February 28, 2025 • 11 mins
Today we welcomed in Harland Willams for Free Comedy Friday
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Telec on the show It's Rock with five three. So
today is a free comedy Friday. And there are certain
comedians when they come in, I just know I can't wait.
I get giddy. And this is one of them. We've
known Harlan Williams for many, many, many years, and when
I saw you were coming to town, I went, oh, yeah,
checking that one off the ball.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good to see Harlan.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You been buddy good. We have a long history, really
long time. I mean you've been coming in here for
over a decade. I mean it's been a long time going.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
What people don't realize too is I delivered your kids.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That was nice, Yes, yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Now for you, it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I circumcised three of his children, the boys and the girls.
Yeah yeah, and I even did. Your grandmother was there.
She appreciated that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Off, it was half off.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
And it's hard to wrestle an oldie in a wheelchair,
but I got I got her.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, he's a pro. He's a pro.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The wave of bacon sandwich under their nose. It distracts
him and snip got him go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Harlan is performing at the American Comedy Company. A couple
of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow. You played
last night and yeah great sold good good.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So no, Harlan.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Here's the thing about Harlan which I love is that
Harlan has his hands in a little bit of everything.
He's a businessman.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
This guy I can tell the power suit.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, this is what he does. This is Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Last time you came in, you had just started making
your own T shirts.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Remember that?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh yeah, are you still doing that? Still doing it?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Hard Bling dot com? Yeah, Harbling, and you weren't you
drawing them yourself? I draw I draw them right on
the shirt, so it's like a yeah, really cool. Earlier
it's like a it's like a walking piece some art.
And then you can buy the prints. So go to
(02:04):
Harbling dot com. It's great, check out my art. Yeah's
anything new.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
In the hopper? Are you you know I'm making your
own barbecue sauce now or anything I'm making.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I just just didn't post production on my first feature
film that I wrote and direct.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
This really yeah that's different than barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, okay, it's just as hot though, just as hot,
a little nasty, a little but.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
What's just about let's talk I fell in love with you.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Of course with half Bait are comedies, and well, I
was thinking about it because now like he'll come in
and in the beginning we talk weed a lot, and
now we're talking like, you know, kids programming and making
T shirts and.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's like the biggest news ever was quite a few
years ago when Harlan created Puppy Dog Pals. Oh yeah,
it's crazy my kid. At the time, it was really little.
I loved it, and Harland like signed a thing for
pup Dog Palace. It like the biggest moment ever. Yeah,
that was great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So where are we going now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What kind of what kind of movie are we doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, that's that's what I love about the entertainment industry
because I can do one year, I can do kids programming.
And the new movie is called Wingman, and it's basically
about a professional wingman who helps losers get girls.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I read about this. Who's starring in it?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
They announced that I play the wingman and Russell Peters
and Jamie Kennedy and Kayla Wallace is the female age.
She's the new breakout star on The oil Man Show
with Billy Bob Thornton. She plays his lawyer. Okay, she's fabulous.
So we have a great comedy cast.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And is this one that we're going straight to streaming
or are we going to be in the.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We don't know. Yeah, we just literally in the last
like probably ninety eight percent finished in post and will
be done in two weeks and wrote it, directed it,
and star in it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How did you get cast?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I didn't want to do it because I knew I
was directing and that's such a huge job. So I
didn't want to jump from behind the camera to in
front of the camera. So I literally sent the script
to Will Ferrell, did Jim Carrey, to Ryan Gosling, to
Justin Bateman, And because it was sort of a low budget,
like a two million dollar budget, they didn't, you know,
(04:30):
they couldn't do it. But and I just thought, the
only one who really gets this humor is me because
I wrote it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so how do you direct yourself? Though?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You know, you just have to kind of you you know,
I do a lot of casting couch.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I had new audition myself and yeah, at least had
a good time very hands.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, what goes into being a good wingman?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Because we were actually talking about being a wingman, like
recently the show which.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
One about We were saying, which one of us?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What goes into that?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Well, what's cool about this movie? It's very non woke.
I was so sick of the woke culture, and I'm like,
you need it. I'm I'm doing a movie, excuse me
that breaks all the rules, like like edgy humor. And
so this wingman isn't like any wingman you've ever seen.
He has his own methods, like really bizarre methods. But
(05:36):
you know, the wingman's supposed to go in and take
the hit, you know, sort of take the fugly friend away. Right,
So this wingman does is before he goes to the club,
he stops a KFC, gets a bucket of chicken and
rubs it all over his neck. So when he walks
up to the hot girl and the fat girl, the
(05:56):
fat girl joes great to the guy with the chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because yeah, or was just talking about this. Yeah, we
don't make comedies like that anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
It sucks, Like early late nineties, early two thousands, they
don't make comedy.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They don't make comedies at all anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
This is why I wanted to do it, and so
this wingman's crazy and he he does stuff like under
the front seat of his car. He has the world's
best panty dropper. So he gets his client to go
down to his car and in the glove box is
a little spray bottle of eucalyptus spray because under the
(06:36):
seat he made a little nest and he has an
albino koala, which is basically girl's cute ast drain. Right, yes,
so she says basically, he says, you spray this in
the car and that little kowala will come out and click,
cling to her like a dingleberry on a truck driver's
(06:57):
butt hair. So it's a really fun movie because he's
just he's just a bizarre I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Anything about it from what you just said, though, I'm
thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, we're excited about it. And Jamie Kennedy plays
the rival wingman. He's sort of the he's sort of
the high end guy and I take kind of any job,
but he steals my client, so we we get into
this this confrontation, and then Russell Peters plays the the
high end client that hires Jamie. So now we're all
(07:32):
kind of battling each other.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And it was just in here a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I wish I would have known he's great in it,
and so a really fun back to edgy, non woke
comedy like Fairly Brothers style. That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Do you you direct and you wrote? So do you
give the other actors freedom and improv? Or do you say, hey,
let's stick to the script a little bit, or do
you throw lines?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
How do you do that? I? Yeah, no, all of it. Yeah,
all of it. We were on a real We shot
the thing in fifteen days, wow, which was crazy. But
we always get a take from the script, and then
I encourage the actors to improv, especially Russell Peters. Every
line he did he brought like. I was just sitting
(08:21):
back because I'm the improv king and to see someone
else do it and actually make me laugh in the moment,
he was great. And then I'll throw out stuff too.
I'll be like, hey, add this, add that, try this,
try that you were offended that the line that they
did was better?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah? No, want you want that guy?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know, I learned that from all my movies, like
Dumb and Dumber, something about Mary Halfbake. I improvised. Tons
of those lines, and tons of those lines made it
into those movies, and people love them, they call. And
so I learned that if someone can bring funny that's
not on the page, let him bring in it. Just
it just makes it atty. That Dumb and Dumber scene,
(09:06):
there was some improv Oh yeah, fifty of that. Yes,
that was all grant. Granddaddy's coughs are up one of
my favorite. Yeah, even sucking on granddaddy's coughs. And that
that comes from a really cool place. When we were
little kids, we would go to our grandparents, you know,
for the holidays or whatever. Yeah, and my grandfather, Neil O'Donnell,
(09:30):
he used to like to have a drink, but he
didn't want the children. You know, there was fourteen grandchildren, okay,
so he didn't want them to know he was drinking.
So to my grandmother, you, I'd say, mother, bring me
some more cough medicine. And so we we sort of
knew even though. Yeah, yeah, but when I was doing
that scene with Jim and Jeff and dumb and Dummer
(09:51):
pulled pulled them over as the cop. You know, it
was like you guys drinking, and right away that that
was my reference and went into my head. So I said,
you've boys been sucking back on Granddaddy's cough medicine, and
you know what, I love. That's one of the lines
of people quote to me all the time, and it
just brings me back to thinking to my grandfather, like
(10:12):
in a way, he's still in this world because of that.
Millions and millions and millions of people have seen that line,
quoted that line. Yeah, I created an inside joke for everything. Yeah.
Everyone happened in the moment. Yeah, happened in the moment.
So it's but but Russell, I mean every every take,
he brought some some just some great stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hopefully it comes out soon, you will.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, well know soon. I think we're actually getting a
call later today from Netflix. They've seen it, so we
don't know what the whether they'll say yeah, your nay,
but I might have news even by this afternoon. So okay,
we'll go to Arby's, We'll go to we'll go to
Denny's and get some of Granddaddy's coughs.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's a good time. That's a good time.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Or you can go see Harlan tonight tomorrow night. American
Comedy Company will be performing there, Harlan and awesome to
see you. Everybody knows the Vegas Sphere now right, it's incredible. Well,
did you know the sphere has a name. It's been named. Yes,
we're gonna find out what the sphere's name is. Coming
up next on the show in Rock Row five three
Telec on the show It's Rock with five three. So
today is a free comedy Friday. And there are certain
comedians when they come in, I just know I can't wait.
I get giddy. And this is one of them. We've
known Harlan Williams for many, many, many years, and when
I saw you were coming to town, I went, oh, yeah,
checking that one off the ball.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good to see Harlan.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
You been buddy good. We have a long history, really
long time. I mean you've been coming in here for
over a decade. I mean it's been a long time going.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
What people don't realize too is I delivered your kids.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
That was nice, Yes, yeah, the.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Now for you, it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I circumcised three of his children, the boys and the girls.
Yeah yeah, and I even did. Your grandmother was there.
She appreciated that.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Off, it was half off.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
And it's hard to wrestle an oldie in a wheelchair,
but I got I got her.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You know, he's a pro. He's a pro.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The wave of bacon sandwich under their nose. It distracts
him and snip got him go.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Harlan is performing at the American Comedy Company. A couple
of shows tonight, a couple of shows tomorrow. You played
last night and yeah great sold good good.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So no, Harlan.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Here's the thing about Harlan which I love is that
Harlan has his hands in a little bit of everything.
He's a businessman.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
This guy I can tell the power suit.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, this is what he does. This is Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Last time you came in, you had just started making
your own T shirts.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Remember that?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh yeah, are you still doing that? Still doing it?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Good?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Hard Bling dot com? Yeah, Harbling, and you weren't you
drawing them yourself? I draw I draw them right on
the shirt, so it's like a yeah, really cool. Earlier
it's like a it's like a walking piece some art.
And then you can buy the prints. So go to
(02:04):
Harbling dot com. It's great, check out my art. Yeah's
anything new.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
In the hopper? Are you you know I'm making your
own barbecue sauce now or anything I'm making.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I just just didn't post production on my first feature
film that I wrote and direct.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
This really yeah that's different than barbecue sauce.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, okay, it's just as hot though, just as hot,
a little nasty, a little but.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
What's just about let's talk I fell in love with you.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Of course with half Bait are comedies, and well, I
was thinking about it because now like he'll come in
and in the beginning we talk weed a lot, and
now we're talking like, you know, kids programming and making
T shirts and.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's like the biggest news ever was quite a few
years ago when Harlan created Puppy Dog Pals. Oh yeah,
it's crazy my kid. At the time, it was really little.
I loved it, and Harland like signed a thing for
pup Dog Palace. It like the biggest moment ever. Yeah,
that was great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
So where are we going now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What kind of what kind of movie are we doing?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Well, that's that's what I love about the entertainment industry
because I can do one year, I can do kids programming.
And the new movie is called Wingman, and it's basically
about a professional wingman who helps losers get girls.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
I read about this. Who's starring in it?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
They announced that I play the wingman and Russell Peters
and Jamie Kennedy and Kayla Wallace is the female age.
She's the new breakout star on The oil Man Show
with Billy Bob Thornton. She plays his lawyer. Okay, she's fabulous.
So we have a great comedy cast.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And is this one that we're going straight to streaming
or are we going to be in the.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We don't know. Yeah, we just literally in the last
like probably ninety eight percent finished in post and will
be done in two weeks and wrote it, directed it,
and star in it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
How did you get cast?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I didn't want to do it because I knew I
was directing and that's such a huge job. So I
didn't want to jump from behind the camera to in
front of the camera. So I literally sent the script
to Will Ferrell, did Jim Carrey, to Ryan Gosling, to
Justin Bateman, And because it was sort of a low budget,
like a two million dollar budget, they didn't, you know,
(04:30):
they couldn't do it. But and I just thought, the
only one who really gets this humor is me because
I wrote it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so how do you direct yourself? Though?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You know, you just have to kind of you you know,
I do a lot of casting couch.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I had new audition myself and yeah, at least had
a good time very hands.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Now, what goes into being a good wingman?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Because we were actually talking about being a wingman, like
recently the show which.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
One about We were saying, which one of us?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What goes into that?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Well, what's cool about this movie? It's very non woke.
I was so sick of the woke culture, and I'm like,
you need it. I'm I'm doing a movie, excuse me
that breaks all the rules, like like edgy humor. And
so this wingman isn't like any wingman you've ever seen.
He has his own methods, like really bizarre methods. But
(05:36):
you know, the wingman's supposed to go in and take
the hit, you know, sort of take the fugly friend away. Right,
So this wingman does is before he goes to the club,
he stops a KFC, gets a bucket of chicken and
rubs it all over his neck. So when he walks
up to the hot girl and the fat girl, the
(05:56):
fat girl joes great to the guy with the chicken.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Because yeah, or was just talking about this. Yeah, we
don't make comedies like that anymore.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
It sucks, Like early late nineties, early two thousands, they
don't make comedy.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They don't make comedies at all anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
This is why I wanted to do it, and so
this wingman's crazy and he he does stuff like under
the front seat of his car. He has the world's
best panty dropper. So he gets his client to go
down to his car and in the glove box is
a little spray bottle of eucalyptus spray because under the
(06:36):
seat he made a little nest and he has an
albino koala, which is basically girl's cute ast drain. Right, yes,
so she says basically, he says, you spray this in
the car and that little kowala will come out and click,
cling to her like a dingleberry on a truck driver's
(06:57):
butt hair. So it's a really fun movie because he's
just he's just a bizarre I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Anything about it from what you just said, though, I'm
thank you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, we're excited about it. And Jamie Kennedy plays
the rival wingman. He's sort of the he's sort of
the high end guy and I take kind of any job,
but he steals my client, so we we get into
this this confrontation, and then Russell Peters plays the the
high end client that hires Jamie. So now we're all
(07:32):
kind of battling each other.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And it was just in here a couple of months ago.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I wish I would have known he's great in it,
and so a really fun back to edgy, non woke
comedy like Fairly Brothers style. That's great.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Do you you direct and you wrote? So do you
give the other actors freedom and improv? Or do you say, hey,
let's stick to the script a little bit, or do
you throw lines?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
How do you do that? I? Yeah, no, all of it. Yeah,
all of it. We were on a real We shot
the thing in fifteen days, wow, which was crazy. But
we always get a take from the script, and then
I encourage the actors to improv, especially Russell Peters. Every
line he did he brought like. I was just sitting
(08:21):
back because I'm the improv king and to see someone
else do it and actually make me laugh in the moment,
he was great. And then I'll throw out stuff too.
I'll be like, hey, add this, add that, try this,
try that you were offended that the line that they
did was better?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah? No, want you want that guy?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know, I learned that from all my movies, like
Dumb and Dumber, something about Mary Halfbake. I improvised. Tons
of those lines, and tons of those lines made it
into those movies, and people love them, they call. And
so I learned that if someone can bring funny that's
not on the page, let him bring in it. Just
it just makes it atty. That Dumb and Dumber scene,
(09:06):
there was some improv Oh yeah, fifty of that. Yes,
that was all grant. Granddaddy's coughs are up one of
my favorite. Yeah, even sucking on granddaddy's coughs. And that
that comes from a really cool place. When we were
little kids, we would go to our grandparents, you know,
for the holidays or whatever. Yeah, and my grandfather, Neil O'Donnell,
(09:30):
he used to like to have a drink, but he
didn't want the children. You know, there was fourteen grandchildren, okay,
so he didn't want them to know he was drinking.
So to my grandmother, you, I'd say, mother, bring me
some more cough medicine. And so we we sort of
knew even though. Yeah, yeah, but when I was doing
that scene with Jim and Jeff and dumb and Dummer
(09:51):
pulled pulled them over as the cop. You know, it
was like you guys drinking, and right away that that
was my reference and went into my head. So I said,
you've boys been sucking back on Granddaddy's cough medicine, and
you know what, I love. That's one of the lines
of people quote to me all the time, and it
just brings me back to thinking to my grandfather, like
(10:12):
in a way, he's still in this world because of that.
Millions and millions and millions of people have seen that line,
quoted that line. Yeah, I created an inside joke for everything. Yeah.
Everyone happened in the moment. Yeah, happened in the moment.
So it's but but Russell, I mean every every take,
he brought some some just some great stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hopefully it comes out soon, you will.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Yeah, well know soon. I think we're actually getting a
call later today from Netflix. They've seen it, so we
don't know what the whether they'll say yeah, your nay,
but I might have news even by this afternoon. So okay,
we'll go to Arby's, We'll go to we'll go to
Denny's and get some of Granddaddy's coughs.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's a good time. That's a good time.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Or you can go see Harlan tonight tomorrow night. American
Comedy Company will be performing there, Harlan and awesome to
see you. Everybody knows the Vegas Sphere now right, it's incredible. Well,
did you know the sphere has a name. It's been named. Yes,
we're gonna find out what the sphere's name is. Coming
up next on the show in Rock Row five three
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