On the the show, he always said "Who WANTS to be a Millionaire". Emphasis on "wants". I could see emphasising "who" or "millionaire" but "wants" always struck me as odd.
I'm not familiar with his body of work. Did he have other weird pronunciation quirks like this? Whenever I did happen to catch an interview or something of him, he always seemed...off.
This set is a earlier draft of the set that he did for the KillTonyMania episode. So I'm going to compare the two. If it's too long for you to read, don't read it. I don't mind.
First, the set from episode 766:
At one point, he was the Dark Storm of Atlanta, now he's the Dark Storm of Austin, soon he'll be the Dark Storm of the Unemployment Line, give it up for the comedy stylings of Dedrick Flynn!
You know, women are going to tell you that other women only want you if you have a girlfriend because women want something they can't have. And I'm here to tell y'all, that's not what's happening. We just look better than single men because we're using your healthcare products in and out of the shower.
Like single dudes look and smell like what happens after years of kicking ice cubes underneath the refrigerator. And then the radiation from the refrigerator melts the ice cubes and makes a certain mold and makes a human body and it's like, "Hey, ma'am, you should smile more."
(cat meows)
Because when I moved here to Texas, I only moved with like single dudes and my skin has been terrible. It ain't -- because we've only got the seven-in-one body wash, right? It's shampoo, conditioner, body wash, Zen juice, Four Lokos from 2009 with the caffeine in it, a DUI, and a domestic battery charge.
Because when you go to a girl's bathroom that's like somebody you want to keep, when you rip open that shower curtain, the products that they got, it looks like Gordon Ramsay's seasoning cabinet mixed with two Southern black ladies. You can do whatever -- they got all kinds of shampoos, they got all kinds of condition --.
Do you know they got a shampoo and conditioner, it's called "purple shampoo" which is just for people with blonde hair or a nigga that got free time. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, that;s all it is. Every girl I ever been with thought I was jacking off in the shower. No, nigga, I was trying everything you had in there.
You know how you used to go to Taco Bell and you would suicide the sodas? Like, you know what I'm saying, you would put every soda in there and see it --. That's me with every product you got, nigga. I used to look glorious.
(Points to an audience member). You know what body wash gel is? (No audible response). What is it? (No audible response). You don't know, you just trying to fit in. This nigga's a liar. This nigga's a liar. They got a gel that's just got glitter in it. Nigga, I used to look like a cheerleader from Bring it On, nigga. I used to look like Gabrielle Union. I used to put all kinds of shit together just to make a smorgasbord of a pretty nigga.
When they used to leave, I used to steal their bath bombs and put it in the bath. You know what a bath bomb is? (Points to an audience member). What's a bath bomb? (No audible response). This nigga want to fit in too. All right. This nigga has no idea what a bath bomb is.
You take a grenade and you put it in the bathtub and it's got colors and glitter and essential oils. Nigga, that is fucking fun as fuck. I don't ever want to be single again. Nigga, I hate being dry.
That's my time. I love y'all.
Total time: 3 minutes, 22 seconds
Recognizeable attempts at some kind of a logical joke (in bold): 4
Landed jokes: 0
"Niggas": 12
Percentage of the set that was yelled: 0
Comments that didn't make any sense: 3
I'm saying that the comments that didn't make sense are the DUI and domestic battery charge being found in a bottle of body wash, the woman's shower products looking like a Southern black woman, and his awful crowd work where he claimed, bizarrely, that people don't know what body wash and bath bombs are.
So he did this set and then a few days or a week or whatever later, he did a set at KillTonyMania, which was supposed to be like a refinement of this set. I've already reviewed that one. Here's that analysis:
You know, people are going to tell you that women want you more when you have like a girlfriend or a wife because they want what they can't have. But I'm here to tell y'all it's just because we look better because we're better kept.
Have y'all seen single dudes? Single dudes look and smell like what happens at the end of years of kicking ice cubes underneath the refrigerator. And then the radiation melts the ice and then the mold come in and then it make a -- it form a body and it crawl out and it's like, "You should smile more."
And the reason why we so better kept is because we're using their haircare products in the shower. Long are the days of me using my 6 in 1 body wash. (cat meows) Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, zen juice, the original Four Loko recipe with the caffeine in it, and DUI tears.
No, she got good shit. She got -- her shower look like Gordon Ramsay's seasoning cabinet and two black Southern women.
You remember you used to suicide the sodas in Taco Bell? That's me with her shit. She think I'm in there jacking off. No, I'm just trying stuff out.
They got shit called "purple shampoo", it's only for people with blond hair, or a nigga with free time.
Bruh, they got this shit called "bath bombs". Bath bombs. Brotha, it's -- it takes bubble baths to a whole new level. This shit is a bomb that you drop in there and it change the color of the water and it got sprinkles and glitter in there and it's got lavender oils and all this shit. That's why women look so delicious is because they treat their body like a crawfish boil.
That's my time. I love y'all.
Total time: 2 minutes, 26 seconds
Recognizeable attempts at some kind of a logical joke (in bold): 3
Landed jokes: 0
"Niggas": 1
Percentage of the set that was yelled: 0 (he was surprisingly subdued, actually)
Comments that didn't make any sense: 3
The creature comes out from under the refrigerator and says "You should smile more"...to who? To women? I guess that's the joke. Creepy guys who tell women to smile more. But I wasn't quite sure who this creature was supposed to be speaking to.
"DUI tears". I know that he was attempting a joke in this sentence, but I had to remove credit because what the fuck is "DUI tears"? Is it "DUI tiers"? That doesn't make things any better.
This woman's bathroom cabinet looks like Gordon Ramsay's seasoning cabinet and...two black Southern women. What the fuck does that mean?
Anyway, this set was just Dedrick aka Deddy Fat Stacks (his actual Instagram name) boasting about having a girlfriend, something most people outgrow by the tenth grade.
He seemed to clean up his act, though. Only one "nigga". He appeared to substitute "brotha" or "bruh" whenever he wanted to say "nigga".
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That was my review 12 days ago. You can read it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DedrickFlynn/comments/1susesf/an_analysis_of_dedrick_flynns_comedy_minute/
I gave credit for some different jokes. His jokes just made more sense sometimes. Like when he explained what "suiciding" is in his first version of the set, it made the joke more impactful so I gave him credit. I know what "suiciding" is but it took a few seconds to remember and it helps when you explain.
It's obviously two versions of the same set. How do they compare? For one thing, in the one for KillTonyMania, he was clearly trying to clean up the "niggas" and only said it once, but in the YouTube version he said "nigga" TWELVE times, including one instance where he said it twice in the same sentence.
His second set, the one told at KillTonyMania is tighter, as evidenced by sheer time, nearly a minute shorter, which helps. Get rid of the rambling bullshit. Focus on jokes.
He also ends on a punchline in the KillTonyMania set, even though there's no real setup for it. In the Youtube set, it's just "I don't want to be dry". Well, good for you. So use moisturiser. This isn't a joke.
The crowd work in the Youtube version also really hurt because it made no fucking sense. WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT BODY WASH AND BATH BOMBS ARE? And then he fucking insults them. This seems to be his thing: insult and alienate the audience. It doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Both versions are...not comedy bits. They're just rambling stories that don't go anywhere. I know that this is his "style" but...who's laughing at any of this joke-free "comedy"?
Deddy Fat Stacks (his actual Instagram name) posted something on Twitter apologising for repeating the same set. As here:
He talks about the negative feedback that he gets. I almost feel bad for him. But it's inevitable that this guy is not going to go anywhere. He has no fucking act.
It's like how after Mitch Hedberg became popular, people in the audience would shout out jokes that they want to hear. Can you imagine such a thing with Dedrick? "Tell us the rambling story about you drinking breast milk at a country music festival or whatever the fuck it was!"
He's a stupid man and he's completely incapable of handling even the small amount of fame and money that he currently has. It's to be pitied but what can you do? There's nothing anybody can say that can help him. He's not equipped mentally to be able to navigate any of this. So he's just going to continue to go up and tell these rambling, punchline-free stories and boast about how "rich" he is until Tony finally has enough and gets rid of him.
Yeah!
When I first moved to Austin, I was working at this car wash called Surf Thru Car Wash and they hired me as a manager and then afterwards told me that tattoos are not accept -- like, they told me that they can't be seen at the car wash. And that let me know, these niggas aren't good with money because the more tattoos you have, the more people trust you with their car.
You don't want a blank nigga telling you your rims are dirty. You don't want a blank nigga looking at your transmission. You want a felon with a throat tattoo being like, "Your filter's dirty." You're like, "Whatever you need, just don't go back to jail."
Tattoos let you know a motherfucker went through something to work here. (cat meows). Like doctors don't have tattoos. Surgeons don't have tattoos. You know who do? Nurses. Nurses are sexy as fuck. If hospitals just only had nurses, everybody would be cured because them niggas can't wait to shove a needle in your neck and get you the fuck out of there.
All I'm saying is if you can't punch the drywall, you shouldn't be hanging my drywall. Tattoos let me know that you're a blue collar worker.
(Pointing to a member of the audience) Like you, you don't do anything. You don't sweat for work. Not at all. But look at this motherfucker (pointing to the drummer). He's got his tattoos hidden, he be drumming his fucking ass off. You sitting over here laid back like a bitch. (Makes a noise). That's my time. I'm sorry.
Total time: 2 minutes.
Recognizeable attempts at some kind of a logical joke (in bold): 2
Landed jokes: 0
"Niggas": 4
Percentage of the set that was yelled: 30 (estimate)
Comments that didn't make any sense: 5
I tried to be as charitable as possible with crediting him for jokes but...the stuff he's saying just doesn't ring true so I can't say that they're attempts at LOGICAL jokes.
Unlike in previous sets where he says stuff that I didn't comprehend at all, I understood everything he was saying but, again, there's just no basis in reality for any of this.
There's a certain logic that people doing SKILLED blue collar jobs, for example a mechanic, MIGHT be given more credence if they have tattoos. So I get the idea behind this. But what advice is being given at a CAR WASH?
Dedrick suggests that he was checking out transmissions at the car wash. WHY? What kind of car wash was this?
Terrible reviews of the three Austin locations of this establishment, by the way. All of the complaints seem to be about the car getting damaged by going through the car wash machine and shit like this. NOTHING about transmissions.
And then the idea that nurses are all tatted up. What fucking nurses is he seeing?
Finally, there's his alienation of the crowd during his abysmal crowd work and then sucking up to the drummer as some kind of beacon of the working man. You know...drummers. That ultimate working class profession. The entertainment industry. Not factory workers. Not construction workers. Not truck drivers. Drummers.
Dedrick better not shit on that car wash too much, because with his level of "comedy", he's likely to be reapplying there very soon.
I'll break down his set in another post, another day, but does the premise even ring true? Would you give any extra credence to the opinion of a tattooed car wash employee rather than car wash employer without tattoos?
And why is somebody at a car wash, regardless of tattoos, looking at your transmission?
As for the second half of his "minute", Is it true that nurses tend to have tattoos? What nurses is he seeing?
It's undoubtedly true that people in lower socioeconomic classes have a higher prevalence of being tattooed. So it's logical that nurses, being lower on the socioeconomic scale than doctors, would be more likely to be tattooed. But is it statistically significant? Are there many tatted up nurses out there with neck tattoos and shit? I've seen very few.
Then he suggests that treatment success would go up if it were just nurses in hospitals because they just want to inject something into your neck and get you out of there. How does this relate to treatment success? And is this even accurately describing what nurses want to do? Of course not. It's complete nonsense.
Then he's talking about how tattoos are indicative of blue collar workers and gives THE DRUMMER as his example of a blue collar worker. Fuck off, you idiot.