Apparently, the F.B.I. *does* have a sense of humor. We’ll see how long Bud has to stay in the slammer on Monday as he begins to recall the Lost Weekend.
A little Carlin for your Thursday. Here George describes the Class Clown and it’s the best 16 minutes you’ll spend laughing today. And it’s totally safe for work as the Class Clown album was one of his cleanest albums, except for the 7 Words bit. Who knew?
Despite Bud getting arrested this still made me laugh pretty damn hard.
Thanks! I did chock a lot of funny bits into this one. This is based very loosely on the one time I was sitting across the table from an officer in a tiny room once. I had “been bad” and he was chatting with me about it. To prepare for this visit, I got a bit drunk by doing shots of Seagram’s 7. I wanted to be relaxed and me thinks I was a bit too relaxed. Everything worked out and I was set free despite being a bit “loose.” I would not recommend that anyone in today’s world go into a police station loaded up on whiskey shots. Sure ticket to some cell time. But luckily for me, it was the 70s…
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The FBI are a right bunch of clowns…
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Ass clowns if you ask me… but then I’ve always been a bit rebellious to authority figures. I wonder where I got that from?
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Me thinks I see an Efrem Zimbalist Jr. reference in our future.
OooO! Not a bad idea! Thanks!
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I can remember my dad dictating into this old machine. We have come a long way.
I bought my first portable cassette player/recorder in 1970 at the ripe young age of 13. I loved the small format and I played that thing into the ground for years. It was mono and had those old tiny ear phones, but it was a primary force in my listening and recording music off the radio (with that cheap microphone!).
It was my iPod of the day… 🙂
My folks had a cassette player/recorder from the late 60’s that I would use to record songs off of the radio, too! It was the size of a large shoebox & probably weighed about 12 pounds, seemed like it used about 10 D cells…
My first recording unit was about the same time frame as yours, Byron, but it was an 8-track in my 1st stereo unit – no portable for me until I was well into collage (Walkman anyone?) about ’78. I guess my version of the iPod from when I was a kid in the early 60’s, was an AM transistor radio with the single earbud piece that I got for my 6th birthday. I used to spend all of my allowance then on 9-volt battries cause I’d listen to it at night under my covers & would inevitably fall asleep with it on & run down the battery! At night I would usually listen to XERF out of Del Rio Texas – the “Outlaw X” that ZZ Top sang about. The advertizing & commercial breaks would run from the offices in Del Rio, but the studio & transmitter was across the border in Mexico pumping out 250K watts – 5X the max power that a US station could do, so the signal came in like they were broadcasting from the house next door! The nighttime jock at that time was none other than Wolfman Jack, & he’d play mostly R&B/Soul, some blues, & the occasional jazz or latin big band number. He was also pretty salty & suggestive for the times, not being constrained by US FCC rules – pretty heady stuff for a 6-7 year old & quite the formative musical education!
Aw, man, Wolfman Jack! Man, those were the days of radio! Jocks played what they wanted, no corporate BS, just great music and a lot of it. Now, radio sucks. It’s all the same bulls**t songs over and over. I like them, but COME ON. What happened to the old album oriented rock stations that actually played album cuts. When’s the last time you heard ANY comedian on a regular station? They use to play Cosby, Carlin, Firesign Theatre, National Lampoon… People today don’t know what they’re missing and the corporations are too wishy-washy to take chances and just play some damn good music.
But, I use to listen to an AM/FM radio I built from Heathkit every night as I went to bed. Listening to WLS in Chicago most of the time and waking up to Larry Lujack (Ol’ Uncle Lar’) in the morning. Those days are long gone, man. So, with that Top 40 station blasting in my ears every night, it is no wonder I listen to some dumb songs now and then from Neil Diamond or Bread… just memories of my young teenage days coming back to haunt me!
And just of late folks are being reminded to have a BATTERY operated radio in their home in case of big storms or hurricanes coming in. Nearly everyone has their iPods and they don’t get radio signals!
You and I are brothers of another era, man… 😛
“What happened to the old album oriented rock stations that actually played album cuts. When’s the last time you heard ANY comedian on a regular station? They use to play Cosby, Carlin, Firesign Theatre, National Lampoon… People today don’t know what they’re missing and the corporations are too wishy-washy to take chances and just play some damn good music.”
The internet. YouTube. File sharing. It’s not the same, no, but at least it means the good stuff is out there for people to watch and listen to 🙂
Yeah, but I’m a lazy asshat… I want some DJ to turn me on to the new/good stuff out there. Nothing beats hearing stuff on the radio and I’m sure artists would rather have it played on the radio (royalty check anyone?) as well. But, I’m preaching to the choir on this one…
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Heh, I have to admit I’d pretty much stopped listening to the radio at about the time I started being on it 😛
I wonder if Lenny Bruce was the first person arrested on humorous charges…or does it go all the way back to medieval times and executing the court jester?
“Then thoust said ‘sprocket not socket’….” ~crickets~ “Off with his head!”
Ah, good times… good times… 🙂
I grew up in El Paso, just across the border from Juarez Mex. in the ’70s. They had a high out put radio tower just across the border for their station XEROK 80. A mormon friend of mine told me that on a good day they could pick up X-Rock in Salt Lake City. Utah.
P.S. Oh and there ain’t nuttin’ wrong with a little Neil Diamond, particularly when you want to get your lady in the mood.
Oh yeah, many albums in my collection that were “for ladies only” and helped in setting the mood (as did the booze and pot). And if it helped me end the night doing the horizontal bop back in the day, then I could tolerate even Barry Manilow. The things we do for sex… (Bud has done similar things in the early days of the comic)
Would they have even called this “piracy” in 1977? I don’t recall the term getting applied to that until a lot later, and think they might have referred to it back then as “bootlegging.”
Then again, who am I to get in the way of a good one-liner…?
Oh yeah, the piracy term has been around a long time. It’s more popular now with Cable, Satellite and other similar services, but folks use to “pirate” radio and TV channels too with odd transmitters (which are easily tracked… duh).
Certainly we bought bootlegs recordings back in the day, but a stiff FBI guy like this joker would not call it bootlegging. And you didn’t ruin a punch line at all… you just think too much.
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Yeah, that I do; gets me in too much troubles, sometimes…
I really enjoyed this one, Byron. Each panel was stand-alone hilarious. 😀
I aim to please, but this one was fun to write and each one indeed was cracking me up as I wrote/drew it. Glad you liked it too!
My parents have the lp “varning för barn” (watch out for children) and now I know where the original for “klassens clown” (the class clown) come from.