that, of course, comes whenever anyone gets any popularity. there s got to be an equal and opposite reaction. and he wrote in the guardian, which was the paper i read and which had, what, in 2005, five million readers? it was pretty big because it was before it alljumped off the page, and he wrote this just utterly sneering review, one star review, really snobby in that sort of guardian way, like, quoting shakespeare. i was like, how dare you quote shakespeare at me? i ll quote shakespeare at you! and just incredibly sneering and ungenerous, a thing that just says i m terrible at myjob. it really, really threw me. and so, like, a year later, when i had to come up with a new show, i thought, well, i m going to take that guy down. so i wrote the song for phil daoust. # ding, dang, ding dang dong # this ends my phil daoust song # everybody sing along # la la la
that very soon after i wrote that song, i could slander anyone and really have an effect on their lives. because youtube was taking off and my little 150 seat, 50 seat cabaret rooms where i was doing this dark comedy, i suddenly realised that anything i said could spread. and that is a profound change, because you re no longer some little guy in a cabaret room punching up at some meanie. you re someone who can really hurt someone. and i think that song probably hurt phil. i think probably his name. do you know that? have you talked to him? i tried to. we did a little online. we talked and sort of displayed that we had forgiven each other. but i d got the video eventually taken down, but not soon enough. the irony, of course, is that if you hadn t written that song and hadn t performed it publicly, nobody would have remembered. very few people would have remembered the original review. probably, except that it was the number one hit on my name for a year when i was trying to make a care
and which had, what, in 2005, five million readers? it was pretty big because it was before it alljumped off the page, and he wrote this just utterly sneering review, one star review, really snobby in that sort of guardian way, like, quoting shakespeare. i was like, how dare you quote shakespeare at me? i ll quote shakespeare at you! and just incredibly sneering and ungenerous, a thing that just says i m terrible at myjob. it really, really threw me. and so, like, a year later, when i had to come up with a new show, i thought, well, i m going to take that guy down. so i wrote the song for phil daoust. # ding, dang, ding dang dong # this ends my phil daoust song # everybody sing along # la la la la la la la # i hope something you love catches on fire, # ding, dang, dong, # i ve written you this special song # to show how far i ve come along # in my efforts
little guy in a cabaret room punching up at some meanie. you re someone who can really hurt someone. and i think that song probably hurt phil. i think probably his name. do you know that? have you talked to him? i tried to. we did a little online. we talked and sort of displayed that we had forgiven each other. but i d got the video eventually taken down, but not soon enough. the irony, of course, is that if you hadn t written that song and hadn t performed it publicly, nobody would have remembered. very few people would have remembered the original review. probably, except that it was the number one hit on my name for a year when i was trying to make a career, when my wife was having a baby. i m living overseas. you type my name into google and a one star review saying i m talentless was what people read. like, that was my feeling. was like, hey, phil daoust, do you reckon you can use clever words to take someone down? 0k, hold my beer. that was my attitude. that s my tool.
comedy, i suddenly realised that anything i said could spread. and that is a profound change, because you re no longer some little guy in a cabaret room punching up at some meanie. you re someone who can really hurt someone. and i think that song probably hurt phil. i think probably his name. do you know that? have you talked to him? i tried to. we did a little online. we talked and sort of displayed that we had forgiven each other. but i d got the video eventually taken down, but not soon enough. the irony, of course, is that if you hadn t written that song and hadn t performed it publicly, nobody would have remembered. very few people would have remembered the original review. probably, except that it was the number one hit on my name for a year when i was trying to make a career, when my wife was having a baby. i m living overseas. you type my name into google and a one star review saying i m talentless was what people read. like, that was my feeling. was like, hey, phil daoust, do