Name: Stephen King's Genius
Uploaded: 2021-08-24T21:22:43.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stephen King's Genius' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stephen King's Genius' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-08-24. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience, you know, he became he was it once for Stephen King's
movie It. He was it. Oh, really? Yeah
I'm afraid to watch that you ever seen the the original the original TV one
Which it was it wasn't as scary as the yeah, that's Tim Curry as Pennywise in
the 1990
Yeah, I would never watch that and it's a it's a good exam, but it's not I like
him over there
I know but that that one the the TV 1990 it is not that scary
Any of them are scared. My mom used to read the book and she'd have it
It was like this thick and my we would always tease her like you finish it yet
Like help what is that about like it was just we don't understand it and then
the movie came out
We're like, yeah, we're not watching that. I used to have to take the tea from
my house to
Boston I lived in Newton and I take it to Boston. I was a teenager. Okay. And
what do you mean the tea?
The tea it was like, uh, the Boston version of the transit system. Oh, oh the
tea
Jesus that's what they call it. I drink iced tea. I'm literally like what the
Boston tea party. Where are we going?
Sorry, I thought like okay, I'm sorry we have the L so I would read
We have the L Stephen King books and I read like basically every Stephen King
book
from like
Lawn mower man, I like some of the short stories all the Richard Bachman books
I read all of them, but it was one of the weirdest ones. It's a weird. Yeah,
and it's giant
It's a weapon for you on this going on in your head, man
What's going on your head? You're inventing this frightening fucking clown that
eats kids
Yeah, if you look into that
Would that I don't know that's Gary Stephen King had so many books like that
Didn't he have a lot of trauma around him for sure? Well, you know, he grew up
in Maine. It's hard living up there
Okay, and he grew up poor, you know, you know any money like he I read
Stephen King on writing it's an amazing book because it tells you not just how
he writes and what he thinks about writing
But also it tells you about like sort of the history of his career and how
difficult it was didn't and when he sold
I think it was Carrie
It's been a while
But I think Carrie was like the first big sale that he had I think it was and
and all of a sudden he was wealthy and
The fact that they were trying to like look at the numbers and they thought the
numbers were wrong on the first check
They got like what is happening. Oh wow. Yeah, it's a crazy story because you
know, he was struggling
He was teaching and he was writing these books and that's how writers do they
struggle like that
But then you strike gold like he did Carrie was great the dirty pillows so
funny
Did you ever he I read she went to the prom and her boobs were up? Why you have
your dirty pillows out?
dirty pillows the fuck
That's one of those things that it's almost better if you just read it
I used to think that was a stupid idea. Yeah, but there's a way that he
describes things in the books that's open to my mom
She's like, oh this whole scene lacks because blah blah, you know, and I'm like
whatever lady
It's it's like if someone could capture it all visually that's better, right,
but can they actually the way that we I don't know I
think it's uh, there's certain things. It's like
The way a writer writes like a guy like Stephen King like you feel
the you have access to the thoughts
That these characters have right you have access to everything you have access
to not just like their actions and how it plays
out and you can't even actually see it
So you have to imagine it which sort of stimulates your imagination, but you're
also getting access to their very thoughts
Right, there's weird parts of writing that like are almost
More descriptive than seeing it because when you're seeing it and hearing it.
It's like it's pretty cool, right?
You watch a great movie with great effects and shit. You're seeing it and
hearing it. It's cool
But when you're reading it
There's a weird thing that's happening where you're you have to fill in the
blank and it stimulates your mind in a different way and
Stephen King was that master of that. Yeah, and it's like when if you read his
shit, and then you watch his movies
You're like the movies are like he made some goddamn amazing movies. Yeah, no
doubt about it
Like Carrie freaked me out to me. Carrie was detailed enough
But if I was reading the book, I probably would never sleep. I think that was a
movie that was a book rather. He doesn't remember writing
Pretty sure was he on Adderall? No, he was sorry. That was coked up and he was
doing he was drinking like crazy
I think that was one of the ones I think was Carrie and maybe
Christine
Oh, Christine's great. Oh, maybe it was Cujo. There's maybe the C word. It's a
C word. I think it was Cujo
I think it was C
He got stuck on C's. I think I got stuck on a C's. There's so many good books,
man
But I think it was Cujo. I think Cujo he wrote when he was so high and so
fucked up
He literally just doesn't remember writing it. It is funny to get stuck on a
letter
I don't know why. Listen, I'm not the person to come into. What can we call
this? What can we call the dog?
There it is. Stephen King discusses Cujo in on writing referring to as a novel
He barely remembers writing at all. That's it. There it is. King wrote the book
during the height of a struggle with alcohol addiction or
Killing it. All right. Can you decide to say he likes the book and wishes he
could remember enjoying the good parts as he put them on the page?
Wow, it's a great fucking book though
That's amazing reading that book I think would be
Insanely crazy cuz like even watching the movie you get frustrated. You're like
do this do that
You know like movies not good. No. Yeah, it's not good
It's not the best, but you're like why didn't they just do this or why didn't
they do that?
but maybe in the book it it had more
Tension or something I was gonna say is the movie's not good at expressing
The layers and layers of fear and recognition right this dog who was your lovable
pet is now gonna kill you yeah
It's it's too hard to do. It's too hard to do in a movie
It's it's too hard to do it takes too much time if you're reading a book
It's like what's what's the average amount of time?
It takes to read us a book like Cujo like how many pages is Cujo? I'm gonna say
let me guess
396 pages no
really
Damn, oh, maybe I'm I was off by hundred and it's terrible
You're getting to the three
To be honest
I was thinking higher I was thinking like five because I don't know why but I
was thinking it was way higher
Well, then you get into like the stand
Right because I'm thinking of all those books on my mom's show like they're
The stand is really long. How long is the stand?
Have you ever read that? I've never finished that. I'm not a big reader. I've
read quite a bit of it and then I bail
Yeah, I don't like
Yeah, no way that's what i'm saying
Uncut version, so 300 more pages. Holy shit, you know what got me into reading
though like that kind of story that style book is the hobbit
My mom or my stepdad or can't remember which one gave me the hobbit in like the
70s
Okay, and I read that I was like whoa what a crazy book
And then there was a movie there was like a hobbit animated movie that came out
In like the late 70s. It's like whack old school animation. We can tell people
who's drawn it
You can see their hands. You're like why are we that's what got me into those
kind of books though
But I remember going through puberty. My mom gave me little women and I was
like
Is there a movie I
Can't I think I did read little women there was like a three box set or
something
Well, when I was a kid when I was stuck on the train all the time headed into
the city, there's no
Phones you didn't have a phone so you had to read a book
Like there was no other options. So it was like for me
It was always like either stephen king shit or
You know whatever whatever I could find that was interesting
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