Speaker 1: Check it out. Kids. I got shows and I want
Speaker 1: you to come and see me. So let me give
Speaker 1: you the details about where I'm gonna be so you
Speaker 1: can get tickets and make plans. This weekend September two
Speaker 1: to September four, I will be in pleasant in California
Speaker 1: at Tommy Tease. On September seventeenth, I'm doing a very special,
Speaker 1: sold out show at the Etty Hat Arena and Abu Dhabi,
Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates, So you can't get tickets for that
Speaker 1: performance anymore. But I just wanted to let you know
Speaker 1: because it's kind of like a like light little brag.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how to tell you this,
Speaker 1: but I'm kind of a big deal. September I will
Speaker 1: be in Phoenix, Arizona, doing shows that stand up live
Speaker 1: just two nights. So more shows are always being added,
Speaker 1: so please keep checking Russell Peters dot com for updates.
Speaker 1: And now, please enjoy my little show. All right, hey, umm,
Speaker 1: I'd like to start off the show by clearing my throat.
Speaker 1: Welcome to culturally canceled. This is a very an episode
Speaker 1: for me. This one is the first time I think
Speaker 1: it's the first time I've done just me and another person. Right. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, we had love it. Wow, I have to
Speaker 1: follow him. Oh, Eric, how dare you so on the
Speaker 1: show of Me today? Not only are we just by ourselves,
Speaker 1: he's the only one other than John Lovet's but also
Speaker 1: one of my Canadian homeboys and the voice of five
Speaker 1: five characters, five characters in Looney Tunes. He's the new
Speaker 1: voice of all of them. And he's and he's my
Speaker 1: my first time meeting him actually, but we've known about
Speaker 1: each other for a little while and we've sent each other. Well,
Speaker 1: he sent me clothing in the past. It was weird
Speaker 1: because it was used underwear, but whatever clothing is clothing. Um,
Speaker 1: please welcome my new friend. Eric Bowser is in the
Speaker 1: house with me tonight. Hew. You see he's Uh, that
Speaker 1: was a really good Stewie. What did you know? When
Speaker 1: people see the footage, I'll be like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: you guys got the host of Masks singer to be
Speaker 1: on the show. They're like, Man, Ken's gained a little
Speaker 1: bit away. He yeah, he has, he has. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. Man, you're not just the show, but
Speaker 1: in in your in your in your home and and
Speaker 1: uh it's it's good to connect with a fellow canny.
Speaker 1: I'm homesick. I know I have some Canadian things in
Speaker 1: the house. I have catchup chips if you want. I
Speaker 1: saw that, and and not just on the counter with
Speaker 1: the drawer and oh yeah, I think I might have
Speaker 1: a coffee crisp touch. I found the stash you could
Speaker 1: find coffee crisp that the Chevron gas station at like
Speaker 1: Hollywood Way, and uh, it's like right by the report
Speaker 1: like one thirty four. Yeah, It's like I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: There was like the all Canadian stash in there, like Arrow,
Speaker 1: really malteezers, they got the whole thing. Got malteesers upstairs
Speaker 1: if you want. Really, this is what's this. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: I was like, I as soon as I discovered that,
Speaker 1: I was like, I may never have to go home again.
Speaker 1: Do they have Jersey milk? No, they don't. I forgot
Speaker 1: about that one. That Jersey milk is good. Jersey milk
Speaker 1: was just just classic chocolate, right, it was. It was
Speaker 1: it was just like a Hershey bar, but you see,
Speaker 1: but Jersey milk was tasty. It was like something good
Speaker 1: about it. I think, uh, I think Arrow would trumpet though,
Speaker 1: that's me personally. I love arrow. Mirage is like a
Speaker 1: fat arrow. Okay, Mirrage, now we're talking. I need that
Speaker 1: on a T shirt. Yeah, Mirage, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Remember the the how much for the caramelk secret? I'll
Speaker 1: give you the catramilk secret. And then that was like
Speaker 1: and then they would end the commercial on like someone
Speaker 1: just took a piece of it, and then the cat
Speaker 1: when you look at it's just really very very sexual.
Speaker 1: It was like the cream pie of chocolates. It's the
Speaker 1: it's the last and the only thing you want in
Speaker 1: your mouth if you're talking Canadian delicacies. And what about
Speaker 1: what was that other commercial where they coffee crisp was
Speaker 1: those two like wafers and they pour the chocolate over it.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was like I thought I was getting away
Speaker 1: with something as a kid because I thought, well, I
Speaker 1: can't drink coffee. It was it had caffeine and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's Mirage up on the screen. What was that one
Speaker 1: commercial where they had made it sound really sexual where
Speaker 1: they were like and they're pouring the chocolate on in
Speaker 1: the commercial and they're talking really sensual, like picture this
Speaker 1: chocolate and then the milk chocolate on it was it Canadian?
Speaker 1: It was Canadian. It was definitely Canadian. Canadians and their
Speaker 1: sexual chocolate, sexual chocolate ladies. It always comes back to
Speaker 1: coming to America. Uh. And then there was the toffee fae.
Speaker 1: Is that a Canadian thing where you have toffee fa
Speaker 1: out here? Toffee toffee tofie Faye Court thought it was Tofife.
Speaker 1: You know, you say to Fife, it's probably to Fife
Speaker 1: toffee fee. That's what they said in the commercial toffi fee,
Speaker 1: because it's toffee inside. Now a lot of these, a
Speaker 1: lot of these are also available. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we're only gonna be talking about chocolates from Canada for
Speaker 1: the next era, but a lot of these are like
Speaker 1: Briti there is to to Fife the British. It could
Speaker 1: be a hazel nut and caramel with creamyn. Because here's
Speaker 1: the big thing about Canada and England. In the U.
Speaker 1: K's like smarties, right, like we got Smartmarties and over
Speaker 1: here smarties are rockets, rockets exactly. That's the biggest what
Speaker 1: separates us. Well, you guys call smarties, we call rockets,
Speaker 1: and what we call smarties is chocolate. They're like Eminem's
Speaker 1: bud Better you know those Canadians, they come in with
Speaker 1: the chocolate and they screw it all up. Smarties are
Speaker 1: rockets and rockets are smarties? Just disgusting. You know that
Speaker 1: some of these guys are a light, but they're taking
Speaker 1: all the jobs. We gotta build a wall around Canada
Speaker 1: with putin, Right, it's their favorite food. It's cheese, rise
Speaker 1: and gravy. It's true, it's Russian food. Yeah. I could
Speaker 1: have Puttin in my mouth all day. Hello, I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. How many voices do you do? Eric,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know one of those guys
Speaker 1: who just doesn't and go, oh, apparently I could do
Speaker 1: this one too. Yes, I feel like that's the case.
Speaker 1: And you know, I spent a lot of time watching
Speaker 1: like a lot of cartoons. That's that's where I had
Speaker 1: the Looney Tunes. If if we're going to go back
Speaker 1: to that, it's Saturday mornings on Global above his Bunny
Speaker 1: and Tweetie show. We're on Global. Yeah, it was. They
Speaker 1: had an hour. And that's like basically since if you're
Speaker 1: looking at the lineage of Looney Tunes, they were made
Speaker 1: in like forties fifties, so they that's why some of them. Listen,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this. Some of them are so racist.
Speaker 1: And when the guy would like have the cigar that exploded,
Speaker 1: and he would look like a h he was in
Speaker 1: black face, it's the lips would be it was like
Speaker 1: we didn't even a cardo. It didn't have cardos. When
Speaker 1: were kids were like, that's funny, and I realized, now,
Speaker 1: I go, holy sh it, that's so fucking racist. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had an episode Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips you
Speaker 1: know that now, Now that's that's a real cartoon and
Speaker 1: oh yeah, they have the bone on their nose and
Speaker 1: they were making a soup out of another human. It
Speaker 1: was all propaganda and the Bugs Bunny up then flipped
Speaker 1: to the Nips. And now Mel Blank is rolling in
Speaker 1: his grave. No, just kidding. I'm sure he's proud. But
Speaker 1: when did Mel Blank day? And so who filled in
Speaker 1: for the past thirty two years before you? The first guy,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bergman, he was actually bugs in in the movie
Speaker 1: Space Jam. I was I am Bugs for HBO Max's
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm in space Gym as Daffy duck
Speaker 1: Elma very very quiet. I'm hunting that web. Marvin the marsh.
Speaker 1: He isn't their lovely earth creature used to love Marvin
Speaker 1: the Martian Fog, I say, fog horn leg harn. You
Speaker 1: know that Russell Peter's son like a dirt road between
Speaker 1: two corn fields, nothing between the ears. That's a joke, son,
Speaker 1: that's a joke. Uh And then uh, yeah, Porky Pig.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, Filipino, Porky Lichen or Larry Lichon,
Speaker 1: we'll call him. Yeah, we're gonna switch it up. Bury
Speaker 1: the bob boy buried. That sounds like a sex move
Speaker 1: in the Philippines. Let me bury my bub boy in you.
Speaker 1: But yeah, only five in that one, but I mean
Speaker 1: five on. I mean, look were at some time we
Speaker 1: were doing I was doing scratch dialogue for all the characters,
Speaker 1: even Granny, just because they needed someone in there to
Speaker 1: act against Lebron. I was in the booth with Lebron
Speaker 1: at least four or five times. Very cool, very very cool,
Speaker 1: very very tall. You should play basketball, I think, or
Speaker 1: clean the gutters. He's so tall. Man. Like we we
Speaker 1: took a picture with him, I was saying earlier, we
Speaker 1: all looked like we were standing in potholes, like like
Speaker 1: next to him, it was. It was me and his
Speaker 1: kneecaps was acting. I never saw it. But he was good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to say that, but everybody else
Speaker 1: said he sucked. At least with me in the booth.
Speaker 1: My niece and nephew said how, I said, how space Jam.
Speaker 1: It was really good. But Lebron is a terrible actor.
Speaker 1: You know what a nine year old calling you have
Speaker 1: to I got good news is he's a decent basketball player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the very end of the day, at least he
Speaker 1: has that to fall back on. But if a nine
Speaker 1: year old, if if you know, they say the brutal
Speaker 1: honesty about the thing. But I don't think really Lebron
Speaker 1: gives a ship either way. So you know, I mean
Speaker 1: the guy between producing the film, being in the bubble
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, uh, you know, being family and nobody.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever going to dispute his drive. There's a reason
Speaker 1: he is where he is in life because he's not me.
Speaker 1: He's not lazy. Sweeping the Raptors two years in a row. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we will never forget that. Did he sweep? But he
Speaker 1: never won that year? Did he? How many rings does
Speaker 1: he have now? And I think it's Lebrono's form rings
Speaker 1: there which one are you? You look great in the
Speaker 1: red flowered shirt, the one that looks like short round
Speaker 1: from Indiana Jones next to Indiana Genes. That's Spike brand Brand.
Speaker 1: He was the animation director. He worked on the original
Speaker 1: Space Gym and now he's the animation director on on
Speaker 1: the sequel twenty five years later. What's it? The number
Speaker 1: one movie? It was, right, it was. It was at
Speaker 1: one point the number one movie. And to do that
Speaker 1: in a in a pandemic, it's very hard to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did they do that? Yeah? I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand it, but I don't understand it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm like, morally and and
Speaker 1: for humanity, we understand it, but uh, for for the
Speaker 1: outcome of the movie's sake regarding box office, that's that,
Speaker 1: you know, And and the numbers are hidden and and
Speaker 1: and they say there's a formula that's going to work out.
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: why they would do that. I'm just used to movies
Speaker 1: like coming on pay per view, like like at the
Speaker 1: tail end of them being in theaters. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: already advertising its presence on on home video and blue
Speaker 1: ray and all that stuff. People still do that, people
Speaker 1: still I still do it. I still like having that
Speaker 1: tangible thing. I do like tangible things. But do we
Speaker 1: have a DVD player? Do we have a Blue ray?
Speaker 1: Are you still producing like content on like tangible? Is
Speaker 1: it all streaming now? It's all streaming as far as
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I still own like all your
Speaker 1: original stuff. Really. Oh yeah, it's never it's never go
Speaker 1: I gotta style at my house. Well, yeah, that's from
Speaker 1: my tangible days. The tangible I think. I think I
Speaker 1: have like a tangible copy of Notorious, the one that
Speaker 1: with the Netflix special I made. I made a stack
Speaker 1: of them just for like promo. Nice. But when we
Speaker 1: still have them. I've seen him somewhere in the house
Speaker 1: a stack of them. Yeah we have. We had a
Speaker 1: bunch of them. I'll give you one, please, because I
Speaker 1: don't think that works are streaming it anymore. Well, fuck
Speaker 1: my dreams. Huh. I heard that you're going to uh
Speaker 1: Abu Dhabi. I am going to Abu Dhabi And is
Speaker 1: that the first time you know? I've been to Abu
Speaker 1: Dhabi many times. Um, I've never been what's it like?
Speaker 1: Should come? They might think you're a worker. If I go,
Speaker 1: I might stay right like, I might not have buzz
Speaker 1: board to leave. I'm I'm just know you have bilibino.
Speaker 1: You have to go back to work. They have the
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers theme park there, do they? Yes, you should come.
Speaker 1: I've done voices in rides that I may never get
Speaker 1: to try. You should come to Abudhabi. Uh, your money.
Speaker 1: You could get a ticket at a head Airways. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the we're gonna go. Um. Yeah, it's the Eddie
Speaker 1: had Arena that I'm opening, Okay, And I wanted to
Speaker 1: fly Eddie Had on that on that flight, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to do there. They have these first class private suites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like, but they're not. They're not running them right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, come on, wouldn't they I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess it's probably costs them a lot of money
Speaker 1: to run that plane. Yeah, right, right, right right. So
Speaker 1: I'm going Emirates. Okay, it's not like I'm suffering. I'm
Speaker 1: still going to say that doesn't send too bad. I'm
Speaker 1: still going Emirates first, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: not like I still get a suite, and I still
Speaker 1: get a shower on board if I want, you know, well,
Speaker 1: well safety wise, I'm still live the mind like, being
Speaker 1: far from like the general population on the plane is
Speaker 1: probably a better idea than oh yeah, being in the mix.
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna be just me in the first class
Speaker 1: in the life, I have no problem with. I'll just
Speaker 1: keep switching seats the whole flight. What is the audience
Speaker 1: going to be? Like, I mean, like you did it
Speaker 1: demographically speaking, no, no, no volume one. Oh, they're only
Speaker 1: doing three thousand seats, which is weird because it's in
Speaker 1: an arena, right, that's what just open and it's sold out.
Speaker 1: I'm like, just open it up. They're having like I mean,
Speaker 1: arena like basketball like games that have like I'm hoping
Speaker 1: you're not spread out because that will Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the laughs are gonna be echoing in that place. If
Speaker 1: you spread out three thousand people in a seat arena,
Speaker 1: your mind as will be playing to yourself. You're gonna
Speaker 1: hear You're gonna hear things. The one guy in the back, yeah,
Speaker 1: you else, what what's he talking about? Who's he talking about?
Speaker 1: The crowd? Work in a in a in a arena
Speaker 1: that big how do you How do you manage to
Speaker 1: do that? That's my favorite part of your every every
Speaker 1: bit of your stand up is like I like to
Speaker 1: So what I do is when I'm in an arena,
Speaker 1: I have two camera guys on stage and they'll shoot
Speaker 1: the audience and they know basically they the parameters of
Speaker 1: where I will speak to somebody, of course, because there's
Speaker 1: only so far I can go, so they know that's
Speaker 1: even lit because yeah, so they noticed scan like the
Speaker 1: first two to three rows maximum three and then uh
Speaker 1: and then and then they'll kind of figure out. They'll
Speaker 1: they know my these guys have been with me for
Speaker 1: a long time, so they know my moves. They'll be like,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna talk to that guy. Probably gonna talk
Speaker 1: to that guy. I don't know until I get out there,
Speaker 1: and then we all figure it out. And sometimes I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you and they'll get the wrong guy. What are you
Speaker 1: doing the rest of that? The guy I'm talking to,
Speaker 1: I said, a black guy, and you shut up a
Speaker 1: white woman. I mean that's the but but that that's
Speaker 1: even better though, right, I mean anything you know, do
Speaker 1: you get to um, do you get to do lots
Speaker 1: of winging it on? Any of the voices. Definitely, like
Speaker 1: on this one, there there were like which one on
Speaker 1: this on this podcast on Space Jam on Space Jam,
Speaker 1: like I'm thinking about like something that I just did,
Speaker 1: and it was basically like here's the script. But even
Speaker 1: you know, when you're working on a film, it's like
Speaker 1: versus TV. As you know, in animation like they needed
Speaker 1: yesterday and TV. But with film it's like we got
Speaker 1: two years, so we'd be going back into the booth
Speaker 1: like for months working and hammering out scenes that they're like,
Speaker 1: this is funnier. There's always time to punch up, and
Speaker 1: then they will give you the opportunity to you know,
Speaker 1: here's do three on the three on the page, and
Speaker 1: do one that you like right right or yeah. And
Speaker 1: then Malcolm d Lee the director, Malcolm directed this, Malcolm
Speaker 1: d Lee, son of a bit, you know, Malcolm, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a text his ask text of column right now,
Speaker 1: welcome d Lee, the director of Space Jamnue legacy was
Speaker 1: I did not know that he was always in the room,
Speaker 1: and uh, if not in the room during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I'd be recording in my my Christopher walk in closet.
Speaker 1: As as long as I was making Malcolm. Laugh. I
Speaker 1: knew I was doing my job right because I'm we're
Speaker 1: talking with a guy that's worked with Hattish Heart, all
Speaker 1: the all the greats, Mr Ben Schwartz. And I was
Speaker 1: supposed to do a movie with Malcolm but then I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened with that. But okay, they never
Speaker 1: never came together. But then he keeps texting me like
Speaker 1: we've got to work together. I'm like, you're the one
Speaker 1: doing all the work. Put me in. You should have
Speaker 1: been in space, jam man. Yeah, he's he's um, Spike
Speaker 1: Lee's cousin. No way, you didn't know that. Yes, Spike
Speaker 1: Lee's cousin. I did not know it. And his mother
Speaker 1: is Jamaican. Okay, that's why we all. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: You know, he's that's the power of of grown up
Speaker 1: in Toronto, of the Island folk and la Jamaican. Well,
Speaker 1: you know he's if he says he's going to put
Speaker 1: you in something, he's he's good to his word. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's been many years now, it's been right, well
Speaker 1: now in a half years of Malcolm, you funk, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? It was Barbershop three or four whatever,
Speaker 1: was one of the barbershops. Okay, so I didn't know
Speaker 1: that he was. He continuing that that legacy if he
Speaker 1: did the last barbershop that they did, and um, and
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be in it. But then they
Speaker 1: gave it to a different Indian kid, which is fine,
Speaker 1: I mean, there he is, there he is. They gave
Speaker 1: it to a younger, better looking Indian one that looked
Speaker 1: more Indian. I'm like, that's fair. Whatever. I end up
Speaker 1: doing Jungle Book instead. So that's why I only do
Speaker 1: voice over, because they'll never give it to another Filipino guy.
Speaker 1: They might, you know, joke coin might take your joke
Speaker 1: coin man. Another another, another generous comedian. He I haven't
Speaker 1: met him, I've I've been a fan of his work.
Speaker 1: And he sent me a bunch of gear and yeah,
Speaker 1: congratulations and never sent me ship. And how long have
Speaker 1: you guys have known each other? Fifteen years? Holy smokes.
Speaker 1: He opened for me. I took him on tour to
Speaker 1: Australia him and I'm ed, I'm ed a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: And I just found the flyer for. I found a
Speaker 1: stack of the flyers for when I was in the
Speaker 1: Vegas house. But I noticed a lot of artwork in
Speaker 1: your house, a lot of music memorabilia and and the
Speaker 1: ones in twos spending lots. I've been djas and five. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's amazing man. Starting from Scratch. Yes, Scratch and I
Speaker 1: have known each other since eighty nine. We did Alive
Speaker 1: to Air together back in ninety. He's a huge retro
Speaker 1: Kid supporter. Yes, he is, as as am. I I
Speaker 1: know wearing You've always wearing your mr dress up right
Speaker 1: now And dude, I like, so, how do we are
Speaker 1: you one of the owners of retro Ki. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: designed these shirts. Really, I designed it. So before I
Speaker 1: went into animation, I was an animator. I was like working,
Speaker 1: uh in in a few studios like in and around Hollywood,
Speaker 1: just drawing, and then someone said, you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: give you money to read into a microphone. So it
Speaker 1: was like kind of moonlighting between drawing during like my shifts,
Speaker 1: and then I would go to like Nickelodeon an audition
Speaker 1: for stuff, and then drive back to the animation house
Speaker 1: and and draw. I don't know how long you've been
Speaker 1: in l A. About twenty years. Oh really? Yeah you
Speaker 1: came out here way early then. Yeah. Yeah. Again, like
Speaker 1: was like the college internship. I was at Centennial Centennial College.
Speaker 1: I performed there. Yeah really yeah? Which one that Centennial
Speaker 1: Centennial College? Which one in uh Oshawa? No? Mine was
Speaker 1: my campus was the one buy paper Mortimer by by
Speaker 1: the dan for I think I did that one. I
Speaker 1: did all of them. Yeah. There was like an auditorium.
Speaker 1: It would have like the Nooner Show. It was the
Speaker 1: Nooner Show noon it was uh the loony noony show.
Speaker 1: It was like cost your dollar to get in really
Speaker 1: sure for sure? Yeah, And I would be doing those
Speaker 1: shows back in the yeah, back in the day. I
Speaker 1: actually have a flyer from one of them I posted
Speaker 1: up in my house in Vegas. It's a looney Looney
Speaker 1: Tuesday was Looney Tuesdays or something like that. Tuesdays for
Speaker 1: Loony Tuesdays. For KFC. That was the big deal. And
Speaker 1: it was like, I don't know, one of those colleges
Speaker 1: like New Him or something. You know, you were you
Speaker 1: broke them, old man, You're You're like nothing anyone Like
Speaker 1: my family, we would anytime you had a special on TV.
Speaker 1: We would always like tape it on VHS because that's
Speaker 1: that's all you could do back then, and we would
Speaker 1: just watch the ship out of your your specials man. Well,
Speaker 1: the first two were kind of bad. Now, the first
Speaker 1: one was really good. I was very green then I
Speaker 1: was I don't doing stand up six years? Really six years?
Speaker 1: Six years? It was six years. And I mean you're
Speaker 1: the kind of comic and I mean, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean people know stand up comedy, but I mean,
Speaker 1: like that, just go out when when there's no special
Speaker 1: known Netflix, just go out to a bar maybe that
Speaker 1: has five or ten people, and just still tells jokes
Speaker 1: like an audience. You got to do it. That's really
Speaker 1: the hustle is thirty two years. So you know who
Speaker 1: tried to get me to do stand up was Harlan Williams. Really,
Speaker 1: I was like, how you're a Canadian fella. Hey there, buddy,
Speaker 1: you do voices? Hey Beckers, why don't you do it? Hey? Shot?
Speaker 1: Who wants a hot corn beef sandwich? You know? It
Speaker 1: was hot corn beef. We always text each other around.
Speaker 1: It was really random Canadian things. It'll do you ever
Speaker 1: send him stuff? Every now and then we will should
Speaker 1: you know, who wants something? Bonnie McFarland wants a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff? Well yeah, you know, yeah. We were on
Speaker 1: Ian Bags Uh podcast at one point yeah, she saw
Speaker 1: me with one of my which one. Yeah. She was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, where'd you get that? I go, it's
Speaker 1: a Canadian. Come, I'll get you. I'll get them to
Speaker 1: send you some stuff. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll have
Speaker 1: to hit her up then I'll tell her I was
Speaker 1: on your show and we always hook up the Canadians
Speaker 1: with our our Canadian guard. We're working on a y
Speaker 1: t V campaign. Might have some Breaker High hoodies and
Speaker 1: I hate to take a page out of Drake's book.
Speaker 1: He showed up to a Raptors game and a Breaker
Speaker 1: High hoodie. Really yeah, where you got it from? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure he had his maide. I mean
Speaker 1: he has a clothing company. I'm sure you've all heard
Speaker 1: of it. This is um, this is this is one
Speaker 1: of our You and Harlan. Harlan basically the literally Holy
Speaker 1: Grape Crush. He texted. Then he saw this painting of
Speaker 1: a Max Milk Oh yeah, and he was like, I
Speaker 1: was going to buy you this at an art show
Speaker 1: and Whistler, but then decided you deserve Becker's I mean better.
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Speaker 1: any time. Terms apply he's so good man. And it's
Speaker 1: like the kind of person that you can watch two
Speaker 1: sets back to back, same jokes, but it's this it's
Speaker 1: different every time. And it's and that's the guy agatting
Speaker 1: the guy that he was like, you gotta get up
Speaker 1: there on stage and make people laugh again, Jenner. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who's so he put me up on the stage. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Long Beach laugh Factory that I was terrified it
Speaker 1: was him and Adam Ray how long ago? And this
Speaker 1: is the years and years and years and years and
Speaker 1: years ago. And you know, I was trying for for
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I was like, I can't. I
Speaker 1: don't wake up thinking of the rest of the joke,
Speaker 1: you know. I I wake up thinking can can I
Speaker 1: do that voice? And and that's what is the voice?
Speaker 1: And that's all it needs. A look at you guys
Speaker 1: and Harley, look at that. Harlan out chinned me in
Speaker 1: that photo. That is an ugly photo of both of us.
Speaker 1: That is like a fucking caricature photo. What the fun
Speaker 1: my face looks seventy You guys are so close together
Speaker 1: in proximity, but there it is is that Norman Jewison,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it is he came to our college
Speaker 1: ones to talk about some and that was the one
Speaker 1: where me and Alan Thick and nia Ardalos were there.
Speaker 1: That's the Canadian mount Rushmore right there. Who's that woman?
Speaker 1: I don't know? That might be his wife. Interesting fact
Speaker 1: about yeah, Lynn st David Jewish? What is the interesting
Speaker 1: fact about Norman? He's not Jewish? What he's not? What's
Speaker 1: with that last name? Even like Norman? Never mind Jewison?
Speaker 1: I mean, I go, you Jewish? He goes, no, go
Speaker 1: what with a name like jewis soon your jewie son?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, not Jewish. I'm like, what the fuck
Speaker 1: your name is? Norman? He's been living a lie this
Speaker 1: whole time? Well, he's been getting away with eat. He
Speaker 1: wanted to remake that movie The Russians Are Coming, Remember,
Speaker 1: and he wanted me to do it. And he wanted
Speaker 1: me to learn Russian or either wanted me to learn
Speaker 1: Russian or Arabic one or the other. He wanted me
Speaker 1: to learn Arabic for the role. Like, how am I
Speaker 1: going to learn an entire language for the role? I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean I could figure it out. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't sell yourself short. You're You're horrible.
Speaker 1: That sucking what I always had good jackets? Man, Where
Speaker 1: do you get your who's your stylists? I got you?
Speaker 1: You need something? You get you? Look you got you
Speaker 1: got me the gear, the Russell, the only gear I
Speaker 1: could give you. I mean, you've get sent me so
Speaker 1: much stuff and there's more coming. Man, I want the
Speaker 1: knob Hill Farms stuff. Is that out yet? It is?
Speaker 1: I haven't got that yet. I loved kno Hill Farms.
Speaker 1: We've been working with the guy who runs Retro Ontario
Speaker 1: and that guy has been like in the Canadian pop
Speaker 1: culture nostalgia game for a while because he used to
Speaker 1: work at City TV. So I used to work at CITYTV.
Speaker 1: So really, yeah, I used to um work on lunch television. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you're always like in entertainment, in production, behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to, Like had been doing stand
Speaker 1: up five years, I was never on TV and I
Speaker 1: ended up becoming like all of those people that don't
Speaker 1: get paid voluntotter. It was an intern and yeah, I
Speaker 1: would have to take down the breakfast television set, then
Speaker 1: put up the lunch television set, and then to make money,
Speaker 1: I would work on electric circus as a cable puller.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, ec ten bucks an hour was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm making bank. I don't know a cable Like at
Speaker 1: a dance club every Friday night, I would be the
Speaker 1: guy across the street. Know, when they did the shot
Speaker 1: from the street into the building, I would be on
Speaker 1: the camera guy outside holding the cables. That was me,
Speaker 1: And I think I have I'm probably do have it somewhere,
Speaker 1: but I have videotape. When we do a lot of
Speaker 1: wide shot, you would see the camera and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's me. You look at my TV holding holding the camera.
Speaker 1: Just hold the cable camera in dude. Cable puller is
Speaker 1: still an essential part of production, I think now then
Speaker 1: then they have it like down to science, like the
Speaker 1: cables on the guy's hip now and it's on an
Speaker 1: elastic or something. It's it's it's all high tech. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all bluetooth now, but not in Canada. Caada, they
Speaker 1: still got it. They still got it back the Caveman
Speaker 1: era of production. Let's talk about shirts. We should do
Speaker 1: like other al right, Okay, So beach commerce beach combers
Speaker 1: has been definitely tossed around the CBC. So Canadian broadcast Corporation.
Speaker 1: I wanted to do some David Suzuki stuff I wanted.
Speaker 1: I wanted the I love David David Suzuki, such a
Speaker 1: cool guy legend. I wanted to do like the glasses,
Speaker 1: the mustache and like the big hair yea, but not
Speaker 1: as you know, just like the simplistic art. Uh we
Speaker 1: were gonna do. Um gosh, there's there's just so much stuff.
Speaker 1: Max Milk. Oh, I was going to ask about Maximulk today.
Speaker 1: I wanted the cat, but there's an old school cat
Speaker 1: remember that one too, maxim Milk at m AC. So
Speaker 1: these are like convenience stores in and around Canada. If
Speaker 1: if there's listeners that don't understand what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure there's gonna Jugo Milk, there's jug City.
Speaker 1: It was jug City. Jug City and that was like
Speaker 1: our least popular shirt to say, yeah, well women might
Speaker 1: have with big boobs might about it. That was that
Speaker 1: was like hey fellows, hey Jugsy. It was the Canadian
Speaker 1: Hooters of convenience stories. If that makes any sense. Food city,
Speaker 1: Can you do a food city? Food city and towers
Speaker 1: that would be Towers Miracle Bouku Uh yeah, wait, Miracle
Speaker 1: mart Miracle mart. But before that was Miracle Bocu. What
Speaker 1: miracle boucou? I don't know that. That was like seventies,
Speaker 1: consumers distributing, consumers distributing. That would be the most boring shirt.
Speaker 1: But I but it wouldn't because the logo is actually
Speaker 1: really dope. It's it's it looks really good. It looks
Speaker 1: very it looks very discoy. What about what about Hakeem
Speaker 1: Optical it's still around. I think people would wear shirt
Speaker 1: glasses on item optical Cedar by eight that was the
Speaker 1: famous players do a famous players one? Famous players would
Speaker 1: be sick. That would be dope. Famous players yea, even
Speaker 1: just yeah, the name famous players too would be good.
Speaker 1: But Ontario place we're trying to get, but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: let us do. Like the look, there's a jug City
Speaker 1: right now. We may have leftovers if in case anyone
Speaker 1: wants a Jug City shirt. I want a Jug City shirt.
Speaker 1: It was pretty dope. We look at that. Uh there,
Speaker 1: I am there when when I used to own a
Speaker 1: Jug City? Why does it look like it's a mug
Speaker 1: shot for that city? Actually? Oh my god, at my story,
Speaker 1: what is happening in this photo? I wonder more than milk.
Speaker 1: That's oh, one customer who counted, we only do things
Speaker 1: in the hundreds in Ontario. Count how many customers came
Speaker 1: in if you got that answer. But I love those
Speaker 1: uh those genes, those acid washed jeans. This was just
Speaker 1: last year, I believe the fashion because it can't be
Speaker 1: that long ago. In all fairness, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I'm thinking we have a lot more to cover as
Speaker 1: far as like Canadian nostalgia. And that's that's what we wanted,
Speaker 1: was that how are we going to stand out in
Speaker 1: a sea of people selling shirts all the time? And
Speaker 1: and we thought Canadian pop culture. You brought back the
Speaker 1: City TV stuff, right, we did very limited because I
Speaker 1: never got any of that either. I'm so sorry, Russell.
Speaker 1: What's your partner's name out there? Steve? Steve, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: hooks me up. He was the one that was like
Speaker 1: very animal. He's like, we gotta start so you card
Speaker 1: now scratch, you know, scratch, you know. I got Eric
Speaker 1: McCormick on the West Coast. I saw, yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: him wear what was he wearing? Had he had a case? Yes?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would design these things and you know
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff we're wearing or you could
Speaker 1: see especially Mr Dress of nothing was ever preserved digitally,
Speaker 1: so I would have to freeze frame YouTube and then
Speaker 1: and then clean it in illustrator or have one of
Speaker 1: our production artists kind of like I would lay it
Speaker 1: out and then they would recreate it digitally, so then
Speaker 1: CBC would walk away with like all these digital assets
Speaker 1: now that they could reproduce into you know, whatever they want.
Speaker 1: CBC hoodie is actually one of my favorites. It is
Speaker 1: our our best seller. The color is so perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then the logo was nice and raised. It's like
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to get into doing hats
Speaker 1: for Canadian you know, hats are tricky for me. You're
Speaker 1: wearing I can't wear, but you got one on now
Speaker 1: and that's I know. But it's got to be like
Speaker 1: when I wear like a ball cap. It's got to
Speaker 1: be one of those um flex fit ones. Okay, like
Speaker 1: a full back, have fullback and flex fits because I
Speaker 1: need the curve because you're hip hop bad. You gotta
Speaker 1: be able to, I know, but I can't rock the
Speaker 1: flat brim. It sucks because I would love to. This
Speaker 1: was an experiment, trust me, it works well on you.
Speaker 1: I'm worried to look like a b boy though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to do some of these. How what was
Speaker 1: that other show, mass your minds? Yeah, dude, masterminds. Uh,
Speaker 1: bumper Stumpers, Bumper Stumpers. The classic one was Definition, right,
Speaker 1: that was just remember that song Definition Powers. Another Scarborough kid,
Speaker 1: that Quincy Jones who did that? Yes, that's crazy right.
Speaker 1: That is the weirdest like hidden fact that, of course
Speaker 1: only someone like Mike Myers would bring to the surface,
Speaker 1: was that Quincy Jones composed that song soul bossa Nova,
Speaker 1: which was the name the beginning of Austin Power that
Speaker 1: song for whatever reason, and that was a Canadian game
Speaker 1: show theme show Mastermind Definition. Uh, you said just like
Speaker 1: Mom at the beginning of this Just like Mom was
Speaker 1: a good one. My brother was on Uncle Bobby. What
Speaker 1: do you remember Uncle Bobby. He used to drive. So
Speaker 1: I went to elementary school in Scarborough at at the
Speaker 1: very beginning Saint Maria GARRETTI Kennedy by Kennedy Station, And
Speaker 1: I believe Uncle Bobby used to be a bus driver.
Speaker 1: He used to drive like a school bus. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: the Uncle Bobby show, Yeah, I remember. My brother was
Speaker 1: one of the they called the fun time kids or
Speaker 1: something like that. So he was like in the audience,
Speaker 1: he was one of the kids, like on the floor
Speaker 1: kids sitting on the floor in front of him. Then
Speaker 1: Bimbo would dropbo, Bimbo, Bimbo, where did your mommy go?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what the fuck? There's some hidden ship
Speaker 1: on that. There's retrotary the clown. Wow. So who do
Speaker 1: you think? Where was that broadcast that was shot in
Speaker 1: like kitchen or something. Oh my god, there is Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's Uncle Bobby and there's the yeah, the oh man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some some weird My brother was on that and
Speaker 1: like the late sixties or early seventies or something. So
Speaker 1: you you are as you you could just be the
Speaker 1: retro kid spokesperson, though I would do it. Kid, Well,
Speaker 1: we should do a Russell collection. I'm down with that
Speaker 1: because I mean, there there's no greater ambassador to the
Speaker 1: nation of Canada than than you. Drake, really, Drake in
Speaker 1: all fairness, who's that? Yeah, Drake? Fairness Drake? And then
Speaker 1: the weekend in bieber and and Murray. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta and would kill me if I'm gonna tell the
Speaker 1: story anyway, Sorry, Ann, but I'm no. I won't post
Speaker 1: it and don't. It's just for us. I'll talk about it,
Speaker 1: but I won't show the picture I have. When I
Speaker 1: hosted the Juno's in two thousand and seven or eight,
Speaker 1: the first time, it was in Calgary and one of
Speaker 1: the in between one of the things, I had to
Speaker 1: dress up like a cowboy, so they put on a
Speaker 1: full cowboy outfit on me. The wrangler jeans, cowboy has
Speaker 1: that you it's because we're in Calgary. I walked out
Speaker 1: to introduce the next thing and I addressed a cowboy
Speaker 1: and then they put socks in my crotch to make
Speaker 1: it look really big, and uh, I got a picture
Speaker 1: of me and Anne Murray and she's holding my crotch
Speaker 1: what because of the socks. She's not actually touching my
Speaker 1: pen and she's just touching the socks. But she knew
Speaker 1: that it was. It was all, yeah, I have that picture.
Speaker 1: And she was like, don't ever fucking post this, And
Speaker 1: I was like, I won't post it. I've never posted him.
Speaker 1: A man of my word and I love you too much.
Speaker 1: We won't post it, but we will definitely print it
Speaker 1: on one I'm gonna show him off camera though, just
Speaker 1: for the record. Well that is like a blessing from
Speaker 1: the Pope getting crotch touched by Anne Murray. Yeah she's
Speaker 1: actually really cool, Yeah, really cool. She's a rock star, man,
Speaker 1: she is, and she has all those songs that you forget.
Speaker 1: She had Snowbird, right, Oh yeah, was that the that
Speaker 1: was the one. There was a bunch of them, But
Speaker 1: I can't believe that that happened to you. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go hunting for that footage and I wonder
Speaker 1: if that was the time right there, because I think
Speaker 1: that's where she's wearing the red jacket. I think that
Speaker 1: might be it around that time. Really yeah, man, oh man,
Speaker 1: Well dude, I I'm gonna have to get Steve on
Speaker 1: the line and uh yeah, we text each other on
Speaker 1: when we DM each other, and uh, I was good,
Speaker 1: excited when I get my little retro. I never The
Speaker 1: thing with me is whenever I get things sent to me,
Speaker 1: I never post him on my Instagram. And I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I think it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want people to know where I
Speaker 1: got this from, right, you want to keep it a hit.
Speaker 1: I want to keep it a secret. And I also
Speaker 1: don't want to people go, hey, man, can they hook
Speaker 1: me up to right? Right? Well? Nowadays? That's I mean,
Speaker 1: we were just huge fans of yours and we wanted
Speaker 1: you to have some stuff that we knew you would enjoy,
Speaker 1: and and and not and not everyone's going to get
Speaker 1: the stuff that I mean. Have you sent LaVar Burton
Speaker 1: the Reading Rainbow stuff? No? And I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a sensitive subject with him. And
Speaker 1: he's pretty cool about it, is he he's actually a
Speaker 1: really really good, really good guy. I would I would
Speaker 1: guess that's going to get his address and get it
Speaker 1: for you to send him some stuff if he if
Speaker 1: he's cool. Again, I I we never really tried. And
Speaker 1: again we're so small potatoes grassroots stuff. We we literally
Speaker 1: just no publicists, just reach out to the people ourselves,
Speaker 1: you know. But I'm a big fan of it, though
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was a sensitive subject with
Speaker 1: him or not. Think it is because when we like
Speaker 1: we're making those shirts, there were and and all of
Speaker 1: the garb even this this is like neither this is
Speaker 1: this is stop. I'm so sorry, man, I should have
Speaker 1: come with with gifts, But did you came with two
Speaker 1: stuffed animals from my daughter A Daffy and a and
Speaker 1: a bug that was specifically for them, and I know
Speaker 1: the viewer the like once they're gonna do voices. You
Speaker 1: have this guy and you know Daffy of Jeff Richard
Speaker 1: d with a list that voice, it makes sense. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna line up to be a hot meal
Speaker 1: for thumb shark. Okay, we're dealing with a perfect eating machine.
Speaker 1: Mr Vaughan, was there one they asked you to do
Speaker 1: that you couldn't do again? It's we were talking about
Speaker 1: this earlier about say hey, Eric can do this and
Speaker 1: you go, I think so you're trying your go fund
Speaker 1: sounds left thing like it. Everybody makes fun of me
Speaker 1: because my default for any impression is love. It's literally,
Speaker 1: ever go do this, and I'll go do and they go,
Speaker 1: that's love. It's like, okay, let me try it again.
Speaker 1: That's still love. That still love. It's because love it's
Speaker 1: is so like you know, he's one of those voices
Speaker 1: you just fall into and Kim Jong in, that's love it.
Speaker 1: That's love it again? All right, people of North Korea? Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you imagine if that's how he talked like? That
Speaker 1: would be amazing. I haven't shipped in ten years. You're
Speaker 1: all under my control tonight. Yeah, I mean it's um
Speaker 1: And I saw him at the Love It's Comedy Club
Speaker 1: back at the Universal. I did that place back in
Speaker 1: the day. That was that was the place man Hula themed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a very weird thing them. Uh but yeah, voices,
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes I'll sit there and try to to
Speaker 1: nail something, get things down. But it's like with Daffy,
Speaker 1: it was always bugs, right, everyone wants to do Bugs
Speaker 1: at home, Like yeah at home accounts. Yeah, when when
Speaker 1: you're sitting there, going can I do this voice? Like
Speaker 1: what is it about bugs? Bunny that everyone loves? And
Speaker 1: it's the hardest kind of voice from York, New York,
Speaker 1: the Nasal, the Brooklyn Bronx thing, And but I never
Speaker 1: thought Daffy Daffy was was something I could do until
Speaker 1: you're asked to audition for it and then you sit
Speaker 1: down and you try to peel back the voice because Daffy,
Speaker 1: when mel Blank was doing the voice, he was actually
Speaker 1: doing Phil Vester. Nobody knows if, but he was doing
Speaker 1: Phil Vester and they would pitch it up like how
Speaker 1: they I guess used to do it or still kind
Speaker 1: of do it with Trey Parker on South Park when
Speaker 1: where he's doing Cartman, he's not doing that pitched thing.
Speaker 1: He's kind of doing this this kind of deep kid
Speaker 1: voice thing and they pitch it up and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it turns in the Cartman. So that's how Daffy has
Speaker 1: done He's actually doing Sylvester's voice, but then they they
Speaker 1: raise it. But when I'm doing it, it's like a
Speaker 1: self pitched voice. Like how when you do love it's
Speaker 1: it's a son of a pitch, son of a pitch.
Speaker 1: I think I was never I used to try doing voices.
Speaker 1: But well, here's the thing. There's impressions and there's voices.
Speaker 1: You do tons of voices in your act. Yes, like
Speaker 1: the ship thing isn't none of them are famous, Like
Speaker 1: none of the people Like it's not like here's my impression,
Speaker 1: it's like here's my next door neighbor. Yeah, and here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I think that's what what what kind of
Speaker 1: irked me about stand up was I think Harlan was
Speaker 1: was you don't do the do the the voice, the impression.
Speaker 1: And when I got up there, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: do jokes or material because I didn't want to feel
Speaker 1: like I was, you know, on a crutch. But that's
Speaker 1: how you got to do it, I get. I mean
Speaker 1: you need the safety net for sure. For sure, and
Speaker 1: and people that have turned it into mega careers, like
Speaker 1: someone like Jay Farrell, you know who's who's insanely talented
Speaker 1: and j Jamie Fox does really good impression. Oh my uh,
Speaker 1: I mean got an oscar for it. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: two of them now. But yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I uh, stand up will always be a spectator sport
Speaker 1: for me, and and it's always just going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, strictly voice over, and I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1: What about your own cartoons that you want to do?
Speaker 1: That is something? Cartoons? Is that bad? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that is definitely animation. It's a cartoon. I mean animation
Speaker 1: in the industry, but cartoons or cartoons. I definitely have
Speaker 1: like a handful of ideas that I that I want
Speaker 1: to pitch. You know, uh, two adults swim in the
Speaker 1: in that area canvoice someone, can't? You could be any
Speaker 1: all of it whatever you want, Russell, I'm voicing something
Speaker 1: right now for HBO Max Velma. Yes, yes, I play
Speaker 1: her dad on it. Really my voice is my voice
Speaker 1: on it. Okay, it's not like, um, it's not like
Speaker 1: I switched it up. I'm like, hey, I'm like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just literally me. I'm just literally doing
Speaker 1: my voice. But you have and it's so easy to write,
Speaker 1: right right. I go in when they're like we need
Speaker 1: you for an hour and knock it out in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Some people have difficulty with that. Some people have like me. I,
Speaker 1: I sometimes have difficulty with my own voice. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's why I do voices, you know, like the sky.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't like the way you sound, right Like
Speaker 1: I don't like the way I sound when I hear
Speaker 1: it back. I'm like, when they approached you with the world,
Speaker 1: did you want to do like more charactery stuff or
Speaker 1: did you want to do something just They just wanted
Speaker 1: something straight. Yeah, they wanted it straight. And I was like, really,
Speaker 1: I thought they would want an Indian accent or something,
Speaker 1: and they were like no, because Mindy Kaling is Velma.
Speaker 1: They and they switched the nationality of Elma right like yeah,
Speaker 1: And I love the argument there. She's like, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? There are nerty Indians out there,
Speaker 1: Are there no ship. Yeah, that's that's a given. But
Speaker 1: I love that character change and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're living in this aging world now where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like why not why not have the variety and why
Speaker 1: not have it speak to you know, such a huge
Speaker 1: part of your audience. There are probably people long before
Speaker 1: they made the switch that were of the Indian background
Speaker 1: and culture that loves Scooby Doo. Oh yeah. I used
Speaker 1: to do Scooby Doo in my act back in the day.
Speaker 1: They were impression. This was early. Excuse me, this was
Speaker 1: early in my career. I used to do a joke
Speaker 1: about going to India and watching morning cartoons and I
Speaker 1: said they would have they had Scooby dude, And it
Speaker 1: was like the weeks that's really good, dude. I bet
Speaker 1: you could do like a ship tun of cartoon impressions
Speaker 1: and you didn't even know. I used to do a gazoo,
Speaker 1: Hello dumb dumb. Yes, oh god, Fred, hey did gazoo?
Speaker 1: How's it going? Hello dumb dumb? And then I used
Speaker 1: to do like when there was a big dopey guy
Speaker 1: in the audience. Usually when there's like, say there was
Speaker 1: it happened in Oklahoma. I remember ready there was a
Speaker 1: big Indian guy in the frontal, big dopey looking guy,
Speaker 1: and I go, you remind me of that, um, that
Speaker 1: Robin Hood Bugs Bunny cartoon. And I kept looking at
Speaker 1: him going, don't you worry, never robbing hull swoopy here.
Speaker 1: That was the best they drew with those big lips. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not know this was my friend, Robin Hood. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been seeing that dropped the entire picture. He's never arrived. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: that was like me and my brother's favorite cartoon, the
Speaker 1: Robin Hood one and uh the two Hillbillies Hillbilly here,
Speaker 1: which on the Hillbillies. It was the it was promenade
Speaker 1: across the floor, right out that door, out the door,
Speaker 1: run into the glad, and everybody promenade like that, and
Speaker 1: then they would do the little do They would beat
Speaker 1: the ship out of each other because they would be
Speaker 1: following what bugs Bunny was saying. Like, they would take
Speaker 1: sticks and that was the whole, the whole stick. But
Speaker 1: those are like two of them memorable like brother. No,
Speaker 1: my brother was mainly he was the you know, well
Speaker 1: like we we grew up laughing and and and cutting jokes.
Speaker 1: He is he's six years older than me, and my
Speaker 1: brothers six years older than me. And he's my manager.
Speaker 1: My other manager, Paul, he's here, he's also my manager. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you always have to have someone in the family keeping
Speaker 1: an eye out for sure. Um, I'm sure he would,
Speaker 1: he would be my manager. But he's too busy working
Speaker 1: for Bell, so you know which part of Bell he's
Speaker 1: on the floor. He's he's making sure everyone can hear
Speaker 1: each other, Bell Mobility, all the whole like Internet and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. He's he's more of a technical savvy guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my brother is a brains guy. He's he's in the
Speaker 1: business of of of Hollywood though he's he's Yeah, but
Speaker 1: my brother knows how to like negotiate, definitely knows how
Speaker 1: to negotiate, and he definitely knows how to think a
Speaker 1: little bit more strategically than I do. Well, that's good.
Speaker 1: You're you're busy being creative and there's no time for
Speaker 1: you to spend any of your brain cells thinking of
Speaker 1: like the teams being crossed, because then you think about
Speaker 1: these guys that are doing all these other things. You're like,
Speaker 1: somebody has to be guiding them, And I'm like, how
Speaker 1: do you get one of these guides. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: mean because you should do this, this and this and
Speaker 1: put your money in that great and then they see
Speaker 1: them getting richer and rich, and I'm like, what a
Speaker 1: fund is Nobody helping me? Yea, my my managers, My
Speaker 1: my best friend's mom, Judy, it was, she's my manager.
Speaker 1: I like to call her because like, you know, no one,
Speaker 1: no one would you know, step up and and she
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, well this kid, this kid clearly has
Speaker 1: something in in animation. So yeah, because you know what's
Speaker 1: funny is I was playing people the the animated gift
Speaker 1: you sent me with the voice of Bugs on it.
Speaker 1: Amber goes, holy shit. I go, well, he's the voice.
Speaker 1: He's not doing an impression of it. He's the voice.
Speaker 1: It sounds great. It's still you know, I'll always just
Speaker 1: beat the seventh guy to voice Bugs Bunny. It'll always
Speaker 1: be mel but you know, don't Yeah, Wow was number
Speaker 1: one numero. You know, he was the he was the
Speaker 1: bank to oh my god, argue arguably. I mean they
Speaker 1: say he's the man of a thousand voices. I think
Speaker 1: I think you never met him though I never met him.
Speaker 1: He died before you can meet him. Eighty nine. I
Speaker 1: was born seventy nine. I could have met him, but
Speaker 1: I was not out here in Hollywood. That's wild. That
Speaker 1: was the guy. What's he doing and probably twiggling his
Speaker 1: ear to make it a voice car speeding innzalez eddie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the guy. But now Gabriel Iglesias doing speedy,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that makes sense that that's the weird thing
Speaker 1: to me. Now, not weird in that way, but they're like,
Speaker 1: oh no, this person has to do the voice because
Speaker 1: they are that people. I'm like, you're missing the point here.
Speaker 1: This is animation, this is not real life. Well here's
Speaker 1: the thing, and this is the argument now. And what
Speaker 1: I always go back to is just you know, voice
Speaker 1: over was always the thing that it didn't matter what
Speaker 1: you look like. It was just if you could do
Speaker 1: the voice, if you could pull off the acting. And
Speaker 1: of course you know, if it's if it's cultural appropriation,
Speaker 1: then it's a no, no, it's bad if that's what
Speaker 1: they say, if you're if you're yeah true true true.
Speaker 1: Now now today, um, but I feel like you know
Speaker 1: now that they're kind of shining a light on it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's good for for equality and people that probably didn't
Speaker 1: have a chance as at voicing a character, which I get. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but somebody, you're still on the air of comedy side.
Speaker 1: If it's I'm on the I'm on the what works. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I would like to get back to a place
Speaker 1: where that is still if it's funny, it's funny. And
Speaker 1: if if you're we're gonna get to a place where, like, um, Eric,
Speaker 1: you can't do bugs anymore because you're not a rabbit.
Speaker 1: You're not a bunny. Yeah, you're not a rabbit. But
Speaker 1: I eat all a lot of carriage, Doc, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the secret. But yeah, no, it's it's like it's
Speaker 1: My favorite line was I must I should have made
Speaker 1: a left in Albuquerque. Yeah, I took a wrong tointed
Speaker 1: albu Quoque. That was my favorite left at albu Quique
Speaker 1: because that's a kid. I was like, what's albu Quokee?
Speaker 1: It sounds funny. He goes, uh say this don't look
Speaker 1: like the Coachella Valley to me, boy bank Couca manga.
Speaker 1: That's the other one you do, uh fog horn? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say far I did it at the beginning. Russell
Speaker 1: pay attention. Sorry, sorry, kids, that's okay. I don't want
Speaker 1: your neighbors to get scared. Sounds like a Trump supporter.
Speaker 1: It is is definitely a Trump more definitely Southern fried
Speaker 1: like my my my maga hat. Yeah, I ain't wearing
Speaker 1: no mask. Yeah, I'm worried about Corona. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: bird flu. Yeah yeah. And again like looking at that
Speaker 1: roster there, it's it's pretty in saying to see how
Speaker 1: many he's done from he was from New York. I've
Speaker 1: also done Dino's Voice Stones that's have you done it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had the reboot they did They did like one
Speaker 1: called Yabadaba Dinos where it was more about the kids.
Speaker 1: But that's all I did. I was, you know, go
Speaker 1: to the booth for four hours and just bark and
Speaker 1: that was it. That was that was my job. That's
Speaker 1: the That's the part I like least is when they
Speaker 1: make you do the the random noises. Oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be done early, and they're like, do
Speaker 1: we need any sounds? Yeah? Can you laugh? Can you cry?
Speaker 1: Can you cough? Can you bark? Can you sneeze? Can
Speaker 1: you have you done any video games? No? That's what
Speaker 1: the money isn't it. Here's the thing. No, No, residuals
Speaker 1: in video games, and it's probably the most taxing you
Speaker 1: could do, because I'm sure you guys playing, if you're
Speaker 1: sitting there playing a game, someone gets hurt or stabbed.
Speaker 1: They get thrown off a chair, they get thrown off
Speaker 1: a balcony, they get thrown off a building, and each
Speaker 1: specific noise has to be done from scratch. So they go,
Speaker 1: you get punched in the face, you get stabbed in
Speaker 1: the side, you go. You have to do all those noises,
Speaker 1: and they want them like some people want them sucking
Speaker 1: ten times in a row, ten times in a row,
Speaker 1: and then the intensity so you walk out of there
Speaker 1: you're exhausted with the Yeah, it was like, it's like
Speaker 1: my version of going to the gym. It's like but
Speaker 1: but with no residuals and a sore throat at the
Speaker 1: end of it. Yes, I've had that happen at the
Speaker 1: end of voicing s. You remember I did those weird ones, Pauly,
Speaker 1: those other ones. What was a giant robot? Is that
Speaker 1: what it's calling? No, And Bella Thorne was on one
Speaker 1: of them with me. I only did it because Bella
Speaker 1: Thorne was gonna be doing it, and then I realized
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. You don't meet these people when you're
Speaker 1: doing it. Oh no, they like shove you in a
Speaker 1: broom closet by yourself. M hm oh, ribb it, I
Speaker 1: forgot about Ribbit. I played two things on that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I also played it was my Wasn't the bat
Speaker 1: like a deep Ac Choper type of guy? Was this
Speaker 1: a video game? It was a animation project. Ribbit. H man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you must have done and seen so
Speaker 1: many things come and go in this town. But you
Speaker 1: sold you you've been here longer. Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: out last me by five years. Well, I know that
Speaker 1: you're Did you make that move at twenty years old? Though? Uh?
Speaker 1: With family out here? You know, I couldn't have done
Speaker 1: it with family. There was no couch to crash on
Speaker 1: while I was doing an internship out here where it
Speaker 1: was a studio by the name of Spumco. They were responsible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were the responsible form. Yeah I might as well
Speaker 1: have been. They were the ones that produced the original
Speaker 1: Rent and Stimpy show. Oh I love Rent and Stimpy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was an old nineties Nickelodeon classic. But from there
Speaker 1: I moved to another studio called six point harness. And
Speaker 1: then that's where I was like gaining traction with Like again,
Speaker 1: in animation, it's like working in the trenches. You never
Speaker 1: know who you're going to meet. Oh, this is river.
Speaker 1: That was the one. That's the one. I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: even on the fucking poster. Wow. Oh there I am
Speaker 1: in the bottom on the left. That's me. There you go,
Speaker 1: a little brown bat. That's awesome. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: like you you just kind of like work away and
Speaker 1: you you throw all the darts at the board and
Speaker 1: whichever one sticks you just hopefully branch off to the
Speaker 1: next thing. So when I did Um Jungle Book, I
Speaker 1: was Rocky the Rhino and fabric. I'm like, well, start shooting.
Speaker 1: Goes okay, you're gonna tell him watching kid, And I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, watch it kid. He goes, no, No,
Speaker 1: I don't do that more more calm. I was like,
Speaker 1: watch it, cude, yeah, because yeah, that's it. I go, okay, fine.
Speaker 1: And then I did the peacock in the in the film,
Speaker 1: in the film, the new one, the one came up
Speaker 1: five years ago. I gotta watch it back now. It's
Speaker 1: only at the beginning. I'm I'm, I'm the peacock fighting
Speaker 1: the porcupine over us over a branch from the truce,
Speaker 1: the water truce, and Gary Shandling was the porcupine. So
Speaker 1: when we shot it, we were actually standing together, you guys,
Speaker 1: like on set doing were at Sony doing it in
Speaker 1: the giant theater room. There they had it on the
Speaker 1: screen and we each had a chopstick in our mouth
Speaker 1: and we were pretending we're fighting over the stick with
Speaker 1: Gary Shandling. God, damn, dude, that's insane. Who's your ill?
Speaker 1: I guess Mel definitely Mel for sure, living legend. I
Speaker 1: would have to say Billy West. He was you know,
Speaker 1: you might know him as the red Eminem, but he
Speaker 1: was like almost every voice on Future Rama. He was
Speaker 1: Fry Farnsworth Zoidberger. I'd say that he was like the
Speaker 1: modern Mel Blank. Is the modern Mel Blank. And you know,
Speaker 1: not just for the ability to imitate Mel Blanks characters,
Speaker 1: but the very reason that he create eights classic voices,
Speaker 1: like the voices that you know you or cracks down
Speaker 1: impressions that you never think would be possible. For Stimpy,
Speaker 1: he was the voice of Snimpy. He was doing a Larry.
Speaker 1: He was the other one. He was the cat with
Speaker 1: the fat nose. He was also a rent to. He
Speaker 1: did voice rend I'm a cat with a fat nose.
Speaker 1: We gotta get you back in in in children's animation.
Speaker 1: But the voice he did for Stimpy was an impression
Speaker 1: of Larry Fine from The Three Stooges. It was like, hey, hey, Mole,
Speaker 1: I pete in my shoe. Yeah, we gotta get those guys.
Speaker 1: It was like that kind of voice. Yes, yes, and uh.
Speaker 1: He was on The Stern Show for a number of years.
Speaker 1: M he was you know, yeah, I guess you know.
Speaker 1: Do you know Craig gas I don't you know who
Speaker 1: he is? He's a stand up, he does impressions and yeah,
Speaker 1: he was in the original space gym. Yah, because Ivan
Speaker 1: Rightman was on. He was he was produced? Was he
Speaker 1: not producing private parts for Stern? I think that's how
Speaker 1: they kind of met. And then he said, hey, why
Speaker 1: don't you audition for this basketball cartoon movie? And yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, so we're going back to that other conversation
Speaker 1: yet earlier it was Jeff Bergman was the first guy,
Speaker 1: then Greg Burson, then Billy West, Joe Alaski. Um, I
Speaker 1: think Noel Blank had had a try at doing bugs
Speaker 1: and then his son no Noel blank, there's Billy, uh
Speaker 1: but yeah, and then me so hopefully I can continue that.
Speaker 1: But who's that one on the top right, top right
Speaker 1: is Doug Doug from I think he was He had
Speaker 1: a Nickelodeon show, then it moved to Disney and it was,
Speaker 1: you know, basically kind of like that voice that he does,
Speaker 1: you know for Fry. It was kind of similar to that.
Speaker 1: And there's a guy named Reno. Do you know Reno
Speaker 1: to Romeo? Yeah, the from Toronto. Yeah. I want to
Speaker 1: thank everybody for tuning into this episode of Culturally Canceled
Speaker 1: with myself, Russell Peters, my special guest, Eric Bowser, the
Speaker 1: Man of a Thousand Voices, the new Man of a
Speaker 1: Thousand Voices. Thanks for tuning in. Guys. We'll see uh
Speaker 1: when I see you U