t an jerkoff to anyone, you’ll sit in the break room and tolerate his “I got my wife 5 pairs of pajamas” story.
99% of comics won’t say a bad word about Bert because really, he’s over the top kind to them (desperate to be liked). He’ll take them on tour, pay them well, put them up in 5 star cabins for a Netflix show, do everyone’s shitty podcast, stroke their egos. And this results in guys like Bert who are “not great but not the worst thing I’ve seen” version of boring, average comedy that people leave on the background while doing housework.
That’s why it’s at least refreshing for Maron to call it out as “he’s not funny”.
I have no idea how anyone can like Segura. Massive nepotistic smug cunt.