Times Colonist
[Victoria, BC, Canada]
7 June 2014
Adrian Chamberlain
REVIEW
What: On the Couch
Where: McPherson
Playhouse
When: Friday night
Rating: 2 1/2
stars (out of five)
What is this thing
called On the Couch?
It is two
comedians. On a couch. Talking.
They are Greg
Proops and Ryan Stiles, best known for their appearances on the television show
Whose Line is It Anyway? Prior to the
show, Proops promised two things. The show would be completely improvised. And
they might — just might — be drinking some vodka. […]
[One of the topics
they discussed was] The Craig Ferguson masturbation story. Apparently, Ferguson
once told a story how about how (as a young man) he’d once closed his eyes, lit
up a joint, put on his headphones and started to masturbate. When he opened his
eyes, he noticed his mother had set his lunch on a tray beside his bed while
he’d listened to an Eric Clapton tune. […]
[On The Late
Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS-TV, 13 January 2011 (repeated 21 March
2011), the host tells this story (my transcription):]
“I know this guy, right? And he swears this is
true. When he was a teenager, right?, he would go home and he'd listen to the
records on the, with the giant headphones, right? So one, one day he goes home,
he's in his parent's house, he's got the giant headphones on, he's a teenage
kid, he closes his eyes, and he starts, you know, performing an act of
self-massage. And then, you know, when he's finished, he opens his eyes -- he's
had his headphones on the whole time -- there's a sandwich and a glass of milk
next to his bed.”
[Cf. Phil Healey & Rick Glanvill, The Return of Urban Myths (London:
Virgin, 1993), 186-7.]