Cult Comedy Heroes Have Bills to Pay, Too
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He said to me this summer, you know, you've always been like the loser, like the guy who all the losers can flock to and you're a loser too and that's always been like your stick. |
| 0:10.0 | And it wasn't a stick a while ago but it's a stick now like you're doing pretty well and you're getting married to a really hot girl man like you can't keep claiming you're the loser |
| 0:24.0 | this is loser. This is death, sex and money. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm not dying for these bastards. |
| 0:29.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:33.0 | Look, I'm not going to discuss my private life, total strangers. |
| 0:35.8 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:37.6 | It's a matter of money? |
| 0:39.0 | I mean a sale. |
| 0:40.0 | Hmm? |
| 0:41.0 | I'd only lived in New York for a few weeks when I first saw Chris Gethert. |
| 0:47.8 | It was at an improv show with a Halloween theme, and at the door everyone was warned that your clothes might get dirty. |
| 0:55.2 | And of course, at the end of the show, half of us were caked in fake blood. |
| 0:59.4 | There were lots of performers on stage that night, but Chris Gathert stood out. He was very funny, but mostly |
| 1:06.7 | it was that he was intense and kind of weird. And then I started seeing him everywhere, first on a commercial, then on the office, and then on |
| 1:16.8 | Louis, but I also saw him on the subway. Chris Gathert didn't feel like a celebrity to me. He felt like a guy I knew who got to |
| 1:26.6 | hang out sometimes with famous people. |
| 1:28.6 | Let's give it up for our host, Chris Geithler. |
| 1:32.9 | Then a friend of mine from junior high in West Virginia |
| 1:35.4 | got in touch with me and said that her rap group |
| 1:37.7 | was performing on this public access show |
| 1:39.9 | in Manhattan hosted by Chris Geithert. So of course I went to the taping and had no idea what |
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