Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking" (Live On Fernwood Tonight, 1977)

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Tom Waits performs "The Piano Has Been Drinking" from the album 'Small Change' live On Fernwood Tonight in 1977
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@williamthurmond4940 Күн бұрын

When the actors are so good you stop noticing it’s a performance.

@kenmarron1938 26 күн бұрын

I showed up here tonight to one of my favorite Martin Mull clips, RIP, you were a funny man!

@cal_nevari 25 күн бұрын

I saw Martin perform in person in the 70s in a club in Chicago. I had at least one of his comedy albums. 'What I really need right now is a Nurse' is one of the song lyrics that comes right to mind. Another was 'noses run in my family'. I remember he said at one of the shows, to the audience, "Thank you for coming. Or however you reacted." I liked his style of humor.

@interstellish 3 жыл бұрын

I love how Tom Waits is such a serious musician in so many ways, but he absolutely knows he's a vaudville act here and plays it up astonishingly well. The dude has incredible range as a performer.

@Momo-bb2fn 3 жыл бұрын

Is he? Is that what he meant to be? An act?

@KerouacsAccomplice 2 жыл бұрын

@Momo Read his wikipedia page for an insight or two..

@Momo-bb2fn 2 жыл бұрын

@@KerouacsAccomplice when I get a chance 👍

@vickio7890 2 жыл бұрын

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks do a really fun cover.

@Kaid_Studios 2 жыл бұрын

Since I've found Tom Waits I've looked up to him. I love his dedication to making a song more than the sum of its parts. Every song he writes has a live version that as a different evocation and act that ties everything together. At the same time he has dense lyrics that use american slang and literary references that beat the likes of Dylan. I genuinely can't find an album of his I don't like. From Rain Dogs to Bad as Me; Tom Waits has an approach that is only rivaled by the strangeness of bands like primus. Its Bukowski meets improv jazz.

@DennisW19copyy-lg1du 10 күн бұрын

I saw him in East Lansing in 1978 , fortunately the people at the next table left early so we finished their beer. Free beer why not

@IanqueParker 3 жыл бұрын

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." So deadpan but so friggin charming and humorous.

@odaydrums 3 жыл бұрын

the classic

@rosskstar 3 жыл бұрын

Now that joke had to be old even then...

@Southcoasting 3 жыл бұрын

It's apparently a Dorothy Parker line

@josephflorence3995 3 жыл бұрын

That response was genius! Henry Rollins get a lot of letters from fans. One of them was a paramedic and they were taking this beautiful girl to the hospital and she died on the way. The guy tells Rollins that he fell in love with her and he doesn't know what to do so he ask Tom Waits how he should respond. Tom said "She did the same thing to me too. Let her go."

@edwardjtruskyjr1921 3 жыл бұрын

Yes one of the best lines I've ever heard a $1.99 for all that you can stand

@gabriellerossonfilmstrailers 3 жыл бұрын

Saw him live in 99. He asked the audience what they wanted to hear and I was too shy to request this song. Biggest regret of my life.

@thBrilliantFool 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from the alternate universe where you did request the song. Tom Waits denied your request in favor of playing a different song so I guess ultimately it wasn't meant to be... 😱😉

@jamesbyerly766 3 жыл бұрын

@@thBrilliantFool haha nice

@tek6423 3 жыл бұрын

If that’s the biggest regret of your life you’re doing really well

@davohsaurus 3 жыл бұрын

The best regret

@donkeydump63 2 жыл бұрын

A guy in the audience at one of Tom Waits' shows yelled out for him to play Jersey Girl or another one of his more popular tunes. He responded by saying "You're still working at the airport?"

@prisonersforprofit 10 ай бұрын

martin mull and fred willard were so good together, throw in tom waits and you have a class show.

@natjonestower3035 3 жыл бұрын

Not even 30 yet, already sounds like he's gargling a chainsaw.

@lemmythebulldog8812 3 жыл бұрын

3 chainsaws

@petercelle1796 3 жыл бұрын

Stirring a glass of scotch with a rusty nail.

@8lackcaballotm200 3 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo

@Peggysmusic 3 жыл бұрын

Haha... best description of his voice ever!

@MelissaR784 3 жыл бұрын

He does sound like that,, but he's putting on an act for the audiences. Listen to his later music and songs.

@elhorrendo7026 10 ай бұрын

I just posted this elsewhere, but this video is the epitome of my comments on Tom's style are exactly what i was referring to: I know he's famous for that awesome, gravelly voice. But i love it even more when he kicks it back a cag and it becomes a bark. He is and has always just been a classic man in every way. Never a fashion slave, always had his own film noir, down on his luck, but charismatic detective look. I love the interviews in the 70's-80s where the talk show host has helmet hair, everything is beige, brown, washed out pastels , bell bottoms and big ties and bigfer collars. I almost see Tom in Black and white. He's a sight for sore eyes.

@jeffclement2468 9 ай бұрын

Hehe..."Beige is the color of resignation."- Beck

@CerealKillaChik76 26 күн бұрын

RIP Martin Mull- you were one of the funniest!!

@PamB95 3 жыл бұрын

Fernwood Tonight was such an underrated show, and Tom Waits is a genius.

@lauralbodin9172 3 жыл бұрын

🤫

@MelissaR784 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@MelissaR784 3 жыл бұрын

"I'd rather have e bottle in front of me instead of having a frontal labotomy." HAHAHAHA

@TheJohnnyBE 3 жыл бұрын

Underrated? Says who? Priceless. Still hysterical after all these years.

@raylarkin5004 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!👍🏼

@user-rm9zx7ln9i 3 жыл бұрын

Serious historic piece, but the line that always gets me is "she hates each and everyone of your friends, but you can't get served without her".

@goatface6602 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit like Warren Zevon type humor

@Hello1982 Жыл бұрын

hysterectomy peace

@Hello1982 Жыл бұрын

yes you can get served without her boo who

@isetta4083 Жыл бұрын

They're presenting the greatest poet of the 20th century as a comedy act

@Pandemonis Жыл бұрын

They play clueless for the script, but they really are clueless, dumbed by the act of Tom Waits.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

You don't think Tom knows he's hilarious?

@MichaelPaglia-bd2rc 25 күн бұрын

RIP Martin Mull. Glad you had Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight. I like this song other than "Step Right Up" and "Jersey Girl"[Yes, the original version].

@JAMoore-zz3ki 25 күн бұрын

Commenting in 2024..... If anyone ever does a biopic of Tom Waits, the actor Austin Butler would be perfect for the role. He resembles Tom a lot.

@RoccoSmith-oi2ii 2 ай бұрын

I memorized the whole Nighthawks at the diner album he has been a favorite since the 70’s

@winterlighthome 4 ай бұрын

Every single second of this is comedic genius. Master class. Pure master class.

@thehellyousay 6 ай бұрын

To think, Tom is the only one still living. I watched this live when I was a kid. Always got to stay up late when we visited relatives near the border to Detroit. Fernwood Tonight, The Midnight Special, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The 70s were the peak of American culture. It's all been downhill from there.

@jessetarter3460 6 ай бұрын

Martin mull is 80 and still alive

@dlp2006 3 жыл бұрын

“Bedlam and squalor “. “ it’s thataway “ brilliant

@tracylemme1375 3 жыл бұрын

After being introduced to The Piano Has Been Drinking, a friend and I drove to LA for aTom Waits concert. lol and behold but who walked in ? None other than the Fernwood tonight boys, Fred and Martin.

@daviddarnell3097 4 жыл бұрын

Love him. Beautiful lyrics. Wonderful music. Never sold out.

@mercoid 4 жыл бұрын

David Darnell ❤️

@daviddarnell3097 4 жыл бұрын

@@mercoid 🥰

@AnnaLVajda 3 жыл бұрын

If I was around in his day his wife would have had to fight me for him though I am glad he is happily married and someone looks after him. I was not even born till '79.

@celticray9491 3 жыл бұрын

define selling out note love you Tom

@daviddarnell3097 3 жыл бұрын

Brings his authentic self and does not condesend to the mean.

@pastapirate 2 жыл бұрын

I love the cuts to the interviewer reacting to the song. He does a great job of playing into the act.

@indigojones8 5 ай бұрын

And they played it perfectly in return.

@michellefu4002 7 ай бұрын

OMG, i didn't get to watch Fernwood Tonight back in the seventies, but I'd love to watch it. It looks hilarious!

@kendra4507 4 жыл бұрын

This song is beautiful... Tom Waits is incredible, and his music is timeless... His sound and style is unique to the point where it almost shouldn't exist, but how thankful we are that it does... Thank You Tom Waits for fifty years of wonderful entertainment...

@mercoid 4 жыл бұрын

Kendra ...❤️❤️❤️❤️

@wisconsindeathtrip Жыл бұрын

I honestly thought this song was a joke. It almost reached Spinal Tap levels.

@dntskdnttll 5 ай бұрын

@@wisconsindeathtrip A good third of his music or more is like that, intentionally. Waits likes to fuck with people. See also: all of his interviews.

@spy-v-spy1848 16 күн бұрын

@@mercoid a cross between Monk, howlin wolf, & Foster Brooks

@markberry3496 2 жыл бұрын

Saw Tom live around this time and it was one of the best live shows I've seen in my (now) 64 years. Most of the audience were bikers and Tom was wasted. He tried to pick a fight with a couple of the bikers. This man is one of the greatest songwriters/poets of his generation.

@gabriellerossonfilmstrailers 2 жыл бұрын

Amen

@jacobcasmus1882 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest ever .

@Fern635 Жыл бұрын

I don't often experience envy. But this here triggers it, for sure. I'm certain that you know how blessed you were to have been there for that. Those moments aren't being made anymore. (And yes - the cellphone has been drinking, not me 😉)

@jeffreyledergerber4136 Жыл бұрын

Ha damn..that must have been a memory maker.

@christinedalporto1992 15 күн бұрын

I repeat.....watching this often....it's great for Hump Day....just in case you're out of laughs.... ! :~))

@progger53 3 жыл бұрын

He also said "Reality is for people who can't face drugs"

@wesharrison6158 3 жыл бұрын

I can get behind that 100

@fog1962 3 жыл бұрын

Its true

@alonespirit_1Q84 3 жыл бұрын

Fact!

@beachcomber4141 Жыл бұрын

One of the most talented American's ever born. The GREAT Tom Waits.

@elhorrendo7026 Жыл бұрын

Tom Waits, George Carlin, Hunter S Thompson and Richard Prior...

@m46273 7 ай бұрын

Martin Mull and Tom Waits...can't lose

@guitarguru.3572 3 жыл бұрын

There will never be another like Tom Waits. Never.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

The number of people not getting that this is deadpan comedy is tragic. I despair for this generation.

@dianewilliams1125 11 ай бұрын

This song back in 77 ment somuch to me and s9till does! Love you Master Wait!❤❤❤The telephone is out of cigarettes! The piano has been drinking! Not me?

@davidsigalow7349 Жыл бұрын

I watched this show every night...RIP Fred Willard.

@thevideoride 2 жыл бұрын

This was absolutely precious. This is why KZfaq is so awesome. To be able to watch some obscure clip that happened so many years ago is so cool.

@kyleshepherd8639 Жыл бұрын

Definitely one of my favorite clips of him. I always feel like he was a time traveler, and he traveled back to the seventies from the present time, then lived the rest of his life til now.

@elhorrendo7026 Жыл бұрын

You totally nailed it! I had that feeling, but didn't think of it in those terms. Tom has always had a classic style. And a DIY, noir Americana style. That's why he doesn't look seem dated. He found his style, the 20s-50s and kept it. So he could have travelled backward and forward in time, then popped in to visit the washed out brown and pastel era of big collars and Claire's suit pants and stood out, like he belonged alongside Sinatra in the man with the golden arm or Bogart. He was never a fashion victim and he was a time traveller. He's still ripping out powerful music that has no expiry date and he's in his 80s by now. He was always cool without trying.

@BolanKeith 3 жыл бұрын

I think Tom and the two guys worked together seamlessly. They all played it straight. They were all obviously in on the act. Just brilliant.

@rakadoni8403 3 жыл бұрын

You reckon? Everyone in the comments is saying it was mean and contrived how the hosts and audience acted

@christopherkimball350 2 жыл бұрын

From what I can tell, this show was a parody of late night tv as it existed then, but set in small town America and with that mindset. The characters who host the show would react as they did because of how the show was set up! So I think everyone was in on the joke of Tom Waits moving through this like a hurricane of slouching confidence. I mean, in the “plot”, Tom Waits was only there at all because his car broke down! And he did whatever he wanted, got paid, and played the perfect song for the bit.

@fightermcwarrior7391 Жыл бұрын

To be fair, they all do and always have.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

@@rakadoni8403, get it yet?

@Ace_Hunter_lives Жыл бұрын

My understanding was that Mull and Waits had known each other for a while via the L.A. music scene and while not bosom buddies were friends. People forget that Mull played in bands out there and was a pretty good guitarist.

@joseph-ow1hf Жыл бұрын

I love that he's willing to be part of the gag. Chris Isaak was the star in a TV years ago, and he was always the butt of the joke. Made me like him even more.

@lipstickonapalin8360 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this live when it aired in 1977. Had just been turned onto Waits a few months prior

@shepmathe 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Same here.

@annagunter7782 3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Waits is beautiful, and generous with his music and humor, thanks Mr, waits, with all my heart! My husband and I fell in love listening to him on our way to, and from San Francisco, ain't music grand???!!!!!!

@spoonthemoon 3 жыл бұрын

He is and will always hold a place in the book of great American Songwriters. To me, he is the Mark Twain of generations. Saw him Live once in a church (Ha) but his band was awesome and you could hear every word of his authentic soul. A living GENIUS!

@jkgcproductions7589 Жыл бұрын

what a dismissively gorgeous performance

@tsmith1487 4 жыл бұрын

Damn... this is a slice: Fernwood 2 night. Hop in the way back machine kiddies. Did not know that Mr Waits made an appearance there. Genius.

@lastzeen 3 жыл бұрын

Fernwood 2 Night, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Soap. Among the most brilliant comedy shows, ever.

@mimim7026 Жыл бұрын

Saw him live at Beacon Theatre circa 1998-9ish(?). Whole place reeked of dank and the entire audience pulsated in synch like a giant waterfront junkyard carnival disco amoeba. Magical. Spiritual. The closest thing I ever had to a religious experience. Lou Reed was there. And during a quiet moment between songs, Lou yelled, "NOW is the BEST time!" And he was fuckin' right.

@motorheart9045 11 ай бұрын

I cannot wait to share Tom with my 25 yo son.

@joylynne1343 Ай бұрын

❤ This is sooo great;!!! I want to see it again !!! ... Love Tom Waits AND this song!! ... ... AND his GREAT QUOTE: ""I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!". 😅🤣😂 I agree.

@kmoecub 2 ай бұрын

I was 6 when I first watched this episode. Even then I knew that a laugh track was ruining television.

@leedaluciano9806 4 ай бұрын

I can’t handle the canned laughter..have some damn respect..this is a master at work here.

@williamsrmonroe8406 10 ай бұрын

Things could be so much worse. Love this man. FYI ballad of buster Scruggs. 😊

@Studio-62 4 жыл бұрын

I recall seeing this in the 70s. Was the first time I had seen or heard Waits, I thought he was just one of the fictional acts they had on the show. I think he may have been the only person who ever played themselves on the show. Made me laugh again here. Nice version of Piano too.

@jarrodstines5516 2 жыл бұрын

I was sleeping in my jacket and pair a trooper boots atop my covers on my bed, well, I usually crash on my couch, or in my chair, sew I 🙃figured it must be time to jump up and have a "nice" day 🙃beginning with my turning on my coffee, and some Tommy...love all you done ✔🙂and keep up all you do good sir...

@jasondutton9366 3 жыл бұрын

little did they know, 40 plus years removed, that piano has been drinking this entire time

@SR-lr7he 3 жыл бұрын

It must be the piano doing the drinking now because Tom stopped decades ago!

@PamB95 3 жыл бұрын

LOL!! So have I.....

@geraldward9765 3 жыл бұрын

I forgot how funny this show was. I watched Fernwood Tonight when it came out and loved every minute of it.

@cathdodd5072 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh. He is beautiful!

@BigfootForestVanIsle 4 жыл бұрын

Tom Waits is priceless!

@thBrilliantFool 3 жыл бұрын

Every human life is priceless. At least that's what they said in that MasterCard commercial I saw a couple decades back.

@chrisvesy7245 2 жыл бұрын

I used to party with guys who were actually like Wait's act back in the 70s What a wild time!!😆🍻

@MrBinaryluv 3 жыл бұрын

Still remember my professor in college playing this for us. then we had to write down everything we could recall of the song. Quite hard if it was your first time hearing it. Became a fan that day.

@gabriellerossonfilmstrailers 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the best Prof ever!

@sgtkeroro2821 2 жыл бұрын

It's stories like this that reminds me of how colleges are scams. Imagine paying tens of thousands, if not more, of dollars to watch a KZfaq video. Not all profs are bad, but the majority of the ones I've had sound exactly like what you're saying.

@gabriellerossonfilmstrailers 2 жыл бұрын

@@sgtkeroro2821 you win $100 for being smart enough to miss the point entirely. Can’t teach that. Bravo

@sgtkeroro2821 2 жыл бұрын

@@gabriellerossonfilmstrailers I wasn't replying to you, idiot.

@ellekaye3670 2 жыл бұрын

had the great fortune to see tom several times through his transcendentally transformative years, and, my god, his prolific raconteur performances were uniquely imbibed with drink and, later, through divine intervention, the elixir of love carried him sublimely. he is a genuinely amazing magnanimous soul

@TopazShane 3 жыл бұрын

What I don't understand is how can anyone dislike this? What a funny bit. For more laughs make sure you check out the longer versions of he Piano Has Been Drinking." It's hysterical.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

They don't understand the show. Ridiculous.

@TopazShane Жыл бұрын

@@elysehfm8797 i guess not. He is one of a kind and some people can't think outside the box.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

@@TopazShane, truth.

@natemiller770 3 жыл бұрын

Genius is the price for admission... insanity is the journey along the way... brilliance is the story told... legendary is the final destination.

@elhorrendo7026 Жыл бұрын

That's cool. I got the first two down pat. I don't think I'll get legendary status until after I'm dead 😉

@johnosborne2989 3 ай бұрын

Getting me a piano. ❤

@Boveyphil 3 ай бұрын

This is brilliant!

@debmccafferty1007 3 жыл бұрын

My sister and I instantly fell in love with this mysterious "stew bum" looking guy!! He really was cute.

@kevinhallisey5201 3 жыл бұрын

What a revelation. Used to watch Fernwood 2nite a lot, but had no idea he was on the show. Didn’t see it, never knew it happened.

@14belowzero56 3 жыл бұрын

The sheer genius of everything... the camera angles, the responses. There is not one thing in that bit that will not be revered and studied.

@elysehfm8797 Жыл бұрын

Except by the commenters here. 🙄

@Fern635 Жыл бұрын

If 1977 Tom Waits asked me to run away with him and leave my loving husband and children to live in his car and inhabit seedy lounges across the mid-west... I'm not saying I would do it... but I'd be tempted.

@MorlockTrxsh 3 ай бұрын

I’d do it for Tom Waits today bruh

@jeffersonspace 3 жыл бұрын

Someday I hope to go up to visit Little Reds Recovery Room. The show "Fernwood Tonight" was way ahead of its time.... at least to someone like me who ended up in art school.

@syd989 11 ай бұрын

He's Great in The Dead don't die.

@taxusbaccata9200 11 ай бұрын

Damn! I wanted to see that movie just because Waits was in it. Couldn't find any place where it was playing.

@cherylschmacher701 8 ай бұрын

🎶🎶🧜‍♀️🌹😹😹😹😹😹🌹🧜‍♀️🎶🎶😍

@krugcpa 2 жыл бұрын

There was a piano bar in the hotel near my apartment at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. A musician named Christoper Rolff (sp?) held court on Thursday nights during the late 1970s. He played many songs outside of the standard repertoire. This was a weekly staple. Many good memories here.

@xaviergutierrez8786 3 жыл бұрын

How the hell was an 11-year-old boy staying up late to watch this show, along with Hot L Baltimore? One of the worse voices I've ever heard and man what a great voice he has. Love his music.

@metislamestiza3708 3 жыл бұрын

such a growly gravelly voiced genius. i love you Tom!

@joesimon2018 3 жыл бұрын

Tom having fun with his persona

@canteventhough 3 жыл бұрын

I think this is my favorite version. I love seeing their reactions.

@TheObserver37 8 ай бұрын

Yet another, a testament to his abilities, being able to continually to play his art without being irked by everyone laughing at him and not taking this beautiful art a little more seriously

@TheScribeofLight 29 күн бұрын

What a lyricist. Oh, and how many other people could deliver a performance like this?

@bruceparker9353 6 ай бұрын

Martin is a great musician and comedian! Tom Waits did a great song, Short change got rained on by his own 38. Great entertainer.

@cecelia3045 3 жыл бұрын

Always love me some tom waits

@tedpeterson2956 2 жыл бұрын

I had to leave our 4 year old as collateral 🤣

@freakshowfilmfestival3591 3 жыл бұрын

I used to watch this as a kid on Nick at Nite. I am 41 now. Yeesh.

@wolffwerz Жыл бұрын

danke tom, sei umarmt, ich höre dich sooo gern

@andrewoplinger4759 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, so his voice always sounded like that!

@budhenry426 3 жыл бұрын

No, look at his older stuff like Ice Cream Man, I Hope That I Dont Fall In Love With You, Ol' 55... seriously, buy the Early Years albums, they're great.

@ferox965 2 жыл бұрын

Not on the first two records-Closing Time and The Heart of Saturday Night.

@elhorrendo7026 Жыл бұрын

Nope. According to Tom, he was a soprano on the church choir. Then his voice broke. "It's [his voice] a lot more manageable now" - Tom Waits.

@lucylillypad1512 Жыл бұрын

This man Tom Waits is a national treasure!

@mtroy0620 Жыл бұрын

People like Tom Waits and Donald Fagen make me proud to be American.

@regulatormachine2788 3 жыл бұрын

one of the best versions of this song!

@Kbaum752 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this show, really.

@tomjeffries58 3 жыл бұрын

So do I.

@fransheuvelmans45 3 жыл бұрын

A BEAUTIFUL version!

@LesCish 3 жыл бұрын

Classic Waits. Classic Mull. Never knew the two crossed paths. Only wish the laugh track wasn't included. Thanks!

@Nationalist101 3 жыл бұрын

I had a similar thing to say: this is truly a marvelous song; I just wish it didn’t include the laugh track! Cheers to you brother for knowing good music 🍻

@jezza669 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it a live studio audience laughing?

@eddieschott9912 3 жыл бұрын

@@jezza669 Fernwood had laugh track, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the show it spun off from did not.

@peterjohnson617 2 жыл бұрын

saw Tom do this @ the Capital in N.J. perhaps a year or so later.....I might very well have been the only one drunker than the piano. Thanks for all the great songs over all those years Tom.

@stevealbright135 3 жыл бұрын

Tom Waits for President 2024 !!!

@hisokamorow3756 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yes, Fernwood Tonight was the Shit. And Tom is my Hero. Remember this, actually, the song Tom did is a Classic. Check Out Small Change and his Great Acting history. RIP Brother Fred Willard, the best Character Actor and Co-Host😉,rayray ✊✌️

@curtisconrad3668 3 жыл бұрын

Three of entertainment's comic geniuses performing flawlessly. They just don't make 'em like that anymore

@elhorrendo7026 Жыл бұрын

Who were the other two, besides Tom? Not those two schmucks in hang glider collars who teaBag celebrities on a TV chat show for a living, surely!

@kimberlygolden7095 2 жыл бұрын

I wish the laugh track had been muted, Tom Waits is such a brilliant musician.

@oujiascrabble Жыл бұрын

That piano sure is talented!

@Nate-cg9mm Жыл бұрын

But surprisingly, and most definitely not, drinking. Talented, yes. Talented 🙏

@rexlee6255 3 жыл бұрын

I wish i could hear this without the laugh track

@tomjeffries58 3 жыл бұрын

That wasn't a track. Fernwood tonight had a small live audience. I saw this when it played on TV in the early 80's after the break he played 'All My Friends Are Married'.

@billyblobb4990 3 жыл бұрын

Get the album "Small Change" by Tom Waits.

@bertjetolberg103 3 жыл бұрын

billyblobb4990 i did 28 years ago

@bentiti7479 3 жыл бұрын

Sans ces rires de Bécasses ...

@NickHarman 3 жыл бұрын

It's the real thing - when he mentions leaving their 4 year old as collateral that's no fake laughter, I spat my tea right here,

@danjv 3 жыл бұрын

I bought the "Small Change" album when it came out. Lots of great songs there. Havent gotten to see Tom live yet

@puffnisse 3 жыл бұрын

And you wont ever do that, he has stopped touring and playing recording music.

@spoonthemoon 3 жыл бұрын

He did an album of songs with Keith Richard's not too long ago. I heard him on NPR (Terry Gross, Fresh Air I believe) and he was candid about the whole thing. Keith sought him out and drove up in a van with a trailer full of instruments. Tom was amazed that Keith had a " Tunesmithe" as a companion. A GREAT interview and a cool collaboration.

@buffalee 3 ай бұрын

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIUS

@THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW 4 жыл бұрын

His deadpan serious delivery is probably why the audience is reacting with laughter. They don't get him.

@alvarhanso6310 4 жыл бұрын

Actually Fernwood2Nite was an incredibly hip show, their audience was attuned to Martin Mull's subversive musical comedy as well. Don't be fooled by his blonde milquetoast character, he's the anti-Tom Waits insofar as he takes the exact opposite tact. He and Fred Willard did a great special in the 80s for HBO/Cinemax called The History of White People in America.

@markbiedermann7467 4 жыл бұрын

Most likely it is a laugh track. Martin Mull's reaction is pure comedy! I was about 13 when I saw this and I thought Tom Waits was amazingly funny. It wasn't until I was on tour with Blind Illusion and our then bassist extroirdanaire Les Claypool had a tape of Tom Waits. He still makes me laugh although he is Deadly Serious. Watch his great performance as the Deciever in Doctor Parnassis Imaginarium I love Tom Waits

@markbiedermann7467 4 жыл бұрын

C'mon dude those lyrics are hilarious! He's clowning Billy Joel.

@Daniel-ox1sb 3 жыл бұрын

the show is satirical, it's not really a talk show.

@terminalpreppie8439 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, if you don't find the humor in the song I don't think you get him either

@hair703 Жыл бұрын

So good!

@larryhovekamp4318 3 жыл бұрын

This was television!

@hervebonningue5242 3 жыл бұрын

Les deux minables qui le reçoivent ne se doutent même pas qu'ils ont un génie devant eux . On ne les retiendra pas, et lui restera dans l'Histoire comme un soleil !!

@laughing-cat 4 ай бұрын

The brilliance!!!!!!! 🤩

@miket.220 3 жыл бұрын

I am juuust old enough to remember this show when it broadcast, though I can't say I remember this episode. Think the humor might have gone over my head at the time.

@Lelabear 3 жыл бұрын

Funny shit! I watched this show back in the late 70s and jumped at the chance to go see Martin Mull (and his Fabulous Furniture) live in Dallas at a dinner theater. What a fun evening, he was a true comic genius -- a master of charming insults!