Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Bonus Bang: Live at the Bell House Pt 1 (Hot 4 Scott)

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

This week we've reached the final episode in our "Hot 4 Scott" series, featuring Adam Scott. Recorded live at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY, Scott is joined by Jason Mantzoukas, Adam Scott, Big Chunk...y Bubbles, John Lennon, and Silver Screen Sammy to celebrate the release of Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book. (Originally released as episode #808 on 4/25/23) Don’t forget to check out the Comedy Bang! Bang! Action Figures at shop.figurecollections.com and go to actionfigureseller.com for international purchases. If you want more great episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! become a subscriber at comedybangbangworld.com. We have all of the past episodes from the archives, every live show, ad-free new episodes, and original shows like CBB Presents and Scott Hasn’t Seen. Find more great Comedy Bang! Bang! merch at https://www.podswag.com/collections/comedy-bang-bang Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/cbb Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, everyone. This is Scott Ackerman, and welcome to another bonus bang, where we are re-releasing great episodes of comedy bang-bang from behind the paywall. Now, this is your host, Scott Ackerman. I mentioned that already, but it's so nice. I had to say it twice. And we have reached the final episode in our series that we're calling Hot for Scott. Scott, you mean like me? No, of course, Adam Scott, our good friend who we saw at the Emmys. I'm taping this in advance of the Emmys, but congratulations. or I'm sorry to him. Sorry to this man. Either one, whatever applies. But we took this opportunity to re-release great episodes that he has been on with us.
Starting point is 00:00:43 Now, this week we're re-releasing the episode called Live at the Bell House Part 1. This was originally released April 25th, 2023 as episode 808. This is a live episode that we did for the Comedy Bang Bang Book, which came out a couple of years. years ago. And this is at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. It also features Jason Manzukas. Paul F. Tompkins has big chunky bubbles. Mike Hanford as John Lennon and our good friend from Blank Check. Griffin Newman as Silver Screen Sammy. And this is a very, very funny episode. Everyone's great in this. Now, if you enjoy it and you want to hear other fantastic episodes of Comedy Bang Bang, become a subscriber at CBBWorld.com.
Starting point is 00:01:31 have all of the past episodes from the archives, every single live show we've done, add free new episodes and original shows like CBB Presents, and Scott hasn't seen. We're going to be back Monday with a new episode of Comedy Bang Bang, but until then, enjoy this bonus bang. Come a bye bye Comey bye Comey bye New York City Thank you so much
Starting point is 00:02:14 Thank you Thank you so much Welcome to the Bell House You can teach an old dog New tricks No, fucked it up already I feel like Chris Rock in his life special
Starting point is 00:02:31 You can't Teach an old dog new tricks But you can smear peanut butter on it Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang Thanks to AJ. Hope that's AJ from the Sopranos. Just a stone's throw from here in New Jersey. People from Jersey here?
Starting point is 00:02:58 And proud of it. I have no idea. I've never been there. Thank you so much for coming to the show. This is not only Comedy Bang Bang, but this is in celebration of Comedy Bang Bang, the podcast the book. Thank you. Did you all get a copy of the book
Starting point is 00:03:22 coming in here? Feel free now turn to page 65 in your hymnal. We're going to have fun celebrating the book here tonight. We have some contributors here from it as well as one other guy.
Starting point is 00:03:46 And by the way, now that you all were given something heavy coming in, If at any point you don't like the show, feel free to throw the books at us and say, I don't like this. Totally get it. We do have a really great group here with us today.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Some people, we are very proud of the book and hope you really enjoy it. And sincerely, I'm really happy that you guys are interested enough to read it. And let's get to the show because we have some great people who contributed to. What do you say? I think there are too many chairs out here. Don't expect seven. Three, four, five, six, seven. Nope.
Starting point is 00:04:50 All right, well, let's get to our first guest. He's not really a guest. He's more of a co-host for the show. You know him as one of the hosts of the How Did This Get Made Podcast. Please welcome Jason Manzukas. Young man. Hey, no, man.
Starting point is 00:05:32 I've never seen you so amped. I love this side of you. How is it? That's it. Okay, shutting down. That's all I had. Power down. Hey, pal.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Hi, pal. So good to see. Ow! Look at us in and what? I cut myself on your nipple. It's so erect right now. Yeah. So happy to be back on stage.
Starting point is 00:05:52 I'm so turned on by this audience. Very sexy crowd here in New York. Hot crowd. Hot crowd. I asked them to put an extra seat for Elijah. Okay. Who's doing Elijah tonight? You'll see.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Jason, so good to see you. Grewd to be here. You were... I used to live right here at the Bell House. I don't care. What I was going to say... You'd go. Your thing. It's good to have you on the East Coast
Starting point is 00:06:25 because you were supposed to do some of the East Coast dates with us on our tour last... Correct. Last summer. And then what happened? I got COVID. After years spent hiding in my house, where you truly...
Starting point is 00:06:42 Where you truly... barely came over to my house. No. And would only, and the first few times you deigned to come over to our house outside, you still wore a mask the entire time.
Starting point is 00:06:55 And so you avoided it for the longest time. I did, and then we did the, How Did This Get Made Tour? Night 3 in Texas. Houston, Texas. Boy, did I get COVID. I just got full-blown COVID. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Yep. Had it gross. Had somebody, Had the, had the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and a bunch of other stuff. And, um, and I was like, you know, is this something that could have been avoided? Because the new booster was coming up, right? Oh, you hadn't even gotten that. I, there was a, there was a shot that was going to be out in, oh, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Two months or a month or something. I think I got it right after the tour. So, yeah. And so I was like, would this have been like, would I, am I just not have enough antibodies, blah, blah, blah, if I went and got waited until that shot. And she was like, I'm not the right person to ask. I don't really believe in vaccines? And I was like, madam, you are a medical professional.
Starting point is 00:07:53 You are here in scrubs. So super quick, who here believes in vaccines? That's right. That's right. Not 100% agreement. I'm hesitant to ask the other question. Anybody here not believe in vaccines? Cool.
Starting point is 00:08:11 Hey. The bell house, baby. Well, you're here now. I'm so glad. Thrilled. Thrilled to be here. Amir Stone. I used to live in Carroll Gardens
Starting point is 00:08:22 and then... Oh, so back to your thing. What's that? Oh, yeah, back to my thing. Go ahead. Boy, this neighborhood wildly different than when I lived here.
Starting point is 00:08:31 When I lived here, there was a huge movement to stop Whole Foods from moving into this neighborhood. Now, having just driven here, this neighborhood appears to be all Whole Foods? All Whole Foods all the time?
Starting point is 00:08:46 I was like, what the fuck is going? on. The people at the Park Slope Food Co-op would not allow this. These are very local references. Local jokes. I appreciate you bringing this to the crowd. I don't know. I don't know. What's going on with the glasses they're coming on? They're going off. I'll be honest. I want to wear them to see better, but I didn't clean them backstage. Feel free to clean them right now. I'm going to clean them in a minute when we're talking about talking else. Something else. Okay. Well, Jason, you...
Starting point is 00:09:21 So when I leave stage, that's why. Scott, that's why. You have to do it backstage? I've got to go backstage. For what? The little cloth. I don't want your cloth. Front row lady waving a cloth like she's surrendering to the bad guys.
Starting point is 00:09:39 I don't need your cloth. I don't need your eyes schmuts on my eyes. These motherfucking New Yorkers are trying to give me pink eye. Nice try. You have your own special cloth devoted for this purpose. Of course I do, Scott. Could someone find it, bring it out to you? No, I don't want them to.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Because that would mean someone else touching the cloth. I don't want them touching my special cloth either. My special cloth. Tell the truth, is this your blankie from when you were a child? It's the last little scrap of blankie. And it doesn't clean my glasses. It just scratches them to the point where they absolutely can't see through. How you been?
Starting point is 00:10:24 I've been good. And Jason, I wanted to thank you. Sorry. Am I not allowed to touch you? You can. Okay. I wanted to thank you because you wrote something. Well, I mean, you didn't write something for the book.
Starting point is 00:10:36 Sure, I did. Well, I mean, yes. I have, yes. Can we bring it up here on the screen? What Jason wrote? This is the only time I will write anything that looks like I'm published in the New Yorker. Yes. This is your real name, Jeffrey Caritowee's.
Starting point is 00:10:57 and my real headshot from, I think, 2003? That sounds about right. When I think I took that picture. With a strange ring on my finger. I don't remember when I wore a ring, but I did. So much so that I was like, I needed in my headshot. I identify with this ring. I think it was 2003 because normally the Twin Towers would have you in the shade.
Starting point is 00:11:22 But there's... Never forget. Plenty of light. Plenty of light on you. heard someone go shh lest you think here in New York
Starting point is 00:11:34 we're going to shy away from 9-11 jokes we are all in but it was very nice you wrote about I took this I took this on the top
Starting point is 00:11:46 of building 7 controlled explosion okay now we're starting to lose people now this is the this is the point jet fuel can
Starting point is 00:12:01 melt, steel. I'm just trying to get a sense of what this crowd's all about. Honestly, most of you are too young for 9-11, right? Yeah. You're one of the few pro-vaccine. 9-11 was an inside job type of...
Starting point is 00:12:20 Yep. Love the vaccine, mostly because I want Bill Gates to know where I am and what I'm up to. It's not that I don't believe in the conspiracy theories. I like them. You want to be involved. Chip me. Please chip me.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Hey, someone want to chip me tonight? But basically what you wrote for the book is your... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, the book, the book. The story behind the development of your character, which we're seeing right now. The Jason Manzook's character, the abrasive, loud, obnoxious. Which a lot of the jokes about 9-11 are things you wouldn't actually... Jeffrey Character Wheaties would never make those jokes. and finds them reprehensible.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Right. And tonight will make sizable donations to offset what he's said. When do you slip out of the character? When you go home, do you drop it? Like when you shut the door behind? Here's the thing I used to, but now I can't.
Starting point is 00:13:17 It's really hard. I have to stay Jason Manzukas all the time. Otherwise, nights like tonight suffer. I appreciate it. I mean, no one appreciates it more than me. Oh, my God, thank you. It really is special what you've done. And it's a testament to your hard work.
Starting point is 00:13:35 And I'm glad that finally you're getting the word out because otherwise no one would know that you've been involved in the deepest of cover. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I lived here in New York for 13 years doing comedy. This is where I really built this character. Yeah. I mean, you were doing horrible comedy.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Terrible. Just terrible. Like, describe some of like your improv. Were you doing improv before? I did an improv show for over a year at UCB. at midnight, Saturdays at midnight, there was an improvised Saturday morning cartoon
Starting point is 00:14:09 in which I played Ricky Martin. Real show called Cartoon Chaos. We did it for a year. Saturdays at midnight, never once successfully. The show was terrible. Top to bottom.
Starting point is 00:14:27 T to beat never succeeded. So you were playing the gay, Hispanic, Ricky Martin. Correct. And this was during the Jeffrey Character Wheaties days? Nope. Jason Manzukas.
Starting point is 00:14:41 Trying to crack that code unsuccessfully. What was some of the stuff you would do as Jeffrey Character Wheaties before you developed the character? Oh, well that was all just, you know, mostly just theater. Space work.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Yeah, Spacework, Meisner. You know, it was like a lot of just deep immersive theater, lots of performance art. Do you still remember any of the movie? I'm not going to do anything of that. All right. I see. where you're going. I see you trying
Starting point is 00:15:05 to find a footing. Hey, I'm a guy who got pimped last night into doing his Disneyland audition dance. Wait, what? I did a show here last night. Oh, here? What was it? We don't need to go into it. It was a great show. We're not promoting other podcasts. No.
Starting point is 00:15:23 We're not promoting other podcasts. We're here to promote the book. Oh, yeah. Well, it's really special. When do we do the Q&A with the audience? Do you want to do a Q&A? Is that what you said? At the end of the I think we should absolutely do it. Do a talkback? Talk, yeah, let's...
Starting point is 00:15:39 Don't all book tours feature a talkback with the author? I think at the end of the show, it makes absolute sense that any idiot here be allowed to ask anybody on stage a question. I get, I mean, technically, I'm not the author. You wrote more pages than I did, I think. If I'm not mistaken, I believe you wrote no pages.
Starting point is 00:16:03 Come on, I wrote a few. Did you? Yes. Okay. Approximately three. I'm pretty... Are you sure Kool-up didn't write those pages? I may have written some pages that someone else purportedly wrote.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Well, it's great that you're here. Oh. Are you bruised? It burns. It burns. Why does it burn? It's the Hellfire touch. No. Whatever no sphere burns at the touch.
Starting point is 00:16:29 It's great to have you. Jason Manzukas, everybody, a. Hey, Jeffrey Kerakir-Weetis. How do you want to do this? I don't know. Yeah. I mean...
Starting point is 00:16:40 We don't want to scare away the next person. We have a big show, so we need to get to our next guest. Let's do it. Not seven people, but six. Or eight. We can bring another chair out. I look back there. There's a bunch. There's a bunch? I came so close to coming on stage with a chair.
Starting point is 00:17:04 So close. I was like, too heavy. I'm having fun. Okay. It's so good to have you. I'm having fun with you. I'm so glad we took a trip together. I'm so happy. We're here in New York. We love each other.
Starting point is 00:17:20 All right, let's get to our next guest. This is a gentleman with a wonderful CV, as it were. It's great that he's in New York City and could join us. He started off on NBC's The Office, and then he now has a show on Apple TV called Spasm. Please welcome Adam Scott. Thank you, Adam. You miss some over there.
Starting point is 00:18:13 You miss some over there. I just want to eat them all up. I just want to take it out. Mum, num, num, num, num, num. If you could eat people, would you? Oh, I would eat all of these people. Numb, num, num, num, num, num, numb, num, you know? Just, oh, yeah, this is a chompable crowd.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Oh, just eat them all up. Mnum. Guys look delicious. Aren't they? Adam's so good to have you on the show. Thank you. Wonderful. I mean, you've done so much great work.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Thank you so much. Congratulations to you in the entire spasm cast Thank you very much All of us over at Spasm are Really excited that I was able to make it here tonight You came straight from the spasm set, did you not? It came right over from Spasm. This is, I mean, are these your spasm clothes?
Starting point is 00:19:10 These are my spasm clothes. These are the clothes that I perform spasms in. Tell us about your... The signature spasms that we all go through. Tell us about your character Delroy. Del Roy. Delroy is... Some people call him naive.
Starting point is 00:19:28 I call him just a little off. Okay. But it is spasm. So... How are you? I'm good. Nice to have you here. You, of course, contributed to the book.
Starting point is 00:19:48 I'm looking over your shoulder at the screen. Yeah. Not at anyone creeping up behind you. You look behind... It looks... It looked like you were alerted to somebody creeping. Someone with a knife. You're very jumpy tonight.
Starting point is 00:20:01 What do you mean? There are people who, because of spasm, are out to get him. That's true. Yeah, a lot of spaz heads. Spaz heads. Yeah. Having their spas attacks. Not sure we can say that anymore?
Starting point is 00:20:13 I don't think we are supposed to say that. 90% sure we cannot say that. But that's what they call themselves. So what are we supposed to do about it? The spazids? You know, I heard something. When I was backstage, I heard something out here that really got me excited. I don't know which one of you said it, but jet fuel cannot melt steel.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Adam, I'm thrilled that you are as interested as me in talking about 9-11 for the whole show tonight. Is everybody up for this? Are we really up for this? You brought a slideshow here. I sure did. No, but speaking of slideshow... It's not working. Isn't this how you doing? We're going to watch loose change!
Starting point is 00:20:58 I think you're just miming it is the problem. Yeah, that's why... I don't have anything in my hand. That's the issue. But speaking of the slideshow, you did contribute to the book. Could we see Adam's contribution to the book if that's okay? You gave us a blurb on the back. Yeah, this...
Starting point is 00:21:17 I wrote this. Yeah. Do you want to read it? Yeah, I do. That's what I want to do. Oh, you want to do it out loud? Well, can we... Oh, can...
Starting point is 00:21:30 No, I was just going to read it. Can we talk about it first? Yeah, sure, of course. Can we want to talk about... What about this? Do you want to talk about how long it took to write? Yeah, I mean, you named the topic, yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:21:44 I'd love to talk about how long it took to write. I will say, as a fellow contributor, mine, I spent months on mine. Yeah. That's mainly because you wrote it right before the... deadline and that is correct I was supposed to write it months earlier and I did not well I I wrote mine I think I think you had asked me a couple of times to yes I did the typical Adam Scott interaction which is to text you incessantly and then get a one-word response weeks later yeah you're welcome that's usually the response so I believe
Starting point is 00:22:19 this if we're gonna talk about the amount of time from when you first asked me to have a blurb to when I sent it to you, this took months. Yes, and how long did the actual writing of the blurb take you? Probably about as long as it'll take me to read it right now. Okay. Okay, so what I'm talking about in the blurb is the Comedy Bang Bang Book
Starting point is 00:22:46 that we're all here to celebrate an honor. Burning it! A big pyre rube. right in the middle of the room. We're gonna fly a plane into it. Now hang on, guys. I know you're thinking, this is a lot of 9-11.
Starting point is 00:23:05 I was with you earlier. This is now too much. But we're only a third of the way through. Oh, yeah. Seriously, though, if there is any steel in this building. Okay, so that's what I'm talking about the book, and the book that we're all here to celebrate an honor.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Okay, so just so we're clear, that's what this is about, okay? Got it, good. You set the table. Okay. So here we go. So when I start reading it, that's what I'm going to be referring to.
Starting point is 00:23:36 When I say CBB book, Comedy Bang Bang Book. Oh, okay. I didn't even get that when you gave it to me. Okay. I'm glad I'm going through this. And for those of you who have it here, which is I think everybody,
Starting point is 00:23:46 you are holding the very book that is what's Adam. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. Does anyone have one? Everyone has the book here, yeah. Do you mind if it? This is the book. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:00 That's actually super helpful. Not for the podcast listeners, but for people in the room who might not know the book we're talking about? Yeah. For the podcast listeners, do you want to describe the book?
Starting point is 00:24:09 Yeah, it's like eight feet wide. Okay. Should we explain what a book is? Yes. Is this at all? What about paper? Are people going to understand what paper is?
Starting point is 00:24:22 Trees? Should we start with trees? Yes. I'm lost already. Anyway, this is it. Comedy, Bang, Bang, Bang, the book, this is it. Blurb that I wrote is on the back here, among others. We've blown it up much larger on the screen.
Starting point is 00:24:38 You know, Adam, I was thinking everyone has the book. Maybe we could all read it at the same time. Turn it around, it's on the back, and we can all read it together out loud. Make sure it's not upside down. Yeah, because then it'll sound different. Yeah. Scott, just briefly while people are taking out their books, and getting ready.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Did you ever think to publish the book at this scale? I know. It's really tempting now that I see it. Honestly, also because so much easier to read. Oh, yeah. I mean, that would be a trim size
Starting point is 00:25:13 of approximate leaf. We shouldn't talk about trim. That's a separate podcast. Are we talking trim tonight? That's our show Dripp and Milk, and this is not an episode of that. Reason two, talking trim. Okay, so if everyone's ready, we're going to read it together.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Everyone has their book out. Here we go. And we do not read the quotation marks out loud, just off why I... Before you start. Nor the commas. No, we don't say comma out loud, apostrophe. Other than that, I think we're... One suggestion, if you don't know a word, just sound it out.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Sound it out. Or you can ask one of us. That's what we're here for. Should we take it? I'd also like to just give, if we might, a single piece of direction. Okay. In that we pronounce the text in blue
Starting point is 00:26:08 in all caps the way that it's written. Right. That's true. You don't have to scream. You should, though. When you say the blue text. Okay, are we ready to kick this off? All right, let's go.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Okay, here we go. Three, two, one. Quotation mark. Whoa. No, no, no, no. Let me stop you. Let me stop. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Starting point is 00:26:30 I almost did it too, so that's good. I'm glad. Force of habit. Can I ask you, when you're on the set of spasm? Yeah. Each of your lines, do you start by saying Delroy? I do first, at first, and then we cut that out usually. Put in the blooper reel, and then we're able to keep going.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Oh, you know what? I actually, I'm glad we paused for a second, just because I'm looking at the words and I'm not sure, there's one I'm not sure how to pronounce. Oh, okay. I'm just going through all the words, it's right there. Words? Okay, got it, thank you.
Starting point is 00:27:07 You said it right actually before you said you didn't know how to pronounce it. Interesting. Yeah. I'm glad we're doing this, Jason. I'm thrilled. This is helping me a lot. I've just noticed how I'm sitting in this chair. I have one of my legs over the armrest.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Okay. Adam, thank you. Because here, I have a huge grievance and grudge that all comedy podcasts think they need to put you on stools. Yeah. Hi, stool. So you're like, yeah. I always feel like I'm a little kid like,
Starting point is 00:27:40 hi, I'm doing a show. Hi. Why don't you sit cross-legged then? Down on the floor. The way you want to do. Chris Cross applesau? Yeah, sure. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:27:48 I would love to. I would love to also just sit on a regular goddamn chair. Yeah. So my feet are on the ground. So if an attack happens. I can get out of here quick. Meanwhile, I'm like... Let me see the difference.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Adam, do you mind playing an attacker really quick? Absolutely, no problem. Let me see the difference of how quick you can do it this way from... Okay, so let's say we're just doing the show. Yeah, we're shooting the show. Do you want me to come from behind or from where I am right now? I think, how do attackers... You know what?
Starting point is 00:28:19 I think from the audience, because that's where these fuckers are coming from. Let's be honest. they've got a very important note I need to read. Anyway, what a great time. Oh my God, I'm having such a good time with you. Jason, I love performing on stage with you. Sorry, guys. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:37 Okay. What kind of signal? A hand signal. Got it. Like a shh. Like hang loose? Like a shaka? Hang loose.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Okay. So we'll just do like it's the regular show. Right. So writing the book, I feel like for you must have been an incredibly, I mean, those three pages were just so difficult for me to write. Did you feel at any time like you knew what you wanted to say, but we're having a hard time getting it out? Yeah, but I just relied upon Thesaurus.com most of the time.
Starting point is 00:29:18 Thesaurus.com. So you're here promoting thesoris.com? I would just put it on random. Put it on random. Whatever word popped up, I would throw into my... Oh, wow. Yeah. That's interesting.
Starting point is 00:29:29 I never would have thought about it. I'm realizing we forgot to give you the signal. We got so into it. We got so wrapped up in our own thing. Enthesaurus.com. That one's not up yet. It's okay. Sorry, we'll remember to give you the signal right now.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Adam, turn that the other way around. I'm too high! Yeah, these chairs are bullshit. Yeah, right? Yeah. Yeah, right? That bit's gonna play great in audio only. I mean, because it played so well in the room.
Starting point is 00:30:14 So let's read this. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Do you, by the way, can you read it in under five seconds? How quickly do you think you could read? I can, I'll promise you this. I can read it in under seven minutes. Okay, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:30:29 I'll take that. Okay, here we go. Everyone has their books out, everyone's ready? Okay, because we're all going to read it together. Here we go. One, should we count one, two, three, or three, two, one? Let's count up to 10. Okay, here we go.
Starting point is 00:30:44 One, two, three, four, five, six. I feel like we should go down, though. I think you're right. I do feel like it should be in reverse. Down from 20. Down from 20. Sure. Okay. Also, because that will help everybody get in the rhythm.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Yeah, that's right. And you can make sure you have your books out. Here we go. I'm not, I'll be honest. A lot of you don't have your books out. I'm a little worried. Which makes me think you're not going to read from the book. So how are you going to participate?
Starting point is 00:31:16 Yeah. You know what? We should give them more time to give their books out. Down from 40. Ready? Yeah. 40. 39.
Starting point is 00:31:25 38. 37. 36. 35. 34. 33. 33. 32.
Starting point is 00:31:34 31. 30. 30. 29. 28. 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22. Oh, 20. You said 21.
Starting point is 00:31:50 You jumped. You jumped. Oh, God, damn. I'm sorry, we've got to start over. Let's just go straight in. Go, well, go again, straight away. Let's go again. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:56 And 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 34, 34, 33, 33, 32, 32, 32, 31, 31, 31, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 15, 15, 14, 14, 11, 11, 10, 17, 15, 14, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 10, 7, 7, Five, four, three, two, one. Everettors, pages, words, letters, pictures, syllables, winks, winks, gravy, signature dance. I'm going to read it five more times than go back to sleep. I'm in a full body sweat. That really was exhausting. That was electric.
Starting point is 00:33:21 I think I have COVID now. I felt like... Can you get COVID from reading out loud? Yes! Yes! Droplets! All these fucking monsters! We asked them to shout droplets right at us.
Starting point is 00:33:35 But still, I just want to eat them off. Mnum, num, you know. Well, Adam, thank you so much for participating with that. And it means a lot that you're here tonight. Thank you. And... Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:53 I love it. You know what? I love it. I love it all. I love seeing it up on the screen. I love that. I'm just going to be honest. When I wrote this, I never dreamed that I would see it up on the big screen. Did you, did you? Because now you're a published author. Absolutely. Now you're a published author. Do you feel as though that adds just another element to your career that's exciting to you? Are you going to develop this into anything? Thank you for saying that. You're welcome, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:34:26 I mean, it's more than just a feather in the cap, okay? Which it is. But yeah, I think... If you could have a feather in your cap, from what bird? Emu. Imu? Pigeon. But you, I mean, Adam, you have a cap full of feathers.
Starting point is 00:34:45 So many feathers. Your head is just covered with feathers like an Indian headdress. You might as well hollow out a bird, and wear it on your head for how many feathers you've got. That makes me really hungry. I mean, you're a published author. Yes.
Starting point is 00:35:02 You're a bad actor. Yes. Other things. But those are two feathers. Yes. Most caps can't even carry that. Adam, I'd love to talk to you about the movie Tork. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:35:15 That's your other show. Oh, sorry. We're not doing how to this get made. We're not doing how to this get made tonight. But it is really special. and I thank you so much. And usually when you thank someone, they thank you back. No, thank you.
Starting point is 00:35:29 I appreciate it. Oh, okay. I appreciate it. You know what I appreciate it. I appreciate it being asked. I appreciate it being asked. Yeah. And it is great to see it on the big screen.
Starting point is 00:35:38 This is like... It's like seeing it on the big screen. This technically is better than any movie you were ever in. It's more fulfilling. I got paid more. Yep. Was there ever a point in which myself or Adam were going to be featured in the cover? as such huge contributors,
Starting point is 00:35:57 but I can't help but notice neither of us is featured in this cover. Because there's Rob Schneider is there. Yeah. In the cowboy hat. So he made it on there. He made it on. Randy Quaid is there in the back.
Starting point is 00:36:14 Yeah. It's a gorgeous cover. It really is, but no, I never, I never, what's worse that I didn't, ask you or didn't even think to ask you. They're both really bad. Yeah, I'm seeing that now. But thanks for being part of the back of the book.
Starting point is 00:36:36 No problem. Thank you. The very last thing anyone will read. Adam Scott, everyone. All right, well, a wonderful panel already. And I'm afraid... And we have seven more people to go. I'm afraid I'm going to... bring the mood down a little bit. Oh, boy. No.
Starting point is 00:37:02 Because I genuinely am friends with both of you. Yeah. Are we friends with you? I don't. Only you can answer that question. And by the end of the show, those questions will be answered during the Q&A.
Starting point is 00:37:21 What if Moripovich came out with an envelope and told me whether you were my friend or not? The big friend reveal at the end of the show. I dance around. Scott, would you be surprised to know that? Adam is not your friend. Ooh, boo. You dance around.
Starting point is 00:37:39 But the next person I'm bringing on, I genuinely hate. He is a children's entertainer of note. Please welcome Big Chunky Bubbles. Hi. BCB, how are you? That's right. It's me. Big Chunky Bubble. Do you remember what I do for a living?
Starting point is 00:38:30 You are, for those of you who don't know BCB, he is a children's entertainer. That's right. You blow bubbles for children. I don't blow bubbles. I'm sorry, your breath is not involved. No, I mean, I'm breathing while I do it. Thank God.
Starting point is 00:38:50 Yeah. I'm sure you're real relieved. Have you ever forgotten to breathe in the middle of a performance? What are you talking about? forgotten to breathe like I'm up there doing my thing and then oops
Starting point is 00:39:05 I forgot to inhale Hey that's the opposite of Bill Clinton right Yeah Did you just try and high-five me With the back of your hand? Yeah I felt bad about like Giving you the part I touch stuff with
Starting point is 00:39:26 Oh okay You know what I appreciate that thing You didn't feel bad doing it to me You're disgusting This is my left Yeah that's true You should feel bad about making the Bill Clinton joke in 2023. We're coming up on the 30th anniversary, I believe, of him.
Starting point is 00:39:45 Oh, good. I'll send you a cake. What do you... What do you play? You celebrate it every year, don't you? Of course. 29 years. 28. 27. 27. 26. I don't blow bubbles.
Starting point is 00:40:01 I'm a bubble artist, and I create bubbles out of soups. stews and chowders. Seeing the people know. The crowd furiously checking the wiki. Correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, I will. I'm ready. By the way, we're all right here on you.
Starting point is 00:40:33 There are but two chowders, are there not? No. Go on. What do you think the two chowders? And corn. But there's multiple clam chowder. There's Motsie, even he knows. But those are all variants of clam chowder.
Starting point is 00:40:52 All chowders are variants of chowder. But those are variants of soup. Oh, this hamburger has lettuce on it. Hmm, must be a different strain. No, I'd have to explain food to you. What? They made a blue car? Now I've seen everything.
Starting point is 00:41:23 Adam, what... I wonder if you could make... If you could make clam chowder with the blue milk from Star Wars. Yes. And then you would have blue chowder. Right. Well, why don't we have Hans Solo whip us up a badge?
Starting point is 00:41:37 Since we're getting things from a fictional universe, is it contagious what you have? Now everybody's dumb? Oh, you're telling me. Oh, wow. I'm trying to support you. Look, look, look, like, look, like. I'm trying to support you.
Starting point is 00:41:51 You don't think it would be great to go to a kid's birthday party with... Jason. Star Wars blue chow... This motherfucker, Scott. This motherfucker is getting on me. How did you get up from your chair so fast? Let me tell you something. There's no amount of fictional milk
Starting point is 00:42:09 that makes a children's birthday party something you want to go to. They're the worst audiences in the world. These people out here who have kids who don't want to go to a birthday party, you're telling me that if you said there's going to be Star Wars blue milk bubbles there, those kids are going in a second.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Made out of... Made out of a seat out of a seat. Food Chowder? Yes. On a hot summer's day? Who doesn't want pink eye and diarrhea from bubbles?
Starting point is 00:42:39 That was one of your tag lines, right? Why do I come on this show? I don't know. You're very disrespectful. I'm trying to be friends with you. You are?
Starting point is 00:42:50 Oh, I thought you were, this was is this not marketing for you? Are you not trying to get jobs? I am. Of course I am. This is you being friendly. I had no idea. I'm sorry. By the way, I apologize, he's more of a trekkie.
Starting point is 00:43:06 Thank you for apologizing. That's not true either. You were telling me backstage. My favorite sci-fi show of all time, of course, is Blake 7. I don't even know what that is. I barely do, but listen. That's why it's your favorite. We shouldn't press you on specifics.
Starting point is 00:43:27 I didn't come here to talk about that, so I won't. Adam, what is your favorite soup? If you had to pick. Oh, well, let's just say, like, an intruder comes to your house. Yes. What would I be making when he walked in? Sure, but also if he were to,
Starting point is 00:43:47 he had, you know, some sort of weapon pointed to the back of your head. He's going to kill you execution style. Some sort of weapon. Yeah. But it pointed at the back of your head. Sure. Could be a baseball bat. A cat of nine.
Starting point is 00:43:59 Tate Ninesales pointed directly at the back of your head. He's going to whip the back of the nape of your neck. Right. And I have to say... And you have to say what your favorite soup is. What do you say in that moment? This is the weirdest home intruder I've ever encountered. He's a weird guy, I admit.
Starting point is 00:44:19 This was the original plot of funny games. The original. Right. Before they changed it. Before they changed it. Think of a lot, Michael Hanukkah. The studio bigwigs got more. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:34 I mean, I would have to go with some sort of chowder. Really? Absolutely. Okay. And since there's only two. It's a flip of a coin at this point. I would have to go with a clam. But which kind?
Starting point is 00:44:51 Manhattan or New England? Well, Manhattan, of course. Whoa. They've discovered a third chowder. Whoa. What is it? May I have to go over this whole thing again? I want to do the whole thing again.
Starting point is 00:45:09 40. 39. 38. Sorry, we're pasting something from Brett's phone. Turn that mic. If I don't like something, I'm just going to yell. Did you think someone who was coming up from behind you? I did for a second, yeah. What the fuck is going on?
Starting point is 00:45:28 Get a little feedback, I just want to make sure. I didn't think the show could get less professional, but you found. a new speed. Do you think I'm unpleasant? Yes! Big Chunky Bubbles is like the Stattler and Waldorf of the show. Just up in the, up in,
Starting point is 00:45:51 just sniping. They should have been the whole show. You would watch that. They're my favorite part. I'd take that as a spin-off. Because I hate frogs. Frog? Are there any...
Starting point is 00:46:04 Are there any... Are there any soups with frogs? Yeah, frog-based... Frog legs? You can make a frog leg soup? Can you? You can make a soup out of anything, Greg. But does it make good...
Starting point is 00:46:14 But does it make for good bubbles? Oh, boy. That was an homage to your coworker. Can you make soup out of meat? You can tell them about that in the morning, if you like... Sure. Different soups make different bubbles. Of course.
Starting point is 00:46:37 It stands to reason. What is the best soup for making a giant bubble? A really big bubble? The biggest bubble you've ever seen. The biggest bubble? I mean, beyond for artistic purposes, just for record setting. Now, are you in the record books
Starting point is 00:46:59 in any way, shape, or form for the size? We have a contact at the Guinness Book of World Records. It's not Fred Guinness, isn't it? It's Fred Guinness. That guy can go to hell. You've interacted with Fred Guinness? I've contacted him several times.
Starting point is 00:47:13 Really? doesn't return your call? He always picks up for us. And it seems like he has a personal relationship with everybody else we know. These are all callbacks to his show. Nobody's heard yet. I called him because I am, by far,
Starting point is 00:47:28 the most successful bubble artist working in suits, twos, and chowders. Wow. No one else is even close. So why did he turn you down for this? I mean, why aren't you in the book? He said it was too weird. I didn't think he was allowed to say that.
Starting point is 00:47:46 What does he tell you? He's one of the weirdest guys in the world. He, like, devoted his life to writing a book about weird things. They're not all weird. To be fair. I mean, it's a guy who can fit, like, a million cigarettes in his mouth. Like, oh, now you're defending the man who you just moments ago were deriding for ignoring you. Well, because my thing isn't weird.
Starting point is 00:48:08 I, there's records for the fastest person who ever ran. Aren't those just like Olympic records, though? Are those? Yeah, but they put him in the book. That seems like... Why wouldn't they? That seems like cheating. These should be Guinness book specific records.
Starting point is 00:48:26 How would that work? Do you think Guinness contracts people to do certain things? He should be out there on the ground reporting his own record. He can't just, like, contact the Olympics and go, hey, who's the fastest person who ever... Does he contact him or just watch them on TV like everybody else? That's the thing! This motherfucker. If you can't remember, now it's in a book.
Starting point is 00:48:48 Why have you got me defending this man that I just pride? I'm on your side. Can I, if you don't mind me, can I ask a question? I do mind you, but go ahead. I appreciate that. How come you don't seem to work, or have you tried and not been successful with BISCs at all? Great question.
Starting point is 00:49:12 The crowd, crowd, very interested in this. So much so that I don't want. them on my side. It's all right. It's an actually interesting question. Congrats. Man, the more you neg me, the more I want to fuck you.
Starting point is 00:49:27 Is that what you're up to each time you come on this show? No, I'm still grieving my wife. That's right. Your wife, who, by the way, for those of you who don't know, she passed away in a... No. She passed away. How was it exactly?
Starting point is 00:49:45 It was in a tragic bubble accident. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. I made a soup that was too hot. Was it your fault? It was my fault. She was so proud of me.
Starting point is 00:49:56 She was my biggest supporter and cheerleader. And she... No! You can't take it that seriously. Shame on you. You're adults. Don't feel bad. I was working on, as a matter of fact,
Starting point is 00:50:14 a bisque bubble. A bisque bubble. Oh, no. The bisque bubble is the holy grail of bubble tree. Of course. I'm assuming a lobster bis because it's so rich and expensive. Well, of course. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:28 Nothing but the best. Nothing but the bisque? For my bisque bubble. So I was almost there and I called my wife in, much of the way that Alexander Graham Bell called for Assistant Watson. What? You're almost as inaudible as Dr. Sweetchat at this point. Holy shit.
Starting point is 00:50:55 You never heard of the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell would anyone under the telephone. He would say, ahoy. The first thing he did was yell for his assistant to come in and see that he'd done it. Watson, I need you. That's right. Yes. So, I said, honey, I'm doing it.
Starting point is 00:51:13 I'm doing it. The bisque bubble. It's real. She rushed into the... the bubble laboratory. La-bubble-la-tory? No. No. Okay.
Starting point is 00:51:24 Scott. Come on. Wow. I'm sorry. This is where your wife passed away. Good chime in the story about my dead wife. Just... Just so sorry. Grinding the show to a halt. Who's over there now?
Starting point is 00:51:36 For word right there. This guy you're trying to do sciops on me. And she she started rushing towards me to embrace me. And I said, honey, no, it's too hot. She got too close, and the bubble burst. It burned her skin right down to the skull. Wow.
Starting point is 00:51:57 Like an Indiana job. It was like opening the Ark of the Covenant? Oh, my God. She just like, bloop. It happened so fast. My wife standing there from the neck down, a person, and from the neck up a skeleton head. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:52:15 Did she ever go to the doctor to get a checkup? from the neck up? What do you mean? Scott? What do you mean? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:52:27 This is... It's all right. I know you're still sensitive about this, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess that makes sense why you haven't attempted the Bisk bubble again.
Starting point is 00:52:37 And I'm, and I didn't know that, so I, sincerely, I didn't mean to... Or have you attempted Bisk bubbles since then? I've thought about it every day since. Mm. And every... Get a life! For real.
Starting point is 00:53:01 For bad. They're so enraptured by the story. I mean, he's a wonderful... Whatever you can say about him, he's a wonderful storyteller. Every time I collect the ingredients we're the best. And they start putting it together.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Inevitably, I look down in the terrain and I see my wife's grinning skull looking back at me. Wow. You got to take that skull out of your train. I appreciate it as a tribute, But you really should not keep it in there. It's not our actual skull.
Starting point is 00:53:33 I have a weird guilt vision. Don't you get it? But do you, well, I feel like if this, this is, if your life, oh boy, if your life was a movie. Are you all right? If your life was a movie, if we made a movie of your life, which would be a great idea. I would actually like to do this. Act three would be you having to finish the bisque successfully and in doing so finding true love again. Yes.
Starting point is 00:54:00 First scene is your wife's face melting off. Yeah. It just started with a bang. And then you keep flashing back to it. And you're turning your back on the bisque. Yes. And on her. Well, because she's dead.
Starting point is 00:54:15 It's kind of hard to get psyched about this. I hear you. I hear you. But we could, I bet if we beat this out for another 10, 20 minutes. We start putting note cards up. We can get this done. We can break the story, yeah. You could play.
Starting point is 00:54:33 yourself. Or you could play your wife. Or you could play everybody Eddie Murphy-style clumps. Yeah. Or you could play everybody Eddie Murphy-style clumps. Yes. Yeah, don't they call it clumping it? They say you can clump it. You could clump it up.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump it up. Did you see that movie, the whale? One clump? Forget it. That's my point. I am waiting for the other clubs to show up. Instead of just a movie about a fat man having a feelings? Weird.
Starting point is 00:55:23 I thought Eddie Murphy did great in it. No, he's terrific as always. Well, Big Chunky Bubble. Good to see him in Whiteface again. And that was just them being like the clumps technology is being ignored. Big Chunky Bubbles, I did want to bring up your contribution to the book. What book? Oh, we're here doing a comedy bang bang book.
Starting point is 00:56:00 Everyone has one. Comedy bang, bang, book. It's a book. Yeah, it's a book. We actually have something that is related to you in the book. Could we bring that up on the screen? What? This is a review from the newspaper of your act?
Starting point is 00:56:17 This happened in Montreal. Gila shots that hack. Pardon me, I thought that we had your permission. to put it in. No. Why would I ever grant permission when this is it's a big one of that.
Starting point is 00:56:33 It is public domain though. It's in the newspaper so I think maybe we contacted them. Oh, you're mad at Fred Guinness though? I think that
Starting point is 00:56:43 and I... Why are you hanging out over my head? I don't think he's mad at Fred Guinness. You're mad at Fred Guinness. I'm mad at Fred Gaines. You got me going crazy. We love Fred Guinness.
Starting point is 00:56:56 You are attacking his policies, though, putting Olympic records into the Guinness. A new wrinkle to big chunky bubbles. The monitors here are as bad as Largo. Where are they? They are just the speakers pointing out.
Starting point is 00:57:12 Right. That's not a monitor, son. Now, because we've established it from Adam's piece as well, we're going to count down from 40 and we're going to read the whole thing. It's long. It's also quite brutal against you. It is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Very unfair. Sorry, I just, you know, you wouldn't write me back when I asked you to write a piece for the book, so I, you know. Did I not have the right email address, or? No, you did. Those filters work like a charm. Instagram filters? Oh, email filters. Try it sometime.
Starting point is 00:58:00 I will. Are you down, are you down to inbox zero? Yes. That's admirable. That's impressive stuff. I pulled it off last year. Very exciting. I even replied to all the spams.
Starting point is 00:58:15 Oh, wow. I just wrote back, I'm interested. I'd rather not, thanks. I finally realized I should just cut and paste. Please take me off your list. I'm perfectly happy with the size of my penis.
Starting point is 00:58:33 Are you happy with the size of your penis? I love it. You love it. Yeah. Well... That's the quote. Yeah. I'm perfectly happy.
Starting point is 00:58:48 See, if you just would have written that, I could have put that in the book instead of... I was very suspicious when you asked me to write something for your book. Yeah. Sorry. It seemed like a trick and a tramp. Not a treat or a treasure. No, we had a lot of people contribute things to the book.
Starting point is 00:59:05 What? Who? Well, Brock Love it? Do you know Brock? The Treasure Hunter? Yeah. Sorry, wet treasure hunter. Right.
Starting point is 00:59:13 One time he found a diamond ring of one of my soups. He said, finders keepers. Where did it come from? An old lady threw it in there. She told somebody a story of her life and then threw the diamond ring in a bowl of soup. This guy has old ladies throwing jewelry out of night and day. I would love it so much more
Starting point is 00:59:34 if James Cameron was more interested in the depths of soups and stews than our own oceans. Yeah. I read an interesting article. other day about if that were real what were the diamond the throwing the cordillamere into the ocean right that the insurance if they found it the insurance company would have kept it what are you what are you reading what are you reading insurance insurance you as a gall to call this an interesting article I read an
Starting point is 01:00:08 interesting article you want to be tried at the Hague it is a war crime like 9-11. Yeah, no shit, guys. False flag. Okay. Honestly, where did you read that? Like, what honest to God are you reading? It was germane to the interests of Brock Loved and myself.
Starting point is 01:00:30 Oh, Germain. Was it Your Majesty to it as well? That's the show. Doubt, it's not getting better. So the insurance, what happened? Basically, what they were positing, is that if Brock Lovett
Starting point is 01:00:56 were to retrieve the Cordillamere. Right. Billy Zane's character would have... Shut the fuck up. You read an article about Brock Lovett? Yes. Got it. That Billy...
Starting point is 01:01:10 Whatever Billy Zane's character's name was... Cow! Okay. You a Big Titanic fan? Love it. I dare you not to cry. he would have insured the diamond because it was worth so much.
Starting point is 01:01:28 Sure. So his he drowned on the boat, didn't he? Or did he get off? No, he was a coward. He was a coward. He took someone's baby to escape. He ate someone's baby to escape? Yeah, he ate someone's baby to escape.
Starting point is 01:01:40 Took an eight, don't even sound alike. That's in the deleted scenes. So he got off. He would have filed an insurance claim for the... What are you doing? For the court of la Mare. So when it was found,
Starting point is 01:01:59 it would be the property of the insurance company, not of Brock Loven's. But it wasn't Brock Lovin's property anyway, it was Rose's property. Because Cal gave it to her as a gift. But did she declare it for tax purposes? That's the other thing.
Starting point is 01:02:13 Well, that's paragraph 8. Anyway, if he were here, I would tell him all about it. But do we know that he wanted it for his own personal gain or did he just want to find shit from the Titanic? Was he like one of those, it belongs in a museum types? No, I think he just... Maybe.
Starting point is 01:02:34 I don't remember. What types are those? You know, like, not to bring up a movie that will trigger something for you, but Indiana Jones, with the melting faces, I was trying not to say it. God, Big Turkey Bubbles, you're crying. I'm weeping. I'm so sorry. Sorry, Petey.
Starting point is 01:03:01 Oh, by the way, that's, your name is... Do you feel like if you... Sorry. Sorry, your name... No, it's all right. For those of you who don't know, I called you Petey because... That's right. My given name is not big junkie bubbles.
Starting point is 01:03:13 Big surprise. My stage name. My real name is Petey. I don't think I knew that. I got to read the wiki. Sorry, so what were you going to ask? I was going to ask, do you feel... Because you just, I mean, we're here with you tonight.
Starting point is 01:03:38 seem truly still so heartbroken at the loss of your life. Do you feel like if you could accomplish the Bisk bubble, it would give you closure? Yeah. Is there moving on from this? That's a pretty big question. Scott asked me to come out here to ask the big questions. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:54 He said, I'm going to ask the little dumb questions. I'm a coward. If you could focus on big, interesting questions. I know that my wife would want me to be able to do the Bisk Bucke. Oh, Pedy. What was her name? I don't remember. Oh, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:04:21 I didn't know. That can happen when a woman's face melts away. Exactly. There are no distinguishing features left. I haven't talked about this in a while. It's so hard, you start to forget about those people that you've lost, including their names. Yeah. Does anybody remember?
Starting point is 01:04:42 No. Okay. Let him home. Alexander Graham Bell. Yeah. He thought you were talking about Alexander Graham Bell earlier. He got that confused.
Starting point is 01:04:52 I don't mean the explanation. Okay. I better name was something to largely. I want that for you. I want for you to find closure in this world so that you can move forward and have happiness again. Find true love.
Starting point is 01:05:04 Thanks, weird stranger. Also, your children need a stepmother, you know, your wonderful children. Robby, Bobby, and Tag. Names you remember. Immediately. They're still alive and around me all the time. Their faces still are right where they're supposed to be.
Starting point is 01:05:22 You seem to not like them. You seem to not like them? They're not my favorite. Okay, maybe start working on the Bisk bubble again. Oh, Jason. Said it that then, the 9-11 stuff? This crowd is unbelievably weird. Go ahead.
Starting point is 01:05:49 Were you like this before your wife passed away? Unhappy to be on this show? No, it hadn't happened yet. Because we've only known you in the shadow of such an incredible tragedy, and you're such an incredibly awful person to be around. I'm just wondering if you were different before then,
Starting point is 01:06:12 if she added some... You know what, bro? I'll grant you that. I'm not the most pleasant fellow. And yes, there was a time. When I smiled and laughed, I was quick with a joker to light up your smoke.
Starting point is 01:06:33 Would you make tonics in gin? Yeah. I remember one time going to this bar and it was Saturday. It was a pretty good crowd. For a Saturday. For five o'clock, were you there midday? Or wait.
Starting point is 01:06:50 You think midday is five o'clock? What are you, a vampire? You know, when I have a drink, it's midday somewhere. To answer your question, yes, I was a more fun guy before. Well, I hope you get back there. Maybe we could set you up with one of the guests on the show sometime. I don't know, I mean.
Starting point is 01:07:13 To discover that joy again. Do you feel like the making of the bubbles now remind, it's got to remind you of that tragedy? Oh, it does. You know, to have a family like Adam does and like I do. And, well, he's married to show business. I do have a family, by the way. have those three miserable kids.
Starting point is 01:07:43 But I will confess, I've been perusing the apps. Really? Are you on... Are you on Bubble? I'm on Raya. Oh, yeah? I almost went on Bumble
Starting point is 01:07:56 because it was so close. And, you know, swiping this way and that. Sometimes all I can see is just a skull. Would that be attractive to you if there was just... When you, my question is, when you see a beautiful woman's face, are you picturing the skull beneath it?
Starting point is 01:08:19 Yeah. Wonderful. I think that's what I just said. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean literally there's skulls on Raya. Yeah. I didn't know. But would that turn you on if you saw someone who was like the red skull, but.
Starting point is 01:08:35 The red skull? The red skull? The Marvel villain? Yeah. I mean, I know what a skull looks like. You don't have to bring comic books into it for me to understand. But no, it wouldn't. I liked my wife when she had a face. But I love her always.
Starting point is 01:08:56 Whatever her name was. Big Chunky Bubbles, everyone. Can you stick around, BCB? Yeah. Well, we have a wonderful guest right now. Adam, you and I have several podcasts about music. Yeah, yeah. We've covered
Starting point is 01:09:33 U-2. U-2, yes, yes. Sa. Saas. Saus. Saus. So, so so lollies. Sauses. Sauses. The band.
Starting point is 01:09:58 Are we doing a short-form improv show? Yes. We're hoping to go off Broadway with it for the next season. So this is a little preview. We're going to start at the Beacon. Cherry Lane. Get to the Cherry Lane. But there's one band that we haven't covered. That's right. And that is of course the FAB 4. And please welcome to the stage
Starting point is 01:10:20 John Lennon. They're sitting up. They're standing up, I should say. Amazing. Jason is giving you a standing and walking out of the room ovation. That makes sense. John, so good to have you. Oh my God, it's so great to be here in Brooklyn. How about that? I came all the way from Manhattan. It's great to... Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. I haven't been on stage in a long time. This is big chunky bubbles. He's an entertainer as well.
Starting point is 01:11:04 I saw him backstage. It's a pleasure to see you. Moving around and doing bubble stuff. I was moving around and doing bubble stuff. You were doing bubble stuff backstage? Yeah. You've never done it on stage. Why would I?
Starting point is 01:11:15 He put me in a bubble. He did the thing and I'm sitting there in a big stew bubble. Did you say it was? It was a big stew bubble. Very exciting back there and now I'm out here. But I was going to say, it's so great to be in Brooklyn
Starting point is 01:11:27 with all the, look at the hipsters. out here drinking coffee. You know, hipster, you could always tell a hipster because they drinking coffee after 6 p.m. I've, you know, I of course don't see any right now, but you've got crazy haircuts out there. Look at these people. Wait, you're one of the people with the original crazy haircut,
Starting point is 01:11:47 the mop top itself. That's right. That's right. Because we were all so thin back then, you know. So we had mop bodies at first. And it was... So they would call you in the press, they would call you the four. mop bodies? Right. The four
Starting point is 01:12:06 sticks, you know. And I'd say, Ringo, I think they're talking to you because he would use drumsticks. He played the drums in the back of the whole band. He was behind us. Right. So I didn't see him. I like him the most, but I saw him the least. So you thought they were referring to his two sticks, but they were
Starting point is 01:12:24 seeing double? No, I thought they were talking about his two sticks and the backups. He always kept a backup. When you were playing live shows, how often would you turn around and look at Ringo. Very seldomly, only to be, what song are we playing next? Oh, Ringo.
Starting point is 01:12:40 Was he the guy who had the order of the songs? He had it all written down on his one drum. If he'll go back and look at videos of him playing. Film. He would, you'd always notice he'd never hit the floor, Tom, because that's where the set list was taped. He would always consider it.
Starting point is 01:13:06 Yeah, right. And then decide not to. Throw us all off. But all right, he doesn't want to hit that one. drum. We should add a drum to the second floor time so we can put that on it. Or maybe put the set list
Starting point is 01:13:18 on the floor in front of you guys instead of could be. Could be. Where were you? I don't think I was on this earth yet, but you're still in your dad's balls. John, have you started working blue? I'm doing stand-up now. I'm doing a lot of
Starting point is 01:13:36 stand-up. You are? I would love to see some. A lot of crowd work. Stand-up. I'll do it I'm seeing it. Yeah, I'd love to say. Who would like to see John Lennon do stand-up? Can we get a spotlight? Can we get a spotlight on John at all? Can we get a spotlight?
Starting point is 01:13:51 I don't think you're on anymore. There's no spotlight and my mic's not on. Yeah. I'm gonna keep talking. Oh, here we are. Is there a spotlight? No, okay, okay. Okay.
Starting point is 01:14:00 They can make the lights very bright. On Broadway. Scott, you'd fit in perfectly in this town. Hmm. Anyway. I thought you said something about Broadway. Okay, I'll do some of my crowdwork. What do you think you're some...
Starting point is 01:14:17 You fuckface. What do you think you're so great? You think you're so special. I'm John fucking Lenin. I can have you thrown into a dumpster. What are you laughing at? You're all... Get him out of here.
Starting point is 01:14:29 I don't want any of these people in here. Wouldn't that be something if we just had this conversation by ourselves? Here still. That's good stuff. Yeah. What, does the stand-up? I might steal a couple lines from you.
Starting point is 01:14:45 Oh, that would be an amazing double bill. John Lennon opened by Big Chunky Bubbles. We don't know the order yet. That sentence. By the way, Adam, I don't know if you know this, but John Lennon, you're a big music fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This hasn't made it to Rolling Stone or anything like that.
Starting point is 01:15:04 But John was dead. How did you die again? Shots in Labati. directly in the body. I fled everywhere. Oh, no, you were killed. You were murdered? On site, yes, right.
Starting point is 01:15:17 I was coming out of my home, which I live in now still, the Dakota. Oh, right, I don't think I have any neighbors here. There's all hipsters, you know. You were coming out and a man by the name of Mark. Mark Summers. No. Got his hands on a gun.
Starting point is 01:15:37 That's a different guy. He was the host of Double Dare. I think I get those confused because I've always wanted to be on double-air and I always wanted to not die. Right.
Starting point is 01:15:49 I remember those of my ones, the two things I want. Got him transposed, yeah. Also, his name is Summers and you died in the winter in December, of course. Right. Oh, man.
Starting point is 01:15:59 Thanks. Well, a happy ending because came back to life, came out of the ground. So how did that work? How did you come back? I was in there for four years in a casket in the ground
Starting point is 01:16:09 and you get very bored in there and I remember I had a book I can't even remember the name of the book now and I read it and it was boring and I said I don't like this anymore got out I'm walking around I'm doing everything I used to do
Starting point is 01:16:21 but I don't tell Yoko that I'm alive please don't tell Yoko I'm alive because I'm borrowing one of her forays and I don't want to give it back I'm still married I think but that's the only reason you don't want her to know
Starting point is 01:16:37 because you're borrowing Pretty much. And, you know, I'm having a fun time being out without her. Yeah, it's so strange she hasn't run into you yet. It's... We run in very different circles. In Manhattan. You're still at the Dakota.
Starting point is 01:16:52 Still at the Dakota. She actually might have an apartment in there. I see someone who looks exactly like her from behind and in the front, too, but I'm always wearing. The big nose and mustache and big glasses. The hat, trench coat. bubble coat over the trench coat shoes too big and an extra watch which I'd only
Starting point is 01:17:18 usually around her would only wear one watch and if she looks at my wrist oh two watches okay never met this man don't know him at all although he knows my name so you address her sometime hello yelko how's your day been how are our children do you disguise your voice and all
Starting point is 01:17:39 I try to you I try to you I try I. Let's hear it. I do a lot of that, too. Hello, y'all go. How you doing, mate? How are our children? Does that one still look like me?
Starting point is 01:17:56 Do you say, how are our children to her? Are our children? Does one still look like me almost exactly? She said, oh, kind of, but he doesn't wear two watches. Got away with another one, I say. How many, just out of curiosity. How many children do you think you have? with Yoko?
Starting point is 01:18:18 I'm asking as a fan. Sure. Well, I got the, I had two wives. Right. Do you need to check the wiki? I don't. I wrote a little bit. I had two wives, and I think between us we had,
Starting point is 01:18:36 I want to say three kids. My birthday is October 8th. Take the win. Take the win. curiosity, and forgive me if this has been covered before. But, John, have you seen the movie yesterday? I've heard about it. This very interesting.
Starting point is 01:19:00 By the way, he means the movie called yesterday. He's not asking if you saw a movie yesterday. Oh, then I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, I'm so glad you clarified. I just got HBO Max. Is anyone on Max Easter? Talking about. He comes out here half drunk.
Starting point is 01:19:22 No, I'm not drunk. You were saying? There's a movie. I think they're covering it on blank check next week, a podcast where the fans will really let you know if they don't like you. Or if they do. That's nice too. You know, there are nice people on the Internet, too.
Starting point is 01:19:48 We forget about them. But it's a Danny Boyle film that is a movie about suddenly everyone in the world except for three people forget who the Beatles are. Right. Right. And I will say this. Spoilers for the movie. You are still alive in the movie. I've heard of this. And I read it. In the timeline.
Starting point is 01:20:10 Yeah. Somebody playing me shows up. You're an old... You're an older man. It wasn't you, was it? No, I didn't... I'm not an actor. When I got my glasses, I was. Just in that one wall movie and I got those glasses. That's the other fact a lot of people know about me.
Starting point is 01:20:24 But you were also in help, you were in... Those were glorified music videos. But what do you think about that supposition that if the Beatles never existed, you would still be... I mean, you are alive, obviously, but... I'd be alive, right? Would I have all the money? No, I think he was pretty broke.
Starting point is 01:20:47 And I wouldn't like that. I'd like to be more of a beetle guy who has all the money in fame. You like where you're at right now. I like where I'm at because I'm alive. I can do anything I want. and people don't bother me, and I can play music if I want,
Starting point is 01:21:00 no, I don't want to. And you've never, I keep beseeching you to come bring your guitar and play some songs. The damn thing, well, you know what it is. It's Ringo's got it. He's still telling me he's going to sign up for guitar lessons. So you guys are in touch.
Starting point is 01:21:18 Oh, every day. That's why I was watching movies with yesterday. Oh, wow. What do you guys watch? What kind of movies do? Are Ringo, I mean, that's, wow, isn't that interesting? to think about John Lennon and Ringo Starrs sitting together watching a movie. What are you guys up to?
Starting point is 01:21:30 Like, what are you watching? Well, we're mostly dishing of whoever we see on TV. But these days we're watching, we're getting into the Batman series. Christopher Nolan? Christopher Nolan Batman. And then we're going to watch the one with Paul Dano. You're a big Paul Dano fan. Love Paul Dano.
Starting point is 01:21:53 I absolutely love everything he's been in. from the girl next door all the way up to There Will Be Blood and then the movie I just mentioned, Batman. So you skip over from There Will Be Blood to the Batman movie he was in. Right, and I saw some of the Fableman's. Sure.
Starting point is 01:22:13 Some of them. Well, here's what happened. I put it in a DVD player that I got at Best Buy. It was a $20 DVD player because I only have a few DVDs I want to see, you know. I don't need to buy it. an expensive one. Anyway.
Starting point is 01:22:26 Well, you know, because it's streaming. It seems like this side of the room doesn't understand. It's mostly streaming. Honestly, God, this side of the room are assholes. Don't even... Don't even deal with them. I'm not even going to bring up Blu-rays. Heads blow up. $20 DVD player. Put the Fableman's DVD.
Starting point is 01:22:45 I watched about half of it. It stopped. Completely stopped. The movie stopped. Movie stopped. Image jerked off to the side and... It jerked off. It just went, come on. The image jerked off. I knew what I said.
Starting point is 01:22:57 I do it. This is about a young boy. By the way, I would love to watch that version of the movie. And yeah, I couldn't watch any more of it. But when I saw, I didn't really find too engaging. Did you try, like, take it out and rubbing it on your pants and then putting it back in?
Starting point is 01:23:16 That's what I always do. I don't have time to tell you the amount of surfaces I rubbed it on. We've rubbed it on everything to try to get it clean. You think we didn't try that? Did you try blood? blowing in the DVD player inside. Shit. We were unplugging the plug, blowing all over the plug
Starting point is 01:23:34 and putting that back in. Because Ringo said, I read this article about how plugs get dusty now, and that's a big thing. I said, okay, you're doing the one reading. You're reading around here, I'm not. Wow, a fascinating article. Did you catch that one, Scott? I read the headline.
Starting point is 01:23:53 When you and Ringo are together, you never think to, it's never inspiring to come up with new muse. or nothing creative starts happening. I'll sit down at the piano and then we'll invariably get into most of Weird Al's catalog. So you just start playing something
Starting point is 01:24:10 and then it just like, oh no, Weird Al. We know this one, it's Eat It will go into that because we're usually trying to replicate. Have you guys ever thought about doing a Weird Al cover band? That would be fun. Who would really want to go see John Lennon Ringo doing Weird Al covers? By the way.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Millions of people. Like, literally everybody in the world, that would be incredible. At least once. God. I got a pitch. What if instead of a Weird Al cover band, you become a Weird Al parody band, and you parody the songs that Weird Al's already parodied. Or you parody the Weird Al parodies?
Starting point is 01:24:46 Like, you mean, like, continuing it. Yeah, what he said. Exactly what I said. I'm asking for clarification. I'm glad the sound is finally traveling down to you. What he said, but me. Right. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang.
Starting point is 01:25:00 What he did, but I say it. Oh, but also louder. What he said, but moments ago? Yes. I'm glad even though there's no women on the show, he can still fit that behavior in. So y'all saying, take the songs and make them sillier or go back to the originals.
Starting point is 01:25:26 No, equally as silly. No, make them sad. Oh, sad songs. Take a sad song. Right? And make it sadder. And make it sadder. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:25:39 I recognize that lyric from something. It's one of your songs, actually. One of our great songs. No, it's not. Paul, what about, or John? The Beatles. It's a Beatles song, sure. John, what about a pop?
Starting point is 01:25:52 Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Five you. Guys, fight, fight.
Starting point is 01:25:59 Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. Fight, fight, fight. Fuck. Don't. Don't do it. What were you saying? He was saying fight. You were saying...
Starting point is 01:26:09 We're the same sometimes. Adam, we were interrupting you. What did you... No, I wanted to know... I wanted to know, John, what about Paul... We're talking about Ringo. What about Paul McCartney? He's still with us.
Starting point is 01:26:22 He's still with us. He's great. But he's touring. You know, he's always so busy touring. But does he know you're alive? He knows, yeah. I go in and I help him, you know, run some of the songs, rehearsed the songs for tour
Starting point is 01:26:31 and get him ready because he's such a nervous guy. I'm not ready, I'm not ready. Are they going to go out there? They're going to throw popcorn at me. I say, you know, Paul, first of all, the stadiums he plays in a humongous. To get a piece of popcorn anywhere is difficult anyway.
Starting point is 01:26:50 So he's nervous and I get him calm down. We run the songs. Ringo and I and him and George Harrison's son come by. We do all the songs. The wing songs, the Beatles songs, anything he wants to do? This is... I mean, people would pay to see this.
Starting point is 01:27:06 Don't trust me, I know. They've told me, and I said, I'm not going out on the road again. Why? Are you afraid of the popcorn? Right, because they sell popcorn outside of movie theaters and stadiums, so it's everywhere now. They can get you anywhere. No, but for real, though, for real.
Starting point is 01:27:22 For real. I'm just joking about it, but for real. I don't want to travel with those two because those two get together and they prank me. This is, okay, so this is the real? Is this why the Beatles broke up? We've never heard these stories. More less.
Starting point is 01:27:40 It's only so many times I could walk into a doorway and have a bucket drop on my head filled with water. Oh, worse. I read that the, you know. What's worse? Can I just interject? No, no, please go ahead. Yeah. Are we talking jism?
Starting point is 01:27:56 No. Oh, my God. No. That wasn't worth it. No. Not worth it. A bucket. I mean, a whole tour.
Starting point is 01:28:03 No. Well, right. You run out of ideas. No, just you're saving it up. Huh? Oh. Those guys are like the jackass of music They're constantly just pranking each other
Starting point is 01:28:16 Bingo Hi my name's Paul McCartney and welcome to jackass Was that a good liver pudlian accent? The best Hey, I just listen to you and I Do it exactly the way you would do it Probably Yeah so right
Starting point is 01:28:36 I didn't want to do the pranking anymore Yeah That's understandable It's hard to be You know you go to bed and find a cockroach in it. Wait, are you sure they did that, or were you just in a nasty
Starting point is 01:28:49 hotel? Who's to say, but it was all around the same time of the pranking, so it felt like it was all at me. The bad energy, it was a lot of bad energy. So you found one cockroach in your bed one night. Right. And you quit the Beatles.
Starting point is 01:29:06 Well, when you say it right, when you say it like that, you're right. I mean, can you even be sure they put it there, really? No, you can't. You can't be. Did you ever ask them, hey? I was always shy around them.
Starting point is 01:29:20 Because you don't want to say the wrong thing or they'll throw it in your face. This all might have been just an enormous misunderstanding. I know. Looking at it now, all these years past, I can't help feel foolish for not speaking up. And that's something we're all working on these days, right, folks? we're in therapy or with our loved ones. Things are a lot easier when you communicate. I like that you keep trying to engage the people that are behind you.
Starting point is 01:29:58 I feel so bad. Versus I'm like, fuck these assholes. Oh, my God. Can we talk about what you wrote for the book briefly? Let's bring it up on the stage. You were kind enough to send us something that you wrote. you wrote a track by track review of
Starting point is 01:30:18 the Beatles record one. My absolute favorite Beatles album. Yeah. It's got the hits. Well, it was the best of. Best of. Well, number one is not just best of. The best. Of.
Starting point is 01:30:37 So you graded all of the tracks. Graded all the tracks. A lot of them got A's. B plus. Somebody did some drawings there. I don't know who did that, but... Oh, those weren't you? I assumed that was you doodling. Oh, no, I mean, I did doodles
Starting point is 01:30:58 and then sent them in and say, do something like this. And they did... Then they did a worse version of my doodles. And you were like, oh, no, I meant for you to do a better version. Right, do a better version. And then I think a lot of email exchanges,
Starting point is 01:31:11 and I think the last one was just, well, you fucking deal with it. And then that was to me. so then I had to go out to hire somebody with my own money hired somebody really great street artists you know tagging is what the
Starting point is 01:31:30 he was tagging everything it was tagged me I was walking by him and I said you know I jumped I left out of the way because any time you hear a hissing noise from the spray can I hate snakes
Starting point is 01:31:41 you know so I jumped away you famously are known for hating snakes absolutely hate them there were a lot of your songs were about your hatred of snakes it's one of the things everybody knows about you, that you have three children,
Starting point is 01:31:53 that your birthday is October 9th? Eighth. I say eight. Yep, sorry. You might be right, I was guessing. You just hate snakes. Hate snakes. Can't stand them.
Starting point is 01:32:05 So, ooh. It's because of the no legs, you know. You hate, because I don't mind lizards. Yeah. And you feel about spiders? They're full of legs. Well, they've got quite a few legs, but I don't like how light they are.
Starting point is 01:32:22 I don't like them at all. I said, well, I'm with you. Bubbles. Chunky bubbles? Big chunky bubbles. Big Junkie. I forgot the big part. Wasn't the song Imagine about snakes originally?
Starting point is 01:32:43 You know how like yesterday was about scrambled eggs originally? Right. Well, imagine all the people fit better than imagine all the snakes. And we added an extra, but, yeah, imagine all the snakes. slithering around, crawling into your shoes, crawling into your coat pockets, getting, it was a Christmas song, getting into the presents,
Starting point is 01:33:04 and looping the presents with their tail and scooting them out of the room, opening them and slithering up to your bed and saying, you gotta, morning Christmas for you. So in that rendition, the snakes speak, and everybody understands. Like, everybody speaks parcel.
Starting point is 01:33:29 song or something. It was like that to me. Is that the case for, because I feel like watching the Peter Jackson documentary, it seemed like the raw materials for a lot of those songs had to do with all sorts of stuff. Like were most of the hits we know snake-based?
Starting point is 01:33:47 Right. He jumped in, he started, well, not him, but whoever shot that documentary. The guy who wanted you to perform in Egypt or whatever it was. Whatever his name was. That motherfucker. Michael something anyway. Egypt, though, Egypt, you know, a lot of snakes. Bingo.
Starting point is 01:34:03 They worship them. Yeah, remember when Indiana Jones, sorry. Opened up the tomb. Oh, my God, Pedy is crying again. Oh, I just, you know. I let it go when you mention Danny Boyle. Incredible. I can't believe I got that joke.
Starting point is 01:34:28 Did you miss it and have been waiting all this time? I did miss it. That's a great one. They kept on thinking about it. Okay, now you can relax. But Indy opens the tomb and it's full of snakes. So many snakes in Egypt. Yeah, that's a big walkout moment for me.
Starting point is 01:34:50 You saw it in theaters? Yep. Anytime it comes out, anytime it's printed, they show the theaters, I go see it. Wait, Indiana, the first Indiana Jones? Because it came out in the four years that you were dead. Right. So I see it when they do, yeah, when they show it now. And then you walk out every time.
Starting point is 01:35:04 I walk out. every time the snakes come. And I don't see the end of it. I don't know how it ends. And honestly, I don't really know how it begins because I'm always so late to go into the movies. So I'm there for 20 minutes. So if you wouldn't mind, just for a brief moment,
Starting point is 01:35:18 can you tell us what you think the plot of Indiana Jones is? Sure. Which one is this again? Raiders of the Lost Dark. Raiders of the Lost Dark. Sure. He's got, well, you've got the hat. You've got the hat, right? And that's where you start. It's about a hat. It's about a hat. And what's under the hat is so important,
Starting point is 01:35:35 which I think it was really the lesson of that movie because we all sort of wear our own hats and what's under it is the courage and determination to sort of teach at a school. So you walk in when he's teaching at the school? So for you, it's a college movie. Right. And I walk into that scene, I go, where's his hat? Because I saw the poster,
Starting point is 01:35:57 he's got the hat on. So eventually he puts it on and he's zipping around with his whip and I'm sure there's a car. in there and he throws somebody into a propeller of a... Oh, actually, so you have seen quite a bit. I walk out and in, I'm all over the place. I want to say that... And I want to say the credits roll at a very
Starting point is 01:36:26 inopportune time. It's the end of the movie. Well, for me, you know, inopportune, because I wanted to see the 20 minutes I missed. Maybe if... I ask if maybe just loop it back, just keep it on a loop, and then I can watch it and then leave when...
Starting point is 01:36:42 But then... So in that instance, the credits would be in the middle of the movie. Right. Evan God. It would be an interesting way of doing that, I think. So in other words, the post-credit scene for the movie would be 20 more minutes of movie? Right. Yes, exactly.
Starting point is 01:37:00 You must really love what the Marvel movies are doing with the post-credit scenes. I absolutely love the Marvel movies. I'm there at day one on each one of them. Have you ever thought maybe you should be in a, I mean, Adam's going to be in a Marvel movie. Is that so? He's in Madam Webb. Yeah There are no snakes in that movie
Starting point is 01:37:18 So you can come A lot of spiders, though But spiders There are spiders That's fine Yeah But you will not want to see this movie Why?
Starting point is 01:37:27 It's not good? No, well Thanks for the heads up Thanks Adam So that's a good poll quote Put it on the back of the book What does Madam Webb do? What's her deal?
Starting point is 01:37:41 I don't know But there are spiders. But we should continue to dig in on it, right, and ask you a bunch of very specific questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what an incredible casting coup that would be... To get me in the... To get you in a Marvel movie.
Starting point is 01:38:00 I would have a dream come true. I would love to be an Ant-Man. Yeah. Ant-Man. Ant-Man. Quantum Realm. Why would you want to be in that one? Just get small, get big. That's... I mean, that's really... It says it all.
Starting point is 01:38:12 It says it all. I mean, you look around this room if we could read the minds of people in here. Every one of them, yeah, my superpower I want is getting small and getting big. That's it. What else is there?
Starting point is 01:38:24 Flying around, you can do that when you're big, apparently. Sometimes, he's got the suit. Wait, who's big that flies around? I think he's more of a, no, I misspoke. I think he's so big
Starting point is 01:38:36 he just steps to like the next country. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's better than flying, right? Just walking around. Walking around the other. It's sort of the flying of the land. That's a good way. Being a giant?
Starting point is 01:38:51 Just walking. Walking as a giant is the flying of the land. Are you saying walking period? Walking period. What about cars? Shit. All right, John Lennon, everyone. It's incredible that John Lennon's here.
Starting point is 01:39:17 I'm still... I'm getting some... some late-breaking news from engineer Brett, who's backstage. Everyone, give a hand to Engineer Brett. Types of chowder. New England's clam, Manhattan clam, corn. We've mentioned those. Potato.
Starting point is 01:39:41 That's right. Potato chowder. Fish. Shrimp. Yeah. I just want to say, looking over your shoulder, I am shocked at how many more there are. I tried to tell you.
Starting point is 01:39:59 Why didn't you list any of these before? Because I wanted Scott to suffer. And also it gives Brett something to do. Yeah. Cream. Cream chowder? I'd rather not, thank you. Tonight, when you guys are making love to each other,
Starting point is 01:40:19 please say, give me your cream chowder. I love that you imagine any of these people are going to go home and fuck after this. Are you kidding? After this show, they're going to be all horned up? I think this crowd's going to set a record for breakups. Why did you drag me to that? I told you I wasn't going to like it, and I didn't like it. Why didn't you bring your brother? Now we have chicken corn.
Starting point is 01:40:50 Chicken corn. That's... Chicken in the corn? Chicken in the corn? So the corn can? Chicken and the corn guy. So the corn can... I don't know what that is. I don't either.
Starting point is 01:41:00 Yeah. Anyway, a lot of variance of lobster and corn. I mean, that's just corn. Yeah. So now it's just mix and match? Yeah, I don't know. Why would it stop at clam? Why not, like any other kind of shellfish kind of scenario?
Starting point is 01:41:18 Well, I'm saying, why would they make a clam chowder and then say, that's it for chowders? Oh, yeah. What is a chowder? It's gross. Yeah. You know how disgusting soup is? Why do you do it? What if it was...
Starting point is 01:41:33 Because the bubbles are beautiful when they glisten in the light. But you hate children, you hate soup. Yeah. But what if it was... What if soup was thick, viscous, and full of clams? And if you left it too long,
Starting point is 01:41:49 developed a film on top. Yum. That's good bubbles. I don't eat the bubbles, genius. Why not? Why not is a bubble? Like, why not use bubbles to feed people? You're never tempted to eat the bubbles?
Starting point is 01:42:06 How? Which stupid question do I take first? How many do you have time for? I got time for two more. Take him, then me. I think feeding people with bubbles is like a slap in the face to someone who was hungry. It's like giving someone a slice of Swiss cheese, you know? How?
Starting point is 01:42:26 It's like, just give me the whole thing, you know? No, that is the whole thing. The thing is the whole. Are you hungry? She is a block of cheese. Hello. Make it last. I won't be back here for another year.
Starting point is 01:42:44 Is this someone in witness protection? Wait, what? I won't be back for another year. And that scenario he's the federal agent checking in on? That's what I assumed. Wow. That was, you quickly... Talk about the flying of the land.
Starting point is 01:43:03 You built that narrative so quickly. fast. Which is a lot of back story. I thought I was really... Who's the only person that gives someone food for a year? A federal agent who's checking in on someone in witness protection
Starting point is 01:43:16 who's incapable of getting food for themselves? Maybe an Instacard delivery person right before it's about to start snowing. I don't know. That's a long storm you're looking at. Well, that's on the person who ordered it from Instacart. They only ordered a block of cheese,
Starting point is 01:43:33 and that was it? Can you order a block? Can you order a block of cheese? on Instacard? That would be a big wheel. We should try to get one delivered here tonight. Do it. I don't know how to make that come true, but I would love it. Just a big block of cheese.
Starting point is 01:43:54 Maybe your chowder researcher could get on it. You know that at like a 1.30 a.m. There's going to be a poor guy out front being like, I got a wheel of cheese here and the place is fully closed. on 30 a. Sir, we just ended 30 minutes ago. Where were you? Are you trying to get us to rush it along?
Starting point is 01:44:21 John? I just thought it'd be funny to think of time in a different way. Okay. Not unlike the quantum realm, if you really think about it. Well, you know, speaking of movies, we have another guest.
Starting point is 01:44:35 And this is someone who has not been on the show before. Someone who did not contribute to the book, but I heard he was in town. and this is I don't know what they do in movies but I'm guessing by his name he has something to do with movies.
Starting point is 01:44:50 Please welcome to the show Silver Screen Sammy. Hello, Scott. Thank you so much for being a fan of my work. Hello, thank you so much. So nice to meet you. Thank you so much. I'm Silver Screen Sammy, that's three S's and I'm of course a KKK, KKK.
Starting point is 01:45:16 What's that? Katona's cutest, Cinema Critic Catona, New York. Cuttaan New York. Cutta Cinema Critic and Catona. Sighted to be here on stage with such luminaries of the
Starting point is 01:45:31 industry. Of course, the dragonfly from Doolittle. Of course. Of course. James the Dragon Fly, my number one role. James the Dragon Fly from Doolittle. Of course, you're not going to have a lot to choose from. Writer on Sharktail. I chose. Adam Scott. I went through
Starting point is 01:45:49 your eye and to be wouldn't know any of your work. Did a thorough search, it would all be right above my head. And, of course, Chunky Bubbles, famed children's entertainer, love his work. Big Chunky Bubble. Well, of course, I'm sorry. John Lennon, yellow submarine. One of my absolute favorite vehicles. Out of curiosity.
Starting point is 01:46:14 Yeah, ask away. How old are you? Eight. Okay. That helps. That helps me. I'm a critic. Don't know Adam Scott's work.
Starting point is 01:46:24 You look nice, though. Thank you so much. No, I meant him. Oh, okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you so much for responding to my PR lady's email, I've been looking for more gigs trying to get on stage.
Starting point is 01:46:36 Mostly on the small screen is where I work. Right. So what do you actually do? The tube. You keep miming the size of the... Because this is the size of the screen. and I'm Cotonas Cuted cinema critic. I guess I didn't realize that you were an eight-year-old film critic.
Starting point is 01:46:56 News 12 Westchester doing the movie reviews, of course. It's a bit of a family business, a legacy business. My father was a triple S as well. By the way, don't say those three S's together. Otherwise, John here will think it's a snake. My father was a... Were you sleeping? I was asleep.
Starting point is 01:47:19 My father, of course, Stormy Springs, Sammy, local weatherman, Westchester, New York. He was a weatherman. Oh, okay. A weatherman named Stormy. Well, no, his name's Sammy, but Stormy Springs is the name. Gotta have a gimmick. Gotta have a gimmick.
Starting point is 01:47:41 So you talk about movies, sort of like that show Blank Check. Have you ever heard that? No, I only care about the TV. That's legitimate. Oh, I see. Although I heard their fans are rabid on Reddit. weird axes to grind
Starting point is 01:47:56 somehow forget all the context of the guests and anything they've done previously in their career it's the kind of show that you listen to if you like hearing people eat on mic that's what I've heard and I think no especially if you like hearing people decide what they're going to eat on mic and then half an hour later they eat the whole thing
Starting point is 01:48:18 once again I've never listened but I hear that some people like it I can't imagine that's true. But I'm serious about the TV, and I feel a cultural responsibility because these days people aren't that media literate. Yeah, I've actually found the opposite to be true. At the end of the day, it's all about story.
Starting point is 01:48:42 Movies need a great story. And kids these days, they love their Mario movie, but they don't know anything about film history. So I feel responsibility. to get on the tube right there and tell them about some of the classics that they don't know about. Like what?
Starting point is 01:49:00 Like, sing two and Puss and Boots the Last Wish. You gotta go back into the archives and watch the classics. Yeah. You're an eight-year-old boy. What was the first movie or television show you ever... Sing Two, followed by Puss and Boots, the Last Wish. Have you seen Puss and Boots the first movie?
Starting point is 01:49:21 I've heard great things. Okay. Yeah. I did have a bit of a breakthrough recently. Oh, really? What was that? Came to my attention. Breaking news.
Starting point is 01:49:29 I don't usually do that on the program. Usually stick to the film reviews. But I got some news that, in fact, movies were made before I was born. Yeah. I mean, there's a long, rich tradition of cinema history dating... This is what I'm finding out. The very first movie of the train coming at the screen.
Starting point is 01:49:53 Well, that sounds... scary. Believe you, me, it was terrifying. I would scream if I saw that. Scream? Also the name of a series of movies? I'm learning. I'll take notes. Look, the point is. It would be good for you, especially if you are on
Starting point is 01:50:08 TV talking about films. If you could get a better sense of, like, what are the most influential movies? And like, I don't know. What an incredible Tia. You keep reaching for your bag. What is inside? What do you got in there? a Black Adam swag bag.
Starting point is 01:50:27 Haven't seen it. Sounded a little scary to me. That is... Do you want to show everybody that actually that is a... It is a Black Adam swag bag. And a Black Adam notebook. Wait, it lights up.
Starting point is 01:50:39 It lights up. Absolutely. Oh, wow. Wow, the power dynamic on stage just changed. Hold on one second. It's exciting to see something light up, isn't it? It's fun. So, I recently did some digger.
Starting point is 01:50:57 That's a Black Adam Thermis as well. Absolutely. Comedy rule of force. Yep. As it pertains to props. Of course. I watched the Academy Awards with my father and I went, this is great.
Starting point is 01:51:12 They should do this every year. I hope it continues. And he said they've been doing it for a very long time. And I went, whoa, Nelly. So that gave me a bit of a watch list. Okay. Oh, so you've written down movies that you should... I feel a little news.
Starting point is 01:51:33 Yeah, I mean, it's a good thing to be a little more aware of the medium that you're critiquing. I'm trying very hard. I'm constantly learning, getting better every day. Now, I can't help but notice looking over your shoulder that on the top of the page, you've written Silver Screen Sammy to remind yourself of your name. God, how embarrassing it would be if I flipped up one of those words. Anyway. So now, just to properly set the table, these are movies that you,
Starting point is 01:52:08 hope to see our movies. Best picture winners I have watched. I've been going down the list. You've been going down the list. And by the way, I hope to see some of you and best picture winners in the future. Oh, that would be amazing. I would hope it could happen.
Starting point is 01:52:21 Did the dictator win Best Picture or? I heard that was a very chill set. So here are some Best Picture winners. I watched this is what confused me. Because I watched the Oscars with my daddy said, this is the best that cinema has to offer. And I watched some of these older films that I thought they had all sorts of problems.
Starting point is 01:52:48 Oh, okay. Plot holes. Things sometimes don't age well. I would love to hear what you think of it. Plot holes. Here's one I watch. Kramer versus Kramer. Now, this is a wacky sci-fi movie.
Starting point is 01:53:01 I could not get my head around this concept. It was the most confusing film I'd ever seen. I don't, Silver Screen, Sammy. I don't know that it was sci-fi. It's got to ground a movie. movie and some sense of reality. This is what I always say when I'm on the TV. What was confusing to you
Starting point is 01:53:17 about it? Well, because this premise is so unreasonable that a mommy and daddy would not stay together forever. Uh-oh. Oh, boy. I understand you're doing wacky, sci-fi, but the buy-in here is so high.
Starting point is 01:53:35 Let me ask you, obviously your mommy and daddy are still together. As is law. I don't like you, using those words. Can I ask, do your mommy and daddy fight the way that the characters was that believable to you? Of course. And that's the little bit of
Starting point is 01:53:50 relatability in there, of course. You know, my parents are both working professionals. Do you not know what divorce is? Well, I've seen the movie. I don't think it's really a concept that's going to carry through in the cinema. To you, it's something like a lightsaber.
Starting point is 01:54:06 You think it was made up for that actual movie? And that technology doesn't exist, and it never will. much like divorce. Wow. I mean... Next movie. Oh.
Starting point is 01:54:20 Terms of Endearment. Uh-oh. This movie was confusing. Uh-oh. This young lady splits up with multiple daddies. Apparently, the Academy loves that. The end, she takes a nap, and her mom freaks out. And the movie ends before she ever wakes up from the nap.
Starting point is 01:54:43 I mean, talk about an unresolved, cliffing. a rending. Oh, boy. This movie's got plot holes. Let me ask, was it believable to you when the mommy got sick? Of course. Everyone gets sick, including mommies.
Starting point is 01:54:59 Like, but that sick? I mean, is your mommy sick right now, or? When's, okay. Sicking the head, go on? When you wake up in the morning every day, do you see your mommy and your daddy? In love. Okay, Greg.
Starting point is 01:55:11 Okay, that's good to know. Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Have you ever... Sometimes she sleeps. but she always wakes up. I hope, I mean, that's what's supposed to happen, so that's great. Have you ever seen the movie Loose Change?
Starting point is 01:55:26 I think it should be required viewing for all eight-year-olds. I haven't. Tell me, here's wide open. It's about, well, it's fun to have loose change in your pocket, right? Of course, I like that, jingle jangle. What else you got? Okay. Platoon. You watched it.
Starting point is 01:55:48 Now, this is one of the wackiest movies I've ever seen. It's about the weirdest summer camp I've ever witnessed. All they do is play paintball all day, every day. But here's the thing. When characters in the movie lose at paintball, they disappear, and you never hear for them again. That's where the story would get good. How bad they feel that they lost the game.
Starting point is 01:56:11 Do you lose at paintball all the time? All the time. Oh. Oh. I feel bad. I feel like, I gotta say, he can't hear us right now. The French connection. Okay.
Starting point is 01:56:25 Now, this is a movie about a bunch of grown-ups being very serious about baking powder. So mean. I hate that you're taking my baking powder. It's at every supermarket. It isn't hard to find. This one guy hates subway trains. He hates them. Don't remember that part.
Starting point is 01:56:48 some of these movies would probably play better if they were more recent well i tried to go as mainstream as i possibly could how did you feel about the french part of it yeah have you ever can i ask if you ever because we're all pretty anti-french well i was i was gonna say have you ever kissed a girl whoa whoa that's what you were gonna say or a boy man. Hey man. This kid's eight. I'm not saying you should kiss us. I'm asking, like,
Starting point is 01:57:24 you don't want to understand, you don't want to help the kid understand death or any of these other things, but you want to know about French kissing? Well, I just... You want me to kiss everyone on stage? My job on the diversity booking, by the way. What an incredible lineup of daddy's for me to kiss.
Starting point is 01:57:42 Middle age dudes, that's who listens to podcast. You put it out there and this is what responds. Clearly, a book someone who didn't even contribute to the book. I would love to see this list in the book, though. Maybe we could put it in the paperback edition. Volume two. Volume two.
Starting point is 01:58:02 Here's another thing in the French connection. Oh, you asked me what I thought about all the French in it. No, loved it. More movies should have minions. That's what they sound like to me. There was another thing in this movie. They hate trends. They love baking powder.
Starting point is 01:58:24 They keep on talking about, female heroes, but there are no ladies in the movie. How do I get myself a heroine? Where's the heroine? I want to find a heroine. Almost no speaking parts for ladies. More than this show,
Starting point is 01:58:41 though. That's true. That's true. Shakespeare in love. Okay. Right there in the title, in love. The weirdest thing happens in this movie. I call it a plonhole.
Starting point is 01:58:57 The two main characters take off all their clothes and fight each other. They get into a wrestling match. They do some biting. I thought they were in love, not arch enemies, and then the next scene they never talk about it ever again. Silver screened Sammy. Yeah. I think you're misunderstanding these movies.
Starting point is 01:59:23 The classics. And I feel like maybe it's our responsibility. to inform you about some of these subjects. First of all, being sex. Jason, go ahead. Sex. First of all, which? Sex. Yeah, go ahead. Did you call it big sex? I thought you said big sex.
Starting point is 01:59:40 I heard big sex too. I don't know either of those words. You both heard me say big sex. But it was being sex, the first of which being sex. But we both heard big sex. Anyway, tell me what big sex is. Okay, so big sex. There's big sex and there's little sex. I'm little silver screen standing. You know what?
Starting point is 02:00:01 I don't want to explain it anymore. Next movie on the list of... It's too convincing. The first best picture winner ever. It's called Wings. Now, they said this was the best movie the year. They forgot to turn the microphones on. I watched this thing.
Starting point is 02:00:20 This is such an embarrassment. What a blunder. And then some years later, 2012, the artist, they forget to turn the microphones on again. Best picture, Mike Tush. Whoa, language. Language.
Starting point is 02:00:35 Come on, Silver Screen, Sammy. It's not that kind of show. I hope it's not big sex. Okay, here's another one I watched. This one I had a lot of problems with. American Beauty. Mm-mm. Oh, well.
Starting point is 02:00:49 I mean... I'm curious what your problems with it are. I think the audience... That's one of the ones that has... hasn't aged especially well. I agree, in my opinion, attempts to satirize the American petite bourgeois, but instead presents a pastiche of suburban clichés
Starting point is 02:01:05 undercut by cloyingly overwritten dialogue. And the weirdest thing is, two boys kiss at the end. Who kisses? Unless you're out of comedy, bang, bang, book release, apparently. Well, look, Silver Screen, Sammy. I'm assuming you don't have any more.
Starting point is 02:01:27 No, you're wrong. Second page. Oh, boy. Based on what I'm seeing over his shoulder, the entire time we've been out here, he's been doing this. Look, I hate to put a guy at the end of the show and then cut off his bit, so go ahead. Okay, here we go. I'll keep it quick. Speed round.
Starting point is 02:01:45 Moonlight, this movie is about two friends who thumb wrestle on the beach and then spread a bunch of clam chowder in the sand. Now, what is that? Big Chunky bubbles. Don't try to pass this over to me. The Godfather, two movies, two best pictures, six hours long, zero Muppets. Did you think there would be Muppets?
Starting point is 02:02:12 The last emperor, this is nothing like the Emperor's new groove. Silence of the Lambs, okay, first of all, don't eat people. At least you understood that. It's a moral tale. Secondly, Jody Foster goes to prison. Some guy throws clam chowder on her. Where did he get it from? Big chunky bubbles.
Starting point is 02:02:47 Couple best picture winners I love. No notes. Green Book, driving Miss Daisy. Crash, Gone with the Wind. Last of all, the biggest plot hole in any movie I've ever seen, I watched this thing, Schindler's List. Oh, boy. Uh-oh. Okay.
Starting point is 02:03:04 We all know the Holocaust. didn't happen? Oh, boy. What is this? Oh. Now your KKK thing makes a lot more sense now. Anyway, that's everything I spent. Silver screen Sammy, everyone.
Starting point is 02:03:42 And now a one hour Q&A. I see we've reached the two-hour mark of the evening, which... How's the cheese wheel coming? Yeah. Is that going to come to us at some point? Did you run the show on a time minimum? Yeah, unfortunately. Why?
Starting point is 02:04:07 I like people to feel like they got their money's worth, right? I mean, they got a book. Well, I mean, if I went to a concert, I would want to see at least two hours plus. Yeah, exactly. You know, and a Q&A. I think I saw the strokes once. They played for 45 minutes.
Starting point is 02:04:30 No Q&A. No thanks. Strokes. Do you know what the strokes refers to? A couple of the best picture winners I watched I talk of strokes, but I didn't quite get it. What? Well, now's the time when you,
Starting point is 02:04:52 we as the audience, would like to rank all of our performers. So we'll put our hands above everyone's head and you applaud for your favorite ones. John Lennon, everyone. Okay, big chunky bubbles. Adam Scott, Jason Manzukas, Silver Screen Sammy. Silver Screen Sammy, you...
Starting point is 02:05:19 Yes. Amazing. Sing the song. Underdog story. Sing your theme song. No, you sing the song for the winner, Scott. I heard you have a musical theater background. and do your dance
Starting point is 02:05:37 Yeah, we haven't seen the Disneyland dance World Famous Disneyland Dance No wait, this was you auditioning for Disneyland and you had to dance It was a three-day audition process Where we had to learn a dance Okay What would you have been?
Starting point is 02:05:58 Had you gotten it, what would you have been? I did get it I'm sorry, I didn't mean, that wasn't I genuinely didn't know Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Language! Language. Sorry, Silver Screen Sammy.
Starting point is 02:06:16 What was the song that you danced to? Let's see, it was 1987. Right. So... Was it a Disney song, maybe? Oh, that's right. I originally thought it was she drives me crazy, but... Because of 1987, but...
Starting point is 02:06:37 Yeah, bibbidi-Bobbidi-boo. Are we still allowed to say that? Only because it's so scary? I'll sing it if you'll do the dance. Just the second night in a row. Or a 20-minute Q&A. 20-minute dance or 20-minute Q&A. Whichever one you want, stuff.
Starting point is 02:07:08 Come on, let's go out on a hike. Come on. All right, you want to sing Bibbitty Bobby Boo? Here we go. But if you forget any of the lyrics. No. I know this song by heart like everyone does. And everyone can sing.
Starting point is 02:07:26 along if they want. Sure. You ready? Yeah. It begins with Angela Lansbury giving a little spoken word intro. I'm a witch, and it's World War II. Let's have some fun
Starting point is 02:07:42 with me and you. Arasabodoo, le kippa dajoola, bibidi-bidi-bidi-bo-de-do. A rapa-di-de-de-de-do. A rapa-de-de-de-do. A rapa-z-z-z-z-oo, la big a jule. Everyone likes to go to the zoo
Starting point is 02:08:02 If you go to Sacramento, everyone. That was wonderful. I almost broke my ankle again. Those are not the shoes for that dance. Those are loose-fitting shoes. And I think I got COVID for the second time. Sorry.
Starting point is 02:08:23 You shouldn't be doing that. You're genuinely winded. At 62, you should not be doing that. 62! All right, everyone. That's our show. Thank you so much. Jason Manzukas, everyone.
Starting point is 02:08:38 Adam Scott.

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