Happily Ever After Special! (w/ Tony Hale, Murray Hill, Danny Jacobs, and Mohanad Elshieky)

Bad Dates

SiriusXM | SmartLess Media

Comedy

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Happy Holidays from everybody at Bad Dates! While our host Joel Kim Booster is off getting MARRIED (heard of it?!), we thought we’d give you an upbeat selection of date stories with happy endings! You’ll hear about how Tony Hale really wasn’t paying attention to the plot, a twisty trilogy of tales from Murray Hill, the time Danny Jacobs introduced his girlfriend to his conman, I mean father, and finally Mohanad Elshieky’s future sister-in-law thinks he’s mid, and it’s driving him crazy. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for full episodes. Merch available at SiriusXMStore.com/BadDates. Buy Tickets for our live show 2/01/26 at SF Sketchfest Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 3 Tony Hale: @mrtonyhale on socials Murray Hill: @murrayhill on Insta, Somebody Somewhere on Max Danny Jacobs: @dannyajacobs on Insta, The Understudies at The Groundlings Theatre, How To Destroy Everything podcast Mohanad Elshieky: @mohaned.elshieky on Insta, new special coming soon!

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0:00.0	Bad dates.
0:14.7	Hey folks, Joel here.
0:16.3	I'm away this week getting married.
0:19.3	So, instead of a regular episode, we've pulled together a collection of the rarest kind of
0:24.1	bad date stories, the ones that end in love and marriage.
0:28.1	To get us started, here's an amuse-bush from our speed date with Tony Hale.
0:31.8	Bad dates!
0:33.0	So on this podcast, we do talk a little bit about love and specifically your loved life.
0:37.9	Tony, can you reveal to me now and to the listeners at home what your status is?
0:43.0	What's going on in your love life?
0:44.3	Well, this weekend will be 23 years and I've been married to my wife.
0:49.6	23 years.
0:50.6	We were married.
0:52.9	2000. Oh, me, sorry. It's 22 years.
0:57.6	2003, so it's 22 years.
0:59.9	2003. Okay. So was this pre or post arrested?
1:03.3	Good question. We were dating in New York, planning the wedding, and then 10, I got the pilot for arrested.
1:10.5	And I was, I mainly done commercials.
1:12.0	I was so blown away by it. And then 10 days before we got married, arrested got picked up.
1:15.9	And we immediately moved to L.A. So she was a makeup artist on S&L for about seven years.
1:21.2	Wow. Loved her career and made a huge sacrifice with me to come to L.A. And then we were there for 21 years. Yeah. That's amazing. And does she still do makeup? She, we not, yeah, she'll do publicity makeup. She'll like if, so we would work together. Like, if I had to do publicity, she would do that. But we had our daughter, my daughter's now 19. And it was, yeah, she loved being a stay-at-home mom and doing kind of makeup gigs when they came.
1:45.6	But like kind of being on set and the full-time of it, I think she did that in New York.
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