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Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

Episode 299 - Kathleen Madigan

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

Have you ever had a bad neighbor?

0:02.0

No.

0:04.0

I have a very honest drunk neighbor.

0:07.0

Well, I said to him, I said, Mike, did you tell people they could just park at our boat dock?

0:14.0

He goes, I'm out of.

0:16.0

I said, okay, well, it's not a public dock.

0:19.0

Like, everybody has a spot.

0:20.0

And there's people that are parked behind my boat. I don't know where they are and I don't know how to get them to move their boat. He goes, Kathleen, I cannot be hell responsible for things I say when I'm drunk. And I was like, that's the most honest thing. Anyone has ever looked me directly? And I go, okay, well, do you remember where you would

0:38.6

have said this? He goes, probably at Samps. That's the Lake Bar. I go, could you go unsay it at Samps

0:43.6

and get drunk again? And remember this one thing? Tell them we do not have public boat parking.

0:49.2

All right. He's harmless. I like this guy. It's breaking bread.

0:55.7

I love when you come back to L.A.

0:58.9

Because I know you don't like it.

1:00.8

I hate it.

1:02.3

I do.

1:03.1

I hate it.

1:04.1

I have my spots that make it bearable.

1:07.4

Barney's beanery.

1:08.8

Yeah.

1:09.3

Breakfast burrito, pitcher, beer. Sports are on. Normal people. Nick Schwarzen will grace me with his presence every now and then with his Vikings helmet, his Minnesota Vikings helmet. Like he wears those horns around West Hollywood. Like, it's not game day, Nick. It's a Tuesday. Just, yeah. Yeah, but Chuck would always be there. They were just fun, not in a comedy club. Let's go somewhere else. So I have my little spots that I look, Casa Vega, the restaurant. Yeah. I know. I just saw a picture. They posted something last night. I was like, we haven't been there in a minute. I love it. Yeah, we've got to go back. And it's hard to find good Mexican food in Nashville. Yeah, and Kosovo is not good, but this atmosphere is great. The atmosphere. I feel like everyone's having an affair except me. It's dark. No windows. It's creepy. Your eyes can't adjust for like 25 minutes. And then you walk out. You're like, oh, God, it's still daytime. And I've had seven margaritas. I know. How am I getting back over that giant hill? Why am I driving? Do you drive when you come here? Yeah. You do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the other thing. renting a car here. I just, there's just too many people.

2:35.9

It's too crowded. Because you lived here for 20 years. 20 years. 10 in Hermosa, 10 in West Hollywood. Jeez. Homoosa was great. And I just remember when you just hit your limit, you were like, I'm out. You know why? because incrementally from West Hollywood to get to the Comedy Magic Club, which is my favorite club, it took, first it took 45 minutes,

2:40.6

then it took an hour, and then it was an hour 10. And I think it at hour 15 is where I snapped.

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