Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Adam Friedland Joins the Old Boys Club

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

Adam Friedland crashes the “Old Boys Club” and immediately starts showering the guys with compliments. From there it’s a stories of Rob Schneider, Jerry Seinfeld, and a shared appreciation for Sarah Sherman. The conversation drifts into Adam’s hidden talents and Jewish jokes that crush with audiences. Things briefly get philosophical about confronting politicians on podcasts and whether comedians should be treated like modern-day thinkers. Naturally, the episode returns to safer territory with the most important cultural debate of our time: Grown Ups vs. Grown Ups 2. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's like, would you believe it? They make you cook your own food. He's like, I sure hate to go to one of them Korean whorehouses. Wait, oh, why don't you come over here and suck your own dick? They say comedians are modern-day philosophers, which is offensive to modern-day philosophy. You know, like, there are actual smart people in the world. If we meet, I will go just on my knees and just for late in public, in private, date.

Okay. You know, we always say we're not going to do these things, but let's do it. All right, Dana, we had Adam Freeland, and he's on today. We talk to him. He's got a podcast that, you know, is out there does well. He's a funny guy. He's actually a comedian. But he does a lot of some politics, some comedians.

some comedian stuff, sort of a mixed bag, right? Yeah, it's very interesting. He loves Dick Cavett, or his set is kind of based on Dick Cabot, a talk show from the 1970s. Yeah, I barely remember, but yeah. And he kind of lays back. He's got a really kind of likable personality. He's kind of pithy. He's a little bit political, and then he'll say stuff that's slightly off-kilter.

It's very interesting. Yeah, he kind of catches people off guard on his show because they don't really know where he's coming from and uh yeah but he's a comic at the root of it all and uh he knows us and we brought him on and we had a good chat with him actually some good laughs you know you never know what you're getting really but if we can get some good laugh yeah and it's uh flattering when you meet younger comedians who were kind of like excited to meet us and asking us a couple questions that was interesting but yeah he's a very charming young man and i enjoyed it here he is adam freeland Don't get mad.

I have to text the whole podcast. No, I'm done. Okay. You texting. I'm trying to text. I'm trying to get spots. No, I'm kidding. Sandler's listening to this podcast.

So every time his name is mentioned. No, you stop, guys. I say thabathu. Just as a signal to that Adam. Yeah. Yeah. This Adam is on. It's like the ear tug, the Mary Tyler Moore ear tug to her mother.

Carol Burnett. Carol Burnett. Carol Burnett. Jesus. We come from on off track. I'm blowing it right now. Guys, I'm. We can get out of 45.

Oh, my God. It's impossible. My penis is exposed to the school. Everyone's laughing at me right now. You guys are, I just, I'm a huge fan. I mean, like, it's very cool to me, you guys. I, uh, I do a talk show. And I meet, I meet people and I'm, I'm not,

nervous around anyone literally i i i i'm uh i have i've seen delusions of grandeur i i'm like i don't know i i've uh narcissism but like around you guys is like uh it's it's it is but an honor i've been a fan my entire lives of the of the both of views exactly we haven't interrupted someone thank you we want to hear the whole compliment yeah for the first time we've never that we kept our mouths shut we don't want to interrupt that flow but yeah i was the same way we're just i'm up the ladder from you. So when I met Steve Martin or something, I, Shecky Green. Yeah. Yeah.

You know about. Heshi, Teshwis. Do you know, she. Who is that? Oh, Heshi Teshuis. He was, he raped, like half of, anyway, we're going to go to a commercial and come back. And it was Adam.

We'll be back with Hollywood rape stories with our guests. Dana was on the set as a child when, when Buster Keaton was hanging off the clock. Oh, really? Yeah, BK, BK,

I said, man, that's too high. 1936. Oh, no, it's all right. I got ring lights. I got a mic under here.

Yeah. This is your grandpa's podcast. But anyway, let's go back to compliments. What do you, what do you like best about? What floats your boat about David Spade? Yeah.

Oh, nothing at all. I'm talking to you. Just shoot me. Okay. So we got to. No, no. I mean, I've seen a hundred, maybe a hundred, probably a hundred movies with you. I mean, I've seen literally every single, every single Happy Madison.

I've literally, it's a very important thing for me and my group of friends. I had a, I had a Schneider on my talk show. I saw that episode, loved it. Yeah. Come on. What are you talking about? I had a schnauzer. Yeah, I had a small dog.

He's a, he's a tall glass of water that boy. Schneider, I just saw. I had no idea. He was like, he was, he was like, he was like day. I thought I, I don't know. He was like five, two. Yeah. When I was always thought he was like six, eight.

Schneider looks so huge on camera. He has a, he's a titan. I'm telling you what, though, whatever the numbers are. The confidence Rob has, has a person. and going in the room and he's the only one will yell at him andler shit and stuff yeah that confidence makes you taller or makes you bigger it makes you forget you know yeah i you know i went to ac to see sandler perform and a schneider open for him uh for my friend's bachelor party and i i told rob i really i loved his closer uh it happened to be one of the one of the only uh uh uh

non-political judgment you being arrested no i live in new york city it's a hell escap it's a violent anti-semitic hellscape so yeah is that garbage on the streets that's what i heard so that's not nick yeah they don't have alleyways that the city planning they didn't factor in alleyways so we have garbage on the streets but you've got ma'm danny now to kind of he promised he's my friend yeah oh good yeah good i'm gonna say nice things no i probably grew up watching you guys as well. I mean, he's, he's, it's the first, like, a leader that I met with where it dawned on me that he's like, of my generation. Right. And, uh, it was like, yeah, we were like talking about like hip hop and like soccer. Like, we I have a question. Like the lame or millennial, uh, men. That, uh, can I ask you a question? So this is kind of what I

gather because I saw your, uh, precursor for your show and you got a CRT television. You know, when you do your little preamble up front. And you also, it looked like you were filming it from something deconstructed from the 80s or 90s, that segment. There was a wash over it. It was kind of dull. But it felt very retro. And I find that people who have came through the analog age, the end of it, went into the digital age, have nostalgia for that era. Like when you were a little kid, right?

So is that like an emotional touch point for you? Like, do we also trigger that with you watching us when you're like 12, 10? You're triggering something. You can't see. You can't see down here. No, but no, that that is modeled after a reference image. So the show is kind of modeled after Cavit. So it's like a long form talk show, right?

So it's a, it's the attempt to like revive some. I do a talk. I don't know. I've seen it many. many times i think you're great at it i love it and i and i love the dick cavit reference i think dick cavit has only gotten shiny and brighter as we go forward i mean his long form interviews with like robert mitcham these old-timey movie stars for like an hour it's so and then you're hearing the sirens you're hearing the sirens tiny audience so i'll watch it on youtube some nights i'll just

go on a dick tap cavit run you know yeah they really they age so well and yeah the thing that's cool about it was because of the format of like long form interview and it like free flowing conversation you could see a famous person for who they are as a guy you know totally and and talk shows that nowadays it's it's I don't even know if they make money for the networks anymore like yeah it's yeah it's like tell me your vacation your story about losing your luggage and then what's the movie and then this is the clip and it's like there are these like kind of like weird like legacy like products that just

exist because they have to be there. It's super surfacy. I mean, in the old days, I don't even know when they invented boredom. It was probably like late 80s because Tom Schneider's show was again, just like he had Dan Akron and they would talk for 45 minutes straight.

It was like no commercials. And you would learn a lot. You're right. It would go a little deeper than just, I heard you bought a dog recently and then you do your dog. Oh, yeah. And he also had Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer

and really enemies and fights and weirdness would happen on Dick Cabot and real tension, you know. But yeah, the talk shows dying. It basically late night talk shows took in about 485 million pre-pandemic between all of them. Now it's like 50% less. You know that? Isn't that great? I'm in his room.

I'm curious. I love these machines. I love to research stuff. Yeah. I love money. Yeah. I know nothing. know nothing about money i i don't know the objective really was just to like do not i did a podcast

for so long that was like quite successful come town come down nick mullen who's uh with a kindred spirit i think he's a great improviser doing characters and impressions and i thought you guys played all the youngest guy ever yeah yeah and savro so yeah there was a great chemistry between you three yeah it was it was kind of like uh just a friendship simular I guess for people because it's like you don't see people listening to a podcast so you're kind of in a living room and then like once you stop recording then you start having the argument about what to have for lunch it's it's kind of like it feels like you're in a living room with friends hanging out it was it was either overtly performative when nick would do impressions or it was so loafi and the

way you guys would even dress in your whole body language and sometimes you get really tight on the mic and kind of talk really soft and so it drew you in but my question for you is this you didn't do ads right we did yeah we did ads and pay you do the worst ads yeah okay we do the absolute worst ads ever like we had boner pill companies which are like literal pharmaceuticals we'd make really just irresponsible claims we had no idea why they're like signing up still but i think because the ads became part of the show they become like they're funny You know they're in a meeting when they're going, did you know these guys from Comtown or goofing on our? No, they love to.

Yeah. No, no, seriously. I think because people skip the reads, right? Yeah, yeah. I hate as I hit the 30 second skip. Yeah, we love our advertiser, but go ahead. No, I mean, you're you guys, I mean, some of the worst. I mean, you barely know how to read.

Yeah. No, I mean, no, but genuinely. But we were working two hours a week and then Stav was still doing the road. Nick and I got really lazy. Lazy than two hours a week? Well, yeah. I didn't have to work. I mean, I stopped doing stand-up kind of.

It was just like, yeah, I thought I sucked also. I was kind of like the like neb-ish of the show. Nick is like the funniest guy ever. Sov is one of the funniest guys ever. Like, you know, I was like, oh, I'm just like the game. like the gay Jew, you know. And then with this, with this show, it's like, uh, kind of, it's just a series of accidents. I think it started off as a joke to make me into like, a public intellectual, like,

and really, you're the new John Stewart, they said. Oh, yeah. Who's they? I'm not, I'm gonna blow it. I'm not like literally, I'm just wearing glasses. I mean, they think I'm something that I'm not. I'm just wearing. Really.

I'm a stupid guy, like, but beyond that, like, uh, yeah, this is, this is, this is, this. requires a lot of effort and like the scary thing about trying is that if you try as hard as you can you can find out that you have no talent yeah and uh what's ended up happening is that it's gone really well oh hath this all about the grooms dude spring always makes me want to hit refresh on my routines my energy and just how i'm taking care of myself but the truth is if my wellness plan feels complicated i blow it off i won't stick with that's right that's right that's right Grooons, that's been an easy solution. Yeah.

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No, no. Yeah. Comptown is gone. You like it. You should. I like the cum stain sounds so different. It's so cool that you know about Nick. It's so cool.

I had young people turn me onto it and say, really? You should go on this show and so you can riff with Nick. Wow. So he's great. That's awesome to hear. Yeah, yeah. Straight up, as they say, absolutely.

I mean, no cap, dude. I don't say that kind of stuff. I was fucking 38. That's you and Mandani over there like, no cap, Mandani. No, me of Donnie here. We have, we have plans. We have plans. We go to Soviet style.

Yeah. Soviet style plans, yeah. What kind of apartment like could I get as kind of a casual acquaintance of the mayor now through you? If I wanted a one bedroom in the village. in the village, nice, you know, what could I get it for if we connected through them, Danny? I don't think the mayor does real estate. Okay, that's an answer. Maybe I was probing in case.

We know Lorne Michaels. Here's a question I have for you. It'd be funny if he had a side, he had to get a side job. He still does open houses. Yeah, he's a real estate agent. The mayor has been destroying himself as a cocktail waitress at night. Yeah. He's in trouble.

Yeah. Would you have aspirations for S&L or have ever thought about it, that, or were you? I mean, as a kid, it was the coolest thing in the world. But I think I'm kind of too old probably now. I'm 38. I kind of have the thing going. But I'm very close with like Sarah's and Sherman. She's like one of my good friends.

That nerd. I know you guys, you guys are friends, right? That's so awesome. Yeah. Yeah. All she does is yell at me. Sarah's like, don't take that shit from her. What the fuck does she know?

I can't help. What is she done with her life? Fuck her, man. I'm like, where are you my boss? No, I mean, she's like, that's, that's like, that's like fan. Well, we love her. Can we talk about her special a little bit? I watch it the other night.

I was there. I was there for the day. You were there? It's the wildest thing and it's only her could do. And I was just, her commitment to being bananas is so good. Yeah. And attacking the audience. Go ahead.

Yeah, I think women can, I think women can do it. I think they could do comedy. For a long time, we doubted it, but I thought, you know. Yeah, this is just a recent thing. Yeah, it's like the last couple of male or female. This is an X-rated, haunted house. How many of them are funny. What?

Adam, don't even get a couple. Oh, women. A thousand million. Just kidding. They're funnier than us, of course. They tell great stories. Well, no, no, I'm just making fun of Sarah. No, no.

We had to give it up. We were in that mode back in the 80s for, you know, Nord Dunn didn't think they were represented. And then all the sudden, Sherry O'Terry and Tina Faye and Kristen Wigg and, you know, that the women kind of took over the show. Yeah, they did some ways. I'm just, I thought that it was the old boys club. I thought this was kind of stuff you guys said.

I don't even believe that. I do it during the world. I think women are fabulous. Now, and so funny. And there's stories. They really. go somewhere and they're really interesting and they went to CVS. Are you, are you reading a lot?

Where are you getting this point of view? Now, this is just talking on top of his head. I, I'm going to sign all that. I mean, I'm teased. I don't believe that. No, I'm too. I'm in your frequency right now. I get all my.

Sarah, but Sarah is special is disgusting and revolting. And it's, it's so fun. And she's, she's so, she's so, she's a singular voice and she's, And she's a lovely friend. When you're genuine, it's kind of sickening. I know, it's disgusting. It sounds like I'm like trying to molest you or something. Yeah, I'm like molesting with compliments.

Yeah. There is mullet. Standup is kind of boring a lot of time. I don't know. You know, when you, hey, everybody. I hate it. I've masturbated in front of my cat and the elbows on the mic. And Sarah never is boring.

She walks out and goes to this guy. You act like you don't have a butthole. that's like i'm like okay she's she's already got us she's doing stuff that's very different very hard to find it well i like that was she took the Seinfeld riff and she would press a button do it a little i didn't know you could do that like i thought i'm phil and go you can't have it no sorry to jerry she doesn't get in trouble for doing that right would you have to I had to talk to Jerry. And Netanyahu.

I had to talk to both them. They're fine now. Did you hear my joke that I was saying that all my exes got a podcast now? It's called Didn't Come Town? Really? Don't say that. I'm sure they were. By-back saying,

yeah, I'm going to do the Seinfeld base for the rest of the time we do the podcast. I saw a video recently of how they did. it and it was a synthesizer. I thought my entire life was a slap bass. Yeah. Don't do this to me. Okay. There's a YouTube video of the composer with the music. Yeah, it's all, yeah, and he's doing it live to the episode. No. Yeah. But it blew my mind. It was like I thought, yeah, I thought I'm so old. I was on a lot at CBS Radford when we were doing just shoot me. Oh, a couple of people remember. And also they were doing Seinfeld. And I'd see him on his bike. It was the greatest lot.

Of course, just filed for bankruptcy. The lot, terrifying in L.A. Thanks, Karen, Bass. Thanks, Gavin. Your friends. I'm kidding. Whoops. Who is that?

I don't know. I'm just trying to put blame some more. The Hollywood industry is dying. He's on your show? Yeah. Who is? Who is? Who is the beef up?

Fucking Hollywood. Bring it back. Who's going on? Let me a list. I would say. This is a great idea. I'll text you some ideas because we'll get this back in track. It's Gavin Lissom.

Is that the guess is? Yeah, yeah. Okay. I have a three next week, three big ones. Yeah. The Hollywood studio system is dying. The amount of productions is dying. And so they have to do something.

So more production comes back. And that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing, you know, the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania. Boston, Atlanta. Romania, Bulgaria, Zanzibar. So do you like put it in an email or maybe a video? If you guys are saying it, you guys are legends, he might be like, oh, you should say we have a question from a couple of constituents. And then I'll go, hi, I'm Dave.

Hi, I'm Dana. Listen, you're ready, lost Schneider. You don't want to lose them. What? They're poison in our water. No. You were saying his last joke isn't political. Oh, the Korean.

Yeah, the Koreans. barbecue joke. What is it? I don't know. It sounds like I go to one of these Korean barbecues. He's like, would you believe it? They make you cook your own food. He's like, I sure hate to go to one of them Korean whore houses.

Wait, oh, why do you come over here and suck your own debt? Why do you come over here and fuck your own ass? Yeah, it's just like it's so stupid. Well, I love you guys. I love, you know, Adam. You ready for Adam? I love fake Outrage is so great.

They make you suck your dad. Well, no, they don't. He's like, it's kind of lazy. That's like lazy. There's one of his jokes. We just saw him on his first Letterman. We were all friends. Actually, Sandler, me, Judd.

We were all friends right before we all got us. We're doing stand up in the Valley and shit. And Schneider was the first one to get Letterman. We all loved fucking Letterman, of course, and the show. And so he got it. And I was on TikTok. the doctor the day and it was so he had it such a funny unique look he looked like a little cowboy shirt and he had a big pompador and he's like did he do elvis he did elvis on a fish hook and he did

elvis on a fish hook that got him s and l i think yeah i think that was so weird he did how you say dude when you're in l a there's different ways of saying it he had one where he goes my parents when i uh one time they spilled uh uh uh i spilled like uh no no he hit his knee on the car coffee table and he was a little kid and his mom would hit the coffee table and go bad coffee table bad and uh and then he'd feel better because she goes we make it even here you were bad and so he goes to bed and then his dad wakes him up at two in the morning hey rob your mom just spilled some hot oil in the coffee table come on out here we got to make it even you know our policy so was he the first like breakout of your of your crew did I say it wrong there's no

I worked with them in San Francisco. Maybe. No, I mean like when you guys were all like, yeah, you guys, no, yeah. Spate and Schneider came as like a duo somehow. We got hired together. We were, we audition at the same time, got hired as writers. Adam, I think, was doing remote control.

So I think he was sort of known a little bit in that world of MTV, which is a big world back then. Yeah, he was on MPV. MTV. He struggled. I am poor boy. He struggled for, I think it was like 13 weeks when he got to New York. And then he got a TV show. So Sandler had a lot of stuff going on. Undeniable. Yeah, undeniable. But yeah, no way. I knew Rob and, well, from San Francisco and then that Spade in L.A. So and Dennis Miller, we both knew them and sort of. Help the tacitly. How about these guys? And then you only had like 10. minutes right at the time david or 15 yeah probably 15 i was not a headliner for shows maybe a middle they came in as writer features basically right yeah yeah wasn't a writer either it couldn't it was a we couldn't even get a right it could you do for your audition just stand up he's talk

on me or dana what yeah what would you guys do like i think i know what did you and i think did characters you did characters right well yeah yeah basically uh chatting in between but but but i i was seen in a club which was lucky because i auditioned for s and all the comedy store and a cattle call and followed sam kennyson with no mc in between at midnight and bombed epically and the s andl people were there but not lorn and then later on lorn was the show was coming around so i went to a small club on the west side and lorne came with share and i got to do 40 minutes to stand up with a regular audience but i still had to audition again uh jim carrie was there too and and Phil Hartman at a studio and stand in front of maybe five cast members,

Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, Lauren Michaels, some assistants, and do kind of chatty stand-up, you know, just doing characters. Did you get laughs? Like the thing is you get no laughs, right? Not in that one, not with Lord everybody. You just have to really- Well, I done chopping, I did something and then there was a fire alarm, so there was 10 minutes of nothing.

And I'm just standing there. And then Lauren goes, oh, is that pretty much, do you have anything else or is that it? It's just a song. Is that all right? And I thought later that his aloof coldness was trying to find out, can you take live TV and not blow it? Because the tension was, I think, intentionally, he ratchets it up to make you nervous and see if you can handle it. I said, I got a lot more bitch. And then you went, oh.

You're like, I'm just waiting to see if there's a real fire. Can we leave? Well, Sarah, actually, speaking of our friend Sarah, Jesus. In the middle of her second show taping, the lights fucked up. And she was like, she had a ton of momentum.

The lights fucked up. And then she had to come back out cold. And it was giving me heart palpitations. Like as a comic, because it's like it's a it's a special taping yeah and I was like I was like nauseous I like she had to get the fucking momentum back and I was like I was so stressed out that was a goiter yeah I said she's dressed as a goiter or some bitch she's doing she's dressed some sort of clowns psycho we were on the road this is a literally a clown's outfit

she goes I know I go do you have any normal do you have a fucking you know, pencil dress. She's one of those people would be like, take one day to know her and 20 years to believe it. You know? Because that's really, that's really her. Yeah. She's really, she's not putting on a thing.

I mean. On stage, that's not really her. She's an annoying Jewish girl in real life. But that's so her in the sense of what she wants to do. It's so easy. It's humor. Yeah.

You know. But anyway, that, God, David, what did you, what did you do? Oh, I just, uh, much. Just Santa. Didn't really knock the Richter scale. I did, supposed to be doing 20 at, I think, Catch Rising Star. It was a light crowd, probably half S&L, it's right, 10 people, then a half, 10 other people.

And I did, I did 12 minutes, I think, because it wasn't going that well. And then, and then Schneider went on. You've gone SNL from a bad set? Yeah. Well, they'd see. me on the young comedian special. So I was already foot in the door. And we had the extra push of being with Bernie Brillstein and that that company had a lot of

SNL people. Lauren Michaels was a client. And they got Dana, like Dana Neuess and a little bit and a Dennis push. So that'll help. And then Dennis was saying they're going to mostly look at your writing of the jokes, not really if you're a polished road act. And so I think they just liked that it was like sort of a weird act. and I looked a little younger and you know they pay like he said it normal like that he didn't say like

that that was like Hannibal crossing the alps chat she he didn't say like that way he said he did say before i went out he goes he said it normal you go i'm a little nervous now he goes well don't worry he goes he goes you don't want to kill too hard they're going to think you're some polished road dog shit act and i go so don't do well and they're like and you're on i'm like wait don't get laugh so i go on and uh And then I got off and I was going to fuck it. And then Schneider went on and Tom Kenny went on. And then we got a call a couple days later on a pay phone, old man alert.

And then they were like, Rob just happened to be walking by one. We were waiting for a call like in a line. It was the matrix. Yeah. And they go, oh, it was like someone from Brillstein saying. Gervitz or someone saying, oh, the good news are going to hire you as feature player writers. I'm like, I don't want to write it. It's going to be a on this fucking show.

And then they go, you got to write for everybody. Like, Dana, everyone's better than us. I'm like, I don't know how to write these guys. I don't know how to write a sketch. So it took a long time, especially for me. Rob picked up a little quicker. Sandler picked up very quick. And David would sit behind me in the read-through.

We're all reading the scripts and there's like 50- Die, die. And then Lauren would always say to me just to mess with me, David's ready whenever you fall. David's right there. Because David, you know, we kind of look like we're from the same tribe or he's my little brother or whatever so it was a natural thing of like it was like being in the quarterback room with like brett far and you're like hey so you're gonna stick

around another year and he's like i think that one more in me i'm like oh that's great and they're giving great massages here at the jets so i got to stay around for another year remember his weener yeah i remember yeah i still talked his weeners sometimes no i'm kidding he's been his wiener around remember this one time he sent it to some sports reporter or yeah early dick pick drama uh-huh are you an artist not really yeah oh him oh i i didn't do this but i've no on a side i put it in at freeland and then it went to it said tour this and that and then it showed these really cool paintings he is not oh yeah i'm not no during covid i just painted a little bit yeah you have there's a painting of george w bush getting the word about 9-11 yeah i think that was the

best one i did you did those too you yeah i did the comedian and then you did the comedian crying or whatever which uh which one was uh you host uh oh yeah i did this steve harvey yeah the steve harvey uh okay so i thought where am i this one a weird sight so okay all right hidden talents is that i don't I don't even know that that's still up on the internet. Yeah. I did it. I did a deep dive. I should get rid of that.

Is Epstein still alive? Five seconds. Go. Epstein's still alive. You have five seconds. Well, if he's still alive, then he's quite rudely ghosting me. Quite rudely. He's getting bad press lately.

Have you noticed? He's a, you know, it's just this anti-Semitism has gone out of control you know what it is if he's like why he's going to need one of those crisis PR people I think he definitely will get a lot of digging out of hold as evil as possible yeah anti-semitism is out there man yeah and actually I did a show it was like the worst show of my life recently um but it was like sorry um Richard Kodd did my my talk show and then he asked me to co-host a charity event I didn't know know what it meant. And then like 45 minutes before, they were like, it's a roast of Richard Kahn

hosted by the roastmaster general himself, Mr. Jeff Ross. And I was like a row. I didn't have a set. I'm like, I'm freaky out. So I fart out like some jokes. And I get there. And it's just 97 year old billionaire Jewish grandparents. And I'm like, what is this for? I didn't like, I was like, I don't know where I am. And, and I was like, I was told that Jeff Ross is going to be the roastmaster. So I was like, I wrote some nasty crap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real nasty blue crap.

Yeah. So like, I go out and there, I was like, I don't, guys, I don't know if I should say this is a little bit, a little bit crude. And they're like, say that job. And I was like, like, like a lot of like a lot of people like Richard Kahn like changed his name when he moved to Hollywood. like John Seward was once named John Liebowitz and Richard Kyn was once named and it was like, Zalman the rapist. And then it just crushes.

The old people like love that joke. And I was like, I was like, how is this possible? It was like, and then I'm like, you know, but relax guys, it's a family name. It was, it was rapist and it was, in fact, his grandfather, Moshe Rapist was the first rapist in Hollywood. when he founded the creative artist agency. And there have been rapists throughout the industry ever since.

And then it dies when I say that. It's a weird crowd. Oh, it went from a throw away to a theme. Oh, you got a one shot. You're a one shot wonder. This is the crap I wrote in the subway. I was like, I'm freaking out. I was like, I have to get through this.

And so then I'm like, you know, and then I was like, you know, it's going fine. I'm like, I'm surviving, right? And it's basically, I'm happy. I'm happy, I'm happy with how it's going. Yeah. I was like, I wrote a, I wrote a movie for Richard. Recently, I pitched him.

It's called the first Jew who died in the Holocaust. And I was like, it's about a guy who's in line for the train to Auschwitz. And he was complaining about whether or not he could use his points for business class. Good. And they liked it. They liked it. Yeah. All the other Jews is like, take him.

He's horrible. And so then the last joke's there. And then I was like, oh, I guess it's a roast. I got to go around the dais. So all I have left on the page. Right. I'm like, well, Jeff Garland's here from Curbrier Enthusiasm. Hey, you fat fuck.

And then Jeff Ross is here. Like, oh, don't give me. I forgot what I said. We know, I know what you did. I had nothing, right? Well, that's funny. And I look at the crowd. And I'm like, and Jeff Epstein's here.

Where the hell of you been? dead like just the worst silas i've ever heard my entire life and horrible like you know what i joked bobs you hear a couple chuckles is like it's like the air has left the room yeah and i'm like saying that it's the last thing i have to say and i'm like it's topical it's like that's like that's your closer the news i'm like it's not my quote what do you talk about my closer i mean that was the last thing on the page it was just the last thing on the page and i'm like And I'm like and then Richard kind of like looks to me. He's like Adam, I think it's because he's dead.

And I'm like, oh, I didn't mean his his body is barely cold. You know, I didn't I didn't mean to speak ill of the noted sex trafficker and pedophile. That one's Jeffrey Epstein. I love it. And then my friend is in the crowd and this old guy turns over me. He's like, hey, I knew Jeffrey Epstein. Oh. To me, I didn't even there.

Oh, there is buddy. Oh, that wouldn't. I got off the stage. And someone was like, actually, I think he was a major donor to this organization. It's a charity that we're doing an event for right now. Yeah. And I was like, I didn't know it was a real guy. I thought I was like from the news.

When do they get up on this guy? He's fucking, they got some data now. It's a guy from dinner. It wasn't like it's a real person to them. And so it's just I literally ran away. I like the idea of you on the subway going there going, does anyone have have rape jokes and everyone's trying to help you and so they like like a rom-com. Zalman the rapist they love.

Yeah. You started with your closer and you well, that's the rhythm of a great joke. Well, it just sounds like someone from like a small village in. Yeah, it's it's kind of quaint. You don't expect there's like one guy that's the, the fool, the village idiot. Yeah. The right. Like a hunchback.

He's the rape. You know the butcher or the rapist. Yeah. And the hunchback. A local rapist. Yeah, standoffig is delicate. I've done those events. Neil Young and every, the crowd stills in Nash were in the audience,

some kind of benefit in LA somewhere. And the same kind of thing. Just crickets. Blams away. Yeah. Neil, Neil just sat there kind of stone face. I mean, he was probably waiting to go on, you know. But yeah, Neil is cool.

But it was just that situation. You just triggered me. And I know you can't see. He was busy searching for a heart of gold. I've done so many, so many corporate gigs where I bombed. Dana, I can't even imagine Dana bombing, but I guess it happens. I have my tricks, but I, you know, I try to levitate the room. I have a sickness when I was in the clubs in the early days.

If you didn't kill, you didn't move up and you didn't get rehired. So there was just like doggy dog must kill and must get a steady ovation, must, or I'm dead in the water. So I've just carried that with me. So I go to these corporate dates. I still want to kill and it's kind of hard when they've had dinner and it's like 11. You know, it's a good bit to do last night. I was at the comedy store and I do my set and I get off. It was either Harlan Williams or Santino is next.

And I go, I get my applause, which is just fine. It's not crazy, but I get off and I see them about to walk on. I go, ooh, encore. And then I go right back behind the curtain. They think I'm going to run back on. And they're so pissed. So like, no, but of course I was. Can we ask you about.

So funny. Yeah, he is just that. The last of my. I saw it like a couple of years ago. I'm like, he blew my mind. Harland is underrated because one of the funniest. He's one of the funniest. He's one of the funniest kills there.

And you don't hear that much Bob. This isn't the negative thing. It's just it's a positive thing. Meaning he gets good spots and there's a reason he gets these good juicy spots. He does he does well. Was he the one or did the. stand-up special there's somebody who did one just on a mountain by themselves with no audience was that harland somebody did that i mean did that during covid didn't they do it was no audience i yeah the camera

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We were sick of podcasting. And that's, like, how we were paying. for the talk show so we both were like let's just stop doing the podcast uh and then i kind of went dark for four months hired a staff and now i'm kind of producing this talk show once yeah but now i'm back on the road so i'm in philly this weekend and yeah have you had any confrontations on your podcast with big world leaders or important people uh quamo world leaders well i didn't have a conversation with him i got along with him really well yeah uh on the show i this guy richie torres we had a thing that went sideways about politics you know it's just like

you don't want to be a major thing i i want to resist doing is like people think comedians are smart now like you know like oh yeah i don't want to speak from a position of authority in any way that i don't I don't qualify. Like I could do the homework and then present that I know these things, but it's a lie. Right? Instead I could rather like talk to someone and ask them, ask some questions that I feel comfortable asking instead of like whenever I hear a comedian like spouting off about shit that trying to be smart, it's like you become a blow hard, right?

Like so I don't want to, I don't want to do that. I call it becoming a teacher. Like I am a stand up, but I'm going to. Just like, shut up. Yeah. Talk about donor kills. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Norm had a really good quote once that was like, that was like they say comedians are modern day philosophers, which is offensive to modern day philosophers.

There are actual smart people in the world, you know. And he happened to be like one of the smartest guys, you know, but it's just like. It's not really us. We shouldn't be like, the thing is, is like the platforms are so big, now like 10 times more people are listening to rogan every day than watching CNN. Anything. Yeah. So, so there's like this, you know, just by virtue of the fact that the platforms are so big, they're getting a ton of attention.

But for me, personally, in my show, I have to make a conservative effort of like what I want to do, which is like if, so if I have a politician, I'm not going to study up on like specific legislation, but instead I could be like, you know, like, you know, no one likes it. the government and everyone hates you like why do you want to be in it right like that's a question yeah that's a question i feel comfortable asking and then you get an interesting answer to it too that they're not they don't have they don't have talking points they're not ready for that one yeah yeah and you do both sides when you do interviews what do you mean both sides like right left who republican democrat yeah yeah yeah i've had right uh that guy scott from cnn from the

argument yeah yeah he's that guys are so much fun on that show. Oh, he is. Is he where he sits down and argues that? He's like, shut. That what is that show? It's just a live argument. It's more people. Well, it's kind of Yeah. It's like the United Nations of you or something. Yeah, they're all agreeing with each other one after it's a circular thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then they come to Scott. Oh, wait a minute. I mean, it's kind of entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. Scott's lucky because he gets half the lines, right? Yeah. Just want to him. He gets 50% of the time. He's cooking on that show. But I had him on the show. And then like, you know, and then I've, I've had, you know, people on the like, I don't want to be partisan also. Like I have my own opinion.

I'm not going to be like of the left or of the right. I'm just a person. And if someone says something that sounds like retarded. If someone says something that sounds stupid. I think secular trends are a way to talk about politics without. being political. In what way? Okay, we, for better for worse, we have a $38 trillion debt. What's that about? You know? Yeah.

What are we going to do with homeless people, literally, in the big cities? I mean, stuff that should be a problem for everybody. And then it's a matter how you want to solve. Yeah. Sometimes you want to be like, what's like, what's the food like at the cafeteria in Congress? Or like you want to be like, you know, like, you know, how, yeah. when met Trump, they're like, yeah, what were like the weird things that he showed you? Right.

You know, sometimes you kind of want to get like a three dimensional picture of who these guys are. And then you kind of see how like normal or fucking weird the people are that are in these positions. And I think like actually seeing people for who they are is actually very helpful. So if I'm like asking them about even just like, you know, their backgrounds, like, I had one politician on and I was like talking to his comms team. And I was like, you know, does he like fucking, does he play guitar? I was like, I can't find anything. And they're like, he likes walking around and hot dogs. And I was like, he sounds like the BTK killer.

I was like, you guys have to make something up. Everyone, everyone's got to get him a tattoo or a snake. I mean, this is walking around and hot dog. Yeah. They don't know anything. They are nothing. And it's, it's, you give them power. a financial advisor they use all these funny terms to kind of ravism attach you they're just dudes

in a room they you know they're taking taking his shit fuck these people yeah never give experts power you know especially with modern day information you know i don't know i think they we just they need to do a good job probably yeah doesn't seem like they're doing a good job a lot of them have they ever they're i don't know yeah i think they've done a good job a couple times maybe well maybe we are doing a better day pass like the civil rights act that was pretty good yeah maybe this is the best it gets you know because people go no it's very trashy it's very it's it's it's like they wear hoodies and stuff now i we got to bring back the yale guys that do like satanic blood rituals like it was at least it was class did they ever really go away at least it was classy yeah

it's how you get you go on facebook live and have a meltdown on cvs and being congress like six months later. Yeah, it's a little white trash. It's like, yeah, I just, they used to have class. They used to kill. Hey, they did kill the president. They'd kill the brother. They'd kill it. But they had class. Yeah. All right. We're ending on that because that's a good up. Are you on? Are you on the way of the airport? Yeah. Oh, guys, I've been like a, like a 10 year old so nervous and I hope you've enjoyed it but genuinely speaking my legends I mean first of all I don't take compliments well I didn't react earlier I really I want to fuck your dick when I if we meet I will go just on my knees and just for late in public in

private done day's okay you know we always say we're not going to do these things but let's do here's what we're going to do on May 9th Netflix is a joke you're at the region theater Yeah, we're going to get a ticket. They sold the first one. David and I're going to be, we're not going to let you know, but we're going to be sitting in the back. And right before you go on, they're going to go spade and carve you here.

They want to see what you got. Some jokes might sound familiar. From our act. Like my chopping broccoli opener. You can have that. I love it when people do. Yeah. Yeah.

But the other broccoli called broccoli, brocolina? Yeah. I have a big Joe Dirt closer that I've been doing. A Dickie Roberts chunk in full costume. Bandiformers. Yeah. Thank you for coming.

Can I ask you a sincere question? Sure. You think Brod-ups two is better than one? That's a whole other podcast. Okay. I will tell you in person. Two is one of the funniest movies of all time. You like two better?

I like two better. I'm a two guy. That's a split. I have to say. It's a split. With Tommy Boy and Black Sheep, it's 90% Tommy Boy. Tommy Boy. And grownups to, it's almost 50.

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