Frank Caliendo

Beasley Digital

Frank Caliendo and Tom Hiddleston trade Goldblum and Paccino impressions

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00:00We'll talk about this for a second. What were we talking about? Doesn't matter. It just got better.

00:06Please welcome Mr. Frank Caliendo.

00:09Yes!

00:10To the show.

00:11What a great entrance.

00:14I walked in and I met old friends from the hallway.

00:17Wow.

00:18It was somebody from another station down the hall who was like, wait a second, are you Frank Caliendo?

00:22I'm like, yeah. He goes, okay. And then he walked away and didn't let me in.

00:25And then I'm just standing there with these other guys, which we became great friends.

00:30No, no, yeah, yeah.

00:31Sometimes you just know.

00:32And then I was like, you're not going to just let me in?

00:36I would have left these guys here in a heartbeat.

00:38I have no problem with that.

00:39And they're like, we would have done it too.

00:41They're like, you're just stuck here with these two creepy guys?

00:43I'm like, you have no idea.

00:45But my life is like, you're zero on the creepy meter.

00:48Creepy meter doesn't even come close to that.

00:50They were very nice.

00:51I feel like it's gotten to a point where we should just give you a key fob

00:55so you can get in yourself.

00:56I would take it.

00:56I have stations where I have that.

00:58You do have the key fob accessibility?

01:00Yeah.

01:00I've had that.

01:01And entry codes like in Arizona.

01:03You know, but now here you have construction going on.

01:06So you'd be at actual physical peril.

01:07I also have a key.

01:08I have a key to a crane.

01:09You do?

01:10He gave me a key.

01:10How do you think I got in?

01:11Oh, my God.

01:12No, I didn't take a door.

01:13I was dropped in.

01:14It's why when you come up here, so a lot of people don't know,

01:16they're actually going to add an atrium onto the building that's going to go up four floors.

01:20It'll be right outside our window here.

01:21So they're actually digging up the whole front of the building,

01:24and so we haven't heard it as of yet.

01:27Nick, let me know in advance.

01:28Did you walk over here?

01:29Yeah, yeah.

01:30What, do you think?

01:30I think I Ubered from across the street?

01:32I wouldn't put it past you.

01:33How lazy do you know that I am?

01:37But, I mean, your hotel's literally a block away.

01:39Yeah, let's just tell everybody where I'm staying.

01:41That's great.

01:42Then you want to see some creepy facts, guys?

01:45I want to tell you guys because I was so excited this weekend.

01:48I'd never, I shouldn't say no, I hadn't been to one of these in a while.

01:52It was a comic convention kind of thing.

01:55Yes, you're a comic book nerd.

01:56I like comic books.

01:58I'm getting into them.

01:59I'm getting back into them.

02:00I liked them when I was a kid.

02:01I'm more into the stuff that my daughter's into.

02:05Barbies, My Little Pony.

02:07No.

02:08You're into them?

02:08It just got creepy again.

02:10Yes, no problem.

02:12I like to comb their hair.

02:13My Little Pony.

02:14You know what they call those bronies?

02:16Yeah, I swear to God.

02:18Is there such a thing?

02:18I'll get into it.

02:19I got no problem.

02:20It's a legitimate fetish.

02:21They're called bronies.

02:22Not that there's anything wrong with that.

02:25Hey, Jerry, what I was going to do there was going to get real creepy.

02:29So, this one was called Ace Con, all right?

02:33Arizona?

02:34No, it's a national thing.

02:35I think they might do one in Philadelphia too eventually, but they go all over and they

02:41do major celebrities from the movies.

02:43Yeah, yeah.

02:43So, Tom Hiddleston was at this one, who was Loki.

02:47Yeah, we love Hiddleston, yeah.

02:49Oh, he's incredible.

02:50And he's nicer in person than he is as Loki, first of all.

02:53But he's so nice, but he comes up.

02:56I don't know if they...

02:57I can never tell this because he was so smooth and so incredible and so British that he comes

03:03over and he knew who I was.

03:05And that was one of those moments I'm like, well, this is pretty awesome because my daughter's

03:09like, huh?

03:10Well, he's an impressionist as well.

03:12Oh, he was great.

03:12So, he's got to know your stuff.

03:14Very, very good.

03:15Yeah.

03:15He comes over and he's talking about...

03:16But he has the one-up.

03:17Like, he's friends with Jeff Goldblum.

03:19So, he's talking about Jeff Goldblum.

03:21Yes, he's doing this.

03:22He's like, he'll come over and he'll be like, how are you?

03:25Good.

03:26You look great, Tom.

03:28You really do?

03:29That's when you meet people too.

03:31It's like that.

03:32So, we're going back and forth, me and Hiddleston, Tommy, is that what they call him?

03:38Tommy and I are going back and forth doing Jeff Goldblum.

03:42We're doing some Pacino and stuff like that.

03:43It's like, whoa, he does more of the Scarface kind.

03:47But, so, we're doing that and my daughter's like thinking this is the greatest thing in

03:52the world.

03:53And so, that wasn't even the end of it.

03:55So, I want to tell you about this thing too.

03:57So, they take pictures with people.

03:59Like, you can pay.

03:59It's expensive.

04:00Like, it can be for like, you know, a couple hundred bucks.

04:03Yeah.

04:03But, you're going to get a frameable quality photo.

04:07More than that.

04:07It was incredible.

04:08People were bringing props.

04:10People were bringing birthday cakes, fake birthday cakes.

04:13Wow.

04:13And, he was doing all of it because it's an expensive thing.

04:15It's like Wizard World here.

04:17Yeah, it's very similar.

04:18I think it might be from the people who created it.

04:20It probably is, yeah.

04:20There's something.

04:21I'd heard that as a rumor.

04:23So, they're doing that kind of a thing.

04:27We keep running into him.

04:29And, Hiddleston walks up behind me at one point, who towers over me.

04:31I'm 5'6".

04:32He's 6'2".

04:33He's like, I heard you do a Tom Hiddleston impression.

04:35I'm like, no, I don't.

04:36But, I do do the Beatles.

04:39That's what it turns into.

04:41So, then, a guy comes in and he goes, Frank.

04:44And, we're in the back area.

04:46Because, originally, I was just going to stalk everybody with my daughter.

04:51But, try and be nice.

04:52You know, you guys know what that's like.

04:55He's looking at his stalkers here in the studio.

04:57You do that thing where you respect everybody's space and stuff like that.

05:02You do.

05:03So, we didn't ask for any extra pictures or anything like that outside the times we were supposed to.

05:08And, this guy comes and he goes, Frank.

05:11And, it's Todd McFarlane.

05:13Oh, wow.

05:14Spawn.

05:15And, baseball collector extraordinaire.

05:17Yes.

05:17And, he sits down and he starts talking.

05:20Who's this?

05:21This is Juliet.

05:21Hey, Juliet.

05:22And, he starts talking to my daughter.

05:24He starts saying, so, I was, I actually have this on video.

05:27I'll show it to you.

05:28I don't have, I never asked him if I could share it with anybody to play.

05:32But, he says, I created a character called, you ever hear of him, Venom?

05:35So, I was drawing and he tells the whole story of how he created Venom.

05:38Which is, basically, they wanted him to, and I've never heard this story before.

05:44They wanted him to draw the black costume Spider-Man.

05:48That was where it was at that point.

05:50Right, right.

05:51He's like, I don't want to draw Spider-Man.

05:53I can kind of do his voice.

05:54I don't want to draw Spider-Man.

05:56I don't want to draw him in a black costume.

05:57Red and blue, right?

05:59Right.

05:59And, my daughter's like, yes, yes, it's red and blue.

06:01And, he's like, so, he starts drawing it there.

06:03And, he starts going to it.

06:04He's like, so, the reason Venom's created, because I didn't, I was stubborn.

06:08I didn't want to do what they wanted me to do.

06:09I was like, and he.

06:11And, that was the genesis of the character.

06:12Yeah, that's what it says.

06:13He's like, we'll make a villain.

06:15He'll be the black character.

06:16And, then, the red and blue will be Spider-Man still.

06:19We'll all be happy.

06:19And, that's how it turned out.

06:21Yeah, it's surreal.

06:22Did you watch The Family Guy this past weekend or the weekend before with Peter goes to the

06:25White House and works in the Trump administration?

06:27No.

06:28It was a funny episode.

06:29But, as you can imagine, it skewered Trump a lot.

06:32I thought that it was you.

06:33I had to watch the credits.

06:35Because, it sounded like your impression of Trump.

06:37Which is a relatively easy impression, I think, to do.

06:39Yeah, I don't think it's very hard.

06:40And, I think that because of how easy it is, people think that just doing the impression

06:44is funny.

06:46When that's not the case.

06:46It's not.

06:47Right.

06:48And, you've always done this.

06:49It's tremendous.

06:50It really is.

06:51There's a lot of people.

06:52A lot of people that are talking about my impression.

06:54Here's the thing.

06:55You guys do a great job.

06:56This is probably the number one show I'll be on right now.

06:59And, let me see if the ratings are going through the roof.

07:02Not even just the roof.

07:03Through the stratosphere.

07:04And, Space Force will probably find them.

07:07But, we'll talk about this for a second.

07:09What were we talking about?

07:10Doesn't matter.

07:11It just got better.

07:13My stuff is silly.

07:14My stuff is silly that people who are on one side or the other, they go, oh, that was

07:19great.

07:19I had that happen years and years ago in Texas.

07:21I was doing George W. Bush.

07:23Yeah.

07:23And, they're like, you do, the people who want, out of the same show, people go, you

07:26must really love him.

07:27That was great how you did that.

07:29And, people, other people walk out and go, you hate him, don't you?

07:32And, I was like, you decide.

07:34You decide.

07:34That's what you want.

07:35If you're listening to me for politics, in this venue, you're in the wrong.

07:40But, if you're able to nail it both ways like that, then you hit it.

07:44That's how I want to do it.

07:44Yeah.

07:45And, for me, there's enough out there for the people that are pro this or anti-

07:49this that, what am I going to do, add to one of those sides?

07:52That's our philosophy.

07:52And, I don't even believe that I would go.

07:55There are things, I think, that happen that are okay, that are good, and that are bad,

07:58and awful.

07:59And, it all happens, and it's whatever.

08:02I feel like, eventually, it's going to work itself out one way or another.

08:06But, if people just scream and yell from the rooftops, it just makes other people mad.

08:10Yes.

08:11And, that's where I come from.

08:12Besides that, Preston and I are big fans of dystopian future movies.

08:16Those are cool.

08:17However it breaks.

08:18Yeah.

08:18Whether we're fighting vampires or zombies.

08:20Whatever it is.

08:20Or, whatever.

08:21Or, maybe we're a mailman, Preston, like in The Postman.

08:24Yeah, yeah.

08:25Listen, my friend Rick and I met up with a lot of people.

08:28You just stab them in the brain.

08:29That's what you do.

08:30You don't grab them by the you-know-what.

08:33You stab them in the brain.

08:34When you hear that sound, it's tremendous.

08:36It gets really, really great.

08:48To be...

08:49I'm going to go to the I-m-m-m-m.

08:50I'm going to go to the I-m-m.

08:51I'm going to go to the I-m-m.

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