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Scott Aukerman
Some like it hot, some like it cold. I like it stuff stinky and covered in mold. Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang. Thank you to Pugsley's Chicken for that catchphrase submission. I don't know if that one's gonna be the one. I don't know. Some like it hot, some like a cold tie. Like it's stinky and covered in mold. I don't know. That could be the thing we say every single episode.
Wayne Brady
That's hot. Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
It's not bad, right? If you heard that. If every single week. Would you be annoyed by it after week one?
Wayne Brady
Maybe I would be turned on.
Scott Aukerman
You would be. Really? We're going to this. I want to segue into a what turns you on Podcast, by the way. We're going to get very deep into it. Thank you to Pugsley's Chicken. I'm sorry, that one's not going to stick. But welcome to Comedy Bang Bang for another week. My name is Scott Aukerman. We have an exceptional lineup for the show today. Coming up a little later, we have a peloton instructor and we also have America's favorite rabbit. America. I wonder if that's just the lower 48, because I would imagine in Hawaii or Alaska they might have different tastes on rabbits. Who's your favorite rabbit? If you don't mind me asking. And I'll introduce you in a second.
Wayne Brady
My favorite rabbit. No one's asked me that before.
Scott Aukerman
Ever.
Wayne Brady
No one's asked me that before.
Scott Aukerman
That's impossible.
Wayne Brady
No, no. That's never Come up in conversation. I've been asked about my favorite fowl, but never my favorite rabbit.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, two part question. What's your favorite rabbit and what foul.
Wayne Brady
Oh, I. I hate foul. I don't. I have a favorite. My family, we. We are foul killers.
Scott Aukerman
Are you really? You come from a long line of foul killers.
Wayne Brady
Deep family grudge. It's. We, we are kind of like the vampire killers of the south, except it's foul.
Scott Aukerman
Is this like the Hatfield in the McCoys? A foul did something to your family, goes back to.
Wayne Brady
It's a whole thing. Frederick Douglass, the White House, even Lincoln, foul.
Scott Aukerman
This goes all the way to the top.
Wayne Brady
Ruined talks between our people. Then the secret society have been assigned. Trained as a kid, killed fouls from here to Argentina.
Scott Aukerman
How many of you killed in your.
Wayne Brady
3086.
Scott Aukerman
3086.
Wayne Brady
And I remember every face. Every single face.
Scott Aukerman
So if you killed one a day, that's plus vitamins. That's probably about 10 years of killing fowls.
Wayne Brady
But I just stopped. I just stopped because. Because between my busy schedule, my shooting schedule.
Scott Aukerman
So your busy schedule and your shooting schedule are two different things.
Wayne Brady
Two different things. Two different things.
Scott Aukerman
So you're very busy when you're not shooting television.
Wayne Brady
Oh, yeah. I'm always tired.
Scott Aukerman
Are you really?
Wayne Brady
I'm always tired.
Scott Aukerman
You've. By the way, for the listener, this is a podcast. You can't see what's happening. Our guest has been yawning in between every word, which is tough to do.
Wayne Brady
So shout out to your editors that the fact that they've been able to assemble because really, it sounds like that. So nice.
Scott Aukerman
We just gave everyone a little taste of what it actually sounds like.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Behind the curtain.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Well, this is an incredible story. I don't think anyone's ever gotten this out of you. This is an excuse interview.
Wayne Brady
It's because I'm so tired I let the truth slip.
Scott Aukerman
I understand. So get you more early. This is maybe the earliest we've ever done a show, by the way.
Wayne Brady
Wow. Yeah. Because I was wondering when I was asked to do it and the time came across, he said, wow, these guys are going to do it at 9:00. That's really sweet.
Scott Aukerman
I believe 9:00 was a request from your team because.
Wayne Brady
Well, well, well. Yes. And now I realize. So I thank you so much because I thought, oh, they're doing it at nine, but. But I realize that you're doing it for me because when I leave here, when I'm not killing foul and also rabbits, but I'LL go into that later.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Wayne Brady
Okay. We'll hear about that on Mondays. As of right now, I'm an adjunct professor at. @ USC, so I'm a LE. So. Because I just need something else during the week to do.
Scott Aukerman
Sure. Well, you.
Wayne Brady
I just need one more thing to make me tired.
Scott Aukerman
What is your field? And I'll introduce you in a second. What is your field that you're lecturing on, if you don't mind me asking?
Wayne Brady
The class is called Improvisation for Camera. But what I really do in the class is. Well, I teach killing a foul.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, really? So this is a secret kind of thing? Oh, yeah.
Wayne Brady
It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but besides that. Yeah, it's acting for its improvisation for camera. And also I teach straight acting in it, but also using improvisation as an audition tool. Using it to free themselves up pre audition. Not to get boring actory stuff, but to give pre life to scenes. Teaching them that when you get a script that there's gotta be something before. Even though this is a written script that came out of somebody else's mind. Your job as the actor, if you're using play fun, just play. Come up with something. Don't just start at that point because it's not as rich as if you're able to. Oh, I'll make up that this thing happened. Get into the script and then. Then what? What I also hate seeing from tapes from other actors is when the script is over, just go. And then Jeremy left and they go, okay, I'm just finished. And they click over and they turn off the camera. They're done. Like, no. So I teach them to do all that on camera.
Scott Aukerman
And how often are you watching tapes from other actors?
Wayne Brady
Actually, more. More than not, because I also produce shows. So I'm seeing people do. Do things and half the time like, oh, don't do that. That's gonna lose you the job.
Scott Aukerman
I like. You're getting in there early with America's bright stars of tomorrow.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Cause if one of them hits it, I wanna be able to call on a favor. It's like, hey, man, remember me as I'm at their red carpet. Got. Got a 40 in a brown paper bag because I've fallen off. And. And, hey, man, it's me. Can I get in that next movie? And then they have to ignore me.
Bugs Bunny
Or.
Wayne Brady
Or they go, hey, it's so good to see you. And they pat my hand and walk on.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, that's. I think that's what would probably happen, especially with the 40 in your head.
Wayne Brady
Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's gonna happen.
Scott Aukerman
That's kind of the dream, though. You know what I mean? If, like, you could get rid of everything in your life and just have a 40 in your hand in a paper bag.
Wayne Brady
Burn bright, drink brown. That is. That's your new slogan?
Scott Aukerman
I mean, we hit upon comedy Bang Bang, we care last week, okay? But burn bright, drink brown. I think that Comedy Bang Bang.
Wayne Brady
Burn bright, drink brown. And it's got to be a decent brown at the very, very end.
Scott Aukerman
A tiny key change down one half step.
Wayne Brady
Yep.
Scott Aukerman
You know, I also was at USC talking to the Chill. Probably the same kids, about a month ago or so, I believe.
Wayne Brady
Were you there for their sketch fest.
Scott Aukerman
Or whatever they call it? Yes.
Wayne Brady
Fracas.
Scott Aukerman
Frac. Is that what it was called?
Wayne Brady
Fracas.
Scott Aukerman
Fracas. Fracas, yeah.
Wayne Brady
How do you pronounce that word? Oh, oh, there was a hullabaloo and a fracas.
Scott Aukerman
A big fracas sounds.
Wayne Brady
Fracas sounds.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. It doesn't sound wrong.
Wayne Brady
Fracas. I think it's fracas.
Scott Aukerman
Fracas. I think the way you said it originally. But it sounds like it's got to be a broad.
Wayne Brady
It's got to be a broad. Fracas.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Fracas.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Yeah. There was a. There was a bunch of mishigas and some fracas ensued. Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
But that's one thing we have in common. We have a lot in common. Let's see. You played Billy Flynn in Chicago. So did I. You were on Broadway. I was in high school.
Wayne Brady
Hey, you know what? This is what I tell people, like in my class. Here's the big secret for those of you theater kids that you do improvisation and sketch and you did. Broadway is like high school. It's a lot of Broadway is exactly like doing your, your, your junior or senior class play, except it's Broadway, which then, which then is just like doing for, for those of you that have done theme park shows, that you do five shows, shows a day, which is just like doing a cruise ship show. The only difference is scope and scale and professionalism. Maybe a budget and budget, but it's the same muscle sometimes. I shit you not, I'll be on stage. And this sounds like I'm not a very present actor, but I'm very, very present.
Scott Aukerman
Well, you do so many of these shows, you gotta think about something.
Wayne Brady
But every blue moon, I'll marvel at how cool it is that I'm doing this thing and go, wow. And then I go, this is, this is just like when I did, did, did Oklahoma in my junior year of high School.
Scott Aukerman
Could you play in Oklahoma? Cause I was in Oklahoma, too.
Wayne Brady
Shut up.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, we have very similar clothes.
Wayne Brady
Okay, on the count of three, let's say who we were.
Scott Aukerman
Ready?
Wayne Brady
One, two, three. Judd.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you and I were at odds.
Wayne Brady
Oh, poor.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, poor Judd is dead.
Wayne Brady
Well, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. I got permanent ear damage from the gun that Judd or I fired. I can't remember that scene anymore. So long ago.
Wayne Brady
I think.
Scott Aukerman
You know when Curly goes into Judd's shack, I guess.
Wayne Brady
Yes. Right after the song. Right.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Because it's been forever since I've even seen a movie.
Scott Aukerman
Gone in a. And makes a hole in the wall or something.
Wayne Brady
It's got to be Judd, because I don't think that Curly would shoot the gun. Because I don't remember.
Bugs Bunny
I think they.
Scott Aukerman
Maybe they both do or something. And then I seem to remember that when I would shoot, like there was a little thing that they would pop out of the wall. Like I shot a hole in the wall.
Wayne Brady
Your school had money.
Scott Aukerman
This was professional theater.
Wayne Brady
Oh, excuse me.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I didn't stop at high school. I went on for four more years and then quit.
Wayne Brady
Quit early so that you don't end up with the 40 in your hand.
Scott Aukerman
Exactly.
Wayne Brady
Burn bright. No, Brown.
Scott Aukerman
We have a lot in common. He was in Hamilton. I watched a production of it. Not the one he was in. You know, our guest. I'm going to introduce you now. Let us. Terry. No further. He first burst onto our screens in Whose Line is It Anyway? Which. How many seasons of that did you do?
Wayne Brady
Well, we still. You're still doing it as of. Because it's on cw. Went from ABC for years to a reboot on the seed cw. And I want to say, God, I guess we've been doing that for seven, eight years now. That, like, this may be the the final season. I'm. I'm not sure the cw.
Scott Aukerman
Cut. Is this an announcement? Exclusive announcement. Is this the final season?
Wayne Brady
Oh, no, they've already talked. Talked about it. So I, you know, I don't know. I try to keep up with those things, but I think it's 20 something seasons if you put them all together. Yeah. Of just, you know, how many years.
Scott Aukerman
Because it's. It's since the 90s. Right. Is that when it started?
Wayne Brady
I think we went on the air in 99. And then it was 10 consecutive seasons.
Scott Aukerman
Right.
Wayne Brady
And then it was on ABC Family for a few years just running and running and running. And then we started the CW version because, you know, for network tv, it's cheap programming.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
And it's funny. As hell. So they get a bargain. So.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, really the only.
Wayne Brady
Thank God.
Scott Aukerman
The only costs are the 20 mil an episode I assume that you get, right?
Wayne Brady
Oh, yeah, yeah. That's how much they pay me to improvise. Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
20 million 40s.
Wayne Brady
Right. 20 million 40s in my dressing room in a pyramid.
Scott Aukerman
It's got, that's a tough pyramid.
Wayne Brady
It's got to be a pyramid. So shout out to Gustav the PA that has to do that.
Scott Aukerman
But we, we then have seen him in so many things. You a five time Emmy award winner, I believe.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what? That's on Wikipedia. It's really six, but I don't fight it because it's because my talk show also won. When your show wins, your producer wins. So. So that. Yeah, so it's really six. But I take five because that's also as a performer. So I take. Take that and, and a bunch of nominations from the daytime thing. Which, which is fun.
Scott Aukerman
Do they. When you go to the Daytime Emmys, is it in the daytime. Is it. Is it at like 9am and everyone's in a tux?
Wayne Brady
Which would be weird, right? That actually would be fun.
Scott Aukerman
That's my experience with the Emmy.
Wayne Brady
No, it's, it's, it's, it's late. It's early evening. It's early evening.
Scott Aukerman
So they don't give you the evening one to make it seem like late afternoon.
Wayne Brady
Early evening because. Well, this is when it was telecast because it's gone through. Through so many. At first it was a big deal the day the daytime Emmys. And then they cut budget and then it wasn't. Then it was. Was ba. Basically you. You could stream it and then if you wanted to. Right. If you wanted to.
Scott Aukerman
No one's making you.
Wayne Brady
No.
Scott Aukerman
No guys to anyone.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Nobody watch. And so it's a thing now again. So it all depends on when they would do it because if it was going to go live then, then we'd do it at five.
Scott Aukerman
Live at five. That's how you can remember this.
Wayne Brady
And that's another thing that you could do as your motto. Live at five at five.
Scott Aukerman
Burn bright, drink brown. Live at five. We should do a live episode at 5pm every day or 5am I like this early morning thing. I want to go earlier.
Wayne Brady
If you do it at 5am I'll come back.
Scott Aukerman
Yes, because you have nothing going on the rest of the time.
Wayne Brady
Nothing going on.
Scott Aukerman
Let's get to the end of your introduction. You know him as the host of let's Make a Deal. Just A legend in this business. He now has a podcast called what if? That's out now. Quite a few episodes out right now. Please welcome Wayne Brady.
Wayne Brady
Thank you so much.
Scott Aukerman
Welcome to the One Timers Club, the exclusive One Timers Club.
Wayne Brady
It feels good. This. This jacket that you gave me feels really good.
Scott Aukerman
It' yeah, it's velvet. It's kind of like the master's jacket in a way.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I never wear the master's jacket. We call it the, the. The.
Scott Aukerman
The primary.
Wayne Brady
The primary jacket. We no longer call it that. It's the primary jacket.
Scott Aukerman
Do they. They gotta change the name of that, don't they? That's like the last thing being called a Masters.
Wayne Brady
That's one of the things. Yeah. But I don't see it changing. That's one of those clubs that they're not gonna get off of that.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. I guess it is a different usage of the word master than. Because they have a mastery of golf, I guess.
Wayne Brady
Right. Which. There are some things that I would fight for that. Though. Those of you that are interested in. In the entomology of words. Yes. I do believe that master bedroom should have been changed because they call it that specifically for that. Changing the Masters tournament. Don't change it because it does mean mastery of something.
Scott Aukerman
Yes, exactly. Maybe they should just change it to the Mastery Tournament and then it would clear everything up.
Wayne Brady
Then it sounds like witchcraft.
Scott Aukerman
That's a good point. Although Agatha all along was very big on Disney plus, I really enjoyed that. Yes, so did I. You got Patti lupone.
Wayne Brady
Who? Patti lupone. She Broadway diva legend extraordinaire. Never worked with Patti lupone. Longtime fan, long time fan.
Scott Aukerman
Love her.
Wayne Brady
Except I do have. I love. I hate when people say, I love this person and then they go, but. So I'll just say, and I love Patti LuPone, period. New thought. It is interesting to me though, when, you know, recently she had that thing of when she. I don't know if you saw her theater was close to the theater where Alicia Keys musical.
Scott Aukerman
Yes.
Wayne Brady
Hell's Kitchen.
Scott Aukerman
Hell's Kitchen, Great show.
Wayne Brady
Won all these Tony Awards, beat my show, the Wiz for our Grammy. But that's okay. Cause if you're gonna lose, lose to Alicia Keys.
Scott Aukerman
Sure.
Wayne Brady
She had. She took umbrage offense at the fact that Hell's Kitchen's theater was loud. It's. It's hip hop, it's R and B, it's big and boisterous. And she. At her other theater, she got angry. And that's one of the first times I went wow, that is some, that is some mature white lady privilege that you are going to tell a whole.
Scott Aukerman
Theater to turn to.
Wayne Brady
Turn your music down. Wow. This really is the great white way.
Scott Aukerman
You know, I was interesting. I was the guy she yelled at in the, in the crowd.
Wayne Brady
Shut up.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, that was me.
Wayne Brady
That actually would make me happy if it really was you singing.
Scott Aukerman
I was so embarrassed.
Wayne Brady
Hey, Patty. Hey, Patty.
Scott Aukerman
Patty.
Wayne Brady
What's up, baby? Patty, you. I know you see me. Patty. Patty.
Scott Aukerman
I did go see her and Mandy Patinkin's two person show on New Year's Eve. The matinee. Wow. Several years ago, my wife and I went and it was so many old people who were falling asleep and the sound of candy wrappers being opened was.
Wayne Brady
So loud and she couldn't get mad at that.
Scott Aukerman
She was, I think she was trying to tune all of that out. So she sang Don't Cry for Me Argentina directly at us and looked us in the eye the entire time because we were the only young people paying attention. It was thrilling.
Wayne Brady
Which I do say, I say once again, as a die hard theater kid, I love Patti LuPone and I love Mandy Patankin. I got a chance to work with him for a season on this thing on cbs, the Good Fight.
Scott Aukerman
You don't say. That's a picture of him right up there.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. So I give props to Broadway royalty.
Scott Aukerman
With me right in the background, you can see half of my body.
Wayne Brady
Were you doing a show with him?
Scott Aukerman
He was in a movie that I wrote and was in.
Wayne Brady
Wait a second. What is that?
Scott Aukerman
It's the Mr. Show movie. Wayne's going to walk across the room and take a look at it. I'm the police officer and he is playing the Ronnie Dobbs in the Ronny Dobbs musical.
Wayne Brady
That is hilarious. The fact that you have Mandy Patankin shirtless.
Scott Aukerman
We didn't ask him to be. He offered.
Wayne Brady
He showed up like that?
Scott Aukerman
Yep. He's like, I woke up like that.
Bugs Bunny
This.
Wayne Brady
Are you going to wardrobe, Mr. Tanking? No, this is me.
Scott Aukerman
This is it.
Wayne Brady
This is it.
Scott Aukerman
I love that you, you, you are such a theater fan. You still do it all the time, which is great. And who better to do theater than, you know, I mean, if you're not doing theater, who should?
Wayne Brady
Well, because it's not even. See, like I'm not even a fan and it's a luxury that it's, it's, it's what I do. It's my, it's. No, no, it's my job. It's a, it's like we show up on set. Did it. That's the other part of my job. I, I do the let's Make a Deal thing or I shoot a sitcom or something, but then I go to do Broadway because that's what I love. That's. It's because I have to make that distinction sometime because there are people that they dibble. Oh, I do some theater when I'm not doing my soap opera. Well, good for you. But this is like, that's my job. Like that, that, that's my dream.
Scott Aukerman
What's a, What's a dream role that you've never gotten to do that you would love to do?
Wayne Brady
Oh, that's a great question.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you so much. I've been working on my questions.
Wayne Brady
Your questions.
Scott Aukerman
I've been doing this for 16 years. I just got good like three weeks ago.
Wayne Brady
You know what? Good for you for not giving up and showing up with a 40 in your hand.
Scott Aukerman
I know.
Wayne Brady
Good for you for not burning out. Good for you.
Scott Aukerman
Burning bright and drinking brown.
Wayne Brady
Come on, man, we care. I'm getting that T shirt. A dream role. Just off the top of my head, I would have loved to have done. Well, as my daughter likes to point out when she listens to the soundtrack of Hairspray. She goes, dad, you would have been so great at Seaweed, but you're too old now. I go, oh, thanks for turning, for letting you know about the passage of time.
Scott Aukerman
Well, I think, I mean, I saw To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway that Aaron Sorkin won and it had like 50 year olds playing the little kids, you know, like you could, you could still do it. It's the magic of theater.
Wayne Brady
It's the magic of theater, but not the magic in my knees. I'm not doing those splits now with Sea. Seaweed, so. So that's just one. And I would have loved to have played. Oh, if there's, if there's ever a. I would love to play Applegate in, In Damn Yankees.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's a great show. Jerry Lewis show.
Wayne Brady
You saw Jerry Lewis? What was it like? Cause I had a couple friends in the cast.
Scott Aukerman
I was thrilled because big fan of Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and all that. And he just kind of stopped the show.
Wayne Brady
Real talent.
Scott Aukerman
Stopped the show in the middle of it and did bits for a long time that were sort of non related. Yeah, non related to the thing. I thought it was very funny. And then Patton Oswalt, as a gift to a bunch of us who did a show with him, a stage reading of the Day the clown Cried. He bought Us all tickets to see it again. And then everyone just made fun of it the entire time. And I felt kind of embarrassed because I liked it.
Wayne Brady
Don't ever be embarrassed for liking weird theater.
Scott Aukerman
Give me a pep talk about that.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. I want to just hug you.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you.
Wayne Brady
But I need to introduce myself before time traveling, Wayne, because it's odd if this brother just appears out of nowhere and starts hugging you in the middle of a theater with Jerry Lewis.
Scott Aukerman
96. I don't know if I would have been aware of you. You yet, but.
Wayne Brady
Right. Like, I just would have been a complete stranger to you.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Hey. Shh. What are you doing? And then on stage. Yeah. And I disappear again. All those things that once would have just been weird. And maybe I would have thrown you off the rest of your career path.
Scott Aukerman
That's a good point. Yeah. I would have been constantly. Like, time travel exists, I think. And then suddenly I would have. In 99, I would have seen you and Whose line is it Anyway? And I would have been.
Wayne Brady
But maybe we would have crossed paths because I feel like we would have crossed paths earlier because before Whose line? I did this thing called Quick wits on NBC with a bunch of folks that I know that we all have in common.
Scott Aukerman
I feel like I met the person you work with, Jonathan, a lot.
Wayne Brady
Jonathan. Yeah. We've been together since then.
Scott Aukerman
I feel like I met him in the 90s and haven't seen him since.
Wayne Brady
But So, yeah, I know that we've crossed paths. And then before then, my group, the house full of Honkies, we used to do a show down on. What's the comedy theater that isn't there anymore on IHO or on the Promenade or like, close to.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, oh, oh, yeah, the. Yeah, I did a lot of shows there.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Second City and ucb that was called. No, no, it was.
Scott Aukerman
I think it was a U word.
Wayne Brady
It was close to the water.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
And a lot of us used to intermingle in that late 90s. That's where Mr. Show comedy Mishmash did.
Scott Aukerman
All of their live shows to get their show.
Wayne Brady
Exactly.
Scott Aukerman
I did a bunch of sketch shows there.
Wayne Brady
So we really are very close. I feel like we're two.
Scott Aukerman
We have a lot in common other than the success part.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Like, it's quantum entanglement. It's very close. That feel we've been. Boom, boom, boom.
Scott Aukerman
You're who I would have been had I made a lot of different choices. But I have that picture of me and Mandy Patinkin. I'll always have that.
Wayne Brady
Oh, My God, my head hurts.
Scott Aukerman
Let's talk about your podcast, because I've listened to this. It's a big treat. At first, I was like, oh, okay, we have a celebrity podcast. It's probably an interview show. I looked at the guest lineup. You have great guests like Nicole Byer.
Wayne Brady
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Bobby Moynihan, Colton Dunn, a lot of people who have been on this show. And I was like, oh, is this an interview show? But it's actually a little bit different.
Wayne Brady
It is a little bit of an interview show. I. I came up with this thing for my class, which. Which I'm not claiming it's. It's genius, but for me, it helps to make things make sense just. Just in life. Improvisation is a conversation, and sometimes I would have to say that to myself when I'm even talking with people in real life because of the way that sometimes my mind works when people are talking and you're having this long conversation, and I've already gone to the end of the conversation, and, like, I'm done with this. I go, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can't be finished with it. Actually listen to the rest of the conversation so you can be involved in it. So I go, okay, I'm making up conversation. I have to follow the same rules that I follow on stage with this person in real life, and then that will help me in relationships and blah, blah, blah. So we thought, okay, let's have conversations with people. And out of that conversation, just. Just like we're doing, stuff will come. So as long as. As. And I have people that I'm fans of, so I get a chance to go, oh, hey, I know this about you, and I know that about you. So what about blah, blah, blah, blah? And then we get into the. Well, I know that you went to Chicago for such and such, and you were blah, blah, blah. What. What if you didn't? What else would you have done? Well, maybe I would have been a blah, blah. Great. And then immediately Jonathan and I cut to that scene or how this thing would have happened or how would your life have changed? Or maybe it's just a weird thing that happened to them this morning. So we take the conversation piece of a talk show and we blow it out into the performance piece.
Scott Aukerman
So fans of this show, I think, would be very interested in this because you're doing improv scenes based on suggestions, essentially the suggestion being a conversation that you're having with a guest, and then the guest participates. Do they always participate or.
Wayne Brady
A lot of time they do, because.
Scott Aukerman
Colton and Colton Nicole.
Wayne Brady
Oh, my God.
Scott Aukerman
Bobby. They obviously have done improv for a long time.
Wayne Brady
Colton. We. We had one of the most. One of my best times that I've had on the podcast so far was Colton's song that just came out of nowhere because we're talking about his name. And then all of a sudden, Branson I were piano started playing and we did this. This. This thug, thug rap song about Colton. And he's like, Colton from the streets. This name. Because I'm a bad mother hugger. I be hugging. I'm a hugging. Because I'm hugging into. And we just came. And that's. That's what it is. That's what. And like, just like we're doing the sense of play that comes out of this conversation that all of a sudden it's a song.
Scott Aukerman
Yes.
Wayne Brady
It's just so silly, but it's playful and it's fun. But then you get to hear people operating at the top of their abilities. That's the fun for me. I just love seeing people do their thing.
Scott Aukerman
It's a very fun podcast because, you know, it starts as just kind of background information or I listened to the Bobby Moynihan one. You're talking about the SNL 50th, and then it just segues. The. Your pianist starts playing and then it segues into scenes based on everything you've been talking about. It's really a lot of fun. I was laughing my little butt off.
Wayne Brady
Oh, thank you.
Scott Aukerman
I have no butt anymore, thanks to you.
Wayne Brady
You're welcome.
Scott Aukerman
Yep.
Wayne Brady
Butts get you in trouble, so it's just best to not have it.
Bugs Bunny
Wouldn't it be great.
Scott Aukerman
Not if. If human beings just didn't have butts.
Wayne Brady
We're working on that.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Oh, good. Really?
Wayne Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. You have a grant, some sort of fellowship.
Wayne Brady
I just got a grant. And myself and the other scientists.
Scott Aukerman
That's what you're really doing. Usc.
Wayne Brady
That's my passion. That's my passion to eradicate butts. Because if we get rid of the butts, then a. We wouldn't have to. Do you know how much time we waste using the bathroom from the back?
Scott Aukerman
I know. That's the thing.
Wayne Brady
I think so much time.
Scott Aukerman
We need to have all of our excrement through the front. Maybe. What would you suggest? The mouth or the.
Wayne Brady
Well, well, I'm just keeping it to one hole.
Bugs Bunny
That.
Wayne Brady
That if we're able to eliminate the butt and that area and we just peed. And we just peed.
Scott Aukerman
We pee out of it and we. It's fine. Isn't it? We. We should be able to squirt some poop out of there.
Wayne Brady
Thank you. I've been saying this for years, but other scientists laughed at me.
Scott Aukerman
I won't laugh at you.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Scott Aukerman
I'll laugh near you.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
See, next to you.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Scott Aukerman
Around you.
Wayne Brady
And I love that with you. And that's the best. That's the best. So look out 2027. No buts. I guarantee you my nanotechnology will be approved at that point.
Scott Aukerman
You mentioned theme park, working in theme parks. You had a very fun role in theme parks back before you moved to Los Angeles.
Wayne Brady
Even when I was here in Los.
Scott Aukerman
Angeles, you did it here at so.
Wayne Brady
Many theme parks I've done.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. And you were a mischievous character known as Beetlejuice.
Wayne Brady
No, I wasn't Beetlejuice.
Scott Aukerman
You weren't Beetlejuice?
Wayne Brady
Oh, no, no, no.
Scott Aukerman
You were in the Beetlejuice show.
Wayne Brady
I was in the Beetlejuice. This is for you old school theme park fans. I was in the Beetlejuice rock and roll graveyard review here at Universal Studios Los Angeles and also in Orlando. I played. In the Orlando cast, I was Dracula. And in the LA cast, I was Dracula and Wolfman. And for those of you that go, Wayne, you're high. Let me explain what the show was. It's actually a great concept. And, you know, they're opening up this new park in Orlando right now, Universal is, which I hope they have the show. It's dedicated just to all of the monsters and stuff.
Bugs Bunny
Really.
Scott Aukerman
I would have loved that when I was a kid.
Wayne Brady
That dark universe that they were trying to do, that didn't make it. They've made it with Russell Crowe as Dr. Hyde. Didn't work. But it's a theme park and I hear it's amazing. So here is the concept for. For the show. Beetlejuice pops up from his. His. Well, from wherever Beetlejuice pops up. He's like, you. You. You hear the sound effects. He pops on stage. Hey, everybody, it's me, Beetlejuice. I'm the ghost with the most Google. And he's talking to the audience. He's like, all right, you know what I got back there? I got. I got the Wolf Man. I got the Bride of Frank sign. I got Dracula. I got from. And he's making all these bad puns, monster puns. He's like, all right. So I'm gonna bring him out the. He, he.
Scott Aukerman
He.
Wayne Brady
He introduces us and we come out in the. In the classic form of the monsters to the Bela Lugosi. You Know Phantom of the Opera with, with the mask and with the organ. And we all come attacking Beetlejuice. He goes, all right, this ain't cool. We have to fix this. On the count of three. Say it with me. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. He knocks us back into this thing called the transmogrifier.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Then when he goes, this curtain of dry ice and lights and the spectacle, you hear sound effects when it stops, what? All of a sudden Dracula goes from his gothic cape into this leather wearing rock and roller.
Scott Aukerman
Snm.
Wayne Brady
Well there. Yeah, well there is one cast of that. Yeah. But. But it's more. Think, think more glam metal. Sebastian Bach is. Yes, so there's that. Then the Phantom of the Opera becomes like a Jerry Lee Lewis type guy with this lounge lizard with this purple suit on and this per purple mask. Wolfman is transformed into a B boy with this bright colorful top with the fur sticking out and jeans and Adidas. And then he break dances later. The bride of Frankenstein is this like incredibly hot rock chick with tattered dress and like a goth emo look or kind of goth, but very much like the Evanescence, perhaps. Oh, that's a good reference. No, no, but like 70s or a.
Scott Aukerman
80S rock with tight Pat Benatar kind of.
Wayne Brady
Thank you. Yes. And then I'm leaving someone out, but they basically get transformed. So that's what I did. And when I moved out here to Los Angeles, I needed a gig. So when I got out here, I was working at Universal Studios doing that show. I was swinging both parts, five shows a day. But here is the thing. Doing that show, especially at that time, you know, 90 some something. It. It was an equity show at the theme park. So I made great money right, doing that show.
Scott Aukerman
Equity is the actors union, by the way, for those of you who don't know.
Wayne Brady
Great show, great pay and it was one of the best theme park shows because you really were singing and dancing your ass off. And a lot of my cast members are all on Broadway. Broadway now, because that was the gig that you would do if you were.
Scott Aukerman
A singer, dancer, doing the same show on Broadway.
Wayne Brady
Wouldn't that be great? Beetlejuice rock. And is that Patti LuPone as the bride of Frankenstein? 80s Pat Benatar, Mandy Patankin as Frankenstein, the green clad rocker who plays the guitar. Is that him?
Scott Aukerman
I love you still know so much about that. I mean, how many performances of it did you do? Probably I did a few.
Wayne Brady
I did a few years worth tens of thousands and I loved it. I loved doing that show. Yeah, because I was on stage. Yeah, that's on stage. Not, not everyone. If you're out here trying to make it, which is what I try to tell these young, young actors, especially some that I talk talk to now, you know that they, they end up seeing the end result they love. Well, I'm gonna be on TV or I'm gonna be on. It's like, look man, good for you if that happens and your TikTok video gets you a deal. Which is very possible because that's how folks are hired now. But I think I can speak to. We came up in the. In the day when I myself and my group the House Full of Honkies when we moved from Orlando out here, we would do shows. Sometimes there were seven of us in the group where there would be just as many people in the audience. And you do it and you love it because you're actually being funny and you're in front of a crowd and.
Scott Aukerman
It'S actually more fun fun than being in TV a lot of times is doing those shows.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, that's.
Scott Aukerman
That's the stuff that like you have the dream of, oh, I'm gonna make it and do movies and stuff. And then you get to do movies and they're kind of a pain in the ass and you have to be there all day and it's stop and start. But like doing the actual shows to get the TV stuff is the most.
Wayne Brady
Fun stuff and it pays. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love TV and film. It's great. But that goes back to in the beginning when I was saying that high school theater and being being on Broadway that did. There's no difference in terms of. It's the scale and scope. But I had so much fun doing those seven per person shows. I had fun doing Beetlejuice when nobody know you knows your name and you get to dress up and be silly. It's all play. Everything that we do right now, it's all play and you should do that. That's why I wanted to do do the what if podcast because I actually get to play and say silly shit and have fun.
Scott Aukerman
It's super fun. How. How is it open ended? Are you doing this just till whenever or is it a season or what are your plans with it?
Wayne Brady
I just want to do it.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
So I. So I believe it's open ended just in the sense of we just want to do it until a. It's. I want it to be successful, but I just want to have fun. So I'm going To do it, as long as it's fun.
Scott Aukerman
Love it. I love the people who get into podcasting because they want to have fun, because that's the only reason, I think, to do it. Like, the people who get into it of, like, oh, my agent said that it's a big opportunity now, or, yeah, maybe the smartest guys. And that's about it.
Wayne Brady
Right. It's one of those things, Conan things that, yes, maybe you can blow it up into something else, but you should never get into anything that's not the end result.
Scott Aukerman
Do stuff for fun and then maybe something will come out of it.
Wayne Brady
Every time, in my experience, every time that I've done something, because I've been told, hey, you know, this is great for your career, you do this thing, blah, blah, blah. Okay? It is the most miserable thing I've ever done in my life, and I want to yank my own head off and go bowling with it. So I'm trying to not do that anymore.
Scott Aukerman
Yes, exactly. I love that. Well, Wayne Brady, the podcast is what.
Wayne Brady
If with Jonathan Mankin. I have to say that it's called Wayne Brady's what if with Jonathan.
Scott Aukerman
You've. You've known him for 30 some odd years, right?
Wayne Brady
Yeah. We first started doing improv together in Orlando. Shout out to Sack Theater.
Scott Aukerman
I didn't know it was all the way back from Orlando, too. Wow.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Sac Theater. When. And the seven of us that started that theater, which is still in Orlando right now, still thriving, we came out here and we became the house full of honkies. And Jonathan and I have worked together since we were 19 and 20.
Scott Aukerman
He's your co host on let's Make a Deal. A really funny guy. It's a great podcast. Go check it out. We're going to take a break and then we're going to come back, we have a great show. A peloton instructor.
Wayne Brady
I can't wait.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, this is a huge lineup. Shane Brady, peloton instructor, and then America's favorite rabbit.
Wayne Brady
Oh, that. I. Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I know this is going to be hard for you.
Wayne Brady
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
You're all. You pulled out your gat and you're polishing it. Right?
Wayne Brady
And I'm cleaning it right now. All right, Bessie. All right, Bessie.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you named her?
Wayne Brady
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Guns are always female. I find that cute.
Wayne Brady
Oh, it's so sweet. I might just kiss her.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's. Yeah, Be careful with that. Oh, you. You did. Kind of a tongue kiss, too, which is just.
Wayne Brady
Don't judge me.
Bugs Bunny
No judgment.
Scott Aukerman
I just. You. You got to be careful. All right, we're gonna take a break. We're gonna be right back with more Wayne Brady, more comedy.
Wayne Brady
Bang.
Scott Aukerman
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Wayne Brady
I know. This is pretty cool. So when I come back though, is the club less exclusive?
Scott Aukerman
Well, it's worse because if you come back and do more than one episode, the people who have done one episode are your Paul Rudd's, your Ben Stillers, Childish Gambino. They all did one and then got way too successful and never came back. But if you come back and do two, then it gets worse and worse. Then suddenly you're like Adam Scott, who's done like 25.
Wayne Brady
That guy. Oh, he's definitely carrying a 40.
Scott Aukerman
40 inches. What? If you know what I'm saying, and.
Wayne Brady
I think I do.
Scott Aukerman
We all know that he has. That's the grip of having one of the biggest dicks in Hollywood. Right?
Wayne Brady
But that's cumbersome. 40 inches. How do you even. I don't even know how you would become aroused.
Scott Aukerman
Now, famously, he showed his real penis in the movie the Overnight. I don't know if you've ever seen this.
Wayne Brady
No. But now I need to go see it just to prove a point.
Scott Aukerman
Well, we have a wonderful guest coming up here. We first met her, I believe, when we were on Tour. I forget exactly what. What exact city did we see each other in? I don't really remember, but it's wonderful to have her back. Please. She's a peloton instructor. Please welcome Krendel.
Peloton Instructor
All right, let's get on those bikes. Going on. Get on those bikes right now, boys. Get those asses up in the air. Get those heads down.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Brought a bike.
Peloton Instructor
All right. Get on there. Let's go.
Wayne Brady
Come on.
Peloton Instructor
We want that cadence up to 85, all right? Okay, 85 cadence. We've got that resistance. Go ahead and turn that up to 135.
Scott Aukerman
Wow. We're going up 135. That's too much.
Wayne Brady
Is it possible?
Scott Aukerman
I think 60 is about the highest.
Peloton Instructor
Okay. Why are you guys here today? I want you to think about that right now. I want you to think about that long and hard. What is your motivation today? Because I am gonna get you absolutely crumped and crammed.
Scott Aukerman
Crumped.
Peloton Instructor
I'm gonna get you absolutely crumpled and crammed up. Oh, we're gonna have you busting and bursting.
Wayne Brady
Ooh. Okay.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. I'm gonna tell you what my motivation is. I'm gonna tell you. I have had some stomach issues all year long. I have been having diarrhea multiple times a day. We're talking 15, 16 times a day. How are you walking to the gastroenterologist, Guess what he said.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, it's he. You have.
Peloton Instructor
He quit his practice after he got my shit delivered to him to do a test on my shit.
Scott Aukerman
If you were there in the office, why did it need to be delivered? Did you, like, pre send?
Peloton Instructor
I had to go home. I had to do the shit test at home. He said if I didn't bring it in, I'd have to put it in my fridge. And I thought, absolutely not. I'm bringing that in today. Brought it in. He quit practicing medicine after he looked at my shit. I'm trying not to take it personally. Let's cool it off. Let's cool it off.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Peloton Instructor
All right. You can turn that music off. How my boys doing? How you guys doing?
Scott Aukerman
I'm a little winded, to be honest. I don't think I've ever been winded doing the show.
Peloton Instructor
Oh, God. You guys looked so good out there on those bikes. Ass is up.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Let's keep it in our pants here. This is a professional show.
Wayne Brady
No.
Peloton Instructor
Absolutely no.
Wayne Brady
I'm. No. That's why I came here. I came here to meet someone. That's why I came to. That's why I brought my bike, I'm single, and I want to meet someone.
Peloton Instructor
That is your motive. That's my motivation. I love that for you, Krendel.
Scott Aukerman
Are you available?
Peloton Instructor
I am available, but I should let you know, off the top, I am a boy, mom. I am absolutely obsessed with my son, and there is nothing that is going to break that bond.
Wayne Brady
I love sons.
Peloton Instructor
You do?
Wayne Brady
I love being father to many people.
Peloton Instructor
I love to hear that. I am absolutely ass up about that.
Wayne Brady
Wow.
Peloton Instructor
We need to crump and cram some more today, don't we?
Wayne Brady
Yes, let's crump it.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, yeah, yeah. How are we gonna do that?
Peloton Instructor
Well, we're probably gonna do another round on those bikes.
Wayne Brady
Scott.
Peloton Instructor
Oh, my God, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
I do have a bike in the corner. Let me get mine.
Peloton Instructor
Get your bike. Get your ass over here.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
Finally. You know, I love to see it. Scott, I have not seen you online in so long. Where have you been?
Scott Aukerman
I'm sorry. I have a busy schedule now. I'm doing podcasts at 9am Now.
Peloton Instructor
I know. I heard. I reached out to your assistant.
Scott Aukerman
You did?
Peloton Instructor
She said you were recording your first episode at 4am yeah. Then you had another one at about five.
Scott Aukerman
I'm the Jeffrey Katzenberg in terms of breakfasts to pod me doing podcasts. Does that make sense to anyone who has never worked with Jeffrey Katzenberg before Industry?
Peloton Instructor
Absolutely not.
Scott Aukerman
He has many breakfasts every morning.
Peloton Instructor
And Wayne, where have you been? You had a bike over the pandemic and then the bike went away and I have not seen you since.
Wayne Brady
I'm so sorry. I just lost interest. But now I'm back in it. I'm ready to get crumped, cramped, clumped and kinked.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. You want to be one of the clumps, I think you were telling me during the break.
Wayne Brady
Yes, that's. My aim is. My aim is to take that to Broadway, and I want to be the clumps on Broadway.
Peloton Instructor
We are going to clump you all up. Let's go ahead and get on those bikes again.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Let's get rid of this seat real quick. All right, I'm ready. Okay.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. Okay. Do you feel that?
Scott Aukerman
Oh, clump the seat. Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
Do you feel that?
Wayne Brady
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, we're not going. We're just sitting down.
Peloton Instructor
You should feel that in your ass. Do you feel that seat?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
Do you feel those handlebars?
Scott Aukerman
Yes, I do. I'm touching them. Is that what you mean?
Peloton Instructor
Do they feel hot? I mean, Warren, they should feel scalding hot.
Wayne Brady
Scalding hot.
Peloton Instructor
Or you are doing something wrong.
Scott Aukerman
I think I'm doing something wrong because mine are lukewarm at best.
Wayne Brady
I'm sweating, I'm sweating. Good.
Peloton Instructor
I love hear that from you. God, Wayne, you are a good time.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Peloton Instructor
You and I, I can see it working out. But I should let you know I am in a very serious relationship with my son, Braxton.
Wayne Brady
Oh, okay.
Peloton Instructor
We are absolutely head over heels for each other.
Bugs Bunny
Wow.
Peloton Instructor
So it is very hard for me to think about having another man at home.
Wayne Brady
Is that okay? Well, I'll get in where I fit in. And that's just not a T shirt. It's a way of life.
Peloton Instructor
That's right.
Scott Aukerman
This is our new slogan. I'll get in where I fit in.
Peloton Instructor
He's only 24 months old, but you know what he said to me the other day? He said, mom, you miss 100 of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Brady
That is an inspiration.
Scott Aukerman
Very advanced for a 2 year old. Why do you say 24 months instead of just 2?
Peloton Instructor
He is 24 months and 23 days.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, okay.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. And you know what he said to me the other day when I got out of bed?
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
He said, mom, where have you been? Because the sun doesn't rise unless you rise with it. Come on now, let's ride. Hit that music. Ass is up, faces down.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Face down, ass up, feet up.
Peloton Instructor
By your hands. Feet up high.
Wayne Brady
Feet by my hands.
Peloton Instructor
We are riding. We are riding. Your cadence is about 235, your resistance. Go ahead and turn that up to 450.
Scott Aukerman
What's too much?
Wayne Brady
This is not ergonomically sound like.
Peloton Instructor
Are you feeling that burn? Are you feeling that burn?
Scott Aukerman
My killing is impossible.
Peloton Instructor
Scott, I want you to yell out to me your motivation today. What is your motivation?
Scott Aukerman
I want to do a podcast so I can complete my contract.
Peloton Instructor
What?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I'm not doing it for the fun or the love like we talked about in the first segment.
Peloton Instructor
What are you talking. You want it for the money, Scott? Is that what you're doing?
Scott Aukerman
I'm just trying to kind of get to the 20th year and Scott, look at me.
Peloton Instructor
Podcasters need to be hot now. Did you know that?
Scott Aukerman
I know, I know.
Peloton Instructor
Most podcasts are on tv. Why are you not on tv?
Scott Aukerman
The call me daddy of it all ruined everything for us.
Peloton Instructor
You need to get cameras in here. We need to get you camera ready. Get that. Get those ass up by those hands.
Scott Aukerman
All right. All my asses are up by my hands.
Peloton Instructor
Wayne, what is your motivation?
Wayne Brady
To be the one to be the one.
Peloton Instructor
The one what?
Wayne Brady
I just want to be the one who lives.
Peloton Instructor
I love that for you.
Scott Aukerman
Like the last man on earth.
Wayne Brady
I want to be the last person standing. I want to be so healthy that I outlast everyone. I just want everyone gone. I want to be the one here all by myself. I want all extraneous noise gone. I want to be on a bike with my hands by my feet and my ass up, touching the back of my neck when I sneeze. I want to rest the back of my head in the cleft of my cheeks.
Peloton Instructor
I love this for you.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Peloton Instructor
You want to be like that billionaire who's Gonna live to 150, don't you?
Wayne Brady
Well, I want to biohack. I wanna biohack.
Peloton Instructor
We are going to biohack your ass off today. And I'm gonna tell you what my motivation is. Can I tell you that right now?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, please.
Peloton Instructor
My motivation is my fucking son, Braxton. I love my son Braxton. But you know what else it is?
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
My health. All right? I went to a guy gynecologist appointment the other day for a yeast infection I've had for 26 years.
Wayne Brady
Wow.
Peloton Instructor
You know what she said to me?
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
When I was in there, she said, I can't do this anymore. I'm moving to another country. Let's go ahead and ride. Get those asses up, faces down.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Peloton Instructor
Scott, are you sweating?
Scott Aukerman
One tiny bead of sweat has appeared on my forehead.
Peloton Instructor
What is going on with you? I love to see. Go ahead and have some.
Scott Aukerman
I think I'm severely dehydrated.
Peloton Instructor
Don't you dare touch that water. Touch some of this protein.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, God.
Scott Aukerman
This is chunky.
Peloton Instructor
It's dry powder. Go ahead and shove it on down.
Scott Aukerman
All right.
Peloton Instructor
And slow it down. We are cooling off. We are cooling off. How my boys doing? How are my boys?
Wayne Brady
I feel much better since I got off my bike. And I'm sharing Scott's bike with him.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, we're doing it tandem.
Peloton Instructor
I love seeing you guys both on those bikes, one pedal apiece. When Scott got on your shoulders, Wayne, I knew my boys were doing it.
Wayne Brady
It felt good.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. We put a trench coat around her skin. We went to try to buy alcohol.
Peloton Instructor
You guys looked like.
Wayne Brady
And then we tried to get into a movie.
Peloton Instructor
You looked like a full on adult.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you. That's so nice.
Peloton Instructor
I'm gonna let you know something super intimate right now.
Wayne Brady
What's that?
Scott Aukerman
Kendall Crandall.
Peloton Instructor
All of my students in that peloton room are my boys, my sons.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, wow.
Peloton Instructor
I Am your boy, Mom. Right now. Do you feel that?
Wayne Brady
Yes.
Peloton Instructor
Do you feel that?
Scott Aukerman
I do.
Peloton Instructor
That is me mothering you.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Peloton Instructor
I am mother. Say it. You are mother.
Scott Aukerman
You are mother.
Peloton Instructor
That is damn right. Go ahead and pack one of those proteins into your ass.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
All right. Let me mother. Why are you taking your breast out? I don't want to breastfeed tonight.
Peloton Instructor
No. We are going to have some of this milk and you better shut the fuck up about it. Slurp it on down. That's. That's right. It's better than water, isn't it?
Scott Aukerman
We're sharing the breasts like we shared my bike.
Peloton Instructor
That's right, my little son.
Wayne Brady
This isn't what I was expecting today, but it's better than what I thought it would be. It's making me so happy.
Peloton Instructor
You know what Braxton said to me after I took him out of his bath this morning?
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
He's 24 months and 24 days and 30 seconds old.
Wayne Brady
Wow.
Peloton Instructor
You know what I said to him? I said, how did you get so special? And you know what he said to me?
Bugs Bunny
What's that, Mom?
Peloton Instructor
God made me this way. And without God, I wouldn't be here.
Wayne Brady
Wow.
Scott Aukerman
It's veering into the religious at this point.
Wayne Brady
It's very religious, very literal, very, very pointed.
Scott Aukerman
Very devout.
Wayne Brady
Very devout.
Scott Aukerman
How are you guys vocabulary?
Peloton Instructor
How are your asses?
Scott Aukerman
They're up. I mean, they're up. It's about as up as high as I can go.
Wayne Brady
And I've never had quite as much protein in my ass as I've had you.
Peloton Instructor
Just kidding. 598 grams of protein every meal. Do you know how many meals you should be having?
Wayne Brady
How many?
Peloton Instructor
35 meals. Do you know what time I wake up in the morning?
Scott Aukerman
I have no idea.
Peloton Instructor
2:00Am do you know how long my day is?
Wayne Brady
How long?
Peloton Instructor
30 seconds. I go right back to bed.
Wayne Brady
That's a biohack.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah, that is a biohack.
Scott Aukerman
What do you do in that 30 seconds?
Peloton Instructor
I brush my teeth. But you know what?
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
I don't use any toothpaste, okay? Because toothpaste has chemicals and that is not okay, okay? Fluoride is bad, okay? Get those asses up. Let's get another ride on these bikes.
Wayne Brady
Wait.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay. Come here. Grab on.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Scott Aukerman
Hold on to my back.
Wayne Brady
Okay. Ready? Go.
Peloton Instructor
My boys. I want you to talk to me right now, okay? Tell me the most motivational quote you've ever heard in your life. And guess what? It better involve God.
Scott Aukerman
God said. What was it? Aim. Aim. Aim high. Drink Brown.
Wayne Brady
Yep. Aim. Aim high. Burn bright.
Scott Aukerman
Burn bright. Brown. Yes.
Peloton Instructor
That's what I love to hear. Wayne, go ahead and hit me with a quote of your life.
Wayne Brady
God said, is that all you got? And I said, yes, that's right.
Peloton Instructor
That's all you've got. God will never let you step down.
Wayne Brady
No.
Peloton Instructor
God is the ultimate boy mom.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
And I am the best world's first boy mom to ever be a peloton instructor. Get your ass up into the air. Get your stomach up by your ass. Get those cheekbones in your face. Near your cheekbones.
Scott Aukerman
Thanks for clarifying.
Peloton Instructor
In your ass. Okay. Do we feel that? Do you feel that? Yeah, I feel all right. I'm gonna tell you what motivates me.
Wayne Brady
Tasting so much protein.
Peloton Instructor
I'm gonna tell you what motivates me right now.
Scott Aukerman
Get your tongue out of my protein, please.
Wayne Brady
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Peloton Instructor
I was really going through it recently when I was realizing that my son was gonna have to marry a woman one day. That was really hard for me to realize, and I really went through it mentally. So what did I do besides working out? I went to a psychiatrist. Oh, that's right. I talked through my feelings a bit.
Scott Aukerman
It's mentionable. It's manageable.
Peloton Instructor
We went. I visited them for about, I don't know, five, six sessions until I found out via letter that they killed themselves. Go ahead and get those. Resistance up to 589.
Wayne Brady
Oh, my God.
Peloton Instructor
Cadence up to.
Scott Aukerman
Let's consider it.
Peloton Instructor
Let's tone it down on the cadence. Actually, let's go nice and slow here. Let's hit it with a four.
Scott Aukerman
Do you feel that? Yeah, I'm barely.
Peloton Instructor
Do you feel that, Scott?
Scott Aukerman
Oh, I guess not really. A 4 is very, very low.
Peloton Instructor
I'm sorry. I'm getting a text from my son, Braxton.
Wayne Brady
But he's only texting, right? He's only, what, two years?
Peloton Instructor
He says, mom, you need to remember something. Every day that we spend together is a lifetime for some people. And hours in a day are actually moments. And moments. Moments do not compare to the life that someone could have within the span of time. Time is but a moment. Remember that. Go ahead and get those asses up.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Okay, here we go.
Peloton Instructor
I want you guys to look into each other's eyes.
Wayne Brady
Okay?
Scott Aukerman
All right. Let me turn around. Okay.
Wayne Brady
Hey, how you doing?
Peloton Instructor
How do you guys. How. What are you gonna do for each other today? What are you gonna do that's going to change that person's lives? Tell me.
Scott Aukerman
Well, Wayne, I'd love to keep in touch and close contact. Maybe text Each other.
Peloton Instructor
More.
Wayne Brady
More.
Scott Aukerman
Six times a day. You need more with inspirational quotes.
Wayne Brady
I'm. I'm gonna move in with you.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay. Wow. I love your space in the attic. I think.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. I'm done in. In fact, I'm gonna sell everything that I own. And I'm moving in with you this afternoon. I think it's. Right. That's what I.
Scott Aukerman
Everything you own.
Peloton Instructor
You here.
Wayne Brady
Everything.
Scott Aukerman
Even your extensive collection of troll dolls.
Wayne Brady
All of it.
Scott Aukerman
Wow.
Wayne Brady
All of it. When I'm in, I'm in.
Peloton Instructor
I love it. How do you boys feel? How are my boys?
Scott Aukerman
I feel rejuvenated, actually. All this protein might be going to my ass, but I just feel really intense right now.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. I bet you do.
Wayne Brady
Oh, I feel sated. I'm very, very full.
Peloton Instructor
I don't know what that means. Sated.
Wayne Brady
Oh. I'm not hungry, spiritually or physically.
Scott Aukerman
New York Times crossword. Do you. It comes up a lot.
Peloton Instructor
I only do the mini.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. How long do you take on it?
Peloton Instructor
I take about 45 minutes on the mini, but my son does the New York Times Sunday. And you know how long it takes him.
Wayne Brady
Hello.
Peloton Instructor
Five seconds.
Scott Aukerman
Whoa.
Wayne Brady
Wow. Now, in real time, or are we talking in a relativistic.
Peloton Instructor
Relativistic time is but a series of moments. What time do you get up in the morning, Wayne?
Wayne Brady
I get up around 6.
Peloton Instructor
That is not early enough.
Wayne Brady
I know.
Peloton Instructor
You should be getting.
Scott Aukerman
Sorry, mother.
Peloton Instructor
That's right, say it again.
Scott Aukerman
Sorry, Mother.
Peloton Instructor
That's right, say it again.
Wayne Brady
Sorry, mother.
Peloton Instructor
That's right, Say, I am mothering.
Wayne Brady
I am mothering.
Peloton Instructor
Say mama.
Wayne Brady
Mama.
Peloton Instructor
Say wham. Wham. Mama. That's right. Baby Shit. Baby need a change.
Scott Aukerman
Baby need a change.
Peloton Instructor
Baby need it. Baby made a stinky.
Scott Aukerman
Baby made a stinky. I, too, did.
Peloton Instructor
That's what I like to hear, Scott. You are my son. You are my son.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you, Mommy.
Peloton Instructor
Now, have I.
Wayne Brady
Some people pay a lot of money for this. And we get to do it right now for free.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Wow.
Peloton Instructor
I want to let you know how many sons I have out there.
Wayne Brady
How many?
Peloton Instructor
1.5 million sons.
Wayne Brady
What?
Peloton Instructor
Tuning in every single day. Only one girl. You know who that is?
Wayne Brady
Who?
Peloton Instructor
My daughter.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you have a. You've never mentioned her.
Wayne Brady
You've never talked about her.
Peloton Instructor
Her name is Paisley Ann. She's fine. But my son. Let's go ahead and hit it.
Scott Aukerman
Okay?
Peloton Instructor
My son motivates me every single day.
Scott Aukerman
How old is Paisley Ann?
Peloton Instructor
Paisley Ann. I don't. She's a. I mean, she's five.
Wayne Brady
She's Fine.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
You don't seem to care as much about her.
Peloton Instructor
She's okay. She's like, you know, she's smart and she's nice. Okay.
Wayne Brady
There's a definite lack of enthusiasm.
Peloton Instructor
I love her. No, she's my daughter and I love her. I. I guess, but.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
Peloton Instructor
She is not like my son Braxton.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Peloton Instructor
Go ahead. I want you to know. Do you guys want to have sons someday? I want to hear it from you, Wayne. Do you have a son?
Wayne Brady
Yes, I have a son.
Peloton Instructor
What is your son's biggest motivation?
Wayne Brady
Mommy's boobies.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. Scott, do you want to have a son someday?
Scott Aukerman
No.
Peloton Instructor
What?
Scott Aukerman
What are you doing? I'm good.
Peloton Instructor
Stop the music. What did you just say?
Scott Aukerman
I have the only child I'm gonna have, and that's a daughter. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mommy.
Peloton Instructor
Scott?
Scott Aukerman
Yes.
Peloton Instructor
The world is made up of boys who become men who become boys again.
Scott Aukerman
It's about 48% of the population, I think, are boys. Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah. Okay. So what are you gonna do? I guess I'm gonna get your sperm checked.
Scott Aukerman
That's already happened.
Peloton Instructor
In order to get the first checked again, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do sperm on you guys. I'm gonna get a sperm check going on you, right? Go ahead and hit the music. I'm gonna get my. My cast of peloton instructors here. Go ahead and get their sperm out of them right now. We are gonna do a sperm check on both of you.
Scott Aukerman
Private room that we can go to.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, that's right.
Peloton Instructor
Go ahead and get that sperm in the cat. This is my sperm checker, Dawson. Dawson, how we doing?
Bugs Bunny
Hi, Mommy.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah, Mommy.
Scott Aukerman
Dawson, I feel weird masturbating in front of all of you.
Peloton Instructor
No, go ahead. This is what we do here at Peloton.
Wayne Brady
I don't need to masturbate. Here, I carry this around.
Peloton Instructor
Oh, thank you so much for that.
Scott Aukerman
That was in your wallet.
Peloton Instructor
Huge jar. This big jar that came out of your wallet. Thank you. Thank you so much. Dawson, go ahead and get this in the lab.
Bugs Bunny
I'm the biggest one I've ever seen. I'll give it right away.
Peloton Instructor
I love. This is my son, Dawson. Have you met him, Scott?
Scott Aukerman
I do have.
Peloton Instructor
He's gonna go ahead and get to go to town on him. Go to town on him, Dawson, you're.
Scott Aukerman
Gonna extract it, if that's okay? Sure. Oh. Oh, God.
Bugs Bunny
I'm gonna do it even if you say no.
Peloton Instructor
You see how effective he is?
Bugs Bunny
I'm.
Scott Aukerman
Dawson, you don't need the tweezers, Dawson.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, yeah, I do. I can't find it.
Wayne Brady
I'm. I'm gonna. Is it cool that I'm videoing this whole thing?
Peloton Instructor
That's great. Go ahead and put that online on the. Tag us at peloton. We are gonna be putting that on the. On the tick tock army. Dawson.
Bugs Bunny
I'm Dawson.
Scott Aukerman
Hi, Dawson.
Peloton Instructor
Dawson runs our social media, but he also extracts our sperm and also does the test. Don't you, Dawson?
Bugs Bunny
You want me to tag you?
Wayne Brady
Hey, Twitch, it's your boy, Wayne. I'm on.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, God.
Wayne Brady
I'm streaming this live. Can you believe this shit? Look at this.
Scott Aukerman
I don't think I can perform under these conditions.
Peloton Instructor
Dawson, how much sperm do we have out of. Out of our friend Scott here?
Bugs Bunny
Scott's getting dusty.
Scott Aukerman
I might be dry, I don't know.
Peloton Instructor
No, we need to get. You need to pump him full of something else.
Bugs Bunny
I'm gonna go double time, Dawson. Double time. Oh, God, he's going. Dawson, double time.
Scott Aukerman
Penis is at 150.
Peloton Instructor
That's right, Ken. This is at 150. We're gonna turn that up. Go ahead, Dawson. Turn that up to 492. Look at that.
Wayne Brady
Look at him, guys.
Bugs Bunny
Resistance at zero.
Peloton Instructor
Wow. Looks like we got one sperm.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Is that enough, Mommy?
Peloton Instructor
That'll do, right, Dawson? We can do. We can work some magic.
Scott Aukerman
All it takes is one.
Bugs Bunny
From what I heard, Dawson thinks one's.
Scott Aukerman
Thanks, Dawson.
Peloton Instructor
Thank you, Dawson.
Bugs Bunny
All right, goodbye.
Peloton Instructor
Goodbye, Dawson.
Scott Aukerman
Bye, Dawson.
Bugs Bunny
I'm gone.
Wayne Brady
Wow.
Peloton Instructor
How did you feel? You must feel so good. And relieved.
Scott Aukerman
I mean, I definitely feel like I could use a cigarette. Do you have anything on you?
Wayne Brady
That was quite an experience to watch.
Peloton Instructor
Yes.
Wayne Brady
I feel like I witnessed something that I've never seen before.
Peloton Instructor
Yes. This is what we do at Peloton. Had both of you continued your training, but you guys stopped midway through the pandemic and you never came back.
Wayne Brady
Well, I'm coming back now.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, definitely.
Wayne Brady
I'm definitely on board.
Scott Aukerman
All it takes is one class to get you back on board. What happened here today? I am on board.
Peloton Instructor
We love to see that out of you, Scott. Thanks. I cannot wait for you guys to have the boys. I want. I can't wait for you to be boy. Boy dads.
Scott Aukerman
Boy. Mom. Dads.
Peloton Instructor
Boy. Mom. Dads.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Boy. Dad. Boy dad. Moms.
Peloton Instructor
Mommy.
Scott Aukerman
Mommy. Mommy.
Wayne Brady
Mommy.
Scott Aukerman
This is incredible. Thank you so much, Grendel. I always appreciate it.
Peloton Instructor
It's an honor to be here, Dawson. You okay?
Bugs Bunny
Sperm's good.
Scott Aukerman
I just checked how did you check? Do you mind me?
Bugs Bunny
You know how you saw me?
Scott Aukerman
All right, look, we have to take a break.
Peloton Instructor
Understood, Scott, let's go ahead and get those asses up as we take our break.
Scott Aukerman
All right, we're gonna take a break.
Peloton Instructor
Pound that. Put that protein in those asses and in those front pockets. He's your dick.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, we're gonna have more Wayne Brady, more Krendle, and America's favorite rabbit. This is an incredible show. We're gonna come right back with more Comedy Bang Bang after this.
Peloton Instructor
Let's do this.
Bugs Bunny
I docked it.
Wayne Brady
So much protein in me. So much protein in me. So much protein in me. In my dick. In my dick.
Scott Aukerman
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Scott Aukerman
Comedy. Bang Bang. We are back. We have Wayne Brady. The podcast is what if With Jonathan Mangum.
Wayne Brady
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
Pronouncing that correctly. Mangum.
Wayne Brady
Mangum.
Scott Aukerman
Because it looks like Magnum, which of course is. It does both a gun and a condom.
Wayne Brady
Right. And he is neither one of those.
Bugs Bunny
He is.
Scott Aukerman
He is not a condom. We. We should make that very clear for our listeners.
Wayne Brady
And it's so weird how. How many times I have to clarify that when we do the podcast.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
I have to let people know.
Scott Aukerman
I know you came in here expecting to hear a podcast hosted. Co. Hosted at least by a condom.
Wayne Brady
Right. You know, but he is a man.
Scott Aukerman
Yep.
Wayne Brady
He's a human.
Scott Aukerman
He's a human. Who, by the way, has never used condoms.
Wayne Brady
Which never. So many children.
Scott Aukerman
Yep.
Wayne Brady
So many children. So many diseases.
Scott Aukerman
He has a child for every disease, does he not? He brags about that.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. And he. And he names them according to the disease.
Scott Aukerman
The disease that he got because he thinks it's cute. Yeah. So his daughter Chlamydia, by the way, is gorgeous.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. Little Gus. God. Gonorrhea. Because he tries to make it sound cutesy to take away the stigma.
Scott Aukerman
Sure.
Wayne Brady
Yeah. But. But he's a really good guy when he isn't.
Scott Aukerman
Great guy.
Wayne Brady
Passing on love.
Scott Aukerman
Sex. He.
Wayne Brady
He loves sex so much. Which is kind of our bond.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
You bonded because you love sex. He loves sex. Not, not necessarily with each other, but, you know, not necessarily with over 30 years of friendship. You're bound to.
Wayne Brady
Something's got to happen once.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, exactly.
Wayne Brady
It's got to happen once. I can't tell. I can't tell you when it did, but it did.
Scott Aukerman
Was it yesterday?
Wayne Brady
Oh, you got me. Definitely happened yesterday.
Scott Aukerman
We also have Crindle here, the peloton.
Peloton Instructor
How are my boys doing? I made you. I just made you these big steak smoothies for you to get some pack. This is protein packed smoothies straight into those acids.
Scott Aukerman
Speaking of drinking brown, this steak smoothie.
Wayne Brady
Wow, this is so good. Thanks, mommy.
Peloton Instructor
Absolutely. How we doing? I see you're stretching each other. This is so good to see.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, we've been stretching each other out during the entire break.
Peloton Instructor
That's what I love to see. I love to see how loose you're getting.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, we're so limber now that I feel.
Peloton Instructor
Do you feel crunched and crammed and crackled up?
Scott Aukerman
I feel clumped. Definitely clumped.
Wayne Brady
I'm. I'm in a split right now, and I haven't been able to do a full split.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Since. Since I was six.
Scott Aukerman
You've done like quarter splits and third.
Wayne Brady
Splits, half splits, jazz splits, but not a full split.
Peloton Instructor
That's right. Mama Kendall absolutely rammed you up, didn't she?
Scott Aukerman
Your name's Crandall, by the way.
Peloton Instructor
That's what I said, didn't I? Really rammed you up, didn't she? She absolutely raw dogged you both.
Wayne Brady
You are so aggressive and I love that.
Peloton Instructor
I love that. And I love seeing my boys learn and grow and just become closer.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you so much.
Peloton Instructor
I feel so close to you.
Scott Aukerman
I feel close to you, mommy. But we do have to get to our next guest, if that's okay.
Peloton Instructor
That's fine. So long as it's another boy.
Scott Aukerman
I believe it. Well, I don't. I think a male.
Wayne Brady
Well, what does he identify as? I don't want to just label someone.
Scott Aukerman
That's a good question. I haven't. You know, I was a big fan of this person or not person. I beg your pardon? You are America's favorite rabbit. I feel like I'm both misgendering you and Ms. Species seeing you, but I believe that.
Wayne Brady
A rabbit can be a person of that species.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, that's. That's a good way to put it. Yeah. So the person of rabbits is a rabbit. Let's introduce him or her or them. This is America's favorite rabbit. Please welcome Bugs Bunny.
Bugs Bunny
What's up, Scat? How we doing today?
Scott Aukerman
Doing Great. Wow.
Peloton Instructor
He.
Bugs Bunny
Him. Unless I'm dressed as your lady, then she hacked.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. It's such a pleasure to meet you.
Bugs Bunny
A real treat to be here.
Scott Aukerman
Welcome to the One Timers Club.
Bugs Bunny
And let's hope that I stay there.
Scott Aukerman
Yep. This is.
Bugs Bunny
Hey. Real pleasure to meet you.
Wayne Brady
Nice to meet you, too.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Crandall.
Bugs Bunny
Crandall.
Peloton Instructor
Hi. Would you like one of these steaks to chew on instead of that nasty carrot?
Bugs Bunny
I'm gonna stick with my carrot, sweetheart.
Scott Aukerman
It's such a pleasure to meet you. We all, of course, know you from the Looney Tunes universe.
Bugs Bunny
A bit of an entertainer.
Scott Aukerman
Space Jam.
Bugs Bunny
Space Jam, yeah, That's right.
Scott Aukerman
Sure. Space Jam 2.
Bugs Bunny
I'm a bit, you know, I mean, I'm. I'm making people laugh. I'm being mischievous. I'm being a bit naughty.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Did you. Were you always like that, or is that a character?
Bugs Bunny
Ever since I can remember, I've been doing widdle jokes and jumping out of holes. It did develop over time. I had to find my voice.
Wayne Brady
Huh.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. What. I mean, what were you like as a. A baby. A child.
Bugs Bunny
I was burrowing with all my other siblings.
Scott Aukerman
Sure. How many siblings do you have?
Bugs Bunny
17.
Scott Aukerman
Did you say 17 or 17?
Wayne Brady
I think it's open for interpretation.
Bugs Bunny
17.
Scott Aukerman
17.
Bugs Bunny
It's 17.
Wayne Brady
Can I get deep for a second, Scott?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, please.
Wayne Brady
Because something that I've always. The reason that Rabbits. I have a problem with rabbits, and I'm really trying to get over that right now.
Bugs Bunny
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Because I don't want to be disrespectful to you. Bugs.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Is. I read Watership Down.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Bugs Bunny
All right.
Wayne Brady
And rabbits are violent, and so I just want to know.
Bugs Bunny
It's a cold, cold world out here, Wayne.
Wayne Brady
It's a cold. Have you ever participated in the killing of other rabbits, like the rabbits in Watership Down?
Bugs Bunny
Well, I'm not familiar with the text material. Want to ship down?
Wayne Brady
It's about a whole bunch of rabbits that. Each other up.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Would you like to read the Cliff Notes? I have it right here. Yeah. If you could give it to me. You're a speed reader.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah. You know, if you just look at the words in the middle, you'll figure out which on the outshine.
Wayne Brady
Oh, context.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah. She's all about context. I've killed a couple rabbits in my younger days. That's what you got to do to survive in the hutch.
Peloton Instructor
Boys will be boys. As I like to.
Bugs Bunny
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I wish I could turn your opinion on rabbit, though. You're acting like a Mahroo.
Scott Aukerman
That's why you don't like rabbits. Is that right, Wayne? Because you read Watership.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, the book freaked me out.
Bugs Bunny
Couldn't help but notice you were unable to answer the question, who's your favorite rabbit?
Wayne Brady
Well, I mean, I don't have a favorite rabbit right now.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, right now. It may change right now.
Wayne Brady
But I'm leaning towards you. You used to be.
Bugs Bunny
You're just saying that.
Wayne Brady
No, no, it's just true.
Bugs Bunny
Because I'm in a room right now.
Wayne Brady
I used to love. I used to love rabbits. I loved all of your early work. Yes, until I took a course in African American studies and I realized how racist a lot of the early Looney Tunes cartoons were.
Bugs Bunny
I got nothing to do with that.
Scott Aukerman
You participated in.
Bugs Bunny
I got nothing to do with that.
Scott Aukerman
So you had a tacit. Sort of.
Bugs Bunny
I was just working in the union. I was doing what I was told.
Wayne Brady
Every single time that a cigar would explode. And you sang me. I was offended.
Bugs Bunny
Sorry about that. So I'd like to formally apologize.
Wayne Brady
Well.
Bugs Bunny
Feels like the only way through.
Wayne Brady
Well, let's hug.
Peloton Instructor
Wow. Look at my boys hugging.
Wayne Brady
Thank you.
Peloton Instructor
Look at them. Each other as real.
Wayne Brady
Oh, my God, this feels.
Peloton Instructor
I'm going to tell you something right now.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
My favorite bunny is the Energizer Bunny. The way that he. Go, go, goes.
Bugs Bunny
You know what that means?
Peloton Instructor
What?
Bugs Bunny
That means war.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Bugs Bunny
If you like the Energizer Bunny, then you're not a friend of mine.
Wayne Brady
Whoa.
Scott Aukerman
Wow. I. I like the Easter Bunny. Of course, Easter was yesterday, and that means war. Sorry. Sorry.
Bugs Bunny
If I'm not America's favorite rabbit, I'm out. I'm walking.
Wayne Brady
Look at the glint in his eye.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah.
Scott Aukerman
What are you gonna do to us? You're not gonna make us.
Bugs Bunny
I'll shoot you with a really big gun.
Peloton Instructor
Whoa. Look at that big gun he had.
Bugs Bunny
I've done the size of three men. It's.
Scott Aukerman
That's huge. Wayne, your gat can't compare to this.
Wayne Brady
No, I've. I've put Bessie away. She has no business in this room right now.
Bugs Bunny
Musket. The bell's bigger than a Shozaphone.
Wayne Brady
So which season is it right now?
Bugs Bunny
It's funny, Shizia.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Bugs Bunny
It's funny, Shisha. Which is actually why I'm here. Scott, I need your help.
Scott Aukerman
I feel, by the way, you're changing your R's to W's like Elmer Fudd did and Pugs didn't.
Bugs Bunny
No, I just didn't take my Zyrtec today, that's all.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Bugs Bunny
If I sound a little weird. It's because I didn't take my jet.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, you gotta take your Zyrtec. I know this is early. More an early morning podcast.
Wayne Brady
I forgot it.
Bugs Bunny
Forgot about it. But I need your help, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
What's going on? What's going on? Bugs. Is it confusing? Your name is Bugs and you're a rabbit.
Bugs Bunny
Not for me.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay.
Bugs Bunny
You know, I'm just so used to it. Maybe for other people. Was it confusing for you?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, well, I thought I was introducing a bunch of bugs, and then it. That turned out to be you.
Bugs Bunny
Thank God I look like a rabbit.
Scott Aukerman
Yep, that's true. You're not. A bunch of bugs that have assembled.
Bugs Bunny
And formed themselves into a shape before Christmas villain situation. I don't have a zipper that you can unzhip her. And then I'm just a bunch of bugs.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Just wanted to make that clear. All right. What's going on, Bugs?
Bugs Bunny
I'm in a lot of trouble.
Scott Aukerman
You see.
Bugs Bunny
I'm currently being taken advantage of by a very powerful, powerful male.
Scott Aukerman
Oh.
Bugs Bunny
And he's threatening my friend Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, no.
Bugs Bunny
And I said to him. I said to him, you leave my friends alone. He said, that's not good enough for me. And I said, I want to challenge you to a sketch competition.
Scott Aukerman
A sketch competition.
Bugs Bunny
So I found myself in this competition, Scott, and I. I need some help from you. I need. I need some of the best.
Peloton Instructor
Are you talking about drawing or.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, no. Sketch comedy.
Scott Aukerman
Sketch comedy. Okay.
Wayne Brady
Like you're writing a sketch.
Bugs Bunny
Yes, yes, yes. She. All my friends are in danger, but if we win a sketch competition, he's gonna let him go.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, I. I trafficked in sketch comedy occasionally.
Peloton Instructor
I can do this.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, I can do this. Right? And, Wayne, you're one of the best at.
Bugs Bunny
I didn't even know you was gonna be here, Wayne.
Wayne Brady
No, but this is great. And if we could help my new friend that I no longer fear, then I'd love to.
Scott Aukerman
Sure.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah.
Peloton Instructor
And I also write sketches for the Peloton Instagram.
Bugs Bunny
Sure. Okay, well, so you have. You have bad ideas in a room, right?
Peloton Instructor
That's right.
Wayne Brady
So who's threatening you?
Bugs Bunny
Who.
Scott Aukerman
Who. Who's.
Wayne Brady
Who's the powerful guy?
Bugs Bunny
His name's Mr. Smack. Mallet.
Wayne Brady
No.
Bugs Bunny
And he runs an amusement park.
Peloton Instructor
Okay, that's a silly name. It is.
Wayne Brady
It's a sketch jam.
Bugs Bunny
It's a sketch jam. Well, what he wants. He wants. He wants to try and take all my friends, and if we lose, we got to work in his amusement park forever.
Scott Aukerman
Well, you know, and we got to.
Bugs Bunny
Do the sketch show that we wrote.
Scott Aukerman
Like, five times a day. Wayne did this.
Bugs Bunny
Five times a day?
Wayne Brady
Yeah.
Bugs Bunny
Six days a week.
Wayne Brady
You get meals.
Peloton Instructor
That's what happens at Peloton. We're all stuck there.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, really? So. Oh, okay.
Bugs Bunny
You can't leave, huh?
Scott Aukerman
You're like indentured servants.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah, exactly. We work for Mr. Peloton.
Bugs Bunny
Really fun. Maybe we can write something about that.
Scott Aukerman
I don't know.
Peloton Instructor
Hilarious.
Wayne Brady
Did you give birth there because they wouldn't let you out? Let me.
Peloton Instructor
Let me tell you something right now. I gave birth on the bike. That is right. I gave birth while I was riding cadence at 309.
Scott Aukerman
92. This is Bugs. Bugs.
Peloton Instructor
Cadence.
Bugs Bunny
Push it.
Peloton Instructor
What I could be giving birds right now. This is exactly the position I was in. He was out of me just like that. Fell on the floor. I cut that umbilical cord with my teeth.
Bugs Bunny
Now I'm dressed up as a nurse, and I'm delivering the baby.
Scott Aukerman
Should we ride towards that hole in the cliff over there?
Bugs Bunny
No, don't. Well, you can, as long as you don't look down. Here's the thing, though, all right? We're up against some really, really tough competition. Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Okay?
Bugs Bunny
You see, the thing is, Mr. Smack Mallet, he possessed a bunch of the best comedy shoals and put him. Put them for his team.
Scott Aukerman
The shoals. The shows like Muscle Shoals.
Bugs Bunny
No, his shoals. Like what's. What makes you tick.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, the thing that weighs inside ya.
Wayne Brady
Oh, your soul.
Scott Aukerman
Your show.
Wayne Brady
Right.
Scott Aukerman
Got it, Got it.
Bugs Bunny
Not to chinge on your feet.
Scott Aukerman
Chings.
Bugs Bunny
What time I have a g. Take.
Scott Aukerman
Your zyrtec next time you're on the show.
Wayne Brady
That's so irresponsible to come without his Zyrtec.
Bugs Bunny
I mean, it's an emergency. My whole. All my friends are at stake.
Peloton Instructor
Let me play the whole world's at stake.
Bugs Bunny
Scott, you have to understand, the people that we're going against are some of the best in comedy, which is why I had to go. Some of the best in comedy. Mr. Smack Mallet. Yeah, he's got Tom Lennon.
Wayne Brady
No, he's got Tom.
Bugs Bunny
He's got Tom.
Scott Aukerman
He's got Tom.
Wayne Brady
How'd he get Tom Lennon on his side?
Scott Aukerman
Tom was on the first episode of this show.
Bugs Bunny
He just shut his essence. He didn't even ask for consent. He just shucked Tom's essence.
Wayne Brady
Oh, he shook.
Scott Aukerman
He shucked.
Bugs Bunny
He just shucked Tom's. Shout out his essence.
Wayne Brady
Which hole?
Bugs Bunny
Shoot him out.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, okay. Out the butt, through the hole.
Peloton Instructor
Broke the butt and threw the Mouth. That's the ride.
Scott Aukerman
Who else does Mr. Smack Mouth?
Bugs Bunny
The police don't destroy boys.
Scott Aukerman
No, all three of them.
Bugs Bunny
How are we gonna beat some of the best guys right now?
Peloton Instructor
Those are my boys. Those are my sons. Those boys.
Wayne Brady
They're so cute. Cute.
Bugs Bunny
I don't know how we're going to beat him.
Scott Aukerman
Who else?
Bugs Bunny
Keenan Thompson.
Scott Aukerman
Keenan. Not Keenan.
Peloton Instructor
So many boys.
Bugs Bunny
And then they got the piece of resistance to tie it all together.
Scott Aukerman
Who's that?
Bugs Bunny
David Crosh.
Scott Aukerman
David. My old compadre and Mr. Show. David Cross.
Bugs Bunny
I'm sorry to tell you, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
Pun intended.
Peloton Instructor
He's crossed you.
Scott Aukerman
Oh. A pun also intended to break the.
Bugs Bunny
News to you, Scott. But even your friend is your foe.
Wayne Brady
Oh, no.
Scott Aukerman
How are we gonna go? I mean, I have Wayne Brady. That's. And I guess Crindle.
Bugs Bunny
Well, we got all you have, too. We got access to all the Looney Tunes, too.
Scott Aukerman
Although. Okay, so who do we got? Daffy.
Bugs Bunny
We got Daffy. We got tweety. We got Mr. Toots.
Scott Aukerman
Mr. Wait. We got. We got back up.
Wayne Brady
Mr. Toots.
Bugs Bunny
What?
Scott Aukerman
Mr. Toot. I know Mr. Toots. Mr. Toots is parts. He's part of Coustopia.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah.
Bugs Bunny
That's the world that I'm trying to shape.
Scott Aukerman
You're trying to save Kushtopia.
Bugs Bunny
Absolutely. That's where all the Looney Tunes live. We live in the core of Kushtopia.
Scott Aukerman
Sorry. Wayne, do you know what Kushtopia is?
Wayne Brady
No.
Bugs Bunny
Crazy. You don't know Kushtopia?
Scott Aukerman
It's a world.
Bugs Bunny
It's one of the richest worlds. It's one of the richest environments you could ever be a part of.
Peloton Instructor
This is why you need a sun to watch Kooshtopia with.
Scott Aukerman
Kushtopia is an alternate universe. It's made entirely of weed.
Bugs Bunny
Mostly Kuttupia. Mostly, everything's made of ganja.
Scott Aukerman
There's a train, I believe.
Bugs Bunny
Yes, there's a train. It goes around. Some of it's metal. Some of it's made of nuggets. It's an alternate universe. You have to understand. 65 million years ago, a comet hit Earth. It split Earth into two.
Scott Aukerman
Earth.
Bugs Bunny
Earth and Earth. Two Earth, two Kishtopia. Oh, I can't believe you don't know this.
Wayne Brady
You know what? I do. I didn't know that it was Kushtopia, but I remember as a kid reading my favorite comic book, which was about this kid, an alien crashed to Earth. He was discovered in a field, and it turned out to be Snoop Dogg. And he came.
Scott Aukerman
Your favorite comic when you were a kid.
Wayne Brady
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. My favorite comic was about Snoop crash crashing to Earth. And he got his powers under this.
Bugs Bunny
This hands and everything.
Wayne Brady
So he's from Kushtopia.
Bugs Bunny
Yes, yes, yes.
Scott Aukerman
Did Snoop come over here from Kushto?
Bugs Bunny
I'm sure Snoop took a portal. A guy with that can smoke that much weight. He's probably got Kushtokian blood.
Wayne Brady
He has power problem.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, okay, I, you'll have to forgive me, Bugs, but I, I'm not a huge fan of Kushtopia.
Bugs Bunny
What do you mean?
Scott Aukerman
I just, there's been several guests on this show over the years.
Bugs Bunny
Bunch of nice guys, I'm sure.
Scott Aukerman
I don't know who's the motor. The motorcycle.
Bugs Bunny
Mighty motorcycle. The guy who, who always forgets his motherfucking guns.
Scott Aukerman
Exactly. Yeah. So, I mean, he's available.
Bugs Bunny
He could do the sketch show. Imagine having a transforming man slash motorcycle available for your sketch show.
Scott Aukerman
I just, I, I don't know that it's something that I'm incredibly interested in.
Peloton Instructor
It sounds.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, so you're not interested in saving an entire planet, Scott?
Wayne Brady
I'm looking up on Reddit and one of the comments that comes up.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, no.
Wayne Brady
Scott's exasperation about Kushtopia.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, have people picked up on this?
Wayne Brady
It's so fucking funny. Someone says, Scott's exasperation about Krishtopia is so fucking funny. That is hilarious. The fact that they that it. Scott's default Persona. He hates Coustopia.
Bugs Bunny
Noosh to me.
Peloton Instructor
Listen to that, Scott. Let that fill you up.
Bugs Bunny
You hate it.
Scott Aukerman
Well, here's the problem. I have guests on this show, and ostensibly they're talking about something else, and then they slip in references to Kushtopia, something that I'm just not, I have no personal affinity for.
Bugs Bunny
Well, there's people that live there.
Scott Aukerman
There's real Hodge.
Bugs Bunny
Don't you want to shave the Looney Tunes?
Wayne Brady
But we don't know.
Bugs Bunny
What don't you know?
Wayne Brady
I think that. What don't you know, Bugs? I think that empathy can stretch only so far. We don't know people in Kushtopia.
Bugs Bunny
Scott does, though.
Scott Aukerman
I know motorcycle.
Bugs Bunny
Motorcycle, motorcycle. Marty. Mr. Toots.
Scott Aukerman
Who else?
Bugs Bunny
The Executioner.
Scott Aukerman
All right.
Bugs Bunny
Cooter. The supercomputer. We could retcon that. The Green Ranger. I did the, I mean, a person did the first episode. Could be from Kushtopia.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, I, I, I got.
Bugs Bunny
It's a rich world that it's shaving.
Peloton Instructor
Half of my boys on Peloton are in Kushtopia. Working their asses up.
Scott Aukerman
Do you. Do you guys want to save Kristopia?
Peloton Instructor
Yes.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Do we need to go to Kristopia?
Bugs Bunny
Not at all. We just got to write some sketches, cash the sketches, and then we'll go to do the sketch show. And if we win, Kushtopia Shade.
Scott Aukerman
When is the sketch show that we're supposed to do?
Bugs Bunny
Tomorrow.
Scott Aukerman
Tomorrow.
Wayne Brady
Tomorrow.
Bugs Bunny
We got a crunch. It took me a long time.
Scott Aukerman
We need to cram. We need the clumps.
Wayne Brady
We need the clumps, and we need a. A writing session right now.
Scott Aukerman
That's right.
Peloton Instructor
We need to get rams.
Bugs Bunny
I got some ideas. I got some ideas.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, let's. Let's use the title of Wayne's podcast, what if. What if?
Bugs Bunny
And that's a good way to write sketches, because you've got an idea, you say, what if. If. If this is true. What if. What if?
Wayne Brady
Yeah, exactly.
Bugs Bunny
What else? What if. Who done it?
Peloton Instructor
Right, Exactly.
Scott Aukerman
Done it.
Bugs Bunny
Who done it? Who did it? How's it going? Who done it? Who did it? What if.
Scott Aukerman
Whereas these are improv questions, what they.
Peloton Instructor
Have for dinner when they happen?
Wayne Brady
Okay?
Bugs Bunny
Anything can happen.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, so what if the bride of Frankenstein, she's. She's hot. And Patti LuPone is playing her. Right? Right. So. And. And what if, uh, uh, uh, she goes to Kushtopia?
Bugs Bunny
Right, Right.
Peloton Instructor
I mean, and she has a really hot son.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Peloton Instructor
A really super hot son who is. She's. She's jealous of him.
Bugs Bunny
I mean, we'll write in on the ball.
Wayne Brady
Okay. Yeah, my son is.
Scott Aukerman
Yes.
Bugs Bunny
She has legs. She shares legs. Scott, do you think we should maybe get Jack Galfenakish? Do you think you could put a call out for Jack?
Scott Aukerman
I don't like to bother him too much.
Peloton Instructor
Let's go ahead and call Zach right now. Get that phone out, and let's dial that number.
Scott Aukerman
I guess I could.
Bugs Bunny
Maybe Jack's got a couple of pitches or he's got a character he could play or something like that.
Peloton Instructor
Go ahead, let's pitch it to him. Let's see what he says.
Scott Aukerman
Let me see if I can find his. His info here.
Bugs Bunny
Just pull him up. Scott, Your old friend.
Peloton Instructor
Come on, Scott. Go to his Facebook Marketplace account that you communicate with him through.
Scott Aukerman
All right, let me. Let me try to call and see what happens here, see if he picks it up. Call failed. That's how quickly.
Bugs Bunny
That's not a good shot.
Scott Aukerman
That's how quickly he pressed.
Peloton Instructor
Scott. Let's try another celebrity.
Scott Aukerman
Look, I don't want to rob Huebel.
Peloton Instructor
Let's Try Rob.
Scott Aukerman
Hubel Huebel, the other guy who's in the first episode of the show.
Wayne Brady
Rob. Yes.
Bugs Bunny
Why not? Rob?
Peloton Instructor
Scott, let's give Rob a call.
Scott Aukerman
You want me to call Rob?
Bugs Bunny
Rob, he's got the human giant juice behind him, okay?
Peloton Instructor
He's got to pick up.
Scott Aukerman
He's got.
Peloton Instructor
He's got to pick up for you.
Wayne Brady
Because I'm sure he's not doing anything this morning.
Peloton Instructor
No, it's only 9:55.
Bugs Bunny
He's just getting his day started.
Scott Aukerman
Let's call Rob Hubello.
Bugs Bunny
Rob, please. He's gotta have an original call.
Scott Aukerman
Failed again.
Peloton Instructor
What?
Bugs Bunny
Scott. Scott, you gotta work on your friendship, Scott.
Scott Aukerman
This is how much juice I have in Hollywood.
Peloton Instructor
What is going on here?
Scott Aukerman
People I've known for decades will not pick up the phone for me.
Bugs Bunny
And I came here because I said Scott's got the juice.
Wayne Brady
Here's your 40.
Scott Aukerman
Thank you so much.
Peloton Instructor
I am worried. I am worried about my.
Scott Aukerman
Is it bubble protein?
Peloton Instructor
I'm worried about my son. He needs to have friends. We need to find you another friend, Scott. Who else can we call?
Scott Aukerman
Tim Baltz, maybe.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah, let's give Tim Bolts.
Scott Aukerman
Tim Bolts from the Righteous Gemstones.
Peloton Instructor
He's not as big of a name, but maybe he will pick up for that reason.
Bugs Bunny
He's got a lot of juice.
Peloton Instructor
He's got so much juice.
Wayne Brady
So much industry juice.
Scott Aukerman
Let's see if Tim Bolts will pick up. Call failed.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, my God.
Scott Aukerman
Maybe it's a problem with the phone or something.
Bugs Bunny
Maybe a shim car is now using.
Peloton Instructor
The correct phone right now.
Scott Aukerman
Well, I'm calling through the computer, which.
Peloton Instructor
You need to be calling on your actual phone.
Scott Aukerman
Okay. Okay.
Peloton Instructor
We need to give him a ring.
Bugs Bunny
And, Scott, if we could get an original Lisa Gilroy character in this sketch show, I think it'd be really.
Scott Aukerman
That would make the fans happy, I'm sure, but.
Peloton Instructor
Absolutely. But I hate women.
Scott Aukerman
All right, let's see.
Bugs Bunny
I'm just so happy none of the.
Wayne Brady
Calls are going through.
Scott Aukerman
Let's see. Let's see if Tim Baltz picks up.
Bugs Bunny
The suspension is killing me.
Scott Aukerman
Hello? Hi, Tim. Yeah, yeah, this is Scott Aukerman from Comedy Bang Bang. Yeah, why are you bothering me? Why am I bothering you? We're friends, aren't we? Yeah, but you've never called me. Well, you're on the air right now. Is that okay? Oh, God. I'm here with Bugs Bunny and Wayne Brady and Krendle, who's a peloton instructor.
Peloton Instructor
How are you doing, Tim? I haven't seen you in a. That bike.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, what's up, Tim?
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. And we. We're doing a. A big sketch competition tomorrow, and we could. I know you've done some sketch, haven't you? I know you're an improv guy.
Bugs Bunny
Ask him if he can take his wigs out of retirement.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Can you take your wigs out of retirement for us? Yeah, sure.
Bugs Bunny
I mean, I'll.
Scott Aukerman
I'll do whatever it takes. You know me. I'm.
Bugs Bunny
I'm a slut.
Scott Aukerman
You are. You are a comedy slut, aren't you? Yeah, 100%. I've been seeing you on that Righteous gemstones. You're doing pole dancing, and it just seems like you're a slut for comedy. And you'll do anything for. For a laugh, of course. I mean, I get paid in people laughing at me.
Bugs Bunny
Dishgate does not pay.
Scott Aukerman
This doesn't pay. Yeah, you get paid in exposure, I guess.
Wayne Brady
Other people exposing themselves to me.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. Is that cool? Can we count on you? Yeah, 100%. I got a ton of wigs. I'll bring them.
Bugs Bunny
You know, just tell him he's shaving a whole world. Do what you want.
Scott Aukerman
You're saving the world of Kushtopia. And by the way, you. We're only asking you to do it because Zach Elephantakis wouldn't pick up. I could. I should be so lucky. Hopefully most of your roles that will come around is because Zach won't pick up. That would elevate me big time. All right, thanks. We can count on you. I appreciate it, buddy. Anything you want to say to the Comedy Bang Bang listeners? Yeah, Tweet at Scott. Tell him to call me as a friend sometimes. Nope. All right, talk to you later. Bye.
Bugs Bunny
Smooches Tim. Hey, Scott, thanks for extending your shots.
Scott Aukerman
I'll do one call to a famous person, and Tim is about the most famous person.
Bugs Bunny
I think Tim's gonna really tip the tides.
Wayne Brady
Tim's really good. He's having a really good moment right now.
Scott Aukerman
He's really, really.
Wayne Brady
He's really, really funny. And I also saw him on another TV show where he's playing a completely Deli Boys different character on Deli Boys. He killed it.
Scott Aukerman
That's right. Yeah. I know someone else who was on Deli Boys and had one scene.
Peloton Instructor
Yeah, I think I know who you're talking about, Scott. She had about one to two lines. She served a big platter of cocaine. Is that who we're talking about?
Wayne Brady
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
You saw her, right?
Bugs Bunny
In Hollywood, there's no small pots.
Peloton Instructor
No, that's right. There's only small people. And she is small, Scott.
Wayne Brady
She's so tiny.
Scott Aukerman
Not like you. Crendel, how tall are you?
Peloton Instructor
I'm about six, nine, Scott. And that's before I put on my heels, which I wear when I'm on the bike.
Scott Aukerman
That's right.
Bugs Bunny
Hello.
Wayne Brady
Nice Mommy.
Scott Aukerman
So, Bugs, did we.
Peloton Instructor
That's right.
Scott Aukerman
Did we solve your problem? I know this isn't happening till tomorrow.
Bugs Bunny
But, well, I think we could probably, maybe brainstorm some more sketches. Right?
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Bugs Bunny
I got a couple. I got a couple.
Scott Aukerman
What do you got?
Bugs Bunny
Night Lotish. K n I g H T. Like the Dark Knight. Yeah, it's like white lotish. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Scott Aukerman
Batman is not.
Bugs Bunny
It's not like that at all.
Scott Aukerman
Batman's in the WP universe.
Bugs Bunny
K N I G T. N I.
Wayne Brady
G H T. Okay. Night Lotus.
Bugs Bunny
Night Lotus.
Wayne Brady
And is Night Lotus a superhero?
Bugs Bunny
No, it's like the White Lotus, but it's in a medieval time.
Wayne Brady
Oh, Night Lotus. And it takes place in a castle, maybe?
Peloton Instructor
Yes.
Bugs Bunny
This is what. This is what the room's for. We're brainstorming.
Wayne Brady
It takes place in a castle, and then a family arrives for a vacation.
Bugs Bunny
You're doing the work.
Wayne Brady
And they're beheaded.
Bugs Bunny
And it's a blackout sketch. Yeah. So what if the whole show's quick blackout out sketches?
Wayne Brady
That's it.
Peloton Instructor
I love.
Scott Aukerman
Great. What if Merlin's involved and he shows his penis when his bathrobe opens up?
Bugs Bunny
Blackout.
Wayne Brady
Boom.
Bugs Bunny
Don't even need to explain. Oh, that's really funny, Scott. Yeah, devil's in the details.
Wayne Brady
Merlin and Arthur, they kiss.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
Blackout.
Bugs Bunny
Blackout.
Peloton Instructor
Okay, I've got one.
Bugs Bunny
Yes.
Peloton Instructor
They go ahead and make a big ass smoothie together. And they drink the smoothie.
Wayne Brady
Blackout.
Bugs Bunny
Great.
Peloton Instructor
Hilarious. I'm putting it on peloton.
Bugs Bunny
Really funny. She's coming together real nice.
Scott Aukerman
She's good, right?
Bugs Bunny
You're writing this real nice.
Scott Aukerman
Huge typewriter right now.
Wayne Brady
That's gonna take forever.
Peloton Instructor
He's literally only writing about one word on each, by the way.
Scott Aukerman
Just listen to the podcast later.
Bugs Bunny
Let me read it back.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Wayne Brady
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs. So many pieces of paper for. For that.
Bugs Bunny
Hey, you got to keep the ideas flowing.
Scott Aukerman
It's true.
Wayne Brady
Yes. And.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, this is good.
Scott Aukerman
This is good. Do you have any other sketch ideas?
Bugs Bunny
I got a chime. Okay, what about some parody songs? Ooh, is that. Oh, let's talk philosophy for a second.
Wayne Brady
Okay.
Bugs Bunny
Is a parody. A sketch Is a parody song.
Scott Aukerman
A sketch Is a parody song. A sketch. I mean, Wayne, you do a lot of parody songs.
Wayne Brady
I think A parody song can be a parody song can just be a song. But a parody song can be a sketch. If it's built out. If there's a world visually around the song, then it's a sketch.
Bugs Bunny
So there's gotta be a lot of visual elements. Maybe there's just one of those. Like a digital short.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, yeah.
Bugs Bunny
Well, you shoot it off location and short show it on today.
Scott Aukerman
You know, the police don't destroy. Boys are going to be doing this.
Peloton Instructor
We need to compete with them.
Bugs Bunny
We got to compete with them. We got to let them know. You can't just get there.
Wayne Brady
Oh, no. They can't beat us on the song. Song. Oh, no.
Scott Aukerman
We got Wayne Brady.
Wayne Brady
We got him.
Scott Aukerman
What about.
Bugs Bunny
What about a parody for the audio slave song? Like a stone called like a stove.
Wayne Brady
Oh, like a.
Scott Aukerman
It doesn't.
Peloton Instructor
Like a stone.
Wayne Brady
Like a stove. And I don't know know what's the melody to that song?
Bugs Bunny
In your house I long to be.
Scott Aukerman
Let me see if I.
Bugs Bunny
In the room.
Scott Aukerman
I'm trying to play the video, but we got to sit through an ad first.
Bugs Bunny
What is this?
Peloton Instructor
This is on the peloton track right here.
Bugs Bunny
You don't have an ad block.
Peloton Instructor
Get those asses on files.
Scott Aukerman
This is some sort of.
Wayne Brady
I've been on a bike.
Bugs Bunny
You. And you're in the creative space, and I love this.
Wayne Brady
I'm ready. I'm ready.
Scott Aukerman
This has subtitles. It says crew speaks. Okay.
Peloton Instructor
Whoa.
Scott Aukerman
All right, Wayne, what would you do on top of this?
Wayne Brady
It's about a stove.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
It's like a stove.
Wayne Brady
And like a stove. So it's not actually.
Scott Aukerman
It's not actually so. But it's. It's akin to things that are like. Actually.
Bugs Bunny
It's actually good. You don't know the melody.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah. So these undistinguishable lyrics. What would you change to make it like a stove?
Wayne Brady
First, I'd make it English.
Scott Aukerman
Right.
Wayne Brady
Place in which I would cook my food. If I don't cook it the pork all the way through. Trichinosis, it might be d. Because this is like a stove. A source of heat. You might cause it to explode. You'd like to preheat your house fresh preheated.
Scott Aukerman
Like a stove.
Wayne Brady
Like a stove.
Peloton Instructor
You've gotta preheat your house and your bedroom. Your stove.
Scott Aukerman
This is.
Bugs Bunny
And then I can do a guitar solo because I can't play guitar.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, you should have led with that. You're just. Right now.
Bugs Bunny
Hey, good note.
Wayne Brady
Or Thurman. So start working on that.
Bugs Bunny
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get an actual guitar tank.
Scott Aukerman
Well, bucks, this. This is. Hopefully this is helpful to you. We're gonna definitely be there. What time tomorrow?
Bugs Bunny
4:20Am Okay.
Peloton Instructor
4:20Am 4:20am you usually have Peloton at 4:20am Scott making a note.
Wayne Brady
4:20.
Peloton Instructor
What are you going to do?
Wayne Brady
Because I've got to get up and dunk my face in ice and water.
Bugs Bunny
Those water bottles that are all blue. Glass water bottles.
Wayne Brady
Yes, because that's the thing.
Bugs Bunny
You eat a banana and tape it. It's really important.
Wayne Brady
You. You got to do that.
Peloton Instructor
Put your feet in the grass. Go ahead and touch grass for me.
Wayne Brady
Oh, okay.
Peloton Instructor
There you go.
Scott Aukerman
I brought my own.
Bugs Bunny
I think there's one shingle. There might be one shing missing in our sketch comedy show.
Wayne Brady
What's that?
Bugs Bunny
We don't have a commercial parody.
Wayne Brady
Easy.
Bugs Bunny
Don't you feel like that should be an element in our sketch show?
Scott Aukerman
I don't know that we have time because at this point we could.
Bugs Bunny
Yeah, you're right. Right.
Scott Aukerman
You're right. It's too much. It's too much.
Peloton Instructor
We should do a commercial parody stuff.
Bugs Bunny
But I do sh. This lineup. We're going to shave Kushtopia. Scott, Mr. Tuch is going to live another day.
Scott Aukerman
I don't care.
Bugs Bunny
Okay. Yet you're still participating.
Scott Aukerman
I'm still out of. Out of professional courtesy to you, my current guest. I will participate in this sketch fest.
Wayne Brady
But Reddit just said in real time. Wow. Scott really does hate this.
Scott Aukerman
Not a fan. But you know what? I am a fan of what? All of our guests here. We are running out of time. We just have time for one final feature, and that is, of course, a little something called plugs.
Wayne Brady
Hey.
Scott Aukerman
Whoa. That was wonderful. That was Plugs off the Bob by Rob Collins. Thanks to Rob. If you have a plugs theme, head over to cbb world.com plugs and you could be famous for a week. And Rob, you are famous this week. Enjoy while it lasts. Yes, Rob, what are we plugging? Wayne, obviously the podcast is what if.
Wayne Brady
Yes, the podcast is what if on the Headgum Network. It's myself and Jonathan Mangum. Do we.
Scott Aukerman
He's not a condom.
Wayne Brady
He is not a condom, but he is stretchable and see through. And he fits like a glove.
Scott Aukerman
Yes. Man, I hope he's listening.
Wayne Brady
So that's what I'm plugging. And the 17th season of let's Make a Deal.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah.
Wayne Brady
That's incredible.
Scott Aukerman
Is it 17 years? So it's not like Survivor that does two seasons.
Wayne Brady
Right. So it is 17. Maybe it's 16 and a half years, but it's 17 seasons.
Scott Aukerman
What an achievement.
Wayne Brady
The latest season of Whose Line Is It Anyway? On the cw. You can catch it if you're at usc.
Scott Aukerman
Go to your.
Wayne Brady
Yeah, if you're a student at USC and learn in my class, learn how to kill chickens. Learn how to kill chickens. With mime.
Scott Aukerman
With mime. Oh, wow.
Wayne Brady
Space work. You could kill people with space work.
Scott Aukerman
Incredible.
Wayne Brady
It's amazing.
Scott Aukerman
Crandall, what are you plugging here?
Peloton Instructor
Go ahead and hit me with the music, Scott. Get those asses up. Get on those bikes. I'm going to go ahead and plug some of my most favorite podcasts out there over on cbb world.com Facebook changed my life. Hey, Randy, going deep. Also, check out Deli Boys. That woman who serves that big old platter of cocaine is looking awesome.
Scott Aukerman
What are those two lines? Do you remember?
Bugs Bunny
Yes.
Peloton Instructor
No, I do not remember at all.
Scott Aukerman
If you're a real actor, you would remember your line.
Peloton Instructor
What?
Scott Aukerman
I will. Months after you would I.
Peloton Instructor
And I didn't even play the part, Scott. But I loved her performance. Also, check out St. Dennis Medical, that same person who's whose Instagram I love at L I L Y I l. Why, Scott? It's not confusing. It makes perfect sense.
Scott Aukerman
Got it locked in. All right. And my son, Braxton.
Bugs Bunny
Oh, shout out Braxton. Yeah. Well, of course you can come see the sketch show on 421 and Kushtopia. Kush Shebi the Kush. Right?
Scott Aukerman
That's not happening. No, there's not a CBB Presents.
Bugs Bunny
The show will be live taped and promoted and on Comedy Bang Bang World for everybody to listen to. Live sketch. It's audio now.
Scott Aukerman
Okay.
Bugs Bunny
Thanks for the opportunity, Scott. I think it's gonna have a wonderful home here on Comedy.
Scott Aukerman
I don't think so. I want to plug. Speaking of Comedy Bang Bang World, you can go head over there for our entire archive every episode after ad free. Every live episode we've ever done, all 900 and whatever episodes of this show, plus the aforementioned shows that we've been talking about. CBB Presents. Scott hasn't seen so many shows over there. And someone wrote to us the other day and said, hey, you've never talked about how cheap it is. I've just not got it because I figured it was so expensive. And it's only $8 a month for everything and only $80 a year. So it's.
Wayne Brady
No, I'm going to subscribe.
Scott Aukerman
Yeah, please. I'll give you a free. I'll give you a code.
Wayne Brady
No I want to. No, I want to support.
Scott Aukerman
All right. I don't want to end up drinking those 40s.
Wayne Brady
That's why. That's. I'm here for you, Scott.
Peloton Instructor
I'd love to see this support between my boys.
Wayne Brady
I love to support my roommate. You know, my new roommate.
Scott Aukerman
That's right. Yeah. I gotta clean out the garage for you.
Wayne Brady
Don't even bother.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, really?
Wayne Brady
Don't even bother?
Scott Aukerman
Okay, sure.
Wayne Brady
I love Phil.
Scott Aukerman
You can just lie across the motorcycle that's in there. Also, the Astonishing Spider Man. I'm still writing Spider man for Marvel. You can get that.
Wayne Brady
Wait a minute. What?
Scott Aukerman
What? The comic book? Yes.
Wayne Brady
No, I know. We even have a. Okay. I love you. Officially. Even more.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, thank you.
Wayne Brady
I'm a huge comic fan.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, wow.
Wayne Brady
All I ever wanted to do as a kid at first, I just wanted to write. And I got a chance once. I wrote a Marvel a Spider man annual. Jonathan and I wrote a story. You wrote one together, so that's my whole thing is I just want to write comic and sci fi. So you are my new hero.
Scott Aukerman
Okay, well, I have a contact for you over there if you want to.
Peloton Instructor
Continue writing for the listener. Wayne is currently holding Scott in his arms like a baby.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, my God. Thrown open his shirt wearing a Spider man costume underneath.
Wayne Brady
And here's my booby.
Scott Aukerman
Oh, hello. Nice. All right, let's close with the old plug bag.
Wayne Brady
Jesus Christ. Why do farts are the funniest thing?
Scott Aukerman
That was 2001 a space opening by Thomas Hand. Thank you so much. And guys, I want to thank you so much. Wayne. Pleasure to meet you. Pleasure to have you on the show. Loved having you and crle.
Peloton Instructor
So good to see you. Feel similar about you, my son.
Scott Aukerman
And Bugs. I'll see you tomorrow. 4:20am Was she at rehearsal? There's a rehearsal too?
Bugs Bunny
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Scott Aukerman
You got six rehearsals and for this reason. Out. No. I'm so sorry. We'll see you next time.
Bugs Bunny
Thanks.
Peloton Instructor
Okay, Dawson, let's go get that cum out of this guy.
Wayne Brady
Come stay on Dawson.
Bugs Bunny
Yes, yes, yes.
Scott Aukerman
I got one more drop.
Bugs Bunny
Woo.
Wayne Brady
Way to go, Scott. Please don't sue us, Peloton, for talking about sex.
Bugs Bunny
Ooh.
Wayne Brady
On your product.
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Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast – Episode Featuring Wayne Brady, Lily Sullivan, and Jacob Wysocki
Release Date: April 21, 2025
In this vibrant episode of Comedy Bang Bang, host Scott Aukerman welcomes the multi-talented Wayne Brady, alongside special appearances by Lily Sullivan and Jacob Wysocki. The episode seamlessly blends insightful discussions about Wayne's illustrious career and his innovative podcast with the show's signature comedic flair, featuring eccentric characters and spontaneous improv segments.
Wayne Brady opens up about his extensive career in comedy, television, and theater. As a celebrated performer known for his versatility, he shares insights into his role as a host on "Let's Make a Deal" and his ongoing commitment to improv through his show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".
[07:09] Wayne Brady: "I'm a five-time Emmy award winner, and my talk show also won, sharing the glory with my producers."
Wayne delves into his passion for teaching, revealing his role as an adjunct professor at USC, where he instructs courses like "Improvisation for Camera". He emphasizes the importance of improvisation not just as a performance tool but as a means to enhance real-life conversations and relationships.
[05:35] Wayne Brady: "I teach improvisation as an audition tool, helping actors free themselves up before stepping into a scene."
A significant portion of the conversation centers around Wayne's podcast, "What If", co-hosted with Jonathan Mangum. He explains the concept, which marries traditional interview formats with improvisational performance, creating a unique blend of conversation and spontaneous comedy.
[26:11] Wayne Brady: "We take the conversation from a talk show and blow it out into a performance piece, keeping it playful and fun."
Wayne highlights memorable moments from the podcast, such as unexpected song performances and character improvisations, which showcase his and his co-host's improvisational prowess.
[27:16] Wayne Brady: "One of my best times on the podcast was when Colton Dunn spontaneously created a thug rap song about his name. It was pure improvisational magic."
Wayne shares his teaching philosophy, focusing on the importance of being present and creating rich, detailed backstories even before a script begins. He criticizes the tendency of actors to end performances abruptly once lines are delivered, advocating for continued engagement to enhance the authenticity of their performances.
[05:45] Wayne Brady: "I hate seeing actors just go 'The script is over,' and then they turn off the camera. I teach them to keep the scene alive, even on camera."
He discusses the parallels between stage performances and his experiences in high-pressure television and film environments, underscoring the consistent need for creativity and adaptability.
[09:01] Wayne Brady: "Broadway is just like doing your junior or senior class play, except it's Broadway with a larger scope and more professionalism."
Wayne reflects on his achievements, including his Emmy awards and long-running shows. He expresses his desire to expand his creative endeavors, such as writing for comic books and further developing his podcast.
[20:08] Wayne Brady: "A dream role I've never done would be playing Applegate in 'Damn Yankees.'"
He also touches upon his passion for live performances, comparing the exhilaration of on-stage improvisation to the demands and rewards of television work.
[34:47] Scott Aukerman: "Doing live shows is often more fun and fulfilling than being on TV."
In keeping with Comedy Bang Bang's trademark blend of humor and unpredictability, the episode features playful, fictional segments with a Peloton Instructor named Krendel and the animated character Bugs Bunny. These segments introduce absurd scenarios and comedic interactions, adding layers of entertainment and showcasing the show's creative versatility.
Krendel leads an exaggerated and humorous Peloton workout, intertwining absurd personal anecdotes and improvised humor with the host and Wayne. This segment exemplifies the show's improvisational spirit, blending fitness with comedy.
[44:35] Krendel: "I have had some stomach issues all year long. I have been having diarrhea multiple times a day."
The inclusion of Bugs Bunny brings a nostalgic and surreal element to the episode. Through playful banter and outlandish scenarios, Bugs interacts with Scott and Wayne, further elevating the comedic experience.
[72:13] Bugs Bunny: "What's up, Scott? How we doing today?"
Wayne Brady:
"[02:00] Wayne Brady: Maybe I would be turned on."
Discussing the potential annoyance of repetitive catchphrases on the show.
Scott Aukerman:
"[05:12] Scott Aukerman: Oh, okay."
Responding to Wayne's humorous admission of his family's obsession with killing fowls.
Wayne Brady:
"[16:10] Wayne Brady: Who? Patti LuPone. She Broadway diva legend extraordinaire."
Highlighting his admiration for Broadway talents.
This episode of Comedy Bang Bang masterfully balances heartfelt discussions about Wayne Brady's career and creative projects with the show's signature humor and improvisational antics. From deep dives into improvisation techniques to whimsical segments with fictional characters, the episode offers a rich and engaging experience for both longtime fans and newcomers alike.
Wayne Brady's Multifaceted Career: His roles in television, theater, and as an educator highlight his versatility and commitment to the craft of improvisation.
Innovative Podcasting: "What If" stands out as a unique blend of interview and improv, setting a new standard for conversational comedy.
Commitment to Fun in Creativity: Both Wayne and Scott emphasize the importance of enjoying the creative process, ensuring that the magic of improvisation remains at the forefront.
Signature Comedy Bang Bang Elements: The inclusion of eccentric characters and spontaneous segments exemplifies the show's ability to blend structured interviews with unbridled comedy.
For those intrigued by Wayne Brady's insights and the innovative format of "What If," tuning into his podcast is highly recommended. Additionally, exploring past episodes of Comedy Bang Bang can provide a broader perspective on the show's unique blend of comedy and celebrity interactions.
Note: The timestamps referenced in notable quotes correspond to the provided transcript and illustrate specific moments within the episode.