Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #194: "Inside Jokes" with Neil Berkeley and Rosebud Baker

Episode Date: December 13, 2018

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Oh, what's the new thing called? What new thing? Are we getting this? I was going to do that part, but you can't. I fucking love you, Gilbert. I fucking love you, Gilbert. I fucking love you. It's called Inside Jokes. Have you met Neil?

I'm Neil Berkley. You all made our documentary, Gilbert? Yeah. Yeah. His producer, Maggie, is saying what he said. Here we go, Frank. We've traveled together. We got some of that.

We've traveled together. That would be great. Off you go, Frank. We've traveled together. We've got some of that. We've traveled together. That would be great. Off you go, Gilly. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopadre, and this is another episode of Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. Now, the guest I think I know. One of them.

He actually did. He directed and filmed my documentary called Gilbert which got yes got great reviews I just want to bother you with tiny portions go ahead tenderly observed remarkably

insightful keeper you may or may not walk away from Gilbert a gottfried fan but either way the movie makes you glad he exists who said this uh not not no one you're trying to okay are these critics yeah and uh he's a comedian this is a j a genuine self-effacing man without a blah, blah, blah. That's important. Way to sell it, Gilbert. Whatever it is.

Anyway, he made the film Gilbert. That's true. Hi, Neil. Hi. Good to see you again. Thank you very much. And who did you bring with us this week, pray tell? I brought a subject of my latest work, Rosebud Baker.

Hello, Rosebud. Hello. I know all about it. What's it about? I want more names. Tell us about Inside Jokes. And so I happen to know it's called Inside Jokes. And which channel is it on without looking?

Well, I'd want to give you a chance to talk. Sure, of course. I'll give you a hint. It's a streaming service. It starts with an A. An A? Yeah. Amazon?

Hey! Not that I didn't know. What a seasoned pro. Yes. Well, Neil is here to talk about his brand new, as Gilbert pointed out, six episode, do I have that right? Six episodes on Amazon Docu-series We calling it a docu-series?

Amazon Prime, it's a docu-series Yes, it follows seven comedians as they audition and prepare and go to Just for Laughs in Montreal, the comedy festival To perform in the New Faces Showcase, which is a very important thing in comedy that not many people know about. No one knows about it, but it's a very, very big deal. Nobody but comedians. Comedy insiders know about it, but it's not known. Yeah, the thing I tell people is like,

it used to be you go on Carson, you go to the couch, and you get to be famous after this. And nowadays, being on Tonight Show is not, a lot of people have Tonight Show sets or Late Show sets, but only 20 people a year get to go to new faces so kevin hart did it amy schumer did it uh pete davidson michelle wolf exactly yeah kumail mel nangiani yeah do you know that i'm obviously rosebud everybody knows from Citizen Kane. Yeah.

But do you know where? Oh, God. What the... Oh, God. I know. She knows. You know. She knows. You know.

Yeah, it's a genre. Yes, this is a famous legend. Uh-huh. Why don't you tell us about it? Because, you know, Citizen Kane was based on on william randolph hearst right and william randolph hearst was going out with what the fuck was marion davies marion davies and she was a starlet he was trying to make her into a star she had limited talent yeah although they say the difference was that Marion Davies actually did have talent,

whereas the one in the movie. Dorothy Commingore. Yeah. Right, right, right. But, yeah, go ahead. According to legend. Watch you dig the hole. William Randolph Hearst called Marion Davies, well, let's see, her cunt, Rosebud.

That was his pet name. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Well, it's close, Gilbert. C-U-N-T Rosebud. That was his pet name. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Well, it's close, Gilbert. C-U-N-T Rosebud? Yes. Wait, what's close? Yes. He's going to make me say this.

It was actually her clitoris. Her clitoris was Rosebud? Yes, not to get too clinical. I thought it was her entire carcass. It's also a genre of porn that involves a prolapsed anus, which is also a nice namesake for myself as well as a comedian. Now, this show is educational. I say it every week.

Wait, there's a type of porn that just has to do with the clitoris? No. Never mind. Just even... More specific. Never mind. More specific. A pro...

No, don't go there. Okay. I just do a lot of troublesome Google searches for people. You know too much about the origin of your own name. I do. Is the problem. I do. I should change it.

Yes. Rosebud was the sled in Citizen Kane. Yeah. And one of the reasons, the alleged reasons that Hurst was so upset with Orson Welles and the movie, among other reasons. He said, that's not Marion's cunt. Was the name Rosebud for the sled was allegedly taken from his private life. Yeah.

And was off-limits information. And like newspapers. Are you regarding this yet? You're getting in here? This is newspapers. This doesn't even touch the surface of what I've talked about on podcasts. Newspapers back then were scared to run ads for Citizen Kane. Correct.

Really? Because William Randolph Hearst owned everything. And threatened retribution against the papers that would advertise the movie. Yeah. Yes. Good stuff. Yeah. But let's get back.

It's historic. Two inside jokes. Yeah. Yes. Good stuff. Yeah. But let's get back. It's historic. Two inside jokes. We digress. How did this happen, Neil? How did it come about? I'm a big fan of inside jokes. It's currently

on Amazon. We're going to attempt an interview. Howie Mandel, how was Howie involved? It happened because after I finished the movie about Gilbert, one of my ideas was to follow, one of my things was,

I would love to follow a comedian around for a while while they write jokes. But I was with Gilbert for six months and your material is, you know. Yes. It's not written in this and i i pitched this idea to a producer and he went and he called me one day and he said hey i just talked amazon i think i sold that idea about following comedians around as they get their material

material together uh and i told them you're going to direct it so it all happened very fast i mean that was in december and then in january we were shooting the auditions. It was all very, very quick. Here it is. So the Gilbert talk was obviously instrumental. Oh, yeah, for sure. No, that movie's opened up a ton of doors for me. Didn't do shit for me. No, that movie's been very, very good for me.

Fucking waste of time. Gilbert, many, many more people know about your obsessions. Yes. And you're collecting shampoo bottles and you're washing your socks in the sink. I don't know how many tweets I've gotten. More and more hotels are doing this thing where the shampoo and lotion are nailed to the wall and you pump it out. Yeah. And I get all these tweets saying uh we're really

sorry you've played a role in it and so rosebud how did you get involved how did um i well i met neil uh at the auditions for jfl it was my first time just for laughs for our people for our listeners who don't know and uh and i was i was auditioning for the first time and then I remember when I got off stage there was a camera there and we walked up to the camera and they asked us like I don't know I think they asked me like who am I competing against or something I forget what it was but I just sort of blabbermouthed into the camera walked walked away, and then I got a call. Basically, like, can we follow you around for a little while? Then they went back to L.A., pitched it to Amazon, I guess.

And then they came back, and we were gearing up for callbacks. And they were basically in my house every day. Right. Yeah. I saw you in episode two last night while walking your dog. Yeah. Yeah. Bama?

Bama. How's Bama? Bama. Oh, boy. Bama's dead. Oh dead oh i'm sorry i'm sorry to bring it up okay so we shot this a while ago our dog's dead too i said okay so we're up to a good start wow her dog's dead and I don't know what, you fucking show school. Other than that, we're off to the races. So, Neil, the pitch here was that it's just people who could be in any walk of life. They just happen to be comics. Yeah, that was my pitch.

I think they thought it would be more competitive, more comedians going after each other and all this. But that was boring to me. I always say it's a show about people that happen to be stand-ups. Right. Like, you know, the Gilbert movie has, it does a stand-up, but it's mostly about Gilbert and the kids and Dara. To me, the personal stories are far more interesting. So it does get into their personal lives and who they are and where the jokes come from.

And how were these seven hopefuls decided upon? A combination of, it was a couple things like that they have to audition to be in a in a series about auditioning no no no so they auditioned for just for laughs and after the after the show we would talk to the judges and i would say it was funny and they would tell us it was funny and why but that interview that she's talking about that she walked up to was really how we found out the personal stuff like it was five questions you know where are you from how'd you get into comedy tell us about your backstory um it was a combination of them being interesting as people and funny as comedians so it wasn't just about got it stand up it wasn't just because they were funny right which leads

us to the question rosebud how did you get into comedy and why because gilbert has talked about many many times on this show how he got into it at the age of 15 when as you like to say what you were too numb too dumb to know better yeah too stupid to know any better yeah and it's now when people tell me they're an aspiring comic i think what the fuck are you doing you know it's like you know you could fill out a form at mcdonald's and it makes sense you know you'll you'll have like a job there you know you you press the button that says big mac and fries and coke and it's like back so i wasn't thinking now I think in terms of the competition and the rejection and all that. Back then, it was just too stupid to think about it. Well, you don't have comedians in the family.

You're an outlier? Yeah, I'm an outlier. Okay. I would be the first. I think I just had the worst year of my life, and I just had no pride left. So I was like too sad to know any better, I think. And I went and did an open mic, and I just decided, okay, I'm just going to keep doing this. And then it kind of snowballed.

Like it just became a compulsion. Did you see it as therapeutic? Is that why you went up the first time? I don't know what I saw it as. Because you were sort of at a low point? Yeah. I mean, maybe it was just the first time I'd felt excitement in a while. I mean, honestly, it was like I felt a pulse again.

You wanted the stimulation of it. Yeah. But you talk about it. Gilbert, you talked about it. When you first started, you had an addiction to it. You've talked about that, that you were just like you had to do it every night yeah i when i first started it it was like there could be a war going on outside with you know rifles and hand grenades and i would like you know i'd walk to the club and and it didn't matter what was happening i had to I had to get on stage.

Yeah. Compulsion. Now I feel like, you know, they offer to pay me and everything, and they'll pay me and, you know, fly me out. And I go, I don't want to go on. So you've done a 180. Yeah. You went from the compulsiveness, the compulsion to having to do it,

to now you can't be bothered. Yeah, yeah. Pretty much. It's like, well, I'll go. It's gotten, when I'm on stage, it's fine. It's like, it's kind of, I compare it to standing by the water in a pool or the ocean, and you're dipping your toe in and it's freezing cold and you go i don't want to go in there that's horrible and then when i'm in there it's fine one

time me and gilbert were in minnesota and he was doing two shows you know the seven o'clock and nine o'clock whatever and they come in during between shows and they give him the envelope with the check and he goes, oh, do I have to do the second show? They pre-paid him for the second show. All these years you never pulled the fire alarm. Yes. You just held a lighter up to the sprinkler system. I know that's your secret desire. You also said when Howie was here

that something very interesting that I never heard you say, that you would have been at home just going from club to club, spending the entire day and night on stage. Back then, if you said, we'll just put you on, just come over, we'll put you on, I would have stayed up till like, you know, 4 o'clock in the morning. Well, we were already staying up till 4 o'clock. I would have stayed up till like 10 o'clock in the well we were already staying up till four o'clock and i would have stayed up till like 10 o'clock in the morning uh just doing it one right after the other if they arranged it that way you're you relate to that road yeah i remember i stood out in the freezing cold i had no idea how unhappy i should have been and i was it was probably when they had that polar vortex

i think it was 2013 and it was negative 14 degrees and i was standing outside of the village lantern barking for people to come in so that i could do five minutes uh and i and i did one show after another just doing that to get stage time right because people that don't are that aren't in comedy and that don't live in this world know that it's not just the onstage struggle right it's the dealing with the offstage the barking and the bringer shows yeah all the various bullshit and that's what the show is about these are people it's i always say you have a show yes it's called tell us the title because gilbert won't inside jokes Amazon Prime. It's on the internet. Or your phone.

Amazon streaming. And your name again. Neil Berkley. Okay. Thank you. You might like my early work. But what were you saying before? I mean, it is about that.

There's some episodes that don't have a lot of stand-up because it is about that struggle. I always say, imagine you saw a show about Kevin Hart before he became, before he filled arenas. Or any of them. Like right before that happened. This is where these people are.

They're still, they're just like. Oh yeah, right before I fill an arena. Just two days before I fill an arena. Or, yeah,

or this is the moment where they're still like trying to make ends meet. Right. Just trying to find, there's so many times where we shot them doing stand-up for free or having to buy a beer to get five minutes on stage. Seeing some of those venues.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I've spent a lot of time in comedy clubs, not as a performer, but I've seen some – I remember one time after I'd been doing comedy for a while at all those clubs and they weren't, they paid zero. And I went into, I was supposed, somebody wanted me to meet them at some bar. And I was sitting at the bar and the bartender comes over to me and says, oh, you want anything? I said, no, I'm meeting someone here.

And they brought me a coke and i said i didn't order this and he said no what are you sitting there i and i thought oh christ someone actually brought me a free coke because you couldn't get a free soda at these fucking clubs have things improved any any? No, not really. Not at all. There's one club where it says on the wall where I perform, it says, you can't have bottles of water anymore. It just says that on the wall.

Comedians, you can't have bottles of water anymore. If you want water, get a cup in the back and fill it from the sink or whatever. It's just like, okay. It's humbling. What was that patio space that they were performing in it was an out it was an outdoor space oh yeah well that's in la well how was that i mean la is different in new york you can come out and you can get stage time pretty much every night right i mean yeah in la you kind of have to create your own shows so one of the comics in the show creates a show in in a in a parking lot of a

coffee shop he builds his own little stage out of a wooden flat just to get his own stage another part and another scene there wasn't even a stage there was a guy standing at a mic next to a pool table yeah in a bar getting people hoping people would stop shooting in a sports club and then san clemente yeah with people not that didn't go there to watch comedy that's another thing is like there's a lot of times people are going to do comedy, and everyone that went there that night did not want to. Comedy breaks out from nowhere.

Yeah. I have to ask you this. Worst venue without naming names? God, I have to think about that. I honestly do because there's so many. I did a laundromat once. A laundromat? Yeah. I did a laundromat. Gilbert would have loved that.

Yes, yes. Good point, Darren. I'm obsessed with doing my laundry. Did you see the Gilbert movie? Yes, I saw it. You saw him washing socks in a hotel. Yeah, I wash my socks and underwear every night.

But you don't need a laundromat for that. Too much info. Yeah, but in a laundromat, it still comes out cleaner. You should call Jeff and see if you can get a gig in a laundromat. Yes. That would be ideal. The show's also about the sacrifices that you all make, like Kellen's family, which was sort of sad. Yeah, yeah.

He says at one point, I realize that the better I become as a comic, the worse I will be as a father. As a father, yeah. And it's sort of heartbreaking. That was a heartbreaking thing for him to say and admit out loud. Yeah, you go to this guy's house and you're like, hey, I'm going to make this show about him. And you see that he has three kids.

And in my head, I'm going, jeez, I hope this guy is funny. Like, I don't even know him very well. He would hope so. It's really hard. I mean, it's like, man, he used to feed all these mouths on comedy. It's not easy to do. But yeah, so it is the real story

about people that are trying to make it by making people laugh, which on its own is a weird thing to do. Yeah. To stand up. I felt like I going through that at while we were shooting it was making i was kind of making that realization because especially uh you know i hate saying this but like as a woman in comedy you go oh i i can't have a family and i can't be like uh a good mom and a comic and work you know what I mean like I can be a shitty mom or a good comic or I can be a good a shitty comic and a good mom like it's like one or the other you just have to choose and I was like thinking that while we were shooting it because I

wanted to get married and all this stuff and since the doc has come out I'm just like you know kind of got rid of my relationship and i'm just kind of on my own and i'm just doing it and it feels like kind of relieved of the responsibility i would imagine yeah i would imagine do you think and i'll ask this you gilbert too do you think uh see if i can phrase this question correctly is there something slightly off about a person who wants to do this absolutely who wants More than a few things. I don't even mean the success. I don't even mean necessarily chasing the money or the trappings,

but somebody from a psychological standpoint who wants to get up in a room full of strangers and entertain them. Absolutely. Absolutely. You've come to grips with this. It's craziness. Well, what always fascinates me is that schizophrenia of if you

part of you is going um i'm so great i'm gonna make my living going up and millions of people around the world will pay money to see me and applaud me and the other part of you that's going oh please love me i just need some love just love me right now yeah i think rosebud among all all the comics to me reminded me of of gilbert one material wise your your material is very that it goes there it's edgy it's edgy yeah but also edgy, yeah. But also there's this attitude. Your early days, they said you would put you up and laughs weren't,

this is a weird say about a comic, but laughs weren't the point of the night. Like you just wanted to do your thing and have fun. There were a lot of nights where it rose, but it looked like you were just going to do your set. If they liked it, that's fine.

If they don't, that's fine. Like you were going to do your thing. And that reminded me a lot of things that other comics said, like David Tell and Jeff Ross talked about Gilbert being that way fine. If they don't, that's fine. You were going to do your thing. And that reminded me a lot of things that other comics said, like David Tell and Jeff Ross talked about Gilbert being that way. So of all of them, you reminded me the most of Gilbert. It was familiar. I think he means that as a compliment.

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wanted Alzo to think they were cool. Yeah. He's got this whole persona. He's got a degree in philosophy or something? Alzo's this guy Everyone that ever met Alzo Wanted Alzo To think they were cool Yeah Like Alzo He's got this like Whole persona He's got like a degree In philosophy or something He's a very smart guy Very well educated guy

Very Yeah He has a degree in philosophy He teaches philosophy And Kellen is the guy That has the Two kids waiting at home Three kids

Three kids and a wife Three kids only counted two Yeah And Simon is the guy Working out of the food truck Simon Gibson Works in a coffee A coffee trailer Okay It's a trailer Three kids and a wife. Three kids only counted two. And Simon is the guy working out of the food truck. Simon Gibson works in a coffee trailer. Okay.

It's a trailer that's been converted into a coffee shop. That means it went downhill. Because when I was living in LA, he was in a shop. And now he's in a trailer. So his side gig went downhill. And his roommate is MK Paulson. And Daphne Springs is on the show. Daphne, right. Yeah.

And Robert Dean, another New York comedian who you, Rosebud, performs with a lot. Right, right, right. And that here, like hearing about that guy who works in a food truck, it's like in my mind now, see, back then it was like, you know, it didn't matter. I didn't think in terms of competition or rejection, anything. And now I think, oh, he's got a perfectly good job in a food truck.

You know, like someone orders a coffee, they give him a dollar, and they made a dollar then. Gilbert secretly longs to quit his career and become a barrister. A barista. become a barrister. A barista. Not a barrister. But I want to dare to be here because I had a very, before I came here, I had a very Gilbert moment on the way here. I went to a restaurant to meet Gilbert that might be a hundred yards, a stone's throw from his apartment. You can see it from my window.

On our corner. I haven't been cursed out by Gilbert in a long time. So what happened? Because I wasn't with him. He called me. And I said, where are you? And he goes, I'm in the restaurant. And I said, I'm in the restaurant.

And he said, no, you're not. I'm in the restaurant. And I said, no, you're not. I'm here. Go outside. And then he said, fuck you. You go outside. So I go outside.

I said, where are you? And he starts cursing me out saying, where are you? F you. Where are you? Go F yourself. Why aren't you here? And he had gone two blocks south. Where the hell did you go?

Yeah, I went to some other restaurant now this restaurant that you went to uh i've been there like you know i've been in that area for like 20 years and i've been there like uh we just ate there last week times yeah we've eaten there hundreds of times and i i didn't know the name of it and i went to the wrong restaurant so i hear him go where are you and i said restivos and he goes i'm in restivos and then he i hear him like the phone goes when he goes is this restivos and the guy goes no and he goes i'm not in the right place that's him this is what happens when i'm not there people people who watch the documentary uh will i may i'm sure a lot of people think oh you know a lot of this was made up for

gilbert can't be that fucking stupid what was the best part of making the doc you know if you could boil it down this one or gilbert the the gilbert doc and then i'll ask you about this one. I know part of it was discovering Arlene. Arlene, yeah. Well, that was day one. That was the very first day of shooting is I met Arlene. That was the cool thing is I got to

introduce all these things. I get to introduce the world to these people that you would not have known or you might not have known otherwise. Arlene has four books published over the last 30 years and I got to be the person that made this movie that said,

here she is, you know, take a look at this work. I'm very, very proud of that. And what was funny about that is I still, during the entire making

of the movie, I hated being filmed. Me? Every second of it. But when I saw Arlene was getting some attention, I thought, oh, okay, this is a good thing. That made it worthwhile, yeah. Yeah.

How selfless of you, Gilbert. I said, how selfless of you. Yes. To let it be about somebody else. Yes. I think that was the only reason that you wanted to keep doing it, really, or, you know, it's because you thought it would, you know, be good for Arlene. It wasn't because of the director. And Neil made sure that you ate.

Yes. He took care of you on the road. Bless your heart, Neil. Which I was very grateful for. You did the Lord's work. Yeah. But this one, it does feel good to, like, let the world know that there's these people. And I think you see comedy after

things start to happen you know so to introduce the world to people that are still trying to make things happen you know it's funny that this perspective because you're with colin jost is in the is in the colin jost yeah he's in the first episode and he's talking about how and you look at him now obviously but he's talking about how he performed a stand-up set for three people one of them was his agent one of them was his ex-girlfriend. His ex-girlfriend, yeah. And she felt like she won. That's what it is. So yeah, that's been very satisfying. And I think that's what people

are responding to. Was it a big production? I know you said... Huge. It was massive. Yeah, well, we shot seven people to New York, LA. We shot for a week in Montreal. At one point, there were 70 people on the crew. Wow. We went to all Their hometowns

We went to Maine Speaking different languages I heard Yeah yeah Most of the crew Was speaking very Only French Yeah

Wow It was a huge production At one point Was Howie involved In any capacity Other than the fact That he's just taken over The Just for Laughs festival

No yeah He took Yeah he was a big part Of the show Getting sold actually The fact that he came on Howie Mandel Howie Mandel

but um yeah when I was there we I called him and said hey would you mind talking to one of our comics and he said whatever you need

and Rosebud actually has a scene in the fifth episode with Howie yeah wow I'm so ashamed that when I know he doesn't like

to shake hands yeah uh oh that's an understatement so what I did was I said goodbye to him by doing prayer hands like a namaste and i'm so ashamed of it it's just it's so embarrassing and then he hugged me because i think he felt bad for me it was like i i went well nice to meet you with the

prayers and then he reached in for a hug and i was like he hates this and so uh everyone points out that hug that you got a hug yeah people always like oh wait he's she got a hug i remember i was i was in chicago and i was doing like a radio thing for some club i was doing and they said oh uh howie mandel's across the street. He's doing press. And he was doing press because the book about him being a germaphobe was coming out. And I went to meet him in the lobby, totally forgetting the fact that I was coming down with something. And I sat down with Howie, and I immediately start going. And he, like, throws both his hands and his scarf. He wrapped his mouth closed.

And he goes, what the fuck is wrong with you? Were you also, like, taking the chips, Gilbert? Weren't you taking, like, the chips and dipping them and re-dipping them and I was eating with him and and it was like a Mexican place so it had the chips in a basket and I was eating them and I and I look he's looking at me and I said oh you want some and he goes no I'm not going near those chips. And I said, why? And he said, you've been taking chips out, biting them, and then putting them back in the basket. So when did the show start airing, Rose? And what kind of feedback have you got?

The show is called Inside Joke. I just realized that being with Gilbert trained me for this because it was the megabus. It wasn't like I was with Gilbert. It wasn't like I was with a rich, like. You weren't flying first class. No. It was very much like. You're not traveling with Mariah Carey.

Taking the megabus to Baltimore. Yeah. Yeah. Well, how's, what's the response been to to friends and family really really good really good yeah i mean i uh i was like i've been i'm obsessed so i'm like checking the amazon reviews constantly and i saw reviews by the way yeah but it's always the assholes that come first you know what i mean the ones that don't have anything else going on so then they they put in their two cents they're always the first ones to pipe up and then i saw that and i went on instagram

and i just launched into these people about how they're awful people that we should all burn their houses down and anyway so a bunch of people from my instagram went over it started like reviewing the show really well and it's kind of like snowball which is great because i was like i'm gonna start a campaign to get these people kicked off amazon i have one one girl was like i've reported every single person and there's only like nine bad reviews and then the rest it's like 113 whatever the bad reviews though you remember yeah that's like those are the ones that I'm obsessed with. Gilbert, you know about social media.

You've had social media. Oh, I bet it's been nothing but good for me, the internet. You're like him. Oh, yeah. Oh, God. If we get 700 reviews on iTunes for this podcast, Dara will find the one. Yeah. She'll find the one negative one. I'm obsessed, the one. Yeah. And I'll obsess about that one.

Yeah. I actually, I actually called a reporter once that, um, gave Gilbert, that gave you a bad review.

That's love. I called him. I was like, how dare you talked about my husband this way? I looked up one guy on there who gave it a one and a bad review,

but he had also reviewed straws. He gave some straws a bad review. So he just, this is just a bored person with drinking straws yeah yeah drinking straws yeah they're overrated one star because with gilbert i'm the documentary gilbert on rotten tomatoes it's got like 99 reviews there was only one There was only one. There was only one. The guy was in Seattle. I'm like obsessed about it. I'm like,

just one. Yeah. Like, fucked up or 100%. I read a good review in Decider of this show. They said, CNN's history of comedy works on a cerebral level,

but this show works on an emotional level. Did you read that? Yeah. That was flattering. It was a very good, yeah. Yeah.

That was exciting. Listen was a very good read. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't read it. That was exciting. Listen, I even went to one of the tapings of Neil's show. Oh, you were there at Rosebud's. You were at Rosebud's taping. I know. It was amazing. I was there.

I had the best time. Which taping? No, your callback. Oh, you were at my callback? I was there. Oh, wow. I was there. I loved it.

Oh, good. Good. I did think I was like, we could turn up the laughs a little bit on the callback scene. That was my only. I was like, I remember doing better than that. But maybe I didn't. And maybe I was just amped up. It was great.

Yeah. So, Neil, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Yes. Yes, Gilbert. All six. No, Gilbert's not talking because he's looking up the show on his phone because he can't wait to watch it. Right, Gil?

He's watching it again as we speak. Also, by the way, the scene where Simon, where he's communicating with friends back home and they say, oh, you're doing wonderfully in L.A. And he says, I didn't have the heart to tell them. I just went on food stamps. Yeah. That tells you a lot about the life of a struggling stand-up. Yes. Simon also kicks off one episode doing stand-up for one person.

Yeah. That is my favorite scene, is when all of a sudden he goes, I'm going to talk over here, I'm going to look over here, so that I'm not just looking at you, and then it pans out and it's one person in the audience. I was dying. Did you ever perform for one person, Gilbert? Oh, yeah.

Not your wedding night. Yeah, that's recently. Yes. And where can people see you, Rose? You can just, my website, rosebudbaker.com or on Instagram at rosebudbaker. All my show dates and stuff like that are on there. And you're playing clubs in and around.

In and around. I'll be at Sketch Fest in January in San Fran. She's very funny, folks. She's very funny. Very edgy. Thank you. I told you my wife laughed out loud. I won't give the joke away.

That's great. But you'll have to see. You'll have to watch the show. And it's, any other plugs, Neil? No, that's it. Just watch this. Shall we plug Gilbert again? Yeah.

Yeah. Go to iTunes. Go to iTunes and watch Gilbert. iTunes, yep. Over and over again, please. Or Hulu, right? Yeah. Go to iTunes. Go to iTunes and watch Gilbert over and over again, please. Or Hulu, right? Or Hulu. iTunes or Hulu, see Gilbert. And then also see this documentary that has to do with William Randolph Hearst's girlfriend's cunt.

Such an unwieldy title. Thank you for letting me do this. Of course, buddy. I thought you could have come up with something a little catchier. That's easier to remember. Say goodnight, Gilbert. Goodnight, Gilbert.

Okay. Yeah. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Podcast with Neil Berkley and Gross Bud Baker, which I had to look down. Okay. Good luck.

The show is great. Good luck with everything. Grossbud, come back and do this show. Thank you. Under different circumstances when you're famous. You have to do it when you're 95. Yeah. And have three days to live.

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