Review: It's Not Easy Bein' Me, Rodney Dangerfield

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Because you asked me to. [00:00:10] Speaker B: All right. [00:00:10] Speaker A: Because you asked to. [00:00:11] Speaker B: End of. End of convo. Because this is all gonna have to be edited out. [00:00:14] Speaker C: What? People want to know the process. [00:00:15] Speaker A: This is like behind the scene, sausages made. [00:00:17] Speaker B: Let's do round. We'll do round robin, then. We'll do round robin. Christian will. Christian will coax us through the history of stand up. I will do all British, and you will do whatever your wife tells you to pay. And that'll be the system. That's it, everyone. That's the system. Let's get into the review. [00:00:38] Speaker C: No, but. But don't you want to. Don't you want to hear the comedian that I want you to hear? [00:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So go ahead and pick one. [00:00:45] Speaker C: I will. And. And I want to hear what you want to hear. And I still want to hear what he wants here, because I think he has great ideas. I don't want to give him, like, a Broadway run here of nine months of choosing show. [00:00:56] Speaker A: You basically asking me to be psychic. And guess what you want to watch. [00:01:00] Speaker C: I want to know what you want to watch. I don't want you to live inside your head. [00:01:05] Speaker B: I. I'm gonna mediate here. Right? We're going round robin. It goes Bill, Christian, Mark. Bill, Christian, Mark starts with me today. [00:01:13] Speaker A: It starts with you today. [00:01:15] Speaker B: So what, Leanne Morgan, are we reviewing? [00:01:17] Speaker C: No, we'll do that at the end. I didn't pick Leanne Morgan. I didn't. I. I wasn't prepared to pick it up. [00:01:23] Speaker A: Right. [00:01:23] Speaker C: But I will be by the end of today's program. [00:01:25] Speaker B: All right. [00:01:26] Speaker C: I may go quiet for a half an hour. [00:01:28] Speaker A: So you guys might be looking at your phone a lot. [00:01:30] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Bill's. Bill's gonna finally get his end away after two months. [00:01:35] Speaker A: Yes. [00:01:37] Speaker C: And I don't know what that means. End away. What does that mean? You just pantomimed penis and a vagina. I don't. [00:01:46] Speaker A: I still don't get it, though. [00:01:48] Speaker C: The end of one of those. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Give me one of those. [00:01:51] Speaker C: That's Rodney from the end. [00:01:53] Speaker B: I'm doing that. [00:01:58] Speaker C: And I also. Well, we'll talk about this at our production meeting. When's that going to be? [00:02:03] Speaker A: Do we schedule that scheduled for next week? [00:02:05] Speaker C: Next Wednesday. That's Christmas Day. I'm available, but not in the morning. I'm available at noon. Christmas day. Open it up in you? [00:02:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:15] Speaker C: All right, well, let's see how this is the last show before Christmas. Are you both Christian Men? You must be. Your name is Christian. [00:02:24] Speaker A: No, I'm not. My name is Christian, but I'm not. [00:02:27] Speaker C: Is there ever a Jewish man named Christian or a Muslim man named Christian? [00:02:34] Speaker A: It's probably unlikely. [00:02:38] Speaker C: Interesting question. Are you good on the phone? [00:02:40] Speaker A: Are you talking about your own. [00:02:42] Speaker B: I'm doing my own timer. It's my parking thing. [00:02:45] Speaker C: Why do you want. Just park around the corner. Where I park, there's street parking. [00:02:48] Speaker A: Why don't you park on Campbell's? Got parking. Campbell. [00:02:52] Speaker C: Parking on Campbell. And then there's one right off the left. [00:02:55] Speaker A: I always find a spot until six. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Normally I do find it the next street. Anyway, this will get bogged down. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Let's talk more about parking. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Yeah, well, it is Christian. It is Christmas. And whether or not, you know, you're Christian in spirit, whatever. You celebrate Christmas, do you? [00:03:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:14] Speaker C: You'll get Heather something for Christmas? [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:16] Speaker C: Yeah. And you. You'll celebrate Christmas? [00:03:19] Speaker A: No, not anymore. [00:03:20] Speaker C: Not at all. [00:03:20] Speaker A: No. No. I. I used to. Christmas used to be like my favorite holiday. [00:03:24] Speaker C: Sure. [00:03:24] Speaker A: I used to love it. And when I moved to Chicago. [00:03:26] Speaker B: More than Guy Fawkes. [00:03:28] Speaker C: More. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Even more than Guy Fawkes. [00:03:30] Speaker A: What is. [00:03:31] Speaker C: Oh, Guy Forks. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Right. I can never understand Halloween. Yeah, right. [00:03:36] Speaker C: Guy Forks is how. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Christmas used to be tops for me. It was, without a doubt, heads and shoulders above every other holiday for me. I just don't care anymore. It's. It has faded away. The whole. The whole idea behind it. Well, also, a lot of it changed. I used to be a religious person, you know, so it meant that I used to not be aware of the doom behind capitalism. And I just learned more also about why this holiday exists. And it just became more of an annoying thing that you had to do than something I was. [00:04:11] Speaker C: Well, I certainly didn't want to hear about any of that. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Okay. [00:04:14] Speaker C: Or go down that rabbit hole. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Well, then why'd you ask? [00:04:17] Speaker C: Well, because I brought you presents. Ho, ho, ho. I've got this bag from the Omni. [00:04:25] Speaker B: Didn't know we were doing presents. [00:04:27] Speaker C: Yes. I said. Last week, I said we're doing presents. I'm going to get you something. You could get me something if you want. [00:04:32] Speaker B: All right. [00:04:32] Speaker C: You don't have to. [00:04:33] Speaker B: I'll make you a T shirt at the end of the thing today. Yeah, we'll just go down there. [00:04:38] Speaker C: That seems not very thoughtful because you. Now you're just reactionarily. Oh, that's for me over there. [00:04:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I got it. [00:04:44] Speaker C: I don't think I have those cords. I don't think I have anything to plug. [00:04:47] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no. You're not giving an xlr. [00:04:49] Speaker A: These are really nice xlr. Cords. [00:04:51] Speaker C: What do I do with those? [00:04:52] Speaker A: You plug them into whatever you want to watch. [00:04:54] Speaker B: Gentlemen. You dick hole. [00:04:57] Speaker C: Okay, so, yeah, I don't want anything. It's whether you believe in God or whatever. I believe in the spirit of giving. Right. I want to give to both of you. I don't expect anything in return. If you want to get me something that's nice, I would love that. But don't feel the need to run out and make me something or buy me something right now. After you get these gifts, just receive them and enjoy them because I love you and this show is all I have right in my life. [00:05:26] Speaker B: I was going to ask you, does it get. You know how you. Christmas is magical when you're a kid and then it kind of tails off and you're. Yeah, but then you are. You've had. You have like a legion of children. [00:05:37] Speaker C: Yes. [00:05:37] Speaker B: So did the magic come back when you're like, oh, I can. I can live through these kids now. [00:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:45] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Because we never. [00:05:46] Speaker A: Right, right, right. Maybe that's why. Maybe that's what happens. [00:05:49] Speaker B: I think that's what happens. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:50] Speaker B: That's a good point with single bachelor. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Right. You start realizing, oh, this is. You don't care about it anymore. [00:05:56] Speaker B: But then. [00:05:56] Speaker A: But if you. [00:05:57] Speaker B: If you have the kids, the cycle. [00:05:58] Speaker A: Then there's a reason again. [00:05:59] Speaker C: Yes. But no. Yes. When they're very young, it's you. You see how excited they get it just opening stuff. You can wrap up Chapstick from around those. They're just excited to open it and. Oh, it doesn't matter what. That is a magical time. But now that they're in the teen years, it is not magical. It is what you were alluding to in a commercial capitalistic money grab that just. That just empties everybody's pockets. And it makes me very bitter. [00:06:27] Speaker A: Yeah. Right. [00:06:28] Speaker B: So it's up until Santa. It's up until they rise to the. No Santa. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:33] Speaker C: Then they're just. They just want. And you see the greed in their eyes. [00:06:36] Speaker A: Can you just then start weaning them away after, after, after the reveal of Santa, can you be like, well, now there's no Santa. Now we're just, you know, we're just. [00:06:44] Speaker C: I could, but my wife won't allow it. She will not allow me to wean them off it. She still wants to go through the whole charade and everything. Anyway. [00:06:55] Speaker A: I also. [00:06:55] Speaker B: Am I going to have to edit that out? [00:06:57] Speaker A: No. [00:06:57] Speaker B: All right. [00:06:58] Speaker C: I also. Because it's our. Because I wasn't invited to the holiday party on Monday. [00:07:02] Speaker A: At the. [00:07:03] Speaker C: With the Escape Room. Maybe next year I'll be invited. We'll see. I'm thinking of this as our holiday party. Again, this is all I have, and I don't have any holiday parties to go to. I haven't been invited to any. [00:07:15] Speaker A: Really? Your company doesn't have one. [00:07:19] Speaker C: They do. [00:07:20] Speaker A: Don't go? [00:07:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:22] Speaker A: Why not? You don't like them? [00:07:26] Speaker C: I performed at it a couple years ago. [00:07:29] Speaker A: They all saw your act and they. [00:07:30] Speaker C: Yeah, you don't want to show your face. You don't want to be in a live mic improvising at a company party. I'll say that. So I don't go anymore. [00:07:39] Speaker A: I see. [00:07:39] Speaker C: Right. So for our holiday party, I brought jacket potatoes. Nope. San Pellegrino, which is here for everybody. High end water, artesian water. [00:07:51] Speaker A: There's one of them, by the way. [00:07:52] Speaker C: And for each of you, cheese sandwich. Cheese sandwich in honor of Mark, Cheese sandwich on high end bread. We're all gonna have a cheese sandwich. [00:08:02] Speaker B: I've got some leftover. Well, you can't because you're a vegetarian. I've got some Christian if you want them. I've got some chicken nuggets. They're honey Parmesan. Parmesan. [00:08:14] Speaker C: Did you get them in Dollar Tree? [00:08:16] Speaker B: No. Have I got to eat this now? [00:08:19] Speaker C: No, you don't have to eat it at all. [00:08:20] Speaker B: You haven't laced it, have you? [00:08:24] Speaker C: No, and I didn't. I'm eating mine, as you can hear. I didn't put anything on them because I didn't want to offend your taste buds with a Dijon, which I would have put. [00:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:34] Speaker C: Just plain dry in honor of Mark. [00:08:37] Speaker B: Yep. [00:08:38] Speaker A: Well, thank you. Thank you, Bill. This is very thoughtful. And I'm going to save mine and I will eat it after the show. Yeah, I'm going to save it. [00:08:45] Speaker C: I did want to go to the Dollar Tree. I didn't have time. And I was going to get like a gross of yakisoba noodles and Snickers. And I love a Snickers generic spam. [00:08:56] Speaker A: But Snickers bar is the best candy bar. [00:08:59] Speaker C: Yeah, we know. All right. [00:09:02] Speaker A: I wanted to put a 100 grand's underrated, you know. [00:09:05] Speaker C: That is a good one. [00:09:06] Speaker B: We can't open these till Christmas day. [00:09:08] Speaker C: Open them right now. [00:09:09] Speaker A: No, not until our production meeting Christmas morning. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, but I want to open them. [00:09:17] Speaker C: No, you're opening it now. I'm trying to put the bow on. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Should have Christmas music playing in the background while you do this. [00:09:25] Speaker C: You pass that over to him. It's too far away. I don't want to throw it. [00:09:29] Speaker A: Wow. This is wrapped. [00:09:31] Speaker C: Wrapped nice. [00:09:32] Speaker A: This is wrapped in a very, very festive. Look at. Look at this, Bill. I'm impressed. I gotta say. [00:09:38] Speaker B: If you just give me five minutes, I can run in the basement and bring you a present. [00:09:42] Speaker C: No, I don't want. [00:09:45] Speaker A: There you go. [00:09:45] Speaker C: I just put the bow on it. [00:09:46] Speaker A: It's a little. There you go. [00:09:48] Speaker C: All right, Go ahead, boys. That's not the right kind of music. [00:09:57] Speaker A: I hit shuffle. This is the first one. There's only two songs on this playlist. [00:10:05] Speaker C: Grandma Got Run over by Reindeer. [00:10:08] Speaker A: There you go. [00:10:09] Speaker C: That's a good one. [00:10:09] Speaker B: What's this? [00:10:10] Speaker C: I'm trying to get in the spirit. Little package of things that I thought you guys would like. [00:10:20] Speaker B: A Duncan. [00:10:21] Speaker C: A Yo yo yo. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Yes. [00:10:24] Speaker B: An Adamant cd. Oh, Adam Sandler. This is your last one. [00:10:28] Speaker C: Did I give you that one already? [00:10:29] Speaker B: No, no, I'm saying you've given. Between me and Christian, I feel like you've. You've given every. Is this the good one? [00:10:36] Speaker C: No. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Hot water Burn baby. [00:10:40] Speaker C: But it does have Uncle Donnie on there. That's a really good one. [00:10:45] Speaker B: Psychotic Legend of Uncle. [00:10:47] Speaker C: That's Dan and Judy's kid. [00:10:48] Speaker B: That's 11 minutes. [00:10:51] Speaker C: Okay. Dude. [00:10:53] Speaker A: Somebody had just given Borky a yo yo. And I was playing with it and I was doing all the tricks I used to know how to do. And I was talking about how cool yo yos are. Yep, I've got a yo yo here. A real Duncan. [00:11:04] Speaker C: Yep. [00:11:05] Speaker A: You both got yo yo yo yo. [00:11:06] Speaker C: Spirit of being a child. [00:11:07] Speaker A: I've got some old style socks here. [00:11:09] Speaker C: Nice socks. [00:11:10] Speaker B: Zillows. [00:11:11] Speaker C: You got Godzilla. [00:11:12] Speaker A: These are cool. [00:11:13] Speaker B: Did Heather tell you I needed. [00:11:14] Speaker A: Oh, an INXS album in X. I. [00:11:17] Speaker C: Just picked that up last week. That is one of the seminal albums of all time. [00:11:21] Speaker A: Australians. [00:11:22] Speaker C: We never mentioned in excess when we talked about Australia. [00:11:24] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, Michael, I thought we did, didn't we? We didn't. And finally I have a Nirvana. Nevermind. Is this. This is the dvd. So what does this have on it? Oh, it's a bunch of interviews with. [00:11:37] Speaker C: Dave Grohl and stuff for the music lover. Mark, show Christian what you got. [00:11:42] Speaker B: The pianist. [00:11:43] Speaker A: Hey, that's a really good movie. [00:11:45] Speaker C: On vhs. Yep, on vhs. Because you watch VHS at home. That film is to remind you of World War II. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:53] Speaker C: And how America saved Britain from being taken over by the Nazis. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Oh, and it's made by convicted rapist Roman Polanski, one of my favorite directors and rapist. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Bill, I gotta say to you, thank you very much. These are very thoughtful gifts. These are. [00:12:12] Speaker B: Yes. [00:12:12] Speaker A: I'm impressed. Thank you very much. [00:12:14] Speaker C: You're welcome. [00:12:15] Speaker B: All right. I'll definitely go in the basement after woods. [00:12:19] Speaker A: I. I'll get creative with something, too. And I'll actually break out the wrapping. It'll give me a reason to do something nice. I don't. Wine. I know, but I. I want to. That's the thing. I want to give back. [00:12:30] Speaker B: What about that bag of Mary Janes? You could give him that. [00:12:34] Speaker A: I was. I was wondering if he was. [00:12:36] Speaker C: I brought those last week. [00:12:37] Speaker B: No, this is a brand new bag. [00:12:38] Speaker A: This is a brand. This. No, it's not. [00:12:40] Speaker B: No. [00:12:41] Speaker A: I can't believe I felt I was. [00:12:42] Speaker B: Going to sell a. Type it up and just convince him, but. [00:12:46] Speaker A: All right. [00:12:47] Speaker C: Well, I don't know what. What you'll be doing next. [00:12:51] Speaker B: I can't just not put the cheese sandwich down. It's too tempting. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Eat it. [00:12:55] Speaker B: I already ate. Just before I got here. [00:12:58] Speaker C: I just ate it. Well, we've had our holiday party. [00:13:01] Speaker B: Yep. [00:13:01] Speaker C: What? [00:13:02] Speaker A: Hell of a holiday party. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Let's go and photocopy our asses on there. [00:13:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's right here. [00:13:07] Speaker B: It's right there. First one. [00:13:12] Speaker C: That might break. That doesn't look like it. Hold me. I'm little, but still, we can get a little swing. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:18] Speaker A: Mark and I can build one of. [00:13:19] Speaker C: Those poles that we hang the curtains from. [00:13:23] Speaker B: Roll it underneath that pole, lower yourself down. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Easy peasy lemon squeezy. [00:13:30] Speaker B: That'll be a proper Christmas party then. All right. [00:13:33] Speaker C: Anything else for the Christmas party or is it over? How about some snowballs right now? Get some snowballs. How are they still selling? Well, I found it disgusting. [00:13:42] Speaker A: They're not. I mean, they're not. They're selling more than I thought they were going to sell. [00:13:46] Speaker C: Yeah. What do you charge for a snowball? [00:13:48] Speaker A: $14. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Yeah, we've been through three bottles. [00:13:51] Speaker C: Jesus. [00:13:51] Speaker B: Advocar. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:52] Speaker C: Well, are you now selling the Ron Pope? [00:13:55] Speaker A: Yep. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're on to that now. [00:13:57] Speaker A: Well, as long as. I don't know how many they sold last night, but it should be at least close. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Well, you're right. Last week when you made me that snowball and I don't drink, and he said, oh, you're going to drink that and you're going to go into a depression tomorrow. And well, by God, I did. [00:14:18] Speaker A: Really? [00:14:18] Speaker C: Sure. I slipped into a depression the next day and I was out with some of my basketball friends and they convinced me. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Sure. [00:14:28] Speaker C: I had one beer that I had drink one day and then the Next day, I'm having a beer. I had a beer the next night. Was it a strong ale? [00:14:35] Speaker A: A strong one, yep. [00:14:36] Speaker C: An 8% ale. [00:14:37] Speaker A: 8%? [00:14:38] Speaker C: Yep. And then I only had the one, but boy. [00:14:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Talking off a ledge the following morning. [00:14:45] Speaker C: I couldn't get out of bed for four days after that. Just depression. [00:14:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:48] Speaker C: Really kicked in, the depression. So I'm off the booth, but, yeah. [00:14:51] Speaker A: You were able to get. Yeah. You got back on the wagon. [00:14:54] Speaker B: There's a large Christmas party that you weren't invited to. We did. I had to do five hours of socializing. [00:15:02] Speaker C: How did he do? [00:15:03] Speaker A: Did a good job. [00:15:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:04] Speaker B: And I had tired talking. I had a beer. I can't remember. [00:15:07] Speaker A: You did a Modelo. [00:15:09] Speaker B: And then I had a long drink. [00:15:11] Speaker C: What's that? Long Island Iced Tea? [00:15:13] Speaker A: No, it's like a Norwegian. It's like. It's similar to one of those, like, White Claws or High Noons. You know, like Wink. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Just gin and tonic, but, yeah, basically. [00:15:22] Speaker A: A canned gin and tonic. [00:15:25] Speaker C: And I was thinking crippling depression. [00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah. But, yeah. How'd it go the next day? [00:15:30] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. The next day was yesterday, and it was fine. I think I had a lot to focus on because when I was going to bed, I was like, oh, God, tomorrow's gonna be tough. Go. Tough go. Both barrels here. The booze and the socializing. But I pulled through. I was very focused on. It was payroll and some other stuff. [00:15:52] Speaker A: I was surprised that you stayed there pretty late. At one point, I thought for sure you had given the Irish goodbye because I hadn't seen you for a second. And then I saw you coming. You sitting at a table over here, and you got up and you went into. And I said, oh, he's still here. [00:16:02] Speaker C: He worked the room. [00:16:03] Speaker A: He's walking around. [00:16:04] Speaker C: He's working the room. [00:16:05] Speaker B: I had to, because I had the credit card that was gonna pay for it. [00:16:08] Speaker A: That's right. He had to pay for everybody's. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Were you keeping it? Was it open bar or were you ordering off the menu? How did that work? [00:16:16] Speaker A: Our good friends over at Galway Bay. [00:16:17] Speaker C: Oh, is it Galway? [00:16:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Gave us a little deal, a wristband deal. And it's kind of funny, because the guy, he was like, I'll only charge you X amount for the wristbands. He was really, you know, give us a. He's like, they can get anything they want except for rocks, pores or whatever. Even though almost immediately I saw one of the comics get an Old Fashioned and he let her have it. So I was like, okay, he's just Gonna let us do whatever. But even he. He started coming around with trays of shots because he's like, no one's drinking. You know, he was trying to give us a good deal, and he's like, I want you guys to get your money's worth. And, I mean, you played a flat rate, basically. Yeah. Every wristband was a flat rate. But really, I was looking around, I was thinking, well, it's not. I don't know. Like, this group really isn't about. Like, let's get after it. Everybody was just way more interested in having a comfortable place to hang out. You know, there was a pool table, dart board. Everyone was way more interested. Yeah. Trivia was going on. Oh, really? [00:17:07] Speaker C: Everybody got a live trivia. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Yeah, everyone had a really good time, and nobody got all sloppy and. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:12] Speaker A: Was. [00:17:12] Speaker C: No. [00:17:13] Speaker A: Either. [00:17:13] Speaker B: No, no, he wasn't. [00:17:15] Speaker A: But yeah. [00:17:16] Speaker B: I was telling the bartender about if this was the good old days of Chicago comedy, it'd just be off the rails. Yeah. It'd just be people, you know, passing out on. Blacking out on stalls and stuff. [00:17:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:29] Speaker B: Because he's like, I got a tray of shots here and no one will touch them. [00:17:33] Speaker C: Yeah. I think I was thinking about this, you know, with the winks and everything and the weed being legal. People don't drink as much anymore. Especially this generation, the younger generation. They don't get after it quite well. [00:17:44] Speaker B: That's pretty good. [00:17:45] Speaker C: Yeah, it is good, probably, you know. [00:17:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:48] Speaker C: It's a crooked. [00:17:50] Speaker A: I wish it was like that when I was younger, too. You know, it just. People didn't drink so much. It was like, you know, it was constant. It was like, how much can you drink? And you look back on it, you're like, how much time did I waste being hungover, you know, that I wish I had back. [00:18:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:06] Speaker C: I learned a new way of binge drinking from one of my kids. He said they do something called the tornado. Have you heard of this? [00:18:13] Speaker A: No. [00:18:13] Speaker C: It's kind of like shotgunning a beer, but it's a bottle of beer. Remember in science class you could make the tornado? [00:18:19] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Does it have a little device, like this little tube thing that you put on it and there's a straw that goes to the bottom. I used to have one of those in high school. [00:18:25] Speaker C: I don't know, but he just did. My son did a. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Did a. [00:18:30] Speaker C: Showed me with a. With a bottle. He goes like this. [00:18:33] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I see. I see them doing that. [00:18:36] Speaker C: Like a tornado, it goes. Shoots down your throat. [00:18:37] Speaker A: Yeah. When I. When I bartend at Galway I see the kids doing that. [00:18:40] Speaker C: Yeah, Those are probably high school kids in there. [00:18:44] Speaker A: I mean, high school kids with an AB. Yeah. [00:18:47] Speaker C: Yeah. Should see the fake IDs. You can't tell you. Can they scan. [00:18:51] Speaker B: You can scan them? [00:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:52] Speaker B: Real IDs were. Well, shut that down. [00:18:57] Speaker C: You got a real ID? [00:18:59] Speaker A: You do? You got one? I don't have one. I still use my passport. Even if I travel within the country. [00:19:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I haven't gotten anything. [00:19:08] Speaker A: It's one more thing I got to do. [00:19:10] Speaker C: Are you look antsy over here, like you're trying to get somewhere. [00:19:12] Speaker B: I am. [00:19:12] Speaker C: Where are you headed? [00:19:14] Speaker A: He's got his parking meter. [00:19:15] Speaker C: Oh, the parking. You got to re up on that. Which is re up now. [00:19:18] Speaker B: 21 minutes. [00:19:19] Speaker C: So you're saying we have 21 minutes. [00:19:20] Speaker A: To complete this program or half an hour into this? [00:19:22] Speaker B: We're already in half an hour. [00:19:24] Speaker C: All right, we'll get to Rodney. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Mind you, I'm going to cut that 10 minute fucking arguing about who picks out. That was dull. I like maybe don't think of it like that. [00:19:33] Speaker A: Maybe half of it. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say maybe. [00:19:36] Speaker A: Some because we did just do a lot of repeating ourselves. [00:19:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it was over and over, but. [00:19:41] Speaker A: We were very passionate. [00:19:43] Speaker C: You think that was dull when you get to this next segment. [00:19:46] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:19:50] Speaker C: When are we getting. Speaking of the schedule. So we're off next week, but then when do we get back together? [00:19:54] Speaker B: Well, the following week is New Year's. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how it always. Yeah, it's always the one, two punch. [00:20:00] Speaker C: Yeah. Christmas, New Year's and then so we're off for two weeks. I don't like that. That's all I have. [00:20:04] Speaker A: I'd still meet up. I'm not going anywhere. [00:20:06] Speaker B: I'm not doing Boxing Day. You can up. That's Christmas Day. Boxing Day is sacred. [00:20:12] Speaker A: That's Irish. [00:20:13] Speaker B: No, it's British. I don't know what Irish as British for sure. [00:20:18] Speaker C: Boxing Day. [00:20:19] Speaker B: So you do Christmas Day where you have to go and see your family and all the people you don't like. [00:20:25] Speaker C: You don't like Heather's family. [00:20:27] Speaker B: No, I'm talking about in perpetual. And then in Boxing Day you would go see your real mates and have. [00:20:33] Speaker C: A good time, have a piss. [00:20:34] Speaker A: Why do they call it Boxing Day? [00:20:36] Speaker B: No one's ever found out. This is just. [00:20:38] Speaker A: You get just one of those things. [00:20:39] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:41] Speaker C: I don't think it has to do with the sport of boxing. I think it has to do with the boxes of presents you have to throw out the next day. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Well, that was growing up next to Canada. Of course, I had a lot of Canadian friends and they do Boxing Day in Canada too. And that was what they always told me was, it's because you box up whatever gifts you got that you didn't. [00:20:58] Speaker C: Like, return them to Marshall. [00:20:59] Speaker A: You box them up and you bring them back. [00:21:01] Speaker C: Bring them back to the store. [00:21:02] Speaker B: That's the most popular theory and the second most has to do with upstairs. Downstairs, the servants would get given something by their masters, you know, in Victorian, because, you know, I know I've bought. This is my. Have I said this before? Christmas was not popular until the Victorian era. They didn't even take the day off. That's. Charles Dickens was a huge pro Christmas person and he wrote Christmas Carol Carol to promote the idea of Christmas, that we should have the day off, that we should really go for it. And then because Queen Victoria was married to a German and the Germans are very Christmas centric, she was like, yes, we're going to get behind this, we're going to do Christmas and no. So that's. You know, a Christmas tree is Germanic. [00:21:59] Speaker A: Yes. [00:21:59] Speaker B: Right. It's not. [00:22:00] Speaker C: It's called a Tannen bomb. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Yeah. Do you remember that time at the Lincoln Lodge where you and one of your wives did the 10 Dassie Stein schnitzel? [00:22:13] Speaker C: Yeah, the schnitzelbunk. We did the schnitzelbunk then. [00:22:15] Speaker B: What was that? Shit. [00:22:16] Speaker C: It hangs on my wall in my home. [00:22:17] Speaker A: What is this? [00:22:18] Speaker C: The Schnitzelbunk is an old German Christmas drinking, singing tradition that. It's like a call and response type of thing, all in German. It's a chart with all different pictures of. Of course you have a dick, a fraud, a Fetasau, a Langermann, a Hoxet ring, a Gfarlik's Ding Hindenhur Kurtzenlund. I could go on, right? All these different things. Honestly, I'm German. I'm half German. [00:22:44] Speaker B: I thought it ends in dast eastein. [00:22:46] Speaker C: Tenen ish dasch nichde Schnitzelbank. Yeah. Dust dien schnitzelbunk. Schnitzelbank. Gutzon. Queer Hinden. [00:22:52] Speaker A: Hair Gertzen. [00:22:53] Speaker C: Long Schnitzelbank. Oh, Duchenny. Oh, Duchenny. [00:22:59] Speaker B: Did you make your kids do it? [00:23:00] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, we do with the kid. [00:23:01] Speaker A: The kids love it, right. [00:23:02] Speaker C: And I sit there and it's all in German. You never speak any English and you got like a yardstick and you pointed all the pictures and they say, ista snickdine wagon rod. So imagine him this Is a wagon rod wagon rod goods and queer pinned in hair. You go through them, all the pictures. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Then, oh, Duchenny, this sounds like a blast. [00:23:22] Speaker B: Can you imagine this? This is the final two minutes of the Lincoln Lodge Christmas show. Yeah, it felt more like fucking 20. [00:23:32] Speaker C: Minutes, about half an hour. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Do people like it? [00:23:35] Speaker C: I don't know. [00:23:37] Speaker B: That was my. Do you remember that failed Santa bit? And you were one of the Santas. Pavski was one of the Santas. And Monty, there's your unholy trinity of Santa. And every single one of you resisted it and basically perverted my vision in some way. [00:23:58] Speaker C: I don't remember what we were doing. [00:23:59] Speaker B: So the idea was at some point in the. In the night. These are the three shows before the three Fridays before Christmas. I had rigged a curtain that could be pulled up, and the host would go, who's that, kids? And then I would, like, shake a thing into the thing, and then someone behind the stage would pull this fucking rope and this curtain would go up. And Santa would be sitting on a chair next to the stage. And he. I think he. Monty did the first one. Hated it. I told everyone, get your own pixie. I've got a pixie competition. A pixie. You know, it's still in the basement here. I got a pixie dress up and a Santa dress up. So we're gonna do this, and. Yeah, you're gonna do something. So Monty did the first one, was not digging it and just whatever Powski does, the second one gets shitfaced. And that's the infamous tackling the variety actors. We've already covered that ground. [00:24:57] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:58] Speaker B: And then you did the third one, and instead of doing whatever I'd said, come out and do this. You did this schnitzel bank for about 10 minutes to a totally bemused audience. [00:25:11] Speaker A: They didn't like it. They enjoyed it. [00:25:15] Speaker B: No, Bermude's means they sat there going. [00:25:16] Speaker C: What used in the Muse? [00:25:20] Speaker B: Oh, that is the first time and the only time I ever heard that shit. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I feel like I could watch that for 20 minutes. [00:25:28] Speaker C: Well, we got to get together and do that. We do it every year now, kind of. We used to have a whatever, but. Yeah, I'll bring it in. It's framed now. I got it framed on my wall, my living room. [00:25:39] Speaker B: I thought it ended in Dasty Stein Tenenbaum. [00:25:42] Speaker C: Well, the Tenenbaum is the last one. [00:25:46] Speaker B: Oh, right, okay. [00:25:47] Speaker C: Is the last of the pictures, because that was. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Do you remember the hardware store called Tenenbaums? [00:25:54] Speaker C: That's. Yeah, yeah. Belmont yeah, it's gone now. [00:25:57] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gone. [00:25:58] Speaker C: But it's Tannenbaum, not Tenenbaum. [00:26:00] Speaker B: All right. [00:26:00] Speaker C: Tannenbaum. All right. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed that. Yeah, let's. Let's. Do you want me to. Do you want me to reprise that here? No, no, no. Okay. You should. Do you have a Christmas show at the lodge? [00:26:14] Speaker B: I'm surprised Heather doesn't. I'll ask Heather about it. She nannied in Germany for two years, so she's. She should know that. [00:26:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:22] Speaker C: It's more drinking related than. I think it's something they do in the taverns. My. My grandfather owned a bar and they would do it in there. That's where it came out of it. And there's a place in Indiana that I got the schnitzelbunk poster from, so I think they do it in German taverns. But I don't, you know, I don't know. I don't think it's a family thing. It's a drunken thing. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah, it sounded like a drunken thing. [00:26:46] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. [00:26:47] Speaker C: Yeah. Because you just. It's all in German and you're just yelling. [00:26:50] Speaker A: Right. [00:26:51] Speaker C: But do you not do a Christmas show here? Like a Christmas bonanza? [00:26:54] Speaker A: I'm surprised that we don't. [00:26:56] Speaker C: You should. [00:26:56] Speaker B: Right. [00:26:56] Speaker C: Like, you should keep some of those same traditions from the early lives. [00:27:01] Speaker B: I had a lot of more energy then. [00:27:04] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:04] Speaker B: I would say, let's go for it. Let's do this. And then the comedians would wreck whatever vision. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:27:13] Speaker B: I almost tried. [00:27:14] Speaker C: Great, though. [00:27:14] Speaker B: I almost trashed the roof of the thing because I thought, oh, it's easy. We just pull the curtain up. I didn't realize they had a suspended ceiling. So it collapsed. The ceiling started coming down and the owner went ballistic. Ruin this suspended seal. I'd spend half a day in there, like, trying to push it back up. And what. I mean, every time you try to do something, it would always just turn to. You wouldn't have been there one time. I thought it'd be hilarious. Hilarious to get a load of these little toy cars. Right. And tape them under the seats and do, like, parody. Oprah. Just done that. Reach underneath your seats. You've all got a car. [00:27:59] Speaker C: You did it. [00:28:00] Speaker B: I did it. And the idiot Drury brothers, who were the host just botched it. Like, they didn't even understand the joke. And so they're like, yeah, look under your seats. There's a car. And that. [00:28:16] Speaker A: There's nothing worse than when somebody else ruins your whole vision. [00:28:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:21] Speaker A: Just by, like, by mixing up A couple words. [00:28:23] Speaker B: Yeah, Just they couldn't even do it right. And then what was funny is for several months afterwards, every time you walked in the Lincoln restaurant, you'd see toy cars on the floor because they were. [00:28:36] Speaker C: All up the bottom. [00:28:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:37] Speaker A: The tape was given out. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Because they didn't even like. [00:28:41] Speaker C: Do they even care to even look under the chair? [00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, everyone was just looking. I'm like, what the. Are they talking? And then, you know, and they're doing this and going, oh, there's nothing there. [00:28:49] Speaker A: Bubblegum. [00:28:50] Speaker B: And I was so furious, I couldn't even be asked to get all the cars from underneath the seats. [00:28:56] Speaker C: Well, your first problem was getting into bed with those Drury brothers. [00:29:00] Speaker B: First problem is anytime you try and do anything with a comedian, they immediately piss all over it. Yeah. [00:29:08] Speaker C: Goes with the territory, you know. [00:29:10] Speaker B: So you want, you know why we don't do those things anymore. Because I don't have the energy. [00:29:14] Speaker C: Next year bringing it back. [00:29:16] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll do the whole German thing. [00:29:17] Speaker C: Yeah, we'll do the German thing. Yeah, the whole bit. [00:29:20] Speaker B: A very Christmas. Lincoln Lodge. If you can find, if you can find someone to produce it because I will be nowhere near. [00:29:27] Speaker C: Christian will produce, associate producer. It'll be great. [00:29:32] Speaker A: They will be the biggest show of the year. [00:29:36] Speaker C: Comedians in there, get some big names. [00:29:37] Speaker A: It's going to reignite my love for Christmas. [00:29:40] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what we need to do. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, you know all those Christmas specials are always filmed in June as well. That's why the snow's fake and everything. Yeah, that must be funny. [00:29:50] Speaker C: Well, speaking of funny, let's get to it. Today's funny man is Rodney. Have you heard of this guy before? Rodney Dangerfield in 1986 2. [00:30:05] Speaker B: Because this is 82. 86 is the other one that we were talking about. Right, right, right. [00:30:11] Speaker C: 1982'S It's Not Easy being me with Rodney. Most surprising thing, this was not a stand up special. I guess from that started as one. [00:30:23] Speaker A: It did start as one. [00:30:25] Speaker C: And he starts doing his bits. [00:30:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:26] Speaker C: And I think I was thinking, oh my God. Because I Knew it was 50 minutes long. I'm gonna have to sit through 50 minutes of one liners and watching him sweat. I was like, this is Kai camp. I don't know how we're gonna do this. [00:30:36] Speaker B: It really is though, because it's like they thought, they must have looked at it and gone. We can't do 50 minutes of danger. I know how we can deliver it though. We'll turn them into sketches. Cuz every sketch was still. [00:30:49] Speaker A: Yeah, he's sitting on the psychiatrist couch and doing his bits. Yeah, yeah. [00:30:54] Speaker B: So this, in a way, this was very prescient of like comedians who suddenly thought, I can't just stand there and tell the jokes. Like, what's my hook? What's my gimmick? What's, you know, when they started doing like animated comedy bits and now it's like everyone who does a HBO special has some weird gimmick to it where it's like, oh, he's not just doing stand up. He's like a mixture of this and that and the other. [00:31:23] Speaker C: Bo Burnham and. [00:31:24] Speaker B: Exactly in this. [00:31:26] Speaker C: Like that. [00:31:26] Speaker B: And this is Dangerfield launching that. [00:31:30] Speaker C: Well, I. [00:31:32] Speaker B: How much longer are we going to talk? [00:31:33] Speaker C: Jesus. [00:31:34] Speaker B: Because they're talking money here. [00:31:38] Speaker C: I don't know. I can't predict the future. How many minutes? [00:31:43] Speaker B: One hour 15. Because I got to make. [00:31:45] Speaker C: We're going to talk for another hour and 50 minutes. [00:31:47] Speaker B: No, no, I'm going to make you a T shirt after the. [00:31:49] Speaker A: Well, if we, if we're back in. [00:31:51] Speaker C: The 80s and remember this is where, you know, we both, all three of us to some degree, I think started watching comedy. There, there was a half an hour. You had to have a half hour's worth of material, right? Like every stand with special was a half hour long, right? Maybe not even with the commercials or whatever, it was like 22 minutes long, right? Rodney couldn't do 20 minutes of his bit straight. Just. He would have a heart attack or sweat to death or whatever. Right? Now to your other point, aside from them being a gimmick, every special is at least an hour long, right? That's how the, that's how the medium has changed, right? Like now we, we feel like stand up should be delivered in hour long packages. It's way too long. And we always bemoan that here. Like, oh God, it's gonna be an hour. It's gonna be. Why, why not cut it back in. In an age where everything is ingested media wise in clips. We're watching one hour comedy specials. It's, it's backwards, right? But for this, this, I mean, he clearly couldn't even do a half an hour, so he had to chop it up. [00:32:57] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Also you think about it as well though. He's got, he's got Bill Murray doing his nightclub singer guy. He's got a couple of Aretha Franklin's in there. So it isn't strictly 50 because he's burned up. [00:33:10] Speaker C: Oh no, yeah. No, it's not. I mean if you, if you whittle down the Actual act. It's probably 20 minutes long. 20 minutes of material and then all the other stuff. Have you. Speaking of Christmas, since we're talking about Christmas, have you seen a Very Murray Christmas? [00:33:26] Speaker A: No, I don't think so. [00:33:27] Speaker C: Bill Murray special from, like, five years ago or more. It's Christmas night. Yeah. [00:33:32] Speaker B: I've toyed with it. I'm like, should I go there? [00:33:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Have you seen. [00:33:36] Speaker C: Very reminiscent of this. [00:33:38] Speaker B: Is it like this for. [00:33:39] Speaker C: It's the same format as this right here. [00:33:41] Speaker B: Because to me, this was the sort of thing that you would see a lot of at Christmas. You get a comedian and it's like, so and so and friends. And then, you know, that's like, the. What the infamous one is, you know, why the fuck was Bill. Was David Bowie singing with Bill. Bing Crosby, you know, the Little Drummer Boy. [00:34:02] Speaker C: I remember that one. Was that. [00:34:04] Speaker A: Yeah, it's news to me, too. [00:34:07] Speaker C: Right? [00:34:09] Speaker B: Where one of the most infamous Christmas songs ever is a duet of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy. Everyone has heard it. It's been in the charts 27 times. It's a perennial Christmas classic. And everyone's like, how the hell did that even come about? And what it was was Bing. Is it Bing Cross? [00:34:35] Speaker A: It's Bing Cross, yeah. It's right here. Crosby and David Bowie. [00:34:38] Speaker B: Bing Crosby. [00:34:39] Speaker A: Peace on Earth slash, Little Drummer Boy. [00:34:41] Speaker B: Yeah, Bing Crosby. They wanted to make a Bing Crosby Christmas special. For some bizarre reason, it got put in. It got done in England. And so, you know, the Christmas specials, they were like, hey, who's that? No, it's my friend. And so obviously, David Bowie's in England. And. And this weird combo just gets thrown together because it's a Christmas special. And when I was watching this, I was thinking, well, it isn't a Christmas special, but it's got that feel. [00:35:10] Speaker A: It also. Yeah. And it's kind of like, why is Aretha Franklin there? You know, because she's not doing comedy, you know? And I. I want to know, what did you think about. She started her. Her most famous song, Respect, and she started singing it, and I. I was blown away. I'm like, oh, my God, I get to sit here and watch Aretha Franklin do what Aretha Franklin does. Take a break from the rest of this. And they cut to Ronnie Dangerfield's in the background wearing a wig, you know, like a black man's wig and doing this goofy dance. And I'm thinking, oh, he was in. [00:35:46] Speaker C: A black man's wig. [00:35:47] Speaker A: It seemed like it was. It was an Afro wig. And I'M thinking, oh, God damn. Like, he's gonna ruin this moment. And I'm watching them go. And then. But you get so used to that now that you're like, I can't believe this guy's ruining her moment. And then you start thinking, well, I mean, for all I know, it was both of their ideas. And they're like, yeah, this sounds fun. Let's. Let's do it. [00:36:07] Speaker B: Did you not look at her facial expressions? [00:36:10] Speaker A: I was at the end. Was she happy? Okay, I'm glad you said that, because I couldn't figure it out. I was going back and forth on that. I couldn't figure out. She was just, like, acting that way. I couldn't make my mind up. [00:36:22] Speaker C: Well, I don't have a lot to say about that, because when she came on and started doing that song Respect, that's when I nodded off. [00:36:31] Speaker A: Oh, really? [00:36:32] Speaker C: I went to sleep and I awoke during another racist sketch where he was dressed as some kind of samurai. [00:36:42] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:36:43] Speaker C: And he wasn't racist. I was. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Yeah. I kind of tuned out around that point. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Yeah, he was doing Don't Touch Me or something like. I don't know what the name of it, but he was dressed as a. Some kind of Japanese samurai. [00:36:57] Speaker B: Well, no, that was in the middle of a whole series of parodies. [00:37:01] Speaker C: Well, how much did I miss between Respect coming on. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:37:04] Speaker C: And him and the thing that nodded off. [00:37:06] Speaker B: So first of all. First of all, he did a British wartime movie parody where Valerie here was an interesting thing. For years, I thought it was Valerie Perrine. [00:37:18] Speaker C: P. Ryan. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Now, what do they call it? Perine. Yeah, yeah, it's Valerie Perrine, but whatevs. [00:37:26] Speaker C: Samajp. Ryan from the Bengals. [00:37:28] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:37:29] Speaker C: Running back for the Bengals. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Anyway, so first of all, it starts with her being, like, doing a British accent. There's a wartime thing. Then he went into a Broadway parody with the dancers, and then they went into this Japanese musical parody. It was like three. Boom, boom, boom. So that's what you missed is just a couple of parody sketches. [00:37:51] Speaker C: Yeah. And I felt. And I wasn't concerned about it because as we got into this, whatever this was, I was like, well, I don't even know what this is anymore. I can nod off here. [00:37:59] Speaker A: Right. [00:38:00] Speaker C: Because I'm not, you know, he's not doing his act. I'm watching Aretha Franklin say, I don't need to. You know, I don't need to watch this. [00:38:07] Speaker B: Well, these not big in it. Were these not big in England? In America? [00:38:11] Speaker C: Well, I don't know. [00:38:12] Speaker B: Comedy specials. They were variety. [00:38:15] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, 1982 is before my conscious conscience, but I don't know, I mean, there, there were things like this. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. [00:38:25] Speaker B: So there would be the comedian was the anchor and then you, you know, musical guests. This and then this and then. And they'd get like, they get some rando, like a really good football player and rope them in to do a sketch with, you know, and the crowds. Oh, it's. It's Kevin Keegan, you know. So these are 10 a penny in the 80s. [00:38:48] Speaker C: Yeah, probably. So, yeah. It's just odd. I mean, this is a little more odd because there's. It's really a special. His special with three primary people. Bill Murray's in 10. [00:39:01] Speaker A: Right. [00:39:02] Speaker C: 20 different roles. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:39:03] Speaker C: Aretha Franklin and Valerie P. Ryan Perrine. Perrine. Perrine, who is very comely, which means attraction. [00:39:13] Speaker B: She's at the height of her Superman, hence the Superman. [00:39:16] Speaker C: I wonder. I was gonna see if Christian knew. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Oh, I did not know that. [00:39:19] Speaker C: Yeah, she was in the Superman. [00:39:22] Speaker B: She was never seen the original. Super. [00:39:24] Speaker A: I have, but it's so long ago that I didn't. It's not like I looked at her and I was like, oh, I know who that is. Yeah, I, I liked, I liked in the Superman sketch, the bit that they were doing of. They had obviously, you know, the harness and the ropes and they're pulling them around the apartment. He can't control where they're pulling him and his legs running into the couch. And that was. That got a. That got an out loud laugh. [00:39:49] Speaker C: That was fun. That was fun. So, yeah, like, it's just, it was just. It's just odd. Just an odd thing, right? [00:39:56] Speaker A: It was, it was definitely different. [00:39:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:59] Speaker A: I was telling, I was telling Mark that there was even a point when I started realizing what we were watching compared to what I thought we were going to watch. And I thought, I thought about calling it all off because you had just sent the link and I happened to be home. I started watching it like right away. So I was like, so these guys haven't even started watching this yet. I might just call it. And it was the moment, actually. Mark, do you remember? I thought you might get a kick out of this. He's doing his bit and it looks like it's just like he's doing it in front of the black background. Like he's just on a stage by himself and all of a sudden it lights up and there's this whole club behind him and he turns into this character that he's a club owner, Mr. Lucky. But the way that they did it, the, you know, the way that they had, like, the lights come on because it couldn't be a special effect. They didn't have. They. They didn't have that. You know, they. They had to just do it just right. And the take had to be perfect for everything to go like that. And so it was right around then that I started thinking, you know what? This is interesting enough. It's interesting enough is maybe the. [00:40:54] Speaker C: So when you picked this, you didn't. You thought we were just going to watch Rodney's act and you didn't even know what we were getting into. [00:40:59] Speaker A: I thought we were watching with Roseanne and. Yeah, I thought we were watching a showcase. A friend of mine had given me a box set when I was younger. My friend Juliet, she knows that I love Rodney Dangerfield, so she gave me this box set. And there is one of them where he's kind of hosting and he brings up Roseanne and Jerry Seinfeld. And I'm kind of glad it wasn't that one because he also brings up Sam Kinison. And we had just done him, you. [00:41:24] Speaker C: Know, so Ronnie said, like the young comedian special. [00:41:27] Speaker A: Right. [00:41:28] Speaker C: I think that was. [00:41:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I had a span. It's on Daily Motion. I spin through it. So there's. There's Roseanne Seinfeld. There's also Jeff Altman, who is fucking insane. [00:41:39] Speaker C: He is. [00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Not Martin Lawrence. Oh, God. Who's the guy that did Damon Wayans, who did Hollywood Shuffle? [00:41:49] Speaker C: Robert Townsend. [00:41:50] Speaker B: Robert Townsend's on there? [00:41:53] Speaker C: Yeah, he's in the Bear. He's. [00:41:57] Speaker B: I don't think he's another fame. [00:42:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, there is. I was just looking it up. [00:42:05] Speaker C: But. But in a way, I mean, forget the fact that I went to sleep and disregarded this special. In some ways, I like that we kind of fell into this variety show, and I think that opens the door to us looking at more types of comedy. Shows. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Yeah. You know what? [00:42:30] Speaker C: Instead of straight stand up, we could do anything. [00:42:32] Speaker A: It got me thinking about doing, like, old roasts. Yeah. [00:42:36] Speaker C: Oh, you don't like an old roast? Oh, I like some of those roasts. [00:42:39] Speaker B: I thought I would. [00:42:41] Speaker A: I mean, like, old school, like Lucille Ball deal, you know, Dean Martin, stuff like that. [00:42:45] Speaker B: I had a whole stack of the 10 apes from a thrift store one time. [00:42:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:50] Speaker B: Oh, I bet I'll love these. [00:42:51] Speaker A: Yeah, right. I figured it'd probably be gold. [00:42:53] Speaker C: The new roasts are pretty good. [00:42:54] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:42:55] Speaker C: The new ones are good. [00:42:57] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:42:58] Speaker C: I think, you know, we Don't. The door's been opened. Pandora's box is flown open. And now we can watch anything. Right when we get to choose. Now, Christian doesn't just get to choose. So I can pick something wild. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Something crazy. [00:43:11] Speaker C: My turn. Yeah, you're going to hear about that in just a minute. [00:43:15] Speaker B: Okay, so you're not digging, like, if. I think I probably would have liked this. This had no nostalgia kick for me. I thought you two were gonna love it because you'd be like, oh, it's so nostalgic. I saw this when I was 12 years old and it blew me away and blah, blah, blah. And I would have liked this probably if it was something that I was familiar with and recognized watching it when I was 14 years old. [00:43:42] Speaker A: It did for me because I had that box set. [00:43:45] Speaker B: Oh, right. [00:43:45] Speaker A: So back then, you know, this is like. This is like one of the first things I experienced of. Oh, this is what Ronnie Dangerfield used to do. [00:43:52] Speaker B: You know, I had no clue who Rodney Dangerfield was until the year 2000. [00:43:57] Speaker C: So he's not big over there. [00:43:58] Speaker B: No. So to me, I knew what it was. I could tell what it was. But it had no. It didn't have that little pang of nostalgia to make it hit for me. [00:44:11] Speaker A: Like a snowball does. [00:44:12] Speaker C: Not like a snowball. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Yeah, we should. Okay, then I pick Eric and Ernie's Christmas Special from the BBC. [00:44:21] Speaker C: Sure. [00:44:22] Speaker B: 1978 for our next thing. [00:44:26] Speaker C: Sure. Well, it's not your turn, but yes, when it is, then you can pick whatever you want. Listen, if you hadn't. Last week on our Best of Show, we all unanimously voted Stuart Lee our favorite comedian. Had you not picked Stuart Lee or did he pick Stuart Lee? [00:44:40] Speaker A: You picked it. [00:44:42] Speaker C: We would never have loved that. Right, so I don't know who the hell. Ernie and Eric and Ernie or who the fuck you're talking about. I don't. But I'm open to that. [00:44:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Right. [00:44:51] Speaker A: Who are the two that you sent us on the group chat? The two drunk. [00:44:54] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:44:55] Speaker C: Yeah, let's watch that. I didn't get a chance to look at that. [00:44:57] Speaker A: I listened to that for a long time. I thought it was great. Clive and Eric. [00:45:03] Speaker C: Was it Clive and Eric? [00:45:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:05] Speaker B: What? [00:45:05] Speaker A: Clive and Eric. [00:45:06] Speaker B: Eric and Clive. [00:45:07] Speaker A: Eric and Clive. [00:45:07] Speaker B: Derek and Clive. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Derek and Clive. I could listen to them talk to each other. [00:45:11] Speaker C: So now we're gonna get. We're gonna get into that right now that. [00:45:14] Speaker B: Well, we still gotta finish. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:45:16] Speaker C: So I would encourage you to watch A Very Merry Christmas this holiday season. [00:45:20] Speaker B: Is it a parody of this Or a recreation. [00:45:23] Speaker C: No, but I think it's really interesting because he was such a big part of this program. It's definitely a callback to these type of specials where one scene blends into another, blends into another. And it's all different cameos and things like that. They're singing just like in this one. There's comedy. There's no straight stand up like. Like we saw. But it's good. It's. Yeah, it's good. It's enjoyable. [00:45:48] Speaker A: All right. [00:45:51] Speaker C: I also want to say that I think Aretha Franklin is the original Lizzo. That came to mind when I saw Lizzo. [00:45:58] Speaker A: Lizzo. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Aretha Franklin begat Lizzo. [00:46:02] Speaker A: I don't know enough about Lizzo. [00:46:04] Speaker C: Yeah, okay. [00:46:05] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:46:05] Speaker A: I was thinking Beyonce. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Aretha Franklin. [00:46:07] Speaker C: Okay. [00:46:09] Speaker B: She was not happy to be part of this. [00:46:11] Speaker C: No, I will. [00:46:13] Speaker A: I really wondered. Yeah, I'm. I would like to know more about that. I wonder if there's anything out there. [00:46:20] Speaker B: I mean, it's funny that her. Her Keen Key song is respectful. It's a slam dunk. Obviously. [00:46:26] Speaker C: Yeah. That's why she's in it, because it's just because of that. [00:46:29] Speaker A: And his. And his key line is, I don't get any respect. Yeah, I get no respect. [00:46:34] Speaker B: But the two remarkable bits of it that I found was this bizarre, surreal bit going on holiday with a dog where the. [00:46:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:46:46] Speaker C: What was that one? Was I awake during that one? Oh, the dog vacation. [00:46:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know what that was. [00:46:52] Speaker B: I was like, whoa, what? Time warped into the future with this shit. And then that weird ending. One of these. One of the. One what? [00:47:00] Speaker C: The one of these? Yeah, with the. I like that, though. [00:47:03] Speaker B: It was so. [00:47:04] Speaker C: One of these on the way out. [00:47:05] Speaker B: It was so out of character with the rest of it. And then I'm working on a farm. I'm working on a farm. [00:47:10] Speaker C: And so that I could make the money to have booze and broads and swinging. [00:47:15] Speaker B: That was just amazing to me. And then I did delve into the 1986 and I realized not only is I don't get. You know when he said, I don't get no respect and everyone stood up and then he had. I got this doctor. Dr. Viv. [00:47:30] Speaker C: Dr. Vinny Bots. [00:47:31] Speaker B: Yeah. What's that about? [00:47:32] Speaker C: That's a big. That's a big staple of his act. He talks about his Dr. Vinny. Boom. Yeah. [00:47:37] Speaker B: Cuz everyone cheered when he said it. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Yeah, it's his tagline. Yeah, yeah. [00:47:43] Speaker C: You know, we talked about it last week when I said, I Don't really like Joan Rivers because that was my mother's favorite comedian. Rodney was along with Dice, my father's favorite comedian. And we went and saw Back to school together in 1986. And I've never seen my father laugh harder in the theater than he did for Rodney. So I, I always like Rodney. I like Rodney's movies. I don't. Better than his stand up. I don't really that kind of. You call them Catskill comedian where it's just one line or something that doesn't do anything for me. But it made me think about like there really isn't a comedian doing that well. Or maybe there is a comedian doing that today. This style. [00:48:17] Speaker A: Jeselnick was kind of doing that. [00:48:21] Speaker C: Not as quick, but yeah, they were like one after another, next after another. One liner comedians. Right. [00:48:26] Speaker B: David Angelo. [00:48:28] Speaker C: David Angelo. Maybe the audience isn't familiar with the work of David Angelo, but he's. He's like a cat skills comedian. [00:48:34] Speaker B: Oh yeah. We always used to talk about it. Proper jokes. [00:48:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:38] Speaker B: Why don't people do proper jokes anymore? [00:48:39] Speaker C: Yeah, because they're not funny. [00:48:41] Speaker B: Not cat skill though. Cat skill implies a cheesiness like a broom. Yeah. You could still be, you know, Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg. [00:48:51] Speaker C: That was a. That was a variation. But I'm saying like what is the variation now. [00:48:55] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:56] Speaker C: Of a very popular comedian. What is the. Who's the incarnation of Rodney today? [00:49:01] Speaker B: Fastest comedian I ever saw was Richard. Jenny. And we talked about. We definitely have talked about. [00:49:06] Speaker C: Yes, we have. He offed himself. I didn't realize that. [00:49:08] Speaker B: Yep. [00:49:09] Speaker C: Yeah. So. Yes. I don't. That the one liner type of comedian. Never really did anything for. [00:49:15] Speaker A: So it's a very. [00:49:16] Speaker C: I love Rodney. [00:49:17] Speaker A: It's a is. It's the one line, I think, very vaudevillian. Sort of. [00:49:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:22] Speaker A: Because his dad, Rodney Dangerfield's dad was a vaudevillian actor. [00:49:25] Speaker B: That. Right. [00:49:26] Speaker A: Which is probably why he did it. [00:49:29] Speaker B: Do you know there's a lot of genesis in the art of stand up comedy through burlesque and they had to be fast. [00:49:37] Speaker A: Sure. [00:49:38] Speaker C: They just want to see the nudity. [00:49:40] Speaker B: Yeah. Everyone's like, get this fucker off. [00:49:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:43] Speaker B: So those comedians couldn't. They didn't have time to like, oh, I'm gonna romance you with it. It's like, you don't want me on this stage any goddamn way. And the only. The one hope I have is just to be. I think I could be making that up, but I feel like it's. [00:50:02] Speaker C: Yeah, no, that sounds right. [00:50:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:05] Speaker C: You've. You've got limited time and you got to get them out quick. They're gonna start, you know, yelling and booing. So. Yeah, that makes sense. In the end, I was not surprised considering the cast and Bill Murray, but this whole thing was produced and directed by Harold Ramis. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Didn't see that. [00:50:24] Speaker C: Harold Ramis wrote and directed and produced this whole thing. So 1982 was going to put you at. I think Caddyshack is in the theaters in 1982. Murray obviously ascending. Rodney and Murray at the same time in that film. And he's hitting, you know, he's hitting his. [00:50:47] Speaker B: Was Caddyshack his comeback? [00:50:49] Speaker C: Rodney's. Yeah, I think it has been. It's been described as that it's. It put him in, you know, in the mainstream again with that generation. Maybe anyone that didn't appreciate him 20 years earlier when he was. [00:51:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess, I guess he had, he had quit. And he said, you know, he would joke about like, I'm the only one that knew I quit. You know, and then Caddyshack was the thing that propelled him back. [00:51:11] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:51:12] Speaker A: Because then he was. He was selling aluminum siding for a while. [00:51:15] Speaker C: He was between his early days and that. Yeah. [00:51:18] Speaker B: What? [00:51:19] Speaker A: Yeah, to support himself. He was $20,000 in debt. He said he was not making enough money doing stand up. [00:51:26] Speaker C: Yeah, My, my thing was he was always a late to start comedian. Like he just started doing comedy late. Somebody said, hey, you should do comedy. [00:51:34] Speaker A: But clearly he did it right, I guess. Yeah. He was writing jokes for comics at the age of 15. [00:51:40] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I've read some of that in the Wikipedia. I do the research now. And one other thing I read in that research is Jay Leno said he's the greatest comedian to ever live. That's coming from Jay Leno, who's also a one liner. [00:51:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:51:56] Speaker C: Comedian, right. [00:51:57] Speaker A: I guess they have to be if you're on a show like that. [00:51:59] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I also read. I was like what I typed into Google, what was Rodney Dangerfield a good guy. In another episode, I want to talk about AI and how it gives you all the wrong information. But it said yes. He was very generous guy. Really helped a lot of comedians, which makes sense with the. [00:52:18] Speaker A: Right. With his club. Yeah. [00:52:19] Speaker C: And he was always giving out free drinks in his club like Mr. Lucky. So I think you see parts of his personality in this variety show here. [00:52:28] Speaker B: What did you think of Natural Born Killers? [00:52:30] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:52:32] Speaker C: Great. In that dark. [00:52:34] Speaker A: He's a scary character in that movie. [00:52:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, he's good dark. What did you think of ladybugs. Hey, I didn't even. We didn't even talk about this, and then we'll move on. I had the Rodney Dangerfield Film festival this summer at my home. [00:52:48] Speaker A: Yep. [00:52:49] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:52:51] Speaker C: We showed. First night, easy money. Second night, back to school night, caddy shack. [00:52:59] Speaker A: Yep. I missed the whole thing. [00:53:01] Speaker C: I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan. That said, I'm gonna start the review here and give it. [00:53:08] Speaker B: How much respect? [00:53:11] Speaker C: I'll give it two respects. [00:53:12] Speaker A: Out of how many? [00:53:13] Speaker C: Two rsbcts. Two out of four. I'll give it. [00:53:17] Speaker B: You know what you should do? [00:53:18] Speaker A: R, E, S, P. Yeah. [00:53:20] Speaker B: How fun. [00:53:20] Speaker A: I'll give it an R, E, S, P. Resp. [00:53:23] Speaker C: I'll give it a resp. It's good. It's fun. It's so dated, though. It's hard to really enjoy something this dated, but fun to see, you know? You know, something like this. It's fun to see Bill Murray play second banana. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:38] Speaker C: Such a second banana in this. Such deference to Rodney in this and just being his, you know, fetch it boy throughout for all these sketches, you know, like, so. That was cool. Yeah. Two out of four. [00:53:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:53] Speaker B: No, I thought it was too far. Resp. [00:53:58] Speaker C: Yeah, halfway to respect. [00:54:00] Speaker A: I'll go one further. Even though I love Rodney Dangerfield and he is one of my favorite comedians, this. I mean, the whole thing, it gets an RSP E. [00:54:11] Speaker C: All right, all right. [00:54:13] Speaker A: I mean, we don't have to go over the reasons. We've already talked about it. [00:54:18] Speaker B: I'm torn. I think I can only go to res. Because it doesn't. This. This could have really resonated with me if it was from my childhood, but it didn't. And so I just recognize it as a. As sort of, you know, a typical of its time thing. [00:54:39] Speaker A: Yes, I could see that. [00:54:40] Speaker B: And I can't even say whether it was good for the thing or not. Yeah, I like the fact that he has those two bizarre pieces in it where he just breaks from character and does stuff, but. Yeah. Yep. [00:54:53] Speaker C: Yeah. All right, well. All right. [00:54:55] Speaker A: Well, now we get to find out. [00:54:58] Speaker C: Well, folks, now I'm back in the rotation. [00:55:01] Speaker B: Who has Bill's wife picked for us to watch next? [00:55:04] Speaker C: Come on. Well, I don't know when we're getting together next, but when we do, we'll be reviewing the stand up special, unspeakable things 2025. Leanne Morgan. It is Leanne Morgan. Her latest comedy special, Unspeakable Things. You can see it on Netflix. It's doing very well. Getting a lot of likes and hits. Number one in America this week. [00:55:31] Speaker B: You know who else is getting likes and hits? Our sponsor. [00:55:36] Speaker C: Our sponsor, Baghaine Construction. Begain Construction. If you're in the market for a high end backsplash or a home remodel, maybe even just you need your faucet replaced, he'll pop in there. And very high end materials and high end work of the highest quality. Bagane construction. Yes. [00:56:01] Speaker A: Is that real? [00:56:02] Speaker C: What? [00:56:02] Speaker A: Begin construction. [00:56:03] Speaker C: Sure it is. Yeah. This guy gives me a little money. I haven't shared it. [00:56:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:08] Speaker C: I put it out there and he's. He knows, you know, this is going out to a lot of people. And so. Begin construction dot com. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Is Leanne Morgan real? [00:56:17] Speaker A: Sure. [00:56:18] Speaker C: I thought it was Rogers, but are. [00:56:19] Speaker A: You in her payroll? [00:56:20] Speaker C: Morgan? Leanne Morgan? Yeah. [00:56:23] Speaker A: Is that why you seem like. [00:56:25] Speaker C: Wait. [00:56:25] Speaker A: Is that why you seem like you just found out what her name was? Because you were finding out what her name was. [00:56:31] Speaker C: This is going to pay dividends for me, this Leanne Morgan special. Going to watch it in bed over the break with my wife and have a shag and watch Leanne Morgan. [00:56:42] Speaker A: I can't wait to text you the day before we record saying. What was the name of it? [00:56:47] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you get to do that now? [00:56:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:48] Speaker C: How about me sending the link for this one? I was on it. [00:56:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, that was very helpful. [00:56:53] Speaker C: All right, friends, happy if I don't see you, Happy New Year. Happy Boxing Day. Happy Hanukkah. [00:57:00] Speaker A: Yeah, right back at you. [00:57:02] Speaker C: And then Merry Christmas.