November 6, 2009

• Talkin' Cake with Tom Arnold.

  From Friday's Asbury Park Press...

  HE'S THE CAKE GUY
  By Ed Kaz !
  Comedy Correspondent.
  
  It was hard for me to reconcile the hard living Tom Arnold of Tabloid and Internet fame with the friendly humble guy on the other end of the phone; the Tom Arnold I spoke with is a man remorseful for mistakes made and grateful to still be accepted in the public entertainment eye.
  
  From scrappy beginnings in a Hormel meat factory in Ottumwa, Iowa, Arnold has made his way through a career of stand up, producing and acting in TV and movies and all around craziness (read: a tumultuous marriage to Roseanne Barr and a decade fueled by various and sundry substances). But according to Tom Arnold 2009, that's all in the past. He's now clean and sober.
  
  His one vice? Cake.
  
  Arnold puts in a super rare appearance at New Brunswick's Stress Factory this weekend.
  
  KAZ!: Tom, you seem to be no stranger to controversy. Have you done anything controversial today yet?
  
  ARNOLD: Uh, just talkin’ to you. I think that, well, I hope not. I hope not. I haven’t left the house so…
  
  KAZ!: Fingers crossed!
  
  ARNOLD: A lot of things happen apparently. I do things that I’m not even there for so I may have. I may have done some things that you can read on Twitter about.
  
  KAZ!: Well, stay on the phone with me and I’ll keep you out of trouble, at least for a while.
  
  ARNOLD: [laughs] You can be my alibi.
  
  KAZ!: What was your favorite film role?
  
  ARNOLD: I loved doing “True Lies” because I made friends with everybody there and “Happy Endings” I loved too. The roles where you have to fight for ‘em and get lucky, which is basically every one of my roles. I’ve been in like seventy movies, three good ones.
  
  KAZ!: What’s your least favorite film role?
  
  ARNOLD: I can’t remember the name of it, but when I got there I realized that the lead woman was the girlfriend of the financier. She’d never acted before.
  
  KAZ!: How excited are you that you’re going to be in New Brunswick New Jersey?
  
  ARNOLD: Well, I’m excited. I wasn’t familiar with the club because it’s been a while since I’ve done the clubs.
  
  KAZ!: You’ll like the Stress Factory. It’s set up like an old-fashioned comedy club.
  
  ARNOLD: Well that’s what all the comics say…
  
  KAZ!: …but it has a clean restroom.
  
  ARNOLD: Is there a green room?
  
  KAZ!: No. You have to stand in the alley. You have to sit in the car while it’s idling.
  
  ARNOLD: OK. That sounds good.
  
  KAZ!: What’s your favorite kind of cake?
  
  ARNOLD: Oh man, I’m a big…if it’s a particular, there’s a place called Jerry’s Deli that has my favorite carrot cake out here [in LA], because I like carrot cake with nuts. I like wedding cake.
  
  KAZ!: How many times?
  
  ARNOLD: [laughs] Yes. Exactly. I use any excuse. If a person has a birthday or a sober birthday I’m the cake guy. That means I gotta eat the corner piece. And no matter what diet I’m on or whatever I think it’s bad luck if you do not eat some cake if it’s somebody’s celebration. It could be somebody’s celebration every night so I love pretty much all kinds of cake. That’s a question I can talk about for an hour.
  
   
  

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  Have a great weekend and please remember to laugh responsibly.

  AsburyKaz@aol.com

  

  TOM ARNOLD
  Tonight & Saturday
  Stress Factory Comedy Club
  90 Church St. New Brunswick
  Showtimes 8 & 10:30
  Tickets: $27
  Reservations:
  (732)-545-4242

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