#james acaster cold lasagne hate myself 1999

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James Acaster looks like his bones are made of wire like those little toys that you can pose

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james acaster fanart from wayyyy back in 2020

[theimpalatales]

We haven't got equality yet

James Acaster || Comedians

Buy me a ☕️

[cel-aerion]

Was in the path of totality of the eclipse today, in a place where a lot of people gathered. Seeing everyone there, gathered together from near and far, all for this rare sight... it made me think of this.

[Caption transcript: "When I saw that eclipse, I remember we were all in a field. So hundreds of people, just strangers, all sitting on the grass, just looking up at this eclipse... I don't think I've ever felt so connected to as many strangers in my life. Just amazing. It was still and quiet... It's hard to describe it to people who weren't there without using words like 'twas' and stuff like that with Shakespearean character out of nowhere, but... It was emotional, you know?"]

[an-acaster-a-day]

Day 27 of Daily Acaster Pics!

(Source: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999)

[cloudberrylane]

Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999

[alittleanalysis]

On Someone Else's Opinion

Now I love James Acaster as much as anyone else, but this post annoyed me, because... uh no... that line devoid of context doesn't actually mean anything. It lacks the acknowledgement of circumstance to be in any way insightful.

Take for instance "What if every relationship you've ever been in, is someone slowly figuring out they didn't like you as much as they hoped they would?" a related James Acaster quote, and notice how even completely separated from the original context it still works as a sad if not a little overly dramatic line. One that could exist within a larger more poetic work.

However "i was standing in someone else's happiness begging to be let in" doesn't work unless you know what is being spoken about, because "... standing in someone else's happiness ..." is a purely metaphorical sentiment, which can only be interpreted through the lens of some literal object. In the special it's the confetti from a wedding proposal, as James attempts to attend a therapy session which the therapist forgot about after being proposed to, this serves to reinforce James' loneliness and personal issues which are the central thematic through line of the special. Devoid of that context the line itself doesn't actually point to anything.

But what if that's what op intends, that the line is poignant because removed from context it can still be related to and understood, but that just returns to the fundamental issue that the "... standing in someone else's happiness ..." is not a relatable expression, because of how few things it can literally represent, none of which is helped by the fact that "... begging to be let in ..." abstracts the idea even further, meaning in order for the line to work on its own one must have experienced both standing in something which can be said to represent someone else's happiness, and simultaneously be either metaphorically or literally asking to be allowed access.

Is that a thing that someone can experience, absolutely, and would someone who did, find the line meaningful and poignant hard to say, but I will acknowledge the possibility, but is it suitably poetic on its face? Hard for me to think so, as it doesn't actually point to any sort of unifying experience only to an unique experience so specific as to be meaningless with out explanation.

[abandonastaroth]

Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 will always be special to me.

[demaorgs]

"i was standing in someone else's happiness begging to be let in" is such a poignant line you'd expect it to be from a poetry book or something but instead it's from james acaster's 1999 cold lasagne hate myself

[ratherembarrassing]

As a Taskmaster super fan, have you watched any of the standup of any of the contestants and if so do you have any recommendations? I've only see a few at this point (love Fern Brandy's stuff, Greg's standup is decidedly not for me)

hello! i started to answer this and then got distracted with thinking about taskmaster itself.

i have seen fern brady and tim key's most recent shows at micf.

actual standup i've seen: sarah millican’s tv specials, mae martin tv special, i don't really recommend those. julian clary i just feel like has existed in the ether forever and i absolutely have seen and adored his stuff though i couldn't tell you which or when. same with noel. james acaster's standup specials are fucking hilarious, cold lasagne hate myself 1999 is brilliant.

everyone else i have seen clips and stuff on youtube or wherever, but i'm mostly familiar with the majority of the rest from panel shows. but that's not standup so not what you asked about.

[ehlnofay]

catch up tag

tagged by @wispstalk (thank you kindly!) tagging back @everybodyknows-everybodydies @jiubilant and @lemon-embalmer

📚️ Currently reading: been meaning to read the copy of the illiad my sister gave me but haven't got around to it yet... just started reading a language learning advice book yesterday and it looks pretty solid so far

📺 Currently watching: arcane with my sister and severance with the whole family. two episodes into that one. showed my little tiny infant brother how to look stuff up on does the dog die so they could determine if they felt capable of continuing (they reckon they will! they'll just check their little spoiler list for every episode so they are prepared)

🍪️ Currently Consuming: coles cinnamon donut for breakfast

🤩 Current obsession: recently (like a month ago) started trying to learn mandarin, which I've been thinking about for a good year or so now... I was really intimidated by the idea but man i wish i'd started sooner i'm having a GRAND old time. yesterday i said a successful sentence to a kid at work!! she seemed very pleased

🎶 Last song I listened to: this rendition of ai vist lo lop. medieval folk songs save me

Last series: the ones I'm watching now are the first new things ive watched in a minute... the last one would be death note. which I was really chill about

🎬️ Last movie: don't watch movies too often... probably james acaster's cold lasagne hate myself 1999 if that counts. watched it with a friend a couple weeks ago

🌶️ Sweet/Savory/Spicy?: right now savoury. i would fuck up some manner of sweet potato pastry

🎨️ Favorite colour: pink. as per usual. I am having a bit of a lime green minute though... will probably dye my hair that colour again, it was delightful

☕️ Tea or Coffee: NEITHER. last weekend I went to a beauteous cafe and got one of those fancy belgian hot chocolates and it was the shit I want that every day

🌐️ Last Thing I Googled: 1540s fashion. did you know that the shift toward plainer more austere silhouettes and colours in the holy roman empire is attributed partly to the rise of protestantism? ruining aesthetics since the 16th century

[meanderfall]

if no one got me, i know James Acaster's special "Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999" got me

[vraska-theunseen]

just finished rewatching james acaster's repertoire and decided to get cold lasagne hate myself 1999 👍 hes so funny this rules

[forgottenbones]

James Acaster on Ricky Gervais' Trans Jokes | COLD LASAGNE HATE MYSELF 1999

[standupcomedyhistorian]

Hey, everyone!

I'm doing better (although living on my own is WEIRD after being with my ex for 21 years), and I wanted to thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. I'm getting through this one day at a time, and I'll make it to the other side of the road. 🐔

Anyway, there was a recent list of best comedians in the 21st century in the Telegraph on the eve of the Fringe Festival, and some of my favorite comics were included! 👀

Here's the descriptions for those curious—I highly recommend all of these incredible comics, ESPECIALLY number 1:

44. Kate Berlant (my article about her and Bo; audience interviews for Kate coming soon!)

A warped mirror for millennial smugness, 36-year-old Berlant’s narcissistic persona and fast-paced, deadpan delivery have inspired a host of great younger acts ­(including Leo Reich). Her ­half-improvised, stream-of-­consciousness patter is a kind of thrilling comedy glossolalia, while her mind-reading routine is some of the funniest failed ­stage-magic since Tommy Cooper. The ­American’s luvvie-mocking ­Broadway show Kate (directed by Bo Burnham) arrives in London next month. Fight for a ticket.

16. James Acaster (my article about him and Bo)

It’s easy to take Acaster for granted – he’s constantly on panel shows and podcasts. But his 2018 stand-up shows (collected on Netflix as Repertoire) are works of borderline genius; baroque puzzle-boxes, all buried callbacks and high-concept whimsy. If he once seemed a bit aloof and impersonal, that mask fell with his most recent West End show: a confessional tour-de-force about being dumped by his girlfriend for Rowan Atkinson.

5. Tim Minchin (my article about him and Bo)

The kohl-eyed, frantic-haired ­Aussie already felt like the ­finished article when he parachuted into the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe with his sensational debut, which ­parodied teen popstar dreams with precision-tooled, beat-perfect musical numbers. Almost two decades later – after stage-musical success with Matilda and Groundhog Day – his live shows come with more ­contemplation and political edge, but that twinkly-eyed mischief is still there. Minchin evolves with age, and is all the better for it.

4. Maria Bamford (my article about her and Bo)

A critic once called Bamford ­schizophrenic. She corrected him: “That’s not my mental ­illness! ­Schizophrenia is, of course, ­hearing voices, not doing voices.” An ­impressionist whose vocal ­acrobatics are usually used to ­imitate her own family, Bamford can be surreal, confessional or ­staggeringly dark (especially stories about her time “in the psych ward”), but is always ­thrilling. Her rare ­performances – in her own front room, car parks, or to just one ­audience member at a time – are unique. Wildly original, and a crucial influence on countless young British acts, she is, to my mind, America’s greatest living stand-up.

1. Bo Burnham (my primer and SOOOO much more on my website haha)

Burnham is the 21st-century ­comedian. Recorded in his ­bedroom, the razor-sharp New ­Englander’s piano-driven songs made him a ­YouTube sensation by the age of 19, at which point, in 2010, he ­astonished British audiences with an almost bewilderingly precocious stage debut, Words, Words, Words. 

His follow-up, What, was better yet, a royal-flush hour of ingeniously sly musical, character and meta-comedy that was the undisputed hit of 2013. As he told me at the time, “I do hope my sort of frantic, the-floor-is-lava type of comedy is a mimic of what it feels like to be alive now.” Indeed it was, and, although panic attacks took Burnham away from the stage for some years, he blithely whipped up the acclaimed feature film Eighth Grade in 2018, and three years later returned to the public eye with the Netflix ­special Inside. 

This was locked-down comedy – as “live” as it could be at the time – about the misery, isolation and gnawing insecurity of being a young comic unable to perform, so finely observed, intricately ­constructed and beautifully ­written it made your head spin. In terms of capturing that bizarre moment, mining it for laughs, and speaking both to his own generation and to all of us imprisoned in our own homes, no one else even came close.

Congratulations, Bo! ✌🏼

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cold lasagne hate myself 1999 - james acaster

writing down “had a frozen lasagna for dinner. it was subpar” in my diary and thinking smugly about how i’m recording the common lives of 2024 for future anthropologists