One of the greatest comedy bits ever.

I’m in my 29th year as a stand up. This is sheer comedic genius, and the most difficult format. You could do this routine in a church and it is still hysterical.

Both the funniest and most honest jokes about drinking ever committed to film.

Crazy how 'looking like Keith Richards' is still an accurate joke 30 years later

For me, the worst part was hearing the birds chirping after an all nighter. Especially when the sun hadn't quite come up and it was still relatively dark outside. Those first chirps were the "uh-oh" moment.

One of the greatest truths of all time. Love Larry Miller.

Larry Miller is an American national treasure

After being on the deck of a cruise ship in 100 degree heat with a hangover, keeping that pledge became a lot easier. It's been nearly 20 years since I've been seriously drunk. I didn't give up drinking entirely, just getting wasted. The mild buzz does me just fine.

I missed this guy. The 90s has been his highlight in movies and I enjoyed them.

"I drink to make other people more interesting." Ernest Hemingway

"I don't mind going to that board meeting looking like Keith Richards." 😂

Larry Miller is a national treasure.

Actually had the "we could buy this bar" fantasy with drinkin' buddies in the distant past. Still makes me laugh.

the 90's were a great time for comedians

When Larry yelled "We're drivin' to Florida" He sounded like George Carlin.

I’ve had the “thick blue drink” at a sci-fi/role playing game convention. Served at a room party and called Toxic Waste. It was made with Everclear. Don’t know if they used Kool-aide or Gatorade to get the blue but one of the hosts did tell me it had a splash of spearmint Scope. Served in a 5 gallon biohazard bucket with dry ice in the bottom. An alcohol slushee! I was told I held a conversation with a Buddha statue. Ah the good old days.

I never knew this guy did stand up, I've missed out. Been level 5 LOL

My favorite bit of all time. This touched my soul.

One of my favorite comedy routines ever, right up there with Who's on First and the Victor Borge bit about pronunciation. Thanks for sharing. And I don't give a rat's about the tracking. I'm just glad the audio is clean.

This is totally like AA for the comedy goers. I too had some laughs and also looked into myself with sadness because you do go through those levels. You rob from your sleep and money to get a moment of feeling like you are the king of the world with your buddies. For me I would actually go out often alone and see strangers as friends and look at the time and think I can do this. I can go out and still get up for work. So many days of working with head aches and rot gut. I actually see this skit as a confirmation to keep sober.

Larry's style of delivering a joke is unmatched....even to this day He's the best.

" . . as long as I get 31 hours of sleep tomorrow." too real.

this is so well written and delivered. classic.

This is classic. This really brings back some awful drinking days. His delivery and timing is so great that is really makes me not want to drink at all.

The sun is like God's flashlight - that is freaking brilliant!!

Larry Miller...one of the best Law & Order episodes I ever saw. It was so good, they invited him back to play the same character. Outstanding!

Drinking is simply borrowing happiness from tomorrow. You always have to pay the piper.

One of my favorite bits of all time.

To this day I still randomly shout out "WE'RE DRIVING TO FLORIDA..."

Level 6: my friends and I went to the horse races still in our tuxedos from the ball the night before. Still can't remember how that day ended.

I remember watching this as Comedy special on HBO right before Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in Tokyo. Freshman year in college. February 1990.

Wow, who has not been thru the 5 levels of drinking?

God this makes me feel old but during this I kept wanting to grab the remote and find the tracking button

Damn, he nailed it. Recalling a party when I was in the Navy stationed in the UK, around 4am someone had the idea to stay up the rest of the night to catch the 7am train to London and continue drinking along the way... but then the came the sun rise... ouch.

This is EASILY one of the best bits of ALL TIME...

This bit is Hall of Fame - like a Beethoven symphony, Picasso painting. One for the time capsule.

I don't drink but I'm addicted to KZfaq. Many is the time I saw the sun creeping up and thought, "uh-oh..."

Stage 6: We should get some coke...

The whole audience has had the “stay up all night” convo with themselves 😂

This is the first time I’ve seen this clip since I was a kid. Can’t believe I actually saw this when it originally aired but always remembered it. While it was funny to me back then, i didn’t understand it the way I do now and the man is spot on. Haha

I'm not sure what stage this was, but me and my friend were in a bar once, and we were so drunk the barman said he wasn't serving us anymore. So we walked out of the pub and immediately forgot that had happened, and said "Ooh, this bar looks nice, let's go in here!" So walked into the same bar where the bartender said ".... I just told you like, 20 seconds ago I'm not serving you" and we were like "OOPS! Maybe we are drunk" Fabulous :D

I first heard this skit on the radio over 20 years ago and have been looking for it ever since. Thanks for uploading!

I watched this when it was originally shown , I video taped it and wrote the bit out and learned it . I would do the bit from time to time and once in awhile people would ask me to do it . I remember that version he referred to the blue drink as the “stuff you soak combs in at the barber shop . “ 20 years since I last even thought about it . Thanks for the laughs Larry .

I saw Larry open for Stephen Wright on Halloween eve of 1992 in Pullman, WA. Did this bit. He had the crowd rolling almost more than Steve did. One of the best comedy acts I've ever seen.

One of the most underrated comedians ever.

From a formerly active alcoholic,he is not far off with this skit. I laugh and am sad at the same time with this one.Very clever bit.

This dude really went out there and bared his soul with this comedy "bit"... An all timer of a set.

Cannot tell you how many times I heard that 'prayer' while I was in the Navy. "Oh, I feel likeBLLLLAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH. Oh, God, I'll never drink agaBLLLLLLAAAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHHH. PleasepleasepleasemakeitstoBLLLBLLBBBAAAAARRRRRGHHHH."

US Navy: 5am is when you start heading back to the ship for breakfast!!!

Never heard of him before this got recommended to me. This man slayed in this bit.

Great classic late 80s early 90s stand up, the stuff they used to show on Comedy Central all the time...Rita Rudner!

Can't beat the classics.Thank you, Larry Miller.Thank you, variedgrace.

Haha. I saw this routine in 96'. I was just a teenager and thought it was funny but I can appreciate it WAY more now that I am in my mid 30's...

This bit will be just as funny 100 years from now

I remember watching this on VH1 when it first came out and it's still funny today. I always liked Larry Miller and felt he was (is) very underappreciated. Too many comics rely on broad, dirty humor for cheap laughs; Larry was a little more adult and cerebral, which is exactly why I love his comedy.

My favorite comedy piece is brilliance by a master in Larry Miller!!

My biggest all night drunk ended with me hanging out downtown with a few guys not realizing they were homeless till I noticed their hands out for money.

See this kids? This is what actual video tape graininess looks like as opposed to a filter in video editing software. Larry Miller aka the Dad from '10 Things I Hate About You' is funny as hell.

One of my all time favorite stand up gigs.

The BEST! I still drop stuff from it in everyday conversations. 😎💯🤣

I never knew that this Man was a stand up comedian, all the years of watching Suburban Commando =P

I used to teach a Breath Alcohol course for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the mid to late '90s, and we used this as a mood lightener. It never failed to get the class laughing their butts off!

He was the doorman on the Seinfeld episode. "You think you're better than me!"

Hey it's that dude from every 2000's Disney channel movie ever lol

LUVED Larry as “The Doorman” on an episode of Seinfeld. Very funny stuff here too.

Up all night many times back in the day. When you are buying beer at like 7a.m. at the convenience store on Sunday morning and the clerk looks at you and just KNOWS...

I have watched a lot of comedy and this is one of the best bits of all time.

So true, I lived this comedy routine..years ago

I had some of the most comfortable sleeps of my lifetime, with the toilet seat as my pillow after drinking.

I didn't know this guy was a stand-up comedian, I've only ever seen him in movies & TV.

you can see it that way, or enjoy the beginning of day.. the birds chirping, the sun rising, knowing you are there to experience all in its totality, being one with nature and grateful for life and this magnificent gift of creation... (that is, before passing out and sleeping it off the rest of the day as your wife writes a list of all things she will be discussing with you; more like telling you off because you know you are in the wrong and that is her time to recollect all 13 years of imperfections and bad behavior you have made while being together which she has kept all records ordered by date..)... but it's worth it!! lol

Wow....still relevant! How awesome is this

I remember seeing Larry do this bit on the tonight show with Johnny hosting. He got called over to the couch. BTW I love his baggy 80's suit. Lol

He was great in the Nutty Professor movies. Guy was a great comedy character actor

I keep watching this. It's my life story.

Such a great act. A classic!

Never gets old 😂👏

This is the best performance of this bit!

Absolutely brilliant stand up

One of the most relatable routines in the history of comedy. Even non-drinkers have witnessed this (or at least the after effects) at some point. Alcohol is as old a human civilization. This will never not be true.

Wow, I remember seeing this when it originally aired.

I never knew he was comedian as I only know him as the Dean from the Nutty Professor.

Watching this all I could keep thinking about was thank God for the DVD. I do NOT miss VHS. That being said, Larry Miller is still hilarious

Man back in the day when comedians were funny

classic bit. reminds me of a time i got fired for still being drunk. i had been written up and warned to not miss another day... so i did the next best thing, came in to work shit faced. some guys tried to cover for me but someone told on me... and that was that. not my proudest moment but there you go.

I'm glad I quit the Tuesday Night Men's Bowling League 12 years ago. It sounds like you were there!

This comedians delivery is amazing.

One of the alltime great routines.

Back when VH-1 was worth watching.

LM on Law and Order: "We were just a couple of guys having a couple of drinks and.." Briscoe: "...and what, you became a couple ?" LM: laughs

Larry is the man. He was on an episode of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE: NUMBER ONE IN THE HOOD G, Alongside the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Carl BRUTANANADILEWSKI. Shoot had I been on an episode of ATHF I would feel like the luckiest guy alive, Way better than winning an Oscar, a Grammy .etc,

Classic. Especially the part where you shout the bar!!!!

nighttime guy doesn't care about daytime guy

This brand of comedian used to make you laugh for real, not a single curse word.

There is a seventh level, but it is unattainable to most people. I have experienced it due to a rare alignment of circumstances: 1. I worked as a bouncer at a nightclub and finished up around 10 pm after the "non-alcoholic" teen party Sunday night at the club, which usually was more violent than the usual alcohol nights because of gangs, girls, and testosterone. 2. The manager of this nightclub referred to me as "the son he never had". 3. His wife was a nude dancer and owned a Porsche 911. 4. One of his former bouncers, now a best friend, owned a Limousine company and was also a "son he never had." 5. Through some accounting glitch, the nightclub had excess inventory of about 15 bottles of Cuervo 1800 Especial Tequila. 6. The nightclub was closed the next two days. 7. I had taken off the next day from my regular job for personal tasks. They were not done that week. 8. We decided to liquidate the excess inventory of Tequila over the next few hours. 9. We had a paid driver who owed child support to 5 or 6 different women and would love to work overtime. 10, We were members of the local hospitality workers union and received "club courtesy" (free admission) to most bars in the city. So, we picked up the manager's wife after she got home along with a couple of other of her dancer friends. The Cuervo 1800 was in the freezer in the limo and we only drank Red Bull and some complimentary shots in the bars. We would refuel with the Cuervo 1800 as we drove from one bar to the next. At about 6:30 a.m. on Monday morning, we parked behind a bar and while everyone else went inside, I sat in the air-conditioned limo with one of the wife's friends watching part of a movie, doing some body shots, and then she went inside and I took a nap. A couple of hours later, my manager awakened me, berated me for being low on manhood and handed me a Red Bull and a shot of 1800. At about 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, the owner of the limousine informed us that he had to clean it up and give it a maintenance check for a Monday evening event, so he dropped us off at the managers' house with the remaining two or three bottles of 1800. We went to the pool and then another "son he never had" came over and grilled steaks on the patio. The manager's wife wanted popsicles and my manager told me to ride with her to the grocery store. When we came out of the store, she put a popsicle in her mouth and then said that the brain freeze triggered a migraine, so she asked me to drive back to the house. There was a windy section of road between the grocery store and their house and I don't think I dropped below 50 mph on any curve. She really had a headache after that ride. After dinner, the third son drove me back to the nightclub to pick up my car and drive home. Jose Cuervo is a love/hate relationship.

I remember being in clubs all night with only loud music and disco lights an d walking out at 5 am and seeing the joggers and the city starting to come alive. That sun does become GODS Flashlight.. ...You cringe! Great skit!

One of my favorite bits of all time. However, There is only one level of drinking if you live in a trailer park.

Clean and genius comedy!

This cracked me up! {Flashback} 1980.... Point Reyes seashore in California during my USCG days. I don't know how, what, who, or where. All I know is I was there. The only memory I have (I'm now 58) is waking up on the beach with a bunch of empty Tequila bottles all over the place and other passed out "Coasties". What we did, what we got ourselves into, Lord only knows... Remember those days? Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

god's flashlight and the devil's tending bar, a classic for the ages