# Insominiac with Dave Attell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477 "2003-03-31T16:43:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/21 "2003-04-01T07:15:51Z")
There was one they stuck in the credits of the Daytona Beach one that just cracked me up As the credits rolled, they show Dave back in the zoo trying to get a McCaw to say hello. He keeps on “Hello…Hello? Hello. Cmon say Hello!” Bird turns its head and goes “Fuck you!” Bleeped of course. I truly believe Dave did not expect it as he looks at the camera with a mystified look. Had me rolling. The fireworks misfiring and nearly scorching the cameraman ranked up there too as well as Dave and that fisherman getting royally stewed on the boat in the Gulf in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/22 "2003-04-01T13:45:30Z")
Damn, I missed him in Columbus?!? _grrr_ Anyway, the nutri hunting in New Orleans was by far the funniest thing I’ve ever seen - and it looked like a GREAT part-time job. MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/23 "2003-04-01T17:47:50Z")
I thought that the one (Albuquerque, I think) where he hunt out with the Scorpions after their concert was cool. I also like how women will see the camera and flash it, apparently thinking that he’s part of “Girls Gone Wild.” ---
**Author:** ![Payton\_s\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@Payton\_s\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payton_s_Servant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/24 "2003-04-01T19:34:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morgainelf \* > \*\*The best part was watching him try to come up with something to do in Boston after 2am. The streets roll up (except at a few places in Chinatown where you can get “cold tea”, aka beer, after 2.) He went to the water treatment plant! Sad. \*\* That’s the best part of the show, when he gets away from the bars and goes to see someone working the Graveyard Shift. If I want to see drunk assholes in bars I can walk downtown, thanks. It’s interesting that Dave is never condescending to the late might workers that he meets and he never is cruel or makes fun of them. He might make fun of the job they have, but not of them as a person. Plus he seems genuinely interested in what these people do for a living. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/25 "2003-04-01T20:29:41Z")
Well in Boston he’d really have no choice . . . hell, even 2am is a stretch in “the city that always sleeps”. I actually wanted to see that episode just for ideas of what to do in this place. ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/26 "2003-04-02T01:03:50Z")
Best line ever - Dave is out with some ghost hunters. He tells them, “My apartment is haunted. Haunted by the ghosts of a thousand fat chicks saying, ‘Call me?’” I missed the rest of the episode because I was laughing so hard. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/27 "2003-04-02T01:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dignan \* > \*\*The Onion had an interview with Attell recently. If I remember right, Attell said that an episode is taped over a couple of nights. > \*\* Anyone have a link to this interview? I had an argument with a friend about this. I never thought he could find all that weird stuff in one night. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/28 "2003-04-02T01:42:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNova \* > \*\*Anyone have a link to this interview? I had an argument with a friend about this. I never thought he could find all that weird stuff in one night. \*\* [Here ya go](http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3906/avfeature_3906.html). I love this show as well. He could easily come across as an asshole, but somehow he always manages to pull off his jibes w/o seeming too insulting. ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/29 "2003-04-02T02:37:56Z")
[I agree](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=153523&highlight=insomniac/), it is one of the few newer shows I watch. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/30 "2003-04-02T06:56:07Z")
I love that show, he makes drinking look so much fun that I almost wanna try it. 🙂 Almost. Anyone know if he’s coming to St. Louis? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477/31 "2003-04-02T12:12:19Z")
When the Vin Diesel movie **XXX** came out they advertised it on **Insomniac**. Despite the significant differences in their physiques, those two bald heads looked alike to me, and I couldn’t help thinking of Dave Attell starring in XXX. “I gotta go snowboard away from this avalanche… but first, there’s something I gotta do!” Love the show. Pepper Mill and I catch it whenever we can. I, too, was amazed that he found things to do in Boston after 1 AM. I was disappointed in the science fiction convention (Windycon, in the Chicago episode). It made the fans look too dweebish. He should come to Arisia in Boston – the fetish costumers and erotic art and writing folks would fit right in with Dave’s styyle. Heck, I can’t wait to see what happens if he ever gets to Salt Lake City. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insominiac-with-dave-attell/165477.md?page=1)