Helluva tough venue for standup. Made no less difficult by Chris and others tinkering at his feet on stage. And Gary STILL kills it! The consummate professional with great material.
@@swill1020 - Chris is the man with the mandolin. Chris Thile who took over Prairie Home Companion. This was a taping of that show. I heard it on the radio.
It was a taping of Prairie Home Companion, which is a "live" radio program, so having all the musicians & bit players all happening at once on the stage is part of the aura.
@@alcannavaciolo2349 - It is a taping of the radio program Prairie Home Companion. The mandolin player is Chris Thile who took over for Garrison Keillor. So there is no curtain.
I may be inordinately fond of Gulman. So many interesting things are going on with the underlying ideas of what he presents. He's probably the best Boston comedian ..ergo, the best comedian.
He is great! Saw him live at the Stress Factory in New Jersey. He greeted everyone who wanted to meet him after the show!!! Gary, you handled those asshole hecklers with such grace!!! I'm sorry that he has gone through so much with his battle with depression!
Mine was the theme for "Unsolved Mysteries". I still can't get through it. I put on a random episode on Amazon Prime a couple of nights ago and I ended up having to press the "skip intro" button. That music still creeps me out.
That is a taping of the radio program Prarie Home Companion, with Chris Thile, the mandolin player, who took over for Garrison Keillor. All those people on stage was part of the aura that made it a "live" radio program like the old days.
But at least you got a cultural education, whether you wanted it or not. Kids today have no clue about anything that happened more than 10 minutes ago.
We had one TV and about 12 channels where we eventually had to get a box to go past channel 13 when I was eight. It was a revelation, but now it feels like that Bruce Springsteen song about nothing on.
Omg, wow, I haven’t laughed like that for a longggg time...I’m talking the kind of really deep, genuine laugh that takes over your entire body and makes your stomach hurt, including having me cry the entire time from laughing so hard! I really needed this! 😂
@@MissJoy16 thanks! I see I wrote this a year ago so you know what that means...re-watch it!! 🤪 I was just actually figuring out what to watch in a bit! Good timing. 😀
@@MissJoy16 hellooooo hmmmm suggestions...I like Fortune Feister (she’s a bit rudish at times but I love her)! She’s got a Netflix special too that I watched recently (I think it was Netflix lol that or prime video)! My memory is going quickly since I hit 40 a couple years ago, sorry...🤪🤪🤪🤪 My all time favorite is Jim Gaffigan. I can watch all of his stuff over and over like I’ve never seen it before. He’s also got tons of Netflix specials and he’s going on a new tour soon! If he comes here to Mpls I’m definitely gonna try and get a seat! Omg I just love his comedy and it’s “clean” comedy too, so if your little one happens to come strolling in after bedtime, no worries!! He also has some RU-vid channels and they’re fun too. I also like Kevin James but it’s harder to find more on him. Still, the two shows I’ve seen of him on tv or Netflix have been hilarious as well! Him and Jim have me literally laughing til I can’t breathe!! You know that kinda laugh I’m talking about lol!! Enjoy!! (Sorry if you’ve already seen these comedians and/or you don’t like them...I’ll try to remember some more from dry bar too, as I’ve seen a lot on there as well! Most are super funny! That’s how I found Fortune Feister)!!!! PS sorry for such a long reply! 😬 lol
Glad I'm not the only one whose Sundays were less the second day of the weekend than the time to begin stressing about Monday. Gulman never disappoints -- and he's easy on the eyes, too. But, seriously, hockey? Only the second most expensive sport -- after, like, polo.
I looked it up. Hockey isn't even in the top 5. Golf, ski jumping, anything with horses - polo or equestrian, car racing (on a track), pentathlon, there were a few others I forgot..
It’s only been a few days for me, but I’m now trying to find as many Gary Gulman sets as possible. Blame the state conTRACtors that had me in hysterics! He’s SO good!
I'd never heard about this guy until he went on This American Life, this is the first time I've checked him out. American comics don't really often appeal to my sense of humour. But man, I was crying when he was talking about the missing kids on milk cartons, and the audience gives him NOTHING. He has such a perfect mix of genuine honestly and absurdism, why isn't that shit playing with the crowd here?
Gary is the best comedian in the world who has not sold out or has been bought out. I love this guy, his deliveries kill me everytime, even when I've heard the joke before...... You are the shit Gary
that started slow, he seemed very morose, and that death's head grin after each punch line ... but i hung in, and right at the end he just got to my funny bone. i was all alone and i couldn't stop laughing.
@@deniseb.7795 Things I permanently associate with Gulman: audacity, temerity, people who leave grocery carts in lines to keep shopping, guac affordability
In the 1980s I was in the middle of a huge case where six girls were abducted from my neighborhood. They found three of the girls fairly quickly. The other three took decades to find. They eventually turned up cemented into a structure that their killer had a holiday home near. I remember being told to never talk to strangers and be scared of everyone. Wierd time to be alive.
He's so very very funny. "There was no Ruth." But OMG Live From. Could you possibly fill the stage with more ancillary, distracting, non-essential items?? I realize it's radio, but that is the most non conducive set for performing comedy I've ever seen. At one point I thought I saw a Mr Coffee behind Gary, and then was that Hal Linden walking around behind him??
I honestly think it was disrespectful. Like how hard would it be to put Gary off to the side under spotlight and dim the stage?? Gary should've came back out and milled around them while they played. Ha.
At least his parents patronized and humored him. I'd ask my dad for something: Dad, I really need a new bike (kids always *need* stuff). My father's reply: Yeah, we'll get two of them. My parents weren't the type that took and interest in our future. I was very gifted with art. I'd draw, paint, etc..I'd finally get my mom's attention. Mom, look at this. My mom, on the phone, smoking a B&H cigarette: So, she came in and...Oh yeah, that's nice....(drag off cigarette that she would burn up far more than she'd smoke)....no, she came in and told Rudy to....To be fair, when I grew up, I realized that they were constantly working and keeping our heads above water. Then my mom would come home and cook, while my dad was out getting groceries. Anything that was not immediately critical, like a broken bone or missing finger, was not important. Teeth loose? Cut? Sliver? My dad would say,: Come over here and either pull out a string, merthiolate, or his pocket knife. It was the old school. By the way, we feared the merthiolate. My dad would bring home these little capsules from the refinery that he'd crush and apply to woulds. I would rather be cut again than get merthiolate. Of course, they had a paper jacket, so that was all you needed to keep the shards of what seemed to be broken glass at bay after crushing it. He loved operating on you with his pocket knife when you got a sliver. Hacking away and creating more damage than the sliver could ever do. Me: No dad, just leave it in, I like it. Dad: See? I got it, now go get the merthiolate. Good times....
The band setting up in the midst of BRILLIANCE is completely disrespectful and distracting, to both Gary and the audience. Gary could've riffed on the that, or lost his cool, but he is a complete pro and entertaining the audience was top of mind.
realities of live production demands- it's called show business. not ideal, but Gary handled it fine as any true pro would. the 'technician' everyone is dissing is show host, good guy and genius musician Chris Thile getting his instrument ready.
It's the live radio program Prairie Home Companion. There were no breaks between sets, one bit bled right into the other with all the players working around each other like clockwork- the show was always meant to replicate the old days of radio before the invention of television.
Strange, in his HBO special about depression, he tells the same 60 Minutes story but it´s his MOTHER who would change the channel. Not only that, I think she was a single mother, so no father.
Jokes involve the sounds of words, among other components. Maybe Gary decided that one parental unit name sounds funnier than the other, so he changed it up.
OK, now I've seen Gary not do so great. Nearly bombing, but not quite. Rare, I hope, for him, I love his material and his delivery, both. I love Live From Here, too! But on his night it was not his room.
What a horrible set up for stand up....a band setting up around you while you do your set. You could see the look on Gary's face, it was a "you have got to be kidding me" look as the guy was kneeling down plugging in his ukulele, or whatever it is.
That is a taping of the Prairie Home Companion, which is a live radio program. The guy with the mandolin is Chris Thile, the host (who took over from Garrison Keillor), & the band are all the players who made the program come alive (like old time radio programs did). This is how it worked with ALL musician guests. Old time radio wasn't seen- it was heard. So in the old days the listeners didn't know about all the stuff going on around the singer, or the Lone Ranger show, or whatever. The fact that PHC was taped with a live audience meant they had the chance to see all the nuts & bolts.
From this point on I will forever attempt to embody Gary's seemingly unaffected demeanour toward loitering, unimpressed instrument players when I sense undue pressure.
That's the radio program Prairie Home Companion. The whole show is like that. THAT is a radio show for NPR that would be done live in front of an audience. And so "barn theater" WAS the look & feel of the old timey radio show made famous by Garrison Keillor!
He's not making fun of the kids. He's making fun of the differences between they way they put out information ABOUT missing kids then as compared to now. THEN they had milk cartons- school lunchroom tiny milk cartons that kids who WEREN'T missing looked at while eating their lunch!. NOW they have Amber Alerts & Code Adams that go out over all the media channels.
hes got great jokes but his delivery is a tad slow and dry by his monotone voice. Speed up the punchline and have a little bit more energy.My own opinion.I will still watch him.he makes me laugh.
