Bobby Lee admits a Comedy Store lot hit-and-run

Bobby Lee used Bad Friends episode 344 to confess that he hit Rick Ingram's car in the Comedy Store parking lot and drove off. Then he made it worse by saying it was not a one time thing. Asked about the hit-and-runs, Lee said he has done it many times before.

The episode, titled "Smoke Signal Breakup w/ Sam Morril", has Lee and Andrew Schulz hosting Sam Morril, who called in from Liverpool to talk about his new Netflix special "Incorrect." What Morril got instead was a run of stories about Lee's driving.

The Tripoli Escalade was on purpose

The older story is the stranger one. Lee once crashed into Sam Tripoli's Escalade and caused $5,000 in damage, and on the episode he said that one was not an accident at all. "That was deliberate. Yeah, it was purpose," he said. He offered no follow up defence beyond that, and the hosts moved on to the Ingram side of it.

On Ingram, Lee said he felt really bad, which is about as far as the apology went on air. Schulz kept circling back to the practical fix, which was money, and the sooner the better. His read was that Ingram would never be comfortable bringing it up himself, so Lee should have simply handed him cash on the spot rather than waiting to be asked.

Treat the body count as a bit

This is Bobby Lee on a comedy podcast, telling car stories for laughs, so the number of hit-and-runs is his claim and nobody else's. Lee has built a career on confessing things that make the room go quiet, and the delivery here is the usual mix of guilt and glee. Until Ingram or Tripoli says something, the only person on record is the guy enjoying the story.

Morril, for his part, spent the rest of the episode on his own material. He talked about a Liverpool woman who told him she was scared he was going to traffic her, which he met with a flat "Fair enough." He also described his girlfriend as a witch and wanted that understood precisely, saying she is not someone who thinks she is a witch, she is one. And he reminded everyone that Norm once called a joke of his gold on Last Comic Standing.

Schulz countered with his own talent show memory, which was Simon telling him he was terrible and should quit the business. Compared to that, a dented Escalade sounds survivable.