Part one of Hodgman's act

Come on people, move on! When can we all stop romanticizing the crime-ridden, drug-induced, grimy 70's and see New York for what it is now...alot of gross generalizations and stereotypes with many exceptions in every neighborhood. The Upper West side has just as many stroller mommies and daddies as Park Slope and Carroll Gardens these days. The jokes fly about hipsters in Williamsburg, but have you looked at Fort Green, Prospect Heights and the Lower East Side these days? Everyone talks about the neurotic parents of Park Slope, but look a little deeper into the East Village and Tribeca. And remember rough and tumble Bed Stuy? Just got a great pizza with a bunch of (insert stereotypes here) at Saraghina. Whatever. This is 2010. New York is New York, and it will keep changing.

Sage! +2.

+1

Park Slope has the largest percentage of turkey baster children in the nation.

Good stuff, Park Slope aint been shite since they made 5th a yuppie haven and the last rent regulated apartments were turned into co-ops...

But back then it was also about that racist shite backKk then too, they just didnt rent to blacks....or mixed couples...

Now the the rash spread to Windsor Terrace and Kensington, that only thing saving real Brooklyn is this recession...

So few of us natives left, some of those that stuck it out acted like trail guides to the Donner party...Doomed cause that credit you needed to keep up ran out and now you may need to sell undermarket yet still owing mad loot...

Get out trust-funders and formerly wide eyes recent grad, get out mutha fukkaz, you will be the first victims, our thirst is just being realized....

& now ya been warned...

Bu the way

. wouldn't wanna have a little money and people know where ya live...at least not in Brooklyn..not in the lean times a coming....

Go fuck yourself.

Eh, I wouldn't take it too personally. Judging from the typical style and content of his posts, Troy might genuinely be a little, you know, slow.

I have a new-found respect for talented comedians after attending about an hour of last night's show in Prospect Park. In that hour, I laughed exactly once. Hodgman is an excellent raconteur, but all of his jokes about Park Slope have been done before and are tired. Before he came on, a comic attempted to satirize the use of Auto-tone by less-than-talented singers. He became flustered by the echo from the audience and couldn't do what might have been a good routine. He proceeded to embarrass himself and many of us in the audience with a humiliating story about entertaining teachers in his day care center when he was a child. His punch line, which was vulgar, might have been funny had it not been used to mock an older black woman who criticized his "routine."

SP's ghost, above, claimed he or she "lmfao" at Hodgman.

I'm not sure what show she or he saw, but if he or she did laugh his friggin' ass off, it must have been because of the herbal substance he was smoking.

I don't know if you would agree, but i think Jim Gaffigan killed last night. Had tears in my eyes during his routine. But yes, the majority of the show was quiet...not funny

There is nothing quite as endearing as a guy taking potshots at his neighborhood. That is why people are always like "is there anyone here from New York? BOOOO YOU SUCK" when there are performance shows. & why rappers are always like "My hood? I hate it, I am specifically unrepresenting it!"

Then again, what do you expect from a PC.

This was a great show.

Kumail Nanjiani opened and he totally killed.

On target except for the date which is somewhere around 1984 when I and my working class neighbors started getting huge rent raises. . .

Funny, the date I had in my mind was 1977, although I think I'm wrong too...its probably closer to 1970.

"There's no way we could have known that double-wide strollers and small vineyard white wines from Oregon would give all those people small pox. No way, that's in the past. They're gone now, we're here, let's move on, no one is to blame."

lmfao