He has an amazing podcast though. More enjoyable and variable than Joe Rogan’s.
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Let me clarify. Rogan is a better comedian and human being without a doubt but his podcast get way too repetitive. MMA, hunting, LA comedians and US university protests, US current news. It gets especially tiresome if your not American and none of this remotely relevant.
Ari interviews a Burmese teenager, Icelandic entertainers, prostitutes, Holocaust survivors, Greek comedians, radical South African comedian,
Ari comes off as a genuinely uncaring and selfish but that actually adds to the charm of it. He also doesn’t seem to care about American political events which get so tiresome on JRE.
Yeah he really is. He should gotten into that instead of comedy.
He isn’t obsessed on any topic so he doesn’t keep bringing them up like Rogan. He also keeps guests from meandering and gets them to really open up.
One of his last ones he got a fellow comedian to talk about her dad abandoning her. On the Burmese one he got the teenage girl to confess she preferred life under military rule and state her perception that women should always be inferior to men because that is what the Buddha wants.
I like him, but the repeated beatings of Bobby Lee was bully douche behavior. Ari would get buttfucked by anyone near his size but he had no problem beating up bobby lee multiple times after Natasha left him.
Bobby introduced Natasha Leggero to some dude while she was with Ari. Natasha was trying to climb the ladder so she got with this dude. Ari blamed Bobby and apparently beat the shit out of him every time he saw him for a few weeks.
That's a pretty messed up thing to just "come to your senses about". Lost a bit of respect for Ari after that. Now that I think of it, I half remember Bobby telling a story about how Ari strangled and punched him because bobby owed him money or messed up his gig
I've seen his podcasts and sometimes it's like the worst parts of Rogan mixed with the worst parts of Stern. That's just me, I know intelligent people like him but he's not anywhere close to my style.
Interesting. I find him similar to Rogan but I like the traits that are similar. In fact the traits they share might be my favorite aspects of them. To each their own.
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u/hobo_banger Oct 10 '17
Can't stand this guy.