WEBVTT - Steve Young Meets World 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.600 I went to soccer games. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.880 What sports professional professional like MLS. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:32.120 Get this my third LAFC game. Three soccer games. Yeah, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.839 it was. It was super fun. Like soccer is the 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.040 only sport that I really enjoy watching. I don't keep 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.839 up with it, but I do enjoy watching it. And 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.320 I guess it's maybe because I played it as a kid. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.520 You know, up until I was like, up until Boyne's World, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.080 like twelve or thirteen, I played soccer every year. My 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.680 parents actually coached my team and stuff, so I was 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.400 really into it. But yeah, so I saw about like 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.880 two years ago, a friend invited me to an LAFC game, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.560 and it was so much fun. They have like a 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.720 whole cheering section which is basically like a permanent dance 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.800 party going on. They never stop moving there, and they're 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.080 drumming and they're chanting. They never stopped moving the whole game, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.679 and it keeps the audience's energy up so high. And 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.039 the stadium where LAFC plays is it's very small, like 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.560 compared to most stadiums, so you can no matter where 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:28.360 you're sitting, you can see their players' faces in the game. Yeah, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.680 so so yeah, So a friend took me a couple 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.280 of years ago, and then I took some friends after 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.800 that and then yeah, I had friends in from out 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.880 of town and their kids love soccer and they play 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:39.399 all the time. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.959 So we were like, let's go to l A f C. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.560 What does l a FC stand for? 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.360 Sorry, La Football Club Los Angele Football Club. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:46.720 Yeah. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.080 So it's a team, it's an MLS team, and they're great. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.280 They're really good. They're like probably one of the best 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.800 in the MLS. I think, I'm told. But anyway, it 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.440 was so, it was, Yeah, it was super fun. India 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.680 was not into it, still still not into sports. Yeah, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.520 so I was like, maybe maybe you'll get into soccer. No, no, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.440 but you know, I guess he just takes after me. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.720 But yeah, it was. It was super fun. So I 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.720 went to a sport a sports ball event. Wow, that's 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.680 really great again, Yeah, do you. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.000 Stand in the cheering section? Are you part of the 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:16.680 cheering section? 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:17.000 No? 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.240 Know, how you get in that? I mean they're like 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.520 they're all wearing like yeah, no, they like know these chants, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.079 they have all these rituals and they're like so into it, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.160 and but god, I would be exhausted. They're like for 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.520 ninety minutes, they're dancing the entire time, like you know, everybody, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.800 it was. It's really fun. It's a great one. It 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.840 was a draw. Yeah, it was a really exciting game. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.720 Like why they got to play for ninety minutes to 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.919 go and nothing happened and nothing happened in ninety minutes. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.840 It's like, what the hell was the point of that? 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.800 It should be like quidditch, just play until somebody scores. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.519 If it takes a month, it takes a month. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.840 It looks like that LAFC might be in the eighth 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.359 team like out of nine noe. So what does that 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.280 mean like ratings? Yeah, like where they following the raidings? 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:05.600 Yeah? 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.000 Ok, no, it looks like it looks like Vancouver is 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.360 in first place, Portland second, third is Austin, fourth, Minnesota fifth, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:19.160 Colorado FC, Dallas is sixth, San Diego seventh, LA FC eighth, ninth, Seattle, ten, 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.840 Salt Lake, eleven, San Jose, twelve, Saint Louis, thirteen, Houston, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.600 fourteen Sporting CAC and fifteen the LA Galaxy. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.440 So no East Coast teams, Well, those. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.400 That's the Western Conference in dot you got in the 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:34.399 Eastern Conference. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.960 Okay, so there are there's. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.840 Yeah, and I guess I don't know about, like how like. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.960 The see this has when my eyes start lacing over 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.640 and I go, I don't have time for sports because 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.760 now I would have to like investing keeping track of 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.240 the stats and who's traded for what. And I'm like, Nope, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.360 too much time, too much mental energy. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:52.560 No. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.000 Yeah, but going to a Gabe showing up and watching 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.360 them kick the ball around super fun. I had a 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:57.720 good time. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.480 They're also incredible athletes. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.160 I mean I I joke that you nothing happens in 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.760 ninety minutes, but they run essentially for an hour and 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:05.040 a half. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.600 Yeah, it's crazy to watch. It really is crazy to watch. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.760 We went to a King's playoff game, King's hockey game. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.280 I got to I got to bang the drum. So 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:14.840 at the end of every period. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.640 Wait, wait a minute, wait, like what do you mean 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:19.400 what is banging the. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.680 Drum the end of every period or at the so 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.200 I think they do it before the game too, So 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.200 before the game and after every period there's a big 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.039 drum and somebody gets to bang the drum, going, go Kings, go, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.200 and to get the whole crowd fired up. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.719 And you got selected because your topanga. Of course, of course, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.400 because ever go. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:45.000 To anything and have a normal experience. She goes to concerts, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.360 She's on stage within thirty seconds exactly. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.320 I was playing drums for Rolling Stone this weekend. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:57.159 Just picked up the guitar and jam to the sphere and. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.039 It was It was a lot of fun. Mostly it 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.920 was fun because Adler was very excited about going with 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.840 me to bang the drum. And my kids then were like, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.520 why do you get to be on the big TV? 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.160 Why can't be on the big question? 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:23.360 I've been asking since two thousands. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.520 My kids had so much fun. Adler is such an 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.039 athlete and such a jock. He doesn't care what the 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.520 sport is. He's just in it and he wants to 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.120 know all about it. What are they doing now? And 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.719 why are they doing that? And so what's that? What's 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.680 a power play? And why is he in there? And 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.960 like we taught him about time out, the timeout and 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.480 the penalty box and uh, and he just sits there 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.719 the whole time, watching the entire entire thing. It got 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.479 to be pretty late and I was like, you know, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.000 we have to go, and he was really bombed. He 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:51.719 didn't want to go, but it's a school night and 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.400 I'm like, you can't be out until eleven New Yours, 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.239 not even six. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.320 It's such a change, though, from when he used to 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.440 bring in places and he like even sporting events, where 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.000 he was like, it's seven thirty, we gotta go. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:02.479 We gotta go. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:03.320 Is it getting dark? 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:04.560 I need to go now. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.960 Now he thinks he's like real mister independent and he 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.160 didn't want to leave. But we got home. The game 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.240 still wasn't over, and I woke him up the next 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.400 morning for school and he went did the Kings win? 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.080 Just immediately needed to know. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.200 It was so much fun. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.560 So you guys had fun at sporting events. I had 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.719 like the best sandwich that was great? 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:25.320 Where from? 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.120 Oh I made it? Okay, okay, I wasn't gonna leave. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:28.680 What was in it? 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.080 Peanut butter and jelly, no complicated ham, A little bit of. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:38.640 Ham from new hot honey, uh swojo. We got it, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.279 We got it, We got Is he not the best, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:41.200 it's the greatest. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.760 It's it's incredible, the hot honey sour dough. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.200 Yeah that was my night. So okay, pretty happy, good for. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.800 You, Pretty happy. Welcome to pod meets World. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.920 I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilford. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:07:08.840 Doe Oh, Welcome to today's episode. We are very excited 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.200 about our guest today. One of the more confusing parts 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.520 for us while recapping the show so intensely weak after 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.239 week has been the surprising string of additions and subtractions 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.480 from the writer's room in the later seasons, a musical 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.040 chairs of sorts. And because of this, we've heard a 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.880 bunch of names we don't remember, forcing even Will to admit, uh, nope, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:34.240 can't place him, which is very hard to do. Before 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.520 the podcast, we would have thought we knew everyone who 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.040 wrote an episode, but now we know we are wrong, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.080 which happens a lot like when we didn't remember that 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.120 episode that Love is Blind guy stole his quote from 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:51.680 We Got Your Many Many Emails. We have already recapped 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.000 that episode back in season three, so. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.720 We got to the podcast. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.480 Weirdcast every week will just be us listening. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:10.240 To and then god, I think it was season three 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.760 episode one, and okay, so the trainy episode movie Theater 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.120 I'm Exploding your Head part five, that's that's season. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:17.640 Three episode one. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.640 Yeah, wow, jeez, there we go. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.520 Get the big brain on, Brad, you know you. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.920 Know, Okay, Well, enough of that. This week we are 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.120 introduced or maybe reintroduced to a writer with two very 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.240 important scripts to his name, season two's I Am Not 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.080 a Crook and season four's Uncle Daddy. He started his 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.360 career in the world of stand up comedy, surrounded by 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.319 some of the biggest names in the field, and then 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 transitioned into TV, writing not only for Boy Meets World, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.000 but Sybil, Smart Guy and Michael Jacob's less known title. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.000 Maybe this time he'd also end Jay Leno's Tonight Show 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.000 Writer's Room, a gig suited for his on stage experience, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.320 all as he was still also performing stand up and 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.480 even owning his own legendary club in Philadelphia where he 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.320 booked some of the biggest legends to ever tell a joke. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.840 The former professor and radio host also now finds time 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.640 to be an author, releasing a handful of books, including 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.320 his newest, a meta novel about Larry David with a 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.720 main character apparently different than the Larry David we all know. Okay, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.840 that's just one of the things we need him to 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.080 explain the other. Why do we only kind of remember you? 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.040 He may not have ever won a super Bowl, but 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.480 today he's our Pod meets World MVP. It's time to 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:37.880 talk to Steve Young. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.440 I can't wait to talk h about the Super Bowl. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.000 I know he's gonna love him. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.959 Amazing Number eight, number eight. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.199 I did hear that? He there's another writer named Steve 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.319 Young and their checks used to get crossed. Oh my god, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.600 I want to ask him about that. I want to know. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.400 Did you ever you know, wouldn't it be great to 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.560 get your checks mixed up with Steve Young? 0:09:58.760 --> 0:09:59.200 Yeah? 0:09:59.240 --> 0:09:59.920 The quarterback? 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.760 Yeah, well it wasn't Steve Young the quarterback. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.520 Darn it. I know you said it was Steve. I 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.200 listened to another podcast you did, and I heard that 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.400 story and I thought, Man, if only it could have 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.680 gotten mixed up with the quarterback. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.080 Huh, yeah it was. It was Steve Young who wrote 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.760 for Letterman and I wrote for Leno, and so it 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:24.080 got switched a lot, and hid, believe me, I would 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.559 rather have his checks. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:28.480 Oh how are you? 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:34.800 Oh, I'm wonderful. I just took my mother to breakfast 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.560 and I couldn't get back to my place fast enough, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.000 So I'm now at my lovely daughter's house doing this. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.960 And right away, by the way, you would know the 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.800 name of my daughter if you watched any of the 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:53.000 shows I wrote, because anytime you brought on a character 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.320 who is not a regular cast character, I named them 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.120 after my kids. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.280 Tell us your kids' names Kelly. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:07.280 And Casey, until Bob Young, the executive news here at 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:13.400 the time, said stop, you cannot dan for your kids. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.720 That's right, Uncle Daddy. Wasn't her name? Her name was Kelly, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:17.560 wasn't it? Yeah? 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.760 And Kelly is here today. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.360 Oh that's so cool. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.160 Okay, well, thank you so much for joining us. We 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.680 are collecting Boy Meets World writers like Pokemon, so you 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.760 got to catch them all first. Let's get a little 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.440 into your origin story. How did you find yourself doing 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:37.079 stand up? 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.120 Oh? Stand up? I can't. I couldn't do anything else, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:49.520 I mean really, yeah, that was it. I started actually 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:55.920 when I was twenty twenty one standing in line at 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.440 the troupe door. That was the only place you could 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:05.960 do comedy at that time. And later on, when I 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.680 there was no comedy club, I came back to Philadelphia 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.000 and there were no comedy clubs, but there was a 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.000 group of people who were doing comedy, me included, and 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.520 I was the only one that could wear a three 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.400 piece suit and talk, and so I opened up a 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:28.280 club where actually I met Bob Young and Bob Meyer, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.360 and I ended up managing them at the time, and 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.280 we all did stand up for years at that club. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.520 What was the name of the club? 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:37.880 Tell us tell us. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.200 About the club, the Comedy Works. It ran from about 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.560 eighty to ninety three, and we were fortunate enough we 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.040 came out at the time where I could book on 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:53.720 a weekly basis. Leno, Jim Carrey, signed Felt, Eddie Murphy, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.160 I mean, everybody who they were, the young Gun. Yeah, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.120 and at the time, although I will tell you that 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.400 Bob and Bob, Bob Meyer and Bob Young were is 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.680 good or better than any of them, I don't know. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.120 Mostly your familiarity is with them on you know, just 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:17.040 on a set. But actually, if if you look on 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 the wall or the outer wall of the Comedy Store, 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.080 there's Bob Myern, Bob Young. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.400 So you you did you own the club or you 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:27.520 were just running a club? 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.680 I owned it, Okay, So you. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.000 Owned a club and then you were also a manager. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.480 I was also a manager, and I couldn't see. The 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.320 thing is I couldn't do anything well. So what I 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.760 tried to do is a little of everything right. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.160 And you were also a comedian, so you owned a club, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.800 you managed other comedians, and you yourself then performed at 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:52.400 your club. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.920 I'm assuming yes, yes, yeah, they wuldn't allowing me you 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.320 to perform. There's a restraining order at other clubs. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.160 My favorite thing in the world is going through the 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.400 list of the big comedy clubs what they're called. They're 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.400 always like Chortle and the Haha House, right and all 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.720 like so just to hear comedy works is yeah. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.800 So let's well, let me let me backstory. When about 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.040 a week before we were going to open up, a 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.400 number of people, uh, we were at a restaurant trying 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.160 to decide on the name of the club, and we 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:33.240 had had a few extra Uh. We were loaded dollars 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.960 dollars and we were we were uh, we were sitting 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.360 around and I came up with I thought the best 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.360 name would be Comedy Shmamedy. And the reason would be 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.000 if people would call information for the name, uh, you know, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.800 to the club, what's the name, and the person would 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.880 say the operator when they had operators, would say what's 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.800 what's the name? Uh, and and the person would have 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.280 to say Comedy Shmamedy, And it would be pretty hard 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.440 not to laugh, right, right, just for saying it. And 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.720 the radio person who was at that dinner, who's going 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.640 to promote for us, thought we stuck with that name. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.200 But we did get sober. And when we got sober, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:16.800 I actually I actually had to get sober because this 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.720 is a true story. I walked into an Olive Garden restaurant. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.600 I thought it was an Italian restaurant. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.920 Well, I guess we could say goodbye to Olive Garden. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.120 Endless breadsticks and laughs. That's what I'm telling you. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:42.000 I mean, so out of everyone who came by comedy works, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.480 who do you think had the funniest set? I know 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.840 you said Bob Young's pretty great. Who who had the 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:47.520 funniest set? 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.320 There were? First of all, Leno was you have to 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.840 see Leno in the club, not uh Leno. There was 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.160 a comedian named Bob Nelson who's still around and a 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:06.480 killer act. Mac and Jamie were a comedy team and 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.640 and wonderful. But I could go down, Oh, Jim Carrey, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.480 the microphone went out and we it was sat three 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.080 hundred and fifty people. The microphone went out. He ended 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.680 up doing the set where he would tell the joke 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.880 and then the audience would roar and then shut up 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.600 immediately because they knew they had to shut up to 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.920 hear the next joke. He would tell the next joke 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.760 and roar and then shut up immediately. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:35.000 It was. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.440 It was a brilliant night. Jim Carrey as no one 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.640 is better. There might be people that say, but no 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.480 one was better in terms of the guys that came 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:49.120 through in the last forty so years. Wow, man, except 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.760 for Buddy Hackett. Because he just saw that Buddy Hackett 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:52.280 was one. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.120 Another world alone. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.720 He was exactly That's what I know. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.760 Yes, yes, because he could not get Sandy. And the 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.640 thing is, the thing is I didn't know that. I mean, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.120 I love Buddy Hackett. I saw that. Oh my god, 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.320 I was ready to show that Buddy Hackett actually appeared. Okay. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.640 Yeah, So as a manager and then club owner, did 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.240 other comedians start to see you as a suit Was 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.879 it hard to stay like one of the boys. 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:26.040 Yeah? Actually, when I went out to Los Angeles and 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:32.080 I auditioned for Mitzie Shore at the Start Start. Yeah, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.920 my friend and comedian who started our club, Judy Toll. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.199 I don't know if you remember. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.960 I loved Judy so much. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.720 She was so so I mean, Judy was the best 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.840 and I, you know, from from Philly, and I still 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.840 think of her whole time. Uh. So Judy sat with 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.640 Mitzi and kept Mitzi's head pointing towards the audience because 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.200 Mitzie could care less about what's on state. I mean, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.680 she was looking at uh the stage with her help, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.880 Judy's help. And it was a night that I actually 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.720 I just blew the audience away. And Mitzi said to Judy, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.639 how come I don't know about him and all? And 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.520 she would not tell him that I was a club 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:21.440 owner because her and over at the improv. But Freedman, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:24.560 it was bad to say you were a club owner 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.160 because we're in fact. Marjorie Gross, who was a brilliant 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:33.359 comedy writer and a comedian, Yeah, uh, she sat was 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.080 sitting on the balcony of my club one one night 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.240 during the show, and she turns to me and she said, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.760 you don't seem like a club owner. And it was 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.000 the nicest thing anybody ever said to me. I really 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.280 took that as quite a compliment. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:19:00.760 Yeah, you're like, thank you. So when does the idea 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.960 of TV writing cross your mind? How does how does 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.439 that enter your world? 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.159 Oh? I guess we all we all wanted to be 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.000 writers like on SNL or Mad TV not Mad TV, 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:20.640 well yeah, Mad TV, or or as the second Citty, 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:26.120 you know, you know the great sket shows. And I mean, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.560 I love I watched Johnny Carson every night. I fell 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.639 asleep to Johnny, you know. And the first person on 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:35.920 the show was always a comedian at the beginning, and 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.160 I lived and died with every comedian that went on there. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.200 If he did good or bad, it was I mean, 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:48.560 my mother had a stack of comedy albums that I 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.800 would listen to, the ones I was allowed to listen to. Yes, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.280 back then, you weren't allowed to listen to until they 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.320 went out, and my sister and I would listen to them. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:00.400 So wait, so it was Is it true? 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.520 There was an entire like a system on Johnny Carson 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.440 if you were a comedian of how you were treated 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.840 by Johnny would dictate how your career would go or 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.680 how you did that night. Where it was like if 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.640 he invited you over to the couch, you were made 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.000 right after yours. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.240 Absolutely that was a different time. If you did Carson, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.000 it was a big deal number one. But if he 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.320 called you over to the couch or he gave you 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.400 a wink and did this, Yeah you were you were 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.879 made Stephen Wright his first, his first set there. He 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:39.000 wanted him back within the week. We booked Steve Wright 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.960 that week because his agent called me up and said, 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.119 he just said Carson and he just killed. We have 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.399 no place to put him. So I ended up putting 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.359 them on for ten minutes in Philly. I paid him 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.840 two hundred and fifty dollars for four shows after he 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:59.960 killed on Carson and I couldn't. I had already Professor 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:06.720 and Corey uh Wayne Cotter, the legendary with another the 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.600 show was full of people who kill them and so 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.359 to have him come on, but because the point is 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.919 like Paul Prevenza, Blue Bleu, Boway. 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.360 Freddy Prince, Freddy Prince when he went to his whole life. Yeah, 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:23.520 I mean that was incredible. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.800 If you if you had a good set there, everybody 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:29.639 in the industry knew about you. 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.240 Stephen Wright has one of my favorite jokes of all 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.680 time where he just says, I have a decaffeinated coffee table. 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.040 You can't tell by looking at it. That's such a 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:38.400 good joke. 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.760 Actually actually did one the other day I met. I 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:47.000 actually gave him credit, but it was, Uh, you can't 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.399 have everything where we did put it right. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.240 So what are a few of the major differences between 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.920 the LA and the Philly comedy scene. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:02.560