Why is Jimmy NOT HEADLINEING [Archive] - The Unofficial Opie and Anthony Message Board

notmikeh

08-06-2006, 07:00 PM

This is retarded. I went to the show last night which I must say was F'ing awesome, and Jimmy Nordin wan't headlineing?? The majority of pests went to see Jimmy headline and instead he is on as a co-headliner. Then I have to endure impatient assholes yelling at Tracy Morgan "Yankees Suck" throwing off his rythm and ruining the show for others.
People, you need to sit there and shut up. I don't want to hear you capping other comic's jokes with Jimmy bits "would ya, should ya". Your not funny. If you don't like the comic, LEAVE. Don't ruin the show for me.
Other than that I sugest those that haven't gotten their tickets get them quick. The show was fantastic and totally worth ever penny.

Radioguy

08-06-2006, 07:09 PM

Several people have suggested he should have closed. That seems a better idea. Jimmy is pretty much guaranteed to kil before an O&A audience, so it's not like anyone could turn the room cold for him. Anyone else should go first.

NortonsGravyLeg

08-06-2006, 07:12 PM

This is odd. You label the thread about why isn't Jimmy headlining and then you spend the rest of the post complaining about people fucking with Tracy Morgans set.

dodisman

08-06-2006, 07:30 PM

Not sure how they determined the order but i'm guessing Tracy won't be closing any more shows...Jimmy should close one of them for sure...I think Patrice could as well since his set was fantastic last night...

MJMANDALAY

08-06-2006, 07:37 PM

If you knew why they could'nt list Jimmy as the Headliner, then you would know why. But you don't so if I were you I would'nt speculate, on something that there is a good reason for.

No offence involved but everybody does't have to know everything:action-sm

AssOrgy

08-06-2006, 07:38 PM

I always thought it was who ever cost the most went last. Opposite in movies. The most expensive actor will get the credit lineup first. But Patrice has to be making a shit load more money than Ralphie May.

notmikeh

08-06-2006, 08:24 PM

This is odd. You label the thread about why isn't Jimmy headlining and then you spend the rest of the post complaining about people fucking with Tracy Morgans set.
I was dissapointed he wasn't headlineing. And because he didn't he in turn screwed up Tracy's set(though unintentional, I am sure). If he had headlined, the crowd would have given Tracy's set a chance, instead he got heckeled from the moment he came on stage. The same thing happened to Dave Attel at the Orpheum theater in Boston. Jimmy should be headlineing O&A sponsered events. Period.
Also, did any one notice that Patrice wasn't at the show at the end when they were bring all the comics out for the final bow?

Ballbuster1

08-06-2006, 08:28 PM

Also, did any one notice that Patrice wasn't at the show at the end when they were bring all the comics out for the final bow?
He was due at the Mohegan Sun for a late night show.
He couldn't stay til the end.

NortonsGravyLeg

08-06-2006, 08:34 PM

I was dissapointed he wasn't headlineing. And because he didn't he in turn screwed up Tracy's set(though unintentional, I am sure). If he had headlined, the crowd would have given Tracy's set a chance, instead he got heckeled from the moment he came on stage. The same thing happened to Dave Attel at the Orpheum theater in Boston. Jimmy should be headlineing O&A sponsered events. Period.
Also, did any one notice that Patrice wasn't at the show at the end when they were bring all the comics out for the final bow?

I understand now, sorry I didnt read the origional post correctly. Yea I imagine that would suck. I mean we're all aware that Jimmy is the brightest star when it comes to this fan base but you have to respect the other guys on the tour even if you dont like them, shit I mean go somewhere else at the event, not like there aren't other options.

Taso

08-06-2006, 08:46 PM

If anything it may probably be a rotating headliner, just to try to be fair to all of them, but from all of them there, Tracy Morgan shouldnt have even been in the show let alone headlining.

notmikeh

08-07-2006, 12:30 AM

I understand now, sorry I didnt read the origional post correctly. Yea I imagine that would suck. I mean we're all aware that Jimmy is the brightest star when it comes to this fan base but you have to respect the other guys on the tour even if you dont like them, shit I mean go somewhere else at the event, not like there aren't other options.
No problem:action-sm

notmikeh

08-07-2006, 12:34 AM

Grace

08-07-2006, 12:38 AM

gr8scott

08-07-2006, 06:16 PM

Also, did any one notice that Patrice wasn't at the show at the end when they were bring all the comics out for the final bow?

Someone else posted that he was also playing Mohegan Sun later Saturday night.

iSpeakEloquent

08-07-2006, 06:30 PM

I thought the same thing at the Norton-Attell show at the Borgata.... most of the people are there because of Jimmy... Attell went after him and didn't do that great, same with Morgan. Either it's a weird coincedence, or the crowd just loves our lil Jimmy too much to care once he's done.

attel would've sold out on his own. Jimmy unlike most top comics has a daily form of promotion for himself. So when he goes and says i'm gonna be at the borgata, he is gonna sell more tickets than attell doing whatever he did to promote it. Not a knock on attell but that explains why more were there for jimmy.

DonTheTrucker

08-07-2006, 07:33 PM

I don't usually post on threads telling the guys how to do their thing, but I can't resist the urge this time.

Jimmy is a professional. He obviously doesn't have the ego some comics have, and has no problem at all sharing the spotlight. Unfortunately in this case, it has the effect of messing up the flow of the show.

We love Jimmy, and this is his tour. He's the co-host of the show that created the tour. I hope by the time they get to Camden, the mistake is corrrrected.

So Jimmy, I know it makes you uncormfortable to hear this: But you should headline every show, and you deserve it. You are as big or bigger than any of the comics on the show now, enjoy it.

Oh yeah, Mencia (who is apparently closing in the PNC show).....good luck bro.

RedSox911

08-07-2006, 08:07 PM

The boys did address this during todays show and they said straight up they have to make some changes and that Jimmy will be headlining, except for Mencia I believe.

DonTheTrucker

08-08-2006, 03:23 PM

Am I the only person bothered by the mispelling of headlining in the title?

fandango86

08-08-2006, 03:41 PM

I love our lil Jimmy, but I gotta call him out on this one. This is an O&A show. It's all the comics that appear on O&A. It's being marketed and sold almost exclusively to O&A listeners. He's the official 3rd member of the show and therefore is on the show way more than all the others put together. This isn't about who's funnier. This isn't about who has more 'national' appeal. This is about who is most popular with O&A fans, who will make up the vast majority of the people attending these shows.

All comics share the hangup of not following a comedian who does a killer set. That's completely understandable. Jimmy may claim modesty in not wanting to follow comedians like Tracey Morgan, who spent years on SNL, and Carlos Mencia, who has his own show on Comedy Central, because they are 'bigger' comedians nationally, but this is not a national show in a new market. All 4 cities are O&A strongholds. Jimmy sending Tracy out there after him to bomb was at best a miscalculation on his part, at worst a total dick move to a fellow comedian. If he does the same thing to Mencia he's a complete fucking asshole.

notmikeh

08-09-2006, 04:23 PM

Am I the only person bothered by the mispelling of headlining in the title?
Yeah, you are. Shitdick:icon_mrgr

CreativeName

08-09-2006, 05:43 PM

Am I the only person bothered by the mispelling of headlining in the title?
And here I was thinking that everyone else was spelling it wrong. :spam1

Ballbuster1

08-09-2006, 06:02 PM

Please don't let Mencia close the PNC show. His "beaner" jokes
just aren't that funny. We may all know alot of Jimmy's act but
he still kills everytime he's on stage.

CreativeName

08-09-2006, 06:25 PM

Too bad Joe Rogan isn't on the lineup instead of Mencia. Would make a better show IMO.

Radioguy

08-09-2006, 08:37 PM

Jeffrey Ross would be a nice add, too.

ImAlrightSpider

08-09-2006, 08:57 PM

Mencia is closing? I apologize for adding to the bitching, but I think he will relate to an O&A crowd about as well as Tracy Morgan did. Hasn't anyone realized that we are a bunch of "Give me what I'm used to" motherfuckers? That Brian Regan bit is too true! Norton, Patrice, or maybe Bill Burr would have more success closing the show than anyone else. Of course, most of us would agree that Norton would be the most likely to bring the house down as a headliner, right?

I have heard Mencia on XM 150 and on O&A. Those are the only places I've heard him. I have laughed at his material there, but not the way I have laughed at Norton, Patrice, Bill Burr, Bob Kelly, Saget, even Ralphie May (I say "even Ralphie May" because I never heard him before DCU - he was FUNNY!).

<speculation> I wonder if Mencia insisted that he headline the show? </speculation>

By the way - Patrice killed at DCU and I go his autograph at Mohegan Sun after his show there. I was gambling and I heard his laugh on the other side of my machine. Lucky night for me! Well... not the gambling, but I did get that autograph!

Ballbuster1

08-09-2006, 09:04 PM

Hasn't anyone realized that we are a bunch of "Give me what I'm used to" motherfuckers? That Brian Regan bit is too true! Norton, Patrice, or maybe Bill Burr would have more success closing the show than anyone else. Of course, most of us would agree that Norton would be the most likely to bring the house down as a headliner, right?

That's my feelings exactly. Thank you.

BLACKIEhugeHANDS

08-09-2006, 10:09 PM

This is about who is most popular with O&A fans, who will make up the vast majority of the people attending these shows.

exactly... the 99.6& of the people going to the traveling virus shows are fans of the show... if i find someone in the venue who is there because they are a fan of mind of mencia and hate the opie and anthony show, i'll donate a dollar to charity. jimmy, just for the simple fact that he is a kick ass comic and a part of the show, should be the closing act at PNC. this technically is the NY show, so i, like many of you, would love to see him close the show. if this were to happen, you'd definately have everyone still in the venue to the very end of the show. no one would leave early unless they were carried away on a stretcher from alcohol poisoning. god forbid mencia does close this show on the 26th in holmdel, i will guarentee you that i won't be staying till the end. i probably won't be the only person that is thinking that. may i be so bold in stating that i'd like patrice, bill burr, bob kelly, and jim nordin to be the last 4 performers at that show. if the boys want the place packed at the end of the show, they need to make this happen.

NORTONnFRIENDS

08-12-2006, 01:57 PM

I wouldnt want to be last. Alot of comics have the same mindset. Thus being said nothing like having a joke or bit that another comic touched on to keep ya rolling strong.. Ya know.........

notmikeh

08-12-2006, 11:48 PM

I wouldnt want to be last. Alot of comics have the same mindset. Thus being said nothing like having a joke or bit that another comic touched on to keep ya rolling strong.. Ya know.........
I personally am not looking for a comic too rehash jokes other comics have done not 20-30 min before their set. I would like the comics to have their own material and not do a type of joke just because another comics joke "killed" the set before. on a side note did you notice that every comic had some sort of gaging (on a cock) sound in their bit? I found this exteemly funny. my whole faminly makes the same sound brushing their teeth. they must be practicing for something...:icon_mrgr

Shane1V

08-21-2006, 12:34 AM

Too bad Joe Rogan isn't on the lineup instead of Mencia. Would make a better show IMO.

I thought the same thing. Mencia stinks

7cent

08-21-2006, 12:50 AM

You're better off with Mencia last, you can beat the traffic. You also don't have to sit through him to get to one of the other comics..

Shane1V

08-21-2006, 01:00 AM

You're better off with Mencia last, you can beat the traffic. You also don't have to sit through him to get to one of the other comics..

Good point... HE's closing???

TheJerseyDevil

08-21-2006, 01:01 AM

You're better off with Mencia last, you can beat the traffic. You also don't have to sit through him to get to one of the other comics..
But youll miss Mencia's wonderful commentary on race. Oh what a cutup.

assWhack

08-21-2006, 11:50 AM

But youll miss Mencia's wonderful commentary on race. Oh what a cutup.

Come on, he's the PUNISHER!

I went to buy Regan tickets for his lincoln center show, and the ticket booth guy wouldn't stop talking about Mencia. He's pretty popular, just not with OnA fans. I think it's going to be brutal when he goes up.

Henchman

08-24-2006, 10:10 PM

If you plan on beating traffic, I wouldn't count on it. I have a feeling most of the audience has the same idea. I know I do.

AngryDragon

08-24-2006, 10:31 PM

Shane1V

08-25-2006, 01:57 PM

The reason why Norton isn't headlining is because the REAL headliners are Opie and Anthony. Everyone who is going is going because they are Opie and Anthony fans. No because they are a Norton, Tracy Morgan or even a Voss fan. If you go past the Arts Center the Marquee sign on the Parkway reads "Opie and Anthony"...Nothing else.

That's why I think Opie and Anthony are selling themselves short by downplaying the attendance record. Everyone who is going to the show is an Opie and Anthony fan.. The same people would show up wether Norton Headlined, Closed or wasn't in the show at all.

? :icon_eek:
Your logic is shoon-got re Norton headlining or not. O&A's role is irrelavent with regards to his spot in the line-up. I'm sure he could get any slot he wanted. & the boys are the HOSTS, not the headliners.
-You are guilty of "up-playing" O&A's significance here. This is a big comedy gig. If Jimmy wasn't part of it, or it was a few comics I didn't care for, I'm not sure I would have gone, and I'm a huge O&A fan.

Manton

08-25-2006, 02:41 PM

BeltOfScotch

08-25-2006, 02:50 PM

I wouldnt want to be last. Alot of comics have the same mindset. Thus being said nothing like having a joke or bit that another comic touched on to keep ya rolling strong.. Ya know.........

I'm glad somebody mentioned this. Did anyone think that maybe Norton doesn't want to close the show? After the Worcester show Norton said on several occasions that closing the show was a very tough spot for Tracy Morgan. This isn't because of what his material is or because most of the crowd is O&A fans but because after 7 or 8 other comics most subjects have been covered and just about anything you bring up is going have been covered all ready.

I went to a benefit show in NYC a couple months back that had Vos hosting and Norton, Burr and Patrice among others on the bill. About halfway through the show, no matter how good the material was, I found myself saying ok we've heard jokes about this already.

Shane1V

08-25-2006, 02:51 PM

I think, if anything, this is more of Norton not wanting to take advantage of his position. In his mind, it might be selfish to be on the show and ALSO close the show, even though it is the most natural and fan-supported idea. I'd guess it's his way of sharing the spotlight and being humble.

Maybe, but fuck humble! and Norton knows these guys aren't babies. He SHOULD be closing. It makes sense and any performer who doesn't get that, well, just doesn't get it.

NortonPartyRock

08-27-2006, 12:36 AM

a lot of people left for mencia, i stayed, he wasnt awful - he took the abuse and the cosntant flow of people leaving... and managed to get a bunch of laughs - he was very high energy - exactly what you would expect from a closer. i still think jimmy should be the headliner - but... like all said above, it could be a money thing, a timing thing, a ego (or lack there of) thing... whatever... just saying... jimmy is #1 in my book.

doobdoob

08-27-2006, 01:14 AM

So...Mencia wasn't boo'ed off stage?

Angelfuck

08-27-2006, 02:19 AM

as hard as I tried not to, I laughed, he had a few really funny jokes which I cant seem to remember at the moment. I wish he hadnt done the doo doo doo line but retard jokes are funny and I gotta give him props, it looked like he got the biggest standing o of the night aside from jimmy.
I think sagat wouldve been a great closer, he ran long and i think the songs he did at the end of his set wouldve been a good way to end the show. I think the lineup for pnc was good except for the fact that I missed otto&george even though we got into our seats by 730

charlie dick

08-27-2006, 08:37 AM

Am I the only person bothered by the mispelling of headlining in the title?
No, but you may be the only trucker I know who knows how to spell. :icon_mrgr

DonTheTrucker

08-29-2006, 01:05 AM

I know Jimmy is modest and all, but I think I said it earlier in the thread. I hope he learns to handle success, because things are only going to get better for him from here on. He should be closing and everyone there, including the other comics, knows it.

Speaking of which, who on the Camden show is supposedly "bigger" than Jimmy? There should be no excuse for him to not close that show.