1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Hello, this is Bombing with Eric Andre, the podcast where 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: I talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: about their worst moments on stage and getting gutted by 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: a live audience. We're back and we got a chance 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: to talk one of my favorite comedians namesh Patel. He 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,639 Speaker 1: talks about his life experiences and releasing a special on 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: YouTube and doing stand up in front of a bunch 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: of Bernie Sanders donors and how they wanted to. 9 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: Murder it. 10 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 3: Let's get into it. Bombing with Eric Andre. 11 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: Okay, so tell us the worst you've ever bombed or 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: you have a bombing story. Oh, we can kick off 13 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: with the one that you have locked and loaded. 14 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't hear you. 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: I also, I've never seen you bomb, so I don't 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: know if I've never seen you like just completely deterior 17 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: on stage unless I'm like have like a fucking complete, 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: well false memory. 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 4: I don't know what you saw at that the show 20 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 4: we're going to talk about, but that one felt like 21 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 4: there was no recovering from it. So for the context, 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 4: and you're probably not even aware this was that. That 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 4: was the summer of twenty sixteen when that happened. Okay, 24 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 4: you have to understand where my ego was at when 25 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 4: I was doing that show, because that was four months 26 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 4: before that. I had just been at the Oscars with 27 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 4: Chris and he had the second time he hosted, And were. 28 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: You helping him? 29 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: Right? 30 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was where they had a writing team and 31 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 4: I was on the writing team. 32 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: That was my first writing job right way amazing. 33 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 4: And so I had my finance job had ended, my 34 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 4: day job had it ended, and my first writing job 35 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 4: ever was working with Chris on the Oscars. Amazing, and 36 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 4: I'm like, I felt like hot shit, yeah, yeah, right. 37 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 4: Four months later, I get passed at the Cellar. 38 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, because of how long were you doing comedy at 39 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: this point? 40 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 4: Seven years? 41 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: Seven years? 42 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 4: And I get passed at the Cellar and I did 43 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 4: political material because that was the summer that everyone thought 44 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 4: Trump was going to lose, right, and all political material 45 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 4: was hot shit right right, And I thought I was 46 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 4: doing like like some of the best I had passed 47 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 4: at the Cellar with it, and I'm like, oh, I'm 48 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 4: fucking good money. And uh a few months, a few 49 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 4: weeks later, I get a text from our good friend 50 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 4: Ronny Yusuf Ya, Hey man, there's this Uh once Hillary 51 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 4: secured the nomination Bernie had lost. Hey man, there's this like, 52 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 4: uh kind of protests gathering for Bernie happening in Philadelphia 53 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 4: outside of Philadelphia Convention Center where Hillary was having her 54 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: victory party. 55 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: So like to paint the picture, it was like a 56 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: political rally in a museum where people, like political people 57 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: were coming up and ranting and raving and trying to 58 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: do like grassroots campaigning. But they would have comedians on 59 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: in between. But there's no flow to the show. And 60 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: it wasn't a comedy show. It was like a variety 61 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: show with like heated political debate as the in between 62 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: yes vers and like musicians. It was like there's no 63 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: momentum for any comedian. I had not a good not 64 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: conducive to comedy. 65 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: I had not. 66 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 4: And it's like three o'clock in the afternoon summer. Yeah, 67 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 4: and mind you, I came off the train and came 68 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 4: to the venue. I hadn't seen any of the things 69 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 4: that had happened thus far, and all I knew that 70 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 4: there was four hundred people dressed in black, like Bernie 71 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 4: died or some shit. 72 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: The mood was fucking dowur. 73 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 4: A bunch of bunch of purple hair like and there's 74 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 4: a panel of five people seated, and then I don't 75 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 4: know who went before me, doesn't matter who went after. 76 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,839 Speaker 4: I don't know whoever went before I got brought up, 77 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 4: and I just remember that, Like the reason I got 78 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 4: the Rock. 79 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: Job was because I think I remember this. 80 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: The reason I got the Chris Rock job was because 81 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 4: I told a joke that I had just written, and 82 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 4: I was so excited about it when I when I 83 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 4: got the when Chris was watching the show that I 84 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: was at that that instinct to tell the first joke 85 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 4: that that the newest joke, like that fiery inside, yeah, yeah, yeah. 86 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 4: And here's a room full of four hundred Bernie fans, 87 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 4: and Bernie had just lost the nomination to Hillary, right 88 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 4: My opening line. 89 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: Was hello losers, damn. 90 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 4: Fucking bro I really thought I was gonna level, but 91 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 4: it was not that at all. And they wanted eight minutes, 92 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 4: and I think I did. I said I've been booed 93 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 4: by worse people than you, or something like that. 94 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: So now you're like fighting the audience. 95 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 4: And then I forget what my closing line, what are 96 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 4: you gonna say? That's the funniest thing I could say 97 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 4: in that situation. They had sense of the humor. 98 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: Then that was. 99 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: And uh. I was like, all right, boy, and I 100 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 4: remember you being like because you were supposed to go up, 101 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: I think. 102 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think they wanted me to go up. 103 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: You bomb. 104 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I'm sorry, I said, what 105 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: can you say? 106 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 2: It was? 107 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: It was just like tense, it was. 108 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, see y'all later. And 109 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 4: then Rommy walked me out. He took me in his 110 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 4: car and drop me to the He drove me to 111 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 4: the train station. But you know, Romy tells you you 112 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 4: did bad, but tells you by telling you did good. 113 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 114 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, He's like, man, you were na, man, yeah you 115 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 4: were good. That's all right man. I was like, man, 116 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 4: you sent me the I felt so bad. 117 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: I saw you that night. 118 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 4: I saw you at the seller that night, I really 119 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 4: think so. I think it was that night or like 120 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 4: right afterwards. 121 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: Did I know you well? 122 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 4: At that point we knew each other because you've done 123 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 4: matchless once or twice like. 124 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: The bus. 125 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I don't think would us. But I 126 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 4: distinctly remember that like as one of my worst bombs 127 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 4: because the ego with which I went into the situation 128 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 4: was so cut down, you know, and I was like, fuck, 129 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 4: I cannot believe that happened. Yeah, that was a bad one. 130 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: You were not set up for success at a show 131 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: like that, though. Who's gonna do well at that show? 132 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 4: Someone who who panders and says fuck Hillary? 133 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: Nobody? Yeah, somebody who either panders or already is like 134 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: mega famous for being a political Look like like John 135 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: Stewart walks into that room, he'd probably like would get somewhere, 136 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: have a great time, but but shy of that level 137 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: of fame as a political comic specifically, like if you 138 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: have to start from, like I swear, I'm gonna like 139 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: like unless you're like mega world famous, like it's kind 140 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: of like impossible. I would have tank. I think they 141 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: wanted me to go up and I was like, no, no, 142 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: did even go up? I don't even know if I 143 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: think everybody skipped after they you like fucking riddled with bullets, 144 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: glad I set the example. 145 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: That was a brutal one. 146 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 4: That was my that's the bomb that sticks out the 147 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 4: most brain of. 148 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: It's hunting those Did they haunt you forever? 149 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 2: Oh? 150 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 4: Yes, hurt my feelings? But you know, all all that 151 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 4: ends well. Bernie is still alive, So that's good. 152 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: Bernie is still the president. 153 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: With a regardrey with a regardrey. 154 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: Has there ever been a bomb that you've seen in 155 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: person maybe you weren't on stage, just a bomb that 156 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: you witnessed that was like horrendous, or like any fights 157 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: on stage or oh, bottles thrown or we. 158 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 4: Had well when I did Matchless, the show that you've 159 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 4: done before, Yeah, Eastern Run with the Chay and Mike Denny. 160 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: Are you still doing that show? 161 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 4: You don't do that? 162 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: That long done? 163 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 2: Yeah? 164 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 4: That then you got sold in January twenty eighteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 165 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 4: it fucking sucks. But they just knocked it down like 166 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 4: it was standing there. It could have been a show 167 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 4: for all this time, that show we would people will 168 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 4: bomb every Monday. But I remember distinctly. I won't name 169 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 4: his name, but I was would say too generous, and 170 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 4: I would say Chay was too generous with people that 171 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 4: he let get up, and Becky was dep This is 172 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 4: all Becky's fault. Becky, our producer, would be too generous, 173 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 4: and Danny, we would all be too generous about some 174 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 4: of the comics that we'd let on stage. 175 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: As in, people that were not great. 176 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 4: You put on such yeah, or people that we'd seen 177 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 4: once or whatever. Yeah, well I had asked more nice 178 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 4: and more friendly and been around there. 179 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you got to give some people a shot, 180 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: I guess, you know, and uh just got a sandwich 181 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: them between two people. You know, can like bring the 182 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: show back to the day. 183 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 4: And you know, to our credit, we definitely gave a 184 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 4: lot of people when they like Chicago Comics La Comics, 185 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 4: Like we still talk about like, oh man, can you 186 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 4: believe that that person the first time they came to 187 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: New York, the first show they did was ours, and 188 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 4: now they're fucking yeah yea yeah, yeah yeah. Lisa Matteo 189 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 4: like some of these people like when they came to 190 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 4: New York, they're like, this is the fucking show and 191 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 4: put them up and not that take any credit for 192 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 4: the successor anything, but like that. 193 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: Was yeah, that was exciting to see your see your children. 194 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 4: Grow up, right, our peers become fucking stars. 195 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 196 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 4: This one guy was from New York New York improv scene. 197 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 4: I had met him a few times and we've done 198 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 4: shows together, but I never like really paid attention to 199 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 4: his set. But it was enough like yeah, go up, 200 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 4: I'll give you a shot, you know, your friend go. 201 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 4: He went up and I guess he was suffering through 202 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 4: some kind of anger management. He went up and like 203 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 4: like the first or second joke didn't work, and something in. 204 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,479 Speaker 1: Him switched click, like I snapped. 205 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 4: And it was like he it was uncomfortable to the 206 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 4: point I thought he was going to like get like 207 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 4: angry violent. He's like, I'll set this fucking place on fire. 208 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: He was saying like that. Do you know that. 209 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 4: He came off stage, and that was the one time 210 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 4: I remember being like like it was a bomb, and 211 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 4: normally you do like ten to fifteen minutes of the show. 212 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 4: I think we were like, yo, get the fuck off 213 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 4: at like six Yeah, even that was. 214 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: Yelling at It was a yelling at you guys too. 215 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 4: No, he was yelling at I think the host. I 216 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 4: don't forget who was hosting at the time. It might 217 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 4: have been me, but he was definitely yelling at everybody 218 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 4: and definitely like one person in front row where it 219 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 4: felt so comfortable, like going off and when he came 220 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 4: off stage, he was like and I was like, nah, man, no, no, 221 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 4: that's not okay. I don't know what the fuck you 222 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 4: just did, but that what the fuck was that? 223 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? 224 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,199 Speaker 4: And then I haven't seen him since, but that was like, 225 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 4: it's not well. I hope he's okay, but that seemed 226 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 4: like a mild psychotic. 227 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: Break to have, just like what the fuck you? 228 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 4: Like a pure meltdown of comedy and there's not a 229 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 4: single funny moment in it where even like I'm gonna 230 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 4: like this place on fire, like that seemed like a 231 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 4: legitimate threat, felony threat. Yeah, We're like, all right, bro, 232 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, man, you look go home, get this place 233 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 4: on fire, I guess, and work done. Punishment doesn't match 234 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 4: the crime. Bro, you just bombed. 235 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: It's fine, It's fine. 236 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: I bomb here all the time. It's supposed to some 237 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 4: Monday is free. Look at these. 238 00:10:53,840 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 2: People, you know, with a Condre, with aver Condre. 239 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 1: What was the most wasted you've ever been on stage? 240 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: Like sloppy, fucking hammered. 241 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 4: It was Beauty Bar two thousand and I would say thirteen, 242 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 4: you're doing drugs or you drinking? Drinking okay? And I 243 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 4: only remember it because I was in a suit, because 244 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 4: I was still working finance as an assistant. 245 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: Oh shit, And you'd show up at the comedy show 246 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: from work. 247 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 4: And this time we had a work party, and. 248 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: How long were you doing finance stuff? 249 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 4: I worked in finance until January twenty sixteen, from nine 250 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 4: two thousand and so. 251 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: You finished school and you went right into finance. 252 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, so I well, I finished school in eight and 253 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 4: I graduated the finance agree in a terrible year to 254 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 4: do that. 255 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: You picked the wrong year and the graduate finance. 256 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 4: Yes, I did. And I didn't get a job. Thankfully, 257 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 4: you know, it all worked out because if I hadn't, 258 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 4: had I become a banker or something, who knows, I 259 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 4: might not be here. Oh nine, I finally got a job, 260 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 4: moved to the city, was working at an investment bank 261 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 4: as an assistant. It's like, I would say, twenty twelve, 262 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, and we had a work after hours, a 263 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 4: work a happy hour. So I got lit up and 264 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 4: I was like, oh shit, it's like eight orn o'clock. 265 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 4: Let me go to this fucking show beauty Bar and 266 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 4: on Fourteenth Street in the suit walking to the show. 267 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 4: Eight people there, three drunk white ladies up front talking 268 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 4: and I done Beauty Bull before. But yeah, the stage 269 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 4: is the stage is very close to the audience, but 270 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 4: it's like high. It's like maybe a four three platform. 271 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 4: So I feel like towering above these people. But eight 272 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 4: people in that room, three of them are talking. It's loud, 273 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 4: and they're not talking like Jesus, No, They're like, hey, 274 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,719 Speaker 4: you want to get drinks. So You're like, what is 275 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 4: this guy? And I was just like, what the fuck 276 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 4: are you doing? 277 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: You're hammered. 278 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 4: I was drunk, I was annoyed, and they were loud, 279 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 4: and I was like, I need to know. I told 280 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 4: you to shut the fuck up it and then uh, 281 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 4: go over that will and I was like, I'm getting 282 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 4: the funk out of here. Man, run your show right, 283 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,079 Speaker 4: and uh, what's it called? The host took me off 284 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 4: the stage and was like all right, man. I was like, yeah, 285 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 4: I'm fucking leaving you run run your show properly. 286 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: Ship. So you were shots fired everywhere, and every man 287 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: get mad at me there yelling. You're like I'm going 288 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: to burn this place in the ground. 289 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 2: That was me. 290 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 4: It was me the whole time. But no, that was uh, 291 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 4: that was my slot. And then I was definitely at 292 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 4: the cellar on Molly or anything like that. 293 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you ever do like acid or fucking 294 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: mushrooms and going stage. 295 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 4: I wanted to do. Uh, I chickened out from doing 296 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 4: shrooms and going on stage. Yeah, like I did. I 297 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 4: did a bunch of shrooms during the day and then 298 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 4: like when the after, when I was in the after 299 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 4: glow of the shrooms, I went on stage and that 300 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 4: was like I remember that being some of the best 301 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 4: shows ever. Like that was like the time my life. 302 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 4: Yeah felt fucking confident. Yeah, just my brain was clicking 303 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 4: in some other directions. 304 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got more often. 305 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 306 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: I did shrooms on stage one time and I had 307 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: a blast it. 308 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 4: How many How much did you do? 309 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: I didn't do that much. I just did like a gram. 310 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: Maybe I was tripping, but I wasn't, Like wow, I 311 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: was just tripping enough to still be social. And shoms 312 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: are the best. 313 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 4: You got any good ones right now? 314 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: Good shrooms? 315 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 2: Yeah? 316 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: Not here, but in California. I got a big ass 317 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: doctor SEUs mushrooms. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't have a 318 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: connect here. I got you, Okay. 319 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: I get some good chocolate great yeah, yea, yeah, they're fantastic. 320 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I need. 321 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, chocolates are the best. That's what I need to 322 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 4: You can dose them properly. Yeah, but I've yet to 323 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 4: do uh, I've yet to do shrooms on stage. I 324 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 4: wanted to yahuasca. No have you ever done that? 325 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: No? But I want to do it on stage. Oh yeah, 326 00:14:53,280 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: dominating and everywhere, crying about your dad, Miley have to 327 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: do on stage. I don't think I'll ever do that 328 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: on stage. It's too I did Molly on stage a 329 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: couple of times. Was it Gilbert Lawan show in Atlanta? 330 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 4: Was it amazing? Was Gilbert Lawan? 331 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. 332 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: Gilbert is my favorite Catholic Iraqi comedian besides Crystal. And 333 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: we went to see Fish and I don't like jam 334 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: bands that much, so I was just a wolfing down 335 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: Molly to make the music sound better and it wasn't working. 336 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: And then he was like, you want to do a 337 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: comedy show. I was like, I'm on four hits of 338 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: Ecstasy and four I was fucking high as ship. I 339 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: didn't eat them all four it once, but I took 340 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: four over the night and I went up on stage 341 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: and I had a fantastic set. I don't think it 342 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: was actually a fantastic set. I think I just felt fantastic, 343 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: but and I don't, I don't. I probably didn't do 344 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: that well and my eyes were probably like this the 345 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah, yeah, but I felt him. Man, I 346 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: did a whole set like this and I felt amazing. 347 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: I probably bombed, but it felt great. 348 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 4: It fell great. Yeah that it scares me because it's 349 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 4: too uh, too truthful. 350 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: Molly, yeah, all of it. 351 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 4: It's like like like the guard once the guard is down. Yeah, 352 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 4: there's I still I feel that way about alcohol. Actually, 353 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 4: what I'm more truthful with alcohol. Interesting, not that. 354 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm lying without alcohol, but I mean, like the guards 355 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: come down with when the anxiety goes down. 356 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I see, Like I'm conscious of how much I 357 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 4: dislike alcohol on stage. So now that if I were 358 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 4: to drink on stage, if it's more than one drink, 359 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 4: I'm just like, I don't like doing this at all. 360 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 361 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: But with uh, I like being sharp on stage. Yes, 362 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: that's the best. 363 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, like two coffees in Yeah, yeah, pulling my best 364 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 4: David to Tail impression. 365 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: I didn't you know I did cot on stage. K 366 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: H A T. It's like the cocaine of Yemen. It's 367 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: a stimulant and Afghanist orders will like chew a bunch 368 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,040 Speaker 1: of it because it makes you high. It's like the 369 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: cocaine of North Africa in the Middle East, and I 370 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: played a show in Israel and they gave me cost 371 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: tea and I drank like three quarters of a cup 372 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: and I forgot whatever I thought. I was just drinking 373 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,479 Speaker 1: iced tea. I wasn't paying attention, and by the end 374 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: of the show I was on stage. I was like, 375 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: I was like Robin Williams circa nineteen seventy two. 376 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 4: I was pretty animated, so I can't imagine. 377 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: Oh, I was fucking crazy. I was like Daffy Duck. 378 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: I was like brush, I crushed, I crossed. I was 379 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: like in the zone. 380 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 4: But I was like, also on maybe I don't fuck 381 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 4: with any of those those plants. Yeah, stimulant, no coke, 382 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 4: none of that ship. Yeah, but like no up no uppers. 383 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 4: I mean Molly's anupper, right, yeah, I won't. I won't 384 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 4: do that on stage, but I will do it recreationally. 385 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but cocaut. 386 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: I don't think I do it on stage. Now. I 387 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: was just like in my twenties doing like random chicken 388 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: shit open mics, and I was like fuck it, Like 389 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: there's no stakes to this show, Like I might as 390 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: well get high, yeah, because like it's not like it's 391 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: fucking it's industry night Man. 392 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 4: The Creek in the Cave back when it existed in 393 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,479 Speaker 4: Longland City, like they would do high nights, or like 394 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 4: they would do like a high show. 395 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: I think there's a show that was like one of 396 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: each drug show. 397 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,160 Speaker 4: That's possible. I m'd have been seen show I did. 398 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 4: But I did that one on weed and I was 399 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 4: so fucking high. 400 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: I can't do it eating chips on stage. No I did. 401 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,080 Speaker 1: I did the whitest kids you know stoned one time. 402 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 4: And here's here's the bomb that I forget all the time. 403 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 4: But the NC brought up weed and saying no to 404 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 4: doing weed on stage. Now I remember, yeah, and it's 405 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 4: a bomb. Like I want to apologize to the the 406 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 4: Washington d C. Community that came to see me that evening. 407 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 4: It was a summer of twenty nineteen. I remember that 408 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 4: because I was recording an album. My first album had 409 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 4: any mission charge. 410 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: Uh it's pretty good. 411 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 4: Thank you. And the people that recording the album were 412 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 4: there right and they had papered the room because I 413 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 4: wasn't selling tickets at that point, but still had a 414 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 4: few people come out, like still had fans that purchase tickets, 415 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 4: and the first show went so well was the second 416 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 4: show on a Friday night, I believe, and the first 417 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 4: show went so well that I was like, I got 418 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 4: this shit in the bag. Let me smoke a little 419 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 4: DC between the shows. I smoked way too much. And 420 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 4: I get on stage and I again like, this is 421 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 4: just my stupid belief in myself. Sometimes I was like 422 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 4: I could fucking talk to people and wing it for 423 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 4: an hour, just crushed on this last one. Me just 424 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 4: fuck around. I went up and man, I listened to that. 425 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 4: If I ever want to think about how bad comedy 426 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 4: can be, how bad I can be a comedy, I 427 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 4: go back and listen to that, say like, what the like? 428 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 4: You know, you'll click through and be like, oh is 429 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 4: there a laugh at any point? 430 00:19:59,160 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: You know? 431 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: Just were you just like like drooling through your jokes? 432 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 4: But I wasn't doing any jokes. I was talking and 433 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 4: just having a conversation. 434 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: I thought, oh, you just ditched your material. 435 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 436 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 4: I would try to go in and out, but it 437 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 4: was just like and then like I got fixated on 438 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 4: like this super rich Punjabi family that was sitting up front, 439 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 4: Indian family, and I could tell they were rich because 440 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 4: dad had like this platinum rolex On and the daughter 441 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 4: had come out. 442 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: Is it Punjabi known for like being like a wealthy. 443 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 4: No, it's just I could tell with this guy they 444 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 4: were there Punjabi because that's how I remember them in 445 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 4: my brain as being it's crazy to see a Punjabi 446 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 4: family out at that age group Like it was like 447 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 4: a sixty year old Punjabi dad and his wife, I 448 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 4: think the daughter, daughter in law, son and and another daughter. 449 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 4: And I'd asked the daughter about like while she was 450 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 4: single whatever she I just got divorced, and I was like, Okay, 451 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 4: well let me talk to your parents about how they 452 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 4: feel about this divorce. 453 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: Job through her, under the through the wolves. 454 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 4: It was bad. It was bad, and I remember just 455 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 4: I could talk myself out of it. Find something funny. 456 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 4: These people fucking like staring like leaving. I was like, 457 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 4: and I was up there for probably an out an 458 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 4: hour long and I should have been out there four hours. 459 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was bad. 460 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 4: Mine was July d C. And uh heat, Yeah, it's sweltering. 461 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: You're just stone stone. 462 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 4: I remember, like I had like hazy eyes. 463 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: I'm assuming that divorce isn't like that cool for old school? 464 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,239 Speaker 1: Is it just like you don't get divorced no matter what. 465 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 4: Exactly culturally yes, And he's sitting there with his wife 466 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 4: and they're just I just see the platinum rolex with 467 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 4: the diamonds blinking out on me. He's like, I do jewelry, 468 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 4: and like, I bet you do. A motherfucker. I'm sorry. 469 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 4: It was bad. That was I think about that from 470 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 4: time I got shut it thinking about that one. What 471 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 4: the fuck was I thinking? But at least the shows 472 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 4: after that, like Saturday, were informed, Like I'm informed of 473 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 4: myself that I'm not hot ship that can wave. 474 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: Those shows they bring you back to a state of big, 475 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: deliberate exactly, bring your ego back to the re orient your. 476 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 4: I needed it, Yeah, I needed that was Yeah, that's 477 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 4: just rough. I remember I was sweating so much because 478 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 4: it was a hot and DC and all that, and 479 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 4: because I was bombing. I leave the club after everyone 480 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 4: clears out. I'm not sure if you know where the 481 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 4: Comedy Loft in DC is. It's it's in DuPont Circle 482 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 4: and it's around the corner from a gay bar. And 483 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 4: on the way to the hotel is this gay bar? 484 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 4: Like I'm staying right around the corner from Comedy Loft 485 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 4: I'm drenched in sweat. I leave the fucking club and 486 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 4: I'm going back to my hotel and these three gay 487 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,120 Speaker 4: dudes are outside gay bar, and one of them. 488 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: Just it's stink because I was sweating. Somebody's like, what, 489 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: you went for a run? 490 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, yeah, I just shot on and 491 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 4: I was like, god, damn it, I needed it. It 492 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 4: was brutal, that fat that it hurt my feelings. 493 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: I have an issue with my stand up where a 494 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: joke will be red hot for a while, or like 495 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: not the very first time I do it, but I'll 496 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: get it on his feet, and then it'll be red hot, 497 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: and then just all of a sudden, it doesn't work anymore, 498 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: like and I can't, And then I'll listen to old tapes. 499 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, what do I do? Sometimes I think it's 500 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: just topical, and it's like, no longer in the zeitgeist. 501 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: It is it is doesn't seem politically political on the surface, 502 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: but it actually kind of is or something like that. 503 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 1: But I have this like issue where your jokes just 504 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: get like they just expire, yeah, and it fucks with 505 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: my mind. It makes me so angry. There are some 506 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 1: evergreen jokes probably that I've written fifteen years ago, maybe 507 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: still work. But really, like they I don't know something 508 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: about do. 509 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 4: You hit a wall with I've done this joke too 510 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 4: many times. 511 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: I think, so. I think as soon as you get 512 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: bored of it, even if the writing is there, they 513 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 1: just know, they smell that you're bored with it. And 514 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: you can't resurrect the dead. 515 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 4: You cannot. 516 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: You gotta still gotta nervous. You still got to be 517 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: kind of nervous about it working. That's the networks part, 518 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 1: you know, as you ask about the road, it's like 519 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: that's the toughest part. Yeah, keeping the ship fresh because 520 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: you like, you get burnt out on itaria. 521 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 4: Like I hate saying the same shit over and over 522 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 4: and over and over again. 523 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: You can try doing like little like variety tags or something, 524 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: or just at least changing the order or that's what 525 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: it's hard to keep it exciting and fresh. 526 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 4: And like the best way for me has been have 527 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 4: something new, somewhere in the middle or somewhere at all, 528 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 4: as many new things as you can, even if it's 529 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 4: a little tag and to like to keep me going, Yeah, 530 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 4: to reach for that goal. I look forward to something, 531 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 4: because if I don't, then it's just like you have. 532 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: Nothing to look forward to. Yeah, yeah, you're so sick 533 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: of the jokes. Yeah yeah, I guess some people can 534 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: do that. But I have a heart. That's my toughest. 535 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,199 Speaker 1: That's why I kind of gave up. I don't just 536 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 1: stand up anymore. I'm going to a stand up show. 537 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: I just got burnt out on that. I did like 538 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: a massive tour right before Covid and I shot my 539 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: Netflix special right before Covid and I delivered it February 540 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Then a few weeks later, you know, Covid 541 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: hit and then like I just never since, like the 542 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 1: world has quasi opened back up. I haven't. I haven't 543 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 1: had any mote of it. 544 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:35,199 Speaker 2: All. 545 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: My creativity goes to like television or film or like 546 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: other mediums. 547 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 4: But would you come back to it if you want 548 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 4: to hop on anything, let me know I can. 549 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, help help me get my sea legs. I 550 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: want to like kind of try. I kind of want 551 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: to just start going to shows smell in the air again, 552 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,959 Speaker 1: because then you start seeing stay you get inspired by 553 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: seeing like what your friends are doing, what people are 554 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: talking about, and then you're like, oh, yeah, I should 555 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: do that joke about this, because that joke working. You 556 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: kind of got to be in the environment to get 557 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: to get motive. 558 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 4: Just go hang at the cellar. 559 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm always cramped at the cellar. I mean they 560 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: always stick me in that little corner and I'm like, 561 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: the waiters are squishing by. 562 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 4: I get like claustrophobic. But there's a billion cellar rooms. 563 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 4: There's you know, the Fat Black pussy Cat, that lounge like. 564 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: Oh no, see, I don't know. You got to take 565 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: me under your wing. You're going to show me the 566 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: new way, all happy. I lived here thirteen years ago. 567 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll do the New York when I give me 568 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 4: a little tour the Fat Black Lounge. I've had some 569 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 4: pretty bad bombs there because that lounge is just like 570 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 4: that when you walk into that spot, you're like, well, 571 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 4: I just want chill, man. 572 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: I don't know, the flat, fat Black Lounge. 573 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 4: Oh it's the best. I love that room. I love 574 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 4: all the cellar rooms. The Cellar Proper, the original one 575 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 4: is my favorite. But the lounge just got a different 576 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,360 Speaker 4: vibe to it. And it's like like st will get 577 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 4: mad at me because I definitely like just like leaned on. 578 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 4: The lounge has like a window behind it, Yeah, a 579 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,439 Speaker 4: brick wall window. And I was just like leaning on 580 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 4: that ship. Yeah, because it makes you feel so opium, Denny. 581 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 4: It's like chilling out. Shit, it's but that. That's a 582 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 4: fun place where if you just want to watch a show, Okay, 583 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 4: just hang out. It's fantastic, Okay, cool. Yeah, it's a 584 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 4: great time. Great But I bombed there so many times too. 585 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: Great nimesh, Yes, sir, we did it all. 586 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 4: Oh, thank you man, thanks brother, thank you for for 587 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,479 Speaker 4: having me absolutely. 588 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 2: With a redre. 589 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: All right, listen up, we got something special for you. 590 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 5: Got a burning story that you're itching to tell about 591 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 5: when you bombed or absolutely failed in life. Now's your 592 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 5: chance to tell me all about it, Babe. I want 593 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 5: to hear your worst, most cringe worthy what the fuck 594 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,159 Speaker 5: was I thinking? What just happened moment? 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