The Reveal Part 2 w/Ari Shaffir & Dan Soder

Summary

The Bonfire w/ Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly

Episode: The Reveal Part 2 w/Ari Shaffir & Dan Soder
Date: April 2, 2026
Guests: Ari Shaffir & Dan Soder
Theme: Exploring and mercilessly roasting Big Jay’s cringeworthy early stand-up, specifically his love of “the reveal” – sight gags and prop bits – in all-black comedy rooms, plus a host of wild personal anecdotes and brutal comic deconstruction.

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Episode Overview

This episode is a continuation of the hosts’ journey through Big Jay Oakerson’s early stand-up footage, focusing on his now-infamous set at a predominantly Black comedy club. With comics Ari Shaffir and Dan Soder joining, the crew analyzes, deconstructs, and gleefully roasts every awkward moment, failed “reveal,” and questionable creative choice in young Jay's act. Along the way, they spiral into hilarious commentary on comedy growing pains, race, self-sabotage, and the unvarnished realities of stand-up evolution.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Watching the Tape: Jay’s Early Standup and The “Reveal” (00:47–06:38)

• Setting the Scene: The episode picks up with the crew dissecting Jay’s opener at an all-black club, marveling at his willingness to go full prop comic so early in his career.
• Anticipation and Dread: The group eagerly rewinds and fast-forwards, bracing for each cringe-worthy reveal and debating—sometimes with accurate guesses—where Jay will crash and burn next.
• Old-School Comedy Rituals:
  • Fat Guy T-shirt Removal: Jay’s method of flashing the custom “Black People Rule” T-shirt is likened to a “girl taking a bra off under a shirt.”
    • Dan Soder: "That’s not Bertra. That’s fat guy esque..." (06:09)
  • Sight Gag Philosophy: Jay, self-deprecatingly, describes his dedication to sight gags and one-off shirts, noting this habit grew from a desire to do “a lot of different stuff all the time.” (18:01)
• The First Reveal:
  • Jay reveals his homemade “Black People Rule” shirt to a mix of applause, shock, and collective embarrassment from both the live audience (in the tape) and the comics watching.
    • Big Jay: "This is like finding out your mom has a penis. ...I saw my mom with tits and a penis." (04:07)
    • Dan Soder: "He used a white person’s word. Jay took his shirt off and has a white T shirt that he made himself. ...And it says, in black writing, black people rule." (04:17)
• Meta-Roasting the Bit: The current Jay cringes as the group picks apart the shirt, the “code-switching” onstage, and the rapid-fire transitions between Black and white crowd work voices.

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Falling Flat: Bombing, Black Rooms, and Comic Insecurity (06:38–22:00)

• Instant Bombs and Recovery:
  • Jay’s punchlines fall flat, especially the bit about going to jail for not returning "Flubber" video—a reference painfully obscure for the target crowd.
    • Dan Soder: "Every black kid I know. That was the childhood movie Flubber." (13:48)
    • Big Jay: "You knew it was already not going to...it’s like a batter who just swings out like, I'm not even close to this." (15:16)
  • When punchlines tank, Jay reflexively shifts into a hackneyed “Black voice”—a move everyone identifies and skewers as desperate.
    • Dan Soder: "You go immediate black when you bomb." (13:12)
• Crowd Reluctance: The crew vividly describes how unresponsive the live audience is, and how Jay's desperation grows. - Christine: "You can see how stuck I am that I go like this. I— I give a satisfyingly like...your face." (22:28)
• Revelation About Black Crowds: The comics discuss lessons learned—Black rooms being the toughest, and not at all receptive to hacky “gay jail” lines or “white boy in the hood” stereotypes. - Christine: "I didn’t realize yet that black people...don’t love gay...They don’t think white guys making funny gay joke shit is funny, especially about rape at all." (18:20) - Dan Soder: "This crowd taught you this lesson." (18:52)

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The True Story Behind the Jokes: Getting Arrested for Movie Rentals (19:09–22:00)

• Actual Origin of Jay’s Arrest Story: Jay reveals he was technically arrested due to an outstanding bench warrant for failing to return adult video rentals, leading to him, Kurt Metzger, and friends all being briefly jailed. - Christine: "There was a mom and pop video store in my area...The guy was very litigious...There was a bench warrant. I was getting arrested. So I’m arrested for not showing up for court." (19:09)
• The real story triggers more laughter at how the “revelation” underserves the actual truth.

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Joke Construction Breakdown & Comic Evolution (25:04–43:07)

• Sight Gags, Over-explanation, and the Flop Aftermath:
  • Jay’s onstage method is exposed: big, set-up heavy reveals, then either awkwardly basking in silence or overexplaining when jokes don’t land.
    • 2 Ray: "To say people won’t be happy is like, that’s—you workshopping with a friend. He goes, OK, cool. ...Give me a funny example of that." (26:20)
    • Christine: "I was real big on heavy buildup, low delivery." (42:55)
• Learning the Hard Way: The comics bond over how bombing in Black rooms forged their comic instincts and shaped the crowd work and edgy bits they would become known for. - Christine: "This explains why you do crowd work now." (26:55)

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The Final Reveal: Girls’ Tights and Butt Wiggles (44:23–48:48)

• The Real Closer: Jay’s act climaxes with a monologue about childhood poverty, hand-me-down clothes, and being forced to wear girls’ tights to school.
  • He literally pulls down his pants on stage to show he’s wearing tights underneath—another sight gag met with a blend of horror and admiration from his peers watching.
    • Big Jay: "Yo, that boy bend the reveal. The reveal wasn’t the first one. The reveal was under the pants the whole time." (46:01)
    • Dan Soder: "So it’s so funny that he still wears those tights today." (46:27)
• The Butt Wiggle Callback: The comics recognize Jay’s trademark “butt wiggle” dance, a through-line from this early footage to his present-day persona. - Big Jay: "Jay’s butt wiggle—very similar to the Footloose dance...You’ve been doing this for years." (47:10)
• Audience Response:
  • The set ends with the faintest of boos and absolute silence from the room.
    • 2 Ray: "They just booed you." (47:46)
    • Christine: "Those tights were definitely on from leaving house till getting home at night." (48:21)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Jay’s Daring—but Questionable—Bit:
  • Big Jay: "This is like finding out your mom has a penis. ...I saw my mom with tits and a penis." (04:07)
  • Dan Soder: "Jay was a prop actor. What happens if you didn’t show up at your shirt?" (07:58)
• Self-Roasting on Comic Growth:
  • Christine: "But I’m saying...You could see I’m doing something on stage for sure...don’t know what you’re doing yet at all." (26:42)
• On Crowd Reactions:
  • Big Jay: "You can hear the long pinky nail on that guy." (27:31)
  • 2 Ray: "Stage empty." (46:18)
• Bitterness About Unappreciated Genius:
  • Christine: "People aren't laughing, but that's a funny fucking story. Have you ever seen a fat kid wearing girls' tights?" (45:34)
• On Surviving Comic Bombs:
  • Dan Soder: "This explains why you do crowd work now." (26:55)
  • Big Jay: "This is episode two of you becoming the reveal. You're so Anakin. You're not Darth Vader yet." (16:42)

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Key Segment Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 00:47 | Watching and roasting Jay’s taped set begins | | 04:07 | Jay’s “Black People Rule” T-shirt reveal | | 06:09 | Fat guy T-shirt removal techniques discussed | | 11:05 | Early stand-up “jail” joke falls flat | | 18:20 | Discovering what Black crowds actually want | | 19:09 | Jay tells the true story behind his arrest | | 25:04 | More joke construction breakdowns | | 35:00 | “315 pounds” stage dive joke, attempted crowd work | | 42:55 | “Heavy buildup, low delivery” philosophy admitted | | 44:23 | Jay’s “girls’ tights” reveal – the true final sight gag| | 47:46 | Faint boo, awkward set ending and reflection |

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Noteworthy Recurring Themes

• Comic Growth Through Failure:
  Jay’s willingness to flop with dignity becomes a blueprint for comic self-improvement. The group lovingly dismantles his early reliance on reveals, borrowed crowd work, and crowd-pleasing attempts, emphasizing the necessity of bombing for stand-up evolution.
• The Racial Tightrope in Comedy:
  Much of the commentary turns on how white comics navigated (and mis-navigated) Black rooms in the 90s and 2000s, and what they learned from those often-painful experiences.
• Relentless Honesty and Self-Parody:
  The entire episode is a masterclass in self-roasting and peer-roasting, as each comic gets their turn while keeping the focus (mostly) on Jay’s hilariously flawed earliest work.
• The Revealing Artist:
  The motif of “the reveal”—literal (prop shirts, tights) and metaphorical (personal backstories, honest failure)—runs throughout, making for an episode as self-reflective as it is savage.

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Summary Takeaway

“The Reveal Part 2” is a standout installment of The Bonfire, blending behind-the-curtain comedy history, brutal honesty, and relentless peer roasting. Listeners get an unfiltered look at the awkward evolution of a stand-up comic (Big Jay), the hard lessons of performing for unyielding crowds, and the sweet camaraderie among comics who have all faced the sting of the bomb. Highly recommended for comedy fans who love both cringe and catharsis.

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Guests' Upcoming Dates: (49:00-50:14)
• Big Jay Oakerson: Desert Ridge Improv, Tempe Improv, and more – BigJayComedy.com
• Robert Kelly: Comics Roadhouse, Uncle Vinny’s – robertkellylive.com
• Dan Soder: The Golden Retriever of Comedy Tour – dansoder.com
• Ari Shaffir: New show "You Be Tripping" – arishaffir.com

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Transcript

[Big Jay Okerson]

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[Robert Kelly]

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[Big Jay Okerson]

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[Robert Kelly]

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[Big Jay Okerson]

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[Christine]

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[Dan Soder]

face each threat head on.

[Christine]

We've earned our place in the fight

[2 Ray]

for our nation's future.

[Christine]

We are marines.

[Dan Soder]

We were made for this.

[Robert Kelly]

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

[Dan Soder]

Okay, that's it. Cut the song. You got to do the hand motion or I won't know.

[Jamie]

I'm sorry.

[Dan Soder]

It's Jay. Jay. Thank you, Jay.

[2 Ray]

Still got it.

[Christine]

Still got the stuff.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, you're like the fawns hitting the side of a jukebox, dude.

[Christine]

I just still got the good stuff. All right, here we go. Still throwing the heat.

[Dan Soder]

I, I, I, I would love to watch the beginning again. Go.

[Christine]

Oh, you might as well. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Play Christina's one. I'm missing a second of this.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm sure this is the first joke now.

[Christine]

Oh, no. We're back to the beginning.

[2 Ray]

I'm going to get my timer out for some of these, cuz I want to see exact second counts on.

[Dan Soder]

Does your iPhone One have a timer?

[2 Ray]

Dude. Hey, we have a little line. And that was over it.

[Dan Soder]

Sorry. I'm sorry. I forgot. All right, we're back.

[Christine]

Guess who's bizarre?

[Dan Soder]

All right, let's go.

[2 Ray]

Gracias.

[Dan Soder]

Here we go.

[2 Ray]

Okay.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, God. It does not. It does not lose anything. I've watched it probably 50 times. It does not lose anything.

[2 Ray]

Is this club still around, do you think?

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm not hitting Myrtle with one of these. Cut it at the end of her poop.

[Dan Soder]

I think we all should do that all weekend, wherever we are.

[Christine]

By the way, the dj, even if there's no music, the DJ cutting it was the son of the. One of the owners, Ms. Mona's son named DJ. You met DJ before, I believe at some point he used to come up Legion of Skin. He was doing comedy for a while, but he was the first person who took me to, like, my third row when Iverson was playing basketball. That's interesting. I take him to.

[Dan Soder]

I'm so interested. Shut up. Hit it, Christine. Stupid nostalgic. Hit the button. I remember you. You want old Bobby back You got him. Hit the button.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I remember old BB boy.

[Christine]

And I'm just seeing some old times. Remember some old times?

[Dan Soder]

Sh. Your face. Go ahead, hit it from the top. All right, all right.

[Jamie]

Everybody ready to laugh now?

[Dan Soder]

Now.

[2 Ray]

Now you're insulting the other guy.

[Christine]

That's what everyone keeps saying. That's what Bobby keeps saying. You ready to laugh now?

[Jamie]

Finally.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, finally. Now.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Now that that amateur is out of the.

[Christine]

You tired of hearing two Ray's?

[Big Jay Okerson]

God, this is the most boring town hall ever. Now let me give you that picture about race in our buddy.

[Dan Soder]

His code switching is dynamic. He goes. You having a laugh now? Guys, I'm just here. I'm not. Hey, guys. Guys.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I put my baggy pants on the same way you do.

[Dan Soder]

Jay's stress eating right now.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What do we got here? What do we got?

[Dan Soder]

Go ahead, hit it.

[Jamie]

This is primarily an all black club. I play usually all black clubs. I'm used to it. I don't try to win you guys over. No special way for the look. I don't try to pull no special moves. Talk about rap or rappers or rapping.

[Dan Soder]

Here it comes.

[Jamie]

Trying to get you, you guys to be on my side. If I'm funny, I'm funny. Laugh, please. If I suck, boom me off the stage. You know what I mean? Just give him a fair chance.

[Dan Soder]

Here we go.

[Jamie]

When you guys are with Smile Hot as hell.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What? No way. What the Fucking. What the.

[Dan Soder]

We should all leave. We should leave.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What the.

[Dan Soder]

We should leave.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What the. Dude.

[Dan Soder]

Dude should never talk to you again.

[Big Jay Okerson]

This is like finding out your mom has a penis. Oh, my God. This feels like I walked into the shower and I saw my mom with tits and a penis.

[Dan Soder]

And he used a white person's word. Jay took his shirt off and has a white T shirt that he made himself. Not even Fonz this fucking hobby lobby asshole. Fucking. And it says in. In fucking black writing, black people rule.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Jesus, why didn't you write neato?

[2 Ray]

That's the nino.

[Dan Soder]

Tornigro.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Holy shit.

[Dan Soder]

Black people are awesome.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Holy shit. Please, for the love of God.

[Dan Soder]

This is worse than marshmallows and Hapachapalopolis.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You didn't remember this? You don't remember.

[2 Ray]

You still have that? First of all, you don't remember this.

[Dan Soder]

You don't remember the whole afternoon it took to make that shirt.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You're not selling black people shirts.

[2 Ray]

To sell this on the road, you

[Big Jay Okerson]

have to sell this on the shirts.

[Dan Soder]

You miss Jay, you better sell it now. At David Mock's mother will start selling

[Big Jay Okerson]

TVM's already printing them up, dude. He's already on T public.

[2 Ray]

I'll tell you what. T shirt company that can make this,

[Big Jay Okerson]

Every one of them. I can. With a roll of electrical tape. Number one, Christine. Such a good shirt. Through this ocean of chaos. Listen to me.

[Dan Soder]

You have to go back and see.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I need to hear how the CR Proud react.

[Dan Soder]

All right, we have to go. Wait a minute. We have to go back to the light. We have to hear that, but we

[Big Jay Okerson]

have to just go back to him looking at the light.

[Dan Soder]

We have to hit his smile because he knows what's coming.

[2 Ray]

He can't hold it at that one.

[Dan Soder]

That right.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Also, let me tell you right now. Hey, Jay.

[Christine]

I think I'm letting you guys know that it's a little hot in here. That faces. That face is going like it's hot.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Jay, can I tell you right now that your T shirt technique, Bert Kreischer esque, the way you get that thing off.

[Dan Soder]

First of all, that's not Bertra. That's fat guy esque, because the other T shirt did not come up at all to reveal his stomach as a fat guy. That's like a girl taking a bra off under a shirt.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Jay had that. Jay, all fat guys know that technique, I promise you.

[Christine]

You got to pull it off one hand and hold the other shirt down.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, exactly.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, black people do.

[Christine]

Here we go.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Here. We

[Dan Soder]

thought this was the end. Oh, when I was looking today, I was like, oh, it happens right away. So we don't. We really don't know what the closer is, which is more exciting. I thought this was the. We thought the shirt was a go, go, go, go, go.

[2 Ray]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Also put it on your back, and so you don't have to take the shirt off. Just turn also when we want you to see.

[Christine]

People would have seen it when I was walking through the stage, Ari.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, thank.

[Christine]

Dude, Then there's no shuffle in. Oh, you came in a little bit late. I'm super into the reveal, you know? You know, J really big into reveals.

[Dan Soder]

Jay put a black cube up on his Instagram a couple years ago.

[Big Jay Okerson]

So black people rule.

[Dan Soder]

Black people rule.

[2 Ray]

Hey, Christine, when we want you to stop the tape, you just watch for us to.

[Dan Soder]

If you want the snape, you have to cut it.

[Big Jay Okerson]

All right, hold on, guys. I think the lights are getting hot in here.

[Jamie]

What are you guys over.

[Big Jay Okerson]

By the way, you do this? You go.

[Dan Soder]

You go.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You go Jewish in the black accent where you go, oh, you pretty hot in here. And then you Go. Hot as hell.

[Christine]

I go, oh, what is this thing? Heat up to 800.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What are these, tanning bed lights? What are you drawing the. What are you doing?

[Christine]

What are you cooking?

[Jamie]

Me?

[Big Jay Okerson]

What am I, a roll of challah bread? Just trying to keep warm.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my God. His speech makes so much sense now, though.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God. And then this. It's hot as hell.

[Dan Soder]

Jay was a prop actor. What happens if you didn't show up at your shirt?

[Christine]

Same thing would happen if I didn't show up with my thong underwear.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, hit it.

[Christine]

Or my nipple ring. My fake nipple ring.

[Dan Soder]

Damn.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You had a whole basket of SN, Jay.

[Dan Soder]

Jay had to wear a bib when he ate before the show in case he ruined his bit.

[Big Jay Okerson]

He's outside holding his food away from his face.

[Jamie]

Absolutely.

[Dan Soder]

God damn it. I got pizza sauce on my joke.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I can't fuck up this Nautica shirt because of what's under it.

[2 Ray]

Nautica.

[Christine]

And no one has any idea I'm sitting here. He goes underneath wearing bikini underwear, which is being sexy for me.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm a real J. Edgar Hoover.

[Dan Soder]

Jay had any trouble after the show outside? He just picked the shirt up.

[Big Jay Okerson]

No, no, no. You don't understand. Yo, you rule.

[2 Ray]

I'm on your side.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm like, y.

[2 Ray]

We're robbing.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I need to hear this.

[Dan Soder]

I hope there's something on the back.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, God. Let's get that reaction.

[Dan Soder]

I didn't even think about that.

[Jamie]

I'll try to. When you guys are hot as hell.

[Dan Soder]

All right.

[Jamie]

Been a up week, man. Up week. Anybody else get arrested for some stupid.

[Dan Soder]

What?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Why are you skipping? By that, you go, black people rule. Let's talk about your arrest record. Black people rule. You guys get arrested all the time.

[Dan Soder]

But I love that he. He does have design in him because Rule is fatter than black people. It's a little thin line, but Rule, I want to emphasize that.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Dude, that is great that you just go. And now we're into it. And now we're in.

[2 Ray]

It's so uneven. It's so uneven. The letter, first of all.

[Big Jay Okerson]

But you need to make the shirt like.

[2 Ray]

You should have had a black people ruler.

[Dan Soder]

Maybe that's on the back. Maybe the ER is on the back.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Is this what you guys. Is this what you guys thought the reveal was at the end?

[Dan Soder]

We thought we went to the end. We thought this was at the end. We didn't know it was his opener. We thought it was his close.

[Christine]

This isn't even the reveal.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[2 Ray]

Skated past. You're like, okay, anyway, that was a 45 second setup for this. Moving on.

[Dan Soder]

Anyways, man, it's tough outside. Keep eating, Jay. Oh, God. Having dinner.

[Jamie]

Go ahead, get arrested for some stupid. I mean, real. Not stupid. Like, man, I can't believe they got mad. I killed four people. Like, real stupid. Like, I was sitting in jail. The tank. So these motherfuckers are going around like, what are you in for? This motherfucker's like, murder, rape. Like, what are you in for? Bank robbery. What are you in for? I killed my family with a shovel.

[Christine]

All right.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You've already break your rolls.

[Christine]

Comedy rule of eights.

[Jamie]

I assumed the first time was coming there.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, God.

[Dan Soder]

First of all, I had the same joke. I got arrested for stealing a gumball machine, and I did the same joke. I can't wait for the punchline, though.

[Big Jay Okerson]

But you know what can I tell you? Early sets, a sit down and an early onset.

[2 Ray]

No, that's not a self.

[Dan Soder]

That's not a sit down. That's a lean over.

[2 Ray]

Can I ask you a question? Do you think the reveal, obviously, is in jail for something stupid. Is he gonna be accompanied by a lame voice or what?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Are you doing my act?

[Christine]

I know why. I know why. I.

[Big Jay Okerson]

That's the Dan Soder school of.

[Christine]

I don't remember the joke. But this is gonna be. This is when I got arrested for. When I get arrested because I had.

[Dan Soder]

Don't tell us.

[Christine]

The dirty videotapes.

[Dan Soder]

I want to see. Here's the thing. I love that. All the people that are in for murder and rape are black people, too. That's his blackout.

[Christine]

No, that wasn't. That wasn't black. I don't think it was black at all.

[Dan Soder]

A pirate.

[Christine]

Was it tough? It was a. It was.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Listen, I'm a voice guy. That's not black.

[Christine]

That was a local talk. Tough.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'll tell you right now.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, man.

[Big Jay Okerson]

No inclination of black.

[2 Ray]

Just narrow.

[Dan Soder]

Anytime Jay does a setup, it's a black voice, though. At the beginning. Yeah. In the tank. And

[Christine]

I am selling this. Like, I've had several stints in the joint.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah. Which is a very early 20s thing to go like. Nah, you don't understand. Prison's different. Dangerous, too. Yo, yo, black people rule. But I get y'.

[Jamie]

All.

[Dan Soder]

They made me make this shirt in the joint before they were gonna.

[Jamie]

Me.

[Christine]

I. We have to wrap this thing up pretty soon.

[Dan Soder]

Go ahead.

[Big Jay Okerson]

No, are you talking. We got time today.

[Dan Soder]

Can you just bring it back a little bit? I just want to hear him. I want to hear his ghetto setup.

[Big Jay Okerson]

That Was my burp.

[Jamie]

This motherfucker was like, murder, rape.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Murder, rape.

[Jamie]

What are you in for? Bank robbery. What are you in for? I killed my family with a shovel. They look at me like, what are you in for, fat boy? I'm like, I didn't take back Flubber on time.

[2 Ray]

What?

[Jamie]

So I get an attitude and you

[Dan Soder]

go immediate black when you bomb.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Wow.

[2 Ray]

You waited a quarter second before bailing

[Big Jay Okerson]

on that punchline, and it went right back to.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, I didn't even.

[Christine]

I didn't even consider that this wasn't gonna go good.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Why?

[Christine]

I thought the set was. I thought I would kill. I. I knew what I was. Wow.

[Dan Soder]

You hear the supportive white girl on the back? Loved it. Yes. The Flubber.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Flubber, starring Robin Williams.

[Dan Soder]

Not the original Flubber was a big hit in the black community.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What a.

[2 Ray]

By the way, that reference does not everybody.

[Dan Soder]

Every black kid I know. That was the childhood movie Flubber.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, you want to put on Boys in the Hood or Flubber?

[Christine]

I think Flubber was coming. Was probably at around this time.

[Big Jay Okerson]

It was Robin Williams is the remake.

[Dan Soder]

I'm sorry I'm so old.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I saw the original because Jerry Lewis doesn't go over well in black rooms.

[Christine]

I threw Flubber out there.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Maybe Dean Martin, but not Jerry.

[Christine]

Black people love the spastic comedy of Robin Williams.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Can you wait? Oh, hey, hey. Turns out this young man took my black people rule shirt.

[2 Ray]

Is that poster with.

[Christine]

And the black guy says, hey, my man, why you wear that red rule shirt?

[Big Jay Okerson]

He go say, hey, what it is, Jack? Robin Williams was always crazy racist because it was his 70s black. Oh, man. Shut up, Robin. Dude. Yeah.

[Christine]

When I was doing. When I was. Yo, I was sitting in that tank, man. They coming to me all sideways.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What are you in here for?

[Christine]

Murder.

[Dan Soder]

Go back just a little bit, Christine.

[Christine]

Comedy rule of fives.

[Dan Soder]

You got to see.

[2 Ray]

You got two murders, too, for no reason.

[Dan Soder]

As soon as he. As soon as the joke bombs, he goes, right bend the black.

[Christine]

Yo, that bombed. I'm going to tell that punchline bombed.

[Big Jay Okerson]

We're watching a video. This is a tough landing.

[Christine]

This is landing I had to do. Clearly, I do. Clearly. I got five more minutes after this.

[2 Ray]

You got.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You got.

[2 Ray]

You knew it was already not going to. It's like a batter who just, like,

[Dan Soder]

swings out like, I'm not even close to this.

[Christine]

I got fooled.

[2 Ray]

You knew ahead of time that I.

[Christine]

You get at this point in comedy, even if it's only a couple months in, you can tell it goes h. People usually laugh at the second one being Murder, rape or whatever.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[Christine]

Dude, this me into it.

[2 Ray]

What do you fat boy like?

[Big Jay Okerson]

I got nothing on fat boy. I know. That was when you see the crack where you go, you guys didn't even kind of giggle at fat boy.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, because I'm fat. And that usually gets a laugh.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, God.

[Christine]

Oh, God.

[Jamie]

What are you in for, fat boy? I'm like, I didn't take back flubber on time.

[Dan Soder]

What?

[Jamie]

Trying to get an attitude. And they will arrest your ass if you don't take back movies to video store.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, that's so sad.

[Jamie]

I found the show the hard way.

[Dan Soder]

That's when you have to explain the joke to the people because they might have not got it.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You went from black dude to Philly so fast.

[Christine]

That's why I think I go, what?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Early they get real mad when you didn't take back the tapes.

[Christine]

We used to let. Me and Kurt used to laugh at a comic. I think when you do when the joke bombs and you just inform people that was your routine about that subject. You'd have a thing. He goes, man, that. Anyway, that's my thing with pizza.

[Dan Soder]

The worst part is he has to wear this shirt for the rest of the set.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You never have to wear a joke like that.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, he has to wear it.

[Christine]

Oh, dude, my should have saved it for the reveal.

[Dan Soder]

It's like if I had a mutton. If I had to wear a marshmallow shirt for the rest of my.

[Big Jay Okerson]

This is episode two of you becoming the reveal. You're so Anakin. You're not Darth Vader yet.

[Christine]

He goes uncomfortable because you make a reveal too early.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Grasshopper, you must allure.

[2 Ray]

I could picture reveal your most.

[Dan Soder]

You make a reveal there. I do.

[Christine]

I liked it better when we were all making fun of 21 Jump street together.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Do you find the reveal to be too obvious?

[Christine]

A little heavy handed at this point?

[2 Ray]

That's, you know, a black guy's like, let's heckle him. They go, well, actually, we do rule.

[Jamie]

Could you.

[Dan Soder]

Could you imagine being somebody walking in halfway through the set and just seeing this guy? What the black people rule a shirt on?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah. What is this? It is very. You know what it is? It's very 90s dance music video. Like, black people rule. We're all one color. It's very aids quilty of this is

[Dan Soder]

before you could just call somebody to have a T shirt that day.

[2 Ray]

I mean, if there were greens and yellows in this shirt, it would be sold on the street.

[Big Jay Okerson]

It really is like, I didn't have

[Christine]

that kind of marker money,

[Big Jay Okerson]

you really could have sold like the fucking afro colors.

[Christine]

I'm already probably devastated that it didn't get a bigger reaction for ruining one of my shirts.

[Dan Soder]

How many of these did you have, by the way?

[Christine]

Oh, I think it's probably just the one. I'm telling you, this was a point point. I felt I had to do a lot of different stuff all the time.

[2 Ray]

Sure.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Right.

[Christine]

So this was at a lack of having something. You can go, oh, I could do a sight gag.

[Dan Soder]

I guess it's great that this joke didn't work because you would had a closet full of shirts that say black people.

[Christine]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Or world champion. I would have it.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my Christine.

[Big Jay Okerson]

God.

[Jamie]

Up the ass. That night in jail.

[Christine]

Oh, I didn't realize yet. I didn't realize yet that black people. People don't love gay. They don't think white guys making funny gay joke shit is funny, especially about rape at all. So when I said I'm definitely getting it, they were like. They're like, no, no. Should it be the case you someone in the ass to make them gay? Yeah, you got fucked in the ass. They just man too. Ray taught me that lesson through time. He would say, he goes, they don't want to hear that gay.

[Dan Soder]

I would say, this crowd taught you this lesson.

[Christine]

I'll be honest with you. I don't know if I got the lesson.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I think we're. I think we're watch you in 102 right now. This is the second year of school. Yeah.

[2 Ray]

It's also a payoff based on a clearly fake setup. Like, you definitely didn't go to jail for not returning your thing on time.

[Christine]

I did.

[2 Ray]

What?

[Christine]

No, it wasn't. To me, it was funnier to say, like a goofy movie that it was. No, there was a mom and pop video store in my area that I just. As soon as I turned 18 and I was able to. I just rented porno tapes and never returned them. Being like, who cares? The mom and pop shop. The guy was very litigious. And you would find out. You would find the science. That's when you would find out. That became known in the neighborhood like, no, this guy. Like every Tuesday when they have. It's like, Tuesday was the small court in where I lived. And it was like every Tuesday that guy shows up to say, like, this person. And you get benchmarks. I was never looking for like letter mail for myself in the house. Do you know what I mean? Like, I was a kid, so. So I missed like a, you know, a Court summons, so there was a bench warrant. I was getting arrested. So I'm arrested for not showing up for court.

[Dan Soder]

But you didn't go to jail. You didn't go to the tank.

[Christine]

I did. No, no.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, you do.

[Christine]

You, me and Kurt. And Kurt's girlfriend at the time, me, Kurt Metzger, we all got pulled over. 2 Ray.

[2 Ray]

They arrested everybody for one flubber.

[Christine]

No, no, no. It was actually if I was quick. Cause I want to get back to. But, like, it was. No, they got me because I had the bench warrant for the thing. It was whatever was. I had a tail light or something. They pulled me over for that.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Then probably wearing that black people rule shirt.

[Christine]

We had dropped two, right?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Cops go get in the fucking.

[Christine]

We had dropped ture off that night. But Toure was in my back seat smoking weed before I smoked weed at all. Oh, and he left roaches in my back. So when they asked if they could search the car, I was like, yeah, sure, of course. And then they went and they pulled out roaches in an ashtray. Yeah. And they were like, what's this? And I was like. And by the way, I started talking right away. I go, oh, that was my friend, My black friend who was in the back car. And I. I'm afraid to tell him no because he's violent. I didn't say that. I was like.

[Dan Soder]

Then they found you a black people rule shirt. And they were like, you don't believe that.

[Christine]

You don't believe that for one second. No, they.

[2 Ray]

You actually think they rule.

[Christine]

So they were like, we're taking you. So I was like, oh, well, then can my friends, like, come in jail with me?

[Big Jay Okerson]

No, I want my friends to sleep over with me.

[Christine]

No, they told me to make $50 bail. And I was like. Which was a lot of money at the time, too. But we were like, between us, like, we can kind of get it.

[2 Ray]

Could do 17 each.

[Christine]

I'm like, yeah. I'm like. I'm like, so you guys follow behind. Just bail me out. They told me 50 bucks. And then when they were doing that, they run. They go, let me check your idea. So Kirk gave his id. He had a jumping turnstile ticket, so he had a warrant for not showing up to court. So they arrested him. And then we were like, okay, so his girlfriend's gonna follow us in the thing. And me and Kurt were sitting in the same car, backseat of the car. And I see, like, you know, we're looking back. I see that the headlights in my car go on. She can follow us. And you Hear the over the police and goes, wait, is that Jessica? Blah blah blah, the thing that's driving the car. And I go, yep, grab her too. She's got one statement like her and Kurt jumped the turnstiles together. I guess everybody got arrested.

[Dan Soder]

Great, good stuff.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Story.

[Dan Soder]

Christine, ple. We don't have time.

[Christine]

So I did get arrested for

[Dan Soder]

take. Take Jay's mic away.

[Big Jay Okerson]

But they be getting raped and let's go play rap.

[Dan Soder]

That what?

[Jamie]

Sorry, I get an attitude. And they won't arrest your ass if you don't take back movies to video store. I found that out the hard way. You knew who was getting up the ass that night in jail. Oh, take that.

[2 Ray]

Took a real situation and made it less unbelievable with your dumb punch lines.

[Big Jay Okerson]

The black reaction of that of one guy just going, oh, and by the

[Christine]

way, I'm so stuck in it.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I just hear a black guy going like that.

[Christine]

You can see how stuck I am that I go like this. I. I give a satisfyingly like

[Dan Soder]

your face.

[Jamie]

I gotta play it. I still got a headache and

[Big Jay Okerson]

go back, go back to the rape one.

[Dan Soder]

I got a headache.

[2 Ray]

Jake, what do you think you're saying there?

[Dan Soder]

What?

[Big Jay Okerson]

What Jakey? Translation.

[Christine]

Probably a headache from getting butt.

[Dan Soder]

I didn't understand that, cuz. You didn't say it in your voice. You said it in a black guy's voice.

[Christine]

I said, listen, I was guilty of this. My whole bad boy, my whole p. These bad boys of comedy said at the end of every sentence, I go and some something

[Dan Soder]

and I got hate.

[Big Jay Okerson]

All right here.

[Jamie]

You knew who was getting up the ass that night in jail. Oh, take back movies. Hang on.

[Dan Soder]

Go ahead, play.

[Jamie]

Damn, I still got a headache. And you know, hey, can they come here and call on stage and they're blaring music and all over the place. You know how they play that rap music? And when I come up here, because

[Dan Soder]

like, I thought you weren't gonna do that. You made a speech at the beginning

[Big Jay Okerson]

that was a deceiving.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, I thought black people ruled.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You're clearly not familiar with the reveal, but you go back in to go back out. Sometimes on a reveal you have to go back in.

[Dan Soder]

I'm sorry, Dan. Thank you.

[2 Ray]

Yeah, there's a lot of.

[Christine]

There's a lot of throughways and corridors.

[2 Ray]

You say you're not gonna do rap. You said black people rule, but you really mean it's jaw rule.

[Christine]

Guys, the connective tissue here is black people in general. I'm disgusting. Them too.

[Big Jay Okerson]

This is a piece.

[2 Ray]

Let me tell you how your life Is go ahead.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Absurdity dance.

[Jamie]

No, more like they used to white people be each other up now banging. You see, like you shouldn't come home from dancing with like concussions and like missing teeth and that's wrong. Stage diving and like that. I weigh 315 pounds. You know what happens if I stage dive?

[Dan Soder]

Stop. Cut. We should all do the end of this joke.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah, I'm not gonna tie to wave everyone out the room.

[2 Ray]

Create a black hole in the room. That would suck. Hit every white person.

[Dan Soder]

I'll kill everybody around here.

[Big Jay Okerson]

What is it? What's the reveal?

[Christine]

I'll bet this is guess. I don't know. But talking about when you just hear something that triggers you. I have a feeling it's going to be because I ended up changing to the yeah, Jay. Yeah. Joke. Use an example of Independence Day.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, you'll be like, yeah, that's like me. Oh, good reference.

[2 Ray]

How about smushed?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Okay, wait, wait.

[2 Ray]

I love the. Do you have guesses? I'm actually legitimately asking a question this time. Anybody? Anybody?

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm not going to wait.

[2 Ray]

I'm just pointing at you. Okay, trivial.

[Jamie]

Weigh 315 pounds. You know what happens if I stage dive? People won't be happy. I don't think the layouts has insurance on that.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my

[Christine]

God.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Hold on.

[Dan Soder]

All you had to do is workshop this one day and you would have had three better punch lines.

[Christine]

We now know. We now know what I. What I was saying. Do you know what happens if I stage dive? The pointing wasn't. Do you know it was. Was front row. Look out because I'm fat.

[Dan Soder]

You wouldn't survive it.

[Christine]

You're warning them and they don't have.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You're warning them.

[Christine]

I don't believe. And maybe I'll be honest with you, this does not fall into my. What I clearly believe is black people rule lifestyle now challenge that they're operating a business without insurance and pretty much

[Dan Soder]

everybody in that room is fat as. As fat as Jay.

[Christine]

I called them out. I said, well, this is a black establishment. They probably don't have insurance for this.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Black. Black Lives Matter only could run cause black people rul. You shut everything up.

[Christine]

A lot of people say I was the godfather of that of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[2 Ray]

To say people won't be happy is like, that's you workshopping with a friend. He goes, okay, cool. So like, give me a funny example of that.

[Christine]

People forget about the grassroots black people rule movement in West Philadelphia.

[Dan Soder]

I like that. Jay workshopped on stage.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You guys. Any guys Tags.

[Christine]

I don't know how I had friends.

[Dan Soder]

Anybody.

[Big Jay Okerson]

No, this is.

[Christine]

You could see I'm doing something on stage for sure.

[Big Jay Okerson]

But I don't think this is very early on. You like don't know what you're doing yet at all.

[Christine]

But I'm saying I'm. I'm so though like doing what I've watched. Cuz what I'm saying is this wasn't the funny that I feel like I was with my friend.

[Dan Soder]

Sure. This explains why you do crowd work now.

[2 Ray]

Oh yeah. So afraid of repeating all these jokes.

[Christine]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

You're not wrong.

[Christine]

I. So far I think the joke writing's been top notch.

[Jamie]

Come crashing down on top of you? No,

[Dan Soder]

back that up.

[2 Ray]

You know what happened if I came crashing? No, I don't know.

[Big Jay Okerson]

That black guy was not having that.

[2 Ray]

Please delete me out of this.

[Christine]

I'm. I. You can't keep asking questions when they don't like you. I keep doing that. He goes, sir, you not paying attention when I answer your question. Give me a joke you're not gonna like.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You can hear the long pinky nail on that guy.

[Dan Soder]

I don't know.

[2 Ray]

You're in a flaming car and you

[Big Jay Okerson]

go, you want to join me? No, I'm good. Oh, dude, here we go. I care for this dance.

[Christine]

I'm okay.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm good.

[Christine]

Yeah. Let's just say for me, wearing that black people orchard, they're not taking the journey with me.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I think that might have been the seatbelt that stopped them.

[Dan Soder]

He's wearing that shirt like a force field.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah.

[Christine]

At this point, dude, I feel like, I wonder if at some point I reference if I'm bombing so much. If it keeps going like this, I wonder at some point if I just go draw some attention back to this. Let's not forget I'm the black people rule guy.

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[Christine]

Guys, the black black people rule guy

[Jamie]

has insurance on that. You ever have £315 come crashing down on top of for you? Now take this number down real quick. 37374.

[Christine]

That was the actual beginning of my

[Jamie]

mom's number sounds spin. I have a hard time getting the lady.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[2 Ray]

I. I actually don't even get it.

[Big Jay Okerson]

So he was. It was so long ago before area codes were necessary for phone numbers where

[2 Ray]

you have a seven.

[Christine]

Just that's not what you're missing. What you're missing was. I have prepared now to tell them. I now see that the joke has flushed out more than you guys thought. You see, I tell them I'm £315. If I stage dive, it's not going to be good enough insurance for it. And then I ask a lady in the audience, have you ever had £315 come crashing down on you? And then when they say no, inevitably I also rely on them saying no that I Offer that. And then I go to take down my nose. So I will be the person and I can only assume that is what the role was because I immediately say afterwards I got a hard time getting lay, y'.

[Dan Soder]

All.

[Big Jay Okerson]

And also, let's not forget something that always tickled Shane Gillis Pink. We're about three years out of thinking you could be starting QB1 at 3:15.

[Christine]

Yeah, I'm still not sure. I couldn't do a walk on if

[Dan Soder]

I needed to, especially with that shirt.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You go, I'll drill a 20 yard.

[Christine]

He goes, the offensive line's no. Never going to let him touch me. They'll never get to me if I let them know that I think black people. I wear this shirt underneath my jersey every time just in case Jordan's like Jordan's North Carolina shorts.

[Big Jay Okerson]

God, dude, it's crazy. How old are you? Are you like 19 right now?

[Christine]

Yeah.

[2 Ray]

You should have killed yourself. Wait, but you asked a dude and

[Dan Soder]

you know, he asked a dude about the. If it came on you. And then he asked a girl, but

[Big Jay Okerson]

he was asking a girl and a black dude was reacting. I think a guy close to the camera was reacting because that's. You go, no.

[2 Ray]

You didn't even say it right. Oh, you're right. It's in the back. But you didn't say. Do you know what would happen? You're like, what. What's the phrasing?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Here it is. Bring it back a little bit.

[Christine]

I just asked, have you ever had £315? Oh, you're talking about when I point to the audience.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, well, we're going to listen to it.

[Christine]

But I'm saying. So you follow it, though. I'm going, zip it.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Okay. Damn. It works on him, too.

[Jamie]

Hard time getting the ladies lately.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, yeah, yeah. It's just a little back. There we go.

[2 Ray]

Don't miss any of this changes.

[Jamie]

Insurance on that. You ever have £315 come crashing down on top of you? Now take this number down real quick.

[2 Ray]

I got it now. J owe an apology. I owe an apology. It's actually a great joke. What?

[Dan Soder]

It sounded like a guy. That.

[Christine]

It did sound like a guy.

[2 Ray]

But the guy was in the hood.

[Big Jay Okerson]

The dude was behind the camera.

[Dan Soder]

You.

[Big Jay Okerson]

There's no mic. Audience mic.

[Dan Soder]

There's a guy. There's a guy in the back.

[2 Ray]

This crowd wasn't rifed.

[Christine]

I'm not telling. They weren't rifed. I will tell you that.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You come in, you look at a gr. You go, is this the place rifed?

[Christine]

I'm telling you What I may have been doing. I may have been young enough and not seeing the flaw. And I may have not fully gotten. The black crowds are not going to like this gay. So it may have been a guy.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh.

[Christine]

Because I do hear a voice and it does not sound like. But it could have been a woman, I guess. But it sounds like a guy. Go. You think?

[Dan Soder]

You think? None of the stuff before it had a effect on it too.

[Christine]

Not on me. I feel like I was going to go. I'm going, I'm. Every time I do a gay joke and they don't laugh, I'm to going, going like, I wonder what the problem was. I go, let me do another gay joke. And I go, I was not here neither. He goes, do you think it's the gay thing? No, I think I'm saying. I think I'm saying in too much.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Let's go.

[Dan Soder]

Hit it. This is like prior, like. And was actually you evolving.

[Christine]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

I have a hard time getting the ladies lately, man. I don't know. I mean,

[2 Ray]

don't you know, Jay?

[Christine]

I don't know. I have a hard time getting ladies.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I don't know.

[2 Ray]

Okay, go ahead.

[Jamie]

Easier now. I used to have a hard time getting lays, man. I. I know.

[Dan Soder]

Somebody look at me like chips, just blocking up. Never had a problem getting lays. Chips.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You know the problem with ladies? You can't just eat one. You know what I mean? That's why the shirt's double xl, yo.

[Dan Soder]

You hear?

[Christine]

You understand what I'm saying, dude? I'm talking about the ladies. The finest honeys. Some finance honeys, dude. After the show, some honeys we got.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Look at his shirt. He thinks black people.

[Christine]

You all got a hooptie full of honeys out there.

[Dan Soder]

We gotta get to that. This. Go, go, go.

[Jamie]

Getting the ladies lately, man? I don't know. I mean, I used to. I mean, it's kind of easier now. I used to have a hard time getting ladies, man. I know. Somebody look at me like, big J, you had a hard time getting ladies. I mean, I didn't always look like this.

[Christine]

And.

[Dan Soder]

If that's not your next album and shit. Big J Okerson. And.

[Big Jay Okerson]

That's what that T shirt needs under rule and electrical tape style.

[Jamie]

Now, I grew up like this.

[Christine]

And

[2 Ray]

do you miss your scratching your nips?

[Jamie]

Speaks for itself now. I grew up.

[Dan Soder]

Speaks for it. It's not even.

[2 Ray]

Does not. It's just a sentence needs to be

[Big Jay Okerson]

spoken for speech itself.

[Dan Soder]

I'm sorry.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I'm sorry. I was ordering a drink. Did I miss everything?

[2 Ray]

Is this The Sex Pistols of comedy.

[Christine]

Please play that part again. Please play that part again.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I like what you brought to your set. Pure confusion.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, he really is a flip flopper. I have a hard time. I don't have a hard time. I'm not going to make fun of black people. I am going to make fun of black people.

[Christine]

I had a hard time with delicious ladies. I used to have a hard time

[Big Jay Okerson]

with the ladies, but now, well, I mean, whatever, you know, talk about and.

[Jamie]

And hard time getting the ladies. I mean, I didn't always look like this and speaks for itself now. I grew up. When I grew up, man, I was poor. What we had position is this.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I don't know, but I love it. Let it go.

[Jamie]

Go, go, go money at all. Oh, I was so poor. Like, used to inspire me to, like, write poetry and man.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, God.

[Jamie]

Like, hang on, I got one for you. I jo this down today.

[Dan Soder]

What the.

[Big Jay Okerson]

It turns out I thought there was only one poet in Legion of Skanks. Turns out two poets in Legion of Gangs.

[2 Ray]

Dude, you were legitimate and you did not even know it.

[Christine]

I'm so nauseous.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God. Dave quit to write poetry.

[Dan Soder]

Somebody give Jay a candy bar.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God. Did your heart drop when you reached back for Jay?

[Dan Soder]

Jay is on stage right now bombing. He's wearing a shirt, and. I mean, he is a about to lay down some sick ass poetry.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Soder]

I bet you didn't know it.

[Christine]

I reached. Did I pull something out? I turned away.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah, you did.

[2 Ray]

If this was today, you would have had a cell phone that you had typed out on.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Soder]

But like your shirts, you made them yourself. You wrote it down.

[Christine]

The macaroni necklace means more than a diamond necklace.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Now for those of you who just tuned in. Oh, yeah, Jay was so poor. How poor was he? They used to write poetry about it. Yeah, and I think that poem would go a little something like that.

[Dan Soder]

You think black people are gonna get gay stuff? Wait till the poetry comes out.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You think they like iamic pentameter? They'll name their daughter that before you know.

[2 Ray]

You know, if you didn't like me, maybe you like some James Baldwin.

[Big Jay Okerson]

He's just doing hardcore black poetry. White man kill and burn. Look at you. Look at his face.

[Christine]

Go ahead.

[Jamie]

All right, bro. I jotted this down today.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, no.

[Christine]

You didn't believe that.

[Jamie]

This is one of my better ones.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, no.

[Jamie]

Can you, like, come right up in here? That's there.

[Christine]

We were broken a. Oh, no, stop.

[Dan Soder]

Jay just did a. Turn the lights down. Perfect. And they didn't move. He just did. Can you guys all come up on stage knowing that nobody's moving? That was just an act out at a table. Oh, my God.

[2 Ray]

If they were in on this, they would have just. At best they would have like, it's funny and then not gone.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I know what you're going for. You go, oh, I'm a poet. You guys come on in. I got. Come bring it in. I got a speech for you.

[2 Ray]

Yeah, but you have a bike, dude. You're so we don't.

[Big Jay Okerson]

And you're. And you're met with nothing but silence.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah. And you went. Okay, thanks.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Damn. I'm not gonna lie. I think they took that black people rule shirt personally.

[Christine]

It didn't have the effect I think I wanted. Don't rule at all because they're not ruling the night. That's for sure.

[Dan Soder]

Go ahead, go ahead.

[2 Ray]

We already got our seats, man. We black people follow rules.

[Jamie]

My big J.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Broker, no.

[Christine]

Broker.

[Big Jay Okerson]

No.

[Christine]

We were broke in a. Hello.

[Big Jay Okerson]

God, it's like you guys don't like the arts.

[Dan Soder]

She doesn't know that black people rule.

[Jamie]

What? Jamie, we were broke than a.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Got him.

[Jamie]

Well, it's pretty self explanatory. Explanatory.

[Christine]

Shit explains itself. I like to let the crowd know that all my jokes explain themselves.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Shit was right there.

[Dan Soder]

He wiped the. The fat sweat off his eye at the end of the joke.

[Big Jay Okerson]

You missed him earlier when after he took the shirt off, he hit a little forehead sweat. He hit a little bit.

[Dan Soder]

He literally.

[Christine]

Oh, it's going so bad. And I don't think. And I think I was right. They're not gonna get the poem bit. The one line poem. I was real big on heavy buildup, low delivery.

[2 Ray]

Could you imag imagine if I really two jokes in a row. You're like, no, I'm actually going to do it. I love this setup. Is the joke.

[Christine]

Can you imagine if I did do

[Big Jay Okerson]

you brought some naked gun. We have four minutes of blazing Thursdays.

[Dan Soder]

We have four minutes.

[2 Ray]

So we do not.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, we do go.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, in the.

[2 Ray]

Okay.

[Christine]

No, on the show. Yes. Four minutes left.

[Jamie]

Well, it's pretty self explanatory. That was poor, man.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Jamie]

No, I used to go to school like in some up clothes and my Jordan sneaks my good zips for like Friday. And when you wanted to show off that I remember like I had no older brothers or sisters or nothing. So like all my hand me downs were like from my mom.

[Christine]

A lot of facing. I was very face it.

[2 Ray]

Also, you've already You've already ruined that joke by saying brothers or sisters. Yeah, getting a hand me down from your sister is the same as getting one from your mom. It's just woman's clothing.

[Dan Soder]

Damn.

[Big Jay Okerson]

He came in like a professor and broke sisters.

[Dan Soder]

Thank God. Thank God for your eyebrows.

[Big Jay Okerson]

None of these jokes, Ari. The tenure shafir.

[Dan Soder]

We got to see the closer. We got to get to the closer.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yes.

[Jamie]

Sex. Worst day in my. My life. It was like laundry day or some. I only had like three pair of pants and they were all dirty and I didn't want to go to school because I had no clothes to wear. So my mom throws me a pair of pants. They were girls tights. I don't care what she says to this day. They were tights. And she goes, no, those are unisex sweatpants. Oh, so what the are you unisex sweatpants?

[2 Ray]

I'll show you what they are.

[Jamie]

I don't really say because like, I was my mom and I was 10, but it makes the story funnier. So I said, what the is unisex sweatpants?

[Dan Soder]

None of this. None of this makes it feel.

[2 Ray]

What a dumb crowd.

[Jamie]

She goes, son, unisex is when guys and girls can wear them. So I bought this shit cuz I was like 10. Like, said I. I said, yeah. So I pull these tight ass tights on my big ass and like, remember, like when you can see the underwear lines and all in them. Remember that? Of course you don't remember. I'm the only person that wore girls tights to school.

[2 Ray]

Please show these tights.

[Jamie]

God damn.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yes, please.

[Jamie]

Jesus, I. People aren't laughing, but that's a funny story. Have you ever seen a fat kid wearing girls tights?

[Christine]

I got.

[Jamie]

Wow.

[Dan Soder]

Wow.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yo, that boy. That boy bend the reveal. The reveal wasn't the first one. The reveal was under the pants the whole time.

[2 Ray]

What a mystery.

[Dan Soder]

Wow.

[2 Ray]

Stage empty.

[Big Jay Okerson]

I love to stay empty.

[Dan Soder]

Jay had a wardrobe.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh my God. You went in layered.

[2 Ray]

You know it's coming.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Jay had an ankle gun and we had no idea.

[Dan Soder]

So it's so funny that he still wears those tights today.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Hold on, hold on. Play. Yeah, play the volume.

[Jamie]

Remember like when you can see the underwear lines and all in them? Remember that? Of course you don't remember. I'm the only person to work around girls tights to school. God damn.

[2 Ray]

God damn.

[Jamie]

Jesus. People aren't laughing, but that's a funny fucking story. Have you ever seen a fat kid wearing girls tights?

[Dan Soder]

We're about to.

[Jamie]

No. I'm gonna have to Help you be with the visual here.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my God.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Tim Brain, can I tell you right now? Bring it back. Full circle moment. Jay's butt wiggle. Very similar to the footless dance. Right here. Right here. You've been having this.

[Dan Soder]

You've been doing this for years.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Been on this butt wiggle for a long time. We walk in and you look at this, he drops it. Yeah,

[Dan Soder]

Yeah.

[Christine]

We got to see my dismount.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, yeah.

[Christine]

And what does 2 Ray say afterwards?

[Big Jay Okerson]

10 free.

[Jamie]

10 years go. I'm still hurt.

[Dan Soder]

It.

[Jamie]

That's my time.

[Dan Soder]

It.

[2 Ray]

They just booed you.

[Dan Soder]

You heard? Did you hear boo?

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah, I heard.

[Jamie]

Let me hear boo.

[2 Ray]

Rewind that.

[Dan Soder]

That was 2 Ray. That was 2 Ray.

[Christine]

Somebody booed.

[Dan Soder]

Yeah, 2 Ray.

[2 Ray]

Listen, listen.

[Jamie]

10th grade, 10 years old. I'm still hurt.

[Dan Soder]

I need a real.

[Big Jay Okerson]

A real boo.

[Dan Soder]

I love that Jay's clothes is.

[Christine]

And

[Big Jay Okerson]

clothes. I had to prepare for this.

[Dan Soder]

Jay had to travel with tights.

[Christine]

Those tights were definitely on from leaving house till getting home at night.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, my God, this was so worth it. I'm so happy. Oh, my God.

[2 Ray]

This back up.

[Dan Soder]

I mean, Jay just left.

[2 Ray]

He just left.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yeah.

[2 Ray]

If I'm too rare, let him clear the stink.

[Dan Soder]

Oh, the waitress are coming too. Ray, say. Oh, you have to get your. Oh, you dropped the mic.

[Christine]

You piece my shirt.

[Dan Soder]

You had to get your shirt.

[2 Ray]

I had to get my shirt.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Oh, look at Young.

[2 Ray]

Too embarrassing.

[Dan Soder]

Of course, cuz you couldn't. You couldn't leave the club with that on.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Yes, dude.

[Dan Soder]

If you guys. If you hook up. If you hooked up with a chick, you had to tell that you had women's tights on.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Let me plug Bobby and Jay. Let me get. Big J Erickson is going to be at the Desert Ridge Improv in Phoenix this Thursday, March 26th, and then the Tempe Improv Friday, March 27th, and Saturday, March 28th. After that, he's going to be St. Louis, Orlando, Kansas City, Las Vegas, and more. BigJayComedy.com also go to YouTube.com IGJogrson and subscribe. Robert Kelly gonna be at Comics Roadhouse, Connecticut, April 17th and 18th. After that, Uncle Vinny's in New Jersey. Go to Punch Up Live Robert Kelly and check out Bobby's new YouTube channel at YouTube. Robert Kelly Comedy Ari Shafir's new storytelling show, April 16th. Pre order now at ari shafir.com Listen to Ari's podcast. You be tripping. Available wherever you listen.

[Christine]

And make sure you listen to Dan Soder's podcast. Oh, sorry, Bobby.

[Dan Soder]

No, you do it. Go. Okay.

[Christine]

I listen to Dan's podcast Soda are available wherever you listen to podcasts. And of course the Golden Retriever of comedy tour happening right now, the Paramount Huntington, Long island, happening Saturday, April 4th. After that, he's going to be in Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina, Munhall, Pennsylvania, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio and so much more. For tickets and all tour dates go to dan soder.com dancer.com and that was.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Thank you.

[Jamie]

Thank you, Jay.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Thank you, Jay.

[Dan Soder]

Thank you, Jay.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Thank you Jamie.

[Christine]

Thank you, Jamie.

[Dan Soder]

Thank you, Jamie. Thank you, Jay Z.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Original, original supportive white girl.

[Christine]

The original supportive white girl.

[Big Jay Okerson]

Shout out Jamie.

[Dan Soder]

We'll see you guys tomorrow on the bonfire.

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