The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly

Old friend of the show, musical comic Avery Pearson returns just to have Bobby butcher his introduction many times over. Avery is pre-diabetic like Bobby and currently on Ozempic like Big Jay. Bob pitches a product idea of a float/anchor for water fun and wants everyone to be seed investors. Avery wants in on the ground floor and agrees to write a theme song for this invention. Jay invents a simil...

Legendary comedian Yakov Smirnoff owns a comedy club in Branson Missouri that bears his name and is appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon this week. He tells a story of working on a film with Robin Williams and his career talking a fall along with the Soviet Union. Yakov started out at the Comedy Store working as a handyman because he didn't know much English. He roomed with Andrew Dice...

Bob gets accused of being a yes-man for Joe Rogan and he has to problems with that. He would love to do manly activities with Joe like hunting and cold plunging. Jay on the other hand, just wants to be in the Rogan Sphere. | Both Jay and Bob are taking testosterone and peptides to get buff for the summer. | Jay wants to buy guns and Bob tries to convince him to invest in bricks of gold. | Bobby ta...

The movie "Sinners" stars Michael B. Jordan and his twin brother MBJ. Jay and the great Chris Stanley of Ron Bennington fame, give their poignant review of this cinematic try-hard. Sinners has everything Jay likes: evil, sex, and vampires. Actress Hailee Steinfeld has minor role that Chris enjoys because she is married to The Bills quarterback in real life, while Jay abhors her awful accent choice...

Loveable Andy Fiori returns with a fresh new haircut that prompts Bobby to lament about his own perfectly-shaped head. | Jay reminds the gang that his mother used to date cops who would shine the police light into her window as a signal. | Christine accuses Jay of petty and spiteful behavior even though he is currently wearing intelligent, professor spectacles. She sites examples during their figh...

Bobby is back from his Aruba vacation where he had the time of his life with his family. Jay is trying to learn lyrics to a Slipknot song to sing at the next God Damn Comedy Jam. | A caller from San Diego calls in to tell what it was like to be in prison for ten years. The guys learn about the history of The Stonewall Inn and the creation of the Gay Pride Parade in New York City. | Jay performs wi...

During Part 2 of Tim Butterly filling in while Bob Kelly is away, Tim learns of a time when MC Hammer became gangster and gyrated in a tiny speedo. Jay wonders why wrestlers choose to fight in their underwear. They play a montage of John Cena rapping badly for his wrestling gimmick. | They analyze Trump's possible immigrant contest which sounds like American Idol for refugees. | Christine reads a...

Tim Butterly is moving to Austin next week and is going to hit up a few racist pizzerias in Philly before he goes. Tim is co-hosting today's Bonfire but before the show, he taped his own podcast on location from the black woman statue in Times Square. | Jay finds it hard to have a lover's quarrel while visiting the attractions at Universal Studios. He could not be upset with Christine because he w...

Mike Finoia fills in for the vacationing Robert Kelly and tells a story of accidentally punching a person at a Phish show. Although he didn't mean it, retaliation was sought in a very un-Phish fan manner. Mike prefers taking mushrooms to acid and sites reasons why. Jay saw Marylin Manson perform in a small theater in New Jersey and was told to sit down because he was standing for the music. | Joe...

The Beastmaster himself Justin Silver took a nude selfie 15 years ago and Jay still shows it off to this day. In fact, he makes everyone in the room look at its healthy splendor. | Bobby mentions that he cannot win in a physical fight with his wife because she would outlast him. Justin punched a hotel television like a rock star. Jay remembers Christine taking a swing at him in a booze-filled stup...

The New Jersey transit strike causes Jay to be late again for the show and he enters while DJ Lou was trying to hook Jacob up with a date. It's up for debate whether Jacob was rejecting the girl or was the rejected. | Bob gives an impassioned speech about healthcare in America. | Bobby asks everyone in the room if they believe in God and everyone has their own relationship with their higher power...

Angelique "Frenchy" Morgan is a French pornographic actress and reality television star. She is best known for her appearances on the VH1 series Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, Charm School, and I Love Money. She's in NYC for a sex chat show and stopped by the Bonfire to meet the guys. Frenchy shares her love for President Trump and has been to Mar-a-Largo many times. She also loves Korean men, e...

Bonfire favorites Greg Stone and Anthony Devito have a new podcast together and hang out for the whole show. Bobby insists that Michael Jackson's real voice was deep and menacing. | Greg loves his wife immensely but is having marital troubles in the bedroom. He asks for a free pass to cheat but his wife would only agree if it was with another man. Greg has his eye on a waiter named Garold and Bob...

Bob is upset that Jay doesn't know any names of his brothers and sisters, so Jay tries to guess what they are. | The P Diddy trial is in full force and the guys have questions: Was Cassie into kinky sex or a victim? Why was Jay Z hanging out with young children and hugging Diddy? Would you let a famous person watch your child? | Black Lou gets mistakenly identified as a vile criminal when he visit...

Jay plays a public domain song to open the show which triggers Jacob to wax about the nerdy books he's been reading. He admits his crush on the actress who played Supergirl on TV. "The Fappening" gets brought up and Jay reanalyzes certain private pics from it. | Bobby fills his addiction holes with designer bags instead of sex, drugs, and booze. He's a junkie for both designer and functional appar...

America's favorite amigo Mike Finoia returns with a story of a gigantic serpent that chose to make a home in his backyard shed. Mike was on the phone with Jay when he first discovered this 10-foot reptile and Jay recorded the call. Jay plays the recorded call into the microphone so the listeners can hear the terror in Mike's every move. | Jay discovers that men lose their eyebrows as they grow old...

Comic Greg Warren joins the hang as Jay and Bobby argue about ghetto pizza and the best time-travel superpower to have. Also a friend of Nate Bargatze, Bob encourages Greg to ask him for a house. Greg tells the guys what an accomplished and talented magician Nate's father is. Bob once battle rapped his way out of a fight and displays his skills for Greg. Greg Warren will premiere his new special "...

This may be Tim Butterly's final appearance on the Bonfire for a while because he's moving to Austin. Jacob is sad about this, so to make him feel better, they perform a new episode of the hit sitcom "Jacob Loves Guys." Jay and Christine saw Kendrick Lamar in concert and Jay gives a full review. They are going to a Marylin Manson show tonight and a person claiming to be him calls Bobby's cell. Mor...

The great Robert Kelly developed a new game show tentatively called "Race Face." Each contestant must guess what a singer looks like without seeing them, just by hearing them croon on Instagram. They get four guesses in the categories of race, body type, personal style, and a random adjective. So after hearing one song, Big Jay guessed that the singer was white, stumpy, overly made -up, and bland....

The lead singer of Barenaked Ladies approaches Bobby before the show to let him know that he's a fan. Jay makes everyone sing their hit "One Week" but only thirty seconds at a time because of new broadcast rules about playing music. Jacob brags about his radio instincts and Jay puts those instincts to the test so he doesn't get jammed up with lawsuits. Ian Fidance has a problem taking off all his...

The show starts with another group sing-along but Jay accuses Bob of not trying. Bobby then picks a Meatloaf song for everyone including guest Kerryn Feehan to sing. Jay expresses his love for Westside Story and has to explain the plot to Bobby. Westside story is a modern musical representation of "Romeo and Juliet". The sharks and the jets are rival gangs fighting for the same territory through d...

Jay's childhood friend Glen calls in to corroborate his telling of a fantastic tale. Jay was performing in Denver and gave Glen's girlfriend's cousin tickets to the show. Her name was Breezy and she not only overstayed her welcome, but was not who she claimed to be. Jay gives a full account of how the night went down and got a little scary. Mike Finoia calls in to give his impressions of Breezy an...

He was the a huge child star as Urkel on "Family Matters" and now has a hit game show called "Flip Side." Jaleel White thinks the 90's were an awesome time to grow up in. Jay asks him about young stardom in an astute way, and follows it up with a statement that the room strongly disagrees with. Black Lou read Jaleel's book and has questions about the time he met Magic Johnson in the L.A. Laker loc...

Comedy legend Pauly Shore is back and has questions about the state of the Bonfire and the business model of podcasting. He used to date porn stars and made a home sex tape with his then fiancé Savannah. The conversation turns dark when he mentions great comedians who took their own lives. Jay and Bobby follow the wackiest people on Instagram. Bob loves to watch an old lady name Evelyn complain ab...

"Beautiful Boys" is a podcast about careers, parenthood, marriage, and the chaotic state of the universe staring comedians Mike Cannon and Andy Haynes. They answer the hypothetical question "Which of your comic friends is secretly a murderer?" A conversation about gay rappers leads Andy to reveal that he once had to leave a steam room because there was sex happening in front of him. Bobby tells a...