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Originally Posted by Blaster86
No it's not.
You can be funny as hell, but if you don't market yourself? You're just a farm for other people to get jokes.
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I think he markets himself pretty well, or at least tries to. As a former Conan O'Brien writer, he makes appearances on that show quite frequently. He's also done Letterman I think 5 times, and Leno a couple times. As Kryzsky mentioned, he also just drops in on the Opie & Anthony show and hangs out, which gets him airtime. He came out with 2 different hour long specials, with 100% new material, in back-to-back years, which is really rare(and hard I'm sure). He's got his own website up where he frequently posts on and sometimes replies to people. And he posts his stand-up acts on Youtube, even his hour specials, which I'm sure alot of comedians wouldn't do. Youtube is reportedly how Ricky Gervais discovered him last year(he called LCK the funniest comedian in the U.S.), and flew him up to England to star in a movie with him("This Side of the Truth").
He's got a huge cult following, but for some reason he's never made it mainstream. I simply don't understand why he's not more popular. But in a way I almost prefer him this way, as I'm worried he'd lay off the gas pedal a bit if he got really popular. The last couple years he's been just absolutely in the zone.