I was lucky to go to the Fox Tavern in Santa Mo in the late eighty's. Went about half a dozen times. The beer was a little watery but it was real beer. The show was hilarious, although not for everyone. We left in pain from laughing so hard. Say what you want about him, but he was very funny and entertaining. It was so fitting that he ended up on The Man Show.
I was fortunate enough to see him there as well, and it was awesome. My father, who was classically trained in voice at the American Academy of Music in Chicago, brought me up listening to another hilarious pianist, Tom Lehrer. The first time I saw the Fox was on Real People. He downed two pitchers full of beer in the time it would take to drink a pint. Amazing guy
I just found an old postcard I had from the Fox Inn I picked up on a visit with my co workers back in the mid 80's. Good times. Bill was, will always be a Legend.
Those evenings at the Fox Inn were awesome! 25 cent cover! They didn't open until 8 but you could warm up at O'Sullivans across the street (Wilshire?), or maybe the Oar House down on Main. Those pictures on the wall behind the piano were part of a song. The Fox would point to a picture and you'd sing the words. "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes..." Those were great times!
I used to go to his pub on Wilshire Blvd, it would packed inside with people standing side by side, it was uncomfortable, hot and crowded and probably the most fun you could ever have. The beer drinking and the contests were always fun, the songs entertaining and dirty and boy do I miss those days.
Fox had a champion liver, but it was his prostrate that killed him Bill “the Fox” Foster, a regular on Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” and a well-known chugger of beer and singer of bawdy songs, died. Foster was 68 when he died of prostate cancer May 10, 2000, at his home in Santa Monica. A character in barrooms and fraternity houses around Southern California, Foster ran the Fox Inn, a popular Santa Monica tavern, from 1961 until it closed in 1989. He was a master performer of what he called “songs your mother wouldn’t sing (maybe),” and he held forth nightly at the Fox Inn, leading patrons in song and facing all challengers in beer chugging contests. At this pastime, which he sometimes performed while standing on his head, he was considered a champion. Foster, who was 5 feet 9 and weighed 210 pounds, was a man of quick wrists and a commodious throat. “I used to be able to chug a 40-ounce pitcher of beer--that’s close to five mugs--in about 3.5 seconds,” Foster said. “But it pushed me up to 240, way over my drinking weight. “And tipping a pitcher in 3.5 is too fast for most people. They don’t believe it. They thought they didn’t see me do it. So they’d say: ‘Hey, would you do that again?’ So I’d do it. But after two pitchers, it’s all over. All over the floor, all over my clothes. . . .” www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-20-me-32101-story.html
I used to frequent the Fox Inn also, one night as always he took a break, I asked the lady at the door where he went on his breaks, she pointed to the bar across the street and informed me that he went to have some Wiskey. I almost fell over, after all the beers the man wanted a wiskey, he is a legend. When a female would walk by his piano to go to the restroom he would say, 'Mention my name, you will get a good seat'.
Daring souls (drunk souls) would challenge him to "two to one, Fox, two to one" or "on your head, on your head" and the Fox would win every time! A girl beside me one night said, "I know how he does it. His mouth is so big! It's huge!" When he had enough the Fox would just disappear. You'd think maybe he'd gone to the restroom but he'd never come back and eventually people would start leaving.
Just discovering the man show, honestly thought Fox was annoying for most of season 1. As he began to grow on me finally, I noticed he wasn’t there anymore. Realy sad to hear he passed away between season 1 and 2
That's funny. I remember standing there watching the Fox one night (circa 1977) when the girl next to me leaned over and said, "I know how he does it. His mouth is huge!"
He did. He and my Mum would travel all over the country, all over the world and perform. They always had fun. It was sad to see him become ill in the end though. :( He died May 10, 2000 after a long struggle with metastatic prostate cancer. Always remember to get check ups men.
Correct, he died of metastatic prostate cancer May 10, 2000 after a long battle. He became ill in the very beginning of taping the Man Show. It was hard for me to watch him jumping on the trampoline with all the judges when I knew everything he was going through with treatment. He fought very hard to stay on the planet.
Thank God he used to cut those beers too, otherwise, we wouldn't have had the FOX as long as we did. He used to come into my wife's bank at 14th & Wilshire. She said He had the biggest mouth(anatomically speaking) She had ever seen on a human being.
My father died of alcoholism, and I'm pretty god damn sure that I could beat ole Bill... As wonderful it is to dream and be merry, I must face myself at the end of each day. Not in a mirror, but in my own mind, which plagues me with thoughts of a drinking, as if it were always merry. It ain't... I wouldn't wish my fathers death upon anyone but the absolute worst of us. And my dad was cool fuckin guy. I didn't known him (as I was just a small child without cognicient thought) but I'd heard a few things about him, and he was alright. The thing is, which I'll tell you as I continue down this horrid path, is that... An alcoholic is the most honest person you'll ever meet, or should hope to... And as my dad lay there that day on February 14th, 1983, in a hospital bed, choking the blood he'd been coughing up for a few years, and literally drowning in his own blood.... He took the time to acknowledge me, and my mother. He spoke to her in those last throws of death. He spoke my native name, which comes from the Acjechemen tribe outta San Juan Capistrano in the southern west of the united states... I can't write it in in that, but right before he died, he said "Aschota Sho" which means "Little Wolf..." But when my mom first told me this story, she was convinced that my "Indian name" was "Asshole Touch Hole..." For this very reason, I continue to drink...
@@dannymcgeever5342 I'm sorry you feel like that. Every night was different at the Fox Inn. Depending on the customers and yes there were a lot of assholes at times. Try walking through that with 4 pitchers of beer in each hand. I would have guys pinch my ass as I went by, but being the bosses daughter I would accidentally spill my pitchers all over them. Lol. Oh my. So sorry. Not.
Thank God this is still on UA-cam!
I loved this show. Watched it when I was pretty young. I wish they’d air it again.
Miss the man show and G4. :-(
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Rest In Peace, Fox.
Hard to believe he has been gone for nearly 10 years now...what fun he brought to the man show and is missed...RIP Bill
Now it’s 20 years
@@ablunt4me420 22 and counting.
I miss this damn show.
We miss ya Fox, we all do. can't wait to chug a couple beers with ya in heaven. R.I.P.
I was lucky to go to the Fox Tavern in Santa Mo in the late eighty's. Went about half a dozen times. The beer was a little watery but it was real beer. The show was hilarious, although not for everyone. We left in pain from laughing so hard. Say what you want about him, but he was very funny and entertaining. It was so fitting that he ended up on The Man Show.
I was fortunate enough to see him there as well, and it was awesome. My father, who was classically trained in voice at the American Academy of Music in Chicago, brought me up listening to another hilarious pianist, Tom Lehrer. The first time I saw the Fox was on Real People. He downed two pitchers full of beer in the time it would take to drink a pint. Amazing guy
Sending a like and a comment. Have to preserve this video for the future generations so they know the legend of the fox!
Truly it was a better time 1999 Jimmy would kick the ever living shit out out of 2019 Jimmy
That's what happens when you get old. And sell out to Disney.
aw shut up
Bill "the Fox" Foster+a piano+plenty of ice cold beer=PARTY!
I just found an old postcard I had from the Fox Inn I picked up on a visit with my co workers back in the mid 80's. Good times. Bill was, will always be a Legend.
My dad knew him back in the day saw him sing and drink all the time. He was shocked when he was on "the man show"
I wish The Fox were still alive today, he would've deserved a huge cameo on Beerfest
what a great show this was, and the fox made it that much better. Cheers!!
THE GREATEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED! Facts
Those evenings at the Fox Inn were awesome! 25 cent cover! They didn't open until 8 but you could warm up at O'Sullivans across the street (Wilshire?), or maybe the Oar House down on Main. Those pictures on the wall behind the piano were part of a song. The Fox would point to a picture and you'd sing the words. "She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes..." Those were great times!
Schnitzelbank was behind him :)
My dad's pastry shop was next to The Fox Inn in the 60's and 70's. Bill was a stud muffin all the way.
My Mom thought so too.
I used to go to his pub on Wilshire Blvd, it would packed inside with people standing side by side, it was uncomfortable, hot and crowded and probably the most fun you could ever have.
The beer drinking and the contests were always fun, the songs entertaining and dirty and boy do I miss those days.
Yea, it was even harder walking through you all with 4 pitchers of beer in each hand. :)
God I miss that show... the single best thing to happen to Comedy Central
Fox had a champion liver, but it was his prostrate that killed him
Bill “the Fox” Foster, a regular on Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” and a well-known chugger of beer and singer of bawdy songs, died. Foster was 68 when he died of prostate cancer May 10, 2000, at his home in Santa Monica.
A character in barrooms and fraternity houses around Southern California, Foster ran the Fox Inn, a popular Santa Monica tavern, from 1961 until it closed in 1989.
He was a master performer of what he called “songs your mother wouldn’t sing (maybe),” and he held forth nightly at the Fox Inn, leading patrons in song and facing all challengers in beer chugging contests. At this pastime, which he sometimes performed while standing on his head, he was considered a champion.
Foster, who was 5 feet 9 and weighed 210 pounds, was a man of quick wrists and a commodious throat.
“I used to be able to chug a 40-ounce pitcher of beer--that’s close to five mugs--in about 3.5 seconds,” Foster said. “But it pushed me up to 240, way over my drinking weight.
“And tipping a pitcher in 3.5 is too fast for most people. They don’t believe it. They thought they didn’t see me do it. So they’d say: ‘Hey, would you do that again?’ So I’d do it. But after two pitchers, it’s all over. All over the floor, all over my clothes. . . .” www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-20-me-32101-story.html
Don’t drink much anymore, but I wish I could drink like The Fox. RIP king!
I chugged during the show...R.I.P. Fox....
God bless you Darling, wherever you are. Rest in peace.
this guy is a classic of beer chuggin
The Man Show > Jimmy Kimmel Live
is good to take so when the bar is closing! this program is cool!
If liberals only knew how Kimmel felt about women.
I used to frequent the Fox Inn also, one night as always he took a break, I asked the lady at the door where he went on his breaks, she pointed to the bar across the street and informed me that he went to have some Wiskey.
I almost fell over, after all the beers the man wanted a wiskey, he is a legend.
When a female would walk by his piano to go to the restroom he would say, 'Mention my name, you will get a good seat'.
Yes Bill liked to disappear and go drink on his break and then we had to go grab him back sometimes. Where the F's the Fox?
Did G4 Re-air this episode? I remember aeeing this on comedy central when it forst came on right after southpark
the fox... you are missed! *salutes*
man the fox will be missed
The Fox was the definition of Legend.
He is my hero:P
R.I.P for FOX
Daring souls (drunk souls) would challenge him to "two to one, Fox, two to one" or "on your head, on your head" and the Fox would win every time! A girl beside me one night said, "I know how he does it. His mouth is so big! It's huge!" When he had enough the Fox would just disappear. You'd think maybe he'd gone to the restroom but he'd never come back and eventually people would start leaving.
did the fox use trick beer mugs? they look to get really thick as they go down
Chug-a-lug to Fox, some day when I grow up, Wish I can drink like him! lat'r Buzz
I came home in enough time to watch the 2nd half of each episode. Then, down a tall boy during the Ziggy Zoggy
HE'S the legendary beer chugger.
Just discovering the man show, honestly thought Fox was annoying for most of season 1. As he began to grow on me finally, I noticed he wasn’t there anymore. Realy sad to hear he passed away between season 1 and 2
The fox unforgettable legend
He plays piano too!
Back before jimmy Kimmel turned into a woman
i miss the man show, the fox died, LONG LIVE THE FOX!
The Fox isn't dead, they just make better beer in Heaven, so naturally, he went.
That's what he says.
How did he do it? I’ve tried practicing it with just water and I could never do it.
This man is my hero!
Your going to pay me to drink beer all night? Best Job Ever
It was the best job ever.
The good ol days
Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke hoi hoi hoi! 🍺🍺
Close. Ziggy socky, ziggy socky, hoy, hoy, hoy.
he is king of beer !! Salut from country good beer CZECH REPUBLIC . peace
Czechvar and beer from plizden 👍👍👌
He and my Mum visited the CZECH REPUBLIC several times and loved it there. :)
That's funny. I remember standing there watching the Fox one night (circa 1977) when the girl next to me leaned over and said, "I know how he does it. His mouth is huge!"
RIP Bill
35 beers night? Holy shit
It’s 2024,…. And I’m showing this to all my friends under 30……… they have to know…..
Before jimmy kimmel sold out to wokeness. RIP BILL THE FOX FOSTER
look like he had a fun life,honestly What else could a man WANT..
He did. He and my Mum would travel all over the country, all over the world and perform. They always had fun. It was sad to see him become ill in the end though. :( He died May 10, 2000 after a long struggle with metastatic prostate cancer. Always remember to get check ups men.
Why smoke weed when u can inhale beer?
I only just noticed.... His beer never has a head on it. Maybe he can only chug flat beer. That would explain the lack of huge belches afterwards. ;-)
This Man is AMAZING!!!!
Back when kimmel was a man
The Fox died of prostate cancer. They found that in the autopsy his liver was perfectly normal. Lesson learned men.
Correct, he died of metastatic prostate cancer May 10, 2000 after a long battle. He became ill in the very beginning of taping the Man Show. It was hard for me to watch him jumping on the trampoline with all the judges when I knew everything he was going through with treatment. He fought very hard to stay on the planet.
the only way to watch this is chugging a beer
And you know what they say- Large mouth Large-Well, His wife was a very lucky lady. And very tolerant, obviously!
She was. :)
@MrGrevy and putting a shirtless photo of oneself as a profile pic just reeks of class
I never saw this air. Was this only on DVD?
Nope - comedy central started in 99 I believe
hail to the great fox he will be missed.
Loved the FOX
Thank God he used to cut those beers too, otherwise, we wouldn't have had the FOX as long as we did. He used to come into my wife's bank at 14th & Wilshire. She said He had the biggest mouth(anatomically speaking) She had ever seen on a human being.
:) He did anatomically speaking. He was loved by many.
Legend status
Where's the foam? Is he downing apple juice?
the actual good ole days... before political correctness ruined everything
now thats a very uplifiting video
Whats that song at the end?
Just dirty limericks
@MrGrevy A trick glass? oh ya he drank 35 trick glasses a night and my dad used to go to his bar and watch him drink
Theres no foam on the beers, otherwise he would be super gassy
@krypekeeper Try 10 years...passed away in 2000.
Try 20
@MrGrevy chill dude you have to have fun in life.
the...fucking...man
People with the last name Fox watching this
saw this on the Reddit thread AMA with Kimmel
Fucking Legend
I got a new Idol! :D
I wonder if that beer was non carbonated, as it never seems to foam.
No just a little flat
they dont makem like that anymore!!!
@tnguyen206 ay my dad said that he went and saw him and they had a projector and everyone would sing along.
A projector? No, but everyone learned the words. They were mostly dirty limericks
@YouCantKillMrGOATSE i know!!!! i miss the man show!!!
@sitfit39 she said what???? lol
Ieuwig respek veur de man
Did he say "at 5.7 inches tall?"
What? He said 5 foot 7. What are you not understanding?
No, it was Adam Carolla
Deus o tenha FOX!
he is a legend of drinking beer in small glasses...
They were standard beer glasses.
Obama .. He is the guy .. :) !
Oooh 240p we meet again! >.
3:55
omg
his name is william walas(braveheart)
Not.
@ProudAmerican00 or like 4 :P
My father died of alcoholism, and I'm pretty god damn sure that I could beat ole Bill...
As wonderful it is to dream and be merry, I must face myself at the end of each day.
Not in a mirror, but in my own mind, which plagues me with thoughts of a drinking, as if it were always merry.
It ain't... I wouldn't wish my fathers death upon anyone but the absolute worst of us. And my dad was cool fuckin guy.
I didn't known him (as I was just a small child without cognicient thought) but I'd heard a few things about him, and he was alright.
The thing is, which I'll tell you as I continue down this horrid path, is that... An alcoholic is the most honest person you'll ever meet, or should hope to... And as my dad lay there that day on February 14th, 1983, in a hospital bed, choking the blood he'd been coughing up for a few years, and literally drowning in his own blood.... He took the time to acknowledge me, and my mother. He spoke to her in those last throws of death. He spoke my native name, which comes from the Acjechemen tribe outta San Juan Capistrano in the southern west of the united states...
I can't write it in in that, but right before he died, he said "Aschota Sho" which means "Little Wolf..."
But when my mom first told me this story, she was convinced that my "Indian name" was "Asshole Touch Hole..."
For this very reason, I continue to drink...
chenzenzo you should change your name to sir buzzkilingten
@@Jameson1776 read the whole thing.
😉
I did the first time sir buzzkilingten
I was at the fox in for five years in Santa monica,the idiots ruined his place e
My name is sing a point to morons.
@@dannymcgeever5342 I'm sorry you feel like that. Every night was different at the Fox Inn. Depending on the customers and yes there were a lot of assholes at times. Try walking through that with 4 pitchers of beer in each hand. I would have guys pinch my ass as I went by, but being the bosses daughter I would accidentally spill my pitchers all over them. Lol. Oh my. So sorry. Not.