September 17, 2025 • 44 mins
Picture this: you’re at a Full House live taping and the first person to walk out and tell jokes is… The Warmup Guy! For Full House (and many other popular 90’s sitcoms) that guy was Bob Perlow. Bob tells us all about this niche job and some of the best AND WORST celebrity encounters he’s experienced… Get ready for another entertaining guest interview right here on How Rude, Tanneritos!
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey there, Fana Ritos.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome back to an all new episode of How Rude
Tana Ritos. Today we have the warm up guy and
writer who worked on a lot of your favorite sitcoms
back in the day. It's Bob Purlow. And believe it
or not, Bob was entertaining live audiences on shows like
Full House Friends and Growing Pains for three to five
hours each tape night.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
He even wrote a book about his career as a
warm up guy, and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We are so excited to talk to him today.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So please everyone put your hands together for Bob Purlow.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Hi, you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Done, Hi, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let me just finish. I'm reading something. Let me finish.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You take a five. It's an original script. Oh I read?
Did we wait?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What's written on there? Did we all sign it? Or
is that just your notes?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
No? No, I write, I write notes during the show.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What were your notes? What notes?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What notes do you have for us?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
See if you if you remember this my left and
right foot.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, we haven't got we haven't gotten there yet and
we were only on season five.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We've got many to go. So yeah, my is this
one that you wrote of no, oh okay, but.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You're just given not okay? So that last sea yeah yeah,
that was would have been season eight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh written by Ellen Guy. Oh yeah, I remember, yeah,
Tom Rickett directly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I remember Tom Okeah wasn't he He was a stage
manager or a d at one point and then he
moved up to director.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He said, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, Bob, we're so excited to have you on the show.
You're our first warm up person that's been on the podcast.
We've been doing this for two years now, and we
thought we got to go back, we got to go
back to our original warm up guy. Like, this is fantastic.
You're such a funny person. Uh yeah, thanks for coming
on on our podcast. Is it is warm up Guy
the official name of the profession?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Or is there like a different lingo?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh, he's leaving, he's left.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've offended him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I've offended him. And you asked one question.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Walking in the background, he's got a he's there's there's
something official?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Is it a name the warm up Guy?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is this is this your book that you wrote about
being a warm up guy?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So that's the official title.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
An eight year old Man and warm Up man. You
know you're the warm up.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Guy, right, the warm up guy?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Yeah? And warm up man doesn't have it sounds too mature, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Instead of where's the warm up guy?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Where do you go? And tell everyone? What is a
warm up guy?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, we've talked about it on the show a lot,
but from from the source himself, what is funny?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just did a lecture to college last week with adults,
and I did. I'm the woman. Oh your cook, I'm almost.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So you have operate a microwave? Basically, right?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Where are you? Guys?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We podcast from our homes nice and it's great. We
get to see each other via the zoom every week
and catch up and talk about Full House and make
fun of ourselves as teenagers and little kids.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We get to be we get to be the podcast guys.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's iconic. Full House is forever Franklin very well known.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Truly, Oh yeah, truly.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So we would do a live show, a live audience show,
every Friday night and with two hundred and fifty strangers, fans,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And so you were the guy that was.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In charge of keeping everyone awake for all those hours, warming.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Them up before we even start the show to make
sure they're like ready to laugh.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right, that's like the big hype guy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's a misconception. If you do that, you start off
here and there's no place to go but here.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You've got to modulate and say how long is this
show going to be? Oh, Michelle has a has three
scenes and which baby is going to be up and
not cranking?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I had to figure that in. So if I started, oh,
this is funny, always funny, and then three hours later
he's not only not funny, I hate him.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He's keeping Yeah, that's not talking at me, and you
want yeah, well, it's part of the game because they
don't know they're going to be there.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
For three to five hours.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
True, right, they get.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Tickets, Oh, we've got full house tickets. It's thirty five minutes.
It's thirty minutes when we're watch it on TV. So
if they make a mistake or tube yeah yeah, right,
the reservations for seven you may want to bring a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We had to start feeding them because their blood, their
blood sugar would be as feed You.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And Friends, which was just down the street from you guys.
That took eight hours. Yeah, with the audience with the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Audience audiences halfway through. Sometimes you know, they kept the
same one, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
At the beginning for the first two years, because the
producers of that show did a showtime show called dream
On right, which was no audience and it was a hit,
so they thought this is how you do it.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
You can't sitcom like a single camp.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Right, God, no eight hours and they don't even have
kids or dogs on that show.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That makes us look really super.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yah don't Yeah, they say, don't work with dogs or
kids or apparently on a taping of.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Friends, Yeah, it was funny and then you guys know this,
but I'm Friends. After the first scene, right, it is
over here and in front of the audience, they were
believe they're making stuff up, and you and I know
that what they're saying is, what's that joke we had
(06:37):
on Monday that we threw away? Right, right, So I'm
making up that they're reconstituting, yeah, right right the scene
what joke works?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Got to joke work, and sometimes you got to change.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
The house was an unusual warm up because of the
amount of kids in the audience, so I had to modulate,
but I did, and and Garrett toward a younger audience,
So no swearing, no family friendly, right.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I think didn't we had a did we have an
age limit on kids? It was like ten or twelve
or something because they had to sit there for a while,
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
In less weeks old.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, it was like twelve.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah, yeah, wow, But yeah we had I mean, our
audience has definitely had a lot of kids and a
lot of families, So I'm yeah, I'm sure you it's
you got to sort of get rid of a few
jokes here and there.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh got you totally.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, Reggie was it was.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
That was full house, the first like family show you'd
ever done.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Warm up for No, most of the shows family shows
because because if you recall after ninety five and when
you guys were off the air is when the not
to bring HBO into it, but the breaking baths and
stuff and the swearing came in.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I read more of the sort of premiere television, like
more adult skewing.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, but family shows, that's what I did mostly.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, that's true, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Sitcoms are kind of one of the only things that
shoots in front of a live audience, and they tend
to be relatively well.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Then I did Growing Pains, New Heart, Yeah, all those
shows with family shows and they didn't go blue at all. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Great, And you worked on Laverne and Shirley? Were you
the warm up guy or the or a writer on.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That sh The writer Franklin, for those who don't know,
is the creator and executive producer of Full House and
Malcolm and Eddie and a few others in movies. You know,
we started the same day and Laverne insurance.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
He was prepared. I was. I just got go, oh,
you're funny, want to be a writer. Sure, And my
life changed from that point. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He yeah, he's told the story about how all the
showrunner got fired and suddenly he's in charge.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Is this the show?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, any Marshall's everybody in the ring room and
Jeff was like the guy that got kept.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah he was. He was nineteen years old. I think
he's really young. And Gary Marshall hired him. And just
because Penny and Cindy had a habit of firing all
the writers occasionally, just.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, that's a dang And they were just.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Next next and Lion obviously changed his life.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, Yeah, that would be terrifying to just think that
your job is on the line all the time and.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Just be like everything right a joke, right.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wow, not even a season thirteen weeks Okay, you're renewed.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh man, sell of the pants, Like that's kind of
how the business is now. You're lucky if you get
your like thirteen weeks, great, thirteen episodes, that's a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
The streaming war, I'm so glad we came along with.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Absolutely, the landscape is so different now. I mean, I'm
I'm in Rhode Island, so retired years ago because because
the warm up guys that I know are not getting
the same money is not enough, not enough.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Shows there's it's not there's not a ton of live
audience shows anymore in sitcoms and things. So yeah, it
makes it definitely makes it hard. And yeah, full house. God,
we were talking about it, I think at the convention
we were at Still City about how much we enjoyed
kind of being a part of like late eighties, early
(10:54):
nineties big network TV when it was a thing, you know,
when it was they get all the shows together and
you do some big ABC promo and you know those
kinds of things that like you just don't really don't
really do now it's not as central, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
No, it was a different landscape then, and it was great.
It was the Golden Age. Yeah. And and the shows
I did, we're all, like I said, family friendly. Growing
Pains is the one that that really is the bulk
of what I did.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, Yeah, was that your first job as a warm
up guy?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No, Growing Pains.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I do a show now, I do a show presentations
where I give my my background. And I was playing
paddle Tenants, which is a precursor to uh, pickleball. Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I was going to say, like this feels like in
the vein of pickleball.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah. So one day I got yeah, and then next
day I was on la Vernon Shirley. Your whole life
takes that that change.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I mean, did you always want to be like a
comedian in comedy? Did you want to be a writer
or was it kind of that was just sort of
what you fell into or.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Fell into a great phrase for that, because I was
a tour guide in La Okay, going up and going
up and down the coast of California with a group
of ninety people, and I was on the mic, So
that gave me the wherewithal to be on a mic right.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
And to be on a mic showers at a time,
you know, and I have to keep the same group
of people interested two.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Weeks, oh with the same audience.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh oh, two weeks with the same audience. Oh wow,
yeah that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, not an audience, but right, two bus loads of
New Yorkers who wanted to see La for hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Right, yeah, that's so.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Was this was this like the first Hollywood tours where
they go buy all the celebrities homes, the TMZ tour
or was it more.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Of like, hey, here's the landscape of California.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Both, because when we were in LA, we would do
the Beverly Hills tour. I could say this now they're
probably dead. The people I would make up houses of course.
Oh yeah, Andrea Baba from Full House lives in that
little house right over there. Put the horn. Yeah, usually
she comes to the window. Jody Sweeten lives right over.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Not home, sorry, yeah the fairy.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yep, we're not home.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah no, no, that's uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
For two years, innocent tourists, there's just no idea.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh wow, I knew somebody that owned one of those
tour companies said the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
He was like, we're not We're not driving around.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
He's like, there's not like a like a database where
you you know, He's like, drive by point of the house.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
People be excited. That's you know, yeah, give them, give
them that thing I did.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
There's a two week tour from La Vegas, seventies, all
up and down. And just to break things up, people
didn't have eight digital cameras. They had cameras. Go okay,
in two minutes going up the coast, we're gonna go
by the very famous Milled Fillmore Rock. Now you won't
(14:30):
be able to see it, but trust me, when you
get home and get these pictures developed, you'll see the
exact face of Milled film More. So. I'm three, everybody,
get to the left side of the bus. Two three boom,
oh yeah yeah, it looks just like Millard. No one
knows what billid film Wall looked like show he was
(14:52):
the president.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I chose amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, pick something that no one can fact check
you on. You're like me wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Is a great training ground to be a warm like
I can't think of a more perfect training ground to
be a warm up guy.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Do you believe that it led right into it. I'm
on the mic for two weeks at a time, and
so three.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hours I could do that easy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What was the hardest part about being a warm up guy?
Was it like our three? Was it the beginning when
you're like sustling out the audience and getting a feel
for them.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What's like the hardest part about it?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Follow out real quick that you don't start up on
that high, so you you become their friend. Because if
they don't like you me in the first five minutes,
they're not going to like me. After five hours, they're
going to hate me. I mean, even if they love
me at the beginning, they dislike me.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I mean, it's true. I love my family and after
five hours I sort.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Of feel enough.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Were some of the tricks you is? Like, did you
play games with the audience? Did you do trivia?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What did you do to keep them awake?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
No? Trivia, I tried. I never saw another warm up
guy work because what I was doing worked and did
a lot of the music. I made my own music.
I had a disc jockey who would be in tune
with me and the stuff that I did, and a
lot of dancing. Those little girls loved to come up
(16:28):
and dance.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And then you guys were great. You'd come out and
talk to the audience. Friends. Eight hours in, not one
of them came out and said thank you for coming,
or any questions. It was inconceivable. But that was from
day one because I did the pilot, and even at
the pilot, they were that's going to be good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Oh I remember Bob Saggett would get the mic and
then we were like, Bob, we've got all we got
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I got it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
And he's like, well anyway, and like running with the
microphone away from Keith Richmond art stagement.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yep, yeah, that was that was his. Uh, he was
a warm up for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's right, that's right. He missed it.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I mean but anytime there was a microphone within arms distance.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Of box flights, he would get on the intercom.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's funny, didn't.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it was so good, so glib, so
so great. Yeah, now did you it's like for doing
warm up stuff, is there like do you have like
a warm up agent or is it just that you know,
writers and producers and people kind of connect that way.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I was really lucky in that I hit. But I
think they say the golden age of television was normal layer,
but I think it was at our time, and luckily
I had a good reputation so they would call me.
So there was no agent. I would negotiate the terms.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Great, represent yourself, you know, no commit involved, just just do.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It all on your own.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah. And like I said earlier, the guys I know
that are still doing in that having a rough time.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I bet are and Fuller Ron that's right.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Do you know him Ron Pearson?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, no, but I know the name. Like I said,
I never saw these guys.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, Ron does. Yeah, he was. He did all kinds
of tricks. He was great.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The audience always really loved him. He was super funny.
And I just remember the trick he did was the
latter that that terrified me. Every time he did that,
I'm like, what if it falls?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Like every time?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, I have a had of time with the chainsaw
apple and ping pong bowl hugglers and they would take
a bite of the apple and still keep juggling. He
just Galley did that.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's yes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you remember the shows I worked on a show
called Good Time Girls? Uh huh, where he was on it.
I did a few Boos and Buddies, but mostly New Heart.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Okay, yeah, I remember watching New Heart with my mom.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And I'm assuming each show had its own feel Like
you mentioned, Full House had a lot of kids in
the audience, so each show would have its own demographic represented.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Was it easier with kids?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Many of you said that something harder with kids and audience.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
There was no subtlety, There was no you couldn't be zeck.
They don't get that yet. It was a base level.
But you said, what audience is are different? Made your
dad remember that? Yeah, they had every audience bust in
from from camps. So there were soldiers and little by
(19:48):
little he thought he was a soldier. Gerald mclaney, he
come on as men and not kidding, so you know,
but by the second he was a colonel.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I guess, just really just leaning right out to the
to the theme.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah, what was that like? Was that a good Were
they a good audience? Were they like happy to laugh
and be yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Very straight, but they weren't very joy.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Lastured they sat up very straight and we're incredibly attentive.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, well, I know sitcoms get a bad rap about
having canned laughter, and I'm like, but it's not canned,
it's real, and you you order.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The audience to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You're just like, make sure you have the same enthusiasm
every teak.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It's funny you mentioned that last night. I had dinner
with with this girl and I don't watch those shows
because I hate canned laugh. Echo, It's not canned, it's
it's real. It's sweetened, right, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Sweet sweetened sweetening is what they do to sound for
shows and movies and stuff for those rights.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Are like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
And they it just like they fill it out a
little bit more so. It's like, you know, a laugh
is kind of has some little gaps on.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
It or whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
They'll just fill in those holes so that it sounds
more consistent. But yeah, they know the laughs are real.
The laughs are real, they just sound a little prettier.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
My My whole thing was, Okay, we're going to do
this again. It's it's a very similar similar joke. It
was exactly. It was at similar right, And we need
to you to remember where you laughed and how you
laugh so we can match it up, which is stupid.
How you laugh that.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, you have a weird, awkward laugh. Continue doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
My mother's laugh in the audience because she had a
very loud and distinctive laugh, and so it would throw
me during the tape beans.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Because I was like, oh, mom's laughing again.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
One thing I was going to say, I wrote it down.
Full House is if not one one of three shows
that I worked on hundreds of shows. I mean there
were hundreds of shows, thousands of times, and uh, full
House this day is one of the few casts to
(22:20):
stick together, which makes my heart failed good because you know,
you go, oh, uncle Jesse, and oh that's sehn Stanwillson.
He's having dinner with somebody. You guys start together to
this day, which is unusual because usually a sitcom gets
together that one to five years and then great and
(22:42):
then maybe they make one friend. But Full House, to
your credit, yeah, was incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
We really stayed connected. And I will say a big
piece of that was Saggot.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Bob was.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Really and John two would plan dinners and stuff, but
Bob was kind of the nucleus, the lynchpin, and you know,
and Jeff too, you know, always having parties and stuff
in his house. But yeah, it really like it's crazy.
I mean how close everybody is, you know, and we
(23:20):
talk about it all the time on the show, but everybody,
every guest that comes on.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Right, You guys are a family like family.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's a real family and new Heart as close as
they were, and I love them, I love doing the
show as close as they were on set and maybe
a little bit after they would all go their separate ways.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, because, yeah, we haven't been able to get rid
of each other for nearly forty damn years.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, really.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Almost forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
If you've been a family like wild because I don't
feel forty years old.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So how have you been?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Friend? Every day? I feel I'm dying, Yeah, I'm dying. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Tell us what was it like in the writer's room?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You wrote?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You wrote an episode of season one the Big Three. Oh,
that's right when Danner turned thirty.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Years life too.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It was thirty yeah, yeah, yeah, a baby.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
The uh. The writer's room was intimidating because you have
to get your idea in there. I had a very
bad experience on my first job on Lavernon Shirley. One
of the producers thought I was funny, so he hired me.
The rest of the writers were upset because well, this
(24:44):
guy didn't pay his dues, mister funny man. So it
was and there were twenty writers in the room at
laverneon Shirley. It was so intimidating. Oh, Mark's friend, where's
your joke today? I mean really means yeah. And then
one day one of the other producers, who was banging
(25:05):
heads with Mark because they want each one of the
big exec producer came in with a bunch of T
shirts for me that read I'll be funny soon.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's like a basically, it made you earn your strength.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I've heard.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I've heard that writer's rooms can be really intimidating and brutal.
I mean, and maybe you were in one, but of
course you were among they were friends, and you were
it was you know, fuller house.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They weren't going to be like, you'll be funny soon.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Right right, Yeah, they were on their best.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, I've heard.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I mean, I've heard it's really intimidating. You know, you've
got to be willing to throw your joke out there
and talk over other people and let it, you know,
land hopefully, and if it doesn't, you're like, all right, hell,
I'll be gonna go person.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
To be honest, even though it makes the show better
to be funny. Other writers are so competitive that if
you fail, they go up and.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Go, yeah it's that's yeah. It's kind of a dog
eat dog, you know, bully people.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So I don't know if I could do it, Like
I just being in the same room with the same
twenty people for.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That would drive me nuts, Like, especially if you clash
with some of the personality.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't wait that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
The worst thing the Yin and the Yang was after
a run through, you go back to the office and
they pass out menus. The good part is you can
order anything off the menu. The bad part is if
it's a menu that means we're stay late, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
This is a snap prepared to eat your dinner. You're
here a while.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
At two am. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, that's that's brutal. It's a brutal scale.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I don't know how you guys. I'm not going to
mention any shows, but the landscape of Citcum is so bad.
I look at it and I get angry. But that's
lazy writing, that's lazy acting. All the whole bowl of
wax is like them trying to save money for sure.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah that's that's I mean, you and I could talk
for hours about that, but yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's a very different.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You know, they keep saying like sitcoms are dying and no,
but people love them, that people really enjoy watching sitcoms,
And I think they have been dying because nobody wants
to write, like you said, right, good ones or funny
ones or you know, and they're cheap to make.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If we're trying to save money, sitcoms are.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
A lot less expensive than a single cam and locations
and you know, shooting on a stage.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Basically Netflix, Hulu if you're listening, yeahs are listening. We're
just saying we would be happy to be fully booked
on a sitcom.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Bob Burlow will be doing the writing and the warm
up and well, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
We've got a writer done. It'll be like the it'll
be like the the eighties again when you just go
you you have a job, and then.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Look under your seat, you all have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Right, you have a job, and you have a job.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Do you have any like like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
What is what was one of your worst moments? Warm up?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
If you remember and what was Oh pretty sure you
didn't usually remembers there.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Worstland and they're not gonna the worst, very worst one
was a Michael Jackson video of a Beatles cover song.
At the time, there were two warring gangs in La
Crips in the Bloods. They invited half Crips and half Bloods.
(29:22):
I go, you know what, I don't think I'm right
for this audience. There was an urban audience. You know,
it was all black. And because I'm a little white guy,
what am I going to do? Listen, it's going to
be five to ten minutes before Michael comes out. Because
at at one o'clock you go on at ten to one,
get the wild up and it'll be great. So okay,
(29:45):
ten to one, So I did. They were going nuts
to crib music and giving away stuff. Cut to ten
minutes before and he still hadn't been He's still in
his trailer.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Wow, So was making everybody wait.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I had given out money from my walletparation right. The
other one. Yeah, in thirty seven years, there was fired
one time and it was on home improvement. And if
I couldn't do my job, if I was doing it wrong,
(30:24):
I would have had a career instead. I had a
very long career, so I knew how to do. And
the job was not to be funnier than the show,
that that that's crazy, and that to be so morose
that they're going to fall asleep. So I kind of
had it. So I hit most of the time, you know,
(30:47):
I was. I was good. Oh yeah, a few times
I was awful, because it's just whatever the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Sometimes you get a vibe of an audience and you're
just like, oh, okay, you do this tonight, you just
have off day.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, And a lot of times I was really good.
This one night on Home Improvement, I was really good.
The audience was hyped up, the show was good. I
was good. Everything matched because when when they'll cut and
you guys had to go ahead touch your makeup on
(31:24):
or do a clothes change. Tim Allen was in the
makeup room and he heard me getting huge laughs. And
I wasn't afraid of being funny than the show. My
job was to integrate both the show and the warm up,
so it was seamless. But he told the makeup girly coone,
(31:45):
the warm up guy trying is act. He came out,
as you know, I faced the audience and the set
is to my back, and I hear hey, which is
hey is a funny word. It could be construed and
a lot of different ways, like hey, how you doing Hey, Hey, Hey,
(32:06):
Hey wants to get your attention. Hey. The third one
that he used was hey, which I knew was bad.
It was him, So turn around, hey, Tim Allen right here.
You know there's a show going on down here too.
Oh sorry, Tim, Well, he was just jealous that I
(32:27):
was getting laughs from the audience. Meanwhile I was doing
okay because they were loving the show and loving yeah,
So that was right. Luckily, most went well.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
It's yeahs are also an interesting breath, like I want
you to be funny, but not funnier than me, like
a delicate mountains.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And I don't consider myself a comedian. Had a tough
time doing warm ups because they would do their act,
which was twenty five to fifty minutes, and then still
have three hours waiting. Right. I didn't have any materials,
so it didn't bother me. It was just schmoozz.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, you did such a great job at that.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I remember, I do remember like you letting us sing.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I remember singing.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You like you were talking about with the music and stuff,
and you would hand us the microphones and we would
get to sing.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I feel like I remember.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Singing sitting on the dock of the bay or something
like that as a kid, and.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It was I was like.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
The board walk, that's what it was, yes, under the yeah,
yeah exactly what the yeah No, that was so much.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I just yeah, we had fun.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I was always too shy to take the microphone, which is,
you know, me the introvert. But I need I need
writers to write me jokes because I'm like, I would
get so nervous. So I always admired what you did
because I'm like, I couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, not just you know, Riff and just be alive.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
For show has their own way of doing things. On
the first show, liver In and Shirley, the studio would
go dark and then one by one each castman but
came out and did a thing. Lenny and Squeaky played
music in a song. Phil Forster would tell jokes. John
(34:26):
John would be John and Bob Wood would be on
the guitar. Right A flashed in my mind last night,
the last show we did on Full House, I remember
saying on the microphone. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
eight wonderful years and now for the last time ever.
(34:49):
And it was just like I.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Remember that, but I can still feel that.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I still feel I.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Remember that because we were like backstage sobbing as kids.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I mean not just as kids.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Every the whole cast were, you know, and I but
I remember hearing that for the last time.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Please yeah, I like said those words, and it was
it was like, oh, I felt part of that family. Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You'd be in the makeup room before the show. You'd
come visit, we'd be hanging out, you know, our weird
little chant that we do, and you're like, Okay, now
they've done with that.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Now like let me go introduce you. It's funny. Earlier
you said get them jazzed up for the show, which
I didn't want to do. I wanted to be excited
because I produced you at the beginning of the show too.
Let's say let's say a little about cast. I did,
(35:46):
Will and Grace and the two producers, Max and David.
They would I'd be talking to the audience. They'd have
spotteds from where they write his room was to the stage. Okay,
they're halfway here, get them crazy, you really want them crazy?
(36:07):
Yeah that Max and David loved to hear that. You
don't they realize it's going to be a five hour marathon,
and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They wanted to start with the sprint, right, yeah, exactly, right, don't.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
They're going to be so tired out. I knew this
because I'm with them, right, you know, I wasn't on
the floor, I was in the order.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
You were in there with them for sure, yes, okay, yes,
and you saw plenty of our parents too, because our
parents were at all of the tapings as well.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
One.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Ye, yeah, I remember it's John's mother and father receipts
right front.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Great family, lovely Yeah yeah, yeah, the sisters and Jeff's mother.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I went to her wedding, Jeff and I. It's so
very close.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
That's it's so crazy, how Yeah, we are like family,
and we've you know, had these, like I said, almost
forty years plus in this business, and uh yeah, it's
kind of cool to still get to see and stay
connected with the people that were there in the beginning
and you're.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Still you guys get together socially, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, yep, Yeah, she can't get rid of me.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, we actually have to shoot this at separate houses
because there is a restraining order, so it makes it
really uncomfortable them.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Good.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
No, we hang out socially. We go we do fan conventions.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Together and travel together. We have our podcast together. We've
done road trips, We've done a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
We've gotta hurry out audiences.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Like the fan conventions and stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Because of the green nature of Full House.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They're not though.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
There's generations because of and with it being a nicked
night and with it we will get people through our
lines where it's like a grandmother, a mom and a
kid or even four, and the grandmother or great grandma
will be like, I started watching this when I was
(38:17):
the you know, mom's age, and the kid her she
was the kid's age.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And they still love it.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
And then they you know, so many people started on
Fuller House, the younger generation and then they were like, oh,
I want to watch the beginning.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Our our we five five seasons.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But you mean you mean the audience show is about
the same. It was very much the same. I'd say
that for the fast we timed it. The fastest audience
show we ever did was with Mark Sandrowski dress right,
so efficient, and so we were taking.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Bets like is it going to be under three or what?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And I don't remember the exact time, but it was
like two hours and forty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Oh my god. We walked out of that stage. It
was light outside. Everyone was Yeah. Mark was a was
a hero, much lauded for that. Yeah, it was great, Yeah,
he was He was great.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You know what, every time I hear the song we
will we Will rock you always, that's our intro.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
We were intro you, intro to us to that song.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have this like visceral reacity, still get chills and
I'm like, oh, here here we go, say my name, my.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Name, We're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yes, the hype was real, so real. Yeah, such good memories.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Well, Bob, thank you so much for coming on the show.
This was so much fun to get to talk to
you and like absolutely absolutely can be. Where can people
get your book The Warm Up Guy?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Amazon? Great Amazon, It's a real book and whole chapter on.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh man, I want to check that out. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
As soon as we loaf And what a great picture
on the cover too?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Is that a picture of you? In an audience.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yes, that's fabulous, and yeah, that's you. That's what you did.
There's your back.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We're very familiar with your back.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yere you are.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I was doing a movie with with for Danny DeVito,
his first movie ever, and I was cast as the
warm up guy.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's an art imitating life, right, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Well, thank you so much, Bob. We just love getting
to talk to you. This was wonderful. Absolutely, enjoy your retirement.
We missed you too. Yes, we love you.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Not talk to you soon by He's the.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Same, he's got. It's totally the same. I love it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's not changed.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Fascinating though, like sort of the the art quote unquote
of warm well, no, not quote unquote, but the art
of warm up.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
That it's art of warm up.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
So I kind of assumed that it would be more
like stand up that if you you know, but but no,
you got it's you have to be require strategy.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, there's you need to strategize the night. You need
to think ahead five hours like okay and.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Be like what do I do? How do I keep
them going? How do Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
No, that was that's really impressive because I mean, if
anyone thinks about standing up in front of a group
of people and holding their attention and keeping them excited.
It is not an easy task, particularly when they're just
sitting there for hours, you know. But but you can't
get the shows a medium about that?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
What a balance like that is a hard balance, funny
enough to keep.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
But not funny enough to press off and start the show.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, well that's a hard job. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
That would be really really hard, really hard.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Good for him, what a talent.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Yeah, I'm so glad he to me too, and like
lovely hearing about how he and Jeff started the first
day and how far back they go, Like you know, again,
we all have such a great family in this business
through this show, and yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I love hearing these stories that it will never get old.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Ye me too, I love it.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Well, I think that's all we've got for you today,
fan of Ritos. So, if if you wanted to purchase
Bob's book, go over and find out The Warm Up
Guy on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
If you want to find us on Instagram, we are
at HOWD podcast. You can also send us an email
at how Rudetanturito's at gmail dot com if you've got
questions or thoughts or I don't know, whatever, and you
can go to our merch store, which is how rudemerch
dot com.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And what else, what.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Any of our fantos listening, we're in our audience back
in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, and you if you were.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Experienced Bob Perl's warm up routine, please make a comment
on Oh my gosh, I want to hear from that
side of it, because we would never we weren't. We
were always backstage trading notes or makeup stuff, so we
weren't in the audience.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I want to know.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
Yeah, we would love to hear from from any og
audience members what it was like, what Bob's warm up
was like.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That's so fun. That's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (43:26):
Well, yeah, email us, follow us on Instagram, all the things. Uh,
we love you, fan Urrito's thank you again for listening.
And remember the world is small. The house is full
of laughs.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh good one.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Laughs, the sweetened laughs.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Sweet the sweetened as in the you know, the show
ons and then just the sweetened laughs which is just
loud and cackling. And as Dave says, to locate me
wherever I am just listening to that.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah, we can hear you from buildings away.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Yeah all right, yes, thanks Matarino SI next time.
Hey there, Fana Ritos.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome back to an all new episode of How Rude
Tana Ritos. Today we have the warm up guy and
writer who worked on a lot of your favorite sitcoms
back in the day. It's Bob Purlow. And believe it
or not, Bob was entertaining live audiences on shows like
Full House Friends and Growing Pains for three to five
hours each tape night.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
He even wrote a book about his career as a
warm up guy, and.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We are so excited to talk to him today.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So please everyone put your hands together for Bob Purlow.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Hi, you guys.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Done, Hi, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Let me just finish. I'm reading something. Let me finish.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You take a five. It's an original script. Oh I read?
Did we wait?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
What's written on there? Did we all sign it? Or
is that just your notes?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
No? No, I write, I write notes during the show.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What were your notes? What notes?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
What notes do you have for us?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
See if you if you remember this my left and
right foot.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
No, we haven't got we haven't gotten there yet and
we were only on season five.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We've got many to go. So yeah, my is this
one that you wrote of no, oh okay, but.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You're just given not okay? So that last sea yeah yeah,
that was would have been season eight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Oh written by Ellen Guy. Oh yeah, I remember, yeah,
Tom Rickett directly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I remember Tom Okeah wasn't he He was a stage
manager or a d at one point and then he
moved up to director.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
He said, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, Bob, we're so excited to have you on the show.
You're our first warm up person that's been on the podcast.
We've been doing this for two years now, and we
thought we got to go back, we got to go
back to our original warm up guy. Like, this is fantastic.
You're such a funny person. Uh yeah, thanks for coming
on on our podcast. Is it is warm up Guy
the official name of the profession?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Or is there like a different lingo?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh, he's leaving, he's left.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've offended him.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I've offended him. And you asked one question.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Walking in the background, he's got a he's there's there's
something official?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Is it a name the warm up Guy?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Is this is this your book that you wrote about
being a warm up guy?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So that's the official title.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
An eight year old Man and warm Up man. You
know you're the warm up.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Guy, right, the warm up guy?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Yeah? And warm up man doesn't have it sounds too mature, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Instead of where's the warm up guy?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Where do you go? And tell everyone? What is a
warm up guy?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, we've talked about it on the show a lot,
but from from the source himself, what is funny?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I just did a lecture to college last week with adults,
and I did. I'm the woman. Oh your cook, I'm almost.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So you have operate a microwave? Basically, right?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Where are you? Guys?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We podcast from our homes nice and it's great. We
get to see each other via the zoom every week
and catch up and talk about Full House and make
fun of ourselves as teenagers and little kids.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We get to be we get to be the podcast guys.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's iconic. Full House is forever Franklin very well known.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Truly, Oh yeah, truly.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So we would do a live show, a live audience show,
every Friday night and with two hundred and fifty strangers, fans,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And so you were the guy that was.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
In charge of keeping everyone awake for all those hours, warming.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Them up before we even start the show to make
sure they're like ready to laugh.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right, that's like the big hype guy.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's a misconception. If you do that, you start off
here and there's no place to go but here.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You've got to modulate and say how long is this
show going to be? Oh, Michelle has a has three
scenes and which baby is going to be up and
not cranking?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Right?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I had to figure that in. So if I started, oh,
this is funny, always funny, and then three hours later
he's not only not funny, I hate him.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He's keeping Yeah, that's not talking at me, and you
want yeah, well, it's part of the game because they
don't know they're going to be there.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
For three to five hours.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
True, right, they get.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Tickets, Oh, we've got full house tickets. It's thirty five minutes.
It's thirty minutes when we're watch it on TV. So
if they make a mistake or tube yeah yeah, right,
the reservations for seven you may want to bring a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We had to start feeding them because their blood, their
blood sugar would be as feed You.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And Friends, which was just down the street from you guys.
That took eight hours. Yeah, with the audience with the.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Audience audiences halfway through. Sometimes you know, they kept the
same one, yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
At the beginning for the first two years, because the
producers of that show did a showtime show called dream
On right, which was no audience and it was a hit,
so they thought this is how you do it.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
You can't sitcom like a single camp.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Right, God, no eight hours and they don't even have
kids or dogs on that show.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That makes us look really super.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Yah don't Yeah, they say, don't work with dogs or
kids or apparently on a taping of.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Friends, Yeah, it was funny and then you guys know this,
but I'm Friends. After the first scene, right, it is
over here and in front of the audience, they were
believe they're making stuff up, and you and I know
that what they're saying is, what's that joke we had
(06:37):
on Monday that we threw away? Right, right, So I'm
making up that they're reconstituting, yeah, right right the scene
what joke works?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Got to joke work, and sometimes you got to change.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
The house was an unusual warm up because of the
amount of kids in the audience, so I had to modulate,
but I did, and and Garrett toward a younger audience,
So no swearing, no family friendly, right.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I think didn't we had a did we have an
age limit on kids? It was like ten or twelve
or something because they had to sit there for a while,
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
In less weeks old.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, it was like twelve.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yeah, yeah, wow, But yeah we had I mean, our
audience has definitely had a lot of kids and a
lot of families, So I'm yeah, I'm sure you it's
you got to sort of get rid of a few
jokes here and there.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Oh got you totally.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, Reggie was it was.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
That was full house, the first like family show you'd
ever done.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Warm up for No, most of the shows family shows
because because if you recall after ninety five and when
you guys were off the air is when the not
to bring HBO into it, but the breaking baths and
stuff and the swearing came in.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I read more of the sort of premiere television, like
more adult skewing.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, but family shows, that's what I did mostly.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, that's true, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Sitcoms are kind of one of the only things that
shoots in front of a live audience, and they tend
to be relatively well.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Then I did Growing Pains, New Heart, Yeah, all those
shows with family shows and they didn't go blue at all. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Great, And you worked on Laverne and Shirley? Were you
the warm up guy or the or a writer on.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
That sh The writer Franklin, for those who don't know,
is the creator and executive producer of Full House and
Malcolm and Eddie and a few others in movies. You know,
we started the same day and Laverne insurance.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Really cool.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
He was prepared. I was. I just got go, oh,
you're funny, want to be a writer. Sure, And my
life changed from that point. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He yeah, he's told the story about how all the
showrunner got fired and suddenly he's in charge.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Is this the show?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Yeah, yeah, any Marshall's everybody in the ring room and
Jeff was like the guy that got kept.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah he was. He was nineteen years old. I think
he's really young. And Gary Marshall hired him. And just
because Penny and Cindy had a habit of firing all
the writers occasionally, just.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, that's a dang And they were just.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Next next and Lion obviously changed his life.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, Yeah, that would be terrifying to just think that
your job is on the line all the time and.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Just be like everything right a joke, right.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wow, not even a season thirteen weeks Okay, you're renewed.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Oh man, sell of the pants, Like that's kind of
how the business is now. You're lucky if you get
your like thirteen weeks, great, thirteen episodes, that's a Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
The streaming war, I'm so glad we came along with.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Absolutely, the landscape is so different now. I mean, I'm
I'm in Rhode Island, so retired years ago because because
the warm up guys that I know are not getting
the same money is not enough, not enough.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Shows there's it's not there's not a ton of live
audience shows anymore in sitcoms and things. So yeah, it
makes it definitely makes it hard. And yeah, full house. God,
we were talking about it, I think at the convention
we were at Still City about how much we enjoyed
kind of being a part of like late eighties, early
(10:54):
nineties big network TV when it was a thing, you know,
when it was they get all the shows together and
you do some big ABC promo and you know those
kinds of things that like you just don't really don't
really do now it's not as central, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
No, it was a different landscape then, and it was great.
It was the Golden Age. Yeah. And and the shows
I did, we're all, like I said, family friendly. Growing
Pains is the one that that really is the bulk
of what I did.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, Yeah, was that your first job as a warm
up guy?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No, Growing Pains.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I do a show now, I do a show presentations
where I give my my background. And I was playing
paddle Tenants, which is a precursor to uh, pickleball. Okay.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I was going to say, like this feels like in
the vein of pickleball.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah. So one day I got yeah, and then next
day I was on la Vernon Shirley. Your whole life
takes that that change.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I mean, did you always want to be like a
comedian in comedy? Did you want to be a writer
or was it kind of that was just sort of
what you fell into or.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Fell into a great phrase for that, because I was
a tour guide in La Okay, going up and going
up and down the coast of California with a group
of ninety people, and I was on the mic, So
that gave me the wherewithal to be on a mic right.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
And to be on a mic showers at a time,
you know, and I have to keep the same group
of people interested two.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Weeks, oh with the same audience.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh oh, two weeks with the same audience. Oh wow,
yeah that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, not an audience, but right, two bus loads of
New Yorkers who wanted to see La for hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Right, yeah, that's so.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Was this was this like the first Hollywood tours where
they go buy all the celebrities homes, the TMZ tour
or was it more.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Of like, hey, here's the landscape of California.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Both, because when we were in LA, we would do
the Beverly Hills tour. I could say this now they're
probably dead. The people I would make up houses of course.
Oh yeah, Andrea Baba from Full House lives in that
little house right over there. Put the horn. Yeah, usually
she comes to the window. Jody Sweeten lives right over.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Not home, sorry, yeah the fairy.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yep, we're not home.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah no, no, that's uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
For two years, innocent tourists, there's just no idea.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Oh wow, I knew somebody that owned one of those
tour companies said the same thing.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
He was like, we're not We're not driving around.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
He's like, there's not like a like a database where
you you know, He's like, drive by point of the house.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
People be excited. That's you know, yeah, give them, give
them that thing I did.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
There's a two week tour from La Vegas, seventies, all
up and down. And just to break things up, people
didn't have eight digital cameras. They had cameras. Go okay,
in two minutes going up the coast, we're gonna go
by the very famous Milled Fillmore Rock. Now you won't
(14:30):
be able to see it, but trust me, when you
get home and get these pictures developed, you'll see the
exact face of Milled film More. So. I'm three, everybody,
get to the left side of the bus. Two three boom,
oh yeah yeah, it looks just like Millard. No one
knows what billid film Wall looked like show he was
(14:52):
the president.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I chose amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah, yeah, pick something that no one can fact check
you on. You're like me wrong.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Is a great training ground to be a warm like
I can't think of a more perfect training ground to
be a warm up guy.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Do you believe that it led right into it. I'm
on the mic for two weeks at a time, and
so three.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Hours I could do that easy.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Easy.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
What was the hardest part about being a warm up guy?
Was it like our three? Was it the beginning when
you're like sustling out the audience and getting a feel
for them.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What's like the hardest part about it?
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Follow out real quick that you don't start up on
that high, so you you become their friend. Because if
they don't like you me in the first five minutes,
they're not going to like me. After five hours, they're
going to hate me. I mean, even if they love
me at the beginning, they dislike me.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I mean, it's true. I love my family and after
five hours I sort.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Of feel enough.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Were some of the tricks you is? Like, did you
play games with the audience? Did you do trivia?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
What did you do to keep them awake?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
No? Trivia, I tried. I never saw another warm up
guy work because what I was doing worked and did
a lot of the music. I made my own music.
I had a disc jockey who would be in tune
with me and the stuff that I did, and a
lot of dancing. Those little girls loved to come up
(16:28):
and dance.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And then you guys were great. You'd come out and
talk to the audience. Friends. Eight hours in, not one
of them came out and said thank you for coming,
or any questions. It was inconceivable. But that was from
day one because I did the pilot, and even at
the pilot, they were that's going to be good. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Oh I remember Bob Saggett would get the mic and
then we were like, Bob, we've got all we got
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I got it.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
And he's like, well anyway, and like running with the
microphone away from Keith Richmond art stagement.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Yep, yeah, that was that was his. Uh, he was
a warm up for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's right, that's right. He missed it.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
I mean but anytime there was a microphone within arms distance.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Of box flights, he would get on the intercom.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
It's funny, didn't.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yeah yeah, yeah, it was so good, so glib, so
so great. Yeah, now did you it's like for doing
warm up stuff, is there like do you have like
a warm up agent or is it just that you know,
writers and producers and people kind of connect that way.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I was really lucky in that I hit. But I
think they say the golden age of television was normal layer,
but I think it was at our time, and luckily
I had a good reputation so they would call me.
So there was no agent. I would negotiate the terms.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Great, represent yourself, you know, no commit involved, just just do.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It all on your own.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah. And like I said earlier, the guys I know
that are still doing in that having a rough time.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I bet are and Fuller Ron that's right.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Do you know him Ron Pearson?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, no, but I know the name. Like I said,
I never saw these guys.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yeah, Ron does. Yeah, he was. He did all kinds
of tricks. He was great.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The audience always really loved him. He was super funny.
And I just remember the trick he did was the
latter that that terrified me. Every time he did that,
I'm like, what if it falls?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Like every time?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, I have a had of time with the chainsaw
apple and ping pong bowl hugglers and they would take
a bite of the apple and still keep juggling. He
just Galley did that.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's yes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you remember the shows I worked on a show
called Good Time Girls? Uh huh, where he was on it.
I did a few Boos and Buddies, but mostly New Heart.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Okay, yeah, I remember watching New Heart with my mom.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
And I'm assuming each show had its own feel Like
you mentioned, Full House had a lot of kids in
the audience, so each show would have its own demographic represented.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Was it easier with kids?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Many of you said that something harder with kids and audience.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
There was no subtlety, There was no you couldn't be zeck.
They don't get that yet. It was a base level.
But you said, what audience is are different? Made your
dad remember that? Yeah, they had every audience bust in
from from camps. So there were soldiers and little by
(19:48):
little he thought he was a soldier. Gerald mclaney, he
come on as men and not kidding, so you know,
but by the second he was a colonel.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I guess, just really just leaning right out to the
to the theme.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah, what was that like? Was that a good Were
they a good audience? Were they like happy to laugh
and be yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Very straight, but they weren't very joy.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Lastured they sat up very straight and we're incredibly attentive.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, well, I know sitcoms get a bad rap about
having canned laughter, and I'm like, but it's not canned,
it's real, and you you order.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The audience to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You're just like, make sure you have the same enthusiasm
every teak.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It's funny you mentioned that last night. I had dinner
with with this girl and I don't watch those shows
because I hate canned laugh. Echo, It's not canned, it's
it's real. It's sweetened, right, yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Sweet sweetened sweetening is what they do to sound for
shows and movies and stuff for those rights.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Are like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
And they it just like they fill it out a
little bit more so. It's like, you know, a laugh
is kind of has some little gaps on.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
It or whatever.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
They'll just fill in those holes so that it sounds
more consistent. But yeah, they know the laughs are real.
The laughs are real, they just sound a little prettier.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
My My whole thing was, Okay, we're going to do
this again. It's it's a very similar similar joke. It
was exactly. It was at similar right, And we need
to you to remember where you laughed and how you
laugh so we can match it up, which is stupid.
How you laugh that.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Yeah, you have a weird, awkward laugh. Continue doing that.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
My mother's laugh in the audience because she had a
very loud and distinctive laugh, and so it would throw
me during the tape beans.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Because I was like, oh, mom's laughing again.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
One thing I was going to say, I wrote it down.
Full House is if not one one of three shows
that I worked on hundreds of shows. I mean there
were hundreds of shows, thousands of times, and uh, full
House this day is one of the few casts to
(22:20):
stick together, which makes my heart failed good because you know,
you go, oh, uncle Jesse, and oh that's sehn Stanwillson.
He's having dinner with somebody. You guys start together to
this day, which is unusual because usually a sitcom gets
together that one to five years and then great and
(22:42):
then maybe they make one friend. But Full House, to
your credit, yeah, was incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
We really stayed connected. And I will say a big
piece of that was Saggot.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Bob was.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Really and John two would plan dinners and stuff, but
Bob was kind of the nucleus, the lynchpin, and you know,
and Jeff too, you know, always having parties and stuff
in his house. But yeah, it really like it's crazy.
I mean how close everybody is, you know, and we
(23:20):
talk about it all the time on the show, but everybody,
every guest that comes on.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Right, You guys are a family like family.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's a real family and new Heart as close as
they were, and I love them, I love doing the
show as close as they were on set and maybe
a little bit after they would all go their separate ways.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, because, yeah, we haven't been able to get rid
of each other for nearly forty damn years.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Yeah, really.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Almost forty years.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
If you've been a family like wild because I don't
feel forty years old.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So how have you been?
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Friend? Every day? I feel I'm dying, Yeah, I'm dying. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Tell us what was it like in the writer's room?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You wrote?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
You wrote an episode of season one the Big Three. Oh,
that's right when Danner turned thirty.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Years life too.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It was thirty yeah, yeah, yeah, a baby.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
The uh. The writer's room was intimidating because you have
to get your idea in there. I had a very
bad experience on my first job on Lavernon Shirley. One
of the producers thought I was funny, so he hired me.
The rest of the writers were upset because well, this
(24:44):
guy didn't pay his dues, mister funny man. So it
was and there were twenty writers in the room at
laverneon Shirley. It was so intimidating. Oh, Mark's friend, where's
your joke today? I mean really means yeah. And then
one day one of the other producers, who was banging
(25:05):
heads with Mark because they want each one of the
big exec producer came in with a bunch of T
shirts for me that read I'll be funny soon.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's like a basically, it made you earn your strength.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I've heard.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
I've heard that writer's rooms can be really intimidating and brutal.
I mean, and maybe you were in one, but of
course you were among they were friends, and you were
it was you know, fuller house.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
They weren't going to be like, you'll be funny soon.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Right right, Yeah, they were on their best.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
No, I've heard.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I mean, I've heard it's really intimidating. You know, you've
got to be willing to throw your joke out there
and talk over other people and let it, you know,
land hopefully, and if it doesn't, you're like, all right, hell,
I'll be gonna go person.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
To be honest, even though it makes the show better
to be funny. Other writers are so competitive that if
you fail, they go up and.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Go, yeah it's that's yeah. It's kind of a dog
eat dog, you know, bully people.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, it's rough.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So I don't know if I could do it, Like
I just being in the same room with the same
twenty people for.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Hours and hours and hours.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
That would drive me nuts, Like, especially if you clash
with some of the personality.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I don't wait that.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
The worst thing the Yin and the Yang was after
a run through, you go back to the office and
they pass out menus. The good part is you can
order anything off the menu. The bad part is if
it's a menu that means we're stay late, right exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
This is a snap prepared to eat your dinner. You're
here a while.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
At two am. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, that's that's brutal. It's a brutal scale.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I don't know how you guys. I'm not going to
mention any shows, but the landscape of Citcum is so bad.
I look at it and I get angry. But that's
lazy writing, that's lazy acting. All the whole bowl of
wax is like them trying to save money for sure.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah that's that's I mean, you and I could talk
for hours about that, but yeah, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's a very different.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You know, they keep saying like sitcoms are dying and no,
but people love them, that people really enjoy watching sitcoms,
And I think they have been dying because nobody wants
to write, like you said, right, good ones or funny
ones or you know, and they're cheap to make.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
If we're trying to save money, sitcoms are.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
A lot less expensive than a single cam and locations
and you know, shooting on a stage.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Basically Netflix, Hulu if you're listening, yeahs are listening. We're
just saying we would be happy to be fully booked
on a sitcom.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Bob Burlow will be doing the writing and the warm
up and well, yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
We've got a writer done. It'll be like the it'll
be like the the eighties again when you just go
you you have a job, and then.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
That's what we do.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Look under your seat, you all have.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Right, you have a job, and you have a job.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Do you have any like like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
What is what was one of your worst moments? Warm up?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
If you remember and what was Oh pretty sure you
didn't usually remembers there.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Worstland and they're not gonna the worst, very worst one
was a Michael Jackson video of a Beatles cover song.
At the time, there were two warring gangs in La
Crips in the Bloods. They invited half Crips and half Bloods.
(29:22):
I go, you know what, I don't think I'm right
for this audience. There was an urban audience. You know,
it was all black. And because I'm a little white guy,
what am I going to do? Listen, it's going to
be five to ten minutes before Michael comes out. Because
at at one o'clock you go on at ten to one,
get the wild up and it'll be great. So okay,
(29:45):
ten to one, So I did. They were going nuts
to crib music and giving away stuff. Cut to ten
minutes before and he still hadn't been He's still in
his trailer.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Wow, So was making everybody wait.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I had given out money from my walletparation right. The
other one. Yeah, in thirty seven years, there was fired
one time and it was on home improvement. And if
I couldn't do my job, if I was doing it wrong,
(30:24):
I would have had a career instead. I had a
very long career, so I knew how to do. And
the job was not to be funnier than the show,
that that that's crazy, and that to be so morose
that they're going to fall asleep. So I kind of
had it. So I hit most of the time, you know,
(30:47):
I was. I was good. Oh yeah, a few times
I was awful, because it's just whatever the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Sometimes you get a vibe of an audience and you're
just like, oh, okay, you do this tonight, you just
have off day.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Yeah, And a lot of times I was really good.
This one night on Home Improvement, I was really good.
The audience was hyped up, the show was good. I
was good. Everything matched because when when they'll cut and
you guys had to go ahead touch your makeup on
(31:24):
or do a clothes change. Tim Allen was in the
makeup room and he heard me getting huge laughs. And
I wasn't afraid of being funny than the show. My
job was to integrate both the show and the warm up,
so it was seamless. But he told the makeup girly coone,
(31:45):
the warm up guy trying is act. He came out,
as you know, I faced the audience and the set
is to my back, and I hear hey, which is
hey is a funny word. It could be construed and
a lot of different ways, like hey, how you doing Hey, Hey, Hey,
(32:06):
Hey wants to get your attention. Hey. The third one
that he used was hey, which I knew was bad.
It was him, So turn around, hey, Tim Allen right here.
You know there's a show going on down here too.
Oh sorry, Tim, Well, he was just jealous that I
(32:27):
was getting laughs from the audience. Meanwhile I was doing
okay because they were loving the show and loving yeah,
So that was right. Luckily, most went well.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
It's yeahs are also an interesting breath, like I want
you to be funny, but not funnier than me, like
a delicate mountains.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
And I don't consider myself a comedian. Had a tough
time doing warm ups because they would do their act,
which was twenty five to fifty minutes, and then still
have three hours waiting. Right. I didn't have any materials,
so it didn't bother me. It was just schmoozz.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, you did such a great job at that.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I remember, I do remember like you letting us sing.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I remember singing.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You like you were talking about with the music and stuff,
and you would hand us the microphones and we would
get to sing.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I feel like I remember.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Singing sitting on the dock of the bay or something
like that as a kid, and.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It was I was like.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
The board walk, that's what it was, yes, under the yeah,
yeah exactly what the yeah No, that was so much.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
I just yeah, we had fun.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I was always too shy to take the microphone, which is,
you know, me the introvert. But I need I need
writers to write me jokes because I'm like, I would
get so nervous. So I always admired what you did
because I'm like, I couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, not just you know, Riff and just be alive.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
For show has their own way of doing things. On
the first show, liver In and Shirley, the studio would
go dark and then one by one each castman but
came out and did a thing. Lenny and Squeaky played
music in a song. Phil Forster would tell jokes. John
(34:26):
John would be John and Bob Wood would be on
the guitar. Right A flashed in my mind last night,
the last show we did on Full House, I remember
saying on the microphone. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
eight wonderful years and now for the last time ever.
(34:49):
And it was just like I.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Remember that, but I can still feel that.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I still feel I.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Remember that because we were like backstage sobbing as kids.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I mean not just as kids.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Every the whole cast were, you know, and I but
I remember hearing that for the last time.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Please yeah, I like said those words, and it was
it was like, oh, I felt part of that family. Oh.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
You'd be in the makeup room before the show. You'd
come visit, we'd be hanging out, you know, our weird
little chant that we do, and you're like, Okay, now
they've done with that.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Now like let me go introduce you. It's funny. Earlier
you said get them jazzed up for the show, which
I didn't want to do. I wanted to be excited
because I produced you at the beginning of the show too.
Let's say let's say a little about cast. I did,
(35:46):
Will and Grace and the two producers, Max and David.
They would I'd be talking to the audience. They'd have
spotteds from where they write his room was to the stage. Okay,
they're halfway here, get them crazy, you really want them crazy?
(36:07):
Yeah that Max and David loved to hear that. You
don't they realize it's going to be a five hour marathon,
and they didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
They wanted to start with the sprint, right, yeah, exactly, right, don't.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
They're going to be so tired out. I knew this
because I'm with them, right, you know, I wasn't on
the floor, I was in the order.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
You were in there with them for sure, yes, okay, yes,
and you saw plenty of our parents too, because our
parents were at all of the tapings as well.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
One.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Ye, yeah, I remember it's John's mother and father receipts
right front.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Great family, lovely Yeah yeah, yeah, the sisters and Jeff's mother.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I went to her wedding, Jeff and I. It's so
very close.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
That's it's so crazy, how Yeah, we are like family,
and we've you know, had these, like I said, almost
forty years plus in this business, and uh yeah, it's
kind of cool to still get to see and stay
connected with the people that were there in the beginning
and you're.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Still you guys get together socially, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, yep, Yeah, she can't get rid of me.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, we actually have to shoot this at separate houses
because there is a restraining order, so it makes it
really uncomfortable them.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Good.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
No, we hang out socially. We go we do fan conventions.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Together and travel together. We have our podcast together. We've
done road trips, We've done a lot of things.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
We've gotta hurry out audiences.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Like the fan conventions and stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Because of the green nature of Full House.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They're not though.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
There's generations because of and with it being a nicked
night and with it we will get people through our
lines where it's like a grandmother, a mom and a
kid or even four, and the grandmother or great grandma
will be like, I started watching this when I was
(38:17):
the you know, mom's age, and the kid her she
was the kid's age.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
And they still love it.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
And then they you know, so many people started on
Fuller House, the younger generation and then they were like, oh,
I want to watch the beginning.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Our our we five five seasons.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But you mean you mean the audience show is about
the same. It was very much the same. I'd say
that for the fast we timed it. The fastest audience
show we ever did was with Mark Sandrowski dress right,
so efficient, and so we were taking.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Bets like is it going to be under three or what?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And I don't remember the exact time, but it was
like two hours and forty two minutes.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Oh my god. We walked out of that stage. It
was light outside. Everyone was Yeah. Mark was a was
a hero, much lauded for that. Yeah, it was great, Yeah,
he was He was great.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You know what, every time I hear the song we
will we Will rock you always, that's our intro.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
We were intro you, intro to us to that song.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have this like visceral reacity, still get chills and
I'm like, oh, here here we go, say my name, my.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Name, We're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Yes, the hype was real, so real. Yeah, such good memories.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Well, Bob, thank you so much for coming on the show.
This was so much fun to get to talk to
you and like absolutely absolutely can be. Where can people
get your book The Warm Up Guy?
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Amazon? Great Amazon, It's a real book and whole chapter on.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Oh man, I want to check that out. That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
As soon as we loaf And what a great picture
on the cover too?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Is that a picture of you? In an audience.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yes, that's fabulous, and yeah, that's you. That's what you did.
There's your back.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
We're very familiar with your back.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yere you are.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I was doing a movie with with for Danny DeVito,
his first movie ever, and I was cast as the
warm up guy.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Oh wow, I know.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's an art imitating life, right, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Well, thank you so much, Bob. We just love getting
to talk to you. This was wonderful. Absolutely, enjoy your retirement.
We missed you too. Yes, we love you.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Not talk to you soon by He's the.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Same, he's got. It's totally the same. I love it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It's not changed.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Fascinating though, like sort of the the art quote unquote
of warm well, no, not quote unquote, but the art
of warm up.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
That it's art of warm up.
Speaker 5 (41:11):
So I kind of assumed that it would be more
like stand up that if you you know, but but no,
you got it's you have to be require strategy.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, there's you need to strategize the night. You need
to think ahead five hours like okay and.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Be like what do I do? How do I keep
them going? How do Yeah?
Speaker 5 (41:30):
No, that was that's really impressive because I mean, if
anyone thinks about standing up in front of a group
of people and holding their attention and keeping them excited.
It is not an easy task, particularly when they're just
sitting there for hours, you know. But but you can't
get the shows a medium about that?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
What a balance like that is a hard balance, funny
enough to keep.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
But not funny enough to press off and start the show.
Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, well that's a hard job. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
That would be really really hard, really hard.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Good for him, what a talent.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Yeah, I'm so glad he to me too, and like
lovely hearing about how he and Jeff started the first
day and how far back they go, Like you know, again,
we all have such a great family in this business
through this show, and yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
I love hearing these stories that it will never get old.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Ye me too, I love it.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Well, I think that's all we've got for you today,
fan of Ritos. So, if if you wanted to purchase
Bob's book, go over and find out The Warm Up
Guy on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (42:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
If you want to find us on Instagram, we are
at HOWD podcast. You can also send us an email
at how Rudetanturito's at gmail dot com if you've got
questions or thoughts or I don't know, whatever, and you
can go to our merch store, which is how rudemerch
dot com.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
And what else, what.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Any of our fantos listening, we're in our audience back
in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, and you if you were.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Experienced Bob Perl's warm up routine, please make a comment
on Oh my gosh, I want to hear from that
side of it, because we would never we weren't. We
were always backstage trading notes or makeup stuff, so we
weren't in the audience.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I want to know.
Speaker 5 (43:17):
Yeah, we would love to hear from from any og
audience members what it was like, what Bob's warm up
was like.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
That's so fun. That's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (43:26):
Well, yeah, email us, follow us on Instagram, all the things. Uh,
we love you, fan Urrito's thank you again for listening.
And remember the world is small. The house is full
of laughs.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Oh good one.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Laughs, the sweetened laughs.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Sweet the sweetened as in the you know, the show
ons and then just the sweetened laughs which is just
loud and cackling. And as Dave says, to locate me
wherever I am just listening to that.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yeah, we can hear you from buildings away.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Yeah all right, yes, thanks Matarino SI next time.
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