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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All plenty of people laughing at Frank kelliendo when he
appears at the improv this weekend. Frank, good morning, Welcome
to Houston's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Pleasure to have you on. Can I have to start
with this. You were the best thing ever on the
Fox NFL pregame show. What happened there? The moment you
weren't there anymore? I stopped watching?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, thank you for that. I think they just got
tired of me and Terry Bradshaw every week going not
fun if Rank not fun? And then I tell him
after you'd be like, after the show'd be I talked
to him and I say, what was going on there?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I thought you were really funny, Frank. I just don't
like to say that on TV. I'm like, come on, man,
you're killing me here. But I think it just got
to run its course and we had fun and that
was it. I was there for nine years. People don't
realize how long that actually really.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I didn't realize it was nine years. That's amazing. Yeah,
that is amazing. All right. Let me start by this
question as well, And I kind of previewed this before
coming into the interview. Here do you consider yourself a
comedian who does impressions or an impressionist who does comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man, here's gonna be the worst answer ever. I think
I'm right in the middle. Uh, it's it's somewhere between
the two. Because you know, the old school, rich, little
type of impressionist who do things for a long period
of time. I kind of zip in and out. I
grew up watching Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, the old
school type of stuff. It was more about the setups
of the impressions. So for example, al Pacino would yell
(01:27):
for no reason. So I'd love to see somebody cast
them as a librarian because somebody's like, you know, in
the library, like she's like.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Where's the bee section? Where is the bee section?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That type of stuff. It's the it's the make and
observation and have fun with it. So that's that's where
I'm at it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The thing you do so well is it seems like
you become the people you're impersonating. It's not just the
voice that you do, your your your facial features, everything
you you mimic, the way they look you. You you
mimic all of their gestures. It's it's a. It's really
quite amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, you know, And I always like that's why I
didn't do a lot of cartoon character voices and stuff
like that. I mean, George W. Bush was one and
uh was one that people really key in on. It's
it's the face, it's the eyebrows and stuff like that,
and the fact that you know you sell that with
he would get to the end of the sentence, he
wouldn't be able to think of that last word. You
find yourself kind of rooting for him to get he's
on TV. You'd be at home, but it'd be like
(02:19):
a scene from The water Boy because like you can
do it. You wanted to get there to talk about
something serious, like, uh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
These terrorists, these guys are uh, these guys are uh,
these guys are bad.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's like, sure, you had two choices, bad and not good.
I'm sorry, but that took too long. And I always
go with this stuff and have fun with it. I'd
hit both sides, which you know, in this day and age,
you see comedians just going after one side, usually the
same side. And me, it's about being silly and making
people laugh. I also do a very clean show, so
it's about the fun and you know, even with the
(02:51):
John Madden, which I heard you guys mentioned before, it's
almost like he's got marbles in his mouth the whole
time and just explained things. You're you know, if you
if the quarterback, if he throws the ball and the
receiver catches in the end zone, boom, that's gonna be
a touchdown. So it's always about the fun to me
and being silly.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, you bring up the politics, and it felt like
comedy was in danger there for a while. I think,
mercifully we're getting back to being able to make fun
at all things, as you say, But for a while there,
every somebody was always pod about something a comedian would
say and reacted to it in just unexpected ways.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, and a lot of times people that they worry
that you're going to, you know, just hit one side too.
I think that's the that's I believe in making fun
of things and having fun with it. So like I
will do some Donald Trump stuff. I do. My version
is like Library Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's very quiet, it's very good, and it's a lot
of people are saying that's probably the best you could do.
But then I can see some faces like if he
going to just go into Trump the whole time. No, no, no, no,
I got a Joe Biden impression. It says, wandering around
back stage right now, don't worry. And then it's going
to that, and then the Biden, which is always going
back to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And he's terrible with numbers, you know, as.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A young man growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, thirty forty
five six, six hundred eighty is the far of the
Roman Empire, the Romans, the leader, the salad guy, and
defeated by Mario and Luigi, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So it's going back and forth between the two, and
we go back and forth, and then George Bush shows
up and whatever Barack Obama's and they're going, I let
me be clear, you talk like this one two, take
a space, and then three four, five, six seven George
Bush just says whatever. Donald Trump comes back and Joe Biden. Folks,
come on, let's get some ice cream.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh you're so good at just switching back and forth
between characters. I don't know how you do that. How
many impressions do you do? Have you ever bothered a
total of how many different people you do? I don't
not really. It's it's you know, probably about one hundred
active people. It's type of things you never know who
to is, Like, who's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Going to know some of them? Sometimes, like there are
depressions that certain groups aren't even gonna like a John
c Riley, did you touch my drum?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Set?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, there's those that are a little bit weird
or Seth Rogan.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I annoyed to even do it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So sometimes you count some of these and people are like,
I'm not sure I even know who that is. That's why, Yeah,
I do. I talk about people in politics because everybody
knows them, but I don't do the actual politics because
everybody knows those people because we're so segmented as audiences
nowadays and program too directly.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So if you ever had anybody try as hard as
you could, you just couldn't do an impression of them.
You tried, and you just couldn't get one that was good.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, that happens all the time. I mean, And the
way you know that I couldn't get him is you've
never seen me do it. That's pretty much. That's the way.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean, who would you really like to do but
you can't?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh, that's a good question. Who I would love to
be able to do it jd Vance just because he's
you know, he's the front and center. I've been working
on Elon Musk. Uh that's that's difficult because his rs
his is I don't have it set to muscle memory,
but uh he has an interesting accent. I mean what
(06:11):
happens is that I get them into uh it, you
almost train them so like at any time, I could
always go into a Morgan Freeman and narrate myself.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And that's when Frank realized he had no idea how
to answer that question.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So that's those are always in there, but trying to
get them. So I'm trying to think, who else are people?
I don't know, there's so many. Uh yeah, it's it's
it's kind it's it's when they when they're kind of
parodies of themselves, like Robert Danny Junior Belch is halfway
through a sentence. That's those types of things, ear.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Liam Neeson, I don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't know what you want. Those types of people
where they have something classic that you can go to
always is it works really well, or a Charles Barklan
goes that's just terrible, that's a really bad d don't
there knuckle here.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's awesome. Frank, thank you for joining us today. I
know you're at the Improv for two shows tomorrow six
and eight thirty and then six pm on Sunday, So
go see Frank Calliando. You will be thoroughly entertained. Frank,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Thanks the website improvtx dot com for tickets or Frank
onstage dot com get you there too. It just brings
you to their website. So thank you very much for
having me on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Man our pleasure, Frank Kelly Endo listen, you' all have
a great, great weekend. We will see you Monday morning,
bright and early at five am. Hope to see you
this afteringon at four on the AM nine fifty k
PRC
All plenty of people laughing at Frank kelliendo when he
appears at the improv this weekend. Frank, good morning, Welcome
to Houston's Morning News.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Pleasure to have you on. Can I have to start
with this. You were the best thing ever on the
Fox NFL pregame show. What happened there? The moment you
weren't there anymore? I stopped watching?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, thank you for that. I think they just got
tired of me and Terry Bradshaw every week going not
fun if Rank not fun? And then I tell him
after you'd be like, after the show'd be I talked
to him and I say, what was going on there?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I thought you were really funny, Frank. I just don't
like to say that on TV. I'm like, come on, man,
you're killing me here. But I think it just got
to run its course and we had fun and that
was it. I was there for nine years. People don't
realize how long that actually really.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I didn't realize it was nine years. That's amazing. Yeah,
that is amazing. All right. Let me start by this
question as well, And I kind of previewed this before
coming into the interview. Here do you consider yourself a
comedian who does impressions or an impressionist who does comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man, here's gonna be the worst answer ever. I think
I'm right in the middle. Uh, it's it's somewhere between
the two. Because you know, the old school, rich, little
type of impressionist who do things for a long period
of time. I kind of zip in and out. I
grew up watching Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, the old
school type of stuff. It was more about the setups
of the impressions. So for example, al Pacino would yell
(01:27):
for no reason. So I'd love to see somebody cast
them as a librarian because somebody's like, you know, in
the library, like she's like.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Where's the bee section? Where is the bee section?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That type of stuff. It's the it's the make and
observation and have fun with it. So that's that's where
I'm at it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
The thing you do so well is it seems like
you become the people you're impersonating. It's not just the
voice that you do, your your your facial features, everything
you you mimic, the way they look you. You you
mimic all of their gestures. It's it's a. It's really
quite amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, you know, And I always like that's why I
didn't do a lot of cartoon character voices and stuff
like that. I mean, George W. Bush was one and
uh was one that people really key in on. It's
it's the face, it's the eyebrows and stuff like that,
and the fact that you know you sell that with
he would get to the end of the sentence, he
wouldn't be able to think of that last word. You
find yourself kind of rooting for him to get he's
on TV. You'd be at home, but it'd be like
(02:19):
a scene from The water Boy because like you can
do it. You wanted to get there to talk about
something serious, like, uh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
These terrorists, these guys are uh, these guys are uh,
these guys are bad.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's like, sure, you had two choices, bad and not good.
I'm sorry, but that took too long. And I always
go with this stuff and have fun with it. I'd
hit both sides, which you know, in this day and age,
you see comedians just going after one side, usually the
same side. And me, it's about being silly and making
people laugh. I also do a very clean show, so
it's about the fun and you know, even with the
(02:51):
John Madden, which I heard you guys mentioned before, it's
almost like he's got marbles in his mouth the whole
time and just explained things. You're you know, if you
if the quarterback, if he throws the ball and the
receiver catches in the end zone, boom, that's gonna be
a touchdown. So it's always about the fun to me
and being silly.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, you bring up the politics, and it felt like
comedy was in danger there for a while. I think,
mercifully we're getting back to being able to make fun
at all things, as you say, But for a while there,
every somebody was always pod about something a comedian would
say and reacted to it in just unexpected ways.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, and a lot of times people that they worry
that you're going to, you know, just hit one side too.
I think that's the that's I believe in making fun
of things and having fun with it. So like I
will do some Donald Trump stuff. I do. My version
is like Library Trump.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's very quiet, it's very good, and it's a lot
of people are saying that's probably the best you could do.
But then I can see some faces like if he
going to just go into Trump the whole time. No, no, no, no,
I got a Joe Biden impression. It says, wandering around
back stage right now, don't worry. And then it's going
to that, and then the Biden, which is always going
back to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And he's terrible with numbers, you know, as.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A young man growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, thirty forty
five six, six hundred eighty is the far of the
Roman Empire, the Romans, the leader, the salad guy, and
defeated by Mario and Luigi, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So it's going back and forth between the two, and
we go back and forth, and then George Bush shows
up and whatever Barack Obama's and they're going, I let
me be clear, you talk like this one two, take
a space, and then three four, five, six seven George
Bush just says whatever. Donald Trump comes back and Joe Biden. Folks,
come on, let's get some ice cream.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh you're so good at just switching back and forth
between characters. I don't know how you do that. How
many impressions do you do? Have you ever bothered a
total of how many different people you do? I don't
not really. It's it's you know, probably about one hundred
active people. It's type of things you never know who
to is, Like, who's.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Going to know some of them? Sometimes, like there are
depressions that certain groups aren't even gonna like a John
c Riley, did you touch my drum?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Set?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You know, there's those that are a little bit weird
or Seth Rogan.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I annoyed to even do it.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
So sometimes you count some of these and people are like,
I'm not sure I even know who that is. That's why, Yeah,
I do. I talk about people in politics because everybody
knows them, but I don't do the actual politics because
everybody knows those people because we're so segmented as audiences
nowadays and program too directly.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
So if you ever had anybody try as hard as
you could, you just couldn't do an impression of them.
You tried, and you just couldn't get one that was good.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, that happens all the time. I mean, And the
way you know that I couldn't get him is you've
never seen me do it. That's pretty much. That's the way.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean, who would you really like to do but
you can't?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh, that's a good question. Who I would love to
be able to do it jd Vance just because he's
you know, he's the front and center. I've been working
on Elon Musk. Uh that's that's difficult because his rs
his is I don't have it set to muscle memory,
but uh he has an interesting accent. I mean what
(06:11):
happens is that I get them into uh it, you
almost train them so like at any time, I could
always go into a Morgan Freeman and narrate myself.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And that's when Frank realized he had no idea how
to answer that question.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So that's those are always in there, but trying to
get them. So I'm trying to think, who else are people?
I don't know, there's so many. Uh yeah, it's it's
it's kind it's it's when they when they're kind of
parodies of themselves, like Robert Danny Junior Belch is halfway
through a sentence. That's those types of things, ear.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Liam Neeson, I don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't know what you want. Those types of people
where they have something classic that you can go to
always is it works really well, or a Charles Barklan
goes that's just terrible, that's a really bad d don't
there knuckle here.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's awesome. Frank, thank you for joining us today. I
know you're at the Improv for two shows tomorrow six
and eight thirty and then six pm on Sunday, So
go see Frank Calliando. You will be thoroughly entertained. Frank,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Thanks the website improvtx dot com for tickets or Frank
onstage dot com get you there too. It just brings
you to their website. So thank you very much for
having me on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Man our pleasure, Frank Kelly Endo listen, you' all have
a great, great weekend. We will see you Monday morning,
bright and early at five am. Hope to see you
this afteringon at four on the AM nine fifty k
PRC
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