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The Killers of Comedy are coming to the Valley this Saturday night. Featuring "Howard Stern Show" regulars Rev. Bob Levy, Sal the Stockbroker, Yucko the Clown, Shuli and Beetlejuice, the show is virtually guaranteed to offend. Levy recently spoke with College Times about the upcoming gig, the Stern show, and the finer points of eating bleu cheese from, well, just read on…

College Times: Let's start by seeing if we can get you an endorsement deal. What's your favorite brand of bleu cheese?
Levy: I would have to go with Kraft. You see the name, you know it. I'm not into that fancy shit.

How did you originally get into comedy?
When I first started listening to Howard Stern on WNBC-New York, I was like "This is great. I wanna do radio and comedy and make people laugh. Then I started going to the open mics in Jersey. That's where I met (former Stern show writer) Jackie "the Jokeman" (Martling) and he came up with the name "Reverend" for me.

And what's the basis for that?
'Cause I'm a filthy asshole, and it just seemed like the right name to piss people off at the time.

What would you say to someone who is considering a career in comedy?
Do it. I mean, you're gonna bang hotter chicks than you would being a fuckin' accountant, I'll tell you that. I mean, if you're good at it, do it. Just because your friend and your aunt laughed at you doesn't mean you're funny. You've gottta get onstage a lot. You've gotta work in front of all different kinds of crowds to see if you're funny. You've gotta just keep writing and keep performing, keep adding new shit in, throwing out the shit that you don't want anymore. But it's a good job, it definitely is.

How did you originally become involved with the Stern Show?
Well, KC saw me in New York City doing my act, and then he went back and got me on. He talked to Howard and told him about the ass-eating shit with the bleu cheese after the show. That's basically how I started sitting in. And now they've got me doing other crazy shit too in there. We do the roast show and everything on Sirius. It's just great to be doing a show uncensored on the radio. That's what makes Sirius so good.

So just to clarify, when you're eating bleu cheese out of a girl's ass onstage, is that bleu cheese dressing or the actual crumbled bleu cheese?
Oh no, no. I would fuckin' throw up if it was the crumbled shit. I can't even do the chunky bleu cheese anymore. In my day I could, but not anymore. It makes me sick. I only threw up twice, I think, from doing that bit. Sometimes you get a bad ass, and when you mix bleu cheese and ass, that's the worst. That's why I do it. I mean, anybody could do Thousand Island.

What can we expect at the show in Tempe?
It really is gonna be a great show. I mean, we love Arizona. I haven't been there in about a year and a half now. And you've got a good lineup. You've got funny guys there. You listen to Stern, it makes it even better. I mean, I'm making it where, if you don't listen to the Stern show, you can come and go "That was a really good show. Everybody was funny." Believe me, we're gonna blow the roof off the place. There's no doubt in my mind, 'cause I've got a lot of anger now.

How does Beetlejuice fit into the mix?
I call him out at the end of the show, and I stay up there with him, so it's like me, him and a mic, and I get him going. Like if somebody's a hot chick, I go "Look at that chick. She wants to bang you." And then he'll just go off. That's how he's good, just going off by himself. You let him go. When he has nothing to say, I take over again, boom, just change the subject to something else. He's on fire for like 10, 15 minutes. Sometimes we do the bleu cheese thing with him where I put it on the girl's breasts and I pick him up like a battering ram and he puts his hands out like Superman and we ram him in there and he has a good time. So it's entertaining for everybody.

How is your living situation? Are you still living in your ex-wife's basement?
Yeah, it's fucking great, huh? Everybody should do this. I'm walking down to the basement right now, dodging fuckin' lights hanging from the ceiling. It's fucking great. I'm fucking gonna die of mold poisoning soon. That's why I've gotta make as much money as I fucking can.

Are you two getting along?
Yeah. I mean, we get along, but this is, you know, this is what I think it's gonna be. It's weird but I'm gonna sell a sitcom about this shit, I'll tell ya that. I don't think anybody's done this yet.

Sal takes a lot of heat on the show for his alleged racism, and you've been known to joke about race too. How do you know the difference between a racist joke and a funny joke that involves race?
I think I definitely know how to do it. I think Sal slips up once in a while, and he may think he does, but I think they turn on him more than me now. I know Sal and I know he's not a racist, but I think that it's funny when he tries to explain how he's not. And I think that's all you have to do is get him to try explain actually anything - marriage, racism, cars. Just the way he tries to explain it, he ends up making himself look stupider. That's what the show is about. They love to bury you.

If you could roast literally anyone, who would your dream roastee be and why?
I would love to do Howard now because of the fact he's getting married. Just when somebody's life just really starts going perfect, you know what I mean? He's happy. She's happy. Now you fuckin' just punch 'em right in the stomach. That's the perfect way to do it, I think… That's what some of these roasts are; they're about perfect timing. When somebody is really fucking up on the show, we're like "Okay, let's do them." It was like that with Ralph at the beginning, and then Ronnie. Ronnie was getting a lot of shit and they said "Let's do Ronnie next." And then we just put more heat on him for a couple weeks, and it was a perfect roast. We're supposed to do Andy Dick, but who knows if this fuckin' guy's gonna be running around licking people, you know? I don't think that's gonna work up there, 'cause he's gonna get smacked in the face if he comes near some of us. I mean, nobody wants to get fuckin' licked at 6:30 in the morning, especially by a fuckin' man.

You catch a lot of flack on the show for your inability to spell and pronounce certain words…
Actually, I graduated from Princeton, but don't tell anybody that. You know, what the fuck? I haven't spelled shit where it meant anything since 11th grade, and that was like 85 years ago.

Would you mind spelling "college" for our readers?
You know what? I betcha I can fuckin' do that. C-O-L-L-E-G-E, right?

Right.
You know why? 'Cause I'm always searching collegegirls.com.

How about "university"?
See, it's hard to do it when you can't write it, but watch. Let me see. U-N-E-R-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y.

I think you're one for two.
Aw, really? Was I even close?

It's U-N-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y.
It's cause I never went to college, that's why. I can get "high school."

Any other thoughts about coming to Tempe?
I'm telling you, we're gonna have a good time. You're gonna come down to the show, meet everybody after. We always meet the crowd and take pictures and everything. It'll be a good time. It would be nice to bang a 19-year-old college chick. Aw, don't put that in. But it's really a good time. We really want people to enjoy themselves. We want them to get their money's worth, because believe me, if they don't, they'll be the first fuckers to call into the show and say it sucked, so we always put on a good show for you guys.

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