The Soul Behind Jay

The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly

SiriusXM

Robert Kelly, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Jay Oakerson

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jay watches "A Grammy Salute To Cyndi Lauper" and he falls in love with her all over again. Bobby can't understand his infatuation because of her wild outfits and baby speech. | Christine brings a book into the studio and it triggers Jay into remembering the bizarre incident where he was pulled off stage by an audience member. "Not Funny: The Soul Behind Joel" recounts the adventures of opening a comedy club during the pandemic. Soul Joel's was the venue where Jay was famously assaulted. Jay reads passages from the book and then tells what really happened from his perspective. *To hear the full show to go www.siriusxm.com/bonfire to learn more! FOLLOW THE CREW ON SOCIAL MEDIA: @thebonfiresxm @louisjohnson @christinemevans @bigjayoakerson @robertkellylive @louwitzkee @jjbwolf Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Bonfire ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	And now, the Bonfire with Big J. O'Kerson and Robert Kelly.
0:06.6	Grammy salute to Cindy Lauper was on ABC, I think.
0:12.4	Really?
0:12.8	The other day? So good. She's so good.
0:15.1	I know you love her.
0:16.0	She does not enjoy me, but I love her.
0:18.7	I think she's still adorable, too.
0:23.6	Really? I really do. And when she she was young I thought she was flat out just hot I thought she was hot she's just you as a woman yeah
0:28.2	but she comes out she opens this thing it's a concert she does at Hollywood bowl it looks amazing
0:35.0	she sounds great yeah she hits all the notes. She opens up with Shebop,
0:40.3	my fave, probably, and then goes right into the Gooney song. And she goes, hey, you know,
0:47.5	I look to tell the story about how this came about, and I wrote the song for this movie. And I think
0:51.8	a couple of them are here tonight, too, a couple of them. They show in the audience martha plimpton and then corey fellman this geyser now sitting with
0:59.0	his tattoo-faced fucking child bride the new girlfriend right and uh who he's pushing music for so hard
1:06.0	she's sitting next one of the audience and she you know that she plays the goony song and they go to them a couple times and you can watch him fuck up the word. He doesn't know the words to the Gooney song. Yeah. And there's the fact they get him like, like, and he just tries anyway to like say words that aren't the right words. Oh, it made me so happy. I don't know why his failures do. I get a kick out of them. What? What's your problem with her? This is a stupid outfit for sure. I mean, she's stupid-looking. It's a dumb outfit. It's dumb. Turn it up. Turn it. Let me feel it. She bop. He bop, we bop. I bop. They bop, she bop. She looks like a fat alien. But you bitch, shoo bach, hey, hey. Sorry, I'm sorry, dude. I'm sorry. Kelly Clarkson is a fat alien. What? Doesn't that feel bad? What the fuck is wrong with you? I don't mean it, but I'm just showing you how it feels.
2:01.0	All right.
2:01.5	I'm sorry.
2:02.0	I apologize. This is a song about female masturbation, dude. How exciting is that? Is this your Kelly Clock? Oh, blah, b-bhub. Maybe. Look how adorable she still is. We're a little old lady chin. Dude or I don't know
2:16.8	What
2:17.8	Did that We're a little old lady chin. Dude, I don't know. What?
2:19.8	She dances like a buffoon.
2:23.3	She's an idiot.
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