The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds · All Things Comedy

725 - The Possum Open Mic with Mike Bridenstine

·1 hr 7 min·6 clips

A comedian opens a cooler on stage, unleashing a rotting possum smell that makes the front row vomit instantly.

Dave and Gareth start with the usual Dollop setup, except Dave says he forgot the story. Mike Bridenstine jumps in like he has a fix, and the hosts know him from The Past Times, so the room is already loose before the real topic lands. After a stretch of circling and interrupting, Mike's story becomes the center of the show. It is about a comedy night in Kansas City. The trouble is not a joke bomb or a bad set. It is a smell. The smell is so awful that people react like a gun has gone off. Someone bolts to the green room and barricades the door so the smell stays out. Other people clear out fast, and a few head for the toilets and get sick. Dave and Gareth keep leaning into the sensory horror, because the whole thing sounds impossible until it does not. Mike compares it to a stinky tofu disaster from Patreon, which only makes the memory worse. The discussion lands on how a rotten smell can cling to you long after the source is gone. A pregnant woman gets hit with the stink and runs to vomit, which leads to a joke about whether the smell is doing doctor work. Kansas City gets its city-of-fountains aside, dropped in like a tiny deadpan postcard. Chris Porter comes up near the end, tying the story back to the local comedy scene. The wrap is loose, silly, and a little stunned by how nasty the night was. The whole episode runs on the Dollop's favorite fuel: a factual mess that keeps becoming a worse one.

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A foul comedy-club disaster that gets grosser, louder, and funnier with every turn.

It turns a Kansas City comedy-club disaster into the main engine of the episode, with a rotten smell that sends people running, gagging, and heading for the bathrooms.

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You want a live-show disaster where one rotten smell starts a room-wide collapse.

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