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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and it's great to welcome back to the show TV
personality comedian Ben Gleib. He is going to be tonight
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at the comedy fundraiser Funny for Money, presented by the Aliens.
This is down at the Elpartel Theater in North Hollywood. Ben,
Welcome to the show. And I'm about ten years older
than you, so I do remember joe Anne Whirley from
Laughing when I was a kid, and I talked to
her about this event as well, and I got to say,
(01:06):
in her age in her eighties, she is still sharp
as a whip. So get ready for some good ribbing
from Joanne I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I can't wait. I mean, it does beg the question
how Sharper whips really no more? Being that is true,
I'm sure it's great. I've never worked with her. I
do remember laughing. I'm not as young as you might think,
but I don't remember the specifics of it. It was
more in the background A while I was throwing a
(01:38):
temper tantrum for more matched food.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Gerber perhaps apple sauce.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
One hundred percent of all of it. I was an
animal for it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now. I as soon as I heard you were coming
on the show again, all I thought of was two words,
and that was dolphin fetus. And if people don't know
the context of that, that might sound pretty bizarre. Do
you get a lot of that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I do.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Indeed, I should change that to my I should change
my social media handle the dolphin fetus. Yes. I debated
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and uh far
right political leaner, pro life, anti woman's choice dude about
(02:29):
abortion in his studio a couple of years ago. It
just went viral again about three weeks ago. And there's
a famous clip where I pulled out a photo of
fetus and I said, you truly, in your heart of hearts,
believe this is a human being. And he goes without
a doubt, and I go without a doubt. Gave went out.
He goes, yes, I go, that's a dolphin fetus charge
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and he looked quite embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a I mean, obviously it's a trick question. It
just looked like a blob. But it was a pretty
good zinger.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I didn't even I don't even believe it the
trick question, because that's the whole point of it, in
my opinion, that because it's a blob, and because you
can't tell the difference between that and the humans, and
you can't when a human is born and a dolphin
is born. It makes the point to me that you
can't say that's a human being if you literally can't
tell it apart from a dolphins.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Got it. By the way, when it was clear that
Biden could not, I mean, he's the poor guy has
gone downhill so rapidly. Even in the last year when
it was you know, definite that he was going to
have to pull out, did you think about trying your
luck again? Because you did, like what five years ago.
I remember we talked about it I did.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I ran for president in the last election. I did
not think about it. I mean, the thought popped in
my head because it would be a really easy way
to hop in there very quickly. But then they gave
it to Kamala pretty quick, so my window disappeared. I
didn't want to do it anyway, in any real ways
and very intense endeavor to run for president, so.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Happy to not do it. But I did call Biden
for advice, and his advice I'll never forget these words,
was who am I?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Why are you calling me? Why am I so cold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's pretty good advice. Actually, you also, I think have
and I'm trying to think of other people who can
do the one eyebrow up like the rock Jack black.
That's not easy to do. Did you have did that
come naturally or did you the practice it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I just got very lucky, you know. God wanted me
to be able to have this skill, so I'm one
of the chosen few. I just looked in the mirror
one day, like twenty years ago, and I want to
do that and just literally tried to push one side
up and it popped up. I've been able to do
it ever since. I can't do the other side very well.
But left eye, that eyebrow pops right up there, and
(05:05):
you'd think it would give me a career the size
of Jack Black or the Rock, but instead it's more
like black Rock. I don't even know what it means,
but it's more like a military contractor type of eyebrows
career elevation.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So this is uh, I mean for I'm to call
you a political comedian because you have lots of jokes
that aren't just politics. But we know this is kind
of in your fort your slot, so this is a
busy time for us, and all we keep hearing is
it's kind of a dead heat, which is kind of scary.
(05:41):
But how do you think it's going to go down?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, it's wild, you know. I was pretty sure Kamala
had it, and then I just did a video for
the Young Church last night where I was saying, who knows.
It's really seems like Trump's gating to momentum now. He's
sufficiently scaring people into believing that documented immigrants are eating
their animals and committing violent crimes everywhere, which is wild
(06:05):
to me that this tactic works because people aren't aware
that there's not rampant crime in their neighborhoods from immigrants.
It's not like they're fearing break ins from Guatemalans. But
it's effective. It's a very classical beer tactic and it's working.
And so I really don't at this point know how
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it's going to go down. I am a commal supporter,
not even for policy reasons in this election, more than
just the rule of law and our constitution. And we
believe in, you know, being able to advocate for any
position going forward in the future that we care about,
Republican or Democrat. We need at a very basis to
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honor our elections, honor the will of the people. That's
just a disqualifier if you don't. And Trump doesn't, and
he's planning to protest this election if he loses again
as well, So it'll be a long fight. But all
of my hopes up that it goes to Harris. Never
thought I'd be so aligned with the Cheney family, but
(07:10):
that's where we have it, and so I hope that's
what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But yeah, well, I mean, just not to interrupt that
the Cheney family represent those smart Republicans, is what they are. Yeah,
And by the way, all those things you talked about
don't matter. It's all about Arnold Palmer's dong.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think that's true. I think that's true. I mean
that is the part that really made me consider voting
for Trump. In the last couple of weeks, I was like, which,
you know, it's always about which candidate will promise you
a dong on the table. You know, one dong is
the pot, and then that dong on the table. And
I think that a lot of people don't realize it,
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but he had one of the great ones. He really
had one of the great And I look about Trump
always said I'll never say it. I could never say it. Okay,
I'm gonna say it right now. He has a great dog.
Never saying it means you're not going to say former presence.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, it's like, let Shane Gellis say, just repeat what
you just said. It's like I came into the room.
It was so big. I said to myself, I can't
believe how big this room is. Exactly right, all right,
So tonight seven o'clock red carpet show at a comedy
fundraiser for a good cause, funny for money. What's she
gonna do on stage?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Ben It's at the El Portal Theater in Hollywood. You
can get a ticket at TinyURL dot com slash funny
money El Portal and or get them at the door
and support Aliens, a great organization that brings awareness to
mental illness and helps people with mental illness issues. I
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am going to make fun of all of that. No,
I won't. I will make fun of people in the crowd,
and I will do my pre written material and I
will just wing it and have a good time. And
I really look forward to just rocking this crowd. It's
going to be a really funny show. Jen Koeber's also
on it. She's hilarious. There's a lot of great folks
on it. Jason Stewart, Derry Ring, Monique Marvez. We're all
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gonna just bring a really, really funny show to people.
So I hope you all come out and supports Aliens
and just come laugh. Even if you don't care about
mental health issues, come laugh anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yes, El Partel Theater dot I love that. John Whirley,
she gave the phone number. That's kind of old school.
She's like, just call the box office, and she gave
the phone number. I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I didn't even know there was a phone number or
I would have given that. And I also created that
time in the URL just minutes before I went on
air with you because Jen Kober sent me the link
to share on the radio and at jowclick dot com
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Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, thank you for that.
Welcome back to the show, Rick Tittle, with you, nationally
syndicated out of San Francisco and around the world on
the American Forces Radio Network. Well, last year on the show,
I had all three members of Foyle Arms in Hog
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and then I went to go see them here in
San Francisco and it was a night of high hilarity
which I cannot recommend any higher. And it's good to
say that because they're coming back. They're going to be
at the war Field here on November seventeenth. It's all
part of their Skittish World tour. And we have two
of the members with us right now. They are armless.
(11:48):
It is Sean Finnegan and Sean Flannagan Foyle and Hog.
And just to make sure we can separate the two,
Sean f I'll ask you you're I was talking to
Dez Bishop the other day. Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so we were talking about the
nuances between American and Irish humor. So when you come
to San Francisco and you're a massive hit, is there
any kind of trepidation like maybe they won't get it?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I don't know, don't worried about asking. Well, our only like,
our only worry when we come to the States is
like it's it's kind of a weird worry. You guys
are really enthusiastic, and for the first couple of gigs
in San Francisco is one of the first ones in
this run, is it takes a while to get used
to that level of enthusiasm. It's kind of shocking, Like
(12:44):
we gotta have warm up sketches. We would do as
our first sketch in the show. You know, subtly you
get the crowd going and you just don't need them.
In the States.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, you guys are ready to go cheering away moving,
kind of tiring yourself out before we've even done anything.
And we're like, why are you cheering so much? We
have has done anything, but I don't deserve this right now.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
When you come from Europe you don't get that level.
Of course, you know you got to you know, you
gotta work where you harder. So yeah, America like, yeah,
very welcoming, and it's a little unsettling.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I've heard from a lot of comedians that do fringe
in Edinburgh and Scotland that the audience sits there's what
their arms crossed and they said they think they're funnier
than you. And a lot of times the audience is
funnier than you.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah, that can and that's happened that the toes demoralizing, Yeah,
that's for sure. Yeah, Yeah, Edinburgh is a tough one.
That's where our shows always start. We always we were like,
if you're going to write a show, we say, go
to Edinburgh with a brand new show and we do
twenty six nights in a row, because that is the
toughest audience you're gonna get and if you work there,
you should be you should be good for everywhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
The biggest difference we've seen between an American audience and
European audience, shall we say, is when you're interacting with them.
When we're when we're talking to the audience and we
ask a question. The Irish people or whoever will you know,
will be quite shy and they're like, who talk to
my friend instead embarrassed him, don't talk to me. But
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when you talk to the Americans, they'll they'll just keep
talking and then they won't shut up, and then they'll
be telling you where they're from and their descendants and
where their descendants are from, and they just keep going.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, it's a level of confidence that you don't come
across very often.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Have that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
My friend I spent a lot of time in England
and she said she always separates it. Like in England,
if someone offers you a dessert, you say, oh, I
must send it's two decadent, maybe I'll have one bite.
In America, it's like give me three of them.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yeah, I see.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You reminded me years ago when we were in tournament
and we were in l A and we were we
were crashing with some friend of ours and they kind
of producers. They were over there and so they're like,
you can sleep on our floor, Like amazing, we will
take it. And Mandy, she came in. She was like
in the mornings like do you guys, you guys want eggs,
and we're like do the Irish thing, which is you
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you have to say no. You go, oh, no, thank
you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You don't want eggs?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Oh no, thank you very much. No, but we're going on.
It's breakfast. You want bread for eggs, eggs for breakfast.
And she's like, I know you want eggs. Just tell
me that you want the eggs, right.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, the eggs. It's funny you say that because I
was in a coffee shop here in San Francisco with
two friends and they ordered eggs and they said, how
do you want them? And they said as they come
and they go, well, how do you want them? She goes,
we get to pick the way you make them. Yeah,
that was another one, all right. For me as an
American Catholic and all my nuns and priests, we called
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them FBI foreign born Irish and it was always a
big deal. If they were from County Claire, they were
from a country guard, you know, the end, And so
we didn't know some of the nuances. For us, it
was just Father Ted and Dougal and all that. We
just worshiped that show that was hilarious, Graham Lenihan and
all that great humor. But for you do you get
into the whole thing about Oh you know he's from Donygall.
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I can't talk to him.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, I mean, now we'll talk to them. I mean,
they won't give us a choice. They'll be talking to us,
you know, like I said, they won't. They won't stop.
Like like but when we speak to someone in our
audience and they sometimes get up on stage and when
we haven't even asked them, when we've hat when when
they're American.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
So I mean, it's super Ireland is kind of funny
because it's it's such a small, tiny place, Like we
were playing Chicago. We're like, it's like the size of
like Michigan. I think, you know, it's just so small,
but it's so different. So like when you're talking about
like Donny Gall there it's only a couple of hours
down the road, but to us it's extreme because it's
the other side of the country.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's the furthest we could go.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And there's no trains either to train there.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
But so it's like it's fun to talk to someone
from Tony Gall for us, but like when we go
and play in America, like someone's like, oh, yeah, we
you know, we drove six hours to be here, Like
you drove six hours and they're like, yeah, it wasn't
that long. We're like, that's you'd be in the sea.
Anywhere you drove from Ireland for six hours, you're in
the sea. It's just this different scale. So I don't know,
we're like a microcosm of America. I guess for us
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talking to someone from Donny Gall it's like someone from
East Coast talk with someone on West Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know. Yeah, I remember Father Divine when he
found out I was spending time in England. And forget
my accent, but he got a very stern, serious look
and he said, you know, when the English ravaged Ireland,
they took our pagan art to Fox and they buried them.
And I was like, oh, I got what are the
pagan artifacts? And I was like fascinated with that.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Yeah, what were they Like the British Museum, what did
they have, Like we had these like things called silelees,
which is like it's just a it's a piece of wood,
it's a knock from a tree and they use it
as a weapon and they're like exhibited in like the
British Museum and it just has underneath.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It found in a bog in Ireland.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
You're like, I don't think it was just found in
a box. It sounds like you were fighting somebody, you
won and you took their weapon. I don't know. I'd
like to say, this goes, what's this guy?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You was?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He father somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Father fathered divine who later left, like they all do,
married a nun. Oh yeah, we get that a lot
over here.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Well and Sean Flanagan here by the way, you meant
his dad left the priest.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, my dad was effectively a priest. Of course, he
stopped being a priest. That's why I exist. Fair playton
I was in favor of that move. He got like
ann fifty motorbike and then no, this isn't for me,
and then he got lots of attention from women from
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the motorbike and yeah here I am.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well, as you know that marriage is also a sacrament.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
That's true, That's very true.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Now yeah, yeah, he's still following the Lord.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah right, there still there a strict rules that he
has to follow on.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, the collar.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know for Kinks, you guys are gonna have a
very very busy November the seventh in Denver, the ninth
in Phoenix, the eleventh, you start the three tour of California.
You go La San Diego the thirteenth, seventeenth, here at
the Warfield in San Francisco, then Seattle, Vancouver and Portland.
And by the way, the Warfield Theater. I mean I
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saw Sam Kinnison there smashing pumpkins. You guys are really
I know last year you were on van Ness in
that place. This is like four times bigger. Congrats on
the huge theater.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah much.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh, it's very exciting because we haven't seen seen these
places far from pictures, but they look look really cool.
I'm looking forward to that one in particular.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, there is a thing over here. And I know
this from growing up Catholic, and I'm one of those
very very rare German Catholics. They're usually Irish, Italian, Mexican
or Filipino here in America. But it's the kind of
thing now where if you're Irish you can do no wrong.
It wasn't like that one hundred and fifty years ago
in New York. But now if you are, if you
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are Irish, you don't even say anything. You're just gold.
Did I think that's why we're so enthusiastic for you.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Oh you regging, hope, Yeah, it's the accent is doing
some work for us.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, rob a Bank's yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Before ye, before we let you go, I have to
ask about Squatters any new episodes?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Oh man, thank you for asking. Unfortunately not so, Squatters
was no one was giving us a TV show. So
we decided to try and make with ourselves. And you
know what, normally we just do two and a half
minute sketches. It's very hard for thirty minutes and film
it yourself and edit it. But I think I think
maybe after this tour. Oh yes, and we're going to
back back at us.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, those characters are there, so you know, and we've
got funny scenes, and we might just take those funny scenes,
throw them at those funny characters and then you know,
hopefully some other Netflix producer will then go, oh, okay,
let's commission it this time.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Or like what you're doing now, let's just keep on
talking about Squatters.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Let's get it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
What is that squad?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Squatters?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Is that I should look that up?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? Yeah, I love how. I love how you were
the video game tester, but you weren't getting paid. It
was an honor just to be asked.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, very good, all right. Foil armsan hog dot com,
foil Arms and hoogdt dot I E. Gentlemen, cannot wait
to see you at the war field. The the the
bar has been raised because we it was so damn
funny last time. It was so good, so can't wait
to see you again.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Thank you, thanks so much, but I really appreciate it.
Joy to Beyonce, so cheers.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Thanks for listening in to the Comedy All Stars podcast
with Rick Tittle on the eight Side Network
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Comedy All Stars Podcast powered by the Eight Side Network.
In each episode, you'll hear from great comedians, from the
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you coast to coast around the world on American Forces
and it's great to welcome back to the show TV
personality comedian Ben Gleib. He is going to be tonight
(00:44):
at the comedy fundraiser Funny for Money, presented by the Aliens.
This is down at the Elpartel Theater in North Hollywood. Ben,
Welcome to the show. And I'm about ten years older
than you, so I do remember joe Anne Whirley from
Laughing when I was a kid, and I talked to
her about this event as well, and I got to say,
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in her age in her eighties, she is still sharp
as a whip. So get ready for some good ribbing
from Joanne I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I can't wait. I mean, it does beg the question
how Sharper whips really no more? Being that is true,
I'm sure it's great. I've never worked with her. I
do remember laughing. I'm not as young as you might think,
but I don't remember the specifics of it. It was
more in the background A while I was throwing a
(01:38):
temper tantrum for more matched food.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Gerber perhaps apple sauce.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
One hundred percent of all of it. I was an
animal for it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now. I as soon as I heard you were coming
on the show again, all I thought of was two words,
and that was dolphin fetus. And if people don't know
the context of that, that might sound pretty bizarre. Do
you get a lot of that?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I do.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Indeed, I should change that to my I should change
my social media handle the dolphin fetus. Yes. I debated
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and uh far
right political leaner, pro life, anti woman's choice dude about
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abortion in his studio a couple of years ago. It
just went viral again about three weeks ago. And there's
a famous clip where I pulled out a photo of
fetus and I said, you truly, in your heart of hearts,
believe this is a human being. And he goes without
a doubt, and I go without a doubt. Gave went out.
He goes, yes, I go, that's a dolphin fetus charge
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and he looked quite embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a I mean, obviously it's a trick question. It
just looked like a blob. But it was a pretty
good zinger.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I didn't even I don't even believe it the
trick question, because that's the whole point of it, in
my opinion, that because it's a blob, and because you
can't tell the difference between that and the humans, and
you can't when a human is born and a dolphin
is born. It makes the point to me that you
can't say that's a human being if you literally can't
tell it apart from a dolphins.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Got it. By the way, when it was clear that
Biden could not, I mean, he's the poor guy has
gone downhill so rapidly. Even in the last year when
it was you know, definite that he was going to
have to pull out, did you think about trying your
luck again? Because you did, like what five years ago.
I remember we talked about it I did.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I ran for president in the last election. I did
not think about it. I mean, the thought popped in
my head because it would be a really easy way
to hop in there very quickly. But then they gave
it to Kamala pretty quick, so my window disappeared. I
didn't want to do it anyway, in any real ways
and very intense endeavor to run for president, so.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Happy to not do it. But I did call Biden
for advice, and his advice I'll never forget these words,
was who am I?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Why are you calling me? Why am I so cold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That's pretty good advice. Actually, you also, I think have
and I'm trying to think of other people who can
do the one eyebrow up like the rock Jack black.
That's not easy to do. Did you have did that
come naturally or did you the practice it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I just got very lucky, you know. God wanted me
to be able to have this skill, so I'm one
of the chosen few. I just looked in the mirror
one day, like twenty years ago, and I want to
do that and just literally tried to push one side
up and it popped up. I've been able to do
it ever since. I can't do the other side very well.
But left eye, that eyebrow pops right up there, and
(05:05):
you'd think it would give me a career the size
of Jack Black or the Rock, but instead it's more
like black Rock. I don't even know what it means,
but it's more like a military contractor type of eyebrows
career elevation.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So this is uh, I mean for I'm to call
you a political comedian because you have lots of jokes
that aren't just politics. But we know this is kind
of in your fort your slot, so this is a
busy time for us, and all we keep hearing is
it's kind of a dead heat, which is kind of scary.
(05:41):
But how do you think it's going to go down?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, it's wild, you know. I was pretty sure Kamala
had it, and then I just did a video for
the Young Church last night where I was saying, who knows.
It's really seems like Trump's gating to momentum now. He's
sufficiently scaring people into believing that documented immigrants are eating
their animals and committing violent crimes everywhere, which is wild
(06:05):
to me that this tactic works because people aren't aware
that there's not rampant crime in their neighborhoods from immigrants.
It's not like they're fearing break ins from Guatemalans. But
it's effective. It's a very classical beer tactic and it's working.
And so I really don't at this point know how
(06:26):
it's going to go down. I am a commal supporter,
not even for policy reasons in this election, more than
just the rule of law and our constitution. And we
believe in, you know, being able to advocate for any
position going forward in the future that we care about,
Republican or Democrat. We need at a very basis to
(06:48):
honor our elections, honor the will of the people. That's
just a disqualifier if you don't. And Trump doesn't, and
he's planning to protest this election if he loses again
as well, So it'll be a long fight. But all
of my hopes up that it goes to Harris. Never
thought I'd be so aligned with the Cheney family, but
(07:10):
that's where we have it, and so I hope that's
what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But yeah, well, I mean, just not to interrupt that
the Cheney family represent those smart Republicans, is what they are. Yeah,
And by the way, all those things you talked about
don't matter. It's all about Arnold Palmer's dong.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think that's true. I think that's true. I mean
that is the part that really made me consider voting
for Trump. In the last couple of weeks, I was like, which,
you know, it's always about which candidate will promise you
a dong on the table. You know, one dong is
the pot, and then that dong on the table. And
I think that a lot of people don't realize it,
(07:48):
but he had one of the great ones. He really
had one of the great And I look about Trump
always said I'll never say it. I could never say it. Okay,
I'm gonna say it right now. He has a great dog.
Never saying it means you're not going to say former presence.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, it's like, let Shane Gellis say, just repeat what
you just said. It's like I came into the room.
It was so big. I said to myself, I can't
believe how big this room is. Exactly right, all right,
So tonight seven o'clock red carpet show at a comedy
fundraiser for a good cause, funny for money. What's she
gonna do on stage?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Ben It's at the El Portal Theater in Hollywood. You
can get a ticket at TinyURL dot com slash funny
money El Portal and or get them at the door
and support Aliens, a great organization that brings awareness to
mental illness and helps people with mental illness issues. I
(08:48):
am going to make fun of all of that. No,
I won't. I will make fun of people in the crowd,
and I will do my pre written material and I
will just wing it and have a good time. And
I really look forward to just rocking this crowd. It's
going to be a really funny show. Jen Koeber's also
on it. She's hilarious. There's a lot of great folks
on it. Jason Stewart, Derry Ring, Monique Marvez. We're all
(09:14):
gonna just bring a really, really funny show to people.
So I hope you all come out and supports Aliens
and just come laugh. Even if you don't care about
mental health issues, come laugh anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yes, El Partel Theater dot I love that. John Whirley,
she gave the phone number. That's kind of old school.
She's like, just call the box office, and she gave
the phone number. I love that.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I didn't even know there was a phone number or
I would have given that. And I also created that
time in the URL just minutes before I went on
air with you because Jen Kober sent me the link
to share on the radio and at jowclick dot com
slash two oh one six seven slash four two slash
I'm like, what plant is anybody nyl dot com slash
(09:59):
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Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're listening to the Comedy All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle,
powered by eight Side Network. All right, thank you for that.
Welcome back to the show, Rick Tittle, with you, nationally
syndicated out of San Francisco and around the world on
the American Forces Radio Network. Well, last year on the show,
I had all three members of Foyle Arms in Hog
(11:27):
and then I went to go see them here in
San Francisco and it was a night of high hilarity
which I cannot recommend any higher. And it's good to
say that because they're coming back. They're going to be
at the war Field here on November seventeenth. It's all
part of their Skittish World tour. And we have two
of the members with us right now. They are armless.
(11:48):
It is Sean Finnegan and Sean Flannagan Foyle and Hog.
And just to make sure we can separate the two,
Sean f I'll ask you you're I was talking to
Dez Bishop the other day. Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so we were talking about the
nuances between American and Irish humor. So when you come
to San Francisco and you're a massive hit, is there
any kind of trepidation like maybe they won't get it?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
I don't know, don't worried about asking. Well, our only like,
our only worry when we come to the States is
like it's it's kind of a weird worry. You guys
are really enthusiastic, and for the first couple of gigs
in San Francisco is one of the first ones in
this run, is it takes a while to get used
to that level of enthusiasm. It's kind of shocking, Like
(12:44):
we gotta have warm up sketches. We would do as
our first sketch in the show. You know, subtly you
get the crowd going and you just don't need them.
In the States.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
No, you guys are ready to go cheering away moving,
kind of tiring yourself out before we've even done anything.
And we're like, why are you cheering so much? We
have has done anything, but I don't deserve this right now.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
When you come from Europe you don't get that level.
Of course, you know you got to you know, you
gotta work where you harder. So yeah, America like, yeah,
very welcoming, and it's a little unsettling.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I've heard from a lot of comedians that do fringe
in Edinburgh and Scotland that the audience sits there's what
their arms crossed and they said they think they're funnier
than you. And a lot of times the audience is
funnier than you.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah, that can and that's happened that the toes demoralizing, Yeah,
that's for sure. Yeah, Yeah, Edinburgh is a tough one.
That's where our shows always start. We always we were like,
if you're going to write a show, we say, go
to Edinburgh with a brand new show and we do
twenty six nights in a row, because that is the
toughest audience you're gonna get and if you work there,
you should be you should be good for everywhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
The biggest difference we've seen between an American audience and
European audience, shall we say, is when you're interacting with them.
When we're when we're talking to the audience and we
ask a question. The Irish people or whoever will you know,
will be quite shy and they're like, who talk to
my friend instead embarrassed him, don't talk to me. But
(14:02):
when you talk to the Americans, they'll they'll just keep
talking and then they won't shut up, and then they'll
be telling you where they're from and their descendants and
where their descendants are from, and they just keep going.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, it's a level of confidence that you don't come
across very often.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Have that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
My friend I spent a lot of time in England
and she said she always separates it. Like in England,
if someone offers you a dessert, you say, oh, I
must send it's two decadent, maybe I'll have one bite.
In America, it's like give me three of them.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yeah, I see.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You reminded me years ago when we were in tournament
and we were in l A and we were we
were crashing with some friend of ours and they kind
of producers. They were over there and so they're like,
you can sleep on our floor, Like amazing, we will
take it. And Mandy, she came in. She was like
in the mornings like do you guys, you guys want eggs,
and we're like do the Irish thing, which is you
(14:54):
you have to say no. You go, oh, no, thank
you very much.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You don't want eggs?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Oh no, thank you very much. No, but we're going on.
It's breakfast. You want bread for eggs, eggs for breakfast.
And she's like, I know you want eggs. Just tell
me that you want the eggs, right.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes, the eggs. It's funny you say that because I
was in a coffee shop here in San Francisco with
two friends and they ordered eggs and they said, how
do you want them? And they said as they come
and they go, well, how do you want them? She goes,
we get to pick the way you make them. Yeah,
that was another one, all right. For me as an
American Catholic and all my nuns and priests, we called
(15:30):
them FBI foreign born Irish and it was always a
big deal. If they were from County Claire, they were
from a country guard, you know, the end, And so
we didn't know some of the nuances. For us, it
was just Father Ted and Dougal and all that. We
just worshiped that show that was hilarious, Graham Lenihan and
all that great humor. But for you do you get
into the whole thing about Oh you know he's from Donygall.
(15:54):
I can't talk to him.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, I mean, now we'll talk to them. I mean,
they won't give us a choice. They'll be talking to us,
you know, like I said, they won't. They won't stop.
Like like but when we speak to someone in our
audience and they sometimes get up on stage and when
we haven't even asked them, when we've hat when when
they're American.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
So I mean, it's super Ireland is kind of funny
because it's it's such a small, tiny place, Like we
were playing Chicago. We're like, it's like the size of
like Michigan. I think, you know, it's just so small,
but it's so different. So like when you're talking about
like Donny Gall there it's only a couple of hours
down the road, but to us it's extreme because it's
the other side of the country.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
It's the furthest we could go.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And there's no trains either to train there.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
But so it's like it's fun to talk to someone
from Tony Gall for us, but like when we go
and play in America, like someone's like, oh, yeah, we
you know, we drove six hours to be here, Like
you drove six hours and they're like, yeah, it wasn't
that long. We're like, that's you'd be in the sea.
Anywhere you drove from Ireland for six hours, you're in
the sea. It's just this different scale. So I don't know,
we're like a microcosm of America. I guess for us
(16:57):
talking to someone from Donny Gall it's like someone from
East Coast talk with someone on West Coast.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't know. Yeah, I remember Father Divine when he
found out I was spending time in England. And forget
my accent, but he got a very stern, serious look
and he said, you know, when the English ravaged Ireland,
they took our pagan art to Fox and they buried them.
And I was like, oh, I got what are the
pagan artifacts? And I was like fascinated with that.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Yeah, what were they Like the British Museum, what did
they have, Like we had these like things called silelees,
which is like it's just a it's a piece of wood,
it's a knock from a tree and they use it
as a weapon and they're like exhibited in like the
British Museum and it just has underneath.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It found in a bog in Ireland.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
You're like, I don't think it was just found in
a box. It sounds like you were fighting somebody, you
won and you took their weapon. I don't know. I'd
like to say, this goes, what's this guy?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
You was?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He father somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Father fathered divine who later left, like they all do,
married a nun. Oh yeah, we get that a lot
over here.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Well and Sean Flanagan here by the way, you meant
his dad left the priest.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, my dad was effectively a priest. Of course, he
stopped being a priest. That's why I exist. Fair playton
I was in favor of that move. He got like
ann fifty motorbike and then no, this isn't for me,
and then he got lots of attention from women from
(18:33):
the motorbike and yeah here I am.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Well, as you know that marriage is also a sacrament.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
That's true, That's very true.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Now yeah, yeah, he's still following the Lord.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah right, there still there a strict rules that he
has to follow on.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, the collar.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know for Kinks, you guys are gonna have a
very very busy November the seventh in Denver, the ninth
in Phoenix, the eleventh, you start the three tour of California.
You go La San Diego the thirteenth, seventeenth, here at
the Warfield in San Francisco, then Seattle, Vancouver and Portland.
And by the way, the Warfield Theater. I mean I
(19:16):
saw Sam Kinnison there smashing pumpkins. You guys are really
I know last year you were on van Ness in
that place. This is like four times bigger. Congrats on
the huge theater.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah much.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Oh, it's very exciting because we haven't seen seen these
places far from pictures, but they look look really cool.
I'm looking forward to that one in particular.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, there is a thing over here. And I know
this from growing up Catholic, and I'm one of those
very very rare German Catholics. They're usually Irish, Italian, Mexican
or Filipino here in America. But it's the kind of
thing now where if you're Irish you can do no wrong.
It wasn't like that one hundred and fifty years ago
in New York. But now if you are, if you
(19:55):
are Irish, you don't even say anything. You're just gold.
Did I think that's why we're so enthusiastic for you.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
Oh you regging, hope, Yeah, it's the accent is doing
some work for us.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, rob a Bank's yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Before ye, before we let you go, I have to
ask about Squatters any new episodes?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Oh man, thank you for asking. Unfortunately not so, Squatters
was no one was giving us a TV show. So
we decided to try and make with ourselves. And you
know what, normally we just do two and a half
minute sketches. It's very hard for thirty minutes and film
it yourself and edit it. But I think I think
maybe after this tour. Oh yes, and we're going to
back back at us.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, those characters are there, so you know, and we've
got funny scenes, and we might just take those funny scenes,
throw them at those funny characters and then you know,
hopefully some other Netflix producer will then go, oh, okay,
let's commission it this time.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Or like what you're doing now, let's just keep on
talking about Squatters.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Let's get it.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
What is that squad?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Squatters?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Is that I should look that up?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah? Yeah, I love how. I love how you were
the video game tester, but you weren't getting paid. It
was an honor just to be asked.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, very good, all right. Foil armsan hog dot com,
foil Arms and hoogdt dot I E. Gentlemen, cannot wait
to see you at the war field. The the the
bar has been raised because we it was so damn
funny last time. It was so good, so can't wait
to see you again.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Thank you, thanks so much, but I really appreciate it.
Joy to Beyonce, so cheers.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
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with Rick Tittle on the eight Side Network
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