niiiiiice

"It takes a stoner’s moment, but I figure out that he hasn’t even opened the book. I show him how to open the book. He opens it."

haha

Gallagher is wearing a Carrot Top shirt.

Yes, note the "Carrot Top", if you will.

Does anyone in 2013 think that any interaction with Gallagher will end well at all?

Best piece of writing on the Merc site in, like, forever. The only thing that would make it better would be if you'd asked Galg how he felt about fluoridation and he'd gone off on a rant and then the comments would fill up with screaming ninnies, and....

This exchange could have been a lot... damn... worse. I did some reading up on Gallagher when he announced his official retirement last year(?) and was surprised to find out he had basically made himself the poster boy of the elderly, anti-gay, xenophobic crowd; to the point of (during a 2010 performance in Washington) smashing a plate of fruit cocktail mix, Asian vegetables, and water chestnuts, and declaring it to be "all the China people and queers...!"

I am actually kind of surprised he would descend upon Portland, us being the antithesis of his newly restructured fanaticism. But I greatly understand the author's sense of (deflated) 80s nostalgia; by chance I just recently dove back into about a dozen of his specials from way-back-when. It turns out he was just as relatively ruthless and bigoted in his old material as he is now... I guess we just had more of a tolerance for it in the pre-internet age.

Either way, a tremendously fun article.

Sounds like the author is whining that G didn't like his shit.

dimwitted fucking prop "comedian". Great piece!