Denis Leary

How?

Why not?

When?

And with whom?

How many?

I saw an ad for a new Fox show. I'm curious about him because tried to be Bill Hicks after Bill died and then tried to do the 'angry smoking fuck you' shtick. I don't get him, thus my question...

Denis. Does it rhyme with penis?

Wait, what?

I went to college with him. Never got it. One dimension schtick.

And how big was his shtick, R9?

Because he's an asshole ee ole ee ole ee ole ee ole ee ole.

Because straight guys live through his dickless ass vicariously.

I don't know. We never showered together.

Denis Leary and Norm Mcdonald were two guys I never got. I suspect there wasn't a whole lot there to get.

Correction: he's a Masshole r11, not just a run of the mill asshole. Born and bred.

He seems really unpleasant and difficult to get along with.

Who?

Did he really get it on with Liz Hurley back in the day? They were super close for co-stars. He's supposed to be one of her son's godfathers, along with her other ex Hugh Grant.

Because Bill Hicks died.

For a brief window of time, he was fuckable.

Denis Leary wears a glamorous wig <3

Absolutely ruined the Thomas Crown Affair. A braying donkey.

I thought he and Rene Russo had more chemistry than Russo and Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair.

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Smells like camel lights and slim Jim’s

R19 Gross! He looks like Kellyanne Conway!

WHET Rene Russo? I always liked her as an actress.

[QUOTE] Denis Leary wears a glamorous wig <3

He claims that’s his real hair.

OP, the answer is because genetics often gets things wrong, and an asshole grows a much larger one that never stops crapping out hate and ego.

LOL at R19. No way that guy is going to show the real dick. It's either horse hung naturally or a prosthetic.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

Never the least bit funny

Agreed with above - he just seems like a regular old Masshole. However, he does seem to have a stretch of humanity and caring in him.

He's not on my list of top annoying celebrities. There are soooo many much much worse than he.

LOL R29. Who said anything about his dick?

He did it BEFORE Bill Hicks died, R6. Hicks would openly say that Leary was stealing his act, which he was. Leary stole not just the jokes but the context and the persona.

Then after Hicks died of cancer, Leary called his album full of stolen Hicks jokes "No Cure For Cancer." Charming.

Where?

Holy shit, R34. I didn't know about the album thing. That's vile.

And to think Gabe Kaplan had to find another line of work!

What? I don't want to hijack the thread but why did Gabe Kaplan have to find other work?

Here's a clip of Greg Giraldo taking down Denis Leary on the old Tough Crowd show. Denis starts melting down around 5:00. You can see how pissed he is to have gotten topped.

.. so forced anal?

[quote]Because he's an asshole ee ole ee ole ee ole ee ole ee ole.

Apparently me and R11 are the only ones who remember the Asshole song.

I also remember this...

Thanks, R39. Greg Giraldo was by far one of the most brilliantly funny and incredibly intelligent stand-up comedians we've ever had. Denis Leary is a putz in comparison--a butt-hurt little bitch. Giraldo bitch-slapped him.

Word was that if comedians saw Leary in the building they would not do their best or new material.

Leary took lame one liners from comics and developed them into long concept pieces.

More importantly Greg and Bill are dead and Denis is alive and well and rich.

[quote] What? I don't want to hijack the thread but why did Gabe Kaplan have to find other work?

Because there was more demand for a polyester Bill Hicks than a polyester Groucho Marx.

Funny in "The Ref", and nothing else, for the reasons OP mentioned in R6. He's no Bill Hicks. But seems to think he is.

He aspired to be a big thing but eventually found his lane with third tier cable channel nighttime soaps for straight guys. Nothing much else to say.

[quote]I went to college with him. Never got it. One dimension schtick.

Emerson?

I recently read an article about the old MTV show, Remote Control and it mentions Leary, Steven Wright and Doug Herzog went to Emerson together.

R45 Cunty, Leary isn't rich and alive because he's got talent.

R43, literally brilliant. Went to Columbia and then apparently scored a near perfect on the LSAT and he got a JD from HLS.

Leary taught at Emerson after he graduated.

Mario Cantone was his roommate and best friend..

Hicks used to us the word faggot a lot.

"Leary taught at Emerson after he graduated."

And?

Leary taught Comedy Act Stealing 101.

"Rescue Me" was an entertaining show.

Watching it though, I felt that Denis Leary had to have a monstrous ego, because the way the character he played was written, he was like this unbelievable sex god. It went way beyond the usual ladies man/pussy hound thing, it was so unbelievably over the top. Like, any woman who laid eyes on him had to have him, and then fell madly and passionately in love with him after fucking him, and then went crazy with jealousy after he dumped her, or she found out that he was fucking ten other women, etc. etc.

If it were one of the hot guys on the show, it'd be more believable, but it was ugly-ass Denis Leary we were supposed to believe was irresistible to every woman on Earth, and that he was this stud that constantly fucked all these hot chicks.

Any window of hotness Leary had was slammed shut pretty fast.

"Leary taught at Emerson after he graduated." Wow, R52.

And Giraldo earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University. Then he was admitted to Harvard Law School after achieving a near perfect score on his Law School Admission Test, scoring in the 99th percentile of students taking the test. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.

Little doubt who had the superior mind of the two.

And who was the real comic genius of the two. Sure wasn't Leary.

Let’s never let another “Dennis Leary” happen again

[quote]It was ugly-ass Denis Leary we were supposed to believe was irresistible to every woman on Earth

Remember fat, wheezing Tony Soprano? His character was the same way.

R49 yes, Emerson. I knew Doug well. I don't think I ever had a conversation with Denis but he was always around. And I don't remember Stephen Wright - maybe he was or had graduated before I got there.

I liked him in movie..The Ref....with Judy Davis. Heartwarming...lol.

He wasn't bad in Suicide Kings (with Christopher Walken) but he sucks at standup. It was on the basis of that movie that I watched his standup and gave up after ten minutes. He was awful, comes across as bitter not funny.

Bitter was the cool of the day. He road a trend and did well.

Greg Giraldo at the time was trying desperately to secure a sitcom on a network a la Jerry Seinfeld. He tried three times to get the sitcom thing going. Should have gone for a cable show.

Leary read the room and took film offers and then developed a dramedy for cable. He may have used material that was used before but he either had a great head for the business or just a great agent.

Bill Hicks was too cool for school. He often railed against the "sellouts", but in the end I wonder which way he would have gone, stay with limited resources of an the road comic career and maintain his coolness cred or go with produced specials and TV.

R65 Yes, I think the secret to Leary's success has to do with knowing what the public wants. His success has little to do with any comedic talent. I can't imagine G Giraldo in a sitcom; he doesn't fit into any trope. Maybe something like 'Louie' where he's basically play himself but you're right, it would have to be cable.

[quote]Word was that if comedians saw Leary in the building they would not do their best or new material.

R44, years ago I read the same about Robin Williams and Carlos Mencia. Really shameless theft.

Bill Hicks' standup would get him in huge amounts of trouble these days, from the death threats to audience members to the lengthy bits about fucking 12-year-old girls.

Yes, Leary saw that and took Hicks' material and made it consumer friendly, but there's not a lot of genius in that.

Further, if you watch his early roles in Demolition Man and Loaded Weapon 1, it's pretty clear he was hired because someone wanted to add Leary's standup to the movie. He's terrible and obviously only in the movies because he had friends who got him gigs. He never really improved either, by the time he was in Thomas Crown and Wag the Dog he should have been competent, but he was barely tolerable.

I get that he had a career because he played the game more than Hicks ever did, and that's a legitimate observation, but I don't know that you can attribute it to him being better at the business.

R66 I forgot about Carlos Mencia! He had a HUGE career - TV series and constantly touring - until his thievery was exposed. He presented himself as Mexican but he wasn't. Yes, WHET?

Robin Williams was never funny. He was manic.

Carlos Mencia reemerged a while back, doing a few podcast interviews.

Over a decade later, he's still living in total denial. It's pretty pathetic.

I just watched two episodes of his new show and his hair is ridiculous but otherwise he’s aging naturally.