
Some comedians are returning to the states from the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. Jay would never travel that far for comedy but Bobby would go because he believes it promotes change. Jay and Bob go through the list of performers to see who actually needed the big payday from the festival. | Jay watches a documentary about Tekashi69 and can no longer defend the beleaguered rapper. | The Bonfire performs a special show in the SiriusXM "fishbowl" studio and it has some technical challenges. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more! FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf
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Big Jay Oakerson
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Robert Kelly
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Big Jay Oakerson
There goes Spotify.
Robert Kelly
Got the stiffy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Spotify's off the table again.
Robert Kelly
Oh come on. You don't like Takashi?
Big Jay Oakerson
I actually don't mind him, but I just don't mind. I hate. I hate him personally.
Robert Kelly
What? Why? He's a good.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, he's a douche.
Robert Kelly
Fuck it.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know. Because he's always angry.
Robert Kelly
No, that's his thing. He made a choice to be that character. By all accounts, he was a good kid. And then he got really wrapped up in some fucking horseshit. Like he wanted to be affiliated with gangs and all kinds of shit. Just like, just. He's a dumb motherfucker for sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, he's dumb and he acts like he's not dumb. I think the greatest video is when he got his fucking ass whooped in a gym bathroom.
Robert Kelly
Oh, there was that. And then. Or they pulled him out of his car. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, guys. Whoa, whoa.
Big Jay Oakerson
I didn't see that one.
Robert Kelly
Oh, it's great. They're pulling out of the car. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, guys, hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Kidnap him.
Big Jay Oakerson
I love when he was going over all his cars and watches and money on this video. He's like, this here's a house. Has a house. And I'm like, I know the watches. It's not a house. I mean, it's a house in like upstate New York.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, Brazil.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, Utica.
Robert Kelly
Where he goes. I mean, he goes. He would go. He goes like third world countries and like throws money up in the air and gives stacks of money to people. It's like he was. He's a very interesting dude, but he's done some deplorable shit. I had him playing this morning because that's him getting beat up. That's him getting beat up in the LA Fitness.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, that's the one. Yeah. That's just so funny to get your ass. To get your ass kicked in the gym bathroom stinks. Oh, yeah, because that's the only thing going on in the gym bathroom is poop and sucking dick.
Robert Kelly
Gay sex.
Big Jay Oakerson
Gay sex for sure. Yeah.
Robert Kelly
And also a world class beating, apparently.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
So pause this. Yeah, so I was.
Big Jay Oakerson
I want to see the video of him getting ripped out of his car.
Robert Kelly
Out of the car. See if you find that real quick. Watch that first.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is it him? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're. They're pulling him out of his car. They're robbing him. It's like he just, he handles it very. I'm not even judging it. I'm just saying based off of the person that he seems to be, you know, the character he was kind of putting out there, it seemed like Daniel, the art. The artsy fartsy kid came out there very much so. It wasn't Tekashi 6ix9ine getting pulled out of the car.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was him.
Robert Kelly
It was Daniel.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was Daniel.
Robert Kelly
Daniel Torres or the fuck his name is.
Big Jay Oakerson
Who he really is.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, guys, guys. Hey. Whoa, hey.
Big Jay Oakerson
Isn't it funny?
Robert Kelly
Hey. Oh, you're letting these neck tattoos and face tattoos paint a picture for you that's not really real.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm wearing all these colors because I'm happy, not because I'm crazy.
Robert Kelly
Got the blicky. Do you got him getting yanked out of his car.
Big Jay Oakerson
I like that rap. That song's good.
Robert Kelly
That song particularly is great.
Big Jay Oakerson
It is a good Song, and I'm not.
Robert Kelly
It's hype.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm not crazy in a rap. I don't know if you know this.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I do. I do.
Big Jay Oakerson
I do, but I do.
Robert Kelly
I don't think he has. I've tried to go through his stuff and enjoy a bunch of it. I don't, ultimately, but any song he's on, he's on one with, like, Nicki Minaj, right? Like, when he comes in, it's just exciting. He's got that. That crazy energy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Does it bother you that I'm. I have my headphones on like a rapper? No.
Robert Kelly
Right now we gotta start the show with gummo, man. You got. You feel thugged out, for sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
I just want to say this. I'm getting hot.
Robert Kelly
You don't have to stay thugged out. We don't any guests today.
Big Jay Oakerson
Looking thugged out is a hot job.
Robert Kelly
Looking thugged out is genuinely a hot job. It's hard. You can't be a thug and wear, like, you know, light colors and Bermuda shorts. You really have to keep it going. It is a look, for sure. I've almost committed completely to thuggery. I really have, because I go hoodies all year long.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Like, I've really committed to the look of, like. I look like one of the guys I dress like. One of the guys who drove Ice Cube to do the Drive By Shooting. Maybe, like, suck it on a fucking pacifier. Yo, dawg, they got him. They come around the corner right now. Roll up on these. Get the bricky.
Big Jay Oakerson
Huh? It's so funny how cool black people are that sucking on a pacifier was.
Robert Kelly
Actually kind of terrifying.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was terrifying.
Robert Kelly
That guy looked. That particular guy looked terrifying. Could you imagine a guy, like, running? That guy could rob me with words and pull us. And while he pulls, like, a pacifier's mouth and go, yo, my man, what you got in your pockets?
Big Jay Oakerson
That's something.
Robert Kelly
Nothing about me would go, dude, you're sucking on a pacifier. I'm like, yo, this guy is crazy. And just, you give it full, baby.
Big Jay Oakerson
He could do the diaper, the pacifier, and the bonnet, and I would still be terrified. He could do full, baby. It used to be, like, what, a bib?
Robert Kelly
A small bib. Yeah, with, like, blue. With bluey.
Big Jay Oakerson
Put that in my bib.
Robert Kelly
Yo, yo, put all your money in my bib front.
Big Jay Oakerson
Stuff that. Stuff those keys in my. My goddamn diaper front. I got poopy in the back.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Here, play. This is him getting kidnapped.
Big Jay Oakerson
My tit.
Robert Kelly
Whoa, whoa. Guys, guys, guys.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yes.
Robert Kelly
Let's not just go kidnapping everybody now.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, what's happening? I like when you talk like this. Let's talk like this. As long as we can go full gay show, guys. Let's do show. Let's do a full gay show. It's called the Bon Fire.
Robert Kelly
Can you play the Josh? Can you play the Josh thing you played for us before the show? When he says what does he go? What do you do for a living? Yeah, it really tickles me.
Big Jay Oakerson
There's a guy on Instagram I follow because, you know, I like following all these weird guys. It's a guy who dresses up like Michael Jackson and sounds like him, but he takes. He takes up everything. And he's like, this isn't water. This is Watobe. How much money do you make? He does it with everything. That's what reminded me.
Robert Kelly
Have you seen the guy who does Eminem on social media? Like Eminem doing things like daily. Like Eminem going grocery shopping. I got the orange juice in the tangerine in your scene. It's really.
Big Jay Oakerson
I've seen it.
Robert Kelly
Bring those up, Christine. Boss first you could play Tashik's not getting it.
Big Jay Oakerson
But you have to bring up Mal. They. They aied Martin Luther King as a stand up buddy. It's pretty. Yeah, but it looks like him. I mean, really looks like him. But his first joke is so funny. He goes, I had a dream. He does that whole dream. He goes, but I was late. Something like that. It was funny.
Robert Kelly
You gotta.
Big Jay Oakerson
They're doing crazy shit with AI now.
Robert Kelly
Go show Tekashi getting pulled out. He says, I'll give you everything, I promise you. By the way, I don't disagree with this behavior. It's just not what he's really selling in the thing.
Big Jay Oakerson
Dude, I've watched a lot of robbers this weekend. Like black dudes, the way they rob you. There's a guy who walks up, I don't know if you've seen it. He walks around like black neighborhoods. He's a black dude, but he has like a Rolex, gold chains. And they'll walk up to just like Crips or Bloods or whatever, gangsters. Like, you know, I'm looking for Best Buy. You know what Best Buy is? And they're just, they're just looking at him like, what the fuck? It's almost like when you see a lion, a group of lions, see a human being walk by, they're looking at it like, is this real? And then it is as fast as lightning. They get up and just guns, guns come out of sweatpants Yeah. I don't know where they have these guns. They just flip out and they just. In his kidney, in his liver, in his fucking, like, yeah, man, take that. You take that off right now, motherfucker. And they're so fast and fucking smooth. Robbing a motherfucker. It's like, wow, that's great. Like, white guys allow.
Robert Kelly
There's a. I've seen people.
Big Jay Oakerson
That guy's a.
Robert Kelly
Some really stupid fucking YouTube pranks that are, like. They go haywire immediately. It'll be like, a young black kid. Like, I'm gonna bring this clear book bag with, like, he has, like, fake. Like, $2,000 in the back. And it's like, they don't even care if it's fake. Pocket even the guy goes, it's fake. It's fake. They still, like. They throw him on the ground and take the bag anyway. They're like, yeah, whatever, man. Later. And he's like, all right. I got pretty crazy. That was a nutty prank. Prank? It wasn't a prank.
Big Jay Oakerson
I was the guy who did it with the brand new. The brand new Sony PlayStation that you couldn't get.
Robert Kelly
Oh, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
He was walking through the hood with it. He's just walking down the street with a brand new Sony plays box.
Robert Kelly
No, it is crazy, though, that, like, it's. It is pretty crazy that they set up that situation and it does happen. If you're a goofy white kid and you walk through the hood with a Sony PlayStation, like, someone's gonna try to fucking take it. They're going to try. They're just going to go, yeah, this is just an easy one to pull off.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. I mean, you got to take it. You'd be dumb not to take it. You can't get it.
Robert Kelly
No, you're not dumb not to take it. You're moral to not take it.
Big Jay Oakerson
But I'm saying you don't live the streets, son.
Robert Kelly
It's true.
Big Jay Oakerson
So don't talk to me about what's moral and what's not.
Robert Kelly
What am I, Seth Green?
Big Jay Oakerson
The fuck you doing, man? Look at me when I talk to you, motherfucker. All right. You understand me?
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can walk down the street with any goods in his hand.
Robert Kelly
Wait, you're coming at me crazy. I don't know if you notice this. I'm sucking a pacifier over here.
Big Jay Oakerson
Ah. I didn't know you were that motherfucker. Goddamn. Wearing him. He's wearing a bib tall.
Robert Kelly
To kill us 100 bill is so terrifying.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's terrifying.
Christine
He was so terrifying on a parent Pacifier is terrifying.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know how it works. It only works if I saw a white dude doing it. Like, this guy's mentally ill. Fuck him. You see a brother sucking on a pacifier, I'm out.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I got suck on a pacifier. You're like, oh, I just found this guy's, like, in a baby fetish. And, like, he's weird.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, yeah.
Robert Kelly
You see a black guy sucking a pacifier, it's like, I don't know why he's doing that, but it's. It's scary. He's doing. I always assume it's like when you see a black guy, like a thuggy guy get, like. I always thought the Jheri curl was somehow indicative of that. It's like you're daring people to make fun of your stupid fucking hair so you have an excuse to shoot them in the face. I mean, those gang guys would get their hair. They get like Rudy Huxtable haircuts.
Big Jay Oakerson
I always thought the past see that.
Robert Kelly
When they have, like, the bloods, they'd have, like big braids, like, coming off their head. Like four big braids coming off. They look ridiculous.
Big Jay Oakerson
They look like an American Indian squaw.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah. They're trying to tell you because they're waiting for you to go, hey, Rudy Huxt. Who? Rudy Huxtable. And then shoot you in the face.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yo, from the butter. What?
Robert Kelly
Good. He's saying, shaw, please. So he looks like he's being robbed by somebody he knows. Cuz Shaw is saying, get in the car. Takashi 69. Daniel Hernandez is saying, shaw, please let me.
Big Jay Oakerson
Let me open it. I love that he's being polite to the guy that's robbing him.
Robert Kelly
Look, it's Har.
Big Jay Oakerson
Chill, let me open it, man. Give me a sec.
Robert Kelly
First of all, he's being robbed by somebody named Harvey. He goes, harv, you know, I'll give you everything. Harv. Harv. What do you have Jewish gangsters behind you?
Big Jay Oakerson
I think his nickname is the Cheese, yo. Havarotti. I like. I like Havarati cheese.
Robert Kelly
What kind?
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, God, who cares? Havarati. Havarati. Havoritti. Havaroti.
Robert Kelly
I might be wrong.
Big Jay Oakerson
You're wrong.
Robert Kelly
It's Havarti.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's Havarati. No, no, no, you're wrong. You're wrong. Havarati cheese.
Robert Kelly
Chris, why would you come at me so hard? But I'm definitely right.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know. You came at me hard, so I did harder.
Robert Kelly
Yo, I didn't come hard.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yo, man, Put your finger down.
Robert Kelly
Yo, I didn't come hard. I came here. I didn't come. I didn't come hard. I came here like this. I. We do the thing, and then I get you. And you're gonna get it.
Big Jay Oakerson
I got it. It's Havarati, Christine.
Christine
Havardi.
Big Jay Oakerson
Havarati. Havarati. I always said already it is spelled hub. It is spelled. Oh, I don't know if you know this about me. I don't go.
Robert Kelly
You think it's spelled like Bobby Saying it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Look at it is.
Robert Kelly
Where's the Roddy? There's no Havarati. It's Havarti.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah, you're right. It's not. I thought. Why did you see.
Robert Kelly
Did Bobby just brainwash you? You saw Havarati, buddy.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's Havarati. Here's why. It's the old English text of ritty, which is from Greece, which is the Roman text of rati, which means party. So the cheese that they make is havarati, which means have a party.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Except here it just says phonetically Havarti.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, that's what it says, but I'm going by the old text.
Robert Kelly
Havarati favorite. Oh. Oh, that must be what the famous opera singer Havarati is named after.
Big Jay Oakerson
Exactly. Now you're getting it. He spells his name the same way. Havarati.
Robert Kelly
Christine, can you look up if Shah. Who's the person. Who's the person who kidnapped Havarti? Havarti. Can you play or look up who's the person, Shaw, who kidnapped him? Because this might tie into the video I wanted to show you about Takashi69.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can you silence my mic so I can take a sip of my body?
Robert Kelly
So your brain and body start working?
Big Jay Oakerson
My brain works better, so I know it's hoverar. What is it again?
Robert Kelly
Just Havarti. You're complicating it for no reason.
Big Jay Oakerson
You're a Havarti.
Robert Kelly
Why would you attack me when I'm just trying to. I'm simplifying it. So you can hurt people.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hurt people, Jay.
Robert Kelly
I know, but I'm helping.
Big Jay Oakerson
I know you do. You're a helper.
Robert Kelly
I help.
Big Jay Oakerson
You're a helper.
Robert Kelly
Your vocabulary is going to be nuts by the time you're out of here, buddy.
Big Jay Oakerson
By the time I leave here, I'm going to go teach school. Yeah, in Pennsylvania.
Robert Kelly
You're going to walk away from all this to teach school in Pennsylvania?
Big Jay Oakerson
Harvardi.
Robert Kelly
Havarti. You're not going to teach dairy. You don't have to teach dairy. You're Fine.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jacob, stop typing, you bitch.
Robert Kelly
What are you doing? Are you typing? Bobby's dumb to put on the thing. What's the thing on the screen, by the way? Everyone tells me that's what's on the screen a lot. It says Bobby's dumb on the screen.
Big Jay Oakerson
What the fuck, Jacob?
Robert Kelly
Bobby doesn't listen to the show on the RA radio. So I see what you write and I gotta tell you, it's hilarious.
Big Jay Oakerson
Sure. Great, great, great. You know what? We'll see you at hr, buddy. I have a. I have hd. Hd.
Robert Kelly
And on the show, when it goes back to it, like each show.
Big Jay Oakerson
What?
Robert Kelly
Each show, it's more. The topic comes up more than once. Bobby's dumb and it's so big. Bobby's dumb. Parentheses 1 and then Bobby's dumb and sometimes it goes up like five.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hey, why don't you do this? Why don't you type? Hey, Bobby. This is the voice in your head. Bobby's dumb. Why don't you put that in there? So when I read it, it's like you're the. The radio's talking to me.
Robert Kelly
Hey, Jacob, what is your problem? You're trying to break him or something.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is wrong with you. Five shirt guy got enough shirts on.
Robert Kelly
Oh, he don't take no shit from you. Dude, it's spelled Havarti.
Christine
Well, you triggered my. The power I looked at when you have already. So I thought Pavarotti. And I remember that he was like, you know, the enormous fat opera singer, but apparently a hound.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Really?
Christine
Yeah, of course she it a bunch of times, but just goes to show, more like Pav. Olive oil voice.
Robert Kelly
Pavanotti.
Big Jay Oakerson
Pavati. Oh, God, I think I'm gonna pava pukey now.
Robert Kelly
Bobby's got toothpick hiccups. Everything gives Bobby hiccups, by the way.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's not toothpick. It's actually that. That hot. That hot meat she got for lunch.
Robert Kelly
What hot meat?
Big Jay Oakerson
Spicy meat. She got a spicy Italian.
Robert Kelly
Did you?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, it was spicy meat. Hey, that's the Lani. I got salami.
Robert Kelly
I liked it. I liked it very much.
Big Jay Oakerson
I got salami. That's good.
Robert Kelly
She really does talk from the neck.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yay.
Robert Kelly
Oh, God. I'm looking up stuff right now.
Big Jay Oakerson
I got a bunch of stuff on tabs.
Robert Kelly
That's the voice in my head. Did you look up? Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
So I found the other guy. Harv was sentenced to 24 years for the involvement, but I'm trying to find what happened to Shaw. Yeah, we did 10 minutes on Havarati. You are a talented Young man, By.
Christine
The way, Harv's real name is Anthony.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, of course. Dude. You know that.
Robert Kelly
He goes by Harv. Hey, my name is Jay, but I go by dorcas.mc.
Big Jay Oakerson
What it said was Harv was his bodyguard and Shaw was one of Harv's associates. It was his ex bodyguard.
Robert Kelly
Okay. It's just Shaw because the guy. So what I saw today was. And to give you a little recap, Tekashi 6:9 I watched, you know, I knew his shit was out there in the ether. I didn't really pay attention to it much. And then the documentary came out. Three parts about him on Hulu.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
And I watched the first two parts in one night and I thought it was. I thought he was very interesting. And I kind of liked his stage energy and the stuff he brought to it.
Big Jay Oakerson
I thought he was He Puerto Rican.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. And I thought he was like. I was like, oh, it's pretty cool. In fact, so much so that I go, this guy would be an awesome. Like, if we could afford him, like, we should have him come play Skank. Like, he would love Skank Fest and Skank Fest would love his energy, his thing. It would be pretty fucking dope. And then I went on all my shows and said this. I came on here and sang his praises. I went on Legion of Skanks and said it on Legion of Skanks. We need to have this guy at Skank Fest. This guy rules. And then I went home that night and watched part three where he think fucked a 13 year old and tied his chick up to a radiator and beat the shit out of her for a while. And he pretty much just admits it. Anyway, so then I had to go back and really do it next day, like run through of like. Hey, hey, hey. He's not that cool. I'm sorry. I really sang his endorsement.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's rich, right?
Robert Kelly
I don't know.
Big Jay Oakerson
Why does he have a radiator? Was it 1985?
Robert Kelly
I forgot. I mean, he changed her up to something. Maybe the bedpost or something.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, radiator.
Robert Kelly
I had a radiator until about. I had a radio until about five years ago. Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Does he live in The Bronx on 126th Street?
Robert Kelly
Maybe?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yo, man, get that up on my rage.
Robert Kelly
At this time, maybe he may not have been rich at this point.
Big Jay Oakerson
Really? All right.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm just saying a radiator is like a poor person thing.
Robert Kelly
But he has three of them.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, because you're.
Christine
They're loud.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's the poorest by the way, the problem. Loud radiators. Poor people.
Christine
You have to watch TV cranked because you hear.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah. Me and Billy used to call it. Me and Billy used to call it the angry snake. Because we had one pole that went up in the living room, and it was always. It's right by the couch. So you had to be careful when you. Whoever sat down on that side because you'd burn the back of your head in the winter. Yeah. And it was so hot, you just hear it in the middle of night because they. We were on the first floor, so they turned that thing on in the basement. And you hear. It would scare the. And I would always come up. Billy's feet would be out the window. You know, just open the window, have his feet out, let the rats in. This thing was hot.
Christine
The radio, I had that. The long pole.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Christine
In the. In the bathroom that all the. All the hot steam went up and they didn't insulate it. And a number of times, like, I'm drying myself, I had like a burn mark on my ass cheek. Just sizzled.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. And that's the only way you could come after a while.
Christine
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
You had to just. Oh, God.
Christine
But yeah, I had a bunch of them. You just forget.
Robert Kelly
That was definitely one of the, like, I have to get the fuck out of this city like, things before we move to Hell's Kitchen. We were in the East Village. It was being in my, like, 40s and just listening, like, having the toy. Having. Having to turn the television up in the middle of a movie or something because, oh, he just kicked in.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah. This building's from the 1800s.
Robert Kelly
Why is that a selling point for. Everybody goes pre war.
Christine
Pre war.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It sounds awful.
Christine
Falling apart the car.
Robert Kelly
Hey, why is a. Why is the shower in the kitchen pre war?
Big Jay Oakerson
My neighbor exposed brick, which means no insulation.
Robert Kelly
Great Depression.
Big Jay Oakerson
There's nothing insulating this wall from the other dude's wall on the other side.
Robert Kelly
Oh, here's a walled up fireplace. There's definitely a body in.
Christine
I have a pre war building, and I had a neighbor below that would take a broom and bang on the top of the ceiling because I made the mistake of walking.
Robert Kelly
Because this really is a cunty way to be a neighbor.
Christine
But the steps. I mean, I'm sorry. The flooring is so old. Every time you move, there's a creek. Yeah, that and. So what could I do? I don't know how to walk any lighter.
Big Jay Oakerson
We were on the first floor.
Christine
Nothing I can do.
Robert Kelly
I have to walk on air, dude.
Big Jay Oakerson
We were on the first floor in the. On. Was it 97th street between 3rd and Lex? It was a pre war building. And our floor in the living room.
Robert Kelly
Which war? Desert Storm?
Big Jay Oakerson
No, the big one. The big one.
Robert Kelly
Korea.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, no, no, it was in Korea. It was the big one.
Robert Kelly
I thought that was big. Was it mash?
Big Jay Oakerson
That was not. That was mash, not the big one.
Robert Kelly
Grenada.
Big Jay Oakerson
Close. Bigger.
Robert Kelly
Bay of Pigs.
Big Jay Oakerson
You got it right before. The bag of pigs is Bay of Pigs.
Robert Kelly
The bag of pigs.
Big Jay Oakerson
The bag of pigs of 127th Street.
Robert Kelly
Remember the bag of pigs?
Big Jay Oakerson
We were fighting with the superintendent, who was like a Polish dude. Just this fucking piece of. And he would. I'd look down. There's a hole in the floor. We could see him in the basement and hear him yapping to the other guy and be like, hey, be quiet. And a broomstick would come up and just hit the bottom of your feet. And he would go, ha, ha ha. It was like this up game. This dude.
Christine
So awful.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Christine
There's literally not a step in my apartment I can take that doesn't sound like a coffin opening.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was so bad. 325amonth, though. 325amonth. That was pretty good.
Robert Kelly
The first apartment I lived in in Astoria.
Big Jay Oakerson
What?
Robert Kelly
The first place I lived in Astoria, we were like, yeah, these windows here are great, but like, they don't stay open. And he goes, oh, you know. And he came the next day and he gave us whatever. There was like five windows in the house. Six windows. He gave us a nice laminated stick.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, yeah.
Robert Kelly
So your window to be open, your choices were all the. Yeah or not at all. Because he didn't give us various size sticks.
Big Jay Oakerson
We had a two by four that went in the window. There was no temperature control.
Robert Kelly
It was either hot outside or fucking winter inside.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was so fucked up. I just remember Billy's feet sticking out of the window in the middle of the winter. And I walked by him and he's like, it's hot, man. It's hot, dude. Like, he was paralyzed from heat. Crazy.
Robert Kelly
So. Yes. So I went on this tirade about Tekashi 6ix9ine being so great.
Big Jay Oakerson
And then he's gonna stop going on tirades.
Robert Kelly
I know. And turned it around that he's actually a bad dude. This is him doing an interview now. Now he's. He cut his hair. He doesn't have the crazy hair anymore. He just dyes it a color.
Big Jay Oakerson
You said he didn't get fatter, but he looks like he got a little fatter, but it might be just the.
Robert Kelly
Hair, maybe a little chubby. Just the fact that he's just getting older. His hair looks weir.
Big Jay Oakerson
When real thin guys put on weight.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Makes me happy.
Robert Kelly
It is great. But he. This is him essentially defending why he had to put hands on his chick.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, let's hear him out. So, yeah, I mean, you know what? You only hear the girl side a lot.
Robert Kelly
You're not wrong.
Big Jay Oakerson
I got hit. He hit me. He did this and that.
Robert Kelly
Lying.
Big Jay Oakerson
What did you do?
Robert Kelly
What did you do?
Big Jay Oakerson
What did you. So you were just walking in and you went, hey, baby. Love you.
Robert Kelly
Nonsense.
Big Jay Oakerson
Can I get you something to eat? You're the best. Thanks for doing all the stuff. And he hit you.
Robert Kelly
Do you remember? Do you remember, though, in the. Michelle A. Does. What is it called? Like a docu film or whatever. Surviving Compton. Yeah. When. Remember that? She was just like, I was late home and be so excited he was gonna come home, and he would just come in and he goes.
Big Jay Oakerson
She goes, hey, baby, how was your day?
Robert Kelly
And he would just straddle her and start punching her in the face. Jesus Christ.
Christine
She goes.
Robert Kelly
And then I felt bad for him.
Big Jay Oakerson
She's a good person.
Christine
Sometimes he'd just shoot at her. Yeah. Shot at her holding a baby. While she's holding a baby.
Big Jay Oakerson
Dr. Dre was a shit.
Christine
It's the greatest movie.
Big Jay Oakerson
He should have done it with a pacifier.
Robert Kelly
Dr. Dre, that is one of the funniest movies of all time. Like, there's no way this could all be true like this.
Christine
I believe everywhere.
Robert Kelly
He's like, hey, I told you not to wear that blazer on this video shoot.
Big Jay Oakerson
She goes, I thought I looked this.
Robert Kelly
He's like, why don't you just come right behind this thin curtain with me real quick? And you just beat the out of her wall. The rest of NWA sits there and goes, yeah, it's a damn shame.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yo, I'm gonna silhouette beat you in front of the other people.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Christine
Like a puppet show, you know, Everything happened. That is real. Because she's not in Straight out of Compton. She doesn't exist in that movie.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, they cut her out. I bet they filmed those scenes. But they were like, nah, you gotta take that out.
Robert Kelly
He's like, you know what, dude? It's not actually reading that good. The way I would come home and just punch her before I took my piss.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hey, guys. Dre, the focus group didn't like when you would just punch her for no reason and shoot at her.
Robert Kelly
When you just walk in and decide to shoot at her feet and then just soccer in the face for merely existing.
Big Jay Oakerson
Unbelievable. Man, are you. Did you stop hitting women?
Robert Kelly
Me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gave that up a long, long time ago.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's good, buddy. I'm glad you got to that.
Robert Kelly
No, that was good. But, you know, maybe she had done something. Yes.
Christine
If they put her in Straight out of Compton, I think he would have wrote it that it was. He was really nice, but it just didn't work out. It just didn't work out. But. And then, you know, she would say. She would say something after that. So best leave her completely out. Like, she didn't exist, guys.
Big Jay Oakerson
She could be lying. She could be lying.
Robert Kelly
I think if any of the comedians at this point were, like, hitting chicks, like, that would come out. I know if you get any kind of history of that, that comes out pretty quick. For people that like, that rumor goes out quick.
Big Jay Oakerson
Christine. It would. Because I'd make it happen.
Robert Kelly
I mean, me.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, not you.
Christine
No.
Robert Kelly
Christine knows loose lips sink ships.
Big Jay Oakerson
I've only heard one.
Robert Kelly
Huh?
Big Jay Oakerson
I've only heard one, Louis.
Robert Kelly
No, you've only heard one. What do you mean? Ever? That was like.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, we know. I don't. Burt Kreischer. No, no. Nobody smacks Leanne in the face.
Robert Kelly
You've heard it here first, everybody. You know what? Bobby pulled the. Pulled off the band aid. I'm just going to let flow, too.
Big Jay Oakerson
Do it.
Robert Kelly
I've seen on many, many occasions, Bert Kreischer beat Leanne unmercifully. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that, Jacob. Now, I don't know if I agree with that. I think there is something wrong with that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Nothing wrong with that.
Robert Kelly
Bert Kreischer is. Everyone thinks he's the fun drunk. Nope, that's the one.
Big Jay Oakerson
You see, it's funny, too, because two bears. Tom hits. Hits his wife, too, also.
Robert Kelly
It's. Yeah, completely true. And the weird thing is, like, Bert waited till the kids were kind of, like, out of the. Out of the shot to take his punches to Leanne. Tom, I hear, just. He makes the kids watch.
Big Jay Oakerson
But he did it on the podcast. I was on the podcast, and she said, so when is your special coming out? And I already told him that it is out. And he literally cracked her whack and went, it's out now. Dumb. Dumb.
Robert Kelly
Wow.
Big Jay Oakerson
And then she actually composed herself. Didn't even cry. Smiled, edited it out, and edited the magic of editing. It's crazy. Wow.
Robert Kelly
You heard it here first.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Adam. Carolla, I don't want to say this for Adam Carolla touches me under the table when I do his show.
Big Jay Oakerson
What?
Robert Kelly
I feel brave enough now to say it.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's.
Robert Kelly
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What a purge day. I'm really enjoying all of this. Bert Kreischer is an abusive husband.
Big Jay Oakerson
Tim Dillon made me suck him off to get on his show. Wait, that's.
Robert Kelly
Oh, my God.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's actually.
Robert Kelly
Could be real.
Big Jay Oakerson
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Robert Kelly
Did. Did you watch all the people that are coming back from the Riyadh Comedy Festival?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, dude. It's getting confusing to me because they. Okay, everybody went and accepted these outrageous. I mean, how do you say no offers, right?
Robert Kelly
It depends who you are.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, I mean, look, it doesn't matter who you are. If $2 million.
Robert Kelly
No one got $2 million.
Big Jay Oakerson
Chappelle got 2 million.
Robert Kelly
It's 1.6 was the highest cap out.
Big Jay Oakerson
They said, okay, whatever, I'm over. Let's just say a million. It's a lot of money.
Robert Kelly
Not to so many people.
Big Jay Oakerson
All right, to some people.
Robert Kelly
To some people. To Jessica Kierson for Sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't.
Robert Kelly
But she wouldn't get a million.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, she. How much did she get?
Robert Kelly
I don't know. I assume she was like in the six figure, lower six figure ones. I mean, Tim Dillon was 375, so I don't know what the.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't. I don't know.
Robert Kelly
I don't know what the other ones were. I heard it went from like 150 or something. They said to make 150 up to 1.6. Okay, offers.
Big Jay Oakerson
Let's start. 150 is a ton of fucking cash for somebody like Jessica or. I don't know, man. It's a weird thing. It's like I wish they would just all go, I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I went and I got the money and it was a good money. And I went. Going to Saudi Arabia.
Robert Kelly
Some people are.
Big Jay Oakerson
But Saudi Arabia is not like a either. It's like this. A lot of people don't go into Saudi Arabia for a long time.
Robert Kelly
They have Cheesecake Factory.
Big Jay Oakerson
What do you say?
Robert Kelly
I heard Bill's thing. They have Cheesecake Factory.
Big Jay Oakerson
The problem with Bill McDonald's problem with Bill is that he was giving somebody else shit for going there and taking money.
Robert Kelly
Of course, I think he also says in that same thing that there is money he would go for. For sure. He went for. I just think it's weird. Like, that is the thing I didn't think of at all because I don't get into the. The politics of it more. I was just kind of like, it's a weird. I guess that is the politics of it. But just like a weird look. And also I just personally want to go. I don't want to go to, like, Australia to do comedy. And Australia is lovely, you know, I mean, I just don't want to travel that far and go on. The thing is not my.
Big Jay Oakerson
I would go to Australia. I had. I had a. I was all set to go in just for laughs, but they wanted to fly me coach. And I was like, I'm not doing 24 hours in coach, no way. I just can't do it. So I didn't do it. I regret not going because I've always wanted to go to Australia.
Robert Kelly
You can go to Australia, though.
Big Jay Oakerson
Not. Not the way I would want to go, you know.
Robert Kelly
Great. But again, I do want to go to Australia. I don't want to go to Saudi Arabia.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you see? I would. I would definitely love to go to Saudi Arabia. I would. Look, I would love to go over to an Arab country. I've Never been. You know what I mean?
Robert Kelly
I mean, I want to, like, It's. There's just no way to be there for the day. I don't want to. I don't want to stay there for a week in a. I would love rock.
Big Jay Oakerson
I would love to go there, just to see Dubai and. And Riyadh. I wouldn't. I would. I would like to see the world. I would like to.
Robert Kelly
Sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
You know, I've been to Iraq. I went to the Ziggurat. I went to Abraham's house. That's. To me. That's crazy that I got to go up the Ziggurat.
Robert Kelly
Sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
You know what I mean?
Robert Kelly
I don't know what that is.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's. It's a pyramid in. In Babylon. Ziggurat is in Babylon, which is where.
Christine
Where.
Big Jay Oakerson
Where life started. Supposedly. Abraham's house is over there. Supposedly. Other stuff.
Robert Kelly
Oh, I heard it was, like, a nice split level.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was actually in the ground.
Robert Kelly
I heard Abraham's house was so nice.
Big Jay Oakerson
But I wouldn't mind going. I mean, it looks beautiful, and it's. You know, when do you get a chance to go over there? And I love Ari Spears. Aries Spears. Aries Spears did a video in the first class, which is. I would love to do that. That's a. What is that, a $20,000 ticket?
Robert Kelly
At least.
Big Jay Oakerson
So it's like, I don't. I don't. I don't care enough to give a fuck. Yeah. I know these people. Here's the thing. This is what makes me. And I don't want to get too crazy with it, but here's the thing that flips me out. Okay? So these people go there. I know that they kind of up the way they treat people. They kill a journalist, freedom of speech. Women, they treat like shit. Got it. Right.
Robert Kelly
Illegally be gay.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think illegal to be gay. Got it. But in order to change, right? If in order to change, you need to open up to these things. So now they open up to. They open up to laughs. Thanks, Jacob. Thanks for saving me on this point. I just forgot where I was going. I had a full set of steam, and then I saw Jay whisper something to Lou, and I was like, oh, boy. But what I'm saying now, this is how people change. This is how people become free because they want something other people have, and they start to get it. They like football, they like golf. They like comedy. They like all this stuff.
Robert Kelly
And I just think that a few people here in Saudi Arabia can come together to listen to me talk about my Six fat. Then I think.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think if you can change and I can change my waist size.
Robert Kelly
Everyone can change, dude. Everyone can change, dude.
Big Jay Oakerson
Just to take devil's advocate, right, you start. You start sending comedy over there. And they let. They let a gay woman go over there. They were letting a gay man perform over there. They were having no restrictions on her. What she can say that's not true. No, they did. They. She didn't have. They had a bunch. And then they. She said, you can talk about being gay. They let her talk about being gay. That's huge.
Robert Kelly
She said that was her preemptive thing before she went there.
Big Jay Oakerson
Right. But they said, okay, which is crazy. Which is great. So that means all the gay people in this country who are hired got to see a gay woman perform. That's fucking inspirational.
Robert Kelly
They offered me a million dollars at Fly Coach. It's not. I understand that. They just didn't offer Jessica a million dollars for sure. And she's saying she gave all the money away. Well, I'm saying it. Let's assume she did, but let's assume she did. I'm saying give it away. Then what was the point of the whole thing at all to begin with? Now, if you do believe you were on, like, some sort of diplomatic mission, like, sure, I guess.
Big Jay Oakerson
She said that. She said that she. I mean, it was important to me to go there. And she got emails from people. This is from her. She got emails from gay people over there that was like, thank you. Thank you so much. Which even if that's five people, that's pretty crazy.
Robert Kelly
I genuinely am not. Like, I. I'm morally opposed to it in as much as, like, I hate it. No, I'm morally opposed to performing at it. Like, like, as much as, like the layman. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm just like, yeah, why would you go perform for, like, the architects of 9 11? But like, one of them was like, oh, we're trying to build bridges and blah, blah, blah. Sure, I guess I don't. That's what I'm saying. I don't have, like, a strong, hard opinion about it. People that were stirred up so much. It is pretty funny.
Big Jay Oakerson
Like, people that.
Robert Kelly
A weird place to want to go.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. But the people that were our enemies back in the. Japan, Germany, we hated these.
Robert Kelly
I still do.
Big Jay Oakerson
You hate Japan.
Robert Kelly
The Japs, I call them. Yeah, you heard it here first.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I feel you, dude.
Robert Kelly
I've never let it go.
Big Jay Oakerson
I hear you.
Robert Kelly
Because of the Japs, you understand. My birthday is always marred with Memories of the worst. What I still consider to be the biggest, worst attack on U.S. soil.
Big Jay Oakerson
Pearl Harbor.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, suck on that. 9, 11. Why wouldn't they let me come? Why would they invite me to Riyadh with that kind of logic?
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know. I just think that it's.
Robert Kelly
I think the, the.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think. What was my point that I was making?
Robert Kelly
If you can change, everybody can change. But they.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, no, no. That, that. No.
Robert Kelly
But Bill Burr doesn't need the dough at all. And like, what is his. That's what I'm saying. Like, what is the fact Russell Peters.
Big Jay Oakerson
Has been going over there for years.
Robert Kelly
Sure.
Big Jay Oakerson
The comics have been going to Saudi Arabia and Dubai for years.
Robert Kelly
Absolutely. My thing is what someone pointed out that I thought was most interesting.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is that a bomb?
Robert Kelly
Was it? Yeah, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is that a plane flying into the building? You hear that? I do hear it. What is that?
Robert Kelly
It's something Ron Bennington, which by the way, we walked by because I don't know if you know, after our show in the fishbowl today, Ron Bennington's doing a show in the fishbowl of which everybody had low, comfortable, wide chair. We took pictures. They said they couldn't change that for us, but as soon as we left, super comfortable leather couch chairs.
Christine
They looked very comfortable.
Big Jay Oakerson
I took pictures of it. So we can put them up and you can tell us what you think. I mean, they look. Not just one too. There was five.
Robert Kelly
I asked about this. Not last minute, Bobby.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, I know.
Robert Kelly
I asked about this a day ago.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, I have an explanation from the engineering team, which is that, Marcus, we're not worth shit.
Christine
We couldn't.
Big Jay Oakerson
Couldn't play guitar on a one of those comfy low chairs.
Robert Kelly
One, sure. He could have two. We could have put him in a chair.
Big Jay Oakerson
We could put him in the front. We could have put him. We could have put all satin chairs and then have him just stand when.
Robert Kelly
He was gonna play. He could have gone over and played and sat on a stool and like been center of the room. We were treated for a change like jerk offs.
Big Jay Oakerson
But can I just say this? We deserve it.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I guess.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, we do. Ron Bennington has paid his dues and is. He's, you know, he deserve chairs. We deserve stools. Let's earn it.
Christine
I guess we'll earn it all of future shows. I know which chairs you want now and I'll have them.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, why don't you just do what we ask? Cuz maybe we want. We want stools.
Christine
At one point I was just told Gray chairs. So I.
Big Jay Oakerson
Chairs got gray stools. Here's the thing. Ask us or ask us, and then when we tell you what we want, do that.
Robert Kelly
Listen, I don't want to absolve Christine from any responsibility here for our show not having. She keeps saying, like she had this real commitment to gray chairs. Gray, gray. Gray is worthless. They're in there. There's gray, there's brown, there's all kinds of. So the color.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, we don't care about the color.
Robert Kelly
She harped too much on the color when I told her to get the message out that we wanted the comfy low chairs.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did you say gray?
Robert Kelly
No.
Big Jay Oakerson
So why is gray a thing?
Robert Kelly
I don't know, but she's kind of locked into that.
Big Jay Oakerson
Why do you keep saying gray? Why is that? That was a fuck up. I said gray. Comfy chairs. The chairs were gray. And I. Jacob, I already told them. I go my fault because when I came in for the check, I didn't realize they weren't the right chairs then. But why gray? Because they're usually. I haven't actually. I feel like that's the first time I've seen the black ones. The chairs. Those chairs have always been gray, as far as I know. I didn't realize. I didn't like. I wasn't factoring in the gray stools. I thought the gray chairs, you just.
Robert Kelly
Latched on too much to gray. You should have said you should. No, you should have said words like. Like comfy low. I said comfy low. Like full size chairs.
Big Jay Oakerson
I said great.
Robert Kelly
The big ones. Big chairs is also what I could have used.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Comfortable chair would have been nice.
Robert Kelly
Now me and Bobby have belly burn from our pants and our bellies hanging over our pants.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. I had to suck in my stomach.
Christine
For me, they looked comfortable.
Big Jay Oakerson
I had to put my hands in my hoodie pocket and stick my thumbs in my belly button and push my stomach in the whole time.
Robert Kelly
You happy, Jacob? You'd be comfortable sleeping in a matchboat. Look, you're a mouse. We are large men.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Ratatouille. We're large men.
Robert Kelly
We're large men. Bobby's not that tall, but. No, we are large.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Which is worse on a stool. My feet are dangling.
Christine
Now I know which chairs. I know that you want the Bennington chairs, which now on be called the bonfire chairs.
Big Jay Oakerson
Are we going to get fishbowl again? When's that gonna.
Robert Kelly
Never.
Big Jay Oakerson
10 years.
Robert Kelly
Never. Our whole audience was. Was Black Lew's barbecue guests.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, they did. They did a giveaway for two tickets in House. Oh, God. Two new employees, which this company never has.
Robert Kelly
They never have new employees.
Big Jay Oakerson
They don't have new employees.
Christine
That is true.
Robert Kelly
There's two Indian people confused at Marcus King.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, my God. Could when you. When you were making a joke about something, his wife or that guy's wife was like, appalled.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, yeah. Oh, good, good. Well, they work here. I look forward to her strange stairs in the hallway.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, anyways, I think that. I don't think. I think it's all, who cares? Move on. And it's like you said, people. People want to grab something and attack that. Like the sides now, I guess, like there's. I don't know, like they had this back in the day, I think, in the 90s. Remember alt comics. And then there was club comics. And the altcomics hated the club comics. And the club comics didn't even know were club comics. We just, you know, we talked about pussy and farting and shit worked.
Robert Kelly
We got paid.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, where they paid us. We just went and, you know, they made this whole big thing and it was all horseshit until, hey, this. Until they started getting paid and then they shut the fuck up and they started doing animations. When they called that a sellout. Now they're all fucking have set for life money because they played a chipmunk, them.
Robert Kelly
This was personal. I feel like.
Big Jay Oakerson
Who, me?
Robert Kelly
Yeah, that one.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm reading that off my phone.
Robert Kelly
Your suicide note.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's from Nick Depaulo.
Robert Kelly
Now this one, just like I said, I have no real, like heavy moral objections to it. And everybody went to go do it. But I just don't understand, like, if you don't need that money, why are you opening yourself up to the thing?
Big Jay Oakerson
What do you mean you don't need money?
Robert Kelly
I don't understand Gabriel and Glaze, they just don't. $1.6 million that he can do without fucking getting on a 17 hour.
Big Jay Oakerson
I understand that, but $1.6 million, even if you have $40 million, is still $1.6 million.
Robert Kelly
Agreed.
Big Jay Oakerson
That goes into something. And that's still. You know what I mean?
Robert Kelly
When you.
Big Jay Oakerson
When you have that much money, your bills are. Are rel. Are kind of the same, right, as my goals.
Robert Kelly
Is it enough to have people fucking lose their shit? Jessica's panicking. Her fan base is like running away from her.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, because she. Well, her. Because Stand up for your own convictions.
Robert Kelly
By the way, I believe Jessica. If she wanted to go, good for her.
Big Jay Oakerson
Jessica's funny. And they. She went and represented women. She represented strong women. She represented Gay women.
Robert Kelly
I don't know what she benches.
Big Jay Oakerson
She. Dude, she benches 375the out of here. I swear to God.
Robert Kelly
Does she use a bench shirt?
Big Jay Oakerson
Dude, I just think what she did was great. If it changes them just a little bit, it's great. I think it's great.
Robert Kelly
I don't know what.
Big Jay Oakerson
The fact that a gay woman can go to a Saudi Arabia and do comedy now, which wasn't the case a year ago.
Robert Kelly
I don't know if that's going to be the thing again. That's like, it won't be now because.
Big Jay Oakerson
These fucking assholes are making a stink about it. But imagine in 10 years. Yeah. She said in the contract it wasn't that you couldn't. But then they changed that and they're like, all right, you know what you can talk about. Just don't make fun of the prince and don't make fun of the religion.
Robert Kelly
Don't make fun of the royals. Don't make fun of the religion.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, which. Which, listen, you go to India, the same thing when I was going to India with. With Keith back in there. Either they said they had sensor police in the crowd. If you talked about the government at all in a bad way, they would shut the showdown and arrest you.
Robert Kelly
Oh, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
It's just. It's just a different culture, dude. Different laws.
Robert Kelly
Right. That's just what it is. I hate other cultures, so I don't want to spend time there.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think that comedy breaks walls down.
Robert Kelly
Let me tell you something. I was just before, too.
Christine
That's what you mean.
Big Jay Oakerson
That's what I meant. I was trying to get to the.
Robert Kelly
Whole time I said this before also. But I. I've. I feel uncomfortable performing in English in other countries. I feel awkward performing in other countries. Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Sorry. Without hair gel.
Robert Kelly
I don't know if the point's gonna hit anymore. I don't know if. But I don't like performing in other countries because of like, that speak English. English speaking countries, that all the differences is they have accents because I still feel like they can't understand me. Do you know? I mean, like, I feel still awkward in that. So going to Saudi Arabia, I'm like, I wouldn't know the timing or rhythm of what to do. I'd love to hear what Josh did.
Big Jay Oakerson
They love. Oh, we can talk about that. But they love everything we do. They love it. They love. They love golf, they love our movies. Everything that America does, they love. And they love stand up and they wanted stand up and they have enough money to buy our souls Everything.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, because they love everything. We have golf, movies, and Stand Up.
Christine
Josh.
Robert Kelly
All we have. Oh, yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, Josh did. Josh did not get asked to go. Josh materialized like he does.
Christine
He wasn't on the bill, but he went to Saudi Arabia.
Robert Kelly
Yes.
Christine
Just to hang.
Robert Kelly
To open for Bill.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, no, no, no, no.
Christine
Wait.
Robert Kelly
Is that true? He didn't go to open for.
Big Jay Oakerson
I thought he found his way out there.
Robert Kelly
It's very possible.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think he found. I think he got a magic carpet ride.
Robert Kelly
Jelly Roll. I think Jelly Roll took him out there.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, he went with Jelly Roll, which is convenient. And then hooked up with Bill, and Bill put him on the. And then did his thing. Josh is a. Josh has that magic ability to get on.
Christine
Man, oh, man.
Big Jay Oakerson
You know, it's nuts.
Robert Kelly
Holy.
Big Jay Oakerson
In front of the Saudi crew.
Robert Kelly
That is funny. I did hear about that. Chappelle said that comedy is easier in Saudi Arabia. What a disconnected doofus. What a disconnected dummy. Chappelle. He's smarter than that. If that's a real exact. If that's not out of context, I.
Big Jay Oakerson
Understand what he means.
Robert Kelly
Do you know?
Big Jay Oakerson
I understand him.
Robert Kelly
Really. Where is it easier to be a journalist? Because they just killed one of them over there.
Big Jay Oakerson
He. He was. He was asking for it, dude. His dude, the guy who got killed. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, he was the guy. Listen, he was the guy's wife. You understand? Now, look, if he was the guy's friend's girl. That's a thing.
Robert Kelly
Stiffy got the blicky.
Big Jay Oakerson
But he was. Why did I. I don't even know any of this about Journalists got killed.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, well, right now in America, this is. Chappelle says right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk that you can get canceled.
Big Jay Oakerson
No, you can't.
Robert Kelly
I don't know if that's true, but I'm gonna find out. And it's just like, you get canceled. That's not the issue. Like, it's like a place that's, like. Getting canceled isn't really your problem there. You might have your hand cut off the thought.
Big Jay Oakerson
He's canceled me.
Robert Kelly
That's what I'm saying.
Big Jay Oakerson
Like, it's buried me in a sandpile.
Robert Kelly
He's just.
Big Jay Oakerson
He just called me the N word a bunch of times and then cut my head off.
Robert Kelly
He's just completely. But this one's so out in the open. That's the problem. Everybody else used to got to do it under the radar. So, like, Beyonce and all of them would go out there and perform for someone. You don't really know their things. They laid this all out. Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, that's why Billy has a. I think there's a clip of him saying, does she need the money? And stuff like that. And now it's so funny. They just go back and find you. Which sucks because they could do that with all of us.
Robert Kelly
Just go back and find you. There's no point where I'm saying there's a price that I wouldn't go for. Of course there's a price I would go for. Absolutely. But I'm going. It's going to be a high price. That would mean something to me. Because you're like, yeah, everyone's going to give me shit. I'm going to a place of awful people. It's not like I'm stoked to meet the royals. I don't give a. That doesn't, like, hold me. Like, I don't.
Big Jay Oakerson
They're good.
Robert Kelly
I mean, I'll be excited. Like, I'd be actually excited. Bill Burr's, right. And there's a Cheesecake Factory. That would be awesome. That's where you would find me at 3pm every day getting a Renee special. Renee's special.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'm getting the turkey chili. I love the turkey chili. I don't know, dude. I don't know. I just think that these. All they need to do is own it. Just own it. Yeah. I went. I. I know it might have been the wrong thing. It was crazy money. Always wanted to go. They offered me a sick deal, and.
Robert Kelly
Aries Spears is doing that. He goes, you broke?
Big Jay Oakerson
I know. I love it. I love it.
Robert Kelly
He goes, broke. People complaining to me right now, but that's what's funny is. And they keep showing. They keep the clip I was watching. Kept going back and showing Aries Spears, though, complaining about not having money and not having Kevin Hart money.
Big Jay Oakerson
Now he's got Bob Kelly money.
Robert Kelly
Now he's got it up to Bob Kelly money. Is this the Saudi Arabian Cheesecake Factory? Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
God, it looks great.
Robert Kelly
Actually.
Big Jay Oakerson
Cheesecake Factory looks like everything in Saudi Arabia. Anyways.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. You know what? I just realized that Cheesecake Factory is an American Saudi Arabian restaurant.
Big Jay Oakerson
It looks like the prince's living room.
Robert Kelly
Oh, my God. Yeah, but it's like goat cheesecake.
Big Jay Oakerson
The meatballs.
Robert Kelly
Cheesecakes made as, like, Oreo goat. Oreo goat cheesecake.
Big Jay Oakerson
Ooh.
Robert Kelly
Oh, look at that. It would say jihad, by the way.
Big Jay Oakerson
Did it say jihad on the fucking brownie?
Robert Kelly
Very well, Maven. Happy birthday Jihad. Jada.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, sorry. Yeah. Happy birthday Jihad. I don't know. So Let me ask you a question. So Billy, who are the people that shouldn't didn't need the money? Chappelle, Billy. Fluffy.
Robert Kelly
Fluffy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Who else?
Robert Kelly
Joe Coy.
Big Jay Oakerson
Joe Coy? Yeah. He doesn't need the money. He went.
Robert Kelly
Yeah.
Big Jay Oakerson
They really just did you really. They took all.
Robert Kelly
Kev, obviously. Do we say Kev?
Big Jay Oakerson
Kev don't need.
Robert Kelly
Who else didn't need it. Need it?
Christine
Louie.
Robert Kelly
Louie.
Big Jay Oakerson
I don't know if Louie might need it. Listen, Louie might need it.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Here we go. Tom does not need it.
Big Jay Oakerson
Tom. Definitely not. Sam needs it. Pete.
Robert Kelly
Sam.
Big Jay Oakerson
He looks like Kurt.
Robert Kelly
I know it's not. I don't know.
Big Jay Oakerson
I thought it was Kurt too.
Robert Kelly
It's a Middle Eastern.
Big Jay Oakerson
What's his name didn't go. That dude on the right. He wound up bailing.
Robert Kelly
He did?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, he left. He was a guy. I. I didn't want to say. I'm pretty sure he wound up leaving.
Robert Kelly
And saying I don't want to do it in go.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Norman.
Big Jay Oakerson
Is that the chick from who's got we got fast cars?
Robert Kelly
Tracy Chapman.
Big Jay Oakerson
Oh, I up. I thought it was Tracy Chapman.
Robert Kelly
As is Stan. Sorry, you got.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Chrissy D. Chrissy Schultz doesn't need the money.
Big Jay Oakerson
Chrissy. My brow is caveman like D. But.
Robert Kelly
Again, also didn't like Schultz. And these people have already played out there.
Big Jay Oakerson
Already played Dubai. They've already gone to Dubai, which is the same shit.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Jimmy Carr doesn't need the money.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
Robert Kelly
Bill doesn't need the money. Russell Peters doesn't need.
Big Jay Oakerson
Russell might know. Russell needs the money. He got a crazy divorce.
Robert Kelly
Russell Peters.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah. He got whack. California divorce.
Robert Kelly
Really?
Big Jay Oakerson
I think that's the worst of all. It's the worst of all. He need. We should all. We should do a GoFundMe too. That got whacked.
Robert Kelly
Really?
Big Jay Oakerson
Ah, dude, California divorce is the worst. Yeah, but like. Like, I mean, Bezos get whacked too. Who the Is that Bezos? I turned my. Listen, I turned my phone on to find that thing.
Robert Kelly
Just turn your sounds off.
Big Jay Oakerson
I can't. I don't know how to do it.
Robert Kelly
You know how to put your phone on something?
Big Jay Oakerson
No, I turned my phone off during the show and I just turned it on to send her that photo of the chairs because you were like, oh, the chair. So I sent it and I forgot.
Robert Kelly
To turn it off. By the way, we have a ring video doorbell now.
Big Jay Oakerson
I love it.
Robert Kelly
I don't know if I do I find it. I mean, I haven't really. I shouldn't even say that because Like I haven't gone to it at all.
Big Jay Oakerson
I love it.
Robert Kelly
But I think it's very strange to be able to like again, it's only outside. I think it's very strange. Just watch the outside of my house seem strange. I mean it's like I want. I want to only be know if someone's trying to come in or get in. Like the constant monitoring of it is strange to me.
Big Jay Oakerson
You can turn it off and you could turn. You can change all the settings to like human beings or there's all kinds of settings you can do inside of it to make it so it doesn't go off at all.
Robert Kelly
But I have to buy the service.
Big Jay Oakerson
I do. I pay.
Robert Kelly
You do?
Big Jay Oakerson
It's like nine bucks a month.
Robert Kelly
I don't know whatever it is, where.
Big Jay Oakerson
It records everything all day. So I have it up country. I need it up in. Up in New Hampshire.
Robert Kelly
Sure. You're gonna bear attacks and.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, not bear, but a lot of.
Robert Kelly
Dude, I have a lot of fat gay guys.
Big Jay Oakerson
I that's when I'm there a lot of bear attacks. That's what I'm there by myself. It's called the bear attack.
Robert Kelly
Oh, Zarbol garg went Zarbo goobagabs. Garble garbs.
Big Jay Oakerson
Well, I want you to be my friend.
Christine
You've mentioned this before. I always. Every time I see Sebastian Maniscalco's headshot. The. The action post is taking in every one of us.
Big Jay Oakerson
It was going over to Saudi Arabia.
Robert Kelly
What do you mean you guys don't have my own hands.
Big Jay Oakerson
You guys use rice instead of pasta.
Christine
But you have to hold that.
Robert Kelly
What are you doing? Why do your women have their eyes showing? Only we cover it all or cover none of it.
Big Jay Oakerson
They should do that in Chicago. Those women are fucking ugly.
Robert Kelly
Where can an Italian park his camel around here?
Big Jay Oakerson
You guys have camels? There's two humps. Why just one?
Robert Kelly
This place has no provolone.
Big Jay Oakerson
There's no. I'm in the gag.
Robert Kelly
Where's the. Where do I take an Italian guy while I'm out here being Italian?
Big Jay Oakerson
I like a shirt with a collar, man.
Robert Kelly
Comics. Didn't the comics that have taken the. The simplicity of the White people do this. Black people do this. And it's. It's trickled out to the Indian people do this. When someone cuts white down into Italians. Oh, it drives me bananas.
Big Jay Oakerson
It drives me as though not Ozzy.
Robert Kelly
We should have an Italian president.
Big Jay Oakerson
Hey.
Robert Kelly
Because things then would be Italian.
Big Jay Oakerson
We should have an attack. Imagine the wife on that. And then he'd have a gooma.
Robert Kelly
You got a cannoli in the White House.
Big Jay Oakerson
The first black president Clinton.
Christine
Gaboo Bagooga on a poster of 15 headshots. He does stand out, Sebastian.
Robert Kelly
Yeah, I know. It looks like Jessica looks like she's going. Coming to dominate, like, become a dictator of the land.
Big Jay Oakerson
She does. They should put, like, big stars on her shoulder, like a general.
Robert Kelly
I mean, fucking Schultz look like. Looks like a native.
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, Fluffy look like they said we don't have any more Mocho Loco.
Robert Kelly
Yeah. Where? How did Aries Spears get in? Everyone's in the poster except Aries Spears, who he promoted himself and nobody would have known Aries Spears. He kept promoting.
Big Jay Oakerson
I think he filled in for somebody. I think somebody who bailed. Whoever bailed, he filled in for. Well, no, it says there's 50 comedians and there's only, like, 26 on the poster. Dude, I'm going.
Robert Kelly
The festival's over.
Big Jay Oakerson
Listen, I know next gonna go, hey, yo, whatever they say, pick me 150 grand. Dude, not even.
Robert Kelly
You'll go for less.
Big Jay Oakerson
I'll go for. No, I. I want to go. This is what I want to do. I want to negotiate my thing. I want you to pay my house off.
Robert Kelly
Oh, and then also you want to be able to rape freely while you're there.
Big Jay Oakerson
Not freely. I want to fight.
Robert Kelly
Oh, you want him to fight back?
Big Jay Oakerson
Yeah, I'm not gonna.
Robert Kelly
Yes, I am.
Big Jay Oakerson
Rape freely is just chicks, right?
Robert Kelly
Did you hear right, Jacob? Oh, you know what? Let's give.
Big Jay Oakerson
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Episode: “Saudi Cheesecake Factory”
Date: October 14, 2025
Host: SiriusXM
Show: Faction Talk, Channel 103
On this episode of The Bonfire, Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly bring their signature blend of blunt honesty and raucous, unfiltered humor to a sprawling conversation touching on everything from Tekashi 6ix9ine’s notorious persona, the psychology of street culture, and poor-person apartments, to the hot-button topic of American comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. The duo unpack the moral complexities (and the financial allure) of accepting massive overseas paychecks, riff hilariously on what a Saudi Cheesecake Factory might be like, and poke fun at the dynamics of comedy’s ever-adapting culture. With help from Christine and a few memorable tangents, Jay and Bobby deliver a classic Bonfire deep-dive into ethics, greed, and the evolving world stage of stand-up.
[01:44 – 17:00]
The guys banter about rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, his over-the-top “thug” persona, and the realities behind his image.
They laugh through infamous clips of him being kidnapped, beat up, and snitched on—contrasting his stage bravado with his real-life reactions.
A recurring joke theme: how certain “intimidating” street fashions (like sucking pacifiers or wearing diapers) take on wildly different meanings depending on who’s doing them.
Bobby and Jay riff on street fashion, “hood vibes,” and the social hierarchy of “looking thugged out.”
Notable Quote:
“Isn’t it funny? You’re letting these neck tattoos and face tattoos paint a picture for you that’s not really real. I’m wearing all these colors because I’m happy, not because I’m crazy.”
— Big Jay Oakerson [04:07]
They poke fun at poor-person status symbols (radiators, rickety apartments) and the authenticity in hip hop image, with Christine chiming in about loud old apartments and TV volume over blasting radiators.
[08:25 – 10:26]
Jay describes viral social experiments where pranksters walk through rough neighborhoods flaunting expensive goods (like PlayStations or cash) and inevitably get robbed.
They dissect the difference between white and Black robbery styles—delivered with their trademark lack of filter—and lampoon how internet “pranks” often turn unexpectedly real.
Notable Quote:
“Robbing a motherfucker—white guys allow it to happen. A brother robs you, it’s quick, smooth, just BAM, guns out of sweatpants. It’s great.”
— Big Jay Oakerson [08:25]
[17:14 – 21:20]
[19:43 – 24:22]
[14:39, 43:43 – 45:00]
Jay calls out Christine (the producer) for her over-insistence on “gray chairs” and lack of delivery on their requested comfy seating for the Fishbowl show.
The team jokes about production blunders and office politics, poking fun at each other and “earning” their chair privileges like Ron Bennington.
Notable Quote:
"Ron Bennington has paid his dues... he deserves chairs. We deserve stools. Let’s earn it."
— Big Jay Oakerson [43:00]
[33:43 – 54:45]
Massive comedian paydays for performing in Saudi Arabia: rumors of $150k to $1.6 million, sparking debate about necessity, greed, and hypocrisy.
Disbelief at certain comedians (Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Joe Coy, "Fluffy" Gabriel Iglesias, Louis CK, Tom Segura) needing the dough, and speculation on smaller earners.
Notable Quote:
"If you have $40 million, another $1.6 million is still $1.6 million."
— Big Jay Oakerson [47:10]
Jay and Bobby kick around serious points cloaked in jokes: Is it okay to perform in a country with bad human rights? Does art help advance progress or does it launder reputation?
The pair makes up sketches of what an “Italian president” would be like in America, how Saudi Cheesecake Factory would feel (cue riffs on “Oreo goat cheesecake” and “Happy Birthday Jihad”), and recalls how every culture appropriates and adapts American pop culture.
Notable Quote:
“Comedy breaks walls down... If it changes them just a little bit, it’s great.”
— Big Jay Oakerson [48:02]
“I’m morally opposed to performing at it—about as much as the layman. I’m just like, yeah, why would you go perform for the architects of 9/11?”
— Robert Kelly [40:09]
They ultimately agree there’s no definitive answer—just lots of personal hypocrisy, financial temptation, and shifting boundaries as comedy globalizes.
Notable Moment:
“You know what? Just own it. Yeah, I went. I know it might have been the wrong thing. It was crazy money. Always wanted to go. They offered me a sick deal.”
— Big Jay Oakerson [53:09]
In this episode, Jay and Bobby embody everything that makes The Bonfire a SiriusXM standout: quick-witted banter, fearless honesty, a willingness to wade into the murkiest comedy controversies, and riff after riff that never loses momentum. Their exploration of the Riyadh Comedy Festival controversy models their genuine confusion and curiosity about comedy’s evolving morality—interweaving real questions with relentless humor. Whether they’re roasting Tekashi, reminiscing about bad apartments, or visualizing a “Saudi Cheesecake Factory” menu, the laughs rarely stop, even as the topics turn heavy. Ultimately, the episode provides a raw, hilarious, and thought-provoking snapshot of how stand-up is globalizing (and paying), one fat check and dodged debate at a time.