WEBVTT - Scott Aukerman 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.240 When I do live gigs around the country, I'll be 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.960 honest with you. I sell T shirts and swag to 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.200 the folks who are there, and then people always say, 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.760 can we get this wag without sitting through a whole 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.840 evening of you. Well, it's happened. It's finally here. You 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.239 can buy Craig Ferguson merch on the Craig Ferguson Merch 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.440 website and you can buy it for yourself or someone 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.239 you hate or someone you love. For more information and 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.599 link to the web store, please go to the Craig 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.160 Fergusonshow dot com. That's all lowercase, the Craig Ferguson show 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.960 dot com. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.520 this podcast is joy. I talk to interesting people about 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:46.440 what brings them happiness. Today. My guest is Scott Akerman, 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.640 who founded podcasts when he started comedy Bang Bang. He 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:57.320 is the funniest cleverest you know what he's really really 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.279 I'm a bit jealous, and the fact that I can 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:09.440 get along with them shows that I'm making progress. I've 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.680 just decided that I'm going to get plastic surgery. Oh yeah, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.440 I'm going to start with my tests. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.800 Oh good, because I feel like if it gets botched, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.800 it's testicles. People say, oh, you know, your testicles look weird. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.520 First of all, not that many people see them anymore. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.360 Exactly, they're ugly anyway, right. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.680 They're ugly anyway. And also they're weird looking. So if 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.520 people say, you know, your testicles are weird looking, I go, yeah, 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.000 they're technicals. Yeah they're They're still weird looking. They're the 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:40.640 undersea creature of my pants. Now listen, I'm quite honorous 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.800 in a way that you're here because you honored to 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:44.199 be here. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.119 Well, thank you for saying we have a dual honor 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.480 system going on. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.040 All right, Well, I'm not going to the gate you 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.920 saying that, although I feel like there may be a 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.640 centiment fire. I feel like you may be the architect 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.640 of what we're doing here. You are the You are 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.520 the im mover, You are the. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.280 God like the Optimist Prime. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.880 Yeah, I think so. You are. Of the comedy chat podcast. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.160 You made it happen. You're the veil of underground Man, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.320 You're the ramones you. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.480 Yeah, am I disagreeing with you. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.320 I don't think you should. I don't think you should. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.880 It was a conscious kind of artistic choice. I just 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.359 thought we'll just go with us and see where I ams. 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.680 I mean, I think I wanted to do a radio 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.519 show because I just grew up very obsessed with the radio, right, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.119 So like DJ's, I used to like tape my own 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.720 voice doing when I was like thirteen, doing just top 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.760 forty DJs, and I would tape the songs off the 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:44.840 radio and edit them in. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.480 You know, that's great. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.639 What that is very nerdy a little bit. 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.680 I mean, I'm a little concerned for you, and we're 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.680 going to get into that. But now we're beginning to 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.000 see why you have comedy jobs though, because clearly, you know, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:03.360 the start was strange and uncomfortable, and my personal feeling 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.200 is that you can't be funny at all unless the 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.720 first fifteen twenty years are deeply uncomfortable in some way. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.920 Oh yeah, I started comedy in ninety five. Where are 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.800 we now, twenty twenty five? Almost? 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.800 Yeah. I came in America in nineteen ninety five. I 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.280 was already thirty. What were you doing before then? Drinking? 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.040 Pretty much? 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.040 Yeah? Yeah, and you stopped when you're in America. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.560 I stopped before I came to America. Oh really, Yeah, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.760 I stopped when I was twenty nine. Really, yeah, it happened, well, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.720 a bunch of stuff. I'm not quite clear on the 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.720 statute of limitations. Well, no, I murder is the only 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.320 one that still is going. No, I was. I drank. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.200 I was. You know, it was sad. It was a 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.000 sad alcoholic. You've been in your business for a while. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:49.760 Do you understand what sad alcoholism is? 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.880 Sure, I've seen a few of those. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.320 Yeah, And some people can make it work and some 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:57.240 people can't. I couldn't. I've always found that really interesting. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.960 The people who quit when they're you know, like eighteen, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.080 in their twenties. Yeah, I'm suppressive. But if you quit 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.240 that young, I feel like, I mean, good luck. I 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.000 should have quit that young. But I'm glad I quit 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.280 when I did because it was long enough to do 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.480 some damage, but not long enough to fuck up. You 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.400 call me fucking monologue, that's right. Got me talking about 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.320 me the table sooner, Man, I don't want to talk 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.560 about myself. Yeah, well you're going to. So did you 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.920 ever like fall into the alcoholism trap or just a man? 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.839 I've never done well, okay, that's not right, but I've 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.000 never really done any drugs. So I did a podcast 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.680 once right where I went to a Fish concert with 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.880 my friend Harris Whittles, who's no longer with us, right, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.799 big fish fan. It was the premise of the podcast 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.800 was him trying to get me to like Fish, the 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:54.719 band Fish. Right. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.640 That would be a hard one for me, because yeah, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.560 I do not like Fish. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.640 So I never did. I we did, you know, eight 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.760 up as, so I never you never go around to it, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.720 never never got around to it. But we went to 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.920 Madison Square Garden to see Fish, and I promised that 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.680 I would do the whole thing. I would do drug 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.720 I'd never done any drugs. I would do drugs. I 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.960 would really do it the way a real Fish fan would. 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.480 What age are you when you do this? God help. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.680 My forties? So that's that's late to start. Yeah, So 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.120 I did as much like anything anyone gave me, I 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.040 would do right. And I never really got high. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.480 So like you didn't know what I mean? Do you 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.240 know how dangerous that is? Like if you do that now, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:36.880 you'd be dead. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.240 The most that happened was at one point I went 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.039 those lights are pretty. You can hear me on the tape, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.599 and I was like, Okay, I might have been high. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:43.920 Right there. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.719 Yeah, that's that's a bit of a tail. These lights 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.160 are pretty, they're pretty, these lives pretty. You got a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.880 purty mouth. It's one of those tail phrases. Yeah, but 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.800 I I I don't care for fish. What kind of 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.719 music you went through that? If you know, I imagine, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.920 let me let me get I bet you and I 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.320 are into a lot of the same. Well, first of all, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.880 I think this is for me. This is my fantasy 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.360 about you? Is that? But oh yeah, and I have 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:17.440 many is the that you like Schubert? You know is Schubert. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.560 He's a little ostentatious for my tasty that's even beare 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:21.240 that you said that? 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:22.440 So what do you do? 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:22.960 Like? 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.039 No, if you're mixing songs together in nineteen ninety five, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.040 it's what ninety I feel like. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.159 The nineties was a terrible time for music. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:30.640 It was. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:38.320 Yeah, I really love like nineteen seventy seven to nineteen 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.880 eighty three, like post punk electronics, you know, like, yes, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.200 that's my main style of music that I really love. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.440 But that's what comes up in the little music thing 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.760 on your phone that you keep that right. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.360 Yeah, But that's the stuff that I love the most. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.680 Everything else kind of branches out from that. Like nowadays, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.160 for the past few months, I've been trying to like 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.839 buy every song that's on the R and B charts 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.240 from nineteen eighty to through two thousands. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.760 Oh you left me behind there. I wouldn't even know 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:12.880 where to begin with that. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.160 I have like a Billboard subscription, so I just look 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.160 at the charts like for every week and just try 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.240 to buy every song that's on there. It was like collecting, Yeah, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.440 music collectors, right, do you collect vinyl? 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:25.000 Do you have vinyl? 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.600 Not really, I never got I mean I started collecting 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.920 music in vinyl in the eighties in the actual time. Yeah, 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.520 But now I just you know, I have one record player. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.800 It's in the living room. I have to go in 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.200 there specially just to listen to like, you know, all 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.720 the old problems of vinyl of like. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.800 Yeah, you have to sit down and listen to us, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.000 sit down, and I know, but musicians love that. They're like, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.520 oh yeah, no, you have to sit down and listen 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.400 to the music and going nah, I'll be running or 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.080 playing pick a ball. Yeh do you play pick a ball? 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.880 So I broke my foot two years ago playing pick 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.040 a ball for the first time. My wife was like 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.080 you got to play pick a ball? 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.400 Yeah, you have to. I never have that, you've done it. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.760 So I did it. And I broke my foot first time, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.600 first time. And I've had a like fucked up foot 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.960 for now two years and I just had surgery on 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:09.720 it two weeks ago. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.600 Oh and yeah, so was it you to sleep surgery? Yeah? Oh, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.880 let's talk about the drugs. So what did they give you? 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.080 So they gave me the propofol. And I've had this 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.400 weird thing where every doctor who says they're going to 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.360 give me propofol has the exact same thing that they 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.120 say about it, which is they say, it's what Michael Jackson. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.920 Jackson, that's what you want to say. Yeah, you'll love it. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.760 I have a couple of times. The first thing I 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.840 go to I was like he was shut out. Oh yeah, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.160 Moon woke out of the place. It was a maze, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.400 But it is I can see how a person get 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:43.960 who'd in a drug like that. I guess. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.920 I mean, I don't really remember. I did wake up 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.920 the first because I had a colonoscopy with propofol as well. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.040 Oh yeah, and they when I woke up, I felt 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.319 I did. I was like, I don't feel different, And 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.360 then I sent a really weird text to my friend 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.920 Adam Scott that I thought was normal, and then three 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.880 hours later I was like, fuck did I just said, Wow? 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.480 See that's you're not good at monitoring when you're high. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.720 It's probably best if you stay away from drugs because 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.280 if you like, these lights are pretty yeah, I know 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.480 knowing you're high. I know that you're you're high. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:16.800 What's the best drug? 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:17.079 Though? 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.120 My friend was trying to to it because I was like, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.400 what's the best drug to take? And he was like, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.280 maybe liquid heroin that you just like swallow. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:31.000 Yeah, I'd say some kind of uh oaxy conton. That's 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.200 why people die of all the time, because the feeling 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.320 is so euphoric and lovely, very dangerous. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.960 Yeah, I don't do drugs now. I got for the foot, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.480 I got like a full bottle of hair cassette. It's 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.280 either oxy or I don't know exactly what it was, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:47.439 so I'm just afraid to take it. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.360 Yeah, they're tricky. I mean, like, I know a lot 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.480 of alcoholics would be sober for a long time that 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.440 screw themselves up on that stuff. I mean, and uh 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.400 and I'm I mean I didn't but I'm very wary 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.319 of it because I reached the Gorvidal called the cedar 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.760 side I years where I kind of like, you know, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.880 I'm the doctor a little more than I used to be. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.320 Are you monitoring constantly, like where the doctor is, wherever 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:15.839 you're at, because I know you travel a lot. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.600 Well, I don't do that so much, but I'm constantly monitoring, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:20.680 Like you're younger. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.839 You have like ten years younger than wait, something like that. Yeah, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.000 fifty three, okay, so. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.040 I'm sixty two on a Friday, so yeah, nineties, right, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.440 and I think probably I was in my early fifties 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:34.040 when I started to develop reasonably intense hypochondria. But it's 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.360 not really hypochondria, you know, if you're just monitoring things. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:37.800 I guess. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.120 Yeah, I'm at that age now where I'm sort of 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.680 like constantly anytime anyone, like a celebrity dies, yeah, yeah, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.559 I'm kind of like looking at their age, going like 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.160 I'm really close to there, I know, And like any 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.160 I've noticed anyone under fifty people are like, this is 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.240 a tragedy so young. Anyone over fifty they're like that's 0:10:59.280 --> 0:10:59.640 about right. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.800 Yeah, Like if I died, know, like right now, people 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:04.720 were like well, yeah's I mean, I can see now 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.559 it's sixty you know, he was, you know, and so 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.880 they feel because you look for ways to feel comfortable. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.080 You know. When when I think that's why people get look, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.640 I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking that's why people get 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:17.719 into religion so much. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:19.960 I know, I know a lot of people are really 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.560 super into religion. Like the closer they are to death, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.000 closer you get, you're like, well, you know, you need 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.800 like some sort of meaning for it. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.400 I can't do. I've tried, my heart, it's so hard to. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.120 How did you then stop? Did you have to come 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:34.960 up with a higher power? 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.240 Did you do the proper game? Absolutely? And I I 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:43.480 do have a have a kind of God centric belief system, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.880 I think, but it doesn't involve life after death. Oh really? 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.480 Now, so do you think that it's just like we 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.240 shut off in that. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.959 I feel like it might be like propofol do you 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:53.440 know what I mean? 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.640 You just like, except you never wake actually wake up. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.880 Well, they used to be on pagan tombstones for Christianity 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:04.480 in the Resurrection and all that. The the they used 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.280 to put on tombstones. I was not, I was, I 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.959 am not. I care not that was the r I P. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.520 I was not a little worthy for well, I think 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.480 probably in Greek it's probably a lot. It's like Craco 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.880 creeky croco or something is. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.000 Just like three letters. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:24.400 Get it. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:25.319 Don't have to pay a lot. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.600 But my wife is a Yankee, right, so she's from 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.360 like from the Northeast. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.040 She was, you're married to Derek Jeters. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.800 My wife is Derek Jeter, which, like you can't make 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:39.240 fun of that. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.800 I mean it's for you, right, But I'm just surprised 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.719 I could come up with a Yankee name. If it 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.920 is one, I'm like, I took a stab. Yeah, hope 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:51.360 for the best. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.959 No, my wife is like, we're in Scotland and we 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.920 went to my parents' graves, right, so we're in this 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.520 graveyard and it's a graveyard and school Now graveyards in 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.120 Maine or in New Hampshire or for a month, it's 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.360 like the person's name, a date, a hyphen a date, right, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.760 But in Scotland, particularly in recent dates, it's the person's 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.439 name and says Margaret beloved husband of Sandy guinea pegg owner. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.880 And always like to take it like there's a whole 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.400 bioll bio and I'm like maybe sometimes a video, a 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.120 video on the actual tombstone, on the tombstone of like hello, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.880 it's me, I'm dead, you know. I mean I don't 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.080 think it's that, but it's. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.680 You know, I mean, how long how long before that's obsolete? 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.959 I know, you know what I mean. I mean I 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.280 feel like within ten years the videos will stop working 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.360 on these tombstones. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.640 Well, and also I mean it shows a profound lack 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.439 of misunderstanding about time, right, like you know, as people say, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.040 oh no, you're like the Catholic Church had a problem 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.559 with cremation for a long time. In what way. Well, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.000 they said, you can't cremate the body because it has 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.880 to be able to come back for the day of resurrection. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.040 You're going to need your body back. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.160 Really, yeah, so when Christ would come down with the rapture. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.679 Well you know it comes back with the yeah, all 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.160 the things. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.120 The trumpets and all that stuff. Right, so then your 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.280 body and no matter what state it's in, you get 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:14.240 a decompositioning ding ding doing diding do yeah, yes. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.440 Speaking of it, And that I think was a problem there, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.760 and it took them a long time. They had to 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.680 have a big meeting about it and say. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:21.720 One big meeting. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.440 Okay, what about doing everybody step into the pop's office. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.160 We're having a big meeting about the afterlife because Chico 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:37.880 Marx was there, obviously. The Craig Ferguson Fancy Rascals Stand 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.080 Up Tour continues throughout the United States in twenty twenty four. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.840 For a full list of dates and tickets, go to 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.520 the Craig Ferguson show dot com slash tour see you 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:56.280 out there. Let's talk about comedy influences on you. Was 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.720 it the Marx Brothers. I feel you're in an absurd 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.440 list in a way. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.480 It was not the Marx Brothers. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:02.040 For me. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.000 It was when I was growing up. It was like 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.840 Bob Hope really yeah, I'm surprised by Bob Hope was 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.600 really big for me. The Road Movies, I love them. Yeah, 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.960 so great. They got very meta and surreal in a 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:19.440 lot of ways. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:19.920 They did. 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.280 Yeah, Steve Martin huge. Like I was trying to explain 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:29.240 to someone who never really had ever seen Steve Martin 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.520 stand up or The Jerk or any of his early movies, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.600 just like, how insane it was that someone was doing 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.840 anti comedy. Yeah, you know, in the early seventies. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.880 He was he was. It was very unusual, he to me, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.200 because run of it at the same time the pythons 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.040 were working in the in the UK, and that that 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.120 was he seemed to be like an American relative of 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.920 the Goons and the pythons, right, and that that weird 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.840 kind of almost born of the surrealist movement. Comedy that 0:15:56.000 --> 0:16:00.840 that that it went, Yeah, anti comedy, I guess is 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:01.280 what it is. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.200 But yeah, were the pythons for you? 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.760 Is that? Yes? Very very definitely. Yeah. I Uh. One 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.160 of the crining achievements in my life, quite literally actually, 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.880 is that Eric Idle made me a crown. Really, yeah, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.840 he made me a crown with a little bit would 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.640 he do that? Eric marches to the beat of his 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.960 own drum, and he was coming on the show and 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.320 he said, I've made you a crown and I was like, oh, okay, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.600 And there's a crown and it's got a little Roulette 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.960 wheel on it and interesting, I still have it in 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.920 my hands, so nice that I walk around wearing it, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.600 so I don't wear it actually doesn't. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.600 How many of the pythons have you interacted with? 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.880 I've met Michael Palin and Eric I know quite well, 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.680 and I think i've met. No, I never met Please, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.040 I talked to him in the phone once. How about you? 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.320 You you told zero? Yeah, never met any of them. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:50.520 Yeah. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.920 They were big for me too when I was like thirteen. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.680 I was dating someone when I was thirteen who was like, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.360 you've never seen a monty python thing, You're right, and 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.120 showed me and so that was like, imagine a huge thing. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.320 Yeah, I can imagine for you. It feels like that 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.639 informs like between two ferns and all that kind of 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.960 stuff feels like it. Yeah, it's not the same, but 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:11.879 it has like. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.920 There's now that drops during the between two ferns. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.439 The giant food that comes down on Zach and all 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.560 that's all that stuff, but but it's other than that. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.520 It's not it's not the same at all. The naked 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.560 guy playing the piano. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.000 They oh, obviously the Spanish Inquisition, no one expected that. Yeah, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.240 all of that stuff is in there. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.639 But I feel like that stuff it didn't feel forced 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.440 to me. It was felt fairy, kind of strange. But 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.440 if I go back and look at old pythons now, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.440 mean I do from time to time. I'm kind of 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.920 shocked at how how there's quite a long time for 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.120 me between inspiration and then other inspiration, I'm like, well, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:47.960 I don't remember this. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.359 It's yeah, it's interesting to watch anything that you grew 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.280 up with. Yeah, where you're kind of like, oh wow, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.560 some of it was writing on just like brilliance. Yeah, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.399 in between boring a little bit, I mean, you know, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:02.720 but sometimes. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.760 But I think I think that's the there was a 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.119 time though, I mean, Joint Cleaves is always banging on 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.800 of It's like there's too many executives and gatekeepers for 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.200 comedy now, and it makes it much more difficult experiment 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.040 and stuff. I think in the in the in the 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.560 areas that he's talking about. 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.320 Yes, I think it probably if you're only interested in 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:22.679 TV or movies. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.440 Yeah, yeah, I think it's terrible. Yeah, you can't really 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.080 do it anymore. But didn't you know you did the 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.600 the the Al Yankubic movie though, don't you. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.760 No, no, no, no, I was in it, but right, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:34.240 you were in it. 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:35.240 Yeah. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.560 Yeah. Al was the band leader of my TV show 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:39.919 for a year for a season. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.119 Right. See. I think Al is related to all that. Well. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.560 I love Alan Eric, I love very good friends. Yeah right, yeah, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.479 I feel like Al though the same kind of thing. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.879 Happened where he made UHF, and then you know he 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.920 didn't make a movie for than twenty some odd years. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.800 Yeah, I mean, so it comes around. I think it's 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.959 a little bit like music. Particularly if comedy is experimental 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.120 or a little weird, a little stage, it goes out fashion. Yeah, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.280 and then you have to wait for it to come 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:09.800