Kathleen Madigan
speaker
1,075 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 20 Jan
Kathleen Madigan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That part, even if you have all the fancy stuff. I have clear and I have TSA pre-check. Doesn't matter. No, flying first class now is really privately.
Right, right, right. So that part absolutely sucks and it keeps getting worse every year, every year, every year. That's why when I see the older flight attendants, I know they're going to be crabby. Yeah. Sie sind mein Alter und sie haben das schon immer gemacht und die Situation wird jedes Jahr größer. Die Leute sind krass, die Flugzeuge, es fliegen Türen aus, um Gottes willen. Ich weiß.
Es ist verrückt. Ich habe es nie gedacht, wenn ich in der Ausflugstraße bin, dass die Türen ausfallen. Ich gehe immer dafür. Nicht mehr. Ich würde sitzen, wo es keine Türen gibt. So, I hate that part, but I like, when I get there, I have so much fun to see what's going on. But I never wanted to do anything else either. Like, I know a lot of people like acting, and no, zero interest.
I went one time, Louis Black's one of my best friends, and he was doing an episode of The Big Bang Theory, and he made me go. I did not want to go. I'm like, Lou, I'll watch it when it's on. I don't want to... Seven hours! We were there for... 4 bis 11 Uhr, ich und sein Assistent trinken einen Löffel Wein. Ich memorisiere seine Lieder. Ich memorisiere das ganze Skript um 11 Uhr. Ich liebe das.
Und ich bin so, war das lustig für dich, Lou? Weil du nicht viel Geld verdienst. Ja. Du hättest viel mehr Geld verdient, wenn du diese Woche auf der Straße warst. Wie, hast du das genossen? Jetzt, er macht das. Er mag das Arbeiten. Lou ist besser in ein paar Filmen. Ja. Er mag die Kunst davon oder was auch immer.
Ich weiß es nicht.
He's a ton of fun and he's got a lot of interest. He writes plays and I always make fun of him. I'm like, you majored in playwriting? What year was that? That's like saying you're a cobbler. Who does that, Luke? And he's like, oh, they just didn't reach the Midwest, Kathleen. You don't know. There's things going on. There are things going on. And he's... He's right. In New York it's a thing.
And people didn't like it. No, he was the weirdest person I think I ever initially met. We were at Catch a Rising Star in Chicago. It was in a Hyatt. And he went up and I'm like, Who is this guy? What is he doing? He is not doing traditional stand-up. I mean, I'd only been doing it maybe four years, so I hadn't seen everything, but I'd seen a lot.
And I'd seen the ones, you know, everybody, the Jeff Fox, or these Seinfelds in the clubs, Rich Jenny, all those guys. And then Lou comes, I'm like, oh, he doesn't understand this format at all, but I love it. Like, it was crazy. It was a crazy person. Yeah. But I liked it. I know.
I had to teach him, though, like in the Midwest. I remember we did Omaha one time and I guess we were co-headlining maybe. I said, I'll go first, you go second. I'm always, I'll go first, first one to the bar. As soon as I'm done, I'm first one to the bar. That's true. I don't have an ego thing about being the headliner or going last, but he was going on stage and
He's always very political and we're in Omaha, Nebraska. And he's like, I don't think it's going as well here. I said, here's the thing, Lou. It's the Midwest. We're a little polite and we'd like to... Maybe you could open your act with something about the weather. Just a little tiny thing that's not hard. You don't need to come out screaming that George W. Bush is an asshole. Let's just...
Maybe start with your impression of Nebraska. And he was like, yeah, you're right. I go, you're a lot for the Midwest. You're a lot. You're a big barking dog. And they don't know if you're friendly or not friendly. So come out a little friendly.
Philly to this day is a... Scary place. It's a hard city. They are hardcore. I mean, I got it now. But initially I was like, are they gonna laugh at the same stuff? And they did. I mean, I think always my act will be more... It will resonate more with the Midwest or South than... Like, I'm not very woke. But I don't like the term woke either, because it implies the other side's asleep.
I'm like, no. I'm like an old dog with one eye open on the couch. I'm kind of awake. I'm not woke. I'm never going to be the one trying to... I don't know, make new waves or convince people of anything. It's complete nonsense. Like, I view my act like the movie Arthur, which I love. Oh, I love that movie too. It's an hour escape.
Weißt du, ich werde nie bekannt sein wie viele Comics, die sagen, oh, das ist so grundsätzlich, oder edgy, oder ich bin edgy in meinem eigenen Midwest-politen Weg.
Aber du musst es suchen, du musst es wissen, ich tricke Leute manchmal auf den Grund.
You don't have to tell me who. No, I can't even remember who. It's somebody who paced a lot. Chris Rock? It might have been Chris or something. Madigan, you gotta move it a little bit more. I'm like, no, I don't. The job says stand-up comedy. I'm standing up.
Me and Ron White, who's one of my best friends, we are of the opinion, for us, if you can stand still, for an hour and keep everyone's attention, your material is great. Fair enough. And I became friends with Robin Williams because we did all those Iraq tours. He's a very sweet man. But the running around and the sweating and the jumping, I want to grab him and go, just stand still for two jokes.
Just to humor me. Just stand there. But, you know, everybody's got their own little style and their own little whatever and
He admitted what was going on. You also shouldn't be sweating that perfume.
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