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Ruth's Chris Employees
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
It is Halloween night and the steakhouse is empty, so a row of waiters and the host-stand worker Dorothy kill time by talking about the sex they plan to have. Each one invents a flashy nickname and acts out how legendary they will be, with theories that get stranger and more cartoonish, and they keep calling each other son. A customer asks to be seated farther away from the conversation. Pressed to explain how marriage actually works, the one married coworker refuses, offers to lend them a book, and is waved off as the rest decide it would be easier if she simply watched and told them when something looked like sex.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 6
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Remind me not to work Halloween again.
I just wish I didn't like you guys so damn much.
Script
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- 00:01
Thanks for dining at Ruth's Chris.
- 00:02
Have a good night, you guys.
- 00:04
Wow. Remind me not to work Halloween again.
- 00:07
Yeah, this place is empty tonight.
- 00:09
Yeah, I mean, God, I can't wait to get out of here, man.
- 00:12
I mean, you know what I'm going to do when we get out?
- 00:16
I'm going to try to get a little something-something.
- 00:20
All right, son.
- 00:22
Right? I mean, like, you know I'm the same.
- 00:25
I'm trying to get something sexy going on for sure.
- 00:29
I hear that, son
- 00:32
Um, why are you guys talking like that?
- 00:34
Cause that's how we talk
- 00:35
When we're talking about sex
- 00:37
You know, you gotta make it sound smooth, son
- 00:40
Oh, please
- 00:41
Don't call me son
- 00:43
I can't wait till I get to do it
- 00:46
No, me too, me too
- 00:47
I'ma bet I'm gonna be good at it
- 00:49
I bet I'm gonna be good
- 00:51
Hell yeah, son
- 00:53
When I do it, though
- 00:54
They're gonna have to call me perfection, right?
- 00:57
You know, cause I'm gonna be like
- 00:58
Like, that's how I'm going to do it when I finally get to do it.
- 01:04
Right?
- 01:05
I mean, like, let's get real, because they're going to have to call me impact, you know?
- 01:10
Because, like, around about 2 a.m. some night, I'm just going to be like.
- 01:16
I'm sorry.
- 01:18
I'm sorry.
- 01:19
This is personal, but are you guys all virgins?
- 01:22
Yes, we are.
- 01:24
Yes, son.
- 01:26
Wow.
- 01:29
Not for long.
- 01:29
Not for long, though, you know?
- 01:31
That's right.
- 01:31
Look if I get to do it, if I ever get to do it, I'll tell you something. They're gonna call me
- 01:36
Intensity man, cuz I'm gonna be all like I'm gonna be all like
- 01:39
Mm-hmm.
- 01:40
Okay.
- 01:42
That's good.
- 01:44
Where do you picture the other person? Yeah
- 01:48
Yeah, exactly. Where where tell us y'all they have to call me impatient. Okay, cuz I would be like peewee and make that
- 01:54
That's my playhouse
- 01:55
like,
- 01:58
Okay,
- 01:59
That's sex
- 02:01
None of this is sex
- 02:04
excuse me yes can we help you we were wondering if we can move further away
- 02:09
from you if you were going to continue talking about sex yeah absolutely
- 02:13
wherever you'd like I mean for real though yeah real when I do get to do it
- 02:19
mm-hmm I'm be like a like a cartoon guy he's a bit like running away from some
- 02:23
I'm about to get out of your bed.
- 02:25
That'll work.
- 02:26
Yeah, all right, all right.
- 02:30
Dorothy, quiet.
- 02:32
You and your husband are married.
- 02:34
Tell us how you guys do it.
- 02:36
And don't leave anything out, even if it seems obvious.
- 02:40
I am not going to talk about my sex life with you guys.
- 02:45
I got you.
- 02:45
I respect that.
- 02:46
But like, real quick, is there ever a point
- 02:49
where you're like behind the guy or that's not worth it
- 02:53
because that's nothing, right?
- 02:55
Yeah.
- 02:55
I mean, I really can't think of what that would be.
- 02:58
Okay, but me, me, I want to get that surgery in the butt
- 03:02
so that you can, like, go all night forever.
- 03:04
What?
- 03:05
You know, what? I don't know.
- 03:07
Oh, no, but see, for me, though,
- 03:09
I'm going to be, like, as sexy as a Dracula
- 03:12
coming out of a coffin, you know, like...
- 03:14
Whoa!
- 03:16
Yo, yo, yo.
- 03:17
I'm going to make my face as big as it can go, like...
- 03:23
I'm gonna be like a guy who keeps slipping on the ice like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 03:30
See, when I do it, son, when I do it, I'm gonna be like a turn of the century southern woman who keeps picking up her bloomers like, woo, woo, you know, driving all the boys crazy, son.
- 03:45
So, Dave, you're gay?
- 03:47
What?
- 03:48
About to whoop that ass.
- 03:52
I hate this job.
- 03:54
I just wish I didn't like you guys so damn much.
- 03:58
You know what, I have a book that I could give you.
- 04:01
It explains all this stuff.
- 04:02
Okay, no, son, books are for nerds.
- 04:04
No, no, like, maybe if you just watch us
- 04:06
and if you see something that looks like sex,
- 04:09
you could say it.
- 04:10
So we're just like...
- 04:11
Is it? No.
- 04:12
Does it ever involve us?
- 04:14
My foot is in my root leg, my foot is in my root leg
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