The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly - Hand Binoculars (feat. Preacher Lawson)

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

Comic Preacher Lawson shares his Americas Got Talent experience and what it's like to perform stand-up with his mother.

And now the bonfire with Big Jay Okerson and Robert Kelly come on Kristen It's time to dance She couldn't be putting her headphones on faster Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Let your hands and voices bring your mileage on us You can feel it in the air Oh, it's a passion Oh, you can feel it in the air Thank you Bobby Bobby went over there and tried the dance with Christine She did not take to it at all

But it was a good move, Bobby. I almost got it. It was good because it changed the room's energy when poor preacher had to close his eyes to stop from laughing at your boyish read. Prize picks, presents, and now slam dunks. First of all, that was an amazing read. It wasn't bad.

You got through all of it. I got through all of it. Second of all, you've adapted some of my techniques. I do. I'm a little more hand wavy now for it, for sure. He uses. I like he uses. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. We got a great guest in everybody. He's going to be at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston this Friday, April 5th.

And he's got a new special out right now on YouTube called My Name is Preacher. It's the hilarious Preacher Lawson joining us. What's up, buddy? Hey, man. good to see you. I've seen you on Moong Tau. Good to see you. Good to see you. This is my first time seeing or meeting you in person. But I watch you a lot.

I remember you doing that joke about the, sorry, I gotta tell you about this. But about Comedy Central, you used to hit the butter, you used to lick the butter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny when people bring up jokes that I forgot I did. I got so mad at my wife I punched butter instead of her face. Now your reminded goes, I haven't done that on a special, I should bring that back.

It was so fun. Preacher, I first became aware of you when you were on the AGT run, which I watch just hilariously, I get shit for it a lot. I watch just religiously. It's my summer show, it's just one of the new things that's on, I get shit for it a lot. I watch, just religiously. I just watch, it's my summer show, it's just one of the new things it's on, so I always watch it, and I get way, like giving a shit about the acts like you love.

Like the comedy's tough, because as a comic you watch and you're just like rooting for people you know, or rooting, you know, or you don't know who the people are, but like, with the light wire theater and stuff. Oh man, they're crazy good. Was that your season? Yeah, they were on my season too as well. What is that, what is that?

The light dancing. It's pretty crazy when you see it. It's amazing. I don't watch that stuff. It's even crazier live, it's really. Well, live you kind of see a little bit behind the scenes, but you know, yeah, they're awesome. I do cry every time they give a golden button.

Every time? I'm in tears. Why, at this point I just know what it's gonna be. I go, oh, black choir, hello Terry Crews is coming in for that thing. Terry Crews is always gonna tell you, he goes, I grew up in things like this. This is what. Terry Crews, by the way, he always picks a group

that's gonna have to split a million dollars 57 ways. He always picks the biggest group of people. Dude, that golden button dude, it fucks me up every single time. This is like wire theater. What the hell is that? This is all people just with like different wires on their clothes that light up. Nah, that's like shadow puppets. No, no, no.

That's updated shadow puppets. I mean, it has a kick thing. Yeah, you gotta see when they go. It's amazing. That's updated shadow puppets. I mean, it has a kick thing, yeah. Yeah, you gotta see when they go. It's a bird. You gotta find the one with the Uncle Sam thing. Yeah, this is, yeah, that's not the one. I was thinking about the dancers. I'll tell you what, that sucked.

Right? Okay, that was, yes. That sucked, a bag of lights. I'm trying to find the right one. That didn't make me have any emotion. That's not the one I thought she was gonna play. God damn it, that was not the one, Bobby. That sucked. You're gonna love it when you see it. It is, it's... There, that Listen, that's not the one I thought she was gonna play. God damn it, that was not the one, Bobby. That sucked.

You're gonna love it when you pass it to her. It is, it's so good. There, that one, that one. That one right there. This one here? Yes. Oh, that's good, that's a good one. This is how they got their golden buzzer.

You would've cried, Bobby. They don't get the golden buzzer, I don't wanna cry. This is great. There's a guy in a chair lit up. I've seen that in fucking Tampa at Ebor City. Stop it. Oh, to the beat. Stop being cynical about this, Bobby.

Unless that chair is a guy. When this came on, when this came on AGT, maybe the last time me and Christine had fun together. Ha ha ha ha ha. Lightwire theater. That's just guys with lights on them. Oh, come on. Bobby.

Come on, look at that. It's a fucking computer, goes on and off at some time. It's impressive that someone made a program Alright, first of all, it's dancing with a nerd in the background on a computer. Yes first off dancing by itself is hard Then you got a nerd what I just computer what I just did was hard Dancing with a woman that wants nothing to do with you. That's hard But it's just your childhood in a room with two black guys, that's hard. That was tough. That's hard.

That was tough. I saw Preacher and Black Lou both look at each other and were like, is that? You know I embarrass easy. Now, you're wrong, Bobby. This is great. This is all right. It's just lights.

But here's the thing. Also, put it in the context of this. This is what a lot of the show AGT has rough spots, and especially for comics I think. You're going against somebody who's trying to win a Vegas act. So it's these huge acts like the ones that always like should win are the danger acts or the or people they have like these big screens and they do dances in front where they interact with the screens and stuff.

It's like Stomp. You get a fucking shovel and go don't don't think it don't don't think think boom boom. I don't think Stomp's that easy Bobby. A barrel. Fucking stupid. It's not that easy it stinks or a little man group for is it yeah here you go Jacob stomp dude oh please preacher okay Oh, please preacher, okay DJ Lou bring this beat. There you go Christine now

Killed the fun Just a basic clap Would you do a clap how easy How easy fun preacher? God that was so fun until it wasn't. I told you, it's easy. Yeah, stomping is easy. We can do stomp. We can't light wire theater though. Stomp stinks.

Stomp bunch of broom. Shhh, boom, sap, do-ka-boom. Now, I'll tell you what, if I was standing in stomp though when it was happening, I'd be like, I'd be soin'. Save me on Glover. The only way this would be fun is if you're in the subway and these were real janitors.

You'd be fuckin' downtime? Yeah, that's the only time these would be actually talented. Then it'd be the Wiz. Yeah. Oh, do you know, with that, the magicians, I think the magicians always have a good one-up on America's Got Talent. Yeah, they always get more time too, man.

They get like 10 minutes. Oh, I know, dude, the whole routine. And then the comedians are like, all right, you guys got 30 seconds, you can't do that joke. Are they really on you, like what you can say and what you can't say? Yeah, I think they're pretty like, all right, you guys got 30 seconds. You can't do that joke. Are they really on you, like, what you can say and what you can't say? Yeah, I think they're pretty strict, you know,

but I mean, I don't, I'm not really. You're not a dirty commenter. Yeah, I'm not like super dirty. I mean. What I found with like doing like TV or any type of stuff like that, you have to take, you have to take like, you used to do it in an hour, you used to do it in this chunk,

and it's kind of a piece, the whole thing. Then you have to like take little pieces out and make this other thing that you have to do and then they fuck with that and now you're not being you, you're being a version of you. Well yeah, also you have to play these, I mean, the two girls, was it Sophia and both of them when you went there? It was Heidi, Tyra, Mel B, and Tyra was also.

And I mean, they're puzzled at humor. Yeah, completely. They're like, so if you get them, it's fantastic. They just kinda see if everyone else is laughing and they're like, okay, I guess it's good. Because comedy to them is their fucking small dog having peanut butter in their tongue. Yeah, yeah.

Oh my God, did you see it? Heidi's definitely the hardest with comedy. She's German. Talk to the Jews about that. And she does this to see, which by the way, I don't want to break her heart and tell her. She doesn't do anything. Hold her hands. She does this.

She makes binoculars with her fingers. I don't think she doesn't know that binoculars require a magnifying glass. It's hilarious. Just a dumb pop-up. I don't think she doesn't know the binoculars require like a magnifying glass It's hilarious Yeah, yeah, there she goes look at her her hand binoculars, it's it doesn't do anything oh My lord, but uh You know they have shut some comics down it was great., I was happy to see you, like Mikey Winfield, isn't that great? That's like, we're able to like,

Natterman did good, Heidi turned on him hard. Really? Like hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know why. But Dan Natterman. Yeah. Hey, how you doing?

I for some reason organically don't like. Um, but there was, I don't know if this was your season, it's funny, they all run together, but the magician, my favorite like hate watch of that was the magician who won the one year and everything was like, all of his tricks were just like, and look, the piece of paper says hope and change on it. It's like, it was like sad, it was like,

we used to do like sexy boy like magic. He's like, oh. It was like, it was like sad. It was like, we used to do like sexy boy, like magic. He came out, his name was Dustin something. And he'd be like this, he'd be like, oh, it was me and my girl adopted two kids recently. And then the whole trick was some long thing. You pick a number, you say a thing. And then at the end he goes, those numbers you picked was the day that we adopted my son,

who also was sick with something, with something I think it's just like Dustin Tavella mother and I talked to him today He really adopted them kids. Sure, oh no, listen. He put the work in. He really didn't have a rabbit in his fucking hat either. He really did adopt those kids, the ultimate trick. No. He has a garage full of adopted kids for his show.

Buddy, he seems like a fantastic guy, but the magic was all wrapped around his amazing, wonderful life he's doing. Yeah, he would just tell these stories, get people's, you know. Emotions going. So it was always about like, it was like, all right, I'm out of kids. When I met my beautiful wife, ooh. He goes, now, do me a favor. Everybody turn around those cards you picked. Put the cards together.

It's a picture of my wife. And it says, hope and change. Ooh. That's our genius DJ, Lo. Ooh, that's right. It's the date that me and my wife met. Ooh, I'm going to cry. And then he sorted his cries.

And then America went, touch for it. I was watching DJ. He didn't even have a social media. He didn't use, they were like, yo, you got to get on social media. He was like, nah, that, check this out. I was watching- He didn't even have a social media. Dude, he didn't use, they were like, yo, you gotta get on social media. He was like, nah, that's not my thing. So this man wasn't even on social media, like I was on everybody's YouTube video.

Yeah, you know, vote for me, vote for me. He didn't do none of that. Dude, it's great watching Gina Brion. It's like he walks past him just being like, ugh, the first time he walks by, follow that bitch. You got any adopted kids you wanna talk about? Oh, just one natural one? Fucking selfish.

It's a wild, do you, I mean the nerves of that show, especially when it goes to the live TV is unlike anything. Like a lot. I have Christine's hair on my head and it feels weird. Why, you didn't dance with her. I did pull her hair a little bit though. Oh, okay.

Tried to get her into it. It does fall out. That's part of the lack of fun. So when you're on that and you get past, how excited are you? I would be more nervous that you have to go back and do it again. I would say the most nervous I was

was before I went on stage the first time. It felt like the first time going on stage. I was like, okay, this can, I really thought, you know, because that wasn't the first time I auditioned for America's Got Talent, that was just the first time I moved through to the actual judges. And so that time I was scared.

After that, after that I was fine. You got the feel for the stage. Yeah, because you go on stage and you're like, oh, this is, I've been doing this. But it's so not, like, I mean, to do comedy, you gotta have everybody focused, they're there to see comedy, you have an MC, a feature, and then you go up and you do your thing.

And then up here you're following some crazy horse shit, and then there's breaks in between. You're kind of going out cold as ice, right? What was your most difficult follow on that, as far as like whether it was someone doing bad or someone, I'm saying it's breaks in between, you kinda going out cold as ice, right? Yeah, what was your most difficult follow on that? As far as whether it was someone doing bad or someone, I'm saying it's hard to do comedy after they have to stop because a guy just got his girlfriend shot an apple off his head with her feet

like in a bow and arrow. It's like shit like that goes on. And then it's like, that's why I always felt like when you watch the comics you're like, good luck dude, because it's such a weird thing. I know it's out of sequence, but did they set you up bad ever? Yeah, I don't know, man.

I usually, I'll follow some woman doing a backflip on a frisbee full of knives, rather than follow a comedian. Sure, yeah, I guess. Because when I go on stage, I'm the first comedian. So everybody has to focus their comedic energy on me. So it's like, it feels good. I mean, they almost laughed a little too much

because it's like, you know. Yeah, they're prodded a bit. Yeah, they're like, they hype them up. Make sure they're gonna give a lot of energy. So if you'll last, really, that's when it sucks. Everyone that went last, they just bombed. It's a long ass day. Yeah.

How long is the day? Bro, oh my God. The second round, I don't know, the first and the second round, it was just like the whole day. It'd be the whole day. You get there like 12 or maybe 10, and then you're there till whatever.

It can't be a fun hang though. At least when you're at a comedy club, it's other comics there. You gotta hang out with some lady with a bunch of dogs. Yeah, yeah. Or someone talking to you, someone talking exclusive to you with their puppet. Yeah.

Like, hey, how are you? What do you do? What do you think I do? No, I was talking to, why am I talking to this puppet? Yeah, y'all would hate it. Yeah. Y'all would hate it. It's bad, right?

I was fine, I mean, I don't like being around too many, yeah, too many people anyway. Other entertainments. I just think people. I like people that I don't like, just not too long. Did you do any of the Luxor shows? Yeah, I did. How fun is that?

I felt like a cruise ship, man. I loved it. It was amazing. I had a great time doing that. No, it was... So you loved doing the Luxor. I loved it so much. I was like, let me give someone else an opportunity to host the Luxor now. No, I... We do winks on the show and we're lying.

I was like, what is that? Sound like Mario's jumping on a- Oh, just let everybody know that you enjoyed Deluxor. I mean, you'd actually go back this summer and do it again, right? They're shutting the whole show down. They are, right. I think it's like the last few months of it now.

Yeah. Or a couple weeks, I guess, now. It's done for good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why? I thought it'd be like, was it packed? It seems like a show that people would like, the name recognition to that show is huge.

It's the only show on that's new during the summertime. That's how I got into watching it. And Stern went on there for a while. Yeah. I like when Stern was on, it was fun. I didn't like him on it. It was like so, it was such a turning thing of him. Just like watching, listen, I didn't mind.

I still listen to Howard every day. I'm just saying it was funny watching him go up there and like hug people that he would have made fun of 10 years ago. Yeah, yeah, you're right. And he's going on stage and he's like, you gotta see the bravery in this kid. You know.

Fuck it, Ed. Come on, Howard. He just had a chicken on a Sibian machine last Tuesday. Yeah, he had a girl masturbating on the show. That's fucking brave. He did root for the one guy though, Horse. I, he had a girl masturbating on the show. That's fucking brave. He did root for the one guy though, Horse. I remember he fought for that guy tooth and nail till he got booted out.

Horse, his whole talent was just, he was custom made for Howard Stern to vote. It was just nut shots, just nonstop shots to the nuts. He would like lay under like a diving board and a guy would like jump off and like elbow him in the nuts and other people would kick him in the nuts. That was his whole routine was getting hit in the nuts. That's also the thing too, it would make you frustrated,

I think, especially when you have a real thing, and you get, like the years you said, or how many times you would go and not get through to the real judges. I did it once before. Once before, so you don't get through, and then you watch that year and you see like, they let the guy who dresses like a human chicken and insults Simon back,

and you're like, why am I home? This isn't like a real fucking, there's so many people that they don't want to eat shit. Which is pretty funny. Like when I did last Comic Standing, I think the second season, and Barry Katz was like, you gotta come down, you're gonna make it through all this shit, They totally fucking lied.

And then you showed up, and then some guy won. Yeah. And I literally had a video camera on stage, and I was videotaping, I had a little camera that did video, it was like one of the first ones. And I literally have a video of me going, who the fuck is that? Like, when nobody even knew this dude,

and they passed him. And then when they edited it, they edited me, they took a clip of me listening to instructions, and when I have to listen, I have to really focus so it looks like I'm sad, and they took that and edited that in, and were like, the winner is, and they just had me listening. It wasn't me listening. I went, who the fuck is that? And it was like winner is, and they just had me listening. It wasn't me listening.

I went, who the fuck is that? And it was like, and then they had me like, looking confused. Intently. Yeah, like intently confused. Cause I don't know what the fuck they're saying. And they put that in as me. And then I was like, oh God.

And it was like, fuck that. I was, I knew I wasn't getting in. Did they do any of that? Did they do that? They did too sorry, I'll tell you what. The last performance they filmed, like me, us, a family dinner, was me and my whole family. And we were just, my whole family's funny.

My mom does comedy, my brother does comedy, and so we were just really silly. So my mom was like crying laughing. We're all like crying laughing. And then you look back on the tape. They edited it in a way where she was like, I'm so proud of you. It's like a slow-mo of a cry. And I was like, she was laughing.

But a black lady laughing and crying, it's the same thing. The same thing. The same thing. It's the Bonfire, everybody. And you're listening to the podcast version, which is free. Half of it's free. You get half the show. Do you really want half?

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Support our show. Subscribe. That's my big fear. Is they're going to get like a, like a Cody Lee or something Kaiser. So saying after one of those things, you know, he was the guy who was like super autistic and, uh, blind and everything and just sang unbelievably. I was such a fan of that. I cry at that too.

When a goofball comes out. That's a teary enough one because his sweetest moment of something that I could make fun of for a half hour but the genuine sweetness of his mom, like sitting him at the piano, this is before you knew how good he was gonna sing. Can I see it? And she goes yeah and her words,

her words she goes, okay, she goes, you got this. One, two, three, boom, and he goes, yeah. And then he just starts playing the piano, I'm saying it. And he starts playing the piano, and he sings like, he's got like Teddy Pendergrass, it's crazy. He can, he sounds nothing like Teddy Pendergrass. Nothing. Teddy Pendergrass is a black man.

Yeah. Like, Cody Lee sounds like a black man. He doesn't sound like a black man at all. Bobby, you be the judge. I'll be the judge. Listen, you gonna look at him, he gonna sing, and you be like, yeah, that makes sense. None of it makes sense.

But he's, he's, he's. Did you talk to him this afternoon, too? Are you friends with him now? I am, all these people are my family. Everybody you're making fun of. No, no, he. No? I am all these people are my family. Everybody you're making fun of. No, no. We love all these people. I like Shin Lim. He's great. He's great.

But no, no, no. I did Vegas with him. Yeah, yeah. I really get to watch him. I did Vegas with him. He can play any song. Watch this. Did you have to watch him eat? Your fries are in front of you. Boom! Okay. Boom. Let me see this. By the are in front of you, boom, okay. Boom. All right, let me see this.

By the way, he's so good, while they're getting to this part, he's so good that I feel that towards the end of the season they do like, they bring out like, people are already famous to kind of do something with you. On this one at least, and they brought out Leona Lewis to sing with him, it was gorgeous. When they are singing to each other, the way she's looking at him, it's like,

she forgets for a second, she's almost like, we're falling in love while we're singing this song. And then he gets up and goes over and like, you know, he's like, yay! And she's like, oh right, it would be illegal if I did this. He's so crazy talented. Let me see this. Aw. Oh

How could you not I mean yeah Bobby's gonna cry I'm'm gonna cry. This one gets me Cuz I suppose he might not be able to do it Could you imagine know if he was terrible after all that setup that'd be so fucked up You say she's just a friend Crazy I'm fighting on my live stages. 10,000 people watching. Yeah. We're alone now. Oh, his talentless siblings with full capacities.

It sucks that he has the same eyes looking at you as he's looking at the keys. Oh, yeah. He is always playing piano eyes. This was his first thing. I think he golden buzzard. can't go buzzard and he uh, I Called from the day one. I came on the show and I was like this the winner of this season just went on There's no way this guy is not gonna lose Yeah, then they just put production behind him for the next ones and he was unreal

For the next ones, I knew he was unreal. Remember we together. I could play Doe Adir on the piano. I've got full sight. Oh my god. I wish I had a savant. Julianna Hough, though. She's virtue signaling. Julianna Hough's virtue signaling with her cry.

I don't believe her for a second. I would definitely take Max with goofy eyes if he could play the piano. I tell you, the funniest performance to me ever on America's Got Talent is Julianna Hough, when they just let, I guess one of her agreements to do the show was like, you have to let me perform at some point, for no reason, my new song and dance routine,

and it's just Julianne Huffman up there. She's hot. She's hot. But it looks ridiculous. Her brother's hot, too. She just lip-sings her song and dances around. It didn't make any sense to have on the show. Yeah.

Julianne Huff. No one buys Julianne Huff singles. Ha ha ha ha. You like her brother? Oh, they're both Dancing with the Stars people, right? Smokin' Hot, yeah, he's hot. It's a hot family, it's got good genes. If I could, I remember when we first had Max,

I don't know if you went through this when you were a kid, I would put stuff in front of him to see if he was. A genius? Yeah, I did. You'd test him for genius? I put a piano in front of him and he'd just been, ding, ding, ding, all right, take that away. Thought he was gonna just nail it right away.

Yeah. Have a touch. Do you have any musical talent? Preacher? I play the piano. Oh, damn. You play the piano. Yeah, it's so fun.

He said that like he plays too. Did you hate learning when you were young? I started learning when I was 17, so I mean I just learned from YouTube. So I could do it. Damn. Yeah, you could do it. Yeah.

Can I hear Teddy Pettigras? I wanna hear. Please. Please. Play Teddy Pettigras. I wanna. I mean. hear. Please. Please. I just want to... I mean... 100%.

No. What are you talking about, dude? What the fuck? It was a trick, Bobby. This is Cody Lee. This is not Cody Lee. This is a black man with soul. You got, you got what I need! This is a black man with soul.

The other kid was an autistic kid with fucking high falsettos. It's sounding like a black man with soul the other kid was an autistic kid with fucking high falsettos Just Cody Lee's best of greatest hits Bobby dancer Christine again to this one Cody Lee ripping it up His mom's in the side doing this 100% nothing like this guy you said said your mother and brother do comedy too. Your mother goes in a row with you, doesn't she? Yes, she goes in a row with me.

And she does my merchandise, she does five minutes up front. Was she doing it, she started doing it after you did? She started doing it after me. Really? Yeah, I like ripped my pants and I had to change clothes and so she had to talk for a little bit. So when she was talking, they were laughing. So she just went up like, kill time at a show.

Yeah. Do you think your mom will ever do America's Got Talent? Hope not. How great would that be? That would be horrible. Why would that be horrible? I mean, I guess it'd be good. That'd be great for your mom.

People love that. People love that story. Gerald Kelly's whored out every one of his children onto that show so far. He's a comic, every time he has another son, he just tries to bring them on and do a father-son stand-up routine with them. It's bat shit crazy.

It's crazy. And your brother does it too? Yeah, my brother does it too. Is he going the road with you? Yeah, sometimes I do. My mom, my brother and I, and then we have a family show. I think it's pretty cool.

At the end of the show? No, just the whole show. No, the whole show. Yeah, it'd be cool. Do you have to give him money? Do you have to pay him?? Do you have to pay them? Yeah. You have to pay them.

You have to write your mom a check? Yeah. Are you starting to think that maybe you could bring your Max and Dawn on the road and not pay features? Is that your plan? I don't have to bring the tizzy three with me on the road. That's wild that your mom's on the road with you though, but you have to be on your best behavior, right?

Yeah, I guess so, but I mean, I should be anyway. Right? All right. Are you married? No. No, I'm not married, but. You can't hook up with chicks after, right? I mean, I can do whatever I want, but I mean.

Your mom's gonna be there. Your mom's gonna be judging you. Yeah, she's gonna, we have the same room with the double bit, no. No, no, she. Hey mom, hit the can for a minute. I judging. Yeah, she's gonna, we have the same room with the double bit, no. No, no she's. Hey mom, hit the can for a minute. I mean, no she, she. Woo, there's a hot one in here.

His mom's not Teddy Pendergrass, Bobby. That was clearly an impression of Teddy Pendergrass you just did. More of an impression than the other kids. Yeah, so I think, yeah, it's cool, man. You don't like your mom? No, I wouldn't. My mom's like.

You don't like your mom is a great question. You don't enjoy your mother? My mom's like Vegas, two days, I wanna go. Yeah? Yeah, I wouldn't want my mom on the road. She just, yeah, she loves being on the road. My mom still wants me to be a hairdresser. Right now?

She thinks I didn't make it. But why specifically a hairdresser? She's a hairdresser, she has a shop in her house. She wants a family business? She has a shop in her house. She went into the family business. She has a shop in her house and she does old lady. She still does it. Yeah, she still does it in the house. You don't trust somebody that age with fucking scissors?

My mom? In your head? Well, it's old lady hair. It's just a fuzzy gray thing. You have to get dishwash. She has to use this, I swear to God, use dishwashing detergent on the wall. Why is that?

Because old women get their hair done. They get it done like once and then they don't do it. They don't wash it. So you gotta get like grease and grime out of there. Yeah, they keep it for months and then they go back in and get it done again. So the oil on their head is so much, the only thing that gets it out is dishwashing detergent.

Oh, black people figured it out, man. Just shave it down and do wigs at that point of age. Don't get that old, creepy Donald Trump top hair. Has your mom, like, does she kill up front? She does well sometimes. You know, she does well. She's new. She's only been doing comedy maybe like four years. Has she bombed?

Yeah. And what did you see after? That's just got to hurt to watch. Oh, I mean, it was a lot. I didn't watch it. I just, I mean, I wouldn't watch it in the beginning, aw. Oh, I mean, it was a lot. I didn't watch it. I just, I mean, I wouldn't watch it in the beginning, but yeah, a couple times I've seen her bomb. But yeah, yeah, I think I got excited when I watched the bomb

because she was, people wouldn't like her off front, you know, because she's off rip, because she's my mom. So when people come, oh, you got a mom? Oh, she does comedy. They happy already. And so she can ride that. But she was doing really well Because we had a you know a bunch of like really packed shows or whatever It was she was getting her head big and she bombed I was like listen

They're doing sold out you know being like you're doing like you're not doing open my open mics or you Laundry mats, you know, like just random poetry spots. I picture you got it. I'm just a picture You skip it so I needed to watch her bomb. Like most comics do now, by the way. That's so funny, though. I like seeing her just confident there, just walking around with her hand in her pocket, like, what else?

What else, guys? Yeah, she just drops the mic, follow that, bitch. She has a big closer with music involved, like all the things that suck when someone's opening for you. He goes, mom, do you have music cues now? She goes, yeah, I do a big piece at the end. I redo the lyrics to DMX is where my dog's at. She was only pushing her t-shirts.

I don't know if she did do that. She has her own merch? No, bro, she had mama loss in t-shirts. She had a t-shirt that said Mom, Dad jokes, but crossed out Dad had Mom on it. That's so great. Dude, she's undercutting your merch. This is dope, but why didn't you tell me?

Did you get a cut, or did you keep it? No, she didn't give me no cut. She undercut your merch. What? That's like a regular opener. You're supposed to ask if you can sell merch if you're featuring. Her last five minutes is her going after the show,

I'll be selling this shirt, mama, mom jokes. God damn it, that's really funny. That's selling her own merch. Hey, you don't mind if I throw some merch out on the table, do you? Mama loss of five minutes of material merch, that's fantastic. You have to sign one of her shirts.

I'm not signing nothing. Do you involve family, any other thing, like as far as like helping with management or stuff or is it all? I mean, my mom is just really helpful with anything I need, but my brother helps me out with jokes and then yeah, that's it. That's good, man.

My whole family still doesn't believe in me. And they're living in a house you bought. I'm not even kidding. They're still, you're still doing that. My grandfather, in the hospital two days before he's dying, 101, you're still doing that comedy thing? I was like, yes, successfully, you cocksucker. He's like, I haven't heard of you down at the VFW.

That's where I hang out. Yeah, they, oh man. Oh, that's it? That's the shirt? I'm buying one Oh man. Oh, that's it? What did you find? I'm buying one right now. Christine, send me the link. I'm getting, I'm buying one right now. That's her website.

She has her own website. Yeah, they find it. Wait a second, that's her, it's Mama Lawson's website? Wait a minute, does she post on Instagram? I'll be at, I'm gonna be, does she have a tour day? She has 150,000 followers on TikTok. That's almost, that's almost for me. That's how many followers she has.

She does mom jokes, she does like a street jokes or dad jokes or whatever. By the way, she got a model. Yeah. Yeah, why'd she get a Filipino boy? I mean, I think that's a default. Oh, okay. Oh, okay.

That way they get all across the board. They get everybody. Black people be like, ah, he ain't white, and white people be like, he ain't black. Get that little Asian fellow over here. Try on my shirt. Filipino is the exact middle of everything. I like the idea that your mom casts in couches

and I'm smoking a cigarette and just making him spin around in shirts. Does she have a website? This is it. That's it. That's her website. It's mamalawson.com. Does she have tour dates on This is it. That's her website. It's it's mamalawson.com. Does she have tour dates on there?

Oh I'd love it if she had tour dates. I don't think she has tour dates. Wait a minute. Oh yeah she does. Yeah. Oh that's you. That's great. You're a goddamn good looking man dude.

Thank you brother. You really are. Shit you're good looking. Yeah your hair got so long and awesome. God I miss long hair. I'm gonna cut it. It's hard to, no. No. No let's out of here. Why? How old are so long and awesome. God, I miss long hair. I'm gonna cut it. It's hard to, no. No.

No, it's out of here, baby. Why? How old are you? Because it's just, I'm 33. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't do it. You're gonna look like one of the rocks. Don't do that.

I'm gonna tell you why. You look fantastic with that hair. As a person who had long hair, I had done it here about 10 years ago almost now. Yeah. About eight, nine, 10 years ago. You should have cut it. You look like the lead singer of Heart.

Sure. Pfft. What about love? How do I get you in love? Do I sound like Penny Pentagras or am I crazy? Ha ha ha ha. Guys, call me nuts, but I don't sound like Penny Pentagras. You're nuts.

Ha ha ha ha. I do. Am I absolutely crazy? No, but I say whether it look good or not, I'm gonna sit on my titty piney grass. You're nuts. Ah, dude. Am I absolutely crazy? No, but I say whether it look good or not, when you have long hair, you only get one go with it. When you cut it, you're never gonna go through the shit like in between hair. I'm not. You'll never do it again.

And that's the same thing with me. I knew that though. I was like, I'm getting older, let me go ahead and do one last hurrah. I'm gonna grow my hair out, then I'll cut it. And I know I'm not gonna grow it back out. I don't wanna go to that stage again. Are you gonna go shaved, or are you gonna go just down low?

I don't know. I'm trying to come up with cool terms. Down low. Maybe a down low shave. Down low shave? Or maybe like a puffy top less on the sides. I don't want no puffy. All right, relax, no puffy.

Are you gonna keep the hair or are you gonna go shaved? I mean, when I cut my hair, I'm gonna cut it low. Are you gonna donate them to cancer patients? Absolutely. That'd be funny if it was some white lady with your hair. Can you donate dreadlocks? Is it gonna stay though? I don't know how that works.

Yeah, how do you put dreadlocks on a cancer kid? You just gotta staple them on one at a time? Oh my gosh. You gotta glue them in a hat. He's bleeding down his head but he's happy as shit. Just glue him into a hat. You always gotta wear a Jamaican tourism hat. Hey, this little white boy for some reason

has long dreadlocks now. That's wild, man. I know we gotta do that. That must be awesome though, that you get to hang out with your family and tour together and have fun. You have fun, right? Yeah, I have fun.

Does it change the energy though of, I said I don't know if you have a long-term girlfriend or anything, but on the road, if you're chatting with a chick, is it weird having your mom there sometimes? Or having to dip off from that? Or is having, even just having your mom see you be like, where are they going?

Yeah, I mean, she made me. Yeah. But I- We know how it works. Yeah, she knows too. So I'm not like really chasing women out to shows. Sure. I went through that phase, but yeah, it would be awkward

if my mom was right there. You don't do drugs or anything? No, not anymore. I mean, I smoked weed, but. You're done. Yeah, yeah, yes. I smoked a lot of weed and I started drinking in 2020, but I stopped that too.

Yeah, you clean, totally clean? Yeah. You gonna test me? Lou, bring out the urine cup. I know you do jujitsu and stuff too, because you roll around with Louis a bunch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How's Louis, terrible?

No, he's really good. Damn it. No, he's really good. He actually taught me a couple things. Yeah, yeah, he's been training for years now, Louis. But it's so funny, man, watching him when he does those, even those goofy fights, it's so weird watching a friend do it. you really have such an important more vested interest in it

We were like, you know, you don't want to get hurt I went over his house last time and my son and his son are both in jujitsu and they roll and Lewis They just tell you that's jujitsu They are naked Little tiny hard on snow and and then Lewis was like get down I'll show and he got me on the mat, and he fucking. And humiliated you in front of your own son? Yep.

Why would you allow that? Exactly, I didn't know he was gonna do it. I've really done it, when Lewis goes from my, he's just weird, like out of nowhere, like we're just talking in public, in jeans, and he starts going for your legs, and you have to be like, it's like, my daughter's here.

Don't try to chuck me in front of my kid, please. He really swatted me in front of Max. Yeah, pinned you. Yeah, he choked me out. Yeah, he wants to hurt you. He bent me like a pretzel. But he is a good teacher. Remember Kim Kongden came in here and choked me out?

Oh yeah. I let her to see how long I can go without tapping. Like I just let her choke me from the get-go, and I tapped way late. Yeah, way late. I tapped when I thought I was going out. Oh, you got choked out. Well, no.

The room was going smaller and he started getting hard. What happened was I started, yeah, I came and then I was tapped. I tapped when I felt like the room getting small and then she let go and I thought you were going to get that immediate like life comes back to you and then I was still for about 30 seconds after she let me go. I was almost just like. You know like, like life comes back to you. And then I was still for about 30 seconds after she let me go, I was almost just like. You know who did that to me? John Jones.

You have to like grab your. Oh, you got choked up by John Jones? Well yours is way better then. Mine was Kimberly Congden. John Jones, but he fucked up. I tapped and he didn't let go. Oh really? Yeah, I did on, I don't know if it was Opie and Anthony.

Soon, he just spent all his money on coke. Opie and Jim, Jim and Sam, whichever version of it was on. And he came in and I was like, you can do it. And he choked me out and I was tapping, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, and he kept going. And he was laughing. Wow. Oh my.

I think that's borderline illegal. Yeah, I mean from him it is, yes. So you went out. I was on the verge of going out. Like it was, I was was like when I was tapping The room was getting smaller was everyone else laughing. Oh, yeah, it's Opie and Anthony Rouriously, I assume they were very excited that I was gonna die They go wake up Bobby idiot look I'm snoring on the ground again

Preacher thank you so much for hanging out with us man born on the ground again. Preacher, thank you so much for hanging out with us, man. Absolutely. Preacher's News Special, my name is Preacher, streaming right now on YouTube. And Preacher's going to be at the Wilbur Theater. Such a great club. Get your tickets now.

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Yeah. Come for the preacher, stay for the mama. I'm going to be tomorrow night, I'm going to be in Houston. That's it. Houston tomorrow night. And I'm in Jacksonville this weekend. Buy the goddamn tickets. Tell your people in Boston to go see Preacher Lost. Yeah, everybody go see it.

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Funsies. And for sure. Yeah, we're all gonna have fun, despite I think Christine being a part of this. We're gonna, Christine, we're gonna do something in LA, and we're all gonna have fun despite. I think Christine being a part of this Christine we're gonna do something in LA and we're all gonna go have fun. All right, I Want to get burritos by the beach? Will you come to that? Yeah, remember I told you her fun is trying to get you to eat food. This isn't good for you

That's her fun. I mean I'll go and take a bite. Yeah, I might as well have a bite. I'll go We'll be right back everybody to say goodbye. Thank you, Preacher. Thank you. It's the bonfire.