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Big-name comics (anecdotally based on a sample size of two) generally don’t seem to be as funny as no-name comics. I was at a show last night where Sarah Silverman (whom I wasn’t all that familiar with) and Drew Carey made appearances, and neither had the same energy as the rest of the folks in their bits. Perhaps because we’re used to the big-names’ styles, from seeing them on television, and we don’t experience as much unexpectedness from them, as in, “I wonder what this person will say next!” to make us laugh when they utter something completely random and inane, compared with the characteristic utterance we would stereotypically expect. At least, that (non-unexpectedness) was the case with Carey, but Silverman on the other hand, being pretty unknown to me at least, was nonetheless just inherently not all that funny. Random, yes, and perhaps funny in an intellectual sense (or maybe not), but definitely not in the laugh-out-loud sort of way.

I don’t remember the names of any of the interstitial comedians/comediennes who //were// clever/funny.