Robert Kelly's You Know What Dude! - YKWD #558 | Ryan Reiss & Pete Demas | Warm Up

Episode Date: October 27, 2024

This week on YKWD Bobby chats with Ryan Reiss and Pete Demas about warm up comedy, dating a stripper, and making their new movie "Before We Get Started." You can see the movie premiere November 10th at The Venue at The Hard Rock in NYC as part of The New York Comedy Festival. FOLLOW Ryan Reiss IG: @RRComedy Follow Pete Demas IG: Endlessfilms_ FOLLOW Robert Kelly IG: @RobertKellyLive Get the EXTRA YKWD, Watch LIVE and UNEDITED AT https://www.patreon.com/robertkelly LIVE FROM THE SHED AND MORE ON PATREON DUDE!!! https://twitter.com/robertkelly https://twitter.com/YKWDpodcast http://instagram.com/ykwdudepodcast https://www.facebook.com/YkwdPodcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeah, baby, we're starting the podcast right now. We're back. You know what, dude? Live. Welcome, everybody to the show. YKWD. I started a social media podcast. The YKWD podcast. YKWD is back again. Old school, back in the day where it all started before them all. YKWD.

This podcast is so fun and crazy. It has no rules. God, how are you ruining this? Where's happening everybody? It's your boy, the dude, Papa King. I'm back, we're live. I'm back from the woods. I made it, kind of, and we're here at the Comedy Cellar studios above the world's famous Comedy Cellar.

And I'm very happy to see all my fucking people, Danny, Joe Joe what's that new guy's name? Zach. He's got to work on his tone guys. I mean fucking dude he sounded like a frat boy. That was Joe saying Zach's name. Okay hey well fucking say it better Joe don't try to be Zach. Zach where's Zach let me hear Zach. Hey, how's it going? Oh, okay, yep, Joe, you do him from now on. Um. No problem. We have a great show tonight,

I'm very excited about this, cause I just went through some of the stuff, making something myself, and it's, I kinda wanna get it out, and fucking, only people who make shit, movies and TV or whatever produce something know what the fuck just happened to me. Danny, who do we got? We have Ryan Reese and Pete Demis on the podcast. Now, I've known Ryan for a while.

A while. I've known you not as close, not as much. Not as close, but around. around around for a long time and You guys you made a movie Correct, and I was just reading. I mean, this is crazy Leslie Jones big Billy Gardell fucking crazy Judd Apatow Ray Romano John Oliver Seth Meyers Amy Schumer

Neil Brennan TJ Miller Rami Yousef Rachel Ray Jim get Jim Gaffigan Howie Mandel, I mean Bob Saget. You got Bob. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I do this guys. Uh, Mark Summers, Colin Jost. I don't see. Where is the, hang on one second.

Must be here. Yeah. I don't think you printed all the names. Was there a big one missing? I don't see. I mean, there's a definite actor that is. Someone like, wasn't the guy that played Louis' brother on Louis?

Oh yeah, me. I'm not in this. Never asked to be in it. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, this is a fucking mistake, right? I wasn't available, what happened? You guys called, I went. You have to ask that guy. We didn't have access.

I had to go through Danny to get on this thing. I mean, I've known you for 20 years. I don't have your number. You don't have my number? I don't have access. I had to go through Danny to get on this thing. You could find it. I've known you for 20 years. I don't have your number. You don't have my number? I don't have your number, man. Fuck you. No. Really?

No. Well, just ask for it, you loser. I see you all the time. I see you so much. Hey, dude, what you know, we've exchanged cigars. I get cigars and bring them in when I know you're going to be there. We have a cigar bond. You know what type of bond that is between men? That's a heavy bond. It's a prison marriage.

I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So let me ask you a question. Please tell everybody about this movie. Tell everybody what's it about.

We're live right now. Who came up with the idea? That would be Ryan. You came up with this. So you go from idea to how, then where do you go? It's been such a long journey, this whole movie. I do warm up comedy. And I adjust in a late night set.

You do warm up for? I work for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Seth Meyers. I'm the opening comedian. And people that don't know what that is, and thank God they do it because some shows don't. And Carson Daly didn't. And it sucked to do a show

because they didn't understand it. To have a guy go out there before any audience, for any show, to go out and get them into a good mood, get them laughing, get them happy is an essential thing to have an audience that will respond when you need them to respond to anything, you know, to get them in that mood because they're coming in, they're waiting in line, they're going through security, this is fucking show, it's like what the fuck? Then they're sitting there. You have to make them as comfortable as possible

so that they forget that they're having a good time. Like they could be anywhere. They could be in their living room watching it. That's your job. Yeah, you have to engage the audience because there's a, like Mike Royce said, he's like we don't really know how to start a TV show. We don't just go start.

So that's why you have an opener. You have a warmup that brings the audience into the show right and that's your job. That's my job and that job is tough It's a challenging job. Yes, because you can't be like yo bitch you keep right here. You know, where'd you get that shirt? Well, I mean you could but they wouldn't have you back right so like no one can tell you how to do it Joey Cola Joey Cola's in the movie was one of the guys movie Danny breath in the movie That's a lie as a lie, please tell me that's a lie. Oh god. Thanks. You just made my chest curl up. I Really did hurt that fucking hurt. Fuck it, I'll kill him.

So, I remember talking to him about it, and I would hear about how he was such a great audience warmup person, because you have to be funny on the fly. You have to deal with different personalities all the time. Faces, moods, and you have to be funny on the fly. You have to deal with different personalities all the time. Faces, moods, and you have to get them all to come with you and then as soon as you do it's like let's go, start this thing and get them into it, right?

Yeah, you don't have the luxury of being like, oh this audience is weird. Like you can't, they're never weird, always great. You can't blame the audience. No, no, no, no, no, never, never. So it's, you know, usually a comedian does this job but every TV show has a warmup. And they can't blame the audience. No, no, no, no, no, never, never. So it's a, you know, every, usually a comedian does this job, but every TV show has a warmup. Yeah. And they can't tell you how to do it. But when you do it wrong, you're gone. Wow. It's crazy. I mean, you're done. Done. That's it. You also don't know how long you're doing. You what? What do you mean? Well, I mean,

they go out there with the expectation, like, Oh, it'd be great if, you know, 10 minutes, but something happens and then you're out there for a half hour and no one's telling you what's going on. No one's even giving you the stretch signal. You're just out there. How do you know when to get the fuck off? The stage manager comes out and goes, Hey, there's no better way. There's no light that can go on somewhere. I'm sure they could add one, but they haven't. Wow. And how did you get this gig? Jessica Kersen. No shit. Jessica was warming up a morning show called Mike and Juliet, and she knew me. And she was like, hey, I think you kind of have what it might take to do this. Can you come and watch me?

Because I have other gigs and I need a backup and I think you'd be good at it. Right. So I started going in the morning just sitting in her morning show. And watching. Yeah. And then one day she called me up. She was like, I got a cruise tomorrow. I need the money. You're in.

No shit. And does it pay good? It varies depending on who you are. Someone like Joey Cola, like who's, Pete, would you say he's like what? Top two? Top the game? Please, in New York?

Do you do it too? No, no. What is your role in this? I'm a filmmaker. You just make films. Yeah, I've been doing content and making documentaries since 96. What type of, no. What is your role in this? I'm a filmmaker. You just make films. Yeah, I've been doing content and making documentaries since 96. What type of, tell me some of your documentaries

that we might see. The first one was called The Third Wave. It's about four volunteers that went to Sri Lanka after the tsunami of 04. Hysterical, real legit. Yeah, you know the thing is like documentaries just tend to be fucking sad. Yeah.

Like really sad. And this was the first one that was actually a lot of fun to do. The tsunami one? No, no, no, I'm saying. What fucking psycho did you bring into my studio? Dude, it was hilarious. There was still wood piled up.

Well, no, I'm saying. I found a baby arm under a fucking car. It's going from sad documentary to sad documentary. But with this, I mean, usually when you make a doc, you're interviewing some educator with a beard that's talking about the subject matter. With this, you're interviewing comedians, people that have been on camera, everybody's on,

everybody's telling funny stories. So tell people about this doc real quick. What's the premise of this? What are you trying to, what's the storyline? What are you telling? We basically follow Ryan through this world of warm-up comedy, you know, most people don't even know what it is. You asked how we started.

Ryan actually just approached me one night in the Fat Black and was like, hey, you make documentaries. And I was like, yeah. Can't ask for my number, but you can fucking ask how to make a film? What the fuck? The last thing I wanted to do was make another documentary. They just keep finding me somehow. And you know, you know, I sat down with Ryan.

He's like, it's about warmup. And of course I was like, what's that? Like everybody's like, what's warmup? And, uh, you know, we talked about it for about an hour and I was like, you know, it might have something here. You know, as long as he can open up some doors and I mean we got everybody, we got everybody. It's kind of snowballed. I mean, like it started with like, Oh, we'll just make like a short thing. I know I can get like one or two guys and then like it just kind of grew Yeah, I would add because you know

every comedian wanted to talk to us about it because warm-up is probably the hardest form some will argue is probably the hardest form of comedy to do and Hang on a second. Did you hear that noise? What is that? Can you, is it the AC? Can you shut the AC off? Yeah, Joe, can you turn the AC off? Don't tell Joe what to do.

Joe, can you hurry though? Can you stop walking like a slug? There you go. Thank you. Fucking assholes. I mean, I'm on the show and I figured it out. So everybody that we were interviewing Would be like hey have you talked to so-and-so have you talked to this person?

Have you talked to this person so it just kept domino effect and domino effect. All right I think we interviewed 93 comedians television producers on 94 That's not my fault Sequel god damn it. I think we only used about 42 in the movie. 42 people. Yeah. Now, because people, I always like... Did you ever do it?

Yeah. No, I've never done, well, let me stop before I answer that. No, because you know my comedy, dude. I'm a little, I mean, I can get in front of a crowd and I've hosted here where when I first started, you kinda had to keep it a little neater than I, you know, ask the, don't be so dirty up front, you know, and all that shit, but I was always.

Bobby, could you do like a minute of warm up for like a morning TV show, just like what you would do like right now for Kathy Griffin or something like that? Yeah, sure, I can do that. It's a morning show. All right, ready? Hey, how you guys doing? Hey, how you doing, man? Woo, yeah. Oh, you're crossing or something like that? Yeah, sure, I can do that. What's a morning show? All right, ready? Hey, how you guys doing? Hey, how you doing, man?

Woo, yeah. Oh, you're crossing your legs like that. My aunt used to do that. No, I'm kidding, you look fantastic. How you doing, man? What's going on? Good. Yeah, what, did you just get done killing chickens?

Good luck, man. How's New York? Electricity's nice, right? Fantastic. I mean, fantastic. Look at that smile on you. Jeez, you really have money, don't you? Your parents are still together.

How's that, was that good? He's very approachable. I can't understand why I didn't reach out. But you can't do stuff like that, right? No, no. Now, give me a little, what are the rules, the unwritten rules? So whatever the warmup chooses to do

when the show starts, like when they start a production, that becomes the rules, because that's what they like. So if you set it up in a certain way, if someone comes in after you, they're expected to do it the way you did it. Oh, right. So you set the tone of it. The tone. So early on I decided not to curse, but that was my choice. They never asked me to. Oh, really? Do some guys curse? Yeah.

Really? Who curses? They do? Yeah. Vince. I thought he had to be clean. Oh, Vince. Vince the Daily Show? Oh well that's a different vibe though. That's a comedy. But yeah what I'm saying though is like you can't you can't predict what's gonna fly and what's not gonna fly. Right. Just try to play it safe. Well it's funny too because the different shows have different audience personalities that you probably have to be careful of. Like Rachel Ray is a different audience.

The Daily Show is a stand-up comedy kind of little tougher audience. Seth, that's a late night show that's filmed, but it's also filmed in the afternoon. It's not filmed at a... They do deal with heavy subject matter matter. So like, you know, you do have to be mindful that these people are there because they are very invested in the subject of, you know,

making the world better or whatever they're doing. Like you got to be mindful of that. Right. Have you, have you had any stories in this where somebody fucking just failed miserably? They all fail. Oh God. Everybody tries and fails. Comedians think they can do it. And then they get in there and they're like, what am I doing?

I fucked up. Tom Papa. Tom Papa. Oh, my God. With Barbara Walters. He did the view, the view. And he took a hot one. Oh, God. He went dirty. Really? Tom Papa.

Tom Papa. He said it was early in his career and he started bombing and he went to like his closures at the time Oh, no, I got a nipple something about a female nipple and he goes out of the corner of my eye I could see something shuffling over towards me Barbara Walters going going no just no Give me the microphone. She took the mic out of his hand. Oh, that would be the end of my life And then she started doing warm up. Barbara Walterson.

She did it. She started it. She was crushed. Yeah, she fired. Oh, that would, Babs, if Babs, is that her name? What do they call her? I don't know what her name is.

What's her nickname? Barbara Wawa? Babsies. That's fucking terrible. Dude, I had that at a college. I had, I was bombing, it was a high school, not a college, high school, high school sleepover party.

They hired me. That's rough. Dude, I shouldn't have took it. I needed the money. It was a high school sleepover. It was a 12 o'clock show. They're all in a gymnasium running around like fucking kids and I went up in the middle of,

I think I was maybe 11 minutes and 30 seconds into my act. I just felt somebody grab the microphone and go, give it up, that's Robert Kelly. Listen guys, there's apple juice on the table with chips. And I was like, ah. And then I was like, I just had to walk off. I was like, please pay me, please don't not pay me. And they didn't pay me.

Yeah, I was too, I was too. Did they pay you? I was, dude, I was too dirty. I was too, I did that with Tracy Morgan. Dude, I did a college with Tracy and they said, listen, Sam Houston College, it's all black college. And me and Dave Edwards, I think at the time, that was on the real world, the first, you got kicked off.

You got kicked off. Chappelle's friend. Chappelle's friend, who got kicked off. And he pulled the cover off of the girl, you know, assault or some crazy shit. Back before Me friend, who got kicked off. He pulled the cover off of the girl, it was assault or some crazy shit, back before Me Too, when you could do that stuff on MTV. I mean, they had Flavor Flav had a show

where he just fucked chicks. I mean, I don't know how that flew. Bret Michaels, which one am I gonna fuck tonight? It's crazy, right? He got skipped, so it's me, him, and Tracy, and they say, you have to be clean. So it's me, him, and Tracy, and they say, you have to be clean. And they come up to us before the thing.

We knew this. And he came up before it, and the kid came up, he goes, oh, you gotta sign this contract on you have to be clean. No really dirty talk or whatever. You have to, and we all signed it. And he came up after, yo, we're artists. we gots to be free to do what we do. We're artists, you with me?

And I'm like, yo dude, I need this money dude, it's five grand. I'm getting this fucking, I can't. Dave went up clean, 20 minutes. I went up clean, 20 minutes. Tracy goes up, five minutes clean. Nobody's laughing. Just goes, yo man, you have a fuck a girl on a kidney

And her dad come home and you wipe the blood on the curtain cuz it hit the kidney and The dad who put blood on my curtain dude. I Just saw the kid Slit like put his hands on his head and slid down the wall. And a woman, a big black woman, and just like almost like a pilgrim outfit with these boots with buckles. I just saw her walk click click, you heard it, click click click click click click and it got louder.

She came over, he had the checks on his head like this and she grabbed the checks and ripped them up and walked out. And Tracy came off, yo, that was good, right? I was like, nah, dude, nah, it's not good. We didn't get paid. So when you have to be clean, you gotta be fucking clean because that's the, dude, getting the mic

or having somebody fucking let you know that it's over, sucks, sucks. I couldn't imagine it. And you've been working there for how long? Oh, since day one. How many years is that? 10. I mean, Jesus, dude.

I know. Is that like golden handcuffs a little bit? So, to quote Judd, it all depends on what you do with it. You know what I mean? Like you can do, that's the kind of the premise of the movie. Like some people do this job and just stay in this job and have a family and have a very nice life. And some people take it and turn it into something else. Bob Saget. So that's kind of the idea of like,

am I in this role forever or is there something else? Is all these people that are in the movie, did they do warmup? I'd say probably like majority of them. Yeah. Really? Bob Saget used to do it for bosom buddies back in the day. Yes. Wow. Or was it Letterman on bosom buddies? Majority of them. Yeah, really Bob Saget used to do it for Buzz and Buddies back in the day. Yes Wow Or was it Letterman on Buzz and Buddies? No, no, no No, it was that yeah, Bob did it on Buzz and Buddies and Letterman was doing it on Fuck, I can't remember now. It might have been because Seinfeld did the same show was 60 minute magazine show

I think it was called Bob Saget's disgustingly dirty. He might have been dirty at his warm-up. I don't know I don't know do he don't know, dude. He did the opening Anthony Vyrus tour, and that was Burr, me, Norton, Voss, Patrice. I mean, and then Bob Saget was on, and we were all like, what the fuck? He went out, it was dirtier than all of us. All the dick jokes?

Buddy, worse than that. I mean, it was, we were all like, what? We were all like, what? Like, crazy. His act. That's supposed to be America's dad. His, yeah, his act was fucking disgusting. It was so shockingly awesome to see Bob Saget

from Full House just be a piece of shit on stage in front of the ONA crowd that loved it at the time. Like he crushed at the time. That's weird. So you got all these people doing this movie and you decide to do this documentary. I just did something with Norton Yamanica and Bobby Lee that I've been working on for,

like people don't understand, like I have square friends, like regular guys that I hang out with at the cigar lounge and stuff, and they think that you just, you know, you make something. Just make it. No. Three years from thinking about it,

writing, writing, writing, and then you add somebody, and then you add somebody else, and then rewrite, and then it becomes something else. And all of a sudden it's this thing, and then you have to, you get to the point, I mean listen to me, we were a week out, a week and a half out maybe, maybe less than that. And they were like, if this money doesn't come in,

it's over. And it's like your fucking heart is in your chest. Like, and you have to make these, it's like, you know what I, and then when you do it, I loved it. I loved being on the set. I loved the whole production of it. I love all the work going up,

and all of a sudden it's gonna happen, and then alls it is, it's just constant problem solving. It's putting out fires all day long. It's all it is. Yep. Okay, what do we do? And then people going, Ben, that's it. Let's go and do that. And there's no time for emotion.

There's no time for hurt feelings. And to get this thing to go, like when you're done, it's almost like you went to war when you're done. Like the last day, it's like, we got it, we got it, am I right? Completely, well it's six years for us. Fucking A dude. For a pandemic too. There was a pandemic.

Yeah, that kinda fucked us up. I went through that too, we put it on pause during the pandemic. What are you doing with the three of them? We did a show called Comedy Camp, where I bring, around 10 or so years ago, maybe a little longer, I started going camping and I really loved hiking. And then I got into primitive camping where I would go up into the woods and not

a KOA, but you hike up into the woods and you stay and you have to, you know, find water and, and you know, get fire and survivor meets comedy. It's, it's, yeah, it's like the show alone meets You know big brother or something where I went up with Ari Shafir and Joe list and you know We were up in the we hiked, you know two hours up two hours down four hours into the wilderness and on this beautiful lake and this had to make a camp and You know pitch our tents and they didn't even know how to pitch a tent, how to hang a bear bag and cook the food and light a fire and get all this. And then we're sitting

there and everything's beautiful and they were talking and we went into our tents around one in the morning and then all of a sudden the pack of coyotes just came through camp. And then, you know, I don't know if you ever heard coyotes. Oh yeah, scary. It's terrifying. It's not, oh, it's, ee-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya- There's no way out. You have to just grin and bear it. And we made it through the night. The next day we all came out of our tents and it was like this crazy experience that I was like, oh my God, this was awesome.

Like terrifying. And the night, and I brought Paul Verzi up, the next guy I brought up, and he showed up with camouflage Nikes. I was like, what are you doing? He's like, dude, these are waterproof, right? I'm like, no, camouflage doesn't make. And I took him up into the woods,

and you know, he's got a gold chain, he's got a fucking rope chain, and you know, when we get up, he forgot his blanket. It's like, he's like, am I gonna be all right? I'm like, yeah, you'll be fine. I'm like, you're not, it's gonna suck. It's a weird thing that when the sun goes down, how in no phones and no Twitter and there's no accolades

and there's no show and there's nowhere to go and the sun goes down and you're there, you have these, you finally actually have a conversation with somebody that you've known for years and there's no Bullshit, it's just like you're looking at there's no what you you don't look over and they're on their phone or I gotta go Or it's you're just sitting there talking and every noise is a terrifying monster And you need each other you kind of need each other to kind of get through this thing and then when you wake up the next day, there's this spiritual thing that happens where you're like Fuck no AC no bed. No

Electricity no all the shit. I'm used to the you know, the four seasons and all there's no snacks It's it's kind of this pure thing that I felt and I wanted to do that with other comics. So It was kind of this pure thing that I felt and I wanted to do that with other comics. So me and my partner that came up with the idea and we finally, but the mountain that we had to push it up, I mean raising the money to do it, you know. Did you have a big crew? We had.

Three cameras? We had a director, two cameras, and we had a survivalist that was, even that, the guy I wanted, this guy Donnie Dust, who I love, he's just this fucking Marine, did nine tours of duty, can literally go in the woods and kill something, just goes out and gets a rock and smashes it and makes a knife and then kills a buffalo.

You know what I mean? He just stopped responding. So we wound up. He might have died, like you don't even know. I don't know dude, but I was, I mean this is. He doesn't even respond, you gotta eat him by a bear dude. Three weeks out, we had to get this girl named Becky. Clear second choice.

And she wound up being fantastic, you know. She knew mushrooms and how to make tea, and she knew every plant in the thing. But, you know, there was a crew that went up and built in the way in the woods in Canada, the site, you know, with a stage out of all stuff in the woods. They built all this crazy shit that you have to know bush crafting, you have to know the camp to build this stuff.

They built this amazing site. We had string lights on fucking solar batteries that we had, they had a charge in the sun every day. We had cameras, we filmed 24 hours a day. So we filmed everything. We had these special chest cams we made that had lights, that when you turned the lights on, the cameras went on, so we were filming from each other.

We had them, and I mean, it was fucking crazy. What's the budget like on that? It was all right, it was a small budget. Here's the thing with it. Ballpark it, what's the cost to you? Under a mil. I put my money into it too. So it was, we got some help from Canada.

That's why we did it in Canada. Tax credits and stuff. But it was, I mean we can't even talk about it. We had to sign NDAs after it because it was so horrific. The stuff that happened up there was so fucking... It was, I should have just took them to the fucking Poconos. I mean, I kind of fucked,

but when it comes out, it's going to be nuts, because it was, you know, us. When are you expecting it to come out? Probably next year. I mean, we had so many cameras. We had cameras on trees. We had cameras on trees. We had cameras on trails. We had cameras going.

Everything we were doing was being filmed all the time. So he had to just go dump footage onto this thing and then charge batteries and re-put stuff up. And it was pretty crazy. But the woods are, I mean, more dangerous than I thought. And we'll see what happens with it. I don't, I mean, hopefully they can make something out of it. But it's, do we make the show that I thought it was gonna be?

This little cute show where they learn how to make a chair? You know what I mean? And have some moments? We, yes, we did get that. But did other shit happen? Fuck yeah. And I don't know, I mean, you know, again, it's problem solving.

It's just figuring it out. And- It's funny, somebody told me one time, making a movie or a television show or whatever, it's like having a piggy bank, filled with coins, just smash it on the ground, and whatever pieces you pick up, that's your film. You know what I mean?

Fucking, that is great. I mean, seriously, you think it's gonna be this, and then it's- No, it's never. Because you don't know what's coming at you and then things change and stuff moves around and you're always on time, it's always beating the clock, beating the clock.

Plus comics, the worst. Well when they don't show up. We're the worst, we're the worst. Because we're not actors. Actors, I think Seinfeld said it when he was auditioning, I've told this story before. When he was auditioning for Seinfeld said it when he was auditioning. I've told this story before. When he was auditioning for Seinfeld, he could tell who the comedians were auditioning

and who the actors, because the actors had their script and they were in the hallway reading it. This is the biggest moment of my life. This could be it. And the comics were all sitting there like, this is fucking up my whole afternoon. Right?

That's totally. So when you guys, you get this going, how did you, did you self-fund this? I mean, did you put your money into it? When we started out, we borrowed, we borrowed the cameras from a friend of mine. Okay. For like, I think the first.

If this, and this was his idea. So when we came up with it and we had no budget, Pete, to his credit, said, let's just start shooting. Let's just start interviewing. I'll borrow a camera. Let's start tomorrow. We have to start. And that's everything.

Just gotta start. If you start, then something's happening. If you're just planning and scheduling and maybe we'll do this, we just started with nothing. Right. Yeah, well, it was, I mean, you know, let's get a couple interviews, put something together. I put a deck together.

I reached out to people that I knew that had money and to people that know people that have money. I think I raised the first hundred. And then you were talking about not having money and shitting your pants. We were doing a week in LA every month in 2019, I think it was. So every month we'd go out to LA for a week and we would just jam pack it with interviews either two or three A day for the whole week and we were about to go to California We were literally on no more money and then one of our investors Eric came in for 45 grand and saved us

Ryan raised the rest of it. Yeah, I put money in also, but I didn't know I didn't know that you could like you just like he Called me. He's like, yeah, bro. I think we're out of money, I think we just gotta shelf this. And I was like, what? What, what, what? What, what, what? What, what? What? Yeah, I got that call.

I got that call on a Sunday night. Yeah, if we don't get this by tomorrow, we gotta call it, we gotta wrap it up. I'm like, there's people in Canada right now. Like, I have my ticket. Like, I canceled gigs.. Like I cancel gigs. Like, it was crazy. But if it's meant to happen, it works out.

You figure a way. Yeah. It usually does. Somehow you find a way. Is there anybody that you interviewed that was a dud? What do you mean? You know what I mean. As soon as they were done, you're like,

I'm not saying anything. That ain't making it. I ain't saying nothing. Who do you think? I have no idea. Everybody was great. Ah, you fucking Hollywood. There you go. Mark ain't making it. That ain't saying nothing. Who do you think? I have no idea. Everybody was great. You're like, there you go. Mark Summers was great.

Really? Yeah, because we know him from game shows, but he was a comedian. Yeah. And he was a warm up comedian. No shit. For Star Search. Yeah, and like a bunch of other shows,

he was the warm up comedian in LA. Alice, Webster, Different Strokes, maybe that's not right, but all those shows back in the day. He's talking about how like he just wanted to be in front of the camera The It's the golden handcuffs, right? Exactly. He quit. He quit it to go. He quit to go sell salmon. Went to go sell salmon. I'm sorry. Yeah. One second, right? I'm sorry. I think you just said salmon. Salmon. Absolutely correct. You had a friend from college, I guess that was selling salmon and he decided to go that route because he's like, I'm never going to get on TV. I'm done with doing warmup.

And he started selling salmon and they got it into price club, which became Costco. They got it into trader Joe's. Uh, and he was making money doing salmon. And then he got a call out of the blue, uh, from a ventriloquist friend of his, I forgot the guy's name. And he said, Hey, I can't make this audition. You should go. They're auditioning for this new network called Nickelodeon and they need a game show host for double dare. and that's how he got on camera and that's how he broke his history.

That's the guy who fought, didn't he fight Burt Reynolds? He did. Yeah, he did, that's right, that's correct. Right, here's why I love that. Burt is so, I love Burt Reynolds, one of my favorite. But the fact that he's so alpha and he's so used to people just going fuck you

and some nerdy dude who's like, ah, suck my dick. I loved it. I loved the fact that Bert got a fucking stupid pie right in his face. Good for him. Good for him. He didn't kill himself, right? No, no, no, no, no.

He's big in the food network. Who, Mark? No, he's big in the food network. Like he's produced a bunch of shows for the food network. You know, it's funny. One of the nicest guys. I say this, you want to make it in this business? Plan a vacation. Plan something you really want to do and you'll guys. If I say this, you want to make it in this business, plan a vacation.

Plan something you really want to do, and you'll get a call. Hey man, you got this thing, fuck. Just going to fucking Aruba next week. Honey, this might be it. You know? Who was that? Delivery guy.

Oh, nice talking to you. Joe, could you have any more enthusiasm to be here? Delivery guy. So, you start doing the show, you start getting this movie off the ground. When we didn't know, you always think, oh, this is something, this is something, right?

And then there's a point where you know, this is real, that we did it, like, this is really good. What was that point where you were like, dude, this is real, that we did it. Like this is really good. When was that point where you were like, dude, this is going to be fucking great? I never really get excited like that, but I know it's good. I think that moment came last week. The correct answer is when you got booked

on the YKWD podcast. Oh right, sorry about that. When we got booked on this podcast. That's fucking funny. I had something I was gonna say, but now you fucking step in my mind, you cock sucker. I was gonna be like, cut that. Good sales pitch, not gonna sell them over.

Anyways, what the fuck? Well guys, I don't know. It's the best thing ever. I don't know if it's gonna be good. Who the fuck sells a movie like that? I didn't say that. I mean, you don't know how people are gonna respond, but the story's great.

We just finished The Color and the sound last week, so it sounds and it looks fantastic. Well, it's hard to make a documentary because it's real. So it's hard to, you have to tell a story, dude. You have to tell a story. So while you're doing it, you're getting this footage and you're figuring out the story as you, right? Yeah, we already had a plan,

like the way the story arc was gonna go. So the questions that we were asking everyone kind of fed into that. We asked everybody, I think, I don't know, 25, 30 questions, and every interview was amazing. Every interview was at least 45 minutes to two hours long. There's just so much gold, like everybody telling us these amazing stories. But just to answer your question I mean, every interview was at least 45 minutes to two hours long. Wow. There's just so much gold,

like everybody telling us these amazing stories. But just to answer your question with a little more enthusiasm, I knew it was gonna work when I saw her play in the room, when you play for an audience and it gets laughs where it's supposed to get laughs. Oh, so you already, it's already. I'm gonna retract my statement.

I'm gonna say it was the best happened when we showed it at the LA Comedy Festival and everybody just loved it. They loved it. Everybody loved it. And that was the validation right there. How does that feel when you're sitting in the crowd and something you created from nothing? It's the best.

Years ago. It's a different animal because like at least with stand up, if things are going wrong, you have the option to like try some stuff. Maybe I can do this. Maybe I'll go left. Maybe I'll go right. maybe I can get them back. I don't know, with a movie, it's there. If this train goes off the tracks, you can't save it.

And you're there and you're the guy. You just gotta sit there and be like, eh. Right, but at the end, you knew, how good was that feeling? That was a great feeling. Also, when you're sitting in the room and you're getting laughs where you didn't think there were laughs. Yeah, that's why comedy's the shit.

Cause you're like, oh, that's funny. And then people laugh at this other thing. You're like, I didn't even know that was funny. Cause it's unique to every crowd. Absolutely. You know, like me and Billy Burr and Joe DeRosa years ago, you know, this is why I love this shit. Cause it's like, you don't have to ask. You really don't have to ask to do shit. You know what this this why I love this shit because it's like you don't have to ask

You really don't have to ask to do shit. You know I mean just do it like you said just do it We we came we were always like we should do something we should do and we're always waiting for somebody to give us this Opportunity and then we just went and wrote this script Cheat a short film about how to cheat on your girl and get away with it like a bank heist And then we raised I don don't know, six grand and we filmed it. We filmed the fucking thing. It's fun. And I remember, it got into the Tribeca Film Festival.

And we went and people fucking loved it. And then we got a book deal out of it. Then we got a fucking, FX came and was like, yeah, we wanna make a TV show with you guys. People in the chat are asking what the movie's called and I realize we never said that. We never said that.

It's called Before We Get Started. Yes. I mean, you could have said that. I could have. You could have typed it in. You didn't have to make us all look like assholes to the chat. Exactly, there's the laugh. He's a stand-up too.

That's why. Fucksucker. How about, you just ended. That's the next documentary I'm making with you. Danny just ended his career. When you opened for Dane, did you have to be clean? No, no, Dane's fucking dirty. Dane's dirty cute though.

You know, Dane, I didn't know, he never gave me restrictions. He was just, go do your thing. I gotta respect Dane, because I would fucking murder in front of him and he would just go out and fucking, like I wasn't there. You know, people like,

I love when people try to sell you, dude, you open for Dane and you'll get, no you're not, they're there to see, when people are there to see that person, they're there to see that person. I got fans, of course. We did fucking 80 arenas. I should be a gazillionaire.

You know what I mean? And it was okay. It did help me in my career, absolutely. But it's not like you just turn the fucking faucet on. Me, Gary, and Jay Davis did our own tour after that, and there was Some shows that weren't packed out, you know It's like we were just on HBO for fucking nine weeks

Our lead-in was the Sopranos and we were like dude, we're gonna fuck anything now It's just you know, I mean fame is a finicky thing It goes where it wants and if you want it it you know You got to be pinpoint focused on I am going to be famous, and everything else I think around you is gonna suffer for a while. And then a lot of guys that I know that are famous, they look at me and be like,

oh, dude, you got a wife and a family, you hang out with your kid, you do things together, I wish I could do that. It's like, you could, you could. You just gotta fuckin' let go of your death grip of trying to be the guy, you know? And be happy with who you are. I think, not to get too fuckin',

not to get too documentary on ya. Well, Tour Guys was a documentary. Wasn't supposed to, it was, it was supposed to be a two hour thing. Like one thing we put out and then he exploded. And HBO was like, I wanna do your special. And he was like, I got this too. And like, I want that too.

The guy loved Dane. So they had to make it, that's what sucked about it. They had to make every episode into a story arc. So I had to be the instigator. You know what I mean? So every episode I was the guy going, fuck you, you fucking cocksucker. And Jay Davis was the fucking newbie.

What happened? He started crying. It's like, fuck off, that shit was bullshit. And Dane was the leader. I'm not fucking cocksucker. And Jay Davis was the fucking newbie. What happened? He started crying. It's like fuck off, that shit was bullshit. And Dane was the leader. I'm not fucking following anybody, dude. I'm fucking a grown man. I'm not fucking, you know what I mean?

And Gary, I don't know what Gary was confused. I don't know, fuck it. Gary was so mad. Gary was so mad on that tour. He just came off of Last Comic Standing. And he was like, I'm fucking, I want to go do my own thing. And now he's on a fucking stupid dumb reality show again with us.

And I remember one time he, he followed me and I had a great set and he went up and, you know, Gary's one of the funniest human beings walking and whatever somebody yelled out boo and he fucking snapped. And he went out to the parking lot. I ran out after him and I just saw him. He grabbed a fistful of chains. He went, motherfucker.

And he was like, ping ting, ping ting. Just these nickels and quarters flying through a parking lot. It was the most saddest fucking rageful thing I've ever seen anybody do. But yeah, tour guys must have fucked. But this thing, go back to this, I mean, this is a, I mean, it must be easier

as you get these people to say, this is the fucking list we got that's in this movie. Does that help it? People don't read anything. Ha! Ha ha ha! Mm-hmm! Ha ha ha!

You can send them stuff, they don't look at it, they don't read it. Isn't it funny? Dude, we sent them, we sent out a thing to the crew, the cast cast and they were like, what are we doing? It's like we sent you what we're doing. We're going up in the woods. Yeah motherfucker. How many go our skirt a Fucking skirt or like we're going in the fucking mountains of Canada. You're fucking lunatic. Why is it cold? Yes I'll forget it. Yeah, they don't know and read shit

But but when you tried to sell this and raise their like at the end, did the people look, did you have to make like a sizzle reel and show people like who's in this? I mean, we have a trailer right now. Uh, you know, we're concentrating on the event in November and then trying to sell it there. Did you have the trailer? Uh, I don't, but I could pull it up. Ryan, could you send to me and we'll pull it up? Yeah. I mean, you didn't think about getting the trailer? I don't, but I can pull it up. Ryan, could you send it to me and we'll pull it up? Yeah.

I mean, you didn't think about getting the trailer? He has the trailer. Okay, if he has the trailer. He has the trailer. I didn't think I got on. I showed him the trailer. You have the fucking trailer. All right, anyways.

Dude, how long have you been doing stand-up, Ryan? 18 years. 18 fucking years. And you live in New York. Where are you from, Long Island? Long Island, yeah. You're from Long Island, right? 18 years? 18 fucking years. And you live in New York, where you from? Long Island? New York, yeah. You're from Long Island, right?

Yeah, I got my family in the movie too. You got your family, how'd you do that? We set up some cameras and lights. Pete wanted the family in. Why'd you want the family in? Well, again, we follow Ryan through this whole world and him not only explaining to us warm-up and the different sides of it,

but also him trying to get a game show. He's trying to pitch himself. He's trying to get out of the warmup into his own show and trying to, you know, move up, move up in the world. I don't want, I mean, I don't want to ruin the fucking movie, but that's fine. Did you get the, you got a game show? You gotta come to the premiere. Yeah. All right. We pitched Mr. Game Show, Howie Mandel. He was into it. He was into it.

He's into it. Maybe. You can't tell, you gotta go see the movie. At the end of the movie, do you find out? Of course, yeah. It's not a cliffhanger. It's not like a Twilight movie? Maybe continue.

Action comedy. I thought you said I was in part two. Fucking asshole. So, I mean, that's amazing. I mean, that's the story, like I was talking about, documentaries, you can't just go out and just film people talking about shit. You have to tell some type of story.

So that's the through line through it. You're trying to get out and go to something else. Correct. Yes. Are you still doing the stand up, the warm up? Correct. Yes. Are you still doing the standup, the warmup? Yeah. Do you love it? I would say yes, because it's still a performance.

Because you're still there. And they might see this and fire you. Oh, no one's watching this. Fuck it. Danny's gonna be the new warmup guy. Hey guys. For half a day. No, no.

Talk about come in five seconds. Hello. So I think you're always learning comedy, right? Yeah. Like I'm sure you've seen some amazing people host. Jessica Kersen is an amazing warm up and amazing host. She doesn't do it anymore, but she's amazing at it. So you can always improve those skills and learn really how to make, like really how to own an audience.

Right. And that's, you know, what you learn from warm up is like, oh. Well you learn that from hosting too, because you hosted The Cellar. Yes. And I remember, I was so mad at hosting when I first, and I remember Tom Poppock came up to me, he's like, dude, this is the best thing.

Best thing, I'm like, what? He's like, you're learning how to deal with comics, you're learning how to deal with crowds, different crowds all night, people doing great and having to go up after that, people doing bad, having to fix that. You're learning to be vibed with the energy in the room, which is going to give you a skill on the road that you'll be able to be funny anywhere, anytime.

And I was like, that made sense to me. And once he just turned me a little bit in the right direction, I was like, that made sense to me. And once he just turned me a little bit in the right direction, I was like, okay. And there was a time where I was like, I'm not hosting anymore, I'm out. I gotta do sets, I can't be that guy. And that was a hard thing, that was a scary thing to do. You can bring it up, dude, go ahead, bring it up,

you fucking weirdo. Why would you make it small? Well, Mike Royce, by the way, was a host at The Cellar. He's a showrunner in LA now and he was also a warm up. He was. Yeah. Oh, no shit. Yeah. And Tom Papa was a host at The Cellar. Tom Papa was the host when I when I was first here. He was at The Cellar.

And I mean, that guy skyrocketed. Kind of right. No kidding, Tom, I love you. You fucking rockin. All right, let's watch it. Can I watch this? How long is the trailer? Four minutes. You mind watching it for a minute? I don't mind. I love you. You fucking rocking. Haha. I let's watch it. Can I watch this? How long is the trailer? Four minutes you might watch in it for a minute. I don't mind. Let's check this out Why is warm so important for a TV type is really Ryan Reese, I am the audience warm comedian. It's my job to prepare you for this evening's show.

You need someone to get the focus, to be honest, to take the bullet. Anyone else popping edible? Cool. Ah! I have never seen you falter. You're like this all the way through. You gotta go crazy, go nuts,

punch each other in the face, throw a chair! And for years, buddy. So I should ask for a raise? No. Every show on TV that has an audience needs a warm-up comedian talk shows game shows sitcoms morning shows cut Ellen out shows where the hype ninjas there's a good story about Ellen oh really producers count on us to keep the energy high and the crowd excited

you're gonna express happiness okay it's a little bit like preheating the oven. It takes a while to preheat an oven. Not that I know. I mean, I don't cook. Sometimes these tapings go four or five hours, and it really is essential someone is keeping the energy going. We hadn't even started shooting, and it was two hours already. The audience was so tired. It was insane.

And if the audience is flat, it's your fault. No, every comedian cannot do warm-up. Shit, most comedians can't do comedy. I actually did warm-up once. I kinda fucked that up as well. Ever since I was a kid in Long Island, I wanted to do comedy. For seven and a half years,

I got on stage every single night. I went anywhere I can find an audience. Subway stations, laundromats, or have out the back of a pickup truck. Tell oldie about it. 21 years old, I always ask the guy his age. I never ask a lady, that's rude. How much do you weigh, sweetheart?

I developed a style that involved connecting with the audience. I think you got money, though, sir. Uh, you too. Yeah, well, stop getting married. And that got my foot in sir. Uh, you too. Yeah, well, stop getting married. And that got my foot in the door for warm up. It's a great steady gig for a comedian.

But it's not enough just to be funny. You got to do crowd work. You got to have a t-shirt gun. And sometimes you got to have a fucking unicycle. What? It seems like the hardest job in company. And then at a moment's notice, someone will just pull the rug underneath you and be like, hey, you're not a human being anymore.

We got to do the real show. Please help me welcome Seth Meyers. Oh, he just comes out and doesn't even wave to you. God damn, Seth. Do you think that being a warm comedian could hurt career opportunities? Is that... Caroline Ray? A warm-up can make you look like more of a clown at a children's hospital than a proper comedian. You know the gig is kind of a second scene.

Yeah. Would any one of you take that gig knowing that might be the season? I could have done that. That is almost thankless. second scene. Yeah. Would any one of you take that gig knowing that might be the season? I could have done that. It's a good job. I could have done that. But it's almost thankless. It's a strange profession in that you started this because you had dreams of being in front

of the camera and here you are three feet behind the camera. There are some legends in warm-up, guys that people outside of comedy have never even heard of. But then there's a few who made it out. When I was doing warm-ups, Dave Letterman was doing the warm-up on Barney Miller, and to the right of me in the other stage, Saget was doing the warm-up on Those Are Buddies.

So you got Bob Saget and David Letterman, who turned out to be fantastic hosts. Given the skill set of a warm-up, do you think they would make good game show hosts? Perfect. That's the skill set. So one of the things we you think they would make good game show hosts? Perfect. That's the skill set. So one of the things we're doing is, we're gonna pitch a game show. What if the network says, but not you?

You're gonna be a doctor. There's a school you go to, whereas comedy, there's not a clear path. You kind of just have to do it and then find out what the path, even the possible paths are and know. Comedy is alive. Art formin' is never better than the possible paths are and know. God, he's good looking. Comedy is alive, art form, and it's never better than the crowds.

You and I came up together. When you look at the scope of comedy, we have people that like make show business work for them. And any way that they do that is incredible. Coming to the stage right now is a comedian that is making his legend the same way. I made mine Please welcome your host mr. Ryan Reese

Good evening ladies and gentlemen before you start here guys I'm in I Watch it. It looks fucking great. Yeah, I like that you snuck the game show host thing in there, too Yeah, well, it's part of the day and that Dave Chappelle. What the fuck? What was that? Where'd he bring you up? Did you get like this is this is one for the universe? I don't even know how to explain this man's never talked to me I've known him for 30 years It's the Boston Comedy Club, and he but he did buddies with fucking with Jim Brewer. I mean nothing in comedy club when he did buddies with Jim Brewer.

I mean nothing. He brought you up like you were fucking best friends. When did that, did you have to pay him? What happened? I'm at the cellar. Yeah? He comes into the bar. Yeah. I knew he was doing sets around

and I thought he was gonna go up and he's like, hey man, did you go on yet? And I go, no. He goes, all right, all right, I'm gonna go on and I'm gonna bring you on. So I thought he was gonna do his hour because he'd been doing an hour. And I was like, yeah, sure, no problem, man.

Hang on one second, hour? Well, he'd been doing an hour. You mean three? Was he not smoking that night? Go ahead. And I was like, yeah, cool, man, no problem. It's the bar, he never plays the bar. So I'm standing there and he goes, cool, cool, cool.

What's your legend? And I go, uh. What the fuck are you talking about? It's Dave Chappelle, so I'm like, I don't. I would have said Ginger Lynn. He goes, you don't know your legend? I go, no, I'm so sorry. I don't know what you're saying.

I don't know my legend. And he goes, okay, okay. And he goes on, does no time. Gives me that intro. And just brings me on, did no time. Why? I don't know. It's one did no time why I don't know it's just one of those weird I don't know but you can put them in the movie it's well yes because it's me what I didn't ask him to do that he did that on his own

cuz he brought you up yeah you can use him yes I didn't ask him to do any of that he chose to do that on his own. Right. So he just brought you up like that. No time. What a weird, cool moment. And I'll also tell you what, I'll tell you what, I knew it was scary shit, dude. So scary, like, cause he didn't tell me he was doing that. He just did that.

Right. And I've never had an experience like that. Everything I said after that, the audience just fell out of their seat laughing. Really? Cause I just got co-signed by Dave Chappelle They didn't matter what I said. They were on board. What the fuck is did you figure out the legend thing? What the fuck did you go up and go? Hey, dude, what was the legend shit? I

think he was just referring to how he built his legend in that Next meetings. He didn't ask It's terrified. I'm fucking want to know what that means. I got to pick my legend. What if he asked me someday? I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. I don't have your response. You got to die.

I don't want to fucking. You got to start hosting here again. I'm going to say Dave Chappelle. God damn it, man. That's a weird. That's a weird. That's a weird millionaire guy question. Bobby's going to be like, Louie's my legend.

Well, he is. He is one of my legends. He is. Bobby's gonna be like, Louis is my legend. Well, he is one of my legends. I mean, Colin Quinn, I guess. Louis, I guess. What if he answered that wrong? Nah, motherfucker, I meant sandwiches. I mean, what's your legend sandwich, motherfucker? It was a wild experience.

What was the thing you had to tell me about when I said you got a story about? Oh, Alan. What's his name? The Alan story about him not dancing. Oh, Zach Gathlinakis. Yeah. So Fitzsimmons is doing the warm up and writing at Alan. And, you know, everyone dances. It's like a big thing.

There was some buzz going around that there was a man in the audience that was refusing to dance. And Greg's backstage and it was before he was famous. Zach was just Zach and in the audience and he refused to dance. And the producers were getting really pissed off. That makes me laugh. And Evan was getting like,

why isn't this guy dancing? And producers were like, we don't know, we're checking right now. Gotta make him dance. And they keep going up to him. They're like, sir, could you just sway a little? And he's like, no. So now they're all freaked out.

Ellen's freaked out and they're gonna throw him out. Really? Yes, cause he won't dance. He's got the beard and he looks kind of crazy. And Greg sees it and he's like, oh no, no, that's Zach. He's a comedian. He's fine. He's okay.

He's just, you know, he's a comedian. That's funny. You know, Patrice didn't dance either. He was on Ellen to promote whatever, I think it was Web Junx. They were doing the big push for him, and he was like, yeah, I ain't dancing. Because he's supposed to come out and do a little thing. Oh right, everybody does that.

He's like, nah. And they were like, you gotta fucking dance. He almost ruined his career over that stupid dance. And if you see him on the show He I think he does some like oh something like that I don't know what but I'm pretty he might have just walked out and not did but that was a I remember calling me Like dude, they want me to dance. I was like what I go. That's racist That's fucking rated and he was like, yeah, man, I guess everybody I ain't dancing

I ain't fucking dancing and he wouldn't do that stupid shit. And I love that. Good for fucking you. What an asshole. She danced once and these fucking fat middle-aged women liked it and then she was like, this is my thing. Now everybody has to be an asshole when you come out. Ah, fuck it. That's why I'll never do this.

I'd be like, fuck off. Have you ever, with them, have they ever gotten under your shit on the show? Have you ever been like, have you ever have you ever with them have they ever gotten under your shit on the show have you ever been like have you been like I'm out this is I'm done has it your show that you know why do I've done a bunch of shows when you do the Seth Meyers they've been why you've done other you warmed up for who'd you start warming up for the morning show was the first one I've done I've done Rachel Rachel Ray. I've done, I've filled in at the Tonight Show. I've done just whatever.

Jimmy Fallon? Yeah. Jimmy's great, right? Yeah, that's her songs show, but when he's out. Oh no shit. So do you do both? Do you more than one now? No, no, no, it's such show,

but if something like during COVID, like when he would test positive for COVID, I would go in and cover the show for him. You'd cover that show and your show. So you do two shows. That's great. I wouldn't. Yeah. But I mean, that's only when he's out in an emergency or whatever it's not. Well, it's, it's, you know, I always thought like, this seems to me kind of like, um,

cruise ship comics. I always thought somebody should do a documentary on them because these guys in that lane, they have to be a certain thing, right? You can't be dirty some of these shows. You have to be clean. You have to do a show a night or an afternoon show. You have to work in the parameters of the cruise ship.

And these guys are fucking murderers. I did a show one night and it was two cruise ship comics, me and then Angel Salazar, I don't know, he just jumped on the show, this fucking maniac, came at the end. It was in Florida, it was the PBA benefit, and the lady who books the cruise ships booked me, and these two guys went up in front of me,

and they're, I mean, look, they were doing fucking gays in the military joke, and it's like, dude, it's already going, like, you can be gay now, you know what I mean look it they were doing fucking gays in the military joke and it's like dude It's already going like you can be gay now. You know what I mean, and he was doing this any of them polished perfect bits that were murdering and On cruise ships they fucking murder and they go ship to ship and once you get in You fucking stay in because there's someone right behind you waiting to take that gig and they go and they do the ships and they Murder and on that ship people always give cruise ship comics shit for you know

Whatever on that ship the funniest person those people's ever seen on that ship They're like that was the greatest show ever They're fucking the in that world, in the sea, these guys are the fucking gods of comedy to those people on that ship. And that's a whole nother world that we don't even fucking, as standups at The Cellar, New York City, we're always like, ah, dude, cruise ship comic, you know?

Like, it's a bad thing. Some people, it's a fucking, it's a lot. They make a lot of money. They make money, I think it's a fucking, it's a lot of money. They make a lot, they make money. I think it's like 3,500 bucks a week. It's like, this is what you get, and you're not getting more, and you're going out, you're on the ship, and you're gone,

and you keep going and going and going, and then you come back, and then you go back. And they make a life. I have friends that make a life out of it. And they're out there for weeks, right? Sometimes a year. I mean, some people don't have homes. They have just apartments that they rent

because they're never there, you know? Lewis Raimi. Lewis Raimi. He did that? I think he's doing it now. He's a boat guy now. Yeah. And there's that thing where it's like this golden handcuffs.

You're always getting a check. You're always doing comedy, but you have to work in the parameters of the ship, which is kind of like this in a way. You're getting money, you're getting a check, but you always have to work. Like you can't just go away, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, right?

No. You have to be here. You have to be here. Because once you go, somebody will fucking come in and maybe do, right? It depends. It depends on the show. You can get your own backup. There have been stories of warmups that get backups

and they specifically choose bad comedians, like day one comics. So they know that they're gonna bomb. That can fail on you too, dude. I did that, I had a mob guy in Boston. I used to hang out with these mob guys, he called me up one day, he's like, yo, what are you doing Wednesday?

Next Wednesday, I'm like, nothing, what do you want to get some food? He's like, you got a gig. I'm like, where? He's like, Ming's. I'm like, the Chinese restaurant on Riviera Beach, it's been closed for fucking 10 years. Not anymore, meet me down there in fucking 10 minutes.

I went down there, all Lincolns and fucking Caddies and Mercedes in the parking lot. I walked in, all Italian guys. Fucking, they had lasagna and fucking fried rice. Guy Moussy walks up, fucking eight feet tall, eight feet wide, I hope you're funny. I was already doing the gig. And so I got this kid, this kid that stinks,

that was over for me, he just sucked. I'm like, I'm getting him, he's gonna fucking bomb, I'll look like a rock star. Didn't know, Italian, had 15 minutes of slamming. I walk in, he's murdering. Fucking murder, I'm like, fuck, I have no Italian jokes. The kid murdered, they carried him out. I've never seen a man be kissed, it was like a gay bar.

These guys. And I was panicking. That shit can work against you sometimes. You know? I mean, what if that guy, what if he has a great show? I don't, Warren was very hard. Because do you have, you don't have a family, right? No.

Married? I don't like the way you said that. Well, I'm not saying you can't, you can still. But I mean, you have to be gone. I mean, is this? No, no, no. I mean, no, I'm not married. can't, you can still, but I mean, you have to be gone. I mean, is this? No, no, no. I mean, no, I'm not married. You dated a stripper.

Okay. We're going there. Uh, I mean, you don't seem like the guy who would date a stripper. Let me just say that. Dancer. A what? A dancer. Oh, do you call it?

Dancer. Okay. I'm sorry. I apologize. I didn't know it was 2004. We can't call them strippers anymore. She's a dancer. Was.

Yeah. Was. I'm not with her anymore. She's a dancer. Was, yeah. Was? Well, I'm not with her anymore. Why'd you break up? How'd you meet a dancer? Side splitters. In Tampa. Yeah, where else do you meet strippers?

You met a Tampa stripper? Yes. Wow. She went to the club? Yeah. And would she come up to you after? Right after. And she'd tell you right away what she was?

Kind of. How, would she fucking take her titty out? No, no, no. So she met me and Joe Mackey at a bar afterwards. Oh, right. I love Joe Mackey. And we went in there and you know, like anything else, I said, Oh, can I get you a drink? And she goes, I buy my own drinks. And I went, you would answer. You knew from there? Yeah, that's what they do. Yeah, from her confident attitude. No, no, they don't want to get drugged, so they don't let anyone touch their drinks. You do look like a guy that might slip some powder.

Hey, I'll be right back. This thing went off the rails. I'm sorry, buddy. You're so engaging, warm, and kind, and you look like your roofie people. Well, I mean, it is a look. So she buys her own drink. And then what you see?

Because what do you want to know? Right. Here's the deal. What's I look like a data stripper. You look like you data chick who, you know, worked at Google. You know what I mean? Like a chick with a sundress and a fucking nice Louis Vuitton. But look at the life we're in. We work in nightclubs, we work in bars. These are the people we're around.

I know, but every time I meet you, you, hey, how are you? You're very polite, you're very well spoken. And then you told me, yeah, I met this stripper broad in Tampa, I'd be like, what? That's fucking crazy. You took her out to dinner, didn't you? I have, yes.

But that night, that night, tell me what happened. No. Come on. No. Come on. You don't want to know this stuff. I do. You know what, dude, I do.

All right, fine. Look, it was Tampa. Yeah. It was right after the pandemic, so it would've been like 2022. So no masks. No mask, well it was Florida, so. Yeah, they didn't wear a mask anyway.

Yeah, that's a fuck mask. Yeah. And it was a weird time for all of us because New York was still kind of closed. So we didn't really have, I didn't know if I was ever going to have a job again, right? Anything. So it wasn't right. State of mind. Yeah. Uh, I definitely got drunk and, uh, she told me I tried to talk her out of dancing. You tried to save her. That's what I'm talking about. That's exactly the look I'm talking about. First time I'm hearing about it. I mean, you tried to save a stripper in Tampa for making $10,000 a night? Listen, I'm a

warm up guy. Was. There was no TV, there was no nothing. You can do better. Listen, than 10,000 a night? Have you seen my tits? Listen, so that night you tried to target, did you hook up that night or was that just? No. No, not that night. No.

I would have closed the deal. I would have took her back to the, was it the Holiday Inn? It wasn't a great, it might have been the Holiday Inn, but I know next time I went back I was at the Hard Rock. At the Hard Rock? Yeah. At the hotel.

Yeah, that's nice. Oh, that's nice, that's nice. So you went back and you started, you just kept talking to her? Yeah, she just stayed in touch. Really? Yeah. And then did you still try to talk her out of it?

I kind of let her do her own thing. Did you ever go see her dance? Yes. You did, how was that? Well, all right, so it's actually a bikini bar. What? A bikini bar. So she had a bikini?

Yeah, yeah, they're not actually. So she's a real dancer? It's a bikini bar. I don't know what that is. It's like a strip club with clothes. Like a bar. No. I mean, there's a bar.

It's like a Hooters without the food. Ugh, so it's a fucking shitty hooters. I mean take away those wings, those Daytona wings. Fuck I'm not going. So she, she was just a sexy, sexy, did she dance? Yeah. So they dance on what? Like the bar? There's a pole on the stage and stuff like that. So there's a pole on the stage, but no boobies come out. No. Oh. Respectable. I mean, boring. I don't know the rules and part of the-

Take your tits out, show your asshole, throw a dollar. There's rules. So that must, I mean, listen, that must have put you at ease though. She's not, you don't have to see her winking her butthole at somebody for a Finaf, right? I'll tell you why. I fucking, I used to go to strip clubs all the time. I'm not a big fan of them I don't and I went to one and a girl I was dating Was actually you know, I looked up and she was looking through her fucking coochie at me. She's a Bobby. I'm like

Cindy I was like what the fuck I didn't even know she was a stripper So I had to go and I't even know she was a stripper. So I had to go. And one time I did a stripper. Boy, it was, I mean, fucked up. You know what I mean? Really messed up. Yeah. Yeah, a little twisted.

Yeah, twisted. Do you know what a borderline personality disorder is? Yeah. I had no idea. Oh yeah. I know now. Yeah, ah, fucking 100%. You think comics are crazy.

They had a stripper. God bless you guys, though I love strippers and dancers So it didn't work out no no no, it's did you come to the show Did you bring her to the show and did she see what you did? Oh, yeah She's been to many shows mine. Oh, really? Did she come to the warm-up show and see you warm up? No, no No, you want to be she no She was afraid of flying so I'd have to fly down there and then fly back

It was just a thing and you're afraid of bringing a fucking chicken a bikini on the Seth Meyers show I'm bringing her to work. Bring her here. Bring her anywhere. Oh god. I would have fucking patted you on the back Fuck yeah, if you walked in with that god damn it came over cross your legs and fucking sat down. Hey, this is Mercedes I will listen man this I mean From just going through this literally a week ago. Yeah, it's it's amazing that because in the the The business we're in right now is fucked It's fucked. They don't know what they want. That's right They don't I mean there's there's so there's so much shit everywhere to get something made

This way is almost impossible It's it's hard to do it without anybody and have to build something and to complete it. And now it's in theaters and people can actually go watch this. Where can they go watch it and see this? Well, we're gonna be having a event on November 10th, Sunday at four o'clock at the Hard Rock in Midtown.

In Midtown. Yeah, it's called the venue. They have a screening room downstairs. And people can buy tickets to this? Correct. That's awesome. It's part of the festival. So go check the New York Comedy Festival.

Yeah. Go check this out. You're invited. I'm invited, I'm not fucking in it. I'm gonna go watch it. I'm gonna watch it like, I could've done that. I could've done that. I mean, Jesus Christ, though.

Those two guys you could've replaced with me fuck. I'm fucking hilarious Goddamnit, they're giving you real thoughts, you know sometimes shut up Anyways, it's alright. I'll be in part two son of a bitch when you get the goddamn game show I if I watch this and fucking this ends on a sad note. I'm gonna hate you. I Marry the stripper at the end nice It's a dancer. All right. Well will listen man check check this movie out guys make sure you check it out when you see it I'll go see it this Sunday Sunday November 10th November 10th get some tickets pack this place out. What an interesting show And support this stuff man because these are guys that are making stuff

This is something he had in his head, and they got this fucking guy, and they made it from scratch. And here we are, we get to go see it in a theater, and that's what this shit's all about to me. I love stuff like this. I'm very happy for you, and thanks for coming on the show. We're gonna go to Patreon right now.

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And I'm gonna be with Atel at town hall for the festival show. How is it working with Atel? It's awesome, right? Yeah, man. He's the best. He's really good. He's the best. One of the best ever to do it,

he's still killing it. And then you're on shows with him, Danny was on the show with him too. Yeah, I know. Well, I met Danny with Pete Lee, but then Danny's been on shows with Attell as well. And you go up at the end and hang out. Yeah.

How fun is that? Also, Bobby said he's the best, and then Ryan said he's really good, which after the best kind of feels like an insult. I mean, I know you don't have a budget, can't you? I just, I'm sorry, I just like let him sit in his horse shit. I mean, it's just, you know, sometimes the funny comes

in silence when you can hear just a fucking mediocre middler. Hey, guest spot. Guest spot. Doesn a guest spot on the fucking show shut up Danny I told him to talk I Told me you talk. I will listen. We're going to patreon right now to ask the questions All the questions are from the patreon So if you are patreon men or go over there if you want to be there and ask the guest questions you go over there Join patreon.com slash Robert Kelly. If not, do you have anything else going on

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It's a fucking grind. It's a grind, but you know what? We do it because we love it. It's because that's where it's at. I mean, I fucking love it, man. It's a fucking grind. It's a grind, but you know what? We love it. It's because that's where it's at. I mean, I love Marvel. I love all that shit. I love big budget movies, but there's nothing like what you guys did.

You had a thing and you started from scratch and you stuck it out to the end and now you're right there at the finish line. So I hope good things happen from this movie. I really do. Thank you, man. Maybe it'll be in part two, or your next documentary. I'm working on trying to get an action comedy off the ground, I got a role for you if you want.

Thank you! I'm actually gonna do a documentary on cruise ship comics. Good move. I heard it's a thing. I think that's my idea. I don't think they ever covered that. Just put me in EP, I wanna make money while I sleep. All right man, well here, let's go to the Patreon.

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