The Nick DiPaolo Show - Joe List | Nick Di Paolo Show #1707

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

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Music playing Welcome to Fun With Drums. I'm Mickey Dolenz. Welcome on a Wednesday. How are you folks? Good to be with you. Great show today. Great guest. A very funny gentleman and I take pride saying that I got this guy, his star, I discovered him in Boston. He opened for me and I talked him into moving to New York and And since then he's gone on to do let him in the tonight show Conan's Multiple of everything shot a movie wrote a movie with Louis CK and a really good guy just had a baby Here's a here's a little sample of his work. Did you guys know this? Pablo Picasso, you know when he died? He died in 1973. Did you know that?

I thought he died in 1380. I almost shit, 1973, Picasso had a car. Is that unbelievable? Pablo Picasso was driving around Spain in like a Honda Civic listening to Black Sabbath on the radio. Aziz Osborne and Pablo Picasso were working at the same time.

He saw six Super Bowls. I thought he lived next to a blacksmith. The guy's like at home watching the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs on a colored television set, drinking Mountain Dew. And some of you might be like, Mountain Dew, that wasn't out in 1970. It was, do you know when it came out?

I thought like maybe 1975, 76, 1940, Mountain Dew came out. Hitler was jacked up on Mountain Dew. He was like, I don't... I didn't know that. Picasso, again, I thought he was a 1300s, 1400s guy. That's a sample of his work. Also, I didn't mention, he just shot a special

last October that's coming out in May of this year called small ball please welcome uh... my buddy joe list one of the best comics in the country and yes i will brag that i discovered this guy in boston he opened for me the comedy connection and uh... i was in the back watch and i go this kid's got serious potential didn't know he was an alcoholic at the time and he used to beat midgets, but

Yeah, he moved down to New York not long after that Well, we he opened for me and all anyways The point is he does Conan O'Brien a million times tonight show he did Letterman and is one of the most polished funny guys Out there. It's my boy Joe list Joe. What's going on? I'm happy to be here. It's to see a little of the weather i'd broken blue too many guys in the village last week i think i got something i told you

i told you to get a blow guys in new york city upper east side get the get the old with money you can't help it i don't know the subway i'll get stabbed well that's true man You can't I know but I got another subway. I'll get stabbed. Well, that's true man that Yeah, I just it's changed a little bit since I've been there and so I just first of all, I just watch this clip of of Your wife Sarah coming out with a baby and saying guess who did a poopy in the

That's funny. They're most shit out there. I click on stuff. There's comedians that are selling out 3,000 seats, I watch 8 minutes and I'm bored stiff. Boy, did I miss the train on that one, Joe. How old are you, Joe? That was a funny video. I mean, we collaborated because Sarah had the idea. My wife is very funny about... Yes, she is. Guess who did poopy, and assuming it's the kid and it was her but she was saying like she was saying it like it was me it's horrible it's all over the place and I said no you should say it in the same tone like

you're happy you shit everywhere oh my god he's directing his wife now we collaborated I'm taking up a partial credit I told you. I told you he's a writer, director, handles all that kind of stuff. And his wife's not even German. And that nice poop joke. I don't know why. The Germans are always associated with scatterlogical.

Brett Butler said that to me once. She was watching me at the Comedy Store in LA. She goes, very funny. You get a lot of scatter logical stuff i go i know i can't organize my thoughts i thought she meant my jobs are scattered all over nick is no fun to play scattergories with she goes you dumb guinea you know what it means you know what it means you redneck

you shit your pants. So let's first talk comedy before we get into you being a baby. You being a baby. Oh my God, what am I fucking high? You being a baby and your wife being a midget. It's very interesting. You have, you said, I just read that you said you shot a special I guess in October, it's coming out in May. Yes. What's the, do we have a title yet? Yeah, I think I'm going to call it Small Ball.

Oh. Do you like it? Do you hate it? I kind of like it, right off the bat. I've seen you in the shower, I get it. The title came years ago, the first I opened for Louie at an arena I did I did the fucking whatever you call it the forum the LA forum nice and he's like what a great show Joe List playing small ball at the forum and you know all these guys are shooting in arenas

and all this stuff and I'm still in the clubs just kind of doing dick jokes so it feels like my version of you know I draw a walk I bunt guy over you know I don't do any tricks none of these home run balls and I try not to strike out so I'm gonna first of all he Joe doesn't do he's a fucking great comic and I did the form with Dennis Larry and a couple guys I was pretty interesting like Kevin James yeah right real real intimate setting fucking hot dog vendors that really says it so uh yeah so uh it's small ball i like the i like the the rank to it i was hoping he got it in the club which club uh zanies rosemont Which club? Zanies, Rosemont. In my opinion, Joe, might be the best room in the country. At least I'm doing it in a month or two. I love that room. Yeah, I'm going in there for

two nights and I kill harder there than... It reminds me of how hard I used to kill like when I did a 20 minute set at Knicks in Boston Boston. That type of for an hour. And I had some fans I had. I'm talking about me now, it's Joe's interview. And then this happened to me. But there were some Minnesota Vikings and retired Chicago Bears in the audience when I was there. They must have just stumbled in by accident. I can't believe there were fans of mine, but that was fucking weird. And you know who else? The guy that's sung the national anthem for the Chicago Blackhawks, not this guy. Do you know that Jim Corneliuson guy that sings it

like nobody else should be able to sing it? Right, yes. It wasn't him. It was the guy that he replaced. I go, you're the guy with the booming but he goes no That's not me. I suck the life right out of him. It's very You know the guy that played Michael Corleone not him the guy that played the fucking The guy that played guy number three in the wedding party

He was playing a fern and Michael's office. That's right, a plant. Oh my God. Yeah, so that's great. How many are you going to shoot? A couple of them? First of all, let me ask you a question. I haven't put one out in a while and I'll explain that in a second. But people are doing shorter versions now, right? You don't do a full hour anymore, people, right? Yeah, I mean, I did an hour because I'm not a pussy, but I think some people are doing short things. I don't know, my mind's like, I don't know, 52 minutes.

Oh, then that's, yeah, because I see a lot of them that are like 35 minutes now and stuff, which, look, my first instinct is like, you what fucking you can't do it you know but then i'm like i don't know that people i'm not a top opposite a long time ago uh... saying that they should be like forty minutes time i sort of agree i don't know but what the hell if you killin and people have a good time they would want more of it it's like when people

go uh... i'd like the movie but it was way too long. Well if it's like saying a blowjob is fun, oh she took forever. Well what? If you're enjoying it why would you care how long it is right? Well that's the weird thing too is everyone talks about you don't want it too long people have a short attention span but then every time I bump into somebody they're like have you watched all of season 8 of White Lotus? No. What? Yes! Everybody's watched in full seasons of TV shows in one sitting.

In one sitting. You binge watched fucking 11 seasons of Billy and fucking Sarah. What the fuck is that? I don't know. It's ABC's new one. No, that's a great, that is a great point and I'm guilty about me and the wife will sit through four episodes or something and but if you're enjoying it like I said if you're killing they don't you know they don't fucking have you done the room Joe we're

talking to the great Joe list by the way have you done the room Joe? We're talking to the great Joe list, by the way. Have you done the Salt Lake City? There's one downtown and there's a satellite room in West Jordan it's called. Have you done either one of those? Yeah, you did the one downtown. Yeah, I did downtown a couple of times. Yeah, I love that room. That guy's great, Keith.

Yeah, yeah. I did, I've done the one downtown a couple of times. And the last time I did the other one, and again, now I'm the other one and again it now I'm like I don't know if this is my favorite it was fucking they hadn't seen me in a long time and it wasn't a downtown crowd was a people out in wherever West York and it was it was like a dream and I don't do this all the time anymore you know but but I was like damn if I was gonna shoot something that or

right way you said and when he's yeah Rosemary's role huh so get some cameras roll on it could be gold yeah I'm not as well and whatever I just I don't know that was my next question as far as the purpose of these specials now. I don't know, but I don't feel the need. Well first of all, I live in a town where I don't have a comedy scene at all. There's a place called the Wormhole, which is like within walking distance of my house. It's funny, my auntie's looking at the page, page she goes Todd Barry's there this weekend and whatever the and I mean somebody else came down and I go It's a little first about the hole in the wall, but I guess the comedy room is in the back my point being

That the week we moved down here five years ago I walked in to see what it was about at like noon time and this guy couldn't have been a bigger dick to me He was like wiping down the bar, you you know and he wouldn't even fucking look up yeah what he couldn't have been a bigger dick and I walked I go fucking first of all I've grown out of this shit I but I didn't realize the Rome is it but he couldn't have been a bigger dick so I I've been living within walking distance and haven't ever been in there and they don't did they don't do comedy every night or whatever

I think they pick a weekend to it right Dallas. I'm not sure so does that make me an asshole I Don't think so. No, thank you God, I would hate if you said yeah, I would have hung up on you Well, I've been up to comedy every night. What do they do fucking belly dancing Monday through Wednesday? Yeah, they have Jello shot night with fucking retarded girls. They make them wear belly shirts. I don't know what the fuck goes on in that place, but that guy couldn't have been a bigger cocksucker. Oh my god, it pissed me off. But like I said, then I see Todd Perry's there and the real good ones, Chrissy Mayer, you know.

The real good ones, Chrissy Mayer, you know. I'm doing a Letterman now. So you're going to shoot two shows? No, I already shot it. It's in the camp. Oh, that's right. It's coming out in May. Yeah, well somebody wrote to me, they're like, what does it take so long? How long does it take to edit the special? I'm like, no, I've got to write a new act. Yeah, they don't know what we do.

They don't know what the fuck we do. They still don't. It's the most misunderstood art form ever. They fucking, you know, you could show up and do a new hour and you know, you do one joke from like three weeks ago. I already heard that. Yeah, well go back to the mattress factory, fuck your fat wife for the rest of your life.

That's how I talk to my fans. They love it Yeah, I got a little bit out sometime in May and also I made a documentary about Tom Dustin remember Tom Dustin You know him Boston comic we've had this discuss, of course, of course And and remember what I said you I go you did it about him and not me for Christ's sake and you're the next one Yeah, I was only kidding but it's gonna be in did I read it's gonna be in cinemas. It's gonna be in theaters Yeah, starting in April April 25th and then May 9th. Yeah, probably be down by you What do you got a Jew connection in Hollywood? How the fuck? How did this good movie you make a brief appearance? I want to know how you got it in theaters. I

Had to blow two guys in the village That's not I got the sore throat No, I think that it was they're having such a hard time selling anything selling tickets other than fucking you know x-man 4 So I think I have a small following a decent following and I don't know guy he's a fan and he said let's put it in the theater so we'll see how it goes but you say a guy a guy from what that fucking low Cineplex the guy who invented it I don't understand seriously I don't know but so you're your agent or

your manager got in touch with a guy I think he reached out to me he's like I'm in the movie business I keep hearing he's like he listens to my podcast I had one guy reach out to me was a plumber from Queens he said he lived near you back in the day Joe we're talking to Joe Liz one of the best comedians out there I friggin I went to Joe lived in Queens and he had like a couple roommates and shit, and I went over there This is before he I think he was still hitting the sauce a little bit I went over there to pick him up for a gig or something I come in I have never laughed so fucking hard in my life

I see one of the roommates in the kitchen or whatever then I see a pair of like brown feet sticking out of a There's a sheet Like a makeshift bedroom like they're immigrants from fucking Jamaica. And I see a pair of like brown feet from Calcutta sticking out of the fucking thing. And I look in, I go, what are you, murder a cab driver? There's a fucking guy right from New Delhi. Like in his 60s, I was, it's the funniest.

I go, God bless, and then when you started making it and you did let him and shit I go he has to fucking write a book about that's the life of a comic man what was that is that guy still alive Joe? He's alive yeah I told you about that guy his name is Jay he was a 9-eleven survivor he got fucking trampled he was in the World Trade Center he walked with a limb., did you tell you sure you told me that? Maybe not. I don't know. He got yeah, he got fucking stepped on and shit. He's all fucked up and then Not long after that. I think his wife left him. That's how he ended up being Well, yeah, he was a suspect they said

He's Indian for God's sake I'm doing the racist thing, you bunch them all in. If you remember after 9-11, of course the media was saying, oh, fucking Muslims are getting attacked all over the country, which is so much horse shit. One guy died, by the way, and it was an Indian Sikh, some racist idiot in Phoenix, shot a guy who was an Indian Sikh, some racist idiot in Phoenix, shot a guy who was an Indian, a fucking, you know, he sees the head thing and thinks it's a fucking, a Pakistani whatever the fuck. But I didn't know that.

I did not know that. Were you guys nurturing them back? Like you rescued them from a shelter or? No, he was living there before I came. Sorry. It's all right. But no, he was living there before I got there. But his job, he was like the head of all the guys that wear the red jackets at LaGuardia that

tell you which direction. Oh, go over there. And so he worked with all these guys that were fucking idiots. Like, that's the best job they could get was they wear a windbreaker and tell you which direction to walk in. So he would be yelling at these guys. And I must have told you this, it's the fucking funniest thing I've ever heard. It's like a poem by Allen Ginsberg, this is how good it was. This guy was, he was on the phone,

I was overhearing him, he goes, this is exactly what he said, he goes, listen to me very careful, do yourself a favor, knock your head against the wall three times and throw yourself down a flight of stairs. Dude, I fucking laughed for 20 minutes listen to me carefully smash your head and as I said smash your head against the wall three times and throw yourself down a flight of stairs he's talking to his employee like that oh

mama son yeah they um fucking LaGuardia used to, and this was right after 9-11, you go to LaGuardia and to fly out of there, and I'm not kidding, depending on when you were flying out, middle of the afternoon I go on a Wednesday, and there's literally, I don't know, 75 to 100 Muslim cab drivers praying outside, like in an open spartan apartment, that's what you want to see about a month after night you couldn't make this shit up I'm like what are the fucking odds I'm gonna make it to the funny bone in Winnipeg where am I going next what it was my next gig Dallas cohoahos. Cahos Music Hall. New York? Yes. I shot my last... Swing by the city.

What's that? You gotta swing by the city. You gotta see my new place. I do want to see a new place. I just don't want to see what surrounds it. New York City. I'm in fucking Battery Park City. It's like a different world here. Oh I know. I've got a vacation here. Yes. I used to... Well you saw the movie Midnight Cowboy. I used to Fuck an old rich woman in Battery City By the way, the World Trade Center is outside my window. I have a balcony It looks right at the World Trade Center. So oh good. You'll get a look at the next one Folks if you want to see me do stand-up live go to Nick dip comm click on the tour button as you see April 25th

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