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The Opening Act with Comedian/Musician Henry Phillips

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Comedian/Musician Henry Phillips (You and Your Fucking Coffee, Henry's Kitchen) recounts a night out bar hopping with friends after opening for a famous comedian, then Hannes and Christine proceed to guess which comedian he's talking about. Plus, we talk about the cinematic quality of You and Your Fucking Coffee. Here's a few links to help you get the most out of Story Worthy- if you're listening on an iPhone, all you need to do is tap the cover art while the show is playing, and you'll see the episode notes, including the links. There is one to subscribe, http://bit.ly/2eSlJZw please do! There's one to our Facebook page and to our email address. We'd love to hear from you, either there, or on our survey at wondery.com/survey. You'll also find some special deals courtesy of our sponsors like Hello Fresh (promo code STORY30) Casper Mattress, and Audible (promo code STORYWORTHY). It's good karma guys! See our Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and our California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

You're finally at that hot new spot, the one your friends keep raving about, sitting across from your date.

0:06.6

It's going another round.

0:08.3

Really well. And that dish you've been dying to try? Oh, it's headed your way. You can smell it.

0:14.2

Here it's sizzling fresh off that skillet as it comes closer, closer, and served. Go ahead. Enjoy. After your phone sneaks a bite first, when you're with

0:24.1

Amex, it's not if it's going to happen, but when? American Express don't live life without it.

0:30.9

Hey folks, it's Hanna's Finney. Thank you for supporting Storyworthy. Not only the people who actually

0:36.3

give us money, but the people will give us thanks. Sometimes you go on Twitter and you say, I like at Storyworthy. Not only the people who actually give us money, but the people will give us

0:37.7

thanks. Sometimes you go on Twitter and you say, I like at Storyworthy. That's all it takes. Thank you. content.

1:07.6

Hey guys, it's Henry Phillips, and I'm drinking my fucking coffee right now, and you're listening to Storyworthy. Welcome to the Storyworthy.

1:19.6

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.

1:34.8

Welcome to Storyworthy.

1:43.7

My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from the grounds of Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the world's largest music festival.

1:47.8

This is like the 44th time we've come from Summerfest.

1:49.7

But this time we have a really good excuse.

1:50.2

Why?

1:53.2

Because our topic today is the opening act.

1:53.9

Okay, the opening act. And I opened for Robert Klein at Summerfest in the year of Harmer, Hi, Harmer, Haram.

1:59.0

Now, what stage were you on exactly the comedy stage how many comedy

2:02.9

stages were there at that time one it's a it's a music festival that has one comedy city it's got like

2:08.0

eight to ten music stages various genres and then uh so what they did is in the old days they had like

2:15.9

a big amphitheater where i once saw the almond brothers Brothers. Yeah, you heard me. And then next to it for some reason, next to the big amphitheater was the comedy stage. And so I'm watching Jay Leno there once. I know the names are dropping like flies. And he's talking, what about Wonderbread? And all of a sudden, Eric Clapton starts his show. It's about 100 feet. It's like, d'arn down, down, jail. I was like, no way you can hear me. It was completely insane. So then they took, they tore down the old amphitheater, built a brand new amphitheater, which they turned around because it's on Lake Michigan, the whole thing, so that the

2:50.8

sound would go out over Lake Michigan and not into the city. So it'd bother anybody. Brilliant.

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