Comments on: Separated at Birth http://www.petroleumjelliffe.com/2005/03/separated-at-birth/ Your source of information about John Basedow, the Muffin vs. Cupcake debate, using Outlook like Gmail, and how to kill your TV. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:00:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Scott Lahti http://www.petroleumjelliffe.com/2005/03/separated-at-birth/#comment-239 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:18:43 +0000 http://www.petroleumjelliffe.com/2005/03/separated-at-birth/#comment-239 I know what you mean - I had seen a hilarious stand-up routine on Comedy Central by a comedian who described a scary conflict he overheard on the subway between a yelping young woman and her abusive boyfriend - "Ow! - my neck" the comic intoned in a sidesplitting high-pitched rendition of the woman's voice, before noting that his own fear of interfering in the dispute was in large measure inspired by his own fear of becoming as a result the second passenger overheard issuing the same cry...so when I saw Joel McHale on E's *The Soup*, I thought, "that's him!", then became puzzled when McHale's bios at IMDb and the E network failed to note any background in standup...it took my discovery of your post in the category of what a friend and I describe as "great minds think alike - and so do we" to clear up my own separated-at-birth misattribution of the source of my subway-layed laughter, which turns out to have been lookalike Bill Burr. For which, my amused thanks and good wishes. P.S. I even phoned Burr's agent in New York, in hopes of having him identify the routine in question as that indeed of his client, but, harried and diverted from his booking chores, he suggested I return to the fan sites, which I did, finding therein from delighted fan posts the clinching and triumphant I.D. I had sought all along. Comic relief indeed... I know what you mean - I had seen a hilarious stand-up routine on Comedy Central by a comedian who described a scary conflict he overheard on the subway between a yelping young woman and her abusive boyfriend - “Ow! - my neck” the comic intoned in a sidesplitting high-pitched rendition of the woman’s voice, before noting that his own fear of interfering in the dispute was in large measure inspired by his own fear of becoming as a result the second passenger overheard issuing the same cry…so when I saw Joel McHale on E’s *The Soup*, I thought, “that’s him!”, then became puzzled when McHale’s bios at IMDb and the E network failed to note any background in standup…it took my discovery of your post in the category of what a friend and I describe as “great minds think alike - and so do we” to clear up my own separated-at-birth misattribution of the source of my subway-layed laughter, which turns out to have been lookalike Bill Burr. For which, my amused thanks and good wishes.

P.S. I even phoned Burr’s agent in New York, in hopes of having him identify the routine in question as that indeed of his client, but, harried and diverted from his booking chores, he suggested I return to the fan sites, which I did, finding therein from delighted fan posts the clinching and triumphant I.D. I had sought all along. Comic relief indeed…

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