I'll have to look that one up. Never heard it, but I understand he was very un-PC, Maron called him out, and he walked off.
That’s not even the part I remember as much. He just comes across as a very bitter old man. Just launched into grievances about kids these days, how he should have been more successful, how we deserved a talk show instead of Leno or Letterman, etc. For someone who has always been kind of a hacky one trick pony comedian, was just a really bad look.
I mean a comedian’s comedian and a hacky comedian trying to talk comedy is rarely going to end well.
It didn't end well because Maron blindsided him. Gallagher was a part of the Maron apology tour.
I wouldn't use Gallagher as a measure of where stand up was then vs. now.
Maron burned a lot of bridges when he was younger. I always kind of liked him when he would go on his rants but he's done a lot of apologizing over the years for past behavior. Basically I think he mellowed out and realized he was an over the top judgemental d 1ck too often. I like him and think he's a funny guy. I've also heard he's a good dude.
I would. He was not really in the Pryor, Carlin, Rickles era. He was in the Yakov Smirnoff era.
Comedy first got really weird from the mid-70s to early 80s. Steve Martin and Andy Kaufman were playing Carnegie Hall. Cheech & Chong had 3 best-selling albums. Albert Brooks was making Johnny Carson spit up his coffee. And you had Gallagher, who at that time, was wildly different, and initially, pretty damned entertaining.
Lol, I thought that was a self edit by you to get by the profanity filter. I kind of smiled and thought to myself, well played. Even better that it’s automatic.
