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00:00 ♪ ♪
00:02 Pleasure to be here. I'm Jimmy O'Brien.
00:04 Jimmy!
00:05 What?
00:06 Who the hell are you talking to in there?
00:07 I'm rehearsing!
00:09 In stand-up comedy,
00:10 There I was on stage.
00:11 Stand-up comedian.
00:14 like life,
00:15 If you like, I can teach you at the bar.
00:16 What is that? Like the big bonanza ghetto?
00:18 you need timing,
00:20 Jimmy O'Brien.
00:21 confidence
00:23 and the ability to make people laugh.
00:27 Jimmy O'Brien has none of these.
00:30 You have that sausage cooker, doggie maker invention thing.
00:36 I'm gonna recoup on that, I told you.
00:37 His boss wants to fire him.
00:39 Someday you're gonna get caught stealing.
00:41 Someday you're gonna get caught.
00:42 His friends are fed up with him.
00:44 Stand-up comedy again tonight?
00:45 Nah, going out to dinner.
00:46 It's our anniversary.
00:47 Hey, man.
00:49 I'm pregnant.
00:50 And his wife is about to leave.
00:53 I'm asking you what you plan to do to support your daughter.
00:56 One minute, you're falling in love.
00:58 And the next minute, you're dividing up the furniture.
01:00 Bye, Jim.
01:01 And in the middle of them two minutes, you make a baby.
01:04 You suck!
01:05 You suck.
01:09 Sometimes I'll be thinking of something that I wanna do,
01:14 something that I wanna be,
01:16 something more.
01:17 Why am I thinking about it?
01:18 Why am I not doing it?
01:20 Hey, I, you know, decided to further my education.
01:22 Like what?
01:22 Well, I got physics,
01:24 I got the metaphysiology and I got the sociology of beer.
01:27 Okay.
01:27 From Overseas Film Group comes the bittersweet story
01:31 I miss you.
01:32 I miss you, too.
01:33 of a dreamer who woke up and discovered
01:36 everything he was dreaming about was right in front of him.
01:39 She's giving birth!
01:41 Hi, I'm Annie.
01:42 Hi, Annie.
01:42 Hi, Annie.
01:43 Hi, hi, hi, everybody!
01:45 Give her some decent pay!
01:46 Frank Whaley,
01:47 Carla Guccino
01:49 and Ethan Hawke
01:50 in a film by Frank Whaley,
01:53 acclaimed director of "Joe the King."
01:55 Jimmy?
01:56 I'm here, baby.
01:57 I love you.
01:58 "The Jimmy Show."
01:59 It's open. Open mic. That's why they call it that.
02:02 I will be here.
02:03 We'll try to keep the crowds at bay.
02:05 (upbeat music)
02:07 (upbeat music)