WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: Reflections on Hollywood and Comedy's Evolution with Alan Covert 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.959 Hi, and welcome to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:10.799 It's hard to avoid the election. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.520 I'm super in it like many of you, and I 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.040 try to keep politics out of this show, but obviously 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.600 it seeps in from time to time, and a few 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.079 days before major presidential election is just that kind of time. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:25.920 I'm already hearing. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.920 From people who are saying that their relationships, their friendships, 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.240 their family connections are getting strained. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:32.760 Because of the election. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.080 On News Nation the other night, jd Vance said, if 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.040 you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody is voting for 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.000 the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.320 and you should do something different. Don't cast aside family 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.839 members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. I 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.199 love that he said that, especially because he's on the 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.760 ticket obviously and should want people to care more about 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.480 voting for him than their friendships. It was nice of 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.160 him to say that. But I'm not going where you 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.000 think I'm going with all this. Yes, I think you 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.559 should keep politics separate from your friends and family. People 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.480 who love you can disagree with you have different values 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.280 than you all of it. I'm very kombayah about the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.479 whole thing. Really, I have friends who I love who 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.240 are firmly on the left. I don't have any leftist family, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.160 but that's. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.640 Really just sheer luck. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.680 Ha ha. What I want to say, though, is that we've 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.840 been talking on the show about making friends in adulthood, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.440 and I actually think it's completely okay to not pursue 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.040 friendship with people on the opposite political side. I know 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.479 it doesn't make sense that I would say that, because 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.639 I just said I have lots of friends on the left, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.160 So why am I dissuading you from friend making. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.200 Across political lines? 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.600 And look, if you meet someone, you're playing tennis with them, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.400 you meet them at work, whatever, you hit it off, 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.240 and they have opposite politics but you like each other. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.600 Of course, go for it friends. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.760 But friendships in adulthood usually take more work than this. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.520 So if you meet someone and before you really know 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.160 if they're funny, or if you have things in common 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.560 or any of that, you find out you're not politically aligned, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.680 I think it's fine to say, eh, not going to 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.320 pursue this friendship, especially if your political ideals do really 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.320 matter to you. Plenty of people are mostly apolitical, so 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.800 if that's you, great but if your politics do matter 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.880 to you, I say keep the old friends with whom 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.200 you're not politically aligned, But no need to be in 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.680 any big rush to make more of these. As you 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.560 get older, it's hard to maintain friendships. And I said 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.760 in a previous episode that things like hobbies might not 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.000 actually matter in new friendships as much as we think, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.680 but values and outlook they might matter a lot more. Again, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.400 to me, I find humor to be top of the list, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.880 like our are we laughing at the same stuff? Can 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.440 we make each other laugh? That matters to me. So 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.240 if I meet a super leftist, I find them really 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.720 funny and we have amazing banter like that's to me 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.360 as a friend, But a relationship that I have to 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.400 work at and we don't have ideals in common. Tougher Again, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.840 you meet somebody at work, you crack up all through 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.480 lunch and then she's voting for Kamala and you're voting 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.080 for Trump. But doesn't mean you can't be friends. You're 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.079 already pick her in grown up friendships. Give yourself permission 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.080 to sort by politics too. That's all I'm saying. Don't 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:42.120 discard people like JD Van said, but having similar lifestyles 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.320 to new friends that you make as a grown up 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.600 will go a long way into turning them into old friends. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.480 If you've got thoughts on this, drop me an email 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.720 Carol Markowitz Show at gmail dot com. K A R 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.520 O L M A R K O W I c 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.400 AS and Charlie z Is and z B Show at 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.360 gmail dot com. Coming up next and interview with Alan Covert. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:11.160 Join us after the break. Welcome back to the Carol 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.920 Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Alan Covert. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.960 Alan is an actor producer. You've seen him in all 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.599 the Adam Sandler movies, Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer, Little Nikki, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.640 all of them. And he's also the star of the 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.440 cult classic where I first saw him, Grandma's Boy. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.159 Hi, Alan, So nice to have you on. 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.320 Hey, Carol, thanks for having me. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.880 I was thinking about this this is I've had a 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.240 lot of well known guests on the show, but you 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:39.400 are the guest. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.520 That I cannot wait for like my group of. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.400 Like non political, non twitter nerd friends, like my real 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.640 crew of friends. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.839 To see this, and they're gonna be like you had 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.240 Grandma's Boy on. It's going to be a very exciting moment. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.680 Well, thank you. I mean, you know at cult. Look, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:56.599 I'll take the cult. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:57.440 Oh for sure. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.400 I don't need to be that famous. It's too much 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.320 of an infringement on your life. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.720 I like, are we not supposed to drink the kool 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.640 aid during the movie? Because I thought that's what? 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.839 Oh no, no, no. I'm like the cult thing because 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.599 you know, it's small enough and rabid enough that I can, like, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.040 you know, get a good seat at a restaurant if 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.719 there's a big line in the hosts, but not enough 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.640 to where like people bother me non stop. I've been 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.920 around people like that. Yeah right, I've spent a good 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.279 chunk of my life around people who can't go to 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.120 the mall. And I like going to the mall. But yeah, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.680 but it's I'm glad people like it, and it's always 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.120 fun to have people mention it to me. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.559 So I did some research on you before the show. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.800 Learned a lot of things I didn't know. You were 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.080 born in Florida. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:52.880 Yes, sported rays. Actually I didn't grow up on pum 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.640 Beach where Mark Lago is. I grew up where the 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.840 people who had jobs live. As if my dad had 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:00.360 a job. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.240 Most poor people yeah, but. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.559 I knew a lot of people who lived on Palm Beach. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.039 You know, it's it's a funny town. Uh so, But 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.760 I remember when Marlago was empty. That kid was an 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:19.479 abandoned mansion and no one lived there. And then Trump 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.719 bought it. He bought it after I had moved and stuff. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.200 But yeah, I grew up in South Florida. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:25.760 I love Palm Beach. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.159 I you know a lot of people compared to like 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.960 other rich you know enclaves like the Hampton's or whatever. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.520 But Palm Beach is so colorful and unusual. I just 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:36.280 I love it there. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.080 I mean, if if funny were no object, I'd live 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.520 on the island. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.200 A friend of mine from high school had hit it 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.160 big and he's got a house a block off the 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.160 beach about Worth End. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.799 I didn't even mind, like three blocks off the beach. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.919 I'll take it. But it's like he bought that not 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.160 because he cares about living on Palm Beach, but because 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.159 the there is it's a public beach. But to actually 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.000 get there, you'd have to walk like five miles and 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.920 there's nowhere to park, and yeah, they know what they're 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:09.600 doing over there. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.800 Yeah, so how did you get into acting. What's your 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:15.600 path here? 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.440 It was something I always wanted to do. As a kid, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.120 I did plays, and it's just always fascinated by movies. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.880 I mean, I was telling someone yesterday, we were talking 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.960 about old movies that we saw in the theaters, because 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.080 that's part of my home thing I'm trying to do, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:39.160 which we'll get to eventually, gotta. I remember like just 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.520 riding my bike to the movie theater alone to see 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.680 a matinee of Young Frank and stuff. You know, I 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.560 remember running home to get home in time to watch. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.760 I loved Lucy. I was just I loved comedy. I 0:07:54.800 --> 0:08:00.160 loved stand up comedy. I love cartoons that were funny. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.480 I loved anything that made me laugh. And you know, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:08.720 Jerry Lewis, buddy it just whoever was funny. I was 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.960 just obsessed with and I don't know, but it was 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.000 sunning because then when it came to like me doing it, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.119 I never thought I was funny. So I just wanted 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.160 to be in movies. I wanted to be an actor, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.240 but then I was funny. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.080 Do people still try to be funny? I feel like 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.960 a lot of funniness has been lost. Do you see 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.720 that or do you still find funny around. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.880 There's so much funny a round. Yeah, but right now 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.080 it's pretty right now, it's pretty much in the stand 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.840 up realm and in the podcast and independent realm. Look, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.200 some of the funniest people I've read are on Twitter. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.720 Right, so you enjoy the Twitter? 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.440 Any of them? Three year Wetterman, Oh nobody. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.360 I love three year Letterman so good. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.800 And I just go, wow, you're a great writer. Yeah, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.240 they're iowaha. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.000 Oh yeah, so's the. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.520 You know, autism of the cars where he can literally 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.360 see a fender and be like nineteen twelve Henry Ford's 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:21.080 personal you know, I mean I knew the guy free Twitter. Yeah, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:26.640 I don't know him, but I mean, h and I 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.000 remember I think he was the one who did Zark 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:35.000 Carwe's Mom's letter or letter to the press or something. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:37.880 Yeah, there's a lot of funny on Twitter. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.959 Actually, went so many funny people out there, and people 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.040 are dying to be funny. And one of the reasons. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.240 One of my big things in life right now at 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:53.080 this moment. Look, I worked at Happy Madison before it 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.960 was Happy Matts. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.959 That's Adam Sandler's that's. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:00.280 Adam Sales coming production company. Basically the people who there 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.840 from the beginning. We were all in college together, and 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.920 then after the movie started it and then Happy Madison 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.360 got formed. But I mean we were involved all the 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:11.000 way through. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.560 Yeah, and they were okay. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.880 They're all okay with like you being an outspoken conservative 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:17.439 on Twitter. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.440 That's well. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.240 You know, there was a period of my life where 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.280 I didn't go as nuts on Twitter because I knew 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:29.320 that I that I represented Adam in the company, and 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.040 so I tried to be as respectful to him in 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.920 the company as I could. Uh, you know, at the 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.040 end of the day, I'm an adult, but I also 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:43.080 understand that I'm associated with a brand that you know, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.040 it's not my position to go out there, so I 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.000 would try to keep things, you know, look like what sorry. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.120 Right, arguments are fun? 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:58.800 Yeah, I have now that because what happened was just 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.480 not to but to kind of get to what I'm 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.440 trying to explain to you is that three years ago 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.040 I had to take time off to deal with some 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.199 family issues. I thought it was only gonna be a 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.640 little bit and we here are. We were here three 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.400 years later, and I think it's time for me to 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.360 get back to work. I think I'm Kate, I think 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.560 that the situation I was dealing with is almost done 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.240 and I'd like to get back to work. Earlier, about 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.160 a year ago, I thought I was getting ready and 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.679 I let Adam know that that I was going to 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.440 be leaving the company just because I'm I turned sixty 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.199 the other day, and so I was just like. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.280 While you really you do not look sixty. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.720 I feel like I'm look eighty. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.200 But the people watching this on video will know. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.360 Oh yeah, but we'll get it. I know I have 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.680 like two overnight bags. I take my own luggage with me. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.120 But so I I said to him, my go look, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.120 I said, I just I want to do something. I 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.920 just want to do something. I was like, I did 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.640 everything that was on my list of things. I said, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.360 So now I got a new list of things, and 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.240 that involves I want to I just want to make 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.520 R rated comedies and bring them back to theaters. Yes, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.680 that's it, that's amazing. And here's why this to me, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.560 this is important. It thought, just he I want to 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.080 be dub and make money. 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:28.040 Making money? 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:28.520 Is that bad? 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.840 I have no fublem, But yes, I wouldn't think if. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.480 It comes with money, why not you know. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.200 Money, I wouldn't have been able to be in the 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.199 position to take three years off to care for my family, right, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.440 I'm very eager to prop it off of my work, sure, sir. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.320 And so that's my whole goal. And it's because my 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:53.360 daughter graduated high school this year. She's a film nerd. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.400 Her friends are film nerds. They do not have a 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:02.840 single movie to call their own from her. I had ten, Yeah, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:03.199 I had. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.960 So that's really what I was asking was that nothing 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.880 seems like the funny. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:10.360 Kind of our radar. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:16.760 Actors are riddy, Yeah, directors already. The studios are stupid. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.280 I are. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:21.560 I'm clear that hurdle. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.719 That's why I'm here talking to you. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.520 Yeah, all right, I love it. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:33.000 Any billionaires listening, Yes, we have, Holly would. There's always 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:40.040 money and disruption, guys, Hollywood's broken distribution is broken. I 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.680 know a lot of Look, I've been out here for 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.320 thirty five forty years making movies, thankfully and luckily I 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.160 know a lot of the people who run the studios, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.400 just because I've been out here so damn long. Right, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.000 you know the guy like one of the you know, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.320 you meet a guy who's someone's assistant. Twenty five years later. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:07.319 They Haney Wall Show yeah, and you know, and these. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.920 Are people who came out here to make movies and 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.760 they get it. But there's this whole generation under them 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.280 that's making the decisions of what scripts get through the filter. Right, 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.560 have a clue, what's fun? Yeah? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.200 That filter is holding up everything. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.720 Well, it's sad because look, I'll tell you this, This 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.960 isn't me. Everyone knows how I feel about things. My 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.400 daughter's friends are very artsy high school. They're begging for 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:42.680 already comedies. Right, These are not maga kids. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.480 Yeah, let me think it's funny. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.320 A lot more conservative than people would think they are, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.200 because the things they are conservative about are the things 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.760 that they're pushing back against that they feel are being 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.960 shoved out in their throats. Because these kids, who all 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.760 want to be filmmakers, they all watched Granmar's Boy a 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.720 few Oh yeah, it was the first time my daughter 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.360 had seen it. Oh wow, she's on the state team. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.160 I thought it like played on like on loop in 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:07.640 your house. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.360 Oh god, my son is like, why do I watch 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:11.400 any of your movies? 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:12.680 He told your son? 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.040 Okay, so I'm just getting them through the Happy gil Mores. Yes, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.840 with water boys. I would't even let them watch Billy Madison. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.680 Oh yeah, I mean I think, yeah, I'm almost ready 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.160 for my kids to see Billy Madison. I remember laughing 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.040 my face off at Billy Madison. That was in college 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.640 when it came out, and just like my best friend 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.480 and I just doubled over in pain. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:35.920 Laughing in the movie theater. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.320 And I just that's what I mean when I say 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.080 I don't think things are funny, because I can't imagine 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.240 that seeing a movie that I would find that funny today. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.080 I just I can't even remember the last movie I 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:47.840 saw like that. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.000 May look and I but I've seen I've seen stand. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.040 Up guys, Yeah, stand up in a good place. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.400 Script I have scripts. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.920 Right, Well, stand up is I think harder, harder to 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.840 cancel because it's one guy and it's like or girl, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.560 and you're either laughing or you're not. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.680 Like movies, I'm gonna I'll go do an arena to weeks. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.119 Yes, yes, exactly. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.120 But movies you have the gatekeeper and you have the 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.960 people who put it through the filter. So I just 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.600 and none of it's and not just movies, but TV 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.560 shows or late night shows, like my god, these late 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:23.800 night hosts are. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.920 Not just not funny but like unfunny, deeply, deeply unfunny. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.240 They're angry and they're not at all humor at his 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:37.440 And yeah, I've known the Jimmies, both of them, huh. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.440 I've known both of them for thirty five years. Tweet. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.600 I met Jimmy Fallon when we were shooting The Wedding Singer, 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.880 and he was a stand up comic who had been 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.840 in town about two weeks. These guys are funny guys. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.760 So what happened to them? Why are they not funny anymore? 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.080 It depends on what you watch. I mean they're we're 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.040 both I mean they both still do things that make 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:04.719 me laugh. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.760 Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel completely to me funny, come to. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.560 And it's part of the problem with Hollywood. Look, I 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.800 love Jimmy Kimmel. If I called Jimmy Kimmel and said 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.040 I need you to come be in this movie today, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:24.960 he'd probably do it. He's always like friendly and sweet 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.280 and so nice. And you know, I don't agree with 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.280 his politics. Look, his old partner Adam Carolla doesn't really 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.760 with his right. Yeah, I just think that like when 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.200 when you're supposed to appeal to everyone and you make 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:46.160 a concerted effort to go after one person insess me relentlessly. Well, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.639 a lot of people obviously a lot of people still watch. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.000 But I wouldn't even care. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.040 I would not even care if it was going after 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.200 one side, if it was funny, if he made me laugh, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.400 I wouldn't care if you attacking my politics, like it's 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.760 just it's so, it's just political ranting. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.440 Like I said, Look, I love those two guys. I've 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.040 known Val since he was a kid. I remember talking 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.840 to him when he was nervous doing Saturday a lot. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.320 You know, he's a great impressionist, he's a great writer. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.879 He's really Look, you don't get to be that job 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.800 unless you actually are charming and can appeal to people. Yeah, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.000 and uh, I just yeah, I think Jimmy was nice 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:33.920 to Trump. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.280 Right, and then he had to apologize for that. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.719 Just got destroyed, Yeah, he cried in his apology. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.640 We a lot of people they look at their life 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.480 getting destroyed and they get scared. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:47.399 Yeah. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.120 So when they ask you if you're not scared. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.840 Because I don't care, I mean I really just don't. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.399 I've had that not caring a little far, but a 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.440 great life, you know, said, I've lit a great light. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.760 We're going to take a quick break and be right 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.280 back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.159 You know, your first question was what do you worry about? 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.240 Yeah, we go and get to that. What do you 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:15.840 worry about? 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.199 Alan only thing I worry about my kids, that's it. Yeah, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:27.320 that's it. But that involves so much, right, involves everything? Yeah, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.600 you know, but that's it. I don't care about my job. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.800 I'll go get another job. I'll find us to do. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:35.320 I'll be your co host. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.560 Yes, you'd be my co you know, I really. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.639 Don't care all those autographs that conventions every weekend to 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.480 put over my kids head. All I care about is 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:49.800 my kids, right, that's it. That's all I worry. I 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:53.159 worry about their future. I worry about what they're being taught. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:54.200 Yeah. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.680 My oldest daughter forced me to let her get vaccinated 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.359 so she could go see Harry Styles at Madison's Square 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.359 Garden and gets sick. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:04.280 Yeah. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:10.520 I feel guilty. No, really, it's because I get vaccinated 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.920 and I worry about or constantly because of that. Yeah, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:15.520 because the other three. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.480 I was just like, no, right, if it makes you 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.800 feel better, I think that the you know the time 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.320 period has been long enough that. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.280 You know the problems would have potentially developed by now. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.199 So now, don't beat yourself up over it. 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.320 But I also I vaccinated my oldest two with the 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.520 pediatric vaccine to send them to sleep Away Cam And 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:39.840 I you know, I'm like, why didn't I just spake 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.560 a vaccine card like everybody else, what are they doing? 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:45.800 Well, yeah, that's all I'm worried about. That's it my kids, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:50.960 their future, their health and you know, And but also 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.240 this relates, like me wanting to do these R rated 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.639 movies relates to that because here's my theory, mind, my 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.080 theory in my stupid head of why I think this 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:07.240 is important. These kids, I mean, all they do, all 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.560 they hear all day is how horrible everything is. Yeah, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.080 and how they need to save the world because their 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.679 parents let them down. I mean, pressure on these kids 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.520 is insane. And I would really say, you're a kid, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.879 go out with your friends and do something stupid, Go 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:30.520 go hike and find a dead body. I can stand 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.119 by me. Yeah, I have a movie that I'm trying 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.840 to get made in connection with Bill Burr's company called 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.200 All Things Comedy. Look look at the Guy. Like Bill 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:46.119