Paul F. Tompkins - "Go Ask Alice"

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  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024

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  • @ClownScreams
    @ClownScreams 4 роки тому +26

    I like that even through her descent into madness that required a trip to the wharf, Alice kept up her diligent journal writing.

    • @balthasardenner5216
      @balthasardenner5216 3 роки тому +5

      So unlike the youths of today, never bothering to document their drug-induced descents into madness and squalor.

  • @RockyGems
    @RockyGems 2 роки тому +5

    "The phoniest of balonies" is now my new favorite saying.

  • @Sailormac2
    @Sailormac2 3 роки тому +10

    Found this video via The Worst Bestsellers podcast, they did a damn funny rip job on this book, too. The Freak Wharf part had me on the floor - that was the one most WTF phrase in the book, and that’s saying a lot. And then there’s that other hilarious phrase - “I don’t know who or where or what it was, I only know I am now a Priestess of Satan!” (And nope, it wasn’t a bunch of Dragnet writers in snap-brim hats who wrote this - it was a Mormon youth counselor named Beatrice Sparks, who just happened to COINCIDENTALLY find a bunch more Real Diaries of troubled teens).

  • @tessahuff6980
    @tessahuff6980 6 років тому +23

    Thanks Bo

  • @GAHuntington
    @GAHuntington 11 років тому +16

    Paul F. Tompkins is the shit. One of the most under-appreciated stand up comedians of our time. Right up there with Bill Hicks. Sort of drunk sorry.

  • @ChrisPearson1337
    @ChrisPearson1337 10 років тому +34

    Freak Wharf is a great band name.

    • @MutualAmusement
      @MutualAmusement 10 років тому +1

      I was just thinking that haha

    • @CayenneRand
      @CayenneRand 7 років тому

      it was the name of the album

    • @ModishShrink
      @ModishShrink Місяць тому

      It would be a great name for a bar, too

  • @jenniferschillig3768
    @jenniferschillig3768 6 років тому +15

    Two things kept me from suspecting that it was fake: (A) I was young and rather sheltered, and (B) I knew it was published in 1970 so I just thought that this was how teenagers talked in the late sixties/early seventies. (I was born in 1972, and my main exposure to Sixties culture was Beatles music and Scooby-Doo and Monkees reruns.)

  • @reyniersantosdearmas400
    @reyniersantosdearmas400 12 років тому +7

    He is hilarious!!! OMG As a Spanish boy it's really hard for me to laugh with American comedians but this guy is just amazing!! Imfao Freak Warf!!!

  • @ertznay
    @ertznay 11 років тому +11

    My love of Paul F Tompkins sent me here

  • @jenniferschillig3768
    @jenniferschillig3768 10 років тому +45

    [small voice] I believed that Go Ask Alice was true when I first read it. (My sister had brought it home from the library and I read it after her. I guess I was about twelve or so.) At that age, it didn't occur to me that it was a bit odd for a runaway who was strung out on drugs and struggling to survive on the streets to be keeping diary entries on "paper bags and scraps of paper." Or that she'd kept them. Or that they'd be found afterward.

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 8 років тому +7

      +Jennifer Schillig Me too. Read it about 1987 or so, when I was 12 or 13. What made me look up info about it tonight was I was thinking about how this "true story" didn't scare me enough to not try drugs a couple years later. I started thinking about details of the story, started wondering if maybe it was a fake even though it said it wasn't. So I looked it up on Wiki and elsewhere; sure enough, no experts believe it is a real diary. And this dude makes it even more (hilariously) implausible.

    • @SquareNoggin
      @SquareNoggin 8 років тому +15

      My mother had me read it as a kid and I also thought that was true.
      Read through it again when I literally was strung out on heroin, basically just looking to kick and wanted some autobiographical motivation, and it immediately becomes clear the book is completely fake. Whoever wrote it's understanding of drugs and drug culture is pretty limited, even granted the fact that I was doing drugs in 2010s and the book was written in the 60s, there's a bunch of obvious tells that it's just meant to scare kids from doing drugs.
      Frankly I think this whole idea of exaggerating the negative effects of drugs when teaching kids is stupid. The truth is bad enough. They tell them all these tall tales about how after your first hit of heroin you''ll be on a death spiral, completely unable to snap out of it as your body and life quickly falls apart. The truth is pretty far from that - you can have several good years where people hardly notice you're addicted, it becomes immediately clear that the immediate dangers of a drug like heroin are grossly overblown so you go ahead and assume all the hype is for nothing while you truck along enjoying life like you never have before and still managing to hold all your responsibilities down.
      Even after years of heavy abuse my body is still relatively fine - it's really the psychological addiction that gets you. Heroin doesn't have the "big bad drug" reputation because it's going to kill you quickly or because the addiction is so hellish - it's the "big bad drug" because *it's so much fucking fun* and you can go years and years and still reasonably think it's not worth it to quit. It feels so good, it makes you feel so content, it makes you feel so motivated, it makes you feel so at peace, that physical addiction and crippled financials seems like a small price to pay for the secret to happiness. They don't stress that enough in drug prevention - they just talk about ODs and collapsing veins and HIV... all those things can be relatively easily avoided if you take the necessary precautions. It's not the drugs themselves that necessarily cause those ailments - it's the apathy and desperation that comes from being addicted that leads people not to care about taking care of themselves anymore. All because of the one true factor that makes it such a life-ruining drug - *it just feels so right*, no matter how much you know deep down that it's the wrong thing to do.

    • @andythey1473
      @andythey1473 5 років тому +3

      i remember being that age when animal planet made a fake documentary about dragons (their biology, behavior, etc) and all my friends and I were very unsure if it was real or not

    • @SpecialCrackVideo
      @SpecialCrackVideo 5 років тому +4

      I read it and I believed it for like a week and then I was like ‘...Wait.... why would a total super drugged out girl still keep her diary? Why would she write on papers and stuff and keep it?’

    • @Sailormac2
      @Sailormac2 3 роки тому +3

      The thing that tipped me off that it was fake was when she described the Digger Free Store and the Psychedelic Shop as being in Coos Bay, Oregon. Anyone who’s read as much as one book about the Summed of Love knows those locations were in San Francisco!

  • @Mumscup
    @Mumscup 2 роки тому +2

    They made us read this book in high school. I had the copy with a needle , joint , acid ready to drop and a red pill on the front cover. I had no idea what this stuff was but ty go ask Alice, I did them alllll.

  • @shweetshtuff21
    @shweetshtuff21 13 років тому +10

    "Given the choice, I would go to the freak wharf every single time, because you get to meet carnival folk, and you're by the ocean."

  • @ojgsk8ter
    @ojgsk8ter 12 років тому +3

    YES! Bo likes Paul F. Tompkins! My favorite comedian liking my 2nd favorite comedian!

  • @apsutter
    @apsutter 11 років тому +5

    The freak wharf part made me laugh so hard I began coughing for five minutes lol

  • @BNardolilli
    @BNardolilli 2 роки тому +1

    like that this is now mentioned in the wikipedia article for Go Ask Alice

  • @LandryGrandstaff
    @LandryGrandstaff 6 років тому +26

    going through bo burnham's liked videos, just ignore me.

    • @kassy677778
      @kassy677778 5 років тому

      Same! I just binged all his shit for a few days.

  • @ertznay
    @ertznay 11 років тому +3

    His imitation of a typewriter at 5:05 is hilarious

  • @WonderfullyKaylee
    @WonderfullyKaylee 12 років тому +1

    He liked it, and it was on his page

  • @TynansAnger
    @TynansAnger 14 років тому +15

    A white person on drugs? B-b-b-b-but I'm white!

  • @THEMATRIXKID10
    @THEMATRIXKID10 12 років тому +6

    omg bo burnham liked this vid 1 week ago so that prooves he isnt dead

  • @maredjurphy
    @maredjurphy 12 років тому +1

    He liked this video, and on his channel is says what videos he likes.

  • @coraa213
    @coraa213 12 років тому +1

    He favorited it! :D

  • @Theseus370
    @Theseus370 12 років тому +2

    He like the video in his feed. ... And we're all stalkers checking on his channel.

  • @sophiepine
    @sophiepine 12 років тому +1

    I read this book as a kid. It's crazy silly. There's a copy in every thrift store. Read & laugh!

  • @Terje1337
    @Terje1337 12 років тому +1

    He liked it from his youtube channel

  • @TheYishlams
    @TheYishlams 12 років тому +1

    He liked the video.

  • @n3llyphant
    @n3llyphant 14 років тому +1

    the lovely john green sent me here (via retweet) ^_^

  • @5unnyjim
    @5unnyjim 12 років тому +1

    That was hilarious...

  • @InfectMarineStudios
    @InfectMarineStudios 12 років тому

    I couldn't believe it!

  • @Chesterton7
    @Chesterton7 3 роки тому

    The funniest.

  • @Theseus370
    @Theseus370 12 років тому +2

    This video is getting the triple B, or the Bo Burnham Bump.

  • @bastaonthefloor
    @bastaonthefloor 12 років тому +3

    freak warf probably a misspelled ward haha

  • @2DayInKattsWorld
    @2DayInKattsWorld 12 років тому

    Thats why im here too lol

  • @babydingo95
    @babydingo95 5 років тому +1

    Feel like i can hear edgar wright laughing in the background

  • @MackLel38
    @MackLel38 12 років тому +2

    Bo Burnham, you're alive

  • @jho852
    @jho852 12 років тому

    haha I was scared of this book as a kid, too. Even the cover scared me. If you go on snopes there's even more info about how it's not an actual diary.

  • @makaylaoldham5004
    @makaylaoldham5004 6 років тому +1

    I loved that book it was really good

  • @mekagome1
    @mekagome1 10 років тому +2

    Or you read Go Ask Malice, Faith liked a band called Freak Wharf.

  • @paulobrian6627
    @paulobrian6627 10 років тому +3

    He wasn't too far off. See #6 of www.cracked.com/article_21394_the-6-most-ridiculous-lies-ever-published-as-nonfiction.html

  • @jaimoe0
    @jaimoe0 13 років тому

    Coincidentally, I once said "crazy cove" while high. So, yeah, it's legit.

  • @natecw4164
    @natecw4164 2 роки тому

    My oldest sister gave me this book when I was 12. Scared the hell out of me. When I later found out it was bull, I was less than impressed. 100% of the reason I skipped on acid was due to fearing I'd end up like Alice

  • @AvaValComedy
    @AvaValComedy 14 років тому

    @HatterMRULEZ gotta love the name! And, of course, Paul

  • @whobeme10
    @whobeme10 12 років тому +1

    HAHA BO
    hi. :)

  • @nahferals
    @nahferals 11 років тому

    I thought this was a clip from the comedy bang bang podcast...still funny though :)

  • @SketchyArtist
    @SketchyArtist 6 років тому

    Sounds like Eugene Cordero laughing in the audience.

  • @soth1sol
    @soth1sol 4 місяці тому

    one pill...

  • @bscherer90
    @bscherer90 10 місяців тому +1

    I recommended this to people. It actually helped me with my alcoholism. Then I found out it's BS. Yeah, you're such a nice Christian, LYING TO PEOPLE

  • @ckv954
    @ckv954 6 років тому

    Sounds like something bo would like

  • @narozzz
    @narozzz 12 років тому

    @4:57 - Patrick the Starfish resemblance much?

  • @Charginasaur
    @Charginasaur 12 років тому +1

    You have no idea, I occasionally stalk his page hoping for some activity to no avail. And finally today I almost fucking wet myself just seeing he liked something haha. #BosHoes

    • @ckv954
      @ckv954 6 років тому

      Mooncat we are BOners

  • @salmonerd11
    @salmonerd11 14 років тому

    two words: Naked Lunch.

  • @dustyb58
    @dustyb58 6 років тому

    kinda looks like Ralph Garman in that picture

  • @ryanfarroow8749
    @ryanfarroow8749 10 років тому +1

    Quite a resemblance to Jack Black.

    • @ToGetToTerrapin
      @ToGetToTerrapin 9 років тому

      +ryanfarroow I think he looks more like Dana Gould in the thumbnail above

    • @CayenneRand
      @CayenneRand 7 років тому

      only because he's making a face and is stretched horizontally

  • @TheYishlams
    @TheYishlams 12 років тому +1

    I don't know about all the rest of you guyz, but the very clever and sexy Bo Burnham sent me here.

  • @bepis1305
    @bepis1305 4 роки тому

    i remember reading something very similar to this (the one that was written in poetic form or whatever) when i was ten and flipping my shit. i thought it was so cool and ~mature~ to be reading it, but never once thought any of it was real.
    (i don't think people who get duped by this are dumb, though. i think the poetry clued me in, lol)

    • @delaena
      @delaena 2 роки тому

      the one i think you’re referring to (Crank by Ellen Hopkins) is written by the mother, from the perspective of her addict daughter. it’s loosely true but obviously not 100% accurate because she’s not telling her own story, she’s telling her daughters. the daughter actually has a youtube channel recounting her actual experiences if you’re interested, her name is Cristal Thetford.

  • @dlawlis
    @dlawlis 6 років тому +1

    That book might be fake but some of the slang from that era has not aged well. Try reading The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test with a straight face.

  • @theEarlofChip
    @theEarlofChip 8 років тому +2

    I never knew that lyric in White Rabbit was a reference to this. Yes, I am literally a baby. Nice to meet you

    • @merridia
      @merridia 8 років тому +7

      Nah, the book title was taken from the lyric, came out four years later~

    • @theEarlofChip
      @theEarlofChip 8 років тому

      ***** that's lame. that's not even a good title then. I liked it more when I thought the lyric alluded to the scary book.

    • @SquareNoggin
      @SquareNoggin 8 років тому

      +theEarlofChip
      They are both alluding to the same idea though - the song was playing on the fact that a lot of kids stories seem drug influenced (like Carroll's book). The song has the same theme as the diary/novel, kinda. Innocent kids getting lured into the wonderful world of drugs. Go ask Alice and have what she's having, cause she's in wonderland, dig?

  • @animatiz
    @animatiz 12 років тому

    lool my mate did lsd and mephedrone before he tried weed

  • @meirongxian4651
    @meirongxian4651 5 років тому

    Bo BURHAM

  • @beniverson3777
    @beniverson3777 6 років тому +3

    I'm allergic to smoke so I actually did try LSD before pot. My girlfriend highly pressured me / guilted me into trying it. I do not recommend it

  • @alb6350
    @alb6350 6 років тому

    Wtf...my names Alice :/

  • @egodeathwish
    @egodeathwish 5 років тому

    free quorf!?

  • @Bogard9
    @Bogard9 11 років тому

    It's supposed to be a hand-written diary

  • @danlossp2692
    @danlossp2692 12 років тому

    Not funny it all it was actually a good book

  • @bethennysluannmonologue
    @bethennysluannmonologue 10 років тому +1

    Didn't think it was funny. Everything was out of context and I imagine that he forgot that the book was published in 1971 and was probably written years before. It was childish humor and people just laugh at the most unbearably stupid shit.

    • @yenee94
      @yenee94 8 років тому +14

      the book's fake, it's a fiction

  • @pezgirl11
    @pezgirl11 12 років тому

    that's not how you spell wharf...haha