Interviewer: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, tonight in this special program of Channel 6, we bring an exclusive interview with Mr. Arik Kislin, a member of the New York Friars Club. We will start this exciting interview but after a short commercial break, stay tuned, we’ll be right back.
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Interviewer: Good evening Arik, and welcome to our studio Channel 6.
Arik Kislin: Thank you for inviting me and I wish all the listeners a very good evening.
Interviewer: As you know Arik, this program is being aired live and the whole world is right now listening to us on their radio sets tuned to their favorite radio channel, the one and only Channel 6. [Channel 6 brand song]
Arik, tell our listeners something about the New York Friars Club.
Arik Kislin: The New York Friars Club is a private club and was founded in 1904. I think it is a great club.
Interviewer: What is so great about it?
Arik Kislin: Members make any club great. The members of the Friars club are that caliber of people. Membership is divided amongst celebrities and regular folk. The club has charm and history. Even the club building is historic. The location on 55th St is perfect, the entrance is small and impressive with a grand wooden staircase on the right, the bar to the left and the dining room straight ahead. Like an English castle, the walls are paneled in dark oak and gold leaf. The walls are covered with black and white photographs of great comedians, the rich and the famous. Besides the ambience and the aura, which are classy, the food is great and drinks are made to perfection. You will get best champagnes, excellent wine, a light French chardonnay and a delicate French Cote de Rhone, besides superb whiskies, gins, rums, and cocktails. Of the many delicious hors d’oeuvres, you will get coconut shrimp, lobster and avocado entree, potato latkes, mini hot dogs, grilled dijon chicken strips with dipping sauce, tuna with some vegetable, and much more all stabbed with toothpicks. For the dinner, you may have cheese filled ravioli with marinara sauce, along with bread. The main course may have salmon or filet mignon, rare steak with delicious vegetables, and much more. Dessert may have a slice of chocolate cake or a slice of cheesecake or other specially prepared items. A live band plays and the staff service is impeccable. Being a private club, almost everybody knows everybody else and you feel very comfortable. If there is a celebrity event, then it is not only great it is simply marvelous. And if you like comedy, the evening is guaranteed to be awesome.
Interviewer: This certainly sounds awesome.
Arik Kislin: Yes it is. I am a Friar and I tell everyone about how great the club is.
Interviewer: I have heard of hosting and toasting a guest but what is roasting a guest?
Arik Kislin: The Friars annual love-with-a-twist-fest, is known as the Roast, where guests of honor are roasted by a Roastmaster and others. Roasting essentially consists of condemning the guest of honor, to an afternoon of hilarious but most likely cringe-worthy joking. For example, last year at Hilton Hotel, the guest of honor was Jack Black and the Roastmaster was Bob Saget. Bob gave such cracks as “Jack Black is a great success, and he’s not your typical leading gnome” and “To say Jack is a one trick pony is an insult to ponies” and “I’ll never forget when I took my kids to see Jack in Gulliver’s Travels—because I didn’t”.
Sarah Silverman joked, “Your body needs a Wonderbra. Unlike most comedians, Jack is not starved for attention–just onion rings. Jack is so fat, his last movie was shot by Google Earth.” Jeff Ross joked, “How have you not been in any of the f—–g Hobbit movies? You chubby lesbian.” And this roasting is infectious.
The audience is also infected and roasting can also take place amongst the audience. For example, Artie Lange said to Amy Schumer, “It’s good that you’re sitting next to Gene Simmons. He can tell you exactly how much makeup it takes to cover up a herpes sore.” And after the guest of honor endures all the roasting, he has a payback time to get even. Jack Black said, “Oh, Bob Saget. You played such a pussy fart on the boob tube for like a thousand years. You got your butt rammed with ABC cash for far too long, my friend, and no amount of dicks and titties and butthole jokes can erase that….Roasted!” He tacked on “Roasted” at the end of each jab as a signature response. It was a great afternoon and everybody had one hell of a time.
Interviewer: Wow! That is certainly being roasted and getting even.
Arik Kislin: The roasting is done to perfection. An after-party at the club building, which is known as the Friars Monastery, featured an extraordinary performance by the Spin Doctors and guests such as Dee Snider grabbed the microphone. The highlight being Jack himself jumping onstage to give a little taste of that Tenacious D flavor.
Interviewer: This is A-class entertainment. How can the public participate?
Arik Kislin: It’s a private club and you have to become a member. To become a member, you need to be sponsored by two members in good standing. If anybody is interested in applying for membership, then their proposers have to contact the Membership Department to request an application on their behalf.
Interviewer: What do you enjoy most as a Friar?
Arik Kislin: My health bills are zero, you know laughing is the best medicine.
Interviewer: That was subtle.
Arik Kislin: Oh! There are many. Like, “My wife is a wonderful cook, we pray after meals.” or “My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.” I don’t remember all of them, but at the Friars club, you are sure to find lots of them.
Interviewer: You certainly do recommend the club.
Arik Kislin: Definitely. It’s like no other club. I am a member of most of the clubs and I have been to Harvard, Union, Yale, and many other clubs in NYC, but once you are at the Friars, you enjoy every moment of it. Especially, if you like comedy.
Interviewer: We would also love to continue enjoying every moment of this interview, but time compels us otherwise. Thank you Arik, for coming to this exclusive interview and giving us a chance for hosting and toasting you, although we would look forward to roasting you in future.
Arik Kislin: For that you have to be Friar. Anyway, being hosted, toasted or roasted, is always a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Interviewer: That was Arik Kislin with us tonight for an exclusive interview, and stay tuned for more entertainment at your favorite radio channel, the one and only Channel 6. [Channel 6 brand song]
About the Expert
Arik Kislin is the Chairman of Linx Industries. He has over 20 years in financial services, real estate, and leisure services. He has completed $10b in transactions in Argentina, CIS, Congo, China, Argentina, Russia, Turks & Caicos, and United States.
He has raised all equity for the purchase of a 3.6 million square foot industrial/commercial/ retail portfolio which included the development that is now known as Chelsea Markets complex. He is responsible for deal origination and negotiating all stages of project acquisition and financing at the Gansevoort Hotel Group. www.linxind.com
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Interviewer: Good evening Arik, and welcome to our studio Channel 6.
Arik Kislin: Thank you for inviting me and I wish all the listeners a very good evening.
Interviewer: As you know Arik, this program is being aired live and the whole world is right now listening to us on their radio sets tuned to their favorite radio channel, the one and only Channel 6. [Channel 6 brand song]
Arik, tell our listeners something about the New York Friars Club.
Arik Kislin: The New York Friars Club is a private club and was founded in 1904. I think it is a great club.
Interviewer: What is so great about it?
Arik Kislin: Members make any club great. The members of the Friars club are that caliber of people. Membership is divided amongst celebrities and regular folk. The club has charm and history. Even the club building is historic. The location on 55th St is perfect, the entrance is small and impressive with a grand wooden staircase on the right, the bar to the left and the dining room straight ahead. Like an English castle, the walls are paneled in dark oak and gold leaf. The walls are covered with black and white photographs of great comedians, the rich and the famous. Besides the ambience and the aura, which are classy, the food is great and drinks are made to perfection. You will get best champagnes, excellent wine, a light French chardonnay and a delicate French Cote de Rhone, besides superb whiskies, gins, rums, and cocktails. Of the many delicious hors d’oeuvres, you will get coconut shrimp, lobster and avocado entree, potato latkes, mini hot dogs, grilled dijon chicken strips with dipping sauce, tuna with some vegetable, and much more all stabbed with toothpicks. For the dinner, you may have cheese filled ravioli with marinara sauce, along with bread. The main course may have salmon or filet mignon, rare steak with delicious vegetables, and much more. Dessert may have a slice of chocolate cake or a slice of cheesecake or other specially prepared items. A live band plays and the staff service is impeccable. Being a private club, almost everybody knows everybody else and you feel very comfortable. If there is a celebrity event, then it is not only great it is simply marvelous. And if you like comedy, the evening is guaranteed to be awesome.
Interviewer: This certainly sounds awesome.
Arik Kislin: Yes it is. I am a Friar and I tell everyone about how great the club is.
Interviewer: I have heard of hosting and toasting a guest but what is roasting a guest?
Arik Kislin: The Friars annual love-with-a-twist-fest, is known as the Roast, where guests of honor are roasted by a Roastmaster and others. Roasting essentially consists of condemning the guest of honor, to an afternoon of hilarious but most likely cringe-worthy joking. For example, last year at Hilton Hotel, the guest of honor was Jack Black and the Roastmaster was Bob Saget. Bob gave such cracks as “Jack Black is a great success, and he’s not your typical leading gnome” and “To say Jack is a one trick pony is an insult to ponies” and “I’ll never forget when I took my kids to see Jack in Gulliver’s Travels—because I didn’t”.
Sarah Silverman joked, “Your body needs a Wonderbra. Unlike most comedians, Jack is not starved for attention–just onion rings. Jack is so fat, his last movie was shot by Google Earth.” Jeff Ross joked, “How have you not been in any of the f—–g Hobbit movies? You chubby lesbian.” And this roasting is infectious.
The audience is also infected and roasting can also take place amongst the audience. For example, Artie Lange said to Amy Schumer, “It’s good that you’re sitting next to Gene Simmons. He can tell you exactly how much makeup it takes to cover up a herpes sore.” And after the guest of honor endures all the roasting, he has a payback time to get even. Jack Black said, “Oh, Bob Saget. You played such a pussy fart on the boob tube for like a thousand years. You got your butt rammed with ABC cash for far too long, my friend, and no amount of dicks and titties and butthole jokes can erase that….Roasted!” He tacked on “Roasted” at the end of each jab as a signature response. It was a great afternoon and everybody had one hell of a time.
Interviewer: Wow! That is certainly being roasted and getting even.
Arik Kislin: The roasting is done to perfection. An after-party at the club building, which is known as the Friars Monastery, featured an extraordinary performance by the Spin Doctors and guests such as Dee Snider grabbed the microphone. The highlight being Jack himself jumping onstage to give a little taste of that Tenacious D flavor.
Interviewer: This is A-class entertainment. How can the public participate?
Arik Kislin: It’s a private club and you have to become a member. To become a member, you need to be sponsored by two members in good standing. If anybody is interested in applying for membership, then their proposers have to contact the Membership Department to request an application on their behalf.
Interviewer: What do you enjoy most as a Friar?
Arik Kislin: My health bills are zero, you know laughing is the best medicine.
Interviewer: That was subtle.
Arik Kislin: Oh! There are many. Like, “My wife is a wonderful cook, we pray after meals.” or “My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.” I don’t remember all of them, but at the Friars club, you are sure to find lots of them.
Interviewer: You certainly do recommend the club.
Arik Kislin: Definitely. It’s like no other club. I am a member of most of the clubs and I have been to Harvard, Union, Yale, and many other clubs in NYC, but once you are at the Friars, you enjoy every moment of it. Especially, if you like comedy.
Interviewer: We would also love to continue enjoying every moment of this interview, but time compels us otherwise. Thank you Arik, for coming to this exclusive interview and giving us a chance for hosting and toasting you, although we would look forward to roasting you in future.
Arik Kislin: For that you have to be Friar. Anyway, being hosted, toasted or roasted, is always a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Interviewer: That was Arik Kislin with us tonight for an exclusive interview, and stay tuned for more entertainment at your favorite radio channel, the one and only Channel 6. [Channel 6 brand song]
About the Expert
Arik Kislin is the Chairman of Linx Industries. He has over 20 years in financial services, real estate, and leisure services. He has completed $10b in transactions in Argentina, CIS, Congo, China, Argentina, Russia, Turks & Caicos, and United States.
He has raised all equity for the purchase of a 3.6 million square foot industrial/commercial/ retail portfolio which included the development that is now known as Chelsea Markets complex. He is responsible for deal origination and negotiating all stages of project acquisition and financing at the Gansevoort Hotel Group. www.linxind.com