Did I Just Say That?
April 25, 2008 · Print This Article
Is there anything more egotistical than standing in front of a room full of people and thinking that you are interesting enough to engage them…Then going home and listening to those exact words you just said over and over again on recording? Brian doesn’t think so, which is why he considers recording your set to be the most overrated “tool” in comedy. What do you think?
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Man, that bald guy creeps me out. Stock photo?
Thanks for the shout out B-mo,
btw, you said Robert Kelly was in Denmark with DUTCH subtitles. If it had Dutch subtitles it was probably in the Netherlands….you know……where Dutch people come from!
Holland is awesome; everyone should go!
Also, you should take your baby into work……surely you know babies are catnip to hot chicks?!?
uh B-mo, as much as i enjoy getting on the show I think you used my joke twice. the first was from Is Carlin Back and now this episode. kinda odd. And I agree about the premise is a bit far fetched, but I have recently refined it. Now the premise i that eventually game shows will get to the point from idiocy to disaster,where we’ll destroy the world. But Im still weeks before i’ll perform it live. just thought id pop that in.
Thanks for the shout. I saw the Oliver special and thought it wasn’t all that great. My roommate made a coment about it that he sounded like a hacky black comedian just replace where they say black with British and white with American. I like Oilver on the Daily Show, I just thought his special went on for too long. Rants with too few jokes or funny observations.
Talking about Art with a capital A, art is anything someone does that doesn’t have a direct connection to getting paid or getting laid, Art with a capital A though has a ton of baggage along with the word. It just feels pretentious to call yourself an artist. My main thing is drawing and writing comics and most people in the “field” call themselves comic artists, I just say that I make comics. I just don’t like the associations that people put along with that word. Like “Oh you don’t get the joke I made? Well I’m an Artist, I don’t do it for you, I do it for the art.”
Did you not like this comment? Oh, well I’m a comment artist, I didn’t do it for you.
Brian, I usually agree with you as far as my tastes in stand up go, but I can’t believe you or anyone called Robert Kelly underrated, at least not based on the clip you played at the end of the show. That was some of the hackiest shit I’ve ever heard… “Hey everybody, different racial stereotypes are hilarious! Listen to my angry Chinese person impression! And guess what? Men and women are different!” I was saying his punchlines before he did, and I’d never heard of him in my life. This guy sounds like he fits right in opening for Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia.
(Sorry to bring the hate, I’m just really shocked that the savvy fans of this show think this guy is so hilarious… if anyone wants to defend that set I’d love to hear why it qualifies him as an underrated talent.)
I agree with Dave about the clip. I must say I’ve never heard Kelly, but judging from that clip I’m not a huge fan.
hey guys, great show B-mo.
I have to agree with the pro-art argument… but also I see the point of brian and alvaro.
Here’s the thing, if you call yourself an artist, more likely you are not, but if people call you an artist, it might have some truth. Art is supposed to be used to the most elevated form of creative work. Kinda what Plato had in mine with the state of art, in the “idea world”. Somewhere along the way a fucking ad agency started calling washing machines state of art, and the whole concept went down.
So far the only person I give the benefit of the doubt of calling himself artist was Dali, but really that guy was out of this world.
So really who judges who’s an artist is their peers, not their sale numbers, or the craziness of their clothing. The best point that Brian makes is that a guy laying down bricks wouldn’t call it art… because it is ridiculous, but all the the fucking apprentices have the right to value how much of an art he is doing, they might even jokingly say something like “see that guy? you want to learn everything from him, he’s an artist of the bricks” and that’s perfectly cool with me. And that guy therefore is more artist than all the pseudointellectuals that call themselves artists. Because we all know they want an status they haven’t yet earned.
That’s my 2 cents. It always feel like a whole dollar!
yea Brian what’s up with the same patrick joke… I caught it at the “we’re Fox, Bob we call you whatever” part… you think we wouldn’t pay attention? FILLER!!!!!
Sorry about the repeat joke. I feel bad because I have a few jokes that haven’t been played, but I had no recollection of that joke at all. I guess I haven’t fully “honed my craft”.
As for Robert Kelly, I think he’s great. There are certain rules that you have to follow when pulling clips to play on the show. I couldn’t play something off his album for copyright reasons (granted it would be a longshot that anyone would care). So I had to pull it off youtube where he only had 2 clips to choose from. Unlike many comics we spotlight, he does not have a lot of tv credits under his belt, so I took what I could find, That being said, I still thought it was a decent set.
I’m neither here nor there with Robert Kelly. I think he’s a decent comic who just stuck with it in NY long enough to start getting some recognition.
As for recording sets, I wish more first-year comics would do it. I recorded a lot of sets my first year, and I think it helped. I’ve watched guys make the same mistakes, week after week, sometimes for months or even years, who never record anything and can’t understand why they’re not being tapped for emcee spots. Maybe it’s because you’re still doing that stare-at-the-floor, rock-from-one-foot-to-the-other, play-with-the-cord thing. Maybe it’s because your favorite joke doesn’t get as big a laugh or make as much sense as you think. I can’t think of anything else that can fix a bad habit faster than the embarrassment of watching yourself.
If it’s not out of line to shamelessly whore myself on the board, my new site is up (see link) where you can read more of my worthless opinions if you’re really, really bored.
*sigh* great my jokes are that forgetable? well back to the notebook.
Whew, this is awkward. Maybe if I had recorded it I could have listened back…Never mind.
well everybody makes mistakes. what you gonna do
I’ve worked with Robert a couple times here in New York. Its amazing how good he’s gotten compared to a few years ago. That clip Brian played on the show was his material from a few years ago. It gets a few chuckles, but all the dating jokes and hacky voices get stale fast.
But If you listen to his new CD Just the Tip, he’s a million times better. Punchline Magazine did a really good interview with him, and he talked about how he was able to come up with really solid material once he started getting really really personal on stage, talking about his insecurities to complete strangers.
I definitely recommend both the article and the CD.
Thanks for the tip, Aman, maybe I’ll check that out… I will say that Kelly did have a few turns of phrase that I liked, so if he’s moved on beyond those stale premises you mention, his newer stuff might be something I’d enjoy. I think my response was more to the fact that the clip wasn’t bad necessarily, it just sounds exactly like 95% of the new standup I’ve come across in recent years… hearing white guys try to be edgy talking about race makes me want to suck a tailpipe.
Good call Aman. I got a chance to see Robert at the Cellar a handful of times and always enjoyed him. He was also a regular on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and I always respected how candid he was. Once he brought that attitude to the stage I think it took his comedy to another level.
What’s going on guys?
Hey Brian, did you see Dave Attell on Conan the other night? I know your a big fan of his. Some funny shit.
I was most impressed by his ‘panel’ discussion after his stand-up set. He commented on the presidential candidates and the man was a hero in doing so because he didn’t go for the obvious joke. I could’ve sworn I was going to hear an age reference about McCain but he said “He has the head of a baby.” The fact that it’s true and basically the opposite of what everyone else was saying about McCain probably should earn Attell the metal of freedom.
ok i have a question, why is it that a lot of comedy fans stay to one side a genre. For example, You have cringe comedy fans, you have alternative comedy fans, you have mainstream comedy fans, ect. I consantly hear fans calling other genres hacky. Why cant comedy fans just be comedy fans. What are your thoughts?
Hey Brian et al, I guess I have to come down on the side of recording your stuff. I usually bring a dictaphone up on stage with me for every performance. However, I do try to hide it from the audience, just in case that it would bother people. I then listen to show as I am heading home on the tram, and make a note of what worked and what didn’t. I will try to figure out why bits that didn’t get the laugh I expected went wrong (because it can’t be that that they were not funny, get real!). My next time on stage I try to address what I believed were my shortcomings.
Another way I have really benefited from recording my sets is that it has helped me to get over a couple of nervous twitches that I had developed. I had the annoying habit of pausing after a punchline and sucking in air through my teeth. Another time a headliner who I’d worked with a lot advised to me to video tape a performance, and watch myself. Apparently I had the habit of closing my eyes for extended periods of time while on stage. All these little twitches would never have come to light had I not recorded the show, so for that reason alone I think recording the show is worthwhile.
As far as recording, I usually don’t do it, though there have been times where I wish I had. I definitely agree with Dan, where taping yourself allows you to become aware of your weird stage habits earlier on.
But there’s a difference between taping your set with a video camera in the back, and a voice recorder up front. I tried the voice recorder thing once, and I hated the quality of it. Maybe it was just the one I had, but I could barely hear myself.
The video camera in the back is a little better, and would be the only way Dan’s point about improving your stage presence would make sense, and it avoids what Brian called “letting the audience in on the backstage stuff” since you don’t have to take anything up with you. But even then, it’s a camera in the back, so, i guess the “backstage stuff” is still kinda there.
I was strictly referring to the people who audio tape every set and analyze afterwards. Video taping makes a little more sense because, as mentioned above, a) there are non verbal things you may be doing and have no idea, and b) if you have a physical aspect to your stand up, you should have some idea of what it looks like.
ALSO: (and I apologize for the double post)
I was selected to be the Live Events Director for my college’s SUP (student university programmers, it’s a campus activities board with a different name). I only say that because now, I have to book in the summer for the fall.
There’s a website, http://www.concertideas.com for college activity board members to go and check prices, avails, and other stuff for different musicians, comedians, hypnotists, jugglers, etc etc etc.
I was looking some stuff up on there and I found the following. These are prices for bookings at colleges:
George Carlin: $75,000+++
Jeff Dunham: $100,000+
Jeff Foxworthy: $100,000+
Bob Goldthwait: $8,500-$12,500
Patton Oswalt: 20,000+
Pablo Francisco: $25,000
and the last one that I know Brian will cringe at:
Jerry Seinfeld: $250,000-$350,000
Does anyone else find some of that shocking, or just me? You can go to the site if you want to find any other comedian, but they don’t have a lot.
Hey Brian, I agree with what you said about the quality of many sit-coms these days. Man I miss the glory days of shows like Perfect Strangers or Full House
One show I am enjoying at the minute is The Big bang Theory. Funny and scientifically accurate, you can’t get much better than that!
Yeahhhh…..I’m with the rest of the guys on here. Robert Kelly wasn’t that funny. I also saw the race jokes coming but the thing that got me the most was he was ripping an old Eddie Murphy bit when he was talking about how: when men get louder while arguing and women speak softer….also including the line about how men will say something that women will slip up and use against them for the rest of their lives. Totally right off of the Delirious concert from Eddie.
Anyway…I had to look down and make sure I was listening to a new show when Patrick’s joke came on. Ok. Yup. Right show. I see it’s already been mentioned so I won’t crack wise about putting the bottle away before you start your editing next time.
Catch ya next week!
I was wondering if anyone caught the Comedians of Comedy special on Comedy Central this weekend. It was on at about 3 AM (in between Girls Gone Wild commercials), but the plus side was that it was uncensored. It wasn’t the original group. Patton hosted and Maria Bamford, David Cross and Sarah Silverman all did sets. wanted everyone’s take if they saw it. What are your thought’s on bringing in some “big names”, and do you think Sarah fits in with that group? I’ll give my take Thursday.
I have the feeling - based on no evidence whatsoever - that Seinfeld’s college fee is so high because he doesn’t need/want to do those shows. I teach at a university (an average public one) and I’m pretty sure that any school, no matter how deep its pockets or how popular the performer, would have to crawl through nine miles of unwiped ass to justify spending that kind of coin on a show.
My 3 cents on Sarah Silverman (sorry, but gas is $4 a gallon, so I had to raise the cost of my opinions). I think she’s a pretty good writer, and I have to admit that hearing good blue material from a female comic who’s kind of cute is fun. But I quickly grow weary of her stage persona and can’t really take it for a full hour.
I think I found a good compromise between both sides of this debate on recording your standup sets. On one hand, I can understand why a comic would want to record his sets for self evaluation. On the other hand, I can see why it looks really unprofessional to the audience.
I dont record every set like a lunatic, but what I do is put a digital voice recorder in my pocket, and attach a lapel microphone that clips to my shirt. The recorder cost me 40 bucks at Best Buy and the microphone cost me another 10 at radio shack.
That way, I record my set, and the audience has no idea what I’m doing.
Now if only rubber dildos were this discreet…
On the matter of taping, I reckon that its beneficial if you don’t have any other way of getting feedback that you trust, like more experienced comedians of performers. Your girlfriend is probably non existant or unable to give you useful criticsm. So, yeah, go for taping, perferably usuing a video camera Stage presence isn’t just the voice. However, after you’ve filmed your set, sit down, don’t review it then and there, but watch the other comedians. Study them, see what they did well and didn’t do well. I really do believe that iIt’s from analysing others that self analysis becomes easier and more straight forward to do. I find that if you don’t come at your analysis from an emotive point of view, and lets face it, most people do an Orny Adams anal thing, and I just don’t see how that is more helpful than a calm review of the performance. I know a bunch of dancers who do it too, though they are looking for slightly different stuff.
Okay…. Good sitcoms of recentness
The IT Crowd, especially the first season, it’s totally sweet. The same writers as father Ted, and a bunch of talented actors and comedians.
F.O.C But I am biased.
ExtrasYeah, yeah, let’s move on before people get too pissed. Actually though, on the hatred of Ricky Gervais, people kind of forget that he was a radio personality and sketch writer before he got TV famous for his parts in comedy sketch shows and then the office, dues were “paid” and he walked across numerous yards of hardness.
the Mighty Boosh Are awesome and weird, and everything that the me of a couple of years ago loved.
The American OFfice IT misses alot of the wonderful dispair that the British Office had, but its pretty good.
Kath and Kim They are trash Australian women, and are pretty damn funny
Two pints of lager It has moments of hilarity, and is okayish, I think it should have ended a while ago though as its best season was also its first.
Yeah, every creative is an artist, even if they don’t want to be. Schwang!
Hey Sando, how could you forget Peep Show? You not a fan?
If you think about it alot of the good sitcoms now kinda break the convention for example. no laugh track or studio audience like the office and Arrested Development.
Nick
oh man the comedians of comedy are awesome. I saw that special and with all those great acts uncensored it was almost perfect. however i saw this program a few months agoand oddly enough David Cross wasnt shown, very odd. But the highlight for me was Patton Oswalt and Dana Gould. absolutly awesome comedy. Oh also quick thing with Dana Gould, apparently his wife just became the head of HBO, or HBO’s comedy department I cant remember. But that is awesome news. More good comedy specials from people who deserve them.
I use a recorder and I definitely think it helps however I do find that when listening to it, you can be a lot harder on yourself and lose that high of thinking you did a good job. Since I’ve just started I like being able to hear how I told the joke one week, compared to my newer version and when you mess up, it’s nice to know exactly where you did so you can fix it.
I like using it for practice as well. I find, being able to hear myself tell the joke helps me remember it better (after getting past realizing how shitty you sound on a recorder)
On the point of stand ups and sitcoms it is true that there are significantly less sitcoms with stand up comics on sitcoms. For the sake of arguement look at CBS’s monday night line up: The Big bang theory, How I met Your Mother, Two and a half men, and rules of engagement. Only one of those shows has a stand up in it, rules of engagement: david spade, and only in a supporting capacity. This is a good/bad thing. on one hand most sitcoms are horrible and attaching a stand up to it can be crushing to their fans. Can you imagine Dave Attell on a sitcom as the homely, clean cut neighbor, neither can I. On the other hand if a stand up were alowed to create their own sitcom it could be absolutely amazing. For example, CBS is currenly in production of a pilot for Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal, and one for Louis CK which is sounding alot like Lucky Louie reincarnate only cleaner im sure. And HBO is filming a new series with David Cross and Bob Ordenkirk. It’s going to be a good year. But all that aside lets look at the state of comedy, The best stand ups work blue, a red falg for tv producers and alot of their material couldent be translated into a sitcom. This isnt a bad thing, if anything this proves that there are comics out there who are devoted to stand up. So it’s not the stand ups fualt for the decline of sitcoms with stand ups, its the sitcoms.
I’m of the mind that recording your set, however you can, film or audio, is a helpful tool. But I agree that it should be handled discreetly. I also have a little digital recorder I turn on and stick in my shirt pocket before I go onstage. Even at open mikes, if I see a comic come on stage, fumble around with his recorder and set it upright on the stool I think it’s distracting. And should definately be a big no-no for features. If I see a feature do it I think “Oh great. 10 bucks to get into the club. Inflated drink prices. And I have to sit through some comedy in which the comic is still working out the kinks.”
I don’t know if I would think of Robert Kelly as underrated, just finally coming into his own. I don’t think he was getting recognition for a while because he wasn’t ready and, quite frankly, didn’t deserve it at the time. His latest Comedy Central Presents was pretty good and if you listen to something like the clip that Brian used or any of his Tourgasm stuff and the newer stuff, you can definately see a progression.
On the decline of standups in sitcoms, I just think the original big 3 are very reluctant to hand out development deals nowadays. Ray Romano and George Lopez were the last comics to get their own sitcoms and their acts–check out my crazy family–were perfect to slide into the sitcom format. Kevin James was in King of Queens, which lasted quite a few seasons, but he was more of an actor in that, not really based on his standup. And a few standups are going with animated shows that don’t have to be so family friendly (anything on Adult Swim, Family Guy, etc.).
Great show as always, Brian. I’ll even cut you some slack for the repeat joke. Can’t always pitch no-hitters!
Ncik, i forgot it because I suck! That’s why. Its a great show, that I’ve sadly only seen the first two seasons of because I always find other things to torrent.NZ media is ass, so I can’t wait for it to play on television. You know?
Sando,
Fourth series starts this Friday in the UK, and its one of those where the creators came out and said that it could go on forever!
I’d definitely consider just buying it on DVD but I’m sure the third series was on youtube. It’s one of those programs that I cna watch over and over.
Again though, and I remember Brian saying this ages ago, its another series where there’s no real stand up talent. Not that ~I’d complain specifically about Peep Show cause the talent are fantastic but this is more a general point……
I was listening to an interview with I think Alanzo Bodden on Comical Radio (another cool podcast) and he was complaining how comics seem to get passed over so many times to let some shitty actor or other star to get on a high paying sitcom.
Who’d be a stand up eh?
N
Make people laugh “on command?”
http://www.roadtostandup.com/
Partick aka Smiley: Checked your blog. Your lost and found sketch is pretty damn funny. Good job.
I finally watched the John Oliver special on my Tivo last night. I thought it was brilliant, though if a little high-brow for the audience. Several of his jokes relied on the audience knowing a good deal of British history, and it was clear some of the jokes went right by his live audience.
On a completely unrelated note, my students are performing their stand-up comedy final exams tonight. I’ll let everyone know how that goes tomorrow. I have 20 students, each of whom will do a three- to five-minute set.
hey thanks alvaro that means alot, I like your comics
Sando - I agree with most of your choices in your list of decent UK sitcoms - but must violenty disagree with the inclusion of 2 Pints Of Lager. I DETEST this show! I find it crassly written and badly acted ,by a bunch of actors with no grasp of comedy whatsoever (especially that useless twat Ralf Little!), and hate the fact it’s never seems to be off BBC3 for one minute. I’ll go further and say I think this show dumbed down the BBC sitcom like no other.
I’d rather watch the relatively few episodes of a genuinely funny sitcom like Black Books on rotation than ever have to sit through any of the kazillion episodes of 2 Pints more than once.
But that’s just my opinion.
My I want to hear and”Shock Jocks
I want to hear Larry the Cable guy B-mo had me discover him and since then I can’t get enough of Larry I totally agree that this is a Comedian that is now a set character. Larry makes me laugh my ass off. Don’t worry Bryan you make me laugh harder! Darn you B-mo I’m addicted to the comedy of Larry the Cable guy I hope your wife beats you at every poker game you two play.
Shock Jocks- they say their supposedly “funny” and they are just annoying as hell. Are these guys considered “Comedians”?
Ricardo, I really did like its first two seasons, I’m not sure why, maybe its because I liked the twattyness of the characters, it did go down hill fast though.
Oh, and Ricardo, it wasn’t a pick of British sitcoms, just good ones. Once again the Britcom is where the situational humour is at.
Also, Spaced was great. Simon Pegg was a stand up. Who knew, besides his fans and the people who obsessively listen to commentary tracks. I am of the latter… and the former.
I should just announce that the show is moving to Friday’s, that way when it comes out on Thursday it will be a pleasant surprise that it’s early instead of me having to announce the show being late every other week. Oh by the way, the show is going to be a day late.
No problem Bmo, the family and porn downloads come first.
BTW, shouldn’t BTB have a facebook group and wikipedia entry by now. I mean, 2girls1cup have!
I’d do them but I’m a bit too lazy for it,
Nick
I hope you don’t move the show to Fridays Brian, I download the show on Thursday nights and listen in the office on Friday! When you put the show out on Friday I listen on Saturday ON MY OWN TIME! That is not on, the only advantage of working in an office is that you get paid to listen to podcasts!
So i was reading punchline today and it had a story about a british comicwho apparently fondled a women onstage. this is kind of disturbing, its one thing if you verbally berate someone all your doing is maybe hurting their feelings, big deal. but this is bordering on physical abuse. what do you guys think of it The full articles here:
http://punchlinemagazine.com/blog/?p=968
Jesus Patrick,
I can tell you this is right up Vegas’ street. He is a shitty act and an arsehole!
He doesn’t represent people like me!
N
whoah whoah, im not lumping british comics togethor to that guy, so if i came off likethat i sincerely apolagize. i was just stating he was a british comic as a throw away fact. so if i offended you, you have my deepest aplogies.
Oh dude Patrick, I saw that article you sent, and I agree, that’s messed up, that’s not even a comic. Whats the point of making everyone uncomfortable?
Hey Nick, Im with you, some of us know all british comics are crossdressers, we get it… jusk kidding man…
Brain C, brian would compensate for that extra hour on saturday… right B-mo? by the way Im in that same situation, so Im expecting my check too….
[quote]So i was reading punchline today and it had a story about a british comicwho apparently fondled a women onstage.[/quote]
I don’t believe this story - A comedian getting to touch up a real woman?! Speaking from experience, this barely even happens in the car park after the gig , let alone onstage!
Fondling a woman onstage isn’t so evil - at least there’s loads of witnesses there if the girl in question wants to successfully sue for sexual harrassment.
I actually saw one act attempt to mutilate an innocent girl with a blade onstage once -
(Turned out he was only a magician trying to saw his assistant in half, but hopefully you get my point.)
Crossdressers with bad teeth and pasty skin to boot alonso!
You better get that Store up and running soon Brian if you are going to have to pay compensation for bringing the show out a day late!
Does anyone else listen to comedy while working in an office? It passes the day but there is the problem of random laughs which doesn’t go down well in a workplace. Currently working my way through the Australian radio show “Get This” with Tony Martin, I’m sure my colleagues have thought that I was being electrocuted as I bit my lower lip and swayed from side to side while trying not to burst into laughter.
There was a bunch of stuff about Vegas on Chortle a little while ago, IIRC. It’s apparently not that unsurprising, because back in the day before he had a huge amount of status, he’d try to get girls on stage and score a kiss off of them because his character was pathetic and sad. I’m really uncomfortable with that sort of stuff on stage. Especially as I know that a bunch of women can easily get pressured into going along with that sort of situation and then just hate themselves later for not saying no at the time, you know, the pressured into sex thing is a good example of it. Yeah, I dunno. As a gimmick for his come back special I think he’s done well in getting the media’s attention. Kind of like a shock jock really.
(quote) Does anyone else listen to comedy while working in an office? It passes the day but there is the problem of random laughs which doesn’t go down well in a workplace. (quote)
yea isn’t that weird? one of the dudes here used to listen to Howard on his cube, on his little XM thingie… you couldn’t here the actual show but you would listen to this dude laughing pretty often, and that would put people in a weird place. you think is kinda of “political correctness” or is just that the workplace is too stiff in corporate america?
I say: fuck that.. Im the king of my cube! I listen to whatever I want (Oh but first I have to make this copies, I’ll be in the copy room)
Ok a quick thing about recording. I agree with brian in most of his points on recording a set. I generally go back and forth between loving and hating my sets upon re-listening to them and I would go insane if I had EVERY set taped.
That being said, the Houston Laff Stop has some pretty good recording equipment. Every time I do a feature set there they usually tape all the shows anyway. I’ve found this handy in a few different aspects. Mostly I can pull good clips from different sets and put them together on one CD. There are other reasons but really thats the only one I wanted to throw out there.
That’s pretty cool. I’d be interested to know what the club does with all of the recordings. I’ve worked a few clubs that have recording set ups and you can request that they tape your set (usually for a fee) but I’ve never heard of a club taping all of their shows. That sounds like a catalog that would get out of hand pretty quickly.
I think they tape them all for the week and erase the unwanted ones at the end of the month. I could be wrong about that but I know they’ve always taped my weeks when Im there.