RICK SHAPIRO

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Will Franken

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Sep 8, 2013

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

heyyyyyyyy

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

IM BACK

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

WILL?

Will Franken · 8:00 PM

Im hee

Will Franken · 8:00 PM

here

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

NICE MAN

Will Franken · 8:00 PM

how are ya?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

SO YOU GET HOW THIS WORKS, WILL?

Will Franken · 8:00 PM

kinda

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:00 PM

WE CHAT AND THE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT COMMENT

Will Franken · 8:00 PM

should i click talk?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:01 PM

OR ENTER

Will Franken · 8:01 PM

gotcha

Will Franken · 8:01 PM

i thought we were actually talking?

Will Franken · 8:01 PM

but we're typing!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:01 PM

WILL! GREAT TO SEE YOU

Will Franken · 8:01 PM

great to see you, Rick!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:01 PM

JUST THOUGHT ID START STUPID

Will Franken · 8:02 PM

Brills mate

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:02 PM

I HAVE A QUESTION ,BUT

Will Franken · 8:02 PM

ah go ahead mate

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:03 PM

O KNOW YOUVE BEEN DOING ALOT OF PERSONAL "QUESTING" SO WOULD YOU

Will Franken · 8:03 PM

yeah?

Will Franken · 8:03 PM

personal questing?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:03 PM

LIKE TO TELL ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY FIRST?ITS SO INCREDIBLE I LOVE YOU FOR GOING THROUGH IT ,BOLD BROTHER!

Will Franken · 8:04 PM

Ah, thanks man

Will Franken · 8:04 PM

Well, honestly, a lot of it has to do with that beautiful feeling of having nothing to lose

Will Franken · 8:04 PM

I've been an Anglophile when it comes to comedy my whole life and it took me awhile to make the leap, but I finally did

Will Franken · 8:04 PM

And I'm a lot happier for it

Will Franken · 8:04 PM

I struggled so much in the States

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:05 PM

WOW IM IN THE STATES DO YOU FEEL TH,GENERALLY MOST AMERICANS CONSUME ,N"BUY INTO THE BRAINWASHING?

Will Franken · 8:05 PM

And here things are still somewhat different for the time being -- although I do worry that the Brits are going to start to morph into the Yanks -- via Sky TV and the new sort of cable packages making their way out here

Will Franken · 8:05 PM

I feel that America is too big a country to take risks

Will Franken · 8:06 PM

The networks and even the cable channels -- (excluding HBO, I have to say) -- are trying to yoke everyone together under the same umbrella

Will Franken · 8:06 PM

Britain being smaller, there's still this notion of taking a risk on something for four to six episodes to see what happens

Will Franken · 8:06 PM

I miss you, Rick, I wish you'd come out here, bro

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:07 PM

I LIVE TAKING RISKS N THEY R RESPONDING MORE N MORE BECAUSE OF THE LIES FINALLY BEING EXPOSED,BUT THEYR BECOMING "LIFESTYLY N NO PASSION AGAIN,WE JUST GOTTA KEEP GIVINING IT TO EM !

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:07 PM

★ Spotlighted from Sadaf Fahim

“Yes! Can I second that, please? Come to London, Rick!”

Will Franken · 8:07 PM

That's right, Rick

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:08 PM

AS SOOON AS I CAAAAN! I MISS YOU TOO

Will Franken · 8:08 PM

This may seem hacky, but I love Jerry Maguire

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:08 PM

SADAF!

Will Franken · 8:08 PM

It's so easy to forget that "little kid who first started playing football (doing comedy)

Will Franken · 8:08 PM

That's what it's all about, Rick, you're right -- take the risks and leave the rest up to the Divine

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:08 PM

WILL YOU N I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY THAT IT NEEDS BE CALLED TAWK TAWK TAKW YELLL MORE MORE!

Will Franken · 8:09 PM

Ah, where should we even start!

Will Franken · 8:09 PM

I gotta watch it, cause I have a lot of latent bitterness

Will Franken · 8:09 PM

I find I'm more productive when I'm happy

Will Franken · 8:09 PM

We do want you in London, though, eh Sadaf?

Will Franken · 8:10 PM

The people are so repressed here that's why their comedy is so funny

Will Franken · 8:11 PM

They can't express themselves emotionally -- but subconsciously, artistically, they have a very rich tradition

Will Franken · 8:11 PM

And consequently I don't feel such a weirdo out here

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:11 PM

IVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH I GET BITTER BUT ITS LOVELY TO BE VICIOUS ONSTAGE N GOOOOOFYN DRIVEN CRAZY OVER THE TURTLES CRAWLIN OUT HERE

Will Franken · 8:12 PM

I remember seeing you at the Purple Onion years ago

Will Franken · 8:12 PM

You were doing your racist uncle

Will Franken · 8:12 PM

My friend and I were dying at the sheer audacity of it all

Will Franken · 8:12 PM

The balls of it

Will Franken · 8:12 PM

One thing that bothers me in stand-up today is faux balls

Will Franken · 8:13 PM

False indignation; I could always tell with you, Rick, that the bitterness was legitimate, the pain was legitimate, the honesty was there

Will Franken · 8:13 PM

A la Richard Pryor

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:13 PM

PHHH YEAH! AND I REMMBER SEEING YOU ,FIRST TIME, THAT NIGHT TO , N I SAW HOW COMPLEX ,INFORMED N STANDIN TALL,TRULY,N SO SOCIOLOGICAL N EXCELLENCE

Will Franken · 8:13 PM

That's something innate -- can't be learned

Will Franken · 8:14 PM

Cheers, Rick )))

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:14 PM

U,IF YOUR LIKE ME ,SAY ,sOCIOLOGICAL?"IM JUST TELLIN ME LILIL JOKES folllkkkksss!!!!!!!

Will Franken · 8:14 PM

I remember being jealous of you from afar -- when you were still in New York; I think it was the first contemporary reference I had heard to someone being a new Lenny Bruce

Will Franken · 8:15 PM

Funny enough, when I heard some of your MP3s, I though, "Shit, he even sounds like Lenny Bruce"

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:15 PM

i meant ohhh! not phhh! fucking keyboard

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:15 PM

thanks

Will Franken · 8:15 PM

no worries ))

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:16 PM

theres basically noone to talk to out here bout it

Will Franken · 8:16 PM

You mean in LA?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:16 PM

yes

Will Franken · 8:16 PM

I've always been phobic of LA

Will Franken · 8:16 PM

The sunshine, the heat, the artifice

Will Franken · 8:16 PM

That being said, though, I have to say there's a lot of artifice in the industry in London as well

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:17 PM

its watching the concave caved in a mass huddle in a tinder cell

Will Franken · 8:17 PM

Love it -- very prosaic

Will Franken · 8:17 PM

I dig places like Neath in Wales -- dirty little gigs where the only thing in town to do is that pub

Will Franken · 8:18 PM

There seems to be a lot of backstabbing and indirectness and snubbing in London as well -- within the "industry" as it were

Will Franken · 8:18 PM

It's just a prettier accent ))

Will Franken · 8:18 PM

But we've had some rock-n-roll nights in LA, that being said

Will Franken · 8:18 PM

I remember going to McDonald's with you !

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:19 PM

london was getting a lil stiffer last time i was there it seems men were shocked n women were cool but carrying a lil self importance based on looks ,do people know theyre acting like dancing ats on youtube?/et/

Will Franken · 8:19 PM

not sure about that

Will Franken · 8:19 PM

I will say that London can be even more PC than San Francisco at times

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:19 PM

dirty lil pibs thats where jesus goes to relieve the stress

Will Franken · 8:20 PM

I think with you and me -- we like to push the multicultural/PC dogma envelope a lot

Will Franken · 8:20 PM

And it frightens the shit out of some people

Will Franken · 8:20 PM

Speaking of Jesus -- I think the PC brigade are the new uptight Christians

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:20 PM

if u think i can joke like this w anyone but you ,ur wrong!

Will Franken · 8:20 PM

When i was growing up in Missouri, it was always "You can't say this, you can't do that, that's not proper, that's not right"

Will Franken · 8:20 PM

Ha!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:20 PM

u inspire even w this instant messaging shit

Will Franken · 8:21 PM

Glad to hear it ))

Will Franken · 8:21 PM

Computers make me nervous sometimes!

Will Franken · 8:21 PM

Anyway, it seems like now the new uptight Christians are the secular multiculturalists ("Don't say that, don't do that, that's not right")

Will Franken · 8:21 PM

Rick, you're anti-authoritarian by nature, in your DNA, right?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:22 PM

yeah in jersey i was always being slapped ,,,by popn so i thought it was normal that girls out there orin ,guys too,the audience were mad

Will Franken · 8:22 PM

Exactly -- abuse brings out some pretty funny shit, I find

Will Franken · 8:22 PM

Richard Pryor being raised in a whorehouse, that whole seamy side of things

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:24 PM

i never knew ,nobody told me anything n wasnt aloud to lidten to music as a kid,so inever knew there was authhority,but i found out ,i guess i just call it being broke n lookin fat pompous salad eaters,true trahs in the eyeballs

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:25 PM

yeah being in sick situations with nuts telling you how to behave ,looks like a hysterical carousel after a while

Will Franken · 8:25 PM

My mother was a neurotic window shopper of various Christian denominations -- she used to say things like "Jesus sees everything you do" and it made me paranoid as fuck

Will Franken · 8:25 PM

exactly!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:25 PM

my god was the angry rabbi with botoxed teeth!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:26 PM

wrath wrath more wrath

Will Franken · 8:26 PM

Ha!\

Will Franken · 8:26 PM

Do you know I had a mitzvah out in Edinburgh?\

Will Franken · 8:26 PM

This year?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:26 PM

what?explain?

Will Franken · 8:26 PM

I said "Good shabbas" to a rabbi after a day gig and he walked me up to the Royal Mile and gave me a Mitzvah\

Will Franken · 8:26 PM

Wrapped the thing around my arm, put the Yarmulke on and everything in broad daylight

Will Franken · 8:27 PM

I had no idea what the hell was going on!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:27 PM

did he slip you the tomgue in ur ear?

Will Franken · 8:27 PM

I kept up with the "baruch adonai" but then it got difficult after five minutes

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:27 PM

wow sadaf!

Will Franken · 8:27 PM

No, he was more standoffish than that -- no tongue

Will Franken · 8:28 PM

Before I forget -- or anyone else does -- how about some congratulations on your recent marriage!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:28 PM

alotta baruchs yeahhhh! glad i walked away from all that my pop was orthodox but thought he gave it up wrath wrathn more wrath!

Will Franken · 8:28 PM

This the first time you've been a husband, eh?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:29 PM

thanks , yeah first last n hopefully temporary , just mean we'll go back to being boyfreind n girlfriend n be happy again

Will Franken · 8:30 PM

Ah, you don't mean that

Will Franken · 8:30 PM

Although I was married for a little over three years

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:30 PM

shes amazing

Will Franken · 8:30 PM

She is indeed -- you've got a good woman there

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:30 PM

im not exactly the marrying kind but it seems to be a coolass paradigm

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:30 PM

will

Will Franken · 8:31 PM

Yeah?

Will Franken · 8:31 PM

By the way, I probably would have stayed married forever if my wife wouldn't have left me/thrown me out after three years

Will Franken · 8:32 PM

It was a perfect set-up for someone as lazy as me

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:32 PM

im dying to hear about your new wardrobe n your passion for the truth ,i love make upn perfromed dress,oh fuck that ! i just picture you walking down the street n wanna hear about you n the real,no, the more you

Will Franken · 8:32 PM

Ah, yeah

Will Franken · 8:32 PM

I've been a tranny probably since the age of five or six to some degree or another

Will Franken · 8:33 PM

Just straight heterosexual crossdresser

Will Franken · 8:33 PM

But now that I'm in my home -- the land of my dreams -- I feel more comfortable letting it out

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:33 PM

wow mamerica needs more of you n more of YOU!,TRANNYS W TALENT !

Will Franken · 8:33 PM

I lived in San Francisco even; could have done it a lot there, but didn't as much, because I knew that it wasn't where I wanted to end up staying

Will Franken · 8:34 PM

I got to England and it was like, "Okay, I'm home. By the way, here's all of me. This is the extent of Will Franken."

Will Franken · 8:34 PM

Or Sarah when I'm in my other guise

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:34 PM

BEAUTIFUL WHAT,HE/SHES? LABELS SUCK,BUT HE/SHES W ASPIRANT MINDS N THE CHARISMA TO TALK ABOUT IT! SHOW N TELL N DRAMATIZE N COMEDYIZE !!!

Will Franken · 8:34 PM

Actually when I saw Eddie Izzard DVD years ago, I remember thinking, "Damn, that was my backup plan. If I'm not going to make it doing what I'm doing, just be the first heterosexual cross dresser comedian"

Will Franken · 8:35 PM

Yeah, although I never perform in drag

Will Franken · 8:35 PM

I switch character so often, it's good to go out with a blank slate -- T-shirt/jeans

Will Franken · 8:35 PM

But I found Edinburgh such a bitch this year, I just devoted my spare time to perfecting my daytime and nighttime looks ))

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:36 PM

YEAH I SAW EDDIE N SAID HES IN HEELS N TALKING ABOUT LAUNDRY (AT THE TIME) N I THOUGHT WOW HEELS N LIPSTICK,WHAT AN "EDGE"HE WALKS

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:36 PM

HA!

Will Franken · 8:36 PM

Yeah, it was scary growing up in a small town in Missouri

Will Franken · 8:36 PM

I remember getting a car at 16

Will Franken · 8:36 PM

and the first thought I had was, "Fuck! I can drive to a different town where nobody knows me and go shopping!"

Will Franken · 8:36 PM

I felt like I was robbing a bank!

Will Franken · 8:37 PM

The adrenaline rush of knowing -- "I'm not supposed to do this!!!!"

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:37 PM

THE AUDIENCE THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!N A FEW POLITICIANS

Will Franken · 8:37 PM

You've got a hell of a backstory yourself

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:37 PM

ALLL POLITICIANS , IM WRITING YOU IN SERIOUSLY RU FOR SENATE!

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

Well, I'm hoping to be an MP, actually

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

I want to be MP for Haringey

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:38 PM

YEAHHHH NOW I EUPHOIRCALLY SO TOTALLY MISSS THE STREET LIFE

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

I get nostalgic for a New York I never knew

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

The New York of Lou Reed

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:38 PM

I NEVER WANTED TO BE A CITIZEN I REALIZED RECENTLY

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

Street Hassle, Makeup. . .

Will Franken · 8:38 PM

How can you avoid it?

Will Franken · 8:39 PM

Patti Smith -- "outside of society". . .

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:39 PM

ALTHOUGH I HAD A CITIZENNY DAYOFF N I LIKED THAT I COULD,UHHH,WELL I LIKED SOMETHING ABOUT IT, UHH ACTUALLY I HAD A MAJOR ANXIETY ATTACK,

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:40 PM

HERES TOLIPSTICK N BANKROBBIIN!

Will Franken · 8:41 PM

A toast!

Will Franken · 8:41 PM

A real anxiety attack?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:41 PM

THATS SSSSSSSSSOOOO AMAZING THAT S TITLE IVE GOTTA GO HEAR THE SONG AFTER THIS,I DISCOVER MUSIC LATE AS I SAID

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:41 PM

YESSSS

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:42 PM

FAMILIES N BFFERS N MARTINI FEDORA CHICKS IN A CAGE CAALLED FREERANGE MORONS THE RESTAURANT

Will Franken · 8:42 PM

Ah, yeah, Freerange

Will Franken · 8:43 PM

I got a vegan girlfriend

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:43 PM

WILL,SEND ME PIKS OF SARAH

Will Franken · 8:43 PM

But I'm working class -- if I see a film about how bad cows have it before being slaughtered for veal; it just makes me hungry

Will Franken · 8:43 PM

Will do!

Will Franken · 8:43 PM

There's one on facebook

Will Franken · 8:43 PM

I'm with Harry Deansway; long black wig

Will Franken · 8:44 PM

I got a black and white striped cardi in that photo from a charity shop that morning

Will Franken · 8:44 PM

I'm back in London for two days and I see this 80 year old woman hobbling by wearing the exact same cardi

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:44 PM

SOME PEOPLE TOLD ME ,N THE WAYA THEY THOUGHT ABOUT WAS LIKE DIPPING YOUR NOSE IN A PILE O DEAD MOTHS

Will Franken · 8:44 PM

Depressed me a bit

Will Franken · 8:45 PM

Although I also picked up some cute jean shorts and black tights -- love the Edinburgh look

Will Franken · 8:45 PM

Festival's a bit rubbish, though

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:45 PM

WHAT IREALLY HEARD WAS A BRILLIANT INNATE INHERENT CREATIVE EXPLORER OF A BEING LIVNG LIVING N MORE LIVIMG

Will Franken · 8:46 PM

Well, yeah, I like to think of it as living

Will Franken · 8:46 PM

Although my girlfriend has accused me of excessive hedonism at times

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:46 PM

WHEN UR BORN W A GIFT N GIFTS AS U ARE! THEN THE STAGE IS THE STREET THE CHOICES R A BOOK N CAN MAKE PEOPLE ALLIVE,PENSIVEN SMARTER ,JUST BY YOU WALKING BY SERIOUSSSLYYY

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:47 PM

REALLY...

Will Franken · 8:47 PM

Yeah, I have to watch the drink

Will Franken · 8:47 PM

I have a bit of a problem ))

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:47 PM

MY WIFE WOULD PAYME TO BE MORE EXCESSIVE N HEDONISTIC!

Will Franken · 8:47 PM

Really?

Will Franken · 8:48 PM

I think I'd be afraid of a woman too into hedonism

Will Franken · 8:48 PM

I like being the one reigned in

Will Franken · 8:48 PM

And not on a BDMS level

Will Franken · 8:48 PM

But if a woman is too hedonistic, that could lead to jealousy on my end -- so it's always better for me if they're a bit more of a grown-up than I am

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:49 PM

TAKE CARE OF YOUR NATURE N POWER N HEART ,WATCH THE DRINK,INEVER SAY THIS BUT ITS BECAUSE YOU MATTER N YOU MATTER TO ME SO MUCH,I NEVER TOLD YOU THAT

Will Franken · 8:49 PM

So I become Richard Pryor's white man: "Yes, dear. Yes, dear/"

Will Franken · 8:49 PM

Well, if I've never told you that either -- I should have

Will Franken · 8:49 PM

You're one of the last authentic voices in stand-up comedy

Will Franken · 8:49 PM

People will be honest about taking meds for depression, but never about being a rent boy

Will Franken · 8:49 PM

))

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:49 PM

I DIDNT ,EAM TO BE I JUST WANTED TO MAKE 50 BUCKS A SHOW

Will Franken · 8:50 PM

Ha! Truly?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:51 PM

BUTI WAS EXPOSED TO CONSTANT LIES LIARS N SET-UPS ,THAT THE TRUTH RELIEVED ME N IKNEW THE AUDIENCE WAS PEOPLE TOO,GOINGT THRU ALOT

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:51 PM

Will Franken · 8:51 PM

Yeah, I always did characters and hid behind the security of voices/faces -- and then a month after my wife left me, I started doing curtain calls at the end of a show where I would just rant as myself

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:51 PM

YEAH YUPPIE COMICS USED TO FOLLOW ME AROUND N SAY'U SUCKED DICK FOR HEROINE??/LIKE I WAS A CRIMINAL

Will Franken · 8:51 PM

It was a desperate desire to be heard and to hear others

Will Franken · 8:52 PM

Yeah, it's better than sucking dick for marijuana!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:52 PM

WOW SO MUCH BEAUTY

Will Franken · 8:52 PM

There was also a really shallow side to me that thought I'd get laid if I talked about my pain

Will Franken · 8:52 PM

Completely forgetting that girls always show up to clubs with dates

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:53 PM

HEY IM GONNA WRITE A SCENE WHERE YOU SAY THAT N ENTICE ME N SIT ON MY LAP N GIVE ME PASSIONATE LANGOROUS COMFORT,WELL YUO WROTE THE LINE'BUT I MEANT WHAT I JUST WROTE!

Will Franken · 8:53 PM

I could go with that

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:53 PM

THATS WHAT CLUB BATHROOMS R FOR!

Will Franken · 8:54 PM

Or the underground Gents here

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:55 PM

WILL WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE WALKING DOWN THE STREET CROSSDRESSEDN BEAUTIFUL.OR FEMININE FEELING?

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:55 PM

I HEARD THAT SADAF!

Will Franken · 8:56 PM

Well, I'll never pass being 6'5" as I am -- but I think it's just this general feeling of "Hey, I like to do this and who gives a fuck" -- I find that the more detailed I get in dressing up, the more relaxed I feel

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:56 PM

I DID IT FOR TACOS N A BAD CHECK TOO N THE WOMEN PART WAS FASCINATING

Will Franken · 8:56 PM

Like if I have accessories like bracelets, etc., I can fiddle with them -- or the best part is the purse

Will Franken · 8:56 PM

When you've got a well-organized purse, you can always retreat into that

Will Franken · 8:57 PM

Pull out a bottled water, check your wallet, etc.

Will Franken · 8:57 PM

It's the naturalism of it all that appeals to me

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:57 PM

DID YOU FEEL LIKE A WOMAN A FEMININE CREATURE?

Will Franken · 8:57 PM

I no longer feel the electric shock I felt as a kid when my sisters dressed me up

Will Franken · 8:57 PM

Hmm. . .not sure

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:57 PM

THATS AMING WHAT U JUST WROTE

Will Franken · 8:57 PM

Sometimes I find myself doing things slightly differently, hand movements are a little more expressive

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:58 PM

3 MINUTERS LEFT.. DO YOU WANT TO PLUG ANYTHING?

Will Franken · 8:58 PM

I can do voices well, but for some reason, I haven't really gone full put with the voice

Will Franken · 8:58 PM

Plug. . .well, let's see

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:58 PM

AAAAAAAAH TEEEEEEEENUANCES!

Will Franken · 8:58 PM

I'm doubling up on Saturday night -- Highlights in Camden Town and then Soho Comedy Club near Leicester Square

Will Franken · 8:58 PM

Really cool to talk with you again, Rick

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:59 PM

LOVE WENA WOMANSTL HAS HER12 YR OLD G NUANCE LIEPLAYYYYYYYYINGG W HEERRRJAKE ZPPPPPPPPPPR FOR STRTERRRRRRRRS

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:59 PM

MMMMMMM KEYYYYBARD!

Will Franken · 8:59 PM

Ha!!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

SOOOO IIIIIIIMNNNNNNNNT OOOOOOOOA

Will Franken · 9:00 PM

I love ya, Rick!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

YEKAAAAAAAAR OTTTTTTTTURNE

Will Franken · 9:00 PM

Exactly! Yekar Oturne to you as well!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

i LVOE YOU TOO.. LETS SKPE SOON

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

DAMN KEYBOARD.. IM GONNA TRASH THIS THING

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

BYE EVERYONE

Will Franken · 9:00 PM

Love ya guys!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:01 PM

TALK SOON BRAVE WILL AND BOLD SARAH!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:01 PM

AND THANKS TO ALL OF THE LISTNERS

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:01 PM

NOOOO... MY KEYBOARD GOT STUCK!

Will Franken · 9:01 PM

`thanks to you, Rick -- love ya all!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:01 PM

BA BYE!

Forum · 65

Forum· 65 comments

59 visitors

Justin OungSep 8, 2013, 7:22 PM

Hey Rick!

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:00 PM

Another Funday Tawk!

Justin BlanchardSep 8, 2013, 8:01 PM

Will put down your Pimms and start tawkin.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:02 PM

Friends don't let friends drink and type.

Justin BlanchardSep 8, 2013, 8:03 PM

So, what's the deal here- they chat in a window similar to this one but can only see our comments occasionally?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:03 PM

They see our comments if they get voted up. If you like a comment, click the thumbs up.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:04 PM

"Nothing left to lose" is just another word for freedom.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:05 PM

Will, you and like, 98% of us suffer in the US...

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:07 PM★ Spotlighted

Yes! Can I second that, please? Come to London, Rick!

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:08 PM

Will, do you miss anything at all about living in the states?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:09 PM

Will, do you think standup comics in London are taking bigger risks too?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:09 PM

Seems to me the really bold, great stuff is rare here, too...

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:11 PM

Yes, Will! Rick needs to come here again, it's been too long. And there are books to talk about...

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:11 PM

People are more repressed in London? Then why are they more fun to live with?

Rebecca Westbrook TokerSep 8, 2013, 8:13 PM

Jordan, it's because they don't have an entitlement card that they need to pull out and wave every time someone approaches...

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:13 PM

Don't you mean faux baux?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:14 PM

That's what makes Rick thrilling to watch. Fearless.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:14 PM

you stand ups are the modern day philosophers and anthropologists

Tawkers AdminSep 8, 2013, 8:15 PM

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Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:16 PM

Funny you should say that, Will. I was just writing about Rick and Lenny Bruce this morning. Some brilliant parallels.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:16 PM

Screw Socrates. He's overrated.

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:18 PM

Which venues in London do you like, Will?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:18 PM

Sometimes I think that every industry in every city in the world is petty, because they all involve people.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:21 PM

What doesn't do to people psychologically when you push the envelope like that? Why do they get so uncomfortable?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:26 PM

Botox teeth?! Lmao.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:27 PM

Did it come with a circumcision?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:30 PM

Best part of being married?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:30 PM

Rick's wife is one of the most wonderful people I've talked to. Lucky man.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:32 PM

Bummer. Sorry dude.

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:32 PM

Ha! Marriage as a vehicle for sloth. Now if someone had put it to me that way, I might have considered it...

Blake IanSep 8, 2013, 8:33 PM

Executive Transvestite?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:33 PM

LOVE a man in drag.

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:34 PM

That's wonderful! More men comfortably out in drag, I say. It's beautiful.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:34 PM

Is it weird that the name "Engelburt Humperdink" is in my head?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:35 PM

Zimblebert Dembledack?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:35 PM

You know, he just passed away. Not really. Seriously.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:38 PM

You guys should play "Who Had The More Fucked Up Childhood?"

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:40 PM

Yes!! Lipstick and bankrobbing. I'll vote for that.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:41 PM

If I had a nickel for very time I heard someone advocate for lipstick and robbery, I'd have 10 cents.

ross dittmanSep 8, 2013, 8:43 PM

I wonder what it was like for Rick to hear music for the first time.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:43 PM

Some of ricks runs deserve a jazz trio backing them up

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:43 PM

I second that, we all want to see Sarah!

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:45 PM

80 year old woman is the new black!

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:45 PM

Ha! will, if it's any consolation, that sort of thing happens to me regularly. I'm 29 and my clothes are indistinguishable from those of many tube-dwelling vagrants of varying age and gender.

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:46 PM

Rick, that's what I heard when I first heard you...

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:46 PM

Will, you didn't enjoy the festival?

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:47 PM

Just realized that Rick rhymes with beatnik.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:48 PM

Should we call the producers of "Intervention?"

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:50 PM

Best way to earn is being authentic.

ross dittmanSep 8, 2013, 8:51 PM

I'd pay Rick a lot more than that to do a show. If I had money.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:51 PM

@ross me too

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:52 PM

Or sucking dick for lack of a better idea. Not that I've ever done that.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:53 PM

No pain no gain

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:54 PM

Wow, you've been in the underground Gents? That's courage right there.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:55 PM

What is the underground gents?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:57 PM

@Jordan the underground trains here. the 'tube.' now imagine a 'tube' station toilet...

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:57 PM

*innocent face*

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:57 PM

Ahh. Thanks, my American is better than my English.

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:58 PM

Now thinking of train spotting...

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:59 PM

Will, I'll be there!

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 8:59 PM

Thanks guys was great fun!

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 8:59 PM

Rick, come visit us!

Jordan BirnbaumSep 8, 2013, 9:00 PM

Cat on a keyboard?

Sadaf FahimSep 8, 2013, 9:01 PM

Bye! Thanks guys!!

ross dittmanSep 8, 2013, 9:01 PM

another language that Rick invented?