I don't really know how to start shows.

Come on now, don't start liking me now.

So yeah, I'm funny compared to, you know, well you'll see later.

I favor mehap!

I know a lot of fucking idiots.

I think a lot of shit is mean-spirited, just because it goes against what they believe.

But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour

We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you, Windy City Heat, the Perry Caravello prank.

I had not heard of this until probably a year ago, maybe.

People started mentioning, you got to do Windy City Heat, got to do Wendy City Heat.

And then I would say in our circles, part of our podcasting circle,

Perry Caravello kind of became a character in the whole like WATP sort of world.

So people were mentioning him more to me and he was still a character. I didn't quite know all

the lore of, but I said, you know what? Enough people have mentioned this to me that I got to look into

windy city heat. And for those of you that don't know, I think this will be an interesting

examination because it truly is one of the greatest pranks ever pulled in film history.

And there are a lot of things that were, I think, influenced by it.

It was around the same time. So it's actually,

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