Read it from the bottom up, grandpa.

I went to a Gallagher show last summer. I learned many things I did not want to learn about Gallagher. I wrote an article about it:

“Hey, President Obama,” he spits out the name like a mouthful of burning hair. “You ain’t black. I don’t care what you say—you’re a latte. You’re half whole-milk. It could be goat milk—you could be a terrorist!” I am too busy losing my mind to catch the next joke, which is about Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer. Aaaaand we’re off.

The dude is not doing great. In the brains. So it didn’t really surprise me to hear about the little cluster of Gallagher-related mishaps going on down in Portland this week.

I’m sure you all followed GallagherStormOffGate on Marc Maron‘s Twitter feed yesterday, but in case any of you missed it, I will catch you up. Maron was supposed to interview Gallagher for his WTF podcast. Gallagher arrived at Maron’s hotel room for the interview. Then this happened:

Read it from the bottom up, grandpa.
  • Read it from the bottom up, grandpa.

ALSO yesterday, Gallagher had agreed to perform a free show at Sway Bar in Portland. Then, according to the Willamette Week, this happened:

Gallagher refused to perform. He was, according to his manager, too stoned, and it had made him too paranoid to go on stage or to weather the usual Sway Bar crowd of strippers and stripper aficionados, and so skipped his scheduled set to instead talk to strangers on the sidewalk for more than an hour and a half…Gallagher wouldn’t perform. He ordered hamburgers from neighboring Star Bar and ate them outside. He insulted fans and chatted up strangers. He lived, perfectly, up to the expectations of anyone who’s read an interview of his in the past five years who expected a witty, bitter, slightly spent old man who has had to suffer the indignity of suing his own brother just to maintain his own good name.

Is Gallagher’s brain finally broken? Probably not. Probably he just had a bad day decade. Maron says he’ll be posting the 30 minutes of tape he recorded before Gallagher stormed off. I cannot wait to listen to it. Fuck, Gallagher is depressing.

Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more....

25 replies on “Possible Gallagher Meltdown in Progress”

  8. Should be an interesting episode even if it is short. Maron is a difficult guy but he’s generally pretty fair when it comes down to his interviews.

  10. He was never all that funny to begin with. Pretty much a one-trick pony, and when that one trick got old, he had no talent to pick up the slack.

  12. People in this world are dying of hunger, and this talentless spectacle of imbecility made a career out of smashing fresh food with a mallet. Suck the karma until you choke, asshole.

  16. From the Willamette Week piece:

    “Gallagher’s first comedy special was directed, inexplicably, by REM’s Mike Nesmith.”

    Eh..? Isn’t Mike Nesmith a Monkee?

  18. Dude we where doing an art/music show there that night and kicked it with him out side, he is bat shit crazy! He talked shit to everyone, told me to quote “Fuck your grandmother” and smoked more weed then the rest of SE portland COMBINED. after trying to spit out a witty comment which kinda trailed off as he did it, he just turned to the left and walked off in to the night….He was epic

  21. #16 – Mike Nesmith was in the Monkees, and has directed two things, neither of which involved Gallagher. The guy from REM also never directed a Gallagher special. That article also makes the statement that

    “comedy has never been all that funny no matter what”

    Wow, way to go Willamette weekly – you picked a great reporter to write about comedy. He clearly loves it!

  22. check out videoranch 3d, Mike Nesmith’s directed and produced videos and most recent music is available there…if you join the ranch you might get a chance to chat with him!

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