8 Burst results for "Wilbur Theater"
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"wilbur theater" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"Take the shot and they act like everything's fine. It's sad all around. So yesterday, the board of governors convened and they agreed in majority to investigate the altercation. And the next board meeting will be on April 18th, and that's going to be the day they decide what disciplinary action could incur for Will Smith. It could be a suspension and expulsion or other sanctions permitted by the bylaws and standards of conduct. And while Smith could potentially be expelled from amphis, a lot of people don't believe he'll lose his Oscar. I'm one of those people. And you know why? If this was a white guy who made a movie about a simple story that turned out to be a great story, fine, take his Oscar away. But in my opinion, Will Smith, the $1 billion black action star. Who makes a movie about a black father in the ghetto. Who despite the odds teaches his daughters how to play tennis, not only that, but to be extreme champions, I don't think there's any way that Oscar gets taken away. Not with a whole crew of black producers making this the first time they produce the Oscars. I can't imagine that. I can't, I can't. Also issued a statement the other day saying while we would like to clarify that mister Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently. You know, it always takes two, three days for people to really tell the truth. I love that. But those people who are close to Will Smith, especially that night, they say he was never directly asked to leave by anyone associated with anthus to lead the Dolby theater. In fact, people say the idea was floated to the actor by his publicist, now the Oscars producer will packer, he's the first among the award shows higher ups to speak publicly about what went down. He did this on Good Morning America. And I don't even want to get into what Whoopi Goldberg says. Whoopi Goldberg is a memory of the academy and she just wants everybody to know this is not a black people do. This is going to be, this is going to turn into this is how black people act. Well, I'm sorry what people it is. It is how black people act at times. At times, you know, we've seen multiple videos dozens and dozens of videos of black people smack in the shit out of Asian women. Has nothing to do with Hollywood, but nothing is being done about that. So there is some kind of anger that's within black men that needs to be addressed. But we'll be Goldberg on let me tell you that. But there was an interview that was teased on world news tonight with will packer revealing details about the LAPD's conversation with Chris Rock on Sunday Night. You see guys, the cops came. It was an event. And the cops were saved to Chris Rock. This is battery. That was the word they used in that moment. They said, we will go get him. We're prepared to go get Will Smith. We'll get him right now. And you can press charges. We can arrest him. They were basically laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was, you know, he's being very dismissive of those options. He was like, no, no, I'm fine, man. I'm fine. No, no, no, don't do it. Don't do it. Even to the point where they said, you know, look, let Chris Rock finish, let him talk. And the LAPD officers there laid out what his options were. And they said, would you like us to take any action? And he said, no. But I'm going to tell you right now, I don't think that Noah's gonna last. I don't, I think if Chris Rock said that night, yes, arrest him. This story would be much different in Chris Rock's legacy. So that night, he said, no, no, no. Don't do anything. I'm fine. I'm fine for him. He may have had a red bruise on his face, but he was fine. And if you see the video that they slowed down showing Chris Rock's face after this thing happened, it said, man, I know Chris. He's a great guy. He's a wonderful guy. But he was looking around that room as if he needed help. As if he was looking for somebody to understand what he went through. And at some point he caught someone's attention and made a really crazy face like, we're not gonna do. It's sad. If you can find that video watch it. But the other night, press rock kicked off his ego, death world tour at Boston's Wilbur theater, and he said to the crowd, I haven't talked to anyone despite what you may have heard. I'm still kind of processing what happened. And at some point, I'm going to talk about that shit. And it's going to be serious. But it also be funny. I know in the hood, these kind of things, black dudes don't follow through. Especially because Will Smith is such a big star. I got a sneaking suspicion Chris Rock is going to file suit. Not at Will Smith, but at the academy. That's what I think. All right. And you know, you guys see what's happening. The academy is a mess. It's a mess, and that show the other night was horrible. And they're creating even a bigger mess, so the whole thing can be dismissed collectively.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"wilbur theater" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"Just noticed silver. Good. There it is. Try to get that scene through development meeting. You can't do it, man. People read down on the page and they're like, what the fuck is this? There's two pages of meow. They're saying meow. What the hell is this shit? This is not gonna work. Every studio we went to. You know, originally George Clooney was the executive producer of super troopers. And he got us into the room with the president of every movie studio, but all of them singled out that scene as to why they weren't going to make the movie. They were like, you've got meow. It might be funny to you guys, but nobody else is going to think this is funny. Pass. What is George going to act in it? We're like, no, pass. Somebody said if you get Ben Affleck to play thorny, they would greenlight it. I believe Fox News should have done that. Yeah. It would have been a good idea. Just a little bit of good movie. Ben Affleck would be sitting right there staring out into space as we talk. I'd be sitting in the audience just weeping. It could have been me. But you know, I mean, Jim, at the time, Jim Gaffigan was a relatively unknown guy. And he was we were all kind of Hughes in New York City. We were all working in New York City and you hated him too. Yeah, you're going to notice a theme here. Kevin hated Jimmy gaffer. That's true. And we were like this guy just killed his audition and Kevin was like, I don't like this fucking guy. I don't want this guy. He stole my pants. It was a time we were in New York, and we were all auditioning for stuff, right? I would go audition for commercials and stuff like that, you know? And in the room would always be this fucking guy, Jim Gaffigan. I was always up against Jim Gaffigan. And I do the audition and I would not get it. And I'd see the commercial come on and Jim Gaffigan would get the fucking commercial every time. He was a rolling rock guy. He was a Saturn guy. He was everything. And I was like, this guy, he is my nemesis. So then he comes in to read for super troopers, and I'm like, this is my chance. I'm gonna fucking shoot this guy down. And these guys loved him. They love Jim Gaffigan. No way. He's like a funnier, Kevin heffernan. We love this guy. But you get one veto. Like in the audition process, you get a veto if you've got a beef with somebody. And you're like, no, I know you guys love that guy, but fuck that guy. We're not casting him, and this is why, and we're like, okay, okay, fine. We got you. In this case, we were like, fuck you, heffernan. This guy killed this audition. We had four. And Gaffigan got the job. And then the best part was when we were shooting this scene, we're all we're there on the highway and we're shooting the scene and Kevin won't even come over to talk to Gaffigan. We're talking hot pockets. Yeah, we're laughing our asses off and you think he's like a clean stand up comedian, but in real life he was dirty. He was telling dirty jokes and we're laughing and then you look over and you see Kevin like a hundred yards away at the craft service table just eating. Sadly eating and I don't think you ever came and spoke to Jim Gaffigan did you? I did. I mean, we know he went on to great things and we became friends with him and we put him in the slam and salmon. And then he was super nice enough to fly his private jet in and shoot super tubers too with us, right? In the morning. Only in the morning because he had a ten sold out shows at the Wilbur theater in Boston. But he flew out on his PJ and it shot in the morning and then flew back to Boston. He's come a long way. I love Jim Gaffigan. I think he's fantastic. But I just want to say, though, since we're in LA, that whole scene, the whole routine was cooked up in a hotel room, a travel lodge on pico when we were out trying to all coming out from New York would fly out, try to get stuff set up, try to get this movie set up. And we would always, it was always the 5 of us in one little hotel room. So you'd have, you'd have to do two guys spooning in one bed, two guys putting in one bed, one guy in the pocket floor between the two of them. So these were long nights of partying and trying to make each other laugh. And that was. That point in the night where your jokes don't even make sense anymore. And we were like, what if there was a wizard and he did something to your tongue, so when you went to say now instead, it would be meow and fucking laughing at that and took turns like screaming now at each other, laughing about how we try to be considerate and try not to get noise complaints, but imagining that the people next door to us would call downstairs and then the kid at the desk would have to call our room and be like, we're getting complaints in a lot of people screaming meow in the next room. Where we are shushing each other. Right, we're having a contest to who could shush each other the loudest to see if we could get a noise complaint for shushing too loud. And then it became, can we get a noise complaint for, yeah, yelling now at each other. And then we got the, we got the call for meowing too loud, but we couldn't get a noise complaint for shirting each other too loudly. Which is why there's no shushing scene. Although we should. We worked on super troopers three last night. We got to put a shushing. And about 6 weeks later, we were writing the movie that somebody had written on a piece of paper meow equals now, and they said, you remember this joke? And we're like, oh yeah, that's a good joke. And then we wrote it into the movie. Do you guys ever have you ever kind of come up with an idea or a joke that you thought was that you thought, oh, this is really funny, but it's not us. It's not the kind of thing we could do. Did you ever come up with something like that? Yeah, we do that stuff. We try to avoid certain kinds of jokes. They don't seem to fit us very well. There's always these kind of periods where you go through these very mean spirited comedy. You know, I think our philosophy was always like, let's make it like you're 5 buddies, you're hanging out and you guys want to hang out with us. And so it's a more pleasurable thing. And once you start getting to the really mean spirited stuff, it always seemed to undermine that. So we always try to avoid, I think that the more mean spirit and stuff, it was more a bunch of guys hanging out and having fun together. I think yeah, and I think you can even see that in the meow scene because Gaffigan's character, like he realizes what's happening. So it's not like, you know, it's not cringe humiliation comedy type stuff. He's although fuck that guy. Yeah. No, no, you're right. No, the idea was to be very good. And that's the dangerous thing about making super tumors super rich too, is you put yourself into this police situation and it's wrought with certain baggage. And the trick is to make sure that you're not portraying the bad guy and that we're all in on the joke together and we're all having a good time. I think that's the trick to it.
Stuff You Should Know
"wilbur theater" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"He's launched called obsessions, colon, wild chocolate, hosted by Rowan Jacobson, and we're going to play a preview of that at the end of the episode, but we wanted to tell people what it was about, right? Yeah, it's pretty awesome. They kind of call it the Indiana Jones of chocolate. Yeah. We're basically these people who are really into chocolate. They're chocolate makers are like, yeah, all this cacao that we're finding is really good in some better than others, but we've heard legend that deep in the Amazon. There's cacao that will knock your socks off and they go to find it. Yes. And mainge made a podcast out of it. So it's really interesting stuff. It's really well made. My guess is really good and knows what he's doing with podcasting. So congratulations to him on his podcast company kaleidoscope and on wild chocolate too. That's right, so check it out, obsessions, wild chocolate. It's wherever you can get podcasts and stick around after listener mail, where we're going to have a little preview of it. Okay, chuck. So we're back at it then. That's right. A little COA here. This one's probably rated, at least PG-13. I would say that, yeah. I mean, it's not rated R necessarily, but you know, it's about bachelor and bachelorette party. So I'm just going to be talk about some stuff. You want to you really want your kid to learn about bachelor parties? No. I don't either. No, it's a fair warning. And if you are in other parts of the world and you're like, a bachelor party, what's that? We're talking about a stag party. Sure. For those of you in the UK, Ireland and Canada. In Australia, we're talking about the bucks party. Back patty. That was Boston. And by the way, have you seen Kevin can F himself? No, I have not. We got recommended that from a lot of people after the sitcoms up. Yeah, it's good. That's where I picked it up too. I mean, I was familiar with or aware of it, but it's definitely. Is it good? Definitely worth watching, yeah. I've only seen the first episode, and I'm like, this is, this has legs, for sure. What does that have to do with bugs parties in Australia? It's set in Worcester. And you said it sounded like I was from Boston. Yes, exactly. And the lead I don't know the actors name, but from Schitt's Creek, the daughter. Sister from Schitt's Creek. Like Boston accent without overdoing it. She's really good. So it's a good good show, chuck. Will quickly then while we're segueing or diverting, I was just in Boston. And I just wanted to shout out, I went up there for a pavement show. And from my hotel room, I looked out and what was sitting there, but the Wilbur theater. Yeah. Our Boston live performance home right outside my hotel window. And right next door to the Wang theater where pavement played. Okay. And I probably bumped into 7 different stuff you should know listeners. Oh, cool. Who all came up and chatted it up, sat right next to a couple. And I promised them live showed freebies. Which they need to email me, by the way. If you're out there and listening. Very nice. It's the only way it can happen. We'll probably be in Boston this year is a better than average chance. Wouldn't you say? I would say so. So just a big shout out to Boston, 'cause they're always super supportive and nice. And I think my friend from high school and his friends who were with us were like, jeez, chuck that famous, and no, not at all. This happens once every few months, not 7 times in a night. Sure. I think the fact that it took place at a pavement show kind of skewed in population. Yeah, there were probably on the lookout at any pavement show I might be there. Yeah. So back to the content. Yeah, back to back to bachelor parties. What do they call them in France? Oh, and France they have a great name for him. The intermont David de garson, which means the burial of the life as a boy. Which makes a lot of sense because bachelor parties in particular started at a time, like the late 19th century, is when they really started to become what we understand of them today. At a time when you probably were there was a higher than likely chance that you were going into marriage as a virgin and so this was exposing you for one last time, your one last opportunity to, you know, how do I put this man so I guess, but without actually doing that, more just like, you know, seeing a naked woman doing a striptease or something like that. Like this was your chance to do that before you got married kind of thing. And so back then, it actually made sense in a certain way, whereas today, because people are getting married later and later, the bachelor party makes less and less sense, but the same behavior from days of yore is expected, so there's this weird tense juxtaposition between bachelor parties now and how people actually, whether or not they enjoy bachelor parties today. You know what I mean? Yeah, and I mean, I think we should just go ahead and say, I can speak for you. Neither one of us are big on the traditional bachelor party. No. We're going to try not to yuck the yums. And get too judgy. I went camping for my quote unquote bachelor party. Nice. I've never been into strip clubs at all. Much less for a bachelor party, which is, it makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it. Well, supposedly chuck like there was at least one ethnographic study. Oh, I can't find it right now. We'll come across it later on. Oh, from 2016. This ethnographic study basically followed bachelor parties to Ibiza and like other places around Europe. And they interviewed the people who were there, just kind of candidly. And most of them were like, no, I really don't enjoy this at all. I'm not having that much fun. Like the time when we were hanging out back at the rented house drinking together, that's fine. Sure. But being put on stage and whipped by a stripper is not that fun. It's kind of humiliating and no, it's not really enjoyable, but I feel like I have to go through it. So that's that tension that I was talking about, where it was like that kind of body raucous, you know, objectifying behavior that, again, kind of like maybe made sense in the 50s in a different time. It doesn't make sense today, but people still do it. And so it makes people deeply uncomfortable. As far as most, I can't say most days. As far as plenty of studies have actually looked at this thing and a lot of anecdotal evidence to say. Yeah, I'm a full belief that the traditional hedonistic bachelor party thing is being driven still by a small minority of guys that are going to do it, dude, that kind of guy. They are called your desperate already married friend. Those are the ones that are trouble at a bachelor party. Those are the ones you had to look out for. Those are the ones that push everybody else to do dumb stuff that they would totally do and that they'll later regret. As a matter of fact, if you want to have a chill bachelor party, do not invite the desperate already married friends. No, not at all. Or hopefully if you're getting married a little later in life, then everyone is sort of a little more on board with something chill. And that seems to have caused bachelor parties to evolve and what they're becoming more and more today, which are basically like men's retreats to barbecue and hike and stuff like that. And there are definitely plenty that go to Vegas or go out of the country or something like that and just party hard, but there's a growing number of ones that just do. Like you said, like go camping, you know? Just hang out with your pals, which is ultimately with the point supposed to be the point of a bachelor party, isn't it humiliate the groom to be, but that is a huge kind of through thread in a lot of them. The point is to just celebrate your time as an individual. I saw I put so perfectly. It was on a gay marriage website. And they were talking about whether you should throw a bachelor party for both grooms or a combined one. And this website was saying, one for each, because what they're doing is going into a marriage and they're combining themselves. This is one of those times when they can be celebrated as individuals. Separately, distinctly. And that's ultimately what a bachelor party is supposed to be about. It's celebrating this individual before they basically become responsible and enter into a union with another person and become a couple. That's ideally what the bachelor party sentiment is supposed to be. That's right. And the only time I will get super judgy is if you are one of those dudes that thinks it is okay or you should have sex with one last girl before you get married, make the worst decision you've ever made. You are cheating on them and you will cheat on them again one day probably. And that is not right in any way, shape or form. So again, this is anecdotal self reporting. But on George Takei's website. I don't know what he was doing. He hosted that was Jeffrey tambor in George Takei cross together. Yeah. What was Hank's name? Hank. Yeah. So on George Takei's website, he had this list of people who wrote in and said, yeah, I was at the special party in the wedding ended because the groom cheated on his fiance, like at the bachelor party the night before the wedding and the fiance found out because her brothers there. It was part of the bachelor party. And so apparently there have been, again, I didn't see anything out of Rutgers or MIT that was a study on this, but anecdotally, there have been marriages that have ended before they started because just terrible decisions were made at the bachelor party. That's right. And ladies, we're not forgetting about you. The bachelorette party is a big thing. They also call them hen parties. They call them early on. I think Ken parties. But they came about much later, generally between the 70s and the 90s is when that kind of started. And we'll touch on both. As we go along. But first, in Libya, I God bless her, I feel bad for even putting her through this, but she helped us put this one together. And did a really good job in that she looked at a lot of other sort of pre wedding traditions. And the bachelor and bachelorette parties are one thing, but there's a long, long history across every culture you can think of kind of since marriage was even a thing that there is some sort of pre day before or week before rituals that different cultures partake in. Yep. Ritual bath, the mikva and Jewish tradition. Ancient Greece, women used to hang out and sacrifice things to the gods before the day before. Those one in Sweden I thought was pretty interesting in 17th century Sweden, they celebrated. Which is virgin knights, so they would bathe and feast and drink with their friends, and there was actually one town in 1649 of uppsala that said no more. You're showing up so hungover on the wedding day, like we can't do the mooc valar here anymore. It's banned. That's another thing too. There are a few bad ideas that have to do with marriage that are worse than having a bachelor and or bachelorette party. The night before the wedding. It's not the time to do it. That's when you have your rehearsal dinners and stuff usually. Right, it's supposed to be like kind of chill and exciting. Not partying like that. The night before the wedding, like you have to be so bad at thinking things through, to actually do that, that it's just kind of mind boggling. But also hilarious in a way. There's one in northeastern Scotland, I think, in rural Scotland, that I think still happens. I'd love to hear from our Friends there. But they will drive. It's called the blackening. They will get the bride and groom and kind of fake kidnap them. And you'll see that happens a lot in a lot of these traditions. We've got you now. And they will cover them with disgusting, sticky things, dog food, rotten eggs, just anything they'll kind of stick to your body and humiliate you. And they will drive you around in the back of a truck basically around town. And they basically said there are not many rules except that you're uncomfortable and embarrassed, basically. One thing I saw was that this is like a farming community so that manure doesn't actually work because everybody is so used to the smell of manure that if you smear it on somebody, they're like whatever. They're not close to the coast, so they'll actually drive to the coastal areas to get like fish guts and stuff. Because those people do find the particularly disgusting inoffensive smelling. Wow. Yeah, it's kind of mean. But it actually evolved out of a tradition of washing the bride's feet and it ended up becoming that. In this little part of Scotland, but yeah, it still goes on from when I saw him. So if you look at the U.S. in the United States, we were talking about, like you said, the 19th century when these things kind of became a thing, there's a sociologist named Thomas turnell Reed that did article with live science and basically said, you know, when we became industrialized and we moved into the cities and started working in factories, new rituals came about. Now that you weren't in doing sort of the farming community rituals, where if you had kind of any sort of promotion or anything to mark a Rite of passage, people would maybe an apprenticeship would end or something. You would take people out and you would drink beer with them, maybe played practical jokes on them, maybe tar and feather their jumpsuit for work or something like that. And this is what this sociologist thinks sort of led to this tradition of bachelor and bachelorette parties of getting the other drinking a lot, maybe some practical jokes. We'll get to those later, but those are still a thing apparently. Yeah, which makes sense. I think it's a pretty good argument because you have these, you know, new living situations, but still some of those old surviving traditions. So you have to come up with new customs around those traditions because the old living situation isn't around anymore. I totally buy them. I buy it too. And Libya also found this really cool story sort of exposed a lot of how the richies lived in the Gilded Age in New York. It was exposed with something called the awful Sealy dinner. And this was the Sealy family. In New York, and this was these were relatives, I think, ancestors of P. T. Barnum, right? Descendants of P. T. Barnum. The grandson. What's the difference? I always forget. P. T. Barnum who came before was there an ancestor. They are the descendant of barnum, right? So isn't one of your favorite movies the descendants? It is, but I also call it the ancestor sometimes. So Herbert barnum Seeley, through this party for his brother Clinton, just I guess 11 days before he was to be married. And I guess did get married. And it was at a restaurant called sherries at a time before there was like dining out was a thing. So this was really, really expensive. Actually, you know what? Dining out was a thing. I looked into this party a little bit more, but if you were really elite, as you'll see, you like a lot of privacy and you like to do some nasty things sometimes. So there was this big private dining scene in New York at the time that was a really, really big deal. Okay, potato potato. Okay. So they were doing this private dining thing. Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense because they have very tight lipped weight staff help performers. When they were interviewed with the cops, all these people were like, it is not within our social strategy to inform on the people who hired. And from what I understand, the cops were like, yeah, we totally get it. We don't have a case, but we totally get it. And it wasn't until Herbert barnum Seeley told the cops who some of the attendees were, the cops went and interviewed these incredibly rich people and stuff started to come out and it was like, no, they actually did have a woman who did like this who jumped naked out of a cream pie or something like that and danced on the table. Her name was little Egypt. She was kind of a famous dancer at the time. But this is a time where, as far as society was concerned, you did not do this. This is like finding out that the wealthy have eyes wide shut parties. I think was what it was like, but times a million because the Victorian era was so genteel. Yeah, but here's the thing, they totally did this. Right. Which is why they had all those private dining events. Because they like to do stuff like this. So they were tipped off by I think an agent of one of the dancers, the cops were tipped off that there was lurid things happening. So the cops show up and accidentally walk in on a bunch of dancers changing. Changing their outfits and we're embarrassed away basically away from the premises, said we didn't see anything. And then the ceilings, probably would have just kept quiet if it hadn't been for the ceilings. Right. Taking it back to the city and saying, you know what? What we want to we want these cops investigated. And so all of a sudden they're dirty laundry is being dragged out and it was quite the scandal of the New York court system because like you said, these people didn't this quote unquote low society didn't mix with the high society. And all of these people were brought through to testify in court and apparently the people in court watching was everything from the high society person, looking to get dirt or laugh at their comrades or whatever. To the guy on the street who was just looking for warmth in the courtroom, and so they were all kinds of people mixing in New York when you really never saw this happening. And the dancers they had all their outfits rigged to either be snipped off with scissors or for their stockings to drop and it was just for the time very lurid stuff. Big time embarrassment. There's a lot of fun contemporary contemporaneous. Articles, there's one from The New Yorker that's really fun to read about the awful Seeley party and just a little quick side note about little Egypt she was quite the business lady apparently. She was a real estate investor. And died of a very sadly died a couple of years later, gas affixation and her apartment, but died with, in today's dollars, about a million bucks in the bank. Yeah. So she had it going on. Yeah, and apparently she was secretly married and her husband wouldn't claim her in public, but when she died, he came forward immediately and was like, that was my wife. That's my money. So the upside of the awful Seeley dinner is it was called, it gave bachelor parties or bachelor dinners is what they were called at the time kind of a bad name because everybody had assumed that, yeah, there's some drinking and, you know, they smoked maybe an extra cigar or something like that. This really exposed them. And just it gave them bad reputation. It turns out for like 25 years tops because no less than Emily Post in her 1922 book etiquette and society and business and politics and at home wrote that the bachelor dinner is popularly supposed to have been a frightful orgy, but in reality it was a sheep and wolf's clothing. So her point was less than a quarter century after this awful Seeley dinner when it comes out that the rich at their bachelor parties hire like couples to perform sex shows in the middle of dinner. By this time Emily posted saying no, that was all just hysterical. They're actually very state events. Yeah, and she really, I don't know if she didn't know what she's talking about. That's what I think probably so. I just didn't know if she was trying to just make things seem a little more upstanding than they were. But yeah, she probably just didn't even know what was really going on. Because I think it was that very same time period. There was a counter claim, which I just call it the reality of it all. There was an oral history gathered by the WPA, which is a Rhode Island French Canadian of a Rhode Island French Canadian textile worker named Henry, Bushehr, who described in first person his own stag party and it was a raucous affair basically. They had a priest there that gave a speech about the duties of a married man and gave a toast, but then they basically said, he had the good sense to get out of there really quickly. And we were really relieved because income the striptease acts and stuff like that. And we didn't want the priest here. So Emily Post had it all wrong. That's my take that she was just like, this isn't possible. My brain won't comprehend. What's actually going on at these bachelor dinners? Yeah. So at the very least by the late 19th century into the 20s, the bachelor party is really starting to evolve and take shape and reflect what we're seeing today, right? And I say
Stuff You Should Know
"wilbur theater" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Know. Yeah. So before we get going, my friend, we want to alert people. We got a little something special at the end of this episode. Our former colleague, who was no longer with iHeart, but dare I say one of the best dudes ever in one of our most beloved colleagues mange had to go. He is doing his own little like he calls it his own little podcast shingle. And he's making shows now, and he has a great new show that he's launched called obsessions, colon, wild chocolate, hosted by Rowan Jacobson, and we're going to play a preview of that at the end of the episode, but we wanted to tell people what it was about, right? Yeah, it's pretty awesome. They kind of call it the Indiana Jones of chocolate. Yeah. We're basically these people who are really into chocolate. They're chocolate makers are like, yeah, all this cacao that we're finding is really good in some better than others, but we've heard legend that deep in the Amazon. There's cacao that will knock your socks off and they go to find it. Yes. And mainge made a podcast out of it. So it's really interesting stuff. It's really well made. My guess is really good and knows what he's doing with podcasting. So congratulations to him on his podcast company kaleidoscope and on wild chocolate too. That's right, so check it out, obsessions, wild chocolate. It's wherever you can get podcasts and stick around after listener mail, where we're going to have a little preview of it. Okay, chuck. So we're back at it then. That's right. A little COA here. This one's probably rated, at least PG-13. I would say that, yeah. I mean, it's not rated R necessarily, but you know, it's about bachelor and bachelorette party. So I'm just going to be talk about some stuff. You want to you really want your kid to learn about bachelor parties? No. I don't either. No, it's a fair warning. And if you are in other parts of the world and you're like, a bachelor party, what's that? We're talking about a stag party. Sure. For those of you in the UK, Ireland and Canada. In Australia, we're talking about the bucks party. Back patty. That was Boston. And by the way, have you seen Kevin can F himself? No, I have not. We got recommended that from a lot of people after the sitcoms up. Yeah, it's good. That's where I picked it up too. I mean, I was familiar with or aware of it, but it's definitely. Is it good? Definitely worth watching, yeah. I've only seen the first episode, and I'm like, this is, this has legs, for sure. What does that have to do with bugs parties in Australia? It's set in Worcester. And you said it sounded like I was from Boston. Yes, exactly. And the lead I don't know the actors name, but from Schitt's Creek, the daughter. Sister from Schitt's Creek. Like Boston accent without overdoing it. She's really good. So it's a good good show, chuck. Will quickly then while we're segueing or diverting, I was just in Boston. And I just wanted to shout out, I went up there for a pavement show. And from my hotel room, I looked out and what was sitting there, but the Wilbur theater. Yeah. Our Boston live performance home right outside my hotel window. And right next door to the Wang theater where pavement played. Okay. And I probably bumped into 7 different stuff you should know listeners. Oh, cool. Who all came up and chatted it up, sat right next to a couple. And I promised them live showed freebies. Which they need to email me, by the way. If you're out there and listening. Very nice. It's the only way it can happen. We'll probably be in Boston this year is a better than average chance. Wouldn't you say? I would say so. So just a big shout out to Boston, 'cause they're always super supportive and nice. And I think my friend from high school and his friends who were with us were like, jeez, chuck that famous, and no, not at all. This happens once every few months, not 7 times in a night. Sure. I think the fact that it took place at a pavement show kind of skewed in population. Yeah, there were probably on the lookout at any pavement show I might be there. Yeah. So back to the content. Yeah, back to back to bachelor parties. What do they call them in France? Oh, and France they have a great name for him. The intermont David de garson, which means the burial of the life as a boy. Which makes a lot of sense because bachelor parties in particular started at a time, like the late 19th century, is when they really started to become what we understand of them today. At a time when you probably were there was a higher than likely chance that you were going into marriage as a virgin and so this was exposing you for one last time, your one last opportunity to, you know, how do I put this man so I guess, but without actually doing that, more just like, you know, seeing a naked woman doing a striptease or something like that. Like this was your chance to do that before you got married kind of thing. And so back then, it actually made sense in a certain way, whereas today, because people are getting married later and later, the bachelor party makes less and less sense, but the same behavior from days of yore is expected, so there's this weird tense juxtaposition between bachelor parties now and how people actually, whether or not they enjoy bachelor parties today. You know what I mean? Yeah, and I mean, I think we should just go ahead and say, I can speak for you. Neither one of us are big on the traditional bachelor party. No. We're going to try not to yuck the yums. And get too judgy. I went camping for my quote unquote bachelor party. Nice. I've never been into strip clubs at all. Much less for a bachelor party, which is, it makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it. Well, supposedly chuck like there was at least one ethnographic study. Oh, I can't find it right now. We'll come across it later on. Oh, from 2016. This ethnographic study basically followed bachelor parties to Ibiza and like other places around Europe. And they interviewed the people who were there, just kind of candidly. And most of them were like, no, I really don't enjoy this at all. I'm not having that much fun. Like the time when we were hanging out back at the rented house drinking together, that's fine. Sure. But being put on stage and whipped by a stripper is not that fun. It's kind of humiliating and no, it's not really enjoyable, but I feel like I have to go through it. So that's that tension that I was talking about, where it was like that kind of body raucous, you know, objectifying
The Jimmy Tingle Show
"wilbur theater" Discussed on The Jimmy Tingle Show
"Hey everybody, this is Jimmy tingle. Welcome to the Jimmy tingle show appropriately named, I think. This is our first episode of our video show in podcast and I couldn't be happy today to introduce my first guest. My friend Colin Quinn and I go way back. We go back to the 1980s in the comedy clubs in Boston and in New York. I got to meet him way back in the day. He was a big influence to me. A good friend and we've been friends ever since going back, whatever that is. 35 years, 40 years, whatever it is. But he's done a lot of great things you may know him from weekend update on Saturday Night Live. He's been in a ton of movies and he's been pursuing the one person show format for the last, I don't know, 20, 25 years or so, and he's done a ton of them, and they're all great. And I want to talk to him about that because he's in Boston. This Thursday night, doing his show at the Wilbur theater. So please welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen, the one the only from New York City, mister Colin Quinn. Yes. Hi, Jimmy. We first met, I saw Jimmy tingle. They go, you gotta watch this guy, Jimmy tingle. And I was up here at Boston in one of these clubs. And he goes on stage and he goes, folks. I'm the pink wonder. One minute later, he goes, the czar of one of town. Look at him, he has like ten nicknames that he gave himself. He kept his head, and he goes, folks. Spike tingle. It was a hilarious act, but it was she was very unique. I knew from the beginning I said, this guy's really great. He's really great. A man of many nicknames. Yes, he gave himself like 8 big names during that. Well, Colin, you know, when I was trying to get booked at the ding Ho. Barry Clemens. I was about daytime bartender and open mic perform. I said, Barry, why don't you book me? He goes, Jimmy. I can't tell Steven Wright and Lenny Clark and Paula pound so not to come in on Saturday night because we're going to book tingle. He goes, you got to start your own room, start your own room, you can book it, you can host it, you'll get all sorts of practice. So I found that room in Watertown mocks pub and Watertown. I think it was Barry nicknamed me the czar of Watertown because you didn't get into Watertown Massachusetts unless you went through me.
Planet Mikey
"wilbur theater" Discussed on Planet Mikey
"Anthony jessel Nick. He's a pretty good-looking guy. How are you? Is that on some fella? Yeah. It helps a good-looking guy and then, you know, I mean, I think there's a lot of good-looking comics. Doug in the room? Yeah, Doug standing right over he wrote, please say I'm good looking. He's like he's a lunatic man. You know why you got books because you keep complimenting me all the time. You know, he's a lunatic guy though. He is. He says a lot of stuff that you ever have to control the things you say, depending on the room as far as, you know, how blue you can be? Well, I'm not blue. I tend not to be blue because that's just not how I talk in real life and that's not really what interests me. I think I'm more interested in going for dark stuff. So I like finding funny and sort of dark depressing topics. But not dark. Not dark blue. Not dark blue. Now, more like dark, you know, yellow. So is that why it works with you and Doug? Because he's pretty much the opposite of that. He's very dark. My first time, this is my first time featuring for him. I actually did a show in San Francisco and he was buying tickets to my show. And I thought I actually really thought I was seeing things because he's one of my comedy heroes. I just really admire him. And so and I was so it was a Sunday. And so it wasn't a huge crowd, turnout, and I just see Doug buying tickets and I had to ask him, I was like, is that duck Stan? Hope and they were like, yeah, and I was like, is he buying kicks? And they were like, yeah, and I was like, why? You could have walked right over and comped him on that moment, right? No, yeah, he talked, I mean, what are you doing here? And then he introduced he brought me up on stage. I was like, do you want to do a set? And he's like, not really, but I'll bring you up that he was really funny with that. I mean, he was just he's just a really funny thing. He smokes on the stage. He didn't smoke on no, not at cobbs. No. It's a weird thing you have called ask mom advice. And she's right there with you in your childhood home? Yeah, so she's downstairs and I'm upstairs, but we just did ask it was her idea during the pandemic. What was my idea to do a show, but then she pitched me her idea, which was ask mom advice and ten words or fewer? Yeah. And so she gives advice in ten words or fewer and they're always these very specific things. So today it was all about getting stands out quickly from garments. And who would know better than your various essential advice? Now during the pandemic, I know we had Tony V on and he was saying that I said, how weird is it to do a show at a drive in? And I know you did the parking lot at the rose bowl. Yeah, I did. I did. I was supposed to do a specialist part of Tribeca and then that got canceled and they rescheduled it and did it as a drive in. And Tony said it was a great to get a beeping ovation. Yeah, I got a couple of those. It was sort of surprising because they might some of the audience, but they didn't make everybody. So sometimes I would hear a silence thinking, oh, that didn't work. And then suddenly, from the back of the crowd, a honking would start and I was like, oh, I guess the joke works. That's got to be just a weird feeling for someone makes a living on stage. I heard ber talking about it recently and I think it was Berg talking about it. And he was like, the first ten minutes are really weird and confusing. But after that, you kind of settle in and starts to feel somewhat normal. Is that true for you? Yeah, well, you start to realize that as a comic, I mean, we obviously we prefer laughs, but in some ways you just need feedback. And I think at that time when we were doing those shows, we were so desperate for any sort of live reaction because we were all on Zoom doing these virtual shows. And it's not the same feeling. And so we were just excited to have any reaction. It was like, oh, they're here. It's happening right now, and that was what was exciting, just that was happening in the moment. Erica does this funny thing about depression. And it's very timely with the COVID situation going on. Your shtick about depression is fabulous. Have you conquered any and all depression that you might have come across during the COVID situation? Have I conquered it? Yes. Is it over for you? The depression part. Oh, my depression. No, that's something I battle all the time, but I've decided to do it in a lot of different ways. I find, you know, obviously, exercise helps me a lot. And then I started meditating, which I talk about in my act now because I say now that meditation is 20% meditating an 80% just telling everybody constantly that you've been meditating. That's true. You just have to let everybody know just so, you know, I've been meditating. So if I see him on a higher plane, it's because of the meditation. But I do find it helpful. I mean, I was very resistant to meditation and kind of mocked people who did it. But I'm finding that it's actually really working for me. Well, Erika Rhodes, we, I, at least, and I think all these other gentlemen in the studio with me think that you're adorable and that you're going to have a very successful continuing run in your career and you and Doug Stanley are going to be at the Wilbur theater Thursday and Friday. The second and third and how can people get tickets to see you live? Well, they can go to my site, Erica roads comedy dot com or I also just announce where I'm gonna be every week on my Twitter so they can just follow me at Erica roads. Yes, you should all follow on Twitter because she's a very, very great file as Erica rose. Yes. Is your special still up on Amazon Prime? Yes. Yeah, it's on all platforms so you can find it pretty much anywhere. You just Google la vie and roads. It's like based on the song love vien rose. So don't get Friends with the Marion Cotillard movie. Not as French as it's based on the French song that was ESP off and she's saying, you know, levy and rose. You'd recognize the song a few Googled it. Hey, I got a French ethnic joke. Can I throw it in there? Oh, God. You know why the French lined the streets of Paris with trees? Come on, man. So did German. So the Germans could march in the shade. That was.
KCRW
"wilbur theater" Discussed on KCRW
"Next story comes from Kristen Wong Lai from our Boston main stage where we partnered with WGBH on the Wilbur Theater. Here's Kristen Live at the moth. I'm six years old and I'm crouched in right field during T ball practice in my hometown off Iowa City, Iowa. Kid hits a fly ball My way and I run and I dive and I shout. I've got it! I've got it. But I missed it. Come across the field. Shortstop calls. Hey, are you a boy? You sound like a boy. Coach and teammates. I'll hear him. They don't say anything. I'm indignant. Are you kidding me? Look at my long black hair tied back in a ponytail. Look at my white tennis shoes with pink lace is clearly I'm a girl. But his teasing cracks open it out in me. So that night I go home. And I use my parents answering machine to record myself. And I play back my voice over and over. Record myself singing Happy Birthday. I record myself pretending to answer the phone. I record myself shouting. I've got it! I've got it! The way I did on the field that day. For the first time in my life. I hear myself the way other people hear me. Whoa! I do have a really deep voice. Boy's voice. And I'm flooded with embarrassment. But this does explain a lot. It explains why at church, I have to sing in falsetto in order to match the other girls and even grown women. I don't like the way my voice sounds when I forced it up and active. I have always unconsciously done it. So that I'm not singing in the same register as the men. Playback, another loop of the answering machine. Okay, so this is why I can always make other kids giggle when I roar like a lion. It's so realistic from the back of my throat, all scratchy and raw. This is why adults sometimes do a double take. When they hear my little girl's body speak for the first time. And I think God This is so unfair. I'm already the only Chinese kid in my school full of white Iowans. Do I really have to be the girl with the boy's voice, too? After that T ball practice. Get really good at being quiet and blending in. Stop singing at church. I hide all the parts of me that are different. Even if that means just owning my heritage, not speaking up, not having my own opinions. Eventually high leave Iowa to go to Boston for college. And I think This will be a good time for me to find my true voice. It's college, right? It turns out not to be so easy. One evening, I am watching my friends perform in the school's gospel choir concert, and I feel my soul just soaring with those harmonies and those lyrics. And I think I would love to be on stage with them, creating this beautiful music. I want to join. I want to be a part of that community. Then the fears that thin What if they put me with the baritones or what if I don't make the cut at all? I'm so ashamed of my deep voice that I don't even try out. When I find out a couple months later that our school funds traveling fellowships to go abroad for the summer I apply immediately. I want to get as far away as possible. They apply to go to China, not just because it's on the other side of the globe. But also because I wonder Well, it feels more like home. Arrive in China. And I'm supposed to be working in an orphanage for kids with special needs, but really, I'm just escaping. I don't know The first thing about kids. My first morning there. Wake up while it's still dark out, and I board two different public Busses that take me through this sprawling city of Nanning. Near the border of Vietnam. As I ride the bus. I look at the faces of the people around me. It's incredible. They all look like me. They look like they could be my mom or my dad. My cousins or my aunt's. Being Chinese. Doesn't carry any baggage in China. And it feels like that just allows me to take more pride in who I am in my culture and in my heritage. Because I'm not using up all this energy trying to blend in. I feel free. I feel light. By the time I get to the orphanage It's hot, and it's humid. The orphanage is a big building with gleaming pink tile floors. And I'm assigned to a room of 30. Children ages 0 to 5. Packed in tight rows of cribs. Look around at the room, and there's not that many toys and it turns out my glasses are a big hit. The kids love, taking them off my face, trying them on and passing them around. That first week there I bond with two girls in particular. Alien who is four and has cerebral palsy as we do her Petey in her OT exercises. And I bond with genuine who is just a baby? Not even one. My colleagues find out that I play piano. So they rig up a keyboard for me in that room. And they have me do music therapy with the kids. I play piano for the Children every afternoon. My colleagues want me to sing too. But I tell them no, no, no, I don't sing. Because even though I feel freer here in China My voice still feels like a liability. A few days later, my co workers are at a staff meeting. And I'm alone in the room with all the kids. It's naptime..
KQED Radio
"wilbur theater" Discussed on KQED Radio
"We partnered with WGBH on the Wilbur Theater. Here's Kristen Live at the moth. I'm six years old and I'm crouched in right field during T ball practice in my hometown off Iowa City, Iowa. Kid hits a fly ball My way and I run and I dive and I shout. I've got it! I've got it. But I missed it. Come across the field. The shortstop calls. Hey, are you a boy? You sound like a boy. Coach and teammates. I'll hear him. They don't say anything. I'm indignant. Are you kidding me? Look at my long black hair tied back in a ponytail. Look at my white tennis shoes with pink lace is clearly I'm a girl. But his teasing cracks open it out in me. So that night I go home. And I use my parents answering machine to record myself. And I play back my voice over and over. I record myself singing Happy birthday. I record myself pretending to answer the phone. I record myself shouting. I've got it! I've got it! The way I did on the field that day. For the first time in my life. I hear myself the way other people hear me. Whoa! I do have a really deep voice. A boy's voice. And I'm flooded with embarrassment. But this does explain a lot. It explains why at church, I have to sing in falsetto in order to match the other girls and even grown women. I don't like the way my voice sounds when I forced it up and active. But I have always unconsciously done it. So that I'm not singing in the same register as the men. Playback, another loop of the answering machine. Okay, so this is why I can always make other kids giggle when I roar like a lion. It's so realistic from the back of my throat, all scratchy and raw. This is why adults sometimes do a double take. When they hear my little girl's body speak for the first time. And I think God, this is so unfair. I'm already the only Chinese kid in my school full of white Iowans. Do I really have to be the girl with the boy's voice, too? After that T ball practice. Get really good at being quiet and blending in. Stop singing at church. I hide all the parts of me that are different. Even if that means just owning my heritage, not speaking up, not having my own opinions. Eventually I leave Iowa to go to Boston for college. And I think This will be a good time for me to find my true voice. It's college, right? It turns out not to be so easy. One evening, I am watching my friends perform in the school's gospel choir concert, and I feel my soul just soaring with those harmonies and those lyrics. And I think I would love to be on stage with them, creating this beautiful music. I want to join. I want to be a part of that community. Then the fears that thin What if they put me with the baritones or what if I don't make the cut at all? I'm so ashamed of my deep voice that I don't even try out. When I find out a couple months later that our school funds traveling fellowships to go abroad for the summer I apply immediately. I want to get as far away as possible. Apply to go to China, not just because it's on the other side of the globe. But also because I wonder Well, it feels more like home. Arrive in China. And I'm supposed to be working in an orphanage for kids with special needs, but really, I'm just escaping. I don't know The first thing about kids. My first morning there. Wake up while it's still dark out, and I board two different public Busses that take me through this sprawling city of Nanning. Near the border of Vietnam. As I ride the bus. I look at the faces of the people around me. It's incredible. They all look like me. They look like they could be my mom or my dad. My cousins or my aunt's. Being Chinese. Doesn't carry any baggage in China. And it feels like that just allows me to take more pride in who I am in my culture and in my heritage. Because I'm not using up all this energy trying to blend in. I feel free. I feel light. By the time I get to the orphanage It's hot, and it's humid. The orphanage, the big building with gleaming pink tile floors. I'm assigned to a room of 30. Children ages 0 to 5. Packed in tight rows of cribs. Look around at the room, and there's not that many toys and it turns out my glasses are a big hit. The kids love, taking them off my face, trying them on and passing them around. That first week there I bond with two girls in particular Italian who is four and has cerebral palsy as we do her Petey in her OT exercises. And I bond with genuine who is just a baby? Not even one. My colleagues find out that I play piano. So they rig up a keyboard for me in that room. And they have me do music therapy with the kids. Play piano for the Children Every afternoon. My colleagues want me to sing too, but I tell them no, no, no, I don't sing. Because even though I feel freer here in China My boy's still feels like a liability. A few days later, my co workers are at a staff meeting. And I'm alone in the room with all the kids. It's naptime. But they're mostly awake and crying in their cribs. The only thing I can think of to do to soothe this room full of crying kids. Is to sing. I think the only song that I know all the verses too. Amazing Grace. Walk around singing. And I placed my hand on each child. And I cried. As I think the kids quiet down. They stop crying..