Bob Rubin: Oddities and Rarities

Thank god he's alive! The best comedy is polarizing. Rube is a genius, and not for everyone. But me, my wife, and my two Gen Z'rs were crying laughing throughout. We all have that bone. Love Bob. Hope to get a chance to see him live.

This is among the funniest comedy specials I have ever seen. The other people writing reviews have no imagination and no taste for the Absurd (assuming it's still just the three jabronis who gave it 1 star). The genius of Durang and Beckett and Ionesco would be utterly lost on them, they would probably cringe to hear Tom Waits or read any Allen Ginsberg. This is crazed madmen comedy, beautifully written, rife with imagery, and performed by a raving lunatic. This is Comedy for 2020.

Guy coming on stage, screaming nonsensical things for 52 minutes. The most honest words come after 12:45 minutes: I don't get it, says the guy pretending to be a comedian. So true...

And he isn't buttering his cheesecake anymore.

I was redirected to this special after the Patton Oswalt one, and boy do I want my 10 minutes back. Rubin's routine is based on playing a madman spitting nonsense in an incoherent string of word which he nails. If that sounds like something you like - go for it. For me, an hour of furiously screaming nonsense by someone who clearly overindulged on hard drugs back in his prime was just... overwhelming.

I just did a thing I said I would never do, I gave up after ten minutes into the show (if you can call it that). I normally finish everything that I started watching, just to have a honest opinion but in this case I could't even pass the first ten minutes from this short show. It's starts like apparently Bob Rubin has been absent from the scene for fifteen years (what totally makes sense to me, it's that bad nobody is interested in this kind of garbage) but I never heard from him before. He looks and sounds like somebody that abused some really bad drugs for a long period of time, rambling like a madman about things nobody cares, that was what I witnessed for ten minutes, couldn't take it anymore after that. It's the first time I rate a stand-up comedian with the lowest score possible, and I watch tons of stand-up comedies, enough said. A stand-up comedy should be funny or at least try to be funny, that's why it's called a comedy. Bob Rubin should do everybody a favor and return to whatever he was doing as long as we don't have to see him again.