What\'s up with Gabe and his co-host always badmouthing each other?
 

Is that whole thing an act?
I started watching HSP again, and i have no clue how old these episodes are (one of them Brad booth bought in with a cool million, if that helps).

But in these episodes, at the beginning, Gabe will make comments about the other dude calling his agent and whining about him or something like that.

And then in all the shows afterwards there seems to be some hostility between the 2 announcers

so does anyone know what the deal is?

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Its called a joke....

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it is?

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Is that whole thing an act?
I started watching HSP again, and i have no clue how old these episodes are (one of them Brad booth bought in with a cool million, if that helps).

But in these episodes, at the beginning, Gabe will make comments about the other dude calling his agent and whining about him or something like that.

And then in all the shows afterwards there seems to be some hostility between the 2 announcers

so does anyone know what the deal is?

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I'm with you bro, it's a weird dynamic and an odd joke, they seem serious at times

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Is that whole thing an act?

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Yes.

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Gabe Kaplan is killing me. "Kotter" sucked and he was an average stand-up, but HSP is hilarious.

One of the funniest moments ever in television has to be when Kaplan did the final interview with main event winner Stu Ungar and asked him about the $500 bucks he had lent him. I'm cracking up now.

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Its called a joke....

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or more accurately... a shtick

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i personally find their banter to be very funny, although to me it obviously comes off as a joke.

Pretty impressive actually because there seem to be a large number of ppl on these forums that take them seriously.

This is about the third post on this subject ive read here.

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In the line of Andy Kaufman, Sarah Silverman, "Larry Sanders", Larry David, etc. Sometimes the best routines are "dead-pan".
I want to play no-limit with anyone who takes Kaplan seriously.

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"You should try to enter tournaments." G. Kaplan to J. Gold

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Instant classic [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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"Kotter" sucked.

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Blasphemy.

Signed,

Epstein's mother

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Its called a joke....

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or more accurately... a shtick

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They're actors, they're acting

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the only thing funny is how bad it is.

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Gabe is a comedian. One who prefers sarcasm and even insult comedy. It's very likely he wanted this dynamic for the show. To AJ Benza's credit, he's managed to roll with it and now seems fairly natural in his banter. This from a guy who punched a co-worker for making fun him while working for Howard Stern.

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I thought it was an act at first, but it's gone on and on and some of the remarks seem pretty hostile. I can't imagine publicizing Benza's altercation with Studdering John would help his professional career very much, but what do I know.

I always thought they were pretty good together. Maybe they're just going out of their way to kick up the ratings a bit.

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In his winners speech on PAD, Gabe said Nejad played his under-set terribly but he was a young kid and he'd learn.

Priceless.

It does seem there's a higher than average amount of Americans that struggle with dry humour...



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Gabe has a new book out in which he punks people by email. It's all very dark and extremly funny. I don't think enough people will get it however. His sense of humor is definitly not mainstream.

I can't wait for HSP to start showing new episodes. I used to like him with a few reservations but now I'm firmly in his corner. I wonder if he and Benza are going to keep up the bullsh*t on the new episodes.

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Kotter was to Kaplan what Taxi was to Kaufman: utter waste of talent in a lame sitcom.

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One of the funniest moments ever in television has to be when Kaplan did the final interview with main event winner Stu Ungar and asked him about the $500 bucks he had lent him. I'm cracking up now.

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That was one one of the saddest interviews I have ever seen. He asks him if he will get his life straight and he says something like I hope so. He probably got high that night.

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One of the funniest moments ever in television has to be when Kaplan did the final interview with main event winner Stu Ungar and asked him about the $500 bucks he had lent him. I'm cracking up now.

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That was one one of the saddest interviews I have ever seen. He asks him if he will get his life straight and he says something like I hope so. He probably got high that night.

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Agreed. The saddest thing about it is that Ungar keeps speaking about himself in the past tense, saying things like, "I made a lot of mistakes, but nobody was ever a better card player than I was."

It's almost like he's writing his own eulogy.

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He said he was going to try to straighten up his life for his kid, but he never learned... selfish bastard imo.

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In his winners speech on PAD, Gabe said Nejad played his under-set terribly but he was a young kid and he'd learn.

Priceless.

It does seem there's a higher than average amount of Americans that struggle with dry humour...



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I've found him hilarious in all the interviews he does. One of my favorite "poker" personalities. He's very quick too. I think when he got knocked out on the last PDA thing he did, he had some good lines with Shana.

<3 Gabe.

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He said he was going to try to straighten up his life for his kid, but he never learned... selfish bastard imo.

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Dude had problems beyond selfishness. No reason to kick his corpse.

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It does seem there's a higher than average amount of Americans that struggle with dry humour...
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True. Many of my countrymen are too wrapped up in over-analysis to appreciate dry wit. The past couple generations were raised on insult or physical humor -- jokes that go for the jugular to satisfy a quota of x number of jokes per half hour sitcom.

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Its called a joke....

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well sorry to ruin your weekend.

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I can tell it's an act

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Please tell me that this is a joke.