Uncle Joey's Joint with Joey Diaz - #620 - Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill
Episode Date: September 24, 2018Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill, comedians, writers (including the web series "Daddy Know's Best), and the hosts of the "Danish and O'Neill podcast, join Joey Diaz and Lee Syatt LIVE in studio. This... podcast is brought to you by: MyBookie.com - Use code promo Church to get up to a 100% match on your first deposit up to $1,000. Deposit after 7pm EST and they will give you another $25 in free play.  Onnit.com - Use promo code CHURCH for a 10% discount at checkout.   Recorded live on 09/23/2018.
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What's happening you bad motherfuckers Uncle Joey here, it's a beautiful day to be alive
I got guys that I want to be on the podcast for the last fucking 10 years, but I just don't bump into you as much
I know fucking we made it man. Thanks again. Thanks for having us. I was the weekend
Dude, I don't even know if weekends exist anymore. It's like dude. We're comic every day. Yeah 724 taking it to the hoop
For me the weekends are the worst because people are out man
I do shit during the weekday because everyone's working. Yeah, that's when you go out and do shit
You live the work week is basically a weekend as a comic and then you know you kind of you kind of reversed
It's it's weird that the bullshit they sold us as kids
Gonna work 35 hour weeks. We were lucky. We're gonna work 10 hours a week of overtime
Yeah, Saturday. We had a mow the lawn
Then on Sunday, you got pretty much everyone was yeah, that's it everyone we know that doesn't doesn't live that lifestyle
I don't know like out here. No, no, not at all. Yeah, people don't have class
Yeah, no, these are like people don't have that
Don't have a party unless a celebrity's coming over then you know, they're making a big fucking deal
But I'm talking about just that was a dream that was sold to us
They needed to sell it though in order for us to become consumers to run this fucking economy
But that's the dream we were so we're gonna work five days a week and have two days off and put money away
And then go on a cruise ship
And hope the motherfuckers and hit an iceberg you wear the shirt and tie during the week sweater on the weekend khakis
And it's weird. It's uh
It's a it's a fucked up day
When you come to realize that you got to work Saturdays and Sundays. That's a that's a fucked up day like when you
You just have to learn it most people learn it like at 17 or 18
Some motherfuckers learn at 14 like I learned to like at 14 Saturday and Sunday cartoons done the cartoons
Yeah, that's over. I said no no more pop. I know more fucking pop. I we got to get up
You got to go to the Bronx and run around the neighborhood make sure there's no cop cars in the neighborhood shit like that
You know, but you then yeah, then you start with the fucking Sunday
And then you go to college or whatever and you realize that you're in the library
Saturday and Sunday you really are you're doing homework and if you're really doing something
You're in a library on Sunday or Saturday. Oh, you're with a group of people do it
So you're when you're hungover and you realize that you're hungover
You can't really do the fucking work. So at what point do you realize that the American dream the 40 hour week was bullshit?
You know, I meet people out here that have three jobs legit, you know
Morning job a fucking two nights a week. They do something and then Saturday and Sunday. They're banging out ten hours a day the coffee shop
That's just a cover rent car payment and a fucking comedy show once a month. Yeah, you know, think about that
The I remember when we got into a comedy, you know, you
Distinct shifted like I always knew I wasn't gonna be a positive influence in the regular workplace
I always knew I knew it at the age of ten. Did you ever have a nine-to-five job ever? I really tried to be an American?
I really fucking tried
But I knew as a kid. I like my mother's lifestyle my mom owned the business and she worked nights
There was something about that freedom in the daytime with everybody else's at work
That got my dick hard. Yeah, you could do whatever the fuck you want
So she would do was hours worth of work from 9 30 to 10 30 open the bar a bartender would come in and she'd boogie out of there
She'd go home finish as she was doing at home catch the afternoon bet game
Go home cook dinner and then jump back in the jersey at six and then work the bar till three
Were you always up late as a kid?
Yes, so you know from very young you were you had late hours. Yes
And then I always had a problem sleeping and then then what I did get to sleep and
She would wake me up at three in the morning when she got home anyway. Tell me about a day and make me
So I was always you're being groomed for comedy. No, I didn't mean to I like stand-up
I like prior the Alms, but I thought it was always like a far away go or far away back
Then it was I don't know how many people watched it and was like hey
I can do that we're now it seems a lot more accessible obviously with podcasts and how much stand-up there is then it was it
Seems such a far away thing to be like even say I want to do stand-up people that for the fuck are you talking about in the early 70s?
It was David Brenner. It was Richard Pry was George Carlin and
A couple other guys and Freddie Prince came along
There was a couple other guys that you knew from the tonight show if they were gonna be uh, yeah, then you'd stay up
There was no DVR and no
You fucking missed it. Yeah, you fucking don't take a piss man. You better hold it
So growing up in New York you had the honeymoon is an 11 and then the outcouple 11 30 so from 11 30 to
to
1215 you'd be
Physically pushing, you know, zero 11 11 4 there was no rewatch
What's that button your last channel last channel? There was no
There was no last channel
That's we'd have to use when your kid watching softcore porn if anyone else was in the house
You'd have to have your last channel queued up to something that you knew what it was
So if they walked in the room there titties you could go to that light. Oh I'm watching MTV. What are you talking about?
This is everything's cool. Did either of your dads have a VHS porn because I had to go
I had to remember the time where it was and the wind to make sure
Well, let me tell you this so we had a motel I grew up in a motel my parents owned so to special customers
They'd give him a descrambler and so my dad would have to go downstairs in the basement and change the porno movie out
Like every hour so we'd be watching Dallas and he'd be like close your eyes at a commercial
Because he had to check to see if the porno was done, but he'd watch it for like four or five minutes
So I'm just fucking watching this. I'm like four years old watching porno's and then he would go
Oh, the movie's almost done. So we got to go downstairs and change the new porno
So you grew up in a hotel
Yeah, so I know it's a nine-to-five job because my mom would run the motel during the day and then my dad would stay there at night
And so then we used to live there and then once my little sister was born
We got a house in town about a mile away because it's just too small. You always on call though without all 24-7 for
35 years my mom
Shit you see the hotel Jesus man. I mean a lot of times my mom would be like hey
Can you go check to see if this if this guy hasn't checked in in a few days?
Nobody's seen am I go in there and the dude's just dead either drink himself to death or fucking suicide
I mean everything that you can imagine like what you know because in the 80s people would stay there like families would stay
If you're on a road trip and then the 90s people started going it was in Valparaiso, Indiana
Which is what's the closest Chicago's like 60 miles away?
Wow, so it's like but it's pretty rural. We had a guy
He fucked a chicken to death in the early 2000s in there
It was like a big piece like Leno did
Hotel or just in your town no no in the in the hotel my dad found the feathers and like the carcass and shit
What was this guy wearing a boa? Oh, no, he's fucking chickens again. And so
He called the guy's mom because the guy's mom had put this guy a guy was and he's really fucking off
You can see a picture of him online though one eyes down
Below his cheekbone those people with the fucked up eye
And they're not smoking at all okay, I don't trust people with those sleepy eyes. I never did I got a sleepy eye
That's why I don't trust nobody was sleepy
It's like looking in a mirror. Yeah, it's fucked up
But the sleepy eye was doing the coke to do the sleepy eye from doing like more sign of my right eye
We just started. Yeah, I got a droopy eyelid, too. I got hit in the head with a two by four
Nerve damage that is fucking crazy finding people. I
Yeah, the last thing I don't want to do is find somebody dead
From either a gunshot wound or suicide my price or somebody hang on I would fucking
Oh, that'd be yeah, my brother found a guy who killed himself. This was like early 80s
He was probably like six we had geese in the backyard
So in the morning he would have to let the geese out and so we saw a guy in his car
Who would later we'd found out committed suicide he ran a hose through the tailpipe
And this was probably like 83 and it turned out he had AIDS and this was like before anybody knew anything about AIDS
So this guy just thought he was done
So he killed himself and my mom had to go clean out his trailer
And she was like none of you guys can come in here because I don't want you guys to get AIDS because people thought it was fucking
Airborne people think you get it from a toilet seat
So she was just like but somebody had to clean out the trailer and re-rent it how old were you in 85 84 85
I was like six. How do you see them? How old were you in 85 4?
Oh 83 I was
Five five years old remember the big so obviously you remember the AIDS care. Mm-hmm like people
lost
Yeah, fucking
I remember even in the 90s like with Magic Johnson people thought he was he was a goner by by 91
It is it was still but 80 86. Oh my fucking god
That's when they were talking about like handshakes and shit
You might get it from a fucking handshake. It was still fucking, you know poor
Gay men were getting fucking abused
But it helped me because that's what I got went to prison
So they built an AIDS unit and there were six beds
But they had four of them in the bed like four get guys with HIV in the unit
so it was
It was
There's room it was two units that were two rooms that were open and
There were two units that were open and I would hang out in there like everybody knew to hang out in the age unit
Because they explained it to us. There was four guys that had a HIV
So instead of people being weird to them they came out and would talk to us about it
Four guys were gay. Well, that's what they told us at the time. They told us that they had all gotten it from intravenous use
You know, listen, I don't have HIV so obviously hanging out with them
Yeah, but it was really like that's how
Even prisons that don't give a fuck prisons don't give a fuck
They work a year behind schedule
You know, yeah, when it came to HIV
Everybody was fucking quick fast
Like in a way it was kind of like governmental, but it was in a way
It was like let's build something to get away from these fucking people like here's this prison camp that was there
So Lincoln was there and right next to it though of all of a sudden they built this beautiful fucking
six room
condo with fucking a kitchen of microwave
Refrigerator, you know the whole fucking deal. It was just
It was tremendous to watch. I don't know what the fuck we're talking about
It's tough though to tough thing to have to get the HIV to get into the nice digs. It's a tough price to pay
Price of admissions a little little pricey. You're like, I'll be a friend of theirs and go hang out
But how crazy is this that those guys got me through that prison sentence?
Yeah, it's like it was me him there was a
Four or five of us that hung out full-time in the hiv unit
And there were two particular guys that had hiv that had hung with us
and they were
hilarious
The one black we were gamble we were gamble big in there and they controlled all the gambling
Like we have controlled the third of the gambling in the prison and the one black guy that had hiv
Would just taunt you and you couldn't beat him up. Is he already?
Right, he already has a great defense man. Yeah, so he would just go
Dennis it looks like your team who would you bet the browns? It looks like
And they know if it's a fat lady sings, but she's busting out a limo right now and he would go walk walk walk walk
And that's what he would do to people. He was just talking talking guys. He would just taunt people to death. He would just keep going
walk walk walk walk
Oh my god, there was no there was a mexican guy that was like the original
Leader of the mayans
Oh the fucking like the motorcycle like he looked like it the whole thing
Yeah, he had the tattoos everywhere, but he was a harrowing guy
And the hiv guys were still doing heroin in there nobody bothered
Like that's how much people didn't care they even fuck with them damn
How many guys do you think who you did time with have seen you on something like is that fucking?
I don't think anybody you don't think anybody can you open that door real quick?
I'm getting fucking that how expensive our needles like why is everyone's sharing needles all the goddamn time?
Because when you're getting high right when you're getting high
And you're in that fucking world, you know us three hook up
It's like the way we smoke a joint we share a needle. Don't you? Oh
All right, listen. Lee. I'm fucking scary. Lee. Do I share needles? No? No
I mean you don't
People are still sharing needles now and they know shit. Yeah, like they didn't know I don't share fucking needles
So I don't know anything about that world, but it's weird that
That's when you're getting high. You're that far gone. Yeah. Yeah, you're that far gone
Yeah, I don't think the priorities are you know, let me make sure I just mean I just met him at the train station
I just met him at the train station north hollywood
He got me he got me to a guy that sold me a four dollar bag of h and part of his thing
Is that he gets a taste
So now we walk over we get to meet each other
You're from whatever boston or from jersey. Holy shit. You're busting red sauce. I like the Yankees. We come over here
And it's just like when a guy tells you he's got hiv
We come over here and also we're like, all right, you I go. I don't have a rig
I
Don't have a rig and I haven't used in 10 hours
So I'm gonna look at him and go he looks like a pretty trustworthy guy
Right. He's from boston. I mean, what kind of him can he have what kind of disease can he have?
This is same as not using a condom. I mean, it's like yeah, it's all the fucking time. You're like, yeah
Boom and all of a sudden I shoot in 10 years from now. I got a cough
I'm getting a little dizzy. I go to the hospital. They tell me I have hiv and I go. Yeah, but I'm not gay
Uh, uh, yeah, I know, you know, yeah, we know that
No
Whatever, you know, however it gets transmitted. That's how that's how quick it is
Well, did you hear about the uh, and I forget the name of the group, but it was like punk rock artist in cuba
who specifically
Infected themselves with hiv or aids to like they got put into like a little like some
Housing with just them. So they wanted to get messed with
Listen, you look over at a guy. He's like, I got fucking hiv and they give me all these benefits. Who knows
Who the fuck knows why I do that shit? I don't live in cuba. So I can't tell you
Maybe if I lived in cuba, I'd shoot myself with the I go down to the local cvs. You know what I'm saying?
I want the heavy duty flu shot today. Give me the one on the rocks
I
Give me the one that gives you a fucking cough and foot sores, you know I'm saying so I can really complete the fucking process
I don't know why
Where do you get this shit? Lee? You have too much time on your fucking hands to read this
Are you a fan of the band see this shit? No, you never saw it. I think it was like a vice video or something
No, I don't look at you
I'm trying to feed the family. I got tired to look at the vice video. I thought you
No, I don't give a fuck you but now I don't give a fuck. That's the people other like people sent me like videos
I just put a thumbs up and keep moving on with my life. Yeah, I don't look at your fucking video
I ain't got time. I might press that thing. They see now. I voted for trump and russia. You know what I'm saying?
Like, you don't know what you're changing. So I don't have video people always think you have the weirdest allegiance to
Shit just because people think you have all this time. Yeah, I would have fuck ass tonight
I wish I had time to sit in front of a computer and see who's tweeting what and what time I don't I get on there
I say what I got to do
Move the fuck on it. Yeah, sometimes somebody calls me go. Hey, I just sent you the details
I tweeted it to you
And uh, Twitter the message thing and I'll look at that or two of them the address to the podcast to them besides that
I don't go. I don't read any articles on the fucking computer. Do I give a fuck if it's not on yahoo
When I click in if it's not that first article on yahoo
You're out and I even give yahoo an extra second to click in that second one
You know I'm saying yeah the first one is always some Trump shit
Then the second one they show people running in the tropical storm. That's it. Yeah, who's always the same and just clicks on
It's no more Kardashian stuff. No, that's they don't give a fuck anymore. You gotta scroll down pretty far to get to that shit
I don't even scroll
Like I was getting that top. That's it. I don't give a fuck about the news
But you watch a world news tonight. Whatever that is. I watch world news today because I have dinner like a family person
And at 6 30 you can't just run out on your fucking family
So you sit there you put tv on and I like I like the old lady the blonde lady for fucking 10 years
I like Todd Diane Sawyer now. She retired. She moved on
She went on to interview somebody last week sally field big yahoo. Like I was really excited about seeing that one Diane Sawyer
She's been it since Bert Reynolds didn't she have a book out or something too at the same time
She dated Bert Reynolds, right or married. Yeah, she married
I just see her everywhere now that uh once he passed away you keep seeing stuff about sally
Man sally field looks like a million fucking bucks. I don't think she's in plastic surgery
No, I think she let it go naturally, which is fucking rare even for dudes
You look at like Elon musk. Have you ever seen that dude? No, you see what he used to look like when he was like
21 just bald scoots dudes now got hair plugs. Looks like he has chin implants all this shit
Yeah, I saw him smoke the joint on rogue
Isn't that crazy that that shit like change the stock price
It what that did for me was let you know that podcast now people are going to pay more attention to podcast
Yeah, yeah, that was just a step up when obama didn't marry it. Well, yeah when obama didn't marry it
That was a step up for people. Yeah, like fucking obama did marry. That's a pretty step up
Now Elon musk goes on rogan and smokes a joint on on rogan
I don't give that just gave podcasts enough up
Thank me the television industry went home that night. No, we'll lose. Yeah, what are we doing? Yeah, they couldn't get them on
They couldn't get them to smoke on world news tonight
Diane Sawyer doesn't smoke
She quit not even vice got him to smoke. Fuck that whole man water channel. What's the other one they got?
Fuck you guys too
He went on rogan took a joint hit a joint of it like he had been doing it for years his eye opened up. He looked like lee
But he got just upped it for everybody. I don't know. Yeah, man
I think was that same week or the week before marin had paul mccartney. Yeah, it was like fuck
I mean, it's two of them. That's tremendous. You imagine that like that podcast caused
A multi-billion dollar company to go down like six fucking percent
I mean, that's what a fucking power but then a week later. He's a world news tonight
He's sending people to the moon and people sign it up. Yeah. No, I don't think it's gonna affect. I'm crazy
The short-term thing and I wouldn't get listen listen to me. There is no way I learned
That they don't let somebody regular
Go up in the fucking
It's a chinese billionaire. That's you got it. Listen to me. It doesn't matter. But the chinese billionaire
I don't get who the richest guy in the world is that plane will blow up like with that school teacher
Yeah, I'm fine. I never forget that thing going up and be going
She's never gonna make it. I swear to my daughter mercy
That I never got a premonition like that before I remember still being what I was in the video store in snowmass village, colorado
I was working and I had the tv and a bunch of people walked in and even before they launched I go
I think it's not going to make it because they don't want to get the american public the idea
No, I go shit. We gotta listen to this guy. What should we write? I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Yeah
When they all started yelling at a thing and the thing it's going down the school teacher from florida is dead
That's a message. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I was watching that live in first grade. Yeah, the teachers were like, uh,
Let's turn that off. Turn that the fuck off that killed people. But in my heart
I swear to god, I knew that mission was never going to be complete
Because they're not gonna let that happen. That's always worth spent billions of dollars
Just have to go into the fucking move regular jones. Go up to fucking elan
Elan must keeps failing at a fucking self-driving car. You're gonna trust a rocket ship to the moon. You're fucking dummies really
Would you get in that car though?
With not even a million dollars
Not even for a million dollars when I get in the self-driving car. Fuck that is the dumbest white people shit in the fucking world
You got to be the dumbest, you know, what's that thing they call white?
That's supremacy privilege
Kind of shit ever that you get in the white car. You you deserve to fucking die in the 405
But you deserve for a truck to jump the ho v lane and to catch you for your car to go flames
Don't never let that happen either
Don't never let that happen either. You can't make it happen. Don't never let that happen either
Because that's one out of fucking that'll be responsible for one fucking accident per week one of those fucking stupid
cars or somebody takes over the grid and it's responsible for like 200,000 people died
Yeah, no, no, no, no all that should never happen. This guy's I don't care if it's a chinese billionaire
That day will get shot down before it even starts
If you think kennedy's head blew up with that fucking bullet hit him
Wait, do you see that rocket blow up?
And there was a complication and it set back three years of my lifetime nobody wants to go to the moon, but you're fucking business
That'll never happen
Well, there's people who've signed up to like be the first group of people to move to mars permanently
Yeah, and I know people who signed up to get it up the ass with Shaquille and me
He's gonna put that big black dick up that fucking asshole either
You need some old school guys like those bad ass guys the first guys to go to the moon like those guys could handle some
Shit
I could sell you
I could bet all of you motherfuckers. I could disappear for five years and come back
and sell mars vacations
on fucking late night tv like I'll come up at midnight when it's my time
and start selling mars vacations
Vibrators uh
Time-chairs operators are there right now waiting for your call. Here's a bro short of mars
It'd be just funny how many pamphlets you would send down
Yeah
And how many people you would close and get a deposit on I guarantee you I would get if I sent out a hundred pamphlets a week
I would close 20 of those people a week. That's how good I am
Especially now at this age
But I don't give a fuck. I was killing people on the phone when I was 21
I can't imagine what I could do to you now on the fucking phone with fucking mars time-chairs
Mars time-chairs grab your american express card. This is how easy this is
We're gonna it's it's 50 000 dollars. I'm not looking for 50 000 dollars. We're looking for 20 000 initial investment down payment
Yeah, but my internal is the attorney can't see anything because your attorney's been talking out of it because it's a trip to mars
I think you're fucking crazy. Okay. What we're gonna do is this grab your american express card
It starts with a five. I think it starts with a five. That's discover whatever
What's it start with? How's it and every time they reject you? What's your how's your name starting to call?
It's jose, right? Give me the j. How does it start j?
You just keep closing
And I will get 20 motherfuckers to sign up for mars trips and never see who gots joey mars. Diaz
joey mars
I will send you to wherever you want to go if you let me do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, you let me I'll send you wherever you want. There's there's enough people out there to enough fucking morons
There's still people at home that are taking calls that are going to the bank and paying somebody on the corner
Because the irs is coming to the house. Yeah, man
There's still people paying people online to get emails that they've inherited a million dollars
But it went through london and you got to pay a Nigerian call my luke my luke
A hundred thousand dollars to be a fucking africa. There's people that fall for that dumb shit every day
I see it. I see people, you know, I tell you all the time why he hasn't borrowed 20 000 and opened up a podcast in school
And put a picture of joe rogan be like joe rogan and put
Billboards already put billboards all over hollywood. Yeah, put one in front of the grumblings one of those shitty impromptu groups
All those shitty groups
Yeah, where you going from there the grumblings
You know, man, dude. Yeah, he that's it. Yeah, but he don't want to do or do the late night talks
Sell fucking tapes of you teaching people how to pocket. Oh, you have no idea. Clean up, man
Clean up when I first got acting teachers this acting teachers get their balls fed right now
And there's a dad writing a check because it's gonna teach movement. Get the fuck out of here
What do you think queen latifah learn how to move an ice cube and to get up? I could make it active. I'm saying you just can't
Fathom it. I met kids along the way that told me that I would bump into it seven years later
I'm like you still going to acting class. Yeah, she told me I'm not ready yet
I saw a guy that wasn't ready for 10 years then he became an agent and then he got out of business altogether
10 years he spent for six years on a vanity job
And then four at the other ripoff school on the brand
And then fucking think about those stand-up classes too
Like how are you going to teach anybody how to do fucking stand-up? I wouldn't pay for one of those. I wouldn't pay
I wouldn't pay
50 over 50 dollars. I'd pay for a 50 dollar
Stand-up workshop from a fucking working time. Yeah, but very how mean how often is it guys?
That's the teacher very rare 50 bucks is the most you should pay
For a three hour seminar and something. Yeah, but some of these are like multi week. Remember they used to do the belly room
Was it uh, greg dean's comedy school. Where was greg dean? I fuck I don't know disappeared somebody shot him
He gave me his book once on stand-up comedy
So he used to work the phones when they would do that and I mean it's just I mean it's
I think that a comic needs a little guidance
He wants to ask a couple questions in the beginning or just do a show like a veteran comic
A friendly environment they give you that very friendly first show where it's ever all the students go up
So it's it's it's kind of like a padded. I paid 35 bucks for three weeks
Unit yeah, that's not for it. It was three hours every Sunday for three weeks
He covered comedy
Stand-up that we did a performance and he gave you
A little bit of critique
But did he at all try to like stifle like if you say you had a joke that was like really you and they're like
Well, I don't know if that's gonna fucking work. Why don't you do? Hey, I look like so-and-so had a baby or something
Did they ever try to pull that time? It was really basic 101. Okay
Uh
Open up with your second best joke close with your best joke
It was the teacher. His name was I just
You know what? I think he's pissed at me for something
So everyone someone I hit him up on facebook. He's never hit me back. Nothing. I give a fuck. He's in florida
Teaching improv classes or some shit, you know, you'd be his number one of the number one students
Yeah, he was like he was like a stand-up guy
And then early on he went to ships and him and his wife were like a comedy team that were part of him and his wife
with
Like part of an improv troupe that was like fleetwood mech
Like everybody started fucking everybody else's wife
And it wasn't fucking drama behind the impromptu. Yeah, it was like when I first joined up with him
I took that as a continuing education class at the university of colorado
But you get it to like just get over some just get comfortable on stage because I mean
Stand up as a art form. Like, you know, you're gonna have to fucking eat shit for years
A lot of people don't think that I mean
I've heard if you ever heard comics, I've never bombed once. Oh, no, no, no, no, no
I know comics that destroy every night. Oh, yeah all the time. That's how you know right there. Well, they tell you that
Okay, but you've seen them and you're like, why? Yeah. Oh, no. No, it's I'm watching but yeah
Yeah, you destroyed what about the guys that you see years later. They tell you to destroy and they haven't written a joke
Yeah, you saw four years early
Those are the ones that really scare the fuck out of me
Or the guys that you've seen on their hbo special in like the 80s and then you see them and they're doing the same
Shit, which one are you guys working at the store? Well, both did. Yeah
Where did you get that?
He started we both I showed up there. Uh, I moved here in 2003 early 2003
He started working at the store. What a year before me. Yeah, I was there. I started working in 2003 at the store
I did the open mic for like nine months started like
Thanksgiving ish 2002
and then uh
Yeah, I got hired probably like nine months later to work your work there for uh four years
Did you become a regular should be yeah, she was she was at that weird time where you know, she was like I showcase for her
I don't know a dozen times and every time she fucking
Nothing it's the worst and do you remember when you used to go up front?
Like it was the only time I ever had like shortness of breath and you're fucking like you're like this never happens
And then she's in there and the way she would ice that room
I mean you would be like you'd be like a child. It was like you never did stand up before they would so we
We got hired I got hired there after him and it this was it was a different era there
There was no audiences there really at all nobody did Dean Gilbert ran it
Mitchy wasn't coming around and Tommy would come up to you. Wow
Mitchy's coming in tonight. You guys have to showcase for your jobs. It's like wait
Which is all illegal now when you think about like this shit
So to keep your job you'd have to go up in front of mitzi and if she deemed you not
Like you could lose your job because of a bad set
And so you'd be terrified and you would see you know like I remember I remember seeing
Chris rock look in the room and he was gonna go up and then he turned the corner saw mitzi in her the seat
She always said it out. He was gone. Yeah, I'm good. Thanks. No, I'm gonna go
I live this I don't know if
I don't know what the guy's name is. He's still around
I get up there. I'm the host on a Sunday night. We when we started you you were hosting. I was hosting on Sunday
That's the Cuban egg roll. So I used to host take my dick out
Yeah, yeah
I took my dick out of you were on stage behind the curtain. I knew how to get them behind the
Ari Shafir once hit me in the balls from behind the curtain. I was on stage
I figured out how to go from behind the curtain
To the stage and take my dick out at you. You can get great laughs back there. Oh my god, but no cool
They think they were killing I did it to somebody and she bombed every
She bombed for 20 fucking years up there mitzi just liked them because there was something about her
There's a there's a handful of those and I took the curtain and I got completely naked
And she was on stage. So it was like 19. That's when there was scattering of people
23 scattered in the room which sucks dick in the original room. Oh, it's horrible
And I would just open up the curtain and go like this
Like with the curtain open and then I would just close and she would think she was slaying
She would think she was killing and then I got dressed and went out there and watched her like shake everybody's hand like
She was like, oh my god. Thank you. You kill
And she ended up suing down mattress couple years
I'm not saying today, but we know exactly what Sunday night I'm down there
And there's a guy with a wig
now listen
If you're missing a
You gotta fucked up eyeball or you're missing a foot on which if you're doing comedy if you're in a wheelchair
But if you're a comic and you have a wig
It's gonna be a tough night for you. Like I don't give a fuck. Like this was a fucking rug
That was a good rug. It was an expensive rug
But it was a rug. Yeah, now i'm at the door and in those days. I took every year beating imaginable
because I was uh
She used to let me host
the tent to close
So i'm getting every comic in america chucking me up and we hosted there. We hosted the other mic there for years
Yeah, so you know getting headshots. Oh, you're everyone's best friend. You are everybody's best friend
Holly told me I could come in and get a fucking spot. Yeah, it's fucking my uncle's dean's uh landlord
He told me to come in tonight. Yeah, it's fucking crazy. But then when you say I don't have time you've never lost a friend so fast
So she's like he's telling me that he just opened up a run white
And he blew run white off the stage
And i'm sitting there in those days like I was already hip. I'm like that's great man, you know
I don't think of the man who's doing this with coke rock. That's in my pocket
I can't wait until any griffin gets here and I can pull him up because I was I remember that you used to leave
You'd be like halfway through
Don you were quick you and I figured it out. I was doing ten up
You give it over to don barris. I give it to don barris. Yeah, that's all you would get your shit in and you'd be like
Where'd joey and you're fucking your car was out? God no drama from uncle joey at all
So i'm listening to this guy. It's an early sunday
I'm there early. I'm not hosting
I'm hosting ten, but it's like seven and he's waiting because he got he got somebody off of the job as a doorman
So sure enough
Whoever gave the job as a doorman. He puts his t-shirt on and he admits he sure
He's been a doorman an hour
And they say do you want to go up and he goes?
Yeah, I just blew off run white on stage and all this shit talking shit
I'm sitting there and I actually went up there just to see what was gonna happen. You knew you knew something. Come on dog
I'm over. Come on. I've heard every fucking story. Especially there. I told most of them. You know what I'm saying?
I told half these stories. You're gonna tell me these fucking stories, but especially there
You know, you know the or is gonna give him a beating. No, the original was gonna give him a beat
He goes up with his cloudy store. Shut up
At the one minute mark. She's in the back going fucking a walk. Lie down. Lie down
Lighting up. Oh my god. He's got a wage. Lie down
Get him off my stage. You can hear it. You can hear it. You can hear it. She's fine
She fine. Oh, yeah, yeah, when he got off the stage, they go, you're fine. Can we get the t-shirt back?
He had to take the t-shirt off. He threw it at the manager. Take you take your wig and go home
Yeah, take your wig and go home. He was pissed. He walked down that block yelling at the comedy store. Fuck you
I'm a great fucking comic
She she's put ptsd people
That was ptsd. Well, you want to see it watch comedians and cars when
Shanling and Seinfeld he takes him to the comedy store and Seinfeld's like, I don't want to go there
You could see it in his eyes. He's like because she wouldn't pass him
And he's like, I don't want to go in the building
He convinced him and then he went in and that's when he came back whenever he went back to the comedy store
He like, oh, yeah, this is a good room. It's fucking crazy. That's like a fucking. Yeah
It was it's also I love the comics too that are like, oh, I can't do three minutes. I'm used to doing 45
I can't do three minutes. Okay
Yeah, let's see how the work out that's how the three goes. Let's see how that three goes not one laugh. That's weird
It's fucking hilarious. Yeah
We used to have a lot of stand-up waterbees
In 2000 and she would throw them off the stage and then one night we got a guy
And they would do stolen material
From comedy store comics in front of her
That's when you should be shot like yeah
In most of those comics are in the room. So it's like that's mine. That's mine. He stole me
He stole his whole thing of bill hicks and the whole room turned out in front of the t-shirt
Like everybody like that was one of one of my favorite, uh
Bill Hicks bits. Why would you wear a cross around your neck? That's the last thing jesus wants to see when he comes back
He had the balls to say that joke and I remember like my goose hairs went up and half the room was like
Like that that that you know, you could steal but at that point I'll take that. Yeah
And she was like get him off. She threw on this other kid
That came up here to be the next bill Hicks out of houston
She threw him out and she was like get him
You imagine you get tossed and then when you get tossed out of there, you're done for good
I'll never forget I'll never forget that his manager walked in with him
But on the walk out he walked out his manager was 10 feet behind
Never forget that
Like that is fucking human like that relationship ended on the plane
That's dude. I couldn't imagine you do the open mic at the comedy store
Because I couldn't imagine just going in there like because you know that room is such a fucking weird vibe to it
Like we started out doing the open mic for a long time
Like there's a level of comfort you have to get in that room
Before you can fucking make that thing work for you. Oh my god
We were open mic and with the legends back when they did like the freak show open mic
So gay lord dingler scotty bear, you know, like we're talking the og
What happened to gay lord dingler? Why was I accused of murdering him?
Like I read that years later they even hired an investigator to see if I murdered him
I never touched that guy. No, there was a guy mickey his best friend who
Admitted the hitting up with a beer bottle in the head and an alley and left them. We thought he murdered him
It's a mac lindsay actually like went to the police to try to like have this shit solved
Mac lindsay was the kid with the nose hearing. Yeah, where is he? He's in new york. We just saw him in july
We were in new york. What's he doing? He is uh a phlebotomist
So he takes blood at hospitals and he's like going back to school very bright dude the dude runs very smart
He runs like eight miles a day. He got out of the stand though. No, he's back now
He's still doing a little bit. He was great when I saw me as a he was a great writer
But something was not there and I heard they told him to leave with something nice kid
It was almost like if he was doing really well, he would try to push it to the right
They asked him nicely. I think it's time for you to leave but he's fucking funny, man. Yeah, it was naturally funny
Yeah, but gay lord dingler arish a fear held the trial when he was hosting he held the trial for this guy mickey
Did you kill him? Did you kill gaylon and he held the whole trial in front of the whole audience?
They got a documentary the other gay lord. Yeah, I didn't want to interview me to see if I killed him
I never heard your name. I didn't know who how are you associated because he used to torment me
Really gay lord gay lord would be very tormentable. What was one of those people? Are you serious?
Are you used to torment me? What would he do to you? It just talked to me
Thank you. Thank you. I just asked me stupid
Questions constantly
What I was like when I had 18 dollars, but I needed 25 to get a half a gram of coke
Well, that was seven dollars away. The last thing I needed was a question
I could see that I could see that. Yeah to the stadium. Like the last thing I fucking need is a question from gay lord dinglin
But he would ask me 50 questions a day
Was it him you would throw ice at?
Was that the count or is it scottie baron wasn't one of them you hated
Was it scottie baron? Yeah, somebody got it. You got you were you used to get into it
So if I maybe it was gay lord because if you say that he was always fucking with you
I remember you would come in and throw ice at somebody while they were on stage. I don't remember who it was. Yeah
If you were there early you would go in listen dog from you got a figure from 97 when I walked in there
To about 2000 the screws weren't really tight
If I look back on it like the screws were not tightened yet
Yeah, the the criminal
Instincts were lowering and the comedy confidence
Was getting a little higher, but I would still let you fucking throw like I would still rob me if I had to
Like I still did a lot of creepy little things that nobody knew at that time
But at that time I was still a little bit
On the craziest side then I had to beef with the guy who I told not to touch the fucking microphone
It doesn't take it when you do comedy the most important thing about doing comedy is being intelligent
And being courteous to the guy behind you
You'll never nobody nobody nobody nobody overtaken that run of light
Yeah, don't run of light in front of me dog
When that light comes on it means to get the fuck off in two of the fuck minutes. That's it
Once you do that you're disrespecting what we're about. Yeah
So I'm very disrespectful. I'm very respectful to a comedian
Okay, but you want to lose my respect do dumb shit
If you're sitting there watching him on stage
And you see that dodo keeps hitting the microphone and it's loosening
Don't be a favor when you come up. Don't touch that fucking microphone
I don't give a fuck what you're actually called for
Okay, you're gonna break the fucking mic because don't know over here. He ain't coming back ever
Like don't worry about he ain't ever coming back here
We already made a note in the back and he fucking broke the microphone
So now you come up here. You're gonna touch the microphone
So I'm sitting in the back and I tell the kid do me a favor
Don't touch the microphone because it's about to break
There's a hundred people on a sunday night. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah, don't fuck you tonight. Yeah
We've been working on 64 people every sunday for the last two months. Yeah, this is we got a hundred and twenty
Don't touch the mic. What do you think this motherfucker? What up then did first grab that?
Grab the fucking mic and it broke
Shut down the show for six minutes
If you might as well fart in the room and stab somebody and hang Anthony more dating for everybody
Just come up with Anthony and hang him. You ain't gonna laugh now for another 30 fucking minutes
That show's all about momentum. It's great. Yes. Yes. When that guy had a plan he couldn't do
Yes, when you got the three minutes momentum going to the room and good open makers are going up and they're fucking
Improvising and they're bombing and they're improvising the bomb and you're going up there
Yeah, you come to say a couple funny things you get those laps you bring the next guy up
Yeah, and this motherfucker actually after I told him now
Here's the other part of that story. I get it
I didn't become a car because I follow rules
Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Yeah, but you see that the fucking microphone is in some rules
Are you the string is barely hanging off especially barely hanging on those mics are from like most of those mics were from the kinnison arrow
And they're all yeah, they were dented because yeah dice re-bought them
And then rogan did rogan re-bought them. Yeah, so rogan paid for the system and dice paid for something
But that night when he got off and I got off I went up to him like a man. Like oh, hey, man
I asked you like a man not to touch the microphone. He threw a verbal tirade at me
That ended up not bueno for him
Yeah, he got thrown out of there that he attacked me in san diego that hit him with a cue ball
Remember the fucking this is like fucking a seagull boogie man. Yeah, remember the little table they had
It wasn't a pool table. No, it was not foosball. It wasn't foosball. It still has pool sticks
Yeah, yeah, it has a little oh middle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know you're talking about right like a fucking miniature one
Where they called us Lahoy and said they were there to threaten me. I took all of those put it in my pockets
But without the flower plants in the front
I took every knife from the kitchen no no bartenders could cut lemons every drink was given that night with fucking no lemons in them
I had every knife in the fucking building
And I saw them make the left turn on the main street and I saw them pull out water pistols
And as they were about to throw water pistols
I elicited one of those cue balls at their car and a dentin and they fucking went off into the night
And they called the hollywood county store. They called the police on me and everything
Yeah, I had beefs from those fucking monday to our sundays because
It was a thin life a line between mental health now boom chakalaka
You could tell they let him out on sundays for spinnerette day, right? Yeah, yeah
20 years you could tell they let him out on sundays to see the birds
And different colors. I never had a problem with him
I also got accused of lighting one guy on fire one night and that would lock himself in the bathroom
Wait, uh, was zap? Oh, no. Oh, uh, at provide
Yeah, he uh, he's accused us a few times. I got a call in miami one day that you light them on fire in the bathroom
I'm out of the fucking state stop accusing me of doing shit to people
They let him in the they let him on fire in the men's bathroom. Oh, no, they locked him in
They locked him in the bathroom and they put toilet paper in the window and they let him on fire
And he's in there banging the fucking door. Did you let him on fire at a different point or no?
No, I think I did something else to him, but it was a different boy. We would always lock him in the bathroom
That was a given
We always locked as soon as he got there. I went up to him with a heineken
I don't drink here. I have a water there was a night where robin. Williams was in there
In the store and we we've been working there for a long time and approviah who was he
Missy would let him close the open mic for like 25 years
So he saw robin. Williams coming all these guys come and go
But when they would come back he was like stuck like a fucking mosquito stuck in the amp
You know like from a hundred years ago doing the same bit
So we see robin. Williams watching him from the back of the or and there's nobody in the or it's just robin
Williams in the back watching bob and we're standing in the back hallway
And onil goes you ever see this? Do you remember this guy?
And he turns to us and he goes no, I've never seen that guy in my life
Look like he saw a ghost and he fucking bounced out of the club
We went outside to go where'd he go? He was he disappeared like he was in rehab three weeks later. He was spooked
it was a fucking
He was fucking we knew that he knew him because don said he used to do an impression of approviah
And he's like oh, yeah, he knew him and so yeah, I think seeing him of like my life is gone
So far in one direction this guy's been stuck in this same exact spot
Doing the same exact thing
There was a couple people who had mental health issues in those days. Yeah
It was very heavy mental health on sunday nights. Yes, it's changed a lot. Yeah changed a lot
That's how we were able to stand out just because we were normal guys normal guys. There were their employees who had
When I got there there was a little couple of employees that were a little on the crazy side white dudes
Yeah, they looked like let it skin it. It was like four
And one of them will be in the back on heroin. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this was 97 and then they cleaned up a little bit
the store cleaned up, but
the
or the
Open mic side of it
Stayed it's fucking crazy. There's still some crazy people who I see it open. They cleaned it up though compared to what it was
It was like it would be like sometimes it was no normal people because you know you had to draw those numbers
So sometimes it would just be all insanity. There was a girl that was really pretty
They used to show up sometimes on sunday nights
this is
2099
Because sunday nights were cool because
It was open mic from seven to ten
Employees and friends from nine to ten
So then you had the professionals from ten to close
And I would host that and bring up eddie rogan paul mooney
dice one of those guys dated an hour and then everybody else went up
but
What the fuck it started getting popular
Especially sunday nights with monday would be off. Oh, those were crazy. Those are the crazy ones when we would host the og
Paid regulars would come in and demand to go up because they knew it would be a packed out that fucking house
So those nights were always crazy. There was a little run that what was the japanese girl that came in for a while
And the black guys took her in ate her up and spit her out alive
Yoku real cute. I mean I go I go. No, no, no, no, no. She's not around no more. This one
Oh tomayo was it no tomayo was the one that was that was kettison. Yeah, and then one came in like in 2000 pretty funny
She started getting spots, but she's leaned over to the fucking freaky monday side
And she ended back in japan with a black baby
Right like they fucked them pregnant to death. Nobody knew who the father was
Yeah, they fucked that old japanese pussy to death nobody knew who the father was
She was scratching their head. I know nothing. She may have left right before we got that. Yeah, she left
It was it was crazy down there
But there was a girl that would show up and I didn't put this together until like a year afterward because everything was moving so fast
And you're trying to decipher different characters on sunday nights sunday nights mondays
There's such a different character count out there. What was the old school guys that just waded them into those guys?
They were kind of embarrassing
They were there from the kettison days
And they would sign up on sundays and nobody would really talk to them no more would they would stick it out until two o'clock the duo
Was the duo there's there was a couple. Are you talking about piper and tupper?
Do you remember those two dudes piper and tupper? No, they were from like a whole over from a whole little era and they came back
There were yeah, there were there's occasionally some people that would show up and be like I was here then
You know, they tell you their story. You're like, yeah, I don't I don't give a shit man. Your name's not on that list
This is my kid now. He's 18. He was it's like, okay
My name is written by the other side of the building
When I would work the lot you'd have guys come in like that and they'd be like, do you know who I am?
And I'd be like, I just started working here like no, I've never seen you and they'd be like you got a
Piste you know that you didn't know who it was. You're like, I've never seen you in my life
That was a crazy girl that would go there sunday nights on a week
Oh, there was a wait that she ended up in the dig dog show blue iris
Oh
Yeah, wait that granny real pretty girl real pretty 24
Open biker. She would always pull up in a cab and go in and then
She would do her set in the wing and she was pretty in the way when she took the wing off. She was even prettier
But then one night like she cornered me like you're the host yet
She cornered me and she gave me a ferocious ear beating
I thought you were going to say blowjob
You could trade spots for like
They were fucking crazy people. Yeah, people do anything to get on there anything anything. It was such a crazy
But I still remember a certain woman
What was the woman the girl who come at the missades?
And she had fake tits and the doctor didn't do it, right?
So there was a shade in her tint
That was gigantic up in the top of the tip
The tip didn't just go natural. She was she wasn't even that attractive
But they did the fake tits for and she had a yellow car like a yellow
Do you remember she had the big tits but the tits were up here like that she did it in mexico
Yeah, it's like right and they put them under her neck like right under the collar bone
And it took this vein from the tip of the neck and they put it over the tip. You like you stabbed that vein you'd kill it
Yeah, it's like it cost too much to run it underneath but but she put it over the fucking she would get spots just on sundays
Yeah, I know you're talking about I have an idea that I could be completely off. I'm not gonna say it's it
No, I think I know who it is barbie
Yeah, was it barbie? Yeah. No, I was in a different direction. Oh, we oh, I know you were going different Mercedes
Same do you remember the bit? I don't this may be a one time
But you know some people's bits you remember but you once did a bit about doing fucking wheat grass a shot of wheat grass
And then you said you made it out your door to the garage
You had to pull out your pants. He took a shit so big it looked like a lion just took a shit
I remember the bit
We grass for a while because in my mind
No matter how much coke I did
If I drank a shot of wheat grass and had some sushi I was nullified. You know what I'm saying?
My system is the yin and yang. Yeah, so I would blast out two of those fucking now they called e3
Like now it's a complete new supplement
No, one of you can eat hot animals if you're drinking wheat grass in the day
They give you they just would rip off a piece of grass
And put it in the thing. Yeah, you just do a shot of it with something else
And it would clean me up
Like it was like getting frozen yogurt and looking at it going. Jesus
And I've been driving over it one night like I remember one night. I had to stop
I couldn't even make I couldn't even make it. That's the night that I wrote the joke about
So I had like two shots of it
And I went out and the way home. I'm like, oh my god. I got a ship and I'm never gonna make it upstairs
So I don't forget this that I pulled up to my driveway
And I go there's only one way to get away with this if I shit in the garage
So I opened up the garage door and when I went in I forgot I put the headlights on
So here I am with taking it around my ankle
The shit's about to blow out of my ass. I got the headlights on me how to run with my pants around my ankles
Turned the headlights off and the middle of all that I turned around and it just blew out of my ass like boom
Like one of those things I just went ah
And you can hear like my stomach training and every intestine just draining out
And I fucking like looked around there were some rags had to bring
On the car with I just wiped my ass with these oily rags
I pulled my pants on right and I never forget like staggering out of there. It was like
And I'm not even trying to be cute. It was like I got fucked in the ass by 20 fags
At a party like I was it that night and they all fucked me because I couldn't they had fucked the equilibrium out of me
Like I had shit so much that the equilibrium had been out of my body
Like that's how sick I was like I got up and I was stumbling around and I had to sit in my car
Like off and puff and I had the headlights off
So I just drove in over it that was the tire
No, I'm saying like over it like it was like right under the car just covered up the evidence
So I drove over it with the car like the wherever I was sitting the shit was right under it
Like burning simmering out of that
And I remember closing the door and walking
And then like going oh my god, my wife's gonna get the car in the morning
She's gonna see this shit and walking back and I could still smell it like it was in the air like I'm like
I'm not going back there. Oh my god. It was horrible. And when I walked upstairs
I remember my wife was sitting on the couch and I walked right to the bathroom
And finished like the other 20 ounces that I had left
And I remember when I came out she goes what is that smell like that's how bad it was
It came in from outside it came no it came. Yeah, it was following me. It was like it was stuck in my clothes
You ever find I just get stuck in your sweat. Yeah
If you're sitting on a plane you're like I can still smell my ass through this fucking sweats
That fart is trapped in between the other way of life. It's a fucking
Have you guys ever peed your pants or shit your pants on like on the way to a gig or add a gig?
And have to do it. I know I almost had to happen the other day. Yeah, that's you
Because
Which one was it? I'm assuming almost shitting pants on the on the drive there
I didn't I didn't but I thought I'd have to cancel the show
You didn't piss or shit him. I didn't how do you have to you didn't you couldn't just pull over in this fucking?
No, no, I had to shit
Oh, and I got I'm not gonna do it outside a friend of ours
Shit his pants and then did a commercial audition with uh with with his pants
He farted and then shit his pants
And then he took his he went the bathroom and he had uh, he shit through his
Underwear and then the back of his pants had like a dime size speck of shit on it
Which he says dime size, but if he admits dying that's at least quarter
And then there was a bunch of kids at this audition because he was auditioning for some kids thing
And so he gathered them all around and he's like hey kids any of you guys smell shit
They're like no and he goes all right. I guess I'm all right
Is it me or does somebody smell something that's what I always say
I'll open up with that line. Is it me and somebody say I smell something too. Now you got it off you
Now at least it's not on you. Maybe you walked in with it or
Where was that where I farted the guy walked right into it
Before bass line just farted I could feel it creeping up my neck
I could feel that he hit my neck and he tapped me from behind
He's like you're up next and when he looked at me I could see him going for like this fucking
Sad my trance and he didn't admit it. I go you smell the front. He goes no
Bullshit it hit him. It hit him like the next day. I asked him. He goes. Oh, I was terrible
Do you remember Brad Watts and the piano guy?
Yes, sir
He once farted so bad that Eddie Griffo was on stage and he did like 20 minutes on how bad they should smell
Nobody accused these two women who were sitting here the keyboard. Oh, that's the worst
Poor women they ended up leaving poor Brad Watts. Yeah, and he got no respect that poor guy. We always liked him
Where where is he?
I see him at the hollywood ymca when I I don't live in hollywood anymore, but he works on the hollywood y
He still plays the piano on sunday since they don't have the open mic
He's a sweet out of a guy. Yeah, but I'll never forget we tortured him one day
Because he's one of those guys that got a dog to get girlfriends
I remember you would ride him pretty hard. Yeah, we used to torment him
Yeah, well, you would pull up. I think if he was outside the parking lot, you'd be Watson
Yeah, because he was a piano player on sunday nights and he'd always say something fucking crazy to me like are you gonna do?
No, i'm gonna no i'm gonna do a magic trick tonight. Yeah, don't fucking stand up
Like he would always ask me some creepy fucking questions and fucking just obvious. Yeah, and I like Jeff
You know i'm saying like I was used to Jeff you just went up with Jeff
Watson would always drive me crazy, but I don't forget one night Watson got a dog
Just to meet chicks, but but he got the ugliest dog in the world and the dog was missing a tune
Like the ear was gone. Nobody even liked the fucking dog. I remember going up to him go
Why did you get this dog? Was it to meet girls? He's like kind of I got the wrong fucking dog guy
Like he was just like he couldn't do anything right. Yeah, he could not he could fuck up like a wet like that was just so much
Go sunday nights
I did him for what 10 years, baby
Like when I started going there Freddy Soto was the host
Yeah, we got there. Well, you were still out. Oh shag. Oh shag. Oh shag. Yeah, you were like
I think just about done with it. Yes. Ari was starting Renaz easy was starting bobby lee
Uh bobby strobshire, you remember her?
Yes, oh, yeah, caparillo the rat tail braid. Yeah, but where is bobby stratosphere?
Who knows?
I don't know man. She's a very nice lady. She was nice. Yeah. Yeah, no clue though. She there was a couple other women too
Who is there? There was another woman that uh, christie miller. Yeah, christie miller
Why the long face?
Christy biller was a soldier. She's still around mooney. Yeah, I would take her on. Yeah, she's still around christie biller
She's still doing a bit about uh sucking the gear shift to jerk it off the park. I don't know. I know that she's still around
She's new york, you know
That's crazy. That's why I see pictures of her on facebook. She was good. You know what I always wanted to ask you
In like 2004 I'm riding my bike along the la river
Down by like frog town and I stopped to get some water like out of my water bottle
And I hear this voice and I look over this fence and here's you walking out of this fucking warehouse
And like this industrial area and I was like, what the fuck is he doing here?
Where was it that you know where frog town is like that?
Or do you know where so you know where like the two freeway is between the two and the one tan along the la river like between
Like Dodger Stadium and like Highland Park
It was just a real shithole. I was ever asking arie about it
And he's like, you know, who knows what he could be gonna do again. He's like there
I remember you walked out of this. I heard somebody I heard your voice and then I look over this fence
It's just you leaving this fucking warehouse and this is just like a totally abandoned area. Do they have a bunch of shit stain rags?
I mean, I don't know why you would remember it, but I don't know if you were
I don't even know what area you're talking about. You got to be more fucking
I'm trying to think of the fucking name
Hollywood Park. I don't fucking know. Do you know where fuck what's uh
Yeah, I mean, it's it's not really like a distinct area
It's like a round Highland Park and like Glassel Park by the la river
Like on the other side of the hill from Dodger Stadium
Huh by like you know where Fletcher is you know where Fletcher and Riverside is
No
Just on north of the silver like
I don't like Duncan and Glendale. I used to go to Mimi's and Glendale. Yeah, I don't know what this is
my uncle lives in between the Mimi's and
Like when you make the exit most released, but that's it. That's the only reason why I don't be in those places at all
I feel like I derailed to show like that. Yeah, I grabbed the fucking microphone
But it was I was just like what the fuck because I was in it it was a sketchy area and I was like
What the fuck over here
There was that voice. I remember you guys from the commie store where the commie store was just
It was down. It was just uh an or it was a a place run by the inmates
Yeah, that's when that's our time there was mitzi was her health was failing
And I remember Fraser Smith used to come in and say man
This reminds me of brantwood, which was they said the inmates ran the asylum
And so it was just a madhouse. There was no rules really. It was just insane
And remember you would come in you would drive and I'd be working a lot
He would usually be doing the back door and he's like, who are you guys fucking with tonight?
More often than not they could there could have been someone in our crosshairs
Yeah, man, that was a fucking it was a great time to develop though because you can do whatever the fuck you would have been
You know, it's become a showcase club. It's got it's it's changed a lot
But I went back to doing what the fuck I do in there again. Yeah, that was it
I changed up. I I I had that fear for about the last year
I kept bitching and then I realized it was just an excuse on my part. I kept saying well
If you go down there, you can't work out. What's the use of going down there if you can't work out? It's still
The best place in the world
So who gives a fuck
Just go down there do old material new material if you get one thing off that's new
Go I just go down there let my mind run away
I use the economy store now. It was like how lucky am I?
Yeah, that I could go to that gym in florida or mahamad Ali. Yeah train. That's what that's what the economy store is
I don't put the radio on on the way down to the economy store. I just dip into a part of my life
That hadn't thought about in a long time just to get my mind exercising
So when I pull into the store, my mind's already moving
I don't really want to the only thing the only problem I have with the store is
That now we have people that go down there to see us. Yeah
So that takes away from the original planning of it. Yeah, especially you got you rogan burt
I avoid those people before I go up. My thing is to smoke a joint
And get there an hour before my call time and watch the four comics before me
That's how I do. That's my tuesday night assignment to watch ali wang
Sometimes people corner you though people fucking corner me like I sit that'll fuck the wrong
There's a rule number one number one rule number one of your comic
Don't fucking talk to me in that row. You know, you're not supposed to talk. You're a comic
There's nothing you got to say to me. I understand
Guess what I understand
There's nothing you got to say to me. Look at my body position. Look at the description of my eyes
Does it tell you in any form? I want to hear hello
Or a conversation from you when you're in a room where your last job is to listen, you know, yeah
Last night I was having a great time watching Justin Farmingdale. Whatever's
Martin Dale Martin Dale
Fuck this room up and some girl tapped me on the show. Can you do my show next?
I just want like that in my head like get the fuck out. Yeah. Yeah, that's not the you should know better
Don't even fucking say a word to me. I'm in here. I'm in the fucking seat. I'm getting butterflies in my stomach
I'm thinking about what I got to say. Maybe they're gonna give me something to play off of
Maybe she'll give me something to play off of and you want to come and tell me some story about
I'm really give a fuck. Once I'm in Mitzi shows row row
There's nothing I want to say to you when you walk by just put your hand down and get it. I get it
I'm ready to rock and roll down there. I'm not dead
Afterward, we'll take pictures and we'll talk and I don't take pictures of people before I go on stage anywhere
Anyway, because you catch a guy with stinky armpit and now you got to go on stage
He's got armpit on your armpit thinking about
Fucking the smell of that fucking garlic hippie fuck
On my own so there's no pictures before what uh, what dice calls being in the cage. Yeah, I'm in the cage
I've seen a lot of great people. What do you want to talk to people for when they were in that row?
They're not to talk about yeah when you see me in that back row. I
Purposely did that on purpose. I went down there an hour earlier
So I can sit in the back and watch the four economics in front of me and learn something
And learn how I'm gonna gauge my set for the fucking rest of the night. There's nothing I want to do
I don't want to hear about my mother. I don't want to hear that. Oh, you felt we found 10 million dollars that belongs to you
Tell me later. I don't give a fuck right now
I really don't
No, I I agree Matt. I 100% why uh, is what's the reason that you won't stay in the condo in la joya
When you were doing la joya comedy store
Does it have to do with a rat or is that a made-up story? The rat was number one
The rat was gigantic that I saw that david caught marillan's husband. Yeah under the bed
Oh, he caught under the bed. Yeah, he put a trap under the bed
Didn't somebody say it ran over their face while they were sleeping. I don't know and then from then on you were
No, no, no, and then I went outside one night to smoke a joint in the balcony
And I saw the rat in front of that was all the same weekend, but I can't sleep
I can't sleep with him too. I was no
Yeah, I remember I did you remember do I did remember we did christmas weekend
It was me you shampoosky and rena zeezy and you would drive down
For the shows and I rena zeezy was up and like you got a straight like they were worried you weren't going to show up
And it was like I don't know if it was it was like either your phone was off or you didn't have a force and like that
I didn't know where you were you showed up like 10 minutes before you were going up
That's it. You were in a white long sleeve shirt and you set up like a chinese food fucking
A meal in front of you. I was like this guy's got some confidence to eat
You had the white shirt to be eating across the street the chinese food was delicious
In lube the the keyboard is one of my favorite stories lube is hovering around you and he just keeps going
Those wontons look pretty good joey. Yeah. Yeah, and you're eating and you're eating you're trying to get to go up
What about those wontons kept saying the fucking wontons finally lube you want a fucking wonton you just asked me for
Yeah, I think I would like
And you went up. I remember you murdered it was uh, do you remember that that weekend? It was christmas weekend
It was empty
But you fuck I remember you murdered with some of the craziest material from your youth and I was like it's it was christmas eve
And you were saying some of the craziest shit, but you fucking slayed. I still remember that
That comedy store
The fucking comedy store in the hoi and this comedy store in hollywood. Just prepare you
Yeah, they give you this different mindset
They give you a different mindset all the way around
Because you're just worried about what's in front of you. Yeah, I got paul mooney in front of me. What do I give a fuck?
About your tuesday night show at some spaghetti restaurant in the valley
What made you think I even give a fuck about your restaurant?
I'm here watching paul mooney dying inside
Thinking about all the missed opportunities I had I could have been in the Hertz. I could have been in the Hertz management program right now
You know i'm saying I didn't need this
I could have been in the apple business with my uncle in wisconsin making millions right now
But no i'm sitting here at 12 30 on a tuesday night waits for paul mooney to get off
There's eight people that means he's gonna be four
And you want to ask me about a show next tuesday night at some spaghetti place. Get the fuck out of my face
All right. I'm trying to figure out how to pay the rent. This is way like
You know what i'm saying? Yeah, like this is it. That's the life of a comic. Yeah
Like it's the 29th. I gotta figure out how to pay rent and i'm fucking three days from now
The rent is 400. What am I like the whole way? I'm like the whole way and we're going into friday
I gotta come up with a yard stick of two for some cocaine
Plus, you know, I got an audition on tuesday plus. I gotta follow paul mooney right now. Yeah
I mean, there's nothing scarier than going that room and there's four people nothing you go. This isn't coming man
I know and then you go home beat up. Yeah
The soul is beat up
And you have to fucking snore coke and jerk off and look out a window and write
Fucking question your every decision
Only thing that makes that feeling going away is going up again in front of four people and doing well
It'll haunt you with that whole fucking time
You know people think that we're giving away fucking lottery tickets here like this is like
Come on stage. You're gonna get it in three years
Even if you do get in three years, you're gonna falter at the seven-year mark
Yeah, good luck
They're gonna put you in a position where you're not supposed to be in and your legs are gonna go out right from under you
They've seen it before and those people don't come back
The best thing that can happen to you is it takes 20 years to make it 20 years because you don't give up
You've prepared for everything. I prefer that's why I said to myself. Why am I fucking around with these other comments?
Like before I shot the netflix special
Which you'll see you'll go it's terrible. Why because I wasn't training at home
I was training at all the other clubs in the area
I should have been training at home. I should have been following whitney houston whitney coming
I should have been following christily every night bobby lee and rogan and jeff ross
You know, that's the environment you need to be in
When you're ready for it. It's like a u of c fighter. You got to train with the fucking black zillians and I
Let me tell you something. I was drawn into that comedy store and I wasn't ready for it
If you want me to lie and tell you I was ready for the comedy store. There's no way
She just liked me
She just liked me and I didn't fuck up
She just liked me, you know, she saw something
And the first year and a half the first two years, bro
Every time I left that place. I was like, well
That'll be my last spot there
That's a bad spot, you know, you know, yeah maker brett's break set every time
Because at that time the word on the street was that she had it bugged
And that she listened to it at home and asked those like me believed it
No, we we even heard that she said that she had hidden cameras and shit
We heard the same same thing even later, you know, I mean, so you if you ate a bag of dicks in the original
She wasn't there
You still heard about him like you couldn't wait to go in there on monday and bump into it by mistake
You know i'm saying it for her to go
I told you not to do that joke
And you're like, fuck
She saw me fucking do that joke. That was the thing about the economy start that time
That you're trying to develop you don't even know where your next meal's coming from. You don't know where rent is coming from
Yeah, but every time you got in your car, you're like
That might be my last side of the store jack. She might fucking hear about it. Those are dark days, man
Those are early
Where you're like I could be thrown out of here and then I would have nothing this is literally all I have
To say that I have a any sort of career or anything
Tell people like I was telling Lidia
That was she was around
Half the people in there that wouldn't be in there
Because there was no outside promotions. Yeah, yeah, it was a lot if you promoted on tuesday nights
Everybody you put on that list had to be a regular
You follow me like yeah, I didn't shine wouldn't be going up
You know like a lot of guys wouldn't be going up because she wouldn't allow it
You had to be a regular in her club
Broward's day and night
The fucking main room was packed
And she threw jade davey's out there. He's car
He's what and the people like but he sold out the room. I don't give a fuck
I mean that was the beauty of my bitch. You sure
That she didn't play that shit. Well, he's selling out rooms. He's not funny, but let's let him headline anyway
She didn't play that and that club was tanking. That's why I fucking that's why I fucking that's why
With all his bullshit. He won't go back there
That hurts to walk out of cladding stone get beat up. Yeah, that hurts. That's why sign for wouldn't go back in there
It's straight through a lot of people out of there
That's ptsd. Let's be sure die in a ptsd
Because she gave out a ton of ptsd to people
She shattered a lot of people. She shattered people. Yeah, that's why tell people don't go fucking around in there unless you you know what I'm saying
Yeah, Richard Pryor has an old joke. Don't go messing with them Jews and I don't know money
You know, that's the same thing down there. Don't go messing with them down there unless you got all your spots covered
I know I know your girlfriend told you you're the best comedian you ever seen
I know I know
You also paid a rent. Do you know? Yeah. Okay, then shut the fuck up
You know, you know
You have to know with your heart that you did this you did that
Yeah, I did this I fell apart at this level
I fell apart at this level because every time I was going to the store
There was a saturday and friday night lineup that I couldn't follow
AJ Jamal
Remember the name. Yeah, AJ Jamal and when I'd see fucking Dom are ever's name and I had to follow him
Dom's always
You know, and that was it and she was gonna be there there
She was gonna be there there so you would watch her and you would hope that any griffin would get her or one of the girls would get it
And steer her into the fucking original room
But if you seen her making her way to the main room your heart just fucking stopped you would just go like
And then she's sitting at bench and you'd go up there. That's the three jokes. You got a long 16 minutes, Jake
That's a long 16 minutes. We're having that fucking booth over there and she would light a candle so you could see her face
Yeah, so you could see how fucking how much either like you or hated you. So here's what here's what gets ugly. I bombed
Consistently
In the main room like I'm a big boy. I can tell you guys legitimately
Open that door. I'm getting anxiety
Oh my god, my fat little heart's gonna blow up like I love you never shake that shit
I love I love people who doubt me like every once in a while I get emails from people who have written something like
What's that page where people talk shit about you read it read it?
The other day somebody sent me a reddit thing and they were like Joey and Ari they're not good comedians
They just kissed the right rings and all this shit and I laugh at those statements
Because they have no idea
Like I started bombing in the original room talk
Listen, she made me a regular on the sunday. She put me in the original room on Monday
I got bummed by any griffin then I ate like a bag of dicks wednesday
How long did you be doing comedy at this time?
Square business. Yeah square business. I started in 91 and she made me a regular
In 97
But I was doing comedy from 93 full-time. Okay, so you weren't in it very it was so I was four years, but
I was a good four years like I was featuring on the road. Okay. Like I was legitimately featuring on the road
I had the power to walk in there
It's these motherfuckers that know I was already featuring on the road
I went in there via stand hopes thing now. I got out of my car on a monday a dinner
I took a shower with the al capucho
With the sycamore in the sycamore lounge. Yeah, that motherfucker used to be al capucho or you could eat a night and shit
I went to al capucho and I went right to the comedy store that monday night
And as I was walking in the comedy store
Eddie griffin and tumak from the movie
The black kung fu movie from the 90s that was popular the the the show gun of harland
He just died two or three years ago the guy in the last dragon the last dragon shuma
Leroy Bruce Leroy
Eddie griffin and Bruce lee where we're walking out my fucking head almost blew up
I'm like that's fucking any grip than Bruce Leroy. I saw Don Barris wheels is up there talking
Lies behind the store
He had a show with dama rara
Never forget that through the grace of god substance somebody went up there and remembered me
I think it was james stevens deterred
and on that monday night
Somebody pulled on barris over there was maybe two people in the original room
And somebody talking about barris until let me go up there
And I went up there thinking I was at the garden boys
and it was
Eight minutes of just
death
death
My timing was off. Yeah, a couple comics came up to me and consoled me. Ah, that's the worst
Hey, man, don't worry about it. It was you know, it was all right. It was pretty good. You were great. Yeah
Come back next monday. I'm like, yeah, come back to my ass
And then I got I became a regular within the month
But my point is this the main room and I have no reason to lie to you guys because you guys working there
I ain't ass in there
From 2000 no from 97
To 2002 or three
And then I figured something out
I figured out that I had to attack them the same way I attacked them in the
No, or in the or forget that mr. Nice guy shit
Yeah
So when you saw ours in street fight or ours in street always has been the old days the cowboys used to go down
And then the quarterback would go hot and they would all bounce up and go down again
And that second bounce meant they were coming to kill you. Yeah, that's the old one
I was going into your main room thinking
You know because you hear don't be mean
There was a dress code too. They're like midsy you got to dress up if you're doing the main room
Yeah, you're wearing a fucking collared shirt. Like it was a different set of rules
So I didn't think I could be me
Like I didn't think I could do what I was doing the original room in the main room
That main room does have that vibe though. That's that vibe where you're like, ah, I better not do this joke
It's maybe a little too dirty for the fucking main room
But it's also like a big brother who beats you up for 10 years straight
They keep getting you with the overhead right one day you actually just go
And you go, oh, shit the second time he does you go. Oh, shit
Now every time he throws that punch
I'm gonna come in and come in there with a left a one two and a kick
Once I went like this and figured out the main room
Oh
And it was about
2003 in the summer
So it took me
Six years
It took me six years of beating dicks the original room was some completely different. Yeah, I already had it down the original room
I was hosting. I knew every looking kick ready to see everything that I knew every trick
I knew everything. Yeah, I'm not up there saying to hell. Let's give a raw applause for the troops
No, kill you use the cheat codes for that room. Yeah, you need you need the fucking but the main room was something different
And it took me three years
To learn how to just grab the mic
And just tell them all to suck my dick
Like I saw you I started seeing the main room in 04. I am sick and fucking tired of getting beat up
Like I'm sick and tired to get beat up. I was like farah forced in the burning bed
Remember when he beat her up the last time that she let him on fire?
Like I'm not getting beat up in the original room
Ever in the main room ever again. I made a decision
I remember used to be like take your fucking sticks out of your asses people. Yeah, I made a decision that that is it
I'm gonna bomb but I'm gonna let these motherfuckers know who I am because I read a thing
Written by the casting director of the godfather 2 and nanny brask when he goes auditions enough for you to book a job
Auditions are you for to be to be remembered?
And I'll never forget that I go. Why can't I do that in stand-up comedy?
I don't have to be the funniest guy in the room, but if I let my ballsack on fire, they're gonna remember me
I like my balls on fire that motherfucker had no sense of humor at all
But when he lit his balls on fire, it was pretty funny
Especially they were putting the extinguisher smoke on and he was all white and shit
You're gonna remember that guy the rest of your life every party you go to you're gonna tell him
But the guy little self on fire
So once I started thinking out of the box like that in the main room like these people are better than me
You follow me like yeah, absolutely the original room was like the people who I could deal with they don't pay rent
They do drugs and you feel you could you're smuggling their own booze in there
You're like booze in there, but the main room are uppity uppity. Yeah once I started attacking them
It was a game changer
It's crazy how long it takes you to figure that stuff out like everybody
Like it just seems now when you look back you're like, what the fuck took me
But who right now was at home listening to this podcast
That's saying seven years Joey. Fuck you. I might as well become an attorney and get paid. Oh, yeah
That's true. Go to med school. Yeah a lot of all the shit. I could do it
Yeah
And by the way, if if if you don't have a fucking burning passion
This is the only thing you could do
Please become that attorney because it's gonna be a better lifestyle for you
I started going up so hard
In the main room
So fucking hard. I started going up
There was a time period where I was just going off in the main room in 1145
And then they were gonna get holt'sman again at 145 by that time. They weren't they were gonna either be in therapy
I was just going off. I was just going off holt'sman in the main room is uh
It's pretty fucking
I was just going that's what what what's taught me from watching him in the main room. I got memorable
He's not going up there playing games. Why are you going out there playing games? But let me tell you the truth
What happened one year one year was the holidays
It was that week after christmas before new years. Yeah, where there's a lot of action at the store
And I fucking win the original room when I came out there like dog. There's nobody here. You gotta go up in the main room when I'm like
I don't want to go up in the main room. Like I just had tears in my eyes. These are the real white people
Like these people are the ones that are here for christmas that go to the ball games
Yeah, they were in there fucking wiskons and sweaters. That's the worst week. I hate that week
They're really really white and then you know family. I mean and there was listen to me it was
945
And there was no comic staff in the main room
No
Comics at all for the baby
So you ready for this one? That's when people you like you find out that there were comics there and they're fucking
They're up in up in the belly room. They're making themselves scarce. So they come grab me
And my fat little heart is beating mitzvah sitting in there
And there's got to be sold out there and my fat little heart is beaten
And as I make the turn into the main room mitzvah, and I make believe I don't even acknowledge her
I don't want her even going into my mind
Eh, nothing. I just walked right past her like fuck this bitch
And as I got to the fucking door guys
Who's walking in?
Who who could possibly ruin any griffin worse?
At that time who's walking in it's two nights after christmas
It's 10 o'clock. There's no comedians in the building and either I go next
Or I follow somebody
Yes, who just walked in the building and looks at me and goes
Chris rock
So I was at the point where okay, so he's at the main room
So either I gotta go up or I gotta follow Chris rock
Okay, this is it now. I've been bobbing for seven fucking long years
I gotta either go up and die in front of mitzvah or follow Chris rock. What are you dying?
You're dying so I never forget. You know that step you go down to you walk in you pay your 15 dollars
You walk into the main room
Then there's like a little step and there's like a dip and then you have to go up. Yeah, I fell
I fell that's it
400 pound
I'm 370
I'm doing a pound of coke a day
I take out a table and do it at contents like the people are like
Fucking taking the drink often like I see Chris rock and I just walk
I just keep walking. I'm from bam and I just fall. I got jitter on my shoulder
You know, and I'm dying inside that walk in those days
I couldn't even get up like the breathing like I had a breathing issue
Yeah, and I was and I was getting anxiety
And now I got to walk up those little two steps to get to the main room thing and then walk to the main room
I don't know who the fuck was on it. It was somebody who was spotless clean
And I fucking went up there
I couldn't I prayed to the Jesus, please let him do one more minute so I could catch my breath
Because I don't even have the breath
To walk out to the thing my knees starting to swell from the fall
I took
My elbows bleed the fucking table still wiping the gin off their faces
Now Chris now I looked at the curtain and Chris rock is fucking sitting next to mitzy
Oh, that could get worse yet. Oh shit. Oh, how could this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this?
I just want to do comedy and not go to jail
Now you're trying to tell me Chris rock is sitting next to mitzy sure hugging it up
And I got to go out there. That's what you're trying to tell me and guys
I just went left there and I avoided them
I looked to the right
It's to the left
And I just went off
I didn't come to till about the 13th
And by that time it looked like a massacre had gone up
I just leveled that fucking room. I just went off
I told him about all my beeps god knows and I told him about shitting on the weak grass
God knows what came out of my mouth
All I know is that when Chris rock went up when I broke like all I remember is getting up there
That initial surge of adrenaline and anxiety
And then I just remember seeing that red light
And going oh my god if I could just squeeze out one moment in the material. This is the perfect set
Yeah, this is the perfect set
I squeezed it out. I took a bow
They fucking went crazy when I broke Chris rock up
Chris rock is like, I don't know what the fuck I just saw like he was just complimenting me
Yeah, and my wife saw that and what the time was my girlfriend
And I remember walking up that stage and going
I just don't know what just happened
Like whatever happened happened because I was possessed by a spirit
And I walked out of there and I never ever ever thought about it again
So I shot the longest shot and he reminded me
Oh, really?
Yeah, fuck
He's like what was on your shirt?
No, he goes he said something to me about that night because I never forgot that night. Are you fucking?
And he don't say much no offstage. No, he doesn't say much
I've been at the back door with he and I for 15 minutes like five feet from each other
And not a word not a word not a peak so for him to say to me the first day at the table read
It was the first day of the table read
He gave me five and he goes man. I never forgot that set that night. You didn't give a fuck
Because he goes homie went off
That's the kept saying you went off
You just went off. I don't know what you were on. I go nothing. I was just pissed off
And embarrassed because I either had to follow you. I was in a dire slow death
Any way you put it they just told me to jump off the cliff or jump off the bridge
That was the option I had there, you know
Fuck that's crazy. That's great. You I mean, I remember though
You were like that you were the guy though. Like when we were coming up like people were like, I gotta follow Joey Diaz
Okay, I'll take my dick out. No, no, but no people. I mean, but you were a power out
Now were you the night when you did a night where the chick took a pussy out?
For which night? Yeah, we've been there many a night
My favorite night at the stall was the first time I took my dick out up there and I got in trouble didn't get banned
But I got in trouble because I was there and I was watching
I was watching and she a girl was drunk and she kept insulting all the comedians
And I went over to the side and I'm like this girl's too pretty to be insulting comedians and she was on stage
It wasn't don was don doing no
No, this is friday. Oh, this is okay
11 o'clock and I had an 11 45
And they started jacking it up like at
11 they started tormenting comics
And she was really pretty. I remember walking over to the side going. Why is that pretty girl?
Heckling the fucking god, I didn't know the dynamic the comedy clubs
I didn't know that women went out and got drunk to get attention and they yelling shit
So I didn't understand the dynamic of it and she kept saying something then she said something to somebody you want to see my titties
And I fucking got pissed off. I'm like fucking ten girls don't come to show shows dead titties
And I never forget I had about seven dollars in my pocket. I was scratching
The fucking I needed a fucking shot of coke jack. I had like seven dollars in my pocket
I couldn't borrow money from my wife. I couldn't borrow money from anybody
I'm like, what am I gonna do to make money tonight? I'll never forget I went up to the stage
And I go before you fucking say a word lady
Don't say a fucking word. I don't want to see your fucking titties
Unless you're gonna come up here and show me that fucking pussy. Don't say two fucking words
And this chick got up. She goes, I am gonna go up to show you my pussy the place was sold out
She fucking walks on the stage. She grabs a man. She goes, I'll show you my pussy if you take out your cock
And I go deal
And the place fucking erupted and she took off her shirt first
She fucking take the heels off
And then she took a pass down to her ankle and she faced the audience and even opened up a little noodle
She had a little wine ahead going down and I was like, I'm like, fuck this
And I took my dick out and started dancing in front of her
And next thing you know, I remember that there was people watching from the outside window
They had all come into the sides
And rogan and bobby lee were throwing money at me. I remember I kept picking up every fucking point
I was like, that's my cock money
And I remember like that monday at mitzy called me
What happened?
I went mitzy
She fuck is
I was coerced. No, I told her I was coerced. I told her she challenged my honor
That's medieval times over here mitzy loved all that shit. She loved that talk
Okay, what are you talking about? She told she took out a pussy and she said that I was a fucking nothing if I didn't take out my dick
She said that. Yeah
Okay, I'm gonna take my dick out no more
It's crazy though. Sometimes like that's the kind of shit you have to do to survive
A set in those late night spots
Sometimes you have to fucking sometimes it has to turn into a circus
I don't forget complaining one night
at the great brian holstered
I go, what the fuck am I doing up here in my life on a wednesday night waiting to do a
115th spot
and hopefully those
We don't want to do it
Put a sign out in the front. It's the only people sign up that spot hundreds if not more
They put it into perspective for me and I was like, okay. Yeah
Like I fucking get it like that was
That was very that that put everything in and then I I don't care what spot I go up, you know, yeah
I was always very lucky to be
Like at that time the last factory was the hot club
But I didn't give a fuck. I didn't want to be at the last factory. I thought the last factory was mbc or something
No, I mean when we go how many times I open mic'd it like I think twice you have to wait outside for like six hours
And then you'd go up and this guy back in the day this guy. I think his name was harvey
You would sit at a fucking school desk on the stage with you and if you even got to approaching edgy language
What?
Whoa, wait a second time out like that's my
They would fucking jump the mic on you. Oh my god. You're fucking. Oh my god, harvey. That's right
Because jamie said you have you got to work clean. Otherwise, you'll never work
That's right. He told me the same thing. He gave me a lot of doing they threw me out of there the first
Fuck that because that was the first open mic. I went to the commie store ruin day
And the last factory was tuesday and they stood on line all day
What's his name drops off water for you?
No, brother woods. No, no other woods
The the white comic the one that always touches his head
He's jewish. He plays the piano on stage. I got problems. He's like I talked to my psychiatrist
I don't know Richard. Whatever his name is. He would drip. Oh
Yeah, he's in uh, Kirby and louis. Yeah. Yes. Oh, oh, Richard Lewis would come. Oh, really?
I never saw. Yeah, he wasn't there. Richard Lewis would drop off water
He was a really good guy. You better bring your suntan lotion if you want to go
Wait out there, man. One of the people would drive up and down sunset. Everyone you know, they'd see you fucking sick
It was right there. So I did it one time. I did it one time
He told me not to come back. So I never came back and then the impromptu gave me love right off the back of the Latino night
Yeah, calling for the schedule. So I started calling. I had no beefs there. So the ha ha, right? You were at the ha ha what? No, no
I didn't get to the ha ha
To the ha was a fucking valley
Oh, yeah, I mean that was I lived in hollywood. It was the club
My business is hollywood. You were gardener, right? Yeah, what's I was gardener. I was gardener and
Yeah, you were out there right across the street
I don't do gardener and everything I did was around garden. I went to karate school in the corner
You were the one that got that guy had the fucking uh, a little sports car with a dragon
Take it on the hood with a ponytail and back to mccanae had the garages behind those buildings where he has his garage
Because he collects some type of cars. Was it you? Oh wait, who told us Ralphie may who told us that you
Ralphie may and you used to fuck with mccanae mccanae had his car collection back there
Who was was that bird? No, I don't know. I don't know you got Ralphie used to scream out there
That was a great mccanae all the time until mccanae like lost his shit
You know, you really think of it like that and so that name was 99. You ready?
It was josh wolf on
Vista
It was one street over Ralphie may on gardener
It was nick de palo and mitch hamburg on syro bonita and jesus and dungstay hope lived on cursa
There's a consecutive blocks. Okay. That was all consecutive blocks and these guys. I would see all these guys
We would see each other at rouse rouse that rouse is all fucking comics the place across the street with it
The headshots. Oh, yeah, I think I died and he left the asian wife
That was really cute and then she closed it up eventually. He was like an older man with an asian wife
She was very sweet. That's where we got our headshots. I got my hand cut there
I did everything in that vicinity that hotel. What's the name of that hotel? It's like sunset hotel or some bullshit
motherfucker
I lived in that in that neighborhood when the hamburgers stand was still there and the pimps used to hang out there
Then they did that's
American was that where that bar is now or something. There's something there
What's the two brothers did a movie in 2000 about pimps american?
American jiggler was a american pin or something. Yeah, I know what you're talking about
The Hughes brothers the documentary about pimps. Yeah. Yeah, I know you're talking about that's one like pimp culture mechanic
It was really good. Yeah, and it exposed that hamburger place that hamburger place
We walked past the hamburger place right on the sunset right in between rock and roll routes
And el compadre. Yeah, what's that hamburger stand? Then they closed it. It was closed for years and god knows
It's
It's not the gas station
But it's that little mall next to the gas station that gas station is not a gas that was a tire place
It's a tire place now
But it was a gas station and the guy ran it for his father by himself
So I would stand by the corner and wait for him to go outside and pump gas for people
And I would go in and grab a soda and stick my hand behind the counter and take a pack of cigarettes any cigarettes
He would let me charge the sodas on the arm and fucking like candy cakes
That's a great day, but like that was no, I don't know it's different now
I mean remember he's changed when I when I live there. There were stills a little bit of criminal element
I remember there was a night. What night did what year did you live there? I lived there?
I lived there my whole time. I moved out just this past year
So what year did you get from like 2003 so you were we at 98?
There were pimps and hookers
So it was that was like starting to leave when I went there that was
Pimping hooker though. We did see a lady uh get abducted. Yeah
Some guy was trying to shove her in his truck kidnap her and we look out the window because he had a bay window that overlooked
We were just screaming and we see this guy dragging this lady and she got away. We were like what the fuck
And somebody robbed uh
Yeah, this chick at gunpoint. We were watching tv in my living room. This girl knocks on my window
I go these fucking idiots always leave their keys. I lived in the front of the building
I go just ignore it. We were watching tv and I hear please let me in please you're crying and I go
Oh, shit. I'll open the door. She's like, we were just robbed at gunpoint. Uh, they took our phones or wallets and fucking right outside
Watching tv. It's happening two feet from us
And we would walk that neighborhood like nothing at night because we would cross
Your building. Yeah, we'd walk behind that whole
The whole sunset to avoid the cops and then we walked behind Sierra Bony with her son
And those days the 7-11 sell sold be it or two. Yeah, so we would try to catch we'd be fucked up
There was a liquor store there on the corner. Yeah, I started to walk and coked up to the gills
To that fucking liquor store, but I still remember knocking on Ralphie's door
99 and then telling me that I pimp knocked on this door the night before and asked him who was looking for companionship
Gee door to door pimping. That's impressive. Wow to work at they killed the hooker
Once they murdered the hooker on that corner, then they cleaned up that whole neighborhood
There was a night I was because I had the big the big windows went from my living room
But in my bedroom too and I lived right on gardener and I was always scared of on the ground level
Someone's gonna throw a fucking brick through that window. My bed was right there. And so I like two
Something in the morning. I came home from the store
I'm going to sleep and I was like in that state where you're like kind of asleep
But kind of not and I heard someone say give me your fucking money
Give me your fucking money, bitch. And so I go. Oh, shit. I spring up. I have like, uh, you know the curtains
I open them up. I see this guy fucking punch this woman in the face in the street
Like, oh, shit. I get on the phone. I call 911 like sir. Can you see I'm like like 30 feet?
Like you got to get here and I see a fucking
Helicopter come in hit him with the fucking light and in my mind. I'm like, oh, shit. I called that in and uh
So I don't I don't I can't see what happens
They like go like they like keep going and like five minutes later
Ari Shafir texts me and that fucking weirdo. He followed the west Hollywood police like their twitter page or something
He's like cops just came your block. Uh, I got arrested for having a gun
It was a pimp shaking down a fucking hooker had a gun on him got arrested
It was like, yeah, two in the morning. It's fucking crazy. Yeah, they pushed all those hookers down further like
They started clearing out what west Hollywood and just started pushing them down towards like western
We were getting high one night me
And a girl and another girl was snorting coke and the first floor a garden that we're going deep
It's got to be five in the morning
And all of a sudden we're sitting there and we're here
You've been sucking my dick for 20 minutes and all I got is teeth
Sucked that dick correctly and we're like looking at each other. We thought like somebody threw their voice in the room like
We felt like like all of us like did you just say that who invited Jeff Dunham?
And we looked outside and the guy was out there with this hooker on the hands and knees
Sucking the guy's dick. He's like, I just told you stop using your teeth, bitch
That's how fucking nuts
That name was all right off gardener too if you went down towards like uh, Santa Monica
It was called Vasley now. Yeah, that's trannyville. Yeah, they'll fuck you the ass astro burger. Yeah, that's what they give an astro slide
That's why that that was the vastly now that's invested. Oh, yeah
They used to be a bar a restaurant across the street from there
When we first got to LA if you didn't want to go to rock and roll denny's
Stand home
We'd go there for breakfast. They had a back you could smoke cigarettes
And they used to keep it open at night and somebody got
Raped in there or something then they had to close the place like we used to go to restaurants where play a woman got raped in there
like a guy got raped
We went in there the next day the place is closed. We got to close it out too many rapes around there that night
They were like, yeah, the place is gonna be some deals today. The place was used for
Fuck denny's. I need that cheddar cheese. I'd rather eat the rape place. This rape place is run by like Hawaiians
Come to rapy's diner and they had like the best
The best breakfast on that neighborhood
But at night it was like doubled as a bar. I never went to the bar
But I guess some guy it was like a rapey place for guys
They were starting raping guys and then guys are going they get lower today and get fucked in the ass
It was their new marketing campaign
Your dude looking to rape another dude
Everyone around the corner from right there and he bravo. Did he? Oh, he did. I remember. Yeah
And he bravo lived a block down some from astro burger right there on the corner
You all you got to do is walk 25 yards next to a body shop
Is that why I got into jiu-jitsu teaching self-defense for the Hawaiian restaurant? That was crazy done there
And now you nuts met at the store. That's the first time you've met
Yeah, and what possession become a comedy writing team
Uh
Basically the spots at the store were like we're not gonna make it as comics doing this shit
You know, you couldn't get like I mean basically doing stand-up was just trying to display your writing ability more or less
You know
And so I came out here because I wanted to write movies which you know was kind of uh, what are you majoring?
Uh, well, so I didn't go to I went to college when I was like 21
Because my mom really wanted me to go to college, but I was selling cars. I was racing cars and I thought hey
This is it
But then I got an accident that shit didn't work out for me
And I was like, I don't want to sell cars the rest of my life. There's no way
So I was I enrolled in this film school
In uh, Chicago and then after that I did my last semester out here in LA
And then literally after school ended I just I did stand up my first open mic at the comedy store
and then uh, I just I was writing movies
I met him and we started writing movies together and uh, we we haven't gotten a movie made yet
What's your process? I mean for writing. Yeah, you guys have a process more or less. Do you?
Uh, I mean it's tough. Um
In terms of like some do like whenever we have meetings people would always ask like how how do you write because so many
When there's two people some people write like one writes and then they hand it off to the other guy
We always would write together
We used to sit right we used to literally sit right next to each other
and then like literally type and then talk
Like literally right next to each other on a couch
And just look watch the screen and do it
But then we started doing like screen sharing and stuff like that the technology
Yeah permitted that you can sit on your own couch
But you know like and we were so deep in that but the industry has changed but man we can't god we're we're close on a lot of
A lot of things we could always get a good agent or a good manager because we always had good material
But it was just like you know, it's like everything shifts at one point
They're looking for this and you have something like that
But by the time you get everything set up and go into pitch they're on to something else and so I don't know
I think at this point, you know
You're just tired of playing the game and like the more shit that you can just do on your own without having to
rely upon a studio or
Anybody a network to like get your shit out there. I mean, you know, it's like doing do your own specials or doing your own thing
Man, it's uh, it's so weird. It's a movie business. You make a good movie now. That's great
But guess what there's a lot of people that make a good movie
You gotta make three or four good movies to get people to pay attention to you know
Comedy you get one good special one shitty special, you know what you need all of them to be good because
so
I think writing
Is a beautiful thing that i'm horrible at like i'm horrible at it, but
I like it because you control your own destiny. Absolutely. You can write shit put it away
Keep tuning it up and then that tide comes back. It's like the guy who had what was that
Showing abc about the whims and the one block and
That was like a script he had for fucking 10 years
There's a lot of guys like that and they go into a pitch meeting and they go. What else you got?
That's that's the only say that to every fucking minute. You'll pitch them a whole fucking
Think you spend three months together working out this pitch every word every fucking joke
You do it all for them there. I you know, you can tell they're really not paying attention. What else you got
I just what about the fucking thing I just gave you that I spent three months of my life
I'll think about that. But what else are you working on right now?
I'm working on this and that's when you you know, how long have you guys been writing together. I mean
Oh
Three is like when we say, you know, it was it took a while for us to kind of like get good material together
It's crazy that like oh three you started. What are we 17?
Like so 18 whatever the fuck so that means you guys been writing together for 15 years
Yeah, so in about two years one of you'll look at the other one. You know what you're the kiss of death
You know I'm saying we can't put together nothing. Let's split and all of a sudden a month later
We're gonna call. Hey, we had a meeting with you three years ago when you gave us the script
I just got an offer for 600,000. Do you have anything else? And you're like, yeah, hold on. Let me call him back on the phone
That's what happens. Oh, yeah, it's you know, it's waiting for the miracle to happen
And that's the crazy thing about writing is like people like, you know, if you look at the career
It's like what what they don't see is all this great things that you have written that haven't gone anywhere
Or are still waiting they don't people don't realize like the process
Even if you even if you had a show now and it got picked up
It's gonna be three four years before it fucking even debuts if you have to deal with all the development
Then you go casting then there's pilots and there's test screens and it's all this shit. It's a fucking nightmare. Yeah
It's you know, it's amazing that anything ever gets made when we just anytime any lawyer gets involved like even
We've done shit on the web. It takes
forever for four months five months forever
I mean, yeah, the last thing we had six months for just just lawyers to agree
Um, I'm specific wording. Okay. I don't like this wording and I go back on that for fucking two three weeks
And like you're just sitting there. You're like, I need a fucking check man like agree
But like they're just like no and it just gets crazy
But this town for me, I think for both of us been great
Kicking you in the balls
But like right like a day after you get kicked in the balls
You find a dollar bill and it always gives you something to stay around keeps you in the game. Yeah, just enough
To be like, well, this is light this light at the end of the tunnel
Even look at like leslie jones who got fucking what you got on snl at 47 48
48 years old
So it's like leslie jones on snl at 47 years old
Oldest we just cast member we worked through with her in 2012 on this thing we had and like I mean
Yeah, I mean she's like wouldn't return our call our manager because she's always like bill collectors coming
So fun. She's like, oh, I didn't know his opportunity
And then yeah, and we just did this little thing with her and like
Yeah, I mean she was just like happy to do like she's like, yeah, fuck. Yeah, man like
Nobody's coming to me to do shit. She was a she was a powerhouse comic though. She was slay
She was tougher than fucking males, man. It's the thing that just goes to show you even if you like there's guys that go
I mean you for it. Also like you were just fucking
You would crush but you have to be like the darling of the industry
You got it. You got to check all the boxes. You got to have the look
You got to be able to go on tv
Like if you're doing what you do and being you a lot of times that involves like
Some sometimes you're gonna interact with the crowd
Sometimes you're gonna do like but they want shit that they can throw on tv
You got to do
quick jokes
That people will get right away if you want to do its night show in order to build you up in order to do this
It's it takes a lot longer when you're just trying to be you
But look what happened with the internet
Yeah, I mean, okay when I got here. I was too old
I wasn't I didn't fit the type not clean it was it was very gut wrenching for the first two or three years and very frustrating
Because I had I didn't have one of the qualities they were looking for
Not one of the qualities that they were looking for
But I had one quality that kept me here. I was on to something
I wasn't funny
I was on to something
And that's why mitzi kept giving me spots. I was on to something. Do you know what I'm saying?
I didn't fit that. You know what when I got here all these non funny good-looking guys were getting deals
Good-looking guys getting deals that had three minutes of material
And couldn't hold their own at the county store. I remember one guy in particular
He looked like steve reams
Had died and come back to life 20 times better than him. This guy was gorgeous
I forget what his name was every time he walked through a comedy club. He had two jews with him
That's how much they protected his investment. This guy was a guarantee fucking
television star
And one night they made a fucking crucial mistake
They set up a showcase for him at the county store
Like a benefit and he had to follow dice
And I'll never forget that he fell apart at the seams and I never saw that guy again
that man
You know, so I knew I had one thing going for me that I had I was on to something
And number two I was at the store
So, you know what you don't want me to go to montreal because you think I'm too dirty. I don't fit your little scheme
Really doesn't matter to me. You don't want me for comedy central. It doesn't matter to me
I'm at the store
I'm over there. I may not be with the gambinos, but I'm with the lukezis and we're picking up steam
We just we just we just figured out how to fucking hook up with cocaine
So we're picking up fucking steam
Within a year, we're gonna have three million then we can battle up against you. So that's how I always
looked at it looked dimmer
Every year it looked dimmer like once 2000 came in 2001
It looked like I didn't have a chance, but then they told you you have a
If you book television, you have a chance
So I booked a pilot. Nothing happened. I booked baseball. Nothing happened. I booked a deniro movie
I was already with that one. I was already getting the fucking suit to walk into
Nothing happened. So all that shit was bullshit
So it's like every year they rewrote the rules on you
To what you need to do to get to that next level and also you think like oh once I get in at cAA or
We were at one of the big agencies and they didn't do anything for it
I mean, then you realize now you're the lowest guy on their fucking roster and now
People say well, where'd you guys come from? We came from cAA or we came from ICM
Well, I'm joe schmulp and fucking willard hills
If they couldn't do that for you. Yeah, what do you think I'm gonna do? What am I gonna do fiend?
So now you're on your own and you're pretty much shot. But see I believe in something completely different
I believe that now you have the internet. Yeah, absolutely. I believe that now you have the internet
You know what you want to book you got it. You want to read right you could write and he booked that motherfucker
You want to shoot sketches or something like that? I mean, yeah, you could fucking go out there and look for money and beg for money and
Get $50 on the go-go account or whatever the fuck. That's not what you want to fucking do
You want to shoot videos or something keep the money low?
But to shoot that you got to use either actors that are known or actors that have internet presence
Every fucking day there's a new web series and what happens?
They go down to pizza. No, why because number one you never told nobody about it. You didn't prepare them
You didn't prepare it. You didn't let them know it was coming
You put it on this guy's facebook page and waited for us to sell itself
Web series could do great in this economy because i'm going to work
I would love to be able to watch a seven minute clip
Five days a week every day at work with a fucking ending on friday
I would love to have that and every it comes out every fucking day at 6 a.m
So basically all you're doing is shooting 10 episodes
And cutting them into seven minute clips five days in a row
That would fucking kill right now. Yeah, that's what we I mean, that was what our when we first started doing stuff
We did stuff with the run as easy. We did a web series. We did a couple seasons of it
And it was a big hit like I mean, you know if you can get half a million or a million views on something
It's fucking I mean you're doing as well as comedy central is doing
And so, I mean, yeah, that's where it's just kind of like
You just got to do everything yourself now. It's like we everything is yourself. We thought here's the beauty of it
Here's the thing that nobody really understands
That you do everything yourself since day one
True at the end when they ship you in that casket. You're like my agent was great
But all he did was piggyback the seeds that I planted
You always have to plant seeds. That's why that's why there's such a high failure rate here
Because people sign with an agent they think that's it the end all be all not me
I bought backstage every fucking wednesday if it was at that curse on and 7 11 at 455
It was at my house at five o'clock
By eight in the morning the next morning. I had my envelope soft for student films
You follow me that was different to me and everybody else that by that. Yeah, and guess what?
I throw those envelopes coked out to the guild
I'd be snorting coke
Right in fucking residence in the envelope fucking putting it in the envelope
But I ate them next morning as coked up as I was I mailed those fucking things
So even though the agent kept telling me no, you're not going to get in for this. No, okay
Let's just see because the casting director's job is to get the job done and get the job cast
She doesn't need more politically more fire. You're the one for that movie
Sending your own audition tapes not talking shit
There's there's money in this town. There's money at every different level
You guys are a cut hair away from being millionaires
You have a cut hair away. You're great writers. I like your stuff. You're a little out there
You're a little bit fucking crazy
It's just hanging in there. Yeah, you've seen the people around you grow. Have you not?
Yeah, yeah without a doubt. I know you says 2003 it's 2000 whatever I would see Ari at Ralph's
When he when Ari lived on sunset
And and he'd have a fucking car full of meat and what the fuck are you doing?
He was buying
Meat that was like expiring or like on that day
For very cheap and he would freeze it all
Because he was like 30 pounds of meat. So he was so he was so broke that he was buying fucking old meat
To freeze and I mean now I look at Ari now and he's a fucking
It's a little different. What's the difference that he did was he
He finally stopped playing the game. Yeah was that's that's what that's it. That's it someday. You got to wake up
You go. Hey, what am I doing playing this fucking game? It's like I told you I'm listening every week. I got an email guys
Every week I get that one email
Okay
And it's a how you doing and see the mister
Or we love your podcast it starts off fucking complimentary of shit
And then it goes into I'm shooting blah blah blah
We'll love to have you on this product project and you
Sometimes you click the link sometimes you say you can't whatever
The shit that comes my way is so fucking bad
And you know when you read it, you know by the structure
Yeah, like I know as soon as I see structure, you're done. This is no better. Well, you've read so I mean
That's the thing actors know
No, I see like I got one a couple weeks ago
There's a lot of dough attached, but I read the thing and I go this ain't no
How much will you read before you're like, I know this sucks four pages. Yeah five pages. Do you stop or do you read?
You're like, that's it. I'll come back later on. I'll think about what I read
Yeah, I become back later on but I know in the first year four pages
What it's something that's what I want to do. Yeah, like I
Was with a guy that we were trying to pitch something
And I would talk to him. I would this is very difficult
I would talk to him and explain to him what I wanted and what I didn't want to do
He came back with this whole thing. He started telling me all these movies. He referenced. I fucking hate it
So all this shit he had so in the middle of the night pitches
I go, I don't want to do it because that's not what I want to do
Then what do you want to change? This is what I have to change. This is what I you know, I just know
I've been here long enough. So I know you know how many mob things I've read
I'm sure yeah
I believe mob things I read after the surprise those
When the surprise those are getting ready to get off the end you have the idea. I believe mob things
I'm sure everything that was ever going into production came through here. No idea. You have no idea
So I know the first four or five pages
I know
You know like you just know you hate being judgmental, but you got to look at the time
Yeah, it's how you spend on fucking and I gotta look at what that move is going to do for me guys
I'm gonna get no young if I was 32 I'd do it in the heartbeat
What is it gonna do to me acting next to this, you know acting next to this guy?
This guy's no got no IMDB. What am I gonna gain from this?
Not gonna gain that you're just taking me away from your family and make me do something
I don't want to really do or you're not gonna lift the rock and at this point even if you lift the rock
I really don't want to do it. It's not it's not gonna be good because your heart's not at it
I really don't want to do it attached to it. You got other revenue too. I mean you got stand up. You got you know
I mean, it's not like you fucking know, but I remember I got disenchanted with acting years ago
Like once I saw first of all, I was I never came here from Broadway
So I'm not that guy, but I did enjoy it. I did like it as a you know
What's his name said that
Whatever is enthusiasm when you go from field to field. I love doing stand up. Guess what? I don't want to do it 52 weeks a year
I remember even back in the day. You were like, I gotta get off planes. You were like, I'm done
You're like, I don't do Sunday shows. Yeah, and I gotta get the fuck out of here. Yeah, they know I paid my dues
So, you know, it's like, uh
But it keeps me fresh. I love doing stand up. But as far as
typing 10 years ago
I think a little after the longest yard by 2007
I was done with acting unless you come at me what's and
And I decided that like I was getting all this shit thrown at me
YouTube stopped this and I was like, I don't want to do none of this stuff
And I made a mental note just to put no then they offered me grudge
Match which sucked
But it still gave me a level up. Yeah. Yeah, that's like we're acting opposite to the hero, you know
So I don't mind doing those things that's gonna help me a level up
I get to experience different people
But to be honest at this point in my life to work with like something three days
I got to drive to Kalamazas
I can't shoot my podcast. You're gonna get enough
Like you gotta get it. No, I can't do it. I'm not even interested
Yeah, it's so fun. I'm weird
But my heart goes out to you guys because I know you've been in the fucking game
In the trenches all it is is sticking with it. That's all it is
And also if you've adapted your life like my lifestyle is so cheap now
I can live off anything like it. You don't give a fuck if they pay it. It's like a cherry on the sundae
Yeah
The most important thing is that you love what you do and you didn't get trapped back and fucking
You know still sweeping at the whole town
You didn't get trapped back in Boston. What the fuck you came from do what you didn't want to do
That's the shit that's the most important about being out here
It's keeping that dream alive and also once you get a certain age and all your friends that do have money
And they're just like all they ever want to hear is the stories of what you've been up to because they got there's nothing
Like they have money now
But it's like can't go anywhere because they're working all the time
Can't do anything two weeks out of the year that they want to go on vacation
They're too tired from their job the whole year to fucking want to go anywhere probably like the man said
It's better to want
than to have
I agree sometimes I fucking agree. It's better to want
Than to have that's why you better fucking think about it really good
You know because one day they might come to you danish and on nail and go. Hey, we love that sitcom idea
And for eight out for eight years
For 30 weeks out of that year you're working 14 hour days
I mean you hear a lot of fucking, you know comics act whatever and they're like my glory days or when I was struggling
creatively
I mean obviously money-wise and all that but well, yeah
I mean we even know like just of stuff we've worked on and then you start getting notes and you're like man
This was so much more fun when we were just writing shit that we wanted to write all this shit
I could give a friendship to fuck about
if I could turn the clock back
And get to sleeping on Ralphie Mays wall when Ralphie was broke
If I could go back to when Ralphie was broke
That was the best times I had here the only person I knew what money at the time was rogan and not really he was just on news radio
I remember years ago
I was a door guy and I you just like when you worked that job you just sit
I didn't know you very well at all. Yeah, remember seeing you talk to rogan and you had this like
10-minute conversation with rogan about
What are you going to do if the apocalypse comes or like some fucking like a flood or an earthquake and you're like
Fucking atm's are going to be close. Your money's going to be no good
And you can see
You can see in his eyes like oh shit, this guy's got a fucking point. Your money's going to be no good
So you gotta always have 20 league g's lodge at the house. He thought I was trying to sell them up to rob them
He's like oh if I put 20 large in my house
You're just fucking robbed me. He didn't know that I'm dead serious. You gotta have it. Oh, man. Yeah
You gotta have it up and up in 10 different places that atm system is set up to shoot down some day and you're gonna go
I'm a cash guy and your balance is going to be zero and they're not going to know what the fuck happened
The power without china you're fucked when he was looking at you like this guy has a fuck
You had like an hour long plan. Oh, yeah, what you were going to do and he's like I have no idea
Like I could see the way you're like, oh, shit. I better fucking think about oh, yeah
I'm not conspiracy therapist. Uh, whatever the fuck. I'm a realist one day. That's what those
atm's are for
You can have every single dime you have invested in those things
And one day the power's gonna go off like a computer and all the files are gonna get erased
And you're gonna go up there looking for your 9 000
There's gonna be zero on top of zero and they can't they don't know what's gonna happen
What happened? We don't know it went into the fucking universe. You didn't down cloud it to one whatever that one cloud
Look at one cloud my dick. Okay. I got 10 different yards with money in those yards
You follow me
I got a couple of safety deposit boxes all over the country in place. I gotta fly into them make a pit stop close to the airport
I'm way ahead of you, mother fuckers. When you stand when you see jelly with the shovel, you know
Oh
I'm way ahead of you guys
I've always been way. I like way ahead of you guys. You got a fucking math. It's on a cereal box
Fuck. Yeah. Fuck the bank. I trust them like the fuck you
Guys, it was a real pleasure. Thanks for having us man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much
We can talk about the top topics. I wanted to talk to you about whatever you want. I'm not writing shit
We don't want to write for money and when they
Sent to your writing you know sometimes when you write shit for that
You don't want to write for money. You wish you had a nine to five day job
Listen, man. It's like when I shot this Netflix thing. They're like the first five minutes
You got to write about your life and then go through and I was like
You're killing me. Oh, they gave you they wanted me to say because there's only 30 28 minutes
So they wanted your first five minutes to be a little bit about yourself to introduce yourself
But then the night of they changed it up
So I like ate a ball of shit. You know I'm saying so was like
You learned a lot. You learned to stick to your fucking guns
When when you wouldn't you just rather when I'm in those you just rather fail on your own fucking your own stuff
Yeah, you know what I mean?
You'd rather go down on your own sword and someone say hey do this and you're like, oh, that's exactly what I did
I died. I died a slow fucking death
I died a slow fucking death. I mean, is this I just I mean, I have a feeling I'm gonna watch it
That's gonna you've killed no I died a slow death. I think it's just what I'm doing now is completely different
It's so weird like this. I'm back to
2006 at the comedy store dangerous again. Okay dangerous not giving a fuck
I don't give a fuck about what comes on in my mouth
If it hurts your feelings, it just makes no difference. I'm 55
I got one foot in the grave one of an ad appeal and what are you gonna do to me now
You got to come back and be like cavern on 36 years later. You just suck my dick
You know what I'm saying? So you got choked at a party big fucking deal
He put his dick in your ass. No, he put his dick in your mouth. No, no harm done
He just choked you a little bit because you were a dumb bitch in the closet room
She's lucky to go in the closet room in my hometown
They would have put fucking jackets on top of you. Fuck in the ass
There would have been no choking or grabbing what the fuck is wrong with these people
36 years later now you want to come out and say a judge grabbed you really he even put his
Did he put his dick in your mouth? No, did he put his dick in your ass? No, there wasn't a big deal
But he went home unscathed, you know what I'm saying?
He's a fucking asshole
What the fuck is going on?
I love you guys thank you. Where can they find you danishononeal.com?
Yeah, find us at uh find the podcast at danishononeal twitter account danishononeal
Uh danishononeal instagram you can find me on uh ryanonealcomedy on instagram
I got uh, yeah, I got a new twitter at uh as well as our own, but I got uh at v jeff danis
So you want to check this out?
Yeah, I'm looking at that.
Yeah, thanks for thanks for having us. Thanks so much
I want to thank danishononeal for coming on today. Also, don't forget boston and uh foxwoods is sold out
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Want to be around
To pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart
Some somebody twice as smart as I
I
Somebody
Will swear to be true as you used to do with me
Who'll leave you to learn that misery loves company
Wait and see
I mean I want to be around
To see how he does it when he breaks your heart to bits
Let's see if the puzzle fits so fine
And
That's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet
As I sit there a plodden from a front row seat
When somebody breaks your heart like you
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