rant · moment 7 of 27
Just Plain Keith, the One-Armed Booker
from #171 - Brownie Boat | The Tim Dillon Show · #171
4 min
Tim recounts doing rehab-circuit comedy shows early in his career, including a legendary heckle in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and a one-armed ex-crackhead promoter named Keith who lied about losing his arm in the military to get first-class seats.
- Tim did rehab comedy shows early in his career when he couldn't book clubs, including one in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
- Best heckle ever: at a Wisconsin rehab show, someone yelled "Dahmer ate my friend" during a Dahmer joke.
- Keith, a one-armed former crackhead, used to book these rehab gigs and wore a terrible plastic prosthetic arm from a Halloween store.
- Keith's fake arm was frozen in one position, like someone giving a speech, and he'd lost the real one smoking crack.
- Tim respected that Keith would lie about his service even though nobody believed him, viewing it as typical addict behavior.
- Keith arguing with flight attendants that he deserved free first-class seats because he lost his arm for the country.
- Keith called himself "Just Plain Keith" and would perform other people's jokes at his booked gigs.
- Keith steals a joke from a great deceased comedian who did heroin and had AIDS, opening with "I live ten years clean."
- Keith claims the dead comedian's brother gave him permission to do the bit, which Tim finds questionable.
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