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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews WOR weeknight host Jimmy Failla.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy describes the decor of the Oval Office and parts of the White House, likening it to a Cracker Barrel restaurant. He offers his impressions from the conclusion of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Mark and Jimmy also discuss King Charles’ fashion choices, comparing his style to Volodymyr Zelensky and debating whether he could have dressed more appropriately for the occasion.

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0:00.0

Mr. New York, Mark Simone on 710 WOR.

0:05.7

Well, Jimmy Fela, he does a great show right here on WOR every night, 9 to Midnights.

0:11.9

Very funny, very interesting.

0:13.5

You should be listening every weeknight, 9 to midnight on WOR.

0:17.9

And then on Saturday nights, he does the best late nightnight show in television, the best monologue in television.

0:23.8

It's Saturday nights at 10. It's on the Fox News Channel. Jimmy Fela, how you doing?

0:30.1

Well, I just want to clarify for your listeners that sometimes I do a show on Saturday night, and sometimes they shoot up the correspondence dinner.

0:54.3

It doesn't always go off as plans. All right. So now you went down there, because you told us last week, you were going to do a three-hour special coverage of the dinner. You were going to pre-pre-pre-prepair, film, all kinds of things to use. What happened to all that stuff you had scheduled to go? You will find out tomorrow. Oh, okay. way through through the show, because we're going to wind up air in most of it. You know, I went, if you remember, I was talking to you last Thursday, I was on my way to the White House. Yeah. And I went down. I hung out with the president. Oh, in that way, if you remember, you said, oh, I don't think I'll see him. I said, he'll know you're in the building. He'll get you in the Oval Office. Ha, ha, ha.

1:14.1

Now, there's also there's also the small matter nostridamus that i might

1:17.9

have been playing possum so let's not forget that either oh okay he didn't like see me on the lawn

1:24.2

and be like phil is here but he was to, he was, probably one of the top two funniest people I've ever met. I don't know who the first person would be, but I was alone with the president for about 20 minutes in the Oval Office just talking about comedy. It was really surreal. And he knows, like, my family by name. He was like, your son's a really good-looking kid. What's his name, Lincoln? I said, yeah, and it was so surreal that we were talking about Lincoln while he was sitting at Lincoln's desk. He was at Abe Lincoln, you know, behind the resolute desk. And I said it was crazy because, you know, I only went to the White House to get my cocaine out of the lockers. And there I am, talking to the president.

2:02.0

Well, he's a big fan of yours telling you.

2:04.6

It's the best late night show on television.

2:06.6

Saturday nights of 10, President Trump never misses it.

2:10.3

And what do you think of the office?

2:12.3

He's added a lot of decor to those walls.

2:15.7

It's kind of crowded.

2:16.4

In all honesty, he's probably the only one who went down to Graceland and didn't think Elvis

2:21.8

had a lot of gold on wool.

2:24.8

It's so bizarre.

2:27.1

Just how much is there?

2:29.8

It almost looks like a high-end cracker barrel.

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