WEBVTT - Naked Comedy, Shared Vulnerability + Peter’s Prurient Interests 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.760 Really now, really. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:11.840 Really now, really well, and welcome to another episode of 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.480 Really No Really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden. Today 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.760 you'll meet the producer and host of the Naked Comedy Show, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.160 where the comics are nude and the first two rows 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.279 are clothing optional. You'll find out about the history of 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.920 nudity on stage and why Jason Alexander has been naked 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.560 or mostly naked, on screens and in the restrooms of 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.800 bars and taverns around the world. So, and I can't 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.680 believe I'm saying this, but if you enjoy our show, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.040 remember till I can subscribe. And now before I get 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.279 any more nauseist than I already am, here are your hosts, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.440 Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.479 Really well, Peter, you're of address this one. I think 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.040 you're a little over address. Yeah. This is a It's 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.240 just this is an interesting really no really, isn't it? 0:00:58.600 --> 0:00:59.720 When you heard about this? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.040 By the way, wait till the ends side of this interesting. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.400 I love when people because in radio my own assessment, 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.920 I think today is one of the best we're gonna do. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:12.760 This is gonna be one of the best shows. I 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:13.240 can tell it. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.000 Already that the really no, really is we read about 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.200 in Brooklyn, I think every month. Now there is a 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.199 thing called the naked comedy show. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.120 Three words. I didn't know it could go together in 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:26.920 the same sentence. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.280 And and it's become it's become quite a successful venture. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.920 And it's naked comanian people get up. They're comedians, that's 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.240 what they do for a living, but they decide to 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.160 do it el buffo and uh, and it's it's become 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:43.680 all the rage. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.320 And we heard about this and went. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.840 And we started thinking, are we gonna hear Dave Chappelle 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.920 one night Medicine Square Garden in the round? 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:51.760 Is the nude? 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.680 I mean, is this the trend they were going to? 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.360 What kind of comedians go? Is there a cutoff of handsome? 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.880 You're too handsome? You can't do this. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.960 Harry Seinfeld doesn't even work with the top button. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:03.720 So we got on with us. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.520 Gentleman who's joined us, Billy Proceeder, who's the guy who 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:07.440 produces the show. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.040 And you were in there and he as a performer 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:09.520 in the show. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.680 Yeah, and he's he's a producer of the show and yeah, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.800 and also, uh, you have a podcast now, the man 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.720 who podcast sex positive conversations. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:20.200 Yes, I do. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.760 So you are a big proponent of all things naked 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.560 and sexual and comedy and positive and again three things 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.760 I didn't know to go together and positive and sexual 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.520 did positive and nude. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.079 I have not experienced that myself. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.160 What we're going to get hopefully after after we talk 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.320 to you and you're moving forward, body image. The fact 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.960 that Jason has appeared many times naked. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.000 I mean, you're one of the most famous half naked 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.639 posters in break I am a. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.880 Sexual icon from the nineties. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.800 You pick a dorm room, there's a third of a 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.240 chance you're up there. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.800 Isn't it amazing? He's like an iconic for Kreischer. We 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.480 will mock you, Jason. Alexander was chef naked before, so 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.880 we want to talk about that because you being my friend. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.480 You did it in ARCA. I got your naked by 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.560 episode three on Arc you got me naked when we 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.960 first met it. You two are so cute together. I say, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.280 you two are adorable. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.919 You know what, We've been inseparable for thirty wow, thirty 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.560 like two years now, which is amazing. So yes, we're 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.760 best friends. Seeing him naked more than more than anyone 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:23.520 seen you naked. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:24.040 I'm sure. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.920 So you started out as a comedian doing regular stand up, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.400 closed stand up, I'm guessing correct. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.720 Yeah, but I mean about a year, year and a 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.680 half into doing stand up, I did start doing somebody 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.480 else's naked show because I was what twenty years old, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 and you didn't have to bring anybody, you didn't have 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.400 to bark anyone in. I just had to be willing 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.840 to take my clothes off. And as Andy said, uh, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:46.720 not suck. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:48.320 So wait I was it? 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.600 So wow, So that's why you went because you can 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.200 get time on stage. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.760 Free stage time. Wow. It's tough out there here. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:55.040 Wow. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.640 I heard it's hard to get stage time. So now, God, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.200 but if you're nervous to stand up anyway, I can 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.520 imagine you're taking the train in, you know, going I'm 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:06.080 doing this. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.960 I'm going to do this in front of people. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.480 Yeah, I mean, but I'd already started experimenting sexually with 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.240 being naked in front of more than one disappointed person 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:14.760 at a time. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.799 Craigslist was very active when I was in college. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.239 I went to n y U, so I was already 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.239 in the city, and you know, I was like sometimes 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.640 going to watch a couple play or doing this and that. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:25.200 I don't know. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.320 With some group stuff, I don't know what I can 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.520 say or not say for the U two you want, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:31.800 we'll cut it out or not cut it. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.839 Out or so nudity was not a big thing for you, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.120 just it didn't feel uncomfortable for you going in a 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:37.600 little bit. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.160 But like I was already starting to get comfortable with it, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.800 you know, I was already getting okay with the idea 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:42.440 let me let. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.240 Me just because I got to know body positive family. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.880 I mean, because my family would be what do you 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.880 want to take? It would be the dumbest that they 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:50.960 would just go out of their mind. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.480 It don't be showered in my underwear until I went 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:54.839 to cos you know. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.920 I mean, I remember the first time I went to 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.680 a health club with my dad, like a swim club, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.360 and you're you're a little kid, so you're genital high 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.480 and I'm seeing things I never want to see again. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.200 It was so traumatic. Yea, so here you grew up 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.360 that way in a family? How supportive? What what allowed 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:10.640 you to do that? To be free enough? 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:10.840 Was it? 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.320 Do you know? I don't know. I think I just 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.320 was cool with it. I don't know. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.600 It didn't seem to really matter. Also, like I was, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.480 I looked very different in college. I don't know, thirteen 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.000 years ago. I looked the body was easier to be 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:23.680 confident in. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.240 Billy, everybody everybody looked different in college. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:27.919 Okay, you know you know what I'm saying. I didn't. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.640 I looked exactly. It looked like you now minus to 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.960 go to the same body. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.320 I was basically this short, this fat, and my hair 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:37.200 was already going. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.480 Always an icons hair. Other than that. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.000 No, wait a minute, I saw you when you did 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.440 the McDLT commercial A that stuff. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.240 You were thinner. I had a jacket, all right. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.680 So Billy, you take the train, you got clean underwear, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.480 You get there, you just robe. What do you remember 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.040 the first night? Do you remember vividly? 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.680 I remember the first time. I remember the second time. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.680 The second time. The chick I lost my virginity to 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.839 came down from Fordham. I was at She's a Form. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.440 She comes down to the old pit People's Improv Theater 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.120 in Midtown. She brought friends. I said, it's the naked 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.039 comedy show, right, Okay, I'm backstage. Andy the host. He 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.800 goes up, does his ten minutes naked. I go up 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.880 first for the bullet spot eat all the I bombed 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.400 my face off naked in front of her. I go 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.400 backstage and there's a text way for me. It says, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.320 I didn't know you were going to be naked. I'm like, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:33.720 it's the Naked Comy Show. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.080 So I thought you thought it was just a funny name, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:36.600 and you know. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:37.960 Yeah, She's like I thought it was gonna be raw 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.040 and uncensored, and I'm like, well, and then afterwards me 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.880 in two comics who wanted to sleep with her friends 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:43.760 went out for drinks. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.920 No one got laid. It was horrifying. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.280 So your prospective, your POV from stage is your ex 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.719 girlfriend's face with her mouth wide open, going oh my god, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:53.640 Oh my god, oh my god. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.920 I don't even know if I read served presence. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.120 I'm bombing that badly, like I do my opener, which 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.440 is supposed to be strong, but I'm twenty. None of 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.760 my jokes are strong, right, and by do that nothing, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.520 second joke, nothing, third joke maybe a giggle, And I'm like, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.800 this is a very long five minutes now. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.200 Was any of that material in that sort of debut thing? 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.840 Was any of it referential to being naked? Or was 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.200 it your act? But I have my clothes. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.960 Yeah, I didn't have jokes written for naked comedy, but 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.040 and there's a lot of you know these like alternative 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.200 comedy shows, they present moments of tension you can play 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.960 with if you want. Sure, So when you're doing a 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.920 joke naked, it just gives you a new opportunity to 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.480 say something different or different tag or like I never 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.280 realized I stand on stage with one leg bow legged 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.440 until I started doing naked comedy because I was like, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.520 oh my god, I'm presenting to you. You know, it's 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.080 just those little moments you realize, and so. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.160 The audience, God, this is so fascinating to me. I 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.040 would be intimidated to come as the audience to tell 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.520 you the truth because I would be I don't like 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.800 seeing naked people around other people. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:58.080 Huh. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.400 Watching you naked with other people would be embarrassing to me, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.640 rather than just seeing you naked. What's the audience like, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.480 are they a regular comedy audience or there's value added 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.080 because they've come for some prurient interest. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.960 There's a prurient interest because it's like, what are you 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.360 a law from the fifties throwing in prourient interests for you? 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:19.560 Anthony comstock Man. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.520 I think Peter's how he phrased the question will tell 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.080 you everything he needs to know. You're uncomfortable being in 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.000 an audience of people who have come to see people 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:28.559 being naked. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.480 You have layers of therapy. Oh my god, yes, oh 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:33.319 my god. Yes. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.800 So yeah, I'm fascinated by who comes to this thing? 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.600 Is it the same people go to the dining experience 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.680 where they have the lights off, it's like blind dining. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.640 Just let's do it. Oh, I've heard of that. I've 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:44.839 heard that. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.280 Yeah, so's it that kind of crowd that it wants 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.000 to do a new adventure or is it somebody who 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.080 really is a comedy audience. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.400 I think we have a really good mix of audience. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.920 So we you know, at the core, the place is 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.440 the place we do the show is called Haciendo, which 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.760 is like a sex positive community space in Bushwick. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.280 But they throw sex parties. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.240 That's like, that's most of what they do is they 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.000 throw sex parties and in the same basement they clear 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.560 the mattresses and set up eighty chairs for a comedy 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:09.720 show instead, so. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:17.439 Help turning on the black lights. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.800 So I think the core audience at first was like 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.240 the Hacienda Crowd. I partnered with them to produce the 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.120 show because you know a lot of people go to 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.640 sex parties or sex workshops or whatever would also be. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.880 Interested in naked comedy show. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:32.439 Uh. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.920 Then we started getting some of the newest because we 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.440 started allowing the first two rows to be clothing optional. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.560 So now we have that crowd a bit. And then 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.719 we got this New York Times piece and and you 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.520 know whoever follows the comedians on the show, So then 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.199 we get a little bit of that crowd in. We 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.040 get some people, you know, fans of my podcasts come in. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.520 So we've got a mix of like normal comedy audience, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.240 my listenership, and then like generic comedy audience, which is weird. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.200 Sometimes we'll be like, oh, how'd you find out about 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.280 the show? Some times the dude will be like, I 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.439 just searched for comedy. No, you didn't know, you dan, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.959 You search comedy, the seller shows up, Okay, you have 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.360 to search certain words to find this show right on 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.080 event right. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.400 Well, and anyhow, the thing for me is that Naked 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.880 Is is louder than comedy, you know what I mean? 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.199 If you put it that way, So doesn't it overshadow 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.800 the jokes. If you have a really strong set, do 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.280 you ever do a control group and take it out 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.520 and see what it's like clothes versus unclothed. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.600 I'm not booking just whoever's willing to take their clothes off. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.280 I mean, I loved Andy and what he created whatever, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.040 many years ago, but I always felt like he booked me. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.559 I mean, then what was the bar. I'm booking people 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.920 where if it was a clothed comedy show, it's still 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.040 a great show, you know, trying to book you know, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.160 people with credits, people with chops, people who are worth 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.199 paying if they weren't taking their clothes off, right, But 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.920 to be honest with you, after like the first thirty 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.079 to ninety seconds, they're like, what do you got? 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.120 Like what jokes? Do you know? Normalize? It really does normalize. 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.920 After, especially later in the say, if you're the fourth, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.319 fifth comic, they'll be like, cool, we've seen it, We've 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.280 seen some Like do you have material? 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:04.360 You know? 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.240 Maybe if you're the first comic up there like whoa, whoa, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.160 it's naked. By the fifth comic, they're like, yeah, you 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.000 got okay, what do you got here? 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.720 But you know, tell me about your mom? 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.520 You know, are you allowed to be a clothed naked 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:25.280 given a performer given in that show gives Yeah, it 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:30.560 came out great, didn't it will any performer still perform 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.200 on that show that is not nude. So that's the thing. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.480 The performer got to be naked. It doesn't matter that 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:38.360 you have clothing optional. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.959 When I see the first two shows we did, it 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.440 was there was no nudity allowed in the audience and 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.240 every show. Do you think we could get naked next 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.880 time too? When enough people sold out packed? 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.080 Are we talking like Madison Square Garden numbers or are 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.439 we talking about sixty people? 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.160 I mean, look in in the borough of Brooklyn, a 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.319 seventy five seeded show outside of something at the at 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.360 Barclay or what ever. I mean, that's probably one of 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.120 the biggest comedy once one night a month, an orgy 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.760 Basement in Bushwick is the biggest comedy club in Brooklyn. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:14.240 Really, no, really, I promise you there. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.359 Are two proper comedy clubs. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.760 There's like two or three comedy clubs, and none of 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.920 them can see eighty I think Eastville maybe can seat 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.000 that many, but I don't think they're they're packing that 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.360 in on any given Friday Saturday night, So like, yeah, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.360 once a month, we're probably the biggest show in Brooklyn. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.880 There's a whole world, but we don't know about this, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.480 the whole hundred stuff that's out there. We're sitting here 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:51.000 like two idiots. When a naked podcast starting Tuesday and you. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.760 Much as we tell you, I don't know what kind 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.640 of viewership we got. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.480 It would be wow wow. So are you at the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:01.760 point now? How long you've been doing it? 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:02.800 One year? 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.040 So do you feel totally comfortable going to the club, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.319 going to the undressing room, taking off your clothes, coming out, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.040 and just doing your thing. It's not even it doesn't 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.160 even phase you anymore. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.280 I'm comfortable doing naked comedy. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.000 The thing I was more uncomfortable about is like I 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.520 normally didn't MC as long as I've been doing stand up. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.560 No one was ever like, yeah, I have proceede a host. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.600 So I literally learned how to host stand up comedy 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.600 this year naked, Like that's the only way I know 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.040 how to MC. But like I can MC naked if 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.440 you have a gig and you need a host, if 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.320 I can take my pants off, I'll do a great job. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.679 Really, Otherwise I'm not too Shore. Let me ask you 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:35.080 about that. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.480 So you're here in la if I sent you over 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.400 to the comedy store, yea right, objectively? I mean, I 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.560 know it's hard to be objective about this, but would 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.440 your stuff be just as effective there as Yeah? 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:47.000 Absolutely? 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.679 Yeah, And I meant like specifically MCing because that's such 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.440 a specific cres like doing normal stand up. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.120 Yeah. No, I'm confident in that I've been doing that 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:54.520 a while. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.480 So does it bug you though any of the major 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.320 Jerry Sidelet's not going to take his clothes off, Dave 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.320 Chppe's not gonnake the close off because they probably feel 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.640 I don't have to do that to be funny. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.840 Any of your guys that are the next guys that 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:07.679 are breaking. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.199 Through that that you think will escalate out of the 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.120 naked comedy thing. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.440 We've had a lot of comedians with like big credits, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.680 people on America's Got We had Jason Williams from America's 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.920 Got Talent and whil'n Out. We've had people from you 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.600 know who've done stuff on like MTV. You've done late 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.520 night sets on the Tonight Show and Late Show and 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.880 Late Late Show. We've had people who've been in just 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.080 for last New York Comedy Festival. I mean, like I said, like, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.960 I'm not trying to book whoever. There's maybe maybe sometimes 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.640 there's one spot where I'm taking a shot on someone, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.640 but otherwise it's like I'm booking people where I'm like, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.120 I'd pay you if you were totally closed, because you're 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.160 worth it. I'm not trying to just I'm not usually 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.760 scrambling for for comics. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:46.640 I'm getting good people. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.840 When you talk to a comic who has not done 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.360 this before but they have some success, right, what are 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.440 their questions, what are their hesitations? Why why do they 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.520 decide to do it or not do it? What's their journey? 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:58.840 Do you know? 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.440 I know some people have told me that they want 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.760 to do it because of the whole body and security thing, 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.240 and it's a way to tackle it and like tackle 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.720 it head on and come at it and see that, oh, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.920 like my body it's valid and oh it's not that's 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.320 scary to expose myself to some people, you know. Frankly, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.080 I mean the people who have been most self conscious 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.880 when they turn me down because of the body stuff, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.640 usually got like thinner, fitter bodies than me. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.040 You know, I think a lot of the dudes. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.440 A lot of the cysts men who do it like 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.360 they're definitely worried about the whole size thing. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.160 But also like, I don't know, grow up, it's fine, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.360 No one really cares. It's not what I've heard. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.520 Yeah, so you have to be really confident with your 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.520 body at some point, I mean, to get to the 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:42.960 more serious issue body shaming and all. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.160 I mean, we're a culture now. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.120 It used to do airbrushing on magazines all of the stuff, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.360 and now it's a big deal. They show like actresses 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.840 Sam's makeup. We say we're more accepting, we're not going 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.760 to fact shame all this stuff. However, body consciousness is 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.400 still a major, a major deal to get over. I 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.840 don't know how Jason does what he did well. He 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.800 doesn't he takes I mean, like you said, you're you're 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.520 okay taking off your clothes. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:09.200 I'm not. No, I'm not so so that it bothers you. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.640 Why don't you say no? What is it with you 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.840 that got you to do that or feel comfortable enough 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:14.200 to do it? 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.840 I have done it for two reasons. One is is 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:23.440 it funny? Can I and I am? I I might 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.800 be more comfortable actually in Billie's environment, and not than 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.720 if I was doing a serious, you know, sort of 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.920 a sex scene in a film. I don't think of 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:40.479 myself as a sexually provocative figure, but I do understand 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.600 that there are more people that look like me than don't, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.200 so that there's something if we just go If we 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.480 can't have a sense of humor about this, then the 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.080 world is not a happy place. So I am okay, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.400 or I get myself okay to use my body for comedy. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.400 There was one film I did called Love alor Compassion, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:06.720 when I did a more serious nudity and but in 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.200 that one I was able to get behind what why 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.040 the character was making that choice, and it felt very. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:15.560 I really it was. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.479 It was I didn't have a sense of, oh, Jason's naked. Now, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.840 I had a sense of but. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.320 When you actually did it, how did it feel when you, like, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.760 literally were doing that in front of the crew and 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:25.280 the cast? 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.520