You neglected the funniest part of Lifer’s Follies: Garret Morris’s song. He explains how he came up with it here: https://youtu.be/ua3ZM8UVWVo?si=A_UEBEiJn63yCooc
I first heard it on Later With Bob Costas (a very formative show for me in my college years, when it was more likely for me, after finishing Letterman, to think “gee, I wonder what else is on at 1:30am?”) when he interviewed Chevy Chase and he mentioned the skit, and then they showed the clip of Morris. That same summer I and the other regular denizens of the Rocky Horror Picture Show were getting out of the theater, wandering towards the McDonalds on 4th Avenue, when three of our group, all young black men, linked arms and started skipping down the street, bathed in the streetlights, neon and storefront illumination, singing at the top of their lungs: “I’M GON-NA GETMEASHOTGUNANDSHOOTALLTHEWHITEYSISEEEEEEEE. I’M GONNA GETMEASHOTGUNANDSHOOTALLTHEWHITEYSISEE…”
You neglected the funniest part of Lifer’s Follies: Garret Morris’s song. He explains how he came up with it here: https://youtu.be/ua3ZM8UVWVo?si=A_UEBEiJn63yCooc
I first heard it on Later With Bob Costas (a very formative show for me in my college years, when it was more likely for me, after finishing Letterman, to think “gee, I wonder what else is on at 1:30am?”) when he interviewed Chevy Chase and he mentioned the skit, and then they showed the clip of Morris. That same summer I and the other regular denizens of the Rocky Horror Picture Show were getting out of the theater, wandering towards the McDonalds on 4th Avenue, when three of our group, all young black men, linked arms and started skipping down the street, bathed in the streetlights, neon and storefront illumination, singing at the top of their lungs: “I’M GON-NA GETMEASHOTGUNANDSHOOTALLTHEWHITEYSISEEEEEEEE. I’M GONNA GETMEASHOTGUNANDSHOOTALLTHEWHITEYSISEE…”