Name: I Was VERY Serious about Lip Sync Contests | Steve Gerben of 'Tires'
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'I Was VERY Serious about Lip Sync Contests | Steve Gerben of 'Tires'' from Are You Garbage Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-26. Transcript available.

Will you dance at a wedding?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
I am stunned by that answer.
How do you feel?
Are you thinking you're a solid dancer?
Or are you just like, I don't care.
I'm throwing an inhibition to the wind and having a good time?
I think if I choreograph something.
What?
You're doing set pieces?
What are you talking about?
DJ, take it from the top.
Hold on.
I want to see that.
I will find this when I go to rewatch this.
Where I go, I think I choreograph it.
You go, what?
Well, so I did.
Some people might be familiar with it.
I did lip sync contests.
No.
Oh, well, I had talked about it on Shane's podcast in high school.
And so I did a Michael Jackson thing.
Is this like, you're doing this with a wink for fun?
Or is it you're dead serious on it?
I took it dead serious.
You said lip sync contests.
Yeah.
In high school.
Yeah.
They would have them regularly?
Were they at school?
It was the annual, yeah.
Okay.
It was in the big auditorium.
Right.
We're doing a big room.
We ain't talking no auxiliary flex room shit.
Oh, my God.
You did it every year?
Yeah.
It was the same number every time?
No.
So like the first year, I did Michael Jackson.
And then that was-
What song?
Black or White.
Okay.
And then I've tried to talk about this on stage.
It doesn't work.
At the time, so this is when I was like developing cataracts and like having
vision.
So I was like missing a lot of school.
And then my French teacher was failing me.
And so then my dad went in like Uncle Buck style and like flipped out.
Uh-huh.
And then she, as like sort of an olive branch to me, was like, I heard great
things about
that Michael Jackson dance you did.
Do you want to do it in front of the French class?
And I-
Wait, what did she hear?
I know that sounds insane.
Everybody like hears this and they think like-
That sounds wild, yeah.
Oh, she was trying to get you or whatever.
It wasn't.
It was like she was making the piece with me.
She was trying to like-
I was just going, man, that was a different time.
Yeah.
It's like, hey, you're bad at French.
You're missing a lot of school.
Can you dance for it?
Wait, she heard about your performance at the annual lip sync contest in the
auditorium.
That's right.
That's how him and Kiever started working together.
And then she was like, hey, I heard you're really good at that.
Why don't you come in and do it in front of the class and it'll bring your
grade up?
Not bring my grade up.
It was like, because her whole thing was, you know, she was like, he did the
lip sync contest.
Uh-huh.
And my mom was like, because he likes that and he doesn't care about French.
Okay.
So in that sort of making it up, that's what she offered.
Okay.
Thinking it was going to be a good idea.
And I thought it was going to be a good idea.
It was the most awkward thing I've ever done.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was the most awkward thing I've ever done.
You remember Black or White on the CD had the entire intro?
Sure.
That played.
Oh, God.
I just stood there.
And then there's a rap interlude.
And I just stood there.
And you could hear my grunts.
I couldn't moonwalk because there was half a carpet.
It was so fucking embarrassing.
Robert takes a sip of water during the intervention.
He's sitting there.
So that was that.
Then the second year I did Madonna, that was really because I'd never worn a
dress before.
Okay.
And I did this, like, move where I got down.
It was like, like, you know.
You had worn a dress for the performance.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I mean, I was doing Madonna.
Sure.
What was the reaction from the high school crowd?
So this, like, is my mom's most mortifying moment because some kid behind her
was like,
ew, that's a guy.
And so it was really uncomfortable.
That chick's a dude.
And then, but I bounced back.
I did Pavarotti the next year.
And I, like, you should have done something a little more of the time.
Well, no, because I, and then I, like, stuffed my, like, fat suit with stuff.
So as I was saying, I was, like, pulling out all sorts of things.
Oh, that's fun.
Yeah.
It's got a bit to it.
Yeah, that's great.
And then I did Lord of the Dance or whatever that was.
Yeah, it gets worse every year.
No, that got good.
That did.
I got rave reviews.
It does not get worse.
So.
Whoa.
Okay.
Okay.
What made you do that?
Were you doing that at home?
Or was that, like.
What do you mean what made me do that?
I thought it was a good idea.
Desire to be liked?
Yeah.
Okay.
So how does that translate into a wedding where you'll have something
coordinated?
Oh, so you were like, do you think you're a good dancer?
I'm like, if I'm dancing at a wedding, no.
If I had something coordinated.
If it was a show.
Oh, gotcha.
Yeah, probably not.
But I feel like somebody could choreograph dance moves for me.
And I could do it.
And you'd be like, that's not as bad as I thought it was going to look.
Can you moonwalk?
Not well.
Goddamn Corpy.
Could you better as a kid?
As a kid, I could a little bit better.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
Moonwalking.
Goddamn Corpy.