If you could give a new comedian one piece of advice, what would it be?
Andrew Brynildson doesn’t hesitate. “Anytime a new comic’s willing to listen, I tell them, ‘Let me tell you about a guy named Bill Young.’”
Bill Young was a rarity. He was known in Minneapolis as a transcendent presence in comedy and in life. His immense talent was matched only by his extraordinary capacity for kindness and his commitment to making the world friendlier and funnier for every living being he encountered.
Stand Up! Records’ Dan Schlissel recognized Bill’s brilliance early on and had “been up Bill’s backside for years” trying to get him to organize his material into an album. In 2014, Bill passed away tragically at age 32 before that could happen.
For those who knew him, Bill’s death left a profound, unshakeable grief that remained raw and overwhelming for years. But in the stillness of the pandemic lockdown, Dan confronted the loss head-on. He began piecing together hundreds of hours of clips and recordings. In 2023, Stand Up! Records released Bill Young: Eat the Cake! to preserve the legacy of this larger-than-life comedic talent forever.
Like Bill, Eat the Cake! is unforgettable. Here’s how Stand Up! Records describes the album:
Sometimes you find yourself in a foxhole with a duck. Sometimes you underestimate your own nerdery (and overestimate its power). Sometimes you get a Goth threesome you didn’t bargain for, eat dinner in a gas station, baffle the newlyweds, get combative at the hipster VFW, learn you’re not-fat-but-not-hot, wind up in a Scooby-Doo scenario, find your crack pipe full of weed right before that big McDonald’s management interview, discover the most important phase for international travel is “I’m sorry,” or realize … your parents knew.
Bill had a near superhuman ability to escalate a joke to infinity. When you were sure he’d reached the peak, he would astonish by taking the joke further, stacking insights and punchlines with effortless precision. He had a gift for mining every spark of hilarity and reducing everyone around him to helpless laughter.
Bill Young’s comedy is pure joy. On a personal note, during a difficult eighteen months, I returned to this album many times and it consistently lifted my spirit. When I shared that with Dan, he said, “Thank you because that’s what I wanted the ultimate effect to be.” Eat the Cake! is, without a doubt, mission accomplished.
Four of the people closest to Bill kindly spoke with me about their one-of-a-kind friend. They shared stories of what made Bill deeply loved and still so profoundly missed. They are Dan Schlissel, Jena Young (Bill’s former wife), Mike Brody and Andrew Brynildson. All four are prominent figures in Minneapolis’ vibrant comedy scene.
Jena has been a comedian for over twenty years. She is a storyteller, actor and dancer with expertise in fight choreography. Mike is a comedian of over twenty-two years with a Dry Bar special and several albums on the Blonde Medicine label. Andrew runs the Monday Night Comedy Show, the longest running comedy showcase in the Midwest. He was Bill’s roommate at the end of his life.
No one made it through the interview without choking up as they reflected on Bill’s lasting impact on their lives, comedy, and the community he left behind.
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IN THE BEGINNING
Teme: What is your Bill origin story?
DAN: Bill and I met in the Twin Cities comedy scene around 2001. Bill became a fixture on the scene not long after that. He always showed up to open mics and showcases and curated shows of local comedians. It was easy for me to resonate with a guy of a similar age, maybe a bit younger, but with all the foibles of a single guy that I understood very well.
ANDREW: Bill and I met at the Brave New Workshop, a theater similar to Second City in Chicago. I was the technical director of a standup showcase there called the Gogo Show. My job was also to come up with funny jokes and tags and music during the show to enhance the standup comics on stage. Some comics loved that. Some hated it. Sometimes I would derail their set because I got more laughs than them which kind of delighted me because I’m an awful person sometimes. But I wanted the comics to succeed. Bill was one of those comics.
In 2007, he started performing at my Monday Night Comedy Show. The show was at a coffee shop where I was also a barista. Bill lived close by. He came up with ideas for the show like, “Wouldn’t it be funny if we did a long running bit called ‘Bill Young Learns Improv?’” So as part of the show, we had an improviser from Brave New Workshop come in and teach Bill how to do a scene.
Bill made it even funnier because he had so much fun with it and was so joyful. He was rarely negative. He was such a positive man. He believed the best in everybody and brought out the best – and if Bill thought you could do something, then you could do it.
Bill started hanging out with me at the coffee shop. After he started going out with Jena, we would all hang out there together. They asked me to officiate at their wedding which was a huge honor. Then after their divorce, Bill and I became roommates.
Bill was always my go-to for the Monday Night Comedy Show. After we started rooming together, if somebody dropped out, I’d knock on his door, “Hey, I need you tonight for a ten-minute set.” He’d say, “Okay! That’s awesome!” It was just that easy. He was consistently funny. If I had a weak lineup, I could ask Bill to hop in and it would become a good show. Even jokes of his I’d heard a hundred times, he’d twist a word or a phrase or do something new. Somehow, he would make a funny joke funnier.
MIKE: Bill was my best friend. We started out in comedy in Minneapolis at the same time. We hit it off right away. We did all the open mics together. We did the big clubs together. We went on the road together. We did the tiny open mics where there’re two people who are just there to get a taco. We went through the muck together. We knew each other for six years before we lived together. When Bill and I shared an apartment, I did a lot of cleaning. It almost looked like a nuclear ring on the ground from his playing “World of Warcraft” so much and his chair making marks in the floor. But he was a great roommate. There were never any problems. He always cared about other people. It was fun. I could have lived with that guy forever. Everybody loved him. Literally everybody.
JENA: Bill and I met at an open mic. I was just getting started in standup. I was working the cash box and checking in the standups. There was a name on the list, “Johnny Rage.” I was like, “What is this?” As other comedians came in, they would see “Johnny Rage” and be like, “Oh, Johnny Rage is performing tonight. That’s so cool!” I thought, “Who is this guy?”
So Bill walks in and says, “I should be on the list, Bill Young.” I said, “I don’t see your name here.” And he looks at the list. “Oh, that’s me. I’m Johnny Rage.” I’m like, “Excuse me, what?” As he says this, somebody goes, “Oh Bill, I hear you’re doing Johnny Rage tonight.” And I’m like, “Well, I guess this is Johnny Rage then.”
But here’s the thing. Bill was this relaxed, chill, happy-go-lucky guy and “Johnny Rage” just didn’t seem to fit. I’d known this guy probably thirty seconds, and I’m like, “Well, that doesn’t seem right at all.” But it was a satirical thing where he would be the angriest man. He would rant about stupid things like shoelaces or kittens. After that, we kept running into each other at various stand-up shows.
We started dating six months later. He asked me out on Facebook Messenger and came over. We were having a really good time and he asks me, “So, what do you want to do for our actual date?” I said, “I want to get dressed to the nines and go to a skeevy dive bar.” He was like, “Yes, that sounds amazing.” So we got super dressed up and we went to the CC Club in Minneapolis and ate buffalo wings and played a video game. It was absolutely wonderful. Bill was always down for anything. The more ridiculous the better. That was something I really loved. We were married for three and a half years. We were separated for the last six months.
Teme: What made Bill unforgettable?
DAN: The vulnerability is what makes him unforgettable. The way he expressed “I’m just trying to get through and I know everyone else is trying to get through this — we’re all just trying to get through this together.”
Teme: Definitely resonates.
DAN: I think that’s really what it was. It’s very hard because in comedy it’s since been divided into are you punching up or punching down? But the moments where Bill decides to punch down are ultimately [in the service of] the redemption where there’s then a big punch up. It was his perspective that we are all tied together.
Teme: When I listen to the album, I feel that Bill understood profoundly how we’re all boxing at life.
DAN: Bill was the champion of boxing at life in that way you just said. Some folks are down and they let life get to them, and he never did. He always had a smile on his face. He was dealing with his mom’s death from cancer at a young age. Nobody really realized how big of a boat anchor it was for him. Bill was a king of underdogs even before all the sad things.
JENA: He loved people as individuals and as a collective group. He found value in everyone. He was incredibly accepting. He would always come at a person from where they were, from their perspective. People hear that and think, “Oh, he was just an all-around nice guy.” It was more than that. He was very observant. Sometimes people forgot how observant he was because he had this nonchalant, relaxed, go-with-the-flow kind of attitude. But because of his ability to be that observant, he could pick up on when people were comfortable or uncomfortable. He could pick up on the best way to help somebody feel comfortable.
Another thing that stands out is that he was very good at giving people suggestions without getting them upset. Standup comedians – and this is not disparaging, it’s a part of the craft – but standups can get defensive about their material. Bill was very good at saying, “Hey, here’s an idea,” or “Hey, this is how this is reading to me. Is that what you’re going for?” I think every standup during that time had a tag or a punchline that Bill recommended. Bill was very good at fostering a sense of community in a field that can sometimes feel very isolationist.
ANDREW: You could always depend on Bill to get you out of a bad mood, make you laugh. You’re attracted to the kind people, so everyone was attracted to Bill. You just wanted to be his friend and if he got to be friends with you, you were lucky. He made me try to be kinder. I would always talk shit about new comics, or established comics like “They think they’re so much better than they are. Bill, why are they like that?” And he’d answer, “I don’t know, but you know what? They do great.” He was that stability in my life that I feel is gone. I wish that I could find that positive angle that he seemed to always find. Everybody who knew Bill knew his kindness, generosity and talent. He was the gold standard for a very long time and still is in a lot of ways.
MIKE: There’s a stigma in the comedy world of the comic who never turns it off and is always cracking jokes. People think that’s how comics are all the time. We’re generally not, but Bill was. Bill was always cracking jokes, but he’s the only person I’ve ever met in the comedy world that would do that and nobody minded because he was always so funny, likable and warm. Bill was always on and everybody thought it was great, and that never happens. To me, that showcases his likeability. And he always thought about other people first. Always.
A TERRIBLE NIGHT
ANDREW: Losing Bill was a major loss. The Minneapolis comedy community had already lost so much in that short period. Within that month, we’d lost [beloved comedian] Kate Urquhart to cancer and our leader Gus Lynch to a tragic accident. Afterwards, I would talk about them on stage and cry. Probably not the best thing for a host to do! The night that Bill died was the night of Gus’s wake. We were all at Gus’s wake wondering, where’s Bill? Is he asleep? What the hell?
I left a half dozen messages, like “If you need me to pick you up or something, let me know. It’s weird that you’re not here.” That night took the darkest turn of my life. It was bad. Whenever I talk about it, it’s still like it happened yesterday.
Losing his mother was really hard on Bill. When she died, he was very quiet about his grief. I think that’s what led to him doing … I’m not sure how much Bill passed away from an accidental overdose. I didn’t know he was using. It was that canned air stuff that you use to clean keyboards with. Apparently, you can get high from huffing that.
Bill and I had kind of an unspoken arrangement where I usually did all the dishes and tried to keep the place clean and his job was really just to show up. He was not very big on cleaning. So I would leave his room a hundred percent alone. Even if I had to put something in his room, I would try to slip it under the door.
The morning that we found him, that awful early morning, the police and medical examiner asked how long he had been huffing. I’d called one of our friends to the house to be with me. We were both dumbfounded. How long had he been using? Well, what do you mean- using what? At the foot of his bed on the floor were twenty-five to thirty empty canisters of compressed air. We were just blown away. We knew his mom’s death had affected him, but we didn’t know how much because he wouldn’t really talk about it and we didn’t want to press. But I think his being a constant source of positivity and kindness … those are the people that you have to really ask, “Hey, are you okay?”
His dad Greg committed suicide a few years ago at the spot where we scattered Bill’s ashes. He had been a beacon of strength for us along with Bill’s stepmom. The family’s endured so much heartbreak. In the end, there is the enduring memory. Every new comic that is worth a damn in the city, if they are willing to listen to a Bill Young story or to the album or a joke he told, they’re that much better for it.
A LASTING LEGACY: EAT THE CAKE!
Teme: Dan, when did you decide to create the album?
DAN: I had all these bits and pieces of tape. For a long time I just sat on the recordings. I couldn’t make myself listen to it. It was too painful. The jokes are funny, but the memories of losing somebody so young and so tragically were really hard.
Bill had been part of Nerd Alert, a compilation [album] that I did. When I produced my first festival in Mexico, Bill was one of the people that I definitely wanted to be there for spirit and for outright funniness. On the tracks on Eat the Cake! where you hear birds calling and chirping as if it’s a tropical environment, that was at the festival on an outdoor stage in Mexico that the Grateful Dead built in the seventies.
I was worried about putting something out that didn’t properly represent Bill. Also, some of the material is about Jena and his stepchild, and I wanted to make sure that they gave approvals.
When I pieced everything together, I found that I had a through-line of Bill as a single guy to being married and a stepfather, and then of him getting divorced and a single guy again. I was able to fit it all into the framework of this album while plugging in his great jokes. There are also jokes of his that I loved that are lost to time because no one had a tape. As I started to review stuff, I started to feel better because if I couldn’t see him again, at least I was hearing him again.
The album cover was a flyer designed by Doug Kallberg after Bill’s passing. I love that flyer so much. I knew it had to be a part of the project. I had Doug change the layout to fit an album cover, which also allowed us to make changes that would work better as a tribute to Bill. It was nice that a bunch of friends came together to put this memorial together for a guy who would’ve quite literally given you the shirt off his back.
Teme: What do you most want people to know about this album?
MIKE: This album is timeless. It’s as funny today as it was then. It could be brand new today. What you hear or see of Bill on stage is him. That was him off-stage and in real life. It was him all the time. Bill’s energy comes across and his kind spirit. He had a frenetic energy, but it wasn’t an uncomfortable frenetic. He was like a ball of electricity. He very much had ADHD. That’s for sure. But his jokes are always very funny and quick. He always surprises. It’s great that he has an album now. People will love it. Everybody knows who Bill Young is in the Minneapolis scene. He was an integral part of it, but the rest of the world didn’t get to know him and now hopefully, they will.
JENA: Dan did an amazing job putting that album together. I know how much Dan loved Bill, and you can tell that the album was put together with care. Some of the jokes are at my expense, but it was funny to Bill and me. Some of the material on the album is somewhat dated and can be a little, “Ugh.” There is a joke he made about doing a set while he had the flu. He’s like, “Now everybody after me is going to have the flu.” That’s not a thing that you joke about nowadays.
But one of the most important things for Bill was for people to laugh and to enjoy life. He wanted people to know that it’s okay to laugh and play once in a while, even when things are serious, even when things are difficult.
Teme: What is your favorite track on Eat the Cake? I noticed immediately that Bill has an impressive joke-per-minute ratio. Almost every sentence is a great punch line built on the previous great punchline. It’s amazing how each joke evolves. It’s like he created his own genre.
DAN: I love that. The first track “Duck Hunt” is the most quintessential Bill joke there is. I also love the track when he has the argument with Jena in a cemetery – another quintessential Bill-style joke. His bits just escalate and escalate and escalate. It’s like, “How?!” That’s what it was like when we had those funny moments together, sitting there and laughing until we were crying. He always had a way to top himself in a conversation. It was mind-boggling.
MIKE: The title track “Eat the Cake!” is my favorite one because that’s such a Bill one.
ANDREW: The title track “Eat the Cake!” is probably my favorite, too. It’s awesome how every track is great and every track is one brief glimpse into years’ worth of jokes. But God, I am so appreciative of Dan for finding and tracking every one of those jokes down and making this album. I can hear Bill’s voice talking about how “I finally got a Stand Up! Records album!” I’m just super proud of him and really happy that Dan finds value in everything that Bill was and is.
JENA: I am partial to “Wedding Day Advice” and the track where he jokes about us having a fight. I came up with the punchline to that joke, by the way. I love that one because it actually happened. It wasn’t actually a fight. We were just playing back and forth. But I love that the play-fighting we would do made it onto an album like this. There’s nothing on there that I dislike. It’s all memories of him. It’s all his thoughts continuing on.
In a world where people can be very mistrusting, Bill was willing to trust. Listening to the album, you get a sense of his willingness to extend that trust, to say ridiculous things onstage and to have those ridiculous things be received with the meaning he intended. I would encourage people to listen to the album to get a sense of that willingness to put yourself out there and to play with serious topics.
Teme: How do you follow Bill’s advice to eat the cake?
JENA: I have a podcast and that’s our closing line ever since Bill passed. The phrase, “Eat the cake,” became a way of honoring him because he really thought life is too short and we take ourselves too seriously. “Eat the cake” simply means enjoy life.
DAN: I think about Bill a lot. Pretty much daily. I keep little things around that won’t allow me to forget. I named the album after his most recognizable bit. It is a reminder to not forgo something pleasurable to be responsible. Sometimes you’ve got to live with all of yourself and not hold back.
I’ve always liked people who lived large and fully. I always aspire to do that more. I tend to be a bit reserved. I’m not saying I’m shy, but I don’t always live with the positivity that he had. I try to remember that. I’m working on a statue to commemorate Bill based on a joke of his. No one had a recording of this bit and no one remembered fully how the joke went. But one of the lines was “Bill Young, he saved us all.”
MIKE: There’s never been a time where Bill didn’t eat the cake other than the time he talks about on that track on the album. To me it means don’t let life pass you by. In comedy, whether or not you’re trying to get famous or more successful, you’re always looking towards the future, and you can get caught up in that. But sometimes you got to take a look at where you are. I’ve been doing stand-up for over twenty-two years. I make a living doing it and that’s a success regardless of where I end up. To me, that’s an eat-the-cake thing. Don’t wait until later. Enjoy it now.
Bill always lived for today. Bill was always in the moment, which was one of the main things I loved about him.
ANDREW: In 2011, I produced a re-mount of a fringe show I did in 2004. It was a lot of work and I didn’t want to put in the effort. Bill talked me into doing it. He talked me off the ledge a lot of times.
There’ve been times with the Monday Night Comedy Show when I was so disenfranchised, I was like, God, I hate comics. They’re so frustrating. It’s not worth it. I’ve said many times, “I’m quitting. This is our last season. I’m going to announce it next week.” Bill was like, “No, you’re not! You got to keep going. People love it and what the hell am I going to do?”
I was like, “Dude, you’re going to do a thousand other shows besides mine.”
Bill would say, “Yeah, but yours is my favorite.”
I was like “Okay, that’s enough for me to keep doing it.” Whenever I want to throw in the towel, I think, “What would Bill do?” He would call me an idiot in a nice way, make me laugh and say, “The world needs your show!” So eat the fucking cake with everything you do!
NO ORDINARY TIMES
Teme: What is your favorite story about Bill?
JENA: I have so many. When Bill and I were dating, I went to go see a show of his. At the time, I did a form of comedy that was an insult improv. It was very blue, very vulgar. Bill and I were once in Willmar, Minnesota, just the middle of nowhere Minnesota. Bill does his show and it’s wonderful. After the show, one person comes up and said, “You’re Jena! You do that insult show!” Bill was like, “Oh, come on. I’m out here doing my thing, and now my girlfriend’s getting all the credit.” He played with it so well. He wasn’t actually offended, but he knew where the joke was in that.
I’m feeling overwhelmed with memories and thoughts. Bill had A.D.D. and some focus difficulties and he wasn’t much of a planner. He was a very spontaneous guy, so planning the wedding, that was pretty much me. He said, “I’ll do whatever you want.” But I wanted some of his feedback, like, “For wedding colors, I’m thinking champagne and black or maybe a dark gray and a burgundy.” Bill just looked at me and goes, “Weddings have colors?” I said, “Do you want me to just take care of this?” And he said, “Are we going to be married at the end of the day? Great. Do whatever else you want.”
There were so many other things when we were married. There were Nerf gun fights in the house all the time with my kid and fighting with lightsabers. In some ways, Bill really was just a big kid. He enjoyed life and he enjoyed having fun with it and he was never too old for kids’ stuff.
MIKE: I have a million favorite stories. The one that’s funniest to me is when he got punched in the face in a parking lot. He was the guy that everybody loved. Nobody ever started stuff with him ever, but one time we were at a bar up north. He was just being himself, and somebody took it the wrong way. There was this girl in the parking lot. She walked up to him and punched him in the face, and he was so shocked. He went, “Wait. What?” And she goes, “You ruined Drew’s special day!” We thought it was a case of mistaken identity. He was so shocked that somebody would punch him that he didn’t know what to do, and he just stood there. Bill and I went on the road together a million times. He snored so much. He could wake up people a mile away.
ANDREW: One night I was at a bar in Uptown with my fiancée and Bill and Jena. Bill and I were giggling like school kids and having a great time. When it was time to go, we decided that since every bar has some weird display of horrific interior decorating, we needed a souvenir.
I’m probably incriminating myself here, but there were two long poles of bamboo sticking out of this pot, and we thought it was just the dumbest thing in the world. Bill had this great idea. “Andy, what if we stole the bamboo?” I said, “That’s a great idea.” So Bill and I stuffed these five-foot long pieces of bamboo under our coats. We thought we were the sneakiest people in the world walking like zombies from the “Thriller” video because we had these long pieces of wood stuck through our jackets and down our pants.
We were whistling, pretending like “everything’s normal here!” We cheered once we got outside on the street without getting caught. After that, every time we’d be at a party, we would joust and battle with these bamboo poles. I still have them.
God, it started out as such an ordinary night, then turned into an extraordinary memory. That was my relationship with Bill. We were always giggling and laughing and trying to outdo each other. If you made Bill Young laugh, which wasn’t very hard because he found a lot of stuff funny, it felt like, hey, maybe I’m really funny, too. He could turn any ordinary day into a joyous experience.
DAN: My favorite times with Bill were us sitting and laughing and laughing. Just taking a discussion to a silly point and then beyond silly until you could barely breathe. You couldn’t keep up with the tears coming out of your eyes.
AN ENDURING PRESENCE …
Teme: Have you ever felt that Bill is still with you?
JENA: Sometimes things happen that I connect with Bill being with me. There was so much love there, even after the divorce. Bill and I were very close friends up until the end. We still produced sketch comedy together. We didn’t stop being comedy partners and friends after the divorce.
When we divorced, he got the car. I got the car from my grandpa, actually. But Bill needed the car and we didn’t fight over it. Anything I was doing was in the city and he had to travel a lot to comedy. When he passed, the car went back to me. So one day I was cleaning it out because there were many wonderful qualities about Bill, but his cleanliness was not one of them.
When I say I cleaned out the car, I mean it was full of stuff. Not necessarily junk. There were McDonald’s hamburger wrappers, but there was also a hoodie. A step stool. I don’t even know why there was a step stool in the car, but okay. A cane. He never used a cane. I have no idea how a cane got in that car. It was just a random collection.
The very first time he’d come over, it was under the guise of bumming a cigarette, which is so incredibly transparent. So I’d bummed him a couple of cigarettes. Two cigarettes exactly. When I was cleaning out the car, there was a pack with two cigarettes in it. And I was like, “Aw, goddammit. That’s the worst way to return cigarettes.” But that was a moment where I felt weirdly connected with him, like he was there over my shoulder. It’s strange, but our relationship was beautifully strange too.
ANDREW: One thing the Monday Night Comedy Show is known for is my love of battery-operated candles. Bill used to joke with me, “Andy, you love occasions like Halloween or any excuse to put all the candles on stage and make it look like a Meatloaf video”, which is very true. Around my house, I have these little candles everywhere. Some have batteries, some don’t. My whole house looks like a wizard’s library.
Sometimes I do a YouTube search for Bill Young, and I look at one of his few sets on YouTube and smile. Whenever I’m thinking about Bill, usually just one of the candles will light up and start flickering. I think “That’s Bill!” and I let it go as long as the battery power lasts. One candle was flickering for over a month.
MIKE: Bill’s brother coined a term. Bill had a unique smell. His brother called it Bill-dew. Bill hated that term. It wasn’t a bad thing or a clear-the-room kind of thing. He had a musk. He was a big guy and he smelled like he had been working. After he died, I would sometimes smell it. I took that as a nod from Bill. He shows up in my dreams sometimes doing weird stuff.
If he’s doing this two-cigarettes thing that Jena mentioned, that’s ironic and funny to me. That’s just what Bill would do. Bill loved Japanese candy. After he died, a wrapper of Japanese candy blew in my front door.
Bill always had a unique take on everything. He never disappointed. Things happen where I’m like, “I wish I could hear what Bill would say about that,” because no matter what, it would surprise me.
TREASURE
Teme: Anything else we should add about Bill and Eat the Cake?
MIKE: Right now there’s a lot of negativity in comedy. There’s a lot of division and people trying to be edgy to get views because of the algorithm. But Bill’s comedy is stuff that every human can like. It’s human experience. It’s not negative and it’s not divisive. You leave feeling good and I think that’s what the world could use. He was one of a kind.
DAN: I would like people to know that the album is available everywhere and they ought to listen to it. Not because we want the sales, but because I want people to hear how funny he was. The money’s almost entirely secondary, although the family would appreciate whatever comes in from the sales because they lost their brother. They lost their ex-husband who they still cared about. They lost a dear friend, a mentor, a family member, and he was ludicrously funny, and his name should be remembered as somebody who was super funny, super kind, super generous. But if you heaped praise on him of any sort, he wouldn’t take it. He’d redirect it to other folks.
ANDREW: Every bit of material on that album is a treasure that has been saved. Try not to be jealous that you weren’t in the audience.
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Bill Young: Eat the Cake! is available on Stand Up! Records, Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify & wherever you stream your comedy.
Many thanks and much appreciation to Dan Schlissel, Jena Young, Mike Brody, Andrew Brynildson.