Roy Ran a Little Long

I am sorry to admit that I failed to give away my special Dr. Seuss boxers on my Nowlive show tonight. I just didn't get around to it. But I did manage to play two Roy interviews. The recorded stuff is like ten thousand times better than anything I do live, so I plan to do more of it.

I talked a little bit about Phil Hendrie tonight. This is a person I admire tremendously. A real comic genius. If you haven't seen his show, it works like this. Phil opens and says he has someone to interview. And it's always someone controversial, like the minister who runs Straight Arrow Ministries. This is a fictional outfit that cures homosexuality with painful electric shocks. The interview starts, and Hendrie does both voices. And he uses some sort of electronic thing to make "caller" voices sound grainy and different. He switches back and forth so fast, he seems to step on his own lines. Real callers who are not in on the joke get extremely angry, and they scream at Phil and the characters. It's a hoot for people who know what's going on.

I remember a show where he played a guy who ran a bar designed for extremely short customers, and by "extremely short," he meant 5'9" or less. He said they had special attendants in the bathroom, who, if necessary, could lift the tiny customers onto the toilet seats.

Anyway, he inspires me to do more recorded stuff. I need to loosen up to where I can do voices live, but I'm not there yet.

If you're a longtime Hendrie fan, and like me, you had no idea he was back on the air, click on the above link and look at his site. One thing about it will disappoint you, however. Hendrie has audio and video on the site, and he charges for damn near all of it. You have to buy a ridiculous "backstage pass" to hear any of it. That would be fine, if we were just talking about stacks of archives. But he also charges people to watch clips of him on TV shows! Even a pilot that didn't work out! Dude! Please! You put this crap up to promote yourself! Who is the giant marketing brain who told you it was a good idea to make people pay for it?

Maybe this kind of marketing is why he never took off on TV. Hopefully he'll hire someone intelligent to run his site, and some of this junk will be available for nothing. He ought to offer some of it for embedding on blogs. He's charging for the sizzle as well as the steak.

I've had some things taking up my time over the last week, but I should be able to spend three solid days this week working on writing and my Nowlive show, so things should start to improve shortly.

I didn't realize how much I missed Roy and Renaldo. I need to clean them up and keep them out of the gutter, but they can still be great assets to the team.

I would love to do this for a living, if I could squeeze any money out of it.

Thanks, all who came by and listened.