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Uh-oh! Some comedian has stowed away on Ed's coracle! Can you see who it is, subscribers? [I'd like to add, parenthetically, that I find this demeaning. I have a Master's Degree in English Literature & Accordian Repair, and my potential remains unrealised - Ed.] Name that rascal, and WIN WIN WIN a sumptuous legacy recording of the first episode of his TV show suitable for screening on the hand-held device of your choice! Hoo boy!
I have an amount of this guy's shows, if the 4/5 Guys© raise their hands.
ReplyDelete(Incidentally, comments from truffle hunters whining that th' Isle O' Foam© isn't answering their personal requirements regarding quality, rarity etc. will find their time better spent ordering pizza at Starbucks)
I'm assuming the chap in the picture is you; certainly looks like you if I knew what you look like.
ReplyDeleteBut that's not why I'm here. I'm here to educate: the coracle - properly spelled cwrwgl - is a Welsh boat almost certainly invented by a Welshman, probably in Wales.
It drifted over the nearby border to Shrewsbury which is how come I used to drink in a pub there called The Coracle. Anyway, here's the "interesting" thing ... in the late '70s a coracle maker called Fred Davies used to sit in his coracle during Shrewsbury Town FC home matches at the Gay Meadow to retrieve balls from the river Severn that had been booted out of the ground. I've seen him do it so it must be true.
I hope you don't mind me extending the scope of your trend setting "music" blog to include football and water based trivia.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Sterling information. Not quite erection-inducing, but one never knows about getting stuck in Shrewsbury and what to say to a visiting Welshman.
DeleteThe web thanks you.
Mr. Molloy, your ropeslider reference reminded me of a Jackie Vernon joke about the young brave who succumbed to the Indian love call.
DeleteSeems he lived across a deep and frigid lake where an enchanting young princess would sing and lure him to swim over to her.
One night he did.
And drowned.
And to this day the lake is named after him:
Lake Stupid.
Hey now!
ReplyDeleteDrNecessitor resides in the IoF's only Tiny Home, in a nostril of Skull Mountain. "It's cosy!" he says. "Hairy, too."
DeleteGary Shandling of "Was it good for you" "Gary, this wasn't good for anybody"
ReplyDeleteGarry (with two r's) Shandling.
ReplyDeletemy bad
DeleteI shall loadup that collectable collectible first episode of "It's Garry Shandling's Show" as soon as I pare me heels. Very smart show, very smart guy.
ReplyDeleteLarry Sanders after his breakdwon.
ReplyDeleteBefore his breakdwon!
DeleteAh, I had not seen this, 'Garry's show'. It's all there in seed form, showing his perfect timing and command of the stage. Very good.
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ReplyDeleteWhen your potential remains unrealised, try adding more water.
ReplyDeleteWorks for mine!
Garry's most brilliant trick was to make his character - a sleazy, tasteless, vain poodle - likeable. The tan, the hair, the teeth, the slacks - they're everything we fought against during the Acid Wars, but he somehow makes the whole mess into a sympathetic whole.
ReplyDeleteHis second most brilliant trick was to remove the fourth wall entirely, and this is another thing that shouldn't work, but does. Much undervalued as a comic and as an actor.
Maybe he was likeable, because the 2 other main characters were just anything but (Artie and Hank)? Granted, I loved when any of the 3 were on the screen, but Hank and Artie were just so over the top. The reoccuring bit about Hank's restaurant was classic.
DeleteGood old smarmy Garry! Even the theme song broke the fourth wall:
DeleteThis is the theme to Garry's Show,
The theme to Garry's show.
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song.
I'm almost halfway finished,
How do you like it so far?
How do you like the theme to Garry's Show?
I love this moment when a young comedian takes a shot at the older generation, and Larry "compliments" him while turning the tables:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/rOLlfPPTld0?t=202
That was supposed to say "Garry".
DeleteThe "other characters" are nothing more than empty cyphers. More like placeholders, with the same value as the furniture in the Garry's living room. There is nothing real about any of it - all that matters is the schtick. They're the people in the joke Garry's telling - "there was this guy".
DeleteThere was one episode where Artie was grousing about the travel adventures of one of his ex's. I used to have the line memorized but the years/miles have clouded it. Went somethikng like: "she can go to Amstrdam, and make her way to Rotterdam, but frankly I don't give a damn."
DeletePerfect summation of Garry's schtick, Farquhar.
ReplyDeleteI used to see Garry almost every morning at a writer's coffee shop in Santa Monica. He was there to box in the secret backroom with a trainer and other celebs (including Ben Stiller, David Duchovny, and Bob Dylan, who owns the place).
ReplyDeleteOne of my all-time favorite lines. Rip Torn as Arthur says to Larry Sanders' annoying female exec boss, " I killed men in Korea that looked like you."
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