Comedians of the 1980s part 1

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Hey Tony, Hey, how you
doing it? Yeah? I love

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it? Was nervous, you know, it is a first time money in

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the Waterloo. I'm coming to this
club here, and you know in California.

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You know, I don't know what
teeth blogs are going to expect out

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of me. You know, I'm
so fast, you know, yeah,

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you don't. You know I need
what can I get a god dang beer?

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You know, I'm so freaking nervous
right now. The mariners saw some

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of my blood is boiling. Do
you know why? Usually you know,

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it's like uh, like I say, you know, we really don't partake

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in the getting them gong. You
know you're from Mi, the Big Apple.

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I'm from Brooklyn. Yeah yeah,
but that's okay. You know what

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we we're booked in a weirre freaking
state, if you know what I mean.

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Look at this, Look at this
liberalism everywhere. Yeah, you know,

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I was in a cab on the
way down here. You know,

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we just I gotta get to a
boss so I could get blitz because you

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know, I don't know what to
expect. You know, I'm not to

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posh it with a gay community.
I don't know, you know what me

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or not. You seem a little
wired. You know, you need something

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to calm down because you get a
little wired you Well, you know,

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I ain't gonna lie to you know. I did some of the Boston's fineness

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earlier. You know, I had
a couple of cool beers. But yeah,

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I gotta I need something to cut
the edit right? Oh? Hey,

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how you doing the way? Did
the Monfia cross the road and forget

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about it? You know? What
do you get me? What? What

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do you get when you're crossing Italian
of the Jewel huh olive garden day?

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What are you gonna do? Hey? I got one more. I got

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one more for you. Are you
ready? What's a four letter warning to

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tell you for goodbye? Hey bang? All right, gentlemen giving up to

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me straight out of your thanks right
ya give me Ladies and gentlemen, don't

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stop there, don't you? Dare
right? We got another Canadian that's gonna

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wrap you up. He's coming out
of busted. I trying, as I

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jew said the Kennedy give it up
for everybody's bag free boy time. Yeah.

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I used to Los Angeles. He
was there. I was on my

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way in the cow with you him. You know what I like? I

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said, I'm from worsting your damn
it. It's okay. I like beer?

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How about you? Anybody out here
like beer? Yeah? Well,

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what's the difference between the head from
abroad and the head of a beer?

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You give up? Ha ha ha
nothing? Hey hey, yeah, everybody.

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You know, the other day I
was watching a Red Sox when he's

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usual everybody job thanks a lot.
Yeah, A tough crowd, huh And

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yeah, you know what, it
wasn't even really worth my trip to come

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down here in the cab. How
about you? Yeah, I don't know.

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All they promised we was a couple
of tickets, all of God and

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so that's why I told them alive
God in joke. But I don't see

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anything laying on the table, you
know, I don't see no greenbax.

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Yeah, I got nothing. You
want to go to a bar. I

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have a couple of cool beers.
Maybe, Yeah, I'll tell you what

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I geez, I'll tell you what
I would really want to do. I

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want to I want to both of
us. Let's go back to the eighties.

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Let's get the hell outie. Maybe
you are listening to the one and

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only Back to the Eighties radio show. We're introducing the eighties to a whole

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new generation. I am Toscanno from
Toscano and Chang, and today is a

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very special show because we are why
I kind of went off into a Christopher

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walking right there, because I didn't. I I still got the little mixture

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of Tony Bambino in me. We're
gonna be talking about the best comedians of

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the nineteen eighties. We have lists
of comedians, and we only have time

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to talk about a few. But
you gotta understand, the eighties brought us

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some of the greatest memories of all
comedians forever. Oh, I think the

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eighties roll brought out stand up comedy
kind of like the fashion industry. Remember

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when when we first saw the wing
doves of the fashion industry. Yeah,

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with Victoria's Secret, yep. I
think comedy took off like Victoria Sacred did

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when Victoria's Secret hit the old highways
and gave us nothing but gorgeous women with

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angel wings. I think that was
the same scenario when we talk about comedy

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back in the eighties. Stand up
comedy in the eighties was like going into

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a seazed candy shop. There was
so many different flavors and sweetness and things

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that are going to attract your attention
and grab your taste buds. That's how

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comedy was because we had stand up
comics that were both clean X rated.

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We had stand up comedians that were
older, that were from a couple of

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decades prior, but yet their careers
were rejuvenated in the eighties a right.

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Comedians coming from all over the country, from Boston to New York, to

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the Midwest to southern California. I
mean, there's comedians that brought us some

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of the funniest skits, jokes,
and stories that we have ever heard.

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And that is what we're going to
be talking about tonight. I do want

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to thank you guys for joining in
on the program, because I do know

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that every week you are gracious enough
with Back to the Eighties and Toscano and

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Chang, whether you're at the gym, whether you're at work or just hanging

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out at home and listening to us, you know, one of your favorite

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devices. I just want to say
thank you guys for making Back to the

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Eighties radio show number one in eighties. Oh and also I want to remind

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So stick around. We got the
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eighties here on Back to the Eighties
Radio. Don't you go nowhere, I'll

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break your funny bone. Know what
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lives loud and proud on back to
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Chay. If they were a laxatives, they'd be so powerful you could stand

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on your head and on the ceiling. That position will not only be unavailable,

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but also undignified. And now back
to the eighties with Tuscano and Chang.

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Welcome back to back to the eighties. Is this Chang on the hang

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of Tascanto and Chang. Tonight show, we are diving head first into the

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ocean of stand up comedy, something
very near and dear to both our hearts,

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stand up comedy, and I'm sure
a lot of yours. Now.

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The first comedian I want to bring
about face to all of you is number

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one rank in almost every top ten
to twenty comedians, and that individual is

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none other than the late Great George
Carlin. Something else we have in common

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flying on the airlines and listening to
the airlines announcements and trying to pretend to

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ourselves that the language they're using is
really English. Don't like it to me.

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Whole thing starts when you get to
the gate. First announcement. We

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would like to begin the boarding process. Extra word process not necessary. Boarding

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is enough we'd like to begin the
boarding. Simple tells the story. People

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add extra words when they want things
to sound more important than they really are.

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Boarding process sounds important. It isn't. It's just a bunch of people

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getting on an airplane. People like
to sound important. Weathermen on television talk

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about shower activity. Sounds more important
than showerings. I even heard one guy

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on CNN talk about a rain event. Shred it up. You said,

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what means Gianna's expecting a rain event? I thought, holy shit. I

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hope I can get tickets today.
Emergency situation news people like to say police

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have responded to an emergency situation.
No, they haven't. They've responded to

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an emergency. We know it's a
situation. Everything is a situation. Anyway,

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as part of this boarding process,
they say, we would like to

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pre board, Well, what exactly
is that anyway? What does it mean

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the pre board you get on before
you get on. That's another complaint of

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mine. Too much use of this
prefixed pre It's all over the language.

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Now, pre this pre that placed
the turkey in a preheated oven. It's

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ridiculous. There are only two states, and oven can possibly exist in heated

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or unheeded. Preheated is a meaningless
fucking term. It's like pre recorded.

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This program was pre recorded. One
of course it was prerecorded, when else

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you're gonna record it afterwards. That's
the whole here's a comedian that we're talking

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to each other before we came back
on air. That there were so many

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comedians that were rejuvenated in the eighties. And I want to say George carr

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is on both lists. He was. He was beyond intelligent, kind of

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like a street prize fighter that could
make funny out of anything that you gave

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him. But yet he was going
to kick your ass with nothing but intelligence.

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You know, George Carlin first broke
out into the comedy scene back in

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the sixties. He was on Laughing. He was a little bit more conservative

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looking when comedians like also with another
one that I'm going to mention, Richard

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Pryor when they were and Bill Cosby
there's another comedian that was kind of reampt

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back in the eighties stylewise, right, they look totally the contrary of what

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George Carlin, how his performance was. Wouldn't you say straight up liberal liberalism?

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I mean, George Cardinal was intellectually
on Q liberal is all how bold,

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fearless, intelligent. Now, that
is something a lot of comedians do

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not get credit for the intelligence level
of a stand up comic. To create

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your material, but to deliver it
in a way to where you're not going

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to push people away or start a
revolution. Yeah, you know. One

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of the things, one of the
things that George Carlin that I saw on

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him that I haven't seen very rarely
in any comedian was who has first of

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all his wisdom? I mean,
reflections on politics, English, English language,

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psychology, religion, taboo subjects,
drug and his rugs. Yep,

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he in his seven Dirty Words.
They were routine since nineteen seventy eight,

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and it even entered the Supreme Court
because of the government's power to regulate indecent

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material on the public airwaves. George
Carlin made a footprint in comedy since nineteen

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seventy eight. I mean, and
you have to think about the late great

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Lenny Bruce, the godfather to all
comedians that ever grace the stage with their

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material or their persona. Lenny Bruce
kind of was one of the first pioneers

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in stand up comedy that was in
your face, used the f ward use

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derogatory language, talked about dark content, and George Cardon was I think the

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next comedian that could balance those both
out in an intellectual way. Much like

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Lenny Bruce. George Cardon was a
force to be reckoned with. I mean,

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I thought he came from your folks, like our parents, you know

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what I mean when they come up
in the generation. And I'm sure you'll

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agree, my brother and a lot
of our listeners will where our parents grew

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up in an age where they dressed
up to go out at night, they

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dressed up to go to church,
people wearing hats. George Cardon and comics

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like him back then, including Lenny
Bruce. You know, they were black

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suit guys, black tie guys,
white shirt guys. Everything on TV was

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black and white. But they kind
of were the bad boy, but they

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looked like everybody else. I think
George Carden brought that favor flavor back from

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the sixties seventies and took it full
throttle into the eighties intellectually, but his

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look changed. The facial hair,
the hippie type of wardrobe, the longer

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hair. I sound like a conservative
and that's amazing because I'm looking at myself

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in a mirror right now, and
I'm none of those that I'm describing right

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now. Hardon kind of took that. Yeah, and you know now that

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you're mentioning people that were a little
bit older, and they dressed up back

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then, even in the eighties,
to dress up in a suit. There

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was a gentleman by the name of
Jacob Rodney Cohen, also known as Rodney

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Dangerfield Boor nineteen twenty one, who
died in two thousand and four. He

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was known for himself depreciating one liners. Remember the catchphrase, I get no

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respect. Stry my life no respect. I don't gonna respect it. Oh

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I stuck at all. Well,
when I was born, a doctor told

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my mother I got all I could, but he pulled through anyway. I

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don't got no respect from anyone.
Well, last week my house was on

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fire. My wife told the kids, be quiet, you wake up daddy.

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Rodney Dingerfield was another one of those
that was was a staple of comedy

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in the nineteen eighties. You know
the funny thing as you bring up Rodney

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Daingerfield's name. Now, Rodney Dangerfield
tried out comedy and I believe maybe the

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later parts of the fifties or early
sixties and he just couldn't get his niche

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going, so he gave up stand
up comedy and his I'd say his mid

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forties, and he started selling aluminum
sighting, and he was approached to do

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the Johnny Carson Show, an open
mic session that people had been watching.

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Now at this time when he was
approached, he was hanging aluminum sighting,

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painting aluminum sighting and selling it.
So at the rightful age, I believe

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of forty five, maybe forty six, he did Johnny Carson. But it

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wasn't until he hit the prime age
of fifty, yes, fifty, the

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silver dollar fifty, that his career
took off and he became a household name

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in both derogatory terms and good family
entertainment, with such great movies as Caddyshack.

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Phenomenal as an actor, Rodney Dangerfield
was great because he even attracted the

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younger audience. We're in twenty twenty
one, and you talked to a very

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young person about an older comedian.
They don't even listen to anybody who's older.

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There's something about this generation that has
something against anybody who is more than

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two three years older than that person. Yeah, and you know what,

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when it came to comedy, even
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we recognize and realized that people like
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up being a fantastic, fantastic actor. And one of my favorite movies that

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he started was Back to School Believing. Welcome to contemporary American History. I'm

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Professor Churchison, and a lot of
people think history is just facts, It's

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just information about the past. But
not me. I mean I hold history

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very sacred, sacred the way the
farmer looks at the earth and he holds

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it sacred, the way a Christian
takes the Bible and he holds its sacred,

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the way a lot of people hold
their marriage sacred. So I feel

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about it. So when we dive
right in my interpreting one of the easiest

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events in the last twenty years of
American history, Now, could someone tell

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me why in nineteen seventy five we
pulled our troops out of Vietnam. The

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failure I've eaten his station to impact
your support cause an ongoing erosion of confidence

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in the various American but illegal psychon
regimes. Is she right? Does that

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anice sub popular version of what went
on there? And a lot of people

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like to believe that. I wish
I could, But I was there.

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I wasn't here in the classroom hoping
I was right thinking about it. I

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was up on my knees and rice
patties with gods. And then we're going

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up against Charlotte slogging it out with
all posses like you. We're back there

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partying and putting headbands on, doing
drugs. Listen, never goddad bee a

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love professor, take it easier?
Were you? I mean, these kids

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they were in grade school at the
time, and me, I'm not a

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fighter, I'm a lover. I
didn't know you wanted to get involved with

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the discussion in mister helper. But
since you want to help, maybe you

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can help me. Okay, you
remember the thing we had about thirty years

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ago called that Korean conflict? Yeah, where we failed to achieve victory.

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How commit didn't cross the thirteenth Parallel
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Great Wall of China. All right, I'll say it coase Truman was too

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much for my pussy wimp to mccarth
go in there coming bastards. Answer,

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good answer, like the way you
think I'm gonna be watching you a good

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teacher. He really seems to care
about what I have. That's another great

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comedian, the late great Sam Kinison, the voice of the eighties, the

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once known as a pastor preacher become
slash rock and roll guru, heavy metal

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lord. Sam Kinnison style of stand
up comedy raw, ruthless, derogatory,

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sexual, drug inflicted aggressive. I'm
talking about Sam Kinison. Yeah, And

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you know it's interesting because you're absolutely
where he was. He was a former

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Pentecostal preacher, and he used to
perform stand up routines characterized by his,

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of course, more than intense style. I'm very similar. It was very

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reminiscent of his preaching days. Most
likely. Can you imagine him as a

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preacher. That must have been quite
scary for the congregation. You know what,

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I would have probably enjoyed a church
like that with somebody that had as

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much energy and boldness as myself.
Definitely got out. Now I'm going to

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bring up a comedian that landslided stand
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up comedians to entering the great acting
experience. Now number two on this list

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is none other than my Idol,
my mentor, a man that meant more

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than me in the a Eaties,
then my own Jim Lad of Candy Tea,

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the late Great Robin Williams, little
Sipper Perry a. Here. I

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had to stop drinking alcohol because I
used to wake up newton Hood of my

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card my keys in my ask good
thanky, why could I have you?

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No thanks? That's flooded. I'll
be okay, hey, little boy.

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Yeah. And when you get stone, your discussion goes out the window.

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You could be eating kitty litter going. This is crunchy man. And this

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horrible thing is people who get stone
try and get their animal stone to make

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them feel better. It's not bad
enough that you've proved the dog one was

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wrong. Here and I take the
whole family with here. There's your dog

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going. Please don't do this to
me. I've just wanted to lick my

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own genitals. Leave me alone,
don't think here and your dogs you're gonna

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go stay fourful. My favorite of
my favorite of all. I think Robin

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Williams is probably one of the greatest
stand up comedians that could think on the

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dime. Robin Williams was like a
Muhammad al Lee of stand up comedy.

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You could throw a joke at Robin
Williams, and he could take you to

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ten places. He can go from
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He was known for his improv skills
that put him another, i say,

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leveled in any other comedian, even
even the comedians we've already spoke of

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Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin, a
little bit of Richard Pryor. Robin Williams

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escalated to forms of comedy that crossed
both comedic acting and like you said,

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improv and the art of ruthless stand
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him a great serious actor. He
became a role model. He touched so

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many hearts in so many roles in
his serious movies. But he hit the

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nerve of America and the entertainment planet
with Mork and Mindy. I mean,

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how do you create that character and
you just landslide the whole freaking uh world

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with that one character. Robin Williams
should be number one on any list for

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calling the greatest comedian of all time. Yeah, I am with you on

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this, especially because of how much
people loved him. They loved him and

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they still love him. And you
know, we put on our Facebook page,

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yes I saw, yes, you
know we put a picture of him

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in his many roles and by the
way, I got as a little side

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note, I really dislike when some
people post comments, oh, get over

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it, or comments like just let
him rest in peace and start stop talking

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about him. You know we do
this, Yeah, we do this out

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of respect. You know. We
do this with our loved ones. And

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we do this with people even if
we haven't met them, that have caused

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of changing our life or that have
caused us to have happiness in our life.

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We paid them respect and this is
a form of pain in respect to

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look. Robin Williams to me means
my childhood. And Robin Williams has created

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and with his many voices for cartoons
and him being so many just popular and

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famous, the greatest Aladdin, you
know, the cartoon of Aladdin. I've

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seen interviews with other of the actors
on Aladdin. They said most of the

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genie was improv That's right. He
just got the audience to fall in love

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with him. And I think,
in my opinion as well, Robin Williams

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will always be the greatest of all
time. Oh yeah, I remember when

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I am embarked in stand up comedy
and uh, I was blessed with doing

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the Comedy Store in Hollywood, and
uh, I was moving up the ranks.

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I remember one evening I was we
were doing a very big show.

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I was the second comedian before the
headliner. I think they gave me a

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thirty minute set. Now, thirty
minutes set. You know, that's pretty

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good, is it. That's such
a long time for a comedian. And

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I used to sit in the green
room and the only thing green in that

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room was the wallpaper of bamboo with
some fake leaves, and every plant in

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there was plastic, so it wasn't
green. I think the only green thing

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in the green room was me going
four twenty and that was its right now

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anyway, I did this show right
I was getting ready to do this show.

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It was probably one of the bigger
shows that I had been handed to

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at the Comedy Store. And uh, everything that I was doing in comedy

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I was. I had one thing
on my mind. One day, I

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want to meet the man that that
showed me the path to what I'm about

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to do. If everything to me
was one day, maybe Robin Williams will

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meet me. Maybe I can meet
him, Maybe I could tell him what

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I think of him. Maybe he
can see me perform. Long story short.

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I know it's a cliche statement,
but I was called upon to do

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my set. And there was many
many famous comedians that came into that room

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that night. And I don't want
to go into names, it will take

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too long, but I remember I
was on stage. The lights were kind

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of bright, and the buzz in
the green room. I could hear people

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were saying, Hey, Robbin's out
there by the doorman. Now. I

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looked out and I could barely see, you know what I mean. I

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saw a guy about his height.
I didn't know what was him. I

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could hear the buzz in the back. You know, everybody was kind of

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turning around and looking. So anyway, you know, as a comic,

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you can't you can't buckle. I
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I got a very good response.
I went back to the green room,

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you know what I mean, and
then I have to go through the

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US comedians go through that Colmdown experience. You are kind of like coming up

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with drugs, alcohol or so you
come on the Colmdown and uh, I

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was really nervous because it was like, you know, to me, it

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was like I was gonna make it
or break it that night. I had

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proven myself, but I got really
proved myself. The door guy comes up

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and I'm in the back and I'm
chugging a shot of Jack and he goes

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a brol He goes, Williams was
out of front, and I was like,

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Robin Williams. He was like yeah. He was like, I told

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him this fool right here, that's
you. You had wanted to meet him,

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but he had a bone out.
He goes, he watched your set

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and he said to me, he
goes, that cat, he's got the

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vibe that cat could go somewhere.
He goes. Then he turned around,

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he signed some autographs and he split. He goes, so, wow,

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I'm just letting you know, dude, Robin Williams watched you and he thought

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that you were pretty good. So
hopefully that gets you over the over the

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bug and all the little nervousness you
have for the next time you're up here.

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I mean, if Robin Williams said
it, I mean you're in dude.

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I've never forgot that, never ever
have I ever forgotten that. As

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a matter of fact, that is
what keeps me going to do this with

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you, and every time I hope
my stupid freaking Miles. Well, this

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is Back to the Eighties Radio.
We're talking about the nineteen eighties greatest comedians.

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We're gonna be right back, so
stick around. There's a lot more

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Michael Creature of the Night, Back
to the eighties, eighties laying that's because

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we had lived through this decade yet
you're listening to Back to the Eighties.

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Welcome into Back to the Eighties Radio. This is Tiscano from Tiscano and Chang.

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We are talking about the nineteen eighties
greatest comedians, the comedians that were

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considered and in our opinion, are
the greatest comedians of all time, and

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we are just floored by what their
legacy has left us. And one of

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those comedians, Bro I remember my
cousin Ralph rented the video and we watched

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me as a as a little kid
where this is what nineteen eighty two I

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believe. Oh don't you didn't have
to say. I'm ten years old in

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nineteen eighty two and I watched Eddie
Murphy delirious for the very first time.

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I have the ice Cream Man around
you. They have missed a softy ice

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cream. Remember when the ice cream
Man used to come to town. When

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you was little, and no matter
what you was doing, you would stop

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and lose your fucking mind. There's
something about the ice cream truck. They

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make kids lose it. And they
can hear that ship from ten blocks away.

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They don't hear their mother calling them, but they hear that motherfucking ice

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cream truck. And no matter what
was going on, the ice cream man

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came and stopped. You'd be getting
some mobbles and shit. And you're here.

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Do do doo doo doo doo doo
doo doo do dude, do doo

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duke ice cub. I can the
ice cream out? It's covered the ice

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cream cover looks out to mother.
I scream, man, that's kind of

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dig your mother come to the window
and me throwing change, He said,

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reach your father toasted almond ball.
It gets you better ice here. You

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can sell for another cold and bring
it back my team and you catch all

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that shit and run down the street
top speed, chasing the ice cream truggle.

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Ice Crab. Ice cream man always
drove extra block though, and I

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know he's seen us and ship.
Well, I think he's just being a

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car with his friends. Say and
watch me make out fast. I made

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your motherfucker's run. You be behind
him doing fifty ground. I came,

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he stopped, you be all went
out of Winnsday ice cream man him go

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ahead in I want this over here
and total. I'm bota father up and

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give me to the ice over here
and nearly cool. Thank you, I

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man, thank you, thank you, ask me man, thank you.

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And you get your ice cream.
I get my ice cream. I remember,

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I get my ice creaming. I
didn't eat it. I sing for

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a little while. You know,
you know our kids are having gone.

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I half some my cream. I
have some on my ice cream. Hi

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time, and I'm gonna eat it. Oh I'm gonna eat out though ice

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cream. You running all down your
arm and ship to be me. I'm

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gonna eat my ice cream thing.
No one you one kid on the side.

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I didn't getting no ice cream.
And kids don't care. They go.

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You don't have no eyes. Oh
ho, dude. I loved it,

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and it's stuck with me ever since. I never get tired of watching

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it. Because Eddie Murphy is a
is a comical genius. Oh ye has

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a great great storyteller. I mean
Eddie Murphy came upon like kind of like

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a comet in the night, you
know, nineteen years old to hit the

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SNL stage to do you know,
little Richard And you know what I mean

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that that classic skit you know,
hot tub. I mean, Eddie Murphy

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became a sensation, I'd say,
within forty five freaking minutes on Saturday Night

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Live. And there was nobody that
could top him. You had never seen

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anybody like Eddie Murphy unless you would
watch Richard Pryor right right, if you

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knew, if you knew him,
we'll talk about Richard later. If you

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knew anything about brash, balls out, badass in comedy, Yeah, you

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can bleep this out Beside Richard Pryor. It's Eddie freaking Murphy. Now,

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Eddie Murphy's brother was also hilarious.
And you know who his brother it was,

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right, Charlie, Charlie Murphy.
But one of the funniest things of

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Eddie Murphy were his his his pocket
full of of characters and a couple of

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those that I really liked. Besides, besides the very famous SNL Buckwheat,

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remember that, but when he imitated
Stevie Wonder, Oh, when he did

405
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:28.039
it with Joe Piscotball, Yes,
that's correct. Stevie, what the hell

406
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.359
are we beaten around the bush for
this is nineteen eighty two. Let's get

407
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:34.720
right to the point. Huh take
it from the tops. Swing it,

408
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:44.480
Stevie would a bounce baby. You
are black, I am white life son

409
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:52.160
escoball pie. Let's take up by
That was grovydncin Lincoln when you set them

410
00:33:52.359 --> 00:34:02.519
free. We all know cats are
the same man to Mexico, good bad

411
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:13.000
guys and chicks. I am t
can't you are lie blind as a back

412
00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:19.119
side side by side. You are
my on me, go me gro.

413
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:30.519
Let's not fight hen me can divers
just living in perfect time. We're talking

414
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:39.239
salt and pepper. Stevie and me
are pg king, You are life,

415
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:49.039
you are black. I'm the who
can man. That was pretty brash ass

416
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.599
stuff right there. And and then
his his his bag full of tricks and

417
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:58.519
so many voices that that Eddie Murphy
has done as well, and you know

418
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.320
what, and he became an incredible
and yes, my favorite movies that he

419
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:05.079
has come out, and believe it
or not, are always are still the

420
00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:09.159
eighties ones, specifically forty eight Hours
and Beverly Hills Cop. I mean some

421
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:15.440
of my favorite what about back to
America barber. Yeah, coming the roles

422
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:19.440
that he played in different nake up. Dude, you can't write that ship

423
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.320
Nonette, the Nuttie Professor, the
Nutti Professor, exactly. He was also

424
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:28.679
doctor Doolittle, right, and he
was the voice of the Donkey and Shrek

425
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:32.599
as well. Yeah, that's right, that's right. So Eddie Murphy definitely

426
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.039
one of the greatest comedians of all
time. And I would and I would

427
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.280
say he's way up there within the
first top five. Oh yeah, he's

428
00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:45.440
number three in our list. And
you know what's funny, as we come

429
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.719
to number four, I'll bring out
number four. You already broke brought up

430
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:54.360
his name, the late, great
older Silver Fox. That's right. Rodney

431
00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:59.719
Dangerfield. Oh, Rodney Dangerfield like
a you know, like the little story

432
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:05.599
I shared with you on how old
he was when he finally finally broke the

433
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:09.480
charts as a stand up comic.
I mean, this guy, even with

434
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:15.800
his fame and his uh presence,
opened up his own comedy club called danger

435
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:22.239
Fields and Dangerfield, I mean,
hosted so many great and upcoming comedians.

436
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.000
You have Ray Romano, Sam Kinison, didn't he give? Didn't he give?

437
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:34.519
Andrew Syeah, he gave Dice Clay
his first chance. Sam Kinison,

438
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:40.239
Like I mentioned, I mean so
many comedians, Stephen Wright, I mean,

439
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.679
the list could go on. I'm
young comedians, Paul Riser, Dennis

440
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:51.639
Wolfberg, another comedian that maybe some
of our listeners may remember or maybe they're

441
00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:55.199
not, but Dangerfield, just like
Carson, opened the door for so many

442
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:01.840
young comedians to flood the gates and
make the eighties. They're comedic bitch Rodney

443
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:07.039
all the way. I agree,
like the way I praised that, you

444
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.320
know what, I'm like that.
And uh, you know, we also

445
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:19.119
have the late great John Candy.
Where are you holding my hand? There's

446
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:34.599
your other hand between two pillows.
Those aren't pillows? Oh oh oh?

447
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:45.920
Hm? Set that Bears game last
week? Hello game, Hello game.

448
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.679
Game. Bears got a great team
this year. They're gonna go all the

449
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:54.840
way. Oh yeah. Now with
John Candy, it was different because I

450
00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.840
never heard him do stand up,
but he was in a final comedian when

451
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.400
he came out in TV shows and
of course yes, and all of his

452
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:10.400
movies, I mean all of them. He was just phenomenal. From from

453
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:16.119
Stripes all the way to the Great
Outdoors Uncle Buckspaceballs, I mean yes,

454
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:22.119
splash cool, running summer rental home
alone. I mean, you know,

455
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:31.440
great fantastic movies. Now, I
first stumbled upon John Candy doing SCTV Yes,

456
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:37.239
which was an improv very similar to
the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live.

457
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.519
Remember Yes, And the funny thing
is SNL. A lot of the

458
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:47.840
SNL not ready for prime time players
did come from Second City TV with John

459
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:55.079
Candy. Uh and other great actors
from uh CANASTV. Yeah, I mean,

460
00:38:55.159 --> 00:39:00.440
you know, and John Candy.
I never him do stand up comedy,

461
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:07.760
Like I say. I was only
enthralled and just over overwhelmed with glee

462
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:13.840
when he did SETV and the characters
he did on that show, Johnny LaRue,

463
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:19.639
uh, you know, a yellow
belly. Uh. So many iconic

464
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.039
characters that he did, and when
he finally broke out into the silver screen,

465
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:30.559
I mean, he became that character
that that was kind of a footprint

466
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:37.440
in comedy movies. You know.
He Uh, he was a mold that

467
00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:42.719
was made on his own terms.
I would say with Johnny definitely, because

468
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:50.639
he was a splendid, intelligent,
unstoppable comedic actor. I agree. That's

469
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.239
what I would say about John Kennedy. I wouldn't I wouldn't put him in

470
00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:00.719
the stand up comedy list because we
could do a whole other show on comedic

471
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.559
imps, improvisational actors that made the
screen what it is, made their presence

472
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.920
known on the screen, but yet
they do not have the stand up credential

473
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.079
behind him. There's a big difference
between an improv comedian and a stand up

474
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:21.440
comedian. You know, Tusky,
here's a comedian bro that a lot of

475
00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.440
people forget, and you know,
with his style it's easy to forget.

476
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.440
I think on this list he's number
six. Stephen Wright from Boston, Massachusetts.

477
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:37.079
My theory of evolution is that Darwin
was adopted. I got a new

478
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:44.039
dog. He's a paranoid retriever.
He brings Zack everything because he's not sure

479
00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:49.440
what I throw him. My uncle
was a clown for Ringling Brothers circus,

480
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.480
and when he died, all his
friends went to the funeral in one car.

481
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:00.679
So I get out of the bit. I figured for a walk.

482
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:02.280
She said, how long you're gonna
be gone? He said the whole time,

483
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:08.440
which is very anal that I did
a Boston comedian earlier. Yea,

484
00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.760
and Stephen Wright, I mean,
I don't think he ever broke out really

485
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:20.440
past his Johnny Carson presence. You
know what, I think he's alive,

486
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.400
but if he died, it's because
of the comedian style that nobody would really,

487
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:28.480
you know, pay too much attention
to because he was lethargic and slow.

488
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.400
Yeah, yeah, he was.
He was kind of like he He

489
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.679
reminded me of like that librarian that
was stoned and when the when the sticks

490
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:42.119
great class would go on a field
trip to the library, that stone monkey

491
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.320
would be reading this story to all
of us. Yeah, that's what Stephen

492
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:47.159
Wright reminded me when they when they
used to announce him, they should have

493
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.840
said the anti humor comedian. Yes, yes, yes, the guy was

494
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:58.039
a boring voice. I mean,
if that guy talked like he had oral

495
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.719
sex, nobody came right. That
was number six, and now number seven

496
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.559
we discussed already the late great Sam
Kinison, somebody that I had the pleasure

497
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:14.519
of meeting at the Rainbow one of
my many long dark rock and roll lifestyle

498
00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.880
nights in Hollywood, California. And
then now number eight. I want you

499
00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:23.039
to bring out number eight because he
kind of falls into the realm that me

500
00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:29.239
and you are discussing of comedians that
went into acting. Yeah, you know,

501
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:35.519
and that is the great, the
really, really great Billy Crystal.

502
00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:37.679
Oh, thank you very much.
This is very exciting, not only to

503
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.400
do the show, which I love, but at Saint Patrick's Stand, New

504
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.599
York, there's a lot of people
eating and drinking. A matter of fact,

505
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:46.719
the biggest selling button today was wipe
my lip by my Irish shits.

506
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.199
So if you're gonna drink and eat, just audio food and throat on the

507
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:53.760
floor because it ends up there,
you know. You know, Billy Crystal

508
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.159
was born in the city where I
was born, which is Long Beach,

509
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:05.800
California. Yes, and his real
name is William Edward Crystal, and he

510
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:09.400
was born in nineteen forty eight,
of course. And yes he's he's one

511
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:16.440
who can do both stand up,
he can do improv and and he can

512
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.719
act like nobody's business. Now.
I remember when Billy Crystal came out in

513
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:30.719
the calab adult type sitcom soap.
I don't know if you recall remember that,

514
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.159
Yes I do. Yep. He
played the homosexual brother, yeah,

515
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.440
you know, brother to Danny,
the guy that talked to himself, the

516
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.920
handsome Italian looking guy. And then
he was brothers with the other blonde guy

517
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:45.119
that lived his life through a dummy. That was a great show. By

518
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.880
the way, yep, I remember
Soap, But remember Billy Crystal hit at

519
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:57.280
Home when he started doing benefit shows
with Whoopie Goldberger who is now a little

520
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.320
bit too much for her own self
on her own talk show, and the

521
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:05.639
late great of course Robin Williams.
Those three. I mean, they they

522
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:09.440
have so many people with their benefits
show and the comedy that they did.

523
00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:14.119
You know, Billy Crystal did some
great roasts as well. Do you remember

524
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.079
when he was a part of the
Muhammad Ali roast? Yeah? When,

525
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.079
yeah, one when he imitated when
he imitated Muhammad Alway, Yeah, I

526
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.840
remember that. Yeah. Now we're
talking about all these things, all these

527
00:44:24.880 --> 00:44:30.320
shows that we're talking about, these
great uh comedians. Now, my dad

528
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.239
used to have me study almost everybody
that we're talking about, even others that

529
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.440
we haven't talked about, because my
old man always thought, well, you're

530
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.239
going to be a smartass, you
better be a badass smart ass. So

531
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:44.199
a lot of the comics that we're
talking about, I mean, dude,

532
00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:49.440
I watched over and over again.
I I videotaped them and watched every As

533
00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:53.880
a matter of fact, missus Chank
bought me all of the roasts from the

534
00:44:54.000 --> 00:45:00.960
seventies and the eighties roast I mean
soul. It was just I mean,

535
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:09.519
everything you can imagine on those roasts
was their adult content without derogatory language,

536
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:15.119
right right, and and before you
could do that and people would understand.

537
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:21.320
Now I people will probably need a
dictionary, right you know. The next

538
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.599
on our list is a guy who
I'm gonna let you introduce him. But

539
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:29.840
here's what's funny about this next cat
that I heard him in the eighties.

540
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:34.039
That's when he first came out right, and I thought it was Italian.

541
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:38.159
I totally thought it was Italian.
But but he's Jewish. So is that

542
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:45.280
the girl? Huh? How long
you're going with? Huh? Four months?

543
00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:51.639
H cheating? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, sure, yeah, mitto.

544
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:54.519
But you gotta be carefully, you
know, when you get a good

545
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:58.119
one, because there's a lot of
disease. You can't really cheat today.

546
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:01.079
It's not like four or five years
ago. Well you could come home why

547
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.679
with a straight face. They'd be
like, wait, were you all night

548
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.000
having coffee with the guys? No, you weren't. You were cheating,

549
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:16.719
I mean no, I was having
coffee really yeah, talking about the legendary

550
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.800
X rated comedian as in Andrew dice
Man Clay and I remember I went to

551
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:28.239
go see the dice Man in concert. I was more of a fan of

552
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:31.480
Sam Kinison in that era than the
dice Man. I found the dice Man

553
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.800
to be a little bit kind of
the same thing all the time, right,

554
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.400
you know. But I do have
to give him great respect for Hickory

555
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:45.360
Dickory Dog. That bea can blow
my you know, yeah, I mean

556
00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:53.280
ye, So his his renditions of
X rated children's children's children's children's stories was

557
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:59.000
eclectic. I mean, there was
nobody else that that captivated or captured what

558
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.440
he did or style, Yeah,
and delivered him in the same style and

559
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.480
with the leather jacket he brought out
kind of the biker New York thugster rock

560
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:12.400
and roll kind of raw energy.
I'm gonna I'm gonna have a drink and

561
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.280
bash your face and maybe I'll go
get Crabs or her piece from one of

562
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:20.239
these chicks over here. I mean, you know, he alluded the rock

563
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:25.320
and roll to his persona with his
look and his dialogue. But I'll always

564
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.679
have to give it up to the
late great Sam Kinison, who captured the

565
00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:35.639
rock and Roll Medal essence in stand
up comedy. I mean, way more

566
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.199
than the dice Man. Yeah,
but the dice Man was a force to

567
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:43.440
reckon with back then. He was
and believe it or not, for a

568
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:49.199
lot of people who may have just
dismissed him. The dice Man born Andrew

569
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:55.519
Clay Silverstein Stein Andrew Clay Silverstein.
In nineteen ninety, he became the first

570
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:01.239
stand up comedian to sell out Madison
Square for two consecutive nights. I was

571
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:05.679
about that. Now, that's not
an easy task. Was that the tour

572
00:48:05.800 --> 00:48:10.400
where I believe it was the dice
Man commis Uh, that's a good question.

573
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:15.320
I don't have that information. I
can tell you that. Let's see.

574
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.760
It was in the same year that
he played the role in a in

575
00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.800
a comedy mystery film called The Adventures
of Ford Fairlane. Oh yeah, that

576
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:30.159
was a crappy movie. Yes,
yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry dice

577
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:32.800
Man. But uh yeah, so
that we've got tons I mean, we

578
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.159
got so many communities to talk about. We just don't have enough time to

579
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:40.039
do this in one show. So
we promise you guys, all back to

580
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:44.440
the eighties fans, that if you
stick around with us, we're gonna be

581
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:50.920
talking about a lot more, a
lot more comedy from the nineteen eighties everywhere

582
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:59.559
from Chris Farley to Bobcat, Goldweight
and beyond. So stick around Bobcat.

583
00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:02.239
That was an individual I never understood
really how the hell he made so much

584
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:08.079
money because it was like, hey
man, you're making a lot of money

585
00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:15.039
off of somebody that is suffering from
some type of physical Yeah, yeah,

586
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:23.719
Jack, I don't want to suck
that guy total. He talks normal.

587
00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:27.960
This is the one and only Back
to the Eighties. I want to thank

588
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.400
you guys for joining us, and
also remind you guys that if you do

589
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.159
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590
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.360
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591
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.360
to hear from you. We already
have tons of people who write us in

592
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:44.400
and we just can't thank you guys
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593
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.519
I'm excited and just I mean,
I can't believe that you guys would take

594
00:49:49.559 --> 00:49:53.079
the time to write to us and
invite us to have drinks and food on

595
00:49:53.159 --> 00:49:58.480
the other side of the world that
one of your restaurants over there. Hey,

596
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:00.280
by the way, listening to us
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597
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:07.320
and all the way from South America
to here in our beautiful United States,

598
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:13.079
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599
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:15.360
Thank you guys for being a part
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600
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.639
everybody in Los Angeles, San Diego, we thank you from the bottom

601
00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:25.000
of our hearts to help us grow
to the rapid rate that we are.

602
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:29.960
We couldn't do this without you,
and we couldn't do this if it wasn't

603
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.480
for us doing it for you.
So on the bottom of my black heart,

604
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.000
I thank you. Yeah, there's
no way we could do this without

605
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:38.519
us. Good we No, No, I mean, who would want to

606
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.840
listen to us? I mean my
wife gets tired of listening to me.

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After maybe fifteen minutes of being home. She's like, Hey, can't you

608
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do what your dogs do and lick
yourself and go into the other room.

609
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You know, but what are you
gonna do? This is the one and

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only Back to the Eighties. Thanks
for joining us. We'll see you next

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Friday. Take care and be safe. Remember everybody staying lifted and gifted.

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You are one race, the human
race. Remember, do not take anything

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for granted. Go out there and
stand for something bigger than yourself until next

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Friday. This is the change of
the toscano man. Wishing you an adios

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aribaderic asta la vista asta Manyana,
sayanada, and to all the homies in the Badio