WEBVTT - Y’all Ready For Fall?: Episode 71 with Joe Gatto and Steve Byrne 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:00.960 The one. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:06.560 We're taking money. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.119 Thanks for joining us on two cool mobs. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.239 I'm Joe Gatto, I'm Steve Burd. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.919 Thanks so much for joining us. I appreciate it. I 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:20.640 love your baby. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.079 Hey, how you've been long week? 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:28.840 This week? Long week? Kids are back in school? 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.280 Yeah? Man, else man, tell me kids are back in school. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.440 Back to school time? Fun time in yours at your house? 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.880 Or is it sad times? Yes? Very fun time, fun times. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.400 Kids love it. Got a great neighborhood, great kids in 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.720 our neighborhood. Bus kids, you kids? Bus kids? Yeah, my 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:44.560 kids on a bus. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.800 No, only bad things happen on a bus. Have you 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.680 seen speed? Bad things fifty five miles and over? 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.640 I think that's public transportation, is what we would say that. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.080 But yeah, school bus is the best. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.120 I don't Yeah, I'm mean I was growing up. I 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:03.680 got some trouble on the bus back in the day. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:04.240 What did you do? 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:05.440 Me and Frankie de Francisco? 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.440 You blew a guy in the bus? 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.240 No, that's just a bad joke we. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:14.440 Had. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.320 Did you have those science kits when you were in 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.760 eighth grade that had like you dissected a frog and whatnot? 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.240 You know, So we had one of those kits, and 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.120 in it was the little razor blade thing. So we 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.319 carved our initials in the back of the back seat 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.800 in the leather at of the bus, and it was 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.040 our straight up initials and it was only one, JG 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:34.840 and one. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:35.960 It was stupid. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.840 So we got we got pinched, and I remember my 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.600 dad had to replace the leather leather right on them. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.279 I got in trouble. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.080 But that's where they just take the green duct tape 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.559 and put it on a Yeah, did. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.120 You ever get in a Did you ever get in 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.800 a fight on the I never saw a There wasn't 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.560 really a rowdy bus that we got in a fight. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:54.920 Do you remember your bus driver? 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:56.920 I don't remember any of them. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:57.800 You don't remember any of them. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.000 I barely remember teachers really like people. Was like I 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.040 do so and so in third grade, I'm like, third 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.120 no clue, really, no clue. You could put a gun 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.000 in my head and on my family in front of me. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.919 Tell me your fifth grade teacher back, I'm gonna miss 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.800 you guys like I have no clue, really no idea. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:15.280 Missus Galliada. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.120 Really third grade? 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.760 Third grade was mss Msscarra. First first grade was miss 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.040 I don't know. First second grade was Miss Marilino. That's 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:24.520 where I start. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:25.320 Kindergarten teach. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.520 Kindergarten teacher, Nobody Matthew. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.000 I remember my principal of my kindergarten because the principle 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.960 of my kindergarten was actually my mom's teacher at Portrmand 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:34.440 High School. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.440 Really yeah, so he like loved me. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.480 Uh, favorite teacher in high school. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:40.520 First teacher in high school. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.720 That's pretty tough. But mister Cummings was great. He was 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.480 he taught, Yeah, he was, he was. He's actually pretty 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.480 famous with it with us and the and the Jokers. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.200 We used him. Oh you know what, missus Lonza, my 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:52.960 Spanish teacher. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.720 We had a great time, but it was only because 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.000 I wasn't really good at specially just liked me and 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.320 I used to pract fall coming into her class every day. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.280 Every day he said prof will coming and everybody would 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.200 just wait for it. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.400 But the first time I did it, she thought that 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.440 one of the football players tripped me and she gave 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.160 attention to him and she was like she and she like. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:11.480 Yeah, she's like, you don't pick on people like that. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.200 Well he's smaller than you, and like she was like 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.720 she was like he's like a nerd, like and you're 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.720 like a cool kid, and like you can't pick on people. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.000 He's not getting all. He was filled up with girls. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.440 He's got no shoulders at him, look at him. Yeah. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.480 So she was like ripping me apart, like to defend me, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.880 which is really funny. And then at the end, I 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.760 was like, I was like, I just I said, I'm 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:29.560 just he didn't do anything. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.680 I trip myself, and she was like, don't cover for him, 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.600 and I was like, no, really I didn't. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.000 And she goes She's like, well, you don't think I 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.960 could tell a fake trip and whatever. And so then 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.080 the next day I did it again and then she 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.400 was She looked at me and I said and she was, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.800 and then she like laughed and then I just every 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.920 and it just got more and more. Like I would 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.120 take out desks, I would like flip over the desk, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.120 I would make up, and like everybody await for me 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.280 to come in, and like she wouldn't even start class 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.360 until I like finally took a seat. And I did 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.320 it every day, and then one year after I graduated, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.760 I came back to visit her and I did it 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.920 out side her door, coming in and everybody in the 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.520 class laughed and was like, oh he fell and she's like, nope, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:06.080 he meant it. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:08.720 Yeah, I did it when I got my award going 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.440 up on stage. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.360 I got a not my diploma, and my mother made 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.200 me promise I wouldn't do it when I got my diploma. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.760 But I got an award for something and I bid 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.480 it on and as I was coming down. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.400 There was like trip, trip, trip, and I fell down 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.160 the stairs coming off the stage. I remember that. Yeah. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.159 Yeah, prat Phone was my thing still it still is 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.560 in life. But I did a in high school that 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.120 was like that was the thing that I would do. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.640 I think she was my favorite teacher because she embraced it. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.640 Like sure, and she was like, let me be myself, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:38.640 and she was, and. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.400 She was just a really nice lady. How about you 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.600 have a favorite teacher? Now you don't even remember any 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.520 of them. You weren't a good student or. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:49.560 No, horrible, really horrible student, one of the worst pick up. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.560 I wouldn't pick up that vibe from you, awful. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:05:06.080 Be No, I still have. I saw that memes somebody 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.880 somebody made where it's like this old guy he's like 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.520 in his fifties, like this and he's like, oh, and 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.480 it's like when you have a dream that you that 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.719 you missed a college finals and you're not going to 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.320 graduate but you're in your fifties. It was like this, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.520 Oh my guy just looks so and I was like, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.640 oh my god. It was so funny. But I do 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.920 have those nightmares where me too, I'm like, I'm not 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.040 going to graduate, and I have it all the time. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.160 And even when I graduated, I was like, how did 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.400 I do this? Because I never went to class. I 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.760 like I would have finals. I'd be like, I didn't 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.599 go to class at all, Like, how am I going 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:45.040 to do this? 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.159 Did you do college? Yeah, Kent State, that's right? And 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:49.760 then you graduate? 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:50.320 What was your degree? 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:57.159 Again? I forgot the theater and I'm sweating a theater degree. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.320 I'll tell you how bad I was. I never got 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:05.840 cast in one play. I can't you had a sitcom? 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 I I know, I know it's crazy. I never got 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.000 I auditioned, but I never got cast. One didn't even 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:12.480 make it, like. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.560 You know, background background, actor number four. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.520 Nothing, You couldn't eve get number four. Nothing with a theater, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:18.960 get anything with a theater? 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.400 Agree with my goodness, man, you picked the wrong thing 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.279 you do age. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.560 I did the monologues, I did all the things. I 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.960 was always like rigging lights and like doing set design 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.880 and building everything. And I was like, can I get 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.400 on the stage ort someone never got it. And then 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.320 like I graduate and there were some really talented kids 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.800 in my in my class, like really like hard working. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.040 Way to make itself feel better about it. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.080 There's a lot of talent. I was going up against 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.560 a lot of talent. Barry was great. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:54.599 God, Jennifer, Lawrence, Denzel there. He just pop in and 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:55.960 be like, hey, Steve, can you want to see it? 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.600 Like now, dude, actually making me such a better actor. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.240 Everybody, but uh, you never got cast anything. And then 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.800 like I think three years after that, BT's Comicview was 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.440 my first, which was kind of crazy, but that was 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:13.440 my first TV stand up appearance because Will Sylvans and 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.080 talent ran this room at the Boston Comedy Club, so 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.280 they had me. They were so kind. I would get 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.880 to go up and do like these urban shows, and 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.240 so I felt like those were the only shows that 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.520 I was I was like doing my first year or 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.560 two in the city. So then somebody had seen me 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.720 at one of those and I got Comic view, and 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.200 I was like, Wow, I got a I got my 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.160 first TV thing. And I was like kind of looking 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.520 around at everybody else. I can't nobody had gotten anything. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.000 And then yeah, to get a sitcom, and you know, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:43.400 it was like. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:44.960 Wow, I couldn't get on that stage. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.120 I couldn't get in college nothing. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.520 So you made the jump to stand up. But when 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.840 you went for your theater degree, what was What did 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.679 you think your future was? What didn't wait? This is great, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.960 this is fascinating to me. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:58.560 So what did you think you were going to. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:59.960 Be when you grew up? When you were in college. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.520 I did think I would be involved in theater in 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.920 some capacity. I really did enjoy scene design. I enjoyed 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.280 rigging the lights and working on the grid. I thought 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:11.280 I thought it was fun. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:12.160 So behind this was school. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:18.640 But then I also wanted to act, but wasn't given 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.160 the opportunity to do right. And I'll never forget this. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.040 I moved to the city. I was doing stand up 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:30.120 for maybe three months, and I'd read a thing about 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.200 in backstage. Backstage they were hiring somebody. They were looking 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.640 for an actor for a play about the Chinese Mao's Revolution. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.760 Okay, and so. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.200 I was given some guy had just quit, and I 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.080 had forty eight hours to learn the whole play. Because 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.120 I got I showed up, I did the thing. They're like, great, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.360 you're hired. Good. I think they just needed somebody. So 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.320 they're like, here's a VHS tape of the show. Memorize it. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.680 Here's your line. And I had to watch the TV 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.200 in a mirror so I could get the blocking right. Yeah, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.720 so I was watching it in reverse. But I I 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.600 forty eight hours, I memorized the whole thing. I was 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:13.200 ready to go, and I had zero clue what I 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.400 was doing there. I zero idea what the show is about. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.000 I was like breaking during these like dramatic parts because 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.040 I'm like, I am, what the am I doing here? 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.880 And they're like she's dying, Like why you. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:29.360 Lights out? 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.520 It was like Jimmy Fallon on SNL, Like, I'm like 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.880 breaking character in this thing. And I'll never forget the 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:42.079 guy who was the who was the director, producer? Whatever's 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.880 off off Broadway. So it's it's kind of like Broadway. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.160 It's kind of like a big deal. It's a big 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.640 deal here. Yeah, for sure. He goes, uh, we're all 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.840 having a cast dinner and he looked at me. This 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.920 is when I started breaking, by the way. Prior to 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.880 I was very serious about it. He looked at me 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.400 across the table while we're eating and he's like, I 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:03.920 just want to thank you guys all for doing such 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.120 a great job. Thank you The show's great and I'm 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.240 very proud of it, and I hope you guys are too. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.520 And he's like, you know, you're you see the talent 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.840 and a mass to the table and he looked at me. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.520 He goes, and you know, there's just some people that 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.600 just shouldn't act. And he looked right at me, and 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.640 I just went you just feel the blood drained from you. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.240 And I was like I was twenty one or twenty 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:29.839 two at the time. I was like, oh my god, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.640 we got five more weeks of this. Yeah, And so 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.200 then I just stopped taking it as seriously. And I 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.520 think that's when I made like a full, full tilt 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.840 towards stand up because I was like, I guess I'm 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.440 not good at this. And then you know, years later, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.920 you get a sitcom and there's like, you know it's 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.400 a sitcom, but there's still like dramatic noises you've got 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.960 to and I'll never forget the first pilot, the pilot 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.440 episode I did with Dan Laurio where I leave New 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.400 York City. I'm gonna stop being corporate attorney. I'm gonna 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.800 buy the bar from my parents and this is my 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.560 new occupation and I'll be a lawyer part time at 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.240 the bar. Right and Dan Laurie and I are doing 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.680 the last scene where I'm closing up, and he he 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.199 said something along the lines like do you need help? 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.680 I go no, I got it, dad, And he had 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.480 a like a really sweet line. The pilot ended on 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.480 a nice note, and he went over and pulled the 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.319 Sullivan and sun Neon signed to signify we're closed for 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.800 the night, and he delivered something and I got like 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.240 misty eye, like I got choked up. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.839 And then I took get right back to that stage. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.960 And then Dan Laurier started laughing at you. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.439 But Dan. I went over to Dan. I go, I go, Dan, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.800 I got you choked me up. There he goes, I 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.920 didn't do it. I think you're you're an actor kid, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.560 And I was like wow, And that was like that 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.280 was the tailwinds for me to hear from him, to 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.640 hear it from him. And there was one other line 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.959 in there where Jody delivered a line and I didn't 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.960 say anything and I just drew it out and the 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.560 director came over he goes, you can't teach that. I 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.640 was like wow, And it was just the comic. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:12.480 Time at Kent State. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.560 Yeah, but I did two more shows a Kent State 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.680 as a comic, so I got I got money back. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.240 So I remember going over the checks. I was like, well, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.880 I think I got a semester back is what I got. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:24.840 So I got a semester back in my pocket. But 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.640 but that was the time where I was like, Okay, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.920 maybe maybe I could do this. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.080 That's really cool, pretty wild. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:41.320 Yeah, but you guys came and visited our set, and 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:46.280 Owen Benjamin who is who is not someone who enjoys 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.920 like poop, humor all that stuff. He's got to be 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:49.640 by himself. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.560 You, I needed to use a restroom and his his 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.680 dressing rooms and closest shut the door. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.880 Took ship Owen's in Owen's dressing room, and Owen was. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.800 Like, oh God, it's disgusting. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.240 Yeah, and he literally had the stage manager called the 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.360 janitor clean out. No. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.360 I really I wasn't a bad one. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.920 I mean, I would have loved to see the multiverse 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.320 amdness where Steve Byrne stars with Hugh. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.240 Jackman, like on a Broadway show, Like I would love 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:21.760 like that. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.880 Because was there a part of you when you were 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.760 doing like when you were doing the theater because you 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.360 said you wanted to act, did you imagine that you'd 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:28.880 ever be a serious like. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.160 I really did think? Yeah, I mean that was something 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.520 I was pretty passionate about when I first came here, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:35.679 especially well to. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.520 Go to commit yourself to like college I get your 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.800 degree in it. Ye were your parents supportive of it 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.800 or did you berry? Really your mom even yeah. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.040 Which is uh straight the norm in the Korean community 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.360 at all, But my mom was very supportive, and I 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.400 think I think it was like the first time I did. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.000 I mean, they came to all my shows when I 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.880 first started, but the first time I did the Tonight Show, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.080 that's when it was like, I think for them it 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:00.400 was like. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.320 Wow, thank god it worked out. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.440 Yeah yeah, yeah, but you know it's like wow, they 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.520 I mean, the Tonight Show was such a big thing. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.920 I mean for kids of our generation of course, So 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:10.760 your first. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.720 To Night show because you did it multiple times, right, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:14.240 did ten times? 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:14.480 Yeah? 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.199 Sometimes that's great so your first time, do you remember 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:18.920 who the guest was. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:29.400 I remember it was Laura Logan. She's a CBS correspondent, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.160 news correspondent who I guess went off the deep end recently, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.960 but like a gorgeous like news reporter, but she worked 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.480 for CBS. And then I think it was I think 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:39.680 it was. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.400 James Spader, Yeah, was the lead. And then who's your 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.120 third grade teacher? 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.520 You said it all up there. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.960 Oh, but that had to be like because for me, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.480 like I knew graduating college, I'm not going to be 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.000 an accountant, got an accounting degree. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.400 I was like, there's nothing for me. I'm not doing this. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.160 I figure out I'm gonna do after it, but I'm 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.720 just gonna get this degree and I'll figure it out. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.280 So you graduated with a degree that you went to 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.880 chase for a minute, and then you're like, well, this 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.400 isn't going to really necessarily work out for me. Let 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.720 me figure out which because you don't need a theater degree, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.720 becomes a very a successful stand up. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.240 Come, you don't need a theater degree at all. Right, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.600 let's tell you right now, save your money, don't do it. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.920 Yeah, I could see, like, just get to. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.880 Work, but you wanted to say that. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.920 I assume I would say that about it, but I would. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:26.200 I would. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.880 I would just say about that, like all that set 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.640 design stuff and all that that all came full till 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.800 for you were looking at your set of your show. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.800 You had notes there, you were looking at a very 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.160 specific guy. You were enthusiastic about that part of it. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.400 So you don't need the degree, but the degree fed 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:40.320 a passion for you. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.440 Sure. But I also had a great show runner, Rob Long. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.560 I also had an amazing producer, Vince Spawn and Peter 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.920 Billings lead that oversaw a lot. So like, what do 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.680 you think It's so funny like when you get a 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.640 show too, when like you're constantly auditioning for things and 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.800 never getting a thing, and then all of a sudden, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.960 just because you wrote a script with a showrunner who 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.080 wrote like ninety percent of the script at the time, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.360 and now all of a sudden, I'm on the other 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.280 side of the camera, like like here with Rob and 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.960 Peter and we're watching people audition and people leave the 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.560 room They're like, what do you think. I'm like, what 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.840 do I think? Here's what I think. I think if 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.160 I audition for my own show, I won't fucking get it. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.920 So how am I gonna judge? I have no idea 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.640 if these guys are good or not. I don't know. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.160 And after like the second year, that's when I would 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:26.160 watch so many submission tapes and I was like, that's 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.040 when I really kind of started to be able to 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.200 discern the difference between somebody that was like really great 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.320 to or yeah. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.280 Okay, yeah. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.000 I mean because when I had my degree and I 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.200 graduated again degree, all right, so I hit this now 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:39.720 it's mayam. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.960 But you had a limited mouse comedy though, right. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.600 Yeah, But I always did it on the side. I 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.600 was always on the side, even but not in college. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.920 In college, I wasn't doing anything college. We took our 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.680 time off, like we performed A ten one still after college, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.720 like I liked making people laugh. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.120 But it was never like I was gonna be like, oh, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.240 this is what I'm gonna do in my life. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.040 You never thought in the back of your head, in 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.440 the deepest recesses, never I'm gonna make a living. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.280 I still have a desire to perform and be in 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.560 front of the camera, like I love. Yeah, it's always 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.720 like I love. I always knew like I wanted to 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.240 make movies like I have filmmaking. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:07.920 I loved movies. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.480 I love films extroverted as you are. I never on camera. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:12.919 You still really you know. 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:14.959 I never thought of myself as an actor. I never 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.879 thought a traditional actor. I never thought of any of that. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.240 So when I was when I graduated college, I was like, okay, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.560 I was living in my mom's basement. I had an 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.080 accounted degree, and I'm like, okay, what am I gonna do. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:26.600 With myself here? 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.399 All right? So I'm noises? 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:31.160