Hi, how are you? My name is Hippie John and this is my creative corner. If this is the first time that you are reading this column, the basic idea of the corner is a place where I cover obscure forms of variety media (IE: movies ,books, comics ,stand up comedians, cartoon characters, etc.) that I feel are undepreciated by the general public.

This time around I will be covering one of the best stand up comedians that never got the time in the spotlight that he deserved, the late ,great John Pinette.

Pinette’s comedy consisted of his musings on food, heath trends, the trail to healthiness, traveling, reality TV, and the average annoyances of customer service. His style was that of pure energy, voices, and screaming.

Pinette worked mostly clean but would curse now and again to emphasize his frustrations with  health nuts and customer service technicians.

One of Pinette’s most famous acts was Get Outta Line , where he rants about the slow moving of  food lines, saying ” at McDonalds people are staring at the menu, I had one guy in front of me was like ‘o, what do they have’ it’s McDonalds, ask me anything left to right, right to left, what do you want to know, GET OUTTA LINE”.

Another one of Pinette’s famous material was his Nay Nay material, where he is talked into an activity b his friends like camping or skinning, then something terrible and also hilarious happens and it ends with him saying “Nay Nay” to that activity in the future.

The topic that Pinette focused mostly was food, ether the food he enjoyed like ham or cake, or health food that he only eats, or try to eat, like the untoastable, the unspreadable low card bread or the half M&Ms, half twig  trail mix. Saying about salad “Salad’s not food, salad comes with the food. Salad’s a promissory note that food will arrive soon”.

Another topic that Pinette loved to cover was buffets, especially Chinese buffets, where at one placed he got yelled at by the owner and told to never return.

Sadly, Pinette would pass on April 5, 2014 at the age of 50 from pulmonary embolism,  never really getting the recognition that he deserved for his special point of view to tried and true comedic subjects.

If you have time I suggest checking out any one of his specials or any one of his albums, especially his Still Hungry or his I Say Nay Nay specials on Amazon, Netflix, or YouTube and experience the material of this underrated  legend.

That is all the time we for now, come back next time for when I cover the autobiography by professional wrestler Mick Foley, Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks .