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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 26, 2015 21:06:28 GMT -5
Found on the web...supposedly from a live, bluegrass show of his:
■ "I am a little tired tonight from staying up all night practicing. But you know what, that was three years ago, and I've got to get over it."
■ "This next song is a singalong, but it has no lyrics, so good luck."
■ "I like to write songs based on personal experience, and this next song is called, 'I Think My Masseuse Is Too Chatty.'"
■ "These new tuners emit so much less radiation than the old ones."
■ "You probably notice I have a lot of banjos on stage. I think of my banjos as my children, which means that one of them is probably not mine."
■ "I'll be honest with you, some nights I play fantastic, and other nights I play fine and wish I played better. But you know, a couple of weeks ago, I went to see Eric Clapton play live, and I thought, 'He's not so funny.'"
■ "By the way, I do not think of the Rangers as my band, I think of it more like I'm their celebrity."
■ "I'm doing two of my favorite things right now: comedy, and charging people to hear music."
■ "I don't write protest songs, so this one came from the heart. It's called, 'Let's Keep the Minimum Wage Right Where She's At.'"
■ "It's hard to believe, but ladies and gentlemen, we have come to our final song....But don't worry, actually your ticket entitles you to help load the sound equipment."
■ "Don't forget, you can follow us on Twitter, or you can do something meaningful with your lives."
■ "I know there are varying ticket prices tonight, and it really seems unfair to me that people who paid less can have the same encore experience. Please, if you paid less, please perhaps cover one eye."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2015 21:25:02 GMT -5
Funny. I'm sure a number of them will be quickly appropriated by others....
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Post by frazer on Jan 26, 2015 22:13:36 GMT -5
Genuinely funny. Shame about the banjo.
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Post by Doug on Jan 26, 2015 22:23:35 GMT -5
I like this one.
■ "It's hard to believe, but ladies and gentlemen, we have come to our final song....But don't worry, actually your ticket entitles you to help load the sound equipment."
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 26, 2015 22:28:30 GMT -5
I've always liked the guy. And from what I hear, in real life he's supposed to be a nice guy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2015 23:38:36 GMT -5
My ex used to fantasise about him when we made love. I have nothing against the fellow. It seemed to work.
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Post by godotwaits on Jan 27, 2015 4:08:22 GMT -5
Hmmmm... That gets me thinking... I don't know who my ex was thinking about...but obviously it wasn't working... Sheesh! What a relief!
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 27, 2015 6:54:36 GMT -5
But no banjo jokes?
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Post by dradtke on Jan 27, 2015 9:44:59 GMT -5
"I am a little tired tonight from staying up all night practicing. But you know what, that was three years ago, and I've got to get over it."
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Post by Shannon on Jan 27, 2015 9:47:50 GMT -5
A genuinely funny and talented fellow.
The CD he did with Edie Brickell is worth a listen, if you haven't checked it out.
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Post by PaulKay on Jan 27, 2015 11:52:57 GMT -5
Funny stuff
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Post by Chesapeake on Jan 27, 2015 11:55:12 GMT -5
There was an awkward period some years ago when he was first publicly staking his claim to being a serious banjo player, and audiences couldn't grasp that it wasn't part of the comedy. Somewhere on YouTube there's a vid of him playing some virtuoso banjo, and people laughing all the way through. Kind of hard to watch.
Btw, as I'm sure you banjer players picked up, the line about Eric Clapton not being funny almost certainly was inspired by the reputed remark made by the Grand Ole Opry's Uncle Dave Macon about Earl Scruggs, that “that boy can play the banjo, but he ain’t one damned bit funny.” Martin used the quote in his 2012 New Yorker obit for Scruggs.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 27, 2015 14:47:18 GMT -5
In the spirit of good stage banter, a tip of the hat to Lonnie at IJ last year. Marty was working on this or that with the sound system, and there was a pause in the action. Lonnie to the rescue with a quip something like "Our sound guy comes to us direct from Las Vegas, where he spent the last 15 years running sound for Marcel Marceau".
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 27, 2015 18:21:24 GMT -5
I just mimed a rimshot.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 27, 2015 20:16:16 GMT -5
Ha, ha, ha.
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Post by RickW on Jan 27, 2015 21:20:38 GMT -5
Never forget the scene in Roxanne, where he makes all the big nose jokes. He can deliver a line with the best of them. And he's one hell of a banjo player.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 27, 2015 21:21:43 GMT -5
Never forget the scene in Roxanne, where he makes all the big nose jokes. He can deliver a line with the best of them. And he's one hell of a banjo player. I liked his tennis backhand. Effective.
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Post by RickW on Jan 27, 2015 21:33:46 GMT -5
Yes, it was. That was filmed in a small town in the BC interior, Nelson, a lovely little place. They had tours and walks there for years, signs all over. It was fun.
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