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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, y'all, we got a special guest this morning.
One of the legends, one of the real legends out
here in the comedy world.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He's an actor. He he's been doing stand up for.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
At least three decades, still performing in front of soul
out audiences. This weekend him and nephew Tommy is gonna
be at the Botwell in Birmingham and he's gonna tell
us about that and everything else he got going on.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
But let's get to a lazy gentlemen. My dog. When
I first did death Jam, he was on the.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Show Ladies of Jermy, the one, the only that Bill Bellamy, Boy.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You should introduce me everywhere I go. Boy, I feel
so good about myself for.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
As you should.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Okay, Bill, before we get into this interview, I gotta
ask you one thing because you'd have made me want
to go. I saw you on Instagram. You went to BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
See. Let me let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
His buckets everything Bill, Bill, we've been telling them.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Let me tell you something Steve about BUCkies. Right, and
you got a lot of money. You coming out of
there with thirty two grills full take a gas. You're
gonna have a bunch of brownies. You're gonna have some meat.
They got brisket everywhere, like you can get you can
get a half a taste gas and a gallon of brisket.
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They just and they got a brisket salt. This is
what's gonna blow your mind. See they sing about the meat.
This thing is so everybody was telling me to go
to Buckets, but they ain't everywhere. You kind of gotta
be going between two places, like you gotta be between Making,
Georgia and like uh a, Columbia, South Carolina, and it'd
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be the biggest gas station you've ever seen. And people
are walking out with fourth lines, flash lights and solders
like it's just weird. But it's big.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Punk round flash light and soda.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, yes, Steve, have you ever been to a gas
station and they had seventy five unps with sure? And
you will be in there eating all the strawberries.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I've been there, Bill.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I saw you doing this thing on BUCkies, and I've
been trying to go to one ever since, and so
I think I'm gonna go past it.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I think I'm gonna go to BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, no, you got you no re routed re rally
because it's one of those things you're not gonna believe,
and you're gonna call me from BUCkies. I very king
you're gonna call me from bucket. Listen. I bought the
Bucky T shirt. Yep ye, so I can let you
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ain't never bought a T shirt at the gas station
in your life, but you're gonna get that Buckley T shirt? Dunk.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What's on the Bucky T shirt?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
The beaver here, beaver man? The good people to Steve,
you gonna like good people.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You don't even you don't even need it, but you're
gonna buy dep peple.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Listen, Steve, you're not understanding. It's the biggest gas station
slash hospital you ever been to. You could buy season then,
it's the weirdest thing you could You could buy seasoning.
You could turn around. You can get you some some
fat mag gotta sitting in the corner. Just put your corner.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's stupid held.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The body is so the things you could buy, like
you could buy a sofa, uh man, they like, I'm
looking at that. Like they got like every so to
like strawberriry show barbecue fork brown. Then you got you
could buy like a cat it be real cafy.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
All right, Tommy, tell me what y'all got going on?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Man, we got going on this with you?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's all I wanted to know was about Buckis Man,
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Okay, I got it.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Week zero comedy. Damn this Friday night, my well auditorium.
It's myself, Bill Bellamy, Bill, who tell them? Who else
is with us?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Man? I don't know these people. Man, it's so many people.
If we got like fifteen, I think probably got two
comedians from Buckiesil.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You're crazy, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I like to help people. Probably be helping people. We
were sitting BUCkies and he saw two people that seen
they was funny looking. He's putting them on the show.
So I said, okay, probably got a good heart.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And you know what, here's one thing I got about
down the both of you two, about Uncle Steve and Bill.
One thing I got about down on y'all have done something.
Y'all conquered something I could not conquer. And that one
thing is is that Peppermint Lounge. Man, that place right there,
Hold up, I got this was the proving ground of
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the East coast.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Let me tell you so Bill had this club called
the Peppermint Lounge. I called it the Peppermint Entertainment comp
It was a hotel, deli, club, stripers, everything was.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Under the word roof.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
But you performed, and all the dope boys set up front,
and they all had on coogie sweaters, all of them,
and they were the most ruthless audience members. And when
we come back, I'm gonna tell you the greatest thing
(06:33):
I seen at the Peppermint Lounge, the legendary Bill Bellamy
and the Peppermint Lounge in New Jersey.
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number thirty thirty.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hi, everybody, we're back.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Our special guest this morning is the legendary comedy legend himself,
Bill Bellamie, who I first met. I think I met
before that, but maybe Death Jail. Maybe death Jail.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah all I know, yeah, I remember the first night
I was on death Jail.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He was there. Man, this dude right here was he
was killing it and we've been cool ever since.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Before we left, we were talking about two things, BUCkies,
and Tommy said it's something that he had never conquered.
It was a club called the Peppermint Lounge in New
Jersey and Bill Bellie was Bill Bill's joint Bill booked,
it ran it everything, but it was the proving ground.
It was one of the roughest after the Apollo Theater.
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That was the Peppermint Line. I'm just telling you that, boy,
I've seen some great acts have called down there and
and not done well. And then there's been some dudes
that went up in their man and just got they got,
they got, they.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Closed toe off.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I told this one boy, I said, hey, man, you
shouldn't go up last. He said, no, I'm majoring comedy clubs.
I said, look, man, this this ain't no comedy club.
This is a session. This a session to say this
is really.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
About to go.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It was like boot camp or some Oh it.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Was ugly and boy, the dope boys were sitting on
the front and uh, this one dude was performing and
they didn't like him, and they was reaching in their
champagne buckets and they was throwing ice on him, and
ice was just dripping.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Off this dude's head.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And he kept talking, I'm sitting there going, how you
gonna take all these ice cubes?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Marvin what was the doskin? Marvel Miami?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Marvin Dixon, Marvin Dixon, Marvin Dixon. Yes, it was from Miami.
I will never forget that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
He walked up on stage and said, Hey, man, I
seen what y'all did this other dude. Let me tell
you one thing right here. If you throw app he's
an ice up here? What ice chip cube? If I
feel cool, spit, I'm from my enemy. Say it's gonna
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be yellow tape all round this peppermint lounge.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Them dope boys fell out laughing.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He had one of the best sets and then he
took all his clothes off, all his clothes off, He.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Had a red tongue on. He weighed eighty seven pounds.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Marvin Dixon, that's all he had on was a jockey strap.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
He was first dude I've ever seen twerk in the
comedy club. He said, welcome to Miami. We blacked out.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And got a standing ovation.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Standing old basin bro. I mean he literally I don't
know if he put on trick daddy. I know he
had a song that was a theme. Yeah, he had them, though.
Boy so confused. They brought him about eighteen bottles a
more wet.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Hey, y'all, Hey, we'll be back. We're talking to Bill Bellamy.
We'll be back with more Bill.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Bellamie right after this, we gonna find out what had
in a minute. All right, y'all, we're back with the
legendary Bill Bellamy. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
We just family.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So we've been talking about to Bob Well, the legendary
Peppermint Lounge. But we got a show coming up. Him
and Tommy told me, you want to talk about the
show or something.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The show go start out with straight ignorance with nephew Tommy.
Let's get this jumping off the jump, and then Bill
already knows I'm finna come as.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Much energy and ignorance as numb.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And I don't know how many outfits timy be having.
But they's a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
He don't even have a ressing room. I don't know
when he changed that in the car between two in
the alleyway, but he changed his clothes a lot, Steve.
I don't know how much money you're paying him, but
he got it. He got that much.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Well, he got plenty much.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yoah, dang it. But the money bill, he changed all bill.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
How many times you think he changed.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'm gonna say at least sixty three in the show.
It's a sixty minute show. He changed sixty three times.
It's unnecessary. I got I got before. I know we're
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gonna be at the bout Well on Friday, but I
gotta to ask you a question, because you know comedians
we think of fun stuff. I'm going to ask you
this question, when the last time you've seen an albino?
Because I remember we used to have one or two
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You know it's been a while.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
This is what I'm saying, Like, where did they go
to Albania or did they leave the country?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Ain't no more with the frosted had and matching.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Eye and then they are they eyebrows was just like
look they looked like like clear caterpillars.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Why are we talking about this.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Because I said the same thing the nephew. We whatever happened,
it's a lot of stuff you don't even see, no
more like I ain't seen it.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Uh, we're lat you've seen the Messican twins. I swear
I ain't seen nothing.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
No, they show, don't build them, they showed, don't make
them outs. I've seen that Mexic twin and thirty years,
I don't think so. I think they start making them
in sixty two. What about eight? When the last time
you've seen somebody cross eyed? I think they've been fixing
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their eyes for the last twenty Remember we had that
one cousin that I be sitting right on the nose.
It was right and it always was looking at the nose,
and the other eye was regular. You remember that cousin.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, I had a cousin. We used to call him Walleye.
That's terrible because one of his eyes was always looking
at the wall.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
To tell you broke something.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I ain't never seen to I ain't never seen an
amish on the talk show.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It's something with him and it's something with him and
I do amish all the time. Because they're gonna talk
talking about what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But I ain't never seen an Amish in the nightclub
either though they don't go out.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
No, they're not sociore.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They got them little high pants home with them suspenders.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They don't say.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
They pull up the valet with their horse. Throw everybody
off in that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, now he blocking the whole entry because don't
nobody know how to park the horse driving no carriage.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
He just up in there. We got the big triangle
on the back.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Hey bill, what happened to that thing that used to
hang in the bath from on a coat hanger with
that holes on it?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What happened to that thing? When is that?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I don't know what that was. But my grandmama say,
don't touch it.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Well, me and my nepht we touched it. One time,
We had a we had a we had a fight
with it. One time we filled it with water. We
didn't even tell her we did it. Then she came
in the house from shopping and said, why does house
smell like vinegar? And then next thing you know, she
went in there and did the math on it. We
got to beat with that same holes, that same hole.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, it was like it was like a pinkie show,
like a you surely, why wouldn't y'all just put it
in the in the close or somewhere. Why y'all leave?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
If you're looking for most stupid, it's happening Friday night,
Baby Bockwell Auditory in Birmingham, Alabama, Week zero comedy. Damn
it is myself, nephew Tommy and the one and only
Bill below me in the building.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Let's go, Bill Bell. I love you boy, and love
you man. Thank you, and amen Comb the BUCkies man
to get you something.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I'm going to Bucky. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show.