The Harland Highway - NEW HARLAND HIGHWAY #46 - SARAH COLONNA, Comedian, Actor, Author.
Episode Date: February 21, 2023Comedian and Author Sarah Colonna is here to talk tipping, babies, writing, and Donald Duck! Sponsor: Head to FACTORMEALS.com/HARLAND50 and use code harland50 to get 50% off your first box. Learn ...more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Discussion (0)
Hey everybody, it's Harland. Welcome to today's episode. Before we get started, I want to let you know.
Due to popular demand and your requests, people have asked me to hand-draw a t-shirt for my charity,
Cinnamon Angels Fly Fly Away, for all those children out there with horrible cinnamon allergies.
So it's here, and if you want to order your very own Cinnamon Angels Fly Fly Away,
fly away t-shirt just go to harbling.com
hardbling.com and order away
we have all sizes all colors
and you'll be helping those poor children with their swollen ankles
and the drool coming out of their mouths and their red eyes
and all the money goes directly to meet
to the charity and that's how you do it
just go to harbling.com
And start helping the cinnamon bastard, the cinnamon children, allergy children,
bastard, children of today.
And now let's start rolling down the Harland Highway.
But wait, then there's another level to this tip madness.
The thing where they ask you if you want to ante up.
Right.
And then they go, oh, would you like to even up to an even $25 for the children in Korea
with no lips or whatever?
Whatever the, you know, the gimpy kids of Brazil with no arms.
Yeah, and then you feel bad.
Yeah, the Boy Scouts with no legs.
They do put you under pressure.
And you feel bad saying no because you feel everyone's staring at you.
Or is she going to hit no on that button?
Yeah, and then she's there judging you.
And meanwhile, there's some, like, kid in Korea with no lips who can't eat a cup of corn.
And you feel bad because you just bought, like, shampoo and toothpaste and,
cheesies he could have helped him buy a pair of lips he could have some gimpy kid in korea with the lips
suck the ice off the side of a 7-Eleven or something
that's exactly right now I'm going to round up for the rest of my life
you're riding down the harland highway all right hold tight on the harland
Highway Show
Harland Williams
Ladies and gentlemen
Very special guest today
I threw in a silent W
because I know you like
Special guest
Here on the Harland Highway
Sarah Colon is here
Let's hit the theme music
Yeah
Right here
Sarah
Oh yeah that's nice music
You like it?
I do
I mean I've heard it
Because I've listened to your podcast
Oh, you do?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, what an honor.
Thanks.
Well, it's just different live.
Yeah, it's different live.
We're here.
I'm feeling it.
Are you feeling it?
Are you one of those people that rides off of that type of energy, like the feeling thing?
Like, do you have crystals and do you believe in vibes and all that stuff?
Are you just someone that goes, oh, what's going on today?
That's kind of me.
Yeah.
Kind of an idiot, basically.
Like I don't.
Christy child.
Dominum nostrum, Jesus Christi.
Demons get out.
You're not allowed to come on here and call yourself an idiot in the first sentence.
Well, I just mean, you said, do I ride off a vibe?
No, I just kind of go, what's happening now?
Yeah.
I don't have vibes.
So you're not into people.
Like, you've met them, right?
Especially here in Hollywood.
They're like tingly and they're like, ooh, your energy.
Yeah.
Like crystals and all that stuff.
You know what some of those people do too?
What?
That really bugs me is they touch your face.
They do?
Yeah.
I know a person very, very in particular that I'm thinking of that is a, he's like a face
toucher.
He's like, he likes, yeah.
Oh, no.
Well, they touch other areas, really.
They do, yeah.
Show me on your face how they do it.
Like he grabs your face kind of, which is, was already weird before, I don't
know, COVID and everything else.
It's just not, you shouldn't touch people's faces without extreme permission.
Yeah.
Ooh, I was at a premiere once.
I went to some kind of premiere, you know, big movie premiere.
And I saw an executive who I had done a movie with years before.
And he was sort of a big executive.
He's like, oh, Harlan, I haven't seen you in so long.
You'd look so great.
And he did like the little like slap.
Like not in a grip, but just kind of like a friendship slap.
And I was like, I almost wanted to punch his lights out.
Yeah.
What do you to even touch my face?
That's like an aggressive like aunt thing, right?
Like your aunt who comes in.
It's like, look at you.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't like that.
Yeah, this was a guy that had no bloodline to me.
He was just like executive here in Hollywood.
Do you slap him back?
I wanted to.
Yeah.
Like it actually got my hairs up.
Like I was like, like I had to kind of like, like I had to kind of hide my.
my feelings because I went into the red zone.
I was like, I'm a grown man.
You're a grown.
You just like slapped me on the face.
I would have been fun if you just like kind of punched him back sort of.
Yeah, I haven't seen you anybody either.
Bam, just right, right hook.
Just choke them out, like make them unconscious.
God.
Have you ever, when you were doing the dating scene, did you ever have someone who was like kind
of like a like a vibey, like hippie, like kind of.
Yeah, we didn't get along.
What happened?
It's just not, I don't know why that's not for me.
I probably should have a couple crystals in my life, but I just don't.
It's just never been my thing.
What about crystal meth?
Well, that, obviously.
Yeah, that really gets you going, you know?
That definitely is a vibe.
So you won't do crystals, but crystal meth is on the menu.
Yeah, that's a vibe.
What color is your tent that you live in on this?
Oh, God.
Purple.
Oh, God.
With a couple crystals hanging out just a case.
Yeah.
Have you passed some of those tenters out on the, like on the road now?
Like they didn't used to be there like three, even three years ago.
There were no, there's homeless people, but there weren't tents.
No, there's whole whole like tent cities.
Like lines of them.
Yeah.
And of course I feel bad for them.
But what happens is if you ever done this, you're driving by them.
And some of them just come wandering out in the.
street with their pants half down or with a shopping card or like something on the couch on
their show and it's like it almost causes you to crash yeah it's not doesn't seem safe for anyone
so it's it sucks obviously and you do feel bad for them but they i feel like there should be a
better place for them to be staying that's pretty crazy for themselves too because they're in bad
weather they're you know it's hot that's brutal man rain sometimes um going back to face touching
No, when I was a kid, I had a little brother, Donnie, my little brother, Donnie, and he was blind.
Did ever tell you about Donnie?
No.
Yeah.
So Donnie was my little brother.
He was a blindie, and I used to read him, like, kid's stories at night.
I'd go up to his room, and, you know, like curious George books and where the wild things are.
Do you remember that one where the demented kid dressed up like a horseshoe rabbit and floated to ginger vitus island or whatever?
Remember those big monsters?
I wish I remembered the details.
I remember where the wild things are.
Like I can picture the cover of the book.
Right.
But I definitely didn't remember Gingervitis Island.
Well, that's what I did.
But they had these monsters,
had yellow focus teeth and gargoy eyes.
Yeah, they did.
They looked like if they talk, they'd smell.
That's true.
Like burnt onions and horseradish and Mary Calendors like meatloaf or something.
Marie calendars.
You put some respect on that name and say it.
Right.
It's Marie calendars, and she has delicious pot pies.
Isn't it Mary Calendar?
Marie.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
I've been to a brick and mortar.
They don't just have frozen items.
They have, like, restaurants.
Oh, that's right.
I've been to one.
Yeah.
It's delicious, I'm just saying.
I remember I went with a friend once, and then I'll get back to the blindie.
I went with a friend once, we both ordered one of those pop pies, and for some reason they heated hers up, like, triple to mine.
And I ate mine.
I was like, oh, this is good.
She put hers in her mouth.
And did you ever burn the whole roof of your mouth?
Yeah, it doesn't feel good.
She, like, singed it up like,
I looked like Freddie Kruger after a,
fucking steam bath down at 49th and 12th, whatever that is.
Okay, back to the blindie.
So Donnie, the little blindie, right?
Okay.
I used to go up to a little blindie.
room at night and read them kids books because he couldn't see but i had to learn braille i read them
to him his braille and i'd put his little fingers on it and he'd feel all the little bumps you know
have you ever read braille before i haven't i mean i i think oh i went to school in arkansas i don't
think they gave us oh there's no blind no there's no blind people there so they i definitely have
felt it before but not yeah so you know it's those little bumps right yeah so i taught a little
Donnie how to read braille. Curious George, where the wild things are. And then cut to,
it's funny how life goes in full circles, right? So cut to about three weeks ago, I'm over at the
Arby's drive-thru. And they didn't have what I wanted. And I got up to the drive-thru and I was irate.
I was mad. You ever been like pissed? At a drive-thru, yeah. Yeah. So I get to the drive-thru and I yanked
the kid out you know the the kid who worked there is like this pumpkin-faced like zit-faced
horror almost you know like tons of zits like just bumpier than a fucking smurfs wet dream right
and i'm sitting there holding this kid about to ream them out and then i had a flashback to
a little blindy donnie and i'm you know teaching him braille and i just started touching the kids
reading his face the zits and i was like the first three chapters and i was like the first three chapters
of Stephen King's The Shining
on his stupid, bumped up
whore face?
What's wrong with you?
That's what happens when you work at Arby's,
you know? Sometimes there's a lot of grease
and it causes you to have
pimples. There's no
way that you took someone by the face
at Arby's, but I wish you were that person.
I know. I just, I wanted to have a
face touching story because you came out
strong and you had a face
and you were even able to... Yours was strong, even though
I mean, it was totally made up and it was definitely strong.
I know, but I had to kind of embellish to kind of keep up with you.
But you said someone was like doing this to you.
Yeah, a lot of, how are you and face grabbing?
And who was it again?
It's this guy that I know who just is very, that's his thing.
And everyone talks about it behind his back.
And at some point it needs to be addressed.
Maybe he's listening now and then that would be great.
And then hopefully that'll end it.
You've never addressed it with them?
No, I try to just sort of get out of the way.
Because he's well-meaning.
Yeah.
And he's just one of those people who thinks, like, oh, it's so good to see.
I don't know why you would ever have to touch someone's face.
It's almost phony, right?
It's almost fake.
Like, they're almost over-exuding with, you know, excitement to see you to the point where you almost feel like it's phony or something.
Maybe I need to have a really pimply face like the fake guys from Arby's and he'll never touch me again.
Yeah, but just grow zits that spell.
I'll fuck off and braille.
So he grabs you.
It's like, fuck off.
Don't touch my face.
You creep.
He's like, wow, how could you say that to me?
I'm like, what?
I didn't say,
I didn't say anything.
Yeah.
It's not a bad idea.
Just silently fuck off.
Have you ever had that in real life though?
Are you out of concern, out of respect and love for someone you know or care about,
and they were doing something that was like kind of awkward or off-putting?
Did you ever cut through that barrier and go, hey, I care about you.
Just so you know, this thing you're doing isn't a good look for you.
And you hope they get what you're saying.
Is that ever happened and it went south or did it go well?
I have done that before.
Oh, what happened?
With a friend that used to, she was one of those people who really likes shock value.
Okay.
And so we would be out.
This was like, I don't know.
was probably late 20s, early 30s.
Just for the crowd, shock value.
Like, have you ever walked in on or, like, sucking on an electric eel or anything?
Like, what do you mean?
Like, likes to, you know, take people by surprise.
Oh, shock other people.
Got you.
Yeah.
Not like an electric current type thing.
Okay. Got you.
But it would be interesting if that was it.
Okay.
So what was this confrontation?
Well, I just, I had had enough because we would go.
to bars it usually happened when she had a few too many drinks okay and she would she was one of those
people who would like to a stranger sitting in a bar would say something quote unquote provocative right
something that that most people would find offensive to a complete stranger yeah yeah acting and she's like
what i'm just joking around that kind of thing and she did it all the time and finally i was like i
can't go out with you anymore if this is what you're going to do it makes me uncomfortable
you said that to her yeah um we're not friends anymore really
yeah and was it that that did it it didn't uh she didn't take that well yeah but it was just
sort of a period of time that her behavior was always kind of like that so it just sort of fizzled
out as far as a friendship because i don't i don't find it's i don't find it fun to sort of mess
with people that are strangers and assume that they're going to be on the same page for me like
i don't know you travel a lot by yourself right for stand-up yeah and so do i so i am
like a person who likes to be left alone. I go to lunch by myself, dinner, whatever, right?
So I really sympathize even more with someone who's just trying to have a drink and a nice
night and someone's like, chill out. Yeah. Someone's antics, which they think is fun, is not what the
other person wants. Yeah, you kind of have to respect other people's space and privacy or, you know.
And it's a hard barrier with a friend too, because it's kind of like that thing, we've all had this
where you have a boyfriend or a boyfriend
and they go, oh, this is my new fiance
or this is my new boyfriend or girlfriend
and he's great and I love him
and everyone else knows he or she's like a schmuck.
Yeah.
And then they say, well, you know, five months later,
I'm going to marry the guy
and you know that he's either cheated
or he's a liar or he's done something.
And you have to go, do I tell her?
Do I tell her who this guy really is
or do it. You know what I mean? It's like if you cross that barrier, you don't know if they go,
oh my God, thanks for telling me. Or do they go, who are you to fucking say what he is? Or if they're
defensive. Right. Because now you're tampering with their through line of love. Yeah. I have a few
friends like that men and women that I'm like, I love you, but I would never set you up with anyone
that I know. Right. Yeah, I don't want to put my name on that. Yeah. Yeah. Demon seed.
Wow.
Speaking of demon seed, talk to me.
Do you go to Starbucks?
Do you go to get coffees and Starbucks?
Sometimes.
I'm more of a coffee bean fan.
Oh, okay, but you go for, like, you go to those places.
I go, I go.
Yeah, not daily.
But let's talk about, let's talk about the tipping.
Okay.
What is going on with everywhere you go now, even Rite Aid?
that you have to tip on your prescription.
People want you to tip.
Here's your cancer medicine.
Would you like to leave a tip?
Would you like to leave a tip?
But there's a little jar right there.
You're not going to be around too long.
Why don't you leave a tip?
You can't use it.
Might as well.
I saw your diagnosis.
Yeah, I know what this is for.
And you can just go ahead and get rid of your money as you pick it up.
Yeah, give me a big tip.
Do you tip at Starbucks?
Well, here's the thing.
I feel pressured.
Like it's like I'm coming in for like a cup of coffee that's already.
I don't get coffee.
I get hot chocolate,
but it's already way overpriced.
Yeah.
And it's like now they want like another dollar or $2 or $3 on a $6 hot chocolate.
And it's like here's what the person did.
It was like, here's your hot chocolate, sir.
Yeah.
And then I like take the hot chocolate.
hot chocolate, and I go, well, didn't I just do the exact same thing you just did?
Like, where's my tip there at corn on the cob teeth or whatever your name is?
God.
First of all, I don't know why I'm fascinated that you go for hot chocolate over coffee.
Yeah, I've never had a coffee.
Ever?
Ever.
In your life?
Never had a coffee, yeah.
Is this thing a lot of people know that I didn't know that I'm...
No?
Okay.
No?
Never just tasted it, never.
I had one sip.
by accident. I was shooting a scene in a little film project and it was a scene at a coffee cart
and I said to the prop master, I said, I've never had coffee in my life. So put Coke in the glass
and I'll drink the Coke and he forgot. And so in the scene I put the and I could feel it in my mouth
and I went, but I didn't want to blow the take so I swallowed it. And then I went to him. I said,
hey dude, blah, blah, blah, blah. But that's the only sip of coffee I've ever had my life.
And did it, did you hate it?
I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it.
Like, I wasn't like, oh, my God, what have I been missing?
But it was more as a kid, all I ever heard adults saying was like, oh, God, I can't stop drinking coffee.
Oh, I wish I didn't drink three coffees a day.
Coffee kind.
And I thought, when I was a kid, I thought, well, if I never drink one, I never have to deal with that.
Right.
And you never have to be the person screaming about coffee all day, boring people to death.
Yeah.
They don't have to worry.
everyone's, I'm addicted to coffee, so I just never did it.
And then how often do you have a hot chocolate?
Oh, it's random.
It's like, you know, every one every few months or whatever.
Oh, it's not like a daily situation.
No, no, it's not a hot chocolate's not addictive like coffee.
Had one yesterday in case you're wondering.
Do you go marshmallows?
I mean, for some reason, I'm fascinated by this.
I can't have marshmallows because marshmallows to me look like a ghost went shit in my hot drink.
that they look like ghost turds now i can never have marshmallows either yeah if you're ever thinking of
roasting a marshmallow on a campfire just think of it as a giant white ghost shit and
you'll never do that you'll never do that again i mean why i don't know why you'd ruin a perfectly good
marshmallow for me but well imagine a smore that's like a ghost shit with skid marks on it i had a smore for
the first time i don't think i've ever had them to be honest they're obnoxious it's too difficult it's too much
sugar you almost go into like um anapoleptic shock or whatever it's called yeah and it doesn't
it doesn't eat easily it makes it's messy you like like a black bear going through a garbage dump
when you eat a schmore and it's just runs down your face i well a friend of mine took a video of me
eating it because she he was fascinated by the fact that i never had one before and i was just like
look at me i look like a fucking monster eating that sorry for the f bomb but that's what i look like
And then I thought maybe I could start an only fan
where I just eat s'mores and people will probably pay for it.
Oh, they would because they droop and drizzle.
And here's the thing.
A lot of times you're at a campfire
and you're blasted out of your mind on tequila or whatever you drank.
Hot chocolate.
Yeah.
And then you've got like schmore all over your fingers.
And then you go to take a leak and then you get all the marshmallow melt in your
pubes.
And now it looks like a ghost puked on your junk.
You know what I mean?
That's its perspective I hadn't thought about it, to be honest with you.
You don't want ghost puke on your junk.
I've only been here for a few minutes.
You've already ruined a few things for me.
There'll be more to come.
Arby's.
Starbucks.
Where the wild things are.
Where the wild things are.
Smoors.
And probably coffee.
Yeah.
Probably done with that now too.
But do you, I could see you getting jacked about, about tipping.
Like, do you get up tight on it?
Like, how do you handle the tipping?
Well, it's hard because I worked in restaurants for so long.
Oh, so you might have the other perspective.
I have the other perspective, but I also, like, I over-tip at restaurants at bars, even if everything was shit.
Oh, yeah.
You know, even if the server just stood in a corner and forgot about me for the whole time, I'm like, here's 20% at least.
But I do agree that there comes, like, I don't know why we're tipping everywhere.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Like what you said about restaurants, even when the service is bad,
Most people traditionally tip.
Yeah.
But what I'm talking about is when, like it's subway.
You ever go to subway?
Yeah, now they have a thing.
They make you sandwich.
And before you, you know, you know the guy's not making a ton of money working there.
I know.
So then you feel bad.
But still, it's not like he ran around tables and went in the kitchen and did this.
It's like you handed me a cookie or a sandwich.
And now, I don't know.
Have you considered putting a tip jar on stage when you do stand up?
Um, no, I might put one up here, though, on the podcast.
I think that's a good idea.
I think it is a good idea.
The next podcast, you're going to see a tip jar right here.
I think it's a great idea, and it'll probably remain empty.
I don't know.
I don't carry cash.
I give good podcast.
You do, but what if I don't carry cash?
Do I?
You can put your credit card in it.
That's true.
Just stuff it in, leave it.
and then let me decide what I want as a consumer.
Sir slurp a lot.
Hello.
That's a good idea.
What's your name?
Sir slurp a lot.
God.
What is wrong with you today?
I'm sorry.
It's just what happens.
But wait, then there's another level to this tip madness.
The thing where they ask you if you want to ante up.
Like let's say your check is.
like you're at right aid or AIDS if you want to if you're at right AIDS and your your bill is like
2349 right and then they go oh would you like to even up to an even 25 dollars for the children
in Korea with no lips or whatever right whatever the you know the the the gimpy kids of
Brazil yeah no arms yeah and then you feel bad yeah the boy's
scouts with no legs or what are like what is some of these causes you know any it happens at the at
pavilions i believe too i feel like my grocery store does it too yeah they're like don't they're like
don't you want to round up for the children with no heads yeah and i'm like i yeah that's the main
one yeah they don't have any heads wow and then you feel like you hit you feel bad hitting no
because you're like what would i do if i didn't have a head but yeah how about throw them in the
meat grindron instead of roundup, ground up.
Oh, man.
So slurful.
I like it.
No, they do put you under pressure.
And you feel bad saying no because you feel everyone's staring at you.
Is she going to hit no on that button?
Yeah.
And then she's there judging you.
And meanwhile, there's some, like, kid in Korea with no lips who can't eat a cup of corn.
And you feel bad because you just bought, like, shampoo and toothpaste.
and cheesiesies.
You could have helped him buy a pair of lips.
He could have some gimpy kid in Korea with the lips
suck the ice off the side of a 7-Eleven or something.
Hey, everybody.
Who wants to have better sex?
No? Yes?
Yes.
The answer is yes.
You always want to have better sex.
That's what you want it to be better, not worse.
Trust me.
And Adam and Eve is offering 50% off just about any item
plus free shipping.
And more than that, Adam and Eve wants to make your life easy.
They offer discrete shipping as your privacy is a priority,
plus 100% free shipping on your entire order.
Doesn't matter how much you spend or what you buy,
all will be packaged and sent discreetly for free and fast.
Don't wait, Better Sex is just a click away.
That's 50% off, one item, and free shipping.
Bring more pleasure and satisfaction into your bedroom.
Just go to Adam and Eve.com and select any one item.
It could be an adventurous new toy or anything you desire.
Just enter the offer code Harland to check out.
That's Harland, H-A-R-L-A-N-D at Adam and Eve.com.
This is an exclusive offer specific to this podcast.
So be sure to use this code Harland so you get your discount
and 100% free shipping, Code Harland.
Have fun.
Don't throw your back out.
That's exactly right.
Now I'm going to round up for the rest of my life.
Even the term sounds right.
Yeah, we're going to round up.
Let's round up some lipless Korean chillins.
What the
Who says round up?
It's horrible
That's true
But does it make you mad
You seem kind of fine with it all
I think
You're not as bad as I wanted you to be
Well
I do
I guess I feel shame now
Now I feel shame that I always hit no
Oh you do
Have you ever rounded up
And now it sounds like a sexual position
I have rounded up
Similar to reverse cowgirl position, it actually is.
Yeah.
Round and pound.
Round and pound.
I would round up if it said, do you care to round and pound?
I would hit yes on the button.
With the cashier, grab them.
It's round out.
Yes, I do, ma'am.
And I would hit yes.
Oh, a ma'am.
Yeah.
So it's a lesbian roundup.
Yeah, why not?
Wow, those are my favorite.
There's no rules.
Wow.
But what are some of the causes that you've been asked to round up to, like for real?
The real ones are usually, I feel that at pavilions, it's always like a food bank.
You're in a food store, and they're trying to get you with a food bank,
and they've got a whole warehouse full of food.
That's a good point.
I never even thought of that.
That's like going to a leprosy call, and asking someone to give you a fucking finger.
I never even thought about that.
And by the way, there's like, and this is this,
they definitely have, you know, they sell, I don't know,
tuna and whatever that they made.
Yeah, there's expiration dates.
And you're like, oh, this goes bad tomorrow.
Why don't you go give that to the food bank instead of gilting me in the rounding
and pounding with the one I don't know.
Sorry, I just get my microphone.
I'm very passionate.
Oh, that's what we want.
We want to see you juiced and juiced hard.
I want to see you round up.
But here's the other thing in today's world that we live in,
and this might be tough to talk about,
but I live in this world now where I don't know that I trust where the money goes.
Like how do I know that right aides signing a big check to the lipless children of Korea?
Here's some round up money, kids.
Go suck on a cob of corn.
I agree with that.
You don't know where it's going for sure.
Yeah.
Because you see these televangelists and you see all these people and they say,
oh, we're giving money to God and to the orphanage and the next thing you know,
they're on their own leered jet, private jet, and they're Mercedes and they're partying
and Cancun and cocaine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that's the other thing.
I don't know if I trust where half this charity money goes.
It's a good point.
I think it's better to just go home and donate to the food bank from your own.
I think so.
Like they have websites.
Yeah.
You don't have to trust.
I mean, maybe it's legit, but I guess it's just, it's a predicament of the world we live in.
Remember when they used to have, I feel like they don't really have these anymore because they have, they used to have, I feel like at every grocery store, they had like a little coin thing where you could put in change and whatnot for, I don't know, just say, it was supposedly going somewhere.
I don't know to who, right?
Kids with leprosy.
Yeah.
It's pretzel legs or something.
Or Dean of the cashier.
Yeah, yeah.
Nubs McGinty.
But one time, when I was really young and first moved to Los Angeles,
oh, boy, here we go.
I would always put stuff in those.
You know, oh, here's my change.
I'll put it in there.
Well, I got my taxes done.
And this guy, his name was Bob something.
Yeah.
A long last name.
I forget it now.
Bob something.
But he was a shady tax guy that I met.
in like a coffee shop and where he did my taxes in the middle of a coffee shop and he said well don't
you ever donate to those things at checkout and I was like yeah I put my change in there all the time
he's like yeah that's a write-off how much do you think you put in and I was like I don't know
probably thousands of dollars which is not true thousands I don't know I just made some try 86 cents
I know yeah well I thought well if I did it all year it must be a lot of money and no it's not
it was like pennies oh yeah like 365 pennies oh god
Um, and then I got audited by the IRS because this guy was shady.
Bob something.
Yeah, Bob something.
Oh, something.
Bob bullshit.
Yeah.
So he, uh, he got me in trouble because I was dumb and didn't know.
I was like, yeah.
It definitely wasn't thousands that I said.
But whatever, he, the only reason I got audited because he was a shady accountant
that met people in their coffee shops and apparently all of us turned our, um,
I don't like keep hitting the microphone.
I don't know aggressive.
I'm sorry.
Just thinking about it.
I like to see you get power jacked.
But also I was like 26 and they audited me and I worked at a restaurant.
So it was a waste of everyone's time, but I learned a lesson.
Never donate again.
Yeah, never donate.
Have you ever been to one of those places where they have like the little box for the kid with,
you know, they got a cleft lip or something?
Yeah.
One of their eyes is on their left ass cheek or something.
And that it's sort of empty.
But then the one beside it is the thing for dementia.
puppies or cats with the ringworm in their face, you know, and they're like overflowing.
Yeah.
And like people donate to the animals before they donate to their own kind.
Yeah, someone's got to go in there and just make it even, split up the tips.
God.
Yeah.
I think people like animals more than they like people.
I mean, sometimes.
Animals are nicer usually.
Yeah, animals don't try to hurt you.
Hey, everybody.
This is Harland.
Williams, and we're still early in the new year, and I know you've got your goals and
Factor is here to help you achieve each and every one of them.
Fuel up fast with ready-to-eat nutritious meals delivered straight to your door,
leaving you time and energy to tackle everything on your to-do list.
Achieve and maintain your 2023 goals with Factor.
Get America's number one ready-to-eat meal kit and start saving time, eating well, and living
your best year yet.
I'm telling you, man, it is so nice when you have these easy to prepare meals sitting right in your fridge, ready to go, waiting, and not only that, but they're healthy meals, they're balanced meals.
You know, I'm a pizza and cheeseburger guy, and these guys are helping me eat right.
And if you're too busy to cook, with factors skip the trip to the grocery store, skip the chopping, the prepping, the cleaning up.
Factors fresh, never frozen. Meals are ready in just two minutes, so I have to do is heat them up and enjoy.
No matter what your lifestyle is, factor has delicious flavor-packed meals to help you live life to its fullest.
With Cato, calorie smart, vegan and veggie, and protein plus options on the menu each and every week,
prepared by chefs, that's right, chefs.
And approved by dietitians, each meal has all of the ingredients you need to feel satisfied,
day long with 34 chef-prepared, dietitian-approved weekly options. There's always something new
to try. Plus, you can round out your meal and replenish your snack supply with an assortment of 36 plus
sweet smoothies, juices, and more satisfying add-ons. Oh my God. Want to cut back on takeout? Yes,
I do. Get factor instead. Not only is factor cheaper than takeout, but meals are ready
faster than restaurant delivery. They're ready in just two minutes. Eating vegan or veggie is a
snap with Factor because each meal is prepared by chefs and approved by dieticians. You know that
your Factor meal is all of the ingredients you want and nothing you don't. And if you're looking
to mix it up, you can add a protein to select vegan plus veggie meals each week. So that's what I'm
saying, guys. Get Factor and enjoy clean eating without the hassle. That's the key. Simply choose
your meals and enjoy fresh flavor-packed meals delivered to your door ready in just two minutes,
no prep, no mess.
How about that?
And here's what you got to do.
Head to factormeals.com slash harland 50 and use code Harland 50 to get 50% off your first box.
I'm glad I can be part of this.
Harland 50 to get 50% off your first box.
That's code Harland 50 at factor meals.
slash Harland 50. I said it again to get 50% off your first box. Hopefully this gets you
eating right, feeling right, smelling right, looking right. I think you're going to enjoy it.
So give Factor Meals.com a try. And now let's get back down the Harland Highway.
Speaking of hurt, what's the worst thing going on with women these days? Like what's the thing
that's hurting women, whether it's like physical, social, emotional, like, what's the one
thing that women are just like something's like crickling their cracklings or whatever the
thing is?
I mean, I don't know if my crickles crackled.
I guess, I don't know.
What do you think?
Like probably social media is probably the worst, but that hurts everybody.
I think it's the women in sports thing.
It's like it's the men doing women's sports.
And I feel like, you know, it's almost like, I feel like, you know, women did women's live in the 70s.
They burned the bras.
And then before that, they got the right to vote.
And then it was equal pay for equal job.
And then it was like, you know, giving women more high-powered positions in corporations.
women politicians, and meanwhile, all the men were in the background going, okay, okay, check, check.
And then the little men's private boardroom, they're like, okay, it's time for some payback.
How about we never let a woman win a sporting event ever again?
I mean, do you think there's a secret meeting like that?
Well, I just find it weird that women who have worked so hard, struggled so hard to get to where
they want to be and now women are saying yeah men run in a marathon uh go in a bike race go in a
swimming pool beat us beat us beat us like i'm just confused why women would allow that i don't know i feel
like i'm not educated enough on all of it to be honest with you that's weird man that's weird
i mean i feel like in like women sports obviously outside like a different topic but like
professional sports, women is always, you know, they're not paid the same and it's very,
but it's underwatched in comparison, right?
Like things like that.
And that's already like a, you know, a thorn in the side.
But then you're letting men come in and compete and just leaving women in the dust.
Have you watched these track and field things and stuff?
Like men are, men are at the finish line smoking a cigar and eating a corn beef sandwich
while the other women are still coming around the corner.
I'd fucking run faster if I saw a man eating a cornbread
We've sandwiched at the finish line, to be honest with you.
Really?
Yeah.
Is that your type of jam?
I love a Rubin.
Oh, and the smell of that meat stuck in their gum.
I don't necessarily want it.
Yeah, I don't necessarily want to kiss anyone after they eat it.
I just want the sandwich.
Right.
You'll do an extra lap, just run by and grab the sandwich.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just don't understand it.
Like, it's like women have worked so hard.
and you got these women in college and high school
and even in Olympic sport
and professional sports organizations
and they're letting men come in.
Well, you're talking about like transgender athletes.
Well, men who identify as women.
Right.
I don't think they're even transgender, are they?
I think they're just saying, hey, I'm a woman.
I'm going to run in the 400 meter today.
See you later, biotches, you know?
Or are they transgender?
Maybe I'm missing something.
Well, I think it's...
But even then.
I don't know.
If biologically, they're still got all the muscles and stuff of a man, it's, I don't know.
Right.
I think people, it's such a fine line because people want them to live how they identify and be categorized how they identify.
But then there is an unfairness, obviously, in the genetic makeup.
Oh, yeah.
So, yeah.
There's so many women I've seen these girls who have dedicated their adolescents to wanting to get to the Olympics and get sponsorships.
And they're getting smoked by these, these.
men in the sport and they're losing their opportunity so maybe the middle of the road the best
thing to do would be create a sporting events for like people who identify as something else or
transgender right that might make it more I see what you're saying I know it's such a tricky
subject because obviously I'm all four people living the you know how they want to live and who
they want to be right but not at the price of someone else too right you know as far as sports you
mean, yeah. And I'm saying this in support of women. Like, I, I hate seeing that, that someone's
getting left behind for, for something like that. I don't think I've paid enough attention to know
that it's like a big, um, issue, but I, I mean, I know the issue was an issue, but I didn't know
that it was like, pretty weird. Yeah. Yeah. I think they should reverse it too and just, you know,
if you want to be that humiliated, women should be allowed to compete in men's sports and just
get the same result what do you think you could outrun me you have a cornby sandwich in your hand
or do you is the bigger question because if you do then i don't think you can outrun me because i'll
catch you fast yeah i'll catch me real good i'm not an athletic person so i don't think i pay
pay enough attention to what's going on okay no worries um but you are a writer by the way folks
Sarah Colonna, hilarious stand-up comedian, a writer.
You write movies, TV, wrote a couple books.
Wrote a couple of your books.
My first book, which was a New York Times bestseller, number five on the list.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
What's it called?
Life as I Blow It.
And then my second one was called, Has Anyone Seen My Pants?
Wow.
So they're very serious, as you can tell.
Yeah.
Number five?
Yeah.
God, how did that?
make you feel pretty um i was very happy i was yeah yeah it was it was surprising and it was uh it was
nice and are you going to do another book since you've had success with two i think i am because both
of those were more about uh times when i was single and dating and different stories in there
not just about that but sort of the second one was an overall sort of being in my 30s and being single
and liking where i was and then everyone asking me why i wasn't married and whatnot and
me wondering what the fucking problem was because I didn't want to be married.
You didn't?
No, I mean, I am married now, but just because I met someone that I wanted to marry,
but I didn't, wasn't looking for it.
He's a great guy too.
He is.
Yeah, he loves you.
He was very, he's Canadian too, right?
Yeah, yeah.
He's so nice.
Straight out of Regina.
Straight out of what now?
Regina.
Aren't we all?
Yeah.
You know what they, you know what they call it.
Oh, boy, what?
The city that rhymes with fun.
You know that because you're Canadian.
or did you not know that?
No, tell me.
That's what they call it, the city that rhymes with fun, Regina, Saskatchewal.
Okay.
Yeah, it's a bad joke.
You know, there's a city in, this is for real, there's a city or a town in Newfoundland in Canada called Dildo.
Is there really?
And the saying there is you can take the girl out of Dildo, but you can take the Dildo out of the girl.
And in the middle of town, this is true, you can look at it on Google, they have a wooden statue of a sailor and his name's
Captain Dildo, because it's like on the water.
It's like a fisherman's town.
So Captain Dildo is standing there waiting to greet you.
I love Captain Dildo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No. I don't want a baby. I don't want anyone else's baby. I don't want any kind of baby around me. I like babies. It doesn't sound like it from what I just said, but I just have never wanted kids ever. I was very, are you going to get a baby out from under there? Oh, no. Oh, no. Surprise. Thank you.
Looks like it didn't work out. What is it? You're awkward touching it. Well, that's why you don't want one, I guess. It's awkward looking. Yeah.
I mean, why did you, why do you have this?
I don't know.
It's just, I keep things under my desk.
Yeah, this is some serial killer shit.
Is it?
Yeah, keeping a stuffed baby under your desk.
Oh, I thought you meant the baby was going to be a serial killer.
Well.
What would you call that?
If you could give that baby a name, what would it be?
Demon?
No.
Sounds like Damien, but demon?
Artie.
Artie?
It kind of looks like an artie.
I don't know.
I'd probably call him.
Fuck eyes.
He does.
Look at those eyes.
They're very blue.
He sort of looks like maybe he could be mine, to be honest with you.
I don't have blue eyes, but John does.
And, yeah, that's a...
Imagine calling him in for dinner.
Hey, dinner's ready, fuck eyes.
I think you have to go get him.
This is another reason I couldn't have kids.
You have to go get them for things.
They can't go get dinner.
That baby can't walk yet.
It's too young.
Oh, I was wrong.
here it goes how would you create you're a woman how do let's how would you cradle a infant child
versus how i would create like if you were to cradle it in your arms okay
like this isn't that what you do is it yeah yeah okay well hey baby yeah okay
hey baby yeah yeah that's what you think you could maybe call oh sorry hey fuck guys yeah
yeah yeah that's i think that's how you hold a baby yeah yeah well is this also going to
up on only fans next to my here's out here's oh guys let me see how you hold it just slinging over
you're going to the mall fuck guys hang on like a lumber jack we're here oh there it is you know
yeah that's probably how i would carry a baby which is why i don't have one i do get uncomfortable
when someone hands me a baby you know you got really jacked when i went well wait when
I pulled them out, you got little jittery.
Well, for several reasons, but...
Really?
Yeah.
What else?
Because you have a doll.
A baby under your desk.
Yeah.
I know.
It is worried about, you know.
Just concerned about what goes on.
Well, let's switch gears back to cleanse your pal at your mind.
As a writer, I wonder if we should do a little thing where we each, because writers are
kind of poetic and fluffy and flammany.
When we write, you kind of, you kind of learn to fluff things up a little.
Right, true.
Embellish.
Yeah.
What if we each took a crack at like saying something very writery, you know?
Like we each like a flowery kind of like sentence or a paragraph or something and just, you know, as a writer, not like these lay people would do, but as, because I've tried to write a little bit too.
I know. Okay. You are a writer. You didn't try.
Yeah. So you have to start so that I can get prepared.
All right. Here we go.
Under the black velvet canopy of the hot summer night,
the crickets chirped in the distance as the children stood in the corn and cried.
And as the tractor slowly chugged closer, the cancerous black exhaust spewing,
into the midnight sky one of the children Tommy pulled his head off and rounded up I lost it at the end
I round it up you went yeah you went back to just being a normal person like a normal writer
you you said that the kids lost their heads and rounded up okay you try now okay it was this
cold winter's night the coffee was brewing little jimmy wanted
hot chocolate because he'd never had coffee before and his parents said hey little jimmy all we have is
coffee and we can't go out into the storm on the road it's a storm on the road it's icy and then
little jimmy threw a fit so his dad said it's okay little jimmy i'm going to brave the storm
the cold winter
I have to flower it up right
the cold wintery
storm
and I'm going to get you coffee
no hot chocolate
yeah there you go thank you
so Henry
little Jimmy's dad
hops into his large
Ford pickup truck
unbeknownst to him
and had a flat tire
and he took off
down the icy road
and he slammed into
a tree
and he died
And little Jimmy had to live with that.
Wait, I'm still dying.
It was a slow death.
And then he died.
Wait, not yet.
No, he's dead.
We're good.
Yeah.
We should write a book together called Round it up, Pound It Down.
Round it up, pound it down.
Is, if it's not a book, that should be at least the name of,
I don't know, a tour.
Oh, a tour.
Yeah, or a tour and a sex act.
Or all three.
Rounded up and pounded it down.
I mean, it kind of says it all.
Do you have tattoos?
Do you have a tramp stamp and be honest?
No.
I used to have a belly button ring.
No way.
What happened?
I don't know.
Just one day it wasn't there anymore, so I guess it fell out.
Ooh, did you just disappear?
Yeah.
Yeah.
At some point in my 30s, it was just gone.
It's probably like at the bottom.
of a holiday in hot tub or something.
Yeah, it probably is.
Or like a motel six.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Imagine stepping on that.
Someone's got your belly button ring.
I know.
If anyone's found it, I think it was sort of like a pink color with a, you know how they
have little balls on them?
What now?
It had like a little ball on it to keep it, I guess, in.
But that didn't work because it did fall out.
Also, I don't know how belly button ring falls out.
So now I feel.
like something went wrong my buddy i think you know him larry the cable guy yeah he said his fat
girlfriend has an onion ring in her belly button wait you know what there there's a rumor when
i was in high school what about a girl and this is obviously not true but this is what reminds me
of your that the onion ring joke i'm not going to rule it out can i decide if it's true or not
yes thank you she had really very very large boobs and we were only in
like ninth grade and someone said they hooked up with her and that a spider came out from
underneath one of her boobs oh i don't that didn't happen and she had to deal with that rumor in
high school i don't there's no way a spider came out from under a boob yeah you know what i'm going
agree with you on that because think of it a boob is like gets a lot of meat yeah it's a lot of weight
yeah a spider is a delicate little acronoid or whatever they're called
Acry. Acne.
Arachnoid.
There we go.
So if you put like an arachnid or a spider under your big,
if you said she had big melons, giant milk jugs.
Yeah.
You put that down.
That would like be rolling a boulder over on a baby on good old fuck eyes.
Right.
That would be like, that would be like, you know, just fuck.
Putting him under a tire.
That'd be like fuck guys is like in the park playing in a giant bowl.
they're like 30 feet high rolls down and just you know you know like like old fuck guys could
smell his own his own whatever that area oh fuck guys what a pain this kid is
well now he looks like a little superhero like he's flying so if a spider was under a
boom like that would
I would just do what it did to old
fuck guys it would just yeah
like squished the shit out of them
yeah so I thank you for
I think that she probably appreciates that
you're also saying that rumor
was false it's cool that we were
able to like deduce everything
tear it apart made it scientific
really reshape it figure out the laws of physics
and realize that a spider
could not live under those conditions
although I have seen spiders under
rocks but somehow they've found a little air vacuum or a crack or something like that let's put
fuck guys back he's been through some trauma is that a rough day already yeah um but rumors are mean
like that though what has anyone ever said something really mean to you like what's the what's
do you remember like even in high school what's the meanest thing a kid or an adult or an
executive or someone is there is there something that ever stands out in your mind that was like
the meanest freaking thing someone's ever said i mean i remember in high school people
always said i had a big nose which wasn't but i don't know it didn't really i mean i kind of do
so it's fine whatever i got that too with my ears my ears like i kind of grew into my ears but
right up until i was about like 35 my ears stuck out they called me like alfredie newman and mr spock
oh that's not nice yeah i mean did you did you ever try to tape them back you know what's funny when i was
little kid. So when I was like probably eight, nine years old, the kids at school, I'd come home
crying because, you know, they made fun of them. My parents were like, one day they got all serious.
We met in the living room and they said, Harland. Now there's this procedure where we can take
you to the hospital and the doctors can, it's called pinning your ears back and they can flatten
them back. And I don't know what it was, but even at that little age, I just, in my head, I went,
You know what?
God made me with these big ears.
For some reason, I don't know what it is yet.
Maybe there isn't a reason,
but for some reason he made me like this
and I'm not going to touch it.
Maybe we're going to be an ear model and you didn't know it.
That's a possibility.
Are there ear models?
I don't know.
There's hand models and feet models.
It's probably an ear model.
Oh, God.
Like an ear double?
I didn't know.
That might have been my calling.
I don't think you have big ears, though.
Well, now I've grown into them.
But even, even like, if you look at some of my old stand-up comedy specials
or even in some of my older movie roles, they're still sticking out a little, you know?
I could, but if you had gotten them pinned back and then you grew into them,
and then everyone thought you had weird little ears.
Yeah.
That would have been a bummer.
But yeah, what if, what if they pinned them and then you ever see a tree where a fence is
and the tree grows around the fence?
Yes.
So it looks like the trees, like the fence went right into the tree.
That maybe, what if my head grew around my ears and I looked like dementoid from planet fucking.
It wouldn't have looked right.
You made the right choice to leave him alone.
Yeah.
I didn't get a nose job.
You didn't get your ears done.
You know, your nose is fine.
I think my face probably grew a little bit too.
But I think it's a little, it's got like a bump.
It's fine.
Yeah, I don't care.
Yeah.
It's fine.
I don't really think about it.
Speaking just real quick of stand-up specials.
Yes.
Oh, my God.
Here we go.
I mean, I've told you this before, but the listeners get to know that because you
hosted my first, at the time, first ever time I did Comedy Central.
You were my host.
That's right.
Premium blend.
Premium blend.
Yeah.
Yeah, we didn't even know each other then.
No.
Was that your very first TV like appearance?
Yeah.
You know what's so funny?
There were so many, you got Dean Edwards, who went on to do Saturday Night Live,
Bobby Lee, you.
there was a bunch of you everyone did it like pinion blend was sort of the it was weird for me because
I was hosting it and most you guys were doing it because you were new on the scene like like not
on the scene you'd been doing comedy before but you hadn't done anything like a TV thing you
this was your chance to get known and so I was there and I'd already been immersed in it for 20 years
and so I didn't know any of you guys I was like oh that guy's good that girl's good that guy's not so
get like but I didn't know one person on the show and right and I hosted it I think we went through
like 60 comics like it was over three days and I came out and I had to do a little stick in
between and introduce everyone what was it like for you that experience it was fun yeah um yeah it was
fun I mean I don't even I don't even know if you can I feel like I could probably find it but
it would be funny just to see but I don't because I don't even really remember what I did
I remember I wore a bad outfit I had terrible hair really yeah I had
really bad hair.
Oh, what was it doing?
Well, because I have very curly hair and it's long, which is not, nobody ever told me
that I should do that.
So I used to cut it short and then it would grow upwards, like towards the, like a mushroom
kind, like towards the sun, like a plant.
Like it was, yeah.
So it was short.
Like fungus.
Yeah, it was short here and then sort of going up.
Oh, weird.
Yeah.
Like a clown.
Like a little bit of a clown.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
When I was in college, I cut it really short.
and my friend said that I looked like a ma'am from Webster.
Do you remember?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and I was only like 20.
And so it wasn't a good look for me.
I looked like I was about 57.
At least they didn't say you looked like Webster.
That's true.
I would have been really wrong.
Wow.
Wasn't he a little black boy?
Yeah, a little tiny Webster.
It would have been weird if people thought I looked like Webster.
Your hair grew so crazy.
You were a white person and you looked like a little black boy at the end of your hair day.
That's not a good.
hair day. When you jump races, that's not good hair. And just take 30 years off of your life.
Yeah. It turned into a little boy. He was a weird looking little guy, wasn't he? He looked like a little doll or something, I remember. I feel like he was really cute.
Yeah, cute, but like a little like apple dumpling type of kid. Right. Right. Yes. Yeah. I don't, I remember the kid from a different stroke, Gary Coleman.
Yeah. He was like a cute little apple dumpling kid. Yeah, little face, little cheeks. He was no fuck I.
but he was no fuck eyes he was he was cute as hell wonder if those two ever got together and just
slapped it out like punched the shit out of each other to see who was going to be king of the
queue probably webster and what was who was the other kid gary coleman emmanuel lewis was webster right oh yeah
imagine you're just rolling down the street one day past a park and you see those two just drop
kicking each other in the face and just pile driving each other
I'm the cutest, you little bastard.
I would like to see, for some reason, I think I would like to see that.
I'd like to see that.
UFC, Webster and, uh, what's his face?
Gary Coleman.
Yeah, I want them to get along in real life, but I also wouldn't mind.
I don't know.
So there's probably, probably a lot of people would be fun to watch fight for no reason.
I'd like to watch them like eat candy floss together and giggle.
He, and then in the next breath, punched the shit out of each other.
God, what kind of universe do we live in?
An odd one.
God.
Ariaki sauce.
I wanted to ask you this,
because we comedians have quirky senses of humor, right?
Yes.
Is there anything in your life that physical comedy that, like speaking of driving by
and seeing those two fighting,
is there a moment in your life where you saw something physical,
like somebody tripping or.
falling off of something or a physical moment where you just lost it like you laughed out of control
I feel like I always I'm for some reason if someone falls yeah it's especially if I find out
they're okay afterwards and I do have an initial reaction to laughing at people falling which is
awful especially if they you know if they get hurt and they're like oh shit I didn't mean to laugh
but then you're already laughing and then you can't stop yeah it's the worst but I I think
Remember Jack Tripper?
I mean, yeah, John Ritter.
But for some reason that his physical comedy, like Pratt Falls, just being like over the top, always made me laugh.
Like that'll make me laugh every time.
But did you ever see someone in real life like at a mall or out of the school yard or in your neighborhood or somewhere like wipe out and you just died?
Yeah, I saw a girl.
Oh, here we go.
We were on, I was on vacation with John with my husband.
And it was one of those
I tried actually to get this.
Have you ever followed that Instagram account
Influencers in the Wild where they
It's basically
Uh, any, the people submit videos of people who are thinking they're being
influencers doing, humiliating shit in public.
Like they're trying to get like a, I don't know, a dance or stick their eye
or twerk or whatever.
Yeah.
And then, so we saw these girls on this.
It was like, we were in Mexico and they were, they were,
they were out on a on a on a like a boardwalk that had it was closed off it had roped off it had been
like wiped out by a hurricane there was only a little bit of it left they were not supposed to be on it
people kept telling them to get off of it and then we were watching it these two girls were just
getting photos because they love the background even though this was like a condemned area
basically and then one of them went out too far and she hit one of the boards that like and broke and
she fell right in the water and i fucking laugh for three
days how far was the draw it wasn't very far so it was even funnier because basically she fell on her
ass in like kind of shallow water and her feet went up over her head and the guy that had been like
telling them to get off of that just basically stood there and was like yeah that's that's what
i told you it was going to happen and he you could tell he was trying not to laugh but i laugh stop laughing
no yeah especially when someone's being that stupid we were we were driving through we went on a family
road trip when I was a kid and I have four sisters and three of us were stuffed in the back
seat and it was me on one side one of my littlest sister on the other of my my second
littlest sister like in the middle and this was like way back before all cars had air conditioning
you know this was like in the 70s yeah so all the windows were down it's the middle of summer
and we're just speeding down this back like farm
road like you know it's out in the country and there's like crops on either side wildflowers and
all the windows open and i've ever seen the giant giant honeybees like the fat ones yeah they're just
like they're really round and big so we're probably going about 65 miles an hour and because all the
windows were open like my sister was sitting in the middle and one of these bees got sucked into the
car and just went bang and just splattered right in the middle of her forehead and it stung her
oh and it bounced up but just the noise it was like just sounded like this splat noise and just
it was like so shocking so it died right on impact it died and stunger yeah that's a that's a double
f you yeah oh that's right between the fuck eyes that's like remember when um fabio got hitting the forehead
with a goose oh yeah yeah
Yeah, he was not, why was that so funny, but it was.
Oh, that would be hilarious.
Yeah, I mean, probably wasn't funny to, I guess, the goose.
Was it a goose?
I feel like.
No, I think it was a seagull.
Right.
Yeah, because a seagull or a duck or something.
A goose is very big.
Yeah.
So I don't think it could have.
The goose would have probably, yeah, taken his head off.
Yeah.
But what are the odds?
Like some kind of bird.
Yeah.
Not something is.
Like a guy that good looking and he gets hit in the face with a, with waterfowl.
What a loser.
That's one of those humiliating moments
It's hard to come back from
The irony is if he had only put a nice little sheen
I can't believe it's not butter on his face before
It would have like slid right off
It would have slid right off
Yeah I don't I think
I mean I always do that before I go on a roller coaster
I can't believe it's not bother
Is that Fabio or Schwarzenegger?
I don't know
I think it could be
Yeah either one
It felt like a combo
Yeah
speaking of foreigners what where was he from was he like dutch or something or austrian oh austrian sounds
right so let's go with that well speaking of that we have a little thing we do with all our guests you
ready don't pull out another baby no it's called words from a wooden shoe okay it's a Dutch
clog and what we do is we get our guests to reach inside there's a random word
in here and see if the word inspires a story or a memory based on the word.
But don't look.
Reach in.
You can't see what you're picking, Sarah Colonna.
It's like reading Braille all over again.
Okay.
All right.
Got it.
What do you got?
Grandpa.
Oh.
Any grandpa stories?
Both of mine are dead.
All right.
This was the Harlan.
Are there really?
Do you have any good fond memories?
I do actually.
So my grandpa on my dad's side.
Yeah.
Was he liked to play the harmonica.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
And he had one trick that he did, which was that he could talk like Donald Duck.
And he did it really well.
He did like a really good Donald Duck.
Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Grandpa is that you?
Oh, yes, you did.
that's really good
that's really good
that's really good
did I know that you could do that
no but thanks grandpa
thanks grandpa I don't I can't do
I'm fascinated by anyone
could do any kind of impress that anything
I can't do it
so what was the wait he would do Donald Duck
he would just talk like Donald Duck
while playing the harmonica
no no they're two separate talents
but he did play the harmonica
and that's it.
He's dead.
And then my other question.
I'm so sad.
Boy,
oh, boy.
I told you what I like to do is bring things down sometimes.
Yeah, I tell depressing stories.
See what it did, though?
It made you do that, and that was really good.
But he played the harmonica.
I don't know. That's a pretty good talent, right? It's a tough thing.
Did he play it in a band or was it? Did he just do it like on the street corner?
Did he do it for the kids? He would just do it. He would just like, he would just play.
Yeah, he did it in like a, with some friends, I think.
And when in his later years like at the, you know, he was in sort of like one of those, I don't know, Sun Valley, one of those places where it's not, you're not in a home, but you're in a community.
Oh, Sun Valley is not a place. It's like a retirement home.
It might be both. It might be a place where.
where there's like a retirement home area.
But what is it about the experience of the harmonica that you held on to it?
It popped into your mind.
Was it as a comforting thing?
Is it a...
Yeah, I just remember it was how he would entertain us.
And he liked to show off and do his harmonica.
And he was also a very heavy smoker, so I was always fascinated that he was able to do both.
Have the breath.
Yeah.
What do you play one or two notes and then pass out?
Just do a little bit of both.
like,
Can you do Donald Duck as a smoker?
I am doing.
I'm doing.
Oh,
my fuck.
Holy shit.
You got to.
Thank you,
I said these have no filters on them.
Oh.
Good.
I thought they said he had no fingers on them, which I thought you were talking about.
He doesn't have any fingers.
Oh, yeah.
How is he, it's smoking like that?
Oh, you smoke him with a wing.
Yeah.
Or like a webbed foot.
It wouldn't be easy.
Yeah.
Why does he slurper?
What's he smoking?
Lillipads?
Probably.
Well, before we go, will you please, Sarah does.
That was that.
But I just ruined it with talking about my dad, grandpa, and now it's time to find off.
Yeah.
No, that's fair.
The final thing is always the, we end the show with the wooden clog, the words from a wooden shoe.
I know, and I should have been more prepared for a better story.
No, that's a great story.
It doesn't mean, it can be big, small, whatever.
Okay.
How many people have a grandfather that plays harmonica and does Donald Duck?
That's true.
Hello?
Probably more than we realize.
Really?
No.
Very special.
Just one or the other, probably, but not both.
What about on your mother's side?
Did your grandfather on your mother's side do like Mickey Mouse or anything like that?
And then when they got together and a family get together, how are you?
Oh, fuck you too.
No, but I wish.
Okay.
Yeah, my grandpa and my mom's side didn't do any impression.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Sad.
I know.
Well.
You had one talented granddaddy.
But before we go tell everyone where they can.
find you, see you, do your stand-up, get your books, and all that stuff.
Please, let a rip.
It's all on Sarah Colonna, C-O-L-N-N-A dot com with my tour schedule, links to the books.
Do you have social media we can plug that people can find you?
Yeah, Instagram, it's Sarah Colona one, the number one at the end, because some other
other bitch got there first, some other Sarah Colonna.
Yeah.
And Facebook, same thing, well, just Sarah Colona.
So, yeah, and then that's where you can keep up with everything.
Yeah, good.
Yeah, to get Sarah's books.
Go see her to stand up.
And thanks for coming, man.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I don't want to take fuck eyes with me if that's what you're going to ask.
Well, why don't we give him one last look and see if, I mean, you're sure you don't want to.
He actually kind of looks like he could be my husband and I's baby.
So that's another reason.
Let's do the right thing.
All right.
Come on, fuck eyes.
We're going home.
There you go.
Let's hit the theme music.
she's going home with a little fuck eyes
ladies and gentlemen
Sarah Colonna check her out
Sarah Colona.com
Sarah Colona 1
get her bucks
and until next time
chicken chau-mayne baby
I don't think you burp a baby
oh yeah you have to burp it on the
oh my god's grabbing my hair
holy god
fuck him it's real
there he is
he looks more like he belongs with you
yeah he seems happy here
oh fuck guys