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Before the pandemic, Dennis Feitosa was a comedian struggling to make it in L.A. and experimenting on YouTube.
The result is a tornado of discourse.
But to Feitosa, thats the character.
Did I mention hes an agent of chaos?
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I pulled a lot from Perez Hilton.
The delivery itself was kind of an accident.
I did a Gilbert Gottfried impression in one video, and people loved it.
They started saying that Gilbert was my uncle or whatever, so thats where that voice came from.
Ill see things that they do and incorporate it.
There was this guy named Xander Hall.
Usually the more context is lost, the more captivating the story becomes and the more outrage something generates.
Its so easy to flatten something to the most basic thing and just appeal to emotion.
It completely removes all the humanity from it.
And he said theres a big problem with that.
You dont want everybody having a podcast.
Whats going to happen is you level the playing field for all opinion.
Thats one of the dangers that I see with this whole situation.
Im trying to bring awareness of this situation on the macro level.
Youve got to be careful with what you say.
Not even just misleading them with fake news, but leading them down certain paths of thought.
That felt insane to be the only person standing there having 200 people laughing at you.
I was buzzing for three days off of that energy.
The biggest stand-up show I ever attended as an audience member was Bill Burr maybe 15 or 20,000 people.
At the end of the day, thats what Im trying to convey on the macro level.
When Viewers Dont Get His Comedy
Context gets lost.
There were people who genuinely thought Colbert was for real.
But, eventually, I decided theres no way to do it.
I cant do it, so I started writing like I wrote.
I guess thats what it is.
I recently posted a Rodney Dangerfield quote, and it got completely taken out of context.
And it is interesting to see that my most loyal followers were responding with GIFs of Dangerfield.
The majority of my followers get it.
The people who are there for other reasons were confused for one reason or another.
There are a few commentators who like to say that comedy is dead and this and that.
I dont see whats edgy about it.
Like, Louis C.K.
But at the end of the day, theres a format to what hes doing.
Hes got a point of view.
Hes not just going up onstage doing a bunch of racial slurs.
Thats why I stopped really trying to explain it to people.
