Speaker 1: Hello, this is Craig Ferguson letting you know that I
Speaker 1: am bringing the Fancy Rascal Tour to the South this
Speaker 1: weekend August fourth at gold Strike Casino Resort, Tunica Resorts,
Speaker 1: MS just outside of Memphis, and August the fifth at
Speaker 1: Lowburg Casino and Hotel on Battle Rouge, Louisiana. For my tickets,
Speaker 1: go to my website, the Craig Ferguson Show dot Com
Speaker 1: slash Tour. My name is Craig Ferguson. This podcast is
Speaker 1: called Joy. It's not Rocket Science. I talk to people
Speaker 1: I like about their pursuit of happiness. Here's Gabriel igleskis
Speaker 1: one of the most successful comedians on Earth.
Speaker 2: Enjoy.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I was watching your stadium special last time.
Speaker 1: I think you might be the only comedian I know
Speaker 1: who's ever done a stadium. Are you the only one
Speaker 1: who's done a stadium?
Speaker 3: No, Kevin Hart did it. He did it in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: a few years ago. And I want to say, Larry
Speaker 3: the Cable guy did one for a special at a college.
Speaker 3: And there's this comedian I forget his name. He's a
Speaker 3: German comic, right, who was the one? He's got one
Speaker 3: that he set the record, right, I know, right, Germany,
Speaker 3: German comedy.
Speaker 2: He was a comedian. Was he Austrian?
Speaker 1: And was it in Nuremberg, because that's like completely different.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, everyone was having a great time.
Speaker 2: They have a good time.
Speaker 3: So the actual uh, the Guinness Book of World Records
Speaker 3: Biggest comedy show was set by a German many years ago.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I want to say it was sixty seven thousand.
Speaker 2: Year after that record. Aren't you know what That would
Speaker 2: be a great goal. Yeah, it would be a great goal.
Speaker 2: I knew you were.
Speaker 1: I think when I watch you, because I'm a comedian
Speaker 1: as well, I've never played a stadium, but I like
Speaker 1: to think that I've got some chops a little. But
Speaker 1: I'm watching you and this thing, especially because I'm moasted
Speaker 1: it last night, and I'm thinking, you're playing this like
Speaker 1: it's like it's a club like I've never You were
Speaker 1: just relaxed. Didn't look to me like you were like
Speaker 1: umpt or anything, which I think is amazing because I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to get up there and to
Speaker 1: feel the energy of a crowd and to try and
Speaker 1: fight against your own tendencies just run around to make
Speaker 1: a noise you know, it's like it was amazing.
Speaker 2: It was like, did you chant? Do you have a
Speaker 2: meditation process?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been a question, like what's his routine off stage?
Speaker 3: Believe it or not. I'm just usually having a conversation
Speaker 3: like this with somebody, either the tour manager or my
Speaker 3: buddy Martine or somebody who's right there next to me
Speaker 3: off stage. We're just chit chatting and tell the either
Speaker 3: the intro video or the the you know, whoever is
Speaker 3: introducing me, introduces me, you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 3: then you just go, yeah, So I just I'm having
Speaker 3: a conversation. I know a lot of entertainers that like
Speaker 3: to get in the zone. They light in sense, they
Speaker 3: have to drink something, they have to smoke something, they
Speaker 3: have to be in a corner, they got to you know,
Speaker 3: And I'd rather just have a conversation and just take
Speaker 3: this and just keep going up there.
Speaker 2: It's almost weird, Gabriel.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that because it's like when you
Speaker 1: know the thing in Silence of the Lambs, which part
Speaker 1: was in Silence of the Lamb when when they're describing
Speaker 1: Hannibal Lectern and they said he they had the pulse
Speaker 1: meet on him and he bent off a nurses ear
Speaker 1: and his pulse didn't change.
Speaker 2: That's when they knew he.
Speaker 1: Was like a crazy He was so crazy that he
Speaker 1: didn't even get a dreamal when he was doing it.
Speaker 2: Is that how crazy you are you don't even get
Speaker 2: I do get excited.
Speaker 3: It's just that for that one in particular, I just
Speaker 3: think that we were It was a year in the
Speaker 3: making from the time that we planned it, and once
Speaker 3: it was there, it was just, you know, it felt
Speaker 3: very much like a homecoming. It felt like everybody there
Speaker 3: wants me to do good. I felt like it was
Speaker 3: a celebration of something bigger than me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like I was trying to go out there
Speaker 3: and kill it. It was like everyone knew what it
Speaker 3: took to be at that moment and we're all just
Speaker 3: celebrating it.
Speaker 2: You are a very interesting comic to me as well.
Speaker 1: I think because you have no other comedian that I've
Speaker 1: spoken to has the level of goodwill that you have.
Speaker 2: Everybody loves you. There's like everybody you can haters.
Speaker 1: No, well, I guess you can find them because you're
Speaker 1: a comedian.
Speaker 3: Do you go looking for them? You don't go looking
Speaker 3: for them. But you know, I do read my own
Speaker 3: social media. I run my own social media, so I'm
Speaker 3: looking at comments and stuff, and you know, people say, oh,
Speaker 3: you got to just brush it off, but it's you know,
Speaker 3: or not pay attention. But I have to pay attention.
Speaker 3: That's what makes me me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, but you know, every now and then
Speaker 3: there's there's someone who doesn't get what I.
Speaker 2: Do to get to you, does ever get to get
Speaker 2: you done?
Speaker 3: It makes me question, well, what is it that I'm doing?
Speaker 3: What is you know, I've been in enough therapy sessions
Speaker 3: to be able to question myself.
Speaker 1: Now do you get Do you get therapy? I mean
Speaker 1: I've had a ton of therapy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've done it for years.
Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting because you come a and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of your audience think.
Speaker 2: Like, he's just a guy. He's the guy who says
Speaker 2: funny things.
Speaker 1: But there's no such thing as just a guy who
Speaker 1: says funny things in a stadium.
Speaker 2: That's not like a normal guy, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that you are normal in the
Speaker 1: sense that you're not crazy, but you are a little
Speaker 1: bit crazy because you're a stand up comedian, A lot
Speaker 1: of it is about for me, I think everyone I know,
Speaker 1: and I know a bunch of them, there's a kind
Speaker 1: of there's an energy in the darkness that goes with
Speaker 1: it too, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely you have to have something going on with
Speaker 3: you to want to get up on stage and get
Speaker 3: the laughs and to make people smile and just you know,
Speaker 3: there's there's something there.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is with you? Because I
Speaker 1: most people like talk to. I don't want to lead
Speaker 1: the witness, but most people like talk to. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's in childhood somewhere.
Speaker 3: I was about to say, I've always been a big kid.
Speaker 3: I've always been the last to get chosen for activities.
Speaker 3: I've always been the you know, the unpopular one, chubby kid,
Speaker 3: messed up teeth, you know, I had to act name.
Speaker 2: Being messed up teeth with just making it rmally you
Speaker 2: know what it's like.
Speaker 3: Things that that, you know, kept me from being social
Speaker 3: because people would you know, the kids were cruel, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean they bullying now is one thing, but back
Speaker 3: then they added, ah, it was physical too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So there was just a lot of that and I
Speaker 3: think that once I found comedy, comedy was the it
Speaker 3: was my hero, it was my savior. It's what protected
Speaker 3: me and kept me from feeling all those different ways.
Speaker 1: Was that a conscious thing as a kid, because I mean,
Speaker 1: of course you hear comedians say it was. I used
Speaker 1: it to protect myself and I and I did too,
Speaker 1: but I didn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't aware that I was doing that at the time.
Speaker 1: I was just like, you just do anathon available to
Speaker 1: protect yourself.
Speaker 2: Right, comedy?
Speaker 3: For me, I definitely knew that that's what it was doing,
Speaker 3: and it made me want to do it more. And
Speaker 3: I loved it too. I love the attention. I love
Speaker 3: the the thrill, the butterflies that you would get right
Speaker 3: before you walk out on stage.
Speaker 2: When did you first start doing it?
Speaker 3: I was ten years old the first time I tried it.
Speaker 3: I did a school talent show. I was up on
Speaker 3: stage doing impressions. Because I didn't exactly know what comedy
Speaker 3: was exactly. I had watched an Eddie Murphy special and
Speaker 3: probably not the which it doesn't matter which one it is.
Speaker 3: It probably wasn't something that a ten year old should
Speaker 3: be watching. But I love the fact that he was
Speaker 3: doing the voices and the characters, and that's what I
Speaker 3: was drawn to. I was drawn to the animated part
Speaker 3: of it, not so much the foul language or whatever
Speaker 3: else he was talking about. I was drawn to the
Speaker 3: animated part. And I knew that I had this ability
Speaker 3: of of altering my voice and playing. And so I
Speaker 3: got a chance to audition for a school talent show
Speaker 3: and they said, well, you know, what are you going
Speaker 3: to do? I said, well, I did voices, and I
Speaker 3: didn't know what really, you know, how to do comedy,
Speaker 3: But I knew that I had seen enough of a
Speaker 3: guy by the name of rich Little way back in
Speaker 3: the day. Remember oh impressionist Coors. Before I said it,
Speaker 3: he was he was really oh okay, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2: I know exactly who you mean, because I was have
Speaker 2: you done that yet?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: So you stay away from them. I stay away from too.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, that's I think that's the reason
Speaker 1: why they asked me. I mean big, I used to
Speaker 1: talk about it a little more of the night, do not.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, it's just crazy. Did you ever talk
Speaker 2: about it in the beginning?
Speaker 3: I did when it wasn't so taboo, whereas now you
Speaker 3: sneeze the wrong way and people are like, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: it's like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you talk about that, was that in
Speaker 1: the it was one of your specialists. You talk about
Speaker 1: they're trying to somebody's trying to blackmail you. You like that,
Speaker 1: that face.
Speaker 3: But that's all the time though. I can't even say
Speaker 3: that that's a one and done. People are always like,
Speaker 3: you know, once you have a little bit of success
Speaker 3: or a lot of success, people want a piece of
Speaker 3: the pie, and so they'll they'll try to you know,
Speaker 3: hey I got this photo of this, or hey I
Speaker 3: saw you doing that, or you know.
Speaker 2: Are you a party animal? Not a party animal?
Speaker 3: I'm forty six now, I just want I just want
Speaker 3: to do my show and go and hang out my
Speaker 3: dogs and grab a soda. I was more partying in
Speaker 3: the in the twenty you know one of the when
Speaker 3: I was twenty Yeah, twenty twenty five was I was
Speaker 3: that was more so?
Speaker 1: Did you ever get like I was shocking drunk my twenties.
Speaker 2: I had to get so I would drink a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would drink a lot. Yeah. Did you did you
Speaker 2: get to get out of hand?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm sure it did. See I knew I liked you.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there are photos, but you know what, it
Speaker 3: was a different time.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a different time a little bit.
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for a lot of the youngsters today
Speaker 1: because I like, if there were cell phones around when
Speaker 1: I was drinking, I mean, the level of embarrassment and
Speaker 1: shame that they could.
Speaker 3: You had time to prepare if somebody was going to
Speaker 3: take a photos like oh shit, look at me's getting
Speaker 3: drunk hold on.
Speaker 4: Or the guy puts the black thing over his head
Speaker 4: and you're upside down and you have to stay still and.
Speaker 2: Then the flask goes off. Gotcha? So that darkness then to.
Speaker 3: Answer your question from earlier, the voices and the characters
Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah. I went up on stage and I
Speaker 3: realized that I had something going there because that night
Speaker 3: when I went up there and I was doing impressions
Speaker 3: of pee Wee Herman, who at the time was you know,
Speaker 3: he was still Peewey Hermant, Peter Herman, Ronald Reagan, Popeye,
Speaker 3: Mickey Mouse. These are the characters I was doing when
Speaker 3: I was ten years old, and the crowd reacted to
Speaker 3: it and they're like, wow, look at him. And I
Speaker 3: had a microphone and it was loud and I could
Speaker 3: actually hear myself. It was the first time I worked
Speaker 3: with the microphone even with me. I was like, oh wow,
Speaker 3: I'm onto something. And then I did the talent show
Speaker 3: again the following year, and then I went seven years
Speaker 3: before I was in high school. I got on the
Speaker 3: speech team and that's where I got the courage to
Speaker 3: get up in front of class. And then I just
Speaker 3: started doing that every single day, getting up in front
Speaker 3: of the class, until eventually I was just super comfortable
Speaker 3: in front of people.
Speaker 2: And then once once I started doing school, I was no,
Speaker 2: it was it was. It was a shit school. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm proud of because I graduated from it.
Speaker 3: Lombich Wilson, what's up. But there are many better schools,
Speaker 3: a lot better schools. But that's that's you know.
Speaker 2: It was a violent environment during that time.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, oh there was always school fights and rights
Speaker 3: and the you know in the pot and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of comedians, I know, particularly
Speaker 2: I avoided them, though I was in the mix the
Speaker 2: schoolmash pit.
Speaker 1: But that I think because I think of you as
Speaker 1: a I mean, if you were a British comedian, I'd
Speaker 1: say you were a working class comedian, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like you're I feel like you're
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a compliment. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is like a blue collar guy. You're from a working
Speaker 1: class environment, even to the extent you still.
Speaker 2: Know no silver spoon for sure. My mom and I.
Speaker 3: It was just my mom and I, no dad in
Speaker 3: the picture section eight housing, public housing. We were on welfare,
Speaker 3: which is the wick of today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: My wife is a theory that all stand up comedians
Speaker 1: have the same mother.
Speaker 3: Oh she's She was very strong, very strong, very very opinionated.
Speaker 3: Did not think I was a good comedian. She didn't
Speaker 3: think I was a funny period.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see that, that's exactly. But I didn't need a fan.
Speaker 2: I needed a mom, right, I get it.
Speaker 1: But it's it's an interesting thing because I think it
Speaker 1: takes you take your personality of a kid. If you're
Speaker 1: like a chubby little kid who's afraid, because that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I was when I was a kid. I was afraid,
Speaker 1: and you start being funny and you don't even know
Speaker 1: you're funny, but you know that they're not hitting you
Speaker 1: if you can divert their attention, right, It is a
Speaker 1: kind of darks and then you get in a drinking.
Speaker 1: Were you ever in a drug taken?
Speaker 2: Not really more of an advil PM kind of guy.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you didn't go for it because I always
Speaker 1: liked cocaine. I always thought it was a good vitamin
Speaker 1: to help you drink more. I never I never thought
Speaker 1: it was a drug. I just thought it was like
Speaker 1: a drinker's vitamin, like a kind of like the way
Speaker 1: the kids use Red Bull.
Speaker 2: Now it's dry red Bull.
Speaker 1: You never got into though, because because there's a I
Speaker 1: think particularly you know, if you grew up in La,
Speaker 1: La has a real culture of you know, you get
Speaker 1: drawn and all that.
Speaker 2: As a young per there was a lot of it around.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: What's crazy is that I always heard stories where big
Speaker 3: guys usually did not handle cocaine. Well, right, it was
Speaker 3: always you know what, if you're big and you do blow,
Speaker 3: then you're gonna die. You're gonna have a heart attack
Speaker 3: and die because big guys can't hang. And so that
Speaker 3: alone was more than enough to keep me scared straight
Speaker 3: where I'm like, no, I'm big, I can't be doing that.
Speaker 3: I'll just I'll have a drink.
Speaker 1: So you didn't have a self destruct thing. It was
Speaker 1: just like it was just like to get messed up.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't to.
Speaker 2: Destroy yourself but also too. I mean I worked a lot.
Speaker 3: I really focused, and I was so excited about doing
Speaker 3: stand up where that's what I wanted to do. It
Speaker 3: wasn't the party after that I was after. It was
Speaker 3: actually the stage. Yeah, so you know I was just trying, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: where can I find another stage?
Speaker 2: Where can I go up?
Speaker 3: You know, this is before social media, so you actually
Speaker 3: had to go and hang out with people, and like
Speaker 3: you're at Denny's at two three o'clock in the morning
Speaker 3: with other comics somewhere on something else. Some are just
Speaker 3: there to do exactly what you're there to do. And
Speaker 3: you know that was your social circle, and you know
Speaker 3: you kind of built off of that. You'd say, Hey,
Speaker 3: can I get so and So's number? Can I call him?
Speaker 3: You know, if he's booking, where can I send a tape?
Speaker 3: You know, this is all stuff that you had to
Speaker 3: do back then. There was a lot of homework. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't know any of these guys. Yeah, it was it
Speaker 3: was a.
Speaker 1: When did you start? When did you start moving up?
Speaker 1: When did you start start working.
Speaker 3: I was very fortunate that I caught lightning in a
Speaker 3: bottle really quick. So April tenth, nineteen ninety seven is
Speaker 3: my first official start date where I called myself a comic.
Speaker 3: I was in Long Beach, which is where I live
Speaker 3: now still and yeah, because.
Speaker 1: You like you drove here today in LA and it
Speaker 1: was raining, and I was like, I can't believe you
Speaker 1: didn't cancel the fact that I canceled.
Speaker 2: I nearly canceled, and I'm like five minutes from here.
Speaker 3: And I felt bad because I'm like, I'm a be late. No,
Speaker 3: I'm still coming, see, but I'm gonna be late.
Speaker 1: I think that's a that's what working here. That's that's
Speaker 1: your mom did that. That's your mom did that.
Speaker 2: I sailed here.
Speaker 1: You have to get to that. You have to get there.
Speaker 1: If your mom of Scottish sad, you have to get there.
Speaker 1: Who do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: G Leno told me this thing that when he took
Speaker 1: over the Tonight Show, it used to say the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show is starring Johnny Carson, and then when he took over,
Speaker 1: it said the Tonight Show starring Jay Leno. And he
Speaker 1: told his mom and his mom said, well, his mom
Speaker 1: was Scottish.
Speaker 2: He said, oh, the.
Speaker 1: Tonights was starting jaylen starting Jilano was that, who do
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, so you had to change it to
Speaker 1: today Joe with Jileano.
Speaker 2: Because his mom, Because his mom, he's frightening.
Speaker 1: She also he was on the cover of Time magazine
Speaker 1: and in Boston where he grew up, and his mom said,
Speaker 1: it's probably just the local Time magazine.
Speaker 2: He said, Mom, isn't the local Time magazine.
Speaker 1: See, I think moms are of comedians are kind of
Speaker 1: like that, you know, they're kind of.
Speaker 2: They're the humblers.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there was no time where I could brag
Speaker 3: around my mom. No, unfortunately not she's been gone ten
Speaker 3: years now. But I know that anytime I say something
Speaker 3: out loud that that kind of like I could hear
Speaker 3: my mom already, like how she would have reacted to that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. I feel that. Okay, oh look at you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's exactly the Yeah, I wonder because you're you're
Speaker 2: quite open. I say that. I don't know if you're open.
Speaker 1: You talk about your family and your act, you talk
Speaker 1: about your son, and you're right, whenever I talked about
Speaker 1: my kids, they don't like him, and they stopped me
Speaker 1: doing it. They're like, Nope, that's done.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at right now. Oh really saying you
Speaker 2: gotta stop it. It took a minute.
Speaker 3: He didn't say I have to stop, but he made
Speaker 3: it clear that he didn't appreciate it. And I didn't
Speaker 3: want to keep doing it if it was going to
Speaker 3: bother him, because I don't want the resentment and want
Speaker 3: him getting you know, for me, I just saw it
Speaker 3: as my form of parenting, because I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: before shaming was a thing. That's how you you make
Speaker 3: fun of him, You embarrass him, You embarrass your kids
Speaker 3: so that they wouldn't do it, And I figured embarrassing
Speaker 3: him was better than spanking them. Yeah, it's better than
Speaker 3: yelling at them. Hey, look, I'm just going to make
Speaker 3: you feel stupid and hopefully you don't do that again.
Speaker 1: Well, it's get an interesting thing because doing that now,
Speaker 1: like people because I agree with you, is like somebody
Speaker 1: makes you feel dumb about doing something, you're less likely
Speaker 1: to do it again. And if it's done from a
Speaker 1: loving position, then that's fine. But I think the problem
Speaker 1: that I don't know, I think people are having with
Speaker 1: the younger generation right now is maybe that they don't
Speaker 1: handle any kind of contrary opinion very well. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's any to do with woke. I think decent
Speaker 1: people have always been decent people. But I think the
Speaker 1: idea of you know, I should have a hassle free
Speaker 1: life go, really, have you ever been on the four
Speaker 1: h five, Because there's no such thing so free life.
Speaker 1: It's like you're going to get hassled. It's just one
Speaker 1: of those things. I mean, you should get trained for
Speaker 1: it a little bit. Well, it is your boy now
Speaker 1: twenty five. Yeah, it's the type of stop hit you
Speaker 1: if you don't stop. Yeah, that's crazy. So when he
Speaker 1: was growing up, now you were, you were with his mom?
Speaker 3: Yes, I got him when he was seven's his step son.
Speaker 2: Yes, my mom would call him aftermarket. Yeah, I listen.
Speaker 2: I don't hold with that.
Speaker 1: I think love is love and family his family, and
Speaker 1: I don't buy into that kind of half brother, step
Speaker 1: sister all that. It's like, it's just it's a it's
Speaker 1: a way of kind of fine tuning the description, right.
Speaker 3: But my mom was pretty hardcore and set against me
Speaker 3: having any type of relationship with anyone that already had
Speaker 3: a what did she call it? She said, oh, that
Speaker 3: girl you're dating, she has a pre existing condition.
Speaker 2: I go Mom. I go, it's not a medical thing.
Speaker 2: She's got here. What's the big deal? You know?
Speaker 3: She goes, you need to have one of your own,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, Mom, it's fine.
Speaker 2: That's an interesting thing that you did. Your mom ever
Speaker 2: come round to it? Is she all right? In the end?
Speaker 2: You know what? She was not?
Speaker 3: Really she was just cool, like okay, fine, But she
Speaker 3: wasn't going out of her way to be like hey,
Speaker 3: come here, hey.
Speaker 2: Let me you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was more so just like all right, he's here, cool, hello,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: And trying to get my mom to change that was
Speaker 3: that was a mission in itself. And I think, just again,
Speaker 3: we're in a time now, we're now, we're that person,
Speaker 3: and now it's like, okay, so.
Speaker 1: She I mean, she lived long enough to see you
Speaker 1: get very successful. Yes, all right, so which must have
Speaker 1: kind of freaked around a little bit, you think.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't know, because I mean I was working
Speaker 3: so much and she didn't exactly like watch me on
Speaker 3: television or anything like that. She knew I was always
Speaker 3: working because you know, we would talk daily, where are
Speaker 3: you at now? Where are you at now? When you're
Speaker 3: coming home. I'm hungry, take me to eat. So she
Speaker 3: wanted to know. When I was, I was like, go
Speaker 3: and pick her up a take her to eat and
Speaker 3: tell her about my week and stuff like that. But
Speaker 3: I don't think that she knew that it was going
Speaker 3: to get to where it is now.
Speaker 2: It's pretty so.
Speaker 1: Many people go to where you are now though, I
Speaker 1: mean it's kind of like stratispheric.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 1: The Craig Ferguson Fancy Rascals Stand Up Tour resumes this summer.
Speaker 1: For tickets, go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com
Speaker 1: slash tour.
Speaker 2: See you on the road. Where do you see it
Speaker 2: going comedically?
Speaker 1: I mean there is I talked to you about the
Speaker 1: idea of going after that German Guys record for the
Speaker 1: biggest comedian show ever, and maybe.
Speaker 2: That is that? Is that it?
Speaker 1: Or are you happy? Are you still happy playing? You know,
Speaker 1: a club with two hundred people in it?
Speaker 3: I'm very happy with being able to Like I shoot,
Speaker 3: I was at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio this
Speaker 3: past weekend and the room seats maybe two fifty three hundred,
Speaker 3: and I was having a great time. I loved it.
Speaker 3: It's it's you're right there with the people. But don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, I love being gold driven. So having
Speaker 3: something to you know, work towards how can you outdo
Speaker 3: yourself because you know, a lot of times I think
Speaker 3: that people get into the you know, competition of oh,
Speaker 3: what's that guy doing, what's that guy doing, what's that
Speaker 3: guy doing? Whereas I find myself like, all right, how
Speaker 3: can I outdo what I did last time? Versus trying
Speaker 3: to figure out, Oh, this person's doing this, this person's
Speaker 3: doing that. That's why it's like people kept saying you
Speaker 3: should do a podcast, but I'm like, that's not me though,
Speaker 3: or you should Yeah, you should be either do this
Speaker 3: kind of show.
Speaker 2: You go to point. Yeah, I think it goes with
Speaker 2: your driver's licenses.
Speaker 1: If you want to have a you know, or get
Speaker 1: avoid getting audited by the tax pan or something, you
Speaker 1: have to do it, you know.
Speaker 3: But as far as what's the next goal, I think
Speaker 3: it would be awesome because honestly, I contemplated retiring at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium. I thought about retiring because of the fact
Speaker 3: that I'm like, can I outdo this? Is this the
Speaker 3: biggest thing I'm ever gonna do? And if it is,
Speaker 3: what better way to hey, thank you good night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you should do that.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not a therapist, but I think that would
Speaker 1: be a bad idea.
Speaker 2: I think I'd miss it. You miss it. I think
Speaker 2: it would turn on you. I think that.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you don't I don't have to be
Speaker 1: an expert in the human condition to what you do
Speaker 1: stand up and go.
Speaker 2: That guy has got demon So that's the only way
Speaker 2: you get up there.
Speaker 1: You don't get up there just ah, he's just a
Speaker 1: guy goes to Red Lobster.
Speaker 2: He goes to Red Lobster with his kid and they
Speaker 2: have a nice time to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does do that, but you know there, you know,
Speaker 1: there's gotta be some dark in that fuel. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be some I think it would turn on you. The
Speaker 1: thing I think I'm going to say something to you
Speaker 1: that this is not by way of advice observation. I
Speaker 1: spent a long time. I was talking to some guys earlier,
Speaker 1: but as I worked with Mick Jagger for a little
Speaker 1: while writing a screenplay, and so I was on tour
Speaker 1: with the roland Stones.
Speaker 2: And I watched Keith Richards.
Speaker 1: Keith Richards is just as happy with the Rolling Stones
Speaker 1: being that band as he would be if it was
Speaker 1: in a ship band playing in a pub in North London.
Speaker 2: As long as.
Speaker 1: He's playing the guitar, he doesn't really care. Nothing else
Speaker 1: really matters. And I think you have a little bit
Speaker 1: of that as long as you're doing the show. Like
Speaker 1: you said, you know, you just you just like to
Speaker 1: get up there. You want to get up there.
Speaker 2: You know. I think if you were not doing that,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: It would it would come get you. I think you'd
Speaker 1: find a way to.
Speaker 2: To get something would happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess with me, the problem is is that
Speaker 3: I'm afraid of all the work that I've put in
Speaker 3: over these years because this is your twenty six now
Speaker 3: for me, and I'd be afraid of like getting to
Speaker 3: a certain point. And then because it's not every day
Speaker 3: you could say you saw your peak, right, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I don't know if this is the peak. I
Speaker 3: don't know if it is. I mean, it's the highest
Speaker 3: point I've reached so far.
Speaker 1: Right, But is it all about professionalism? Are their ambitions personally?
Speaker 1: Would you like to sail around the world, would you
Speaker 1: like to, you know, get repped in Climb Mount Everest.
Speaker 1: Is there the other goals outside of performance?
Speaker 3: Outside of performance, I mean done a lot of traveling,
Speaker 3: been a lot of places, seen a lot of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're always doing a show.
Speaker 3: No, it was always around a show. I've never taken
Speaker 3: a vacation just to take a vacation, and that that
Speaker 3: blows people away too, that you know, No, I get
Speaker 3: I just do not go anywhere like for me, I
Speaker 3: don't see a vacation as a vacation that I'm doing
Speaker 3: all the things I don't like doing about comedy without
Speaker 3: the comedy. So what I gotta get on a plane.
Speaker 3: I gotta go to the airport, I gotta get on
Speaker 3: some shuttle bus. I gotta check into a hotel. I
Speaker 3: gotta worry about bed bugs. I gotta worry about you
Speaker 3: know all that. And you don't get there somewhere to eat.
Speaker 2: You know what's going to be the situation once we
Speaker 2: get there? How are you flying an airplanes? I'm fine.
Speaker 3: I usually uh we fly private, right, fly private, but
Speaker 3: mostly if it's for my dogs. I travel with my dogs,
Speaker 3: and so you know, they keep me happy. Let's tu
Speaker 3: chiuawas they go anywhere, they go everywhere. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: usually fly with them and if they're not going with me,
Speaker 3: on fly commercial.
Speaker 2: Right, But you don't have any fear of flying things?
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I feel like I want to try
Speaker 1: and find out what's kind of making you tech and
Speaker 1: I think you kind of you're luding me, not on purpose,
Speaker 1: I just can't put my finger on it, which I
Speaker 1: think is fantastical.
Speaker 2: Nice. No, I think that's I think it's great. I mean,
Speaker 2: they gotta break them down. I canna break them down
Speaker 2: right now. I don't feel broken.
Speaker 1: I feel kind of I'm quite intrigued by because I
Speaker 1: think you're a very singular human being. I think that
Speaker 1: you must be very strong emotionally, are you?
Speaker 2: Do you think you said.
Speaker 3: People depends setting boundaries. I think it's the boundaries are
Speaker 3: only as good as the person who you're trying to
Speaker 3: set them with.
Speaker 1: Really be sure, because I think some people like need
Speaker 1: stricter kind of information you could tell them.
Speaker 3: But I think a lot of times people are just
Speaker 3: gonna do whatever they want to do, and so you
Speaker 3: got to be selective about who you.
Speaker 2: Surround yourself with, and you're careful.
Speaker 3: I try to be, But there's some people that have
Speaker 3: I guess been grandfathered in because they've been around so
Speaker 3: long and you just know, like, ah, don't talk about
Speaker 3: this around this person, don't bring up that. And you know,
Speaker 3: I see that start to stop Watch.
Speaker 1: That's an age, I think because after that too, because
Speaker 1: like young people is like if they don't agree, they're
Speaker 1: not friends. I'm like, I'm like, I have friends who
Speaker 1: are like awful, But what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2: It's my friend, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know that guy's a racist, to go
Speaker 1: he is, he's a terrible racist, But what am I
Speaker 1: gonna do?
Speaker 2: He's my friend.
Speaker 1: It's like that thing like Megan Markle and Prince Harry
Speaker 1: said there's a racist in the royal family and I'm like, no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a family.
Speaker 1: If you don't know who the racist is in your family,
Speaker 1: it's because it's you know, you're the racist.
Speaker 4: You're the Yeah, It's it's crazy. It's like Grandpa's going
Speaker 4: to make a speech. No he is not one of me.
Speaker 4: Speech he's no. I mean, do you find because your
Speaker 4: Mexican heritage, right, have you encountered I don't know, have
Speaker 4: you encountered prejudice from any angle? Because of that do you.
Speaker 2: Think you know?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: But I think a lot of times it's like, am
Speaker 2: I overthinking it? Am I? Am I looking into it?
Speaker 1: More?
Speaker 2: Am I?
Speaker 3: Am I looking for it? Versus is there something that's
Speaker 3: clearly like am I clearly being held back or being
Speaker 3: challenged or being you know, made to feel less than?
Speaker 3: Because I mean, we've gone to some places where you know,
Speaker 3: stereotypically it would not go well, right, and it does.
Speaker 3: And I think that For example, there's been some shows
Speaker 3: that we've done where I'm doing meet and greets afterwards
Speaker 3: and there's people coming up and they've got Confederate flags
Speaker 3: on the T shirts and the tag twos and you
Speaker 3: could tell that, you know, they might have set a
Speaker 3: racial slur or two in their day. Yeah, but uh,
Speaker 3: for some reason, around me, it's weird to like, you know,
Speaker 3: you think you're gonna get one thing and then it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I'll have people say things like we were
Speaker 3: eating at a at a Mexican restaurant before we came
Speaker 3: to see you, because we knew we were coming to
Speaker 3: see you, so we wanted to go eat some tacos
Speaker 3: and drink some Mexican soda before we came to see you,
Speaker 3: and part of me wants to go the what the
Speaker 3: hell does that even mean? But it's like when you
Speaker 3: hear what they're saying, it's like they're trying to find
Speaker 3: a way to connect and be close, even all the
Speaker 3: way that they're saying. What they're saying is just like
Speaker 3: are you come on? And so you want to get offended,
Speaker 3: but you realize sometimes sometimes people don't know any better.
Speaker 3: They have the best of intentions, but they don't know
Speaker 3: how to convey it. And so you're like, all right, okay,
Speaker 3: I'll get people. Oh lah, I'm a big fan of yours.
Speaker 3: You know, I want to be your amigo. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like like, okay, you you are a fan clearly,
Speaker 3: but your approach is just.
Speaker 2: I can I can very much relate people. People come
Speaker 2: up to me and go, oh, Shrek Ferty don't like really,
Speaker 2: it makes me feel weird. It's like I don't know Shrek,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: I do know Shrek, but I don't.
Speaker 2: We don't get along all right. Do you speak Spanish? Yes?
Speaker 2: I do. Do you do gigs in Mexico?
Speaker 3: I recently performed in Mexico, but I don't perform in Spanish.
Speaker 3: It loses a lot in the translation. And then depending
Speaker 3: on what part of Latin America you're in, you're in,
Speaker 3: you know the slang. It's it's very different, right.
Speaker 1: You interested in that because you know Eddie as as
Speaker 1: a friend of mine and Eddie she performs in lots
Speaker 1: of different languages, Like Eddie will go to France and
Speaker 1: not even speak French and then learn the act fanatically
Speaker 1: and then perform it as as an experience.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: That it's crazy, right, But I think you have a
Speaker 1: little bit of that in the sense of because you
Speaker 1: work with the sound, Like the amount of voices you
Speaker 1: do in a show is crazy, like the different like
Speaker 1: you can do my voice. I heard you do it
Speaker 1: in that Setcolm that you did for Netflix.
Speaker 2: You did a.
Speaker 1: Scottish accent that way that's actually oh bad, And nobody
Speaker 1: can do a Scottish accent and you can do it.
Speaker 1: And I think you have that fanantic thing, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: I think you should try a gig in Spanish.
Speaker 3: I you know what I've I've done. I've performed in
Speaker 3: Spanish for fifteen twenty minutes, right, and so I in
Speaker 3: my head I translated it and trying to you know, like,
Speaker 3: all right, here we go, right, and it went, okay,
Speaker 3: you know, I've opened up for Mexican Spanish speaking comics.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 3: We actually made it a challenge where I opened up
Speaker 3: for a comic by the name a Francois Camilla who's
Speaker 3: massive in Spanish, and I challenged him, all right, now
Speaker 3: you got to.
Speaker 2: Open for me two minutes in English. Did he do it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we both did, and we both agreed that we
Speaker 3: should never do that again.
Speaker 2: It was a horrible idea. My there, No, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: i'dn't love to see that.
Speaker 3: It was, you know, it was it was cool to
Speaker 3: say that we tried it. And I'm like, okay, because
Speaker 3: the show that I opened for him in Mexico City
Speaker 3: at the Arena, he was saving a Netflix special and
Speaker 3: I went out there and it was just like wow,
Speaker 3: Like it was because I was really I had to
Speaker 3: really think about what I was saying, and that was
Speaker 3: messing with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had him open for me at Staple Center when
Speaker 3: it was still Staple Center, and again he was back
Speaker 3: there and he's just sweating bullets and you know, he's
Speaker 3: talking to me and he's like, oh my yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: So it was. But the fact that Eddie can do that,
Speaker 2: I think, I.
Speaker 1: Know, but I think it's it's something to do with
Speaker 1: maybe a musician's brain.
Speaker 2: Are you a musician?
Speaker 3: My whole family they're all singers, songwriters, and you know,
Speaker 3: a priest. It's the weirdest combination of No.
Speaker 1: That to me is like I used to recipe for
Speaker 1: a stand up a priest and a musician mixed together.
Speaker 3: That's on my On my father's side, it's it's priest.
Speaker 3: There's priest and Mariachi's So if there's a priest, I know,
Speaker 3: you see is a problem. But that's why I usually
Speaker 3: just say Mariacci and kind of just whateveres everybody else
Speaker 3: do They're just you know, they're spiritual.
Speaker 1: Right, So that is so there's the spiritual side. And
Speaker 1: are you a musician though? Do you play anything?
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. I'll get drunk and do karaoke
Speaker 3: and that's the extent of it.
Speaker 1: You still get drunk, Yeah, good for you, Good for you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get in the way of what I don't
Speaker 1: know life. I mean, for me, I can't get drunk
Speaker 1: or I'm like things get arresty, or I just hate myself.
Speaker 3: You know, I hate the next day when you're dealing
Speaker 3: with a hangover or if you have a flight, or
Speaker 3: if you have to be functional.
Speaker 2: Right, that's when it's.
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, for me, that that next day is kind
Speaker 1: of about three months.
Speaker 3: I remember being on the road having a good time
Speaker 3: and then you know, no big deal, wake up the
Speaker 3: next morning, go to the airport. You know it was
Speaker 3: all good. And then you know as soon as I
Speaker 3: hit forty that stopped. Now because you're a big guide, yes,
Speaker 3: And back to that question about setting goals and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, you know, traveling or whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: my goal has always been, you know, if I could
Speaker 3: just you know, do this would be to lose weight.
Speaker 3: I'd be lying if I if I didn't say that
Speaker 3: the weight lost art.
Speaker 2: It's really hard.
Speaker 1: I mean I I struggle with it, and I really do.
Speaker 1: I struggle with it all the time, and I get
Speaker 1: crazy about it sometimes. How do you approach it, trying
Speaker 1: to lose weight?
Speaker 2: Well, clearly I haven't. I don't know something.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is not my heaviest I was actually
Speaker 3: from right now, I've been I was one hundred pounds heavier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I filled in the couch. That's crazy. Well, congratulations
Speaker 2: on that. That's incredible.
Speaker 3: Feet there was a point in time where a comedian
Speaker 3: arrest in peace. Ralphie May and I were very hyah,
Speaker 3: very close. But yeah, during COVID, I had an opportunity
Speaker 3: to get a trainer and then I'm diabetic, so I
Speaker 3: want to go see a doctor and I got put
Speaker 3: on some you know, good medication to control that and
Speaker 3: that helped out so that automatically, without even really you know,
Speaker 3: having to do much, the weight to started coming off
Speaker 3: because I wasn't eating out every night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were home. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Cook.
Speaker 2: Did you get it? Did you get COVID? Yes?
Speaker 3: I got COVID one time. I know people that got
Speaker 3: it four, which I think is insane. I've had it twice.
Speaker 2: It's well, no counting no because I feel like I might.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I feel a bit monkey POxy, but I'm okay. COVID vice,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. I've just been checked. It's fine.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, do you want to draw
Speaker 2: up more?
Speaker 3: I do, and not so much for like, oh I
Speaker 3: want to look better, but i'd rather you know, I'm
Speaker 3: coming up on the age now where it's like I
Speaker 3: might want to start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you got to think about it for sure.
Speaker 2: It's a thing that's that's more so the thing like okay,
Speaker 2: I just you know, to feel better, right, So what
Speaker 2: do you do about it? Do you fast?
Speaker 1: Do you like on Gwyddeth Powers was bowling soup.
Speaker 2: Or something nice.
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything yet to make that change. I
Speaker 3: think I got to get it right here first and
Speaker 3: then I can.
Speaker 2: Do it, yeah, because I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to just start and then be like all right,
Speaker 3: that didn't work out and then just feel like I've failed.
Speaker 1: I think for goal orientated people like you, I think
Speaker 1: weight loss is even harder because you try and make
Speaker 1: a goal for it and people say make a goal,
Speaker 1: make a goal, and don't. I don't see it like that.
Speaker 1: I think it should be like it's today, today's the goal.
Speaker 3: I get a lot of people to say, oh, it's
Speaker 3: just it's a lifestyle change.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a change of lifestyle, like is it a
Speaker 2: diet or am I you know what do you mean lifestyle? No,
Speaker 2: it's just today. It's like you know what, am I
Speaker 2: going to have a candy bar?
Speaker 1: Never?
Speaker 2: Or no? All right, I won't have it now that's it.
Speaker 1: That's only I mean, that's why I had to do
Speaker 1: to stop drinking, because the idea, even though I haven't
Speaker 1: had a drink in thirty one years, but the idea
Speaker 1: of no ever drinking again, I'm not prepared to make
Speaker 1: that commitment, you know. I just like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to have one today.
Speaker 3: And that is very impressive because I'm sure you've been
Speaker 3: putting a lot of situation where the alcohol is right
Speaker 3: in front of you.
Speaker 2: Live in Scotland. Man, it's like you lost in the window.
Speaker 1: It's like it's right there, go buddy, right, you'll have
Speaker 1: something like no, I don't want a dark come out.
Speaker 2: Have you ever played Scotland?
Speaker 3: No, I haven't, But actually I will be playing it
Speaker 3: very soon. Really, Yes, it'll be the first time. I know.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the UK, I'm doing London and I'm going
Speaker 3: to be doing.
Speaker 2: Lat's Goo Edinburgh. There will be one of those. It's
Speaker 2: going to be one of them. Yeah, it's coming up.
Speaker 2: It maybe both, it might be both know it's coming up.
Speaker 2: I want to come and see you. I want to
Speaker 2: come and see you in front of a Scotch crowd.
Speaker 1: They'll eat you up, they'll love you you'll kill over there.
Speaker 3: I've heard of all the festivals and all the comedy
Speaker 3: shows that have happened there, and I'm just like, how
Speaker 3: have I not gone well?
Speaker 1: I think because you were successful enough you didn't have to.
Speaker 1: I mean the the Edinburgh fess of Elizabeth. Really, for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, it's about getting started, you know.
Speaker 1: So if you're doing well in the United States, you don't.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be on your radar if you were, if
Speaker 1: you were an up and coom comic in the UK.
Speaker 3: But it would be more so like to just get
Speaker 3: my foot in the dorm and at least you know,
Speaker 3: like all right, you know, for example, like with Montreal,
Speaker 3: Montreal was always.
Speaker 1: The judge for last festival. Yeah yeah, You've done that right.
Speaker 2: Yes, multiple times.
Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, even now where it's like
Speaker 3: I don't have to, but I like going because then
Speaker 3: I can catch up with a lot of comics I
Speaker 3: haven't seen.
Speaker 1: Them, see that I do the same thing. So as
Speaker 1: far as like, hey, so who do you who do
Speaker 1: you hang with? Who do you like and who do
Speaker 1: you rate in the comedy world? Now, who do you
Speaker 1: like seeing do stand up?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: My favorite comedians are comics who don't do what I do,
Speaker 3: which is basically like comics that get very controversial political
Speaker 3: comics that that touch on topics that like, yeah, I've
Speaker 3: intentionally avoided in order to maintain the stylistic choice.
Speaker 2: I mean, Gaffickings like that as well. Jim Gaffigan.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know Jim, but jem Is
Speaker 1: is like he's as cranky and cussy as any other comedian,
Speaker 1: you know, but he said, I made a show. He
Speaker 1: keeps his show totally clean. He keeps it, you know,
Speaker 1: family friendly. Atlanta is the same.
Speaker 2: I mean, Atlanto can cause like a sailor, you know,
Speaker 2: anytime you I've seen someone scratch one of his cars,
Speaker 2: he can cuss.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but but he doesn't do that in
Speaker 1: his eye.
Speaker 2: He keeps it, keeps it. I wish I could.
Speaker 1: I keep trying and then I just one or two
Speaker 1: slip out every time.
Speaker 3: I remember I was talking to Jim Jim. Jefferies is
Speaker 3: one of my favorites. Bill Bar, Jeff Jeffers, Bill Burr,
Speaker 3: Tom Segura, He's an all great Chapelle. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: I love, I love these performers are incredible. I was
Speaker 3: doing Jim Jeffrey show. And after the show was over,
Speaker 3: you know, we're in the bathroom just that and there
Speaker 3: I go, I go, Jim, can I just tell you something?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I go, I go, I envy your freedom on stage
Speaker 3: to say anything you want and feel good about it.
Speaker 3: He looks at me and he goes, I envy your money.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah that's fair. I think that to shave
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about doing a show where you
Speaker 1: could just unleash.
Speaker 2: From time to time?
Speaker 3: I will, you know, I won't keep it as squeaky
Speaker 3: clean as let's say, Jim Gaffigan would, but you know
Speaker 3: in my set, I will I do cuss in my show.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll do a show. Yeah. It doesn't come
Speaker 2: across like you're doing a clean show.
Speaker 3: It's but it's not every other word. You know, there's
Speaker 3: some times that it's like a tick. It's just it
Speaker 3: comes out every two seconds. But I'm very selective. So
Speaker 3: if I'm telling a story where there's a big statement
Speaker 3: to be made and I insert it there and it's
Speaker 3: like okay, you know right, and it's and it's impactful. Oh,
Speaker 3: he doesn't use that a lot. He dropped his F
Speaker 3: bomb card you know, but it's not.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you're right, because then then it's
Speaker 2: got some power if you use it all the time.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't or any power.
Speaker 1: Do you ever go and see comics like I know,
Speaker 1: some people like hang out in the comedy store. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to hang like that. I can't really
Speaker 1: do it. You know, you you hang with other comedians.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: The comedy Store is one of those places that in
Speaker 3: the beginning, I always felt like it was super clicky
Speaker 3: and I didn't feel like I fit in right. There
Speaker 3: was always these groups of comics and I just like
Speaker 3: should I It felt really off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's scary. It's like high school, isn't it. I
Speaker 2: hated it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a chance to perform there recently and I
Speaker 3: had a great time. It was really really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're one of the biggest comics in the
Speaker 1: fucking world.
Speaker 2: That's why everybody's like, oh, yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Was different now. Yeah, but uh yeah. I was never
Speaker 3: one to hang out. I didn't want to hang out
Speaker 3: at the club. I wanted to just go in do
Speaker 3: my thing. If there was somebody that I enjoyed watching,
Speaker 3: i'd watch them, but then let me just leave to
Speaker 3: not get caught up and things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's very smart because
Speaker 1: the I think also it's very stand up comedian, to
Speaker 1: be honest, because I think they are solitary animals. We're
Speaker 1: kind of loan predators really, and the idea of that
Speaker 1: we'd all be. It's been people say the Hollywood community
Speaker 1: is full of evil, twisted people. I'm like, have you
Speaker 1: ever been to Hollywood? There's no fucking community in show business.
Speaker 2: All these people are out for themselves, for themselves, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, we all get together and make a decision. No,
Speaker 2: we don't. You know, there's no there's no uniformity of
Speaker 2: thought here. I don't think. Where would you go to live?
Speaker 2: Because you still live down in the old neighborhood? Right? Yah?
Speaker 2: I still the momach.
Speaker 3: I live literally four minutes away from where I basically,
Speaker 3: you know, grew up. I live very close to my
Speaker 3: my old neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Is that manageable because you've got to be highly recognizable
Speaker 1: down there and people getting well.
Speaker 2: I guess it's la you're in your car a lot,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 3: It's I'm close to where I used to live, but
Speaker 3: it's not where I used to live, so it's very
Speaker 3: you know, different, and if I think if people know
Speaker 3: where you're at, that's that's one thing people do see
Speaker 3: me driving around, you know, and I freak with the
Speaker 3: same you know, Starbucks or wherever you know I'm going.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, like hey, hey, it's him.
Speaker 2: Do you ever get uncomfortable with that?
Speaker 1: Because it's like every time you go out, especially now
Speaker 1: with the way phones are you're on, it's like any
Speaker 1: mistake you make, any little bit of road rage, any
Speaker 1: picking your nose in the car, any like, you know,
Speaker 1: passing gas and the lane at Starbucks. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I've ever done that, but I might have. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna record you.
Speaker 3: We got good days and we have bad days. If
Speaker 3: I'm not feeling good, I try not to go out,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean that I'm not gonna have a
Speaker 3: moment of weakness where I'm you know, getting upset over
Speaker 3: the way someone's driving or or or somebody messing with you.
Speaker 3: Because I have people that will mess with me intentionally
Speaker 3: to drive through and I'm trying to maintain and it's
Speaker 3: hard sometimes if people want to challenge you, they want
Speaker 3: to get a rise out of you.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because and they're holding your food hostage.
Speaker 3: I already paid for this. Can I just get my thing?
Speaker 3: Say hey, say hi to my Say how to my sister?
Speaker 3: Say how to my sister. Man, she's your biggest fan.
Speaker 3: Your brother has my food, and if I don't say hi,
Speaker 3: he's not going to give me my food. He mat
Speaker 3: throw some ranch while I'm talking to your sister. Now
Speaker 3: it's like a negotiation, Like negotiate to get my food.
Speaker 3: So I gotta don't you have staff? You should have staff.
Speaker 3: But see, that's the thing though, is that I don't
Speaker 3: want to I don't want to have to rely on
Speaker 3: staying in my own little box and sending people out
Speaker 3: to the real world to go get me things I don't.
Speaker 3: Then that feels like I'm disconnected. I'd rather go out
Speaker 3: there and if nothing else, it'll be a story.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I mean. I'd rather. I'd rather.
Speaker 2: I still want to live.
Speaker 3: The only time I get concerned is if if I
Speaker 3: have my dogs with me, which is most of the time,
Speaker 3: and people.
Speaker 2: With you today.
Speaker 3: I was going to bring them, yeah, man, I was
Speaker 3: going to bring them. They've been on a lot of
Speaker 3: TV shows. Uh you, Yes, I have German shepherds. You
Speaker 3: have real dogs.
Speaker 2: They're pretty good. Actually, you can't put them in your hoodie.
Speaker 2: I can put my dogs in my hoodie.
Speaker 1: But you can actually get your You could send a
Speaker 1: German shepherd to buy you a hoodie.
Speaker 2: I like, yes, okay, which color would you like? Your turn? Presently?
Speaker 2: What's the correct change? I love that you gave the
Speaker 2: dog the accent German? What accent? I don't know. You
Speaker 2: know what, well, you have a voice for everything. You
Speaker 2: gotta have a voice for your dog. Yeah, yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: You don't have to share it with me. I don't
Speaker 2: want to know.
Speaker 4: But it's I don't want to hold be the guy
Speaker 4: holding your food right now?
Speaker 3: No, I have I have you know, I'll do a
Speaker 3: little like you know, the hey daddy, I want this
Speaker 3: or that, But they don't have like accent like it.
Speaker 2: Ba, Why don't you put me in your right? It's
Speaker 2: not like, yeah, make my dog. I feel bad like
Speaker 2: I force you. Mexican my dogs?
Speaker 1: No, their Mexican dogs. About the Yeah, did you have
Speaker 1: them growing.
Speaker 3: Up from the age of twelve until now? I've always
Speaker 3: had a Chihuahua.
Speaker 2: How long did chihuahua's live? You know what? Small dogs
Speaker 2: live a long time. Yeah, they go for a while.
Speaker 3: They live a long time. I had one chiuaa that
Speaker 3: lived to be almost nineteen. Wow, my oldest right now
Speaker 3: she's gonna be she's right around seventeen, okay, and the
Speaker 3: other one's twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you know I like German Shepherds twelve that's
Speaker 2: kind of the bigger the dogs. Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 2: won't have Like, I like big dogs, but you can't,
Speaker 2: you go, they just break your heart.
Speaker 1: So I have two German Shepherds and a Jack Russell okay,
Speaker 1: which is very different.
Speaker 2: Is like an Irish Chihuahua. Nice, Like what the fuck
Speaker 2: you look at at? Yah? Fucking bottar, fucking right? But
Speaker 2: they are crazy? Are your dogs aggressive?
Speaker 3: They're aggressive whenever someone comes near me, if someone approaches
Speaker 3: me like quick, okay. That's why any of the oh
Speaker 3: my god, they react to.
Speaker 2: So that's why you keep them in your hoodie.
Speaker 3: In the hoodie or in the car and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So whenever somebody approaches the car, I'm concerned more so
Speaker 3: for my dogs, not so much for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't travel with security, right, maybe on the road.
Speaker 3: It depends on where I'm at. When I was in
Speaker 3: Mexico City reforming, I had four armed guards, which I
Speaker 3: thought was excessive.
Speaker 1: But they're like, things can get there, Like I could
Speaker 1: not be down there sometimes, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like if you're a high proffil here too.
Speaker 1: Though yes they can, it's not like it's not like
Speaker 1: a kidnapper can't say, let's not talk about this. It's
Speaker 1: freaking me out. I don't know why I even brought
Speaker 1: this up. I'm talking about kidnap and now I'm worried
Speaker 1: about kidnappers.
Speaker 3: I've had a I had a break in in December.
Speaker 3: They broke into my house, and I thought my place
Speaker 3: was like solid.
Speaker 1: I would fucking move if someone broke out of my eyes,
Speaker 1: I'd leave.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those things where people say, oh, well,
Speaker 2: what do they take? I go. They took my peace
Speaker 2: of mind, is what they did. You know.
Speaker 3: I had a giant I still have a giant fence
Speaker 3: that surrounds the property, multiple camera systems, a security system. Still,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm lucky that they weren't home. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: had them with me, so I was like, Okay, just
Speaker 3: look at the brightside. But as far as it's traveling
Speaker 3: with security, you know, it depends on I don't think
Speaker 3: that I need an actual like team of people, but
Speaker 3: it's always good to have somebody there to just be
Speaker 3: the go between. Where like, if a bunch of people approach, Hey, okay,
Speaker 3: he'll take a picture. Can you get them all in line? Like, folks,
Speaker 3: please get together, form a line. He'll be happy to
Speaker 3: take a full Keep the peace, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: before it gets chaotic, because if I get people coming
Speaker 3: at me from every angle, and then again, if I
Speaker 3: have my dogs with me, I'm only worried about my dogs.
Speaker 2: Are you romantically involved right now? I mean I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna no.
Speaker 3: I was in a relationship for almost thirteen years. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm still good friends with my ex.
Speaker 2: But how long ago did that end? Been a few
Speaker 2: years now, about four, four or five. That's time, man,
Speaker 2: you know. So it's that we're cool. Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: mean it's time. It's time you get it. Oh, start
Speaker 2: going out. I've gone out. I got a nice scout
Speaker 2: for you in Scotland. Oh nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've gone out on a few dates and it's
Speaker 3: just like okay, and I'm like, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go home and set my thermostat to whatever
Speaker 3: temperature I want, and I'm gonna play with my dogs.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna fart and just call it a night because
Speaker 3: I can.
Speaker 2: You can do that when you're married too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to be obligated to do things
Speaker 3: that don't make me feel like a better person.
Speaker 2: Why the fuck should you get away with it?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm just making up my mind that I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think I want to. I don't want to
Speaker 3: do the relationship thing anymore. I'm okay at first when
Speaker 3: I when I first broke up, Oh man, I was
Speaker 3: just like, I want, I want someone I need. I've
Speaker 3: never been alone, right, and uh, you know it took
Speaker 3: some time to get used to that and appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Do you have a space do you think in your
Speaker 1: life if someone blows your mind to come out.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say never or or no. But
Speaker 3: I haven't met that. You know, that hasn't happened yet, right,
Speaker 3: And it has to be somebody that's on board with
Speaker 3: what I do.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be fair. You know, anyone
Speaker 1: who meets he was going to know what you do.
Speaker 1: It's not like you go.
Speaker 2: And so what do you do, Gabriel, do you have
Speaker 2: a where do you work?
Speaker 3: But you know, even in the past, you know, when
Speaker 3: I was I've been doing this in twenty six years,
Speaker 3: so I've had a couple of relationships where they knew
Speaker 3: what I did. And I tried to explain, Hey, look,
Speaker 3: you think it's cool and it's fun right now, but
Speaker 3: it's gonna get crazier. Yeah, I'm gonna be working more.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be more opportunities. And I don't want to
Speaker 3: say no to potential opportunities because you don't you know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna miss me or this or that.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately, and you know, it got to a point
Speaker 3: where there was a lot of resentment. I remember I
Speaker 3: had gotten a deal with Netflix for for a sitcom
Speaker 3: and when I told her about it, she goes, well,
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you, but I'm not.
Speaker 2: Happy for us. Why, she says, because.
Speaker 3: That's just more time that you're away. And I'm just like,
Speaker 3: all right, now I'm feeling bad for.
Speaker 1: Bad about getting a sitcom deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and so it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, see my wife, if I said I
Speaker 1: gotta deal with Netflix, she'd say, how much is it?
Speaker 2: And I tell us to go. That's so great. I'm
Speaker 2: so proud of you.
Speaker 1: So there are people out there that are, you know,
Speaker 1: going to be very cool with you.
Speaker 3: But then too, I don't know who to trust, you know,
Speaker 3: because they're they're meeting this one right here, versus that's who.
Speaker 2: You are in industry, but it's who you are.
Speaker 1: Like I remember once when I was in I can't
Speaker 1: remember i was. I was dating some girls years and
Speaker 1: years ago. I've been married forever, but years ago, and
Speaker 1: somebody said to me, she's just going out with you
Speaker 1: because of who you are, And I'm like, but that's
Speaker 1: whure I am. So of course she's going. I don't
Speaker 1: want her to go out with me because I'm somebody else.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 1: What if you find like, like a female comedian.
Speaker 3: Oh god, no, god, no.
Speaker 1: Why because you don't understand the game and you know, no, okay, man.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm sitting there at the dinner table and she's
Speaker 3: trying to tag my ship. I'm like, nah, no, no,
Speaker 3: now we're good.
Speaker 2: You know. If you said that, I feel bad. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I do think you seem to me, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know you very well.
Speaker 2: We've talked a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But you seem to me and you come across as
Speaker 1: a very warm, loving, sensible human being. And maybe that's
Speaker 1: what human beings are like when they're not in relationships,
Speaker 1: make they're fair.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do remember I talking to do you know what
Speaker 1: the Broadway performer Kristin Chenning was, I know the name.
Speaker 2: She's very talented, big.
Speaker 1: Star on Broadway, and I remember her talking about she was,
Speaker 1: you know, very committed to being single, and she was
Speaker 1: talking about what she does requires rest and solitude that
Speaker 1: and a relationship doesn't afford her.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's true?
Speaker 3: I think it depends on who you're with well, because
Speaker 3: you know, and then also too, there's because in the beginning,
Speaker 3: in the beginning, it's always great, it's always great. In
Speaker 3: the beginning, you're both both trying to make each other
Speaker 3: as happy as possible, and you're both giving it everything.
Speaker 3: And then little by little, you know, one starts giving
Speaker 3: more and one starts given less, and then that's when
Speaker 3: you start getting that. So I think depends on where
Speaker 3: you're at, where you get that piece, all right, because
Speaker 3: towards the end of mine, it was just, you know,
Speaker 3: it was so oh.
Speaker 1: When they go bad, they go bad. Yeah, It's it's
Speaker 1: like fish. And once it goes off, it ain't coming back.
Speaker 2: It ain't. It ain't coming back, no, I know.
Speaker 3: But I do miss that whole being close to someone, having,
Speaker 3: you know, being able to just you know, sit on
Speaker 3: the couch, you put your leg on somebody like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know that. I mean stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I do. I do miss simple little things, little car ride. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it what it is.
Speaker 1: It has some whoever for me anyway, because I've been
Speaker 1: in a one successful relationship and a bunch of relationships
Speaker 1: that were so successful, and it seems to me that
Speaker 1: the person has to be your friend like that, like
Speaker 1: your partner has to be your friend too. And if
Speaker 1: you say, hey, I just got to deal with Netflix,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about that, they would be really excited
Speaker 1: for you to genuinely, and if it was something that
Speaker 1: was going to get in the way, you go, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to come with the set, now,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And it's like it's to be part of it.
Speaker 1: But sometimes do you find it easy to share your
Speaker 1: success with someone who's close.
Speaker 3: I used to try to share as much of it
Speaker 3: as I could, and then for some reason, it felt
Speaker 3: like I was bragging through their eyes. It didn't feel
Speaker 3: like I was sharing anymore. I felt like, am I
Speaker 3: coming across like a like I'm bragging to this person?
Speaker 2: Is it sharing?
Speaker 3: How are they looking at it? Because the good for
Speaker 3: you and way to go started? You know, it was
Speaker 3: less and less and less. Yeah, And it was more
Speaker 3: so like, am I making this person feel bad? Because
Speaker 3: I continue to like things started just snowballing where it's like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, and then this happened today, and then
Speaker 3: this happened today, and then with success comes like opportunities
Speaker 3: to meet people, to do different things and experiences and
Speaker 3: you're just like wow. And the only person I was
Speaker 3: able to totally just share things with was my mom,
Speaker 3: and she was never gonna look at it like you know,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't. There's no way I could brag to
Speaker 3: my mom.
Speaker 2: Look at your world, traveler, OUI look at you. Can
Speaker 2: you even pick up a phone to call his?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh you listen, you don't have to explain that
Speaker 2: mom thing to me.
Speaker 3: I totally understand, but sharing your what you do with people.
Speaker 3: I found that I had to cut back because I
Speaker 3: was not making people happy by sharing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm just like, well, you know, are people
Speaker 2: happy for me? Not happy? You know?
Speaker 1: It just weird some I mean, success is a weird thing.
Speaker 1: It's that thing. Bette Midler said, no everybody. One of
Speaker 1: the most disappointing things about success is finding out that
Speaker 1: no everybody is happy for you.
Speaker 2: Actually that's very true. It's a little different. You, sir,
Speaker 2: are a joy.
Speaker 1: I really love talking to you, and whatever you've got
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: I would tell you, but I don't feel bad about it. No,
Speaker 2: I think I think whatever I think, whatever you got going.
Speaker 1: On is, you know, it's so I'm so I can't
Speaker 1: tell you. See, I've lapsed into German dog accent now
Speaker 1: in order to disguise how I truly feel.
Speaker 2: It's been great talking to you. Man. Continued success.
Speaker 1: I hope you get that record of the giantest, biggest
Speaker 1: thing in the world, and I think it will be.
Speaker 3: I gotta see what that next big goal is going
Speaker 3: to be. But until then, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 1: I think take play a state, you know, like if
Speaker 1: you've got to a Stadium. I think the next thing
Speaker 1: is to start with a small state. Said like, I'm
Speaker 1: going to play Rhode Island and it's the whole state.
Speaker 1: The whole state has to be there. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: work your way up to Texas or something.
Speaker 2: To start in Rhode Island. Just a small state and
Speaker 2: then you see how it goes. You're good man, thank you.
Speaker 3: What not to Pa