WEBVTT - Gabriel Iglesias 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.720 Hello, mydeas. The Joy podcast will be taking the holidays off. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.200 I hope you can too and have a lovely time 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.079 however you like to spend it, and with whomever you 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.440 like to spend it with. We'll be back on January 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.960 the fourteenth with the Lovely Lisa Lobe. That's more alliteration 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.479 than I thought I was going to have when I 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.919 started talking today. But there you are, the Lovely Lisa 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.520 Lobe on the fourteenth of January, and have a lovely 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.640 holiday time, my friends. Be careful, stay safe, see you soon. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.400 My name is Craig Ferguson. This podcast is called Joy. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:39.280 It's not Rocket Science. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.720 I talk to people I like about their pursuit of happiness. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:50.159 Here's Gabriel Iglesias, one of the most successful comedians on Earth. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.360 Enjoy. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:02.680 Okay, So I was watching your or stadium special last 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.040 I think you might be the only comedian I know 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.679 who's ever done a stadium. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.280 Are you the only one that's done a stadium? 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.640 No, Kevin Hart did it. He did it in Philadelphia 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.600 a few years ago. And I want to say, Larry 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.600 the Cable Guy did one for a special at a college. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.720 And there's this comedian I forget his name. He's a 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:23.840 German comic. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.200 Right, who was the one? 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.479 He's got a special one that set he set the record, right, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.760 I know, right, Germany, German comedy. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.600 He was the comedian. Was he Austrian? 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.920 And was it in Nuremberg because that's a completely different 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.679 I was like, yeah, everyone was having a great time. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.920 We have a good time. So the actual, uh, the 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.000 Guinness Book of World Records Biggest comedy show was set 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.600 by a German many years ago. Yeah, I want to 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.680 say it was sixty seven thousand. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:55.320 Year after that record. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.960 Aren't you know what? That would be a great goal. Yeah, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.120 it would be a great goal. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.560 And you you're so I think when I watch you, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.440 because i'm a comedian as well, I've never played a stadium, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.800 but I like to think that I've got some chops 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.880 a little bit. But I'm watching you and this thing, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.600 especially because I'm watched it last night, and I'm thinking, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.200 you're playing this like it's like it's a club like 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.240 I've never You were just relaxed. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.600 Didn't look to me like you were like umped or. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.960 Anything, which I think is amazing because I know what 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.760 it's like to get up there and to feel the 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.239 energy of a crowd and to try and fight against 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.360 your own tendency to just run around to make a noise. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.440 You know. It's like it was amazing it like did 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.840 you chant? Do you have a meditation process? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.960 Yeah, that's been a question, like what's his routine off stage? 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.480 Believe it or not. I'm just usually having a conversation 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.640 like this with somebody, either the tour manager or my 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.760 buddy Martine, or somebody who's right there next to me 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.720 off stage. We're just chit chatting and tell the either 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.040 the intro video or the the you know, whoever is 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.760 introducing me, introduces me, you know what I'm saying, And 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.600 then yeah, so I just I'm having a conversation. I 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.800 know a lot of entertainers that like to get in 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.200 the zone. They like incense, They have to drink something, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:10.960 they have to smoke something, they have to be in 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.959 a corner, they got to you know, and I'd rather 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.600 just have a conversation and just take this and just 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:17.760 keep going up there. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.320 It's almost weird, Gabriel. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.320 It's kind of like that because it's like when you 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.240 know the thing in Silence of the Lambs, which part 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:30.600 was in Silence of the Lamb when they're describing Hannibal 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.000 Lectern and they said he they had the pulse meet 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.440 on him and he bent off and nurses the ear 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:37.840 and his pulse didn't change. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:38.920 That's when they knew. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.400 He was like a crazy He was so crazy that 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.680 he didn't even get a dreamal when he was doing it. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.000 Is that how crazy you are you don't even get 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:47.560 I do get excited. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.840 It's just that for that one in particular, I just 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.920 think that we were It was a year in the 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.040 making from the time that we planned it, and once 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.680 it was there, it was just, you know, it felt 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.280 very much like a homecoming. It felt like everybody there 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.400 wants me to do good. I felt like it was 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.320 a celebration of something bigger than me. You know. It 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.640 wasn't like I was trying to go out there and 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.160 kill it. It was like everyone knew what it took 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.120 to be at that moment and we were all just 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:14.960 celebrating it. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.320 You are a very interesting comic to me as well. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.799 I think because you have no other comedian that I've 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.400 spoken to has the level of goodwill that you have. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.919 Everybody loves you. There's like everybody you can find haters. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.000 No well, I guess you can find them because you're 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:31.520 a comedian. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.559 Do you go looking for them? You don't go looking 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.800 for them. But you know, I do read my own 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.400 social media. I run my own social media, so I'm 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.040 looking at comments and stuff, and you know, people say, oh, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.840 you got to just brush it off, but it's you know, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.000 or not pay attention. But I have to pay attention. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.200 That's what makes me me. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:46.960 Yeah. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.880 So you know, but you know, every now and then 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.880 there's there's someone who doesn't get what I. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.440 Do to get to you, does ever get to you 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.160 to get you done? 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.680 It makes me question, well, what is it that I'm doing? 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.560 What is you know, I've been in enough therapy sessions 0:04:58.600 --> 0:04:59.919 to be able to question myself. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.680 Now do you get Do you get therapy? I mean 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:03.760 I've had a ton of therapy. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.960 Yeah, yeah, I've done it for years. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.720 And it's interesting because you come across and I think 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.440 a lot of your audience think like. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.279 He's just a guy. He's the guy who says funny things. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.520 But there's no such thing as just a guy who 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.200 says funny things in a stadium. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.039 That's not like a normal guy, you know. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.039 I mean, I know that you are normal in the 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.719 sense that you're not crazy, but you are a little 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.680 bit crazy because you're a stand up comedian. A lot 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.160 of it is about for me, I think everyone I know, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.280 and I know a bunch of them, there's a kind 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.359 of there's an energy in the darkness that goes with 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:36.440 it too, right. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.880 Yeah, definitely you have to have something going on with 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.960 you to want to get up on stage and get 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.800 the laughs and to make people smile and just you know, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.000 there's there's something there. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.880 What do you think it is with you? Because I 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.640 most people like talk to. I don't want to lead 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.640 the witness, but most people like talk to. I think 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.520 it's it's in childhood somewhere. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.279 I was about to say, I've always been a big kid. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.520 I've always been the last to get chosen for activities. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.400 I've always been the you know, the unpopular one, chubby kid, 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:05.560 messed up teeth, you know. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.880 I had to acting messed up teeth with just making 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:08.400 it normally. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:08.560 You know. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:10.240 It's like. 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.920 Things that that you know, kept me from being social 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.280 because people would you know, the kids were cruel, you know, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.520 I mean they bullying now is one thing, but back 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.720 then they added, uh, it was physical too. Yeah, so 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.159 there was just a lot of that, and and I 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.320 think that once I found comedy, comedy was the it 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.760 was my hero, it was my savior. It's what protected 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.640 me and kept me from feeling all those different ways. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.360 Was a conscious thing as a kid, because I mean, 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.039 of course you hear comedians say it was I used 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.240 it to protect myself and I and I did too, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:44.800 but but I didn't. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.520 I wasn't aware that I was doing that at the time. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.919 I was just like, you just do anathing available to 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.080 protect yourself, right. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.040 Comedy For me, I definitely knew that that's what it 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.640 was doing, and it made me want to do it more. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.159 And I loved it too. I love the attention, of 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 the thrill, the butterflies that you would get right before 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.960 you'd walk out on stage. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.480 When did you first start doing it? 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.280 I was ten years old the first time I tried it. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.240 I did a school talent show. I was up on 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:16.040 stage doing impressions. Because I didn't exactly know what comedy 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:20.240 was exactly. I had watched an Eddie Murphy special and 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.480 probably not the which it doesn't matter which one it is. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.360 It probably wasn't something that a ten year old should 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.200 be watching. But I love the fact that he was 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.160 doing the voices and the characters, and that's what I 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.640 was drawn to. I was drawn to the animated part 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.080 of it, not so much the foul language or whatever 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:39.760 else he was talking about. I was drawn to the 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.200 animated part. And I knew that I had this ability 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.360 of altering my voice and playing. And so I got 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.920 a chance to audition for a school talent show and 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.880 they said, well, you know, what are you going to do? 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.120 I said, well, I did voices, and I didn't know 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.400 what really, you know, how to do comedy, But I 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.640 knew that I had seen enough of a guy by 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.960 the name of rich Little way back in the day Mary. Oh, yeah, impressionist. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.640 He did the White House correspond the year before I 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:07.000 said it. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.680 He was he was really oh okay, yea yeah, So. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.080 I know exactly who you mean, because I have you 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.920 done that yet? No, So you stay away from I 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.560 stay away from too. I just I mean, that's I 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.360 think that's the reason why they asked me. I mean 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.400 a big I used to talk about it a little 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:22.360 more of the night, do not. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.800 I'm like, no, it's just crazy. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.160 Did you ever talk about it in the beginning? I 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.120 did when it wasn't so taboo, whereas now you sneeze 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.320 the wrong way and people are like, oh oh, it's 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:32.760 like that. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.520 Yeah, I mean you talk about that was that in 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.480 the It was one of your specialists. You talk about 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.760 they're trying to somebody trying to blackmail you like that, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:41.280 that fate. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.160 But that's all the time though. I can't even say 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.760 that that's a one and done. People are always like, 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.079 you know, once you have a little bit of success 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.560 or a lot of success, people want a piece of 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.040 the pie, and so they'll they'll try to you know, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.199 hey I got this photo of this, or hey I 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.160 saw you doing that, or you. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.720 Know, are you a party animal? 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.280 Do you not a party animal? I'm forty six now 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:02.800 I just want to I just want to do my 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.840 show and go and hang out my dogs and grab 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.200 a soda. I was more partying in the in the 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.120 twenty you know when I was When I was twenty Yeah, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.880 twenty twenty five, that was I was. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.240 That was more so did you ever get like I 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 was shocking drunk? That was my twenties. I had to 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:16.480 get so. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.640 I would drink a lot. Yeah, I would drink a lot. Yeah. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.959 Did you did you get to get out of hand. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:22.480 Yeah, I'm sure it did. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:24.880 See I knew I liked you. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.440 I'm sure there are photos. But you know what, it 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.200 was a different time. 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.439 You know, it's a different time a little bit. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.240 I feel sorry for a lot of the youngsters today 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.560 because I like, if there were cell phones around when 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.960 I was drinking, I mean, the level of embarrassment and 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:40.240 shame that they could. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.400 You had time to prepare if somebody was going to 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:43.400 take a photos like, oh. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.920 Look at me's getting drunk hold on or the guy 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.840 puts the black thing over his head and you're upside 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.319 down and you have to stay still and then the 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:54.160 flask goes off. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.720 Gotcha? So that darkness. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.559 Then we'll answer your question from earlier voices and the 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.760 characters and stuff. I went up on stage and I 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.200 realized that I had something going there because that night 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.040 when I went up there and I was doing impressions 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.240 of pee Wee Herman, who at the time was you know, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:14.080 he was still pee Wee Hermant, Petere Herman, Ronald Reagan, Popeye, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.280 Mickey Mouse. These are the characters I was doing when 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.000 I was ten years old, and the crowd reacted to 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:20.559 it and they're like, wow, look at him, and I 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.120 had a microphone and it was loud and I could 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.040 actually hear myself. It was the first time I worked 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.439 with the microphone. Even with me. I was like, oh wow, 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.320 I'm mont to something. And then I did the talent 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.480 show again the following year, and then I went seven 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.920 years before I was in high school. I got on 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.480 the speech team and that's where I got the courage 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.240 to get up in front of class. And then I 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.199 just started doing that every single day, getting up in 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.880 front of the class, until eventually I was just super 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.120 comfortable in front of people. And then once once I 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.480 started doing school, I was no. It was. It was 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.679 a shit school. Yeah, you know. I mean I'm proud 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.000 of because I graduated from it. Lombich Wilson, what's up. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.520 But there are many better schools, a lot better schools. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.640 But that's that's you know. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.840 It was a violent environment. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.800 During that time, yes, yeah, oh there was always school 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.000 fight and rights and the you know, on the pot 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:02.640 and stuff like that. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.839 That's a lot of a lot of comedians, I know, particularly. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.280 I avoided them though. I was, yeah, the schoolmash pit. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.280 But that I think because I think of you as 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.920 a I mean, if you were a British comedian, I'd 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.319 say you were a working class comedian. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:17.800 You know what I mean. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.719 It's like you're I feel like you're I mean, this 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.480 is a compliment. By the way, this is like a 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.000 blue collar guy. You're from a working class environment, even 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.360 to the extent you still know no. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.240 Silver spoon for sure. My mom and I. It was 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.200 just my mom and I, no dad in the picture 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.240 section eight housing, public housing. We were on welfare, which 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.320 is the wick of today. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.480 Yeah, you think that's part of it. My wife is 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.880 a theory that all stand up comedians have the same mother. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:45.599 Oh she's She was very strong, very strong, very very opinionated. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.560 Did not think I was a good comedian. She didn't 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:48.520 think I was funny. Period. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.960 Yeah, I see that, that's exactly. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.040 But I didn't need a fan. I needed a mom, right, 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:54.679 I get it. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.040 But it's it's an interesting thing because I think it 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.520 takes you take your personality of a cave like a 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.960 chubby little kid who's afraid, because that's exactly what I 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.679 was when I was a kid. I was afraid, and 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.360 you start being funny and you don't even know you're funny, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.400 but you know that they're not hitting you if you 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.400 can divert their attention, right, it is a kind of 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.599 darks and then you get in a drinking Were you 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.640 ever in a drug taken? 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.240 Not really more of an advil PM kind of guy. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.680 Right, Yeah, you didn't go for it because I always 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.480 liked cocaine. I always thought it was a good vitamin 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.440 to help you drink more. I never I never thought 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.040 it was a drug. I just thought it was like 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.360 a drinker's vitamin, like a kind of like the way 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:36.560 the kids use Red Bull. 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.120 Now it's dry red Bull. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.760 You never got into though, because because there's a I 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.960 think particularly you know, if you grew up in La, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.680 La has a real culture. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.280 Of you know, you get drawn and all that. As 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:52.080 a young per. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.480 There was a lot of it around. You know. What's 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.320 crazy is that I always heard stories where big guys 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.760 usually did not handle cocaine. Well, right, it was always 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.880 you know what, if you're big and you do blow, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.120 then you're gonna die. You're gonna have a heart attack 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.880 and die because big guys can't hang. And so I 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.800 that alone was more than enough to keep me scared 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.360 straight where I'm like, no, I'm big, I can't be 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.679 doing that. I'll just I'll have a drink. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.480 So you didn't have a self destruct thing. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.360 It was just like it was just like to get 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.320 messed up, but it wasn't to destroy yourself. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.840 But also too, I mean I worked a lot. I 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.839 really focused, and I was so excited about doing stand 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.240 up where that's what I wanted to do. It wasn't 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.480 the party after that I was after. It was actually 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.240 the stage. Yeah, so you know I was just trying like, Okay, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.040 where can I find another stage? Where can I go up? 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.439 You know, this is before social media, so you actually 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.400 had to go and hang out with people and like 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.320 you're at Denny's at two three o'clock in the morning 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.079 with other comics are somewhere on something else. Some are 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.800 just there to do exactly what you're there to do. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.680 And you know that was your social circle, and you 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.880 know you kind of built off of that. You'd say, hey, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.679 can I get so and So's number? Can I call him? 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.720 You know, if he's booking, where can I send a tape? 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.280 You know, this is all stuff that you had to 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.160 do back then at a lot of homework. You wouldn't 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.600 know any of these guys. Yeah, it was it was 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:06.200 a so When. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:06.640 Did you start? 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.440 When did you start moving up? Do you think when 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:09.800 did you start start working? 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.480 I was very fortunate that I caught lightning in a 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.840 bottle really quick. So April tenth, nineteen ninety seven is 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.560 my first official start date where I called myself a comic. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.680 I was in Long Beach, which is where I live 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.240 now still and. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.240 Yeah, because you like you drove here today in LA 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.840 and it was raining and I was like, I can't 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.520 believe you didn't cancel the fact. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.920 That I canceled. I nearly canceled, and I'm like five 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:30.800 minutes from here. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.120 And I felt bad because I'm like, I'm a be late. No, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.360 I'm still coming, see, but I'm gonna be late. I 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.960 think that's a that's a working sales here. That's that's 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.520 your mom did that? That's your mom did that? I 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.120 sailed here. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.800 You have to get to that. You have to get there. 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.880 If your mom was Scottish that you have to get there, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.200 who do you think? Yeah? 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.640 Ge Lannel told me this thing that when he took 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.680 over the Tonight Show, it used to say the Tonight 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:58.640 Show as starring Johnny Carson, and then when he took over, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.040 it said that Tonight so starring Jay Leno, and he 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.280 told his mom and his mom said, well, his mom Scottish. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.960 He said, oh, the tonights was starting, Jaylando was starting 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:09.720 Jilano was it? 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.600 Who do you think? Yeah? So he had to change 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.320 it to The Tonight Joe with Jaylano. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:14.680 Because his mom. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:15.960 Because his mom, he's frightening. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.359 She also he was on the cover of Time magazine 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.440 and in Boston where he grew up, and his mom said, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.480 it's probably just the local Time magazine. He said, Mom, 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.400 isn't the local Time magazine. See, I think moms are 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.720 of comedians are kind of like that, you know, they're 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.240 kind of. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.640 They're the humblers. Yeah, there was no time where I 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.480 could brag around my mom. No, unfortunately not, she's been 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.120 gone ten years now. But I know that anytime I 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.000 say something out loud that that kind of like I 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.840 could hear my mom already, like how she would have 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:50.760 reacted to that. Yeah. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 Yeah, it's interesting I feel that. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.840 Okay, oh look at you. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:01.040 Oh that's exactly my Yeah, I wanted because you're you're 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:02.440 quite open. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.440 I say that. I don't know if you're open. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.200 You talk about your family and your act, you talk 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.600 about your son and you're right. Whenever I talked about 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.040 my kids they don't like him, and they stopped me 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:16.480 doing it, like, nope, that's done. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.360 That's where I'm at right now. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.840 Oh really saying you got to stop it. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.120 It took a minute. He didn't say I have to stop, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.000 but he made it clear that he didn't appreciate it. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.160 And I didn't want to keep doing it if it 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.600 was going to bother him, because I don't want the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.600 resentment and want him getting you know, for me, I 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.640 just saw it as my form of parenting because I'm like, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.440 you know, before shaming was a thing. That's how you. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.720 You make fun of him. You embarrass him. You embarrass 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.680