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Comedy Surprises: Village Voices Unleashed - Dog Park

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Bill Paddock on Doing Voices, Improv, and Comedy Bits in The Villages

Season eight of Villages Vitality Life, Seniors Life Unscripted features host Mike Roth with returning guest Bill Paddock discussing the value of voices in improv and how Bill developed his voice work from cartoons and comedians like Mel Blanc, Peter Sellers, and Jerry Lewis. Bill demonstrates staying in character with an English voice and talks about adapting accents for business. Two short audio clips are introduced: “Village Bullies,” a comedic take on how newcomers to The Villages are pressured to join activities like golf, bocce, and cardio drumming, and “Dog Park,” where Bill voices multiple dogs to highlight different canine personalities. They also discuss improv scene length, laughs-per-minute, and Bill’s plan to launch a short-bits comedy podcast, “Mad Dog Comedy,” aiming for Christmas 2026.

00:00 Season Eight Welcome
00:35 Why Voices Matter
01:45 Early Voice Inspirations
05:30 Staying In Character
07:25 Clip One Village Bullies
10:18 Behind The Bit
11:12 Alzheimers Research Tip
12:23 Clip Two Dog Park Setup
14:50 Dog Park Story Spark
15:29 Dog Park Comedy Bit
16:06 Dogs With Personalities
17:50 Big Dogs And Mastiffs
18:41 Podcast Backlog And Cruises
19:34 Accents And Wang Labs
20:55 Improv Faces And Jerry Lewis
23:35 Mad Dog Comedy Podcast
24:06 Short Bits And Improv Rules
28:01 Wrap Up And Supporters

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Welcome to Season eight of Villages Vitality Life, seniors Life unscripted. In this new season, we talk to leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live in and around The Villages. We also talk to people who have information vital to seniors. You will get perspectives of what is happening in and around The Villages, Florida. In addition, in this new season We will add more information for all seniors. We are a listener supported podcast.

Mike:

This is Mike Roth and Bill Paddock, and I'm back with Bill on Villages Vitality, Senior Life Unscripted today. Bill and I are totally unscripted and yeah, Bill's having a lot of fun, being unscripted, making a lot of faces and the reason I asked Bill to come back is I wanted our listeners to hear. A lot of bill doing some different voices. I know we have a lot of folks here in The Villages in the improv community, and one of the most important things you can do in an improv besides making faces that really helps too. But having a different voice and. We don't spend enough time on learning how to have different voices. So I asked Bill to come back, share some voices, and we'll share a couple of clips of some short less than two minute skits that Bill's put together using some of these voices. So Bill first. How old were you when you discovered that you liked to do voices?

Bill Paddock:

I'd have to say. I don't know if I can pinpoint the exact age. Mike. First of all, I want to thank you for having me back. but I can't pinpoint the exact age, but I know it was very young 'cause I was watching cartoons. Because as I had said, and our other, interview is Mel Blanc and the cartoons, and it just, I would find them so hilarious

Mike:

I know we have a lot of folks here in The Villages in the improv community, and one of the most important things you can do in an improv besides making faces That really helps too. I'm trying to take up some time. Okay. But, having a different voice we don't spend enough time on learning how to have different voices. So I asked Bill to come back, share some voices, and we'll share a couple of clips of some, short what less than two minute skits that bill's put together, using some of these voices. So Bill first. How old were you when you discovered that you liked to do voices?

Bill Paddock:

I'd have to say. I don't know if I can pinpoint the exact age. Mike. first of all, I want to thank you for having me back. but I can't pinpoint the exact age, but I know it was very young 'cause I was watching cartoons. Mm-hmm. Because as I had said, and our other, interview is Mel Blanc and the cartoons, and I would find them so hilarious or so funny, and I found out that Mel Blank did all the voices or the majority of them. I would just try to mimic. The different voices and as my life progressed and when I went to movies with my brother and sister, we'd see a movie that was just, we thought was very funny and we would try to mimic different parts of it. Just trying to reenact that comedic part of it.

Mike:

that's old folks.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. He was hunting wa Elma Fudd was, but that's progressing forward though. Like I had touched on that last interview, but Peter Sellers I just thought was phenomenal and we saw Pink Panther strikes again would be a good example.

Mike:

Yes.

Bill Paddock:

And. We would hear this and you're watching the movie and I don't know for the audience or anybody who has seen it or has not seen it to reminisce a little bit. They're talking about solving this crime and the one inspector's asking about a clue and wishes they had more information and Clouseau so played by Peter Sellers, he says, ah, yes, they and the inspector, 'cause you don't understand what he's saying 'cause he's saying it's such a messed up French accent. And they're all going what's a clear, and he pulls his brochure out of his pocket and he goes, yeah, then they understand. He means brochure clue,

Mike:

right?

Bill Paddock:

But just mimicking different things. From the movies that you'd see trying to recreate that comedy and Peters is like that, even though he was English, doing a French distorted accent.

Mike:

Terribly distorted. Yes.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, it was just, we just thought it was hilarious. As always, I accepted the challenge and he's saying I accept the challenge, but it's just so distorted and funny.'cause he's so serious as he says

Mike:

it. He has, yeah.

Bill Paddock:

Mike has me back, and now we have these lights on us, and I know the audience can't see it, but these things are really bright. They're right in your face. And the first thing that comes to mind as he's trying to find the lighting is not only, am I dying, going to see the Lord? I'm seeing the light. Stay away from the light. But I feel like poly walnuts and the sopranos, where he's got the tin up there trying to get a tan. That's exactly, I feel like I should have the.

Mike:

Okay. I can get some tinfoil for you.

Bill Paddock:

I feel like I should have that, but it's very close quarters. That's why I'm trying to bond with Mike. Maybe that's what this should be called, bonding with Mike. Yeah. But anyway, going back to your answer, it was a very young age. I can't exactly pinpoint it, but we would watch all those old shows and World War II shows they would have on. And you'd try to mimic 'em. yeah.

Mike Roth AI4:

Sergeant Shulz

Bill Paddock:

I seen nothing. Nothing. I know

Mike:

nothing.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. but even the Russian girl, it didn't matter the gender. You say a hug and darling hug, and you would try to imitate 'em all, but they were just, we watched the Great Escape and all that stuff, and the English guys,

Mike:

Can you stay in character?

Bill Paddock:

It depends on what you're talking about, mate. What character we talking.

Mike:

Let's pretend you wanted to stay in that English character,

Bill Paddock:

right?

Mike:

CC. Can you do five minutes in this interview in the English character?

Bill Paddock:

Guess so

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, if we go straight off. Straight off, let's

Mike:

Okay. So if we were gonna drive in a car, why?

Bill Paddock:

We've got

Mike:

a car. A car, yes. A Lorrie

Bill Paddock:

Right? Laurie? Yeah. No, Cooper. Yeah.

Mike:

Many.

Bill Paddock:

No. Lotus. Yeah.

Mike:

Lotus is much better.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, come

Mike:

on. Yes.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

Why is the steering wheel on the wrong side?

Bill Paddock:

You say you don't seem to understand US Brits would say the Yanks got on the wrong side. That's what us Brits would say. The Yanks got on the wrong side, but then, typical Yankee ingenuity, yanking the wrong way. Or a wrong Willy Wonka.

Mike:

Yeah. I'm a little confused on that, but we'll have to figure that out as we go along.

Bill Paddock:

I see what you did there. You went and slowed the voice down.

Mike:

I slowed

Bill Paddock:

down. You slowed it down just a little bit, right?

Mike:

I slowed it down a little bit.

Bill Paddock:

I

Mike:

went into a southern draw.

Bill Paddock:

Yes. Yes you did. Very much yeah.

Mike:

Yeah. Alright.

Bill Paddock:

Alright. I

Mike:

learned wasn't there to do that 'cause I worked all over the country for three or four years and I found that by talkl like the people I was calling on. I closed more business and it was interesting because people buy from people like themselves. So when I was working in places like Houston or Dallas, I had to slow down, get a little bit more cowboy in my car.

Bill Paddock:

I've seen, I'm not lying here. I'm not lying and I'm telling this is straight as it can be, mate. I've actually heard politicians doing the very same thing, trying to sell a message.

Mike:

Yes.

Bill Paddock:

Whatever audience they're in front of. They're gonna talk just like them.

Mike:

They tried it

Bill Paddock:

And they absolutely are. Yes. And then some people figure it out and they're like, oh, piss off mate. Piss off. Bullocks. Don't need it. Don't mow it. That's what they do.

Mike:

I guess the what

Bill Paddock:

Say Michael, this is really like deer in the headlights here. You ever, I'm serious. I think I'll be blind by the time I get outta here. Really? It's

Mike:

Can you a pair of sunglasses.

Bill Paddock:

I need something.

Mike:

let's take a short break here and listen to the first clip that you brought with you. Do you remember The name of that clip?

Bill Paddock:

I believe that was village Bullies. Yeah,

Mike:

Village Bullies.

Bill Paddock:

Village Bullies, , people tricking me when I got down here, what they wanted me to do. What?

Mike:

What were they? Trying tricking you, you said

Bill Paddock:

No. They treating in me.

Mike:

Oh. It's the English guy.

Bill Paddock:

I'm saying trait in treat, Aiden. Oh, I'm sorry. Is it five minutes up already? Oh, I'm look around. Was it clock? I don't see no clock. I don't see no one.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

Alright.

Mike:

The only clock we got is on the screen.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, we're on the time of here? Yeah. Okay. Or,

Mike:

Or actually behind our backs.

Bill Paddock:

I, it is light right in my face. I, may am like fry right here.

Mike:

This is LED lights, so it is not as hot as one of them incandescent spotlights.

Bill Paddock:

Mike, I should have put like sunscreen on or something. Maybe.

Mike:

Let's talk a little bit more about this village bullies.

Bill Paddock:

Village Bullies.

Mike:

Okay. You created it because people told you what to do when you got here.

Bill Paddock:

When I got down here my sister was down here and God love her. She plays water volleyball, her and her husband, like pretty much all day long. And we had met some other people down here and became friends with'em, gone out to eat. But it's like a constant drumbeat and I can understand it because The Villages has so many things to offer. All the amenities, the clubs the water, volleyball, bocce ball, golf, softball, everything. And so as soon as you get down there, I had just retired like in the August of last year. And so I'm down here and these people are like whatcha gonna do? You gonna play golf? Do you golf? And I'm like no. Are you gonna play bocce ball? You can play softball. And there's a whole litany of things and I'm like I Just wanna relax. I just retired. maybe you wanna read a book and take a nap every day for about six, seven months or a year. it's almost like a cult. What are you gonna do? What do you mean? you're not gonna play golf? Oh, you'll like it. Oh, we'll learn you. And it's no, you're not gonna learn me. Oh, we're gonna learn your son 'cause you're really gonna this stuff. And it's no I'm good. Yeah, but I looked at it. They weren't bullying, they were being friendly. But to make a joke of it and to make light of it, I made it like into like it was a bully thing.'cause it is as soon as you get down there, it's like this, what are you doing?

Mike:

Okay, so let's take a listen to Bill. Doing all of the voice speaking parts in Villages Bullies.

Old Guy #1:

So Carl, I see you made the big move to The Villages.

Second Old Guy:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I sure did. Yeah. No, no more New England nor east is.

Old Guy #1:

Oh. Oh, so, so what are you gonna do now, Carl? What?

Second Old Guy:

W What do you mean?

Old Guy #1:

Well, they got pickle ball down here. They got softball down here.

Second Old Guy:

They also have cardio drumming. Why? Why? Why do I have to do anything? I just re, I just retired. I just wanna relax there. Also, go in bachi. Don't forget about cardio, drumming. Why, why, why do, why do I have to do anything? I just, I just wanna relax. I just wanna enjoy the rest of my life and without any cold, why can't I just relax?

Mike:

Well, Bill, that's an interesting clip.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah, that was actually, Mike, that was my idea for a podcast before I took your class. And your wisdom and knowledge steered me in a different direction.'cause I was hoping to do like a bunch of different bits use my own voice and use music for entertainment, right? And then once I, learned about the nuances and the problems that might be with that, I went in a different direction. So it's really tough when you're starting out, especially doing all the voices and trying to edit and trying to find background music, background sound effects, just trying to put it all together. At first you have an idea and you think, oh, this is gonna be great, but you need that it guy with you, like you said.$125 an hour, I'll be right there to help you. But when you're on your own you got just yourself and you need that guy with you that's, oh, you see what you gonna do? You gotta hit this button over here, then you're gonna download that and you're gonna do that. And I don't have that. I just have meat. And I'm not the brightest sharpest tool in the shed.

Mike:

We're gonna take a short break and listen to a Alzheimer's tip from Dr. Craig Curtis.

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Warren:

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Dr. Craig Curtis:

Thank you, Dr. Curtis. Okay, Bill, we have another clip that I want you to introduce. That's something you called the Dog Park.

Bill Paddock:

Dog park, yeah. That's something again, this was supposed

Mike:

to, so you have a dog?

Bill Paddock:

I do. What

Mike:

kind of dog is

Bill Paddock:

It's a German short-haired, pointer, beautiful dog. She's 10 years old going on two. And I did not realize I always had golden retrievers. And this is my first German short hair, and she's great.

Mike:

How many pounds was that?

Bill Paddock:

She's probably 75. And that's a big dog. Solid muscle.

Mike:

That's a big dog.

Bill Paddock:

Mike, I did not realize how much work these dogs are One of the last conversations I had with my mother, God bless her, she asked me, Billy, how's your dog doing? And I said, ma, it's like being married to a younger woman. It's a lot of fun, but a lot of work. And of course, she was, God, what do you know about that? But it's so true.'cause I always had golden retrievers. Golden retrievers are great.'cause they just look at you and it's God, I love you. I love you so much. You leave the room and it's I, you in the kitchen, but I still love you. The German short air man, she's we we going to take a walk. Me take a walk now I would say, you wanna take a walk? And it's like whatever you want to do. Whatever you wanna do is fine with me.'cause all I wanna do is sit here and love you. But that German short hair boy, she's has very energetic even at 10 and that's good. That's good. But she is very loving. Her name's Pippa.

Mike:

Yeah. Yeah. I had a miniature Dachshund 10 pound dog

Bill Paddock:

Ah, okay.

Mike:

For 12 years. And he was, attached to my wife. He had separation anxiety when she wasn't around.

Bill Paddock:

Oh boy. All right.

Mike:

And he couldn't be left alone because he would do all kinds of bad things. And he owned the world as far as he was concerned.

Bill Paddock:

Oh boy. Yeah. See, my daughter lives with us currently right now. She has a schnauzer. He's five and he thinks he's the toughest guy in the room. He is that typical short guy with a short person's attitude. Complex. Oh my God. We go on for walks and he just. But like Pippa, the German shortage, she's got a deep voice when she barks. Mm-hmm. But she just doesn't bother other dogs. This dog, if he sees another dog, he has to bark at him. He goes nuts. But he doesn't even sound tough when he barks. I mean, he's like, ah. And people are looking over and it's oh my God, what are they doing?

Mike:

On the dog or

Bill Paddock:

something? Exactly. What they torturing the poor dog over there. It's crazy because then we get, we used to get home, we eat a cat at one time. We'd get home when he would do that. We don't, the cat since passed, but yeah, we get home after that and it's I'm gonna show you on a cat where he wanted to touch me. That's what it sounded like. But he is not very masculine. But that's what it

Mike:

sounds. So you took the dog out to a dog park here in the village?

Bill Paddock:

Yes. Took the dog out to the dog park and this, so

Mike:

Which dog park did you take him to?

Bill Paddock:

What a

Mike:

Mulberry.

Bill Paddock:

Mulberry Grove.

Mike:

Okay.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.'cause I live up in that direction, so I go up there in Mulberry Grove. And so just watching the different dogs interact and watch how they get along, it's just, and this bit just came to me and so I put different voices, obviously with the dogs. And again, this was my idea for my show before I met Mike. And then it would uh,

Mike:

We'll talk more about that after you hear it. So we're gonna put the dog park., Bill Paddock: We now take located in Orange Blossom Gardens, where several dogs are engaged in a conversation. You know why I like Paradise Dog Park?'cause all these lady dogs, there's nothing like a queen to make you feel like a pitbull. Know what I mean? Now I'm gonna go over there and clean myself and you let me know which one is interested. The pomeranian. The, uh, Pekingese. Okay, boss. No problem. How's the canine cleaning himself? Oh, that's disgusting. Hey, there's no cleaning yourself in the dog park. The dog park is for exchanging pleasantries and barking. That's it. So Bill, that was the dog park.

Bill Paddock:

The dog park, yeah.

Mike:

Now you heard the announcer. Then we heard a bunch of dogs talking.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. They were all dogs. Actually. Every voice you hear in that clip, just a comedy bit is my voice. But there's just supposed to be dogs. Because you look at, that's the beauty of dogs is that they have so many individual personalities. And just dogs in general. Like I was talking before the clip, whether it's Golden Retriever or German shorthaired, you literally can have a bit where somebody's walking by kennels of different dogs trying to decide which one to get. And as they're walking by. The goldens or the labs, they're so friendly and nice oh my God, love me, take me home. I love you. And then you get to the pit bulls and they're like, but fuck you looking at? Huh? What? What? You wanna fuck me? You wanna fuck me? You want a piece of this right there? And then you just move on. They're like I don't know if I want that dog. You get the German short hairs or the greyhounds, you know the German short hairs are like, yes, we are going to go running today two or three miles and then we're going to ho with a pack. But you could just, you just move on. Of course I get to my little schnauzer there. Who thinks he's a tough guy? You know? You wanna pitch me? You wanna pitch me? Hey guy. There's just so many different things you can do with dogs.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

they're just so much fun, and of course you don't want the slow ones. You get the slow ones that have been puppy milled and they're like, maybe me and Lieutenant Dan, go walking. But they are a lot of fun. I love my dog.

Mike:

Yeah. So the, puppy mill doors you don't think are as smart as the,

Bill Paddock:

They're a little, Lieutenant Dad, my mom and dad took me walking. Maybe I'll poop. You know that, No. Little bit. You wanna look out

Mike:

a little bit of Forest Gum?

Bill Paddock:

Little bit Forest Gum mean That'd be a good name for a dog. Forest Run. Forest.

Mike:

Go for the Gump.

Bill Paddock:

Go for the Gump. That's right.

Mike:

Yeah. Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

But now dogs are almost like a comedy bit that write themselves when you think about it. Because they really are, you get some,

Mike:

we had a improv player who had a South African I don't wanna say humpback, but had a black stripe running up its back. Oh, wow. And the dog was about three and a half feet tall off the ground. It, it was. Big dog.

Bill Paddock:

Wow.

Mike:

Took the whole backseat of her car.

Bill Paddock:

I bet it did.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

I've seen you've seen those mastiffs.

Mike:

Oh yeah. Those

Bill Paddock:

dogs.

Mike:

I had a friend with a

Bill Paddock:

mastiff are huge,

Mike:

but they don't live long.

Bill Paddock:

They might not live long, but they're a little intimidating because you see these mastiffs and you think, okay, a black lab. gets a little, spunky. Might hump your leg.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

A mastiff though, they're gonna rape you. They will literally rape you. You're gonna be down and you're gonna be like, no means no. No means no. And then there's dog's yeah, it's just a different bag.

Mike:

Yeah. I gotta get you out at the improv on Friday night and have you do three or four different voices?

Bill Paddock:

I maybe, I don't know right now, I'm still enjoying, I still got a lot of work to do with this podcast, Mike. I'm still very, even though it's not done yet,

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

China,

Mike:

it's, you gotta put at least four episodes together.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah, you did. Say they have four episodes together.

Mike:

you, things come up and you just don't have the time the very next week guaranteed to get it out. Right now I'm running three, four weeks in advance and this week I'm recording three different podcasts

Bill Paddock:

Oh wow.

Mike:

To in addition to this one, so that I'm getting closer to seven weeks out.

Bill Paddock:

Were you going on vacation?

Mike:

I'm going on a vacation taking two cruises this year, so I want to have a big backlog of stuff.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, okay. All right.

Mike:

Very

Bill Paddock:

good.

Mike:

Yeah, we're going up to Quebec and taking a cruise from Quebec to Boston.

Bill Paddock:

Yes. I noticed you liked that

Mike:

I like that Southern accent.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

But one of the first ones I learned to do was the Boston accent. because that was where one of our biggest prospects and turned out to be clients was Wang. Wang Labs. They made the first word processing machines.

Bill Paddock:

Ah,

Mike:

and there really was a Mr. Wang. And he was Chinese and he had a great Boston accent.

Bill Paddock:

Now that would be interesting.

Mike:

And I was told to speak with a Boston accent.

Bill Paddock:

So you went in there and dropped your Rs just trying to make do good business.

Mike:

It did, it helped. We got a lot of business from Wayne.

Bill Paddock:

Did ya?

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

Wow. Okay.

Mike:

And we did a lot of business in New England in our first year.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

So that was important to get the accent right. Then I got to California and there was no accident. That was right.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. No, California. Yeah. And nobody's really from California, which is

Mike:

strange. Yeah. We had that saying that, you were a California native if you managed to make it for two straight years. And, we were going like princess one of our favorite cruise lines.

Bill Paddock:

Okay.

Mike:

And it should be fun, all right? But that flexibility in your schedule. And when you're doing a podcast that's released weekly, you gotta have eight episodes In the bag to be able to do it.'cause when you come back, you ain't gonna have time to record a new episode.

Bill Paddock:

No. No, I can appreciate that. Yeah. That's definitely gotta be poof. Yeah.

Mike:

You, that's why it's important to be out ahead of the curve in podcasting.

silience:

All right?

Mike:

All right. Yeah. And improv with your faces and the voices. You'd be an instant star.

silience:

I know you talking about bitches. Okay.

Mike:

Okay.

Bill Paddock:

I went with it.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

If it's an impulse, you go with it,

Mike:

right? That's right. Put you in a ski. With one of our players named Norma.

Bill Paddock:

remember the one you saying likes to laugh a lot?

Mike:

Yeah, she likes to laugh, but she does the best faces of anybody in the improv.

Bill Paddock:

Ah-huh

Mike:

Okay. She blows an audience away for making a face, giving 'em a bad look. And she's got a sharp mind. So she comes up with some very funny things to say. And, the Monday night in probably be a good place for you

Bill Paddock:

I tell you, that's one of the funniest things I've seen. one of my heroes growing up was Jerry Lewis.

Mike:

Oh, he,

Bill Paddock:

he was a crazy man. Oh my God. there's a movie he did and I can't remember the name of the movie, but he

Mike:

Bell Boy

Bill Paddock:

He was

Mike:

very

Bill Paddock:

Biggie. It might have been Bell Boy. Actually nothing You say. It might have been bellboy, but I remember him sitting, in the kitchen. I think he was on his counter and symphony music come up. And as the symphony's playing, he's making expressions with every high and every low. He is

Mike:

yeah.

Bill Paddock:

And it was just, you could even transform that today You could just put on a song. It doesn't matter. It could be a country song, it could be an Alan Jackson song, it could be anything. And you could just do expressions to every, whatever the bass hits high, the guitar goes in a trumpet. it's just, hilarious because just like Jerry Lewis did it, you could just do it to any song. It's just funny.

Mike:

Yeah. He was a funny guy. I had the opportunity to see him,

Bill Paddock:

Oh, wow.

Mike:

Before he died, he came to the Rotary Convention, I think it was in Barcelona. And he had some kind of disease that they were giving him a lot of steroids.

Bill Paddock:

No,

Mike:

I, that's right. He grew up like a boob.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. Yeah. I remember seeing him on Larry King, I think where he had that, and he was trying to explain the steroids at a,

Mike:

and he had. He did a little bit live and he brought like crazy.

Bill Paddock:

No, he was a, one of the. I'll get into YouTube and sometimes the YouTube the comedians, whether it's Jonathan Winters or

Mike:

oh no, there's a guy,

Bill Paddock:

Jerry Lewis. But

Mike:

he could do the voices.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, he could definitely do the voices. And there's plenty to talk about with Jonathan Winters. But to stay on Jerry Lewis, there's a clip of him and the old Colgate Colgate Comedy Hour with Dean Martin, where dean plays the ventriloquist and Jerry plays the dummy. And it's just a brilliant skit because they're hungry, starving actors or whatever, and they happen over here when they're going for a gig that they need a ventriloquist. And so they go in there and it's just hilarious.

Mike:

Oh, we put you into a ventriloquist skit.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, it was funny.

Mike:

we had a two person team that did the ventriloquist where the ventriloquist is singing and, the dummy says, why don't you have a glass of water and then the dummy sinks for the other guy. It was funny.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. Yeah. No that dummy scene though, with Jerry Lewis, d Martin that's classic. If it's, nobody's seen it. You gotta go out there and look that up.

Mike:

why don't you tell our, listen bill. When you're thinking of getting your comedy podcast offered now?

Bill Paddock:

I'm shooting for Christmas of this year, and the reason I'm shooting so far out is that if it's done earlier, hopefully Mike will have me back on to announce it. And it's called mad Dog Comedy, M-A-D-D-O-G. comedy. And like I said, I'm shooting for Christmas of this year, 2026. And if I get it done earlier, like I said, hopefully Michael will have me back on to announce when the new date would be.

Mike:

Yeah. And it's ad lib stuff, right?

Bill Paddock:

Yeah, it's gonna be all it. What it is I had, it's bits, it's short bits. Because I find when I listen to comedy, sometimes they'll go on just too long to where they have a good start, but it's 10 minutes long. Don't wanna listen to it. This is gonna be like three to five minute bits.

Mike:

Right.

Bill Paddock:

Where they're gonna go from one to another. And it's gonna be all my voice and all little comedy things. And like I said, once we get closer to it, and as I get some of the episodes done and I'm able to send you clips, I can go on and explain more.

Mike:

If you are continuing in that series there, there's a comedy network of podcasts out there, A guy named Billy Merri operates it outta South Florida.

silience:

Okay.

Mike:

I've listened to it.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

But what Billy does for one of the shows, and there are many shows in that series. I've been on a couple of the shows called Shut Up Gale. He has a script idea, right?

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

Okay. And he divides the script idea up into five to 16 different players and each player, wherever they are in the world, records their part and then, it's assembled.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

In, into a podcast from those individual parts and released as a podcast.

Bill Paddock:

This is not every show, this is just a bit that he does.

Mike:

There's a show that it's a

Bill Paddock:

it's a

Mike:

comedy, a comedy show that it's done like that. That released one a month of those.

Bill Paddock:

Oh, really?

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

So I could see now. that would be my thing. Now I've never heard the man. maybe he's, it could be hilarious and I wish him the best, but that would be something that I would steer away from because, going in within the first two, three minutes, if it's not funny or if it's not for you, you might turn it off.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

Where if you know there's another bit right around the corner that's gonna be different. You might listen to it. And that's just my thinking on that.

Mike:

I the rule that we used in the Monday night improv, that an improv scene is three minutes long.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

If it goes over three minutes, it's real dangerous. And we also use a rule that when we're measuring a scene, how good was it we'd measure the number of laughs per minute. Any scene that can get more than two laughs submitted, that's a show worthy scene.

Bill Paddock:

Oh,

Mike:

A scene that's going three minutes and hasn't come to a conclusion, we'll let it go to four or five minutes.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

But a scene that's dying in a minute and a half, the book director was gonna say blackout.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. No, I could buy into that. And then, but sometimes if it is rough at the first minute, it's better. Have a good finish.

Mike:

Well,

Bill Paddock:

which would make up for that.'cause sometimes you do have to set some up, but I get what you're saying. The

Mike:

setup is important. All of that stuff. Comes into working in the improv world with an ensemble.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

There are no solo it's not standup where it's one guy doing the whole bit. and, an improv show will run anywhere from 12 to 23 scenes.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah.

Mike:

Over 90 minutes, depending on which show and which format the show is in. And that gives plenty of time for. A great many players to be involved in the show.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah. And I think that's key though. That's what I'm hoping to do with my voices and with the diversity of the comedy like you might have, one might be a medieval English skit. Another one might be a current prison skit. Another one might be a dog skit.

Mike:

Yeah.

Bill Paddock:

So the diversity of it is such that, okay, maybe you found this one okay, but not as funny as this one. But because of the diversity, it's worth listening to the hodgepodge of it. It's not just one thing. And going back to the Billy character you talked about Billy Merri, I think something like that definitely could work. Probably has worked is why he is doing it.

Mike:

Yeah

Bill Paddock:

I imagine some are like hilarious and other ones just don't click Now, Betty Hill

Mike:

that, that's a problem.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah, it's a problem. but you're still gonna put it on, but how many people are gonna listen to it?

Mike:

That's I don't know what the listenership is. But Billy's got a great comedy background. He came out of, I think Second City and the Upright Citizens

Bill Paddock:

Oh my back. That's a good resume right there.

Mike:

Yeah. Upright Citizens Brigade outta New York City. And

Bill Paddock:

I got no background in here. I haven't, putting my judgment on that.

Mike:

Hey,

Bill Paddock:

I'm just putting on what my thinking is why I'm doing what I'm doing.

Mike:

But,

Bill Paddock:

Maybe I'm gonna go stand in the corner now for about 10 minutes. I feel ashamed.

Mike:

don't feel ashamed. Don't stand in the corner. Come back again.

Bill Paddock:

Thanks Mike.

Mike:

And I had a great pleasure having you on, bill.

Bill Paddock:

Thank you. it's been great being on here. thanks for having me.

Mike:

Good. You, our listeners, the name of your podcast again,

Bill Paddock:

mad Dog Comedy. Mad, M-A-D-D-O-G. Comedy. C-O-M-E-D-Y. I was almost scared to spell it out, like I'd misspell it.

Mike:

Yeah, they might have two D's in mad or two G's in dog.

Bill Paddock:

Yeah, that's true.

Mike:

Yeah, that's

Bill Paddock:

true. Yeah. I have 2D. Yeah.

Mike:

Make it easy.

Bill Paddock:

Alright, thank you.

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