Return of Killer Beaz

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Re show weekday afternoons from five till seven.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It says the Uncle Henry Show Here on news radio
seven ten WNTM. Thank you for listening to the Uncle
Henry Show. And I'm proud to welcome back to the
Uncle Henry Show microphones Killer Bees, Killer Bees is back,
Killer Bees, thank you for coming out.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Hey man, good to see you.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Great to see you again. Killer Bees is on the
radio to tell us he is doing some comedy in Mobile, Alabama.
You've got a December show at the Crescent Theater.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
That's right, that's right, December the fifth at the Christent Theater.
I think that's a Friday night. It is, yeah, December fifth.
And man, I gotta say, Zeke and the guys down there,
I've known them and known of them for several several years.
You know, we went a long long time in Mobile
that a quote unquote comedy scene, and these guys kept

(01:06):
that dream alive. You know, they had different open mics
around the area. I would sit in on some and
and whatnot. But to see that they've stayed at it,
that they've actually beat that learning curve and low and behold,
they know what they're doing. They're bringing they're bringing in
legit pro comics and it's a really neat thing. So

(01:30):
I'm honored and proud to get to come in there
and do a show man.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Okay, So the show is going to be Friday, December
fifth at the Crescent Theater inmobile showtime seven p m.
For people. This is good. People like me can go
to this.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I'll tell you something about an early show.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I have a lot of fans these days that don't
like driving a lot after dark.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, it's true. So there's that there is. But anyway,
so man, they're doing stand up down there. They're also
showing some classic films and stuff. So it's really ah.
If I can say hip little place, you know, I'll
say that.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, So anyway, Tika to be there.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Man.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Tickets y'all at are at the Crescent Theater. But also
Killerbees dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I think there b e a z. If not, it
ll tell you go to the Crescent Theater site.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, Crescenttheater dot com also and you can look, uh
and see who else is coming. But killer Bees is
Friday December fifth, now, uh.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
And it's a rare home you know, It's it's rarely
these days for me to perform in Mobile because I'm
road dogging.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's so hard out there.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
What are the last two to three cities you've been
in doing common Tifton, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
O Call of Florida, Brunswick, Georgia. Okay, not West Palm Bees,
Cocoa Beach coming up before long? I think maybe a
month or so. I've got Ormond Beach. I think that's
right above Daytona. There's Pittsburgh, Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Nice coming up.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
I think i'd have to look.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's a big blur at Killerbees dot com bea z Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
So your show Friday, December fifth, So from your standpoint,
your profession as a stand up comedian, how are crowds
different for the night of the week. Is a Friday
night crowd different than Saturday?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
The only big difference is, well, one, your Saturday people
are generally more partiers because they've planned it in advance.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Let's go Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, Okay.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
The Friday night people are good as well because the weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Started to pump up.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
But Friday night audiences get tired or quicker. That's why
when we were all out doing the comedy club circuit,
the Kiss of Death show was late Show Friday, because
people had gotten up at the crack of dawn, they
got ready to go to work, they went, they spent
a day working, They rushed to get home to get

(04:08):
ready to go out. They busted out, went somewhere to
get something to eat. They're already having cocktails and stuff.
Has been a long day, you know, come ten o'clock
at night, that's when they're generally winding down and now
there's a show. So it's hard to get good energy
sometimes on Late Show Friday. In fact, sir, yes, Steve

(04:29):
Martin was asked why he quit doing stand up comedy
in the clubs and he said, late show Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, so that is.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Do That is absolutely you know, and it's never the audience,
but sometimes it's the audience, gotcha.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
There's environmental concerns.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That's why I asked that question. I'm curious now throughout
your career have you played what is the latest you've
gone on stage? In your career?

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Have you done any like two AM stuff? Probably one o'clock,
one amy, something like that. You know, back when I
was a big deal in the comedy clubs, there were
lots of Saturdays and a lot of different markets where
we would do three shows, and so generally you'd try
to get that late show started at about eleven fifteen,

(05:20):
but it would be eleven thirty quarter to midnight whatever.
But different scenarios, man. You you know when you're in
resort areas a lot of times the shows will start later. Yeah,
because people are out doing their pre show part and
just just so that they'll be stupid to know when

(05:40):
they come in from overdrinking that they won't get the material.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
What is the Is there a rowdiest time late show Friday?
Oh that's also going to be routed tore up and stuff.
You did mean to get those people didn't mean to?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah? Yeah, okay, oh man, I didn't mean to. Of
course that their whole ar trode. We were telling you
the whole time.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Have you have you ever had an object thrown at you?

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I had a shoe thrown at me? One time?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
You had a shoe?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, well, actually one time I had a shoe thrown
at me. But also at another time, I used to
do a thing about an item that was in my
wife's purse, and I would say, and there's a chick
lit stuck to it, a green one, and I was
on stage in Statesborough, Georgia, And I said that line

(06:32):
and the whole audience had gotten together and bought chick
lits and threw handfuls of chick lits at the stage,
and that antiq was not well received by me because
I'm like, what if you had hit my retina? Yes,
and I'd have like triple vision or something. You can't
count your money when you got triple vision, had even

(06:52):
three dollars? Think you got thirty?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Uh huh, So I mean you can do the.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Math on that, but anyway, yes, but but it made
such an impression that you remember where you were when
people I.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Certainly do, and I had and there was a band
that was playing and it was in a honky tonk,
and there was a band that was played in all
their gear was set up behind me, man, and these
chicklets were hitting people's expensive guitars and all this.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I mean, whoever thought that was stupid? And I went,
that was your bit? Oh you know what, y'all need
to quit those in stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, I'm glad it didn't become a trend though it did.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Not correct correct, thank goodness, thank goodness. And they you
see artists all over the place. I have several friends
out of Nashville who have been struck with fine objects man,
everything from cell phones to water bottles and bracelets.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yes, it's become a thing in country music. Over the
course of this last year, several artists have stopped their
concerts because they got hit in the head with something.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Right now, see it, it's not like the old days.
If you get if you're on stage singing or doing
your act and you get hitting the head with a
paddy bra it's not gonna hurt you, right, And that's
all they threw back in old timey days. But now
they're throwing cell phones, shotgun shell cass.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Wow, I made that part of Oh they could well,
that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
That's dramatic, yea. Or chicklets. As you said, they can
hurt as well.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
They could smuggle in bunnies and toss them at the
stage if they had a mind to you ever been
to an analys Cooper's a concert?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I have not been to analysts. You have, though, what
did you sneak yet?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh? You have nine?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Well seeing him on TV? So the golf one time.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now, the reason I said the killer bees has been
to one it's because I was in the last week
or two, I've seen you on social media putting them
all these pictures with Leonard Skinner and stuff. I just assumed,
thank guys, well, what we.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Got to take a break.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
We're gonna come back with more. Killer Bees doing comedy
December fifth at the Crescent Theater. You can get tickets
at Crescenttheater dot com. You know, so go to Killerbees
dot com. Back with more from Killer Bees after the
break here on News Radio seven ten WNTM. You can
also watch us on YouTube.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
This is the Uncle Henry Show on NewsRadio seven ten WNTM.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
It is five point twenty here at news Radio seven
ten WNTM the Uncle Henry Show with news headlines coming
up in ten minutes. Killer Bees is back. Killer Bees
doing a comedy show at the Crescent Theater in Mobile, Friday,
December fifth. Tickets available now at Crescenttheater dot com. Now,
Killer Bees, you've done a lot of radio through your career.

(09:48):
I know you've been on the John Boy and Billy
Show a lot throughout your career. A lot of people
around the country discovered you there and I wanted you
to tell me about them hanging it up. I understand
the boy and Billy show is ending at the end
of this year.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
That's right, That's what I heard too, man, and those
guys were so instrumental in helping myself a comic named
Tim Wilson, and also James Gregory. Way back during the
John Boy and Billy heyday, if you will, when they
had two hundred plus affiliates and all that. They kind
of took the three of us under their wing and

(10:25):
promoted us, did gigs with us for decades, and so
it's a very bittersweet thing to see that show going
away because they were such a big part of my
life and career. I was talking to Jackie the other
day and we're emailing with Marcy and now we're going
to try to go over there sometime between now when

(10:47):
they're done and do a reunion show where I get
to sit in for the show with them. I think
we're gonna be able to work that. Everybody's wanting to
do it, so we'll have to see if we can
work that at But they were so good, man, there's
so many of.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Us now, you being on that show for years, did
you meet some of the some of the people from
Lynyrd Skinner there or did you meet them different places.
Did the John Boy and Billy Show help you meet
some of your musical heroes?

Speaker 4 (11:17):
No, Actually, the skinnered guys saw me on I think
the Crooking Chase show on Tea and Inn way back
in on time of days when I was doing all
the CMT shows, all the TNN shows, when I was
in Nashville. But I was in a parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama,
and a van pulled up. My wife had our baby,

(11:38):
and the first big load to get with the bailman
going up in the hotel. And I'm standing by the
car and this van pulls up and these long haired
guys get out. And that's back when I had my
big giant mullet.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I kind of do the old headwave hey dude
to them. They did it to me, and one of
them goes, man, are you that comedian that some of
the Nashville networks. So now I've been recognized. Yes, man,
I'm puffed up, you know. So I go strutting over
there doing my cowboard bull rider walk, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
And so I get over there and I'm like, yeah, man,
that's me and we love you. You're great. I'm like yeah right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
So I go, well, look, man, I'm doing a show
tonight in town. I can hook y'all up if y'all
want to come out. And one of them said, well,
we got to play tonight, so I knew that I
could tell they were being So I go, where are
y'all playing? And Uncle Henry, one of the other guys, goes, well,
we're Lenyard skinnerd And I'm like oh. So suddenly I
was not quite as puffed up, lost about eight pounds

(12:37):
in my chest immediately. But as soon as they said that,
my wife and the baby showed up, and I went
a baby and ran to her and started playing with
our little boy because their families weren't home. But anyway,
their manager walked up and asked me if I had
a cassette tape VHS tape of my act, and I

(12:59):
said I do not, but the comedy club has a camera,
and if they've got a blank tape, I'll make one tonight.
Lower them behold fast forward. I'm getting ready to go
to work. I put on back then I was wearing
a sports coat that was black and white, splotchy like
a hosting cow. Yeah, and a bolo time a big
belt buckle black jeans and boots that were black and white,

(13:23):
splotchy like a hosting cow with the furs still on them.
So anyway, so that was my stage where we get
on the elevator, we go downstairs, the elevating elevator open,
and straight across the hall, the other elevator opened and
it was the Skinnered guys in their stage gear, and
so then we all busted out laughing at each other.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
So anyway, long story short man, I made this tape,
had the audience in the middle of it turn around
and cheer for the Skinnered band and all that. We
get back to the hotel after work, and when we're
getting out of our vehicle, lower them behold that same
van I'd seen earlier come screeching into the parking lot.
The Skinnered guys come rolling out of its steam coming

(14:07):
off of them because they were only seven minutes done
with playing free Bird, and.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
So they come straight from the start on amphitheater.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
So anyway, and the and their manager walked straight up
to and I handed it in that tape. So big
score right then. So now we had returned to the
hotel where a gallon of beef vegetable soup that the
cook at the hotel at the comedy club had given
us because he knew we were on tour, had the
baby with us. We take kitchen supplies. We're on the

(14:36):
elevator us and skinnered, and one of them goes, man,
is that food? And another one of them goes, we
hadn't eating all day long, And so the lovely miscorporate
my wife goes, are y'all hungry?

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah, y'all want to come eat soup?

Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, So they all piled up in our hotel room
and we ate soup together and listen to the final
edit on a little video on a little cassette tape,
the final edit of the last Rebel album okay, And
so then we parted ways.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
The next day.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
And three months later, I was gigging in Nashville and
they hit me up and they went, man, you gotta
come see if we want you to come hang with us,
And so they thought I was the bomb.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Billy Powell, the piano player, wanted to be a comedian.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
We were on their tour bus one night, going to
Saint Louis from somewhere, and Billy Powell says, man, you
gotta look at my tape and all the other band
members go no, no, like that. He had done this
character called Little Jimmy where he would sit behind his
grand piano and riff on piano and then do one liners.

(15:47):
And obviously the whole band had seen it so many
times they were just say no no. But he had
to play it for me. In the whole time. They
were just like, oh my gosh, which h and I
get it because it was pretty cringe.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
This his heart.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
But that just blew me away that that he was
gearing up working on his comedy act.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
So fun fact, nobody knows.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, well, Killer Bees, we've got me and the listener.
We just have to pause and reflect for just a moment.
The fact you've told us this story. Most of us
would imagine you're meeting a band like Leonard Skinnard, that
y'all be partying, that you tear the hotel room up
and be this just epic party. And instead the story
is that you all went up and ate soup. We

(16:32):
all went to a hotel room and ate soup together.
I mean, that's that's just the opp reality, way stranger
than than what we're gonna make up.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
True that man, true that, But anyway, so they kind
of adopted me then, and UH their their manager Paul Abraham,
who also managed UH was the tour manager for Billy
Ray Cyrus and Bad Company, owe to book about his
exploits called The Gospel according to Abraham, and I actually

(17:06):
have a Killer Bees chapter.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh wow, okay book. Now here's the funny part. It's
a one page chapter.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Okay, but but I am in the book and there's
pictures of me with the band and stuff like that.
So it was really because they were real good to me.
We really got some neat stuff accomplished.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
So now you the last time you were here, we're
almost we're almost out of time for this segment of
the show, so I'll save these questions. But we've got
so you are going to try to go and be
on Big John boyn Billy before this.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
I am yeah, We're we're in works of trying to
get that to happen right now.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Okay, So you can see Killer Bees do his stand
up comedy Friday, December fifth at the Crescent Theater in
Downtown Mobile. Get your tickets at Crescenttheater dot com. Get
them at Killerbees dot com. We're gonna take a time
out for news headlines and then back with more questions
for Killer Bees here on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
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Speaker 4 (18:17):
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Speaker 2 (18:31):
Uncle Henry's Show here on news Radio seven ten WNTM.
Killerbes is back on the show Killer Bees doing stand
up comedy at the Crescent Theater in Mobile Friday, December fifth.
Tickets on sale now Crescenttheater dot com, Killerbees dot com.
Now killer Be's Thanksgiving is coming up in your career,

(18:54):
have you had to miss holidays? Have you had to
be on the road doing comedy during holiday time?

Speaker 4 (19:00):
I have? I have back in no timey days when
you've got to turn down no gigs, you've right to
get that stage name and if you're motivated to do it,
there's that's the dues.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's part of the dues that you pay. So never
had to.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Miss Christmas because of it? What was on the road
for some Thanksgivings and Easters and stuff. But uh, you know,
if it's something you love doing and you want to
excel at it, you have to put in the time
and you can't practice. You can't practice of performing art
on your own. You've got to be in front of
an audience. You've got to have that that little bit

(19:38):
of a tension in there because you're you know you
that is man. Your breath control gets jacked up when
you're under durest your motor skills. You've got to practice
it under those conditions, and you've got to go do
it in order to do it.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
So, now, what was Thanksgiving like for you as a kid? Gigantic?
Did you have a lot of family for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 4 (19:58):
We had There was six in the family and we
lived out of state from the cousins and stuff. So
we never oh so we never had the big fifty
six people show up at the house when all the
turkeys all from all from Alabama, so.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
All them from Op.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
You know, when you got relatives and OP, you tell
we're gonna eat it approximately so and so they bring
to go boxes.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
So how do you like to celebrate it now at
this point in your life, this stage in your life, I.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Like to be still man.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
I have spent forty four and a half years on
the road travel travel, travel, which is a blessing. I've
seen so many sites I've done so many things, but
now I long to be able to just sit in
my chair and hold my dog and hold my remote
and channel surfing, not have terrain passing by.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, So I.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Promise you I've I've toured over mellion miles doing stand
up and so it this day and age, it's fun
to just have to be still sometimes.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
So that'll that'll be the joy of the holiday season
for you. Is not moving, not going somewhere a catatonic stage. Yeah, okay,
well a lot of it. Well I can imagine why
you've You've explained it beautifully.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Right right, So so you know, watch some football on
TV and the you know, not having to go do
a sound check somewhere, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
By the way, I want to I want to thank
you for inviting me and my lovely wife up to
the Grand Ole Opry to see your performance, uh in July.
I believe it was thank you for that was a
real once in a lifetime type experience to go backstage
at the Grand Old Opry and see what it's like
back there. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
You're welcome, man. That was a joy for Terry and
I to have y'all come up there.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Man.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
That was so because I knew you would dig it.
I know when I asked you that day if you
had ever been he said no. That's when I started
the plan, And so I'm tickled that we were able.
You know, we had talked about it far in advance.
It had been kind of mentioned as an aside, if
you will. Yeah, but we really wanted to make that
happen for you guys.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
And it was great. Y'all should have seen him.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
He was Uncle Henry from one end of the Grand
Old Oprey to the other, posing for pictures with bucks
on beauties. Oh yeah, eating Grand Old Offrey popcorn.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yes, it was a delight. It was magnificent to see
and I wanted to And I've got another stand up
comedy question for you about your craft.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
So you're there.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Most of the people up there are people who play
music and sing.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Right you?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Did you do stand up? Of course? Is it is? There?
Is it more difficult doing stand up when you're on
when when you're either opening for a band or in
between musical acts, Does that make it more difficult to
get the audience going?

Speaker 4 (23:02):
It can, depending on where you're at in that lineup
following a band, with spoken word is hard, just just
the physics of it. You know, you have so many
fewer disobels of sound pressure coming from the stage to
people's ears, and such a broader spectrum of tonality frequencies.

(23:27):
And when you follow drums, guitars, piano, all that with
just a spoken word, you really have to be on
top of that audience, if you will. What they do
at the Opry there is, if you remember, they there's

(23:48):
a good five minutes or so between each act, you know,
because a lot of the music artists have to have
their gear changed out of air, YadA YadA, and so
they do it in such a way so that one
art form doesn't step on the toes of the other.
And as you saw with your own eyes, man, that

(24:09):
audience loves the comedians, well they do. They every comedian
on that show that night destroyed.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Well we're well because I was the only you did
destroy and and I did notice that your your material
matched that audience perfectly. It just matched the audience for people. Yes.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
So, and here's the deal too, man, that audience is
so nice.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
They want everybody that comes to that stage to do great,
to do because it's a it's a it's a bucket
list item for people. Man, they you know they'll come.
They'll spend thousands of dollars months of planning, and that's
a one of the highlights of a Nashville trip for many,
many people. And so they are in the mood for

(25:00):
every performer to absolutely excel. And so they're a very
receptive audience and a good vibe, a really good positive vibe.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
So what really stuck out to me their backstage at
the Grand ol Opry was how every performer seemed to
be just super grateful to be there. I don't know
that I've ever been to any performance where everybody acted
like they were being given such a gift just to

(25:31):
be there. But all of the artists seem to act
like that.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
And you know what you feel like that to get
to perform at that type of an iconic, iconic place, man,
that is such a dream for so many and you're
that fact is not lost on you when you're in there.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
When you go in there and.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
They hand you that poster that they make that has
your name on it, you know, a holy moly, I
mean it is a it is a combination of a
sobering experience, an exuberant experience, a tinge of terrifying experience,
and just you know, you're just honored to get to

(26:13):
walk out and stand in that one hundred year old
circle of wood that's soft now like a carpet because
it is so old and so many people have been
on it. So it's an absolutely a thrill. It's a
thrill to get to do it, man, and everybody's that
does it feels that way.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Now you've done it several times, twenty six, twenty six times,
it's going to be more oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
They like me.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well that also has to feel good on a daily basis.
Just know that they like me up at the opera.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, and they've known me for so long because I
was in the Nashville area for so many years. So
it's a really fun, cool thing to get to do it.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well again, thank you for letting us have that experience
and and letting us find out what it's like both
to be in the audience and backstage.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Really something Well, it's fun, and you try not to
act starstruck. Backstage, I tried to act there's something.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Like did you see that?

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, yeah, yeah, you know you see people go by
like Stephen Curtis Chapman the night we were there. You
just it's it's it's hard not to be starstruck the
whole time.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah it is. Yeah, it is, man or you know.
And that's the thing about Nashville. Your waiter at waffle
house is a virtue o so fiddler, uh huh. You know.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
So that's what makes Nashville so fun. Man, everybody's gifted.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, We've got to take one more time out, okay,
and then we're going to go back with our final
brief moments with Killer Bees. His show is Friday, December fifth.
Friday December fifth, Decrescent Theater Inmobile. Killer Bee's doing stand
up showtime seven o'clock Friday December fifth. Get your tickets
at Crescenttheater dot com, Crescent Theater dot com or Killerbees

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dot com. Back with our final moments with Killer Bees.
After the break, Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seventy ten WNTM.

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It's five point fifty news headlines in ten minutes. Killer
Bees is here talking about his comedy show. He's doing
stand up comedy at the Crescent Theater in Mobile, December
fifth of Friday night, December fifth. Tickets available at Crescenttheater
dot com or Killerbees dot com. I was trying to
think of the different venues you may have played in
downtown Mobile through the years.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
And Adams Mark was in there.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, I remember you playing there.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
There was that that old round Holiday Inn, remember that one? Yeah,
tower of that one there was. Is there an Admiral something.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yes, the admiral The Admiral sims You've been in a
lot of downtown venues.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I've been in a lot of downtown venue Spot of
t Yeah, okay, I remember that matter. In fact, we
recorded an album in Spot of t Okay. I didn't
realize that, yes, sir, it was called Killer be Shaken
not Stirred you uh. And of course all of us
remember the venue that was there on Highway ninety near
the Water Burger in Mobile.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
Started out as the Punchline Yeah Comedy Club. The Punchline
franchise out of Atlanta opened that room and then later
became the Mobile Comedy Lounge. And so I first came
here when I was a little opening act. The MC
had ten minutes of material. I didn't realize that you

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started as the MC there. Really I didn't start there,
but my first time there, Yes, I came in as
the MC wow way early in my career, so I've
got a long history of doing stand up in Mobile.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
How long how long were you the MC in your career?

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I MCED once I got on the club circuit, probably
maybe a year and a half, maybe two years.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
But I had done three.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Hundred performances without ever seeing a comedian or ever setting
foot and a comedy club prior to that, and so
had some pretty strong stage presence and room handling chops.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay if you will.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
So I kind of popped and did good on the
club circuit, and so I worked the Bruce Ays in
Birmingham was booking me. Started with Birmingham, then Huntsville was added,
and then the Sir Laughs a Lot comedy club in
Memphis way back. And then finally I went up and

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did a showcase in Nashville at Zany's. And that's when
it popped right there, because I was getting traction already,
and the thought back then was you either have to
go to LA or New York if you start getting traction.
And I have a cousin that's a screenplay writer that
called me and said, dude, go to Nashville. He goes

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you will not get shunned because of your accent. There's
movie deals, there's record deals. He goes, you won't be
in line behind a thousand people that don't have the chops.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
And so that's what I did.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
I went up there and that's where I popped. If
you will, TNN and c MT snatched me up. I
did one hundred appearances on each of those networks, and
then in eighty nine I was in the first ever
comedy issue of Rolling Stone Magazine that had David Letterman

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and Johnny Carson on the cover.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Of vel I remember that, right.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
So that moved to Nashville was the move for me
to make. So because I'm not in New York. I'm
not a metropolitan type guy. I wouldn't have you know,
I would not have had the opportunities or the acceptance,
acceptance I put it that way in LA or New
York that I had when I went to Nashville.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
And they love you there, so yeah, oh yeah, I was.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
I was the I was voted Nashville Sea Magazine's Comedian
of the Year when I was up there and all
that stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
So so, and that that's.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
How I got to work with all these opery people
was T and N and uh CMT.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
So so there's that.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
So if if anybody traveling to Nashville they want advice,
you can give them the advice on on where to go,
where to stay, where to eat, all that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yeah, Brentwood, Brentwood or Franklin because downtown is so so
packed you'll be mad if I send you there. Okay,
it's one and this it is the bacheloret capital, the
bachelorette party capital of the world. So you'll see a
lot of poodle skirts and cowgirl boots for the first

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half of the night. Then you'll see those same girls
toting them because they were.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Hurting their feet. So welcome to Nashville. Oh, beware of
falling chairs.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
All right, well we are almost out of time here.
Killer Bees December fifth of Friday night, that's coming up
pretty soon. There aristord to.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
That man, that's gonna be a neat thing. And they're
doing a good thing for mobile, so that's cool. I'm
you know, hats off and congratulations to those guys.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Okay, so, uh you the listener, you can get those
tickets as you've been told Crescenttheater dot com or go
to Killerbees dot com and that's Bees spelled B E
A Z killerbees dot com. Hey, thank you so much
for coming in and talking about your show at the Crescent.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Well, thank you, ma, I love you. Good to see
you again.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I miss you, love you to miss you too, and
you're welcome here anytime.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Thank you, brother, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
All right, listener, we got more coming up. We have
news headlines coming up next on News Radio seven ten WNTM.
And then got some voicemails that were phoned in after
the Alabama victory over the weekend. We're going to get
to those calls and some other stuff as the Uncle
Henry Show continues here on News Radio seven ten WNTM.