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Christopher (Producer/Host)
Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom Extra. This is Christopher. Not only is the Bob and Tom show live every weekday morning, but every afternoon we'll give you a little extra in case you missed anything on the big show today. Comedian impressionist Frank Caliendo. He's coming up in just a minute.
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Christopher (Producer/Host)
thing a stupid redneck says before he dies?
Willie
What?
Frank Caliendo
Hey, y' all watch this.
Tom Griswold
That's my people. It's our way of making sure you haven't missed anything. This is Bob and Tom Extra. Tom, I believe we're joined by one of our favorite people. Not a great comedian, but one of our favorite people. Frank, it looks like you're calling from outer space. Are you in your basement? What's happening there?
Frank Caliendo
No, I'm in. I'm in space. I'm in.
Tom Griswold
Oh, cool.
Frank Caliendo
Yeah, I got Elon Musk was, you know, it would be excellent to. You know, that's my. That's extended from Mars. That's like. It is Mars. Mars.
Greg
Okay,
Tom Griswold
that's pretty good.
Pat
Wow. Oh, my God.
Frank Caliendo
That's crazy.
Tom Griswold
Frank Caliendo is a famous impressionist. And Pat, your impression of Frank. I like Frank. I have voice that is hard working.
Frank Caliendo
How'd I fall for that?
Tom Griswold
Frank, what is the. What's the easiest voice that you ever did? Like what?
Frank Caliendo
That just immediately clicked everything except for mine. First of all, my own voice. Most difficult because people, nobody, Nobody really wants to hear it. I'm going to. Oh, sad voice. That was the Robin. Oh, sad moment.
Greg
I'm sorry.
Frank Caliendo
I'm gonna say whatever. I'm doing a lot of currently, actually, so I know for a while it was the Morgan Freeman. I could just, you know, roll right
Greg
into it if I needed to.
Frank Caliendo
Right now it's pretty much John Gruden because I spent a couple of weeks with him. Or a couple days. It just felt like a couple weeks.
Tom Griswold
You.
Pat
I mean, man.
Frank Caliendo
So a little Spider 2Y banana cream pie. That's tremendous right there. I was out in Tampa, and I can't even say Tampa without sounding like Tampa, man. That's Tampa too, right there. So I was out in Tampa doing some shows and I went over to see him and he's, you know, doing the unboxing stuff that he does with barstool and all those things. And I unboxed some things with him. And then he called into a show. I was on a show, and he called in. He's like, you know, I do a lot more than just open up boxes, man. You know that, right? I'm like. Like what? They close boxes back up, reopen them, I guess. I don't know, man. I was thinking about doing him for trick or treating. Like he. He pulls aside some kid with candy and starts going, what you got in that plastic pumpkin, man? That's a lot of good stuff right there. Is that Laffy Taffy? I'll tell you what, man. Nothing better than laffy taffy. Mr. Goodbar, man. I tell you what, I love Mr. Goodbye.
Tom Griswold
Did you see? Did you see by ch.
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Tom Griswold
Speaking of bananas that were being sported. The all yellow uniforms.
Frank Caliendo
Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
By the Chargers. And people online said they look like the Minions. And then the Colts shared on their official Instagram grew as a Colts fan looking over his Minions. Comparing the Chargers to the Minions. It's. It's quite rude to do an Internet culture, you guys.
Frank Caliendo
I'll tell you what grew. That's one half a Gruden, man. You are right, John.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, yeah.
Pat
That is.
Frank Caliendo
I'd love to have some of those Minions you have those little guys running around. Guy with the fart gun, man. That's a problem, man. I can't understand what these little guys are saying. And they're always talking to each other, and their eyes are bugging out. Once you got a Bunsen burger over there. I can't believe this little yellow guy is doing some sort of, I don't know, magic trick.
Pat
Is it magic?
Willie
It's science.
Frank Caliendo
I got science and magic confused, man. That happens.
Pat
Oh, gosh.
Tom Griswold
Frank Caliendo is our guest. He's my second favorite impressionist with my favorite impression, of course, Monet. Oh, naturally.
Willie
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
That's the benefits of a classical education, Frank.
Frank Caliendo
Yeah, that's tremendous. I didn't know where I was waiting for a Jay Pharaoh or somebody else. Somebody. And I was like, oh, I'll take second. I don't care. And then I was Monet, and I was like, no, no, no. Not taking second off the air.
Tom Griswold
We were talking about my least favorite comedy show of all time, which was
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Tom Griswold
Or the object was to stand in front of a comedian and not laugh. It really. That show made me angry, you know, it's doing the opposite. Did you ever have to go on that one?
Frank Caliendo
That was. They would not have me on. They said I wasn't good enough.
Tom Griswold
You're kidding.
Frank Caliendo
No, no, no. That was the first thing I tried to get on on television. It was on Comedy Central. Make me laugh. And I remember I had been just doing colleges and worked to try and get out, and I met a manager, and the manager that I was with for quite a while, Barry Katz. I don't know if you guys have
Willie
ever heard of Barry Katz. Unbelievable. It's incredible. And if you. If you've never heard him, this is exactly the way he talks.
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Willie
Why would you want to do. Why would you want to do make me laugh? You have such a talent. We're gonna have you on a TV show. We're gonna have you making. What year is it? It's 1999. I believe that in the near future, there will be all sorts of, I don't know, media that people look at their phones and just see you on it. I can see it right now, man. You'll be on the Bob and Tom from space. It'll be unbelievable. You can do your. You can do your not quite ready Elon Musk impression. That'll be awesome.
Tom Griswold
Barry.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
Hold on.
Willie
Try and guess. Where am I looking?
Tom Griswold
I think you're looking all different directions. This is very disturbing.
Willie
Yes, that's exactly it's. Like Jeff Goldblum. He's in. He's like a painting in a haunted house.
Frank Caliendo
That's dead on.
Tom Griswold
Frank Goldblum is back.
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He's in Wicked.
Tom Griswold
Wicked.
Frank Caliendo
What is it now?
Christopher (Producer/Host)
What's this?
Frank Caliendo
Of course, the Wicked Witch. Yes, do. Oh no, I don't.
Greg
No, I don't.
Frank Caliendo
I was trying to figure out why I cut you off because you could have given me more info because apparently I don't know what I'm talking about. That's nothing new.
Tom Griswold
Yeah, Goldblum will be back. So you can dust that one off.
Frank Caliendo
Oh, it's never been undusted. That one's been. That one's. That one's been collecting the dust for a while.
Pat
Yeah.
Frank Caliendo
So wait. Undusted. You can undusted. Wait, let me think about it. I'll use the vacuum accompaniment. Yeah.
Tom Griswold
Our guest is comedian Frank Caliendo. Frank, any, Any new voices that are maybe semi hatched? You haven't polished them off yet. Anybody?
Frank Caliendo
I mean there's always. I'm trying to think of what's something that. What have I been throwing out there lately? They always take. The difficult thing when they're new is they don't have them set to muscle memory and it take like a few minutes to get to them. I've been working on the Billy Bob Thornton. I know I don't. Again, it'll, it'll, it won't come off very well. But as I've noticed that he talks around his mouth like his teeth are clenched and he's. I can't believe that's what that. You know, it's in there. So just like I said, it's not really. I got, I've got five of those that I could bore you with.
Tom Griswold
So is it is part of the difficulty with, with culture being so sort of, sort of spread out. Everyone's got their own kind of little bubble they're living in finding something.
Frank Caliendo
Everybody knows that. I mean there is that element who's going to see everybody? That's why, I mean I don't get political but the people who are in politics, presidents are always. Everybody knows them, everybody's seen them.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
Right.
Frank Caliendo
Everybody sees them constantly.
Pat
And we're going to.
Frank Caliendo
I do the library trump.
Pat
I do the quiet trump. The one where you got a lot of books. There's a lot of, there's a lot of words and what we're going to do. We're going to do something great, Tom. We're going to do something very great. We're going to do something very great. We're going to make Halloween great again. They call it a fall harvest. I said we can't call it fall harvest. It's not a full harvest. It's Halloween. We're putting, we're going to do a lot of things. They had some M and Ms. And they melted in my hands. And I said we're going to fix that. We're going to fix that. We're adding another M. It's going to be M and M&M's. We're going to have three M's. Three M. It's a company and they're great. And they're in Cincinnati by the way, doing a great job there. Willie in Cincinnati. A little frantic, a little frantic. Greg Han, over the top uses his hands too much. Mr. Goodbye going to be Mr. Great by. He's going to be Mr. Great. 100 grand, 200 grand. We're doubling it. We're going to get rid of the an candy bowl. There's a lot of bad kids. There's a lot of bad kids taking two. He said pick one, take one. And these bad kids are taking handfuls. And then there's not enough. There's nothing left for the other kids. The good kids can't get it. The bad kids. The bad kids. They're the bad kids.
Frank Caliendo
They're all bad.
Tom Griswold
Frank, that was brilliant. Frank Caliendo, ladies and gentlemen. Frank, when you would trick or treat
Frank Caliendo
as a, as a kid, would you
Tom Griswold
slip into the impressions of the costume you were wearing?
Frank Caliendo
No, I was real quiet.
Pat
Okay.
Frank Caliendo
Yeah, I was, I was very quiet. I should do that type of stuff when kids come to the door here though, right? I should break into a Liam Neeson.
Greg
That's some very interesting attire you're wearing. And in that pirate suit. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you're looking for chocolate, you've rung the wrong doorbell.
Tom Griswold
It would just be grown ups in
Frank Caliendo
your house non stop. I have nothing.
Greg
What you're looking for, what I do have are a very particular set of skittles. Skittles. I've acquired a very long trip at cvs. Skittles that make me a nightmare for chocoholics like you. That'll be the end of it. But if you don't, I will find you. I will hunt you down and I will make you taste the rainbow.
Tom Griswold
Bravo. Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Caliendo.
Frank Caliendo
Too good, man.
Tom Griswold
Was that good? Yeah. Yeah. We better not go any farther, Frank, right? You cannot possibly top those last two. My God.
Bob Kevoian
Frank, dude.
Tom Griswold
Although with Halloween, does that give you an excuse to do some of the dead guys?
Frank Caliendo
Being alive myself gives me an excuse to do so with the dead guy. I mean, it's funny. People always want to. Want to hear those. I mean, that's the thing is I get people who want to hear more. John Maddening. You know, you do a little bit of this, you do a little bit of that.
Willie
Boom.
Frank Caliendo
I mean, you got. That's. That's Madden breaking down there. You know, you got. You got a chunky. Do they make chunky anymore? I mean, what do they think? Charles Barkley. I think they do in San Antonio. They got those big old chunky women. Did you see Charles, by the way, last night? I mean, he's lost a lot of weight. I guess he's doing the Ozempic kind of thing. It's not cheating. It's science. It's science. And the guys were busting, like, don't throw away. Don't throw away the old wardrobe yet. He'll be back. Shaq's like, don't throw away the old wardrobe. He's gonna fill it.
Tom Griswold
Frank Caliento's. Frank, what's. You have to watch a lot of sports. You do a bunch of great sports impressions. What sport do you actually enjoy watching the most?
Bob Kevoian
Oh, can I chime in here? I would say that Frank doesn't enjoy anything. We'll be in the car. I want to listen. Hey, we're in Milwaukee. You're from Milwaukee. You want to listen to Milwaukee? No. The local sports. No, I don't want to listen to that right now. And, Willie, don't put your podcast about the Pacers bench on again. It's. He. He does not enjoy anything with sports. He just likes complaining about.
Frank Caliendo
There is an element of that which would make me a great sports broadcaster. Just complaining constantly about the sports. I don't know.
Greg
I.
Frank Caliendo
My brain. Michelle wanted to. My wife wanted to watch a TV show. We've been watching a bunch of TV shows lately. And I don't know, like, there's just times where I just want to zone out. And that seems to be most of the time, apparently. So. Yeah. And especially driving. I don't know. I do like to just clear my mind, and Willie does listen to stuff that is intricate and intricate and you're going to. Why would anybody care about any of this information? And. But apparently people do. And Willie is one of those people generating revenue for them somehow.
Bob Kevoian
Hey, I thought the podcast about the coffee TJ McConnell drinks was very interesting,
Tom Griswold
but I guess Not Frank Caliento. Frank, are you watching any of the serialized shows, the big ones on right now, by chance? Are you watching Task on hbo?
Frank Caliendo
No. What is that?
Tom Griswold
It's a great show. Mark Ruffalo.
Pat
It is.
Frank Caliendo
It's Mark Ruffle.
Greg
Yeah.
Frank Caliendo
I had no idea I was even in that. Did he play an aw, shucks type of character? Like, oh, buddy. Yeah.
Bob Kevoian
He is a former priest. That's an FBI detective. It is exactly. Aw shucks energy the whole time.
Tom Griswold
It's. He's tremendous. It's the best show I've seen in ages.
Frank Caliendo
So he's a. He's a detective. So he's like Colombo. It's like very much so Disheveled. One more thing.
Pat
That.
Frank Caliendo
That you said you were wearing two shoes. Does it. Why are you only wearing one shoe right now?
Pat
That's.
Frank Caliendo
That seems to me.
Pat
Never mind. It's.
Frank Caliendo
It doesn't mean. Wait a second. My wife said, you know.
Willie
My wife.
Frank Caliendo
Excuse me.
Pat
Pardon me.
Frank Caliendo
That sounds like my act.
Tom Griswold
There. There was one moment a couple weeks ago where it was straight out of Colombo.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
It was.
Greg
Yeah.
Tom Griswold
You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. That's a good show to watch. What. What shows? Forgetting about impressions. What shows are you actually enjoying with your wife?
Frank Caliendo
Landman. Been watching Land. And that's why the Billy Bob.
Greg
Sure.
Frank Caliendo
You know that in there. And Doc. I've been getting into Doc. She really loves Doc, which is about the doctor who gets in an accident, loses her memory for the last eight years and realizes her life is completely different than the eight years she's lost. And it's.
Pat
That.
Frank Caliendo
That's. That's a lot of fun, too, if
Tom Griswold
you watch the Pit.
Frank Caliendo
No. Is that a medical drama? Yeah, that's the one.
Tom Griswold
This. The doctor say that's the most accurate ever. It's about an emergency room in Pittsburgh. It's really good.
Frank Caliendo
Oh, really? Okay, then I. Maybe I will, because I've been avoiding that because I didn't want to have two medical dramas going on in my head at the same time. So I. I told her we couldn't watch that now. So now it's. She's going to be upset because I'm listening to you and not her about it. Oh, sorry. No, no, real quick, Frank.
Tom Griswold
If you're on the road and you're trying to catch up with your. Are you allowed to watch a show that you're watching with your w. Her there. Is that considered cheating?
Frank Caliendo
Yes, it is. And I would consider her cheating if she wants something without me because she's done that before where she wanted to watch something, said, don't watch this without me. And I held true to it. I came back and she'd watched it with her friend. I was like, well, no, you can't do that. And she basically said, I can do whatever I want.
Tom Griswold
Frank Caliendo is on the road. And Frank, obviously brilliant comedian and just a tremendous live show. And be sure to go see Frank live and in person. You can google Mr. Caliendo and find out exactly how to get tickets. Unless you know how to do.
Frank Caliendo
Everything's on frankonstage.com you don't even have to spell Caliendo, which you know is C alien do. But frankonstage.com and isn't it true that
Tom Griswold
anyone who sees your show will win at least $10,000 at the casino?
Frank Caliendo
Yeah, that's. For purposes of. This is just comedy.
Willie
Okay.
Tom Griswold
Thanks, Frank. Always a great pleasure.
Bob Kevoian
See you, Frank.
Greg
Bye, Frank.
Christopher (Producer/Host)
That's it for another Bob and Tom show. Extra. Catch us on itunes, Google play and stitcher for Bob and Tom Xtra, this is Christopher. Take care, everybody.
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This Bob & Tom Show “Extra” episode features renowned comedian and impressionist Frank Caliendo. The hosts — Tom Griswold, Bob Kevoian, Pat, Willie, Greg, and Christopher — engage Frank in a spirited, fast-paced mix of comedy, impressions, and discussions about his craft, TV, sports, and Halloween traditions. The conversation is peppered with signature Caliendo impressions, playful banter, and humor about the comedic process.
Easiest vs. Hardest Voices:
“Most difficult because people, nobody, Nobody really wants to hear it.” (03:31)
“Right now it’s pretty much John Gruden because I spent a couple of weeks with him. Or a couple days. It just felt like a couple weeks.” (03:58)
Impression Technique:
“The difficult thing when they're new is they don't have them set to muscle memory and it take like a few minutes to get to them.” (09:29)
“He talks around his mouth like his teeth are clenched... it’s in there... not really, I got, I’ve got five of those that I could bore you with.” (09:29 - 10:04)
Frank riffs on John Gruden trick-or-treating:
“He pulls aside some kid with candy and starts going, what you got in that plastic pumpkin, man? That’s a lot of good stuff right there. Is that Laffy Taffy? I’ll tell you what, man. Nothing better than laffy taffy. Mr. Goodbar, man. I tell you what, I love Mr. Goodbye.” (04:04 - 05:05)
Discussion about slipping into impersonations at home, especially with trick-or-treaters:
“I should do that type of stuff when kids come to the door here though, right? I should break into a Liam Neeson.” (12:13)
“What I do have are a very particular set of Skittles... Skittles that make me a nightmare for chocoholics like you. That’ll be the end of it. But if you don’t... I will make you taste the rainbow.” (12:44 - 13:13)
“By the Chargers. And people online said they look like the Minions... It’s quite rude to do an Internet culture, you guys.” (05:14)
Frank talks about the difficulty of finding universally recognizable targets in our fragmented culture:
“With culture being so sort of... spread out. Everyone’s got their own kind of little bubble... finding something everybody knows... That’s why, I mean I don’t get political but... presidents are always, everybody knows them.” (10:04 - 10:29)
Impressions that always land:
“There’s a lot of words and what we’re going to do... We’re going to make Halloween great again... We’re adding another M... It’s going to be M and M&M’s. We’re going to have three M’s.” (10:33 - 11:56)
Host accusation: Frank doesn’t enjoy sports, despite his knowledge:
“Frank doesn’t enjoy anything... He just likes complaining about.” (14:30)
“There’s just times where I just want to zone out. And that seems to be most of the time.” (14:58)
Shows Frank’s been watching:
The etiquette of “show cheating” when watching shared series:
“Yes, it is. And I would consider her cheating if she wants something without me... I came back and she’d watched it with her friend. I was like, well, no, you can't do that. And she basically said, I can do whatever I want.” (17:49)
“Everything’s on frankonstage.com you don’t even have to spell Caliendo, which you know is C alien do. But frankonstage.com...” (18:24)
“Yeah, that’s. For purposes of. This is just comedy.” (18:37)
Frank on his own voice:
"First of all, my own voice. Most difficult because people, nobody, Nobody really wants to hear it." (03:31)
Frank as John Gruden:
"I'll tell you what, man. Nothing better than laffy taffy. Mr. Goodbar, man. I tell you what, I love Mr. Goodbye." (04:04)
Halloween “quiet Trump” candy monologue:
"We're adding another M. It's going to be M and M&M's. We're going to have three M's. Three M. It's a company and they're great. And they're in Cincinnati by the way, doing a great job there." (11:06)
Liam Neeson "Taken"—trick or treat speech:
"What I do have are a very particular set of Skittles... Skittles that make me a nightmare for chocoholics like you. That'll be the end of it. But if you don't, I will find you. I will hunt you down and I will make you taste the rainbow." (12:44 - 13:13)
Frank on show cheating:
"I would consider her cheating if she wants something without me because she's done that before... I can do whatever I want." (17:49)
| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:45 | Frank “calling from outer space” & riffing on Elon Musk | | 03:31 | Frank discusses hardest & easiest voices to impersonate | | 04:04 | Extended John Gruden impression—Halloween/trick-or-treat story | | 05:14 | Chargers/Minions uniforms—Internet culture bit | | 10:33 | “Library Trump”—Halloween candy improv with Pat | | 12:13 | Frank considers doing Liam Neeson for trick-or-treaters | | 12:44 | “Taken”/Taste the Rainbow “Liam Neeson” speech | | 13:31 | Request for “dead guy” impressions—Madden and Charles Barkley | | 14:30 | Bob claims Frank hates everything—sports talk | | 15:49 | Discussion of Mark Ruffalo’s “Task” on HBO | | 16:51 | Frank shares shows he’s actually watching with his wife | | 17:49 | Discussion of “show cheating” in relationships | | 18:24 | Frank plugs his tour site frankonstage.com |
The episode is playful, rapid-fire, and rooted in improv energy. The hosts and Frank riff off each other with easy chemistry, punctuating the conversation with affectionate digs, over-the-top impressions, and well-timed callbacks. Frank’s creative process and personality shine throughout, making for an entertaining and revealing listen for fans and newcomers alike.