WEBVTT - Paul Reiser’s Return to Stand-Up 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:07.400 Really now, really, really. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.639 Now, really hello, and welcome to Really Know Really Jess, 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.640 Alexander and Peter Tilden, who remind you onequivocally that subscribing 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:18.520 to the podcast is a truly stand up thing to do. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.360 And speaking of stand up, actor Paul Reiser began his 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.400 illustrious career back in the seventies as one of the 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.840 hottest young stand up comedians of his generation. What quickly 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.880 followed was breakout acting roles in films like Diner, Beverly Hills, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.240 Cop and Aliens. That was followed by television stardom and 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.680 series like My Two Dads, Stranger Things, The Kaminsky Method, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.960 The Boys, and his highly acclaimed series Mad About You, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.200 which he also produced and wrote. But then last year, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.280 after a thirty two year hiatus from stand up comedy, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.560 Riser returned to his comedy roots with his special Life 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.520 Death and Rice Pudding, and suddenly he was a stand 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.000 up again. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.240 Really no really, Today. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.840 The guys will chat with him about the twists and 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.800 turns of his amazing career and what called him back 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.680 to take up the microphone and comedy clubs once again. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:06.920 Here's Jason and Peter. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.240 All right, let's say. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.319 Should we actually begin, but. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.880 Rolling why I just want to I want to go. 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.920 What is so important that I had to race over 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.319 to this side of town? What is how? 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.560 He's interrupting? Apparently we're trying to start a show and 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.039 roll in and do introductions and the. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.240 Guests I thought i'd come in aggressive. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.160 Has decided to come in like you know, like it's 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.040 like it's his show. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.600 You know what that means. He's a little bit nervous, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.800 he's uncomfortable. He wants to try and get in and 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:34.520 feel the. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.160 Yeah you put me in my place nicely. Good for 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.360 you for you know who did that? 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.080 Remember who did that? Same thing? Same thing? 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:41.560 He's gone. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.000 No, he's still with us. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.720 You know what comes? I love you, Remember I love 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.800 obscure things. I was gonna say, Lance Wrens, No, just 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.200 to see. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:55.200 If Shatner started the interview, started interviewing, what's the show? Why? 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:55.880 No? 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.600 Now I'm doing sign But yeah, Shatner started the. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.160 Same always takes over. You go to lunch with him 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:03.640 and we say we're not going to have desert, and 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.520 he goes everything and then you gotta get it. Yeah, so. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.280 We'll pretend that we had not been interrupted. Are you 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:12.600 excited about our guest today. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.400 I am really excited to because oh, this is like 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.960 a nine and a half ten, and he's gonna say 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:18.320 why not? 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.840 Why not immediately? 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.280 All right, that's it because the Orson Walf is dead. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.120 I'm a huge How are you not a huge man? 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.399 I mean you grew up watching him? And also he's 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.920 taking jobs away from me, nomadic actresses your way from me. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:37.240 I still like them. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.480 It's dramatic, it's action adventure, it's the boys, it's stranger things, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.560 it's it's met about you. Reduct you know, comes back. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.000 For a guy with an every man's face and a 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.000 really you know, I'm not saying he doesn't have talent. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.320 I'm saying it's not a to Z you know what 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.880 I'm saying. He's not Brando, but. 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:04.639 He llow he's done up singing comedy with the thing 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.520 he did with that monitor lizard. Oh my god. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.519 Yeah, but no, Paulie, Paulie is he's done at all? 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.280 And what the really no really is thirty two years 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.880 he waited to do stand up the thing? 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.119 Now here's the thing because I haven't done the deep dive. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.040 I know paul primarily as an actor because I first 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.040 remember the first time I remember remember seeing Paul's work 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.680 was in diner, right, you're with me? So I didn't 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.080 know him as a stand up prior to that, and 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.760 I kept here on a stand up standing stand up. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.960 And so for me, I go, it's even more of 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.760 a really no, really, because I go, you never did 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.640 stand up? Why we Why now you're going to do 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.160 stand up? But it's a return to the roots. What 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.200 balls would it take? Yeah, drove all the way here 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.240 from wherever? Yeah, and we never we just did this, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.840 We just do this what he did? Just talk about 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.920 him in front of him. Yeah, and speculate what his 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:54.520 answers might be. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.880 They'll be fine with me to watch two people talk about. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.240 Please welcome to really no, really the great and I 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.520 do mean that one of thank you gentle men out there, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.240 and and a lovely human being. Nobody by the fact 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.160 that he's willing to come down to the van Night's airport. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.880 And by the way, not knowing from comedy anybody or 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.520 under what thirty probably thinks you're dramatic from aliens on, thanks, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.680 you're a dramatic act my favorite thing. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.880 And I hear this a lot. His friends will say 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.960 that their kids their teenage kids will go, what the guy, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.159 the doctor from Stranger Things is going to try to 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.520 be funny and I go, okay, first of all, tell 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.280 him I'm not a doctor, right, really, and I'm actually 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.839 a stand up but you know, and I did take 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.159 twenty years off doing stand up, not intentionally but just 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:45.200 as it turns out, so it's understandable. But you know, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.920 I think of myself as a stand up for But 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.760 as you were talking, we were in an acting class 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.040 together for a brief with Larry. Yes, that's right, that's 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.279 where I first met you, and it would be it 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.120 was way before you would be probably eighty. I remember 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.640 just two three big locks of hair. Yeah, that would 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:07.560 have been a while ago. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:14.400 You're confusing us. It happens all the time. But seriously, 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.240 because I never asked you this, because how often have 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:21.360 we chatted about this stuff? So when you were a kid, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.960 you weren't thinking actor. You were thinking come yeah, yeah, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.640 you know they were sort of meshed. I don't think 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.320 that you're in fourth grade thinking I want to do 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.800 a fellow but performing. So it was like the blanket performing. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.159 So in elementary school, you'd write an essay, a composition, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.240 a story and my recollection is you could read it 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.440 aloud if you'd like, and I would go and I 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.479 would volunteer because I wanted the laughs of the eighteen 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.320 twenty kids. And even then, this is how dumb and 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.320 ill advised. I would put in subtle jokes that only 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.400 one guy would get and the rest of the class 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.440 would go. But like, I was always working the back 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.200 of the room, which is death is silly, but it 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.799 made me happy. So it was always performing and getting 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.920 laughs was the thought. But you know, you'd be in 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.880 a school play. I remember in college I did Guys 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.560 and Dolls and I was not in the theater department. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.760 It was like the dorms putting on a silly thing. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.480 And I even fell into that by accident because some 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.200 guy dropped out. And I loved getting the laugh. I 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.599 was like, and I love the excitement, and I loved 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.800 getting ready, Well we got a show. It's only nine 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.440 more hours to a showtime, you know that. But I 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.320 knew there were four solid laughs that I would get. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.040 That made me realize, yeah, that's what I like, and 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.240 we'll get through the dancing and singing and stuff. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.000 But the reason I find it interesting because I talked 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:56.200 to Jerry about this too. Jerry said, I assume it's 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.400 still true that his preference, by a landslide is stand 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.640 up because he loves the thrill or the challenge of 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.599 working in one. Yeah, And I find like I talked 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.040 to Kevin Pollock about that too, and he likes that too. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.520 He likes the he likes working in one. I went 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.480 into acting because I spent my life in one and 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.240 I wanted to have a community, and so it was 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.200 always the communal aspect of being in a show or 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.960 being in a film that drew me to it. I 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.480 find that a lot of comedians I talked to are 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.040 very intimidated by the community work of being an actor, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.240 or vice versa. My actors won't go near. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.640 It's ironic because one of the things, yes, you're working 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.360 in one, but one of the things that I loved 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.360 when I did my little you know, theater experiences, but 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.120 I also love in stand up is in fact the community. So, yes, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.040 you're working in one, but you're all hanging around that, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.720 you're all chiming in with hey, you know, it would 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.560 be a great line after that, and you're with the 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.440 other it's you know, like, oh, these you know, the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.960 brothers and sisters. So I think there really is a 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.600 strong community. And it's interesting. I never felt comedians were 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.000 really competitive professionally. I mean you might say, oh, you know, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:16.560 jump on the line. You're an actor. There's eleven guys 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.720 go into the audition. One of you will get it, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.440 the other ten will not. Just stand up. There's a 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.320 great gig, you'll do it this week, you'll do it 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.440 next week. So it's not a zero sum game. So 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.760 to that effect, there really was a community. There is 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.319 a community and stand up which I still love. Well. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.520 You also, you were that part of the Best Buddies 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.120 thing with Cherry Too, right, did you Mark Schiff, Larry 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.560 Millwer didn't you do the New Year's. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.560 Michael Lampton Ky? Yeah, yeah, we were, you know, five 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.080 idiots who said it's New Year's Day, we got nothing 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.560 to do, nobody has a girlfriend, let's go eat lunch. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.079 And then that became a tradition, you know, we'll get 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.520 through the New Year's Day thing. I did it for 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.320 like twenty five years or something. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.720 And did you guys compare notes? Did you guys always 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.520 fell comedy for like a mont grow. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.000 We wouldn't talk. No, in fact, almost not at all, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:08.680 but but it would just be sprinting and having ridiculous laughs. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.280 You know, we were the guys that everybody else is 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.600 going to led Zepplendon, We're going to see Robert Klein. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.719 So when you find that community, you know, and and 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.480 I remember one time in fact, that group was Larry 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.120 Jerry and myself and Mark Shift and we were eating 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.480 out in a restaurant and wait, just said something silly 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.320 and there was an opening and almost like we all 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.640 went around instantly and did the same joke but a 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.280 little different went Wow, that's that was your take. That 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.319 was your take and uh, and we just laughed at that, 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.079 the fact that we had the same idea and we 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.559 all went a little bit different way. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.560 So may I bring up so I watch a comedy 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.199 special not before you were even booked. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:51.920 That is really appreciated. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.640 And the thing that I single out one thing, not 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.600 that everything else wasn't brilliant, one thing that was got broken. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.079 I'm a lot more healthy than so the thing that 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.200 got me though, that was so broken. And you get 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.880 to that point when you're logging in and says, are 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:07.640 you a robot? 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.160 I love those tests because there's so few things that 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.920 I'm good at and those one I I crush them. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.000 I go, I know I'm already in, but give me 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:15.480 another one. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.640 I know, because there's always like a piece of one 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:20.480 in the corner of a blank. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.440 Yeah, And I go, do I click on that cross one? 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.679 Yeah? Yeah, you're either a robot or Jason Alexander. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.439 That's right. Yeah, but you're not getting it. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:32.360 There was when I go someone that I try to 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:33.320 trick you up, palm tree. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.439 Palm Well it could be a focus, right, hey, not 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.640 so fast that yes, yes, but it's it's it's interesting 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.320 with the technology that advance, the one thing that stops 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.160 a robot, we cannot attemptify a chimney. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.040 You put a chimney in with debt. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.120 Now, you say you took a twenty year break, but 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.599 were you and you were writing and running some of 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.240 the other things as well, But were you keeping sort 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.720 of a here's a. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.160 Little journal note I should make no real No, I wasn't. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.880 I think the brain's always putting doing that anyway, like 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.959 that's funny. But I wasn't keeping it because I I 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.640 had never intended. There were a lot of comics who say, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.720 you know who just actually got into stand up because 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.640 they want to get discovered and then they'll get a sitcom. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.720 And then they advanded it my our group of guys, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.400 we just loved stand up. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:25.200 That was the goal. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.240 So I never wanted to get out of it. And 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.319 I only got out of it because I like, when 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.040 Mad About You started, I was I don't know Jerry 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.439 managed to do it, others did it. I was like, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.640 that's a full time job and my brain is dead, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.120 and if I have a month off, I'm going to sleep. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.959 So and then I got really comfortable, and then we 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.000 you know, the show was over, and I said, I'm 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.720 going to take a year off, and and I didn't 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.040 always wanted to get back, but I didn't want to 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.559 just dig dust off the old act. So I just 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.880 kept waiting and waiting. I said it's time, and I 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.640 just started really from scratch. I had three minutes of 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.760 stuff in's you say, what's relevant? I'm not smart enough 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.880 to make anything up and I can only I'm going 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.000 to tell you what happened in my house. See if 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.200 this is funny, and most people go, oh, that happened 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.360 to my house, and lot George Colin used to call it, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:18.120 oh yeah comedy, like oh yeah yeah. So but you know, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.920 you find out that what you're going through is really universal. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.280 What was nice about coming back after all those years 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.679 and now this is post mad about you, so audiences 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.600 now they know you and they feel comfortable. It really 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.839 felt like getting together with old friends. It's like, we 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.840 know what's happening. Those babies that we had, they're growing 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:43.160 up now, right, Well, they's funny. So it was was 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.480 it was way overdue. I wish I had I don't 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.839 know wish, but I wanted to and I only was 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.439 procrastinating because I wanted to do it well. And what 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.439 I found was it was exactly going back when I 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.160 was sixty or whatever, felt exactly the same as when 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.959 I was eighteen. I went on audition night. It's like 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.040 just as excited, just as nervous. It's just as challenging, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.040 and there's no shortcut, like you can't you're not automatically better. Lo, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.160 you got to go up every night. And then a 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.840 year I felt it was a year before I said 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.160 I can maybe try to sell a ticket. No, even 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.760 the first club date I wait to the I would 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.360 just go to eight club and do fifteen minutes or 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.719 four minutes, and then eight minutes, ten minutes, I think 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.480 I can do it. At the first club date manager 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.120 booked it was like two shows with two shows in 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.400 one night. No, I'm in pajamas at eight thirty. That's 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.680 not gonna I can't do that. And to my surprise, 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:46.280 so we negotiated down to one and then of course 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.080 when it was over, I went give me another show. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.040 I realized I missed this. Wow, well it was great. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.959 Can I ask you that dumb question that I've never 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.079 just came to my mind? Thought, Jason's gonna call me 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.960 for asking Spust, how do you decide what to wear? 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.640 Whenever I watch a comedy special, I go, if you're 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.439 wearing the wrong thing for now and your stomach and 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.319 your thing, and it's going to be bad. How do 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.160 you test out what you wear? Because you were a 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.480 very nice outfit that worked. The shoes, worked the pants. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.800 But it's not a dumb question because it took me 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.040 while to realize. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.320 You test out what you wear because you were a 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.640 very nice outfit that worked, the shoes, worked the pants. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.160 It's not a dumb question because it took me while 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.840 to realize, I only feel comfortable with these shoes, and 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:39.840 I like to gee I don't like to wear a suit. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.160 It looks nice, but I don't feel comfortable in a suit. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.520 And and so I found a shirt. I went, let 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.680 me give me a lot of these shirts. And I 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.920 got a dozen of the same shirt. And then was 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.760 the special. I actually had a meeting with a wardrobe person. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.040 I said, well, this is not just me chilling it chuckles, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.160 I have to and they go, but you want to 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.560 be comfortable, I said, I'm just gonna wear exactly what 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.520 I wear. And uh, and if you need those shirts, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.240 by the way, we'll watch the shirts. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.480 I like the blue monitor. I'd like the things good. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:10.640 But there is there is a thing. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.880 As we've all gotten older, and I would imagine you 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.240 found this too. You find a uniform, whether it's for 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.080 home or for work. I was like, let me do this. A. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.440 It's comfortable. B. I don't want to think. I remember 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.840 Obama talking about that that one of the things like 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.640 when he got busy, is like, I'm going to cut 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.760 out all wardrobe decisions except one day I'm gonna wear 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:35.280 a cream colored suit. But that he stepped out of 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.160 the zone and then he got he got in trouble. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.880 But it's like, yeah, you know, just gonna here's what 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.280 I wear, Here's what I do. So is this it 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.880 is this the ni No? This is my Jason Alexander 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.600 put on a sweater. No, but yeah, yeah. Basically I'm 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.080 always wearing jeans in the sweater and if I step out, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:52.480 it's wrong. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.520 If you still have clothing you wear from Matt about 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.320 your for God's sake, because I'll tell you what you 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.480 want him. He's wearing two items right now from Cipher 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:01.560 and we just talked about. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.680 By the way, if you're a constant listener, we talked 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.800 about this in the last episode as well. So when 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.040 the show went down, what do you take? I don't 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.920 know what to take, so I took all my wardrobe. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.040 I remember, Yeah, but us thirty years now. 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:17.440 Look at his shirt. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.480 It's a classic. It's like a hemingway. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:21.520 You don't throw. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.480 I remember the when you're doing a show and we're lucky, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.520 we're privileged to be working on a show, and they 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.240 dress and slowly you start dressing just like your character 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.080 is you. Let's just close that gap. And then while 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.880 you're doing a show, Well, I got to do it 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.040 tonight show. I need a suit, get your suit. You 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.480 doing a thing? I have a wedding can give me 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.960 cut to afterwards, I went, I haven't been in a 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.720 store now it's nine years. I don't know how to 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.120 do that, and so I got to get a show 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.920 so somebody can buy their pants and somebody go take those. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.280 In when I shoot something. That's when I got closed. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.280 I have an insane foot. I have a five and 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.400 a half d so it's five five and a half. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.160 I wear a six shoe, but five and a half. 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.399 It was like those those little boxing dummies with the 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:18.800 little plastic feet that correct. So really, yes, shocked that 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.120 you can support your body weight. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.480 If you're listening the first time, this is my foot, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.639 and my foot ends here. My foot ends here. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.600 Your parents and they felt to see if there was 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.680 room in the shoe. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.359 One hundred and four episodes of the Sign Felt program 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.240 right there, these shoes still looking good brush suede. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:41.480 I always, I always. I always found it a bit sad, 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.600 little melancholy that you grow when you're growing as a kid. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.240 You you hit your final shoe size, but you don't 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.040 know it. And if I knew it on that day, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.880 I would have liked to celebrate. I'm a six, I'm an. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:54.560 Eight, I'm a nine. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.040 Oh no, it's staying then, but you don't know it 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:57.880 till you're twenty four. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:58.600 So that was it. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:17:59.640 I'm a nine and a half. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.840 The other the other observation this is this is, oh, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.760 come on, I'm having a senior moment. Everybody loves Raymond 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.480 ray it's raised joke. But his joke is I didn't 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.879 know the first time I slept with my wife that 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.879 I was choosing my side. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.840 For the rest of our time. To get that, which 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.520 is so true. It's these decisions you never realize is 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.320 the decision. Here's a phenomenon that I and my wife 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.480 cannot figure out. We have our sides, and if we 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.040 move to another house, it's the same. But when we 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.520 go to a hotel, we switch it and not delivered it. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.080 Not like, hey, let's freshen things up. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.080 My wife gets the side closest to the bathroom. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.120 That's why there is a slight element of macho. I'll 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.960 have the closest to the door so I can protect you. Yeah, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.000 so as first to go out, she's the first. 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.200 Yeah, yeah, I just feel feel I never say it 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.320 that way, but the really hotels do change up. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.920 And we'll go interesting. We switched we didn't know why. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.240 Yeah, but you're some of your biggest I mean really 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.560 some of your home runs are in really serious stuff 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.680 like does that surprise you or did you go nope, 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:11.919 I got this, no problem. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.919 I know it surprised me. I didn't really think too 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.400 much about it. I remember, I mean it was really 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.800 Aliens was the first thing. And it wasn't that it 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.080 was dramatic so much. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:21.359 It was. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.560 It was certainly non comedic, but I looked at it 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.119 more as like this is gonna be a huge this 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.679 is like oh absolutely, yeah, well Alien. The first one 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.639 was Jim Cameron had done, Done, terminated. I wrote, well, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.080 that's my home run right there, and then I read 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.000