WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: Allen Covert on Comedy and Culture 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.959 Hi, Welcome to the Carol mark Witz Show on Imheartradio. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.479 It's hard to avoid the election. I'm super in it 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.560 like many of you, and I try to keep politics 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.400 out of this show, but obviously it seeps in from 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.440 time to time, and a few days before major presidential 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.720 election is just that kind of time. I'm already hearing 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.880 from people who are saying that their relationships, their friendships, 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.159 their family connections are getting strained. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:32.760 Because of the election. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.080 On News Nation the other night, JD Vance said, if 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.040 you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody is voting for 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.960 the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.280 and you should do something different. Don't cast aside family 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.839 members in lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. I 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.199 love that he said that, especially because he's on the 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.760 ticket obviously and should want people to care more about 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.480 voting for him than their friendships. It was nice of 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.120 him to say that. But I'm not going where you 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.000 think I'm going with all this. Yes, I think you 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.600 should keep politics separate from your friends and family. People 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.440 who love you can disagree with you have different values 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.240 than you all of it. I'm very kombayah about the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.440 whole thing. Really, I have friends who I love who 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:22.240 are firmly on the left. I don't have any leftist family, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.160 but that's. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.600 Really just sheer luck. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:25.120 Haha. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.840 What I want to say, though, is that we've been 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.640 talking on the show about making friends in adulthood, and 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:37.000 I actually think it's completely okay to not pursue friendship 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.680 with people on the opposite political side. I know it 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.560 doesn't make sense that I would say that, because I 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.639 just said I have lots of friends on the left, 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.240 So why am I dissuading you from friend making across 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.760 political lines? And look, if you meet someone, you're playing 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.680 tennis with them, you meet them at work, whatever, you 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.520 hit it off, and they have opposite politics but you 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.840 like each other. Of course, go for it friends. But 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.720 friendships in adulthood usually take more work than this. So 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.720 if you meet someone and before you really know if 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.400 they're funny, or if you have things in common or 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.519 any of that, you find out you're not politically aligned, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.680 I think it's fine to say, eh, not going to 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.320 pursue this friendship, especially if your political ideals do really 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.320 matter to you. Plenty of people are mostly apolitical, so 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.800 if that's you, great, But if your politics do matter 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.840 to you, I say keep the old friends with whom 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.200 you're not politically aligned, But no need to be in 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.400 any big rush to make more of these. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.080 As you get. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.640 Older, it's hard to maintain friendships. And I said in 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.440 a previous episode that things like hobbies might not actually 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.880 matter in new friendships as much as we think, but 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:55.680 values and outlook they might matter a lot more. Again, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.400 to me, I find humor to be top of the list, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.880 like our are we laughing at the same stuff? Can 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.440 we make each other laugh? That matters to me. So 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.240 if I meet a super leftist, I find them really 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.720 funny and we have amazing banter like that's to me 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.360 as a friend. But a relationship that I have to 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:20.359 work at and we don't have ideals in common. Tougher Again, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.799 you meet somebody at work, you crack up all through 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.480 lunch and then she's voting for Kamala and you're voting 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.080 for Trump. But doesn't mean you can't be friends. You're 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.079 already pick her in grown up friendships. Give yourself permission 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.080 to sort by politics too. That's all I'm saying. Don't 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:42.120 discard people like JD Van said, but having similar lifestyles 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.320 to new friends that you make as a grown up 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.600 will go a long way into turning them into old friends. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.480 If you've got thoughts on this, drop me an email 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.720 Carol Markowitz Show at gmail dot com. K A R 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.520 O L M A R K O W I c 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.760 asn't Charlie z is and Z Show at gmail dot com. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.040 Coming up next and interview with Alan Colvert. Join us 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:11.880 after the break. Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.800 on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Alan Covert. Alan is 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.359 an actor producer. You've seen him in all the Adam 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.279 Sandler movies, Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer, Little Nikki, all 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.080 of them. And he's also the star of the cult 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.440 classic where I first saw him, Grandma's Boy. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.120 Hi, Alan, So nice to have you on. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.279 Hey, Carol, thanks for having me. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.880 I was thinking about this this is I've had a 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.200 lot of well known guests on the show, but you 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.880 are the guest that I cannot wait for like my 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.480 group of like non political, non Twitter nerd friends, like 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.719 my real crew of friends to see this, and they're 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.880 going to be like you had Grandma's Boy on, It's 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.240 going to be a very exciting moment. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.680 Well, thank you. I mean, you know, a cult. Look, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.360 I'll take the cult, Oh for sure. I don't need 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.400 to be that famous. It's too much of an infringement 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:02.280 on your life. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.680 I like, are we not supposed to drink the kool 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.520 aid during the movie? Because I thought that's what? 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.120 Oh no, no, no. I'm like the cult thing because you know, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.599 it's small enough and rabid enough that I can, like, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.040 you know, get a good seat at a restaurant if 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.680 there's a big line in the hosts, but not enough 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.600 to where like people bother me non stop. I've been 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.920 around people like that. Yeah right, I've spent a good 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.280 chunk of my life around people who can't go to 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.120 the mall. And I like going to the mall. But yeah, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.720 but it's I'm glad people like it, and it's always 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.120 fun to have people mention it to me. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.560 So I did some research on you before the show. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.360 Learned a lot of things I didn't know. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.320 You were born in. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:52.279 Florida, Yes, sported rays. Actually I didn't grow up on 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.919 pub where Markago is. I grew up where the people 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.320 who had jobs live, as if my dad had a job, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.919 those poor people. Yeah, but I knew a lot of 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.360 people who lived on Palm Beach. You know, it's it's 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.000 a funny town. Uh so, But I remember when marro 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:16.400 Lago was empty. That kid was an abandoned mansion and 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.880 no one lived there. And then Trump bought it. He 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.000 bought it after I had moved and stuff. But yeah, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.240 I grew up in South Florida. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:25.720 I love Palm Beach. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.159 I you know a lot of people compared to like 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:31.600 other rich you know, enclaves like the Hampton's or whatever, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.479 the Palm Beach is so colorful and unusual. I just 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.040 I love it there. I mean, if if funny were 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.240 no object, I'd live. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.239 On the island. A friend of mine from high school 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.640 hit it big and he's got a house a block 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.120 off the beach about Worth End. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.760 I didn't even mind, like three blocks off the beach. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:53.200 I'll take you. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.680 But it's like he bought that not because he cares 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.560 about living on Palm Beach, but because there is it's 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.000 a public beach. But to actually get there, you'd have 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.400 to walk like five miles. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.640 And there's nowhere to park. And yeah, they know what 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.640 they're doing over there. Yeah, So how did you get 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:13.560 into acting? 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.600 What's your path here. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.400 It was something I always wanted to do. As a kid, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.120 I did plays, and it's just always fascinated by movies. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.840 I mean I was telling someone yesterday, we were talking 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.960 about old movies that we saw in the theaters, because 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.080 that's part of my whole thing I'm trying to do, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:39.120 which we'll get to eventually. Gotta. I remember like just 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.560 riding my bike to the movie theater alone to see 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.000 a matinee of Young Frank and stuff. No, I remember 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.720 running home to get home in time to watch. I 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.400 loved Lucy. I was just I loved comedy. I loved 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.560 stand up comedy. I love cartoons that were funny. I 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.400 loved anything that made me laugh. And you know, Jerry Lewis, buddy, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:10.000 it just whoever was funny. I was just obsessed with 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.600 and I don't know, but it was funn because then 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.080 when it came to like me doing it, I never 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.280 thought I was funny. So I just wanted to be 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.120 in movies. I wanted to be an actor, but then 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.240 I was funny. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.440 Do people still try to be funny? 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.840 I feel like a lot of funniness has been lost. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.240 Do you see that or do you still find funny? 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:34.720 Around. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.080 There's so much funnier, right, Yeah, but right now it's 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.280 pretty right now, it's pretty much in the stand up 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:47.000 realm and in the podcast and independent realm. Look, some 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.560 of the funniest people I've read are on. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.400 Twitter, right, so you enjoyed the twittery of them? 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.400 Three year Wetterman, Oh nobody. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.880 I love three year Letterman so good. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.800 And I just go, wow, you're a great writer. Yeah, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:08.320 they're iowah. Oh yeah, so's the you know, autism of 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.079 the cars where he can literally see a fender and 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.920 be like nineteen twelve Henry Ford's personal you know, I mean, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:22.240 I knew the guy free Twitter. Yeah, I don't know him, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:27.559 but I means and I remember I think he was 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:33.640 the one who did Zark Carwe's Mom's letter or letter 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:34.960 to the press or something. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:37.880 Yeah, there's a lot of funny on Twitter. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.880 Actually, what so many funny people out there, and people 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.040 are dying to be funny and one of the reasons. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.240 One of my big things in life right now at 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:53.079 this moment. Look, I worked at Happy Madison before it 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.920 was Happy Matters. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.959 That's Adam Sandler's that's. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:00.280 Adam Sales com production company. Basically, the people who there 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.800 from the beginning. We were all in college together, and 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.920 then after the movie started it and then Happy Madison 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.320 got formed. But I mean we were involved all the 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:10.960 way through. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.680 Yeah, and they were okay, They're all okay with like 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.400 you being an outspoken conservative on Twitter. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:18.400 That's well. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.240 You know, there was a period of my life where 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.280 I didn't go as nuts on Twitter because I knew 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:29.320 that I that I represented Adam in the company, and 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.080 so I tried to be as respectful to him in 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.120 the company as I could. You know, at the end 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.880 of the day, I'm an adult, but I also understand 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:44.160 that I'm associated with a brand that you know, it's 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.240 not my position to go out there, so I would 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.839 try to keep things, you know, look like what sorry. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.080 Right, arguments are fun. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:58.800 Yeah, I have now that because what happened was just 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.480 not to but to kind of get to what I'm 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.440 trying to explain to you is that three years ago 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.000 I had to take time off to deal with some 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.160 family issues. I thought it was only gonna be a 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.200 little bit and we are here, are we We are 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.160 here three years later, and I think it's time for 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.920 me to get back to work. I think I'm Kate. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.480 I think that the situation I was dealing with is 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.520 almost done, and i'd like to get back to work. Earlier, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.640 about a year ago, I thought I was getting ready 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.600 and I let Adam know that that I was going 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.920 to be leaving the company just because I'm I turned 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.120 sixty the other day, and so I was just. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.280 Like, while you really you do not look sixty. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.199 I feel like I'm look eighty now. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.280 But the people watching this on video will know. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.840 Oh yeah, but look at it. I have like two 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.400 overnight bags. I take my own luggage with me. But 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.600 so I said to him, my go look, I said, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.440 I just I want to do something. I just want 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.440 to do something. I was like, I did everything that 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.880 was on my list of things. I said, So now 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.560 I got a new list of things, and that involves 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.760 I want to I just want to make R rated 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.319 comedies and bring them back to theaters. Yes, that's it, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:23.360 that's amazing. And here's why this, to me, this is important. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.120 It's not just hey, I want to be dumb and 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.320 make money. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.480 But making money is that bad? 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.640 I have no fun? But yes, I wouldn't think it. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.480 It comes with money. Why not, you know. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.200 Money, I wouldn't have been able to be in the 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.199 position to take three years off to care for my family. Right, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.400 I'm very eager to prop it off of my work, sure, sir. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.280 And so that's my whole goal. And it's because my 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:53.320 daughter graduated high school this year. She's a film nerd. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.360 Her friends are film nerds. They do not have a 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:02.840 single movie to call their own from her. I had ten, Yeah, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:03.199 I had. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.520 So that's really what I was asking was nothing seems 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.360 like the funny kind of our radar. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:16.760 Actors are ridy, Yeah, rectors already. The studios are stupid. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.520 I am clear that hurdle. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:23.719 That's why I'm here talking to you. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.520 Yeah, all right, I love it. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.719 Any billionaires listening. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.960 Yes, we have millions, Holly would. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:38.280 There's always money and disruption, Guys, Auckywood's broken distribution is broken. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.559 I know a lot of Look, I've been out here 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:47.079 for thirty five forty years making movies, thankfully and luckily 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:51.120 I know a lot of the people who run the studios, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.400 just because I've been out here so damn long. Right, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.960 you know the guy like one of the you know, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.800 you meet a guy who's someone's assistant. Twenty five years 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:07.280 later they show yeah, and you know, and these are 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.160 people who came out here to make movies, and they 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:17.160 get it. But there's this whole generation under them that's 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.280 making the decisions of what scripts get through the filter. Right, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.120 have a clue, what's fun. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.160 Yeah, that filter is holding up everything. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.720 Well, it's sad because look, I'll tell you this, this 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.920 isn't me. Everyone knows how I feel about things. My 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.400 daughter's friends are very artsy high school. They're begging for 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:42.680 already comedies. Right, These are not maga kids. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.440 Yeah, let me think it's funny. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.280 A lot more conservative than people would think they are, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.200 because the things they are conservative about are the things 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.760 that they're pushing back against that they feel are being 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.960 shoved out in their throats. Because these kids, who all 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.760 want to be filmmakers, they all watched Grahamar's Boy a 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.680 few Oh yeah, it was the first time my daughter 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.320 had seen it. Oh wow, she's on the state team. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.120 I thought it like played on like on loop in 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:07.600 your house. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.320 Oh god. My son is like, why do I watch 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:11.360 any of your movies? 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:12.640 He told your son? 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.040 Okay, so I'm just getting them through the happy gil 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.840 Moore's Yes with water Boys. I wouldn't even let them 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:19.800 watch Billy Madison. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.880 Oh, yeah, I mean I don't think. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.160 Yeah, I'm almost ready for my kids to see Billy Madison. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.400 I remember laughing my face off at Billy Madison. That 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.800 was in college when it came out, and just like 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.160 my best friend and I just doubled over in pain 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.600 laughing in the movie theater. And I just that's what 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.400 I mean when I say I don't think things are funny, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.880 because I can't imagine that seeing a movie that I 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.200 would find that funny today. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.080 I just I can't remember what the last movie I 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:47.840 saw like that. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.240 Maybether, can I But I've seen I've seen stand up guys. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.040 Yeah, stand up a good place. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.360 Script I have scripts. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.880 Right, Well, stand up is I think harder, harder to 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.840 cancel because it's one guy and it's like or girl, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.520 and you're either laughing or you're not. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.240 Like movies, I'm gonna go I'll go do an arena 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.360 to k Yes. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:11.080 Yes exactly. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.080 But movies you have the gatekeeper and you have the 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.920 people who put it through the filter. So I just 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.600 and none of it's and not just movies, but TV 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.560 shows or late night shows, like my god, these late 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:27.560 night hosts are not just not funny, but like unfunny, deeply, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.400 deeply unfunny. They're angry and they're not at all humorous. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:37.640 And yeah, I've known the Jimmies, both of them. I've 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:43.040 known both of them for thirty five years. Tweet. I 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.600 met Jimmy Fallon when we were shooting The Wedding Singer, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.880 and he was a stand up comic who had been 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.640 in town about two weeks. These guys are funny guys. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.720 So what happened to them? Why are they not funny anymore? 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.360 It depends on what you watch. I mean, they're we're both, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.679 I mean they both still do things that make me laugh. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.760 Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel completely to me, come to. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.560 And it's part of the problem with Hollywood. Look, I 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.760 love Jimmy Kimmel. If I called Jimmy Kimmel and said 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.040 I need you to come be in this movie today, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:24.920 he probably do it. He's always like friendly and sweet 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.280 and so nice. And you know, I don't agree with 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.280 his politics. Look, his old partner Adam Carolla doesn't really 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.720 with his right. Yeah, I just think that like when 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:39.200 when you're supposed to appeal to everyone and you make 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:45.880 a concerted effort to go after one person, insess me relentlessly. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.639 A lot of people obviously a lot of people still watch. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:50.960 But I wouldn't even care. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.040 I would not even care if it was going after 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.200 one side, if it was funny, if he made me laugh, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.400 I wouldn't care if you attacking my politics like it's 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.719 just it's so, it's just political ranting. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.320 Like I said, Look, I love those two guys. I 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.000 know Val since he was a kid. I remember talking 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.840 to him when he was nervous doing Saturday a lot. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.280 You know, he's a great impressionist, he's a great writer. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.879 He's really Look, you don't get to be that job 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.800 unless you actually are charming and can appeal to people. Yeah, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.000 and uh, I just yeah, I think Jimmy was nice 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:33.960 to Trump. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.280 Right, and then he had to apologize for that. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.240 Just got destroyed. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.719 Yeah, he cried in his apology. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.600 Well, a lot of people they look at their life 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.480 getting destroyed and they get scared. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:47.520 Yeah. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.200 So when they ask you if you're not. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.800 Scared, because I don't care, I mean I really just don't. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.160 I've had that not caring quite a little far. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.879 But a great life, you know, said, I've lit a 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:03.440 great light. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.760 We're going to take a quick break and be right 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.320 back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.159 You know your first question was what do you worry about? 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.840 Yeah, we didn't get to that. What do you worry about? 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.159 Alan only thing I worry about my kids, that's it. Yeah, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:27.320 that's it. But that involves so much, right, involves everything? Yeah, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.560 you know, but that's it. I don't care about my job. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.760 I'll go get them the job. I'll find us to do. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:35.000 I'll be your co. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.680 Host, yes, if you my co You know, I really. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.600 Don't care all those autographs at conventions every weekend to 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.480 put over my kid's head. All I care about is 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.320 my kids, right, That's all I worry. I worry about 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.119 their future. I worry about what they're being taught. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:54.200 Yeah. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.680 My oldest daughter forced me to let her get vaccinated 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.679 so she could go see Harry Styles at Madison's Square Garden. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:07.439 Any time gets sick, Yeah, I feel guilty. No, really, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.679 it's because I get vaccinated and I worry about or 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.280 constantly because of that. Yeah, because the other three. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.400 I was just like no, right, but if it makes 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.520 me feel better, I think that the you know, the 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.760 time period has been long enough that you know the 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.040 problems would have potentially developed by now, so now, don't 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.879 beat yourself up over it. But I also I vaccinated 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.920 my oldest two with the pediatric vaccine to send them 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:36.760 to sleep Away Cam. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.480 And I, you know, I'm like, why didn't I just 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.520 spake a vaccine card like everybody else, what are they doing? 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.800 Well, yeah, that's all I'm worried about. That's it. My kids, 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:50.960 their future, their health and you know. And but also 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.200 this relates, like me wanting to do these R rated 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.639 movies relates to that. Because here's my theory, mind, my 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.080 theory in my stupid head of why I think this 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.240 is important. These kids, I mean, all they do, all 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.040 they hear all day is how horrible everything is and 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.439 how they need to save the world because their parents 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.560 let them down. I mean, pressure on these kids is insane. 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.040 And I would really say, you're a kid, go out 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.119 with your friends and do something stupid. Go go go 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:31.560 hike and find a dead body. I can stand by me. Yeah, 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.800 I have a movie that I'm trying to get made 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.720 in connection with Bill Burr's company called All Things Comedy. 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:42.760 Look at the Guy. Like Bill Burr is a lot 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:48.200 of conservative, right, but if you heard left wing liberal, 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:54.159 you know, white women talk about it right, bill Burr's Tromp. Yes, 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.360 Bill Burr's not voting for Tromp. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.760 Right, and he has some of the better jokes about 0:21:58.760 --> 0:21:59.120 the right. 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.160 I think he The reason Gilbert's jokes are funny about 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.680 Trump is because they're funny, right, and he doesn't use 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.840