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This is episode 91 of the Bear and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about the funnest.
What is the funnest prank you've ever seen?
I don't think I've ever seen a fun prank, certainly not in person, maybe on TV.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
There's some funny ones on TV though.
There used to be a whole series, and I remember one where they brought these people out into
the desert in a van, like a touring van, and they had like these helicopter lights that
were attached to this overhead crane, and they shot it down on it, and then these little
like alien people came out and started peeking in the windows.
And I think if I had been them, I would have thought the same thing.
I would have thought we were going to get probed.
Yeah.
I think I know there's a few shows like that, and there was that one.
I can't think of any of it.
There was another show called "Punked" on MTV that didn't go to that extreme, but the
one you were talking about was like scary moments or something like that, and I think that there
was one with...
It was a big budget thing.
Yeah, there was one where they did animal testing, and when the pig man came out...
The rap boy.
Yeah.
And he was like, "Come here little man."
That was hilarious, because the way he screams a very feminine queer man, but he was screaming
in just... then he wanted him to come out.
"We're here to help you."
It just... makes me laugh at thinking about that prank.
I forgot all about that prank, but that was a good show, but it ran its course.
I mean, he can only do so much.
Yeah.
And it was probably very expensive.
Yeah, well, "Punk" was pretty good on MTV, and that was... they prank celebrities.
Now you like to watch a show called Ridiculousness, and I know that wasn't really a prank show
that was more of a YouTube video show.
I mean, it was a, like, America's funniest home videos, but it was a definite edge to it,
like, things that you... yeah.
And the thing I liked about that show is that the host Rob Deer Dick was... his quips
that he would say during... when people would get messed up or something happened, made me laugh
the most.
I kind of wonder if they did several takes of that and edited it together, because...
Well, whenever you see something later on, you'll think it's something funny, and wish
you had said it then.
Well, if they can do that, they can go back and put that in.
Yeah.
That actually became the biggest selling show on MTV.
It was, like, the highest rated house on show on MTV.
I read an article about how he pretty much turned himself into a billionaire by selling
programs at MTV, and he made, like, this huge warehouse where they would do...
Felt stuff.
Thank you, my God.
That was actually a cat.
That was not my belly.
Um, factory zone or something like that.
Yeah, something like that.
But that was a good show, too.
Yeah.
He had a few good shows in there.
I mean, he had another show called Rob and Big, which was pretty funny with him and his
head of security.
And he makes me laugh, so.
But yeah, it's, uh, pranks, I don't think I've had many friends that are good at pranks,
I mean...
No, I've never even done the call somebody and asked him if there were refrigerators running.
Oh, he said that as a kid all the time.
Prank phone calls.
Yeah.
They're real big, back.
I remember going up there to the other thing, back east.
I don't know if they had it here.
It's called the Jerky Boys.
And those guys call them up businesses and they were all taper-coated and they actually released
the CD, but it was, it was on the East Coast for a long time and it was these actual tapes
that were just floating around and these guys actually call these places.
And it was all very far-rated, I mean, when we were kids, you know what your parents, they
kept you listening to this, they'd give you any ideas because they would do these different
voices.
So they'd call the stadium and ask them to page Seymour and they'd say Seymour who and Seymour
butts.
Yeah, but I mean, he would say we'd get these guys back on the phone, they would get really,
really mad.
I mean, they, they, they were, it was pretty good, but yeah, uncomfortable humor.
Stuff you don't like.
Yeah.
So what are the thinnest, misheard song lyrics?
Oh God, almost every song can have misheard song lyrics.
Do you know of any of the top of your head?
You're baiting me to answer the question for you.
No, no, well, it's, there's songs that I hear one thing and then I find out that later
on, they're completely different, but I remember there's a kid in my, there's a song called
The Hard Hungry Eyes and I can't remember who's sung up on my sister would sing it as
hard green eyes instead of hungry eyes and she would delve it at the top.
I mean, from the bottom of her belly, she would just sing it out loud and she was little,
but it was hilarious watching her sing it.
She would just get into it so much, but now there's, there's somebody songs out there
that I miss quilt that I think it says one thing and I remember somebody in the Star Trek
club saying a song which I guess was popular then and the word she used was, she likes to
party all the time.
She likes to party all the time.
My girl likes to party all the time, party all the time.
She said she likes to party all the time.
Yeah, I can see that happening though.
There's a song out there.
There's a song that came out about, about 20 years ago, but by this rap band called, I'll
see you at the crossroads, but bone thugs in harmony and there's a clip on TikTok that's
going around right now and it says, "Berry, you sent them a catch."
And the lyrical version of the song is very, just, it's hard to explain, but it's very
fast paced and he starts making up his own songs and they're like, "What does he sing?"
And he goes, "I don't know." and he's like, "Yeah, but puttumus, there's a lot of the lyrics
in with us."
So he just, and he just kind of makes like, he just jabberes along and it looks like he's
actually singing the lyrics, but he has no idea what any of the songs are in the end of
the line.
He always hit but puttumus and it's hilarious because he starts laughing at himself and I guess
you got to watch it because you're looking at me like a lot.
But it is, and if you've heard this song, which I know, in a million years, you've never
heard of this song, but it's rather humorous.
Well there is one where you just change one word and it was, when you min the sky like a big
pizza pie.
That's more right.
Yeah.
Instead of that, it's your.
Yeah.
There's a lot of songs out there that you can have a lot of fun with, uh, Weird Al Yankovic
made an entire career out of that.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
Did you like Weird Al?
Yeah.
He annoys me.
I, I, I, I, I listen to his songs for a little bit and then I avoid, but he, I mean, he's
clever.
Uh-huh.
So it usually gets permission to, to do whatever.
Yeah.
It, he was interviewed in a documentary or something once and he said, well, there was one
artist who would not give me permission to parody any of his songs and I can't say his
name, but it used to be Pritz.
Um.
Yeah.
Cause again.
That's funny.
Okay.
How about the funnest celebrity impression?
Okay.
Um, Saturday Night Live did, did this really well, lots of times, the, at the comedian who
did Rosanna Dana, what, what was her name?
Oh my gosh.
Gilder Redner?
Gilder Redner.
Yes.
She did an impression of Baba Wawa.
Uh, uh, Baba Walters?
Yeah.
And we talked about this day and of them, it's a scene where she's, they, they ask her or she's
like doing a promo for the, for the next show or something and she says, on next those
woevee, woevee lesbians, is there woevee lesbian, why?
Wow.
Haha.
Saturday Night Live probably does the best celebrity impressions on TV, um, where we suddenly
Kate McKinnon cracked my up, she would do Ellen, she, she was really good at it.
Baba Baldwin was a great Donald Trump, yeah, that nailed, um, but yeah, there's, there's
a lot of good ones, uh, I remember they, they had a comedian who did, um, oh shoot, the,
the woman who went to, to prison, the celebrity who went to prison, um, for, would you get a
prison for it?
Do you remember Martha Stewart?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And they had, just like, I can't think of the, the, the, the, the community's name, but yeah,
she looked just like her, yeah, she, I think she's the same one that did the, the, the sweaty
balls.
Yes.
It's the same.
I like Baldwin and someone I don't remember.
Another one.
Yeah.
That's, that's a classic scared, that's, that's always going to be up there.
Uh-huh.
But, um, Saturday Night Live, you know, it's going down a little bit, but yeah, there
were some kids celebrity impressions, so I would say they're the best.
What was the funnest job interview?
Probably for the job that I currently have, I showed up to it, um, just in a suit.
And I guess they're not used to people dressing up as a suit, going to walk in the building, everyone
that worked there kind of disappeared.
They thought you were the auditor or something.
They thought I was a cop and that I was there to, um, believe them, some of their, their
items per per say.
So yeah, the one wanted to deal with me, yeah, they thought I was a actual cop there to a
confiscate and confiscate some items that were brought in.
And because I was like, where did everybody go and then the manager came out and he's like,
oh, I'm sorry, but that was a good interview.
And then during the interview, because I could care less if I got to the job at all when
I got it, I was being arrogant and cocky.
And he called me out at one point, he goes, well, one thing he said, what do you say?
He goes, you pretty much know that you have this job, don't you?
And I looked and was like, yeah, and he goes, well, I told you that you didn't have it.
And I said, I could tell you you're full of crap.
So yeah, I'm still working at that place of employment, so how about you?
Well, like you, it was my last job interview for the job that I currently have.
It was fairly relaxed and it seemed like they were really, it was going to be a good, really
good fit for me.
And I did ask how many people they interviewed and she says, there are four and you're, you're
the fourth today.
And at the end, I told them I wanted to tell a joke.
And they kind of had this like, like scared look, maybe, I don't know.
And I said, of course, walks into a bar, I'm kidding.
I said, I invented a new word to date, you don't want to know what the word is.
And I said, yes, and I said, polygyrism, they laugh, no, I think, I don't think they got
it at first.
Well, that's funny, so there was uncomfortable silence.
No, but it was like, you know, smile and then a second later, you know, the smile gets really
big and they realized, yeah, that's too good, come.
Do you remember a fun sports blooper, they're all over TV, well, let me just answer this
for no.
What do you mean, you don't watch sports at all, you know, I don't, I'm not even bloopers.
I'm not going to watch the superhero tomorrow, no, just the commercial, you know, let me watch
it by myself.
I think I'll go to the mall, the one you're probably, the empty, probably, yeah, you're really
going to get a mall.
I think so.
How come you're walking?
It's going to be rainy and nasty, so yeah, well, okay, you know where I'll be watching
sports at the mall, so my team's playing in it, so I'm like, I miss it for the world.
Yeah, sports bloopers, I don't know, they're all over TV, really.
I remember Saturday night live doing a parody of a sports thing and it was when Howard
Cassel was the guest for the week and he did the run jump and throw like a girl Olympics.
Oh, really?
Wow.
Can you imagine if they try to do something like that nowadays?
They might get away with it, I don't know.
Oh, I don't know.
I think he'd be shutting up pretty thin, it was hilarious, but yeah, I mean, they used to
do a good sportsman once again on that set and now they used to do a good hairy carry and
I know you don't know.
Hairy carry was the voice of the club.
Yeah, he was the voice of the clubs and he would get sloshed during the games and they would
do a perfect imitation of him as he would start the game and he'd be sobered and by the
end of the game.
Welcome to the club, he was just, yeah, it was hilarious, but it's to a terrible impression
of it.
But by the end of the game, the guy was tanked, but they used to do that pretty well.
But yeah, sports bloopers are time it does anymore.
It's kind of like watching them records, funny in some videos.
You can only see so many balls to the genopholes.
Yeah.
And the little kid swinging a bat and the ball and you know exactly what's going to happen
soon as you see the video starts, so.
But um, alright, so what was the funnest comedy sketch you remember?
Clara Pella.
Kind of no idea what you're talking about.
Clara Pella, she said, "Where's the beef?"
Okay.
From the Wendy's commercial?
More, really.
That was the funnest one.
I think so.
I had to do this again, but I have to get it with setting a life down, it had to be downer.
It was, it was a commercial?
No.
No, this was, this is just a comedy sketch.
It was like, oh, yeah.
Oh, I guess commercial is the next question.
Yeah, commercial is the next one.
So okay, well funnest commercial, most of the time the commercials that I see anymore that
I remember, the ones that make me cry, and that's sad.
But where's the beef?
Look at one.
But I can't think of any funny ones.
How do you spell relief?
Oh, that's true.
Oh.
Oh, or G-A-S-M.
Oh, okay.
That's good.
No, the new chili commercials make me laugh.
The ones with the dogs and the dog, the one with the, it's peanut butter time.
And he said, "It's not peanut butter.
It's, you know, it's our chili, but, you know, mom puts our pills in there."
And he said, "But it's in peanut butter."
I guess I can see you liking it.
Yeah.
And the dog with the English accent saying, "Penet butter time cracks me up.
I'm still watching.
I will last my butt off watching that to this day."
But okay, so back to comedy sketch.
I would say Debbie Downer cracks me up for sure, and it's in your life, did you ever remember
watching that?
Doesn't sound familiar.
She was like the ultimate pessimist.
They would be like, the one time Lindsey Lilian was there, Jimmy Fallon broke character,
but they're in Walt Disney World, and it's, you know, the happiest place on Earth.
And she comes in, and she was, and they would sit there and she'd come up with something
like the one thing she said, "Oh, I found out today that my cat is dying from feline AIDS,
and she would make this face."
And then another one was like, "Oh, look, Goofy's here.
Goofy's here."
And she's like, "Too bad he's dying of, he's sweating to death in there.
He's probably, you know, just everything that was supposed to be happy and fun, she would
put a bad spin on it, and by the end of the skit, all the other comedians would, they broke
all of the broke character except her, and they just started laughing, but it was a whole
long series of skits that went on with Debbie Downer, so.
Did I tell you about when I went to Disney World?
No, yeah.
There was my first job where I had a vacation that I could afford, and I went to Disney World.
Well, between the airline and Disney World is like this transit center, I think it was
on a scooter or something to this transit center, and that's where people who are waiting to
go to Disney World and people who are coming back all together in this room, well, this
was late at night, it was dark, and they brought me there, and there was this family there.
And they were leaving Disney World, and I said, "Did you enjoy Disney World?"
And the woman says, "No, my husband died in the hotel last night."
Oh my gosh, not the world's happiest place for her, definitely not.
That's terrible.
I hope to clean the bathroom pretty good.
That's horrible.
No, wow, yeah, well, I was thinking, I mean, the people who are going in the transit are
probably going to the happiest place on earth, then it's the saddest place on earth when
they're leaving on the train.
So, my funniest comic step sketch, again, Guilda Redner, she would do these, I think it
was on the news section, where she says, "I want to talk to you about endangered feces."
Instead of feces?
Oh, wow.
And things like that, I want to talk to you about youth in Asia.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so I don't know the words and stuff.
Yeah, she was really good.
Back then, that was when 70 Live was at its best, probably, that was their hate hate.
Yeah.
Yeah, you had her, you had blue sheep, Tannock or Jimmy J's, all the originals.
Yeah.
So, okay.
What was the funnest cooking show fail?
I don't think I've ever seen really God I have.
Really?
Hmm.
And it's a classic.
I mean, they still talk about it.
Julie, your child, did an episode where she was cooking a chicken and she dropped
it on the floor.
Really?
She dropped this raw chicken on the floor and she just picked it up and washed it off and
she says, "Make sure you're the only one in the kitchen."
Oh, wow.
So, she just spun it.
That's hilarious.
That's good, though, because she's like the godmother of cooking shows, too.
Mm-hmm.
That's too funny.
Yeah, I can't, most of them are so well-producing when nowadays where everything comes out perfect.
And you know, it's like- Yeah, they ought to have a blooper-real show for that.
You know, that's not true, you know what I mean?
I mean, I've seen Rachel Ray mess up a few times more, but it's a cutscene.
It shows off something on the floor.
But yeah, I've never seen one of those laugh out loud, barrel laugh, kind of.
And Julie, your child was pretty much before your day, I think.
Yeah.
Just right before.
Um, what is the funnest pet name you recall?
You probably know a pet bunch of these.
Pet names?
Uh-huh.
Like, how we name our pets?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Come on.
Do you know any?
Of course I do.
Uh-huh.
The one that I remember the best was we had a dog named Nickers.
How did that happen?
We didn't name him, and we adopted him from another family.
I hope it wasn't a British camp family.
No, no, no.
No, we adopted him from another family, and it's kind of sad that it's the family that
had him.
It was a daughter's dog, and the daughter passed away at a very young age, and they just couldn't
handle him.
So we kept the dog.
We adopted the dog.
But when you yell, "Nickers," when the dog gets loose in a neighborhood, it comes across
something completely different if you can imagine.
So yeah, that dog was so dumb.
And after a while, we learned if he got away from the house, and he lost sight of the house,
he would just go to the corner and bark until someone would find him.
So he was easy to find.
He would just, he'd get out, he'd let him go, wait five minutes, go around the corner,
and he was either sitting on one side of the other side of the block, just barking because
he was on either's loss.
He had no idea where to go.
So how about you?
The only pet name that I can think of is a character on Magnum PI on that show that they had
these like guard dogs, these fierce doberman painters, and one of them was named Fifi.
Well, that's kind of like an oxymoron.
Yeah.
But it's kind of like when you have a, like it's like a great tame, and it's called tiny,
something like that.
Yeah.
And all my cats really, I never had any funny names for that, really.
And I think that was a replacement character because they started out with two dogs named
Zeus and Apollo, I think, and then later on they got this third dog called Fifi.
Fifi.
That's interesting.
Not really.
Never.
No.
But yeah, no, not many pun names.
Well, that was it for this episode, I guess.
Yeah, a really short episode.
Yeah.
That's okay though.
So would your favorite joke this week?
Did you know that everyone has a date on Valentine's Day?
Mm-hmm.
Did not know that.
It's February 14th.
Mm-hmm.
I'm going to play on the date in the words, okay?
So you're not going to laugh out loud on that one.
No, that was a--sorry.
Didn't mean to let you down.
Well anyway, we hope you enjoyed episode 91 of the Bear and Curadh podcast.
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