WEBVTT - Fortune Feimster 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.480 This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.920 and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.400 it's about an hour and a half and I don't 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.000 have an opener because these guys cost money. But what 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.000 I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.560 come and see me live on the Pants on Fire 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.720 Tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now and 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.160 we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout twenty 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.960 twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.520 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.360 See you on the road, My DearS. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.760 My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.880 is joy. I talk to interesting people about what brings 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:49.479 them happiness. Hello, everybody. The type of stand up comedians 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.160 that I like best. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.840 Of all, it's my personal taste, are. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.000 People who are authentically themselves. They have their own voice, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.000 the not necessary, the observational. They're more anecdotal, but they 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:08.520 observe as the anecdote. And my guest today is definitely 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.319 one of those. She's the delightful Fortune Finster. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:19.680 Enjoy everybody. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.920 Thank you for noticing how cozy I am and snuggled today. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.200 It's a little it's a little chat. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.800 I see we're both wearing T shirt, shirt and top right, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.880 which I think that says we're in show business, but 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:36.200 we're not. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:37.320 It's not nighttime. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.720 Yeah, we don't and we don't take ourselves too seriously, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.319 but we're trying serious. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.400 But we're trying and sometimes we have to do a 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.360 little bits of home improvement, that's right, which is what 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.680 I was doing today actually before this, Yeah, I was 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.400 actually I had a I'm going to tell you something 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.800 because I'm hoping that you'll well, look, I'm just I 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:57.840 need I need to tell someone that. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.000 So I'm going to tell you please. I was trying 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.440 to get a chair into a room. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.760 Yeah, but the it's an old chair and an old house, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.440 and it's just it wouldn't work. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:09.359 So I did. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.640 I did it, But thing, what did you do? I 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.720 saw the legs off the chair. No, and then I 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.880 took it into the room and then I, well, it's 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.840 an armchair, so you can't see. And then I magically 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.400 fixed underneath with it. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:26.720 Is this the chair you're sitting on? 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.960 No, I don't think anyone should sit on this chair. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:30.520 Okay. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.000 I was about to say, I don't. I don't trust 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.360 the sturdiness of the chair. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.120 Now I think it will be okay, I think it'll 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:37.520 be all right. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.280 I did the you know, a screw going that way 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.640 and a screw going that way thing, so like like 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.560 a bone, like a it's like a fracture, and then 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.799 I built around it. But I'm still not going to 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.560 let anyone over twenty in the chair. So it's basically case. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:53.959 It's chair is for a cat. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.519 For looks a chair. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.960 I honestly would have never thought of doing that, just 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.400 so you know. I would have been like, the chair 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.760 doesn't fit. I guess that's that. Ye. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:09.120 I can't. I can't do that. I can. I must 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:10.960 bend the world to my will. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:11.639 God. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.600 I actually I don't think that's true. I don't think 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.640 that's true. Now listen, tell me this. Are you still 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.440 doing the Lovely Tom Papa's radio. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.840 Show as sure am with our mutual friend Joe Bolter 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:24.639 five years now? 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.080 Wow? Joe Joe Boulter? Who is Joe the producer of 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:29.680 Tom's show? 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:30.360 Yeah? 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.560 Right, so Joe and Joe and I he writes my 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.760 stand up with me Joe and my wife and I write. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.760 Whatever stand up I do, the three of us write. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:42.920 That's amazing. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.560 I know I've never I've never gone to Joe for 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.720 stand up ideas, but I feel like I should. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.800 You should. I highly recommend it. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.400 He's also very good at every now and again, he's 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.520 very good at organizing because I kind of got a 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.200 little sky a brain when I stand up. He's very 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.520 good at channeling stuff. And then every now and again 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.680 he will land you a punchline. And there's one that 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:12.400 I I have actually, yeah, it's it's just I've just 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.000 recorded it. But yeah, every night I did that stuff 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.920 that line, and it would got a huge laugh, and 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.600 I would always think of Joe every night. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:20.839 Oh that's so cool. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.680 Yeah, it was like, oh man, every single night. It 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:30.600 was about having a uti. Yeah, and I had a uti, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.960 and the only a leaf I could get was putting 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.880 my penis in a glass of cold water. That was 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.400 the only way that I could feel any kind of 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:39.680 release was putting out. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.240 I just said that as you were drinking a glass 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.360 of cold water. And I apologize. 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.720 I didn't know that was coming. I know, I know, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.680 I put this up to my mouth. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:51.760 I was like, oh, but but I was it's a 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.800 true story. It was when I I, you know, I 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.920 had this terrible uti and the only relief I could 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.200 get was put my penis in the glass of. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:58.360 Cold water and I gotta laugh. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.799 And then Joe added the punch language I think was great, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.760 which was I could never go back to that Danny's 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.200 which I think is is. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:09.720 Yeah, it was. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.520 Uh, anyway, tell me this, because you're one of the 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.080 modern wave of young stand ups. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:18.920 You're the young stand up. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:19.360 Yeah. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.240 What what's so different about you guys? 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.839 What's so different? I feel like I'm Jimmy Glick today. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.960 What's so different about you? Guys? You're kind of is 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.760 your stuff anecdotal? You're kind of anecdotal? Is it? Is 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:34.920 it personal or is it? 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:36.080 Yeah? 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.400 I think the difference is, and it's I appreciate the 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:41.520 calling me young. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.360 Thank you all the creams I've been putting in my face. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.400 Yeah, I wear a lot of creams too. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.159 I think the difference is a lot of our stand 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.800 up is about us. Yeah. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.480 You know, the comics I watched ahead of me were 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.000 just doing more observational comedy. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.479 What's happening in the world? You know, do you ever notice. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.920 When that kind of stuff you know, yeah, set up punchlines, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.280 stuff that was good for late night, late night spots 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.240 and you know the Carson days and then all you 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.039 guys on late night. It needed to be snappy and 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.599 punchy and like get to it. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.600 It did, it did, and I think that that that's right. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.960 I mean, because my stand up's always been no adotal 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.480 as well. I've always done stuff like that, and whenever 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.840 anyone was introduced me at a club, they would always 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.960 say is there anything you don't want me to say? 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.160 As they just don't mention growing up in Scotland other 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.960 than that it's fine. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.359 Yeah, but I was never. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.680 A huge fan of this style, which is have you 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.800 ever noticed how things are like other things? 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.120 And yeah, you know. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.120 Yeah, it's not my I could never do that myself. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.440 I mean some people are great at it, but I 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.799 don't really connect to it. Even as an audience member. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.320 It doesn't really do it for me. Who were the 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.760 comics that you were influenced by? 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.960 Who were you? Who were you kind of drawing to 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.280 when you were little? 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.440 Weirdly enough, Carol Burnett, who's you know? 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:15.600 Not? 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.920 I don't sweet at all? She's I'm a genius. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.600 Yeah, I mean I guess there just weren't many people 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.120 my age watching her. Yeah, but my my grandmother was 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.560 a huge fan of hers. And my grandmother was pretty 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.720 buttoned up, not someone who was like considered a silly 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:39.600 person at all. And I would watch her watch the 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.320 reruns of the Carol Burnette Show and just die laughing. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.600 And this woman, who you know is always very like 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.520 together and lady like, seeing her just like cry laughing. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.440 I was like, Oh my gosh, what power does this 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.680 this woman on television have? And I started watching the 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.120 show with her, and she was so silly and so 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.440 you know, not taking herself too seriously, and uh she. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:08.880 She covered it all. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.360 You know. She would have her monologue, which is essentially 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.320 a stand up. She would do the sketches and then 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.240 answer questions at the end, which was essentially improv And 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.840 I didn't realize I was like really taking that in 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.080 from my own comedy. So my background is sketch comedy, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:33.320 improv and stand up, just kind of hitting different parts 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:34.840 of comedy in different ways. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.800 Yeah, I loved her. Saturday Night Live was a big 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:39.600 influence on me. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.880 I started with the cast of like Adam Sandler, you know, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:53.080 Chris Farley, then went into like well Ferrell, Molly Shannon. Yeah, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.480 I think I'm just drawn to those really big personalities. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.199 Yeah, I think that it's interesting you you made in 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.800 Kylber and I think Molly. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.440 Shannon as well is a fantastic performer. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:11.080 But the the innovators I think of, particularly sketch comedy, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.120 but you know, and stand up as well. I think 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:20.280 of a lot of them. Are are women, Uh like 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.520 Lucille Bowl created you know, the modern sitcom. I mean, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.160 just fly I did it. I mean people say the Honeymooners, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.680 but I'm like, no, no, it was it was Lucy, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:35.280 I think. And and then you know Joan Rivers, who 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.240 was maybe might be one of my favorite. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.360 Stand ups ever. Did you ever see Joan perform? 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.720 I never saw her live, and I was so sad 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.040 that I never I never did, But I watched your 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.240 documentary and was so impressed by oh, yeah, you know 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:57.400 how yeah gathered jokes and that whole filing system of jokes, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.120 Like I can't even imagine that. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:00.840 I don't. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.120 I certainly don't do that. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.120 No, I can't, I can't do that. Do you have 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.200 stuff written down? 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:12.480 Every I started writing down my whole set once I 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.560 was about to film it because I realized I had 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.040 not done that with any of my half hours, and 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.840 so now I'll be like, I don't remember that one 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.880 story or joke, and I don't have it written down anywhere, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.400 So I have to go back and listen to some 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.960 of those if I ever want to tell one of 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.640 those jokes. But now I write the whole set out 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:36.440 before I film it. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.679 Does it help you memorize it as well? 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.240 Yeah, whenever I'm building an act, I write everything out first. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.720 I'm not a comic who can just go up on 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.280 stage and with a premise and be like, let me 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.320 see where we go with this. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.320 I have to know exactly where I'm going. 0:10:55.320 --> 0:11:00.040 That's a that's why you need joke. Joe will say, no, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.839 put it in this junk, this tongue. Yeah. How long 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.280 do you go up from when you do stand up? 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:06.640 How long do you usually. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:06.880 Go on for? 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:13.720 Like when I'm doing my own show, probably around at 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:20.439 the minimum an hour, and if I'm in the flow, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.720 an hour ten. But I'm not one of those comics 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.400 that wants to be up there for two hours. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:26.840 No, I don't. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:31.600 Have I'm not that interesting and have enough to say 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.080 to make that appealing It's funny. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.120 When I was younger, I would do a maximum an 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.559 hour or fifteen, right, maybe that's the most. And now 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.040 that I'm old and don't have anyone to talk to, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.720 I'll do like an hour forty five. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.200 Oh really, Well, you're probably you're just like probably a 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.640 chattier person than me. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.199 It's possible. I think that. I it's part of how 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.040 I do it. You know, how did you? 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.680 I mean, when you were drawn into you like you 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.400 saw Kyle Burnett, you saw your grandmother last laughing at 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.079 Kyle Burnett? 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.120 Is that when you like, I want to do whatever 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:07.679 that is? 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:08.560 No. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.720 I I was from a small town in North Carolina, 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.800 like eight thousand people. So the idea of like being 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.160 a comedian for a living did not like. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.080 That just did not happen. Yeah, I knew. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.800 I knew people did it, and I thought, well, good 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.239 for them, how magical. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.120 But my mom was. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.600 Very much like, you're going to go to college, You're 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.240 you're going to get a master's degree, like academics. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.400 Was very much like pushed like for me. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.720 But when I went to college, I discovered the arts 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.040 a little bit, uh you know, uh theater, and I 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.360 became friends with the people in the theater, and I 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.040 thought they were so cool and different and unique, and 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.080 I was like, I want to be in that world. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.920 So I did some plays in college, but I was 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.400 pretty terrible at them because they were all dramas and 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.320 I had no experience or training. I was I had 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.360 terrible stage fright. So I thought that this is as 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.440 cool as it is. I don't think it's for me. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.920 But I just didn't know comedy was so different, you know, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.120 that it was the comedy that I would gravitate towards. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.800 I moved to LA for just kind of a life experience, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:31.440 never been there before, had a job like doing PA work, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:37.720 and someone told me about the Groundlings and that they 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.679 had this improv school and I knew all these cool 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.160 sn L people had gone there, and I'm like, well, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.079 I love them. I'd love to learn to do what 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.800 they did, still not thinking of it as a job, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.520 and I signed up for an inprov class as truly 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.000 as a hobby, like let me do something fun. It's 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.280 hard to meet people in LA. Maybe I can make 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:06.160 some friends, sure, And my teachers just were really encouraging 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.840 of like you're really good at this, like you should 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.640 keep doing it, and it quickly became a passion. And 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.920 then once it clicked, I just was like, there's nothing 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:19.760 else I want to do. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.720 I called my mom. I'm like, I'm not going to 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.320 grad school. This is what I'm doing. She's like, oh 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:26.400 my god. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.320 What did you study it at college? 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.480 Communication? Weirdly? 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:31.120 Wow? 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.640 Come on, Yeah, it's a sort of communication. Yeah, did 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.520 you did you get pushed back from your parents? 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.320 They just like they didn't understand the world that you 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.160 were wandering into. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.600 Yeah, I mean it just didn't make any sense. My 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.920 mom was just like, really, like, what are you doing 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.320 out there? Like I think she thought I'd go for 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.160 like a year or two and come back home and 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.720 start grad school. But yeah, she just I think her 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.040 worry was that I was just gonna be broke forever. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.480 I wouldn't be able to make any more. And I 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:01.800 was broke for eight years. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.080 Yeah, I was broke for a long time too. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.440 It's uh, I think it's kind of It's kind of 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.720 interesting because I I I look at people who come 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:16.320 from advantage backgrounds, you know, people who like, yes, I 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.440 would like a career in comedy, and then they like 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:23.520 it took me five years to write my thing, and yeah, I'm. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.600 Like, how the fuck do you pay the bills? How'd 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:26.560 you eat? You know? 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.480 But of course they come from money, and and I 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.400 think it makes that I don't think it makes you 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.760 a better worse comedian, but I kind of I'm jealous. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.040 That they gave you. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.000 Yeah, yeah, I kind of I wish i'd had it, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.280 and I felt I still think I feel a little. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.800 I feel a little chippy about it, you know, I like. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.200 Yeah, I think it's so bad though. Yeah, no, look, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.320 I feel like it's it's ridiculous. It's a fault in me. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.560 You can't judge someone from their background. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:15:59.479 That's prejudice. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.920 But but I think I sometimes I dismissed people if 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.880 they're from very privileged backgrounds, and I try and not 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:07.760 to do that, but I. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.400 Kind of I'm a little more kind of oh. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.560 Oh, you're oh you had money or your bad news 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.440 Steven Spielberg did he Okay? 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.160 Then it changes your drive though, when you you don't 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.520 know how you're gonna pay your bills. Yeah, you're like, well, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.440 I better I better figure this out. I better work 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:32.640 three times harder than everybody else, because otherwise my my 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.680 rent's not gonna get paid. So I definitely think it 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.160 added to my work ethic. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.360 I had a friend, but I also made some I 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.040 made some poor choices really for money. Yeah, I mean 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.040 like I've made some movies where I thought, is that. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.920 How you learned to put your penis in water? 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:52.840 No, that was. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.320 A medical emergency fortune. I didn't think it was gonna 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.600 get momked for that. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.920 It was. That was a a medical emergency. Impromise paid 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:03.480 for that. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.600 You know what by the time I you know, no, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.080 it was no. No one would want. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.280 To see No one would want to pay for that. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.640 It's a very niche kink. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.480 You know, dire times. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.119 Yeah, I guess my only fans page. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.720 What would you do for money? What was do you 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.520 remember like a you. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.520 Know, I I I didn't. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.520 I mean I did regular jobs, like you know, I 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.240 want to hang bars and that kind of thing. But 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.199 I mean I've taken jobs and show business where I 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.560 was like, you know when I hear actors said, well, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.840 I didn't think the pot was right for me, Like, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.800 if you offered me a pop, I'm. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:46.520 Probably going to do it. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:47.760 You're gonna take it. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.679 Yeah, I'm probably gonna take it. Tom Lennon says his 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.520 answer is yes, I send the script. Yes, sendscript. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.359 That's hilarious. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.439 Hello, this is Greig Ferguson and I want to let 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.480 you know I have a brand new stand up comedy 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.400 special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So Happy, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.040 and I would be so happy if you checked it out. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.560 To watch the special, just go to my YouTube channel 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.720 at the Craig Ferguson Show and is this right there? 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.760 Just click it and play it and it's free. I 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:23.280 can't look. 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:24.640 I'm not going to come around your house and show 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:25.960 you how to do it. If you can't do it, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.520 then you can't have it. But if you can figure 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:34.040 it out, it's yours. You didn't come up poor, though, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.240 you weren't like from a poor bike, right. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:37.119 I was from. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.280 It was an interesting situation. My family used to have 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:46.480 money back in the day. My grandfather was a prominent contractor. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:54.600 He built schools and houses and was very successful. But 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.200 he died unexpectedly at fifty and my grandmother took over 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.919 everything and just didn't have the skill set at that 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:07.960 time to make good decisions, and she tried to help 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:12.400 people out of jams, and just a series of things happened. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.480 So by the time I came and my brothers. There 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.080 was no money. So I had a mother who knew 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.320 wealth and grew up with it, and that was broke. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.159 And she was a teacher and my dad was not. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.480 He would I had a different job all the time, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.000 very blue collar, so I did not grow up with money. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.520 But I had a house over my head. You know, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.159 I had food on the table. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.600 So it's subjective as to you know, yeah, what you 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:50.560 would say, I had opportunities, but we often, you know, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.720 had the water being shut off because my mom didn't 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.320 pay the bill, couldn't pay the bill. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:02.360 So yeah, you know, I had all of us. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:07.520 I remember when I was in when my brothers were 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.600 in high school, they were in the summer. My mom 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.320 didn't have much money because she was a teacher, so 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.960 my my brothers both and my mom were working at 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.680 a local uh kind of a version of the sizzler. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.240 And how it just was kind of trippy that like 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.480 how did we get here? But you know, we did 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.960 what we needed to do to make money. I was 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.920 working at the recreation department, and I think, I think 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.400 it I wouldn't be where I'm at in this career 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:45.000