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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Josh Fenderman on January 17, 2007, 11:04:08 PM
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Did anyone else watch The Naked Trucker and T-Bones show tonight? Towards the end T-Bones says "I don't like it... I LOVE IT!"
I nominate a new archenemy for Tom. We may need a new Best Show Law to handle this situation.
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Yeah, I was going to mention it, but I'm pretty sure Tom didn't create the phrase, just perfected it.
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Dollars to donuts says Tom didn't see it. Let's just let a sleeping naked trucker lie...
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My dad calls me T-Bone, and I was worried that you knew something I didn't.
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DUDE! It's Mr. Rosso!
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DUDE! It's Mr. Rosso!
You can call him Jeff.
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I have a vague recollection of "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" back from when Comedy Central was Comedy Channel. Anyone remember this show?
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DUDE! It's Mr. Rosso!
You can call him Jeff.
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I have a vague recollection of "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" back from when Comedy Central was Comedy Channel. Anyone remember this show?
I sure do! I watched it all the time. I love that era of The Comedy Channel (pre-merger with the HA! Newtwork), which also included the great Night After Night w/ Allen Havey. Another great show was Sports Monster w/ Nick Bakay, Jon Hayman, and Joe Bolster. They did a filmed sketch about basketball recruiters that was better than its eventual Mr. Show counterpart.
The one HA!-specific show I recall from that time is Comics Only w/ Paul Provenza.
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I watched that Naked Trucker show last night and decided I never have to watch it again. Something of a relief, really, in view of my already grueling TV-watching duties.
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I sure do! I watched it all the time. I love that era of The Comedy Channel (pre-merger with the HA! Newtwork), which also included the great Night After Night w/ Allen Havey. Another great show was Sports Monster w/ Nick Bakay, Jon Hayman, and Joe Bolster. They did a filmed sketch about basketball recruiters that was better than its eventual Mr. Show counterpart.
The one HA!-specific show I recall from that time is Comics Only w/ Paul Provenza.
Man, I watched sooo much Comedy Channel during my formative years. I was a big fan of the Alan Havey show, and I saw him do stand up at the Comedy Cellar recently, and as he passed by my table, I yelled "Comedy Jitney!" over the applause. I don't think he heard me. Rich Hall's Onion World was another fav.
I really dug that Comedy Channel would play excerpts from various comedy routines throughout the day in "blocks". I wish they'd go back to that for part of the day.
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Man, I watched sooo much Comedy Channel during my formative years. I was a big fan of the Alan Havey show, and I saw him do stand up at the Comedy Cellar recently, and as he passed by my table, I yelled "Comedy Jitney!" over the applause. I don't think he heard me. Rich Hall's Onion World was another fav.
Amen brudder,
I watched the shit out of the comedy channel or whatever names it was going under in my younger days. I loved Onion World and Alan Havey and I had a crush on Rachel Sweet. Lancelot Link, Higgins Boys, MST3K, Lucy Show, I'd watch just about anything on that network. I never really liked that Tommy Sledge guy though, too schticky even for my childhood tastes. He reminds me of Matt Drudge now.
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I sure do! I watched it all the time. I love that era of The Comedy Channel (pre-merger with the HA! Newtwork), which also included the great Night After Night w/ Allen Havey. Another great show was Sports Monster w/ Nick Bakay, Jon Hayman, and Joe Bolster. They did a filmed sketch about basketball recruiters that was better than its eventual Mr. Show counterpart.
The one HA!-specific show I recall from that time is Comics Only w/ Paul Provenza.
Man, I watched sooo much Comedy Channel during my formative years. I was a big fan of the Alan Havey show, and I saw him do stand up at the Comedy Cellar recently, and as he passed by my table, I yelled "Comedy Jitney!" over the applause. I don't think he heard me. Rich Hall's Onion World was another fav.
I really dug that Comedy Channel would play excerpts from various comedy routines throughout the day in "blocks". I wish they'd go back to that for part of the day.
I saw Havey at Caroline's in NYC in 1993 (Greg Roggel and Doug Benson opened) -- he was great. I should have yelled something about the Mobley Motel. I always wanted to be the "Audience of One" on NAN.
I, too, loved all of the stand-up blocks. They also had the stand-up show <em>Two Drink Minimum</em>.
Sploops -- good call on Rachel Sweet.
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The shuffler: David Koechner, an always-welcome face in such films as Anchorman and Thank You For Smoking, and in his scene-stealing guest spots on The Office. With comedy veteran Dave (Gruber) Allen, he's also half of The Naked Trucker & T-Bones, a country duo/comedy act that can currently be seen on Comedy Central in The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show. (Koechner plays the non-naked half, T-Bones.)
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Lodi"
David Koechner: Creedence, I think, can only be described as the American Beatles, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll, roots-influenced.
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Am I way off in assuming that Tom maybe-kinda-sorta lifted this phrase from Arrested Development?
I could be wrong.
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I think Tom used it before Arrested Development but I'm not positive.
I also think I remember Lovitz saying it in a black and white sketch on SNL, but I bet it goes back a lot further.
It sounds like something Cary Grant would say, perhaps while he does that old movie-star move of taking his leading lady by the shoulders and enthusiastically shaking the crap out of her.
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Am I way off in assuming that Tom maybe-kinda-sorta lifted this phrase from Arrested Development?
I could be wrong.
You ARE wrong. Tom doesn't 'lift' things. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Tom.
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I know that intentional lack of knowledge is part of the Best Show humor, but you're all a bunch of idiots if you don't realize that the phrase has been around for hundreds of years. It's a simple concept.
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since "hundreds of years" is a long time, on a hunch, I shot an email over to my good friend Bill Safire, and he confirmed in a matter of seconds (because that's how obvious it is to anyone who studies the origin of phrases) that Tom Scharpling was in fact, the very first person to ever utter this phrase.
Rest assured, it will most certainly be the subject of this Sunday's "On Language".
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Am I way off in assuming that Tom maybe-kinda-sorta lifted this phrase from Arrested Development?
I could be wrong.
You ARE wrong. Tom doesn't 'lift' things. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Tom.
Sorry, Tom. I am shamed.
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Tom Scharpling did not invent that phrase. I'm not joking. ......I'm KIDDING!!
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Hey guys, FOT Jixby here. I called into the T-Bones show and he put me on the air and I called him, quote, "A MOTHER FUCKER" unquote. He stopped doing the voice and started screaming at me with his fists balled up so hard that blood was coming out of them. before he hung up on me i shouted out FRIENDSOFTOM.COM. Naked Trucker had to do the rest of the show while T-Bones just glowered at the screen.
I gotta go smoke some doobage so see you later, I'm fucking baked
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Gee, I'm so happy you're representing the Best Show, Jixby. What better spokesperson could the FOT hope for?
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Also on SNL, Dakota Fanning just read the new Thomas Pynchon book.