I'm lookingAH... for a comedy bitAH... where every wordAh... ended with an exagerrated 'AH' soundAH.

June 13, 2011 1:11 PM

A few months ago while listening to XM Radio's Raw Dog Comedy channel, I heard an oddly funny monologue that I'm trying to locate. I can't remember what the subject was, but it was a studio recording of a lone male voice, and every sentence ended with a dragged-out "ah" sound. For instance, he might say "Four score and seven years agoAH! Our fathers brought forthAH..." and on and on. I know this isn't much to go on but I'm hoping someone will recognize the very unique sound of this piece and will point me to it.
posted by Jamesonian to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Is it the Arsenio Hall's Reverend Brown monologue from Coming to America? Sorry for the crummy YouTube link.
posted by juliplease at 1:31 PM on June 13, 2011

Bill Lumbergh?
posted by humboldt32 at 1:50 PM on June 13, 2011

Sounds to me like the Maine accent of the "Bert and I" routines my father made us listen to while driving my brother to the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, ME.
posted by neilbert at 8:27 PM on June 13, 2011

Mark E. Smith?
posted by bink at 9:31 PM on June 13, 2011

I thought Mark E Smith as well, but it seems an unlikely reference point for a US station. Have a listen to some stuff by The Fall and see if the voice counds familiar.
posted by mippy at 3:12 AM on June 14, 2011

Response by poster: Definitely not Bill Lumbergh. I would have known him immediately. Also, not Arsenio as the voice was, I believe, Caucasian.

Mark E. Smith has that same "ah" speaking pattern, so good call there, but he's not the voice. The gentleman I'm looking for sounded older and was speaking to the listening audience, not an interviewer . It also was delivered with the passion of a 1950s radio evangelist but I don't think the subject was religion (although it might have been).

ThanksAh for the suggestionsAh.

Still lookingAH.
posted by Jamesonian at 2:45 PM on June 14, 2011