WEBVTT - Carrot Top: 4,000 Shows, The Haters + Jason’s “Final Moment” 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:09.600 No, really, no, really? 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.600 Hello everyone, Hello, I've decided to do the show in 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:13.600 the British eccent time. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.800 Can't you realize they cut this off? We just started 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.320 the episode. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.479 Hello, this is the Gold Yeah, it's gonna be coming. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.079 I'm Jason, this is my partner. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.840 It's not the British and this is all podcasts. Really no, really, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.600 the podcast with Peter and I explore things that make us. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.720 Go really no really, Okay, I. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.840 Guess that's it, right, Thanks. 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.280 That was our trip from the Victorian era with you. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.080 If I'm going to do something modern, I like to 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:40.839 keep it spicy. Yeah you do, all right. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.600 Today we are talking about something that I am intimately 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.120 familiar with our guest today. There's many, many things we 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.080 want to talk about, but this was the one that 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.239 started my head spinning on a really no really. So 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.800 I've done runs on Broadway, you know, I've done long 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.600 runs with things. But we're gonna check with a gentleman 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.440 today who's has one of the biggest shows in Las 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.160 Vegas and has had had can make that claim for 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.640 years and years and years. But my mind started to 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.759 go crazy when I heard that to date he has 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:18.639 done his show, which is he's alone said over four 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:24.880 thousand times. That's just a mind boggling number that to 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.000 me of doing anything. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.080 I don't care if you love it hate it. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.840 Did you talk about repetition? You talk about repetition over 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.920 and over. And you know, I'm always obsessed with you 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.679 because I go Broadway, You're doing the same show every night. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.000 What's the that would be a nightmare for me to repeat? 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.000 And I'm sure what we'll get into with Scott is 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.280 that it's not the same every night, but it is. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.280 There is a repetition to it. It's not a factory job. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.720 And in some ways what Scott does is harder than 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.520 a factory job because he has to also create the 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.800 illusion of spontaneity. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:57.880 And I'm making this up out of. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.960 My having fun and enjoysh It's not like if you're 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.240 on a factory floor in an assembly line. You don't 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.680 have to pretend you've invented the muffler for the first time. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:06.040 Right. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.280 And this came on the on the heels of Phantom 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.400 of the Opera closing right after thirty five years and 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:13.919 reading the article on the New York Times with the 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.760 trumpet player who every night, and I thought of Scott 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.440 comes in, sees the same people. How you doing right? 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.280 And then he goes backstage. She's that person and this 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:21.920 same thing. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.640 The trumpet player gets to do crosswords in between songs. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.920 No, he never sees that, he never sees the show. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.720 But Scott, the really really is he's still doing it. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.919 If I know Scott, he's never gonna return. What's you 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:32.320 gonna do? 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.680 So we're talking about a gentleman. We know Scott Thompson. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.359 You probably know him as the International Comedy Sensation Award 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.440 winning comedian mister Carrott. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.560 Welcome to really No really, sir, I love it. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.160 And you just answered every question you don't need. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:48.720 Well, we know what it's like talking to you, so 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.160 we figured what's he gonna get? 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.760 I'm right here at by the way, the Marshall Marshall 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.440 white fraid you're like white face, knows you did like 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.480 your fellows. He said, I'm gonna do white face, but 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.720 only to the lighting. That's not lighting. It's never you 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.280 never know what Scott. Look at the ie make up 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.160 in the hair, that's not lighting. That's Scott. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.280 No. I swear on my life, and I mean literally 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.240 on my life, and this is not a joke. I 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.799 just had lunch and this woman next to me said, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.760 I don't want to get weird, nurse, but are you like, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.600 are you into like are you cross dressing? And I 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.079 just was like, God, if I am, I'm doing a 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:21.800 horrible job. Right. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.679 I was going to say, whatever you're doing. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.600 The guys like, don't don't you know who he is? 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.240 And she's like no, and then said he's like. 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.960 Carrot top, and then all of a sudden it became okay, Oh, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.359 it's just go. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:30.880 You're fine. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.640 You can you can wear make up, your carrot top. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:33.840 You're supposed to wear making. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:34.400 Oh is that? 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.640 Let me tell all my friends in the LGPT community. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.840 You just have to be carrot top and then anything okay? 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.920 By way, Scott Scott never get it's great going out 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.240 with Scott because you never get noticed. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.320 Listen, I would love it. Nobody would know I was there. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.200 You can see Scott like you can see the Wall 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:51.600 of China, the Great Wall of China. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:52.960 Astronauts can see Scott. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.040 You know, But you don't want to be reckoned. That's 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:55.640 kind of silly. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.160 So I've been al with friends before where they were 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.640 way more famous than me, and they were like well, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.320 you wear an hat, right, I am wearing it hat. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.720 Wearing a hat? Does it like it doesn't make you 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.280 go away? Like like, oh. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.400 Y the way the hat? 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.600 I met Top with a hat on. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.360 I met Scott when he started out, and Scott at 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.480 the time, which is incredible because he saw people we're 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.520 going to talk about respect because Howie Mandel in this 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.640 very studio talked about how we talked to Carrot Top 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.000 about respect and being a prop comedian and gets looked 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:30.640 down upon whatever. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:31.760 But I met Scott. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.960 We pitched a TV show with him, a kid show, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.120 and Scott at the time was doing colleges. He was 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.880 the most successful act on colleges, like ever you know. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.760 There's got that was what the That was the prop 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.080 act right that you had to schlep everything around. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.640 I had, Yes, I had done Yes. I started doing 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:50.360 props during that. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:51.720 Yeah, but they have. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.159 It was like a no brainer because you booked me 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.000 into a college where it's like I would say, it 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.440 was like Show and Tell with liquor because they're. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.719 And they can't focus. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.920 But then I've got stuff like show and tell, like look, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:05.960 I'm holding a bong bong with. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.640 Whatever the joke it was. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.080 But I worked well for colleges because the attention span 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.839 even now worse is they would pay attention because it 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.600 was something you know, they could see, right. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.000 So Scott was was making I mean, he was so 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.520 successful in his twenties at that point. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:23.520 It was incredible. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.800 And then he goes to Vegas and I know, Jason wants, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.080 why don't you talk about the respect. We can launch 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.800 into that for a minute, about the prop comedian thing, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.920 and that Howie I never realized. I've worked with Howie 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.800 a long time too, that it really bugged him that 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.760 he would didn't get the respect of his peers, his 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.960 fellow comedians. And he said, he talked to you about 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.560 it because you're one of the most successful comedians out 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.720 there now. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.400 And yes, it's as. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.760 Comics go, as we all know, like especially when we 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.920 start out or even whatever. Now I'm old as hell, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.480 but you always wanted to have the respect from your peers. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.600 And so Howid Mandel is one of those guys that 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.920 I you know, I grew up. It was from Carlin 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.839 to Cosby to you know, Howie was one of the 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.599 guy who did the you know, some props and Galla Gallagher, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.240 who I do like I do like a thirty minute 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.800 tribute to Gallighery and you was a weird thing, is 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.440 I give him all this love and my show. But 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:20.560 he hated right, But he was like he was any guy. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.480 He was not a Gallagher, you. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.599 Know, Like, didn't he hate you? I'm like, yeah, but 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.760 I give him like all this love and so it's weird. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.520 But but uh, you always wanted the respect and stuff 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.320 from from uh, from from your peers and and doing 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.000 what I do, which is weird as a comic. When 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.920 you first start up comedy clubs, the thing that fear 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.120 of the most of us that you're stealing someone's act, right, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.840 That's that was the number one at least when I 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:44.640 remember I started. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.919 They were like, you know, you can't do other people's material. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.440 And I'm thinking, well, no one's holding up a rubber 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.920 chicken and a tennis racket, so I'm doing my own thing, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.960 So they can't be mad. They can't be mad about 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.360 me stealing something, So why are they so mad at 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.440 me for doing what I did? Like I didn't care 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.800 what they were doing, and I just did my thing. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.120 I never I came off stage every time thinking I 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:05.720 did okay. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:06.960 I was proud of what. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.640 I what I brought to the stage, and it was 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:10.960 what I thought of on my own. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.360 I didn't take it from anybody. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.240 Of course, emulated people like Gallagher, but would never try 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:16.920 to do his act. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.240 Yeah, never, never, never, And. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.000 So that's the way and by the way to answer 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.280 kind of a fun question, So Vegas is the weird thing. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.720 So I was doing Regis and Kathy Lee. God Bus 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.960 Regis and he my number one fan. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.520 He was like, you come out with this. He was crazy. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.320 Because I do so well on that show in the 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.680 audience that you probably know that that audience is like 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.560 not my own. I mean that is now that I 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.120 know that. But when I was a young, stupid you know, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.920 I had ever come out looking like this, and I've 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.040 got you come out with these jokes and they're like 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.080 they're like ninety years old, and Regis would so anyway, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.880 at the end of my very first performance on Regi's, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.880 Kathy Lee's manager walked over and said, wow, like, you 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.640 must kill in Vegas and I said, I'm no, I've 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.520 never played Vegas. And he said, you're kidding me and 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.680 I said, no, never played Vegas. He said, if I 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.120 book you in Vegas, will you do it, and of 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.640 course I'm you know, we're comics, were horse. Of course, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.400 of so I did it and then we never looked back. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.920 It was like it's been thirty some years. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.560 I thought you didn't want to do it, for I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.040 read that you didn't want to do it at first. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.720 You turn them down. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.640 Oh no, I did not want to do Vegas. No, no, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:21.000 no no. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:23.560 I fought it and fought it and fought it, and 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.600 it was like, well, as you said earlier in the 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.320 month about a desk job, and I kept. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:28.640 Feeling, it's going to be a desk job. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.880 It's like I'm going to the same theater, and it's 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.840 like I'm a road guy, you know, I'm on a 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.960 bus and I'm on the road, and I'm a rock 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.160 and roll And so I took the deal and did 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.280 it for a year, and it was horrible. It was 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.599 the worst year of my life. And I don't know 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.040 if it was just because I was so young and 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.720 I didn't know how to do Vegas or I didn't 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.000 know how to figure out. I still don't know what 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.199 I'm doing, but I finally figured out, like the Vegas 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.959 thing was such a different thing, and it finally one 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.920 day clicked and it just now it's I would never 0:08:58.960 --> 0:08:59.880 trade it for the world, you know. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.480 And you just moved to a bigger theater too. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.040 Oh No, same theater, same thing. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.440 Every time I say Jay, Lena goes hey, he's in 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.319 comments and Vegas and out. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.079 I said good, and he says, and how big is 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.080 the room? Again? I always say I was like five, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.319 it's five hundred. I get him. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:21.080 Every time. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.160 We saw you were we were with f We had 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.440 a weird We did a live shar in Vegas at 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.959 the Plan in Hollywood and we shared the stage with 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.360 Holly Madison and you and that that was dressing him 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.520 that night. It's just you, it's Holley Madison. It looked 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.439 like if Hollywood Squares was on drugs. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.640 It was weird people. But you were very sweet to 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:46.319 come say. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:47.360 They were on drugs. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.160 By the way, But Scott, I really want to do 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.040 I want to really get into this with you for 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.640 a second. We know there's a harp on it, but 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.079 so I I tried my hand at a sort of 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.240 stand up comment. I was playing a character, you know, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.320 and doing a sort of a scripted show in the 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:04.640 guise of a comedy show. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.000 And we did it in Vegas, and. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.679 I did an eight week run, I believe, and I, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.080 like you said, of your first year in Vegas, I 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.000 hated every minute of it. I didn't like doing the show, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.000 I didn't like living the lifestyle. I didn't like any 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.960 of it. And unlike what I do in the theater, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.480 I went into acting in theater because of the community 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.480 that I would step into every time. There's like a 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.640 group of actors and musicians, and you know, they become family. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.839 But when you and I asked Jerry about this years 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.199 ago too, when you step out, it's it's you and 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.640 the audience. But it's you. You're a company of one 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.800 and you. I know the show has changed over the years. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.880 I know you put new stuff in and out, But 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.000 the act of getting to the theater, prepping for your show, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.480 getting in front of that audience all by yourself, dealing 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.400 with that audience, dealing with the I'm sure of the 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.120 meet and greets and all that stuff day in and 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.600 day out, over four thousand times. Does that not take 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.800 a manyute emotional toll on you. Because I I couldn't 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:03.600 do it, I'd be out. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.520 Well probably I have people dress me though, so that's nice. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.320 But unless you actually drop you and clothes. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.240 Now I pick out everything myself. You know what's really 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.880 weird and that you bring up set Jason, your question 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.600 is brilliant because that was that was the thing that 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.400 I didn't want to do when they when they asked 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.720 me to do it. H twenty three years ago, I said, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.559 I don't want that. Get I don't want that. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.080 Exact thing what you just mentioned. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.120 And then when I started getting into and I finally 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.920 got into the rhythm. Now it's kind of I don't 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.120 know how to describe it, but it's weird, and the 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.480 shows are at nice and you kind of have to 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.360 your old days is around getting ready for your show. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.240 You know, hey, let's do some blow and no, I 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.360 can't do. I'm going to do a show, so I 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.000 would you know, you wait all day and then you 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.640 get there at five point thirty and you get ready 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.120 and you meet and greet, and then you get. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.960 Your thing and you put a new joke. I try 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.120 to do one joke a night. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.720 I don't care if it's a if it's if a visual, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.000 or it's a stand up or it's a it's one 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.920 thing each night, whether it bombs or does great, it's 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.040 just it's just it's just something I have to do 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.160 for myself to kind of and then it evolves. It works, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.760 it's great. But then the music comes on the thing 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:08.880 and you're getting dressed. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:09.600 I always make a joke. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.800 I got to go turn into Carra top, put on 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.200 my stupid stripes and polka do odds and and then 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.199 I and then I get ready and I go out. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.199 It's a new different night. I don't know. Every night 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.040 is a is a different night. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.120 I've I love I love that, but it took me 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.680 a long time to get to that comfort zone because 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.280 you're right, it's it's just a strange. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.160 It's a strange. It's a strange job, you know. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.360 And it's also fun to see how one night the 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.600 same joke, like this theme joke will work one night 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.720 and the next night no one gets the joke. So 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.160 you know, there's a hotel called the Jockey Club, and 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.280 it's brand new joke. No one's laughed since I've done it, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.200 like a week and a half. So I said, my 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.400 favorite hotel is the Jockey Club. Now a picture of 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.600 the Jockey Club comes up, right, and I said, always 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.440 wonder what the showers look like? And there's a picture 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.880 of a shower, and of course the novel comes down. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.160 You know, at the bottom it's a jockey, nothing nothing. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.520 And they're short. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:09.160 There's and you get mad on stage. You actually say 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.920 I've seen you do that, going I've seen you do I. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.760 Get mad, I get mad in a funny way. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.280 I never, I never, but that's you. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.000 So I mean every comic gets mad at stage. I 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.800 mean that's you know, that's part of the comic. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:23.679 Wit. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.320 Can I go back to something you said that and 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.040 this is I think I remember you saying this a 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.920 while ago, because you just joked about blow. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:31.440 No, I can't do blow. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.520 I remember when you first buffed up and everybody was 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.080 shocked because all of we remember Scott looking one way 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.640 and the next time he's on no Schwartz and the 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.360 you're gonna go, oh my god. And I think what 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.840 you said to me was, if you're in Vegas, you 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.600 can do a couple of things. You can do drugs, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.559 you can lose your money gambling. There's so many vices 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.960 here that I decided to do this and this would 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.240 keep me focused. So I got addicted to this rather 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.000 than all of that. Because I know a couple of people. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.400 Was that accurate You're absolutely amazing. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.840 I mean and that you remember now, what I normally 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.640 say now is just I'm carrying all my hate mail. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:04.480 That's where I say that. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.080 But that so that is accurate. You just you saw 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:09.960 that you could go down. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:10.320 Yeah. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.360 I had nothing to do all day long for like, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.640 you know, all day, so I said, instead of going 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.760 and doing something dumb, I'll go to the gym. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.520 But so I just started working out and just doing 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:19.480 just working out. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.120 But you never want to go to extreme because then 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.200 you become Joe Piscopo and then you're that guy. So 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.400 that was that was me. That was me, by the way, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.320 as Trump doing Piscopo. You don't want to be Bisco Bo. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.640 But not that. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.040 It's like you know, and I'm I'm like my my 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.440 weight now was like I'm one fifty five. I'm back 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:43.360 to my fighting weight. But people just always want to say, like, dude, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.160 I thought you were bigger. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.560 I'm like, yeah, I thought it was. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.680 So you stopped working out, you stopped the gym. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:49.200 Oh, I don't. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.760 I mean, I still work out, but I don't. I'm 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.000 not extreme. I just I just do to just you. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.680 Know, just trying to build size anymore. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.240 What are you trying to say when you're fifty eight, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.000 I'm just trying to stay not dying. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:00.960 You don't think of you fifty not that that's all, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.680 But I never think he was fifty eight. I think 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.520 of you was like eternally. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.520 Than now look at me. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.480 So I'm gonna I'm gonna go back to your show, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.360 because again I am fascinated. Do you ever if you could, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.120 if you could snap your fingers and have a partner 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:25.720 on the stage, would you do it at this point? 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:26.960 Or do you like working in one? 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:27.760 Oh? 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.440 My god, you know it's really weird. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.120 I was a Carson fan, of course, probably a lot 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.560 of comics were, and I I don't know where it 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.400 came from, and I'm sure it came from watching Johnny Carson. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.400 But I do is a thing, and everyone every night says, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.600 who are you talking to? So I'll do some not 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.520 every joke, but I do a thing and I always 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.000 do this, do this reference over to the side of 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.280 the stage myself. My guy that does all the video 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.360 does and he's not even listening. He's like, have we started? 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.440 He has no idea this, So I just a thing 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.560 and I just gesture like Johnny would do. I say, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.080 I said, you know, someone's gonna walk up. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.000 And then even when my own mother came and. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.600 She goes, who are you talking to? And I said, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.280 I'm I don't know. It's so I don't know if 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.600 I want an actual person. I love doing the show 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:14.280 by myself. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:15.080 I feel like. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.440 Although you know, in Vegas, every night some audience member 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:21.120 wants to help out. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.400 And I always say, you know what, I got this 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.840 and I wrote it without here. I wrote those without you. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.600 But if I need you, I promise you. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.640 But yeah, I don't know, but it could be fun 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.280 to have someone who's goin to riff off. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.440