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Hey smurphy, remember Brother Theodore?
Hey smurphy, remember Brother Theodore?
one of the best crazy acts :mj07: :scared
here's nice 35 second bit of crazy rant:
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one of my favorites, "Sick Frenzied passion for That Itchy Chick!"
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Brother Theodore (born Theodore Gottlieb, 11 November 1906 ? 5 April 2001) was born into a rich German Jewish family, studied philosopy at Cologne Univ (he most assuredly studied how it is that Socrates, in "Phaedrus", declared madness, when given as a gift of the gods, is a divine and blessing thing in four ways.), but Nazis threw him in (sez wiki) "the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark." That was after Nazis killed rest of his family, and he witnessed a few of those himself. But he said one of worst was being forced to watch Nazis howl with laughter as they used dogs to tear apart people alive.
Then Switzerland kicked him out for chess hustling, and next in Austria where Albert Einstein (old family freind, evidently) helped him get to US just before Nazis marched into that country.
He landed gig doing janitorial work at Stanford University, whipping all the professors butts at chess (including 30 at one time in a memorable episode) (but made more money as a dockworker for one 3 year stint) as he worked on his monologues, nightclub act and bit parts in movies. His wife tired of the poverty and left him, son escaped with her. Made a few bizzare comic-terror short films in the 50s.
He appeared on many TV talks shows in 60s, but retired in 70s. Fans brought him out of retirement in late 1970s and he is mostly remembered today for stuff he did in 80s, especially these Letterman appearances, many of which he had to memorize on very short notice as he was a favorite last-second fill-in guest.
To Dave Letterman: "I am squirming with delight to meet an intellectual colossus!"
"In this best of all possible worlds -- everything is in a hell of a mess."
"The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people."
"Madness is a very healthy sickness. If it were not for my madness, I would have gone insane long ago."
Hey smurphy, remember Brother Theodore?
one of the best crazy acts :mj07: :scared
here's nice 35 second bit of crazy rant:
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one of my favorites, "Sick Frenzied passion for That Itchy Chick!"
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Brother Theodore (born Theodore Gottlieb, 11 November 1906 ? 5 April 2001) was born into a rich German Jewish family, studied philosopy at Cologne Univ (he most assuredly studied how it is that Socrates, in "Phaedrus", declared madness, when given as a gift of the gods, is a divine and blessing thing in four ways.), but Nazis threw him in (sez wiki) "the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark." That was after Nazis killed rest of his family, and he witnessed a few of those himself. But he said one of worst was being forced to watch Nazis howl with laughter as they used dogs to tear apart people alive.
Then Switzerland kicked him out for chess hustling, and next in Austria where Albert Einstein (old family freind, evidently) helped him get to US just before Nazis marched into that country.
He landed gig doing janitorial work at Stanford University, whipping all the professors butts at chess (including 30 at one time in a memorable episode) (but made more money as a dockworker for one 3 year stint) as he worked on his monologues, nightclub act and bit parts in movies. His wife tired of the poverty and left him, son escaped with her. Made a few bizzare comic-terror short films in the 50s.
He appeared on many TV talks shows in 60s, but retired in 70s. Fans brought him out of retirement in late 1970s and he is mostly remembered today for stuff he did in 80s, especially these Letterman appearances, many of which he had to memorize on very short notice as he was a favorite last-second fill-in guest.
To Dave Letterman: "I am squirming with delight to meet an intellectual colossus!"
"In this best of all possible worlds -- everything is in a hell of a mess."
"The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people."
"Madness is a very healthy sickness. If it were not for my madness, I would have gone insane long ago."
Wow that is hilarious. My wife and I love jouqine's movies and was disappointed he took time off. Its obvious he took time off to get fu*ked up. That was really funny!
it was an act. He is trying to drum up attention for his upcoming reality tv show about a famous hollywood actor that goes bust. saw it on TMZ.
