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Roastlemania 12: Comedy, Rivalries & Roasts | 364 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

0:00
SPEAKER_05: What advice would you give someone who is looking to get into the comedy scene?
0:04
SPEAKER_05: Be Indian.
0:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, don't during comedy, just become Indian.
0:14
SPEAKER_05: Question, Julie.
0:14
SPEAKER_05: Have you ever been involved in like a roast, like a comedy roast?
0:19
SPEAKER_04: Not for an audience, but I think I'm pretty good at zingers.
0:23
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you definitely are.
0:24
SPEAKER_05: You definitely are good at zinging.
0:25
SPEAKER_05: And hitting where it hurts.
0:26
SPEAKER_04: Right.
0:27
SPEAKER_05: There are some days I'll leave the office and I'll just cry myself to slave a little bit.
0:31
SPEAKER_04: That's the goal.
0:31
SPEAKER_05: That is the goal.
0:32
SPEAKER_05: We actually did, before you came on the team, we actually did a roast uh with the the team here internal.
0:38
SPEAKER_05: It was great.
0:38
SPEAKER_05: It was a lot of fun.
0:39
SPEAKER_05: And I fired everybody the next day.
0:41
SPEAKER_04: I'm sure you did.
0:42
SPEAKER_05: Because I don't take that shit.
0:43
SPEAKER_04: Pulled a real Michael Scott.
0:44
SPEAKER_05: I did a real Michael Scott.
0:46
SPEAKER_05: Well, today I'm very excited because we have the creators of Roastal Mania, Mike Krasner and Sean Reddy here on the show.
0:52
SPEAKER_05: Welcome to the show, gentlemen.
0:54
SPEAKER_05: Hey, what's up, guys?
0:55
SPEAKER_05: How are you guys doing?
0:56
SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much for being here.
0:57
SPEAKER_05: Excellent.
0:58
SPEAKER_05: Thanks for having us, man.
0:59
SPEAKER_05: Tell me about how the two of you came together.
1:02
SPEAKER_05: Because you you you guys are the the creators of Roastal Mania.
1:06
SPEAKER_05: Is that correct?
1:06
SPEAKER_02: Kras is like this.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: This is the man.
1:08
SPEAKER_02: Like I tell people all this time, uh, all the time is that he's like our Vince McMahon without the allegations.
1:14
SPEAKER_02: You know?
1:15
SPEAKER_02: So far.
1:15
SPEAKER_02: So far, yeah, yeah.
1:16
SPEAKER_02: We're still young in the game.
1:18
SPEAKER_02: You know, there's potential.
1:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't tell me short yet.
1:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, there's potential.
1:22
SPEAKER_05: All right.
1:23
SPEAKER_05: You know, listen, if you're gonna be anybody, you might as well be Vince McMahon.
1:26
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
1:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:27
SPEAKER_05: Go all out, man.
1:29
SPEAKER_05: Um, what's the story of how Roastal Mania came to be, Vince?
1:33
SPEAKER_01: So Roastal Mania actually I'm the creator, but I'm not I'm the creator of the new Roastal Mania.
1:39
SPEAKER_01: Because several years ago, Roastal Mania was a thing out here with um other local comics, and then it kind of ceased to exist, and then one day I had an idea of rebooting it, and I went and talked to the former producers of it, gave me their blessing, and then we turned it into the spectacle you see today.
2:00
SPEAKER_05: It's like when the WWF turned into the WWE.
2:02
SPEAKER_05: You're you're you're the guy.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we bought out WCW and Yeah, the invasion storyline and all that.
2:10
SPEAKER_01: Well, originally the uh idea of the show was supposed to be because Wise Guys Comedy Club in the Arts District was doing roast battles.
2:20
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then we work a lot at the LA Comedy Club, so I had an idea of like, oh, would it be cool to like do a roast show and have like LA Comedy Club comics versus wise guys comics?
2:31
SPEAKER_01: It'll be like the WCW versus WW angle and all that, and then I got the show, and then it just didn't become that.
2:41
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
2:45
SPEAKER_01: So there was no other federation to invade, right?
2:48
SPEAKER_01: And then it just became like a crazier, bigger show.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we took over the whole territory, man.
2:53
SPEAKER_01: It actually came really it actually turned out better than it would have been if we would have done the original invasion.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: Why do you say that?
3:01
SPEAKER_01: Because I I love that idea that that you did.
3:03
SPEAKER_01: I just feel like in retrospect, we probably would have ran out of comedians.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, there's only so many who roast it wise guys.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: It probably just you would have had crossovers and stuff anyway, naturally.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: So I feel like this way was for everybody, and just make it like wrestling, storylines, and you know, keep track of everybody's wins and losses, and see what beefs they have and create great matchups no matter who what club they perform for and stuff like that.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: So I I think it worked out better this way.
3:34
SPEAKER_01: Why the tie-in with wrestling?
3:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm a nerd and a loser.
3:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh my whole life.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: I grew up watching wrestling from eight years old, and you know, I've always not wanted to be a wrestler, but like I just love the every time like I was a kid and I'd like walked somewhere, I'd always like have my hands out, like the hand, like the crowd was like, give me five and I'm doing this.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: I've always just liked stupid little things of wrestling, cutting promos and stuff like that.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: So why not take two of my favorite things like comedy and wrestling?
4:07
SPEAKER_01: And surprisingly, they're very similar.
4:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:10
SPEAKER_01: I you know, I'm here for it.
4:11
SPEAKER_05: I actually, and I I I swear to God, this is a god's honest truth.
4:14
SPEAKER_05: I'll sometimes I I was into wrestling growing up too.
4:18
SPEAKER_05: I would have my phone uh play like my theme song, whatever my theme song is, I put it in my pocket and I'd walk into a room acting like it was my theme song.
4:26
SPEAKER_04: Pocket full of sunshine, Natasha Beddingfield?
4:27
SPEAKER_05: Yes, it was Natasha Beddingfield pocket full of sunshine.
4:30
SPEAKER_01: Because the crowd went crazy for it.
4:32
SPEAKER_01: Me and my friend, when we were younger, and when I say younger, it's pretty sad because we were like 20.
4:38
SPEAKER_01: We weren't like 14 or 8 or anything.
4:40
SPEAKER_01: We were legit like we were because we were driving.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:43
SPEAKER_01: And I would get the WWF.
4:46
SPEAKER_01: I still call it WWF.
4:48
SPEAKER_01: Not WF.
4:49
SPEAKER_01: Come come for me, guys.
4:51
SPEAKER_01: Me and my friend would sit in my car.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: We had the anthology album.
4:55
SPEAKER_01: It came with three discs with all theme songs on it.
4:57
SPEAKER_01: We'd sit in front of 7-Eleven right in front of the doors in our car, and we'd wait for someone to walk in, we'd quickly figure out what wrestler they look like, and then we'd have the music queued up for them.
5:08
SPEAKER_01: So when they came out, they'd come out to like Vince McMahon or Stone Cold or we would sit in the car and just laugh like uncontrollable children, and they would have no idea what's going on around them.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: And we would do it for like three hours.
5:20
SPEAKER_01: We'd literally sit in front of 711 for like three hours just laughing like schoolgirls because somebody guy came out to the nation of domination.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: Like it was so stupid.
5:33
SPEAKER_02: Sean, are you this into wrestling as well?
5:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
5:36
SPEAKER_02: I'm just I'm just really bad with my memories, so I can't really remember names and stuff.
5:40
SPEAKER_02: That's like a known thing.
5:41
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, when I was a kid, I was a fan.
5:44
SPEAKER_02: A fan of who?
5:45
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I can only really remember uh mankind.
5:47
SPEAKER_02: That was like my dude, man.
5:48
SPEAKER_02: Cactus Jag, do love.
5:50
SPEAKER_05: Which by the way, I just noticed your shirt too, which is a fantastic tie-in.
5:54
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, Halloween ha ha.
5:55
SPEAKER_05: This was this was uh one of our past events, man.
5:58
SPEAKER_01: Pleasures we did it like October something.
6:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, it was fun, man.
6:02
SPEAKER_02: That's why we had to do it again.
6:03
SPEAKER_02: But um, but yeah, wrestling has always been a thing.
6:05
SPEAKER_02: And that's actually kind of like I mean, outside of doing like comedy, yeah.
6:08
SPEAKER_02: You know, Kras and I like we used to make jokes about wrestling when we were like at the same shows together all the time, and then he came with this idea, and I was like, dude, it's like, well, you're gonna give belts to comics, you know?
6:18
SPEAKER_02: Like, we have championship belts.
6:20
SPEAKER_02: He's like, I have this vision, man.
6:22
SPEAKER_02: I have this vision.
6:23
SPEAKER_02: And and yeah, and like it started off as like a midnight show, bro, and now we got these prime spots, and people are coming out.
6:28
SPEAKER_02: Have you guys been to a show yet?
6:29
SPEAKER_04: Not yet.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: Haven't been to a show yet.
6:30
SPEAKER_02: Oh, the disrespect.
6:32
SPEAKER_02: We gotta work on our marketing, bro.
6:33
SPEAKER_05: How have we known each other?
6:34
SPEAKER_05: I know, man.
6:36
SPEAKER_05: I was one of the guys I walked out of 7-Eleven.
6:37
SPEAKER_01: I heard you play a nation of nomination, but I'm like, I pay you for a nation guy.
6:43
unknown: Definitely.
6:45
SPEAKER_01: The first thing you think of me when you see it is you think Farouk.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: When I met you earlier, I was just gonna be like Which by the way, growing up, The Rock was my He was the greatest on the mic.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: For sure.
6:58
SPEAKER_01: I'll still go watch like uh Best of the Rock compilations and Rock's funniest moments.
7:03
SPEAKER_01: Still so good.
7:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so good.
7:05
SPEAKER_05: So we actually, this isn't the first time that uh we've talked about Roastal Mania on the show back.
7:10
SPEAKER_05: Was it this season or last season?
7:11
SPEAKER_04: It was this season, but early this season.
7:13
SPEAKER_05: Early this season, we had Haley Brooks on the show, and she actually talked about Roastal Mania.
7:17
SPEAKER_05: Let me pull this up real quick.
7:36
SPEAKER_05: So walk us through how the typical Roastomania match works.
7:40
SPEAKER_05: You have the flyer here, which is awesome.
7:42
SPEAKER_05: Uh take us through how, like, what the audience is going to expect when they walk in.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: So they're gonna come in, they're gonna get seated, they'll order their food, chill, have their table talk chatter while everything's getting set up, then the music's gonna hit.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: I'll come out, um, I'll welcome everybody to the show.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: I will bring up my co-host, and then I will bring up the judges.
8:04
SPEAKER_01: And Sean is one of my judges, he's the main judge, he's on everyone.
8:08
SPEAKER_01: He'll explain his side in a second.
8:10
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
8:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, I'll welcome everybody for coming, and then we just go right into it with the first battle.
8:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then in bet after the battle, the judges say their piece, they decide who wins, and then we go on to the next one.
8:27
SPEAKER_01: It's kind of like a like a wrestling pay-per-view.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the match, the commentary, the this, that, and then the.
8:31
SPEAKER_02: But but that's the thing though, so it's literally mania.
8:34
SPEAKER_02: Like, if any of you follow wrestling, wrestle WrestleMania is like the biggest thing, right?
8:38
SPEAKER_02: It's like the Super Bowl, right?
8:40
SPEAKER_01: Backstage interviews in the green room and stuff.
8:42
SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
8:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and we got around a mean gene.
8:45
SPEAKER_02: We do, and and and that's the thing.
8:47
SPEAKER_02: We like we create a whole experience, man.
8:49
SPEAKER_02: And then um, like we Krazz create storylines, right?
8:53
SPEAKER_02: Like and like storylines sometimes create themselves.
8:56
SPEAKER_02: That's true too, because uh, you know, like we're we're all we're in the small comedy community, so everyone kind of knows each other, and then when things are like, you know, people bump heads, and like we're like, oh, we can probably make a match out of this, you know?
9:07
SPEAKER_02: And like, and then like we then through that he has levels, right?
9:11
SPEAKER_02: You keep winning and stuff like that, then you you get you know a title shot, right?
9:15
SPEAKER_02: Just like in wrestling.
9:16
SPEAKER_02: It's a whole thing, it's storylines, the drama, we got pyro, like it's a it's an amazing man.
9:21
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's incredible.
9:22
SPEAKER_01: And you guys know uh Roman Reigns, of course, how he's like the one tribal chooser the OTC.
9:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I got the nickname the uh the organizer of chaos, so I'm the OOC, and I that's like my character, and I I feed off chaos.
9:38
SPEAKER_01: So anytime I can put together like a crazy wild match, we've had a father versus a son.
9:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've had um two we've had two people who used to be friends with benefits, gross we had a current boyfriend and girlfriend go at it.
9:53
SPEAKER_01: And this one, if you look in the top left corner of the opening match, it says palsy match.
10:01
SPEAKER_01: I don't think that one needs any further explanation.
10:08
SPEAKER_01: That's awesome.
10:09
SPEAKER_01: The organizer of chaos at your best right here.
10:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking forward to and we're gonna start the show off like that.
10:15
SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna give them any like, are you guys ready?
10:18
SPEAKER_01: Here's the little buffer.
10:19
SPEAKER_01: We're going right into the dude.
10:22
SPEAKER_01: I I haven't met them.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: I've talked to one of them on the phone, and when I say the word talk, it's a loose term.
10:31
SPEAKER_04: So the comics know who their matchup is with enough time to like write with the book.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: We've had this book since probably August, July.
10:42
SPEAKER_01: So they've had time to write jokes, and sometimes they don't use that time to their advantage.
10:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's where and that's where Sean created the illustrious it just happened by chance.
10:54
SPEAKER_02: All right, it was just comics being on comics.
10:57
SPEAKER_02: I'm a I'm a big believer in quality, of course.
10:59
SPEAKER_02: All right, I'm a we're in a craft that's probably one of the hardest crafts.
11:02
SPEAKER_02: Right.
11:02
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
11:03
SPEAKER_02: And roasting is way different than just traditional stand-up comedy, right?
11:07
SPEAKER_02: Like you're you're literally out there shitting on people, yeah.
11:09
SPEAKER_02: And not in and you're allowing someone to shit on you.
11:12
SPEAKER_02: So it's like how you rebuttal that, how do you defend it, it's all like wittiness, right?
11:16
SPEAKER_02: Right.
11:16
SPEAKER_02: It's like creativity of writing.
11:17
SPEAKER_02: Like, that's why I love roast battles, because it's like a whole different element, like to me.
11:21
SPEAKER_02: Like, like it's just like improv, right?
11:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so anyways, uh um with that, because you're booked in advance, I expect some like peep we're paying customers coming to the show.
11:34
SPEAKER_02: Be prepared.
11:35
SPEAKER_02: You gotta be prepared.
11:36
SPEAKER_02: You only got one battle, dude.
11:37
SPEAKER_03: Right.
11:37
SPEAKER_02: Like you got you got three, you know, rose jokes, sometimes five, depending, right?
11:41
SPEAKER_02: And uh, and you should just be able to be able to write that out.
11:45
SPEAKER_02: So, because of that, there was a a comic that didn't do well, and I I straight up said, like, yo, that was trash, right?
11:51
SPEAKER_02: And then it started catching on, like the audience was like, Oh shit, like you know, like this dude really called them trash, and they got mad, like you know, they got mad at me for saying, but I was like, the comedian got mad at you?
12:00
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the comic got mad.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: Come on, they could be sensitive sometimes.
12:03
SPEAKER_02: So then, so then like, and then I was like, it's it's my thing, is it's all for the people, you know what I'm saying?
12:08
SPEAKER_02: So we created this thing.
12:11
SPEAKER_02: My wife was going through her old childhood supplies because I got kids, okay, and she found this this trash can that she used to put her her crayon, uh, not crayon, yeah, crayons and you know, color pencils and stuff.
12:22
SPEAKER_02: I was looking at it, I was like, yo, I was like, can I take that?
12:24
SPEAKER_02: And then she was like, Yeah, so I I took it to an event and we made it into a thing that if a comic eats shit on stage, I raised the trash can and the crowd yells trash as one.
12:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, it's a fun interactive experience for everybody now because I tell them straight up, you guys are paying customers.
12:41
SPEAKER_02: If they don't meet your part of quality, you could yell trash and all that.
12:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we encourage people to heckle out a wrestling crowd.
12:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like there was one time some comic did a joke, and just out of nowhere, some lady isolated was just like, you're trash.
12:59
SPEAKER_01: So like people can yell boo, cheer, and it's like it's but if you get booed or called trash, that's on you.
13:05
SPEAKER_02: Outside of that, though, outside of that, there is true meaning to it.
13:08
SPEAKER_02: It's like, yo, if you don't come back and do the show, give us your all, right?
13:12
SPEAKER_02: And it motivated people.
13:13
SPEAKER_02: Some some comics, well, like we said earlier, do get mad at it, right?
13:16
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
13:16
SPEAKER_02: However, though, there's comics like Haley.
13:18
SPEAKER_02: She was one of the first people I called trash, and now she's a champ.
13:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she came back, she's like, I'm gonna prove you wrong.
13:23
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, do it.
13:24
SPEAKER_02: And then she proved, and she kept proving, and now she holds the belt.
13:28
SPEAKER_02: And she's going for two.
13:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so she won Roastal Mania, what, 11?
13:33
SPEAKER_01: No, she won the Intercontinental Championship at Roastlemania 7.
13:41
SPEAKER_01: I gotcha.
13:42
SPEAKER_01: So she's had it for five coming up on five manias now.
13:46
SPEAKER_01: She's she's defended it?
13:47
SPEAKER_01: Not every time, because I'm not gonna make her defend every time.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because there's so many other matches and stuff, but she's defended a couple of times.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: And then um Does she get to keep the belt?
13:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's at her house right now.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
13:59
SPEAKER_01: She walks around with it sometimes, she did news appearances with it.
14:02
SPEAKER_01: And she's gonna be in the main event against Mila D, who won the women's championship at Mania 10.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: So this is our first ever title versus title match where the winner will be a double champion.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: Walking out with two.
14:21
SPEAKER_01: The winner's gonna walk out with a women's championship and the intercontinental championship, and the loser will walk away with the memory of once being relevant.
14:31
SPEAKER_04: And now being irrelevant.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: Julie, we need to have the winner on.
14:34
SPEAKER_01: And we have a new custom women's championship belt and a new custom undisputed championship belt.
14:44
SPEAKER_01: We will be debuting at this main.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: You guys go all out.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: You don't hold back.
14:48
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, man.
14:50
SPEAKER_05: That's that's very Paul Bearer earned.
14:53
SPEAKER_05: That's who you are.
14:54
SPEAKER_05: You're like the Undertaker who's pretty much.
14:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
14:56
SPEAKER_05: Actually, here, I got you.
14:57
SPEAKER_05: What do you have in there?
14:57
SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
14:58
SPEAKER_01: Oh, Sean.
14:59
SPEAKER_04: Oh, sick.
15:00
SPEAKER_04: Yes, thank you.
15:03
SPEAKER_05: We did a rally towel.
15:04
SPEAKER_04: Hell yeah.
15:05
SPEAKER_05: Hell yeah.
15:06
SPEAKER_05: Worse than this.
15:07
SPEAKER_04: Mike, do you have a persona comparable to the trash man or not really?
15:11
SPEAKER_04: The trash man.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: No, I don't really um I mean I just have my organizer of chaos character, but it's basically just me with a title.
15:22
SPEAKER_01: I don't do character work.
15:24
SPEAKER_04: Right.
15:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm not really good at acting and stuff.
15:27
SPEAKER_05: Is so you you guys have baby faces and you have heels.
15:30
SPEAKER_01: Is Haley a baby face or is she a heel?
15:32
SPEAKER_01: I feel like most of our people are good guys.
15:35
SPEAKER_01: Um we have a couple of bad guys.
15:38
SPEAKER_02: The only bad guy that we have, and this is another specialty we like to bring to the show.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: Which we want bad guys.
15:44
SPEAKER_02: We do.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: They're bad in the long run.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:46
SPEAKER_02: There is uh a comic named Orlando.
15:49
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
15:50
SPEAKER_02: He took this too hard, which is that we, you know, we pass out championship belts, right?
15:56
SPEAKER_02: Well, sometimes, sometimes I feel like you also have to acknowledge the worst one of the show.
16:00
SPEAKER_04: Right.
16:01
SPEAKER_02: And so we give out a trash trophy of the night award.
16:05
SPEAKER_01: Trash of the night.
16:06
SPEAKER_02: Love trash of the night.
16:07
SPEAKER_02: It's literally a a still a little steel tin trash can on a little placard, and they could hold it up and everything.
16:13
SPEAKER_02: The oh it opens up.
16:14
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes the It's better than a Heisman trophy.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and they drink out of it too.
16:19
SPEAKER_02: Like it's like a Stanley Cup tradition.
16:21
SPEAKER_02: Parents are so proud.
16:22
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
16:23
SPEAKER_04: I mean, it's good motivation to like be like, oh, I really sucked last night.
16:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but see, that's the thing, because our heel Orlando, he wants to suck.
16:32
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
16:33
SPEAKER_02: That's his whole thing, is that he wants to be the worst of the worst.
16:37
SPEAKER_02: He wants to be the trash of the night all the time.
16:39
SPEAKER_02: You know, he even said he we did a battle.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: We had two two of the the trash uh recipients from previous manias come together to do exactly what the championships are gonna be doing this coming Halloween.
16:51
SPEAKER_01: Is uh two-time trash award winner.
16:55
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, I'm not getting off the stage until I get both of them.
16:58
SPEAKER_02: Like that was like it was amazing, man.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: It's pure chaos.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: No, he's great.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: He'll like tell a joke and no one will laugh and be like, You guys don't know shit about comedy.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: Like, just you know what the crap.
17:10
SPEAKER_01: It couldn't be any better.
17:11
SPEAKER_01: He's so good.
17:13
SPEAKER_01: He's so amazing.
17:13
SPEAKER_01: I tell you, that's why you just it's it's a fun event, man.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: It sounds like it.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: I got it, come on.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then we got some fun judges and stuff.
17:20
SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
17:21
SPEAKER_05: You guys are fucking hilarious.
17:23
SPEAKER_05: Like, and so you not only are you guys you know in charge of running this and putting it on and doing the the marketing for it, you guys also have your own individual comedy careers, right?
17:31
SPEAKER_05: How let's start with you.
17:33
SPEAKER_05: How long have you been in comedy for?
17:35
SPEAKER_01: Oh, God.
17:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh don't be shy.
17:38
SPEAKER_05: Was it Charlie Chaplin?
17:39
unknown: Yeah.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: Is it true that you mentor Charlie loud in comedy?
17:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I uh I took his sister to junior promo she had the same mustache.
17:56
SPEAKER_01: First thing I noticed about her.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, I started doing comedy like 2005.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, I wasn't like a full-time comic then.
18:05
SPEAKER_01: Um started in New York, was doing stuff.
18:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, ooh.
18:10
SPEAKER_01: Um doing pretty good.
18:11
SPEAKER_05: Friends with benefits, I see.
18:12
SPEAKER_05: That's good.
18:13
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's good.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: And then I moved to Vegas.
18:15
SPEAKER_05: Is new is Vegas become like another go-to spot for comedy?
18:19
SPEAKER_05: Like I so many people we have we've had a few comedians on, and a handful of them have said that they've either started in New York or that one of their stops along their career was you know, obviously in New York, and it should be.
18:30
SPEAKER_05: Uh, do you feel like Vegas is becoming just as important as New York comedy scene?
18:35
SPEAKER_02: Or is it what did they say?
18:37
SPEAKER_02: Do they say Vegas is that important?
18:39
SPEAKER_02: I actually didn't ask that question.
18:40
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
18:41
SPEAKER_05: And I'm actually upset that I didn't ask that.
18:43
SPEAKER_05: So I'm I'm I'm saving it for you guys.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm gonna say no.
18:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
18:47
SPEAKER_02: Um I mean, I'm just because it's just uh it's just a it is like another style because it's not a whole local scene yet.
18:53
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
18:54
SPEAKER_02: Like all the clubs, they're all at casinos.
18:56
SPEAKER_02: So they fly in a lot of comics and stuff like that.
18:59
SPEAKER_02: Locally wise, it's developing.
19:01
SPEAKER_02: I I think it's potential, but I wouldn't say it's like a necessary stop.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: Because like, because of social media, man, like you can make money everywhere now.
19:07
SPEAKER_02: Anywhere, yeah.
19:08
SPEAKER_02: Like your your your your success, like in this current like generation that we live in, or or what a decor, whatever you want to call it, it's like you have no excuse to not make it on your own.
19:18
SPEAKER_02: Like you don't even need all the extra shit no more.
19:21
SPEAKER_02: So it's like to say that you need an actual spot.
19:24
SPEAKER_02: I New York is great if you want to learn how to write really well, in my opinion.
19:28
SPEAKER_02: Like they have they're phenomenal writers.
19:30
SPEAKER_02: You go to the West Coast, like you know, the Bay Area or LA is like storytelling, it's longer stories and stuff.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: So it always depends on your style.
19:36
SPEAKER_02: But uh Vegas itself, like it's a cool stop, man.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: But it's a it's a it's not a big local scene, it's growing though.
19:41
SPEAKER_05: What's your style?
19:42
SPEAKER_02: My style, I tell stories.
19:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm I tell yeah, I tell tons of stories, bro.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, most of my family.
19:48
SPEAKER_02: I just shit on my family the whole time, to be honest with you.
19:50
SPEAKER_02: I got two kids and my wife, and I just and a three-legged dog, so it's like shit on your kids?
19:55
SPEAKER_02: I shit on my kids all the time.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: I love that.
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Hold on, what do you shit on your three-legged dog for?
19:59
SPEAKER_02: Forget the kids.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: Actually, the dog is probably the thing that gets the least shit on.
20:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:04
SPEAKER_01: Well, rightfully so.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: Rightfully so.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: He's got three legs.
20:09
SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
20:09
SPEAKER_04: It does say that you guys are starting with the main event of the palsy match.
20:14
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: Well, we support disabilities.
20:17
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the dog's gonna be the referee, actually.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: The winner gets two legs.
20:24
SPEAKER_04: I do want to ask really quick, just on something you said, another thing that we've had comics comment on before on the show is that they don't feel like social media is actually helping long-term comedians because they're like, oh, you get your 30 seconds of fame, but then you can't do a full show.
20:42
SPEAKER_04: Do you like how do you guys feel about people using social media?
20:46
SPEAKER_02: We we had somebody, I forgot.
20:47
SPEAKER_02: Let me clarify real quick.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: You're talking about someone that gets like a following on social media, but then they can't sell out shows.
20:52
SPEAKER_02: Is that what the question is?
20:53
SPEAKER_04: But they can sell it out, but then their show totally sucks because all that they have worked towards is like a hot social media clip.
21:00
SPEAKER_02: Goes viral for like a one-net clip.
21:02
SPEAKER_02: That happens all the time.
21:04
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I hate to say it, but that happens with a lot of Kill Tony comics.
21:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:07
SPEAKER_02: You got famous off of one minute, and then then clubs, because it's all at the end of the day, it's all the business, right?
21:12
SPEAKER_02: So clubs is like, yo, butts and seats that pays the bills, right?
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Right.
21:15
SPEAKER_02: I got staff to pay and all that, right?
21:16
SPEAKER_02: I got a business to run.
21:17
SPEAKER_02: So they'll book, you know, people, YouTubers, right?
21:20
SPEAKER_02: People that make skits, and the shows are not good because live performance is totally different, right?
21:24
SPEAKER_02: And then Kill Tony wise, yeah, they get they get the exposure, they get the following and everything, but then when they come and do 45 minutes, you build your career off of one minute.
21:32
SPEAKER_02: So it takes give them like three years or four years, five years, then they'll be killing it.
21:38
SPEAKER_02: But right off the bat off of that fame and that that hype, it's it's bad sometimes.
21:42
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
21:43
SPEAKER_02: But uh it is what it is, but you just have to adapt to it.
21:46
SPEAKER_02: But um, but yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, man, the more you do it, the more you get over on stage.
21:50
SPEAKER_02: I mean, the more better you get.
21:51
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
21:51
SPEAKER_02: So how many hours would you say you guys have on stage?
21:54
SPEAKER_05: All total in your career.
21:56
SPEAKER_05: Too much, man.
21:59
SPEAKER_05: I honestly can't even.
22:00
SPEAKER_05: a number on that to be real with you.
22:01
SPEAKER_05: Do you get do you st do you still get butterflies before going up on stage?
22:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: I mean I mean I it it's situational.
22:09
SPEAKER_01: I feel like the only time I still get nervous is if it's like a new place I'm trying to like impress in, trying to get invited back.
22:17
SPEAKER_01: Or if there's like friends or family you've never seen me perform.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: Like when I had like a day job and stuff and invite like coworkers.
22:24
SPEAKER_01: And you don't want to eat a dick in front of them.
22:26
SPEAKER_01: You gotta work with them.
22:27
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot of pressure there.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Um so I haven't really gotten nervous in a while but yeah it still happens every once in a while.
22:37
SPEAKER_02: I mean I like the pressure to be honest with you.
22:39
SPEAKER_02: I have jokes that I put myself in the hole on purpose.
22:41
SPEAKER_02: Try to see if I could challenge yourself yeah I got a Confederate joke that I do.
22:46
SPEAKER_02: I got an abortion joke that I do.
22:48
SPEAKER_02: So it's like you know what I'm saying like you know things that people don't want to touch on.
22:51
SPEAKER_02: It's like yeah I'm gonna just say it.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: Right.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: And then then after I say I go all right well I we'll figure it out from here now.
22:57
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
22:58
SPEAKER_02: It's fun.
22:58
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
22:59
SPEAKER_05: What's the is the Vegas crowd tough because you have a lot of tourists that come in and you know they may be drunk off grass or whatever but the is the Vegas crowd harder compared to LA or anywhere else?
23:10
SPEAKER_02: Look man I think I think uh I think we say it all the time is like if you can make a Vegas crowd laugh you'll murder it anywhere else because you're entertaining people from like Argentina you know what I'm saying like they don't even speak like yo British people they speak English but it's a different type of English.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: So like after shows they're like hey we didn't really understand some of your jokes but but it was fun it was like all right we heard other people laughing yeah so laughing along with it but but if you if you make uh Vegas crowd laugh bro like yeah you'll just murder it anywhere else too yeah yeah man tell me about the judges that you have on so obviously you're you're one of the judges that you have for Rosal Mania who are some of the other judges that you have good question thank you um Sean is our main judge and then we have um we try to mix it up with comedians and if we can get like other people whatever like celebrities they have sometimes musicians or whatever so um we have an author and uh musician uh John Wayne Communale he um he's in a band he's got like a cool gothic look and stuff like that so he's definitely gonna fit right in on the panel um super talented artist and stuff like that um our female judge we have essence jones she's a comedian out here um yeah I think I've seen some of her she works with Haley too yeah she's been doing um some stuff with Haley she's funny she's great this is her first time being a judge on WrestleMania um and then I don't know if um you guys watch movies he's familiar Brandon's definitely familiar with this next judge we have um Brandon's very excited for the adult film star and award winning Alexis Fox will be in the building Alexis Fox right out Alexis Brandon what's your favorite Alexis Alexis Fox movie that you've seen so far I'm Joe Lombardo he's Joe Lombardo excuse for the second time to not answer that question.
25:15
SPEAKER_02: Smart smart she's actually been this is her second time okay she was the judge at Mania 10 yeah night of champions and um that was good good what uh one of the questions we got from the from our followers was especially this is perfect for you Sean what makes a good roast and like like to you what would be something that catches your attention or you're like wow that actually landed dude anything that I can't think of I'm I'm impressed by it you know I'm saying like to sit there and really just break down someone's personality or even their look you know I'm saying and like a good roast comes from the heart man yeah like you see someone you want to just say that bullshit to them.
25:56
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
25:56
SPEAKER_02: So it's like and then they say it and you're just like wow like that was that was good.
26:02
SPEAKER_02: It's more the creativity in my opinion you know and uh and how quick you know what I'm saying like you know like a a lot of roasters like they kind of try to build up a whole like imagery for like the audience and then like sometimes it goes too long right and so like their main punch doesn't hit yeah but then if it's like short and like snappy like bro like that's that's dope.
26:23
SPEAKER_02: Like yeah what's the what's the best roast that you've heard on the top of your head on the top of my head oh man I hate I hate to bring this up but um man look Mike even Mike's like what's going on there was a there was a comic uh her name was Anne and she she actually was battling um Mia who's the other champion on that flyer right there and this was the first time they battled and um she she says something along the lines of that was it Mia look like uh how did she save her you're remembering the line Mike's not here she did not want to say it okay so um let us recapping this is just this is Mila wears wigs okay so sometimes she takes it off and throws it in the crowd or whatever and then she's bald.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
27:12
SPEAKER_01: So that happened and then Anne was ready to tell a joke and she said it was basically like Mila's not also not just a comedian she's also an actress you might recognize her from her previous role in the Wizard of Oz as flying monkey number three ruthless the roof off that was a bad joke on two levels because one it was racist and two she wasn't even good enough to be flying monkey number one or two she got relegated to three and to me that's the real punchline of the joke.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: Right facts she got mad at everything and yeah you can get that nobody wants to be called a monkey as a like I get I get all of that.
28:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm not but I think that is the real that's the that's the bread and butter of the joke that's creative.
28:06
SPEAKER_01: That's very and of course Mila got pissed did she really and then they had a rematch and Mila beat her for the title.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: So sometimes you need to be pushed.
28:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah karma yeah yeah yeah she got she got her penance on her good but see how well that joke was though that that's good because then you think about it you're like oh there's another layer to it's just so much to it so quick no number three yeah number three I guess when you're developing a roast though like you can't like it has to be about something that's apparent to the audience right like it can't be something you know personally about them or maybe the audience won't get it right correct so like yeah like inside jokes and stuff like that never works.
28:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah inside joke but like the Joe Collis roast against Steven he had some pretty uh so Joe Collis is our up until a couple of months ago he was undefeated for like ten years champion just destroys everyone he goes up against he'll say anything whatever he's great yeah 100% so he went up against my old the guy who used to uh book WrestleMania years ago Steven Roberts okay he challenged him and he's a very flamboyant gay person he is he'll tell you very gay so and he's open about you make fun of him this and that and Joe being ruthless he took him out pretty hard I can't remember all the jokes but he had like uh your asshole is so gaping it looks like it's yawning.
29:49
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god if if the shooter wait what was it uh oh yeah at that nightclub if the guy who shot up the nightclub yeah Pulse Nightclub would have heard your comedy he just would have dropped the gun and covered his ears like so like just like brutal just like you're not funny you're gay just boom boom just all it was creative it wasn't like hacking there's that fine line between oh he just stops and he goes he goes every quilt is an AIDS quilt when Steven Jizz is on it.
30:29
SPEAKER_01: Like how do you come back from that?
30:31
SPEAKER_02: How do you say that to me and I'm like well you wear glasses like is there I I would I would it would be like the end of of eight months I would just be able to say he won the crowd over so well that anytime Stevens it was like his time to like roast right it was like his part of the of the round the crowd wouldn't even let him say one word they would just start yelling trash right off the bat what do you do in that in that situation?
30:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh you you sit on the back of the stage and you laugh your fucking ass off.
31:01
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing else you can do nothing you can do.
31:03
SPEAKER_05: No you gotta let that you gotta let that trash wave ride out but that night that it it can't right like uh and that was the main event too we able to see any of these online yeah we're working on that good yeah make it happen because this this sounds there are some clips on Instagram right now of that Joe roast and stuff okay there are some clips we'll have to find them I I love the fact too that you guys all fun and games aside one of the things that comes up in the coverage of Russell Mania is is it gives the opportunity for local comics to get more eyes on them more so than they usually would.
31:34
SPEAKER_05: Is that obviously that's important to you guys?
31:36
SPEAKER_02: Oh of course man because we know the struggles of it man like you know we've been we've been um comics for quite some time now and so like trying to get that stage time because that's that's the number one rule is basically the more time that you're up on stage the more time people get to see you.
31:48
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
31:49
SPEAKER_02: And like I said earlier the scene is so small like um the main two clubs that are really for locals is LA Comedy Club at the Stratosphere and then um wise guys but wise guys in my opinion is more for the locals because they're not even attached to the strip at all no hotels no nothing.
32:05
SPEAKER_02: So it's 100% local so you know you go to you go and do a show on the strip and you're like hey where's everyone from and like they say all sorts of different things.
32:14
SPEAKER_02: You go to wise guys you go where you guys from they're all hey we're all right here and so like it's all like minded thinking and stuff you know so uh so you as a comic actually have a chance to develop a local following so then when you do like local shows and stuff like the little ones people might come out they might come and check you out or they'll support you now as an open micer or a young comic and then when they see that you're doing other shows on the strip right once you get in those places they'll come out and support you that way so you actually have an opportunity to actually develop a real fan base not like how we said earlier which if you blow up off of a clip right you know say now you yeah yeah that worldwide you know like attraction but then do you sell at the shows where you go but if you develop a local you know following then boom every time you have a show they'll come out so yeah what level of experience do people have to have in order to participate in Roastal Mania like what or do you do you depend zero zero zero to participate in Roastal Mania?
33:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: It depends we've had people who've never done roast before people come run out of the crowd there was one time we were doing like a it was like a Royal Rumble style we had 10 people and two people would start on stage they would tell like two jokes the crowd would vote who wins and then the loser gets off and then we do a 10 second countdown another one comes out so people didn't know who they were roasting until they got there so that's gotta be so hard to do just to quick quick think quickly on your feet like that.
33:38
SPEAKER_01: Well they knew everybody who was in it so you had the option of writing jokes for everybody just in case you come across with them but um there was one where a lady didn't show up and I knew she wasn't gonna show up so I didn't tell anyone even so nobody and I just said like all right uh like I let the clock run down it went to zero and nothing came out I'm like alright she didn't show up I made it act like she didn't show up and I was like is anybody in the crowd want to come and take her spot fucking come and just some girl got up went on there she was terrible but it was such a great moment.
34:13
SPEAKER_04: Her name is Turbo and we're still trying to find her Turbo Turbo if you're out there Turbo if you're a Vegas local even if you're not are you trying to give her a trash can is that why you're looking no we're trying to get her back on the show.
34:25
SPEAKER_05: She's a phenomenal man it was it was it was it was great.
34:28
SPEAKER_05: I love that so yeah this this truly sounds like just organized chaos and I love everything sometimes it's not even organized.
34:35
SPEAKER_05: Yeah no not at all sometimes it's really nuts sometimes shows like oh what do you can do about this match I'm like I don't know yet he's like the show's only ten minutes I'm like well we'll just let it happen live and it'll buff and we have technical issues we have our our sound guy Brian Shenangans he messes up the sound all the time so we all get to shit on the crowd crashes him all the time yeah it's so funny man like it's it's just a fun experience dude though and honestly I I like I like the shows and even even this show uh like our our our show I like showing that we're rough around the edges like we're not as you know we we we may look polished but I I like showing like the fuck ups I I like showing the technical difficulties we have because it shows that we're not necessarily this you know polished show we're just authentic.
35:17
SPEAKER_02: You know as a kid because when I first started liking comedy I was a big fan of um Martin right Martin Lawrence's show but they used to show them like cracking up when and they're and behind the scenes their goal was to make each other laugh live on the set right and they kept all that in there and you see them all like busting out laughing they have to turn their head or the case maybe they're just wildin' out nowadays everything's so polished yeah you know and you don't get to see all those mistakes like those bloopers no more you know what I'm saying like that's one thing about live shows man you never know what happens and and literally like we could plan everything but dude things happen all the time you guys are obviously are all you're you're around the comedy scene you're you're knee deep in it what advice would you give someone who is looking to get into the comedy scene and you know just don't get into comedy go get a degree go learn AI and robotics be Indian yeah don't during comedy just become Indian that's about the advice for you man nowadays you can identify whatever you want man so if you want to define as an Indian you just make sure you're smart don't be making us brown people look but go dumbness you know what I'm saying like just be smart with it so find something that you could succeed in and just hit it hard yeah are there any comics that are local that you I mean obviously you guys are again you guys are around comedy and you don't have to pick and choose all just one one person so nobody feels left out.
36:34
SPEAKER_05: But is there anybody that you've worked with that you're like oh they have the potential to take it to that next level yeah Kraz man he's a phenomenal comic bro I say Kraz because I didn't want to give no one else any clout smart man so you know you say keep it one that's the one right there and I swear to God if you say Sean I'm gonna be so pissed off Mike what about you who who is there anybody that comes to mind that you're like they have the potential to have you been around the Vegas scene at all just uh on social media I I I'm in it's it's part of my algorithm but I've never actually friends with Vegas comics and stuff some of them yeah you should know none of them are gonna make it just run bro what are you talking about I mean so to me I'm the audience but I guess I don't have the ear man you got to refinance your circle of people you swing yourself around with yeah you got to reboot your Instagram and start following new people apparently it's not working out no one in this town making shit out of Roastal Mania October 31st they're all winners in my book.
37:33
SPEAKER_04: Oh man that is such a good way to plug the show nobody here is gonna make it at all come to Roastal Mania nobody in this scene is funny except for the 10 comments I have on that partner sure chaos.
37:45
SPEAKER_05: What about uh the Kimmel's comedy club do you guys ever perform there at all?
37:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah Sean Sean lives there man do you yeah I'm there quite often yeah where do you Sean has Jimmy Kimmel's pizza three times a week for dinner that's how I feed my kids man yeah which which comedy club has the best food?
38:02
SPEAKER_05: Hmm well I don't really eat to be honest with you Mike's gotten it I know he's well it depends wise guys has really good um artichoke dip really and uh soft pretzels with beer cheese sounds good jimmy Kimmels has really good chicken fingers and they also have a good pretzel too it's very big though you need like six people it's a big pretzel it's a big pretzel it's also like how much is it I don't know you know my memory's shy bro I don't even look at it do you guys get hooked up with free like do you guys like a have a comp ticket or like anything when you're performing like you get free food and drink yeah the club will take care of you love that yeah yeah yeah most of the time yeah what about the um when it comes to uh roasting us for example let's see how quickly because I I That's this guy man he's he's so I see the wheels turning in in Mike's head the entire episode I know you've been looking at me you've been looking at Julie like what can I say about Andrew oftentimes when I meet people whether I'm gonna roast them or not I always try to like figure out what celebrities people look like just to like oh he looks like a whatever whatever and so can I I can I ask you really quick he was just about to tell me which celebrity I looked at I'm actually going to I was hanging on by a thread there.
39:20
SPEAKER_04: Jump Limit I'm gonna interrupt because he did he played a celebrity in a movie like he was emulating a celebrity in a movie.
39:29
SPEAKER_05: This is true.
39:29
SPEAKER_05: I think that it's ridiculous that they cast him as the celebrity but if you had to Well at this point in my life yes I don't look like him anymore but at that point in my life I did.
39:38
SPEAKER_02: But I digress like Stuart Little or something like that?
39:42
SPEAKER_01: First of all, how dare you how could you say that Jonathan Whipniki all grown up and shit resemblance?
39:49
SPEAKER_01: No I don't know um wait so who did he play?
39:51
SPEAKER_05: Justin Timberlake during the sexyback years I sh I used to buzz cut my head and I looked like Justin Timberlake to the point where people wouldn't confuse me for him but they would it would be an icebreaker it would be like oh you look like Justin Timberlake I hope they fired that Catsoon director Justin Timberlake I was thinking like Ed Helms you've ever said to me dude I'm fucking Ed Helms do Julie next I'm over this I don't know everything's good about me.
40:26
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
40:27
SPEAKER_02: Please Sean help me out here I don't know man I can't oh god you guys are too soft I see Mike's struggling over that I'm just going through a Rolodex and celebrities I don't know he has a big ass roller this dude's memory is incredible man there you go we could take your time with it that's fine.
40:47
SPEAKER_05: Take your time with it you're gonna force him we're not allowed to leave until he's we're not leaving this stage hey listen while you're thinking I want to show you guys because I also won the fantasy football champion oh shoot so I wanted to throw this out here Brandon make sure this is in frame here.
41:02
SPEAKER_05: Okay good yeah I just wanted to show off that I also have a belt uh I like to I I won fantasy football last year and I get to keep the belt for a year so I just wanted to make sure you guys saw this just so in just in case you need somebody for WrestleMania 13.
41:16
SPEAKER_05: Come out with that belt yes challenge exactly I'm down do you guys have Roastalmania every year or is it twice a year or what's the how how often is it it's usually um once every depending on their schedule like I was telling you earlier um I we try to sneak in about four a year maybe five oh dang all that wise guys try to do it once every three months ideally would be three yeah maybe two what a great concept this is do you feel like the with with the whole judges thing I I feel like that's very popular these days especially with Kill Tony is that the new form of at least comedy media of of having these judges and these performers come out and On roast battles I feel like it's pretty standard like most roast battles either do audience or judges sometimes a little bit of both.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah because at the end of the day it's a competition so you're I like the judges because I get to produce the show and book it and whatever and when it's time to watch the roast I watch them and then when it's time to judge them I don't gotta say shit.
42:19
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: So any comic that gets mad at anything it's like I didn't do it.
42:23
SPEAKER_01: Let's talk to your judges.
42:25
SPEAKER_05: I I it still baffles me that people it still it still baffles me that people get offended going up on stage and knowing that you're gonna get shit on but that's because comics are soft.
42:35
SPEAKER_02: Are they oh yeah they're one of the most softest people man unbelievable it's like we're in you're in the field where you're gonna get critique you're putting yourself out there to get critique and then when you get critique their feelings get hurt it's like dude just do a better job.
42:47
SPEAKER_04: Well I'm like how could you possibly want to get into roasting if you can't take what you can dish.
42:52
SPEAKER_02: Right well and then in everything though now like even with podcasting right someone's gonna leave a comment they don't agree with whatever you know saying you got to deal with that too like everywhere everyone has so much connections to each other now that everyone has a free for all to say whatever they want to say.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: That's fair.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: So then like with that being said it's like you know you let all the shit hurt your feelings or you keep it moving.
43:09
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying.
43:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah you gotta keep it moving just like in these roast battles dude you know like you you get shitted on but you're like I think I'm gonna I'm gonna be a good roaster one day you keep working on it you keep working on it and you end up having an opportunity to get a a title shot you know saying then you might tank it then but then you just have to keep working again and then if you get offended on the way that's on you.
43:27
SPEAKER_05: That's your own feelings who do you feel like is not not in Vegas just in in in the Vegas or just in the comedy scene in total who's the best roaster the best roaster?
43:37
SPEAKER_05: In Vegas?
43:37
SPEAKER_04: No, no in all of comedy is what he's asking.
43:42
SPEAKER_02: I mean it all depends on the show because sometimes some of them have like a hotter set than others.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: I mean like till his day like what like um in that Tom Brady one what was her name again?
43:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh Glazer Yeah Lindsay Glazer that was like Nikki yeah Nikki's that was like she did really good on the other one too
44:00
SPEAKER_01: The most recent one, I forgot what it was.
44:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she's been killing it on that on that aspect.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: If Greg Geraldo was still alive, he was great.
44:07
SPEAKER_01: Hands down, he'd he would only be just 15 years better than he was.
44:11
SPEAKER_02: But then also now, like they have writers and shit too, right?
44:14
SPEAKER_02: So it's like, who who should you really give the credit to?
44:18
SPEAKER_02: Is like the writer or the person that just delivered it?
44:21
SPEAKER_05: What about Jeff Ross?
44:22
SPEAKER_05: Right?
44:22
SPEAKER_01: Jeff Ross is always gonna be great.
44:24
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
44:24
SPEAKER_05: What about uh Anthony Jesslinick?
44:27
SPEAKER_05: Oh, he's good.
44:28
SPEAKER_01: He hasn't done much in a while as far as the roasting, but I remember on the Donald Trump roast and uh was it uh Charlie Sheen roast, maybe?
44:37
SPEAKER_01: He was good on those.
44:39
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's also like one of my favorite comics.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: He's got that darkness, I don't give a shit.
44:44
SPEAKER_02: I love that, man.
44:44
SPEAKER_01: Smooth.
44:45
SPEAKER_05: He's he how is he so good at saying these dark jokes, but still you gotta be funny, man.
44:51
SPEAKER_02: And that's where comics keep messing up.
44:52
SPEAKER_02: They don't know how to be funny.
44:54
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:54
SPEAKER_02: So it's like if you're funny and you say it with the right crowd, the right audience, it's gonna hit.
44:59
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
45:00
SPEAKER_02: I mean, like, I look my one of my favorite comics is Patrice O'Neill.
45:04
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you guys ever got just like listen.
45:06
SPEAKER_02: I loved him.
45:06
SPEAKER_02: But his whole thing was like, yo, like, half the people should be offended.
45:09
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
45:10
SPEAKER_02: And like he will say some heinous shit, like, and he and he'll get away with it.
45:14
SPEAKER_02: And like, it's just how you say it, how you deliver it.
45:17
SPEAKER_02: If you're going out there and you're like, you're saying it like, you know, with some, you know, I don't know, like say you do a racist joke, but you put some umf in behind it, you're like, whoa, that's hey, but that's board lying, like real right there.
45:26
SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, that was a real thought.
45:28
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
45:29
SPEAKER_02: Like, but if you if you put a whole different twist on it and you actually get creative with it, um, like I like I I mean, not to try to talk about myself, but please do, please do.
45:39
SPEAKER_02: I love I love history, so I have a Confederate joke that I talk about on stage.
45:43
SPEAKER_02: Because I took my my six-year-old son to Mississippi and we went and visited a Confederate museum together.
45:48
SPEAKER_02: And right there is like the whole thing is like, oh, brown people going to a Confederate museum?
45:51
SPEAKER_02: Like, that's wild.
45:52
SPEAKER_02: That dude, I tell them my whole experience, and it's hilarious, man.
45:55
SPEAKER_02: Because it's true, too, on top of that.
45:57
SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm saying?
45:58
SPEAKER_02: So speak facts on stage, be funny, and you'll succeed as a comment.
46:01
SPEAKER_02: Just keep hustling.
46:02
SPEAKER_04: Unless you're in Vegas, because Mike says you won't.
46:06
SPEAKER_05: Mike's a tough crowd.
46:07
SPEAKER_05: Listen, I'm I'm looking at the these matchups here, and I already I think I already know the answer, but is there a specific particular matchup that you're very excited for?
46:14
SPEAKER_05: More so than the Yeah, the handicap matchup.
46:16
SPEAKER_05: The handicap matches by far.
46:17
SPEAKER_05: It's gotta be.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: He actually lost it to Haley at Mania 7, and he um was out for a little while.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: He took a little hiatus, and this is his comeback show.
46:41
SPEAKER_01: He's going up against AJ, who is undefeated in WrestleMania so far.
46:47
SPEAKER_01: So I'm looking forward to that.
46:48
SPEAKER_01: AJ Madrid.
46:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, AJ did really good.
46:52
SPEAKER_05: Do you guys are you guys allowed to say you have favorites, or you do you you want to keep that close together?
46:55
SPEAKER_05: Well, I don't give a fuck.
46:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't give a fuck.
46:58
SPEAKER_01: Out of this card, who's your favorite?
47:02
SPEAKER_01: Favorite roaster, favorite comic, or favorite person?
47:06
SPEAKER_05: Whatever, whatever answer you want to give me, I'll take it.
47:09
SPEAKER_05: Surprise me.
47:10
SPEAKER_05: Give me something good.
47:12
SPEAKER_05: We got Mario here, we got British.
47:14
SPEAKER_01: Mario's really good.
47:15
SPEAKER_01: Um the palsy guys don't count, they're not real people.
47:18
SPEAKER_02: Um I don't think together they even equal one.
47:24
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
47:27
SPEAKER_01: I really hope one of the palsy guys take home the belt.
47:30
SPEAKER_01: I really hope one of the palsy guys don't watch this episode because that was fucked up.
47:37
SPEAKER_04: I hope they do.
47:38
SPEAKER_04: I hope they come on the next episode.
47:39
SPEAKER_04: Oh man.
47:41
SPEAKER_05: Roastal Mania, man.
47:42
SPEAKER_05: October 31st, 8 p.m.
47:43
SPEAKER_05: at Wise Guys Comedy Club.
47:45
SPEAKER_05: Get tickets at wiseguycomedy.com.
47:47
SPEAKER_05: 25 bucks for a ticket?
47:49
SPEAKER_05: Easy peasy.
47:50
SPEAKER_05: This is gonna be fun.
47:51
SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
47:52
SPEAKER_05: You know, I I I think I'm gonna go to this.
47:54
SPEAKER_05: Okay, you should.
47:55
SPEAKER_05: I'm going to.
47:56
SPEAKER_05: Listen, somebody from Big Head should be going to these things.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: We've also been advertising if enough people show up in costumes, there will be a contest.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: So maybe put on your best in-sync uniform and get the band back together, baby.
48:07
SPEAKER_01: I gotta get that the the the wig on with the noodles.
48:10
SPEAKER_03: You do, yeah.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the the ramen wig.
48:12
SPEAKER_01: The ramen wig, that's what I need.
48:13
SPEAKER_01: I need to work on my dance moves.
48:15
SPEAKER_01: Old school Justin Timberwell.
48:16
SPEAKER_01: In the dentist.
48:19
SPEAKER_05: Has anybody told you you have the voice of an angel?
48:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a dying angel, probably.
48:25
SPEAKER_05: Oh my god, this is so good.
48:27
SPEAKER_05: Roastal Mania 12.
48:29
SPEAKER_05: This is gonna be great, man.
48:30
SPEAKER_05: October 31st.
48:30
SPEAKER_05: I I really do appreciate you guys coming on.
48:32
SPEAKER_05: Where can people find more of the two of you?
48:35
SPEAKER_05: Mike, let's start with you, Mike, because I know you're jumping at the bit here.
48:38
SPEAKER_01: Um well, you can find me on Instagram, Mike Krasner, and then just random clubs around the city, LA Comedy Club, Wise Guys.
48:47
SPEAKER_05: You post where you're going on social media?
48:49
SPEAKER_01: I try to.
48:50
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I'm not good at being a social media comedian.
48:54
SPEAKER_02: Bro, social media is a full-time job.
48:56
SPEAKER_01: It is, it is, it really is.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: I try to post where I'm gonna be, but then I'm like, no one's coming.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: Don't sell yourself short.
49:04
SPEAKER_01: What am I doing this for?
49:05
SPEAKER_01: Just so other people know I'm working.
49:06
SPEAKER_01: You're like, oh, look at me.
49:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, that's really what it is.
49:10
SPEAKER_01: It's a grind, but you're you're hustling.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: It is, but like I post I'm gonna be a wise guy tonight.
49:14
SPEAKER_01: You think anyone's gonna go on and be like, oh, Krauser's gonna be a wise guy, let me get a ticket.
49:18
SPEAKER_01: No, they're just gonna be like, oh, he just wants to let people know that he's got plans tonight.
49:22
SPEAKER_01: That's all fucking comedy is for comedians on social media.
49:26
SPEAKER_05: You're selling yourself two shorts.
49:27
SPEAKER_05: One day.
49:28
SPEAKER_05: One day, people are gonna care.
49:29
SPEAKER_05: If not today, they will.
49:30
SPEAKER_05: Maybe after this episode, we'll see.
49:32
SPEAKER_05: Sean, what about you?
49:32
SPEAKER_05: Where can people find more about you?
49:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh Sean Rady Comedy on all the platforms.
49:36
SPEAKER_02: Unlike Mike, I post my days, so I sell out at a boy.
49:40
SPEAKER_02: I got a local boy.
49:42
SPEAKER_02: He's got kids to feed.
49:43
SPEAKER_02: I got kids to feed.
49:45
SPEAKER_01: Jimmy Kimmel's pizza.
49:46
SPEAKER_02: You know?
49:47
SPEAKER_02: Give me a book at Kimmel's Moor, so it could be five days a week.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: The worst part about him feeding his kids so much Jimmy Kimmel's pizza.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: I'll never call it Jimmy Kimmel's pizza.
49:57
SPEAKER_01: He gives them the fake pizza.
49:58
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't even get the real, he gives them the cauliflower crush shit.
50:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: It's healthy, man.
50:03
SPEAKER_02: It's crunchy, too.
50:16
SPEAKER_05: Hold on.
50:16
SPEAKER_05: What time are you getting home, Sean?
50:18
SPEAKER_05: I feel like these kids are up late if you're getting home after.
50:20
SPEAKER_02: Oh, they're up late, man.
50:21
SPEAKER_02: They're wild, man.
50:23
SPEAKER_02: I let them loose, man.
50:24
SPEAKER_02: Good for you.
50:24
SPEAKER_02: You know?
50:25
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're Indian.
50:26
SPEAKER_02: They sleep on the floor.
50:29
SPEAKER_02: They're always throwing sandals at each other and shit.
50:31
SPEAKER_02: It's weird, man.
50:32
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
50:33
SPEAKER_01: It's hard to get any sleep with all that snake charmer music in the lake.
50:39
SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
50:45
SPEAKER_03: Boys.
50:46
SPEAKER_03: This is gonna be a lovely man.
50:47
SPEAKER_05: I really I really want to have both of you guys back.
50:50
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna have everybody from Roastal Mania back on this show, too.
50:53
SPEAKER_05: This is this is gonna be great.
50:54
SPEAKER_05: I'm so excited.
50:54
SPEAKER_05: October 31st.
50:55
SPEAKER_05: AP every wise guys comedy.
50:58
SPEAKER_05: Oh, Julie, you got anything else before we get out of here?
51:00
SPEAKER_04: Well, that last one really got me.
51:02
SPEAKER_05: That got you.
51:02
SPEAKER_05: That got you good.
51:03
SPEAKER_04: Bye.