Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
David Byrne<\/a> is a natural-born performer. In another life, he might have been a prop comic\u2014he was essentially doing it already with that giant suit. In this life, however, it took some prodding from Fred Armisen for him to get up on stage and do a stand-up set, which he said he performed unannounced at a show Armisen organized. \u201cThat is one of the scariest ever, because you\u2019re just alone with words for the most part,\u201d the multi-hyphenate shared of the experience in a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019m ready to go there,\u201d he continued, referring to future comedy club appearances, \u201cbut you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite Byrne\u2019s stage fright, the jump to the comedy circuit wouldn\u2019t be that drastic of a leap. In addition to his time with Talking Heads, Byrne has also created two Broadway shows, not to mention his decades as one of the more creative solo artists of his generation. He already has a friend in John Mulaney, who reviewed an unreleased song he wrote during the COVID-19 quarantine called \u201cSix Feet Apart\u201d or \u201cSix Feet Away.\u201d (\u201cThere was a line about \u2018She had Purell in her purse\u2019\u2014he liked that,\u201d Byrne said.)<\/p>\n The artist also talked about one of his songwriting methods with Rolling Stone in a way that sounds like it would lend itself quite nicely to the process of writing a good joke. \u201cThere were a few songs where it maybe had the first couple of lines, or maybe just the title. \u2018I met the Buddha at a downtown party.\u2019 And I go, \u2018OK, that\u2019s like a short story. What happens next? What did he look like? What\u2019d he say?\u201d And so it starts to write itself. You just let it go and try and keep it interesting,\u201d he said. \u201cI have other ones that I never managed to turn into songs. There was one called \u2018The 50-Foot Baby,\u2019 and the baby was wreaking havoc everywhere, just smashing things and picking up cars and tossing them around. Like Godzilla, but a baby. But I didn\u2019t know exactly where to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, it doesn\u2019t sound like Byrne is rushing to the comedy club stage again any time soon. He also has bad news for anyone who may be inclined to dig into the depths of the internet to find the set he did do. \u201cAs with comedy clubs, nobody [was] allowed to use their phones or anything like that,\u201d he said. When his interviewer pressed about whether fans would be able to find the set on YouTube, he only had one word: \u201cNope.\u201d It\u2019s a shame\u2014that 50-foot baby idea would make for a pretty good bit. <\/p>\n David Byrne has a new album and he’s taking it on the road<\/a>Talking Heads reunite for Q&A, David Byrne admits he wanted a bigger suit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste David Byrne is a natural-born performer. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}