The Truth About Comedians

Most of the time my job doesn’t suck.  As far as jobs go, I’m pretty lucky, and it’s a good one and it sends me all over the place and I interview various levels of celebrities.  Mostly b-list celebrities, but every once in a while I get a good one…like Rob Lowe who definitely did NOT suck, and Harrison Ford who sucked so bad.

Anyway, I flew out to LA yesterday (ahhh, the weather, so civilized!) and headed straight to a taping my company is doing of a bunch of famous comedians “hanging out and having a conversation” which is supposed to be funny.  There were a ton of familiar faces there like Kathy Griffith (where does that woman NOT show up, seriously??), Dave Attell, and Janeane Garofalo just to name a few. 

Now, if you went to college in the 90’s like I did, you may have an affinity for Janeane as she represented that whole grunge thing we were all doing at the time in a very cool way.  SHE was cool.  SHE was my hero.  SHE was different from the other girls.

Well…she is pretty much exactly the same, right down to her fashion sense.  Except for some odd reason I no longer find her incredible lack of enthusiasm charming, as a matter of fact, it was just plain draining.  Does this mean I’m OLD??  Does this mean that my teen-angst is completely gone, and I no longer hate “the man”?  Is it so wrong that I like “shiny, happy people”? 

The one highlight from last night is that I met Dave Foley, and if you know anything about anything 90’s, you would know that Kids in the Hall was basically the best thing on television that entire decade.  So I went right up to him and told him so.  And turns out, you don’t have to be a miserable, dark, awful person to be a funny comedian—you can be totally awesome, and happy and upbeat!  I found the unicorn of comedy!  Oh wait…he’s Canadian.  That explains it.