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Bo
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What?
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Old MacDonald had a farm
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E I E I O
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And on that farm he had a pig
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E I E I O
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Here a snort
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There a
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Old MacDonald had a farm
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E I E I O
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[Applause]
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This is Bo Burnham.
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He's 22 years old.
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He's a male.
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And he looks like the genetic product of a giraffe
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having sex with Ellen Degeneres.
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He has a gigantic head and tiny nipples.
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He's isolated himself over the last 5 years
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in pursuit of comedy.
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And,
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in doing so,
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has lost touch with reality.
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You're an asshole, Bo.
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You hear me?
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You think you know better than me.
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You think you know better than everybody.
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You will die alone.
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And you will deserve it.
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But in the meantime,
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you might as well tell
those silly jokes of yours.
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See if that helps.
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[Up beat music starts]
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You used to do comedy
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when you felt like being funny.
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But now you're contractially obligated
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so dance you fucking monkey.
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DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!
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Welcome to the show
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this is Bo, this is his show.
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And Bo likes to dance like this.
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Welcome to the show, this is Bo
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this is his show.
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And Bo takes off his pants like this.
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Play an invisible drum.
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[Invisible drum sounds]
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Play an invisible trumpet.
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Trumpet sound!
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Drink some invisible water,
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OH SHIT!
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That water is real!
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Bo wants to make you feel comfortable.
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Bo wants to make you feel comfortable.
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Random voice
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Bo wants to make you feel comfortable.
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So sit back, relax,
and enjoy a healthy dose of
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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prolonged eye contact.
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Lick your lips to make it more comforting.
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Do you wanna see a magic trick?
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Yeah!
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Do you wanna see a magic trick?
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Yeah!
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Do you wanna see a magic trick?
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Then pick a card any card.
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SIKE!
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Magic isn't real, you idiot.
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Read a book.
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Magic isn't real, you idiot.
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Read a book.
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Magic isn't real, you idiot.
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Read a book.
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Magic isn't real.
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Or is it?
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And at that moment,
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Bo's 20-year-old cynicism
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melted into childlike wonder.
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He never knew there could be
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so much magic in the world.
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It's a world of possibilities, Bo.
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What do you wanna do first?
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Run?
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Yeah, sure you can run.
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Fly?
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Well yeah, you can fly.
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What?
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What are you...
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What the fuck you...
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What the fuck are you doing?
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Stop-
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St- Stop it!
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What the f-
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You fucking idiot, stop.
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Stop.
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Stop.
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Anyways.
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In the distance, Bo saw a beautiful fairy.
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A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud
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about being called one in high school.
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He then came across an old bridge
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with a troll standing guard.
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Bo knew that he'd have
to answer a riddle to get by.
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The troll spoke thus:
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"All right, for the last time man, I'm not a troll."
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"I'm homeless."
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"Okay? Do you have any spare change?"
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"Okay, that's a used napkin."
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"I don't want that."
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"No. No, stop. Just-"
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"You know, leave.
Just leave. Please leave."
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And then,
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as Bo arrived on the other side of the stage,
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he saw a unicorn
with 5 horns right in front of him.
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And the pentacorn spoke thus:
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"Hello, Bo!"
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'I've been looking for you
for quite a long time no-"
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[Gunshots]
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[Reloading]
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[Gunshots]
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He was safe.
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For now...
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But the dark thoughts would soon return.
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IT'S GODZILLA!
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AAAAHHHHH!!!
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AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
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[Screeching]
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OH MY GOD AHHHHH!!!!
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[Screeching]
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GODZILLA!!
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AAAAAUUUGGHHHHHH!!!
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[Screeching]
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It's so hard to be a lizard.
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It's hard to be a lizard.
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Tiny arms, itchy gizzard.
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It's hard to be a lizard.
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But it's harder to segue.
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Is he skiing?
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Or is he in a gay porn?
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Is he skiing?
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What?
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Or is he in a gay porn?
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Is he skiing?
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Huh!
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Or is he in a gay porn?
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Here's a hint.
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He's in a gay porn.
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Okay Bo, this miming shit
is getting pretty annoying.
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So give 'em the real thing!
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[Autotuned]
My voice is so fucking natural.
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[Autotuned]
It's naturally good.
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[Out of tune]
Naturally good!
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Na-a-a-aturally good.
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This is the end of the song
and the beginning of the show.
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Welcome to the show!
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[Applause]
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That lizard part was pretty fucking stupid.
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Anyway,
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San Francisco!
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Yeah!
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We are a place.
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We are a place.
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In California-
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Um, I'd like to, uh,
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I'd like to start with a joke for my male audience.
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Uh, this is a joke for the fellas.
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Where are my fellas at?
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FELLAS?!
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[Fellas respond]
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Yo, fellas don't you
hate it when you're
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blowing a guy and he
ends up being a faggot?
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AM I RIGHT?!
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I've been blowing
a faggot this whole time?
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Third time this week.
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Thank you so much.
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We're having fun...
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This, um-
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This show is called "what".
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And I hope there are some surprises for you,
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or someth-
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Jesus, sorry.
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It's a good start.
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Uh, hope there's-
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He meant to knock the water over.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But you all thought it was an accident.
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But, he meant to knock the water over.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Art is a lie.
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Nothing is real!
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So, um, we uh-
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Grow up!
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Grow up with your applause.
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Stick it...
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He meant to knock the water over.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But you all thought it was an acc--
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Just, don't, if it's on repeat it will repeat.
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Just... we can cut all this, so...
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We meant to play the track again.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah!
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But you all thought it was an accident.
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But, he meant to play the water track
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a-ga-ga-gain!
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Art's still a lie.
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Nothing's still real!
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Food jokes. Let's do some food jokes.
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Segues are weird. Um...
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[Laughs]
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I had a hot dog for breakfast today,
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and afterwards I felt like this.
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Cos I couldn't control my stools.
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Alright, jesus...
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I'm glad you like poop based puns
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They will be a majority of the show.
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Never waste a moment,
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every moment can become a comedic moment.
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See.
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So... Just a little lesson for comedians.
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This first song, is called:
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"A world on fire"
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[Screaming]
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This next song, it's a little bit...
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it's a little bit longer then that one.
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And... Thank you.
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It's about how sad I am,
and I'm really sad, it's called "Sad"
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[Piano music]
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It's about all the sad stuff
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Just picture a depressed onion cutting it self.
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[Gasps]
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I met a homeless man named Rich.
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Isn't that terrible?
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I saw a flyer for a lost dog,
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and the dog did not have any legs.
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I saw a diabetic kid,
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trick-or-treating.
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I saw a giraffe who had a short neck.
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That was sad, or a dear?
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I saw an old man get hit by a train.
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He didn't see it in the pouring rain.
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He didn't hear me shout:
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"look out for the train!"
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Cos I didn't say anything.
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I just thought to my self:
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"Ooh, this is going to be sad."
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And it was.
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I'm a genius.
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[gasps]
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I saw a man with only one eye,
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in a 3D movie.
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I saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone
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directly on his mothers corpse!
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I saw a kitten stuck in a tree.
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Then the kitten jumped off and it hung it self
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I saw a boy who had red hair.
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I went to a store
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looking for something to buy.
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But they only sold paintings
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of the same sad guy.
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No wait!
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This store sells mirrors,
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see what I did there?
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LETS ROCK!
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No.
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The worlds is so sad bros.
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Pain.
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Genocide, war.
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Sexism, Racism.
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But I gotta remember there's
good things about it too.
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Like the fact that
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none of that is happening to me.
Score!
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Still though
it's hard not to be sad about it.
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[to audience] How do you all do it?
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I've been telling you guys
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terribly sad things this whole song
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you haven't been sad at all,
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you've been...
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You've been happy.
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No...
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You've been laughing.
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That's it, laughter.
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That's the key to everything.
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It's the way to solve
all the sadness in the world.
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I mean not for the people
that are actually sad,
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but for people like us,
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that gotta fucking deal
with them all the time.
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Being a comedian is't
being an insensitive prick,
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capitalizing on the most
animalistic impulses of the public.
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It's being a hero.
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The world isn't sad,
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the world is funny.
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I'm a sociopath!
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I saw an old man slip and fall.
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Hey, what a fucking idiot.
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I saw a woman at her daughters funural.
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Ha-ha-ha. Classic comedy.
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Everything that once was sad
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is somehow funny now.
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The holocaust and 9/11,
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that shit's funny 24/7.
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Cos tragedy
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will be exclusively joked about.
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Because my empathy
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is bumming me out.
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God-bye sadness!
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Hello jokes.
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Thank you.
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[applause]
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I've got a really good joke
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about video editors.
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Video editors are so fucking...
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I think we should do a poem right now,
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if that's ok?
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This poem is a little bit sappy,
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a little bit romantic,
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so we'll get it out of the way now,
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and we'll go back to the...
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Oops...
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the dirty stuff, you know.
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Everyone loves at a late show or whatever.
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OK
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It's called: "I fuck sluts"
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[audience member yells]
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It's not a roll call but thank you.
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Sluts!
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Sluts! [laughs]
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Sluts!
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Sluts!
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I fuck sluts.
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Sluts get fucked
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when I fuck sluts.
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No ifs ands or buts.
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I fuck sluts!
I fuck sluts!
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Nice girls are nice.
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But no good for nut sucking.
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They'll need a serene night
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to green-light a buttfucking.
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But that'll be easy
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with sleazy old slut fucking.
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Boo to the nice girls,
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praise be to slut fucking.
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I have a list.
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A list?
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Yes, a list
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of all the sluts I've missed.
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I've never fucked
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or sucked these sluts.
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And thus my nuts
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are fucking pissed.
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So when I fuck
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the lucky slut
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my nut removes her from the list.
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Another dumb cum-bucket
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struck from my
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nut sucking,
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suck it slut,
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slut fucking,
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bucket list.
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[applause]
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Yes, you hear the influences:
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Chaucer, Keats.
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Um...
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The pages are blank, I know it.
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Why am I lying to you?
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Sluts can be white, black,
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brown, pink, or almond.
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They can be skinny with big tits,
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or be skinny with small ones.
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Sluts can be perky, prepy or posh,
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with their brains and their clothes
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all shrunk from the wash.
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Excuse me.
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But other sluts are pretty
and funny and smart.
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These sluts can lift all your thoughts
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from your dick to your heart.
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They can talk about science music or art.
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They can put you together,
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or they can pull you apart.
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But don't trust there sluts,
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Don't, don't you dare.
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They'll force you to trust them
and love them and care
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And then they'll be gone
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and you'll be aware
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of the hole in your heart
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that that dumb slut left there.
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Thank you very much.
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[applause]
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So, he was lashing out
with sexist language
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cos he had his heart broken.
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We all learn something.
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Thank you all for coming.
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I know some of my bits
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are a little bit fast and dense,
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a little bit hard to follow,
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particularly that one.
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So I want to do something
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a little bit slower, for the people,
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maybe the older people in the crowd,
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or something, so umm...
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[laughter]
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This's for you:
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Here's a slow joke.
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[slowdown sound]
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[talking in slo-mo]
What did the ear of corn say
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[talking in slo-mo]
when all of it's clothes fell off?
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[talking in slo-mo]
Aww, shucks!
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[talking in slo-mo]
Get it?
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[talking in slo-mo]
Like "shucks" as in shucking corn
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[talking in slo-mo]
and also "shucks" the exclamation.
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[talking in slo-mo]
Am I right?
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[laughter]
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[speedup sound]
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Good. We're having fun.
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Umm...
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My father recently told me
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that I act too flamboyant on stage.
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And I said: "really dad?"
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"Prove it!"
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[laughter]
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He sad: "Well what about that joke"
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"where you throw confetti at the end of it?"
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I said: "well I haven't written that joke yet,"
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"cos it's based of this conversation!"
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"Gotcha!"
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Keep it, keep the struggle.
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We are having a lot of fun guys.
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Don't worry, you don't have to fill
the silences with laughter or applause.
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I don't want you leaving this show thinking:
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"My hands hurt from clapping."
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"My stomach hurts from laughing."
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I just want you leaving the show, thinking:
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"Meh... alright..."
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And we are on our way.
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I moved to, um... Hollywood recently
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from boston, where I grew up and...
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[audience member yells]
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Places!
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And I...
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[laughs]
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I heard about these sort of
-
wild Hollywood party nights that people would have
-
and I did not think they were true.
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Untill I moved to Hollywood
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and I started having them.
-
Anyway, this is a song
-
about a crazy night
-
that happened a couple of weeks ago.
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It's called: "What did I do last night?"
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[Electronic music starts]
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Yeah! Yeah!
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Hey! Hey! Hey!
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What did I do last night?
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I cried my self to sleep!
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[Music stops]
[Laughter]
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[applause]
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It was a good one.
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When did my mother first
describe gay sex to me?
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Good question, I was 8 yoears old...
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I was 8 years old,
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she brought me into the dining room,
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she sat right across the table from me.
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She said: "Do you know how
your father and I love each other"
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I said: "Of course."
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"You and dad love each other"
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"more then two people
could possible love each other."
-
She said: "Well two men
can love each other in the exact same way"
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"that your father and I love each other."
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She said: "what happens when two men
love each other like that."
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"What they do is, they take off all their clothes"
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"Umm.. they get into bed"
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"And they SHIT ON THE BIBLE!"
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[laughter]
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So I don't talk to her anymore.
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OK
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[80's sf sounds]
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[Robotic voice]
Hello patient #24602
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Hi. I'm sorry.
-
[Robotic voice]
How are you feeling?
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Not great.
-
[Robotic voice]
Has the treatment been working?
-
No, it hasn't been.
-
[Robotic voice]
What are you'r remaining symptoms?
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I just... I internalise my feelings.
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I have trouble articulati...
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Like, other people, and relating to them...
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[Robotic voice]
So basically you're still a little bitch?
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Real mature of you, disembodied voice.
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[Robotic voice]
I was just joking nigger.
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[laughter]
We are right by Oakland,
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Careful with that shit.
-
[Robotic voice]
I'm not human, I can say whatever I want.
-
Alright, Just get to the...
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What, what's wrong with me, please.
-
[Robotic voice]
Your emotions and your logic are at war.
-
OK.
-
[Robotic voice]
Your creativity and your analysis are at war.
-
[Robotic voice]
And most simply
-
[Robotic voice]
Your left and your right brain are at war.
-
My left and my right... ?
-
[Robotic voice]
To fix the problem
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[Robotic voice]
We must separate them from each other.
-
Separa...
-
[Robotic voice]
Splitting your neurological functions in:
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[5]
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[4]
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[3]
We book an appointment.
-
[2 ... 1]
You don't just start counting down.
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[Robotic voice]
This may hurt a bit
-
I don't even know what "it" is.
-
[Robotic voice]
Zero.
-
Just...
-
[high pitched robotic sounds]
-
[Robotic voice]
Isolation complete.
-
[Robotic voice]
This is Bo's left brain.
-
[Robotic voice]
Objective. Logical. Cold.
-
[Robotic voice]
Analytical. Aware of patterns.
-
[Robotic voice]
Aware of trends.
-
[Robotic voice]
He's efficient.
-
[Robotic voice]
And a prick.
-
[Robotic voice]
This is Bo's right brain.
-
[Robotic voice]
Subjective. Creative. Sensory.
-
[Robotic voice]
Aware of feelings.
-
[Robotic voice]
Aware of people.
-
[Robotic voice]
He's emotional.
-
Yes.
-
[Robotic voice]
And an idiot.
-
That's your opinion... So just...
-
Be careful with opinions... Yooo!
-
[Robotic voice]
Play nice.
-
I am the left brain.
I am the left brain.
-
I work really hard
-
to my inevitable death brain.
-
You've got a job to do,
-
you better do it right.
-
And the right way
is with the left brains might.
-
I like Oreos and pussy!
-
Yeah! ok!
-
And I cried for at least an hour
-
after watching Toy Story 3.
-
I am the right brain.
-
I have feelings.
-
I'm a little all over the place,
-
but I'm lustful, trustful,
-
and I'm looking for somebody to love.
-
And put my penis in!
-
Here comes a female,
-
here comes a female.
-
Puff your chest out take your phone
-
and check your e-mail
-
Our evolutionary purpose is repopulate,
-
so gather data now
-
and see if she's a possible mate.
-
Holy fuck! I think she might be the one!
-
There's something about her,
-
I just can't describe it.
-
Tits.
-
I am the earth she is the glorious sun.
-
I want her to trust me,
-
and I just want her to sit on my face.
-
Sit... sit...
-
Alright new right brain,
-
you're being insane.
-
No left brain!
-
I'm just being alive!
-
You should try it.
-
You might like it.
-
I worked hard to give him
-
everything he cared about.
-
You were worried about
-
the things he was scared about.
-
I'm calm and collected
-
when you act wild.
-
I am the adult,
-
you are the child.
-
You think you are the right one every time.
-
You think you know everything.
-
You don't know anything
-
at all.
-
Half of his problems
-
were supposed to be mine.
-
But you wanted everything.
-
I hope that you're happy.
-
Cos he's sure not.
-
Well according to my calculations,
-
you are a pussy!
-
Name calling? Really?
-
We're going to do name calling?
-
We are not calling names.
-
We are just stating facts.
-
And the fact is:
-
You're a quivering pussy.
-
I'm the pussy?
-
Well at least I don't play with toys still.
-
OK, Rubik's cubes are not toys.
-
They keep my spacial reasoning skills sharp.
-
Left brain plays with toys.
-
Look at you, Johnny fucking...
-
toy player!
-
Well at least I did my fucking job.
-
I kept him working,
-
I kept him productive.
-
You were supposed to look after him.
-
You were supposed to keep him
-
emotionally stable through all this,
-
now you are trying to blame me
-
for how he's feeling.
-
How he's feeling?
-
If he's feeling unhappy,
-
it's because you failed him.
-
You did this to him, he hates you
-
I know he does.
-
He fucking hates you!
-
[crying]
-
Right brain, look, I'm sorry.
-
No you're not...
-
Look, maybe there's something
-
that we could do together.
-
Together?
-
Take the best parts of both of us.
-
And put them together.
-
I'm listening...
-
It would let you let your feelings out,
-
it would let me analyse.
-
So you could man the themes,
-
I'll man the form.
-
It's something that George Carlin did,
-
It's something that Steve Martin did,
-
It's something special that we could both perform.
-
Do you know what it is?
-
Juggling?
-
We could juggle,
-
and juggle our cares away!
-
It was comedy.
-
We could do comedy together.
-
[Robotic voice]
Initiate reassembly.
-
Alright, right brain,
-
we are going to do comedy together.
-
Altight left brain,
-
I'll do comedy with you.
-
Look, we can fix him like this.
-
Make him happy again.
-
I promise.
-
Left brain...
-
Left brain I love you!
-
I know.
-
[Robotic voice]
Experimentation complete.
-
Thank you very much.
-
[applause]
-
At this part of the show
-
I'd like to talk about how deep I am.
-
[laughter]
[piano music]
-
I'm pretty fucking deep... deep... deep...
-
So deep...
-
That I called this song...
-
Hash-tag deep.
-
Have you ever stopped
-
to watch a bluebird drop from a tree
-
and take to the air?
-
Me neither.
-
Have you ever took time
-
out to finish a rhyme
-
but the right words just weren't there?
-
Meat cleaver.
-
The people in my life,
-
are like grains of sand.
-
Cos they stick together.
-
Often near my butthole.
-
If life is an ocean,
-
I am a deep and handsome fish.
-
A fish that's drowning.
-
If the artistic process
-
is a birth canal
-
then I am a freshly jellied kid,
-
come witness my crowning.
-
These thoughts of mine,
-
must be a sign that I'm,
-
hash-tag deep.
-
If jesus can walk on water,
-
can he swim on land?
-
Have you ever
-
accidentally peed on the toilet seat
-
instead of on your girlfriends face.
-
Me neither.
-
Me neither!
-
Have you ever wrote a song
-
note for note,
-
and not a single note was out of place.
-
[out of tune playing]
-
The people in my life,
-
are like blades of grass.
-
How?
-
Cos they're all so grounded,
-
But at least grass stays away
-
from my BUTTHOLE!
-
Art is a harlot,
-
and I am her sassy urban friend.
-
Oooh... That's why
-
you're being so selfish.
-
If mamma is right,
-
and the world is my oyster,
-
then I must have an allergy to shell...
-
You don't know,
-
how could you know?
-
If life makes you wish
-
you were dead.
-
Just put on a good movie
-
then promptly put a bullet in your head.
-
Spend forever asleep.
-
Cos life pales in comparison
-
to living the dream.
-
Hash-tag deep.
-
[music ends]
-
Thank you.
-
[applause]
-
[happy music starts playing]
-
[music stops]
-
[sad music]
-
Don't you hate it when that happens?
-
Yeah.
-
Thank you, That's called:
-
"Beating off in A minor".
-
Yes... Yes...
-
"A-minor", the key, not the felony.
-
So...
-
I believe...
-
[laughs]
-
I beilive there's nothing more manly
-
one can do
-
then take a shower with 5 other guys.
-
It's true.
-
It's early caveman, Cro-Magnon,
-
wandering though the fog.
-
You know scrubbing 5 other sapiens,
-
no homo.
-
[laughter]
-
I'd like to do... erm...
-
do some poems right now.
-
Erm... if that's ok?
-
We're at this point at the show.
-
These poems are actually...
-
I'm releasing this special for free
-
so I'm going to plug my poetry book.
-
These are my new poems from my poetry book
-
called "Egghead".
-
That will be out by the time this is airing.
-
But not by the time
-
you guys are seated here right now.
-
They are pretty serious,
-
and it's all just sort of...
-
This is usually the lull of the show.
Usually.
-
So i like at this point to sort of
-
take the pressure of the audience.
-
And just read some poems,
-
and then we'll go back to the giggles. So...
-
This is a poem by a dog:
-
"Roses are gray.
Violets are a different shade of gray."
-
"Let's go chase cars."
-
[Applause] + [Chimes]
-
"Me. With my strange choice of adjectives."
-
"You with your muscular teeth
and your clockwise vagina."
-
[Chimes]
-
"I put a chameleon on a red dildo."
-
Well...
-
"He blushed!"
-
There we go.
-
[Chimes]
-
This is a poem about beauty,
-
about self image,
-
and about the ability to transform.
-
"Martha was ugly, like a shaven baboon."
-
"So she wrapped her self up"
-
"in a curtain cocoon."
-
"And after a week she finally emerged."
-
"She smelled like shit! What a psycho."
-
[Chimes] + [Laughter]
-
"You're incomparable."
-
"Like a ... "
-
[Chimes] + [Laughter] + [Applause]
-
"I want to beat you to death
with a blunt object!"
-
"I want to grab one of those"
-
"high end fashion manikins by the ankles"
-
"and bash your rib cage in!"
-
"I want to sharpen 15 pencils"
-
"bind them with a rubber band"
-
"stick the lead in your mouth"
-
"and punch the erasers!"
-
"I want to strap you to a bed of nails"
-
"then strap that bed of nails
to the hood of my car"
-
"so I can watch you suffer
as we drive over speed bumps"
-
"in a mall parking lot
during an earthquake!"
-
"I want you to somehow survive"
-
"a terrible car crash and then somehow"
-
"not survive a small fender bender"
-
"on the way back from a hospital."
-
[Chimes] + [Laughter]
-
Thank you that's called "Dad".
-
[Laughter] + [Applause]
-
This is a poem...
It's really a story
-
that's meant primarily for children.
-
But I think it's got a lesson
-
we could all learn.
-
"The squares lived happily."
-
"In their square houses."
-
"In their square yard."
-
"In their square town."
-
"But then one day,"
-
"a family of circles
moved in from the west"
-
"Get out of here roundies!"
-
"Shouted one of the squares."
-
"Why?
Said one of the circles"
-
"Cos this is a metaphor for racism"
-
[Chimes] + [Laughter] + [Applause]
-
"When I walk into a party"
-
"you'd think I was one
of those long straight Tetris pieces"
-
"cos everyone's just like:
Oh yeah. This guy's here"
-
"Finally we've been waiting
for him to show up"
-
Like you wait... in the game...
Forget it.
-
[Laughter]
-
No. You had your chance.
-
"If I had a million dollars"
-
"I'd pay your mother
to have sex with me"
-
"afterwards I'd probably
invest the remaining $999.990"
-
Ten dollars for sex with your mother.
-
Comedy!
-
I smell comedy.
-
Well, it was comedy
giving off that scent.
-
And finally:
-
"Mid October,"
-
"with leaves spilled
like colored pencil shavings."
-
"The streets dicing our town
into neat, unfair portions."
-
"And me."
-
"Eating that pussy baby!"
-
[Laughter] + [Applause]
Thank you so much.
-
Um...
-
There's things that
I don't want to come across
-
In my show, that I worry
often come across, about me,
-
cos people don't realize
it's an act up here.
-
I don't want you to ever think
that I think that I'm better then people.
-
or that i think I know better then people.
-
Um... anyway, sorry. OK.
-
This is a song from
the perspective of God.
-
[Laughter] + [Applause] + [Piano music]
-
Books you think I wrote
are way to thick.
-
Who needs a thousand metaphos
-
to figure out you shouldn't be a dick.
-
And I don't watch you when you sleep
-
Surprisingly I don't use my omnipotence
-
to be a fucking creep.
-
You're not going to heaven.
-
Why the fuck would you think
-
I'd ever kick it with you?
-
None of you are going to heaven.
-
There's a trillion aliens cooler then you.
-
You shouldn't abstain from rape
-
just cos you think that I want you to.
-
You shouldn't rape
-
cos rape is a fucked up thing to do.
-
Pretty obvious,
just don't fucking rape people.
-
Didn't think I needed to
write that one down for you.
-
I don't think masturbation is obscene.
-
It's absolutely natural
-
and the weirdest fucking thing
-
I've ever seen.
-
You make my job a living hell.
-
I send gays to fix overpopulation.
-
Boy did that go well.
-
You're not going to heaven.
-
Eat a thousand crackers,
-
sing a million hymns.
-
None of you are going to heaven.
-
You're not my children,
-
you are a bad game of sim.
-
You shouldn't abstain from pork
-
just cos you think that I want you to.
-
You can eat pork
-
cos why the fuck would I give a shit?
-
I created the universe,
-
you think I'm drawing the line
at the fucking deli isle?
-
[Laughter] + [applause]
-
You argue and you bicker
-
and you fight.
-
Atheists and Catholics,
-
Jews and Hindus argue day and night.
-
Over what they think is true.
-
But no one entertains the thought,
-
that maybe God does not Believe in you.
-
You pray so badly for heaven.
-
Knowing any day might be
the day that you die.
-
But maybe life on earth could be heaven?
-
Doesn't just the thought
of it make it worth a try?
-
My love's the type of thing
-
that you have to earn.
-
And when you earn it
-
you won't need it.
-
My love's the type of thing
-
that you have to earn.
-
And when you earn it
-
you won't need it.
-
I'm not gonna give you love
-
just cos I know that you want me to.
-
If you want love
-
then the love has gotta come from you.
-
[Music ends] + [Applause]
-
[Rock music]
"Walking between the micorphones"
-
"is really awkward."
-
Tell me about it.
-
Um...
-
Women are stupid!
-
Yeah I fucking said it.
-
They are the weaker, dumber sex.
-
I can prove it to you.
-
I like to practice safe sex.
-
Why? Cos I'm a guy.
-
And I'm smarter.
-
What do women say, every time?
-
Every time i put on a condom,
-
what do they say?
-
"Why are you wearing a condom?"
-
"I'm fucking you with a strap-on."
-
To be safe bitch!
-
Women right, they're the dumb ones.
-
It's time for a story.
-
Let's do a story.
-
[Happy music]
"It's time for a story."
-
"It's time for a story."
-
"A very special story"
-
"Especially for you."
-
"It's time for a story."
-
"It's time for a story!"
-
"Sit down and listen now."
-
"Don't be a Jew."
-
This story is called...
-
It's a glitch! You can be Jewish.
-
This story...
-
This story is called: "Andy the frog".
-
Featuring long and convoluted similes.
-
And I'll warn you when one of those
-
long and convoluted similes
-
rears it's old, head.
-
So here we go:
-
"Once upon a time,
there was a frog name Andy."
-
[Frog noise]
"Andy lived at the patent park pond."
-
"And he never hopped anywhere else"
-
"in his entire frog life."
-
"He had three best friends:"
-
"Milly, who never left her lily pad."
[Laughs]
-
"Billy, who was always hopping mad."
-
"And Roger, who was arrested
for possession of tadpole porn."
-
[Laughter]
"So one day..."
-
"One day..."
-
"Andy saw something
hop across the grass"
-
"on the other side of the pond."
-
"Milly, Billy, Roger, look!
-Said Andy."
-
"Across the pond stood"
-
"The most beautiful frog
Andy had ever seen."
-
"She's gorgeous!
-Said Milly."
-
"She's beautiful!
-Said Billy."
-
"A bit old for my taste!
-Said Roger."
-
"Classic Roger!"
-
"And then she was gone."
-
"I need to go find her!
-Said Andy."
-
"I need to follow
my little frog heart."
-
"So Andy followed the beautiful
frogs footsteps into the forest."
-
"He then came across a turtle."
-
"You can't pass!
-Said the turtle."
-
"Please?
-Said Andy."
-
"No!
-Said the turtle."
-
And this is the first
long convoluted simile:
-
"Then there was
a rustling in the bushes."
-
"And, like a man who had been
shot in the chest with a rifle,"
-
"the turtle was
shot in the chest with a rifle."
-
[Laughter] + [Applause]
-
"Andy kept moving,
but at this point,"
-
"like the doctor of the
Kenyan track team"
-
"his patience ran thin."
-
"Andy kept moving."
-
[Laughter]
-
"He then came across
a giant crocodile."
-
"And the crocodile
began to chant:"
-
"I woke up this morning,"
-
"And I sat on a log."
-
"I opened up the menu,"
-
"the menu said FROG!"
-
[Laughs]
-
"Andy said:
No! No! Please let go of me!"
-
"I can feel my self dying!"
-
"You're ripping out my insides!"
-
"I'm never going to find her,
am i?"
-
"There's no God, Is there?"
-
"Fuck!"
"FUCK!!!!"
-
The end. The end!
-
So, that's the end of that story.
-
[Applause] + [Laughter]
-
If you are curious,
the moral of that story
-
is irrelevant, cos we are humans.
-
Why would it apply to us?
-
Um...
-
You know my father
-
is so hard to get along with.
-
Cos he's such a man's man.
-
You know?
He beilives, like, for example:
-
You should always fight fire with fire.
-
Which is a horrible way to live your life.
-
Especially for him,
because he's a firefighter so...
-
He was fired...
-
That was as stupid as we get.
-
But let's get a little stupider, ha?
-
"There's a creepy old man"
-
"fishing in a park."
-
"and the only problem is"
-
"he tied a candy bar"
-
"to the end of his line."
-
"He's trying to catch a kid."
-
You know that stuff...
-
Trying to get a little more mainstream.
-
[Laughs]
-
Um... People complain
about the way I act on stage
-
very often, you know.
-
They say, like, I repeat jokes.
-
Or they also say that
-
They say... They don't get again,
-
that this is an act, on stage.
-
They think on stage I act
-
too arrogant, too self-obsessed,
-
solipsistic, self-contained, synonyms.
-
And they want me to be...
-
They want me to be a comic of the people.
-
You know. Relate to the people
-
with the overarching glue of comedy.
-
So I want to do a little bit
of relatable comedy for you guys.
-
I'm like you guys, you know.
-
Once a week I like to slip into
a deep existential depression
-
where I loose all my sense of
oneness and self worth. Ha-ha!
-
And what I like to do in order to
assure my self that I am unique,
-
and not just one of many small
white indistinguishable
-
perfectly cylindric checker pieces
in jesus and Satan's backgammon game.
-
Is, I will... I'll say a group a words
-
that I think no one has ever said.
-
in that order.
-
So that... when I say it,
-
I feel like: "look at me!"
-
Participating in this new moment
that no one's ever been a part of.
-
So I'll say something random like
-
like: "Peanut-butter tribadism."
-
Or: "I'm your father and
I loved your comedy show."
-
Or: "At first I wasn't comfortable
leaving him alone with my children"
-
"but then I saw his mustache.
Phew..."
-
Or um...
-
Or: "Yo! Check out this Amish website!"
-
Or um...
-
Or: "I work at a toll booth
and I don't want to kill my self."
-
Or... That's... too...
-
Too real.
-
Or: "Yo man!
Life's about three things man,"
-
"Three things!"
-
"Gettin' money!"
-
"Gettin' pussy!"
-
"And the Dewey Decimal System!"
-
Or... Um...
-
Or: "Hey! Can you hold my fanny pack
I'm gonna go fuck a woman."
-
[Laughter] + [Applause]
-
Um... If i could break...
-
I want to tank you all for being here
-
because I...
-
I'm so grateful that you'd all come here
-
and spend an hour of your time with me.
-
And if you are watching
at home or whatever.
-
On a computer or something.
-
If you have made it this far,
-
That you very much for watching.
-
Genuinely... I...
This is my favorite thing to do.
-
And I'm so grateful for people watching it
-
and enjoying it. Um... OK.
-
I will now recede back into my stage persona
-
[Scoffs]
-
[Piano music]
-
I just blacked out for 20 seconds.
-
Thank you for coming.
-
Love songs used to be so beautiful.
-
You know:
"Let us go then, you and I."
-
"When the evening is spread out
against the sky"
-
"like a patient etherised upon a table"
-T. S. Eliot. Beautiful.
-
Love songs now a days
-
Just as beautiful, guys!
-
Usher, Justin Bieber, 1D.
-
You know them.
-
But these new atrists
-
they've done something very strange
-
to the format of the love song
-
they've changed it a bit.
-
And I try to... capture how they've
-
changed the format of the love song
-
with this love song.
-
I hope you enjoy it
-
and mark the differences.
-
Jason Derulo.
-
I love your hair,
-
I love your name,
-
I love the way you say it.
-
I love your heart
-
and you're so smart
-
cos you gave away it.
-
I love your sis,
-
I love your dad,
-
And I love your mom.
-
But more then all of that
-
I love the fact that you are dumb
-
enough, to not realise
-
everything I've said
-
has been said before
-
in a thousand ways
-
in a thousand songs
-
sung with the same four chords.
-
But you'll still love it
-
and let me finger you.
-
YEAAA! FINGER YOU!!
-
FINGER YOU!!!
-
Oh girl, i hope you don't think that I'm rude,
-
when I tell you that I love you boo.
-
I also hope that see through
-
this cleverly constructed ruse,
-
designed by a marketing team
-
cashing in on puberty and low self esteem
-
and girls desperate need to feel loved.
-
America says we love a chorus,
-
but don't get complicated and bore us.
-
Though meaning might be missin'
-
We need to know the words after just one listen
-
so repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
..repeat stuff.
-
repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
..repeat stuff.
-
repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
..repeat stuff.
-
...repeat stuff.
-
Yeah. Oh you know it?
-
I love my baby and you know
-
I could not live without her.
-
But now I need to make every girl
-
think this song's about her.
-
Just to make sure that they
-
spread it like the plague.
-
So I describe my dream girl
-
as really really vague, like:
-
I love your hands
-
cos your fingerprints are like no other.
-
I love your eyes
-
and their blueish-brownish-greenish color.
-
I love it when you smile
-
that you smile wide.
-
And I love how your torso
-
has a arm on either side.
-
If you're my agent,
-
you might be thinking:
-
"Oh no!"
-
"Sound the alarm!"
-
"You're not appealing"
-
"to little girls"
-
"who don't have arms."
-
But they can't use iTunes, so...
-
FUCK them!
-
Who needs them?
-
Oh girl I ho...
-
Oh! Hello Satan!
-
[Lewd noises]
-
Satan you taste so good!
-
repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
..repeat stuff.
-
repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
Everybody!
-
[Audience]
repeat stuff...
-
[Audience]
.repeat stuff..
-
[Audience]
..repeat stuff.
-
[Audience]
repeat stuff...
-
C'mon, louder. I can't hear you.
-
[Audience]
repeat stuff...
-
[Audience]
.repeat stuff.
-
[Audience]
..repeat stuff.
-
[Audience]
repeat stuff...
-
[Laughter] + [Applause]
-
Young ones, listen up!
-
I'm in magazines,
-
full of model teens
-
so far above you.
-
So read them
-
and hate your self.
-
And pay me to tell you
-
I love you.
-
[Gasps: "I love you"]
-
And your parents will always come along.
-
Because their little girl is in love!
-
And how can love be wrong?
-
How can love be wrong?
-
When you repeat stuff...
-
.repeat stuff..
-
..repeat stuff.
-
repeat stuff...
-
.rep...
-
[Garbled voice]
-
...I am a vessel...
-
....666...
-
[Garbled voice]
-
...llluminati...
-
We know it's not right.
-
We know it's not funny.
-
But we'll stop beating this dead horse
-
when it stops spiting out money.
-
But until then...
-
We will repeat stuff.
-
[Music end] + [Applause]
-
Thank you so much,
you guys have been... Um...
-
you guys have been
absolutely amazing.
-
You've been absolutely amazing.
-
That's the end of the show.
-
I probably should have ended it
-
on a sort of higher note there.
-
But yeah, that's the end of "what."
-
I hope you liked it...
-
[Girl voice]
Bo!
-
[Girl voice]
Oh my god!
-
[Girl voice]
How are you?
-
[Girl voice]
I have not seen you
-
[Girl voice]
since like freshman year.
-
[Girl voice]
Oh my god!
-
[Girl voice]
You were so like skinny
-
[Girl voice]
And weird back then.
-
[Girl voice]
But now you're... Um...
-
[Girl voice]
Anyway... Um...
-
[Girl voice]
You should totally come
-
[Girl voice]
to this party I'm having tonight
-
[Girl voice]
with some of my college friends.
-
[Girl voice]
It's gonna be off the chain hook!
-
[Girl voice]
It's gonna be so good.
-
[Girl voice]
You can play some songs for us,
-
[Girl voice]
or something.
-
[Girl voice]
I've been telling everybody
-
[Girl voice]
how good a friends we were
-
[Girl voice]
Back in the day.
-
[Girl voice]
I know we never talked
-
[Girl voice]
or hung out ever, but... Um...
-
[Girl voice]
I think that's what made
-
[Girl voice]
our friendship so special, you know.
-
[Girl voice]
Anyway, text me. OK. Bye.
-
[Guy voice]
Mr. Burnham?
-
[Guy voice]
How you doing?
-
[Guy voice]
Good? Good.
-
[Guy voice]
I'm a... I'm a agent
-
[Guy voice]
from out Los Angeles.
-
[Guy voice]
Really dig your stuff man.
-
[Guy voice]
It's out there. You know.
-
[Guy voice]
I totally get it.
-
[Guy voice]
And the best part about it man,
-
[Guy voice]
you got all these young fans.
-
[Guy voice]
And... Which is great
-
[Guy voice]
Because young people,
-
[Guy voice]
they're... they're very passionate,
-
[Guy voice]
they're very... Um... reliable consumers.
-
[Guy voice]
But what you gotta do
-
[Guy voice]
in order to take your career
-
[Guy voice]
to the next level,
-
[Guy voice]
you gotta cater more heavily to them.
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[Guy voice]
Alright, we've done studies,
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[Guy voice]
young people do not respond
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[Guy voice]
to this, you know, introspective material
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[Guy voice]
these challenges to the form, you know.
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[Guy voice]
Young people want jokes
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[Guy voice]
they can relate to. OK?
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[Guy voice]
So... Write a...
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[Guy voice]
Write a silly song about Facebook
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[Guy voice]
you know, write some jokes
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[Guy voice]
about Twitter,
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[Guy voice]
or sugary cereal,
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[Guy voice]
or razor scooters.
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[Guy voice]
Relate to them.
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[Guy voice]
You know, also
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[Guy voice]
you gotta reestablish your presence
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[Guy voice]
on the internet buddy. Alright?
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[Guy voice]
It's not important weather
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[Guy voice]
the material is good or not.
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[Guy voice]
What's important is
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[Guy voice]
that you keep the Bo Burnham brand
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[Guy voice]
Alive and well.
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[Guy voice]
You get it? Cool.
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[Guy voice]
We'll discuss more later
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[Guy voice]
I know it's a lot.
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[Guy voice]
My number is 310... 555...
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[Bro voice]
Fag!
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[Bro voice]
What up dude!
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[Bro voice]
What's up? How are you man?
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[Bro voice]
You've changed bro.
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[Bro voice]
You've changed.
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[Bro voice]
I never knew you.
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[Bro voice]
But my friends old room mate's friend
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[Bro voice]
said he knew you in highschool
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[Bro voice]
and that you became a real asshole
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[Bro voice]
once all this comedy stuff started happening.
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[Bro voice]
What is it man?
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[Bro voice]
You think you are better then us?
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[Bro voice]
You think you are better then us
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[Bro voice]
just because you are tall?
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[Bro voice]
Woah, congtars man, you are tall.
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[Bro voice]
Wow! That's incredible.
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[Bro voice]
Woah! You want a trophy
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[Bro voice]
for being tall?
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[Bro voice]
You wonna... We should just give
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[Bro voice]
trophies to tall things
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[Bro voice]
and every tree, and building
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[Bro voice]
will have a trophy.
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[Bro voice]
Does that make sense?
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[Bro voice]
Yo? Why are you acting
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[Bro voice]
all quiet and weird right now?
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[Bro voice]
Yo I know why you are.
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[Bro voice]
It's cos you are an arrogant prick,
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[Bro voice]
that's why. An arrogant fucking prick!
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[Bro voice]
I once herd that you
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[Bro voice]
actually act quiet because
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[Bro voice]
you are shy and introverted in real life,
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[Bro voice]
and that people should not expect
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[Bro voice]
you to act the same way
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[Bro voice]
off stage as you do on stage.
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[Bro voice]
Ha ha! Yeah, yeah...
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[Bro voice]
That makes no sense.
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[Bro voice]
Anyway, you wanna buy some weed?
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[Girl voice]
Bo! Oh my god!
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[Girl voice]
Bo! Oh my god!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Oh my god!
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[Guy voice]
Mr. Burnham.
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Bo!
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Bo!
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[Bro voice]
Fag!
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Bo!
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Oh my god!
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Mr. Burnham.
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Bo!
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Bo!
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Fag!
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Bo!
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Oh my god!
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Mr. Burnham.
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[This keeps going...]
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[Applause]
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I am Satan, lord of darkness!
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[Crickets]
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[Punching noises]
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[Girl voice]
What the hell?
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[Punching noises]
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[Girl voice]
You're not gonna hit the girl?
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[Girl voice]
That's sexist!
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[Bro voice]
We think you've changed, bro.
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[Guy voice]
We know best.
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[Girl voice]
You suck!
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We think you've changed, bro.
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We know best.
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You suck!
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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We think
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We know
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You
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[Starts playing music over voices]