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Title: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Tristan Berlin on May 03, 2006, 14:42:09
I found this on youtube. Very funny to see Robert like that.  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h2HaYraEY
Title: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on May 03, 2006, 17:49:40
thanks tristan!
(i think that was just freaking strange somehow!  8)  :?  :roll:  :oops:  :-D )
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on October 28, 2007, 09:03:52
i found this parody on youtube... don't look if you have no sense of humour!!



http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=pS__rSx4l-Y
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 28, 2007, 09:41:21
Yep, Robert is no actor. Lol..
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on October 28, 2007, 12:36:13
Quote from: Tristan Berlin on May 03, 2006, 14:42:09
I found this on youtube. Very funny to see Robert like that.  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h2HaYraEY
Yes, I've seen that. Quite funny.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on October 28, 2007, 14:28:44
Thats my favourite of Robert,   :smth044    :smth023

  (newman and baddiel sketch)-Thank you Tristan, Seen it but love seeing it again.

And never noticed this great  picture biography  http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=o6IhLKMBJSE&NR

~LMAO with the Mary Whitehouse Experience(Robert Smith Parody)- hahahahaha the way that guy laughs kills me  :lol:



edit~Yes lol  Temptation-Cure i seen this one below- very funny   :-D ohh one of my favourites too=  its  a cracker hehehehe :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: temptation-cure on October 28, 2007, 15:17:46
look what i found
robert smith live and unleashed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cajMTLIp1g

wtf.. :-D :-D :-D :-D :roll:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on October 28, 2007, 16:46:31
Thanks for those! I love Robert parodies, if they're done in good taste and not completely off, the Mary Whitehouse ones crack me up always, it's funny how everyone in the band looks like Robert in that skit, there are like two Simons and the drummer looks like Robert as well!

Great stuff, the last one with Robert telling jokes is great, because it's so true, thats how he sounds when he tells jokes! I love it!  :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on October 28, 2007, 17:09:58
Another cracker- so stupid kills me laughing, head shoulders knees lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2rPpjctNlk

and the rest of Mary Whitehouse-Part 1- a short bit  http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ta4sWUOi3MU&NR=1
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 28, 2007, 22:49:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLSJGLuzwM

I hate that one so much. It bugs the crap out of me. It's completely worthless.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: LuvURobert on October 29, 2007, 04:09:49
Quote from: ROGUE on October 28, 2007, 17:09:58
Another cracker- so stupid kills me laughing, head shoulders knees lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2rPpjctNlk


:smth043 That was a great one, Rogue!!!  My hubby and I were crackin' up because the kids love that song, but seeing him do it had us rolling!!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: LuvURobert on October 29, 2007, 04:12:26
Quote from: AlluivialL on October 28, 2007, 22:49:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoLSJGLuzwM

I hate that one so much. It bugs the crap out of me. It's completely worthless.

I have to agree with you on this one.  What a moron!!!! Ouch! :shock:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on October 29, 2007, 16:41:04
God AlluivialL wow that one was bad, couldnt watch it all, Mr blocked nose had a bad hair day,
wtf didnt even resemble Robert in any way, at all. 
By the second or third mention of the forest, and i cut it off, very bad one.  :smth092
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 29, 2007, 17:41:57
Quote from: ROGUE on October 29, 2007, 16:41:04
God AlluivialL wow that one was bad, couldnt watch it all, Mr blocked nose had a bad hair day,
wtf didnt even resemble Robert in any way, at all. 
By the second or third mention of the forest, and i cut it off, very bad one.  :smth092

Yeah, and his accent was shit. What a moron. He's so stupid, and his hair!! Wow..I don't even know. I just hate that one so much, had to share. Lol.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on October 29, 2007, 17:50:49
Quote from: temptation-cure on October 28, 2007, 15:17:46
look what i found
robert smith live and unleashed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cajMTLIp1g

wtf.. :-D :-D :-D :-D :roll:
that was funny!
Robert Smith the comedian.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on October 29, 2007, 21:58:25
Yeah, I HATE that PSA!!! He looks, dresses, and sounds nothing like Robert!

I wrote an angry letter to the guy for some reason, and he wrote back calling me a fag and saying I have no sense of humor...

Shows how musically-challenged people can also be kindness-impaired. :P
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on October 30, 2007, 18:45:44
no one out does the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 30, 2007, 18:49:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCmmEt6a3o

Heh..I love this.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on October 30, 2007, 21:37:52
Quote from: Cure Freak on October 30, 2007, 18:45:44
no one out does the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg)

Is it weird that I favorited that? I love him when he talks...his personality is great!

Nobody can really copy that well, he has more charm than the people who spoof him.


And thanks, AlluivialL, I have been looking for that video on youtube forever!!! Another great Robert video, totally showing his personality! :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 30, 2007, 22:33:36
Quote from: Carnage Visor on October 30, 2007, 21:37:52
Quote from: Cure Freak on October 30, 2007, 18:45:44
no one out does the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-80SlKhyg)

Is it weird that I favorited that? I love him when he talks...his personality is great!

Nobody can really copy that well, he has more charm than the people who spoof him.


And thanks, AlluivialL, I have been looking for that video on youtube forever!!! Another great Robert video, totally showing his personality! :lol:

^_^ You're welcome.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: LuvURobert on October 31, 2007, 03:00:20
Quote from: AlluivialL on October 30, 2007, 18:49:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCmmEt6a3o

Heh..I love this.

:smth023 Thanks, AlluivialL for that one, too.  There's just something about Robert's quirkiness that makes him so very adorable!  ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on October 31, 2007, 03:01:39
Quote from: LuvURobert on October 31, 2007, 03:00:20
Quote from: AlluivialL on October 30, 2007, 18:49:10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCmmEt6a3o

Heh..I love this.

:smth023 Thanks, AlluivialL for that one, too.  There's just something about Robert's quirkiness that makes him so very adorable!  ;)

You're very welcome, as well.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: silversand on October 31, 2007, 23:26:13
Thanks guys for the links :)
I love the newman and baddiel tv sketch, it's so funny  :smth082
Also love the one where he talks. It's so cute :)



Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on November 01, 2007, 12:51:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rn84TOFF9s&NR=1           ~ (...Toff ?)~ wow those eyes, Rob's still got those beautiful eyes., ahh.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2aSNCMaps  I like this second one, bit funny  :-D  Simon looks gorgeous laughing

The Cure both clips                                 ~ Yes thank you AlluivialL loved that one of 'Boys dont Cry'   :smth038
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on November 01, 2007, 13:17:36
The Cure Do The Hansa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Copr0eGFYA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Copr0eGFYA)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on November 01, 2007, 14:11:43
WHOOOOOEEEEE WHAAAOOOOW !!!!! DO THE HANSA

wow killing me so sweetly, overdosed on Robert, eehh what a delicious way to go  :smth020 LUV IT!!

THANK YOU  CURE FREAK~  :smth054
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on November 01, 2007, 22:11:36
Does anybody have that full video of Robert in the girly wig? I see that alot in compilation vids...but have yet to actually see the whole vid!!!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on November 01, 2007, 22:40:45
Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 01, 2007, 22:11:36
Does anybody have that full video of Robert in the girly wig? I see that alot in compilation vids...but have yet to actually see the whole vid!!!

It must be something with Siouxsie And The Banshies.   Because I've seen a pic of them dressed up the same and sitting together.
I've had no luck on locating any video of it.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: LuvURobert on November 02, 2007, 03:50:23
Quote from: Cure Freak on November 01, 2007, 13:17:36
The Cure Do The Hansa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Copr0eGFYA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Copr0eGFYA)

:smth043 :smth043 :smth043

Thanks, CF!  That video was great!  Of course... not the song, but loooove seeing all the clips of the band!  Funny stuff!  ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on November 02, 2007, 05:00:22
Quote from: ROGUE on October 28, 2007, 17:09:58
Another cracker- so stupid kills me laughing, head shoulders knees lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2rPpjctNlk



Thanks for this one ROGUE!!! I love it sooo much... I just watched it again to cheer me up today... it gives me the giggles!!

:smth043 :smth082 :smth005 :smth038 :smth040 :smth041 :smth039
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: billee on November 02, 2007, 10:18:47
Here's one for you all to have a look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxQK1A46gU&mode=related&search=

Yep he's such a gorgeous man :D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: AlluivialL on November 02, 2007, 10:23:31
Quote from: billee on November 02, 2007, 10:18:47
Here's one for you all to have a look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxQK1A46gU&mode=related&search=

Yep he's such a gorgeous man :D

Too bad for all of the captions, huh? I liked that one, though.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: billee on November 02, 2007, 10:25:47
Yeah it's a shame but it is still one of my faves
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on November 02, 2007, 10:38:14
Quote from: billee on November 02, 2007, 10:18:47
Here's one for you all to have a look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxQK1A46gU&mode=related&search=

Yep he's such a gorgeous man :D
Yes, I love that one.
LuvURobert ~ your welcome. One of my favorite clips is when Rob hits Simon in the nuts with his guitar. ouch!!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on November 02, 2007, 12:10:16
Quote from: billee on November 02, 2007, 10:18:47
Here's one for you all to have a look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxQK1A46gU&mode=related&search=

Yep he's such a gorgeous man :D


thanks billee...  :D I adore this one... especially set to the background of MY favourite song.... The Walk.. How I wish to watch over and over again..

Robert can be totally entrancing!!! :smth060
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: silversand on November 03, 2007, 00:33:57
Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 01, 2007, 22:11:36
Does anybody have that full video of Robert in the girly wig? I see that alot in compilation vids...but have yet to actually see the whole vid!!!

Do you maybe mean this one ? It's from the Nocturne DVD it's called "play at home".
Please see the attachment below. Thanks in advance  :smth001

Thanks so much for the link billee :)
He is so gorgeous :smth055
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on November 03, 2007, 03:06:28
Thanks ever so much for all the links everyone!!  They've brightened my rainy Saturday quite considerably!  :D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on November 03, 2007, 16:06:02
Quote from: silversand on November 03, 2007, 00:33:57
Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 01, 2007, 22:11:36
Does anybody have that full video of Robert in the girly wig? I see that alot in compilation vids...but have yet to actually see the whole vid!!!

Do you maybe mean this one ? It's from the Nocturne DVD it's called "play at home".
Please see the attachment below. Thanks in advance  :smth001

Thanks so much for the link billee :)
He is so gorgeous :smth055

Yeah, that's the one! How funny!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: billee on November 04, 2007, 09:55:28
Very welcome everyone and thanks for all yours too.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: ROGUE on November 05, 2007, 17:50:01
YES THANK YOU EVERYONE  :smth050 :shock:    I LOVE THIS TOPIC,

I ALWAYS POP IN HERE TO HAVE A LAUGH TOO Thanx Scatcat and LuvU

:-D :smth054 :smth038 :smth006 :smth005

Love the wonderland pic Silversand, so gorgeous, eeeeeeee!! Scream  :P


Edit~ been looking youtube for hours, found this- havent seen it before, figurehead, so me today (this morning that is, awake all night)

                                                          =  :smth023                                       

   
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEV7hRj73s&NR=1
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: silversand on November 06, 2007, 18:56:35
Thanks for posting the link scatcat :)
It's a great video!

You're welcome scatcat :)
The play at home video awesome!!  :smth023

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on November 11, 2007, 12:58:53
ahh i so dislike the mary whitehouse "sketch" and the similar things. sorry but i just don't find it at all funny or entertaining. i think it's just a pretty dull way to try and laugh at the band. and don't get me wrong: i think it's ok to laugh at the band but you have to have something to point out, something to say. mary whitehouse sketch just looks like a dull way to try and show everyone that the cure is somehow ridiculous in general, the way they are. so i don't exactly see the point.

what i mean:
i remember seeing a sketch on smith and jones years ago, where robert smith was walking in a forest and met an old couple (camping there with their caravan). can't find a youtube link for it though. anyway, although smith and jones made some rather funny music-related sketches (like their take on U2's 'one' was pretty funny, i think), that one wasn't really funny either since it was just a dude dressed up like robert saying things like "uuuh i'm so depressed because i'm a goth you know?".
i think it's actually pretty difficult to make a good sketch about the cure. it's easy to try and put up a laugh about the looks and robert's hair and all this ohi'msodepressedeverything'ssogloomyandmiserable blahblahblah but if there's nothing else behind it... i mean, if one really thinks of it, there really aren't many things about the cure that one can pick up and point out and make real fun of them. it's a lot easier to make fun of people like bono for instance - because he's sold out so many times. but about robert: what did he ever do? uuuhhhm... nothing much to be honest. he actually just wrote music and made records and performed the music live but that's it. it's difficult to associate anything really ironic or sarcastic to the cure and say "look everyone how silly they look like now!". i do think that's because they never really sold out in any way and they never really subjected themselves to anything that people could point out and throw back at them. so when people make these sketches about the cure they can't really find anything much than laughing at the surface, laughing at the way they look etc. but that's just as shallow as some kids picking on other kids  at school because they look different. and that's a bit shallow basis for good humour - thus, it doesn't really produce very good and catchy sketches/jokes.

just my two cents... and before you say i have no sense of humour, actually i do like good comedy a lot. but i find that it has to be somehow more witty, to be really funny.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on November 11, 2007, 16:40:38
I love this one! :smth001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-7QxkrhgY

At 1:30 it's so funny! :-D

p/s: always support Amnesty International! ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on November 11, 2007, 19:21:44
rOBERT is funnier than the people who spoof him!

I love that "Take some action!" followed by that weird movement...hilarious!

And "MAKE SOME NOISE" followed by the gradually quieter "Support amnesty intern...." as if he was too shy to say it louder without the other two.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on November 11, 2007, 20:50:51
Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 11, 2007, 19:21:44
rOBERT is funnier than the people who spoof him!

I love that "Take some action!" followed by that weird movement...hilarious!

And "MAKE SOME NOISE" followed by the gradually quieter "Support amnesty intern...." as if he was too shy to say it louder without the other two.

that's true! watching that genuinely made me smile, not like ha-ha-how-funny-oh-haha but really, it made me feel happy.  :D

(it's also somehow funny how they need to check their lines from the papers. i don't know why i found that funny though).
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on November 11, 2007, 21:36:44
I agree with carnage visor and japanesebaby!
I choosed it because I love robert's behaviour in this situation...he's a very "genuine" and spontaneous person! :smth001

Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 11, 2007, 19:21:44
I love that "Take some action!" followed by that weird movement...hilarious!

And "MAKE SOME NOISE" followed by the gradually quieter "Support amnesty intern...." as if he was too shy to say it louder without the other two.
And the scream after that, ahahahah!!! :smth043

Quote from: japanesebaby on November 11, 2007, 20:50:51
(it's also somehow funny how they need to check their lines from the papers. i don't know why i found that funny though).
It's the same for me!!! Robert's face in that moment is something extraordinary!!! :smth042
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on November 12, 2007, 00:51:06
I enjoyed that video too.
itr made me smiled,  in a happy kind of way, like japanesebaby felt.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: melly on November 12, 2007, 09:25:38
Thanks for that link Lady.. I had to laugh, Robert looked as though he was out of his depth a bit there... he can stand in front of thousands of people and belt out a song.. but he appears to be a little self concious, fluffs the lines and has to re-check them!!  Maybe out of his depth isn't the right thing... out of his comfort zone I think better describes it. It's nice for people to see this side of him...he has a great sense of humour, very "dry" and is fun to be around.. :smth037
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: billee on November 12, 2007, 11:04:17
thanks for this link. Made me smile too. Checking the bits of paper , just to make sure hey got it right in the end. I felt that Roberts "true genuiness " ( sorry not sure if this is a real word for genuine ) showed through. But then again I'm sure Roberts not into bullsh*t comments and stands for what he truly believes in.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on November 12, 2007, 12:52:29
I loved this link to Amnesty song... thanx Lady!!  :smth023

It is refreshing to see Robert as himself..  :D
Interviews seem soo tough for him usually .. I would be the same way... people judging, be careful what you say, it will come back to bite you..  :shock:

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on November 12, 2007, 16:00:50
Happy that you all have appreciated it! :D

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on November 12, 2007, 16:21:20
Quote from: billee on November 12, 2007, 11:04:17
"true genuiness " ( sorry not sure if this is a real word for genuine )

sorry billee... goddamn frigin' teachers in family history... genuine, ... genuineness.. hope I can help and it is correct!! I'll just retire to bed now.. late...   :(

English can be so complex...  :smth100
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on November 13, 2007, 18:39:40
This is fantastic, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_qNAO8xi-s

Me and disintegration were there...it was amazing! :roll:
Robert seemed so bothered and..."absent" with his mind, ahahah!!!

The funnier part is in the end:

vj:"Have you changed?"
robert: "Have I changed??...Yeah yeah...oh, I thought you meant my clothes!!"

:smth043 :-D :smth042 :smth081
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on November 13, 2007, 23:14:58
That is hilarious! Watching him be himself makes me feel happy...he just has this quality that makes me smile. I loved how he just stared nervously as the woman was talking, he looked very wigged out or disoriented...very funny. Thanks for posting the link!!!  :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: disintegration on November 14, 2007, 11:06:53
Quote from: Lady on November 13, 2007, 18:39:40
This is fantastic, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_qNAO8xi-s

Me and disintegration were there...it was amazing! :roll:
Robert seemed so bothered and..."absent" with his mind, ahahah!!!

The funnier part is in the end:

vj:"Have you changed?"
robert: "Have I changed??...Yeah yeah...oh, I thought you meant my clothes!!"

:smth043 :-D :smth042 :smth081
Oh, I remember this day, a very good day!  :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: silversand on November 14, 2007, 22:10:14
Quote from: Lady on November 13, 2007, 18:39:40
This is fantastic, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_qNAO8xi-s

Me and disintegration were there...it was amazing! :roll:
Robert seemed so bothered and..."absent" with his mind, ahahah!!!

The funnier part is in the end:

vj:"Have you changed?"
robert: "Have I changed??...Yeah yeah...oh, I thought you meant my clothes!!"

:smth043 :-D :smth042 :smth081

This part is too funny  :smth082 :smth081
Thanks for the link Lady   :)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on November 15, 2007, 00:27:58
Quote from: Carnage Visor on November 13, 2007, 23:14:58
Thanks for posting the link!!!  :smth023

Quote from: silversand on November 14, 2007, 22:10:14
Thanks for the link Lady   :)

It's a pleasure for me to share with you these funny moments, guys! :smth052


-"How do you feel?"
-"VERY EXCITED!" :smth043
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: melly on November 19, 2007, 00:26:31
Thanks, again, for that link... just watch Roberts hands...squeezing the microphone so tightly, then picking at, probably, an imaginary sore on his hand/finger.. It must be soooo uncomfortable to just stand there whilst the interviewer talks for such a long period of time!!
Then...there's that dry humour again... "I thought you meant my clothes"... re changing.. hehe he's a funny bugger....
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on March 05, 2008, 13:15:47
i guess this more like "funny ray cokes stuff", but anyway:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1328799116956700385

:lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: iwannashagsimon on March 05, 2008, 13:35:35
No sound and very short--sorry!

Robert from Rome 2008 demonstrating his dancing skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyMPIYrgXA

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on March 05, 2008, 13:51:34
Quote from: iwannashagsimon on March 05, 2008, 13:35:35
No sound and very short--sorry!

Robert from Rome 2008 demonstrating his dancing skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyMPIYrgXA



i don't know why but i found that somehow freaky. :P
"people should remember their age" :smth018
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: iwannashagsimon on March 05, 2008, 14:12:45
Quote from: japanesebaby on March 05, 2008, 13:51:34
"people should remember their age" :smth018


No way! 

"Dont you know that its worth every treasure on earth to be young at heart"

:-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: melly on March 06, 2008, 09:14:44
bloody hell, he was just ENJOYING himself for a minute, interacting with a young girl who will treasure that brief moment for the rest of her life!! And if we all "acted our age" what a damned boring world it would be...and that's coming from someone OLDER than Robert.... I thought it was great, seeing him writhe around and have some fun... he's not entering a dancing competition, just groovin' with a fan... good on you Robert, it amazes me you have any energy left, considering what you guys are doing almost every night... shake that booty Robert, we LOVE it!!...
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: CureCrusader on March 06, 2008, 13:30:21
 :-D i love it   :smth023

go Robert , go !! shake it !!  :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: robiola on March 06, 2008, 14:49:27
Quote from: melly on March 06, 2008, 09:14:44
I thought it was great, seeing him writhe around and have some fun...
Me too... I loved it in Milan when he danced a little -- it made me feel like "Hey, he's enjoying himself too!" It just seemed very spontaneous, and for a moment I almost felt like I was at some huge party along with the Cure members, instead of a concert-goer who paid a ticket to watch a musician perform on stage!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on March 06, 2008, 15:19:02
Quote from: iwannashagsimon on March 05, 2008, 14:12:45
Quote from: japanesebaby on March 05, 2008, 13:51:34
"people should remember their age" :smth018


No way! 

"Dont you know that its worth every treasure on earth to be young at heart"

:-D

so true,
and Robert stated(as in my sig)  will never grow up.
:)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: melly on March 07, 2008, 07:04:32
besides, where's the rule book which says that just because you are in your 40s, 50s, and even 60s, you should be home knitting and doing crosswords??!!
there's no growing old gracefully in my house....... all our friends and my sister are the same...."recycled teenagers"...   :-D
only here for a short time, may as well be a good time.....
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: CureCrusader on March 07, 2008, 10:59:45
Quote from: melly on March 07, 2008, 07:04:32
besides, where's the rule book which says that just because you are in your 40s, 50s, and even 60s, you should be home knitting and doing crosswords??!!
there's no growing old gracefully in my house....... all our friends and my sister are the same...."recycled teenagers"...   :-D
only here for a short time, may as well be a good time.....

@melly  i love the bit about 'recycled teenagers' !  :D

my mum is a recylced teeanger. she doesn't seem old, or act it. In fact, I have the bestest time with her ( she's hitting on 40now..)  :smth023

BTW. She can't knit.  ;)  :shock:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on March 09, 2008, 18:48:00
I like Robert's quote: "Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept our limitations"

It can be a good thing. I wonder what happened leading up to that moment. Did the little girl just find Robert backstage and start dancing?  :)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on March 15, 2008, 01:02:23
Quote from: Carnage Visor on March 09, 2008, 18:48:00
I like Robert's quote: "Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept our limitations"


:-D

In this one, Simon is the funny one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZ5M1F5DW8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZ5M1F5DW8)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: iwannashagsimon on March 15, 2008, 20:06:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBINvhEF1d8


Skip to the end. Around the 8:46 mark.  A kazoo gets thrown on stage and Robert starts playing it. :)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on March 15, 2008, 20:15:46
Quote from: iwannashagsimon on March 15, 2008, 20:06:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBINvhEF1d8


Skip to the end. Around the 8:46 mark.  A kazoo gets thrown on stage and Robert starts playing it. :)

i think definitely the best part are the pogoers during '10:15'. that looks like fun! :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on March 16, 2008, 10:19:43
Quote from: iwannashagsimon on March 15, 2008, 20:06:23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBINvhEF1d8


Skip to the end. Around the 8:46 mark.  A kazoo gets thrown on stage and Robert starts playing it. :)

waaauuu  :shock: it is fantastic  ;D thanks iwannashagsimon  :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: robiola on March 16, 2008, 13:20:59
I don't know whether this has been posted before... it's an in-between bit from the Staring at the Sea video, so I'm sure most of you have seen it, but I was reminded of it yesterday when it was posted on the Livejournal Cure community, and it's always fun to watch again... It's actually funny Lol/Bob/Porl stuff --Porl in particular cracks me up.
Been smoking something, boys?
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=FkX0O6rpfbw (http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=FkX0O6rpfbw)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on March 28, 2008, 02:37:20
Thanks for the clips everyone! But surely we're far from done with this topic yet?  ;)

I don't believe these have been posted:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_TgQY9D3M&feature=PlayList&p=7444E22EFA090DB4&index=73
(Quirky little interview on a merry-go-round of sorts in a playground. I believe Robert makes up most of the answers... As one user points out, you gotta love how he screeches "SHUT UP!" to the kids (nothing nasty) and THEN they show who he is.  :-D By the way, I shall from now on refer to the In-Between Days video as In-Between Socks. Spot on.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mrUnA8-ts
(Interview on Jools Holland. "I was just testing the water". "We plugged in". "He doesn't know yet, but we know where he lives..." And watch out for the bizarre moment at 3:21, hehe.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0KIpPGYB4zQ
(Maybe not all-together fun, but I love it when he says "I'd jump in the river, rather than sing...")

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrJbqNnUog&feature=related
(Simon's had a few too many, I think. Lol has had a long day. Robert acts babysitter and suggests he "nestles down", which must be the cutest thing I've ever heard...)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7ozGl33iA
(Here's that Siouxsie And The Banshees vid with Robert in a wig at 04:09, by the way. Robert in jammies is also a treat (even if he's not much of an actor), especially at 3:12...)

Have fun now!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on March 28, 2008, 21:31:23
Quote from: Poe on March 28, 2008, 02:37:20
Thanks for the clips everyone! But surely we're far from done with this topic yet?  ;)

I don't believe these have been posted:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_TgQY9D3M&feature=PlayList&p=7444E22EFA090DB4&index=73
(Quirky little interview on a merry-go-round of sorts in a playground. I believe Robert makes up most of the answers... As one user points out, you gotta love how he screeches "SHUT UP!" to the kids (nothing nasty) and THEN they show who he is.  :-D By the way, I shall from now on refer to the In-Between Days video as In-Between Socks. Spot on.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z8mrUnA8-ts
(Interview on Jools Holland. "I was just testing the water". "We plugged in". "He doesn't know yet, but we know where he lives..." And watch out for the bizarre moment at 3:21, hehe.)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0KIpPGYB4zQ
(Maybe not all-together fun, but I love it when he says "I'd jump in the river, rather than sing...")

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrJbqNnUog&feature=related
(Simon's had a few too many, I think. Lol has had a long day. Robert acts babysitter and suggests he "nestles down", which must be the cutest thing I've ever heard...)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fb7ozGl33iA
(Here's that Siouxsie And The Banshees vid with Robert in a wig at 04:09, by the way. Robert in jammies is also a treat (even if he's not much of an actor), especially at 3:12...)

Have fun now!

thanks, it is funny  :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on March 29, 2008, 00:35:41
Thanks Poe!!  Great clips!!  And yes, from now on the In-Between Days video shall be known as In-Between Socks!!   ;)

And thanks for your clip robiola!  I had to watch the whole of Staring at the Sea after seeing that...which ended with me having that silly little tune and a stupid smile on my face for the best part of a day.... :D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on March 29, 2008, 02:45:24
Thanks for the comments! Told you you'd have fun. :P

By the way, didn't someone post a clip earlier of Robert playing a kazoo in Antwerpen? Well, here's the same magical moment up close (great quality to the vid). It looks like Robert is saying "a what!?" when he sees what it is. :smth081

http://uk.youtube.com//watch?v=AzIpVxkC860

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on March 29, 2008, 19:08:24
Aah! Can't get those kazoos out of my head!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6s1mjnxQg&feature=PlayList&p=0D43D47089038479&index=90
(The Walk, MTV unplugged rehearsal. Boys having some fun. 02:09 - aaww.)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: robiola on March 30, 2008, 00:04:21
@sues777 glad you enjoyed -- I love the inbetween bits of Staring at the Sea :D

@poe (welcome!) "We plugged in." I laughed so much I almost cried. He really cracks me up.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on March 30, 2008, 01:16:13
I feel very welcomed. ;D

Quote from: robiola on March 30, 2008, 00:04:21
"We plugged in." I laughed so much I almost cried. He really cracks me up.

Yes, hihi. What makes it even funnier is the way he squirms right after he says it, like he's so embarrassed about having made a joke...cutsie pie. May he never lose his quirky sense of humor.

Stumbled over some new ones I'd added to my youtube account a while ago. If you don't mind...:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvHA6xOrkw
(I've heard they decided to take the piss out of this apparently crappy French show, and how! French Cure fans loved it. Giggle-inducing curtsy at the end)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0gSN-BDBM&feature=PlayList&p=7444E22EFA090DB4&index=0
(Makes me smile to see them having a nice time. Simon's fun. "Big saucer eyes", and "Barry Manilow - Copacabana", hehe.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4M9SS-Y4us&feature=related
("You mean the four of us and Lol?", and then they giggle like kids...Me like.)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on April 18, 2008, 02:18:24
Those are very nice, Poe!!!  :smth023

It's so cute to hear them act all giddy and childlike...Simon's really funny!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on April 24, 2008, 11:07:41
Thanks Carnage Visor, 'twas a pleasure posting them.  8)

I've found some funny pics (posted them on another forum, if you recognize them):


(http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v240/105/46/640237354/n640237354_579435_4248.jpg)
This one is supposed to be of Robert and his older brother, Richard. The Blues Brothers.  8)

(http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v240/105/46/640237354/n640237354_572250_5869.jpg)
(The Shining) It's mad Bob!

(http://photos-g.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v240/105/46/640237354/n640237354_572238_9053.jpg)
"This is ma chair! Ma chair! Ain't big enough for both of us!"

Oh, and another thing...

ONE HUNDREDTH POST!

(http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f112/mamamoomoo/th_fireworks.gif)

Sorry for the huge post, just had to do that...(http://www.cureconnections.com/forum/images/smiles/109.gif) Finally upgraded to a true Curefan.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on April 26, 2008, 03:18:34
This brought a smile to my face this morning.... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6KPN0TS1Eg&feature=related
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: melly on April 26, 2008, 11:32:20
thanks to everyone for posting those links..
sues777.. that clip is lovely, sat here watching it with a smile on my face too... thanks..
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on April 26, 2008, 13:21:25
Quote from: sues777 on April 26, 2008, 03:18:34
This brought a smile to my face this morning.... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6KPN0TS1Eg&feature=related
I love that song!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on April 26, 2008, 17:47:48
Thanks ladies!!

Quote from: Cure Freak on April 26, 2008, 13:21:25
I love that song!

Hey Cure Freak - I'm afarid I'm a little behind the times with this one.  I hadn't actually heard it until I discovered it on YouTube...but I'm now completely smitten with it!!  :D 
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on April 26, 2008, 18:22:42
Quote from: sues777 on April 26, 2008, 17:47:48I hadn't actually heard it until I discovered it on YouTube...but I'm now completely smitten with it!!  :D 

Ching Chang Chong is a demo version of Spilt Milk, unreleased track from the Bloodflowers era. The lyrics and the arrangement have been changed, but I quite prefer this simpler, "cleaner" arrangement over the final one in Spilt Milk, which sounds a bit...muddled, to my ears. Still great though:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nwr-RJd6ATY

Sorry for going a bit off topic by the way... (http://www.cureconnections.com/forum/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on April 26, 2008, 18:56:24
Quote from: sues777 on April 26, 2008, 17:47:48
Thanks ladies!!

Quote from: Cure Freak on April 26, 2008, 13:21:25
I love that song!

Hey Cure Freak - I'm afarid I'm a little behind the times with this one.  I hadn't actually heard it until I discovered it on YouTube...but I'm now completely smitten with it!!  :D 
your welcome. i only discovewred it last year. an online friend sent it to me and i feel in love with instantly.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on April 27, 2008, 02:00:51
Quote from: Poe on April 26, 2008, 18:22:42
Ching Chang Chong is a demo version of Spilt Milk, unreleased track from the Bloodflowers era. The lyrics and the arrangement have been changed, but I quite prefer this simpler, "cleaner" arrangement over the final one in Spilt Milk, which sounds a bit...muddled, to my ears. Still great though:

Thanks poe!  I actually knew the background of the 2 tracks, I just hadn't heard them.  Although I love them both, I haven't been able to stop listening to Ching Chang Chong...  I agree with you -  I'm drawn to the simpler, cleaner arrangement.  To me, there's a "naivety"(?) about it...Love it!!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on April 28, 2008, 11:26:57
Quote from: sues777 on April 27, 2008, 02:00:51
Thanks poe!  I actually knew the background of the 2 tracks, I just hadn't heard them.  Although I love them both, I haven't been able to stop listening to Ching Chang Chong...  I agree with you -  I'm drawn to the simpler, cleaner arrangement.  To me, there's a "naivety"(?) about it...Love it!!

Oh well, gave me a chance to show off anyway.  8) Interesting of you to love it too.  :smth023

Got some new clips, cheer me up:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGQfZjuxn8&feature=PlayList&p=31F6DBE63C5AFCB9&index=28
(Robert blowing a bug out of his hand (mouth) (same clip used in the MTV Icon special), and then dancing around like a fruitcake...)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SVAjjajez80&feature=PlayList&p=31F6DBE63C5AFCB9&index=22
(Shoulder shimmy!)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DGJa5h4hato&feature=PlayList&p=7444E22EFA090DB4&index=99
(I think it's funny how the camera crew just stands around awkwardly outside the bathroom, filming Robert putting his make-up on...and then there's Porl: "I'd like you to meet Mr. Robert Smith, lead singer of the popular band...Cruz, is it?" Some rare footage of Mary too)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V0w6urisXMU&feature=PlayList&p=7444E22EFA090DB4&index=98
(Well, it's supposed to be funny anyway, and a bit rude. Robert's playing along nicely)

Oh, and Cure Freak: Your avatar freaks me out, ha! From a French show right? Looks like Robert is under attack...oh Robert...
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: sues777 on April 28, 2008, 14:25:54
Thankyou so much Poe!!  Just what I needed after a rotten day at work!  You're a gem!!   :smth023

Quote from: Poe on April 28, 2008, 11:26:57
Oh well, gave me a chance to show off anyway.  8) Interesting of you to love it too.  :smth023
Please keep showing off!!  I really appreciate your help!!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on April 28, 2008, 14:37:46
Quote from: sues777 on April 28, 2008, 14:25:54
Thankyou so much Poe!!  Just what I needed after a rotten day at work!  You're a gem!!   :smth023

Please keep showing off!!  I really appreciate your help!!


Aaaw, that makes me want to skip.  :-D Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

(http://www.cureconnections.com/forum/images/smiles/party0010.gif)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Cure Freak on April 29, 2008, 14:13:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw)

:smth046
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Gothiczartan on April 29, 2008, 14:22:51
(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4087/theherowillrisegt8.th.jpg) (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=theherowillrisegt8.jpg)


(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/6108/ourherorobertsmithsw8.th.jpg) (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ourherorobertsmithsw8.jpg)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Gothiczartan on May 09, 2008, 14:19:47
a robert smith cartoon would be fun, not south park version of robert
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on June 24, 2008, 09:42:19
these bits from 'enfants du rock' are fanstastic. I love it when he talks.

this is when i think "Why Can't I Be You?!!"

and.. you have to look here>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FkX0O6rpfbw
the Cure in the studio
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on June 24, 2008, 15:29:23
A funny Robert quote:

"There was one in some magazine a couple of months ago where you had to score points to find out your ideal career. I spent ages doing it. You had to score 45 to be a singer, but I only reached 27. It said I should be a shop keeper!" (1986)

:-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on June 24, 2008, 19:24:32
i really don't know why i found this funny, i guess just  because i have a stupid sense of humour or something:

http://curefans.com/index.php/v/publications/RSonjurassicpark.png.html?action=gallery
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: coxoxi on June 24, 2008, 21:37:06
Quote from: Cure Freak on April 29, 2008, 14:13:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw)

:smth046

:smth044 :smth044
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on June 24, 2008, 21:43:36
Quote from: coxoxi on June 24, 2008, 21:37:06
Quote from: Cure Freak on April 29, 2008, 14:13:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw)

:smth046

:smth044 :smth044

i don't understand a word but it's exactly that unintelligible spanish that makes it pretty hysterical for me.
(but why does that fake robert find andy so funny? i don't get it!)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on June 24, 2008, 21:54:10
this is interesting  :lol:
after 1:35 min...

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=M4sV9K8Xa7g
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on June 24, 2008, 22:31:48
Quote from: Cure Freak on April 29, 2008, 14:13:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufigznlMrbw)

:smth046
Fantastic!!!! :smth023

"La epoca del din don din din don din...." :smth043 :smth082 :smth005
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: robiola on June 25, 2008, 23:26:58
Quote from: japanesebaby on June 24, 2008, 19:24:32
i really don't know why i found this funny, i guess just  because i have a stupid sense of humour or something:

http://curefans.com/index.php/v/publications/RSonjurassicpark.png.html?action=gallery
:smth043
Somehow it makes perfect sense that it should be his favorite scene, doesn't it?
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on June 27, 2008, 11:56:53
Quote from: robiola on June 25, 2008, 23:26:58
Somehow it makes perfect sense that it should be his favorite scene, doesn't it?

it does! :D


about other band members...
perry & simon going to their ballet lesson?:

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/92-93/p-92-tib-skinny-teddy%20in%20short%20shorts.jpg)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: coxoxi on June 27, 2008, 12:22:19
Quote from: japanesebaby on June 27, 2008, 11:56:53
Quote from: robiola on June 25, 2008, 23:26:58
Somehow it makes perfect sense that it should be his favorite scene, doesn't it?

it does! :D


about other band members...
perry & simon going to their ballet lesson?:

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/92-93/p-92-tib-skinny-teddy%20in%20short%20shorts.jpg)


aren't we just so handsome? :smth044 :smth044
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: silversand on June 27, 2008, 20:09:30
Quote from: japanesebaby on June 27, 2008, 11:56:53
Quote from: robiola on June 25, 2008, 23:26:58
Somehow it makes perfect sense that it should be his favorite scene, doesn't it?

it does! :D


about other band members...
perry & simon going to their ballet lesson?:

(http://www.picturesofyou.us/photos/92-93/p-92-tib-skinny-teddy%20in%20short%20shorts.jpg)


It's such a funny imagination to see Robert, Simon and Perry when they will have their ballet lesson  :smth043




PS: They're all three so handsome :)

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: DJscribbles on June 29, 2008, 04:10:40
japanesebaby - i almost spat my water at the screen! hilarious, and sexy!
they totally look like they are, i cant stop laughing. simons hair is even done up the ballerina way O.0
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on July 08, 2008, 22:33:00
Well, Robert has had it, hehe....Quote at your own risk.  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APSWlt_1As&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igsx8Lm6rwg&feature=related
(From the show at Madison Square Garden, June 20)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on July 08, 2008, 23:05:01
Quote from: Poe on July 08, 2008, 22:33:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APSWlt_1As&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igsx8Lm6rwg&feature=related

Someone translate me this "smithish" language please  :oops:  :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on July 08, 2008, 23:43:17
Quote from: wish-man on July 08, 2008, 23:05:01Someone translate me this "smithish" language please  :oops:  :-D
:smth043
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on July 15, 2008, 16:33:18
This one is mentioned in the 'Never Enough' biography... Robert commenting on the success of the single 'The Walk':

"It occurs to me that a lot of idiots must be buying 'The Walk'".



Had I known The Cure back then, I would probably be one of those "idiots".  :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on July 18, 2008, 11:52:03
Guys - I have a problem.
There's this picture in my avatar. Pretty freaky Robert. I'd like to see the video from which the still picture has been cut out. Does anyone know what it is? Any youtube link? Please help ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on July 18, 2008, 13:38:45
Quote from: love_cat on July 18, 2008, 11:52:03
Guys - I have a problem.
There's this picture in my avatar. Pretty freaky Robert. I'd like to see the video from which the still picture has been cut out. Does anyone know what it is? Any youtube link? Please help ;)

this one is from MTV Icon. But I don't know youtube link :(
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on July 18, 2008, 15:06:50
searched but found nothing. Has any of you this in your computer & can share?
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on July 26, 2008, 16:33:59
You've got to watch this!!!! :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbFVp_6K-g&feature=related

What a silly boy, ahahah!!! :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on July 26, 2008, 17:45:11
Quote from: Lady on July 26, 2008, 16:33:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbFVp_6K-g&feature=related

Ouh, what a british accent  :smth049 :smth050 :smth055 :smth054
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: scatcat on July 28, 2008, 17:55:56
Quote from: revolt on July 15, 2008, 16:33:18
This one is mentioned in the 'Never Enough' biography... Robert commenting on the success of the single 'The Walk':

"It occurs to me that a lot of idiots must be buying 'The Walk'".
Had I known The Cure back then, I would probably be one of those "idiots".  :-D

:roll:
i was one of those idiots..    :shock:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
Well, I don't think this one has been posted here before: picture (follow the link) of Robert looking like a real rockstar.  8) Don't forget to read his comment at the bottom, especially the part about the midnight swim...(http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/t/swoon.gif)

http://www.picturesofyou.us/85/85-12-swiss-rs-inipool.htm

(http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v275/105/46/640237354/n640237354_785418_5864.jpg)
Show me the way to go home...

(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on August 01, 2008, 11:34:08
About Robert's first times with Mary:

"We were at someone's party, a fancy dress party. I went as a surgeon. I remember because I poured all this tomato ketchup down me. At the time I thought it was a really good idea, but after an hour it really began to stink."

A "really good idea"...  :shock: :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on August 01, 2008, 18:29:17
Quote from: revolt on August 01, 2008, 11:34:08
About Robert’s first times with Mary:

“We were at someone’s party, a fancy dress party. I went as a surgeon. I remember because I poured all this tomato ketchup down me. At the time I thought it was a really good idea, but after an hour it really began to stink.”

A "really good idea"...  :shock: :-D
Of course!! :D
To use ketchup for pretending to bleed is always a good idea!!! :lol: ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on August 01, 2008, 21:41:58
Quote from: revolt on August 01, 2008, 11:34:08
About Robert's first times with Mary:

"We were at someone's party, a fancy dress party. I went as a surgeon. I remember because I poured all this tomato ketchup down me. At the time I thought it was a really good idea, but after an hour it really began to stink."

A "really good idea"...  :shock: :-D

Is this was on tht party when Robert lost his virginity?  :oops:

23 (http://www.planetdis.com/cure/didyouknow.html) ... Robert lost his virginity at age 15? He lost it with Mary at a costume party.


(http://buzznet-39.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users16/rabbitsnotroadkill/default/Robert_Smith_Tom_Delonge_and_William_Becket--large-msg-119498429997.jpg)

bloody hell  :shock: link (http://rabbitsnotroadkill.buzznet.com/user/photos/robert-smith-tom-delonge-and-william-becket/?id=22376261)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on August 01, 2008, 21:57:21
fakes 'funny stuff'  :D

(http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/3/9/367/9367088_1195826598_The_Cure_by_zsutti.jpg)

THIS IS FAKE, JSUT BCUZ THE CURE WILL NEVER DIE! ;)

(http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/3/23/270/23270693_otkruytka_robertu.jpg)

ANOTHER FAKE/DEMO 'THE CURE' COVER!  :smth023
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on August 01, 2008, 22:15:52
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2939/fattyfg5.jpg) (http://madam-mew-mew.livejournal.com/130631.html)

(click on the image)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on August 03, 2008, 00:51:10
I found this written interview (http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/press/I12.html) with Robert from 1991, mainly focusing on the impending lawsuit from Lol, but there were also a few bits that just made me laugh...

QuoteHe describes it as a process of great frustration and finds songwriting increasingly difficult. As the years pass, he aspires to higher standards, finds he's exhausted certain topics, and inspiration is harder to come by. Ideas or phrases come to him in the middle of the night, or when drunk...

Sometimes I sit down and get drunk just so that I can write something. What I drink depends on what I want to write. I drink a three litre box of red wine if I want something really morose, and I drink cider if I want something more upbeat...

This frequently fails.

Ha! All that effort for nothing?  ;)

QuoteAt one time he'd stay up all night and just sleep when he felt tired. Now he and Mary have a routine of sorts: up between 11 and midday, go to sleep between four and six in the morning. Sometimes they go on "days out". Last week they went to Sisbury rings in Sussex, an old Iron Age fort, to watch the sunrise. Some people there were "getting back to their ancestors", singing and chanting. They were naked.

Mary said, Why are these people always around when you're here? For once it had nothing to do with me...

On seeing naked revellers in a strange place she'd naturally think you were responsible?

Normally, Smith nods, that would be Mary's first assumption.


How...disturbing? (http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/aiwebs_008.gif) Bless you Mary.

Anyhow, the next quote: Robert does have a bit of a temper, doesn't he? But he tries to make the best of it...

QuoteNow when he watches TV he no longer suffers things he hates in silence. He phones up to complain. Old codger's behaviour?

It is and it isn't, he mutters. More people should do it. It's the only way to make a difference. I phone to complain about questions in quiz shows, and the tone of programmes. And about Jim Davidson. Have you ever met anyone who thinks he's funny? Or engaging, in any way?


"Questions in quiz shows"? "The TONE of programmes"? Sounds like hardcore "codgery" to me. ;D Wouldn't want to be on the other end of that phone line when Robert gets fired up about something...of course, I could ask him to send a written complaint, signed and everything, so I could put it up on the wall. Wouldn't mind that.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on August 04, 2008, 11:29:26
Quote from: wish-man on August 01, 2008, 22:15:52
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2939/fattyfg5.jpg) (http://madam-mew-mew.livejournal.com/130631.html)

(click on the image)


I'm sure Robert would take some of his time to personally strangle you for posting something like this... :smth011
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: coxoxi on August 06, 2008, 13:38:58
Quote from: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
Well, I don't think this one has been posted here before: picture (follow the link) of Robert looking like a real rockstar.  8) Don't forget to read his comment at the bottom, especially the part about the midnight swim...(http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/t/swoon.gif)

http://www.picturesofyou.us/85/85-12-swiss-rs-inipool.htm

(http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v275/105/46/640237354/n640237354_785418_5864.jpg)
Show me the way to go home...

(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:

and this is soooo cute  :smth050
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 14:14:47
Quote from: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:

that's from '95, when they were headlining glastonbury festival. and glastonbury is famous for it's MUD. so perhaps nothing to do with gardening i think... ;)

the pic was a famous cover for NME june 24th 1995 issue, "kiss and muck up!":

(http://i16.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/00/78/3c36_1.JPG)

the article/interview inside was called 'grapes of goth', i recall it was somehow funny.
i have a copy of that NME somewhere, i need to check.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on August 06, 2008, 18:00:47
Glastonbury eh? Those filthy festivals, hehe...(http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/eusa_shifty.gif) Thanks for the info, probably haven't read that interview/article...

Well, I do have some other pictures. Here's one of Robert "shooting" himself, while making perhaps one of his top 10 silliest faces:

(http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v307/105/46/640237354/n640237354_836836_7914.jpg)

And, yeah, I guess things weren't going so well here...

(http://photos.l3.facebook.com/photos-l3-snc1/v275/105/46/640237354/n640237354_839976_2977.jpg)
:-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 18:10:49
Quote from: Poe on August 06, 2008, 18:00:47
Glastonbury eh? Those filthy festivals, hehe...(http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/eusa_shifty.gif)

glastonbury mud hole claims two more victims (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzwem92gwTs)

:P

oh no! :eek::

(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2007/06/24/mud460.jpg)

:-D

last year ('07) was pretty bad there, some lovely pics by bbc ->
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7334000/7334195.stm


i'll look up for that NME article.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on August 06, 2008, 22:08:53
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 18:10:49oh no! :eek::

(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2007/06/24/mud460.jpg)

:-D

last year ('07) was pretty bad there, some lovely pics by bbc ->
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7334000/7334195.stm


i'll look up for that NME article.

ufff  :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:08:14
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 14:14:47
Quote from: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:

that's from '95, when they were headlining glastonbury festival. and glastonbury is famous for it's MUD. so perhaps nothing to do with gardening i think... ;)

the pic was a famous cover for NME june 24th 1995 issue, "kiss and muck up!":

(http://i16.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/00/78/3c36_1.JPG)

the article/interview inside was called 'grapes of goth', i recall it was somehow funny.
i have a copy of that NME somewhere, i need to check.



By the way, there is a great 90's artist mentioned on that NME cover... and no, I'm not referring to Robert Smith.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on August 07, 2008, 11:21:54
Quote from: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:08:14
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 14:14:47
Quote from: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:

that's from '95, when they were headlining glastonbury festival. and glastonbury is famous for it's MUD. so perhaps nothing to do with gardening i think... ;)

the pic was a famous cover for NME june 24th 1995 issue, "kiss and muck up!":

(http://i16.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/00/78/3c36_1.JPG)

the article/interview inside was called 'grapes of goth', i recall it was somehow funny.
i have a copy of that NME somewhere, i need to check.



By the way, there is a great 90's artist mentioned on that NME cover... and no, I'm not referring to Robert Smith.

i pray that you don't mean oasis... :eek:

(or poo fi... - sorry: foo fighters either)



seriously though, stone roses.
although everyone says their first album was great and second was crap whereas i think it's completely the other way round, 'second coming' is a really good album.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:32:30
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 07, 2008, 11:21:54
Quote from: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:08:14
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 14:14:47
Quote from: Poe on July 28, 2008, 18:33:23
(http://i35.tinypic.com/1255jxd.jpg)
Knicked this one off another forum. Yep. Gardening is hard work... :lol:

that's from '95, when they were headlining glastonbury festival. and glastonbury is famous for it's MUD. so perhaps nothing to do with gardening i think... ;)

the pic was a famous cover for NME june 24th 1995 issue, "kiss and muck up!":

(http://i16.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/00/78/3c36_1.JPG)

the article/interview inside was called 'grapes of goth', i recall it was somehow funny.
i have a copy of that NME somewhere, i need to check.



By the way, there is a great 90's artist mentioned on that NME cover... and no, I'm not referring to Robert Smith.

i pray that you don't mean oasis... :eek:

(or poo fi... - sorry: foo fighters either)



seriously though, stone roses.
although everyone says their first album was great and second was crap whereas i think it's completely the other way round, 'second coming' is a really good album.


Well, WRONG!  ;) In two different ways: Stone Roses' first album is the better, IMO. I am really not fond of Led Zeppelin re-hashes unless they are done by Plant or Page themselves. But the artist I was talking about is Goldie. His "Timeless" album is not only, well, timeless, but it actually was (and still is) ahead of its time. For me, hands down the best overall album from the 90's.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on August 07, 2008, 11:41:37
Quote from: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:32:30
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 07, 2008, 11:21:54
Quote from: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:08:14
By the way, there is a great 90's artist mentioned on that NME cover... and no, I'm not referring to Robert Smith.

i pray that you don't mean oasis... :eek:

(or poo fi... - sorry: foo fighters either)



seriously though, stone roses.
although everyone says their first album was great and second was crap whereas i think it's completely the other way round, 'second coming' is a really good album.


Well, WRONG!  ;) In two different ways: Stone Roses' first album is the better, IMO. I am really not fond of Led Zeppelin re-hashes unless they are done by Plant or Page themselves. But the artist I was talking about is Goldie. His "Timeless" album is not only, well, timeless, but it actually was (and still is) ahead of its time. For me, hands down the best overall album from the 90's.

no, i think i was RIGHT! ;)  :-D
led zep re-hashes are lame if they are poorly done and have no insight of their own (those exist too), but 'second coming' is genuinely good, not a rip off.

(goldie? - hmm...
anyway i think we should move to another thread to continue this or we'll soon end up turning every thread on this forum into a 90's thread and the staff needs to hire a new mod to simply to moderate us. ;))



on-topic:
was lol really THAT short??:

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7435/87band87012aew4.th.jpg) (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=87band87012aew4.jpg)

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on August 07, 2008, 11:57:36
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 07, 2008, 11:41:37
on-topic:
was lol really THAT short??:

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7435/87band87012aew4.th.jpg) (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=87band87012aew4.jpg)



LOL!  :smth082 :smth082 :smth082 :smth082

But why is Lol always the subject of joking, for this or other reasons? I actually have a lot of respect for the guy (well, court matters aside, that is).
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on August 09, 2008, 22:04:45
Well, producer Mark Plati is the funny one here, having a big fan boy moment in front of Robert during the mixing of Wrong Number:

"When Robert began to sing, I was really blown away - it's always amazing to hear somebody's voice, but when a voice like Robert's comes out of the speakers, it's a whole other ball game." At one stage, Plati couldn't control his glee - he began jumping up and down, shouting "It's Robert Smith! It's Robert Smith!" to no one in particular. Smith stopped singing and asked Plati whether he had a problem. "I had to tell him how fantastic the whole thing was for me. His reply was something along the lines of, 'Really? Nobody ever gets excited when I sing.' I thought it was sweet."
(From Never Enough, p.280)

Hihi.
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on August 15, 2008, 08:47:19
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 06, 2008, 14:14:47
i have a copy of that NME somewhere, i need to check.

here (http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,5492.msg54972.html)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: wish-man on August 23, 2008, 12:34:48

I take this 2 shots from '1998-05-05 MTV Special about Galore'  :-D

(http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/7310/roberthq8.jpg)

(http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/841/robert2te7.jpg)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on August 27, 2008, 21:38:52
wish-man, I like those! He looks like he'f feeling the wrath of god or some kind of spiritual encounter!  :-D

And what's up the Robert and Morrissey thingy? Robert would never be caught dead with Morrissey... :P
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on August 27, 2008, 22:09:05
Quote from: Carnage Visor on August 27, 2008, 21:38:52
wish-man, I like those! He looks like he'f feeling the wrath of god or some kind of spiritual encounter!  :-D

He's showing off his acting skills, the emotion in question being "surprised", hehe...If you haven't seen it, it's good fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzj8jptAQc
(Galore promo)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Carnage Visor on August 27, 2008, 22:16:45
Quote from: Poe on August 27, 2008, 22:09:05http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzj8jptAQc
(Galore promo)

Aww, how cute! Thanks for the link, I'm adding that to favorites!

He's got such a compelling and interesting personality, I wish more people would see what we see, instead of just "some gloomy guy" (or whatever the reviewers have referred to him...)!  ;)

"Can I act surprised?" (wide-eyed expression)...classic Robert!  :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: NeverForget on August 27, 2008, 22:46:51
Quote from: Poe on August 27, 2008, 22:09:05
He's showing off his acting skills, the emotion in question being "surprised", hehe...If you haven't seen it, it's good fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzj8jptAQc
(Galore promo)
Terribly funny, thank you for posting!
The part when Tim says: "...like a soap opera, 'cos The Cure is a bit like a soap opera" and Robert tries to stop him someway "Tim, Tim!", that was real fun, I'm almost crying for laughing too much! :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Poe on August 27, 2008, 23:13:24
Quote from: Carnage Visor on August 27, 2008, 22:16:45

Aww, how cute! Thanks for the link, I'm adding that to favorites!

He's got such a compelling and interesting personality, I wish more people would see what we see, instead of just "some gloomy guy" (or whatever the reviewers have referred to him...)!  ;)

"Can I act surprised?" (wide-eyed expression)...classic Robert!  :lol:

One of my favorites too. ;) I bet Robert could just sit around and do nothing and still be intriguing somehow, the faces he makes and everything, he's got charm coming out of his ears. :-D If only more people, especially celebrities, were like him... Too bad he, well, hates being popular, hehe, but I guess that's part of his charm as well.

@NeverForget: Love it too, the way he squeaks, hihi. By the way, does Robert say "phoney" at the end? (http://www.cureconnections.com/images/smilies/aiwebs_014.gif)  :D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on August 29, 2008, 20:46:52
Quote from: Poe on August 27, 2008, 22:09:05He's showing off his acting skills, the emotion in question being "surprised", hehe...If you haven't seen it, it's good fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXzj8jptAQc
(Galore promo)
I love this video so much, it's very funny  :lol: and part with guitar is great  :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: APinkDream on September 01, 2008, 04:46:43
Quote from: japanesebaby on March 05, 2008, 13:15:47
i guess this more like "funny ray cokes stuff", but anyway:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1328799116956700385

:lol:

I love this vid! Robert's so cute and funny in it.  :P

This is actually part of a much longer clip. It used to be on youtube. Does anyone have the rest of it? If so, PLEASE POST!!!!!!!! 
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on September 03, 2008, 12:50:11
thank you it's so wonderful. LOVELY
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on September 03, 2008, 13:06:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QYlx4uMtA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvcUtUVaDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBX6LouBaGw < this is sooo sweeetttt!
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: revolt on September 03, 2008, 14:52:40
Quote from: love_cat on September 03, 2008, 13:06:59
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBX6LouBaGw < this is sooo sweeetttt! [/b]

Actually, that video would possibly be a good answer to Japanesebaby's perplexity at people wanting to have kids... :)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on September 03, 2008, 21:26:28
Quote from: love_cat on September 03, 2008, 13:06:59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_QYlx4uMtA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSvcUtUVaDk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBX6LouBaGw < this is sooo sweeetttt!

thanks so much love_cat for beautiful videos  :P Robert is great there  :smth023

and your kids are very nice  ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on September 05, 2008, 10:27:13
mint cat, to clarify the matter - these are NOT MY KIDS ;)
just a movie found on youtube.

I don't have kids
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: mint car on September 08, 2008, 21:39:09
Quote from: love_cat on September 05, 2008, 10:27:13
mint cat, to clarify the matter - these are NOT MY KIDS ;)
just a movie found on youtube.

I don't have kids

sorry  :D in title on this video was something about "my kids" so I thought that it was yours  ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on February 28, 2009, 15:24:53
I love this interview! :-D

This is Robert's theory about how to teach someone to swim! :smth005 :smth043


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrxAnA3B_0
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: disintegration on February 28, 2009, 15:56:02
 :-D :-D :-D :lol:
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on March 29, 2009, 07:21:58
Quote from: Lady on February 28, 2009, 15:24:53
I love this interview! :-D

This is Robert's theory about how to teach someone to swim! :smth005 :smth043


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrxAnA3B_0


about fake news about his death:
"i'm the fifth one" (around 1:20)

:smth043

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: alwaysprayingforRAIN on March 29, 2009, 12:56:03
Quote from: Lady on February 28, 2009, 15:24:53
I love this interview! :-D

This is Robert's theory about how to teach someone to swim! :smth005 :smth043


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrxAnA3B_0


oh my god!!! this is hilarious. and its even worse when you can understand the completely crazy german moderator. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  :smth081 :smth082 :smth042
'honestly, everybody can swim!!! '
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Lady on March 31, 2009, 16:39:58
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on March 29, 2009, 12:56:03
... the completely crazy german moderator.
Yes, and the way he pronounces "the cure" at the end....."THE KIUAAAAR"!!! :-D :-D :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: alwaysprayingforRAIN on March 31, 2009, 16:43:42
Quote from: Lady on March 31, 2009, 16:39:58
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN on March 29, 2009, 12:56:03
... the completely crazy german moderator.
Yes, and the way he pronounces "the cure"....."THE KIUAAAAR"!!! :-D :-D :-D

oh yeah it's horrible. germans have a horrible accent when they try to speak english :) I'm ok cause i spent five months in the US but most.... lol
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on March 31, 2009, 16:56:53
some french tv presenters are really funny too, the way they insist on saying "LE cure".
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: MiaMonster on April 07, 2009, 22:07:07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVLHDMzVe8&NR=1
:D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: japanesebaby on April 08, 2009, 08:55:00
Quote from: MiaMonster on April 07, 2009, 22:07:07
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVLHDMzVe8&NR=1
:D

hehe yes this is funny. i think i posted a similar link here earlier:
http://curefans.com/index.php/topic,2004.msg43834.html#msg43834

ps. welcome to curefans. ;)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: love_cat on April 09, 2009, 14:57:09
My:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Xmim-zgGs&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMlRZjWwug&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-w4wLHDyw&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLqpSeHpAmI&feature=channel

Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: MiaMonster on April 09, 2009, 23:23:42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Xmim-zgGs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjTYZFotIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxQK1A46gU
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: alwaysprayingforRAIN on April 19, 2009, 21:35:54
 thanks everyone for posting these.... so hilarious!!!! :smth081
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: fiction on April 19, 2009, 22:09:33
It´s a shame that this one comes without the sound but you can see the pure ironi in the bands appearance by the sideway looks they´re making. In the papers there were lot of angry voices from the so called music elite afterwards and I think that The Cure was banned from TOTP a while after this (not that I think that the band cared very much about that). They were said to be drunk as dragons and not very polite in the studio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhQTl86SAk

But you can listen to this extremely funky, jazzy and arty version of the very same song taken live from Japan 84. And the funny part of it could be the swinging fringe of Porl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk08Zb6oyf8
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: fiction on April 19, 2009, 22:29:41
When they were just kids... "Pink Floyd of the 80`s"? "Shit"! Do I detect a slight slice of arrogance in the voice of the young Mr Smith and isn´t Mr Gallup a bit tipsy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXAIerOQSk
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: alwaysprayingforRAIN on April 29, 2009, 16:59:43
Quote from: fiction on April 19, 2009, 22:29:41
When they were just kids... "Pink Floyd of the 80`s"? "Shit"! Do I detect a slight slice of arrogance in the voice of the young Mr Smith and isn´t Mr Gallup a bit tipsy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXAIerOQSk

thanks that video is amzing. he looks seriously frustrated: f*** pink floyd!!! :-D

and i LIKE pink floyd
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Trust... on April 29, 2009, 18:33:40
Quote from: fiction on April 19, 2009, 22:29:41
When they were just kids... "Pink Floyd of the 80`s"? "Shit"! Do I detect a slight slice of arrogance in the voice of the young Mr Smith and isn´t Mr Gallup a bit tipsy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXAIerOQSk

:smth023 That's a nice one, they are really just kids  :D, but are they changed a lot ? I don't think so  :-D
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: SueC on March 09, 2021, 23:31:44
Nearly 14 years later, many of the links are dead, but this one very much amused us:


The following are also good:


...which was taken off this longer segment:



A clip about the Galore videos (for those who enjoy the Pope videos, which I don't, so this is pure altruism / good archiving):


And from a YT sidebar, something else that didn't interest me very much at all:


This is again mostly about the visual presentation of the band, and that's one of the things that really put me off them when we were all living in the 80s - not their personal appearances, that's fine, but the way they chose to present themselves in video clips, especially when Tim Pope came onto the scene.

To clarify:  I'm not generally a fan of video clips anyway and I have always been more interested in music than in the circus around it.  I do enjoy watching live footage of bands who are excellent live, and that includes The Cure - especially performing in recent decades.  But video clips, I generally think are a waste of my time, and I enjoy <0.1% of them if someone sits me down to watch an episode of Rage etc.  I've just got zero interest in musicians cavorting around for cameras, saying "look at me" and trying to create images for themselves.  That whole business really began in earnest in the 80s, with MTV etc, and represents an aspect of the 80s I've loathed from the time I lived through it.

To give some examples of the few video clips I've actually enjoyed:  Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More was cleverly done and actually told a story; ditto Thomas Dolby's Hyperactive and She Blinded Me With Science.  Those I will occasionally seek out and watch for fun.  But The Cure's videos from around the 80s I just found infantile and "look at me jump, look at me dance, look at me in the wardrobe, look at me in dress-ups"  - me, me, me, and you get the impression that perhaps the people who thought this was a good idea were "invisible children" when they were growing up and had a need to make up for the deficiency when they got into adulthood and acquired an audience (and this does happen).   Brett says, "Playschool, and not even sophisticated Playschool and insulting the intelligence of an intelligent viewer - a bit like some of the modern episodes of Dr Who like the one with the farting aliens."

One of the few things about The Cure with which I've agreed with Richard Kingsmill (Triple J) is that Robert Smith tended to complain about being typecast, but he really made his own bed there with the way he chose to present himself, whether as extreme doom-and-gloom or in this infantile, self-caricaturing, frothy "pop" manner.  The fact that these videos were popular I think is significantly due to the age brackets and personality types who are particularly interested in watching MTV, and as a direct result (of that, plus doing sugarcandy pop in the first place), The Cure started getting truckloads of screaming, fainting teenage girls in their audience who swore never to marry anyone except Robert Smith.  And that is a really unhealthy aspect of contemporary music I've never enjoyed, and I don't look kindly on moves that are done to encourage this, even if unwittingly done.

End of sermon.  It's a good thing they've stopped doing this, because that's a pet hate for me.  In some ways, middle age forces that to stop because then it's no longer considered sexy except as a minority fetish thing, and anyway, by that time both band and much of the audience are post-reproductive-frenzy biologically, and perhaps a bit wiser for the road they've travelled.

PS:  I thought the Boys Don't Cry clip was OK - that worked on a number of levels, and the red eyes added some punch.

More off the YT sidebars...

Interview from 1987. Very naughty bit of audience positioning here, with the teddy bear in the frame:



...and some interesting interviews (not necessarily funny but, for instance, in the first one, the note in the kitchen saying to put stuff in the dishwater thanks, typical whenever people are sharing food prep areas at work that you have to kick someone up the backside who thinks it's other people's job to clean up after them...)



Something out of left field next which warrants a bit of commentary - a radio segment from 1992 in which Robert Smith and Simon Gallup guest on some sort of agony aunt/sex advice show.  The very first person to call in is basically a stalker.  I'm drawing attention to this because right now in Australia there's this public reckoning of men's bad behaviour towards women and with cultural/systemic issues around sexual harassment, rape and sexual violence - a reckoning we've been badly needing to have for decades.  But at the same time, I think we should also call out the crap when the shoe is on the other foot, and it's incredibly rude to be ringing up a show to tell a person you're obsessed with them and could you please have a backstage pass (and a whole other bunch of shiitake this woman spouts before they rightly cut her call) - if you've got a problem like that you need to consult a psychiatrist, not rub it in the face of the person who you're obsessing over.  There's an example of sexual harassment going the other way - perpetrated by a female - and it's important to remember that this can also happen with domestic violence, emotional abuse etc - it's not always just men who are offensive in these ways.

After we listened to this, Brett was pretending to be a consultant psychiatrist subsequently seen by this woman: "I will show you photos of faces, including Robert Smith's.  When you see his face I will administer an electric shock.  Because I am that kind of psychiatrist - the kind that enjoys administering electric shocks - there will be lots of photos of Robert Smith."  :angel

Interesting show to guest on - and one where you're going to need brain bleach for some of the stuff being discussed - for instance, the local name of the thing Simon Gallup was actually describing is "soggy biscuit" and it's basically competitive male masturbation which punishes the individual who is last to orgasm, by making him eat everyone else's ejaculate - whoever came up with this, and what kinds of idiots line up for it is beyond me (and it included a group of male classmates on our Year 10 end-of-year camp, much to the embarrassment of the teacher who walked in on them), and it's certainly not the kind of training that's going to do them any favours when and if they actually get to have a relationship with a real person.

There's some funny and interesting stuff about obsessions and habits though - I've never thought about which shoe if any I put on first, and now I'm going to be paying attention.

One very annoying thing is that one of the official hosts (the non-OCD one) is a total posterior orifice - he's constantly talking over people, rephrasing things in crude terms, and making really inappropriate remarks that make it pretty difficult for the young people calling in especially to participate in a comfortable manner.  It seemed to me that whenever a caller was taking the right tone with the two Cure members present - not harassing, not fawning, just polite and straight and trying to get to the point - he tried to unbalance them by making unnecessarily sexualised remarks, asking them whether they thought their two famous guests were sexually attractive, even whether they were aroused - some people may think this is hilarious, but for an adult in a power position (radio host) to be asking teenage schoolgirls these questions is completely inappropriate; and it's neither appropriate nor tasteful with adult women either - it's exactly the same kind of shiitake that's going on in Parliament House in Australia.  The longer I listened to this programme, the more I wanted to strangle him.  (Brett says, "They don't pick commercial radio talk-show hosts for their intelligence or manners; they're often just unfiltered motormouths.")


Postscript in the next post...


Something else quite interesting from around that time - and it's nice to see some other band members being interviewed on this one, about half an hour in:



Fairly recent interview with an interesting discussion on the idea of hierarchy and the systemic injustice of how people's work is rewarded:



Recent one about concerts - again, not necessarily funny, but interesting.  Very amusing though to hear that Simon Gallup likes to play the pop songs and Robert Smith pushes for the darker stuff - because that's kind of the reverse to their visual images - on the 80s pop videos, Robert Smith looks the part and a bit too convincingly into it, while playing live Simon Gallup is all over the stage getting low to the ground with these highly tattooed arms and we've actually seen him wearing Iron Maiden T-shirts, and out of those two he's the one we imagine might enjoy a bit of recreational headbanging. :P 

...the other really amusing thing is the German interviewer - like a lot of Germans he's got this really kooky accent which stands in diametrical contrast to his surprisingly good command of the English language.  :lol:


...and now this post is too big to conveniently edit, so I'll have to do a Part 2 later...
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: Ulrich on March 11, 2021, 11:32:57
Oh, I remember seeing some footage from the Q.E.2 back in '92! Brings back some memories...
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: SueC on March 15, 2021, 02:17:11
POSTSCRIPT ON RADIO SHOW SEGMENT

I'm an educator and was really interested in how the radio segment from the personal-advice show in the last post panned out from a health-and-relationships-education perspective.  I've now listened carefully to the whole thing.

My opinion of this show is that Mssrs Smith & Gallup were significantly better than the official hosts of the show at dispensing useful advice on sex, relationships and a number of other matters.  Obviously a no-brainer comparing it to Mr Motormouth-cum-Crass (see last post), but also, surprisingly, compared to the MD present, who was supposed to be a professional at this and a voice of reason.  He's not all bad, but does rather remind me of the joke, "What do you call a final-year medical student who gets 51% in their concluding exams?  ... Dr."  Amongst other things, he rather over-egged the pudding about the danger of dating bisexual men - I know this was the 90s, but even then:  1) heterosexual sex was also transmitting HIV, albeit at a lower rate, and 2) risk reduction was available in the form of condoms (not that I'd personally want to play Russian Roulette with even one bullet in the chamber, which is what risk-reduced, via condoms, sex is like statistically in the long term).

Simon Gallup came across as very practical and thoughtful, employing a thing educators call Socratic questioning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning) to get people thinking, and giving them a lot of space for reflection.  Robert Smith was especially good at picking up on irrationalities, inconsistencies etc and calling those out - and unlike the show hosts, was often correctly pointing out that there really wasn't enough information to go on...the show hosts (who also on a number of occasions appeared more employed with what they would say next than listening carefully to their callers and therefore often really obviously didn't get the points made) seemed happy to leap to conclusions based on very little information; indeed to keep leaping all over the place in different directions like startled lemmings as other bits of information were added, rather than gathering the available information in the first place and asking clarifying questions before running through various possible scenarios, like both Mr Smith and Mr Gallup consistently did.  Also it was good to see the carefully chosen language and calm, unruffled tone both of them were mostly using; again in stark contrast to the show hosts - carefully chosen language and a calm, unruffled, emotionally-neutral-but-friendly tone is exactly what's needed for these kinds of discussions, and for many effective learning situations.

The drug debate towards the end was also interesting, and it was the first time I've heard Robert Smith somewhat ruffled in an interview, which made me laugh - his voice goes up towards the squeaky end just like my husband's does when I scandalise him.  :lol:  But even though Mr Smith doesn't have a B.Sc. and his debating partner did, see the comment above - the MD was making statements more based on emotion and vagueries than actual research, for this topic.  I'm a relatively unbiased observer on this - I've not experimented with recreational drugs and so don't need to justify my own experiences (or for that matter, the lack of them :winking_tongue) - but I've got a four-year science degree with lots of physiology and biochemistry, have spent 20 years of my life in science research and education, and am an incessant self-educator - and therefore had a fair few thoughts on the arguments both of them were putting forward.

Here's some of them.  On "natural versus industrially synthesised chemicals":  While it's true that molecular replicas of plant-synthesised chemicals can often be made in the laboratory, and that identical molecules have identical biological actions regardless of how they were made, there's often differences in the chirality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality), or the intrinsic ratios of chirality, of organic compounds in a plant versus synthesised in a test tube.  You can read for yourself the effects this has on things like pharmacological action.  Additionally, if you're using a plant extract in its natural state, you're getting a cocktail of things rather than just the thing that's been deemed the "pharmacologically active ingredient" - and this has ramifications, which aren't necessarily negative for the natural source.  Furthermore, if you're buying street drugs that have been synthesised in a laboratory, they are often cut with other substances noone is telling you about, which may increase the harm of that drug.  Etc etc etc.

The one point I'd make to Robert Smith, though (and to a whole bunch of hippies, actually), is that "natural" isn't always a good thing.  Here's a few things that naturally occur in various plants:  Sodium fluoroacetate ("1080" - used to poison feral animals in Australia, because the native animals have developed a tolerance to it by co-evolution), curare, strychnine, etc - and a few things that occur naturally in the wider biosphere:  Snake venom, arsenic, radon, uranium, intestinal parasites, pathogens, etc etc etc.  Having said that, he was probably aware of that, but the constraints of impromptu discussion yadda yadda.

If I was going to make another point, I'd talk about cognitive bias - which both Mr Smith and his opponent were at times rather obviously displaying, but that's on par for the course, since all of us have it at least to some extent (and especially the people who think they don't have any at all).  Here's a handy list of common types of cognitive bias. (https://www.verywellmind.com/cognitive-biases-distort-thinking-2794763)

Plant and fungal biochemistry (fungi aren't plants, in case you grew up with two-kingdom classification and don't know that) is a fascinating thing - we're just about to delve into Entangled Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entangled_Life) here, and have read lots of books like this, in my case including "heavy" academic material.  A lot of secondary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_secondary_metabolism) plant/fungal compounds are grazing deterrents; likewise, there's a lot of chemical warfare in the animal kingdom, especially amongst insects.  Some of the plant secondary compounds have conferred an evolutionary advantage on the species that make them by appealing so much to humans that they've spread them all around the world and nurture them carefully as crops (coffee, tea, cocoa, tobacco, coca, opium poppies, cannabis, etc).

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.5Ha_inGnTJVIMpfk7qXCGwHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
A common sight in Tasmania- fields of opium poppies

I generally agree with Robert Smith that if you're going to ingest a recreational drug, you're better off going to the direct plant/fungal source than a laboratory-synthesised compound - for the reasons already stated above, but also because, as he mentions, the context in which you do something like that is really important to the outcome psychologically.  (Plus, naturally sourced products often have a lower environmental footprint and a greater economic egalitarianism than human-manufactured products.)

Good on him for taking up the cudgels in this debate - I'd be unsurprised if he self-educates extensively around his areas of interest.  A good self-education can be superior to a formal education (because of 51-percenters, and because lack of passion for a subject, in-the-box conventional thinking, strong cognitive bias etc aren't automatic disqualifiers for getting a formal piece of paper).  My husband formally studied graphic design and programming, but I have better science conversations with him than I've had with any of my qualified science colleagues, because he self-educates and does so in a far broader manner than trained specialists who often end up in silos.

Take-away point:  It's really important to be forever carefully examining what you see and hear from others, no matter how much more "qualified" they are than you in a particular area.  (Just to complicate matters, this is what conspiracy theorists think they're doing, but aren't doing... either their educational base isn't broad and/or deep enough to do it, or their cognitive biases completely blind them...)
Title: Re: Funny Robert Stuff
Post by: SueC on April 25, 2021, 04:07:27
Construction notice:  Post 168 is now finished - it's too hard to add to it because of its size, so I will continue resurrecting "undead" links from the old bits of this thread, and various YT sidebar clips, in a "Part 2" as I go through this stuff.  Watch this space.

People joining in would be great and of course you're welcome to disagree with what I've said about various things as I've gone along here.