Name: Theo and Craig from Craigslist Talk Missed Connections (and Casual Encounters)
Uploaded: 2024-12-13T23:48:38.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Craig from Craigslist Talk Missed Connections (and Casual Encounters)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-13. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Craig from Craigslist Talk Missed Connections (and Casual Encounters)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-13. Transcript available.

i want to talk a little bit more about the actual site so the company starts
growing right
and in addition to people helping each other get jobs people were helping each
other people were
starting relationships on there i went on dates off of um craigslist before you
know
did you yourself ever go did you no i i always felt like a conflict of interest
and that's true you're like hey i'm craig yeah i got i got lucky in a uh i got
lucky in a uh
local uh cafe oh you met your wife your wife okay and we've been together for
over 20 years now
wow and if so if you have some social awkwardness what was that like for you uh
i decided i would
take a big chance yeah i've been there dude and uh uh told her that uh she's
beautiful
the guy next to me she tells me he rolled his eyes yeah and because he rolled
his eyes
that's why she started talking to me oh wow she's so there was a little bit of
some empathy there
human empathy uh well it could have been a pity discussion that's another way
of saying empathy
yeah obviously i uh obviously i charmed her yeah that's the spirit right so
last night we were at
this uh fundraiser uh because i think she wanted to meet jerry seinfeld in
particular and uh i uh don't
blame her i uh had nothing to say i was tongue-tied but uh that's uh how i uh
normally act when i uh
talk to uh celebrities particularly if you're backstage and there's a show
going on yeah and
having done a little bit of that you got to get your head into the moment and
you don't want a
distraction right yeah that's a good point you just want to kind of be a fly on
the wall some sense
yeah wow so uh so you started off said hello in a cafe and then how long um was
that was your
relationship how long did that um kind of dating life go for you guys well um
after about nine years i
think uh i uh brought her over to i showed her facebook on a screen i don't
really use it anymore
but i said is it okay if i change my relationship status to engaged wow and it
took her a moment but
she said oh that's good because i i'd calculated at that point that uh parental
pressure had grown
significantly from yours and hers uh hers okay um and uh that worked out uh
pretty well that's a pretty
suave online move that's almost the most online way you could ask someone to
marry you i feel like uh
well uh i hate to say it but if you consider that uh suave you may also be a
bit of a nerd i have i am
that when i think when it comes to yeah we're happy yeah there's like yeah
talking with women it
definitely it's not my you know i wouldn't yeah yeah i uh you're not yeah yeah
i okay that's the nerd
cliche again i i'm yeah i'm still socially awkward uh sometimes i can disguise
that yes but that's still
me and it's not going to change now that i'm in my uh sunset years yeah yeah
yeah sometimes it doesn't
go away you kind of start to learn it i think i just had the i have the tough
thing of asking a girl
out like sometimes i'm okay with talk i'll get good with talking with a woman
but it's just that next
part and we'll just be standing there and we'll be like well somebody should
ask somebody out or walk
away from somebody and then you're just still just standing there yeah well
that's the purpose of uh
misconnections yeah which anecdotally i know uh works once in a while because i've
encountered uh
over the years a bunch of uh couples which had gotten uh married no off of misconnections
yes
and uh i like that a great deal it is uh romantic in a understated way oh yeah
well how did that start
how did that misconnection start well jim decided he wanted to put it up he was
the boss then so he
did oh jim was the um guy running the company at that point yeah well it's
funny because you guys
there was yeah just like it's such a part of history you know it's such a um i
mean i went on
dates from it i remember i met a girl we i met a girl on i mean i would use
casual encounters too
you know it's like that was sometimes um i met a girl one time and we watched a
nets game and made
love honestly and she let me sign our cast right and i was like you know and it
was we had a great
time i think we i think we dated for well there's uh there's no accounting for
taste yeah but uh i'm
glad i'm glad yeah i know who wants to be a nets fan yeah your guys can
remember that one for later years
oh they've been on there dude i think we accidentally met up once um but there
was a place you know i
was like i had such a tough time at a certain point in my life dating there was
something that added a
level of mystery about it that i really liked uh i've never thought about that
oh yeah everyone
works differently everyone does have different tastes and uh uh that's uh none
of my business yeah you
know it's as long as it's uh legal oh yeah it was it was legal did you um it's
funny to say that people
started marriages so people even got married off of um putting out a dating
like i would like to meet
someone yeah wow did you ever get invited to a wedding or anything i have
gotten invited a number of times
i'm not much for ceremonies or galas or anything like that and my relatives uh
know this very well
i have a dispensation to not go to some of the more obscure events on my wife's
side yeah and i'm and i'm on
the record i'm very grateful yeah i think your comedy is getting better uh i've
promised
so if i'm offered open mic night i will not do it okay wow