Speaker 1: No, really, no, really?
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Hello, I've decided to do the show in
Speaker 2: the British eccent time.
Speaker 3: Can't you realize they cut this off? We just started
Speaker 3: the episode.
Speaker 2: Hello, this is the Gold Yeah, it's gonna be coming.
Speaker 4: I'm Jason, this is my partner.
Speaker 2: It's not the British and this is all podcasts. Really no, really,
Speaker 2: the podcast with Peter and I explore things that make us.
Speaker 3: Go really no really, Okay, I.
Speaker 4: Guess that's it, right, Thanks.
Speaker 3: That was our trip from the Victorian era with you.
Speaker 3: If I'm going to do something modern, I like to
Speaker 3: keep it spicy. Yeah you do, all right.
Speaker 2: Today we are talking about something that I am intimately
Speaker 2: familiar with our guest today. There's many, many things we
Speaker 2: want to talk about, but this was the one that
Speaker 2: started my head spinning on a really no really. So
Speaker 2: I've done runs on Broadway, you know, I've done long
Speaker 2: runs with things. But we're gonna check with a gentleman
Speaker 2: today who's has one of the biggest shows in Las
Speaker 2: Vegas and has had had can make that claim for
Speaker 2: years and years and years. But my mind started to
Speaker 2: go crazy when I heard that to date he has
Speaker 2: done his show, which is he's alone said over four
Speaker 2: thousand times. That's just a mind boggling number that to
Speaker 2: me of doing anything.
Speaker 4: I don't care if you love it hate it.
Speaker 5: Did you talk about repetition? You talk about repetition over
Speaker 5: and over. And you know, I'm always obsessed with you
Speaker 5: because I go Broadway, You're doing the same show every night.
Speaker 5: What's the that would be a nightmare for me to repeat?
Speaker 2: And I'm sure what we'll get into with Scott is
Speaker 2: that it's not the same every night, but it is.
Speaker 2: There is a repetition to it. It's not a factory job.
Speaker 2: And in some ways what Scott does is harder than
Speaker 2: a factory job because he has to also create the
Speaker 2: illusion of spontaneity.
Speaker 4: And I'm making this up out of.
Speaker 2: My having fun and enjoysh It's not like if you're
Speaker 2: on a factory floor in an assembly line. You don't
Speaker 2: have to pretend you've invented the muffler for the first time.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: And this came on the on the heels of Phantom
Speaker 5: of the Opera closing right after thirty five years and
Speaker 5: reading the article on the New York Times with the
Speaker 5: trumpet player who every night, and I thought of Scott
Speaker 5: comes in, sees the same people. How you doing right?
Speaker 5: And then he goes backstage. She's that person and this
Speaker 5: same thing.
Speaker 2: The trumpet player gets to do crosswords in between songs.
Speaker 5: No, he never sees that, he never sees the show.
Speaker 5: But Scott, the really really is he's still doing it.
Speaker 5: If I know Scott, he's never gonna return. What's you
Speaker 5: gonna do?
Speaker 2: So we're talking about a gentleman. We know Scott Thompson.
Speaker 2: You probably know him as the International Comedy Sensation Award
Speaker 2: winning comedian mister Carrott.
Speaker 4: Welcome to really No really, sir, I love it.
Speaker 6: And you just answered every question you don't need.
Speaker 3: Well, we know what it's like talking to you, so
Speaker 3: we figured what's he gonna get?
Speaker 5: I'm right here at by the way, the Marshall Marshall
Speaker 5: white fraid you're like white face, knows you did like
Speaker 5: your fellows. He said, I'm gonna do white face, but
Speaker 5: only to the lighting. That's not lighting. It's never you
Speaker 5: never know what Scott. Look at the ie make up
Speaker 5: in the hair, that's not lighting. That's Scott.
Speaker 1: No. I swear on my life, and I mean literally
Speaker 1: on my life, and this is not a joke. I
Speaker 1: just had lunch and this woman next to me said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get weird, nurse, but are you like,
Speaker 1: are you into like are you cross dressing? And I
Speaker 1: just was like, God, if I am, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: horrible job. Right.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, whatever you're doing.
Speaker 1: The guys like, don't don't you know who he is?
Speaker 6: And she's like no, and then said he's like.
Speaker 1: Carrot top, and then all of a sudden it became okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just go.
Speaker 6: You're fine.
Speaker 1: You can you can wear make up, your carrot top.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to wear making.
Speaker 3: Oh is that?
Speaker 2: Let me tell all my friends in the LGPT community.
Speaker 2: You just have to be carrot top and then anything okay?
Speaker 5: By way, Scott Scott never get it's great going out
Speaker 5: with Scott because you never get noticed.
Speaker 3: Listen, I would love it. Nobody would know I was there.
Speaker 5: You can see Scott like you can see the Wall
Speaker 5: of China, the Great Wall of China.
Speaker 3: Astronauts can see Scott.
Speaker 6: You know, But you don't want to be reckoned. That's
Speaker 6: kind of silly.
Speaker 1: So I've been al with friends before where they were
Speaker 1: way more famous than me, and they were like well,
Speaker 1: you wear an hat, right, I am wearing it hat.
Speaker 6: Wearing a hat? Does it like it doesn't make you
Speaker 6: go away? Like like, oh.
Speaker 3: Y the way the hat?
Speaker 6: I met Top with a hat on.
Speaker 5: I met Scott when he started out, and Scott at
Speaker 5: the time, which is incredible because he saw people we're
Speaker 5: going to talk about respect because Howie Mandel in this
Speaker 5: very studio talked about how we talked to Carrot Top
Speaker 5: about respect and being a prop comedian and gets looked
Speaker 5: down upon whatever.
Speaker 3: But I met Scott.
Speaker 5: We pitched a TV show with him, a kid show,
Speaker 5: and Scott at the time was doing colleges. He was
Speaker 5: the most successful act on colleges, like ever you know.
Speaker 2: There's got that was what the That was the prop
Speaker 2: act right that you had to schlep everything around.
Speaker 1: I had, Yes, I had done Yes. I started doing
Speaker 1: props during that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they have.
Speaker 1: It was like a no brainer because you booked me
Speaker 1: into a college where it's like I would say, it
Speaker 1: was like Show and Tell with liquor because they're.
Speaker 6: And they can't focus.
Speaker 1: But then I've got stuff like show and tell, like look,
Speaker 1: I'm holding a bong bong with.
Speaker 6: Whatever the joke it was.
Speaker 1: But I worked well for colleges because the attention span
Speaker 1: even now worse is they would pay attention because it
Speaker 1: was something you know, they could see, right.
Speaker 5: So Scott was was making I mean, he was so
Speaker 5: successful in his twenties at that point.
Speaker 3: It was incredible.
Speaker 5: And then he goes to Vegas and I know, Jason wants,
Speaker 5: why don't you talk about the respect. We can launch
Speaker 5: into that for a minute, about the prop comedian thing,
Speaker 5: and that Howie I never realized. I've worked with Howie
Speaker 5: a long time too, that it really bugged him that
Speaker 5: he would didn't get the respect of his peers, his
Speaker 5: fellow comedians. And he said, he talked to you about
Speaker 5: it because you're one of the most successful comedians out
Speaker 5: there now.
Speaker 3: And yes, it's as.
Speaker 1: Comics go, as we all know, like especially when we
Speaker 1: start out or even whatever. Now I'm old as hell,
Speaker 1: but you always wanted to have the respect from your peers.
Speaker 1: And so Howid Mandel is one of those guys that
Speaker 1: I you know, I grew up. It was from Carlin
Speaker 1: to Cosby to you know, Howie was one of the
Speaker 1: guy who did the you know, some props and Galla Gallagher,
Speaker 1: who I do like I do like a thirty minute
Speaker 1: tribute to Gallighery and you was a weird thing, is
Speaker 1: I give him all this love and my show. But
Speaker 1: he hated right, But he was like he was any guy.
Speaker 1: He was not a Gallagher, you.
Speaker 6: Know, Like, didn't he hate you? I'm like, yeah, but
Speaker 6: I give him like all this love and so it's weird.
Speaker 1: But but uh, you always wanted the respect and stuff
Speaker 1: from from uh, from from your peers and and doing
Speaker 1: what I do, which is weird as a comic. When
Speaker 1: you first start up comedy clubs, the thing that fear
Speaker 1: of the most of us that you're stealing someone's act, right,
Speaker 1: That's that was the number one at least when I
Speaker 1: remember I started.
Speaker 6: They were like, you know, you can't do other people's material.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, well, no one's holding up a rubber
Speaker 1: chicken and a tennis racket, so I'm doing my own thing,
Speaker 1: So they can't be mad. They can't be mad about
Speaker 1: me stealing something, So why are they so mad at
Speaker 1: me for doing what I did? Like I didn't care
Speaker 1: what they were doing, and I just did my thing.
Speaker 1: I never I came off stage every time thinking I
Speaker 1: did okay.
Speaker 6: I was proud of what.
Speaker 1: I what I brought to the stage, and it was
Speaker 1: what I thought of on my own.
Speaker 6: I didn't take it from anybody.
Speaker 1: Of course, emulated people like Gallagher, but would never try
Speaker 1: to do his act.
Speaker 6: Yeah, never, never, never, And.
Speaker 1: So that's the way and by the way to answer
Speaker 1: kind of a fun question, So Vegas is the weird thing.
Speaker 1: So I was doing Regis and Kathy Lee. God Bus
Speaker 1: Regis and he my number one fan.
Speaker 6: He was like, you come out with this. He was crazy.
Speaker 1: Because I do so well on that show in the
Speaker 1: audience that you probably know that that audience is like
Speaker 1: not my own. I mean that is now that I
Speaker 1: know that. But when I was a young, stupid you know,
Speaker 1: I had ever come out looking like this, and I've
Speaker 1: got you come out with these jokes and they're like
Speaker 1: they're like ninety years old, and Regis would so anyway,
Speaker 1: at the end of my very first performance on Regi's,
Speaker 1: Kathy Lee's manager walked over and said, wow, like, you
Speaker 1: must kill in Vegas and I said, I'm no, I've
Speaker 1: never played Vegas. And he said, you're kidding me and
Speaker 1: I said, no, never played Vegas. He said, if I
Speaker 1: book you in Vegas, will you do it, and of
Speaker 1: course I'm you know, we're comics, were horse. Of course,
Speaker 1: of so I did it and then we never looked back.
Speaker 1: It was like it's been thirty some years.
Speaker 3: I thought you didn't want to do it, for I
Speaker 3: read that you didn't want to do it at first.
Speaker 3: You turn them down.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I did not want to do Vegas. No, no,
Speaker 6: no no.
Speaker 1: I fought it and fought it and fought it, and
Speaker 1: it was like, well, as you said earlier in the
Speaker 1: month about a desk job, and I kept.
Speaker 6: Feeling, it's going to be a desk job.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm going to the same theater, and it's
Speaker 1: like I'm a road guy, you know, I'm on a
Speaker 1: bus and I'm on the road, and I'm a rock
Speaker 1: and roll And so I took the deal and did
Speaker 1: it for a year, and it was horrible. It was
Speaker 1: the worst year of my life. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was just because I was so young and
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to do Vegas or I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to figure out. I still don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing, but I finally figured out, like the Vegas
Speaker 1: thing was such a different thing, and it finally one
Speaker 1: day clicked and it just now it's I would never
Speaker 1: trade it for the world, you know.
Speaker 3: And you just moved to a bigger theater too.
Speaker 6: Oh No, same theater, same thing.
Speaker 1: Every time I say Jay, Lena goes hey, he's in
Speaker 1: comments and Vegas and out.
Speaker 6: I said good, and he says, and how big is
Speaker 6: the room? Again? I always say I was like five,
Speaker 6: it's five hundred. I get him.
Speaker 3: Every time.
Speaker 5: We saw you were we were with f We had
Speaker 5: a weird We did a live shar in Vegas at
Speaker 5: the Plan in Hollywood and we shared the stage with
Speaker 5: Holly Madison and you and that that was dressing him
Speaker 5: that night. It's just you, it's Holley Madison. It looked
Speaker 5: like if Hollywood Squares was on drugs.
Speaker 3: It was weird people. But you were very sweet to
Speaker 3: come say.
Speaker 6: They were on drugs.
Speaker 2: By the way, But Scott, I really want to do
Speaker 2: I want to really get into this with you for
Speaker 2: a second. We know there's a harp on it, but
Speaker 2: so I I tried my hand at a sort of
Speaker 2: stand up comment. I was playing a character, you know,
Speaker 2: and doing a sort of a scripted show in the
Speaker 2: guise of a comedy show.
Speaker 4: And we did it in Vegas, and.
Speaker 2: I did an eight week run, I believe, and I,
Speaker 2: like you said, of your first year in Vegas, I
Speaker 2: hated every minute of it. I didn't like doing the show,
Speaker 2: I didn't like living the lifestyle. I didn't like any
Speaker 2: of it. And unlike what I do in the theater,
Speaker 2: I went into acting in theater because of the community
Speaker 2: that I would step into every time. There's like a
Speaker 2: group of actors and musicians, and you know, they become family.
Speaker 2: But when you and I asked Jerry about this years
Speaker 2: ago too, when you step out, it's it's you and
Speaker 2: the audience. But it's you. You're a company of one
Speaker 2: and you. I know the show has changed over the years.
Speaker 2: I know you put new stuff in and out, But
Speaker 2: the act of getting to the theater, prepping for your show,
Speaker 2: getting in front of that audience all by yourself, dealing
Speaker 2: with that audience, dealing with the I'm sure of the
Speaker 2: meet and greets and all that stuff day in and
Speaker 2: day out, over four thousand times. Does that not take
Speaker 2: a manyute emotional toll on you. Because I I couldn't
Speaker 2: do it, I'd be out.
Speaker 1: Well probably I have people dress me though, so that's nice.
Speaker 3: But unless you actually drop you and clothes.
Speaker 1: Now I pick out everything myself. You know what's really
Speaker 1: weird and that you bring up set Jason, your question
Speaker 1: is brilliant because that was that was the thing that
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do when they when they asked
Speaker 1: me to do it. H twenty three years ago, I said,
Speaker 1: I don't want that. Get I don't want that.
Speaker 6: Exact thing what you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: And then when I started getting into and I finally
Speaker 1: got into the rhythm. Now it's kind of I don't
Speaker 1: know how to describe it, but it's weird, and the
Speaker 1: shows are at nice and you kind of have to
Speaker 1: your old days is around getting ready for your show.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, let's do some blow and no, I
Speaker 1: can't do. I'm going to do a show, so I
Speaker 1: would you know, you wait all day and then you
Speaker 1: get there at five point thirty and you get ready
Speaker 1: and you meet and greet, and then you get.
Speaker 6: Your thing and you put a new joke. I try
Speaker 6: to do one joke a night.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a if it's if a visual,
Speaker 1: or it's a stand up or it's a it's one
Speaker 1: thing each night, whether it bombs or does great, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just it's just something I have to do
Speaker 1: for myself to kind of and then it evolves. It works,
Speaker 1: it's great. But then the music comes on the thing
Speaker 1: and you're getting dressed.
Speaker 6: I always make a joke.
Speaker 1: I got to go turn into Carra top, put on
Speaker 1: my stupid stripes and polka do odds and and then
Speaker 1: I and then I get ready and I go out.
Speaker 6: It's a new different night. I don't know. Every night
Speaker 6: is a is a different night.
Speaker 1: I've I love I love that, but it took me
Speaker 1: a long time to get to that comfort zone because
Speaker 1: you're right, it's it's just a strange.
Speaker 6: It's a strange. It's a strange job, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's also fun to see how one night the
Speaker 1: same joke, like this theme joke will work one night
Speaker 1: and the next night no one gets the joke. So
Speaker 1: you know, there's a hotel called the Jockey Club, and
Speaker 1: it's brand new joke. No one's laughed since I've done it,
Speaker 1: like a week and a half. So I said, my
Speaker 1: favorite hotel is the Jockey Club. Now a picture of
Speaker 1: the Jockey Club comes up, right, and I said, always
Speaker 1: wonder what the showers look like? And there's a picture
Speaker 1: of a shower, and of course the novel comes down.
Speaker 1: You know, at the bottom it's a jockey, nothing nothing.
Speaker 6: And they're short.
Speaker 5: There's and you get mad on stage. You actually say
Speaker 5: I've seen you do that, going I've seen you do I.
Speaker 6: Get mad, I get mad in a funny way.
Speaker 3: I never, I never, but that's you.
Speaker 1: So I mean every comic gets mad at stage. I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know, that's part of the comic.
Speaker 4: Wit.
Speaker 5: Can I go back to something you said that and
Speaker 5: this is I think I remember you saying this a
Speaker 5: while ago, because you just joked about blow.
Speaker 3: No, I can't do blow.
Speaker 5: I remember when you first buffed up and everybody was
Speaker 5: shocked because all of we remember Scott looking one way
Speaker 5: and the next time he's on no Schwartz and the
Speaker 5: you're gonna go, oh my god. And I think what
Speaker 5: you said to me was, if you're in Vegas, you
Speaker 5: can do a couple of things. You can do drugs,
Speaker 5: you can lose your money gambling. There's so many vices
Speaker 5: here that I decided to do this and this would
Speaker 5: keep me focused. So I got addicted to this rather
Speaker 5: than all of that. Because I know a couple of people.
Speaker 6: Was that accurate You're absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean and that you remember now, what I normally
Speaker 1: say now is just I'm carrying all my hate mail.
Speaker 6: That's where I say that.
Speaker 3: But that so that is accurate. You just you saw
Speaker 3: that you could go down.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do all day long for like,
Speaker 1: you know, all day, so I said, instead of going
Speaker 1: and doing something dumb, I'll go to the gym.
Speaker 6: But so I just started working out and just doing
Speaker 6: just working out.
Speaker 1: But you never want to go to extreme because then
Speaker 1: you become Joe Piscopo and then you're that guy. So
Speaker 1: that was that was me. That was me, by the way,
Speaker 1: as Trump doing Piscopo. You don't want to be Bisco Bo.
Speaker 3: But not that.
Speaker 1: It's like you know, and I'm I'm like my my
Speaker 1: weight now was like I'm one fifty five. I'm back
Speaker 1: to my fighting weight. But people just always want to say, like, dude,
Speaker 1: I thought you were bigger.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, I thought it was.
Speaker 5: So you stopped working out, you stopped the gym.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I still work out, but I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not extreme. I just I just do to just you.
Speaker 4: Know, just trying to build size anymore.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to say when you're fifty eight,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to stay not dying.
Speaker 5: You don't think of you fifty not that that's all,
Speaker 5: But I never think he was fifty eight. I think
Speaker 5: of you was like eternally.
Speaker 6: Than now look at me.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna go back to your show,
Speaker 2: because again I am fascinated. Do you ever if you could,
Speaker 2: if you could snap your fingers and have a partner
Speaker 2: on the stage, would you do it at this point?
Speaker 4: Or do you like working in one?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: My god, you know it's really weird.
Speaker 1: I was a Carson fan, of course, probably a lot
Speaker 1: of comics were, and I I don't know where it
Speaker 1: came from, and I'm sure it came from watching Johnny Carson.
Speaker 1: But I do is a thing, and everyone every night says,
Speaker 1: who are you talking to? So I'll do some not
Speaker 1: every joke, but I do a thing and I always
Speaker 1: do this, do this reference over to the side of
Speaker 1: the stage myself. My guy that does all the video
Speaker 1: does and he's not even listening. He's like, have we started?
Speaker 1: He has no idea this, So I just a thing
Speaker 1: and I just gesture like Johnny would do. I say,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, someone's gonna walk up.
Speaker 6: And then even when my own mother came and.
Speaker 1: She goes, who are you talking to? And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know. It's so I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want an actual person. I love doing the show
Speaker 1: by myself.
Speaker 6: I feel like.
Speaker 1: Although you know, in Vegas, every night some audience member
Speaker 1: wants to help out.
Speaker 6: And I always say, you know what, I got this
Speaker 6: and I wrote it without here. I wrote those without you.
Speaker 6: But if I need you, I promise you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know, but it could be fun
Speaker 1: to have someone who's goin to riff off.
Speaker 2: Well that's the thing about so when you talk for
Speaker 2: a second, because I think it's in, I think it's genetic.
Speaker 3: I did. I did.
Speaker 2: Used to talk to Jerry Seinfeld about you know, he
Speaker 2: loved doing our show together, but he loved.
Speaker 4: Being in one. He liked being the only guy.
Speaker 2: What what was because I don't know what was the
Speaker 2: moment where you go I'm going into I'm going to
Speaker 2: try comedy.
Speaker 4: I think I'm going to try this.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, another great question. It's like you prepared
Speaker 6: for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I didn't come from
Speaker 1: showbiz family. My father worked at NASA, and my brother
Speaker 1: went to the Air Force Academy and became an F
Speaker 1: sixteen fighter jet pilot. And then you know, I've got.
Speaker 6: Duck Pape tool walker. I don't know where I came from.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I mean, I really don't, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I always wanted to be a comic. But my dad
Speaker 1: used to say when I was a little kid, you're
Speaker 1: not funny.
Speaker 6: And I said, no, I know, no, he really did.
Speaker 1: So we we went and saw a Gallagher right yeah.
Speaker 1: And so when the Gallagher shi was done, there was
Speaker 1: a line to meet him and I went up and
Speaker 1: I shook his hand and I said, I was like
Speaker 1: twelve or something and I said, I this is what
Speaker 1: I want to do when I get older. I want
Speaker 1: to be a comedian. And he said, you know, that
Speaker 1: sounds great. And I tell my father that, I said,
Speaker 1: you know what I want to do when I get older.
Speaker 1: I figured it out and said what's that? I said,
Speaker 1: I want to be a comedian and my dad said
Speaker 1: something something like you know that.
Speaker 6: You do know that's never going to happen.
Speaker 1: And I thought, kind of weird, but it was kind
Speaker 1: of He's like, you know, you're not funny and you're
Speaker 1: just whatever. But I'm you know, twelve, And then a
Speaker 1: couple of years later go by, so I said to
Speaker 1: my dad, I said, if you you know the whole
Speaker 1: comedy thing, what do you want me to would you
Speaker 1: like me to be when I grow up in good older?
Speaker 1: And he says, I want you to work at NASA
Speaker 1: and train astronauts like like me and my first I
Speaker 1: remember saying to him, you do know that's probably never
Speaker 1: going to happen, like the same exact line, like I'm
Speaker 1: not you, I'm not my brother. So you know, they
Speaker 1: never really were behind me, but they were when, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, the night you call them and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm on the Tonight Show and they're like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean You're on the Tonight Show?
Speaker 6: Like I'm on the Tonight.
Speaker 1: Show, Like I'm on with like Leslie Nielsen or you know,
Speaker 1: I think I was done with oh my god, Charlie Sheen.
Speaker 6: It was somebody weird.
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm on the Tonight Show with with
Speaker 1: you know, and and they're like, what like thet I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you you stand there in that.
Speaker 6: Little gold Star where Johnny.
Speaker 1: Stood, Yeah, and it's just the most surreal thing. And
Speaker 1: then so that was legitimately the moment I think I
Speaker 1: realized that I was doing this. But of course the
Speaker 1: journey to get to that point was a long time.
Speaker 1: But I think I think I was probably twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be a comedy. I would pretend
Speaker 1: to be George carl and I would pretend to be
Speaker 1: Richard Cryor, and I knew Eddie Murphy's you know that
Speaker 1: one's album by Heart, so I would stand in the
Speaker 1: mirror and pretend.
Speaker 4: I was them.
Speaker 5: You know, said Scott. Scott was appearing in a I
Speaker 5: think it was a club, and you'd already done TV.
Speaker 5: And there's a fire and he lost his Oh he
Speaker 5: lost his entire act.
Speaker 4: Oh in a fire. Really now here?
Speaker 1: How weird?
Speaker 6: Is this right? So it could be any comic in
Speaker 6: the world, I mean literally.
Speaker 1: Besides, they just think of another variety guy in whatever,
Speaker 1: any comic. And there's a fire and the whole, the
Speaker 1: whole comedy club burns down. It's the number one comedy
Speaker 1: club in the South, and it's you know, I don't
Speaker 1: even think about this. So they called, they come to
Speaker 1: get me, and he said, you know, the club burned down,
Speaker 1: and all I could think of was like, Bruce, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was.
Speaker 6: The best comic club. So I'm like, oh.
Speaker 1: No, Bruce, and he's like, dude, your act. And it
Speaker 1: didn't hit me until oh my my acts. And they're
Speaker 1: like the crime Watch sign that I stole, like all
Speaker 1: these things that I can never like.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know what I had in my act.
Speaker 6: And I was like, and I was booked on this
Speaker 6: night show that Monday.
Speaker 1: It happened on a Friday, So of course, you know,
Speaker 1: they called Jay AND's like, hey, something, I have.
Speaker 6: Carrot Club burned down.
Speaker 1: So of course when I went back, I had fire,
Speaker 1: you know, fired a detective in each trumpet and smoked,
Speaker 1: you know, had It was funny, but it was it
Speaker 1: was a surreal moment. You know, of all comics. They
Speaker 1: by the way, they did find Brick Taylor's matches there.
Speaker 3: And he never paid for that.
Speaker 5: There is didn't you pull it together with all this
Speaker 5: all these guys who reproduced comics, Yeah, all.
Speaker 1: The comics that hated they came back and helped me.
Speaker 1: It was really it was a beautiful moment. Like literally
Speaker 1: every comic that were business, see Doug, Yeah, they all
Speaker 1: came back.
Speaker 6: And said, what do you need. I said, we'll start.
Speaker 6: You know, I need I need to you know, need
Speaker 6: a thang. I need to steal a crime watch sign.
Speaker 6: I needed. That was my first prop on stage.
Speaker 1: I would have a neighborhood a neighborhood crime watch sign
Speaker 1: that I'd stolen, and my first jokers that had come
Speaker 1: out and hold it up and I say, how good
Speaker 1: is there? Crime Watch? And I watched the sign, so
Speaker 1: it was my first big bang and I said, now
Speaker 1: I got to go steal another crime watch sign.
Speaker 4: And you did, Yeah, yeah, I can't. I know, I'm
Speaker 4: harping on it.
Speaker 2: I don't understand the animosity from the other comics.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The one thing I thought of is that maybe they're
Speaker 2: sitting sitting there going, you know, I have to rack
Speaker 2: my brain to come up with I have to write
Speaker 2: these bits.
Speaker 4: And he just fine, ship and.
Speaker 2: I go, well, that's the same as seeing the potential
Speaker 2: in something. An a crime watch sign is no different
Speaker 2: from a commie walking into a thing and going there's
Speaker 2: something funny here. It's just how you just how you
Speaker 2: translate that inspiration.
Speaker 1: So my whole career, i'd be in a this is
Speaker 1: weird I'd be in a big do like a you know,
Speaker 1: like an not arena, but you know me a theater
Speaker 1: five thousand, the sold out, great, show standing, inovation, great,
Speaker 1: get on the tour bus. You're driving down the road
Speaker 1: with your crew, and you have the TV on or
Speaker 1: all of these pizzas, and you know, just to just say, like,
Speaker 1: just say, a late night talk show host would just
Speaker 1: rip on me or or a comedian with me, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, and we'd all just go, what the like,
Speaker 1: we just did like the most remarkable evening ever in
Speaker 1: like at least in our world, and they still want
Speaker 1: to just like pound you. So it's weird though. That's
Speaker 1: what I've said from day one about the style of
Speaker 1: comedy what I did, let's say the crime watch on you.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's different, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's different. I think the animality became more of success.
Speaker 1: I think I got I made, I got some success.
Speaker 1: And Jay, of all people, Joleno, couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1: He would always give me a spot. And I asked
Speaker 1: Jay one time he says, you know how many people
Speaker 1: come up to me in the airport and go, how
Speaker 1: come carratop on that though every week.
Speaker 6: And Jay said, because he brings the goods, I would.
Speaker 1: They would call me and I'd say, I've got a
Speaker 1: Trump you know Biden thing.
Speaker 6: I have it.
Speaker 1: I already have it, you know ready. So it would
Speaker 1: be topical and it would be you know, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6: Helmet, I mean, I gotta do it now. So I would.
Speaker 1: I would show up and it would be It was
Speaker 1: just it's what I did. But it was the same
Speaker 1: process as a comic Jerry Seinfeld or a monologist that
Speaker 1: would write, write out a bit. It was the same
Speaker 1: as me writing out a bit with maybe sometimes a
Speaker 1: visual aid.
Speaker 6: Sometimes there's not. Sometimes there's just pure stand up in this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well in your show, I haven't seen it in
Speaker 3: a long time. But let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk, let's talk more about me.
Speaker 6: This is fun.
Speaker 2: Well, I gotta tell you, I'm not you know, we
Speaker 2: don't do anything on the show that doesn't make both
Speaker 2: of us go yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm fascinated by that, and I.
Speaker 2: I I truly am fascinated by your career and a
Speaker 2: lot of what your career represents to me because I
Speaker 2: can tell you I know some very talented actors. The
Speaker 2: bulk of their career has been children's theater, and they
Speaker 2: get the same sort of well it's children's theater, and
Speaker 2: I go, do you know how hard it is to
Speaker 2: entertain children? Do you know how hard it is to
Speaker 2: hold their attention? To engage them in something? You need
Speaker 2: the same skills that any fine dramatic or comedic actor needs.
Speaker 4: And by the way, they're an audience.
Speaker 2: And if you want an audience, mister Broadway, you better
Speaker 2: start showing these kids that they're shotting for them when
Speaker 2: they go to a theater. So this is a part
Speaker 2: of our business. And yet those actors get no love.
Speaker 2: They're thought of as being skillless and hacks. And it
Speaker 2: has always bothered me, especially with someone like you.
Speaker 4: And I'm not just being sweet.
Speaker 2: You are an immensely talented and original guy.
Speaker 4: You are an original thinker.
Speaker 2: I think what you do is complex and skilled and
Speaker 2: and as written as a monologust because you have to
Speaker 2: figure it out, you got to.
Speaker 4: Build it, you got to find you know.
Speaker 2: And it hurts my heart when when how He was
Speaker 2: here saying, you know, we were talking about how there
Speaker 2: are comics that just on you, and I go, what
Speaker 2: how dare they?
Speaker 4: How d?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 6: Says he coming.
Speaker 1: From from you, Jason, and and what how he was
Speaker 1: saying it is weird, And I guess what's what it
Speaker 1: really comes down to. And I used to make jokes
Speaker 1: better all, you know, Like I said, I've been in uh,
Speaker 1: I'll be in comedy forty years next year.
Speaker 6: So after forty years in comedy, at some point, you know,
Speaker 6: you kind of become.
Speaker 1: Like you know, you're invited to the barbecue, and it's like,
Speaker 1: we can't, we can't keep on you.
Speaker 6: But I think I think I'm the kind of guy
Speaker 6: who's just gonna sho I mean until I'm gone. It's
Speaker 6: just one of those guns.
Speaker 2: Well, because you know what you're there's nobody, nobody has
Speaker 2: become the new you.
Speaker 4: That's part of the too. So you occupy this very solo.
Speaker 2: Space and so it's easier for them to just keep
Speaker 2: doing the same rag because nobody else is feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I keep saying, where's the next spear top?
Speaker 6: And the people always ask why is there not one?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: Because nobody wants the pain, nobody wants the abuse. Trust me,
Speaker 1: it's like forty years of But the weird thing is,
Speaker 1: and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,
Speaker 1: I don't really listen to that anymore. When I was younger,
Speaker 1: I did, and it bothered me more. Now I kind
Speaker 1: of just do my thing and I have some of course,
Speaker 1: I have to have love, because I wouldn't still be
Speaker 1: doing this. So the amount of people that love being
Speaker 1: do what I do and the art, the craft of
Speaker 1: the art style of it that I've come up with
Speaker 1: are fans. You're always going to have the nails, and
Speaker 1: that's just part of of anything. I know people that
Speaker 1: hate you too. I know people that hate the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones and I fuck but they do. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you probably know. I mean, you know people
Speaker 1: like this, like I can't stand the Rolling Stones, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I don't know how that's possible, but
Speaker 1: you know these people said that will never I have
Speaker 1: a Netflix specialist, say for an hour, and I know
Speaker 1: there's still going.
Speaker 5: To people that go but Scott, that's because nothing's neutral there.
Speaker 3: If it was neutral, nobody would care.
Speaker 5: Once you cut through, man, somebody's gonna hate it, somebody's
Speaker 5: gonna love it. But your actor, I was gonna say,
Speaker 5: is thirty minutes of your actor more used to not
Speaker 5: be with any props too, right, Well, that's the new
Speaker 5: show is.
Speaker 1: Actually there's there's a lot where people actually been commenting
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 6: They're like, I saw your show, and you don't do
Speaker 6: that much props anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I still do prop, but I've been
Speaker 1: having fun doing a little more stand up just for myself,
Speaker 1: not for any purpose of not to prove anything.
Speaker 6: It's just a purpose of just for myself. It's fun
Speaker 6: to tell a story.
Speaker 3: Isn't that real?
Speaker 5: Funny that they're coming out and I complaining he's not
Speaker 5: doing props.
Speaker 3: I went to see pros him to see freaking props.
Speaker 3: He's not doing props? The hell was that? And by
Speaker 3: the way, children, children's there? How we man done?
Speaker 5: When he was doing live shows for Bobby's World. The
Speaker 5: first thing he told me that the experts told him
Speaker 5: when you do a show for kids is start the
Speaker 5: show will allowed knowing and never forget this. And how
Speaker 5: he said, why do I have to start the show
Speaker 5: with a loud noise? And he said to make sure
Speaker 5: that your audience is all facing the right direction.
Speaker 6: Now that's great, that's so great.
Speaker 1: I love I love this.
Speaker 6: Howie has another one that made me laugh and I
Speaker 6: don't know why. It's it's not.
Speaker 1: It's just one of his things that I always remember.
Speaker 6: He's on an elevator in Atlantic.
Speaker 1: City or Vegas to say, he's by himself and the elevator.
Speaker 6: And the doors.
Speaker 1: The door's open, and uh, these people get on and
Speaker 1: they said are you are you Mandel? And he says yes,
Speaker 1: and he says, how come you're not smiling? And he thought,
Speaker 1: what the fuck?
Speaker 6: How weird woul that? Being said?
Speaker 1: The door's open, He's like, it's so dumb, and it's right.
Speaker 1: It's like people always ask me, are you okay? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, like you seem sad, I'm like, I'm having.
Speaker 6: Lunch by myself. I'm having I was having more fun.
Speaker 3: And so you talked to me also, are you are
Speaker 3: you still shy? You used to be very shy.
Speaker 6: Shy. Yeah, I'm very shy.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is sEH.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's I know more comics that are actually
Speaker 2: and I myself am you know, left to my own devices.
Speaker 4: I'm more more of an introvert than I would appear
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 1: I think I think most are, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's it's a matter of trying to be.
Speaker 6: I think you just are your your.
Speaker 1: Your brain's always thinking about other sh like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to think outside of a normal person. So
Speaker 1: they're all having doing shots and you're just sitting there
Speaker 1: by yourself, thinking there's something I could put the show
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, do you? Is there is there an Act
Speaker 2: three for you? Is there something you want to be
Speaker 2: doing five ten years from now.
Speaker 6: That I don't know? That's a great question. You've a
Speaker 6: great question. I don't know if you know. I I've done.
Speaker 1: I've dabbled in some movie stuff and I've done a little,
Speaker 1: but I love live performance.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any more rewarding than coming off
Speaker 1: a show where you just get that instant feedback, and
Speaker 1: especially if it's something you just created and just brought
Speaker 1: in and.
Speaker 6: It kills and you just feel so proud about it.
Speaker 1: But there's always I guess you never know. There might
Speaker 1: be something. I just did a film where I get killed.
Speaker 6: It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: I'd never been killed in a movie, so I played
Speaker 1: this clown and I'm just they beat the out of
Speaker 1: me until I die.
Speaker 6: But I had a funny.
Speaker 1: I had to make it funny because I'm just covered
Speaker 1: in blood and they're beating me to pull to the
Speaker 1: last you know, the director, I'm gonna die.
Speaker 6: And I finally look up at the director.
Speaker 1: I said, should he like because I had these pearls
Speaker 1: And I said I should be wearing pearls right, And
Speaker 1: he's like, I said, well, I'm a clown, but I'm
Speaker 1: not Cara Top.
Speaker 6: I'm just this guy.
Speaker 1: I said, how about the last line is he's just
Speaker 1: he's pulling on my pearls and I'm like, no, my
Speaker 1: grandma's pearls. So it ended on a big laugh. But
Speaker 1: I mean then he kills me. I mean just literally
Speaker 1: kills me. And then like two days later, my my
Speaker 1: cousin sends me my grandmother's pearls and I'm like, what
Speaker 1: the and she's like what. I'm like, I just did
Speaker 1: a movie at a joke about grandma's pearls, and you
Speaker 1: just sent me.
Speaker 4: And put it out there. Man, I've always wanted to do.
Speaker 6: I don't know if there's a chapter three, don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe porn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's always good, especially good for the elderly. I
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 2: No, I always said a a r P. Porn is
Speaker 2: talking about like death scenes. I've always wanted to do.
Speaker 2: I've really always wanted to do this a really great
Speaker 2: dramatic scene. You know, there's always the thing that actors
Speaker 2: have to figure out when they play a guy that
Speaker 2: dies on screen.
Speaker 4: Are are you how are you going to do it?
Speaker 2: Are you going to just sort of subtly it's the
Speaker 2: last breath or somewhere the head leans over? And I thought,
Speaker 2: I really want to do a dramatic death scene that
Speaker 2: ends in a fart, my last dying, my last dying gesture,
Speaker 2: because that does happen, trust me, No, that probably does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean bowels and bladders let loose.
Speaker 3: You know you'll never hear for that. Well, and excepting
Speaker 3: the oscar.
Speaker 5: You know, you say right now, but I think that
Speaker 5: the fart undercuts whatever dramatic death you have.
Speaker 2: That's the idea drama. There's always comedy, and in comedy
Speaker 2: there's always a.
Speaker 6: Druma no, that's a great that's a great end, and
Speaker 6: you're like, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, by way, by the way, and then in the
Speaker 5: act Carattop says, amazing, amazing that and by the way.
Speaker 4: A little bit of a call.
Speaker 2: I really don't really call back once I do that far.
Speaker 2: If the camera pushes in, I can play too far.
Speaker 5: Hey, stop before we go. I'm curious John Rivers. I
Speaker 5: was very close with Jonah. She played Vegas during the
Speaker 5: rat Puck years, and all of those people used to
Speaker 5: go see each other. They all used to hang out
Speaker 5: together and go to the lounges and see checks.
Speaker 3: Is Vegas at all like that? Still?
Speaker 5: Like, well, Pen and tell the call you and say, hey,
Speaker 5: let's go see this or let's check this out.
Speaker 3: Is it familiar at all?
Speaker 6: Well, teller doesn't say a thing, so it's kind of boring.
Speaker 1: No, But I I don't. I mean, you know what
Speaker 1: it might be, but I'm not being invited so that
Speaker 1: they might be. They might be having these parties and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, you guys have been having lunches.
Speaker 6: But I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I don't think so either, you know, having having hung
Speaker 2: out with Penn and tell her a little bit, they
Speaker 2: go home.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I was just gonna say, I go home,
Speaker 1: I go home. I'm watching more to the Sports Center.
Speaker 6: Yeah I'm not so, you.
Speaker 2: Know, they may have somebody come back stage. Like when
Speaker 2: I go, I go backstage and we hang for half
Speaker 2: an hour, but then we don't go out.
Speaker 5: You know, I just wonder i'd like to figure that
Speaker 5: that world still exists, that you're with Beyonce in this
Speaker 5: one and that one going to see other shows.
Speaker 1: You know, No, I think I think I think going
Speaker 1: like my backstage, you're you're very bove by the way,
Speaker 1: both of you.
Speaker 6: Welcome to come, but not.
Speaker 1: For thirty minutes. Love love to have you come back
Speaker 1: and say hi and hang out. But that's that's more
Speaker 1: of like what I do. We have a little bar
Speaker 1: back there and we have drinks and then I go home.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anybody there you love that you went to
Speaker 3: see the Blue your White?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean of course you see all the
Speaker 1: big ones. You see the Elton John's and the Stones,
Speaker 1: and I missed. I missed amazing Jonathan.
Speaker 6: I thought he was.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 1: He was one of a kind again like he was,
Speaker 1: there was there was no other person that was amazing Johnson.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, I'll give you a stupid ending
Speaker 1: to this. So see we had this when we did
Speaker 1: have like a like a lunch back back then. He
Speaker 1: said I had bought a hummer, like a stupid car.
Speaker 1: And he said, how do you like your hummer? And
Speaker 1: I said, you want to? I just bought one. You
Speaker 1: want to see mine? Now he's playing it straight as
Speaker 1: he can be, right, So I said, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: walk out of your hummer. So you walk all out
Speaker 1: the restaurant all the way to I mean all the
Speaker 1: way in the parking lot with the side of the world,
Speaker 1: and he's got his friends sitting on a curb going.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: The funniest thing about that is he set up.
Speaker 4: Up to set it up.
Speaker 6: Wait before wait for a half hour.
Speaker 1: I got him.
Speaker 4: I got Oh my god, that's brilliant.
Speaker 6: He had to wait.
Speaker 5: If you don't know the amazing Johnson, I got to
Speaker 5: tell you the first time we ever saw him, he
Speaker 5: would put a sheet over his his assistant said, his
Speaker 5: wife said, and he would hold up an item which
Speaker 5: she couldn't see, and she would have to guess what
Speaker 5: it was, and it was scissors, and he would say,
Speaker 5: what am I holding? And she would say she would
Speaker 5: say a spatula, and he'd hit her on the head
Speaker 5: with it and say what am I holding? And she'd
Speaker 5: get it wrong again, and eventually he would end up
Speaker 5: stabbing it into her head. They're sticking out and he go,
Speaker 5: what am I I mean? Oh my god, broke just brilliant.
Speaker 5: His wife has got scissors her head. I guess what
Speaker 5: they are, and.
Speaker 1: They had then his staple of her face with the cards,
Speaker 1: playing cards.
Speaker 3: He was stable of cards that we had. That's true,
Speaker 3: that's exactly.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: He'll be missed. He'll be missed. Do you like any
Speaker 3: of the magicians?
Speaker 4: Well, you're in You're in magic Central down there. For
Speaker 4: God's sake.
Speaker 6: Copper is a good friend of known him forever.
Speaker 3: What's he like hanging out with? Does he make chicken disappear?
Speaker 3: What you do?
Speaker 6: He should make the will disappear? But he doesn't. I
Speaker 6: end up paying for it.
Speaker 1: Well, No, he's a he's a guy.
Speaker 6: He's a great guy. He's a he's another guy.
Speaker 1: He's you're you're you sit there with him and you
Speaker 1: think of this guy is like, it's David Copponfield.
Speaker 6: So he's he's he's.
Speaker 1: Engaged, but he's thinking anything else that they can think of.
Speaker 6: Not talking to you. He's just thinking about his neck.
Speaker 1: He's looking at me and he's like huh, but he's
Speaker 1: thinking about the trick he's thinking about. He's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant,
Speaker 1: And it has always been very very nice to me,
Speaker 1: always been Yeah, I can't think of anyone that that's
Speaker 1: not been uh, that's been not been helpful nights.
Speaker 6: Everybody's been pretty.
Speaker 5: You are respect see that you are respected by your
Speaker 5: peers after all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know George Carlin, God bless him, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite comics. I got to know him a little
Speaker 1: bit towards the end. And and I love telling the
Speaker 1: story because it's just so weird. And and and Jason,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll appreciate this problem because you go. I I had,
Speaker 1: I had done the same room he at the MGM
Speaker 1: Grand and I there a night early, so I was
Speaker 1: on the side of the stage and his manager said,
Speaker 1: just wait right here. You know he's going to be
Speaker 1: so excited to see you.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, is he?
Speaker 1: So I'm I hate because I hate coming off the
Speaker 1: stage and seeing any shy if it's someone I know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like, it's that that one space where you
Speaker 1: want to even if you killed or your bomb, you
Speaker 1: just want to have a moment like I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear the crowd. I would tell my crew keep
Speaker 1: the monitors up as loud as I can so I
Speaker 1: can't hear them. So I come off. He comes off stage,
Speaker 1: not a not a great He was pissed, like really pissed.
Speaker 6: Instead of the crowd, you know what.
Speaker 1: He says something like, you know, next time you're in
Speaker 1: Vegas and I can't go to see that or can't
Speaker 1: get to the buffet, let's go see Karl. I don't
Speaker 1: ever come to see me whatever. He came off, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh god, I got the hide. I got
Speaker 1: to get out of here because now I know he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to see me. I'm like, turn to high
Speaker 1: round the curtain and he sees me and he's like, hey.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, George, how much of the show his seat?
Speaker 1: I said, I thought the whole thing was the whole thing?
Speaker 1: He said, wait, you mean the whole thing? I said
Speaker 1: it was great. That means you didn't see.
Speaker 6: The whole thing. I said, no, I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 4: He was great.
Speaker 1: And he said, uh, well that's a bunch of but anyway,
Speaker 1: and I just love this. He says, this is weird.
Speaker 1: He says when do you start and I said tomorrow.
Speaker 1: He's how many shows you do? And I said, I
Speaker 1: do one every night, but I do two on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He says, why do you do two? But he's in
Speaker 1: my face, like, what do you do? Why do you
Speaker 1: do two on Saturday? And I said, my manager has
Speaker 1: a car payment, right, just being dumb. And he says, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: why do you do to to Why do you do
Speaker 1: two on a Saturday?
Speaker 3: Why just want?
Speaker 1: And I said, again as a joke, I said, well,
Speaker 1: it's great because I get a second shot at it.
Speaker 6: If I one I got.
Speaker 1: I got like, maybe I'll think I'll do better in
Speaker 1: the second show. And he literally got as close as
Speaker 1: he could to my face, literally nose and nose, and
Speaker 1: he said, never can ever give the audience the upper hand.
Speaker 1: You do what you do, and you're and do what
Speaker 1: you do great. Never ever ever think that the audience
Speaker 1: deserves you do your performance. They didn't get it them
Speaker 1: and and it was got advice, I guess. And he
Speaker 1: walked into his dress room and I said to Jerry
Speaker 1: and his manager, I said.
Speaker 6: Well that went well. Should I hang out?
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, actually you need to hang out
Speaker 1: because he loves you. He wouldn't have said that, he
Speaker 1: would have walked right by you.
Speaker 6: And sure was.
Speaker 1: Five seconds later he said, come in my in my
Speaker 1: dress room, and I went there and we.
Speaker 6: Didn't talk about comedy.
Speaker 1: At all.
Speaker 6: He just talked about life.
Speaker 1: I want to know where I was from, and you know,
Speaker 1: not even really the art process of writing a joke.
Speaker 1: He did like one of my jokes, which is where
Speaker 1: that he knew my actors is I'll leave you. I
Speaker 1: keep say I'm gonna leave you on this. It was
Speaker 1: my favorite prop to this day, probably that I ever
Speaker 1: came up with it, and George Carlin came up to
Speaker 1: me and said he liked it, So I thought George
Speaker 1: Carlin got blessing. So it was it was basically like
Speaker 1: like a paper cups and string phone right right, and
Speaker 1: I had paper cups in the string and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 6: I said, you know they've had this for years.
Speaker 1: I said, we need to have an updated version of
Speaker 1: this for kids.
Speaker 6: So I made an updated.
Speaker 1: Version and it had another cup for call waiting that
Speaker 1: came out of the cups.
Speaker 6: I got to call you back. And George Carlin's it's
Speaker 6: weird coming from him. He's like that cup joke and
Speaker 6: call waiting, how about did you come up with that?
Speaker 1: And I said, oh no, And then I had three
Speaker 1: cups for conference calling.
Speaker 6: Anyway, went on and on in a clear.
Speaker 1: Cup for caller ID and he just sat there and.
Speaker 6: He says, Dad is brilliant.
Speaker 1: And I said, I pre I mean coming from you,
Speaker 1: and no, he says, that's great writing. I said, thank you, George,
Speaker 1: and then yeah.
Speaker 5: So everything you've told us, you know what you have
Speaker 5: again you got the respect of your George Carlin one
Speaker 5: of the well icons icons. So guess what, stop thinking.
Speaker 5: I think you got to rethink.
Speaker 1: Well to put it, to put it clearly. In fact,
Speaker 1: that's how I kind of started thinking about it at
Speaker 1: the end. If I would have a Bill Maher or
Speaker 1: George Carlin or even Richard Pryor shaking his hand on
Speaker 1: his wheelchair, he's out here a finding kid, you know,
Speaker 1: that would give me clarification of the validity of of
Speaker 1: of what I did. And then of course then you
Speaker 1: get on the internet and you got to get some
Speaker 1: guy in his bunk bed and iowa in a basement saying,
Speaker 1: you know, from characters.
Speaker 3: It's not so much more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right. So the end of the day, you're
Speaker 6: laying you're like, look, Carlin said, I was.
Speaker 5: The biggest of the big except you love you and
Speaker 5: audiences sell out.
Speaker 4: You sell out.
Speaker 3: Eve Ben there like you said four years.
Speaker 1: I just love doing it.
Speaker 6: I love the art form.
Speaker 1: I love I love coming up with the process of
Speaker 1: a new joke and creating a new thing and presenting
Speaker 1: it and being able to do it.
Speaker 4: For too much. And there and by the way, there
Speaker 4: is that this is a great coute.
Speaker 2: There is the answer to my question, how the hell
Speaker 2: do you do the same thing for a thousand times?
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, when I have
Speaker 2: left a show, it's because I couldn't find the love
Speaker 2: for it anymore. I had done it to the point
Speaker 2: where I was no longer doing it for anything that
Speaker 2: was invigorating to me. It was just something I was
Speaker 2: doing for somebody else. And at that point I would say,
Speaker 2: there's another actor that would love this job. You somehow
Speaker 2: could be your DNA or your character or whatever it is.
Speaker 2: But somehow, through the drudgery of getting down to that theater,
Speaker 2: you're working tonight?
Speaker 4: Are you doing a show tonight?
Speaker 6: No, I'm in Florida.
Speaker 1: I'm off for a week, Okay, I just I just
Speaker 1: have my bikini wax.
Speaker 4: I feel great, you know what.
Speaker 2: But somehow, at at five o'clock at night, when you
Speaker 2: go I gotta get in the car and going down
Speaker 2: to that goddamn theater. You still have something that you
Speaker 2: love about it, and that's that's how it's done.
Speaker 3: And you know what scene will come see you stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing that bothers me more in
Speaker 1: a comic. And I've known and you'll know if I
Speaker 1: tell them, I dropping names. Nothing nothing more disturbing in
Speaker 1: my life than a comic saying you had to go.
Speaker 6: And they'll say I got paid right, like.
Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, I I I do it for the It's
Speaker 1: got to be which is a plus Enemie, such a perfections.
Speaker 1: I want to be great every night. If it's not,
Speaker 1: then to use it. It's also you've got to restart
Speaker 1: every night. And every crowd is like they want to
Speaker 1: see the best show that you see. You go up
Speaker 1: there and you lay flat like and I saw care
Speaker 1: to hey.
Speaker 4: Man, it's so good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: And next time I'm in Vegas, which probably be a
Speaker 2: couple months from now, I would absolutely love to come
Speaker 2: down and see the show again and come say.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Jason, thank you guys, brilliant, thank.
Speaker 5: You to see you soon, so real quick before we
Speaker 5: get to google him and David. The interesting thing for
Speaker 5: me is repetition. I started thinking about dentists and all
Speaker 5: these people who do repetition and why we find it
Speaker 5: so boring. So I did some research, and the interesting
Speaker 5: thing is we have process so much stimuli, so much
Speaker 5: stimuli comes into us that the stimuli that it gets
Speaker 5: our attention is the novel stimuli, because we're built for danger.
Speaker 5: If something coming in that's different in novel and whatever,
Speaker 5: and we process it differently and it gets our attention differently,
Speaker 5: which is why you remember your first kiss, your first this,
Speaker 5: your first that, because it somehow got your attention. Yeah,
Speaker 5: because and the other stimuli it can't. You can't process everything,
Speaker 5: so it pushes the ordinary down and process it. Kind
Speaker 5: of it is boring, which is why we look at experiences.
Speaker 5: It's kind of we need new experiences, we need a
Speaker 5: new rush, because that's not how your body evolutionary processes stuff.
Speaker 5: So that's that's the boy. Every night we're doing the
Speaker 5: same thing. And I got to tell you, even while
Speaker 5: talking to him, I hear you and I still can't
Speaker 5: get how you do Broadway every night.
Speaker 2: And I know, well, but Broadway is listen, it's the
Speaker 2: same script every night.
Speaker 4: It's the same show every night.
Speaker 2: But because I'm up there with different people, there are
Speaker 2: nuances of how the game. You know, volleyball is volleyball,
Speaker 2: but there are different passes and there's a different angle
Speaker 2: on the shot and the audience. And this is true
Speaker 2: for Scott too. The audience becomes a character in that
Speaker 2: particular performance. What are they responding to, what do they
Speaker 2: need to hear, what do they live? But it's it's
Speaker 2: never for me, and this is what I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk to him about. It's never for me the doing
Speaker 2: of the show. It's the going to the theater. It's
Speaker 2: that thing of going. I you know, I've had to
Speaker 2: parcel out the energy of the day because I got
Speaker 2: to explode now at seven or eight o'clock at night,
Speaker 2: and I got to be one hundred percent then. So
Speaker 2: I've lived monastically during the day and now it's you know,
Speaker 2: five point thirty, and I got a seven o'clock show,
Speaker 2: and I gotta get it showered, and I gotta go
Speaker 2: at the time when everybody's coming home, you're going out,
Speaker 2: and when you get in the theater, now you're with
Speaker 2: your community and.
Speaker 4: Now there's the buzz of get But it's the going.
Speaker 4: It's the getting there google him.
Speaker 7: We got to rap what you got some of the
Speaker 7: things that you were saying, Peter, as far as the
Speaker 7: repetitive jobs and what people could do and how long
Speaker 7: you could do them, And a lot of it has
Speaker 7: to do of course with tech. Right, we think that
Speaker 7: tech is good and roll by odds and AI and
Speaker 7: all these sorts of sorts of things are going to
Speaker 7: be removing these repetitive.
Speaker 4: Jobs from the workforce.
Speaker 7: But I've compiled a list of some of the repetitive jobs.
Speaker 4: That won't be replaced anytime soon. Buy technology.
Speaker 7: Number one I found is something that the rumba can't do,
Speaker 7: make your bed housekeeping at the at hotels.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
Speaker 7: Another one is you're not going to buy anything from
Speaker 7: Hal nine thousand, the telemarketer, anything from the human versions.
Speaker 3: Of that either. But that's okay, yeah, that means nothing.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 7: How about this one, Robbie the robot, what happens when
Speaker 7: he gets it wrong?
Speaker 4: The quality control inspector?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need you need Well, they don't have names now,
Speaker 2: they're always number three, number six, number nine, don't mess
Speaker 2: with number nine.
Speaker 3: Sure that whatever tech is doing it right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, okay? Now, And here's another one.
Speaker 7: You don't want the T eight hundred to check out
Speaker 7: and clean your nether regions. The caregiving and personal assistance.
Speaker 2: Well, now it's interesting because everything you've mentioned, I have
Speaker 2: a potential pushback on the housekeeper. I do think what
Speaker 2: I think housekeeping is going to become is literally changing
Speaker 2: things out. They'll come in, they'll collect the dirty sheets
Speaker 2: and the towels, and they'll replaced. But I think there's
Speaker 2: going to be beds that make themselves. I think there's
Speaker 2: going to be self sanitizing rooms that are done with
Speaker 2: some sort of mist I think.
Speaker 3: I also think what's going to happen is what happened
Speaker 3: in the supermarkets with.
Speaker 5: Self chick out. Yep, they're all going to get together.
Speaker 5: It doesn't go you know what you do it.
Speaker 2: That's all of technology. All of technology comes down to
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to, So there's going to see you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you may be right, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe the home care caretaker. We do
Speaker 2: want the human touch. I don't think anyone would would
Speaker 2: want to sacrifice the human touch. But the human touch
Speaker 2: is sometimes more capable.
Speaker 5: Of flaws, except when it comes to sponge bath in
Speaker 5: mynother regions.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I want a robot.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter to me. I'll take a robot, a good robot.
Speaker 3: Sure, because you're another reagion.
Speaker 4: Doesn't get in there, doesn't really get in there.
Speaker 2: You're another reason with that sense, I just need a
Speaker 2: robot that gets in there.
Speaker 3: You want anything.
Speaker 2: That's just you, because I want to tell you is
Speaker 2: something harder to find a human being that wants to
Speaker 2: get in there in the way that I need.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: I think I'm down to you.
Speaker 3: But it does not feel like an out.
Speaker 1: I think it's an ending.
Speaker 4: It is an ending.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no one wants to here. Jason's another region.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if that's not no One, but
Speaker 4: just not no one with a pulse.
Speaker 3: That's funny though, because of you. I looked this up.
Speaker 5: Nirvana didn't want to play smells like Team Spirit anymore.
Speaker 5: Robert Plant stopped Stairway to Heaven. Stairway to Heaven. Mister
Speaker 5: Roboti Stick said, no, no way, we're doing it. Bobby McFerrin,
Speaker 5: I'm not doing be Happy right. I've had it with
Speaker 5: shiny happy people. Ari Im didn't want to do it anymore.
Speaker 3: It's cracked up.
Speaker 2: Last time I went to a BILLI Joel concert. He's
Speaker 2: three quarters away through the concert and he goes, he
Speaker 2: doesn't make any bones, but he goes, all right, okay, everybody, dem.
Speaker 4: The lens, gus, get out your little fleshlank cameras.
Speaker 3: It's five o'clock.
Speaker 4: An he's at it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they just can't. They can't do it anymore.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I mean about when
Speaker 2: you can't. When I'm in a show and I go,
Speaker 2: I can't find the love for this anymore, that's the time.
Speaker 3: But he used to play.
Speaker 5: He used to tease the audience, play little pieces of it,
Speaker 5: but go shove it up here.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it. I'm just not doing that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Really, no, thank you.
Speaker 4: You think this is an to become a repetitive job for us?
Speaker 4: Is this going to be a thing.
Speaker 2: Are we going to be doing this long enough that
Speaker 2: this is a repetitive job?
Speaker 4: Is this going to be it? Don't do it. I
Speaker 4: see what you're doing.
Speaker 3: You know what. Honestly, the fast thing you think here
Speaker 3: is different thing. She's ever repetited.
Speaker 4: You're right, it's never repeted. Let me do the repetitive part.
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Speaker 3: Yeah that's Laurie.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you Scott, thank you, mister Tilden.
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Speaker 3: Here, right yeah moving, I mean I'm going anywhere.
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