The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi - #155 Lying In Confession with Fabrizio Copano
Episode Date: August 22, 2023Comedian Fabrizio Copano shares the downsides of being famous in a country you don’t live in, growing up in Chile faced with the aftermath of a dictatorship, and having priests live at your high sch...ool. Gianmarco and Russell put their geography skills to the test and air their very American grievances about Canada. You can watch full video of this episode HERE! Join the Patreon for ad-free episodes, exclusive content, and MORE. Follow Fabrizio on Instagram, TikTok, & YouTube See Fabrizio in a city near you: https://linktr.ee/fabriziocopano Get tickets to our live podcast recording in NYC on September 11 here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-downside-with-gianmarco-soresi-live-podcast-recording-tickets-676154224487 Listen to Gianmarco's full episode of Blocked Party Follow Gianmarco Soresi on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, & YouTube Subscribe to Gianmarco Soresi's email & texting lists Check out Gianmarco Soresi's bi-monthly show in NYC Get tickets to see Gianmarco Soresi in a city near you Watch Gianmarco Soresi's special "Shelf Life" on Amazon Follow Russell Daniels on Twitter & Instagram E-mail the show at TheDownsideWGS@gmail.com Produced by Paige Asachika & Gianmarco Soresi Video edited by Dave Columbo Special Thanks Tovah Silbermann Original music by Douglas Goodhart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hello, Debbie Downsiders. This is Gianmarco Cerezi talking in an artificial way,
even though I'm trying to be normal. And that's just my life. And I don't know how Mark Maron does his like, like he does like 15 minutes just talking.
And I lack, I'm either too self-aware or I'm just not smart to, to go, no one wants to hear this.
I don't want to hear it. I, I, I hate myself. So just a quick note before we get to this fantastic episode.
I was on a podcast called Blocked Party when I was in Vancouver.
And it was really good.
I enjoyed it.
And I thought it would be fun, after the credits, I'm going to add an excerpt from that podcast.
You tell stories of some time that you block someone online or in person.
And I told the story of, long-time listeners might remember,
I did a show in New York where someone came.
She seemed like a big fan, but unfortunately I had to kick her out
because she was just wilding.
And then she texted me,
I hope Hitler gets, well, first of all, Hitler's dead.
But she said, I hope Hitler takes you back to a concentration camp so you can write some new material.
And anyway, I got to tell the story on this great podcast.
I figured I'd throw it in there.
Check it out.
We'll put a link in the comments.
And yeah, enjoy this episode of The Downside.
This is The Downside. This is The Downside.
Welcome to The Downside.
My name is Gianmarco Cerezi, and I am back from Montreal.
Bonjour.
Bonjour.
Merci beaucoup.
Thank you.
This is coming out later.
We were in Montreal.
Everyone there, they go, bonjour, hi. Everyone there, they go, bonjour, hi.
That's what they said, bonjour, hi.
It's like a choose-your-own-adventure.
And I would go, bonjour.
And then they would speak French.
And I'd go, well, the jig is up.
I was hoping the conversation would be numbers.
I liked Montreal a lot.
I liked it.
You did?
I liked it.
I found the people there were cold, I felt, which surprised me for Canada.
I think maybe sometimes we're all circle jerking about Canada over here sometimes.
But I feel like they seemed colder.
They really did not seem like they liked it when you didn't know French, I felt like.
Really?
I didn't think so.
They were like, ugh. you didn't know French. I felt like. Really? I didn't think so. They were like,
you know, like they were, I don't know, they were
just like, maybe it's because I didn't have a credit card that
worked and I didn't have any of their money. That was the other thing.
You kept waving that American Express
everywhere and they said
get a Canadian Express. No, and then they were like,
I was like, I have American cash and they said
no to that. Yeah, there's
a little bit of like...
A little bit of what? A little bit of what?
A little bit of a proudness to be an American?
Yeah, I am proud of our air conditioning.
We did not have air conditioning there.
We did not have air conditioning there. Grow up, Canada.
Get some air conditioning.
Bad air conditioner overall.
I would say, okay, this isn't the most air conditioned room in the world you've ever been in,
but this is way better
than most businesses that they had there.
I felt like it was always a little too hot.
But I have to say, I mean, I'm sorry if I can't-
No, no, please.
In my country, I'm from Chile,
and everywhere else in the world, air-conditioning is like Canada.
Just here in the U.S., it's like extreme.
Yeah.
And maybe you'll get used to that
because you love
this extreme stuff.
But it's like,
it's extremely cold.
Yeah.
In some stores
in this country.
Most of places
indoors,
it's like so cold.
Yeah.
It's kind of too much.
Yeah, I felt...
So what do you go to sleep at?
First, in Chile,
is it Celsius or Fahrenheit?
It's Celsius.
Like everywhere else in the world.
Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
Like, what do you go to sleep at?
If you're in a hotel in Chile or in America, what do you set in it to?
I'm not good with Fahrenheit, but I think in Celsius I will go like 16.
16?
What's that Fahrenheit?
16 is where I put it in my hotel room when I was in Canada.
Okay.
Which felt good.
My hotel room felt good.
I think that's okay.
I'm going bottom.
I feel like the hotel was great.
I felt like restaurants, I was like, I felt they were, you know, they could have done a little more.
I agree.
Oh, my God.
Those Canadians are cutting the cables.
They don't want you to tell the truth.
All right, Russell, shut the fuck up for a second.
I'm going to,
here,
you take my mic
and you talk
with Fabrizio
and I'll be right back.
Or I was going to say
that sometimes
they would open
the windows
and I was like,
I don't know
if we should be
opening these windows
because it's a 95 degree day.
Yeah.
You know,
so I felt like
some of the things
could have been
course corrected
if they just didn't.
But you think like
the reason why their air conditioner is not that strong is because they're trying to save the environment?
No, you bring up a good point about that.
Probably.
You know, like they don't want us to die.
Maybe that's the plan.
Yeah, but I guess it's one of those things where, yeah, I mean, that makes sense.
Oh, no. No, no no this mic is fucked okay yeah no I
think I think you're absolutely right they're probably trying to save the
environment I don't have a good come back to that other than I just
ultimately didn't care on the two days that I was there about the environment
and I was uncomfortable when I was eating my dinner.
But I in theory agree with you and
think that sure, let's do it.
Let's have our restaurant slightly warm.
But I was
just uncomfortable in the moment.
So what's the name of this
food?
Oh yes, what is that food that they have
french fries with cheese
poutine
I didn't have any while I was there
poutine
I'm back
Russell
I'm just watching you short circuit when I'm not here
it makes me feel very valuable
I am the co-host
poutine I did have some poutine.
Poutine.
I had some good poutine.
What is it?
Well, let's just say Fabrizio, we were in Montreal last year together.
Yep.
We were new faces together.
Oh.
That's how we know each other.
Wow.
And did you have a good JFL?
Yeah.
Was that a good experience?
It was fun.
It was a lot of fun.
No, you're famous in Chile, though.
Yeah.
So do you walk around this shit and you go like, you motherfuckers don't even know.
You don't even know.
What kind of person
is like,
oh, they don't know.
No, I'm okay
with not being famous.
I think it's also like
better to be outdoors
when you're not famous.
You know?
Yeah.
Like it's feel better.
Wait, how famous
like if you were
walking around Chile,
what, how famous
Walking around,
he's being carried around Chile.
I'm going to walk in Chile. What kind of famous? Walking around, he's being carried around Chile. I'm going to walk
in Chile.
What kind of
asshole do you think
I am,
walking around?
No,
I,
yeah,
I'm quite famous.
Yeah,
I think like people
stop me,
get pictures and stuff
and it's,
last time I was there
like a couple months ago
and it was,
I think this year
it's been more difficult
to move around
because I did a festival at the beginning of the year and was televised.
And now it's like more than ever, probably.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
And it's good because that's the way I can pay the rent on this country.
So, I use money from a poor country.
I just take that money and I spend it in the richest country on earth.
That's the economics of my life.
Wow.
That's good for their economy.
Yeah.
Chile is a third world country.
Is that correct?
It's a development.
We call them now like developing countries.
That's the new thing.
It's kind of like, you know, like the...
It sounds better.
It's just a rebranding.
That's like calling homeless people unhoused people.
No.
It hasn't gotten better.
We're developing, you know.
We're developing some shit. Do people still say third world or second world? I've never heard of second world countries. It hasn't gotten better. We're developing, you know, we're developing some shit.
Do people still say
third world or second world?
I've never heard
of second world countries.
It's always first or third.
No,
I think they go from
first to third right away
and nothing in the middle.
America's got to be second
at this point.
There's certain parts
of America.
Oh my God.
I mean,
yeah,
at some point you have to
like get downgraded.
There are some blocks
in New York
that I'm like,
this is not a first world country.
There's no way.
You try going to the parts of Oklahoma.
Oh, my God.
You won't.
You won't.
You won't.
Any New York slander, you got to reject it.
Listen, I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
I'm ready to move to Canada.
I'm done with America.
Montreal.
I'll take the low air conditioning.
Okay.
I saw Oppenheimer in the hottest theater I've ever saw.
Felt like I was closer to the atomic bomb than Japan. You can feel the heat. conditioning. Okay. I saw Oppenheimer in the hottest theater I've ever saw. Felt like I was closer to the atomic bomb than Japan.
You can feel the heat.
Yeah, yeah.
From the beginning of the movie, I was like, they haven't even developed the bomb yet.
Yeah.
You'll be happy with your 10 restaurants and never get sick of them.
Oppenheimer, a lot of faces.
It's a movie with a lot of close-up.
Like, a lot of, like, the face of him is, like, in front of you the entire movie.
Yeah.
It's for the boys.
My girlfriend did not have a good time.
People said, how's Op and Heart?
My girlfriend was like, it was long.
I was like, sweetheart, you can't say that. That's the lamest thing to say
about a movie, that it's long.
Sometimes, though, Christopher
Nolan, the director,
sometimes it's crazy to me.
I know he
has serious subject matters he is doing,
but there's absolutely no humor.
There's not one person even cracking a smile.
You know what I was thinking when I was watching the movie?
It was like,
you know,
in these movies are so serious.
Yeah.
Like a minimal funny thing happened.
Everyone laughs hysterically.
Yes.
Because they're waiting for like a little bit of a release.
So there was this moment in the movie, and this is not a spoiler, but like they move a plant, like they're waiting for like a little bit of a release. So there was this moment
in the movie
and this is not a spoiler
but like they move a plant
like they're talking
and there's a plant
in the middle of the table.
Yes, yes.
So they move the plant
and it was like
everyone was like
ha ha ha ha
genius.
Genius comedy.
Because it was so serious
like please
give me like a little bit
of fun.
It's like when someone finally tells a joke
in a Brooklyn room
and you really just slay.
I, yeah, it was a lot of,
I always saw, I saw Interstellar.
Did you see Interstellar?
My problem with Christopher Nolan is like,
he's very scientific.
And then once in a while,
he leans heavy into the emotion.
And there was a scene where they were talking about saving some scientist on a planet.
And could they save it?
Would it destroy the mission?
And Anne Hathaway goes like, what if there's a force stronger than gravity?
Love.
And I was like, what the fuck did you just say?
What if?
What the fuck?
That's the reaction of the scientific community in the world.
Every scientist was like, what the fuck? We've been researching for decades scientific community in the world. Every scientist was like,
what the fuck?
We've been researching
for decades
and this fucker is like,
it's love?
That was the thing?
I love that movie
because it's so dumb
at the end of the day
and it reminds me
of Armageddon
and people think
it's this whole
scientific movie.
It's mostly Armageddon
with different planets
involved.
It's more like an old-fashioned blockbuster, I think.
So I just saw an old movie yesterday, Crazy Stupid Love.
Have you ever seen this movie?
Yeah, Steve Carell.
Have you ever seen this movie?
Yeah.
Twitter kept saying, like, this was a comedy people slept on.
This was one of the great comedies.
It's fucking awful.
It's fucking awful.
And there is a plot point.
I remember being cute.
There is a plot point that is fucking insane in it.
So Steve Carell, his babysitter, 17-year-old, has a crush on him.
It's a big part of the movie.
And then his son, 13-year-old, who's being babysat, has a big crush on the babysitter.
The whole movie is this 13-year-old fully harassing this 17-year-old.
And a whole thing is people being, he's like, she's my soulmate.
And Steve eventually being like,
wow, maybe he's onto something with his harassment here.
And bottom line is, full of spoilers,
the 17-year-old, she takes nudes
per her friend's advice to try to win Steve Carell.
They never get to Steve Carell.
Her father finds them, tries to beat up Steve Carell.
But at the end of the movie, all the loved people are getting together.
And then the babysitter says hi to the 13-year-old.
It's his eighth grade graduation.
Uh-huh.
Wow.
And he goes, like, you know, I'm going to keep trying.
You're my soulmate.
And she's like, okay.
He basically says, hey, when I get older, I'll kind of look like my dad,
who you had a crush on. So maybe. And she's like, all right, buddy hey, when I get older, I'll kind of look like my dad who you had a crush on, so maybe?
And she's like, alright, buddy, keep
at it. And hey, happy graduation.
And she hands him
the nudes! Okay, but wait, question.
The nudes that she took! How old is she?
How old is she? 17!
He's 13. They're both underage.
They don't establish what state the movie takes place in.
I know you could tell me if it was legal or not.
You know the breakdown of that.
18 is an adult, so wouldn't they both
be considered minors?
Yeah, but I still don't think minors...
I don't think minors... I don't think it's like
more minors can do whatever they want.
But I'm just saying, like, a 16-year-old gives a 15-year-old
nudes, you're gonna arrest the 16-year-old?
Do you know what I'm saying? I think everyone should go to jail
in that movie. Everyone.
I'm not saying it's good. She's the
babysitter. It's weird. 17 to 13.
It's weird. She's the babysitter. 17 to 13
is too much. I agree. I'm
just saying. I know it's hacked to be like
what if the genders were
reversed? Because there's different
context. But it's not.
No, it's weird. It's weird.
It's weird, yeah. I think
it's one of those things where they're like, oh, this is a cute little fun little joke.
Yeah.
And they don't really think of the implications of if it was real.
Because earlier in the movie when the mom sees the picture, she finds the picture, she goes,
Vajayjay.
That's how you do it.
It was an old movie.
Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Vajayjay, yeah.
This is the downside.
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Thank you.
Oh, I wanted to do this for Russell.
I feel like this is a good way to start.
Russell, I'm going to show you a map of the world,
and I want you to point to me where Chile is.
Oh, you looked up before, you piece of shit.
Where's Chile on this map?
It's right in there.
Final answer?
We have a very particular shape.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry, right in there.
Sorry, sorry.
Down there.
Okay, Russell has loosely pointed to the continent of Asia and then the continent of Europe.
It's South America.
Okay, South America, good.
Yeah.
North part or south part?
You know. Or middle? Developing part. Good. Yeah. North part or south part? You know.
Or middle?
Developing part.
The developing part.
I'm going to go with the north.
Okay.
No.
South.
Well, that's the other option.
East, west.
Yeah.
You're like Asia.
Yeah.
It's south.
It's south.
But now listen.
It's real south.
It's south, south. I know almost as little as this idiot over here
that's only because I listened to a podcast
that you were on
and I know that you saw Antarctica
from a village so I know it's south
you can see Antarctica
I don't care
people don't know about my country and I'm fine with that
I know those people are like you should know
I don't know about almost every and i'm fine with that you know i know those people like you should know it's like i don't know about almost every country on planet earth you know like there's
countries were really famous and their countries were like more like indie like you know like we
have some yeah but we're not like big i'm into indie countries i'm more like yeah that's who we
are we were like that's our shit you know so i don't i don't cope like when people's like i i
don't know where's chile like you should know you shouldn't know it's fine if you don't know
and uh yeah it's really south and the cool thing is the shape of our country you know like this When people are like, I don't know where is Chile, you shouldn't know. It's fine if you don't know.
And, yeah, it's really south.
And the cool thing is the shape of our country.
You know, this country is like a little snake.
It's like a line of cocaine in the map.
So it goes all the way down.
And from the last point in the south, south, south, you can see Antarctica.
Wow.
You've seen it?
I've seen it. Do you need binoculars or no? You can see it with see Antarctica. Wow. It's right there. You've seen it? I've seen it.
Do you need binoculars or no?
You can see it with your just plain eyes. It's not that far.
From the south, south, south, south.
I mean, it's not like a piece of ice that then leads to Antarctica.
You know, it's like little islands that leads to the big one.
What's the weather like?
It's cold.
In all of Chile?
No.
Like, it's a weird country because even like we country because even, like, we're super south,
the north has, like, the driest desert on planet Earth.
And, yeah, like, I think Santiago, like, the capital,
it's, like, right in the middle.
I think it's similar to New York.
Wow.
It's not as humid, but it's similar.
It can be cold.
It can be super hot hot depending on the weather.
So help educate us.
What are the downsides
of living in Chile?
Tell us about Chile.
Super far.
It's far, man.
Yeah, what's that plane like?
Like it's 12 hours.
From New York?
Yeah, from New York.
Direct flight.
Yeah.
So it's a lot.
It's a lot of time on a plane
and then you open the door
and you're just in Chile.
So you spend 12 hours and you're in a developing country. It's a lot of time on a plane, and then you open the door, and you're just in Chile. So you spend 12 hours, and you're in a developing country.
It's not even developed.
So, I mean, that's the worst part is it's super far.
When you say developed, why is it not developed?
How long has Chile been around?
200 years.
200 years.
200 and something, 209 or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you've had some time.
What's taking so long?
We've been busy, man.
We have other issues to solve first.
Like, if we're a country or not, or just a colony.
You know, like, I mean, we're developing countries.
Like, it's the name of these countries who, like, their economy and the level of life.
It's not like, I can't remember what is the number they put there.
But, like, you're supposed to be, like, this level of life. So, then you, like, are a developed country or, like, I can't remember what is the number they put there, but you're supposed to be like this level of life,
so then you are a developed country or a first world country.
But we have done really well.
Chile is a very economically stable country.
It's a beautiful country, and it's great.
Just far.
So you were born there.
Yeah.
How did you grow up? Do you have parents still together? And it's great. Just far. So you were born there. Yeah. Yeah.
How did you grow up?
You have parents still together?
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Siblings?
Two.
A brother and a sister.
Older brother, younger sister.
And?
In the middle.
Right in the middle.
But my sister is like 12 years younger.
Wow.
So it was like, oh, my parents were about to get divorced and boom.
You think that's what it was?
Yeah, I think so.
I'm pretty sure.
Is that how it works?
Like they consciously decided to have a child instead of getting divorced or she was an accident?
My mom and stepdad have one of those.
And then that brings them together.
My mom and stepdad have like a big gap.
Yeah.
And then another kid.
It feels like, okay, you guys were like, you know, like getting bored and then something happened and now you're back, you know? But I think it's like an old fashioned thing to okay, you guys were getting bored, and then something happened, and now you're back.
But I think it's an old-fashioned thing to do.
People used to get pregnant when they get bored.
Now, they don't do that as much.
Now we have TikTok.
I was like, hey, let's start a family.
And I'm like, go back on TikTok.
Just throw the phone on the floor.
Check that out.
Check that out.
And what kind of kid were you?
I was very shy.
Very silent.
Me too.
What happened is, like, my brother was more like, I mean, my brother's a journalist.
He also worked on media in Chile.
And he always very charismatic.
You know, like, he was like this kid who was, like, big charisma.
So I was quiet and i remember like
okay my brother was talking so much that i have little gaps of silent to say something and i think
that's the moment when i developed my comedy because it was like i need to be funny and on
point in like a few words during his when he's breathing so i i think that's the way i i was
able to like communicate um my to communicate as a child.
What kind of journalism does he do?
He has a little radio show, but it's connected to his website.
And he talks about the news and current events in Chile.
Politics, mostly.
Does all your family still live in Chile?
They're all there.
Yeah.
Thank God.
They're there forever, probably.
Did they have theater when you were
growing up? Were you a theater kid?
No, I wasn't. I mean, theater is not a
big thing in Chile, sadly.
Argentina is huge. They have massive
theaters and they have a
whole tradition. In Chile,
there's a whole tradition, but no one
paid tickets for theater.
It's not a thing.
God, my geography is so fucking pathetic.
Is Evita about Argentina?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you know Evita?
Of course.
Don't cry for me, Argentina.
Yeah.
It's in the title.
It's Madonna, no?
It's Madonna?
She did it in the movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one liked it.
Patti LuPone was the original on Broadway.
That's the original Evita?
It's all problematic because none of them are Argentinian
Yeah, that's true
Well, we love Evita
Oh, good
They're not all woke
You like the person or the musical?
Madonna
Wasn't the person problematic?
Yeah, she was the wife of a dictator
but you know what?
He's still kind of like a beloved figure in Argentina
Interesting Yeah, he, yeah. But you know what? He is still kind of like a beloved figure in Argentina.
Interesting.
Yeah, he was like a very social,
he was like a dictator
with like a social side.
Sometimes when people are fun,
we just,
we can't help but like him,
you know?
You know?
Yeah.
Trump,
no.
Listen,
he'd be a fun podcast guy.
The thing about,
he's like,
you're like,
he every once in a while
does something like,
God damn,
that is funny.
But he, you know, a nightmare.
Nightmare, awful person.
If he would just drop it, he would be so loved.
That's the thing.
I know, if he wasn't doing all this politics stuff,
if he wasn't talking about anything real.
If he went really hard into trans rights,
I think liberals would accept him quickly.
Like if he brought his whole platform,
his whole platform was like,
guys,
we're going to be pro-trans rights now.
Yeah.
I think liberals would be like,
okay,
you can come back to the party.
You can come on the podcast.
I think it's just one thing.
You want change.
I think liberals are fickle.
You're keeping all the other Nazi stuff,
but just this one area.
It would be nice.
Yeah.
You just never see that.
You never see.
Yeah. Just a pro-trans Nazi. I think it will be funny if just never see that you never see yeah just a pro-trans Nazi
I think it would be funny
if he like
changed politics
like overnight
and he pushed hard
in the other direction
and
I mean it would be
so interesting to see
if people were like
oh okay
you know like yeah
okay whatever
even like
his hardcore fans
will go like
maybe he's right
I mean
they'll do anything he says.
Someone said with the vaccine, they said if they had just said, like,
Pfizer is the Republican vaccine and Moderna is the Democrat,
this all would have been fine.
Many lives would be saved.
So many lives would be saved.
That's so funny.
So what are the politics like in Chile?
Well, this is the thing.
We had a right-wing dictator called Pinochet in the 70s.
And after that, I think the country was kind of polarized.
When did that end?
In 89.
And by dictator, I guess to define...
The definition of a dictator, it's just there's no elections.
I mean, that's one thing, but there's no... I mean, first of all, a dictator, no one votes for this person.
You know, like, no, he decided to put himself in power.
And then he is, like, the one who rules every branch of government.
Would he call himself a dictator, or is that, like, the negative term?
No, no, no.
He, right away, he liked the character kind of, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Actually, there's a famous picture of him
and you can Google this, like wearing like sunglasses
because he wanted, they were like taking a picture
and he was like, wait, wait, wait, my sunglasses
because he wanted like to be the bad guy, you know?
Like the evil emperor.
So yeah, he embraced the character
and then yeah, he'd make make like he'd disappear and torture
and kill thousands of people during 17 years of a very dark regime and then and this is the
craziest part of chile it's like we every dictator is kind of like killed or i don't know he died in
jail or i don't know whatever in ch Chile, we decided to vote yes or no,
if you want more of him or no.
He set up that vote.
Well, the thing is,
there was a lot of international pressure for this.
So it was like, I mean, I think he was on his way out,
and he decided, like, let's put an election,
and you guys are going to vote yes or no.
And I'll listen to the results.
Exactly.
Sounds like Elon Musk.
And yeah, exactly.
Like a Twitter poll.
And no one.
And that's why we had democracy.
But we was still.
What was the percentage?
Like, was it brutal?
No.
Did it hurt?
It was close.
It was close.
It was close.
You know, some people, they just like to know, you know.
That's ultimately what's crazy about elections is you're like, how is it this close every time?
It's rarely like a huge bloodbath.
I mean, I would love to see elections where people want for like 99%.
They'll be like, wow, we all agree on this shit.
You know, we all like this.
That should have been the Trump election.
That really should have been the 99%.
Okay, let's reset.
Yeah.
But nope.
Nope, nope.
Very close.
How old are you?
I'm 34.
Okay. So you were a baby when are you? I'm 34. Okay.
So you were a baby when the dictator...
I was born in 89.
So right when he was the election, I was born.
So he lost.
He lost.
What happened to him?
What did he do?
He was like, okay.
Well, then he went back.
I mean, this is crazy.
He got me.
He's like, take the sunglasses back.
Oh.
Ugh.
No, there was a whole transition.
And he was, like, still in power for a while, like, doing other parts of government, especially, like, close to the army because he was a, you know, he was a soldier.
Warlord, yeah.
So then he went back to that shit.
And then he was a congressman for a minute without elections because he approved a constitution where like people who used to be
presidents didn't go for congress like right away right uh and uh specific and everyone like was
like this guy cannot be on congress you know we can't work with him like he tortured and killed
our friends and i would like to sit right next to us so he quit and then he was i'm reading a book
about this right now so i'm really like i going to have a lot of details about this story.
He was sick, so he needed a hip replacement or some shit like that.
So he decided to go to the UK to get the surgery.
And when he was in the UK, he traveled with his,
when you're like a, what's the name of when you work for government and you have a special passport?
Yeah, government ID
yeah
they can't take you to jail
in another country
sure sure
diplomatic immunity
exactly
so he decided to take
this surgery with that
but
his passport was expired
and a judge in Spain
was like
this guy's in Europe
we can take him to jail
like we can do a trial
because
he killed some people
from Spain
and some people from the UK
in Chile back in the time so according to international law we can do a trial because he killed some people from Spain and some people from the U.K. in Chile back in the time.
So according to international law, we can stop him right now.
So he was able to have Pinochet for 500 days stuck in the U.K. with all this, like, trial kind of going.
You know, like, international debates about if we can put him into trial.
Where was he staying, though?
Like, the embassy?
Or, like, jail?
He was in the hospital.
Uh-huh.
Because he was like waking up from a surgery.
And it was like, hey, you're now in custom of the...
That's brutal.
Your hip is fine.
But it's chained to the bed.
You can't move.
Yeah.
And yeah, he was in...
That's the closest to justice, you know,
that ever happened for his crimes.
So did he... He got out of it?
He didn't?
He, I mean, it was weird because the government was like all these people from the left, like
his people that it was against him.
They have to bring it back to Chile because it was like, well, technically this is like
a violation of, or jurisdiction, you know?
He should be judged.
He should be judged in our country.
We know that's never going to happen. Yeah. But, you know, like, it's kind of judged in our country we know that's never gonna happen
but you know
it's kind of weird
that another country
is judging our dictator
so we have to take it back
so they fight really hard
to like bring him back
so they make the whole case
that he had dementia
and he was crazy
and he couldn't walk
and whatever
so Margaret Thatcher
helping him
and all this shit
and he was able
to get back
and he came back
to Chile in a wheelchair.
And at the airport, he stand up like,
I was fine the whole time.
Get the sunglasses back here.
And the sunglasses just came down.
Take them back, baby.
My God.
You know, like this.
And yeah, he was back.
It's like when Trump, remember,
he wanted to do the Superman thing.
Yeah, when he had COVID, he had the idea.
He had the idea. I wish they had let him do that.
What was it?
He had COVID when he was really sick for whatever those two days were.
And then he came and did that big walk back up to the White House.
And it was filmed and televised and everyone was watching.
He really wanted to pull open his shirt and show that you had a Superman shirt underneath.
Wow.
Oh, man.
That's always alarming when a political figure leaves the country to get a major surgery.
Yeah.
Yeah.
To be like, you had to go to the UK to get it?
Yeah.
There was some American who went to Canada to get, I think, a hip replacement surgery.
And I was like, what the fuck?
You don't love your country?
You don't love your, like, do you think medicine here is not good enough for you?
Hospitals are too cold here.
Is he dead now?
Yeah.
When did he die?
2000 something.
I mean, early thousands.
Did people dance in the streets?
There was a lot of happiness.
Yeah.
There were celebrations.
I went to a celebration actually
like a party that night yeah yeah we went for drinks with friends and we celebrate the death
of the dictator yeah did you feel it given that you weren't you know alive for his regime like
did you feel an excitement about it absolutely i mean because my parents always teach us about
like how this guy was a criminal and we we can tell, we're still like living under some ideas
that he and his cronies had.
So-
Like what?
The Constitution still is like,
was put together by his team, you know?
And yeah, I mean,
it's still the country lived through like underneath his,
like, I don't know,
like the polarization is still there in a way.
Yeah.
You know, like he destroy the fabric of democracy
kind of forever or like for a really,
like when you have a dictator,
it's like still like every time you have a conflict,
you go back to that point in history.
Yeah.
You know, it's kind of like a,
yeah, it's like hunting you forever.
So you hate the guy.
Yeah.
You want him to die.
It's a really fine line.
You have to go to be a dictator and do horrible things,
but then somehow not get killed in the transition of power
and then still live there.
It's like...
Well, there's a story that is my favorite story about the history of Chile.
Maybe we'll explain all of this.
And everyone thinks that this is a good thing,
but sometimes they feel it's a bad thing.
This is the anecdote.
I don't know.
There was a summit of countries, and that year was in Chile.
So George W. went to Chile, and he was on the Chilean White House.
It's called the coin, you know.
So he was in the Chilean White House, you know, hanging around, you know, George W., you know,
and being very chill and fun, probably.
And he asked the president of Chile, he's like, hey, what happened to that dictator that you used to have?
What happened with that guy?
And Lagos was the president at the time
who was like, oh, he's right there.
He's on that table. He's like, right there.
He's like, okay.
What happened with the guy who was killed by him?
The president was before,
the president he overthrew.
Well, he killed himself during the coup,
but his wife is right there.
And the wife is like, hey.
It's like, wow.
You really managed to transition in a smooth way, guys.
And that's Chile.
You know, like, all the crazy shit that happened,
and then on the same party,
you can have the dictator and the wife of the guy
who got overthrown
hanging out, kind of.
I think it's just like
the countries, they make that decision at the end of the war.
I feel like after
Germany was taken over, there was a debate of
are we going to kill all the Nazis?
What are we supposed to do with these people now?
What are we supposed to do with all these Nazi generals and whatnot?
And that was a big debate.
We have a lot of Nazis.
Even outside of the government, you've got to. We have a lot of Nazis. Even outside of the government,
you've got to assume you have a lot of Nazis
in your country. Of course. There's another world where they're like,
the axis of evil is now the axis
of friends. Yeah. And it was like,
oh, these people, like my neighbor, was like
a Nazi last week. Yeah. And now
Hitler's dead. What are we supposed to do with him?
Still hang with him? It's hard to tell who was being
a Nazi for being a Nazi, who was being a Nazi
because they were scared of not being a Nazi.
You know, like,
it's a huge thing.
But I can see it
happening here, too.
I think, you know,
all these people are friends.
Ted Cruz and Nancy Pelosi,
they're getting drunk
once in a while.
They're hanging out.
I think they're all
full of shit.
They all...
I mean, I think politics
is like wrestling.
You know, it's like
it's a wrestling match and they pretend to be fighting, but then they go home
and they're like, hey, how are you?
But the difference is in Chile, some of them actually killed themselves.
Yeah, well, that's another level, of course.
But you know, like, I don't know.
Like, when you have, like, these traumas in your country, you have to, like, figure out
kind of, like, you know, like a healthy way to get out of those traumas.
Yeah.
And for a lot of people, this was the healthy way.
The problem was because it was so naive,
we're still dealing with, I don't know,
peanut chips still have some approval in the polls.
Still people think it was a good idea to have a dictator because we never show how dark and awful it was.
There was not a hardcore documentary on TV
showing this is how people were tortured,
murdered, disappeared.
If you go to the details, it's horrible.
It's like
very, very graphic and terrible.
And there's a museum in Chile,
and it's pretty well
done. It's not fun,
but it's a museum of human rights,
and it's a very interesting place
to understand this whole picture.
Yeah.
And it was staged by the US, by the way.
It was all Nixon and CIA money.
I've always wondered with dictators,
because they want to be in charge of everything,
but it feels like you have to be so busy
doing all that.
It doesn't feel like they have a lot of downtime
to enjoy the dictatorship. Do you know what I mean? I think they're enjoying lot of downtime to enjoy the dictatorship.
Do you know what I mean?
I think they're enjoying being the power.
Being the power. They enjoy the game.
I think they're just addicted to the game of winning.
Because in my mind, it's so hard to envision getting off.
In my mind, it's like they must be doing this so they can lay at the pool and enjoy wealth.
But I don't think it's that.
I think they enjoy wealth at Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't think it's that. I think they enjoy wealth
at the same time.
I mean,
they are the wealthiest.
Yeah.
They are the precious thing
on the country.
You know?
They move around
and everyone moves around.
You know?
I don't know.
They probably enjoy that
as that's a pleasure.
Yeah.
They're psychopaths.
Every politician is a psychopath.
Yes.
They're all hated.
They're hated by a huge swath of people.
Trump, I guess,
he does his golf games
and he might have fun doing that,
but I think he's just like
addicted to the highs and the lows
and the yelling and the screaming.
Yeah.
And when they build up,
they want to feel something.
It's another level of fans also.
Like, you know,
it's more like a spiritual guide.
It's different when like you're a politician who's, like, killing it.
You're like a little god.
You know, people, like, really follow your lead.
And you're going to change stuff and you're going to save the country.
You're a musician or a comic that everyone loves.
You're like, oh, it's going to be fun.
Yeah.
Because this person is not, like, you know, like a spiritual, like, it's not a temple to be.
Like, you know, Trump and all these people people, like they feel that other level of.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But by people you don't respect.
Trump's looking out.
He's like, oh.
Yeah.
I know Trump wants that.
I know Trump probably has some liberal friends, some New York friends that he wish he could hang out with.
And he probably still is secretly.
Yeah, in secret.
Yeah.
Is it, who's president now of Chile?
Gabriel Boric. And you know him? I know him very well. Yeah, yeah secret. Who's president now of Chile? Gabriel Boric.
And you know him?
I know him very well.
Yeah, yeah.
Know him.
Wow.
I know him for a long time.
And yeah, we close.
I mean, we don't hang every weekend, but we talk once in a while.
It would be alarming if you did.
Yeah.
He'll be like you as a dictator.
You're being in the pool and not doing anything.
Yeah.
How do you know the president of Chile?
Well, in 2011, well, like the student debt was insane and like here, but we decided to
do something.
So people took over the streets and he was one of the leaders of the student movement
over there.
Wow.
And I met him there because I was already working as a comic and we were like
helping the student movements
doing shows for free,
you know,
like trying to get people
to protest
or like whatever.
And that's how we met him.
How intense did the protests get?
Like compared to America,
like what are Chilean protests like?
Well, they always end in violence.
Like they always.
But at the beginning,
they're really like cool and everyone's like nice and like feels like, Well, they always end in violence. They always. But at the beginning, they're really cool and everyone's nice and feels like
everyone has funny signs
and stuff. I think everywhere. I think it's funny when
America's like,
it's so crazy that
sometimes protests are violent.
Yeah.
The country was founded
on that. What are you even talking about? Of course.
The Boston Tea Party. It was notoriously a violent event.
And then someone takes a deodorant from Dwayne Reed
and they're like, oh my God.
Lightness, please.
Also, what happened to me was like,
I remember when Roby Wade was overthrown
and I was like, wow, tomorrow's going to be riots.
This country's going to be on fire next morning.
Nothing happened.
No, we've been-
There were some vicious tweets.
We've been conditioned that it's like, you know, you go and it could be hundreds of thousands of people, but you must be polite.
You can't, you know, you must listen to the, you know.
It's wild.
It's wild.
The Women's March.
Then you have like, you have like Ivanka Trump, like, like walking in the Women's March. Like have like you have like uh ivanka trump like like walking in the
women's march like i support this too it's so passive that even the wrong sides can be a part
of it yeah and still and nothing happened well thanks for being here at least yeah i don't know
i see the french riots and i'm like yeah yeah those guys those people really know how to i mean
if you're in government it's like there's fire outside. I think you do something, you know, like you're working that night.
But yeah, it's like here's like, oh, okay, good signs.
Funny, funny, funny videos.
Were you part of any in Chile that really like kind of ended badly?
Yeah, I was there a couple of times.
But I always, I mean, I'm not brave.
I'm not going to stay there. So I just escaped on time. But a couple of times I stayed a little mean i'm not i'm not brave i'm not gonna stay there so i'm just escape on time
but a couple times stay a little bit longer than i should and yeah i mean it was like this this
close to like get by the cops and stuff but nothing happened at the end they like they they
take you in a van like two blocks and they drop you because you're kids you know at the end of
the day yeah yeah you're not doing anything criminal honestly but yeah that's how I met Gabriel
and most of the people who are now
in government are from that same generation
so I know most of them
it's crazy
it's crazy to be able
to talk with the president of the country
is he in your phone?
yeah he's in my phone
what's the highest level of someone you have in your phone? it might not be in my phone. Yeah. That's insane. What's the highest level of someone you have in your phone?
It might not be in my phone, but I think his name is Senator Raskin.
He went to my high school, and I met him.
He gave me his card once.
Okay.
I guess, yeah, I guess.
Oh, I was, I guess.
I feel like if I really like.
I was thinking a celebrity, maybe.
Yeah, I was thinking a celebrity, too.
I think, cut to my head, I could get him on the phone.
Not immediately, but I'm saying in months,
I could navigate my way to get him onto the phone.
The senator?
The senator, yeah.
Wow.
That's the best you've got?
It'll take you months.
You're working for a political organization.
You're a public figure.
You could get Andrew, what's his name?
Oh, yeah, I could get Andrew Yang.
Andrew Yang.
You could get him on the phone. But not directly. Moving forward? Andrew, what's his name? Oh, yeah, I could get Andrew Yang. Andrew Yang. You could get him on the phone.
Not directly, but like.
Moving forward?
Andrew Yang still doing that?
Oh, well, we don't.
It's a long, complicated thing I don't want to talk about.
But I could, I would have access to him.
I definitely have emailed him.
And I could get his phone number easily.
He was with Chappelle the other day.
I love it when comedians have a politician open for them.
It's such a great reflection of the state of comedy.
No comics should be...
Let's all take pictures with all the political figures.
We'd love it.
Or billionaires.
That's even better.
Billionaires.
That's fantastic.
You know what else I love is when politicians,
instead of doing anything that's happening right now,
get in on a trend.
I saw this Democratic Party video
Cory Booker put out with Kristen Gillibrand,
and it's like, hi, Barbie.
Hi, Ken.
And it is an absolute fucking nightmare.
It's one of those that is amazing.
You need to watch this.
The president of Colombia tried to do one like,
hey, Barbie, hey, Ken,
and they have to take it down immediately
because it's so fucking embarrassing.
It's so embarrassing.
It's so embarrassing.
It's so embarrassing
with everything that's going on right now.
You're doing that
and you're filming yourself
at a fucking movie
and these fucking hacks.
Biden did one with the Jonas Brothers
that made me want to throw up.
I'm sure that they're like,
oh, the AOC is doing this
and the AOC is not doing that.
Yeah.
And their brain is like, AOC, I'm sure she's going to do this.
So we're going to like.
But AOC going to the Met Gala was pretty gross.
Yeah.
With a billion dollar dress that said, eat the rich.
It's like, well, they're there.
It's all depressing.
It said, tax the rich.
I wish it said, eat the rich.
It's like, well, they're right here.
Yeah.
Eat them.
Eat them right now.
Eat them right now.
And I'll respect you.
Eat them in front of us.
So have you had drinks with this guy?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Actually, the last time I saw him, I got super drunk, and I had to leave the party.
By your own wishes?
Yeah, I decided I'm too drunk.
He passed a law.
He was like, new law.
Everybody needs to get out of here.
Get the fuck out of my house.
Was he drinking too?
Yeah, but he was on vacation.
It's crazy to imagine a president drinking.
Well, our president's 82.
He was on vacation.
Uh-huh.
And I think he was having a beer.
Yeah.
And he was doing a barbecue.
He was doing it himself.
He's 34?
He's 37, I think.
Oh, my God.
In America, you have to be, what, 35, I think, to run?
Same in Chile.
Yeah.
He was exactly 36, I think, when he got in power.
And I think now he's 37.
Do you think if he started to become a dictator, you could give him a call and be like, hey, I have some glasses for you.
Like, I can go up to Warby Parker.
Have you ever?
Listen, if I had access to the president and he was my friend, I'd have to resist sometimes to be like, hey.
What would you say to Joe Biden right now?
What would I say to Joe Biden right now?
If you could, if you had access to him right now.
I would say, hey, I have a lot of friends with student debt.
Let's get rid of it.
No, you know what I'd say?
No, you know what I would say?
I'll tell you what I'd say.
I'd say, Joe, you got to expand the court.
It's politicized.
And she's like, what?
Who's talking?
He'd be like.
Joe, Joe. Joe, wake up. Wake up. and she's like what? who's talking? he'd be like Joe!
Joe!
Joe wake up!
wake up Joe put Kamala on
what if he's like
fuck you man
fuck you Jermarco
they said that
he curses a lot
I mean they almost curse
of course
that was a great scene
in Oppenheimer
oh yeah yeah yeah
it was with Truman
as they took
Oppenheimer was like I feel bad about what, ah. And as they took Oppenheimer,
Oppenheimer was like,
I feel bad about what I did
and Truman like had him leave
and he was like,
don't let that cry baby
back in here.
Truman said a great point.
He's like,
who cares about who invented
the nuclear bomb?
He said,
I dropped the bomb.
I dropped the bomb.
That's weird.
I mean,
are you careful about
what you say about him in public?
I mean,
that's a huge,
you're talking about it casually in a way that if I was friends with Joe Biden,
I do think I'd be like, I'm friends with Joe Biden, and that's all I will say.
Yeah.
I mean, he's an important figure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I try to, I mean, in my brain, first of all, I do jokes about him
because I think you should.
You know, you have to make fun of power.
So even like...
How harsh do you go though?
Do you really go for the jugular?
No.
No, of course not.
Of course.
Because I have a feeling
because I'm a person, you know?
Sure.
But I still like try to put myself
in the position of like,
I should treat like
when they fucked up,
I should make jokes about...
Yeah.
You know,
I shouldn't be like,
oh, well,
but these are my friends.
What is he fucked up?
I mean, many things. Like, well, it these are my friends. What has he fucked up? I mean, many things.
Like, well, it's just, like, so many that it's hard to think.
They have, like, rookie mistakes.
Sure.
They just got in power.
But I think for me, it's, like, communications of, like, government
communications are not great.
Like, they don't explain what they're doing really well.
Yeah.
You know?
And that's my main complaint.
I feel like they just, like, get the right wing on the other side.
They just, like, destroy them.
And they're, like, they don't know how to explain themselves.
You know?
They're not able to communicate anything.
But, yeah, I don't go dark.
Sure.
Is he pretty liberal?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
He's a progressive guy.
Yeah?
And how progressive is Chile compared to America?
Chile's very conservative.
Like, we're all super Catholic and stuff.
How did he win, then, with all these Catholics there?
Did he appeal to them?
Does he say that he's Catholic?
I think at some point.
But, I mean, we all race Catholic.
It's like everyone.
It's not like a few.
You know what?
I think little communities like Jewish community or Muslim. But it looked really tiny compared with like 90% Catholic.
So religiously, like you don't talk about it, but everyone assumed that you're Catholic.
And he, well, he was like, I mean, we have like our Trumpy guy who's like getting some traction.
And then this young kid was like, you know, on the other side.
I think he won because was like the different to the rest
and uh also like i think yeah chile could be weird in some stuff because it's like it's very
backwards in many ways but then you have like this kind of like glimpses of like progressiveness
happening once in a while and that's one of them like give the vote for this kid and give him a
chance yeah wow you know talk to me about being raised Catholic.
You, did you go to confession?
Yes.
Yes, yes.
When, is there a specific time of the week you go to confession?
I think Fridays.
Fridays.
I think Fridays.
And you do what, before school? So you get it out before the weekend.
After school.
You can start clean.
And then you can be, you can have a bad weekend.
You can go crazy.
And then you gotta like do it again.
Oh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Is it before class?
It's in the middle of the day.
Like lunch and then...
Take you out of school, like of classes, like of real stuff.
They take you out of science to make you talk with an old man.
Would you have to walk to the church or did they have it in the school?
The church was inside the school.
So there was like the school priest.
Exactly.
And they have a house inside of it.
And when I grew up, I found out this really weird.
Like all the priests have a house inside of the school.
That's weird.
Where's your address?
It's like inside of this school.
Yeah.
And were the priests really strict?
Were they mean?
Was they fun?
What was the name of the priest at your high school?
There were many.
Some of them, they were like, yeah,
like the oldest one were like, you know,
like the wisdom old man who's like more angry.
But there were like young ones
who were trying to like change stuff
and be like cool and try to like talk like kids, you know?
I think all that was happening at the
same time so you have like different well they were like five or six you know and sometimes you
get the the old man and you're like he barely can talk to you and sometimes you get like the young
the young the young priest who's like jude law in young pope and he just want to like hang with you
you know um so you you. You would go on
Friday, so you go to
confession.
Starting at what age
do you start confession?
I think it was like
13 or 12.
Oh, that's good.
I imagine it would
be a nightmare with
five or six year olds.
They'd be like, you
know, they wouldn't
know what to say.
It just would be like
boring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even for the priest,
it's like, what the
fuck?
Well, at 12 or 13,
you have a little more
to figure out
how honest you want to be
a little bit of a moral compass
also
you know
what you can
did you ever have trouble
coming up with
like what you were going to say
that week
like every week
obviously was like
so like nerve wracking
like what I was supposed to say
because in my brain
it's like
I'm not doing drugs
I'm not like
doing anything that is like
okay
like a criminal
thing to do or whatever.
It's very complicated to explain.
All the time I was like,
I don't respect my mom every day.
Sometimes I'm mean with her.
I wonder if people did
the thing that people do in job interviews
for their confession.
Father, I've sinned.
Then try to spin it that they're good people. for their confession. Like, I, Father, I've sinned. I, like,
and then try to,
like,
spin it that they're,
like,
good people.
Oh,
sure.
You know,
like,
I gave too much,
like,
time to thing,
and then that,
like,
you know,
like,
like trying to,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
I didn't clean the dishes
as vigorously
as I was supposed to.
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
How long,
like,
like,
if you went in there
and said,
uh,
knock,
knock,
I'm all good, Father, bye, would you be like, nothing near this wig? Yeah. What long, like, if you went in there and said, knock, knock, I'm all good, father, bye, would you be like...
Nothing new this week?
Yeah.
What would they say?
Acceptable?
Son.
Sounds like a lie, and that's the first confession.
Well, then you go, you self-generate right there.
You're right, I was lying.
You're right.
Now we did it, and let's go.
I mean, how long were these sessions?
Well, I don't have, like, very clear memories of all of them,
but I remember one very, like, very... Like, all of them, but I remember one very, like, it comes to my mind once in a while.
Again, it's like this old priest, and he started asking me about, like, okay, what is your sins?
And I was, like, talking about, like, I was lying.
I was lying that I don't see my dad that much.
I don't see my dad all the time.
And, I mean, I was just, just like making up this thing about my dad.
And he started talking to me about he lost a tooth.
And he was like talking about like his tooth was falling.
And then he started talking to me about how being old was hard.
And when you get old, like you start seeing yourself in a different way.
Oh, my God.
It was like a whole interesting conversation about like.
And it was like, I don't know, 15 minutes or 20 minutes.
And it was like I don't know 15 minutes or 20 minutes and it was mostly about
him
my balls hit the toilet water this
morning and it was tough
honestly
I was interested in that because
it was I mean an old man
talking to you about how hard it's like
being old and being open about that
it was interesting
it's like the little kids aren't even into it anymore.
Oh my God.
Did you ever
cry in the booth?
Did you ever talk about
masturbating? Did you ever tell
the priest I jerked off?
Even at that time, I knew that was not a great idea
probably. I wonder if anybody,
if the priests were just like,
wow, this is the high school where not a single kid masturbates. I wonder if anybody, if the priests were just like, wow,
this is the high school
where not a single kid
masturbates.
I don't buy it.
So you never,
you never mentioned that to?
Because,
maybe not because
my mind was like,
oh,
this is probably a pedophile.
No,
my brain was like,
I don't want,
it's kind of like weird
to talk with any adult
or anyone.
Of course,
but that's,
if I was every Friday. there's a handful of kids
that were, one or two,
brutally honest and really
told everything.
Father, I jerked off 300 times
this week. There's not a surface I haven't
pushed my dick against.
I mean, that's...
I feel like I would've...
So you weren't taking it seriously from the get.
No, no.
Were there some kids taking it seriously?
Were there some kids leaving the confession booth crying and you were like, buddy, just lie.
I know.
Just say you don't see your dad sometimes.
You know what is the punishment?
You know what is the punishment?
No.
Well, yeah, that's the biggest one.
If you – like every week, the kids –
Oh, yeah.
They give you – like you have to say every week, you can't. Oh, yeah. They give you, like, you have to say a prayer.
You know?
Like, okay, you kill someone.
Okay.
I have to say, like, 20 times this specific prayer.
And that's it.
Is it always 20 times?
I mean, it could be, I don't know, 80.
Depending.
How long is the prayer?
Is it a couple lines?
A couple lines.
Would you do that?
Was there anything you ever said
and they were like, say it four times?
I did it.
I did it, but in my brain.
Yeah.
On my way back, I'm like...
Did it make you say it out loud even?
No, you don't even have to say it out loud.
I remember going to the bathroom
and be like, Father Christ, whatever, whatever.
Okay, I did it.
So why are you going to tell the truth
if this is the punishment?
We're all going through the motions.
Were the priests, did any of them get in trouble for pedophilia?
Yeah, a couple.
But years later.
At your high school?
Yeah, yeah.
But I knew about it.
They lived in the high school.
They have a house.
They have a house in the building.
Inside of the place.
They were right there.
Do you remember reading about him?
Do you remember being like, oh yeah, he was a little creepy.
Yeah. I remember someone
talking about one that was like,
oh, pull my finger, pull my finger. And then years
later, boom. One day
it's not the finger. He started
with the finger.
Was he farting? Yeah, was he farting?
Was he doing it?
I mean,
it wasn't me. He was doing this to someone else. It seems like farting would Yeah, was he farting? Was he doing it or just wanted people... I mean, it wasn't me.
He was doing this to someone else.
It seems like farting would be, again, frowned upon in the Catholic Church.
I don't know, though.
I've never heard of it.
Farting is a sin?
No, but actively asking a kid to pull a body part.
But imagine without it.
Pull my finger.
I think if he was a pedophile... Pull it again.
Pull it again. Pull it again. Okay. Close it was a pedophile, you know, like... Pull it again.
Pull it again.
Pull it again.
Okay.
Close your eyes now.
Oh, God.
That's creepy.
I mean, looking back at it.
It is creepy.
Yeah.
I mean, the idea that they have a house in the middle of the high school, that's creepy enough, I think.
Yeah.
Old man living in a house.
Old dudes.
This was a big high school.
We didn't have like...
No, the high school was huge.
Yeah.
Is this all public?
Is that how it works?
No, this is like...
It's called...
It's like subvencionado.
It means like the government
gives half.
It's like half private,
half public.
So how does it...
Because I watched your special
and you really...
I mean, you went hard
after Catholics.
You filmed it in Chile.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean...
I filmed it in Argentina, actually.
Oh, in Argentina.
Is everyone cool about making fun of Catholics?
Yeah, I think in the last couple of years, no one cares about them anymore.
They lose a lot of power.
But are they still in school, still getting confessions?
Yes, I think they are.
But they were like big, big cases of pedophilia, like massive cases.
And after that, no one take them seriously anymore.
Really?
Yeah.
I think they lose a lot of power.
What about your family?
Your family still care about Jesus?
I don't think so.
No.
They're crossing every room?
No, not anymore.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, we were close to the church because during the Pinochet years,
like, the dictator, like, the church have, like, a branch that they were,
like, the ones taking care of having the counts
of the people that disappeared.
So some priests were cool.
And there's a show about it.
There's a TV show, a series about this group of priests that take care of counting the
dead bodies and being like...
Oh, my God.
Because no one was paying attention to that.
And the priests were kind of like, they're not going to kill a priest at that time.
Yeah.
So the priests were like, there's a couple of boys missing today.
What's going on?
We're going to keep track of this.
No one is pulling my finger.
Definitely the government.
My finger hasn't been pulled in a week.
Something weird going on here.
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Okay, so you're doing comedy.
Yeah.
You went to university?
I went to college, yeah.
You went to college there?
I went to university, honestly, yeah.
See, look, I was trying to be cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just a guest.
Yeah.
And what did you study?
First, advertising, but I hated it, so I left like in a month.
And then I studied literature for three years. But I didn't finish.
I dropped.
You dropped?
Yep.
And then you started pursuing comedy?
I did it.
I mean, I started before.
I started when I was 16.
So I started, like, really young.
Stand-up or sketch or everything?
Always stand-up.
But with stand-up, how long has stand-up been going on in Chile?
Zero days before me and my friends.
Yeah, so what did you see that made you want to go into it?
Like, what?
I was, I mean, this is the thing.
It's like, in Chile, HBO was not a premium channel.
Oh.
By a mistake.
Someone put, like, HBO in basic cable.
So when we got cable, we got, like, HBO.
Wow.
And so we started watching, I don't know.
I remember, like, Eddie Murphy Raw was maybe the first one that I remember.
Of course, Delirious.
I remember like Lewis Black was in HBO at the time in that era.
And Sir Silverman, there was one.
And I was just like, what is this?
You know, because it was like a movie, but it was just one person talking.
And then it was Seinfeld, like the TV show Seinfeld.
Yeah.
And watching that, they explain what is this.
This is a job that happened in New York, and you have friends, and you go to TV to do a set.
You know, all these things were there.
Yeah.
And then I watched the Andy Kaufman movie, Man on the Moon.
Yeah.
And that's kind of like where they draw the map in my brain.
It's like, okay, so there's a TV show called Saturday Night Live.
There's, you know, like you can go to that show
and there's also like the comic store and people go there.
And that's when I was like, okay, this is the thing.
And then I met these two other friends who were not very famous comics in Chile.
I met them like, we were like, I was working with my brother in a project
and they invited us to that project, whatever. And I met these guys and we're like, I was working with my brother in a project, and they invited us to that project, whatever, and I met these guys,
and we're like, we love stand-up.
I love stand-up, and let's try to put together a show.
And we called a place.
It was the Tango Club.
And the owner had a little room that was so nice.
Actually, it was like a perfect little comedy room.
And we were like, okay, can we start doing shows there?
And we started doing shows in this tiny room in the second
floor of a tango club. So all the tango
music was playing in the background,
but we... I remember, like,
this is how shitty we were.
The first show, we thought, like,
everyone was doing an hour because we watched this special
and everyone was doing an hour.
Each one of us did, like,
45 minutes. Oh, my
God. I know, my God.
I know.
I know.
We didn't know the rules.
How many of you there were you?
Three.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
And the audiences don't even – did the audience feel like they knew what stand-up was?
I mean, I feel like you had to like train people as to what it is. Well, that was not the hardest part because Santiago still is like a cosmopolitan city.
Like people know about stuff.
Santiago still is like a cosmopolitan city.
Like, people know about stuff.
But then when we start traveling to small towns in the south and the north,
that's when things were, like, really hard to explain what stand-up was.
You know, like, I remember, like, okay, yeah, you can come to do a show in our town.
We have this disco party place.
And you will go at 3 a.m. in the morning.
You know, things like that. Like, in the middle of a party, party like they told them the music and you start talking oh my god would people like would they respect it
because it was so new and weird and interesting or was it like chaos but i think in santiago like
people was like oh this is this is a new york thing you know like i mean no offense three new
comics in a world with no comedy doing 45 minutes sounds like it would be one of the worst things a human being could do. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare, you know?
But then, yeah, then we started getting better.
I mean, of course, it took us a minute.
But we would have so much stage time.
And we were friends.
We were just having fun.
We didn't even thought it was like a job or at some point
we'll become something.
But then a bunch of people started,
like,
a TV show
and then that TV show
started putting stand-up
and we decided to,
like,
do that TV show
and that's how,
like,
became,
like,
a thing,
stand-up for everyone.
Now everyone understands
stand-up
and it's huge in Chile.
Like,
next week,
no,
this week,
actually,
I'm doing two arenas
in Santiago.
Oh my God.
Jesus fucking Christ.
That's crazy.
How many people
are going to be there?
It's 8K,
8,000 people.
That's wild.
And how long are you doing?
I'm doing 15 minutes.
No, I'm doing 45.
I'm doing an hour.
Yeah, yeah.
That's fucking nuts.
Yeah.
But there's not in English.
There's no real English
market there yet?
No, no, no, no.
No, it's all in Spanish.
I mean, Chilean.
Look at you.
Yeah, I was like, can I get a spot on this 8,000-person show?
I'll go.
So while you're trying to figure it out,
are you consuming a lot of American stand-up to get better?
Yeah.
It's just hard.
It's just not a lot of, you know,
so much of getting better is people around you being really good
and being like, oh, fuck, I got to get better, I got to get better. But it's two not a lot of you know so much of getting better as people around you being really good and being like oh fuck i gotta get better i gotta get better but it's two other guys
yeah well then there was a it started to be more and more and like uh there was an old like a man
used to do something very similar in the 70s didn't call it stand-up it was called like cafe
concert it was like kind of the same concept it was like he was himself talking for an hour but
he was the only one because most of the people there just tell jokes, like joke tellers.
Like old stories and just tell a joke.
Not about their life, not with a point of view.
It's a street joke.
It's a street joke.
Yeah.
And then it became a thing doing stand-up, and it was younger people.
And now there's like, I think there's like four legit comedy clubs in Santiago.
Wow. And there's one in the south in Concepcion, a town it's not a little town it's a big town and then there's like a couple more in the north in the north i think but yeah there's a
scene now you can start but you really you started stand up in chile me yeah i will say like me and
my generation me and my friends were like the first ones. Wow. That's wild.
I know. I know.
So let me ask this. Let me be an arrogant American for
a second. I feel like
I see, I've talked
about it before, where I saw there was like a special
first stand-up comedy special in
South Korea. Yeah. And it was
the guy who does Saturday Night Live.
I think it's called Saturday Night Live Korea or South Korea.
It goes like Tuesdays.
Yeah, yeah.
And I watched it with translations, and it was just like watching a new open mic-er at the Grizzly Pair do an hour for a gigantic room of people.
And I feel like the evolution of stand-up, if you look at different countries, it's just like it's
earlier. Exactly. So
what was it like, what was the decision
to come to America,
learn English?
When did you learn English fully? I think
five years ago? Five years ago. I mean,
that's astounding. Yeah.
And then was there
any adjustment period of, oh,
the bar is higher?
Or am I wrong?
Well, I mean, yeah, on one side.
And on the other side, also my brain, it was like so high.
You know, I felt like every comedian was amazing in the U.S.
And it was good to know that it's not true.
You know, it's like.
Well, you're comparing to like people like, you know.
Yeah, I mean, I was watching all this place on tv
so then you go to the comic store you think like everyone's gonna be like amazing oh yeah
blow my mind brendan chow goes up and you're like what yeah and then nick what's the name of this
guy who was like um what's the name of it chris delia and then you're like okay yeah yeah everyone
and that's what happened you know like then you start then you start, like, oh, I can do this.
I can see myself, you know, finding a path, finding a way to, like, do this thing here.
And I think also that Chile, compared to other countries in Latin America, is very sophisticated.
You know, Argentina, too.
Argentina, I think, a little bit more, even.
And so, or jokes, or even in Chile, if you go now, you're not going to see, like, shitty, shitty comedy, you know?
Sure.
You're going to see something that is very decent and a couple, like, amazing comedians that I think are better than some comics that you can see one night in New York City, you know?
So, yeah, now it's more because, yeah, even, like, we're new.
We really, like, the audience was not ready.
So you really have to be good.
You really have to be punchy.
Yes.
If you don't have jokes, no one is going to even try to pay attention to you.
Yeah.
So you really have to be on point, at least from the beginning.
Were there any jokes that you tried just translating to see if they worked that like totally bombed?
Yeah.
That's how it started.
When I moved here, it was like, okay.
Do you remember a specific one?
I remember one.
I mean, this is an opener.
The first time I went on stage, it was a joke that I said, I'm 30.
I was like 31.
No, I was like 27.
I was like 27.
So I said like, I'm 27, the age of Christ, when was like 31. No, I was like 27. I was like 27. So I said like, I'm 27
the age of Christ when he was
27. And that joke
in Spanish killed
because it's a dumb joke. People say
that the age of Christ was 33.
So you say like, I'm 27
the age of Christ. And I was like,
when he was 27. So
I got a big laugh everywhere I go and then I
just translate this joke. Sounded simple. Sounded like, okay, I can translate this and it's not going I got a big laugh everywhere I go, and then I just translate this joke,
sound simple,
sounding like,
okay, I can translate this,
and it's not going to make a big difference.
Nothing.
Like right now.
They just die on silence.
When you explained it,
I was like,
oh yeah, 33.
That is when he died.
I think it's the religious knowledge.
The lack of Catholic understanding.
Maybe that's why it didn't work.
It's a cultural thing.
Was it hard?
Sometimes when you have a joke that you're confident in,
and then you just say it with this...
Here we go.
When he was 27.
Silence.
At the beginning, my English now is better,
but it was not great.
I was so nervous,
and I was doing the worst that you can do is like just
trying to remember a joke you know yeah instead of like being like flowing and be like funny yeah
i was trying to like remember the right way to say this you know in english so i think when i
stopped doing that things started working for me when i stopped thinking okay i have to be a perfect
english sentence and then it was more natural it feels more normal and even if we said something wrong people was
like okay well this guy's not from here that's fine you know whatever like he's funny you know
but yeah that was the hardest part i think like get rid of like the idea that okay i have to like
remember these funny thoughts yeah word by word which which language do you feel like you're
equal now or do you still feel you're stronger in Spanish?
I got the feeling that now it's pretty equal.
I'm not 100% comfortable with crowd work,
but I think I can do crowd work now in the US
and I don't feel scared.
But there's no crossover in material?
There's a few now.
But you know what happened?
It's funny because I put so much effort
in my English material that it's easier for me to translate that to Spanish than doing it the opposite way.
Yeah.
Sure. So now what I do is like some jokes that are really working here in New York, I just like translate because I know that language so well that it's so easy for me to take it back to Spanish and know how to say it right. Now, if you're going to go do an hour in Chile soon,
what is your process in terms of getting that ready?
How often are you doing that material?
Well, I try to go, I mean, I did a tour of like 13 dates
like two months ago.
Okay, okay.
And I think that was the time to develop.
And even now, I'm doing like, I have like six,
before the two big arenas, I sold out, four of these comedy clubs they have in Santiago.
Got it.
Four dates to just, like, run it.
Or six.
I think there are six dates just, like, running the hour.
What do you care about more, Spanish or English comedy?
Like, do you feel, like, I feel like Gad from France came here.
I just hate Gad so much.
You hate Gad?
Yeah.
Why do you hate Gad? He ruined my story. Like, I did the same, from France, came here. I just hate God so much. You hate God? Yeah. Why do you hate God?
He ruined my story.
Like, I did the same, but I started with open mics.
He just show up in the U.S. and he was, like, immediately opening for Seinfeld.
You know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he still painted it like, I came to America to figure it out.
And he didn't stay.
Like, he kind of like, okay, bye.
Why did he leave?
What happened?
He had a TV show.
I know.
He had an audition for his TV show about trying to, like, master American comedy. Why did he leave? What happened? He had a TV show. I auditioned for his TV show about trying to like
master American comedy.
Yeah.
Do you think it,
do you think
he hit a point
where he said,
you know what?
I like doing the stadiums
for a million dollars more.
I think so.
And Joe's pub.
I think his brain was like,
I did it.
I nailed America.
I just conquer.
Bye.
On a way,
he's like Seinfeld in that sense.
But he also stole a lot of bits, too, at least in French.
Yeah, there was YouTube videos of that.
I remember that.
Like crazy chunks.
Jim Gaffigan came to Gotham.
And we're not friends, but we talked.
And I was like, yeah, Gad is accused of stealing stuff. And Jim was like, really?
Like what?
And I was like, a lot of your jokes, Jim.
A lot of your jokes.
The video is full.
All of your jokes.
He's like, a hoot pookit.
I don't know how you say it in French.
God, I wish I was smarter, man.
I'd be smarter.
A hoot pookit.
A hoot pookit.
Gad.
Do you have that feeling of like, okay, you, I mean,
you feel the sense like you crossed the finish line?
No, not at all.
The finish line of Chile?
No, I think they still can do a lot of stuff there, you know.
I'm actually like trying to like do a show, like a TV show, because I have so much more freedom there, you know.
I have like access.
But why be here?
Why when you could like, What's the draw of America
when you can like...
You're doing 8,000 people.
But isn't it just like
an expansion of like...
Why not...
Sure, but I don't go...
But I've never been like,
you know what?
Let me go to Chile
and try to master that market
and learn Spanish.
Because you're lazy.
You're not going to do
all that work to learn
the language.
Well, honestly,
it's because here's the place
where you started
and you want to be like where it's most difficult. You you're doing i think in my brain it's like i don't
know if you're a soccer player yeah you can stay playing your league and be like the biggest soccer
player in your country but then you want to be like in europe with the with you know all this
uh i don't know like the premier league and all you know the best players in the world because
yeah that's the place that you want to put yourself
so you can see that, okay, you're really good at this
and you take what you love, what you like, what you love,
do the best performance that you can do.
I think that's the way I think about moving to the U.S.
Is there anything sensibility-wise, offensiveness-wise
that's very different in America than in Chile.
Well, we don't have an African-American population.
Uh-huh.
So making jokes about race, it's like no one cares that much.
Really?
Because we don't have, like, there's not a lot.
Now, like in the last 10 years, I would say like more Asians, you know, like African-Americans
showing up in Chile.
But there was not black people in Chile when I was growing up.
So everyone was making racist comments
and no one was the victim of it.
Because there was no...
You bombed there.
That's really interesting.
Because I noticed in the special
the word
rape was used for a couple jokes
in a way that I think in America, at least now, would be like, whoa.
I think it's like we use rape.
We use violación.
And it's not as hardcore as rape, I think.
It's just like the nuances in the language that I think make it different.
You know, like there's another word that I have the same problem.
What does it mean, though?
It means just...
It's like tiny rape?
Just...
No, no, it's not.
I mean, I think the sound of it, rape.
Sure, sure.
Or, like, you know, hardcore.
Even, like, they mean the same, but, like, violación, I don't know,
doesn't have that strong feeling when you said it.
Unless you say it, like, in a very strong way or, like, in a sentence
that make you that feeling.
But I don't think
we have like that problem
with that word specifically.
Sure, sure.
But some other,
there's another word
that I remember
that happened too.
I was like reading
the subtitles
and I was like,
ah, it sounds awful.
I would never use that
as a translation.
Sure.
Someone else do the translation
by the way,
like someone on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
An intern on Netflix
I did want to ask
I know in Chile
there's brothels
is that correct?
I don't know
I thought I heard it on a podcast
are there brothels in Chile?
I don't know
I think they are but I don't
maybe you're thinking about
this thing called um cafe con piernas that's not the concept i talk about that in a podcast maybe
like it's coming up what is it it's like a place it's a very like old-fashioned backward thing
and i don't think it's that popular anymore but when i was growing up especially in the 90s
was like these coffee places where the girls were using skirts.
And it was coffee with legs
because you would go for a coffee
just to check out the legs.
So it's like Hooters, but like
a coffee place.
Always more legs, guys. Boobs, guys.
Exactly. I wonder if there's one for ass
guys.
Yeah.
And now you have
a girlfriend?
I have a wife. A wife and a kid.
And a kid. Wow. Jesus Christ.
And where are they?
In their house. In our house.
In New York? Yeah. She's from Texas.
Like my son
is an American boy.
So there's no Chileans in my family.
Is it ever weird when you interact with comedians at my level
and you have a house?
It's weird because I feel the same as you
and I have a house, you know?
I feel like I also like trying to,
I feel like I have no money
and I don't know what to do with my life, you know?
And then I look at my account,
and I was like, yeah, yeah, I have some money. I'm thinking like, I don't know what to do with my life, you know? And then I look at my account and I was like, yeah, yeah,
I have some money.
Why am I acting like
I don't know?
You know?
I feel like you accept
I do have money
and a house
and I don't have
as many concerns.
But I'm still concerned
like if I should,
you know?
I don't know why
I still feel like...
I feel like...
First, I feel like
my money is going to disappear
in any moment.
It's just a short period of time
that I'm gonna have this
and then I'm gonna have
to like struggle
for everything
I got worries
that the house
is not mine
the bank is the owner
of the house
and I still have to
like pay for it
forever
you know what
I still think
that nothing is solid
even if it's more solid
than most of the comics
that I know
because I know
how this life works
especially like
when you start here instead of me that I'm lucky that I know because I know how this life works, especially when you start here.
Instead of me, I'm lucky that I started in a place with no competition
and really young, and that's the reason why at my age I can move to the U.S.
and start doing all this shit all over again.
Sure.
Well, my sympathy is limited.
And you get along with the kid?
How's the kid?
Yeah, the kid's great.
It's a lot of fun.
How old?
He's four. Three. It's going lot of fun. He's very interesting. How old? He's four.
Three.
It's going to be four in a month.
Wow.
Yeah.
Do you bring him traveling a lot,
or does your wife stay here and you just go to Chile?
When I go to Chile, I bring him with me.
Not this time, because I'm going for a short period,
and he's in a summer camp.
Yeah.
But, yeah, he travels with me.
Now he's old enough that they can travel and he asked me
to be on the shows like you know he understand the shows but for him the shows but i had to
bring him once to the west side comedy club because i live nearby and i was like i'm gonna
bring my child because the nanny was late or something and i just put headphones and a phone
it was like sit down here watch that, and I'll be doing the show.
So he think going to my shows.
Did you put on a video of my stand-up?
I put a video of your TikTok account.
So he was like swiping and having a blast.
And the thing is like for him,
going to a show is being on the headphones with the phone.
Oh.
So he wanted to go to my shows not because of my comedy,
because he wanted to be on the phone.
Training him to be a terrible audience member.
Yeah, yeah.
Front row on the phone.
Can you imagine when he grew up and figured out that you can't bring phones to every comedy club?
That's going to be a shocking moment.
Yeah.
Does he learn both languages?
Does your wife speak Spanish?
Yeah, yeah.
And he speaks both.
And very well.
That's amazing.
That's what I wish my parents did so I wouldn't have to do any labor on the back end. Yeah. Just know Tulane. Just know Yeah. Yeah. He speaks both. And very well. That's amazing. That's what I wish my parents did so I wouldn't have to do any
labor on the back end. Yeah. Just know
Tulane. Just know it. Yeah.
He loves Spanish more.
Really? When we
buy him books in English, he's like, no, no, no.
Spanish. Spanish. Oh, interesting.
He's got an eye on the future.
Alright, let's go on to our next
segment. This has got to stop.
This has got to stop. has got to stop Very loud
Very loud
Very loud that sound cute
Russell do you have a
This has got to stop
Yeah
Do me a favor
Yeah
I'm ready
I want you to go
This has got to stop
And then say the thing
It's not
Because I try to make an edit
Of these clips sometimes
It's not an easy thing to say
And this is what you go
Okay this is going to stop
And then I got to cut it
Alright
This has got to stop
The cable systems at hotels.
Okay.
I get on.
You know, you love staying in a hotel room.
You love it.
You love it.
You look forward to it.
You're going to have plenty of time to jerk off and then watch TV.
That's the only two things you're going to be doing in that room.
And so you turn on the TV.
Okay, yes, there's going to be an ad for the hotel or whatever it is, that first thing.
But my real problem is that then you go to switch channels.
It's 30 seconds between channels loading.
Why? Just at hotels. What is going on there
where it takes so long to go from one channel to the
next channel? It is a nightmare to go through that whole thing to find what you want to watch.
It takes forever.
It's crazy.
What is going on?
When I'm at my parents' house, they have a cable system.
It's not the newest thing in the world, but it's not like that.
I've never seen that happen except at hotels,
and I don't know what is happening.
Why does it take so long to go from one channel to the next?
What's going on, hotels?
What are they doing?
I wonder if they must just have their own system.
Maybe they only pay for cable once,
and the thing has to broadcast to all the different.
I don't know, but I agree.
It's every hotel.
It's every hotel.
The nicest ones, too.
I just don't get it, and I'm sick of it.
Did you find the porn you were looking for?
No.
Oh, God.
Don't get me started on Montreal's cable.
Listen, and I know maybe it was just the hotel's situation,
but when I was going through and I was looking at,
there was a Canadian comedy show or comedy channel,
and I got news for you, Canada. it was a lot of young sheldon
it was a lot of young sheldon maybe an episode of schitt's creek here and there young sheldon
isn't a canada show either so why was it why were they showing that three channels three
canadian channels had young sheldon playing at one time at At one day. It was shocking to me.
So I was less
than impressed.
I ended up, I had nothing,
you usually have a comfort thing you can just leave it on.
I couldn't do it.
One day I had to watch those
daytime talk shows.
That was the only thing I could recognize on.
I didn't want to watch Young Sheldon.
So it was like Drew Barrymore into
all those
daytime shows. Kelly Clarkson. You're just looking
and you're like, is there no Real Housewives of Ottawa?
No.
That's a good one.
Hotel stuff, get your shit together.
Hotel channels, cable.
I got one. This is actually from my sister,
Katie Cagle, who one day
we're going to have on the episode because dancers.
They got it tough.
Oh, my God.
Where the fuck is this?
So there's this new trend with ads where they're trying to make it seem organic.
Okay.
So they're doing a podcast as if it were like a podcast clip like we do.
So let me see if I can play this right here.
No, right?
No.
Okay, okay.
Okay, so this is it.
So this is, it's as if it were just like...
It's a fake podcast.
It's a fake podcast clip.
Wow.
Not even from a podcast that exists.
So let's see what we'll play here.
And here we go.
So I book it and I show up and it's actually nice. It was probably one of the nicest hotels that I've ever stayed in. It was $14 a night. And here we go. Green is cheap. I just popped around looking for those green dates, and that's what got me that deal. So shout out to the Hopper app on that one.
And if you don't believe me,
download Hopper right now and try it out.
I'm dead serious.
Literally the best deals I've ever gotten on hotels.
Also, what's funny is that we just have inadvertently
done advertising for Hopper.
For free.
For free.
I thought it was a ridiculous,
it's like a ridiculous concept.
I don't like the thing of like they're kind of tricking you.
But then I used the Hopper app, and I got to tell you that it really does have incredible feels.
If you look here, you got the green dates here.
Hopper, we're ready.
That's crazy, though.
We'll make some real ones for you, Hopper.
We have a real podcast.
By the way, that guy was alone.
I mean, if you're doing a fake podcast, have someone be like, you're right, it's great.
And even cast a second actor to go
like, really? But that's what's crazy.
You couldn't find one shitty podcast
to just, I guess not.
So many podcasts.
Just pay a podcast.
Pay two fucking
losers in New York City $100
a person and we will do
that ad for real. Just anyone listening,
our rate right now is extremely
low. We're in it for the experience
frankly. We take it for like a coffee
or a free box of LaCroix.
So please Hopper.
Hopper. Reach out.
Is the real thing Hopper? Yeah.
Yeah, it's got incredible deals on hotels.
If you look at the app.
Red dates, green dates.
I love Hopper. Fabrizio. I hope we said your fucking name at the app, the green dates. The red dates, green dates. I love Hopper.
Fabrizio.
I don't even know.
I hope we said your fucking name at the beginning of the podcast, Russell.
That's your job.
Fabrizio Coppano.
It sounds very Italian.
Fabrizio.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gianmarco Sorezzi, Fabrizio Coppano.
I think it's in the same world.
No?
But is it supposed to be?
I don't know if that's good or bad, but it sounds like Italian people.
You say it beautifully.
Say it again.
To neighbors.
We're like, hey, Gianmarco Sorezzi, Fabrizio Cop Italian people. You say it beautifully. Say it again. To neighbors. We're like,
Marco Zaretsi, Fabrizio Cubano,
Rosa Daniels.
You have a this has got to stop, Fabrizio. I got one.
Video
thumbnails of YouTube
where people are impressed
about what happened. You see these
videos? Like, every
thumbnail now on YouTube, people are like shocked about what's going to happen in the video.
I think they're too impressed.
And the expectations are too high.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's just an unboxing.
You know?
It was just whatever.
And I think it's, like, misleading culture.
Like, the whole planet is, like, misled by these videos that are out there saying,
my reaction to Barbie.
I think it's too much.
Of course, the algorithm
recommends you more of that.
I have to confess
that I have been making
these thumbnails because
I worked with some YouTube agency
and they were like, if it has an open
mouth, it gets 1.2% more clicks.
Aren't you worried about what that leads to next?
Because what happens when the open mouth isn't enough for us?
It's an open, gaping asshole.
It leads to 1.4% raise in clicks if you get that open asshole.
There's a video about a kid playing Roblox, but still, whatever.
Just put an asshole there. That's what they want. It's video about a kid playing Roblox but still, whatever. Just put an asshole there.
That's what they want.
It's really like...
This Roblox vid
made my anus gape.
Always going to be
keep pushing to like
what is the thing
so don't...
Are you nervous that that
just by following
their instructions...
I think one day
there'll be thumbnails
we'll be like
our tongues will come out
and they'll wrap
around each other.
Everyone have to be shocked
about the video
that they're doing.
I know.
No video is that shocking.
Mr. Beast is the one
who got famous for it
and it's like him
helping the kid
here for the first time
and there's a picture
of a kid with like
big tears coming out
of his eyes.
It's horrifying
and I'm doing it 100%.
Ben Shapiro has
the worst ones
where it's like,
I saw the Barbie movie
and he's like,
he's like,
cool. Ben Shapiro, I worst ones where it's like, I saw the Barbie movie. And he's like, cool.
Ben Shapiro, I fucking hate you so much.
I hate Ben Shapiro, too. I fucking hate Ben Shapiro.
He has no sort of thing in my life.
I never see anything about him.
I never hear anything about him.
The only thing I hear about him is his sister with big tits.
That's the only thing I've heard about him.
Big, big, big boobies.
And she's also very conservative.
I'm sure.
Maybe that's why he didn't like Barbie.
He sees the dolls.
He's like, my sister has these exact tits.
But I know nothing about him.
I never hear anything about him.
He made, with Barbie, he made a video.
I know he's conservative.
He put Barbie, well, he owns the Daily Wire,
which unfortunately I think is going to be like the conservative Netflix.
I mean, it seems to be doing well.
Also, I think the whole thing about Ben Shapiro is like speaking really fast.
And if you speak really fast and you put like two or three facts in the middle of a fast-paced conversation, you sound like you're right.
And there's no time to debate because you're like da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
That's why he would beat me.
I can't.
I stumble.
I mumble.
And he's good at that.
So good at that.
That's the real talent of this man.
It's just being, like, talking really fast,
like, modulating the whole time, you know,
never saying a word wrong,
and being able to, like, put through three facts
that are not related maybe with the thing he's saying,
but sounds right, especially if you're dumb.
So that's exactly, like, the whole business model of this man.
And he's, yeah, he's also shocked of every movie that he watched.
Speaking of fast, if you're trying to book a hotel,
Hopper is an incredible app.
See, guys?
We can make it normal and organic.
There's red dates, there's green dates.
That's all I know about.
There's red and there's green.
Let's go to our final segment.
You better count
your blessings.
You better
count your blessing.
Russell, do you have a blessing?
You go first.
Oh, wait. Let's do our joke.
What are you going to say?
Oh, I was going to say, you know, you were going to be
my blessing this week.
You did a very sweet thing for a friend of ours.
We don't have to get into the details, but I was...
We can.
I want to know.
I want to know.
I'll say it.
I think it's okay to say the same facts.
Yeah.
JFL's who I love.
Okay.
More than my parents.
Which is true.
So our friend Chris auditioned for Characters, New Faces for like a long time.
Okay.
Seven times?
Yeah, I mean.
And there was some tech stuff.
Show started late.
Uh-oh.
This happened the last year, too, no?
I guess so.
But it was a tough situation.
Some industry left before he was able to go up.
Norm Michael was like, ah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lauren.
Yeah.
And, well, you say this part.
Then I feel like I'm just.
Well, no.
So, you know, it was a bummer.
It was show started late.
A lot of people left.
He was last in the thing.
So it's just a bummer to work so hard and have such this great thing.
You're going to JFL.
And to have that kind of be bumbled, it sucks.
Of course.
And so this sweet boy over here, he tried to figure out a way so that he had a big show
the next day.
He was able to put Chris on to open for him in terms of knowing that there'd be a lot
of people there.
It was a sold-out show.
There'd be some industry there.
in terms of knowing that there'd be a lot of people there.
It was a sold-out show.
There'd be some industry there.
It would be a good way to try to make up for this bumble.
That's nice.
Which is very sweet.
Probably not enough to save his career, but nice. Not at all.
But one last time on stage, go out with a bang.
No, I felt very good.
I felt glad I was able to do it.
It like hit me the next day
because it just sucked.
It's just like,
you can't just say to industry,
hey, come back for the next show
because this...
Industry too busy.
Like they don't have time
for shows.
They're industry.
You know, they're a whole industry.
And then it just hit me the next day.
I was like, oh yeah,
I have a show now.
Just a very...
It's like a...
It felt...
There was an early time
i headlined carolines and again looking back it was nothing but at the time i thought it was this
big thing yeah and i remember i was able to put chris on that one too so it just felt very nice
it felt sweet yeah um uh but but then i i caught myself the next day like i told two people the
story of it and then i was like, Jim Marco, stop.
You're trying to get... I started telling the tale of my heroic deed.
No, but I was sweet.
But I caught myself with the second person,
and then someone came up to me,
and they said, hey, I heard you
gave time on your show to help your friend.
That's really cool.
And then they were like, do you have time to help me?
Yeah, let's not
let's not get the word
I'm too generous
Chris is a very
very good friend
he is not going to do this
for many people
but no
I genuinely
was
nice
super nice
yeah it felt good
I felt good
but I
the next day I was like
Jamarco stop telling everyone
yeah yeah
I'll tell them
yeah yeah
that's your job
thank you for doing it on this podcast I'll tell them. Yeah, yeah. That's your job.
Thank you for doing it on this podcast.
I'll pay you later.
My blessing,
we'll do the joke after the blessings because we forgot it last time.
My blessing,
you know,
so I start working with levity management.
Oh, wow.
And, you know,
these events,
these big festivals,
this is like the time where they're doing their thing.
A lot of these festivals, it's just industry's excuse to get drunk together and have fun.
I think that's good.
It's good.
That's fair.
It's good.
They need a drink.
But they were very, everyone on the team and my managers, Stephen and Alex, were very, you know, they just, they showed up.
They showed up to the solo things.
They introduced me to the people.
They came up at the parties.
Did their work.
I felt taken care of.
Good.
And, you know, I feel very grateful to be working with them.
That doesn't happen very often.
Most of the time, people are just, oh, my managers or agents are assholes.
Yeah.
I got to meet Burt Kreischer.
And Burt Kreischer, he knows.
He was wearing a shirt?
He was wearing a shirt, a wearing a shirt A really nice shirt
In fact
And he just like
Immediately
He just knows
He just knows who he is
And he says
Ah
Do I follow you on Instagram
Here let's take a picture
And then he like
Posted the picture on his story
Tagged us in it
Like he knows
He can do a nice little thing
The impact
Yeah that's a nice
Yeah
And it was like
It was just like
Like that
Good So it was very nice Yeah It just like, like that. Good.
So it was very nice.
Yeah.
It's like,
can I give you my,
my Instagram so you can,
no,
no,
he did it by himself.
He did it by himself.
That's nice.
That doesn't happen very often.
Yeah,
I will never do that
if I'm ever in that position.
I was like,
you get this open micro
away from me.
Do you have a blessing?
I have a blessing.
The other day I was walking
around the cellar
and someone offered me cocaine.
And I don't do cocaine,
but I found it that's so charming the way that he offered cocaine.
Because, I mean, once again, I will never buy cocaine from the street.
I don't think no one should do.
It's a terrible idea.
You're so close to Columbia.
I mean, why would you just yeah you just walk you just walk there and i i i this man i was like hey man i was like okay he wants
some money he's like you want some cocaine and i was like no thank you and he was like uh uh i say
like i'm good and he's like but you can be great and i found like so clever and so spot on and like
so i was like, this is nice.
I mean, I felt blessed of having that little interaction
on the street that day.
Yeah.
That's a good, what if that persuaded you?
You were like, you know what?
Yeah.
We got to do a cooking.
Oh my God, I didn't even tell you
the last time we had a live show,
on the way to the live show,
I was propositioned by, I think a sex worker,
like standing in like a, I think, a sex worker.
Like, standing in a down the stairs kind of apartment.
Like, standing on the stairs.
Just kind of like there.
Wow.
And it was like, I was walking by.
And she was like, you know. What did she say?
Well, we spoke different languages.
But it was the vibe behind it was that it was for pay, and it was just right through this doorway kind of deal.
Yeah.
You know?
Also, I had headphones at the time, but there was eye contact, and then there was, I don't think it was just a random woman.
It was just a gesture.
I don't think it was a random woman just saying, like, come fuck me in my house right now.
You know?
It definitely was like, it was like giving eyes of like, this is available
right now. But I was like,
I had never seen that in New York.
It was shocking to me on some level.
How much did it end up costing?
That's really exciting.
I don't think I've ever been propositioned.
Twice in my whole time
in New York.
Is this an ad also or is this a story?
You're promoting this service?
The Hopper app will also hook you up with hotels.
What's so funny is the first day I ever moved to New York,
I was propositioned.
So I thought it was going to be something happening
all the time here.
A car pulled up to me in Chelsea,
and the window rolled down,
and it was a woman in the back seat
getting driven around in a black car
and asked if I was looking for a good time that night.
She just asked for a good time.
That is not something that happens in New York a lot.
But my impression for a while was like, oh, this is wild.
What if they all just want to fuck you just without the pay?
Maybe it was just like two women randomly that were just like.
Yeah.
Just like.
They want to have a good time with you.
That's all.
Just assuming there's sex workers.
Could that be a fact?
I thought Nicole
was a sex worker.
I'm just kidding.
At the end of marriage,
you're like,
so how much do I owe you?
This is going to be expensive.
How much do I owe you
for the last eight years?
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We have...
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While Russell reads a joke
I even fixed one of the lines in this
No
This is not an offensive thing
Jackie Jokes?
The name of the book?
No, so this again
Shout out to Jackie Martling
He collected a bunch of jokes for this book.
And Russell's going to read one.
Stanley says to his brother, I have to go to England for three weeks, so I have to leave my cat with you.
Please take real good care of her.
His brother says, relax.
A few days after he gets to England, Stanley calls his brother and says, how's my cat?
His brother says, the cat's dead.
Stanley says, my God, why do you have to be so blunt?
Couldn't you have broken it to me a little more gently?
Like, you could have told me that the cat was on the roof and you called the fire department.
But just before they got to her, she slipped and fell to the ground.
And that you rushed her to the vet, but there was nothing he could do to save her. His brother says, you're right.
I'm sorry.
Stanley says, how's Ma?
His brother says, Ma's on the roof.
Wait, why'd you change this line?
It was better than whatever he said.
Oh, okay.
I see.
I see.
You were unimpressed with that joke?
No.
Did you get it?
Kind of.
Maybe not.
The mom's dead. The mom's dead.
The mom's dead.
Yeah, I understand that part.
It's not a great joke.
I think it's a fine joke.
Okay, okay.
Do you have a street joke?
Do you know any street jokes?
Oh, no.
Nothing that comes to my mind easily.
Here, let me just pick one.
No, I want to give...
That's a problem.
Unless it's dirty, no one gives a fuck.
Yeah.
Roll with this country.
Exactly. Do you get dirty on stage i really there we go last one here this one it's friday afternoon and a woman
says to her neighbor over the fence tom just called from work and told me he's gonna be bringing me
home a dozen roses i guess i'll be spending the weekend on my back with my legs spread.
Her neighbor says,
haven't you got a vase?
Okay.
I like that one.
You're going to stick the whole thing inside.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Fabrizio, where can people find you?
At Fabrizio Comedian.
I've been trying to do this.
I don't know.
I take recommendations.
I have my account in Spanish,
and I want to try to have one in English.
So I have Fabrizio Copano,
and then I have now Fabrizio Comedian.
That's the one.
It's only English stuff.
I follow the Rafi model.
He's been doing great.
I think, yeah, that's what I'm copying.
But I don't know.
It's a good idea.
Follow me at FabricioComedian.
And I think TikTok is the same.
Yeah, at FabricioComedian everywhere.
You guys should go on tour together.
The people who are famous in other countries in America.
That's the name of the tour.
The tour can be called the, like, we could be making more money right now.
Well, Rafi's doing a lot of money now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
He's a good friend of mine, Rafi Bastos. Yeah, he's done the pod. Yeah. Oh, really? Oh, he's done the now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's a good friend of mine, Rafi Bastos.
Yeah.
Oh, he's done the pod.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
Oh, he's done the pod.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, he's great.
For me, Russell, this is coming out August 29th.
August 29th.
You've been done with Titanic for a long time.
I've been done with Titanic.
Follow me at Russell J. Daniels on Instagram.
And I'll probably have announced other things.
Yeah, you will have announced something else.
Something big, something cool.
Yeah, something cool.
But I can't say it right now.
For me, this Friday, I'll be headlining
Soul Joel's in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
The weekend after that, I'll be at the Stress Factory
in New Brunswick.
And then after that, the Thursday after that,
Northford, Connecticut, September 21st.
And then September 22nd, 23rd
in Poughkeepsie,
New York, and then to Los Angeles,
baby. We added a
second show. I sold
out the Hollywood Improv on a Monday. Turns out
that was Passover, so the Jews,
I need you coming out Tuesday,
because you all wrote me. You said, can't come out on Monday.
You better fucking come Tuesday.
Okay? That's what,
now when I schedule,
I have to look,
I have a new Jewish
website to check
is there a holiday.
Oh my God.
In this day,
can the Jews use
door handles
so they can come
to my fucking comedy show?
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You're listening to The Downside.
The Downside. With Gianmarco Ceresi. you're listening to the downside with john marco cerezi
he's building like a three million dollar like lighthouse uh um right on a cliff and
it the episode they filmed the episode over the course of nine years
and by the end of this was the boyhood but uh literally by the end by the end of it this was the boyhood but of the reality literally by the end by the end of it
uh his two daughters who he was specifically building like bedrooms for their are like grown
up and moved away his wife has left him and the house is not complete and he has spent like four
million pounds on it oh my god and his plan was to build and he did they built a second smaller
house on the property and like their plan was to sell that to pay for the
lighthouse and it's just like it's so crazy so that's this is my new obsession grand designs
you guys we watched uh becca and i watched instant hotel speaking of australian shows which is
really fucking dumb it's basically all these people who own like very highly rated airbnbs
right i'll go stay at each other's
airbnbs and they like rate them and then they rate them yeah but then it was like i can't even
remember what the prize was but it was this mother and a daughter who won and they oh we just watched
the first season but they won or sorry they're the theme of their place was margaritaville okay
they had a place on bondi beach yeah and it had all this like just ugly
fucking art and whatever and so part of it was you not only rated the place you were but if it was
the person's airbnb themselves they rated the people as guests right and then that factored
into their overall score so the two women were taught were kind of like tied with this older couple for the best, like overall scores.
But they won because they gave the old couple a bad score because the old couple was this like 55 year old Australian guy with a mullet who refused to drink margaritas.
He was like, I don't like margaritas.
Like there is a I drink beer.
Like, I don't fucking drink margaritas.
And they were just like, oh, Mark wouldn't drink like margaritas like they're it's a i drink beer like i don't fucking drink margaritas and they were just like oh mark wouldn't drink the margaritas so they gave him like six out of
ten or something and that was why they lost and the way and they won because he wouldn't drink
a bad scoring system it was really the next season i think we didn't watch it but i think i heard they
removed that because they basically that was the only reason they won because everybody,
every place was just like,
Oh,
everybody was great guests.
Yeah.
And then they were like,
he wouldn't drink.
They game the system.
So that's smart.
He's gone.
Wow.
Anyway,
uh,
speaking of gaming the system,
let's move on to our block tail.
What did you tweet?
You brought receipts.
Blocktail.
Woo.
No longer can see that post.
It's a blocktail.
Woo.
You probably deserved it.
It's a blocktail.
John Marco, the floor is yours.
Tell us.
Yeah.
So this was, I did show in in New York. This is a little bit of a in person Internet block. So there was I have a text service where you sign up and I'll text you a performing in New York in one month by tickets here.
And they can text me back.
And sometimes I'll – I do it less now, but I'll be like, you know, those texts back.
Oh, I can't wait to see you.
And I'll go, thank you.
Or I just bought tickets.
Cool.
And so this woman – this is where I have it.
She said, we are so excited to see our favorite comedian ever, and it's your big headliner. It was a show in New York for the New York Comedy Festival.
It was like 140 seats.
And it was like a cool theater.
So I was promoting it hard.
And this woman, she kept texting me.
Are you excited about the 10th?
I am.
We want to be front row.
We'll be there early.
And she's misspelling half those words.
And then again, so this is eight days later.
I'll see you headlining on the 10th.
So there's two days before the show. I'll see you headlining on the 10th. So there's two days before the show.
I'll see you headlining on the 10th.
Can't wait to see what you're going to do.
Dream come true for me.
XOXO.
Kissy face.
I haven't responded at all.
Then November 10th, this is the day of the show.
I'm here, been here since 1 p.m. waiting for this special occasion.
My favorite comedian.
You're saving comedy.
So excited.
Love you.
Now, to be clear, I am not famous to the degree where you need to show up at 1 p.m. to see me at a comedy show.
To show up at 1 p.m. is certifiably insane.
So it makes me a little nervous.
Yeah.
And I'm like, maybe.
You're like, I'm not here. I won't be here for several hours. I won't be there until little nervous. Yeah. And I'm like, maybe. You're like, I'm not here.
I won't be here for several hours.
I won't be there until.
And again, like, it was a big show.
It wasn't like the biggest show.
It wasn't like a taping.
It was just a show.
Yeah.
And so I get there.
And I kind of forget about it.
All I responded to her was, oh, I didn't even respond here.
I think at one point i said thanks
and um i get to the show 140 seater it's deep it's it's like that it's not meant for comedy it's it's
deep and uh she's clearly in the front row and she's like you can just tell by the vibe i can
tell by the vibe yeah and she's like she's got her head shaved which again there's nothing wrong the woman with her head shaved, but it was like in the way where, where everything else with it, it all was, it all was troublesome.
And, um, she, she, my opener, she was just like shouting out, not heckling, but like really like over the, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And I, I'm like, oh. Like this, something is weird.
And I tell the staff it was called the Midnight Theater.
And they did not treat me well, so I don't mind saying it.
And the staff was very nice, though.
The staff was nice, but they were not a comedy venue.
And people who are in comedy venues, they don't know what hecklers are.
They don't know what a problem is.
They don't know what is bad.
Because, of course, they're just watching all the crowd where clips are fucking posting and they're like
this is great this just seems to be what a comedy show is and uh it's my fault i'm posting them but
but but so i i tell them i say like i can tell i'm like you you have to figure out a way to get
her out like i can tell this is not a situation that's going to be curbed and they're like we'll
keep an eye on it we keep an eye on it we'll send someone out there to like kind of stare her down
or whatever and i'm like it's not enough if i go out there just be ready for me to be like you gotta
you gotta be ready and sure enough i go out there and she's just like you know just standing and
applauding and it's it's too much and uh uh she starts saying the certain punch lines with me because she's seen
one or two of the jokes online and and and like she'll laugh in a way where she falls out of her
chair and her hand like hits the stage and and this is the first three minutes yeah and this was
like again this was a a bigger show i'd worked to sell it out there was some industry there and it's
so deep that people in the back this is the worst with hecklers in the front is like people in the
back they can't even see what's happening up front so they're confused why i'm like tense
oh he's being so mean to this person what is she doing like and and i joke like oh you've had a drink or two and she's like you're saving comedy you're saving comedy
my god and and i'm i'm really like and i'm looking at like the staff and they're not they're they're
just standing there like this is this is gonna make a good clip i guess for your social media
and uh finally i after like five minutes i really i, I bluntly, I have no choice. I'm like, all right, let's get her, let's take her out and, you know, maybe get her some water.
And like finally they take her and she's kind of like, what, what?
And I try to be nice about it.
I go, everyone, round of applause for her.
She's been waiting here since 1 p.m.
Let's give her a, I try to be cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Try to be as cool as I could.
And then.
Oh, my God.
Oh.
I go to my tech service.
Oh, no.
And so the message right before this said waiting for you because she was there since one.
And then it goes, fuck you.
You broke my heart.
TMZ will hear about you.
Big shot.
I hope Hitler comes back and just grabs you.
Maybe you can write new material in concentration camp.
You hack loser.
Fuck you.
First of all, deep misunderstanding of what concentration camps are.
They were not like artist retreats.
Hitler wasn't like, I'm tired of the Jews telling the same jokes over and over.
Let's get you in a camp.
Work on some new material. Do some
of the original residency.
Can't believe you told them to kick me out.
I was the only one there for you.
Would you get?
Not to be. I sold it out.
And no worries, though.
I called the cops on the staff for harassment
and got it all on video
Consider your shit career over
Before it began
Good luck headlining again
No one cares about your pathetic Jew jokes
Over and over again
Rot in hell for what you did to me tonight
Fuck yourself, you're not funny
You're just a jackass
Bet you're, and then some other stuff
Holy shit.
And then she messaged me on Facebook too, other stuff.
Like at one point she said, please disregard everything I texted last night.
And then followed it with like, I hope Hitler gets you again.
Oh my god.
Oh my god, dude.