I don’t usually do the bootleg video thing.
There are times when you must deviate from
your norm because of intangibles.
Tom Parks was brought to my attention many
years ago when he was on HBO’s Not
Necessarily the News show.
NNtN was kind of a rip-off of a British BBC
Television program called Not the Nine O’Clock News,
starring Rowan Atkinson, but it wasn’t the usual dumb
down American version of all things stolen from the BBC.
Tom Parks was intelligent, personable, and really funny.
I started to follow his stand-up career and was very
impressed with what I saw.
So much so that I have deemed some of his material to
be absolute classic, it’s that good.
To this day I cannot find anything mass produced in any
kind of usable format that I can post or play on the show.
That’s a real pity because I believe that he had all the
material, talent, and style to be one of the very greats.
This piece, as flawed as it is, was taken from a special
that he did back in 1992 and it contains some of the
material that I consider to be his classic stuff.
As you can see he is a very polished stand-up comedian
with top notch stage presence.
Smart as a whip, and twice as likeable, please forgive the
crappy recording, especially the glitches.
If he wasn’t so darned good I wouldn’t even post it…