Was this the show that had the "Lame List" skit? I remember seeing Kim Thayil from Soundgarden on there, and maybe Jerry Cantrell from AIC. Just curious. I'm a midwesterner that didn't see the show until it was on Comedy Central.
Evicerate the Proletariat
Yep! Or, What's Weak, This Week.
In your face, Space Coyote!
Yes, this show had the Lame list. There were other great classics I remember from that era. The Grunge that stole Christmas...sigh. I think the lame list was one of my favs. Along with Bill Nye the Science Guy.
shareKim Thayil for sure. He has a 'distinct' look. I didn't recognize Jerry, but he might have been there.
shareLAME LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME!!!!!
It was a skit that was so dumb it was funny!!! One of my favorite Almost Live! skits!!!
"It wallows in lameness!!!!!"
"Breast Reduction Surgery?!"
LAME LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME!!!!!
My favorite is when The Lame List did an editorial when King 5 decided to dump Sports reporter Lou Gellos and that week the announcer says, "Lou Gellos is no longer on King 5", which was followed with "LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME!!!"
I agreed wholeheartidly!!!!
"Bands who make it big but their guitar player still bums cigarettes off you!"
"...actually that's pretty cool." (Kim Thayil)
:)
I cannot think of any skit on Almost Live! that had any more appearances on the show than did the Lame List. In my DVD collection I have 26 Lame List skits as well as appearances by Courtney Love, Dave Grohl, Sound Garden and The Presidents of the United States. There were also several Grunge related skits as well. I have been thinking about burning all of this Grunge related stuff on to a DVD. I think it would be well over an hour of material anyway.
share> I have been thinking about burning all of this Grunge related stuff on to a DVD.
As I began reading your post I was thinking just that. In addition to (nearly) complete episode sets, you could create related collections, like all the Lame Lists; recurring sketches (Billy Quan/Speedwalker, etc, together); local spoofs (Lynnwood/Ballard/Renton/Kent...), etc.
"Be Quicker of Mind Than of Tongue"
I believe I will put this disk together very soon and use the 4 hour mode on my DVD recorder. It will contain 16 Billy Quans Mind your Manors, 13 High Five'n White Guys, 6 Cops (in different Seattle area's), 26 Lame List, 16 Bill Nye the Science guy, 9 Speedwalker (Bill Nye), 9 Almost Live! Training Films, 8 DJ Randy Scott (Pat Cashman), 5 The Worst Girlfriend in the World.
Then I will finish it off with the most gut bust'in stuff I can cherry pick off of the 80 hours of material that I have to chose from.
Tell me, would any true fan of this show turn down a copy of this ?
And it is much easier than toting around 42 DVD's with me everywhere I go.
Check back and I will let you know when this project get's completed.
> Tell me, would any true fan of this show turn down a copy of this ?
Hell, no. I will watch this space for developments.
Do you have a NW collection yet? Meaning material specific to the NW, like the Men of Kent Calendar Shoot, Lynnwood School of Beauty, Ballard Driving Academy, etc? (Forgive me if I'm getting these titles wrong, I'm going by some hazy memory.)
"Be Quicker of Mind Than of Tongue"
Of the skits that you mentioned, the answer is Yes, Yes & Yes.
I have at least 80 or more hours with over 240 commercial free episodes in my collection and these are all the Northwest versions, so that there are lots of hours of just Northwest related skits like all three you mentioned and hundreds more I don't have time to mention in this reply. I have cataloged this collection with hand written notes so if there was any other skits you were interested in, I would say there is probably a 95% chance I have it.
I believe I have at least 95% of all of the episodes that were rerun from 1989 to 1999, the ones before that have never been reran, at least not that I know of. I hope that I have answered all of your questions to your satisfaction.
I've seen your other posts so I know you have all that good stuff. I just meant like, a best-of collection on a single disc.
"Be Quicker of Mind Than of Tongue"
As far as I know, The Lame list only featured Soundgarden and Gruntruck. Gruntruck made a one time only appearance And Keister mentioned them. Soundgarden was never mentioned.
Courtney Love and the Presidents never did the Lame List, but the Presidents performed on an episode for Seattle.
Also Keister always said "brought to you by the heavy Metal commnunity" followed with them saying, "LAME"!!
You have really got your Almost Live! Grunge related skits down goleafs84.
There were a couple different line ups of the Lame List cast in the 26 episodes that I have on disk.
Also Dave Grohl was on two or three shows as well and they did lots of other Grunge related stuff as well. They had one skit called Rock Star Fantasy Camp with Dave Grohl & Mike McCready and some others I believe.
They also did a commercial for "Headbanger Shampo" which was very funny.
Right now I'm going through about 85 hours of Almost Live! shows (approx 250 shows) and I'm cherry picking all of the grunge related stuff out along with the Billy Quan, Cops, High Five'n White Guys and all of the other repeated series of skits. I will also be adding my favorite other skits in as well.
I have completed the first DVD and it runs about 4HR & 15Min. I hope to get about 4 or 5 of these DVD's in this best of collection with every grunge related skit that I have on these.
All of my Grunge buddies will be very happy when I hand them these DVD's.
"...brought to you by America's hevy metal community"
"Jobs that start in the morning!"
"Way lame!" "Jolly lame!" "That wallows in lameness!"
"Girlfriends who won't lend you money!"
"LAME! LAME! LAME! LAME!"
"R rated movies with no nudity!"
"That wallows in lameness!"
"Lou Gellos is no longer on King 5"
"LAME, LAME, LAME, LAME"
That was one I agreed with wholehartidly!!!
I wondered if the writers got into hot water with King 5 Management for that editorial piece the week Gellos was dropped???
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