Name: Ep 97: Phil Hanley
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 97: Phil Hanley' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-17. Transcript available.

Ep 97: Phil Hanley

when the drinks arrived oh they're coming let's start with phil saying when did
the
drinks arrive that's perfect our buddy again our buddy phil hanley is in the
building one of our
best buds yeah i am this is the only this is the first time i've ever been
excited to do
a podcast you always dread doing pods right oh i do yeah i mean they're fun
when you get there
but i'm it injured my back and alcohol helps yeah and i generally can't drink
this early so i'm
excited how'd you injure it's been fine for like six years or something like
that and i flew four
times last week and i my back was like a little funky and then i stretched the
shit out of it and
it's like yeah wait do you stretch it or you get a helper i normally will like
pre-pandemic i'd like
work out and stretch and do all that and then i haven't been and uh wow this
guy's going to town
on these cocktails he's a pro man he's a mixologist and you're a negroni guy
like when i think negroni
i think phil yeah it's my favorite beverage you're either drinking a scotch or
a negroni yeah yeah
glenfiddich he either drinks a glenfiddich on the rocks mccallan no i like mccallan
okay do you oh
yeah people buy me mccallan sometimes because they don't know the difference
but yeah it's oh thank you
so much oh thank you beer jew look at that that looks good dude well done with
the twist yeah love
the twist oh yours is submerged i think that's the move isn't that the move
well i like to put it on
the side and then you can drop it in if you like i mean oh that that's a smell
right there yeah i like
giving the option yeah yeah oh my oh that smells perfect holy yeah pubes too
yeah those are those
are mine just i thought you said pubes for a second that's what i heard what is
that a great one
those are great too don't worry wow this is this is i mean something about a negroni
in the summer
just hits yeah perfect wow that's great man look at that color too perfect redness
not too thick
that's a good drink yeah cheers beer jew beer jew beer jew and for the folks at
home i think that just
the one secret to like really upgrading your negroni game or your manhattans in
general is to get a
nice sweet vermouth that's what i have in my fridge i really like using carpano
antica this is like the
one that you'll find the most common sorry we were raising our classy level for
a second with him
explaining vermouth and then mark just brought us right back down hey the high
low lifestyle you know
but yeah carpano it's good if you want to up your game go grab it it's the
easiest to find and the
best uh if i smell that this is the thing you're supposed to put from you vermouth
in the fridge
right and people will know that yes you refrigerate your vermouth yes yeah okay
um it can last for a
little while outside but after a while it'll go funky oh is that music mark
transitioning back
into like uh fruity mode yeah he's like oh that's nice yeah because after a
while outside it'll
smell like one of mark's farts so keep it in the fridge okay great note what's
in a what's in
what is vermouth great question vermouth is like a super super uh like
concentrated sweet wine
ah i never knew that okay all right that's why like over time it turns a little
bitter but still
keeps its uh sweetness okay cool just like a comedian yeah absolutely perfect
yeah hey uh dude yeah
that's like hanley's go-to drink man it's good it's good to have you here you're
like you're like one of
the first guests we want but you wanted to wait till you had a special to
promote which is now available
on youtube yeah about that came out september 22nd hell yeah yeah great special
we were both there
okay you were you killed it you were there not i uh you were both there and i
remember being on stage
in the second show and being like oh this is i feel like this is good because
you know nerve-wracking
it is doing a special and i was like i think this is you know i think it's we
got it and i looked over
and i could see uh you cracking up uh yeah well you know what's great is we
always talk with us our
friends were all so busy which is good but we used to see each other all the
time watching sets all the
time always in the same room and now we're always on the road we're running
around we're doing pods
so it's all fresh the material i've never heard it so i get to just laugh and
enjoy like an audience
yeah it's funny because it and the beauty of that is the people that you
respect most like you got you'll
see a set and i'll be like oh i did so much old tonight right and then you guys
haven't seen it in
so long you're like oh i love that new bit you're like oh thanks meanwhile it's
like a year and a half
on the road like tight and of course of course yeah and then you think man i
suck but you realize
this guy's been doing that bit since 88. yeah yeah i got busted from sam uh
last week because i i was
dicking around for most of the set i was trying new stuff and then i closed
with uh an older joke
and i came off sam's like oh that was you know a great set or whatever that was
like you know
uh and i was like yeah i was kind of dicking around he goes didn't wasn't that
your closer from your
special i was just oh but it wasn't my clothes because he goes uh yeah i was
just kind of trying
some stuff out i was like i think that was your club from your hour but he was
just trying to get
off stage but i had to fuck with him but yeah i mean that's the fun too is like
you know we're all
on the road so much that like you know we were at the cellar on a weekend
together and it's like holy
shit that's how you kind of dream it up when you're a kid yeah the three of us
yes hell yeah that never
happens and i will say my you two are my two first uh comedian friends in new york
city
here here i felt like norman greeted me when i got off the plane i tried yeah i
like to welcome yeah
very welcoming and then you used to walk around in that little paper boy hat
during the day oh yeah
i forgot about that i just chalked it up to canadian no and then sam and i when
i first
like moved moved here uh we lived across the street from each other we see yeah
yeah yeah oh williamsburg
yeah we used to go to the same coffee place you and i with a special little
coffee yeah it was so good
that was like our afternoon thing yeah we'd walk over but i when i met so norman
was so friendly
when i first got to town but sam was like a love up for a sight thing because
we were playing that
crazy show remember that show low uh low and esme yeah oh with that powley yeah
it was this it was
like six people in the crowd there was a huge screen and there was like aerobics
being yeah played in
the background yeah so you'd be on a good idea no it would be like a woman's
ass right where your
face was very distracting you know it's a post-show thing yeah yeah uh yeah it
should be so
fucking distracting it was 80s aerobics but anyways i remember seeing sam and i'd
probably been in the
city for like a few months whatever and seeing sam and it was like holy this
guy's got bits yeah you
had bits well you still do but like back then it was i was so blown away
because it's so rare you see
so many comics but so few of them you're like holy yeah i think there were like
eight people in that
crowd too yeah i think we bonded because you were like i gotta do this college
and i think i remember
that a little bit and yeah that was a weird show because john powley who would
run the show he'd
have the aerobics on the background the show was called buns and puns that's
right he would walk
around with jello shots to the crowd and cinnamon buns yeah they were free so
you're just performing
for a crowd and you're like this is the altia show yeah so eccentric history it
is yeah and it was a
weird room was like it looked like uh the bar from uh clockwork orange it was
all white yeah totally
white everything's white seating every person beat me with the dildo that time
what happened to powley he was a character i i've seen him on the street a
couple of times really
there was some great stories about him i mean he had there was a quirky
character we used to hang
with john powley i remember one time he was in a bar and he noticed a guy was
pickpocketing people
so he followed the guy out of the bar he goes hey could you come back here and
the guy was like i
didn't do anything and he goes i'm following you he chases the guy for like 10
blocks on the phone with
the cops what the cops get him just as a guy tries to get away into the subway
he got some sort of like
badge of honor type thing really because he brought the guy in and all the guy
all the wallets were
returned wow badass powley yeah and he's not an intimidating no he looks like a
flamingo yes he
might be the least intimidating for so friendly though but i remember that show
he would just like
he was barking but he'd like a girl would walk by and he'd like walk down the
block and then like
they'd turn around and come back in he'd pick her up yes yeah he had that skill
he was so uh agree
what's your word i guess fearless but he was like a war non-threatening that's
the one yeah
oh look at that what is this is that buns and puns how the hell did i get on
there wow
jonathan powley there he is in the top left worthy oh oh yeah look at that's
him yes
i haven't seen that in years it was funny because you guys talk about this show
having eight people
that was the highlight of my month doing that show because i did so many bad
things there was
sometimes when it was like 150 people in a tiny room and sometimes when it was
like
12 people but yeah i mean yeah it was my favorite and he would put us on like
whenever we wanted he
spoiled all of us he was so lucky for that so lucky i see vecky owen there
every now and then that was a
nick vaderot would go on there that was fun different time we were we were scrounging
for shows i
always think it's crazy like we take for granted i particularly take it for
granted because i grew up in the
city but like you know you came from another country you're from canada from oshawa
originally yeah and
you grew up later in life in vancouver yeah and then you move i mean across
another country it was uh
yeah and i had done like i remember this is and then i started all over i'd
done comedy maybe eight
years i i had done uh the craig ferguson show which like felt like a credit i
was like oh yeah no one
gave a shit because i didn't get it from new york ah interesting i remember
when i uh someone
vouched for me i showed up it was an open mic at three of cups there was like
five people in the
crowd i just moved i was i couldn't i hadn't lived here i was staying in here i'd
rent like an airbnb
for three weeks and just try to like meet people and do shows and i showed up
this fight this terrible
open mic everyone's bombing and i go to the dude that's booking it uh rg rg daniels
yeah and i go
to him i'm like yeah uh you know so and so wrecked me he said he could do a
spot he goes yeah send me a
tape i'm like oh this city's gonna be fucking brutal brutal yeah to immigrate
you're the only one that
sam you're the only one that recognizes that i had to get like two work two
work visas and a green card
wow how's that process for the folks i mean it's brutal i mean i'm dyslexic so
any forms it's like
this many forms and uh yeah my mom would help me but uh yeah it's shit it was
probably in total
probably 25 000 bucks three things and as a struggling comic yeah it was yeah
it was uh
get out of here yeah totally yeah it was rough and then it took so long but now
obviously i'm so glad
that i did it but god damn it was a pain in the ass the dream was always like
you never
flirted with la no didn't no because i watched right before i started i watched
comedian
and seinfeld was doing the cellar and hanging out in new york and i was like oh
like that just seemed
like the thing to do yeah that's the way to go la would have been better
because it's so close to my
family but uh no i wanted to be yeah just new york seemed li