From Stage to Page: Tony Camin's Comedy Journey / Interview & Comedy set-Show #300

Tony Camin shares his journey as a stand-up comedian and professional writer, discussing how his career spans writing for major TV shows, creating the theater piece "Marijuana Logues", and performing at comedy venues across the country.

• Writing for others is easier than writing stand-up material for yourself
• Started writing professionally in the mid-90s before co-creating Marijuana Logues with Arj Barker and Doug Benson
• Worked as a writer for various shows including Conan, Ellen, and VH1 programs
• Comedy industry has shifted from venue-based promotion to social media follower counts
• Many comics lack retirement plans beyond continuing to perform or creating podcasts
• Recently joined Laura Kightlinger as co-host on her podcast "What We Thought Would Happen"
• Values performing locally in Los Angeles to work on new material without extensive travel
• Started in comedy through college radio at KFJC with fellow comedian Kevin Kataoka

Find Tony Camin performing at Rooster T. Feathers and Deaf Puppies Comedy Club in Northern California, or listen to his new podcast "What We Thought Would Happen" with Laura Kightlinger.

Transcript

Tony Kameen Returns

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 0:21

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the podcast. I got another fun interview with you. I had a chance to interview him in depth a couple years ago, but he is back on the road doing lots of gigs and I wanted to kind of catch up and see what's going on. I'm going to tell you more about his career, but let's bring him on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, Tony Kameen. Tony, welcome back on the podcast.

Tony Camin 0:53

Thanks for having me, scott Great, to be here. How you doing.

R. Scott Edwards 0:56

You know I'm doing okay. I want to catch the audience up and then we'll jump into a little conversation. Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't recognize the name, you know the man, his comedy. He not only performs at clubs across the country, but he's done a lot of international work. He, along with a couple guys, arj Barker and Doug Benson, were the brains behind Marijuana Logs, which is a very popular theater-type piece that ended up on Broadway. He also has been at the Just for Laughs Festival and he's been on TV a lot, including the Conan O'Brien show and, as he puts it, on lots of shows that have been canceled. Since he's been on, ladies and gentlemen, tony is back on the comedy boards and working at clubs all around. How did that come about, tony?

Tony Camin 1:43

How did what come about?

R. Scott Edwards 1:46

Well, you did a lot of stuff there. Well, you did a little bit of a hiatus and then all of a sudden, I'm seeing your name all over.

Tony Camin 1:51

You're playing everywhere well, uh, I never really did a hiatus. I just think maybe social media is maybe a little more, but I really was. I've always been doing stand-up the whole time. You know, sometimes I get writing jobs and I don't do it as much because I don't get to travel as much, because I get, you know, you get on staff somewhere. But I've kind of been, I guess ever since the pandemic ended I've been maybe trying a little harder to write new material more frequently. So I think that's maybe something I'm just really trying to be active about is always having a chunk you're working on and stuff.

Writing for Comedy

R. Scott Edwards 2:31

Well, it's important to point out to the audience that to be a professional comic for as long as you have and be so successful, you have to have the basics of being a good writer and you bring up a good point. You're not just a stand-up comic that writes for himself. You've had a lot of writing jobs and I think that shows how prolific you are in writing. The funny is there any particular type of shows you prefer writing? Is it like do you punch up speeches? You like doing tv sk? Uh, who have you written for? That's really been fun.

Tony Camin 3:07

Uh, I guess Connie bit of stuff for Ellen I wouldn't say she was fun, but a lot of pilots that didn't go anywhere. And I, you know I do a lot of those VH one best week ever type shows. You know Patrice O'Neill's web junk show they all are are challenging and fun in different ways, like when you get on a they don't even have them. But my wife does this, the sitcom writer. You know she's a producer. Now you know it's uh, it's hard work. You know you can break these stories and you know it would be like that's. That's hard because you have it's a high level thing, that's high profile.

Tony Camin 3:40

But you know, doing those vh1 shows where we just made fun of MTV videos or you made fun of them, those were also great because you could turn off your brain when you're done and they're all fun jobs you write 10 jokes about. One of my jobs was write 10 jokes about 10 videos a week. That was great, that was one of the funnest jobs ever. It doesn't come with any, like you know. Oh, it's respectable, it's just a great job and you can go out and do stand-up at night with a job like that. But some of these heavier jobs, you know you're there late so you can't really cut into your stand-up life, you know.

Tony Camin 4:17

Well yeah, go ahead. Sorry, but also I think it's a lot easier to write for other people. When someone says, hey, write this. It's easier than your own stand-up, when you can write about anything, it sounds like that should be easier, but it's so personal to you or whatever and you're so guarded over this. Hey, this is my name. I think that's the hardest stuff. Is writing stand-up? Right, because it's?

Creating Marijuana Logs

R. Scott Edwards 4:39

for yourself, and so, yeah, however it goes on stage is a direct reflection on you, your talents and your thinking. What's interesting, though, is that your writing goes back a couple of decades, when you and Arj Barker and Doug Benson put together the Marijuana Logs, which turned into a huge, successful show and went international, but that was all based on writing. The topic was marijuana, but you know it was solid writing between the three of you. Talents that really brought that show together Was was that like your first big writing project?

Tony Camin 5:18

Oh no, no, that was, that was pretty late. Actually I'd been writing. I've had writing jobs since the mid nineties. So so you know, whether it was cd-roms or tv shows or whatever it was, and this was just a lark, you know, just often off the pun, because the vagina monologues was such a big deal, you know, a big thing at the time, and then I just said the word, oh, marijuana logs would be funny, and I'm like, well, we should just actually do it. You know, like so many ideas are never done because they're just laughed off or I'm like that's a great idea.

Tony Camin 5:46

I know Doug had a lot of pot jokes anyway and we, you know, I think our first show was only like 20 minutes of HBO workspace.

Tony Camin 5:53

So we only need 20 minutes.

Tony Camin 5:54

We just kind of kind of stole from our ag, you know, used the pot joke that we had and wrote a little bit and then it had to be an hour because we got Montreal, based on Bruce Smith, submitting us just off that 20 minute tape, but we had to make it that's like 70 minute show.

Tony Camin 6:07

So then we had the writing really kicked in and you know, and you know you go you say it's a pot joke, but for a real, for any good show to have any depth it has to go beyond, like the pot jokes where the characters kind of come out and oh, that's the, that's the dumb guy, that's the smart guy or this is the, you know, he's the lover. But whatever you have, you have your little characters and you have interplay and that becomes a bigger deal than not as big. But on a good night, a lot of people who don't smoke pot would have just as good a time. Yeah, so it was a very writing based project, but it wasn't. It was quite late in my career, you know well, I apologize for making that assumption.

R. Scott Edwards 6:43

Just, I've known you for several decades is just a very prolific stand up comic that seemed to always have fresh material and always be writing for his own act. So for me, the marijuana logs was a extrapolation from that, where you now you're writing with Arjun Doug and you come up with something totally different. One of the reasons I went down the path of how important it is to be a writer is that you were very kind enough to send me a photo of you and Mike Larson and Karen Anderson playing pickleball and Mike Larson is a speech writer and punch up artist for Ted talks and Karen Anderson's written on lots of television shows, so it was a writer's pickleball tournament apparently.

Tony Camin 7:30

Well, it's funny because you know we're in Glendale and there's so many comedians out there. Anyway, there's the guys who wrote Succession were out there, Sam Bain and his partner. That's a peep show. It's like Sue Murphy, big player, you know sue murphy, and oh yeah uh, a lot of a lot of comics play. Judy gold's a big pickleballer. You know it's a. It's a. You got old people. We're all old. It's a sport. You don't have to be sporty. Yet none of us are sporty, so it's good. You know we get out of the house, but mike, mike was visiting for one day because he was like you. He's a speechwriter, so I think he written this speech for this person. He came out and he came out with his own paddle. Can you believe that? He traveled? He's in town for one day and he brings his own paddle.

R. Scott Edwards 8:15

That's either really cool or a little scary.

Tony Camin 8:18

Yeah Well, we were scared because I was telling Karen he might want to play by his own paddle. We were shaking our boots. But Jared, because I was telling Karen he might want to play for us, I was like how are we going to shake in our boots? But we killed him.

R. Scott Edwards 8:26

We just killed him. Did you Good? Now? Karen's been writing for many years. I hope she's doing well. I don't know what she's working on at this moment, but she's had a lot of television writing jobs and you mentioned that you did some writing for the Ellen Show. Writing for TV, as you said, it's a little bit easier because you're writing in somebody else's voice, which takes some of the ego out of it. I think uh is. Was that a great example of what you mean?

Pickleball and Writer Friends

Tony Camin 8:57

Yeah, you don't, you know there's there's other challenges, because then you have this person who has to like it or not, and you're, you know, you're like, oh, I think that's a funny joke. And if they, oh well, and you don't, you can't. You know that you can't be attached to your work when you write for somebody else, even if you think, hey, this is the best thing I ever wrote, and they're like, meh, it's just meh. You know, uh, that's just the way it works, you know. And karen, I I just wrote, for I just worked on a little bit for one special. I didn't work on her show. Karen was karen and her and karen were the first two uh, writers on the ellen. They were, they were there for years and started it. So she wrote, she worked for she, you know she worked for there for years and years. And then you know, she worked for Arsenio. She was, she's worked for a whole bunch of people. Yeah, she, she's a, she's a prolific writer herself.

R. Scott Edwards 9:44

Yeah, and she really preferred writing over performing. I remember that, even from the early days, that she always had really strong written material. Kind of reminds me of Ed Solomon. I don't know if you remember him, but he was not a great stand-up comic but he could write and of course now he's a multi-billionaire because he's written Men in Black and several movies. What's interesting about the stand-up comedy industry is that one of the things that you learn as you go through the crucible of getting on stage, month after month, year after year, as you find out where your strong suits are. You know, some people are great at performing. Another example might be Robin Williams, who really just had this Rolodex in his head and a topic would come up and he'd throw out a hundred things, counting on 50 of them hitting. But it was proven over time that out of those 50, maybe half was somebody else's material. So it it was. Uh, everyone's got a different style and a different way that they uh take the standup comedy road, wouldn't you agree?

Tony Camin 10:52

Oh yeah, and there's lots of venues for it too. You know, like one of my good friends, alex Reed I don't think he ever worked your club, but he was. You know he made it to like a pretty solid middle around San Francisco and traveled. He was clean, smart, but once he started getting into TV he just really took off. You know he won the Emmy for Malcolm in the Middle back in the day he took off. You know he won the Emmy for Malcolm in the Middle back in the day. He just did the reboot. Uh, he then became a director. So he, and you know he started in comedy.

Tony Camin 11:19

So you know, you, there's so many different paths. There's the acting, so there's a lot of people who who start and stand up, like you know, kevin Pollak is is a good example of that. He's a stand-up dude but he also he's a good actor. People like that, like, said, robin Williams, overton numerous people, you know. And then there's people who prefer to write, who go behind the scenes, or, and then there's people, a lot of people, who like to do both. You know, maybe they're better at one, but they still get out there and do it, you know, whatever right it's all.

Tony Camin 11:43

It depends on what you like. Some people have stage fright, rather not. I think it's all fun, you know, I think it's all fun and if you can have time and balance whatever you want to do, some people like I'm going to, I'm going to work on a show, that I'm going to go on and do a standup. So if you can do that, that's great, but it, you know, sometimes the demands of the industry aren't that, aren't that? You don't have that freedom. It's like I just want to take a. So yeah, you know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of different paths within the umbrella of stand of comedy. I should say, you know there's so many. And then there's something like the marijuana log. That's not really stand up and it's not really. You know, it was like a reading, a stage reading there's. You can write a play, you can have a two man act.

R. Scott Edwards 12:34

You know there's so many things you could do and still be like a comedian. Basically, you know well, we both know people that went into the one man show genre.

Tony Camin 12:40

You know, uh, bob dubac, for example. Uh, bob dubac, rob becker, you know, retired millionaire on the caveman show. Rob becker um rick reynolds yeah, it's a big, huge thing. You know it was, it was big, and then I don't know if it's as big now, but now there's these theater tours, basically one-man shows, you know well, yeah, uh, don friesen, uh, you know, four walls his own one-man shows, bob dubac still doing his.

Comedy Industry Evolution

R. Scott Edwards 13:04

They're kind of like mini plays but kind of like marijuana log. It's written work. There's a lot of comics that decided that, uh, you know, fighting for stage time on a comedy club to get paid 10 bucks didn't really work and so they would go out and four wall their own shows at theaters. But, as we mentioned, it's all about finding the financial and creative path that works for you. And the reason I, you know, made the point. It seemed like you weren't around as much and now you're around a lot, and I apologize for being wrong about that, but there was a time and maybe it was because of COVID you weren't doing as much standup comedy, but now I'm seeing your name and all these different shows you're performing all over. Is it a revitalization of your interest? Because the road's still hard and you're married, I mean, but you still like going out, right?

Tony Camin 13:59

Yeah, yeah, I still like going out. In fact, coming up I'll probably say do a lot of stand-up. Locally I have a 17-year-old dog. I don't want to leave her. She's going downhill pretty quick so I'm probably not going to really push going out of town too much, you know, until whatever happens with her. So you know I'll say there's a great.

R. Scott Edwards 14:23

That's devotion to your pet. I will say that.

Tony Camin 14:25

She's 17. She's great. But also there's a lot of places. Fortunately I live in Los Angeles where I could make a living and, more importantly, even keep writing, because there's a lot of good open mics that are all just all professional comments and so if I have a new 10 minutes, I don't care if I go to the improv or flappers or an open mic, just doing it in front of a crowd and not stagnating. I don't mind not hitting the road too much. You can do that here in LA, a lot of most cities. I think you can grow by just even staying around. But yeah, I guess I kind of pushed it. I'm so used to doing the Bay Area but I didn't really. You know, that's still my home, so I never really let up on Bay Area shows, but maybe after COVID I just hit more of the ones that weren't like on slide. I found all these great side rooms and those little neighborhood ones and I probably worked on those harder.

R. Scott Edwards 15:18

Yeah, Well, I was going to ask you about that because I've been out of the business. I mean, I still produce a few shows a year for fundraisers, but I'm pretty much out of the club business. But in talking to a professional comic like you out of Los Angeles, back in the day, you would showcase at places like the Improv and the Store, and then maybe you'd get work at the Comedy Magic Club or some of the other clubs the Comedy Stop and stuff and then up in the Bay Area there was the other cafe and places like where you started, the Holy City Zoo, and then if you would do showc city zoo and then if you would do showcases there and then try to get a gig at the punchline. Now, in 2025, it sounds like you can still drop into these professional rooms and I don't know if it's out of your reputation or they let anybody up, but you're able to get stage time and work on material.

Tony Camin 16:15

Well, the punchlines aren't. There's like a year and a half wait to get a week there. But you can sign up for Sunday. Yeah, I can get on a Sunday showcase, but it is very competitive. It's not even that I'm a name. It's just that if you have a good reputation people like you who run shows, you're not a problem, your material's not aggressive or whatever it is then I think you just get a good. You get a good. You know it's a good scene here good scene in san francisco.

Tony Camin 16:41

I don't think you know. Where I really lack is my social media. Some of these kids have hundreds, you know, tens of thousands of followers. I think that in a lot of ways more important these days than credits you. You know, jimmy Kimmel and Conan are Conan's not even on anymore, so it's an older thing. I think it doesn't mean as much, but isn't that?

R. Scott Edwards 16:59

Yeah, I've heard that from a couple of people that now when you go to showcase at a club they go. How many likes and how many followers do you have? And of course I missed that whole. You know there. There was no internet when I was, you know, trying to find comics and helping people like yourself and Dana Carvey find their foothold in the industry. But the internet has changed things. I still feel that you have to prove yourself in front of an audience of strangers and that having a funny 30 or 60 second TikTok tock doesn't necessarily make you a professional standup comic, but it is, I don't know, good or sad. Uh, you might be a better judge that the clubs are looking at that as a to dictate if you know level of funny that you are.

Tony Camin 17:48

Well, I think you know, and honestly I don't know not to criticize the clubs, but I don't think it matters that much how funny you are, I think it matters. Oh, this guy has a million followers. He's going to fill the room. I think that's what the issue is.

R. Scott Edwards 18:09

So the art form is less important than butts in the seats.

Tony Camin 18:13

Well, yeah, they want to fill the room and then, if they like you, they like you and the old days like you, would create it. You would come down to San Francisco and you would go to the improv and you would see the Monday night showcase where you'd see 10 comics and you'd go oh, this guy. Here's what's going on in San Francisco right now. These guys are. I could use them. You went out of your way. That's why you had there's no internet, like you said, you did the word, the footwork, the old-fashioned footwork. You got on the 80, you went down into the city and you and you look, you know, you checked out things. That's great. That's how. That's how it used to be done. Used to send tapes to clubs. No one ever watched them. Used to send tapes to clubs. So now everything's online, but now. So now you're, you're the comic is the marketer too. It's not the club, it's almost the. The comic is no one goes to see.

Tony Camin 18:57

In the old days we go to last and limited and people wouldn't know what they were in for. Maybe bobby slade, once in a while somebody. But you just went because you know every time you go there. You had a good time, the comedy was good. I let's go see this thing. You know whatever, uh, now you just most people just know exactly why they're there. I think that's changed.

R. Scott Edwards 19:15

You know that's the big change that's interesting and in uh, I'm sure, a truism that it was a fact that back in the day, I was always promoting the club. Don't worry about whose name is on the the bill. I trust, in my taste, that you will have a good time. And what you're saying is these days it's really the comics that draw the crowd and it's through TikTok and the internet, as opposed to hey, we know, if we go to this club, we're going to see a good show. No, we're going to go to this club because Billy Joe Bob had a cute video on last week. I don't know, it's hard for me to relate to. Maybe and I think it's been mentioned I'm older now. In fact, I was going to ask you. I'm officially retired now. My only fun is these podcasts this one and my new video podcast, the team talent podcast. Now, you are not as old as me, but you've been doing this a long time. Is there an exit plan for stand-up comics once they get, let's say, over 50?

Future Projects and Podcast Plans

Tony Camin 20:23

you know, I don't think there is. I was talking to some comic who's, you know, he has a family and he's, he's really in the game and he traveled, you know, much more than I am, or he. He goes on the road to like he'll do a lot of weekend headlining, which I don't really. You know, I'm going to go to Florida for two, I'll do it, but I don't really seek it out and he, I, he was just there. I said well, what's your retirement? You know?

Tony Camin 20:53

cause I had all this writing money that I saved butt houses before. He's just, and he's like, oh my, my retirement plan is to die. He's like, oh, I'm just gonna die, that's my plan. I'm just gonna one day die. I don't have any. You know he's, it's lori phil martin had our friends.

Tony Camin 21:02

Lori phil martin had a real interesting thing why they? All these podcasts, all these male podcasters are kind of right wing that are you know, they kind of tilt right wing a little bit. And she says because all these guys are, they've become less relevant. They're hitting 50. They don't have any health insurance and this stuff is very lucrative. These right wing podcast and I think she's right to a point is that that's their retirement plans.

Tony Camin 21:26

I'm going to do this podcast and you know I'll, I'll. I'll do a bunch of conspiracy theories and I'll be so pro trump, whatever it is, because I know that, for in comedy it used to be kind of a rare thing. So it was. You know it was. You can make a lot of money doing it. So that's what she, that's her theory of some guys retirement plan is to go. You get it, you take it, you take a take, or you because I have friends who do it, the other, they're left. You know you take, you take a cause on or something, you become that guy you know. You know like what kind of we did for marketing marijuana logs was just like that version of that.

R. Scott Edwards 21:59

That wasn't political it was so we found a thing, you know I think it's so funny you mentioned that because I don't know if we talked about it before in the last interview, but it does kind of make sense. I know Arj is living in Australia now, but maybe you and Doug Benson you know there could be a podcast or a videocast called the Marijuana Logs and since you're the original writer, you can get away with it. You own it and that would probably make money and do well right off the bat. It's not the same as performing on stage and doing stand-up and writing, which is what you prefer. But you know, who knows, Maybe that's in the retirement Now, as far as 2026,.

R. Scott Edwards 22:42

I know that you are still planning some gigs up here in Northern California. You're going to be at Rooster Teeth Feathers and I've never heard of this club, but an interesting name the Deaf Puppies Comedy Club. So, ladies and gentlemen, if you're in Northern California and you want to see Tony Kameen, Rooster Teeth Feathers or the Deaf Puppies Comedy Club, be sure to check them out, because Tony Kameen is funny, Isn't that right, folks? Yes, yes.

Tony Camin 23:11

Oh, scott, nice, those are all your grandkids, huh.

R. Scott Edwards 23:15

Well, I can't say they're all mine, but I own them. Uh, no, but uh, I'm just saying that, uh, you know, doing standup comedy it's kind of like I don't mean to make this about me but the reason I do the podcast and have for six years now is I love the people in the industry of standup comedy as an art form. And so, talking about the industry, talking to people I used to work with back in the eighties and nineties, presenting comedy from the eighties and nineties, that I still think is viable. I think funny is funny. It doesn't matter when it was written.

R. Scott Edwards 23:52

But I had to mature and I just launched that video podcast that you know about because you're on it a lot the tag team talent podcast and gone video and now all the materials within the last like year or so. So I've kind of have my foot in the and I'm trying to step into the future. But that's my retirement connection to this industry we both love and I was just curious if you have thought that far ahead. But right now it sounds like you're still just enjoying getting on stage.

Tony Camin 24:29

Yeah, and I've done many podcasts, and how I got into comedy was college radio. I do Kevin Kataoka.

R. Scott Edwards 24:36

Oh, I didn't know that. Kevin's one of my favorites, very funny guy. We'll have to talk about him when we're not recording. So you and Kevin were doing a radio show.

Tony Camin 24:49

We were at KFJC in Fort Laudjc and foot and foot hill, los altos hills, and it was a great station. It was, it was, it was alternative music, punk rock, and there was, you know people, we, our signal reached to san francisco. We, you know, I interviewed you too. It was a great station and stuff. And I started having he's like, oh, you're funny, we have this. We got me and my friend, don we go to the holy city zoo on t-shirt, come with me, try it out. You know, and that's how it all started is through KFJC. Wow, kevin Kataoka. Yeah, I don't remember that.

Tony Camin 25:18

I like doing the radio. I'm comfortable on radio and I always like to be a podcast co-host. I like to do it with the bell on here just to talk. I mean, what kind of blowhard do you want to do that? Anyway, I do like that all your podcasts are shorter than your intros used to do. Well, everybody, any birthdays out there in podcast land, anybody?

R. Scott Edwards 25:44

That's so funny. I mean I appreciate you getting a couple digs in, but sadly there's a little bit of truth to that, but lovingly joking lovingly joking, but there is some value in the podcasting and I didn't know you had that radio background. Well, you are going in and we are both going into 2026. Are there any? Uh, I mentioned a couple of club dates. Is there any projects or anything?

Tony Camin 26:11

You're excited about leading up to this, so I was. I always wanted to be a sidekick or someone to do a podcast with it, something I was really interested in but now you have to have, you know, some kind of specialty.

Tony Camin 26:21

But I did one of my favorite comics, laura Keitlinger. I did her podcast last month and she asked me to be your co-host so I'm going to be. We've done a couple episodes now, so I'm now her co-host on the Laura Keitlinger and Tony Kameen podcast. Uh, what's called what we thought would happen. We she's done 60 episodes and it's on Apple, on Apple and it's. That's been a lot, it's been so fun. So I have that project is my new thing.

R. Scott Edwards 26:53

I think that sounds uh exciting.

Tony Camin 26:53

Now, uh, lori Keitytlinger, is it just her podcast or what's the name of it? You said it's called what we thought would happen.

R. Scott Edwards 26:57

Well, ladies and gentlemen, you have to go look for what we thought would happen with laurie kytlinger and tony kameen yeah, and kyle is one of my all-time favorite comedians.

Tony Camin 27:10

we just did a show last night night and she's just one of the best and she was a big hero of mine when I started her and Jeannie Garofalo and people like that. So, yeah, it's been fun.

R. Scott Edwards 27:24

Oh, that's great. Well, I'm so happy to hear that and I can't wait to check out the podcast once you start. Are the ones you co-hosting posted yet, or when are they launching?

Tony Camin 27:34

I think they launched next month, okay.

R. Scott Edwards 27:38

So they'll be out by the time my audience hears this. So, ladies and gentlemen, go find the podcast. What we Thought Would Happen with Tony.

Tony Camin 27:43

Kameen, what we Thought Would Happen. Yeah, and Laura Kite Langer.

R. Scott Edwards 27:46

And that is going to be so much fun. Well, Tony, thanks for coming back on the podcast and sharing a kind of an update of what's going on with you and a little bit about your past. I always learn something when I do these, but we're longtime friends. Thank you for all the comedy and humor and, quite honestly, the friendship you brought to Jill and I and the staff at laughs unlimited. You were always one of our favorites.

Tony Camin 28:10

No, it was. It was like going home when you drove up the 80 on a Wednesday or Tuesday and you got those keys to that horrible condo that was falling apart. But it really did feel like home, seeing everybody. Those were great times. Thanks again, Scott. You helped so many people out early on.

R. Scott Edwards 28:29

Well, it was my pleasure and oh so much fun. Well, ladies and gentlemen, uh, you've heard his story. Uh, if you haven't heard his comedy, I'm going to play some right now, but you can find them on my new podcast, the tag team talent podcast, and if you go back and search, you'll find the first interview, which was much longer, much more in depth, but Tony's a very interesting guy, a talented professional standup comic and writer, so so great to have you back on the podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, before I introduce the standup comedy, tony, one last time, thanks for being on the show. We appreciate you and we hope to see you on stage soon.

Tony Camin 29:09

Okay, Sorry about this stand-up everybody. It's old.

R. Scott Edwards 29:15

Ladies and gentlemen, here's a little comedy by Tony Kameen.

Tony Camin 29:19

Don't get mad at me, I came here, but it was, you know. It turned out a fine show, nothing to worry about.

Announcer 29:25

However, the next day was in Minneapolis, so we had to rent a car in the morning early in the morning and drive due east in the morning.

Tony Camin 29:32

I don't know if you guys have ever had to drive due east in the morning. Uh-uh, not gonna work. You know why? The sun, correct the sun, or el gato for our Spanish friends. I didn't do good in that In Spanish, but I like to use it with a lot of authority and confidence, even though I didn't do good in that In Spanish, but I like to use it with a lot of authority and confidence, even though I don't fucking know what I'm saying Anyway so.

Tony Camin 29:59

So all this sun's coming in and I'm not a buiscatos and I'm not dumb, I know how to work a.

Tony Camin 30:05

I'm not smart, I'm in the middle Middle, plus Middle middle, good days and bad days. Know you get it. Anyway I'm trying to drive and then I know I'm not, so I put down the flat visors, boom, boom. But let me tell you about those flat visors, my new friend. They don't get everything, do they?

Tony Camin 30:28

where the rear?

Tony Camin 30:28

view thing attaches to the glass rear view attachy area. This visor blind stops here. This one stops here, so there's a good square inch window of pure fucking fire streaming directly into Lefty. Yeah, I know, but I was looking in the mirror when I named him, so, plus it's my eye, I can name him. Whoever the fuck I want to name him. This one's Whiskey Pete doesn't even drink. So I'm trying to drive and block out that little gap of sun and I swear to God, you guys in Idaho people will do this right back to you as you drive. I'm trying to block out something different. So it's nice to be back in America here huh.

Announcer 31:39

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