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Governors Comedy Club and Getting Paid in Cash
from Bay Ridge Boys · #133
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3 minStory about a rowdy Governors audience member telling off a club owner while filming Kevin James, followed by riffing on getting paid in cash on Long Island and the gray-zone criminality of the peninsula.
- 19:01Tim describes Governor's Comedy Club audiences out of control on their phones, barely noticing there's a show happening.
- 19:17Kevin James got a guest spot on Tim's headlining show; a woman filming him told the club owner to shut up.
- 19:49Tim respects the woman's indifference to Kevin James's celebrity status—she paid for the night and would film whoever she wanted.
- 20:13Getting paid in cash at Governors feels like robbing a jewelry store, with a handful of bills instead of a check.
- 20:27Tim worried the cash payment might be a setup, wondering if he was supposed to walk to his car through that big parking lot.
- 20:38Long Island is a gray zone peninsula where every family has a little criminality—dentists and doctors probably deal Percocets on the black market.
- 21:01Most Long Island jobs come through connections: you meet your mother's friend Kathy at Recreation once or twice and suddenly you're employed for the summer.
- 21:18Watching The Seven Five documentary, Tim instantly recognized the dirty cop was from Nassau County the moment he appeared on screen.
Kevin JamesJustin SilverThe Seven Five