Phone Tap: Funzie the Funeral Clown

Today Brooke's calling a guy who works as a party entertainer and seeing if he’ll be willing to take his clown skills to a FUNERAL for the right price…

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I bet you guys didn't know this. It's Brook and
Jeffrey in the morning. But hiring clowns, yeah, still a thing. Yeah,
look at that, Brook. Your family's proud lineage is being
carried on by a chosen few.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
How do you think that we can afford clown college
for the family?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's amazing?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
So when we get a request to mess with a
guy who works as a professional party clown named Funsie,
we said yes please, and we booked him for the
most uncomfortable get together possible. In your phone tap right now?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Hi, I was given this number from entertainment. Are you
James the clown guy? Oh? My god, Funsie the party clown?
Is it is that you?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah? I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
My name's Betty. Betty would not Oh, I hired you
to work an event this Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Okay, they shouldn't have given you my direct phone number though.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh sorry, sorry about that, but I just didn't want
you to be surprised when you showed up to the address.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Provided I understand what you mean.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
You're going to be my plus one to a funeral?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Wait, a funeral?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yes see, my boss really old, don't worry about it.
But he just passed away. What everybody loved him. That's
kind of the problem because there's probably gonna be a
lot of crying. Oh my gosh, So I need somebody
to come in and help lighten the mood.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
You want to bring a clown as a guest to
your boxes? What burial?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
The way you say it, it's making it sound weird.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's because it's weird. It is weird.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
No, no, no, you don't understand. You see me and
this one coworker, we have a bet where I get
one hundred bucks if no one cries at the funeral service.
And I read on the website that you do all
sorts of stuff like the unicycle tricks, balloon animals.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
My god, if you do.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Those, there is no way people are gonna cry.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
You're not serious?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Are you a hundred percent serious?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
There's one hundred dollars on the line, Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I can't lose that, but I okay, so, but I
cost eighty dollars an.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hour, Okay, yeah, whatever. To be honest, it's not really
about the money. It's just I love winning.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I don't understand, and I'm just assuming the family probably
has no idea if this is happening, That's what it
sounds like.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, they will know when you try to climb into
the coffin with my boss. What is that funny?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
How is that funny? How is that funny? Climbing into
the coffin with a dead guy?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, you're not actually gonna get in, Okay, No, he's
take one of those little tiny step ladders. Oh my god,
those are hilarious.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Do you actually know what hilarious means? This is the
opposite picture.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
It, picture it, Liza.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
You're not thinking right, okay, because you're gonna be standing
on top of the little tidy ladder like looking down
at the body and making one of those sleepy gesture
faces back to the congregation.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
How was that funny? You're completely messed up.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, come on, I already paid for your services.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I don't care. Honestly, you need to call company and
tell them this was a funeral. You didn't. Hold on?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Now, hold on, where's the fun silly energy they described
on the website. You're using awfully serious for a clown.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
You're trying to hire me to go to a funeral.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Does somebody need to squirt themselves in the face with
a flower?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Got me. Oh my god, that's actually a great idea.
What if you use some of the flowers from the funeral.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
And lady what, I don't know what makes you think
like that would ever be okay to do. I'm not
doing it. Don't get anybody else to do it. That's
not okay?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Fine, Fine, we could tone it down.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, I'm not doing any tricks. Come on, I'm not
showing up to your boss's funeral. This is not a thing.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
How about you just do the never ending handkerchief right
out of my boss's mouth.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Whatever end? You're actually crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, got me? I am kind of messed up because
I actually work on a radio show and we do
prank phone calls like this one. What I'm saying this
is actually broke from the show Brooke and Jeffrey in
the Morning, and your friend Mitchell set you up for
a phone tap.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's a joke.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's all a prank, this part. Yeah, yes, I'm actually joking.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Your buddy says you both work as entertainers of this
party company and he wanted to mess with you.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Hilarious. When it's a joke, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Or you need to tap into a market you didn't
even realize was available to clowns. I think funzies getting
a promotion.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I better get a promotion.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
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