Yes Don Hall, there is a Short-Haired Chick Friday

Party, my place, tonight, 8pm 5720 N. Wayne (Ridge & Wayne)



WARNING THE FOLLOWING BLOG CONTAINS PICTURES OF DOUG STANHOPE



I say that because I've met Doug Stanhope and I don't really like him, buuuuut after Howards interview with a much more mature Doug I do kind of like him. In 1999 Schadenfreude played The Chicago Comedy Festival in yet another stab at recognition.



Doug Stanhope came on and did a set wearing a bunch of our props and proceeded to tell no jokes, spill a beer on the audience and talk about who he'd like to fuck. Utter contempt for the audience (which he addressed on Howard). Later on during a "schmooze session" at a hotel bar Doug got drunk, put on a lampshade (yes, he literally did), pulled his dick out (yes) and proceeded to make a real immature jackass out of himself. The agents couldn't get enough of it. We realized we had yet to figure out the game of making it in comedy. We've since given up and have been met with unprecedented success comparative to those days.



SO WHO'S THE GIRL WITH DOUG!??



Her name is Bingo (Amy Bingaman) and she's the reason I now like Doug. The meathead that Doug personifies would not date a girl with a shaved head with extreme artistic tendencies who's spent time in a mental institution. The guy Doug personifies, Mr. Man Show (which he hated every minute of, I found out), should be dating a ditzy supermodel, but he's not. In fact the guy Doug personifies wouldn't even be seen near someone like Amy, who paints herself blue during psychotic episodes.



There's a fine line between insanity and pure genius. It's not just a phrase, it's true. Amy described some of the things she'd do when she had an episode, she would buy a bunch of silverware and plant it in the garden, hundreds of yards of forks an spoons sticking up. After one episode where she got fingered by an old hippy who was she and Doug's 'shroom dealer (they had some damn good stories) she freaked out and stapled hundreds of gloves to the walls of their apartment. Such odd behavior, but such an interesting place for your mind to go. I like it. It may be insanity, but it seems to edge that line of artistry. And it's not like she exhibits the art. It's just for her and how she deals with what's going on.



When Howard asked if Doug kicked the hippy's ass, Doug said no because they guy had really good 'shrooms. Artie then asked if Amy was planning anything special for her 200th episode, like Family Ties.


Bingo and...is that Steve Scholz?


She's so cute in that Wicker Park way.

And she's got a great voice as can be heard on her myspace page.

And then, like a champ, Bingo rode the Sybian.



The Sybian is this chair with a vibrating nub that Howard has girls sit on while Baba Booey runs the controls, turning up the vibration as the come to climax. Ah, Howard.



If you haven't bought Sirius or pirated an episode from bittorrent, or simply went to his VERY DETAILED daily blog, Howard Stern is easily 100 times better than he's ever been before, and it's not because he can curse and he does nothing that much wilder than he did on WCKG, it's just that he has a freedom now, no longer constrained by commercials that break up his show every twenty minutes, because Stern's show is all about flow. That's the big secret that all true intelligent Stern fans share, we all know what's great about his show, everyone else surmises, and surmises wrong.



It's not about sex, it's about Howard starting talking about a story in the paper, then Gary interrupting to talk about baseball, then Artie backing Gary up on, then Howard saying he hates baseball because of his Dad, then Artie and Gary talking about their Dad's and baseball, then someone calling in to make fun of Artie's Dad who was a veg after a roofing accident, then Howard's dad calling in and Howard sharing a moment, then a guy calling in, touched at the conversation crying because he lost touch with his Dad and all of them calling him a pussy. The Sybian ride was unplanned and occurred after two hours of uninterrupted airtime.





Jeff The Drunk says:

"That's Right Bitch!"