Tom Waits -The Piano Has Been Drinking.avi

MrTrwiseiii Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - Who was Martin Mull, again?

adamcaus Says:

Nov 17, 2011 - The thing is, as much as the audience thinks its funny, none of them are in on Waits' joke... he writes it because its funny to him solely for reasons we don't know or get. He's on a whole nother level.

diriven Says:

Nov 17, 2011 - First off, "a whole nother"...really? It's either "another level", or, "a whole other level". Sure, this audience is most likely more oblivious to his motives, but most of Tom's audiences were and are able to understand. There are, of course, always parts of songs that are personal and can only be fully understood by the artist. But, this song is a lot more simple than you seem to think it is. Also Waits never meant to be on another level, he wanted to take the audience with him.

kstml Says:

Nov 19, 2011 - I know few of you were even alive when this was on television, so let me break it down for you. This was from a TV show that was doing a parody of a small town talk show. Martin Mull and Fred Willard are brilliant comedic actors, and did this show true justice. The parts where you see Martin Mull "wincing" at the performance, are purely for comedic sake. As with Tom's performance of a brilliant song. It was Mock, Faux, Folly......get over it!! There a longer version where you see the interview.

JeffK1980 Says:

Dec 11, 2011 - His singing voice heard here sounds a little bit like Louis Armstrong. I find this song to be funny. MrConeman... why do you find this song not funny?

jackal59 Says:

Dec 17, 2011 - You'd think that even if people had never seen Martin Mull, they would recognize Fred Willard from Christopher Guest's movies. (Especially _Best in Show_, where Willard's aggressively clueless dog show "color commentary" is hysterical.)

TheDashingRor Says:

Jan 14, 2012 - I think the crowd is mostly laughing at the inane mockery of the one show host throughout Tom's song. Very rude on his part.

Antisthenes1 Says:

Jan 30, 2012 - This period of Tom Waits marks the metamorphosis of a normal person to a beast.

cahillgreg Says:

Feb 7, 2012 - Petty pedant.

Sandylee2870 Says:

Feb 14, 2012 - Wish I would be there!

DjembeDjam Says:

Feb 16, 2012 - That host should have been shot. This a beautiful song

JulianFernandez Says:

Feb 17, 2012 - WTF is wrong with those guys?

jeremybbaxter Says:

Feb 18, 2012 - Fun fact: Mr. Waits played Renfield in Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula.

qbain Says:

Feb 18, 2012 - You can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter

NoEffortMoney Says:

Feb 21, 2012 - What an amazing song. Thank you again, failblog.

CrunchBogus Says:

Feb 22, 2012 - What did the host do but introduce the act?

DjembeDjam Says:

Feb 23, 2012 - The whole reason the audience is laughing throughout the song is because of all the facial expressions the host is making, essentially making a mockery of a song that isn't supposed to be funny.

CrunchBogus Says:

Feb 23, 2012 - Ah, yeah I guess I can see it now. It is kind of a funny song, but I see where it has a serious underlying meaning.

jettison27 Says:

Feb 25, 2012 - I've created my own meaning for the song, but what's yours? Or do you know what it's actually about? I'd love to know :)

CrunchBogus Says:

Feb 25, 2012 - No idea, I can barely listen over the laughter. Ba-dum TISH!

FlashGumby Says:

Feb 26, 2012 - The show was "Fernwood Tonight". It was a Norman Lear ("All in the Family') comedy TV Show that aired during the summer for two seasons (one as "America Tonight") back in the mid-seventies. You can't really fault the host or the audience any more than you could if the clip was from "Married With Children" or "Big Bang Theory". It's all scripted. There were a lot of REALLY classic bits on the show and a lot of first-time sightings of future stars. I wish that it was available on DVD.

stiqkey Says:

Mar 1, 2012 - that and the stupid sarcastic looks on the hosts face, btw every live version of every tom waits song that contains even lightly off color lyrics the audience has to crack up like it's not a serious song, I mean reall this is Tom Waits not Frank Zappa (not that I don't love Zappa, it's just that he was funny on purpose and expected you to laugh)

MarissaRose84 Says:

Mar 1, 2012 - This was a performance for a sitcom, not a concert. I'm sure Waits was in on the fun.

MrSapphire Martini Says:

May 2, 2012 - I keep thinking it's that guy in the bar that's been drinking all night long, finds a piano and just start going nuts :P

themarsvoltafan1215 Says:

May 18, 2012 - WHAT THE FUCK SO DAMN FUNNY...are the hosts sitting on whoopy cushions and spraying water at each other off camera??