WEBVTT - Lewis Black 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.200 The Craig Ferguson's Fancy Rascal Tour continues in November twenty 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.000 twenty three. For the full list of dates, please go 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.440 to the Craig Ferguson Show dot Com slash tour website. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.520 My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.239 is Joy. I talk to interest in people about what 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:28.200 brings them happiness. Here is Lewis Black, one of America's 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:42.320 crankiest and best comedians. Thank you for coming, man, and 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:47.520 we'll see you next time. Perfect. How are you peal? 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.360 Every day? Just bigger and better and brighter world, isn't it. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.560 I don't know. I battle a little depression. I do 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.280 do do you really? Do you really actually have impression? 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.080 This first time in my life during the pandemic, And 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.440 during the pandemic it came on and after it's kind 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.800 of lingered. It kind of went away a bit, and 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.319 it's lingered, and then you don't know if it's grief 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.759 because my mother passed away six months ago. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.400 I was so sorry to hear your mother was She 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.240 left to be over one hundred years old, under and 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.679 four Wow. I mean it's funny, like I don't know 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.400 if this happened to you. But if I have like people, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.080 I love it. You love really a long time. People 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.039 feel like they you don't get as much grief as 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.800 you would be allowed if they were younger. It's like 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.640 you run out of grief. Is anyone you with that? 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.319 Or am I just being an asshole? 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.360 No? That's what you think, right. But the thing is 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.520 is they've been there so long it becomes something else. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.240 It's a different type of thing. Yeah, because when you, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.880 as I say in the Act, but when you're arguing 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.360 with your mother about when to take Social Security, we've 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.000 the Statute of Limitations has been passed, but one hundred 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.920 and four and just to give you, because it's to 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.720 give you a sense of it, what that age means 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.240 is my mother. I got a call from the funeral 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.200 home and they said that they had discontinued. My mother 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.040 wanted to be cremated. They discontinue or earn. Oh my gosh, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:22.679 she outlived me. Model get another word realized that isn't 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.000 that the first off that they make that many that 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.440 they're coming up with new earns because people going, oh 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:28.919 this is. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.480 A better it's a better earn. It's that's it's you 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.440 know it's it's yeah, it's funny though because you were 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.359 very close to your mom though, right, yeah, it's funny. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.200 I I don't know if you would agree with this, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.519 but my wife says that all good stand up comedians 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.320 have kind of the same mom. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.519 Is that's a better and more interesting than that thing 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.760 of you know, some sort of a bitter life or 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.959 no Catholicish, Italian and Irish. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.160 No, you can. You can have all of that. You 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.480 can have a better life and be Catholic, Jewish, Italian 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.040 and iarye. But I don't think you can be all 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.760 these things at the same time. But maybe you can. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:10.480 It's America. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.519 It's spectacular. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.480 Yeah, but she says, because she, you know, knew my 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.480 mom and she was right. But my mom, she said, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.440 I love my mom. My mom loved me, but she 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.280 was kind of a cold woman and she had poor 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.200 boundaries and she and my wife says, that's kind of 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.040 like a stand. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.640 Up How did you find some You found a woman 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.080 that that's smart and married you. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.040 Yeah, I know, she's got a real bla book. 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.920 But she said that sometimes interesting because my mother was cold, right, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.160 But to me, yeah, you know, but it's not cold. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.440 But emotionally, not that you know, withdraw. You know, we're 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.680 not going to talk about you know, no, no, no, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.520 I get it. You know. I mean to give you 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.880 something I haven't really shared with a lot of people, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.880 like except my close friends. But and you're a good friend. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.520 When I went to say goodbye, that is literally one 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.560 of the few times I can remember my life when 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.800 we look at each other in the eye. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.440 Yeah, I understand that. I know that one. I was 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.520 exactly a lot with my parents. I was exactly a lot. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.119 But I think I wonder if that was a generational 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.680 thing as well with those guys, because they my father 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.159 and mother were both kids during the Second World War 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.000 and Glasgow was bombed really heavily, and they saw dance 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.919 when they were young, and they I think it maybe 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.000 they weren't frosty in the sense that they were emotionally distant, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.800 but they were very careful about using words like I 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.240 love you, you know, all that kind of stuff. No 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.640 one I did all of that. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.800 Yeah, my father was warmer, much warmer. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.320 Yeah, my dad too, I think, much quieter. Yeah, I 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.640 wonder if if it is that, you know, here's here's 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.719 the example of it. I go, I want an Amy, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.800 and I said to my mom, I want an Amy. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:58.240 It was still alive and she went daytime, Emmy, yeah, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.800 well that is that's my mother. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.960 of that thing, right, because if you're a stand up 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.919 and you've done that, every stand up is good and 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.640 you're really good, right, Any stand up is good because 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.400 there's a lot of studs, especially now, everybody's a stand up. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.240 But you know, it's like there's a stand ups who 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.080 are proper stand ups, you know what I'm talking about. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.680 There's you, there's like a tael there's like, you know, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.400 guys who really are it. And you've gone up on 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.279 a stage at some point in your life and you've 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.400 died horribly on that stage, probably in the first maybe 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.080 six months of your career, oh easily, and you went 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.640 back and did it again. Yeah see that and you 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.560 smile when when and that's that's like I did that too. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.039 And my wife says, why why would a person do that? 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.440 And I said, well, I don't know, you just kind 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:48.559 of want to again. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.160 Well. The thing is is, I think is that this 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.560 like with theater, and this has to do maybe with 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.440 the mother. Yeah, boy, they're going to use this and 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.880 seyological sociological textbooks this discussion. Yes, no, no, they're gonna steal 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:05.360 from us. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.320 Say, well, yeah, because because academics always steal from comedians. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.760 Certainly do when there's insight, because they have none but 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.039 the But what, No, I probably forgot what I'm gonna 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.560 say because I wanted to make a joke. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.559 But I know that happens to me all the time 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.960 now nowadays, though I'm recently point in my life where 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.760 I forget what I'm going to say, and I don't 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.159 make a joke. I don't forget. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:29.880 I steer in this space. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.920 Yeah, let me give you an example of this. May 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.679 jog your memory. So I'm talking you know Leno, right, yeah, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.200 all right, So Jay Leno I'm talking to. And Jay's 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.480 mother was Scottish, and I was trying out my theory 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.640 about all stand ups or my wife's theory about all 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.760 stand ups having the same mom, all good stand ups 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.640 having the same mom, and Jay, whatever you're thinking about Jay, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:48.960 Jay is a great stand up. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:49.599 I mean. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:54.479 And he said his mom when he got on the 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.800 cover of Time magazine when he was doing the Tonight Show. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.560 He said to his mom, mom my mon cover of 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.479 Time magazine. Oh yes, it's probably just the local edition 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.119 time magazine. Mom, there is there is no local edition 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.880 that's it. Yeah, it's perfect. It's never enough. It's never enough. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.920 And I think that that that part of getting on stage, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.560 getting back on stage, even when you've died, there's something 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.880 in you the death. Death is the first off. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.240 It's you choose because of your mother and set in 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:33.000 part that you're we're comfortable with that dying. It's theater 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.160 and stand up are the two places you learn from failure, right, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.320 You learn. You don't learn by being successful, because when 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.440 it works, you're like, especially early on, you go, what 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.560 the what the fuck? Did I just know? 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.000 I have to be able to do it again. I 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.400 don't know what happened to the first. 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.160 Place, but if you bail, you kind of go I 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.280 could try this, I could do this. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:51.000 I can do that. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.920 They've changed the line to delivery da da da da. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.400 I started too high with the audience to start, my 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.960 energy was too low. That all of that, all of 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.200 that comes into play. And so I think it's that 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.440 that we get from our our mothers, Like you know, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.880 Jay's mom saying that that sense of like we're comfortable 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.480 with the fact that we've been in front of a 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:17.640 major primary relationship that we take as our backboard is like, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.320 this is our judgment, and it's constantly going, oh, forget it, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.080 you have failed again, and so failing. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.040 I know how to do that. And also failing can 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.840 look like love, yeah, because because you just go like, well, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.280 you know, I failed, My mom loves me, and she's 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.480 over saying mean things. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.319 So and there's and the other thing is is that 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.360 that I've said about it, which is I believe it. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.079 But what separates those who go on and stand up 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.240 is there's a certain kind of a joy we get 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:50.920 out of dying. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:51.880 I totally do. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.360 And the stupidity of that joy is, oh, you think 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.400 you got me in a corner. Yeah, you guys, forget it, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:02.480 because I have something coming up now, even though nothing 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.840 has worked for ten minutes, but this one, I say, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.760 this one, I can't believe what I'm gonna do to you. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.959 And then you pull that out and bump and it's 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.680 worse and you're just digging your grave. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.240 Well, what's interesting. The reason I started this conversation talking 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.240 about that is because before I ever met you, I 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:26.000 saw you perform doing exactly that in front of one 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.720 of the worst audiences I'd seen in my life where 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.960 and I've seen some really bad ones, usually when I'm 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.319 in front of them. It was at the Latent Live 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.600 gig ed at Edinburgh Festival years and years and years ago. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.280 You saw that I was there and I was like, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.960 oh my god, they're gonna kill them and you just 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:51.160 wouldn't back down. And I saw them turn, which was amazing, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.040 and I thought, Jesus Christ, I don't know how a 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.000 guy can who. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.320 Were there, because that's a that's for me. It was 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.760 a historic moment. It destroyed. I had gone over the yeah, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.520 in hopes of then this is my way to get 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.640 into England and Scotland, and that killed it really. Oh yeah, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.560 I never got I think they all. You know, it 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.600 did because the thing that it kicked it off was 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.520 that I did a joke about golf club stolen from 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.439 a car that I had a rental car in Florida, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.679 and that the policeman who say who came was Jamaican 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.360 and when I didn't there was something at the time. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.520 I don't remember the joke because it's almost as if 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:36.560 that night traumatized me with the joke. So I said 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.120 that and it was just a true story, but I 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.000 didn't know what he was saying. And that's when the audience, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.160 you racist, paced up shite and it started to pour out, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.520 and I was like, and that's why I put my 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.880 foot down. You fucking really, you guys are gonna call 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:53.600 me racist. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.120 That's why I remember, which was awesome because it was 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:02.080 fantastic towards and there's a very audio recording of Bill 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.320 Bird doing pretty much the same thing. Do you remember 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.079 that we'll let the audience or what they want to 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.439 kill him and he's like, I don't care, I'm doing 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.680 my time, you guys, and you know, like, and he 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.040 just and he went at them and they're they're trying 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.360 to drown him out at one point and he won't 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.120 give in. I remember those nights. They don't happen often now. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.720 In fact, I haven't had one for a long time. No, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.600 it'd be bad if you had them when you're in 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.160 your sixties, but when you're a kid start Now, that's 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.400 why I wonder, you know, kids coming up now, everybody 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.360 does things differently, and they're they're doing their comedy on 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.160 YouTube and stuff like that, and that's great. I would 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:37.920 do it if I was that age too. You know, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.479 but they don't get put in front of the adversity. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.360 They get it in a different way. They get negative 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.200 comments on their thing and people saying mean things to 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.280 them online, but they don't get the immediate, fresh in 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.480 your face hatred, which I think does you so much good. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.839 Well it doesn't. It also is how you learn. Yeah, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.640 I mean, you know, I think for some of them 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.560 it works is like, uh, it works as kind of 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.600 like okay, it's like sending out an audition tape to 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.160 the people you really want to audition for. So that 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.439 way there's an upside. I just did my uh special 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.720 my specialties on YouTube. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.360 Yeah, and I was going to ask you about that 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.280 because I'm going I'm getting to the point and you 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:14.880 know where every couple of years when you have an 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.520 act and you're think, Okay, I'm gonna have to burn 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.680 this stuff because I can't keep doing it and keep 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.640 saying yeah, yeah, I can't keep saying it every night 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.640 and pretending it's the first time I said it, so 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.000 we have to I'm gonna have to burn this. So 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.000 I'm coming up to doing a special and actually somebody 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.440 had told me that you had put your straight up 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.040 on YouTube, and I went, you know what, I think 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.080 that because Luit did that as well, doesn't he just 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.240 like puts it up on YouTube and it is what 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:40.640 it is? 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.480 Yeah, well, because a lot of it was, and it was, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.640 and I wasn't happy about it because I'm going, well, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:47.480 you know, who's you know? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.720 This is for kids? 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.200 You know, I mean, but it apparently is where a 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.040 ton of people are watching their stuff. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.960 The industry is changing, and it's changing so fast that 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.120 you know, like the writers strike and all that. I mean, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.440 everybody's like, you know what's going to happen. But I 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.200 think in terms of stand up comedy, the idea of 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.520 having any executive have any input on material is over. Sorry, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.160 I'm concerned. I just wouldn't be a thing that I 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.079 would listen to. Now. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:23.200 No, it's really absurd, But it also is. The Amazon 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.000 Prime has a thing a part of their deal. Now 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.000 I'm going to just tell you. We'll talk about it later, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.840 but you would find it unacceptable. Netflix basically, I don't 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.920 know if that's a club. Well, they dismissed us because 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.640 we were already creating this. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.920 I did a couple of stand up specials from Netflix. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.120 Did you really I did? Yeah? 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.520 Back Prick I did not get one. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.880 On No I did. I think I did that. You 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.120 got I just one of the first ones I did. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:52.800 It wasn't the first one, but it was like in 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.280 the I was all they could get a couple for them. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.640 Forty million dollars you got the No. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.040 No, I didn't get anything like that. No, I got 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.840 like a free subscription when I when I did the 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.959 Netflix vision, I think it was it was they were 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.439 definitely streaming, but it was you know, it wasn't just. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.960 The Yeah that was way back. Yeah, it was. It 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.200 was before they went in the money psychosis, but when 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.480 they started toss some money around for comics, and I 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.280 was still in that kind of sweet spot of like, okay, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.280 you know I should be one, and no got blocked 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.720 and then now forget it. We basically checked in. You know, 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.440 the guys pitched yo, well what about Lewis, and well 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.320 we have twelve people for every slot right now, and 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.440 I don't get it. But as a result, you know, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.560 bumped out of that. And then HBO was kind of 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.320 gone its way, right, you know, show time make a. 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.480 Bit more Game of Throne? Can you be on fire? 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.200 Is there a dragon? And it can have a dragon 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.680 in it is there some blood, maybe test blood, and 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:06.400 a dragon incests. Well, actually, now as you mentioned it, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.920 I think that is my sal I think that's what 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.560 I'll call it. Tit's blood and incest. Okay, so attention 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:15.840 and so somebody. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.640 They'll be turning, They'll be turning on YouTube a lot, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:19.840 boy boy. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.520 But I think what's interesting as. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.880 Well, it's coming. I'm serious. I may even use that. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.680 I think that putting it on the egalitarian nature of 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.080 just throwing it out there and then anybody wants to 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.800 watch it watching it. I don't think the streamers have 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.200 quite understood. I don't think that the executives are executives, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.280 whether they were working for CBS nineteen fifties or Netflix now, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.080 just the same fucking middle management pricks that they wear 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.040 back then. And so what they do is they don't 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.360 see when change is coming. They didn't fucking see that, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.120 and they think, like all humans, they think that they're 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.880 the end of the evolutionary cycle. And you go, you 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.600 fuckers don't understand Netflix, You're going to be done. You're 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.960 going to be done because people don't need to pay 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.560 for stuff anymore. It's it's like for music, what'll happened 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.360 to the musicians. People just grab the ship from wherever 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.920 they want, and now musicians have to go out like 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.200 that's why all these eighties bands right on tour again, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.600 Nick oh God and playing casinos and stuff with the 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.680 knights and wordsheaded. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.160 Well, you know, but that's the and it's in part 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.320 the one thing about what YouTube does, because where the 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.200 money is going to come, you know now as much 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.800 like with rock and rolls coming from the gig. Yeah, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.480 you gotta do you live so so that YouTube, you know, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.600 brings in more, more diverse, in a different audience for U. Right, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.240 Well that's what they tell me. But we'll see. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 I know that's working. That's happened to me. I don't 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.320 know if you know. I noticed my audience is getting younger. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.760 I even had to say them one night, you fuckers 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.640 better bear to be here. Ironically, I don't. I'm not 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.200 Rick Astley. You don't be here like never gonna give 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:03.440 me old chicken bungkein. Hello everybody, This is Craig Ferguson 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.560 letting you know that my Fancy Rascal Tour continues throughout 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.400 the fall of twenty twenty three. For a full list 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.159 of dates and tickets, please go to my website, The 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:21.200 Craig Ferguson show dot com slash tour. Do you think 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.040 that the thing with stand up because we were talking 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:28.440 earlier about the immediate failure of live stuff and what 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.520 happens is maybe it's changing for us too. Maybe live 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.879 stuff is kind of like like the kids that are 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.440 coming up, they start out on YouTube, they start out 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.080 on free content. But if you start out in free 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.960 content and you don't have an hour and a half 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.280 to do once you get to the theater, it's going 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:49.480 to work against you a little. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.320 Yeah, which I think when they started doing you know, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.520 when you had the five minutes, people were working on 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.439 their seven minutes except for Carson stuff. They you know, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.760 they would go and that that's what they had, and 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.480 they didn't have the even the thirty minutes to be 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.640 a middle act. Yeah, you know, yeah, And it's crazy. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.280 I mean and now I mean, now it's really but 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.720 I'm crazy because now I actually people go to you 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.000 go to clubs to work out your material. Go, No, 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.479 I just go into a theater and work that what 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:19.320 you do, right. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.639 I kind of mix it up a little bit, especially 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.600 because the mechanics are touring, because I know you tour 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.240 a lot too, and we're dinosaurs, man. We tour like 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.119 fucking old rock bands and get on a fucking bus 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.320 and you've got the big foreign guy with the tattoos 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.480 doing the sound check and all that kind of stuff, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.400 and that's the kind of old model. But I do it. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.800 So if there's a you know, if you book a 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.720 theater on a Thursday and you don't have another theater 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.960 until a Sunday because because Lewis Black's and the fucking 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.840 theater that night, so you can't have it. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.600 Or you can't or there's not a city in between. 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.480 Right, So I'll do a club. I'll do it, and 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.520 I'll do a run of clubs. There are clubs that 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.760 I really like. Which one is the Comedy Works in Danver, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:08.520 both great clubs. The one in Charlotte, North Carolina. Oh yeah, 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.560 it's really good. It was the name of that one 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.560 in Charlotte. I like the the Comedy Zone. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.919 Yeah. The Comedies, which is weird, used to be a 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.800 really weird because they had about a hundred of them 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:18.720 and they were. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:19.440 No, it's just one. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.160 Yeah, I think it's kind of There's still a few 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.560 of them around, but they're not That one is if 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.320 it's a particularly good one, that's. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.359 That would be one's a fine No, no, it's good. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.240 It was the Comedy Zone in Charlotte. And there's there's 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.480 a couple of really nice ones, like there's some mprovs 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.880 that really nice. There's one in San Jose and there's. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.040 One great one theater. Yeah, I love that one, and the. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.520 One in Librea in California. So they're they're there. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.280 I like, did you ever play hilarities? 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:48.320 No, where's that? 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:49.920 That's Cleveland. That's another great one. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.960 I saw John Love It's there one night. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.840 Nick is the guy who owns It's great and importantly 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:02.200 and sadly to say, really great food, really great food, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.200 and not to you wouldn't appreciate this, and a really 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:07.040 good wine list. 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.919 Well I think that's okay. I mean, look, I just 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.720 because I don't drink wine. As you know, I used 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.359 to drink a lot of wine. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:16.280