Wow. This guy goes on. Who the hell is he? Seems to take himself awfully seriously for a comedian.

Sounds very similar to me, but as someone else has probably said here, I think quite a lot of songs were using that groove in the late 80s/early 90s. It's sort of the "Hush" riff — think "The Only One I Know" by The Charlatans (UK to you, yankee).