WEBVTT - Tom Papa 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.640 My name is Craig Ferguson. The name of this podcast 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.440 is joy. I talked to interest in people about what 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:15.560 brings them happiness. Here's Tom Papa, a great American comedian 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.080 who feels somehow reliable and enjoy. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.160 Am I interview and you are your interviewing man. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.160 It's really funny because last night I told my wife 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.280 I was coming to see you and we adore you, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.840 and she was like, oh, that's so great. Have you 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:36.640 like checked up on what he's been up to lately 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.519 and I was like, no, no, no, he's interviewing me, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.680 so I don't. I don't have to look at his 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.159 Wikipedia page, right, Yeah, like no, the pressure's on him. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.600 Well, see now the troubles You mentioned your wife because 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.120 I mentioned to you very briefly before we started recording 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.000 that you are my wife's favorite comedian. I like to 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:55.360 hear that. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.920 Yeah, I don't like that. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.640 I know it makes me think less of you, well 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.000 know less of you, but kind of angry at you. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.280 I'm kind of jealous a little bit. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:05.440 I know. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.880 As soon as you said it, I was like, well, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.880 that means that's too bad, because I really like you. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.959 And now I know if I liked yeah, that you 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.360 like me a little less than you did before. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.880 She declared that, well, it's just been watching you on 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.760 the on the interwebs, the. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.680 Instagram and all that, because she has all that. Ah, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:27.639 is that where she catches it mostly? 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:27.920 Yeah? 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:28.360 I think so? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:28.720 Is that? 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:29.840 Do you do a lot of that? 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:30.479 Yeah? 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:31.440 You know, I started. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.000 I got a group a company to post my clips 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.800 because it takes me I six hours. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.240 I just did that. It takes me six hours to 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.720 edit and then post it and tag it. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.560 I just did. I can't do it. So I got 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.280 this group to do it about a year ago. And 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.040 I'm telling you, more people come up to me at 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.640 my shows and say that they were turned on to 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.160 me or watched me through TikTok or Instagram. Right then, 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.560 the Netflix or Comedy Central. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.520 Totally have the same thing. I just started doing it. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.040 I think it's probably the same company. But yeah, I 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.880 started doing it about three or four months ago. And 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.960 the demographic in my audience, the age has dropped like 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.360 an average of like thirty years. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.480 Like all of a sudden, there's more. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.480 People and they're young, and yeah they and I said 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.880 to them, you fuckers better not be here. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.359 Ironically, No, this is Astley. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.840 I want some you know, not that there's anything I 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.320 do like Rick Astley, both as a man and as 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:34.880 a performer. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.600 You're right, he got kind of ironic for a while. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:37.840 Now. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.000 Yeah, I know you want you want young people, but 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.079 I have the opposite thing where I'll look at the 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.800 audience in certain spots and they're older and I'm like, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.160 so where did you find me? 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:48.760 Yeah? 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.280 Like this must be a face in the library. Yeah, right, exactly, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.280 my book in the library. I think I feel like 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.960 I'm done trying to figure it out and I'm just 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.600 throwing I'm always mistaken about the trends and what's happening. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.640 So if they say throw all your shit this way, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.520 it's whatever. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.120 I think it's basically and I am stealing a phrase 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.880 from my own wife here, my wife, who you're her 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.240 favorite lover. She says, you just throw toilet paper at 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.800 the Hollywood sign and see what sticks, and that's that's 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.400 the entire business. And if she said, if you have 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.919 to ever write down what your job is like, you 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.160 don't have to say, well, I perform. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.280 I right, you don't have to do any of that. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.280 You just see you roll up pieces of toilet paper 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.360 and you throw it at the Hollywood sign and you 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.200 see what sticks. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.920 It's perfect because that sign is so bigah, and the 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.560 balls are so small, tiny little spit ball that is 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.080 kind of actually act like you have to throw that. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.720 You have to constantly throw and you'll never cover it 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.000 when I love if you been out in LA. I 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.560 have been back and forth from New York in LA 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:54.840 for twenty years. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.400 I think of you as an East Coast person. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.960 Yeah, like you're kind of you have that sort of clever, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.960 good at stand up vibe about you, that kind of 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.320 New York thing. It is my roots. It is my thing. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.920 I have a hard time saying I'm here, Like even 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.440 like you just asking the question, I have to tell 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:12.000 a story. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.400 I can't just say I've been here eight year looks 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.280 it's a thing I have to say. It's not good 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.600 if you just do yes or no answers. That makes 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.279 everything very difficult. Yes, yes, but. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.400 I shut down. We shut down our New York place 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.640 eight years ago. And so we've been here full time 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.360 without New York for eight years. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.880 And you reached your kids over there then. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.839 Both places, and then they wanted The reason we closed 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.640 down New York was they got to a point where 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.880 they wanted friends. Oh, they want friends, yeah, and they 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.960 want young people I know, very very needy. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:47.760 Yeah. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.200 And they started there, they were here, then we went 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.880 back like whenever I'd get a job, they would come 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.080 and we'd relocate for a little while. And they love both. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.400 But now twenty and seventeen, they're both gravitating. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:04:59.960 My one daughter. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.800 There's a school in the east, my youngest, my second 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.440 is going to uh the East as well. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.599 Mine did that too, and they both well one of 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.680 them is still too young, but the other one, my 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.760 older boy, grew up here and then like since born here, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.279 raised here, and then like, yeah, I'm going to New York. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.599 Yeah, and it's weird because we love New York. And 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.359 my wife is like, I can already, I can. I 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.000 heard a zipper the other night and she's like quietly 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.600 starting to pack bags. I thought she was like, don't 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.520 messing with your pants, not that she's packing up, and. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.599 Like we're going to go back. I think that I 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.599 might end up back there as well. Yeah, as I 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.039 heartle into my dotage, like as I start to like 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.040 get you know, indigestion a law, and I like I 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.760 have see but I can't see and I think that 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.880 New York's a great city for getting older and if 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.560 you have a better. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.960 Cash I yes, I know it is expensive, but you know, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.800 pretty comparable to hear yeah yeah. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.800 But here you I feel like here people hate you 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.880 if you're over thirty five anyway, And in New York 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.480 they kind of don't. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.039 Yeah, no, absolutely when I'm here and I see like 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.240 aging rock stars yeah at Gelson's, Yeah, you know what 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.440 I mean. Like I'll see someone from you think is 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.520 from Kiss and they're yeah, and they all kind of 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.400 like there's no there's no moisture left in them, right, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.520 kind of like, yeah, this is not a I don't 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:33.680 thrown shade on Kiss. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:38.120 No, but looks like that Crispy Ghosts from the nineteen eighties. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.599 It's perfect. That's so perfect Krispy Goes from the nineteen eighties. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.440 And I think I should go where there's more humidity. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.000 I should go. I should go to New York. I 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.360 think also in New York you're allowed to be older. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.960 You can get old like Samuel Beckett or something. In 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.520 the New York you can be like kind of cranky 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.920 and clever, and you know, it's it in a cafe way. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.560 A good suit I know. See that's important. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.599 That might do it for me. Well, because everyone in 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.240 Ellie wears workout gear, especially when they're note working out. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.440 Well, look what's happened to me? I'm kind of dressing 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.720 like a child. I literally this outfit. Yeah, converse up 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.680 to a colorful tea with something on it. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.119 Yeah, this is what I was in sixth grade. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.800 Yeah, but you've added on top of the color to 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.679 a cardigan, which brings it back around. Yeah. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.960 Well this is my this is my this is this 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.440 Italian cardigan that I've. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.240 Been It's BEAUTI yeah, it's really nice, thank you, But 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.600 it is a cardigan. It is a cardigan, yeah, which 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.080 kind of puts you a little although I have to 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.880 say again, you know, I'm kind of worried about this 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.840 because my wife's favorite item of clothing of all the 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.280 items of clothings that she enjoys cardigans on herself or 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:56.440 on you or herself. I'm I have difficulty embracing the 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:57.320 card again. Why. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.120 Well, I was a punk rocker. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.000 Yeah, and sometimes things stick, you know what I mean? 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.120 And I think cardigan's was a symbol of oppression. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.240 And yeah, but didn't they own it? Didn't they take 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:11.600 it on their own and have holes in it. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.960 I thinky did I feel like car You know that's right. 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.480 John Lydon or Johnny Rotten had a crap card Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.560 in fact, it looked like my grand's cardigan. But my 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.400 gran had hanky a tissue up her sleeve. I don't 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.680 think John Lydon had a tissue up the sleeve, in 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.440 which case he's a phony. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.120 My nana used to hide her tissue in her in 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.240 between her boobs. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:37.839 Oh that's where she. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.720 That's kind of yeah, saucy, that's gonna saucy place for Grandma. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.960 She was like, she's going to wipe your face with that. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.480 I'm sure booby sweat. I'm sure. I'm sure. It's kind 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.000 of also that I think it's a specially afity website 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:53.000 as well. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.160 That is a category. Yeah, I think it. Yeah, I 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:58.040 don't know. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:03.000 I kind of I'm wrestling with or not wrestling. I'm 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.839 struggling with the aging process. I turned sixty this year, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.840 and actually I turned sixty one this year. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.280 You look great, thank you, and I kind of feel 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:15.480 like we're okay. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.200 I mean, I know the internal stuff. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.200 You were younger than me, you were early fifties. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.880 Yeah, but I do feel like we are in a 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.400 profession and the kind of artist that we are. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.080 Yeah, age helps, it kind of does a little bit 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:29.760 oh much. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:30.640 Yeah, Yeah, I think. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.640 I think when you're a young comedian, I think, in fact, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.520 the last time I talked to you that we talked 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.720 about this, because when I was younger, my my stuff 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.320 was very angry, like the hell Man and woking up 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.720 and down, and I'm just I have a hard time 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:46.560 putting that together. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.600 Well, I'll say that you're doing great. That you even 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.400 remember our last interview. That's better what I'm doing. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.400 No, because I remember it well because every but once 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.080 a week my wife says, you know that. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.000 But funny, isn't it? 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.360 Did you see this bed that I've gotten? He did 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.160 this thing on Instagram? I said, he didn't do a 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.920 thing on Instagram. He did a specially cut it up. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.400 Shut up about Tom Poppa. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.000 The idea of her just holding the phone up towards 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.240 you with my face. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.320 On it, Well, it's not even that she does is 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:25.200 she'll lie in bed and I don't hear good once. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:31.439 It reminds me of Ted Danson was on My Late 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.280 night show once about more than once. But he's a 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.920 lovely guy, Ted, but apparently Mary used to like watching 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.679 my show. Mary his wife used to like watching my show, 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.719 but not let him. He didn't like him being there 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.960 when she was watching that. It really made him mad. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:48.800 That's great. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.400 I love that it makes you laugh? 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.439 Then who makes who makes you laugh? 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.199 Like? Do you watch commedia? I don't really watch comedians. 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.800 Do you watch comedians? No? Not that often. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.200 I mean, well, I have this radio show on Sirius XM, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.000 and a lot of comedians come on. Yea, so it's 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.560 really a comedian haven. So I, out of respect for 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.040 everyone who shows up, I'll watch at least some of 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.400 what they're pushing a clip on TikTok yeah, and some 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.800 I'll some, it'll some all go. You know, it really 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.439 just depends on just I don't even know what it is, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.680 but my mood. Like sometimes in the car, I can 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.200 throw on the comedy channel and I really enjoy hearing 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.560 everybody and seeing what everyone's talking about. And then at 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.040 other times it's like the most horrible idea. It's funny 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.160 that I feel the same way about it. I wonder 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.839 because you're I feel like you're comedy, which I now 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.040 know a great deal more of. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:49.120 Than I used to it's actually I love it because 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.960 I feel there is a there's a gentle cleverness about 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.840 what you do. Is that the kind of thing that 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.839 you like when you listen to it, that is that 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.559 you're drawn to? 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.320 Oh yeah, yeah, there is definitely a I'm always craving 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:11.839 like a hopefulness. My biggest love was Carlin growing up, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.160 and there were other great like when Eddie Murphy hit 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.600 when I was like in high school, and Steve Martin 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.720 and there's a lot of influences, but Carlin was the one. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.400 I mean, he was the one putting out you know, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.000 specials pretty much all the time. 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.920 He was HBO. He was like it was Home Box Office, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.080 like every two years. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.319 And I remember there was one special and I love 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.400 him being raw, I love him being you know, thoughtful, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.360 and it's why I think his material is actually holding 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.160 up more than a lot of like his stuff is 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.680 still being plaid one. But there was this one special 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.040 where he didn't give you hope at the end, like 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.719 I love hearing about the ship and going through all 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.200 of the problems, but we're gonna be okay, or but 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.640 we can do this, and one he didn't, and he 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.600 just I think it might have. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.920 Been the one with the tombstones in the background. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.439 I know exactly the one you made. Yeah, Edie didn't 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.360 And I was crushed at the end of it. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:08.280 I didn't like that one. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.440 I don't. Yeah, I mean I liked it because it's Carlin, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.400 but you didn't like it. It's like there are boy 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.719 albums when I'm like, yeah, it's not it's not your best. Yeah, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.160 the one where you know what was some of the 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.199 later ones when you're wearing span dex. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.400 Yeah, yeah, you. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.640 Can't do that out even if you're David Boie. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.160 So what Drew you went to it in the first place? 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:34.800 Was it then as a kid? 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:36.040 Yeah? 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.520 Because they I guess when you were at high school. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.719 Yeah, Eddie would have been bringing out Raw right, but 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.760 then which was a big youthful because Eddie's. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.760 Well, Delirious was the first one. It was, wasn't Delirious 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.559 Delirious And then raw was Delirious was on. He was 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.320 like in the red and doing the ice cream man 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.080 and oh yeah yeah, yeah that's right. Yeah, and that 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.000 just exploded. Kid was imitating it. 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:02.720 But that was the thing. You could have an a 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.840 comedy album. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:08.160 Yeah, man, Well that final that's what got me into 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:12.480 it in seventh grade when I was twelve or thirteen, Like, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.760 I was funny and I was making my way. I 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.920 was always funny and hamming it up. And I was 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.560 in the summer where I was with older kids. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.160 Why were you the drug mule or something? 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.280 No, everybody went to camp and the poor kids stayed behind, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.960 and so it was me with like a bunch of 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.760 older girls and guys, okay, And my way to kind 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.960 of like not get kicked out of the group was 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.160 like keep them laughing and be have some kind of value. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.960 And that summer I heard a class Clown by Carlin 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.440 and then Steve Martin's Let's Get Small on vinyl at 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.840 two different friends' homes, and I realized it clicked that 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.920 this being funny was a job for grown ups. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.960 Yeah, I suppose that. I mean, Belly Connley did that 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.280 from the exact same thing for me. But you would 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.480 listen to the album, Yeah, then you listen to it 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.400 again and hold it and yeah, I don't think people 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.240 listen to comedy over and over again. Yeah, I don't know. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:13.240 I don't know. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.240 I mean, I mean, it seems to me they consume 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.960 it in thirty second chunks on Yeah, on their phones, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.120 I know, and even on serious like on the comedy channels, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.480 you're very rarely hearing a whole thing. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.320 You're hearing, you know, a little short or ten minute 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.400 bits or something. But you know, I was getting ready 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.440 to interview someone yesterday and I realized, oh, wait a minute, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.320 I don't have to sit and watch his special. I 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.960 just have it on on my phone and listen to it. Right, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.720 And as I was doing it, I was like, this 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.520 is so much better than watching it. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.920 This is so I love listening. I prefer it too. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.640 I wonder if that's what's something to do behind the 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:55.000 rise of the podcast as well. Yeah, the listening to it, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.040 because I think sometimes when you're watching a comedian woking 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.320 up and down and trying too hard and stuff. I 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.240 know this, soone's going on. You wear that shirt, his 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.640 face is what is she? What is she trying to 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.240 be handsome? Or why are you trying to look glamorous? Yeah? 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:17.120 Why's sexy? Yeah that's confusing me. You're sexy, but you're 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.000 also funny. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.440 I can't deal. Do you use the peloton that bike? 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.080 You ever used that bike? I've never been known. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.000 Well, I'm six years old, so I have to guard 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.920 my pro state jealously. And the peloton has a seat 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.200 on it, doesn't it a little? Yeah? 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.960 Tain't irritator. Isn't it doing that bother your prostate? 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.240 I think it might really well once I got a fever. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:46.320 And is the prostate on the outside, No, man, we watched. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.160 The doctors work on the outside. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:01.000 Prost isn't there. But because anyone's listening to this show 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.400 for medical advice, that's really the wrong place to be. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.639 The prostate's up your bomb and run the corner right. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.920 So I sitting on a seat and because there's it's 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.399 just like your your ass skin is just an envelope, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.760 and inside the envelope is the pro state that there? 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.520 And you don't want to it's flimsy envelope. There's bubble. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:20.680 We're asking for yourself. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.680 I've got I got my envelopes, a little flimsy run 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.879 that area, I mean, and then it pushes up against it. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.320 And also I'm quite large, so I'm pushing down right, frosty, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.840 I'm pushing up on the little thing. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.720 I'm guessing you use the peloton. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.960 I do use the peloton with a callous disregard for 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.600 pillow on my seat. But I we brought it up 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.960 because when you said, uh, you're distracting me when I'm watching, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.200 when you're watching the video, and it's like, now I'm thinking. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.440 And there's there's an array of teachers and you know, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.600 it's a video thing and these beautiful teachers out of 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.480 London in New York, right, and uh. And I go 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.000 with this guy, Matt Wilpers, who's a gym coach. He's 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:09.040 just a bald, white milky let's let's do this. He's great, 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:14.200 and he's so great, And the thing that's most the 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.359 best thing is that he's not as distracted like I 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.480 went to some of the females who are like working 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.919 it on the bike and there's cleavage and they're winking 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.240 at you, and I'm trying to battle with my prostate 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.679 and I'm like, I can't. This is too distracted. You know, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.000 it's weird. My wife is a peloton instructor. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:36.119 You know what. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.600 Just give me just you know, why are we beating 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.720 around the bush. Just give me her number? When did 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.119 you say they're coming to town? 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.320 I don't have her number. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:45.800 It's in my phone, but I don't know. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.480 Can you remember Andy's phone number? 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:53.520 The only number I know in my life right now, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.919 of all the most important people is my wife. I 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.159 don't know my daughters, I don't know my parents. I 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.520 don't know. I don't know any numbers. I plug it 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:03.040 and forget it. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.159 The only number I can remember is the number of 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.400 the telephone that we used to have my house when 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.400 I was a kid, and my dad used to answer it. 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.040 He put his jacket on first, and then when the 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.440 phone rang, he put his jacket on, and then answer. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.280 Put his jacket on an answer. 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.920 Not really, but sometimes it was like the phone would 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.240 go and it was sort of an event. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:24.720 Excuse me. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.560 It was a sort of like, well, your dad answers 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.399 the phone. He's the man of the house, of course, 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.800 and like i'd even say, comb an old two, one, six, 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:32.600 four or seven. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.359