Steve & Garry « The Steve Dahl Audio Vault. It all started innocently enough in June of 2009.
I had about two dozen Steve & Garry cassette tapes in a box that I had made to listen to while driving to college plus a handful of tapes that friends had sent me. Instead of just tossing them, I decided to experiment with converting them to mp3′s so I could have archive copies. After listening to shows that I hadn’t heard in almost 30 years I thought it would be a good idea to share, so I created this little place on the interweb and things just took off from there. Offers to send tapes and mp3′s showed up in my email box often. One fan sent 3 boxes of over 500 tapes that sustained this site for much longer than I ever thought it would. I had some great email conversations in the background with Garry Meier, Dan Falato, Mark Czerneic, Roman Sawczak, “Young Bill” who did the sports report for a few months, Chet Coppock and several others.
Well, I knew at some point I would have to say goodbye and that time has come. Peace & Love, Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase. MyDamnChannel.com. What Is My Damn Channel?
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We never actually managed to finish it because I ruined every take laughing.
The fact that you know what's coming every time doesn't stop you laughing when so called "corpsing" takes you over. It's like you're possessed. Luckily it was never meant to be part of the actual show. It was going to be a little DVD extra of David, in character, doing a tour of the caravan.
Either way, we got something else. A 10 day campaign of photo shoots, press junkets, chat shows and a fucking massive Hollywood premiere. Often, those things are a labourious nightmare, but it was made fun by the presence of an evil Russian frog and my new best friend, Constantine. I feel I should point out that Constantine's alter ego is a very talented puppeteer, actor, and all-round hilarious nice guy called Matt Vogel, but I pretty much ignore that fact when his right arm turns green.
Now I've got to do it all again for the UK release. This is what we call The Muppet Show. And now the New York weather: it's fucking cold. SteveMartin.com. Zach Galifianakis. Howard TV.