WEBVTT - Carrot Top 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.480 This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:05.920 and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.360 it's about an hour and a half and I don't 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.959 have an opener because these guys cost money. But what 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.000 I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.520 come and see me live on the Pants on Fire 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.720 Tour in your region. Tickets are on sale now and 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.120 we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout twenty 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.960 twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates, 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.280 go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com. See you 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.000 on the road, My DearS. My name is Craig Ferguson. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.440 The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:46.199 interesting people about what brings them happiness. My guest today 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.040 is one of my favorite comedians for my money, I 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.600 think maybe the best live show I've ever seen one 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.880 person do comedically. He's a one off at American Treasure. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:04.880 He's Carrot Top Joy do what. First of all, can 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.280 I just say how delighted I'm see. I haven't seen 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.199 you in such a long time. I haven't been in Vegas, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.880 I haven't been out. We asked how are you. I'm great, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:13.840 and I think it's funny. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.440 We talk about you all the time, literally not and 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.640 I mean just all the time we see because there's 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.759 a clip in my show right before the show starts 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.160 with you. I'm on your show and you're you're I'm 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:24.840 doing this to you. I don't know what I'm doing. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.120 You're talking, we talk about Mike Tyson and I'm going 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:28.760 like this and You're going like this, and it was 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.759 It's hilarious, just visually, it's hilarious. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.600 Right, You're in my thoughts every every night you're in 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.560 the show. Well, you know, I always like to talk 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.000 about what a great show you put on because I 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.360 I remember going to see I've seen you a few times, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.000 but I remember one night when you were doing the 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.360 you were doing the showing Hooters for a while. Is 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.160 that right now? I might have just been out of Hooters. No, no, no, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.440 it was the Hooters, the Hooters casino. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.920 MGM Grand across from the You were at Hooter, Trust, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.680 I was at the MPUM character. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.720 No, I remember, now, we went to Hooters, went to 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.480 the show. We went to just for wings. Yeah, yeah, no, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.919 we went to I remember because you me and Ron 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:16.080 White do you remember. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.959 Yes, yeah, I just saw Ron I just saw Ron 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.720 Just my god, I just saw him a couple of 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.200 days ago. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.840 One of the greatest comedians who've ever left. Just amazing comic. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.240 So Ron White comes to my show. You know, Ronnie's 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.000 a character. So he comes back. He says, hey, man, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.720 he has smoked some He can't smoke weed back here. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.600 He says, what you'r a dressed for smokes some weed? 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.919 I said, no, no, we can't smoke weed back here. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.640 So he says, let's go to the just really nice 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:42.880 posh you know. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.079 Upscale bar. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.959 Me and my friend, him and his girlfriend. And we're 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.480 sitting we haven't any were drinks yet. I hear I 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.480 smell weed. But I'm like, god, I said, someone's smoking weed. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.120 And Ron's like, well, no, ship sherlock. And I'm like, run, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.320 you can't smoke weed in here. And he's like, well, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.480 what are they gonna do? 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.200 Throw one White and character out of a fucking bar, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.680 And within seconds they threw us out. And I said, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.959 I said, yes, you can't do it. Ron, just you 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.960 know aroun those guys. He's like, I'm Ron White, I'm 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.200 just gonna do you know you can't smoke, doping up. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.280 He is who he is minded. But how have you 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.400 been is what I'm saying. I haven't seen you in 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.360 a long time. I've seen it before COVID died. Since 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.560 I seen I think that's right. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.320 I think, yeah, Covid, that was about the time. It's 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.639 been that many years. Yeah, I've been doing good and 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.160 still we're still doing it every night at the Luxor 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.440 and uh yeah, not not Hooters at the Luxtor every time. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.640 No, I remember now. We went to Hooters afterwards. I 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.840 remember because I said, I said, I've never been to Hooters, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.640 and you were like, walk over, woke to it. I 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.720 think we walked across the casino floor was and I 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.160 was like, this is the most depressed place in my life. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.840 And then we went to somewhere else that I remember 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.800 now when I saw you in Vegas, Yeah, was last 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.480 night I saw you. The act was insanely energetic and 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.120 very very very funny. Is it still as physical as 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.040 it was that you still like from bom Bom bom 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.400 bomb pulling all this stuff through it. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.560 It's definitely not as funny, but it's uh good, Yeah, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:17.680 you came on a good night. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.800 Uh No, it's it's always fast paced. And it kind 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.280 of started. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.039 It started when I got working Vegas, which is strange 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:25.799 because when i'd. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.119 Work on the road, I felt like the crowd would 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.040 would want to. I don't know. The pacing of it was, Uh, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.640 it was different than in Vegas. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.800 There's like a like last night we had a show, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.920 and which is it's like they they want to they 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.440 want to get out, they want to go somewhere. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.120 So they're they're there, they're excited to see you, and 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.400 then they're like, you know, how long is this gonna go? 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.440 So I kind of I go so fast. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.279 People last night were saying to me after the show, like, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:48.960 how how many jokes do you do? 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:49.479 Permit it? 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.000 I said, I never added it, but I said, my god, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.720 it's it's just one after night, I said, well, I'm 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.560 always worried about one not working, so I go into 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.000 the next one. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.800 But it's very fast paced. It's almost too pace. It is. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.080 How long is the show? You do? 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.479 About an hour and twenty. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.440 I mean that's a that's a regular land. Do you 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.360 have an opener? Have an opener? 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.240 He heats the crowd going and then and then I 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.960 and I come up and I do my little thing. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.400 And yeah, then we all go thee How long have 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.680 you been there? It's like nearly twenty years? Maybe, Yeah, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.680 this Thanksgiving will be twenty years. Isn't that crazy? Yeah? 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.720 Twenty years? Wow, nut, that's nuts. Who's coming to see you? 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:29.839 Know? 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.520 People have seen you before? Do you have to keep 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:32.040 changing it? 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.000 We have a lot of regulars that come. In fact, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.200 I would always say, you know, how many people have 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.080 seen the show before? And it's unbelievable how many people 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.279 have seen the show before. Now I always say the 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.279 same thing, like you came back, like it's weird. But 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.720 they do like a lot of return visits, and they 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.320 and that's why you got to write so much, you know, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.440 the jokes. They even though Vegas feel always Vegas, you 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.159 can probably get away with doing the same show for 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.599 ten years because it's always new audiences. And I'm like, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.120 it's not you get this the crowds of savvy and 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.279 they and they know they know a new bit and 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.159 they know they know that you're on top of something, 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.040 whether it's political or whether it's pop culture. You know, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.080 they talk about the Vacshiet Boys for this year. Last night, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.200 I see you do a joke about you know, Beyonce 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.760 was just here, you know, so you kind of add 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.520 in something. But what's what's happening in the world too? 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.840 How How is Vegas now over the last well, particularly 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.440 since cool I haven't been since before COVID. I think 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.200 is it changed a lot? I mean, I mean there's 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.560 still it's crazy. Yeah, it's it's they keep. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.320 Building A joke on my show, is you know how 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.120 many hotels they need you You got to check in? 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.880 They say your room's not ready? Are you cleaning it? No, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.400 we're building it. I mean literally, it's just incredible. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.960 Now they want to build a baseball stadium. But I 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.000 mean it's Vegas. It's it's just it's a crazy town. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:48.640 It's still you know, it's doing it. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:49.880 It's doing great. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.039 Summer it's always a little bit, you know, one hundred 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.239 and eighty degrees out. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.240 So yeah, it's it gets by. What is it right now? 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.839 People come It's amazing they come here in two degrees 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.000 and they're just walking around us. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.800 I like, I don't know where they're going. But then 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.000 they get our room, they get air conditioning. It's interesting 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.719 to me Vegas because it kind of like, you know, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.800 you you get you can go to casinos anywhere in America. Now, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.680 you's like, you don't have to go to Vegas to 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.640 gamble and stuff, but people still go. But but I'm there. Yeah, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.480 but you could sure like a regular comedian instead of 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.920 just sitting in your ass one time right now. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.240 No, I think we talked about that all the time. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.840 What makes you know you're right? You can gamble anywhere. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.280 You can gamble where you are right now, and you 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.320 probably have. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.160 A blackjack table in front of your right now. I do. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.520 I have a casino and I and we have a 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.520 brossel on the property too. I mean it every sunderstand. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.560 But I think that's I think they're so they try 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.480 to keep Vegas kind of a special place. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.040 It's not just because of gaming. They have the most 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.440 incredible restaurants. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:54.400 And they do all the celebrities, chefs and and you know, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.200 it's like we're not even the main drawling mode. You 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.120 drive down the you know the road, the billboards are 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.040 chef and you know the pool at aria and you 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.720 know you still see some shows for comedians, but it's 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.320 you know, the restaurants and yeah, and and injury lawyers, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.520 you know, yeah, the accidents guy. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.720 Yeah, I mean but they're all in Vegas. I mean, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.200 it's it's a weird place to have them. But I 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.960 don't know, it's it's kind of like what Drew. I 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.040 feel like I've talked to you ob this before, but 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.640 I don't know if it was actually just us talking 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.000 or for it, or if it was on TV or something. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:34.000 But when you, uh, when you went there and started 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.160 doing this because you were tired of touring, right, and 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:37.559 like you were sick of doing it. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.440 I don't think it was sick of touring it. They 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.720 just offered me, Uh, they offered me whether. I had 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.160 the MGM Grand for about ten years, but it was 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.200 it was an in and out kind of uh thing. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.160 It wasn't. It wasn't a full time residency. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.880 I would do like two weeks, then I'd go on 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.440 the road and do shows and come back and do 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:54.800 two weeks. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.160 Oh right, Well, I think it. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.199 Was there five five times a year, but for two 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.880 weeks at a time, so it was still they would 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:01.120 call it. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:02.320 It's not a residency now. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.680 The one I have now is every night, six nights 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.760 a week for two and and forty shows, So that's 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:12.199 an actual residency. But it happened I was doing the 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.480 Vegas one, and then David Cobbfield wanted the room full time, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.680 and of course you know Copfield car tops. So I said, well, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.520 there I go. I think I had said something in 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.640 the to the paper like, yeah, why'd you leave the MGM? 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.960 I said, David Copfield, maybe disappear, and then he read 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.959 it it's wider and breakage, just like Jesus a joke. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.360 So they offered me the room with the Luxe Or 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.000 and there was nobody there yet. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:34.800 I was the only. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.920 Show at the Luxor. It was me and the buffet, 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.120 and I said, well, this is a cool little room. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.000 And so we did it on a whim for like 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.439 a year, and then I was thinking, now I want 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.320 to go back on the road. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.040 And then I said, well, I'll do another year. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.400 And then it finally turned into you know where we 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.880 are now twenty So it's it's been an incredible run. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.400 I've known you quite a long time. We kind of 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.720 we worked together a little bit. You did bets on 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.679 the show. I come and see you in Vegas stuff 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.240 like that, but I know really nothing about your life, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.840 and so I thought, I mean, I know you're from Florida, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.400 and I know that your dad worked in NASA. That's 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.960 all I know today, So well, that's all. It's kind 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.200 of so you remember, but it was interested. So today 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.000 I thought, you know, I should find out more about 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.560 Scott's personal life, just not to ask them about it, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.280 but just to know about it. And then I go 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:33.160 on the internet and there's nothing. Nothing. So what I'm 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.959 going to say, I'm not going to ask you to 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.840 be your personal life. I just want to know how 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 you have mice to keep it off the internet. It's unbelievable. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.640 Are you very kind of like are you very reclusive? 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.600 And when you're in Vegas do you kind of go 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.320 around to disguise or something. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.040 No, I'm definitely not. I just go out, but I don't. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.560 I am one of those people. I try to stay 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.199 out of trouble. I don't do I don't go out 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.920 and do anything crazy. I'm never in the news for 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.960 doing something I don't. I don't go partying. I don't 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.280 put myself in the situations. But it's true, Yeah, there's 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.800 really not anything out there. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.320 Which I think is as well, except you know, just 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.760 people that will come up with crazy crap, you know. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:19.400 And yeah, but it's it's kind of interesting because I 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.000 think that now the you know, with social media being 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.600 what it is, because you and I both predate social 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.720 media and the do you do you have a policy 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.720 with foreigns in the show and stuff like that? Do 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.640 you do people know I let to use them. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.160 I mean they say not to, but they people use them. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.600 You know, they say put your stuff away, But I 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.800 see people all the night filming and kind of guy, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:42.720 and I don't mind it. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.800 I mean, you know, why not? You know, well, it 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.439 takes the gag away though, if nothing else, I mean, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.520 if they blew a gag for you or I, or 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.840 if you're doing a jewel, which is which you know 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.560 people would get annoyed at if it wasn't in the 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.400 context of being in a comedy show, right right, Well 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.160 that's true. That part is definitely true. Or you get 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:02.520 one of them. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.199 There's just on a rant like poor I forget who 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.920 was it might have been George Lopez. He was he 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.120 was just he had lost it, told the crowd, you know, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.840 and someone's filming him the whole time, like you know, 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.120 f you and get out, and you know, and I 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.760 was like, God, that sucks. So you always got to 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.520 keep that in the. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:20.080 Back of your head. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.560 Yeah, someone's got a phone somewhere. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.000 I kind of try and remember not to run the audience. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.040 You know, again, I probably have done it, but it's 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.080 kind of it's a weird. It's a weird thing though, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.960 because it never do you remember. I remember Michael Richards, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.079 this is the one I remember. Remember he did it 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.959 all that crazy like, yeah, that was That's the first 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.000 cancelation from that kind of thing, as I remember. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.320 I remember too, that was the first one I remember 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.319 where it was just yeah, horrible. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.000 You know, it's pretty bad. It was pretty bad. But 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.120 it's kind of like with prope comed and what is this. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.559 I don't even think it's fair to call it prop 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.360 comedy what you do because it's it's not just prop comedy. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.960 I mean, you're right stuff. There's material there, sure, and 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.440 over the over the years, but particularly a while ago. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.559 I think, no, I can't. I don't see much of 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.840 it now. But you took a law heat back in 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.120 the day for using props and stuff like that, like angry, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.719 you know, alcoholic comedians would be mean about you all 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.000 the time, the terrible did that get you down about? Oh? 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.440 Absolutely, everyone's human, you know, so it would bother me. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.400 And then I would go, you know, and then I 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.800 would hear like a George Carlin or you know, someone 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.160 that I respected, you know you, I go on your show, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:42.760 and it. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.480 Would be awesome and it would be. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.360 Validating you know what I do, you know and so, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.040 but it hurt my feelings to a degree unless it 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.920 was My mom was to consider the source. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.000 So if it was someone it was. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.760 Coming from somewhere, like you said, an angry comedian somewhere 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.320 in living in a basement Nebraska that's never done a show, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.440 as opposed to a stand up comic that I respect 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.080 and and appreciate as a comic. But I would always 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.400 you know, I got into the prop thing and the 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.840 beginning to literally be unique and be genuine. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.360 That's why I did it. I wanted to do much different, right. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.640 I didn't want to be the guy that was like, oh, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.280 he's he's taking you know, being another so and so 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.000 and so. I thought I would get more respect and 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.160 more love, like wow, this guy's doing something different. And 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.480 then it turned out backfar because I was doing not 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.280 only doing props, but I was doing well, you know, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.800 I was doing shows, and I was doing big colleges 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.760 and everybody's like, how is this guy getting college, how's 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.120 this guy getting on Regis and Kathy Lee? And I'm like, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.040 I don't know. I was just doing I was just 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.360 doing what I wanted to do. Yeah, But did get 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.560 to a point where like almost like you know your parents, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.400 so they just so you know, I really don't give 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.800 a shit anymore, and you know you I kind of 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.560 hit that a long time ago where I just kind 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.520 of was like, I could care less what people think. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.280 I always want what the audience cares to think, and 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.000 what you know, my friend. Outside of that, you know, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.240 it's my audience and people stop coming, then, you know, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.840 then you got to worry about. But the people that 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.080 come to the show love the show. I have fans 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.480 that love me, and the people that don't love me 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:13.640 don't come to the shows, you. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.360 Know, I know. It's the funniest thing. I mean, you 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.320 see people chase the tale with that. I've never seen 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.760 an interview with Chris Martin from Cold Plate because Cope 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.640 Play get a lot of hate for the music they 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.040 do from people who don't like Cope Play obviously, right, 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.920 I think it's a lot of people who love And 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.960 he said, well, I don't. I don't write songs for 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.440 people who don't like Coldplay. I write songs for people 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.920 who like cold Play. You go, of course you do. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.520 That makes perfect sense exactly. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.880 That's a great answer, isn't it a great answer? Yeah, 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.520 I don't write you. I don't write songs for people 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:42.320 that don't like Coplant. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.160 I write for cop Yeah, I'm the singer in Coplay. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.080 I write the songs for Kopley. Why would I try? 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.880 And yeah, Yeah, that's that's brilliantly said. And that's kind 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.000 of the Yeah what I do I write? I mean, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.000 but I do have a lot of stand up now 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:55.840 on the show, which is kind of surprising to people 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.240 unless they see the show live. You know, we've been 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.560 we've been talking about this for since Jay Leno days, 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.200 where I would say I want to do it. I 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.160 want to come out and do a set with no props, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:05.480 and Jay was fine with it. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:06.800 He'd be like, that's great. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:07.400 But they. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.160 But the people would you know, the producers were like, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.480 you know, freak out, like the no your care top, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.920 you have to do your you know what you're known for. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.840 And I said, well, wouldn't it be fun? So anyway, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.960 they never let me do it, So I thought maybe 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.560 they don't even have to be a whole special like Netflix, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.840 but just something maybe on YouTube. It's gonna be, you know, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.280 care propless and I literally come out and I'm just 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.960 for twenty minutes, I just tell these stories. And I 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.200 think people would be like, I'm sitting on a stool 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.560 and just and just be funny. And people would be like, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.520 what because the live show has that element, because it's 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.000 you can't do that, remember you do that? Well, yeah 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.560 you've seen the show has even been years. But you 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.840 can't do that rapid fire prop stuff. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.520 For an hour and a half. You just can't. So 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:55.080 you have to. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.400 You have to come into like you and you start 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.360 telling stories about your father and NASA and you start 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.199 telling stories about your idols in comedy and how you 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.199 met him, and you know, people love that. They just 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.640 they get dead silent. They can't wait to hear. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.680 You know. Don Rickles told me to you know, get 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:17.200 away from him. You know it was just he said, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.400 well it was on a movie. 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.800 I was in a movie with him and Betty White, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.520 and I mean he was unbelievable, right, And I had 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.840 to get in these prosthetics every morning, and I mean 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.920 early morning at four o'clock in the morning. I get 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:29.520 there and they put on all these prosthetics and get 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.360 me ready for the day the movie and Rickles would 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.000 come in around you know eight, I've already been there 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.199 four years, four hours in the chair getting all my 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.600 makeup on. And he would come in every morning every 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.200 morning and he'd get into the walk in the trailer 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:42.919 and look over at me and go, you're still in 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.080