The best moment I’ve ever heard in an interview was when goofy Terry Gross tried to get David Johansen to label his music (“Do you call it glam? Proto-punk?”) and with disdain and Staten Island dripping from every syllable the lead Doll said, devastatingly: “It was art, Terry.”
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Lizzo ended a story with “Y’know what I’m sayin?” And Terry responded so earnestly & whitely “Yes, I do know what you’re saying.”
Someone later (Angela Bassett?) referenced that, making Terry do her shame giggle.
Truck Driver: "Hey baby, I wanna eat your pussy"
D.J.: "Well, you're gonna have to suck my dick first, motherfucker."
D.B. urges caution to D.J.
D.J.: "Fuck that guy, let him try and kick my ass."
-Nina Simone
1) she exasperates the best and worst people in equal measure
2) you can't prove it's not a masterful, completely self-aware, hall-of-fame deadpan, four-decade bit
* then I'll play reruns of things I previously said for the rest of the week