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Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of the Comedy Saved Me Podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Lynn Hoffman and Lucky Me. Today we
Speaker 2: are thrilled to welcome renowned comedian, political satirist, is it
Speaker 2: satirist or satirist?
Speaker 3: Not sure?
Speaker 2: And social commentator Jimmy Tingle. Now With a career spanning
Speaker 2: stand up, television, radio, and film, Jimmy is known for
Speaker 2: his sharp wit, insightful humor, and heartfelt storytelling. From his
Speaker 2: appearances on everything from Oh Sixty Minutes to The Tonight
Speaker 2: Show to his acclaimed one man shows and activism, Jimmy's
Speaker 2: unique comedic voice has inspired and uplifted audiences nationwide, and
Speaker 2: in this episode, so we'll explore how comedy has shaped
Speaker 2: his life, provided resilience through challenges, and become a tool
Speaker 2: for social change. Jimmy Tingle, the man, the myth, the legend,
Speaker 2: is here with us today on Comedy Save Me.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. It's so great to have you here.
Speaker 1: So great to be here, Lynn, Thanks so much for having.
Speaker 3: Me, Well, thank you for being had.
Speaker 2: I know I don't have a lot of time with you,
Speaker 2: so I want to start off with what first drew
Speaker 2: you to comedy? Was it a television show? Was it
Speaker 2: an album you listened to?
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Boy, probably the funniest stuff that we heard as
Speaker 1: kids where we watched The Honeymooners with the whole family,
Speaker 1: you know, back with Jackie Gleason and Ott Connie and
Speaker 1: the June Taylor Dances. That was a great show on
Speaker 1: Sunday nights. You know that. You know, as I get older,
Speaker 1: more things like oh, the movie Lenny Lenny Bruce. But
Speaker 1: Dustin Hoffman was really influential set it in that live
Speaker 1: when it first came on the air, you know in
Speaker 1: the early seventies, and you know, watching the Tonight Show
Speaker 1: with Johnny and the people that he would have on.
Speaker 1: Especially in college, we had sit around the dorms and
Speaker 1: we'd watch like a Saturday Live and then of course
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show with Johnny and all those guests that
Speaker 1: they would have on. We just had a blast watching it.
Speaker 1: It was you know, it was inspiring and yeah, so
Speaker 1: what really got me into it though, is when the
Speaker 1: a comedy club opened up in my hometown, to my
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Cambridge. It was called the ding Ho. It
Speaker 1: was a Chinese restaurant slash comedy club and it opened
Speaker 1: up in Cambridge and it was like two blocks from
Speaker 1: my house and they were having an open mic night.
Speaker 1: And one of my friends from high school, Lenny Clark,
Speaker 1: also a comedian. He was hosting an open mic night
Speaker 1: on Wednesday nights. And I was interested in performing, but
Speaker 1: I didn't have I didn't play an instrument. Really, I
Speaker 1: didn't you know, sing, But comedy was something that you
Speaker 1: could do just by basically talking and telling stories and
Speaker 1: jokes and stuff. So that's that was really my first
Speaker 1: intro into it, the open mic nights back in like
Speaker 1: seventy nine, eighty eighty one. Yeah, that's when I first started.
Speaker 3: Wow. And it didn't take you long too.
Speaker 2: I mean, what eighty eight was You end up on
Speaker 2: the Carson Show, which is the pinnacle at that time.
Speaker 2: But I need to know before that happened, when did
Speaker 2: you realize it was more than just making people laugh?
Speaker 2: Did you know that there was healing things involved there
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 1: Well? I knew that, you know, there were people like
Speaker 1: George Colin and people like Richard Pryor. Of course, there
Speaker 1: were big influences on everybody. And like I said, Lenny
Speaker 1: Bruce and you know, Moresaul, those folks were using comedy laughing.
Speaker 1: In the sixties and seventies, there was more true commentary
Speaker 1: along with just the stand up component, you know. So
Speaker 1: and my friend Barry Kremin's worked at the dingh as well.
Speaker 1: He was the booker and the founder of the Dingho,
Speaker 1: and he was doing political humor and I was just
Speaker 1: talking about what was going on in the news. So
Speaker 1: I knew that it could be it could be effective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was. There was a track record of people who
Speaker 1: admitted had used it effectively, from Will Rogers to Mark
Speaker 1: Twain to like I said, Prior and Colin and Lenny
Speaker 1: Bruce and Mortsol and all those folks, and of course
Speaker 1: the Skitz and Saturday and that Live. You know, all
Speaker 1: of those were talking about really what was going on,
Speaker 1: uh in the in the society at the time, and
Speaker 1: it was just it was funny and it was fun
Speaker 1: to When I went to college, I studied sociology, political science, history,
Speaker 1: you know, so it was fun to approach the comedy
Speaker 1: with that kind of a background and that kind of
Speaker 1: an insight because that because that's what I was studying
Speaker 1: in school, and that's what I'm supposed to be learning about,
Speaker 1: which I was very interested in, and it kind of
Speaker 1: just translated into not always, but eventually it just evolved
Speaker 1: into more social commentary and along with the laughs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that about college
Speaker 2: because I studied, you know, journalism and broadcasting, but for
Speaker 2: some reason, I felt like I need to know how
Speaker 2: to talk to people, so I took my secondary was
Speaker 2: abnormal psychology, and I like got no idea how well
Speaker 2: that would help me in my life moving forward.
Speaker 1: You're in the right field.
Speaker 2: Can you share or remember a moment when comedy helped
Speaker 2: you through a difficult time in your life?
Speaker 3: Does anyone time stand out to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, well, we worked in bars, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was a heavy drinker, and a friend of mine said,
Speaker 1: if you have a quit drinking, you know, you could
Speaker 1: do really well. You could do well in comedy. And
Speaker 1: you know, that was very attractive to me, the idea
Speaker 1: of actually being successful in this field. But as you know,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, it's it's very difficult to fulfill
Speaker 1: your potential as a carmak or an actor or any field.
Speaker 1: If you're a really heavy drinker at a young age,
Speaker 1: it just is, it just is in the way. And
Speaker 1: so it was in the way for me. It was
Speaker 1: screwing up a lot of things in my life. So
Speaker 1: that was the biggest thing. But when when he put
Speaker 1: he connected this guy connected my comedy career to quitn't drinking,
Speaker 1: that was like, that was like the magic bullet that
Speaker 1: really got my attention and helped me to It helped
Speaker 1: motivate me to really try very hard to quit drinking,
Speaker 1: which I was able to do. So that was really
Speaker 1: really good, with the help of a lot of other
Speaker 1: people and you know, the higher power and everything else,
Speaker 1: not just me. But so that was the comedy was
Speaker 1: a real game changer like that because respect.
Speaker 2: That's like an epiphany moment when someone says that to you.
Speaker 3: What were you? How did you react initially?
Speaker 1: Were you?
Speaker 3: Were you offended?
Speaker 1: It was so encouraged. No, I was encouraged. I was
Speaker 1: encouraged because it's a very depressing substance. You know, if
Speaker 1: you drink every day for an extended period of time,
Speaker 1: you can't help. But being hungover all the time for
Speaker 1: the end, hungover, I guess there's a form of depression.
Speaker 1: So it was just it was kind of a darker time.
Speaker 1: Even though I loved performing and being in the clubs
Speaker 1: and the camaraderie and all the people that were around
Speaker 1: and the audiences. That was a blast, but the hangovers
Speaker 1: were a killer, you know. And and yeah, and so
Speaker 1: it was like this reason, it was a really strong reason,
Speaker 1: a strong motivation to try to make a real solid
Speaker 1: effort to get sober. And so that's the path I
Speaker 1: went down, and it's worked for the last thirty five years.
Speaker 1: So so it was. But without the comedy, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would have got that incentive, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I don't know if something else would
Speaker 1: have caught my attention, maybe, but maybe not, you know.
Speaker 1: So it was definitely a game changing.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a great combination between a mentor someone who's
Speaker 2: going to just say it straight shooter like it is
Speaker 2: and what you love to do was like that perfect
Speaker 2: storm that that.
Speaker 1: Well he was a comic also, he was a comic,
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, I'm in the business, and
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're you're you're good you could be
Speaker 1: really good, you know, if you so that was that
Speaker 1: was a big thing.
Speaker 2: In what ways do you think humor can help people
Speaker 2: cope with with adversity or trauma?
Speaker 3: I mean, we're in the middle of a.
Speaker 2: Horrible mental health crisis of epic proportions today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you think that.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if comedy alone can you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if comedy alone can you know, help people.
Speaker 1: I'm sure puts you in a better mood, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I think if people were doing you know, comedy around
Speaker 1: mental health issues in maybe facilities or hospitals or two
Speaker 1: people who were you know, had those issues, then they
Speaker 1: maybe somebody who had their own mental health issues, you know,
Speaker 1: is doing comedy around those issues. That can definitely help.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a common friend of mine, Gary Gullman,
Speaker 1: who you know, had severe depression and talks about it
Speaker 1: on stage and did a one person show about it
Speaker 1: called The Great Depression. It's a great special, but he
Speaker 1: addresses depression on stage, and I know that thousands of
Speaker 1: people have reached out to him about that issue and
Speaker 1: their personal challenges with that. So in that sense, it
Speaker 1: can help. It can because you're communicating with people. The comedy,
Speaker 1: you're communicating with people, but the laughter itself is it's
Speaker 1: going to be more than laugh. It's got to be
Speaker 1: the follow up and the work that is involved, whether
Speaker 1: it's getting sober or whatever it is. You know, mental
Speaker 1: health issues are getting help, you know, but it can
Speaker 1: be a motivated because it's fun. It's fun to listen to,
Speaker 1: it's fun to laugh at, and it's fun to know
Speaker 1: that you're not alone.
Speaker 2: Right there, right right there, It's fun to know you're
Speaker 2: not alone.
Speaker 3: I mean that, that's huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And because it's obviously a communication medium, you're telling people,
Speaker 1: and he was doing that part of his story. I
Speaker 1: do some of that in my in my shows and
Speaker 1: people respond because, like you said, it is a it's
Speaker 1: a national epidemic, the mental health issue, and so is
Speaker 1: the addiction and the you know, whether it's alcohol or
Speaker 1: drugs or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you a bit about your
Speaker 2: craft and your process. I want to say a few
Speaker 2: years back, maybe in the two thousands, what do they
Speaker 2: call them, the aughts now, or something. Yeah, the early
Speaker 2: two thousand, I was fortunate enough to know someone who
Speaker 2: took me to Joan Rivers at the cutting room where
Speaker 2: I found out when I got there was this little
Speaker 2: room in the back where she would test out all
Speaker 2: her material and she would just put these big like
Speaker 2: she'd write her jokes and throw them on the floor
Speaker 2: so she could see them on the stage floor.
Speaker 3: What you want?
Speaker 2: I had no idea, That's what I was going to see.
Speaker 2: What is your process about writing new material and testing
Speaker 2: it out on your audiences, especially if you're dealing with
Speaker 2: things you know of a serious or political topics where
Speaker 2: you really have to be extra creative.
Speaker 1: Well, I wish I was as organized as Joan Rivers,
Speaker 1: and I have a little place to go with big
Speaker 1: It's it's really trial and error. You know. You get
Speaker 1: an idea, you write it down sometimes just in your head,
Speaker 1: and you present it to people. And my process is
Speaker 1: basically I'm much more of an oral I don't you know.
Speaker 1: Some folks write it down in every word and it's
Speaker 1: perfectly and they memorize it. And again, I'm just I've
Speaker 1: never been that disciplined in that organized to write it
Speaker 1: down to that extent. Although I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: people who do, and it's good to hear that that
Speaker 1: Jo Homa was doing that. But I write a set list,
Speaker 1: and I have ideas and I present them to a
Speaker 1: live audience. And the thing is, you don't know really
Speaker 1: if something's going to work until you do it. It's
Speaker 1: the only way to tell. It sounds great on paper, right,
Speaker 1: it sounds good on paper, but it depends on you know,
Speaker 1: how the audience reacts, and also having a safe place
Speaker 1: to do it, having places that you can do it,
Speaker 1: because you have to fail. You have to fail, and
Speaker 1: that's part of the process in terms of just presenting
Speaker 1: new material. And that's that no one likes to fail.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes to be in front of a bunch of
Speaker 1: people with a great idea go and they do it
Speaker 1: and nothing. It's like, it's embarrassing, happened, But it's part
Speaker 1: of the process.
Speaker 2: Has that happened to you? And if it has, Oh,
Speaker 2: how how do you handle that with an audience?
Speaker 1: You just keep going, You just keep going. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you keep going. These days, I record most of my
Speaker 1: sets and I can listen to them and see what
Speaker 1: worked and what didn't, and you know, it's got I've
Speaker 1: gotten much better and much more disciplined as if you know,
Speaker 1: evolved as a comic. But in the early days, you know,
Speaker 1: the nobody was video video and everything, and nobody had
Speaker 1: not everybody had, you know, a phone with a you know,
Speaker 1: you couldn't just record yourself and your phone, so it
Speaker 1: was much more memory. That's how it basically was for me, notebook,
Speaker 1: trying to memorize it and remembering, well, how the audience reacted.
Speaker 1: That's really how it was in the early days for
Speaker 1: me anyway. But I would record some of my sets,
Speaker 1: not all of them, but you know, enough to enough
Speaker 1: to remember how they worked and if they didn't work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And did you ever have an issue with an
Speaker 2: audience member or anyone that you had to kind of
Speaker 2: handle live in the room. I'm just curious how you
Speaker 2: would deal with that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean some people are better than others.
Speaker 1: Some people talk to the audience and you know, want
Speaker 1: to solicit back and forth, and that was never my style.
Speaker 1: I just go up there and go this is what
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about, boom, and just do it. And
Speaker 1: occasionally people get upset or talk back or whatever. I
Speaker 1: tend to ignore them more than engage with them. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you know it's not it's my style. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I'm not. Nobody's there to hear that person hit what
Speaker 1: I got to say and my comedy, and so that's
Speaker 1: what I stick to pretty much.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: First of all, the fact that you don't write them
Speaker 2: down and that it's from memory is amazing to me.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I write a set list like, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to do here, This is what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do here. This will bullet points, Yeah,
Speaker 1: bullet points exactly exactly, and and then and do the bits.
Speaker 1: And a lot of them are tried and true, and
Speaker 1: you know they're going to work because you've spente them
Speaker 1: a hundred times. Other ones are new and the only
Speaker 1: way to work it is to just keep saying it
Speaker 1: and doing it. And I mean then you listen to
Speaker 1: the tape and change the word here. Change is set
Speaker 1: up there. So much of it is how you say it,
Speaker 1: when you say it in the show. You know what
Speaker 1: you open with, what you close with, which lines are
Speaker 1: the funniest, How it builds. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes into it. And so when you watch a
Speaker 1: great comic on stage. You might be seeing them in
Speaker 1: this video and Netflix or whatever that bit that they're
Speaker 1: doing and has taken, you know, usually a year plus
Speaker 1: to develop, and the only way to do it is
Speaker 1: over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there anything you're working on right now that
Speaker 2: you want to test out on me?
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to ask you that I want to
Speaker 2: be the first to hear something.
Speaker 1: Not really, No, I don't have anything right now.
Speaker 3: I just three on this.
Speaker 1: Thank you for asking.
Speaker 2: I've been told that I'm a good audience, so when
Speaker 2: the urged strikes, call me anytime, I'm a good audience.
Speaker 2: In what ways do you see comedy as a force
Speaker 2: for social good and activism? Because I do know that
Speaker 2: I saw and I'm pretty sure I saw this that
Speaker 2: you literally ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, which I
Speaker 2: think is amazing in and of itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you, and I did. And the reason
Speaker 1: is is because going back to entertainment, entertainment like what
Speaker 1: John stewartt did with the with the firefighters and getting
Speaker 1: the treatment and the healthcare that they deserved the people
Speaker 1: who were injured because of the chemicals, right, and getting
Speaker 1: that and bringing that before Congress, and all the hard
Speaker 1: work that went into that was the result of the
Speaker 1: hard work behind the scenes. It wasn't the result of
Speaker 1: the jokes necessarily, but his career as a comic and
Speaker 1: the platform that he has allows him to draw attention
Speaker 1: to these issues. But the real change is the people
Speaker 1: in Congress writing you, writing the bills and enacting them
Speaker 1: and motivating people and getting people on board to actually
Speaker 1: change the law. So it's a combination of both. The
Speaker 1: reason I ran for Lieutenant governor, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: reasons was around the substance abuse issue in Massachusetts, and
Speaker 1: I know that that comedy can do a certain amount. Again,
Speaker 1: give you the platform, tell the jokes, reach the two
Speaker 1: hundred people in front of you or how many people
Speaker 1: are watching on television, But the real work is in
Speaker 1: the legislature and in the public. You know, the public
Speaker 1: awareness and the pressure on the legislature and the pressure
Speaker 1: on the politicians, and that's where the real change comes.
Speaker 1: Where whatever the issue is, you can have cultural awareness
Speaker 1: through comedy and cultural awareness through entertainment. But entertainment by
Speaker 1: itself is just a means to a lodger end. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to use it for those ends. For example,
Speaker 1: I started an organization of social enterprise called Humor for Humanity,
Speaker 1: and our mission statement is Humor for Humanity more than entertainment,
Speaker 1: raising spirits, funds and awareness for nonprofits, charities and social causes.
Speaker 1: Our mission is your mission Humor for Humanity, humor and
Speaker 1: helping humor in healing, humor and hope. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 1: And because of this organization, what I do is I
Speaker 1: I love comedy. I try to use not every night,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the time I'm using. I'm doing
Speaker 1: fundraisers basically for non profits, and I EMC and I
Speaker 1: perform and I can do the auctions and help raise money.
Speaker 1: And we've raised a lot of money over the last
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years for organizations. So it's not the comedy.
Speaker 1: The comedy is one component of the fundraiser, but the
Speaker 1: fundraiser and the nonprofit that's doing the work, whether it's
Speaker 1: around you know, child development or subst abuse, or rehabs
Speaker 1: or treatment centers are any of that type of thing.
Speaker 1: It's the people on the ground doing the work in
Speaker 1: the trenches that are really changing things. But the comedy
Speaker 1: is a great gift and a great entree into that
Speaker 1: In terms of an entertaining component to do our attention
Speaker 1: to that particular issue in that particular nonprofit. So that's
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun doing that.
Speaker 3: What better way? Did you enjoy the process at all?
Speaker 3: Or was it?
Speaker 2: Was it more grueling than you thought it would be
Speaker 2: even though you bring such money purpose?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh the process is pretty grueling. Did I enjoy it?
Speaker 1: I loved meeting the people. I loved, you know, being
Speaker 1: on the stump. I don't know if I enjoyed it
Speaker 1: as much as I enjoyed doing the Humor for Humanity,
Speaker 1: Because the Humor for Humanity, I just have more freedom.
Speaker 1: There's direct there's the direct effect with the with the nonprofits.
Speaker 1: And if they raise you know, one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. You know, it's especially the smaller
Speaker 1: one to some of the events we've done. I've raised
Speaker 1: a lot of money for large hospitals. They've raised you know,
Speaker 1: a million where I was the MC and the auctioneer.
Speaker 1: But most of them are on the smaller end of
Speaker 1: you know, moderate nonprofits, and they have they don't they
Speaker 1: have budgets aren't huge. So fifty thousand dollars here and
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars there or twenty thousand dollars here.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal and it helps them so and
Speaker 1: that's what I like to do.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I think it's amazing, and I also think it's so
Speaker 2: selfless of you to have had the cajones to do it.
Speaker 3: To begin with.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, I really I really applaud your efforts
Speaker 2: on that, and I think it's amazing because basically, at
Speaker 2: the core, you just want to help others, and I
Speaker 2: think that's such an amazing thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but running for office is like that's that's a job.
Speaker 1: And in the human humidity is a job too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's part of my business, is what I do.
Speaker 1: But it serves the most purposes like a public servants.
Speaker 1: You know, people get paid for running for well, if
Speaker 1: you get elected, you get a salary. And same thing
Speaker 1: with humor for humanity. But it's the it's way, your
Speaker 1: passion is. That's how people come up with material. Usually
Speaker 1: what are they passionate about? And that's what you see
Speaker 1: them talking about on stage or on TV. You know,
Speaker 1: what are they passion what? What motivates you to write
Speaker 1: material or come up with this or even want to
Speaker 1: be in public talking about it.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of passion. Looking back, now that you have
Speaker 2: a little bit of a hindsight, how would you say
Speaker 2: comedy has changed you as a person or shaped you
Speaker 2: as a person?
Speaker 1: Well, it gives you a great sense of it's empowering.
Speaker 1: It's empowering to think of something. I have an idea
Speaker 1: and present it to people and you get an immediate
Speaker 1: reaction and like that was a good idea. All these
Speaker 1: people like that. I want to do that again, you know,
Speaker 1: And so it builds it can when you you know,
Speaker 1: the more you do it and the more successful you become,
Speaker 1: it builds confidence. It builds a sense of that you
Speaker 1: can do things. You can you have You're not powerless
Speaker 1: in the world. You have a voice. People listen, people
Speaker 1: enjoy it. You can make a living at it. And
Speaker 1: so in that respect, it's been pretty amazing because I
Speaker 1: never thought I would be doing this when I was
Speaker 1: growing up. You know, there was it wasn't as common
Speaker 1: as it is now. You know, so well.
Speaker 3: Everyone has a studio at their house now.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly so. But it's I mean, I was able
Speaker 1: to go back to school, I was able to run
Speaker 1: for office, I was able to do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things in my life. Travel all over the world.
Speaker 1: It broadens your perspective. You meet new people, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: get to live in New York and LA at different times,
Speaker 1: and travel and so it's broadened my perspective of the
Speaker 1: world tremendously, especially trying to keep up with politics on
Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. That it's kind of
Speaker 1: like your job, you know, and.
Speaker 3: Your exact job.
Speaker 2: How does that feel to you, though, when when you've
Speaker 2: made a difference in someone else's life.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's great. It's a great feeling. It's a great feeling,
Speaker 1: you know. I was on the I did a show
Speaker 1: last night, and one of the things is, you know,
Speaker 1: I have my own political opinions, and I'm on the
Speaker 1: Democratic side of the ile generally speaking, that's I've been
Speaker 1: a lifelong Democrat. But I say in the audience, I
Speaker 1: say to the Trump supporters, I said, you guys won,
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. And I tell a story about
Speaker 1: how to react after your side of the ile losers,
Speaker 1: and and my friends. I have friends that are the
Speaker 1: Trump is They you know, they that's the that's what
Speaker 1: they like, and that's what they voted for. And I
Speaker 1: said how am I going to react to these guys?
Speaker 1: And I said, how about just saying congratulations? So when
Speaker 1: I saw them, I just said, hey, man, you guys
Speaker 1: you won. Congratulations. Two on two occasions, this guy lit up.
Speaker 1: He goes, Jimmy, thank you. I appreciate it. And our
Speaker 1: kind of relationship went to a different level because he
Speaker 1: felt heard, he felt respected, and he felt like it's
Speaker 1: like having a good game, a hot fought, you know,
Speaker 1: basketball game or sporting events. Yeah, you shake hands and
Speaker 1: you're you know, good game, man, you guys won. It
Speaker 1: got three hits. Good for you. I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: it was. And it did that on a couple of occasions.
Speaker 1: It was just it put the relationship on a different level.
Speaker 1: So it's not a big thing, and it's not even
Speaker 1: so much of a comedy thing, but you're affecting somebody
Speaker 1: the way you act off stage as well as on stage,
Speaker 1: and that's really effective. And of course, when you when
Speaker 1: you do something that changes people or helps them with
Speaker 1: whatever it is the mental illness issues or the recovery issues,
Speaker 1: or raising money for their charity or their school, or
Speaker 1: we did one for the school down the street and
Speaker 1: they raised a lot of money. They were thrilled. They
Speaker 1: were thrilled the relatively small nonprofit and they were just
Speaker 1: a static over it, you know. And it wasn't even
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. It was a fair amount of money
Speaker 1: for that school and it meant a lot to them.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you're actually putting your ideas and your
Speaker 1: actions where you're I mean, you're putting your actions where
Speaker 1: your ideas are and where your values. And comedies allowed
Speaker 1: me to do that, whether it's the jokes or off
Speaker 1: stage or in the service of the performance for something
Speaker 1: other than yourself purely.
Speaker 2: Well, Jimmy Tingle, leading by example literally and figuratively. I
Speaker 2: love I love all that you are doing, and I
Speaker 2: love that you stop by to share that with us,
Speaker 2: because I think it's important. Your angle on life in
Speaker 2: general is such a great and unique take that people
Speaker 2: need to hear more of it.
Speaker 1: I think, well, thank you, it's very kind of you.
Speaker 1: Just say Lynn, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, And before you go the real quickly, are
Speaker 2: there any projects that you're working on besides what we
Speaker 2: discussed and what's next where people can see you all
Speaker 2: that fun stuff?
Speaker 1: Sure? Well, I have a film out. It's called Jimmy
Speaker 1: Tingle The Radical Middle Why would a comedian run for office?
Speaker 1: It's on my website Jimmy Tingle dot com so people
Speaker 1: can watch that for free, ladies and gentlemen for free.
Speaker 1: And on my website, I have all my show dates
Speaker 1: coming up. I'm gonna be a Mortha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Speaker 1: in August and cartul At Center for the Arts and
Speaker 1: on the second and shows in September and all for
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. So Jimmy Tingle dot com.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Instagram at Jimmy Tingle humor
Speaker 1: get some funny clips up there. I think you'll get
Speaker 1: a big kick out of But thanks again for having
Speaker 1: me Lynn, And they can always find me there and
Speaker 1: sign up on my newsletter and I'll keep you in
Speaker 1: touch and informed about what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, find out why he got the last name Tingle,
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 1: My real name.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Thank you so much for being on a Comiday.
Speaker 1: Thank you