The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly
SiriusXM
1088 episodes
3 days ago
The Bonfire is a live daily show on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk channel, hosted from New York City by veteran stand-up comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly. With their trademark blunt humor and unfiltered honesty, Jay and Bobby invite listeners into hilarious, no-holds-barred conversations about life on and off the stage, the comedy scene, pop culture, entertainment, and sports. Regular guest appearances from fellow comedians, actors, and musicians keep the show spontaneous, and unpredictable.
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The Bonfire is a live daily show on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk channel, hosted from New York City by veteran stand-up comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly. With their trademark blunt humor and unfiltered honesty, Jay and Bobby invite listeners into hilarious, no-holds-barred conversations about life on and off the stage, the comedy scene, pop culture, entertainment, and sports. Regular guest appearances from fellow comedians, actors, and musicians keep the show spontaneous, and unpredictable.
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Sometimes people go wild at graduation and perform spontaneous fun dances. | Jacob read The Godfather book and Jay is amazed because he can't stand the movie. | Bobby references his sexy actress friend and Jay picks her apart. Jacob likes a woman with "Riot Girl Face" and creates a new term. | Bob likes to kiss his wife's belly and calls her up to see how she feels about it.
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Comedian Yoshi Obayashi attended the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia with Russel Peters. He has strong opinions of the comedians who performed and witnessed their effect on the Saudi audiences. Yoshi actually saw Bin Laden family members at the festival. | Boxer Will Guilmette is a camper and has a professional fighting record of 1-0. Jay helps him pick out a new walkout song and Will teaches the guys some punching techniques.
For Yoshi's tour dates and info go to @yoshiobayashi on Instagram.
Will Guilmette's next fight is in "The Autumn Classic" November 1st at Mohegan Sun. For tickets and info go to cesfights.com or message @willguilmette on Instagram.
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Jay is in disbelief that the great D'Angelo has passed on. | Mike Finoia returns to enlighten the gang about all the characters one encounters at a Phish show. A "wook" is a negative term for a hippie. A "chomper" is someone who talks during the show. There are also twirlers and hippie-crites in the mushroom forest. Mike raged out on a couple of chompers who dared to have a long chat during the happiest music on earth. During the same show, a stranger mentioned to Mike that he knew his therapist. This really sent Finoia into a tizzy.
Bobby is coming off a weekend of gigs in Rochester New York- home of the garbage plate! He loved the people but he could not buy socks or get a decent meal. | Indian action movies are predictably over the top. | In honor of his eighteen year anniversary, Bob tells a story about the time he cheated on his wife in the early days. His sad tale starts with fun sex with a Long Island dancer and ends with Bobby and Dawn crying on the floor.
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Marcus King just released a new album "Darling Blue" and plays songs before an intimate audience in the SXM fishbowl. Jay and Bobby have many questions about Marcus working with the mysterious, musical guru Rick Rubin. He wrote many songs about the love of his life and others about his spiral into addiction. It's the Bonfire's first event in the SiriusXM studio called "the fishbowl" because you can see inside from the lobby.
Go to Marcuskingofficial.com for tour dates and Darling Blue is available anywhere you get your music!
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Legendary comic actor Tom Arnold returns to stand-up comedy and visits the Bonfire for the first time. Tom is not shy talking about his many marriages and turbulent life with Roseanne. He has stories about getting stabbed, being an older father, and a wild psychic prediction. Tom openly talks about his sober journey and once hunted down his childhood abuser to confront him in public.
Tom Arnold's "My Crazy X-Wife Tour" is happening now! For dates go to Tomarnoldcomedy.com!
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Jay watches "A Grammy Salute To Cyndi Lauper" and he falls in love with her all over again. Bobby can't understand his infatuation because of her wild outfits and baby speech. | Christine brings a book into the studio and it triggers Jay into remembering the bizarre incident where he was pulled off stage by an audience member. "Not Funny: The Soul Behind Joel" recounts the adventures of opening a comedy club during the pandemic. Soul Joel's was the venue where Jay was famously assaulted. Jay reads passages from the book and then tells what really happened from his perspective.
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Some comedians are returning to the states from the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. Jay would never travel that far for comedy but Bobby would go because he believes it promotes change. Jay and Bob go through the list of performers to see who actually needed the big payday from the festival. | Jay watches a documentary about Tekashi69 and can no longer defend the beleaguered rapper. | The Bonfire performs a special show in the SiriusXM "fishbowl" studio and it has some technical challenges.
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Longtime Bonfire producer and maestro DJ Lou has one year of sobriety, so the gang surprises him with gifts, treats, and a poem by Jacob. | A former member of One Direction performs in the lobby and Jay is unimpressed by all the commotion caused by young fans at SiriusXM. | Big Jay has a sexy idea for Christine this Halloween. He wants her to greet trick-or-treaters without pants and give them a holiday thrill.
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Matt McCusker of "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast" is back without Shane to promote his new Netflix special "A Humble Offering." He brings his publicist in studio who is dressed like a tennis instructor. Matt tells a tale of getting robbed on the beach of Rio De Janeiro while on vacation. Jay and Bob also have stories of prostitution and danger in Latin countries. Bobby and Patrice O'Neal found themselves in hot water in Brazil after they showed too much cash to the locals. | Passport Bros charge money to exploit the women of Cuba under the guise of being pickup artists.
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Sean Donnelly and Dan St. Germain are back to get to the bottom of strange happenings and supernatural wonders. The host the number one U.F.O. podcast in America called "The Burbs Bros." Bobby admits that his space saucer sighting may have been a cluster of balloons. | Dan shares the news that a meteor may be headed to earth by the holidays and shadow people exist in Florida.
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Jay's favorite witch-rock band is back with a new tune about wizards and nonsense. Hekate's Torch casts a spell on the ears of the Bonfire as they deliver a masterful opus. | Jay and Bobby perform arena shows in Florida with Shane Gillis. Bobby gets confused while on stage because the clock doesn't count down and he can't do math. They also gamble and play football on the beach where Bob finds a father figure. | Theo Von reportedly has a meltdown while filming his comedy special in NYC.
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On his walk to work, Jay witnesses a heinous act and fails to document it because his has no influencing skills. A homeless woman did something disgusting in the New York streets and there is no video of it because of Jay. | Bobby saw his friend in a different light and realizes that it's sad when people change for the worse. | Jay is an expert on certain subjects and rarely needs to be corrected. Christine remembers the one time he was wrong about a music fact and it doesn't go well.
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Actor & comedian Jeremy Piven joins the Bonfire for the first time and walks into the studio to find a pile of flyers with his face on them. Jay explains to him the Piven currency system they has become a favorite bit on the show. | Corey Feldman gets thrown off Dancing With The Stars and Jay knows why. | Jeremy has been on stage his whole life but his first stand-up gig on live television did not go well. | Bobby shows his embarrassing Cameo video where he was an overweight cupid. | When Piven was on the set of the movie "Judgement Night" he experienced some antisemitism disguised as method acting.
For all Jeremy Piven's stand-up dates go to @jeremy.piven on Instagram.
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Saturday Night Live is returning and so did Michael Che to the Bonfire! Michael promised Bobby that he can deliver his crush- Kelly Clarkson to him. Bobby is so excited that he won't stop hounding Che about when he will meet the love of his life. | Michael reveals that he once had his life threatened by a stalker at SNL and didn't even know about it. A video of him trying to talk some sense to Kanye West went viral. Che discloses that Kanye once told him about the incest that later became the explicit song he put out this year.
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The news breaks that Jimmy Kimmel will return to television and Jay goes through all the talk show hosts from the last ten years. Bobby hates actor Mark Ruffalo and his political rants even though he cannot pronounce his name. | The campers are encouraged to vote for Corey Feldman on Dancing With The Stars but Robert Irwin is beyond talented. His moves are elite and he posses the skill of selling the performance through his face. Jay tries to make "pageant faces" because it's the one thing that he lacks in his own dancing performances.
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There is a park in Florida where convicted sex offenders go to congregate and it is no surprise that no one wants to live near there. Jay wonders if actual kidnappings are down because all the predators are online and getting caught by pedophile hunters. | Bobby meets mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa on the subway in NYC. He thinks that Curtis would have a better chance of winning if he got rid of his beret. Jay tries to join the Guardian Angels and buys the uniform for Bobby so he can keep the subways safe.
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Jacob buys new pants that Billy Squier would dance in and is too shy to model them in front of the great Colin Quinn. | Bobby tells stories about the famous table of The Comedy Cellar when comedians would fight each other. The same comedians would also gather for pick-up basketball games. | Jay and Bobby debate who has the better suburban home. Jay has convenience in New Jersey and Bob boasts about his cozy historical town. | Jay once had an agent who carried a briefcase with just an apple inside of it.
Go to Colinquinn.com for all his tour dates and happenings!
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The gospel music of Kirk Franklin memorizes everyone so much that Jay is moved to dance and Bobby wants to join a black church. | Jay has a theory about what happens when Diddy gets out of jail. | Bobby knows a lot about the Dane Cook scandal in which his brother stole all of his money and when to jail for it. | Corey Feldman is on Dancing With The Stars Tonight and the Bonfire needs the campers to vote for him.
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Cardi B is at SiriusXM for an event in the lobby and the Bonfire tries to poach her as a guest. Jay practices his twerking just in case she shows up. | Jacob and Jay have a deep love of the 90's movie "The Stoned Age." They research the sexy actress in the movie only to find that she now shouts about the government on her Instagram. | Javier Bardem makes a political statement at the Emmy Awards. | Jay has a horrible flight home from a gig in Calgary.
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The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly
The Bonfire is a live daily show on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk channel, hosted from New York City by veteran stand-up comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly. With their trademark blunt humor and unfiltered honesty, Jay and Bobby invite listeners into hilarious, no-holds-barred conversations about life on and off the stage, the comedy scene, pop culture, entertainment, and sports. Regular guest appearances from fellow comedians, actors, and musicians keep the show spontaneous, and unpredictable.
SUBSCRIBE NOW for the best of The Bonfire w/ Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly and listen live every Monday through Thursday at 5pm Eastern/2pm Pacific only on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk, Channel 103.
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Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
