Bein' Ian With Jordan - The Lumberjack Guild W/ Dan St. Germain, Sean Donnelly, & Mike Lawrence| Bein' Ian With Jordan Ep157
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Telling jokes and having smokes
Riding bikes all through the night
It's a wild ride
When you're being in
Coffee ice no matter what
Now you know he likes it in the butt
It's a wild ride
When you're being in
Being in
And life is shit with you're positive
Let's find out what it's like to live
Alight
Being in
Being in
With Jordan
Yeah, it's a beach plumb
LaCroy
You want to sit?
Okay, all right, go for it
The festive flavor
I don't know where your mouth's been
But the same
You're out there fucking
You know
You're active.
Teeth look like a graveyard.
Your teeth look like there's an earthquake in a graveyard.
No people visit graveyard.
There are three peasants trapped under my mullers right now.
Jesus Christ.
I got to do something about these teeth.
They're the same colors.
Your shirt.
I'm so glad we're opening on.
Oh, we're recording.
Girl, you got fucked up teeth.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome back to another episode of B&E in with George.
Jordan is on vacation and I am here in the Delaware den and I couldn't be more excited.
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Because there's 14 things to do.
Shut this off.
Well, now that the plugs are out of the way, here's three fat fucks.
These guys have done all the basic cable.
I'm here with the Lumberjack Union Association.
You know, you know Sean Donnelly from late night with David Letterman.
You know Mike Lawrence from his multiple.
No.
Late show
Late show with David
Also it's been gone for a long time
I feel like
It becomes like a dick at that point
I've done other shit
And he's like
Flatham and right
You know Sean from the Tony Randall hour
You know Sean
From the love boat
You know Sean from those old
Brill cream commercials
On the radio
Fucking dick
My favorite thing is
At the seller
My credits are Conan and Shummer
There's no
There's no C
So it's S-H-U-M-E-R
And I never want to correct
Them.
Shummers sounds like a failed
procedural.
Summer!
It sounds like a detective show
starring Jason Bateman.
He's the guy Bosch replaces.
Coming this fall.
Shummer.
The summer wins.
And next to me, my
esteemed guest, very close.
One of my grass best friends.
Jesus.
Your grass best friends?
He'll be here.
all night sweating
Dan St. Germain
Ethan comes upstairs
he goes, hey do you have a paper towels?
I go, yeah, why?
He goes, no, Dan
needs it to wipe his head.
I look like I'm a southern trial lawyer
that's losing right now.
Well, there's no proof that evolution
is real, so.
Yes, they deserve to die.
I hope to burn it.
His poor head looks like
the back of Luther Vandross's
neck at all.
Never too much,
never too much food.
You got a real tough job
balancing the fat jokes this episode
Oh, it'll be great
I'm excited
What I really want is for Ethan
to make a counter
So that every time Dan gets a new paper towel
We do like we add one
We'll make it a drinking game
Whoever is you're going to die
By the end of the episode
What the fuck is that shit?
Is that an actual taser?
That is that a taser
That's 100% of taser
Is that always wanted to
I've always wanted to tase myself.
How bad, how...
No, you're not that bad.
It's not that bad.
Don't believe this guy.
Don't do it.
You're gonna freak.
No, he'll like it.
Oh.
You'll be all right.
Did you do it?
No, it's kind of nice.
It doesn't make a sad.
Yeah, it's actually not bad.
Oh, my.
Have you?
You've done it?
You can't decide.
No, it's the first time I've ever tased.
No, no, I believe you.
But you've done it before to you, so?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want to do it?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I have no interest.
You can't be a jackass guy at like 40, you know?
It's just called poor.
The right?
It's not going well.
It's part of like an auditioning for bum fights.
I'm Dan and this is lying about health insurance.
It actually makes sense because Dan has the same vibe as Ben Margarra now.
That's true.
That's true.
It's like going through the fucking in-recovery, Dan, too.
And you print posture as Ryan Dunn.
I know.
All right.
I look like a lot of dead people, guys.
But first off, I wanted to say, Sean probably doesn't know this, but I know Mike knows this.
There was a point, there was on Twitter, Hulk Hogan wrote, God, Bam, Margera, I miss you every day.
And then Bam, wrote, I'm still here.
Like Hogan thought he had a, he dropped the big leg on his fucking,
I mean, Pam's career.
That guy's in his own universe.
Jesus Christ.
You wrote for WWE, right?
I did.
For very brief time.
For WWU, you're just a fan.
Yeah, I never have and I never will.
And I am no longer a fan.
I let's let you know everything.
I just want to say I, our friendship is I was the black woman who was like, don't you go in that house.
I've written on the one of the one I got it's like that's what I've got written on 11 shows
the one I got fired from wrestling yeah yeah so what did you do writing for
WWE I mean not much man they yeah but I don't know anything about it take me through it
Like, are you writing, like, wrestling-
scripted?
No!
You are a baby.
When you're a W.W.
You're a babysitter.
Until you get, um, a little bit further on.
They pay you $15 an hour.
Yeah.
They're already like, they already.
Like, they already-
Do you like human shit?
Like, just to let you know, like, this is how much, uh,
this is how much they respect writers.
They let us know.
about their AI program while we were there
and we're like excited about it.
Like yeah, he's gonna help with the writing
and we're all like.
Yeah.
It was like a horse drawn carriage meeting
a fucking Chinese bullet train
where you're like, all right, enjoy.
Well, dude, they just signed
government contracts to Elon's
AI like Brock.
Yeah, and a week ago he was like
going off about like
Hitler and all this stuff. And I had to apologize.
We just talking about this. Somebody had to Elmo.
And Elmo was like, I think
six millions too many
it's crazy
he said six millions too many like that
they watched the numbers or no no no I was
joking imitating Elmo
but Elmo did go on like us
He doesn't believe the Holocaust happened
I was using Elmo's there actually
this is my Holocaust denial
puppet
let's redo those numbers
the count is like here's how many Jews
died. One, uh, uh, uh,
a. Two, uh, a.
Did they name? Let me ask you this.
W.W. I didn't ask you, because you have Grock.
You have meta. It's not really a name.
They didn't name it yet. They didn't name it.
Like the thing that the AI, because it shits all over the show.
The thing that the AI kept pitching was like, it was in the beginning stages of AI
because everything was like, what if Cody Rhodes was a time traveler?
And then the next thing would be, what if Kevin Owens?
Was a time traveler.
They kept pitching time travelers,
which makes me think it's connected to conscience.
AI is sentient.
Dan's in a corner.
Sweating, doing his time.
This guy's good.
This guy's good.
Oh, shit.
Wally's kicking my ass.
It just wrinkles on the paper,
chucks it out the window.
But yeah, it's not a fun place.
You're, it made, it's like your Vietnam.
It's like guys coming back from Vietnam.
and not being able to go to Chinese food restaurants.
Not only that, it's guys going to Vietnam
to be like, I can't wait to kill everyone that's different than me.
Guys go to love.
That is not a fair comparison.
Guys go to Vietnam for at least six months.
And they actually do something when they're there.
The meanest man in the world that can't take it.
I can't say it.
Hit them.
Hit them.
Hit them.
No.
It was, it was kind of like, you know,
It was always an escape for me, wrestling, and now it's not an escape anymore.
So working there was probably the worst thing that I could have done.
But look, I made money for five months.
And, you know, now I'm writing a fucking cartoon for Fox, man.
I could give a shit.
That's great.
What cartoon?
Me and Dan Soder, we got a new...
It's coming out.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It's just developing right now, but it's a really fun idea.
That's great.
What character will I have?
I really have no idea as far as...
You know, like, I don't want to even talk about it just in case, you know, you talk about the shit.
And then all of a sudden I was like that. You just sit there and keep sweating. We'll talk.
I don't want to jinx anything.
But, you know, it's been fun to work on it.
Yeah.
That's great.
Because I'm fucking, you know, I'm fucking.
Fucking Thousand Island dripping from my forehead.
To your credit, you got a lot of shit already in the first 20 minutes of this fucking podcast.
To your credit, you are the most, one of the most principal.
people I know because it turned you were
one of the biggest wrestling fans I know
and after he was done with that he was like fuck the
whole thing I'm fucking out
it's like you said it's like it's like don't go in
there don't do it also one of the hardest
working and resilient people I know
absolutely I mean it's it's incredible
how you always have work and you always
have a right of you had like 20 minutes of
fucking your mama jokes on me and now we've got
to build myself up like their fucking
Maya Angelou fuck all three
of you know those are tears
the guy literally tased himself
physically and emotionally on your podcast.
I just chase myself physically and emotionally.
I could take a tase and I can't take a teasing.
I take it.
I've never seen someone tase himself and go,
it's good, it's good.
It wasn't bad.
I didn't think it was that bad.
But you told him wasn't that bad.
Did you jump when you did it, Ann?
What the fuck are you doing?
It's one of Ed Dan's four as a carpenter.
I have to quit weed.
some point.
Dan has about 15 vapes in his pocket.
Yeah,
he's all different shapes.
I'm like Dick Van Dyke,
but with vapes.
All right.
Can someone else,
you take it over guys?
Was that a Mary Poppins reference?
I'm gonna like disappear into the cap.
Wait.
I'm just gonna have my eyes sticking out.
What was that reference?
What?
Dick Van Dykeyeeat, Mary Poppins.
All the instruments.
It wasn't great.
It was adorable.
Hey guys, just tell you know,
it wasn't great.
It was adorable is what it was.
It was adorable.
No, no.
A good joke is when you have to explain it.
three times afterwards.
That's how you know it's a really good joke.
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No, but it's true though, dude.
Like, you were like, fucking, it was
rough when he was there. And then after you, after you were done,
you were like, you were like, I, that's fucking it.
I saw too much. Well, dude, I remember
I remember coming into New York
in like 2012.
Like, I remember,
I remember you guys, didn't you guys have that Mike the woodshed?
Yeah. Yes. And that was
like the most brutal thing. And I remember
friends of mine were like, dude, I
I'm so nervous to do the woodshed,
but I might wear a comic book or
wrestling shirt, and then I think they might like me.
Spoiler alert, Mike didn't.
Mike could have done an apology tour
after that, Mike.
Whatever Mike was there, it was judgment
at Nuremberg.
But, yeah, it was
I mean, well, there were some good comics.
Some of those Nazis were likable.
I'm ashamed of the person I was
I mean you were
20 years ago
Yeah you were like a young kid
Like nervous and everything
And we're all projecting and trying to like
Every time
I thought you were going to keep going
Like exploring her sexuality
You all know what feels good
Want to take your shirt off?
I found one woman with dad issues
15 years ago and I said yes
I'm good
It was funny you mentioned that
because one of the funniest things
of Miko ever said
where it's like
because like Gomez
like pulled a picture up on Sarah
on my pocket
like oh she's pretty
like was that it
and then and then like
Mika looked at my stomach
and was like
you got to know when to hold her
no one to fold it
basically you cannot get hotter
bro
that's what I feel like
you get a jar
with my airline
I'm like I have to find someone now
because this shit
is going.
Dude, you, you, I will say this.
I can't believe I'm complimenting you
after you fucking destroyed me.
But, uh, you outkick your coverage
like a motherfucker.
Yeah, you do actually.
You do, uh,
you fucking do.
That made it worse.
Actually, that made it worse.
Even the puppets fucks
hotter puppets that it should.
I saw the puppet
with the baby from dinosaurs.
I'm like, how do you get that?
Not the mom.
But they're all white.
They're white puppets.
Why does it have tattoos?
It bothers me.
I know. I'm actually going to give this to my buddy Daniel, who's one of my tattoo artists.
He's going to draw a bunch of tattoos on him, which I think it would look really cool.
I mean, you were explaining it wasn't cool.
Yeah. All right. Go back to complimenting me.
No, but I'm serious. Like, Ian is, Ian has dated some very beautiful, beautiful people.
Thank you.
Thank you. Yes. I think that's reflective of what a beautiful person I am, mostly on the inside.
That's a very honest statement.
99.
99% of these times.
No, but I mean, that's true.
But I will say that you got here,
it wasn't the same mic scene
like it was when we started, right?
Because it was, what did you say,
1012?
What they're kind of changing by then?
Back then it was like,
it was like boot camp style fucking,
just like, you know,
just Lord of the Fly style.
And then we realized it didn't matter.
And we spent all this time working on jokes
and we realized, oh, wait,
we should have been building a following.
We were, we were all mean to each other.
and then we saw the industry
was way meaner to us.
They were like, we should be nice
because we're going to kill ourselves.
Yeah, but yeah, I mean, it was,
look, there was some fucking funny people
who came through that goddamn Mike.
I will say that.
What year did that mic go from?
It started like, I would say, yeah,
2010 to like 2012,
but yeah, I remember seeing Gerard Carmichael there,
the Lucas brothers.
Yeah, he came, I had no idea who he was,
and he was like brand new and really sweet.
And he went up.
and he fucking killed, yeah.
Yeah.
There was one, you know,
the funniest person ever at the woodshed
was, uh, was Ray Higg.
Ray, uh, Ray, Ray, uh, Ray Higgs, right?
Yeah, that guy was.
We don't even know where Ray is.
I don't know where Ray is, but I thought you're going to say Levy.
I don't remember Ray, I, Ray was raised the son of the legendary, uh,
Ray Combs.
Ray Combs, I'm sorry.
Ray Combs, Jr.
Ray Combs Jr.
Who was this to come?
Ray Combs is a famous,
Ray Combs
House had family feud
He's the second guy
That hosted family feud
The blonde-haired guy
He hung himself
In a psych ward
And Ray Combs
He was the person
Who found the body
There's a great joke
To Rose's story
About Ray Combs' story about Raycombs
Jr.:
I haven't heard that
I want to compliment Ray
I want to compliment Ray joke first
He was funny funny guy
He had a great joke
So the guy who hung himself
On Family Feud
His son did stand up
His son did stand up
And he had a great joke
about it
He's like you know
I mean, it was worse because they surveyed 100 people
and they said reasons to hang yourself.
Son was number one.
So. Disappointing son.
Surveys.
He said this.
He said, there was a great, and I'm going to butcher it,
but he said, he said, people thought I'd be upset when they found my dad,
but, you know, that's where you hang shit.
In a closet?
Yeah, it was like, great fucking, great joke.
He would, this guy was the most self-sabotaging because he genuinely was funny.
And a nice guy, nice guy.
Yeah, but he was so angry.
Yeah.
And when he was hosting, like, he would take 10 minutes between his set to talk about someone's set.
Really?
Yes.
What would he say?
What would he do?
Probably just fucking shit alone.
He was just very positive, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
He'd bring his dad out and make him.
We could get a Bernie style.
Yeah.
You know, it was interesting.
The Joe DeRosa thing, if I remember, it was like Saturday night and...
At Village Lantern downstairs.
Yeah, and Ray just like was so...
They started yelling at each other.
I don't remember if Ray was hosting or not.
I think he was.
Yeah, he was.
And that was the thing, too, is like, he would give these long-ass intros that...
At an open mic?
This wasn't an open mic.
This was a show.
This was a show.
And Joe was like,
I didn't kill your father.
I heard the way it went down is that he went up and Ray and then Joe brought a date,
went on stage.
And then Ray was like,
hey, Joe, remember when we started together and now I'm hosting here and you're on Comedy Central?
Remember that?
Remember that?
Yeah.
And it was totally silent.
And Joe went, hey, Ray, I didn't kill your dad.
And you were just here and that in Rose's voice.
I remember, I remember judging a roast battle with Joe one time.
And this guy, one of the battlers went up to him, is like, you know, you could have been nicer to us.
And that was the worst thing you could say to Joe because he goes, I was.
You don't know what I really think.
This is my happy face.
It was perfect.
And it was a thing of like, with a kid is like, just.
Take it, man.
Like, you bomb.
Our job is to make fun of you.
Yeah.
One place is not going to be nice is right there.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, but in a way, like, it's kind of like the idea of gatekeeping.
Like, in subcultures, there's gatekeeping where, you know, new people come in.
You make it harder for them to feel comfortable.
And you almost have to put them through tests.
And then people don't like it because they're like, why I didn't feel comfortable.
But it's like the whole part of a subculture is like, if you really want it, you'll stick around.
You'll go through the bullshit.
And then it's like.
you kind of get past that thing.
Then you become kind of kind of like a member as everyone else.
I mean, I just tased myself in front of you.
So I don't know how great that psychology is.
To defend the woodshed.
I will say this to defend the woodshed.
Me and Mike also didn't do well there.
Like no one did well there.
It was very hard to do well there.
But you guys were like the two main mean guys.
No, we ran it.
You ran the woodshed.
Yeah.
And we would book different hosts every week.
And would you roast people or,
Was it just straight up like, I mean, we both would at times between people.
But what's so bad about every time?
What's so bad about that?
Like, would people give it back and then you'd be friends with them?
Or would they give it back and you'd be like, I'll fucking kill you?
I think what it was was it was like, it traumatized.
The mic that people knew that your act could be talked about.
That if you went up like, no one's going after your shoes or your wardrobe,
we're talking about your jokes.
Right.
Mike was also a very sharp comic.
at the time, and people, you know,
wanted his approval, you know?
Yeah, so wouldn't that make people want to go back to, like, do well
and get the approach? That's why it was so
effective. That's the thing. It's like, that was
the same thing in hood rooms. It's like, if you didn't do
well, you were going to know about it and you were going to
get roasted. It was going to be terrible, but you kept
going back. So, and it made you better.
Or guys, if you have a nice ass, just go on TikTok.
That's also a way easier way to do this.
The amazing, the amazing thing about, like, Black Rooms is
like, I remember Mochlin Lounge.
Yes.
With Smokey Svarez, like, the thing is, yeah, they would let anybody up on that stage.
But if you did not do well, I remember one time I was on stage, the owner walks up to me and just goes, you done.
That's so fucking funny.
That was the light.
And then I just, I was in the middle of a joke and I just put the mic in the stand.
I'm like, okay, guys, I'm done.
Oh, my God.
Smokey's room?
Sean, did you ever do Smoky's Room?
Well, they did it once, yeah.
I remember I did Smokey Room once, and I just did my Michelle Obama,
and then this black woman just goes, no.
And I was like, it was the same thing as my girlfriend.
It's a good one.
Yeah, yeah.
What was amazing about that place was, yeah, going with other white comics,
and then the long ride home that they code switched.
Oh.
Oh, brutal.
Code switched at the shell, you mean?
Yeah.
They're just, they go up.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, when they do like the really.
Oh, yeah.
Fucking cringy.
You know, I was,
Smokey is probably, like,
I never got to know him that well,
but I think he was,
he was one of those guys.
He had shit and he gave people a shot.
Yes.
Like he was one of the few guys.
And he took care of people.
Yeah.
I don't know what he's doing now.
All they did, they, I mean, it was hell.
It turns out like you were making money,
but the money you were getting.
getting paid was like $5 an hour
because you were locked in for like six hours
at night. But they paid.
They took care of you. You got meals.
When I first moved to the city, that's all I did
was hoodrooms. Because I linked up with Sergio
Chacon because I worked the laugh house
in Philly. And so all the New York
black comics that came down
when I would go to New York, they'd take care of me. So I started
in like hookah lounges and fucking South
getting paid right away. Yeah, yeah. Getting paid right away.
And it was like this crazy thing. And I was
like, why don't more people do this? And then the
second you lose confidence or bomb you're like i know why more people
compare how smoky treats you compared to how anyone at UCB treated
you know it's night and day and the difference is smoky will put you up yeah that's the thing
is like these other places would be so judgmental and shit and they're like they would give
you a chance and but it is funny like yeah those those places like you if you go after someone's
act there it's like you're like you're
going after their money and they do not
tolerate it. Yes. Older
comics hate that too. Like
with Rose Battle and stuff they're like we would never
go after the act. They're like old mafia guys
it's like you don't call someone
unfunny and I'm like that's that's all we do.
They've seen both of these men have seen me
bomb so many times
like because we've been doing comedy.
All three of these men.
I mean
and just so I remember like Mike
there was our co-host who's on vacation.
and he's it
and he was only
slimer has
she looked at the line up
and was like
I can miss this one
but no like
I remember God
Mike saw me
at a mic
did you ever do
the mic at five points
oh yes
yeah I did
and I decided to put on
this giant hello kitty helmet
and I kind of did it
like an Asian dance
and then I took it off
and I didn't realize
the whole
freaking crowd was Asian
and it was just
and what and what do you
made that worse is what are the chances that
Chinatown would have Chinese people
in it
he's like I thought I
thought Faye Dutterway
and Jack Diggleston would be in there
I thought it was going to be a film
bomb he's like it's a celebration
Happy New Year
No it's because I'm with you
I thought a Polish child murder was
going to direct me but it was the same
me and Mike would both bomb and probably
Sean we would follow the only thing that
killed there there was a poodle
there was a poodle that was dressed as John Bonae Ramsey
who would dance to the Beverly Hills cop theme
and this fucking thing
crushed and me and Mike would eat it
and we would watch like not only just kill
like magic like they're like
people are giving birth looking at this thing
and then we get up and we're like have you ever seen
the show sliders
and they're like fuck you you fucking
in cells and then the dog says
and then everybody
Mike went Mike came back to the Mike came back to the one time he came to sit in me and he
looked like really serious and I was like what happened he goes I just opened the bathroom
and dad what is it what was his name Hong Fang's owner was like bending him over the sink
forcing the dress on it that's what we said John Bonnet for a reason it was like
I didn't even laugh I was like
God. Damn it.
Well, it wasn't a bomb thing.
I got to get into that bathroom.
Say the, one of the favorite things ever is your, the Carly Aquilino opening, you open
at a college.
You wasn't a bomb, like, you didn't bomb.
I actually did well, but the way she killed was like, she's like, you guys want to see my
shoes?
And everyone's like, and then I got out and I said, how many people are here for Carly
and everyone, and they go, how many people are here for me?
One guy looked exactly like Sean, clapping in the middle, who went to my show two weeks
again.
Still a fan.
Dude, there was.
The Carly thing you said
That was so funny
You go, you go, I'm up there
I'm doing my thing
I'm doing pretty well
She goes and she goes
Who wants to see my shoes?
A applause break
It was crazy
I've never seen anything like that
Oh so I did KGBB bar
I remember
It was a girl named Chewy
Her name's Chewy
Yeah I remember Chewy
She's so sweet
Yeah she had a show at KGBB bar once
And I walked in
And it's Chewy show
And there was a white dude
Doing Asian I thing
Doing the voice
And he did it for like
14 minutes straight
The whole fucking thing
And it's murdering
At KGB Bar
And I'm like, if this is getting, this is doing, I'm set.
That's it.
I went up, fucking silence for 15 minutes.
I was like, what the fuck?
I'm like losing my mind.
You start doing it?
You're like, fucking give me a kimono.
Dude, what are my?
Mr. bowing and shit.
One of my favorite heckler stories, I was at this bar park slope going back and forth with
this like drunk guy.
And it was fun and everything.
The guy after me goes up and pulls up his shirt.
And you know, he's like an overweight guy.
He's like, you know, people could say what they want about my body, but I love myself.
And the guy just goes, I can't work with this.
And he left.
Ian, what's the worst fucking, but you've probably talked about it on the show.
What's the worst bomb that you haven't talked about on this podcast, do you think?
Oh, dude.
I, uh, I, so I played a gig up in the Berkshires.
Tom Lewis?
Some, yes.
Oh, Ty boy.
He's a firm.
They're former producer.
I did one of those and he pointed to all the lakes that were polluted.
That's why he's one of my good friends.
I know.
Dude.
I'm explaining why.
Me and Tom out depress each other whenever we hang out.
We have like wicket.
But anyway,
he is such a magical like soft voice.
Yes,
yeah.
I remember when he would do ads on your guy's podcast.
Screaming in the inside.
Yeah,
yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I went up and I did a gig at the birth.
years it was like at the time this was like 2017 it was like the most people I ever played in
front of it was amazing my name was on a piece of loose leaf on the green room I took a picture
sent it to my mom I'm like this is the best oh my god I got a hotel oh wow and then I come back to
the city and I do a set at LOL and I go to LOL time square which is the worst and I'm feeling
so good and dude I bomb abject silence and
this British woman.
For 50 minutes,
I'm getting nothing
about seven minutes in.
She goes,
you're rubbish.
Oh shit.
That's so funny.
You ruined somebody's
magical New York City's trip.
And then Kuhnaul went up after me
and he goes,
I got this.
And he sat on the chair
and he demolished.
And I was like,
I think I'm going to kill myself.
Yeah,
he might have been one of those guys
that was living in LOL for three years.
Oh, dude, L.O.L. again, like, shit room, but it made you better because you had to deal with the most awful, insane circumstances of all time.
It looked like, you went to like a happy ending place.
You walked, it was like 15 rooms.
Oh, yeah.
And then whoever they could throw in audience wise.
And you started underground with the amount of lies you were buried under of like Kevin Hart and Tina Faye are doing a duo act while Will Farrell.
Yeah.
And reenaxed on the side of the stage.
They used to promote dead comedians to people.
on Times Square.
They'd be like, and they come see
fucking Greg Geraldo,
and he was dead like three years at this point.
I was in the elevator
and these two British guys
when I was like,
excuse me, is Sarah Siffman
and Jim Kerry on the show?
And I just go, no, but I am.
Book Club on Monday.
Jim on Tuesday.
Date night on Wednesday.
Out on the town on Thursday.
Woo!
Quiet night in on Friday.
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It's the World War II, like German bomb.
That was on the fourth floor and on the third floor.
It was a haunted house.
I'm scared.
Yeah, yeah.
The guy who ran it was a complete scumbach.
Roy, and I saw him at the cellar.
He lowered pay.
He wouldn't pay people on New Year's Eve.
And he told people that came to the show,
there was a view of the Times Square bowl drop.
There is no view in that place.
There's buildings.
He throws him a basketball.
I got banned for Broadway Comedy Club
because I yelled at the manager because he lowered pay.
I was like, this is bullshit.
Fuck this.
And he was like, you'll never.
work here again. I was like, good, fuck you.
And then I walked out. And then, like, I had
a week off of, like, spots. And I was like,
I wish I were, dude, brother.
That's like the East.
I used to be on Broadway.
You're like a sad starlet.
He did the same thing. The Eastfield guy. He was giving
people different pay. And that's why people left
when it was in the East Village before it became New York.
And apparently, there's somebody went in.
They didn't go in. They went, did Conan
recently. Like, they did a Conan set.
And a week later, he writes to him and goes,
Hey, man, great set on Conan. And the guy's like,
And the guy didn't work the club.
And he was like, thanks, man.
He's like, I'd love to come in and do guest spots or audition or anything with the club.
He goes, sure, send me a tape.
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
famously, L.O.L., they didn't let Bill Burr in.
Bill Burr was in town.
And he went up, was like, hey, I'd love to do a set.
And they were like, yeah, no, we just don't let people in off the street.
He was like, oh, my name's Bill Burr.
And they were like, yeah, okay, my name is Roy Arias.
I don't know what to tell you.
Which is perfect for that place.
Oh, yeah.
Dude, the greatest heckle.
bomb I've ever seen
in my entire life was
Harrison Greenbaum was on
stage and there was
a biker in the crowd with his wife
and the wife would not shut up and Harrison's
like he's like
sir does your wife even
shut up when she is your cock in her mouth
and the guy stands up and throws
a candle vote of Adam and Harrison
ducks out of the way like Bush getting a shoe
thrown out of the guy goes
buddy you're lucky
you're gay or I'd kick your
It's great.
Harris is not getting there.
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moment from detail. I feel like
this story's been spurred around. I was there when
there was a proposal
and he was hosting.
Harrison? Yeah.
And the woman, the woman said
no. Oh my God.
No. Oh my God. I vaguely remember this.
All these are, they so
track for L.O.O.
Yeah. This was. It should have been SOS.
This was
C-Bs.
back of the day
and
so they
everyone starts booing
and then she just goes
yeah but you don't know
how he treats me
oh my God
oh my God
and Harris
is like here's the magic trick
disappear
is this your baby
it's just a kid with two
my guys
here's your order of
protection right here.
Jesus Christ.
He handled it like amazingly because like
so she runs out and
it was like the one time.
It was like a romantic comedy where like you
don't want the guy chasing after the
Oh yeah. Yeah. And he shows
up at the wedding beating the
Pride's page. I will say
Mrs. Robinson. Harrison's
fucking fearless. That normal
McDonald thing with Harrison when Norm McDonald went after
him for the Bible joke and he's like
What happened? You don't remember this? On last
comic standing.
Norman McDonnell, Harrison does a Bible joke
comparing Harry Potter the Bible
and he's like, one's made up and the other one's the Bible.
It's a good joke. It's a really good joke.
And Norm McDonald's like,
it's sounding like you're going after a legend.
And if it was me, I'd be like,
you got it, Mr. McDonald's, no problem.
I'll do whatever you want.
And Harrison is like, no, you're wrong.
It's a good joke.
And they put, they had it on TV.
And then he went after him on Twitter
and he defended himself on fucking Twitter.
That's like, I don't give a fuck for him.
I will say, like, I have not,
I don't think I've ever seen Harrison bomb.
I will say this.
I don't think I have either.
He does great.
Either of I.
Like,
either of I.
You know.
But at that level of that,
with that show and that guy,
I would crumble.
I would fucking crumble.
Dude,
I,
I auditioned West Comcastinic.
I didn't make it.
And I told my manager,
I was like,
can you please make sure
I'm not in the bad comic reel?
And luckily,
it wasn't spectacular enough to be in it.
Well, you know,
I told you my,
you know my last comic story where I was there.
We had a member of the thing?
What happened?
Yeah,
I got yelled at by fucking Roseanne Barr
because before you go on,
being fat,
she was like,
damn,
damn!
Tom,
damn!
It was weird.
Everybody I fucked my whole lot.
You're like the captain
planet of all the scumbags she fucked
for like a Voltron.
I'm just traumatizing
Rose and bought.
I'm the reason she went to the fucking
pistachio farm.
It was weird.
Sean came out and did a harmonica solo.
So,
J.B. Smooth hosted it.
J.B. Smooth did the fucking,
he hosted it, right? And he
came in, they were doing like behind the scenes thing
where he comes in and he gives you like some words of advice.
He gave us like a pep talk. And I was
I already told me I was going up first.
All these fucking things I go up first on these things, right?
So I have fucking host brain and I'm sitting there
not listening to him. I'm like in my head.
And he said, he goes, just so you know, don't do
the housekeeping thing of like, how are you guys doing?
Because Roseanne just yelled at a woman
like two days ago on a taping,
for doing that and being lazy and doing that.
And I'm like, uh-huh, uh-huh, I'm not hearing a word he said.
So you're in the side.
They have a warm-up.
Warm-up does nothing.
I'm sorry, zero.
It comes out.
He goes, you ready for a show?
And they're like, yeah.
And he's like, here's J.B. Smooth.
I'm like, oh, J.B. Smooth.
I'm like, oh, J-B. Smooth.
And he's going to do a set.
So I went to panic mode and not realizing what he said.
I come out and I go, how you doing?
Like that.
And then it went fine.
I had a good set.
Afterwards, they were like, I got two nose and a yes, whatever it was.
And she was like, it was like, good, Sam, but you said, how you doing?
The audience is doing half the work for you.
And she made it, like, really awkward.
I was like, I go, no, I really wanted to know how they were doing.
Trying to make it left.
And she was like, no, you didn't.
You didn't give a shit.
And she goes, I go, no, really, watch, how you doing?
Just to do it again.
Like, fuck you.
Like, I'm being, I know when I'm making it.
I'm being fucking stupid.
It was funny.
She was like such a fucking bitch to me.
The second you said that, it did not matter how your set went.
No, no, no, no, no, yeah.
But, you know, she's a really good person outside of that.
Like, you should give her a break.
I actually, I took the advice to heart.
I was like, yeah, you're not wrong.
I just panicked because I saw that I was basically first thing out there.
Well, those things are so tough.
Like, I auditioned at Gotham and went through to the next round
where you perform in front of two producers and Wanda Sykes in Gotham.
While it's just cattle call, like, you're on stage.
and the next comic's waiting off stage
and then immediately after the interview
they go on stage and next comic waits
so I'm on stage
I do my set I blow
through it like one laugh
and then the interview they go so it says here
you've been doing comedy two and a half
three years and I go yep
I'm just a whittle baby
and they went what was that
and I went
oh oh I do a voice when I get nervous
and they're like all right thank you
And then that was it.
And then me and Anthony DeVito went to eat Indian food down the street.
Like, this is just awful.
Anthony's like the ultimate.
He's such a great guy.
He's the perfect guy after a bomb.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was so.
You're great.
You're fine.
But dude, it was, I thought they'd laugh at like, I'm a little baby.
Just to be like, hey, I'm going to make, that's why I did the other thing.
I'm like, let's just be silly.
Yeah.
Who gives the fucking I'm not, I hated it.
I had content issues.
So for me, I did the audition and I did a joke about working at McDonald's for seven
and a half years.
And they told me, like, when you get on the show, you know, we want you to do some McDonald's stuff.
And what I found out was they wanted to do, you know, like they do like the behind the scenes
pieces.
So they wanted me to do a piece where I go back to the McDonald's I worked at and talk about
how it's made me a better person and a comedian.
And they told me that I had to change my McDonald's jokes and are like, can you do them
in a way that speaks favorably of McDonald's?
And I was like, absolutely not.
I was like, I cannot do that.
I'm assuming the place where the guy sexually assaulted me
next to the chicken selects.
Be nice about that place.
Asshole.
They'd already got rid the chicken selects by that.
They moved the chicken selects, but not the priest.
If they were there, he would have selected the chicken
and not me.
But it was the weirdest, like, so I'm doing like free advertising free?
And I was like, that's got to be what they were thinking.
It was like McDonald's.
Yeah, but also that's so fucked up
To make it a show about
Stand up in your story and your act
And part of your story is what a horrific experience it is
Yeah, it's like, no, no, no, it was good
It wasn't that bad, right?
Be like Jared from Subway
So I get like, you know, like
Yeah, late night and all that
We're like, you know, don't go out to brands
Because advertising a couple words up
And then a whole tone of a joke
Yeah, I was like, have you guys ever had a thing
With you in late night where they're like
Like on the 11th hour, they're like, yeah,
you got to cut this and change this wording.
And you're like,
oh,
I did it to myself.
I did it to myself.
I changed the guy's name myself.
And I freaked out a little bit,
but I realized I changed his first name,
not his last name.
So like three different people figured out who it was.
And wrote me,
it was a guy who,
this guy went to high school
with like fell off a roof
and like,
was like quadriplegic.
But I don't mention that in the joke.
You went to high school with Artie Lang's dad.
And,
and the joke on the letterman set,
as you know,
I've done Letterman
Because, you know,
The Tonighty show
When VHS was a thing
I done
This is Larry Bud Melman
So this guy
He did it
And then I fucking
Did the joke
Changed the wrong part of the name
And then this other guy's sister wrote to me
And she was like a lawyer
And she was like
You should be
It should be hard-fired
And I don't mention the guy
What actually happened
Like I make up a goofy thing
And they wrote a long thing
You should be ashamed to yourself
And I just didn't write back
And then I had my 20 year
High School reunion
Like a couple years later
A few years later
And I was like
I'm gonna see this guy
I'm going to feel terrible.
The night of the reunion, I found out the reason he fell out the roof
was because he was stalking his ex-girlfriend.
And he was, like, abusive.
He used to beat this shit out of her or something.
So I was like, oh, fuck this guy.
That's the opposite of Santa.
So, dude, the whole night goes by.
I don't see the guy.
I'm walking out.
He rolls up in the chair.
And he kind of just stares at me.
I'm like, I'm good.
I just fucking kept going.
I was like, fuck out of that.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, man.
It's fine.
I'm going to say something to you.
because I see all this Ghostbuster stuff.
Yes.
Do you know the story of the Ghostbusters song
that'll make it harder for you to listen to,
which is that Ray Parker Jr. was dating a 17-year-old girl at the time.
Oh, so now it's my favorite song ever?
I already figured it was.
No, but when it's like, who are you going to call?
And everyone goes, Ghostbusters.
That's her voice?
That's her and all of her teenage friends.
No way.
I didn't know that.
That's amazing.
It makes me feel good.
Where's the TikTok about this?
That's like if We Are the World was on F.E.
Island or something.
Oh, my God.
That's amazing.
That's where the studio was from We Are the World.
You've heard the We Are the World story, right?
Where Stevie Wonder starts singing in Swahili,
and Jen is like, I ain't doing this anymore.
Is that true?
Yes.
Wait, that's, it was here to have.
How did you know that?
I've heard about it.
Like, I don't know.
of podcasts and stuff, yeah.
I mean, I've been masturbating to it.
I went to a Ghostbuster convention on time.
And he was performing, and it was the best thing.
He goes, don't worry.
He's like, I'm going to do the song.
Then I'm going to do the song again.
And then when you think I'm done doing the song, I'm going to do it a third time.
And the crowd was like, yeah.
He did a 20 minute.
We forgive you.
Oh, they never were angry.
but like literally he did a 20 minute version where he just went up to every person at the convention and who you gonna call
oh that's awesome oh man that's called leaning into it
dude i wish i had a bit like that that i could just do for 25 minutes dude i went to our i've been to all
those things and i went to a ghostbusters screening in delaware and the delaware ghostbusters showed up
and halfway through the movie they came out like you know acted out the scene and then they came and gave out
slime and it was just palm olive
in a mason jar
and like one of the guys' guns
like wouldn't light up and he
was like stop stop stop
and then restart his pack and then they
played the movie again and then he went out
I was like this is destroying every
dream I had of this scenario
I went to a 90s fest once with my ex-wife
and Culeo was there and he
wouldn't play the dangerous mind song
what an ass man you could watch
you're arguing with the lady on the side
of the stage saying I'm not doing it
not doing it, whatever, and then did another
one of his songs and forgot Fantastic
Voyage and forgot the words.
What a piece of shit.
That reminds me of Billy Joe.
I saw him in 2014 at Citizens Bank
Park and he comes out and he goes,
hey everybody, I haven't given you much
new things to sing about in the past 20
years, so I'm just going to play the hit.
Everybody cheered and he went into
like, you may be right.
That's what you do.
He also came out recently. It was like shitting all over.
We didn't start the fire. It was like, it was my
version of rap it sucked
dude you know when he
crashed his car into
a house in Long Island he blamed it on
9-11 he was like I just
haven't been the same since 9-11
I can't
Oh that's hilarious
Come on it's fucking Long Island
Crash in your car
because you're a terrorist
Billy did you relapse
you ought to know by now
you may
be right
I may be loaded
Yeah
They tested the back seat
There was a bottle of red
A bottle of
His uptown girl
We're just a co-keel
He's the one of them
He like yeah
He was
I
Billy Joel was
He apparently has like
20 years of like
He's been doing classical music
He just doesn't release it
No yeah
No he he was doing shows
In that music
He was doing shows in that classical music
And then when he started
doing like the once a month
Like it's not going on now, right?
Mass and Square Garden.
It sells out every fucking, it sells out every time.
Well, he was doing that because he owed money to his bandings.
Was that what it was?
Dude, he fucked everyone out of money.
And so that's why he was doing all these things because he kept having to pay people out.
My buddies.
You had to pay them, but, bye, blah, blah, blah, blah, my buddy's dad was his saxophone player.
And I went to their house one time for, like, a pool party.
And there's, like, a statue of him playing saxophone.
I'm talking to dad.
And I had to leave early because I had a bar show in Brooklyn.
And he was like, yeah, I know how it is, man.
I had to miss my brother's wedding because I was on tour with Billy Joel.
And I was like, yeah, I know.
So then I was like, yeah, I got to leave.
I got a bar show with Lucas, Kaiser.
Dude, Billy Joel, man.
That's a grizzly pear.
Who the fuck came up with that name?
Grisly pear.
It's an odd mental image of, dude, I get massages in the massage bar above a grisly pear.
Sometimes I'll be getting...
You need to tell us that, but keep going.
So it's named after your testicles.
They got to look at you coming out.
No, it's not...
I think ice rated that.
Dude, can I tell you this massage parlor?
I have gotten text messages that are like,
we have a new girl.
Allie, are you coming?
Like, Mom, me right there.
Hey, how are you?
I'm going to get done with a fat black and get over there.
We miss you.
Like, all right, all right, I get it.
Like, are you coming?
If she wants to keep her fucking job, I am.
I'll be there getting massages and I can hear people would be like,
come on, I need more than that.
Are you ready for the next comment?
Why can't I come?
That would ruin any comfort.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That takes all the happiness out of the ending.
I work hard, then something happens.
I think the craziest thing is that between guys,
the massage parlor, William Stevenson, brings them at.
So that's next up.
Dude, when he died, that's how I got into
MC to seller everything because he died.
I got in because Artie Fuqua was in rehab and rehab.
Hey, thanks God.
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Sorry, bud, I was going to be between you and Target and you got here first.
Don't worry, I'm only going to kill the writer.
That was the saddest part of that to me.
The writer was the only one who died
That sucks
Is that true?
Yes
Jimmy Mac yeah
I don't know he was the writer
I think they really took care of his
You know
Yeah yeah
Well everybody had taken care of
Apparently in that situation
I'm glad the other ones
They're okay
It's like already stubbed his toe
And he got like
Or no no
Fucking not all right
No he was in
Harris Stanton
Yeah
Yeah yeah
I have
I did
I when he came
When Tracy Morgan came back
I was working seller
And I was the first person
To bring him up right
And then I did that with
Louis too, right? Yeah, I did.
Very different vibes. Very different vibes.
It was Louis, it was my, not I'm going to say my, like, I didn't even think, like,
I wasn't thinking he wasn't even a question. And Louis came down, he's hanging, and I go,
you're going to go up, and he goes, I don't think, I should, I go, why wouldn't you?
And it became like a thing. People started protesting.
Did you join the protest? He looks at you. He's like, what the fuck?
It's like an Oswald thing? No, but the, uh, I did, I was not, I did a part on Tracy's
show a few years later and I had to do a scene
with him for that last OG show
I played security guard in the show obviously
and fucking I'm there and I had nothing
to say I go I don't know if remember I brought you up
at the cellar when you came back
he goes oh shit you know this guy brought me up when I came back from
whatever it is so there's the whole thing I'm like all right cool
this is kind of comfortable now so I had to go back for a second
day I go hey you're going to come back to the cellar any time soon
he goes no I got the number one show on TV why the fuck
would I come back
and then I go I go oh no I'm just saying he goes
No, come on, you've got to get out of that seller mindset.
Two days later, he's at the fucking...
Oh, my God.
That's great.
Dude, I did LASOG, and my character was drunk guy.
And I just had, like, one line with him, and that was it.
And I was like, dude, you know what?
Just fucking swing for the fences.
So instead of doing the line, I improvised, and I broke the cast.
And he was like, get him more lines.
This is my man.
And, dude, he put me in another scene and another scene at the end.
And it was awesome.
They let me, like, improv everything.
It was great.
It was incredible.
And he was like,
we got to get you on the show more,
blah, blah.
And then at the rap party,
he was like,
Tracy,
that was like the coolest thing
every goes,
I don't know who you are.
All right.
Oh, God.
When he came on set,
he was wearing a bright lime green
Rugrats sweatshirt suit,
like matching Rugrats sweatshirt.
And with one of those big jam boxes
around his shoulder,
just blasting 70s R&B
at the top of his lunges.
Oh, dude.
When I wrote on Crankankankers,
he kept us there
because he kept playing his album.
in between and he was like
do you like this and people like yeah and he goes
then listen and would replay it was it
was a comedy or no no no like armed
I think that was him oh my god
don't worry hop fang has a better chance
of listening to this that Tracy Morgan
I want to see how fang now
where are they now hop fang
was it was it you or you that I auditioned for
Danny Iello's club not me
no that was I the actor from do the right thing
yeah he had a club in Hoboken
and we got there real pictures of black
comedians on the wall
Yeah, chocolate sunda is at a different name.
Jimmy Walker.
It was vanilla Thursdays.
We got in there.
We all auditioned for Danny ILO.
No one else.
Just Danny I.O.
And then afterwards, he like played us.
He did like an album with a rapper.
So he would sing like, oh, miss a me.
And then, yo, yo, yo, yo, I'm here with Danny I.
It was like Barry Sobel.
You go up and just rap?
Do you guys remember Barry So?
Yes, I remember I'm doing the rap thing.
Dude, he was the one who took Tom Hanks around for Punchline, apparently.
Yeah, but also he came back, and I remember going to Greenwich Village Comedy Club with him.
Do you touch your dick?
And dude, no, but he had a thing for Daniel Simonson.
He loved boys with cheekbones.
And he also was like...
You and Daniel Simonson were very different vibe.
Well, dude, we were in the city together.
We moved back to...
I moved back to New York and he moved to the city at the same time.
We used to run around together.
And one night I relapsed
Oh, the funniest
I relapsed with him
But I didn't tell him
And we weren't around town
And I got fucking wrecked
And then we were smoking weed
And we go to these
We're talking to these homeless guys
And this guy's like
I used to be
I used to have so much money
Blah blah blah
And he was like
What happened
And he goes
Financial crisis at 2008
And I go
Oh were you at Stockburger
He goes no I sold drugs
Is the Stockbrook
And he goes
I would be
outside the club with bottles and drugs
they come up. I got my dick sucked
every night for six years.
And Danny goes, every night.
And he goes, yeah, motherfucker.
He goes, even Christmas.
Dude, that's a guy. I remember
I try to follow. Daniel Simons and I try to follow
them. I just fucking ate it. He's like
a guy. He's a killer, man. He's like a
subtle killer. He's so great.
He murders. But dude, when he
when they aren't on board,
it is so funny to see him just plows
through and just people like want
he just does his thing because he can it's kind of like
he's not like he's going to do something he's not going to pull out
a fucking yeah yeah yeah
that would be funny he code switches
to like well there's all right I've been dating
there's certain comedians
I'm definitely one where it's like it's not
like they don't like the jokes they don't like
you as a person and then
you're just up there with people who hate you
absolutely I've been there
they're just off putting
I had one one thing where
one guy was at the village underground and one
guy I was
dictating, I was hosting and I was eating
it so hardcore, but it was all based
of this one guy. This one guy in the front
was like, I swear to God he was dictating the vibe
of the whole crowd. Brutal. And he got
like stuck out. He was like a really well-dressed
guy and weirdly, like he had
this weird energy and when he got up to
go to the use the bathroom, because even I went up,
the next comic went up, they're getting nothing.
He gets up to use the bathroom.
The room changes for the 10, like the five minutes
he's gone. He comes back in and everybody quiets down again.
Wow. Did anyone address it?
Nobody said. I think they feel
I tried to fuck with him because I was trying to host
It was a Mormon priest and his sister wife
That's what it sounds like
It was fucking David Duke
But I was like I tried to address it to be like
Come on man like relax
Because he was like weirdly saying shit under his brother
He's like you suck
He's just a guy for happy
You're in I was like
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah and I was like throwing off
I'm like dude I'm trying to have a good time
And then nothing everybody's like
Nobody's on my side
It was like one of the most awkward things ever.
Oh, geez.
Dude, that same night that I was with Daniel, I blacked out and I passed out.
And I used a like step on the Lower East Side as like my pillow.
I'm just sleeping on the ground.
I wake up.
And it's that guy and he's like, Ian, Ian, you got to get up.
And I'm like, what?
He goes, it's me, Charlie.
From before.
Same guy.
Charlie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that we were talking to that sold drugs.
It was really no point.
I shouldn't have brought that back.
We're killing, you know.
That's like, there's like homeless locals.
That was like, oh, remember.
Well, he was like, nice.
Donovan McNabb?
McDonald's McNabb.
The guy with the silver hair.
Oh, no, no, no.
That's what he calls himself?
What?
He used to look like Donovan McVadden.
Donovan.
When I first started.
Oh, his name's Judah.
The guy with the silver stuff, the shoe shiner.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a shoe shiner?
Yeah, he's shining shoes.
There was a carpenter of this guy named Colin that would come up,
and he always had suspenders with, like, tape measure.
And he, uh, he, he,
he'd be like, hey, how you doing?
MC, how you doing?
That's what he called me.
Yeah.
And, you know, we would talk every once in a while, and I'm like, he's like,
I've been sick for a long time.
I go, what's wrong?
And he goes, I got my kidneys blown off in Vietnam.
I was in the hospital.
I go, whoa, what was that?
Like, he goes, I got blow jobs every night from the nurses.
Well, quit living in the past.
Is this like a vacation or like the actual war?
Is this the best or worse thing that ever happened?
the most positive
Vietnam flashback
there were so many
West Village characters
before the pandemic
that just like
I don't know if they like moved
or died or like whatever
and then you'd see them later
and you're like
how did it not kill it
did you survive on like
street dust
they're almost like
Nats to like the McDonald's light
when that shut down
you're like how are you even
living these days
there's even remember
you want to talk about old comedy shit
like auto shrunken head
that whole area
is so but now they have
the target there on the train
kind of down the block
but like it's better
I was like Bunga's Den
Remember Bunga's Den?
Yeah they had shows there too
But one day I'm there
I'm coming out of Otto Shrunken Head
From I think a show or a Mike
And there's a dude
And his homeless guy
I'm pretty sure he's passed out
He's fucking he's like this
He's all awkward
He's half on the street
Half in the sidewalk
There's three people around him
Like we're pretty sure this guy's dead
And I was like he looks dead to me
And everybody kind of gathered over
They're like somebody called the cops
Whatever it is
We're all like sir
Sir, sir can you hear us
sir we're like checking
and see if he's breathing
right paramedics show up
the ambulance shows up they go
Frank
he goes
he goes
he got up immediately
I was getting fucked up
at the bagging in one night
and there was a guy
they led in this
black guy
and they called him
sidewalk Sam
and I
and I was like
how why do they call you
sidewalk Sam
because I live on the
motherfucking sidewalk
sidewalk
right well that's a good reason
yeah he didn't
check out
yeah you found out his name
was Eric
so what do they call you
Sam
My middle name
That's how he talks
Can someone get me in water
Nice to see you
I hear my poetry
Oh man you know he's talking about us
On his podcast now
Yes I walk sadly enough
He's dead
Anyway
I let's wrap up the show
I want to bring up one other
One other comic that I think me
I don't know
That's all the time we have everybody
Do you know any dead homeless people?
Do you remember
You remember him, sick Rick Barbetta.
Yes.
Oh, my favorite.
What?
Sick Rick Barbetta was his act, was he would do a setup and then he'd go, then I fucking
killed him.
And he would take out an literal knife and go like this to the crowd.
He was, he was a guy like, he was.
My God, we told that story.
Thank God we got that out.
He would tell a story.
They would just go.
It was crazy.
Every story ended with him just being.
He was like he was on leave from somewhere.
That was one that me and Mike did not roast.
We were like, very good job, Mr. Barbetta.
He looked like he would try to get into the White House.
You know what I mean?
He would try to climb the fence or something.
He had that look to him.
He just looked like, like, oh, yeah, I'm going to steer clear.
He fell in the subway.
He did have a Obama's not getting a second turn.
I remember I was at, because he shredded the Epstein files themselves.
We used to see him at the Lembergouse,
and it was the same place I found out Michael Jackson died
and I was like, this seems like the place to find that out.
I was in rehab when I found out Michael Jackson died.
And Farrah Fawson, I asked the guy, this guy goes,
it was at the same week, same like day or whatever.
Yeah.
He goes, Farah Fawcett died.
I go, how old he goes, anal cancer.
Whoa.
Dude, I was at New York.
Don't make it so sexy.
I was an open mic in New York comedy club and three people in a row did Michael Jackson
is dead jokes and that's how I found out.
Immediately.
How the fuck is it?
They remember Limerick House is also a special place.
Remember the shows that would happen there on 6th and like 23rd, whatever it was?
That was the place that I saw sick.
I know, that's what I'm saying.
John Savoy and Tim Warner brought me down.
Like, he got to do our show at Limerk house, blah, blah, blah.
They get there and they're just like drunk and high and nobody showed up.
I took a bus to get here.
Dude, the worst thing is.
Were you with me when I saw the guy, it was, remember the guy, what was his name?
I was, maybe it was Tim.
I think it might have been Tim.
No, I think it was Ed.
It was Ed.
It was Ed.
Yeah, yeah.
And he wanted to be like Bill Hicks or whatever.
Remember there?
Nice, really sweet guy.
Really sweet guy.
But there was a, there was these blind people on a field trip from like their, whatever their halfway house, whatever it was.
And they were like kind of heckling during the show.
And Ed's like, he's like, you want to fuck with me?
I'll fuck with you.
And he like takes his dick out, but he doesn't take his dig out.
He just takes him and puts it like, cups it with his hand.
And so it's going like this to the blind guys.
And they're like, they have no idea what's going on.
It does nothing to me.
They have no idea what's going on.
But the handler is like, stop it.
Put it.
back.
I'm sitting there going
what are you doing, dude?
And then in back of everyone
where you perform there was a bathroom.
So in the middle of your set,
no matter how good you were doing,
someone was done taking a shit
and had to walk past you.
There was a bar downstairs,
so you would always just hear,
like, you'd be bombing
while like Celine Dion's,
my heart will go on.
You guys hurt by Johnny Cash?
Do you guys remember Jimmy Peoples,
the people's mic
you guys were
I remember the name
dude
he used to do this thing
called the burpee challenge
where if you were on stage
and someone wanted
your stage time
they would challenge you
to burpees
and whoever won
got to take the microphone
for the
for their set
and the amount of time left
and I'm on stage
you know burpees right
yeah it's like
the workout
yeah yeah yeah
so I'm on stage
and this kid goes
I challenge you to burpees
I go you know what
just have it
you need the stage on that
just take it
I'm not
doing fucking burpees and I'm not
no wonder nobody respects us
because we're willing to do calisthenics
for stage time this is fucking
stupid I'm not and everybody's like
yeah and I still had time
as I went back to my jokes
and they ate shit
and I just walked off stage
and left the venue
you shirt doing burping
I get it
I get my last burmie back to the room
alright
we had to wrap up but really quickly
just reminded me
if I can say this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
With his, he had an open mic.
Oh, my God.
John Schlaas?
No, Lee Schlaas.
This guy, like, you're consummate of Miker.
He voted worst comic in America.
Yeah, yes.
And he had a mic, he had a mic that he would do where, if you were doing well on the mic,
there'd be 10 people that if you're doing well.
In the back from the God mic, he'd go, one bonus minute.
Oh, yeah.
At the comedy village.
Yeah.
You got to keep going.
By the way, he never got one bonus.
He gave it to himself
He was like
Amlish last 20 bonus minutes
That was the guy
He was like
I've been thinking about
Killing myself
And somebody
The audience goes
Yay
It's so unwind
I think
It's amazing
Oh that rules
Well fellas
Thank you so much
You're coming
Thanks for having
So much fun
I really enjoyed it
Sean what do you want
The people to get eyes on
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I have a podcast nerd a mouth on the last podcast network. And yeah, we talk about fun nerdy shit and give
it a shot. Awesome. Daniel. When does it's coming out? Next week. Next week. Yeah. Follow me on
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into any of that shit. Me and Sean get weird. And we have some crazy. We had fucking Avilobon,
who's the head of computer science at Harvard.
It's crazy.
A bunch of big name guys for that well.
They're too time to be talking to these people.
It's funny, they still do, like, stories about bombing and try this out and shit.
He's like, what the fuck are you talking?
He's like, who is this?
He's a terrible abilob impression.
Remember when Dan asked me once, he's like, can you, what if you could be abducted tomorrow, would you?
And I'm like, could I do spots on their planet?
And they gave me shit for 20 minutes straight.
Oh, my God.
I have a group chat with Dan.
If he doesn't pay me money, I'll be really seeing his text.
Oh, I'm.
Hold my beer.
Let's be careful, blast asses.
Let's be careful.
I think I can sink you a lot easier than you can sink me.
We have our own Epstein version of Blackmail.
It gets released.
It's just the N-word 50 times in a row.
Mine's an apology.
Uses switching facial hair and moving to another country, okay?
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