Gallagher was such a genius. I met him and we talked for 15 minutes one day while waiting for a carry out pizza. He was very nice but still funny without trying.
I met him at a Uhaul center I worked at more that 20 years ago. He came in looking for the “hitch thingy that makes the lights on the trailer work”. It took me a minute to recognize him, as the gray hair had arrived. We talked for a few minutes during the transaction. Just a nice, naturally funny guy.
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@Sith_dude I'm assuming you think he's overrated because he was only known for smashing watermelons. What I'm saying is that he has some decent material that didn't involve smashing things with a large wooden mallet. Case in point, this video. I'm saying he was a better comedian than the modern audience doesn't give him credit for.
@@TheMrBmurray 100% he was really bright, and his knowledge of politics and kills with wordplay made him far more than the gallagher 3000 or whatever it was called in that skit.. .Unfortunately at the time that hit so hard he was everywhere for awhile, so of course that is what people remember.. but his best material was definitely his politics stuff if you ask me, and his play on words was genius at times....
What started out being a wacky parody of food-processing veggie choppers became an albatross after a point, rendering him a novelty act after a while, from which he never quite recovered...especially after comics like Sam Kinison and Andrew "Dice" Clay came along and made him yesterday's news. A shame, since he made a lot of great observational points about a lot of different subjects over the years.
He had alot of sexual innuendo in his routines. He may not have come out and said the f word but he did push it. Still he's almost always gonna be in my top 10 and as ov today is number 5 l. I loved him
Clean comedy, you say... within 30 minutes he already made fun of young women, the "little ugly introverted girls" part... Nah, not funny, not funny at all.
I loved him after finding his vhs tapes at a local rental store. my only gripe with his routine was "POEM" I'm from Boston area and it's always said like: Poh-um or Poh-em. not Pome. BTW, "...boom the bomb is over." is a great line.
These videos always bring me to the reality of my age..I remember watching him on "Showtime" back in the early 80's at the age of 20. Now here I am 62 and retired. Wondering where 40 years of my life went 🤔.
In college after a discussion with the English Lit Prof I got my grade changed to an A. Every questions started "In you Opinion.....". Won the battle but lost the war. Next test the questions started with "In the opinion of experts what........." Those questions were harder.
My philosophy 101 prof used to take us to task for ever saying, "In my opinion...." Instead, we should say, "In my position..." or "It is my position that..." Why? because a position required actual support, whereas an opinion is free from that burden.
@@mrhoneystinger3676Sure, but experts are experts because they know A LOT about a given subject, and can most likely formulate a very complex an neuanced opinion that is backed by years of research, while a student's opinion is backed by what they have studied *so far*
@@rhuephus The only thing I can think of is "Vincent van Gogh." Gogh as a Dutch surname is pronounced "Goff." Of course it gets pronounced as "Go" because English speakers would of course want to drop the "-gh" as you said lol
@@blaynegreiner9365 It's like the friendzone of words, we never actually pronounce those letters but we still let them be there so they keep that little hope someday they'll get actually pronounced.
its better than asian languages, where the same word can mean a dozen different words depending on the words that were used directly before and after it, the speed at which you say it, or some other strange variable that dosent change the word, but changes its meaning.
"I Love Lucy" did a bit with this, where Ricky had to read a bedtime story, and got confused by the English language where the story used words like these. Pretty funny bit.
@@rhuephus LOL Facts that are alternates to the lies being told are often the truth. All of the past few years "conspiracy theories" have turned out to be true after all.
I was in a Spanish Class that had a bunch of high school teachers. One of the teachers was complaining how hard Spanish was and that it didn't make sense. The Spanish teacher did the same routine about english words as Gallagher did but ended with the question "WHY?" The problem teachet didn't ask another question the rest of the semester.
I absolutely love this guy😁😁😁😁 I've never laughed so much or so hard 🤣🤣🤣 Most of his stuff was just common sense, but he made it sooooooooo funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember in the 90s on Saturday mornings well into the early afternoon they would play Gallagher's HBO specials on Comedy Central, it was a *great* way to start the weekend with belly laughs
@@williamheath8827 oh yeah it's great to go back to those specials with everything you've learned since then and be able to enjoy the level of humor on two levels
It's not a slicer, or a dicer, or a hopper or a chopper. What in the Hell could it possibly be? It's Sledge-A-Matic! If you look at a lot of the comments here, you will find that people will dissect Gallagher and not take him for what he is or was. (sad)
I love this as I'm phonically challenged and never could get this English Language stuff right I mean why have rules if there's always an exception or that the word isn't even an English word!
He came and did a set on my ship when I was in the Navy. I really loved his satire in that set. It's a shame that the set never got a proper special because he was very much making carlin style observations but in his own way and even poked fun at his own persona. Fun stuff. An angry Gallagher is even funnier than his 'whats the deal with' Gallagher.
From a german, who learned english as fluent 2. language, its crazy how letters are "miss"pronounced in english! in german we say them, how its written & not add strange noises to letters, that arent there 😅
They dont make comedians like this anymore...he was very funny, didnt resort to foul language, wasnt crude or overly sexual with his jokes. Guy was just funny. Maybe comedians these days just cant be naturally funny so they have to sink to vulgarity to try.
We bought a box set of his comedy and tried to play it for our kids. Had to shut it off due to foul words. We didn't remember it being that way whenever we saw him before.
@@debmarino5225 ugg. Anytime i had seen him was on t.v. maybe it was highly edited. Such a shame. Most comedy is so bad i would walk out myself even without my kids. I hear enough 4 letter words and sexual perversion in everyday life.
And that's why English is actually the most difficult "language to master". Japanese is also hard for a very similar reason. But other supposedly hard languages are actually much easier, including Hungarian (there is only ONE way to read a group of letters, and only one way to write what you hear) and Chinese (only one way to read each character, and rarely 2). In Japanese, the same character can be pronounced 3-4-5 different ways, and you just have to memorize how every word is pronounced, just like English.
Nahh bro we got at least two ways to pronounce a chinese word. (Mandarin and Cantonese) English is the most difficult "language to master", hahaha you've got to be trolling 😂😂😂
Then we'd have to discuss whose accent the new spelling would match. I live in Michigan and would struggle mightily if English spelling were changed to reflect, say, Glaswegian pronunciation. :)
Does anyone know where to get this entire episode of the Smothers Brothers from 1988? I've been wanting a copy of this to show my kids!! It was my favorite.
I love the way he thinks. His opinion was the same as mine. It was not wrong, it was misunderstood. 😃 Should you drive on a parkway?. Should you park in a driveway? Should you stop in a drive-thru? Should you lift anything at a shop? Got you ,,,,,, 😉😅
I got to met him at a small venue back in 2007 and as I got out of the car he was walking to his car which was parked next to ours and opened the trunk to get some props so I said hello and asked if he needed help and he said well hell yeah but I'm not paying you lol. I got to go backstage and chat with him for a while and he was incredibly nice and way more intelligent then me but he started cracking jokes which made me feel smarter,after the show I saw him again as I was about to leave and he signed my ticket and had a beer with me.
He wasn’t wrong. In English, read (reed) rhymes with lead (leed) and lead (led) rhymes with read (red). And that’s before you get into cough, through, bough, tough, thorough etc. And we think Welsh is complicated 😂
