Hip To Hip with Pete Correale

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Bonfire w/ Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly

Episode: "Hip To Hip with Pete Correale"
Date: March 4, 2026
Guest: Pete Correale
Host: SiriusXM's Faction Talk
Main Theme:
A raucous, deeply nostalgic, and irreverently honest conversation between veteran comedians Big Jay Oakerson, Robert Kelly, and special guest Pete Correale. The episode explores the changing face of comedy, pastround stories from their lives as comics, the struggle for legacy, and playful, sometimes brutal, roasting of old friends in and out of the stand-up scene.

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1. Episode Overview

The hosts, joined by Pete Correale, reminisce about their early days in New York stand-up comedy, discuss the fleeting nature of legacy in show business, and breakdown their unique camaraderie. The show is peppered with biting humor, explorations of how both pop culture and comedy have shifted over the years, and a recurring sidebar where the hosts "investigate" the Instagram profile of another comic (Russ Meneve) in mock-suspicion.

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2. Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Comedy Legacy: Fame, Respect, and Being "Underrated"

• Early on, Bobby & Jay praise Pete Correale:
  • Bobby: "You're one of the funniest standup comics, dude." (03:25)
  • Pete reflects on being called "underrated":
    • "It's a weird backhanded compliment... no one ever goes, like, you're rated." (03:35)
• Comparisons are made to fame outside of stand-up:
  • Jay: Jokes about celebrity memorabilia fading in value compared to musicians like Jim Morrison. (04:53)
  • Pete: Notes that it feels like pop cultural knowledge of past greats is fading faster now given entertainment overload (05:20).
    • "There's so much more stuff... you can throw a kid off by mentioning Salt-n-Pepa."
  • Bobby and Jay reminisce about "Creature Double Feature" and the limited childhood TV experience that once forced kids to learn about the past.

Vanishing Acts of Stand-Up – Where Comics Go

• Pete and the guys swap stories about comics who seemed ubiquitous in their youth but have since vanished.
  • Mike Dina Cola: "He never had his own place, and he did stand up all the time. He was there every f*cking night." (Bobby, 12:37)
  • Stu Caymans: Spins a wild tale of a comic who openly panhandled for heroin, performed high, and spun tales of "glory" to rookies at the club (14:20).

Instagram Sleuthing: Russ Meneve – Hip to Hip

• The core running gag: The hosts scrutinize and roast Russ Meneve's Instagram, gleefully speculating about the nature of his apparently male-heavy photos.
  • Jay: "The one with the paintings does look like a weekend getaway." (16:55)
  • Pete: "A couple guys can't stand hip to hip, touching dick to dip?" (16:11)
  • Bobby: "He only dates Asians." (15:41)
  • The guys escalate, debating hip placement, masculinity, gay subtext, and comic over-analysis—all in trademark brutal Bonfire style.

Memories & Mayhem: Auditions, Bars, and Old Club Days

• Pete and Bobby reminisce about after-hours hangs and failed pilot auditions:
  • Singing Billy Joel at the top of their lungs while driving NYC with Gina Savage (19:10).
  • A long-lost VH1 audition: "This was like some Dustin Hoffman going on right there, guy. I mean, we were locked in." (Big Jay, 31:18)
  • Stories of late-night hangs, blown opportunities, and dares, all laced with underline gratitude & mockery.

Comedian Sexuality & Media Perception

• Open speculation about how coming out might affect a comedian's career:
  • Todd Glass and Modi are brought up as examples.
  • Big Jay: "I thought it was once he said he was gay. I'm like, oh, this guy's gonna go to the top right now." (26:34)
  • Bobby: "He did it when it was like... I don't know." (26:51)

Body Image & Comic Evolution

• Roasting each other's looks, weight, and facial hair choices through the years:
  • Big Jay: "Bobby, though, was like, arguably top 10 best looking guys in New York City at one point." (38:29)
  • Pete roasts Bobby's facial hair experiments, with Bobby comparing himself to a "Mongolian warrior" (37:24).
  • Reverence for the comic lifestyle and how it's shaped them inside and out.

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3. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Comedic Respect

• "No one ever goes, like, you're rated... It's always underrated." – Pete Correale (03:35)

On Legacy:

• "Nobody even knows who Rodney [Dangerfield] is anymore." – Big Jay (05:16)
• "There was only so much music available when I was young. So of course I went back..." – Pete (05:35)

On Vanishing Comics:

• "I can't find him... He's got family with a different last name." – Big Jay, on Mike Dina Cola (12:12)

On Instagram Roasting:

• "A couple guys can't stand hip to hip, touching dick to dip?" – Pete (16:11)
• "What? Your hip behind another guy’s head?" – Bobby (16:08)
• "Now hang on a second. But that's fine, right? Two guys playing pool late at night with a black dude taking the photo." – Pete (16:21)

On Auditioning & Comic Struggles:

• "We had a big book of diseases... We were making shtick, that was some Dustin Hoffman, guy." – Big Jay (31:18)

Body Image/Looks:

• "I look like Genghis Khan's fat brother that had to take two horses in a wagon." – Bobby (37:24)
• "You were not—you didn't get into the beard of it at all. A goatee guy gets lost. It looks like you can't shave the hair around your mouth." – Pete (37:25)
• "Bobby was, like, arguably a top 10 best looking guy in New York City at one point." – Big Jay (38:29)

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4. Important Segments & Timestamps

• Dane Cook Doc Discussion: 01:13
  Early riffing on Dane Cook's legacy and "war" persona.
• Comedy Legacy & Being Underrated: 03:25 – 05:20
• Are kids losing cultural memory?: 05:20 – 07:17
• Missing Comics and Stand-Up Vanishings: 10:56 – 14:20
• Stu Caymans & Open Mic Heroin Tales: 13:44
• Russ Meneve’s “Hip to Hip” Instagram Deep Dive: 15:30 – 20:00
• Comic Sexuality & Cultural Change: 26:07 – 27:19
• Audition Regrets & Blown Opportunities: 31:05 – 33:54
• Food Network & Body Image Roasts: 34:04 – 37:13
• Comic Bonds & How Looks and Reputation Evolved: 37:24 – 40:06

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5. Overall Tone & Style

The episode operates with the signature Bonfire mix of unfiltered honesty, hardcore comedian ball-busting, and real fondness beneath the bravado. It’s filled with raw laughter, inside references, and often savage, but never truly malicious, mockery. The guests open up about insecurity, lasting friendships, the existential dread of being forgotten, and, above all, the joy of belonging to the uniquely brutal but caring fraternity of stand-up comics in New York.

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6. Guest & Host Calls to Action

• Pete Correale's Tour Dates: Sony Hall in NYC (Feb 26th), Wilbur Theater (Feb 27th). Full tour at petecorreale.com (42:13)
• Bobby Kelly and Big Jay Upcoming Gigs: See robertkellylive.com, bigjcomedy.com

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7. Conclusion

If you enjoy raw, honest humor mixed with nostalgia and relentless comic riffing, this is a must-listen episode—especially for fans of stand-up or those curious about the inner workings of the comedy scene. Pete Correale’s appearance serves as both a celebration and gentle roast of comic brotherhood in the best possible way.

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Transcript

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[Big J Okerson]

And now the bonfire with Big J Okerson and Robert Kelly.

[Bobby Kelly]

What is this one?

[Pete Corieli]

LL Cool J. I don't know.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is this old? This is old, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Ish. Ish.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's so. He's like the Dane Cook of hip hop. Every. Everything is.

[Pete Corieli]

Married a child.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, not that.

[Pete Corieli]

He married a child.

[Bobby Kelly]

Everything is knock you out. It's war.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

Is LL plugging a. A movie about his brother stealing $10 million from him as well?

[Bobby Kelly]

I can't wait to see that documentary.

[Pete Corieli]

He's making a movie about it.

[Bobby Kelly]

I would have. I would assume so. I heard rumors of it, but I hope he does of a doc. Yeah, that'd be great. Oh, that'd be fantastic.

[Big J Okerson]

He did. He did.

[Bobby Kelly]

He did do it.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, he did. Okay.

[Pete Corieli]

Is it out?

[Big J Okerson]

I don't know if it's out yet.

[Bobby Kelly]

I mean, it's not going to be real because guess who isn't in it?

[Pete Corieli]

His brother in law.

[Bobby Kelly]

Me. Oh, I was in the house when he found out.

[Pete Corieli]

It's called Brace for Impact. The Dane Cook story.

[Bobby Kelly]

It'd be funny if he has Brian's Brian Scolaro play me.

[Pete Corieli]

That'd be so great.

[Big J Okerson]

Brian Scalero, though. He's gonna have to jog and work out to get in. Bobby Kelly shade.

[Pete Corieli]

No, no. I think he's gonna have me just dress like Bobby, but have his belly hanging out of his shirt and stuff like that. This is Bobby just always picking his nose.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Twisty little tw at him. He's not going to paint you favorably.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, he's not. He's going to have me say some stupid.

[Pete Corieli]

I bet the group's going to be called Dane and the Monkeys. Oh, I hope he changes history so hard.

[Bobby Kelly]

Dude. He's going to yell at me and I'm going to go, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He's going to go, shut up, Bobby. What I tell you about speaking?

[Pete Corieli]

You ruin all my fun. Yeah, you're gay, so you suck my dick straight. Cuz I accept it. I'm game, Cook.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm really going to get in this doctor. I was literally there when him and his brother got into the fight. And then I told. I. I said to him, I go, listen, there's two things. He really loves his job and doesn't want to let it go. Or he's robbing you.

[Pete Corieli]

He's gonna have a. He's gonna have a scene where he comes in and finds you in Jay Davis French kiss in the closet. Gary Goldman's whacking off.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Damn, this is gonna be a good documentary. We have an amazing guest in studio with us here on the bonfire. Old friend of both me and Bobby. He's gonna be at Sony hall in New York this Thursday, the 26th, the Wilbur Theater on Friday, Part of his As I was saying tour. It is the hilarious Pete Corieli joining us.

[Bobby Kelly]

I mean, it's got to be said. Me and Jay were talking about it. You're one of the funniest standup comics, dude.

[Big J Okerson]

Come on.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm telling you, bro, you used the term.

[Pete Corieli]

Actually, I saw you said, so underrated. And I almost stopped you from saying that at first because I know when people say that about me, they go. They go, dude, you're so underrated. I used to take that like a little, like, not offended, but just kind of like. It's a weird backhanded compliment because it's like, I don't know. I think people are aware of me. But there's only two things they can. It's a nervous statement. And there's only two things they could say. Overrated or underrated. Right? No one likes anyone who's overrated. Yeah, but no one ever goes, like, you're rated.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Like, how's. How's Pete Correll? He goes, rated, Right. About what he should be. It's always underrated. I think that is a choice.

[Big J Okerson]

I was dabbling now in. In legendary stat. I mean, you got the. The festivals, basically, you.

[Bobby Kelly]

The.

[Big J Okerson]

The skank festival, everything else. I'm telling you, someday, you know, does he know the Lucille Ball comedy festival. The place, Lou, what I'm talking about in Jamestown, New York, they have a comedy museum. I just only live a half hour away. I never even went to the damn thing.

[Pete Corieli]

You never went.

[Big J Okerson]

A pair of your gloves are gonna make it. I don't have a thing.

[Bobby Kelly]

I love you, but you're gonna be able to buy those for a buck fifty on eBay.

[Pete Corieli]

What?

[Big J Okerson]

I'm not saying those gloves. A pair of his gloves though, because

[Bobby Kelly]

that's his gonna be, dude. You're gonna be able to buy it right next to Louis Anderson's money clip.

[Pete Corieli]

I'm gonna be selling these for black market. I'm gonna be selling for black.

[Big J Okerson]

But why don't we have the lasting power when we die? Like that?

[Bobby Kelly]

Like, like right now.

[Big J Okerson]

If you said to a kid, hey, I know a guy who's got Rodney Dangerfield's tie, a tie he used to wear. You want it? Or something like they'd go, who?

[Bobby Kelly]

What?

[Big J Okerson]

But, but if it was like Jim Morrison, they would.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, well, I mean, I love Rodney Danger.

[Big J Okerson]

You would because you're a comedian.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yes.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah, yeah. But then you son wouldn't.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'd wear it around my house and be like, why are you wearing that stupid red tie? I get no respect. I got no respect.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

Nobody even knows that. We don't want to leave a legacy. Nobody even knows who Rodney is anymore.

[Pete Corieli]

We probably. I think it maybe comes back around or we're just like. I think every. People that become our age start saying that like the kids are forgetting the past and maybe they always think they are and they don't. But like I do feel like now they are because there's so much more stuff.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

There was only so much music available when I was young. So of course I went back to make sure you got the Led Zeppelin and the whatever and then even like the smaller. Yeah stuff. But yeah, you can throw a kid off. You could throw a 20 something year old off now by mentioning Salt and Pepper. If you're like salt and pepper, push it. They'd be like, was that hip hop? Come on.

[Bobby Kelly]

I threw Max.

[Pete Corieli]

Know it.

[Bobby Kelly]

I threw Max off by mentioning Creature double feature and Godzilla. Like, like when I was talking with somebody about this when we were a kid, we had Saturdays was the day that we got our. Was on. There was eight channels and mostly adult all week. Maybe the afternoons you have reruns of some stupid.

[Big J Okerson]

You want to stretch it, maybe you go the little DAV Goliath. On Sunday I got a little religious though. I Got a little religious. I didn't like that.

[Bobby Kelly]

Davy Goliath, the wooden puppet. Dave. It was.

[Big J Okerson]

That was bottom of the barrel.

[Pete Corieli]

We were looking for something.

[Bobby Kelly]

Sunday, Sunday, David Goliath was like, dude, I woke up too early. I woke up way too early. I got to watch Davey and Goliath.

[Big J Okerson]

I used to drive up F me, like, time for church. I'm like, I already banged out Davey and Goliath.

[Pete Corieli]

I don't even have to go.

[Bobby Kelly]

But don't you feel my moral compass is set? Yes, exactly.

[Pete Corieli]

But as you. As you grew up, didn' find, like, your knowledge of, like, the things before you? Like, I had that. Like, I had. It's enough. Do you get what I'm saying? Like, it wasn't. It was. It wasn't contemporary to me, but I was very aware of, like, everything from Crosby was Bing Cross. That's what I was gonna say. Things like that.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm so. I'm so old, though. Before me, it was like a stick and a little wheel, like a hula hoop. They didn't have tv. Yeah, kids didn't have tv. They had like, crayons and shit. Or chalk.

[Big J Okerson]

I know, I know, but that's what

[Pete Corieli]

I'm saying, that that's gone. I think the knowledge of, like, yeah, older stuff is going. Like, there's eventually things that are fading away. If you make like a Glenn Miller band reference to somebody. I never listened to the Glenn Miller Band. I just have reference to it because I know what it is, but that's gone, you know?

[Big J Okerson]

Jay, I gotta tell you something. I'm. I'm flying yesterday or two days ago. I just beat the storm home right from St. Louis. Oh, my God, I'm gonna hang myself if I got stuck there. And as the plane's going up, I. I'll be honest, man. A friend of mine made this edible. And I ate it at like, four in the morning before I got on the plane. And then my plane didn't leave till I almost forgot I ate the fucking thing.

[Bobby Kelly]

You ate a homemade edible?

[Big J Okerson]

A friend of mine gave me a pumpkin roll. I ate the whole pumpkin roll. I brought it with me from home. It's a friend of mine where I live. And I'm like, I'm gonna eat that sundae. Instead of getting a muffin from Starbucks, I'm gonna eat the fucking pumpkin roll. So when I land there, my wife picks me up at the airport. I know we do it like 1975. I'm gonna be all fucking high on this nice pumpkin roll and stuff. So I Take it. And the plane's taken off. It's a shitty United. I can't believe we got out. And I put on my headphones and I put on. Lou knows this one. Moonlight Mile by the Stones, you know, man, and it's just such a great tune. And I'm like, this is arguably one of the top 20 greatest five minutes of my life. And it made me think, man, they should be People don't even. Kids don't even. My daughter doesn't listen to the Stones. This should be taught. Cause it's getting lost. There should be classes where you learn about Sinatra and the Stones and Rodney. It's, like, as important as Shakespeare, man. I mean, maybe they're newer then, you know, People like Matt R. Horrible. That was a joke. That was a joke. I only say it because everyone always says that about him. I don't know a single joke he does. He's handsome. I just tried to be on the bandwagon. I apologize, Matt.

[Pete Corieli]

I really.

[Big J Okerson]

I didn't. I didn't mean that. I don't know him. I don't know who. Dumb joke he does.

[Pete Corieli]

He's a big listener.

[Big J Okerson]

He's just a guy.

[Bobby Kelly]

Big fan. Big fan of the Bonfire.

[Pete Corieli]

Big fan of the show. I don't know it to be true at all.

[Big J Okerson]

Seem like we're okay to say anything about him.

[Pete Corieli]

You can say. We can say anything.

[Bobby Kelly]

You can say anything about him.

[Pete Corieli]

Matt R. If you already. At first.

[Bobby Kelly]

Matt R. I love. This is why I love Cory Ellie. Cor one of. When I used to hang. Look at me. And Corioli. Every night would hang out until the wee hours of the morning. And Cory Ellie was the. Like, my man friend because he. He. We'd always wind up at a bar and Coralie would always have a beer in his hand and a cigarette in his other hand. I remember one night, you go like, dude, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done with weed. I was addicted. And he just takes a swig of his beer and hold. I'm done with being addicted. I was like, all right, you're done. But you. We used to hang out every night at the Drag it in, and you would get hammered. And you love me because I could hang out with. I. I wasn't a. I wasn't a mush.

[Big J Okerson]

No, you didn't even drink it. It didn't even matter. You're not such a great personality.

[Bobby Kelly]

Used to lean over to me and Bob, you know, I like hanging out with you because you don't drink, but you're not a dud. Most people don't drink suck when you hang out with them.

[Big J Okerson]

When I drink, yeah, totally. I forget you're not drinking.

[Pete Corieli]

It's funny I was saying when we knew you were coming in, I was like it's always funny when you see like it's such a. You don't get to see you very often. Yeah. But I know you've always been working consistently and out there doing stand up still and every. And it's so funny. It always makes me like when you come back around have that thing. It's like all the people like again. The time goes so fast to hell in the star. I'm almost 30 years in comedy to come back and be like, man, the people that are not around it. I don't mean dead. I mean like just eventually did get out of it when they were like your everyday people. I think Andrew Kennedy. I was thinking of the. Might still be doing comedy by the same like. But I. I don't connect to where he's at.

[Bobby Kelly]

Went to Connecticut.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Had a family. But we were talking about Mike always.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

And you can't find them.

[Bobby Kelly]

But that was your guy.

[Big J Okerson]

I can't find him.

[Bobby Kelly]

When you hung out with Mike. When you hung out with Pete. Mike. Dina Cola was.

[Pete Corieli]

I like Mike. Good hang. That was a fun hang.

[Big J Okerson]

He was. But this is the craziest thing. Years ago when I lived in the city, you know, he. He was on my couch one night sleeping on the couch and Jackie a little loud. My wife was. Something about him. Like on the couch a lot. You know, like when DJ Lou would come over and pass out on the couch. He was unbelievable. He'd be gone by dawn with the fucking everything folded. You wouldn't even know he was there. It was insane, man.

[Pete Corieli]

He has to get back to his twin brother.

[Big J Okerson]

I know, right? The guy will melt if Lou's not home by 10.

[Bobby Kelly]

Lou. Lou.

[Pete Corieli]

Lou.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah, Lou's like, I told him I'm moving out. He took it well. Like, yeah. Cause you didn't move out yet. Right. Denial.

[Bobby Kelly]

You still live with him. You still live with him. Back to Mike.

[Big J Okerson]

Dina Cola. What are we doing?

[Bobby Kelly]

What are we doing?

[Pete Corieli]

He also lives with. He lives with Luna's brother.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, Dina Cola was that guy though. He lived. He lives with Jay. Yeah, he lived there. And then he would hop around a lot.

[Big J Okerson]

He dated a girl, a female comedian. Did Ally. She's kind of doing well for herself. I can't remember her name. But anyway, Jay. I ran into Jay and I said, jay, I've Exhausted Everything on the podcast I do with Sebastian. Twice, we've done, like, a missing person, if anyone's ever heard of this guy, because he's. He's got family with a different last name, like aunts and uncles that raised him.

[Bobby Kelly]

Right?

[Big J Okerson]

So. But, you know, I mean, I don't know if he got arrested, if he fell off the death.

[Bobby Kelly]

Mysterious guy, because he was. He would live with other people. He never had his own place, and he did stand up all the time. He was there every fucking night.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah. I worked with him a lot when I first got to the city. It's funny, but we used. Me and Metz used to always laugh because, like, if you could listen when he would start, like, knocking back beers, he would tell the same story to a lot of people. It was like a tough guy story. It was always kind of funny. But I always remember. We used to always remember the line me and S. Say to each other. He goes. So then I says to the guy, how do you want your night to go? Your night can go two ways. It can go this way. And every time we say. We was like. And you hear him tell somebody else, and we'd be behind him going, like, yes, he's doing it. He's doing it like this. So I said to the guy, I said, how do you want your night to go, huh? How do you want to go? You want to go. You want to go to the hospital? You want to go home tonight? But he was like a little wrestler guy, I think, right? He was a. Yeah, that Vecchione energy.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

And he would do the same bit every night about ironic and how this Alanis Morissette song. Ironic.

[Pete Corieli]

None of those things. Yeah. He was not.

[Bobby Kelly]

He was not a. He was a hit or miss guy.

[Big J Okerson]

Miss, miss, miss. The reason he's disappeared guy.

[Pete Corieli]

There's a funny one. A funny. A funny one that pops up a bunch. A funny one that I always remember that pops up a bunch. Stu Caymans.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

I knew as a comedian who would come around white dude, because I did the start in the black club in Philly, but he would show up at the black club after we were there for a little while. He would ride a bike there, come in a leather jacket, and then ask somebody in the audience for $20 until he got paid. We don't get paid. It was an open mic, but he would ask for $20 before he got paid and then take that money and go get heroin and then come back and do the show on heroin. He was like, major heroin ads. Wow.

[Big J Okerson]

He Was mad.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah. Yeah. But he went down, like. But it was so funny. Cause a guy like that can come back to a club like that, and he catches me and Kurt, these two white dudes hanging at this black club who don't know what our ceiling is exactly. And you know him just sitting there high on heroin. But then, in case he's telling us, he was like, yeah, you know, you work the Comedy Cellar after midnight, you get food. And we were like, tell us more about the city, man. What's it like?

[Bobby Kelly]

He's like.

[Pete Corieli]

He's like. Jim Brewer once patted me on the head, said, good job.

[Bobby Kelly]

Wow.

[Pete Corieli]

Jim Brewer.

[Bobby Kelly]

I remember the Russ Maneve. Another Russ Maneve was there every night. He's. He's the reason we used to get free food at the Cellar. And they shut that down to half off because Russ would come down and get five meals, like five entrees, and just eat his face off, and they shut it down into half off.

[Pete Corieli]

You could find Russ on the old Instagram there. And I'll be honest with you. Go down a little bit. You draw your own decisions from this.

[Bobby Kelly]

What interesting. Russ is a. Russ is a player. Russ is a.

[Pete Corieli]

Sure. Yes, he is. Look at that right there. Weird. Keep going.

[Bobby Kelly]

Just because he's in front of a naked statue.

[Pete Corieli]

No, it's just.

[Bobby Kelly]

I don't know now, dude, he's. He's. He only dates Asians.

[Pete Corieli]

I know, I know.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's an Asian. He loves it. Scroll up. There's got to be an Asian somewhere.

[Pete Corieli]

No, there is. There was one up there in the middle. Yeah, I know, but there's one Asian. There's this guy seems to be hanging out with a whole bunch.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, dude, no, no, go down.

[Pete Corieli]

Go down.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is that Christine?

[Pete Corieli]

Keep going down.

[Bobby Kelly]

That'd be funny if he was in Christine in, like, eight of the photos.

[Pete Corieli]

Okay, here we go. Wait, keep going down here because. Oh, wait, That's a weird stance.

[Bobby Kelly]

Which one?

[Pete Corieli]

I don't know. The dead in the middle there. Strange way to take a picture, isn't it?

[Bobby Kelly]

What? Your hit your hip behind another guy's head.

[Pete Corieli]

That was the big deal, dude. A couple guys can't stand hip to hip touching dick to dip. No, no, keep going down.

[Bobby Kelly]

No way.

[Pete Corieli]

I don't know at all.

[Bobby Kelly]

This.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, now hang on a second. But that's fine, right?

[Bobby Kelly]

Two guys playing pool late at night with a black dude taking the photo.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, so whatever, dude. Yeah, go to the US Open by yourself. Sure, keep going.

[Bobby Kelly]

Shredded.

[Pete Corieli]

Absolutely shredded. You know, it gets shredded a lot. What? You know, likes to stay shredded after they're gray.

[Bobby Kelly]

Come on.

[Pete Corieli]

No, no, probably not. Keep going down. There's that guy again. Mysteriously. Oh, look. Oh, another hip to hip ass in front of some paintings, Bob.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, I like that.

[Big J Okerson]

The one with the paintings does look like a weekend getaway.

[Pete Corieli]

Come on.

[Big J Okerson]

These guys are going to Cape Cod. Only that one. Only that one. I mean, it does. There's got to be photos right below it too.

[Pete Corieli]

Okay, there's that thing.

[Bobby Kelly]

Why is he always going, jay, how do you.

[Big J Okerson]

Did you do a hard scroll on this at some point?

[Bobby Kelly]

Yes, yes.

[Pete Corieli]

Sometimes I do this. I go, where's Russ Maneve in the world? And I go, oh, living his life.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, man.

[Pete Corieli]

We'll find a lot of pictures of Justin like this now that he's gone

[Bobby Kelly]

with the farm.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, Justin, a horse. Oh, my God. Christine said they all went out to a trendy place in LA the other day. Like, Justin, Super. Going to trendy places with trendy people. Now I'm like, there he goes.

[Bobby Kelly]

There you go.

[Pete Corieli]

There he goes.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's found his home.

[Pete Corieli]

He had to find his home. Yeah, we should have let him. We should have let him loose there years ago.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, we shouldn't have forced him into skank fest.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, why don't we make him come back to New York? Hey, come back to New York and do comedy. Get all those dicks out of your butt. But I didn't know. I didn't know. Interesting. Do you remember a lot of gym selfies?

[Commercial Narrator]

Huh?

[Pete Corieli]

I've been over a year.

[Bobby Kelly]

Do you remember the time. One of the funniest things. Me and Coryell. Every night. We would hang out every night after this because we always had the last couple spots. Yeah, at the Boston or. Or at the Cellar.

[Big J Okerson]

I used to host and you go last. So we'd both be there till the end.

[Bobby Kelly]

And we used to do Boston. It was late nights. And one night he goes, hang on.

[Pete Corieli]

Just real quick, over. There's another one right there.

[Big J Okerson]

I mean.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, it's fine. Dude. What? What?

[Bobby Kelly]

Wow.

[Pete Corieli]

Bobby.

[Big J Okerson]

What? You don't stand with the trannies again? For the hundredth time, no. Oh, okay. What the.

[Bobby Kelly]

Now I have to tell it.

[Big J Okerson]

No, you know, you always tell that.

[Bobby Kelly]

That.

[Big J Okerson]

Jay, that is suspect.

[Pete Corieli]

That's very suspect.

[Big J Okerson]

That is. Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Wow. Just hit the boardwalk with your good bud and take the hit pictures.

[Bobby Kelly]

I was gonna tell. I was gonna tell the tranny bar story. You piece of. Just take out another beer.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah, because they don't sell Tall boys of the Blue moon here, so I had to buy too.

[Pete Corieli]

We.

[Bobby Kelly]

We Went me, you, as old me and you.

[Big J Okerson]

We.

[Bobby Kelly]

It was a cold night. What? I don't know what it was. We had a car for some reason.

[Big J Okerson]

Okay.

[Bobby Kelly]

And me, you and Gina Savage. Gina drove around the whole city. Yeah, all around the city, on the outskirts, on the highways, and sang Billy Joel songs. Remember that?

[Big J Okerson]

No, I don't. We sang every Billy Joel song.

[Bobby Kelly]

And then we go to the one with the. You go, this is the best one. You kept going. No, no, the restaurant. Remember the restaurant?

[Big J Okerson]

Italian restaurant.

[Bobby Kelly]

Restaurant. Bob, you gotta hear this.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, that's the best one.

[Bobby Kelly]

And we sang it at the top of our lungs.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby Kelly]

Driving. You don't remember that?

[Big J Okerson]

No, I don't remember that one, man.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, that was.

[Pete Corieli]

Do you remember in between you guys stories? I'll just go back and show you now. Look at him oing. There's him ogling a tennis player.

[Bobby Kelly]

I know this is not true.

[Pete Corieli]

Go ahead, Luke, you continue. Continue.

[Bobby Kelly]

Their friends, Jay, he might know a lot of male.

[Pete Corieli]

A lot of dude stuff.

[Bobby Kelly]

There's got to be a. There's a girl somewhere. Show a girl. There's a good. Scroll down.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, that's. Who's taking the pictures.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, look at that. Well, that one is.

[Pete Corieli]

Okay, There we go. There's a girl. Oh, look, he's a little silly goof. No, he's a little silly goof. And he went out to dinner with another guy.

[Bobby Kelly]

There's a lot of guy photos.

[Big J Okerson]

This is awesome.

[Pete Corieli]

Now there's a girl leaning away from him while he's leaning into two guys. Go on.

[Bobby Kelly]

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[Pete Corieli]

Further.

[Bobby Kelly]

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Commercial Narrator]

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[Pete Corieli]

Guys, guys, guys. Hugging guys. Simpson pictures. Ooh, being a little cheeky. Guys, guys, guys.

[Bobby Kelly]

Go down. There's got to be a girl go down.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, the girl's coming eventually.

[Bobby Kelly]

Guy. Whoa, what's that?

[Big J Okerson]

Sleepy.

[Bobby Kelly]

Wait a minute. Did he tackle a guy in the background?

[Pete Corieli]

No, that's him hitting a woman. She was trying to him.

[Big J Okerson]

The one where he's got the hat on and he's sleeping. If a guy took that photo, that's the gayest photo of them all. What make that the gayest photo of them all.

[Bobby Kelly]

What's in the background? Way in the background.

[Pete Corieli]

Is that a guy taking a nap at a gym?

[Bobby Kelly]

Is that a steam room in the background?

[Pete Corieli]

He's in his happy place waiting for Trent. Wait a second.

[Big J Okerson]

Sauna Life by Andy Fiori.

[Pete Corieli]

Well, now we know what that Fanuk's been up to.

[Bobby Kelly]

Andy Fanuk.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh my God. Fiori.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh God. Never in Montclair, New Jersey. Can I run into Russ? It'll be a real problem.

[Pete Corieli]

He is jacked.

[Bobby Kelly]

You don't have to worry about.

[Big J Okerson]

I've always liked Russ.

[Bobby Kelly]

You don't have to worry about running into Matt R. That kid.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, why not? Oh, cuz I'm. Yeah, he's a. Why not great.

[Pete Corieli]

Now you got two muscly gays up your ass.

[Big J Okerson]

You're the one saying all this.

[Pete Corieli]

I know I'm deflecting it. Jacob. How dare you say Russ Mev is gay. I know the guy to have gotten.

[Big J Okerson]

Do you think if you. If you would tomorrow you. You said, I can't hide anymore. I'm gay. Or if I did or if you did that it could. Could and you embraced it, that it could take your career to an even higher level? I think Craig Gas thought that. I mean, Craig G. I mean, that Craig. Guess he just is gay.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's just gay.

[Big J Okerson]

Todd Glass. And I think it backfired on him. I thought. I thought he thought that was gonna, like.

[Bobby Kelly]

He does get into it a lot of things.

[Big J Okerson]

He does. Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's in a lot.

[Big J Okerson]

I thought it was once he said he was gay. I'm like, oh, this guy's gonna go to the top right now.

[Pete Corieli]

He's so funny.

[Big J Okerson]

He is already funny. Yeah, you're not.

[Pete Corieli]

And I thought that was gonna be

[Big J Okerson]

community would be like, we have a new Beetle.

[Pete Corieli]

But I don't know if he really played up.

[Bobby Kelly]

He pulled too early.

[Big J Okerson]

Too early. Wants to bang him anymore.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm not saying in his life. I'm saying in the business. If he did it a couple years later when the. When the whole thing. He did it like a couple years before. You know, the woke stuff and the pandemic. You know what I mean? He did it when it was like, I don't know.

[Big J Okerson]

I don't know. Modi did it the best. Modi did. Moody's more manly than me. You know what I'm saying? Like, he's just like, yeah, all right.

[Bobby Kelly]

Is that an Asian woman, though? Is that his wedding photo?

[Pete Corieli]

I don't know what's happening.

[Big J Okerson]

What if there was that all of a sudden? There's one last one. And my girlfriend Carol. Okay, I guess.

[Pete Corieli]

I guess it was. He goes, anyway. There's all my business associates. Now's the. Now's the.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's so funny, though. If you screw all the way down. If it's. If it's stuck.

[Big J Okerson]

Ted.

[Pete Corieli]

It's Ted Alexandra.

[Bobby Kelly]

If it starts with all chicks and slowly morphs into all these guys, maybe.

[Pete Corieli]

Wait, go back up. I'm sorry. That's Ted Alexandria. That's right after he told Ted and Ted said he accepts him as he is. Go back up. Oh, go back up. Up. Right there. Look at Ted. He's like, I don't care.

[Bobby Kelly]

What about David tell. What is Dave saying?

[Pete Corieli]

Dave just. I think Dave just talks over every time. He goes, dave, I want to tell you something. And Dave goes, are you doing a

[Bobby Kelly]

joke about being gay, Dave?

[Big J Okerson]

Dave's like, just me to be on your podcast.

[Pete Corieli]

Do you have jokes about being you and being gay? Have you ever heard anything about you being gay? You sure? All right, I'll do mine then. God bless him.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

No. And also, I should say for the record and legality purpose, I don't know any of this to be true for sure, but I did go through this thing before, and I think Russia should chick up his thing up a little bit. He spends a lot of time embracing guys in a weird. A perpendicular shot, not parallel.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

One perpendicular one's grinding nut into the other ones.

[Big J Okerson]

What if it's more like just such a male power trip where he's like, you know, women don't even belong on my page. They. They're just for fun and pleasure. This is.

[Pete Corieli]

It's very possible. And I do say. I will say for the record, I believe he would be a top. Let that be known.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, but he's in all those photos. His hip is in the back. Is that a top?

[Big J Okerson]

Does that make you less gay if you're a top top?

[Pete Corieli]

Well, you don't want to be on the business end of a top. You know what I mean? If someone's presenting you, you could always be like, no, but if someone's bending you over, you have. You have to think quick.

[Bobby Kelly]

I love Corioli. Doesn't even know top or bottom.

[Pete Corieli]

He's such a man.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's like, what does that mean?

[Big J Okerson]

The top means you're the guy giving it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So. So that means you're less gay because you're not taking it, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah, but some guys. But there could be also slightly less gay.

[Big J Okerson]

I mean, remember apples and oranges?

[Bobby Kelly]

I mean, you still got on your dick.

[Pete Corieli]

It is apples and oranges. And there's still.

[Big J Okerson]

You know.

[Pete Corieli]

There is.

[Big J Okerson]

Turn your dick on a Seinfeld level. When I was up here, it just didn't happen at all. What the G. Nice. G level. G level.

[Pete Corieli]

What's the deal with. What's the deal with on your dick?

[Bobby Kelly]

Did you get a talking to from a publicist?

[Big J Okerson]

A publicist who's got that kind of money? Guy.

[Bobby Kelly]

A publicist right over there.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, what? Oh, my God. Even my guy who books me, he's like, yeah. He's like, oh, maybe you should get a publicist. These are some of the people we have. And I'm like, yeah, no, I Reached out to him. I'm waiting to hear, yeah, the toy will be over. I'm just like, I'm not doing that. I'm not here. Like, I even talk to one publicist, and they go, you know, Village Void,

[Pete Corieli]

Village Voice, the bi week.

[Big J Okerson]

Trying to get a homeless guy to come to the show.

[Bobby Kelly]

I mean, is the Village Voice still around?

[Big J Okerson]

That's what I'm saying. Social media or it's not, right?

[Pete Corieli]

Training hooker and a coupon for Pete's Comedy Show. Those are the two things you're looking for.

[Bobby Kelly]

Remember we used to play on the back of the Village Voice with the transact. We used to play girl and knock on girl. Remember we used to play that?

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, God, yes, I do. I do remember that.

[Bobby Kelly]

We used to be like, all right, it's girl or not girl. And then I'd hide. I'd hide the what? It was like, girl. I'd be like, nope, tranny.

[Big J Okerson]

I went, jay, I don't know if I ever told you this is. I don't want to go down memory lane, but I went on the greatest audition I ever took in my life was with Robert Kelly. And I don't know if I ever told you about this. This is so long ago, but VH1 was looking for two comedians.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

To watch videos and make comments on them and, like, have a. Have a little, like, shtick going. And you had to pick a partner and create something and go in. And before I tell you what happened, it got down to me and him and Norton and Florentine. And I don't know how we didn't get it, because this was our final thing. It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

We had to pretend we're watching a video and do stuff in between. So one of the things we did was we went to night before 42nd Street. We bought a couple Blow up dolls, right? And we put an L on one for Laverne right by the. And we had them both naked. So, like, then we go to watch the Vivardi audition. You're sitting on a couch when you're doing it, right? So first we're like, we're gonna call in sick for work. What should we go with this week? Get the book. And we have a big book of diseases. And we flip through it and we pick a disease, and we're like, let's go with that one. Make the call. And now Bobby goes, let's get the girls. We reach behind the fucking couch, and we pull out and blow up the. I'm like, dude, we were making that was like some Dustin Hoffman going on right there guy. I mean, we were locked in. Locked in.

[Bobby Kelly]

I remember.

[Pete Corieli]

You want.

[Bobby Kelly]

You wanted Laverne. You let me take Shirley.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, here we go. We should have banged up. We should have him.

[Pete Corieli]

Did Jim. Did Jim. Did Florentine and Norton get it?

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah, they got it because we didn't bang on it.

[Pete Corieli]

It never went to a shot show, though. It never went to a show.

[Bobby Kelly]

They were.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, they were hot shots for a couple months.

[Bobby Kelly]

They were hot shots.

[Big J Okerson]

Right down at the cell of the hot shots. Dating at it. Damn, man. Blowing them up the night before.

[Pete Corieli]

We're going to kill with these.

[Big J Okerson]

We had them blow them up in the.

[Pete Corieli]

In the.

[Big J Okerson]

In the waiting room. We had to blow them up in the rating room. We were nervous because if I didn't

[Bobby Kelly]

want somebody to come in. So we just going.

[Big J Okerson]

And we put it. You don't get this on Kimmel. You don't get this on Kimmel.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, my worst.

[Pete Corieli]

I did. I did a two person audition with Sherrod small years ago. It was for movies on tap. It was like an introducing.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

Bumpers for movies on Spike tv. When it first came out, and I auditioned with Sherrod, and me and him had, like, a good. I wasn't intimidated by Sherrod's funny. I mean, I think he's very funny, but, like, I had more of, like, I see him every day. I had a rapport that. That was like. We did a good audition together, and I was like, yo, we're gonna get that for sure. Then we left and they called me and told me I did get it, but not Sherrod. They go, we're partnering you up with Patrice, who. I was completely intimidated by his comedy. And then the whole show is just Patrice talking while I'm like this. Patrice is like, james Bond movies ain't shit. This thing sucks. We'll be right back after this commercial.

[Big J Okerson]

And I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're doing an impression of me on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Oh, my God. Gerardo's talking.

[Bobby Kelly]

I want to. I booked a show with Sherrod for the Food Network. Oh, yeah, we did. It was. It was man versus Food went off Men, right? And they wanted to reboot it because it was such a hit show and they brought Men versus Food. We'd go to a city, and we would go to a restaurant and eat as. And we'd eat as many restaurants as we could until somebody taps out. And, you know, you'd go to whatever, seven, six, eight restaurants and one of Us would have to go, I'm done, and the other person wins or whatever. But he didn't. He just smoked pot all day in the van and didn't eat anything. I just ate everything. So I won, like, two restaurants in where they had a. They were like, listen, we gotta have you eat the rest of his potatoes. We need to get some off his plate.

[Pete Corieli]

Bobby, Bobby, you should have the scrub. Dude, look at that.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, this is when I was heavy too. Dude, listen, he lost this competition on the second restaurant, and we had to do seven. We had to do seven restaurants. I had to eat his food to scrape it off his plate.

[Big J Okerson]

Dude, that's crazy amount of restaurants to eat out in one day.

[Bobby Kelly]

Not for me back then. I love this show. I wanted the show to go more than anything.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, man, I'll do 10 restaurants in a day. I don't give a.

[Bobby Kelly]

They had.

[Pete Corieli]

They.

[Bobby Kelly]

They didn't have any. They had just the van to hang out with. But I don't smoke weed. He would just go in there and smoke the whole thing up. And I went in with. I go, hey, dude, I really smoke smoke weed. And this is the only place to hang. Goes, yeah, man, hang out under that awning over there. I was like, okay, maybe I can

[Pete Corieli]

explain this to you. Weed is my everything you're eating. Weed is my all food to you. I would hate so much that if there was the thing of me just, like, pounding food.

[Bobby Kelly]

I don't like that he froze on that. Look at that.

[Pete Corieli]

I did ask him. I did ask him to do that.

[Bobby Kelly]

I know, but that is a terrible one, right? Play it it.

[Big J Okerson]

Eat their way through.

[Bobby Kelly]

Sh. Just took a bite of everything.

[Big J Okerson]

You know what you look like right there a little bit.

[Bobby Kelly]

What a.

[Big J Okerson]

Well, you remember when crocodile guy died, the guy who got. What was his name?

[Pete Corieli]

Steve Durbin.

[Big J Okerson]

And then I see his kid years later in a photo, and I'm like, oh, wow. You see he look like Ralphie May's son in that photo.

[Bobby Kelly]

What the is that?

[Big J Okerson]

I see that a little bit there, you know, like he passed.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, he has a son. Okay.

[Big J Okerson]

No, he doesn't. I don't think he does.

[Bobby Kelly]

But I'm saying I think he does have kids.

[Pete Corieli]

Right, but you don't like that one. You look at what we think his son would look like.

[Big J Okerson]

Thank you, Jay. Jesus Christ. Thank you for being in the room. I hope.

[Bobby Kelly]

I hope. I hope you don't think people say that all the time. Oh, look at that one. Will you stop pausing on the worst photos?

[Pete Corieli]

There's no good Ones.

[Big J Okerson]

There's a good one, son. Again, I'm sorry. I'm sticking with it.

[Pete Corieli]

You know, this is what killed your father.

[Bobby Kelly]

My father's still alive.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, I thought Ralphie May was your father.

[Big J Okerson]

This kind of behavior killed your father.

[Bobby Kelly]

Now he's playing it out. Play it a little bit.

[Big J Okerson]

I want to hear it.

[Bobby Kelly]

I want to hear it. All right, this is the corny. This shows.

[Pete Corieli]

Bobby, why didn't you choose facial hair

[Bobby Kelly]

at all back then? Because I. I just didn't.

[Pete Corieli]

I don't know why. That would have been the move. A little bit. That would have saved you a little bit. This was. This is not your heaviest.

[Bobby Kelly]

Because when I had fa, I did have a goatee at one point, but I just look like some Mongolian warrior.

[Big J Okerson]

You.

[Pete Corieli]

You were not. You didn't. You didn't get into. Into the. You didn't get into the beard of it at all. You were a goatee guy gets lost. It looks like you. It looks like you can't shave the hair around your mouth.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. I look like Genghis Khan's fat brother that had to take two horses in a wagon.

[Big J Okerson]

Just trying to prove you can grow half somewhere sort of a thing.

[Pete Corieli]

Right. This part of your face looks like butt cheeks.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Pete Corieli]

And this looks like hair.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, you, Coryell, you knew me through a bunch of different looks.

[Big J Okerson]

I knew you when you were better looking than me.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

Because now this white beard, bro, I am loving this look. You gotta keep this going.

[Pete Corieli]

I'm telling this.

[Big J Okerson]

And it's not thick. I saw it thicker in a video. I liked it before in a video. It was thicker.

[Bobby Kelly]

I it up. I tried to trim it and I zipped half of it off.

[Big J Okerson]

I did that too many times.

[Bobby Kelly]

I did that. Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

And you know what? You got to be careful before you're doing a special taping. I mean, when you do. When you're buzzing your beard before taping, that's like. That's more important than jokes.

[Pete Corieli]

You can go to a.

[Big J Okerson]

You can up now on a Tuesday, but you better have that down by big taping.

[Pete Corieli]

You can go to a black or Latino gentleman who will make it perfect.

[Bobby Kelly]

I did. I did that one time.

[Big J Okerson]

Bobby, though, was like, arguably top 10 best looking guys in New York City at one point. I mean, women.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh. On the computer and everything. That's. That's exactly why.

[Pete Corieli]

That's a Dell computer. It needed to happen.

[Bobby Kelly]

Makes me so happy. It's on. It's Jacob's backpack.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, man.

[Bobby Kelly]

Jacob is furious right now, and he has to pretend like he's not.

[Big J Okerson]

I don't have enough credits to spill a beer on your backpack.

[Pete Corieli]

I am so.

[Bobby Kelly]

Dude, you're crazy.

[Pete Corieli]

Big deal, dude. It's a Dell computer.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't touch him. He doesn't like to be touched either. Spill beer, you're touching him.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, man. But I was making a point.

[Bobby Kelly]

What was I saying? You're saying I was gorgeous. Go back.

[Pete Corieli]

He was one of the top five most gorgeous guys.

[Big J Okerson]

He really was. I mean. And the thing was. Again, I'm so sorry about that, Cory.

[Bobby Kelly]

Ellie's never been, but I know one

[Big J Okerson]

ever threw themselves at me in my life. I've never had a woman do that.

[Bobby Kelly]

Nah, because you weren't that guy.

[Pete Corieli]

You were. You had a. I mean a wife almost the entire time I've known you.

[Big J Okerson]

Pretty much.

[Pete Corieli]

And you seem like you're a relationship guy. If you were out there, you had a girlfriend. The girls, my wife.

[Big J Okerson]

I was doing my thing.

[Pete Corieli]

I was gonna say when I came into comedy, there was definitely the girls of my era like thought you were a good, very good looking dude.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. You're crazy, dude.

[Big J Okerson]

Yeah, but that was like. That was nice of them to say but like they thought they would go, oh, Pete's good looking. Bobby, want to.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Because.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

Can I say something? I had, I had, I had you want to me energy. You never like that. You were always a nice guy.

[Pete Corieli]

Yeah. Bobby walks in and like, I'm not wearing underwear. Sluts.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah,

[Pete Corieli]

that's Bobby's stories. Bobby's like. And then the waitress would reach down and jack me off in my overalls. And then I'd go on stage.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh my God.

[Bobby Kelly]

How many times I got blown in the Boston comedy like hallway downstairs at

[Pete Corieli]

the bag of in by esty dude.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, shut up. That's not true.

[Big J Okerson]

All I know is when I would come in with like.

[Pete Corieli]

It's in my book.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, she didn't blow me at the Boston Comedy Club.

[Pete Corieli]

I said that at the book.

[Big J Okerson]

That's a. That's like a joke, right?

[Bobby Kelly]

Psycho.

[Pete Corieli]

But.

[Big J Okerson]

But when I would go into the comedy club, but my Jack. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, you know, she would come down and there be no problem. Bobby, when he would go into the comedy club and all the waitresses would kiss him on the cheek because he was like so friendly with them all. And that wasn't even sexual. That was just you being so. You've always been.

[Bobby Kelly]

You're. You've always been to me a respectable dude. Like, you're A. You're a beer drinking. You know, by the way, not to you anymore, but yes.

[Big J Okerson]

I didn't spill a bong line water. I mean, this guy's wiping a bag

[Bobby Kelly]

like you spill beer. He doesn't drink it.

[Pete Corieli]

He's help.

[Big J Okerson]

I'm so sorry, man.

[Bobby Kelly]

Makes me so happy.

[Pete Corieli]

Holy.

[Big J Okerson]

He's scrubbing the bag. A little beer dripped on the bag. He's been down there scrubbing for 15 minutes now. Holy. You're making me feel terrible, guy. Clean it later. Jesus. It couldn't have been worse position. Oh, my God. This guy's running my bottle here.

[Pete Corieli]

Big deal, dude. It's brushed Italian leather that your father gave you when you were a child.

[Big J Okerson]

Thank you. Don't worry about it. It's all good. I'm trying not to, but you're on all fours wiping the bag like it's a baby. I had the bag open. I had the bag open also.

[Pete Corieli]

Oh, my God, dude.

[Big J Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[Pete Corieli]

It went everywhere. And your cancer meds were in there. Do you spill all of your cancer meds?

[Bobby Kelly]

Holy.

[Big J Okerson]

Guys gonna call and sick for work tomorrow.

[Pete Corieli]

He's not gonna be able to handle this. I know. We gotta wrap it up because of the beer.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, Jacob's just told to wrap it up.

[Pete Corieli]

That's the end of the show. Pete Corieli, he's gonna be at Sony hall in New York, New York, this Thursday, February 26th in the Wilbur Theater on Friday, February 20th. 27th, for his as I was saying tour happening right now. For tickets and a full list of upcoming tour dates, go to Pete Corieli, C O R R E A l e p corieli.com and get your tickets today. One of the funniest guys.

[Bobby Kelly]

If you're gonna buy a ticket. If you're gonna buy a ticket to a comedy show this year, you need to go see this man. Come on. I'm not kidding. He's. He. You're not. You're not down here that often in New York and in Boston. You have to go see Pete Corelli. He is hands down hilarious. And he is a master at stand up. And it's all personal and it's all amazing. The best. I love your clips and I've always loved you.

[Pete Corieli]

You got a tattoo to go get.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm not getting.

[Pete Corieli]

She got a very personal message from Kelly Clarkson. She said this just to Bobby only.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's not true.

[Pete Corieli]

Bobby. Kelly's gonna be in Batavia, Illinois this weekend. I'm gonna be in San Antonio, San Fran. Bobby's got comics coming up. Go to Bobby or, I'm sorry, Bobby Kelly. Go to punch up that live Robert Kelly BigJ Comedy. All of our tickets. We'll be back tomorrow. Crackle

[Bobby Kelly]

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[Pete Corieli]

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Pete Corieli]

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Pete Corieli]

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