April 1, 2025 • 16 mins
Now with March behind us following the start of the MLB season and following the Madness tournament slowly coming to an end as we enter the Final Four weekend looking to see which final two teams will move on to compete for the championship, we now enter the month of April! With the exact date set at April 1st today, meaning April Fool's, joining 790 and a longtime comedian and impressionist just so happens to be Frank Caliendo. Sharing a bit of his best impressions and where he'll be showcasing his talents at this weekend here in Houston, Frank joins the show for a few minutes sharing how he's sustain such a phenomenal run at his career along with a few unforgettable impressions from voices we all know too well.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I live, but the Sean Salisbury Show continues.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rank welcome in with these shows, and I can't wait
to hear how they turn out for you, because you're
always spectacular. I'm do you still get nervous doing live
comedy on stage?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Uh? I wouldn't call it nervous. I would call it
I'm not sure what the what the word a little
anxious because a lot of these shows, I'm I'm doing
the stuff everybody knows, but I'm also working on a
bunch of different things. So it's I try not to
jump ship too fast and something that isn't working as
(00:39):
much as I'd like it too. So they will there
will be some bits that I throw in there that
I'm really trying to work on that those are the
ones I'm a little more Uh. They're not like committed
to memory yet or uh. And to make a sports
uh tie to this correlation, it's they're not trained, like
the muscle memory isn't there yet, so it's it's kind
(01:01):
of just finding the way. It's you know, it's it's
like you can do it in batting practice, but then
you get in the game and all of a sudden,
some of the balls, you know, moving a little bit
more than you expected.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is the great Frank Caliendo joins us here, comedian entertainer,
Sports Talk seven ninety Frank, You'll be at the improv
Saturday and Sunday. When do you know as a comedian
when it's hitting? You know, like sometimes in a pregame,
like in a football game, you're like not feeling well
and then you go out and you play your best
game or you think, man, this is going to be
a great one.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's like, man, you can't get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
When do you know, either pre or during show, that Okay,
I got my best stuff tonight and the crowd's into it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I kind of base it more on the crowd. I
feel like most of the time, I'm kind of trained
to do what I'm going to do, so I don't know.
There are times where you don't. That's the tough thing
about the job of comedy. Even when you don't feel
like doing it, you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Have to do it right.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's it's job. Just like being a professional athlete or
any kind of athlete, you have to go out there
and do it. I don't know, I just go out
there if the audience is having fun, even if you're
not having a great day or not feeling great. If
the audience is fun, it brings you up right so
and same thing is so I try to get the
audience there. If they're there right away, the show is
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tons of fun for me from the very beginning. If
they're not, I spend the first five minutes trying to
turn them into that or or it's just go the
opposite way and make fun of things that aren't working.
But I have built in, you know, things in my
act for when something isn't working the Morgan Freeman voice,
and that's when Frank realized the joke wasn't working the
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way he wanted it to. And that acknowledgment to the
audience lets them know, I know it's not going as great,
and then there's that moment of honesty, and that honesty
is what brings really brings things together, I think, and
can get it going. I do that a lot in
corporate shows. I do tons of core events where the
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audience is not warmed up at all. They're not ready
to go. Maybe they're more worried about the awards that
are gone that night, or there's an auction, so you
have to get them to that spot and that can
be fun as well. Sometimes that's more fun for me
because they've had entertainers there before that didn't go as well.
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The worst thing they could do to me do is lie.
Like a lot of times you go to do a
corporate event and they're like, you're gonna have so much
fun with this audience. It's it's that we have the
greatest people, and then afterward it didn't go well and
they're like, that was great for them. I'm like, I
thought you said great audience. Oh no, we didn't want
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to tell you they weren't good. I'm like, no, no,
tell me they aren't good. So I know going in
like I think I'm bombing. You think I'm crushing it.
One of the funniest stories I ever heard that's kind
of like that was Terry Bradshaw told me years ago.
He's like, I was up there doing my spinning my yarns,
telling my stories, doing my stuff, and I'm just dying
up there, Frank, I'm dying. I don't know what I
(04:08):
get off the stage. The CEO comes over and I
wanted to apologize. I was gonna give him back the money,
so I don't deserve this money. I don't think he
came up to me and said, Terry, you just did
the greatest show we've ever had. And I thought to myself,
you know what, the moral of this story is, never
tell him you're gonna get back the money.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You go there, you go facts, right, You don't ever
tell him that, right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah. So it was It's like, you just don't know
what an audience is going to be like in those situations.
So I'd rather know that they're not good. I'd rather
than give me the bad news ahead of time, and
then I can plan for that as opposed to they said,
these guys are always great and I'm dying up there.
And because it's just different a club like the Improv
in Houston, you're there to see comedy. It's not like
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you're going up before a musical act an unknown comedian
going up for a famous band, the worst or singer.
That's the worst thing in the world, because people are
there in the mind for music. At the comedy club,
people are there to see the comedy and that and
you and you give that to them.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The great Frank Caliendo, He'll be at the Improv Saturday
and Sunday. Great to have him on Entertainer and obviously
one of the great comedians we have in voice impersonators.
All right, so let me throw some things at you.
All Right, I'm like Ernie Johnson and Chuck's there Charles
Barkley and we're kind of talking NC two a basketball
and I just team up Chuck. Chuck, what do you
think about this tournament? How does he respond?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, that's a good question, Ernie, and then he looks
at his notes. That was the great that's that's basically
from my act when that happened this week, that last
week when Ernie says to him, what do you think
of the first half? And Charles had no idea because
he wasn't watching that game. But my joke was always
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what do you think of Charles?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Well, I think that's pretty good. But I'll tell you
what's really Vladimir Putin is crazy. That guy's going to
blow up the world.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Like he just changes to something.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So, you know, when Chuck hasn't really studied that game
or knows what the you know, doesn't really have a
take on that, but he can spin it to maybe
what happened with Shaq the night before, or what's going
on in politics.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
He never knows the names like he could be talking
about he should he should know, like Milos Uzan, but
he's like, the.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Guy with the red shoelacers did a really nice job,
and he passed to the guy with the headband.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they were really they were doing really, really well.
And then they're like, that's a different game, Chuck, Well,
you know, I wasn't watching that game. Guys, come on it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Have you ever done it in front of him?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Charles? I mean he loves it, doesn't he? What was
his response?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, when I did it was the first time I
did it with him? Was it? No, Actually it wasn't.
Now I'm trying to think. One of the first time
I ever did live in a show was in Phoenix
celebrate the Phoenix Son's Charities, celebrating all the Phoenix Sons
get back to the community and at the time the
greatest Phoenix Sons of all time. There are like three
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of them at that time. So it went pretty quickly.
So I meet with Charles backstage. I'm like, cause he's
he's gonna be in the front roll like, here's what
we do. I'm gonna go up on stage. I'm gonna
talk about you for two minutes. I'm gonna say that's terrible.
Call people knuckle here, and then for the next twenty
five minutes, I'm gonna talk about other people, and then
I'm gonna talk about you a second time. That second
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time I talk about you, I want you to come
up on stage make fun of me. You'll be the
hero of the night. What do you think is like that?
Felk perfect, That'll be really really good. Show starts. I'm
up there for a minute and a half talking about him.
Very is up on stage standing next to me. I'm like,
what are you doing up here? It's like I couldn't
take it anymore. Everybody said I had to get up
here at the filmoff and it was great. But it
was like it was so awesome and uh but I
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it was hard to follow because he went back down
and sat back down, and that's why I didn't want
him up there that early. But it was it was
really great. We talked about it afterwards. He is fun.
He told this story on the New Heights podcast. The
Kelsey Podcast. John Madden wanted to assume me years ago
for something, and Barkley told me that story maybe ten
years ago. I think he might have told me that.
(08:20):
I think it was at that event. He told me
He's like.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, John called me and he wanted to sue you, right,
And I was like, yeah, I've heard a little something
about him.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Wanting to do that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He's like, I'll try to talk about him, but I
told him it's always good if you're talking about us.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He didn't get it right away, but so that was
one of those moments. And I never told anybody that
story because I didn't know if Charles wanted it out
in the open and stuff like that. But then once
he told the story, I'm like, oh, I can tell.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That Mad, and Mad was okay with you after a while?
Did he Did he come around ever?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, he finally liked me. I met him at the
super Bowl in Dallas and was the Four Seasons Hotel
and Jimmy Johnson was standing next to him, and I'm like,
you know from Fox. I was like, Jimmy, can you
believe I'm this close to John. Ma's like what you meant? Him?
Yet taps Mad on the shoulders like what is a
And the look on his face. I tell this in
my act was like when Shaggy and Scooby, would you
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know jump see the bad guy jump out of the
bed like like let's get out of here, you know, that
kind of a thing. But I made his grandkids laugh.
And when I made Mad's grandkids laugh, that was kind
of the moment that turned around. It turned it around
for him.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you go ahead, Frank, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, most of the time people get it. I mean,
it's every once in a while they don't do some
of the sports guys who are put on pedestals. If
you're in the club, they don't mind you making fun
of them if you're a former athlete or if you've
played the game or something like that. But if you're this,
you know, goofy guy like me coming out of nowhere
just being you know, I'm five six, I don't you know,
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I don't look like I belong. So it's sometimes a
little tougher. But when they say it's about the silliness.
And a lot of times guys are worried it's gonna
hurt their bottom line. They're worried it's going to cost
the money in advertisements and stuff like that. Opposite was Gruden.
John Gruden embraced it from the very beginning. He's like,
after he met me, So I met him super Bowl,
that was in New Orleans and he's like, so you're
(10:16):
the guy does me? Huh? I'm making the faces and like,
how'd you figure that one out? Einstein? He's like, where
are you from? And I looked up where he was
from at the time, so I was like San DUSKYO high.
He's like really, I'm like no. He's like good because
you were blowing my mind. Man, But he got it
right away and that I've become good friends.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, John's John's around a bit, you know, doing all
the stuff for barstool. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Is this unfair of me, Frank?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Because I think you're so damned town of Frank Caliendo,
the great comedian entertainer joined us for a few more minutes.
Will be at the improv Saturday and Sunday. You got
to go check it out.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Is it fair of me? Or do people do this
because we're so intrigued with it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Could you have a conversation like about the combine with
Madden talking to Gruden and Gruden and Charles saying you
know how he does that is? Do you ever do
you have the three way conversations out? Unfair of me
to ask.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, I mean we could do a little bit of
that I gotta figure out who we're talking about right now,
we're talking about Shador Sanders interviews. I'm gonna talk about
a guy who's got a famous dad, and if you
pick him up, then you gotta deal with his dad
because his dad might end up being the coach. I
tell you one, man, that's a tremendous situation. Thinking about that.
If you if you picked Shador Sanders, who by the way,
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did not run or through at the combine, did his
own personal day, I guess is what you call him?
We should have come on the QB class, But can
you stop promoting your own QB class? And I'm gonna
do that. And the I'm gonna do a barstool pizza review,
guys bringing a couple of knuckleheads.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
The door stander's gonna get picked near the top. That's
that's about all we're gonna talk about. Next topic, how's that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Does that work?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Phenomenal? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
All right? So I'm gonna judge Virginia talking about tremendous situations.
Should do SATs is the famous dad? At the end
of the day, you look at what he's gonna be
doing again. Does a tremendous job. Make it makes the
a red b read, first read secondary, all the reads.
Got the ability, he's got the ability to get out
of the pocket, throw a different arm, angles, a high
upside from vend diusability. You got a lot of different
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gold he can wear too. He does a great job
with some of those things. At the end of the day,
Shador Sander's going to be top five pick. You be
hardprested on the otherwise.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, well listen, mel Kiper, I'm curious because we'd like
you to do a crossover into the NBA and maybe
break down Cooper Flag's chances against the University of Houston
and Calvin Samson's defense.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, I'm talking about about Calvin Samson. They're really shutting
down everybody. They get keeping teams to bout fifteen points
in the first half. Calvin Sampson. You look at a
great job they're doing that. But Duke very long, tremendous athletes,
got mala watch is seven foot two, maybe an eight
foot wingspan. But then you look at the greatness of
Cooper Flag, A lot of people comparing him to Grant
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Hill doing a great job, and you get to do
the pull up got the three point you scores from
all three levels, might even add a fourth level with
Cooper flag. But you look at the explos of this,
the ability to handle the ball, It's gonna be hard
to shut down the different numbers Continento. Sometimes you wonder
if they're gonna even let you say his last name.
It's one of those kinds of guys. You take a
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look tyresee Proctor doing a great job as well, what
Milos uson? What's gonna do? I think who's gonna guard whom?
You know as Zion James looks like a linebacker. Probably
gonna get drafted out of Duke to the to the Houston, Texas.
You know, I look at what's going on at the
end of the day. You got a tremendous job by
both teams. Sam's gonna help that they make the shots,
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and I think they got a possibility. But you know,
I think it's gonna be a little a io you
and sometimes why are my favoritevolves?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You are friggin priceless the shows before you go and
tell tell us what did the times of the shows?
And right over here at the improv and Frank Kelly
end will be there. This weekend and we love having
you on. Is there a new one or a voice
that you don't do as much that like an actor
or somebody that we don't hear you do as much,
but you're damn good at it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is there one that you need to get out more?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Uh? Yeah, there's a there. I mean there's a few.
It's hard to find the right bits for them that
the people that you know, people know the sports ones,
the added spies, sure, those kinds, but they don't know
like the John c Riley did you touch my drum? Set?
I mean I didn't even know I really did that?
Or Seth Rogan, I need no idea. I wasn't even
in this arsenal, those types of those types of voices. Uh,
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you know a lot of people still don't know anything
that Robert Downey Junior just burp out the punchlines. Uh.
So there are quite a few like that, and that's
part of what this little tour is about finding some
of the and expanding on those in the act a
little bit more so. So. Yeah, those I think those
are a few you might not have known about. There's
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there's and some just don't work on stage, you know,
I do John Malkovich. You no one cares, you know,
so doing that or Leonardo DiCaprio, you know, five years
ago when I first started straton O quont you know
those there's little bits of uh ones like that. So
finding the right uh, you know, it's easier with the
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sports guys because you just make them analysts, right, absolutely,
John Madden could break down an everyday thing.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So, Frank, phenomenal stuff. I wish we had two hours
with you, but I know you've got to do a
ton of this. So your times on Saturday and Sunday
at the Improv are.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Uh really First of all, Ernie, I went bark then
because I don't know what to touch guys like seven
on stage.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Here it is here, I got it right here. It's
give us the website, Frank again for you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, Improv t X goes straight to the Houston Improv
site Saturday it's on stage dot com. Yeah, brings you
to that, brings you to them as well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay, Frank on stage, Just so you know your times
Saturday at six pm, Chuck Charles and uh, Saturday at
eight thirty and then Sunday at six so you're six,
eight thirty and six on three shows and two days
and what a treat it's going to be. And Frank,
you're always welcome here, my man, you are you are
always welcome here.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You guys know I was working on the Cometa aspect
and not really the times of the show, So that's
what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Erniet, back to you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You're the best.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Frank.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And I know that you're going to have a great
time this weekend and so will all the people there.
And go kill it, man, and we look forward to
not only the old material but all the great new
stuff you bring out too.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Come on and join us again. Brother, We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Thanks man, Thanks great Frank Caliendo.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
There is nobody better on the planet doing voices and
to be able to weave them all in at once
a plethora.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He's the best. That's Frank, calliender.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We'll come back quick top of the hour and get
back for the nine o'clock hour next
I live, but the Sean Salisbury Show continues.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Rank welcome in with these shows, and I can't wait
to hear how they turn out for you, because you're
always spectacular. I'm do you still get nervous doing live
comedy on stage?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Uh? I wouldn't call it nervous. I would call it
I'm not sure what the what the word a little
anxious because a lot of these shows, I'm I'm doing
the stuff everybody knows, but I'm also working on a
bunch of different things. So it's I try not to
jump ship too fast and something that isn't working as
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much as I'd like it too. So they will there
will be some bits that I throw in there that
I'm really trying to work on that those are the
ones I'm a little more Uh. They're not like committed
to memory yet or uh. And to make a sports
uh tie to this correlation, it's they're not trained, like
the muscle memory isn't there yet, so it's it's kind
(01:01):
of just finding the way. It's you know, it's it's
like you can do it in batting practice, but then
you get in the game and all of a sudden,
some of the balls, you know, moving a little bit
more than you expected.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Is the great Frank Caliendo joins us here, comedian entertainer,
Sports Talk seven ninety Frank, You'll be at the improv
Saturday and Sunday. When do you know as a comedian
when it's hitting? You know, like sometimes in a pregame,
like in a football game, you're like not feeling well
and then you go out and you play your best
game or you think, man, this is going to be
a great one.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's like, man, you can't get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
When do you know, either pre or during show, that Okay,
I got my best stuff tonight and the crowd's into it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I kind of base it more on the crowd. I
feel like most of the time, I'm kind of trained
to do what I'm going to do, so I don't know.
There are times where you don't. That's the tough thing
about the job of comedy. Even when you don't feel
like doing it, you.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Have to do it right.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's it's job. Just like being a professional athlete or
any kind of athlete, you have to go out there
and do it. I don't know, I just go out
there if the audience is having fun, even if you're
not having a great day or not feeling great. If
the audience is fun, it brings you up right so
and same thing is so I try to get the
audience there. If they're there right away, the show is
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tons of fun for me from the very beginning. If
they're not, I spend the first five minutes trying to
turn them into that or or it's just go the
opposite way and make fun of things that aren't working.
But I have built in, you know, things in my
act for when something isn't working the Morgan Freeman voice,
and that's when Frank realized the joke wasn't working the
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way he wanted it to. And that acknowledgment to the
audience lets them know, I know it's not going as great,
and then there's that moment of honesty, and that honesty
is what brings really brings things together, I think, and
can get it going. I do that a lot in
corporate shows. I do tons of core events where the
(03:02):
audience is not warmed up at all. They're not ready
to go. Maybe they're more worried about the awards that
are gone that night, or there's an auction, so you
have to get them to that spot and that can
be fun as well. Sometimes that's more fun for me
because they've had entertainers there before that didn't go as well.
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The worst thing they could do to me do is lie.
Like a lot of times you go to do a
corporate event and they're like, you're gonna have so much
fun with this audience. It's it's that we have the
greatest people, and then afterward it didn't go well and
they're like, that was great for them. I'm like, I
thought you said great audience. Oh no, we didn't want
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to tell you they weren't good. I'm like, no, no,
tell me they aren't good. So I know going in
like I think I'm bombing. You think I'm crushing it.
One of the funniest stories I ever heard that's kind
of like that was Terry Bradshaw told me years ago.
He's like, I was up there doing my spinning my yarns,
telling my stories, doing my stuff, and I'm just dying
up there, Frank, I'm dying. I don't know what I
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get off the stage. The CEO comes over and I
wanted to apologize. I was gonna give him back the money,
so I don't deserve this money. I don't think he
came up to me and said, Terry, you just did
the greatest show we've ever had. And I thought to myself,
you know what, the moral of this story is, never
tell him you're gonna get back the money.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You go there, you go facts, right, You don't ever
tell him that, right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah. So it was It's like, you just don't know
what an audience is going to be like in those situations.
So I'd rather know that they're not good. I'd rather
than give me the bad news ahead of time, and
then I can plan for that as opposed to they said,
these guys are always great and I'm dying up there.
And because it's just different a club like the Improv
in Houston, you're there to see comedy. It's not like
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you're going up before a musical act an unknown comedian
going up for a famous band, the worst or singer.
That's the worst thing in the world, because people are
there in the mind for music. At the comedy club,
people are there to see the comedy and that and
you and you give that to them.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The great Frank Caliendo, He'll be at the Improv Saturday
and Sunday. Great to have him on Entertainer and obviously
one of the great comedians we have in voice impersonators.
All right, so let me throw some things at you.
All Right, I'm like Ernie Johnson and Chuck's there Charles
Barkley and we're kind of talking NC two a basketball
and I just team up Chuck. Chuck, what do you
think about this tournament? How does he respond?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, that's a good question, Ernie, and then he looks
at his notes. That was the great that's that's basically
from my act when that happened this week, that last
week when Ernie says to him, what do you think
of the first half? And Charles had no idea because
he wasn't watching that game. But my joke was always
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what do you think of Charles?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Well, I think that's pretty good. But I'll tell you
what's really Vladimir Putin is crazy. That guy's going to
blow up the world.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Like he just changes to something.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So, you know, when Chuck hasn't really studied that game
or knows what the you know, doesn't really have a
take on that, but he can spin it to maybe
what happened with Shaq the night before, or what's going
on in politics.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
He never knows the names like he could be talking
about he should he should know, like Milos Uzan, but
he's like, the.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Guy with the red shoelacers did a really nice job,
and he passed to the guy with the headband.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And they were really they were doing really, really well.
And then they're like, that's a different game, Chuck, Well,
you know, I wasn't watching that game. Guys, come on it.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Have you ever done it in front of him?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Charles? I mean he loves it, doesn't he? What was
his response?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, when I did it was the first time I
did it with him? Was it? No, Actually it wasn't.
Now I'm trying to think. One of the first time
I ever did live in a show was in Phoenix
celebrate the Phoenix Son's Charities, celebrating all the Phoenix Sons
get back to the community and at the time the
greatest Phoenix Sons of all time. There are like three
(07:17):
of them at that time. So it went pretty quickly.
So I meet with Charles backstage. I'm like, cause he's
he's gonna be in the front roll like, here's what
we do. I'm gonna go up on stage. I'm gonna
talk about you for two minutes. I'm gonna say that's terrible.
Call people knuckle here, and then for the next twenty
five minutes, I'm gonna talk about other people, and then
I'm gonna talk about you a second time. That second
(07:37):
time I talk about you, I want you to come
up on stage make fun of me. You'll be the
hero of the night. What do you think is like that?
Felk perfect, That'll be really really good. Show starts. I'm
up there for a minute and a half talking about him.
Very is up on stage standing next to me. I'm like,
what are you doing up here? It's like I couldn't
take it anymore. Everybody said I had to get up
here at the filmoff and it was great. But it
was like it was so awesome and uh but I
(08:00):
it was hard to follow because he went back down
and sat back down, and that's why I didn't want
him up there that early. But it was it was
really great. We talked about it afterwards. He is fun.
He told this story on the New Heights podcast. The
Kelsey Podcast. John Madden wanted to assume me years ago
for something, and Barkley told me that story maybe ten
years ago. I think he might have told me that.
(08:20):
I think it was at that event. He told me
He's like.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, John called me and he wanted to sue you, right,
And I was like, yeah, I've heard a little something
about him.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Wanting to do that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
He's like, I'll try to talk about him, but I
told him it's always good if you're talking about us.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
He didn't get it right away, but so that was
one of those moments. And I never told anybody that
story because I didn't know if Charles wanted it out
in the open and stuff like that. But then once
he told the story, I'm like, oh, I can tell.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That Mad, and Mad was okay with you after a while?
Did he Did he come around ever?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, he finally liked me. I met him at the
super Bowl in Dallas and was the Four Seasons Hotel
and Jimmy Johnson was standing next to him, and I'm like,
you know from Fox. I was like, Jimmy, can you
believe I'm this close to John. Ma's like what you meant? Him?
Yet taps Mad on the shoulders like what is a
And the look on his face. I tell this in
my act was like when Shaggy and Scooby, would you
(09:13):
know jump see the bad guy jump out of the
bed like like let's get out of here, you know, that
kind of a thing. But I made his grandkids laugh.
And when I made Mad's grandkids laugh, that was kind
of the moment that turned around. It turned it around
for him.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So you go ahead, Frank, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, most of the time people get it. I mean,
it's every once in a while they don't do some
of the sports guys who are put on pedestals. If
you're in the club, they don't mind you making fun
of them if you're a former athlete or if you've
played the game or something like that. But if you're this,
you know, goofy guy like me coming out of nowhere
just being you know, I'm five six, I don't you know,
(09:52):
I don't look like I belong. So it's sometimes a
little tougher. But when they say it's about the silliness.
And a lot of times guys are worried it's gonna
hurt their bottom line. They're worried it's going to cost
the money in advertisements and stuff like that. Opposite was Gruden.
John Gruden embraced it from the very beginning. He's like,
after he met me, So I met him super Bowl,
that was in New Orleans and he's like, so you're
(10:16):
the guy does me? Huh? I'm making the faces and like,
how'd you figure that one out? Einstein? He's like, where
are you from? And I looked up where he was
from at the time, so I was like San DUSKYO high.
He's like really, I'm like no. He's like good because
you were blowing my mind. Man, But he got it
right away and that I've become good friends.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, John's John's around a bit, you know, doing all
the stuff for barstool. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Is this unfair of me, Frank?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Because I think you're so damned town of Frank Caliendo,
the great comedian entertainer joined us for a few more minutes.
Will be at the improv Saturday and Sunday. You got
to go check it out.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Is it fair of me? Or do people do this
because we're so intrigued with it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Could you have a conversation like about the combine with
Madden talking to Gruden and Gruden and Charles saying you
know how he does that is? Do you ever do
you have the three way conversations out? Unfair of me
to ask.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, I mean we could do a little bit of
that I gotta figure out who we're talking about right now,
we're talking about Shador Sanders interviews. I'm gonna talk about
a guy who's got a famous dad, and if you
pick him up, then you gotta deal with his dad
because his dad might end up being the coach. I
tell you one, man, that's a tremendous situation. Thinking about that.
If you if you picked Shador Sanders, who by the way,
(11:27):
did not run or through at the combine, did his
own personal day, I guess is what you call him?
We should have come on the QB class, But can
you stop promoting your own QB class? And I'm gonna
do that. And the I'm gonna do a barstool pizza review,
guys bringing a couple of knuckleheads.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
The door stander's gonna get picked near the top. That's
that's about all we're gonna talk about. Next topic, how's that?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Does that work?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Phenomenal? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
All right? So I'm gonna judge Virginia talking about tremendous situations.
Should do SATs is the famous dad? At the end
of the day, you look at what he's gonna be
doing again. Does a tremendous job. Make it makes the
a red b read, first read secondary, all the reads.
Got the ability, he's got the ability to get out
of the pocket, throw a different arm, angles, a high
upside from vend diusability. You got a lot of different
(12:11):
gold he can wear too. He does a great job
with some of those things. At the end of the day,
Shador Sander's going to be top five pick. You be
hardprested on the otherwise.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, well listen, mel Kiper, I'm curious because we'd like
you to do a crossover into the NBA and maybe
break down Cooper Flag's chances against the University of Houston
and Calvin Samson's defense.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, I'm talking about about Calvin Samson. They're really shutting
down everybody. They get keeping teams to bout fifteen points
in the first half. Calvin Sampson. You look at a
great job they're doing that. But Duke very long, tremendous athletes,
got mala watch is seven foot two, maybe an eight
foot wingspan. But then you look at the greatness of
Cooper Flag, A lot of people comparing him to Grant
(12:51):
Hill doing a great job, and you get to do
the pull up got the three point you scores from
all three levels, might even add a fourth level with
Cooper flag. But you look at the explos of this,
the ability to handle the ball, It's gonna be hard
to shut down the different numbers Continento. Sometimes you wonder
if they're gonna even let you say his last name.
It's one of those kinds of guys. You take a
(13:12):
look tyresee Proctor doing a great job as well, what
Milos uson? What's gonna do? I think who's gonna guard whom?
You know as Zion James looks like a linebacker. Probably
gonna get drafted out of Duke to the to the Houston, Texas.
You know, I look at what's going on at the
end of the day. You got a tremendous job by
both teams. Sam's gonna help that they make the shots,
(13:34):
and I think they got a possibility. But you know,
I think it's gonna be a little a io you
and sometimes why are my favoritevolves?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You are friggin priceless the shows before you go and
tell tell us what did the times of the shows?
And right over here at the improv and Frank Kelly
end will be there. This weekend and we love having
you on. Is there a new one or a voice
that you don't do as much that like an actor
or somebody that we don't hear you do as much,
but you're damn good at it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is there one that you need to get out more?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Uh? Yeah, there's a there. I mean there's a few.
It's hard to find the right bits for them that
the people that you know, people know the sports ones,
the added spies, sure, those kinds, but they don't know
like the John c Riley did you touch my drum? Set?
I mean I didn't even know I really did that?
Or Seth Rogan, I need no idea. I wasn't even
in this arsenal, those types of those types of voices. Uh,
(14:26):
you know a lot of people still don't know anything
that Robert Downey Junior just burp out the punchlines. Uh.
So there are quite a few like that, and that's
part of what this little tour is about finding some
of the and expanding on those in the act a
little bit more so. So. Yeah, those I think those
are a few you might not have known about. There's
(14:48):
there's and some just don't work on stage, you know,
I do John Malkovich. You no one cares, you know,
so doing that or Leonardo DiCaprio, you know, five years
ago when I first started straton O quont you know
those there's little bits of uh ones like that. So
finding the right uh, you know, it's easier with the
(15:09):
sports guys because you just make them analysts, right, absolutely,
John Madden could break down an everyday thing.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
So, Frank, phenomenal stuff. I wish we had two hours
with you, but I know you've got to do a
ton of this. So your times on Saturday and Sunday
at the Improv are.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Uh really First of all, Ernie, I went bark then
because I don't know what to touch guys like seven
on stage.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Here it is here, I got it right here. It's
give us the website, Frank again for you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, Improv t X goes straight to the Houston Improv
site Saturday it's on stage dot com. Yeah, brings you
to that, brings you to them as well.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Okay, Frank on stage, Just so you know your times
Saturday at six pm, Chuck Charles and uh, Saturday at
eight thirty and then Sunday at six so you're six,
eight thirty and six on three shows and two days
and what a treat it's going to be. And Frank,
you're always welcome here, my man, you are you are
always welcome here.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You guys know I was working on the Cometa aspect
and not really the times of the show, So that's
what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Erniet, back to you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You're the best.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Frank.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And I know that you're going to have a great
time this weekend and so will all the people there.
And go kill it, man, and we look forward to
not only the old material but all the great new
stuff you bring out too.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Come on and join us again. Brother, We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Thanks man, Thanks great Frank Caliendo.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
There is nobody better on the planet doing voices and
to be able to weave them all in at once
a plethora.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
He's the best. That's Frank, calliender.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
We'll come back quick top of the hour and get
back for the nine o'clock hour next
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