You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I'm pleased to introduce to you the history of Bababooie, Gary Delabate,

on the Howard Stern show, which this is a first on Why Are You Laughing in the sense that Gary Delabate on the Howard Stern Show, which this is a first on why are you laughing in the sense that

Gary Delabate is not a comedian in any way.

He's probably the first guy we've covered that wasn't pursuing comedy, per se.

But he is a massive figure in the world of comedy,

if you think about just his name alone the name

bababooie is uh probably the biggest nickname ever created i'm trying to think of when the rivals

it uh i'm sure be no guys comment away make sure you leave a comment let me know i'm sure i'm missing

plenty but at least as far as

radio history goes, we did this on Patreon and for YouTube members a while back. You can go check

out, we listened to a segment. We'll play a little snippet of it, but we broke down the whole

segment, the origin of the name, Baba Booie. And the idea that that's stuck around.

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