Barenaked Ladies say the darnedest things!
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"I like it when they throw fish at me. I feel like I'm on The Real World."
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"The problem is that there is so much X-rated content in the movie. We were trying to get it lowered down to a restricted content, but there is too much man-lovin' going on." (on Barenaked in America and why it wasn't opened in St. Louis
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"Can we hold them up to the mike so everybody can see them?" (after getting gifts from Planet Hollywood during a radio interview)
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"We're in a band called the Barenaked Ladies. You may remember us from when you used to beat us up in high school."
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"You look like you've been digitally edited into the footage!" (commenting on early Jim footage on Before They Were Rock Stars)
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"Kevin, you're such a prima donna when it comes to being able to hear your own instrument."
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"Not every rock-n-roll show gives you two big guys kissing."
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"Steve, you just took classic country music and URINATED on it!!!"
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"I feel sorry for you! I'm going to make your job pure hell right now!" (to a sign language interpreter during One Week)
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"Don't say you never learned anything at a Barenaked Ladies concert." (after informing the fans in Atlanta that the horse is the land mammal with the largest eye)
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"Surgeon General's Warning: If you're allergic to nuts, stay outta my pants."
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"Oh those Americans. Those loud, saturated fat-consuming, three out of ten could not point out the U.S. on an unmarked globe, cowboy hat-wearing, big car-driving folks to our south."
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"There's a sign at the entrance that says 'If you or anyone in your party has had diarrhea in the last two weeks, you may not enter the pool.' Folks, I can't remember a time in the last 10 years that I didn't have diarrhea within the last two weeks! How do they enforce that, anyway? Do they have diarrhea police?" (commenting on a waterpark)
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"Don't make fun of Bono's blindness!" (to Steve who was wearing sunglasses a la Bono)
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"I found the best sort of solution to that was to stop singing and wet your pants. You'd be surprised how many situations that'll get you out of. I may do that now."
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"Nobody understood sarcasm till they came up with that little winking guy."
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"Women with heart problems or who are pregnant should not ride Steven Page after the show"
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"I'm not a very good human ... but I'm a very sexy Hobbit!"
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"Just tell 'em Eddie sent ya, and they'll say: 'Huh?'"
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"We're fortunate that most Americans speak Canadian."
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"It is nice to be with you all in the city of the wind. In an airport play scrabble once I played 'rind' (rhymes with kind) and Jim walked up and said 'who played rind (rhymes with pinned)" (NYE 2001 Auld Lang Syne)
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"'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy."
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"Like sandwhiches with fluff, that was Tyler's best stuff." (sung to Some Fantastic)
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"This is the real millennium -- For those who knew you weren't one when you were zero"
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"We've been matching - going with the boy-band thing...We're the over-30 boy band. That makes us a 'man band.'" (Teen People)
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Ed, at the Dec. 6th show in Detroit, after gaining the knowledge from Steve that the edible undies Jeska threw on stage tasted like tobacco: "Nothin' says romance like a nice chunck o' tobacci!"
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"Whe we all perish in a tragic dog sledding accident." (when asked when things will 'wind down')
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"I think it's apparent from our dancing that we've had no training."
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"It's like a cross between the best full body massage you've ever had and a root canal." (on writing songs with Steve)
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"Now THIS is Rock N Roll - an absolutely GIANT iced tea! I'm gonna get hammered on this, go back to the hotel and wet the bed" (Marooned In Europe special)
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"Me and Steve go together like Bacon and Eggs."
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"I just got crabs from that guy" (after a fan threw a stuffed animal crab on stage)
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"Isn't this song really fucking groovy?"
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"Fucking hell, it's cold here! And I'm Canadian!"
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Chart Magazine: "Favorite big-ass summer tour (besides H.O.R.D.E.)?"
Ed: "Big-Assapalooza" -
"Hi, Mom, it's Ed! Do you know the words to If I Had a Million Dollars?" (he took a cell phone from a girl in the front row of the Cincinnati concert 8/31/99)
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"I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them."
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(outside of the White House): "This is not a boring side, though. If you get naked and shake on these bars, they'll take you away."
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Chart Magazine: "If you were a hostess of the View, which one would you be?"
Ed: "The large black woman...she's sassy!" -
"We have some good news and some bad news folks. We're shooting a movie. The bad news is, of course, and I apologize, at some points in the night some of your views are going to be blocked. So I apologize for that. The good news--the movie that we're shooting is hard core porn!" (BiA)
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"I have been a very very bad boy. I have been swearing too much. Kids, just so you know, you should never say the word 'Fuck.'" (August 22nd, 2001, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI)
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"Steve's the kind of guy who goes into the butcher and asks the guy, 'Was this cow spanked before it was killed?'" - (on Steve when he mentioned that he likes veal)
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"Much like girls... We just want to have fun."