Speaker 1: So we recently posted a bunch of pictures in the
Speaker 1: series that is Andy and Danny.
Speaker 2: Oh so many. It was like three weeks.
Speaker 1: And you guys could only know that is a fraction
Speaker 1: of what exists.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't ever, I don't have more. I
Speaker 2: don't have that many photos of my son. I know,
Speaker 2: it's insane. It's insane.
Speaker 1: I have more pictures with Andrew Keagan than anyone else
Speaker 1: in my entire life.
Speaker 3: Were you planning on doing some sort of a retrospective
Speaker 3: eventually or just start.
Speaker 2: A cult together and just do that together?
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, I was asked a bunch of times on Instagram.
Speaker 1: In one particular picture, we're standing out in front of
Speaker 1: Andy's red car and I am holding this long streamy
Speaker 1: thing and oh.
Speaker 2: The ball sack? Mag What what?
Speaker 4: You didn't notice that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: What somebody comment to looks like he's holding balls, and
Speaker 2: it totally.
Speaker 5: Does, because whatever that thing is, I think it's your
Speaker 5: blanket or whatever you're about to you didn't.
Speaker 1: Notice it, and Eus didn't know East's a one hundred
Speaker 1: percent looks like that.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people wrote.
Speaker 1: It, oh my god, I didn't notice that comment picture
Speaker 1: which picture?
Speaker 2: It's like he's literally holding I have.
Speaker 1: To find it. I'm gonna have to look at it
Speaker 1: right now. Anyway, anyway, I want you all to know
Speaker 1: what it is. It was my from Okay, so when
Speaker 1: I was born, and my grandmother, who passed away when
Speaker 1: I was two, bought me this pink bunny. But it's
Speaker 1: not stuffed. It was basically like it had a round
Speaker 1: face and two ears that had satin lining on the
Speaker 1: inside of the ears, and then the body of the
Speaker 1: bunny was shaped kind of like a tear drop and
Speaker 1: it was just pink like knit and then it was
Speaker 1: in huge nuts.
Speaker 2: Didn't you've been put this on Instagram? Yes, I'm looking
Speaker 2: right now. Where are these? Okay, I'll show you the picture.
Speaker 2: I will find it.
Speaker 1: It's I can't even believe that everyone, you guys are
Speaker 1: disparaging my child.
Speaker 5: You like truckers hang off the back of their car
Speaker 5: like the big like, that's what it looks.
Speaker 2: See what you're looking at now? Okay, So here's the picture.
Speaker 2: Do you see it?
Speaker 4: Does?
Speaker 2: Guys? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Were you also in a throuple with my ex girlfriend
Speaker 3: with Jenna Vanoy, because she seemed to be the three
Speaker 3: of you together quite often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a couple of times. Jenna was there.
Speaker 1: Well, Jenna was like my she was older than me,
Speaker 1: but I loved her. I was obsessed with her. She
Speaker 1: was like my my friend slash, somebody I wanted to
Speaker 1: be like when I grew up. So yeah, Jenna was
Speaker 1: there too. Anyway, It's my childhood blanket and I carried
Speaker 1: it around with me everywhere my entire life until I
Speaker 1: was like ten, and even then I slept with it.
Speaker 1: And his name her her name was Bah, which was
Speaker 1: short for bunny, because that's how I said it when
Speaker 1: I was an infant Bah, And so that was the name.
Speaker 1: And Buh had basically because of being loved, had become
Speaker 1: real and was shredded into this very long thing. And
Speaker 1: so Andy's one of the only people to have ever
Speaker 1: really seen and hung out. Yeah, to be around Ba,
Speaker 1: and I still have Buh. Buh lives in a ziploc.
Speaker 5: Baggie friend zoned when he got to touch the bue.
Speaker 2: You did. Every picture, by the way, looks like he's
Speaker 2: been married for years. I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: It is funny because like to make sure it's a
Speaker 2: couple too, you guys have like this.
Speaker 1: We were in a relationship that involved no intimacy, I
Speaker 1: mean except for yeah, yeah. Anyway, My question was, do
Speaker 1: you guys have or did you have childhood blankets or
Speaker 1: things that were like close to you that you slept
Speaker 1: with or took with you places, and what were they?
Speaker 2: If so, I absolutely do. It's twenty feet from where
Speaker 2: I'm sitting right now. That it right now, we'll get it.
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: You want me to actually go get it?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Please? I want to see it, especially if it's you
Speaker 2: think it is. What do you think it is?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's going to be it's going to be some
Speaker 1: sort of stuffed thing. Probably, Yeah, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a stuffed animal.
Speaker 4: I think it's Yeah.
Speaker 2: I guess that makes the most sense. But I was
Speaker 2: thinking like more like an action figure.
Speaker 1: I bet, I bet it could be a blank It
Speaker 1: could be an actual blanket.
Speaker 2: He still has it?
Speaker 3: Is it in his?
Speaker 1: I still have mine too?
Speaker 2: I know? Like, where where is it right now?
Speaker 1: And is zip block bagging and a drawer?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Is it's a bear? Giant bear? It's huge?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Will it's so cute?
Speaker 2: This is this is my Charlie bear. Wow, he's big.
Speaker 3: And Charlie was in the crib I was was put
Speaker 3: in my crib when I was brought home from the
Speaker 3: hospital by my godfather.
Speaker 2: Does it have giant testicles?
Speaker 3: No, No giant testicles. And Charlie has been with me
Speaker 3: ever since. He lives in my closet. Now he's not
Speaker 3: on the bed, but he comes with me everywhere. And
Speaker 3: so I've had my Charlie bear since I was the
Speaker 3: day I was born.
Speaker 2: That's how bow was for me, since I was born.
Speaker 2: My Charlie bear.
Speaker 5: Wow, my parents did My parents did give me a
Speaker 5: bear that I had as a kid. That was the
Speaker 5: I think it was the day I was born, but
Speaker 5: I don't know where it is. I'm assuming it's still
Speaker 5: at my parents' house.
Speaker 1: Jensen got a Tonka truck that his dad brought to
Speaker 1: the hospital when he was born, and it's like a
Speaker 1: real like big.
Speaker 2: Metal medal like the one where you can operate thing.
Speaker 1: And his mother kept it and for when I was
Speaker 1: pregnant with Adler, she brought it to my baby shower
Speaker 1: with little gifts for Adler in the Tonka trunk. So
Speaker 1: Adler actually has Jensen's Tonka truck from when he was
Speaker 1: a baby. So that's anyway all of you guys. I
Speaker 1: hope I made you feel bad for making fun of
Speaker 1: my buff No, it's.
Speaker 2: A cool, not even a little bit.
Speaker 4: Don't feel bad at all.
Speaker 2: Welcome to pod meets BA Testicles.
Speaker 1: I'm Daniel Fishall, I'm.
Speaker 2: Riders Strong, and I'm will for Doll.
Speaker 1: While rewatching the show, there have been a few instances
Speaker 1: that we have lovingly referred to as a perfect drive
Speaker 1: by someone who comes on the show as a one
Speaker 1: time guest star and in limited screen time, creates a
Speaker 1: perfect moment of sitcom magic all on their own. We've
Speaker 1: seen this occur with Phyllis Dillar in a yogurt shop,
Speaker 1: Lesha Haley with a guitar, and this week's guest while
Speaker 1: portraying Bosco, a hairdresser slash con man who turns to
Speaker 1: Panga into a woman with just a few snips of
Speaker 1: his scissors. We were blown away by the tornado that
Speaker 1: is dom Irrera, a comedians comedian who not only left
Speaker 1: an undeniable mark on our show while making it look easy,
Speaker 1: he was at the forefront of the golden days of
Speaker 1: stand up comedy, with contemporaries like Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano,
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, and Gilbert Gottfried. He appeared on the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, The Late Show
Speaker 1: With My Third Crush, David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Speaker 1: Seinfeld as prop comedian Ronnie Kay the King of Queen's
Speaker 1: Home Improvement, Drew Carey. He's the voice of Ernie Potts
Speaker 1: on Hey Arnold. He's in The Big Lebowski and yes,
Speaker 1: he plays Bosco the Italian then Brooklyn Night from Three
Speaker 1: Cillini Brothers Salon in the Boy Meets World episode Hair Today,
Speaker 1: Goon Tomorrow. This week on pod Meets World, we are
Speaker 1: honored to welcome the legendary dom Irrera.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, look at this.
Speaker 2: How are you good?
Speaker 4: Look look at me? Good? Great? They can get a
Speaker 4: cuter and letty kid in touch forty years we haven't
Speaker 4: seen each.
Speaker 1: Other, seriously almost it's approaching thirty, so you're not really
Speaker 1: far off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty years.
Speaker 4: I'm Domarere from television. I don't know if you recognized
Speaker 4: me this, Yeah, characters, I did the hardest character of
Speaker 4: Italian American Brett Brulson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bosco Cellini.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we just recently rewatched your
Speaker 1: episode and because we were children when we recorded with
Speaker 1: you and taped with you, I don't think we ever
Speaker 1: grasped how absolutely incredible you were in that episode. What
Speaker 1: do you remember from that week and that day of shooting.
Speaker 4: Well, you guys are the most fun. I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't want to make it slappy matters show. It's like Steinfeld, Seinfelder, whatever.
Speaker 2: His name is, Yeah, Seinfeld, thank you.
Speaker 4: She believes me.
Speaker 2: I believe you. I said it in your intro.
Speaker 1: You didn't get to hear it, but I went through
Speaker 1: all your credits.
Speaker 4: I can't believe I could still stand after giving so much.
Speaker 4: It's but it was funny. The guys gave it, just
Speaker 4: gave me the part they didn't have me read for
Speaker 4: like some l And then that was who was the producer?
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs? Jacobs who I think you worked with on
Speaker 1: My Two Dads.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right, I kind of stunck on that and
Speaker 4: that was fun. You were fun here too.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a very famous episode for me in both
Speaker 1: my personal life and as a as an actor. It's
Speaker 1: something that's yeah, lasted forever, and you're such an indelible.
Speaker 2: Part of it.
Speaker 1: So did you like doing guest star spots on TV shows.
Speaker 1: By the way, thanks for stinking it up on My
Speaker 1: Two Dads and absolutely killing it on our show.
Speaker 4: I think Two Dads was that kind of guy. And
Speaker 4: the Brooklyn was you doing? Everybody forget about it? Well
Speaker 4: he came up and they said her hair is so beautiful,
Speaker 4: the beauty of a stick rich here, how beautiful beautiful?
Speaker 4: And then come on, we know you're from Brooklyn. All right,
Speaker 4: take it easy.
Speaker 2: I know it was so good, so great.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Seinfeld, so I do want to talk about
Speaker 1: Seinfeld a little bit. You played Ronnie Kay, the prop
Speaker 1: comedian with large nostrils. What was your history with Jerry
Speaker 1: and Larry David and how did you end up on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 4: Larry David called me up. I was watching football like
Speaker 4: a man and then yeah, said, you know what you
Speaker 4: want to do the show because if you a couple
Speaker 4: of times you offered me other parts, like the part
Speaker 4: of the Italian barber.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: I was always out of town killing and stand up
Speaker 4: kill kill, course, everybody kills. He said, have you seen
Speaker 4: the show A bunch of doing? I said, well, I
Speaker 4: haven't seen it, but I heard it really good. We
Speaker 4: a little did I know? And my ex wife was
Speaker 4: the mother of the ugly baby. So we it was
Speaker 4: it was a blast, you know, coming on that said,
Speaker 4: and I know everybody from something Michael I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Too, oh a Cramer, Yeah, Michael Richards.
Speaker 4: But that that whole worked with them somewhere, Jason, Alexander
Speaker 4: and then they they just had something. It was magic.
Speaker 4: But I'm not to make this segues you had you
Speaker 4: guys had that same feeling, and the feeling was you
Speaker 4: were having fun, you know, and it really they really
Speaker 4: goes out there when you could see when I saw
Speaker 4: you kids running around, I was goofing around with you.
Speaker 4: It was like such a nice day as opposed to
Speaker 4: somebody like, you know, having reading. We got to read
Speaker 4: for some numb nut you know, you know mean sometimes
Speaker 4: where did you get your credit credentials? You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing I remember most about what Seinfeld was you're
Speaker 3: playing Ronnie Kay, but you're in a hockey jersey with
Speaker 3: your last name on It says Rare on the back
Speaker 3: of the hockey jersey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it says Bruins jersey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's yeah, you had your So they had
Speaker 3: you as Ronnie Kay, and I always wondered why they
Speaker 3: didn't just have you as yourself, since you're supposed to
Speaker 3: be a comedian anyway.
Speaker 4: I would have rather have done other things. I was
Speaker 4: one of the top five for comedians in the United States.
Speaker 4: One of these bull you say your cursed on this. Sure, sure,
Speaker 4: I don't want to. I just want to know I can.
Speaker 2: I want you can. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Mary, Larry says to me, you want to
Speaker 4: do the show? I said, well, I'm working in Vegas
Speaker 4: next Vegas, next week. He's anyway they get the guy
Speaker 4: from Vegas said, no, go do that show. It's great,
Speaker 4: and that's all. I got the show. But Larry just
Speaker 4: came over the house and or kid just called me
Speaker 4: and told me. I mean, Jerry's not that type of guy.
Speaker 4: He's very good in giving, but he was like focused,
Speaker 4: like he didn't even talk to me doing the whole thing. Really,
Speaker 4: Jason Alexander's like having a bagel and doing his side,
Speaker 4: you know. But it was fun. Who done the biggest
Speaker 4: sitcom ever? You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm believable.
Speaker 1: You know, being a guest star is not easy, Like
Speaker 1: that's a difficult task and you were so good at it,
Speaker 1: but you're always walking onto a new set with people
Speaker 1: who were have well established relationships and and dropping in.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 4: If I liked this, you know? I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 4: did enjoy it because I was I was always doing
Speaker 4: stand up comedy, so for me to do when that,
Speaker 4: especially at that time, I had to really like it
Speaker 4: because I did have a choice. You know. I was
Speaker 4: on the road with Share and when I knew you guys,
Speaker 4: what year was a.
Speaker 1: It's like ninety six.
Speaker 4: I was on the show was for some you know something.
Speaker 4: I didn't go around the world with them. I just
Speaker 4: in the States. But so I had a really good
Speaker 4: job anyway, you know. And then but I loved the
Speaker 4: idea of him and the kids together. And I had
Speaker 4: seen your show and I thought it was funny, very funny,
Speaker 4: and just like it looked like fun I had now
Speaker 4: because I remember you as kids. It was so was
Speaker 4: so bizarre, you know, remember the time I was getting
Speaker 4: mega and the girls bushed me up and you come in, hey, Dom,
Speaker 4: and they looked at me and go, who are you
Speaker 4: but modern? And people have been doing the makeup that
Speaker 4: you made such a fuss fuss of them? He said,
Speaker 4: thanks to the fuss.
Speaker 2: Our pleasure.
Speaker 1: Happy to do it. And then you were in Big Lebowski.
Speaker 1: You have another scene stealing role as the Limos chauffeur.
Speaker 1: How do you end up working with the Cohen Brothers
Speaker 1: on a movie that would basically go on to define
Speaker 1: a generation?
Speaker 4: Stand up? I was doing the Carolines in New York
Speaker 4: and the younger, kind of geekier guy forget his first name,
Speaker 4: but he saw me do stand up and they just
Speaker 4: put him in the script. And the guy said you
Speaker 4: want to do it? I said, yeah, it's great, and
Speaker 4: then he goes, but you think it's great? I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I wrote it. I wrote the jokes that they put.
Speaker 4: I forget the and about four or five lines. But
Speaker 4: they asked me to do you want to drive? They
Speaker 4: were going to stunt driver. I take, I'll drive. What
Speaker 4: is it five miles in an hour? You know? I
Speaker 4: go about ten minutes, they go boom. I hit this
Speaker 4: thing that they didn't tell me. I had the Colin brothers.
Speaker 4: I said, well, if I killed one of them, I'd
Speaker 4: be in trouble. But I killed two of them. I'm done.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what did you hit?
Speaker 4: I don't know. It's something that decided, you know, the
Speaker 4: sound people put and they didn't tell me they put
Speaker 4: it and then they put it back. I mean we
Speaker 4: really went flying.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So then after that, did you still keep driving or
Speaker 1: did they put a stunt driver in?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I was done by then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you were done.
Speaker 3: You obviously started in stand up. When did your When
Speaker 3: did you start your stand up journey? I mean you've
Speaker 3: been around for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I was in Fiddler on the Roof you probably
Speaker 4: remember that in Barry College nineteen two. I just started
Speaker 4: with plays in college, and I liked them, you know,
Speaker 4: like I said, sometimes when you get to when you
Speaker 4: like it's really kind of like a fantasy. I got
Speaker 4: this one articon old Lace, remember the play? Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: not shiny, No, do we do it the quick way,
Speaker 4: not the Melbourne Way? And I love that character. And
Speaker 4: I'm driving to basketball and I heard and it was Bill,
Speaker 4: Bill Murray's sister who was a nun at Barry College
Speaker 4: in Miami. And I said, Nancy, I got I gotta
Speaker 4: have this this part. I love this guy. No, not
Speaker 4: to mean that that that voice I never even heard.
Speaker 4: It was Peter Laurie was a guy's name. But I
Speaker 4: only saw the Warner Brothers cartoons or something but you know,
Speaker 4: so it can come in handy if you enjoy it,
Speaker 4: you know, but I had that advantage. And opening for
Speaker 4: the Share, yeah, that was that's a challenge. I mean,
Speaker 4: twenty five thousand people and she she put me on
Speaker 4: the she put me on the marquee and everything. So
Speaker 4: maybe it made it look more professional, you know, because
Speaker 4: that was that was a strange joy into.
Speaker 5: Great and they're there for music predominantly so and you're
Speaker 5: opening with comedy? Are you the only opening act?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I did twenty five and then then she did
Speaker 4: she an hour. She cheated because she brought it Sonny
Speaker 4: and shared videos.
Speaker 1: Smart listen as people who have a live show that
Speaker 1: include some videos.
Speaker 2: Piller great.
Speaker 4: One time I got Heckler a Heckler, and then I
Speaker 4: could listen. You had dumb little she's not here, leave
Speaker 4: me alone. I got ten more minutes. I'm not bothering you.
Speaker 4: And I said to the girl, do you know what
Speaker 4: it's like doing stand up? And you don't know what
Speaker 4: it's like, you don't ignorant it, And they got really
Speaker 4: pissed in me. The next time, I went to Cleveland
Speaker 4: from Akron and they came there like about thirty or
Speaker 4: forty people came just to boom me. I loved it.
Speaker 4: It was so controversial and she didn't care. She didn't
Speaker 4: even bother with it. There was one joke that she
Speaker 4: didn't like.
Speaker 2: What was the joke?
Speaker 4: Tell us, Okay, you know you don't want to go
Speaker 4: see Born with your girlfriend because you never want to
Speaker 4: hear the words. Now, that's a cock.
Speaker 2: She didn't like that joke.
Speaker 4: She said, what is that's the cock? You can't put
Speaker 4: that on the show. I said, I'm sorry, you never
Speaker 4: did what I did before. By the way, your grandfather
Speaker 4: liked the way your ass was. I was the grandparents
Speaker 4: were there. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 4: Don't you ask me to be on this. I really
Speaker 4: loved this show. I really did. It was another well
Speaker 4: that was bright spots in my career, my career, my
Speaker 4: career said.
Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned above all else, you are a
Speaker 1: very popular stand up comedian and you were right in
Speaker 1: the mix during an incredible time for comedy. So I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you could talk to us a little
Speaker 1: bit about how important being on Carson was for stand
Speaker 1: ups during that time.
Speaker 4: It was the Imperor Monitor, it was imagine it's so
Speaker 4: different today. I'm not making a choice one or two,
Speaker 4: but it's completely different. I have the podcast to dom
Speaker 4: Yo Yo Dom. It's called Yo domb Yo dom forget
Speaker 4: about it. But where was that.
Speaker 2: Going, oh, Carson Carson, Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't get the cartoon because I was funny. I
Speaker 4: got it because the waitresses at the club, like my act.
Speaker 4: I was going in late at night. I just came
Speaker 4: back from New York where I was a little bit
Speaker 4: of a big deal, and I went right to the
Speaker 4: bottom again and the girls would, you know, sit down.
Speaker 4: If the waitressoud sit down and look at you, you know
Speaker 4: you got something going. Fortunately for me, he loved women,
Speaker 4: and you know, they always pushed for me. So one
Speaker 4: night he brought and he brought Jim. Jim McCauley was
Speaker 4: the guy's name. He was booking, and he said, I
Speaker 4: did my show was like fifteen minutes. You know, Okay,
Speaker 4: stand up. He goes, Hey, don mean me, you want
Speaker 4: to do the show? Carson. I said, no, I don't
Speaker 4: want to do those show. It's where I'm going up
Speaker 4: here two o'clock in the morning. Yeah, I wish I
Speaker 4: would the show, And I got the show like that,
Speaker 4: not bringing good or bad, but you and so if
Speaker 4: you you either got that show or you didn't. And
Speaker 4: it was really because I didn't I erge for MERV Griffin.
Speaker 4: I didn't get that, and I thought, if I can't
Speaker 4: get MERV Griffin, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get
Speaker 4: the Tonight Show. So I was in from I started
Speaker 4: from improv. I'll just go back to improvs. And you
Speaker 4: know that's it because I can't do take this anymore
Speaker 4: getting rejected. But that you really had to do it
Speaker 4: in those days. Now liked Louis c K. Remember that
Speaker 4: with that whole sexual thing. Well you know what he
Speaker 4: did was he went out and started his own movie
Speaker 4: and hey for himself. You know that didn't happen in
Speaker 4: those days, were the only Tonight Show. You are right,
Speaker 4: Ronnie Dangerfield not turned out to be friends and not
Speaker 4: to be a name dropper. You're you're all right, kid,
Speaker 4: You're all right.
Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about what he was like
Speaker 2: off stage.
Speaker 4: It's hilarious. And when he was serious, he was funnier
Speaker 4: than when he was trying to be funny. And he
Speaker 4: says to me, he says, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5: Kid?
Speaker 4: I said, Brodney. He's done enough for me. He got
Speaker 4: me on special HBO Specialist. Well, you know, I said,
Speaker 4: you could do one thing close close your robe. He said,
Speaker 4: what do you mean? He goes, I can't eat and
Speaker 4: see a little grape Paulini's just cover that so I
Speaker 4: can eat my soup. You're all right. He wouldn't even laugh.
Speaker 4: That's very funny.
Speaker 3: So when when you were coming up, this is arguably
Speaker 3: the golden age of stand up comedy.
Speaker 2: Who was your favorite comedian? Who was the best that
Speaker 2: you ever saw?
Speaker 4: She's that's tough. I worked with Robin Williams and improvs
Speaker 4: a lot. He was really bright, you know, and he
Speaker 4: was he say, doing that kind of thing, and I
Speaker 4: said what I said that it didn't even mean anything.
Speaker 4: He went, I know, he says, but if you do
Speaker 4: a face, I think you're smart, you know, just some gibberish. Wow,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I had a brow, I thought that,
Speaker 4: you know, God rested saw Bill. Bill Cosby was brilliant writer.
Speaker 4: And who do you like now?
Speaker 2: Do like I like going back to watch the old stuff?
Speaker 3: I can watch Carlin all the time, so, you know,
Speaker 3: a huge fan of watching the original carl and stuff.
Speaker 3: I thought Eddie Murphy. Some of Eddie Murphy's, especially his
Speaker 3: earlier stuff like Raw was really great.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan. Chris Rock, Bargotzi is hysterical. George
Speaker 2: I love him too. Man Scalco another great one. There's some,
Speaker 2: there's some great great stand ups. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They came up to me when he started getting hot.
Speaker 4: I said, what do you think I'm doing? All that materials?
Speaker 4: And is he's stealing from you? I said, no, he don't.
Speaker 4: I don't own Italy. He's my friend. He's not stealing
Speaker 4: from me. Excuse me, I think he's doing something Italian.
Speaker 4: It's both man. I worked hard to be Italian.
Speaker 2: I own Italy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right?
Speaker 1: Was your family always supportive of your aspirations in comedy?
Speaker 4: My mother thought that I was so good that I
Speaker 4: should be I should be the host of the Tonight Show.
Speaker 4: My mother just the opposite of most mothers. You know,
Speaker 4: don't get a real job. My mother would go, you're
Speaker 4: better than him. I wasn't better than him. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm not better than Johnny Carson.
Speaker 1: I love that though, I really do.
Speaker 2: That's so sweet.
Speaker 4: She died yesterday.
Speaker 1: But no, so sorry, so sorry to to me.
Speaker 4: She she's a great mother and very beautiful body. And
Speaker 4: then okay, now you're gonna stand up book.
Speaker 2: We're keeping all of it.
Speaker 4: It's so funny because when you read that stuff, I'm like, wow, Wow,
Speaker 4: that's so cool. When when it was happening, I didn't
Speaker 4: even think twice about it. I thought, well, this is
Speaker 4: not it's not it's not natural. But like, there's certain
Speaker 4: things I did, like, hey, Arnold, yeah, I was the
Speaker 4: demolition guy, and hey, Arnold, what I picked the guy's
Speaker 4: name Ernie, Ernie Potts, And it was so fun to
Speaker 4: do that and talk about easy. It's you know, cartoons
Speaker 4: are the easiest thing. You go in there in a
Speaker 4: wind swim suit, anything, you drop the lines one, two,
Speaker 4: you got that, do a wild spot, do the wild spot.
Speaker 4: You're done, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, best job in the world. Best job in the
Speaker 2: world is yep.
Speaker 4: You don't even need feet. It's great. I have a
Speaker 4: jockstrap one right.
Speaker 1: And that's why we love podcasting. So, looking back, if
Speaker 1: you had to name the most underrated stand up from
Speaker 1: that era in your opinion, who would it be.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't know. I never heard it
Speaker 4: as punk. Geez, that's a tough one. You know, there's
Speaker 4: a guy named Edwin Edwards. Anyway, he's great, great stand
Speaker 4: up community, but he doesn't have the charismas some of
Speaker 4: this guy. But Chris Rock is one of He's just funny,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean he's brilliant, Like he's probably the
Speaker 4: smartest and the funny. I guess I like the different things.
Speaker 4: You know, Seinfeld has a certain brilliance to it, but
Speaker 4: it's not I never cry laughing. It's him. But I
Speaker 4: think he's gonna go wow, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know Bill Burd remember when he did that thing
Speaker 4: in Camden where they bought they booed me.
Speaker 3: Oh that that was one of the most brilliant I
Speaker 3: mean that made him who he was, wasn't it. I
Speaker 3: Mean that was one of the most brilliant things I
Speaker 3: think I've ever heard ever from a stand up That
Speaker 3: was incredible.
Speaker 2: Recap it for.
Speaker 4: Us, Well, I was on stage and I'm from Philly,
Speaker 4: which Camden is across from Philly, and like there were
Speaker 4: about thirty thousand people. It was something gigantic and about
Speaker 4: maybe three hundred were booing me, but they were booing
Speaker 4: over they were drunk. So I said, yeah, once you
Speaker 4: go home, do your mother's my mother's basement. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: then you know, just this whole thing. And and then
Speaker 4: I got them back, you know, and then I walk
Speaker 4: off from Bill goes. They booed, dom a rere here them.
Speaker 4: I said, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: This is all like.
Speaker 4: As we exchanged the stage and he got on there,
Speaker 4: I knew something was going to happen. I went and
Speaker 4: sat on one of the speakers and he just went
Speaker 4: the funniest thing I heard from his line of all
Speaker 4: he goes the Liberty Bill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who would be? We would do, dude.
Speaker 3: For fifteen minutes, he just tore the audience apart and
Speaker 3: then he'd be.
Speaker 2: Like, I got all night I could do. I got
Speaker 2: nine minutes left.
Speaker 3: Like he It was unreal, this this stand up bit
Speaker 3: he just went off that takes It was I.
Speaker 5: Mean, stand up in general, but to be antagonistic with
Speaker 5: your own audiences so risky for.
Speaker 2: The town they live for, Philly, with a drunk Philly crowd,
Speaker 2: it was insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was drunk Philly. I was working in Ireland.
Speaker 4: I've done Ireland over the years, but maybe twenty five
Speaker 4: times really maybe fifty times, so much, you know, and
Speaker 4: he was there he goes, stay Dom, take me around.
Speaker 4: I don't know the place. Everybody in this town knows
Speaker 4: you let's you know, you know, go hang out some night.
Speaker 4: So we're out there and we're just kind of moved
Speaker 4: where everything was funny, and we go in and I'd
Speaker 4: be behind him going, I'll break my lack of me
Speaker 4: is part of it, doing any stupid irish accents, and
Speaker 4: we just got to you know, like you know how
Speaker 4: some people think this is the funniest thing in the world.
Speaker 4: Then you tell somebody else to go, wow, it's so funny.
Speaker 4: You really have to be there, like what I'm doing now.
Speaker 4: I can tell you it was funny, but I can't
Speaker 4: make it funny. But I love yeah me too. You
Speaker 4: can't buy them back, you know exactly.
Speaker 1: But those are the Those are the moments. Like talking
Speaker 1: about bringing up Louis c. K again, I think Louis
Speaker 1: k is one of those people who talks about that.
Speaker 1: You think the moments in your life that you're really
Speaker 1: going to remember are the moments of standing on the
Speaker 1: stage at Madison Square Garden, But really you don't remember those.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because we talk about boy meets World
Speaker 1: all the time, and so many of those things. You'd think, well, like,
Speaker 1: of course you're going to remember that you were on
Speaker 1: a hit show for seven years, and so many of
Speaker 1: your memories are going to be about those big moments.
Speaker 1: But they're not. There're moments about you know, dancing in
Speaker 1: the rain outside of writer's house and you know when
Speaker 1: we were fifteen, or the.
Speaker 2: Time conversation in the makeup room exactly.
Speaker 1: Or walking to the school room, or you know, like
Speaker 1: for you, you and Mike Burbiglia in Ireland doing accents
Speaker 1: and tears streaming down your face, like terrible accents. By
Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, I was not trying to say they
Speaker 1: were going to be good.
Speaker 4: My sister came up to me in Madison Square Garden
Speaker 4: wanted to make sure everybody was good. She goes, I
Speaker 4: can't believe you're gonna stand up comed He's Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: I said, I know, She goes, Ali was here, Frank
Speaker 4: Sinachi was here. Now you're here, I go, glor I
Speaker 4: gotta go. She was making me nervous. I wasn't nervous
Speaker 4: by the time I got on. I was like, this
Speaker 4: is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't talk to me about it.
Speaker 4: I was fine before there was more moments like you can't.
Speaker 4: She meant, well, but it's like, please stop, because to me,
Speaker 4: it's this is my day day at work twenty five minutes,
Speaker 4: you know, because if you think about it, I was
Speaker 4: in thirty seven thousand people, that's what they said in
Speaker 4: Milwaukee Milwaukee Summerfest, and I'm ready to go out, and
Speaker 4: the guy says, what are gonna go out now? I said,
Speaker 4: but the sun still up? He goes, hey, we thought
Speaker 4: I thought it'd be going up earlier. The sun doesn't.
Speaker 4: The son arb arbitrary. It's it's like they have a
Speaker 4: did you ever hear the harmor farmers all the nec Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: So I go on to seventeen thousand people plus anyway
Speaker 4: thousands of people, and I go, you know what I
Speaker 4: want to do. I'm not gonna worry about seventeen thousand
Speaker 4: people and whatever, but the ten pace ten thousand people
Speaker 4: right here in front of me, and do stand up
Speaker 4: to them. And it worked. But it was so crazy.
Speaker 4: Think you don't belong there, you know, with these guys
Speaker 4: doing the stadiums all the time. Now, it's great, it's
Speaker 4: great for your money, but I I just think it's
Speaker 4: too too. It's too much, do you do you?
Speaker 2: Is it me?
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't want to see Louis e k
Speaker 4: in it. I'm gonna see him as a club at
Speaker 4: least or an arena, not arena, but the theater. Theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a different vibe when you're when you're
Speaker 2: you know, in a comedy club than you are when
Speaker 2: you're you know, somebody's shooting a special for instance.
Speaker 3: It's certainly a different uh yeah, a different way about it.
Speaker 3: One of our producers of Boy Mets World, his wife
Speaker 3: is a very well known is Wendy Leeman, who's been
Speaker 3: around for Wendy's she's hysterically funny, and uh, seeing her
Speaker 3: in a small club, she's great everywhere she goes. But
Speaker 3: seeing her in a small club, you got a different
Speaker 3: vibe than when you went and watched her her special
Speaker 3: being show.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was, it was, it was. It's fun
Speaker 2: both ways, But yeah, there is there is.
Speaker 3: The intimate setting really lends to feeling like you're part
Speaker 3: of the the set, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: You have your own podcast. You mentioned Yo Dom, and
Speaker 1: you have appeared on the world's biggest podcast, The Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan Experience. You went on kill Tony, and you have
Speaker 1: really like embraced the podcast scene for comedy a lot
Speaker 1: more so than some other comedians from your class. What
Speaker 1: do you like about podcasts?
Speaker 4: Well, see, Joe's better equipped, Like he likes to talk
Speaker 4: land like a long time, like two three hours, and
Speaker 4: he's great, you know, but I just like I like this,
Speaker 4: like we'll do this at half hour Ford and go.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I'm not saying I could take place with him,
Speaker 4: because it's amazing he built his own island. But Joe,
Speaker 4: Joe's I'm going to see him in a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks and at the club March tenth, I think it
Speaker 4: is nine and ten.
Speaker 2: Nice gonna kill kill kill, kill kill, Yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 2: kill it.
Speaker 4: He is. They always kill every time, like you have trouble,
Speaker 4: but when I'm not there, you kill. It's amazing, terrible.
Speaker 1: You have had a truly incredible career, an integral part
Speaker 1: of a class of comedians that might be just the
Speaker 1: absolute funniest ever, and you have worked with and influenced
Speaker 1: so many of them. So now looking back on your
Speaker 1: body of work for years since you started, what are
Speaker 1: your feelings on the legacy you have left behind?
Speaker 4: Well, this is a very nice thing for me that
Speaker 4: you guys know me, and that was something I really
Speaker 4: loved doing that. A couple of days we will work together.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to get this you know, beautiful people,
Speaker 4: but it's just like this is this is very nice
Speaker 4: for me, and it's like very cool. We really love
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 1: You we really enjoyed your I mean we talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a drive by perfect appearance.
Speaker 2: Perfect, perfect guest, unbelievable all the way around.
Speaker 4: I really like the part, you know, that makes it
Speaker 4: a lot easier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is I mean, it was this to me.
Speaker 3: I know, you were en Seinfeld, which was, you know,
Speaker 3: consider the greatest tocome of all time. But and they
Speaker 3: had some amazing guest parts on that, but I mean
Speaker 3: it was just it was a perfect performance.
Speaker 2: Perfect. You carried that the whole episode.
Speaker 4: It was just so good, you know, and I still
Speaker 4: think about what I could have done make it better.
Speaker 4: I'm watching I go I could have.
Speaker 2: No, there was not a sing. We're still doing that
Speaker 2: too though. We do that all the time.
Speaker 3: We do that. We're watching ourselves going, well, I want
Speaker 3: to reshoot that. Yeah, I'm almost fifty, but I want
Speaker 3: to reshoot it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 4: If you ever want me to come back, I can't.
Speaker 4: I'm going to have a cold that day.
Speaker 2: Oh great, thank you.
Speaker 4: No, it was great seeing you.
Speaker 2: It was great seeing you, and thank you so much better.
Speaker 4: No, go ahead, nor your hair is incredible.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Dom. It was so I remember working
Speaker 1: with you and it was so much fun. And thank
Speaker 1: you for just reminding us what it's like to be
Speaker 1: around you and to share some space with you. Thank
Speaker 1: you for taking your time to be with us. It
Speaker 1: means a great deal to us. So we're happy you
Speaker 1: agreed to do it. And it was lovely to see
Speaker 1: you again.
Speaker 4: Could you repeat that.
Speaker 2: Amazing love you? You killed it.
Speaker 1: We will thank you, Dona bye.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, guys, a legend. I mean, we've talked
Speaker 2: about the differences in being an actor being a singer,
Speaker 2: being I mean, stand up comedy is its entirely own thing,
Speaker 2: and I get a lot of I can't imagine you're
Speaker 2: opening for Share. It's crazy.
Speaker 5: People are there too because they like shares music, and
Speaker 5: then you've got to try and make them laugh nightmare.
Speaker 1: So people are like showing up in the middle of
Speaker 1: your thing, You've got people leaving. Oh, I've got to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom before the show starts. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go get a drink. I'm walking in, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: my seat, I'm catching up with a friend. I'm taking
Speaker 1: pictures of the stage. It's like, oh, I know, I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine. I don't know how many.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you do get callous to this point.
Speaker 5: You know, you get to this point where you're just
Speaker 5: like I don't give a you know, I'm just going
Speaker 5: to get and he obviously is there, but man, like
Speaker 5: I just I would never want to get there, Like
Speaker 5: I don't think I can through that experience, Like if
Speaker 5: people don't like me, and as a comedian, that's all
Speaker 5: you have to do, is like you willing to just
Speaker 5: put it out there told why you know, Oh.
Speaker 3: No, well the ultimate entertainers. I'm just gonna go out
Speaker 3: there by myself the microphone. There's no music, there's no anything.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna tell stories and talk and.
Speaker 5: It would be so cool, like it's like a superpower,
Speaker 5: Like he still has that right, Like I bet you
Speaker 5: you could throw him in front of a crowd and
Speaker 5: be like, here's a mic go and he's got ten
Speaker 5: minutes in him or twenty minutes in no matter what.
Speaker 2: Absolutely no that I mean, I think that's so cool.
Speaker 2: I wish I could be that kind of I think
Speaker 2: it's so cool too. People say that to me, go,
Speaker 2: oh you should. You know, you're so funny on Boy's World.
Speaker 2: You should stand up, and it's like you could do
Speaker 2: stand you could, but it's so different. But that's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You just never did.
Speaker 5: If you, if you, if but you could, Like I mean,
Speaker 5: you do this with our live shows, like we get
Speaker 5: out there and you we have no land for you,
Speaker 5: and you're always ten times funnier than anybody I've ever seen,
Speaker 5: So you'd be fine.
Speaker 2: It's just whether you take that leap or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just so different. I'm still acting
Speaker 3: when I'm on stage, you know.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it was interesting to hear that he
Speaker 2: started as as an actor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, like, yeah, it makes sense, given right,
Speaker 5: I haven't seen much of his work, but given what
Speaker 5: he did on our show, which is an incredible character work,
Speaker 5: it makes.
Speaker 2: Sense that he acts.
Speaker 5: I thought he was going to say he started as
Speaker 5: a stand up comedian, but for him, you know when
Speaker 5: he was going back to like, oh, yeah, no, I
Speaker 5: was in college play or as Nick an old Lace,
Speaker 5: And but you know, I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 5: that actually makes sense? And in some ways I think
Speaker 5: that there are a lot of stand up comedians who
Speaker 5: are actually just actors playing a stand up comedian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Like, I think that there's a certain I remember he
Speaker 5: brought up Louis c K. I remember I had never
Speaker 5: watched Louis stand up. I had only seen his show,
Speaker 5: And then when I went back to his stand up,
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, he was always an actor, Like
Speaker 5: he always struck me as an act and and and
Speaker 5: his sort of off the cuff like he was so
Speaker 5: good at making making it seem like he was making
Speaker 5: it up on the spot when it was actually very written,
Speaker 5: very rehearsed.
Speaker 4: Sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I also think it's it's easier for a stand up
Speaker 3: comedian to go to acting than it is for an
Speaker 3: actor to go to stand up. Yeah, so I you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's that kind of I think when you've got
Speaker 3: the stand up in you and you start there and
Speaker 3: that's your base, you can then you've got the rhythm
Speaker 3: of the comedy to move into the acting world.
Speaker 2: And it's not that doesn't necessarily translate the other way around,
Speaker 2: you know, I know it doesn't necessarily translate. But I
Speaker 2: would not assume that your average stand up would also
Speaker 2: be a good actor.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, I'm saying that I don't think
Speaker 3: they the average stand up would be a good actor.
Speaker 3: I'm saying it's probably easier to transition from stand up
Speaker 3: to acting than it is from acting to shure.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, as far as like facing your fears, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well right, yes, I mean by that point, you've you've
Speaker 2: put it all on there on the line. It's you're
Speaker 2: as you're you're an open wound for everybody to see.
Speaker 2: So right, yeah right, crazy.
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