RICK SHAPIRO

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Where the hell are you?

Dec 29, 2013·102 visitors

Matt Roper

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Dec 29, 2013

Matt has been to NY, NJ, spent Thanksgiving with the DeMarzos, now Atlanta and maybe New Orleans.. what is next?? Shapiro is buying a ticket on Monday.

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:56 PM

HEY EVRYONE ! NICE TO "NOT " DEE YOU" NO ACTUALLY IM EXCITED YIZ ARE ALL HERE

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:56 PM

HEY MATT!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:57 PM

I SEE AMAZING PEOPLE LIKE SADAF THE WRITER ACTIVE MINDER COMEDY N THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDER IS HERE!

RICK SHAPIRO · 8:58 PM

ALEX FLYNN THE SUPER MAN WHO TURNED KRYPTONITE INTO HIS MERE CATCH N FETCH POODDLE IS HERE CHECK THESE TWOO FELLOW AMAZERS OUT! PLEASE

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:00 PM

N THE REST OF PEOPLE WHO VENTURE INTO TAWKERS WITH CURIOUS POWER I MEAN THE POWER OF CURIOSITY SHOWING UP....WITH BETTER KEYBOARDS THAN ME , EXCUSE THE PSYCHOTIC TYPOS!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:02 PM

MATT IS ONE THE ABSOLUTE FINEST PERFORMERS FOR AUDIENCE MEMEBER REASONS AD MY OWN REASONS AS WELL.AND HES

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:02 PM

BEEN TRAVELLING ALL AROUND THE STATES N IM SO CURIOUS TO SEE IF AMMMMMERRRRRRRRRRRIKA

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:02 PM

HAS EVOLVED AT ALL

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:03 PM

OR HIS PERSPECTIVE THRU THE EEYES OF A PERFORMER THAT IS UNIQUE N N UHHH OTHER GREAT QUALITIES WE WILL GET TO

Matt Roper · 9:03 PM

I've forgotten how to do this thing.

Matt Roper · 9:03 PM

Hi Rick!

Matt Roper · 9:05 PM

Yeah sorry I'm a bit late

Matt Roper · 9:06 PM

I don't know if these comments are being published. I'm staying in what's known as a "roach motel" and the connection keeps dropping.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:06 PM

JUST GOTTA SEE IF HE FUCKING SHOWS UP,BUT ITS COOL.PEOPLE WITHOUT PARKINSONS SOMETIMES HAVE A HARDER TIME WITH THEIR OBLIGATIONS,CREATIVE GFTS OR EVEN THEIR AIM,RIGHT ALEX! WHEN YOU SOCALLED GOT SOCALLED PERKINSONS,YOU BEST BE BEST AT UR GAME

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:06 PM

DEE MEANS SEE

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:06 PM

FUCCCK!!!

Matt Roper · 9:06 PM

I'm here Rick.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:06 PM

★ Spotlighted from Sadaf Fahim

“Man I've missed Rick's typing. Let the CAPS LOCK... COMMENCE!”

Matt Roper · 9:07 PM

OK Rick... you're in LA?

Matt Roper · 9:07 PM

I AM IN NEW ORLEANS AND IT"S INCREDIBLE. See I can do caps lock too.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:08 PM

FUK YEAH THE ROACHES HERE R MUCH BIGGER THEN YOURS HERE THEY

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:08 PM

R THE SIZE OF HUMANS N THEY EVEN DRESS LIKE FASHION OMBIES AN EVEN ACT N PERFORM LIKE ZOMBIE ZOMBIES!

Matt Roper · 9:09 PM

Yeah. Even the cockroaches complain about the towels here.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:09 PM

IM ITNENSLY INTERESTED IN YOUR

Matt Roper · 9:09 PM

It is a mad motel. Lots of shady characters but it fascinates me. Much more entertaining than some Hilton hotel you know.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:10 PM

PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE ,,,,FUCK PERSPECTIVE I HATE THAT WORD I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU SAW IN AMERRRIKANS EYES WHAT YOU

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:10 PM

HEARD IN THEIR VOICES WHAT U NOTICESD

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:11 PM

IN THEM ANYTHING

Matt Roper · 9:11 PM

Well there are many layers to America, you know...

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:11 PM

AND AS AUDIENCE MEMEBERS AND WE'LL GET TO MORE...

Matt Roper · 9:11 PM

After New York, I took a train to Savannah Georgia

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:11 PM

NO I DIDNT ,OK LETS SAY I DID.OK

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:12 PM

YES ACTUALLY

Matt Roper · 9:12 PM

★ Spotlighted from Siddiqua A

“Many layers? Or lawyers, Matt???”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:12 PM

BUT THAT IS NEVER NOTICED IN THE FUCKING COMEDY WORLD NOR ALLOWED NOR BRAVELEY

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:13 PM

VENTURED INTO BY COMICS IN THE UNITD STATES OF PINCHY MCPUNCHASSKISSLONES

Matt Roper · 9:13 PM

RICK: What is never noticed exactly? One word.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:13 PM

LINES MNOT LONES

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:13 PM

THE MANY LAYERS

Matt Roper · 9:13 PM

Ah OK.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:13 PM

WE R TOLD WE R JUST FAT OR JUST STU PID

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

Well you don't need a white stick to see them...

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

Well some of you are fat and stupid.

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:14 PM

APATHETICANY STUPID ONE WORD NON N ANTI-LAYER EXISTENCE

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

Some Britons too.

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

And Aussies. Indian people.

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

But not the Chinese.

Matt Roper · 9:14 PM

The Chinese are just skinny and stupid :-)

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:15 PM

PLEASE IM IN A SHIT MOOD N OR SUDENLY INSPIRED N HAVE NOTHING BUT A WICKER BROKEN WOODEN WORPROCESSOR KEYBOARD TO CATCH MY RAPIDITY

Matt Roper · 9:16 PM

OK. When I come to LA we're going to find you a decent laptop.

Matt Roper · 9:16 PM

We'll mug a fat stupid person for it. They won't miss it. They'll think they lost it.

Matt Roper · 9:16 PM

;-)

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:17 PM

TELL ME WHAT IF U CAN GO BACK N REMMBER ANY STORIES OR QWICK FLASHES THTA CROSS UR MIND WHERE WHAT STATES N WHO WAS IN THAT STAE I MEAN UH GENERAL FEELING WISE OR EYS OR HEARTBEATS

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:17 PM

AAAAANYYYTHING!

Matt Roper · 9:17 PM

New York: alive, integrated, straight up

Matt Roper · 9:17 PM

ALIVE

Matt Roper · 9:17 PM

Savannah, Georgia:

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:17 PM

EXCELLENT WHATTYA MEAN ALIVE

Matt Roper · 9:17 PM

(I have to choose my words carefully here)

Matt Roper · 9:18 PM

Alive: living, breathing, passionate, loud, pro-active, a great CIVIC sense

Matt Roper · 9:18 PM

The above is for NY not SAV

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:18 PM

MO I KNOW WHAT U MEAN AND MY SPECIAAL AUDIENCE ,WELL THE MORONS N THE MONKEYS GO TO TOHER NONTHINKINGTHEME PARKS

Matt Roper · 9:18 PM

I found Savannah to be absolutely beautiful

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:18 PM

I GET THE SMART INCISIVE ONES!!

Matt Roper · 9:18 PM

aesthetically

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:19 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“I think NYC is defined by "intention," and it's palpable.”

Matt Roper · 9:19 PM

★ Spotlighted from Siddiqua A

“Hey Matt, can you compare the places you've been there to places in London? Like New Orleans could be Brixton, Hampstead Boston (except you haven't been to Boston have you?)”

Matt Roper · 9:20 PM

Harlem is like Brixton Siddiqua in the same beautiful way!

Matt Roper · 9:20 PM

BUT

Matt Roper · 9:21 PM

Savannah reminded me of the Buddhist saying about looking at the lake.

Matt Roper · 9:21 PM

When we look at the surface of the lake and everything looks serene and pretty, that actually says nothing about the lake at all

Matt Roper · 9:21 PM

Underneath it's another story...

Matt Roper · 9:22 PM

But it was fun in an odd kind of way.

Matt Roper · 9:22 PM

★ Spotlighted from Shawn Fisher

“A spoon of salt in a glass of water is undrinkable ...”

Matt Roper · 9:22 PM

@Shawn you just avoid the fucking spoon, surely.

Matt Roper · 9:23 PM

Hang on, Shapiro is typing :-)

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:23 PM

OK ON THE TOPIC AND THE FACT THAT YOU ALL HAVE UNBELIEVABLY ESXCUSED D "STUPID"!!!!!!!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:24 PM

I DONT STAY OR KEEP IT STUPID I WRESTLE WITH THOUGHTS N IMAGES N FUCKING DISEASE N BRING OUT N BLOW ON THE FIRE OF MY CURIOSITY...YA EVER HEAR OF THAT? NO?

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:24 PM

YOU TAKE STUPID OUT TO DINNER ?

Matt Roper · 9:24 PM

Right.

Matt Roper · 9:24 PM

If stupid is cute, maybe...

Matt Roper · 9:25 PM

Maybe...

Matt Roper · 9:25 PM

I'm kidding

Matt Roper · 9:25 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“I'm not trying to excuse stupidity. Just accept it.”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:25 PM

YOU WATCH STUPID PERFORMANCES N PERFORMERS N HOLD OFF ON MOTHERFUKKING INTELLIGENT COOL SMART ETC HARDWORKING ON BEING

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:25 PM

DETAILED SINGULAR PERFORMERS?

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:25 PM

DO YOU GO OUT N BUT MR N MRS STUPID CLOTHES OR CLOTHES

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:26 PM

FOR THE MENTAL GAP BABY

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:26 PM

,IT SICKENS ME WHOW MAKE DINNER PARTIES N HAVE DISCUSSION S WITH STUUUUPOD

Matt Roper · 9:26 PM

It's all about consuming eh

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:27 PM

SO ANY BODY HERE WHOS

Matt Roper · 9:27 PM

But you know Rick I'm riveted by so many people out here

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:27 PM

NO JORDAN TO YOURS!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:27 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“@Rick that's why you should never go to dinner parties.”

Matt Roper · 9:27 PM

Including stupid ones

Matt Roper · 9:28 PM

It suits government very well to have stupid citizens we know this.

Matt Roper · 9:28 PM

It goes back to what we were talking about last time

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:28 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Plus, there is a difference between stupid and DANGEROUSLY stupid...”

Matt Roper · 9:28 PM

A nation of HEALTHY EDUCATED people is much harder to govern

Matt Roper · 9:28 PM

★ Spotlighted from Siddiqua A

“Ricks tawk is like beat poetry I mean...”

Matt Roper · 9:29 PM

@Siddiqua You got him in one! Love you for that.

Matt Roper · 9:29 PM

He's the hetero Ginsberg.

Matt Roper · 9:29 PM

The shaky Kerouac!

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:29 PM

OHHHH FUCKIN WISE UP IT AINT ABOUT WHAT BOOKS YOU READ ITS ABOUT HAVING A GORGEOUS WIND AND AHRO BRAINTHE CAPACITY FUCK GOOD WORDS

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:29 PM

LIKE CAOACITY

Matt Roper · 9:30 PM

By EDUCATION I do not mean WELL READ and you know that

Matt Roper · 9:31 PM

Can I tell you about the stupidest sign in the world which is attached to some railings close to this motel?

Matt Roper · 9:31 PM

I literally just saw it when I went out to get my breakfast. It says:

Matt Roper · 9:31 PM

"If you are rich, vote republican"

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:31 PM

THE ARMED AWARENESS THAT BULLSHIT IS MOTHERFUCKIN BLAND PERSON MAKING EXCUSES FOR THEIR BLLAND CHICES ME INCLUDED I GUESSS BUT DONT DENY HOW AMERRRRIKANS DONT STAND UP UNLESS ITS TO SHARE A STUUUUPID JOINT WITH THE APATHETIC NON VOICE THAT BOUGHT THE

Matt Roper · 9:31 PM

"If you are poor, vote Democrat"

Matt Roper · 9:31 PM

"But just VOTE"

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:32 PM

THATS WHAT IS NEEDED TO BE POINTED OUT THATNKS FOR TELLING US AMERICANS N THAT...PLEASE MAKE IT CLEAR WHAT U SEEE!!

Matt Roper · 9:32 PM

Seth: I think it's not so easy to say just ignore stupid

Matt Roper · 9:33 PM

And we should stop using the word stupid

Matt Roper · 9:33 PM

★ Spotlighted from tracy demarzo

“Are you kidding me.. that is like the sign we saw at the hotel in MN... No shitting in the pool”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:33 PM

BECAUSE IT SEEMS BLnd cock(Less)tail rreparte is all the rage on the commenters sideof this so called tawkers

Matt Roper · 9:33 PM

The rage is everywhere on social media

Matt Roper · 9:34 PM

I think if Rick sees stupid and gets fired up because things don't have to - and in fact shouldn't be this way - then he has a right not to ignore it.

Matt Roper · 9:34 PM

I feel the same.

Matt Roper · 9:34 PM

I laugh at it because people are people and can be so funny sometimes

Matt Roper · 9:34 PM

But there is a complaceny about the state of life and how things are which I do find depressing

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:35 PM

shawn dont you feel anything dont you slowly feel a fucking puke uprise in you? im you psudo like me glamorous torn thoughted hide the rips shit clothier thoughts???

Matt Roper · 9:36 PM

★ Spotlighted from Sadaf Fahim

“Do you try to talk like them? Or do you keep saying it your way? Try to find the right people to talk to? Get on stage? Write? Get angry?”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:37 PM

say it your way takeif you dont feel satisfied or exactly hearddd! you cam physically be awaked n ur gut can take you to the point of standing

Matt Roper · 9:38 PM

I think a comedian is in an interesting position to inform and enlighten (no shit)

Matt Roper · 9:38 PM

Rick does it

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:38 PM

them against the wall n say you r going to let me finiidh,,,you r hearing me right now n you wont admit it (if you sense that,which with all these

Matt Roper · 9:39 PM

Rick I have a question for you when you are ready.

Matt Roper · 9:39 PM

★ Spotlighted from Chris Pearson

“Comedians are the new prophets among us. The good ones, I mean.”

Matt Roper · 9:40 PM

@Siddiqua Mark Thomas is just a joy but he is mainly playing to the converted

Matt Roper · 9:40 PM

R4 etc

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:40 PM

lifestlin stupid fucks tellin you passively aggressively how to "sspeakDEAR"like shawn u will) people like shawn who think they make a fucking point by saying empty vaccuius shit n dont realize theyre just

Matt Roper · 9:40 PM

They are a discerning, educated audience on the whole

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:41 PM

kissin asss will hear you they deep down everyone has the power to hear n say n even die for what theyyyy mean in life -william blake writes abiut it for some sick stupid reason it moved me n changes my life alot like zinn said history isnt just writ

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:41 PM

or read

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:41 PM

it is a loving orgaanism

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:42 PM

i say ,,,r u????

Matt Roper · 9:42 PM

Rick that's right

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:42 PM

tooo easy shawn way to easy easy is the new stupid ----people r

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:43 PM

taken away from their ability n need to confront most of us r sometimes we r lucky n find our way back

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:43 PM

whAT WAS YUR QUESTION MATT THANKS

Matt Roper · 9:44 PM

My question to you was about your work as a comedian. When we met in New York - before Thanksgiving - you played StandupNY

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:44 PM

WELL THOSE R JUST CATCH PHRASES FPR PEOPLE WHO THINK U HAVE TO WAIT

Matt Roper · 9:44 PM

And frustrated about what we call in the UK "haircut comedians" i.e. young marketable sellable stand-up comics

Matt Roper · 9:45 PM

You were frustrated about that and also with an audience member, you came offstage disheartened and we spoke a bit about that particular audience understanding just the haircut comedy

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:45 PM

"YOUNG" MARKETABLE" SELLABLE" "HAIRCUT COMEDIANS"

Matt Roper · 9:45 PM

and anything beyond that being almost outside their mental frontiers (for want of a better term)

Matt Roper · 9:46 PM

HAVE YOU EVER GIGGED AND FELT YOU HAVE REALLY CHANGED PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS, I mean ACTUALLY

Matt Roper · 9:46 PM

Memorable experiences onstage?

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:47 PM

RICK OVERTON IS OVER 50 KINDA PRETTY WELL OVER 50 N IS BLADING N BEAUTEOUS EYS N RAPTUROUS MIND N HILARIOUS YES....SO WHAT WAS THAT UH DESCROPTIONOF ,CAUSE HE JUST GOT A SHOW N MANY MOVIES

Matt Roper · 9:47 PM

★ Spotlighted from Siddiqua A

“Kissing arse may not be right, but it opens ears more than a punch to the face...”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:48 PM

AND HUGE FOLLOWING SO I THINK YOU JUST DESCRIBED STUPID AND AMDE AN EXCUSE FOR THE PROCESS OF YOUR OWN LLIFE AND FRSUTRATIONS WE ALL DO IT FORM TIME TO TIME BUT WHO CARES IF WE DO...HAIRCUT BOYS OR RODENTS IN SWEATERS HAVE FUN WITH THE FAKE WORDS THA

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:49 PM

THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT SIDDDAQUA SAYS SEEMS TO ALWAYS BE TRUE

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:49 PM

HOW DO YOU LIVE LIKE THJAT IDIOT

Matt Roper · 9:50 PM

★ Spotlighted from tracy demarzo

“5 minute countdown”

Matt Roper · 9:51 PM

@Tracy 5 mins? I was late logging in, let's go into extra time.

Matt Roper · 9:51 PM

Make tea, bring it to the computer :-)

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:51 PM

SIDDDUAQUA SAYS LATER IF UR A CRAFSTMEN YOU DO IT N YOU DO IT WELL N MEANING IT WILL SEELLL IUT WILL BE HEARD ,YET PREVOIUOS TO HIM LYING ABOUT WHAT HE REALLY THINKS HE WORTE YOU GOTTA KISS ARSE SO WE NOW HAVE MENTAL ILLNESS THE FUCKING STUOPIDITY MU

Matt Roper · 9:51 PM

★ Spotlighted from tracy demarzo

“Fantastic.. Rick is on a roll...”

Matt Roper · 9:52 PM

Bill Hicks is a beautiful example of the preacher

Matt Roper · 9:52 PM

*was*

Matt Roper · 9:52 PM

What are your thoughts on Bill, Rick?

Matt Roper · 9:52 PM

You are the closest to him I can see from here

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:52 PM

SIDDDAQUA LOVES GENERALITES HE NEEDS GENERLITIES PREAACHIMG ...NOONE SIDDDUCK YOU AINT NEVER HEARD NO PREACHIN UR FUCKIN LIFE N YOU

Matt Roper · 9:53 PM

★ Spotlighted from Shawn Fisher

“OMG @Matt! Bill Hicks was brilliant.”

Matt Roper · 9:53 PM

★ Spotlighted from Siddiqua A

“I preferred Roseanne Barr”

Matt Roper · 9:54 PM

SHAPIRO I WANT TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHT ON HICKS

Matt Roper · 9:55 PM

★ Spotlighted from Chris Pearson

“Honestly I've seen few attack society and it's insanity as hard and well as Rick.”

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:55 PM

AINT NEVER DECIDED TO LOOK FOR YER OWN LIFE N TRUTH UR JUST A REPEEEETER SO PARROT AWAY WITH UR FIUKIN UGLY WINGS ANDSDMIRE THEM WITH BUDYYYS WHO HAVE JUST FLLEN IN LOVE WITH THE WORD "DBAG"N REMIND EACHOTHER OF THE WORD"TEA BAG""REMMBER DUUUUUDE"N D

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:55 PM

TAWWWWKIN STOOOOPID

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:56 PM

N WRITE A CHILDREN STORY FOR YOURSELF SO WJHEN YOU

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:56 PM

GROW UP

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:56 PM

YOU CAN TELL OTHER "POOR" SCHMUCKS BOUT THAT CHILDHOOD IDOT BOOK NON EXPERIENCE YOU HAD

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:57 PM

BUT I FEEL FOR YA CAUSE AMERICAS N MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD OR SO MANY PEOPLE SRE STUCK HAVING NON EXXPERIENCES IN THIS WORLD SO THEY DONT LOSSE

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:57 PM

THEIR HOMES

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:57 PM

OR FAMILY

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:57 PM

OR FRIENDS TO

Matt Roper · 9:58 PM

RICK I have to tell you not to imagine that it is only Americans who are having nonexperiences

RICK SHAPIRO · 9:58 PM

CONTRIVED BY ELI LILLY DISEASES KNOWN AS WHAT COULD VE BEEN MERE SIDE EFFECTS STICK UR SKULL INTO

Matt Roper · 9:58 PM

I see it all over the west.

Matt Roper · 9:58 PM

Europe.

Matt Roper · 9:58 PM

UK.

Matt Roper · 9:58 PM

BUT I said you need to visit BERLIN

Matt Roper · 9:59 PM

For some fire.

Matt Roper · 9:59 PM

★ Spotlighted from Chris Pearson

“Rick -- Are you saying it is fear locking us in?”

Matt Roper · 9:59 PM

@Chris it is always fear

Matt Roper · 9:59 PM

ALWAYS FEAR

Matt Roper · 10:00 PM

'The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear' - Aung San Suu Kyi

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:00 PM

THE INFFORMATION TANK SIDDIQUA SODUKO N READDDDD THE WORLD BROTHER OR YOU AINT AAA BROTHER JUST A MANAKIN FOR WHATEVER STEREOTYPE AS SHAWN LIKES ROLE!! YOUVE DECIDED WILL KEEP YOU SAFE FROM THE MONSTER "LOSS" BEING CREATIVE , KEEEP YOUR EYES OPEN

Matt Roper · 10:00 PM

Shapiro?

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:01 PM

BERLIN! OK I MAY JUST DISAPEAR N GO!

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:01 PM

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:02 PM

I MAY BRING TRACY SO I CAN HAVE A WOMAN WITH A FUCKING EK FOR PASSION W ME THAT IS IF SHE CAN EVER FIND HER KEYS TO THE AK

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:02 PM

Matt Roper · 10:02 PM

★ Spotlighted from Shawn Fisher

“'Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.' ~ Ambrose Redmoon :)”

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:02 PM

SHE DOES EVERY DAY

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:02 PM

BUT THERES STILL MORE WHERE R ALL THJE PIECES ,HERE THEY

Matt Roper · 10:03 PM

51 readers and 20 tawkers.

Matt Roper · 10:03 PM

Why don't the 51 readers join in?

Matt Roper · 10:03 PM

voyeurism.

Matt Roper · 10:05 PM

Shapiro is typing.

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:05 PM

RREAD WAHT YOU GOTTS READ WRITE WHAT U GOTTA '''IT GOES BACK TO TSLKING WITH PEOPLE WHO WONT HEAR YOUNOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICE IN THEM N FUCKING MAKE SURE THEY HEAR IT! RAISE UR VOCIE WALK OUT PM ASSININE COMICS WHO WHISSPER WRITERS WHO SET UP THEIR FU

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:05 PM

MYSELF SICK

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:06 PM

I HD A GREAT WEEKEND EXPRESSING !! BUT IT AINT ENUFFF

Matt Roper · 10:06 PM

Rick you need to be onstage every night.

Matt Roper · 10:06 PM

Listen to Dr. Roperstein.

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:06 PM

★ Spotlighted from tracy demarzo

“@sidd.. so many people are in disagreement with your comments.. it is you that lacks the vision...to quote Nietzsche.. and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:07 PM

SHAWN COMES HERE TO GET FUCKED N FLRIT N ITS DULL DULL DULLL HAVE THE BALLS TO GIVE HIM UR NUMBER CAUSE YOU TRY TO DEADEN THINGS

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:07 PM

WWITH YOUR SELFISHNESS N BOREDOM

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:07 PM

N ALL U GOT TO DO IS GO TO FACEBOOK K?

Matt Roper · 10:07 PM

Hey Shapiro

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:08 PM

LAFF IT OFF OR LIE LIKE SIDDAQUA

Matt Roper · 10:08 PM

SHAPIRO

Matt Roper · 10:08 PM

Hey hey

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:08 PM

ITS EASY COME ON OR SAYYY WHATTTT YOUUU MUST SAYYY! N STOP WASTING FEMININE N MASCULINE MOMENTS T

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:09 PM

THATS WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE BOOKS LIKE THE TIPPING POITN ,I KNOW

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:10 PM

ITS HARD TO REALIZEE,GET THIS,YOU ARE THE BOOK BUT THATS THE FUCKING REWARD FPR WATCHIN THE SOULLESSSS MURDER YOUR FAMILY AS YOU SIP N CHAT LIFE AWAY!!!

Matt Roper · 10:10 PM

@Siddiqua You and Rick need to meet. You'll love each other.

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:11 PM

YOU NEVER LEARNDED BOUT HEATED DISCOURSE WHISPER N PLAY ANGRY BIRDS SIDDDAQUA

Matt Roper · 10:11 PM

I need a lie down.

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:11 PM

BY FUCKING CORPSE!!

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:11 PM

THAT WAS TO SIDDYIDDYOTICQUADARTHA

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:12 PM

SADAF THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME ,TELLING ME TO WRITE R U AROUND TO FB I GOT A COIPLA QUESTIONSSSS BOUT WRITING?

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:12 PM

THANKS EVERYOME M I MISS YOU MATT WE

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:13 PM

WILL DO MORE OF THESE WHERE THE INTERVIEWRS OPINION ,MINE, N THE INTERVIEWEES OPINION WILL JUST FLY N TAPESTRY N EXPLODE ALL OVER THE PLACE N PLEASE TRY TO

Matt Roper · 10:14 PM

Thanks for dropping in. I need to do my laundry. The revolution cannot be claimed in dirty clothes. When I ride into D.C on elephantback I want to be smelling of roses.

RICK SHAPIRO · 10:14 PM

HAVE VIBRANT FEELINGS N NOT BRUCHTALK WHEN YOU COME HERE MUCH LOVE N TRUE THANKS TO ALL WHO LIDTENED N OTHER FORM SPARTICPATION INSTEAD OF TRITE NON ENGAGEMENT

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Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 8:01 PM

Hello...

John BakerDec 29, 2013, 8:34 PM

hello, chris pearson

Trey WilliamsonDec 29, 2013, 8:34 PM

Hello Chris Pearson and John Baker... : )

John BakerDec 29, 2013, 8:39 PM

hello, trey williams

John BakerDec 29, 2013, 8:46 PM

hellos to everyone else.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 8:48 PM

Hi!!

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:49 PM

hey everyone...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:50 PM

where's Jordan? someone tell him to get on here!

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 8:54 PM

Hello Everyone. :)

Blake IanDec 29, 2013, 8:55 PM

Seriously Sadaf, where is JB? It's not a Tawk without him!

Trey WilliamsonDec 29, 2013, 8:56 PM

Heeeeeeere's Ricky!

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:56 PM

I just tweeted him... we'll have to hold the fort but I have sadface

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 8:56 PM

Present!

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:57 PM

yay! hey Jordan!

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 8:57 PM

Nice to see Shapiro back in action!

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 8:58 PM

Hi Sadaf! Wish we were in the same pub...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:58 PM

get over to London already, I have just the pub in mind

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 8:58 PM

Careful what you offer...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:59 PM

I might Tawk more appealingly than I talk, but take me up on it!

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 8:59 PM

Is this what happens when the guest speaker is a no show???

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 8:59 PM

hahaha

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:00 PM

Tracy, you get over here too!

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:00 PM

Thanks for the invite, Rick ... Nice to "meet" folks through their comments and be able to click on your profiles to learn about you. :)

Trey WilliamsonDec 29, 2013, 9:00 PM

Should we all start chanting?!? MATT, MATT, MATT, MATT

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:01 PM

But Matt's presence, as established by his profile pic, looms large nonetheless...

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:01 PM

Let's just ask Shapiro questions...

Trey WilliamsonDec 29, 2013, 9:01 PM

haha his profile pic does seem to be teasing us about his absence...

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:01 PM

I guess we know the answer to "Where in the hell are you, Matt?" The answer is, "Not here, Y'all ... I'm busy living life LARGE!" :)

Blake IanDec 29, 2013, 9:02 PM

@Shawn - LOL, the title is PERFECT right now.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:03 PM

*grinning* ... What's his consensus, thus far? :)

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:03 PM

Totally, Blake. :D

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:03 PM

Does devolving count as evolving?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:04 PM

What about CONvolving? Or, is that too convoluted? *hmmm*

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:04 PM

Lol @shawn

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:04 PM

Matt, Matt, Matt! We were chanting ... And you appeared! :D

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:05 PM

Matt has arrived!!!

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:06 PM★ Spotlighted

Man I've missed Rick's typing. Let the CAPS LOCK... COMMENCE!

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:07 PM

are you in brazil? a brazilian woman was mugged the other day in Rio and her attacker spoke in english. the victim asked, in portuguese, why are you speaking english. the attacker responded: i'm getting ready for the world cup.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:07 PM

It's a first for me, @Sadaf ... I'm enjoying it -- immensely! :)

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:08 PM

*laughing* ... Is this your first time in New Orleans, Matt? :)

John BakerDec 29, 2013, 9:09 PM

thank god for permanence of these. i have to go ask a bible literalist the last time they ate a cheeseburger

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:09 PM

Ingrates. :)

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:10 PM

Why waste money on a Hilton when you can be with roaches and jumbalia

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:11 PM

Shoot ... I don't know about that. A couple of the Hilton Hotels I'VE stayed at IN New Orleans were FILLED with shady characters. Laissez les bon temps rouler, oh my!

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:11 PM

You have towels??? I thought you were meant to dry off with the cockroaches...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:12 PM★ Spotlighted

Many layers? Or lawyers, Matt???

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:12 PM

@Siddiqua ... There's going to be a scene in a horror movie with that now. I know it!

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:12 PM

Thought you said there are many LAWYERS to America

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:12 PM

savannah, the Hostess city with the mostess murders per capita

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:12 PM

Ooooh ... Did you see the Angel Oak tree in Savannah? What was your favorite part there? @Matt

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:13 PM

Why is Rick typing in anagrams?

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:14 PM

ralph nader saved savannah in the early seventies. one may safely oysters from there now

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:14 PM

I hope one of the layers is fudge.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:14 PM

Siddiuqa.. welcome to Rick's mind

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:14 PM

Wait a minute ... This is starting to sound like a word math problem. ***eek***

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:15 PM

Two trains leave a station going in opposite directions twenty minutes apart...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:15 PM

stupid is entirely inescapable. I think maybe it's supposed to be, though.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:15 PM

If SOME Americans, Britons, Aussies, and Indians are fat and stupid how many cockroaches will it take to dry them?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:16 PM

I think we should take Rick's messages and make up a song with them... like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:16 PM

Oh they might miss it, Matt ... They just won't be able to CHASE you to get it back.

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:16 PM

If it wasn't for stupidity, I wouldn't sufficiently appreciate the brilliance of someone like Sadaf, for example...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:17 PM

every interesting, original, creative thing was made by people who couldn't take all the endless stupidity.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:17 PM

ha! Jordan don't be too nice to me. I'll follow you around like a duckling.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:17 PM

Why Matt??

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:18 PM

Why, Matt? Say what comes to mind -- what you "feel" about it. :)

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:18 PM★ Spotlighted

I think NYC is defined by "intention," and it's palpable.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:19 PM★ Spotlighted

Hey Matt, can you compare the places you've been there to places in London? Like New Orleans could be Brixton, Hampstead Boston (except you haven't been to Boston have you?)

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:21 PM

...the water sometimes gets in your eye...?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:22 PM

A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed ...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:22 PM

ok... that saying...

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:22 PM★ Spotlighted

A spoon of salt in a glass of water is undrinkable ...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:22 PM

... but good for a sore throat..

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:23 PM

*grinning w/ @Matt* Absolutely!

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:23 PM

And I know JUST what you mean about Savannah -- intimately.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:23 PM

He's not typing... He's just tickling the keys...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:24 PM

@Shawn: Ooooo do share!

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:24 PM

stupidity can't be excused, but it's inevitable. it's everywhere.

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:24 PM★ Spotlighted

I'm not trying to excuse stupidity. Just accept it.

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:25 PM

The Stupids Step Out - one of my favorite childhood books.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:25 PM

Exactly @Jordan ... There's a difference between ignorance and WILLFUL ignorance.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:26 PM

it always feels worse when you see it in your own surroundings, but every country, every professional field... it's overwhelmingly stupid.

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:26 PM★ Spotlighted

Plus, there is a difference between stupid and DANGEROUSLY stupid...

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:26 PM

The one I can blissfully ignore (pun somewhat intended) ... The other I either work to change where I can or leave it behind (let it be).

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:27 PM

Yep, @Matt.

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:27 PM★ Spotlighted

@Rick that's why you should never go to dinner parties.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:27 PM

Or be sure to bring fudge, @Jordan. ;)

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:28 PM

This 'tawk' is so un-English... Rick's 'task' is like beat poetry... Fascinating....

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:28 PM

ok i am here

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:28 PM★ Spotlighted

Ricks tawk is like beat poetry I mean...

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:29 PM

Beat poety,,, love that

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:29 PM

Govern is an inappropriate term in the context.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:29 PM

Round of applause, Matt... so true...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:30 PM

heh

Blake IanDec 29, 2013, 9:30 PM

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kecxzu9aHTY/TYeNWtY5TwI/AAAAAAAAAVY/cLIvIFdYLpg/s1600/beat+poet.gif

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:30 PM

Not just hard to govern but a hard vote to win... which is why they limit the whole system to who we can actually vote for...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:30 PM

As long as you know what you mean, things are alright. ;)

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:30 PM

Awesome @Blake

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:31 PM

Tell us too.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:31 PM

Please do, @Matt.

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:31 PM

if you find stupid, blawk it

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:32 PM

That one's lost on me here in Blighty... Is that like saying if you are poor vote Labour?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:32 PM

So wait ... It ALSO includes the "But just VOTE", too @Matt?

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:32 PM

sycophants are red, asses are blue, i vote green, how about you

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:32 PM

if you are poor, sell your vote for a pound and buy a lottery ticket...

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:33 PM★ Spotlighted

Are you kidding me.. that is like the sign we saw at the hotel in MN... No shitting in the pool

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:33 PM

Right now there is a large disparity between the speed and spread of communication and information, along with the awareness that comes with it. We're still adolescents figuring out new toys. We can't see how much power is in our hands yet.

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 9:33 PM

"Intellectually challenged."

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:33 PM

by blawk i mean keep it from getting out. much more effort involved than ingoring

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:34 PM

Tawkers included. It's fun to talk, but there has to be a way to DO some.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:34 PM

@Chris: Oh we see the power, we are just kept from using it... or prefer to play games with it... Frivolous

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:34 PM

Siddiqua -- As Rick said "pathologically distracted."

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:34 PM

In a video, he said.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:35 PM

Yeah, we are dazzled with it, is what I am saying.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:35 PM

Rick - when you say something true, and no one can hear it, what do you do?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:35 PM

But surely laughter is a way of disapating the anger. What comedian ever started a riot?

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:35 PM★ Spotlighted

Do you try to talk like them? Or do you keep saying it your way? Try to find the right people to talk to? Get on stage? Write? Get angry?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:36 PM

@Rick ~ I definitely have my "rage, rage against the night" moments. I'm extremely passionate in what I do.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:36 PM

Matt, bring Rick back home with you. I need to see if he looks like he types...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:37 PM

Sadaf -- I think Rick's been doing something like that for a while, right?

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:37 PM

Yeah Chris... I just want to know how he feels about it now.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:37 PM

@siddiqua... what like a. Genius? Just Google him.. www.rickshapiro.tv

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:38 PM★ Spotlighted

Comedians are the new prophets among us. The good ones, I mean.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:38 PM

@Tracy: I know he looks... I was being silly...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:39 PM

@Chris: I would only say that about `Mark Thomas, this side of the pond, but what has he achieved in the way of galvanising people into action? Not much. Just funny.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:39 PM

how often do you actually feel like you've been heard Rick?

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:39 PM

Perhaps the best way to educate is to try and not make it look like education. I think that's called propaganda.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:39 PM

I think he is a God btw

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:40 PM

Like the Guardian readers who are simply looking into the mirror of opinion...

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:41 PM

I read the Times, to know my enemy...but not the Telegraph, that's just toilet paper

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:41 PM

So what do you think we need? People outside of the typical machine? Or people inside it?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:41 PM

I'm glad to be your punching girl, @Rick ...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:41 PM

It's a big thing. If the way things are now and its education, is it producing more clones or are we disempowering ourselves?

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:41 PM

Do the uneducated stand a better chance?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:42 PM

@Chris: The old adage has always said you have to join them to change them

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:42 PM

Well, it's an old one, which is a point there.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:42 PM

Do we live by old adages or make new ones?

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:43 PM

Blake was doing something that was crazy to most of his contemporaries, and it made life harder on him. That's the way it keeps happening. There's a lot of pain that comes with not being heard.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:43 PM★ Spotlighted

Kissing arse may not be right, but it opens ears more than a punch to the face...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:43 PM

Rick -- Do you feel that we're at a real tipping point in society? Particularly America?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:43 PM

Both have their drawbacks but it's better to whisper then shout to get a message across

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:45 PM

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but again ...A lot of McKenna's work is making a lot of sense presently. Another person a bit ahead of their time.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:46 PM

No one wants to buy politics... They see comedy to 'relax'... If you can sneak some sense, then great

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:48 PM

..some sense in, I meant...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:48 PM

Modulating a message to be heard according to a different perception stands a chance of warping the message.

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 9:48 PM

tipping point - jon stewart relegating crises to catharses

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

Do we need political children's books?

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

Knowing your audience in order to ENSURE your message is heard doesn't mean you are changing your message, @Chris.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

I crave intelligent comedy that challenges me.. I relax at home with a cup of tea

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

I don't believe that, Chris. I think if you are a craftsman, and a skilled writer/communicator, you do it and do it we'll

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

well ... bah!

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:49 PM

It means you're smart enough to be THE most effective. And it usually means you have the scars to prove it.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM

Fundamentally, it is a change, but this goes on in every communication. It is important to understand that whenever you veer off any new course.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM★ Spotlighted

5 minute countdown

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM

Compensatory measure would need to be in place accounting for distortion, right?

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM

awwwwwwww

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM

sorry

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:50 PM

Same here, Tracy ... If I want relaxation then I'll take a nap.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:51 PM

Maybe relax was the wrong word... But no one wants top be preached at... unless they are Evangelists

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:51 PM★ Spotlighted

Fantastic.. Rick is on a roll...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:51 PM

(Rick rolled?) ...sorry

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:51 PM

@Matt ... I'll remember that for next time. ;)

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:52 PM

Siddiqua.. comedy is not preaching.. you need to really investigate strong comedians with voices.. maybe buy Rick's book

liran shoshanDec 29, 2013, 9:52 PM

Rick are you planning on writing another book?

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:52 PM

@Matt -- Hicks, of course. But he seems like the Christ of Comedy. He left the world too early.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:52 PM

Bill Hicks was a critic we liked to agree with... but not all of us

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:52 PM★ Spotlighted

I preferred Roseanne Barr

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 9:53 PM★ Spotlighted

OMG @Matt! Bill Hicks was brilliant.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:53 PM

I don't love generalities. I love Smarties!!!

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:53 PM

I'm Muslim, we don't have preachers....

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:53 PM

Just people who beat you to read...

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:53 PM

Glad you used the past tense with *Barr since she doesn't perform any longer.. she farms nuts in hawaii

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:54 PM★ Spotlighted

Honestly I've seen few attack society and it's insanity as hard and well as Rick.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 9:54 PM

Nuts in Hawaii???? Hahahahahaha

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:54 PM

I'm not just saying that because I'm a fan.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:54 PM

It's why I BECAME one.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:55 PM

Not only hicks.. but kinison too...

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:55 PM

agreed Chris - in one of Rick's recent videos he started talking about iPads and the next thing I know it's 10 mins later and it's pure satirical rhapsody like no one else can do.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:56 PM

Well, Hicks and Kinison are like John Lennon or Hendrix and Rick and Maron (to some degree) are the Rolling Stones...undying, carrying on the greatness.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:56 PM

You know?

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:57 PM

@sadaf... Was that the Hawaiian heckler clip... sliiiide and smiley face

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 9:57 PM

yes Tracy, that's the one! I had people telling me they were mesmerized by it.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:58 PM★ Spotlighted

Rick -- Are you saying it is fear locking us in?

liran shoshanDec 29, 2013, 9:58 PM

its stability over vitality.

liran shoshanDec 29, 2013, 9:58 PM

whaht I think ricks sayin

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 9:59 PM

Yes... Berlin!!!

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 9:59 PM

McKenna called it something like "trying to turn a battleship with an oar."

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:00 PM

Matt -- I totally agree. I know I feel it. I don't know how to get around it.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:01 PM★ Spotlighted

'Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.' ~ Ambrose Redmoon :)

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:01 PM

I can't defend myself against someone who only sees what they want to see, and can't hear what I may be trying to say.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:01 PM

What would we really lose if we just did as Rick and others try and say?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:02 PM

Have you considered Rick that maybe you're just a bully who cares about the world but will hit out at anything blindly just to get his view across?

liran shoshanDec 29, 2013, 10:02 PM

you might lose everything, thats the point.

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:02 PM

*grinning @Rick* Thanks for your summation of me in less than an hour, Kind Sir. *curtsy*

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:03 PM

Liran -- I guess. And that's where I think we need to re-evaluate what's so worth keeping.

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 10:03 PM

where's bobcat when you need him

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:03 PM★ Spotlighted

@sidd.. so many people are in disagreement with your comments.. it is you that lacks the vision...to quote Nietzsche.. and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:03 PM

Seth :)

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:03 PM

@Matt: Because they want to be educated...???

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:04 PM

Rubbernecks, Matt.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:04 PM

cause you can't type and jerk off effectively at once

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:05 PM

Hey now, @Matt ... That's an entirely different Tawk. Let's discuss. :)

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 10:05 PM

are you sure about that

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:06 PM

yeah seth. we've all tried.

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:06 PM

Follow the rules of comedy!

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:07 PM

Break the rules of comedy... Make new ones...

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:07 PM

The Comedy of Rules

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:07 PM

Rick, please write! When you can't be on stage, write. ...um, and then let me read it.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:07 PM

So far, only Rick and now you have disagreed... Who else????

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:07 PM

Ummmm @Rick -- No. THAT one I won't laugh-off.

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:08 PM

Rick is attacking me, not my points. And he's doing it in a way that;'s barely readable... Yet we are all supposed to agree with him????

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:09 PM

barely readable? what happened to beat poetry?

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:09 PM

You see, he says `I am lying'.. How is that not attacking me? I love debate. I hate shitheadedness

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 10:10 PM

where the hell am i, in JAWJA

Siddiqua ADec 29, 2013, 10:10 PM

Matt, gotta better things to do. Love to share. Come home soon, before the madness gets you! XXX

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:11 PM

Yesss matt?

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:11 PM

Okay we are wrapping people

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:11 PM

Yeah, me, too, @Matt. But to be clear -- not together or anything. *le sigh*

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:12 PM

Bye everyone

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:12 PM

Bye Tracy, Rick, and Matt

seth degyanskyDec 29, 2013, 10:12 PM

buh-bye

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:12 PM

thanks Tracy! bye guys. where was Jordan all that time?

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:12 PM

yep I'm here!

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

Still here...

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

Skype sadaf

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

Take care, Everyone ... Be well.

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

...trouble typing?

Sadaf FahimDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

ok just a minute!

Chris PearsonDec 29, 2013, 10:13 PM

See you again some time!

Jordan BirnbaumDec 29, 2013, 10:14 PM

Bye Shawn. I think you are smart and classy.

tracy demarzoDec 29, 2013, 10:14 PM

Love you Matt Roper

Shawn FisherDec 29, 2013, 10:15 PM

I'd thank you, @Jordan ... But that might make me whore-bag syncophant. :)

Johnathonfall thethirdDec 30, 2013, 6:47 AM

ok where the hell are you