Showing posts with label Jerry Fairish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Fairish. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Vertically Striped Radio - Episode 25: Trace Smith of the Southeast Sports Beat, Bad Bengals hair, and the Security Guy Irv Conspiracy

Trace Smith of the Southeast Sports Beat dropped by Vertically Striped Radio to drop some knowledge about the North Carolina sports scene and to give a little advice about how I should have the Sports Guy sign my Book of Basketball this week at his Denver book signing. He was a delight and even hung around to be a contestant in the first ever edition of "Best of 13" against Face Ventura. The topic for "Best of 13" was "D-League team or Minor league hockey team?" Face hung in nobly, but Trace had too much knowledge of the NBA D-League to be denied.

Jerry Fairish called in to formally announce that he is not Security Guy Irv, although Major Minority produced some compelling audio evidence. I believe Jerry, as though Jerry does seem like a nice guy, I'm not sure he's as "nice" as he'd have to be to truly play SGI. In true conspiracy segment style, we'll leave it up to you to decide.

The Vertically Striped Music Recommendation this week was "Cease to Begin" by Band of Horses. As always, you can listen in on the widget below or download the podcast at www.blogtalkradio.com/verticallystripedradio; You can even subscribe on iTunes if you like...just search for Vertically Striped Radio, we're right there!






Here is the hairstyle that got 8th grader Dustin Reader suspended from school. I know it's tough being a Bengals fan, and to be fair that hair looks hideous; but this kid doesn't deserve to be suspended over this. School administrators need to chill out, the Bengals are good...he may never live long enough to enjoy it ever again! All we are saying is give Meep a chance!


Here is a news local news story featuring Dustin's plight! I love how his father treats this as a free speech issue, and is drawing a line in the sand that his boy is not going to get his hair changed. I love a man that fights for his principles.





Sunday, September 20, 2009

Vertically Striped Radio - Episode 18: Fantasy Comedy Draft

Today was the monumental Fantasy Comedy Draft on Vertically Striped Radio, that's right, we had 7 guys on the phone all at the same time, and we were drafting funny people to make up fantasy teams of funny people to compete in a contest where votes determine the winner. You say, "What a waste of time." I say, "Visionary new way to select the president of the United States."

Either way, I think the audio was mostly entertaining, it involved the seven of us picking our comedians, the Ed singing songs, MJ drafting himself (Oh yes, he did!), and a bunch of other randomness including the seven of us "autodrafting" for the one guy who signed up to play and then didn't show up.

I don't know if it was a commercial success, but I enjoyed myself greatly, which is really all I was going for with this crazy business. If you're interested, the teams are listed below for your perusal, and then you can vote on which is the strongest team above.

The teams:

Team Name: The Originals
Team Owner: MJ Amory a.k.a. MJA on the message board


Movie Star 1: Adam Sandler
Movie Star 2: George Carlin
TV Star 1: Steve Carell
TV Star 2: Danny McBride as Kenny Powers in Eastbound and Down
Stand-up: Louis Black
Wild Card: Adam Carolla
Message Boarder: MJA


Team Name: The Ed's Super Deluxe Funny Team
Team Owner: The Ed, a.k.a. Pey Pey 23 on the message board


Movie Star 1: Chris Tucker
Movie Star 2: Robin Williams
TV Star 1: Fred Sanford
TV Star 2: Dave Chappelle
Stand-up: Eddie Murphy
Wild Card: The Jerky Boys
Message Boarder: Dick Banks

Team Name: The Auto-Draft All-Stars
Team Owner: Dombag85 a.k.a. The guy who didn't show up


Movie Star 1: Dane Cook
Movie Star 2: Rob Schneider
TV Star 1: Carrot Top
TV Star 2: Bea Arthur
Stand-up: Carlos Mencia
Wild Card: Spanky Brown
Message Boarder: LiJay

Team Name: The Fashionable Males
Team Owner: Aaron from the No Name Show a.k.a. BonaduceSux on the message board.


Movie Star 1: Steve Martin
Movie Star 2: Chris Farley
TV Star 1: Phil Hartman
TV Star 2: Chris Rock
Stand-up: Daniel Tosh
Wild Card: Stephen Colbert
Message Boarder: Security Guy Irv

Team Name: Rant in E-Minor
Team Owner: Face Ventura


Movie Star 1: Christopher Walken
Movie Star 2: Richard Pryor
TV Star 1: Susie Essman (Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm)
TV Star 2: Jason Alexander
Stand-up: Bill Hicks
Wild Card: The Great Gonzo
Message Boarder: Jerry Fairish

Team Name: The Infamous El Guapos
Team Owner: High Plains Grifter


Movie Star 1: Will Farrell
Movie Star 2: Chevy Chase
TV Star 1: Jerry Seinfeld
TV Star 2: David Feeney
Stand-up: Tom Hanks
Wild Card: Flight of the Conchords
Message Boarder: Cousin Brandon

Team Name: Stand up and Deliver
Team Owner: Craig Dodge a.k.a. Me a.k.a. socnorb777 on the Message Board


Movie Star 1: Woody Allen
Movie Star 2: Gene Wilder
TV Star 1: Bob Newhart
TV Star 2: Conan O'Brien
Stand-up: Mitch Hedberg
Wild Card: Homer Simpson
Message Boarder: The Ed

Team Name: Fusilli Larry
Team Owner: Jerry Fairish a.k.a. Larry a.k.a. PhillyBillyRules


Movie Star 1: Bill Murray
Movie Star 2: Dave Letterman
TV Star 1: David Cross
TV Star 2: Norm McDonald
Stand-up: Gilbert Gottfried
Wild Card: Saturday Night Live
Message Boarder: Dave Dameshek