Paul F. Tompkins Thread [Archive]

Big Box Of Money

July 11, 2008, 9:26 PM

One time my friend and I saw Paul outside of a comedy club in Philadelphia where he had just performed comedy(we had just seen him INSIDE of this club). He was talking to some other people and we were gonna talk to him next, but we turned around for a couple of seconds and when we turned back again Paul had gone inside.

TRUE STORY!!

BillBrasky

July 22, 2008, 5:54 AM

Paul is the host of the Reel Comedy special on "Step Brothers"; it's running on Comedy Central all this week.

theodoric

July 22, 2008, 8:05 AM

Paul seems to be unnecessarily concerned with minutiae. It is the basis of his act.

He also wears suits containing many colors that are not found in nature.

Also, if you look up "foppish" in the dictionary, the entry contains his picture. True.

Bucky_Sinister

July 22, 2008, 10:30 AM

In Taintbows

July 22, 2008, 7:50 PM

He's much more of a "dandy," IMO, more so than a "fop."

Are you saying he's a hooker from the 1920's?

Bucky_Sinister

July 24, 2008, 10:23 AM

Are you saying he's a hooker from the 1920's?

By no means, my good man. The dandy is more about the watch fob and the top hat and the fop is powdered wigs and stockings.

Fops are 18th century, Dandies a 19th century type...

Hookers from the '20s? I have no idea what they're called. GGILFs?

dougbenson

July 24, 2008, 10:28 AM

great questions AND answers!

(keep up the good work)

charles star

July 24, 2008, 10:53 AM

Hookers from the '20s? I have no idea what they're called. GGILFs?
Those were flappers - and they weren't hookers. They were just ahead of their time.

Nizzles

July 25, 2008, 10:58 AM

I'm fairly certain that an identical thread to this was euthanized before the AST Crash of '08.
Ask Paul about the old thread in person at the Paul F. Tompkins Show, at Largo at the Coronet Theater on August 9, 2008. There will be guests, and they will be special. I can promise that seeing Paul "F is for Fancy" Tompkins in a proper theater with a full backing band and red velvet curtains makes for a whole new, and wholly awesome experience for the typical L.A. alt-comedy fan.

If you need a clearer picture, imagine seeing PFT and Jon Brion perform at the muppet show theater. How much fun is that?

J.B.

September 5, 2008, 7:32 PM

Anyone know where to find that video of the 4th grade talent show version of PFT's Stromboli bit?

dpardue

September 5, 2008, 7:42 PM

Dear Paul,

Since you are not here to rebut me... well, there's something I've been meaning to get off my chest...

YOU ARE WRONG!!! PIE IS BETTER THAN CAKE BY TONS. CAKE IS ASS COMPARED TO A DELICIOUS PIE LIKE PECAN OR CHOCOLATE.

Otherwise, I love you and will miss you in LA,

yours,

dpardue

Shane

September 5, 2008, 7:44 PM

http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=18504034076

Shane

September 5, 2008, 7:45 PM

mike

September 6, 2008, 2:37 AM

Anyone knows when a new album might be recorded?

Fabio wants to know.

Shane

September 6, 2008, 3:23 PM

Fabio: Oh, Fabio's going to have a good day surfing the internet, today!

Anyone knows when a new album might be recorded?

Fabio wants to know.

Fabio: Oh no! Why does everybody hate Fabio?

crlygrl

October 21, 2008, 4:34 PM

PFT on The Best Show tonight! Tune it at www.wfmu.org (http://www.wfmu.org/)! Doooo it!

KeithTalent

October 23, 2008, 11:50 PM

Dear Pauly T,

FACT: It is unreasonable to denigrate pies as you can put almost anything in a pie. What's a thing you like? Cover it with pie crust. Delicious.

FACT: "Crust" is an unpleasant word. You shouldn't let that fool you.

FACT: You should use your immeasurable sway over Jon Brion's career to nag him into making another pop record, tout de suite!

FACT: I should stop posting inane things and go to bed.

Love,

"Keith"

stevekindof

November 19, 2008, 8:19 AM

Paul,

So, I found the CD.

Yeah, it was hiding in my copy of Bobcat's recent. Funny thing, The Bobcat CD was still there, I guess I was just too lazy to put Impersonal in an empty CD case let alone IT'S OWN GODDAMN CASE!!!!

Crisis averted! Heh heh heh...

So.

Let's just move forward. You do your magic. I'll continue to figure out mine.

OH! and not that I'll see the possibility but If anyone questions your now-cryptic message on the inside sleeve, I-I'll cover for you I got your back.

Ahhh, don't mention it.

r

Fentmore

November 19, 2008, 10:15 AM

Speaking of Impersonal, that was about a year ago, yeah? Has anything been moving on the new CD? I caught PFT's comedy central presents (thanks On Demand) and I very much liked it alot.

ericluxury

November 20, 2008, 8:34 AM

Don't know if it was a repeat since I don't watch the show but at the gym yesterday I saw that Paul F was a pretty big part of last nights Pushing Daisies. Without the sound, you can't really tell if it was funny, but I imagine it was. Just a heads up to anyone on this board who watches or occassionally does...

dan telfer

November 20, 2008, 8:58 AM

Last night PFT rocked the Daisies as a professional geek. He's a really good fit for the show's style too, whimsically dark with expensive costumes.

I love that show. It is my cup of tea.

sparklepicnic

November 20, 2008, 9:34 AM

Just recently I heard some Paul F. Tompkins words/jokes and I laughed very hard.

This is what Paul looks like when he disguises himself as British:

<img src=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Matt_berry.jpg>

waxpop

November 20, 2008, 10:50 AM

He was GREAT in Pushing Daisies last night! Don't want to give too much away but he had a pretty big part. This ep was a real treat - Kerri Kenney, Stephen Root, and Fred Willard also guest starred. The full episode is available at abc.com.

TomHicks

November 20, 2008, 11:11 AM

I'm glad he got to be on it before they take it out behind the barn and shoot it in the head. It's another show like Arrested Development where they put a lot of energy into making it and then America goes, "No, thanks. I know we say we don't like TV and we want different and creative programming, but we're totally cool with NCIS and Dancing With the Stars."

mike

November 20, 2008, 2:48 PM

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/undia1979/-1.jpg

darrylduffy

November 20, 2008, 2:50 PM

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/undia1979/-1.jpg

wrong thread mike that should go here : http://aspecialthing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1724 :p

mike

November 20, 2008, 2:51 PM

VERY FUNNY.

Actually, that guy seems to be more of a Spiderman-fan than a Spiderman-man. My bad.

GaryLucy

November 22, 2008, 1:04 AM

I liked when he took Elizabeth Moss down to his secret hideout tonight on BWE. How cute is she?
(ANSWER: Very)

Shane

November 30, 2008, 1:40 PM

PFT is now on Twitter

http://twitter.com/Twitterkins

Shane

December 10, 2008, 6:45 PM

Here's a video Paul did at my school

<a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=47156588">Paul F. Tompkins at some school in Ohio</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=47156588,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=47156588,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

littlegirltree

December 15, 2008, 4:49 PM

Short film w/ intro by PFT

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gloshi

December 19, 2008, 4:58 PM

I couldn't figure out how or if it was possible to embed video from NBC.com for Late Night episodes, but here's the link of last night's episode with Paul F. Tompkins,

http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien/video/episodes/#vid=893001

You can just click select chapter at the bottom to go straight to Paul's appearance.

It was great to see Paul and Conan together, good stuff, I hope they have him back again after the move.

"Welcome to New York!"

Cameron

December 19, 2008, 5:03 PM

I'm so glad he told the "King Hat" story. I've been trying to find some sort of video or recording of it since I saw him tell it at SXSW.

the kid

December 19, 2008, 8:22 PM

I recently started watching 'Weeds' and it was a pleasant surprise to see PFT on that program.

KevinLee

December 19, 2008, 9:17 PM

LOMefU_kBWUI'd never seen this PFT HBO special "Driven to Drink."
I noticed at the end that the stage manager is a one Mr. John Stewart.

aenemaTron

December 19, 2008, 10:19 PM

Not Jon Stewart.

Jouster

December 19, 2008, 10:27 PM

Craig Anton.

Michael Blacklist

December 20, 2008, 2:48 AM

The dude from E.R. was one of the executive producers.

KevinLee

December 20, 2008, 3:28 AM

I'm an Idiot
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by the Meat Puppets

daveunfun

December 20, 2008, 9:41 PM

I'm so glad he told the "King Hat" story. I've been trying to find some sort of video or recording of it since I saw him tell it at SXSW.

The hat store that he speaks of is still around and is ridiculous.