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- This show rules!
- I personally love it better than stand-up.
- This is so wonderful!
I'm in a comedy club in the back of a comic book store.
It's like having a dance studio in the back of a porn shop.
(audience laughs)
- I've seen comedians, and I've known them for 30 years,
then I see them do this,
I'm like, fuck, it's a whole different thing.
- It's like a ball game.
You can lose, you know.
(laughter)
- Liza, then you, and... - Good.
- Liza, then Roven, and you--
- Oh, yeah
- So, Liza (background noise drowns out conversation)
- The thing about Set List,
even the order in which the comics are going up
is made up on the spot.
- Ladies and gentlemen, will you welcome
the never before seen Set List of Rove McManus!
(audience applauds)
- Wow, it has been a long time.
I believe the last time we caught up it was...
When was it?
We had just...
It was almost like yesterday.
I wish I had written it down somewhere.
Yeah, that's right, I remember now.
We were at that town hall together,
and there was all those people there,
and we were just like, ew.
(audience laughs)
If only there was a way that we could just get rid of them,
so we could just hang out,
and we could just talk.
And then, he said, Paul said (mumbles).
I'll tell ya, I'll tell ya.
So, he said, "I've got this gas..."
(audience laughs)
Crazy! He puts it in...
You know, and after the kids stop crying,
it was wonderfully quiet,
and the best part is, America did nothing about it!
Awesome! Awesome, awesome.
Bright times, good memories, good memories.
(audience laughs)
There's a smile!
Come on, stand up.
How could this not make me happy?
Look at that.
(lips smack) Ahhh!
Creepy, creepy, it's still creepy.
Just the f... I would like...
If you could just paint that face up.
A little red there, a little nose thing,
and the white, and you could bury kids under your house.
(audience laughs)
Right, it'd be so good.
Wait a minute, that balloon animal isn't a balloon!
He tied his penis into a poodle.
That's all, he tied his penis into a poodle.
Although! Seriously, if a children's clown came out
and he was a little bit creepy,
it's like, "Hey kids!"
He'd turned up and he's not wearing pants!
At that point you're probably reaching into your pocket
for some kind of (mumbles)
"I'm gonna let him have it!"
'Cause he's wearing no pants, he's a bit creepy.
But if he suddenly turned that penis into, like, a carousel?
(audience laughs)
Come on!
(audience hoots)
OK, let me tell you what's happening.
I don't know if I've got a sack on my head.
(sniffs) I wanna say potato sack.
Uh, yeah, I'm good, good, yeah.
I mean, considering, you know.
(mumbles) been taken hostage and everything,
so that's a bit awkward.
OK, I've been bound to a chair.
So it's tying some kind of knot around the back,
I can't see...
(pings) Siri, loop around twice,
then through pull tight knot, definition
(pings) Here's the name of seven pizza places.
Sorry, no wait, not Siri, sorry, yes.
He's gone, he's gone.
So what do I do?
Oh yeah, just stand up and walk away, good point!
I've go a chair tied around my legs,
but, is that OK?
Out? Great, I'm outside.
Yeah, I'm just, you're right
I can just sit down anywhere I want now.
This is the best!
Why don't more people do this?
I don't know. What's your name?
Gloria? Well, thank you Gloria.
You've been a tremendous help.
(audience laughs)
I had a bit of a problem.
Well, I have a friend who...
He's really good at making curry.
He's great at making luxes,
and he's got a great restaurant not far from here.
And doing a pretty good business, I must admit.
He's name is Andrew,
and it's doing pretty well, but he wants to branch out.
I was like, don't worry about it.
I have the perfect way of doing it.
I can get onto, like, Urban Spoon,
and Yelp, and other things.
'Cause I live in the Twittersphere, like many people do,
I realize that character space is quite reduced.
So I thought I'll just have to try to abbreviate
so people can get into this.
And so, the idea of telling people to try
Andrew's Indian Delivery Service
didn't go down so well.
AIDS is great!
You gotta try AIDS!
I wish everyone could get AIDS!
I got a man that could give it to you really easily,
and really quickly, no matter where you are.
No don't worry, he'll come to you.
Try AIDS!
(audience cheers)
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- The AIDS stuff killed.
I better get an AIDS bit
(laugher)
- You get the word AIDS.
You can either embrace it somehow,
or, my brain quickly went, acronym.
A, A could be a person's name, Andrew.
D was delivery, so I went, Andrew, delivery,
delivery service, that works.
Then I couldn't think of something for the letter I.
Indian? I could see everybody in the front row...
"I'm not sure what he's doing."
But I can't let them twig too early
if this is where I'm heading.
My brain has got a little hamster wheel thing going.
It's the stand up equivalent of trying to rub your tummy
and pat your head at the same time.
And as you can see, I'm not even good at that, so (laughs).
I don't know how I made it out alive.
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