Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Ike Barinholtz, Drew Tarver, Erin Keif
Episode Date: February 24, 2025Ike Barinholtz joins Scott this week to discuss his new series "Running Point" on Netflix, basketball bounciness, and tipping your showrunners. Then, Dr. Henry Heimlich returns to pitch his TV show id...eas, and Bostonian Louie Pantano drops by to reconnect with old friends and find work in the entertainment industry. 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
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Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang.
Thank you to Lil Puss in Butt for that catchphrase submission.
Thanks to Lil Puss in Butt.
And welcome to Comedy Bang Bang for another week.
My name is Scott Aukerman.
We have an exceptional show this week.
Coming up a little later, we have a doctor.
We also have a Bostonian.
What a show.
But before we get to them,
let's get to our guest of honor.
Of course, we know him as the creator
of the two night event, was it?
Or was it a-
They called it a special two night event.
A special two night event, which was a Or was it a? Was it a? They called it a special two night event. A special two night event.
Which was a release strategy
that had never been attempted before.
And hasn't been since.
But he was on hyping it up
back when History of the World, part two came out
and premiered on a special two night event.
And now he is the co-creator of a show
entitled Running Point,
which hits Netflix on a one-night event, one-day event.
It's a, it's just one-moment event.
It all comes out in one moment.
One second.
Basically, like, every episode comes out one second of the day.
It's basically, no, it's basically like the TV equivalent of the Big Bang Theory.
But, but, confusingly, not the Big Bang Theory.
Oh, okay.
So, I think what you're trying to say is an explosion, which would create tributaries
by which all other TV special series will be compared to and spring forth out of.
Yes, it's basically the first one.
It all comes out at one big pop
and then just will have billions and billions of shows
stemming from that.
I can't wait.
So just spin-offs.
Spin-offs upon spin-offs upon spin-offs.
Even background characters.
Background characters.
Opening titles get their own spin-offs.
Wow.
Yeah, it's a new thing where Netflix is trying.
Okay, this is amazing, but it all comes out this Thursday on Netflix.
Please welcome back to the show Ike Barinholtz.
Thank you, thank you.
It is my pleasure, Puss in Booth.
Puss in Butt.
Puss in Booth is what you said first.
I just burnt myself in my coffee.
It's so wonderful to have you back. what you said first. I just burnt myself in my coffee.
It's so wonderful to have you back.
You are of course, one of America's greatest showrunners and co-creators.
And, uh, you, you did, uh, the history of the world part two. Yes.
And this.
Yeah.
And, and what else did I do?
I did a show gun.
I ran show guns.
You were the show gun.
I created it.
I didn't take a credit on it
because they kind of went a slightly different way
than I envisioned.
Which way did they end up going?
They just went kind of hard drama
and I thought it was kind of more like a multi-cam
kind of fun, you know.
Live studio audience.
We filmed the pilot in front of a live studio audience.
Right.
And it was like, you know, it was like the scene
when he commits, you know, seppuku,
it got like a great, aw.
That's good, that's the reaction you want.
Yeah, when the other guy was like,
I want you to have sex with this,
my nephew and I will watch, the crowd was like, ooh.
These are Shogun spoilers, by the way.
Yeah, sorry, sorry.
Oh, by the way, I also heard as a promotional kind of thing,
you gave swords to everyone in the live studio audience.
I did, and that is kind of the root of the lawsuit.
I, okay, I understand.
Lovely couple from Buffalo was in town,
wife was decapitated.
Oh no.
Husband was mortally wounded, he's also dead.
Okay, yeah.
So, yeah.
That's like a wound you do not wanna get.
Mortal wounds have always sort of the worst.
I hate them.
Anyways, his two sons are suing me and Hulu and Disney
and they're gonna win.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, they're gonna win.
All right, so this may be the last time we see you.
You might be jailed?
I would love to do a Colin from Prismature at one point.
By the way, I think this would be the first civil suit
that results in you being like a person,
a litigant being jailed.
Yes, no, it's breaking new ground.
It's criminal, civil kind of-
It's so egregious that-
It's criminal featuring civil.
Oh, okay, yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, this is, I mean, that's all in the past though
and possibly the future itself.
Yeah, well, we're right in the middle of it right now.
I'm leaving today to head down to the courthouse.
Right.
We have another pre-trial motion,
but the trial, I would love to plug the trial.
Oh, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.
I think it drops April 3rd.
Oh, okay.
It'll be on court TV.
It'll also be on the news.
Yeah, oh sure, yeah, well, I mean,
the story itself was so crazy, it was everywhere.
Yeah, and yeah.
But you know how the news cycle goes these days,
like 24 hours later,
no one cared about the woman who got decapitated
at the Shogun Live taping.
And her husband mortally wounded.
Yeah, no, so, but it's all coming back
and it's gonna be kind of interesting.
Wonderful.
Well, let's put that aside and talk about
a show that I'm told is called Running Point,
which I've never heard this expression,
I've never heard these two words put together.
Really? You've never heard someone say like, I'm gonna run point on this one? Sure, I've heard heard this expression. I've never heard these two words put together. Really? You've never heard someone say like,
I'm going to run point on this one?
I sure I've heard run point.
Yeah.
OK, so it's basically someone who's running point.
Yes.
Yes.
So it's not like a point where people start running.
No.
Well, it's the double.
On your marks, get set, go.
You're at your running point.
No, the double meaning comes in running point,
as in I'm gonna take charge, I'm gonna be in charge of this.
And also in basketball, if you're the point guard,
you're running point for the team.
Oh, okay, you're also running.
And you're also running, yeah.
Basketball, what if there was a no running rule
in basketball?
Can you imagine how exciting this would be?
So you're just walking?
Yeah. Casual walking. Like if anyone even breaks into a trot, that's a foul.
This is an exciting variation on the game, you have to admit. It is. No, it would be good.
This show would be called, I guess, Walking Point. Speaking of sports, we were talking with Dion
Sanders a couple of weeks ago about why,, you know the long snap where they throw it
to the kicker, why doesn't the guy just turn around
and throw it to him?
Why doesn't the guy go through the legs?
Why doesn't the snapper, oh that's a good question.
I wonder if there's a rule that you have to go
through the legs.
It's emasculating, isn't it?
It really is embarrassing.
Like I'm bending over, here's my little butt.
And then it goes whoop, through the legs,
and sometimes he misses, and it gets bobbled.
Sometimes it catches the taint and it just,
you get a penalty then.
Just turn around and throw it to the guy.
Anyway, this is a sports podcast.
Welcome back to sportscast.
Okay, so running point, now I know what the title is.
I'm being told by the internet,
the series stars Kate Hudson.
Boom.
This is of course Oliver Hudson's sister.
Yes, Oliver Hudson's sister, daughter, not in law, stepdaughter of Kurt Russell.
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.
Boom.
The two, the star wattage on that cou coupleage. It's the highest star wattage
for a couple of all time. You have another couple that has more wattage than that. You can't.
Yeah. I'm trying to think of any two stars. Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Almost a two president couple. Almost. Just by the skin of our teeth. Not quite.
Almost. But this is Kate Hudson and I'm told that she stars as Isla Gordon.
Isla, yeah.
But you're the only other person that's made that mistake is everyone who's ever read this
script.
Kate was the only one that was like, Isla, right?
We're like, thank you.
How many takes were ruined because of someone saying Isla?
Multiple, and ADR sessions where I'm like, it looks like if the lip flap is matching,
just go ahead and say Isla, it's gonna work.
Okay, Isla Gord, why would you name a character Isla?
It's a beautiful name.
It's, oh, I guess you don't like the song,
La Isla Bonita.
La Isla Bonita.
I don't know, you know,
I think actually that name was Mindy Kaling. I fought around it, man actually that name was a, Mindy Kaling.
I fought around it, man.
No, it was-
Mindy Kaling co-created this show.
Yes, Mindy Kaling, our dear friend
who I did the Mindy project with.
You were just an actor on that?
No, I wrote on that.
You wrote on that as well?
I wrote on that, yeah.
Did you want to write your own lines or ever?
I wrote my own lines, I wrote lines for everyone.
If you paid me enough money, I'd write you a line.
That's kind of how I look at it.
So really, anyone could have been in that?
Yeah, I'm from Chicago.
You come to my office, you give me a little envelope
with a couple 20s in it, you're going to find a couple lines
in the next script.
Sometimes we're not jokes.
You're just like, hey, there's a package for you, boss.
Choo-choo.
I'd love to do that.
Oh my god.
The residuals on that.
The zids.
Yeah, so we wrote together with my other partner, Dave Stassen.
Who's this Dave Stassen character?
He is probably one of the more important figures in Hollywood.
He's like my best, he's only my best friend of like 40 years.
40 years?
Yeah, believe it or not.
Since you were what?
Three?
No, I'm a little older than that.
I'm seven.
I turned 70 this year.
I'm the big seven now.
So you met this guy when you were 30 years old.
He became my best friend.
Which is a little too old to have a best friend in my opinion, but you guys are tight.
So Dave Stastin, you've known for a long time.
Yes, we went to camp and school together and we got hired together on the Mindy project.
Oh wow, as a team.
As a team.
And then we've obviously been writing together since then
and then Mindy kind of came to us with this idea
and she was like, you guys love basketball
and we loved writing together and stuff.
It's the most orange of balls, is it not?
It is definitely the most orange of balls.
Oh, it's the only orange ball.
What do you got?
You got baseballs, white.
There's a pool cue, or not cue, but a pool.
A pool ball, but that is the...
What is that, the eight ball?
No, that's the black.
What is it, the nine ball?
What's yellow? Is it the 12?
Is it the 12?
I'm gonna look up orange ball.
Orange pool ball.
Pool.
Footballs are brown.
Footballs are pretty brown.
Tennis are...
The five ball!
The five.
And, well, the 13 is the strike.
The strike, no, doesn't count.
Doesn't count.
No, to your point, basketball is the most orange of balls.
And it's the bounciest, I think.
Has it ever happened where a basketball game happens and the ref throws the ball up and
it's flat and everyone's like, what the fuck, this won't bounce anywhere.
And then they have to go, all right, everyone go home.
Well, I mean, you know.
We don't have an air pump tonight.
Yeah, at the professional level though,
there's pumps and not extra balls, I think.
Usually the games I go to,
if you go to one thing and you go to a basketball game,
you see dozens of balls there.
So they would just probably grab another one.
There's all rack of pumps just in case.
Sorry, folks.
We'll be flying in a pump from Arizona.
Should be here in one hour.
Please welcome Tiga. Tiga.
Isn't he the rapper?
I think it's Tiga, isn't it?
I mean, is it Tigger from Winnie the Pooh?
Maybe that's no. No, I always thought it was. Is it Tiga? Oh, I think it was Tigger from Winnie the Pooh? Maybe that's, no, no, I always thought it was, is it Tyga?
Oh, that, T-Y.
It's akin to a tiger.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay, well, regardless, he's at the game right now,
singing for two hours, waiting for a pump to come in.
The pump comes in in an hour,
and then it takes an hour to get the ball pumped up
to the proper. Just someone talking to them,
being like, there's a big five on Bullsher,
I could go get it right now.
They're like, nope, it's gotta be official from the league.
So then what I'm being told is,
Isla Gordon is a Los Angeles executive.
Yes.
That would be enough for a lot of other shows.
LA Law.
Sure, the LA executive.
This is a good idea for a show actually.
We don't know what they do.
Um, she basically, it's loosely.
No, let me say it.
Oh, sorry, yeah.
She's unexpectedly appointed head of the family business.
Good, yeah.
Is that it?
And that's it.
No, oh wait, there's a dash.
That business is the mafia.
This is a mafia comedy.
Just capping people in the head. I've always wanted to see that.
That would be fun.
Bafangu, motherfucker.
The business, which happens to be, just happens to be, or it sounds like they didn't work
hard at the business.
It's like, oh, we started a business and then it just happened to be one of the most famous
professional basketball franchises.
It's like, guys, there's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this.
I wrote this copy, so I'm just, I'm taking notes.
So it happens to be one of the most famous professional basketball
franchises in the country.
Yes.
That's enough.
But then guess what?
There's another dash.
When her older brother publicly flames out and appoints her the new owner.
Boom.
Boom.
Who's this brother?
The brother is played by an actor named Justin Theroux.
Okay.
Mulholland Drive fame.
Mulholland Drive.
Beautiful, beautiful movie.
And yeah, he plays her older brother.
It's loosely based off of the family of Jeannie Bus,
who owns the Los Angeles Lakers.
Which there's another show about the Lakers.
Yes, it's not on anymore.
It was called Winning Time.
Winning Time.
And this is-
This is running time.
What is this?
This is running point, but the running-
Hey, basketball players, it's running time.
Oh man.
It's also, oh wait, wait, wait, before you go out, it's also dribbling time.
Don't forget shooting time.
People are just out there running and dribbling, forgetting about the shooting.
Final score, zero to zero.
It's running point, the running time is about 29 minutes and change, I think, for the pilot.
But yeah, it's not like that other show because it's on, first of all.
Right.
As you can see it.
And it's more like a...
Wow, meow.
Well, no, that came off very catty.
I didn't mean it to be catty.
These ostensibly are your peers out there.
The difference between our show and that show is you can watch ours currently.
No, it's... But that was about the 70s team.
Exactly, that was 70s.
This is more contemporary and it's also fictionalized.
It's not about...
It's more contemporary,
but I was reading it set in 2018.
Like why?
Well, it's adult contemporary.
It's a lot of like, you know, we set it in 2018.
We just thought that was a really good time.
Yeah, for everyone.
Yeah, like it's really kind of,
in the pilot, the movie, Nope, is coming out.
Oh, okay.
And they all have tickets to go see Nope.
Yeah.
And so that's kind of one of the plot points.
Is this gonna be like the morning show
where the next season is all about the season
where they got COVID?
Yeah.
Where two years, or what was the Aaron Sorkin show?
The newsroom was like 16 months ahead.
Yeah.
But in an alternate universe as well, whatever TV station this was, was
existed first of all, and was huge.
Ah, I love the news.
Yes.
But in any case, so this is Kate Hudson.
She is the, uh the the head of now a
basketball team. Yes
And she does she know anything about basketball? She actually does know a lot about basketball. She was just kind of like
She was like a late 90s party girl kind of rich
LA brat whose life kind of just wasn't panning out. Who's Jeannie Buss? Jeannie Buss is...
Jimus is the daughter of Jerry Buss.
Right, but she's married to someone now.
She's married to Jay Moore.
That's right.
Yeah, she married Jay.
Yeah.
But so that again is lightly fictionalized.
Jeannie, I think was a much a very serious person
who was always working at the company,
but we wanted to kind of just take this person.
Fish out of water is a...
Fish out of water.
There we go.
Well, it would...
But she knows enough about basketball
where she's like, you know, I think air is okay.
I'll go back in the water.
Yeah, she doesn't die.
She doesn't die.
She doesn't die.
Like a true fish out of water, she's dead in three minutes.
So three minutes into the show.
She's gasping for breath, shaking on the ground.
This is a good show.
And it is a comedy.
It is a comedy.
Yeah, so I wouldn't really call a fish out of water.
Okay.
Yeah, like-
Fish in water, but-
Fish in water is-
Fish in a brand new water.
Sure.
There's fish in this pond over here.
We've taken the fish, we've driven it three towns away to a totally different pond.
But there's other fish in this pond-
Other fish, but they don't know them.
They don't know the fish, but they get to know the other fish.
They get to know them, but it's a little rocky at first.
Okay.
But the good thing is she lives.
She has the water flows through her gills and she's able to produce air.
Right, right.
By the way, Little Rocky, that's a good idea for a movie, right?
Little Rocky.
Little Rocky.
So it's like, Goo goo ga ga.
Who am I doing?
I'm trying to do Sylvester Stallone.
You mean baby Rocky, not even Little Rocky.
Yeah, well, I mean.
Goo goo.
To be littler than Sylvester Stallone.
By the way, one of our greatest Hollywood ambassadors now.
He is my favorite Hollywood ambassador.
I'm meeting with him later this afternoon.
Just to clear this show? Yeah, yeah. To make sure it can come out? Yeah, and I'm meeting with him later this afternoon. Just to clear this show? To make sure it can come out?
Yeah, and I want to pitch a couple other things.
Little Rocky, of course.
Little Rocky, I want to make a movie about Jesus, but he's a Marine.
Okay. Oh, wow.
Which I want Stallone to play it.
Great. He's not too old for this.
No, I mean, he's the most, I think, mentally with it of the three ambassadors.
Of the three ambassadors, of course.
I did hear-
Look up the ambassadors of you.
I did hear a clip of one of our ambassadors, Mel Gibson.
Oh yes, he's one of the three.
I heard a clip of him on the Joe Rogan podcast
and he was like, it was so funny.
He was like, I remember like 20 years ago when the tape came out of him screaming
at like his wife and it's like, I want to kill you.
And I remember thinking.
And the other things.
Yeah, a couple of other things.
Look them up.
You can Google those if your computer will allow it.
But I remember at the time being like, oh man, he's so mad.
Like I've never heard someone so pissed.
Yeah, like you've gotten mad, I'm sure,
in an argument with your loved ones.
But I've never been like,
like shaking.
And then I heard him on Joe Rogan
and he just talks like that.
Oh, okay.
It's like he's just always that mad.
And he was talking about,
oh my God, it was the funniest clip.
He was like,
he was like,
and there's a lot of things that aren't true out there.
Like it's global warming and the ice caps are melting.
He's upset about this.
He goes, he goes, you ever have a glass of water and there's ice in it and the ice melts?
The water doesn't spill everywhere, does it?
And it was just so sick.
It was so cool to see like a 75 year old man not know what a glacier is.
Compared you to the ice too.
Yeah, it's like, no, that's not quite,
that analogy doesn't quite work.
The water doesn't spill out everywhere.
Okay, well anyway, he's one of our great ambassadors.
We love him, we love Hollywood.
But Running Point is coming out on Thursday.
Yeah.
And who else is in this show?
Because it's a star studded, from what I can tell.
You have Justin Theroux.
We have Justin Theroux.
Joining Hudson in the comedy are Scott MacArthur.
Yes.
And Drew Tarver.
Yeah, Tarvay.
Tarvay.
Tarvay, he's a French actor we found.
Oh, okay.
He's like, he started off as a mime,
but then kind of graduated graduated to French improv,
which is totally different than American improv.
Oh, really?
It's just very condescending.
It's like...
It's like, no.
No.
Yeah, and you've heard of Yes, Anne?
Yeah, this is just no.
This is just no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Drew Tarvey as Isla's brothers.
Yes.
Then you have Max Greenfield as her fiance.
Yes.
And then, to top it all off, the cherry on the Sunday,
Brenda Song,
as a high level team staffer, the greatest.
Also, Jay Ellis is on there.
Chet Hanks is on there.
Chet Hanks, otherwise, aka Chet Hayes.
Chet, aka Chet Hayes.
Chet is one of the star players in the team, and he's fantastic.
Really? He's amazing.
Oh, great. I swear to God, he's great.
Does he get to rap as well or is he?
Yes, he does.
Was that contractual?
By us.
We demanded he did that and yeah,
he really actually killed it.
Fantastic.
And let's see, what is Running Point about?
Ila, the only sister in a family of brothers,
is ambitious and often overlooked.
But when her brother is forced to resign from his position as president of the
Los Angeles waves, what is this?
The Los Angeles what?
The waves.
Like, you know, you're surfing a wave.
What do you think it's like this?
Oh, the wave, doing the wave in the stadium.
So, but that would mean that there's lots of waves going on in LA.
There's groups of thousands of people.
The fans are doing the waves during the games and then the players also have to do the wave?
The players have to do the waves.
During the game?
They stop the game with the players.
All get into a circle.
So you couldn't get the rights to a real team?
Well no, that was a conscious decision by us.
You were conscious during this?
We were conscious.
Most of the show we wrote, we were passed out.
We were like, our writing processes,
have you seen Alien?
I have, yes.
You know how they get in those tanks
and the chambers and that?
Yeah, that's the biggest part of Alien.
That's how we...
I turned it off right after that.
So you just think it's like a nice, peaceful movie.
Nice tank movie.
That's how we write the show. We get into these tanks and we enter a state of.
Just turn on the AI.
Turn on the AI, wrote most of the show
and did a really great job.
But this is a WGA sanctioned AI.
Oh, okay, really?
This is the first sanctioned by WGA?
This is the first actual member of the WGA
who is AI, yes.
So who's the member? Like your computer is the first actual member of the WGA who is AI. So who's the member?
Like your computer is the member or?
It's just like user00048.
They didn't bother even giving it like a name
or some kind of fake identity.
Like, hi, I'm Solly.
You know, it's no, it's not an assistant number.
When you applied to SAG or whatever you have to do,
like you go join, right?
Yeah.
You know that it's fraught with tension
the moment when you're in the office and they say,
all right, let's look up your name
to see if you can keep using it.
I did not have that problem.
They didn't have any, I don't know,
like old school garbage men from Kiev.
I didn't think I was gonna have the problem either,
but it's just in that like 15 seconds
when they're looking it up.
You're gonna be like,
am I gonna be known as J. Scott Alcremont?
Yeah, or were you like Isaac Barinholtz?
No, I was luckily like Barinholtz,
but I have multiple friends who had to do
like little tweaks and stuff.
Kevin Spacey was actually Kevin Space High.
His real name is Kevin Space High. And there was actually Kevin Space High. His real name is Kevin Space High.
And there was another- Space High.
It's just S-P-A-C-E-H-I.
HI.
And he wanted to go with that.
And there was another guy with the name,
so he went with Spacey.
Yeah, interesting, yeah.
These are the kind of facts that you know
when you're good friends with Kevin Spacey,
like Ike Baranhold's is.
I mean, he doesn't live in the country anymore,
but we still talk.
Sure.
So, Running Point is out on Thursday. Is there anything else you want people to know about this show?
What's important for our listeners to get them?
Oh, okay, I'm seeing a little picture of everyone at a meeting.
And there's like a sort of...
The show is mostly about meetings.
Oh good.
There's not a lot of like character development.
There's not like even really like...
So the first sitcom told exclusively through meetings.
It's like Microsoft Groups basically,
where it's like, but you see actors.
So it's like a typical scene on the show is this.
Now here's a picture where two characters
are sitting on a couch and they're watching
a meeting on the street.
They're watching a meeting.
Okay, just run and keep you on it.
So like one of my favorite lines in the show is Kate Hudson comes in and it's like, our
third quarter numbers are down.
And Brenda Stong goes, let me bring up the chart.
And it's just like, it's so good.
It just runs from there.
It's like, you can imagine kind of where it goes from there.
Yeah, that's a hot place to start a scene.
It's just that it's just the scene is,
it's a show for people who, when they're at work
and they're sitting in a meeting, think like,
I love this, I wish I could do more of this.
Yeah, I wish I could have more of this at home.
Yes, yes.
Wonderful, well, it's out this Thursday.
Yes.
And is this make or break for you in terms of your career?
This is the one, this is it, folks.
And I, listen, you got you folks. Can I make an appeal
to your listeners real quick? Yeah, please. Yeah.
Folks, I've been on this podcast many times, and every time you have bailed me out,
and I have stayed in this business through the skin of my teeth and your largesse.
By their grace.
Yeah. And I wanna thank you, and want to keep the Ike train rolling.
And so if you're able to, when you hear this, set a reminder, alarm on your phone.
Because it comes out at 11.59.
It drops at 11.59.
On Wednesday night.
On Wednesday night.
So do a five minute before, 11.54.
If I wake up, you're going to want to pee probably.
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Kate Hudson, Drew Tarvey, so many people.
Let's get to our next guest.
I can feel mine.
I love it.
Um, this is a medical professional.
Ooh.
He's been on the show many times before.
He is the creator of the Heimlich maneuver.
Has this ever been used on you, Ike?
I've never been Heimliched.
I've choked, but I managed to get it out.
Yourself, this is a self getting it out?
This is a self getting out.
This is a self kind of hitting and bending over.
And then, and then my wife slapping my back.
So your wife, your wife has an assist on this?
She has an assist on this and this happens quite a bit.
So I have to, I'm very curious to hear
what the good doctor has to say.
Well, please welcome back to the show, Dr. Henry Heimlich.
Hello, Scott, how are you?
I am so good, it's so good to see you again.
It's so good to see you and it's so nice
that you sort of use this maneuver,
well, the slap, your wife's slap.
So that's, you also take credit for the slap.
No, no, no, no.
You start with the maneuver
and then you move on to any means necessary.
That's very true.
So you know, you can chop, slap, squeeze, exert, fall, kick,
anything to get the piece.
Abdomen squeeze.
Abdomen squeezing up and you get squeezing up, and you get it out.
Anything that gets it out,
but before you created this maneuver,
those were the only means that people knew of.
Yes, people were falling out all the time,
choking, little chunk of meat, cracker, peanut butter,
done, and the maneuver. The chunky peanut butter. The butter, the chunky, the smooth just slaps right through.
Well, yeah, I was like, when the chunky came out, everybody, oh, we love this.
We love this. We love this. Choke, choke, choke.
Dead, dead, dead. I said, we need to make this cream.
They should call it Chokey peanut butter.
Choke. That's what I was pushing for.
Is this is it? And so you were the one that said, we should make this creamy?
I came out, I was really pushing for more creaminess in food.
And then I had to pivot to some new.
Wow.
Now you came out with a more creaminess campaign
and people didn't know exactly what you were talking about.
Yeah, it was just like, we need to make this creamy.
I love those people sitting down eating prime rib.
Can we blend it, make it creamy rib?
That would be your preference then,
is everyone just drinks liquids
instead of eating food, right?
Well, I'm caught in between
because I love when people don't choke,
but I also love when they say my name and use the maneuver.
And you get paid a little bit to the residuals when people use your maneuver.
I used to, but I sold all the residuals.
Really?
To who?
To AEG or something?
ASCAP.
Oh, ASCAP?
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
So the people that protect your residuals now own them?
Seems like a conflict of interest.
Yeah.
It's the American Association.
Oh, this is a different ASCAP.
So they go with the S, the American Association of Choking.
Upon people.
Upon people.
Oh, as cup.
Upon.
As cup.
Upon, upon.
Yes, so I, you know, but there were many, many different things that I tried before as
a maneuver.
You remember throat bugs
Sure. Yes bugs trained to go in and get it out. Right, right. Very difficult to train some bugs
That's that was the biggest problem almost impossible. They're not like dogs in theory. No, no not like dogs. It sounds perfect
Yeah, in theory like oh first thought throat bugs
choking what it was just
knee-jerk
I'm not the first person to shrink of throat bugs but you were the
first person to literally try to train them. To get the bugs, become friends with them,
train them, get to trust. Becoming friends with them. Sleep with them. So wait get their
trust comes after training them? Sleep with them? Yes. In the same bed? Yes but
yeah like you know not creepy. No this is yeah, like, you know, not creepy.
No, this is a-
I mean, you sleep with your friends.
Sure.
This is a non-creepy version of sleeping with bugs.
You don't sleep with your throat bugs.
You don't sleep where you eat.
You know what I mean?
That is true.
Right.
Yes.
So-
So they would go in the throat, your idea was they would go in the throat, eat the
food, and then come right back.
Oh no, they would grab it and pull it out, right?
They would grab it and pull it out.
They don't get high on zone supply. The idea was they would go in the throat, eat the food, and then come right up. Oh no, they would grab it and pull it out, right?
They would grab it and pull it out.
They don't get high on their own supply.
Are these large beetles or are these thousands of ants?
I wonder.
Well, we tried one big bug.
And people would choke on that.
Yes, that would have caused another...
You're putting a choking hazard on top of that.
...sophageal blockage.
Yeah.
So then we had little bugs and it's hard to get a lot of guys in the same direction.
You gotta have one main guy.
There's always one who really wants to do it.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
There's the teacher's pet.
There's always a class clown bug.
Oh, you can't get him.
He's making fun of the blockage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Poking fun at it. He's sitting in fun of the clock edge, poking fun at it.
He's sitting in the back of the throat,
just laughing at everything.
Yeah, so that didn't work.
I tried lung teeth, lung teeth, of course.
What, your lung teeth again?
They're just an extra set of teeth
down in your windpipe to chew.
Ah.
That was tough.
The procedure, very difficult.
It's like open heart surgery.
Oh, it takes weeks.
Weeks, wait.
I said it was like open heart surgery
and you said, yes, it takes weeks.
Open heart surgery doesn't take weeks to do.
No, I mean, it takes longer than open heart surgery.
Yeah, it was like a super-
I mean, a medical procedure where you're out for weeks,
that just sounds like a coma.
It's so invasive for such a preventable small.
And I wanted to teach it. Look nice. So I would be in there. They don't look straight.
I do veneers. Oh yeah. Lung teeth. Smile. If they start moving in the lung, you have to
reopen them up and put braces on them. Exactly. Yes. So 13 years after they're installed. Yeah.
Find the dentist for them. And then they would eat the popcorn and the popcorn would get caught in their lung braces.
Oh, yeah.
I tried a dare style program.
Oh, okay.
Chalk.
Cause you want to do the four letters.
You mean dare, dare to keep your children off drugs.
That's not what dares does.
Where is it?
Well, there D T keys C. Right. Dare to keep your children off drugs. That's not what dares stands for, is it?
Dare, D-T-K-E-C.
Right, but I always see D.A.R.E to keep your kids off drugs.
So it's probably like drug.
Drugs are really bad.
No, darb.
Drugs are really.
Drugs are really ew.
Yeah, that's probably.
Drugs are really ew.
We tried that, called choc.
What's choc? C-H-O-K eww. Yeah. Drugs are really, eww. Drugs are really, eww. We tried that. I think that's what it is. Called Chalk. What's Chalk?
C-H-H-H-O-K.
Okay.
Okay.
So almost choke.
It's very close.
You don't want to do five.
But have you seen five letters?
It doesn't work.
We can't even remember what the four for dare are.
No.
Yeah, so we would warn the children of choking
and we had,
we had a Smokey the Bear style.
Chokey the Bear?
It was not Chokey the Bear.
We should have gone with Chokey the Bear,
but it was William the wrong pipe dolphin.
And that was, he didn't really take off.
You know, he would give a short speech, choke,
and then we would just turn the lights off.
He'd give a short speech?
What's the speech he's giving?
About food safety.
Or is this just about politics or what kind of speech?
We would let him do whatever.
It was a lot of times politics.
He was pretty angry also about.
Like a libertarian.
Yeah, he was like, just stop, let people do what they want.
If they wanna do drugs all day, let them die. Oh, okay, a hardliner. Yeah, he was like, just stop, let people do what they want. If they want to do drugs all day, let them die.
You know?
So.
Oh, okay.
A hardliner.
Yeah.
He was pretty incensed, but luckily he would choke.
So, and, and, and this was a planned choking, but a real one.
Yeah.
Well, weirdly we were like, and then you're choking.
He just did.
Right.
Yeah.
It was, yeah, he would choke.
It's hard to choke on command.
It's so hard.
Not if the fish is big enough.
Yeah.
And they're eating whole fish.
Yeah, he would throw down a couple of whole fish
from the bucket.
Sure, from the bucket.
From the bucket.
Yeah, of course, we've all fed dolphins.
I love feeding a dolphin with a whole bucket.
Yeah.
It's fun, right?
It is, I mean, that's the thing.
It's like what other types of food
other than KFC comes in a bucket?
Bucket, very few.
Fish for dolphins and chicken for humans.
Yeah, I'm trying to say nothing else.
So this was unsuccessful mainly because
of the Smokey the Bear style.
What was his name again?
William the Wrong Pipe Dolph.
And then I did a Hell House.
Remember this?
I remember the Hell Houses.
They were like haunted houses but Christian.
Yeah, there would be like two kids and one bad and one good and there'd be storylines
and then one of the kids would, both of the kids would choke and die and and one good and there'd be storylines and then one of the kids would
Both of the kids would choke and die and then one of them would go to heaven and one of them go to hell
Wait, so it was not prevented the choking and dying. No, no, no. It was just like
You can die. It was to show what happens if you choke. Yeah, but why but why would he go to if he didn't save him
Why would he go to heaven? One would go to heaven and one would go to hell due to- Well, you wanted to have a message.
Sure.
And I needed the churches.
What were the sins-
And they were like, how does this do with God?
And I was like, I'm just trying to get the word out on choking.
And they're like, well, we're trying to get the word out on eternal judgment.
What were the sins that the bad little boy did?
Oh, fingerings.
That's a sin? Bullying. That's, bullying's bad, I guess. little boy. Oh, did. Fingerings.
That's a sin. That's bullying is bad, I guess.
Bullying, fingerings.
Drinking. Oh, oh, oh.
But they.
Why is fingering the first?
That seems like the least of.
The initial like before you start doing drugs,
you start doing the fingerings.
Oh, it's a gateway to drugs.
Seems like a cool guy.
What did the other loser do?
The other dead loser.
The one that went to hell fingered nobody.
Oh!
So the fingering guy actually went to hell. Oh this is, but it all didn't work.
I understand why the churches didn't like it.
Yeah, I just, and I, like I said, I sold my royalties,
so I, and I've, my wife left me.
Oh, I'm so sorry, Henry.
I'm not doing well, despite my fun tone.
Jaunty, yeah.
I'm not doing well.
You have a, I've spoken to you probably five times
at this point, and you have a fun tone regardless.
Fun tone?
Even when talking about it.
The voice doesn't match the bit.
That's the emotion.
Yes, exactly.
But my wife left me for the person who invented CPR.
Oh no.
Yes.
I'm so sorry.
Was it the Bee Gees who invented CPR
because of the ah ah ah ah ah?
It was.
Here's a fun way to know how to do it.
Yeah.
Sing our song.
So your wife left you for Rob and Gibb.
Yes, yes.
Who's passed away now.
Yes.
His corpse.
My condolences, first of all.
I mean, like, a famous corpse is better
than a broke alive man.
I've always said that.
You've said this.
Yes.
And I spent all my money after this.
Yeah.
All the ASCAP money is gone?
All the ASCAP money is gone.
I had a huge bar built in my house
in the shape of a clogged esophagus,
which cost me so much money.
Was the bar the clog in the esophagus?
Yeah, you got it.
So the room is the esophagus. I'm sorry, the room is the esophagus and the bar you got it. So the room is the esophagus.
I'm sorry, the room is the esophagus
and the bar is the bar.
And the bar is the clog, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I had a custom Cadillac built
to look like the shape of a small piece of shoe shoe.
I'm struggling.
You're reading this and you're struggling.
Again, Henry, I think the problem is
that you're trying to give us eye contact instead of just
looking at your notes.
I know, but I'm trying to go back and forth.
I want to connect.
I wrote down the things that my life has been ruined by.
You're reading from your diary.
Yes.
If I may ask, you said you had a custom Cadillac, doesn't it?
Like a small piece of sushi.
Built to look like a small piece of sushi stuck in a throat.
But now, okay, that's where I'm wondering.
Is the Cadillac, the throat, and the driver looks like a small piece of sushi?
Yeah, where's the sushi?
Zaramie, from whatever angle you're in.
Okay.
Yes, I dress like a small piece of sushi from inside Zaramie.
Okay, so any angle you look at it, it looks like this.
It looks like this. People come by. They comment on this. They know exactly what it is.
Even an aerial view from like a helicopter.
Aerial view look, but then if you go a little bit,
you know the chameleon cars that change color,
then the car is a piece of sushi.
You know the chameleon cars that change color.
I don't think I've heard of those.
Yes, they were like early 2000s sort of like.
We were all driving these! You remember, it looks like almost like chrome but purple but green but blue.
I don't know. It was the Roy G. Biv car. Yeah, it was it was really cool, but I actually I got it stuck in a
tunnel on the way here. What? Yeah, I had to- That's ironic.
It is.
It is.
I know.
It's, my life is irony.
It really is.
Do you agree, Henry?
And I brought this up on a previous show
with Stephanie Shue and,
Shue and Shaw, of course, Sasha Mamet.
A hot dog is the only food stuff
that's in the shape of a throat.
So people shouldn't eat them
because they will get stuck there.
I can't believe I wasn't on that episode.
I know, we were all saying like, Henry should be here.
It's perfect.
They made them perfect.
They're exactly like this.
It's almost like someone made a mold out of someone's throat
and said, let's make a hot dog out of this.
Yeah, that's how my daughter died.
Oh no. That's right.
You have dead, you have dead,
how we not. Bones of choking.
But wait, there's two dead?
Dead.
We talked about this on a previous show.
I think we did.
Did you invent it because of that
or you had already invented it?
I can't remember.
I was almost there.
So it wasn't like,
it wasn't like I will fix this problem.
After the set second.
It was just you were one step away.
Yeah, I was so close.
And I tried chopping, slapping, hitting, pushing.
They were hurt from that too.
There's been a lot of arguments that that's what did it.
Right, if you would.
Oh my God. If I just had the squeeze, I could have done it.
Yeah, what are the steps again?
It's sneak, you sneak.
Because you want them to be surprised.
Because you know if you, they say when you get in a car
accident, don't tense up, it's the same.
If you fall out of a building, just go limp.
Exactly, you want to sneak up, because if they see you Tints up. Yeah, it's the same. If you fall out of a building, just go limp. Exactly.
You want to sneak up because if they see you coming, they're like, here comes
strong guy doing Heimlich.
Right.
So you need to sneak behind them.
What's the Q?
What's the what?
Wait, what's the, what's the acronym?
Of Chalk?
We just skipped over Chalk.
Chalk.
Oh, that's just Chalk.
That's just short. Chalk, oh, that's just choke. That's just short for choke.
I mean, children heed, otherwise killed.
Okay, children heed, otherwise killed.
Yes, I think that's what it stands for.
Or just choke.
Or just chalk for choke.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so it's been a devastating life.
I am so sorry, Henry. it's been a devastating life. I am so sorry, Henry.
It's been a devastating life.
Despite my fun tone, it's been really tough.
These are tough times for you.
Yeah, I've been sneaking into the Soylent Factory and adding little hunks of beef.
To increase the chokes.
To increase choking.
But why?
Because I want to be known again.
But everyone knows you.
Everyone's... Yeah, we talk about it all the time. At least you have fame. You talk about me all the time? Yeah. But why I want to be known again, but everyone knows you everyone
Yeah, we talk about all the time at least you talk about me all the time. Yeah, there's also no other rival out there
No one's like oh, she's choking use the Anderson like it's it's like you own it. You're the only guy
You're the guy and there aren't any really any other maneuvers that are named out. Oh, there are diseases
There's Luke Eric's disease, right, you know, I mean, you're the only guy with a maneuver.
Motherfucker.
Are you all right?
You just need to raise.
I get mad at Lou.
And Lou Gehrig.
Oh, come on.
I know, but it's in my nature to be mad at others.
To be jealous of someone just because they
attach their name to a famous thing?
Yes, yes.
Cedars, cyanide.
Who the hell is that?
I mean, I think it's the Cyanide Desert problem.
I don't wanna say.
I mean, it's the Cyanide family.
Oh, fuck them.
What about the Crypto.com arena?
Do you get mad at that?
Yes, yes.
I don't like it.
Anything that has a name?
You're like, no, fuck them.
So little babies when someone gives them a name?
No, if they become famous for a medical procedure, maybe,
or they own a building, possibly.
I just understand how we had thousands of years of humanity.
And at no point before, what, 1980, no one went like, oh he is joking.
No one figured out the, oh you know what, if you blow one end of a straw it gets the,
you know, the peanut out.
Yes, but that was also one that you try to blow into the straw and get it out of your throat.
Yeah.
Push it down further.
Push it down further.
Hand on throat, push into stomach was hard push it down further, yeah. Hand on throat, push in the stomach was hard.
That was hard.
Impossible almost.
But I'm happy to be here because,
I'm so glad.
And I'm happy to be here with Ike because I have,
I need money.
So I want to pitch television shows.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Maybe you'll get some tips out of it.
Yeah, so I'm just like, I think it could be good,
my story, you know, Dr. Heimlich.
Is it like a drama based on your life,
or is it like a reality show, like Dr. Pimple Popper?
Well, I think I could do a lot of different things.
Like, people come to his office in case,
if they're choking and he-
My son's choking, can he come see you next Thursday?
Sure, we'll get the cameras.
Yeah, we're pretty booked up next Thursday.
Please. He doesn't have much time.
Well, is he willing to to appear on my social media?
Yes. OK, so maybe now we're talking.
But yeah, I had like maybe like you could do a medical doctor show drama.
Like House. Yeah. Yeah.
Like House, you are the good doctor.
Yes. Like and call it like, let's say like hospital MD.
Okay. Okay. Hospital.
Yes. Comma MD.
Yes. And this follows Dr.
Henry Heimlich as he becomes the medical director of one of the oldest
American public hospitals aiming to reform the neglected facility
by tearing up its bureaucracy,
mostly by union busting and making nurses walk off site
to their parking.
Do we like?
I like, I wouldn't put the comma in the title
because the comma implies that it's doctor hospital MD.
So I would just-
Right, so mostly you're, I don't,
I'm not tied to the name.
No, you're not.
I actually think it works.
There's actually a new show right now, seriously,
on CBS called FBI colon CIA.
Yes, see?
So you just like add a bunch of things.
Yeah.
Maybe, add, put the word syringe in there.
I don't give a fuck.
Doctor Hospital MD. Colon, syringe. Maybe, put the word syringe in there. I don't give a fuck. Hospital MD, colon, syringe.
Maybe.
What are you watching it out, tonight?
Why do you wanna bust up the union?
Well you gotta get rid of the other red tape, it's bullshit.
Okay, all right.
So you can quickly, you know, solve people's problems.
Does Henry's character merely administer the Heimlich,
or does he do other medical procedures as well?
He's doing it all.
He's the guy.
Or is he an administration guy?
Well, he's mostly like doing offsite parking.
Okay.
Making sure, you know, no one organizes,
keeping people from talking in the break room
about problems. I will say,
it seems like this character is less interested
about saving lives and more about being punitive
towards the nurses.
What hap...
Okay, I don't... I'm not tied to this.
Is there an episode like a flashback episode
where we figure out why he's upset about the nurses or...?
Yeah, yeah, you go to his childhood,
his father's a pretty conservative,
yelling about unions and stuff.
But the nurses, why does he have a thing against the nurses?
He doesn't like those clothes.
Doesn't like those clothes.
Let me ask you a question.
Let's say I'm an executive and I do like this idea.
Yes.
Who ideally would you have playing
doctor, hospital, MD, colon syringe?
Me?
You wanna be the actor? I would like to.
I'm worried about your fun tone during such a serious show.
I said have you ever acted before ever?
No, but I feel like I'm fun and good on camera.
Why do you think you're good on camera? Because you're an elderly gentleman.
Yeah. And I was thinking this could be something for like, oh God, I don't know, Brad Garrett.
Sure, yeah.
You know?
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
I love him, but it's gotta be me.
It's fine, if you don't want me, I have a different show.
Okay.
I have a different show.
That's even more forceful than N'Sync, it's gotta be me.
It's gotta be me.
Wow.
It's gotta be me. Oh, you're sitting. It's gotta be me. It's gotta be me. It's gotta be me.
It's gotta be me.
Yeah.
Oh, you're singing too.
Okay, you didn't say that.
Well.
Okay, all right, okay.
This is like a Manny Patinkin kind of like.
What was his medical show where he sings while he operates?
Chicago Hope.
Yes.
Chicago Hope, yes.
So this one is called Obstruction Island.
Okay.
Okay, a love island type show where hot single men and things they could choke on live in a house together and try to figure out who was meant to choke on what?
Who was meant to choke on what by fate yes they hang out they can noodle
You show you know people choking on things at the pool and other other people are like, I was supposed to choke on that.
I thought we were having good chemistry.
Henry, I'm worried you're still on your first page.
No, this is, that might be the best one.
That might be the best one.
Maybe.
What if they don't choke?
What if no one chokes?
What if the food is all papaya?
We cancel it. We just cancel it. What about all don't choke? What if no one chokes? What if the food is all papaya? We cancel it.
We just cancel it.
What about all of the sunk costs?
Oh, we start yelling at them about, you know.
Trying to startle them into choking?
Be like, don't be nurses.
Don't do that.
You know, maybe we go more hospital MD syringe, was it?
On the island?
Okay, okay.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think it's a tough spell.
Okay, fine.
How about this joke?
Masked asphyxiator.
The masked asphyxiator.
Little hard to say.
Yeah, it's tough.
But famous people dress in costumes,
hiding their identities,
and celebrity judges have to eat the score they gave them
and hopefully not choke.
That's not what I thought it was gonna be.
Don't worry, I got it was gonna be. So-
Don't worry, I got a few more pages.
Have to eat the score that they gave them.
Yes.
Eat what in the score?
The weight in almonds?
Or the actual numbers.
The number.
They have to hold up the number and then eat it.
Ken Jeong and Dennis Robin almost died.
Oh, okay.
Still means this.
Okay, so just, okay.
We're using the-
If we're using the masked singer-
As a template.
Yes. So there's someone on stage who's not masked. Just, okay. If we're using the masked singer. As a template.
So there's someone on stage who's not masked.
There's like someone else.
It's just like Terry Bradshaw is on stage doing something.
But masked.
But masked.
He is masked.
But he is incidental to the choking.
The choking happens.
And the choking happens to the host, it sounds like.
So Terry Bradshaw's up.
Is he singing? What's he doing? Singing just like the show. Just like the host. To the host. So Terry Brad shows up, is he singing? What's he doing?
He's singing just like the show.
Just like the show.
Oh, okay.
So he's singing and you're like, is that Terry?
It's purely the Masked Singer, but the host's choke.
So then Doctor Ken holds up the score,
which I don't even know if they do that.
Yeah.
And let's say he gives him a 8.6.
I don't think they score people on the show.
I don't think they do either.
I think it's like an X or something.
No?
Are you gonna do the show, Ike?
The Masked Singer?
I can't talk about it. Because if I am, I would be masked. So I can't talk about it. Okay I think it's like an X or something. No? Are you gonna do the show like? I've never seen. The Masked Singer?
I can't talk about it.
If I am, I would be masked.
Okay, got it, got it.
So I can't talk about it.
Okay, well maybe not Zen.
Maybe this is just, they don't even have,
they don't give them tens.
Yeah, I think they just kind of say like that was.
I guess that would make sense
because the whole thing is just like who is this.
Who's underneath it.
Yeah.
It's not about who really, yeah.
Maybe they do score them.
I don't know, it's been a minute since I've seen.
They should just give them a little score,
just for fun. Yeah. You know, that was good Terry. It's been a minute since they should just give them a little score. It's fun.
Yeah, you know, that was good.
So then Dr.
Ken holds up at eight point five made of paper.
Oh, he would choke on that.
I guess.
Cracker.
You're very concerned.
A cracker, a singular cracker.
Do you have more shows?
I just has one more. You have one.
OK, this is Friday night exertion. OK.
So a coach in a small town, Texas.
I didn't even write it right.
Coach in a small town, Texas, where Friday night football is king.
His team has a losing record, but he brings them all the way to the state
championship after they let the quarterback of the other team choke on a rice cake and an awards banquet.
They let him do this.
They don't help him.
They don't intervene.
They just see it and they stay put. And the coach is like, don't help.
Because this Friday night.
Don't help because Friday night replays the game.
I like this. It feels like it's Friday night. Don't help, because Friday night replays the game. I like this.
It feels like it's more of a one-off special, maybe.
Yeah, I also worry about the likability of the coach,
who would say, let him choke.
Yeah.
Right, so should he be union busting,
or how do we make him more likable?
I don't know, I don't know.
Henry, I-
I'm down on my luck, despite my fun tone.
I wish that they would give people shows just purely for the fact that they're down on their
luck, but show business unfortunately doesn't work that way.
It's a meritocracy, right, Ike?
It absolutely is.
Yes.
Yes, it's not about right place, right time.
No, only the best people.
Only the hardest working best people make it. That's a fact.
Yes, okay.
So yeah, unfortunately, I can't get on board
in any of these shows, but I think you should keep trying.
Work harder and smarter.
That's my advice to you,
because you're doing neither right now.
Right.
Okay, okay, I'll come back.
I will go work hard, smarter, and I will come back.
Okay, yeah, this is good. I mean, I like talking to you, so. I I will come back. Okay, yeah. This is good.
I mean, I like talking to you, so.
I love it here.
Please, you do.
Can I live here?
Yeah.
Temporarily.
Tempor, how temporary?
Just for like six or seven years.
Okay, but you didn't even have me at six or seven.
Even if it were days.
Even if it were days?
Hours?
Hours, you're thinking hours.
Hours, okay, I can stay here for six, seven hours? I'm out. Oh, that was days. Yeah, that was ours. You're thinking hours.
Hours. OK, I can stay here for six, seven hours.
I'm out for this reason. I'm out.
I'm so sorry. Oh, no.
At least give me a score.
And eight point three.
Oh, don't eat it. Don't eat it.
Oh, come here. Give it to me.
Who? He?
What did you eat?
Look what's on the table.
Cracker. Cracker. That says 8.4.
Alright, well we need to take a break, Henry.
Can you stick around? Yes, I'm here for six or seven hours.
I'll be here. When we come back we're gonna have a Bostonian. We are gonna come right back.
We'll have more Dr. Henry Heimlich, more Eichbaren Holtz, we'll be right back with more
Comedy Bang Bang after this!
Comedy Bang Bang after this!
Comedy Bang Bang we are back Ike Barron Holtz uh aka Mr. Running Point is here uh
you need people to watch uh this weekend right? The uh- This weekend and and if you don't if if we don't hit the Netflix numbers I'm out.
You're out. I, I'm out.
You're out. Moving home.
Hollywood's in the rear view.
Hollywood's in the rear view. Screech.
Going back to Chicago. That's the second city though.
It is the second city, but I'll be working in the stockyards with my dad.
In the stockyards. With my dad.
Wait, I thought your dad was the judge on...
Jury duty. He had a new show that didn't work out.
They sent him back to the stock.
They sent him back to the stock.
I know what some people say.
Oh, stockyards aren't there anymore.
There's still a couple of stockyards and that's where it's rough.
It's rough.
People are getting all their meat from other countries.
Yeah. Speaking of which, times are tough.
We have Dr. Henry Heimlich here.
Times are tough, but you got to have your fun tone.
You got to keep your fun tone despite.
Keep your fun tone, Ike.
Yeah. It's true. I'm going to work on it. Even at the yards, you have to keep your fun tone. You gotta keep your fun tone despite. Keep your fun tone, Ike, yeah.
It's true, I'm gonna work on it.
Even at the yards, you have to keep the fun tone.
You have to, and I know what you do at Stockyards.
I know what those are, even.
And I know they're tough, and you're gonna be toiling there.
It's hard.
But you have to keep your fun tone.
I will remember that, it's tough living,
but I will try to keep that in mind.
Well, let's get to our next guest. This is very exciting.
I've never spoken to a Bostonian before, I think.
Ever?
Ever.
No.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Chris Evans?
No, never had a conversation with Chris.
He's the only one.
Marky Mark, I think.
Oh, Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg,
Wahlberger's brother.
Yeah, I've never been to a Wahlberger.
I don't know.
So this is exciting.
Please welcome... Uh, uh oh.
What is your name?
Louie Pantano.
Louie.
Scott, you don't remember me?
No.
We did comedy together, we started out together.
Louie Pantano?
Yeah, Pantano, you remember me.
You remember me. Oh, okay, sure. Pantano. You remember me.
Oh, okay, sure.
Scott, come on, finally, long time coming.
I good to see you again, too.
Yeah, yeah, I think we, did we work together?
Yeah, we were on a Herald team at the Improv-o
and put together, do you not remember?
You know what, it was a long time ago,
but I do, I can't remember every single person
you meet in your life.
Well, you seem different. But I do, I can't remember every single person you meet in your life. Well, you seem different.
Yeah.
You, I mean, like you don't, I look very distinctive.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm a seagull.
Is that what you're referring to?
Yeah.
I mean, I didn't want to say, you didn't want any, no, no.
Are you going to eat that by the way?
I was, I mean, shouldn't have dropped it on the ground.
Also, he didn't say yes.
That's fine.
That'd be annoying.
Scott Huckerman, I'm so happy for you.
It's so, and Ike, you too.
Wow, show business.
You guys are thriving.
So happy for you, oh my god.
So great to see you again.
Yeah.
I don't recall all the details.
Right, you and I opened for Bill Burr for summer.
You remember? For a whole summer.
Yeah, we traveled New England, you remember?
Yeah.
I didn't even know you were like a big stand up in Boston.
Oh, I was huge.
Yeah.
I turned my back on him.
He dabbled.
Yeah, I was a huge dabbler.
But I achieved the kind of success that, you know, huge stand ups achieve.
Sure.
Just by dabbling.
But look at you now.
If I had just really set my mind to it,
I would just think of the things I could have achieved.
This is Dr. Henry Heimlich, by the way.
Hello, how are you?
That was amazing how you took down that sandwich.
Just neck back, kind of gulping it down.
Three bites.
Unbelievable.
Thank you.
Neck back, ass up.
That's the way I like to snack.
As up, neck back, that's the way I like to snack. Ass up, neck back, that's the way I like to snack.
You have to look nasty when you're eating.
Is this a shirt?
Is this a t-shirt?
This could be good.
On the back it says you have to look nasty
while you're eating?
Can I have some of the proceeds please?
All right.
Scott, look at you now, huh?
$40 million house in the Hollywood Hills.
Look at you.
I mean, that was the list price
Yeah, we had to go over a bit because it was competitive. Yeah, which room did Phil Spector shoot that lady in?
Hey got off shots in every room they told me I don't know but Scott did you get my emails
I did when you're making between two friends. I think I emailed you like four or five thousand times
No, I probably switched my email address. What did 5,000 times. Oh, I don't know.
I probably switched my email address.
What did you want to email me about?
I don't know.
I was just thinking I thought maybe you could help me
break into the industry.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, there was a Seagull part in that.
But then on the day, we couldn't find it.
And then you gave it to Zach Galenakis?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
That's how that happened?
On the day Zach showed up, and I was like, you know what?
He's a movie star. It fit him perfectly. I mean, really, yeah. Wow. Yeah. Unbelievable. That's how that happened? On the day Jack showed up and I was like, you know what? He's a movie star.
It fit him perfectly.
I mean, really.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
And like, you blocked my number?
No, no, no, no, no.
What happened is I switched to T-Mobile.
Oh, okay.
Oh, you're one of the thousands that have switched to T-Mobile.
Weird switch.
Weird switch.
Yeah, I got out of Verizon.
Verizon to T-Mobile?
And I went back to T-Mobile. Weird switch. Yeah, I got out of Verizon. Verizon to T-Mobile?
Back to T-Mobile, I got a sidekick.
Oh.
So that's what it is.
Who's your sidekick?
I'm sort of like a-
And there's somebody out there in that motorcycle.
Yeah.
Sitting there.
Like a tandem motorcycle.
That's my friend, Loop.
Loop?
Yeah, I hired him.
Named after Chicago's Loop?
Yeah.
He's my buddy from high school.
He's a real Chicago guy.
Yeah, that's cool.
His name is Loop Deep Dish.
Oh.
And he kind of travels everywhere with me.
So anyways, we went to T-Mobile.
Okay, so you still take care of your friend
from the past, that's cool.
That's nice.
Well, we really went a little bit deeper,
me and him, than me and you.
And I want to apologize,
him and I, we switched to T-Mobile,
so all my old, I have not gotten a text message
from anyone in weeks.
So I apologize.
Are you still working?
Or what are you doing?
Trying, Scott.
Well, wanted to be one of Mindy's love interests
on the Mindy project.
And didn't hear back from Ike.
No, I remember.
And I want you to know, I pitched it to Mindy.
I did, I swear. And she said to me, she's like, I like. No, I remember. And I want you to know, I pitched it to Mindy. I did, I swear.
And she said to me, she's like, I like this idea,
but I just, I don't want to,
I'm gonna get her in trouble.
Yeah.
She said she didn't want to do a love scene with the bird.
What?
I know it's kind of humanist.
Wow. Yeah.
Wow, Mindy, my God.
You know, comedies change so much.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, you know. But there aren't a lot of changed so much. Yeah. Yeah, you know.
But there aren't a lot of parts for birds out there.
Unfortunately, you know.
I mean, what was the last bird project you can think of?
Yeah, especially.
The Birdman of Alcatraz.
That was a while back.
The birds.
The birds.
Birdman.
That would have been a great one.
Oh, Birdman.
I went out for that.
Like, keep fucking me.
There's just not many parts for loud beach birds.
Yeah, that is true.
You know, like you want like a hawk, something that lives in the park. An eagle, a beach birds. Yeah, that is true. You know, like you're more like a hawk,
something that lives in the forest.
An eagle, a falcon.
That's a limiting belief.
I could go inland.
Yeah, you're just like eating trash down near the sea.
It's just like, I don't know.
Okay, you're telling me you've never eaten a french fry
out of a woman's mouth?
You think you're better than me?
Listen, I always try.
My wife lives in the sea.
To make sure they don't choke.
Yeah, of course, I'm getting it.
I'm not kissing.
My God. Be careful. Well, sure they don't choke. Of course, I'm getting it, I'm not kissing. My God.
Be careful.
Well everyone here thinks they're better than me.
They live in the Hollywood now
and they drive the big fancy cars
and they, oh my God, fuck you.
Sorry, Louie.
Are you gonna have that?
Are you gonna eat that?
Oh, of the nose?
I'm on a one meal a day diet, that was my one meal.
So, no.
Louie, the other issue was, you know,
you were constantly shitting on everyone.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
And so were you, Scott.
You know, you're me embarrassing you.
You tore up that Tostino's audition.
You went out for the commercial.
You shit all over the room.
Yeah, you shit all over everyone.
In the dip.
And people don't want a commercial where it's like, you know, you eat a Tostino and then
you shit everywhere.
It's just negative connotations.
Yeah.
It had nothing to do with your read or anything.
It was just literally like the white shit
you were shooting all over people.
Yeah, I know we're looking for more diversity in Hollywood,
but I don't know that that extends to birds.
Different species.
Oh, I get it, you guys are jealous.
You were always jealous of me back in the day.
Sharna Elburn liked me better than she liked you.
Well, I mean, you know, listen, Sharna loves animals,
but I have a great relationship with her.
She's a friend and I don't,
I understand you are holding onto some emotion
because you might not have gotten to where you wanna be
in this business and I understand that.
I was the star in our hero team, by the way.
I was the one that everyone thought that I would get SNL. And two of Sharna's dogs were on that team
and I was still the star of that team.
I was on an improv team with lots of animals.
I was like, Dr. Doolittle a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You were a stage hog though.
You did all the first beats.
Yeah, I did.
Every one, you were in every scene.
Don't say she was a hog, by the way.
There was a hog on the team, but we wouldn't let her talk.
Also, sometimes you would just,
you would just kind of fly off stage
and fly into the control room and sit in there for a little bit
and you'd come back and it was just a little,
it was kind of like on your schedule.
Sometimes you'd show up with a condom you swallowed on the beach.
Oh yeah, that was awesome.
I knew at a party I was in my 20s.
I mean, it's true, I can't argue with you.
You and I used to sit on the beach in Chicago, Foster Beach.
We'd stay up all night,
and you and I would eat condoms until the sunrise.
That happened like once or twice.
It wasn't a thing we always did.
We always did that.
You used to eat them sometimes, so.
I mean, once in a while.
I choked on one a while back, and it scared me away.
Reading that running point has a scene
where every character eats a condom?
That was the episode I wrote.
That's 103.
Yeah, and I do get a bonus if that one is streamed more than the other one. was a scene where every character eats a condom? That was the episode I wrote, that's 103.
Yeah, and I do get a bonus if that one is streamed more than the other one.
So folks are listening if you could watch 103 first.
It's the third episode, why would people,
a lot of people watch the third episode more
than every episode?
Netflix data.
The characters are confused because all the basketballs
are deflated and they can't play the game
so they go and eat condoms. Also, Scott's been just horrible listening to you ruin the game of
basketball. Flat balls and everyone's walking? Scott. Scott. I think it would be
exciting. Scott my god you used to say I was the best friend you ever had and now
you're hanging out with John Hamm and Adam Scott and all these fancy people. I
mean they're humans though we have more in common. Wow people. I mean, they're humans though.
We have more in common.
Wow.
Let's face it, they're bros.
It's the bro code.
I'm a bro?
We didn't have that, Louie.
Oh my God, I can hang with the best of them.
Guys before goals is what I said.
Yes, guys before goals.
All right, whatever.
I see you out about in Hollywood with pigeons
And yeah, well I mean they're just falling down the streets following me around
Yeah, I've got a big following online most of these pigeons so when you get in there
You can get like some followers. Yeah, I go on wire image
I'm just like penguin pigeon pigeon penguin you also keep carrier pigeons on your roof, you were telling me.
I do, I was very inspired by Mike Tyson.
Yes.
And so I recently purchased about 30,000 pigeons.
30,000, that's a big group.
My neighbors are furious.
The neighborhood is just blanketed.
Are you gonna eat that?
Ah, ah, ah.
Can I smoke in here?
You know what, I'm doing it.
Okay, yeah, go ahead, do whatever you want. Look, I'm sorry.
You know, in show business, it's not a race necessarily.
And the destination, sometimes you don't even know what it is, what the finish line is necessarily
for Ike.
It might be running point, you know.
Hope not.
Might be the finish line for him.
Hope not.
You just burst through the tape and that's it.
That's it.
Can either of you get me a job?
That's sort of why I'm here.
Oh, really? Fire me. Do you live. Can either of you get me a job? That's sort of why I'm here.
Oh, really?
Fire me.
Do you live in Boston still or are you living out here?
Yeah, I got a place in Marshfield.
It's a dumpster.
Um, so I'm in South Boston area, but I come out here from time to time.
I always do tell people who are looking to get in show business.
I say, you have to live here.
It's very difficult to not.
Well, if I have a show out here, I do stand up in the parking lot of lobster.
Of red lobster.
Yeah.
Sort of whatever.
There's a lot of good food trash there.
Yeah.
You're telling me.
I do love red lobster.
I love the cheddar biscuits.
That's a reason enough to go.
You often take your wife's ass down to red lobster, right?
Just her ass or her whole self? You gotta take her ass to Red Lobster.
All right, give me a part on Running Point.
I can do it.
Can you host?
We shot it.
Can I host?
Can you host?
Oh yeah, I can host.
I have a show you can maybe host.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
Can you switch some of your show ideas?
This one's called Say Yes to the Choke,
and it's women pick dresses to eat and choke on.
Oh, okay.
And then they say, is this your choke?
I think this is your choke.
That's pretty good.
Scott, will you produce it, please?
Scott, money, please.
I think Ike is really the guy.
I mean, he has a show on the air right now.
Not yet. If they hear this, they might not air it.
If I say yes to this, they'll retroactively
cancel Running Point.
That's a good point.
They're gonna be like, oh man, this guy,
we thought he was a TV guy.
He's not, he's a jokester.
Yeah.
He's producing a show with a goddamn bird.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, do you have any bird ideas, Henry?
Yeah, there was a way to have an idea, Henry,
that still had a little choking in it,
but it was a little more birds.
I don't have a bird idea, but I have one that takes place outdoors.
Okay, there are lots of birds there.
I'm sure most birds are outside.
You guys have heard of Dawson's Creek.
Oh, I love Dawson's Creek.
Pacey.
Joey.
Like a reboot.
Peter Gabriel.
He was in one episode.
And the show was based on his teenage years, of course.
So this show is based on my teen years, and it's called Squeezer's Drainage Basin.
And it follows a teen heartthrob based on me named Squeezer,
and every episode ends in him getting a handjob next to a drainage basin
that gets interrupted by him giving someone the Heimlich maneuver.
Who?
The person he's masturbating.
The hand job is interrupted.
I'm going to say something earnest.
This is my favorite idea.
This one might be good.
This one might be good.
So, real quick, if I'm painting it, so the character is...
Squeezer.
Squeezer's getting a hand job.
Is the person who's doing it, they start choking or does he see someone like eating a sandwich
nearby? It's always someone off nearby.
So he's getting a very public hand job.
He's getting an H.J.
And it's, yeah, well yeah, I mean like it's in like
the mud next to the drainage basin.
Right.
And I'm good at hand jobs.
Good, not great.
I got wings.
It's more of a claw job.
Yeah.
I use my wings, not my claws.
Oh, you use your wings instead?
Of course. That would be so violent, just a bird batting Yeah. That's fine. I use my wings, not my claws. Oh, you use your wings instead? Of course.
That would be so violent, just a bird
batting its wings on your penis.
OK, don't knock until you dry it.
But maybe you could be a bird who's just flying.
At the I.O. holiday party, we did something.
Don't lie to them.
Well, I mean, that was a long time ago.
That was a long time ago.
Don't lie to them.
My god.
There's always a bird flying around
any time you get an outdoor hand job, though.
Yes. I think that's the best use for you. Oh, we're always watching. I think the best use is just like whatever scene's happening, There's always a bird flying around anytime you get an outdoor hand job though. Yes!
I think that's the best use for you.
Oh, we're always watching.
I think the best use is just like whatever scene is happening, just a bird flies by.
You're a cross.
You know what I mean?
You're a good cross.
A background cross.
A background cross.
It's important because it makes the action look real.
Yeah, you want the drainage basin to look real.
I don't know, I feel like I'm more of a leading man type.
Why did everyone make the same noise?
So you wanna play Squeezer?
Yeah, I would love to.
All right, let's see your penis.
We're showing, we're showing.
It's out.
Weirdly enough, that is the first time
that has been said on this show, I think.
Wow.
So then you have to find an actor
who's going to masturbate a seagull.
A seagull, yeah.
I don't know.
Oh, you think an actor won't do that?
Oh, please.
I guess some actors would.
I guess some actors would.
Fair enough, fair enough.
Okay, I'm in.
I'm in, I'm listening, I'm listening.
Don't try to sabotage my career again, Mike.
Again?
You've been doing this since you was 21 years old.
No.
I slept over your house the night before my big Second City audition and my alarm mysteriously
didn't go off.
Wait, you think I did not want you to get hired by Second City?
I know that you didn't want me to get hired.
Why?
I never was hired by-
We're the same type.
We're the same type.
Nevertheless.
You're wearing a white shirt.
He's a white bird.
I guess so.
Canes look similar. That is true white bird. Yeah, I guess so. Canis' look similar.
That is true. All right, okay.
He told us to all take them out, right?
We all have them out.
If you're going to record a pod, you got to drop it out.
Sure, yeah. That's what bros do.
If I got in your way at all, I apologize.
I don't think you should blame me for where you're at.
Well, I don't know about that.
Okay.
You could ask us 20 years ago
who would be eating garbage in the Red Lobster parking lot.
I would have thought you like it, honestly.
In Burbank.
We would have all said I.
Fair, fair, fair.
Okay, that is fair, but I still don't think that,
yeah, I think there's other reasons
why it hasn't popped for you yet.
Yeah, I mean, at least I was always supportive of you.
You didn't even remember we had met, Scott. But now that I remember, I mean at least I was always supportive of you, you know. You didn't even remember we had met, Scott.
But I was like, now that I remember I was...
I mean, look, I see a lot of birds.
And he means it like Austin Powers.
You're groovy, baby.
Do you fancy a shag?
Oh, brother. You know, and you know, I think you guys were like,
we'll never see that seagull again,
so you've been stealing my jokes
and my bits and my show ideas.
What idea have I stolen from you?
Tell me, who is David's original writing partner?
David Stassen's original writing partner?
Who was it?
And they're here in the room right now, and it's me.
You were, so Dave Stassen, so if I called Dave Stassen.
Call him right now.
Put him on speakerphone. Do you mind, is this weird? Yeah, no, go ahead and call Dave Stassen. It's ringing. You were do you so Dave's that's so if I called Dave's that's a column right now put a month
Do you mind is this weird? Yeah? No go ahead and call Dave's Tassin. It's ringing call fuckface
Call it. I used to call him that
Hey Dave, yep, it's Ike, Ike, Ike. What's happening, brother?
That's your riding partner?
How are you, man?
Doing good, bud.
What's up? Time to ticket.
You said he knows a lot about, you both know a lot about basketball, right?
Is he like watching it right now?
Yeah, I got basketball on. I don't have a lot of time.
Listen, I'm just, real quick question.
Did you you before we
wrote together? Quicker, quicker. Did you ever write with Louie? He's a seagull. Louie the seagull?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I wrote a couple of things, but he just kept on eating the paper.
Okay. And this was before you and I met? Yeah, this is like an hour before you and I met.
All right. Okay. And then you walked in and you said, you looked at everything I'd written down that wasn't
eaten by the seagull and you said, oh, I own half of this now.
We'd written down, my God.
You're the best.
I'm sorry to bother you, brother.
Love you, baby.
Love you, man.
I'll talk to you soon.
What did he say about me?
He said he's never heard of you.
And you're a friggin' liar.
Oh, classic.
No, he said he...
I sounded cool.
He did.
He sounded a little bit like Dennis Miller, baby.
Cool.
You know what, the two of you are fair-weathered friends.
When I choked on that human bone at the beach
when I was in the hospital for three months,
neither of you came to visit me.
Where were you?
I was still dealing with throat bugs.
I was knee deep in the bad one bug.
Yeah.
Well, look, they don't let just anyone into a hospital.
That is true.
Plus, it was a veterinarian.
Yeah.
So?
They don't just let any random people come in and look at a bird that the vet is treating.
No, it's not how it works.
Also, most vets don't treat...
I've never seen a seagull at the vets office
Yeah, and I think even birds. I think they have to go to special places
I don't think you can special doctor for birds. I think there's a special doctor for so if you were a vet
You would turn your nose up at a bird. I think I wouldn't do these we don't do it
It's all the same guts inside. I don't think it is. I think it's like avian bones different guts
Yeah, I think they had different guts. They have avian guts. It's the cloaca
Yeah, I found out yesterday that birds don't fart none of them Different guts? I think they had different guts. They have avian guts. It's the cloaca. It's the cloaca. It is the cloaca.
I found out yesterday that birds don't fart.
None of them.
How did you find this out?
Because you tried and it didn't work?
I tried.
I tried.
I don't know if that means none of them do.
You just might have a weird.
You might have a blockage.
Yeah.
I tried all day.
Have you, by the way, Henry,
have you tried a blockage on the other end?
Yeah, you can do that.
It works both ways. So if you push just instead of going up, Have you by the way Henry have you tried to block it? Yeah
So if you push just instead of coming up
And a turd shoots out and you sneak up they don't
And then you just what and you can get it out
All right. Well, uh, show me okay. Come over here. Hey do a handstand. Wait, they always have to come to you? Yeah. Go to him.
Why would you have them turn upside down?
Don't you want, isn't gravity your friend
if it's already pointing down?
No, you want it up and out so people can go,
there, whoa!
I'm choking, I'm choking, do it quick!
Look at that, it worked!
It flew across the room.
He's choking, Louis' choking.
Here you go, here. Ah! Ah! Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
I can't quite tell.
He's screaming.
Oh, and then it flies across the room.
Oh!
Oh, my sandwich from earlier.
Thanks.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
Are you gonna eat that?
I am.
Do you mind if I eat this?
Oh my God.
Oh!
Oh no!
Shh, shh, shh.
Okay, yeah, sneak, sneak. I'm gonna hide under the chair. Tiptoe, tiptoe. Okay. I got some chokers. Shh. Okay. Sneak.
I'm going to hide under the chair.
Tip toe.
Tip toe.
Guys, I'm choking.
Let him die.
Ignore.
I can steal his wife.
I'm seriously choking.
Okay, gotcha.
Oh, you farted.
Sorry.
Why were you upside down?
Must be nice.
I don't know.
I panicked.
You can't be upside down.
I panicked.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, everyone.
Oh, great. Scott, can you please delete this out of the...
He's a show runner, and he can fart.
Brag, brag, brag, brag, brag.
I was not the show runner, but I can fart.
Well, I'm so sorry, Louie.
Louie.
Oh my God, Scott.
We spent a whole summer together, you don't remember?
The two of you and Bill Burr. Yeah, yeah.
Pete Holmes joined us for a little while
for a couple of the cities.
This is the best summer of my life.
It was the best summer of my life.
Pete, Bill, and me, and you.
Yeah, we were in Newport, Rhode Island,
eating lobster rolls and doing comedy.
Best time of our lives.
I loved it, but those days are long.
I mean, look, life is so different now.
I have a different career.
I have a family.
It's got a family, yeah.
You know, it's just, people,
sometimes people and birds grow apart. Okay, yeah, I have a family. It's got a family, yeah. You know, it's just people, sometimes people and birds grow apart.
Okay, yeah, I see how it is.
Don't be so resentful.
Wow, no, it's nice.
I'm happy for you guys.
Rich, powerful.
That's good, I'm glad.
Yeah, rich, powerful, yeah.
Can I tell you the good news?
We are now in an era where there's no gatekeepers.
Yes.
Where you can do whatever you want.
If you have an iPhone or a T-Mobile sidekick.
So I guess the gatekeepers are like the big tech companies
who create the phones.
You guys just told me there's no parts for birds.
Well no, they're not in the human mind.
In the human head.
But you can create your own parts.
150 years ago there were no movies with humans.
And then a human said, let's make a movie.
You can be that for birds, but you gotta do it yourself.
No, I feel like the I.T.E.R.S.
I'm good enough that things should be handed to me.
I mean, that's how I felt.
People should be coming to me.
People should be coming.
If I was the funniest person on my Harold team
in Chicago in 1998, then people should be coming to me.
Is that when you were in Chicago?
I was there.
I remember we were there together
I was on a Herald team. I believe it was called genealogy. Listen, I
That is neither here nor there. I think you have to do this yourself. I think it's harder for birds. I'm so sorry
I mean we have you know, look we I can I have failed upwards in our career
Like I started on mad TV. Yeah, and now look at him, you know, and so it's like
TV. Yeah. And now look at him, you know? And so it's like, I'll tell you what, I will get you an audition for Matt TV. Fantastic. Done deal. You're going to have to do three characters,
three second. This is the third reboot. There's already been two reasons. So one time event.
Yes. That was the, uh, the precursor to the two night event, was it not? You know what? I only trust Dr. Heimlich.
He is creating content over there.
I'm gonna hitch my wagon to him
on one of his TV shows.
I do have a show.
I do have a show for you.
It's called The Heimlich Files.
The Heimlich Files, like the Rockford Files?
Or like the X-Files?
It's similar to the X-Files.
XBI, CIA.
Yeah, so a show where detectives investigate
paranormal choking phenomena,
spooky cases of aliens who have choked on things.
And I shouldn't have done this one,
because the other one was better.
No, I think I could make a meal on it as well, isn't it?
It's so tempting, I should have got out
when I had the chance.
Or you should have reordered these.
Ooh, and I should have sexual tension
with my beautiful partner on that show.
You can.
Ah.
Do you go for other birds?
Yeah, what's your vibe?
Human women.
Oh. Just like you guys.
Yeah, sure.
Totally, yeah.
Hell yeah.
That's my type exactly.
A human woman.
All right, me thinks the Scott protest too much,
so I'd have hit a nerve there, didn't mean to do that.
Hey, if you're a reflexologist,
that's exactly what you wanna do, hit nerves.
So you're right there.
All right, I'll forgive you guys, just hand me your phones,
I'm gonna take all the famous people's numbers,
I'm gonna write them down and then we'll consider it.
All right, all right.
Here you go, here you go.
Kevin Spacey.
Boom.
That one. Space high.
Space high, there's a lot of numbers for that one.
Use the Italy one.
Yeah.
Well guys, we are running out of time, unfortunately.
We really only have time for one final feature on the show
and that is a little something called Plugs. ["Plugs"]
What would happen if we plugged each other?
I'm hired by you to plug one another!
Whoa!
Ah!
Oh yeah, that was Plug One Another by Chris Gray Weir-Wilf.
Puss in butt.
Yeah, puss in butt.
Guys, why don't we plug in Ike?
Obviously Running Point is on Netflix this Thursday.
Yes, that's the one.
If you don't watch it, I'm dead.
And what, people who wanna catch up
with your earlier work just to,
like maybe they marathon everything you've ever done.
Oh.
And then suddenly leading up to Thursday, whatever.
Then they get committed to an insane asylum.
I mean, the Mindy project is out there.
I'm sure that's a fun one.
I think-
Blockers.
Blockers is out there, Neighbors,
Neighbors 2, Sorority Rising.
Oh, there's a movie I did a couple of years ago
directed by Dave Stassen called Maximum Truth.
It's very funny and it's about right-wing.
What about the movie where everyone like
you and Tiffany Addish and I went to the premiere.
The after party.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Oh, the oath.
That you.
That I directed.
Yeah, you directed.
Yeah, the oath that's out there
and it's happening now in the country.
So it's good, you can watch it.
Yeah, and the after party is great.
Yeah.
So much, what a body of, what a body.
What a breath. What a body,, what a body. What a breath.
What a body, I just wanted to tell you.
Thank you.
Personally.
I know I text it to you all the time.
Been flexing for 90 minutes,
the first time you said anything.
Henry Heimlich, what do you wanna plug?
Well, you know, I'm trying to sell my house.
I need to liquidate my house.
You know, it's got a swimming pool
that was built in the shape of a pretzel bite
being ejected from someone's throat across a crowded restaurant
How does the restaurant signify?
Also watch running point
27th it drops or 26 at 1159. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so get up pee if you like us you gotta piss
Yeah, so get up pee if you like us you gotta piss
Gotta go piss you gotta go piss so everyone piss before you watch this show. Yeah, thank you for plugging the show Benj it binge it go all the way through
You don't want to be in the middle of it and suddenly you got to piss and you got to turn it off
And you may forget to oh, yeah, don't pee around episode 5
You'll need to don't or do what I do when I watch every show wear a diaper
That's right boom
Die, die, die, die right into the big running point is the first DiPe show
Got a DiPe are you still watching or are you changing your diet?
And of course Louie Pantano, what do you want to plug here?
Uh, I have a show that I worked on called Win or Lose
that is a Pixar show that comes out on Disney Plus.
I think the first two episodes are out now.
Congratulations. Thank you.
That's amazing.
It's the coolest, it's so good.
And I think the third episode comes out this week.
Oh my gosh, on Disney Plus.
Yeah.
All right, gotta check that out.
What's it called again?
Win or Lose.
Winner?
Win or Lose.
It follows like a middle school co-ed softball team.
Cause I was thinking about a winner who loses
for the first time.
Win or lose.
Win or lose. Win or lose.
Winner, comma, lose.
I'm already, I'm the best.
Sounds like you're doing fine.
You're on a Disney Plus cartoon.
Yeah, you were complaining for a long time
about having no career and here we are,
plugging a show on Disney Plus.
Fascinating.
Interesting. You always want more.
Yeah, I'm the funniest person from my Harold team. I deserve the best.
When I was doing Santa with Bill Burr, you were just flying around above us shitting
on us.
Yeah, and it was hilarious and I got the biggest laughs of the night.
It was funny. I want to plug, head over to CBBworld.com. We have all of the past episodes of this
show, all of the past episodes of this show,
all of the live episodes we ever did,
including our tour last year where we did 43 shows.
And we have great new shows there,
like CBB Presents with Hey Randy.
And speaking of Hey Randy, we have Action Figures,
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You can go to customers worldwide at figurecollections.com
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We also have Sprague and Big Sue,
and tour exclusives of JW Stillwater and Scott Aukerman still available.
All right, let's close up the old plug bag. Plug bag Open the vlog bag with me, dude. Just please don't close it and be rude.
Please don't close it and be rude.
Open the vlog bag with me, dude.
Open the vlog bag with me, dude.
Just please don't close it and be rude.
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I can do it. Yeah, you can do it. Yeah. I believe
in you, Henry. Okay. Thank you. You, you've just
got a fun tone to you. That makes me rude for you.
Thank you. It almost makes me think that you
didn't murder your two children. Your tone. No,
that's, that's happening. Yeah. It sounds pretty
bad. Yes. It's currently happening? Yes, I'm in litigation.
We're both going to trial.
Are you carpooling to the-
Same courthouse today, we're going.
You're not gonna believe it, but I'm gonna be there too.
What? What are you being sued for?
Us arson.
What did you just say? Meaning the Palisades fire?
Yeah, I'm, ah, me, allegedly.
That was seagull?
Allegedly.
They said that was fireworks.
What the hell?
And a faulty transformer,
but it was really a seagull dropping fire bombs
on the city?
Allegedly.
That's gonna be bad for, yeah.
I don't know, all press is good press, right guys?
That's what you always say.
Yes.
Ask your friend Kevin Space High about this.
I'm not sure.
All right, well, I want to thank you guys so much
for coming by.
Ike, always great to see you.
My pleasure, bud.
And of course, Dr. Henry.
Thank you so much.
And Louie, I mean.
Louie, yeah.
I got nothing for you, unfortunately.
I'll eat whatever I can find on the way out.
Okay, we'll see you next week.
Thanks, bye.
We'll see you next week, thanks, bye!