Speaker
Bobby Lee
Appearances over time
8 episodes
Episodes
8Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Bobby Lee admitted he has been driving without glasses his entire life, navigating by instinct and memorized routes, unable to see lane lines or road details.
Bobby Lee visited an eye doctor for the first time and discovered he has significant distance vision problems, having never worn glasses in his life.
Bobby disappeared into a restaurant bathroom for 20 minutes immediately after finishing his meal, causing distress to the table.
Arsenal won the Premier League for the first time in 22 years, a moment Bobby Lee called the best week of his life.
Bobby recounted that after North Korea's 8-1 loss to Portugal in the World Cup, every player and coach was reportedly sent to a mining facility for a year of manual labor.
Bobby's eye doctor told him, after scanning the interior of his eye with advanced equipment, that his eyesight should remain healthy into his 80s.
Bobby Lee got prescription glasses for the first time at approximately age 55, suddenly able to see Universal Studios roller coasters and trees beyond his backyard fence.
Bobby Lee stated that hantavirus has a 30 to 40 percent mortality rate, making it significantly more deadly than common infections.
Bobby Lee discovered via the SAG-AFTRA app that he is owed $58 in residuals, while his MadTV residuals likely never reached him due to contract issues.
Hantavirus has an incubation period of 21 to 40 days, meaning a person can be infected for over a month before showing symptoms.
At a childhood sleepover, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises on his face and he walked 7 miles home on a dirt road before being picked up by Eric Purvis's mom.
Bobby claimed to have witnessed a white bird perched motionless on a tumor-faced coyote's head in his neighborhood, which Andrew explained is actually a documented mutualistic phenomenon in nature.
Bobby Lee agreed to pay producer McCone $5 every time he uses one of his identified verbal isms during the show.
Bobby claims AI told him the average weight of a 54-year-old Korean man is 112–136 lbs, and since he weighs 155, he considers himself 'fat' by that metric.
Bobby Lee crouched in the corner of his bedroom disguised as a pile of pillows for 45 minutes waiting to scare his girlfriend after they watched the horror film Obsession.
Bobby Lee's current obsession is distressing vintage shirts, and his method involves soaking them in a bucket — or his entire swimming pool — filled with instant coffee. His pool guy was alarmed. Andrew compared it to Brewster's Millions.
In medieval and Tudor England, gong farmers manually removed human waste from castle cesspits — climbing into chutes below where nobility relieved themselves. Gross as it sounds, it was reportedly one of the best-compensated jobs available. The episode found this out while discussing the island girls as 'gong farmers.'
Isa described a neighborhood 'gang' in the Philippines that required initiates to eat a dead frog and receive a spanking. She negotiated: she licked the frog, skipped the spanking. Bobby and Andrew later Googled it and confirmed the Bloods have actual active sets in Cebu.
Bobby Lee brought a van full of cooked spaghetti, bread, and salad to a village in the Philippines, feeding the residents. There was a goat tied up. The story made it into his graphic novel, which he signed copies of the previous day at a 'book signing' that Andrew mocked relentlessly.
Andrew Santino liked the horror movie Obsession; Bobby Lee called it terrible and spent 15 minutes explaining why — the villain's wish was too on-the-nose, the cat twist was telegraphed from miles away, and at 43 years old he simply wasn't scared. He even rewrote the villain's dialogue on the spot.
Everyone's excited that Obsession cost $750,000 and made over $200 million. But Andrew Santino points out the uncomfortable truth: nobody on set got paid, and not everyone will get a 'next one.' The director might get $10M and a Texas Chainsaw deal. The crew just got a great story.
Jules and Isa are heading back to the Philippines — Isa's mom is gone for the whole year (until Trump's out of office, as Andrew jokes), and Isa leaves Tuesday for school. Bobby is openly distressed about losing his live-in housekeeper/familiars, and the episode ends as a soft goodbye.
Bobby Lee declared himself Uno King after winning five games in a row against Jules and Isa. His methods included threats and bribing their mom, who declined the bribe. Andrew pointed out this is exactly how actual kings operated — which Bobby took as a compliment.
Bobby Lee had a graphic novel signing the day before recording. Andrew spent several minutes unable to contain himself at the phrase 'I did a book signing,' eventually conceding it was a graphic novel — which he called a cartoon. Bobby remains unmoved and calls it literature.
Bobby Lee discovered his own verbal tics through his podcast's algorithm recommendations, and committed to paying producer McCone $5 every time he uses one. The isms include: 'yeah yeah yeah,' 'the thing is is that,' 'can I say something,' kicking the table, and the Elmo laugh. He racked up $40 in the first episode.
Bobby Lee refuses to ever camp. The reason: as a child, his father and uncle set up a tent with Bobby and his cousin, waited for them to fall asleep, then drove to a hotel and slept there, leaving the kids alone in the wilderness overnight.
Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino open the episode the morning after learning their close friend Oliver Tree passed away. The emotion is raw and unscripted — they don't have words, only love, and Andrew closes with: 'He'll forever be a bad friend.'
Bobby Lee confesses to spending $3–4,000 at a time on horse-strength Vicodin from a Second City cast member while on MADtv. He quit cold turkey at 32, mid-season — and defecated on stage during a Connie Chung sketch. Ari Shaffir later beat him up when Bobby asked to borrow $4,000 for pills.
Bobby Lee drops two pieces of standup wisdom that Eric Andre credits as career-shaping: (1) get the audience laughing before your first official joke by doing something during your walk to the stage, and (2) understand that writing funny and being funny are completely different skills. New comics memorize; funny people inhabit.
Bobby Lee rearranged his entire Saturday to perform at the Comedy Store, reserved Mitzi's table, and his friend never showed. The kicker? She showed up at his house the next day with burritos and her six-year-old. Bobby locked himself in his bedroom and refused to come out.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Comedy 60%
- Society & Culture 16%
- Health & Fitness 8%
- Arts 4%
- Education 4%
- Leisure 4%
- Business 2%
- Sports 2%
Connections
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