Bonus Bang: Be My Guest, Literally! (Michael Ableson, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Daly, Lauren Lapkus)

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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It's a special co-host edition of Comedy Bing Bong with our favorite German film director Werner Herzog! Werner and Scott welcome guest of honor Michael Ableson, a NYC corporate litigator AND “Origin Story” documentary donator! He tells us all about being the hero of the banks when suddenly Ho Ho the Naughty Elf squeaks into the studio. They are also joined by well-known French actor Jean Claude Pepi who reads a Nosferatu script, plays a new game called Name French Actors, and settles the score during Would You Rather? Originally released as episode #338 on 03/09/2015.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Scott Ackerman here, and welcome to another bonus bang where we re-release
0:05.2	great episodes of Comedy Bang Bang from behind the paywall. And wow, since Thanksgiving is now
0:12.9	in the rear view, that means the full force of the holiday season is now upon us. And since
0:19.2	we're here in the holidays, we are bringing you the ghosts of CBB Christmas past. With the series we're calling, Yo, yo, it's Santa and Ho Ho! Ho! Ho! Featuring Santa Claus, of course, and Ho Ho The Elf. This series will highlight episodes featuring Lauren Lapkis as Ho-Ho and Paul F. Tompkins as Santa.
0:37.9	Oh boy, just in time for the holidays.
0:42.1	A little bit before, but just in time for it, you have to agree.
0:45.5	Now, this episode, the first in this series you're about to hear,
0:48.7	is titled Be My Guest, Literally.
0:51.5	It was originally released on March 9th, 2015.
0:56.5	And this is a really special episode because we have a guest on the show that you have
1:01.8	probably never heard of before, and you've never heard from him since.
1:06.4	No, I have no idea.
1:07.5	I've never heard from him since.
1:08.7	But his name is Michael Abelson. He is a gentleman who donated to my wife Coolops documentary in exchange for an appearance on the show.
1:18.6	Now, he got to pick the guests that he wanted to be on the show, and he picked a murderer's row,
1:25.6	although I don't believe any of them have ever murdered anyone,
1:28.9	although if it comes out later that they've murdered people, I would also not be surprised.
1:33.4	So who knows?
1:34.3	But who do we have?
1:35.6	It's co-hosted by Werner Herzog, played by Paul F. Tompkins.
1:40.2	We have Andy Daly as Jean-Claude Pepi.
1:43.8	Lauren Lapkis is Ho-Ho the Elf.
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