So does anyone else watch this show on Comedy Central. The last few episode I happen to catch and I find it to be quite entertaining. I find it far better and more real than any of these idiotic “Reality Shows” the networks have been showing lately, which one day may cause television to be classed as a felony.
I like the show. It reminds me of business trips I’ve made. I liked the one where he went to the dairy farm. The shooting range was nice too, where he lost the round to the one armed guy.
Funny show.
I like whenever he sits in on an all-night recording session.
I first started watching it with the Second Season premier (I think it was Chicago), then caught up with the first season reruns. I’ve been somewhat lacksidaisical with the Third season, because the show used to be perfectly situated on Wednesday after South Park (meaning Junkyard Wars -> [channel change] -> South Park -> Insonmoniac ! Whoo-hoo!), now it’s on Thursday and I sometimes forget to tape…
Usually his ad-libs on the street (or in the club, bar, lounge, party, mine, factory, whatever) are much, much better than the snippet of his act we see starting the show.
I’ve watched it a number of times; pretty funny stuff. And of course I loved the one where he was in Memphis, since I’ve been to many of the places he visited.
I love it. There’s an underlying sort of gentleness to him–he’s really interested in these folks, even the ones that are being jerks, and ribs them instead of giving them hell like we know he could.
Nice diversity of experiences, too, not just the nightclub scene. The New Orleans guy who runs the dikes (shuddup) was cool, as were the nutria sharpshooters. Pizza delivery guy, porno studio voiceover dude, steel mill worker, is there anything Dave won’t try?
I’ve lived in Boston and NY and he did go to a lot of the right places in Boston. His research folks do find out the interesting places.
I think my favorite sequence of all time was the Chicago frankfurter stand run by the African-American teenage girls who cussed out the customers when they deserved it, which was all the time. Brilliantly funny, especially when Dave met the manager who proved to be the most wittily foul-mouthed of them all. “Go for it, ladies!” he encouraged them as they all ganged up on a particularly rude football-player type.
Like the show a lot. The NY Times had a profile on him in the Arts and Leisure Sunday section a few weeks ago, you can search the website for it. Thoughtful, pretty quiet guy IRL.
I’ve caught it every now and then since the premier. He’s a really weird but very funny guy. And really good with drunk people. I’m waiting for him to go to Honolulu. He’s been to New York 3 times but not here yet.
I just caught an episode last night where he was invited to a Vampire the Masquerade LARP. It was brilliant. He definitely makes me laugh.
I think I might just like him because he reminds me of lno though.
Osiris, this week he’ll be in Anchorage, in the Other Non-Contiguous State.
He is good with drunks. I just giggle and flip my hair and they tend to leave me alone after a while, but then I’m a young woman. Strategy wouldn’t work with Dave for two obvious reasons.
Lesson One from the show: Whatever the accent, whatever they’re wearing, wherever they’re from, drunk 19 year olds are very much alike.
Oh yeah, I also love how he finds the right way to leave town. He left Boston via a shell on the Charles, and how many thousands of times have I watched those go by?
Favorite: being carried out of New Orleans in a coffin by a funeral band, the blues almost drowning out his protestations that he wasn’t actually dead.
I watched a few of the first season ones, but then as it got backed up from “insomniac” time to “late bedtime” time to “kiddies it’s time for bed” time it lost its appeal.
I have never seen the allure of this show.
I watch it if I’m still awake by the time it airs.
I had seen numerous commercials for it and didn’t think it looked interesting at all.
The man and I ended up watching it kind of by mistake one night…or due to laziness, or not being able to find the remote.
Now we’re die hard fans!
Dave Atell is a brilliantly funny man. And his stand up comedy seems to be really funny too. Our favourite episode is the Montreal one, seeing as it is the only city that we’ve been to that he has also visited. It was cool to point out stuff that we had also seen.
I only hope and pray that he makes it to Toronto one of these days!
Ah, yes. The Wiener’s Circle. They do a mean Polish sausage, and the cheese fries will soak up all manner of late-night boozing.
For anyone interested, here’s a link to a salon.com article on Dave Attell.
I saw Mr. Attell one time on the street here in NYC. I was on my way to get some lunch and saw him walk down the street and stroll right into a strip joint. Exchanged hellos with the doorman as he entered. Middle of the day, no camera crew following him. I think his persona on the show is the real him.
There was a good article on him in the NY Observer a few months ago.
The show is hell of funny.
Inso-maniacs, mini-marathon tonight on CC! From 11-2, including the BEST OF INSOMNIAC one.
I hope I’m not there to see it. All of my New Year’s plans have completely just fallen apart. Yikes.
Ah, it’s brilliant! You get to see some fun sides of cities… and he’s really funny as all Hell!
I love watching Insomniac!
Hehe a friend of mine hooked up with him recently. He called a bunch of times afterwards, and to our amazment she just blew him off. I guess aside of having a TV show, he’s just a bald fat guy (not that theres anything wrong with that). She said he was funny as hell though.
Dave’s show rocks! The wife and I love it!
He did a bit on Reno and ended up at the Moonlight Ranch (just east of Carson City, by the way) which I drive past everyday on my way to work. The other places he hit in Reno are actually kind of disappointing, so I try to ignore that episode and pretend that all the places he goes in the other citys are the place to be. I bet it would be a hoot to hang with him for a night. As long as he was buying.
Side note: My wife is convinced Dave is either secretly gay or at least bi. I think his garden gate my swing both way, but that he is definatly into the ladies. His strip-club visits are too real to be “part of the act”. What you guys think?
I’m not as stupid as you look.