Oh man, we's getting in my shoes.

No use in you sitting here,

singing the blues.

But be my kid, you got another salute.

Won't you let me take you on a see through.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files,

a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry as told by actor Stephen Doublowsky.

I'm David Chen, editor at large at slash film.com, and joining us today, he is the man who played

Oak in the ABC Original Series Blue Skies.

Stephen Dovalosky, Stephen, how are you doing today, sir?

Oh, I'm doing fine until you mentioned to Oak.

Oh boy, that brings back a memory.

I remember I opened that show by standing in a bucket of ice

The problem was the audience didn't know I was standing in ice so they didn't get the joke

Oak was a big rough and tumble dumb guy who they kept testing camping equipment on.

So the joke was every week I would be in a torturous situation. The ice thing did not work

as a joke though, David, did not. I'm sorry to hear that sir. Yes, me too.

Speaking of jokes, I was looking over your filmography the other day and...

Oh please.

Yeah, no I know it was definitely very painful and it got me to thinking Stephen, what are some of your

favorite jokes? I mean certainly over the years you've heard a lot of jokes,'ve told a lot of jokes what are some of your favorite ones?

Okay here is a new joke not necessarily my favorite but it makes me laugh there's a very old Jewish man married to a very young voluptuous young woman, and he

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