Posted on 04/07/2014 4:57:01 AM PDT by Gamecock
We saw his show in Vegas a few years ago. He did have a funny routine about food. Moochelle would not have approved.
Stand-up commedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcSIHw8M6JM
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I always had very low cholesterol until I dropped about 20 pounds. My cholesterol shot through the roof for about a year.
Everyone knows that beef fat has loads of cholesterol. Well, guess what: people fat has loads more. When you lose weight, it dumps all that people fat into your blood stream. THIS is why dieting to lower your cholesterol is sooooo hard and why losing weight fast is so deadly.
He was a very, very funny guy. I will miss him.
Overweight and found dead in a hotel room; same thing happened to John Waters’ fave tranny, Divine. Shortly after release of the orig. Hairspray, she/he/it was in L.A. to film an episode of Married...with Children and apparently died in his/her/its sleep...
Saw Pinette at a comedy club, pretty good tho yes about the fat joke dominance.
Well, that photo probably tells the whole story.
I think I now understand why an autopsy was not ordered..
Had no idea who he was, but those lines just made me smile.
[A carjacking takes place in front of the group]
Robber: Alright fatso, out of the car.
Kramer: I want to capture this.
Robber: Come on! Gimme your wallet.
Victim: Don’t shoot.
Jerry: Well, there goes the money for the lipo.
Elaine: See, the great thing about robbing a fat guy is it’s an easy getaway. You know? They can’t really chase ya!
George: He’s actually doing him a favor. It’s less money for him to buy food.
Robber: I want your wallet. Come on. Come on, come on.
Pinettes routine on French vs. Italian food is very funny. He was a good comedian.
His routine about his visit to a water park had me in tears.
Wikipedia is listing cause of death as pulmonary embolism. I know he was really unhealthy, but he was a funny, funny man. RIP John and thanks for the laughs.
CC
I’m a large man and overweight but nowhere near his league. It never fails to amaze me that everyone (mostly women) that I’m around that complains about their weight and constantly talks dieting, eats at least a good bit more than I do. I mean every one of them!
I had a real treat a couple years back. My company was working at Costco one day and the crew included a pretty large woman. At lunch she opted for a salad, but like I would, she doctored it up to the equivalent of two double quarter pounders with cheese! She mow’ed that down telling us something about being 80’lbs overweight. I’d say more like 150.
She had also made a little shopping run and I looked over her cart to see a load of junk I would never be eating. At the end of the day, she and another woman had about a two hour trip back to our HQ. I saw her opening up the big sack of teriyaki sticks she’d bought for the trip home.
Good God! Don’t complain about your weight to me and then let me see you breaking open the Costco Oh Boy! Oberto “Hog Pack” like two hours after you ate lunch!
His humor was 99% clean.
Mostly self-deprecating humor about food and his size, but very well done.
Yes, the waterpark routine is one of the funniest bits out there. Free Rirry! Free Rirry!
That, brewguru, was the real core of Pineta’s humor: Not fat jokes, as the human barbituate surmises, but the human struggle against compulsion. Had they all been fat jokes, few people past the third grade would have been able to relate to him. But we can all relate to illicit desires and the consequence of indulging them... except for the human barbituate.
I liked him in Revenge of the Nerds, and Seinfeld. RIP
I think you're correct. His humor dealt with all human compulsions and the consequences. I remember his jokes about drinking, although most jokes concentrated on food and may have been a means to deal with self-loathing.
His joke about Las Vegas buffets (particularly the one where he mixes it up with being in Oz) and about eating at Chinese restaurant buffets (YOU GO NOW!) were very funny to me.
So was his "Free Willy"/Japanese tourist jokes about his visit to a waterpark.
Some of John's work:
"Vegetarians I completely understand, you have health issues with it, you have ethical issues, I completely understand. A vegetarian said to me, 'But I'm a vegan.' What is that? What is that? … Vegans go to the store and they buy 50-pound bags of almonds and they make it into stuff they wish they could eat. They don't have a stove they have a Play-Doh fun factory."
"Skinny people decide what they want at McDonald's… Now skinny people I love you, we're all God's children, but the food situation, you piss me off. You browse, you pick….get out of the line! Get out, go over there and think! Skinny people decide what they want when they get to the front of the line… what were you doing in line, your tax returns? I knew what I wanted before I parked the car."
"I've been on a cruise ship thats crashed. The captain comes on, 'I want you to know that the ship is taking on a little water.' You mean were sinking. A guy bringing on a case of Evian, thats taking on a little water."
"If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK."
I think you're correct. His humor dealt with all human compulsions and the consequences. I remember his jokes about drinking, although most jokes concentrated on food and may have been a means to deal with self-loathing.
His joke about Las Vegas buffets (particularly the one where he mixes it up with being in Oz) and about eating at Chinese restaurant buffets (YOU GO NOW!) were very funny to me.
So was his "Free Willy"/Japanese tourist jokes about his visit to a waterpark.
Some of John's work:
"Vegetarians I completely understand, you have health issues with it, you have ethical issues, I completely understand. A vegetarian said to me, 'But I'm a vegan.' What is that? What is that? … Vegans go to the store and they buy 50-pound bags of almonds and they make it into stuff they wish they could eat. They don't have a stove they have a Play-Doh fun factory."
"Skinny people decide what they want at McDonald's… Now skinny people I love you, we're all God's children, but the food situation, you piss me off. You browse, you pick….get out of the line! Get out, go over there and think! Skinny people decide what they want when they get to the front of the line… what were you doing in line, your tax returns? I knew what I wanted before I parked the car."
"I've been on a cruise ship thats crashed. The captain comes on, 'I want you to know that the ship is taking on a little water.' You mean were sinking. A guy bringing on a case of Evian, thats taking on a little water."
"If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK."
Jeez!...Saw him last Saturday at the Improv in Brea, Ca. The earthquake happened at 9:10 pm while he was on stage. He went off stage for a few minutes and then came back. He started singing the old song by Carole King...”You make the earth move under my feet”.. R.I.P. John ~ I always had a headache from laughing so hard after all your shows. What a sad loss!
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