Episode Transcript
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Well, hello and welcome to another episode or an episode of Don't Make Me Laugh with your host, Byron Allen.
You know, I was in a hospital recently. Have you seen.
Funny you should ask.
Do you know who Byron Allen is?
[00:00:29] Speaker B: No.
[00:00:29] Speaker A: You're fucking kidding.
My mic just went limp.
[00:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah, just like you.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: Just lost its tumescence.
It's turgidity goin.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Byron Allen.
[00:00:42] Speaker A: All right, so I was in a hospital with my kid a couple weeks ago and overnight I spent the whole night in the hospital waiting room in the er.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: What did he.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: He was at a high school party and he tried to go into a bathroom and kids were probably doing coke in there or something. And as soon as the door opened, he pushed it open, they slammed it shut and smashed his finger in the door.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's the worst. The finger in the door is a classic.
[00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah, he shattered his index finger in a bunch of places. So that was low on the emergency room priority list at the hospital. So we ended up spending the whole night in the hospital just in the waiting room of the emergency room. And they have a TV in there, you know, you have all the vagrant. What a scene. An emergency room is overnight on a Saturday night.
Oh, my God. The walks of life that came in there, people just in handcuffs, police just sitting with people who need.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: It's a night in England. They actually said, we're gonna have to have full security in. In the. The. You know, in like in Casualty on a Saturday night in England. I once got took to Casualty on a Saturday night because I was racing motorcycles. Came off, you know, agony, blah, blah. I go in there and it was just a scene of human, like, stupidity. So first of all, there's some teenagers. They've got a teenager hanging between their shoulders. We've taken a load of pills. We don't know what. You know what I mean. And the doctor's just like, oh, these assholes. Another guy, another woman comes in, she's about broken a guard down, ankle high heels. Like, this is Coventry just staggering around and I'm like, oh, the best one of the lot. The best one. So I'm lying in there and I'm like, I'm thinking I'm better than everyone. And I'm like, no, I was racing motorbikes on a Saturday night. What the.
But the best one of the lot was this guy comes in drunk off his ass is just hands, blood, just total blood.
So he's punched out a window, you know, as you do. And the doctor's saying, I can't give you Painkillers, because you're clearly under the influence and all this. And then he starts going, I need to see my baby, I need to see my kid. And she's like, you know, I can't. You're not seeing your kid. And the guy's like, the kids in. In, you know, intensive care or whatever, right? And she's like, you're not seeing the kid, you're not getting painkillers. I'm gonna stitch this and then you're gonna leave. So on the way back, I was there forever.
I said to my old boy, I go, I can't believe that guy went out on the piss. And his kids, you know, and. And the. My old boy just looks at me, he goes, that's the oldest one in the book. I go, what do you mean? He goes, you working class British people use the NHS as their babysitting service. So what they do is they. They take the kid to the hospital. Just before they go in, they put like a hot compress on its head or something, get it?
Then they go, run into the hospital, kids got a fever. The hospital go, oh, yeah, it's definitely running hot. You just leave them in overnight and we'll monitor them. And then the parents go off out on the fucking piss, collect the kid the next morning.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: No way, no way.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: My old boy just like, that's the oldest trick in the book. Before he dies.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: That hard to get a babysitter, right?
You gotta drop him off.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Working class are going to work in class. Anyway, that was, er, Casualty, Saturday Night England. Carry on.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: I feel like. Well, we need to explain about 8 of the terms that he just used. First off, casualty is emergency, right? Okay. Emergency room, old boy stands for dad.
And on the piss, that means on.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: The town going, party. Sorry, I.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: In case there's any Americans listening out here.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Well, they'll be only Americans. The two wives and that's it.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Yes. Anyway, anyway, so I was in the emergency room and there was one TV on. And I don't know who was controlling this tv, but it was just antenna stations on there.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: It's like One Flew over the Cuckoo.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
Yeah, it was. He throws the fucking.
The water cooler through the window.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:48] Speaker A: And so you're just mercy to this television station. We're all sitting around watching this. Once, I think it was like CIU or Channel 26 or whatever. And it was Byron Allen's comedian show that he's got the show. Byron Allen's a. Is a very hacky old comedian from the 80s, black fella and he has since become like a media enterprise unto himself. He's got all these different show. He's had all these different shows. Entertainers used to do junkets with entertainers for their movies. And. And he's got this comedy show called Funny youy Should Ask. He has a host, two contestants, and then a six comedian sitting on a stage. And the host will ask the contestants a question like, so Limburger cheese comes from whatever. I don't know. It's like a true or false or. And then they go, jon Lovitz for. You might know him from Saturday Night Live. And Lovitz is sitting there in an armchair and he'll answer whether it's true or false or he'll give the answer to the question. And the contestants have to either agree or disagree with him.
[00:05:51] Speaker B: That's an old English one called.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Yeah, the form that's Been Beaten to Death.
Okay, so I watched that.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: That was the text you sent me. It just dropped.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I did. I said, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: I couldn't understand what the shit it was about.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: So I watched that. And then I watched some other show that's got this really big comedian. She's a female, she's coming to Chicago, doing like five nights at the Chicago theater. I don't remember name now.
And it's like after hours kind of comedy show. You know what I'm talking about, Christian?
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Well, it's like a Monique type person.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Page something or others.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Christian can look it up if he can be asked.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: And then I watched Bob Loves Abishola.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: How come, you know, just rooted to your phone at this point, watching?
[00:06:34] Speaker A: Because my phone was dying. I was there all night. My phone was dead. Right. My kids asleep with the finger. And I'm watching all these shows.
And then an infomercial for this thing that freeze wraps or like shrink wraps in plastic food so it doesn't spoil. You've seen this thing.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: What a product this is.
You put anything. You have a tomato and you put it through this thing and it seals it into plastic.
Seems like a good product.
[00:07:01] Speaker B: There's a clothes thing as well. Similar thing.
[00:07:03] Speaker A: It shrinks, wraps, clothes.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Anyway. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know why I started that Byron Allen something.
[00:07:10] Speaker A: Oh. Because this show is called Don't Make Me Laugh. It's like a hacky Byron Allen title too.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: All right.
[00:07:17] Speaker A: One of his shows.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: Okay, so, well, let's laugh about Matt.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: Rife and his special Something about Dreams. No, no, it's called. Called the Crowd. A crowd work special.
But it is the theme of the show is about dreams.
Well, the. The real novelty of the show is it's all crowd work. Have you ever seen this? Have you ever seen a comedian live just do crowd work?
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Funny you should mention it.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: Funny you should ask.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: Thanks for asking.
So apparently the kids with a comedian was telling me the other day, because I don't go to stuff, crowd work is the new hack. Like, because everyone's trying to fill TikTok and whatever shite they can get. Like, I need clips, clips, clips. And obviously they only write 10 material, 10 minutes of material every three goddamn years that your modern comedian. So they have to fill it with crowd work. And now people are like, well, let's do some crowd work now. There are good people at that. Rory Scovell once did a run at the lodge, four nights, just like, I have no plan material.
We're gonna see what happens. And it was very good.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: And he did no plan material.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: But it wasn't like, wait, he said not. And I believe him. He didn't do, like, where you from? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Or have you seen Judah Friedlander? He's very good at it.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: Where I know him, I haven't seen this.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: So he'll come out and say, what job do you do? And when the person answers, he'll go, yeah, I did that. And then he'll just make up a story and it's good. You know what I mean? It's not really crowd work. It's like, I'm gonna use the crowd. Yeah. Y.
[00:08:50] Speaker A: Crowd work is improv, really.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Anyway.
So anyway, the reason people are doing this now is just filler. It's like, I can't write material, so I'm just gonna try this stuff. What about you, sir? Blah, blah, blah.
So that's where it comes from.
Someone was telling me they went to see Michael Shea, like, years ago, pre fame, and he just did all crowd work.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Well, I understand a comedian showing up somewhere, dropping in at a club, and not having anything, and as you might say, having a piss. Taking a piss.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Taking a piss.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: It's just like fucking off on stage or whatever, right? And just doing that.
But what it sounds like is that nobody has material anymore. And if you work in rooms, you're doing 50% crowd work and 50% material mostly. So crowd work is big.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Absolutely, it is. It's a way to generate content without actually putting the effort in that you can then social media rise and stuff. Because if you notice, the first thing I noticed about Matt Rife is he had this hoodie on and it appeared to say light, was it?
[00:10:02] Speaker A: No, it said, right, it said rife.
[00:10:04] Speaker B: But I thought it said life something.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: Yeah, it looked like life.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Supposed to be like, come on, you got millions of dollars, like you can get a decent graphic designer. And I'm looking at it going, Life Club. What? What?
[00:10:18] Speaker A: It said Comedy club on the back. Rife Comedy Club.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it said. Yeah, it said Rife Comedy Club, but either it was Life Comedy Club. So then I'm start. I'm immediately drawn away from his act.
Where the. Is the Life Comedy Club? I'm looking it up and stuff.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: So what did you find? Did you find anything?
[00:10:36] Speaker B: No, he's at the Comedy Zone in the thing.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: That's where the special was shot.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: At the Comedy Zone? Yeah.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: Charlotte. Yeah, but he must have. It says rife comedy club, so he must have his own comedy club somewhere.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: No, no, no, he doesn't. That's just his merch. The hoodies are $75 a pop online.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: Jesus. But.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: 75.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: How terrible to wear your own merch. Right? It's like when you go to a concert and you're wearing the band's shirt of the concert you're at.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: I always think that's terrible when. When you see somebody at a concert and they're wearing the band's shirt, it's like.
[00:11:11] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know, maybe it's a throwback to, you know, the. The old road dogs always used to wear their. That shirt. Right. Because.
To get the petrol.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Comedy or comedy.
[00:11:21] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, like, old road dog comedians always wore the. The funny shirt or whatever. Because, hey, this is my petrol money. This is how I get from gig to gig. Selling these.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: Selling merch. Yeah, Right, right. Anyway, but to wear your own, it'd be like.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, you've already got millions of dollars. I really don't think you need to wear your own hoodie.
[00:11:42] Speaker A: Right. Could you imagine Kenny Rogers performing in a Kenny Rogers T shirt with his picture on? It would take away from the performance, wouldn't it?
[00:11:51] Speaker B: Kenny Rogers is a weird choice.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: I don't know.
Anyway, he alive or dead? Can you.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Dead. He is, yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: Did you see him at the end? Do you see.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: Oh, with all the plastic surgery and stuff. Yeah. You know what's funny is that driving here today, the gambler came on and it really, really got me, like, teary. Not here. Oh, I'm in a weird mood this week. But, like, I don't know, it just. I was like, wow, that's quite a profound song. When you actually get down to the bowl.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Really? It's about gambling.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: No, it isn't about gambling.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: It's about a guy fucking gambling.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: It's not about gambling.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: Maybe I've been listening.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: You've got to know when to hold them.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Sure.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Got to know when to fold them. Right. Every time I walk in this building, I think, have I hold them. I've held him too long.
Should have folded them.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: So you think it's a metaphor for life?
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Of course it bloody.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: No, I think it's. It's right on the nose. It's about gambling.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: I thought, you know what? And a few weeks ago. It's not about gambling.
[00:12:51] Speaker A: It's called the Gambler.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: A few weeks ago, I looked up, I thought, wow, Kenny Rogers was always there. He must have a million amazing songs. He's really got four or five, you know.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: What's his. My favorite song has.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Is the gang rape song.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: I'm not familiar with that.
There's a gang rape Kenny Rogers on.
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Think about. Think about your Kenny Rogers back catalog.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not. I don't have anything in my mind.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: I bet Christian can guess.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Kenny Rogers gang rape song. I know the Gambler, and I know the one that had a big Lebowski. That's it.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: No, it's the one about promise me, son, not to do the things I've.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Done, which is gang rape.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: That's why the kid beats the shit out of all the others because they gang rape his. His girlfriend, Becky.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: The song is called Becky?
[00:13:45] Speaker B: No, the song is coward of the county. That's the song.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Well, I'll have to visit that after the show. That sounds like a good song about gang rape.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Hey, hey.
[00:13:57] Speaker A: Is it. Was it from the themes. Was it the theme song to the Accused with Jodie?
[00:14:01] Speaker B: No, it wasn't.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Well, hold on.
The best Kenny Rogers song comes from the great film, so Six Pack. You ever see that film?
[00:14:10] Speaker B: No.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: Kenny Rogers is a race car driver. You would like this early 80s. And he adopts, like, six orphans, and they work as pit crew.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: He's just making this up.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: No, I'm not.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: This is you crowd riffing.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: No, no. And then they work in his pit crew and help him win this big race.
And the song that came out of that is Love will turn you around. You know that one?
[00:14:34] Speaker B: Don't know.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Love will turn you around.
Turn you around.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: Because he spin it. Does he spin out in.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a great song.
[00:14:44] Speaker B: I looked at his back catalog. I was like. I was expecting, like, oh, yeah, that one. That one. I was like, four Songs. I'm out. I'm Kenny Doubt. Yeah, there's not many anyway. Matt Rife.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Matt Rife.
Well, let's just.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: There's not much to say, really.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Not much to say. I don't want to see someone do an hour of crowd work. I don't really even want to see crowd work.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: It's kind of like a transitional device used in between bits sometimes or is a warm up device to get going. Right. And I'm okay with it in small doses as a. As a viewer or someone at a show, but I don't know. I don't want to see. See an hour of crowd work, hearing about everybody in the audience and seeing if he can play off that.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: It's like when you go to a party and there's the one loud, good looking dipshit and he's gonna try and hold the.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: Hold the room. Exactly.
[00:15:36] Speaker B: And it's like, oh, well, we've given this guy permission already. I mean, let me. Let's just do a few notes on it. Do you want to. I'll spin through my notes. Right. I like the dream. A little dream. I didn't realize it was setting up the 3D camera still thing that they did through the crowd at the start. That was kind of cool. Yeah, they like flew almost like through a drone and then they Would you like that? Yeah.
Because I think. Didn't we have the same thought on Matt Rife?
I know the comedy community hates him, so I was kind of pulling for him, like, okay, let's start.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Why did they hate him?
[00:16:12] Speaker B: It's something to do with him.
I thought it was because he was a YouTube comedian, but then in the show he addressed, oh, yeah, I've been doing this since I was 16. And blah, blah, blah, blah. I was told, oh, he's just some YouTube comedian. That's why we hate him. And he's, you know, cut. Like, he's really cut. And he uses that to effect.
Sex sells. Whatever. Yeah, get over it. And so I was kind of pulling like, okay, I really want to like this guy just to be contrarian. You understand that, obviously.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: Well, I don't really know his background, but he said he had been in the clubs or in that club since he was 16.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Which is kind of impressive.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's contrary to. Yeah, the YouTube comedian thing. But anyway, some of the other notes I had, because we just bat through this hoodie merch we talked about. He has this vague, distracting mustache.
[00:17:03] Speaker A: Yeah. What is that? Is that. Is that a good look?
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Either grow It. Or don't, but you. Yeah, whatever.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Snoopy's cousin Hector, you remember from now, he had a little dust dash there. That's what we call it.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: Dust stash. I like dust. In England, we call it bum fluff.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: Bum fluff?
[00:17:20] Speaker B: Bum fluff.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: Like the light hairs in the inside of a bum.
[00:17:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
On the outside of it.
The one overarching thing I had about it, I mean, it's just a series of bits and I'm like, work didn't. Work didn't. Blah, blah, blah, was it felt like watching a.
What you call them, like a televangelist.
Constant smile.
[00:17:47] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Like practice niceness.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Yes. Yes.
Forced affability.
[00:17:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:54] Speaker A: Might call it.
He wasn't mean. Like, crowd work is usually picking on.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: Let's start with the first one, and maybe we end with the first one that he comes out hot. And he goes right in on the black guy sitting in the front row with the giant shoes. Right?
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm like. Like, those shoes are crazy ridiculous. Yeah.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: But I don't think I've ever seen, you know, a white comedian go at a black audience member. Especially today. Right. He kind of went in on this guy. Yeah, Right. And I was like, okay, all right.
[00:18:26] Speaker B: This guy, you know, maybe he just figured, he's here for me, I'm gonna get away with it.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: Because normally with a white comedian, talking to a black audience member is deferential.
I'm up here. I'm an asshole. I'm a nerd. You're better than me.
Like. But he really was just like, what the fuck are you wearing?
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Like, in that sense, I appreciated that. Right. Like, call anybody out, regardless of their race or their gender or whatever. Right?
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:56] Speaker A: That's kind of missing. It is so deferential or so polite. Right.
It wasn't mean, really, what he did, but he, you know, he wasn't sparing the guy either. He was. He was ragging on him. Right. So I thought that was kind of.
Kind of ballsy to do that.
I just, you know, the blowjob lady with the blowjob video, none of the. None of the people that he had, the interactions that he built the comedy off of were interesting or funny to me. Right. Like, none of it was funny. I never laughed once.
It was not funny to me.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: I've just got not going anywhere, witch nightmare. Not going anywhere. Boyfriend cheating on me. Not really going anywhere. Wet dreams. Really obvious stuff.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't have one joke to say. Oh, I really liked that.
A couple put downs of the city Of Charlotte were good.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: I kind of like the end of show credits as well, where they freeze. It's kind of weird. I liked the opening.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: But production, like, the production.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: The content in between.
[00:20:02] Speaker A: Yeah. So bad. So.
And this was a. If we were trying to get a sense of this guy's act, this was probably not a good choice as we're. As I'm watching it, I'm like, this sucks. My kid was in the room. He's like, no, dad, this guy's awesome. This is not like his act. You got to watch, like a different special. This is not.
My kid doesn't really talk.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: He's a kid. So like a longshoreman from Brooklyn, I guess.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: I guess so. He was like, no, this is not. This is not how it really is. But I think we get a sense of this guy, right?
[00:20:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Like televangelist. Like, hey, I really want to be liked and I'm gonna smile. I mean, I guess that's the thing. Like, I always remember Tom and I, when we. We started the room and stuff.
Yeah. And it was very much like Lola pointed out to me one time, and I'd never really noticed, it was that positivity in comedy was kind of rare. Like at that point in the 90s.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: That'S what we call the golden age of comedy, when there was no positivity. It was great.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Just everything was like, this fucking sucks and you suck.
And so, like, this guy, maybe he was just like, hey, can we just have some positive vibes for once?
[00:21:22] Speaker A: Yeah, he did. He kept it positive, right?
Yeah. I don't. Maybe that's what it is. I don't like positivity. Right. And I don't like young comedians and I don't like people who are good looking. So if you bring all those into the room, it's no way I'm gonna like this.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah, right? Yeah. There was really nothing for me to like about it, but you could tell the audience, I mean, that audience was there for him.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: They loved it.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they.
[00:21:52] Speaker A: They ate it up.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: I remember one seeing. So there was. We talked about Rick Mail and Aid Edmondson one time, right. And they had a TV show called Bottom this gross out stuff. And they would do live tours of it where they recreate the thing and, you know, and it was fanboy heaven. Everyone's there for it. And they did this really goddamn clever ploy.
They would break the script in the middle of the show and appear to be off script. Like.
Like they'd been doing the show, but.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: It made it seem like it Was.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: And you thought sitting in the crowd, oh, this is so special. Like every other show just didn't have this, you know, they didn't lose their way and break off and then just start addressing the audience. And then you found out through the grapevine they did that forever. They just changed like Leicester to Nottingham to Birmingham and just did it every night. It was amazing.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of like when we watched the Sandler special. All those things that went wrong. Right.
Were probably planned.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:22:58] Speaker A: I think the dog running on stage.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: The keyboard should email the production company and demand and write them a letter with your typewriter. Do you still use.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Typewriter. Freak them out. I wonder if there's a way to get to Santa. I do know a couple of people who do you got secondary third or ye. Connection, maybe.
[00:23:22] Speaker A: Yeah, let's.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Let's put it on.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: You know, it's my 50th birthday. If we could get them in here. Come up.
[00:23:29] Speaker B: All right. So there's nothing else to say really, is there?
[00:23:32] Speaker A: Well, I always try to say, who does this comedian remind you of? You know, our shared frame of reference.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: Joel Osteen.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: He does kind of have a Joel Osteen. You're really hooked on the evangelist thing.
He is very glowing like Joel Osteen is.
But is there any comedian that you and I both know from back in the day still working today?
[00:23:57] Speaker B: You're seeding this.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: Yes, but I'm not saying that this guy is like him in terms of his act, but who does he. I couldn't stop thinking about this comedian while watching Matt Rife.
Good looking guy in sweats doing crowd was at the lodge recently.
You texted me to see if I was coming.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Oh, night.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: Yeah, the great legendary Nathan Craig.
[00:24:35] Speaker B: No, I would not put him in.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: He also has a dustache.
Or did.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: Yeah, but he's an actor, so it might have been for something. Craig, I'm not seeing it.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: You don't. You didn't get that? No, I guess, you know, because I was thoughtful.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: He wasn't. Comedy on stage, mate, was. This sucks. This sucks.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: This sucks. Yeah, yeah, no, no, I'm not saying his act was like that, but his good looking, guard down, casual nature type of thing where the thing is going in every different direction. Right.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: I could potentially see that. Yeah. I mean, like, let's be honest, back in the day we were a bunch of gargoyles. I mean it was not attractive.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: But.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: So Nate.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: We still are. Yeah.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: So, yeah, yeah. But for Nate to be like, oh, Good looking, well turned out. Like he used play hockey, so he was kind of stacked and stuff. And then there's us, just like a gaggle of homeless guys.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Yeah. That becomes your.
And I guess maybe that's what's going on here. The novelty. Everybody's got a novelty, right? When we decide who we gonna watch this week, you're trying to just tick off all the boxes. Here is the good looking comedian, right? That's his niche. Niche.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: His angle would be good looking comedians through the years, though there aren't many.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: There aren't many. Each generation maybe has one.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: All right.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: All right, well, let's give it the review.
I think we know we're going.
You could see it written on my sheet.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: Yep. This is the. This has been the worst that we've reviewed, right?
[00:26:19] Speaker A: Yeah. For me, I just did not enjoy it on any level.
It wasn't even interesting in terms of like. I mean, he, it. It was impressive how he held the crowd. Right. Like. But I gotta imagine there was two and a half hours of footage, they narrowed down to one hour. Right. And this was the best of the footage. I don't think it was a continuous.
[00:26:38] Speaker B: I didn't notice any joint.
Yeah, I mean, it's just. And it's just a unanimous bomb.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: Huge bomb.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Let's really lay into it, what say on three? Bomb, Bomb.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: Bomb. Bomb.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: This guy bombs.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: We give him another chance. See something else? No. Okay. All right, we're in agreement. We're not usually in agreement.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Yep, that's the end of that. All right, cut.
Welcome.
As dawn is one.
