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[00:00:08] Speaker A: No, listen, I feel like patient zero, maybe. I. I brought this upon all of us. I. I was. I had that covet.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: I brought in here. Think that because you came in here sick and then the other two people here got sick.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Oh, because people don't get sick any. Any other way. Right?
[00:00:23] Speaker B: I'm asking you why you think that.
Yeah, well, you're getting defensive.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: Well, I. I overcame that, and then I was better for like a week, and then now I was. I was sick again this week. But I think what my problem is. It's that pipe.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Are you still smoking the pipe?
[00:00:43] Speaker A: No, because I was back smoking it last week again. Really chuffing away on it weakened your. Yeah, I don't know.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it's.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: It did a number on me. Brought the cold right back. But, you know, it's. It's a used pipe, so it's got another man's.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: But that's.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: That funk in it.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: That's already gone. Already.
[00:01:04] Speaker A: You think?
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Oh, before you even bought it. I mean, germs can't live that long on a surface.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: I don't. Yeah, I thought so too, when I, you know, bought it.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: But then, you know, it's like smoking.
[00:01:14] Speaker C: Maybe it's his soul. That's.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that's something.
[00:01:17] Speaker C: Yeah, it's not his germs.
His essence and soul.
He was a tortured man, and now he's.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: He's a sickly being, and now he's passed it on. Yeah.
[00:01:27] Speaker A: Yeah, he's. He's entered my body. His. Who knows who this man was? All he knows is initials because it's on the pipe. Djm.
And it's all chewed up on the end. Like, I'm not smoking that pipe anymore.
Could be.
You can't say it's not. Unless his middle initials. Not Jeff, but. Yeah. That pipe. I enjoy smoking it a lot, but I don't think it's good for me.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah. In the wintertime, I mean, that's. I. I won't smoke anything in the winter time anymore.
[00:01:58] Speaker A: You won't?
[00:01:59] Speaker B: No, it's just.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: But that's the time.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: There's too much fire. Yeah. There's just too much already risky with your voice.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I think I was thinking about.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: However, though. I do. Like I. I'm. I'm gonna go every. Against everything I just said. I do love. I. I used to be a cigarette smoker and I quit a long time ago.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: A heater.
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, like a heater I just love. But every once in a while now, if it's like a cold winter night, and you've had a really long day that you just strung together a lot of things. You get home, I'll keep it packed in my freezer and I'll go out back and I'll light one up and I'll just stand there and look at the moon and that cold, silent cigarette.
Have I talked about that before on this podcast? I don't know about it because it's starting to ring a bell. Didn't I say?
[00:02:46] Speaker A: Here we go.
[00:02:47] Speaker C: I think when. When he did his pipe chat.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it's the lover.
[00:02:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: It's the best feeling. I love it.
[00:02:56] Speaker C: DJM means don't judge me in Internet slang. Maybe that was what the guy just had on his pipe.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Doubting the guy that owned that old pipe was in an Internet slang.
[00:03:07] Speaker C: But maybe.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:03:09] Speaker C: Maybe it was like, he could have been a hipster. Maybe it was like Je Dahmer, and he just felt like he was always being judged.
Yeah.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you think serial killers think that way? Like, stop judging me.
[00:03:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Whatever happened to Dahmer? Did he get they off him in prison or is he alive?
[00:03:26] Speaker B: Yeah, he can't be alive.
I have no idea. But I just kind of thought he was still alive.
[00:03:30] Speaker C: No, I think he died in prison. I think somebody killed him recently.
[00:03:34] Speaker B: Really?
[00:03:35] Speaker A: What about John Gacy? Is he still. No, he's dead too, right? John Wayne Gacy, you know, Mark Wayne Geary.
[00:03:41] Speaker B: Jeffrey. Jeffrey Dahmer had dandruff.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Because they found head and shoulders all over his.
It's a Jay Leno joke.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: You heard about that Mitch Manzi joke?
Mitch Manzi did a great Jay Leno. Only guy doing Jay Leno at the time.
The Chicago comedy scene.
Great impressionist Mitch Manzi. Hey, reach out if you're out there, Mitch.
Love to hear from you.
[00:04:11] Speaker C: Jar of pubes.
Do you remember that?
[00:04:16] Speaker B: Sort of.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: What was that?
[00:04:17] Speaker C: It was like your little.
He was like your little acolyte, wasn't he?
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he was my protege.
[00:04:26] Speaker C: I think it was when. When I did.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: He loved me.
[00:04:28] Speaker C: I loved him when I did the hall of Famer, Lincoln Lodge. I think he turned up that week and he desperately wanted to go on stage. And I was like, we're doing the hall of Fame. Like, just sit and watch and enjoy it. And this. Pull out a jar and he's. I've got a jar of pubes. That's like part of the bit.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Prop. You had a prop Jar of pubes.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: So good.
[00:04:51] Speaker C: Hey, talking of great comedians.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, no, we're going to Talk about the greatest comedians we saw in 2024. But speaking of that, you told me that story about Kid Misey and Foster laying him out at the Red Line.
People didn't remember it that way.
They said that's not how it really happened. Well, that's what Geary told me.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Wait. Retell the story so that we know what you're talking about.
[00:05:23] Speaker A: I forget.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: Not the whole story that was given your day.
[00:05:25] Speaker C: I wasn't even there. You. You told me.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: Oh, I told you.
[00:05:28] Speaker C: This is me.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: I can't bell.
[00:05:30] Speaker C: This is me telling it back to you.
[00:05:33] Speaker A: Never mind.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: How many Mary Janes can you fit in your mouth while you tell a story? Let's find it out.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: I'm really liking these Mary Jane. They're sweet, though.
All right, we're gonna talk about the greatest comedians of all time. Christian White. But before that, while you were out, Gary told us where quinoa was from.
You know where quinoa is from?
[00:05:54] Speaker B: Where it's from?
[00:05:54] Speaker A: I didn't know it was from a place, but according to Gary, it's from there.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: I would assume somewhere around the Mediterranean. Yeah.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: I don't know. No, you don't. You don't usually associate it with this place, but apparently quinoa is from Peru.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: That's not too far off.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: As are potatoes, no.
Yes.
Peru has like 87 varieties of potatoes. Trust me, they can't wait to tell you that.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Did you know this as well? In Peru, guinea pig is eaten quite a bit.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Really?
[00:06:33] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Yeah, they roast them on a spit.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: It's probably pretty good.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: I wouldn't think so.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: It's not considered pork, Right. Just because it has pig in the name only.
[00:06:42] Speaker A: That's a good question. No, I think it's rodent.
[00:06:44] Speaker C: I think it's easy to raise.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Well, yeah.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: And they feed them all day and fatten them up.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
Would you try one?
[00:06:54] Speaker A: No.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Well, you're vegan now, right? But if before you were vegan, would you try one? You wouldn't. You have a. What's your.
What's the reasoning?
[00:07:04] Speaker A: It seems gross. I don't would need a rodent mark.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Would you eat a rodent?
[00:07:09] Speaker A: He was there and he didn't eat it.
[00:07:10] Speaker C: No, I passed pass on it. Street festivals and whatnot.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Did you know this about quinoa?
I didn't know it was from Peru, but you might not know that quinoa is extremely gaseous.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: If you eat quinoa. I used to eat a lot of quinoa.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I. I ate a couple cups of it the past 24 hours I've been blasting off. Not in here, but in my private life, I've been blasting off.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: From the quinoa.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Yeah, quinoa and kale.
Kale, too. They'll do it. Yeah.
[00:07:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: A lot of gas.
And I'll say this in regards to rodents, I have one, one, probably many, living in my walls right now at home. I've got rats in the walls.
[00:07:52] Speaker C: Oh, no.
[00:07:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: I don't know where they're getting in, but you can hear them scratching the inside.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: I heard the scratch. Yeah.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Have you had that?
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Yes, I've had that before, matter of fact.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: How did you get rid of them?
[00:08:02] Speaker B: Well, one time I lived over at Campbell Waubensia, right down the street over here, and I had a basement apartment. I remember I was moving in, and the woman upstairs, she yelled down. She said, do you have a cat? I said, no, you ought to get one. Better get one. Right. Exactly. And so, sure enough, I found out why. I just remember, like, at night, I would hear this just gnawing, like, in the drywall. And it was coming in from under my sink. And so they finally did break in there. They broke through. They got through.
And one day I saw one in my kitchen, and it was a big fat rat. And so it flicked on the lights and it ran and it hid up. And so I had this cabinet where the door was ajar just a little bit all the time. It just didn't rest on the hinge as well. So it jumped in there. And so I slammed the door shut on it with the intention to try to get it out of there. But then now I'm realizing my hands on the door, and as soon as I move my hand, it's going to open again and the thing could run away. And I just played a gig the night before, so my keyboard was still in its like case. So you used that from me. So I'm looking at the keyboard, and then I can hear it inside walking all over my silverware.
Oh, my God, my silverware. And so I thought, all right, well, I may as well try 1, a 2, a 3. And I went running across room to grab my keyboard case, and sure enough, it just got down and it ran out.
It went right out the hole that it came through and ate my kitchen sink. And I told my landlord, and the maintenance company came over, and there was a utility room behind my apartment. So they laid a bunch of traps back there. And one night I was out with a bunch of friends, and we all got drunk, and I got back And I went to check all the traps, and there was one rat, the snap trap. Snapped right through his neck and, you know, the tendons hanging out.
Yep. And I picked it up by the trap, I touched the trap, and I picked up the rat. And I walked out to the front of my apartment and I laid it on the curb as if to be assigned to all you other rats in the neighborhood. You enter this place and this is what's going to happen to you.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: And did that solve the problem?
[00:10:01] Speaker B: No, I forgot about it until the next day. I was leaving my apartment with my bike and I saw the rat there and I remembered what I had done.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: No, but did that keep the rats away? How do you know? Did the rats continue to come to the.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Yeah, of course they did.
They didn't get my signal.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: How about you? You got any rats over there in Sacramento?
[00:10:17] Speaker C: Well, we got cats, so nothing's getting by.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Now, if I have rats in the walls, will a cat keep. Not going to keep the rats out of the walls. Right, I understand. They would chase them out of the place if they were in the place.
[00:10:30] Speaker C: Once they're in the walls, you really got to shut it down.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: You got to find where they're getting in. Yeah, yeah.
Bob the rat guy coming.
[00:10:39] Speaker C: Because even. Yeah, I mean, even if you had a cat, it's still not addressing the problem, is it? We had a mouse when. When I was a student, we had this mouse and it would run out of the gas fire into the kitchen.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: The hell's a gas fire?
[00:10:55] Speaker C: Like a little heater in the. In the living room.
And we. We named the mouse SPG Special patrol group after the mouse in the Young Ones TV show.
And we never.
This lazy Welshman who I lived with would just eat their dinner and just slide. Just leave the fucking plates, like, all over the mice.
[00:11:19] Speaker A: Or the mouse.
[00:11:20] Speaker C: Well, just. He was just lazy. So he would leave his half eaten all over the floor. And it's amazing. We have a plague of mice. But one day we found the hole it was going in. We put a brick in front of it.
So when we chased it into the kitchen, it got to the brick. Oh, shit. And what it did is it climbed into the wallpaper.
Like the gap between the wallpaper.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:11:46] Speaker C: And the fucking.
And. And the wall. Because we had.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: You saw, like, going. The shape of it going up into the wall.
[00:11:51] Speaker C: So you can see this bump moving around in the wallpaper.
[00:11:54] Speaker A: Oh, my.
[00:11:55] Speaker C: And so next thing, my. One of my mates put his hands, like, okay, it can't move now. Go Get a shovel.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: He just smashed it.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: So my mate gets his shovel. He comes running in, he goes, all right. On three. Moved, he d.
You know, like. And then two halves of mouse dropped out of the.
Out of the wallpaper.
The place we live was an utter slum, though. I mean, it just.
We had, like, an outside toilet, no heating.
So I'm surprised it wasn't rife with the buggers. Anyway, let's get on to the best.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Speaking of rife, we watch you may be on your best of list.
[00:12:38] Speaker C: How are we doing this? We just couldn't agree. Right. All right.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: So the way we.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Yeah, we've never even talked about it.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Well, I thought we did. I thought we said we're gonna pick our top three and our bottom three.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:12:48] Speaker A: So you give us your top.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Well, here's what's gonna be tough for me, because I. I didn't. When I first started doing this with you guys, I wasn't even part of talking or watching the episode. So I've only seen a few of them.
So your top three and bottom three are gonna be much more important because I'm only gonna be able to pick a couple.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: All right, so are we doing it in order? Like your. Your number one is. Your number one.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: And number three is third place. Like that?
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:13:19] Speaker C: How do we do it, though? Do you. Do you just go, this is Bill's 1, 2, 3.
I go, this is Mark's 1, 2, 3. Christian goes, this is my 1, 2, 3. And then we just argue the toss over what's right and what's wrong.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: No, I think we do our three. Our number three, and then go to our number, like the America pageant.
[00:13:35] Speaker C: All right.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: And then we'll reveal.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: All right.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: Our grand winner. All right, all right.
Who wants to go first?
[00:13:44] Speaker B: I'll do it.
Mine is Corey felt face. Oh, that's not.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: He's not one of these.
[00:13:50] Speaker C: No, he's not in the first series.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Well, I'm going to review Corey felt Randy felt face.
[00:13:58] Speaker B: Is that what it is?
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Jesus Christ.
[00:14:00] Speaker C: Hang on.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: Here are your nominees. Your nominees are.
[00:14:03] Speaker C: Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Go back into the phone.
[00:14:06] Speaker C: No, I'm going to dial up so Christian can play along, because he did.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Mark did send these in a text.
[00:14:15] Speaker A: I might have had that. That Randy felt face in there as well. I loved that.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: You mean Cory. Oh, Randy, Corey.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Randy.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: That's. That's who we're debating.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Randy felt base is not on that list.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: That's.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. Best of 20, 25.
We're a year behind.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: I already know which one I don't like the most. Oh, I've got my second favorite. My favorite. All right.
All right.
Well, one of you guys go. All right, Gary, go ahead.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Who's number three on your list? Three is for your best.
We're gonna do best.
[00:14:47] Speaker C: Best, Best. First, number three best. Adam Sandler.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Okay.
Okay. When are we going to do worse? We can do the best, and then we're going to do the worst.
Tell me about Adam Sandler. You know, before you do, we're.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: We're.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: We're ranking them based on the special, not.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Our overall opinion of the comedian.
[00:15:07] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:08] Speaker A: In the special.
[00:15:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Canon of work.
[00:15:10] Speaker C: The work.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: The special itself. Adam Sandler. I can't remember the name of. Oh, you're my best friend. No, that was Adam Sandler. What was the name of it?
[00:15:19] Speaker C: Them.
Your friend. No, that was Bar Gy. Was it Adam, I love you.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: I love you. Yeah, I love you. Or something like that.
[00:15:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Adam Sandler. That's that. I'm. I'm happy to hear that because you know how much I love Adam Sandler, and I. I expected you to hate it. And when we talked about it, I think we're both surprised how much you enjoyed it. Right?
Well, you're just gonna say that, and then we're moving on.
[00:15:47] Speaker C: I enjoyed the. I enjoyed the.
The ple.
The surprise of it may have been a lot of why I liked it, because, you know, it wasn't just a case of me starting neutral and then Sandler moving the needle to good.
It was a case of starting with, this is going to be abysmal.
And he moved the needle not only back to neutral, but then kept it going.
Yeah, yeah. So it built. So I think he gets third just from the sheer needle movingness of what he was doing.
And, you know, I like. I. Funnily enough, I like the stuff you didn't like. I liked the insane, surreal stuff that he was doing and whatever. And then, of course, there was the. The music stuff was very funny.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: But, yeah, the songs were great, I thought.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: But, yeah, I did like the. The smack in the chops from his weirdness that I wasn't expecting.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he is weird. And that's. I think that's, you know, for me, one of the things that makes him great is how weird and so much of the stuff is always been in his act. Just bizarre and out of, you know, out of left field. I wonder how much you would have liked this. The Live show that he's currently touring with, as there's some. There's some crossover, but he didn't do a lot of the songs from the special in the live show. I think he's just churning out new. Constantly churning out new songs and new material. I actually like the special better than.
[00:17:17] Speaker C: Yeah, you said the live show was a dud, right?
[00:17:20] Speaker A: I didn't say it was a dud. It wasn't a dud. But I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the material from the special.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: Yeah. There's no argument with him being in the top three, I feel.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: What do you mean, argument? Does that mean he's in my top three? Well, I'm not going to say.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: I'm saying no one could argue with him making a top three.
[00:17:37] Speaker A: Oh, I don't. I don't think so. You got any thoughts on that? Adam Sandler, do you remember it?
[00:17:42] Speaker B: That's one of the ones I didn't see.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:17:44] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. He's neutral.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Well, you got to see it.
Dial that one up.
[00:17:48] Speaker C: So who's your three?
[00:17:51] Speaker B: If I'll pick a third place based on. See, that's tough. Well, okay.
I'm going to go with. Patrice O'Neals is my third favorite one purely because I've always really wanted to know why he became such a big influence to the people that he influenced, and that finally gave me an opportunity to find out the reason behind it.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: We're gonna stone him with that.
I love it. And that segues perfectly into mine. And I can. I hate when you're in a meeting and people like. I like to piggyback on what Christian said. I hate that term, piggyback.
They do a new one now. It's not piggyback, but I'm gonna piggyback on what Christian just said about Patrice o' Neill and say that he is my third favorite comedian of 2024.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: That surprises me. I did not think that. You didn't think he was gonna make a list for you. Right. Because I remember you.
[00:18:48] Speaker A: I talked about how much I loved it.
[00:18:49] Speaker C: I thought you didn't like the misogyny of it.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: No, no. I said I did like the misogyny. I do like misogynistic humor a lot.
[00:18:59] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: When done well, misogyny done well, I like.
To me, although he's third on my list.
[00:19:08] Speaker C: He.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: He has the greatest joke of all the jokes I've heard since we started this podcast. And I won't do it justice or have it line by line, but he said having me Work with women is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon dipped in honey.
You do not laugh.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: I remember that. You did like that.
[00:19:29] Speaker C: I love that joke.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: I remember that. Yep.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: A man working with women is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon.
Yeah, I love that joke.
[00:19:38] Speaker C: Was it Manuka Honey or just regular?
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it was Manuka honey.
[00:19:41] Speaker C: Okay, so, I mean, local gives it an edge.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah, Local Manuka Honey. No, I thought like you, Chris, I. I had not seen. I knew of him, but I hadn't seen his actor seen it in its entirety. And I loved his crowd work. I loved how he. He really made people uncomfortable in the crowd with some of that stuff.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: With the misogyny.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: Well, yeah, yeah.
[00:20:02] Speaker B: It wasn't just that, though. It was.
You could. You could see him testing his limits.
Yeah.
[00:20:09] Speaker A: Yeah, he really was. He pushed the envelope to be sure.
But again, it's hard to put yourself back in. When was this? 1996 or something?
[00:20:16] Speaker B: Good point. That's. I was just thinking the same thing. I mean, think about.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: We watched Kinison recently and like. I mean, God, that was 84 as well. Or 87.
And. Yeah. I mean, you just couldn't even utter any of those things today. But, yeah. Patrice O', Neill, number three runner up in the missive, Mr. Comedian Pageant or Mrs. Comedian Pageant.
[00:20:39] Speaker C: We on to then run to two.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: All right, let's. Let's get the ladies involved with the best selling.
Best selling. I think we were all hype on it and I just. I can't remember the specifics now, but I.
It wasn't because I know her, you know, and I like her personally. I just thought it was. Oh, well, do you know the one. The one joke.
The one was the.
She was. She invented a man being in a. In her tent because she was. And then the man became abusive and blood g. Like, that is. That is a standout of the first season that she couldn't. She couldn't even invent a man without him being abusive. And you're laughing because you remember. That's a great joke. Yeah.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: So how well do you know best? I don't remember we talked about it on that show, but, I mean, I know she's.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: I mean, I knew her when she first came into the scene and she was really good and she's a sweetheart and blah, blah, blah, blah.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Was she a large cast member?
[00:21:44] Speaker C: No, no, she. She was pretty much a shooting star. I mean, she was one of those who was like, comes in hot, gets the job done, and then is off to la.
[00:21:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:54] Speaker C: Like pretty done pretty darn quick.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I remember soon after we watched that, then she was here and wanting to see, see her. I think she was at the, the Den maybe or something.
[00:22:06] Speaker C: Oh, she, she triggered the whole issue with your Mrs. Yeah.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: And here we go again. And I can't believe this. This is in, in full transparency. We didn't talk about any of this at all. But my number two is best selling.
[00:22:20] Speaker C: Whoa, look, you are in big trouble.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: 3.
[00:22:27] Speaker C: Yeah, well, no, I mean you're the, you're the bellwether. You're the everyman of this team.
[00:22:34] Speaker B: Right?
[00:22:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I, maybe it's my just wanting to connect with you guys. I think that's it. No, I mean, I, I, I don't, there's not, we've watched quite a few female comedians and I don't need to separate them from males or females, but maybe it's my, you know, inherent bias or my misogyny or whatever it is.
There aren't a lot of female comedians that I do enjoy and I say that my wife has said there is no female comedian that's funny. I think she's changed her opinion. Well, I think it's a Leanne Rogers now. She likes her Leanne Morgan or whatever.
So I'm not, that doesn't come from, you know, just a male perspective. I don't know. There haven't been a ton of female stand up comedians. There's plenty of female comedians that are actor comedians, improvisers, whatever that I think are great, but not stand ups that I've enjoyed and I just so much enjoyed her material. I love the way she delivered the material. She's the antithesis of Joan Rivers. She's not machine gunning jokes at me or like Maria Bamford all manicy like I could, I can't take that. She was just calm and relaxed and funny and likable and I just, yeah, I put her in my top three number two, Christian.
[00:23:57] Speaker B: Yeah, well, to piggyback on that, no.
[00:24:02] Speaker C: I didn't think Stelling was one that you were watching at that.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: No, Stelling, I was watching, I was, I was speaking on the podcast at that point and I did, I loved that special. I thought it was incredible all the way through. She's not my number two, but I have nothing bad to say about that. You're both so right about that. My number two is, it might not be a surprise is Mike Rebiglia. And the reason for that is.
[00:24:29] Speaker C: Woof.
[00:24:30] Speaker B: All right, come on, hold on a second.
[00:24:32] Speaker C: This is gonna, this is gonna so.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Far, nobody has judged anybody on one.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: He did, But I was.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: And all of a sudden.
All of a sudden, it's. It's oof and oof from both sides.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: I was just piling on.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I really liked it because I have listened to and seen that special so many times, and I still laughed at the jokes that I knew were coming. And to me, if I. If there's a. If there's a performer out there that can still get the same reaction out of me that he got out of me 10 years ago, I think that's worth putting on a list of top three look.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: I'm wearing the Mike Birbiglia outfit.
[00:25:13] Speaker B: Oversized.
[00:25:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: You are not sweating.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: It's more of a Jerry Seinfeld. You kind of got the. The. The denim shirt. If it was tucked in.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Yeah, he wasn't tucked in.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: Oh, he was always tucked in.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: No, but Biglia was, right?
[00:25:26] Speaker B: That's what I said. I said Seinfeld. I didn't say Verbigli.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: All right, well, we're talking about Verbiglia.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Except for in that sentence when I said.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: All right, well, you know what? I did not want to watch Mike Berbegli. I didn't. When you announced that, and then I didn't went into it reluctantly, and I always hated him and hated him less after watching it and. And was impressed by it. It was really impressive.
[00:25:50] Speaker C: Hang on, hang on.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:53] Speaker C: I thought you said he was typical of the East Coast.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: Yeah, he is.
[00:25:57] Speaker C: Bully Bostonite that you grew up hating.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: He is. Yeah. And I do hate him, but I hate him less after watching it. I was impressed by his.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Yeah, he was. It was an imp.
[00:26:10] Speaker A: It was impressive, but not enjoyable. And I hate him.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: All right. Yeah. Why are you looking at me? I don't give a.
[00:26:17] Speaker C: There's a defense. Rest.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:19] Speaker A: I don't know if you had anything else to say.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: I was prosecution.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Rest. Give a.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:26:24] Speaker C: All right, here we go. Here's the biggie. Here's the biggie. Well, actually, we should have done those ones.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: I know.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: That's why I was trying to like.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Well, let's jump it right on the mic.
[00:26:32] Speaker C: I'll edit it.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: No, we could do that.
The best. And then we'll do the. The two worst ones.
[00:26:39] Speaker C: So we're doing the best picture.
We leave it with shelving. We've done best actor and Best two.
[00:26:46] Speaker A: Runners up for best.
[00:26:47] Speaker C: Yeah. All right, so we get. We. Now we're shifting to shittiness, right?
[00:26:50] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:26:51] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: Are we doing three shitty ones?
[00:26:53] Speaker C: Yeah, two.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. We'll do three and then we'll do the three.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Seems like a lot, though.
[00:26:56] Speaker C: How many minutes?
[00:26:57] Speaker A: We're doing three.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: We're already at 26, 27 now.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: These are going quick, though.
[00:27:00] Speaker C: All right, we're doing shitty because we. Yeah, we don't want to dwell too much. Am I, Stein?
[00:27:04] Speaker A: No, I am because I haven't gotten to go first. Right.
The third shittiest comedian we saw in 2024, and this was a hard choice. There were a lot of shitty comedians.
Yeah, you chose a lot of bad comedians for us to watch, but the third shittiest. And you, you could put this guy in the. In the shittiest spot too.
But I've got him three because I thought there were two shittier than him.
[00:27:33] Speaker B: Can you drag it down a little bit more?
[00:27:35] Speaker A: Yes. Matt Rife is shitty in the third.
[00:27:38] Speaker B: Shit. I didn't pick that one. You didn't? No. That was you.
[00:27:41] Speaker A: Oh, I picked it?
[00:27:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:42] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Well, I stand corrected.
[00:27:45] Speaker C: I was pressuring you over the old oldness of the people and you said, let's do this guy.
[00:27:51] Speaker A: Yeah, well. Cuz I hadn't seen him. I'd heard about him and yeah, he's so handsome and everything and young, and I wanted to see what it was about and I just hated it. It was. It was like an E. It was like an audience with Matt rife Right where it was Q A in this club.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: He just released another one.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Another one of those.
[00:28:08] Speaker C: Another audience.
[00:28:09] Speaker B: And he's wearing Santa pants.
[00:28:10] Speaker C: Yeah, he's doing a Christmas special.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: I will not be watching.
[00:28:16] Speaker B: I thought about proposing doing a Christmas episode just about that.
So we could talk the whole time.
[00:28:23] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. No, it'd be torture to sit through. I will never.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: I don't want to do it either. Somebody put it on at my sister's house. When I was there the other day, I saw about like five minutes of it. It was awful.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: It was awful.
[00:28:35] Speaker B: It was.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: Is it all Christmas themed questions and who cares?
[00:28:40] Speaker B: It was bad.
[00:28:42] Speaker A: Who cares?
[00:28:43] Speaker C: All right.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: I will never sit through another Matt Rife.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: Good.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: Number three for you. And the worst comedians.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: Christian, number three for me in the worst comedians.
I'm gonna have to go with Larry the cable guy. Oh, it's just such an easy pick. And I don't even think I have to say why.
It really is.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: I. I liked the Larry. I mean, you know, more than I thought I would. I thought it'd be horrible. Right. But I kind of enjoyed it. He made me laugh a couple times.
[00:29:11] Speaker B: It's a tough one between him And Gallagher, you know, like, those are both, like, kind of in the same.
Yeah.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: Yeah. I really enjoyed, like, for a week after watching that, I was doing the Larry, get her done that Gummet.
All right. Yeah. And what about you, number three?
[00:29:32] Speaker C: I'm dying to unleash my third because I know that you guys don't agree with Nick Swardson, who was terrible.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: I didn't hate it.
That's one of the ones I also didn't see. No.
[00:29:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that's when we were picking him. You and I were picking him. I don't know how long that went on, but, yeah, I was disappointed by it. I love Nick Swartzen, but I.
I expected a lot better in the stand up, and it was. It wasn't great. I still enjoyed it, but I understand you're hating it.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: It was a grim exercise in how not to do it.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: I don't think. Would you say he was a bad comedian and forget the material, but, like, he didn't have any.
He didn't have.
What do you call it, the skill set as a comedian? Or he just didn't like his act?
[00:30:20] Speaker C: I definitely didn't like his act. I don't know. I can't remember if he rubbed me up the wrong way in style or whatever.
I can't remember.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: But, you know, it could also be because you don't like gay comedians. That was our. One of our gay comedians.
[00:30:36] Speaker C: Gay comedians. I like the pithiness.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: Okay, so he didn't make the cut for you, or he made that cut for you.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: All right. All right.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: Now on to number two. Since you're just talking, go ahead and give us your second worst comedian.
[00:30:49] Speaker C: You've already covered. We've already covered. Rife.
[00:30:51] Speaker A: Rife. He makes the list. Coming in at number two.
[00:30:54] Speaker B: Rife.
[00:30:54] Speaker C: Unanimous, I think.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: Well, I'm glad to hear that you hated Rife as much as I did.
Anything else to add to the Rife bashing?
Do you think you would have liked him better? I still haven't seen his actual act. I mean, I don't think you call this his actual. Right.
[00:31:09] Speaker C: Yeah. Where he just, you know, I'm going to doubt it.
[00:31:13] Speaker A: I think this audience with bullshit like Rife, and even with Rivers, it's a crutch. I think it's easier to go out and be like anyone and someone asked me anything, and I'll just, you know, if it doesn't go well, I can say, well, the question was shitty. Next. You know, like, I think it's a. It's a hide behind an audience with.
[00:31:29] Speaker C: I don't think that. I think. Because I think these guys already know where they're headed with the answers. It's just.
Yeah, it's just, it's just. It's creating the illusion that to the audience that they're getting something magical.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Being created on the spot.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: And that's all it is. That's the mechanism.
[00:31:45] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:31:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You, number two.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: And speaking of creative on the spot, actually, I think I kind of blew my wad already when I mentioned that Gallagher was the other one I hated because, Mark, your phone has gone black since I was looking at the list, so I don't remember exactly who my number was.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: I don't have a password. So you turn it on.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: Well, I've been tapping the screen.
[00:32:09] Speaker C: No, no, click this side button.
[00:32:10] Speaker A: Oh, it's an Android.
[00:32:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Either way, it's Gallagher.
I mean, that act was just atrocious.
[00:32:18] Speaker C: The one underneath it.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: It doesn't matter. I already picked Gallagher.
[00:32:21] Speaker A: But what made Gallagher so popular during that?
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Another one of those ones. The first one to do it, you know. Well, and he, he, he's, he's for people that will laugh at that shit, and I don't like that sort of humor or people that will laugh at that sort of shit.
Let's see. Looking down this list.
Yeah, yeah, I'll stick with Gallagher.
[00:32:51] Speaker A: Well, Jesus, this is.
It's like we're all on our period together.
What the hell's that?
[00:32:58] Speaker B: Oh, it's when I hold the phone, I think close to that Android.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: That's why you're not getting our text, is because you got that Android. You've got an iPhone, right?
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a problem. Well, my number two is Gallagher as well.
[00:33:11] Speaker C: You were the one pushing for him.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: I never wanted Gallagher.
[00:33:15] Speaker B: That was my thing. I've always hated. I was trying to. Right. And I'm glad I did. I wouldn't go back on it even if I had the opportunity. If I had to do it all over again, I still would have picked Gallagher because we needed something different to talk about than just somebody standing there with the mic. We needed to explore more. Right. Yeah. Otherwise this show gets way too boring.
[00:33:33] Speaker C: Was he our first delving into the.
[00:33:36] Speaker B: History of comedy where we went back?
I think that was. Yeah.
Other than that. I mean, I did pick a Chappelle one that was from 2001, but I think Gallagher was the first one. Like 19 something.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I am glad that we watched it, only because I, you know, I.
I never liked him as a kid, but I never really watched him as a kid. I was just put. Put off by his look.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: Right? Yeah.
[00:34:03] Speaker A: The long stringy hair, slap head, long hair nose, this mustache. And like. But the act was so bizarre and weird, and I don't know what it was.
There was just no dirty watch. Like, it was gross.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: He's gross.
[00:34:19] Speaker A: He's a gross person.
And I hated every single minute of it.
[00:34:25] Speaker C: All right?
[00:34:25] Speaker A: Could have been number one, but I hated somebody even more.
[00:34:28] Speaker C: So what are we doing now? We've got the number one best and worst. Which one's first?
[00:34:33] Speaker A: I think we're. I. You know what? I think we're all gonna have the same worst. Worst.
[00:34:38] Speaker C: Yeah, I think we should all say it at the. I'm gonna count. I'm gonna count down. And we all say it the exact.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: He doesn't even have one. He's just shooting from the hip.
This guy's unprofessional. Bullshit over here. You knew we were doing this.
[00:34:51] Speaker B: Yeah, but I just don't know how to work Mark's phone.
[00:34:54] Speaker A: Well, he had another list. Right, but they're all.
[00:34:56] Speaker B: Well, I already know who my worst one is, but I don't know if it'll be the same as yours. Oh, I bet it.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: Well, I don't know, but I know mine and his are going to be the same.
[00:35:03] Speaker C: Count. Count. I'm counting us down. And we all say not. We all say the. The. Not the Christian name, the surname. So it's just one word.
[00:35:12] Speaker A: What Christian?
[00:35:13] Speaker C: We won't say the first night. You know, like John Smith. We won't say the John. Okay, we will then. All right, all right. Here you go.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: We're saying it on one.
Three, two.
[00:35:23] Speaker C: Three, two, one, go. Right. Three, two, one, brand.
[00:35:28] Speaker B: Go.
[00:35:29] Speaker C: Scene.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: Who did you say?
[00:35:32] Speaker B: Ellen DeGeneres.
[00:35:33] Speaker C: Oh, contrarian.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: Stand her.
[00:35:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: God damn. But she pissed me off.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Yeah, I hated her, too.
[00:35:43] Speaker C: Oh, man, I was really pulling for a Goldstein three way here.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Did you watch the Goldstein?
[00:35:50] Speaker B: That was the. That was that redhead.
But I thought that was in season two.
[00:35:54] Speaker A: What redhead? He's no redhead.
[00:35:56] Speaker C: He's the English guy.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: He's the guy that played Roy Kent on Ted Lasso.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Oh, that guy. He sucked, too. Yeah, I didn't like him, but I hate Ellen more.
[00:36:04] Speaker C: Okay, it's ruined.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: It's not ruined.
That's okay.
[00:36:10] Speaker A: It's okay. I knew we would be on the same page with that. Just one more time. Why is he so loathsome as a comedian? Seems like A nice guy. So.
[00:36:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: Because he didn't write a joke.
[00:36:19] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he wrote jokes.
[00:36:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Did he?
[00:36:23] Speaker C: It's just awful.
What was it again?
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like there's high.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: He had this whole bit about that he doesn't fold his laundry because you may as well just take it out of the dryer. He was just doing shit that he talks to his friends at a bar about and then did it on stage.
[00:36:41] Speaker C: Part of it with me specifically was the. What I call the Uncle Nigel. Like he was doing English stuff that was just like, just bottom feeding bullshit.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: Just hackneyed. Yeah, yeah. I think also too, like, I don't like guys who. It seemed to me. And this is not his career trajectory, I guess, but I don't know. But like, I'd seen him on Ted Lasso and I like the character and they did a good job of that. And then all of a sudden I got to watch this guy do stand up. It's like he's trying to parlay that into stand up.
[00:37:12] Speaker B: Right, right.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: But I think he had been doing know you're lame. But. But it was, it was atrocious.
[00:37:18] Speaker B: It was, it was really a bad one.
[00:37:21] Speaker C: But why? Why you just don't like Ellen and that.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: She's just so full of herself. And I, I, that is, that's a quality in a person that drives me.
That, that is more unattractive than almost anything else. And just because of that.
[00:37:38] Speaker C: God, you must hate being in the Lincoln Lodge every night.
[00:37:40] Speaker B: And why do you think I work during the day?
[00:37:45] Speaker A: You get a lot of Ellen types around here.
[00:37:47] Speaker B: Why do you think I'm up there on a ladder hanging lights?
[00:37:52] Speaker A: I'm with you. But I never liked her. And then as a comedian or as a person and I didn't know why, and then all that shit broke out about what an awful person she was to the people on her show that had worked for her for years and she shat all over them. Then she tried to do a PR job on it, whatever. But to sit and watch her most recent special, to watch her try to vindicate herself throughout it, you know, uses that.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: And my opinion has nothing to do with like the.
All the stories came out about her treating people poorly. That has nothing to do with my pick. It is purely about her special.
And this is. I used to be a big Ellen fan. I remember when I was a kid, my.
My friend's mom had an Ellen DeGeneres tape she would play in the car, and I thought Ellen was hilarious. I would, I would sit there and listen but the person she has turned into, I can't even look at her. Yeah.
[00:38:49] Speaker C: Oh. I mean, I know she was one of the first American comedians I liked when I came here and someone told me even then, oh, she is a bad person. Like, she's all about herself and everything. I was like, well, that doesn't mean that her book that I just read isn't hilarious. And she's got great. I think we said that in the review. Right. We said the whole thing of trying to make excuses is kind of gross, but she still is a damn good comedian.
[00:39:18] Speaker A: Oh, no, I. I would say that. Yeah.
[00:39:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: I remember we did talk about her. Her craft.
[00:39:22] Speaker C: She.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: She was very good at the craft of stand up comedy.
[00:39:25] Speaker C: But anyway.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: All right, so do you want to do for this?
[00:39:29] Speaker C: Do you want to do best picture?
[00:39:30] Speaker A: Yeah, best picture.
[00:39:32] Speaker B: Right.
[00:39:34] Speaker A: Do we want to say them all at the same time again, or do we want to go around?
[00:39:39] Speaker B: No, let's go. I keep.
[00:39:40] Speaker A: You keep trying to look at my list.
I feel like you are. It's like you're copying off my page.
[00:39:44] Speaker C: I'm trying to be better at eye contact these days.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I know it's hard for you.
All right, just quick.
We're about to announce our favorite special.
[00:39:57] Speaker B: That we watched throughout season one. Yes.
[00:40:01] Speaker A: Not necessarily our favorite comedian. Right.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: But the special that we appreciated the.
[00:40:06] Speaker A: Most, the one we enjoyed the most.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Enjoyed the most. Did the most for us personally. Yes.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Just loved it. Renewed our love of comedy.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: Great way to put it. Exactly.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah. It seems like a long time ago, at least for my favorite, but Mark was talking about how. Watch. This is like a Clockwork Orange, I think, for Mark. Right. Like your eyes are being propped open and made to watch comedy you don't want to watch anymore and you're hating everything. Coming.
Coming your way.
So I think we're gonna hear some comedians that. That we watched and enjoyed before that. Before the diminishing returns you spoke of.
[00:40:45] Speaker B: Right.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: Where you're just not enjoying the comedy as much because you're just watching too much again.
[00:40:50] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I just think I'm not hating it all, but I feel there's a diminished term in play.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: This is the end of the year show, and maybe next year, Next year, next week will be a year in review where we've review our year together. But do we need, like, marijuana smokers, a tolerance break, meaning marijuana smokers who smoke too much marijuana, they no longer get the high that they are accustomed to or like. And so they stop smoking marijuana for an extended period of time and Then they start again. They really enjoy their high again. Do we need a tolerance break so that you can enjoy the comedy again?
Because if every week we watch a special and you. You hate it because you're just tired of this watching comedy, then we need a tolerance break.
Or you do anyway. We send you on vacation. No, I don't get you a whore.
[00:41:45] Speaker B: Or how about a variation? I've been sort of thinking of this. What about every once in a while, if we need, like, our holiday break right now, picking a film in which a famous comedian is featured, does some of his. Some of his or her best work in the film. You know, picking something like.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: And I'm.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: This is not. But just something like. Like Christmas vacation, you know, something like that. Or a John Candy, like Planes, Trains, Automobiles, you know, something that some comedian does a different role. So we're not. We're not dissecting just their set. We're dissecting how they've been able to transition into an act.
[00:42:21] Speaker C: Maybe.
[00:42:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Instead of taking a break, we just watch something out.
Another format.
[00:42:26] Speaker B: It's a little different.
[00:42:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good idea. Well, we'll talk about that otherwise.
[00:42:29] Speaker C: But let's offline it.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Offline it.
[00:42:32] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: All right, well, who wants to go?
I've gone for. We've all gone first, I think.
[00:42:38] Speaker B: Right.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Have you gone first?
[00:42:39] Speaker B: I think I have, but I've got no problem going first.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Go ahead, Christian.
[00:42:42] Speaker B: Mine is, without a question, easily, it's Stewart Lee. That was the best one that opened, that rejuvenated what I have missed in comedy for so long.
And it's one of these things Mark had been talking about for a long time. So honestly, I really didn't even think.
I. I didn't think anything going into it, but watching him perform was one of those, like, oh, right. This is what real gold is.
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was just. It was different than everything else I'd seen the entire first season. It was.
It was smart. It grabbed me, and it got me thinking. It showed me something different, which is so hard to do now after you've been inundated by just clips on social media and seeing the same thing over and over and over again, different people doing different versions of it. I feel like he was just a very clearly different voice and different style, and I really enjoyed it.
[00:43:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:44] Speaker A: I mean, I heard Mark talk about Stuart Lee for 25 years and never paid attention or cared to even look into who this guy was.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Right.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: Or, you know, what his comedy was like. Just ignored it because it's British and I don't like things that are British.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: I didn't think I was going to get it. Yeah.
[00:44:02] Speaker A: British humor I never like. Except for snowballs and fish and chips. I like fish and chips. I did.
So I dismissed it out of hand. I didn't want to. And so when you said Stuart Lee or you saying Melissa, I was like, because I don't like it. And lo and behold, my number one Stuart Lee as well. I just loved, I was so taken, taken off guard by it.
I laughed harder than I, I laughed throughout a special. It was long too. I think he did long one. I loved how he on his fans for like 20 minutes at the end and the whole bit at the end. It was, I mean, it was tour de force comedy at the highest level. And I never thought I could like anything British because I don't like anything British.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: I think you're in the Stuart Le. We're in the same boat, I think. I agree. Yeah. I, I, I did not go into, I, I went in expecting to not like it. I came out.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: Maybe that's why I liked it as it, yeah.
[00:45:04] Speaker B: Changing how I thought about.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
Well, that leaves you.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: And I'm going Stuart Lee.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: Really?
[00:45:13] Speaker C: I know that's trite and you're like, well, you, you should have done something. But, but yeah, I just can't.
It's, yeah. Tour de force, you called it. It's just the bit because I'm such a Stuart Lee fan. The bit where he just eviscerated what bore like annoying, boorish fans are.
[00:45:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, my God.
[00:45:36] Speaker B: That's just where he keeps saying his own name. Stuart Lee. Stuart Lee.
[00:45:40] Speaker C: That bit when he was talking about, like, course he's talking about the women in the audience. The problem is you can't even turn me off like you normally would. And like he's, he's sitting in bed and he's going, lord, listen to this bit.
[00:45:54] Speaker B: Because he's Stuart Lee.
Exactly. Yeah. I think about that all the time.
[00:45:57] Speaker C: And it's just like, holy shit, that's, I mean, it's almost like you loving the abuse that you're getting as a fan.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the fans love it. They love to be abused by him.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
But that bit where he talks about. Cause the women in the audience, you've been dragged here against your will and it's like, it's fucking true. It's so true.
[00:46:19] Speaker B: Right.
[00:46:20] Speaker C: So hilarious.
[00:46:21] Speaker B: Right.
[00:46:22] Speaker C: And then the, the what's it bit. The, I mean, I loved Fleabag, but when he like eviscerated fleabag. I'm laughing and I'm like, I love fleabag. So I. I really shouldn't be laughing, but I am because it's.
[00:46:36] Speaker B: Because it's funny.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: Well, I'm not surprised that you love him. Like, if. If when we were doing this exercise, I was like, well, my. You know, I love Adam Sandler. He's my. My favorite. Or I really just blown away by Dave Chappelle, who didn't even make the top three here, but because I was so familiar with them, right. And seen so much of their work that it didn't hit me like that. But you're saying that even having seen all of Stuart Lee's work, that still hits you hard more than any of the other stuff.
[00:47:09] Speaker C: This is probably this one. And I really did think. I was like, God, you can't say Stuart Lee's number one. That's predictable. And try. Then I sat and I was like, you know what?
This was probably his second best special.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Whatever is better than this.
[00:47:26] Speaker C: And I was like, this deserves to be top of this list.
Because even though it's like, yeah, you're already gonna say it's the, you know, great. Blah, blah, blah, no, it is, you know, top draw.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:41] Speaker C: And there's no denying it.
[00:47:43] Speaker A: And I would, if we were to argue who's. Who are the. Who's the best comedian ever was, you know, fruitless kind of debate. But I wouldn't say Stuart Lee's the best comedian ever or my favorite comedian ever. He's not. But this. Seeing this in how new it was and fresh to me, and it really just. It made me love comedy again, love stand up comedy again in a way that I hadn't.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: And so, yeah, yeah, I agree. It was the most memorable one, like, I can remember sitting there on the edge of my chair. You know, normally it's just kind of like slowly paying attention as you're walking around, but that one, locked and loaded.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Yeah. And I want to say this too. I want to say this too, that, you know, you did that for me, and I. And in some way, maybe making you watch Sandler did that for you. Help you appreciate him and his wackiness the way I do. And Christian, you're choosing the majority of these specials. And Felt Face. Felt Face Birbiglia, you know, not to say I liked all of them, but having you choose and introduce me and us to this, these different guys, too, has been. Has been awesome.
[00:48:50] Speaker B: Oh, thanks. That's what I'm going for. Yeah. Trying to.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: So I think. But I don't think that having watched Stuart Lee precludes us from watching another Stuart Lee or, you know, any of the. Right.
[00:49:00] Speaker B: We don't. Yeah. We don't have to make it one and done.
[00:49:02] Speaker A: We're not gonna watch the same special, but watch a different special.
Because I want more.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:06] Speaker A: I want more of him.
More of Beth Selling, more of Patrice o'. Neill.
No more of Brett Goldstein, no more of Gallagher, and no more of Matt Rife.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: But, yeah, we can agree on all that.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:49:19] Speaker C: And we're waiting for Nathan. What's his name to hit?
[00:49:22] Speaker A: Nathan James Lee?
Nate Trenholm.
[00:49:26] Speaker C: No. What was the guy.
Who's the guy you fell in love with?
[00:49:30] Speaker A: Oh, listen, if he was in here.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: Caleb Huron.
[00:49:34] Speaker C: It's not Nathan, it's Caleb.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: Caleb Huron. You know, he might have been the number one. He would have been in the top three.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: Well, that's season two.
[00:49:41] Speaker C: Yeah. He's in the driver's seat for season.
[00:49:43] Speaker A: He is in the driver's seat.
[00:49:44] Speaker B: Yeah. For sure. For sure.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: All right, this was great.
[00:49:48] Speaker C: Now time to go for dinner.
[00:49:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's go have supper.
[00:49:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And for next week, we're gonna make it super easy. We're gonna do another classic.
We're gonna do Rodney Dangerfield, 1986, HBO special.
It's not easy being me.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: I think I've seen it, but I don't remember it.
[00:50:07] Speaker B: I'd imagine you probably have, and it's gonna be an interesting one because there's also other comics involved that were not yet quite famous as they became to be.
So, I mean, I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys think about it.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: Well, the last three. 1987. 1984 was 1986.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: It was 1986. Yeah, that's right.
[00:50:27] Speaker A: My wheelhouse.
All right.
