Funny ha ha
Work's been absolutely crazy lately, and it won't be getting any better for a little while. Here's a post I meant to spit out a month ago:
Before last month, I had never once been to the Winspear Centre. Then within 5 days, I was there twice. That's weird.
On Thursday, I went to see John Pinette, one of my favourite all-time comedians. If you've never heard of him before, hit play:
He was the car-jack victim in the series finale of Seinfeld? Remember that guy? Anyhow, it's been a long time since I laughed that hard. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The evening started with Graeme and I missing our LRT stop, due to his incessant jabbering, and my habit of drowning out the white noise with showtunes, or an episode of Futurama or something.
Anyhow, we got to the show just in time to find our seats as the opening act got on stage. He was quite funny, and I'm pretty sure he was a local guy too. He talked about having a girl's name (Kerry), little things that bug him, and finished with truck testicles. I was impressed that he was able to have a good few jokes about the testes without generally repeating what's already been said on the Garner Andrews Show for the past few weeks.
Then Pinette came on and for an hour and a half, my knee was bruised form slapping it so hard. Graeme's head was perpetually leaned back in laughter. It was great. It was one of those things were you look at the time, and can't believe that it was more than half an hour.
It's really hard to convey exactly what he talked about, since he waxed hilarious about all sorts of topics, but here's a small list of what he touched on:
Days later, I took a chance to go see Henry Rollins, one of Paul's favourite comedians. He was good, but in a different way. Firstly, his focus isn't on comedy. His tour is more spoken word, a lot of which just happens to be funny. Also, it was very long. He talked non-stop for 3 hours. And despite how funny he was, I was checking the ol' watch at about the 2.5 hour mark. His stories have a flow to them, and he managed to get a lot out in those three hours, but I'll be damned if I can remember any of it. His few memorable stories:
Work's been absolutely crazy lately, and it won't be getting any better for a little while. Here's a post I meant to spit out a month ago:
Before last month, I had never once been to the Winspear Centre. Then within 5 days, I was there twice. That's weird.
On Thursday, I went to see John Pinette, one of my favourite all-time comedians. If you've never heard of him before, hit play:
He was the car-jack victim in the series finale of Seinfeld? Remember that guy? Anyhow, it's been a long time since I laughed that hard. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The evening started with Graeme and I missing our LRT stop, due to his incessant jabbering, and my habit of drowning out the white noise with showtunes, or an episode of Futurama or something.
Anyhow, we got to the show just in time to find our seats as the opening act got on stage. He was quite funny, and I'm pretty sure he was a local guy too. He talked about having a girl's name (Kerry), little things that bug him, and finished with truck testicles. I was impressed that he was able to have a good few jokes about the testes without generally repeating what's already been said on the Garner Andrews Show for the past few weeks.
Then Pinette came on and for an hour and a half, my knee was bruised form slapping it so hard. Graeme's head was perpetually leaned back in laughter. It was great. It was one of those things were you look at the time, and can't believe that it was more than half an hour.
It's really hard to convey exactly what he talked about, since he waxed hilarious about all sorts of topics, but here's a small list of what he touched on:
- Air Canada
- Cruise ships
- Buffets
- Italy/Italian food
- Misadventures after tequila
- Family
- Thanksgiving
- Foods that aren't food (turnips, alfalfa sprouts)
- Etc.
Days later, I took a chance to go see Henry Rollins, one of Paul's favourite comedians. He was good, but in a different way. Firstly, his focus isn't on comedy. His tour is more spoken word, a lot of which just happens to be funny. Also, it was very long. He talked non-stop for 3 hours. And despite how funny he was, I was checking the ol' watch at about the 2.5 hour mark. His stories have a flow to them, and he managed to get a lot out in those three hours, but I'll be damned if I can remember any of it. His few memorable stories:
- Being on a tour bus
- Playing a concert with his idol band, whose drummer was terminally ill (less funny, but interesting)
- Going to visit other countries that most people are scared to, like Syria, Iran and Lebanon
- Being an American (except his anti-Bush stuff. I'm getting a bit tired of "Bush is stupid" jokes, truth be told)
- His manager's daughter
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