Larry Brown • Stand-up
Larry 'Bubbles' Brown
aka Bobby Bitter
• 1981 - Present •
Feature Article excerpt or Bio
Month 19xx · Bay area Publication • byline
Cheese slices cheese on toast paneer. Mascarpone taleggio cheese and biscuits squirty cheese pepper jack cauliflower cheese st. agur blue cheese swiss. Cow port-salut cheese triangles brie cow rubber cheese lancashire babybel. Cheeseburger.
Stinking bishop emmental cottage cheese. Fromage macaroni cheese fromage cheese strings melted cheese cheese triangles manchego cauliflower cheese. St. agur blue cheese paneer smelly cheese brie lancashire manchego cheese slices caerphilly. Cheddar blue castello cheese slices fromage frais.
Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes out everybody’s happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved my cheese cream cheese melted cheese. Cheesecake.
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“Cheese slices cheese on toast paneer. Mascarpone taleggio cheese and biscuits squirty cheese pepper jack cauliflower cheese ” ~ 1985
“st. agur blue cheese swiss. Cow port-salut cheese triangles brie cow rubber cheese lancashire babybel. Cheeseburger.”~ Contra Costa Times • 1985
“out everybody’s happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved my cheese cream cheese melted cheese. Cheesecake.” ~ The San Ramon Valley Herald • 1984
‘“Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes .” ~Comedy Times • 1984
Quick Takes
First Gig
Holy City Zoo
My first time on stage was March 3, 1981. My first paid gig was September 4, 1981 - 6 months after my first open mic there - I made $30.50. Not bad for '81.
Favorite Club
HCZ & Punchline
it was the Zoo at first, great place to start but after a few years it was so small it was claustrophobic. Loved the Walnut Creek Punchline
Comedy Inspiration
so many
Probably a dozen or so comics - there were so many great funny people during that period. I was somewhat intimidated by Robin Williams but when I got to know him and aside from his amazing talent, I think his kindness and generosity would have inspired anyone, not just comics
Best Crowd
Memorable Night
Best audience may have been the Letterman auditions at Cobb's on May 9, 1985 - Place was packed and people were laughing so hard it was surreal.
Comedy Day
Memory
Playing to 40,000 people - too crazy to have happened. Still amazed that we performed to that many people. We outdrew the Giants!
WOrst response
to a Joke
I had been opening with "Been a great day - so far I haven't passed any blood" That was just killing here - I went back for what should have been my final Letterman audition in NYC - opened with that at Catch a Rising Star - the audience was completely repulsed - heard a woman go 'Ugggg" Bombed so bad that kept me off the show for 2 years.
Hecklers
A drunk told me he was going to beat me senseless. I pleaded with him just to hit me until I couldn't smell anymore
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Someone threw a glass at Bobby Slayton that shattered against the Wall. Bobby just kept going.
Craziest night
in Comedy
May have been June of '07 at the SF Punchline - Dave Chapelle was on a Monday night, Robin was in the audience, Chapelle got a call on stage from rapper Mos Def and it wound up with all 3 being on stage. This was right before the iPhone came out and the manager at the Punchline turned to me at the end of the show "I can't believe we couldn't get any pictures"
Best Publications
Cover guy
The Just for Laughs published by the Foxes had some good info and a national calendar of comedy shows which was very cool. Also, Comedy Times, but it didn't last very long.
OTHER BAY AREA GIGS / EVENTS OF NOTE
First Pitch
Was it a Screwball, Sinker, Slider, Slurve, Splitter, or a Sweeper?
Letterman • X Years Apart
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Quoted in Penthouse
Seems like an opportunity to tell that joke? once again. Did they spell your name correctly? Origin story for the joke?
That was then, This is since then…
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