A sibling rivalry may have gotten the best of Mark Consuelos on Live with Kelly and Mark on Wednesday.
During the morning show’s casual conversation, Consuelos and Kelly Ripa chatted about his accomplished older brother. Consuelos mentioned that his brother is known as an “overachiever.” Ripa added to this by highlighting that Consuelos’ brother is a doctor and delved into what a typical barbecue at his brother’s place entails.
Ripa humorously described the elaborate barbecue dishes at his brother’s gatherings. She narrated how his brother would prepare a whole pig, stuffed with geese, ducks, and even chickens inside. She likened it to a quirky version of Russian nesting dolls, but with food instead.
Consuelos also pointed out that his highly intelligent brother is an alumnus of Princeton University and used to boast about it for quite some time. However, Consuelos found a way to one-up him while they were both working on the political satire show, Alpha House.
“They asked us to speak at Princeton University, and so I said yes, I’m going to go speak there,” he recalled. “So I get down there and I call him up. I said, ‘Hey, Mike.’ He said, ‘Hey, man, what’s going on?’ I said, ‘Guess where I am.’ I said, ‘I’m at Princeton University.’ He goes, ‘What are you doing there?’ I go, ‘I’m speaking here today at this big room.’ It was beautiful, with all the political science majors.”
Consuelos continued, “I said, ‘Remind me, have they ever asked you to come back and speak at Princeton University?’”
After his brother admitted “they haven’t” asked him to return and speak, Consuelos alerted him to “some noise” near him.
“I put the phone over to this copy machine,” he added, mimicking its noises. “I said, ‘Guess what they’re doing.’ I said, ‘They’re printing me out an honorary degree.”
Consuelos and Ripa pointed out that his brother was not amused by the bit. Consuelos said, “He goes, ‘Well, you know, to be official, when you graduate from Princeton, you gotta walk through these gates.’ I said, ‘Hold on. [I’ll] call you back.’ So we get the degree, and we walked through the gates, and I send a picture and I go, ‘Done!’”
Amid laughter, Ripa exclaimed, “Mark was like, ‘What’s the big deal?’”
This wasn’t the last of Consuelos messing with his brother, as he then “got to play a doctor on a TV show.”
“And I called him up. I’m like, ‘Hey, what is it about this malpractice insurance? I don’t have any of that and I’m making tons of dough,’” he quipped. “He was very upset.”
However, karma reached Consuelos shortly after, just ahead of Live‘s “Stump Mark” segment, when he noticed a wardrobe malfunction.
Ripa asked Consuelos, “Wait, did anybody notice that?”
Consuelos conceded, “No… my fly was down the whole time. That was my brother getting me back.”
Ripa replied, “Yeah, see that? He karmically got you back.”
Live with Kelly and Mark airs on weekdays. Check out their website for your local listings.
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