Stand Up Philosophy: Abundance Year Episode 1964 (audo: noxsoma.sub...

Full Metal Ox Day 1899
Tuesday 12, May 2026
Abundance Year Episode 1964
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Stand-Up Philosophy
Mind wants to believe that there has always been a little bit of philosophy in stand up comedy, but maybe not. One of my favorite lines comes from WC Fields, “If you can’t dazzle’em with your brilliance, baffle’em with your bullshit.” This is strategic wisdom that could save your life. The very word philosophy was crafted in honor of Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom. Ironically, philosophy, since it’s supposed inception in Greece, (hint: The savvy viewer knows where this originated), was dominated by men.
Often, your humble vagabond will start a conversation with the question, “What is your philosophy of life?” Watch faces go blank. Watch where the eyes go, if you’re into that stuff. Watch’em, twitch-twitch. Because you are not just talking about the weather. You want to be seen, yeah? Here’s your chance. This question exposes humans much more than they ever expect to be, seen.
“What’s yours?” (This tells you most of what you need to know about your candidate.)
“I asked you first.”
This is “most” humans. There are those rare specimens, few and far between, who actually think about more than walking their dogs, who liked their vapid posts, and which topping they are going to try on their pizza tonight. They ponder the state of being, not just their state of being. They acknowledge the Cosmic Dance even if they don’t know the steps. They seek something; maybe knowledge, maybe, truth, maybe wisdom. This by definition, makes them philosophers.

Wisdom is a guide to successful behavior. It helps a Mind to decide what’s right and wrong. How to conduct their behavior and thus, their lives.
Here’s a quick example. You’re guided by a philosophy of resistance, maybe with a little bit of passive aggression as a back up. A bully tries to push you around, intimidate you because you present as a target. What kind of target? Weaker than the aggressor. And maybe you are. But maybe you are also more clever. Maybe you have a few skills, and more wisdom. You resist. The bully persists. Maybe a subtle demonstration is in order. Something that he/she can comprehend that will not cause them to lose face. The best victory is avoidance. Avoidance is an art. People, can get hurt doing dumb-shit. Because, when you do dumb-shit, dumb-shit happens.
Not all comics were philosophers. There were story comics, preachy comics, insult comics, prop comics, and so on, My favorites were philosopher comics. I listened to the what came before the punch-lines. The set ups tell you who they are. Or who they believe themselves to be. What they have noticed and what they found funny about it.
Dave Chappelle is dropping history in his bits these days. Deep Africans-in-America-centric stories. It’s stuff he has to, not only read about, but read in to, digest and interpret. And then present to his audience in a way they will understand and get a laugh or chuckle from. It’s light years away from the character he played in “The Nutty Professor.” (The 1996, Eddie Murphy, remake.)
Speaking of Eddie. He’s more of an entertainer than a philosopher. Having followed him since he showed up on Saturday Night Live, I always had the impression that he was more into making people laugh, than spreading philosophy. Can’t blame him. He was very young at the time. I say, “making people laugh,” as opposed to “getting laughs.” Some comics are in it for themselves. I always got the vibe that Eddie had a symbiotic relationship with his audience. Like 70% making the crowd roar with laughter, and 30% self satisfaction.
George Carlin and Richard Pryor, were both thinkers and philosophers. Carlin could go deeper, I think because he wasn’t Black. Even his, “hippy-dippy weatherman” bit was philosophical commentary on the zeitgeist. Carlin actually got funnier when he started letting his hair grow. On his chin too. He had a revelation in the 1960s, maybe the 1970s. He noticed words. And how they were used. Censored. Categorized. And he shared that with an audience that was way behind his curve, but was catching up. He hit his stride right as America was changing.
Richard Pryor was much deeper, philosophically, than anyone gave him credit for. And it killed him. That’s just my opinion. Rich, dropped a lot of f-bombs and N-words in his acts. He did the nasal impressions of White people, told stories about old-time dudes from Mississippi. And if you listened between the laughs, there was some deep wisdom in those stories. Pryor called out “replacement strategy” on his 1976 album. Look it up.
When you get too deep, but can still generate revenue for the Supremacy, they take you off the stage and put you on TV. They give you a “variety show.” You can’t drop f-bombs and n-words on network TV. Much to the chagrin bigots you’d love to hear Bubba and Bo talk about how they “scurred this neggo who was fishin’ off da Tallahatchee bridge this mo’nin. Har har harr.”
Quentin Tarantino gets away with this shit in every movie.
So the Supremacy put Richard and George in movies. Pryor was a much better actor, in my opinion. The point is, when you get too philosophical, and you’re writing your own scripts, (and you own your words, bits, routines, & stories), they put you into an environment when you’re reading words written for a character, that was created by someone who wants to turn you into a Toy. (The Toy, 1982.) Or put you in a dress. It’s a subtler way of “buck busting.” Look it up.

So much for a brief recap of philosopher comedians. Rest in Peace, Richard & George. Your legacies still haunt the culture.
Dave is a different story. Different era. Different intellect. On top of the heap currently. Let’s see how life and career turn out for him. We wish him the best.

In good times, (which have been very few in my lifetime), generally speaking, humans run to entertainment venues to have their adrenaline pumped and their laugh muscles worked. Or maybe just have a giggle. They don’t want to think. The worse times get, the laughs don’t do it for them anymore. Shit that was a joke in 2018, is deadly serious now. You could laugh at a movie like “Shaun of the Dead” in 2004, and in 2012 you read a real news item, that’s not in the National Enquirer, about some zombie cannibal eating a homeless man’s face. All that shit is funny, until it’s real, and comes to a neighborhood near you.
And that’s when you start asking questions. Questioning life, existence and the meaning there of. This is the essences of philosophy.
Maybe, during this Era of Mass Formation Stupidity, humans are ready to contemplate their own wisdom. Mathematical musical scales and 3 6 9 frequencies are interesting, but it’s not alleviating your stress levels. Quantum blahsay-blah, resonance, (which is another word for echo), the singularity, are basically meaningless outside of theoretical metaphysics. The key word there being what?
Anybody? Anybody? Beuller?
“Theory.”
What is a theory?
“A theory is, in general, any hypothesis or set of ideas about something, formed in any number of ways through any sort of reasoning for any sort of reason.”
What is a hypothesis?
“A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.”
A hypothesis is basically a guess. A proposition. A pro, (forward), position.
Nowhere does any of the language in these definitions mean, or even suggest, “proof.”
And that, in the humble opinion of your vagabond philosopher, is where humans go wrong. Where is wrong? Where we are right now.

We, (humans, I mean), are controlled based on “theories.” And some are “philosophies.” However, again, Universe has taken us away from the main highway.
Back to Stand-up philosophy.
Philosophy is, or will be, the new comedy. I think Chappelle is easing the herd into this corral. Maybe a few of the “comedian” podcasters are doing the same, in their own way, for their target audience. The savvy viewer can gauge the collective intellect of the critters these podwarts are talking to by the way they present themselves. Extra large cowboy hats, for example. The props, including books, on the shelf in the background. The bottle of whiskey by their side. The tokes between topics. The flags they wave. And of course, the merch they peddle.
Eventually, stand-up philosophy will be something you can experience live at, open mics, poetry slams and comedy clubs. Humans will want their laughs, always. But there will be more and more who come out to get what’s not being allowed via network cable, network social media, or anything networked electronically.
The revolution will not be streamed or televised. It will be, and must be, live.

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