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For starters, you have identified me as belonging to a gender of which I am not a member.

My bad, but the nick and the avatar are a bit...um...misleading......

I know what you mean about the anger in his later routines. I noticed that in the dvd I partially watched. I got the impression that he was grasping at straws to remain topical for a younger demographic.
Sort of. I think it was shortly before he was in Dogma that he seemed a bit more bitter and burnt out than usual. Almost in the same way Andy Rooney's commentary on little things turned from humorous to innane (he was talking about an orange peler one time. Like I really GAS about a stinkin' orange peeler!!!)

nd GC may have just been trying to stay current.

One thing I have noticed about comedians is that when things do not bother them directly anymore, things that are not somehow connected or related to their audience, they lose touch.

The Dilbert cartoons would be a good example in that once he stopped working at an engineering firm, his cartoons became less and less connected to actual happenings and idiocies that we all experience. Ray Romano is another, Dave Barry.

Hell, some just got less funny when they quit drinking/sniffing/injecting.

I am still trying to figure out what turned Eddie from "Raw" to "Overdone Ala Disney".