CHUD.com Community › Forums › CULTURE, HUMOR, & FREE FORM › Misc. Culture › Gallagher Speaks!
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Gallagher Speaks!

post #1 of 34
1/5/10 at 5:33pm
Thread Starter 
Within the provided link you will find Gallagher:
  • claiming that (unlike himself) comedians don't take any pride in their art.
  • upset with America's acceptance of the mediocre... without irony.
  • really peeved that comedians need to drink water during their set.
  • taking credit for mosh pits, Gwar and the Log Flume!

Enjoy:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gallagher,36622/
Reply
post #2 of 34
1/5/10 at 5:34pm
Guy's the worst. This is easily the weirdest interview I've read on there, and that's saying a lot.
Reply
post #3 of 34
1/5/10 at 5:55pm
Who the fuck is this asshole?
Reply
post #4 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:00pm
He's still alive even? Wow.

BAD "comedian" from the 80s. I remember HBO specials featuring him. *shudder*

By comedian, I mean someone who smashes things (melons and other fruits) into the audience. Carrot Top is 100% better. That should tell you all you need to know.
Reply
post #5 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:01pm
I thought about posting this but then I haven't ever even seen any of his comedy. The bitterness and envy seeping from this interview is unbelievable.

Edit: HBARR clearly is an ignorant idiot. Evidently HBARR has never considered the thought process that goes into smashing melons into the audience. The deeper meaning of it all.
Reply
post #6 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:01pm
I saw Carrot Top in Vegas in June... Surprised the hell out of me. Really enjoyed the show.
Reply
post #7 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:02pm
Dave Chappelle did a better Gallagher than Gallagher ever did.
Reply
post #8 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:02pm
Oh... but Gallagher sucks. A lot.
Reply
post #9 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:04pm
I went to a Gallagher show.

Last year.

No, I'm not going to explain why. But here's the thing: the melon smashing bit? He had members of the audience come up and do it. Must have a bad back these days or something.
Reply
post #10 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:05pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomstick View Post
I saw Carrot Top in Vegas in June... Surprised the hell out of me. Really enjoyed the show.
Did he threaten you into posting this?
Reply
post #11 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:05pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomstick View Post
I saw Carrot Top in Vegas in June... Surprised the hell out of me. Really enjoyed the show.
Did he have a drink of water?
Reply
post #12 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:06pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post
I thought about posting this but then I haven't ever even seen any of his comedy. The bitterness and envy seeping from this interview is unbelievable.

Edit: HBARR clearly is an ignorant idiot. Evidently HBARR has never considered the thought process that goes into smashing melons into the audience. The deeper meaning of it all.
Ummm hellooooo? He didn't just smash things with a hammer. He also told really terrible jokes badly, thank you.
Reply
post #13 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:07pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Did he threaten you into posting this?
Probably had his Mexican boy do it for him. (Yes, he's gay and likes young Mexican men).
Reply
post #14 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:09pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomstick View Post
Oh... but Gallagher sucks. A lot.
Sorry, Dave Chappelle did a funnier Gallagher than Gallagher ever did.
Reply
post #15 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:10pm
I remember hearing some of his stuff before he started the fruit smashing thing, and it wasn't terrible. But then he latched onto sledgehammers and big couches.
Reply
post #16 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:13pm
Does anyone remember the Gallagher II story?
Reply
post #17 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:13pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
I remember hearing some of his stuff before he started the fruit smashing thing, and it wasn't terrible. But then he latched onto sledgehammers and big couches.
Go on and find a few things online and let me know how funny you think it is now. I must confess that when VH-1 would play his stuff late at night back in 1990 I loved it... I was 11 at the time.
Reply
post #18 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:16pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil View Post
Does anyone remember the Gallagher II story?
He sold the act to his brother, who would do it at smaller, shittier clubs that couldn't afford Gallagher.

Think about that.

I think Gallagher the First had to sue him to make him stop doing it, because the brother started blurring the line between which Gallagher audiences were getting in advertising.
Reply
post #19 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:17pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothy Q View Post
Go on and find a few things online and let me know how funny you think it is now. I must confess that when VH-1 would play his stuff late at night back in 1990 I loved it... I was 11 at the time.
And then you started accepting mediocrity.

I jumped at his comment where he says Conan and Letterman couldn't do his job. It's as if he's pissed he never got a late night show of his own.
Reply
post #20 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:19pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Misfit View Post
He sold the act to his brother, who would do it at smaller, shittier clubs that couldn't afford Gallagher.

Think about that.

I think Gallagher the First had to sue him to make him stop doing it, because the brother started blurring the line between which Gallagher audiences were getting in advertising.

http://90ways.com/critarchive/crit93.php

It's a great story. But what I can't find or remember where I read was an anecdote in which Gallagher Too lost his grip of the sledge hammer during the act and it flew into the audience, striking an audience member. The cerebral damage caused the victim to permanently lose his sense of smell. And there was confusion about which Gallagher he was suing.
Reply
post #21 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:23pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothy Q View Post
Go on and find a few things online and let me know how funny you think it is now. I must confess that when VH-1 would play his stuff late at night back in 1990 I loved it... I was 11 at the time.
Oh, I have no doubt that's the case.
Reply
post #22 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:28pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil View Post
http://90ways.com/critarchive/crit93.php

It's a great story. But what I can't find or remember where I read was an anecdote in which Gallagher Too lost his grip of the sledge hammer during the act and it flew into the audience, striking an audience member. The cerebral damage caused the victim to permanently lose his sense of smell. And there was confusion about which Gallagher he was suing.
Could that be it? It's from the AV Club interview:

I’ve always had to deal with insurance problems. My insurance was actually canceled at one point because someone sued me saying that they had been hurt seriously by a candy bar in the balcony. Somehow a candy bar I hit with a tennis racket so the people on the balcony could have candy? Said that she was injured in her eye, and the insurance company decided not to fight her case and pay it off and canceled me! She was 130 feet away. You know, I’m more or less at fault here. I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
Reply
post #23 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:28pm
The AV Club article links to his interview with the Oregonian, where Gallagher goes into detail about how actors like Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey and Michael Keaton were terrible comics and therefore didn't deserve to become famous movie stars. The solipsism on display is fairly mind-boggling.
Reply
post #24 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:29pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil View Post
http://90ways.com/critarchive/crit93.php

It's a great story. But what I can't find or remember where I read was an anecdote in which Gallagher Too lost his grip of the sledge hammer during the act and it flew into the audience, striking an audience member. The cerebral damage caused the victim to permanently lose his sense of smell. And there was confusion about which Gallagher he was suing.
That's awesome. Almost sounds like a rejected Arrested Development storyline.
Reply
post #25 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:29pm
No, I read a really specific account of a guy taking a sledgehammer to the head and losing his sense of smell. But it's not surprising that projectile-based comedy is going to have its share of litigation.
Reply
post #26 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:34pm
I've read a couple of interviews where he tries to claim he was never a comedian, he's a performance artist. Makes sense, actually.
Reply
post #27 of 34
1/5/10 at 6:43pm
Quote:
If you can go out in public with your underwear showing and your pants below your butt; if girls can wear a top that shows their bra as part of the fashion; if kids are getting tattoos that cause you to react because of the size of the tattoo and the colors of the tattoo, extending their earlobes, you know, bone through their nose—
It's the tide, Gallagher. The dismal tide.
Reply
post #28 of 34
1/5/10 at 8:23pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_%28comedian%29

Quote:
While the Sledge-O-Matic act works as an example of physical prop comedy, Gallagher frequently uses this portion of his act as a criticism of American consumer culture. The act itself (and even its name) is a parody of ads for the Ronco Veg-O-Matic, a kitchen gadget that was heavily advertised on the American television airwaves during non-primetime hours from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
Reply
post #29 of 34
1/5/10 at 8:26pm
Dollars to donuts Gallagher added that shit himself.
Reply
post #30 of 34
1/7/10 at 3:10am
The thought of Gallagher sitting around in his undies and stained bathrobe, gripping the sledge-o-matic whilst editing "Gallagher" on wikipedia is truly a sad picture. I know no one brought up undies and bathrobes, but that's just how I automatically picture him editing himself.

He was a pretty good roller skater though.

I hope when he dies, Bill Hicks meets him at the gates of wherever and punches him in the dick.
Reply
post #31 of 34
1/7/10 at 4:59am
I dunno, I think Bill Hicks would see him as a Hunger Artist sort of character. Like the Kafka story. Of course, I may be entirely projecting my own thoughts onto Bill Hicks here, in a bloodsucking way, that an artist such as Hicks who is so legendary in my eyes must validate me, thereby making myself feel quite good as well. But nevertheless, I think Gallagher is a hunger artist. Starved of glory! And..well..brilliance.
Reply
post #32 of 34
1/7/10 at 1:31pm
Nah, Bill was always railing against the lowest common denominator, and clearly, Gallagher is that. He's sort of the antithesis of Bill.
Reply
post #33 of 34
1/7/10 at 1:45pm
Quote:
I can discuss how I think America looks for the mediocre.
Quote:
Somehow a candy bar I hit with a tennis racket so the people on the balcony could have candy?
Quote:
Jay Leno and Dave Letterman could not work any of the places that I work, under the circumstances that I end up working.
Somebody's craaaazzzzyyyyy.
Reply
post #34 of 34
1/7/10 at 1:55pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothy Q View Post
taking credit for mosh pits, Gwar and the Log Flume!
That's the biggie for me right there. What the fuck. And it's GWAR, by the way. Hehehe.

As for the water, hasn't he seen how much some comedians sweat? Robin Williams would look like a piece of beef jerky at the end of a set if he didn't have fluids.
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Misc. Culture
CHUD.com Community › Forums › CULTURE, HUMOR, & FREE FORM › Misc. Culture › Gallagher Speaks!