Three Funny Standup Comics: Jack Mayberry, Cash Levy, & Steve Bruner #254

Jack Mayberry, Cash Levy, and Steve Bruner are seasoned stand-up comedians who each bring a unique perspective to the comedy stage. Jack Mayberry, with his charming Texas drawl, cleverly weaves in serious topics like religion and drug use, turning them into humorous narratives that resonate with audiences nationwide. Cash Levy, celebrated for his dynamic improvisational style, excels in engaging audiences directly, creating a lively atmosphere full of laughter and memorable moments. Steve Bruner, with his sharp observational humor, transforms everyday experiences into comedic gems, captivating audiences through his witty takes on mundane situations, such as unusual foods and hotel quirks.

(00:00:22) "Unique Humor Styles of Top Comedians"

(00:05:21) "Heavenly Humor: Jack Mayberry's Religious Comedy"

(00:16:58) "Steve Bruner's Hilarious Everyday Observations"

(00:23:02) Steve Bruner's Comedic Take on Hotel Rules

(00:25:09) "Tag Team Talent: Comedy and Beyond"

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Transcript

Announcer: 0:04

This is another episode of Stand Up Comedy. Your host and emcee celebrating 40 plus years on the fringe of show business stories, interviews and comedy sets from the famous and not so famous. Here's your host and emcee, Scott Edwards.

R. Scott Edwards: 0:22

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast, Man. Today we have three terrific Stand up comics. You've heard them before on the podcast, but we have some new sets to share with with you. Coming up later, a very talented headliner. You've heard him a lot on this podcast. Steve Bruner will be closing up the show. In the middle, we have a very funny guy out of Los Angeles, Cash Levy. That does great audience participation material. But right now, let's jump into a terrific set by Jack Mayberry. Now, this guy's been around for a long, long time. One of the top headliners in the country, comes out of West Texas. Very down to earth funny material. So let's jump right into it. Three great acts. Good to have you here on the podcast. Let's start off with the very funny Jack Mayberry.

Jack Mayberry: 1:17

A lot of smoking going on around here. It's like wearing a patch. Trying to quit smoking for the umpteenth time. Not because it's bad for me. I knew it was bad for me when I started sucking on a lit stick. Never seemed like a good idea. Now you're a social pariah. You go into a restaurant, they got you off over in a dark bank section of the restaurant over there with the lepers. Another undesirable shit. I just smoke. I don't molest people. Man, give me a break. Moved out to California. They threw us out of restaurants altogether because the effects of secondhand smoke in a city with brown air. So I'm gonna quit smoking if it kills me. Can't justify it anymore.

R. Scott Edwards: 2:08

Hard drugs.

Jack Mayberry: 2:08

I don't have trouble with hard drugs. I tried cocaine. It made me tense and irritable. That's just when people wanted some of mine. I couldn't handle that drug at all, man. I was down. Marijuana. I like marijuana, but it made me ambivalent. And I'm not sure how I feel about that exact. They say it stifles creativity. Boy, I don't believe that. You want to see creativity. Give a dope smoker some dope. No way to smoke it. That's about the most creative I've ever seen. These buckets, they can hollow out their left leg and get that stuff going. Look at this pipe I made out of my thorax. That's pretty cool. What's even more amazing, to me is marijuana is illegal, cigarettes are illegal. They don't mind you killing yourself, they just don't want you to be in a really good frame of mind when it happens. Can't do anything anymore, can't drink the water. They're on coffee again now. I quit drinking coffee the last time I went through that argument I was drinking coffee and they go, don't drink that, the caffeine makes you nervous. So I started drinking decaffeinated. Then they said the stuff you use with decaffeinate that with gives you cancer. Well, that makes me nervous. I don't need a damn coffee anymore, man, forget it. I must pick the worst stuff. Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine. Man, I must just be walking into places going, hey, you got anything in here that kills laboratory animals? Give me about 100 bucks worth of that. What doesn't kill laboratory animals? Is that about the most weep wool little creature you ever heard of or what? Why'd they check this stuff out on something with a little constitution? Give coffee and cigarettes to cockroaches, at least they'd have a reason to be awake all night. I think as human beings we're at least as resilient as the cockroaches, but the only thing on the planet is giving them a run for their money at this point. I think sometimes we may be God's cockroaches. I think he probably came in here and exterminated. Once we've reinfested the joint, he's probably gonna come back someday, open up the door and go, jesus Christ, look at all these cockroaches. And Jesus will go, yeah, the holy ghost would go hoo. Because he hates cockroaches and he makes that ghost noise. Don't you people read the bible? Yeah, me neither. I couldn't get past all that begatin in the beginning. You ever try to read the bible? I know you gotta have a lot of begatin to have a beginning. But man, I kept getting confused so I jumped to the end. I know how this all comes out. It's not good. We're in big trouble. This guy's been wanting to go to heaven one day. Got me thinking about

Jack Mayberry: that. 8: 5:05

00 in the morning, open up

Jack Mayberry: 5:06

my door and a guy standing there with the bible going, do you want

Jack Mayberry: to go to heaven? 8: 5:08

00 in the

Jack Mayberry: 5:10

morning, I'm in the middle of the night, I'm looking at him thinking, are you going to be there? I was kind of planning on sleeping late for eternity. They got you and doorbells There. And I assume doorbells are gonna be a crucial part of your heaven. No, I don't want to go. You want to go to heaven? What the hell kind of question is that anyhow? I used to sit there in church every week I'd ask that question. You know, they change the sermon, but every week the guy would go, when you die, do you want to burn in the fires of hell, or do you want to go to heaven and live forever and be happy? I'm five years old. I'm sitting here thinking, what, you got people in the back trying to make up their mind on this or what? You got hands up for hell back there? Do you really? There's no hands up back there. What do you keep asking us that question for wanting to go to hell. We wouldn't be in church, man. Since we are in church, why don't you tell us stuff we need to know? Like how much we can send and still get in. That's what I'm here to find out. Give me some hard numbers I can work with here. They said you can send some, but you got original sins, so you already got some. So what I need to know is about how much. And if it's 40, just say 40%. That's the cutoff point. Say, great, I'm out of here. I'll send up to 35, back off a little bit. Leave myself a little buffer area there, you know? Guess I have a really good weekend. I can kind of mellow it out.

R. Scott Edwards: 6:50

Real quick.

Jack Mayberry: 6:53

But with Monday and Tuesday being slow days, I could be back in heaven by Wednesday am pretty easily. But if it's 40, let me know it's 40. So I don't have 42, get killed and end up in hell for a measly 2% standing beside some clown that pulled an 84 and had a great time while he was down there. So I drove the poly at the grade on a curve is the only way they got out of this. And you got Hitler and Mussolini off at one end of that bell. I'm in there with a B. Pretty easy. But the guy at the door didn't buy it. He told me I was gonna go to hell. And apparently you have to go straight to hell. Like there was a scenic route I was gonna try and take. Hello? Aaa? Oh, yeah, the river of Fire. A whole day at the river of Fire. You don't want to go to hell. Cause that's a terrible place full of terrible people. Much like Denny's at 3am Is the way I have it again. Okay, maybe not quite that bad. Then I got to thinking, how bad could hell be? You know, there's gonna be a lot of people been in hell for a long time. People get used to everything. You get to hell, people are gonna be sitting around going, hot, it ain't hot down here. You should have been here 30 eons ago. That's when it was hot down here. You kids today, hot down here. Be hell on the devil trying to figure out how to torture people forever. What'd I do today? I'll burn em. And I already did that. I'll throw snakes and I already did that too. I'll stick them on the fort. And I already did that. Shit, I gotta do this forever. This is hell. Hell's gonna be a big place too, you know that? I bet heaven's just gonna be a small suburb on the outskirts of hell. Cause according to every religion, you gotta do what that religion tells you to to get into heaven. Or they'll tell you the other religions will get you thrown into hell. Plus there's gonna be a lot of nice aborigines that no missionaries at all ever even got to walking around in hell going, you know, I didn't know anything about any of. I'm going to be over there going, come here, I'll explain it to you. Heck, when I first moved here, there wasn't any centers from there.

R. Scott Edwards: 9:14

Well, you can see why. Jack Mayberry has been in the business for over 40 years. Very funny, very down to earth. Has that good kind of Texas drawl to all of his material. Very funny. Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. Hey, coming up right now is a young, energetic comic. Used to work for me a lot back in the day. He's still out working the boards and doing comedy all over the country. Let's put it together for one of the best audience participation comics. Here he is, Cash Levy.

Cash Levy: 9:47

I worked out today. I see a lot of bodybuilders. It doesn't make any sense to me, but what earthly reason is there for a bodybuilder? What earthly reason does it get that big? Are people like stuck under cars very often need to get pulled out? These people are huge. I want to say something. I'm at the gym and I'm working out and I was trying to work in today. I'm like, can I work in with you? No, dude, I'm not done yet. I just want to go. Actually, you really are done. You were done quite a while ago. That's £570. I don't know if you know this, they have machines that'll do that. Now your head looks like a freaking ping pong ball. Deer season started today. I went hunting for the first time. Recently went hunting? I was in Arkansas. Do we have a hunter back there? What do you hunt, sir?

Steve Bruner: 10:45

Where in Morgan?

Cash Levy: 10:47

Where in Morgan? Oh, you hunt in Morgan. Just anything that moves in Morgan. I asked him what he hunted and he just named a town. I'll shoot the whole damn thing up if I have to. I don't like Morgan much. When was the last time you shot in Morgan? Yesterday. What'd you shoot?

Jack Mayberry: 11:22

A bag.

Cash Levy: 11:23

You shot a bag? Was it moving or was there mail in it or what? You what? You were sighting your rifle on a bag, were you? How did it do? Did it hit the bag?

Jack Mayberry: 11:38

Yes, it did.

Cash Levy: 11:39

Good. How big was the bag? It was a normal paper bag. What do you use?

Steve Bruner: 11:47

270.

Cash Levy: 11:48

270. That seems like. I don't know a lot about guns, but that seems a lot more than. Than 263. I have a one myself. Doesn't shoot much, but I don't go to Morgan often. So what do you kill once you actually shoot the moving targets?

Steve Bruner: 12:13

Mule deer.

Cash Levy: 12:14

Mule deer. The combination when the mule has sex with the deer, which is a very rare occurrence, when it does happen, you're there to shoot the prey. That seems kind of cruel that you're shooting an animal that barely exists. Maybe you should just shoot one or the other. I mean, how often do you see a mule deer? Pretty seldom where I'm from. I live in LA now. And you don't see mule deer walking down the beach. You don't see people shooting bags very often either. All I'm saying is this is a strange place. I'm a stranger in a strange land. So what else do you shoot?

Steve Bruner: 13:07

Squirrels.

Cash Levy: 13:08

Right, Squirrels. Wow, that's some impressive. You strap those to your hood afterwards, just put them in your glove compartment. You might just drop like a walnut or something. Wait till they walk over. Got another one. Honey. It's a baby mule deer. Watch out behind you. There's a moving bag back there. I'm gonna shoot it because those things are dangerous. Little poking eye out, wind picking those bad boys up. Squirrel. Do you eat the squirrel? You do. Wow, you are a real backcountry bumpkin. Aren't sure I eat it. Feathers and all. It don't even have feathers. It does after I shoot it with my.275 though. Hmm. Well, I went hunting for the first time recently. I was in Arkansas. I went turtle Hunting? Yeah. This is hunting for the lazy man. Let me tell you. We're out there with the rifles. You missed a turtle.

Steve Bruner: 14:35

Reload.

Cash Levy: 14:38

He's walking away. I was like, this is cool. Why don't you just go pick up the turtle? Why do you have to shoot it? Well, that wouldn't be hunting now would it? Then damn city boy.

Steve Bruner: 14:55

I felt bad.

Cash Levy: 14:56

I can't put a turtle head on my wall. How much pride would you feel? These are my turtle heads. Put up a hell of a fight. Step over to my squirrel room over here. Watch out for my mule. Deer head on the wall. They're always trying to justify the mean stuff we do to animals. You know, it's always like horses like to be ridden. Mm hmm. They love it. Mm hm. No they don't. You don't see them saddling themselves up, riding each other. Then there's dogs. Man's best friend.

Jack Mayberry: 15:32

I don't know.

Cash Levy: 15:33

I don't usually feed my friends the same thing for 15 years. No wonder they eat shoes and couches. And dogs are supposed to be so smart, they can predict earthquakes. How come they get hit by cars all the time? Predict that, you mystical creature. We're not maiming animals, we're killing. And we try to justify it. How do you justify killing an innocent fly? They spread diseases. Well, so did my ex girlfriend. I didn't kill her. Bitch gave me polio.

R. Scott Edwards: 16:21

That was Cash Levy. Live on. You can see why he's so successful. He engages with audiences very well and is always very improvisational and able to interact in such a way that really makes the audience laugh, engages with him and makes for a fun night for everybody. Hey, we got some more great comedy. You've heard him many, many times on the podcast. Why? Because he's one of the best in the business. Here's some short comedy bits by our good friend Steve Bruner. I know you'll enjoy him. Here we go. Steve Bruner, live on stage.

Steve Bruner: 16:58

Left on our own. We will buy some silly foods. I bought a box of croutons not too long ago, got them home, found out all the croutons are kept in a stay fresh pouch. Well, croutons are stale bread. We left these open all night. They would only get better. Nobody's ever had to go back to the store with a box of Krugerna. I need some money back. These are going fresh. Seen some weird foods in my day too. I was In Albuquerque, N.M. walked into a 7 11. Right there they were selling pickled pigs feet in a clear jar. Now the people that want pickled pig's feet know what they look like. The people that don't want them shouldn't have to see him. In fact, the people that don't want them shouldn't even have to see the people that do want these. Wouldn't have bothered me had they hit him way in the back. But no, they put them right next to the cash register. Like pickled pig's feet are some sort of impulse buy. Like one of us is gonna be in the

Steve Bruner: 7: 18:06

11 reaching for their pack of gums.

Steve Bruner: 18:08

I'm saying he, I need a swine extremity. That's a dang tough choice. Bubble Yum or a Hoof. I have to admit, right? I see why you're keeping up front. A lot of people must be stealing those. Got to keep your eye on them. I think they put them up front to make the Slim Jims look nutritious. I'm never gonna eat pickle pixie. There's some foods I'm never gonna eat pickle pixie. Tuan Tongue is another one. Who had the ambition to sell tongue. Was the guy just chewing away on a sandwich one day? Ow.

R. Scott Edwards: 18:49

Mmm.

Steve Bruner: 18:52

You know, with little mustard, that'd be good eating, right? I'd be afraid to eat pickled pig's feet in tongue. I think those are the kind of foods you eat that just make you dream funny. Did you ever eat something late at night that just gives you a goofy dream? Like one time I had a pizza delivered around midnight. I dreamt there was this huge cookie at the door selling Girl Scouts in Los Angeles. People actually get mad at you if you buy the wrong food. I didn't know there was such a thing as wrong food to buy. I'm living in Los Angeles. One week I'm in the grocery store, happened to be buying tuna. Lady behind me went crazy. Just, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You're not supposed to be buying tuna. They're catching dolphins in the net. I said, well, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. No, they're catching a hell of a lot of tuna. In case you miss I. She got it right. Excuse me. Dolphin are smart. I say, well, excuse me, but I don't think we're catching the smart ones. And don't get me wrong, I'm not anti dolphin. I'm just pro tuna. That didn't satisfy her at all. She reached over, picked up my tuna can, start waving it around. Suddenly I realized, in an angry fanatic's hand, is. Could be a lethal weapon, right? Nobody wants to get beat to Death with their entree. I'm in that group. I try not to go, whoa, hey, maybe we're just catching very dumb, very depressed dolphins. Maybe even the schizophrenic dolphins. You just kind of think they're tuna. Cause I don't mind eating a dumb, depressed or mentally deranged animal. Let's face it, a cow staggers into my house, puts his head in my oven, turns it on. Hell, he's a pot roast. What I didn't like about this woman, I thought she was being a hypocrite. I hate hypocrisy. Hate being in a restaurant, having somebody say, oh, don't ask for the veal. In order to get that, they had to kill those poor little baby calves. Like the chicken on their plate, jumped in front of a bus. Fun to play a good comedy club again, too, because I haven't played a club in a long time. Because usually I'm playing a corporate show or opening up for somebody. And they always put you in a hotel. This place puts you in a house really nice. Because every hotel you ever walk into asks you the same question right up front. How are you gonna pay? Give you the four options. Cash, check, charge, or other. That's when I try to other. Yeah, I'd like some other guy to pay for this. Would that be all right? Every hotel I've ever been to always has a slogan. Something to the effect of just like home. Which I don't believe for a minute. I've never been in anybody's house where they bolt the TV to the dress. I stayed in one hotel where they bolted the remote control down and it wasn't facing the tv. My only entertainment all week long was pissing off the guy in the next room just five minutes. Ooh. Bet you wanted to see the end

Steve Bruner: of that, didn't you? 3: 21:53

00 in the

Steve Bruner: 21:57

morning, CNN really, really loud. Just for you there. I think one of the funniest things hotels do is they give you a soap about the same size. If you had it at home, you'd throw it away. They give you this little tiny, dinky, microscopic, teeny tiny bar of nothing big enough to wash maybe half a bun. We had this thing at home and it would go right in the garbage or we would squish it down the drain with our toes, right? The two acceptable ways of getting rid of a bar soap. In fact, the only way our toes get clean in our adult years is by squishing that little sucker right down there. What strikes me so darn Funny about this, Even though we all realize if we had this thing at home, we just throw it away. They give it to you at the hotel, you steal it and bring it all the way home and then act like you're getting away with something. We spend $100 a night. We got a penny's worth of soap. We're bargain hunters, that's what we are. And hotels are catering to a dumber class of people. I know this just from the signs they put on. I actually stayed at a hotel where all the hot tubs had a sign on that said no diving. I don't think we need that sign. Seems to me the people that want to dive in the hot tub should be allowed to dive in the hot tub. This is how we weed out the gene pool, I think. Last time I was in Sacramento, I stayed at a great hotel, one of the best hotels I've ever been to. Only problem I had with the hotel, they had the world's largest mirror right across from the shower as I was getting out. There's nothing I have that needs that much reflection. If I had anything that needed that much mirror, I wouldn't want a mirror. I'd want a window.

R. Scott Edwards: 23:52

That was Steve Bruner live on stage. You could see why he's one of my favorite regulars. In fact, I still do shows with him. Steve Bruner is a Northern California comic. He's on stages all the time. If you get a chance to see him live, be sure to do that. One of the best in the business. Hey, I wanted to mention I hope you're enjoying this podcast, Stand up comedy hosted mc. But I have a new one. It's a video podcast where I've taken videos from back when I did TV shows and concerts, and I'm sharing them on Spotify and YouTube. So if you get a chance, it's called Tag Team Talent Podcast. That's Tag Team Talent Podcast, and it showcases videos of very funny comics, but also other talent from around the world sharing the variety, dancing, singing, whatever it might be. We do a lot of ventriloquism, impressions, magic, you name it. It's all on this new podcast. And if you have talent or want to learn more, go to the website www.tagteamtalentsearch.com. that's tagteamtalentsearch.com and be sure to check it out. It's loads of fun. All right, well, thanks for listening to today's podcast. We'll be back next week with one of our interviews. Thanks for listening. Bye.

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