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Liam gallagher is the dude from Oasis. But “gallagher” was a comedian here whose schtick was to smash watermelons with a mallet
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grmpysmrf
About 8 years back a client of mine had tickets for a Gallagher show at The Grove Theatre in Anaheim but wasn’t able to attend so he gave them to me and I took my wife.
We were easily the youngest couple in attendance and the audience consisted almost solely of 50-60 year old lame ass middle-class WHITE PEOPLE. Before the show started Gallagher was setting up his props and checking the stage from the floor and someone went up to him to shake his hand or ask for an autograph or something and he was all cranky and snapped, yapping something about going back to his table to meet people.
He started making his way to the foyer and I had nothing better to do so I followed the short train of people drafting behind him to get a chance to meet the great Gallagher. He sat at his table and was just about the most bitter ornery old bastard I’ve ever seen. One family wanted a photo with him and he got all pissed at them “No! You stand there! Hurry up! Take the photo!”
I had my ticket and was just going to have him sign it and say hi but when I got up to him I said, “Hi, Gallagher! I just wanted to let you know I voted for you” (Ref: 2003 Recall Election where CA got the Kindergarten Cop as our new Governor). I thought he’d get a chuckle and a smile from that or laugh and say “Thanks”, but his reaction really surprised me. He snapped back bitterly, as if he really thought his campaign was real and signified something, and angrily barked out something along the lines of “Yeah! 20,000 people voted for me!” or something.
I looked straight at him and said, “Yeah, you got beaten by a porn star, a crippled smut peddler, and the midget from Different Strokes.” I could see him turning red with rage and I wasn’t even sure what was going to happen. Was he going to hit me? Call security? Fire back some hot zinger of an insult? He was at a loss and none of those came my way. Instead he just waved his arm for me to go away as he shouted “Get out of the way! We gotta keep the line moving!”
His act that night was HORRIBLE. He did the exact jokes he’d told 20 years earlier. Exactly. Nothing new. Nothing original. And he just came across as angry and hateful as he bitched about how music these days suck and what’s up with the kids and Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and dumb amidst his iconic schtick. It was awful. I told my wife about the encounter we had before the show and mentioned that I wanted to mess with him again after the show, but she wasn’t having any of it and forbid me from any more shenanigans.
If not for the chance to bust his balls it would have been a pretty lame evening.[/reply]
you shoulda started saying the punch lines with him during the show!!! like you do when you’ve seen a movie too many times. Yeah, I’ve heard he’s a bit of an ass now that he’s no longer the “it” comedian. “beat by a porn star and a smut peddler” brilliant!
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grmpysmrf