
Multi-hyphenate comedian Phoebe Robinson is here to talk about the downside of being a girlboss, as well as her new stand-up special “I Don’t Wanna Work Anymore.” Then, promoter Eig de'Ouef offers Scott and Phoebe big bucks to appear at her comedy festival—with a just few restrictions on content, of course. Finally, music critic Dunno tells us about a recent Oasis show he went to.
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Scott Aukerman
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Phoebe Robinson
Stand up.
Scott Aukerman
I know, I'm getting to that. That's why you're here. But most importantly, she is a stand up with a really fantastic new special called I Don't want to work. It is out on YouTube right now. Please welcome back to the show, Phoebe Robinson. Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe.
Phoebe Robinson
Thanks for having me.
Scott Aukerman
Phoebe. Phoebe.
Phoebe Robinson
The last time I did the show, we were at a studio, and now we're at your. Your play. In your office.
Scott Aukerman
I know your office is.
Phoebe Robinson
Guys, it's big.
Scott Aukerman
It's. It's bigger than the studio. It's too big. The ceilings are too high. No, this is insane.
Phoebe Robinson
I'm thrilled for you.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I mean, they're three stories high. It's just too much.
Phoebe Robinson
You got a great. You got a great home.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you very much. But we don't need to give away my assassination location coordinates. Sorry, it's been so long since I've said it, I forgot what they called it. But Phoebe, you are, of course a New York gentlewoman. And you're New York based, not New York born and bred, are you?
Phoebe Robinson
No, I'm from Cleveland, but I moved to Brooklyn to go to college. I went to Pratt Institute and I stayed.
Scott Aukerman
Pride Institute.
Phoebe Robinson
Pratt.
Scott Aukerman
Pratt Institute. Okay, great. I don't know what that is, but.
Phoebe Robinson
I'm not a person who understands colleges.
Scott Aukerman
I. Anytime in the New York Times crossword where they say, like, this college does this, or the mascot of this college, I'm just like, what? I don't. I didn't go to college. I don't know. But you went to Pratt.
Phoebe Robinson
I did.
Scott Aukerman
And what was your field of study?
Phoebe Robinson
I study writing. So it's like creative, like non fiction. Did a little poetry.
Scott Aukerman
What's creative about non fiction? I thought it was just the facts, as they said on Dragnet back in the 50s.
Phoebe Robinson
Well, it's just more like, you know how like that guy James Frey, like a million little pieces where he just basically.
Scott Aukerman
Oprah had a big problem.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
That's all I really remember.
Phoebe Robinson
He was like, this really happened.
Scott Aukerman
So a memoir, that. Of stuff that actually happened and then more you pull the threads.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
So that's what you were taught to do, is to do this. James Frey. No, no, no.
Phoebe Robinson
Taught to do that. You do it in a way where it's clear that you're not saying, like, this is the truth as it happened. And so everyone should believe that this is, you know.
Scott Aukerman
And have. Have you written some sort of book like this? I haven't kept up with your authorial works.
Phoebe Robinson
I have three essay collections out.
Scott Aukerman
What are essays exactly? They're like. They're like short things where you Talk about a topic, right?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, my first book is you can't touch my hair and other have to explain. Second one is everything's trash, but it's okay. And the third one is please don't sit on my bed. And you're outside clothes, so I love to have a fun title. And then like, I don't think I.
Scott Aukerman
Would sit on your bed in my inside clothes either. I, I, that's very personal to sit on your bed.
Phoebe Robinson
I know people are like, just don't. They're too casual about germs.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Well, I guess when you're in New York also, it's a smaller place. So many, I imagine. What do you have, like four bedroom or.
Phoebe Robinson
I have a three bedroom.
Scott Aukerman
You have a three in New York. And so, you know, but it's smaller. So I can imagine people wandering in there and.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
During a party or something. Are you an entertainer? I know you're an entertainer in terms of your career, but are you an entertainer at home?
Phoebe Robinson
I do like to host a Super bowl party every year.
Scott Aukerman
Really? Are you a football fan?
Phoebe Robinson
I am a football fan. I mean, when you're from the Midwest.
Scott Aukerman
Are you a Cleveland.
Phoebe Robinson
Who is it? The Cleveland Browns?
Scott Aukerman
Browns, right.
Phoebe Robinson
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Blounts?
Phoebe Robinson
The Blounds. The Cleveland Blounds. No, the Cleveland Browns. My brother's a die hard fan.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Phoebe Robinson
I sort of don't have a team and I kind of just like watch everybody because I think.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, so you migrate from team to team whichever way the wind is blowing.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Who are you into right now?
Phoebe Robinson
I will say I do because I'm from the Midwest. I do root for like Detroit and those kinds of teams are also from the Midwest because it's like they called.
Scott Aukerman
It the Motor City once. Yeah, they did one time, and then it stuck.
Phoebe Robinson
Now.
Scott Aukerman
And so your super bowl parties, do you do, like a theme beyond just football? Like, you know, everyone has to dress up like one of the players. But not on the field at home or anything like that.
Phoebe Robinson
No, I will say so. This year it was in New Orleans. So I did, you know, gumbo. I didn't do gumbo, but what did I do?
Scott Aukerman
Okra.
Phoebe Robinson
I can't remember what I did.
Scott Aukerman
Frito pie.
Phoebe Robinson
I, I cooked and Alfredo pie is so good. But yeah, I had like a whole like, sort of like Southern theme. So that was like, really fun. Oh, red beans and rice. I did all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Which is really good. And then the year when it was Rihanna, I was like, it's just only about Rihanna. Everyone Just be cool. Like, bring some champagne and just.
Scott Aukerman
So it was. It was a. Be cool and be classy. We're going to watch Rihanna and not focus so much on football.
Phoebe Robinson
The game was terrible. So it was only about Rihanna.
Scott Aukerman
Yes. And what do we think about the bad bunny controversy?
Phoebe Robinson
It's great.
Scott Aukerman
It's great.
Phoebe Robinson
He's all. He's awesome.
Scott Aukerman
He's one of the biggest stars in the world. It's so funny to see people complaining about him.
Phoebe Robinson
It's so wild because I know Gloria Stefan. She did a halftime show and she sang all in English, and this was like, 91. So I don't know why people are acting like. It's also, like, not a big deal if someone doesn't perform in English.
Scott Aukerman
In English. But those words to conga are so fast, they could be misconstrued for anything. Come on, baby, see, baby, baby. What is the rest of it? Come on, baby, see me. Come on, baby, see my baby do that conga. Come on, baby, shoot. Shoot my baby. Come on, baby, shoot my baby. I don't know what that.
Phoebe Robinson
You are so close.
Scott Aukerman
You're like, so am I close? Well, we'll see who ends up in the big game. Of course, we're not supposed to call it the super bowl. We're supposed to call it the big game because they've trademarked super bowl. So anytime.
Phoebe Robinson
Wait, is this a bit.
Scott Aukerman
It's not a bit. Anytime that you are doing any piece of media about it, like a storyline on a show or anything, everyone goes, are you coming over for the big game? No one can say super bowl because they. They own the trademark for it.
Phoebe Robinson
That's trash.
Scott Aukerman
That's trash. It should be like the iPhone, where they go, you know what? We own this trademark. You know how you can shoot an iPhone in any. They said when iPhones came out, they said, you don't need to clear these. Clearing stuff in. In TV and movies is so strange. Like, you have to tape logos off of shoes. Like, people wear shoes.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
What do you. What are we worried about? You know what I mean? But so. But then with the iPhone, they said, you know what? Anyone put an iPhone in any of your TV shows and movies, we don't care.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, it's free promo.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, exactly. That should be what they do for the Super Bowl.
Phoebe Robinson
I know. The big game.
Scott Aukerman
The big game sounds so stupid, but we'll see what happens with that come February. But you know what I want to talk about right now is you have a new standup comedy special called I don't want to work Anymore. Anymore?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Did I say the anymore in your introduction?
Phoebe Robinson
No, that's.
Scott Aukerman
God damn it.
Phoebe Robinson
You can add. You can add it in post.
Scott Aukerman
I was.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, just do any more.
Scott Aukerman
Can we. I'm gonna do a clean anymore, so we can put that.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Ready? Anymore. Okay, so the editor just cut that out and just put it before so I don't look like a idiot. All right. So stupid. Why was I doing this? Off memory. I didn't write it down. Normally I have notes and stuff, but I was like, I just watched this thing. I know exactly what it. I'm so stupid. Stupid. Anyway, editor, make me look smart.
Phoebe Robinson
Don't crash out. Don't crash. Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. It's too early in the morning to crash out on this, but it's a great special. I have watched it.
Phoebe Robinson
Thank you.
Scott Aukerman
And man, I just thought this was. I have to watch a lot of standup comedy specials for this show, and I always say, oh, they're really good.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
I don't mean it. And they usually fucking suck. And I was like, all right, let's fire up the old YouTube and let's watch one of these comedy specials. And I was like, God damn, she is firing on all cylinders for this. Oh, I thought it was because you never know what to expect with a multi hyphenate like yourself. You can. One can sort of think like, oh, they got this special because of their other work, their acting work or whatever, and they didn't put a lot of work into it or something. But I was like, God damn it. Phoebe is like, you. I mean, this is an exceptional special. You worked super hard on it. I can tell.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
And everything was hitting. Every single joke was hitting. And it was just like, oh, my God, I can't. Like, I don't know where you found the time. Like, I watched it. I was exhausted for you. Where. Where did she. How often did you had to be out there working every night to do this? Why?
Phoebe Robinson
It probably. I know.
Scott Aukerman
Well, why do something like this?
Phoebe Robinson
It probably took me like a year and a half to put the hour together. Like, I'm not a person who could just, like, crank out an hour every year. Because I just think you need to have time.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
To let things sit. But I'm really nerdy when I, like, think about an hour. So, like, I'll have a Google Doc. I won't have a title yet, but I'll, like, write a thesis statement of, like, this is what I think I want the hour to be. And then whatever falls under that umbrella, like, has A chance to make it the cut if it's good enough. And then when I have my jokes, I write them out. Each sentence gets its own line. So I can see if. If it's.
Scott Aukerman
Each sentence that you say in the special gets its own line, meaning you're just typing out what you're saying.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, but no, but it's like, it's like if I have like a. A bit and there's like five lines in the bit. Like, it's like the first sentence, enter next, next line, next sentence.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Phoebe Robinson
Because that way then I can really see what's doing the heavy lifting. If it's too wordy, if I should move things around.
Scott Aukerman
This sounds like some DAT fan, kind of like, do you know what I'm saying? Remember his research paper that he was doing? Anytime he would do a set.
Phoebe Robinson
But it helps because so many times we overwrite jokes, you know, so then if you have it in document, you can go, okay, I wish that were my problem.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I'm so under. I don't even write them. Yeah, but yeah, you. So you can, you can kind of override jokes. A lot of that comes out when you just kind of get up and say them and say them in your own words.
Phoebe Robinson
And yes.
Scott Aukerman
Try to figure out, you know, how you're communicating to the audience. Right? Yeah, like a lot of it gets stripped away. Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
And then you go back to the document, you're like, oh, I could cut all of this that I needed because what I said on stage was like, perfect. So then I'll go back and listen to my.
Scott Aukerman
I always find that when you forget to say something, and this can be in a stand a bit or a pitch or anything like that, or a story you're telling, that's usually the part that doesn't even need to be there anyway. You know what I mean?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, I totally agree with that. So, yeah, I just, you know, I love stand up. I started doing stand up in 2008 and I just really wanted to really sit down and be like, okay, if you really like put your all into doing an hour and like had a theme, like, what would it be? Cause I think before I was just sort of cobbling jokes together.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
And it just.
Scott Aukerman
A lot of specials are like that where it's just like they pretend to have a thesis and they go like, oh, yeah, this is my thesis. And then they say it in the first five minutes and then there's a long 50 minute detour of just random jokes and then they get back to it at the end. But yours is pretty on topic for, for the majority of it. And it's, and it's a great thesis. Do you want to say exactly what, what it is?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, it's just like, you know, this whole girl boss thing which I think so many of us fell for in the early aughts because I was just like hustling and grinding is what everyone did. I don't think it is gonna set us free and sort of like, I just don't want to be on this hamster wheel anymore. And if I could marry an old rich dude who will put me in the family, will I would do it?
Scott Aukerman
Yes. Yeah, it's very funny. I, I related to it. I. Because you see these people on like, say the current season of love is blind who are like, you know, I want to have an empire. I want to be a power couple. I'm like, you don't know how exhausting that is.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
And then you have like, I've talked to friends who the whole thing of like, oh, I'm a strong black woman. That is something that they feel the responsibility to have. But then they don't always want to be that all the time. You know, it's like. And it's refreshing to see someone who is out there just going like, God damn it. I just like, I don't want to have to fucking. You know, because you talk about all of the multi hyphenate things that you do.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
And how, just how tiring it is and how great it would be to retire. Wouldn't it be good to retire?
Phoebe Robinson
It would be great if I could retire at like 55. When you're still like kind of young. I know it's like tomorrow I got for me. No, no, no. But like 55 or 60. So I could just like, I feel.
Scott Aukerman
What would you do if you did retire?
Phoebe Robinson
You know, I've thought about it because I spent so much of my 20s and early 30s so focused on work and stand up and attaining a level.
Scott Aukerman
Of success and status.
Phoebe Robinson
So I like didn't like, you know, live that much life. I didn't like travel that much. I miss like baby showers and weddings and all those.
Scott Aukerman
You can go back to the babies whose showers you missed. Give them a present.
Phoebe Robinson
I can, but I think I would just want to spend more time with family and friends, travel, enjoy other hobbies. Like my. One of my big hobbies is I'm a marathoner. So I would love to just.
Scott Aukerman
Really?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. I just did Berlin and then I'm training for Philadelphia, which is next Month.
Scott Aukerman
Are they different? Like on Philadelphia, do you get to ring the Liberty Bell at the end?
Phoebe Robinson
Yes. They let each of the 40,000 people who run get one ring.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, but, but like how do you train for a different city? Do you, is it a different terrain? Do you, you know what I mean? Like in, in, in Germany, are you going through any of the like terrible places like, and you, you got to shield your eyes or.
Phoebe Robinson
No, you're not going through any terrible places, but you do have marathons that are flatter road, like Berlin as opposed to New York or Boston, which is hilly.
Scott Aukerman
Is it? Oh really? Are they?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
What is. And I've talked about this, the LA marathon someday. I, I don't want to train for it. I just want to walk it one day. Do you think I could do it?
Phoebe Robinson
I mean, it's going to take you a long time.
Scott Aukerman
It'd take like seven hours, right? To walk?
Phoebe Robinson
I think it's going to take longer than that.
Scott Aukerman
I walk like at a 4 to 5 mile an hour clip.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, well then, yeah, you can bang it out.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
You walk so fast.
Scott Aukerman
I have long legs.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. Yeah, I mean that, that's faster than.
Scott Aukerman
Some people can run it with me. And I have to wait for her and she's complaining all the time like, stop walking so fast with your long legs. Then it's going to be a little longer. So you're a marathoner, you would do that. And, and, but then I also feel like, aren't you a workaholic? The mere fact that you put this special together and it's so good makes me go like, Phoebe just loves working.
Phoebe Robinson
I used to be a workaholic. I went to therapy for it during, during COVID Because everything was stopping. I was like, well, what do I do? Yeah, what do I do? Who am I? Blah, blah. And I was just sort of like, I can't. That's not good.
Scott Aukerman
So now you, you, you still seem like one though, because you, you did this special, but you just feel better about it.
Phoebe Robinson
I feel better about it and I just, you know, build in pockets of rest and I just, I think I'm more efficient. You know, once I hit 40, I just learned how to do my work more efficiently. So I remember when I wrote my first book, I would be like staying up until like 3 o' clock in the morning and writing. And now I'm like, bitch, get this shit done by 6pm first draft, best draft. Yeah. No edits. Zero.
Scott Aukerman
We don't do this show with any edits other than that one. You've got to put me saying anymore. When I say the title of her.
Phoebe Robinson
Show, please leave it out. I wanted to haunt him. I wanted to haunt on.
Scott Aukerman
Now people can get this and access this special on YouTube. Is this something that you filmed yourself and put on YouTube or is it.
Phoebe Robinson
Part of a. I had a director, Sharza Devani, I guess I don't mean that you literally direct it, but she's brilliant. She actually came up with the design for the stage back.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, great. I didn't even know. And it was. It was shot here at Dynasty Typewriter, the stage where I performed a parody of Eminem's Lose Yourself. All about the show. Er. Did you know that when you taped the special?
Phoebe Robinson
Or. You know what? They did mention that.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Phoebe Robinson
As a selling point of, like, why I should shoot there. Okay, good.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, that energy was just on that stage, I'm sure. And. And. But you. You, I guess, paid for it yourself.
Phoebe Robinson
And put it up on YouTube and stuff. Yeah, I just was like, I just want to do this. I don't want to be lost in the algorithm because I feel like it's so hard on these platforms sometimes to sort of stand out. So I was like, I'm just gonna put this out. It's a good calling card so people can see what I can do and what I've been up to.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, it's great, and it's fantastic. Like I say, I have had to watch a lot of comedy specials, and I don't want anyone to be looking at past episodes over the past year or so and going like, oh, he didn't like any of these ones? No, I liked them fine. But this one is great. This is the best one I've seen. It's really, really good and just was very relatable. Some great topics. The overall thesis is wonderful, but then you get into very specific stuff. I was watching with coolop, and she was laughing as well, and we were laughing at a probably pace of once every 20 seconds. Is that good? When you're watching a special? That seems maybe too much.
Phoebe Robinson
That's great. Oh, my God.
Scott Aukerman
Three per minute.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
60 minutes, 180.
Phoebe Robinson
Laughs yeah, I'll take it. That's incredible.
Scott Aukerman
I feel like I owe you laughs now.
Phoebe Robinson
You're great. Just don't even worry about it, okay? And don't. Don't put the Annie Moore back in, please.
Scott Aukerman
Come on, man. If you're. Look, I pay your salary editor. Phoebe's. You know, she's a movie star. Maybe, but I pay your salary.
Phoebe Robinson
I'm not a movie Star.
Scott Aukerman
I saw you in Ibiza.
Phoebe Robinson
That's right. Shout out to Ibiza. That was a fun movie. It's on Netflix.
Scott Aukerman
Yes.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Went to the premiere. Were you there? I can't recall.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, I was there.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. We also went to, of course, a little band called U2. We went to a show together at Madison Square Garden and had a good time.
Phoebe Robinson
Did you go to the Sphere shows?
Scott Aukerman
Yes, we went opening night.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
And that was very fun. But you, and, but you're. You're a person that like Bono actually like texts and keeps up with. Right?
Phoebe Robinson
Well, we don't text. We email from time to time. And he does send me flowers on my birthday.
Scott Aukerman
Is he bonobono.com or bono me.com?
Phoebe Robinson
Yes, that's. That. That is. So everyone go ahead and just fire away. An email.
Scott Aukerman
We never got beyond the barrier of him texting his publicist who texted us and sent us those texts.
Phoebe Robinson
That's great.
Scott Aukerman
So, I mean, that's. I mean, it's one step removed from what you're getting though. You're getting like direct contact.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, but it's not like we're email buds where we're sending like long paragraphs.
Scott Aukerman
You know, you don't have like a text chain where you're like taking pict of whatever you're watching on tv, taking video of it going, look at the way he pronounces this.
Phoebe Robinson
Have you seen the Pit? No, I'm not doing that with him.
Scott Aukerman
The Pit. Have you seen the pit, by the way?
Phoebe Robinson
So good. I have three episodes left and I'm sort of just like taking my time with it because I love it so much and it makes me cry.
Scott Aukerman
You'll enjoy my er rap then when you hear it. Well, this special is called I don't want to work Anymore.
Phoebe Robinson
You did it.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you, editor. Thank you for putting that in. I don't want to work anymore. It's on YouTube. And is this like, is this the last special you're gonna do? Are you gonna go out at the top of your game or. Or are you still like thinking of other stand up specials to do? Like, like once you filmed this, were you still going out to clubs and.
Phoebe Robinson
Still doing stand up I the next. So I was like, I'm gonna take a break. And then the next night I went, I went up. But I have taken a break. And so now I'm gonna get back into it because I just was like, I feel like I said everything I had, I had to say. And so now I'm just like, I need to Live a little bit more life in order to.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I've. I felt like that around episode 700 or so. And unfortunately, the release schedule is once a week and it doesn't really afford me the luxury.
Phoebe Robinson
But you have so many fans who.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Tune in every week.
Scott Aukerman
Sure, when. We love them. We love the fans, don't we? That's what we have in common, I think, you and I, is we love.
Phoebe Robinson
Our fans, we respect our fans. We want to have them over at Comedy Bang Bang.
Scott Aukerman
By the way, we care. That's our new tagline for this year, Comedy Gang Bang. We care. I'd like to hear from all of you out there about whatever troubles or travails you're going through, because we care.
Phoebe Robinson
Do you do voiceover work?
Scott Aukerman
Occasionally. I may be on the upcoming season of Invincible, but other than that, look, I'm offer only, which is a huge problem in the industry, I'm finding. Don't really have the time or bandwidth for auditions. But, you know, if anyone wants to send me anything, do you think I'd be good at it, or are you trying to say, like, oh, get out.
Phoebe Robinson
You have a great voice. That's why I was asking. I was like, you would think this.
Scott Aukerman
Kind of job would lead to other jobs like it, but I'm not. Fine. There's a couple Tender Green. What is it? Big. Big City Green.
Phoebe Robinson
There's Tender Greens.
Scott Aukerman
Episodes of that. And then there's a musical episode of, like, one cartoon that I did years ago that I don't think ever came out.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Where I, like, had to sing a song and all this kind of stuff, but I don't think it ever came out. Or it hasn't come out yet. Or maybe these things take a million. Do you do voiceover work?
Phoebe Robinson
I hear. And there I did something on King of the. Of the Hill, but I shot it. I recorded it, like, last year and it came out this year and it came out.
Scott Aukerman
Who'd you play?
Phoebe Robinson
I played. It was this episode. It was like this cooking competition. And I played this sort of, like, douchey woman who, like, she studied at, like, culinary school in France, and so now she thinks she's a big deal. And it was really fun.
Scott Aukerman
And that show is getting great reviews.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, but I was just saying, like, even, like, I could see you doing, like, a Walgreens commercial.
Scott Aukerman
I would love to do that.
Phoebe Robinson
You know what I mean? Like, I love that company. Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
No, I would. Yeah, I'll do a Walgreen. Are you talking just voiceover? I'm like, Walgreens like the voiceover.
Phoebe Robinson
I think it's great.
Scott Aukerman
We have a lot of stuff here.
Phoebe Robinson
I mean, I would hire you based off that submit that I want to.
Scott Aukerman
Have I ever been inside of Walgreens? Is it like a cvs or is it a. It's like a cvs.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Or like a. What are they called?
Phoebe Robinson
Dwayne Reeds? Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
They're kind of all the same.
Scott Aukerman
They're all the same thing. Shouldn't they all combine and just be one store?
Phoebe Robinson
I mean, but then you don't. You're not as hungry if there's no competition.
Scott Aukerman
You know, consolidation and monopolies are bad for competition. Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah, but what I'm saying is they all combine into one giant store in the middle of the country. Like, that takes up all of Idaho and Wyoming and everything. And then everyone goes to that.
Phoebe Robinson
We have to travel to Idaho to get Band Aids. I don't know if I like this business model.
Scott Aukerman
I think it's a good business model. Well, the special is called I Don't Want to Work Anymore, and it is out now on YouTube. It's really exceptional. I urge everyone to go watch it and laugh their little butts off. We're gonna take a break, if you don't mind. Can you stick around, Phoebe?
Phoebe Robinson
No, I gotta go.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay. Understandable. But when we come back, we're going to have a festival organizer. We also have a music critic. This is a great show. I'm so glad you're here for it. I need you. I need you backing me up.
Phoebe Robinson
I. I got your back.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. You got my six?
Phoebe Robinson
I do.
Scott Aukerman
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Phoebe Robinson
Hi, I'm Jenny Slate and believe it or not, someone is allowing us to have a podcast.
Scott Aukerman
I'm Gabe Liedman. I'm Max Silvestri and we've been friends for 20 years. And we like to reach out to kind of get advice on how to live our lives. It's called I need you guys. Should I give my baby fresh vegetables?
Phoebe Robinson
Can I drink the water at the hospital?
Scott Aukerman
My landlord plays the trombone and I can't ask him to stop.
Phoebe Robinson
You should make sure that you subscribe.
Scott Aukerman
So that you never miss an episode. Comedy Bang Bang. We're back. Phoebe Robinson is here of I Don't Wanna Work Anymore. It is a stand up comedy special which runs approximately 60 minutes. Maybe a little bit shy. 55 or so.
Phoebe Robinson
It's 50. 53. No, sorry. 59. 33.
Scott Aukerman
59, 33. What happened to the other 30 seconds?
Phoebe Robinson
I just was like, get this out of here.
Scott Aukerman
It's good. And it. It. You know what? I was laughing so hard at it that when it was over, I was like, oh, I. I was surprised because I'm used to, like, stand up specials dragging on and on and just going like, come on, man.
Phoebe Robinson
You just gotta know when to wrap it up, you know?
Scott Aukerman
And you wrapped it up expertly. The dismount was incredible. And it's a great special. We need to get to our next guest. They are a festival organizer. Have you been to any festivals, Phoebe?
Phoebe Robinson
And not in a while. But I did get an invite to the New Yorker Festival. So I'm gonna go. I got a plus one as a.
Scott Aukerman
As an author. Like just to hang out or just to hang out?
Phoebe Robinson
No, I'm working on something, but I. Yeah, I can't talk about it.
Scott Aukerman
Are you taking over the New Yorker?
Phoebe Robinson
I am.
Scott Aukerman
Like, Bari Weiss took over cbbs.
Phoebe Robinson
That is so bonkers.
Scott Aukerman
I'm like, okay, but this person's a festival organizer. I don't know what type of festival, but let's talk to them. Please. Welcome. I do.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, hi.
Scott Aukerman
Sorry. How do I pronounce it?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Egg to oaf is my name. Eglinton to oaf. You can call me Egg. Hi, Scott. It's so good to see you.
Scott Aukerman
So wonderful. Is it?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Wow, Phoebe, such a huge fan. I'm actually really glad you're here. I came to talk to you, actually, but Phoebe, I mean, this is.
Scott Aukerman
You'd rather talk to Phoebe?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, this couldn't have worked out better. I'd like to speak with both of you if that's okay.
Scott Aukerman
Do you want to talk to us as a. As a group or do you want to talk to us?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Are you representing together? Should I go through. I can go through reps. I can talk to you two directly. I. You. I knew I could talk to you directly. Phoebe, I'm more than happy to go.
Phoebe Robinson
Through your reps. You could talk to.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Me if that's okay. Well, fantastic.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, but I don't think we represent each other as a duo act or anything like that.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I didn't think that. I know Phoebe definitely is doing a lot of her own stuff I've done.
Scott Aukerman
I could work something out.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, you know, maybe like a duo. Act cool, you're headliners. How does that sound?
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I like that. Where like I tell one joke, then you tell one joke and then we just back and forth.
Phoebe Robinson
That's cute.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, I just love that. So that sort of segues me perfectly.
Scott Aukerman
So this is a comedy festival or.
Duno (Evan Riley)
This is a comedy festival called off the vine on the Yard. Martha's Vineyard Premiere Comedy Festival. Yeah, we're just starting this year. And so, Scott, you know, I was really hoping to pitch the festival to you and Phoebe, you as well, see if I can get you guys interested in coming and performing.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, I. I haven't heard any other details, but I want to say I'm 100%.
Phoebe Robinson
Yes, this sounds great.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Fantastic. So I'll just go through the contract here with you guys. It's really simple, really easy. So one, we just sort of.
Scott Aukerman
Can I E. Sign it or do like.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can pull it up on your little laptop there. So here's what it is.
Scott Aukerman
It's not really a little.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Phoebe, I got a paper copy for you.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, thank you.
Scott Aukerman
It's pretty big actually.
Duno (Evan Riley)
The screen, your tiny, tiny little laptop for your tiny, tiny little hands. Okay, are we ready?
Scott Aukerman
Wait, wait. Is this forced perspective? Like, why do you think my hands are so tight? Oh, I'm sorry.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I'm pretty tall.
Scott Aukerman
You're pretty tall. And I'm right next to this statue, life size statue of King Kong that I have in my three story, three story studio here.
Duno (Evan Riley)
So if you're driving down the street and you see sort of like a turret that goes three stories up from the basement, that's where I am.
Scott Aukerman
That's Scott's house.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, so here's sort of the finer points of the. First off, you're gonna love it. It's so fun. We got golf courses so you can go golfing during the day in Martha's Vineyard. Yep.
Scott Aukerman
Wow. Do you have to like shoot through the vines or.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, you're funny. Save it for the stage, Scott. I love that.
Scott Aukerman
I am writing this down.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, so we sort of just like a couple of, couple of rules here for off the vine on the yard. And that's just sort of one good sportsmanship. We just want to make sure we're supporting our other, other comedians for sure to be in good sportsmanship.
Scott Aukerman
So no like, I guess talking shit about the other comedians while we're up on stage.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, you know, I'm sort of, you know, we just sort of want to create a positive atmosphere for the festival. I mean, if you gotta, you know, I'm not gonna stop you. But, you know, we sort of wanted to create a positive atmosphere. Number two, let's, let's, let's just make sure we're having a good time. Yeah. So we just sort of want to make sure we're. We're eating well. And if there's anything that the staff can do.
Scott Aukerman
Wait, so we have to eat well while we're at the festival and have.
Duno (Evan Riley)
A good time, Whatever that means.
Scott Aukerman
How are you going to track that?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, we're not. You know, it's just sort of. It's sort of, sort of a rules vibe. So whatever that means to you, you do that. Number three, we do not talk about Chappaquiddick. The incident at Chappaquiddick. You're legally agreeing to co sign that you will not talk about.
Phoebe Robinson
I never heard of this. Can you explain?
Duno (Evan Riley)
You don't know Chappaquiddick?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, that's great. And we're going to keep that energy up. We're not talking about the.
Egg Doaf
That.
Duno (Evan Riley)
That misty, misty evening. It was a misty evening on July 18, 1969.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I don't. You know, this is before I was born. I think I was conceived around. No, I actually, I think I tracked it back. I was conceived on 9. 11 of 1969.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, there we go.
Scott Aukerman
I was conceived in 1969 in a 69. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Isn't that nuts?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Your parents told you that?
Scott Aukerman
That's what she said. Isn't that nuts? It was crazy.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, save it for the stage material.
Scott Aukerman
I am writing all of this down.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes. We're not talking about. Nobody is ever to mention what happened. Senator Edward Ted Kennedy. He was 37 at the time.
Egg Doaf
Oh, this.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He veered off the road. Mary Jo trapped in the car. Okay, so we can't discuss that at all. You're sort of co signing and agreeing that that was an accident.
Scott Aukerman
I don't think I was even ever.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
That aware of the situation.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I love that. Perfect. And we're going to keep that energy up. So if anybody asks you to say we don't know it was an accident, could we maybe.
Phoebe Robinson
You know, because we. I think Scott and I would like to do a little bit of crowd work. Could we talk to the crowd about it?
Duno (Evan Riley)
No.
Scott Aukerman
What if anyone in the crowd is like a Kennedy? And we go, oh, do you have any relatives? And they go, oh, well, my uncle.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And you move on. And we don't talk about Tylenol. We call it Acetaminophen.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay, There's a lot of rules that are coming.
Scott Aukerman
Why aren't we talking about Tylenol?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Next rule. Enjoy the all you can eat buffet. Oh, I'll just really go to town on it.
Scott Aukerman
Buffet of what?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, anything you could think. Crab. You like crab?
Scott Aukerman
Scott, it's fine. It's a little too much work.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Especially at a buffet.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Hey, you know what? We'll have somebody cut it up for you, okay? Let somebody sort of crack open the crab for you because that's what. We can sort of do it off the vine.
Phoebe Robinson
It's eat well, don't talk about Chapaquiddit and enjoy the end of the meal.
Scott Aukerman
A set of. What is it again?
Duno (Evan Riley)
If you talk to a candidate, you have to call Tylenol Acetaminophen.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
That's a really important.
Scott Aukerman
But you don't have to unless you're talking. If you talk to a Kennedy, you have to call Tylenol Acetaminophen.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Thank you. Number four, make friends.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, make some friends. Who else is going to be there? Yeah, do you mean other comedians or.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, so we got a lot of funny guys at the festival so far. So you two obviously in. Then we have. Do you know Jared from Subway? Yeah, his parole officer.
Phoebe Robinson
He's out of jail.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, his parole officer is going to do it.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He's not on parole yet, so his future parole officer? Maybe.
Scott Aukerman
So he's not been assigned to the case yet, huh?
Duno (Evan Riley)
The parole officer? No, but he's really vying for it. He was auditioning like crazy. He's not.
Scott Aukerman
You have to audition for officers. Yeah, Scott, I guess I was saying, once you are one, you have to audition for specific prisons.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You want to be a parole officer?
Scott Aukerman
I don't. I don't really.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Are you offer only for parole too?
Scott Aukerman
I'm offer only for parole.
Duno (Evan Riley)
That sucks. That's tough. That's tough. We're gonna get you one day. I feel good about it.
Scott Aukerman
All you gotta do is offer and I'll probably take it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Do you want to be a parole officer?
Scott Aukerman
Sure.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You have to audition.
Scott Aukerman
I can't do it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, that's tough. We'll circle back around. Okay. So you gotta make new friends. So that's who Bill Burr is doing it.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah. He made a whole Nothing. Bill Burr was so excited about it.
Phoebe Robinson
It. We love Bill.
Scott Aukerman
You leave me out of that. But.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He was so excited. He was like, oh, it's kind of like he. He sort of was like a little bit questionable about, like. Oh, then don't, you know, people were sort of upset about because there's a lot of people that are bad that we don't want people talking about Chappaquiddick and sort of co signing that nothing happened to the Kennedys or awesome people.
Scott Aukerman
This rule makes me feel like you had something to do with whatever happened in Chocolate. Who was it? Mary was trapped in the car.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Mary Jo.
Scott Aukerman
Mary Jo was trapped in a car.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You're not allowed to talk about Mary Jo. You're not allowed to say the words mar Jail.
Scott Aukerman
Did you have something to do with this?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Huh?
Scott Aukerman
You keep saying huh. Whenever I ask you a question that you don't want to answer.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Listen, Scott, you are not allowed to talk about the fact that Senator ted Kennedy, age 37, swam across to Edgartown onto Martha's Vineyard to his hotel, the Shepherd Town Inn. Okay. And then he changed his clothes and he saw an innkeeper whose name was Russell Dumbledore to establish an alibi. Any of that.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He let that woman drown in the car. Allegedly. No, she didn't.
Scott Aukerman
I. I mean, that's pretty horrifying.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
His name was Peachy Number seven.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Don't forget your gift bag.
Phoebe Robinson
I want to circle back to what we just heard.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. That feels like the egg part of it.
Scott Aukerman
Because your name is Eglinton, you said.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, yes. This is Edgartown.
Scott Aukerman
It's very similar.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It is very similar. And that's because my grandfather sort of established the town.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Your grandfather's name was Edgerton.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Edgerton Doaf. I'm Eglinton. You can call me Egg for short. You could call him Egg for Short, too. I come from a long line of eggs.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. And d' oaf means hard boiled scrambled.
Duno (Evan Riley)
If you know what I mean. Shh.
Scott Aukerman
I don't, actually. You pointed to your brain when you. When you said that, by the way, just for the listener.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Scrambled, if you know what I mean.
Scott Aukerman
You're putting your finger to your temple, but scrambled. Got it. But look, this wasn't top of mind for me.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
So I'm kind of okay with this.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
What do you think?
Phoebe Robinson
It's nice to take the trip. Why not? Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I love that we're paying so much money.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. So how much are we going to get paid to perform, Scott?
Duno (Evan Riley)
$100,000?
Scott Aukerman
I mean, is it worth my time.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Plus all you can eat, new friends and you are not allowed to talk about anything that happened on Tropical Hick.
Scott Aukerman
I. Yeah, I guess I. I guess I. Yeah. That's. How much is Phoebe getting Phoebe?
Duno (Evan Riley)
$1.9 million.
Phoebe Robinson
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Scott Aukerman
Yes, hold on. Why? The disparity is because Phoebe's a multi hyphenate and a movie star.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Are you a multi hyphenate?
Scott Aukerman
Sky in Ibiza? Look, I'm a movie star. I was in Austin Powers Gold. Member?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Were you?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Who were you?
Scott Aukerman
I was a young Michael Caine.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Really?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Do it.
Scott Aukerman
No, I didn't even have to. When I shot the movie, they just.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Shot my back for me.
Scott Aukerman
I did audition for that. Did you? I did.
Phoebe Robinson
Is that true?
Scott Aukerman
It's a two step process. First, I went into the casting agent and I did my Michael Caine impression. And then, then I went and I met what's. What's his name? Austin Powers. Mike Myers himself. And Jay and I. I had to go to the studio and. And do it for them.
Phoebe Robinson
And then. Wow.
Scott Aukerman
It was. It was.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, do the lines, Scott, please.
Scott Aukerman
I ended up not having any lines.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Really?
Scott Aukerman
They cut in old footage of Michael Caine from the 1960s and replaced all of what I was gonna do with. With his footage.
Duno (Evan Riley)
So you don't appear in the film?
Scott Aukerman
My back is in the movie.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You're a background person in the movie.
Scott Aukerman
Well, I was paid as a. As a principal.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You were a literal background person because you're back to the camera.
Scott Aukerman
I'm a backter. You can call me that. But I'm not a background artist.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, I love that. Save that for the stage.
Scott Aukerman
Scott, I am writing this down.
Duno (Evan Riley)
This is absolutely fantastic. So we just got a couple more.
Scott Aukerman
I want to be paid. I want half of what she's making.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, it feels fair.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Half of what Phoebe's making.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, And I want her. I want to come out of her.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, but then we got a couple.
Phoebe Robinson
Actually, let's scratch that.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, we'll take it from Bill.
Scott Aukerman
It's. You said it sounded fair, Phoebe.
Duno (Evan Riley)
We'll take it from Bill. So, okay, here's. Okay, but if we're gonna pay you more, then there's more rules.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, what are the rules?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, number eight.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You'd gotta do one Instagram post story.
Scott Aukerman
A story. Maybe as a story.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah. Number nine. Okay, here's the thing. You have to agree that even though Robert Kennedy denies driving under the influence and having an affair with Mary Jo, because he was married at the time and she was 28 and they were driving alone together.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. By the way, I've done that. I'm married and I've driven alone in a car with a 28 year old woman before and then flipped and there.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Was nothing on her for dad.
Egg Doaf
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Turned out everything was okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Thank God everything was okay. She got out of the car.
Scott Aukerman
Well, we weren't in, in the middle of a lake. This is like just down on Los Feliz Boulevard. Kind of tied up.
Duno (Evan Riley)
There's a lot of traffic coming.
Scott Aukerman
Tied up traffic. Oh, and this was earlier. Yes.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay. So you just have to admit that you believe that story and that was completely true. And you have to agree that he served. That Ted Kennedy served in Congress from 1962 to his death in 2009, which is true.
Scott Aukerman
And that I agree with.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He's the longest US Sen to do that. So he sort of had no consequences for what happened. As it should have been.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I mean, I kind of buy it.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
For what were you, you were getting 1.9.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. You're getting one basically one mil.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Almost one. Yeah. That's good. I, I, I buy it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
That's the attitude, Scott. I love it. You two are going to be fantastic. And then we have to go through your entire act and we sort of have to pepper in how vaccines are bad.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, honestly, I don't, I don't know that they're bad or good. I've taken them all and I haven't gotten sick.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You don't know if they're bad or good.
Scott Aukerman
But, but who knows? Like I would know, I would know that they don't work if I got sick after I took one. But unfortunately I've not gotten sick after I've taken them.
Duno (Evan Riley)
There's extensive research. That's not how vaccines work at all. But that's not important here because for us, we're gonna pepper and vaccines are bad.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, okay.
Scott Aukerman
Like that. I will. Here, I'll go this way. Are they kind of hurt when they stick the needle?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. Can we say that needles hurt? Cuz that's the, that's the worst part.
Duno (Evan Riley)
There we go. I love that you spin that however you need to spin that. You just say the needles hurt and the diseases sort of cause the diseases.
Scott Aukerman
Cause what?
Duno (Evan Riley)
A lot of other diseases and problems.
Scott Aukerman
So diseases cause other diseases. I, I will say diseases cause diseases and problems.
Duno (Evan Riley)
There we go. I love that they have to have to kiss RFK Jr. In the mouth.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, is there you're getting 1.9.
Phoebe Robinson
I think I should get paid more for that.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, absolutely. How much you want me?
Phoebe Robinson
I think 4.5.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Done. Scott, we're gonna give you $50,000 to play this festival.
Scott Aukerman
I feel like I was getting almost 1 million just a second ago. And now it's dropped down to 50.
Duno (Evan Riley)
50K. Cash. Small installments.
Scott Aukerman
How small are these installments?
Duno (Evan Riley)
$5 bills.
Scott Aukerman
How often? Like every hour.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Over and over and over again. Every month? Rest of your life?
Scott Aukerman
I. Every hour.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Come on, Scott. $25,000 $1 bills.
Scott Aukerman
I feel like I'm out at this point. I mean, I don't really.
Phoebe Robinson
We said we're going to do this together.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I know.
Scott Aukerman
You're making 4.5 million.
Duno (Evan Riley)
This could be great for your career. And all the saltwater taffy you can imagine.
Scott Aukerman
I'm all. I don't want. Look, I can imagine a lot, by the way, and I don't want to eat any of what I'm imagining.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And you have to put that Kennedy grandson that doesn't have the Kennedy last name on your podcast to be your co host for the rest of eternity.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, eternity. I don't even want to be doing this for.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Come on, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
He's all right.
Duno (Evan Riley)
He's all right. There we go.
Scott Aukerman
I saw this little boat in White Lotus.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, exactly. So he has to be your co host for all of eternity. You have to put him up in the turret and give him a microphone.
Scott Aukerman
I don't even want to be doing the show for all of eternity. Yeah, I'm barely hanging on to the 20 year.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And you still feel pretty firm about that offer. Only thing for the rest of the work that you would be getting outside of this.
Scott Aukerman
I don't know. What do you think?
Phoebe Robinson
Here's what we should split my rate.
Scott Aukerman
You're. You're offering to split your rate?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
That's so nice.
Phoebe Robinson
I don't need to be greedy.
Scott Aukerman
So I get 2.2.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Phoebe can't split any of her rate.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, this is like. This is like Survivor rules to prevent cheating rule.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Roll number 11, double all you can eat buffet and you have to enjoy it.
Scott Aukerman
No, but double all you can eat is still all you can eat.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Huh?
Scott Aukerman
Like double infinity is.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Who are you talking to? Your head is turning left, right and center. You're flailing. You're flailing your arms. Calm down, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Look, I'm all for upending the patriarchy, but I just don't. I mean, Phoebe is much more accomplished than I, but I just don't think that the disparity between what Phoebe is being paid and what I'm being paid is really all that fun.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Fair rule number 12. You have to ride the minute ferry from Chappaquiddick to the Vineyard to Edgar Town on the Vineyard.
Scott Aukerman
What's the minute ferry.
Duno (Evan Riley)
The minute ferry is what? So RFK was not rfk. Ted was gonna get on the minute ferry in order to go back to the hotel, but he didn't want anybody to see him.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Allegedly. So he swam.
Scott Aukerman
So he swam?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah. How.
Scott Aukerman
How far was he supposed to have swam?
Duno (Evan Riley)
It's a minute. It's a. The ferry is a minute long. It takes you from Chadwick.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, but he's not swimming as far as the minute.
Egg Doaf
As.
Scott Aukerman
As fast as the fairy.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes, he is. He's the fastest swimmer on the planet. You are hereby agreeing that he is the fastest swimmer on the. On the planet by taking the comedy on the planet.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, Michael Phelps, he's a stoner though, now, right? Yeah, yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Does a stoner make you not fast?
Scott Aukerman
Probably because, like, you look at the pool and you go, like, I'll do this tomorrow.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Whoa. Save it for the stage. Sky.
Scott Aukerman
This is a good chunk, by the way. I think this has bigger legs than just for this one particular festival.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Can I pitch you something that you were talking about earlier? In my professional capacity. Capacity as a comedy organizer, of course. I think you should do an episode of your podcast where you just get all of your auditions for the year out.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
And I just do them here live on the, on the show. I can also do the actual reads for the show on this.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I think that would be so fun.
Scott Aukerman
Instead of having to go into some studio.
Duno (Evan Riley)
This is what an action movie would be. This is what a comedy would be. This is my dramatic stuff. This is my voiceover things. And then you just get it all out. Anytime anybody puts an audition forward, I.
Scott Aukerman
Just refer them to that particular episode. Yeah.
Egg Doaf
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
This is a good idea.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, so you're agreeing to do the episode as part of your fee for doing the comedy festival?
Scott Aukerman
I'm agreeing to do this pitch that you just pitched me.
Phoebe Robinson
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Part of my fee. Look, I. Egg. I, I, I, I don't know. It's getting more and more complicated.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Egg.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I think I said that. What do you think I said?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Egg.
Scott Aukerman
I'm sorry, what's the distinction? Egg. Like, I'm angry.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Scream at me, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
That's the way you said it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I said it beautifully, like the fren grandfather intended.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, I'm sorry. I guess I'm not hearing it, but let me try again. Egg.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Better.
Scott Aukerman
I still feel it was semi contemptuous.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Smile in your voice.
Scott Aukerman
Please. Egg.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I hated that.
Scott Aukerman
Look, I, I don't know, it sounds like. It sounds like a good opportunity for a little bit of walking around money.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I mean, yeah, definitely a good opportunity for you, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
It's not like, you know, the money I would get writing the Astonishing Spider man necessarily.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh my gosh. My favorite. I emailed.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you emailed.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I did.
Scott Aukerman
Thanks.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And the nice part is. Oh, well, actually maybe that's for later. I, when I emailed back, I got a really nice email back. Big fan of the comedy festival.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. But I, I. And maybe it's some good promo, you know, maybe my name will be in the news.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It'll be excellent.
Phoebe Robinson
It'll be us, Bill Burr and that's it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Jared from Subways. Parole officer.
Phoebe Robinson
So four people for festival.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, there's more.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay, who else?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, oh, Danny DeVito's gonna be there. Not the one you're thinking of, the actor?
Scott Aukerman
No, that was the one I was thinking.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I mean, he's a director as well. Also a, I guess a shill for Jersey Mike. Jersey Mike's.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Jersey Mike's. The Jersey Mike's version is coming.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, he's just, he's coming in his.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Capacity from Jersey Mike's. All the sandwich and past sandwich shop.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, it seems like you're hungry. Should we have done this show right before lunch?
Duno (Evan Riley)
I'm starving. But good news, you won't be starving at, at the off the vine on the yard comedy festival because of the all you premiere and first comedy festival is this.
Scott Aukerman
By the way, this, this all you can eat buffet.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Double all you can eat.
Phoebe Robinson
Scott, is it just, Is it just the Jersey Mike's is like, what else can we eat?
Duno (Evan Riley)
It's not just Jersey Mike's, it's Jersey Mike's. Your way. There's gonna be subway sandwiches. Maybe if the parole officer is in.
Scott Aukerman
I don't need two types of sandwiches at one. All you can eat.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Let's all say who the Quiznos mascot guy was on three. One, two, three.
Scott Aukerman
I don't, I don't remember. I remember a sign up in the Quiznos that had every letter of the word Quiznos that said, and what they aim to do for you as a customer like quality.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, huge news that is going to be. You mentioned him earlier. Michael Phelps. He's. He's a stoner. And now he's going to be the Quiznos mascot. He has also got a tight hour he's going to be doing at the fest.
Phoebe Robinson
So he's doing an hour.
Scott Aukerman
How long are we doing?
Duno (Evan Riley)
7 and a half hours each. Well, you said you're going together, right? If you're doing it separately, 14.
Scott Aukerman
I don't I mean, if we. Let's do it together.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure.
Scott Aukerman
We gotta do seven. Yeah. Yeah. So it's only three and a half apiece. That.
Phoebe Robinson
Don't you think the audience is gonna get sick of us?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Phoebe Robinson
You know, they might want to break.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Have you spent much time on Martha's Vineyard?
Phoebe Robinson
Never been.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, never been.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Never been on the yard. Never been on the yard.
Scott Aukerman
I don't know. I haven't. I mean.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Wow. Okay. You're gonna love it. Golf, saltwater taffy.
Scott Aukerman
I don't like either of those things.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Double all you can eat buffets for everyone.
Scott Aukerman
This is what I want to ask about. The all you can eat buffet.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Sure.
Scott Aukerman
Is this just for the performers or is everyone coming to the festival also partaking of the. Is this.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Everyone had to sign the contract to come to the festival to be a part of the festival. We're paying everybody.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. I. I don't mind that. I just don't want a lot of the riff raff, like, eating the same food that I'm eating. You know what I mean? Oh, this is like. Remember Perry Farrell when he started Lollapalooza, he wanted a community burrito for everyone to eat.
Duno (Evan Riley)
So he sort of do it. He sort of did this already?
Scott Aukerman
No, he. It's one of his pitches. This is in the Lollapalooza oral history that I just read. It was one of his pitches.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Is that on the podcast or in an actual book?
Scott Aukerman
This is an actual book, but he.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Communal burrito for all of the performers. Crazy. Everyone gets their own sandwich and crap legs. We're cutting yours up previous to you arriving on set and I'll make sure that happens.
Scott Aukerman
How previous? Because I want it fresh as well.
Phoebe Robinson
So we're just going. Sandwiches are there sides?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Smaller sandwiches, like a honey mustard potato salad, maybe?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Or you want that it's there, so.
Phoebe Robinson
Or just like roughage so I can like, take a while. I'm there.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Are we allowed while we're there?
Phoebe Robinson
It's just all carbs I'm going to get, you know?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah. There'll be roughage for you all to shit it, I promise.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay. Okay.
Scott Aukerman
And what are the facility like? This is maybe my most important question.
Phoebe Robinson
What are the.
Scott Aukerman
What are the. The restroom facilities like at the festival? Like, do we have a. Some sort of private area?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Absolutely. Cat style.
Scott Aukerman
Cat style. What is cats? I.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Giant litter box. That's how we do it on the yard. Wow.
Scott Aukerman
I don't know that I'm comfortable.
Phoebe Robinson
It's just feeling I don't.
Scott Aukerman
I've never in front of Phoebe before. Maybe we should just get it out of the way now before we go to the festival.
Phoebe Robinson
Brb, we're really.
Duno (Evan Riley)
If. If you think bathrooms are. Make people more comfortable, we'll absolutely do that.
Phoebe Robinson
Because here's the thing.
Duno (Evan Riley)
We're really trying to change the. The yard's perception. I feel like people think about Martha's Vineyard and they have, like, a very specific idea of what it is we're trying to do. The comedy festival, to be like, oh, it's not just Chappaquiddick. It's not just.
Scott Aukerman
I've only heard about Martha Vineyard, like a place that rich people. I like. I. I don't think that the Ted Kennedy stuff has really been stuff that people have been thinking about.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Good.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, it is good for you, I guess. Did you have something to do with this? I. I keep coming back to this.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, you're evolved, solved somehow.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You're cutting all this out?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I'm cutting all this out. Yeah. Don't worry. Hey, editor, when you're doing all the work about the, you know, me fixing Phoebe's title, can you cut all this out? This stuff that's coming up right now? Okay, go ahead.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, so I thought it'd be really funny. Okay, so I'm obviously 75 years old. Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, yeah. I was gonna say. Well, I mean, I. I had you pinpointed between 74 and 75 and a half, but 75.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Exactly my birthday today.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, happy birthday.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Nobody said anything. I'm wearing a happy birthday pin and a happ birthday tiara. And literally nobody said, I thought you.
Scott Aukerman
Were going to someone else's party. And you know what I mean?
Duno (Evan Riley)
And I wore a happy birthday pin and a happy birthday tiara to someone else's party.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I would do that. Where I'm like, happy Birthday. Look, even my clothing is saying Happy Birthday, not just my voice.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, it is my birthday today.
Scott Aukerman
Thanks, Phoebe. We. We're a good team. I'm looking forward to this festival.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Me too. So for my. So, you know, I sort of like back in the day, I. So, you know, obviously the classic story, because Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated the year before. It was sort of like a whole thing where they were like, oh, Ted, we really want to make sure that we're all behind you. You're gonna try and get the presidential nomination to run against Jimmy Carter.
Scott Aukerman
This is the story.
Duno (Evan Riley)
1969.
Scott Aukerman
69. Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And so they were having this party for a bunch of aides. And so Mary Jo. They were like. Ted was like, let's give. Let's give Mary Jo a ride home. While I was at that party and I was a little inebriated and I turned. I turned the sign. There was a sign that said, like, oh, dock this way, or you can go back to the houses this way. And I said, that's a.
Scott Aukerman
That's a complicated sign, by the way. That's a complicated idea to communicate. Well, it's houses this way. You can turn back and get to the other places.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, it's one road and there was a sign that said, keep going to the beach this way, houses this way. And I just sort of did. I was like, what if I flipped them? Wouldn't that be pretty funny? Wouldn't that be kind of funny?
Phoebe Robinson
So it's kind of you. Your fault.
Scott Aukerman
What? You know, did you.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I'm just sort of.
Scott Aukerman
How'd you flip them? Did you have to make a whole new sign? Like, did you go down to the Kinkos or whatever was the equivalent back then?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
What was the equivalent of Kinkos? Copying machines. I don't think even existed then. Like mimeographs. Like. But you remember when I was going to school how everything was in. In triplicates?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Like triplicates. Oh. Where you had to like. Like press really hard on the top.
Scott Aukerman
And the carbon paper and everything. Remember that? When I was in school, as you.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Can probably see from my cut off. My cutoff shirts and my cut off shorts that are very strong.
Scott Aukerman
I didn't realize those were cut offs. It makes more sense now.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You didn't realize these were cut offs? What did you think it was, Scott?
Scott Aukerman
I thought you. They were bought, store bought that way.
Phoebe Robinson
Whoa.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I cut them off because I'm too strong. My jeans.
Scott Aukerman
What did you do with the. The part that you cut off?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Huh?
Scott Aukerman
What did you do with the remnants, dear?
Duno (Evan Riley)
I make stuffed animals. Animals?
Scott Aukerman
You make stuffed animals?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Anything? Yes. I use my sewing machine and I have one. Yeah, right here. I literally have a present in front of you. I'm giving you a present on my birthday and you haven't even opened it? You haven't touched it.
Scott Aukerman
I'm supposed to open this?
Phoebe Robinson
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, let me see.
Phoebe Robinson
What.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Do you normally just have presents sitting in front of you that aren't for you to open?
Scott Aukerman
I don't know what. Look, I. It's not my birthday. You. You said happy birthday. I thought you were going to a party and this was the present you were taking to one of your friends. Okay, I apologize. I don't. This is Good, right?
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. So good. So good.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Apology accepted.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Apology accepted. Good.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Apology accepted.
Scott Aukerman
Let me open it up. Let me see what I can do.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You're cutting all this out, right?
Scott Aukerman
I'm cutting all this out.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Great.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. This is. This is. It's flat. It's not. I mean, stuffed animals normally have something.
Duno (Evan Riley)
That's my thing. Two dimensional stuffed animals.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Like flat, like paper. That's what I say. No stuffing. It's just fabric.
Scott Aukerman
It's. Yeah, it's very thin, but it's sewed together. Just paper thin. It is sewed together. I mean, it's. It's. I mean, it's kind of ugly, but.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Thank you. You know, ugly dolls. Do you remember those?
Scott Aukerman
I do, yeah. This is.
Duno (Evan Riley)
They remade them and they're prettier now.
Scott Aukerman
Fugly dolls maybe is the brand name you could use.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Isn't that. Doesn't that mean ugly? It's sort of worse, I guess.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Although I think. I think when it first came out, it meant that. And nowadays it's just been chill.
Phoebe Robinson
It's cute part of the language.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, yeah, I'll trademark that. Take that for the stage, Scott. Okay, well, wonderful. So re record. Re record. Okay, so. Yes. So I'm so glad that I can count the two of you in for the festival.
Scott Aukerman
So what are the dates?
Duno (Evan Riley)
What day is it today?
Scott Aukerman
Monday.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, trat. It was the last weekend.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, it was last weekend. Okay.
Phoebe Robinson
Dang.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It took me a while to walk out here and it actually was last weekend.
Phoebe Robinson
Wow, the festival was.
Scott Aukerman
Can we still get paid? We signed the contract.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, if you promise to do the festival next year.
Scott Aukerman
I don't think this festival's gonna happen. She didn't even know when.
Phoebe Robinson
Shady as.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, no, I. I say we signed the contract. Do you. Will you pay in advance or is it still $5 every hour?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Phoebe, we're paying in advance for sure.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, sick.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You. We are giving you your $10,000 in.
Scott Aukerman
10,000. Wow.
Duno (Evan Riley)
In quarter lump sums.
Scott Aukerman
Quarter lump?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes. You get a quarter quarter of a lump. Throw it at your head.
Scott Aukerman
I'll still take it. I'm in.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, fantastic.
Scott Aukerman
I just gotta write three and a half hours more material. I do have a big Michael Fumps Michael Fump's Chelk.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, thank God.
Scott Aukerman
Michael Phelps. God, I'd have to. All right, we. We do have to take a break. Can you stick around?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Egg? Of course.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, well, we have a music critic coming up on the show, so maybe you want to book the music critic. I don't know. I don't know. What? You want.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Want to book the music critic?
Scott Aukerman
I. I have no idea. To do. To be on your festival.
Duno (Evan Riley)
To talk about Taylor Swift's new album.
Scott Aukerman
Meow. We don't want to get those Swifties after us, do we?
Egg Doaf
Cool.
Scott Aukerman
The album kind of sucks, but did.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You listen to it?
Scott Aukerman
I did, yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Okay, what do you think? Honestly, Honest opinion. They'll cut this out.
Scott Aukerman
Cut this out. But I'm holding my fingers to my nose. Yeah, the pu. The universal pu.
Duno (Evan Riley)
There was one of the songs that I just heard the beat, and I was like, oh, okay, this is kind of fun. And the second the words came in, I went, oh, no.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Phoebe, you don't want to weigh in on this, right?
Phoebe Robinson
No, I don't listen to her.
Scott Aukerman
You don't listen to her. Good.
Phoebe Robinson
Don't care.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, exactly. Why would you.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
All right, we're gonna. We'll talk about all of this with the music critic, but we're gonna come right back. We're gonna have more EG Poof. We're gonna have more Phoebe Robinson. We'll be right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.
Phoebe Robinson
Hi, I'm Jenny Slate, and believe it.
Scott Aukerman
Or not, someone is allowing us to have a podcast. I'm Gabe Liedman. I'm Max Silvestri. And we've been friends for 20 years, and we like to reach out to kind of get advice on how to live our lives. It's called I need you guys. Should I give my baby fresh vegetables?
Phoebe Robinson
Can I drink the water at the hot hospital?
Scott Aukerman
My landlord plays the trombone, and I can't ask him to stop.
Phoebe Robinson
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Scott Aukerman
Comedy Bang Bang. We're back. We have Phoebe Robinson, stand up comedian extraordinaire. The special is. I don't want to work anymore. It is out on YouTube right now, and there is not a better hour that you can spend with your life. What do you think of that? Wow.
Phoebe Robinson
Like.
Scott Aukerman
Like, put.
Phoebe Robinson
That's great.
Scott Aukerman
Put the kids down. Send them off to bed. Who needs to watch them grow up? I know. They grow up so fast. Watch this hour.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah, watch this. 59 minutes and 33 seconds of stand up.
Scott Aukerman
That's right.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
We also have egg D o.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Try one more time.
Scott Aukerman
Egg do.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It's getting.
Scott Aukerman
Try more French egg dog. That felt kind of racist the way I was doing it. The egg du. You know what I mean?
Duno (Evan Riley)
I wouldn't say racist. I'd say problematic.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Are French people a race? I can't tell.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, no, you can't tell.
Scott Aukerman
I don't see worse, dear.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Put on your glasses.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, now I see it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, you're seeing worse now take them off.
Scott Aukerman
All right, I got him off. You know what? We need to get to our next guest. He's a music critic. This is exciting. Please. Welcome to the show, Duno.
Egg Doaf
Thank you for having me, Scott. I'm thrilled to be here.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, hi. Hello, Duno. You. I can barely see you.
Egg Doaf
Ah, yes. Put those glasses back on.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, hi. Do. I mean, should look? I. Do you want me to call out the elephant in the room here? Uh, no pun intended. Uh, but, uh, I don't know a.
Egg Doaf
Pun that would have been getting at.
Scott Aukerman
Well, I mean, your type generally, like, is always around flies because they're using the. Their ears and trunk to swat at them.
Egg Doaf
But, yes, we are always around flies because we are there. Yes, yes, you've called it out, Scott. I will admit. I'm a fly. Yeah, I'm a fly.
Scott Aukerman
You're a fly. You're. You're hovering.
Egg Doaf
And I'm on a podcast.
Scott Aukerman
You're hovering next to the microphone.
Egg Doaf
Yes, yes, yes. Couldn't have gotten a small chair for me.
Scott Aukerman
I. I got the big chair for what I assumed would be a human guest.
Egg Doaf
At one time I was, Scott, but no longer, as you can see.
Scott Aukerman
At one time, you were what?
Egg Doaf
A human.
Scott Aukerman
You were a. Oh, how did this come to pass then? You're. You're now a fly.
Egg Doaf
I'm now a fly, Scott. I went into a machine. A machine I should never have entered.
Scott Aukerman
Like a threshing machine. Or not.
Egg Doaf
It threshed my life. It did.
Scott Aukerman
So threshing machine.
Egg Doaf
Yes. And I came out.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Out.
Egg Doaf
And I am the monstrosity that you see before you now.
Scott Aukerman
You're just a fly. You're not a monstrosity.
Egg Doaf
Scott, that is music to my ears.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, I don't like flies all that much. Because you vomit on food and stuff.
Egg Doaf
Ah, yes, yes, yes. This has been a learning curve for me. It has been a process. Let me tell you what, I puked way less before this and now way more.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I would. I would imagine the puking has intensified almost tenfold.
Egg Doaf
Almost tenfold. And it is still. It's a, It's, It's a. It's an adjustment. However, I am coming around to it and there are benefits. After all, once I puke on the food, no one else seems to want to touch it, and it's all mine.
Scott Aukerman
Well, the problem is more that we don't notice that a fly has puked on our food, and then we eat it and we get all that disgusting puke. And it happens all the time. We like, probably eight times a day for a human. We don't know that we are eating fly puke.
Phoebe Robinson
It's not great. It's not great.
Scott Aukerman
You know what I mean? I. I saw. I saw a. A. A kind of assembly about this when I was 10 years old, and it's really affected my life.
Egg Doaf
Assembly. It was an assembly.
Scott Aukerman
It was. Yeah. Was it like someone came in to talk to us about health and safety and then talked about flies and how bad they are and how they puke on our food?
Egg Doaf
Scott, I've been to those same assemblies. For once I was a human, so I'm familiar with those types of gatherings.
Scott Aukerman
Can I just say, I know you used to be a human. You'd have to continually.
Egg Doaf
Well, I feel as though I do sometimes because I feel like it gets lost in the current viewing of who I am now.
Duno (Evan Riley)
What type of human?
Egg Doaf
A good one.
Scott Aukerman
What does that mean?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Well, what type of. I don't know. There's lots of different types of humans. You know what I mean?
Scott Aukerman
But what does a good one mean?
Egg Doaf
Ah, yes. One that participated in. In his community.
Scott Aukerman
What has happened? You lived somewhere.
Egg Doaf
Huh?
Phoebe Robinson
Huh?
Egg Doaf
Mostly, yes.
Scott Aukerman
Mostly.
Phoebe Robinson
Mostly with the other time.
Egg Doaf
I mean, don't you ever feel sometimes you're not fully living, you know, that you're just kind of, you know, just operating dayto day, just trying to get by. All right. Never truly grasping at the fruit of life. That was me at one point, but no more.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Egg Doaf
For I have a short time to live.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's. Or do you have this lifespan of a.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You're on a fly life cycle.
Egg Doaf
I bought a fly cycle.
Scott Aukerman
So this happened to you today and you. Because, I mean, flies live about 24 hours or so.
Egg Doaf
Yes. Flies live 24 hours. And I have me a moment's left.
Scott Aukerman
Scott, so can we please get to it? For God's. Yeah. What do you say? You're a music critic, I guess.
Egg Doaf
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
You want to get to your thing?
Egg Doaf
I want to get to my thing one last time before I call it a day. Scott, do you like music?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Egg Doaf
Phoebe, do you like music?
Phoebe Robinson
Love it. It.
Egg Doaf
Eg.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Beautiful pronunciation. That was music to my ears.
Scott Aukerman
So you like that?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Ah, me. I love that. Try one more time.
Scott Aukerman
I. Why are you looking at me?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Try one more time.
Scott Aukerman
No.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Do you?
Scott Aukerman
Scott. No. Dono.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Scott, try one more time.
Scott Aukerman
Duno is the one who did it.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Duno did it perfectly. That was beautiful.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you want me to try?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Scott, you try.
Phoebe Robinson
Stop.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Stop.
Egg Doaf
Well, then we all agree. We all like music, and that is a wonderful thing, because music is. Does give us life.
Scott Aukerman
When you were a music critic, is this how you would lead off most of your paragraphs about, like, do you like music?
Egg Doaf
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
I think anyone reading your article, kind of the. The assumption is they are interested in music, and that's.
Egg Doaf
I know, but it becomes interactive. When I ask them that question, then they answer, yes, and they're saying, we're part of the conversation now. Now we're into this. Whose review is this? Is it his review? Is it my review? Is it our review?
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Wow.
Scott Aukerman
So what do you. Now that we all like music? What are you here to talk about?
Egg Doaf
About Oasis, Scott. I went to a concert recently that was intoxicating to the soul.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. This is the Oasis reunion tour.
Egg Doaf
The Oasis reunion tour, live 25.
Scott Aukerman
And this was a few months back. It was when you were a human.
Egg Doaf
Oh, human. Walking on all twos, Scott. I took a trip. Trip to the uk. You know what that stands for?
Scott Aukerman
United Kingdom. You're using it to refer to the United Kingdom.
Egg Doaf
I am. And particular emphasis on United. For that night. We all were. Yeah, In Murray Field, Scott. It was incredible.
Scott Aukerman
Murray Field is in Scotland. Scotland, Scott.
Egg Doaf
Yes, Scotland.
Scott Aukerman
So you were a human being who went to Scotland to see Oasis?
Egg Doaf
Yes, yes, yes.
Scott Aukerman
And it was fun.
Egg Doaf
It was fun, Scott. It was beyond fun. But I'll tell you this. Already at that point, I had begun questioning, who am I? Is this who I want to continue to be?
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I didn't realize that was part of your story. I thought you just accidentally walked into some sort of Brundle fly machine or something.
Egg Doaf
I did, I did, but I now question whether that was accidental or intentional.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, so you think that unlike, say, Dr. Manhattan who walked into that machine and then said I'm ribs use you. You think that you intentionally walked into this, subconsciously intentionally walked into this machine knowing it would cause you to transform and perhaps even transmogrify into this fly?
Egg Doaf
Scott, the very thing that you say is what I was feeling.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, and you knew. Did someone explain what this machine would do or anything like that?
Egg Doaf
No, I took a guess.
Phoebe Robinson
Yes.
Egg Doaf
So it was a hope, a dream.
Scott Aukerman
So someone left this machine unattended and.
Egg Doaf
I walked right into it saying, God, I hope this changes me for the better.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Where was it?
Egg Doaf
Oh. Have you ever been to Ross dress for last?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Which one?
Egg Doaf
The one on. On La Brea.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, yeah, of course.
Egg Doaf
Ah, that's the very.
Duno (Evan Riley)
I got running shoes there for a tough mutter with the one by the.
Scott Aukerman
Is it by the Chick Fil A? No, that's. That's sunset in.
Egg Doaf
No, but it is by a chicken type establishment of brand one. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
This very specific LA references bb. I try to catch up.
Phoebe Robinson
I know you don't try to catch up. I'm just so there Were there instructions on you just. Okay.
Scott Aukerman
And what. It was in a changing room or it's in the back room or you.
Egg Doaf
Know how those with the clothes racks are in a circle and sometimes when you were a kid you would kind of like go. You'd spread the shirts apart. You'd walk into them and kind of hide. Hide from your parents or whatnot. Become your own little fort. Well, I still do that.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You go shopping with your mom and you hide from her and.
Egg Doaf
That's right.
Phoebe Robinson
Okay.
Egg Doaf
That's right.
Scott Aukerman
And it was in the middle of this.
Egg Doaf
It was in the middle of a rack of tank tops.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Egg Doaf
Scott, we are approaching the winter season and tank tops are on sale cheaper than they are ever going to be all year long. And that's when you stock up.
Scott Aukerman
But you weren't there to stock up. You were just there to hide from your mom. Who. What was your mom buying?
Egg Doaf
My mom was buying. Oh, dungarees.
Scott Aukerman
Dungarees.
Duno (Evan Riley)
What is a dungaree?
Egg Doaf
Oh, dungarees are like a Jean.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, I feel like we're getting off topic.
Egg Doaf
Okay, well, I think we've never been more on topic.
Scott Aukerman
Is there, is there a. Was there a scientist who worked at this roster? Like, who left this machine there? Did you ever get the story?
Egg Doaf
Yes, there was a scientist who worked there and he, he was shopping at the time. He had brough his. He. He brought his machine.
Scott Aukerman
It was portable.
Egg Doaf
It was portable because you don't want to leave that in the car. Not in that neighborhood, because it's a. It's a tough neighborhood. And so he's like, I'm going to bring this in with me. And he, to my knowledge, had brought it in. And then I guess there was a Marshalls nearby and they were having a sale. And he's like, oh, boy, I better capitalize on that real quick. So he's like, I'm going to hide this machine in this.
Scott Aukerman
He didn't want to lug it over to the Marshalls.
Egg Doaf
No, no, no, no, no, no. So he's like, I'll be right back.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. How did you learn all this? Because undoubtedly you turned into a fly then. Were you buzzing around, trying to. I hung around for a little bit.
Egg Doaf
I was trying to get. I was trying to gain my mother's attention while I was like, I'm here. I'm still here.
Scott Aukerman
She didn't have a microphone that she was talking about?
Egg Doaf
No, my voice.
Scott Aukerman
To amplify your voice. Fly voice.
Egg Doaf
Not unlike Liam and Noel who have microphones to amplify their voice.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I guess we share those similarities with Liam and Noel Gallagher. We're speaking into microphones right now.
Egg Doaf
That's right. Don't you, you.
Phoebe Robinson
This is.
Egg Doaf
This is.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Can I ask a question?
Scott Aukerman
Sure. Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oasis.
Scott Aukerman
That's. I think that's Green Day.
Phoebe Robinson
Ah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Continue. What is Oasis?
Scott Aukerman
What is Oasis? They sing. Maybe. I don't really want to know.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yeah, maybe a different one.
Phoebe Robinson
And then what day it's going to be? The day that's going to throw back to you. Bye. Now somehow realize what you got.
Scott Aukerman
Come on, baby, shoot that baby. Come on, baby, shoot that baby.
Egg Doaf
I am back at Murray Field as we speak. This is incredible.
Scott Aukerman
You'll never make it to Murray Field again. Even if you tried flying there right now as a fly, you could get there quicker than us. But you'll never make it.
Phoebe Robinson
Why do you bring that up?
Scott Aukerman
I'm sorry, but that's the reality of the situation. You'll. You'll. I mean, undoubtedly you'll never see your mother again. She's probably looking around for you. Doesn't know.
Phoebe Robinson
Know.
Scott Aukerman
Doesn't know what happened to you and.
Egg Doaf
Right, right, right.
Scott Aukerman
You'll never see another concert you're probably not going to make it to tonight unless there's an afternoon concert like that movie Trap.
Egg Doaf
Right, right.
Scott Aukerman
With a big long intermission.
Egg Doaf
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Where she has to do change costumes and shuts down for an hour in the middle of it.
Egg Doaf
Yeah.
Duno (Evan Riley)
They're working with a non union crew at that probably stadium, I think.
Scott Aukerman
Probably.
Egg Doaf
Probably. Well, Scott, I choose to not look back in anger. Instead, I look forward.
Scott Aukerman
That's an Oasis, Egg. That's an Oasis.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, I see.
Scott Aukerman
Look back in anger.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes. Okay. Yes, yes.
Egg Doaf
But maybe it would be more helpful for you if I were to say that I. I don't want to look back on a boulevard of broken dreams.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
You don't want to close your eyes and you don't want to fall asleep.
Egg Doaf
I don't want to miss a thing. Right, right. Aerosmith. So anyways, Emma. Fly now. But I did experience Oasis, and I got to say they've got a few tour dates left this year. They're hinting at a 2026 tour.
Scott Aukerman
They'll have to change the name of the tour, probably.
Egg Doaf
Right, right. It's no longer live 25, so it'll probably be this.
Scott Aukerman
This is. We do this for the kicks. 26.
Egg Doaf
Yes.
Phoebe Robinson
Wow, that was good stage, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
That sounds like something Liam and Noel would say. We do this for the kicks. When I went to Oasis, I. I felt like I was very lucky because I went to a particular show that Liam dedicated one of the songs to. Woody Woodpecker.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Why?
Scott Aukerman
This is for Woody Woodpecker.
Phoebe Robinson
That's so funny.
Egg Doaf
The one in Scotland he dedicated to. Who is the lady? I think it was the lady who had that. A beautiful voice. She was like, on the.
Scott Aukerman
You're going to have to be more specific.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Other than the entire realm of recorded entertainment.
Egg Doaf
Right, right, right, right.
Scott Aukerman
Well, maybe Mrs. Miller would be excluded.
Egg Doaf
But she was on a. A reality singing show years.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Kelly Clarkson.
Egg Doaf
Oh, yes, yes. But she. I think she's famous for having a beautiful voice, but being perceived by.
Scott Aukerman
I think we're talking about Susan Boyle.
Egg Doaf
Yes. That's who he dedicated the show to.
Scott Aukerman
I believe, strangely enough, not related to Peter Boyle of Young Frankenstein and Everybody Loves Raymond fame.
Egg Doaf
That is strange.
Scott Aukerman
It is. The Stranger things have happened. But. Yeah, yeah.
Egg Doaf
Ah, yes, they have it. They will again, because there is a last season coming forward, one that I'll never get to see.
Scott Aukerman
Well, I'm so sorry. What was your name? Duno.
Egg Doaf
Duno. I've taken on a fly.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's a fly name.
Egg Doaf
Yes, it is.
Scott Aukerman
What was your human name?
Egg Doaf
Evan.
Scott Aukerman
Evan what?
Egg Doaf
Evan Riley.
Scott Aukerman
Evan Riley. Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't read your work, but who did you write for?
Egg Doaf
Newsweek?
Scott Aukerman
You were a music critic for News. Did you put Bruce Springsteen on the COVID of Newsweek and Time that same week?
Egg Doaf
Oh, and I thought you hadn't read me.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Can I ask a Question. So you've taken on a fly name. So theoretically there is some sort of a fly language, but we have a microphone close to you and you're speaking human, human English.
Egg Doaf
Right, Right.
Duno (Evan Riley)
So can you communicate with other flies?
Egg Doaf
I certainly can. It's a little bit difficult at this point yet because I'm still grasping and wrangling the language, but yes, I can. And I'll tell you what, I have have met the fly of my dreams.
Duno (Evan Riley)
What?
Scott Aukerman
Wow.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh my God.
Scott Aukerman
That's amazing. Were you attracted to flies as a human?
Egg Doaf
And I was famously celibate during my human famously cel.
Scott Aukerman
I'd never even heard of your writing, let alone the fact that you were celibate.
Egg Doaf
Okay, well, in some circles, famously celibate.
Scott Aukerman
But is that because you were attracted to flies and you, you couldn't find a way to fit your human sized penis into a fly? And now how the tables have turned.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And Scott, human size, no matter how.
Scott Aukerman
Small, stage, no matter how needle dicked you are, I don't believe it could fit into a fly. So if you were attracted to flies. Look, the fact that you're attracted to flies, and I'm just assuming at this point, but it sounds like you are, makes me think that none of this was an accident. You'd been perhaps tailing the scientist, knowing what the this machine could do, and that finally, in fact, it sounds like maybe you were stalking a particular fly, a female fly, that, that, that you'd noticed earlier in the morning and you seized upon this opportunity. Is this really what's going on, Duno? Aka Mr. Riley.
Egg Doaf
Well, well, well. I guess the cat's out of the bag and the fly is into the trap. You got that pegged Almost completely correct.
Scott Aukerman
Scott, what was the one part that I got wrong?
Egg Doaf
I never had a big human dick. I've always had a fly dick. And I was waiting for the moment where I could be a monster amongst those who could appreciate it.
Scott Aukerman
So you had. You're a human with a fly dick. Did you then turn into a fly with a human dick?
Egg Doaf
I was a human with a fly sized.
Scott Aukerman
And so now are you a fly with a human sized dick? Did it change everything? Like, is it totally opposite or is it even tinier?
Egg Doaf
It's even tinier now.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It's proportional.
Egg Doaf
It's proportional, yes.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, yeah, good.
Egg Doaf
But the flies are more forgiving than. That's the thing, they're more forgiving.
Scott Aukerman
They don't have these beauty standards, you know, they're not out there looking at.
Egg Doaf
Guest gene ads, billboards, despite their Many eyes. You are correct.
Duno (Evan Riley)
And no pants.
Egg Doaf
And no pants. And that is the true beauty. We don't judge. We don't. We don't sneer. We don't. We don't gawk. Instead, we embrace.
Scott Aukerman
So you have an Aus, which is the. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. That's. Oh, I am. Okay. That's the specialized reproduction organ of a. Of a fly that functions as your penis.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Are you reading that off your tiny, tiny little laptop?
Egg Doaf
Looks like a laptop that I would use.
Duno (Evan Riley)
We'll talk about proportional. It's perfectly proportional to Scott's hands.
Egg Doaf
Oh, my gosh.
Scott Aukerman
But that's great for you. So what's. What's her name?
Egg Doaf
Her name is Ul Clad.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, Claud. Wonderful. And she wants to be with you.
Egg Doaf
She wants to be with me? She is with me. And we've already begun the process of regeneration. We call that.
Scott Aukerman
That's what we call regenerate. What does that mean?
Egg Doaf
That's what we call giving birth and recreating life.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, meaning you're gonna have a child. You're not. You're not regenerating your own body.
Egg Doaf
No, but I am regenerating my own spirit. That would live on in my children for hours upon hours upon hours.
Scott Aukerman
That's great. Well, yeah, I mean, congratulations. I know you only have mere moments left to live.
Phoebe Robinson
Live.
Egg Doaf
I brought a little something for us to celebrate this.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Egg Doaf
All right.
Scott Aukerman
Great.
Egg Doaf
A champagne for you. A glass of champagne for you. A glass of champagne.
Scott Aukerman
This is like, one drop for you.
Duno (Evan Riley)
It looks totally normal in your hand.
Scott Aukerman
Scott, really, you gotta come closer.
Egg Doaf
And I was thinking maybe toast to something. We certainly could. And perhaps you could sing a little song as we do.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, sure. What song?
Egg Doaf
I was thinking we could. We could maybe sing Champagne Supernova.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I. Oh, okay. How's that? Start again.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, I love this one.
Egg Doaf
Ah, yes, you'll know it well, Egg Beautiful. Someday you will find me caught beneath.
Phoebe Robinson
The land slide in a champagne super delightful.
Egg Doaf
You have agreed to sing Basket Case or Longview, if you like, if that helps.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Huh?
Egg Doaf
Or American Idiot, if that fake.
Scott Aukerman
If that is easier for you when masturbation's lost in.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I want to sing. We haven't even gotten to my favorite line of Champagne Supernova.
Scott Aukerman
What is that?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, please, let's all sing it together.
Scott Aukerman
We got every line we know, unfortunately. And look, you only have mere moments to live. I know. You're running out of time. Oh, we're out of time. So, unfortunately, we are running out of time. We only have time for one final feature that is a little something called plugs. Close the plug back. Shut your famous face hole. You flogged all your wares to the plebs. Now it's time to open up the plug back and let's all play what you rather riddler the past.
Phoebe Robinson
Wow.
Scott Aukerman
Amazing blast from the past there. That was Closing Time Travel by Danastique and the Plebisonics. That was a parody, I believe, of a previous guest Dan Wilson song called Closing Time. But what are we plugging? Phoebe Robinson, you have the special. The special is called I Don't Want to Work Anymore. It's out on YouTube right now. Anyone can access this.
Phoebe Robinson
Anyone.
Scott Aukerman
No, no. You don't have to show your ID or anything like that.
Phoebe Robinson
All ages.
Scott Aukerman
All ages, baby.
Phoebe Robinson
It's kid appropriate.
Scott Aukerman
It is, in a way, if you want to teach your kid about eating and anything else going on. I mean, you have some secret thing at work which the New Yorker Festival is involved somehow. But what else is going on?
Phoebe Robinson
I'm on Bumblebee, so you can find me on there.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. What is bumble exactly? Your eyes lit up, by the way. Hearing another insect.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Whoa.
Egg Doaf
That's how I found my love.
Scott Aukerman
Is Bumble a dating app?
Phoebe Robinson
It is a dating app.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, so you're. You're unmatched right now.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
You talked about this a bit in this special.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. Someone matched. And then you can follow me on Instagram and X.
Scott Aukerman
The Anything apparent app.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah. Dope queen Phoebe's P H E E B S. That's right.
Scott Aukerman
All right. And egg. What? Next year's festival. You want to plug that, I'm sure.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Oh, yes, of course. So if you. I want to plug two days ago, the off the vine, on the Yard Comedy Festival Premiere Festival.
Scott Aukerman
Go see that two days ago.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Go see that two days ago. Make sure you get. You get there early. All. Double all you can eat. It's gonna. It was a sensational time and I think.
Scott Aukerman
Were you even there? It sounded like you started walking to.
Duno (Evan Riley)
LA to get you Scott.
Scott Aukerman
So have you checked in with anyone about how it went?
Duno (Evan Riley)
$5,000, pennies in hand to beg you to do the festival?
Scott Aukerman
I don't know if it. Honestly, it's. I'll still do it, but the rate.
Phoebe Robinson
Is going down rapidly.
Scott Aukerman
I don't like this.
Phoebe Robinson
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Anything else to plug or any media you're consuming?
Duno (Evan Riley)
Any media I'm consuming, Of course.
Scott Aukerman
You know, like, are there any shows on certain streaming services that you.
Duno (Evan Riley)
Yes, my favorite show. My favorite show in the Entire world. Have you seen the pottery show?
Scott Aukerman
I haven't. I did. Oh, I was thinking more, more like a show. Like, you know, like there's, there's a show, like very important people that I, I've seen some clips from.
Duno (Evan Riley)
No, I don't know what that is. I, I. There's a pottery show. I don't know what it's called, but there's a man with a weird haircut, and he cries if the pottery is beautiful, and he does not cry if the pottery is just okay. How often does he watch that on streaming? Huh?
Scott Aukerman
How often does he cry, dear?
Duno (Evan Riley)
More often than you would think, but not often enough for the potters. They're very upset. All the time. Constantly. Also, what I will say is, and this is gonna come as a surprise, based on everything else, I said go. You can go. There's a lot of terrible anti trans bills happening across the country. Please go. Go. Donate, follow, like, share local organizations in your community, but if you don't know where to start, Transgender Law center is a great. Is a great place, and they could use your money.
Scott Aukerman
All right. Fantastic. And do know you? I mean, I don't know if you have anything to plug. You're gonna die. Very. Oh, my gosh. Are you vomiting or are you coughing? I can't quite tell.
Egg Doaf
Both.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, dear. Both.
Egg Doaf
Don't eat this cinnamon rolls, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's my. That's what I was saving for an after show treat.
Egg Doaf
I'm so sorry. Okay, you have have to go to the bakery after. I'm.
Scott Aukerman
Why do you sound like Bill Cosby right now? You have to go to the bakery.
Egg Doaf
That's how we all sound as we approach the end.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, no.
Egg Doaf
Scott, if you could please tune in Monday, November 3rd, to the season two premiere of St. Dennis Medical, okay. On NBC.
Phoebe Robinson
Pe.
Scott Aukerman
I prom that. I. I promise I'll do that to you as your last dying wish. I promise I will tune in to the season two premiere of St. Dennis.
Egg Doaf
Thank you. Thank.
Scott Aukerman
Don't die yet because we still have to close up the plug bag and then say goodbye to everyone. Hold on for just a little bit. Okay? I. I want to plug.
Phoebe Robinson
Oh, wait. I have one more thing to plug.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, go ahead.
Phoebe Robinson
I have a substack called Thoughts and Prayers, and I write about pop culture and in my life.
Scott Aukerman
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Phoebe Robinson
Five.
Scott Aukerman
You got, you got, you got, you got. Dude, dude, dude, dude. All right, that was Plug in the Jungle by Sasha. Natasha. Thank you so much. If you have a plug theme, head over to cbbworld.com plugs and you can upload your song and find anything you need for remixes there. And I want to thank our guests here. Phoebe Robinson. So good to see you again.
Phoebe Robinson
So good to see you. Thank you for having me.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you for being here. And you know, come back whenever you're in la.
Phoebe Robinson
I would love to.
Scott Aukerman
All right, fantastic. And then Egg do. Wait, wait, wait a minute. Where'd Egg go? I think Egg started walking back to get back in time for that festival.
Egg Doaf
Yes, Egg went away. She couldn't stay, not even for a day.
Scott Aukerman
This is a parody of don't go Away, I believe by your favorite band, Oasis. Yes. Yeah. And, and Duno, how are you do? Are you do yesing or are you do.
Egg Doaf
No, I'm do knowing, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, no, the final do know you held on as long as you could. Are you about to expire?
Egg Doaf
That I am, Scott. I'm going to that old bug zapper in the sky.
Scott Aukerman
Really? Is that what happens when you pass on, is you go to a bug zapper?
Egg Doaf
Yes. We know the end, okay?
Scott Aukerman
Supplies know what happens. Okay, so is that what happens to humans too? We go to a bug zapper?
Egg Doaf
You go to your own bug zapper and I'll tell you what. But it doesn't hurt.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, what? Dying or. Cuz dying. I've heard painful. Very painful.
Egg Doaf
Rigidly painful.
Scott Aukerman
Being dead doesn't hurt?
Egg Doaf
Not a bit.
Scott Aukerman
Well, yeah, Your brain is turned off.
Egg Doaf
That's right, that's right.
Scott Aukerman
That's. Well, goodbye, Duno. We enjoyed having you on. I'm sorry you were such a good guest. We can't have you on any longer.
Egg Doaf
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Scott Aukerman
Did you ever get together? When? With whatever her name was, by the way, like, because.
Egg Doaf
Yeah, no, we never did. We never did. I was supposed to meet her for.
Phoebe Robinson
For coffee.
Egg Doaf
I was supposed to meet her for a slurp of coffee.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I'm sorry that you wasted so much time being on this podcast.
Egg Doaf
Not a waste.
Scott Aukerman
But, you know, you told us all about this Oasis show, although we didn't really hear that much about it, but.
Egg Doaf
Well, Scott, you heard all you need to know. Do you know what I mean?
Scott Aukerman
That's another Oasis on. Okay. This is a good use of your time, by the way.
Egg Doaf
Thank you.
Scott Aukerman
When are you gonna die?
Egg Doaf
Definitely. Maybe.
Scott Aukerman
Definitely. Maybe. Okay.
Duno (Evan Riley)
This is another.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, we're understanding this. All right, thanks, everyone. We'll see you next week.
Phoebe Robinson
Bye.
Egg Doaf
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Episode Summary & Highlights
Release Date: October 27, 2025
Host: Scott Aukerman
Guests: Phoebe Robinson, Vic Michaelis (as Egg Doaf & Duno), Dave Theune
This episode is classic Comedy Bang Bang—a blend of freewheeling interviews, straight-up goofball character work, and meandering meta-discussions about comedy, culture, and life. The episode’s first half centers on accomplished comedian and writer Phoebe Robinson promoting her new stand-up special, I Don’t Want to Work Anymore and reflecting on her evolving relationship with work, rest, and creativity. The show then detours into pure character-driven riffing with appearances by eccentric festival organizer “Egg Doaf” and, later, a fly-turned-music critic, exploring comic absurdities and improv mayhem.
Location Glamor/Reality:
Her Background & Hustle Culture:
Behind the Scenes of Her Comedy Special:
Reevaluating Work-Life Balance:
Retirement & Living More Fully:
Stand-Up as Labor of Love:
Notable Quotes:
Egg Doaf (Vic Michaelis) as Festival Organizer:
Festival Casting Absurdity:
Meta Improv on Comedy Pay Equity:
Egg’s Veiled Connection to Chappaquiddick:
Memorable Moments:
“Duno” the Fly-Music Critic:
Oasis Concerts, Transformation, & Embracing the Absurd:
Scott & Phoebe Play Along:
Noteworthy Quotes:
Scott’s Host Persona:
Phoebe’s Farmer’s Market of Projects:
Meta Podcast/Comedy Bits:
Absurdist Logistics:
The tone is classic CBB—irreverent, hypermeta, affectionate about comedy and show business, with fast banter, inventive sidebar bits, running gags, and deeply silly detours. The episode moves nimbly from real insight (Phoebe’s reflection on burnout and creativity) to full absurdity, never staying in one register for long.
This episode is a stellar representation of Comedy Bang Bang’s anything-goes format. You’ll get sharply funny, thoughtful interview moments—especially whenever Phoebe Robinson is involved—surrounded by the signature unpredictability and comic anarchy that define the show’s 15-year run. Whether you’re interested in comedy craft, meta-skewering of the entertainment industry, or just in it for the parade of ridiculous characters, this episode offers vintage CBB.
Standout Moment:
Scott genuinely lauding Phoebe’s special:
Phoebe’s special, “I Don’t Want to Work Anymore,” is out now on YouTube.
Don’t expect to hear much about Chappaquiddick…or do, if you ask the wrong festival organizer.