Lewis Black's Vince Gill Story (Stark Raving Black)

Lewis tells a story about Vince Gill in this clip from 2009's Stark Raving Black.
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[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

I'm neither Christian nor Jewish, but when it comes to faith in comedy I'm a Lewish fundamentalist.

[@bohemianwriter1]

Know what you mean. I have the same relationship to George Carlin. Religions are for suckers - gagging to have themselves departed from their hard earned shekles to swindlers and self proclaimed gurus.

[@RobMac333]

Lewis Black is the only comedian today that makes me laugh until it hurts! 😂

[@michaelggraham]

I was there for that benefit and Lewis speaks the truth. It was a charity benefit and Lewis had to cleanup his act…not easy. But he crushed it. He and Madigan had us dying.

[@mattblasing5672]

So jealous. I've seen them both, but never together at the same show.

[@musicauthority7828]

Lewis Black is amazing, his philosophy is absolutely spot on. every time I see him I remember why he is my favorite comedian. just fantastic!!!!

[@DaleCarterDrives]

As a life-long fan of country music and long-time writer and performer, his description of country music and Vince's voice are spot on! hahahaha My doctor looks like Lewis Black and it makes me laugh every time I see either of them.

[@newfreenayshaun6651]

And that's why you go and see the doctor anytime you notice something a little funny.

[@rowanhard]

Lewis, you are a national treasure. Thank you.

[@gus2600]

I certainly hope that you are wrong !

[@EverteFarnell]

This guy is the funniest comedian I've ever seen. I've loved his stuff for years. Consistently I end up howling with laughter when I see his work.

[@capicolaspicy]

I've watched this clip so many times, up there with the very best pieces you have done sir! I loved it!

[@jimjett9996]

I do so enjoy listening to your sence of humor Mr. Black 🙃

[@kellidinit3725]

Vince Gill really does have a beautiful voice. Great set.

[@LJW55]

I know this clip was posted 5 days ago but what I don't know is when it was recorded... Having said that I went to an Eagles concert in Brisbane, Australia in 2021 and Vince Gill was the replacement guitarist/singer for the recently (2016) deceased Glen Frey... I can only say that he was just FANTASTIC in his vocal & guitar expertise... Brilliant..!

[@peach495]

He is a good singer, but his guitar is right there with the best in the world.

[@randystevens4054]

@@janielunday5012 yeah, because the whole point of being on KZbin is to find minor discrepancies in other people's comments so you can snidely correct them!

[@rubenrivera5448]

Outstanding Performance...

[@martinvanek5951]

As an "old timey" Christian I loved this set. Thanks Mr Black.

[@aaronstaley3549]

This is legitimately one of the funniest bits ever.

[@r00tboy45]

Lewis has been a favorite of mine for at least 20yrs. Funny, funny shit.

[@johncurran6031]

Theodore Sturgeon was asked once why he wrote science fiction, since 90% of it is crap. Sturgeon replied, "90% of everything is crap."

[@DeeEllEff]

I believe Keith Richards pegged it at 85%, but added: “That’s so we can identify the other 15% that’s good.” Fair enough, I say.

[@pennyking3823]

I never get tired of this guy. His observations are spot on

[@louiesmom7394]

I absolutely love Lewis Black 😅❤❤😂🤣🤣🤣 he never fails to make me laugh 😊

[@themrlukewade]

I want to know if Vince and Amy have seen this.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Same!🤣👍

[@bglrj]

You know they love it. Anything else would be less than perfect.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

An awesome story, and you tell it like only you can Lewis! Love your humour Lewis, you're the best!🤣👍 Greetings from Sweden!🇸🇪

[@DeeEllEff]

I can count on one hand the Country-Western musicians (still living) whom I respect, and Vince Gill and Willie Nelson are at the very top of that list. 👍

[@tomlambro2433]

Agree. But I can't pidgeon hole Vince Gill into "country western". There are 9 people that are called 'Eagles', and after the passing of Glen Frey, Don Henley gave Vince Gill an invitation to be one of them. That say's enough for me.

[@actownsend7288]

My conservative Irish mother in law loves Vince Gill, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard

[@TTony-tu6dm]

Saw Vince Gill play with the Eagles after Glenn Frey passed away. He was fantastic

[@Brian-nt1hh]

Thx Lewis, keep up the rant

[@thomassmartin9728]

Lewis had me laughing so hard my eyelids hurt for twenty minutes! He is the absolute best, the funniest f***ing comedian on earth.

[@tomloucks779]

Vince Gill is the best.

[@spedoclctr]

Love Lewis black I can listen to him and George Carlin all day.

[@douglas9220]

As I was watching this...Vince Gill came on the radio.

[@mylovesongs2429]

hope he cleaned it off!

[@biffdorkinton555]

Priceless.

[@timothy627]

NO FUTURE IN THE PASSED AS ARMY GRANT AS KATY PERRY SAID PERRY WANT TO BE SAME AS AMY GRANT AS SOLD THERE SOLE TO THE DEVIL

[@hunter999888]

The way he exaggerates is why he’s the fucking best

[@shelleyking8450]

He wasn't exaggerating about Vince and Amy. Go watch them both and you will understand.

[@tashuntka]

As a former cowboy, and a lifelong confident heterosexual, I say unabashedly " I Love the Black Man ".🖤🖤🖤 You are my ray of sanity in a world gone apocolyptically Mad....

[@Anne--Marie]

Simply hilarious!

[@GeorgeWagner-dv3fe]

Have a great New Year. I'm a big fan. Lewis you are amazing.

[@JimAllen-Persona]

I’m an Amy Grant fan and I must tend to agree.. she is made entirely of cream 😂😂

[@LlyleHunter]

😂😂

[@DeeEllEff]

Me too, and you bet your hiney she is!😉

[@squidishtendencies1523]

Thank you for posting this sir!

[@charlieross-BRM]

That was really worth hanging in and giving it the time it deserves.

[@freeshrugs63]

I would have been waiting impatiently through the country music to see you, Lewis. Maybe I would have even come in late.

[@adsdad]

I’m a Jewish country music fan and love this routine. Just saw Vince this week and again next week. Lewis nails it.

[@stephenschroeder6567]

Mr. Black sir, While I know who those two are, I have never heard one thing they have ever produced. It's just not in my wheelhouse. But you my good sir, I can listen to your performances all day, every day until the Sun goes cold. This is a great clip and thank you for posting it!

[@JohnSmith-cz9om]

Your wheel house is as small as a one hole outhouse. You need to expand your horizons, you're missing life, my friend.

[@charlieross-BRM]

Odds are if you have a radio on long enough to any station that is not classic rock, you've heard Amy Grant and didn't know it. She's - just - Amy - Grant. I can't think of anyone to mention as a comparison and I'm not an avid fan by any means. It's just that I've never changed channels and I change channels when I hear a lot of crap on the radio of any genre.

[@dianemitchell1717]

Black is the only comedian who makes swearing funny.

[@hawghead4596]

Lewis Black was on one show of The Big Bang Theory. The one where Sheldon and Wolowitz had a bet on what type of cricket it was. Lewis played an entomologist that had lost his job at the University.

[@patrickthacker4741]

We're not talkin' Oxnard near the ocean. We're talkin' Oxnard near the onion fields

[@vincentzack]

I really hope Mr. Black comes to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario soon. I would do as much promotion for his show as I could possibly do.

[@tylerp3327]

Shoutout to The Soo

[@kassiapencek6185]

🤣 while Amy's voice is magnificent i thank god for u. I recorded myself singing an Amy grant song on part of my mixed tape to hear how i sounded and someone at my local pool stole my walkman.... i was mortified that it would go around town. It never came up in any context. Thank god it was pre-cell phones!!!!

[@joescriva9122]

LOVED IT

[@ctfamily40]

The screenshot for this video is his face as he says Amy Grant is made entirely out of cream, and it makes me very happy

[@cyanmanta]

"And now, here's Lewis Black" is great to say after about six seconds of awkward silence.

[@whatiwasgoingtosay]

Having heard Vince Gill tell that story, I can attest it is fucking funny. I hope nobody ever tells Lewis what Vince’s golf handicap is. He’ll really lose it.

[@kkeelty64]

Wait, Vince Gill tells a story about how he did a show with his wife where they opened up for an aging miserable J_wish pr!ck? 🤣😂🤣

[@whatiwasgoingtosay]

This is the song he’s talking about for anybody who is curious. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoSblaWhmq9oaKMsi=FWQY5_trrmmc8jfg

[@Dorelaxen]

Lewis is like a glass of good Scotch. Tastes good. Burns a little going down, but you feel good afterwards, and you want another glass right after.

[@thereisbeautyinthisworld7251]

I just love Vine Gil.

[@pedrodiaz5540]

All I can say is … Vince is great and Lewis is also great ! And now I’m going to listen to Vince jaja thank you Lewis Black !

[@barbarawalsh2875]

How doI love you let me count the ways❤

[@gpmcd1044]

I found out only a few years ago that Vince is a pretty funny guy. Look up here on KZbin where Vince tells his dad that he’s about to meet Dolly Parton. Great story! There’s a few other videos of him telling funny stories as well. But yeah, I wouldn’t have scheduled Vince and Lewis to go back to back.

[@myfrestuff3453]

Every day I not only press Lewis Black's Anger Button, I also thank God I don't ever have to suffer through Vince Gill's and Amy Grant's perfection, perceived or otherwise!

[@moe42o]

Lewis and Kathy are my favorite! ❤️ Louie Anderson too!

[@nightwolf2666]

I absolutely love your sarcastic, brain-schism-like emotions. You're like a pissed off version of Jerry Lewis combined with Rodney Dangerfield...2 of the best ever.

[@mattblasing5672]

"She is made entirely out of cream" kills me every time.

[@blackorchidmuse]

He needs to do a movie

[@Thunder_Dome45]

I don't know about Amy but Vince's voice does sound like heaven, doesn't it?

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

We visited my boomer in-laws last weekend and my mother-in-law mentioned the song Miami my Amy because my name is Ami. I said I like Pure Prarie League’s song, so she looks it up on her smart TV and plays the KZbin video. I asked her did she know that was Vince Gill? Long story short they did not know that. I’m playing this next visit, but I’ll totally skip the first part.

[@gryjffrs]

Great story whether 100% true or not! Saw Vince in the early 90's but didn't realize he was that tall. I like the phrase, you're both out-standing in your field here.

[@whatiwasgoingtosay]

He’s 6’3”. Still tall, but not as tall as Lewis imagines, lol.

[@annenelson5656]

Vince Gill and Amy Grant have been married forever. I think that’s great.

[@jeromematthews3814]

I like the one comment about not being Jewish but I'm Lewish! Me too! He's got a unique style and intelligence that is symbiotic and entertaining.

[@hippydippy]

LMAO! Too damn funny!!!

[@jameshicks7125]

I can't help but compare Lewis Black to George Carlin. Completely different approaches, but both deliver sublime philosophical messages that go far beyond a simple joke. I was fortunate to meet him outside of a comedy club in Sacramento in the early 2000s after his show, where I was drenched in sweat from laughing so hard.

[@tomlambro2433]

You are kidding, right?? To put this guy in the same sentence as George Carlin is madness, laughable!!

[@angelanoe7223]

I love a big tall strong man...💞

[@petebest4126]

Vince Gill was great friends with Arnold Palmer. Vince sang at Arnie's funeral.

[@kevinwright4452]

Vince is 6'3 btw...

[@eliotoole]

Hang in there yet adults 🤣🤣🤣

[@CC-ox9uc]

❤

[@GordonPortice-py5zt]

You've Got To Stand For Something ( Aaron Tippin ) Metal Health , Some Beach , Cruel To Be Kind ( Quiet Riot ) ( Blake Shelton ) ( Nick Lowe )

[@joelaichner3025]

Quality

[@mylovesongs2429]

Lewis is so damn funny! There is such a stark contrast between the g-rated Christian Country singer Vince Gill and the x-rated Jewish comedian Lewis Black! bwahahaha! This is a great video!!!

[@pshaw8406]

If it makes you feel any better, Lewis, when Amy Grant divorced her husband and married Vince Gill it was a huge controversy and they were widely condemned.

[@DeeEllEff]

Because, quite obviously, it was just lustful sins, doomed to end in misery and (another) divorce. Oh wait … no it wasn’t AT ALL: but all the criticism was just the typical, hypocritical “Christian” judgment of the lives of others!

[@katiee263]

If there’s video of you and Kathleen following all of that, I really kinda wanna see it now…

[@tracyewaldroup6164]

Vince always re-enacts his father smoking a cigarette when he tells stories about his daddy. You should hear the one about Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton 😅😂

[@DeeEllEff]

I wish I’d heard that one. Dolly’s never spoken ill of Wagoner (or really anybody, I am aware of), but what a prick that guy was.

[@robertellis5227]

The social conscience for our time!

[@cchanc]

Man after my heart he knows I don't listen to county music

[@rchydrozz751]

It is awful. It has no feel like a Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash or a George Jones song.

[@aaronvanzile3824]

At least Vince Gill didn't do 'Go Rest High on That Mountain'

[@rowdyriter]

lol he pulled a jerry lee lewis on lewis black " no one follows the killer " if vince only set a piano on fire

[@crowfoot7355]

Sago Lewis 😅 😅

[@psycleen]

jerry curl

[@bluesdoggg]

I love Lewis Black and seen him live more than once, but I’m thinking Vince Gill didn’t open for him.

[@stevenpellegrino997]

I'm near Parma ohio😂😂😂😂

[@sambarribault8034]

sounds like parma

[@bobprestera3482]

I don’t agree with Lewis Black’s politics, but I cry laughing when he speaks…

[@joelaichner3025]

Owes his own stuff apparently

[@ismaelamaya9755]

Funny jew...I feel his anger!!!!

[@IMEMINE.]

No HATE like Christian Love

[@jerrycallender9927]

In my 78 years I've experienced the hate known as christian love!

[@kevinwest3689]

🤝✌

[@timin770]

Why do you care? You know where you're going 🔥

[@kevinwest3689]

@@timin770 hopefully 🤞 my dog was my best friend and the Christian say he's not allowed. You know because even though he thinks he loves he hurts he cries he laughs and God created him. God doesn't love him as much as I loved him or he loved me. I'll throw that burning stick for eternity 🧟‍♂️

[@garyjackson3531]

@kevinwest3689 Who told you dogs don't go to heaven?

[@kevinwest3689]

@@garyjackson3531 I live in The Bible belt, I can tell you from experience you tell a Christian Animals go to heaven, And it's like reminding them about what trump said about his daughter. It will not go well. See the thing is I guess we were born in God's image And where the ones that have souls.

[@ramonazteca252]

i respectfully indulged him for the entire 12 min. once, i almost smiled.

[@DeeEllEff]

Uh, not that respectfully, I’ll bet.

[@snidelywhiplash]

The Discerning Comedy Understander has logged on

[@ramonazteca252]

@@snidelywhiplash you're wasting your time.

[@jimnull1601]

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[@emoran5875]

If true, then Congress is doing all this crap.

[@derekpratte7259]

A heart attack waiting to happen………..

[@chrism1164]

He eeds to clean up his mouth. 👎🏾

[@franklin2846]

What are you based on? Whatever it is I’ve never liked it.

[@Moselli56]

I remember when he used to be funny!

[@kkeelty64]

Vince Gill was never funny.

[@Gary-And-His-Demons]

I would have arrived at the show really late, so I would have only seen Lewis Black's performance! The only thing worse than Christian music is being forced to listen to it!

[@mylovesongs2429]

can you imagine if there was Jewish music, proclaiming the Torah as the great God's lessons for humanity? Actually, i think just playing the Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack would sufffice! Mazel Tov!

[@fcapio]

Comedy and vulgarity has become one. What a shame….

[@wrthrash]

Lewis vs Biden, not sure who is most lame

[@elijahFree2000]

You are

[@patbruen7333]

wow. maybe the least funny person I've ever heard.

[@DaleCarterDrives]

That happened in the 70's.... where you been?

[@abc-bu7nr]

​@@DaleCarterDrivesHe said he was performing at s LaRussa animal charity event. LaRussa didn't even get to St Louis until 95 or 96.

[@DaleCarterDrives]

@@abc-bu7nr I was replying to a comment that has been removed or, possibly, I commented on the wrong post in error.. Something about comedy becoming dark or dangerous or having tons of profanity. I know the event Black describes wasn't in the 70's because Vince was still in Pure Prarie League (famous song, "Amy" what you gonna do...) and didn't divorce his wife and marry Amy Grant until the 2000's. Did I mention I am a massive Vince Gill fan? :-)

[@janestarr4403]

@@abc-bu7nr Are you saying LaRussa didn't exist or have animal rescue charity shows before he came to St. Lewis? My mom was a life long C&W fan. She wasn't a big Vince Gil fan, but she didn't like Dolly Parton either. Music is a mater of personal taste. So is religion. But for the person who complained about having to listen to a Christian song for less than 4 min., I have to wonder what is wrong with you. Intolerance is your problem, not the song that is being sung.

[@bobwalker200]

That was the unfunniest thing I’ve ever seen, just awful👀