Tommy Brennan, a rising star in comedy and sketch, is celebrated for his talent and authenticity, having recently gained attention on Saturday Night Live. The conversation blends personal stories with humor, showcasing Tommy’s Midwest roots in Minnesota, where drinking culture, family traditions, and community gatherings like basement parties are deeply rooted. He shares a vivid memory of his first significant drunken experience at a family cabin, drinking summer shandys with cousins, which led to food poisoning and a lifelong aversion to the drink. The episode also features a comedic yet revealing anecdote about an internet-driven encounter with a man named Jeff, who obtained Tommy’s number from a website and sent misleading texts, creating a fictional "creep" narrative that underscores how digital connections can be dangerous and deceptive. Tommy reflects on his early life, including growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, his experiences with jobs like washing dishes and coaching youth soccer, and the cultural significance of drinking, especially Miller’s beer, in the Midwest. He also shares a lighthearted moment about being mistaken for a man who “gained weight” as a sign of success, a perspective rooted in Midwest values where becoming “a man” is tied to gaining body fat. The narrative concludes with Tommy’s reflections on the absurdity of modern life, the cost of air travel, and the joy of community, all wrapped in a warm, self-deprecating tone that highlights both personal growth and the enduring power of storytelling in comedy.
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Sturdy, ginger, like that, the ginger gene is that. Ginger is a fugitive. You only $5 for the whiskey, $75 for the whore. Ginger's our hell now. Swisky views, excellent. Ginger, I like ginger. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I just say that for all my guests, but I mean, once again, today it is Tommy Brennan, Tommy Brennan here. Cheers, Tommy Brennan. Cheers, buddy. Can I hit you with one right back? Oh, yeah, go. I've been practicing. Okay. I would say that for all my guests, but I mean, once again, today it is Andrewsantino. Wow. Wow, look at the eyes. Good. All right. So today we're drinking a little bit of stag. The boys never had stag. So I said, we got to get a sip of this. That is harsher, but I like it. That is good. Good harsh. Oh, yeah. Here's a good trick. This is a whiskey trick. Leave it in your mouth for a second. Don't swallow right away. Yeah. Let the tongue do the work. Ladies, stop it. Will you? It never comes before. That's right. Tommy Brennan, a wonderful comedian turning out to be an incredible sketch actor that people are finding out about, thankfully, to Saturday Night Live. Yeah. People have known for a long time that you're a talented young man. I heard to the grapevine. How many people liked you? And they said, you got to meet this guy. He's great. Laura Peak, of course, our good friend, friend of the show. She said, the greatest. You're going to love this guy when you meet him. I want you to meet my friend, Tommy. And I said, you know, I don't like guys. I don't like guys that do the why in the end of their name. I said, I'll call him Thomas or Tom, but I want me to Tommy. Yeah. I met you. I stared into those eyes and that quaffed perfect hair. And I thought, love this guy. So I met you and that changed me forever about you. You were okay with Tommy then. Well, then I saw your act. And I was like, this guy's great. So I was a full circle moment. Damn. I thought you were going to pull the rug out there. That was just really genuine. No, no, no, but your breath smells. So what I do think, no, you're, you were, you are a very talented, very funny dude and a sweet guy. When I met you, I was like, yeah, he's going to do fine in this business. You can tell some guys you can tell men a lot, met, met at the fat black. Yeah, and fat black. That's right. And for reference, that's a comedy club. Yeah, which probably. Yeah. I don't love the name. No, it's tough. Well, what's hard is like people will be like, hey, you're at the comedy seller. That's so cool. And I go, yeah, you can come, come hang anytime. And they go, okay, we're yet. And I go, just type in fat black pussy cat. And they're like, and this is what are we up to? And it's like, I like my mom. I've had to tell my mom. Yeah, come to the fat black fat black pussy cat to see me. Fat black pussy cat is a little bit less harsh than just because they nicknames all the comics called as fat black. Yeah. And you're like, I just don't love that. I just don't love saying where you at fat black. Right. I don't like it. But yeah, but it's a great club. We love the seller. We love all the rooms. We love the seller. It is the best. But yes, we met there and and continue to wonderful relationship. And now you're in town doing some shows, looking handsome as ever, because you're on little break, having fun. I'm doing LA stuff. I'm taking meetings. I did Irvine last night. Can I tell you a weird thing to happen in Irvine? Let me guess. Okay. You went down there. Yeah. And yeah, everybody booed. Not that far off. No, that has happened pretty much every other time I've been to Irvine. What happened? I get a text right before the show. It says, "Yo, are you in the green room?" I was going to stop by and say hi, but maybe I'll catch you afterwards. Number I don't know. We haven't texted before. But it kind of had the cadence of like, this feels like it's a big comment. I'm a famous person. Yes. Yeah. So I respond. I said, "Hey, my bad. I deleted my Apple ID and I don't have a bunch of my contacts." Lie. Easy lie. I mean, don't we all, we all know. Yeah, it's just me being someone who's never had a phone before. Kind of. And I get a response that's like, "It's all good when you're out on the road and you're hung over missing flights." Which is like, I think a reference to an old bit of mine. And then it was like, "It's Jeff. I'll buy you a drink after the show." And now like, "Well, I don't know who that is." And I get a selfie from Jeff. And it's just a guy named Jeff in the front row. Can I see this photo? This is amazing. Yeah. And we got to put it. We'll put it up for the audience to see as well. Yeah. So Jeff got your number from the internet? Yes. So this is Jeff. Give it to me. We'll make them put it up up. Oh, there's Jeff in my lie text, too. Let's. Yeah. Yo, exclamation point. Love the yo. Sorry. I deleted my Apple ID and accidentally lost half my contacts. Who is this? How would you only lose half? So funny. I lost half. No worries. That's life when you're on the road a bit coming over. Like you said, it's Jeff. Let me know. I'll treat you for a drink. My treat. And I get a selfie. Wow. And then Jeff sent a selfie and we'll put it up here so people can see it clearly. We'll send it to Joe and Joe will put it up there clearly. And then he texted you a few more times. Didn't respond. Did not respond to Jeff. Once it was just a guy out there. I was like, "I don't love that." How did he get your number? I peek out there. He's sitting by himself, which is always a good sign. And just sharpening a knife. Come on out, Tommy. Come on. That skin looks comfy. And I get out there. I go, my plan was like, do five jokes and then address it. Sure. And I get out there and he's just smiling at me. And I immediately just go, "Hey, man, are you Jeff?" And he was like, "Yeah." And I go, "Do we know each other?" He's like, "Mm-hmm." And I was like, "All right, to give everyone else some context and I read the text, I was like, so how do you have my number?" And he's like, he says a website. I don't want to say what it is, because I don't want people to find it. Yeah. Like a website to find people's contact. This is the thing that can happen. And the whole crowd just goes, "Oh, what? Boo!" Jeff. Everyone's like, "Fuck that guy!" Like they got angry. And I was just like, "Oh, man, I had this theory. I was like, I bet he knows one of my friends." Yeah. And they're fucking with me. Right. And then it was just like the creepiest answer. Yeah. He was like, "I wanted to find it, so I did." Oh, no, Jeff. And I was like, "And you tried to make it seem like we knew each other so you could come in the green room." Like, "What did you think was going to happen in the green room?" You realize this is the beginning of a villain's story. You really created a villain. Like this man now wants to kill you. Now his whole goal in life will be to kill you. Yeah. He's going to end up coming to SNL. Thought about it a lot last night. Yeah, should do. Nice drive back. Should do. Thought about it. I mean, here's the thing. I know we're talking about it on here, making it worse. It's what he wanted. He was doing a little attention-seeking behavior. Uh-huh. He took the jokes pretty well. I will say that. I'd call them worse than Epstein. Oh, wow. Okay. When you told the jokes go, "You're a weirdo, Jeff. Say that to me and I'm Jeff. Did he look like this? Go ahead." I was like, "Jeff, you're the scariest guy I've ever met." Was it like that? Yeah. You're done. Yeah. That guy is going to cook you, dude. You will be on, he'll be spitt roasting you in his backyard. This was Tommy. Tell me a joke now, Tom. God. Yeah. I've had some strange, I've had some strange, I had a moment. Oh my God. He remembers at the comedy store, someone said hi to me. They acted extremely professional. So my brain went into, have I met this person in the professional space? Right. It was insane. Like I thought maybe we've worked together. Maybe this person is someone that I that's worked on a thing with me that I don't remember. Yep. And she was unbelievable convincing that she was like, "Where have you been? What's been going on?" She spoke like that. And I was like, "I'm been running around. What have you been? Where have you been?" I've seen you since. Where are we at? Where are we at? And then I started to get, I started to do the baiting her with, with, with context. I started going, "What are you up to? What's been going on?" You know, playing that game. Same thing as I lost half of my contact. Yeah. And she was like, "I'm still working. I'm still doing the same old stuff." And I was like, God damn it. And then she goes, "Well, we should catch up." And I was like, "Yeah, we definitely should catch up." And I go, "You've still, you've got my information that I'm trying to avoid it." And she goes, "No, no, no, no. Give me, I need your number." And I was like, "You don't have my stuff? I thought I, don't you have my information?" And I was like, "Just you have my email. You email? Didn't we, you know, I'm trying." And she's like, "No, no, give me your number." And you know, you know, you know. So finally, like a dickhead, I give the number. And I'm panicking. I'm like, what is this? Who is this person? Well, then I just start getting a barrage of texts. And it starts to become very clear. This was, this is just a person who's like kind of in love with you, has a pair of social relationship, probably. Yeah, it was a little weird. It was very strange. I was like really uncomfortable about it. And then I, at some point, was like, "Hey, I don't know if this is kind of,
I'm just being honest, I thought we had known each other or I had no idea because it was just like, when are you gonna come back to the comedy star? It's like that kind of thing and I got, I fucked up, I've been there every night waiting for you. - Yep, yep. - Well, fuck me up, you know, maybe spiral a little bit 'cause I was like, ooh, now she's gonna be mad that I don't respond to any of these texts because they're like, yeah, invasive. - I've been spooked. - Oh, that's spooked. - Well, Jeff should be spooked and you bit. - Yeah, Jeff spooked me a little bit. - Yeah, well, he's not as way. - Jeff. - Jeff, come on in here. - We bring him in. - Yeah. - No, but, you know, you just have to be careful, but she was very good, she was shockingly good. - Yeah. - Remember the text I sent you into the day that I got that started with McCone, you don't know me, but I'm trying to break into the industry as a screenwriter, so anyway, I can get this in front of Bobby and Santino. - Huge. - Where did he get the number? - I have no idea. I googled my name in the number and there's a website with the wrong number listed. So he didn't get it from there. - Damn. - This kind of reality is gonna happen more and more because of the internet now. By the way, and then people Photoshop photos if you together, AI, you'd be like, we've hung out before. And you'll go, oh my God, where was that? I don't remember that. We're gonna be jogging our brains for the difference of reality and, seriously, that's gonna be the continual future. So enjoy it for now. - It's gonna be sick. - It's gonna be sick, so let's talk about something happy and good. I don't need to dig into the world of SNL 'cause I'm sure you've answered a lot about that stuff. I am curious about a little piece of your journey, but more so before that. So, you know, what we used to do the theme on this show was when we had a cocktail, was telling me the first time you got hammered. And you're somebody I know, is a Midwest kid, you're a Minnesota boy, and I know you're a big drinker. Well, I know your people are. - It's okay. - Well, I'm a big drinker, and I know like our people are. - Culturally we are. - Yes, you come over to my parents house. My dad immediately offers you a drink. It's the first, it is a warming-- - Yeah, we're like a cocktail family. - That's what we are two. - We love cocktail. - My dad, we don't drink beer at my house because my dad doesn't like beer, and we want to actually get fucked up. - Right. - Yeah, beer was like, oh, what are you hanging out at a sporting event? - Yeah, why are you trying to fill up? - Yeah, we're trying to get a hammer again. - So what's the first time you got smashed? - First time I got like real, I was a little late 'cause our family went, I'm one of eight kids, and our family went pretty much every other kid got in trouble. - Skip to a generation? - Yeah, 'cause you go, I got to not do what that is. So it was like my brother would get in trouble then my next sister didn't, and then my sister under her got in trouble. Actually, those two kind of flopped, but me and my sister who was older than me, she got in trouble and she was like partying in high school and I was like, goody two shoes. - Till senior year. - Then you were a bad boy. - Yeah, I was fine. I never got in trouble. I was, I got in trouble. - Well, you were the cutest for sure. I mean, obviously that's why you ended up on TV. The arrest of a mark. - Of course. - Hidious siblings. - Yeah, really ugly people's out there. - The Brennan's. - The Brennan's eight Irish Catholic kids. - Yeah. - Did they make you to church? Did you go to church? - We went to church every Sunday until my youngest sister left home and then my parents, everyone stopped going. And we were like, hey, mom and dad, we didn't want to go either. - They were like, yeah, no, we were doing that just for the show. - 'Cause, yeah. - Well, it's for the show, it's for the neighborhood. Yeah, it's for grandma. Yeah, that is really what it's for. It's for, what'd you call your grandma? - We had grandma and nanny. - Nanny. - Nanny was on my mom's side, but they're East Coast. They're Jersey, so it was nanny and pop. - Pop, I do love pop. - Mine were Nana and Poppy. - In Chicago. - Yeah, Nana, Nana. - Italian. - No, that's Nona. - Nona. - Nona. - No, Nana's Irish. Nana was the, Nana and Poppy were the Irish. - Okay, yeah. - And my Italian grandparents, one was inmate 4, 6, 87. And, and me bozmeranera. (laughing) No, that was literally grandma and grandpa. They were very old school. They didn't want nicknames. I think that was very like nicknames for, you know, like animals. Like you nickname your dog. - My mom picked Gigi. - That's cute. - Yeah, she's-- - So you're, to your-- - To my nieces and nephews. - How many are there? - I know my kids. I got seven nieces and nephews. - And you have two kids at your own? - Yeah, but we don't really. - We don't have to chat about it? - Nah, they're-- - SNL doesn't want to hear about that. - I don't know who they are. - Lauren, I heard you have children on a podcast. (laughing) - I don't really have kids. (laughing) - I don't, I would like to meet them, please. (laughing) - Let's see how they look on you. - Do they want to shoot Chapel Rowne? - Come bring them. - We could just get them in for Travis Scott. (laughing) - That is these very contemplative, the way he speaks. - You got on, well, then right, you guys get along. - I, yeah, I worship the guys. - But he likes you. - Yeah, I think so. - Well, no, it's a 50/50. You know, all the friends I've had on the show, a lot of people say like, I think he respects my talent, but I don't know if he likes me. - Yeah. - But some people know that he likes them. - We got a good new class, the five of us. - Yeah. - At all like. - Yes. - He seems to like us. - He does. - We're doing well, yeah. - Like a Rudnitsky. We know John, we both know John. - Love, love, John boy. - Yeah, one of my boys, one of my favorites. - The funniest guy. - John never thought Lauren liked him, but couldn't tell. - John thinks I don't like him. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Well, we don't. - Yeah, which I don't like. - Yeah, I just think you're funny, John. It's different. - He's very funny. - It's the funny. - That's the favorite people I love. - Mystic River. Mystic Lake. You want to talk about an unfortunate thing. He's so cute. He brought his mother. That's why I met his mom, who's one of the most beautiful people on earth. He brought his mom to the gig. It was his first gig opening for me and some of the time and we're out there having a soda pop and I go into the bathroom and I'm a little tipsy at this point and I go to the pee and the stalls, I'm sorry, the urinal, two of them are covered and someone is that one. So I go into the stall and as I go to pee, I'm like, my legs are crazy itchy. What's going on? And I pull my pants down and there are welts all over my legs, all over. I'm having like a panic attack and I'm like, oh my god, what's going on? Am I dying? And then I pull up and I go out there and I'm like telling the story to John's mom and one of the people that works there, like a server comes up to me and he's like, oh yeah, mosquitoes. And I was like, mosquitoes. I'm from the Midwest. She's like, oh no, by the lake here. They'll get through your jeans. They were biting through my pants, but I was so drunk. I didn't even know. So I'm sitting there just getting a little bit and I'm getting baseball welts and I was like, they'll bite right through denim. I was like, I'm from Chicago. I've never heard of that through denim biteers. Those minutes out of this small lakes, they are ponds. They're ponds. Well, scummy, scummy stagnant water. Yeah, it's bad. And it was Casino runoff. So, you know, that area is still a little rough, a little messy. I like that. I like the little methie town. Love some darkness. Now, what part of Minnesota are you, St. Paul? I'm from St. Paul. Yeah, that's right. I remember that because he's from the other side of the tracks. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wait, what town are you from? Fergus? No, he's from, he's from Otsigo. Otsigo, man. Otsigo, where people that, homemade bombs, that's where they kind of come from, is Otsigo. That's that area. That's the vibe. You can feel it. We also just had dinner with his mom. So I should be nice because she might listen to this lovely woman. We had ourselves some shake-shack. Shake-shack it was. Shake-shack is not good late at night. That's where you took, that's you took your mother to shake-shack. We also went to some nice places, but hey, hey, I'll do the interview. He'll get defensive. He did jump in there. You picked up the volume. Yeah. Well, he's got a, he's got to get a little, watch it, county-voney. I'd say, yeah. Yeah, we met at Shake-shack. Notice that none of these are pointed at you. That's exactly right. And we thought about giving him a camera. And you know what he said? He goes, oh, that'd be cool. Wow. Yeah. You know, we should get you one. But he's too cute. Yeah. I don't know. I don't like his purf stash. I'm not into it. I know, I know this is a generational thing, but I'm, yeah. Huh? They're in the purf stash. I know. But here's the difference. They come in and they go in and out, right? Beards are forever. Mm-hmm. Name all the great beards. Name all the great beards of time. Go ahead. Um, uh, uh, uh, uh, Orson Wells. Thank you. Go ahead, uh, uh, Nancy Reagan. Go ahead, um, uh, uh, whatever, uh, uh, uh, Abraham Lincoln. Yeah. What's your name? Mary Mary Mary. I was, uh, naming Beard. I understood. Yeah, I got the bet. Okay. Well, my wife, the greatest beard of all is Santu no gay. Maybe please. Is there a problem? Title the episode. I, I say, finally, yay question mark. I like I said, is there a problem? I tie up my hair. Is there a problem? Uh, you got a great beard. You've kind of always had it. I've, this is going to, you're going to think I'm lying. I've had facial hair since high school. And once I learned that I could cover up my face parts of it, because the rest of it is still, even the exposed stuff is awful. But I thought if I could cover up a majority of the face, 67 to, to 68%. Yeah, it'll help me throughout life and never change. I've never, I shaved it a few times. Maybe for like a funeral when my mom is like, would you mind? Yeah, cleaning up. You know how it, you know, it is the right look. You've been casting like so many things and they've never made you shave. That's actually, that's a very interesting. Yeah, well, they've never, no one's even asked me. Oh, no, I did shave like once for what? What is for now? You see me? We shaved into a goatee. Yeah, okay. Yeah, but yeah, uh, very rarely do I, yeah, I, I, I, I, it's me. They're like actually a little more. Yeah, could you do more? Could we actually double some hair up here to your eyeball? So you're just a beard. Maybe a rest of development also, uh, we did shave for a rest. Yeah. That is right. I did shave for a rest because they wanted me to be a car salesman. Okay. He's not proving my point. Yeah, he's doing it wrong. He's sick, but you're right. But what you're, what you're on, you're on is correct. That, that, that's like that, right? Reminds me of, um, when Eddie Murphy went to SNL and he wanted to keep his mustache. Yeah. And Lauren said that SNL, we put on the mustaches. Yep. I thought that was a cool, yeah, I got a shave. This is the most I've ever shaved in my life. I'm shaving like every day now. You got
But you have a great little face trying to who do you think on SNL would look better with the beard hmm? I'm gonna say I mean me. I'm gonna throw myself in there. Okay. That was safe Don't be political have fun. I mean Cam wants a beard so bad. Well, yeah, so that's a cultural thing I don't know if you know this black guys with that they love she came black Yeah, he is well for right now depends on what that show does to him But no, no facial hair thing is a big deal by the way. Yeah, one of the best shows It's not a bit we love the show. It's one of the shows it's got to be the best job. We've ever had it is it is truly like the Not to be cheesy it is a dream. No, well, yeah Don't be cheesy. Yeah, it's fucking amazing. It was you're on a comedic institution. You did it. Yeah, I mean it was very cool To the boy you might as you know, I mean enjoy that stuff. I hate when people are good. It's corny. Why because it's wonderful Yeah, it's a great moment in life. Give me the shittiest job you ever had Watch dishes in a Mexican restaurant in northern Minnesota Didn't have to say Mexican, but he did well the only reason I said restaurant. It's here's the thing in the parlance of our time There is not one Latino who ever set foot in there is the is the northern Minnesota. It's a white restaurant the Tex-Mex place Oh, reason I said Mexican restaurant is washing dishes in that kind of place. It's baked cheese. It's right on to every Ceramic plate. Yeah, I thought about that. And it's just scraping the whole day. Watch dishes that up backstage house, buddy Yeah, you won't believe What a what a what a blooming onion does to that. No, no, it's actually it was extremely easy was such a joke job I would just get stoned and put in headphones. Yeah, and at one point they were like Do you want to get promoted? Do you want to do like you know, do you want to like serve or whatever and I was like could I get high and put in headphones while I serve? And they were like no, I was like then absolutely not yeah, they were like it's more money. I was like I don't care I'm not make this this isn't enough money to do anything to me. I just need a job like the serving job isn't gonna like level me up Yeah, yeah, I wasn't gonna get a better bike Do you know what I mean? I was fine. It was just a job to have in college But I love that so much because they left me alone washing dishes is kind of yeah, I do say it's the worst job But I did love it. Yeah, but it's a hot. It's an arduous repetitive. There's no payback. It's not like Oh, I finally get to blank at that job. It does feel good when blank It's just kind of like you just kind of go in there and get the shit kicked out of you every day and just do it and get it over with Yeah, actually no worst job is referee and youth soccer. You're still bringing up stuff that I think is awesome Yeah, that sounds so fun you yell at kids, but the parents yell at you and I went to puberty when I was like 18 So I'm like 60. Yes, 25 you went through it. So I'm like I'm 16 Referring like 12-year-old's who are bigger than me And I'm like hey Hey guys knock it off you're off size number four like following me to my car going at me I'm like it's all guys named Jeff with my phone number and they're like I'll beat the shit out of you right now If you call another yellow card of my kid that was like that that was I had like low self-esteem at that point because of the job Yeah, cuz it hurts your feelings. Yeah, and you're like club soccer parents Sock. Oh, this wasn't like park district club soccer is real club soccer. Oh, that's it now I have somebody like these are parents who are like spending money and they think their kids are actually really talented and They're going and I'm gonna be right here. 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I mean, he's also like what at the absolute peak of his career Yeah, it was amazing, but I just I like so badly want to just go well cuz he saw me I did I'm right he would see me there with the other coaches and I'm sure like it would have been cool They've been like hey, I'm gonna stand up and he would have been like that's awesome Oh, I was having fun. They were little tics. Yeah, it was really just like throw the ball and make jokes Yeah, you don't make them laugh. Yeah, or stop someone from laying down a lot. They lay down often. Yeah, I'll go You got to get up. Come on, Cara. You got to get up. No, they start crying. The mom is like what happened? I'm like, you know Yeah, she's she just as tired Yeah, the socks. I don't know how she sleep last night. Yeah, yeah, and it's your fault Yeah, and she's now she's gonna do sprints go go. It was it was her their kid and it was um God, why can't I think of his name? Ryan Philippe Ryan Philippe, is that his name? I think it was his kid too, but the world feral thing I was like wow. I mean starting as a standup and having to coach a Guy who has like formed a lot of the humor of the last 30 years is like creepy really intense Well, and I and I kind of stayed away from hit from yeah, cuz his kid was older Okay, but so I kind of stayed away from that side of the field. I didn't want any negative impression for him to be like It'd be so awesome. Was that the guy? It's like that's like I need all curb your enthusiasm episode like years They'd be like, wouldn't you get a coach my kid and soccer and yeah, you're a piece of shit Yeah, I didn't want any of that smoke that was so those are the two worst jobs To some degree. Yeah, and then wait, we never got into why when did you get hammer for the first time? Oh, yeah It would have been at my cabin my like with my my Yeah, old money kind when we had all cabin by the lake. Yeah, this is you get Minnesota shit though. This is my I know my No, no, they have a cabin. Yeah, they have a cabin It's like my my grandparents bought this old fishing resort when my dad was a kid. Yeah, and now for a hundred dollars Literally like for nothing. Yeah, it was run down as a foreclose property now my dad's whole side of the family all Colons at my dad's one of seven. That's cool. So we all co-own it and uh, that's where I that's where I would work and live and and all of my cousins I have 42 first cousins on that side and so all of us would just be there for the summer It was like summer camp every year and every like generation of cousins got the next generation Boos. Oh, that's like how it worked, right? The first time I got real drunk was on Corona's and summer shandys. Yeah lineys lining Google summer shandys those that don't know lining Google's buddy, buddy You're missing out on Midwest's finest I've drank them two times in my life the first time I got drunk and then about a week later I had them again and I got food poisoning. Oh And not from linies shout out linies the food poisoning was something he ate from some fucking cookies my sister Maddie made and Shout out Maddie. Yeah shout out Maddie. You really ruined me in a few other cousins days that day and I got food poisoning and I never had a summer shandy again. Yeah, I couldn't do it Now everyone has a one and done. Yeah, Captain Morgan was my yeah Captain Morgan. I always High school. I traded a bottle of Captain Morgan. You guys are different. Yeah, we're pigs My Chicago cousins they we have there's one family who lived in Chicago. Yeah, insdale people. Yeah They drank at eight Wow, they're Yeah, you guys are animal. Yeah, I think it's a it's a cultural thing in Chicago because it's a bonding experience for us It's all over the Midwest is the same thing in Minnesota and Iowa and Nebraska and Wisconsin and noticed a I'll leave out Ohio Even though they are I like Ohio just fine. I don't really claim them in the Midwest though. They do Sorry. Yeah, so do I they're big on it because I'm coming to Cleveland Cleveland shot. I click. Oh, Ohio has actually been so wonderful to me over the years Columbus as well great fun cities, but It's a comfort thing for us. It's like a It's a way to spark conversation. It's a way to get out of a part get get away from things at a party So you're like if I can go to make it. I'm gonna go get another drink. Yeah, I'm gonna go I'm gonna make a little refresher. Yeah, it's just easy to get out. That's my favorite turn for a second cocktail I'm gonna refresh this one. Yeah, it's kind of like this one. Yeah, it's still having this one It's just dump a bunch of more booze in it. Yeah, we had my mom's one of 10 so we have I have a ton of causes
as well, big, big Irish Catholic family. And when the uncles would go smoke pot outside, the code was go check the air in the tires. They go, "We need to go check the air in the tires." And for a long time as a young kid, I was always like, "God, they're so diligent "about the tires." - They're so responsive. - It's awesome, 'cause now they can get home safely. - It's just like, I was like, "I'm excited to be a man to care of a car." (laughing) - That's after I saw them all drink like 45 miller genuine drafts, and I'm just like, "Man, they're so good, "they're gonna get home safe." Thanks to the air in the tires. - 'Cause they checked the tires before they leave. - Sure, 100%. Yeah, it doesn't matter, he fell up the stairs. I watched an uncle fall upstairs, one Christmas. Like, "Whoa, that's cool, gravity's down. "I've never seen that, but God bless." But yeah, that was a very customary thing to gather together in the basement and drink. And it does something culturally. - Basements are so good for-- - I miss them like crazy. - Yeah. - We don't have them here. - A basement fridge. - Oh, brother. - We open grandma's fridge and there's like a full case in there, you're like, "What, what is going on?" - Let me give you another one, too. - A garage fridge. - Garage fridge is on. - We don't do that here either. - No. - You know who does that here? People with money will have a garage fridge, but it's not for fun. - It's not like a piece of shit garage fridge. - Exactly, yeah. - It's like a sex, it's like, it's their sub-zero. - Yeah. - But no, it's gotta be like a white one that's got like gross. - Pause. - Yeah. - Tommy, brother. - It's gotta be a white one. - It's gotta be white. - I don't like it if it's not a white fridge. And it's gotta be an old white fridge. - It's gotta be an old white fridge that like was in someone's living room at some point in mid century. And then, and it's got like, the coils are so exposed on the back. - And the frost is all over it. - And the freezer, yeah, has never been defrosted. - Never been defrosted. - Yeah, and it's three inches thick. - And the hum is amazing. You close it and it's still, woo. - Or it's loud. - Or it was white when now it's tinted yellow. - Tell you what, it's a smokey, yeah. - Smokey, yeah. - All that cigarette smokey yellow. - And a real light bulb. - When you open it, you know? - Yeah. - It's just like a real light bulb in there. - It's a big one, too. It's like meant for a lamp. Definitely not a fridge. - No, they screwed that one down. - And you were like, "Dad, is that?" And he's like, "It fits." - It's shut up, it fits. - Bring me an MGD. - I can't believe you dropped MGDs. I haven't seen an MGD in it. - Well, that's what they said. A couple used to drink MGDs. There was a lot of Miller Highlights going around. - Yeah. - I guess we were big Miller people. We were never into Bud, Bud, Bud Light was never, it was always Miller's because of Wisconsin. - Yeah. - There were lights right there, and when we bless up, we don't bless down because Budweiser is, it's Missouri. - St. Louis, right? - Yeah, we don't, we're not really friends with St. Louis. - I mean, like-- - Do they claim Midwest? - Missouri definitely does. Yeah, they are. But they're just, the Cubs Archdemesis is the, you know, forever was, so I don't, but I do love St. Louis. They're very nice to me, so thank you, St. Louis. Yeah, it's a great town. It's a great little town, but yeah, we go up. So we liked Miller 'cause it was our neighbors of the North. - Oh, that's where we escape to. - Yeah. - The Chicagoans go to Wisconsin. - Like Lake Geneva area. - Well, that's, oh my, that's my-- - If you're rich. - Yeah. - We've never actually been. - Oh, it's great. - That's what, yeah. - Yeah, it's beautiful up there. I mean, honestly, like, Scotty is underrated. - Spent years of my life touring breweries throughout Wisconsin. - Amazing. - Putting on standup shows. - It's amazing. - It's bombing my dick off in Shabboygan and, and man in-- - Kenosha. - What is the, well, Kenosha for sure. Kenosha's got a comedy club. - Manitua. - Manitua. - Yeah. - That's what I'm thinking. - That's, dude, you're talking. This is where Scotty's finest. - Oh, yeah. - I love it up there. - It's so fun. - Because it's because it's, it's people that remind you of people you know. But more Wisconsin than you ever imagined. - Yeah. Well, I've never had so many shows where I've like bombed and then people are like, let's fucking hang out at this. You know, like, the audience is like, come on. - Dude, you're the man. - Well, that was a rough show. Let's go hang out. - Yeah, 'cause they don't care. - Yeah, no, they're rooting for you. - Yeah. - There's some cities that root against you. - Not there for all that was pretty bad at the time. - No. - I mean, they knew it was common. - Yeah. - Those tickets were free. You know what I mean? - Right. - Yeah, they were like, we're gonna, we're taking a gamble. - It's like, it's said, it's said, your credit was just from Chicago. - Like, yeah, it's, it's it. On the fly, it's like Chicago's finest. (laughing) Like, why do you think I'm here? Can't get booked in Chicago. - Yeah. - Where did you start? - Chicago. - Where? - The Lafactory was like, is home. - Yeah. No Xanies. - No Xanies. - No Xanies is like, I'm doing it this weekend. It's my like, it feels like a homecoming. Xanies was the mountain when I was there. But. - Xanies. - Old town. - Old town, yeah. - Yeah. - No offense to the suburbs from there. - I'm doing Rosemont, too. - Where'd you live in Old town? - I lived on North Mohawk and, or Mohawk and North. - This is a North app, yeah. - Yeah. - What a neighborhood. - Right, you grew up. - Near there, right? - 11-11 Dearborn. - Yeah, you were right. - 23-10 LaSalle. Yeah, we moved around a lot. In a bunch of different apartments. Is that like Gold Coast technically? - Technically, yeah, that's what, yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - The Viagra Triangle. - What a crazy spot to grow up. - Yeah, well, I mean, you know, I was too like young to understand that, that it was like, if I had been there in my 20s. - Yeah. - Would have been amazing. Cause my parents would go out. And, you know, like, I would, I would see them go out. - Yeah. - Just down into the neighborhood there. - Yeah. - To go rage. - Hopsmith, right there. - How would have great, well, what was also there? Hugh, not Hugh goes frog. Yeah, Hugh goes frog where he used to be there. And, oh, God, why can't I think of other places? Across here from Big Bull. And Big Bull's not there anymore either. - Mm-hmm. - But there's all those old steak houses and stuff. - Well, yeah, that's a seven year old. We'll be there with a 22 year old. - Well, that's where they go to meet him. Yeah, that's literally where the files began. - Mm-hmm. - Right. - That is what they call the Viagra Triangle for those that don't know. There's a little triangle area right where we're talking about and it's bars and restaurants with a little parker, whatever in between. And it is literally where elderly men with money would go to meet a fresh out of college girl because they've just gotten a divorce and she needs to pay off college. - And it's like a legitimate operation. - It's a, yeah, this is the thing that is, yeah. I think the city is funding it. I really, I think- - I think it has to be. - Yeah, I think daily, daily at the time was like making this happen. That and tolls. Did you guys tolls in Minnesota? - No. - No toll roads. When you're on the highway, you don't pay a toll? - No, no, no. - No, that was only when, yeah, we would drive like to Indiana and this Chicago toll road. - Hate it, man, they got us so bad. Stop you every 10 feet, more money. You throw money in the basket. And at some point, you know, you would do the fake throw money in. - Yeah. - My dad, he said, "Oh yeah, we put the money in the thing." - It just didn't count it or whatever. - Back then the camera technology wasn't that good, you know what I mean? Half the time the gates were broken. Or they would leave the gates up because it was just a pain or it would break the cruise in there. - Yeah, you cruise. So you'd find then somebody like, "You know, gate four is open." - Well, is speaking of bad jobs, can you think of a worse one? A worse one? - A worse one out there. - Then being at a toll? - Yeah. (whistles) - I would say- - I feel really bad for those people sometimes. - I would say people that do cleaning cruise for adult film sets is probably pretty bad. - All right. - Yeah. - Yeah. - You made it. - I think that's worse than tolls. - What if you had a finish like, you know? I don't think anyone's getting horny ever in a toll. Actually, no, I take that back. - You never seen that? - People. - That's an adult film. - Ranking it in a toll booth. - Yeah. - Actually take it, but you're by yourself. - That job would rock it. - A toll booth, Tommy. Every job you said I actually found in my mind a way to make it amazing. - Yeah. - Especially in this day and age. You've got a TV you can put in there, internet for sure, provided by the city. - Yeah. - A little heater in there. - I box it. You have a little cocktail, you don't have to drive, you're not going anywhere. Listen to tunes, call of your friend. - It's a mostly automated job. - Yeah. - You do have to, the people who can't figure out the thing though, it's fun because it's like an easy job in the every 30 minutes you have to deal with the dumbest person you've ever met. - Where does the coin go? - You're like in the basket, it's right there. - It's not taking my credit card. It's a holiday and express room key. So that's what that's. But that is good. Hold on to that. That is going to be worth it. I think there is no job that I've had that I would say was awful, but they were just rough gigs. McDonald's was my first job, but McDonald's was the best. Shout out to Matt Dees. Guy got fed me and my friends and we stole from them, blatantly stole. - That's good, it's a huge corporation. - Yeah, I've said this before on the show, please steal from corporations. Please don't stop. There's no need to stop stealing from them. They deserve it. I read today when I was getting my haircut in the chair that American Airlines is all a butt hurt and sad. The CEO said because they're going to have to fire a bunch of people, which people are mad now, 'cause there's a strike for flight attendants because they said they're not making any money. How could that be? - I'm like airlines, how did you lose all the money? - Yeah. - What'd you do? Didn't we give you everything to get on that stupid thing? - Yes. - By the way, what did you do with it? - Delta. Last year, this is going to blow your mind. - American Airlines netted maybe a half a billion or something. Delta netted five or six billion last year. - Not gross. - It is American doing. - I know. - Someone's stealing money at a corporate level. - It's me. It's me what I did in McDonald's at American. But Delta, five or six billion last year. - That's a better experience. - And in a loyal Delta net. - You're a Delta girlie? - Yeah. - Delta. - What is it? - 61.6 billion. - No, no, no. Netted last year. I think it was six billion last year. - No, we're operating revenue. - They're operating revenue. It nets a lot. - They netted six billion, I think, last year. Look at what they said. - 3.46 billion. - Right. And then American Airlines made like 400 million or something. And Southwest made like 140 million. - I will say, I bought one first class to hit in my whole life. - Never? - It was tonight. I'm getting on it tonight. And it was American, and it was about $48. - What? So if something is going on with American Airlines. - First class? - I was in New York. - I was thinking it flights to Chicago. - Whoa.
and Delta the times were all weird and I was like, well, let me check American and I was like, first class was like $180. They need your help. Yeah. Yeah. That's what something bad is happening. Well, there's no flight attendants because they're all on strike right now. So you'll be serving yourself. That's fine. Mom, you say that now. Have you been able to pour a drink on a plane? There's no way that's hard. We've poured drinks in cars before. Okay, dude. This guy, he's going after dishwashers, flight attendants, line it up SNL. Here's who you hired. No. You know what? It makes me mad because I looked at flights for my anniversary to take my lady to Paris. Cool. And then I saw how much money they wanted and I said, I need to show you this because you're going to lose your mind. Yeah. And for a first class flight from Boston, Logan to Paris was $12,000 for one way. Yeah. So I said, my love. That is how much money I made in 2024. I said, babe, I love you. We're, we're going to be somewhere else. We'll be close. Yeah. We're going to stay on the east coast. Yeah. Yeah. Or we just, maybe we'll break up. We might just boat to Paris. Yeah. Yeah. Cause there is a boat that goes a small boat. I could buy a small boat for that kind of price. $24,000. Yeah. I could buy a small boat. Yeah. Yeah. Or I get on one of these comedy cruises that everybody's doing. I made fun of Bobby. Bobby's doing the, yeah, Bobby's doing the sinks at the pier. Workaholics. Workaholics. Yeah. Okay. Workaholics cruise. And I made fun of them pretty incessantly. Only because I think cruises are insane. Yeah. I couldn't paint. And I want to never, you know what sucks is last year. I told, I told like my, my reps. I was like, I want to do one week on a comedy on a, on a cruise ship. Hmm. I just want it so that I can know what it is. And like, I kind of talk a lot of shit about it. And I'm like, I should walk the walk for a second. Oh, I appreciate that. And see what it's like. And now I can't do it because it would, people would be like, God, Tommy got SNL and he's doing cruise ship. Yeah, you can't do that. No. No. No, but be careful. Stay humble because you might have to. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Warren, I would love to stay. You know, I was laughing about something yesterday or when we saw each other on Monday, you hit me with a great line at the seller. We hadn't seen each other since I got the job. And, and, you know, we ran into each other and you go, oh man, it was so nice. So you were like, it's so good to see like good people get stuff from like, you look great. You put on some weight. Like it's just, it's awesome to see you fake doing well. And I was like, what? And you're like, yeah, it's awesome. You put on a little weight. You're doing great. I was like, the fuck man, obviously doing a bit. And I was annoyed because it got, it got me like you delivered it well enough that I was kind of like, I mean, it's like five pounds. It's not visible. I like to sneak that in. It's just a fun little slip. It's compliment sandwich. Right. And you said the weight like it was a positive thing. Yeah, you gained a little weight. It's good. No, it's great. It's good to see because because before you look like you were struggling mentally because you were working to get that job. Now you're happy. You're happy. It looks a lot healthier. Let's say that. That's what a Midwest mom says. You look healthier. Healthy. Yeah. Well, I got fat. Oh, baby, baby. When I got fat, my dad told me how he goes, he goes, you've like, you're like a man now. I know exactly what you mean. And I'm working on it. To a Midwest dad, you're not a man until you're a little fat. Yeah. A little fat means man. Yeah. Because you're still a boy body. You're still skinny. You're a boy. You have. You can't put muscle. No, you can do. We're teaching him. He's learning. Look at his arms. Flex for us for a little bit. Let's see. Yeah, he's trying. Oh, he doesn't know how to flex it. Yeah. He doesn't know. He doesn't know how to do much. He flexed like a little kid. You know, when a little kid is like, yeah, this. Yeah. My muscles show you show me your muscles. My muscles. My muscles. That was adorable. It's like when you're not few, you're like, how strong you? He's like, what if I'm pretty strong? I'm this strong. Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. Good for you, buddy. That was awesome. That's him in every situation. Yeah. The fact that women are interested in. Wow. Who's my mind? Dude, I brought him to an SNL after party. Yeah, he got it. And we were standing in the bathroom line. Like it's the bathroom line. It's the least sexy place in the whole area. And I'm washing. He's like two behind me. I'm washing my hands and and this girl just walks up to him after she's like, she just shit walks straight up to him and is like, Hey, what are you up to? He's like, I'm in the bathroom line. I just make I got it. I was like, what the fuck? Yeah. Well, they see something so simple in him. Yeah. And the simple thing is that it's his brain. They see something that is not, they don't see a lot. There's not a lot of buttons. Right. Right. You know, like if you walk into a cockpit of an airplane, you go, good God, how do you do this? You don't know. I mean, this guy is an Nintendo, the original. It's just A and B. There's not much. It's just a simple little easy money. Yeah. Because they know he's not going to be mean. He doesn't look like an asshole. He's tall enough. The dimples, I think, really suck them. Blue eyes and the dimples give it away. I mean, if they really only knew how unkempt he is as a human being, right? I got into his car the other night. Why? I was living again. I make these mistakes with friends where I said I was going down to meet Greg Fitzimmons at a Laker game and I said, I'm going to head downtown, but I'm going to Uber because I'm going to have a soda and I don't want to drive. And he goes, I'm headed downtown anyway. I'll just give you a ride and we had just potted and I said, I'll just get a car and Carlos is so for cars like, he wants to be in a black car. And I said, no, I don't give a shit. I'm just going downtown. Yeah. But also yeah. But I also don't care. I don't give a shit. But I said, if you're going downtown, I'll jump with you. And what he really means is he wants the time. Right. He likes, he likes to be with me. He's like, he's strapped in, tie yourself in. He's my little boy. He wants me around. My son wants me around. So I said, okay, let's go as I get in the car. And immediately I was reminded why I don't do that because it's it's it if a hoarder, a hoarder would be embarrassed. A hoarder would go, this is a little much. No. Oh yeah. A lot of bags of clothes. Brother, we're going to walk outside. I'm going to show you why so many bags of clothes. My mom was just in town and we went through a bunch of stuff that I'm going to donate. And I just haven't. Oh, the donation six month period. So that's six to eight. It lives in your car. Well, also he's been getting stuff from us. So we get stuff at the studio for free that like people send us stuff and we give it to them. And we always like give it to your friends. And then you always talk about donating to the needy. Thank you. It's one guy. Yeah. Well, then I say to him, give it to your friends because you've seen if you see some of the people he hangs out with. Right. They need stuff. Yeah. So I say give it to the kids. And then he'll he'll not give it to anybody or no one will want it. And it'll wait in his car instead of donating it. And then he's got cloth seats. And they've been spilled on for the past 25 years. There's a lot of popcorn always spilled. No, no, no, no, no, cloth seat stains. There was it's coffee and juice and it's soda. It's it's I can tell those are oh, hit a bump and it's a stain now. I know what that is. Yeah. And I know and I've seen and I kind of sit a little. I don't want to sit all the way down. Yeah. I don't feel the cloth see the felt seats brother. They just they they soak in history years. Yeah. Years of pain in there. Yeah. So I took the ride. But I was happy to get out. Even if it wasn't that I needed to get out at a different exit. And I said right here was good. I'll pop out here and walk. Yeah. And I walked about a mile and a half as far as I could go. You're doing a late night. You're doing the show and then going right on a plane. Yeah. You're sick. Yeah. But it's flying west to east. I mean, that's why it's touring out of here. I can't imagine. Yes. The worst. It's just every week you have to take a I lived here for like a year and a half as a road feature. Yeah. And I was taking a spirit red eye almost every single Thursday night. And tough. That'll harden you. It's hard to fly out of the west coast. But then we wake up in at 72. Right. Yeah. That's the hard part is. But I'm gonna wake up in Chicago at at 7 a.m. on the flight and then I'll go to my friend's house and I'll sleep for a few hours. You'll be tired. You're gonna be groggy. Yeah. It's gonna be cold. I probably have I would say the red eye will result in two riffs on the shows tomorrow night that are mean. Just mean. Yeah. Like some guy in the front row is just going to I'm just going to be like your shirt. What's your name Jeff? Are you a Jeff too? I'll call back to Irvine Jeff. No one has any context. Let me guess. He looked at my fucking number you creep. Fuck out of here. Some guys like I have a huge crush on you but I don't know why you're doing this to me. How many guys come because you're a cute guy? It's picked up. You get some boys that are like. For sure. I'm a fan and I love it. I talk about gay stuff a lot. Yes you do. I got a bunch of gay sisters. You do you do you do you oddly talk about gay stuff a lot for a guy who isn't gay which makes me think is he gay baiting or is he experimenting or is he I think I'm just kind of open and down to talk about whatever. He wants to be free accepting guy accepting guy. Yeah and like yeah if you want to buy a ticket. Sure. Even you gays. That's what he says. Even you the gays. Yeah. I get a good amount of gay people at my show because I and I know that. Yeah. Why do I know that because we test them when they walk in. Right. We do. Yeah. We have. What is it? Well so when you walk in there's a metal detector just for safety. That's for safety purposes. Right as you get through the metal detector in the hallway there is a penis on the wall and we capture their reaction on camera. And then you cycle analyze. Well if it's really obvious if they walk you know it's a penis sticking out of the wall and if they go oh god you know it's you know a straight guy and if it's a if a guy that goes thank God right or a guy that goes whoa yeah or if a guy that goes whoa and then you see you're not making any you still you let everyone in but you just like to know. I want to know just the numbers. Yeah. They've changed your set around. Yeah I do yeah. Change your pants too. Change my shirt. My pants. Yeah my shirt my shirt gets tighter. Okay. Yeah. The pants you can't get any tighter this thing. You got some arms. I have a little bit of armage he's he knows kids been doing some push-ups. Oh dude I've I've seen, I've seen, I'm done.
you're a balky dude, I was a thick little boy. - That was a guilty pleasure watch of mine. - You know what? - Really? - I truly like that one. - You're the only guy that watched it. - No, I'm a cone watched it, maybe. - Me and all of my Chicago comedy friends watched it. - You know, we got a lot of criticism, but it was a fun run. I will say, I watched it. - It was fun. - Anything to do with comedy. - Yeah, it was fun. We got criticized 'cause people were like, you know, it's hard when someone's like, this is-- - You can't make anything about anything. - A thing that people love without it. - You're on SNL. - Yeah, you know. - I take some heat. - Well, here's what it is. I've said it for years on this show, 'cause my respect and love for that show will never die. It's just, it's something about, if you have any awareness about comedy and what it's like to make something over, you know, such a short period of time. It's a miracle that it still operates. It's kind of a, you know, yeah, you're watching like functioning magic, kind of. - Yeah. - And it's beautiful that it's an institution that's found a way to survive and stay afloat and find new talent that's continually delivered us new, wonderful talent for years and years and years. And I, you know, the amount of criticism that it receives is always, it falls to me into nothing because people always say, well, I liked it when-- - Yeah, yeah. - That's when you were in eighth grade. - Right, right. - And it was the funniest thing you'd ever seen. - Yeah, yeah, guess what? So does everybody. - Yeah, that's right. - That's my favorite time. - Yeah. - When I was in eighth grade. - It's great to watch it. - So when somebody says, do you like SNL right now? My answer was always the same. I go, yeah, I still watch it. I'd like some of the stuff and then some of the stuff. But I'm never gonna go-- - No, no, no, no, no, no, it's bullshit. Some things are gonna hit for you, some things are not. And I think if they don't, if you don't realize that the show is not manufactured for a 42 year old man, the idea that they think it's for them is very odd. - It used to be so good, man, whenever. - Yeah, because that was a time period that you loved and it meant something in your life. - You're old now. - Right. - And that's okay. - Maybe life was easier when you were a freshman in high school. - Yes, brother, life the best. - That might be it. - Well, and also social and cultural things were funnier because that moment in your life is when you're sucked into that thing and then now is different. But there's stuff now that gets me really good from the show. - It's so fun. - There's still shit that kills me that I'm like, oh, that's an absolute home run. So fuck the people that talk shit about it. You're allowed to not like it. But I don't like that narrative of like, - I used to like it when it was other. - You know, I remember when when Kristen Wigg was on and Sadekis and that crew, I remember then people going, "Fuckin' way better with feral and those guys before." I remember vividly people saying that. And then the very next chunk of people that came on, people were like, "Sadekis was the man." Kristen Wigg was so fucking fun. Like, I remember-- - I got a comment recently that said-- - Drives me nuts. - The show hasn't been good since Chevy Chase was on it. - Which is hilarious 'cause that is one year. - Yeah, I did. - Or two years, whatever. But it was like the first two years. - Yeah, it's crazy. - They said the N-word on TV. I like that. That's when I like the show. - Ain't that bad, please. - Please, dude, let him say it. - Yeah, I never say it back there. - No, it's, look, you're allowed to criticize. People are allowed to not like the show. I don't like this cop out of like, it was better when. I think the show still delivers wonderful stuff. I think you're fucking great on the show. - Thank you, dude. - There's some new banger people on that show that are incredible cast members. - I'm so glad. We're pitching weird stuff. - You got to pitch some goofball weirdo shit. That's the only time it's fun. Sarah Sherman, she's, I mean, thank God for people that like think weird offbeat shit. - I love that. - That's what makes comedy fun. Otherwise, you know, everything can't be gut felt. (laughing) - No, but if America had its head on right, it would be. - That's right, dude. - Jack, next up, bad bunny, more like the worst bunny I've ever seen. - Listen to bad bunny, as soon as I get my coffee from a blue haired barista. (laughing) - Okay, people. - Anyways, anyway, we'd love to come on the show, Greg. - We'd love to come on the show. - Huge fan. - We like to jazz. - It'd be fun to get on there. - Come on, that's for the more. - A lot of New York comics, I think, do go on there 'cause it is fun. But here's my problem with comedy. You can't make fun of them because they're, it was sensitive about it. You're like, well, that's the whole point is that we're mocking each other. - But they think we're snowflake. - Yeah. - Well, I get so annoyed. - You are a snowflake. - I am a little snowflake, but so are you as my point. - We're all snowflakes. - Yeah. - Remember that, didn't they tell us when we were kids? We're all individual and we're all, - Oh yeah. - We're all unique, little snowflakes. - Yeah, we're delicate as hell. - We really are. - Yeah. - No matter how famous, no matter how rich and successful people get, they're the same. - Yeah. - They, sometimes I get a text from somebody or whatever than me, and we'll say something to the effect of, was that good tonight, that set, and I'll go. - Wow, that's so cool that it never leaves us. - It's someone who plays like arenas. - Oh yeah. - And like, last line was weird though, right? - Well, they'll be like, that chunk sucked. And it hated me. - It's so funny. - Yeah, it never goes away. - It's the beauty of it though. - Yeah. - I've saw, yeah. I saw a very famous comedian rehearsing for the SNL monologue one time. And at the seller, and it was bombing. And he, I just watched him in the middle of the monologue go, I'm gonna do my road closer now. - That's good. - And just switched, and I was like, even the top dogs. - Oh yeah. - Can't just, they wanna kill too. - 100%. - Yeah, and that was key for Sutherland. - By the way, for Sutherland, he had been working on this long, vibrator bit for a while, and he closed on it, it was six. - It was killer. You are on the road, please plug some dates. This will be out a little bit after. - Yeah, an hour? - No. - Like 50s. - No, no, we're not done. I want you to plug your dates. - Oh, okay, sweet. - Because in case, what if they don't make it to the end? - Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay. Come see me, I'm in Baltimore, and Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, and-- - When do you go back on the show, by the way? - February 28th. - Okay, so, let's just say, one of these dates are now, between now and then. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no. These are starting in March. - Great. - I'm in. - This will be out in March. - Will it? - Yeah. - For more of the last week in March, and then I will be back on the show, and then Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Salt Lake City, wise guys, one of the best. - One of the best clubs on earth. And then Providence, Rhode Island, Denver, Comedy Works, Fort Collins, San Diego, Nashville, and some other ones. But everything's at some kid Tommy. - Some kid Tommy.com, the same thing. - Can I tell a road story? - Okay, so tell me, tell me this, I think you'll appreciate this being from the Midwest. What, I was on like the, I was on this like real aggressive, like trying to get on the road thing, but selling no tickets, whatever. And I'm featuring at this club in Dubuque, Iowa. - Love Dubuque, shout out DB. - Shout out Dubuque, it's, you know, I had a joke at the time that was like a plug and play, make fun of the next town over type things, you know, it's a road hack joke. - Oh, no, it's fun, it warms 'em up. - Yeah, yeah, and it's like a local reference that always hits. If you can say, oh, well, you know, if you think this is bad, you should see Otzigo or whatever, and then like people just go, yeah. Oh my God, he know, I hate Otzigo. - He knows about Otzigo, fuck them. - It's the same town, just 80 miles over, and whatever. And so I'm in Dubuque and I asked one of the bartenders, I'm like, hey, what's like the town you guys shit on? And she's like a Waterloo, and I was like, all right, great. So I get on stage and I go, you know, take, if I take four or five swings at Waterloo, every time, it's like pretty kind of like, what the hell? - Yeah, all right. - I'm like kind of doing well, and then I'd say Waterloo, and it would like, tanky, and I keep trying 'cause I don't have the material at this point. I'm like three years into comedy. I'm doing 25, I gotta do a every line. - You're leading out of Waterloo. - Yeah, so I keep referencing it, and it misses literally every time. And I get off stage with my friend's headlining, Tim Smith, incredible comic, comes up to me, and he goes, grabs my shoulders, he goes, the staff just told me. Waterloo is the only historically black town, you know, I walk. (laughing) So I'm just up there looking like the most racist, like, unnecessarily racist piece of shit. 'Cause I'm saying shit like, if I wanted to overdose, I'd just move to Waterloo. Go back to Waterloo, we should blow Waterloo off the map. - Yeah, that's what I say, I say, go back to Waterloo, pal. Go back where you belong. - Exactly, and everyone's like, gee, I mean, we're, you know, we're white guys in Iowa, and this is rough. - Yeah, you want to get your car stolen, head over to Waterloo. - It was exactly like that, like that, like that. - It was exactly like that, like Waterloo. Yeah, you're burying yourself. - They jump so high in Waterloo, you know, it's still like that. - When I was trying to get the best sports team out there, Waterloo. - Yeah, it was nuts. - You didn't even catch it a little bit, though. - No idea. - I don't know what this vibe is. 'Cause they weren't like pissed, they were just kind of like, what the fuck, yeah. - I guess some guy in the back said, I really do like this guy, Tommy Brown. - He was totally running, guys, great. - This time, he really did his research. - Yeah. - He's got a ride on, brother. - Yeah. - And I get a fight, and I go to the fucking bartender, I was like, hey, what was that about? And she's like, well, I'm from Waterloo. She was a black bartender. - Uh-oh. - She was like, I'm from Waterloo. And I was like, yeah, but you see what I look like. And I asked what town to make fun of. - Yeah, you're not allowed to. - So, I feel like you could have put two into it, and she was like, yeah, bro. - Yeah. - Shake anyway, whiskey? - Yeah. - No, yeah, you've got the face of a man who, you can't say that stuff in jest, 'cause he won't land.
Even if you have a heart in it, people will go, "What's this pretty good talking about?" - What is it, yeah. - Yeah, you can't do that. This comedy is how it sounds coming out of your face, right? And so a joke that you can't tell, I can tell because the way I look, yeah. - But you get 'em. - No, no, no, no, I can red-head it's a different thing. - Tell 'em. - You can say it, I can say. (laughing) I think because of the way I physically look, people, there's a little bit more of a sardonic bite to it. - Yeah. - I can't do that. People like this, ungrateful, fucky's tall and handsome. - Well, everyone who's ever met me is like, oh, this guy's like a rich asshole. - Right, you dying to look alike. - Yeah. - You look like a fucking ever say that again. - Who's the other guy that's got rich asshole face? - Colin has rich asshole face. Yeah, and it came true. (laughing) - I got it, I got it, I got it. - We love you, Colin. - We'd love to, you know, open-free some time, dude. - Yeah. - Yeah, wait, come on, Colin. - He's tired by the guys on the show that I'm on. (laughing) - Yeah, who else? What's a New York comic that has a rich asshole face? He jokes about it. - What's wrong with me? - Oh, Matthew's sorry. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a great line. I think he says he looks like he plays lacrosse. - Lacrosse Litheran. - That's right, yeah. - Yeah. - He does. - He's got rich asshole face. - Sometimes when we go after each other, it's a tough combo. - Yeah, you guys got to break that up. - Yeah, 50%. - Well, that's the bookers that's the bookers problem. - Yeah. - You got to break you guys up. - I'm gonna put someone hideous in there. Someone horrific. - You got to move to New York, man. (laughing) - You couldn't follow me. - We'll just cut this. - You couldn't follow me. And that would be the problem. - I had a hard time following you at the cell last time you were there. - No, you did. - Yeah, I did. - You fucking ripped. - I ripped around up top. - Didn't go. - 'Cause I was like, I'm just gonna create some space. (laughing) - Between this LA guy. - You know the hardest. - You got a real New York vibe and you're out here in LA. - Yeah, people say that. Well, it's only because I have a smart ass attitude. - Yeah, and you're quick. - Yes, that is a very, but LA has a lot of these people. It's just, they're not the most commercial out here. - New York kind of snagged the branding. I'm like quick. - Quick, quick asshole. - Yeah. - Well, I don't think there's anybody quicker than Rick Ingram. I think he's the quickest comic I've ever seen in my entire life and he's one of us. But I don't think there's anybody that can touch that guy. Pound for pound with true improv, snap, quick. I mean, I'm sending our hero, David Tell, into the ring. - No, no, no. Yes, different, though. Dave is a consummate writer who is a quick-witted genius and probably my favorite. But I mean Ingram works a room in a way that I've never seen before and I'm not comparing the two. But Dave is, he's the most prolific writer we've ever seen in "Standup History." - It's so beautiful. - Period. - Nobody writes more. - He's doing it every night. - Yeah, it's incredible. I don't think anybody's the most, he's the most prolific comic I've ever seen. But I'm showing love. - The way I behave around him is embarrassing. - Yeah, I watch him as often as I can. - Then burn your notebook. - And then I run away. - No, I run away, I'm scared he's gonna see me. - Yeah. - I'm like, I don't want you to be ashamed of me or something. - No, dude, we all feel they were on, Dave. We all feel like everything we're gonna say is gonna be dumb and he's gonna be like, "Oh, that's good for you, you know?" Yeah, trust me, he's the most intimidating. He's the most prolific. But anyway, as the West Coast guys, I think nobody is as fast as Rick. I'd put him up against anybody as far as brain waves or unbelievable unmatched that guy, open for rock for a long time. And when he was open for rock, they brought a camera along so they could get the audience up on the iMac. That's, so they did that for him. - Did you do crowd work? - Yeah, because he would open for rock and he would do enough crowd work that they, you know, I guess, Christopher. - Damn, he was doing like crowd work specials before they were filmed. - Oh, dude, he, brother, he was doing, I mean, I've known Rick for, I don't know, 15 years. He's been doing, he's been doing the same killer crowd work, not the same bits. But I mean, like, he's been killing like that for years. But he would go on the road with rock and they, it's a big arena or whatever. So they'd have to have a cameraman focus on who he's talking to. - That speaks to how good rock is. If, if I brought an opener and he only did crowd work, I would have a full blown pan. (laughs) - Yeah, I'd be having an aneurysse. I would tell the club to fire them if they were my best friend. I would say to tell them, but fire them, kill 'em. - Well, that's funny. Matt Reif opens for me and I make him only do crowd work. - Yeah. - It's cool that you're, it's like, you know, it's the rare like, you know, you're doing an arena because of the opener. - Correct. - And then yeah, yeah, yeah. - So he'll open for me, it'll be his tickets that sold, but I have to close, it's part of the deal. And I make him only do crowd work. - God, that would be amazing. - The worst thing in the world. One time I was opening for someone early on and I only did crowd work. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know that that was like not allowed. - Yeah. - And yeah, I was just panicking. And the club owner goes, headliners pissed. And I was like, what are you talking about? And he's like, I mean, you didn't tell one joke. And I sat back there the whole time and this is like a road guy in the Midwest. And then when he got off stage, I was like, hey, I'm really sorry, like, I didn't know. I didn't know that you're not allowed to do crowd work. And it's just, the guy just looks at me and he goes, yeah, it sucked, it ruined my show. - It's really? - And then I was like, all right. - God, I want you to say this guy's name. - Oh, see you tomorrow. I mean, it would be an unnecessary dunk. He's a Midwest headliner, you know? You know him, probably. - I would love to know who it was. - Yeah. - And you know what? It speaks volumes for his lack of ability. 'Cause a good thought about it would have done it. - Oh yeah, it would have been fine. - Yeah, would have done it. - It's, but, you know, we were at that old stage. - I get it, it's in the middle of nowhere. - Oh yeah. - Whatever that was. - That's a hard thing. Like when Matt Reif opens for me, I go back to the same bit. He's incredible, that kid, by the way. I've said for years and years how much I love that kid. And watched him grind at the laugh factory when he was a kid, literally a kid. And I couldn't have been more proud of a guy who like worked for it. And then when people started to get mad at his success, which happens to literally almost everybody that they get successful at that degree. - Can you think of a person who doesn't get hate? - At that level of success? - Yeah, I can't. - No, no, I mean, everyone, someone's gonna not like you. - Yeah. - He's too big. But he got a lot, and I never understood it, but I always would talk to him about that. Like dude, you got, it worked, whatever you did. So keep doing it. - Yeah, I think he's, I think he's gonna be fine. - Yeah. - It's the hottest guy of life. - You're up there, bud. - Shit, no, I need to work on that. - No, it's the front flex. - Sorry, sorry, the McCone flex. - McCone flex, yeah, that's so sad, dude. - I'm gonna get huge this year. - I cannot believe you get laid. It blows my mind with those clothes in that body. - You gotta just spend two nights on the east side of LA, you'll believe it. - No, no, I know, I've gone out with him, I've seen, I've seen I threw money at him one time and he was on a date with someone 'cause I saw the girl he was with, I wanted him to be able to take her out somewhere nice. I say go out somewhere nice, you know? 'Cause you look like shit, so go out somewhere nice. - Yeah, come on. - Are you single? Are you single, little boy? - I got a girlfriend. - Gay. - Yeah. - You do, you got a sweet, girly girl. - You got a girlfriend who I love a lot? - That's awesome. - She rocks. - The only problem is, she works on Wall Street, right? She's a, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I mean, she is still, she took over Lehman Brothers. - She took over Lehman Brothers. - Yeah, they've just kind of been operating under, under reps, yeah, so it's still pretty evil and she's doing it. - Wow. - Yeah, but it's cool, I mean, it's cool 'cause we get to go to the houses where we're kicking the kids out of her. - That's good. - And we see it and I go, yeah, let's tear this down, build a four story. - Yeah, you're like a Viction Friday. That's a little, that's a little fun break. - Yeah, we have a lot. - On lunch, do you wanna come with me to an eviction? - Oh, baby, no, I'd love to, but I got a meeting with the devil. - Yeah. - We'll tell him, I said hi. And I've lunch with him on Friday. - Okay. - The devil, we still have a short name. - Come on. - Where have you been? - Where would the devil live if he, if the devil took residence in the United States? - The devil would live, I think, in-- - Waterloo. - Waterloo. - Waterloo. - I love it. - There we go. - That was really racist, and that was so fucked up. Jesus. - Where would the devil live? - I think the devil would live. I'm trying to think of the worst case ever. - By the way, I know what I'm doing to you. - Yeah. - I know I'm putting you, this is a lose-lose for you. - No, but-- - So I'll take some of the heat. - Uh-uh. - Okay, you ready? - Yeah. - Louisville, Kentucky. - Wow. - Dude. - I'm kind of thinking in regional. - We had some of the work, we had, they, Amanda, we have some tough shows there. - Yeah. - And we found a fly in our chips at Chili's. And the town hated us. - I think they hated us, too. I don't think we did well at all. I think we bothered-- - How'd you end up at Chili's? Was it downtown? - Only thing that's open at that time of night. - There's that-- - Louisville, it's like Louisville. You're trying to be a big city. - Louisville. Yeah. - Louisville. - Syracuse. - Middle of the week. - Middle of the week, man, they hated us. And I wanted to like you, Louisville. I've said this for years, but you, man, you guys hated us. It did not like us. - The devil lives in the dynasty mall in Syracuse. That's my answer. - Ooh, the dynasty mall. That's pretty good. - The devil answer, let's see, no, that's not right. - No, sorry, yeah, that's wrong. The devil lives, the devil lives. - What's-- - No, we can't just talk shit about a comedy club. - No, I can't. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Sure you can. - I think it would still be Syracuse. - Governor's Long Island, that's where the devil lives. - Oh, Governor's Long Island, come on. I can't get booked, there's still. - Oh, yeah. Well, I think you're okay. - It's fun, though. - I think you're gonna be okay. - You still hold grudges about all the clubs that will book me. - That's when I had a tough time with them. They've boned me in a weird way. The devil lives in the basement of Caroline, so the old Caroline's club resting piece. - Well, it's now a ping pong bar, so. - That's what I heard, somebody said that. - Yeah. - That sucks. - Yeah, that was like a moment that I thought was gonna change my whole life, I got to headline there one time. - Yeah. - And then like six months later, they're like, it's gonna be a ping pong bar. (laughing) - And you can come back if you'd like. - Amazing. - Will you headline that? - You can headline, you can be on the top table. - Yeah. - I'll tell you what the devil lives, truly, I'm not kidding, is somewhere here in the Valley in Los Angeles.
- Yeah. - You go deep enough into the valley up north here. - Is that like porn area? - Isn't all porn-- - Porn is northwest, yeah. Porn is in Chatsworth, but if you go north valley, if you go-- - If you were just like drive over there and then like-- - No. - Look. - No, we've never done that. - Yeah. - It's certainly not with a board. - No. - It carries a camera everywhere. - No, we've never been over there. - We've never been over there. - No, Chatsworth was kind of the old joke, but then the current joke is because porn has kind of blended with pop culture. - Yeah. - It's porn, but it's also like acceptable fun pop culture. Like they used to have to hide in Chatsworth. Now they're just in Hollywood. - Right. - Like it's like, they're not-- They did that for like, oh, we have to like hide it away. - We don't want it to be seen, but now it's embraced so now they're taking over. - Promoted, it's not embraced. It's like a thing where you're like, you don't have an OF, loser. You're like a dork if you're not involved in the industry. So Conan and I have started an OF of our own. - Yeah, that's huge. - It should be. - It should be. - Is it feet? - I know you got crazy feet. - I do have crazy feet. No, we've actually decided to start a new branch of OF where it's the nape of a neck. So it's literally just nape, nape, nape. It's called, it's called necknapes and that website. - Do we buy that? - necknapes.com, do we buy that? We did. - Make sure you get it. - That's where that guy found my phone number. - On necknapes? - On necknapes. Yeah, I didn't think I'd linked it to my neck. (laughing) - It reminds me of those old sex phone year, probably. You guys remember those commercials? Dude, they're still on. - No. - When you're in a hotel in middle America night and night and I still, I watch cable everywhere still 'cause I love it. It makes me feel so nostalgic. - It was such a Midwest kid. - Such a Midwest kid to watch cable. - I mean, I'll watch half of seven movies instead of just picking one on a streaming service. - I like that though. - Yeah, it's the best. But if you stay up late enough, you hit that 1 a.m. 2 a.m. spot. - They're still on. They're still hitting like, hey, big boy. - Love, hey, big boy. - Yeah. Are you lonely tonight? Call us, and they are. And I think everyone's beautiful. I believe in body positivity. They did not find the cream of the crock for the shoot. - No, they did not. - It's crazy to me. I'm like, this is the one that you'd pick. - That's the one. - That's why I love small town America. You'll hear a radio commercial for a local business and it's a guy who has never spoken publicly before. - Can you go, come on down to Scumbie? Do you want to be good? - Come on, we're open on most Mondays and Fridays. - This guy's scared. - Have you ever seen a little boy that works in the boot store that's like, turn off the lights? Have you seen this? Oh my God, he lose your fucking mind. There's like a little boy they do like a boot store commercial. - Okay. - He's like, well that's it. We're gonna be wrapping up for the night. And now for the time to turn off the lights. - I swear to God, it's like one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen. And I watch it like on repeat, 'cause it blew my mind. They probably did it once as a bit. And then it went viral. And then they make them do it right though. You see it now. And they make them do it all the time. Like, oh now he's advertising for the company. - Well now they're in on it. They know now it's like, you know what I mean? Like now they drink into it. So, right, there he is. Hey, there's the boots. - Poutnose. - Poutnose. - There I am in the photo textus, the Tony Lama boots. - Oh my God. Tony Lama boots. - Tony Lama boots has been used since 1911. - Okay, that's enough. - Thank you. - Yeah, I mean they were just like this kid. I mean, they're just making one of his speech impediment. - But he's selling boots, dog. - I guess. Let me tell you something, I'm buying boots off that guy now. - Is that in Texas? - Yeah. - It's so funny that Tony Lama boots his guy. - Yeah. - We gotta go get some of that. - Did you hear that little boy with the speech impediment? He's seem like he knew what he's talking about. - I'll tell you, he knew boots. - We gotta get down there before they pull it. - If he knew something, he knew boots. - Uh huh. - By the way, you reminded me of when you said, hey big boy. I immediately thought of outcasts. - You can't really lost everything. You were like, oh my God. - Yeah, when you said, hey big boy, just thought of outcasts. And I thought, how funny. How funny, how wonderful. - Big boy, sued, if he sued that company. - That's mine. - Yeah, you can't just throw my name around Willie Nilly like that. I don't like the phrase Willie Nilly, I just said it and I realized as I said it, it sounds wrong. - What? - Willie Nilly? I guarantee you that comes from a bad place. - Can't see, yeah. - We did a whole episode on that. Remember that we were finding out phrases that people say they were like, holy shit, I can't believe that's offensive. - My grandpa called me a turkey all the time and I never wanted to look that up. - Turkey sounds fine. - Turkey's fine. - Turkey, I'm searching right now. You see me on the hunt. - Yeah, yeah. - I'm doing that mentally. - Willie Nilly does feel like. - I'm doing beautiful mind like. - Who is Willie? - Yeah. And what's Nilly? - I think it's-- - Unless it's a husband of white. - Willie Nilly, I think it's like dick to the wind. - Love dick to the wind. - Pissake, because your Willie is out. - Yeah, that's Willie Nilly. - That's Willie Nilly. - Right, maybe. - Is that Willie Nilly? - Where's the etymology? - Willie Nilly originating the early 1600s. It's a contraction of the phrase Will I Mill I? - Oh. - Or Will ye Mill ye? - We found a safe one. It has great. - Will I Mill I? - Will I Mill I? - No racist tendencies. - Will I Mill I? - Guys. - Yeah, also, just no racist tendencies at all. - Can we go back to talking like that? - Willie's just doing it Willie Nilly, aren't he? - Will I or Nilly? - I don't even think that's right. - Shakespeare's work, such as Hamlet. Will he, Nilly, signifying forced action? - Will he, Nilly? - But Will he, Nilly is the phrasing of that means, not Will I, Nilly, it means-- - They say loose and silly, yeah. Like my dad was the coach of our Y basketball team and boy did he hate coaching me 'cause I was such a little asshole and God bless my father, one of the greatest men alive three and putting up with us. And he would say, you know, he'd yell at us and be like, you get your ass down the court. I don't care who's down there. Whatever Tom Dicker Harry is down there. And of course, I was like, Tom's dick is what? And my dad was like, "Andru, I'm fucking gallium!" I always, it was like, my dad loved to use old dumb phrases like that especially 'cause he's from the South. And he would say stuff and it was like pure bait. You were like, I'm gonna say something about it. - Right, I mean, I gotta fill this up a little bit. - You just can't say dick to a child. - I know you have to do a show, but just a little bit more. - Just a tiny bit. - Just a tiny bit, you don't need a lot. - All right. - Just a little further. - Whoops. - That's good. - No, you'll be fine. - You'll be fine. - You'll be fine, you'll be fine. - You'll be fine. - It starts in an hour. - What time is it? - It's 6.30. - Is it really? - Okay, we got 10 minutes, I gotta leave. - Okay, let's wrap it up. - Let me see, let me see what it's gonna take to get there. - 15, it'll take you 17 minutes. - Did your father ever bench you? Was my question. 'Cause I was one of the best on the team. I couldn't bench, I couldn't bench the all-star. - Oh, it must've been sick. - You got benched by your own. - I got benched by my father when I was like 12. In a way, I mean, it's like, you know, you can get subbed out. But this was in soccer, but like I got cooked twice in a row by this guy, and then I got subbed out and I didn't go back in. And that's benched. - Midfielder? - Defense. Center back, I was playing against St. Croix. And I got benched for my best friend at the time, Alex Barth. - Shut up, Barth. - And it did got in between our relationship, for sure. - Where's Alex now? - He's like, he's in New York, he's doing great. He's working in finance. - You still talk to him? - Yeah, we play soccer together. - So how do I do him right now? - Isn't that cool? Alex Barth, what's up, dude? - I am, I'm now better than you at soccer. So suck it, bitch. - The guy gets a nice and Ellie goes off. All right, you've got a show to go to. I don't want to keep you because I can keep you for a long time. You don't have to finish that McCone Will if you want to. Don't worry about it. He's an alcoholic and he's poor and he would love that. - He's not an alcoholic, he's from Minnesota. - No, no, he actually is an alcoholic. - Oh, that's a big difference. Yeah, it's a great, and we're staying out of the program. Right? I love you, dude. You're a fantastic guy. You're a great comic. You're a great performer. I can't wait to see what happens next in your career, and I mean that. I think you're gonna have a wonderful career. Or, or, or, a wonderful crash. - Yeah. - It's gonna be great to watch you fall. - I'll be good on the downfall, though. - 100%. - I'll be kind of lashing out at people finally. I've been like a pretty nice guy. - Yeah, let it ride. - But I'm gonna kind of let it rip and then, and then, yeah, I'll open up a bar in probably Rogers, Minnesota, just, I can't go to your town. - Yeah. - I'm gonna go to the town over, and I'm gonna say the same riff every night for the rest of my life. - What's up with Waterloo? - Hey, if I wanted to kill myself, I'd go to Otsigo. - There it is. - Yeah. We end the show the same way. Go to somekidtommy.com. Some Kid Tommy is also the Instagram, and also the social handles I imagine it's all the bullshit that people need to know. - It's everything, yeah. - Go watch him on Saturday Night Live. Please continue support the show that supports great comics as you watch them rise to the top. You look into that camera, you say one word, or one phrase for God's sake. One word, or one phrase to end the episode. Remember, as you think about it now, 'cause I'm giving you a beat, I know you're a little stunted. This will end up in history. It'll be cemented in history forever. It is gonna be submitted to Smithsonian at some point. This will be the greatest fucking line in history. Live, from Austin, Texas, it's Tommy fucking Brennan. So whenever you're ready, give us one word, or one phrase, sorry to throw you off over. That's just, we're just ham and egg and over here, we're just having fun. - We didn't even talk about your impressions on Pistomone. - No, no, no, no. We will, over another cocktail, when you come back to Los Angeles, California, 'cause one word or one phrase to end the episode, and remember, this does mean something. Your mother will watch, and your friends will watch, so be prepared and be swift. - I know, I'm gonna go utilitarian here. I'm gonna actually, I'm gonna make use of this. Delete my fucking number, Jeff. - Here, we pull, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk, whisk. - Oh, that creature in the ginger beard. - Sturdy, ginger. - Like that has the ginger gene intricate. - Ginger's up huge as you. - You only five dollars for the whiskey. - 75 dollars for the horse. - Ginger's our hell now. - This whiskey gives excellent. - Ginger, I like ginger.
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Tommy Brennan is a talented comedian and sketch actor who has gained recognition on Saturday Night Live, with fans calling him one of the best in the business.
The host shares a personal story about a humorous incident where a stranger named Jeff obtained his contact info online, leading to a bizarre and awkward encounter that escalated into a fictional "villain" storyline, highlighting how the internet enables deceptive and intrusive behavior.
Tommy reflects on his Midwest upbringing in Minnesota, emphasizing cultural traditions like drinking summer shandys, attending basement gatherings, and family values, while also sharing funny anecdotes about early life, jobs, and his family’s strong sense of humor and tradition.
Summary:
Tommy Brennan, a rising star in comedy and sketch, is celebrated for his talent and authenticity, having recently gained attention on Saturday Night Live. The conversation blends personal stories with humor, showcasing Tommy’s Midwest roots in Minnesota, where drinking culture, family traditions, and community gatherings like basement parties are deeply rooted. He shares a vivid memory of his first significant drunken experience at a family cabin, drinking summer shandys with cousins, which led to food poisoning and a lifelong aversion to the drink.
The episode also features a comedic yet revealing anecdote about an internet-driven encounter with a man named Jeff, who obtained Tommy’s number from a website and sent misleading texts, creating a fictional "creep" narrative that underscores how digital connections can be dangerous and deceptive. Tommy reflects on his early life, including growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, his experiences with jobs like washing dishes and coaching youth soccer, and the cultural significance of drinking, especially Miller’s beer, in the Midwest. He also shares a lighthearted moment about being mistaken for a man who “gained weight” as a sign of success, a perspective rooted in Midwest values where becoming “a man” is tied to gaining body fat.
The narrative concludes with Tommy’s reflections on the absurdity of modern life, the cost of air travel, and the joy of community, all wrapped in a warm, self-deprecating tone that highlights both personal growth and the enduring power of storytelling in comedy.
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Tommy Brennan is performing in Lincoln, California, at a Bad Friends show, followed by a show at the Win Casino in Las Vegas, then at Little Rodifest in Providence, Rhode Island, and later in Atlantic City on April 3rd.
Tommy received a text from someone named Jeff who claimed to know him, leading to a confusing and awkward situation where Jeff tried to connect with him, only for Tommy to realize it was a case of internet-based deception and social manipulation.
Tommy first got drunk during summer camp at his family’s cabin by the lake, where he drank Corona and summer shandys, though he later got food poisoning from cookies made by his sister.
Tommy grew up in Chicago but has strong roots in Midwest culture, particularly in drinking traditions like Miller's beer, and fond memories of basement gatherings and tire-checking rituals among relatives.
Tommy has had a full-beard since high school and believes it’s a part of his identity, saying he’s never shaved it off except once for a car sales job and has never been asked to shave for any role.
Tommy warns that the internet enables people to fabricate connections, such as creating fake relationships or using websites to exchange contact info, leading to mistaken or creepy interactions.
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