TCB Debriefing 11/24/23: Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Tig Notaro/Colbert, Hasan Minhaj, YouTube Fact Checking
1. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, the Rob Reiner documentary tribute to his dear friend and certified comedy genius, Albert Brooks, is truly illuminating and a sensational reminder of how absolutely, devastatingly funny and original Brooks was. As far as alternative comedy goes, you could draw a line from Ernie Kovacs to Albert Brooks to almost anything off-beat done on stage today and this doc makes emphatically sure that you know that and will never forget it. Required viewing for anyone into comedy or even likes laughing, even just a little bit. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life is streaming now on Max.
2. Speaking of “defending my life”, Hasan Minhaj just added a bunch of dates for his Off With His Head tour. Get your tix at hasanminhaj.com.
3. Tig Notaro was in peak Tig form on Colbert. Please enjoy.
4. We were watching this Don’t Tell set from Malik Elassal and noticed that YouTube has tacked on a Wikipedia embed for the page about how the Flat Earth is a scientifically disproven conception based off of the title of the video “Woke Flat Earthers”. We have no doubt comedians will figure a way to twist this new move to some hysterical result (and perhaps go overboard with it in the process).
5. We’ll leave you with this: Can we not do a bunch of bits about saying “happy holidays” this year? There are plenty of actual wars going on versus the fake “War on Christmas”.