rant · moment 7 of 15
Trailer Continued: Median Age 60 and the Sinatra of Long Island
from A Can of Sweetened Honey · #84
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minThe trailer keeps playing with comic profiles including Chris Monti "the Sinatra of Long Island," Loy Palmitari, and the club's mercenary security guard "House," as Tim and Ray riff on the show's dated, homogenous cast.
- 18:19Up and comers with a median age of 60.
- 18:54Tim recounts getting booked upstate in 1994 to a comedy club that had burned down three days earlier, with nobody bothering to call and cancel.
- 19:28Chris Monti is the Sinatra of Long Island, and Tim has known him since age three, coming from parents who thought show business was for bums.
- 19:55Loy Palmitari is described as the quiet, cute one with dark skeletons in her closet.
- 20:29Tim takes Anthony under his wing despite a bad attitude, explaining that someone in the crew has to get beaten up and it's going to be him.
- 20:55These are the people Tim wants to go to war with and invest in, comics out here treated like abandoned brothers in a locker room breaking each other's balls.
- 21:28The crew has everything on the line with no plan B; they have to make it work together as a family determined to stay together.
- 21:47Tim imagines LA executives hearing this pitch, trying to keep a straight face when told the show would air Thursday nights like when Seinfeld aired at nine o'clock.
- 22:01Long Island repped here as six hours upstate from New York, which LA people would probably think is in the Ozarks or a Catskills resort.
- 22:21These guys are repping a time when they weren't even all alive, like nostalgia for an era of simpler racism when permission was needed for Sammy Davis to stay in a hotel.
- 22:46The honest trailer for this would play the All in the Family theme song instead of whatever opening music they're using.
Chris MontiCarol SilvaHerbert Hoover