Speaker 1: So like the first time I booked a proper tour,
Speaker 1: I was like, let's do it for just two months.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem long. Sixty days, but I go. But
Speaker 1: I don't want any nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows.
Speaker 1: But then it started selling well and so we did
Speaker 1: two shows every night, So one hundred and twenty shows
Speaker 1: in sixty days.
Speaker 2: It was crazy.
Speaker 1: Pasha Tosh show up, Tosh Show Show Tosh Show Eddie,
Speaker 1: you hit him with a hoodie? Who I'm fired up today?
Speaker 3: Why are you fired up?
Speaker 1: The fans of this show that want it both ways
Speaker 1: are driving me insane when people get upset about the
Speaker 1: money I spend on something. A few weeks ago, it
Speaker 1: was I mentioned how much it costs to line my
Speaker 1: drawers throughout my house. I know it's absurd, okay, but
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to share with you the real numbers.
Speaker 1: So if I'm gonna share with you the real numbers
Speaker 1: things cost and what I get paid for things, because
Speaker 1: I think that's very interesting and I think you would
Speaker 1: like that information, then I need you not to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't log I believe somebody was learning does what
Speaker 1: it's what it is. It's not your world. It's relative.
Speaker 1: But you don't get it both ways. Either I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna tell you the numbers, or I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: and you'll just be like me, Holy shit, that's crazy, right.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair.
Speaker 3: They're gonna ruin it for everybody.
Speaker 1: You're gonna ruin it for everybody. Just enjoy that. It's
Speaker 1: a world you'll probably never be a part of.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear. I know where I came from. I
Speaker 1: moved fourteen times before I was twelve years old. Then
Speaker 1: when I was twelve years old, I moved to Florida, Titusville, Florida.
Speaker 1: Our home cost around seventy five thousand dollars. Three bedroom,
Speaker 1: two baths, four kids, two parents, great home. They owned
Speaker 1: it for thirty years ish and then they sold it
Speaker 1: for ninety two thousand or something like that.
Speaker 3: I killed it.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what a huge return on investment. That's
Speaker 1: what you get in Florida. So I grew up in
Speaker 1: that world. I appreciate, you know, everything that I've received.
Speaker 1: But you know easy by the way, I got so angry, EDDI,
Speaker 1: you're gonna like this. We're going to talk comedy now, Okay,
Speaker 1: Like every other comics podcast. I brought my calendars from
Speaker 1: back in the day.
Speaker 3: Oh it's great.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I found them. So we're going to go
Speaker 1: through my calendars. This is so you can see what
Speaker 1: I was making and where I was. This is back
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. All right, I was at Loonyes
Speaker 1: in Colorado Springs from the twenty third through the twenty seventh?
Speaker 1: Would you make for five nights? Two shows a night?
Speaker 1: I made a total of four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And then on the thirtieth, which was Yam Kapor, I
Speaker 1: have a note to call Bobby Jewel down there. That's
Speaker 1: the owner of Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida. He was
Speaker 1: a comic slash comedy club owner. Then in October the
Speaker 1: seventh through the eleventh, then was at the Zanies in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 3: All right, what'd you make there?
Speaker 1: I made five hundred dollars for a week of work.
Speaker 1: The following week I got to I was in Tennessee
Speaker 1: staying in Tennessee. So I'm in Tennessee for two weeks.
Speaker 1: Then I was at uh Comedy Catch in Chattanooga. Guess
Speaker 1: how much I made for that week? Four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. Not friends with that person. Don't remember who
Speaker 1: it was, but I remember that at the end of
Speaker 1: the week he gave me a stern talking to and
Speaker 1: told me that I need to stop making jokes about
Speaker 1: some of the other people that work there. I forgot
Speaker 1: who it was.
Speaker 3: Who's the funniest.
Speaker 1: Man in America? What was his name? Oh, Dick Gregory,
Speaker 1: Dick James Gregory, James James Gregory. I remember making fun
Speaker 1: of him on stage and the club owner pulled me
Speaker 1: aside and said, don't you ever make fun of him.
Speaker 1: November nineteen ninety eight. Oh, I was doing a run,
Speaker 1: a run of creative gigs. Okay, so now, creative gigs
Speaker 1: they were the comedy zones. They were in the Southeast.
Speaker 1: You would do one a night in a different venue.
Speaker 1: One night you wouldn't get paid, and they're like, just
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. And the next night you would
Speaker 1: do a show at a different club, you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred miles away, and they're like, this club would overpay
Speaker 1: you three hundred and fifty dollars. That'll make up for
Speaker 1: the night before. So they would just like rob one place, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the other place. I just don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: But I was making one hundred and fifty night. I
Speaker 1: was in Hickory, North Carolina. Then I have a note here. Well,
Speaker 1: I say it like Hickory, like that comedian John reap
Speaker 1: Our Fred John Reap. I have a note here. They
Speaker 1: did not pay me. The check bounced. Then I was
Speaker 1: in Columbus, Mississippi. I went to Miami for the fifteenth
Speaker 1: and sixteenth of November nineteen ninety eight. Then I was
Speaker 1: in chapel Hill, North Carolina on the eighteenth, Harrisburg on
Speaker 1: the nineteenth, Charleston, West Virginia on the twentieth, and twenty first,
Speaker 1: for a grand total of three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Here's a big one. December nineteen ninety eight, I was
Speaker 1: at Uncle in Davy, Florida. I was the MC. The
Speaker 1: middle act was Greg Hahn. The headliner Doug Stanhope.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, uh huh, fun week?
Speaker 1: Would you make four hundred dollars? Four hundred dollars man?
Speaker 1: I was living it up.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I also made an appearance December seventh. I popped into
Speaker 1: comedy Traffic School oh and did a surprise set. You
Speaker 1: know that is, guys, when you'd get a ticket you
Speaker 1: could go to traffic school, but in Florida they would
Speaker 1: have comedy Traffic School, which was taught by comedians that
Speaker 1: had failed. But some of them were my friends, so
Speaker 1: they'd be like, Hey, come by, I have to teach
Speaker 1: for four hours and you can just do a set
Speaker 1: in front of these people. It's just miserable. Then I
Speaker 1: was off to Macon, Georgia, heading to the Comedy House
Speaker 1: Theater the fifteenth through the twentieth. Got to stay in
Speaker 1: the Shoneyes in so I had a free hotel room
Speaker 1: and made for six nights a total of four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve nineteen ninety He ate bonkers. Huh, that's
Speaker 1: a good gig. Joe san Felipo, owner of that club.
Speaker 1: It was in three D's, which was Dennis Scott's restaurant.
Speaker 1: He was with the Orlando Magic at the time. Oh man,
Speaker 1: guess what they paid me?
Speaker 3: No clue, they didn't. Oh they didn't.
Speaker 1: Didn't make it, didn't pay me. Well. This one's sad.
Speaker 1: January nineteen ninety nine, From the fifth through the tenth,
Speaker 1: I was in Side Splitters in Tampa, Florida with John Pinnett.
Speaker 3: Oh, rip, what'd you make?
Speaker 1: Five hundred total? But he probably gave me a few
Speaker 1: extra bucks. Oh. The twenty seventh of January nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: nine was the first time I performed in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: I flew out to do a show at the Melrose
Speaker 1: Improv Nice. Uh huh, no money, so like, get off
Speaker 1: me when I fucking tell you what stuff cost? Check
Speaker 1: this out. April nineteen ninety nine, got to do a
Speaker 1: show on the fifteenth for e my first like television.
Speaker 1: I was doing some wild on thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was.
Speaker 3: You get the money in there for that.
Speaker 1: A couple hundred bucks seven No, it says seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred dollars they paid me. That's pretty good. April
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, the twenty fourth I opened for the
Speaker 1: Beach Boys. What do you think the Beach Boys paid
Speaker 1: me in nineteen ninety nine to open for them? Two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars Speech boys. Yeah, well, this is
Speaker 1: a big date. June first, nineteen ninety nine. Guess what
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: June first, nineteen ninety nine. I think a college gig.
Speaker 1: Nope, moved to Los Angeles. What yep? And got to
Speaker 1: do a show that night, hosted an open mic night,
Speaker 1: got paid ready for it? Yeah, seventy five bucks. First
Speaker 1: night in la I made seventy five bucks. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not bad. That's not bad at all. Nop same month,
Speaker 1: back to Florida. On the twenty fifth and twenty sixth
Speaker 1: of June nineteen ninety nine, got to open in Melbourne
Speaker 1: for Larry the Cable Guy. Okay, yep, two hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: God, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Two hundred bucks. August nineteen ninety nine, August fourth through
Speaker 1: the eighth, Tulsa, Oklahoma open for Todd Glass.
Speaker 3: Okay yep?
Speaker 1: Five fifty six hundred bucks. Yeah, Todd made sure I
Speaker 1: got paid. I'm gonna I'm not gonna stop. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go through this. This is this is good stuff. What's
Speaker 1: the Imperial Palace?
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a casino in Vegas. What was probably a
Speaker 3: couple of them, but.
Speaker 1: It was this one I think is in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Track I made for eight show. It appears eight shows,
Speaker 1: seven hundred bucks. That's not bad if I'm in a casino,
Speaker 1: because you know I won on the tables. Also on
Speaker 1: the twenty first of that month, I had my cable
Speaker 1: installed between ten and two.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's big.
Speaker 1: I want to know what I paid for that? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not written on here. October nineteen ninety nine, October fifth,
Speaker 1: I shot Comedy Central's premium Blend Who. That was the
Speaker 1: beginning of the relationship that blossomed into one of the
Speaker 1: greatest TV shows the network had ever put on the air.
Speaker 1: South Park.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: I opened for Todd Glass on the twentieth of October
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. Guess what I got paid? Fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: How about that? Okay, here's a big gig. Nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: November twelfth, I was at FSU. They were going to
Speaker 1: pay me five thousand, five hundred dollars. I said they
Speaker 1: were going to. They canceled me before I flew out.
Speaker 1: Would have been my biggest show today. Canceled.
Speaker 3: That's a big one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's stune, God, it's stung. Oh. Here New Year's
Speaker 1: December nineteen ninety nine. I'm opening for Lewis black back
Speaker 1: at Uncle Funny's. Did five shows, got one thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: There you go, Yeah, chut ching. I'm not done, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm not done. Year two thousand January the twenty fifth
Speaker 1: through the thirtieth, I'm opening for Dave Chappelle with Cap City.
Speaker 1: I'm in Cap City in Austin, Texas show. Yep. Guess
Speaker 1: what I got paid for that week? Eight hundred bucks
Speaker 1: because I got to headline the first two nights because
Speaker 1: Dave doesn't would never do a full week. Oh, I
Speaker 1: did a college in Georgia, Columbus State. Got one thousand,
Speaker 1: three hundred and ten dollars negotiated. That's stupid, That's so dumb.
Speaker 1: I can't stop doing this, guys. I'm gonna go the
Speaker 1: whole way through. Oh, here we go, Sacramento Punchline February
Speaker 1: two thousand, the twenty third through the twenty seventh. I'm
Speaker 1: opening for Dave Hotel. Huh. That was a big deal
Speaker 1: for me. I was excited. Fifty How much did I
Speaker 1: get paid? No, five hundred dollars plus accommodations.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that was where my you know, my love of
Speaker 1: Tahoe started because I would drive over to Sierra Tahoe
Speaker 1: every day. I would snowboard and then drive back and
Speaker 1: do the shows at night, all for a week at
Speaker 1: the Best Western at the Punchline there. I had a
Speaker 1: free hotel room and I got five hundred dollars. So
Speaker 1: don't And that's only twenty four years ago. The guys
Speaker 1: get up my ass because I pay too much for
Speaker 1: an airstream renovation. April fourth, two thousand, I have a
Speaker 1: pitch at MTV A little Did I know then that
Speaker 1: they were going to say no to me for the
Speaker 1: next decade. Oh, this is exciting. May two thousand, where
Speaker 1: am I New Zealand?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: For two weeks I get paid four thousand, four hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Guess what They decided to only pay me two thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars after I did the shows. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: still owes me. I'm sure he'll make right. Ah one
Speaker 1: of my favorite places to perform. Perform there with Eddie
Speaker 1: open for Eddie there. This wasn't the week that I
Speaker 1: opened for you, but I was May twenty fourth through
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth in Appleton, Wisconsin, working for Cliffy, working
Speaker 1: for Cliff and Pat.
Speaker 3: Don't make short, Pat, I won't.
Speaker 1: Pat was working there at that time. They had a
Speaker 1: pitch on the twenty first in June with MTV again
Speaker 1: with rod Asa again passed on me, always passed on me.
Speaker 1: Eh probably made the right choice. I can't stop this man.
Speaker 1: Oh August two thousand, from the eighth to the thirteenth,
Speaker 1: I was at Catch a rising star in Reno, Nevada.
Speaker 1: There you go, my first time in Reno back then,
Speaker 1: oh man, eight hundred and fifty bucks. They treated me right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee I won on the blackjack table. My
Speaker 1: first weekend in Las Vegas was October two thousand, the
Speaker 1: sixteenth through the twenty second. That is a long that
Speaker 1: is seven days. That is seven days, fourteen shows. Guess
Speaker 1: what I got paid? Eight fifty twelve hundred dollars plus
Speaker 1: room Riviera, yep, at the Riviera. I refused to stop
Speaker 1: doing this.
Speaker 3: They brought it on themselves, Daniel.
Speaker 1: They brought on themselves completely act like, you know, to
Speaker 1: act like I was born with a silver spoon in
Speaker 1: my mouth. All right, let's get into this episode. I'm
Speaker 1: no longer putting hundreds of thousands of miles on my
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one Honda Civic SI black hatchback with the
Speaker 1: moonroof bass cannon for one hundred bucks a night. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: I got jets and tour buses full of dogs and kids,
Speaker 1: and today's guest is always there making sure Team Tosh
Speaker 1: keeps on perring like a kitten. Enjoy Pasha, my guest today,
Speaker 1: has spent time on the road with almost every famous
Speaker 1: comic you can think of. He's seen me perform live
Speaker 1: over sixty thousand times and is the only person I
Speaker 1: enjoy seeing backstage because he has my paycheck. Please welcome
Speaker 1: Live Nations VP of Comedy Touring aka my promoter, Andy Lovett. Andy,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 2: Things are good doing? All right?
Speaker 1: This is a big get for me having you on
Speaker 1: the show. Andy. Do you believe in ghost I do not?
Speaker 2: Okay, but real quick, I'm shocked that most comics say
Speaker 2: that the Comedy Store is haunted and they've always had
Speaker 2: these experiences.
Speaker 1: Nothing's haunted in the Comedy Store is just dirty. That's
Speaker 1: just the sound of seamen sticking to your feet as
Speaker 1: you walk through. Let's start with some simple stuff. You
Speaker 1: grew up in Baltimore. I know you're a big sports fan.
Speaker 1: Colts are Ravens Ravens. Do you pronounce it Baltimore or Baltimore?
Speaker 2: Baltimore?
Speaker 1: Lobster Crab Crab is the Wire the greatest television series
Speaker 1: of all time.
Speaker 2: It's up there Breaking Bad is up there too. I think, Okay,
Speaker 2: are you sick right now? I'm not.
Speaker 1: I always accuse Andy of being sick. I don't for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Whenever he's on tour with me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you sick? And He's like, no, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: just getting over something. I'm not contagious. I'm like, God,
Speaker 1: damn it.
Speaker 2: There was one time I was pretty deathly sick on
Speaker 2: the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you weren't in my bus. You know you
Speaker 1: were in. That was a baller move I had. I
Speaker 1: had two buses, one for the openers, or as I
Speaker 1: like to refer to them, the riff raff. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into Please describe to our listeners exactly what
Speaker 1: your job entails, because even I'm a little in the dark.
Speaker 2: Here, the biggest things are just like routing the tours,
Speaker 2: which I really enjoy. So it's kind of putting the
Speaker 2: puzzle together of how the tours come together, what cities
Speaker 2: they want to be in, what cities that common want
Speaker 2: to be in a what day, and routing it out
Speaker 2: be is it ten shows, thirty shows? And then it's
Speaker 2: negotiating the deals with the artist representatives, and then it's
Speaker 2: making sure the tickets sell so the artists can make
Speaker 2: as much money as possible. We can make as much
Speaker 2: money as possible, and then it's it's uh, it's followed through,
Speaker 2: follow following through with the show all the way to
Speaker 2: the end, making sure that the show goes smoothly from
Speaker 2: the moment you or the artist walks into the building
Speaker 2: until they exit the theater.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you're actually even just with the artists throughout
Speaker 1: the entire tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we you know me personally, and you know Live
Speaker 2: Nation Comedy. We really try to be as hands on
Speaker 2: as possible and you know, take care of the artists
Speaker 2: as much as possible.
Speaker 1: And so for people listen it. So you work for
Speaker 1: Live Nation and you basically only handle comics that can sell.
Speaker 1: What's the smallest venues that you're dealing with.
Speaker 2: We do shows in some clubs that have like four
Speaker 2: hundred seats or so okay, and we also have comedy clubs.
Speaker 2: You know. We have the Punchline in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, and that's owned by Live Nation.
Speaker 2: The Punchline in Philadelphia, the Punchline in Sacramento as well.
Speaker 1: My first experience with the Punchline was in San Francisco
Speaker 1: was such a big deal to get it, and I
Speaker 1: got like you get like a shit week when you're
Speaker 1: first getting there. It was like a Thanksgiving week, and
Speaker 1: me and Sean Rouse went up there. Rip to Sean,
Speaker 1: he's dead. He was an amazing comedian and he just
Speaker 1: like literally blew me off stage every night, like he
Speaker 1: was so much better than me.
Speaker 2: I hung out with Molly actually a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: She says, hello, by the way.
Speaker 1: Ah, Welly's a wonderful woman up in San Francisco with
Speaker 1: tattoos of Dave Matthews and lyrics on our artist. That's
Speaker 1: right now this interview you were I don't know if
Speaker 1: you were hesitant. I certainly know your boss Jeff was,
Speaker 1: because you're privy to such information about artists, and they're
Speaker 1: just like making sure that you can't talk about people.
Speaker 1: So at times I'll allude to things and you can
Speaker 1: just shut me up if I'm going down the wrong band.
Speaker 1: But let's start from the beginning. How did you get
Speaker 1: into promoting comedy and booking comedy.
Speaker 2: I went to college at American University in DC. Is
Speaker 2: that a good school, I'd say so. And I was
Speaker 2: a broadcast journalism major. So I thought I was going
Speaker 2: to go down that track and wanting to be sportscaster.
Speaker 2: But I just started going to tons of concerts at school,
Speaker 2: like just you know, music shows, some comedy shows, but
Speaker 2: more music shows, and just started befriending some of the
Speaker 2: bands that were playing there and they were up and
Speaker 2: coming bands, and then got involved in the college radio
Speaker 2: station and really just started being involved in the music
Speaker 2: side of things. And then there was a programming board
Speaker 2: on campus which helped bring bands and comedians to school
Speaker 2: basically using the school dollars.
Speaker 1: What people don't know about these campus activity boards is,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're an eighteen year old and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're getting to play exactly with budgets
Speaker 1: that are so much larger than anybody ever really knows,
Speaker 1: exactly like what it costs to bring real entertainers to school,
Speaker 1: and then they give you, I mean, what kind of
Speaker 1: budgets were your school's letting you play.
Speaker 2: We had a pretty healthy budget when we had half
Speaker 2: a million. I think it might have been a little
Speaker 2: less than but for the whole course of the year,
Speaker 2: you had the program something in the fall, so you
Speaker 2: just couldn't blow it on one event. No, I know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, overall it was like budgeting and yeah, we
Speaker 2: could get a big show in the fall, big show
Speaker 2: in the spring, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm in the Naco Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, but well I am. So that's
Speaker 1: these organizations that book entertain hainters into colleges, and I
Speaker 1: did a ton and ton of colleges. I remember once
Speaker 1: talking to my good friend Nick Schwartz and outside of
Speaker 1: the Melrose improv This is when we're kids, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm doing about one hundred colleges a year
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, I'm doing about six. And I go, oh,
Speaker 1: what you gotta do more? I go, I go the
Speaker 1: money's so good. He's like yeah, I know, but like
Speaker 1: I don't. And then I was like, well, I'm getting
Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred a show, and he's like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: getting like twelve thousand, and I was like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Nick is so much smarter than
Speaker 1: I am. He was doing six shows a year for
Speaker 1: twelve thousand a pop. I was doing one hundred for
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So yeah, so I got involved in it with
Speaker 2: d in DC that way and then you know, fulfilled
Speaker 2: my major and did all my requirements. But I really
Speaker 2: kind of got turned off by the whole journalism side
Speaker 2: and all that and just wanted to get into the
Speaker 2: entertainment side. And when I graduated, I was like, well,
Speaker 2: this is fun. Let's just I don't want to get
Speaker 2: a real job. And then I kind of morphed in
Speaker 2: the real job and just kind.
Speaker 1: Of do you feel like you have a real job now?
Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, I mean, but I enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But you don't know, you no longer love it?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I still love it. I tell my
Speaker 2: friends like when an athlete retires, like they know it's time,
Speaker 2: Like it's still fun for me. So I know if
Speaker 2: it's like going.
Speaker 1: What are you going to go to next?
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's yeah, but I still love it.
Speaker 2: I still love it. Stressful days at times, but I
Speaker 2: still love it.
Speaker 1: You've got some good comedy friends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, that we're you know, just I think people
Speaker 2: don't realize like how how many people are involved in
Speaker 2: making a show happen, So like just friends within the
Speaker 2: office and the venues and marketing, ticketing, production, So it's
Speaker 2: you know, you become you become friends with all these
Speaker 2: people because you're just around them.
Speaker 1: And some of them some of them not friends, some
Speaker 1: of them borderline hostel.
Speaker 2: Things can get things can get crazy, sometimes stressful situations.
Speaker 1: But because you're dealing with entertainers that come from all
Speaker 1: walks of life. I walk off stage, you're there. I
Speaker 1: actually refuse now to even take a settlement sheet. I
Speaker 1: might just email me like the Moneies get wired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there are still these performers that want a briefcase
Speaker 1: full of cash.
Speaker 2: There's yeah, I mean I think it's a little probably
Speaker 2: not as common anymore, but some.
Speaker 1: People, but it still happens, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: More on the music side, i'd say, oh really, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: But there's there's definitely a few comics that are like, no, no,
Speaker 1: give me you know, six figure amounts in cash after
Speaker 1: I get off stage, and then they're just it's just
Speaker 1: crazy to me. Yeah, And there's been times where you
Speaker 1: didn't have the cash? No, or is that not true?
Speaker 2: Not true?
Speaker 1: Okay, how many people have mistaken you for the talent's accountant?
Speaker 2: You know, it's probably happened a few times.
Speaker 1: So so one tour I did. When you get to
Speaker 1: the level of needing your expertise. It's like it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. And comics career you go from comedy clubs
Speaker 1: to theaters. And so once I got to that point,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is going to disappear any moment.
Speaker 1: Little did I know that I'm bulletproof. But so like
Speaker 1: the first time I booked a proper tour, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it for just two months. That doesn't seem long.
Speaker 1: Sixty days, but I go, but I don't want any
Speaker 1: nights off, So sixty days, sixty shows. But then it
Speaker 1: started selling well and so we did two shows every night,
Speaker 1: so one hundred and twenty shows in sixty days.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. Do you remember Julie that we had
Speaker 2: out on the road for She was.
Speaker 1: Trying to fly to every city every day commercially and
Speaker 1: it wasn't working. So then she's like, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to run an RV And she was just driving behind
Speaker 1: her bus and an RV. I guess, and should have
Speaker 1: I invited her on the bus? Is that what I
Speaker 1: should have done?
Speaker 2: Probably? Yeah, we still talk about it to this day.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know protocol.
Speaker 2: No, it's fine, it's I mean, there's no right answer.
Speaker 2: But it was it was a lot of dates.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember she had got one of her friends
Speaker 1: to like drive the RVY and she was trying to sleep,
Speaker 1: but like an RV is not meant for like sleeping
Speaker 1: and going ninety miles an hour down the highway.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't her fault. But then I think like
Speaker 2: the RV that they rented somehow got like infested with
Speaker 2: bugs or something like. It was just so it just
Speaker 2: became like a nightmare of a thing.
Speaker 1: That was the same tour that my manager Christie Smith
Speaker 1: ended up breaking rule one on the tour bus o.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because she and she blamed it on the lobster,
Speaker 1: but we all ate the same lobster rules. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden she was just blowing up the bathroom,
Speaker 1: flying down the highway. Oh, I was disturbing. Hey did
Speaker 1: I push you in the ocean Halifax?
Speaker 2: No, that I think you pushed Andrew. I vividly remember
Speaker 2: like that those days in Halifax.
Speaker 1: So I remember Halifax too, And I here's what I
Speaker 1: remember that we that we I remember crapping my pants
Speaker 1: on a hike that I remember, But also I remember
Speaker 1: we asked you to take a photo as we called
Speaker 1: you shaky Andy, because yeah, you were trembling.
Speaker 2: I was trembling, and I was like, and then you
Speaker 2: later found out, Yeah, that was the shortly thereafter, I
Speaker 2: found out I had a lot of other symptoms, and
Speaker 2: I found out that it's type two diabetic, and my
Speaker 2: blood sugar was just completely out of kilter at right
Speaker 2: a moment. So so everybody's making fun of me, and
Speaker 2: then I realized that was the condition that was causing that.
Speaker 2: Now I'm reversed in, very healthy.
Speaker 1: But what you're telling me is that my mocking yes
Speaker 1: saved your.
Speaker 2: Life exactly, exactly. Yeah, but that day was crazy because
Speaker 2: I remember we went on that hike and I was
Speaker 2: so out of shape and just everything that I just
Speaker 2: looked like you would have thought it was like a
Speaker 2: death march or something. And I gave I gave Pete
Speaker 2: a picture that I found from that day, Oh Man,
Speaker 2: of me, you and full Sharon at.
Speaker 1: Full Sharon, good dude, good stuff. The big college tour
Speaker 1: that you and I did. Everyone was worried about you
Speaker 1: because you were deathly sick. The whole time you needed
Speaker 1: to leave, You're like, listen, I am going to die.
Speaker 1: So you left, and then you brought this other guy
Speaker 1: aboard that dressed like a Would you describe how he dressed.
Speaker 3: Like casualfari casualfari?
Speaker 2: This guy like he's still doing his thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He His diet is concerning too.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about his diet weekend.
Speaker 1: He only would eat it raising canes. Have you ever
Speaker 1: tried stand up?
Speaker 2: I actually have never tried it, But I did write
Speaker 2: a lot in college, and I never had the balls
Speaker 2: to give it a shot.
Speaker 1: So you have a journal.
Speaker 2: I wish I still had it. I had it.
Speaker 1: Give me that journal I could get at least five
Speaker 1: new minutes out of it.
Speaker 2: I had, I had five minutes at the time, but
Speaker 2: I just never went with anything.
Speaker 1: Has Louis c k ever masturbated in front of negative
Speaker 1: on a tour bus? Does Kevin Hart have to sit
Speaker 1: in a child's seat?
Speaker 2: I don't work on Kevin's tours. I can't answer it.
Speaker 1: Were you in charge of making sure Dimitri Martin had
Speaker 1: an easel on every show.
Speaker 2: That's on his rider? Yes, if if in fact it's
Speaker 2: part of the show, then yes, we had to make
Speaker 2: sure it was there.
Speaker 1: How's my rider is very.
Speaker 2: Uh, You're one of the more simple riders out there,
Speaker 2: which is great in terms of like hospitality needs. It's
Speaker 2: actually become like a kind of a joke. But it's funny.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the joke?
Speaker 2: Oh No, it's just like there's not a lot on there.
Speaker 2: It's like for the longest, for all the years we've
Speaker 2: born the it's like bottle of water and a candle. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: now a scented candle. And it's very very important that
Speaker 2: the candle is like a good.
Speaker 1: Candle, right, it can't be a fucking glade.
Speaker 2: You're like TVs or no.
Speaker 1: No, I want like a locally made nice candle, and
Speaker 1: then I collect I use him in the green room
Speaker 1: and then when I get uh, when I get home,
Speaker 1: I have a whole stack of candles from from being
Speaker 1: on tour, and I don't have to eye candles because
Speaker 1: that's annoying.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. On the previous tour, I remember like all
Speaker 2: the cities of just trying to make sure everybody had
Speaker 2: a nice candle. We want to, you know, to make
Speaker 2: sure some places like it was harder to find like
Speaker 2: a nice candle shop, so we would like, you know,
Speaker 2: we would find a place and then just like buy
Speaker 2: them out. Tell Andrew Lantuck back in the day. If
Speaker 2: you like get just buy twelve of them.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a stupid Well. Now here's another thing
Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't know about artists is
Speaker 1: they can put whatever they want in their rider. The
Speaker 1: artists themselves are paying for it, like it's coming out
Speaker 1: of an expense. Correct. So it's like people always say, oh,
Speaker 1: can you believe they wanted a tiger backstage or whatever
Speaker 1: the nonsense is. It's like, well, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 1: to pay for that, so yeah, I'll have some water
Speaker 1: and a candle and some celery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the veggie tray was kind of an added that
Speaker 2: got added.
Speaker 1: That's not even for me. That's because if if Todd
Speaker 1: Glass or somebody's with me got it, they freak out.
Speaker 1: Which comedian has the worst fan base?
Speaker 2: No, I can't answer that.
Speaker 1: Drawid Carmichael opened for me. We were in Hawaii together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we ran in a beautiful house in Hawaii right
Speaker 1: on the beach for a few days, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a week. He never once left his room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I recall that too. Is I love Gerard, But yeah,
Speaker 2: that was kind of the strain that was, like, enjoy Hawaii,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: We never made He did enjoy it, I know he did.
Speaker 1: We never saw him. He never came out of his room.
Speaker 2: You And there was also actually when we did it,
Speaker 2: when we did Maui, he was on stage crushing opening
Speaker 2: and there was, like I'll never forget, there was like
Speaker 2: a fight that broke out in the theater, like somebody
Speaker 2: was got thrown off the balcony. It was crazy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I have had a few fights breakout in the audience
Speaker 1: during my shows, and I have I've gotten to a
Speaker 1: point my career where like I don't even care. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to acknowledge it. I'm like, whatever, I'll
Speaker 1: just keep talking to the people.
Speaker 2: That are in the front. Yeah, let's to deal with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but security is garbage for the most part at
Speaker 1: these venues. I was on stage at one time and
Speaker 1: somebody stormed me on the stage and no one ever
Speaker 1: stopped them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they finally did. But luckily I don't think that
Speaker 2: person was coming the leg hurt you in any way.
Speaker 2: He's just a crazy person.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so will you negotiate with my agent? By
Speaker 1: the way, do you do you enjoy negotiating with Stacy?
Speaker 2: She she can be hugh. She can definitely be tough
Speaker 2: at times to make my life a little crazy, but
Speaker 2: we get along well.
Speaker 1: So is there actually any hostility toward her ever?
Speaker 2: No, I mean sometimes it gets it gets Uh.
Speaker 1: Do you have to tell her, hey, knock it off
Speaker 1: and let's just talk about me personally because you're allowed to.
Speaker 1: If she's like demanding this and you're like he's not
Speaker 1: worth are you yelling like he's not worth that?
Speaker 2: No? No, I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: How do you haggle? How do you haggle her down?
Speaker 2: I just know it's it's just trying to state the
Speaker 2: facts of what I believe in. The risk involved and
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 1: Stuff is there is there a lot of risks with me.
Speaker 2: Putting up the expenses and all that.
Speaker 1: So I try to stay in my lane. No, totally
Speaker 1: in venues. I'm not trying to play things that I
Speaker 1: can't sell my you know people, I have said this before,
Speaker 1: but like, I try to stay in the fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: you know, maybe at the max forty five hundred seats.
Speaker 1: That's my sweet spot because I don't want to do
Speaker 1: a lot of promotion. That's really it. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: cities to work in? Well? I guess.
Speaker 2: Cities and theaters. I guess, but like I love Chicago.
Speaker 2: Chicago Theater is an amazing theater.
Speaker 1: It's too big, the ceilings are too high.
Speaker 2: I still like it.
Speaker 1: It is pretty.
Speaker 2: Seattle, the Paramount I like a lot, the Masonic, and
Speaker 2: San Francisco. I like the Bay Area. The Bay is great.
Speaker 2: The Ryman in Nashville is cool too.
Speaker 1: I love the Ryman.
Speaker 2: That's a good Yeah, that's a great theater. I mean,
Speaker 2: just the intimacy and it feels cool. Yeah, the Mother
Speaker 2: Church they call it.
Speaker 1: I mean these theaters are some of them. The older
Speaker 1: they are, the more beautiful they are, the more despicable
Speaker 1: backstage is and and anyone over six feet tall is
Speaker 1: going to have their head just blasted off over and over.
Speaker 1: I never care about these the like I don't go
Speaker 1: to sound check.
Speaker 2: I just but there are certain theaters that you had
Speaker 2: a did like Radio City mean anything that you know. No,
Speaker 2: so some people have like the bucket list of venue.
Speaker 1: No bucket list. Yeah, and also like whenever they want
Speaker 1: to like give me a tour of the theater, like
Speaker 1: oh we need to, We'll bring you back down to
Speaker 1: the basement and what's the Georgia one the Fox there Fox, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't they They like they brag about having like the
Speaker 1: first air conditioner.
Speaker 2: They had an air conditioner before the White House.
Speaker 1: Right, But it's because it's in Georgia. We's hot.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: What's the worst market in America to celtickets?
Speaker 2: And that's a tough question. I think it depends on
Speaker 2: who the artist is. And I'm always a proponent though,
Speaker 2: of the colder the venue or the colder of the market.
Speaker 2: That's when you should be there when it's freezing, like
Speaker 2: people like in you know, Duluth, Minnesota, only have x
Speaker 2: amount of like sunlight and nice weather. So I think
Speaker 2: something might sell better there in February than it would
Speaker 2: in August.
Speaker 1: You one of the greatest comics stand up performing Brian
Speaker 1: Reagan is a good friend of yours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the best.
Speaker 1: You travel with him constantly.
Speaker 2: I used to do still work with him, but I
Speaker 2: used to be on the road constantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every venue for six six years. Yeah, sixty shows
Speaker 1: plus a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely more than sixty, probably seventy eighty.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: It was a lot, but it was I mean it
Speaker 2: was a great life experience and cool to travel all
Speaker 2: fifty see all fifty states Canada, and it was really
Speaker 2: cool to see all the venues because if you see
Speaker 2: the venues, then you kind of know, all right, this
Speaker 2: comedian might work here, this comedian might not work here.
Speaker 2: This venue is good for this reason, this venue is
Speaker 2: not good for this purpose, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Did Brian like like you as a person or no?
Speaker 2: I think so. I think you'll have to have him
Speaker 2: one next No, I don't have comics on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you were you were on the road
Speaker 1: with Brian Reagan and audio issues.
Speaker 2: Well, when you do as many shows as we've done there,
Speaker 2: you know every once in a while there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a faux power two. But yeah, I was doing a
Speaker 2: show with Brian and Fargo, North Dakota.
Speaker 1: Which a lot of people think is like like a
Speaker 1: tiny city, but it's the largest city in North Dakota.
Speaker 2: Agreed. I think it's completely underrated. It's a cool town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no issue with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing the show, sold out show and Dennis Reagan,
Speaker 2: his brother, is opening and Dennis goes on stage to
Speaker 2: start the show and he does a few lines, but
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, the mic cuts out, So
Speaker 2: Dennis just immediately walks off.
Speaker 1: And Dennis got a little bit of an attitude. It
Speaker 1: probably wasn't thrilled, not.
Speaker 2: At all yet. Okay, So Dennis walks right off stage.
Speaker 2: So Brian's like, we need somebody to like go out
Speaker 2: there and just keep talking to make sure it works.
Speaker 2: You know, we can't have this happen again. So kind
Speaker 2: of like all eyes appeer on me. So I go
Speaker 2: out this is your big break. I go out there
Speaker 2: in front of all these people and I just say,
Speaker 2: all right, we're just gonna I'm gonna keep talking to
Speaker 2: make sure we can fix this. And I just start
Speaker 2: saying the alphabet and I get to maybe the letter
Speaker 2: like I don't know Q or P, and I just
Speaker 2: at that point got a little stage fright and freaked
Speaker 2: out and I just couldn't remember the alphabet at that point.
Speaker 2: And then everybody just starts cracking and then it just
Speaker 2: becomes like, you know, chaos a little bit, and I'm
Speaker 2: getting pretty flustered on stage. I don't even remember what
Speaker 2: I did, but it was pretty embarrassing. And then I
Speaker 2: get off and we fixed the issue. We get back
Speaker 2: out there and Brian jokes saying, thanks everybody for their
Speaker 2: patience and then thanked busting me for not knowing the alphabet.
Speaker 2: And then Brian got off stage, because Brian comes off
Speaker 2: then does an encore, And I said to Brian, I'm like,
Speaker 2: literally the only thing keeping the show going right now
Speaker 2: is this little fan here. So I'm like, go out
Speaker 2: and do your pop tarts bit as quick as possible.
Speaker 2: Let's get get the fuck out of here. You know,
Speaker 2: he's got a few bits that the encore in summer
Speaker 2: longer than the other. If you really do spelling bee,
Speaker 2: w'd be there seven minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: So I'm just like, we got to get to get
Speaker 2: out of here.
Speaker 1: You were to Bill Cosby's first comeback show. After all
Speaker 1: the rape allegation is true or false?
Speaker 2: No? False?
Speaker 1: Would you have any interest in promoting a tour with
Speaker 1: Cosby and Hannibal Burst together? No? No calling it like
Speaker 1: both sides. Do you work outside of the US?
Speaker 2: Yes? I think that. You know, that's becoming more and
Speaker 2: more of a business now, you know, with Netflix and
Speaker 2: streaming platforms and comedy specials in general. It's just yeah,
Speaker 2: things are becoming just more universal now.
Speaker 1: No, it's so much you have to travel so much
Speaker 1: farther but you did.
Speaker 2: You did some shows Abraad, We did Australians. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: that was only so I could watch tennis. And there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people that do that. They build a
Speaker 2: vacation out of it. That's the way that that's the
Speaker 2: way to do it.
Speaker 1: No, I refuse to travel anywhere on my own dime. Right,
Speaker 1: do you take vacations?
Speaker 2: I do. I've been a lot better about it over
Speaker 2: the past few years.
Speaker 1: And you're taking some crazy trips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like in December when the business kind of slows
Speaker 2: down a little bit, I kind of try to get
Speaker 2: away and do cool, cool shit it. I guess I
Speaker 2: did Patagonia one year.
Speaker 1: How did you do in Patagonia? Where you did? You
Speaker 1: do some big hikes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, huge hikes. Yeah, Toros del pay nationally.
Speaker 1: Because I mean Califax reminder that we walked a half
Speaker 1: a mile and he almost die. Yeah, much healthier. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about COVID. There were no live shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty pretty Narl.
Speaker 1: Did you did you go, Oh my goodness, my career
Speaker 1: is over.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we all knew we were going
Speaker 2: to come back, but we just didn't know when how.
Speaker 1: Much did Live Nation lose dollars that year.
Speaker 2: No idea, no idea billions, I have no idea, but
Speaker 2: like I mean, I think I think the company did
Speaker 2: an incredible job trying to take care of as many
Speaker 2: people as they could under the circumstance.
Speaker 1: Did you do like, what are those dumb like zoom
Speaker 1: stand up shows?
Speaker 2: Well, I did one of them. Actually, I booked a
Speaker 2: Zoom comedy show and I booked Tom Poppell on and uh,
Speaker 2: he actually did fairly. He did better than I thought
Speaker 2: it was going to be. But it was weird to
Speaker 2: just see people in the boxes just like laughing at
Speaker 2: this that he was doing from like his living room,
Speaker 2: you know. But we we did do some shows. I mean,
Speaker 2: we helped produce all the Chappelle shows in the Cornfields
Speaker 2: that he did in Ohio.
Speaker 1: And you and Chappelle drove not a tour bus, right
Speaker 1: in a minivan.
Speaker 2: It was one of his first shows back and.
Speaker 1: Back, meaning after he kind of quit kind of the
Speaker 1: entertainment business after Comedy Central show, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some time went by and then he decided he
Speaker 2: wanted to play the Filmore in Detroit, very cool theater.
Speaker 2: I said, He's going to do that show, and then
Speaker 2: he was going to do three in Toronto. So I
Speaker 2: went to the show. Everything went great, and then I
Speaker 2: was like, all right, i'll see you tomorrow in Toronto.
Speaker 2: My flight gets in at like eleven am or whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, and he's like, whoa, I'm driving tonight. So
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, you're coming with me, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: this is kind of crazy. So at like one point
Speaker 2: thirty in the morning, two in the morning, we literally
Speaker 2: get into his minivan and he drives for it.
Speaker 1: Nice. Was it nice minivans?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was all right, yeah, let me see he eats
Speaker 1: town and country, I think, so, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Four and a half five hour drive to Toronto, but
Speaker 2: about that last hour it was really rough. We were
Speaker 2: both pretty exhausted. So once we got the Toronto, the
Speaker 2: shows great shows. Kind of the funny story that happened
Speaker 2: that in Toronto you're not allowed to smoke in the venues,
Speaker 2: and Dave smokes on stage, as many people know, and
Speaker 2: the venue was like, you can't smoke on stage. The guy,
Speaker 2: the general manager of the venue told me that, and
Speaker 2: I kind of was like, well, you have these sold
Speaker 2: out shows with Dave Schappelle's you's just got to deal
Speaker 2: with it, and he didn't like that too much and
Speaker 2: was like, no, I don't think you understand. It's like
Speaker 2: provincial wall here, like you know, the health the equivalent
Speaker 2: of the Health Department could come in, shut the show down,
Speaker 2: find you as the promoter. So I then realized the
Speaker 2: gravity of it all and we kind of explained the Dave,
Speaker 2: you really can't smoke on stage, like it's pretty serious.
Speaker 2: Then the next morning I get a phone call that
Speaker 2: David walked to the mayor's office asking why you couldn't
Speaker 2: smoke on stage?
Speaker 1: Did he get the mayor?
Speaker 2: He got the mayor, and the mayor was like, I'm
Speaker 2: glad you're here, but you cannot smoke on stage. So
Speaker 2: he didn't smoke on stage. Then the irony goes a
Speaker 2: few months later, sadly that mayor was the mayor that
Speaker 2: smoked some other things. He's a crackhead and he has
Speaker 2: since passed away, which is said, but.
Speaker 1: That part is sad, Yeah, But the part about the
Speaker 1: crackhead telling the guy you can't smoke.
Speaker 2: A cigarette, the irony there is pretty would have.
Speaker 1: Dave been allowed to smoke crack on stage?
Speaker 2: Probably? No, I think everything is off any version.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I always give my I guess something, but
Speaker 1: you don't.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: Nothing in my house is something I think you would want.
Speaker 1: But I still have a few things. This I want
Speaker 1: you to have. This is this is unused. These are earbuds.
Speaker 1: They're they're made to Christy Smith. They have her name,
Speaker 1: the cheap motherfucker at Comedy Central that like took over
Speaker 1: after like he fires everybody and gets rid of every show.
Speaker 1: This was the parting gift he gave to Christy Smith
Speaker 1: for my show of thirteen years right, and he did.
Speaker 1: They didn't even give it to her. They sent it
Speaker 1: to me, and I've never given it to her. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna so now you have some earbuds. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: maybe I'll go along to a Christie and you know,
Speaker 1: don't give it to her. It's neat that you have Christy.
Speaker 1: And then this is just an old photo of me
Speaker 1: as a kid with jay Z.
Speaker 2: As a hilarious that's this is hilarious. I just thought
Speaker 2: that'd be Nice'll go in my office. Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: an old picture like this of me and doctor j
Speaker 2: that I have to show you. Okay, I'm like up
Speaker 2: to his knee.
Speaker 1: I will happily put that on my desk, Give me, Dodger,
Speaker 1: get this off my desk. I don't want it's on
Speaker 1: my table. You toured with Bill Murray? Is he the
Speaker 1: coolest motherfucker alive?
Speaker 2: He's like. I was a little nervous at first, and
Speaker 2: then I'm like, this guy is literally the greatest personal nerve,
Speaker 2: Like he is right, it's just everything about it. It's
Speaker 2: like a unicorn, Like, it's just it was awesome.
Speaker 1: What was his show like?
Speaker 2: So the concept was I had heard that he was
Speaker 2: classical music, right, it was a bunch of stuff. I
Speaker 2: had heard that he was doing these shows and that's
Speaker 2: clinical music. And he doesn't have an agent or manager,
Speaker 2: which I.
Speaker 1: Really knows, like the landline that you call, you leave
Speaker 1: a message and if he's interested, he'll call you back.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like, all right, how am I gonna? Like?
Speaker 2: Who's doing this show that he's doing? So I found
Speaker 2: out he was tied the two classical musicians and the
Speaker 2: agent was out of Germany.
Speaker 1: So I called.
Speaker 2: Germany just one number, yeah and just explain my yeah exactly,
Speaker 2: and explain what I do and if there was any
Speaker 2: more shows available, and she was like, oh, the timing's amazing.
Speaker 2: Look we're having trouble finding venues in two cities, okay.
Speaker 2: And I thought she was going to say, like Topeka,
Speaker 2: and she's like, well, we can't find venues in San
Speaker 2: Francisco and Seattle. Oh my god. And I'm just like
Speaker 2: this is like this is so easy, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. So we booked the I booked the shows.
Speaker 2: It was a few classic, classically trained, incredibly talented classical musicians,
Speaker 2: so a combination of like classical music, storytelling, poetry, some singing.
Speaker 2: Bill has a great voice, so he did some contemporary
Speaker 2: songs covered like a Van Morrison song, John Prime song,
Speaker 2: just insane, just unbelievable, and like you see, like we
Speaker 2: deal with comedians all the time, but then you see
Speaker 2: like the talent of a classical musician, it's just mind boggling,
Speaker 2: you know, it's different a little bit, just a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I did one show with them in Seattle. I
Speaker 2: didn't even like was nervous, Like Bill had some friends there.
Speaker 2: I didn't even really talk to him that day. But
Speaker 2: then did one more show in San Francisco and everybody
Speaker 2: kind of like warmed up through each other and then
Speaker 2: we just became this like unit and they did about
Speaker 2: maybe twenty shows, and I did about fourteen of them,
Speaker 2: including London in Scotland. So yeah, the last time I
Speaker 2: saw him was in London. Great show. Then went to
Speaker 2: the Chiltern Firehouse was which is just this like epic,
Speaker 2: very famous bar that you kind of need to be
Speaker 2: asked there, invited in, and you just had a They
Speaker 2: did Bill just get to walk in? I mean we
Speaker 2: didn't have any trouble getting in. I mean maybe he
Speaker 2: maybe he gave the heads up or something, but they
Speaker 2: gladly let us in. But yeah, just a great night
Speaker 2: there and then kind of you put me in a
Speaker 2: taxi back to my hotel, thank me. And I haven't
Speaker 2: seen him since.
Speaker 1: Did he pay for the taxi?
Speaker 2: I don't think so, I paid for it.
Speaker 1: Do you hate some of these YouTube stars that can
Speaker 1: sell tickets? Are you getting to that age where you're like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, these younger performers. I have no interest in
Speaker 1: listening to them? Or do you? Are you like? No,
Speaker 1: it's good too? No, I like it.
Speaker 2: I like it too. I mean, if they can sell tickets,
Speaker 2: it's worth looking at. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 2: artists that you might not have the like personally.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, and he's like to see
Speaker 1: a stand up comic and a large venue. There's like
Speaker 1: two comedians and Steve Martin, I don't know somebody else,
Speaker 1: But now it just seems like there's so many comics
Speaker 1: that are at the level of performing in larger venues.
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: Totally right? Larger venues and just smaller venues. I mean
Speaker 2: there's the days of all right, you got to putting
Speaker 2: your time at the club and do that is kind
Speaker 2: of you know, I think I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: of artists where they might become big and then the
Speaker 2: fans might they just might want to see them in person.
Speaker 2: It might not even be about the material. They just
Speaker 2: want to have that moment with them.
Speaker 1: Huh. What other shows are they doing besides stand up? Well,
Speaker 1: what do they do live?
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's sometimes it's stand up. Sometimes it's like sketch
Speaker 2: or improv or where you know, or podcasts are going
Speaker 2: live now too, I mean that's.
Speaker 1: Do you promote live podcast?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: So it's just like you imagine how horrible this would be.
Speaker 1: There's an audience in front of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, people would be paying to see me seeing you,
Speaker 2: But yeah, who's.
Speaker 1: The next big superstar, comedian, tough to say. I never
Speaker 1: can pick it. I like people tell me, like, who
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 2: I'm like, are there any comics now that you like
Speaker 2: a lot?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 1: Or I like them all?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I can get into im. I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: big there's room forever everyone. But no, there's some great ones.
Speaker 1: I know Andrew Schulz's camp or big fans of yours
Speaker 1: and one of his openers, Mark Gagnon, very funny comic.
Speaker 1: He's from the Orlando area, so like you're like his
Speaker 1: you know, Orlando, Florida. Yeah, man, that wasn't that was?
Speaker 1: That was some tough sledding back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is kind of weird that there's tons of
Speaker 2: comics from Florida, though, it's like it's just I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's just like an anomaly of just other like you know,
Speaker 2: Larry the Cable guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mitch Hegberg really started in West Palm too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even though I know he's from Minia.
Speaker 2: Carra top always Scott.
Speaker 1: He love him.
Speaker 2: He makes me laugh so much. I think I told
Speaker 2: you this. I saw him once at the Vegas Airport
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, that can't be carrat top.
Speaker 1: What he had a hat on his head, carrat top
Speaker 1: with his shirt with an arrow pointing.
Speaker 2: I just like couldn't believe. I'm like this guy, like,
Speaker 2: why is he like he could clearly just private or whatever.
Speaker 1: And of course he's he's worth one hundred million easy.
Speaker 1: You know, his social media presence is is so sexual.
Speaker 1: I find that disturbed. He was.
Speaker 2: He was in one of your videos for a while,
Speaker 2: your intro videos on stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me and him doing this Selena Gomez. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was pretty I was that was a second, but I
Speaker 1: was in character. I was pretending to be Selena. Now
Speaker 1: we can't talk about certain things, but there are a
Speaker 1: few performers that you've worked with in your life that
Speaker 1: when they and knock on wood that it's not anytime soon,
Speaker 1: but hopefully it's before this podcast stops. Me to think
Speaker 1: when they pass away, that you'll come back on and
Speaker 1: we'll have some discussions about them. Fair enough, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: good to know. People at home they can just guess like,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, who could this positively be? All right, Well, Andy,
Speaker 1: I'll see you back on the road. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much for being on the show. Thanks for having me
Speaker 1: my pleasure, Pasha, and not about I want to thank
Speaker 1: Andy Levitt for being on the show Live Nation. They
Speaker 1: get things done, Carl. Do you enjoy Andy Levitt? He's
Speaker 1: a good man. Every time he sees you on the road,
Speaker 1: what does he do? Huh? He tossles your hair just
Speaker 1: a little bit, just like that. We like Andy. We
Speaker 1: appreciate what he does to make tour life way more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Anything I want on the road, he gets it done. Hummus,
Speaker 1: it's in my green room, Celry. What you like carrots?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: You loved carrots. Speaking of food, I got a little
Speaker 1: egg on my face for this story. My wife bought
Speaker 1: a bag of hard boiled eggs for our daughter, thought
Speaker 1: maybe there'd be a quick little snack for her, and
Speaker 1: she didn't want to eat them. And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: love a hard boiled egg, you know, a little salt
Speaker 1: pop it in delicious? Right, Carl? Okay, but how many
Speaker 1: hard boiled eggs you really want to eat?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is a big old bag of hard boiled eggs,
Speaker 1: and a bag of hard boiled eggs sounds disgusting. Kept
Speaker 1: snacking on them? Hey? You know, one week turns into
Speaker 1: a couple months and there's still a handful of hard
Speaker 1: boiled eggs left in there. And I keep looking at
Speaker 1: the expiration date every time and it says as like
Speaker 1: says mid May or something. I'm like, either a great,
Speaker 1: they're still good. Carly's like, what are you doing? You
Speaker 1: can't eat those? I like says mid May, it says
Speaker 1: expires or idem say expire said sell by mid May. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm fine. The last hard boiled egg. After a
Speaker 1: dozen or so of these things over a three month period,
Speaker 1: I realize that it's yes, Uh, you know, they expire
Speaker 1: seven days after you open the bag. So whatever. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest with you, My stomach handled them every time
Speaker 1: I open it. The whole room would, but hey, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: My stomach handled it. That's all that matters. The Goat
Speaker 1: premieres in two days. Guys. There'll be three episodes available,
Speaker 1: but currently you can see the very first pilot episode
Speaker 1: the first episode on YouTube. God, Amazon, you are confusing, whatever,
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do in Columbus. I tell you what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna blow the roof off of
Speaker 1: that venue when I perform my jokes. Speaking of unwatchable,
Speaker 1: another one of my kids' bedtime stories. See you next week.
Speaker 4: When to pilot time. A deep deep out, a big
Speaker 4: big ty what some little little orion? But they what
Speaker 4: he did? Ham hot doss ham? He they what he
Speaker 4: didn't ham? But they said it? What what? Turkey meatballs?
Speaker 1: All right, well, hold, let me say so there's three
Speaker 1: there's three lions in a cave and they wanted ham.
Speaker 1: But their favorite thing is turkey meatballs, hammaidballs, Ham meatballs,
Speaker 1: turkey meatballs.
Speaker 4: Okay, go on, sorry, Okay, now we do another story.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the story.
Speaker 4: Another story.
Speaker 1: That story is garbage.