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Give us a good review on iTunes. Let's get right to it. One of my great comedy friends, Jimmy Pardo. This is the David Feldman Radio Network. Help me with my intro, Jimmy Pardo. Okay. I'm not going to help you with that. This is your show. I'm the guest, and I'm going to sit quietly until I'm introduced. Okay. How much time do I have with you, by the way? Let's say 20 minutes, but if I behave 30. Seven. Okay. Are we rolling, Alex? Okay. I don't care. We're just going to keep this in the show because anything we have with you is always gold. Let me try this. Whatever you want to do. Yes. I host a show called Race to Escape on Science Channel. There. We got through it. Now go ahead. Okay. Jimmy Pardo is a stand-up comedian, actor. He's host of the nine-year-old podcast, Never Not Funny. He's a founding father. He's like the Thomas Jefferson of podcasts, and not just because he doesn't think blacks or women should be allowed to vote. I did that last time you were on the show, remember? I do it. I left again. But again, I'm staying quiet until I'm introduced. I'm not going to jump in. Okay. We're just working on your intro. Okay. I'm a professional. Yes. You have performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. You have performed on Conan. Conan O'Brien. I've been a performer, and I've not been stand-up on Conan. I've been a guest on Conan, and I've also done various remotes and that sort of thing. And you're loved. You did warm up. Okay. You're a warm-up act as well. Not anymore. I left that in February. Right. But you know how to warm up an audience. Well, I knew how to do Conan's audience. I don't know if I could do... In fact, I know I couldn't do a sitcom or something like that. That is not my skill set, as we so love to use that phrase. We love to use it here in Hollywood. Well, I disagree. I know we're just writing our introduction for you before this starts, but I think you could warm up a sitcom. I know you can, because you're... Go ahead. It'd be awful. All right. Wait, now I'm confused. We're writing my intro. Is this part of the program? I don't... Yeah, it's sort of. I mean, we're kind of disorganized here. So I'm going to say... I'm going to say you're a warm-up for studio audiences of variety shows, but David Feldman thinks you could also warm up sitcoms, although... I said one show! Yeah. In the intro, I'm going to say Jimmy Pardo can warm up a variety audience. He doesn't think he can warm up a sitcom audience, but David Feldman thinks he can. Or is that... Is that clunky? Is that clunky? Do I think it's wordy? I think it's a little wordy. And you... He was an Emmy Award-winning writer. He didn't know that, but, you know, this is your program, and I'm not going to step on any toes. Okay. So... And you're currently hosting the game show Race to Escape, which you can find on the Science Channel. In September of 2013, I think most of my listeners know this already, but if they don't, go out and buy it. He released a comedy album entitled, Sprezzatura. Please welcome to the show the always hilarious Jimmy Pardo. Hey, Jimmy, thank you for doing this. Seriously. Oh, thank you, David. Thank you for what I'm going to describe as the most smooth intro I've ever been given. And it's that type of tightness that has got you to... All right, I'm done. Yeah. We're disorganized here. You're, by the way, you're a great stand-up comic and Sprezzatura is hysterical. I've heard it on Sirius XM driving to a gig and I almost pulled over to the side of the road not to laugh, my friend, but to make an illegal U-turn and go home because I said, what's the point of doing stand-up comedy when you have perfected it? You... Well, first of all, thank you for that ridiculous story, me. I only felt that way. I was watching Dana Gould at the improvisation one night, and you know Dana as well as I do. She's brilliant. Yes. And he was having a set that was... The audience was not enjoying it as much as I was. That's the best way to play this. And yet I was watching it and I came home to my wife, but it's the only time I thought this... And I've worked with you. I've worked with other greats. I've worked for the last 20-something years. I've worked with the great people. A lot of clunkers, but some greats. But this Dana Gould set that I watched... I came home to my wife and I said, I don't even know why any of us bother. He does it better than any of us. And it's the only time I ever felt like, I should get out of this business. This guy knows how to do it. And how important... So for you to say that about me is more accurate than my long-winded story. How important is bombing? Oh, I think when you're starting it's really important. You gotta... You don't you think, David? Don't you think you gotta get your ass whacked a couple of times? Yeah, but that has nothing to do... That's maintaining an erection. That's a completely different... I understand that, right? You're watching Dana Gould bombing, bombing. Right? The audience isn't getting him. And he's state-of-the-art. Would you have appreciated him as much had he been killing? I think so. I think on that night I would have, because I think the jokes... You know, what he was doing was solid. He wasn't playing in the back of the room. You know, like you or I could be very guilty of if it's not going our way. I have to play to the back of the room because there's nobody in the audience. I can't sell tickets. I'm always playing in the barton. But I would have laughed just as hard at Dana that night, either way, because the stuff was just so solid and just perfect. And I've seen him since then not do that. And I've rethought my thoughts on him and comedy. This is very important to me, so I want to pursue this if you don't mind. Okay, so listeners to my show know that I'm back in New York and I'm writing a new act. And yeah, I'm writing my new act and Alex Brazel, my manager, and he produces this show, is reminding me to stand my ground. That you don't have to kill, you have to commit. You have to swim in your material. If you think it's funny, the audience, not be damned, but commit to your act. And so because I'm so used to, I know people who've seen me do stand up are going to make the jerk off motion here, but I'm used to killing because I have like an hour of solid material, you know, and and I'm used to big laughs. But that's not what it's about, right. And so the question that I'm posing when you bring up Dana Gould not doing well, do you have more respect for a comedian who isn't doing well, but he's standing his ground and committing to what he thinks is funny? Is that why I do? So and that's who you are, Jimmy Pardo. Explain it. Explain it. It's interesting. I appreciate you saying that because I wasn't. In fact, I said many times that, you know, when I was an open micro, I was a guy who was very experimental, took a lot of risks and did stand my ground to use your words. And then when I started getting paid, when they said, okay, we're going to start booking you into the paid slots and you're going to travel the country, I then did not stand my ground. I was doing anything to make the audience laugh as opposed to what I thought was funny. Right. And then as I like to say, I worked very hard to be an average white guy talking. And eventually I got out of it and I found my voice again. I went back to doing what I was doing. And then I, you know, obviously honed that for the past 20 several years. But this is really important to me. This is really important to me. And Alex, I know this is important to you. So you started making a bit of a living being an average white guy talking. Yes. So what happened? Doing an impression of like, you know, not that I was doing their style of comedy, but I kind of was doing an impression of Richard Lewis, Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, and Robert Klein. Like if the four of them became one person, it was what I was doing, because I was still trying to find myself. All right. How many years into how many years in four years and five years and six years in? Let's see. I started 80. You know what, about three years in like, you know, for the first three years, everybody would tell me, David, you know, you're the funniest guy off stage. Oh, geez, are you fun to hang out with? You're the funniest guy I've ever worked with. You know, when you find your voice on stage, and then I had, I was going, oh, I'm making money. So I found my voice. What are you talking about? Right, right. And then one day it just kind of clicked. It was actually, it was the New Year's week from 92 into 93. I was working in Indianapolis, Indiana. And I don't know why it clicked that week, but it just did. And like literally halfway through the week, I threw my act away and just started improvising on stage to try to find a new act and to try to find my voice again. And I went through, I went through more bombs and kills for about a year and a half. So this is, and I'm not going to embarrass you and I'm not going to compare you to Lenny Bruce or George Carlin or Richard Pryor. But those are, you know, they're the gold standard. And they all were, except for Richard Pryor, were at one time were white men talking what you were before that New Year's Eve show. And then they all had this breakthrough and they said, I'm going to change my act. What is the, what was the urge to change your act? In other words, you were making money. Why did you have to, why were you messing with the Coke formula? Why was, why did you need new Coke? Well, first of all, new Coke is a, was a complete disaster. So let's not use that as the example. Well, that's what I'm saying. I like to think of it was Crystal Pepsi. You know what, Dave, I, again, I think I just heard it enough that like, when you, when you are doing what you're doing off stage, on stage, it's going to be great. And I, again, for whatever reason that week, it finally clicked and I just went up and, but why did you want to do, why? Okay. So why did you want? I know, I hear what you're saying. Why did I want, you know, because I wanted to be funny. I wanted to be, but you were making money. I kind of, I guess it got, I kind of finally dawned on me that I wasn't doing what, what I believed it. I wasn't being true to myself comedically. Again, I think I was doing more of an impression of a comedian than being a comedian. So you were being true to the audience, being true to the club owners, being true to your parents, anybody who has middle-class values, but you wanted something more. I did. And that's, and what you just said also speaks to it was like, because I had quit my day job, you know, and I was, you know, traveling the country as a comedian, making, you know, whatever little money we were making back in those days, my, my goal was to get booked back at the club. More than, more than being original and being creative, I was more concerned at that time about, I hope they like me. I hope they rebook me. Please say you're going to rebook me as opposed to being, you know, a guy taking chances and being funny the way that I was as an open micro. It didn't matter. You just weren't worried about getting funny and being a better comedian. You know what I mean? Why though? Why did you want to be a better comedian and not make money? I mean, we, you know, we have to eat. I, you know, I, you know, I just, I guess I don't really remember exactly why. I guess it, I guess it was just to get back to the basics. You know, you know, what I was doing. Is it fair to say, because we were all part of a crew, you know, Bruce Smith, Omnipop, Bruce, you know, Bruce Smith in the 90s, I think had the best comics around. There's no way that that roster was unbelievable. And I'll tell you something. I'll tell you about Bruce Smith, who I don't talk to it. I can't, there's things about him. Are you still with Bruce Smith? I still am. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he has impeccable taste. I can't work with him because he suffers from lageria. But his taste is, you know what lageria is? I don't. And so I, because he's a good friend and my, and my representation, I'm ignoring it and, and just listening to the end of the sentence. Okay. Lageria's diary of the mouth. It's an actual Greek term. He talks too much, but he is a has wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, good, good. Can't you say that about you or me? No. Right. I defend Bruce Smith. He's a good friend. I do too. I, I'm, I'm about, now I'm about to praise him. Okay. Oh, okay. Go into the praising part and then cut out all the negativity, except for the parts where I say he's great. Well, I, we can't do that. I can't. My journalistic standards, Jimmy Pardo to me. I know that from that intro. Okay. So here's, here's what happened. Gary Belkin, one of the world-class comedy writers. He's no longer with us. He wrote on your show of shows. He was my mentor. Gary Belkin in comedy writing, but, you know, he was like my father's age, just a world-class comedy writer. And he said to me, when I moved down to Los Angeles from San Francisco, he said, find out who Andy Kindler's agent is and get on your hands and knees and beg him to be your agent. Is that true? I swear to God. I swear to God. I just remembered this. So, you know, I was making surgical strikes into Los Angeles from San Francisco when I was at the improv and Bud Friedman and Russ Mark were supporting me and Mark Lano. And I asked Andy, who's your agent? And you know who got me in with Bruce Smith? You. It sounds like Andy Kindler. You. Oh, I did. That's right. How did it happen from Vegas? With Judy Gold, right? That's right. We worked in Vegas and that's right. Yes. Of course. You're welcome. You're welcome. Thank you. That is true. You hooked me up. Andy, I asked Andy who his agent was. And then in Vegas, we were working with Judy Gold and I asked you about Bruce Smith and you said, oh, no, I'll get you in with him. And you got me. I just remembered this, just talking to you right now. And I returned the favor by telling you to wear a tux. Because at that time you screwed me. Yeah, we've told that story a million times. But at that time, you actually respected me as a stand-up. This was before I became a horrific, you know, I became a comedy writer and neglected my stand-up, which I'm no longer doing. And Bruce Smith, Bruce Smith, Greg Proups, give the, I mean, so here's the thing. Bruce Smith, if he thinks you're funny, Maria Bamford and he can, he will tear up a room with executives and he'll go down fighting for you, right? He will. And you're exactly, you know, it was me, you, Kinler, Maria, Todd Glass, trying to think of what else was with him at the time. Bill Dwyer, Doug Benson, just, and maybe all these people are still with them. It's one of those things where, you know, as you know, when you, you know, when you don't have to do those showcase shows anymore, you don't really see everybody that's on the roster. It was alternative. Maybe they're all still with Bruce. Yeah, it was alternative comedy. Who's the guy, he's not a kid anymore, from the Dennis Larry, what's his name? Adam Ferrara? Yeah. He was with them. Yeah. And it was great comic. Yeah. And Tom and Genio and T.J. Mark Walter. I mean, whenever T.J. called, I was happy. Whenever T.J. called me with the booking, I knew, anyway, that's neither here nor there. I don't even know why we brought, I brought that. Oh, any. You're bombing. You're, you're, you're writing this new, I'm just, I'm guessing this is where they're going. You're, you're writing this new act and you're going out and bombing a lot and you're trying to spin it that bombing is important to the craft. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, sorry. What? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Right? In other words, the audience, you have to, so anyway, Eddie Pepitone is an example of somebody, and then I have listener questions we have to get to. Eddie Pepitone is somebody who very late in life actually brought who he really is to the stage. I remember, and very recently, by the way, and then I want you to comment on Eddie Pepitone, then I want to get to listener questions. Would you say that you knew Eddie Pepitone when he was funnier offstage than he was onstage? Yes, although I don't think it's as drastic of a change as maybe you do. I remember him being funny offstage and also being funny onstage, but he is very, very, very much himself on stage now, and again, maybe doing less of an impression of a comedian. I remember working Stamie's Room in Beverly Hills six years ago, and knowing Eddie just from the Sarah Silverman show as an actor, and he was on stage and offstage, we were hanging out, and offstage, I was like on the floor laughing, and I thought this guy is a genius. And then I watched him onstage, and maybe I was just being prejudiced, but I thought, you know, I just don't want to live next door to Asians, Puerto Ricans, Catholics, non-Jews. Is that prejudiced? No, hang on, that's a different... Calculate. Oh, sorry. No, I mean, maybe I was prejudging him, but I thought he's never going to bring what he just did to me offstage to the stage. And then we started using him on the podcast as an actor, as an actor. You know, meanwhile, he's doing stand-up running around LA, which I don't really think is a great hunting ground for young comics. I don't, you come to out, right? It's changed, but somehow through the alternative scene, he defied all odds and became a world-class stand-up comic in the late, in his late 40s, and brought who he is to the stage. I'm talking too much, I apologize. They called, there's a term for that. Bruce Smith is... Is it logarithm? No, it's Bruce Smith disease. Okay. No, no, no. I agree with you. And Bruce Smith has been very great to you, and I respect Bruce Smith. I really do. And he was great to me, and he's a great agent. He really is. He's no manager. He's not my manager. He went from being an agent to management, and very grateful. Yeah. And as well you should be. And, you know, you're married to Danielle? I have my beautiful wife, Danielle Canig, who is a comedy writer, and we have an eight-year-old son named Oliver, and the home life is great. Right. And that's good for you. I would not want Oliver as my son. So I've told you that many times. The same way I would not... Yeah, Bruce Smith, not right for me. I remember Saint Matthews. We were doing some charity work together, and I met Oliver, and I said, not my kind of son. But if it works for you, keep him. It does work for me, and I appreciate you stepping out. I appreciate you refusing yourself for those possibilities. Howard Greenberg, who listens to us in New Jersey, we asked our listeners, we said on Twitter, Facebook, and on the David Feldman Show website, to Twitter, Facebook, or direct message me at the David Feldman Show. Questions for Don Pardo? Nope. Not for Don. Who is this? Oh boy. Did this just take a weird turn? Do you think I was a dead man? We asked listeners to ask you questions. Howard Greenberg from New Jersey wrote this in to our website. He says, Jimmy, does hosting a reality show on television work any of the same muscles as hosting a podcast? What a good question from Howard Greenberg. Well, Howard Greenberg, first of all, thank you for writing in Howard. Secondly, this particular show is... We're talking Race to Escape, right? Race to Escape, yeah. I guess, you know, I don't really know if this particular show does use the same muscle as hosting a podcast because it's mostly me delivering information straight into the camera as opposed to me interacting in a conversational format, which we kind of do at the end of the show, but it's very, very brief. So, I'm going to say, obviously, all those muscles work together, but I think it might be a different muscle in this case. Okay, and very quickly, when is Race to Escape on? Tell us. You know, when it bounces around on reruns, you know, our run is over, but they, you know, they still are rerunning it like crazy. So, you know, it catches catch-can, check your local listings as they say. Okay, and that's on the Science Channel? That's on Science Channel. Race to Escape is a show that I'm amazingly proud of. If I haven't explained it to your listeners before, I will do so very quickly. It's a, these escape rooms are crazy fat at the moment, and this guy named Riaz Patel created a game show, a TV version of it, where there's two identically prepared rooms with each that have a team of three. So, there's three people in each of these rooms, and they are not only trying to escape their room by solving challenges and riddles and questions and that sort of thing. They have to do it before they have their team, but they also have to do it before time runs out. So, it's really got to get like a social experiment. It's a really neat, neat show that I'm proud to be a part of. What do you mean social experiment? You know, you can just see how people really react. It's not, you know, you see people for their true colors, and you'll see if they, if they're able to work together. Are they really trapped? Are they really trapped? Oh yeah, they're really trapped. Each show begins with them tied up in some way, and they have to figure out a way to work as a team and get untied, and then start solving the clues from there. They solve five clues. They get out of the room. Do you get claustrophobic? Does anybody get really, does anybody freak out? You don't so far know. You know, people have gotten, you know, is very sweaty and hot and worked up. But as far as claustrophobia, no, I don't, probably that's, we've encountered that yet. Mostly just some people that are, some are great at the game, and others are absolutely horrific. And then, you know, you see how they are zero help to the other team. It's really neat to see. Well, this is the name. I don't know if this is a real name, but it comes into I might listeners. Suck it all. Oh, yeah, that could be Middle Eastern. No. Suck it all. I don't know where he listens to us. Probably, as you say, the Middle East wrote into my website asking you who makes you laugh the hardest right now? Who makes me laugh the hardest right now? Boy, that's a great question. You know, please, is that a great quote? Well, right now, it's David Falvin. I'm doing his company. Oh, thank you. And by the way, I'm stuck at home. You know, I watch Brian Regan special the other night at my company. Oh, no. Let's move on. No, I mean, it's like, why, that's like, you know, he nobody should do. If you watch him, you just don't forget it. Why do it? I'll tell you, he had three bits on this thing that it's the hardest I've laughed at the watching bit. Is it the dance that for me, it was the him going to the party and thinking that guy's name is Winston. Okay, let's move on. I can't even talk. Yeah. Yeah, that's the hardest I've laughed at stand up. But of course, that's the right, you know, Pat Noswald and Paula Tompkins and Andy Kindler and and, you know, Todd Glass makes me laugh like an idiot. Maria Bamford, you mentioned Aaron Foley. I mean, there's just so many, you know, I'm lucky to that my peer group is just full of great, funny, amazing people. Who is Aaron Foley? Aaron Foley is a very funny female comedian. And I only say female in this case because Aaron can be a boy or a girl's name. And, and if you've been, you know, you're funny, Crystal, Crystal Alonzo is really funny. I think there's a lot of great comedy out there right now. So to say who makes me laugh the most would be unfair to everybody else that I don't mention. Right. Vicki Cooperman wrote and when did you find your voice on stage? We've already covered that. We covered that. Look at her. Yeah. Hannah Sherrill writes in what is the worst joke you've ever written? Oh, Christ. And I don't, I don't know. I can't think of it, but I, I'm sure, you know, I wouldn't have the worst joke. I would have the, you know, the worst joke book there'd be, there'd be hundreds of horrible. What's the worst thing you've ever said on stage other than, Hey, Bruce, David Feldman should be one of your clients. Do you want to know what the word, this is, can I say it's, this is the worst thing. And I'm not proud of it. This is the worst thing ever said on stage. And I was very young comedian who did, who probably didn't even understand the life very much where I thought that like this was going to get a laugh. And it actually, believe it or not, it did because the person was so annoying. But this is, this is the worst thing I've said on stage. There was an audience member. This was in Merrillville, Indiana. And I was the headlining act and where you had your breakthrough, right? Indiana. This is where you became a great comic. Uh, that was a, that was in Indianapolis. This is in Merrillville, where I was anything but a great comedian. Uh, I was horrible. And so the first two acts went on stage and this guy is being relentless. And he's heckling them and he's heckling them. And, but he's being positive about it. And he, he's bragging that he just found out his wife is pregnant. And he keeps saying my wife was pregnant. My wife's pregnant, but he's ruining the show. His positive energy, believe it or not, is ruining the show because he's, he's ruining the flow of the comedy. So I get up on stage and I'm, and I'm already annoyed at this guy. And so he says, Hey, my wife's pregnant. I said, Yes, we know, sir, we heard you the first 4,000 times at this point. I think we all hope she miscarries. And yes, it, uh, you know, the, the room was actually with me, believe it or not, but the guy, you know, complained to the, it was a, the comedy club was at a resort and the resort came down hard on me and I had to, uh, issue an apology to the guy, which I don't disagree with. It's a pretty harsh thing to say. It's the kind of criticism that's only offensive if you take it in context. Uh, listen, I don't, I, I, I agree. I, I don't, I don't think I would say it on stage today. I think I would understand, you know, that, hey, you know, that woman's just sitting there, not doing anything. It doesn't deserve to get, you know, get the punch like this. Yeah, that's the difference. The husband running your mouth. Yeah. That's the difference between you and me, Jimmy Pardo. I have taste in class. Now I was being heckled last night by a woman who was pregnant. And I said, Madam, I hope you miss Carrie and the fetal tissue is captured and used in stem cell research to cure Tay-Sachs disease. See, that's no, no, no, okay. Did I really get you? Were you busting my balls? Uh, I'm not going to lie to you. You really got me because it is kind of something you might say. And more importantly, I was more blown away by like, what are the odds that the one story I tell is the same thing last night? Like, so literally, I'm not going to go like, you got me. You did get me, but not because I'm dumb, but more like I was like, this is unbelievable. Paramecium breast. That can't be her real name. And that is it. That is Paramecium. Have you ever seen what a Paramecium looks like under a microscope? I don't know if there's any. Sure, sure. No, I haven't. Well, I'm just trying to figure. I'm trying to, is she saying that her breasts are the size of a Paramecium or are shaped, have that banana shape of a Paramecium? What do you think? I think she's saying that her breasts are shaped like Paramecium. Anyway, she writes, go ahead. Yes. No, go ahead. I'm listening. Why aren't you verified on Twitter? Oh, Jesus, I don't even know what that means. I know what verified means, but I don't understand what it means. And I don't understand why I'm not. So I don't know what any, I don't know how to get verified. I agree that I should be. I don't understand it. And so I just live my life as if I am. Okay, do you like Twitter? You know, it's funny, David, I don't know if you know this about me. I did not join until January of 2014. Very late to the Twitter game, thought I would hate it, thought I would despise it, made fun of people that loved it. And it turns out I like it. I like it a lot. Great. Okay. And now I'm picking the questions based on the names that they use. So I don't really want to ask those questions. I just like Big Ball's Hot Rump writes. Yeah. Well, we gotta know what he asks. We gotta know what Big Ball's Hot Rump wants. Got any hot celebrity gossip? No. Sorry, Big Ball's Hot Rump. I guess I should pick these based on whether or not these are good questions and not based on the names, right? By the way, if I had good somebody gossip, would I really spill it publicly? Yeah. Elton John's gay, did you know that? Oh, you gotta be. Okay. By the way, I had a family member. Here's a true story for you, David. I had a family who were back in the 70s where he was a huge Elton John fan. And then back in this, again, the 70s were a different time. And for a young 12-year-old boy or whatever, he found out that Elton John might be gay and smashed all of his Elton John records. He was mad. I, very quickly, this is, I don't know, we'll take this out. But when at the height of Dane Cook's popularity, I like Dane. And I, you know, he's suffered for his sins. And I think he's a great guy. And whenever I see him, I have tremendous respect for Dane Cook. And by the way, I do as well. I never really understood the Dane passion, but go right ahead. Well, we could, that's a whole other conversation. But, you know, I have a litmus test. And by the way, I'm for gay marriage and I have gay relatives. And, you know, when I was in prison, top and bottom. Are you experimented? I didn't experiment. But here's the point I'm making. I noticed I have a lot of nieces and nephews. And at Thanksgiving and Christmas and Hanukkah, that the 14 year old boys who told me they liked Dane Cook to a man, they were gay. They've all, I noticed this. And not that there's, you know, I'm just saying that I noticed that 14 year old boys at the height of Dane Cook's popularity, they all tended to be gay. Really? Yeah. That was my, that was just my little test. My wife has a test. Do you go to Disneyland? I've been. Okay. This is what my, this is like vicious mean stuff and we'll move on. Fat ladies with thin men. This is my wife's theory. And it's mean. The husband's gay. Incredibly morbidly obese women at Disneyland, married to a very thin guy. The thin guy says, you know, I would make love to you if, but you need to lose weight. And, but, but he's, but he's in the closet. He won't. It's like, you know what I'm saying? I do. I know exactly what you're saying. And that's evil. I think, I think the white might be right. She might be right. And it makes Disneyland tolerable, by the way. When you're- It does. It lets you have a little bit of fun, doesn't it? Yeah. I mean, because you got to take Oliver to Disneyland and you're waiting online. So you play a little game because they're, Disneyland is ground central for morbid, the morbidly obese. And it's nice to see a fat woman with a thin guy. Okay. And then you can guess. You look at the way it's mean and it's bad karma and it doesn't matter if you- David, do you recommend that I bring the child into the game or should I keep the child? I'm going to get the child out of that game. No, yeah, you don't. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want. That's not it. Of course. Yes. Go on. John Satterfield asks, you're a huge baseball fan. What's the hardest part? This is good. You're a huge baseball fan. What's the hardest part of being a baseball fan? Staying awake? Wow. Them fighting words. Well, I'm not allowed to. I lost interest halfway through that question, believe it or not. Staying awake? Say, I literally spaced out halfway through and had to remind myself what the topic was by the time you finished the question. So it seems like this guy is the baseball of questionnaires. Wow. John Satterfield. Wow. Hey, John, let me give you Jimmy Pardo's home address. 330 Maple Street, San Fernando, California 90642 and his- Yeah, right. Yeah, right here on Maple. Yeah. And his son, Oliver, is picked up every day at the bus stop for his school. It's the corner of Maple and Melrose, right? Yeah, we go to the M&M corner. Yeah. And that's 8 p.m., Oliver's standing outside by himself, right? Oh, god. 8 p.m., 8 p.m. would be a late set. He's not going to go to the night classes. Yeah. Yeah, he's studying engineering at the bus. You know what? I can't even, because we're using his real name, I can't even go there. I can't even go down that. It's just, you know, E.coli, but it's E.dot, but it's E.coli. It's not a dog. It's, what is E.coli? That's a bacteria, right? E.coli, yeah. It's a little something. You get it in your intestines, no? Yeah. But he misspelled coli. He spelled it like a coli. But- You think maybe it's for humor, Dave, instead of saying he misspelled it, you think maybe he did it purposely to have a little bit of fun? Maybe it's a bacteria you find in Chinese food. E.coli. E.coli. E.coli. I ignore your joke. I ignore you and your racism. We enjoy the Chinese. They are good people, and I think this country is going to bond with them once Donald Trump becomes president. And that's my time. Thank you. And as a matter of fact, Donald Trump has a coli on his head. You! Hey, by the way, if I had said that, I would have had an answer to what's my work joke I've ever said. Wow, you are. So E.coli writes, what else would you like to do in your career? I'm good. A consistency. I just want to be more consistent. I want to be able to provide for my family and be on television. I've been very blessed and very, and that's not a phrase I use, I'm very grateful for everything that's happened. And I would like for it to happen more often. And our last question appropriately in- Here we go! It's a Twitter question from Brian Higgins. Blurfo writes, what happened to the Pardcastathon this year? Will it return someday? So tell us what the Pardcastathon is, my good friend. Pardcastathon is my annual event, a 12-hour marathon version of Never Not Funny, my award-winning podcast where we raise money for- Why don't you slow down? Excuse me for one second. We're going to wrap it up. So why don't you slow down? And this is really important, so why don't you- Hey, what? But why don't you not tell me how to talk? Okay? Could you not tell me? Could you not control me? All right, you ready? Yeah, you could have sped that part up, but go ahead. This is important, so talk about this. Pardcastathon is the annual event that I do. It is a 12-hour marathon version of my podcast, and we do it to raise money for Smile Train, which is the great organization that goes to third world countries to perform the surgeries, to fix cleft pallets on children and people that cannot afford the surgery. We have raised over $750,000 so far for them. Last year alone, we raised $150,000 in the 12 hours. And I have different guests on every half hour. Last year, who's on Conan O'Brien, John Hamm, Andy Richter, Paul F. Tompkins, Jack Wagner, the soap star. Like, it's all over, but Amy Mann has done it, Lisa Loeb, Colin Hay. So, you know, people that are, you know, comedians, actors, musicians, they all, they're all kind enough to donate their time and for us to raise money for Smile Train. And we've been doing it. Now, this, now this is answering the gentleman's question. We've been doing it the day after Thanksgiving for the past six years, and we're moving it to the spring so that we don't get caught up in the holiday, you know, hustle and bustle. So this, the next one is going to be March the 5th of 2016. Repeating now, March the 5th of 2016, and we'll be back doing Part Castathon to raise money for Smile Train. And to find out more about the Part Castathon, everybody should subscribe to Never Not Funny on iTunes. And to do so, you can go to NeverNotFunny.com. We're also part of the Airwolf, you know, network. But, you know, JimmyPardo.com and NeverNotFunny.com will give you all the information you need on any of that stuff. And people should go see Jimmy Pardo wherever he's playing. No two shows are identical. You can come to the show. I agree with that. That's the one thing I'll stand behind. There might be some similarities. There might be some crossover, but no two shows is identical. And there's nothing I love more than doing stand-ups. So when people see me doing stand-up, I'm enjoying it. And they're seeing, you know, one of a kind, you know, wash before you wear it, you know what I mean? Yeah. You're like a snowflake. I am a little bit, yeah. I wish I had a joke. I didn't have one either. So I kind of, I kind of just left it blank, hoping you'd fill it in. And then when there was silence, I panicked. Jimmy Pardo, host of Race to Escape on the Science Channel, host of NeverNotFunny. Go see him perform stand-up. Thank you, my good friend, and give my love to him. David, you know, thank you. And thank you to Alex for, I'm going to call it 7,000 emails. Yeah. Alex Brazell, I trust him with my life. So thank you. I would too. Very professional. I appreciate his correspondence for nothing but outstanding. Thank you. And thank you for your work on the podcast, Ethan. All right. Talk to you soon. Goodbye. Thank you. Jimmy Pardo, we'll be right back. Coming up our weekly roundtable with Eddie Brill and Wendy Starling. Subscribe to this show as a podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Make sure to recommend this show to all your friends and give us a good review on iTunes. That really helps move us up the charts, the good reviews. It really helps to draw attention to our show. If you want to support our show, please go to davidfeldmanshow.com. You'll see Amazon banners. Click on them. Do all your Amazon shopping via that banner. We get a small percentage. It does not cost you any more money. Each week, we put up premium content. So you can buy it for $2.50 at davidfeldmanshow.com or you can get it for free by becoming a monthly subscriber for only $5 a month. And you'll be supporting a pretty, pretty great show like this. This is a pretty great show. How great was Jimmy Pardo, huh? All right. Our weekly roundtable with Eddie Brill and Wendy Starling. Joining us for our weekly roundtable is the always brilliant Eddie Brill. Yeah, right. You are brilliant. And you will be at the Galway Comedy Festival when? The 24th through the 26th of October. And that's in Ireland. Yes. In Galway, Ireland, the west coast of Ireland. Every other year I get to go there. And it's one of the greatest comedy festivals in the world. There's no industry. And it's just all great comics from all different countries. And you are an expert on festivals. You run the Johnny Carson Festival in Nebraska. And we're glad you're back on our show. And we'd like to welcome somebody who has not done our show before, the brilliantly funny Wendy Starling. Hello, Wendy. Hi, David. Hi, Eddie. How are you guys? You are a great comedian. You'll be at the Vegas. The Vagan Improv. The Vegas. No meat. The Vagan Improv. The Vegas Improv with Henry Phillips has been on the show. We love Henry Phillips. I love Henry. He's a genius. He is a genius. November 10th through the 15th, the Vegas Improv with Henry Phillips. Go see Wendy Starling. And let's talk about the Democratic debates. Yes. Many polls say that viewers thought Bernie won the debate. But many media outlets declared Hillary the winner. Who won the debate? I watched it for about two minutes. And then I went back. So you won the debate. So I won the debate. Exactly. I'm the big winner. And then I went back to watching Vanilla Sky and questioning reality. And what am I doing with my life? It's the same thing as the debate. I think Bernie won because people put more pictures of him on Twitter. Comparing him to Larry Davis. Yeah. For me, I thought Bernie won. I thought Hillary was very presidential and a politician. But I think because of the way the world is now, they're not looking for that. Because it comes off so fake compared to all of these people who are not politicians. So Bernie comes off being honest and a decent guy. But I think that Time Warner is giving money to Hillary. And Lehman Brothers, they're giving money to Hillary so that she's not going to say bad things or anything. Well, we did some research. What happened was people who watched the debate on television thought Hillary won. But people who listened to the debate on radio thought Lincoln Chaffee was ugly. Yeah. That's incredibly. It's funny because he's really handsome. Yeah, he's very, very handsome. It's kind of funny. They put him on the ends. It's sort of like the piece of toast, the heels of the bread. And they kind of look like heels of bread. It's not about what they look like, but they just really weren't winners. It's absolutely about what they look like. That's I did then. The two minutes that I watched, I watched on mute. So they better have good bone structure if you want me to vote for you. Lincoln Chaffee is way ahead of the curb, I thought. And that's the problem. He should be on the curb because the cars are coming in. They're going to hit him off the curb. Oh, curb, curb, curb, curb. No, I thought it was brave of him because of all the candidates, he was the only one willing to wear his Halloween mask. So the lowest form of political humor, gay blacks, is making fun of the way people look. And I shouldn't do that. So I apologize for making fun of Lincoln Chaffee. And his name is Lincoln, for God's sake. Is that his first name, Lincoln? No. What's his first name? Chaffee. He's Chaffee Chaffee. Chaffee squared. Was anyone else expecting Trump to crash through the wall in Reagan's plane? Something looked like he was going to... Only you. Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee. Jim Webb? Anything? Didn't he write Wichita Lineman and... That's Jimmy Webb. Oh, OK. He should stay off the curve, Jimmy Webb. Jim Webb looked like his walkie-talkie wasn't working and he couldn't phone in a kill-strike at Mealy. Looked like he hadn't finished the Mealy massacre. I'm going to have to watch a clip of this. Oh, we'll get through this. No, no, no. I'm interested. I'm just... This is good for me because... You didn't watch the debate? I'm a young hip New York lady. I was on... I was, you know, making out with dudes. You were eating right, of course. Instead of watching this. So this is fun for me to watch what's going to happen in me 20 years from now. We just watched 30. What would you want to make out with? Please say Hillary. Please say Hillary. Please, Hillary, Hillary. Honestly, it would be burning because he just... Like you were saying earlier at your point, he's passionate and he actually, you know, I feel sorry for the guy because he's so passionate and you go like none of this matters. I had to break it to you. It's so heartbreaking, but he's so into it. Hillary seems like she'd be a cold fish in the sack. No, thank you. Is that charismatic in terms of like somebody like Bernie Sanders? I don't think if he were walking down the street, you would give him a second look. But because of his, the fire burning inside of him, is that something that... Are you asking if I would vote for him or if I would bang him? Both. Well, I'm pretending to ask if you would vote for him. But the subtext is... The subtext is if we all start screaming and yelling right now in the studio, can we all have sex? That was what happened. If Bernie had like something on his nose, like a part of his banana that he just ate, I might look at him twice. Right. Well, this is kind of, because we have a lot of young people listening. Do you? Young, virginal men, or as I always say... We're looking to make out. Yes. So can somebody like Bernie Sanders, who would never have a chance with a woman, would you say that because his politics are correct and he's a great speaker, he suddenly becomes attractive when before he wouldn't have been? Well, yeah. And especially I think the older that you get, the more you start to look for other things in somebody and say somebody who gives a shit about anything, even if I don't care about it, if somebody's passionate or excited about something, it's like, oh, cool, finally. Because most people, once they hit their 30s and 40s, everyone's just kind of resigned to this life of whatever, I don't care. You know, it was really apathetic to everything. And so, yeah, that was fun to watch him because he just was like fired up. You could see him fired up, waiting to respond. And you could see... He'd point, he'd take his arm. I want to say something, and that was really kind of cool. Did you know that Liz Winstead last night was in some 25 people in somebody's living with Bernie Sanders? People, he did a thing, didn't cost any money to be part of it. He just wanted to talk ideas with smart thinkers. And I mean, that's the kind of guy for me. You want that kind of a guy who really cares, who really gets a shit about people. And he's had a track record of his whole life, so why not that guy? Well, he represents everything that everybody in charge is against, so it's going to be a tough fight for him. But I think he can win, I really do. I hope he can win. And we'll see if they're going to let him get away with it. They didn't let Obama get away with anything. What are they going to do with Bernie? That's what I was going to say. I'm sorry to cut you up. But if he does win, it's not... We're not in elementary school. I remember when I was in fifth grade, and we had to watch the debates. And they were like, watch. And I grew up in Orange County, California, and there were a lot of people. Everyone just showed up and recited about how great Reagan and how great Bush was, because everyone heard that from their parents. I remember watching the debates, and they were like, so what'd you guys think? And my first thought, and I stick by this to this day whenever I watched the debates, it reminded me of watching the fifth graders run for class president. Because everyone's spouting all kinds of nonsense. Either they're super vague, or it's just all kinds of bullshit that you know they can't do. And you'd like pizza every day, and water slides to school, and no homework. And you're like, I'm voting for that guy. But you're like, maybe you can't actually do that because there are a bunch of people behind the scenes, and you're essentially a figurehead, even in a democracy. So Bernie's not going to be able to set up water slides. I know, and that's me. That's I want to vote for the candidate who will get me a water slide from directly from Queens to Brooklyn. Why do I have to take the water slides into the city? I'm with you on the water slides. And you know, here's an interesting thing. When I was a junior in high school, my stepfather was dying. So in order to show him that I was going to be a good leader of the family because I was the oldest, I ran for class president of my senior year, which is ridiculous because I didn't give a shit about school politics, and I was never in any class. And you're not an American citizen. Right, I'm from, you know, Jereba. I'm from Westerie, but you know, but a lot of people don't know it, but it's a really great place to vacation. And so I ran, and I just did something funny. Everyone was like, I'm going to get water slides, and you know, everyone was on the water slide thing. And I just put like a piece, and here's what I feel about the school, and I put tape over on my mouth, and I'm like, and I won because I was different than anybody else. And then I was like, oh shit, now I got to be the guy. I just did that for my stepfather, who he was proud of it, but it just shows you in election anything can happen as long as you're different than what everybody else is. This is why a bunch of ignorant people are loving Trump because it's like, oh my God, here's a guy who's not a Bush or not Rubio or not. I will tell you, and I want to move on because we've got a lot to cover here, but this is a true story that I ran for class president of my junior high school and people listening will know this is true. Susan Levy, by the way, Alex, told me to run for school president of Upper Cliff. This would be 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, and 4th. Was there a lower cliff as well? She told me to run for president. She told me I could win, and then she didn't vote for me. And what happened was I tied with Peter Miller. How do you know she didn't vote for you? She told me. This is the God's honest truth. Hang on for one second. So I couldn't get elected class president because people hated me. But I had a vision that I could be elected president of the entire Upper School, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, and 4th grade. You had a vision like a dream came to you? No, I thought I can do this. And I ran, and I won. And I was elected class president, but they claimed it was a tie. So I had to be a co-presidency with Peter Miller. I hate Peter Miller, I hate Peter Miller. This is the God's honest truth. He hates Peter Miller. I really ran as an outsider because I had never held. I swear to God, this is the truth. I ran as an outsider and got elected, and all the nerds voted for me because I said, I can't get elected class president. I can't even get elected to the student council. My class doesn't like me. You got the pity vote? Yeah. And you followed that trail your whole career ever since. I couldn't get elected. Listen, I'm not funny, no one will book me. Fine, fuck God. Here, where did I? He went from the upper cliff and he dove all the way down to the lower cliff. I could not get elected to the student council. None of my, you know, the classes would not elect me. And that's how I ran. I said, I'm the guy who- I'm the anti-guy. I'm you. I'm you, folks. I can't get elected. And they elected me. And Mrs. Kirby, who was the teacher, the advisor was so appalled that she claimed there was a tie with Peter Miller. It was like- Because she didn't want the other side. She didn't want me. She was Scalia. She was Bushman. And I swear to God, on my life, and I remember my father wanted to come in. And I got called- And get coffee. She said, I swear to God, she said, there are calls to impeach you. Oh, my God. I swear to God. Well, here, I got a similar thing. Hang on one second. Okay. She handed me Robert's Rules of Order and made me read it. And she said, there are calls to impeach you. Because I made all the nerds part of my cabinet. And Peter Miller, if you're listening, you know as well as I do that you lost that election. I had to share the presidency. Let's go back to the debates. Was there a turning point in how the email issue is being addressed? No, he's waving. Was there a turning point? Nah, it's the same shit. Just the FBI is still on a trail. And she got a moment where Chafee said, blah, blah, blah. Because you want to react to it? And she said no. And that was a good moment for her. I think Lincoln Chafee has an email scandal waiting to happen that involved. He has a Gmail scandal. Yeah. I think his email scandal involves a deep web counterfeit boner pills in the Taiwanese rent boy. But yeah. And that's a scandal. That's a politician. I'm sorry. You're thinking of your own. That's fine. You're right. Should we have more debates? You didn't even, you don't care. No, well, I tuned in. I was like, because I saw on Twitter, first of all, I would like to say, because I know people are listening to this. My favorite part of your Peter Miller story is how, yeah, Peter Miller, sounds like a real honk, is how while you were talking to Alex, he could not have given less of a shit. He was actively avoiding eye contact with you the whole time. And they're gone. They're not in the room. There's nobody producing the show. Yes, Gabe. We're not even. Gabe's gone. Alex left. Yes. This is... I just wanted to point that out. Yes. That, but it was a great story. Those are emotional scars, Wendy. I can tell. That I wanted to be impeached, and then I became editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper, and I got fired. By who? And how did you run for editor-in-chief? You're like, you guys, I can't read and I can't write. I'm you. I'm illiterate. For someone who's unwinnable, you're winning everything in the school. My junior year in high school, they made me editor-in-chief of the high school newspaper, and then after two editions, they fired me. Why did you do subversive... Ah, it's a long story. Yeah. Emotional scars. It was all just like death to Peter Miller. What happened to you in high school that you still... Isn't life high school? Oh, man, we could go on about this for hours. High school, it was all right. It was cool. It was actually like... I was prom queen. Were you really? Yeah. But I won as a joke. So was I. It was a joke. Oh my God, that's so weird. I knew it was the high cheekbones. You were prom queen? It was a joke. I was on ASB. I ran. I was the pep commissioner. I ran the pep rally. I'll start band. Yeah, I'll start band. Associated student body. And I ran the pep assemblies, which is just... We had a big high school. I lost Elmi's high school when I was a freshman because I'd gone to private school my whole life. So when I went to a public school, we... Everyone got in this huge... In the gym, stadium seating, and there were two people with microphones who ran around and were just obnoxious. 45 minutes and introduced the band. And I was like, I want that job. I don't know what that job is, but I want a microphone. And I want to do 45 minutes and the comedy was right there. Yeah, and after every assembly, there was some teacher trying to get me kicked off because I did something off color or I was doing, you know, like made up, you know, in U.N. whatever. But I was so entertaining that I got even the kids who wanted to do drugs to come and watch the show. I called the show it was the assembly. Right. But it was a show. Yeah. But when I won prom queen, it was so stupid to me. I'm like, who's putting my name down on these ballots? Because I was such a weirdo. I always thought I was really weird. It was Peter Miller. It was Peter Miller. He showed up. He showed up. He just wrote it. He was a hunk. Yeah. I'm sorry to say this. I remember Peter and he was a handsome young man. Yeah, he was real hunk. And he was good with ballots. Yes. He was great. And he spelled my name properly every time. So you were prom queen, so you showed up at the prom. I showed up at the prom and I thought it was so stupid and meaningless because it doesn't mean anything. So the dress that I wore when you took a flash picture was completely see-through. And I did that on purpose so that they couldn't use any photos in the yearbook. And when I won, I gave the two girls who lost started to cry. I didn't give a shit about it. So when I won, I had a piece of paper in my purse and I pulled out like a long speech as if I'd been training for this for years and just gave this obnoxious long. And then they played me off because they were like, okay, we get it. And I was like, no, no, no, I also want to thank because it doesn't mean. So that was my crowning achievement. So you were popular in high school? Apparently, I wasn't aware at the time. But speaking of see-through dresses. Hillary. No. Chafie. Playboy. Oh, yeah. Is no longer publishing nude photos. Now, is this the last nail in print media's coffin? How will this affect such fine peddlers of indecency as Penthouse Hustler or the weekly standard? Don't have a cock up on the others. On the others. What's happening to print media when... People are going online. They're reading their magazines online. So what is the purpose of Playboy if you can't look at... But you can take your iPad and fold it into three pieces. Oh, that's Mad Magazine, the back page. If Playboy doesn't have nude pictures, how do I masturbate at the airport? You just... You really have to have a good imagination and really like the articles. Yeah. I'll give you the background. I really like the article. I've got a bunch of memberships that pops up on your phone. Are you offended by Playboy? Or I don't know if I said that Playboy, but... Yes. I mean, do you think that there's something wrong with magazines that have... If somebody would pay me money to get naked, I would happily... Oh, no. I'm not... I'm mad that they won't pay me to do that. I pissed off that I have to like use my brain every day. Every day. And I love doing comedy. And I love... But I'm always just partway through the day. I'll be like taking a train and getting ready to get up on stage in front of a group of idiots. And I'm tired. And I see some hot chick and guys just buying her stuff at the bar. I'm like, God, I would trade that for like a week. That would be great. For a day. It wouldn't be worth it for... It'd be fun for a day. But I think that you just want to be the best comedian in the world. I think that's really the key. Yeah. Well, I love doing comedy, but Jessica, I think about that on a regular basis. What is the difference between being... And this just goes for men too. The difference between being a great comic and a stripper. I think... I view myself as a stripper. Yeah. If I had nice breasts and... You do. They're nice in your sweat. They are nice. Yeah. But you fill out that sweater very nicely. Would I? Would I? Don't you think a great comic is a stripper? In a sense, yes. You're bearing your soul. The best comics will be the most vulnerable and bear their soul. And that's the way it should be in all art. In every part of the art world. Film, you know, there's many layers. So I'm not to blame for having a poll on stage. No, not at all. And inviting people to put dollar bills down my shorts. No. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, nowadays, you know, you don't want coins. No. Just they're big and they're clang and they clank. By the way, I do take quarters because the laundromat I go to doesn't have those fancy swipe cards. I accept. I go to this place called Wash and Dry and the W fell off. So it's Ash and Dry. So I'm very worried about how my laundry is going to come out. Laura Kytlinger gave me this joke and it never works on stage. I'm going to do it at home. Let's hear it, yeah. I went to scores last night and I got kicked out. Am I wrong? I put a dollar bill in the G string and asked for change. 50 cents back and nothing. She wouldn't give me my 50 cents back. There's something about asking us. Is that funny? Can I do that on stage? Or is that an old joke? Well, if you did it years ago, it's an old joke. My first thought was it was going, you were going to go into like a, you know, get a pack of cigarettes or like a soda from the machine. You're going to I took a dollar out and I put it in the machine and then they got pissed and they said these dollars are not for the machines. That's what the coins are for. So would you, would you? I would not do the quarter thing. What I would do is say like I got kicked out of scores. I gave the stripper a, I don't, I don't even know if that's even, but it's like if you, maybe you give her 20 and ask her to break it or something like that. Yeah. Can you break it? But the change, yeah. If you ask if we can bring you 20, but I don't know, getting changed from a stripper, I've, it seems like something that I've heard before. I can never take them seriously. One time we were working strippers or comedians doing stripper jokes. Um, both. I have a hard time with both. Me and Shimmel were working the great Robert Shimmel, the great Robert Shimmel working at Cobb's Comedy Club and the great Tom Sawyer took us to this Thompson Brothers or Thomas Brothers. He is great Tom Sawyer. Yeah. He is amazing, amazing man. And it was really smart when it came to comedy and finding people. Yes. All the way and putting them together really well. He's just one of the geniuses. Mitchell Brothers is what you're thinking. Mitchell Brothers. So he takes us, and me and Shimmel are not going to take it seriously. And one of them shot one of them. Yeah. They have Mitchell shot Mitchell. Which, and they were pornographers. It was, I remember being ironic that a pornographer. You know everything about the story. I found it ironic that a pornographer took a load to the face. Yeah. That, that is a shot in the dark. Hello. Where's the rim shot? Come on, Alex. Alex, get on. He's in the other room. Alex is so over me today. We just got, oh, he's, oh. He only came back, you know, when Wendy started talking. Yeah, I was. But anyway, so we go to this place and they, you know, they have these two girls and they're like doing the, on the table pretending that they really want to have sex with each other. And we were just laughing, trying not to, but, and Robert said, who does your taxes and made them laugh. And then we went into this room that was really creepy and they give you a flashlight and an orange cone on the end of it, like you're landing an airplane. And it was me and Robert and 25 older Asian men from a group that were together. And we were the only two other people not in their group. And this girl strips and you flash the flashlight at the girl as she's stripping. But I was putting the light on the ceiling and making animal, you know, cause I can make a German shepherd and like an eagle. And I got, we got kicked out because I was. So you got tips from the Asian businessmen. And we're like, wait a minute. Oh, look, an eagle. And they're putting dollars. I was going to do the bad accent. And I saw, I was also going to do that and say, Godzilla is a bad accent. I was going to, we both look at that. Professionals trying to keep our jobs. But it's still funny when I, the guy from lemongrass calls me and says, remonglass. I have to say that no matter how bad that is, my friend who works at that restaurant, when they answer the phone, they say remonglass. And I have to admit, I love. Is there a lemongrass here in New York? Yeah. There's one in Highland Park in LA. And I worked there years ago. And we had the same thing. And it made me laugh every day. There was a, there's a, my favorite sushi places on 9th street where the Stuyvesant little thing is over there. The Stuyvesant little thing. Yeah. You know the Stuyvesant little thing. I don't have to tell you twice. No, not Stuyvesant town. It's on 9th street between 3rd and 2nd. And then Stuyvesant, like an oval, like the little building that he used to work in. Peter Stuyvesant. Yeah, Joey Stuyvesant, his brother. Peter Stuyvesant. Yeah, right. Peter Stuyvesant, the guy. You're speaking in shorthand. Yeah, I know. But later, there's a woman who comes here and writes it all out in longhand. Peter Stuyvesant was the one who bought Manhattan from the casino owners. Right. That's who he was. So in that area, and they had a sign in the sushi place right there, Sharaku, that said Brossum. Brossums. And you know, something about, and I said to the person, isn't it, what is brossums? They says, the flower, blossom. We called the graphic place and said, we need brossums, and they misspelled it, and they still put it up on the wall. So there's my long story to get. We should have just said Zira in your story. And then we went into this. Alex, you know, do me a favor and kill me. We should have just been real racist three minutes ago. But this is what happens in the world of racism and Elden Norris. I was in Chinatown. I was in Chinatown, and I walked by a restaurant called Big Wangs, and I took a picture of it. I put it on Facebook, and everybody loved it. So I go Photoshop, right? So I then took a Chinese restaurant and got the Chinese lettering, and I dirtied it up to make it look real. And I put up Donkey Dick's restaurant. Chinese cuisine. And a lot of my friends went there. But they thought, a lot of them knew that I had Photoshopped it. But a lot of people thought there was actually a Chinese restaurant called Donkey Dick's. They just didn't really understand. Some people knew you Photoshopped it. Everyone else said, this old son of a bitch, there's no way he can operate Photoshop. No way, no way. He's not friends with anyone under 40. If I were to Photoshop your face. Yes. Now, would you pose and play a boy? You said you'd be willing. How would I, I mean, because... If someone paid me money, that'd be great. Would you be willing to be Photoshopped and your body Photoshopped onto another woman's face? I would do it the other way around. I want my face on a real hot chick, and then I'm gonna go put that on Instagram, and then I say, I've got to show it. Kings County Saloon 9 to 10. Come on down. Yeah. You do a web series that I'm going to be on. Yes, I was talking to Lisa Correo, the very funny comedian, my best friend. We got to have you come in and do. And Eddie, we got to have you on the show. That'd be more than happy. Describe your show because it's such a great idea. It's a weekly live streaming web cam talk show. It's the only live streaming web cam show that's not pornography. And it's a talk show, and it's free to watch. You just create a little member login, and we also do bonus features. So you can log in and watch archived episodes, but we have comedians and different performers on, and we do a lot of improv stuff. We've had musicians. We do cooking sessions. You have a musician literally singing in the shower. Right. We put the musicians in the bathtub because we have a really beautiful red show time curtain. And the acoustics are better. And so we do segments in different parts of our house. You have a cooking segment in the kitchen. We have a cooking segment in the kitchen. We'll do stuff in my bedroom is the green room. But you do it like with a microwave, right? You do microwave cooking? No, we do real cooking, baby. I have, we got a frying pan. Lisa and I like to cook when we have guests come in. It's a really fun show. We have comedians come on and they do characters. Last night was such a great episode. We had Nick Vaterot, who's hilarious, and Casey Balsham. And they're such good improvisers. So yeah, people come on and do characters. How do people find this? It's called ourbigapartmentshow.com. Ourbigapartmentshow.com. Yep. And that's the name of the show. Our Big Apartment Show. Yeah, it's a good name. It's two best friends who think they have a real show. That's our... Weren't you going to do something where you were going to comb your hair on live? Comb my hair or cut my hair? No, no. Weren't you and Lisa going to comb your hair on a porn site? Or did I dream that? That seems like a weird dream that you had that you should have not told me about. Did we talk about... About what you should have not told me about. Ray James and I... Ray James? Ray James. Oh, Ray James, okay. And I have talked about uploading funny porn. Right. Larry is porn. Has anybody ever done that, like where you just go to a porn site and upload comedy porn? I know that that's a category on Red Tube. I don't even click on it because I'm like, I've got this part cut. I've got the comedy stuff coming. Yeah, right. Is there comedy porn where people go... Yeah, it says funny porn and I'm like, that's the last thing I need. It's like Benny Hill music. I dropped the pizza on my cock. And I'm going to be wearing a banana suit. Yeah, we're going to have you on and that's going to be... I don't want to spoil it, but it's real fun. And I told Lisa about your idea with the shaving thing. Yeah, that sounds good. You're the second banana who gets shaved. Tuesdays at nine. Yeah, it's going to be great. Now that will be not funny. That will be exclusively on a porn site. So that'll be a separate thing. Shaved Felman. I'll have a plate of shaved Felman, please. Back to the election. Yeah, let's get into it. Because we went from porn to Chinese food. I think that I was afraid of Bernie. Don't be scared. Of Bernie. Oh, right. Afraid for him? I was afraid he was... I'm afraid he's going to get the nomination. I was afraid he was going to get the nomination. Why? Because then I thought then he's going to lose. I don't know. But I'm beginning to sense that he can get elected. He's a centrist in many ways. He's strong with the NRA. I mean, I hate the NRA, but if you want to get a guy elected, he's strong on guns. He's pro-gun. There's going to be people who like him. He went down to that Catholic University and did you see... Oh, Liberty. Liberty. That's not a Catholic University. Oh, I'm sorry. That's a Satanic University. Jerry Falwell has a university. Jerry Falwell has a university. But he reached out to these people. He reached out to these... We are completely on the opposite end of the spectrum, but I'm willing to work with you as long as you admit you're wrong. No, as long as you... But that's what you want. There are a lot of people who don't agree. With each other. And to have a guy say, look, I'm willing to listen to you. I'm not going to take you seriously. No. That's what I love about Bernie. And that's what we should all love about Bernie. Right. Bridget loves Bernie. That's an old reference. Man! Any chance, do you know what Bridget loves Bernie is? Nope. That's all. I'll be 57 tomorrow. When this comes out, I already will be. That was a very controversial sitcom. You see, you're too young to know, but there was a time when the idea of a Jew married to a Gentile on television. I already feel sick. I don't want to hear the rest of the program. As a German, I don't want to hear the rest of this. This was a sitcom that they squeezed in between like the Maritalics. Is it Richard Benjamin? Was he Bernie? No, David Bernie. Oh, David Bernie, that's what I thought. And the woman who was on family ties, Meredith Baxter Bernie. Right. There was a lot of Bernie's. And she became a lesbian. Speaking of Bernie. Yeah. Did she become a lesbian? Yes. Yeah. Okay. But it's funny because Bridget loves Bernie, but that was a show that made a difference. I mean, there were a few shows like that. And like Maude made a difference and took chances and home the family. And Bridget loves Bernie was a show that put religions together. And it was taboo. It was also, it was a Jewish man marrying a Gentile woman, which is kind of sexist. There's a kind of sexism in the depiction of, I think the depiction of Jewish women on television can be often disgraceful. But there is a, television is kind to Jewish men, not so kind to Jewish women. Okay. So now what is the stereotype? Because a lot of people think, will ask me like, so are you Jewish? I'm like, nah, because I got a big nose numb. And they're like, no, no, no. It's your personality. So what's that? So what's that? No, I'm sorry. What's your nose? It was my personality. Yeah. I, the boyfriend I had for the longest period of time, and we almost got married, very Jewish. His name is, That was his name. Stephen, his name is, that's his name. Very Jewish. His name is Stephen with a pH. Right. Oh, forget it. Middle name, Ira. Last name, Silverstein. And that's not his work name. He's a successful record producer, controlling the goddamn media. And his name is Rex Stout. Yeah. What is the problem, the stereotype against Jewish women? Yeah, but no, I'm asking because I haven't really paid attention to it. Well, you know, the stereotype against Jewish women is that they're aggressive. They're pushy. They're opinionated. And it's really unfair to say that. Oh, I can see how people think I'm a Jewish dancer. All right. Well, you know, in the Jewish. So was Bella Abzug. So was Gloria Steinem. A lot of these Jewish women, who you found pushy and aggressive, created women's liberation in the 70s. So, you know, demanding what is fair is what a lot of these Jewish women. Oh, so that's not a negative stereotype then. Yeah. Okay, cool. You know, Yvonne Slur, vagina monologues. So the guys who have trouble with aggressive pushy Jewish women are. First of all, they're not aggressive and pushy. They're just fighting for what they think is right. And they have a backbone. Yeah. Which is the in most Jewish families that I have run across. The mom is the backbone of the family and runs the family. And that's who you go to for the source of the energy and the goodness and the family and the love. I mean, this is not a show about anthropology. You know, in the same. Oh, it is now. It is now. I'm throwing your notes. We're going to make a crumpled sound. You can let us. The racism in reality television, the angry black, aggressive African-American. I said black African-American. Because the green. Come on, you're. Look at us just trying to keep. The white African-Americans are. There are white African-Americans. Yes. But the depiction, there's tends to be a stereotype of. Like J.B. J.B.L. or those are Ankyo, Sanyo. Sorry, the stereotypes. These are different stereotypes. Sanyo is my VCR. Right. What is it? These are different stereotypes. J.B.C. Sanyo is a Sanyo. It's a kind of a receiver that you can buy. He's listing types of stereos. Oh, I thought that was an actual. Oh, OK. You thought Sanyo was the name of an African-American actor or comedian, perhaps. A black African-American. I've not heard of him. Where is he? He's at the funny bone in Virginia. I know that's what you thought. And I was and I. Little green Sanyo. Remember that book when we were kids? What the the venality of reality television is they take a positive trait, like a strong African-American woman who stands up for what she thinks is right. The backbone of a family, the provider. And then they turn it upside down and make it an unattractive trait. Well, what about in sitcoms, you know, when Seinfeld or Paul Reiser would complain and they would say, well, these people really know what they're doing. They want to do what they're doing. Then when Brett Butler and Roseanne Barke complained, it was like, oh, they're bitches. But really, it's the same thing. You stand up for what you believe in because you have 20 years' comedy experience and I'm going to stand up for my show, but it's just the stereotype that people have. I don't know if that's Jewish women, black women. I think that the common denominators, you'll find, even as a white woman, but that's in media in general. You look at if there's a woman, like said, running the household, even like everybody loves Raymond and I love that show. And Patricia Heaton is just like, she's a delight. Your politics are just wonderful. But like on that show, I can remember, I mean, she, as a kid watching it, I remember really, she was like overly mean because her characters was like, you're an idiot. And I was like, oh, poor Ray. But anytime there's a woman at all, even, and I get this a lot of times, but I'm just so over it at this point because who cares? I've been able to manage for myself 33 years, so I'll just be alone and like get rich. You know what I'm saying? 33. It's much more fun to be rich when you're alone. 33. As a kid, when I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond, that sentence pretty much told us you were 33. Because I said Bridget loves Bernie. Yeah. You know, back in the 12th century, when I was watching Bridget loves Bernie. But anytime there's a, but I think it's just anytime there's a woman who is standing up for herself. Yeah. And saying like, we're not going to do this and I want to do this and I don't feel okay about this. And let's even like, let's go here for dinner. Basic things. Or like, why have an opinion on this? Or I don't give a shit about that. Then you're a bitch. And then it's fun. And then it's even more fun when you can then drop it into like different ethnic stereotypes. Because then we get all different kinds of bitchy women. Right. How do you not get, I've asked this. Hit on constantly and propose to constantly. I don't know either. I can't stop myself. Maybe it was the socks that I wore five blocks. Well, I guess I'm not going to ask my second question. What was your second question? Will you marry me? Well, that one. I remember asking Warren, my friend Warren Thomas, very funny African-American comic. I said, how do you just not get angry at America? How do you not hate this country? He said, well, we built it. We built this country. How do you not just be enraged all the time at men? Who says I'm not? I don't know if you noticed my hair's just growing back in. That's why I shaved my head the couple of times that I shaved it. And I'm trying to let it grow back in, but I just get so pissed off. At men. Yeah. And I don't want to, I do real funny jokes about it, but it's the real reason I shaved it. I was in an abusive relationship and I was like, and I shaved my head and my hair was real long and I shaved it. And because he was accusing me of cheating, which I wasn't. And he would not. Cheating at what? Poker. Poker. Poker. I just met her. She's my aunt for God's sake. Oh my God. We're so funny. At least we're on the same thing, you know what I mean? Well, our men, you're 33. That's why I walk around the way that I do, with like just real angry militant looking. Do you think, I read a study that says people under the age of 30, more people under the age of 30 have a positive image of socialism than they do capitalism. And then my friend Robert said, well, you know, everybody at that age likes socialism more than they do capitalism. Wait till they go past 30. The stereotype about people your age and younger, and how do you like that? There are people younger than you, Wendy. I'm highly aware. They were led to believe that they're more enlightened when it comes to feminine hygiene. No, feminine issues. Well, it's the same thing, hygiene issues. Yeah, hygiene and issues. It really, that's what it comes down to. Issues, the combination of hygiene issues. Yeah, that's all, that's what Hillary talked about, right? I saw very little body movement from her with her hands, but what I saw looked like it was all about like how to insert a tampon on the way. And like take it out before three hours, you're going to get toxic shucked. That's what she taught. I did, I turned the sound on. That was the one part. I turned the sound on for a minute, and I did hear her say, woman, woman, woman, woman, woman, women. And I was like, oh, let me have just a little bit. Whoa, man, that's what I was saying. We get it, yeah, I love that movement. I have a question. She said her bathroom break for women take longer. During the debate, she said. She did say that. It takes longer. It takes a little bit, it took me, it takes a little longer. Why does it take women longer to go to the bathroom, and why does it take black people in Florida longer to vote? What is going on? Well, we know why in Alabama, because they're taking away their voting places. All right, that was the joke. I was going along with it like I knew something, the one thing I knew. Anyway, do you think going back to my long-winded question. But it really does take us longer in the bathroom. No, no, the question is. It takes me longer just to unzip my, well, hello. By the way, I'm working with Barry Crimmins. Yes. Sunday night at Bunga's Den, and he, there's a stereo, I forget it. Yeah, it's a Sanyo. The Barry paid me my first paint. I love Barry Crimmins. Question. I'm all over the map, so let's get focused here. Okay, let's focus everybody. I have a Warren Thomas story, but. Wendy Starling. Wendy Starling. David Feldman. Here's my question. What's the question? Go. Would you say that men your age and younger are more enlightened when it comes to issues that women are up against? Not all. I would say I'm spoiled because I'm around a lot of mostly comedians and artistic types. And so those people tend to be more enlightened as far as understanding that, yeah, you can still hold the door for me. That's nice. But also that it's not this weird, like women hate men that's not feminism is about. It's just like, no, we're just like equal people. Yeah. Just very basic. Yeah, people are people in the same way. Let me tell you what happened. I got really shaken up. I was playing a club in Brooklyn and there was a comedian who introduced me. As a very pretty. Coming to the stage. Lovely, lovely comedian. All right. You might have seen her on in my mind. How did she bring you up? She brought me up and then I said, let's say her name was Wendy. Okay. I don't even remember her name. It was Wendy. It was actually me. That's how we met. But I guess that's all improv. Well, I got really shaken up as one of the few. I said, how about a hand for so-and-so? And I said, isn't she beautiful or isn't she pretty or something like that? Oh, God. And there was a shitstorm on top of you, right? And but I wouldn't but I learned my lesson. I will never do that again. No, not only was it insulting to her. It made me look this maybe look like an old man. Yeah. I understand. When I was young, I was always hosting. And when I would see other people host and the guy would bring up a girl, it would turn my stomach when they go, hey, you know, or tip the waitresses because they're pregnant and I got them pregnant. It was always that put down. So I knew never to do that ever. But it slipped at when I said, isn't she pretty? You should have kept it in. You shouldn't have let it slip down. It was a fruity and slip. I meant to say, isn't she funny? But I just kind of thought. But to be fair, she wasn't. She wasn't much. Yeah, she was awful. To be fair. And let's also keep it real. Not every dude that gets on stage is funny. Not every hot chick that gets in front of a microphone or behind a microphone or wherever the fuck we stand is funny. To be fair, she was much more beautiful than she was funny. And you know what? People do get funnier as they go along. Oh, man. Why do you think I'm not growing my hair out? Right. It's funnier and funnier. I was going to pluck my mustache and I was like, I got shows coming up. I have a good comedy lesson that I learned from Warren Thomas if you don't mind. Yeah, let's do it. Warren Thomas is an incredible comic from San Francisco. Smart, funny, and really just lit up the screen. And they were doing a Caroline's Comedy Hour in 1994, something like that. And he didn't do well. And the more he didn't do well, the more he apologized for it. But he just had one joke that didn't go over. So instead of just saving the set, he kept going and going and going. And apologizing, apologizing. Apologizing, well, what they do on those shows is they sweeten them. So even if you bomb, you're going to kill because they add laughter and applause later. So here's Warren killing on television. And every time he would say, I'm really sorry, the audience would be laughing, which was funnier to a comedian. So I learned a lesson from that. It's just when you do a television show and if the audience isn't laughing, act like you're killing. So we're in Edinburgh at the Comedy Festival and there's a bunch of comics that are very good on the show. Jim Gaffick and Jake Johansson, Andy Kinler and Emo Phillips and me are on this one taping. And everyone's kind of bombing because the room is bad and everyone's hilarious. And I just was the only one I acted like I was killing and I wasn't. I bombed just like everybody else. But in between, I'd be like, yeah. And then when I watched the tape, everyone was sweetened but I had all those pauses. So it looked like I crushed. And I learned that from our friend Warren Thomas. It sounds like the low up. So is the lesson to act like you're killing or is the lesson to only work gigs where when they edit the tape, they're going to fill it in with laughter. They fill them all in with laughter. That's the problem. All those shows were sweetened all the time. I mean sitcoms are sweetened. Yeah. You know, so they do that, they add this kind of thing. But I learned that it's much better to do a show that's really set up in a nice way. This was The World Stands Up, which was a pretty good show, but they put it in a room where the laughter, the room, the ceilings were 25 feet high. And really, there's only 20 or 30 people in the audience set up in a bad place. There was no way we were going to sound good. So you have to adjust. And I remembered Warren to never apologize because all those other guys were like going, oh, well, that joke's really funny or that. And I just acted like I crushed and it came off. It was one of the best piece of tapes I ever had. Oh, nice. That's a great tip. Well, if I ever get on television. But forget television. Right. You'll just crush and you won't have to worry about it. Beautiful. When I play a club, I just have them pipe in laughs. Yeah. With an actual pipe. Yes. They use pipes. We're going to wrap it up. Eddie Brill, how many years did you book The Letterman Show? 11 years I've been. I've been booking comic for like 31 years. I've been involved in that. You do not like Donald Trump? I'm not a fan. I've met him on many occasions. I don't like him. I didn't like him. I worked to his golf course and I spoke to people who worked for him and they didn't like him. And there's a lot of people along the way that don't like him for who he is. And he's dangerous and he said some horrible things. He's a hypocrite and he's, you know, he made his money because his father was already wealthy and he's a bankrupt guy. And he's, you know. After he said Mexicans are rapists, NBC severed its ties with him. And yet, Lauren Michaels in SNL have booked him to host Saturday Night Live. Personally, I don't care. I mean, it just, it makes sense to me. But a lot of my friends are really taking to Twitter and they're, they think it's... Last night he said, you know, Bernie Sanders, that socialist is a communist ladies and gentlemen. That's what Trump said last night. So you booked Letterman. I gotta be, I'm defending Lauren Michaels. Okay. I figure why not put him on SNL? Right. How bad is it that he's putting Trump on SNL? Well, he put Palin on SNL. And Tina, and especially Amy Poehler. Amy Poehler was great. If you go back and look at that, you could tell Amy hated Sarah Palin. And she's brilliant, brilliant Amy Poehler. I think it's okay. Letterman, they booked Trump and they booked all... They booked, what's his face? The governor of Chicago, who came out and said, you know, I want to be here in the worst possible way. And he said, well... Belovitch. Belovitch. Yeah, Blagojevich. Blagojevich. Right. So, you know, that's good television to bring these people on. It's smart to do that. There's a lot of comics that we know that are great that won't get on television shows because they're not special. I don't have a million hits on Twitter or this kind of a thing. And there are people who are less than talented who will get because of the exposure. It's important for television show to make money. That's what they're in business for. So you can't blame Lauren Michaels for making that move. Well, I would blame him if he gives Trump a pass when he's on. Right. You don't want to do that. I mean, you know, if Trump gets a new one ripped, it's okay. But if he comes on and they're even handed with him. That's the only thing is I hope that they tear him apart. And I think, I don't know, I'll watch that. I mean, I don't really watch the show that much. I watched when Amy Schumer has to at least in our watching clips. How was it? I didn't see it. How was Amy? Our monologue was great. Yeah. It was terrific. So funny. And we were watching the sketches. We're just laughing and laughing so hard. Well, she's gotten such great experience with the TV show. And so, you know, when you see her perform, she's just become this dynamo, not only in stand-up, but also as a performer as well. So it was a perfect show for her to do. Yeah. You know, it's good. I mean, you root for that, you know, you root for that, for comics to do well. And she is really great at it. But, you know, Trump is a different story. It's not a performer, not a comedian. It's a joke. It's like having, you know, the Kardashians on or that kind of thing. I think, have you noticed, I think Trump has changed politics because in the past, it was viewed as a horse race. And I noticed in the debate this week, they played it like a boxing match. Did you see the, maybe it's Trump, or maybe it's because Anderson Cooper is such a big fan of fisting. It's a combination. Yeah. But it felt like a, now it's become boxing, right? Yeah. It's getting tougher, you know. Well, you know, Anderson Cooper has wants to be the guy to take off where the Republicans, it was the soft balls and the easy thing. So Anderson Cooper wanted to be the tough guy. And then who do we have in the next national democratic debate? What's his face there? The do nothing guy from CNN, Wolf Blitzer. So you know that's not going to be a, not going to, he's not going to hit his heart. He's a little bit more boring though. I, the part that I, that I turned the sound on, one thing that I did notice that I thought was strange is the way that Anderson was running it, where he would ask another candidate. Like he would ask Hillary a question. Like, well, you know, so how do you think you're going to be different than Obama? And she's like, well, obviously I'm a woman. It's like, okay, we get it. You have ovaries. So I get it. He'd move it along. Move the next part. And then he would cut her off almost in the middle and go to someone else. He's like, do you think she has what it takes? I was like, are we trying to start a mud wrestling competition? It's high school like you were here this thing. It was very, that I noticed that I thought that was very strange. And I'm like, I don't know that this is productive. I think this should be about sharing ideas and being specific. And that's where I honestly, burning to me stood out because he actually had, he was laying out like specific ideas and has a very clear vision of what he wants to do. And everyone else is like, well, I think if you see the PowerPoint, I'm like, what's like, no one's going to look at that. No one's going to see the PowerPoint. We're watching this now. Tell us now. I went to Wall Street and I said, cut that out. She said, that was a lot. Can you hate, have a vitriolic hatred for Hillary without being sexist? I've no, I see this hatred for Hillary. I go, it has to be sexist. I think, but I don't think it necessarily has to be sexist. There are probably people who don't like me, although I can't imagine. And it has nothing to do with, you know, I don't think that anytime anyone doesn't like somebody, oh, it's because of sex, race, gender, sexual orientation. Sometimes you just don't fucking like somebody. Sorry to just drop the F bomb so late in the. I've noticed with Hillary, like, if I refer to her as Madam Secretary, that's okay. But if I call her a Madam or a Secretary, people get really pissed off. People get pissed off that I'm squeezing bits from my act into a conversation. I know, yeah. We'll be right back. We're back. And I don't have a tag for that, Wendy. Well, we'll fix one. We'll call Kytlinger and she'll fix it. Oh, I asked Hillary Clinton for change for a dollar. Does that work? Yeah, hey, it's not working. It's not working. Well, this has been a great show. Wendy Starling. Yay. Is the subject of a documentary called Funny Pain. Yeah. And people should go and donate money to get this thing finished. How do they do that? You can go to the website is funnypains.com. Funny pains. Pains plural. So it's, and then I have a link to it on my Facebook and Twitter and it's on my website and on Instagram and that's director Jorge Cruz saw me at a bar show and he's been wanting to, he's a commercial filmmaker and he loves stand-up and he's like, I want to find somebody who's not successful but is funny and I was like, well, you found a sad, sad son of a bitch. But you know, the documentary comes out, it's going to change. It's with a trailer is intense. Yeah, my parents were like, I wouldn't realize you were so sad and what makes us feel awful. And I was like, if you could put a dollar amount on your guilt, what might that be? Do I hear 20? Let me hear 20. Father, give me 25. It's interesting, earlier in the show we talked with Jimmy Pardo and how the transition he made from being a comic who was like every white male to being who he really is on stage. We're talking about that struggle to bring who you are offstage to the stage. Well, the first time I met Wendy was at a bar after QED. Right. And I thought, this is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. She is absolutely hysterical. They said that bind your back, by the way, to me. He did so, it's true. Oh, gosh, she's so funny. And then I thought, I'm worried about watching her do stand up. Because I'm also so pretty. You guys can't say I'm also pretty. I'm so pretty, so pretty. And she brings, you know. Yeah, I worry about that too, but everybody. But, you know, people always say to me, I want to find my voice. Well, I always go, well, it's always been there, Dorothy. What you do is you get rid of all the bullshit that's not you all. I'm looking at you because you have your hand on my knee and I call anyone who does that, Dorothy. It's just a weird, weird thing from my past. But, you know, it's like they asked Michelangelo and they said, hey, Michael. They said, how did you make David out of the big marbles? He said, I cut all the parts that weren't him. And that's how comedians are. We just bring ourselves to the stage. And I've been doing comedy off and on for 30-plus years. I've stopped for four years in the middle of the beginning. And we thank you for that. I appreciate it. You thank me. The people thank me. Everyone thanks me. Hello, am I tasty? No, but so the, you know, in all the years I've been doing it, you just get better at it the more you just be yourself. And that's the key. And people say, well, you know, you can- Unless you're David Feldman. Yeah, then you absolutely be somebody else. Please be the editor of the newspaper just for a year. Yeah. Wendy Starling. Yes. Will be at the Vegas Improv with the brilliant Henry Phillips. November 10th through the 15th. If you're in Vegas, is it, I believe it's at Harris, right? Correct. It's at Harris. It's a beautiful club. Yeah, that's a great club. Is Harris a palindrome? No. Shara shot. Yeah. No, it isn't. No, it is. It is, yeah. Because it's a apostrophe, yes. The S screws everything up. Charis is a palindrome. Yeah. It's a palindrome. Palindrome is a palindrome. And if you're- We have listeners in the land of- Ireland. Yes. If you're- In the land of Ireland. In the land of Ireland. In the land of Ireland. Ireland. Ireland. Ireland. Oh, bless me, fire. Eddie Brill will be at the Galway Festival. Give us the dates. 23rd through 26th of October. And then I'm in Chicago, working all three Zanies from November 5th through the 14th. All three Zanies, that's insane. It is insane, but I love it. That's insane. That's insane. That's insane. That'll do it for us from the Showbiz Studios in downtown Manhattan. We'll talk to you next time. Don't forget to follow Jimmy Pardo, Wendy Starling, and Eddie Brill on Twitter and friend them on Facebook. And go see them perform. They're all funny people. Really funny. And I'm glad Wendy finally did our show. Don't forget to do all your Amazon shopping via the David Feldman Show website. Give us a good review on iTunes. Recommend our show to your friends. Throw a listening party. Have you tried that? Sit around and- No, maybe that's not a good idea. Okay. That'll do it for us next week. We've got some great shows. Have a great weekend. Our executive producer is Alex Brazell, and we are produced by Gay Blacks. Thank you so much for joining us.