WEBVTT - Taylor Williamson 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.000 The Craig Ferguson Fancy Rascal Stand Up Tour continues throughout 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.280 twenty twenty four. For a full list of dates and tickets, 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.560 go to the Craig Ferguson Show dot com slash tour. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.640 See you out there, the Greig Ferguson show dot com 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.720 slash Tour. My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.520 this podcast is Joy. I talk to interest in people 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:30.280 about what brings them happiness. Taylor Williamson was the youngest 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.519 ever stand up comedian that I ever had on the 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.400 Old Late Night Show. And yet even although I put 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.879 him on the show, he's still working. Oh he's an 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.040 old man now. I think he's like thirty seven or something. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:50.360 Let's have a chat, okay, So let me just say 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.720 what the thing to you first, which is we're in 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.720 Los Angeles, right, yes, right? And I was talking to 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.880 my wife on the phone this morning because she's in Scotland, 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.080 and she said, who are you talking to this one? 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.480 And I said Taylor Williams And she went, I tell him. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.360 I said, I I'm like, what do you mean tell him? 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.600 I said I She went, yeah, we're Instagram buddy, your 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.320 Instagram buddies with my wife? Is that okay? I guess yeah. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.120 I mean, if it was okay, she wouldn't have said that. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:23.680 Oh yeah, I heard. But so where did that come about? 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.160 What's going on? I don't know. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.400 I mean, I think she followed me on Instagram. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.080 She thinks you're funny. That's true, I do. I I 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.920 mean so much to me. Oh you are funny. I'm grateful. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.959 You are great at being being comed Thank you. I wanted. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.640 I was wanting to me, may have met at your 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.760 house one time I together. I think that's what happened. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.000 And then I probably like commented on one of your 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.240 things like ha ha ha, you know, and she said, oh, do. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.880 You have a lot of airsots digital relationships that uh. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.120 With people's wives like me? 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.480 A lot? I don't. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.040 I think it's because I think it's offensive. Actually, I 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.160 think people's people feel comfortable with their partners being friends 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:01.440 with me. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.360 Yeah, you know what, I don't want to insult you, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.120 but I am kind of comfortable with it, like I 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.000 don't want to be. But you know what, it's kind 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.440 of weird because you know, if it was like I 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.120 don't know, if she was Instagram friends with like some 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.520 other people Drake, you don't want that. If she was 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.440 Instagram Friends with Drake, I'd be like, what the hell 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.400 are you? Yeah, Instagram friends with Drake for yeah. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.480 But Taylor Williamson, You're like, yeah, stay his house tonight. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:28.560 It's okay, that's all right. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.919 He can come over while I'm no here. That's fine. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.959 So listen. I wanted to talk to you a little 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.120 bit about because years ago you were the youngest guy 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.000 ever appeared on my late night show. You know that. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.680 I put that on my bio. I don't know if 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:42.880 that's true, but I think it is. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.520 I think you were. I don't know if you were 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.600 the youngest person. I mean there was sometimes there was 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.720 babies on this stuff, but not doing stand up. You 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.440 were the youngest stand up I think. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.880 It's the biggest. It was the biggest thing I ever got. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.320 It still is one of the most majoro things I 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.680 ever got to do. Trulier like me too. You were 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 a poor but you were there. You were the first 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.360 major comedy icond of be like, hey, this guy is 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.040 take a look at this guy. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.120 Really. I thought you did. I thought you did well 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.760 in the I mean the America's goat Town. I was 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.960 eight years later. Oh really Yeah. See Now it's interesting 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.360 because I ask your wife. She followed me. But here's 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.639 the thing, was, what was the first one you did? 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.919 So you think you're phonny? Then was that? Though? No, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:26.960 I did last comic standing? 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.079 That was I was, so, no I did? 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.880 You didn't do so you think you can dance? Did 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.520 you do that? I did? 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.000 I did an America's Next Top Top Model, right, and when 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.440 Tyro was hosting. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.160 Yeah, congratulations, you're still in the running to become America's 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:41.840 next Top Model. Which I've got to say, much as 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.440 I admire Tira, I think that's a terrible catchphrase. It 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.200 it's wordy. It's a little busy, you know, I mean, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.200 congratulations she was still in the running to become America's 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.400 next Top Models. It's too much? Is that really what 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.560 she said? Yeah, that's the thing. That's the that's the 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.960 bet when if you make it through the elimination round, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.160 what would be better one? Uh, you ain't dead? Yeah? 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.560 How about like, hey, your face is still good in 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.080 the fresh you're still pretty, You're still pretty? How about that? 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.800 Remember that one woman from the show she married the 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.360 guy from the Brady Bunch. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:16.800 I don't know about this. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.800 You got to pay attention to show business power. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.320 Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, man, I've been busy. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.120 So listen, I did I started staying up in two thousand. No, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.560 wait a minute before we go, I'm answering your question. No, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.520 but yeah, I want you to answer the question. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.640 But when you told me about the model that married 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.760 the Brady Bunch, what happened there? 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.359 I think that I could be wrong, but like the 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:42.080 first winner of the show, she married the middle Brady respectfully, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:43.880 Christopher Knight. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.120 Oh maybe it's a deep cup for me. I don't know. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.960 You're not an American? Did you have the bratty American? Oh? 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.560 Excuse respect you are? You are what America is all about? Pal, Yeah, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.520 it's right. Yeah, listen, Can I tell you how this 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.200 business goes. I'm mins for twenty years and like it's 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.760 up and down, you know, but like I'm trying to 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:02.600 get my next. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.120 Big like like big whoa like career thing, you know? 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.040 Okay, And I know a couple of people have been 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.440 canceled recently. Yeah you should killing it. Yeah, you should 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.719 get cancel thriving. It's it's the new thing. You have 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.920 a few months where you're like, oh, people. Maybe you 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.880 should hide it, move to China for a few months, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.560 just to get away from the world, you know, But 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.279 then like four years later you're selling a Madison Square garden. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.280 Well, I think it's it's a marginalized cancel that you're after. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.360 You want to be canceled by a certain group of people, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.240 but you do you want to be celebrated by the 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.120 people who disagree with the people who canceled you, right, 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.320 and so that that's kind of the way you go. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.320 But society is so fragmented though, Yes, but being canceled 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.919 by one group can actually be a step forward with 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.200 another group. Truly. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:50.480 I remember talking to big comedian from an older big comedian, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.240 I said, why don't you talk about politics? 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:52.640 Speak out? 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.200 He's like, I don't want to split my audience, you know, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:55.240 fifty to fifty of people. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:55.719 Whatever. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.960 But now it's like you could have one for this. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.640 Comedians who are like, I'm the nurse comedian. If you're not, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.120 you don't know what I'm talking about, your nurse. I'm 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.800 really funny. They sell out big theaters. Well, there's a 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:06.440 lot of nurses. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.400 Yeah. I think I think what it is as well, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.640 is that everybody wants to have their own special thing 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.600 that they're that they're upset about. Yeah, I get it. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.640 I'm upset about you know, I'm upset about a lot 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.279 of things. But I never do politics in the act. Never. Yeah, 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.600 but not because I don't want to split the audience. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.120 I'm so sick of it. Yeah, I'm sick of hearing it. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.080 I'm sick of hearing people I agree with like when 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.640 they were when they talk. You know, when I had 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.600 a conversation with Jim Gaffigan a couple of years ago, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.560 and Jim was saying, we were talking about how because 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.120 he works clean, right, and he doesn't cuss in his 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.599 act and stuff, and you like that too, Actually. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.280 Right, I'm I think, I'm I think I kind of 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.679 I started cursing a little bit, but yeah, I happen 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:50.600 to work clean. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.720 All right. So I was talking to Jim about it, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.719 and the Jem I've known for a long time, you know, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.839 and he cusses the way people do, you know, sometimes 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.880 and other times. He's not a big cusser, but he's 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.839 not a kind of Oh you've never heard Gym swear? Yeah, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.279 But I said, so, why don't you swear in the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.440 act if it's you know, and he said, he said 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.760 it was a stylistic choice. It was a stylistic choice, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.200 and I wanted to see if I could do it, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.960 and and I went, okay, well that makes sense somehow 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.160 I felt like, oh yeah, of course. And I made 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.960 that same choice with politics. I'm like, I'm not going 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.800 to do any I'm not even gonna mention those guys 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.440 by name. I'm not even going to admit that politics exists. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.160 And I found that I enjoy doing the standout more 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.320 because I don't not because of anything to do with 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.120 the audience, just because I don't want to talk about that. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.800 It's boring. And if you don't want to talk about it, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.440 then you should. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.520 As an audience member. I feel the same way as you. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.320 Is like, even when I agree with you, I don't 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.320 want to hear about this because it makes me sad 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.240 and like, but the one of the things that makes 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.480 me want to start cursing one on stage, yeh, is 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.120 I get like low key rage if someone says to me, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.800 you know, my favorite thing about your comedy is your clean. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.880 Oh yeah, that would make me angry too, if I like. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:06.120 What, like, I will fight you my mom's friends, my 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.480 mom's friend at this at this funeral, I will fight you. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.920 Yeah. Maybe not the best place. No, it's not the 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.920 way to do it. Yeah, but you know, I remember 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.720 because when people say, people who have no sense of 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.200 humor or do I understand stand up comedy will sometimes 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.920 say good comedian doesn't have to swear. Good comedian doesn't 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.160 have to cuss, you know, and I go, well, Richard 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.880 Pryor was a pretty good comedian. Yeah, And you know, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.240 I don't know if that's it. It's language, you know 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:32.959 what I mean. And if you work with the language, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.000 and if you decide not to use that, then that's fine. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.439 But if you do, then you do. It's just I 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:39.880 don't know. 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.000 And I've heard any views with great comics who I admire, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:44.280 and everyone has their own point of view. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:45.520 That's the answer to the story. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.640 But like, yeah, it's lazy to curse, and I used 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.079 to think that, but then I have a couple of 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.160 jokes now where I curse, and I'm like, it's not lazy. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.480 It's the word that's necessary for this joke to work. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.360 And also lazy gets a bad drap. Lazy is actually 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.920 an okay thing. We got to stop, yes, stop shaming 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.960 people for being lazy. I know some lazy people who 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.480 were awesome. I think COVID made it okay to be late. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:07.640 We were told please be lazy. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.079 Yeah, I just relaxed. You stay home, don't go out 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.440 there spreading the bug. Just stay home. Now. Listen. Tell 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.880 me I did ask you at the beginning, but you 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.200 getting started, and it was you started. You didn't start 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.319 on an America stop model. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.520 I started on your show. Basically, that was the. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.360 Very first thing. So how come you go on my show? 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.600 Because I thought somebody had seen you on a like 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.920 the booker, I had seen you. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.520 She saw my tape. I did just for laughs festival. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:33.520 I got stuff early on. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.400 That's how I started just for laughs in America, certainly 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.360 in Canada. In Canada, yeah, but they sold it in America. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.839 Oh okay, because I was, you know, but no, no 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.800 tell me about you. It's not about me. So you 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.959 were you like you were just for laughs festival. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.960 I started saying when I was seventeen, so. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.559 They had a kid's festival. Babies. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.400 I try to do like I tried and looking the 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:55.839 kid thing, I was like, put me on a Disney 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.520 Channel show. And I got a manager when I was young, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:58.839 and he wouldn't let me do any of that stuff. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.600 And like I'm kind of bitter, butrobably would have done 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:01.240 drugs and stuff. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.680 So yeah, you would have. Yeah, I mean that's a 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.040 but I wouldn't let my kids. I got the Disney 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:13.240 Jon watch Disney, No listen. I I'm to be fair. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.160 I've worked a lot for the Disney organization over the years, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.800 and they've always been very nice to me. So I 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.559 can't buy met them but my kids every time when 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.960 my kids were young. Why this is not about me. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.320 I care about your family, but then for my friends, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.040 all right, so it's basically my family. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.600 It's your family, all right. So you weren't on, somebody 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.680 saw you on just for laughs. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.880 Left, then booked my show and they had this new 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.640 Faces showcase where they like the new breed of comedians 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.800 of my my generator. My year was Adam Devine and 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.040 Nikki Glazer and uh Hannibal and uh. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.320 That's a great year. Yeah. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.600 Then there's uh, there's a whole bunch of people and 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.559 uh and then Reggie Watts was one of them. Is 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.280 a funny group of people. And then like six months later, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.320 I got to do your show is February fourteenth, two 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.319 thousandspen was my first time, and I was terrified. That 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.360 was like when I see you, it's kind of triggering. Actually, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.160 it was a gnarly you get triggered. Oh yeah, you're scared. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.160 You're scared of the big bad man. Put you're on 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:10.880 the TV show. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:11.800 I was so scared. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.760 It's terrifying, and like, yeah, it was scary at first. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.280 Stand up should be scary at first. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.280 Yeah, you know when I tell young people now, if 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.040 someone told us to me and just passing long wisdom, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.840 like I came up with it. But like when you 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.120 have nerves, that means you care sure and it's a 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.800 good thing. Like when you lose that, it's kind of 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:28.640 sad a little bit. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.199 I don't know. I don't I don't have anymore. I 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.240 don't get nervous about this. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.240 No, no theories, you're killing my theory. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.000 Well, I you know lesson I used to physically I 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.800 threw up before it show. I was so nervous. Yeah, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.480 it's terrifying, but I think you know you do it 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.240 often enough. Look, I say this to audiences now as 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.640 well when I go out. Look, I've been doing this 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.120 for a long time. I've made a lot of money 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.840 of won some awards have been very successful. So so 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.360 if tonight, if this show sucks, it's it's it's you. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.600 It's not me, because I've proved myself here, so it's 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.520 got to be you. So's see how you do? How 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.560 you how long you've been an audience five minutes you 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.040 don't even know what you're doing? Yeah, that's so good. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.680 But I think that I get a sense of I 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.720 don't know if you get this, but right now and 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.319 I will stop talking about me and a minute. I 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.360 don't know I do today, but I got a sense 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.480 of when I go on stage now it's where I'm 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.400 meant to be. I got an absolute sense of peace, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.480 like I can do this. I know this. This is 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.079 my world. And there's a lot of things I don't 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.320 know how to do, but this I know how to do. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:31.200 I love that. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:36.360 I think very similar to that in this in this business, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.559 in life that's full of rejection and you're just self 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.000 doubt and its internal doubt and external doubt upon me. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:49.400 And my biggest source of validation for what I'm doing 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:50.680 with my life is when I go on stage and 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.080 I go, Okay, you know what I got? 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.200 I got this figured out? 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.240 Like yeah, and I'm most I'm more comfortable there than 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.439 I am in other places, which is a bizarre thing 0:12:58.480 --> 0:12:59.920 to do, but it's a thing I've worked. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.160 No, I just don't really understand it. So, but you 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.000 wanted to be in stand up from being a very 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.880 young kid. I mean it's like, to me, stand up 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.840 is kind of like being a realtor. It's it's an 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.800 okay job and you get your picture on a bus 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.600 stop stuff, but nobody wants to really. It's just like 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.640 you do something because you fail to other stuff. But 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.520 that's not for you. You really wanted to do it, right. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.360 It's like porn and real estate and stand up comedy 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.000 as you back up plan others. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.959 I noticed that when when actors got canceled, when people 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.120 were getting canceled all the time, like actors, if they 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.840 got canceled, they don't start doing stand up like it's 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.800 okay to be a pair of stand up comedian. Yeah, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.040 it's like okay, yeah, I kind of like that. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.080 Oh yeah, and they're taking my jobs. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.480 Yeah, that's there's room for everybody. But so one I'm 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.160 trying to get is do you have a very bad 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.480 relationship with your parents? 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.680 Well, it comes down to mommy issues. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.720 Mom. Yeah, that's what Megan, my wife, who you know 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.079 very well, says. She says, it's all about let me 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.000 just turn my everyone else sorry, because she'd probably call me. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.880 She'll call me to tuma. Yeah as well. She Megan 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.120 says that all stand ups are the same. Mom. I've 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.520 talked to a bunch of stand ups about this cold 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.400 with bad boundaries. That's what she says. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.600 I love my mom and we've been through a lot 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.400 and we're we're in a good, healthy place now, but 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.200 we have had a lot of stuff, and she has 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.600 a lot of stuff from her mom. And it's a 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.960 nice generational trauma that's passed down as a tradition in 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:25.440 my family. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.320 Yeah. You know what's funny about it. I was a 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.720 Hollywood party once a famous actor guy and his kid 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.320 came over. The mom brought the kid over and he 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.680 was about thirteen. She went, this is our son. He 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.920 really wants to be a stand up comedian. I was like, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.640 you're a terrible mother. Terrible. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.240 I don't encourage that, I know, but my mom is 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.760 part of my trigger for seeing you is because I 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.280 was twenty doing Latelateshit and I'm trying to be a 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.960 good person. So I hear the all the stories you got. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.560 You bring your mom. You got to bring your mom, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.160 and like, so I invited my mom from San Diego 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.080 to come up. And but we don't have like we 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.720 didn't have like a close we had a lot of stuff, right, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.080 And but she came and she rides you sent like 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.600 a nice car to come pick me up. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.280 And I got with you, Taylor. I didn't personally say. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.000 I know you don't ily don't do it, but yes, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.960 let's just take credit. Yeah, and then, uh, you drove, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:15.720 you were not driving. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.000 I was driving. That's when I used to wear the 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:23.240 little show for uniform Welcome to the Lately, Drive Yet 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:24.720 full Serves? 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.960 I was thinking this three Stages episode where he goes 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.360 full serves fully service. 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.720 Do you ever read fuel Service by Scottie Bauers. Oh 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.200 my god, I'll tell you about that a minute. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.440 All right, So, so my mom came and then she 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.640 I hadn't it's silly talking about. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:16:02.800 All right? Right? Yeah, really I can't remember what was 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.440 it you say. It'd be weird if you remember. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.800 My cue card was there's all jokes in context making 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.680 fun of people for using these words. You know, I'm 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.240 still proud of what it was. You know, are you 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.520 scared to say the worst? No? 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.440 Well I said that they said gay. Okay, that's a 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:17.440 that's an okay word, but. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.760 Making for people say gay. But then I then our 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:20.920 word whatever that is? 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.880 You now they are right? 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.960 That was the punchline, making fun of like, you know, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.000 these kids everything call everything gay, you know, you know, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:28.200 but the way. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.800 They talk, it's so all right, right right, right, comedy. Yeah, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.560 let's get the hall away from this. And then I 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.680 shoo to move on. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.040 And then uh, horror I talked about. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.120 Like poor, I think horror is fine. Is a word 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.480 I call myself a horror all the time. It's one 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.720 of those words that, yeah, it depends on how you 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.080 use it and where you use context. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:50.960 But just financial these words on TV. And then I 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.360 did show six months later and they wouldn't let me 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.480 say anything because don I miss happened in between and 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.280 there's a whole big difference. But anyways, but like I'm 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.200 a good person, but so so my mom sents a fact. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.920 The next day she sent a fax to my manager. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.920 It's just two thousand and seven, the facts. My mom 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.800 sent a fax to my man. It was after faxes 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.919 were not seeing you still had factes on your website, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.119 but you're like, who does this? Yeah, she sent a 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.320 fact She wrote a letter to him saying, thank you 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.080 so much for taking care of my son's career. He 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:21.960 speaks so highly of you. I never told her anything 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.920 about this is all like made up in here, right. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.760 And then here's some things that could help him out. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.680 Please take him somewhere to get a nice haircut. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:28.960 Please. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.160 He has a great singing voice and maybe that's something 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.800 you can use. And also he held the microphone over 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.239 his face the entire time. Please train him to not 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:37.000 do that anymore. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:37.359