Review: Elephant In The Room, Patrice O'Neal

[00:00:09] Speaker A: Okay. How was your week off? Christian gave us a week off. Producer Christian gave us the week. You were. Where were you? [00:00:17] Speaker B: I was in North Carolina. [00:00:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:00:18] Speaker A: What are you doing down there, Outer Banks? [00:00:20] Speaker B: I was visiting. I don't know, It's. I was in Locust, North Carolina. It's about an hour outside of Charlotte. I was visiting my grandmother and my. She lives with my aunt and uncle. [00:00:30] Speaker A: What did you do there? [00:00:31] Speaker D: Carolina. That's how they say it. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Nothing, really. [00:00:35] Speaker A: I don't think that's. [00:00:35] Speaker B: There's. They live kind of out in the sticks and there's. I had an Airbnb down the street, so every day I was just kind of going and hanging out with them and, you know, just getting some face time in. You weren't welcome to stay with them with old Grandma? I was, but I like to have my own space, you know, I like to have, like, my own place to wake up at my own speed and not like, step around other people and all that, you know, So I always prefer to get the first thought. [00:00:58] Speaker A: First thought comes to mind is you needed a place to whack it. [00:01:01] Speaker B: That's what I do. In my own space. Yes. [00:01:03] Speaker C: Yes. [00:01:03] Speaker A: You weren't comfortable whacking it in the home of your grandma. [00:01:06] Speaker B: Too close to grandma. [00:01:07] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Wow. [00:01:09] Speaker D: This is a great segue into the thing we're about. [00:01:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it really is. [00:01:13] Speaker C: It really is. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Well, what did you do in your week off? [00:01:17] Speaker D: I highly recommend visiting people, but staying adjacent but not with them. I think that's the perfect solution. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Yes. [00:01:26] Speaker D: Yeah. Cuz you ever want, like, ever just like, oh, I've been here two days. I'm already sick of the. But I can't leave, so I could just take a night off, you know, we can resume tomorrow. [00:01:37] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:01:38] Speaker A: They don't want you there. You don't want to be there either anymore. My mother used to say house guests are like fish. After a couple days, they start to stink. [00:01:48] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Heard that one. [00:01:49] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:01:51] Speaker D: Why do people visit people? No one want, like, you don't want to be there. They don't want you there. [00:01:56] Speaker B: Because now I don't think everybody feels that way, though. I think most people visit people because they do want to be there and see them. [00:02:03] Speaker A: Well, if I have a mate come in from out of town and he's an old mate, then I like him to stay with me because then we could, you know, it's just freeze, you know, it's easier and we spend more time and, you know, if it's a night or two. But I don't want any couple staying with me or anything like that. Just a mate. [00:02:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah. Couples. Too much. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. [00:02:25] Speaker A: I don't have the accommodations either, so it's, you know. [00:02:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:28] Speaker A: Not like you over at palace. [00:02:32] Speaker C: Where. [00:02:32] Speaker A: Many of the country's famous comedians have stayed. [00:02:36] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:36] Speaker A: Eddie Pepatoni. [00:02:37] Speaker D: Too numerous to mention. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Natasha Leggero. [00:02:41] Speaker C: Yep. [00:02:42] Speaker D: Oh, Matt Bronger. [00:02:44] Speaker A: Matt Bronger. [00:02:48] Speaker D: What was her name? [00:02:51] Speaker A: Phyllis Diller. [00:02:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:55] Speaker D: No. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Oh. Oh. Joan Rivers. [00:02:59] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. [00:03:01] Speaker D: Now we're clogging the air up with this. Let's know it's down to business because you've already got. [00:03:05] Speaker A: I wanted to know. Just. I. I want to know what you did last week when we weren't here. [00:03:09] Speaker D: I was probably. I probably came here and just did regular, like, actual fruitful work. [00:03:18] Speaker A: Why don't you invite me? I was sitting around. Well, I was sitting around, but I was sitting. But I wasn't sitting alone. [00:03:29] Speaker D: You'd be no good around a drill or an angle. [00:03:31] Speaker A: No. I want to learn stuff, though. I want to be more handy. You got any internships this summer? [00:03:38] Speaker D: No. [00:03:39] Speaker A: How about hiring high school children? You got any openings for high school kids? [00:03:44] Speaker D: The Catholic church? [00:03:45] Speaker A: No, they're. They're 18. [00:03:49] Speaker D: What have we got to do? This? [00:03:52] Speaker C: Got a. [00:03:52] Speaker A: Like a mop job for somebody. [00:03:55] Speaker C: Who know. [00:03:57] Speaker B: I don't think so. [00:04:00] Speaker A: A John Springsteen type job? [00:04:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:03] Speaker B: They could sit at the door. [00:04:04] Speaker A: Sit at the door? [00:04:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:06] Speaker A: You can pay them five bucks an hour. Some. Something like that. [00:04:09] Speaker B: Like 560. [00:04:10] Speaker C: Yeah. All right. [00:04:11] Speaker A: I got a couple at home. They're looking for work. They're looking for hiring. [00:04:15] Speaker D: Well, you should get them under the bonnet of that bloody old Volvo and say, sort this out. [00:04:20] Speaker A: I need you to sort that out. That's a problem. [00:04:22] Speaker B: Was that your scooter? That you. [00:04:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:23] Speaker A: You saw me on that? [00:04:24] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:24] Speaker A: You like that? [00:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's cool. [00:04:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:26] Speaker D: Motorcycle? [00:04:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Just replace the battery in that thing myself. Put that acid in it. You pour some kind of liquid in it? [00:04:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:37] Speaker B: Into the battery? [00:04:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:04:38] Speaker C: Wow. [00:04:38] Speaker A: You got to do that charger. You got to get a trickle charger. [00:04:41] Speaker D: You don't put acid. You put distilled water. [00:04:44] Speaker B: Did you put acid in it? [00:04:45] Speaker A: I put battery acid in. [00:04:48] Speaker D: Turns to acid. You put distilled water and charge it up. [00:04:52] Speaker A: Tomato, tomato, same difference. You're always so. It's such a hurry to get to this. [00:04:59] Speaker D: I know. I'm so excited. [00:05:00] Speaker C: You are? No, no. [00:05:05] Speaker D: You don't put acid in a battery. I don't want to dwell. [00:05:09] Speaker A: I don't it said, don't spill this shit. You don't want water because I don't spill it. Or you could be like a toxic situation. It's a. It was a 12 volt battery. [00:05:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:23] Speaker D: Should get a gel battery. [00:05:24] Speaker A: This is a gel. [00:05:26] Speaker D: Are you pouring gel? [00:05:28] Speaker C: No. No. I don't know. [00:05:29] Speaker B: Pouring acid. [00:05:30] Speaker D: Batteries Now, a lot of them come with a gel so they're not slopping around. [00:05:34] Speaker B: It's a really old. [00:05:35] Speaker A: You were wrong, by the way, on that diagnosis. When I reached out to you, you said you checked the spark plugs. I don't know where the spark plugs are number one. [00:05:44] Speaker C: So that. [00:05:45] Speaker A: No, that wasn't it. And I. I suspected it was the battery because it would start on kick in warm weather, but in cold. [00:05:51] Speaker D: I asked you if it would start on kick. [00:05:53] Speaker A: You did not ask me that. [00:05:54] Speaker D: You just gave me some sass back. [00:05:56] Speaker A: No, you gave me sass. You said, check your dick or something. [00:05:58] Speaker D: Does it start with a kick? And no response. [00:06:02] Speaker A: I was mad because you cocked me off when I asked. It was the battery, not the spark plug. [00:06:10] Speaker D: If you answered truthfully about the kickstart, I would have gone straight to battery. [00:06:18] Speaker A: Do you need a battery to Kickstarter? No, not at all. Doesn't need the battery. The battery was doing nothing at all. [00:06:24] Speaker D: A battery. [00:06:25] Speaker A: How do the lights turn on then? The headlight went on. This is like car talk with the. [00:06:30] Speaker D: A motor can power the lights and the ignition on its own. [00:06:36] Speaker A: The motor. [00:06:37] Speaker D: A motor on its own should be doing three things. It should be powering the spark plug. It should be doing the lights and whatever other. And it should be topping up the battery right as it's running. So. On a motorcycle. All right, then shut the up about it then. [00:06:56] Speaker B: This is like comedians outside of Cars getting angry. [00:07:02] Speaker A: Well, I. I only went into snooze mode there because I don't know what you're talking about. I don't want you to waste your breath. I have no idea what you're saying. It's like I'm looking at you, but I don't, you know? [00:07:10] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:07:12] Speaker A: I appreciate the explanation. [00:07:13] Speaker D: Maybe. Maybe there's one of the throng of people listening to this, like. Oh, I know. [00:07:17] Speaker A: Well, I want to make. Before we get started here, I want to make one announcement. Number one, the Evening with Adam Croesus for March 29th is canceled. Tickets will be refunded if you come to the Lincoln Lodge. Come to the box office, and they will refund your money for those he's. [00:07:33] Speaker D: Pulling, which would be amazing. Considering we never published the ticket link. [00:07:37] Speaker A: I was already working on a poster that's canceled. And then also I announced this podcast to people that I know. [00:07:47] Speaker C: Whoa. [00:07:48] Speaker A: That was an informal announcement. Today at coffee with some fellows, I mentioned that I'm doing this podcast. They looked it up on the phone and then they circulated it around. So we're about to quadruple our listening audience today. [00:08:05] Speaker C: Hear that? [00:08:06] Speaker A: All right, so we're on our way. [00:08:08] Speaker D: All right, I'll publish some more then. Because I forgot to. [00:08:11] Speaker A: The last two weeks, not a lot of positive feedback on the sloth, though. They didn't understand that, and I was hard pressed to explain it. The sloth character. [00:08:20] Speaker C: How about. Yeah, I don't know. [00:08:23] Speaker A: What do podcasts look like on the picture? [00:08:26] Speaker C: What do they have there? [00:08:27] Speaker A: You have faces of the people. [00:08:28] Speaker D: You have one of those old ribbon mics, you know, A sure. Ribbon mic. No one fucking uses but every comedy poster. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Because it looks cool. [00:08:38] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Can I do a poster? Can I. Can I draw the artwork for it? [00:08:41] Speaker D: That'd probably be. I wouldn't. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Well, let me try and then. [00:08:46] Speaker D: But you got to do one for every episode. [00:08:48] Speaker A: No, no, no. You don't do one for every episode. Yeah, that's sloth. Like the main. The. [00:08:53] Speaker D: Oh, the main thing. You can do that if you want. [00:08:55] Speaker A: Yeah, you do it one for every episode. [00:08:58] Speaker D: Yeah, because I do. I get. I go into AI and I pick a highlight of the episode. Right. So first one has a donkey jumping into the pool. Because of that second one, I think Maria Bamford has, like, a Harvard sweater on the sloth, because she is the Harvard bit. I put in. I put into AI. Children following pest control thing for Wanda Sykes. And it just drew it. [00:09:28] Speaker C: Like, really. [00:09:28] Speaker D: It just drew it. [00:09:30] Speaker A: It's kind of amazing. [00:09:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:31] Speaker D: Was it Children following mosquito control truck draws it? Yes. No, with sloth and it just goes. There you go, mate. [00:09:41] Speaker A: So the sloth was the mosquito control guy. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Yeah, he was driving the truck. [00:09:45] Speaker A: Is a sloth in all of them? [00:09:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Yes. [00:09:48] Speaker A: You're married to that sloth? [00:09:49] Speaker B: I guess Sloths, are they slow drivers? [00:09:52] Speaker D: No, he's not in it. He's. Him and some kids following the truck like they were in the one. [00:09:58] Speaker A: You didn't listen to that episode? You weren't involved? [00:10:00] Speaker B: No. Yeah, I wasn't. Fully bystander. [00:10:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:04] Speaker A: Where they're asleep at the controls. [00:10:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:05] Speaker B: Barely awake. [00:10:07] Speaker A: All right, well, let's get into this one. Patrice O', Neill, 30 minutes in, we're already. I don't have time for this. I gotta go to the game. [00:10:14] Speaker D: That's what I'm saying. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Oh, I got 30 minutes right out of here. I can't talk any more. Small talk. [00:10:21] Speaker B: No family talk. We did it anyway. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I didn't have time for this. Big game today. Cubs versus socks. Okay. Patrice o'. Neill. You. You picked this one. And I remember you saying something like, this is the. What did you say? This is like, the best ever. [00:10:37] Speaker B: I'd never seen it. I wouldn't have had some opinions on it. Yeah. I knew him as being one of the. Regarded as one of the better comedians out there by other comedians. And the reason it was on my radar was that I was listening to the Bill Burr podcast and they just had the Patrice o' Neill yearly benefit comedy show where they raise money for his family and diabetes research, I think. Exactly. [00:11:02] Speaker C: Yep. [00:11:02] Speaker B: And so then. And so I thought, you know, I've never actually sat down and watched Elephant in the Room. This would be a good time to do that. [00:11:08] Speaker A: How about you, Marcus? You ever see this one? [00:11:11] Speaker D: No, I. I mean, I just. Same story as Christian. I'd heard him massively respected, like the guy. Blah, blah, you know, Giant. That was taken too soon. All the usual. [00:11:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:22] Speaker D: Stuff. I never knew he was a Southie like you. [00:11:25] Speaker A: No, I found that out. No, I didn't either. [00:11:27] Speaker C: He. [00:11:28] Speaker A: I, you know, I rarely do research for this program, but I needed to know a little more, and he. When I. I started in 98 in Boston and he left in 98, so I never saw him. A comedy connection or the comedy vault? You want me to go through all the places? [00:11:48] Speaker D: Dick Doherty's comedy vault. Always qualify it with Dick Doherty's comedy vault. [00:11:56] Speaker A: So I didn't know of him. I didn't know him when I was there. And then, you know, when he was making hay, you know, that's when I went into my Yoda state of. Went away. I went into exile. So, you know, I didn't watch any real comedy, so I. I knew of him, but I hadn't seen his act, and, man, I don't want to show my cards right now. Well, let's go. [00:12:20] Speaker D: Let's go. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Let's do it. I love. I loved the crowd work that he started off with. [00:12:28] Speaker D: That was Scarlett Johansson. [00:12:30] Speaker A: That looked like her, didn't it? [00:12:31] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Was it her? [00:12:32] Speaker D: No. Three times I rewound. I'm like, was that Scarlett Johansson? Yeah, because it looked exactly the same. That's the woman whose tits. He immediately started commenting. [00:12:42] Speaker A: No, that was another. It was the other woman. There was another woman in the front. [00:12:46] Speaker D: Row who Looked like Emily Derisa's, just FYI. [00:12:50] Speaker A: Well, an African American name. [00:12:51] Speaker D: No. Okay, okay. No. The two women that were sat together, one of them was like. One of them was vaguely Theresa's and then the other was full on. [00:13:01] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, she did look like. And now they mentioned it looked like Theresa's shout out to Derisus. Yeah, she's listening. She listening. [00:13:11] Speaker C: You did? [00:13:11] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:13:12] Speaker C: Okay. All right. [00:13:13] Speaker A: So people know about it. [00:13:13] Speaker D: I was having a text thing with her and Ryan Ridley. [00:13:16] Speaker C: Really? [00:13:17] Speaker D: Yeah. And so I took the opportunity. You see, I'm always, always closing. [00:13:23] Speaker C: You are. [00:13:25] Speaker A: So he comes and does a lot of crowd work. I mean, now we're seeing some people these. These past couple specials who can really do crowd work. Stuart Lee was amazing at crowd work. To me, maybe the best ever. This guy's really good at crowd work. The guy who does a special about crowd work, Matt Rife, is. It couldn't be worse. He was the worst of them all. But I thought he had a great, great crowd work. It'd be a too little, too long, but I think that's his style, right? [00:13:53] Speaker C: Like that. [00:13:54] Speaker A: Seeing him for the first time, really, it's. He's going to take his time. [00:13:58] Speaker C: Right. [00:13:58] Speaker A: He's going to repeat over and over. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:04] Speaker A: He's not trying to fill it with joke after joke after joke. [00:14:06] Speaker C: Right. [00:14:06] Speaker A: He's going to. [00:14:07] Speaker D: Yeah, but what would you think? I mean, I looked up. Wow, it's 2011. He's not getting away with this now. [00:14:15] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. [00:14:16] Speaker C: Right. Like. [00:14:19] Speaker A: Yeah, no, no. Even in 2011. I'm trying to. What's going on the year 2011? So it's 10 years after you reference Obama. So Obama's president. Those are some good bits about Obama. [00:14:36] Speaker D: I was trying to think, would he get. You know what I mean? At the time. [00:14:38] Speaker A: What's the zeitgeist in 2011? [00:14:41] Speaker D: Ten years after nine. Eleven, right. [00:14:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:14:44] Speaker D: So that. [00:14:45] Speaker A: It's pre. Me too. [00:14:47] Speaker D: It's free. Me too. [00:14:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Right. [00:14:51] Speaker A: It's pre Cosby and all that. [00:14:54] Speaker C: Right. [00:14:54] Speaker D: When did Cosby go down? [00:14:56] Speaker A: I think 15, maybe. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:00] Speaker D: Okay. So he's sneaking it into the wire. He's sneaking it under the wire. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Wildly, as he would say. He wouldn't use the term inappropriate. He calls that a vaginal term, which I love. We call it inappropriate. A vaginal term. Yeah. So, I mean, the sexual harassment bit may be one of the best bits, you know, the best chunks I've heard of anybody. You put that up there against anybody. The line where he says, I Couldn't stop laughing out loud like belly. And that's rare. When we watch all these specials, it's rare to really be belly laughing when he says having men work with women is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon. [00:15:51] Speaker C: Right. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Is that. That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. [00:15:54] Speaker D: Yeah, well, he's. I don't know. So it's called Elephant in the Room. And I was like, okay, he is just full on here. Right. And I was trying to think, how's he getting away with it? [00:16:05] Speaker A: Well, what do you mean? That's a double entendre. Right. The elephant in the room, he. Because he's fat. No, I think. [00:16:12] Speaker D: I think he's talking about. I'm gonna say some shit that a lot of people. [00:16:16] Speaker C: That. [00:16:16] Speaker A: It also means that. [00:16:17] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does. [00:16:18] Speaker A: But I mean, it's a reference to his weight. [00:16:21] Speaker D: No, I don't. I think it's more a reference to. I'm gonna say some stuff here that definitely. That is the elephant in the room. [00:16:30] Speaker B: I agree with Bill, though. I think it's also that he's the elephant in the room. [00:16:33] Speaker A: He's a big boy. [00:16:34] Speaker D: He's a big lad. Yeah. I mean, he died, what, less than nine months later. [00:16:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Which is crazy, right? [00:16:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I was never really sure how he died. And then when I actually read about, I thought it was just like maybe a heart attack and he was gone like that. They found him like that. But then to find out that he was actually alive for maybe like a week or two as they slowly. [00:16:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:53] Speaker B: Disintegrated. [00:16:55] Speaker C: Really sad. [00:16:55] Speaker D: And it's weird because he was like a high school big time sportsman and football player. [00:17:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:01] Speaker D: So he must have really packed on the poem. [00:17:04] Speaker A: It was the diabetes. [00:17:05] Speaker C: Right. [00:17:06] Speaker A: I mean, that just. [00:17:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:08] Speaker A: That led to a stroke that led to all kinds of complicated. Yeah. So he was sloppy, I would say, like, in terms of we're like going to break down the craft and all that. Like, I thought he was kind of sloppy, but also, I mean, the writing is brilliant, I think, within that slap. So I always appreciate that when we see a comedian who's. I don't like a very polished comedian. [00:17:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:32] Speaker A: Stuart Lee was. He's great writer, but he's also sloppy. [00:17:36] Speaker C: Right. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Would you say? Yeah, but someone like Bargazi is so tight and neat and like, you know, it's word economy to the nth degree. It's a. I don't. For me, I want somebody to be sloppy. See, I like type tight acts, you. [00:17:53] Speaker D: Know, I don't mind sloppy in a club environment because that's the. That's the humanity of it. I do want it to be a bit tighter when it's on telly because it's. You know, I'm not gonna enjoy it. The sloppiness, because I'm not physically there in the room enjoying it. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Yeah, no, no, it's just more real to me. [00:18:18] Speaker C: Right. [00:18:19] Speaker A: The artifice. A lot of these specials have, you know, like, with the bullshitty intro and the getting ready and coming out and, you know, the shit is edited to take out any imperfections. I don't want that. It's like airbrushing a woman. [00:18:31] Speaker C: Right? [00:18:32] Speaker A: I want to see. I want to see her mole. I want to see her flab. I want to see her stretch marks. I want to see her genital warts. Am I. Maybe I'm channeling him. [00:18:46] Speaker C: I love. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Well, I love this material. I mean, the material was amazing. [00:18:51] Speaker D: Clearly, you would. Because it was filth from beginning to end. [00:18:54] Speaker C: It was filth. [00:18:56] Speaker A: It was filthy, and I love that. [00:18:58] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker D: Filth from beginning to end, wasn't it? [00:19:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. It got. Certainly seemed to get filthier right in the closer, which we'll get to. I thought it was amazing. [00:19:10] Speaker D: I mean, he started off with, you know, how long would they look for a white woman? As opposed. And that. That's kind of a standard. Yeah, like, bit now, I feel. [00:19:19] Speaker B: So that's what I was wondering, too. I was wondering. I mean, he got the reaction as if, like, nobody's ever heard this before, you know? Whereas now we've been beaten over the head with it. [00:19:28] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:19:30] Speaker D: So I feel like he must have invented that bit. [00:19:34] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. [00:19:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:19:36] Speaker A: I thought that was something. You know, think about the time, when he referenced Joran Van Der Sloot. [00:19:43] Speaker C: Right. [00:19:43] Speaker A: The guy who killed Natalee Holloway. And then he was already onto his second murder, Right. He had murdered somebody else somewhere else. I couldn't believe that that was that long ago. Fucking. [00:19:55] Speaker D: I didn't remember that. [00:19:56] Speaker A: 15 years ago. [00:19:57] Speaker C: Right. [00:19:58] Speaker A: That seems like it was five years ago. [00:20:00] Speaker D: I don't remember that story at all. No, no. [00:20:02] Speaker A: I had to Google, you know, guys don't remember that story. [00:20:04] Speaker C: That was a big story. Yeah. [00:20:07] Speaker A: So that kind of placed me in time. I mean, it wasn't all dirty. I mean, he was filthy, and I love the way he was. I love. I love that he was unapologetic, I think, you know, at the risk of getting canceled right now, I think that's something we need, right? Some unapologetic comedy, Right? Like this, like, I wish how he says, like, it's not right, that I can't sexually harass you. [00:20:35] Speaker C: Right. [00:20:36] Speaker A: Like in the office, if we work together, I should be able to, you know, comment on your body parts. [00:20:41] Speaker D: Well, could you imagine that now? [00:20:44] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:20:46] Speaker D: And he, I think at the time it was understood he. Was he parodying it? I don't know. Or the way through. I'm like, is he parody? Is this parody? Is this like, what's he saying here? It's truth and jest. [00:21:00] Speaker A: It's truth and jest, Right. Like most comedy. But I think you could say that now, right? It would be absurd and hilarious and you could. It's comedy, right. It's still comedy. [00:21:14] Speaker C: Right. [00:21:14] Speaker A: It's only wrong if you do it. Like he says, like, I don't believe in violence against women, but I believe in thinking about violence against women. [00:21:25] Speaker C: Right. [00:21:26] Speaker A: Like our thoughts and what we say. It's all under the umbrella of comedy. And the umbrella's gone. Right. You know what I mean? That's the problem. And so I feel like you should still be able to do that. To actually sexually harass. No, but like to talk about it like this was so refreshing to be able to hear it again. And we used to hear this kind of act where some of us would. [00:21:51] Speaker D: Do this kind of act badly at every open mic. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Like the great Chicago comedian Khalil would talk about kicking a woman in her box, you know, and I don't think Khalil ever did that. [00:22:08] Speaker D: I thought he got cancelled. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Did he? I don't know. I'm not up on these things. Somebody canceled him. I think you have to be relevant to be canceled. [00:22:16] Speaker C: I don't know. She's. [00:22:17] Speaker A: Hope Khalil's not listening. Just called him Irrelevant. Khalil, if you are listening, reach out to me offline. I had a cancellation in a recent show and I want to see if we can bring back let's Bum out Chicks too. So now I. [00:22:36] Speaker D: Talking of bumming out chicks. So did you notice start of the start, they were obviously going into the audience shots very frequently, right? [00:22:45] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:46] Speaker A: And they were squirming. These people were squirming. [00:22:49] Speaker D: The two women, the two Derrice's women. [00:22:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:53] Speaker D: By the end, were not laughing along. When they got up for the standing, I noticed one of them was looking like. [00:23:02] Speaker B: Yeah, the one in the white anymore. The one that had been in the relationship for 10 years, wearing the white top. She was the most reluctant. She looked around as everybody else was doing the standing. Ovation. She rolled her eyes, stood up and like, slapped her hands together three times until she's like, I'm not doing this anymore. And just kind of put her hands at her side and she was, she was not having it. [00:23:18] Speaker C: Yep. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Do you think I didn't look closely. I did see some, you know, disgust on her face though, at times. But do you think that's because she was singled out and just didn't want to be a part of the show or because the actual material about her. [00:23:34] Speaker D: Husband killing her, possibly five minutes of having the spotlight on you, talking about how your husband wants to kill you might have rubbed her up the wrong way. [00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but you're sitting in the front row, right? [00:23:50] Speaker D: Yeah, but she probably, oh, I got great tickets for this comedian. I like. Well, my husband likes. [00:23:55] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Well, she should be mad at the husband, not, not the performer. [00:24:01] Speaker D: I think some of them front row people went home and were like, not digging that. [00:24:06] Speaker B: There were some arguments in the car for sure. [00:24:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:10] Speaker A: Well, that Scarlett Johansson was not. Didn't seem too comfortable with being singled out for being a high level white woman. High level show is great. [00:24:25] Speaker D: You got to assume anyone going to a Comedy Central taping likes the comic, right? I mean, they had to work hard to get the tickets, I'm guessing. [00:24:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:39] Speaker A: I mean, yeah. I mean, listen, whether you know the comedian, you, you have to be an idiot to know regardless of who the comedian is, if you're sitting in the front row at a comedy show, you're, you're fair game. If you don't, you don't like it, you don't sit there, no matter who it is. Now, I, I don't know if he's, he's known for this at the time, for this kind of crowd work, I. [00:25:01] Speaker D: Would think he'd have to be right. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Yeah, right. But we went and saw a friend of mine, invited me to see Jeff Ross when he was in town a couple weeks ago. [00:25:10] Speaker C: And. [00:25:13] Speaker A: It was, we were in the front and the guys I was with and some of the guys I didn't even know were all kind of, you don't want to be here, buddy. You got to get it right where you're sitting. And it's like, yeah, but you know, you know what you're getting into. If you're going to sit there, you're going to be part of the show, most likely. [00:25:30] Speaker D: For a minute. Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker A: For a minute. [00:25:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:32] Speaker A: You think it was too long. So you think he crossed the line? [00:25:36] Speaker D: I mean, to me, didn't cross. If I was that Person in the front row. I wouldn't have been happy. [00:25:41] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Do you think the guy handled it well, at least if we're talking about this, you know the. [00:25:48] Speaker D: No. Because he used. Patrice o' Neill, used it brilliantly. Then he. When he. How would you kill her? [00:25:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:54] Speaker D: And then he's like, you're trying to get me killed. And then he used it brilliantly to say, you obviously think about it and you got the balls to say it. [00:26:01] Speaker A: If some. If a comedian asks you how you would kill your wife in front everybody, would you answer that question? I was thinking about my answer. I was like, I probably. I would tell the comedian I've drowned her or something like that. [00:26:16] Speaker D: What would I answer? I'd probably be trying to think of something funny to, like, diffuse, like. Because that's what he did, right? He's like, diffuse, diffuse, diffuse. Okay. Yes. Say this. And Patrice o' Neill is obviously ready for it. He's got every. He knows every potential response. And that's one on a thing that annoys me about comedians that do shit crowd work. You ask a person in the front row a question, there's a very limited range what they're gonna come up with. Yeah, depending on the question, obviously. [00:26:53] Speaker A: But I don't know because. [00:26:55] Speaker D: So you should have an answer. [00:26:58] Speaker A: You should be able to anticipate what the answer might be. But. But a. Comedy shows, like you just said, like, you're sitting there. People who are fans of comedy generally sit in the audience. And like, there was one guy, I remember a show who. He just wanted to be part of the show. They wanted the people that go to the shows that sit in the front, they want to be comedians. [00:27:20] Speaker C: They. [00:27:20] Speaker A: They're not, but they want to be part of. They want to be seen. And so they'll say something you can't anticipate, like something, you know, stupid. [00:27:29] Speaker C: Right. [00:27:30] Speaker A: And then you have to feel that shit. [00:27:32] Speaker C: Right. [00:27:33] Speaker A: So I don't think it's as predictable as, you know, I mean, I saw. [00:27:38] Speaker D: Jude a Freelander once, and, you know, he does the whole watch your job. And then he'll say, yeah, I did that. And he says it to every single person that I did that. And then would have it. And I'm like, that's genius. And I thought, well, yeah, how many times is he going to get lawyer doctor? [00:27:55] Speaker C: What? [00:27:55] Speaker D: Like, he's got to have these. [00:27:58] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:27:59] Speaker D: Queued. Yeah, he's going to get. Occasionally. Oh, that one I didn't expect. You know what I mean? [00:28:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:05] Speaker A: But did you get the sense with. With Patrice o', Neill, that this guy had shopped. Not shopped isn't the right word. Had taken this act round and round and round. Done this act, this very act, many times before this special. I didn't get that sense. [00:28:23] Speaker D: This is the best of. [00:28:25] Speaker A: You think so? I think every special generally is. But for. I don't know, I just didn't get the sense that. I mean, I'm not saying he hadn't done these bits before. I know that. [00:28:33] Speaker D: But like, I don't know, maybe he's not a guy that has it work. [00:28:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:38] Speaker D: That's fact. And just. [00:28:39] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:28:42] Speaker D: Come on, help me out. What are you thinking? [00:28:46] Speaker B: Well, if he's done this before. [00:28:47] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:28:48] Speaker B: I was reading this Wikipedia and when you were saying earlier you're wondering if he. If crowd work was his big thing. I guess that's the way he started out. That's how he was first noticed was. [00:28:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:57] Speaker B: He was just saying work abilities. [00:28:58] Speaker C: Yep. [00:28:59] Speaker B: And then that's how he got some opportunities. And so I think for sure he has things ready to go. I mean, obviously he does, Mark. But yeah, I would say these are pretty rehearsed just knowing his background from what I read on Wikipedia, because then he went on to Opie and Anthony and he was kind of doing like that sort of stuff on the radio show. [00:29:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:23] Speaker A: What sort of stuff? [00:29:24] Speaker B: With callers. With callers? Yeah. Like conversational comedy. [00:29:28] Speaker C: Huh? [00:29:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess that that. [00:29:30] Speaker D: Was he a sidekick then? [00:29:32] Speaker A: Kind of. He was kind of like, you know, Monty to man Cow or Eisenstein. No, I don't think so. That is its own genre. [00:29:48] Speaker C: Right. [00:29:48] Speaker A: Of comedian is the conversational comic. [00:29:52] Speaker C: Right. [00:29:52] Speaker A: Who converses with the audience and builds the act around that. Not, Not a crowd work comedian, but a conversational one. [00:30:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker A: I don't know. Anything that allows for space. [00:30:06] Speaker C: Right. [00:30:06] Speaker A: For a comedian to improvise, find something random, go in a different direction. That's what I felt like watching him was he did have all these bits. I know. In these chunks. I know that. But I, you know, if we're looking at percentages, I would say, I don't know, 20, 25% of that was impromptu or was improvised that way anyway. And I don't think he's that kind of comedian. That makes it feel like it's, you know, the first time he's doing it. He just seemed. Doesn't seem like that. He seemed genuine. [00:30:42] Speaker C: Right. [00:30:42] Speaker A: Like, that's what I'm always looking for in comedies. Is this guy just a fucking guy who goes from room to room to room and Doing the same shit? Or is this guy that brings his general act around conversational or dirty or filthy and just has his, you know, chunks, but he just kind of goes with it. That's how he felt to me, is that kind of comedian. And I think that's, you know, the best. [00:31:04] Speaker D: Well, that's the best comedy experience. But to be honest, I feel like a really good comedian can almost fake that. [00:31:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. [00:31:15] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:17] Speaker A: But they're not going to fake us, right? We're experts. [00:31:21] Speaker C: We are. [00:31:23] Speaker D: Well, I. [00:31:25] Speaker A: Privy to the game. [00:31:30] Speaker D: I think Patrice o' Neill could riff if he wanted to, but I don't think he was doing it in this special. I think he was doing greatest hits and he knew exactly where he was going with his audience at all times. I don't think there's any loose cannon in this. Maybe when he toured, it was a goddamn free for all. I would imagine it was. But I. In this recording. And when. What did you watch? Because I. I read a thing online that said the original cut of this was 45 minutes, but I watched an hour and 17. [00:32:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:32:05] Speaker A: That's what you sent us. [00:32:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:06] Speaker A: How could it be? [00:32:09] Speaker D: Because he was calling footage. [00:32:10] Speaker C: They just. [00:32:11] Speaker D: Just hack it out. [00:32:13] Speaker A: Right? So that's what I'm saying, right. Normally it would be 45 and it would be. They would take out all the impromptu shit. [00:32:20] Speaker C: Right. [00:32:21] Speaker A: They leaving it in is what made it feel more real, right? [00:32:24] Speaker D: Probably, yeah. [00:32:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:26] Speaker A: I think that we need more of that. We need less polish. I think we. [00:32:30] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:32:30] Speaker A: I don't sit in many rooms anymore, but I think shit is very polished. Nowadays. You don't have any. John Roy's working the, you know, circuit. [00:32:41] Speaker D: I mean, I say. I still say a good comedy show is a mix of voices. You need some solid hitters in there. If I could. If I could Parody. Parody. If I could an anal analogize with your beloved baseball. Right? You can't just have a bunch of like. Well, this guy could absolutely cane it out of the park. Or he might just stink and. And hit, you know, strike out four times. You can't just have seven of those in your team or. Right, you have. Yeah, I know what I'm getting from this guy, you know, and they go, whatever it is, part of the order. And you. And a good comedy show is like a baseball lineup. You go, okay. You know what I mean? Like, we need the leadoff guy to be on base. Gotta. Gotta score. It's the only way we're winning this game is if your first guy is. Is on to base. Okay, now we just need a couple of solid ones, and then we just bring out the big boy, the big thing. Right. And then at the end. Yeah, you know, these might give us something occasionally. You never know. I would imagine a genius producer like me has a very similar mind to. To a good baseball manager. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Well, first, I'm blown away, the knowledge of American baseball, man. There's no other kind of baseball. But I would take it farther. You're talking about a lineup of where everyone hits. I think a good comedy show has some guys that strike out four times. [00:34:25] Speaker D: That's what I just said. [00:34:26] Speaker A: No, you said the guy gets on base, then this guy does this, and then this guy hits the home runs. And then maybe at the end there's some guys that don't do it. [00:34:33] Speaker D: No, there's some guys who do strike real dead spots. [00:34:37] Speaker A: True dead spots. Bombs in a lineup in every game. [00:34:43] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, but we're back to the nihilism. [00:34:45] Speaker A: Well, no, see that. You always say nihilism, but I call it humanity. You want to see a guy struggle. You want to see a guy really, you know, fighting for his life up there. That's what I want to see. That's real. That's visceral. You know, I don't want to see a guy churning out greatest hits. [00:35:03] Speaker D: You don't want to see him struggle all the time. You want him to hit one every now and again. [00:35:08] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. [00:35:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:09] Speaker D: Which is what I just said. [00:35:11] Speaker B: Mark, when you say every now and again, do you mean within the same set? Or he might have, like three sets, that bomb, and. And then the fourth time he goes up on four different shows. Not like three. Jokes don't work. One works within. [00:35:23] Speaker D: No, no, no. I mean, you might have a guy who goes up and just eats shit in your comedy show, right? And you'll go, well, yeah, we want, you know, we'll be a bit more careful with him. But typically that person is in there because someone saw them do a really good set, and they're like, oh, this guy's a genius. And then you watch him and you go, I could see how on the right night, this guy hit it out of the park. But I know that that's one out of every four because the other three, he's just a shitty mfr, Right? And you have that in baseball teams, right? You have the guy who's a good in the field or whatever the else it is they do in baseball. Right. But they're not going to put in someone who's A dude all the time you're. You're advocating. Yeah, I want a baseball player that never hits in my lineup. [00:36:21] Speaker A: Yes. [00:36:23] Speaker D: And you never made a career in baseball because if you have. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Right, True. Or comedy, for that matter. But when you. If you can remember driving home from a comedy show or seeing something, right, where you saw a lineup, four or five, however many, the one you talk about the most is who. The one who ate shit. [00:36:43] Speaker C: Right. [00:36:43] Speaker A: And the one you laugh about the most is the one who ate shit. Now, you. And this is where you and I are completely different, how we look at comedy, right? That guy who ate shit gave you just as many, maybe more laughs. Maybe not in the moment because you squirmed or you felt his pain, right? But gave you more laughs and more memories than the guy that was middling or went two for three or whatever your analogy wants to do here, Right? That guy that ate shit ate shit for you. [00:37:14] Speaker C: Right. [00:37:14] Speaker A: And gave you something that you're going to appreciate a lot longer than the guy who maybe even did very well. [00:37:21] Speaker D: Jesus of comedy died for my sins. [00:37:23] Speaker A: That's right. That is right. And I truly feel like those guys make the other guys better. Well, they certainly make them look better, right? But those guys are equal to the other guys. So you take your. I'm not going to name names, but we all know who you already did. [00:37:44] Speaker D: In about 10 previous episodes. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Those guys are the best guys to me. They're the best because they bomb and. [00:37:54] Speaker D: They burn down the house. [00:37:56] Speaker A: No, they don't burn down the house. I don't want to see all guys that bomb. You want to see guys that are funny, but you want to see somebody really eat shit, you know, it is a. It is. It's. It's what draws us to car, right? It's why you watch snuff films, you know, you want to see that. [00:38:16] Speaker C: Right? [00:38:17] Speaker D: Snuff? What are you talking about? [00:38:20] Speaker A: What time is it? I got to get to the ballpark. Yeah, I got a couple minutes. I'm a run out this door. [00:38:26] Speaker D: Do you. When they come to the plate, you shout, miss, Miss. It'll make the game better. [00:38:32] Speaker A: No, but when a guy like I hate Suzuki, he's actually pretty good. Seiya Suzuki. But fuck, if he doesn't strike out in the biggest moments and I spew bile at the park at him because he can, you know, always let you. [00:38:49] Speaker D: Down, you know, which you like in comedy but hate in baseball, you know? [00:38:54] Speaker A: I like it in baseball too, right? [00:38:56] Speaker D: No, you just said you didn't. [00:38:59] Speaker A: I'm just more comfortable with failure than success in all facets of life. [00:39:06] Speaker D: Like I say, I don't mind someone who bombs occasionally. If there's a. If there's a plus of like. Yeah, that's because they're a risk taker. [00:39:14] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:14] Speaker D: But someone who's just eating night after night, it's like foad, mate. Like foad. [00:39:21] Speaker A: What's that? Off already, dude. [00:39:26] Speaker D: But no Hades and die. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Oh, fuck off and die. Jesus. [00:39:31] Speaker C: Harsh. [00:39:32] Speaker D: No, because you make me depressed. You make me depressed about the state of humanity. [00:39:37] Speaker A: But it's just like seeing a sad film, right? The sad films, you don't write those off. That's a sad. No, there's good. [00:39:44] Speaker D: There's still a good sad film. Yeah. Good bomb comedian. [00:39:48] Speaker A: Yes, there is. Oh, my God. [00:39:50] Speaker D: No, no, there's. There's a good bomb, but there isn't a good. Repeatedly bombing comedian. That's depressing. I just look at those guys and I think, this, this planet, these people are doomed. [00:40:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:40:07] Speaker D: Is that. And that's what you. That's the feeling you want from a comedy show. [00:40:11] Speaker A: Yeah, I want the full range. But yeah, I do want that for sure. I like it. [00:40:18] Speaker D: Anyway. Anyway, you gotta get going to watch the. The guy strike out four times. [00:40:26] Speaker A: All right, let's. I'm gonna talk about the end. What do you think of his end? [00:40:31] Speaker C: His clothes? [00:40:32] Speaker D: I like the fishing anecdote. Yeah, Wouldn't that brilliant fishing anecdote I have is brilliant. [00:40:38] Speaker A: Talking about the fish jumping back in the boat. [00:40:40] Speaker D: Yeah. Like why you still got a boat, et cetera. It was like. Yeah, yeah, it was really good. But any. My God. He ended. What do you think about using homophobic slurs, which I realize in the black comedy community is less frowned upon. [00:40:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:57] Speaker A: I'm certainly not going to endorse them on this show. I like them. I. I use them regular. No, that. That was a little. That was a. None of the sexual stuff or the sexual harassment stuff or dare I say, violence towards women stuff. I thought that was all truth and jest and whatever and. But that. Yeah, the throwaways of the F word. [00:41:23] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:24] Speaker A: Made me uncomfortable. [00:41:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:41:25] Speaker D: And then there was a hit, a bit about I don't want to be with a woman that nobody wants to rape is essentially what his message was. And I'm like, do you remember that? [00:41:38] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:41:38] Speaker A: You could send her that. [00:41:40] Speaker D: Send her at 3am, go down the alley. I'm like, holy shit, this is where it has to end. [00:41:46] Speaker A: But yet it doesn't. It doesn't end there. [00:41:49] Speaker D: Then he goes into Periods, nosebleeds. And I'm like, man, this guy's just ticking off the open mic agenda. [00:42:00] Speaker A: I thought that was actually pretty good, the period nosebleed. [00:42:03] Speaker D: His closer was what that women should be able to jizz on dudes and they'd be happier because. [00:42:13] Speaker A: Shoot an egg on. [00:42:14] Speaker D: Oh, my God, I just dropped an. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Egg on this guy on his head. [00:42:19] Speaker D: I imagine you jumped off the couch at that point and gave him a standing ovation before the audience did. [00:42:25] Speaker A: I. I loved it. I was. [00:42:26] Speaker C: I loved it. [00:42:27] Speaker A: And I was trying. I watched some of it with my son and I was like, isn't that fucking great? He's like, no, he didn't. Didn't appreciate it the way I did. Do you have any comedians like this here performing tonight that I could come by and see? [00:42:42] Speaker D: Jesus Christ. Is there literally. There's literally no one like this, right? [00:42:46] Speaker B: Not that I can think of now. [00:42:49] Speaker D: I can't think of anyone in pure. It's funny because we got an email this week saying, I want a refund. I went to this show that was pure filth. [00:42:58] Speaker A: Really. [00:42:58] Speaker D: I left after three. After three comedians. [00:43:03] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:43:04] Speaker D: This came. [00:43:05] Speaker A: It probably wasn't even bad. [00:43:06] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm saying. It probably. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah, nothing. [00:43:10] Speaker B: Was it one of the shows that's supposed to be bad? You know how, like, we have, like, the uncensored comedy or. [00:43:14] Speaker D: No, it was. It was. It was one that I would have said, wow. Like, that show had this. I'll tell you offline. [00:43:22] Speaker A: Did you give the refund? [00:43:24] Speaker D: No, I punted it. I am so in. In a ca. If someone's. If someone's asking for a refund based on content, I punt that to the producer, say, you know, because they. They need to be like, whatever. You know what I mean? If it's a technicality, then I'll, like, process it. [00:43:45] Speaker A: The lights went out or something. [00:43:46] Speaker D: Yeah. Some thing. Then I'll produce. But if it's. If this person is saying, this show is a pile of shit, I want my money back. That's got to go to the producer. [00:43:56] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:57] Speaker D: I once hurled money at a guy who demanded his money back. [00:44:02] Speaker C: You did what? [00:44:03] Speaker D: This guy came in and said, this show's a pile of shit. It's like, you know, and this is filth, gratuitous filth. And I said, yes, I agree with you, actually. And I didn't book it. [00:44:16] Speaker C: He. [00:44:16] Speaker D: And he just looks at me like. [00:44:18] Speaker A: He doesn't understand the dynamics. Shows get booked in your place. [00:44:22] Speaker D: And I balled up his $20 and literally threw it in his head and said, take fucking money. [00:44:27] Speaker A: No shit. [00:44:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker A: You had to be prepared for a fight in that situation. [00:44:31] Speaker D: Actually, Mary, the bartender step. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Oh, this is at the old place. [00:44:34] Speaker D: Mary literally physically, like, physically stepped between me and the guy because she was the comedian. Kick off. [00:44:41] Speaker A: Who were the comedians? [00:44:43] Speaker D: I can say the commit. I can't say the comedian because it was a female. And she's back. Like, she is still in circulation, so to speak. So I'd rather not say. [00:44:54] Speaker A: One time I had a woman on stage in that venue laying on a table and had a bed sheet over her or. And I changed. Well, no, I didn't have a bed sheet over her, but I. I changed her diaper on stage. Purple ray in the diaper. [00:45:12] Speaker D: Do you remember the time that woman flicked lit cigarettes at you? [00:45:17] Speaker C: No. [00:45:17] Speaker A: I've been hit with a lot of things with that at the lodge. [00:45:20] Speaker D: I. Was it Chappie's poetry sham, which we may have already. And you went up there and just did this utterly offensive poem about my grandfather, I believe. I don't know. There was two lesbians sat in the front row, and one of them literally just flew. Flicked a lit cigarette, bounced off you, your head. I thought I did well that night. [00:45:41] Speaker A: I don't remember that. [00:45:43] Speaker D: That was one of my favorite shows ever, that was. And I bottled it. I. I said it was gonna go up. And the evening was going so well. It was so effing hilarious. [00:45:55] Speaker A: Yeah, it was good that I, like, Rocco was there. [00:45:57] Speaker D: I think I was like, I'm not gonna stink this up. Jason Fever came on stage with a bag of black beans, you know, like, and pretended it was human excrement and just smeared it on his face as part of his, like. I mean, that was bananas. How funny that that night was. [00:46:15] Speaker A: That was a fun night. [00:46:16] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:16] Speaker D: Because it was poet. [00:46:17] Speaker A: We didn't never did poetry. Chappie did, but we didn't. And he brought us in to do it. And then that was our. [00:46:22] Speaker D: But he got all the poets to stay after the real poetry slam. And then the comedy community just relentlessly mocked. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Because they were doing, like, earnest poems. [00:46:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:46:34] Speaker D: That was a classic night, that. [00:46:37] Speaker A: All right, what have we learned here today before we get to our final reviews? 1. I want to say this as a disclaimer. The things Patrice o' Neill talks about in this act. Violence towards women, sexual harassment, homophobic slurs, violence towards animals. I do not condone in any way. I do condone being able to make jokes about old man things, though, so for the record, I don't condone. [00:47:11] Speaker D: So this is special. [00:47:12] Speaker A: I'm a vegan. But all that said, man, did I enjoy this. [00:47:20] Speaker D: I can't. [00:47:21] Speaker A: This is one of my faves. This is a breath of fresh air for me. Thank you, Christian. [00:47:26] Speaker B: You're very welcome. [00:47:27] Speaker A: It gave me great laughs. And, yeah, I don't. [00:47:31] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:47:33] Speaker A: I really enjoyed it. I'm gonna say this. Patrice o' Neill is the greatest comedian to ever live. [00:47:42] Speaker B: You heard it here first. [00:47:43] Speaker A: You heard it here first. You'll hear it again next week. Who are we reviewing next week when I claim that they are the greatest comedian? [00:47:49] Speaker B: That'll be decided by Tuesday night. [00:47:51] Speaker A: No, you've got to. From now on, you've got to have the next one. [00:47:54] Speaker B: Are we changing the rules right here so we. [00:47:56] Speaker A: We can react to it? [00:47:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:47:58] Speaker A: In the outro, Mark, you are not comfortable with this brand of filth and misogyny and violence towards animals and children and women. What is your review? [00:48:13] Speaker D: Well, I'm going to say it is special, which I know is kind of being contrarian. I'm going to say I didn't particularly enjoy large parts of it, but that might be my problem, not Patrice's problem. There's certainly some gold in there. You know, like I said, the fishing anecdote, and he definitely just tackles men versus women, like, full on. Like, I'm not. Hold him back. So I guess there's something with that. Yeah. I'll just say it's special. I'm gonna be honest with you. I couldn't stand up, so I didn't. I enjoyed it more than something utterly banal, like the Brett Goldstein thing. [00:49:00] Speaker C: That. [00:49:00] Speaker D: I definitely enjoyed it more than that, but I didn't enjoy it as much as one of, like, the Sandler or the. The Stuart Lee, you know, one of the real, like, top drawer ones. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:11] Speaker D: In the middle. [00:49:12] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:49:14] Speaker A: It was a little. It was a little below the belt for these modern times, but, yeah, I can't. [00:49:18] Speaker D: Honestly, I don't think I might have enjoyed it even when I was in my 20s and would have jumped to. [00:49:25] Speaker A: That sort of stuff, you know, Christiana. [00:49:29] Speaker B: I thought it was special. However, you are unanimous on your opinion, so there. There needs to be no tiebreaker over here. But going back to the comedian for next week. We had started, we watched the first 15 minutes of the Beth Stelling. [00:49:43] Speaker A: I never did. [00:49:44] Speaker B: You never did? Well, I went and watched it, so I'd like to finish that one. I think that would be a good candidate for next week. [00:49:49] Speaker D: I've already done that. One. [00:49:51] Speaker C: Okay. [00:49:51] Speaker D: At least it's someone who's alive and still performing. [00:49:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:54] Speaker A: And my call in. We get her to call it. Could we take a live phone call in here? [00:49:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:58] Speaker B: You can do that? [00:49:58] Speaker D: Yeah, potentially. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Yeah. There's a way to hook it up. [00:50:02] Speaker C: All right, I'll ask. [00:50:03] Speaker A: We'll work on that. All right.