Lenny Clarke comes to CT and talks about comedy Rushmore

Comedy legend Lenny Clarke comes to Connecticut for four shows in three days. He will appear on Comix Roadhouse bee Mohegan Sun on May 9, 10 and 11. You can buy tickets at Comix Roadhouse website.

Lenny was our guest on the Wednesday (8/5/24) edition of the I-95 Morning Show and we covered a lot of ground. We talked about the old days in Boston, his friendship with Rodney Dangerfield and the Mount Rushmore comedians from Boston.

Lou: You’re synonymous with Boston. If there were a Mount Rushmore in Boston, who would be on it?

Lenny: “Oh God, well Bill Burr, Louis CK, as much as I hate to say it, Dane Cook and Joe Rogan. I mean, these are all incredibly successful stars that came out of Boston. It’s funny, I listened to Bill Burr the other The next day he said we were leaving Boston because we couldn’t crack the ceiling. The guys that were there were (Steve) Sweeney, (Don) Gavin, myself, Kenny Rogerson, some incredible comics you may not have heard of. , but these guys, we used to work a show in Boston and they brought in these national acts and we blew them off the stage.

Lou: I wonder about people like you. Your job is to make people laugh and I think guys like you don’t get a lot of laughs from other people. I think everyone has that one person in their family who makes them laugh, who is that for you?

Lenny: “Oh my God! I come from a family of eight and I’m about the fourth funniest in the family. The funniest is my little brother, we call him the giant baby, he just talks. The only thing I’ll spend my life doing thanks is, I’m crazy, I’m crazy and often I say things and people say that’s so funny and I say: I’m not kidding, I really mean it!

Lou: What about the big Netflix roast of Tom Brady? Did they invite you? Have you written jokes? What did you think?

Lenny: “No, you know what I was shocked that they didn’t ask me because I’m friends with Brady, I’m friends with Belichick and I’m friends with (Robert) Kraft. I always compartmentalize my friendships, that way I can be friends with everyone and you don’t have to I have two friends, one of them owned John Henry, owner of the Red Sox, but he also owns the Liverpool football team Another friend of mine, Jimmy Pallotta, is owner of the Roma football team and they came to play at Fenway Park and they both invited me to sit with them and I said, I’m never leaving town.

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You can listen to our full two-part discussion with Lenny Clarke below.

Part 1 – Lenny shared some memories of working with Rodney Dangerfield and his love of nudity. Lenny gives us his Mount Rushmore of Boston comedians. Clarke talks about the stars who came to Boston through the legendary Ding Ho.

Part 2 – Lenny talks about filming “There’s Something About Mary” and how he was too fat to fit in the wardrobe. Clarke shared his weight loss secret. We found out what Lenny thought of the recent Tom Brady roast on Netflix.

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I don’t know if there are too many comedians with a style as down to earth as Lenny. This was probably Lenny’s fourth appearance on our show in the last 15 years. They were all phone interviews and I doubt he would remember us, but that guy is fun and super easy to talk to. There’s no hint of self-interest or anything like that, he’s welcome in the I-95 studio whenever he wants. I could do a four-hour show with him just on the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.

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