"I Remember When Self Deprecation Was In" - Erica Rhodes Makes Her TV Stand Up Comedy Debut

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[@merec3627]

The crowd is 15 years behind looking for a Dane Cook set. Erica's set was funny, but this was a crowd that needs a laugh track to know when a joke is over.

[@joshuajeffrey6851]

Great set. Not sure what the audience was watching. Laughed my butt off.

[@bethhubbs9937]

The Dad joke got me. Like I stopped breathing for a few seconds. I had noticed how super happy she looked when she first said, 'My Dad's here tonight', and it seemed so genuine and I was happy for her. Then, come to find out, he's dead. Oof. It cut me a little bit. But in a great way. Edgy.

[@allye9865]

My kid says that to me when I've lost something and call myself dumb. "We don't talk to ourselves like that"😂 Thanks for caring babes

[@nuthinmuffins5073]

Both my kid and my dad call me things like dumbass all the time, but I know they’re mostly joking and love me lots, so it’s okay. I call them things like doofus and shitbird right back. My mom never says stuff like that, but instead finds other ways to say it, like by never believing I can accomplish anything, questioning all my decisions, stepping in aggressively to take over what I’m doing because I’m not doing it the way she thinks I should, and so many other, often subtle, ways of showing her lack of enthusiasm for who I am. It would be great if we could call each other dumbass the way I can with my dad and kid. We just skip right over it into real insults when we’re upset at each other.

[@shaner29]

Absolutely terrible crowd, she is fantastic!

[@Funktasticlydrunk]

Love it even if the studio audience didnt. Please have more stand ups on your show steve!

[@jennifermcalchemy9816]

🤣😂😹 I have never heard anyone else talk about how everybody is coaching from their car as they drive. So nice to discover somebody do you think is hilarious 🫶😏

[@cheesy-p1j]

Recently I saw a video of a girl sitting in her car and doing the life coach. Later I found out she is 17 years old. Now I know why 🙂

[@fillhixx]

Because they can’t afford a van? Down by the river?

[@Pecisk]

It was quite refreshing, I have followed her over years, and she always have quite left field jokes to tell, even quite dark ones 😅

[@Lord_Retrospect]

Great Dead Dad Joke

[@ayelemensah8816]

It killed me! And now I will always be with her!

[@AutisticEthics]

Ooh im excited

[@BensonTrent]

Cathartic!

[@justheretocomment6410]

That was laaaame. She doesnt have any good comedy bits.

[@Lord_Retrospect]

@@justheretocomment6410 you dont have any good comedy bits 😆

[@alaboutbrain942]

When the dad part started, i laughed. Dark, unexpected, interesting. Thats the way. Good job.

[@ijaz8888]

Nice giving a platform for upcoming Stand Up comedians and artists - Kudos to the next generation of talent 👏👏

[@Facetiously.Esoteric]

Lmao She has been a well-known comic for years.

[@thehamburglar9]

maria bamford found the fountain of youth? i lost 3 ships and 75 good men searching for it in the Malacca Straits!

[@bobgug8626]

Definitely her long lost younger twin sister.

[@lostandwastedtime]

I came to comments looking if anyone else noticed

[@elenah9950]

​@@lostandwastedtime same lol

[@jaredknapp8886]

I'm going to tell my kids this is Melissa villasenor.

[@Tao_Tology]

Proof that the Colbert show is filmed next to a time portal and an earlier Bamford wandered through

[@Tubocass]

The audience reaction to her dead dad was priceless.

[@Bill_Cooper]

OMG That SELF HELP LOSER bit was HILARIOUS! I almost spit out my drink that I was drinking! LOLOLOL SO FUNNY!

[@OdedTzur]

That was so profound and so hilarious at the same time, just amazing

[@kelsey753]

So it evens out in the end. Way to end on a banger hahah

[@AmazonEnforcer]

Um what does this mean sweaty? Who is going to burn in hell?

[@JC-uv1wn]

😂😂😂 I love her😂😂😂😂 👏👏👏

[@rikkiechambers4959]

Ok those were some great jokes that I think took the audience by surprise .. people just have zero sense of humor around death and dying even tho it happens to every single one of us .🤷🏼‍♀️Rachael Bradley has a great podcast about death and humor .. we should talk about it more

[@zgidwitz]

So good. The first part we weren't quite sure what her style was even though it was great. Then she hit us with the first dad joke, and we knew it right away if we were her target audience.

[@travellintravis6373]

Hospice chaplain here and that whole part about dad was fantastic, very well done

[@oppositeofh8]

omg, the generation of life coaches & coaching from the car bit?! kills. thanks for the insight & laughs. 😹😹😹😹😹 5/5

[@christopher1378]

Today actually would have been my Dads birthday 😅😂 this is a good set!🙏🙌👍

[@iamnormal8648]

She has a very sweet voice. I can listen to her all day long.

[@GoldenRabies]

Great writing. Hilarious comic. 🎉

[@coloradonana2000]

I saw her on agt. She was so natural.i hope she wins this season 19e5.

[@davidh9630]

Well done! Tough material which I'm sure has a bit of self=therapy tied in. Made me laugh - thank you.

[@michaelohara2161]

She’s pretty, She’s cute No politics And no dirty stuff. And funny.

[@rachel_rexxx]

Oh man that dad joke is great

[@TatuSiltanen]

Is she Maria Bamford's daughter?

[@bhambhole]

Within the first 30 seconds I thought the exact same thing! A younger maria bamford 😂💙

[@donttrendonme]

Good set, not the best crowd

[@user-wo4xz6ri4s]

Light and heart warming humor is the best humor. Love you lots Erica.

[@zombieowen]

Amazing to see her on late night. I think about her headboard joke all the time.

[@yours09trully]

Erica Rhodes, great comedian.

[@DillAvery]

She looks and sounds like a Maria Bamford character 😂

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

And that’s why I don’t like her. She IS the joke of a better comic.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

your late father sounded like a real funny guy. similar vibe with my dad, but he was atheist and passed away from NASH after cancer treatment for his liver cancer. last two years or so of his life, he got himself a tombstone chalkboard to write out daily tasks for himself, and his favorite song to sum up his entire life was "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." because bow-howdy, how else can you have lived that long considering the US histories being made one has witnessed since Watergate X3

[@evelina733]

She’s funny and cute❤️❤️❤️

[@coastallisa6825]

Great set. Thanks for introducing me to her comedy

[@jenellevandemortel5925]

Brilliant, smart comedy. Great job.

[@sb-b3071]

Erica's albums rule. Ladybug especially. Absolutely killed.

[@jayburkhart1781]

OK. Great. I thought it might just be on my download, the subtitles were hard coded into it. Please turn on the captions for the part where she tells how her dad died. It was M.S. not A Mess. Kinda funny but I'm twisted. She's hilarious 😂 😂😂

[@WhateverFarleyGNA]

I think she did a fantastic job 😊

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

i got the MS too it sucks

[@freethinkeralways]

Same here! Hearing that her dad died from MS doesn't help much

[@Krustenkaese92]

lame audience, she's great

[@justheretocomment6410]

Uh.. other way around. She sucks

[@africabeany]

Possibly the other way round? If the audience doesn't find you funny, there's probably some truth in that. I'm with the audience on that reaction.

[@bhambhole]

Bamford vibes. Very funny.

[@JohnDoe-mm3sm]

Her Maria Bamford impression is on point

[@NitaJain]

She was fantastic in her AGT audition!!

[@antoniograncino3506]

She sounds just like Bernadette on Big Bang Theory

[@toneriggz]

Caption says “Gen X comedian”? She’s a Millennial, she says it in the video.

[@juliansmith4295]

I'm more confused by the word _comedian_ being in the description.

[@SayAhh]

​@@juliansmith4295 "juliansmith"? Does this mean that you make julian?

[@juliansmith4295]

@@SayAhh What?

[@greenlavalamp]

@@juliansmith4295 Make us some julian

[@juliansmith4295]

​@@greenlavalamp What? EDIT: Ah, sorry. I didn't pick up on the dad joke straight away.

[@lorekeepermeerah]

Shes so funny haha

[@ber334]

I like her. She may not be for everyone but you have to understand when new comedians come on a talk show a lot of their material they're they're trying for the first time. Stand-up comedy is not an easy task and you got to give her props for baring her soul like that in front of all those people. I would like to have seen her bare a little bit more but this is a family show 😎 it's a joke it's just a joke !!!!!

[@Yoda-Hulk]

Looking forward to more of her, this was pretty great 😂

[@marshalbaek5580]

Been following her comedy for years. It's great to see her getting the recognition she deserves!

[@GeorgeNoah-xf9tb]

Hallelujah 🙌🏻!!!!! The daily jesus devotional has been a huge part of my transformation, God is good 🙌🏻🙌🏻. I was owing a loan of $49,000 to the bank for my son's brain surgery, Now I'm no longer in debt after I invested $11,000 and got my payout of $290,500 every month…God bless Mrs Susan Jane Christy ❤️

[@KontyBierbaum]

Hello!! how do you make such monthly, I’m a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down of myself 😭 because of low finance but I still believe God

[@AmeliaAva-yg8gk]

Thanks to my co-worker (Carson ) who suggested Ms Susan Jane Christy

[@PoynterGeesey]

She's a licensed broker here in the states🇺🇸 and finance advisor.

[@PoynterGeesey]

After I raised up to 525k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my son's surgery….Glory to God, shalom.

[@RelicValderas]

Can I also do it??? My life is facing lots of challenges lately

[@NandR]

Hey she’s on TV. Met her mother once who showed me her standup and I love it.

[@Navitus]

Wowwow the dad joke got me good.

[@fm9572]

These days, the cars they make videos from are also their residences, which is convenient...

[@ygstuff4898]

Erica is super funny and equally cute -- give this lady a show!

[@steveg9863]

The closing joke was the best, you convinced me to skip it and do what your dad did - it’s how to beat Pascal’s wager

[@fellfromspace]

YIKES! That dead dad joke landed with a thud... wow.

[@EARTHMUSIC3]

ERICA RULES!!! ❤

[@garydare2238]

Big fan of this funny lady since A Prairie Home Companion!

[@dinodadcomedy5883]

Erica is on her way to becoming one of the most famous comedians. Wholesome and authentic

[@johnsdea]

tiktokers life coaching in their parents' cars LOL #getalife

[@mayhemx9]

I love her I hope she gets a Netflix special soon!

[@theodorerobert6579]

@mayhemx9 please pump the brakes on that nonsense. She first has to be funny. She was terribly terrible.

[@brooos]

the tight close ups of the audience "laughing" are way too close and awkward.

[@matthewreynolds2384]

#dadedits

[@EpilepticHouseplant]

Lol I feel ya, comic.

[@keithspainjr7669]

I like her… She speaks my kind of common sense.

[@Ydepeiza]

Good show.

[@BrandonGoble78]

She was funnier than the crowd's reaction showed 👏 dead father jokes 😂

[@Anonymous12345-u]

Surprising good.

[@davidalston8926]

I am a "huge" Erica Rhodes fan! I wouldn't say this was her best performance. It moved a little slow. A few funny jokes. Watched alot of her other stand up and she is FUNNY!!! Anybody can have an off night.

[@scottieapplseed]

I'm glad someone else does the dead dad jokes; someone has to carry on the torch.

[@moonnugget4598]

👋🏾🤣 That dad joke was especial millennia!

[@55TheInTIMidator55]

She has a unique voice.

[@hojo70]

I saw her perform in a very small venue last year in my city downtown, she was absolutely hilarous. This Colbert performance was a bit of a flop

[@quantumz1348]

Liked the dark, left-field jokes, I just wish we could forget the "mock the youths of Generation N-1 for being lazy/entitled" schtick. That's Boomer humor and you'd think that millennials that were the butt of those jokes for a decade would not impose the same BS on the next generation. But material is material - if it works on stage you gotta give the crowd what they want.

[@samhartman7049]

She funny. 😅

[@geoffkuhl]

that got a little dark 😶

[@DirkAngel]

Why isn't Colbert uploading his show anymore? I live outside the country and rely on this show every morning for entertainment and news. Please add continue to add your shows to KZbin. thank you

[@Facetiously.Esoteric]

You can watch it free on the network site.

[@anne4308]

I have been a fan of Kevin Hart’s since 40 Year Old Virgin. He always came across then in interviews as a down to earth person who just carried on and was a part of being funny like the other comedians. But I am here watching him and noticed an attitude change. I don’t know maybe it’s me but he acts and looks - those sunglasses - really? - where is the Kevin we know? It is like he (in his mind). Started acting like those actors who think they are now on the super star plateau. I don’t see the down to earth comedian who related with the everyday person. Now he’s beyond that and started to look and act like those stars whose head has just ballooned. When would the ‘old’ Kevin Hart walk out covering his eyes in dark sunglasses and dressed so formally? Never saw it before but now he is like: Man I’m a star okay? A major star and now I am at a level beyond any of you. It has gone to his head in a way I am not liking at all.

[@Fathimir]

I get that it's disorienting, but it's ok to laugh at her dead dad jokes, guys. I pinky-promise that it won't make his passing either any easier or harder for her to carry with her.

[@asef]

Great jokes specially when the audience got uncomfortable, those were better. 😂😂

[@BabyJessicaMontes]

Agreed!

[@stbsabs4370]

Great👏👏

[@mightyone3737]

I suspect self deprecation got more rare as people felt less and less secure since, oh, about the fall of 2015? When society suddenly got a lot more mean spirited and embattled before getting hit with a pandemic that lead to widespread isolation. People still do self deprecation comedy, Deadpool is rife with it and everyone seems to love this Deadpool fellow (how many R rated family movies can you honestly name?)! The key here is that to be self deprecation you have to be very secure, because there are a lot of a-holes out there that trump has emboldened, and giving them fuel can be dangerous. Pretty sure the next generation is kicking my (and your) generations' collective ass? And from a wildly worse position, where they aren't even starting out with the expectation of owning even a small house out in the sticks, and with certainty that the climate is officially going batshit because of the unrestrained greed of the previous ~10-15 generations. Those 'great' people sacrificed nature's bounty (and gambled on humanity's future) so we could make over-crowded, reeking cities filled with poorly fed people who were being worked harder than serfs were, and with similar life expectancies, only serfs expected risks like almost constant war. These poor souls looked forward to such a prospect to escape their hellish factories, factories built to enrich the few off the backs of the many. Calling the building of those factories progress is objectively insane, because society did not benefit from them being built, and still doesn't benefit from industry, *the shareholders do*. So yeah, those previous 10-15 generations very much had it wrong by any metric you can think of. Oh yeah, and they fed those factories with the raw materials being produced by colonies, many of which used slavery, then forced labor, to produce vast quantities of them which were then simply sent back to the 'parent' country, meaning the colony were obviously given nothing in return but the tools to produce more of the desired raw material. Guess why the colonies where this was done are almost all broke AF still?? Anyways, the young need to be confident if they're going to make the progress we need happen (I really don't see my generation doing it, but I'd love to be surprised I guess?). That's not meant to be harsh, just pointing out that progress is a thing and that people going through life with confidence are more likely to meet with success than the alternative. I'm sure these young will get tired too eventually, but hopefully they'll have made some, well, progress for the world.

[@Matt47M]

But why? Can you write another 3 paragraphs to explain?

[@Tao_Tology]

Only the privilleged would say 'things started to go wrong in 2015'

[@mightyone3737]

@@Tao_Tology wow reading is hard huh? I was explicitly referring to the context of self-deprecating comedy, but hey, go ahead and lie mr. botman! Ignore the MUCH LONGER paragraph that makes it painfully clear I know more about this topic than you (just like when you tried to incoherently argue that 'the bots are gonna steal our JORBS!!', including trying to argue any day now that SOFTWARE was gonna do manual labor). I'd say touch grass but you clearly need education. Also, lightweight, I've trolled people since the 90s online, misattributing things to me is bottom dweller BS.

[@Tao_Tology]

@@mightyone3737 Honey.......you need to get offline for -a while- _a looonng while_ .

[@mightyone3737]

@@Tao_Tology I split 2 cord of green wood a couple weeks back, finally got around to stacking it. The spitting was Armstrong method, not mechanical, and using an ax I welded up from raw materials (and a handle I carved out of raw wood), and it took about 8 hours. I spend most of my time gardening and cooking, and I make my own wine, often using berries I grew. How many cord of wood have you split btw? Maybe you did some trenches with a pick-ax? Ever cut down a thick tree and made sections weighing hundreds of pounds and carried them over broken forest ground? Honestly curious my guy, do you really think you're more tan than I am??

[@BlueRaven243]

First time I clicked on this video I only listened. 2nd time I watched

[@TheEdelmeister]

😂😂😂 Erica is so funny!

[@bornin1948]

OMG...that voice ! 😙

[@chriskennedy7534]

The Nanny

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@chriskennedy7534Bamford.

[@ACME_Kinetics]

Whoever booked her was correct. This is what can happen when you don't get that belly-laughing old guy to laugh at everything.. (RIP her dad, AKA old belly laugh guy TLSC used to employ by the overvoltage TENS unit in his chair)

[@dannyaikin1395]

That the audience isn't laughing a bit harder, kind of makes her points.....Pretty good make-you-think-comedy !

[@words911]

She is just a character not that funny tbh

[@MeghanBean]

Loll the religion evens out in the ene

[@palermora]

This was hilarious. Thank you for sharing your take on life with humor!

[@pdoylemi]

This girl deserved more laughs!

[@petecoogan]

I'm gen x. We weren't taught.

[@WilliamNobleBonninActual]

He was #1

[@hailudyami7468]

that audience sucked, i loved her bubbly personality contrasted with the dark humor

[@LJournals]

She's good.

[@RWB20]

Uh...who did she know to get booked? Cause...

[@bobbg9041]

Actually blue bunny's salted carmel ice cream would be very yummy with bacon on it. Someone take COLBERT a bowl of it on tv one night. My bet is he changes his mind.

[@verdatum]

Description is mistaken, she is not a Gen-X comedian.

[@cwflad]

Lol, true! She was talking about millenials v Gen Z and they messed up BOTH of them. Shows how much effort they put in

[@zorankp]

You could drop the 'gen-x' and the 'comedian' bit as well.

[@Tao_Tology]

One day you'll get past that 'generation label' schtick.

[@radiationking9398]

Not bad, not bad.