The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds · All Things Comedy

726 - Gavin Arthur - Live in Denver

·1 hr 23 min·7 clips

Gavin Arthur threatens to immortalize his father as a 'faithless husband' in literature after being denied a loan.

Dave Anthony opens by stumbling through the intro, while Gareth Reynolds keeps the room relaxed. Gareth detours into a Safeway run for wipes and a security guard who seems almost too obvious to be subtle, which gets the crowd going before the history takes over. The main story follows a man with about $10,000 in his bank account, which Dave turns into $189,000 in their money, and from there the episode settles into the kind of rich-person plan that only makes sense when money is already doing most of the work. He decides to get into importing wine. He asks his dad, Chester Arthur II, for a $1,000 investment, and his dad says it sounds like a really bad investment and passes. That still is not the end of it. He writes back with a letter that promises to make a name of his own and to make his father a mortal, then keeps going until the insult starts to feel like a formal family obituary. The language is vicious. He calls his father a faithless husband, a faithless father, and a man who used every blessing for himself, then drags the whole thing through loneliness, desertion, and a quick slide into being forgotten. Dave reads it straight. That straight reading makes the whole thing even funnier, because Gareth keeps circling the obvious joke that the guy railing against nepotism is also furious about not getting the same favor. The TL;DR joke lands. It lands because the letter keeps piling on instead of stopping, and the show treats that excess like a family curse written in ink. The live room stays active. By the close, the episode has drifted back to costumes, doll heads, and the crowd noise that comes with a Halloween show after ten dates. Luke gets pulled in too. He shows up in a weird costume while Dave and Gareth keep thanking everybody and trying to end the night without giving up the last joke. The whole thing stays messy. That mess fits the material, because this is a story about money, spite, and a son who answers rejection with a letter that would have embarrassed a much nicer family.

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A live Dollop where inheritance rage and stage noise do most of the work.

This live Dollop episode turns an Arthur family dispute into a sharp, ugly story about money, spite, and one memorable letter to Chester Arthur II.

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