Name: My Andre The Giant Impression w/ Mike O'Gorman
Uploaded: 2022-08-30T19:00:08.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'My Andre The Giant Impression w/ Mike O'Gorman' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'My Andre The Giant Impression w/ Mike O'Gorman' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-30. Transcript available.

- My Andre the Giant impression
is your Andre the Giant impression.
When I did your talk show, The Andre the Giant Show,
it's on YouTube.
- Right, you can see it there.
- And that's just me sweaty and red.
- Like I am now.
- But it's jumping around to give it some structure.
But the actual day was just me dying.
I had never heard someone do Andre the Giant.
I didn't even put it together
that Andre the Giant was French.
- Yeah.
- Until I had heard you do it.
- Yeah.
- But I feel like the world needs my dinner
with Andre the Giant.
- Yeah, well, okay, so let me, I'll go,
because we're on a podcast,
I can go into kind of the origins
of how I figured that out.
So in the--
- I would love nothing more!
- In the brief moment that I did stand-up.
- What year is this?
- This is probably like 2004, 2000,
actually maybe more like 2005, 2006.
- Okay.
- I had a joke, my closing on my type five or seven was,
my closing was like, I love movies
and I love suspense thrillers
and I love when the kidnapper makes that ransom call
and he's got that modulator on the phone call
and he goes...
- If you want to see your daughter again,
bring $50,000 to the garbage can behind the supermarket.
- We have your daughter, we have your family.
- Yeah.
- Your family is on a ski lift.
Your family's on a ski lift and you'll bring--
- We've stopped the ski lift, they're a mid ski lift.
- This is so good.
How are you doing that?
- I just figured out I could do that.
- There's a power to it.
See, when I do it, I go low and I lose power.
Like, I can't project at that depth.
- Yeah, there's gotta be a force through.
You have to be able to force it through.
- Imagine being that guy,
but you are just making like a dinner reservation.
- Well, that's how you sound.
- The joke was, what if he left it on
and then calls for like Chinese takeout?
- That's unbelievable, we went the same way.
- And he goes, and he goes, you know,
and I would do the whole thing.
Like there's a group of guys around
and it's like, yeah, let me get a order of,
let me get like five egg rolls,
a thing of General Chow's chicken.
And then I'd go.
- A thing?
- I'd go, what?
Well, look at the menu
'cause I'm on the phone with the guy now.
Like his friend just walked in.
- So that, so I would do that joke.
- Look at the menu.
- Yeah.
- Well, hurry up.
I'm on the phone with the guy now.
- Can I say great comedy points out something
that I feel, which is the tension
of when you're making an order
and someone comes in late.
- Yeah, I gotta get this done.
- Like you're wasting their time.
- Yeah, where have you been?
- And they're gonna fuck up the order
or like they're gonna take it out on us.
They're gonna take it out on us somehow.
- Yeah.
- And it's food.
And it's like, we're animals
and we're weird about our food.
- Absolutely.
- And some guy comes in and he's casual.
You're in, you're in a situation now.
- Yeah.
Where were you five minutes ago?
- And you better pick fast.
- Yeah.
- And the guy that goes,
I'll decide by the time it comes back around to me,
you better fucking decide.
Or you just, you'll say,
I'll have what he's having.
- Yeah, seriously.
- You better Harry met Sally this shit.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Hurry up.
- I'm a fan at Michael Gorman who is a toasty roasty.
Sorry.
I'm just, I'm just accommodating.
I'm accommodating.
- I appreciate it.
It'll be done in a second.
- I like being like a hot sweaty boy.
Like a boss hog.
- I just am.
I just am one.
- Well.
- Like a, like a, like a Memphis judge.
- A Memphis judge.
Your, your, your, your, your honor.
If I could just please the court.
- Order in my court, please.
- They always wear white.
The color that shows sweat the most.
- See, I feel like.
- And you can see it's kind of white, yellow.
- Yes.
- Yellowy.
- Yes.
- Yellowy brown.
Their stuff has been soiled.
- Yes, it's soiled.
- To the point where it stayed.
- Give me, give me a white suit.
I, I plan on sweating quite a bit in the courtroom tomorrow.
The first Southern court that had air conditioning.
Everybody left that trial and was like, something was off.
I had my kerchief, but I didn't, I didn't use it a single time.
And it threw my rhythm.
He was like, ladies and gentlemen, there's no sweat upon my bra.
How, how am I going to convince you of my earnestness?
And how hard I'm fighting for the innocence of this young man.
- There's a drama in the pat down.
There's a pause.
- What I'm saying is they say, don't act with cigarettes.
Don't act with food because become this guy.
You, you want to do it.
Like it's so, it slows you down.
- Yeah.
- Now it naturalizes what you're doing.
Uh, same for a Southern lawyer.
Don't pat your brow.
Let it drip, let it gather on your eyebrow.
- Yeah.
- And then drip, drip down.
- Drip down as you're addressing the jury.
- Like Cliffhanger.
I want it to fall like his friend at the beginning of Cliffhanger.
- Michael Rooker.
Michael Rooker's girlfriend in the beginning of Cliffhanger.
- You are living weed.
Oh my God.
Just be with, hang.
I was going to say, just be with me all the time.
- I'd be happy to do that.
- I appreciate that.
But it's also that be with me means like be with me, like have sex.
And that's, that's who started that.
- No, that doesn't have to always be what that means.
- I completely agree.
And I appreciate your yes and so we were doing the bed.
You're going, you got, yeah.
- Right.
- Right.
So then I, I just some, somewhere along the line, I picked up that if you put a
French accent
on that.
- Then it becomes Andre the Giant.
It's just a subtle French thing that happens.
Well, then it becomes Andre.
- You made it weird, you made it weird, you made it weird, oh yeah.