Name: Thundercat's Origin Story
Uploaded: 2018-06-28T19:30:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thundercat's Origin Story' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thundercat's Origin Story' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-06-28. Transcript available.

I remember when I was young, they had this boy in our neighborhood named Thundercat,
TJ.
They called him TJ. I don't know what the J stood for, but the T stood for Thundercat,
and they would call him Thunder.
And he was born with some deficiencies. He had hair just growing directly out
of his face.
You know, like one of those, you know, almost just like the dark arts had just,
almost like he was just, one of his parents was fucking carpet.
You know, he just had this kind of wolf boy, sort of wookie kind of thing, just
growing directly out of his face, his hair.
And that was alarming to people. And somebody said that he was going to die.
And they, somebody said it loud, and I think they said it in church, and so
they convinced enough people in our area that he was going to die.
So he got to quit school. And his parents bought him a little truck, a little
Ford Ranger, and he just drove it in his backyard.
They had a small backyard, but large enough to drive a truck around in.
And I remember waiting at the bus stop near his home, and he'd just be missing
school.
They let him smoke Winston cigarettes, and he would be back in his yard, a
little Thunder, just driving this truck, you know, as a child, as a, you know,
just a real hairy kind of child.
And before that, I remember the girls at school would always brush him and
brush his hair, and they kind of took to him, championed him as like a little
bit of an oracle, you know, and we all did a little bit.
I remember I used to sneak over by the fence because his family had a chain
link fence, and I would sneak over there and give him sliced peaches, feed him
sliced peaches through the fence, you know, keep him hydrated and stuff like
that.
And he would just smoke cigarettes and listen to Fuji's Killing Me Softly.
He was listening to a lot.
He had a couple of tracks there in the truck, and I remember Blind Melon.
He listened to some Blind Melon there, and they thought he was going to die.
And the reason why he got to not even go to school was because, so he could die
at home, you know, they wanted him to have some peace.
And he didn't have to, you know, struggle with all his lessons and, you know,
spelling and all of that, because you're not going to need that if you're dying.
And he, he never did die.
His mother had varicose veins, I remember, and she died.
And the daddy, this is how they used to make money, the daddy used to do slip
and falls at pizza huts.
And he would sue him, and he would get that money and get that check, and, and
he died.
The father died doing slip and falls.
He was working the circuit one year, and I think he was near, like, Sarasota,
Florida, and he died.
He split his head open on a salad bar out there, you know, doing his craft or
his work or whatever it was, scamming, you know, scamming.
But I remember a lot of times when I would feel down in the dumps as a child, I
would think about him and what his life was going to be like and what his walk
through the world was probably like.
Because he kept a good attitude, even though he had this affliction, and even
though he, as far as everybody was concerned, was destined for, for death,
maybe heaven, hopefully.
A child, you know, you like to think that most children go to heaven.
But yeah, that was, that was thunder.
Yeah, he did, he, he, last I heard, he lived, he was still alive.
What's up, guys, sitting here with this marijuana plant, I think, also could be
just a regular plant.
Could be poison ivy, bro, I'm about to smoke myself in some itchy, itchy.
Just watch another clip since you're already here, you know what I'm saying?