Hit Me On The Head With A Frying Pan
April 18, 2007 · Print This Article
Getting a room full of people to relate to you and laugh at your words is challenging enough, now imagine doing it when hardly anyone speaks the same language. That’s exactly how guest Cory Jarvis started out in comedy. He shares his story, asks some qeustions about the NY comedy scene, and a hell gig with a Japanese flaire.
Listener topics include will a Jimmy Hoffa of stand up ever emerge and the 11(?) most influential comics of all time. Plus a holier than thou rant of the week, a a comic whose move to television went a little something like this…
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brian it was NBC who caneceled Andy Rickter not FOX
Regarding the “take-home jokes”, eff the other comics. If the audience loves it, do it. That’s who you’re playing to. I don’t care what kind of comic I’m listening to — observational, bar-joke, insult, hypnotist etc — as long as I’m laughing.
Face it — the audience paid to be there, not the other comics. They can take a flying leap, just make the audience laugh.
Thanks belly, I realized that when I was listening back. FOX canceled the first Andy Richter sitcom. Good catch though, my bad.
Also, I made a note to congratulate Darcy on the new baby, but as usual, most of my notes get thrown to the wayside, so I’ll do it here. Um, congrats on the new baby.
Yeah, Congrats Darcy!
Brian you are right, FOX cancelled Andy’s first show “Andy Richter controls the Universe” back in 2002, it was pretty good, but Fox is notorious for cancelling shows before they gain any traction.
I wish just for one season the networks will put a damn show in one time-slot one one day and leave it for the remainder of the season. Who the hell can keep up with shows jumping around like they do. Show A premieres on Sunday night with a two-hour special, then catch the third episode on Monday night, but the shows regular time is Friday nights at 9:00. Then on Saturday we have a recap, with a Sunday Encore. Then on Monday again, we have a preview of Fridays fourth episode, because the show is being moved to Wednesday at 9:00 (so it won’t compete with show B). Tuesday, they have a recap to catch you up for Wednesdays new time slot.
Friday the show doesn’t come on, because it was moved to Wednesdays.
and the networks wonder why the retention rate is so low on new shows.
Yet when they left Seinfeld at 8:00 on Thursdays for 83 years, everyone knew when and where to find it.
I’m through ranting, sorry
Thanks for the shout out BMO.
Mollica for Godfather?
Ever notice when Andy Richter was on Conan how close he stood to Conan during the monologue? Is Conan as good without a sidekick?
I saw “Andy Barker, PI” on the NBC website, you can still see the episodes. I thought it was a mediocre show at best, enjoyable with a very funny supporting cast. It was a one gimmick show, though, I can’t imagine they’d be able to find original plotlines for three seasons.
I haven’t seen any new episodes of Rob Courdry / Lenny Clark’s Fox show “The Winner” in a while. I fear they might have given it the boot.
About the comedians union, there’s a book that has been in the works for a while called “I’m Dying Up Here” by William Knoedelseder, that supposedly describes the “strike” you were talking about. They keep pushing back the release date, I don’t know why. It promises to be a pretty interesting read.
The comedy list in question was published by sympatico.msn.ca, meaning it’s a canadian site. I think we should all just blame Canada. Hosers.
As for the poll question, how about we split the difference and have female latina comedians? Ay, mucho caliente!
Brian, be sure to look me up when you’re in New York and let me know where you’re performing.
Andy did stand awfully close to Conan, but the studio is rather small. TV makes it look larger than it actually is.
Good call on Andy Barker NYC, there is no way that series could have lasted. I thought the first 2 episodes were funny, but the plot was already starting to bore me.
Darcy, I graciously accept the role of Godfather to the new baby. In fact, if my math is right, didn’t we meet while you were on vacation approximately 9 MONTHS AGO! Dare I say the ceramic frog sealed the deal.
Getting lucky in Vegas, in more ways than one! That’s what I call an expensive trip. LOL
They are worth it though, speaking of children, Brian, when are you going to get a little Bmo on the way? I can see it now, Brian sitting at the poker table and rocking a stroller back and forth with one foot, whilst sipping on crown and eying K J suited. What will he do next….
Nah, I know the casinos won’t let kids by the tables, courtesy of Harrahs. Yeah, I learned the hard way when I was letting my 6 year old at the time put a quarter in one of the slot machines right inside the door. They were nice about it though and they could have been jerks. Hell, when we first stepped inside, her eyes lit up and she actually said,”why don’t they have fun places like this for kids?”
hey i was talking to a freind of mine and he said that soon all new comics are gonna turn into alternative comedians like demitri martin or sarah silverman. i hope thats not the case. although martin is hilarious i cant imagine hundreds of lame versions of him running around(not unlike dane cook’s). stand up, real stand up, is like george carlin, or richard pryor or rodney dangerfield.
also id like to thanks B-Mo for given a shout to my favorite host with the most CONAN O’BRIEN. long live conan, future host of the tonight show.
Here is my half-assed review of the “Thank God You are here”
Oh my God! All I can say is if you aren’t watching this show, you are missing out.
Shannon Elizabeth absolutely killed me. Chelsea Handler, was great, George Takai (more like Ta- GAY) was great when he tripped over the bear head, and Tom Green, his reputation precedes himself.
I don’t want to spoil it, but this show is worth recording and watching regularly. i will follow this show to the time slots they WILL move it to with the power of DVR.
Not to spoil anything but the finale had about five people getting and giving kisses…girl on boy, boy on girl, boy on boy (guess which boy…) Funny as hell, and I literally fell off of the sofa laughing.
That’s it, now I do hope you guys give it a chance. Though I still stand by my first criticism, that David and Dave slow the flow down.
Smiley,
I can’t see Conan doing well on the Tonight Show. I mean, that is the show of shows so to speak. You can’t go out there and have your schtick be all “I have a huge head” or “I get a sunburn at the North Pole wearing SPF 75.” It’s kind of hard to be self-deprecating when you are at the top, in my opinion. As much of a douche as Leno is, he knows he’s made it.
You make a good point. I’m also worried that he’ll be pressured to tone down the racier humor that he does. Leno is extremely non threatening, and his fans have started to expect that. But mark my words, I have a feeling Leno won’t be leaving as soon as he claims. Conan may be waiting a while.
Listening to Cory brought back some memories for me. I was stationed in Japan for 4 years and it was really a laugh a minute.His comment about the sitcoms often involving someone getting clobbered with a frying pan is very true-I was already thinking that their sense of humor was sort of immature, often laughing at someone’s misfortune. Almost anything goes on TV though. I recall watching a cop show where the main charactor was a young college age girl cop who had a superpower, i guess you would say…her nips got erect whenever the bad guy was nearby. There were all these psychodelic shots of nipples getting hard, then a hoodlum would run by with a bank bag, and she would take off in pursuit. Also there was a scene in a Saturday morning cartoon with a midget type character bouncing a ball with an erection. In fact, seems like hard-ons were common. This was in the late 80’s, i doubt it’s changed much.
Good call Snappy. Thank God You’re Here was absolutely hilarious. I was somewhat taken aback at the all in challenge because on previous episodes it has been the weakest part of the show. Tonight though, it absolutely rocked. It has earned a DVR series spot for the foreseeable future on my TV.
Of course NBC will soon replace it with celebrity Deal or No Deal.
I would like to go ahead and offer my two cents on last nights Thank God You’re Here. I’m going to go ahead and just rank the individual performances, because I have no criticisms for the all in challenge, and what fun is that???
Tom Green - 10/10 The thing I liked most about Tom Green’s performance was how the actress in the room with him was completely at a loss for words. He eliminated her script as soon as he walked in the door, and it turned out just hilarious. By far my favorite performance.
Chelsea Handler - 8/10 While Chelsea really did not react well to her partner’s cues, what she did say was usually hilarious. I also like how Dave Foley stopped her skit when she started tandem vodka-drenched-banana eating with one of the actors.
George Takei - 5/10 Bad, just Bad. Would not answer the questions that the people asked him, and when he did say something it just wasn’t funny. I was expecting AT LEAST six or seven gay or Zulu jokes.
Shannon Elizabeth - 7/10 Well she was really funny, but her partner made it like a freaking Mad-Lib. All it was was they were doing a speech and she would fill in the end. “I am very proud to finally marry my ________” “Tomato, tee hee!”
Also, I’d like to see celebrity Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? And we all know the answer, hell no.
Tyler,
I hate to do it, but you mixed up the Chealsea Handler and Shannon Elizabeth skits. Shannon took the Vodka drenched banana, and did so pretty well might I add!
I think there was one person in the audience that didn’t get tongue, but I’m not sure who. LOL Man, everyon was getting lucky…
Celebrity “Smarter than a fifth grader” would be good, but I would rather see celebrity “American Idol” with current singers made up to look like Joe Schmoes.
As far as next months feature….how about Latino mothers? but get this, heres the really clever part, they don’t have to be mothers or Latino. Now that is a wild idea there.
sup, i was reading Punchlinemagazine today and i noticed the article about Dave Chappele doing 6 hours and 7 minites of stand up at the luagh factory and therefore beating dane cooks record of 3 hours and 50 minites. i just gotta say that freaking amazes me. he has that much material, man he is on a whole other level. but he got fined $2,200 for using the “N” word becuase of the michael richards incident. how lame is that, they were witnessing a comedic explosion and they fined him.
Thanks for correcting me. I realized that going back over it. I’m an idiot. Feel free to throw tomatoes.
Well I was checking out Punchline Magazine to see if I could find that feature on Dave Chappelle, and I just so happened to stumble across something far greater. We are finally getting new one-hour Brian Regan specials… 2 of them!
http://www.punchlinemagazine.com/index.php/news/533/139.shtml
Darcy, let me add my Kudos. Since neither of you seemed to volunteer, or did I miss it somewhere, boy or girl?
Darcy you posted “Mollica for Godfather?” Since when did the Mafia move from dictatorship to democracy?
Two quotes of the show if I may: Tackle two birds with one stone. Bmo, that’s the kind of shit I say and I’m 25 years older than you.
“Who steals the bible?” Not sure where it’s going, but I like the turn of phrase. Keep up the good work my son.
snappy as for celbiertiy A.I. FoX all ready did that like over last summer or christmas and it was a train wreck. also they took celb that have sortta lost there fame so that made it worst so i dout fox is looking to try that again.
As for Fox having great comdey show and getting rid of them before they get a base i would like to throw out i think it was called “The Skit Show” and Kesly Grammer had something to do with it becuse he want something else after fraiser. the show last like 4 show but every time i saw it i was spiting a gut my dad and i had the best time watching that show but saddly it never made it.
Finaly who ever chose bob newheart that was a great choice i have hear some of his stuff on XM after my mom got the new car and it came with. he allway had me laughing and my parents though it was funny too so that was kind cool.
We had a girl Buckeye. I keep having visions of, “Daddy, this is Paco, and he wants me to move into his van, and nothing you say is going to stop me.”
As for a Vegas conception, I was there 11 months ago, and the whores wore me out so much I hardly had time for sex with the wife.
Newhart rules. I wish he would tour more because I want to see him before he turns into his best friend. His best friend . . . Don Rickles.
My favorite Rickles story…Apparently last year when he was performing in Vegas he was a little out of sorts. The show ended with him forgeting 2 punchlines and falling down. Some may say sad, I say hilarious.
hey any day a elderly falls down is a good day for me
Anyone see any of Rich Little doing the White House Correspondents Dinner? Man, it was awful. Colbert last year was brilliant (I actually bought it from iTunes after he mentioned it was available one night on the Report) but too controversial. So they brought in Rich Little. I can’t get the blasted C-Span feed to work, but if you go to http://www.c-span.org I promise it’s there, even if I can’t get it to work on my computer.
So, until that works, try Rove’s attempt at rapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo
And try Letterman’s Top 10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWFL5-K8aU
Someone upthread mentioned Celebrity American Idol. Between Rove and Dennis Kucinich, we have a chance at Politican American Idol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGmYhTYLbno
Yes, I watch too much TV where this clips come up again and again.
Ah, found the problem. Everything on C-Span is in Real format, so you’ll need something that can handle Real. I suggest getting Real Alternative w/ Media Player Classic if you don’t already have something installed.
Hey guys,
check out comidien Jim Jefferies getting attacked on stage in Manchester, UK.
Us Brits just know how to party!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCGKb8ikRc
Nick
Hey Brian, I have been a regular listener for about a year now, and I always look forward to your show. I just want to say thanks for all the comic suggestions especially STANHOPE!
If your ever in B.C I’ll be sure to check you out.
Here’s something for you comedians. I could only imagine that a friend who would do this to a friend as a prank is NO friend at all. Watch this poor man crash and burn because of a friend.
http://www.vimeo.com/clip:175519
Speaking of Stanhope… I think it was him I was listening to recently (although, I think it could have been David Cross) and he was bitching about having to do radio shows to promote himself at area comedy clubs when he was on tour. He complains that the morning show people are the same in every city and really goes on a tear about how unbearable it is. So BMO, do you have any experience with this type of thing? Is it all as bad as he says?
I’m really getting tired of the theme comedy nights. All black, all asian, all female. It seems that you get 2 hours of the same jokes all night long. If you set the Way Bac machine for the 80s, say what you will but An Evening at the Improv gave a cross section of everything. Mix and match is what I want to see. Funny is funny.
As for a Joke to go, they are great for the headliner when the checks are coming out, no one pays attention for a good 5 minutes so it’s a good place to keep the show moving and not burn good material.
That is a David Cross bit and yes, I have too much experience in this department. I’ll definitely touch on this in an upcoming show.