Cats the Musical | CumTown

[@BIacklce]

nick on a 48 hour cocaine binge just playing "The Magical Mr Mistoffelees" on repeat in his darkened tv lit apartment

[@nickkennedy9034]

I'm gonna tell my kids that's the plot of The Wall

[@strimbimmin328]

*sniff* *sniff*

[@ronniemcnuggit9718]

And its a "garden apartment" in Brooklyn. But it's really a windowless half bath carved out by an "uncle" in the foundation

[@guishenStreetB]

Me

[@TheEternalHermit]

Nick never saw it but somehow knows all the characters names.

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

Nicks also "never really watched star trek"

[@adampica9815]

​@@nietzchepreacher9477 yeah he has no information about star trek what so ever

[@williepete1969]

It's a famous play or some shit, of course Nick and Adam know about it

[@cthubol6824]

nick the typa guy who would say "not so into musicals, nothing wrong with them, just not my thing" but then go watch cats

[@cthubol6824]

@@nietzchepreacher9477 love how he says its for autistic people who dont know what emotions are or something yet he remembers small details about star trek and recites them flawlessly

[@samfrash3329]

Adam: "if this is what being gay is, sign me up"

[@ThePatank]

cats feels like a satirical play from a tv show like the early simpsons that somehow came to life

[@DeadPig325]

like Planet of the apes the musical

[@wormwoodcocktail]

9:09 Stav should be informed that there is a fat cat in the show and his name is “Bustopher Jones” and he sings about eating food at different places while the girl cats sing about how fat he is.

[@Wetknees]

Hi is Lloyd Weber secretly gay or secretly a cool guy?? Like how tf do you earnestly name a character that.

[@br3akstuff]

@@WetkneesBustopher Jones is just amazing as a name

[@wormwoodcocktail]

@@Wetknees The play’s lyrics were largely taken from a book of poetry by T.S. Elliot. Elliot created the character’s name.

[@videogamenostalgia]

Bustopher A. Nutt

[@LinusBitchTits]

@@wormwoodcocktailTranSexual Elliot

[@pokemongo-up3rq]

Cats is one of those times where a person can say "this is the gayest shit I've ever seen in my life," and they could be talking about being incredibly lame or homosexual and both meanings would be correct.

[@aintnuthinbutathang1646]

"he wrote too many musicals to be straight" lol

[@connorb9008]

I’ve been searching for this clip for weeks. You are doing the lords work.

[@Cadrin1111larock]

I wasn't searching for this clip but I was thinking about this bit the other day. This man's tapping into the cum collective mind

[@TheWilsones]

My kid sister watched the Cats VHS every night for about three years in the early aughts, and my sudden anxiety and panicked breathing upon hearing "Mr. Mistoffelees" for the first time in almost two decades have revealed the song as the initial trauma that made me gay.

[@AdamFisher]

Oooh who’s ready for some magic?

[@rivid]

Mr. Shapiro, would you like to see a magic trick? Let me show you my... lightning wand.

[@kissingthehomiesgoodnight8940]

Cowboy magic

[@j05h909]

Nick as a chimp hates that the cats are bearing their teeth the whole time

[@joshjacks2837]

Starlight Express was where it's at. It's about trains that race each other and there's a time-travelling train from the future. Their outfits are covered with lights and they roller skate all over the stage!

[@heyitsmort7744]

Mm sounds pretty gay I’m there

[@ab-gail]

That doesn’t sound like a real thing. I’m in.

[@Ontonaut]

@@ab-gailI can vouch for that being real. I never saw it live, but I remember the tv ads back in the 80s. A neon, roller skate musical

[@p0rq]

That shit was great. My grandad took me to see it. Not sure what he made of it, but he loved Queen, so he may have liked it.

[@astrotrek3534]

@@p0rq That's so gay, god bless

[@HarrisonHollers]

Imagine if they got to see the show on mushrooms: Stav’s Laugh Nick’s Profanity and Cat Homophobia* Adam Reciting the Casts lines before they do, ruining the performance for all *I suspect an unconscious trauma with past cats in his life

[@Jaymo00]

Stav’s extremely loud mushroom laughter in a dark theatre full of cat people would be hilarious lmaoo

[@Yell_Dead_Cell]

The original clip was taken down. Thanks for the new one 🙏

[@Blortoblorto]

The background of actual cats elevates this to another plane

[@ja3482]

I wonder how many dudes got pozzed up as an indirect result of this musical; podcast.

[@Mankster23]

At least 69

[@forlornfuture2630]

Whenever I'm getting charged with pozzed loads, i exclusively listen to my real-life (seriously) good friends Nick, Stav and Adam.

[@Xphyzeek]

​@forlornfuture2630 thank you Ian, very cool.

[@Levipaulsen]

I've never seen the musical Cats, but I assume the plot revolves around them trying to knock shit off of a counter for no reason.

[@marleyfehr9324]

it's about a competition to see who gets to die, very upsetting

[@colby3991]

Sadly it’s much gayer than that

[@Levipaulsen]

@@colby3991 alright cats knocking off jeweled buttplugs and copies of Paris Design Monthly off a counter

[@heyitsmort7744]

That was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first draft but then his dad said “not gay enough!!”

[@YourPalHDee]

Ahh nice, like what actual cats do! Any hot takes on chicken run?

[@wormwoodcocktail]

Thank you for posting. Been obsessed with this bit.

[@danthefatman009]

The image of rum tum tugger during the Mr mestpholes song is fantastic.

[@jasonlitherland4270]

Imagine seeing this on mushrooms live on broadway just absolutely scream laughing the whole time

[@samwoodson9603]

the bit at 3:15 where stav just starts chuckling at how gay the cat says “conjuring caaaat” is so good

[@j.diamond6014]

love this bit, no one else has uploaded it

[@Squidwardman1]

Been searching for this for the past 5 months. Thank you

[@mr.pavone9719]

I promise you Mr. Mestopholes is based on gay Tim Curry

[@PhatPhrank]

So just Tim Curry

[@mr.pavone9719]

@@PhatPhrank no, really gay

[@tedcrilly46]

Theory: Any public stage is a place where the rules of sexual percentages are reversed. In society we assume, for statistical reasons, that a given man is straight. However, if a man is on a stage he must be assumed gay until proven straight. This is not due to statistics, its due to magic, wonderful fabulous magic.

[@Uncle_Ruckus_]

No real straight man would ever crossdress and be on Rocky Horror Picture Show

[@BIacklce]

Tim Curry, extra spicy

[@BOBBIEVALINTINE]

"Ohh who's ready for some Magic"

[@Xylus.]

Watching cats was like a sexual awakening for me as a kid. It was weird, but that victoria cat, goddamn.

[@pacer2310]

For me it was the whore cat. Bombalurina. She could get it.

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

Nice to know cats was your furry awakening

[@Dawnrunner42]

Putting the rump in Rumpleteazer

[@poiuytrewdfghjksa]

3:39 adams best bit

[@gorillazfan3]

Any luv 4 a pussi croissant??

[@2011ADRO]

take my updoot!

[@aintnuthinbutathang1646]

3:15 Stav laughing at how gay the delivery of "conjuring cat" is

[@vinnyhighroller2579]

This is one of the funniest bits of all time

[@Trisket]

I despise musicals in general, but there is something about Cats that is especially heinous. It's insufferable theater kids at their most uninhibited extreme. I'd rather sit through 3 off broadway showings of Hamilton back to back to back than watch what I've seen of Cats ever again.

[@wormwoodcocktail]

Dude, Hamilton is way worse.

[@quinnj.9617]

Hamilton is way worse but cats is 100% quintessential theater kids at peak strength

[@dobtoronto]

@@wormwoodcocktailcan you explain more? I’m curious what you mean. Cats is real tough to listen to

[@wormwoodcocktail]

@@quinnj.9617 Exactly. I would much rather see a bunch of triple threat theatre kids doing ballet moves and reciting T.S. Elliot that listen to black Americans rap about “””””””history”””””””.

[@wormwoodcocktail]

@@dobtoronto Well, I like musicals, so my opinions may not apply to you. As for why I like Cats better than Hamilton… because I like *musicals* that are *musicals.* Hamilton is just a bunch of subpar rapping. The few genuine “musical” songs in the show (ex. Burn) are perfectly fine, even good, but before you get there you have to listen to Lin Manuel Miranda LARP as a rapping slave owner. I’m not opposed to depicting bad people on screen or stage, but it feels a bit silly because this is being presented in conjunction with Manuel Miranda’s view of history. Like, he wants to make Hamilton a sort of populist hero, and he wasn’t. He considered the unwashed masses to be the “great beast”. Tonally, it feels all over the place. You get these attempts at “jokes” (ex. “WHAT IF THEY TAXED WHISKEY INSTEAD OF TEA LOL”), underdeveloped romantic relationships, historical revisionism while also claiming to be historical…. Honestly, it’s been years since I tried giving Hamilton a shot. I haven’t watched the show IRL or online. I attempted to listen to the entire soundtrack because a girl I liked loved the show and I wanted her to like me. I got, like, halfway into the first act before I tapped out. Pussy couldn’t motivate me to move past “HOW DOES A BASTARD, ORPHAN, SON OF A WHORE AND A SCOTSMAN”. The only songs I’ve ever wanted to repeat from that show were, like, King George’s songs about John Adams being gay. Because they were funny. With Cats, I fully get why Nick and others feel that sort of “cringe” feeling. It’s one of those shows where you either go hard or it doesn’t work. You can’t half-ass it, or it turns into an absolute farce. It’s definitely cheesy, silly, and weird. I also think the fact that the original poems were written in England, that Weber is British, etc…. All of this makes it “weird” for Americans. Like, the Gumbie Cat has a “Rule Britannia” instrumental motif. A lot of this stuff is beyond most Americans and their cultural framework. *But,* to give Cats credit where credit is due, it *can* be beautiful. It’s script isn’t by Lin Manuel, but *T.S. Elliot.* That’s actually why I watched it - because I like Elliot a lot. The songs “Old Deuteronomy” or “Gus the Theatre Cat” are emotionally affecting, especially if you’ve ever loved a cat or someone with dementia. I said that the only good Hamilton song was “Burn”, and that was partially because it’s a breakup song about being cheated on and humiliated by your partner. So, like, something that has some sort of emotional resonance. Even when Cats isn’t trying to be serious, it’s funny. Check out it the 90s movie version Nick alludes to. The makeup is absolutely insane. The dance moves these people pull off are bonkers. The chicks who play Victoria and Cassandra cats do insane ballet moves and gymnastics. Mungojerry and Rumpleteazer is a cute song about mischievous cats and the performers have to *do double cartwheels with one another while keeping their voices steady.* That requires genuine talent. High school kids could perform a serviceable adaptation of Hamilton so long as they get the funny powdered wigs. There is basically no way you could stage Cats with teenagers because *the choreography is just too difficult.* If you look at the behind the scenes documentary, you see that, like, all the actors are cut. Like, ottermode. Basically, Hamilton is written by the guy who did the music for a Disney movie. Cats is by one of the most famous (albeit “normie”) Broadway composers and one of history’s greatest poets. Hamilton has a bunch of black people in powdered wigs pretending to be slaveowners, Cats has people doing gymnastics and dancing in ways that ordinary people just *can’t.* It’s like Cirque du Soleil, in a way. There are better musicals. I’m a huge fan of Sondheim. Into the Woods, Assassins, Company, etc. are all masterpieces. Assassins is probably the one fans of Cumtown would like the most - it’s a surrealist story about John Wilkes Booth and other presidential assassins baiting Lee Harvey Oswald into offing Kennedy. It’s hilarious - Booth just screams the N word full volume in the first five minutes of the show. It’s also emotionally affecting. I’d be lying if I said that Wilkes Booth’s “you want somebody to love you” speech didn’t provoke me when I first heard it. The only other musicals I could see Cumfans liking would be Book of Mormon (by the creators of South Park) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. *TLDR:* I’m gay and I like to get fucked in the ass kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoDGipd-rMhkkNEsi=3AlpzQNUHTJp7rs3

[@Ontonaut]

My favorite part was potato pancakes at Vaselka. I haven’t been to Vaselka in years. Miss those pancakes and applesauce

[@cokentutes]

I can't readily recall anything from the musical, but whenever I hear any song excerpt or detailed reference my represeed memories begin to appear.

[@derektaylor2859]

"OK, I see what you mean. This is incredibly homosexual right now, yes.." lmfao

[@andrewk7199]

Who wants to guess my sexual orientaition? Ill give you a clue -- im not straight.

[@Permabonk]

Can we get another clue

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Chinese?

[@wormwoodcocktail]

Pan?

[@andrewk7199]

@@BananaPhoPhilly *squints* I dont know man. You tell me.

[@andrewk7199]

@@wormwoodcocktail da express?

[@VulgarBearSteak]

I feel the exact same way as Nick, I love the way he describes the feeling with super cringey gay shit like Cats, or any musical IMO. Even as a kid it was so embarrassing. Supreme bit

[@LarryHotd0gss]

This almost makes me want to watch cats… almost.

[@masterofallgoons]

"The movie probly 'regular' sucks." No man. The movie is shockingly, fascinatingly horrible in ways you couldn't possibly fathom.

[@trashteamracing8262]

Even in a musical with next to no plot, they completely change the tone of many songs. Weird choices all around.

[@sethbracken]

“wonder and merriment”

[@korlu01]

Take Molly with a group of your guy friends and go see CATS 🤣

[@christopherwilliams9418]

Mister Molestopheles

[@ImTheHamSandwich]

I doubt there is a lot of crossover between people that go to broadway shows and the CumTown audience

[@brightfalls6788]

They should do Bats The Musical with Lou Diamond Phillips as the lead Bat.

[@kfjw]

Why didn't they mention Bustopher Jones?

[@trashteamracing8262]

A shame they didn’t riff on one of the cats being named Bustopher Jones.

[@evanbelisle8464]

I do remember that commercial

[@Wetknees]

I would honestly rather take psychedelics and go to an industrial hellraiser nightclub than see cats.

[@fro_e]

You'd do both?

[@greyfells2829]

Hey roach dog jr

[@DaddyT21]

You know, it's interesting that something like this makes Nick cringe so much. You don't cringe at things you see as 'other'. You cringe when you see yourself in something. Also, I'm gay.

[@oofowie8882]

Cringe comment, in which I don’t see myself.

[@Former_Employee]

Where'd you hear this ?

[@rocketpod1]

Yeah this just isn’t true

[@marshallellis7054]

Adam, you bug

[@CashewBestofNuts]

Wow, you're doing like post irony cringe?

[@poposterous236]

I was in theatre in high school (source: I'm gay) and everyone was talking about Cats. When the movie was coming out I gave it a look and was surprised to find it had some of the most generic musical-ass music I've ever heard in my life. Looking further it seems like the plot is paper thin in a world where it sound like the lore was written in the heat of an ether binge. All it has going for it is the costumes. That's it.

[@Cardboard-Tree]

Ether binges would produce something more competent...

[@HarrisonHollers]

“Wonder and Merriment”

[@SHEFORGOT22]

Dudes rock!

[@GolumTR]

It’s so funny that this musical is based on a book by T S Eliot

[@TonyToughNuts]

“Eliot, tell us about the new gay musical you’re making.”

[@GolumTR]

@@TonyToughNuts There’s nothing more illusion shattering than when you discover Andrew Lloyd Webber is 100% straight

[@AlexRG8]

😂😂😂😂 he does lighting!

[@marcinbakalarski3596]

billie eelish

[@ShinFahima]

Omg Rum Tum Tugger legit looks like Epste!n.

[@thesalanian]

Cats is the sort of thing you either get or you don’t. I get it. It’s pretty fun and magical. It’s basically an experimental musical through the lens of a hypothetical alien culture. Also I’m gay

[@ab-gail]

Had us in the first half ngl

[@deweythecow]

I get it. It's still shitty to watch and the gayest thing on Earth. Memories is good though. I am gay as well.

[@williepete1969]

That's a cute excuse for a lot of queers wanting to sing and play dress up. I'm sure it was a lot of fun for them

[@stinky4293]

I hate Adams insistence on pronouncing things wrong

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

"palm door"

[@mickygurll]

E-lish

[@lordmalal]

I hate Adam

[@actuallynotsteve]

I had a fucking blast watching the new Cats movie

[@cthubol6824]

"they sing that song midnight from cats?..." sometimes i really think adam was dropped on the head as a kid

[@thomasfriedlander7208]

Hal, it's about cats

[@ShibbolethU]

That was so gay. I'm gonna watch it again.

[@persecuted.]

I laughed pretty fuckin hard at this

[@Uncle_Ruckus_]

Cats is a play that a homosexual would come up with

[@JasonTaylor90210]

"Billie You lish" 😂

[@rotkev]

Rum Tum Tugger? Dafuq? 😂

[@victorrain]

I really want to see these guys break down COPROCK!!

[@yadisdis4207]

Missed this bit, thank you gay manager.

[@mightymitch1421]

Even musical loving die hards think that Cats is fucking awful.

[@mactallica9293]

Damn even gays don't like it

[@tonyfandango8182]

That gay cat sounds like Bowie

[@ShangHighRoller]

Epstein truly does look like one of the cats, with that peaked upper lip.

[@dbrown2264]

This is gold.

[@Roy_1]

Is Nick trying to reverse psych everyone into liking Cats?

[@tomwilko7841]

Andrew Lloyd Webber is definitely gay... I should know because I'm gay too and we've all got something called 'gaydar'

[@gaganbhullar6137]

I took a girl out on a date to see the made for movie cats in theatres. We smoked weed before hand and now I feel so bad for putting her through that

[@michaelgriffin5304]

Had an older friend of mine, who did happen to be gay, who took my wife and I to see 'Cats'. I felt bad because all I could talk about afterward was how absolutely hilariously atrocious it was. Even the acrobatics were not entertaining, as we had recently seen Cirque de Soleil. Music sucks, storyline is goofy in a bad way and I genuinely dislike some of the characters. One of the worst musicals ever.

[@Shay-i4n]

❤

[@deadjuice1880]

3:30 Cat guy does a whiney vocal fry. Adam: "What's so gay about that?" Hmm, Adam... Sorry, video won't let me make my own comment for some reason, had to dump this here.

[@BAKE_M0N0]

6:18

[@taylorcox1511]

This is so gay. Ima watch it again

[@vaeastra]

I think maybe the uncanny feeling of seeing this cat-human hybrid on live stage is what puts me off so much. If it were the 2D animated musical that Spielberg was developing at the time, maybe I’d get it, but no, we got James Corden and dancing roaches. Also I’m gay.

[@GothBootsyCollins]

5:45 Nick's trying to express fremdschämen, which means gay with German characteristics

[@wesshiflet2214]

Cats is cooler than Rent

[@BryanGula]

I love musical theater... but I straight up hate cats lmfao

[@grimble4564]

invalid opinion, still gay

[@clanofclams2720]

​@@grimble4564you LIKE cats?

[@clanofclams2720]

@@tardwife nah, he has a couple bangers. Namely Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar

[@shecontrolsme666]

I remember those infomercials

[@actuallynotsteve]

Also I'm gay but for girls, that's how far it's gone

[@ThyEJ]

8:44

[@shc3754]

That looks Terrible lolol

[@gofannon1943]

Veselka reference!❤

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

I hate most musicals in general on principle but the hate Nick has for Cats is in it's own league.

[@clanofclams2720]

The cowards attitude

[@BTM8109]

Incredibly homosexual, but the music was undeniably pretty cool

[@tonyreyes3780]

Cats is gay. And so am I

[@JasonTaylor90210]

Yeah, CATS is definitely...gay.

[@poyaispanic5269]

Why do they look like that

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

I kinda like cats, I may be gay though

[@moretoastedthanatoasterstr9773]

This reminds me of when your like 6 and your republican dad gets irrationally mad at something and your mom has to take you away so your dad can rant about something not being like how it is when he was 6 but than he goes wtf rewind that bullshit I cant believe it 😂 lifes come full cycle from me

[@MrMomoitin]

The gay one sounds drugged out

[@hiphopthebunnytrail]

It’s crazy listening to old episodes and thinking people actually thought Stav was funnier than Adam

[@aurevoirshoshanna900]

This is how I feel about Rudy, the worst movie and story ever

[@raulduke3237]

I have seen the movie Cats and let me tell you, they would have had better luck just having real cats on camera. Just laying around and being cats. That movie sucked ass

[@robertstraw9881]

Everything Andrew Lloyd Webber has ever done is terrible.

[@tonyreyes3780]

Like it or not, there is such a thing as “gay culture“. And every culture has cool stuff…and also annoying or off-putting things. My people, the Mexicans, make some pretty cool art and Indy movies…but they also park their cars on their lawns and blare really horrible music through their radios on job sites…. Musical theatre-particularly Cats- is simply one of the off-putting things about gay culture. It’s grating and overly flamboyant.