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FOT Community => Links => Topic started by: Matt on December 29, 2009, 12:37:26 PM
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One of the most harrowing things I've ever read.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/gallagher,36622/ (http://www.avclub.com/articles/gallagher,36622/)
On the other hand, he does sound like a pretty cool guy to open for:
Well, they couldn’t wait to post the videotape. I didn’t ask for an opening act, and I was surprised to discover that they had decided to put three kids on before me. And I say kids because they weren’t schooled. You can watch them. Now, it’s hard enough to do a show at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. I hardly ever work in Manhattan, and it’s hard enough. That audience was there to see me, and those kids were ruining my audience. They were going to use all the words, they were going to introduce all the hot topics, so that by the time I got on as act No. 4, they were going to be overstimulated and bored and tired. And I didn’t want that. My audience was cooling off. They were not skilled comedians. So I jumped onstage so that the audience would see me, and that I could keep it going. I was actually using those comics as props. Too bad. That’s what I decided to do. I don’t have to be a nice guy if the situation and the people that hired me are not nice in one way or another to me. I pretended to be helping them to be better comedians because I felt that was some kind of a persona that I could take. And they did need my help, to tell you the truth. They don’t introduce their topics in a proper order. They don’t care how they stand, what they wear. I can tell you right now: There are at least five comedy specials on Comedy Central where the comedian wears a dark color and stands in front of a dark curtain. Now how fucking stupid is that? Now your hands and your face are floating in blackness. And then there’s an art director who’s given credit for the show and doesn’t know enough to say the figure should stand out against the background? Hello? It’s television!
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And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit. Major amusement parks now have splash rides—you don’t even have to be a participant in the ride to get splashed, you can be on a bridge. And of course there’s Blue Man Group, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, all have a necessity of putting plastic on the chairs or people wearing plastic to the show.
I walked off the stage because... [t]hey weren’t really my fans filled with love and admiration and thankfulness that told me how much I’d meant to them over the years.
A History of America's Cultural Decline by Gallagher.
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He said all this to me when I interviewed him from High Society. Swiss Miss transcribed it, so she can vouch.
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He said all this to me when I interviewed him from High Society. Swiss Miss transcribed it, so she can vouch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Society_(magazine) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Society_(magazine)) ?
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I don't understand why Gallagher has such strong feelings about a comedian bringing water onstage. Didn't the Rat Pack used to bring drinks with them onstage? Isn't the Rat Pack older than Gallagher?
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I don't understand why Gallagher.
I fixed your post.
I also don't understand why Jeff Dunham.
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He said all this to me when I interviewed him from High Society. Swiss Miss transcribed it, so she can vouch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Society_(magazine) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Society_(magazine)) ?
That's the one!
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Gallagher! was funny as shit to me when I was 9 and had just gotten Showtime! .
I think the whole "Gallagher Too!" thing ruined him for life. Imagine your own brother Sledge-o-Maticking you in the back.
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Who'd have thought that Gallagher II would be the sane one?
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It's all true. I transcribed the whole thing.
I laughed a lot when I heard it the first time, I couldn't believe the stuff that was coming out of his mouth.
Gold. Pure gold.
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I don't see what's so bad about what he said. Kids really could use some guidance.
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I also don't Jeff Dunham.
And I fixed yours.
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I don't understand why Gallagher.
I fixed your post.
I also don't understand why Jeff Dunham.
Thanks, AC <insert laughing emoticon>
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He's right that Clinton ruined oral sex. For me, anyway.
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He's right that Clinton ruined oral sex. For me, anyway.
Teeth?
I apologize.
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(clears throat)
Also, that article proves that the A/V Club has the best comment threads of anywhere. Not that there's much competition.