May 29, 2025 • 11 mins
Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller talk funny by reviewing The rudest restaurant chain in the world, Karen's, performance cafe restaurants, and legitimately rude restaurants we have been to. Brought to you by Nagoyaradio.com, Nagoyacomedy.com, and stand up comic Mark Bailey.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Talk Funny, a podcast by Mark Bailey and other
comics from all over. We ended up in Japan because
we wanted to start the insanity the Talk Funny podcast
from Nagoya Radio dot Com and Nagoya Comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Here's Mark Bailey, Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Bailey, Mark Miller on Talk Funny. I just found this
video that I really liked and I wanted to recommend it.
This guy is I think he's a former boxer or
wrestler or something, and he's there with his wife at
the world's rudest restaurant. It's called Karen's appropriately and they
serve American food. I'm pretty sure they're aware of the
(00:37):
irony of the name. And it's in Manchester, England. I'd
love to go here. These servers seem like comics. They're
really good at deadpan, which is please google it weekly
so you can't explain every word. First of the earth cooled,
the dinosaurs came, and then they were too big and
stupid to live, so they died. And that's where the
oil came from. And the Jews took the land, the
(00:58):
only land in the Middle East that didn't have oil.
But enough about Niagara Falls, all right, call back I'm
just gonna narrate. You think you could fit into I
should turn this down? No, boy do, it's just noisy.
We got subtitles, so kind of a hefty guy walks
in and the waiter says, you think you could fit
(01:19):
into that booth? When they give the menus, they throw
them on the floor. They just drop them on the floor.
Then another server comes over and goes, there's menus on
the floor. It's like, yeah, the other server just threw
them down. Then will pick them up. It's not my job.
I kind of think it is. It's like what a
British version of Larry David or something tribu enthusiasm. I mean,
(01:42):
they give them hats with names on them that they're right.
I'm a pedophile. I have chlamydia. They just walk up
and they go the server. She doesn't say, may I
take your order? She just looks at you, stears you down,
and she's say, what so.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They hire models? I guess so it comes now naturally, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, Russian models. But what do you want? When they
serve you, they hold out the plate up above and
then when you try to take it, they move about
an inch away. Wow, she's glaring at them the servers glaring.
He ordered and she goes anything else and she just
walks off.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I thought this started in America, though this seems to
me like a ripoff of an American restaurant.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is one that we talked about on the episode
in New York and one in Washington. It's the rudest guys, right.
You have to have the red tray and don't ask questions,
and you can't have more than two plates on your tray.
And so I took a date there and we had
a lot of fun just to talk to the guy.
That's why people go there is to get insultant. She
walks up, so this is an excuse me. She goes
(02:49):
move the servers, but they're so deadpan, it's really funny.
They never break a mile. Who's got the crappiest outfit?
Then they have a contest and he wins, and they say,
you know what you want? You want fall it's what
you want? Say where are you from? This is Manchester?
Where are you from? He goes, I'm from Trenton on
Quart or something like that, and she goes, try not
(03:10):
to still any silverware. That's a anti Semitic reference actually,
because the Lord sugar is from there. Ah, he's the
original apprentice, a Jewish British guy. I fast forward a
little bit. Waitresses will walk up and just take fries
up your plate and eat them. That's their anniversary. They
(03:31):
go to this place. This is on high speed. I'm
just gonna I'll turn this down. It might be noisy.
See the menus on the floor, we'll pick him up,
give them to me nicely. She goes, tell me, I'm
the most beautiful person you've ever seen. He goes, he
the most beautiful I've ever seen. She goes, have fourteen
you nuts? Which is which is pedophile?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Jesus my lord.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If people pay for this entertainment.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, that's a lot of work actually for the staff
to be fair. It's like being in a play or something.
You gotta play a character.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Plus somebody can put you in out of context. I
went to this restaurant and they were complete a holes
to me, that's the theme. You paid for this? You
that and then get them fired.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do they get fired if they're too nice?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Probably? But they're really good. He goes, yeah, I know you.
You're a boxer. Now your left's gone to s Look
at her the way she serves the food. Is this yours?
He goes, yes, please, She goes take it? Then you anything?
We're good? Could I have some? He asked a server,
Can I have some mayonnaise and some ketchup? And she
(04:35):
walks away while he's saying it. Then when she comes
back to the ketchup and she just drowns the friesen.
She goes, I controlled the ketchup.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Here, I control the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Soup natzie. It's kind of a takeoff on Superts. Yeah,
pretty much from Seinfeld. We can't explain everything people, if
you haven't heard of Seinfeld, I really can't help you.
See mayonnaise and she just walks off.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
What's the title of the video?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Eating at the World's Rudest restaurant Karen's Diner? First, not enough?
He goes, could I have some more? And then she
just jumps the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You want to go there?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I can tell have a good time, but i'd have comebacks.
You don't want real comics going to that place.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
No, no, no, no, because it'd be comebacks for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Do you talk to your mom?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Are you a comedian?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
There's a guy walks up and just stares at him. Yeah,
he just stares at him, and the other guy goes,
what am I supposed to do? And he goes, stop
staring at me? Oh, your's herd giving the bill. She
takes his food and starts eating it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a lot of work. That's a lot of work.
It's like being in a play. It's like dinner theater
almost basically. But they're good at improvising, you can tell there.
I guess they do it a lot with different customers,
but they seem they must be good at improvising if
they can just come up with stuff for whoever is
coming in.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They definitely have play background background. Yeah, that's why they're
so bitter.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
This is a good gig for them. Yeah, it sounds
like kind of comedy improv Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, it's interesting though, because you know what it
reminds me of kind of it reminds me of made
cafes in Japan. Yeah, because they do kind of similar
things where they. Uh. A friend of mine was telling
me about a mad cafe. There's two styles. Apparently there's
Akihabita style and then there's Nagoya style or Aichi style,
and he said, I think it's the Akihabata style. There's
all these little challenges. The girls make you do things
(06:33):
to get food or get get a drink. You have
to call them princess, so you have to do And
he said, I don't like that style, but that's a
style of mid cafe. So it's kind of similar in
a way, like you're you know, they they don't just
give you everything you want that you've got to do
things for them and you don't have the hard time.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You don't have to lick their boots, right, that's as extra.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's I think that's more mesa show by.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's the kind of the kind of friends I had.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, wow, those those those places are a little too
expensive for me personally, but it's a place.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We've ended the video, but they said, well little girl
wants a song because he's an entitled little prick. So
it's just amazing. I really liked it. And yeah, I'd
love to go to this place.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And they don't mind you're videotaping them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They know that it's free promotion for Yeah, they'll probably
get hundreds of more customers because of this video.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What I want to say is that's cultural appropriation, because
if you go to a Chinese restaurant and the food
is really good. You can ask any Japanese people, I'm
not kidding, and they'll tell you the rudest places have
the best food. And the problem is not that Chinese
are rude.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Did I say that? What entitled serving? They don't have
a service culture like Japan.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The thing is the English isn't good and the Japanese
isn't that good, and so you can't speak Cantonese. So
you go in and they go and I've been to
a place. There's one right around the corner near coming
minds if you go near my eye clinic place, there's
one year there. You walk in and a waitress.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, I know the place. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
She walks in and she goes what you want.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And you're like, I feel like I'm home. This is great,
this is like New York.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And then I'm like, can I get the chicken wings?
He goes something else, like no, there will be nothing else.
He goes, no order, something else.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Doesn't go finished finished, You'll order something else because that
used to always be the thing. I think it was.
I'm not sure if it was Thailand or where it was.
You go and you say, oh, I have the number
thirty two on the menu. Finished.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Finished, finish means something else in Thailand's not going to
go down that road.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I wish I had taped her. She was just comedy gold.
But she was like and then she's like, drink. I
already had a drink, all right, water? No have water?
You don't have water? Order drink to drink now?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Really?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I I haven't been to that police in years because
actually an ex student of mine, his parents ran that restaurant,
and I only found that after I went one time.
I was like, oh, I can't go there anymore. But
this is years ago at a different school. I don't work
there anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But she did do that finish thing. At the end,
all I have was chicken wings and rocks. It was
not a big bowl of rice. I said, could I
get another bowl of rice or something? And she said,
you'll finish already. That's what they say to Don Henley
love them.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, yeah, you finished.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I said, no, I'm not finished. I think i'm the customer.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'll tell you what I'm finished.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hey, you'll know when I'm finished. The food was good,
it was good, it was okay. Asking any Japanese person.
They'll tell you the rudest places of Chinese food is
the best.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or the ones where they make you force you to
sit next to someone you don't know kind of thing, because.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They're not chained and they're not trained, right, They're just
a family, right, And these people have never been waitresses
in their life.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When I was in Shanghai, it was really interesting because
the service was a bit brusque as well, and the
waitress just sat down at my table. China. Yeah, they
just sit down at your table and and and just
take a break, you know, and they're like, oh, hi, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was in I was in Shanghai. Yeah, that happened
to me too. Is the lady. She's taking my order
and she sat down to write my order, and I said,
are you okay? So she says, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
At least that, you know, at least they're honest with you.
Right in Japan, they did they tell you, oh no,
I'm so, you know. That's the thing. I kind of like,
that's the thing that I miss kind of a little
bit because being in Japan, people will never tell you,
like you'll never meet someone in the street and they'll go,
you say, how are you and be you know, not well.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Good Man duck Man Episode three h eight People duck Man.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right, they'll tell you, but you know, in America, people
will tell you the whole life story while you're waiting
on the street corner for the light to change, you know,
and they'll be honest with you. We're here. You don't
get much of theff much of that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Because I've done this story before. But I used to.
I learned not to ask my grandma, you know, how
are you? So the how are you, honey? And I'd
say I'm fine, and I won't say how are you
because she's going to tell you twenty minutes I got AIDS.
I don't the care of aids grandma like I have.
I'm blind. You're looking right at my grandma?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What are you making these into a sitcom? This would
be awesome, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A future episode, I want to ask you. We're just
gonna do bookmarks of topics that I should include in
the book because I'm actually having a brainstorming, all right,
Mark Bailey, Mike Miller, I talk funny
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mo
It's Talk Funny, a podcast by Mark Bailey and other
comics from all over. We ended up in Japan because
we wanted to start the insanity the Talk Funny podcast
from Nagoya Radio dot Com and Nagoya Comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Here's Mark Bailey, Mark.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Bailey, Mark Miller on Talk Funny. I just found this
video that I really liked and I wanted to recommend it.
This guy is I think he's a former boxer or
wrestler or something, and he's there with his wife at
the world's rudest restaurant. It's called Karen's appropriately and they
serve American food. I'm pretty sure they're aware of the
(00:37):
irony of the name. And it's in Manchester, England. I'd
love to go here. These servers seem like comics. They're
really good at deadpan, which is please google it weekly
so you can't explain every word. First of the earth cooled,
the dinosaurs came, and then they were too big and
stupid to live, so they died. And that's where the
oil came from. And the Jews took the land, the
(00:58):
only land in the Middle East that didn't have oil.
But enough about Niagara Falls, all right, call back I'm
just gonna narrate. You think you could fit into I
should turn this down? No, boy do, it's just noisy.
We got subtitles, so kind of a hefty guy walks
in and the waiter says, you think you could fit
(01:19):
into that booth? When they give the menus, they throw
them on the floor. They just drop them on the floor.
Then another server comes over and goes, there's menus on
the floor. It's like, yeah, the other server just threw
them down. Then will pick them up. It's not my job.
I kind of think it is. It's like what a
British version of Larry David or something tribu enthusiasm. I mean,
(01:42):
they give them hats with names on them that they're right.
I'm a pedophile. I have chlamydia. They just walk up
and they go the server. She doesn't say, may I
take your order? She just looks at you, stears you down,
and she's say, what so.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They hire models? I guess so it comes now naturally, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, Russian models. But what do you want? When they
serve you, they hold out the plate up above and
then when you try to take it, they move about
an inch away. Wow, she's glaring at them the servers glaring.
He ordered and she goes anything else and she just
walks off.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I thought this started in America, though this seems to
me like a ripoff of an American restaurant.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
This is one that we talked about on the episode
in New York and one in Washington. It's the rudest guys, right.
You have to have the red tray and don't ask questions,
and you can't have more than two plates on your tray.
And so I took a date there and we had
a lot of fun just to talk to the guy.
That's why people go there is to get insultant. She
walks up, so this is an excuse me. She goes
(02:49):
move the servers, but they're so deadpan, it's really funny.
They never break a mile. Who's got the crappiest outfit?
Then they have a contest and he wins, and they say,
you know what you want? You want fall it's what
you want? Say where are you from? This is Manchester?
Where are you from? He goes, I'm from Trenton on
Quart or something like that, and she goes, try not
(03:10):
to still any silverware. That's a anti Semitic reference actually,
because the Lord sugar is from there. Ah, he's the
original apprentice, a Jewish British guy. I fast forward a
little bit. Waitresses will walk up and just take fries
up your plate and eat them. That's their anniversary. They
(03:31):
go to this place. This is on high speed. I'm
just gonna I'll turn this down. It might be noisy.
See the menus on the floor, we'll pick him up,
give them to me nicely. She goes, tell me, I'm
the most beautiful person you've ever seen. He goes, he
the most beautiful I've ever seen. She goes, have fourteen
you nuts? Which is which is pedophile?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Jesus my lord.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If people pay for this entertainment.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, that's a lot of work actually for the staff
to be fair. It's like being in a play or something.
You gotta play a character.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Plus somebody can put you in out of context. I
went to this restaurant and they were complete a holes
to me, that's the theme. You paid for this? You
that and then get them fired.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Do they get fired if they're too nice?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Probably? But they're really good. He goes, yeah, I know you.
You're a boxer. Now your left's gone to s Look
at her the way she serves the food. Is this yours?
He goes, yes, please, She goes take it? Then you anything?
We're good? Could I have some? He asked a server,
Can I have some mayonnaise and some ketchup? And she
(04:35):
walks away while he's saying it. Then when she comes
back to the ketchup and she just drowns the friesen.
She goes, I controlled the ketchup.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Here, I control the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Soup natzie. It's kind of a takeoff on Superts. Yeah,
pretty much from Seinfeld. We can't explain everything people, if
you haven't heard of Seinfeld, I really can't help you.
See mayonnaise and she just walks off.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
What's the title of the video?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Eating at the World's Rudest restaurant Karen's Diner? First, not enough?
He goes, could I have some more? And then she
just jumps the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You want to go there?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I can tell have a good time, but i'd have comebacks.
You don't want real comics going to that place.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
No, no, no, no, because it'd be comebacks for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Do you talk to your mom?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Are you a comedian?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
There's a guy walks up and just stares at him. Yeah,
he just stares at him, and the other guy goes,
what am I supposed to do? And he goes, stop
staring at me? Oh, your's herd giving the bill. She
takes his food and starts eating it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a lot of work. That's a lot of work.
It's like being in a play. It's like dinner theater
almost basically. But they're good at improvising, you can tell there.
I guess they do it a lot with different customers,
but they seem they must be good at improvising if
they can just come up with stuff for whoever is
coming in.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They definitely have play background background. Yeah, that's why they're
so bitter.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
This is a good gig for them. Yeah, it sounds
like kind of comedy improv Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, it's interesting though, because you know what it
reminds me of kind of it reminds me of made
cafes in Japan. Yeah, because they do kind of similar
things where they. Uh. A friend of mine was telling
me about a mad cafe. There's two styles. Apparently there's
Akihabita style and then there's Nagoya style or Aichi style,
and he said, I think it's the Akihabata style. There's
all these little challenges. The girls make you do things
(06:33):
to get food or get get a drink. You have
to call them princess, so you have to do And
he said, I don't like that style, but that's a
style of mid cafe. So it's kind of similar in
a way, like you're you know, they they don't just
give you everything you want that you've got to do
things for them and you don't have the hard time.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You don't have to lick their boots, right, that's as extra.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's I think that's more mesa show by.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
That's the kind of the kind of friends I had.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, wow, those those those places are a little too
expensive for me personally, but it's a place.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We've ended the video, but they said, well little girl
wants a song because he's an entitled little prick. So
it's just amazing. I really liked it. And yeah, I'd
love to go to this place.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I can tell.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And they don't mind you're videotaping them.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
They know that it's free promotion for Yeah, they'll probably
get hundreds of more customers because of this video.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What I want to say is that's cultural appropriation, because
if you go to a Chinese restaurant and the food
is really good. You can ask any Japanese people, I'm
not kidding, and they'll tell you the rudest places have
the best food. And the problem is not that Chinese
are rude.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Did I say that? What entitled serving? They don't have
a service culture like Japan.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The thing is the English isn't good and the Japanese
isn't that good, and so you can't speak Cantonese. So
you go in and they go and I've been to
a place. There's one right around the corner near coming
minds if you go near my eye clinic place, there's
one year there. You walk in and a waitress.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, I know the place. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
She walks in and she goes what you want.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And you're like, I feel like I'm home. This is great,
this is like New York.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
And then I'm like, can I get the chicken wings?
He goes something else, like no, there will be nothing else.
He goes, no order, something else.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Doesn't go finished finished, You'll order something else because that
used to always be the thing. I think it was.
I'm not sure if it was Thailand or where it was.
You go and you say, oh, I have the number
thirty two on the menu. Finished.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Finished, finish means something else in Thailand's not going to
go down that road.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I wish I had taped her. She was just comedy gold.
But she was like and then she's like, drink. I
already had a drink, all right, water? No have water?
You don't have water? Order drink to drink now?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Really?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I I haven't been to that police in years because
actually an ex student of mine, his parents ran that restaurant,
and I only found that after I went one time.
I was like, oh, I can't go there anymore. But
this is years ago at a different school. I don't work
there anymore.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
But she did do that finish thing. At the end,
all I have was chicken wings and rocks. It was
not a big bowl of rice. I said, could I
get another bowl of rice or something? And she said,
you'll finish already. That's what they say to Don Henley
love them.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, yeah, you finished.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I said, no, I'm not finished. I think i'm the customer.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'll tell you what I'm finished.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Hey, you'll know when I'm finished. The food was good,
it was good, it was okay. Asking any Japanese person.
They'll tell you the rudest places of Chinese food is
the best.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or the ones where they make you force you to
sit next to someone you don't know kind of thing, because.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They're not chained and they're not trained, right, They're just
a family, right, And these people have never been waitresses
in their life.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When I was in Shanghai, it was really interesting because
the service was a bit brusque as well, and the
waitress just sat down at my table. China. Yeah, they
just sit down at your table and and and just
take a break, you know, and they're like, oh, hi, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was in I was in Shanghai. Yeah, that happened
to me too. Is the lady. She's taking my order
and she sat down to write my order, and I said,
are you okay? So she says, I'm tired.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
At least that, you know, at least they're honest with you.
Right in Japan, they did they tell you, oh no,
I'm so, you know. That's the thing. I kind of like,
that's the thing that I miss kind of a little
bit because being in Japan, people will never tell you,
like you'll never meet someone in the street and they'll go,
you say, how are you and be you know, not well.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Good Man duck Man Episode three h eight People duck Man.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right, they'll tell you, but you know, in America, people
will tell you the whole life story while you're waiting
on the street corner for the light to change, you know,
and they'll be honest with you. We're here. You don't
get much of theff much of that.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Because I've done this story before. But I used to.
I learned not to ask my grandma, you know, how
are you? So the how are you, honey? And I'd
say I'm fine, and I won't say how are you
because she's going to tell you twenty minutes I got AIDS.
I don't the care of aids grandma like I have.
I'm blind. You're looking right at my grandma?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What are you making these into a sitcom? This would
be awesome, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A future episode, I want to ask you. We're just
gonna do bookmarks of topics that I should include in
the book because I'm actually having a brainstorming, all right,
Mark Bailey, Mike Miller, I talk funny
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Mo
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