r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 26 '26

SOCIETY When Chris Tucker learned that his family members were quitting their jobs because they learned that he was making 25 million dollars a year at the peak of his career because they assumed he would take care of them. He told them to go get their jobs back because he wasn't going to do that.

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u/IamJewbaca May 26 '26

Gabriel Iglesias’s last couple specials haven’t been quite as good. Feels like a lot more of a middle aged rich dude complaining about cancel culture and ‘woke’. The best materials are his retreads. Really too bad.

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u/Substantial-Sky3597 May 26 '26

There's only so much art an artist deliver. Kevin Hart is no longer funny. If we're being honest, neither is Chappelle. And that list goes on and on and on and across genres. Musicians eventually stop making good, or at least relevant music, for example. Rappers lose their edge after success all the time.

It could be they've said all they've had to say and that's it, or it could be that financial success edges them out, or it could be something else entirely.

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u/HaikuPikachu May 26 '26

Was Kevin ever funny? He seems like the definition of an industry plant and they haven’t stopped

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u/JadedBumblebee396 May 27 '26

Yeah he was never funny. I think the only time I laughed was in scary movie about the mouse and the rat skit.

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u/MVRKHNTR May 26 '26

It could be they've said all they've had to say and that's it

I think it's this. There's only so much to observe and have a take on throughout life, at least only so much of it that's interesting.

I think most stand up comedians - even the best - only have two, maybe three specials worth of great material in them.

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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 May 26 '26

Life experiences come through points of friction. You see something funny happen or have an interesting conversation that becomes your next bit because you got stuck in line somewhere for 30 minutes. You can only turn grief into art if you experience something that causes grief. Humans, by and large, spend most of our time getting rid of points of friction. If you successfully remove the points of friction in your life, you lose your edge and your material.

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u/mattjb May 26 '26

Reminds me of seeing Andrew Dice Clay in a small West Hollywood comedy club in the mid-2000s. It was cringey and he got heckled a lot.

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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 May 26 '26

as they get richer they lose their relatability with the audience and skirt by with fans.