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Scott: "I wish I had more tye-dyed tee-shirts." Welcome to comedy bang bang,
uhm, thank you so much for that catchphrase submission Charlie Kraft, and uh,
yeah! Welcome to comedy bang bang we're back, it's uh, I'm back from my travels this is by the way if you've never heard the show before, my name is Hot
Saucerman... (laughing) the Choctaw, and I'm back! I'm back from south by
southwest, thank you so much for everyone who came to see us at south by
southwest to see the shows. Had some great shows - you heard the one, the that we
put out last week, and uh, thanks for comin out to all the other ones: The standup
shows - and that wierd IFC show that we did in the strange IFC house - apologies to
anyone who came out to that (laughing.) To see us... turn that into a debacle, uhm
and uh... yeah! I'm back now uh, we're uh, we're done with the show, we're in post the TV show - we're in post-production, if you don't know what post means, post
production is what that means. We're editing them together, they're coming out
great, thanks guys so much for all of your kind words about the sneak-peek that we
put out, and speaking of the sneak peak - we have one of the guests that you saw
on the sneak peek here for the entire hour, this is quite a treat because sometimes
he comes barging in here, uhm, like ah.. some loudmouth buffoon, but we have him
here all hour - he's uh, here for a quiet, sedate interview, and we're just gonna get
into it, I um, I'm very excited cause growing up as many of you know, a musical
THEATER person, I loved his work growing up. Uh, first of all, I came to know his
work from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, I saw that
when I was fourteen years old, thought it was fantastic, uh, then segue'd into a
more, in my opinion, a more adult tone with Jesus Christ Superstar, but then the hits
just caaaaaaaaaaaeeept on coming (laughing) uh, with HEvita, which you can see
on broadway right now with Ricky Martin, and uh from HEvita we went to HEcats
and HEphantom of the opera and so many more and he's here to talk to us about all
of those and what he has going on now, I want to welcome to the program our very
special guest for the entire program - he's a musical theater legend, he is, I would
say composer? Not as much a libretist - usually finds other people to write the
words for him - but maybe we're gonna find out about some of his future projects!
But you know him (laughing) how long can this intro go on? You know him as lord
ALW, Andrew Lloyd Webber is here with us!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: (Exhaling noisily): Did you know Scottrick, I've been
holding my breath for the entirety of the introduction!
Scott: I had no idea...
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Why did I do it?
Scott: I... why would you?
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cause I'm required to do so from the podcastual by-laws,
why a gentleman holds his breath during the introduction - everyone knows this!
Scott: Well maybe you, uh, you're just soaking all of that in, you don't wanna
exhale.
Andrew Lloyd Webber: A gentleman never soaks anything in.
Scott: I notice that you've tied a ribbon around your microphone.
Andrew Lloyd Webber: I have, for... for the troops
Scott: Ah yes, I know you're very, which troops - by the way?
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Grenada.
Scott: so...
Andrew Lloyd Webber: I'm late on my wars, I'm just getting around to Grenada
Scott: Yeah...
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Yes, oh those bloody Falklands, thank god that's over.
Scott: Yes Uh, well welcome Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Thank youuuuuu!
Scott: You know you've been a guest on this program many times!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Countless!
Scott: And this is the first time you've been an invited guest!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Yes, Thank you.
Scott: Usually people are doing this show, if people have heard the show before,
usually I talk to our guests, and in the middle of the show, some "oddball" comes in.
And you're - sometimes Andrew Lloyd Webber: I'm certain you don't lump me in that particular category!
Scott: no no no, you're an actual theatrical gentleman
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Yes
Scott: Who occasionally comes in
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Legend, some say.
Scott: (Laughing) some say
Andrew Lloyd Webber: I just said it - wouldn't kill you to repeat it
Scott: All right you're a legend!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Thank you!
Scott: So welcome to the show, it's always great to see you!
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Thank you scottrick for actually inviting me. Now, in a way
you have invited me because you have an open-door policy.
Scott: I do, when it comes to you, sometimes I... need to invite you because you're
Scott: Yes
ALW: At this point - it's rare that I do such a thing - Scottrick you may ask me
anything. Nothing is out of bounds, nothing is off-limits. It's all - all's fair in love and
war and this interview. We may chat about this, that even the other thing! Which I
have heretofore forbidden any journalist to ask me about!
Scott: Right, all right, well let me try to delve deep then.
ALW: I am an open book, and lyrics.
Scott: I would love to ask you something, just, that maybe no one has ever asked
you before
ALW: I dare you to do so!
Scott: All right, who would you say are the two main characters in Jesus Christ:
Superstar?
ALW: Ah, this is an excellent question. No one has ever asked me this. Usually
everyone just knows. If I were to... if I were to state definitively, who the main two
characters are in Jesus Christ: Superstar...
Scott: Although you could expand it to main three... too..
ALW: Oh, I like the way you think! This is certainly this is - two unasked questions
in a row! (Scott laughs) The main two characters are - in order - I would say..
Scott: Oh, in order of importance or in order of appearance?
ALW: Both
Scott: (Laughing) Okay... great
ALW: Neeeeh... Now, I can't remember who appears first..
Scott: Well, I believe
ALW: Don't hold me to that
Scott: I believe Judas appears first
ALW: All right, then this would be in order of importance! In my mind...
Scott: He's... he, he, the curtain rises
ALW: Yes
Scott: Lights up,
ALW: That's right
Scott: Both kind of usually at the same time...
ALW: Everyone is told backstage: "Stop whistling, stop saying Macbeth!"
Scott: And then, all of the sudden - Judas appears onstage!
ALW: That's right
Scott: And you hear, uh, that famous refrain
ALW: Always there are some boos in the audience
Scott: Yes, always
ALW: They recognize him - BOOO he betrayed our lord!
Scott: Then Judas twirls his moustache....
ALW: That's right. He puts on his tophat, he stands up from the train tracks, and he
has tied Jesus Christ..
Scott: And he asks Mary Magdolin for the rent.
ALW: That's right, she says: "I cannot pay this rent, you ask." And he says: "Ah, but
I am Judas Iscariot, and I demand you pay thirty rents! Thirty pieces of rent!
(Singing with scott) Five thousand twenty one-hundred, six hundred reeeents!"
Scott: Yes
ALW: And then, Jesus bursts from his ropes and he says: "Jesus, SMASH." Then he
goes on a rampidge! Smashing this and that, the military is called in!
Scott: Yes, of course - and they start firing at him, but the shells... the shells just
bounce off of his skin.
ALW: He says: "You make jesus angry!"
Scott: Puny humans!
ALW: "Puny humans!"
Scott: Yessss...
ALW: Then Pontius Pilate comes in and he says...
Scott: And he punches Pontius...
ALW: He punches Pontius, who becomes a pilot, he gets in a plane, but he can't fly
it because he's so scared of the controls being dirty - he keeps washing his hands!
Scott: Yes of course!
ALW: The plane crashes. Jesus resurrects everyone from the plane crash.
Scott: Smash cut to....
ALW: It's twenty years later. The skynet corporation has taken over all of Judea!
Scott: Yes! Oh my goodness. What an amazing... Now - many of you have probably
have not seen this, this program because you're not theater nerds like us!
ALW: No, no I imagine you like your sporting events!
Scott: Yes, cricket...
ALW: Your North American baseball!
Scott: Your North American football.
ALW: What's that?
Scott: Fooootball
ALW: Mmm, sounds familiar...
Scott: It's a game where, uh, it has a quarterback and he touches the ball with his
fooot a lot.
ALW: Oh you mean like English soccer?
Scott: Yes, of course
ALW: So uhm, and that's Jesus Christ: Superstar, and there's the characters!
Scott: Okay, fantastic! Well, I have many more questions like this... so, uh.
ALW: I hope you have thousands and thousands!
Scott: So here we go!
ALW: The more probing the better!
Scott: Okay
ALW: You may ask me personal things - doesn't need to just be work-related! I'm
giving you carte blanche!
Scott: Okay, personal questions... uh. How do you feel about the main characters in
Jesus Christ: Superstar, and who are they?
ALW: (Growls quietly)
Scott: Do you feel like they're the right ones, that you picked, and who are they?
ALW: You know, Scottrick, I have, uh, conversations with the characters from my
musicals almost every... (Door knocking) Who's that knocking? This is, highly
irregular!
Fourvel: Hello?
Scott: This has never happened in an interview
Fourvel: Hello?
ALW: What? Who's this little ragamuffin? Look at this street urchin!
Fourvel: Hey, who's there, hello?
ALW: Who, who are you son, speak up, boy!
Fourvel: Are you Andrew Lloyd Webber?
ALW: Why yes I am! Always nice to meet a fan.
Scott: What a smart young child you are!
ALW: Hello, hello young man!
Fourvel: I'm a fan.
ALW: You're a fan of the musical theatre?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: And my work in it, in particular?
Fourvel: Yeah, I was lost and I heard your voice outside so I came in...
ALW: I say, you recognized my voice?
Fourvel: Yeah!
ALW: From outside the building?
Fourvel: Who wouldn't recognize that voice?
ALW: I like the cut of this young man's jib!
Scott: I do too, I do too, but this is, uh, you're lost in the building young man?
Fourvel: I got lost.
Scott: I'm so sorry
Fourvel: I was outside, I was so lost and I heard the voice, so I came in cause I'm
hungry, I'm lookin' for scraps.
Scott: How long have you been lost?
Fourvel: For a couple years.
ALW: A couple years you say?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: That's a long time to be lost little boy.
Fourvel: I don't have a watch or a calendar so I don't know the exact time...
Scott: Do you know the day that you...
ALW: You may borrow my calendar
Fourvel: It was a thurs... really?
ALW: Yes, here you are!
Fourvel: Andrew Lloyd Webber's CALENDAR!
Scott: Wow, what's on that calendar? Can you...
Fourvel: It's huge!
Scott: Look at this calendar, what's on there?
Fourvel: It's beautiful, so many days!
Scott: Aside from the days - he scribbled little appointments on there. Tell us some
of those.
Fourvel: Yeah, it's got one for a "New topic of a film" he's doin' for a new film.
ALW: It's true.
Scott: Wait a minute - new film! This is... this is a scoop!
Fourvel: He's never ventured into that - I know because I've followed his work a
great deal!
Scott: Well you've been gone for the last two years though, how would you know
he's talked about it?
Fourvel: Newspapers
Scott: Oh, okay, do you see newspapers every day?
Fourvel: Yeah, that's what I sleep on 'cause I don't got a home.
ALW: These newspapers don't have a date on them?
Fourvel: They do, but I... only got one good eye.
ALW: Oh, I... I feel like a fool for asking now.
Scott: Seems like plenty to read... a date on a newspaper though.
Fourvel: I'm sorry?
Scott: One good one?
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: Seems like you could read a date
Fourvel: Well, kinda, but let's not get down to brass tacks or anything
Scott: (Laughing) All right, I'm sorry to press on...
ALW: Please, leave the little boy's privacy....
Fourvel: You'll have to excuse me, I'm starving so I get a little on edge sometimes
Scott: Oh, I see
ALW: Scottrick, do we have any food here in the studio for this little boy to eat?
Fourvel: Just scraps... just scraps...
Scott: I mean, all I have is sort of the fat that I cut off of my steak from earlier
today...
Fourvel: That would be the greatest!
Scott: I don't know... I'm, I don't want... ya know, It's bad for your health
ALW: Scottrick...
Scott: I don't know, I was saving that for my dog...
ALW: He is a ragamuffin...
Fourvel: I'm better than a dog! I'm a human boy!
ALW: He does outrank dogs!
Scott: All right, here have... have my table scraps - here ya go.
Fourvel: Thank you! (Munching sounds)
Scott: Wait, unwrap.. please, you're eating the foil that - you're eating the swan foil,
please!
Fourvel: There's vitamins in the foil.
Scott: No please, unwrap it if you could.
Fourvel: Okay
Scott: Yeah... okay.
ALW: He's very hungry.
Fourvel: Thank you so much, I haven't eaten in years.
Scott: Wow.
ALW: Is that medically possible, for you to survive that long?
Fourvel: I don't know, I don't gotta real doctor
ALW: Fair enough
Scott: That makes sense, we're - see we're just using science that we know, but
you say a doctor would be able to tell you if - not eating....
Fourvel: A doctor could tell you anything - it's the most trusted man in the business
world.
ALW: And, to be fair Scottrick, perhaps we've become used to medical advances
that have happened in the last two years.
Scott: That's true
ALW: Perhaps we know that doctors can tell people that, uh. (Laughs)
Scott: Yeah, I get what you're saying
ALW: Yeah, so it's commonplace to ask now, but for this little boy - emerging from
the fog of two years ago.
Scott: Mmm, do you remember it? 2010
ALW: Oh, I wish I could
Scott: Oh, actually 2009, because we tape this in 2011
ALW: Oh that's right, I keep forgetting that
Scott: Yeah we tape it a year in advance
ALW: I keep forgetting it's 2011
Scott: Yeah
Fourvel: That's 'cause I got your calendar.
ALW: That's exactly why!
Scott: Give him back... give him back his calendar!
Fourvel: You can have your calendar back
ALW: Here, I give you these table scraps - one's a big as yourself!
Fourvel: Oh thank you!
Scott: Where did you get so many table scraps?
ALW: I'm just always carrying them around
Scott: Really for what purpose?
(Fourville eating noises)
ALW: Uh, for just such an occasion - in case I meet orphans.
Fourvel: Well, I'm an orphan, you could take me if you want and put me in
musicals.
ALW: Are you... dear boy are you an orphan?
Fourvel: I used to be an actor.
ALW: Is that so?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: You've trod the boards!
Fourvel: I did a lot of musical theatre when I was just a baby boy
ALW: Is that... what productions? Would I have seen any of these?
Fourvel: I was in Jesus Christ: Superstar
ALW: Well, that's one of mine!
Scott: Whaat?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: What, what role did you play?
Fourvel: Jesus Christ
Scott: He's one of the, he's one of the main three!
ALW: He's... can I, may I, be candid?
Scott: Sure
ALW: He's the main, number one.
Scott: Whoooooah!
ALW: Yes, the most important character.
Scott: All right
ALW: Jesus Christ: Superstar
Scott: So you played Jesus Christ, Superstar?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: Oh, we just called him Jesus Christ in the musical.
Scott: (Laughs) So can you sing one of the songs for us?
Fourvel: (Singing) I wore my coat, with golden lining!
Scott: I love it when Jesus wears his coat in that show, it's like, he shows it off, and
he's really.
Fourvel: Cause it's a big coat - it's real nice
Scott: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ALW: I don't....
Scott: It must've looked even bigger on you, you're just a little baby boy
Fourvel: I still got it, I still got it.
ALW: What?
Scott: Really?
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: Why aren't you wearing it now?
Fourvel: It got stolen.
ALW: Ooooh no, you don't still got it after all.
Fourvel: I was on the street sleepin' and a man took it.
ALW: Now, may I ask you, young man.
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: What are the curious circumstances that led you to be a homeless little
fellow?
Fourvel: My parents were dead.
ALW: Ohhh...
Scott: Oh. So did you run away from an evil orphanage a la Annie or....
Fourvel: Yeah, and a rich man took me in for a little while, and he was - and they
got me into a theatre program.
Scott: Oh, that's so nice of him - to sort of broaden your horizons a little...
Fourvel: I just wanted scraps...
Scott: Well, I'm sure if he was a rich man you could've eaten anything!
Fourvel: He was a very rich man and he had lots of good food.
ALW: Now, Scottrick is right. Normally for an orphan to become under the care of a
rich man tis a consummation devoutly to be wished by all orphans, but you're
saying it was through some personality quirk of your own...
Fourvel: Yeah, I get stabby.
Scott: Whoah....
ALW: Now, I'm not familiar with American slang, what does that word mean,
cranky?
Fourvel: I live on the streets I gotta know how to take care of myself and be a
tough guy.
ALW: Certainly
Scott: Are you...
Fourvel: So sometimes I get stabby.
ALW: Again, I don't, I'm not familiar with this term.
Scott: I think what he's trying to say, Lord ALW is that....
ALW: Please, call me Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Fourvel: Please call him that, he deserves the respect.
ALW: Thank youuuu young orphan. Thank you nameless orphan.
Scott: What is your name, by the way? We never asked you your name.
Fourvel: My name?
Scott: Is it Fagin?
Fourvel: It's Fourvel
ALW: (In unison with scott) Fourvel.
Fourvel: Fourvel - Like Feivel but one less.
Scott: Uh, so what, wait what was I saying? Oh stabby!
Fourvel: Yes stabby.
Scott: Stabby - I think what he's trying to say is he actually stabs people.
Fourvel: Oh yeah, all the time
ALW: Is that what you mean?
Fourvel: You gotta take care of yourself, you gotta know how to stab, or else you'll
get - you know you'll get taken advantage of.
Scott: Are you carrying...
ALW: You're not wrong there.
Scott: Are you carrying a weapon right now, on your person?
Fourvel: Not carrying it, it's in my pocket.
Scott: What, you don't.
ALW: Ah, semantics! He's got you! Technically his pocket is carrying it.
Fourvel: My hands are all greasy from the scraps so I don't wanna get it on the
knife 'cause then the stabbing won't be so accurate.
ALW: And to be fair, you did make him unwrap the scraps.
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: Well you know, that actually is in our favor in case he wants to pull that
knife, it may slip out of his hands because of all the.
ALW: Whysoever would he want to pull that knife?
Fourvel: No, you guys seem nice
Fourvel: No! They cause then I nice to them, but they know if they cross me.
ALW: May I May I say Scottrick. And of course Fourvel will know this from his
experience with this rich elderly man. Servants, they do their jobs, and they do, if
theyre good servants they do them impeccably well. It would be crossing a boundry
for a servant
Scott: To presume
ALW: To presume! Someone from the upstairs
Fourvel: You gotta know your place.
ALW: You have to know your its true. Now Fourvel, on this we do agree.
Scott: I have seen down-town abbey, so I know.
ALW: (Gasping) uh, Scottrick, oh my word!
Fourvel: Boy, even I know that!
ALW: Like fingernails on the chalkboard of my eardrums.
Scott: I dont know what youre talking about, Im talking about my favorite
program
ALW: (Hollering in exasperation) Dont say it!
Scott: Down-town abbey!
ALW: Nooo, you said it twice now!
Fourvel: Oh god
ALW: Please, uh
Scott: I love that show! Im the biggest down-town abbey fan
ALW: (Hollering again)
Fourvel: Im gettin stabby IM GETTIN STABBY! (More hollering)
ALW: Go Fourvel, Go! Oh.
Scott: I wont I wont bring it up any more. Can I ask you about your coat?
Fourvel: Sure!
Scott: You say its a coat of many colors.
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: Are you sure its not just a white coat that has a lot of red bloodstains on it?
Fourvel: Are you fuckin kidding me right now?
ALW: Oh Fourvel Steady.
Scott: I.
Fourvel: Its my amazing technicolor dreamcoat!
ALW: Steady!
Fourvel: Just
Scott: I just wanted to make sure that.
Fourvel: Tread lightly is all Im saying with this line of questioning
Scott: Im sorry, Im sorry
ALW: I think youd do best to take the lads advice, Scottrick.
Scott: All right, will do.
Fourvel: There is blood on the coat, but its of many its the blood of many.
ALW: People of different colors.
Scott: So wait a minute are you trying to say that like, Spocks green blood?
ALW: Who is this Spock?
Scott: Yes
ALW: Now next year
Scott: Mm hmm
ALW: From what I understand, sources tell me Theres going to be a show, a
television program on the air
Scott: Are you talking about the one uh, where they are in the future and they go
back to the past and theres dinosaurs. Im so excited for that one that is gonna be
amazing!
ALW: Ahhhh, yes it is NOT the topic about which Im speaking of.
Scott: Ahh Are they talking about Whitney?
ALW: Mmm
Scott: Im super, uh Whit uh, Im it, shes in sweatpants
ALW: No, I know who she is. Its Whhhhitney
Scott: Whhhitney, ah sorry
ALW: How dare you
Scott: Shweee-Whitney.
ALW: Downton. So, um this
Scott: Down-town.
ALW: (Hollering in exasperation with Fourvel) It curdles my throat! Now theres
going to be an hour long drama on the television here in America thats going to be
about the creation of a Broadway musical!
Scott: (whisper) oh, no!
ALW: Its going to be called SMASH!
Scott: Is this about Jesus when he bursts out of those ropes and he attacks the
army?
ALW: It should be
Scott: Ah
ALW: But it isnt, its about a regular musical.
Scott: Okay.
ALW: Its uh, the music, its a behind-the-scenes of uh, some ah, tiresome theatre
people theyre creating a musical about the life of Mary M. Muh
Scott: Marc Maron?
ALW: No! No thats IFCs. Your IFC the International Fried Chicken.
Scott: Theyre doing wait- theyre doing what?
ALW: Is creating uh
Scott: Next year?
ALW: Yes, next year.
Scott: Ah, my gosh, I hope they pick up my show, were just working on a pilot with
them right now.
ALW: May I tell you some news from the future?
Scott: Please!
ALW: Ive talked to another one of these time bobbies!
Scott: Yes! (laughing)
ALW: Its looking good for comedy bang bang!
do it!
Fourvel: Ill do it, Ill fuckin stab, Ill stab if I need to!
ALW: Fourvel, stay in character, please! Theres no need for that.
Fourvel: Sorry, sorry.
ALW: Stay your hand, child! Ill go you one better! Ill improve a song that already
exists!
Fourvel: (in unison with Scott) Hurrah!
(Music Plays)
ALW: Its even about Marilyn Monroe already! Ill just take the liberty of fixing the
lyrics. (Singing)
Goodbye Marilyn Monroe you predeceased//
All of my musicals and never got to see one!//
Not even Jesus Christ: Superstar, the earliest, people still//
Talk all about you, I dont understand it//
you didnt even see uhm, Starlight Express //
where I had actors on roller-skates pretend to be trains.//
And it seems to me your life was irrelevant because you//
Didnt see any of my work//
Why do people care about you, it takes away //
Conversation about me?//
Im glad I never knew you, and Im glad youre dead//
Probably roasting in hell for assisting in someone having extramarital affairs//
(speaking) The president, your American president. And it goes on from there.
Scott: Wow, what a what a
ALW: Powerful.
Scott: Powerful oh I wasnt gonna say that but
ALW: What were you going to say, moving? Well written?
Scott: I was gonna say judmental.
ALW: Judgmental?
Scott: Yeah I mean, you
ALW: Well I in what way was anything I just said judg
Scott: You think someone is roasting in hell because they, how did you put it?
Assisted in a?
ALW: Roasting in hell for assisting in someones extramarital affairs!
Fourvel: Do you want me to stab this guy, dad?
ALW: Oooh! (scott laughing) Now, first of all, presumptuous! Lets not put the cart
before the horse! Secondly, as much as I would like for you to stab all manner of
people, I would ask you to sheathe your weapon.
Fourvel: Okay
ALW: Thank you Fourvel, youre a fine youre an honorable young man.
Fourvel: I love you
Scott: Oh, okay well
ALW: May I say I I love you as well
Fourvel: Thank you
ALW: Youre the son I never actually I have several children, but youre a son I
never had.
Fourvel: Thank that is correct.
Scott: Well, I hate to think that this matter is settled because we still have some of
the program to go before you decide whether or not youre gonna adopt.
ALW: Thats true, nothing has been signed yet, Ive not signed the adoption
papers
Fourvel: I was reeeeeally hopin for it.
Scott: Do you have adoption papers on you, by the way?
Fourvel: Course, Im not stupid! (Papers rustling)
ALW: Remarkably clean for having been in your disgusting blood-soaked coat for so
long!
Fourvel: Theyre the one thing I keep close to my heart.
Scott: Awwww
Fourvel: Just in case.
ALW: Its getting a bit dusty in here.
Scott: No, I think youre crying!
Fourvel: Each day I wake up and I look at the papers and I say Maybe Ill meet the
lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and hell take me in
Scott: Wha, youve wanted to meet him, specifically?
Fourvel: Ive been following him for years.
Scott: Okay.
ALW: I thought you were lost!
Fourvel: Naw, Im a filthy liar. The truth comes out.
Scott: Oh my, this is, this is a bombshell that Im afraid were gonna have to take a
cliffhanger on because we need to take a break.
ALW: Well strike me scarlet I cant believe this turn of events!
Scott: Were gonna find out about this
ALW: We mustnt take a break!
Scott: When we come back no were gonna have to take a break!
ALW: Its impossible, its eh, too delicious!
Scott: We have to, well be right back with comedy bang bang and well follow up
on this dramatic turn of events!
ALW: 2011!
(Ad break)
Scott: (Clearing throat)
ALW: (Clearing throat)
Scott: Ma-ma-ma
ALW: Mama say-mama sah-mama coo sah!
Scott: Ma-ma-say
Fourvel: Ma-ma sah
ALW: Mama coo sah! Weve done it!
Scott: And were back.
ALW: A trio
ALW: He used his unlimited wealth to fund various productions of this, that, and the
other thing, which Ive allowed you to ask me about.
Scott: Yes, Im gonna get to it, dont worry.
ALW: Yes, we have time. Eh, this gentleman hes been a friend to theatre for as long
as Ive been alive, and you say youve stabbed him to death?
Fourvel: Well yeah I didnt want to. He treated me right but then that
morning
ALW: All he asked was He just asked that you leave him alone, he was feeling
poorly and you stabbed him unto death!
Fourvel: You you, you dont act like that. You gotta be nice. I dont tolerate
rudeness.
ALW: Eh, but Fourvel, dear boy. Have you ever considered the more peaceful
alternative of discussion, of uh, negotiation, talking with people before you bring out
your cold steel blade and insert it betwixt their ribs!
Fourvel: I will definitely try to curb my, curb my problem if Im with you but I I
know its hard when you live on the streets and you grow up like that everyones
tryin to get you so sometimes you just
Scott: How did your original parents die? Because be your tryin to say that, uh you
came into these stabby feelings because of growing up on the streets and its hard.
Fourvel: Yeah cause my parents died.
Scott: Right so wha how did they die.
Fourvel: Well, it was my birthday, and they said (singing) Happy birthday to
you and they sing the song and they brought out the cake
ALW: Thats a classic from Mildred and Patty Hill.
Fourvel: Yeah they brought out the cake.
Scott: Those spinsters?
ALW: Oh, fuh. Miserly old crones!
Scott: Still demanding money years after theyve passed!
ALW: Still demanding money! Would you believe it I had a birthday party for
someone on my staff, we all sang happy birthday There they appeared! Rising up
out of the floorboards!
Scott: And they passed a hat?
ALW: They, they made everyone turn out their pockets. Some of the poorer
members on staff, of course, very embarrassed because they had no money and
moths flew out of their pockets.
Scott: Yeah! I remember yeah.
ALW: Well, I was mortified on their behalf!
Scott: Thats happened to me with my wallet every once in a
ALW: Oh no
Scott: In the lean years.
ALW: Oh yes
Scott: The David Lean years.
ALW: Yes, when you were impersonating David Lean.
Scott: Yes of course. A weird person to impersonate. It doesnt get you a lot of
money.
ALW: Not very much demand for it.
Scott: No, not at all
ALW: There are very few people left. Lawrence of Arabia parties
Scott: So what were we talking about?
ALW: Oh who cares.
Scott: Okay, so they sing happy birthday
Fourvel: Ah, I stabbed em.
ALW: Oh no! Why why would you stab someone for singing happy birthday?
Fourvel: They were singin happy birthday and they got me a cake and I wanted
fudgie the whale cake, but
ALW: And you wanted an iced cream cake?
Fourvel: Oh, fudgie the whale cake and it wasnt that. Its your birthday and you
should get what you want.
Scott: So.. I dont think that you should blame the streets for your murderous
leanings here
Fourvel: I disagree, Scott, I really disagree.
Scott: Sounds like they were instilled in you before you were on the streets
Fourvel: No
Scott: And your murderous urges kind of
Fourvel: I think I just learned from hardships and stuff that was denied from me.
ALW: One might say you have a Viggo Mortensonian history of violence.
Fourvel: Some people say I have a Viggo the Carpathian history of science.
ALW: From Ghost Busters II?
Fourvel: Yeah, correct.
Scott: I liked Slimer, from Ghost Busters, do you remember him?
ALW: He was fun
Fourvel: He was great.
Scott: Do you remember him?
ALW: He had a mouthful of hot dogs.
Fourvel: Yeah, awww god I wish I had a mouthful of hot dogs.
ALW: I liked the cab driver who was a skeleton
Scott: Ah, yeah he was great. You know a bit of trivia about Slimer. His name
actually wasnt Slimer.
ALW: What was his name?
Scott: They never called
ALW: Joseph?
Scott: It was Joseph! Yeah. And people he got the nickname Slimer because ah, I
dont know if you noticed this in the movie but um, he actually emitted some sort of
ah, slime off of his body which then would rub off on people.
ALW: Well that explains the line that Bill Murray has when he encounters this ghost
Slimer and is knocked down by the force of this little green goblin and when he
arises from the floor, he is covered in slime, and he says out loud to the other
actors
Scott: Really?
ALW: He slimed me!
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: I dont remember that part
Fourvel: Its true.
ALW: Maybe I dreamed it. Perhaps Im making it up.
Scott: You might be, yeah
Fourvel: I think so.
Scott: Youve seen Ghostbusters?
Fourvel: Yeah I watched the yeah. I watched it with Ray Parker Jr. once.
Scott: What? Tell us about that!
Fourvel: I lived with Ray Parker Jr. for a couple of years.
ALW: Did you really?
Fourvel: Yeah
Scott: Was this before your original parents or after?
Fourvel: After, right after.
ALW: And was it before the original Ghostbusters?
Fourvel: Right after I stabbed my parents, I took my dog Sandy and I went on the
streets. And I uh Ray Parker Jr. lived next door so I just went in there and sat
down
ALW: Oh thats not
Fourvel: Hes not doin much so we just hung out.
Scott: Uh yeah, he was a session musician of course, who just kind of lucked into
the Ghostbusters theme.
ALW: Lucked into stealing a song from Huey Lewis and the News. As people luck
into stealing things.
Fourvel: Thats what happened, I found out he stole that song from Huey Lewis so I
killed him.
Scott: Oh no
ALW: You stabbed him to death.
Fourvel: Yeah, but it was
Scott: Now, thats not a secret, just no one cares about it.
Fourvel: Yeah, true.
Scott: Okay so, lemme ask: what were we talking about?
ALW: May I ask this, dear master Fourvel, were I to adopt you and take you on as
my ward at the very least
Fourvel: Oh my god
ALW: And install you in my mansion which, eh, can be seen from space
Scott: Where is your mansion, by the way, is it in the merry old land of
ALW: The top of the world.
Scott: Oh okay.
ALW: Ehm, if I were to install you in my top-of-the-world mansion which can be seen
from space, in order to curb your more stabrionic tendencies.
Fourvel: Mm-hmmm
ALW: What if I were to put you in a special room now this room, it doesnt
necessarily have walls as we know them. But it has sort of see-through walls that
uh, ehm, sort of made of a bunch of thin sticks, just uh, in regular rows on four
sides, and uh, but these sticks they are made of GOLD solid gold!
Scott: Ohhhh
Fourvel: Wow! Ive never seen gold before!
Scott: And this what about the ceiling and the floor, would those also be sticks as
well uh?
ALW: No thosed be more squares just sort of a very solid thick squares.
Scott: I see, so out of the six sides of this room Im presuming it is be six sides, is
that?
ALW: Well, its a little room inside a bigger room, so its a four-sided room
Scott: Four-sided but theres also the top and the bottom so thatd be six sides.
ALW: Yeah, so oh well youve got me there. Six sides congratulations Albert
Einstein.
Scott: So two of these. I dont know, I mean
ALW: Heres your nobel prize in mathematics. Try not to invent the atom bomb.
Scott: You are trying to make fun of me for you not knowing something.
ALW: Thats exactly whats happening
Scott: (Laughing) All right, but in the six
ALW: Why dont you look into the future and see if thats the case.
Scott: In these six sides, the top and the bottom are solid.
ALW: yes
Scott: And the other four
ALW: Eh, making a roof and a floor.
Scott: Sure, and the other four are kind of like it seems to be what youre
describing could otherwise be known as a cage?
ALW: Well, mm a gilded cage.
Scott: A gilded cage!
Fourvel: Of my very own!
ALW: Yes, and I would keep you in here, uh for lets say one calendar year!
Fourvel: Okay
ALW: In order to make sure that, eh, youre not going to stab anyone but you can
see that I mean you no harm, and youll get used to the rhythms of my voice and
things that Ill ask you and so you.
Scott: Are you not used to these rhythms by the way, at this point?
Fourvel: No, Im very used to them, I I just you keep harpin on, Im not gonna
kill nobody unless they
ALW: Well
Fourvel: Cross me
Scott: See the Unless they yeah.
ALW: Yes, its the Unless they, thats the sticking point I would say.
Scott: Like, I wish you would just put a full-stop after
Fourvel: Well I wish you would back the fuck up.
Scott: Oh
ALW: Oh, Fourvel please, we wont have that language in the gilded cage
Scott: Im, Im gonna reach for this
Fourvel: Dont act stupid
Scott: If you dont
ALW: Im also going to reach for one of the other knives.
Fourvel: Do you think I cant reach quicker?
Scott: I think that my reach I have very long arms.
ALW: Im very fast. Fast like a rabbit.
Fourvel: Im a scamperer, Ill scamper over there.
Scott: Yeah but you have short little stubby arms. And I dont say that to criticize
you, I just mean
Fourvel: Holy shit Holy fuckin shit man.
ALW: Now one, one moment. Fourvel, one moment lets
Fourvel: Stumpy arms?
ALW: Lets do this as gentlemen, lets as gentlemen!
Scott: Im, Im just saying that you have sort of a babys body you know
Fourvel: Ohhhh my fuckin
ALW: Fourvel, no! Fourvel! Scottrick, please!
Fourvel: Im a boy, Im a boy!
Scott: You know how a baby has just kinda like a fat, little, just like it looks.
Fourvel: Hold me the fuck back here
ALW: Scottrick, pleeease, Scottrick!
Scott: You look like a little
Fourvel: This motherfucker over here!
Scott: Pillsbury dough boy
Fourvel: I swear to Christ!
ALW: Scottrick hes cursing even more!
Fourvel: I swear to fuckin Christ Ill slit you from balls to gullet if you dont shut
your fuckin mouth, already okay?
Scott: All right, okay
Fourvel: Fuckin please man.
Scott: Ive, Ive shut up. I just wanted to say that, though.
Fourvel: I dont wanna be this way.
Scott: Okay, well allright.
ALW: I say, how close are we to a break?
Scott: Uh, why, you you need a break?
ALW: Uh no, I just have, have an idea.
Scott: Oh you have an idea?
ALW: Yes.
Scott: Okay, well why, uh why dont we take one and
ALW: Before we take the break
Scott: Yes?
ALW: How bout this.
Scott: Okay
ALW: Uh, count of three
Scott: Yes
ALW: Marquee du Queensbury rules.
Scott: Okay
ALW: Everyone reaches for a knife onetwothree! (sound of a struggle)
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Scott: Comedy bang bang, were back and uh, boy that was a cliffhanger, too!
ALW: Lets see whos got what!
Scott: Whos got, okay open your, open your hands and well see whos got a knife.
ALW: Why Ive this is a this is a candle!
Fourvel: I cant believe...
ALW: Its an Advent candle!
Scott: Wait, what do you mean by an advent candle?
ALW: You know, one of those purple candles that you light
Scott: That you that you open?
ALW: During advent season, no thats an advent calendar, dear boy this is
Scott: Oh okay
ALW: There are many facets to advent. Anyway, what are you holding?
Scott: Uh Im, oh my gosh Im holding a stick. It looks like a divining rod
ALW: Wha, to find water?
Scott: Yeah, and its pointing, uh, just sorta northeast.
ALW: Sure, towards the ocean.
Scott: Yeah, okay, there we go. Northeast toward the ocean? Towards the Atlantic?
ALW: Yes. Exactly.
Scott: Okay, great.
ALW: Yes. (Scott laughing) Well you can see the Pacific, why would you need the
divining rod?
Scott: True as true can be.
ALW: Wha, why, bless my buttons!
Fourvel: Yeah, youre damn right.
ALW: Look at little Fourvels got all the knives.
Fourvel: Ive got three greasy knives.
Scott: How did you get all of those
ALW: Theres even more knives then there were on the table!
Fourvel: Some garrote wire A punji stick
Scott: Oh my gosh!
ALW: Hes got a candlestick from clue!
Fourvel: Couple of rottweilers.
ALW: Hes got, hes got live dogs!
Scott: Oh my goodness!
ALW: Live muscled rottweilers!
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Fawn
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Eh, memory serves lilac!
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Gold, of course.
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Chocolate
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Mauve
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Think there was also a bit of cream in there.
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Have I said crimson yet? I think there was crimson
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Silver, of course
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Um, something else in the red pallate rose!
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Azure
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: I think lemon
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Russet
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Grape
Scott: Mmhmm
Fourvel: Did you say crimson?
ALW: I did say, I believe I said crimson, yes.
Fourvel: Okay
Scott: He said it.
Fourvel: Im sorry
ALW: Purple
Fourvel: I cant fuckin hear him.
Scott: He said it, he said it! Just, like, let him do his thing.
ALW: White, even though its the absence of color.
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Pink
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Orange
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Red
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Yellow
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Green
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Brown
Scott: Mmhmm
ALW: Did I say scarlet, black, and ochre?
Scott: Yes.
ALW: Oh, you know what it is? Im seeing them in my mind and in my mind Joseph
is turning around.
Scott: I feel like you forgot
ALW: And hes doing a spin, a 360.
Scott: Yeah, hes showing it off!
ALW: Yes, and so Im seeing them
Scott: Hes being a real dandy!
ALW: Im seeing them all over again from the beginning.
Scott: Yeah, I feel like youve forgotten a really important one.
Fourvel: Did he say crimson?
Scott: He he said crimson.
Fourvel: All right.
Scott: You need to listen
ALW: OH, Im sorry, Im sorry!
Fourvel: What the fuck man.
ALW: Im sorry, gentlemen, gentlemen please, gentlemen please. This is most
unseemly!
Scott: Okay, uh this kid
ALW: Blue
Scott: Oh blue! Yes, thats the one.
ALW: I dont know why I couldnt think of blue
Scott: Yeah, maybe the most popular color of all. (quietly) Just this kid bugs me
Fourvel: Scott, stop being such a fuckin bitch, man.
ALW: Fourvel, uh oo! Fourvel, please Fourvel, why dont you practice your butterfly
knifing for a little bit and Scottrick and I will - let the grownups talk.
Scott: Yeah, yeah just try to stab around your fingers, have you ever done anything
like that?
Fourvel: Yeah
ALW: Mumblypig.
Scott: Yes. (Quiet side conversation) Are you really gonna adopt this kid?
ALW: No, I Ive never been more terrified in my entire life!
Scott: Youre not acting like it, I have to say youre a very good actor!
ALW: Im trying to appease this monster!
Scott: I think youll be really good on SMASH!, then.
ALW: Do you think so?
Scott: Yes because, I mean, I would never have guessed.
ALW: Is it a bit of a cheat, Im playing myself?
Scott: I think its not a stretch, necessarily, but sometimes you have to ease into
something like that.
ALW: Do you know I love the play where theyre all playing themselves and
everyone had a great fun.
Scott: Yeah I mean its a lot like how Chris Rock had to play a crack addict before
he could move on to being head of state.
ALW: Thats right, yes thats right. He was wonderful in that film underrated!
Scott: Hes soooo wonderful.
ALW: Now Scottrick.
Scott: Yes?
ALW: I need you to spirit me away from this studio!
Scott: I dont know that I have the resources to do that what. Eh?
ALW: WHAT? You simply Im an English lord, you simply must! Eh, radio to a
helicopter pilot and
Scott: I dont have one
ALW: Have him throw down a rope ladder!
Scott: We dont have one of those, we just have this, uh sort of
ALW: Whaaa?
Scott: We, I mean, we just have like kind of a strange hatch that leads into a, uh
ALW: I say
Scott: A hidey-hole
ALW: Can I
Scott: Like a spider-hole
ALW: Can I squeeze into this hidey-holing spider hatch?
Scott: I guess you could, but I mean wha The thing is its.
ALW: Okay goodbye
Scott: Wait its hidden thats the the pr
ALW: Ill find it.
Scott: Okay.
ALW: Goodbye!
Scott: Well, uh
ALW: I hope not forever!
Scott: I hope not forever too
Scott: But goodbye!
Scott: Okay, um (speaking louder) Hey, Fourvel.
Fourvel: Hey
Scott: So ah, howd that game go?
Fourvel: It went good, I I was practicing my knife
Scott: Yeah, yeah looks good yeah. You didnt stab your eh.
Fourvel: Where did my daddy go?
Scott: Oh you, you didnt see him go away?
Fourvel: No
Scott: Huh, yeah you had your back turned
Fourvel: He must be gone to get the room ready the cage room.