WEBVTT - Gabriel Iglesias 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.240 Hello, this is Craig Ferguson letting you know that I 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.920 am bringing the Fancy Rascal Tour to the South this 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:09.240 weekend August fourth at gold Strike Casino Resort, Tunica Resorts, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.039 MS just outside of Memphis, and August the fifth at 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:19.280 Lowburg Casino and Hotel on Battle Rouge, Louisiana. For my tickets, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.239 go to my website, the Craig Ferguson Show dot Com 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:28.600 slash Tour. My name is Craig Ferguson. This podcast is 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.760 called Joy. It's not Rocket Science. I talk to people 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:39.280 I like about their pursuit of happiness. Here's Gabriel igleskis 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.159 one of the most successful comedians on Earth. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.880 Enjoy. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:54.880 Okay, So I was watching your stadium special last time. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.000 I think you might be the only comedian I know 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.200 who's ever done a stadium. Are you the only one 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.320 who's done a stadium? 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.600 No, Kevin Hart did it. He did it in Philadelphia 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.560 a few years ago. And I want to say, Larry 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.560 the Cable guy did one for a special at a college. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.679 And there's this comedian I forget his name. He's a 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.360 German comic, right, who was the one? He's got one 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.160 that he set the record, right, I know, right, Germany, 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:23.720 German comedy. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.559 He was a comedian. Was he Austrian? 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.880 And was it in Nuremberg, because that's like completely different. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.640 I was like, yeah, everyone was having a great time. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.080 They have a good time. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.520 So the actual uh, the Guinness Book of World Records 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.920 Biggest comedy show was set by a German many years ago. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.640 Uh yeah, I want to say it was sixty seven thousand. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.960 Year after that record. Aren't you know what That would 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.080 be a great goal. Yeah, it would be a great goal. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:51.840 I knew you were. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.720 I think when I watch you, because I'm a comedian 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.840 as well, I've never played a stadium, but I like 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.440 to think that I've got some chops a little. But 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.600 I'm watching you and this thing, especially because I'm moasted 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.600 it last night, and I'm thinking, you're playing this like 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.280 it's like it's a club like I've never You were 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.760 just relaxed. Didn't look to me like you were like 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.560 umpt or anything, which I think is amazing because I 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.160 know what it's like to get up there and to 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.720 feel the energy of a crowd and to try and 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.799 fight against your own tendencies just run around to make 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.240 a noise you know, it's like it was amazing. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.520 It was like, did you chant? Do you have a 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.799 meditation process? 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.920 Yeah, that's been a question, like what's his routine off stage? 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.440 Believe it or not. I'm just usually having a conversation 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.600 like this with somebody, either the tour manager or my 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.720 buddy Martine or somebody who's right there next to me 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.680 off stage. We're just chit chatting and tell the either 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.000 the intro video or the the you know, whoever is 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.639 introducing me, introduces me, you know what I'm saying, and 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.760 then you just go, yeah, So I just I'm having 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.240 a conversation. I know a lot of entertainers that like 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.440 to get in the zone. They light in sense, they 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.240 have to drink something, they have to smoke something, they 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.080 have to be in a corner, they got to you know, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.320 And I'd rather just have a conversation and just take 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.720 this and just keep going up there. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.320 It's almost weird, Gabriel. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.280 It's kind of like that because it's like when you 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.200 know the thing in Silence of the Lambs, which part 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:22.160 was in Silence of the Lamb when when they're describing 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.720 Hannibal Lectern and they said he they had the pulse 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.359 meet on him and he bent off a nurses ear 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:29.799 and his pulse didn't change. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.799 That's when they knew he. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.440 Was like a crazy He was so crazy that he 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.640 didn't even get a dreamal when he was doing it. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.880 Is that how crazy you are you don't even get 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:39.520 I do get excited. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.800 It's just that for that one in particular, I just 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.880 think that we were It was a year in the 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.000 making from the time that we planned it, and once 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.640 it was there, it was just, you know, it felt 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.200 very much like a homecoming. It felt like everybody there 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.360 wants me to do good. I felt like it was 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.600 a celebration of something bigger than me. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:58.080 You know. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.520 It wasn't like I was trying to go out there 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.840 and kill it. It was like everyone knew what it 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.080 took to be at that moment and we're all just 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:06.920 celebrating it. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.240 You are a very interesting comic to me as well. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.760 I think because you have no other comedian that I've 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.360 spoken to has the level of goodwill that you have. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.880 Everybody loves you. There's like everybody you can haters. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 No, well, I guess you can find them because you're 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:23.480 a comedian. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.520 Do you go looking for them? You don't go looking 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.720 for them. But you know, I do read my own 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.320 social media. I run my own social media, so I'm 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.000 looking at comments and stuff, and you know, people say, oh, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.760 you got to just brush it off, but it's you know, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:36.960 or not pay attention. But I have to pay attention. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.159 That's what makes me me. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:38.920 Yeah. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.840 So you know, but you know, every now and then 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.840 there's there's someone who doesn't get what I. 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.760 Do to get to you, does ever get to get 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:45.120 you done? 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.640 It makes me question, well, what is it that I'm doing? 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.520 What is you know, I've been in enough therapy sessions 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.960 to be able to question myself. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.680 Now do you get Do you get therapy? I mean 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:55.719 I've had a ton of therapy. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:57.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've done it for years. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.440 And I think it's interesting because you come a and 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.120 I think a lot of your audience think. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.520 Like, he's just a guy. He's the guy who says 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:05.240 funny things. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.480 But there's no such thing as just a guy who 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.159 says funny things in a stadium. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.000 That's not like a normal guy, you know. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.000 I mean, I know that you are normal in the 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.679 sense that you're not crazy, but you are a little 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.640 bit crazy because you're a stand up comedian, A lot 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.120 of it is about for me, I think everyone I know, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.240 and I know a bunch of them, there's a kind 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.320 of there's an energy in the darkness that goes with 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:28.320 it too, right. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.840 Yeah, definitely you have to have something going on with 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.920 you to want to get up on stage and get 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.840 the laughs and to make people smile and just you know, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:37.960 there's there's something there. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.880 What do you think it is with you? Because I 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.560 most people like talk to. I don't want to lead 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.599 the witness, but most people like talk to. I think 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.479 it's it's in childhood somewhere. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.239 I was about to say, I've always been a big kid. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.479 I've always been the last to get chosen for activities. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.360 I've always been the you know, the unpopular one, chubby kid, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.280 messed up teeth, you know, I had to act name. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.479 Being messed up teeth with just making it rmally you 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.080 know what it's like. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.880 Things that that, you know, kept me from being social 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.200 because people would you know, the kids were cruel, you know, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.480 I mean they bullying now is one thing, but back 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.159 then they added, ah, it was physical too. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:17.360 Yeah. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.120 So there was just a lot of that and I 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.280 think that once I found comedy, comedy was the it 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.720 was my hero, it was my savior. It's what protected 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.600 me and kept me from feeling all those different ways. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.320 Was that a conscious thing as a kid, because I mean, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.000 of course you hear comedians say it was. I used 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.200 it to protect myself and I and I did too, 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:36.760 but I didn't. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.479 I wasn't aware that I was doing that at the time. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.880 I was just like, you just do anathon available to 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.159 protect yourself. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.680 Right, comedy? 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.440 For me, I definitely knew that that's what it was doing, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.040 and it made me want to do it more. And 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.080 I loved it too. I love the attention. I love 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.280 the the thrill, the butterflies that you would get right 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:56.880 before you walk out on stage. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.440 When did you first start doing it? 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.240 I was ten years old the first time I tried it. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.200 I did a school talent show. I was up on 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:08.000 stage doing impressions. Because I didn't exactly know what comedy 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.200 was exactly. I had watched an Eddie Murphy special and 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.440 probably not the which it doesn't matter which one it is. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.320 It probably wasn't something that a ten year old should 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.160 be watching. But I love the fact that he was 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.120 doing the voices and the characters, and that's what I 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.600 was drawn to. I was drawn to the animated part 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.040 of it, not so much the foul language or whatever 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.000 else he was talking about. I was drawn to the 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.160 animated part. And I knew that I had this ability 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.160 of of altering my voice and playing. And so I 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.360 got a chance to audition for a school talent show 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.600 and they said, well, you know, what are you going 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.560 to do? I said, well, I did voices, and I 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.760 didn't know what really, you know, how to do comedy, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.240 But I knew that I had seen enough of a 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.080 guy by the name of rich Little way back in 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.960 the day. Remember oh impressionist Coors. Before I said it, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.640 he was he was really oh okay, yeah, yeah, So. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.880 I know exactly who you mean, because I was have 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:04.640 you done that yet? 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:05.000 No? 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.160 So you stay away from them. I stay away from too. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.200 I just I mean, that's I think that's the reason 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.320 why they asked me. I mean big, I used to 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.320 talk about it a little more of the night, do not. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.520 I'm like, no, it's just crazy. Did you ever talk 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.000 about it in the beginning? 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.680 I did when it wasn't so taboo, whereas now you 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.960 sneeze the wrong way and people are like, oh, oh, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:24.720 it's like that. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.480 Yeah, I mean you talk about that, was that in 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.440 the it was one of your specialists. You talk about 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.720 they're trying to somebody's trying to blackmail you. You like that, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.200 that face. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.120 But that's all the time though. I can't even say 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.760 that that's a one and done. People are always like, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.040 you know, once you have a little bit of success 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.520 or a lot of success, people want a piece of 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.000 the pie, and so they'll they'll try to you know, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.160 hey I got this photo of this, or hey I 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.240 saw you doing that, or you know. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.320 Are you a party animal? Not a party animal? 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.400 I'm forty six now, I just want I just want 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:55.959 to do my show and go and hang out my 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.520 dogs and grab a soda. I was more partying in 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.160 the in the twenty you know one of the when 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.840 I was twenty Yeah, twenty twenty five was I was 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:03.520 that was more so? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.720 Did you ever get like I was shocking drunk my twenties. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.520 I had to get so I would drink a lot. Yeah, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.640 I would drink a lot. Yeah. Did you did you 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:12.920 get to get out of hand? 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:13.720 Yeah? 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.839 I'm sure it did. See I knew I liked you. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.439 I'm sure there are photos, but you know what, it 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:20.160 was a different time. 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.400 You know, it's a different time a little bit. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.200 I feel sorry for a lot of the youngsters today 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.520 because I like, if there were cell phones around when 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.920 I was drinking, I mean, the level of embarrassment and 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.200 shame that they could. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.360 You had time to prepare if somebody was going to 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.200 take a photos like oh shit, look at me's getting 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:36.839 drunk hold on. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.120 Or the guy puts the black thing over his head 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:45.040 and you're upside down and you have to stay still and. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:50.480 Then the flask goes off. Gotcha? So that darkness then to. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.000 Answer your question from earlier, the voices and the characters 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.720 and yeah, yeah. I went up on stage and I 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.160 realized that I had something going there because that night 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.040 when I went up there and I was doing impressions 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.200 of pee Wee Herman, who at the time was you know, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:06.000 he was still Peewey Hermant, Peter Herman, Ronald Reagan, Popeye, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.240 Mickey Mouse. These are the characters I was doing when 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.960 I was ten years old, and the crowd reacted to 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.520 it and they're like, wow, look at him. And I 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.079 had a microphone and it was loud and I could 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.040 actually hear myself. It was the first time I worked 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.440 with the microphone even with me. I was like, oh wow, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.480 I'm onto something. And then I did the talent show 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.760 again the following year, and then I went seven years 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.959 before I was in high school. I got on the 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.480 speech team and that's where I got the courage to 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.360 get up in front of class. And then I just 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.400 started doing that every single day, getting up in front 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.240 of the class, until eventually I was just super comfortable 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.839 in front of people. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.320 And then once once I started doing school, I was no, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.560 it was it was. It was a shit school. Yeah, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:40.760 you know. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.880 I mean, I'm proud of because I graduated from it. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.520 Lombich Wilson, what's up. But there are many better schools, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.600 a lot better schools. But that's that's you know. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.160 It was a violent environment during that time. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.560 Yes, yeah, oh there was always school fights and rights 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.600 and the you know in the pot and stuff like that. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.280 A lot of a lot of comedians, I know, particularly 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.439 I avoided them, though I was in the mix the 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:01.240 schoolmash pit. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.240 But that I think because I think of you as 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.839 a I mean, if you were a British comedian, I'd 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.439 say you were a working class comedian, do you know 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.079 what I mean. It's like you're I feel like you're 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:12.880 I mean, this is a compliment. By the way, this 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.640 is like a blue collar guy. You're from a working 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.000 class environment, even to the extent you still. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.719 Know no silver spoon for sure. My mom and I. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.680 It was just my mom and I, no dad in 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.959 the picture section eight housing, public housing. We were on welfare, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.280 which is the wick of today. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.880 Yeah, you think that's part of it. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.080 My wife is a theory that all stand up comedians 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:32.840 have the same mother. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.559 Oh she's She was very strong, very strong, very very opinionated. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.520 Did not think I was a good comedian. She didn't 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:40.480 think I was a funny period. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.839 Yeah, see that, that's exactly. But I didn't need a fan. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.640 I needed a mom, right, I get it. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.000 But it's it's an interesting thing because I think it 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.880 takes you take your personality of a kid. If you're 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.520 like a chubby little kid who's afraid, because that's exactly 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.960 what I was when I was a kid. I was afraid, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.840 and you start being funny and you don't even know 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.800 you're funny, but you know that they're not hitting you 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.000 if you can divert their attention, right, It is a 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.360 kind of darks and then you get in a drinking. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:11.600 Were you ever in a drug taken? 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.200 Not really more of an advil PM kind of guy. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.640 Right, Yeah, you didn't go for it because I always 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.440 liked cocaine. I always thought it was a good vitamin 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.440 to help you drink more. I never I never thought 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.000 it was a drug. I just thought it was like 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.320 a drinker's vitamin, like a kind of like the way 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:28.520 the kids use Red Bull. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.080 Now it's dry red Bull. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.720 You never got into though, because because there's a I 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.920 think particularly you know, if you grew up in La, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.120 La has a real culture of you know, you get 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.080 drawn and all that. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.600 As a young per there was a lot of it around. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:47.240 You know. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.880 What's crazy is that I always heard stories where big 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.240 guys usually did not handle cocaine. Well, right, it was 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.800 always you know what, if you're big and you do blow, 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.000 then you're gonna die. You're gonna have a heart attack 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.959 and die because big guys can't hang. And so that 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.040 alone was more than enough to keep me scared straight 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.640 where I'm like, no, I'm big, I can't be doing that. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.640 I'll just I'll have a drink. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.720 So you didn't have a self destruct thing. It was 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.760 just like it was just like to get messed up. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:13.400 But it wasn't to. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.640 Destroy yourself but also too. I mean I worked a lot. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.480 I really focused, and I was so excited about doing 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.920 stand up where that's what I wanted to do. It 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.000 wasn't the party after that I was after. It was 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.200 actually the stage. Yeah, so you know I was just trying, like, Okay, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.240 where can I find another stage? 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.000 Where can I go up? 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.360 You know, this is before social media, so you actually 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.360 had to go and hang out with people, and like 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.280 you're at Denny's at two three o'clock in the morning 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.160 with other comics somewhere on something else. Some are just 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.880 there to do exactly what you're there to do. And 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.720 you know that was your social circle, and you know 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.840 you kind of built off of that. You'd say, Hey, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.640 can I get so and So's number? Can I call him? 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.679 You know, if he's booking, where can I send a tape? 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.240 You know, this is all stuff that you had to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.760 do back then. There was a lot of homework. You 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.440 wouldn't know any of these guys. Yeah, it was it 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:57.719 was a. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.720 When did you start? When did you start moving up? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.760 When did you start start working. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.440 I was very fortunate that I caught lightning in a 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.800 bottle really quick. So April tenth, nineteen ninety seven is 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.520 my first official start date where I called myself a comic. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.640 I was in Long Beach, which is where I live 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.040 now still and yeah, because. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.400 You like you drove here today in LA and it 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.160 was raining, and I was like, I can't believe you 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.200 didn't cancel the fact that I canceled. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.760 I nearly canceled, and I'm like five minutes from here. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.080 And I felt bad because I'm like, I'm a be late. No, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.080 I'm still coming, see, but I'm gonna be late. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.920 I think that's a that's what working here. That's that's 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.320 your mom did that. That's your mom did that. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:34.080 I sailed here. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.760 You have to get to that. You have to get there. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.840 If your mom of Scottish sad, you have to get there. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.600 Who do you think? 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:40.160 Yeah? 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.600 G Leno told me this thing that when he took 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.640 over the Tonight Show, it used to say the Tonight 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.600 Show is starring Johnny Carson, and then when he took over, 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.000 it said the Tonight Show starring Jay Leno. And he 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.640 told his mom and his mom said, well, his mom 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:57.320 was Scottish. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.400 He said, oh, the. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.000 Tonights was starting jaylen starting Jilano was that, who do 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.000 you think? Yeah, so you had to change it to 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.280 today Joe with Jileano. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.960 Because his mom, Because his mom, he's frightening. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.320 She also he was on the cover of Time magazine 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.400 and in Boston where he grew up, and his mom said, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.880 it's probably just the local Time magazine. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.840 He said, Mom, isn't the local Time magazine. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.640 See, I think moms are of comedians are kind of 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.200 like that, you know, they're kind of. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.280 They're the humblers. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.280 Yeah. Yeah, there was no time where I could brag 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.800 around my mom. No, unfortunately not she's been gone ten 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.640 years now. But I know that anytime I say something 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.320 out loud that that kind of like I could hear 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.720 my mom already, like how she would have reacted to that. Yeah. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:47.800 Yeah, it's interesting. I feel that. Okay, oh look at you. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.960 Oh that's exactly the Yeah, I wonder because you're you're 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.400 quite open. I say that. I don't know if you're open. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.200 You talk about your family and your act, you talk 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.560 about your son, and you're right, whenever I talked about 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.000 my kids, they don't like him, and they stopped me 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.440 doing it. They're like, Nope, that's done. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.120 That's where I'm at right now. Oh really saying you 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.440 gotta stop it. It took a minute. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.720 He didn't say I have to stop, but he made 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.080 it clear that he didn't appreciate it. And I didn't 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:19.440 want to keep doing it if it was going to 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.760 bother him, because I don't want the resentment and want 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.960 him getting you know, for me, I just saw it 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.480 as my form of parenting, because I'm like, you know, 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.640 before shaming was a thing. That's how you you make 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.120 fun of him, You embarrass him, You embarrass your kids 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.520 so that they wouldn't do it, And I figured embarrassing 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.840 him was better than spanking them. Yeah, it's better than 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.320 yelling at them. Hey, look, I'm just going to make 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.040 you feel stupid and hopefully you don't do that again. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.960 Well, it's get an interesting thing because doing that now, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.360 like people because I agree with you, is like somebody 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.640