Part 2 of Comedians of the 1980's

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome from the desert to the sea.

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It's seven h seven and k and
AC newstime. I am Russ Bangkok

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Tonight, top story, top interview. As we go through the governor races

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through these beautiful states of ours,
we are going to be granted an interview

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with the very first American history,
the very first Latino redneck. Now we're

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gonna go ahead and see if Beck
Summers is on location. Now let's check

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in with Beck and see if Beck
could possibly bring in the candidate for an

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interview. Back, Hi Ross,
I'm standing here with the governor to be

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elect. He asked that we don't
state his name for apparent reasons, he

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felt obligated and egotistically value to pronounce
his own name. So I'm going to

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go ahead and turn it over to
you, sir running for governor? Can

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you please tell our viewers your name
and your political status? Highs? So

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is it okay? This is okay
to sit now right here? Okay,

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that's right. I'm the first Latino
redneck. My name is Pancho Flores,

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and I will be the first Latino
redneck. And I consider myself pretty pretty

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proud to be that. You know, no relation to the WWF, WWE

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and all them three letter governmental agencies. But now shall address you as mister

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Flores or do you want me to
call you can call me by many names.

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I've been known by others, but
we won't go there. You can

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call me, uh, sir ponchocause
recently I was knighted. I was knighted.

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I went over there to the England's. Then I was knighted by the

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well. She claimed to be the
queen, although she had me meet her

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in some bed and breakfast, so
I don't know how much of a queen.

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She was a lot younger than what
I see on TV. This one

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will look more like she was in
her late thirties. But TV can take

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some years off of you, that's
true, and TV could also add some

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pounds. I've noticed that you don't
look like you've missed a burrito or a

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takeedo in quite some time. I
try to avoid the Hispanic foods of all

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kinds, especially burritos, because they're
not really Mexicans. They were more borderline

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who knows where in the border we
yeah, but I tend to eat more

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of the natural food. You know. We got some rebis, steaks,

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pork bellies, cowboy beans. I
don't many of them. Tortillas, Uh,

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sometimes so gelopano or two. But
that's about it now, Punchio,

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what is yours? It's Sir Pancho
San Remember I was nighted what seem to

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be the funny funny over there?
Yes, Sir Pancho, just I'm having

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a hard time. Kind of has
that ring to it, you know,

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Sir Pancho. Sir Panchio, what
is your status on illegal immigrants here in

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the state? Getting drivers? Will
not tolerate any illegal activities. However,

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I do tolerate illegal immigration, and
I'm going to tell you why I will

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strictly allow all kinds of illegal immigration
into this country because they are the backbone

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of all of my household chores.
You know, I need to get I

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need to get my my loan escaped, and uh my water duck's cleared,

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and uh and I also need to
have my my town fat you know.

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And I'll tell you what now,
sir, puncho, Now what plateau are

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you taking on? All lives matter, all black lives matter? What is

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your take? Being the very first
red nick Latino that is running? You

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know, I got the perfect solution, Stuart. Uh No, sir,

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my name is Ross Jonathan John Okay, Stuart uh Ross Ross anyway, Yeah,

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I've got the perfect solution. I've
been been, you know, dabbling

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a little bit in ah some old
time TV shows Black and white era,

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you know, uh Barney uh anyway, uh and and I've came to come

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to find out that uh usually black
lives as well as uh, you know,

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the browner type of people. Now, no, no, not hear

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now, hear me out for a
second, right, I want nothing seemed

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to be funny here? Why are
you laughing? Now? The point is

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if I take out a brown brother
like myself, right, and I put

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him when the vicinity of anybody who
they dare talk down to and call redneck.

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You know what comes out of that? What I would presume violence pure

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masterpiece. I mean, such as
myself. I mean to take a look

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at myself. Anyway. The point
is I would put each respective group and

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I would take them out of their
element and I would put them with the

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totally the opposite people. For example, black lives matter, yes they do,

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and I'll put them with the whitest
of the white and I could put

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them. I can put them in
neighborhoods with there has never been a black

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person now, for example, the
Chinese, they don't like Hispanics, right,

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I'll put them rights back in the
middle of East La. How they

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like that, They're gonna become a
masterpiece. Well no, no, sir

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Pancho, that is already done.
Because majority of these small mama top of

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liquor stores are all owned by Asian
individuals right or Middle Eastern, and the

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conflict between the Latin community and these
other ethnic communities is at a boiling point

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to how would you stop? Right? But where you're wrong is this,

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Here's what I would do. The
difference is I wouldn't have them own any

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businesses. I would have them live
with Hispanic community and have them put on

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the same kind of clothes. We
have the same kind of jobs. You

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know, I can no longer allow
them to become high school graduates and be

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able to graduate from college. I
would reverse the roles. You know,

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have them selves flowers on the freeway, have them do all the cleaning.

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See how different they are, yet
at the same time, realize they're the

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same. And there it is.
Leading gentlemen, I gotta go. I

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got much more to take care of. One question, all right, make

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it quick of the meters right now. If if you could go back into

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the eighties, and you were the
governor of this great state of Texas,

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and you were allowed to do two
things, one good for the Latinos and

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one good for the Red Knicks,
what would those things be if you were

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the governor in the nineteen eighties?
Quickly, move along? First, very

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easy. First of all, I
would let all the Latinos into this country

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and let them be police officers.
First of all. Secondly, I would

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have everybody of any other race and
nationality enjoy all the benefits of going to

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live on the other side of the
border. We want to thank sir Poncho

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Flora. Poncho Flores, that's right, Thank you Stephen for coming on to

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KNACP News tonight and I am your
host. Ross Yes, vote Flores in

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the future. I got two thumbs
up, just like Michel Padre Nixon.

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Thank you very much, sir.
Good luck to you. Welcome into the

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one and only back to the eighties
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and Chang and as we are with
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I have the man, the myth, and the legend. We call

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him the Chang. How is your
world swinging? Hopefully you're all doing well

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and you're taking care of yourself against
this nasty virus called politics, because politics

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can kill well. Just Cornell it's
great to see you. One of the

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most handsome Italian men that I've ever
seen since Guy Thierry, and I don't

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know if he's Italian, but I'm
just putting it on. Yeah. Well,

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I'm glad that you're able to join
us. I'm glad that we're here

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together, and I'm glad that we're
talking about the eighties because there's nothing better

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to talk about and this day and
age of COVID and crappy politics than stuff

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that made us just go back in
time and stuff that really brought the good

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memories back. So nothing better,
my friend. And today we continue.

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Today we continue talking about the eighties
and we're going on part two of Comedians

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of the nineteen eighties. So if
you remember last week we talked about those

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comedians that were just the cream of
the crop, the top of the of

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the heap in common today a number
one. That's right. Frank Sinatra said

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it best, my friend, And
and what we're doing today's we're continuing to

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talk about comedians because there's so much
that they brought to the table and they've

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paved the way for the future and
everything that you know, all the comedians

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today are a result of comedians back
and back in the day. So now

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this first comedian I want to bring
attention to. Some may remember, some

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may not. This guy was on
the brink of intellect as a comedian,

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raw, ruthless, but politically correct. And I'm talking about the late great

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Bill Hicks that we had lost to
cancer. Bill Hicks was a fine comedian.

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He was cutting edge, kind of
like a Lenny Bruce, kind of

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a little bit more intellect, kind
of like i'd say, maybe a David

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Letterman to a certain agree. David
Letterman's another comedian that was big in the

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eighties. But Bill Hicks was ruthless. I mean he Bill Hicks would probably

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not be working in the way that
we are suffering in a woosey state of

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mind here in the States, with
everybody being afraid to say anything against anybody

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else, everybody, no matter what
walk of life, proclaiming their own importance

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over we, Bill Hicks would probably
be in a lot of trouble. I

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don't know if you recall ever seeing
Bill Hicks do his stand up kind of

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a kind of a cerebral r rating
of comedians, if I may say,

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yeah, And he encompassed a wide
range of issues like religion, politics,

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philosophy, and he was more I
think he was pegged into the category of

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being a little bit dark, like
dark comedy, and it was just a

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tragedy to see him pass away at
the young age of thirty two from pink

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created cancer. And that happened what
in nineteen ninety four front I mistaken,

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Yeah, it did in ninety four. I think comedy took us massive blow

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with his passing because there's so much
material he could have covered. I think

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he could have gotten to a plateau
that would have probably been like a Dave

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Chappelle of nowadays. You know,
I don't think he had the acting chops

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much, so you wouldn't have seen
him on s an Hour or anything like

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that, but I could probably see
Bill Hicks on his own type of television

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show, like Stephen Colbert or somebody
like that. In two thousand and seven,

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he was number six on Channel four's
list of one hundred greatest stand up

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Comics, and he rose to number
four in twenty ten, and then in

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twenty seventeen, according to Ruling Stun
magazine, they ranked him thirteen on the

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list of the top fifty best stand
of comics of all time and that's incredible.

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It's just very sad that it took
all those years for him to get

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the recognition. And probably he got
the recognition because America grew up a little

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bit of America kind of grew tired, you know, and then when you

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get bored, you look into the
passings of nostalgia. So maybe a lot

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of individuals are bared. He coming, We're bared. He coming in contact

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with his type of content and comedic
style that kind of catapulted him to the

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grounds of where he became a top
notch higher in the rank he's as opposed

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to when he was alive. Let's
take a listen a little bit of some

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Bill Hicks here for everybody to get
to know him. Yeah, I've noticed

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as certain anti intellectual as I'm going
around this country man ever since around nineteen

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eighty. Coincidentally enough, I was
in Nashville, Tennessee last week, and

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after the show, I went to
a waffle house, right and I'm sitting

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there and I'm eating and I'm reading
the book. I don't know anybody.

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I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm
reading a book, and this waitress comes

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over to me. What's here reading
for? Wow? I've never been asset.

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Not one am I reading? But
what am I reading? Oh?

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God, damn it, you stumped
me. I guess I read for a

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lot of reasons, but the main
one, and so I don't end up

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being a fucking wamful waitress. Yeah, that'd be real high on the left.

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Then this trucker in the next book
gets up, stands over me,

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and goes, well, looks that
we got ourselves a readA what the fuck's

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going on? Like? I walked
into a clan rally and a boy George

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costume or something in it? Am
I stepping ASTs some intellectual closet here?

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I read there? I said it. I feel better. Some serious humanity,

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man, serious pockets of humanity out
there now, Chusky my friend.

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The next comedian I want to bring
up is somebody that was very near to

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our hearts because his style of comedy
was very family oriented. I think I

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know who you're talking about. Derogatory, very very very clean. Uh.

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He sold putting, his face was
on everything. Uh. He was doctor

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Hunstable and I'm talking about well,
yeah, he did some things well for

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some of the things he did,
he just Mike should be Bill Cosby.

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Now, first of all, I
want to tell you Bill Cosby was a

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tremendous comedian on top of an actor. Back in the sixties. He came

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out in ice Spy he had,
you know, and then to catapult from

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being the jello guy and the family
Grandpas style, being catapulted into hey putting

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some roof. He's in Bellow Jellatin. And then he would fat Albert also

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the voice of Coca Cola commercials,
remember that, right, you know,

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So I would attribute that maybe he
was getting some roof. He's in Coccola

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and serving these drinks up to these
young ladies. What's your take on his

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style of comedy. I mean,
I loved his comedy because he can actually

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tell stories. He's a wonderful storyteller, as we all know, and he

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can get you to laugh your pants
off without cussing. I mean, I

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remember Bill Cosby himself, the concert
that he gave. I think he only

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used one bad word in the entire
concert, and he had the audience laughing.

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I mean you I can still watch
that and laugh. And so it

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was it was such a shock when
all this stuff, all this you know,

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the harassment news and the taking advantage
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behind the scenes. I mean,
I'm an adult. That shouldn't catch me

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off guard. But when you look
up to somebody as wholesome that we all

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thought was so wholesome, such as
Bill Cosby, it does, it does

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throw a wrench in your in the
way you look at and think about people.

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You know. That's why lots of
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if you're if you're an entertainer,
if you're an artist of any kind,

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whether it be an actor, comedian, singer, songwriter, anything, anybody

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who's in the public eye, even
though you do have a voice and you

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have every single right to express your
ideologies and things like that, keep them

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to a minimum because you're going to
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And if you're screwing around, that's
even worse. How many entertainers that you

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know that as soon as they verbally
express who they support in their political views

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and if they go against what you
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doesn't that turn you off? Then
you don't. You literally don't want to

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listen to that person anymore or watch
that person anymore. Sometimes So, by

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the way, isn't he out of
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jail. Now, I wonder what
I wonder if he sat in his cell

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and he would talk to himself from
me, he would want when you,

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you know, would be fat Albert. I don't want you to be draping

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the soap. Always won't give it
to you as your chat. What you

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want for breakfast? The four year
old has the ability to see through and

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find the wrong thing. And the
child saw through my body what was behind

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me. She saw the chocolate cake
is a canon, that chocolate cake.

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And I said, chocolate cake where
she said, chocolate cake behind you?

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And I looked and there was a
chocolate cake. The child wanted chocolate cake

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for breakfast. How ridiculous, And
I said, and someone in my brain

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looked under chocolate cake and saw the
ingredients eggs. Eggs are in chocolate cake,

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and milk, oh goody and wheat. That that's nutrition. What do

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you want? Chocolate cake? Chocola
cake coming up, sliced it far and

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served it. No, you need
something to drink with the chocolate cake,

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something breakfast baye fruit juice, because
it's not your child. And that was

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of course Bill Cosby himself. You
know Chang. When I was a kid,

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I used to watch and I remember
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or Showtime at one of those channels, and there was this comedian that I

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had no idea who he was.
I didn't know what he was doing,

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but I would see him on stage
all the time, dressed kind of like

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a like a mime but without the
paint, you know, wearing the suspenders,

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and he had this big mallet and
he would bring out fruit and put

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it on a table and just break
all these kinds of fruits in front of

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people. He would drench the audience
and I'm talking, that's right. Leo

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born Leo Anthony Gallagher Junior. Gallagher
was of course known of being this very

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just different, totally different kind of
comedian. How do you remember Gallagher?

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I remember Gallagher kind of being like
that show clown without any makeup, kind

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of that vaudevillage type comedian to where
he went with his skits and his quick,

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intelligent one liners before he would smash
I mean anything from a cantalo to

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a watermelon. I mean right,
so buckets of water people. He always

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had those suspenders that were very Robin
william Ish looking from Mork and Mindy.

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He had hair like Bozo. He
looked like he had Frank Zappa's face,

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but Bozo the clowns. That's right, that's right. Did you know that

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he was half Irish in Croatian?
No, I did not know that.

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got I guess he had a big,

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big problems with his brother. His
brother's name was Ron, and his brother

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Ron asked him for permission to perform
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Gallagher, Yeah, so Gallagher granted, you know, his brother the permission

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to go ahead and do that on
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strong likeness. He looked a lot
like Gallagher. You can do it,

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but you can't say it was you
know me or something like that. And

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I guess it went the other way
around, and and you know, they

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separated, but it was all over
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I remember. As Gallagher got older, he kind of declined, I

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think, in popularity, much like
Karat Tob did, because it was always

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the same spill, you know,
and you can get away with doing your

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spill so long, you know,
you become iconic. Another comedian really quick

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that we're talking just like not the
same style, but Don Rickles. Don

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Rickles is the godfather of a derogatory
comedy without custing, and he managed to

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stay relevant in comedy also the eighties, the nineties and up until just what

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a couple of years ago. He'll
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Dean Martin Roasts back in the seventies. So Gallagher, I think, is

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always remembered, just like Dice Clay
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but I think comedic longevity, it
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In the nineteen eighty nine, he
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in which he got into he got
in big trouble. He got in big

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trouble because he used stereotypes that were
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yeah, and you don't do that
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a lot of Mexican Americans. So
very similar to Michael Richards of Jerry Seinfeld's

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Kramer character when he broke the barrier
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Americans, the black brothers and sisters. He created his own crucifix, So

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you know what that most son of
a bitches head. And that's why I

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tell you, don't put your real
feelings out there. If you're going to

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be a real entertainer, you're going
to alienate a certain part of the crowd.

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wonder and awe and the and the

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you know, the sparkle of any
entertainer is the fact that we don't know.

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That's perfect that you bring up that
that that point just agreement, you

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keep continuing, please, so I
would. I was just so, I

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was just thinking, as my dad
used to always tell me. He used

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to tell me, you know what, if if these entertainers would shut the

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freaking mouths up and just do what
they're paid to do. You know,

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yeah, they got a voice,
but they can express it in their bedroom.

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Yeah, Chisha McGray, I agree
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tapping on the on the stage of
stand up comedy, and you do put

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yourself all out there, and sometimes
what you may think is funny may not

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be funny. Somebody could take it
out of context. But then again,

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when you are a comedian, it's
just another funnier outlook on life to similarities

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that everybody else has. But as
a comedian, we just put it out

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there in a funny way and just
go for it. Now, let me

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let me ask you Chang, because
you're a comedian and you've been on stage,

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let me ask you this since the
eighties, you don't have comedians such

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as Andredise Clay because he wouldn't be
accepted. But yet you have a comedian

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and I don't remember the guy's name, but you have a comedian that all

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he talks about is either little animals
getting killed or baby's getting killed and he

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gets a laugh. How do you
feel about this comedy? Everything in life,

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good, bad, sad, or
what have you. It's got a

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funny twist to it. A lot
of things taken out of context, set

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out of context. Some things shouldn't
probably be made fun of, but in

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comedy, in individuals that are comics
will find humor in everything. And there's

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we're in an age now, bro
where sadistic comedy. It's kind of a

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kind of taboo to where to a
certain degree, nobody wants to hear it

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anymore because they don't want anybody to
get pissed off at them, or sue

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them, or lose their job or
get killed over it. But it's the

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same token. You have comedians that
will go into the darker stuff and do

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it as shock, almost like a
shock jock on the radio. And a

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lot of times a laugh will be
chuckled when somebody hits you with shock because

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it's a it's a nervous lap kind
of to break the barrier of what the

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individuals said, you know, depending
like I can't believe he just said that.

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Oh yeah, you know what I
mean, So you get a chuckle

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like that. But then again you
have to remember sometimes there are audience members

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that are as dark as the comedic
joke that you came up with. The

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yeah right, that's the other thing. I mean, they all have a

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market, and I guess at the
end of the day, it's a business,

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right at the end of the day. That's the way the reps at

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the end of the day. Comedy
is very similar to and I won't even

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say acting, kind of like radio. You have to be a flash in

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the pan right then and there kind
of have to stow yourself out. You

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kind of have to take it in
the keyster for Easter. Nowadays, as

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I saw c comedy, everybody wants
a clean room because everybody is so uptight

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about offending anybody. And to me, that's a problem with stand up comedy

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now. Everybody wants to tiptoe around
things. Everybody's afraid to hear something raw

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and just you know, bawled out
funny. I mean, if you go

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back to the seventies shows that some
of us watched, I mean you you

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know, the Jeffersons all in the
Family. You had SNL that was doing

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ethnic jokes and people were laughing.
We can't do that anymore, and I

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think comedy has suffered, but I
think society has suffered to not laugh at

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itself, and I think comedy lacks
that. Now. You don't see as

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many epic comedians because everyone's a little
bit afraid to take that next step out

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there. So we're never going to
see another Richard pryor maybe we're not going

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to see another Robert Williams of that
plateau unless, unless, you know,

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you get comedians that are older that
those are their mentors. Maybe then comedy

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will will kind of evolve back to
the way it used to be, with

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not so many people being as dark
but as dirty. And I think the

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thing with comedy now, people tend
to cast dirty into dark, just like

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they're doing in society. I remember
back in the eighties when if you watch

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somebody do stand up comedy and they
were making fun of handicap people. Remember

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that was like, oh, you're
gonna go to hell for that. But

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then you get the greats start doing
it, and then that kind of let

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pave the way for others like Robin
Williams started making fun of handicapped to clear

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things up. Remember Mike Myers,
Mike Myers and Saturday Night Live when he

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did that little boy that used to
have to get on the on the kid

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leash with the helmet at the playground. Yeah, you know, Yeah,

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comedy kind of took a little bit
step into topics where we probably shouldn't have

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made fun of. We should have
had maybe a little bit more like But

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it did bring those those comedians a
lot more notoriety, and it opened the

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door for a lot more people in
the comedy world to be a little bit

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more free. Let's say, take
a quick break. This is back to

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the eighties radio. When we come
back, the list continues of the nineteen

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eighties greatest comedy minds, like a
creature of the night. Back to the

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eighties. It certainly is a big
hit, a very big fun big It's

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a very big, fluffy fun why's
the beef? Com Hamburger place to give

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you a lot less beef and a
lot of bun Where's the beef at Wendy's?

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We have a hamburger we modestly call
the single, and Wendy's single has

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more beef than the Whopper or Big
Mack. Like Gwendy', you get more

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beeland less bun. Hey, I
don't think you want something better. Your

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Windy is kind of people. If
you can't wear a spandex jumpsuit, what

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can you do? This stop back
to the eighties, ladies and gentlemen.

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This is Chang from the infamous Duode
to Scott wind Chang. You are back

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to back to the eighties. Tonight
we are discussing comedians of the eighties,

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a little bit of nostalgia that they
created, a little bit of their backbone,

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a little bit of their vibe.
And now this next comedian that we're

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going to talk about is a comedian
that kind of gets passed over a lot.

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He evolved into the mid eighties.
We're talking about Dennis Wolfberg. He's

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known for his kind of Larry of
the three Stooges type hair, these enormous

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eyeball eyeballs that would pop out when
he delivered his comedy line. Maybe some

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of you you want to put a
face on him. He was ziggy in

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the television show with Scott Backla.
Does anybody remember that? You know what

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I know? He wasn't ziggy from
it was in quantumly. Oh yes,

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Did you know that Dennis Wolfberg had
a master's degree in clinical psychology. Maybe

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that's what made him so good as
a as a comic. Yes, that

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is he was very funny. Now. I remember watching his stand up when

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I was a young cat, and
he made a lot of humor about being

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married, having a child, having
the background that he did in that medical

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field. So it was pretty intellectually
on Q. You know, you had

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to you had to be intelligent.
You had to be married and have a

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kid to understand what Dennis was bringing
in the day. And he also died

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at a very young age of forty
eight. He died October third, nineteen

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eighty four of melanoma. And you
know, brings the mind all the people

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that we lost in the eighties and
early nineties because of certain cancers. And

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even though cancer is very relevant today
people usually have more of a life expectancy

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because of the advancement of technology.
So in that sense, yes, we

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are grateful for the newer tech.
What a tragedy to see such a young

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comedian go so soon. Oh yeah, yeah, Like you said, we've

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seen so many young comedians passed before
their time. You know, we're not

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here too. We're not going to
put him in a category who died of

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overdose or who died of what.
It's just sad that when somebody has portrayed

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as a clown and you bring they
bring nothing but joy and humor, that

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they have to check out of this
world, especially when individuals like that are

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so much needed in the day to
day grinding. To BLFE. One of

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the comedians that comes to mind who
was one of the greats and still does

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well. He became a very prolific
actor and he can do many types of

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roles, just like Robin Williams did. But this actor also is a musician,

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and he also comes out with a
fellow actor doing a comedians duo stand

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up comedy. And the actor comedian
that I'm talking about is none other than

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Steve Martin. Oh yes, Steve
Martin. Now, it's funny because Steve

405
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.200
Martin did come out, what I
believe, in the mid seventies. But

406
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:24.400
you know, his comedy albums caught
fire. His countless stepping up forefront on

407
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:30.200
Saturday Night Live sure helped him out
with movies as the jerk kept him right

408
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:36.359
there. In the eighties, he
became that hilarious stand up comedian who could

409
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:43.599
play. He did an album where
he played the banjo. He's a very

410
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:47.039
renowned banjo player. And with the
Bunny Ears and then the Arrow, the

411
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:51.119
white suit, the gray hair,
I mean, he went. He came

412
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.839
from the seventies and I mean he
just kicked ass all the way through the

413
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:58.079
eighties, you know, making movies
with the late great John Candy, who

414
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:01.640
was also a plane strains and automobiles, you know, and he just kept

415
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:06.599
it going. I mean, but
he's kept himself going in the comedy world

416
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:10.239
up into the two thousands. I
mean even recently where he came out with

417
00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:15.679
Martin Martin short having you know,
they're a duo. They're a stand up

418
00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.760
comedy duo. But I remember him
best, of course, of course in

419
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:25.159
his movies, movies such as The
Three Amigos, And you said movies like

420
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.960
The Jerk, of course, and
I also remember one of his characters of

421
00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:34.280
that wild and crazy guy. Yes, and there's that thing. I will

422
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:39.079
tell you that two must swinging foxes
had the hots on for us and are

423
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:44.320
coming here to that to let us
hold on to their big American grass.

424
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:55.719
Why not? There's nothing preventing them. After all, there's no other pair

425
00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:05.599
of check brothers who cruise and swing
so success. We are too wild and

426
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:13.840
prison guys. You know, those
guys always reminding me of the two guys

427
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.199
that used to own the Golden Ox
and Ari's when I was growing up in

428
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.440
montebell Just two smooth cats like that. They'd used to wear their gold chains

429
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:23.480
and the horns, and they would
talk like that and they would give you

430
00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:28.480
the biggest burrito or the biggest plass
from me that you could get all around

431
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.559
my friend, you know what I'm
talking about. You know you guys,

432
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.199
come on down here, man,
I got some sweet cheese for you and

433
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:37.320
thus chicks, man, come on
down here. That's so those guys are

434
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.360
always remind you know. You mentioned
a lot. A lot of the most

435
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.119
famous comedians did come out in SNL
and two of the comedians I'm thinking about.

436
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:51.400
I don't know if they had much
success in stand up because of course

437
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.880
we only we see them mostly in
the eighties. We saw them on TV.

438
00:35:55.880 --> 00:36:00.360
But the two guys I'm thinking about
as a duo is Bill Murray and

439
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.360
of course Chevy Chase. You can
open a curtain up out there somewhere.

440
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.079
I can get right through that one
door. He will say, you know,

441
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:08.679
I'm an idiot or something, because
they're all he has cut lines for

442
00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:12.679
a living. You know, people
don't say that about you as far as

443
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.400
you know. Well, I'm working
on it, you know, so I

444
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.440
don't ever have to. You know, I'm gonna be the head Greenskeeper open

445
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.320
to win in six years. That's
my my schedule. Now there's other comedian

446
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:24.559
I'm gonna come out and bring Okay, Now this is one that goes back

447
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.920
in history. Okay, and had
to redeem themselves back in the eighties.

448
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:36.440
Okay. Now, I am talking
no other than are you ready for this?

449
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.639
Yep? Bob Newhart. Oh,
I'm glad you cleared it up because

450
00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:45.039
I thought you were gonna say Bobcat
Goldweight. Oh. Oh, that guy.

451
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:49.880
To me, Bob Kat was one
of the worst comedians in the world.

452
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:52.840
I didn't understand how the hell he
got where he was at, you

453
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.199
know, And I would be like, do you know what, though,

454
00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:00.440
with Bob Bob Goldwight, I always
hoped, deep in my heart, I

455
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:05.400
really hope because I saw him come
out in Police Academy, right, and

456
00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:08.519
I always hope that it was an
act. But then I started seeing him

457
00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:13.559
doing stand up and he did the
same character. I never thought it was

458
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:15.519
real funny. Neither did I.
But you know what, you got to

459
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:22.079
give it up to the man because
he's a pretty well known and successful director

460
00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:25.000
to movies. Now, Oh really, I did like him as an actor

461
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:29.440
in the movies, Like, if
you're gonna do that as a comedy in

462
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:31.320
a movie, that's perfect. Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree,

463
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:37.480
But we digress. Go on,
Phillison on your comedian. Now,

464
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.960
my next comedian that I'm going to
have to bring up, Like I said,

465
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:45.159
it's Bob Newhart. Now, Bob
Newhart's one of those old time comedians

466
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.360
that came out like what Jack Benny
was those cats. His skit was always

467
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:52.079
like he was talking on the phone. But then again, he had the

468
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:54.239
great shows, The Bob Newhart Show
in the seventies. Then he came out

469
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:59.559
with the other Newhart show that I
believe that was in the eighties. You

470
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.519
know, he made a couple of
appearances on S and Now. A lot

471
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:07.000
of his stand up comedy was kind
of very clean, but very funny because

472
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:13.119
he did stay to the same type
act where he pretended he was talking on

473
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:17.679
the phone or he was telling you
a story of a conversation he had,

474
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:22.400
but in a very funny way.
And I know he's still alive and he

475
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.199
was born in nineteen twenty nine,
so I mean he's what like ninety one

476
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:30.360
years old. He's done some cameos, but I've always thought he is one

477
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:36.719
individual that stayed relevant through the eighties
into the nineties, into you know,

478
00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:40.079
until the last time he took the
stage on television. That's another comedian that

479
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.599
you know, you wouldn't think would
stay lasting as he did in the eighties

480
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:51.880
when everything was changing and everything was
getting a little bit more non clean,

481
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:54.360
if you know what I mean,
because he was a cleaning comic. Yeah.

482
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.119
As a matter of fact, I
have a quote he said, laughter

483
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:02.000
gives us distance. It allows us
to step back from an event, deal

484
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:07.199
with it, and then move on. And then he also says something funny.

485
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.079
He goes, I don't like country
music, but I don't mean to

486
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:13.679
denigrate those who do. And if
and for those people who like country music,

487
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.239
denigrate means put down. So I
thought that was funny. So Don

488
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:22.599
has not done that well in television. He's had fourth series now, the

489
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:29.360
last one A couple of Dons received
a minus four Nielsen rating. This move

490
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.599
but no, I'm watching. But
several people without TV sets I heard about

491
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:39.679
the show and said if they got
one, they wouldn't watch it. Well.

492
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:45.440
Up next is a comedian that is
also on the older side. He

493
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.679
passed away in two thousand and one. He was born in Peoria, Illinois,

494
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.079
and he was one of these comedians
that was that just led the way.

495
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.199
He was a pioneer of comedy,
of his type of comedy, and

496
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:02.559
became a great actor afterwards. And
I'm talking about none other than the late

497
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:10.719
great Richard Prior. I worked at
a mafia nightclub in Youngstown, Ohio.

498
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.639
I was nineteen. I was nineteen
years old, right, and I didn't

499
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:21.880
know shit about the mafia. My
father was the baddest motherfucker I'd ever seen,

500
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:27.400
So the mafia didn't mean shit to
me. I did not relate to

501
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.639
Demoria. And I worked with this
lady sat and doll. She was the

502
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:36.079
star of the show, beautiful black
stripper, right because usually in those days

503
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:39.159
they had like in clubs, they
had a singer and a stripper in MC.

504
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.440
I was a MC and she was
the first black star ever. Man

505
00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.880
sad, Now, yeah, I
was beautiful. She was sixty nine.

506
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.239
Oh, this bitch was fine.
Oh man, I'm not lying. Lena

507
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.480
Harn didn't have shit on her and
she was crying backstage. You know,

508
00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.800
I gotta get the buffalo. They
will pay me and said, who won'ta

509
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.639
pay you? Who up? Bowlers
woe? They said, all that mother

510
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:10.079
gonna pay me bet and I this
is how ignorant I was. I had

511
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:16.719
a cap pistol. You don't in
blank started pistols. I busted into the

512
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.559
office with this motherfucker the money,
all right, giving the money, mother

513
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:27.440
boy, doing my best black shit. You know, you know that shit

514
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:37.840
usually scared whitey to that, and
these motherfuckers didn't do nothing. And I'm

515
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:45.239
sure that those men are sitting in
that room today laughing, because that's what

516
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:52.360
this dude. He didn't start out. This is fucking get hey women,

517
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:59.159
Ay Thny, come in when rich
to the gun again, hay thonnic come

518
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:07.599
in, stick up a fucking get
come in, come in here. He's

519
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:13.880
got a pack of goosies on their
mind. Fucking kid come here. They're

520
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:17.800
like the hugging and Rubbie. Come
in here, fuck and grab your faces.

521
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:22.920
You cut. I'm on littles and
dad fucking getting got some boots for

522
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:27.719
their my mom and they always say, shit, you don't understand. Hey,

523
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.000
you want a little cuse email to
win? Hey, Bolo, fix

524
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:35.760
them a little my nose. I
got him pull them throwsy on out fried

525
00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:43.840
uf they like fried fruits. Fucking
yeah, I come in there. They

526
00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:46.079
come in here, the gun and
fucking get. Oh my god, I

527
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:51.920
pay everybody off, pay them off. It's all right. They're gonna have

528
00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:57.440
a time. They paid everybody off, let everybody go and kept meat like

529
00:42:57.559 --> 00:43:05.039
a pep. I fucking like them. You got family, and you got

530
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:09.800
family. Who is it? Commine? Tell him? I calling back?

531
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:16.840
Tell him is a stick up.
Richard Pryor took the comedic crown from Lenny

532
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:22.800
Bruce. Lenny Bruce gave it to
Richard Pryor on his untimely sad uh death.

533
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.840
It you know, looked like an
overdose, but we'll never know.

534
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:30.760
That was one guy you had to
reckon with. Lenny Bruce an idol of

535
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:36.960
mine. Richard Pryor took so many
pages out of the Lenny Bruce A style

536
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.599
of comedy. Richard Pryor, I
mean, he was another insane telling you

537
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.679
know, growing up in a brothel, his mother being a madam. Uh,

538
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:47.960
you know, getting beat by his
dad and having to see stuff like

539
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:54.079
that and then become this X rated, real kind of comedian you know who

540
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:59.519
buried it all. Talked about him
burning himself with his crack, his crack

541
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:05.800
crisis, you know, talking about
doing blow and having sacks and everything next

542
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.440
rate would it's like to grow up
in the street. Richard Pryor paved the

543
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.920
way I think for anybody that ever
had the guts or the nuts to get

544
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:17.159
up on stage and bear their soul
in such a way that is shocking.

545
00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:22.599
You know. I know, this
cat name with an Asian name, and

546
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:29.719
that's the way he likes to roll. And I think, I think when

547
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:34.519
when you're a comedian like that,
it's really you're kind of like a butterfly.

548
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.159
Every now and then, if you're
lucky to catch a butterfly. You

549
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:38.440
feel like, wow, I caught
a butterfly. And they move so slow

550
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:42.880
and so gracefully. To me,
that's what a great comedian is. Kind

551
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:45.480
Of like a butterfly. You know, they're going to dazzle you, they're

552
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:51.400
going to take your breath away,
and then they're just going to barely elude

553
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:54.480
your fingertips and your grasp and float
away. That's what, to me,

554
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:59.320
a great comedian is, and that
would be Richard Pryor. Yeah, and

555
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:01.800
his comm and he definitely reminds me, believe it or not, of the

556
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:07.920
chain. Oh thank you, so
no, I'm I'm serious. I'm serious

557
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.440
because when I've I've heard you and
doing stand up and I go, well,

558
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.679
that's it's very reminiscent of Richard Pryor. Yeah, I thank you very

559
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:17.320
much on that, bro. I
remember, I think I told you the

560
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:22.159
very first night I did stand up
comedy to where I was actually doing it,

561
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:28.320
not as open mic night, not
as somebody was just going to try.

562
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:30.760
I did the Ice House and it
was on the night that Richard Pryor

563
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.719
died. And I won't say what
I did, but I did the Richard

564
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:37.280
Pryor thing prior to my show.
I had my family, there was a

565
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:42.079
packed house, and I'll never forget
the very first thing I did is I

566
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.559
went out and I paid homage to
Richard Pryor, and I took off my

567
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:50.239
leather jacket and I hung it on
the mic stand, and I asked the

568
00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:52.199
guy to put a red light on
for Richard Pryor. And I went into

569
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.079
my set and I was as x
rated as Richard. I felt like Richard

570
00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:02.079
pryor ghost was in me that night
because I just off to chains. Do

571
00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:07.400
you know what I mean? That's
Ron Ruthless. We need more comedians like

572
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.320
that. Yeah. And jumping over
from Richard Pryor to a comedian that did

573
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.880
most of his big stuff, let's
say in the nineties, but of course

574
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:22.119
started in the eighties. He's he
was a graduate of Marquette University in nineteen

575
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.440
eighty six with a double major in
communications in theater, and he started doing

576
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:32.280
improv I mean at the Arc Improv
and Madison with John Cusack Believe it or

577
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.880
Not, And then he performed at
the Improv Olympic and then at Chicago Second

578
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:42.400
City and starting the same day as
Stephen Colbert believe it or Not. And

579
00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:45.119
then he was eventually promoted to their
main stage in nineteen eighty nine as a

580
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:51.760
cast member of three reviews The Gods
Must Be Lazy, And then after that

581
00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.760
became his big break because in nineteen
ninety, along with Chris Rock, Chris

582
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:05.199
Farley was one of the new Any
NightLive cast members that was announced. And

583
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:12.880
I'll tell you something, nobody can
wear a suit like Chris Farker. The

584
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.599
Big and Tall Shop today and they
got things done over there, the Big

585
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.239
and Tall Shop. Yeah, it's
not for the tall James les Well,

586
00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:23.880
no, now I have a slight
weight problem. Well, they never say

587
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.400
big, they always say the portly
man. Yeah, that's right. For

588
00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:31.000
the man of girth. They always
have like a girth section. That's good.

589
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.360
And he got the tie and I
like the way the collar goes up.

590
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:39.119
Yeah, I always have collar problems. Yeah. You guys doing okay

591
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:45.000
over there? Yeah, and Dave, thanks addressing. Too nice to have

592
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:50.159
you. We want to tell all
these young folks at home, you better

593
00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:53.840
go out there and see our movie
tell me boy instead of going out back

594
00:47:53.920 --> 00:48:07.119
in the alleyway. Smoke didn't do
me. Oh, Chris Farley. Chris

595
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:13.719
Farley kind of was a comics comic
I mean he was like the everyday kind

596
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:19.119
of class clown. Chris Farley was
very reminiscent of a John Belushi, where

597
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.760
you know, he could just set
the match and comedically torched the whole room

598
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:28.239
at any given time with whatever he
said, his Facebook expression, his body

599
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:34.199
expression, characters that he blasted off
to. That's another comedian, you know

600
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:39.400
that how could you ever forget his
presence as a human being, as a

601
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:44.719
big, a cuddly teddy bear that
are just making pitch your patch when you

602
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:49.840
laugh. And it's very sad that
he died the way he did. And

603
00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:52.519
it's funny because as we talk about
him, you know, the one thing

604
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:59.440
that many individuals have a hard time
realizes that most comedians have demons. Most

605
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:06.920
comedians suffer from depression, bipolar moods, with changes, hardships, downfalls,

606
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.920
feeling inadequate. So it's almost like
the way I looked at it when I

607
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.519
got into comedy, everything that ever
pissed me off or made me bad or

608
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:20.599
sad, you put that joke cap
on, you put a mask on,

609
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:22.639
you go out there and you're just
what I call slay the dragon. You

610
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:27.400
know, when you step on the
stage and it's you against the audience,

611
00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.719
and you can have all these negative
feelings about yourself, but yet you can

612
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:36.239
go up there and just spill your
guts and give your your outlook on something,

613
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.239
whether it's stupid, real or you're
just having punt with it, but

614
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:46.360
you exercise the villians. Yeah,
a lot of his comedy reminded me of

615
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:50.880
Sam Kinison in a way, with
different types of outbursts, of course,

616
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:53.599
but with that same build up.
You know, he always started out kind

617
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:58.480
of calm and then build up and
then just went overboard. We had kind

618
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:06.119
of like a volcano Sam Kinison,
And I'll even say Don Rickles and Chris

619
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:09.679
Party are kind of like a volcano. Same with John Belushi in comedy,

620
00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:15.880
to where they are seasoned, natural
born stand up comedians, but then they

621
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:20.719
just have this beauty in this desire
and this gift to make it into acting.

622
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:24.119
Robert like with Robert Williams, but
Robin Williams kind of was like a

623
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:30.679
tornado or a hurricane of comedy,
to where Chris Party was a freaking volcano

624
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:37.840
just boom. Once he hit boom, it was all over. You're listening

625
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:43.760
to back to the eighties. If
they were a laxable may be so powerful

626
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:50.639
you could stand on your head and
on Lucili next position would not only but

627
00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:58.119
also And now back to the eighties
with Toscato and Chang. You are back

628
00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:00.840
back to the eighties right here.
And Kay, it's nine a two point

629
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:07.679
five with Toscoto and Kay, we
are talking comedians and keeping it real funny

630
00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.239
tonight, Tosconno, Now I've got
another comedian right here. You know who

631
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:15.599
this guy is, Louie Anderson,
number twelve and one of our top twenty

632
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:22.079
comedians of the eighties. And I
believe Louis Anderson he capitalized pretty much on

633
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:27.559
he got typecasted. Is that typical
heavy set comedian, you know. And

634
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:34.480
I think he got bypassed to a
certain degree in the more popular likers of

635
00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:37.199
stand up comedy. But I thought
he was quite brilliant. He was very

636
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.400
funny, very cute. I think
it was funnier. I think he was

637
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.239
funnier when he did stand up than
when he did movies, because yeah,

638
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:50.559
they wouldn't they wouldn't really give him
enough to talk during movies. He was

639
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.440
no John Candy, Let's get that
straight. No, no, not at

640
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.079
all. But everybody and then his
bulging I mean, but if he looked

641
00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:02.000
at him. The bulging eyes himself
were very reminiscent of Rotten Dangerfield. But

642
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:06.239
he just didn't I mean, he
wasn't as funny as well. Yeah,

643
00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:09.159
he didn't have the shot like you
know what, Louis Anderson always reminded me

644
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:15.000
of that funny gay uncle or gay
cousin or the manly aunt that somebody had.

645
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:17.280
That's no offense, no offense,
no offense. I'm not. I

646
00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:21.800
don't mean that derogatory to anybody.
I'm just no. You know, he

647
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:23.280
always reminded me of my gay uncle. What am I gonna say about to

648
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.199
kiss him on the cheek. I
thought it was great. I really liked

649
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.880
him. And then he also came
out of Coming to America, and believe

650
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.639
it or not, he also came
on Coming to America part two. I

651
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.119
really really enjoyed watching him there,
you know, once again a small little

652
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:40.800
part, but I was glad that
he's being used for that. Now.

653
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:44.760
I don't know how he feels about
it, but yeah, I really enjoyed

654
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.119
his comedy. There's another guy who
back in the eighties. Now, I

655
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:50.320
don't know how you feel about this
guy. I don't even know how I

656
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:54.000
feel about this guy back in the
eighties, he had I guess something going

657
00:52:54.159 --> 00:53:00.960
for stand up comedy and he used
to do the very famous man It's bobbing.

658
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:06.679
Do you remember the ever so different
Howie Mandel, who was now a

659
00:53:06.800 --> 00:53:08.840
germophobe by the way, Yes,
I I all, dude, I thought

660
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:15.320
how he Mendel was created electrifying,
just captivating. He was hilarious, kind

661
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:21.360
of like it's kind of like he
had a d D when he did stand

662
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.079
when he did yeah, and then
he always stretched out his Yeah. He

663
00:53:24.119 --> 00:53:30.320
always stretched out his arm and he
goes. He always did that that funny

664
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.119
voice. And like I said,
I enjoyed when he did stand up so

665
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.360
much. And then he got a
part doing the voice of Bobby the cartoon

666
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:43.800
Yeah. And then now obviously he
does the shows where they you know,

667
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:46.079
America's got talent and stuff like that. He did deal with Deal or an

668
00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:52.800
old deal and uh yeah, and
now he's kind of cannonballed into that television

669
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:57.480
kind of fame as as opposed to
what he was. He was always kind

670
00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.000
of that quirky, weird looking comedie
where people are like, well, I

671
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:07.000
don't know if he's got some type
of mental issue or is he special needs?

672
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:08.440
Is he gay? Is he does
he still want to be a kid?

673
00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:13.320
I mean he you know, everybody
thought all kinds of crazy stuff about

674
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:16.280
him, But I mean he was
rice breaking prices, a great pickup by

675
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:21.320
you. How could we forget the
great how he mandel Oh? I really

676
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:23.599
enjoyed his comedy. But but now
I don't know what to make of him.

677
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:29.440
But just like Dennis Leary, Remember
Dennis Leary, who's an incredible actor,

678
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.760
but he is also a very very
funny guy doing stand up. Oh,

679
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.480
Dennis Leary, He's one of my
favorites. Pretty dark, kind of

680
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.880
like that kind of like that rock
or Street kind of tough stand up comedian,

681
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:45.360
you know what I mean. He
he'll be cause he talks smack,

682
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:49.480
you know. He he talked about
stuff that he did, you know what

683
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.159
I mean? That is a lot
of people don't want to talk about.

684
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.599
He's a chance style of comedian.
I would love to show with him because

685
00:54:55.639 --> 00:55:00.239
I think it would be just like
it would be ray An X not even

686
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.559
R if I was able to do
his show with Dennis Leary, it would

687
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.840
just be YEA. Yeah, I
think Dennis Leary was really really cool.

688
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:12.320
As a matter of fact, I
love when he does. He came out

689
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:16.800
with stallone in Demolition Man, and
his character fit him absolutely perfect because he

690
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:22.800
was that underground um, you know, leader of this underground mob. And

691
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:28.239
then he's also voiced tons of cartoons, you know, a Bug's Life,

692
00:55:28.280 --> 00:55:31.840
and then he did Ice Age.
Oh yeah, so's he's very versatile.

693
00:55:31.960 --> 00:55:37.280
He's very Now here's a comedian that
isn't too versatile, but straight out of

694
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:44.039
New York. He came out with
a brilliant television show that actually one of

695
00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:49.559
the characters we've already discussed as we
brought up stand up comedians who kind of

696
00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:52.679
a bit to live nut on stage
and did something insane, and I'm talking

697
00:55:52.719 --> 00:56:00.440
about Jerry Seinfeld. Now, I
always thought I thought Jerry Seinfeld was a

698
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:08.000
smooth talking, quick witted, clean
every day kind of joke with your buddy

699
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:15.480
kind of comedian, like a Bill
Cosby but your homeboy. That's what I

700
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:16.840
thought of it. Have you ever
sat down and listened to a comic that

701
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.719
is so popular with people, and
you sit down and you listen to him

702
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:27.880
and although you think his comedy is
creative, you just don't get that rolling

703
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:30.559
laughter. Yeah, I mean,
has that ever happened to Arsenio Hall.

704
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:37.000
That's what happens to me. Hey, it's just thing on. I'll that's

705
00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:43.039
what happens to me. That's what
happens to me with Jerry Seinfeld. Although

706
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:46.800
I have laughed a few times with
Arsenio Hall, but I cannot picture just

707
00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:52.159
you know, bawling and rolling and
laughter with Arsenio Hall. Either bring out

708
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.199
the bossie. Remember when he did
his TV show and I would be I

709
00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:58.440
sat there a couple of times like, well, come on, dude,

710
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:00.840
be funny, be funny. But
I thought it was funny. I thought

711
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:05.320
it was when he did his his
monologue. I thought he was decent,

712
00:57:06.119 --> 00:57:08.119
you know, when he had that
that the night show. Um, I

713
00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:13.559
thought he was really I thought he
was pleasant. I thought he was friendly.

714
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.119
I thought he was like a great
host at a party, but not

715
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:22.039
a TV show show host. Because
as a TV show host, you know,

716
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:23.880
you to me, you want to
you want to hit the questions that

717
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:28.960
that that show. You have some
brains, some knowledge, something that's going

718
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:32.199
to bring out the other side of
an entertainer. Every time he asked a

719
00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:36.760
question, he sat there like a
little kid waiting for the answer. Then

720
00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:40.320
his eyes raised like Oh my god, just like Nade, You're not cutting

721
00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:46.239
it, bro. Now, my
name is Dick Arsenio Hall. Guy,

722
00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:51.079
I put it in his show.
I'd rather take a crap with with him

723
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:55.760
runs for five minutes and sit to
an Arsenio Hall show. Damn it nice,

724
00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:00.400
nice, And as a matter of
fact, that's the comedy. Well,

725
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.159
seeing that I threw out a cheap
thrill with our stadium Hall because I

726
00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.159
think he sucks. Here's another comedian
that I thought was funny as a comic,

727
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.239
kind of dry, but sucked as
an actor. And I'm talking about

728
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.800
Paul Reiser. Yes, yeah,
although I think I think it was funny

729
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.719
in Beverly Hills Cop too. I
think he came out. I think it

730
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.159
was funny there had Yeah, he
had good writing and he was able to

731
00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:30.199
put his stand up comedy kind of
personality on that on that once character.

732
00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:36.400
But you know, he came out
in that TV show My Two Dads wasn't

733
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:38.559
my Yeah. In the nineteen eighties, there was a sitcom called My Two

734
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:45.440
Dads and Dad's the one. Everybody
was like in love with that girl,

735
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.880
and I was like, man,
she's got lips as thick as a piece

736
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:51.760
of paper. I just I don't
see the sexy pill. I don't see

737
00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:55.320
the funny pilling this show. It's
just canceled this show. So Paul Reiser

738
00:58:55.800 --> 00:59:00.280
was a funny comedian, but I
just he just didn't have an enough in

739
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:04.880
the tank to catapult to anything but
to be on our podcast show and say,

740
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:08.840
Paul Riser, Yeah he was.
You know, he's ranked this He's

741
00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:13.639
ranked in Comedy Centrals two thousand and
four lists of one hundred greatest stand up

742
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:17.119
Comics of all time as in number
seventy seven. That that's kind of a

743
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:20.840
good spot for him. I gotta
give it up to Comedy Central on that

744
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:22.679
one. That's a pretty good spot. Seventy seven. Yeah, I don't.

745
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:27.880
I don't even know if he's he
should be on that spot out of

746
00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:32.920
a hundred, out of the hundred
greatest comedians of all time. Now he's

747
00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.199
now if he's behind Bobcat, then
I'll tell you right now, that whole

748
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:40.360
list is fudged up because Bob Cat, well, Bobcat is in there.

749
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:45.719
He's got to be number one hundred. As a matter of fact, how

750
00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:50.639
would you like to know what place
Bobcat would because if he's anywhere above Roseanne

751
00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:55.760
Barr, another annoying duch shape,
a person that I think as Rosanne Barr.

752
00:59:57.239 --> 01:00:02.400
I didn't bobcat Goldweight is in number
out of the top. Ye.

753
01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:08.079
You couldn't rank him any higher than
eighty. You just can't. If you

754
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:12.719
did, then you know what you
have, dyslexia. You took too many

755
01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.320
acid trips back in the eighties because
you cannot put that guy. You literally

756
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:22.519
sounded like Bob Kann Goldwa. Yeah, Now who do you got in in

757
01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:27.920
your canyon? Are you going to
give us a good comedian or a suckass

758
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:32.000
comedian? Incredible comedic actor, one
of maybe the top ten greats of all

759
01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:37.480
time, and I'm talking about oh
my gosh, I'm talking about nine,

760
01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:43.079
none other than Gene Wilder. Gane
Wilder. There's another who also came out

761
01:00:43.480 --> 01:00:50.719
in many movies with with Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor right blazing saddles, Yeah,

762
01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:57.559
silver silver strict remember that. So
and he was married with snl actress and

763
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.559
comedian, remember the great Gilda Red
Of course, brother, that's right.

764
01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:05.039
Everything he did he just had that
look that he just knew the way he

765
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:08.960
was going to deliver His line was
hilarious because it was aggressive kind of yelling.

766
01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:14.079
The way he would do it.
It was so so quick, the

767
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:20.079
fatal expressions that he would make mommy, Yeah, you know he was.

768
01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:23.840
He was one of a kind man. When he played the Louie Wonka.

769
01:01:24.639 --> 01:01:29.679
That was bad. When does he
get it? It doesn't? Why not?

770
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:34.719
Because he broke the rules. One
rules. We're gonna say the rules,

771
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:39.159
Charlie wrong, sir wrong. Under
section thirty seven B of a contract

772
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:44.719
signed by him, it states quite
clearly that all offers shall become null and

773
01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:49.159
void if and you can read it
for yourself in his photostatic copy, I

774
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:53.840
the undersigned shall forfeit all rights,
privileges and licenses, hearing and hearing contained,

775
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:59.079
etcetera, etcetera. Facts, mentous, incendium, gloria, culpliment,

776
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:04.280
et cetera, et cetera. Memo, piss punta. It's all there,

777
01:02:04.519 --> 01:02:08.800
black and white, clear as crystal. You stole fizzylifting drinks. You bumped

778
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:13.760
into the ceiling which now has to
be washed and sterilized, so you get

779
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:19.320
nothing. You lose. Good day, sir. That that took, that

780
01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.840
took that character to it brought it
to life. It really did. And

781
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:25.800
don't get me going with with Charlie
and Chocolate Factor, because with Johnny,

782
01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:31.719
what Johnny Depp did in the newer
version is a disgrace that that thing is

783
01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:36.360
something out of a book of Johnny
Depp made it look a little perverted,

784
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:40.480
like he was a gay capturer or
something. You're like, Oh, Johnny,

785
01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:45.840
it was just weird, bro.
Yeah, it came out of something

786
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:50.679
from a late sixties creepy, creepy
movie that would be featured on Elvira.

787
01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:52.760
Yeah. Now, if I was
a kid, I would have got the

788
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:55.440
golden said I'm not going Grandma and
Grandma. That guy's gonna get me in

789
01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:59.719
the button, have a prison sex
with me. Pretend I'm getting the pricking

790
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:02.360
can. He's a freak. Ye, now I've got one for you.

791
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:08.119
Okay. That started his career way
way into into the sixties and seventies.

792
01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:13.639
But in the eighties had a show
that just I mean, it just blew

793
01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:17.400
up here in the United States.
This guy was hilarious as in anything that

794
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:22.920
he did in his show. He
was born on January twenty first, nineteen

795
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:28.960
twenty four, in England and his
name was Alfred Hawthorne Hill, known as

796
01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:37.079
Benny Hill. Okay, thank you, thank you all for being with us,

797
01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:39.719
and we'll look forward to seeing you
all again soon. Until then,

798
01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:45.519
Bye bye, God bless lokoftiself.
Ah. Benny Hill, Oh, Benny

799
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.199
Hill. I mean everybody watched Benny
Hill when they were growing up. I

800
01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:52.840
mean, how could you not watch
Ben Hill slapped that ninety year old ball

801
01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:57.280
guy behind the head and then warm
his hands on women's butts like he was

802
01:03:57.360 --> 01:04:00.840
sticking him in the oven. I
mean that was just that was just every

803
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:08.559
adolescent funny bone get a boner watching
those girls and watching Benny Hill. And

804
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:14.360
Benny Hill. He featured, um, you know, attractive young women that

805
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:18.639
he collectively called or they were known
as Hill's angels. Yes, and you

806
01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:21.760
know the thing a lot of people
don't know is Benny Hill was gay.

807
01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:26.880
Yes, yes, I heard that. It was hilarious because back then it

808
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was unheard of. Right. That
was, I guess one of the greatest

809
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:33.480
oxy morons of all time. Yes. But the thing if you if you

810
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:39.320
try to break down his show in
his style of comedy, he was kind

811
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of making fun of neanderthalic behavior of
a straight man. Right. Ah.

812
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.840
They just saw women as that and
that's what they wanted. That was that

813
01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:50.280
was always on their mind. So
as a gay man, I think he

814
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:56.480
created a brilliant television show in his
style of comedy, and he was mocking

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a straight guys. You know,
that's the way I look at it.

816
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In nineteen eighty nine and he announced
that after twenty one years being on Thames

817
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:08.840
Television, he was quitting and taking
the year off. So his show earned

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01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:14.920
him, and this is nineteen eighty
nine earned him twenty six million pounds English

819
01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.199
pounds. That's a whole heck of
a lot of money. Yes, yes,

820
01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:20.639
that's that's a lot of money.
I wonder if he ever wants to

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go visit the Queen. Ohby make
me laugh so hard? Oh you don't

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01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:36.760
like women? These are do all
my grandsons a game. There is so

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much to talk about comedians here.
I'm back to the eighties, but obviously,

824
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because of time, we just don't
have enough of it. But we

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01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:49.400
promise you that next week we're gonna
bring you a part three of comedians of

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01:05:49.480 --> 01:05:54.960
the nineteen eighties, including female comedians
of the nineteen eighties. We must not

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forget our wonderful female comedians. For
anybody else who wants to listen and be

828
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:01.920
a part of our program, stay
tuned because next week it's going to be

829
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a killer show. I'm Discanna from
Toscano and Chang wishing you the greatest week

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ever and hoping that you take care
and be safe and do a good deed

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this week. Take care Chang here
before I release you to another chang tastic

832
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week and a week, and remember, I have to urge you all to

833
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:20.360
put a smile on that face,
stand up for something bigger than yourselves.

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Remember, everybody out here, stay
lifted and gifted, get each other's back.

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We are all one race, the
human race. So I did you

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01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:34.119
all on? Asta la vista audio, Asta manana sayana And to all the

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homies, what on