The Tony Bruno Show

Hour 1 – We kicked off our very first Tony Bruno Show Live Podcast at our new home - Comedy Sports Philadelphia - with referee Don Montrey warming up the audience and introducing the crew after explaining the longest running Improv show in Philly.The crew gets right into it by bringing out comedy legend Dom Irrera to talk Philly roots, Hillary Clinton getting angry at comics in LA, Chip Kelly, and how now one really cares about getting an NFL team back in Los Angeles where he lives. Dom headed over to Helium comedy club across the street where he's appearing all weekendTony and the gang tore apart the infamous Phila Parking Authority as he got a ticket even after being told meter parking was free on Wednesdays. We all expressed outrage of Santa Claus already being in the malls for several weeks, even though the traditional arrival was Thanksgiving Day. And we got into some turkey talk and how Miss Robins kids eat the hearts and livers packed inside the Turkey.We got into NBA chatter about the amazing Golden State Warriors and Kobe Bryant looking "shot" for the LA Lakers. Conversely, we mocked the Philadelphia 76'ers who are in year 3 of tanking for high draft picks while chasing their own futility records.

Hour 2 starts as we bring in mentalist and entertainer Max Major to the stage and he dazzled the crowd with his ability to detect Tony's past with his best friend and what he did with him one time when they were kids. Max also chewed and swallowed the glass from a lightbulb and he helped Joe read Robin's mind by determining what card she was holding after randomly drawing if from a spread out deck on the desk. Max on his "Think Again" tour where he uses live audiences to help them learn the amazing powers of the brain. We discussed with Cheesesteak icon Tony Luke Jr the difference between CheeseWiz and real cheese on a steak sandwich as Tony was in the audience for tonights show. The whole studio audience involved as we drew a lucky listener to spin our wheel hoping to win lots of cash. Our final surprise was a live Turkey who came out on Stage was was preening for the crowd. All were stunned at how calm and composed the beautiful bird was. We pardoned him and all went home happy for the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Hour One of the show featured some early microphone issues as Tony had his unplugged and is scolded for it. The crew got into some NBA talk about Kobe Bryants farewell tour and loss to the Lowly Phila 76'ers who were 0-18 and hadn't won a game since March. Jahlil Okafor's  suspension was also discussed as Tony nailed on Twitter earlier the team would suspend him at least 1 game after more video surfaced of the rookie throwdown with some punks after a loss in Boston. Okafor got to set 2 games for his early off-court issues. Johnny Manziel situation in Cleveland was a hot button issue as no one could figure out why the lowly Browns won't just start the Number 1 draft pick for the remaining games to see if they could potentially get something if the wanted to trade him instead of releasing him. Miss Robin did her "this week in Florida update" about a son who tried to electrocute his dad after finding out he was the sole beneficiary on the will.  It didn't work and the son is in jail. Legendary sports writer, analyst and NFL HOF writer Ray Didinger stopped by and dealt with all kinds of questions about Chip Kelly and the struggling Philadelphia Eagles. A solid 30 minutes of football chatter, from the NFC East, to job openings and speculation about coaches in trouble.

Hour 2 - Flew by as we continued with John, Colleen and the crew talking more football, life on the West coast and how watching the NFL is so much easier with games kicking off at 10am and the Sunday night game over by 8:30pm. We played FMF with the girls and Miss Robin delivered her weekly "This is Florida segment" with tales of Walmart wining and dining while on Meth. Author Allen Schatz was in the audience and discussed his 3 murder mystery novels centered around baseball. We wrapped up the show breaking down the other failed college coaches who completely bombed after making the jump from college to the pros.

Hour 1 - The final Podcast of 2015 and a great crowd on hand to celebrate with us at Comedy Sports Philly. For the first time in public, our friends John Gonzalez of Comcast Sports Net and Colleen Wolfe of the NFL Network appeared together on the same set as husband and wife. They've been married 4 years and live on different coasts. She's in LA and John is in Philly. We discussed long distance relationship issues and got into a lot of sports discussion, especially the big NFL news involving the firing of Chip Kelly by the Philadelphia Eagles. Gozo also covers the Sixers and we chuckled at the fact that coach Brett Brown is now the "dean" of local pro sports teams with Chip, Ryne Sandberg with the Phillies and and Craig Berube of the Flyers all gone from 2015 jobs. Our regulars Joe Corrado, Luigi Curto and Natalie Egenolf joined in the fun with updates and lots of laughs for the audience members.

Vintage Tony Bruno Morning Extravaganza Segment circa 2004