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EFF!
October 18, 2010 - 2:49pm
Written by Rachel Fine
Bonus Show! Let us discuss some highlights from this week’s episode. And let us never discuss Yucko the Clown co-hosting with me this week. Because I’m still in a burning hot shower trying to scrub the dirty off me. Moving on.
You might think it would be amusing to watch Medicated Pete & Jason Kaplan toss a ball around the office. And you’d be right. The only way to make it more so is to add commentary by my sassy co-host, Mr. Jon Hein, as he attempts to determine which one of them has a manlier throw. Because all three of them are essentially Fabio-level testosterone machines.
Also this week, we share a clip of the boys in the Wrap Up Show discussing the Will the Farter (aka the “Brutal Master”). Will, we need to talk for a second. It’s amazing that you’ve found a marketable skill, particularly in this economy. I just wonder if you looked into all your options. And if you did, where did gay for pay and ass bubble blowing rank on the target job search list? Also, I personally need to know this- - for science…DOES YOUR WIFE BANG YOU?! Is she into your ass talents?! Let me back up.
When you guys started dating, when in the dating process did you casually mention your day job? And how did that conversation go? I don’t have a lot of drop dead deal breakers right off the bat, but I’ve got to think sitting across from someone at a romantic dinner while they broached the subject of their unique ass aptitude might send me running. Perhaps I'm a smidge more conservative than I thought.
What else this week? I'm glad you asked. Sal effs with Ronnie, Miss Howard TV effs up her reads, and a gentleman caller wants to eff Gary…in the…Ayy.
Enjoy! Arrr*
(*R) **
(**Rachel) ***
(*** Why is “F” so easily “Eff” and “R” so frustratingly “Arrr”?! Now I feel like you’re associating me with pirates. Eff.)
Alternative sources of income?
September 28, 2010 - 4:50pm
Written by Rachel Fine
Sal likes creepy porn. I don’t think this comes as a shock to any of us, but this week, we share a chip of Sal discussing a few of his faves. Now, I‘m not one to judge. To each his own. In the privacy of one’s house, yada yada. I just never thought I’d be applying those sentiments towards porn focused exclusively on the smashing of pumpkins over a cage containing naked women. There’s a lid for every pot, Sal.
Also on this episode, enjoy watching Robin Quivers & Steve Brandano fight off-air about who qualifies as a TRUE Iron Man fan. Steve, as a purest, is invoking the “I was Country before Country was cool” defense in stating the necessity of watching a screening with the far more legitimate comic book-reading fans.
Speaking of Robin, Richard has an ingenious money making plan for her. It may or may not (but totally does) involve selling her urine and/or pubes to multimillionaire superfans. Richard, I think you’ve really stumbled on something here. Listen, theoretically this makes all the sense in the world. Assuming we can find the underground bunker filled with creepy-as-f#ck millionaires holding empty pee bottles in one outstretched hand and wads of cash in the other.*
All this and more on this week’s episode of The Bonus Show! We watch Lisa G on the red carpet of Dinner for Schmucks, Benjy & Jason Kaplan dance up a storm, JD confronts Ronnie about his violent tendencies & Baba Booey uses his glorious Mail Bag to address Fred’s theoretical alternate love life.
Enjoy!
Rachel
*For anyone interested, I did see a Jon Hein nose hair on the news desk last week. Let the bidding begin.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
September 22, 2010 - 4:34pm
Written by Rachel Fine
One of my favorite recurring segments on The Bonus Show is “Inside the Creative Meeting”, where we go behind-the-scenes and see Howard & the team’s brainstorming process. It’s legitimately awesome, even for a jaded insider like me. On this week’s episode of The Bonus Show, we watch a clip of Seth MacFarlane (before he was SETH MACFARLANE) being pitched as a guest in the meeting. I’m not going to give you all the backstory on this , but dot dot dot, it leads up to Richard Christy saying (yet again?) that he’d provide some um, very intimate man love to Seth if he’d come on the show. Let’s discuss this.
Richard, why does a good 80% of your comedy go gay?! It’s particularly interesting to me because I have outstanding gaydar and –other than the outlandish and completely gay things you do on the show- you don’t give me gay vibe AT ALL!
Let me also say for the record that Richard Christy’s fiancé, Kristin, is one of my favorite people on the planet. And I realize more and more every day what a special chick it takes to be completely ok with Richard’s go to comedgay. She’s not just ok with it, it legitimately cracks her up. Richard, you better treat that girl like gold because I think a lesser woman might find your antics HIGHLY disturbing. Or at least “confusing”. Or perhaps “experimental”. So for all you guys out there who like to occasionally tea bag your friends while they lay passed out- keep it up! You might just get a job like Richard and a girl like Kristin! Or at least open the door towards moving that friendship to the “antiquing on weekends” type.
Other highlights from this week’s show- and there are many- Baba Booey’s Mail Bag is back, we ‘Blast from the Past’…very literally with a particularly gaseous stripper & Colin Quinn discusses his Christy-like tendencies (as it pertains to musical theatre).
Enjoy!
Rachel
Damn you, Crumbs
September 17, 2010 - 5:17pm
Written by Rachel Fine
Oh Medicated Pete. Do you genuinely think your impressions are even close to accurate? Or are you in on the joke? Wait, maybe WE are the joke and YOU are the mastermind?!? Either way Pete, you are a mind bender and I can’t quite solve you. Prepare for Pete’s own brand of genius as we go behind the scenes of his radio show and watch him “interviewing” special guest Ronnie Mund. Or talking to himself in two vastly similar voices. Frightening.
I’ll tell you what else scares the crap out of me- the floor scale in the studio. I’m a chick. And as one, we have a built in phobia of stumbling onto scales in an emotionally unprepared state. I have to walk past that deceptive square of carpet every time I walk on set to tape The Bonus Show. I don’t know what I think is going to happen, or how it’s going to differ from my scale at home, but either way, I am acutely aware of that scale, especially cause we tape on Cupcake Wednesdays*. On this week’s episode of The Bonus Show, we watch Phalen, Benjy and Kaplan attempt to max out the scale with their combined girths. That is one impressive piece of machinery, able to hold a blubber snow cone of that magnitude.
Gary talks about the pitch heard round the world, Howard & Ronnie call in to the Wrap Up Show & Gagliardi grows a moustache. PLUS the long awaited return of Techno Beaver! I’ve never had a greater longing to spend quality time with a technologically savvy rodent. All this and more on this week’s episode of The Bonus Show. Go get a cupcake & watch it with me.
Enjoy!
Rachel
Photos by Chris Gagliardi.
Bios
Jon Hein
Jon Hein is a world renowned pop culture expert who coined the term "jump the shark" and created the website jumptheshark.com. Jon has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, been profiled in popular magazines and newspapers, and has authored two best-selling books. Jon is currently part of The Howard Stern Show and hosts The Wrap Up Show for SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and can be seen as a talking head on a variety of news and entertainment programs.
Rachel Fine
Along with being a TV Host, Rachel Fine is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, New York. She has a background in acting, performed in four national tours and sang National Anthems for major sporting events. She has recently released her debut album, Own Your Own, reflective of the sounds of 70s funk, Philly Soul, broken beat and hip hop. The CD is available on iTunes.
Please check out Rachel’s official website at www.rachelfine.com to find links to Rachel’s Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook pages.