Cluster F-Bomb/Recorded and Stand Up Comedy

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Examples of Cluster F-Bombs in Recorded and Stand Up Comedy include:

  • Frequently used by comedians, especially Louis CK who is practically a god of obscenity.
  • The German comedian Michael Mittermeier parodied this in Zapped!. According to him, this is the way people speak in New York City: They use "fuck" whenever possible.

Tourist: Fuck you, fucking salesman! Gimme the fucking coke outta the fucking icebox.
Shop owner: Hey man! You wanna fuck me with your fucking order? Fuck you! (and so on)

Helloooo!
Shut the fuck up!

  • Denis Leary is rather fond of this trope, and uses it quite frequently in his routines. His "No Cure For Cancer" tour routine starts off with "Thank you, thank you, thank you, and fuck you!"
  • According to comedian Lewis Black, the city of New York uses "fuck" not as a swear word but, in his words, a comma. He also seems to be very fond of it himself.
    • The Kennedy Center in DC declined to let him record his HBO special Red, White and Screwed there, because of how many times he had said "fuck" in his last special ("Do you know how many times Mr. Black said 'Fuck'? ...Forty-two."), forcing him to record at the Warner Theater (which, according to Lew, has an "eighty-fuck limit.")
    • He has also joked on The Carnegie Hall Performance that when performing at Carnegie Hall, "I'm only allowed to say 'fuck' twelve times." He ends up saying it at least 75 times across both discs.
  • George Carlin had a bit in the seventies about the word itself, where at one point, he launches into a hilariously hostile Cluster F-Bomb: "Don't fuck with me you'll get fucked I'm the fucker don't fuck with the fucker! Fuck you and everyone that looks like you!"
  • And, dear gods, Josie Long.[who?]
  • Heath Franklin's impersonation of Chopper Read is known for his constant swearing.
  • Bill Hicks did this a lot.
  • Billy Connolly had a whole long routine about how "fuck" is the most versatile word in the English language, "...and 'fuck off' is very international – you're in Tibet, you see someone messing with your baggage, you tell him 'fuck off!' and he knows exactly what you mean..." Or he discusses Saul, on the road to Damascus, looking God straight in the eye and saying 'well you didn't have to barbecue my fucking donkey'. His brief appearance in Fuck (2005 documentary, directed by Steve Anderson) is merely part of a longer routine which had been pressed to one of his long string of CD's and LP's in the seventies or eighties.
  • Kevin Bloody Wilson, full stop. His performances are so filthy that a cluster lack-of-F-bombs is a shockingly surprising moment.
  • The Firesign Theatre Some douche on the internet, who another douche told everyone was The Firesign Theatre because nobody would download an MP3 from "Some Douche", has a very tongue-in-cheek skit describing the "F word" and its various grammatical uses in English. It includes a number of hilarious examples, including "Fuck the fucking fuckers" and "Why don't you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?".
    • The fucking douche's name is Jack Wagner, you fucks.
  • Before George Carlin, before Eddie Murphy, before Richard Pryor, there was Lenny Bruce. And he was fucking awesome.
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