Interview · moment 5 of 26
The Dueling Rodney Dangerfield Impersonators
from #261 - Please, Die Alone | The Tim Dillon Show · #261
4 min
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They recount the legendary 'Trip Sunday' story of doing three open mics in one day, culminating in a bizarre real-life confrontation between two competing Rodney Dangerfield impersonators at a Huntington club, one of whom had just had a heart attack.
- Tim recalls the night he and his guest decided they had to move into New York City after endless drives to Long Island comedy mics.
- They bombed at the hipster mic and the black room, then headed to a second-floor club called Chesterfields in Huntington.
- The club claimed Eddie Murphy started there, though nobody knew what that actually meant—possibly just that he took a bus that passed by.
- Tim notes the people saying this were the most racist in America, taking pride in Eddie Murphy's accomplishments while having racial slurs scrawled on the glass.
- A Rodney Dangerfield impersonator got up on stage to perform Dangerfield's own material at an open mic.
- Someone suddenly yelled from offstage, and when they looked over, another Rodney Dangerfield impersonator in suit and red tie was standing by the door.
- The second impersonator yelled "You stole my act" in complete earnestness—genuinely upset, not joking at all.
- The second impersonator continued his complaint from offstage: "Just because I had a heart attack, you think you can do my act."