| So, no. |
| It's good to be here. |
| Wherever I am.
|
| God, since I was here, we had a war. |
| That's pretty fuckin' weird, huh? |
| A war? |
| Wasn't really a war, you know? |
| A war is when TWO armies are fighting.
|
| So, don't know if you could call it a war, exactly. |
| You know.
|
| The Persian Gulf Distraction is more like it, I think.
|
| Pretty amazing thing, really. |
| Bush turned out to be a major fucking demon, who would've guessed?
|
| Remember when he was first President? |
| He was the wimp president! |
| Do you remember that? |
| Cover of Newsweek! |
| Cover of fucking Newsweek!
|
| WWWWWWIMP PRESIDENT.
|
| Apparently, this stuck in this guy's craw a bit!
|
| Guy was a dynamite waiting to go off!
|
| "We surrender!"
|
| [Bush impression:] "Not good enough!"
|
| "We run away!"
|
| [Bush:] "Too little, too late!
|
| Call ME a wimp. |
| C'mon, fuckers! |
| C'MON!"
|
| ...
|
| "Hold him back!"
|
| Those guys were in hog heaven over there, man. |
| They had a big weapons catalog opened up...
|
| "What's G-12 do, Tommy?"
|
| "See, it says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth! Helps us pay for the war effort!"
|
| "Well, fuck! Pull that one up!"
|
| [walkie-talkie noise]
|
| "Pull up G-12, please."
|
| [sound of rocket launching]
|
| ...
|
| [distant explosion]
|
| "Cool! What's G-13 do?"
|
| Big Sears weapons catalog. |
| Weapons for all occasions!
|
| You know.
|
| See, everyone got boners over the technology. |
| And it was pretty incredible, watching missiles fly down air vents. |
| Pretty unbelievable. |
| But couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?
|
| Know what I mean?
|
| Fly over Ethiopia, "There's a guy that needs a banana!"
|
| [missile launches]
|
| ...
|
| [missile flies past]
|
| The Stealth Banana!
|
| Smart fruit!
|
| I dunno. |
| Once again, I was watching the fucking news, that really threw me off. |
| It depressed everyone! |
| It's just so scary, watching the news. |
| How they've built it all out of proportion like Iraq was ever or could ever possibly, under any stretch of the imagination, be a threat to us... wwwwhatsoever. |
| But! |
| Watching the news, you never would've got that idea!
|
| Remember how it started? |
| They kept talking about the Elite Republican Guard in these hushed tones like these guys were the Boogeymen or something.
|
| "Yeah, we're doing well now, but we have yet to face the Elite Republican Guard."
|
| Like these guys were 12-feet-tall desert warriors.
|
| [sound of footsteps crushing the ground]
|
| Never lost a battle!
|
| [crush, crush]
|
| We shit bullets!
|
| [crush, crush, crush]
|
| Yeah, well, after two months of continuous carpet-bombing and not ONE reaction at all from them, they became, simply, the Republican Guard! |
| Hahahahahahahaha!
|
| Not nearly as elite as we would have led you to believe!
|
| And after another month of bombing, they went from the Elite Republican Guard to the Republican Guard to the Republicans Made This Shit Up About There Being Guards Out There.
|
| We hope you enjoyed your fireworks show!
|
| It was so pretty and it took our mind off of domestic issues!
|
| The Persian Gulf Distraction.
|
| People said, "Uh uh, Bill. Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world!"
|
| [audience laughs]
|
| Yeah, maybe, but you know what, after the first three largest armies, there's a rrrrreal big fuckin' drop-off, alright?
|
| The Hare Krishnas are the fifth largest army in the world. |
| They've already got our airports. |
| Okay? |
| So... I think that's the greater threat right now. |
| Mr. Onion-Head in Terminal C is scaring the shit out of me. |
| Get him away from me.
|
| What an amazing thing, though, three...
|
| You know? |
| And the amazing thing, obviously, the disparity in the casualties. |
| Iraq: 150,000 casualties, USA: 79.
|
| Iraq: one hundred and fifty THOUSAND, USA: seventy. |
| NINE.
|
| Does that mean that if we had sent over eighty guys, we still would've won that fuckin' thing or what?
|
| One guy in a ticker tape parade: "I did it! Hey!
|
| You're welcome! |
| Heh heh!"
|
| "Good work, Tommy, how'd you do it?"
|
| "I pulled up G-12! It was in the catalog! Worked like a charm! Ha ha!"
|
| You know, my biggest problem with the whole thing was that bloodlust that everyone... came out of everyone, you know?
|
| This BLOODLUST, man. |
| It's really unbelievable! |
| Like, I was over in England. |
| You ever been to England, anyone? |
| England?
|
| [Audience Members:] Yeah.
|
| NO ONE has handguns in England, not even the cops. |
| True or false?
|
| [Audience:] True.
|
| NOW!
|
| In England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns.
|
| Ffffffffffffffffffffourteen.
|
| NOW!
|
| The United States, I think you know how WE feel about handguns. |
| Whoo! |
| I'm gettin' a warm, tingly feeling just sayin' the fucking word, to be honest with you. |
| I swear to you, I am hard.
|
| 23,000 deaths from handguns. |
| Let's go through those numbers again because they're a little baffling at first glance.
|
| England, where no one has guns: fffffffffffffffffffourteen deaths.
|
| United States, and I think you know how WE feel about guns, whoooop! |
| I'm gettin' a stiffy: 23,000 deaths from handguns.
|
| But there's no connection! |
| And you'd be a fool and a communist to make one.
|
| There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it and NOT having a gun and NOT SHOOTING SOMEONE.
|
| There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. |
| Yes. |
| That's absolutely proof.
|
| You know, fourteen deaths from handguns.
|
| They're probably American tourists.
|
| "You call this a sandwich?"
|
| [gunshots]
|
| "You don't boil pizza!"
|
| [gunshots]
|
| [British accent:] "That's the way we eat here! That's the way we eat here!"
|
| [gunshots]
|
| "This food sucks!"
|
| [gunshots]
|
| And, boy, does it suck. |
| Okay, great.
|
| If I'd had a gun, I would've been number 15 on that fuckin' list.
|
| You know, 14-- okay though, admittedly, in England, last year, they had 23,000 deaths per soccer game. |
| Alright, okay, okay.
|
| [audience groans]
|
| I'm not saying every system is flawless! |
| I'm saying, if you're in England, don't go to a goddamn soccer game and you're comin' home, okay?
|
| It's weird, they don't have guns in England, but they have a very high crime rate, which tells you how polite the fuckin' English are.
|
| "Give me your wallet!"
|
| "Alright."
|
| At least no one was hurt. |
| [laughs]
|
| How do you have a crime rate and no weapons, man? |
| Does a guy walk into a bank, "Gimme all your money! I've got a soccer ball!"
|
| "Shit, Ian, that's a Spalding! He's serious!"
|
| "Hand over the pounds!"
|
| I just don't understand this bloodlust. |
| 'Cause, you know, I know the world seems really frightening at times, but I think we're going to do okay.
|
| I'll tell you a true story. |
| A true fuckin' story, man, about bloodlust.
|
| I was down in Alabama, and I was playing a town called Fyffe, Alabama last year... and, uh... they wanted me there to host their annual rickets telethon or something, I don't know what the fuck it was |
| . |
| But anyway, it was great to be there and, uh...
|
| Anyway, this is absolutely true. |
| Last year, in Fyffe, Alabama, they had all these UFO sightings. |
| And apparently, everyone in this town saw these UFOs. |
| Alright? |
| Which really pissed me off, because when I was there... about 40 people saw me. |
| But! |
| There was no advance advertising, there was no publicity. |
| That's a BIG market for me.
|
| Anyway, I'm curious about UFOs. |
| So I asked people there what it was like! |
| And this guy said, "Oh man, it was incredible! People came from miles around to look at 'em. Lotta people came armed!"
|
| People are bringing shotguns... to UFO sightings.
|
| Kind of brings a whole new meaning to that phrase, "You ain't from around here, are you, boy?"
|
| I said to the guy, "Why do y'all bring shotguns to UFO sightings? It seems to me there's going to be a point in our development or evolution where you put your guns aside. You know what I mean? Don't you |
| think that would happen just fuckin' once?"
|
| Guy said, "Well, we didn't wanna be abducted."
|
| I'm thinking, "Yeah, and leave all this. Ha ha!"
|
| Dude, if I lived in Fyffe, Alabama, I'd be on my hands and knees praying for abduction every goddamn morning, alright? |
| And believe me, I would not be picky.
|
| Greyhound. |
| Abduct me.
|
| But I said, "What do you mean, abducted?"
|
| He said, "Well, they abduct people and then they perform scientific and medical experiments on 'em."
|
| I said, "Well, maybe we'll be lucky and it's some kind of sterility/dentistry program they got going on. Maybe they come down here, castrate you, straighten your teeth and split! |
| Sort of a "clean up the universe" pact."
|
| He said, "Huh?"
|
| I was almost sure I was talking to that dude!
|
| I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFOs. |
| The fact that they cross galaxies or wherever they come from to visit us and always end up in places like Fyffe, Alabama. |
| Maybe these are not superintelligent beings, man! |
| Maybe they're, like, hillbilly aliens! |
| Some intergalactic Joad family or somethin'.
|
| "Don't y'all wanna land in New York or L.A.?"
|
| "Nah, we just had a long trip, we're gonna kick back and whittle some!"
|
| "Oh my God, they're idiots!"
|
| "We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull! Ha ha!"
|
| "My God, we're being invaded by rednecks!"
|
| My biggest fear.
|
| Last thing I wanna see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know?
|
| Wouldn't that be depressing? |
| Some bumper sticker on it?
|
| "They'll Get My Raygun When They Pry My Cold, Dead, 18-Fingered Hand Off of It"
|
| See, in England, man, they have these crop circle things. |
| You hear about that? |
| These crop circles that show up, you know? |
| Which two guys have since claimed that they were responsible for, but I believe they're aliens, too.
|
| But they think aliens actually landed in and around Stonehenge and take off, and I ask people what it's like over there and they say, "Oh! It's incredible. People came from miles around. Lot of them brought soccer balls."
|
| Would you let the aliens land, please? |
| They might be here to pick me up. |