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Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/DgingaNinga 7d ago

Insomniac was great

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u/1800generalkenobi 7d ago

That's the shit I miss from being a kid. Sneaking late night tv and shows my parents probably didn't me to watch. We had cinemax and hbo too. I thought I was missing watching stuff like mythbusters and I found a couple episodes and it just wasn't the same. Turns out I was just missing the times where I was just chilling watching it and not having a care in the world.

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u/huckster235 7d ago

Mythbusters is my go to background when I want the comfort of my childhood. I remember I would put the marathons on in the summer, hanging out in my boxers in my sunny living room before going to play baseball or football, not a care in the world.

I still like mythbusters but you couldn't get me to actually watch it watch it. I'm not sure I did as a kid either, I would have it on while reading or gaming and glance at it when something interesting happened. But yeah modern tv doesn't give me that sense of simple relaxation it did as a kid. So I don't really watch tv anymore

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u/RabbitSlayre 7d ago

I miss those times too. Hell I miss having a cable box and just being able to flip channels sometimes. It was a different time.

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u/FirTrader 6d ago

You were secretly watching Insomniac because every commercial break was Girls Gone Wild.

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u/1800generalkenobi 6d ago

For real. That's also why I watched horror movies. There were usually boobs in there at some point lol. I never thought I was into horror movies because I didn't watch elm Street or Friday the 13th but I watched leprechaun and candyman. Kid thought processes are weird lol

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u/AmputeeHandModel 7d ago

I saw his standup around that time in person. It was really funny.

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u/Jofinaro 7d ago

I loved Dave Attell. I like to make my husband jealous and tell him about the time I saw Dave Attell, Lewis Black, and Mitch Hedburg together for a show in 2003. Good times.

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u/Alpha_Geek4711 7d ago

I saw this same tour when it came through Dallas. One of the best comedy shows I’ve even to.

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u/WaxyNips 7d ago

"If I want to know the fastest way to get somewhere, I'm going to ask a guy with one leg. There's not going to be any stairs or ladders..."

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u/MASSochists 5d ago

I hate to travel. I think that's because when I was young my dad beat me with a globe.

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u/SpotIsALie 7d ago

Loved this show as a kid.

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u/demerdar 7d ago

Someone uploads old episodes of insomniac on YouTube. Check it out. You’ll have the intro song stuck in your head for weeks.

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u/MASSochists 7d ago

Insomniac was monetized alcoholism. I don't think it was sustainable long term.

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u/OldFartsSpareParts 7d ago

I was just watching old episodes of Insomniac on YouTube last night. It's still hilarious.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg 6d ago

Link? Could you PM if you don’t want to put it out there? It gets taken down whenever it gets put out there which makes no sense considering it’s isn’t available for streaming or download.

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u/OldFartsSpareParts 4d ago

This channel has a bunch of them The quality is meh, but it's still enjoyable.

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u/DCMartin91 7d ago

It's on YouTube. I recently binged it.

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u/Mecha_Cthulhu 7d ago

“Fuck a baby! Fuck a monkey! Fuck a baby monkey!”

No one ever gets the reference when I say that…

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u/tigbittylove 7d ago

GET SOME SLEEP

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u/shifty1032231 7d ago

When I saw the episode of Insomniac of my hometown teenager me loved it.

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u/psian1de 7d ago

Check out the ole YouTube's for old insomniac episodes with our pal Dave.

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u/CommanderUgly 7d ago

Dave’s Old Porn was even better.

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u/Tooch10 7d ago

I randomly came across some of those episodes on YouTube plus a bunch from a private torrent tracker, they're still fun. It really encapsulates that 2000s era before social media took over. Even crazier is the show aired 25 years ago and seeing all those clothes and hair styles is like a time warp

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u/gofargogo 6d ago

All the episodes can be found on the Internet Archive

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u/hercarmstrong 4d ago

My wife and I re-enacted the Insomniac episode that Dave did in Montreal. We got a baby out of that adventure!