I played the violin in middle school. My younger cousin took it up not long after. But she actually stuck with it. I have always been a much better singer than I was with any instrument not attached to my body.
As a violinist, I can definitely attest to the horrendous noise that I was making when I was first learning. "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" still gives me and my parents nightmares. Eddie is absolutely hilarious. Possibly the greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
I started playing the violin in 4th grade and as you know we were instructed to practice. It wasn't until years later my sister told me she hated the sound of it!😀
As a small child, I actually chose the tuba. Because it was three times my size and everyone thought it was hilarious- joke's on them, because no one plays it particularly well and because I can get a clean note out, I'm in about a million orchestras.
Not quite. It's just the old lady I imagined when Eddie started talking about Mrs. Badcrumble! She's got a tartan dress and a blue jumper & wields a clarinet.
I thought I was going to come apart at the seams when he said "It's like trying to blow into a weasel." I believe the blast of laughter I let out may have registered on the Richter scale.
No matter how many times I see this, and I could recite Definite Artic!e word for word, it still makes me laugh. Every now and then, I will say 'weasel, weasel, weasel' for no reason. Try it, it's deeply amusing. You're welcome.
"It's piaaaaaaano. It's piaaaaaaano" "Its not a fkn piaaaaaaano its a Clarrrrinarrrt" As someone who learnt four instruments and hated all of it not being very good at any of them and part of a choir for 9 years as I grew up, this is possibly my favourite comedy sketch. Ever. PS. "Weasel Weasel!"
"I know, I'll get their parents to listen to this and then maybe they'll kill 'em." 😂😂 As a parent I can testify to the truth of this. School bands are painful.
My 5 siblings and I were ALL made to join the band. I met my husband in college band. So, as one does (muahahaha!), I made MY kids join band. I'd badly wanted to play French horn, but due to physical impediments, it wasn't allowed, so when the band director decided that my daughter was best suited to French horn, she was (naturally) very much against the idea. With her (in later years, very expensive) French horn, she earned a full ride college scholarship.
When I was in high school we had a bagpipe band and my neighbor tried learning. It was a hideous noise for a few months, but he eventually got the hang of it.
Eddie you’re the best! 💖 if I would have known you were on RU-vid I’ve would have watched these over and over. I used to watch your stand up when it came out. So glad to enjoy again, it’s timeless!
When I was in middle school I found a couple of your videos! My friends and I would do the show at school and every where! Now I’m finding amazing ones still to this day lol greatness
I remember buying this on VHS when it came out. The box had a lovely velvety bit on the cover for where her jacket was. It felt really cool and groovy buying stand up by someone that (at that time) still identified as male (lesbian) but wore clothes made for women. I'm not tv but I loved that fact that she brought all that front and centre. She was so androgynous which is so attractive in a person. It gave the confidence and dont give a fuckety fuck to wear nail polish in public. I still enjoy that it confuses people (I'm a he/him).
I wish I hadn't had to cut out when you visited Rapid City. It would have been lovely to have been able to participate in the Q&A afterwards. Great show ❤ I'm glad you stopped in our little corner of the prairies. 😛 I saw Dress to Kill back in the day, and I still find myself quoting it often. "Do you have a flag? ...CAKE OR DEATH. Well, I'll have the chicken, then." ❤
My school band were actually good. We went on foreign tours to a different country every 2 years. And we played some large venues like the Dixieland festival, I think it was that one, in Germany.
Ten years old. Music lessons offered at my school. So, of course, I desperately wanted to play the violin (so romantic?? lol). My parents, both accomplished musicians themselves, said, "No, the violin is far too difficult. It's tenor sax or nothing." whut? nooo Well, that sax+case weighed more than I did. So, on "music days," my best friend and I used it as a "bench" while we waited for the school bus. Right up until I quit those lessons. Mmmhm...in the third torturous month. Ah, memories!
I can relate to this....first recorder, then violin and at the end french horn. I was shit with all of them. But I turned out to be a fantastic engineer. So really happy.
have been binge watching your clips for days, thank you for making us laugh with the most intelligent material, cheeks hurt from laughing-----free facelift 🤣🤣🤣 no doubt my favorite commedian/historian/language teacher 👍 one can't top this whole package 0:36 LOLS
I can concur as a child forced to learn clarinet because my eldest sister couldn't as my parents couldn't afford the lessons at the time for her. I wanted to learn tap dancing
