Susie Essman Lightning Round

Whether on stage as a stand-up comedian, alongside Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, or answering lightning-round questions, Susie Essman never fails to get a laugh out of her audience. On this week’s bonus episode of Table for Two, Essman joins host Bruce Bozzi and shares her favorite comics, her biggest New York City pet peeve, and the celebrity she met that stunned her. Hear a preview of the episode below, and listen and subscribe on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi, everybody, it's a Bruce. Thank you for pulling up
a chair. For another bonus episode of Table for Two.
A while back, I sat down for an amazing lunch
with comedian and actress Susie Esmond. We also did a
really fun lightning round at the end of our meal,
and I got to ask her questions about a city
we both love, NYC. I'm excited to share the full

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interview with you soon, but for now, I hope you
enjoy this quick bonus.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
So here we are favorite Burrow, favorite Borrow, Manhattan, of course,
biggest New York City pet Beeve.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Biggest New York City pet Peeve. People who don't pick.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Up their fucking dog poop. I am nippy. If I
go in my pocket right now, they'll be a BAGGYE.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really, you'll pick up someone else?

Speaker 4 (00:56):
No, no, no, no, it's like your kid. You don't
want to touch somebody else's dog. I have baggies everywhere
from my door.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Dogs. Yeah, yeah, that is horrible. I know this west
side or east.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Side, west side?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Favorite New York Deli.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Favorite New York Deli. I would say Bonny.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Green Grass favorite movie.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Oh ever, oh that's so hard.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Just you know fast.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I mean, the first thing that came to mine is Casablanca,
but there's so many, you know, it's really my favorite movie.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
The Shop Around the Corner, The Shop Around the Go
watch it.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullivan t Oh, my god, I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Movie more than anything. I could watch that movie. It's
my favorite Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I live for Christmas, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's the greatest. Sloopitch was the director.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, okay, favorite comic.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Favorite comic of all time. Yeah, probably prior.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
But you know we were talking before about loss and
so many of my friends who are so funny, you know,
I mean, Gilbert died two years ago, Gilbert Godfrey, Kevin
Mini used to make me laugh like crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Richard Lewis my darling, dearest friend.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
But of all times, well, it's either prior as a
stand up, but as a as funny, it would be
mel Brooks. But mel wasn't a stand up, so it's different.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Joy Bayheart, what about her best friend subway taxi Uber?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Oh Taxi, I still like a yellow too.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I feel like we're supporting this with you too.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
And also they sometimes it's good to do abercase you
don't have to pay it.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
But yeah, but there's nothing like taxis.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
New York very completely.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
But my kids never take yellow caps, they only take over.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I actually feel like we're supporting a person in the job.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
And you know, my grandfather, my grandpa Izzy was one
of those old New York City taxi oh yeah, who
like knew every borrow, every backstreet pre GP.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yes, obviously, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
And he was like an old fashioned New York City
taxi driver that you see in like those forties movies.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Is he you know, hey, Mac, those guys.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Celebrity that you have met that you couldn't believe you
were meeting, like you're an icon of yours.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I would say, David Bowie.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Okay, if you and Jimmy have this game, do you
have any Hall passes?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Hall passes?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Well, he gets Hall passes for golf all the time,
but not for sex.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
He could play golf whenever he wants. But you're not
sex now.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So now, okay, Lenny Bruce.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
What about him?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Just first, while he was he was brilliant, he was
ahead of his time. He was you know, the interesting
thing about Lenny Bruce was and me being the filthy
mouth that I am.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It was not Lenny's language.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
That they really were persecuting him for. It was because
he was talking about religion. He did that whole bit
about the Catholic Church. And that's the thing that really
gets people's back up still, I think.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Because these are like iconst Yeah, Dillan, Phyllis, Dillon.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh God, Idyl right, Idle.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know the thing about Phyllis, and she was philistorted
when she was forty, which so did Joy. By the way,
when I met Joy doing starting doing stand up, she
was forty, which is a very brave thing to do.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
But Phyllis was so interesting that Phyllis.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Phyllis was brilliant, but at the time she and she
was beautiful, but at the time she had to dress
up in all those crazy outfits in order for audiences
to accept her. She couldn't just be a woman out
there beautiful and just accepting who she was. It had
to be a stick and a gimmick.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
That was the time.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, that's interesting. And finally Joan.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Rivers, Well, Joan is another one. You know, Joan, Joan.
I feel like Joan was brilliant.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Joan had an IQ, you you know, over the top
and a funny Bone beyond. But I also think Joan
was a product of her time in the sense that
she had to be self deprecating in order to be accepted.
That the audiences would not have accepted her if she
wasn't oh my thighs and this, And she was adorable
if you look at it early things about her.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
She was adorable. And what a tragic death that was.
It really was and a huge loss.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Could she's still be here making us laugh, you know,
Phyllis I think died well into her nineties.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
She was, But Joan was a tragic death.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Thank you for our quick round speed round sus I
love you and we're hanging.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Out in New York. Let this be Yeah, Baby Opens
the Door.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
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