We Might Be Drunk - Ryan Hamilton w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast
Episode Date: July 20, 2026Ryan Hamilton joins Mark and Sam to talk about his excellent new Netflix special, surviving a bus accident, comedy special jitters, late-night TV, life on the road, private jets, fashion disasters, an...d their biggest everyday pet peeves—from helicopter tours to soft blueberries. Sponsored by: Fabletics – Get 70–80% off everything for new VIP membershttps://www.fabletics.com/WMBD Willie's – 20% off your first order plus free shipping on orders over $95 with code WMBDhttps://drinkwillies.com Hims – Personalized ED care, hair loss treatment, and morehttps://www.hims.com/DRUNK Subscribe to We Might Be Drunk: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWMBD Merch: https://wemightbedrunkpod.com/ Clips Channel: https://bit.ly/WMBDClips Ryan Hamilton: https://www.ryanhamiltonlive.com/ Sam Morril: https://punchup.live/sammorril/tickets Mark Normand: https://punchup.live/marknormand/tickets Produced by Gotham Production Studios: https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com @GothamProductionStudios | Producer: https://www.instagram.com/mrmatthewpeters #WeMightBeDrunk #MarkNormand #SamMorril #RyanHamilton #NetflixComedy #StandUpComedy #Fabletics #Willies #Hims #BodegaCatWhiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Yo.
Hey, hey, we're here.
We're sweaty.
We're sweaty.
Oh, was it 90-something?
Yeah, 95.
And the trains went down for like the first time.
You didn't get hit with that.
You're uptown.
I was uptown, but I was coming across town, and I got lucky in a cab.
Oh, there was no.
There was no traffic.
What is this?
88?
You're taking cabs in New York.
I got lucky in a cab once.
Her name was a, no.
No, but, yeah, no, the trains.
Her name was Bob.
Okay.
It was a man.
I was flated by a.
man in a taxi cap.
No, no, we, you know, the train, it's like,
it feels like it never goes down.
So you kind of, this happens and you're like,
eh, I'm kind of grateful this never happens.
I know, but it was creeping, which was the way
it was just going, just like an inch a mile, you know?
And I was texting you when I didn't get, I was stuck in a no service zone,
so I was trying to text you like, what's going on with you?
Yeah.
But.
Yeah, right.
No service.
It's also crazy to think that, sorry, we'll get to you.
Yeah, I love this.
Crazy to think that.
Like, Ryan's whole special is about.
I was hit by a bus.
We were delayed by a train.
Yeah.
Almost as bad.
It's horrible.
It's the worst.
But crazy thing, we used to not have cell phone service in the train.
You just have to sit there and just think and read.
I remember when we got cell phone service at the train.
I was like, my life's going to be so different.
Yes, yes.
You know?
It's not.
Remember they used to not tell you the time.
You used to go down there and be like, could be a minute, could be 20 minutes.
Here's how our life is different.
Some dude is watching like Waffle House fights next to you without headphones.
And you're like, oh, that's not the technological advancement I was hoping for.
I know, the casino gang, ting, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
God, do you need the ting ting ting?
Sorry, Chinatown.
Just saying, enough.
So Ryan, our good friend, Ryan Hamilton, who we've known for a long time.
Long time.
Yes, sir.
New special on Netflix, this just hit me.
It is killer.
Killer, very funny.
This is the one.
Just dense and, like.
Great ideas, great angle, great takes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everything is getting hit by a bus.
That's a great idea.
No, I mean, you say that at one point in the special, you're like, was it worth it?
No.
Well, tell that to Tracy Morgan.
That was a truck, but still.
Yeah, that was my first thought is, did he sue?
Yeah.
Because you don't address that.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I have a joke.
Did I say I own a small shuttle.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, yeah, I mean, that was obviously not like a bit of an exaggeration.
But yeah, we had a lawsuit, you know.
Everybody said you got to do something.
But I couldn't even deal with it for like a year mentally.
I was just like, I don't want to think about it.
So we did do it.
But the company went out of business like a week after the accident.
What?
A week after.
And my attorneys go, this is not unusual.
It was called Jim's shuttle bus.
And he thinks that they just like, this is bad.
We're going to start a new company.
It was a one-man band.
I don't know.
Jim was driving the bus.
I don't know who it was.
But, you know, they have an insurance.
insurance company that's still like okay but so it wasn't you know it wasn't life-changing anything like
that but the day that we filed the lawsuit the insurance company came back the day like we filed in the
morning it's like they were waiting for it for yeah and they're like here it is this is the most we can
do without going to trial and my attorneys were like this is best possible outcome you don't want to go
to trial oh okay great yeah but if you did you could have wheeled in Hannibal lector style
yeah like Weinstein what about uh yeah i mean 10 broken
ribs.
Wow.
Yeah, I didn't know
there was 12 ribs either.
So when you did that joke,
I was like,
oh, weird.
10 out of 12 you broke,
collapsed lung.
Yeah, yeah.
Couldn't breathe.
The lung heals fast, I learned.
It's real interesting.
The lung is the thing
you're not worried.
That one.
It's good for him, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, five of the ribs were in two places.
Wow.
So a couple of them healed like this.
But I got really lucky because there was no,
like sometimes they say ribs heal in a way that causes pain.
And then they have to go in and put like a plate
like I have in my arm in your ribs.
but I didn't have any of that.
Nice.
So you weren't on your phone or anything.
You just walked out and got out.
No, I was, you know, it was late.
It was like I watched the ball drop and it was like, I don't know, two or something in the morning.
You know, I'd been in a hotel for 10 days with COVID.
Sure.
In L.A.
Quarantining.
Yeah.
And so January 1 was my first day out.
And I ate an entire pizza and I celebrated.
I'm like out of here.
Yeah.
And I wasn't flying because flying was so crazy.
I was just trying to get home to Idaho for the holidays.
and even though the holidays were over.
But I walked to pick up a rental car.
I just thought I'm going to go do it.
This place is open 24 hours.
I got to the intersection, hit the button,
watched the light change, and I just started walking.
And I didn't see or hear anything.
God.
Yeah, this guy was making a left-hand turn.
He was up high.
He'd just drop people off, I think.
Did you go out immediately when you hit you?
Were you knocked out?
No, I didn't.
I never lost.
He got up.
That was like one of the biggest laughs of the special.
You freaked them out by, you say I got up and they were like, what the hell?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It really freaks people out.
And, yeah, I mean, I remember it all.
I just remember everything.
But there was a point where I was like, okay, I got to make my whole priority to not pass out.
Wow.
But you felt the lung.
Yeah, I was standing up.
You know, I talk about this in the special where I had my hand there, but I couldn't see it, but I knew it was there.
Whoa.
And then I realized that my hand was behind my back.
And that's when I went.
Oh, and the line was, that's the punchline to that.
My God.
You know, even the jackass guys are like, that guy's a badass.
That's crazy.
Yeah, except this was not intentional.
Yeah, yeah.
But it almost feels old-fashioned to get hit by a car not scrolling.
It feels like most people probably get hit now scrolling.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I got a lot of, you know, I learned a little bit about, during COVID, a lot of pedestrian accidents went way up.
The numbers went way up.
Because you think the roads are completely open.
Yeah, I guess.
And people are just more distracted, stressful.
I don't know what it is.
They don't really know why, but they went way up during COVID.
Yeah, pedestrian accidents.
I feel like, I think people getting a little reckless in the city streets during COVID.
I knew everyone I knew was like getting a scooter.
Yeah.
That's true.
And then Monroe, Martin lost his two front teeth.
And I was like, is that right?
Yeah, because it's not just other people we got to worry about.
It's like potholes and stuff.
It could be anything that could send you flying.
Yeah.
Wow.
So many people, I would think about getting a scooter.
And then I heard about the accents.
I was like, fuck that.
Yeah.
But it was fun for a minute.
Like the idea of just zipping through a ghost town.
Oh, I was going up and down Broadway alone on my moped.
It was awesome.
Wow.
Everybody either got a scooter or a dog.
Or had a baby.
Or had a baby.
And then when COVID ended up, they're like, I hate all these.
I regret everything.
Wow.
Man.
A lot of COVID cohabitation, a lot of people just moving in together.
I mean, I did that too.
I mean.
Yeah, some marriages.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was at the very end.
This was like during the Omicron variant.
Oh, sure.
It was like my first gig back I was coming from Hawaii.
It feels like 40 years ago.
I know.
It sounds like the Avengers.
It was the Omnicron sequel.
The blip.
Yeah.
The good thing is, well, a horrible thing, but I'm always hung over on January 1st.
And I always see people walking around.
I'm like, look at these loser nerds out there.
And now I'm glad I'm hung over because you're getting hit on January 1st.
Yeah, yeah.
It was, yeah.
Do you have to fight?
Because your jokes are all.
There's like there's definitely, you're clean in the way like Gaffirkins clean where there is like an edge to it for sure
There's a bite. There's a bite. Yeah. But do you have to fight certain thoughts when something that bad happens to you to, you know, because if something that happened to me, I'd be like, fuck these people. Yeah. I guess it dies down. You see the comedy soon enough, but are there jokes that you have to like fight off? You have to think positively. Does that help the healing even?
I don't know. That's just how it came out. Honestly, I couldn't think about it comedically for like months. Like three or four months. It was like it was weird. The first day.
I was like, okay, jokes, joke.
Because that's where we're at in our middle.
Right, right, right.
And then I didn't realize what had happened to me, really.
Yes.
Blaine in the hospital after the surgery.
Actually, Tommy Johnigan came to visit me the first day.
He somehow got into the hospital.
He was like, I saw this silhouette.
I didn't have my glasses on in the door.
And it looked like my doctor.
And I go, Dr. Lee?
And Tommy walks up.
He goes, I'm your brother now.
He had to get in the hospital.
It was full of COVID.
And he brought me in the doctor.
notebook. So we started like working on ideas. Whoa. What a friend. What a guy. Yeah. And then
I thought, well, this is really interesting. And then the next day I realized I can't, I can't do
jokes right now. Like I got a, I just was like absorbing what happened. It's too much. It'll be a
human for a second. And you need to like someone, something like traumatic happens,
I feel like you have to like take a step back and look at yourself. You can't just be like
joke, joke, joke. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Even with like a breakup, even something that simple.
Yeah, I think your mind goes, yeah, but sometimes, I don't know how it goes with you guys, but sometimes my mind goes like too dark and it'll be funny to me, but they're just like, whoa.
Oh, that was a big part of developing this material is like in the beginning it was like, this is funny, but it was hard for people to enjoy it.
And I had to figure out a lot of my stuff is like that.
I've got to figure out a way to bring it, palate, make it palatable.
Yes, yes, totally.
So it's like this evolution.
And eventually you go, okay, now people are having fun.
They're thinking about it, but it's not bumming them out, hopefully.
There's also so much pressure.
Anytime something crazy happens, we go, oh, you're going to get eight hours out of that.
You're going to get a half hour out of that.
You're like, oh, am I?
Now I have to.
And now you're worried about it.
And you're like, I'm a shitty comic because I can't think of anything.
But that's why it takes a minute.
The pressure on top of it sucks.
Yeah.
But what you do really well in this is you play with tension.
You can tell that a lot of those jokes didn't work at first because of how much your letting lines hang out.
Oh, you know, good.
Good air.
Interesting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is true.
It was like, in the beginning, it was like, I don't know if this is going to work or not.
Like, I can't figure it out.
But then eventually, but it was also like I couldn't not talk about it.
You got to talk about it.
I'd never had a thing in my life.
Like, I'd gone through my whole career going, oh, that's interesting.
What do I want to talk about?
This was totally different.
My audience knew about it.
It was impossible not to talk about it.
Well, the crazy thing we've seen Ryan work it out at the cellar, and then, you know, doing 15 minutes on getting hit by a bus.
And then you'd come back another night and you're like, that's a different 15 about getting hit by the bus.
Yeah, you had a lot of material.
You had a lot of bust stuff.
It was hard to work it out in short sets because it turned into this long thing, so I would do it in different shows.
Wow, that's impressive.
Yeah.
I don't know how that, it just kind of happened.
And then there was a point where it was like, okay, I think I'm, I just can't think about this anymore.
And people were like, no, you got to make a one-man show, right, kind of thing.
Like it becomes unfunny, but then it becomes even funnier again because you keep going with it.
Right, right, right, right.
And then right when we got the deal and I started going, okay, it's an hour.
I got it. I was like, oh, I got to add some stuff here.
So I added this part, the part with the hand, and the part about getting marijuana with my mom.
That was all, like, really new towards the taping.
Yeah, you get the weirdos reaching out like, I got hit by a bus too.
You get, like, I meet so many people after shows, yeah, who talk about it.
I never met anyone before, but now, you know, once you say it, people come out of the woodwork.
His audience takes a long time to load in these days.
Right.
Are you scared of buses?
I'm more scared of driving, actually.
That's the thing that stuck with me.
It's like, I think twice about taking road trips now.
Just because, I don't know, put into me something like anything can happen at any moment.
And when you're driving, if that's your mindset, you're like, there's stuff happening all over the place.
Who knows what that guy's doing?
Crazy.
It's like...
The concept of driving is bananas.
The fact that these painted lines are keeping us...
safe at 68 miles an hour
with kids in the car, I'm
drinking, it's horrible.
It's a crazy concept, but it works
kind of. Right. I know. Mark's hour
is going to be he killed a guy crouched in the street.
And then I hit him.
That's my title.
Whoa.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What was the process
like having Nate Bargazzi direct
the special? Oh, good question.
Well, what was great about it is that Nate
just, you know, I wanted to
Nate kept going, I want to produce your hour, and I kept going, I'm trying to sell it.
I want to try to sell it.
You know, he wanted to put it up on YouTube or whatever.
It's like he was building that platform.
So I said, I'm going to, nobody was biting, but I thought, I'm going to put up the money, produce it myself.
If I can't, if I can't get it out there, if I can't sell it, then let's talk.
And then Nate called me like a week later and was like, let's do it at Netflix.
I go, what do you mean?
He goes, I called Netflix.
And they want to do it.
Hell yeah.
Okay.
That's fantastic.
Because I go, I've been talking to Netflix for like a year.
That's frustrating.
But then Nate really got behind it.
And I just was happy that he believed in it.
You know, believed in me as a comedian and the material.
And so that was really great.
That is great.
And he just kind of let me do whatever I want.
You know, Nate gave me, he's just like, whatever you, you know, whatever you want to do.
Good.
Yeah.
It's cool, though, when a comedian directs, because, you know, Jerry directed the Colin Quinn one.
Yeah.
Colin's directing the new Dan Soder one.
Is that right?
Whoa.
There's something cool in it.
Because, like, what is really directing a special?
It's like, no director is going to be better at it than a comic.
Right.
Agreed.
We know where to put the cameras, you know?
Yeah.
I directed mine.
They had a director, and I was like, why?
What are you going to do?
You got a big bugle horn and a clipboard and a chair and a beret?
Like, what is?
I'm just going to stand there and tell the jokes.
I don't get what it is.
I directed mine, too, because I just figured, like, yeah, I know what to do it.
Yeah.
You get a good DP and you're all set.
Yeah.
Exactly.
That's kind of how I felt going through it.
It was like, you know, I talked to people.
Jerry was really, like, helpful, and I had so many conversations with him, and the title is his credit.
He came up with the title.
Damn.
You know, and he was really helpful with the material, and he'd seen it was familiar with a lot of it.
Wow.
You know, talking to him and talking through it, he was just like, and he'd talked about producing it for a while.
He was like, let's talk about this, let's do it.
He was so busy with the movie and everything.
and then Nikki was like, let me do it for a while.
Everyone's fighting over you.
That's a good sign.
You know, it was just kind of like, everybody's so busy.
And then I'm like, well, I'm going to do it.
And then at the last minute, Nate was like, let's try it.
So, yeah.
The beauty of Nate letting you do whatever you want to do also means he has to do nothing.
Yeah.
You know, which is great for comics.
We're like, you go.
I believe in you.
I'll be here, not answering the phone.
But great for him to produce it and call Netflix.
And Netflix, just accept things when we try to give him.
to you. Stop waiting for a famous
rich guy to call. What's the difference?
The special's on either way. Yeah.
Yeah. Who knows what, I don't know what's
going on. I think they put the name on it. They put Nate
on it, maybe. I don't know.
Actually, I didn't see it. You get another guy
pushing it, though, why not? You know?
Another comedian's pushing the special. It's a good thing.
But imagine if I was like, hey,
Sam goes up and talks to some hot lady at a
bar and she's like, no. And then Nate's like,
you should fuck Sam. She's like, maybe I will.
I've had to do that before, actually.
Oh, really? He's done that for me a few times.
It just doesn't make sense.
But I'm a cut.
What do I know?
Okay.
That's what happened us back in the day on Comedy Central is they wanted to give
them us hours if Amy Schumer didn't just call it them and say give them an hour.
Completely.
So, I mean, you know, if that's what it takes, you know, some people are going to luck out and some people are not.
So many of our breaks in this business, I don't know if people know, come from each other.
Other comedians.
You know, we have all these people, these gatekeepers, decision makers, whatever.
But it's like once somebody gets something, then they're like,
Like, how can I get these people involved who I know?
Yes.
And you know what's a great compliment to you is I saw your special when the day it came out.
It hit number 10.
And you're like, hey, Ryan's in the top 10.
Great news.
All right.
And then it bumped up to seven.
Yeah.
That's rare.
Is it?
Yeah.
I don't follow these rankings, but that's what everybody keeps telling me that it's huge.
Yeah.
It was up there.
I think it was seven for a couple days.
And I went back down to nine.
And then it was gone, I think.
But yeah, it was, yeah, I was happy to hear it.
Who knows?
That's great. That means enough people are like word of mouthing about it.
Right. That more people saw it.
Right.
That's a huge.
It's so weird. You have no concept of how it's going. I mean, you hear online and like whatever, but you don't really know.
We're going to talk about it in 20 years ago. Man, remember Netflix? They paid us the bare minimum.
Then we didn't know the numbers for years and all this. And then we're going to go, what the hell were we thinking? But that's how it is, you know?
Yeah.
It changes a lot and it changes quickly now.
Yes.
I mean, that's the crazy thing.
I heard someone make a joke about C-Soe and Quibi the other day,
and I was like, oh, shit, remember that?
Oh, and I was clawing to get on C-Soe.
We were pitching a show. Mark, Joe, listen, I pitched a show to Quibi back in the day.
Yeah.
Called Jokes, Jokes, jokes.
So it was just like short sets with a bunch of comedians doing jokes.
And they were like, we're listening.
And then they were like, getting a call from your agent, Quibi passed.
Yeah, yeah.
And we were like, no, fuck.
We're finished, Quibi.
I just bought Chipotle.
I couldn't afford it.
Fuck.
But we made a cool sizzle.
I mean, the sizzles out there still somewhere.
Oh, yeah.
We thought like it was cool to do, like, because that was not in the heels, but like the
blue collar comedy tour was so big.
Right.
Like, oh, we should just do our own thing.
And then our agents were like, just three white guys telling jokes.
We're like, yeah, I guess it's not a good time.
It was like, it was like 2018 when everyone's like, like, we're good on white guys.
Yeah.
They were like, add some diversity and we're like, nah, we just threw down the toilet.
Yeah.
Well, I remember because I didn't know anything about show business.
So they would send us a list of.
comics like, you should use these people. I'm like, she sucks. And they're like, yeah, but we need
diversity. I was like, but she's terrible. And they're like, we can get you good diversity.
I know. I know. So that turned into a thing where we were like, okay, we'd host the pilot episode,
then we'd just book a bunch of funny New York people. Exactly. Or LA people, whatever. But it was a
glimpse into that world of like, she's a black woman. So you put it. And you're like, but she's the
worst comic in the city. Yeah. We're like, we literally gave them a list of like funny black women.
Oh, we don't know them.
We're like, this is your job to know that.
Exactly, exactly.
They're clueless.
Yeah.
That's where they're gone, quibbs.
See in hell.
Still upset about quibbing.
It never goes away.
I saw an interview from way back in the day, Chris Rock talking about the comic strip.
And I forgot, I think it was like Lucian, the booker back in the day.
And they asked him about Lucian and Chris Rock was like, well, he thought this guy was
funnier than me.
And I was like, holy shit.
Wow.
You hold it with you.
Of course, of course.
Yeah.
It's like that guy's just like conquered stand-up the most.
Right.
Right.
And then he's like this fucking one club, dude.
I know.
I've been really trying to focus on like what can I control, you know?
That's it.
We get so crazy.
But it's like basically if you just create and keep writing, something will happen eventually.
And it's so stressful to think about all the other stuff.
So it's just like if you focus on that, that's the best way to be happy, I think.
I think you're right.
The next special is I got caught.
under a train.
Is that why they were so slow today?
No, I hear what you're saying, though.
It's like you kept a good attitude about it, but it's, uh, it's interesting.
Also, you, you were really good at milking as much, like certain people, you,
Gullman, Gaffigan.
Yes.
It's weird that I'm thinking.
It's a lot of guys who skew clean.
Regan, Regan milk.
They can milk out a lot of us.
Like, you had that hot air balloon bit that was, like, what, seven, eight minutes?
That was a classic.
You haven't seen in Ryan's hot air balloon bit.
Look it up.
That's your sick.
That's your hot pockets.
I get that, yeah.
I'm doing this crazy thing.
You might guys be interested in this.
Now sometimes if I have to do like an encore or at the end of the show, if it's really great or whatever.
I've never been asked for an encore.
You know what I'm talking about?
You know when you get done and like everybody's there and you're like, let's just hang out for a minute.
Right.
The gym cancellation bit and the hot air balloon bit are the ones that people go, I want to hear that.
And I've been doing this crazy thing where I do them at the same.
same time.
And I go back and forth.
I cut back and forth between them.
And every comic who sees it goes, this is wild that it works.
And I can't even believe that it works.
Wait a minute.
How does that make sense, though?
You like remixed?
You like DJ remix in your jokes?
Yes, yes, exactly.
I call it a mashup.
And it just happened naturally one night when it was like this crazy insane audience in
this small room.
And it was just like you could do whatever you want.
And I'm backstage.
And the stage manager goes, I think you're.
you gotta go back out there.
It was like the only time in my career
where they were like,
they just kept going.
And I went back out
and I didn't have anything.
And then I was like,
these are the two jokes I know you want to hear
and something was just like,
let's just see what happened.
They were so good.
I felt so free and they were so familiar.
So I just went back and forth
and I just cut it up.
So it works.
You know, you end on a punchline
and then you start another thing.
And when you start the other thing,
they laugh because they're like,
oh, we remember them.
Right, right.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah, yeah.
That's kind of a new.
You invented like a new thing.
Isn't that wild?
It's crazy that a comic who doesn't do drugs came up with this idea.
Yeah.
It feels like such a like a guy who had too many drinks and he stumbles into something really good.
It sounds like a really bad idea.
Maybe it is.
I don't know if it would have.
It sounds like it kills.
It works.
It's a speedball.
It kind of surprises me.
Yeah.
But it's interesting.
Yeah, I don't know.
But I find when you, this idea about like getting stuff stretched out, it's like, I've always thought.
And maybe it is like when you're working in this broad kind of observational way.
you get some momentum
and the momentum is so much more valuable
than it's so much easier to keep it going
and start a new business.
Yes, yes.
So it's kind of like,
I see it as like a lazy thing.
I got it, let's just keep it going.
It's so much easier.
Yeah, like doing what like He'dberg would do.
Like, that is really hard.
That's so hard.
You're starting to zero every joke.
Yeah.
He's over to Dmiti Martin.
He had a scroll with these little bullet points on it.
I was like, God, what a nightmare.
Right, exactly.
It's a hard way to work.
So this is like, you know.
That's good point.
List always said a premise is harder to come up with than a line.
So once you got the premise, just get everything you can out of it.
I think that's the same.
Yeah.
They come out of thin air, you know.
Joe used to write much shorter.
That's true.
I mean, I guess we all kind of, I used to write shorter too.
I think you get.
That's a skill thing.
And you're like, I got to fill time.
Yeah, you've got some great stories right.
Yeah.
I know.
Yeah, well, it's like, it's funny.
you said that people come out of the woodwork
about who have been in car crashes or anything
got hit by a car because I get all these rat people now
Oh really?
Which is a weird audience.
They're like, I had a rat.
Well, everybody's had a rat once.
Not everybody.
In their house?
I've never had a rat?
In your house?
Most people don't have rats in their homes.
What a mouse?
Okay, okay.
Yeah, mice is nothing.
I guess I'm thinking mouse rat.
Okay.
No, dude, once you have one in your home,
they ain't the same.
Yeah.
that's true. A rat is terrifying. The teeth, they're big, that crazy tail. I had another rat in my place.
Whoa. And I tell you this. And he left and we found the hole. But I was like, I don't need another. I don't need a part two to this.
No. Maybe you do. Maybe you do. God saw me struggling with jokes. He's like, yeah, let me throw you.
Yeah. Damn. The rat, the rat saga. Yeah. You don't choose what you, what hits you.
Of course, of course. Right. And you never know. It's kind of like going viral. You never know what's going to
pop, you know, the rat thing.
Who would have thought?
That would be your thing.
Well, it's not even out yet.
But I was doing enough at live shows that people would hit me up.
But, yeah, that's not even the one I just taped.
But if they're hit you up now, imagine when that thing goes global.
You're going to be the rat guy.
You're going to have that big rat.
The rat.
We got you a movie.
It's you and a bunch of rats.
Isn't that Willard?
Yeah.
Willard, too.
That looked weird as hell.
Oh, yeah.
I just, I never wanted to watch rats.
Nah, no, thank you.
Now, are you in that I need new material phase?
Oh, yeah.
I put the thing out, I'm back to square one.
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
Which, to me, you know, it got me thinking about the cycle, and I think this is the most fun part of the cycle.
Oh, no, I disagree.
I hate it.
I think it's...
It depends.
The editing part's so tedious.
Yeah.
And this part, the discovery part, is the most rewarding, I think, because you just grab something during the day and then you take it to the club, and if it works, it's like, that's the best feeling.
Yeah.
When you have, like, an hour and you're like, how do I get this ready to put on tape?
That's, to me, just exhausting.
And also, you feel fraudulent a little bit because you're like, yeah, kill, but it's
supposed to kill them.
I'm about to tape.
Yeah.
Sure.
It's a lot of who cares sets.
Tinkering, you're right, it's boring.
And if you lower your bar for these new sets and you just go in there and you get one
line or one bit, you're like, all right, I guess that was a win.
Yeah.
That's a huge win.
But you said momentum.
I feel like I have no momentum with the new.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's true.
It's stressful when you're like on the road and everybody's there to see you.
Yes.
That's very stressful.
And it's like, why did I give up my act?
Yes, exactly.
You have the safety of that act.
Seinfeld talks about Boleros.
He's like, I walk into there with like full ammunition when you have an hour.
And I'm like, yes, I love that feeling.
But now I got like a cap gun and a slingshot.
I'm like trying to fight off the crips and the bloods.
But you do it for those nights.
Like your closing bit is a callback.
And that hit you on stage probably.
Did it hit you on stage or was it something that like you were just tinkering?
It's interesting.
It was like, I had that joke.
The first callback where I say, he looks young from up here,
came because I was doing, I did that joke on the Tonight Show.
And I needed a button for the end.
And I was like walking around one day.
And I just was like, wow.
Because I'd never put those jokes together like that.
And then in a Tonight Show, you're forced to.
And then I got, wow, that's good.
And then I was like, I'll close with that.
But I didn't have the bus line as the, like, there are two callbacks.
Right.
So, and actually Hanley gave me the bus.
Hey, Phil Hanley, shout out, buy his book.
Yep.
I was like, what do I got?
I can't tie it together.
And then he said, I had a second thing.
Yeah, you used to always say have, even on late night sets, Phil, you used to always say have two in the chamber.
As in like, as in like, have a second closer.
Oh, if one line kills, leave on that.
Right.
But if it doesn't get the pop you want, you have a second one.
Hey, that's good.
It's good.
A gun in your boot.
And you save a bit, or you don't save a bit.
But if you save a bit, you got to walk off, which is nice.
I had the thing once on The Tonight Show where you do a lot.
It gets a big pop, you're ending.
It gets a big pop, you get an applause.
And then I did the tag, and I got nothing.
And I was like, ah, I should have done the tag.
I could have walked into the sunset, like a hero.
I think that happens a lot on late night because you end up getting a bigger reaction than normal.
Yes, yes.
And then you're like, normally, I need to do this other line.
Exactly.
You know.
Exactly.
And also, you're kind of like.
Like just doing the motor, like, oh, and I know these lines here.
This is how I say it.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah.
You find it, too, when you move a joke around a set, like, you're like, this tag kills mid-set.
But if you move it to a closer, because late nights, you're tinkering with order.
It's not natural.
Totally, totally, totally.
For sure.
I know.
I just did the Tonight Show, and it was like, oh, yeah, I remember.
It's kind of like a lost art.
Completely.
I think it's great.
It's like knowing how to kill Fallon, you're like, it's like, I guess this is good, like, once a year.
Maybe.
someone thinks it's cool.
I really impress somebody once in a while.
Yeah, like a girl on a date.
Yeah, you're like, I can know Latin or it's a night show.
But it's still fun.
It's so fun.
That's fun.
Yeah, and that pressure is good for you.
You're standing back there behind that curtain, and you're like, wow, this feels like show business.
Yes.
Cool thing.
30 Rock.
Yeah.
Suit on.
Yeah.
The only problem, I guess the times are changing, I did Seth Myers, I don't know, a couple
months ago to promote my special.
And I'm walking around like, what are all these people
doing here? We need Seth Myers.
We need one lady to get coffee and
a guy on the lights. All these people have clipboards,
headsets. I'm like, this is all a waste of money.
No wonder the internet's winning.
Right. I think they're all union and whatnot.
No, there's a lot of employees.
A lot of employees. It's, yeah.
It's unnecessary. You need a makeup person.
You know, the lighting guy, the camera guy, and Seth.
Right. What do we do it? You feel like you've gotten a time machine
almost. Completely. Yeah.
Because, yeah, it's, I mean, that's why they run so well those shows, because it's like they've so many people.
I guess so.
But then you leave and you do one of these on your phone and it gets more views.
And you're like, oh, this is not a good sign for the showbiz part.
Yeah, it's hard.
I mean, if you put something on the platform yourself, it feels like it generates, you know, your followers.
If they put something and then you're trying to grab their followers, you know what I mean?
I guess so, yeah.
And there is a legitimacy.
aspect to it. Like, oh, you're on South Myers on
tonight show today. Oh, you feel kind of cool.
Yeah. But it does bug me, and I know
I'm a douche, but when they cut a line,
they cut a line from my Myers thing, they got a big
pop, but it was like too spicy.
And you're like, what am I doing here?
Right. I came here to give you me, I gave
you me, it hit. Yeah. That's my whole
thing is to do well. It went well.
It's too spicy for you guys, so you cut it. So you're like,
I'll just do it the internet. It happened to me, too,
once I did Daily Show, and I got a huge
laugh on a trans joke.
You got an applause break. Wow.
It was a good bit.
On the daily show of all places.
And it was like my biggest pop of the set and they cut it.
Ah.
And I think they probably cut it.
Maybe because Trevor laughed.
Oh.
I wonder if they were like,
ah,
this is not good for him to laugh at this?
Yeah,
you don't want to live like that.
Maybe they were like,
yeah,
we should cut that.
Yeah,
it's better safe than sorry.
They're like,
what do we get out of him getting a laugh, you know?
But it was like the joke for my special that you've changed joke.
It's a good joke.
Great joke.
But yeah,
you're right.
I mean,
but that's what they're competing with now.
So you're competing with a thing
where like, well, these other shows aren't going to censor anything.
Yes.
But I do really miss, like, not just panel, but the stand-up, like, the excitement of, like,
anything live crowd is so fun.
Doing panel is fun.
Yeah.
Oh, it's so fun.
Because you get to work.
It's literally what we do.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it feels like it doesn't have much longer.
I know.
Well, you know, Jesselike has that great line where he's like, the, what is it?
What is it?
Something is the getting away with it.
Not just being edgy and offensive.
It's getting the laugh on it.
So when you get a-old.
That's why it's annoying.
Because you get the laugh.
And you're like, all right, it worked.
I took the risk.
I stuck my neck out and it worked.
And then you cut it.
Yeah.
So you're like, I got away.
I did my part.
That's why it's an arm.
Panel when they cut it?
Yeah.
Panel.
I was cooking.
Because the standup is all pre-approved generally.
So you kind of know.
Right.
Right.
They tinker, dude.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
At your level, you've been doing this for long.
Is it annoying how much they're tinkering with the set or is it kind of just clean?
They did not tinker with my set at all.
He's pretty.
You're pretty squeaking.
Yeah, they requested a joke.
They go, we love this joke, we've seen you do it.
Oh, you do that joke.
So I kind of built the set around that.
I go, yeah.
And this whole set was not in the special, which was unusual for me.
It was just like happened to be like.
Wow.
So it was all fresh from the special.
But is that weird?
Because why do you cut those jokes?
Yeah, because I taped them and I probably pulled out, I don't know, 15 minutes from the special that I just was like, these are good jokes.
Let's put them in there.
But then when I'm doing the edit, it's like.
why make it longer?
It wasn't adding to the flow.
They were good, but it wasn't like,
you know how there's a rhythm to an hour set?
And it's like, let's kind of make it shorter than longer.
Like, the goal is to get people to watch the whole thing.
It's so hard anyway.
Right.
So it was like, these jokes are good,
but they're not adding anything to whatever you want to call it,
a narrative or an arc or anything.
That's impressive.
I just took them out.
But it's also like, it's so valuable because it's like,
I need this stuff to start.
So, yeah.
were like, Louis would be promoting something.
He would go on SNL, and he would work on an S&L set.
I was like, wow, he's so good that he's, like,
going to write 11 new minutes for S&L monologue, and then he still has an hour.
That's bonkers.
Well, the harder thing with the S&L monologue is those crowds are fucking brutal.
Yeah, this was back, you know, 10 years ago.
When they were a little looser.
Yeah, but I feel like, man, I've seen some great comics going there.
Crazy.
And you see the jokes kill all week at the cellar.
Crazy.
And they go on there, and you're like, that's all they got on that.
They're so nervous.
It's like weirdly conservative.
You're like an old lady with the pearl necklace
Like, oh, you're like, you're supposed to be the fun
Young kids
They're scared to be on camera laughing
I guess so
Maybe, yeah
That's really the only place you do stand up live live, right?
It's like being broadcast
Good point.
Everything else is pre-taped live
Yeah, you know the Sebastian story
He did the Tonight Show and just froze
He just went mentally blank
And he was like, ah
And this is a big arena comic
Going mentally blank
It's like a get for them
and he was just like, Jimmy, I don't know my line.
Wow.
And then he kind of, like, after he said that, he's like, I got it, I got it.
And they edited it.
But he's like, my career's over.
I'm fucked.
He talked about it on a podcast, but they figured it out and tweaked it.
I think that's, I had a panic moment.
This last one I didn't, I couldn't believe it.
You know, I've been through it a bunch of times where I'm like, okay, good.
I wasn't nervous.
I look fine.
The way you look to me is the most stressful part of the thing.
It's like, if I get the suit together, then I'm like, okay, I'm fine.
That's funny.
And I felt okay that way.
And then I'm backstage behind the curtain, you know, and you go through your set 100 times.
And they make you do the bullet points, which I never like the bullet points because I'm like, I know what I'm doing, but they want.
I think they feel better if you have the bullet points.
And then so it kind of got in my head, like, what's the second bullet point?
And then I'm standing behind the stage.
Ooh, looking good.
You pulled it off.
It's okay.
Looks great.
Suit is so hard for me to get.
We could talk suits all right.
That's sharp as hell.
You like it?
You like the color.
Yeah, yeah.
You're one of the best dressed comics working.
What the hell are you talking?
I text you about like someone's getting an outfit.
You're one of my go-toos.
He's on a yacht.
You look great.
Oh, good.
If I need something for a TV thing, after tan France, Ryan's probably the next thing.
You have to go to the gayer guy.
I've learned a lot about suits and color, actually, over the years.
Because I could never fit anything off the rack.
This is the first suit that I've ever worn off the rack on TV.
Whoa.
No tailoring.
I mean, we took it in on the rack.
the sides but like I didn't have it made that's a good pick yeah wow and um showbiz but I forgot my
second line behind the I'm like I know that I'm like I don't know what the second thing is and I started
panicking and I felt my heart rate to go up and then I just thought once you say the first thing
you're going to click into the second thing and that's what I told myself and I went out there and
that's what happened but I didn't know it as I was walking out I'm like do you ever get this before
you tape a special this happens to me almost every time I'm like I have
I don't know my jokes.
All the time.
All the time.
I try to listen to the set and I'm like, I don't, I still don't know them.
All the time.
Then you go out, you just know them.
It's muscle memory, but you really do go blank.
Yeah.
And it's like as if there's not enough stress taping something with, you know, Netflix or whoever
there.
And then you're just like, I don't know any of these.
It's so weird.
The rhythm gets me back in.
I start telling the first thing.
You're like, oh, that's all good.
You can't think about it.
It's like a boner.
If you think about it too much, it's not going to come.
You got to let it just happen.
Yeah.
And it's so scary because you're like, I'm just going to trust that.
But what if I go out there, you know?
But that's why you do the road.
And that's why you do all the sets.
But, dude, I've been there so many times where I'm like, not only do I write out the set list, each big show you're like, all right, let me write it all down just so I have the notes.
Right.
I feel like just using a pen.
It's like muscle memory.
But then you also just, it's good for memorization, right?
Yeah.
But I go blank, man.
I do.
I think it's normal.
It's weird.
It's happened a few times.
But this one was like, wow, I'm scared.
I was actually legit, like, scared.
Funny thing is, if you fucking broke, it would probably get more views.
I know.
So true.
That's a sad truth of it, but, I mean, you don't want those views, but...
Right, right, right, right.
But, yeah, there's still, there's still an art to kill in on late night.
Hell yeah.
Really cool, like...
Complete tightrope moment.
I love when I see a young comic kill on late night.
Yeah.
There's something very cool about that.
That's very cool, because you know it's huge for them.
Yes.
It's like, it legit...
It goes from the point in your career where you're like, everybody's going,
What are you doing with your life to finally you can go like, they can go, oh, you're actually a comedian.
Exactly.
It's almost like stage acting.
Yes.
Versus like, yeah.
Because it's like, all right, it's not going to get the eyeballs.
Right.
But like a real comic should be able to do this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good point.
Right.
You know what the worst part about late night is, though, is working it out in the club.
We have to run your five.
And, you know, when you do a set at the cellar, you go, hey, everybody.
Look at this fucking douche.
What's shaking?
Hey, how you doing, tits.
All right.
But when you do the late night five, you go, I was.
at the zoo yesterday.
And you're like, open with that.
And they're like, whoa, who's this fucking robot?
And you're like, no.
You're stiffer than the mannequin, you got that suit off of it.
Yeah, exactly.
And you're like, wait, no, I have to run this.
So after a while, I just started going, I'm doing a tonight show set.
Bear with me.
And then I would do it.
Right.
But if you just go up there.
Because it's not cheating.
No, it's not cheating.
I mean, sometimes what I'm doing in like before I tape a special, I'm like,
all right, can I just do a bunch of new shit now?
It loosens them up.
Right.
Because they can tell it's not as honed as home to the end.
Sure, sure.
I'm a nut.
It's hard.
I felt like I was a robot, my whole special taping.
No.
I had that feeling.
No, you weren't.
You weren't.
You weren't.
No, you seem loose.
Because I was so like, here's how I'm going to open.
Exactly.
This is what I want to get to.
I want this beat.
I want that beat.
And then you start to go, you got to let it go a little bit.
Let it go.
A little bit.
Seinfeld and I were talking about how like we, it's kind of crazy that we do this a thousand times.
And then the night that we put.
preserve it forever.
We do everything different.
Oh.
And it's like a mistake.
We're wearing something different.
There's cameras there.
Doesn't Jerry always wear a suit?
Yeah, he always wears a suit.
Does he do that for the special, you think?
No.
No, he just, he likes the idea that, uh, he thinks it elevates the show a little bit.
He thinks it's a silly idea that we're telling jokes in a suit.
Right, right.
He likes that whole thing.
Yeah.
And it's classic.
Do you dress up on most gigs?
I've been wearing like this
Like a T-shirt with a jacket
I think that's a good look for me
Like I wore on the special
If I'm at a club
I won't maybe sometimes
But in a theater
I'll wear something like that
I'm such a psycho
That I think if I go out there
With a suit on
They're gonna go
What are you doing asshole
Put a t-shirt on
This is bullshit
You know it's like when you wear a leather jacket
In front of your friends
Are like whoa
Who's this guy?
Yeah yeah
I just think the audience
Is gonna see right through me
And go
You're a child
you jerked off 10 minutes ago
you're an idiot
I feel like it is
That's where they get marked
This guy just jerked off
What the hell's he doing up here?
I'd be like I did
I was in the hotel you got me
You don't have that with the suit
I just feel like
Well you get your toes and I'll see you throwing
Like a suede jacket and stuff
You're like you'll dip in
I'll dip I'll dip but yeah
suit is crazy or like some kind of crazy jacket
You know it might be a lot
But yeah I think you'd look good in a suit
Who cares
I'm sure we'd all look great
Do what feels right
you know?
Yeah.
But you ever try and think it's on at the gap and you're like, you just hear Ari
Shafir going, hey, what the fuck's wrong with you?
Or, you know, sitting down Keith's like, look at this guy with a new outfit.
Ari took his shit on stage.
But even that's okay.
I'm like, oh, I don't know.
Why is that okay?
And the suit's not.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
It's a me thing.
You don't have that?
I know what you're saying.
All right.
You want to overdo it, but if you feel, yeah, I mean, you don't feel comfortable because
it's new, but if you felt like, yeah, I mean, I've seen you rock a suit to gigs.
Because I've seen you rock, you know, you did it on Tonight Show.
You did it like benefits.
Tonight show you're supposed to, I feel.
But like Malaney's a suit every night at the theater, which is, I'm not knocking it.
I'm just saying I have a thing where I'm like, I can't, I'm a child.
I think it makes me you perform different.
I do think the way you dress affects the way you perform a little bit.
I think I act differently in a suit than I do.
It makes me stand up a certain way.
It makes me go like, I got to be this guy.
which sometimes is really good for the performance.
Yeah.
And if I'm just wearing a t-shirt, I'm a little more relaxed or whatever.
So it is a consideration either.
I'm not saying either way is right or wrong, but I do feel that that happens.
Maybe I'll wear a suit.
See what happens.
Maybe I'll try it.
Don't let those guys get to you.
They're getting.
They've been getting me for 42 years.
We should call Ari and be like, fuck you, dude.
It's everyone.
It's List.
It's you.
I don't wear a suit.
I can't you ever wear a suit in my last two specials.
That's true.
Yeah, you look great.
You look good.
The one I just taped it.
You look great.
You look good.
And I made a point not to go, look at the suit guy over here, because I don't want people do that to me.
I'm just like, I don't care.
A tear comes down as I look away.
I will say you got to get the right one.
And it's a lot of work for some people.
You got to find the right one, got to fit.
The fit is everything.
The fit in the drape.
I think for a cool gig, I'd like, yeah, I just want to, it's going to live forever.
But then also you don't want to be too different than, as you're saying, every night.
Right.
But yeah, but bringing a suit on the road, if you're doing like, I was on the,
the bus.
Oh.
It's a lot of work.
That's a lot.
Yeah, it's a lot.
So I wouldn't do that.
But yeah, but sometimes you'd bring a, you know, depends.
It was a silly blazer.
Like, I'd be in Miami, I'd rock like a light blue one or something.
Yeah, that was cool.
It's fun.
I told you my Fonzie moment.
What was your Fonzie moment?
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So I bought a leather jacket.
I've always wanted a leather jacket, but I can't wear,
I'm not a leather jacket guy.
I think you've even said to me before, like,
where did you get that jacket?
I want to try something like, you.
Yeah, yeah.
You have good leather jackets.
I've been trying.
Pull up some Ryan images,
because this guy is,
underrated. Is this the one about getting stolen?
No, no, worse.
Worse. But I actually got that one back,
by the way. So, I
bought this leather jacket from Italy.
Yeah. I really went in and found the right
jacket from Rome.
You guys know that brand Italy?
Well, I'm just saying it's important.
It's good stuff.
Yeah.
So, I bought a leather jacket from Italy. I got it
tailored. It fits like a glove. I look great. The wife's like,
you look hot. Here we go. But I never
wear it because it's a leather jacket.
I went to do a gig in Canada
and I said I'm putting the leather jacket
in the suitcase so I have to wear it.
It's cold there. I'm forcing
myself to wear it on the plane, couldn't wear it on the
Uber, but it's in the bag.
So I got to Canada, I put the leather jacket
on, I'm doing this big theater, I walk out
and somebody goes, nice jacket, Fonzie!
Within like six minutes of me performing.
Ari flew out just to dig you?
Nice jacket Fonzie, and it got my head
the whole set.
Did he get a laugh?
It killed.
It killed.
He was right.
Wow.
And, yeah.
But you know what?
There's the check.
Oh, that's a great jacket.
I bet it was a big fan.
Maybe.
I heard you talk about this shit and knew he could get to you.
Well, he got to me.
It worked.
We telegraph these thoughts to the audience sometimes.
It's weird.
One time I was on a show, this was a long, long time ago.
I was on the road with Airy Spears for this competition that we won.
And I'm hosting at all of the improvs.
And I was always worried about time.
And so I went out and I bought a watch and I never wear a watch and I bought this like digital watch and I'm doing my set and somebody goes, nice watch.
It was the first day I ever wore it.
Oh, God.
It was just like that.
Yeah.
Like I couldn't recover.
They know.
They know.
They know.
But if you wore it with confidence, if you were comfortable with it, I bet they would never, it's weird.
It also sucks that like Mark's honing these jokes.
He's working really hard on and nice jacket Fonzie crushes.
Crushes.
That's so annoying.
Fonzie, really.
Ego through the floor right then.
Fonzie.
Oh, God.
Now you really can't wear a leather jacket
because people are going to listen to this.
That's true.
I'll be Fonzie guy.
Oh, forget them.
You wear a denim jacket.
Nice jacket, Leno.
Yeah.
I think you could, dude, I think that jacket looks cool as fuck.
All right.
Those are all great looks.
That's a suede jacket.
I got that at the mall for it.
Yeah, suede is great, I think, for this stage.
Yeah.
Swade is very nice
Yeah
Swade is a nice middle ground
It's not crazy cool guy
But it's not
It's still a little elevated
But not too much
Yeah
All right get off me
Well yeah
This is this is bothered
Yeah
Exactly nice jacket
Tubestone
It is funny
Because you do think about that
Like
I mean
Just going to the cellar
You're like
What would Keith Robinson
Say
Exactly
That's what I'm talking about
We all have that one
It's like
That's the first target
for anything is what you're wearing.
You don't think I'm sick of Nick's shirts?
I can't take it.
I can't mix it up at this point.
Yeah, you know, the De Rosa story.
He walked in with his new leather jacket
10, 15 years ago, and Big Jay goes,
Ah, De Rosa got his attitude jacket.
You know why it hurts so bad because they're right?
It cuts to the bone.
You're in my head.
You're getting roasted by a guy with fingerless gloves
because he's comfortable in the fingerless gloves.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you can say to him, he's like, yeah, I like, yeah, I like,
oh, shit.
Exactly.
Comfort is key.
Comfort wins.
Yes.
Because you go, hey, nice gloves.
He's like, yeah, I like them.
Yeah.
Damn it.
It didn't work.
Didn't get them.
DeRosa, you could tell us again.
Because DeRosa is actually a pretty good dresser.
Yeah, not bad.
He's kind of like a sneaky good dresser.
Yes.
But yeah, you could tell that it's so funny.
So anyone who takes a risk.
Oh, completely.
You can't take a risk in this biz.
Yeah.
And you need that a little.
I'm not even saying it's all bad.
I'm saying a little bullying is good.
Right.
but not going all the way.
Yeah.
Well, don't let them get you down.
I think you should wear a suit.
I bet you'd look great in a suit.
You do, man.
I've seen you do it.
It looks good.
I'll throw a suit on in the theater,
not in the club.
Yeah, we're starting to go a little gray too in her hair.
It's like you can't just rock a bomber jacket forever.
It's a good point.
It's a good point.
You can't be 60 in like a fucking...
Yeah.
Seinfeld always says your little zip-ups.
You look good there, man.
Oh, thank.
With the banana?
Yeah.
I had to ruin it.
I was feeling weird in the suit, so I'm like, all right, I got to yuck it up.
You in a tie, you're holding a dildo.
Mark, why couldn't you just smile on the suit?
I know.
Sorry, I cut you off there.
Seinfeld always calls him a raking leaves jackets.
That's hilarious.
Wow, these bombers are kind of nice.
Rakeet leaves in.
Gucci?
Well, Jared, do you see that when he was wearing the capes?
Kiff stuff. He looked kind of cool in it.
Oh, he looked great. The thing about a suit
too is like, it's evergreen. So you
never be dated.
But you do watch the guys in the
90s and the style was baggier then.
Way baggy. A little bit.
Where you're like, dude, double, you're like double-breasted
and kind of like baggy. Yeah.
Oh, while we got you here, we got to get
to the bottom of the private jet
from L.A. He was there.
Oh, yeah. You're on the jet? I was on that jet.
And you guys, I saw you talking about it
on the episode. And yeah, we were
waiting for you. Come on.
No, I met Jerry at the...
Well, they thought we were going to come?
Yeah, well, I'm at the airport. I told her we couldn't come, you.
And then Jerry, Jerry goes, uh, guess who's
on the flight? And I go, who?
It was Mark and Sam. And I go, oh, this is going to be fun.
He thought we were coming and we... Yeah, yeah. Damn.
Well, you want to paint the picture? Because I thought it was a fake invite.
No, it wasn't a fake invite.
I guess, and then Jessica came later and she said,
she filled us in or whatever.
I don't know. Damn, that. That would have been fun.
Yeah, it would have been fun.
Damn it.
Yeah, whatever.
It's no big deal.
There'll be other opportunities.
There'll be other flights.
Yeah, yeah, it's cool.
Anything good happen on the plane?
Did we miss any foamos stuff?
No, I mean, we just said.
It was fun because I was hanging out with Jerry and Jessica at the same time,
which I don't get a lot of time with them together.
So that was fun.
So there was just a lot of recapping.
You know, so much happened at the festival.
Sure.
I didn't go to that dinner or whatever, but I was hearing about that.
Oh, the party.
The afternoon brunch thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, what had?
I don't know.
Jerry, I were just on our way to work, so we...
You tour with Jerry a bit, and his routine is like...
Because I remember you did some with Jerry and Gaffigan.
Whoa.
Yeah, I did one of those shows when they were touring together.
Yeah, how was that?
Or a weekend or something.
Yeah, do they have different styles?
Yeah, yeah.
I've worked with...
I've been on the road with Gaffigan, too, just on his own tour.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're both different.
It's interesting.
Jerry thinks of the road as, like,
This is enjoyable. Let's have fun.
And this is the schedule.
And we get to do the show.
And we'll work a little.
But Gaffigan, I think, thinks of the road.
Like, this is where I get.
I'm working.
Oh, interesting.
So he's, like, always going over stuff.
And we get to the venue, like, way early, three, four hours early.
And he works.
That's his time to work.
Oh, really?
Yeah, he's in a room.
Listening to sets.
He was listening in writing.
And he'll just wander into your room.
He would just wander.
And he wouldn't even go, hey, what do you think?
He would just start into a little.
line and then and then i'd go yeah wow turn around and come like start writing again yeah he's he's
he's amazing cut to us hung over waddling in like i'm at the wrong door you know oh boy good for gaff again
yeah i pull up right before the show starts same it's impressive yeah yeah yeah um but jerry's like a
movie guy in the road right yeah so we go uh we do the show friday and then we go to the next city
and then Saturday morning have breakfast at 9 o'clock.
And then we go, everybody loves hearing this.
And I love it because it's...
Nine o'clock.
It's a little...
It just doesn't matter where you are.
It's always nine.
And then go to breakfast and go to a movie that's pre-planned.
And then we go to lunch.
And then we go for a walk.
What a day.
That sounds great.
It's great.
What's great about it is that...
Light lifting.
Your mind's free...
You don't have to think, like, what are we doing today?
You know what I mean? Every city you're like, are we going to this thing in this city? Are we going to go to this restaurant? We just everything you eat breakfast in the hotel or close. Lunch is just kind of we find a spot. The movie's all set up. You're just free, you know, to just hang out.
I think kind of like shut your brain off tours. Because like it's rare that we're on someone else's tour at this point, but I've done some dates with Adam Sandler. And he's always, people are like, why is he always in like shorts and basketball shorts? Because he might hoop at any moment.
Wow.
Wow.
So, like, when you're on tour with him, you're just like, oh, I guess I'm just going to start dressing like Adam.
So I'm wearing basketball shorts and basketball sneakers.
Right.
Because I'm just like, oh, he might want to play now.
Yeah.
There's not a lot of, so you're like, that's why he dresses like that.
Yeah.
Oh, interesting.
I think there is kind of an art, you know, like all these roles you fill as comedians in this world.
There is a role that's like I'm on tour with someone and I'm the support act, which is more than just what you do on stage.
Totally.
It's like, you know, you want to be fun.
Yeah, you want to be fun.
You want to be a hangout.
And it's like a great guy.
But I want to be fun and it's my tour too.
Yeah, exactly.
You know.
Yeah, yeah.
Man, I guess I'm lazy.
If I'm on tour, I'm like, I'll see it the show.
Well, that's just, really?
That's great too.
That's your thing.
Depending on who it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm like that too.
I don't go out that much.
Well, I think with Gaffin, he's got five kids.
So he's probably like, I got a right here.
I can't really get anything done at home.
His school, does activities, as, you know, dinner and everything.
I think that might be it, too.
Yeah.
A road movie, I feel a little guilty sometimes.
Me too.
I feel like if I have two shows at night, I'm like, I got to have something topical.
So you want to work on it?
I want to have some new bit ideas, but.
Not just double, maybe some jokes about the town you're in, too.
Totally, yes.
I want something.
Yeah.
But Jerry's probably been those towns in a million times.
That's true.
That's true.
Jokes.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember I was in, oh, sorry.
No, go ahead.
I was in Bakersfield one night doing like a bar show or like a rock club.
And they were like, oh, Seinfeld was here last night.
I was like, Seinfeld's in Bakersfield, you know, but yeah, he's doing the road.
Yeah, he's running around.
He goes everywhere.
Yeah, that's the road.
But that's another great thing about having the routine.
You can do it anywhere.
So you're like any city that you're in, it's the same.
That's true.
That's kind of great.
You try to mix it up a little bit because I do have that thing sometimes when I go back to the same city and like, I'm doing the exact same thing I was in.
And I'm comfort to that, but you're like, all right, I'm in Rochester.
I'm going to Highland Park Diner again.
I just know where I want to go.
Yeah.
But then also I'm like, I should do it.
other shit. I feel like it's bad for your brain. Repetition to a point is comforting, but to another
point, you're like, I need life experience. Yeah. Yeah. Plus you have that thing for like life is
just fleeting. It's just passing. I'm back here. Years have gone by and I'm just back at the same
spot. That bums me out a little bit. Right. Yeah. The road's interesting. The road is like
you just got to adapt to it because that's our life. That's it. And you got to figure it out.
I love the road. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't like the road, this is a,
tough that's true and there's a lot of people that hate the road yeah yeah a lot of people
Ryan is a line in his act that I've heard where you say like to the crowd you're the first people
I've talked to today oh yeah that's like a great comedian road joke right that's like holy shit
because that's been me before on the road we're just totally this is crazy it is it was a real
thing I just realized like it had been it was a club I'd been to a bunch of times and I just had
this thought like you know I order an Uber don't say anything he knows where I'm going yep I got my
boarding pass. I don't have to talk to anybody. I, you know, I get in the car. I know the club. So when I get to the club, I walk right to the green room. And then it's like, there's the audience. Yeah. Yeah. And you went from zero to 500 or a thousand, whatever. Yeah. Mike Lawrence had that great line where I saw him on to open mic and he goes, I had dinner with my parents tonight. So this is my second performance of the night. And I remember like, oh, that hits home. Boy, that's good. He's so good. He has dinner with his parents. He's like, oh, I can.
get a bit out of this.
Right.
You know?
Yeah, he's always working.
Always.
Right.
Yeah, I think about your act sometimes in the row when I'm having like a rough like late show or
something like, oh, I can curse and be like, Ryan keeps it clean here.
Really?
Well, I just think it's got to be tough to do some of those when you're starting out and
they're not there for you and you're doing a late show and they're rowdy and they're drunk.
And then you're like, I'm staying clean.
I'm staying.
Yeah, I got, the way that I came up, I did these really rough one-nighters and something
in me got programmed.
where it's like if I can do what I want to do
and make it work in this room,
then I know it's great.
Yeah.
And so that just helped me.
So it's like been that way from the beginning
where I still kind of think about that.
If I can make what I want to do work here,
then that's how I get use out of this show, you know.
Right.
But I still have it.
And it's tough.
The late shows have always been tough for me.
Really?
Getting people there is tough.
Sure.
You know.
What about like a drunk crowd who you can tell her like,
talk about pussy?
Yeah.
It's hard for me, you know?
Because I'm like...
Because the dirty stuff kills.
You know, sometimes I'll talk about my life.
That's his nice jacket, Fonz.
Talk about a pussy, dude.
He's like, you know, that's not the show.
Right.
It really, you're talking about these trivial.
You know, a lot of my stuff is so trivial and just like,
it's, you seem like a nerd, you know?
Because you're like up there going, like, what's an example?
I don't know.
Like, I'm talking about getting a haircut, you know?
It's like, no, talking about life.
Right.
We want to be entertained right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, but, you know.
I know what you mean.
It's, you feel like a, if they're not your fans, especially, and they show up to the late show, they're like, this is not what we, you know.
They want an action movie.
Yeah.
And you're playing like my dinner with Andre, you know.
But yeah, I know what you mean.
I had a set in Irvine.
And I do like the family chunk up front, it's like 12 minutes or whatever.
And then at the end, a lady goes, talk more about your family.
family and the whole crowd went boo!
Like, no more family.
Talk about fun stuff.
Right.
Exciting stuff.
Right.
Dark shit or whatever.
Yeah.
So that was eye opening.
Wow.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah.
You get, so do you feel, I remember I was, I ran into Robert Kelly at the Nashville
Comedy Festival one time.
He's like, how was your show?
I was like, great.
And he goes, wow, it must be nice to just not have to worry about being dirty all
the time or something like that.
And I was like, wow, that's interesting that you think of that way, because I think, you
We all want to be something we're not.
You don't have to talk about your dick, Bobby.
You don't.
Yeah, yeah.
But I think his audience...
These damn handcuffs.
We have to put ourselves in these lanes.
At a certain point, you're like, I'm 90% this.
So, like, that's just how the business works.
Like, you're like, that's how I'm marketed.
And there's no escaping it, really.
And then...
And also, you're being you, too.
Yeah.
That's how you are just hanging out.
Right.
It's not really an act.
No.
Sure.
But I just mean the way that people see you and perceive you.
Like if you're 95% something, you just, you've got to be 100% something, you know.
Right.
You know.
Yeah.
And sometimes when they see you being you, they're like, that's it.
That's what he showed up for.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
But yeah.
I've been doing these shows and I notice one show is always weak.
And I'm like, is that because.
At a what, five or six?
Yeah.
Out of five.
And I'm like, one show is always less than the rest?
And I'm like, is that because these are the randos?
But then I go, I should be able to make randos laugh.
Right.
So then I toil with that.
I just don't think you're going to bet a thousand, I think.
Maybe, yeah.
You got to, I'm with you.
I feel like there's always one weird one too.
Yeah.
I mean, sometimes there's two.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's like, you know, certain cities are more in your mind bulletproof.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm always going to do well in Chicago.
But then sometimes you go to Chicago and you're like, man, that wasn't as good as normally.
Yeah.
I've had this thing lately where, like, if I'm doing a club Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Thursday's the best.
Interesting.
I think it's because...
I find it always is too.
Yeah, I think it's partly because I'm loose, looser.
Out of the gate, you're loose?
I'm looser at the end of the weekend.
Well, I feel like I'm more real because I haven't repeated this thing five times.
But also, don't you think the people that are coming out on a non-weekend night are kind of the most diehard?
Yeah, yeah, they're also maybe a better audience.
But I feel like, for whatever reason, like my material is longer on Thursday than it is on Saturday.
Because it's like, I'm taking it.
more time.
Right.
And I'm thinking about, and it just comes out more authentically for some reason.
Wow.
And then the thing with expectations is, you know, it's difficult.
I think you look at weekends or like, this is my Saturday night.
Right.
It's like the way people look at New Year's.
Why New Year sucks, it's the highest of expectations.
Right.
And weekends, you just have expectations.
I mean, you ever go, you ever do like a, when I was on the tour bus, I would do like a Monday
in Montreal and I'd be like, holy shit, that crowd was amazing.
Right.
Right.
They came on a Monday.
They didn't expect their Monday to be good.
Right.
True.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
Saturday night's date night.
They're a little drunk.
They're like putting all their chips on you.
Well, you addressed it in the opening of your special where you say like some of you don't know who I am.
Yeah.
And then the people who brought me, you are under a lot of pressure right now.
Right.
And that is the most of those people probably on a weekend.
That's how my shows always work.
It's like there are so many people.
They did buy tickets to see me, but they bought them because someone else told them to.
Yeah.
I love when comics do that.
That's a great move.
Yeah.
Like, Shane Gillis has that joke in his special where he goes,
I got a bunch of dudes here and they're girlfriends.
And I know they didn't want to see me, but the guy's like, no, no, he's funny.
And she's like, is he?
You know, and he does the whole act out.
But he's aware, and I think the women go, he's right.
Wow, he knows he got us.
And now he's got the women.
Exactly.
It's a good move.
Self-awareness is, I mean, huge.
I mean, I try to be self-aware when I'm bombing.
I let him know, like, I don't want you think I suck and I'm not.
not aware. Exactly. And then they go, oh, he's aware. And then that gets a laugh. Yeah. Yeah, I love
Seinfeld's thing. The first time I saw it, blew my mind in telling you for the last time,
when he gets in a standing ovation, he goes, I know there's always that one guy I don't want to do it.
You know, he's like, oh, we're doing this now and he has to do like a little get up.
Yeah. I love that because as a kid, I was like, he knows. I don't want to do it.
It's also funny that Jerry's brain works as I can't fully enjoy the standing ovation.
Yeah, yeah, that's comedy. You're getting the standing ovation. He's like, he's like, something's
wrong with this. There's one guy I don't want to do it. It's fun that that's where his mind goes.
Right. Right. Exactly. It's like Larry David, I feel like it's the same way where like even when something's
great, he'll find a way to ruin it. Completely. And I, something to me, that's very comedic.
Oh, yeah. Somebody will show up with a gift and he's like, you brought this last year. It's like, I gave you a gift.
But it's like whatever he says. You see the Larry David thing recently where apparently he and Obama,
in his new show, Obama's in it. No. And he and Obama had like, he was giving Obama notes on something.
What? Obama trying to give him notes back.
and he was like,
mm.
That's very Larry David to be like.
Yes,
yes.
Because you know what, Obama,
you're not a comedian.
Yeah.
If you're on his show,
he is,
he's the president.
Right.
Right.
He's the president of this situation.
Yeah.
Right.
Well,
he's the best of finding,
like that episode where he's,
he's at a birthday party
and they're all singing a happy birthday,
and he's like,
I don't do the birthday song.
And they're like,
what?
Everybody does,
but he's like,
I don't care for it.
So he found a way to make the birthday song a problem.
Wow.
Yeah,
what bothers you?
Do you have peeves?
Oh, peaves.
In the comedy world or anywhere?
Yeah, I was thinking about this in preparation.
Sure, things bother me.
I mean, here's one that's really, like, I can't believe I did this.
I would like so feel like an old man, but I wrote a huge long comment on a New York Times article.
Whoa.
About helicopter noise.
I really, I hate it.
Oh.
I hate the helicopter noise.
I walk around and I look up and I look up and I'm.
I'm like, and when you learn about it, it's really infuriating because it's like 40% of it is just tourists.
Right.
Most of it's coming from New Jersey or a lot of it.
And the city has no control because it's all, the airspace all controlled federally by the FAA.
So we can't limit it.
And so and the complaints to 311 have gone like 2,000 times.
Really?
insane amounts and numbers of complaints.
And the city shut down two of the heliports for tourists, but they have one, and they've
limited the hours.
But you can't control what New Jersey does.
So we get these helicopters constantly up and down the Hudson.
They just sit over Central Park while you're trying to enjoy Central Park.
And they're just tours looking out.
It's just like tourists.
It's like 15 people who got ripped off in New Jersey.
Right.
They drove all the, and I've heard these horror stories.
They drive out to New Jersey and they go, well, if you want to see the park, it's actually
this much more.
And they already bought like a ticket and they went all the way out to New Jersey.
It's like, you know, somebody hit him up in Times Square or something.
It's like, and then the whole city's like looking up for these six people so this helicopter company could make $100 bucks off each one of them or something.
Right. That's a great piece.
It's like annoying.
It also gets me out a little bit because they do crash.
All the time.
Yeah.
They could.
One of these companies, one of the New Jersey companies, they were the one that had a crash in 2018 and it,
people died.
Oh my God.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
In the Hudson River.
I got Oliver Tree just died.
That was a helicopter.
Awful.
Crazy.
Yeah.
So there was this article about electric air taxis and how the federal government wants to, you know, get them going and get the, and so I thought, and that's what I wrote this, I wrote this comment.
Like, if you really want to get the innovation of these air taxis gone, because it's supposed to they're much quieter, get rid of the regulation or regulate the helicopter.
What a specific peeve?
Very good peeve.
Very specific peeve.
I just walk around the city.
It's every day I'm like, I look up at them.
Once you notice it, it's almost like I don't want to tell people about it.
Yeah.
Because once it's in your life, you're like, you hate it.
It's like a buzzing gnat.
COVID, I heard them all the time during COVID.
That's when it really became crazy because everybody was at home.
Right.
And they started to notice how awful these are.
Right.
Interesting.
You ever ridden one?
Yeah.
I've been in a helicopter in Hawaii once.
Ooh.
Like one of those tours that I hate.
Yeah, you were the guy.
What were you doing at one?
I was opening for Schumer.
That's what I took one.
Yeah, we took it from New York to Philly.
Oh, cool.
We got there quickly.
It works.
You get it.
Yeah, we did L.A. to San Diego.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's weird because the train L.A. to San Diego is so easy, too.
Same with Philly, but I guess when time's that important to you.
I have a theory because I opened her for years that sometimes she would be late,
so we'd have to take a crazy vehicle.
Oh, intentionally?
Yeah, I don't even know if she knew it, but she was like, oh, I'm running behind.
Guess we'll have to take a PJ.
Oh, I guess we'll have to take an elevator.
That's the helicopter.
That's like the taxi for most people.
I know, I know.
That's true.
That's true, yeah.
I mean, most of the traffic is, it's the tourist traffic that really drives me bonkers.
But here's a more relatable one.
Okay, okay.
That was a good one.
Interesting.
I think like the way people treat bags in the overhead on the plane drives me crazy.
They won't stand them upright if they do that or they'll take up too much space or they'll keep their bag with them.
And I've been thinking like so many people I've seen say like if you return your grocery cart, you're a really good person.
Yes.
Okay.
But I think a better test is what you do with your bag on the airplane because that really is affecting all the people around you.
The grocery car is just, you know, they're paying a kid to do it.
You're just helping the business.
That's it.
Yeah.
It's like being courteous.
But the bag thing, if you take up all the space in there, someone else has to check their bag.
No way that.
How about the double bagger?
And the double.
They sneak it in.
Oh.
Drives me crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you're saying flip it up like a book and don't lay it flat.
If it says right there.
Yeah.
Some of them don't flip on the tiny plant that don't work that way.
But I'm with you.
If it fits, you got to flip it.
Yeah.
And it says right there.
there and they say a hundred times put it like a book and everybody just throws three bags up there
and sits down like to me they're like i have no awareness of anybody else i'm not even worried about
that yeah and maybe it's because we're on planes so much that like you know it's easier for us to
think about it but that's one that's a good one um i don't understand these people my wife will do
the thing where she's like shoves her purse down in the seat i'm like man i want that leg room i don't
know how you live like this i mean i have a second bag you got to do it i guess you got to do it but
like, I would throw it up there. If there's space, throw it up there. But she'll put it down
by the feet. Yep, there's space. Yeah, yeah. I do this thing, this thing where I put my, after we take
off, I put it behind my legs. Oh, that's better. And then you got the, you can do that. That's better.
You got to take off with it down there. Right, right, right. Um, I wrote a peep down. I got a, I got a
peeves. I got a peeves. I got a peeve. All right. Soft blueberries. Oh, the raw ones. Oh, my God.
Well, sometimes you get, well, sometimes you have to buy them with the tape on so you can't test them.
Yes.
So I'm all excited to eat these blueberries.
It's a summer.
It's a refreshing little thing.
Someone's like to throw it in my yogurt.
Yeah.
You want to get the day.
Yeah.
Soft.
And I bought two packs.
So I was all excited.
It's a huge difference.
You bite into a crisp blueberry.
It explodes in your mouth.
Yes.
So much better.
Love it.
Love a snap.
Oh, yeah.
So I toast to the fresh blueberries.
Oh, yeah.
And a big fuck you to the soft ones.
I mean, I was devastated.
I'm with you.
My kid eats blueberry.
So I'm buying them all day long.
I'd pop a few in.
When you get that mushy one,
ugh, it's a bummer.
My sister, this is like a joke in our family.
When she was really young, my mom would buy grapes,
and my sister would go,
did you get the tight grapes?
Tight grapes.
You need tight.
Same with grapes.
Yeah, this peeve goes for grapes.
I mean, if it's a thing you can't test,
that's the thing.
You're taking their word for it.
Yeah.
Interesting.
We sound like women.
Soft.
Sucks.
How about this guy?
This is specific.
All right.
I get the guy.
who tells me I'm slipping
when he thought of something
that I wouldn't even have thought of.
Okay, here's an example.
I do a lot of puns as a goof,
and I'll be like,
oh, this guy's spade his cat.
And the other guy goes,
David Spade.
Come on, man, you're slipping.
Come on.
You miss that one.
I'm like, I don't even like that one.
She's definitely about Salakuse, by the way.
No, no.
I guess he's probably done it.
But I don't like a guy telling me I'm slipping
when he thought of something
that I didn't even think was that good.
It's the guy who's trying to be funny
because he's in front of a comedian.
Right.
And then he's like, I got you.
Yeah, yeah.
Come on.
I'm slipping.
That sucked.
That's terrible.
Yeah.
You're slipping.
Yeah.
They'll tell me, I'm slipping.
You're slipping.
Yeah.
You forced the David Spade thing in there.
Yeah.
That wasn't natural?
No, completely.
Yeah.
But now all of a sudden I'm lacking because he came up with something.
Right.
That annoys me.
That's a good one.
I'm very specific.
I hate plastic water bottles.
And I don't know why we hate them.
I hate plastic.
You can write.
Yeah, the can is the answer.
Why do we have to have the plastic water bottle?
Everywhere we go, someone hands you a plastic water bottle.
They taste bad, all the microplastic stuff.
Who knows what's going on?
Very bad for you.
Is it?
Yeah, they say a lot of testosterone is lower and all this stuff is lower.
We're learning a lot about it.
We don't know a lot, but it's like, why do we have to deal with it?
Everywhere.
And then the aluminum is much better recycled.
Like, it's infinitely recyclable.
You can turn a can into a,
another can. When you recycle a bottle, it gets downgraded. That's why you get like clothing made out
of plastic bottle. They can't make another bottle out of a bottle. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, I just learned
that because I had to come up with pet peeves for this. But the can is pretty new for water.
Yeah, but it's like it's, we've had cans around forever. I think it's a superior way. You can't cap the can,
but you've got to drink it all in one spot. And the glass bottle stresses me out a little bit.
You're dropping on glass.
Right.
And apparently there's just as much plastic and glass because of the lid.
Whoa.
I learned that too.
Yeah, we're going to die.
It's going to end anyway.
You don't want to be that quefe with the fucking jug.
You know, he's got the metal jug on his belt or the backpack.
The person with the bottle this big, and I know they say stay hydrated, but this is a, this is a situation here.
You're going to be peeing all day.
Yeah, right, right.
Get a canteen at this point.
I'm already peeing nonstop.
Between the water and the coffee and I can't do it.
Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know.
I'm with you.
Well, hey, watch Ryan Special.
It just hit me on Netflix.
It's out there, baby.
This just hit me, Ryan Hamilton.
Look at it.
The eyes are popping.
The hair's got a nice gel in it.
The suit looks great.
It looks sharp.
The watch is peeking out.
Oh, great.
Love it.
It's really funny.
It's a true story.
It's personal.
It's clean.
It's great.
And there's a lot of other stuff in there.
Yeah, it's great.
Go see Ryan on tour of Ryan.
Where are you going to be?
Oh, man.
I got a bunch of dates coming up.
I don't know.
Des Moines.
Yeah, Cincinnati.
I don't even know.
But we're announcing a big tour in a couple weeks.
I don't know when this is dropping,
but I'll have a lot more theater dates in the fall.
And next year, so look at that.
Ryan Hamilton Live.com.
Are you feeling a bump?
Did you feel like, okay.
People are hitting me up.
People are watching.
Am I?
Yeah, I'm getting nice things online.
I don't know if it's translating.
I think it will.
We'll see.
It's hard to tell.
I don't know.
The road will tell when those shows sell out and all that.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
I got a Brahe Improv just added August 21st through 23rd.
Then we're hitting Europe.
Lisbon, Athens, Budapest, Zagreb, Vienna, Warsaw.
I added a show there.
Helsinki, Sweden, we're going to do Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Wow.
And I'm going to add a bunch more dates coming soon.
So please check punchup.
Live slash Samarrel
slash is it tour
slash shows I don't know
just go to the punch up
Give it a goog
Are you bringing anybody?
Just a friend
We're just going to hang out
Yeah nice
All right all right
Seattle Emerald City
I heard it's a great club
I've never been
Tampa baby
Side Splitters
Cobbs Comedy Club
Love San Francisco
And then we're going
To the Houston Improv
Zanies in Nashville
Working on a New Hour
Pittsburgh Impro
of Casino Regina, I think, Calgary.
You're already killing.
There you go.
Nice jagged Fonzie.
Comedy Works in Denver.
Look at these.
Look at this.
I got the best clubs.
Comedy on state.
Some of these are going to get canceled when we film.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
Yeah, good point.
We're shooting a movie.
Wow.
Oh, yeah.
That's amazing.
Working on it.
I didn't know that.
Make sure to get some bodega cat.
Yes.
At bodega catwiskey.com.
And we love you guys.
We'll see you soon.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. This is a pleasure.
You know, I don't get to do these very often.
Hey.
Nice to be here.
Thank you.
Pleasure to have you.
Pleasure to have you, dude.
All right.
Comedy.
Sunday's a day for my next fender.
A bit of fever wreck.
You know the fear juice close.
Talking shit about the fucking post.
The lunch here in New York.
