Name: Ep 104: Al Franken & Coney Island IPA
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 104: Al Franken & Coney Island IPA' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-05. Transcript available.

Ep 104: Al Franken & Coney Island IPA

just a heads up this episode it's a little weird weird ep not our best kooky
guest we didn't know
what the hell was going on but good luck with it we tried we tried
hey folks we might be drunk we're here this is it oh shoot maybe i jumped the
gun here
i think they like all the fun uh yeah there you go okay because i want to talk
into the mic that
let me explain my years in show business we got al frank and everybody al frank
good to have you
our first our first senator ever hey really well we had oran hatch that one
yeah oran uh not funny
no if you need to know oran hatch not funny not a lot of senators or
politicians with
comedy backgrounds he actually what was funny about him he writes songs or did
he's gone
oran yeah uh but he was wrote songs and i when i first got to the senate just
to i'd visit other
senators to get to know them and he played me a couple of the songs he wrote
and they weren't
bad and and he didn't write the music he wrote the lyrics pull it up so i told
him i said i have a song
and i need i need something in it and it was uh a country western duet we
stayed together for the kids
it was what we thought we had to do uh wow sounds like my cold as a spice man
anyway so
so because he had written this country thing and then we ended up writing a
verse together it wasn't
very good yeah but still it was bonding right right he was on the judiciary
committee which i was on and
that helped that much what's scarier doing new jokes or being on that senate
floor that seems terrifying so
serious it's the opposite of comedy i'll tell you something on there was never
a moment on the senate
floor or i was afraid that a joke wouldn't work
because the bar was low right you know there's usually no one listening usually
most people go to do a floor of speech
they're either alone or there's are they anyone there so no it's uh working on
a new piece yeah
that's scary well doing in front of an audience yeah that's a little scary okay
that room well it's like
politicians will get a laugh the way like a musician in between songs gets a
huge pop
right you listen to certain like those old sinatra albums you're like this guy's
fucking killing
i know with nothing it's nothing yeah well you mean funny like laughs he's
getting laughs oh yeah
because the bar is low he'll be like he'll be in vegas like uh you guys lost a
bunch of money huh
they're like ah we did well that is funny i guess
then i'll say something racist about sammy david i'll tell you why because they
gamble there
ah i had to explain the deal you didn't understand it sorry
that's the problem damn it this is your first episode with a wedding ring by
the way
oh yeah i just got married oh congratulations yeah he's a lucky guy
uh but yeah just this weekend so we're back great great good to have good to be
back i got one too
hey all right you've been married a long time a long time 47 years oh my god
that is long
you stayed together for the kids that's right get this guy a beer right now
i call back 47 years quickly i call back look at the uh you can see the uh
horse manure in the photo
which i love on the right yeah good times oh my god beautiful so this is where
this is in uh wuhan
oh no okay no this is uh come on it's new orleans yeah okay but uh good times
we had to do the
traditional second line which uh you know is appropriation but the white people
love it is
appropriation yeah that's we the night i got there was wednesday night i'm with
a buddy stavros who
you know listeners know bigger guy hilarious comic ari shafir we're out we end
up we get so drunk we
end up at a gas station eating fried oysters fried soft shell crab fried
chicken wasted we're in the
lobby of the hotel just scarfing it down yeah and i i just turned to stav and i'm
like man imagine
eating this shit sober and stav goes i haven't had one drink
there is the big guy in the purple looks like a mob doesn't need to get drunk
for gas station
fried seafood well soft shell crab i mean at a gas station it's it's dicey that's
a gamble
it was a gamble in new orleans yeah yeah that helps that does help opposite
chances but first of all
if you're getting a soft shell crab at a gas station it's in new orleans that's
a good point
it's not in cincinnati county not as good right right what are you drinking by
the way in minnesota
you get a soft shell crab at a gas station here yeah that's a that's a gay move
in minnesota
okay did the old soft shell crab what do we got here coney island yeah you
could get a soft shell
maybe i had my first fried soft shell crab at coney island i did come on i am
not shitting it i was
like 11 years old yeah my uh i was living minnesota my uncle and my cousin
lived in uh cedarhurst long
island very the five towns very jewish sure and they took me to coney island to
a nathan's oh yeah
and they had i had a fried soft shell crab on a bun and i went jesus christ
this is good oh it's so
good that's why i wasn't i didn't even hear gas station i just heard crab in
new orleans yeah
are you from new york i was born in new york lived in new jersey till i was
four and then moved to a
little town in southern minnesota thank you oh okay so you are you know about
minnesota i know about
minnesota yeah the winners but then you moved back to new york for you must
have played minnesota
many times i love it isn't that great i love it acme comedy club acme is bad i
just did like uh six
shows in a row there just trying to get like you're working out do a lot of
shit yeah well i like doing a
lot of shows you guys know of course how do you get any good unless you do them
all in a row right
here here is this uh tell that to the tiktokers
cheers by the way thank you for joining us there you go wow when's the last
time you drank with a
senator uh mitch mcconnell a couple weeks ago we got lit up he's fun
that is sour that's really good i thought you guys got it too yeah i like it i
like a bitter
but this has lime in it lime lager okay a limer uh yeah so minnesota do you do
you have a lot of love for that state
yeah of course yeah yeah that's where i grew up but yeah i love minnesota and
when you're senator you go all
around the state and you and you meet that you meet everybody and of all
political persuasions you also
like meet people in disasters like if there's a flood or a tornado and you see
people at their
very often at their best right because uh and you see people step up for their
neighbors it's really moving
actually it's like 9 11 people came together i remember that it was i was here
that that day and
i remember you line up everyone line up to donate blood and everyone's like
yeah we're good i'm blood
wow everyone did it yeah it was just new yorkers you know that is nice well
that was
yeah more tragedy than we've ever actually had and yeah that was i was in minnesota
that day and uh
was my family was here in new york during snl i was all those years i was in
new york it wasn't snl then but
um my family was because that's where i raised my kids and so uh yeah i ended
up driving back i was i was
visiting my mom and um then drove back um because the planes planes weren't
flying so i just went back
all night and one day and i got oh god damn that was a shitty fucking that's
one way to put it that was so
fucking awful so then you moved back to new york uh 1975 for a little program
called saturday night live
was that the year you started writing on it yes i was one of the original snl
writers original oh yeah
oh gee me and tom davis uh tom and i went to high school together in minneapolis
or a suburb of
minneapolis and uh yeah we were two of the original writers lauren uh we were
the only writers lauren
hired whom we hadn't met but we submitted some material what did you uh did
they see it a comedy show i
assume no uh a an agent a william morris agent saw us at the comedy store ah
and um this is in la
this is in la and we had uh moved there after i graduated college we moved out
there we were just
two years and uh this william morris agent said your taylor's material is
really good would you like to
write for t a comedy variety show on tv and we said yeah but there are none
that we could write for there
was the tonight show yep which is really good but we couldn't it was marty car
mighty carson hard
players and uh the monologue and we weren't that wasn't us there's carol burnett
which was a great show
i love carol but we were not right for and then there was sunny and share which
was kind of shitty yeah
yeah yeah and so he said we said he said write for write a package for a show
that you'd like to see
and so we wrote a news show parody we wrote a sketch which was a parody of
sunny and chair
we wrote a commercial parody and we wrote a conceptual film it was 14 pages
long so this is for
anyone uh listening watching it when you submit comedy material don't write too
much you guys must
have had to have some packets the nephew of some friend uh or submit stuff to
you that's 50 pages long
and you know after a page yeah yeah right of course so don't do that do
something short and make sure
keep them wanting more but you kind of laid out the blueprint for the whole
show the the commercial
parody the news a sketch did they ask for that or was that just what you
decided no that's what we did
and then the the world war three thing was not like a new update it was just it
was it was a newscast
the night of the day of world war three so it was like tragedy death
catastrophe highlight tonight's
news after this message do they still do commercial parodies because now every
commercial i see i'm
like that sexually strong they're in like too many real commercials oh good
point commercial parodies
now i've never thought about that they do both they do both yeah and the but
the ones that are real
whoa cha-ching cha-ching look at those shoulders yeah i think that's uh great
jawline
had to do it again uh but first we'd like to introduce some very important
people in the
audience you know oh i know what this one was with that behind every successful
man you'll find
a woman and tom and i are certainly no exception so tonight ladies and
gentlemen i'd like you all
to meet my lovely wife darlene she's sitting up there baby baby can we get a
shot of her
there she is she's over there there ladies and gentlemen my lovely wife darlene
hey
sitting next door sitting next door is our son al jr
al jr is nine years old and he's already in the second grade and sitting next
to al jr ladies and
gentlemen suzanne the girl tom lives with
i can't i can't live this fly any longer ladies and gentlemen al just
introduced uh his family and
the girl i supposedly live with representative facade no now with all the anita
bryan stuff going on
with all the defeat of gay rights all across the united states some people have
to stand up and be
counted i think the truth is no i mean uh the truth of the matter is al and i
are homosexual lovers
why are you shirtless because we're out to do the reason we're shirtless is the
premise is we've
gone out to do a sumo wrestler we always would come out in some costume yeah it
would never be what we
were doing all right the skinniest man on the planet is the sumo so then it's
um yeah this is where
gay lovers or in the parlance of then homosexual lovers and then uh the boy
stands up and goes i hate
you daddy i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you it was oh that's great
this is 1976 or something
like that and yeah that would play today i think so but the dad would hate you
for hiding it he'd be
like you should be proud of being gay the uh first bit we ever did on the show
was the bureau of what
was uh called powwow with the press and it was what if the indians had won and
i was the host of
powwow with the press and tom was the guy from the bureau of white man affairs
and it was basically the premise was what if the indians had won and you know
we talked about the
nicknames for the major league lacrosse teams oh that's killer screaming rabbi
on the cleveland kikes
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