Larry Charles' "Bob Dylan Slapstick-Comedy" Story

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  • @angellacanfora
    @angellacanfora 10 років тому +90

    Greatest. Story. Ever. Absolutely hilarious. The image of Dylan looking like a gunslinger in a corporate environment & Charles' in pajamas. Just wonderful. Being a Dylan fan is the gift that keeps on giving....

  • @josephballerini3730
    @josephballerini3730 3 роки тому +7

    I just love this story and how well it is told. “I don’t want to do it anymore…too slapsticky.” The slapstick period is officially over.

  • @tamiobannon
    @tamiobannon 6 років тому +8

    Bob is just who he is and I love stories like this. He's absolutely free in everything that he does. We should all aspire to be like that.

  • @jaw444
    @jaw444 9 років тому +17

    Dylan has always been funny. I remember a press conference he did in around 1966 and he is giving very funny answers to the very serious questions, brilliant.

    • @jschuler53
      @jschuler53 6 років тому +2

      jaw444, one of his missions in life is to make our lives a little more surreal.

    • @michaelcelani8325
      @michaelcelani8325 3 роки тому +3

      jaws 444. That interview is VERY
      famous in San Fravcisco in 1965.
      ...He saw himself not as a poet but
      as a ..."Song and Dance Man ".
      ...he smokes like 31 cigarrettes in the
      45 minute interview.

    • @jaw444
      @jaw444 3 роки тому +2

      ​@@michaelcelani8325 i remember it well, i mean, i've seen it online many times. i don't remember it from back then, i didn't know about it at the time. it was some great dylan art. he looked uncomfortable, and he was making the best out of it, and he was performing. he was kind of jamming with the the reporters.
      Reporter "how many folk singers have trampled the grapes that you are trampling" or something like that.
      dylan: "How many?"
      Reporter: "Yes, how many folk singers are are there who are llike you, trampling in the grapes of meaningful songs" (something like that).
      Dylan:....i think it's about one hundred and forty eight. One hundred and forty eight or one hundred forty six."
      he's smirking back at the guy. they were probably writing it down.
      so that was san francisco, 1965. I saw him in concert on september 3, 1965, at the . hollywood bowl. it was the second concert of that tour, the first was forest hills, famous for the people there who booed the changes in the music. august 28 i think. a week later i saw him, it was the same line up, Al Kooper, Levon Helm, Harvey Brooks, Robbie Robertson. during that week separating those shows, highway 61 revisited was released. nobody at those concerts had heard ballad of a thin man before. or desolation row which was in the acoustic set. those shows were the first concerts he ever did with a full electric set. nobody booed him at hollywood bowl, new dylan songs !! incredible mind blowing songs. most people at forest hills felt that way too, i've heard a recording of it before. the booing got a lot of attention. recordings of both those concerts show how the audience didn't cheer when the music intros of those new songs started, confusing. why aren't they cheering at the beginning of desolation row? that's when i realized when listening to the concert video on you tube, it was because nobody had ever heard those songs before. they didn't already know what they were hearing from the intro. and people were dead quiet, straining to hear the new dylan lyrics, except at the funny lines like one hand tied to the tight rope walker, the other is in his pants. laughter. then silent again. i didn't know any of this stuff about that concert or when highway 61 album was released, etc. it was only thanks to the internet decades later that i found out that history which is so interesting to me. in those days nobody knew when albums were going to be released, there wasn't any medium that put out that information, or any market for it. not for high school kids anyway. that was a great year. the next year was blonde on blonde, that was really some experience. i didn't see dylan in concert again until february 14, 1974 at the LA forum, the last concert of the last tour of dylan and the band.

  • @aliasdyln33
    @aliasdyln33 6 років тому +11

    Bob Dylan is the best Bob Dylan . . . one cannot change perfection.

  • @JaiminRajani
    @JaiminRajani 5 років тому +9

    " What's so bad about misunderstanding? "

  • @nancyrobinson7764
    @nancyrobinson7764 6 років тому +22

    Bob ‘s persona is such that he is honest to himself and if others feel awkward about what he says or does that’s their problem. Yeah his crazy like a genius of songwriting/singing , music and a savant . It’s too bad there weren’t more honest and less phoney people like Dylan 👌👍🏼❤️❤️

  • @peter2010900
    @peter2010900 4 роки тому +6

    Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan

  • @pomod
    @pomod 3 роки тому +10

    Very few people alive who have altered the culture as radically as Bob.

  • @kenyaiilya2358
    @kenyaiilya2358 9 років тому +16

    Bod Dylan is a total boss. This proves that fact. He really has been there done it and just doesn't give a fuck. Ha! Brilliance....

  • @RomTankin
    @RomTankin Рік тому +4

    "Pig in a wig" totally made it into a song too.

  • @Longleke.
    @Longleke. 3 роки тому +1

    Best youtube video I've watched (listened to) in a very long time. I wish I'd discovered it sooner.

  • @letsif
    @letsif 9 років тому +24

    Dylan is free to be "crazy", but crazy aware.

  • @danielkroha5440
    @danielkroha5440 3 місяці тому +1

    “The slapstick phase has officially ended.”

  • @MadflowsA
    @MadflowsA 4 місяці тому +2

    I want a hot beverage!

  • @johngoodman601
    @johngoodman601 4 роки тому +14

    "He has incredible awareness" ...still an underrated statement

  • @jasonnwest
    @jasonnwest 10 років тому +8

    Just when I think Bob couldn't get any stranger, a story like this surfaces. Love it! Now, there's no way Bob could get any weirder, right??

    • @jschuler53
      @jschuler53 6 років тому +3

      yeah jasonnwest, but that's the best part about Dylan, I love weird, it cracks open everything.

  • @nicoswarley
    @nicoswarley 4 роки тому +4

    This should be in the library of Congress.

  • @stefanfaggioni4426
    @stefanfaggioni4426 6 років тому +2

    This story is beautiful

  • @julbim
    @julbim 7 років тому +2

    Dylan certainly lived in Woodstock so the confusion was understandable after many years. Great story. Dylan is so powerful.

    • @marydee1946
      @marydee1946 4 роки тому +1

      I don’t think it was understandable. Everyone knows he didn’t play woodstock. Levon didn’t want t play it either. Street sense. Grace Sorry but that’s what I think...

    • @GD-rd6ig
      @GD-rd6ig 3 роки тому +1

      It's a gaffe. Might be uderstandable since the guy was probably pretty young. But it is also understandable why Dylan would not want to work with him.

  • @CaptainBeefheart90
    @CaptainBeefheart90 9 років тому +25

    Rule Number 1 in show business, (if summoned) DO NOT GET OFF THE BOB DYLAN TRAIN

  • @dafyddil
    @dafyddil 3 роки тому +6

    Bob Dylan in a Buster Keaton-esque role... such a shame it never happened, but in a way maybe it's best left as an idea...

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 3 роки тому +3

    Burroughs cut up technique...I knew it!

  • @jaykay6387
    @jaykay6387 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. I don't think even a Larry Charles could have made up a crazy fucking story like that! Holy fuck, LOL!
    You could make a movie about that story.

  • @tonys2705
    @tonys2705 7 років тому +3

    I have a relative who owned a top notch hair salon. They used to cut hair for a lot of rock stars that came through town. When Dylan was booked with a couple of members of the band he was touring with, his management gave instructions to the staff at the salon that they weren't to look at him..... Straaaange! But funny..

  • @dreamwell2020
    @dreamwell2020 3 роки тому +2

    Bob rules.

  • @hewsonk
    @hewsonk 9 років тому +5

    "Original tickets to woodstock". Humorous story, plus what freedom Dylan has to be able to just walk away from a project like that! Wonder if "Masked and Anonymous" came afterwards / out of this creative time.

    • @Theimbennn
      @Theimbennn 7 років тому +2

      Dylan did get his wish of being on a sitcom he appeared on dharma and greg in 1999. Idk what came first the appearance on the sitcom, the movie or the story. I really do hope more funny stories of Dylan come out I know he's a private person but he's incredibly fascinating. You hear the story of Dylan while on tour wandering around city ghettos looking for famous musicians childhood homes he apparently got pulled over and questioned by the police of course bob was wearing cowboy boots a hoodie his usual incognito attire. Lol

    • @jacobembry117
      @jacobembry117 7 років тому +2

      Considering Uncle Sweetheart is a character in that movie, I'd say there's a direct correlation.

  • @Therecouldbehope
    @Therecouldbehope 8 місяців тому +2

    Robert Zimmerman trolls HBO.

  • @hanghang71
    @hanghang71 9 років тому +16

    pig in a wig pops up in dylan song high water from l. p love and theft

  • @CipherSerpico
    @CipherSerpico 5 років тому +2

    I’m picturing him at HBO with Mac’s Duster
    (Always Sunny In Philadelphia).

  • @allenkorn8723
    @allenkorn8723 10 років тому +5

    Oh, that Bob. : )

    • @s.holland3709
      @s.holland3709 10 років тому +1

      It would probably be wonderful

  • @ragqueen
    @ragqueen 9 років тому +1

    COOL! thanks

  • @oldarpanet
    @oldarpanet 3 роки тому +5

    Lesson to be learned here: Don't try to be in front of Bob Dylan.
    He's already moved on.

  • @jrh11254
    @jrh11254 3 роки тому +1

    Bob Dylan: Deepest of the Deep

  • @PamelaDrake215
    @PamelaDrake215 3 роки тому +1

    I love this!! :D :D :D

  • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
    @Piggy-Oink-Oink 8 років тому +15

    The guy from HBO didn't know a THING about Bob Dylan. I'd turn my back too. Everyone knows he didn;t play at Woodstock..but he lived a mile away. He played Woodstock II. if you are goin to show your Woodstock tickets you should at least know who was there.

    • @GD-rd6ig
      @GD-rd6ig 3 роки тому +2

      Correct. Dylan NOT being at Woodstock is what is important.

    • @classygary
      @classygary 3 роки тому

      All the HBO exec said was look I still have two original tickets etc etc to Woodstock. At no time did I hear it relayed that he thought Dylan played it. It just fodder for the humorous story . Hicole 🤦🏻‍♂️ !!!

    • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
      @Piggy-Oink-Oink 3 роки тому

      @@classygary Wro ng. I see you don't know that Bob didn;t play 1969 Woodstock and he was bothered for years with reporters asking why. To add insult, no exec is bringing in their original Woodstock ticket NOT in his mind thinking Dylan played there. So A)It is a sore subjecy and B)The exec idiot THINKS Dylan played it showing what he knows about DYlan. Nothing. Move on troll

    • @classygary
      @classygary 3 роки тому

      @@Piggy-Oink-Oink Where do you see that i.e. that I don"t know Bob didn't play 69 Woodstock ? I suppose in your own burnt out brain .

    • @Piggy-Oink-Oink
      @Piggy-Oink-Oink 3 роки тому

      @@classygary So if you KNOW he didn;t play in 1969 you would KNOW how STUPID it was for the HBO guy to ask Dykan to sign his Woodstock ticket. That would be the equivalent of taking out a Springsteen or U2 Ticket and asking Dylan to sign it.

  • @elainekwok3595
    @elainekwok3595 3 роки тому +1

    Bob lived in Woodstock NY but true that he did not play at the concert

    • @viviandarkbloom100
      @viviandarkbloom100 3 роки тому +1

      He lived about 40+ miles from Yasgur Farm.

    • @mumbles215
      @mumbles215 3 роки тому +2

      They had Woodstock were it was to try to get bob out of the house.

  • @jesteenatennyson7604
    @jesteenatennyson7604 Місяць тому

    What came first 'Jerry sings Dylan' SCTV skit or Dylan's obsession with Jerry?

  • @0otee
    @0otee 3 роки тому +2

    Bobby D stories... 🌺❤️🌹Larry Charles meets Bob in the back of ‘smokeville’
    At his Boxing gym in Sa.Monica in a cubicle...’I want a HOT beverage’❣️Bob talks ornate..says Larry..O Yes Dylan Does and Càn🌹❣️🌺👌

  • @jamestracey5958
    @jamestracey5958 3 роки тому

    "I don't want to do it anymore" 😂😂would you laugh or just punch him right in the face

  • @sup393
    @sup393 6 років тому +2

    He's Bob Dylan

  • @MissTeach
    @MissTeach 2 роки тому

    Anointed singer: Judy Jacob's -- Days of Elijah ( No God Like Jehovah )

  • @breathize
    @breathize 10 років тому +10

    Bob's never been "misunderstood"?

    • @GD-rd6ig
      @GD-rd6ig 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, I didn't get that either.

  • @carlbennaton9840
    @carlbennaton9840 8 років тому +3

    i hopped that train in 75

    • @BeeHatGuy
      @BeeHatGuy Рік тому

      ​@@zachhiggins33212004

  • @jillethelturner
    @jillethelturner 3 роки тому

    “Classic”

  • @trusswrod6117
    @trusswrod6117 9 років тому

    If this interviewer got to interview Bob he (the interviewer) would spontaneously combust

    • @225marklin3
      @225marklin3 3 роки тому +2

      Kind of an annoying fanboy.

  • @kvdme
    @kvdme 6 років тому +2

    Actually I think Bob Dylan recognized bugs bunny is totally adult comedy....

  • @elizabethgardner2341
    @elizabethgardner2341 3 роки тому +1

    thank u

  • @DougMold
    @DougMold 5 місяців тому

    2:27

  • @song4night
    @song4night 9 років тому +2

    first time I heard people poke fun at dylan,and ridicule him,laugh at him...hahahahahaha! too funny!

  • @gado6438
    @gado6438 6 місяців тому

    Bob Dylan the next Phil Spector.

  • @douglasthompson8927
    @douglasthompson8927 3 роки тому

    was he carrying 2 guns at the meeting ?

  • @kingoftheseamusic
    @kingoftheseamusic 8 років тому +3

    Interestingly this box Dylan has is the same idea as the box full of scraps Woody Allen has for writing plays.

  • @nutcracke16
    @nutcracke16 3 роки тому

    pidgeamuhz

  • @stigmatamartyr4223
    @stigmatamartyr4223 7 років тому +4

    Quirky.....or traits of Asperger's? The topic has come up more than once regarding Bob's social behavior.

    • @jschuler53
      @jschuler53 6 років тому +2

      Stigmata Martyr, really, I never heard about that--isn't that a form of autism, where you don't have empathy for other people--I guess there are degrees, or is it that it's hard to relate to other people on their terms? tell me more.

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 5 місяців тому

      That occurred to me when he said he was watching a certain type of film obsessively

  • @david-pb4bi
    @david-pb4bi 5 років тому

    Brilliant story, if only half of it was true.

    • @225marklin3
      @225marklin3 3 роки тому

      A story needn't be true to be a good story.

    • @david-pb4bi
      @david-pb4bi 3 роки тому +1

      @@225marklin3 Artistic licence, he did write for Seinfeld so it's to be expected. I enjoyed it anyway.

    • @ahyaok100
      @ahyaok100 3 роки тому +2

      It's so Bob Dylan though.

    • @unstartedartist
      @unstartedartist 3 роки тому

      @@ahyaok100 how do you know it’s fake??

  • @DougMold
    @DougMold 5 місяців тому

    5:50