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The Commercial Break

TCB Infomercial: Phil Hanley

The Commercial Break

Bryan Green

Comedy, Improv

4.5758 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Commercial Break Podcast | EP#798 Phil Hanley Bryan and Krissy talk with lauded comedian, actor, author, and long-time Dead-head Phil Hanley. Phil shares what it’s like to live with a unique superpower: dyslexia. From his early days working clubs in Canada to developing his signature crowd work skills, Phil walks us through his journey to comedic greatness. Plus, there is lots of talk about The Grateful Dead... Is the start of a great love story between TCB & Phil Hanley! Phil's LINKS: ⁠Follow Him On Insta⁠ ⁠Tour Dates Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith Watch EP #798 with Phil Hanley on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠! Text us or leave us a voicemail: +1 (212) 433-3TCB FOLLOW US: Instagram:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/thecommercialbreak⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tcbpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.tcbpodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ CREDITS: Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bryan Green⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Krissy Hoadley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Executive Producer: Bryan Green Producer: Astrid B. Green Voice Over: Rachel McGrath TCBits | TCB Tunes: Written, Performed and Edited by Bryan Green To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do you do, sir? You got a great smile. You're so handsome. I'm a forensic analyst. Okay, cool. I dabble a little bit. I watch the show, right?

0:10.6

How long did you go to college? Four years. Four? That's it. I thought you'd have to go back from, you know what I mean? You're like a doctor of the dead, dude.

0:22.9

Not that kind of frenzics.

0:25.5

Audio, video.

0:26.5

Oh, shit.

0:26.9

Never mind, dude.

0:27.7

All right.

0:29.4

I thought it was, you know what I mean?

0:32.3

Audio forensics.

0:33.3

Someone's like, this radio's not working.

0:39.3

You're like... someone's like, this radio's not working? Don't worry, I aced my finals.

0:46.3

It's unplugged.

0:52.3

On this episode of the commercial break. That's a real hurdle in life i can imagine and so what

0:59.0

gets you through that when you're young is that i'm sure that that's like a it was like i had the

1:04.3

best like childhood kindergarten just killed it unbelievable kindergarten was your that's your high water mark? Yeah, we walked out at peace. And then I arrived in the first grade and, and yeah, like everyone started reading and I was just like, so like it was like all of a sudden from like the first grade, it just became like this like Dickens play where it was like Oliver two. It was so dark and no now I mean it's like completely it's like a positive thing to be dislikesing

1:34.7

the next episode of the commercial break starts now oh yeah cats and kittens welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show. Chris and Joy Haudley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. How to hell are you? Thanks for joining us on a TCB infomercial Tuesday with a personal favorite stand-up comedian Phil Hanley.

2:02.8

Yes, I can't wait to talk to him.

2:04.3

Very excited about this one.

2:06.7

Phil has been around for a long time.

2:10.3

He is one of those comics who is noted by other comics as their favorite.

2:15.0

And I'm interested to ask him about that because when your heroes then denote you as their

2:20.3

hero, I wonder what that feels like.

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