Johnny Brennan (2017)

That is not a bad idea but I don't know what the subscription cost should be and what would be expected I provide? Like how many new calls for how much? I'm not good at this internet shit!

I absolutely would if I knew how to do it for a living because it's so much work. And I can't have a middle man screwing me, ya know? Someone mentioned a Patreon here but I have no idea what that is.

As a matter a fact I'm driving one right now as I type this AMA. I'm popping wheelies and going through tolls, no stopping, no nothing.

I made that up, I was laying in bed looking at the ceiling in the dark, and it just rolled off my tongue. Sizzle chest, buttnut, muffin ass, piss clams, they just come out of nowhere.

If you want the definition of Milky Licker, it's one of those things that can mean something sexual, or it could mean eating a delicious candy bar.

Jimb is alive and well and to this day is still being tied to piers for high tide and being dragged by motor boats and stepping on piss clams.

Yes. And bunjee cords

Youtube?? I gotta get paid, ya fuck! Just kidding. I am honestly not sure how to monetize if I ever did record new pranks, unfortunately.

A fan of mine told me about it and I just learned of it this week! Thank you guys so much!

Thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate that! That is a really good question that I never thought about. I don't know if creative people feel like they HAVE to get something out? I play guitar and drums, I do music and other outlets. But as far as comedy, now if anything I get to let creative energy out through story telling at meet and greets and doing AMAs like this. I am starting to put together a show that I will be going out with where it is an actual night of Q and A and comedy and banter back and forth.

In my personal life I make myself laugh a lot. Like I will be sitting in church and I will daydream that the priest is dressed like one of those bears on a tricycle and just laugh to myself.

No clue!

I'll wrap your head in with a ratchet

Yes. It happens a lot. If I am driving in the car, my characters will have a conversation in my head. Sometimes it is even new characters created from people I've met who I think have hilarious voices.

It's an amazing feeling to know that I was able to touch so many people around the globe. Literally any country where people speak English have told me that and it means so much. It is such a great feeling to make people smile.

Every single one of them, man. There's a few that stick out but I love every one of them. Because of the characters being based on real human beings that I have exaggerated and turned into these characters. "You think these fucking cocks'll hold us??"

Yes

Thanks man

There are videos of Nirvana members as kids quoting Jerky Boys lines which was so fucking awesome, man. But I never knew about the Steve Albini thing! Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention! I got a call back in 1991 or 1992 from Radiohead asking if they could use the Pablo Honey call for the name of their debut album in the US. And then Jerky Boys was number 1 on Billboard, and Radiohead was number 2 with Pablo Honey and it was the most incredible and surreal feeling!

I also just found out Dave Grohl just release an unreleased song from 25 years ago called Jerky Boys! How awesome is that??

Thank you for continuing to listen all these years man

He gave it to me down by the bar stool

Thanks for the question. They are like children. I have tons of favorites. Some do stand out that are dear to me. Like 1-800-How's my Driving, and the reason I love it so much is because it is the first time you really see Frank Rizzo, the tough badass, as being vulnerable. Even when I hear it back to this day, I feel bad for Frank.

Sol's Chainsaw Shock 1 & 2 is another one of my personal favorites. Also Florida, the Tropical State is another one. And I can go on and on, there's just too many to mention. Like I said, they are like children.

I stopped going on fishing trips with Howard because I got sick and tired of being beaten unmerciful with a fishing rod. I don't know the last time you were beaten with a fishing rod, but it really hurts like hell.

Yes I did, in NYC. When I came out of the booth we were introduced. She said "oh my God how adorable!". She thought the fact that I look the way I do yet I am the voice of Mort Goldman was adorable.

> Jimb
Jimb is alive and well and to this day is still being tied to piers for high tide and being dragged by motor boats and stepping on piss clams.

Maurice! We used to do 'em 10 at a time for a dime!

That is way before The Jerky Boys time!

I'm not sure who that is, must be a regional thing. Give me a little more information on who that is!

It didn't increase Facebook likes or anything but it was cool having fans tell me about it. But it is so cool that whoever works on Arrested Development that is a fan to pay homage to my work. There was a HUGE scene in "How I Met Your Mother" about Marshall accidentally putting The Jerky Boys on instead of Mozart for their baby and how worried they were that their kid will be calling people "sizzle chest". They used that scene at the Emmys one year! There was a scene recently in The Mindy Project too where Ike Barinholtz says he saw me in concert 4 times. It's so great knowing people who grew up listening to me got into comedy writing and TV and are giving me little shout outs. Fans tell me about it when they see it but it does not really increase my fanbase I don't think (like, my Facebook "likes" don't go up after something like that airs if that is what you mean).

Thank you so much brother! It is more improvised than you would even think. For a majority of the calls, I would not know who we were calling. For example, someone else would dial the phone for me, and 2 seconds before they answer, they'd say "OK this is a balloon store". And that would be it. Remember the call where I called Juggy Gales, the head of A&R records? Before the call they wanted to brief me on who he is and all that shit. They started to tell me that he worked with Frank Sinatra and invented a dance called The Hucklebuck and I stopped him right there and I said "don't tell me any more". I feel it's funnier the less I know and the more I have to improvise. Thanks for the question!

Amy Schumer tweeted me a while back that she is a huge fan of mine and I know she works with him, so maybe she could link us up? Of course I would love to work with him! I don't know how that would happen though!

Awesome

Kumal quit 20+ years ago to direct, writing pictures, and I just wanted to keep moving forward with The Jerky Boys, creating new characters, trying to do voice-over work, etc. He went his way in the industry, and the Jerky Boys and the characters are my babies and I could not leave them, ya know??

I am in New York, home of the Cornwall Dragons. Me and Big Hock get together on a regular basis put our heads through walls in our spare time.

I love Howard. I would do his show again in a heartbeat if he ever asked me.

Yes, one box. I'm a very sorry person, thank you.

I love reading stuff like this!

Thanks man. There has been a lot of interest in a new podcast and I am thinking of doing it again but for myself without a middleman! Thank you for the question.

Almost every single thing I recorded was used. I think in the entire span of all the albums there were only 5 calls I couldn't use due to not being granted permission. The success rate was phenomenal, amazingly. Thank you for the love!

OK sweet Charlie

Yeah you do that

Thank you!

My toned-down selling technique is smashing the prospective buyer's face into the hood and tell them "you buy this fucking car or I'll break your fucking head!"

thank you !

I found a CD that had sound effects on it and I found this one with trucks and buses sound effects on it. My manager had the CD laying around at his house. Jerky Boys 3 is my personal favorite. The reason why is I had to top 1 and 2. I had to put so much work into 3 that I came up with all these different ideas such as calls coming in (instead of out), five brand new characters, and I also wanted to create more elaborate calls such as ones with sound effects like Sol's Chainsaw Shock and the awnings one as a couple of examples.

Kumal quit 20+ years ago to direct, writing pictures, and I just wanted to keep moving forward with The Jerky Boys, creating new characters, trying to do voice-over work, etc. He went his way in the industry, and the Jerky Boys and the characters are my babies and I could not leave them, ya know??

He still lives there happily to this day

She is doing well, thank God. Thank you for asking. Frank Rizzo was based on my father. My father passed away in 2000. But he lives on in a big way. All my characters are based on family members or people I knew growing up, exaggerated and turned into characters.

The Mr. Pickle call I could not release as they would not give me permission. The Disney call was promotion for the movie and Disney changed their minds and refused permission. There's about 5 total I could not use in all those years but you can find them online.

Thank you for the kind words. I love meeting fans! And absolutely not, the Family Guy thing is wonderful. Seth MacFarlane was listening to my stuff as a kid and he is a huge fan that wanted me to be a part of the show from the very beginning. So The Jerky Boys reach out to millions of people in many ways; Family guy is just one of them. And Mort Goldman and the other characters I do on the show are slight variations of Jerky Boys characters with different names, such as Scott in the Family Guy episode, Horace the Bartender and owner of The Drunken Clam, or even Mort Goldman who is Sol Rosenberg's long lost cousin. So Family Guy and Jerky Boys will be forever intertwined in some way.

Thanks man!

I absolutely would if I knew how to do it for a living because it's so much work. And I can't have a middle man screwing me, ya know? Someone mentioned a Patreon here but I have no idea what that is.

Yes

The Flower Lady was pissed off to the tune of five thousand dollars (that's what I had to pay her for permission). So yes, she was pissed off!

In the mid 1960s my dad and his brothers ran a bar in NYC and this guy that sounded just like Jack Tors was a regular at their bar. He was desperately trying to get his life together and clean up, and my dad let him live with us to get clean. I always thought the way he spoke was so awesome, and I knew as a 5 year old boy that he sounded more like my mom than my dad. I was doing his voice since then.

Frank Rizzo was altered a bit and became Horace the Bartender at the Drunken Clam, but he's dead now!

Jerky Boys the Animated Series would be great!

Thanks man but how much would I charge and for how many new calls per month for people? In your opinion?

1. I am not sure what this is referencing. Please elaborate!

2. Pieces? POUNDS BABY, POUNDS!!

Yes. When I started to do Jerky Boys 3 that started to happen. But typically they thought it was friends pretending to be the Jerky Boys and not actually me. But it never happened at all before Jerky Boys 3. I do remember one time this girl going "OH my god! It's Sol Rosenberg!!" haha

This was the last call I did as Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJR25zs7RH8

I think it sounds the same. If you are referring to the Family Guy stuff, I intentionally made them sound slightly different than Sol and Frank.

UP!

I'm not sure who that is, must be a regional thing. Give me a little more information on who that is!

Thank you! Kamal is off doing his movie stuff! I wish him all the best. Listen to Kamal on the Flower Lady trilogy (4 tracks). It is amazing.

Thanks man. There has been a lot of interest in a new podcast and I am thinking of doing it again but for myself without a middleman! Thank you for the question.

You buy yourself a horsie and they will bite and nip him in the face instead

Oh wow I never heard of that. What do you think it would be fair to charge? It's probably the only way I'll ever do new calls but I don't want to rip people off either.

Ozzy is a huge Jerky Boys fan before the movie came out and wanted to be a part of it. "The fucking monkeys??"

Fans of mine who are musicians? Dave Grohl, Radiohead, Mariah Carey, I had Cheryl Crow tell me I was her tour bus music!

My wife's legs. Crushed 'em up a bit.

That is so awesome man. Mind if I ask your age? I love hearing about new fans not from the 90s!

He was signing about a Spanish dish or some shit, I think it was a payaya

There was never really any major issue with the police. Just a couple lawsuits and a few breaks and things.

You know damn well there's more than 2 pits in a pear.

It's funny, I came up with "a kick to the gift bag" when my daughter was 5 and watching the Karate Kid scene where Johnny beats Daniel up and kicks him right in the dick. And my daughter asked me what happened and I had to word it for a kid so I said "he gave him the old shoe to the gift bag". Then years later when I was recording Family Guy with Seth MacFarlane and he asked me to improv a scene and it just came back to my head randomly. Everybody in the studio was laughing and Seth said "Johnny, I am not even going to ask". And gift bag is now part of the Jerky Boys lingo ever since.

Yes. Home of the Cornwall Dragons.

The only pranks I did before The Jerky Boys were real-world pranks. But for Jerky Boys stuff, just a couple lawsuits and a few breaks and things.

That's awesome! Thanks for letting me know! How did he shout me out?

When it gets a little cool down there in the tunnel we'll throw on some slack

95% of the time people were good sports. Some were pissed off, yes, but quickly loosened up. Then there were just a couple that were furious, but most of the time it always worked out. As a matter of fact, I used to joke around that my manager Harry had a 99% success rate at getting clearances. On Sol's Chainsaw Shock, that when we called the woman back, she said all she wants is a chainsaw. And I offered to buy her a HUSQVARNA which was the Rolls Royce of chainsaw and she refused saying all she wanted was the little cheap chainsaw she saw in my ad! So I got it for her and gave a donation to her favorite charity. It was usually a legal team that dealt with clearances, though. However, I did also talk to Willie from the Testing for Jeopardy phone call because he seemed like such a nice guy.

Yeah! Lets get together, paint each other up. Paint each other's toe nails. Paint the fuckin' town

To be honest with you, it just kind of rolls. It just flows because I transform myself into the character. I become them.

Just met him at BoroughCon at St. John's University for the first time a few weeks ago. Great guy, talented guy, and we had a lot of fun and hit it off with one another!

You know damn well there's more than 2 pits in a pear.

I'm a Yankees/Giants/Rangers/Cornwall Dragons guy.

A lot of people ask me that! If I ever start doing calls again, or if I get voice acting work, I will bring her back, I promise.

You are very welcome and thanks for the question!

haha yeah I do, you can get them on https://the-jerky-boys-store.myshopify.com

But people typically buy them for weddings

You know exactly what you have to do at this point. You throw her fucking ass down off the roof, onto the car!!