Stand-up comic, Steve Hofstetter, explains firing his agency for signing Kanye West
Sorry that it's a YT Short; this format seems to work well for Steve, so many of his uploads are Shorts.
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Never in my life have I ever met a comedian so desperate to be the center of attention. And I worked the stand up circuit in Toronto. Every single thing that happens in the world this man has to try and somehow connect back to himself.
So Kanye comes out as a Nazi and Steve's first reaction is just to make it about himself for 3 minutes. To talk about how this impacts him and his own life. Frankly I thought that was scumbaggy enough, trying to inject himself into conversation. But this was only made worse when I loaded up the 33 & West website and saw 16 comedians. So he's using information he didn't bother to verify and just assumed, right?
Wrong. Look at the description.
He made this stand a year ago and now has no way to make the stand again so he just reuploaded the exact same video. He has literally no way to make this about himself other than to say "Look what I did a year ago!" But he does it anyway. This is a desperate man who cannot handle people not talking about himself. Every single thing that happens he has to find a way to divert it back to himself to stay relevant.
The reason he went so long in his career without an agency is because he isn't good at his job. It's the exact same reason he has to do this underhanded and scumbaggy behavior.
Isn’t he that guy that used to have hecklers planted in the audience that would say very specific things in order to set things up for the perfect “Watch as I Put a Heckler in Their Place.” videos?
Yes. He is exactly that person.
I remember that. So cringy! I think I filtered him from my YouTube feen back in the day.
It's his whole act. He really doesn't have any material*. He just attracts heckling and riffs on that.
*edit for shit spelling.
I'm guessing you meant to say 'material', and yeah. You're not wrong. Every single clip I've ever seen of this dude is heckling material. I remember him releasing an album for free like a decade ago so I downloaded it and listened to it. It was just... mid. His heckling stuff is fine but his actual stand up is severely lacking. He can deal with a heckler, like Jimmy Carr, but he doesn't have any material to actually perform otherwise. Some of it is just heckler bait while most of it is just tired tropes and angles.
I always hear comedians release their heckling stuff on YouTube cause releasing their actual material spoils their act for them.
The argument isn't typically that it spoils the act, it's that other comedians will steal your material. However, the complaint is just moronic. Comedians are always going to steal your material regardless. Just because you don't upload it online doesn't mean anything other than you're limiting your viewer base. That's the more obvious answer. The less obvious answer?
How are you supposed to argue that a Comedian stole your material if you don't even have a record of you performing the material first?
Hmmm… Maybe you’re in the comedy scene and hear the arguments. I have just heard it talked about on podcasts and I’ve never heard them say it’s about stealing material. You’re right, that makes no sense.
It does make sense that you don’t want your act spoiled. So if you have some good heckling material to show that you’re funny, share that.
Virtue signaling is a large part of many peoples personality
Seems like someone making a principled stand to me. 🤷♂️
I mean, isn't this exactly about him, his agency, and who they represent?
I give zero shits about this comedian, but the choice to criticize at this moment? Seems weird.
Seems like someone making a principled stand to me
Here's the problem though. This stand was made a year ago. He broke off from his agency a year ago. None of this is new information, that's why the info in the video was outdated. He reuploaded it yesterday specifically because of the Kanye news but nothing new was added into the video.
Is that still a principled stand? Or is it exactly what I said, with one dude trying to make himself relevant to daily news.
He started it off by saying Kanye caused him to lose a huge part of his career. Then went on to say he quit because of Kanye. That was my first clue something was off about this dude.
Ha. It's ok for people to not like things and it not be jealousy. You don't like this opinion, but does that mean you're envious that they stated it before you got a chance to? Some people don't like things and that's ok.