Episode 272 - Kerri Kenney-Silver

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The week on Breaking Bread Kerri Kenney-Silver joins us at the table! She talks starring in the hit show The Four Seasons (based on the 1981 film), the audition process, and working with Steve Carrell. Tom and Kerri also trade stories of almost getting kidnapped and much more. Enjoy! Catch Kerri in The Four Seasons streaming now on Netflix! Go to Wildgrain.com/PAPA for $30 off your first box, plus free croissants in every box! ButcherBox is offering our listeners $20 off their first box and free protein for a year. Go to ButcherBox.com/papa to get this limited time offer and free shipping always. -------------- 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:58 Patreon Shoutout 0:01:22 Wild Grain Ad 0:02:31 Welcome, fried clams, and NYC 0:05:26 Almost getting kidnapped 0:08:45 Seeing theatre growing up and inflation 0:11:21 The Four Seasons film 0:15:00 Auditioning for Four Seasons 0:22:15 Niecy Nash audition for Reno 911! 0:25:00 The State 0:29:10 Wild Grain Ad 0:31:58 Butcher Box Ad 0:34:10 Peewee Herman doc, friendship, and influence 0:43:15 NY vs LA 0:46:00 Uncomfortable moment 0:47:54 Acting in The Four Season 0:51:10 The State to Reno transition 0:56:35 Just acting vs showrunning 1:00:02 Closeted gluten allergy and eating habits 1:04:10 Working out 1:05:22 Band, ticklish, snakes -------------- Tom Papa is a celebrated stand-up comedian with over 20 years in the industry. Watch Tom's new special "Home Free" out NOW on Netflix! Patreon.com - Patreon.com/BreakingBreadWithTomPapa Radio, Podcasts and more: https://linktr.ee/tompapa/ Website - http://tompapa.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tompapa Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tompapa Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comediantompapa Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/tompapa #tompapa #breakingbread #comedy #standup #standupcomedy #bread #fourseasons #reno911 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nisi came in. I don't know if you ever heard the story of her audition for us. She was late,
0:05.5	and she came in so, I don't know if she was purposefully unprepared, but it was the most
0:13.4	brilliant audition I had ever seen in my life. She, I don't even, I can't even call it an
0:19.3	audition. She walked in and took over the building she she started doing this character she explained why she was late what had happened with her car what it happened with her mother that morning what and and it just what we were I fell hand to God, I fell off my chair laughing.
0:41.6	Oh my God.
0:42.3	Hand to God.
0:43.4	She later told the story on a talk show, she said that someone asked her, her mother asked her
0:50.4	when she got home, how did the audition go?
0:52.1	And she said, well, I made a white lady fall off her chair.
0:55.6	So I think it went pretty well.
0:59.2	It's breaking bread.
1:00.9	If you haven't joined our Patreon yet, you really should.
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