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Friday, July 23, 2004 Comedy travels
JIM KNIPPENBERG | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
It's a one-two punch that leaves sides hurting from laughter, jaws worn out from all the grinning and hands hurting from bursts of applause. They're that funny. Wild Bill Bauer, celebrating his 25th year as a comedian, is currently on tour with Louie Anderson but taking a break for Saturday's show. His resume includes 25 TV appearances and a stint writing for Roseanne. His new CD is Idiot Box. Lord Carrett has several TV credits, including appearances on Showtime and A Dating Story. His new CD is Unsweetened and can be heard on both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Fine. So let's separate them and ask them the same 7 questions. See how alike they really are. Lord said: The hardest thing about following Bill ... Would be not slipping in the blood and carnage. I love working with the guy ... it pumps my adrenalin. If I weren't doing stand-up comedy, I'd be ... An artist. That's a straight answer, but true. Breakfast with Bob and Tom is like ... Breakfast with America because there are so many listeners. I did the show Tuesday and my Web site got 9,000 hits. They're the new Tonight Show, in that it's where comedians can get started. The next time I have a week free, I'm going to ... Immerse myself in rockabilly. The best part of my act ... I'm a punch counterpunch or recovery comedian - like (Johnny) Carson. Tell a bad joke, get a groan, come back with a much better one. You let yourself look stupid for a bit. There's no place like home, but ________ comes close. Record stores. One thing I want to tell Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky ... You don't have to put chili on everything. I love the stuff, but you people are crazy with it. One thing you should have asked me but didn't ... What made me want to be a comic. It was watching Hollywood Squares and the question was "What is the penalty for bigamy?" The answer was "Two mothers-in-law." That really set the hook for me. Wild Bill said: The hardest thing about following Lord ... Is I'm in a different intellectual range. He's already put the morons to sleep, so I have to wake them. If I weren't doing stand-up comedy, I'd be ... A paramedic. Breakfast with Bob and Tom is like ... Totally zany. Tom knows I'm not a big ad-lib guy, so he's always putting me on the spot. Sometimes I recover OK, sometimes I don't, but there's always a joke in there. The next time I have a week free, I'm going to ... Lay in bed and read. The best part of my act ... Is the shock value. I make a lot of death and dying jokes and there's nothing I enjoy more than seeing half the audience laugh and the other half get a look of pure horror. I could be better at ... I'd love to be better at racquetball. I've been playing 15 years, but I was 39 when I started, so I'm never going to be an A player. There's no place like home, but ________ comes close The mid-South. I love Cincinnati, Indy, Louisville, Lexington. I actually do like the weather. If I were relocating, it's there. One thing I want to tell Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky ... See our show. It will change your perceptions about stand-up comedy. |
