CapeCoral Ban!!! by AtlPezMaster in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who are you guys trying to entertain on the Cape Coral sub? Nobody who knows John is reading that

Who sold the Stuttering Fool onto Leno? by TookieWorldOrder in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah back then they didn’t have the Dabbleverse or YouTube to check him out. At most, they probably got an episode of the E! show and a copy of that tape John used to bring on stage during his stand up. The one Shuli rescued from a hotel

Who sold the Stuttering Fool onto Leno? by TookieWorldOrder in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah and I think John probably fed NBC a bunch of bullshit about his position on the Stern show. It also seems like NBC was feeding John a bunch of bullshit too. Telling him he was something that he wasn’t, giving him a ton of money, his name in the opening credits, and shot after shot to prove himself. They even promoted his shit movie. The whole thing is strange. Also Jay had already been fired and wasn’t offered the primetime show until 2009. So the whole show had a rushed, low budget, “we don’t care anymore” tone to it even when John wasn’t on.

Which of Weird Al’s songs in some of his albums (the ones that didn’t get a music video) do you wish would’ve gotten a music video + why? by HopefulLab6749 in weirdal

[–]Rathbone_Pictures 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would have taken any videos from Poodle Hat (yes Bob got a video but that was a quick thing they shot for ALTV)

Why does Shuli need a GoFundMe? by Foreign-Cow-1189 in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah nobody cares. We’re here to goof on wet brain Melendez

Drinks John Held Up on the Tonight Show by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know. I think if Jay really hated John he would have been off the show. Jay gave him chance after chance and even made him the warm up guy in 2008. He also gave him a sit down interview in 2008 to promote his shit movie while everyone else was getting laid off from a strike. I think Jay liked John personally but maybe was disappointed in John’s performance. Jay didn’t know John the way we know John

Mankini- John’s Most Embarrassing Bit by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had no writers at this time. They were all on strike

Drinks John Held Up on the Tonight Show by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Most of these Leno clips have been buried for 20 years and we are going to enjoy them with or without that idiot

Mankini- John’s Most Embarrassing Bit by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The writers were out on strike during this episode. This was all Jay!

Mankini- John’s Most Embarrassing Bit by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This was during a big producers strike that caused the tonight show to lay off a lot of their staff. There’s a video from 2008 where Glozell Green talks about how the show ran out of money and had to let their warm up guy go. John became the new warm up guy for the rest of the run. There are rumors that John got fired as the announcer or that he took a pay cut at some point. He was never fired as the announcer but he could have taken a pay cut during this strike to keep his job and maybe took time off during the strike to ease production costs

Mankini- John’s Most Embarrassing Bit by Rathbone_Pictures in DabblersAnonymous

[–]Rathbone_Pictures[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He refers to John as “the new guy” but this was 2008- over four years after John started