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Dennis Leary

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690 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

He's a great actor, too, but this is the way he talks.

um he loves you but uh he's he was hosting that show and it was a talent show and steve wright was just so he his jokes were like haiku it was so so beautifully written but he was the only person like that you know everybody bobcat gulfway came out of my general everybody was the lab bill burr um you know everybody was sarcastic and loud and quick you know the crowds were tough

But Steven, to this day, he's a diamond.

Some of the most famous ones, like Small World, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

That joke is just like, what are you talking about?

So the comedy workshop, which was, it was, so you knew this is something I'd like to do at a very early age.

So when I was growing up, my, my dad was a mechanic by trade, but he was a great musician and he played in Irish bands and he played accordion like after a wedding or, uh, you know, any kind of big family event, people would come back to our apartment and eventually the house we lived in.

Um, and my dad would play accordion and there was always music in the house, but my dad was

my and my mom so fucking funny so like so funny and so sarcastically the moment you walked in the door from school what the hell are you so happy like they would start in on you yeah right so we were all funny in response to that naturally as you know um and then when i was a kid a teenager uh

And, and Richard Pryor, like almost like the, the rebellious new Richard Pryor, like 1972, 73.

So I was like, and then George Carlin.

And I was like, what the fuck is this?