WEBVTT - Global Warming Escape Plan with Mike Birbiglia 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.080 Hi everybody. While I'm taking um the month of September 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.240 off of doing stand up, I return on October one 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:11.680 to complete my Vaccinated and Horny tour. October, November, and December, 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.000 I have new dates up. I kick it off in Saratoga, California, 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.840 and I'm coming to all parts of California, Long Beach, Bakersfield. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:27.520 I'm going to Niagara Falls, Tucson, Arizona, Colorado, Minneapolis, San Diego, Reading, Pennsylvania, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.000 and Baltimore, Maryland, just to name a few. There's also 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.360 some Floridian dates in there, since this will be my 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.560 last year that I'm able to go inside the state 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.400 of Florida. So check out Chelsea Handler dot com for 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.760 more stand up dates for my Vaccinated in Horny Tour. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.680 These are my last dates. Hi Catherine, Hi, Chelsea. Hi. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.440 My name is Chelsea Joy Handler and I'm here today 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.320 to record a podcast in the beautiful city of New York. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.120 Can I just tell you earlier you were approving videos 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.440 of yourself doing comedy and giggling, and it was the 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:12.360 most joyful thing I've ever seen watching giggle. No one's 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.920 in love with himselves as much as I am. I 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.800 when my social media team sends me a bunch of videos. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.600 They put them together, but they put all these little 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.000 affectations on in like words, and it was funny and 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.480 I was yeah, I like, yeah, yeah, I get a 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.000 kick out on myself. I love that everyone should feel 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.080 that way. Honestly, I know we should all really start 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.520 to love ourselves a little bit more. I've always been 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.839 I've always been pretty high on myself. Well, not always. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.760 I sometimes beat myself up, but for the most part. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.640 Now I'm mature enough to be like, you're a wonderful person. Right. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.640 Speaking of being wonderful, I have to I don't know 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.400 if you saw my Skims ad, but I did. I 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.640 was so excited that that's what my body looked like 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.600 that I can't even express. And then as soon as 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.720 that shoot was over, what I did was they asked 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.680 me to do the Skims Brock Camp Pain. I was 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.160 on vacation. I said, listen, I'm gonna be on vacation 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:04.960 for two months. I'm not willing to fly back unless 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.480 you make it worth my while. They made it worth 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.600 my while. I came home and gave myself a week. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.720 I started to just be more careful about the food 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.600 and the drinking, and then I get on my timeline 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.480 where I eat every three to four hours, really small meals, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.320 no bullshit like egg whites, broccoli, avocado, that kind of ship. Anyway, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.359 I had one week to get it together. I came 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.680 home after Martha's Vineyard and then I really hunkered down 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.840 with Ben Bruno. We worked out every day. I did 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.280 my Peloton ABS class every morning, and I did I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.120 was an angel about my food, no alcohol, only cannabis. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.720 And on the day of the shoot, I was like, listen, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.360 I felt really comfortable about my body, but I knew 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.120 if I had one more week. I was like, if 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.239 I could manipulate my body like this in one week, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.200 can you imagine what I could do in two or three? 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.760 And then I was like, oh god. But anyway, the 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.080 minute thought shoot was over, I have been on a 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:59.160 food and alcohol tear. I am. I have rebounded, and 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:04.320 that body is over. I'm like, listen, I proved what 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.360 I could do, and I washed my hands of it 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.000 now and now I can feel free to just to 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.800 blow up, yeah, and like party and have fun and 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.800 do all the good things. I really like to be 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.480 strong and fit and lean, but it's nice to be 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.760 able to manipulate your body like that and have kind 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.040 of like a you know, the definition and all that. Yeah, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.679 I see your abs and stuff, and like the cellulite diminishes. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.080 Everyone says you can't get rid of cellulite. That's not true. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:30.360 I get rid of it all the time, and then 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:31.960 it comes back, and then I can get rid of it. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.200 You just have to be good. It's all about your diet. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.240 It doesn't really matter how much you exercise. You know, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.480 that doesn't ever fix that problem for me. But yeah, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.960 I'm really happy that I did that campaign. I'm so grateful. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.720 I'm so happy that I mean, can you believe I 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.200 spent so many years making fun of Kim er at 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.320 Ashi and and now I'm working for her. Well, you know, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.000 you just never know how life is going to turn 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.960 out to you. It's a full circle moment. Okay. Today's guest, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.760 you guys, is a stand up comedian in He's an actor. 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.000 He's also a storyteller. He's a director, a producer, and 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.760 a writer. He has a new show coming out on 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.640 Broadway which is so fucking cool. It's called The Old 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.840 Man and the Pool. He also stars opposite Tom Hanks 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.679 in a new movie called a man called Auto. Please 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:30.000 welcome Mike Brobiglia. Hi, verb Biglia. How are you glad 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.360 I'm here? Oh my god, we have so much to discuss. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.760 Kather and Mike, Holy cow, how are you? Hiy, nice 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.120 to meet you. Yeah, you can look at that screen. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.240 You can look at that screen. Just take a mirror 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.160 out and stare at yourself the whole time. I just 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.240 I got a shower and just jesus, I look like 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.200 a like a third grade schoolboy with this hair. Yeah 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.560 you do. Welcome to Mike bro Biglia. He's sitting down 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.960 and he just got out of the shower. Usually actually 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.359 at the first ad break during this podcast, we shower together. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.400 So if you want to do it twy, that's fine. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.400 Can I just say I was listening to one of 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.560 your bits just now in the waiting room, and I 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.120 was like, one of the things I think you do 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.039 so well comedically and very few people can pull off 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:15.160 is indignant, Like it's funny when you're indignant, and a 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.040 lot of people when they're indignant, it's like, oh come on, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.080 but like no, no, you're doing this thing about you know, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.160 people taking their feet off the airplane trays. Don't touch it. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.720 With your feet and you're mad about it, and you're like, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.719 and don't funk with the flight attendants, like they're working 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.760 so hard and so true. Like a lot of times 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.480 that kind of comedy can sound kind of like holier 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.760 than now. One of your special powers is indignant, but 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.840 in a way that it feels funny and also like 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 not I don't know, like I don't I feel like, yeah, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.960 that's so true. Well, thank you, Mike. What do you 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.120 think if you had to name your special power or 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.840 one of your special powers, what would it be? No, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.960 I think it's some I think I can, I think, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.720 I think, I don't know. I think I can tell 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.200 a story in a way that isn't boring, and I 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.320 can I can understand what's boring about myself in the 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.280 in real time and go, okay, I guess which gears Yeah, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.680 that's actually that is a special power. Because so many 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.200 people talk endlessly and you're like, do you not understand 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.840 that this is not compelling? And you're still talking and 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.360 there's not really a reaction coming from anybody, Like I've 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.000 been at a dinner where somebody drolls on and our 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.880 drones on and is a drone drones who knows what 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.839 it is. I'm too too tired to make words anymore. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.200 But when people go on and on and there's not 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.560 really a big reaction from anybody at the dinner table, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.800 and you just think to yourself, what is this person doing, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.200 Why won't they stop talking? Well, they they've clearly been 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.520 work shopping with the wrong people. Work shopping. Wait, okay, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.000 speaking of work shopping, I want to talk about one 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.440 of your special powers, because Mike bar Biglia is an 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.120 incredible person in the sense that you are helping so 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.240 many young comedians get to the next level. And we 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.600 have so many people in common between Hannah e'mbinder and 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.000 between Alex Edelman and Otsco. All of these people we 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.920 both have worked with or are both friends with, and 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.320 all three of them just have the nicest things to 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.800 say about you. And Otsco was just telling me, Mike 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.440 bar Biglia does this thing called the ride back, you know, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.440 because after you achieve your own success, which you have 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.400 certainly done, you have gone around and picked up people 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.720 that need help from other people. And I know you're 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.400 producing the show just for us, which I just saw 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.480 last night. We're in New York City today, which is 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.600 Alex Edelman Show, which closes I think tonight, so the 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.520 last night. Yeah, and then hopefully we'll start up again. Yeah, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.040 it'll start up again, and I think it will. It'll 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.200 end up being a big special eventually. Yeah, and it 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.480 should be on Broadway, I think. So. I mean, this 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.920 guy is so talented, it's so great, and it's very 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.280 it's very much about growing up as a Jew, and 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.760 he tells this long story about a night he has 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.360 and it's just he's kind of like the new I 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.920 would say, like a new Woody Allen, you know, without 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:05.520 marrying his daughter. Hopefully that won't happen because he's dating Hannah. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.920 I'm bid when I would like the two of them 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:12.280 to stay together because I think they're a commensurate right, like, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.400 they both have a nice My god, are you kidding me? 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.960 The power couple. Yeah, total power couple. So I just 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.400 wanted to give you kudos for that because I think 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.280 that you deserve it. Well, you know that term ride back. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.360 It's funny because Otsco uses it with me, but I 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.600 think both of us got it from Hassan Minaj, who 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.400 uses that term. Yeah, yeah, I don't. Yeah, Hassan brought 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.520 it up and then Otsko uses it for me. Otsco 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.520 is like, it's funny. We met were pandemic friends. We 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.599 met on just Instagram. I lover videos, and I was 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.319 just like, who is this person? Like, I'm going to 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:50.920 ask her to come on my podcast. She came on, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.559 working it out, we go along really well, and then 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.839 like when I started doing shows again, I was like, hey, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.880 do you want to come just like open some shows. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.319 And then she came to Chicago Theater with me and 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.439 then crushed and then I was like and then I 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.320 love her husband Ryan, He's like brilliantly talented as well. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.640 And then we've just been doing like every show together 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:14.920 and she's just super cool and like wildly talented, wildly talented. Yeah, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.559 she's going to be a big star. And she's so 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.960 sweet and funny and her story so it's she's unique. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.680 It's so nice as a comic when you see things 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.679 that aren't derivative of things we've already seen before. Oh 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.920 my gosh. Yeah. I mean one of the things that 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.240 one of the things about comedy, there's a lot of 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.080 like kind of white male complainers in comedy right now 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.319 are just like, how come everybody, every everything has to 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.920 be diversion blah blah blah, and it's like, well, actually, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.320 I think like sort of a better question might feel 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.360 like when you get more diverse stories, like odsco story, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.000 for example, is like she came from Japan. I think 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.760 when she's like eleven years old and she tells the story. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.120 I don't want to give away the story that she 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.760 tells on stage because it's so good. But it's like 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.640 her life story is so fascinating. When you get more 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.800 diverse stories, it's just better comedy, is the truth. It's 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.760 it's genuinely better storytelling better comedy, I think, of course. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.520 And it's also like it's a nicer to have a 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.360 wider breadth of learning about people's experiences than a narrow viewpoint. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.760 When everyone's complaining about being too politically correct or it's 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.600 like all you have to do is not be racist 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 or sexist, Like it's not at all order you don't 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.559 have to complain about that. You could just be a 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.960 little bit more clever or by the way, you can 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.640 be racist or sexist. But then if people say that 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.480 they're right, yeah, right, right, right exactly, it's actually non 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.160 illegally racist or sexist. But it's just like you know 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.280 people will criticize you, which has always been the case, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.839 excepted exponentialized with social media so exponentialized. That's good. I 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.000 haven't heard that yet. Who helped you when you were 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.319 coming up? Did you have anybody that was really helpful, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.200 Like a lot of people like Mitch Hedberg was really helpful. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.319 I was starting out, really he Yeah, there's like a 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.559 handful of people did like a lot of really nice 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.000 things for me, Like I opened from Mitch Hedburg in Dayton, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.520 Ohio at the Joker's Comedy Club. I don't think you 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.679 would have ever played there. Maybe I don't know if 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.040 I've played there. But you know what, I don't know 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.040 where I've been because every time I go somewhere, I'm like, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.520 I can't wait to go there, And then I go 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.839 in and there's a picture of me and I sounded it. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.840 I'm like, oh ship, I've forgotten more than most people 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.199 will ever remember. I like that quote. I don't know 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.199 whose it is. It's not mine, but I continue to 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.320 use it. Yeah, he didn't. He he didn't really mentioned 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.480 his wife Lynn did a really sweet thing, which is 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.880 like I had like a self produced comedy album when 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.720 I was like twenty something, years old called Dog Years 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.720 and they and they came to New York and performed 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.920 at like the comic strip with me. For that's actually 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.319 I don't even know if you remember. This is a 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.600 zillion years ago. I met you at the comic strip 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.959 years ago, and carolines here years ago, and it was 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.199 actually really unique instance where I was you were on 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.719 this ascent and I was just sort of witnessing it 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.200 happened like you weren't a household name, but you were 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.719 like on your way to it, and it was like 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.720 it was it was fascinating to watch you. You were 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.360 I mean, you were crushing. It was twenty years ago. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.679 You were crushing. But I was like, who is this 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.160 person who has this wild trajectory? I've never been around 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:28.120 that before. Really really well bigs. Yeah, I remember Caroline 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.120 seen meeting you at Caroline's the comic strip. Yeah, vaguely 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:32.920 now I remember that. Is that around anymore of the 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.720 comic strip? So is that where do you perform when 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.800 you're met the cell when you're a seller person, that 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.600 seems to be the place where everyone is. Well, it's phenomenal. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.320 I mean, it's just what it is is and if 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.600 people are listening and want to visit New York. It's 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.120 like they have like three or four comedy rooms like 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.400 in a two block radius. They're really good rooms. They're 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:58.800 really well well booked, well produced shows, and the food 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.880 is great. I think all left. Yeah. Yeah, the food 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.679 in a comedy club is typically not awesome. So if 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.439 you can get that while you're watching comedy, it's a 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.679 bonus round for sure. So tell me about your life now, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.679 now that you are successful and you have a very 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.400 steady career, how does that feel. It's good. I mean like, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.839 I'm doing this next show which is called The Old 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.959 Man in the Pool on Broadway, which is exciting. Oh 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.640 my god, can't wait to see it. That's incredible, so exciting. Yeah, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.920 it's at the Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. Wow. So 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.400 it's so it's really exciting. And when does that start? 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.680 Oct perfect O at the Beaumont Theater And and yeah, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.240 to answer your question, like it's it feels good. It's 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.800 like I'm sure you experienced this to some degree. On 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.959 one hand, you're like, oh, I'm I can't believe I'm here. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.120 This is so exciting. The audiences are showing up to 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.920 see my sense of humor, because when you're starting out, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.559 it's like it's any sense of humor. You get on 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.120 stage and you're just kind of like they either get 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.400 you or they don't him. Now, when I tour as 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.559 as is, I'm sure when you tours like no, no, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.439 they know what they're paying for. I've written this show 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.760 over a few years and they're on board for it, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.480 and I don't know. It feels like your friend with 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.000 the audience, Yeah, which I think you're the funniest kind 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.840 of jokes. It's like when you have an inside joke 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.200 with your friend. And I feel like over the years 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.160 I've been able to develop that with my audience where 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.760 it feels like an inside joke. Well, I think though, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.760 you'll have a different not a different in a bad 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.640 Way experience though on Broadway, because the audience aren't just 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.400 going to be your fans. It's gonna be a word 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.680 of mouth thing too, where people tourists are coming in 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.440 and they're gonna want to see something funny in a 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.640 comic and they're going to hear about it, you know 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.200 what I mean. So those are going to be people. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.440 It's a great way to actually broaden your audience, right yeah, Yeah, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.360 Before they die. Yeah, everyone's going to pass away shortly, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.280 so so we should all be prepared for that. So 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.880 tell me about the show. Well, it's it's funny. That's 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.720 the theme of the show is the old Man in 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.920 the Pool is about aging and more tality and and 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.080 you know that last show was called The New One, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.520 which is on Netflix now, and it's and it was 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.760 all about having a child, despite the fact that I 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.880 never want to have a child, Like I was really adamant. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.360 And the first half of the specials all the reasons 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.520 I never want to have a child. Second half of 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.040 the specialist about how I had a child, and then 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.480 how I was right, and then how I was wrong 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.440 in certain ways and and sort of the emotional arc 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.000 of that. But now my daughters seven years old and 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.080 so now and now she can watch that special and 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.480 be reminded that her father never wanted to have a baby. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.400 But my wife Jenny always points out that, like she'll 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.360 just never even though I said, she'll just never believe 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.680 it because I'm so doting, Like she just doesn't. I 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.920 don't think she'll compute it, like she'll just be like, oh, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.800 that's an act, yeah right, But no, I really did 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.880 I mean, I never want up a child. What's funny 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.880 is from that special? I don't know. It came out 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.720 a couple of years ago. About a year after it 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.280 came out, someone sent me a link to like a 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.280 Reddit thread that was like a child free commune. Any 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:05.200 forward that to me? Please my gosh, where people are like, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.920 we love the first half of the special and then 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.480 they were like and then and I turned on them. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.920 I didn't mean to, but I was like, you know, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.480 this is what happened. Well, I mean, it would be 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.880 hard to I remember talking one of my friend's husbands 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.000 they have three children, and she was like, I never 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.280 wanted to have kids, and he goes in, now, it's 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.720 impossible to even think about how I felt about that, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.880 because you know, once you have them, obviously, I mean 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.480 even I would love my kid when if I had one, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.600 you know, and then you're like, oh god it because 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.800 it's you're never gonna want that to be taken away 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.000 from you once you have that experience, because it's probably magical, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.760 I would imagine on multiple levels. It's extraordinary. It's spiritual, right, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.280 I mean, the idea that you and your wife could 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.920 create a person and then you watch them grow and 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.840 their mind being shaped. I mean that is a fascinating endeavor. Yeah, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.360 the whole first half of that special, I just make 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.760 fun of people with kids, and now I am one 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.960 of those people, and it's like, it's embarrassing. You should 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.360 you should be embarrassing proud of it. But that's where 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.440 I meant right now, and then the new shows is 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.640 all about death. I mean it's all about meditating on death. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.359 And my feeling is like, if you can make people 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.879 laugh for ninety minutes about the thing that we're all 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.840 sort of most scared of, or some of us are 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.320 most scared of, then there can be a catharsis in 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.280 the audience. There can be a feeling if you walk 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.119 away feeling better than you walked in. My pet peeven 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.359 comedy is when comedy scratches the surface so much that 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.119 the person doesn't go in deep, and then you're left 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.840 feeling like it's a little bit like junk food, you know, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.240 and you're just like, all right, that was fun, you know, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.920 it was a good time. Yeah, yeah, I hear what 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.280 you're saying. There's no there's a lack of depth. Well, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.920 it's funny because one of your one of your specials 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.320 that you did where you talk to people about race 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.639 and privilege and you sort of like make yourself the 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.720 line of fire. You basically, I would I don't even 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.680 know how to describe it. You basically say like I'm 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.639 open for criticism kind of thing. Is that how you 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.639 describe it? Yeah? I like that feeling. Yeah, And I 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.560 really respected that because I was like, that's going deep 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.240 because you're putting yourself out there and just being like, yeah, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.840 just take shots. What are your thoughts on this? Well? 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.040 I also find when you have the opportunity to do 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.560 a documentary, it's like it can't be a vanity project. 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.040 You have to dig right. You can't just be sitting 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.040 there like promoting yourself because it's so easy to be 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.600 in this industry and really get lost right. I find 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.719 New York there's more grounding and more normalcy here. These 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.080 are real people that not everybody's in the industry. There's arts, 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:46.280 there's museums, there's stuff to interest you. The parks are beautiful, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.480 you know, like the piers. You go down to the 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.800 piers and there's people outside exercising, and I'm just like, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.560 l A has a dearth of grounded nous. You know, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.440 people just get so kind of dumb. I certainly feel 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.040 like I get dumb when I'm in l af for 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.280 too long. Why did you stick? Why have you stuck 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.560 with us so many years? Because I just love land 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.760 and houses. I love land, and I love droughts, and 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.440 I can't wait to get started on our next drout. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.120 I won't be there for long because California will probably 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.200 catch on fire, so I'll have to probably relocate to 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.320 Nova Scotia or somewhere else in Canada. That's I'm not 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.560 have my eyes on property where global warming won't In fact, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.040 like I think about that Al timin Nova Scotia, North Atlanta, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.360 Tennessee oddly like, yeah, there's a few like that Tennessee. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.160 Nashville is a pretty cool city. It's just set. Everyone's 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:38.920 down there. I'd like to be a little bit off 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.840 the beaten track, but I never quite make it that far. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.199 I go down these rabbit holes about climate change sometimes 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.560 and I look at like where where will the survivors be? Yeah? 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.840 And Maine is a big one. Yeah, but then there's 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.560 weird things. It's like Vermont good, except that it's on 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.600 Lake Champlain and you can end up with other natural 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.960 disasters from the lakes, right actually, but I also think 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:02.560 it's important to be by a lake when we all 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.960 run out of water, right, so we have to find 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.600 some lake community like Wyoming or Montana might be a 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.760 good idea. But then there's too many guns. They're like, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.560 I'm not down with that telling people too much. We're 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.240 telling people where our escape routes are. Well, one of 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.600 my brothers, the one that man splains the most, his 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.320 name is Glenn Handler, and he was telling me that 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.439