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The Shark Deck. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Yahoo. Bobcat Goldthwaite disowns his horrible talking horse comedy on its thirty fifth anniversary. The anniversary just passed. That talking horse comedy called Hot to Trot.
It’s one of the few members of the infamous Rotten Tomatoes zero percent club. Hot to Trot a nineteen eighty eight American comedy film, stars Bobcat Goldthwaite as simpleton bachelor Fred Cheney who inherits a bucktooth horse named Don and half of a stock brokerage firm from his dead mother. Okay, he discovers Don as a talking horse who can also speak the language of several other animals. The horse, voiced by John Candy. Cheney returns Don to his talking horse family in the countryside and becomes a stockbroker.
Okay, Don the horse overhears a stock tip and calls Cheney again. That’s Bobcat Goldthwaite’s character, presumably using his teeth to dial the phone. Cheney acts on the investment advice. It becomes wealthy overnight. Does the rest of the plot matter?
No, So it’s mister ed Meat’s stockbroking. Oh hey. Back in twenty eighteen, Bobcat talked about the movie and said it was such a frustrating process and it put me in comedy jail. It was horrible. Honest to god, I wouldn’t do this movie now because how I feel about animals that pore a horse.
It knew that if I was around, it’d have to do stuff that it normally wouldn’t do. They were like, come on, Don the Worse, and Don is just clenching his mouth every time he sees me. Bobcat said there were also unexpected bathroom breaks. The horse’s tail would go up before he had to take a dump. There was a horse wrangler named Quirky.
He would catch it with a shovel and it would never hit the floor. We were doing this serious scene and I saw the tail go up. I look at Quirky and he’s sitting on an apple box. It doesn’t move. The horse had diarrhea and it just blasted the wall.
It blasted me everything from the neck down. The first assistant director was like, ah, that’s a rap for today, not even like, let’s clean the wall and moved to the other’s set. The film was shut down because the horse had diarrhea. Bobcat says, don’t blame the horse. Let’s not throw the horse under the bus.
You could blame me and the rector. Leave the poor animal out of it. Vulture spoke to you former Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez about the big question. Do people want to talk to you more about Game six where Seinfeld? Keith said Seinfeld.
Vulture asked him, so you got a call Seinfeld once you for an episode. What was your reaction? Keith said, I didn’t know anything about the Seinfeld show. We played night games, we didn’t watch primetime. I also never watched primetime my first year of retirement, so I never heard of Seinfeld.
When Jerry conceived the show, he was a fan of mine and a fan of the Mets. He could have gotten a hold of me through the Mets, but he reached out to my former baseball age and who called me and told me about the show. He called me her on the week on Wednesday, and they wanted me to fly to la and be there on Monday the following week. It’s very rushed. When I agreed to it, they FedEx the script to me overnight and I received that on Friday.
I thought it was gonna be a little cameo. Then I realized that I was a very prominent figure in the episode. It was actually the guest star. I’d never acted, never any desire to act, but it seemed like a cool experience, good opportunity, so I agreed to it, and I arrived on LA on Saturday night. I had a Sunday to relax, and then it was a seven am call of the studio on Monday morning.
Keith, did you have any for you agree to it? How much money were they going to pay me? I asked my agent how much? And he said, well, they’re gonna fly to LA and put you at the four Seasons at Beverly Hills and provide you with very nice transportation. You’ll be there for a week and they’ll pay you fifteen grand And Keith said, oh, okay, I’ll do it.
Keither Nanda says Larry David was very friendly and welcoming. Jerry was a little sheepish, but welcoming. Julia Louis Dreyfuss was about three months pregnant with her first child. I believe she probably wasn’t feeling like great, but she was wonderful to work with. Jason Alexander was a little standoffish most of the week.
Hm. Michael Richards was very inquisitive about baseball. He knew nothing about it and questioned me throughout the week. He’s very interested in the lifestyle and my profession contained. It was wonderful.
He was very sweet, a nice man. So they followed up about the Jason Alexander thing. Keith her Nannas said he probably had to work his way through bit roles and here I come as a guest star and who am I retired baseball player. I’m just speculating, but it all changed when we do the complete run through in chronological order in front of the NBC executives on Friday night. I had to pass their litmus test and censors, and I didn’t make any mistakes.
Jason come up to me with a big smile and shook my hand and said nice. Going that point on, he was one full I guess I’d approved myself. I realized I couldn’t hold them up and be terrible and not memorize lines. I had a lot of lines. It was a very very stressful week.
The first scene in the locker room was the most difficult for me because they kept altering lines until the last minute. I memorized not only my lines in every scene, but I also knew Jerry and Jason’s lines. I wanted to learn the cadence of how they spoke, so when they switched the lines, I was stressed out. After I did everything perfectly in front of the NBC suits, I went out in the first scene in front of the live audience and I screwed up, and I was like, cut, all right, Keith, let’s do it again. I’m like, oh gosh, you gotta be kidding me.
I went back behind the set, took a deep breath, try to calm down, and I didn’t make a mistake. After that, Larry came up to me and said, it’s important we get this right. We think we’ve got a really funny episode, and we don’t want to use laugh tracks if we can’t finish this today. We want real laughter, Keith said. I survived it.
I really couldn’t appreciate what was going on until I watched it when the episode aired. Little More Here A few episodes later, in the Boyfriend, there’s a baseball etiquette disagreement to Lane wears an opposing team’s hat while in the owner’s box the Yankees game. They asked Keith, do you do that? Keith said, if a certain organization invites you to game and you’re a fan of the opposing team or another team, you don’t wear the hat. You do not You don’t have to wear a Yankees had or a hat of whatever team invited you, but the protocols if you’ve been invited, you’re a guest and you don’t do that.
Comedian Colin Moulton wanted to check out his heritage. He said, I just got back from Moulton, England. I was searching for some good people in my family tree and I came up with bub Kiss. Molton discovered he’s a direct descendant of Thomas Malton, and admiral and a judge during the reigns of King John and King Henry the Third, who took part in a number of wars with Scotland. However, his ancestor was not beloved the current Moulton said, Thomas Moulton was reviled by the townspeople.
They dismantled a chapelly built. The townspeople hated him. He was a scoundrel. But I think I’ll learned there’s a little scoundrel on all of us. I was just trying to find one good person in my ancestry, and I couldn’t do it.
This all start with my dad. I didn’t want to be like him, since he was troubled in so many ways. Apparently the current Moulton took after his grandfather, who was a vaudeville comic in the nineteen twenties. These days, the current Moulton lives in Georgia and says I can be a comic and live in Georgia. I love my life.
I have a half acre chicken form, I surf. I’m living the life. He surfs in Georgia. I guess you don’t hear much about the Georgia beaches. Yeah, I guess I’m gonna get letters from Georgia.
Now I’m leaving it in. I’d love to hear from you Facebook group Daily Comedy News. If you’re in Georgia and you’re like, come on, man, big surfing crowd, hit me up. I could take it. The New York Times profile Judy Gold and asked her how she spends her Sundays.
Some of the things Judy Gold does is I put on my tennis clothes and I go outside. I get the Times interesting that she mentioned the Times at a Times article. I see what you did there, because they don’t put it on my doorstep. I stretch on the floor for five minutes and then make a shake with almond milk, way, protein berries, bananas, powdered peanut, butter, kale and chia seeds. Then I put my tennis bag together and pack two bottles of water, one with ice, the other with watermelon flavored liquid IV.
At eleven am, we leave for tennis. It’s only two miles, but in the summer it could take fifteen minutes because everybody’s driving five miles an hour on Bradford Street, which makes me crazy. We love the Provincetown Tennis Club. It’s something out of a waspy New England Jane Austin novel. It’s very social and friendly.
I love doubles. It’s like a chess game filled with strategy. Sometimes we see Billy Jean King or Adelia Ephron. I have a Wilson racket which we spend to see who goes first by calling Wine or Margarita. We play for ninety minutes, then we sweep the courts, drive back home and scream at how slow everybody is.
Then she talked about going to the beach for the afternoon. At night back home, it’s work mode. It’s hard to communicate with me because I’m focused on what I’m doing that night on stage, there’s a palpable shift. I see with my notebook at the kitchen table and go through jokes, usually new ones have written during the week and one and include. Then I shower, dress, get my face on, and get my bag ready.
I ride my red trek bike and enjoy the ten minutes of solitary time to get in the right head. I sit at the barn, get water. I don’t drink before set because I want every synapse of my brain working. If I have a new bit, I can’t wait to get to it. The show is about what annoys me, like cancel culture, anti Semitism, stupidity, and turning sixty.
After a show, we bike home on Commercial Street, two old lesbians with their bills going off because everybody’s in the middle of the street. At home, we watch TV. We just watched the Mary Tyler Moore documentary, which I loved, and Netflix is El Dorado. Everything The Nazis, hate, sounds fun that your comedy needs for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.
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