I’m in my 29th year as a stand up. This is sheer comedic genius, and the most difficult format. You could do this routine in a church and it is still hysterical.
For me, the worst part was hearing the birds chirping after an all nighter. Especially when the sun hadn't quite come up and it was still relatively dark outside. Those first chirps were the "uh-oh" moment.
After being on the deck of a cruise ship in 100 degree heat with a hangover, keeping that pledge became a lot easier. It's been nearly 20 years since I've been seriously drunk. I didn't give up drinking entirely, just getting wasted. The mild buzz does me just fine.
This is classic. This really brings back some awful drinking days. His delivery and timing is so great that is really makes me not want to drink at all.
A scary thought, not wanting to drink at all, but I understand. Back in the sixties I watched "Days of Wine and Roses" and poured my 4 bottles of booze down the sink and didn't drink for about 3 months.
@@Townes.VanZandt If you're referring to Days of Wine and Roses, I saw the movie version with Jack Lemon & Lee Remick. It was also presented on Playhouse 90 on TV (I think). I just now looked it up on the internet and watched about 20 minutes. It was a little unnerving for me to see and be reminded how people can be developing an unhealthy habit and be unaware.
One of my favorite comedy routines ever, right up there with Who's on First and the Victor Borge bit about pronunciation. Thanks for sharing. And I don't give a rat's about the tracking. I'm just glad the audio is clean.
In 1969 I was stationed in NKP Thailand and we had a 6AM to 6PM schedule. The worst was 6PM to 6 AM when you had the one day a week off. We got of shift at 6AM and go straight to the NCO Club and drink until about Noon. Then we'd call it quits and leave. The instant we got outside, we'd be greeted with Ol' Big Red and we'd tur around and retreat to the comfortable darkness of the Club , where we would stay another six ours until night fall when we would be safe from Big Ol' Red.
@@Tsamokie good one --- I had a 7pm to 7am shift in new mexico mid 1980's. there was a bar nearby with no windows (just for us). So when I walked outside about noon ... I learned that you needed a small frame pair of sunglasses that would fit under the giant wrap -a- round sunglasses in order to see and drive home.
TDale Martin I got a job at a blues bar, back in the first couple of years of the now more than half of my life living in the US. It was the perfect deal! Free drinks and cultural lessons! It was fantastic! I did it for 3 years and I miss it to this day. Anyway, it was in Atlanta and there were maybe two 24 hour spots in the city back then... early 2000’s, and the one we always went to was called Backstreet. A gay club that all the strippers, servers, bartenders and general degenerates met after 3:00 am when everything closed... it was fucking sweet! Good times! But that feeling when you walked outside and it was bright as fuck... what a buzz kill! Too old for this shit now, but I still see love pulling an all-nighter
I’ve had the “thick blue drink” at a sci-fi/role playing game convention. Served at a room party and called Toxic Waste. It was made with Everclear. Don’t know if they used Kool-aide or Gatorade to get the blue but one of the hosts did tell me it had a splash of spearmint Scope. Served in a 5 gallon biohazard bucket with dry ice in the bottom. An alcohol slushee! I was told I held a conversation with a Buddha statue. Ah the good old days.
When I was in the military there was a bar near our barracks. They had a blue drink and no one could ever remember what it was called so we just started calling it "Smurf Piss". It was blue curacao, crushed ice and some other wicked brews. My roommate and I passed out in the barracks stairwell ON THE STAIRS after a night of Smurf Piss.
Yeah, I know what you're talking about, it's essentially the blue version of the old college party standby, "Jungle Juice" (which is red), although the dry ice is a brilliant touch! I don't think that's what Larry was referring to, since they were still in a bar, in theory, but some bizarre, terrible, cheap, and strong pre-flavored liquor...like that 99 bananas/apples/etc type stuff...unless he was suggesting the bar was so crappy that they were just mixing random stuff together like a bunch of bros, lol
This is totally like AA for the comedy goers. I too had some laughs and also looked into myself with sadness because you do go through those levels. You rob from your sleep and money to get a moment of feeling like you are the king of the world with your buddies. For me I would actually go out often alone and see strangers as friends and look at the time and think I can do this. I can go out and still get up for work. So many days of working with head aches and rot gut. I actually see this skit as a confirmation to keep sober.
my love songs yeah this guy has been in the background of TV shows and movies without any recognition unfortunately. Just watch the episode of Seinfeld where he was the door man lmao to this day, brilliant .
@@z-z-z-z "Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off the plane. Time change. You lose, you gain. Makes no difference so long as you keep taking the pills. But sooner or later you've got to get out because it's crashing, and then all at once the frozen hours melt out through the nervous system and seep out the pores." - Marwood, Withnail & I
I watched this when it was originally shown , I video taped it and wrote the bit out and learned it . I would do the bit from time to time and once in awhile people would ask me to do it . I remember that version he referred to the blue drink as the “stuff you soak combs in at the barber shop . “ 20 years since I last even thought about it . Thanks for the laughs Larry .
I actually did it last week at my sister's 50th birthday celebration. I was well into Level 3 at that point. Pretty sure we hit Level 5.5 by the end of it. My liver is still screaming at me, and those 31hrs sleep are hard to borrow.
I remember watching this as Comedy special on HBO right before Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in Tokyo. Freshman year in college. February 1990.
Oh yeah that’s back when we could ...and DID stay up and drink all night with our friends getting all sorts of nasty tore up from the floor up. Wheeeww... makes me think of how many brain cells I must have killed in my undergrad years... 😳
I'm not sure what stage this was, but me and my friend were in a bar once, and we were so drunk the barman said he wasn't serving us anymore. So we walked out of the pub and immediately forgot that had happened, and said "Ooh, this bar looks nice, let's go in here!" So walked into the same bar where the bartender said ".... I just told you like, 20 seconds ago I'm not serving you" and we were like "OOPS! Maybe we are drunk" Fabulous :D
I was with my local coworkers in Tokyo on Friday night after we finished a training course at the factory. The second hostess bar we went to had only had a Chinese woman who didn't speak English, so they sent a Thai guy who did to me and I don't think they told him it was because of the English. When we emerged at quarter to six and the sun was up, we carried the senior engineer to a cab. We couldn't talk to the driver, but he knew where to take him.
Damn, he nailed it. Recalling a party when I was in the Navy stationed in the UK, around 4am someone had the idea to stay up the rest of the night to catch the 7am train to London and continue drinking along the way... but then the came the sun rise... ouch.
... and the Army. Gotta get to the mess before the bosses. Need that huge plate of free fry up, then sleep all day off, and get away with a day off shaving too. Start looking human again by the next day. And life goes on ... ;-)
This is the first time I’ve seen this clip since I was a kid. Can’t believe I actually saw this when it originally aired but always remembered it. While it was funny to me back then, i didn’t understand it the way I do now and the man is spot on. Haha
I saw Larry open for Stephen Wright on Halloween eve of 1992 in Pullman, WA. Did this bit. He had the crowd rolling almost more than Steve did. One of the best comedy acts I've ever seen.
I remember watching this on VH1 when it first came out and it's still funny today. I always liked Larry Miller and felt he was (is) very underappreciated. Too many comics rely on broad, dirty humor for cheap laughs; Larry was a little more adult and cerebral, which is exactly why I love his comedy.
I'm sure he played the dad in 10 Things I Hate About You, his sarcasm was brutal "You can date when your sister dates and no one will date her. Oh, I like that! I should have thought of that sooner!"
Same here for the last five years (or maybe 28 years).. until this year.. totally sober and loving it (although I miss wobbly nights I certainly don't miss the hangovers)
Same here, I've drank maybe ten times in the last 2 years but before that I was a Goddamned Heathen. When you can tell the story about that one time you were drunk for a solid week. I miss having a friend called 🍺 that always helped with bad days.
Up all night many times back in the day. When you are buying beer at like 7a.m. at the convenience store on Sunday morning and the clerk looks at you and just KNOWS...
He is good in everything he does... Anyone remember him in Pretty Woman as the proprietor of a Clothing Boutique in Beverly Hills that kisses Richard Gere and Julia's asses while they were there
See this kids? This is what actual video tape graininess looks like as opposed to a filter in video editing software. Larry Miller aka the Dad from '10 Things I Hate About You' is funny as hell.
I used to teach a Breath Alcohol course for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the mid to late '90s, and we used this as a mood lightener. It never failed to get the class laughing their butts off!
Cannot tell you how many times I heard that 'prayer' while I was in the Navy. "Oh, I feel likeBLLLLAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH. Oh, God, I'll never drink agaBLLLLLLAAAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHHH. PleasepleasepleasemakeitstoBLLLBLLBBBAAAAARRRRRGHHHH."
My biggest all night drunk ended with me hanging out downtown with a few guys not realizing they were homeless till I noticed their hands out for money.
There is a seventh level, but it is unattainable to most people. I have experienced it due to a rare alignment of circumstances: 1. I worked as a bouncer at a nightclub and finished up around 10 pm after the "non-alcoholic" teen party Sunday night at the club, which usually was more violent than the usual alcohol nights because of gangs, girls, and testosterone. 2. The manager of this nightclub referred to me as "the son he never had". 3. His wife was a nude dancer and owned a Porsche 911. 4. One of his former bouncers, now a best friend, owned a Limousine company and was also a "son he never had." 5. Through some accounting glitch, the nightclub had excess inventory of about 15 bottles of Cuervo 1800 Especial Tequila. 6. The nightclub was closed the next two days. 7. I had taken off the next day from my regular job for personal tasks. They were not done that week. 8. We decided to liquidate the excess inventory of Tequila over the next few hours. 9. We had a paid driver who owed child support to 5 or 6 different women and would love to work overtime. 10, We were members of the local hospitality workers union and received "club courtesy" (free admission) to most bars in the city. So, we picked up the manager's wife after she got home along with a couple of other of her dancer friends. The Cuervo 1800 was in the freezer in the limo and we only drank Red Bull and some complimentary shots in the bars. We would refuel with the Cuervo 1800 as we drove from one bar to the next. At about 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, we parked behind a bar and while everyone else went inside, I sat in the air-conditioned limo with one of the wife's friends watching part of a movie, doing some body shots, and then she went inside and I took a nap. A couple of hours later, my manager awakened me, berated me for being low on manhood and handed me a Red Bull and a shot of 1800. At about 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, the owner of the limousine informed us that he had to clean it up and give it a maintenance check for a Monday evening event, so he dropped us off at the managers' house with the remaining two or three bottles of 1800. We went to the pool and then another "son he never had" came over and grilled steaks on the patio. The manager's wife wanted popsicles and my manager told me to ride with her to the grocery store. When we came out of the store, she put a popsicle in her mouth and then said that the brain freeze triggered a migraine, so she asked me to drive back to the house. There was a windy section of road between the grocery store and their house and I don't think I dropped below 50 mph on any curve. She really had a headache after that ride. After dinner, the third son drove me back to the nightclub to pick up my car and drive home. Jose Cuervo is a love/hate relationship.
Larry is the man. He was on an episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: NUMBER ONE IN THE HOOD G, Alongside the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Carl BRUTANANADILEWSKI. Shoot had I been on an episode of ATHF I would feel like the luckiest guy alive, Way better than winning an Oscar, a Grammy .etc,
classic bit. reminds me of a time i got fired for still being drunk. i had been written up and warned to not miss another day... so i did the next best thing, came in to work shit faced. some guys tried to cover for me but someone told on me... and that was that. not my proudest moment but there you go.
Aged 18 I came back from the pub at lunchtime whilst working at a meat factory/butchers, with the best excuse I could muster- that the police has been to the pub and refused to let anyone leave😂 As I was professing that I wasn’t actually drunk I fell over and pulled myself back up by gripping on to my managers trousers whilst laughing. (It was a shit job so I can laugh now)
One of the greatest comedy bits ever.
Agree
I’m in my 29th year as a stand up. This is sheer comedic genius, and the most difficult format. You could do this routine in a church and it is still hysterical.
Exactly. His timing and delivery make a subject that wouldn’t always fly or relate with everyone appeal to anyone somehow
No kidding I had an interviewer ask me to tell them a joke.\
Not dirty.
Holler at me for the joke. lol. It's dumb.
I missed this guy. The 90s has been his highlight in movies and I enjoyed them.
"I don't mind going to that board meeting looking like Keith Richards." 😂
Larry Miller is an American national treasure
Great show
Larry Miller is a national treasure.
One of the greatest truths of all time. Love Larry Miller.
Crazy how 'looking like Keith Richards' is still an accurate joke 30 years later
OOF!
Even more now
mit bong
Has it been that long oh my
Maybe it`s because Keef hasn`t brushed his hair since 1967?
For me, the worst part was hearing the birds chirping after an all nighter. Especially when the sun hadn't quite come up and it was still relatively dark outside. Those first chirps were the "uh-oh" moment.
It's always those damn birds.
I call those the go-to-bed birds.
“Birdie-Birdie”
Yeah, I hate it too. You're trying to drink in peace, and the birds are all out there trying to wake the neighbors and narc you out.
Whoops! I thought that WAS what we we’re talking about!
After being on the deck of a cruise ship in 100 degree heat with a hangover, keeping that pledge became a lot easier. It's been nearly 20 years since I've been seriously drunk. I didn't give up drinking entirely, just getting wasted. The mild buzz does me just fine.
If you’ve ever got sunburn on the roof of your mouth, time to slow down or stop 😂
Ouch @@manuel_winde
Both the funniest and most honest jokes about drinking ever committed to film.
It's funny because it'[s true
They actually made it to South Carolina one time, I shit thee not.
Actually had the "we could buy this bar" fantasy with drinkin' buddies in the distant past. Still makes me laugh.
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
Ernest Hemingway
I drink to make me more interesting!
@@shillout7270 lol. that works on the first few glasses. after, i would say "interesting" becomes "pain in the ass", at least that's my case :)
This is classic. This really brings back some awful drinking days. His delivery and timing is so great that is really makes me not want to drink at all.
A scary thought, not wanting to drink at all, but I understand. Back in the sixties I watched "Days of Wine and Roses" and poured my 4 bottles of booze down the sink and didn't drink for about 3 months.
@@nemo227 not sure what that is but I'm gonna check it out.
@@Townes.VanZandt If you're referring to Days of Wine and Roses, I saw the movie version with Jack Lemon & Lee Remick. It was also presented on Playhouse 90 on TV (I think). I just now looked it up on the internet and watched about 20 minutes. It was a little unnerving for me to see and be reminded how people can be developing an unhealthy habit and be unaware.
I need a drink.
The unpleasant effects sneak up on you quick, and usually when you least expect them.
My favorite bit of all time. This touched my soul.
Larry Miller...one of the best Law & Order episodes I ever saw. It was so good, they invited him back to play the same character. Outstanding!
Awesome Funny Comedian🤣but a Terrible Husband😏
I thought those episodes coulda been better... his wife in the first episode was an absolutely awful actress .
this is so well written and delivered. classic.
It’s like a short movie pitch
the 90's were a great time for comedians
One of my favorite comedy routines ever, right up there with Who's on First and the Victor Borge bit about pronunciation. Thanks for sharing. And I don't give a rat's about the tracking. I'm just glad the audio is clean.
This one is just genius...great story teller
Thank you for that. I had never seen the Victor Borge pronunciation one and just watched it. Excellent.
The sun is like God's flashlight - that is freaking brilliant!!
In 1969 I was stationed in NKP Thailand and we had a 6AM to 6PM schedule. The worst was 6PM to 6 AM when you had the one day a week off. We got of shift at 6AM and go straight to the NCO Club and drink until about Noon. Then we'd call it quits and leave. The instant we got outside, we'd be greeted with Ol' Big Red and we'd tur around and retreat to the comfortable darkness of the Club , where we would stay another six ours until night fall when we would be safe from Big Ol' Red.
t sam, dang, brother. That sounds like hell. Hahaha. I have been through a few of those deals myself, but not in Thailand, ha
@@Tsamokie good one --- I had a 7pm to 7am shift in new mexico mid 1980's. there was a bar nearby with no windows (just for us). So when I walked outside about noon ... I learned that you needed a small frame pair of sunglasses that would fit under the giant wrap -a- round sunglasses in order to see and drive home.
@@Tsamokie when you see that sun in the morn you thick oh fuck
TDale Martin I got a job at a blues bar, back in the first couple of years of the now more than half of my life living in the US. It was the perfect deal! Free drinks and cultural lessons! It was fantastic! I did it for 3 years and I miss it to this day. Anyway, it was in Atlanta and there were maybe two 24 hour spots in the city back then... early 2000’s, and the one we always went to was called Backstreet. A gay club that all the strippers, servers, bartenders and general degenerates met after 3:00 am when everything closed... it was fucking sweet! Good times! But that feeling when you walked outside and it was bright as fuck... what a buzz kill! Too old for this shit now, but I still see love pulling an all-nighter
When Larry yelled "We're drivin' to Florida" He sounded like George Carlin.
" . . as long as I get 31 hours of sleep tomorrow." too real.
Larry's style of delivering a joke is unmatched....even to this day He's the best.
One of my favorite bits of all time.
I’ve had the “thick blue drink” at a sci-fi/role playing game convention. Served at a room party and called Toxic Waste. It was made with Everclear. Don’t know if they used Kool-aide or Gatorade to get the blue but one of the hosts did tell me it had a splash of spearmint Scope. Served in a 5 gallon biohazard bucket with dry ice in the bottom. An alcohol slushee! I was told I held a conversation with a Buddha statue. Ah the good old days.
I drank Windex punch at a Halloween party once. I wonder if it's the same thing minus the Everclear.
Did he pass any enlightened wisdom on to you?
When I was in the military there was a bar near our barracks. They had a blue drink and no one could ever remember what it was called so we just started calling it "Smurf Piss". It was blue curacao, crushed ice and some other wicked brews. My roommate and I passed out in the barracks stairwell ON THE STAIRS after a night of Smurf Piss.
That was Romulan Ale
Yeah, I know what you're talking about, it's essentially the blue version of the old college party standby, "Jungle Juice" (which is red), although the dry ice is a brilliant touch! I don't think that's what Larry was referring to, since they were still in a bar, in theory, but some bizarre, terrible, cheap, and strong pre-flavored liquor...like that 99 bananas/apples/etc type stuff...unless he was suggesting the bar was so crappy that they were just mixing random stuff together like a bunch of bros, lol
This is totally like AA for the comedy goers. I too had some laughs and also looked into myself with sadness because you do go through those levels. You rob from your sleep and money to get a moment of feeling like you are the king of the world with your buddies. For me I would actually go out often alone and see strangers as friends and look at the time and think I can do this. I can go out and still get up for work. So many days of working with head aches and rot gut. I actually see this skit as a confirmation to keep sober.
I first heard this skit on the radio over 20 years ago and have been looking for it ever since. Thanks for uploading!
EVZYL same here just a friend of mine put it on a cd for me years ago and I been wanting to hear it again.
You're welcome!
We went to Mexico.
Excality right
The whole audience has had the “stay up all night” convo with themselves 😂
To this day I still randomly shout out "WE'RE DRIVING TO FLORIDA..."
Well.... I yell out "Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor: Daaaammmnnnnn!!! No one has a sense of humor. Lol
he he - me too!
And then you pass out?
Sign of a mental illness! I live on the left coast, and can honestly say i will never go to Florida.
I use "And who's Ruby", same idea
The BEST! I still drop stuff from it in everyday conversations. 😎💯🤣
Who's Ruby....
Stage 6: We should get some coke...
....you forgot it was a trailer park.
"We should get some meth..."
Rod Kavanagh hahhaha
Waiting for him to go there but he didn’t lol
I always thought Trailer Park Level 6 was fucking a close relative.
Pretty sure that’s Stage 1.5
Can't beat the classics.Thank you, Larry Miller.Thank you, variedgrace.
You're welcome!
@variedgrace 2 years later you reply. Hahaha.
One of the most underrated comedians ever.
Seriously, he is awesome!! I have several of his comedy bits on my hard drive from 20+ years ago. He is a very funny guy!
my love songs yeah this guy has been in the background of TV shows and movies without any recognition unfortunately. Just watch the episode of Seinfeld where he was the door man lmao to this day, brilliant .
Drinking is simply borrowing happiness from tomorrow. You always have to pay the piper.
meth is the same way. it does not GIVE you energy; it borrows from the upcoming days.
@@z-z-z-z "Speed is like a dozen transatlantic flights without ever getting off the plane. Time change. You lose, you gain. Makes no difference so long as you keep taking the pills. But sooner or later you've got to get out because it's crashing, and then all at once the frozen hours melt out through the nervous system and seep out the pores." - Marwood, Withnail & I
@@jmurphy5936 I'm too smashed right now to write anything good so I'll just say... "I feel like a pig has shat in my head".
I'm sorry - was happiness promised tomorrow? Twat.
@@andrews527 Being happy, just like being bitter, is a choice. I've been dealt a lot of shitty hands but I _choose_ to be happy anyway.
I never knew this guy did stand up, I've missed out. Been level 5 LOL
I watched this when it was originally shown , I video taped it and wrote the bit out and learned it . I would do the bit from time to time and once in awhile people would ask me to do it .
I remember that version he referred to the blue drink as the “stuff you soak combs in at the barber shop . “
20 years since I last even thought about it . Thanks for the laughs Larry .
I actually did it last week at my sister's 50th birthday celebration. I was well into Level 3 at that point. Pretty sure we hit Level 5.5 by the end of it. My liver is still screaming at me, and those 31hrs sleep are hard to borrow.
I remember watching this as Comedy special on HBO right before Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in Tokyo. Freshman year in college. February 1990.
Oh yeah that’s back when we could ...and DID stay up and drink all night with our friends getting all sorts of nasty tore up from the floor up. Wheeeww... makes me think of how many brain cells I must have killed in my undergrad years... 😳
I was 9 years old in 1990 and I remember the buster fight
I was in rehab...i missed the fight. I was 14
I'm not sure what stage this was, but me and my friend were in a bar once, and we were so drunk the barman said he wasn't serving us anymore. So we walked out of the pub and immediately forgot that had happened, and said "Ooh, this bar looks nice, let's go in here!" So walked into the same bar where the bartender said ".... I just told you like, 20 seconds ago I'm not serving you" and we were like "OOPS! Maybe we are drunk" Fabulous :D
Hahaha niceeee
I was with my local coworkers in Tokyo on Friday night after we finished a training course at the factory. The second hostess bar we went to had only had a Chinese woman who didn't speak English, so they sent a Thai guy who did to me and I don't think they told him it was because of the English. When we emerged at quarter to six and the sun was up, we carried the senior engineer to a cab. We couldn't talk to the driver, but he knew where to take him.
This bit is Hall of Fame - like a Beethoven symphony, Picasso painting. One for the time capsule.
Damn, he nailed it.
Recalling a party when I was in the Navy stationed in the UK, around 4am someone had the idea to stay up the rest of the night to catch the 7am train to London and continue drinking along the way... but then the came the sun rise... ouch.
I don't drink but I'm addicted to RUclips. Many is the time I saw the sun creeping up and thought, "uh-oh..."
Relatable
Amen and been there too. Shit, it's 1 a.m.
_"It's 1AM... but what day is it?!"_
@@0okamino I dk.
Let's keep looking. Maybe we can find someone who does know.
US Navy: 5am is when you start heading back to the ship for breakfast!!!
Lance P. Same thing in the Air Force, except it’s time to head back to base.
5 am is when you start wondering if you relief is even alive.
Thank you for your service....You rock!!!! USA!!!
... and the Army. Gotta get to the mess before the bosses. Need that huge plate of free fry up, then sleep all day off, and get away with a day off shaving too. Start looking human again by the next day. And life goes on ... ;-)
But first you make a pitstop for some hair of the dog that bit you.
Never heard of him before this got recommended to me. This man slayed in this bit.
This dude really went out there and bared his soul with this comedy "bit"...
An all timer of a set.
This is the first time I’ve seen this clip since I was a kid. Can’t believe I actually saw this when it originally aired but always remembered it. While it was funny to me back then, i didn’t understand it the way I do now and the man is spot on. Haha
Wow, who has not been thru the 5 levels of drinking?
Level 6: my friends and I went to the horse races still in our tuxedos from the ball the night before. Still can't remember how that day ended.
God this makes me feel old but during this I kept wanting to grab the remote and find the tracking button
Paul Stevens you saying that makes me feel old
The remote that had a cable or the remote that only worked if you were 4 feet away?
Whats a tracking button?
Was thinking the same thing! The word Tracking is now "Old English".
🤣 truth
I saw Larry open for Stephen Wright on Halloween eve of 1992 in Pullman, WA. Did this bit. He had the crowd rolling almost more than Steve did. One of the best comedy acts I've ever seen.
My favorite comedy piece is brilliance by a master in Larry Miller!!
Great classic late 80s early 90s stand up, the stuff they used to show on Comedy Central all the time...Rita Rudner!
I remember watching this on VH1 when it first came out and it's still funny today. I always liked Larry Miller and felt he was (is) very underappreciated. Too many comics rely on broad, dirty humor for cheap laughs; Larry was a little more adult and cerebral, which is exactly why I love his comedy.
I'm sure he played the dad in 10 Things I Hate About You, his sarcasm was brutal "You can date when your sister dates and no one will date her. Oh, I like that! I should have thought of that sooner!"
This classic bit never gets old no matter how many times I watch it.
gamblour agreed
@ gamblour Agree, and maybe just the effect of just having watched Larry do 9 minutes, but I could hear his voice in my mind reading your comment! :)
It’s been a quarter century or so - about half a lifetime for me - and this performance really holds up. Love this!
One of my all time favorite stand up gigs.
This is EASILY one of the best bits of ALL TIME...
LMAO
So true, I lived this comedy routine..years ago
Same here for the last five years (or maybe 28 years).. until this year.. totally sober and loving it (although I miss wobbly nights I certainly don't miss the hangovers)
@@championsoundrecords wobbly nights and gatherings with friends..I miss that
Same here, I've drank maybe ten times in the last 2 years but before that I was a Goddamned Heathen. When you can tell the story about that one time you were drunk for a solid week. I miss having a friend called 🍺 that always helped with bad days.
My much younger days.
Then we grew up
I have watched a lot of comedy and this is one of the best bits of all time.
From a formerly active alcoholic,he is not far off with this skit. I laugh and am sad at the same time with this one.Very clever bit.
Congrats on your sobriety. Not an easy thing to beat an addiction, some poor people never do. Stay strong my friend.
Robert Blakemore TMI,but thanx for sharing...
MrDirtclodfight Why can’t someone say they’re an addict? Is he supposed to be ashamed of it?
Edward Chamberlin grow up nobody cares I'm in AA also who gives a shit
@@MrDirtclodfight tmi for sharing his afflictions but lemme tell you im in aa. your comment is the 6th stage of drinking lol
Haha. I saw this routine in 96'. I was just a teenager and thought it was funny but I can appreciate it WAY more now that I am in my mid 30's...
Touche! Been there done that 😉 ✌ 🌹
Wow....still relevant! How awesome is this
Never gets old 😂👏
Absolutely brilliant stand up
I keep watching this. It's my life story.
Mine too. I like "now the devil is bar tending" line and he shakes drinks and sets them on the bar!!!
There is a better life...
LUVED Larry as “The Doorman” on an episode of Seinfeld. Very funny stuff here too.
Hey it's that dude from every 2000's Disney channel movie ever lol
He was the doorman on the Seinfeld episode. "You think you're better than me!"
Knew I recognized him from somewhere! Good call
I recognize him as the Dean of the college the Nutty professor (Eddy Murphy) works in.
@Angelotube5000 We don't talk about that.
I think he was originally going to play George
Wasn’t he in 8 simple
Rules
Up all night many times back in the day. When you are buying beer at like 7a.m. at the convenience store on Sunday morning and the clerk looks at you and just KNOWS...
John Reichle, so true. As the Mexicans say, Verdad.
The clerk knows even if you're just buying a bag of chips.
Like I ever gave a rat's ass....
And a bag of spicy chicarrones
One of the greatest sets/bits of all time!!
I had some of the most comfortable sleeps of my lifetime, with the toilet seat as my pillow after drinking.
Thats so funny....very clever😂
Wow, I remember seeing this when it originally aired.
He was great in the Nutty Professor movies. Guy was a great comedy character actor
He is good in everything he does... Anyone remember him in Pretty Woman as the proprietor of a Clothing Boutique in Beverly Hills that kisses Richard Gere and Julia's asses while they were there
Big Mike That’s it! Thank you
Hilarious in Necessary Roughness too!! :P " I was strict, but fair" LOL
Yea, but he was never the same after the guinea pig thing.
See this kids? This is what actual video tape graininess looks like as opposed to a filter in video editing software. Larry Miller aka the Dad from '10 Things I Hate About You' is funny as hell.
Video... Tape...?
The dad from everything
No kids are watching this Lol
Seems like a stupid thing to be pissed about
ok granpa, lets get you to bed
This bit will be just as funny 100 years from now
This is the best performance of this bit!
I didn't know this guy was a stand-up comedian, I've only ever seen him in movies & TV.
pantslizard one of Jerry Seinfelds good friends a long time ago if not still I don't know
I used to teach a Breath Alcohol course for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the mid to late '90s, and we used this as a mood lightener. It never failed to get the class laughing their butts off!
I remember seeing Larry do this bit on the tonight show with Johnny hosting. He got called over to the couch.
BTW I love his baggy 80's suit. Lol
I never knew that this Man was a stand up comedian, all the years of watching Suburban Commando =P
Cannot tell you how many times I heard that 'prayer' while I was in the Navy. "Oh, I feel likeBLLLLAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH.
Oh, God, I'll never drink agaBLLLLLLAAAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHHH.
PleasepleasepleasemakeitstoBLLLBLLBBBAAAAARRRRRGHHHH."
This comedians delivery is amazing.
Watching this all I could keep thinking about was thank God for the DVD. I do NOT miss VHS. That being said,
Larry Miller is still hilarious
One of the alltime great routines.
Clean and genius comedy!
he was in movies too
five guys don't know ruby
Classic. Especially the part where you shout the bar!!!!
I don’t mind goin to work lookin like Keith Richards, I’ll turn that around n make it work for me! LMAO!!!!
I never knew he was comedian as I only know him as the Dean from the Nutty Professor.
I know him from Law & Order. I also knew he was a comedian but never checked his videos until I see this one on my suggestions!
I think he was also "The Doorman" from a Seinfeld episode.
@@Cybrsk8r Yes he stepped out to get a beer.
He was also the dad to Julia stiles & Larisa oleynik in 10 things I hate about you (1999)
An absolute classic!
Back when VH-1 was worth watching.
not even a VH-1 show
@@chrischar1969 : : isn't this HBO?
@@johnnyboycassidy749 Sunday Comics, Fox
what about pop up video? that shit was awesome
Yep! MTV, VH1, regular TV was wholesome, not the shit they propagate these days mos def
This is epic. Bless this man
Man back in the day when comedians were funny
People didn't get so easily offended at jokes back then. The world is losing its sense of humor.
Clearly watching the wrong comedians then if you don’t find any of them funny today
Such a classic bit. I get hungover just watching it 🥃
My biggest all night drunk ended with me hanging out downtown with a few guys not realizing they were homeless till I noticed their hands out for money.
This is so good. First Vin Diesel and now Larry Miller. I guess I’ve always respected LM.
A waitress with fresh stitches comes over and i think to myself someday i am going to marry that girl hahahaha
Shoot for the stars sir.
And this time I mean it.
Yeah but the stitches have to be fresh!
@@tolfan4438 They do.
Tofurkey
I got a new bar from this before I even watched it.
nighttime guy doesn't care about daytime guy
Nighttime guy is an absolute prick to daytime guy.
High Me: i'LL Do wHaT I wAnT!
Sober Me: Damn him to Hell.
The only hope is that daytime guy loses his job and nighttime guy is too broke to go out. Classic Seinfeld bit
Or morning guy...
There is a seventh level, but it is unattainable to most people. I have experienced it due to a rare alignment of circumstances:
1. I worked as a bouncer at a nightclub and finished up around 10 pm after the "non-alcoholic" teen party Sunday night at the club, which usually was more violent than the usual alcohol nights because of gangs, girls, and testosterone.
2. The manager of this nightclub referred to me as "the son he never had".
3. His wife was a nude dancer and owned a Porsche 911.
4. One of his former bouncers, now a best friend, owned a Limousine company and was also a "son he never had."
5. Through some accounting glitch, the nightclub had excess inventory of about 15 bottles of Cuervo 1800 Especial Tequila.
6. The nightclub was closed the next two days.
7. I had taken off the next day from my regular job for personal tasks. They were not done that week.
8. We decided to liquidate the excess inventory of Tequila over the next few hours.
9. We had a paid driver who owed child support to 5 or 6 different women and would love to work overtime.
10, We were members of the local hospitality workers union and received "club courtesy" (free admission) to most bars in the city.
So, we picked up the manager's wife after she got home along with a couple of other of her dancer friends. The Cuervo 1800 was in the freezer in the limo and we only drank Red Bull and some complimentary shots in the bars. We would refuel with the Cuervo 1800 as we drove from one bar to the next. At about 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, we parked behind a bar and while everyone else went inside, I sat in the air-conditioned limo with one of the wife's friends watching part of a movie, doing some body shots, and then she went inside and I took a nap. A couple of hours later, my manager awakened me, berated me for being low on manhood and handed me a Red Bull and a shot of 1800. At about 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, the owner of the limousine informed us that he had to clean it up and give it a maintenance check for a Monday evening event, so he dropped us off at the managers' house with the remaining two or three bottles of 1800. We went to the pool and then another "son he never had" came over and grilled steaks on the patio. The manager's wife wanted popsicles and my manager told me to ride with her to the grocery store. When we came out of the store, she put a popsicle in her mouth and then said that the brain freeze triggered a migraine, so she asked me to drive back to the house. There was a windy section of road between the grocery store and their house and I don't think I dropped below 50 mph on any curve. She really had a headache after that ride. After dinner, the third son drove me back to the nightclub to pick up my car and drive home. Jose Cuervo is a love/hate relationship.
LM on Law and Order: "We were just a couple of guys having a couple of drinks and.."
Briscoe: "...and what, you became a couple ?"
LM: laughs
This is his best version I've seen.
god's flashlight and the devil's tending bar, a classic for the ages
Larry is the man. He was on an episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: NUMBER ONE IN THE HOOD G, Alongside the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Carl BRUTANANADILEWSKI. Shoot had I been on an episode of ATHF I would feel like the luckiest guy alive, Way better than winning an Oscar, a Grammy .etc,
classic bit. reminds me of a time i got fired for still being drunk. i had been written up and warned to not miss another day... so i did the next best thing, came in to work shit faced. some guys tried to cover for me but someone told on me... and that was that. not my proudest moment but there you go.
Did you head straight to the bar when you left work that day? I would've. Or at least picked up a 12 pack on the way home. Deal with it tomorrow.
Aged 18 I came back from the pub at lunchtime whilst working at a meat factory/butchers, with the best excuse I could muster- that the police has been to the pub and refused to let anyone leave😂
As I was professing that I wasn’t actually drunk I fell over and pulled myself back up by gripping on to my managers trousers whilst laughing. (It was a shit job so I can laugh now)