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# 409 - Ben Schwartz & ME

2020-05-20 | 🔗

Today I sit down with actor/comedian Ben Schwartz. We talk about shooting his improv Netflix show, doing Letterman, becoming friends with Billy Crystal, Space Force, improv vs standup, and much more! 

Ben’s new special “Middleditch & Schwartz” is streaming on Netflix now.

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I love you, I love you. I have been running like fucking crazy. I ran ten miles today and my buddy Zach bitter ran one hundred miles in under twelve hours, the other down and treadmill. It was insane if you want to go see that video type of zach bitter one hundred miles you're going to find a couple of 'em but you'll see it am I I've zoomed in and, I was on the z, call with. I want to give them shouts because raw taxing back and forth now Sally Mccrae man. Peggy gunnery gallery. I say I am married, glittery courtney. First among them have been frozen, eyebrows airline name I'll end. Anna Nicole bitter, and it was awesome whose really awesome this fund was a really good time to check that out. It's a zoom, but you can and it's him running, but then he has elite athletes. Come on like myself and those ladies I've been watching, them are selling
craig, run some race through through switzerland, ITALY. I think Austria is like this crazy raised through three countries all through the alps. It looks a me I wish I am training, I'm tryin or in a thousand miles this here. I am, I think, I'm thinking over. Somewhere over four hundred, but not by much. I don't know by how much I have run about two. Seventy, since I've been in quarantine drinking is going good. I stopped counting, but I might get by sixty some day. is not busan, but I really count anymore. I don't give a fuck, it was entering when has one or two, and I just don't care anymore so MIKE I wanted just. I would love to be able to party on we and like regular people, and I think that's what you do when you have a regular life. My life is just different. My brain is different. I've only taken like five hot showers, like meaning indoors, like meaningful, sobbing and, like shampoo, a shower outdoors, a lot, and I tomatoes
calling them hush hours. My daughter goes death showers was ignored and I no I take a shower I showers or inside when you like, like you really clean yourself. I take outdoor showers, I'm an outdoor shower by the pool again the pool and then take an outdoor shower, have soapy shampoo out there and I soapy shampoo a clean off, but for some reason it wakes me up better. I dunno my brain is not perfect. I really started thinking. Maybe I'm crazy, like the way I see the world or what makes me comfortable is not what makes everyone else comfortable like I don't like. I have always had problems, brushing my teeth like meaning it. The taste of certain toothpastes creep me the fuck out, like I can't believe we
those those flavors I dunno. What is wrong with me? I love more than anything, and I do it probably twice a day using a waterpik with a with a mouthwash in it by the way, it's not as strong when used mouthwash, but that's one of the things I love and then I brush my teeth. Of course, thank god for not a sponsor the podcast right now, but cooks, toothpaste, tastes, amazing, is the only toothpaste I can use order more by the way. Anyway, I love your quarantines going good. I hope you're enjoying all the content on putting out. I hope I'm not overwhelming you fuck em, overwhelming myself right now. I feel like I'm talking really fast. Where do you hear my reads? I'm going to take a shit after this didn't need to know that. Today, our gas is with Ben schwartz base schwartz. If someone I got a kick out of a very long time use on this thing, jacon a mere as a college. Immer dot com. I dont know how I stumbled on it. I knows that Ben schwartz character Jacon a mere
had me laughing so fucking heart, it was, and I don't know why it just happy laughing so fucking heart. Then I saw him on parks and wreck much later much later, and his character and parks and wreck is even better just so fucking good. He is so talented, unknown. Joking, probably one of the problem, one that, like my top ten favorite, more taught me about came again and in there have like improv actor. who just make me giggle, Kate mackinnon- is fucking a monster. We all know that, and I don't know if everyone knows Ben Schwartz as well as I'm familiar with his work right now and if you're, not you have to him and thomas middle ditch, have a improv special, it's a three parter, I think on netflix I'm. I don't think. I know that it's three different parts you can watch. I watched it with isla as she was blown away. She was like wait. They're making all this up. It is all in
on the spot? It is absolutely awesome. You have to check it out. He is in a new show called space force with Steve Carell. That is going to be a huge hit. It is, I think, it's a series, but it's going to be a huge it literally. The head of space force now the real one that works for the united states government was talking about this show and how similar the two are or something I dunno anyway. All I know, and I hand to god all I know is that whatever the fuck Ben schwartz is in, I am watching that kid makes me giggle so fucking hard and in right now, in times like this dues like that, are so important, we have a great cup, the station. I don't really remember what we talk about much, and we did this conversation a while ago, but but I know you can enjoy it and know you're going to enjoy it. Give him a follow on, instagram, give em a follow on twitter. He does pike s having
I bet again with Scott all where it's pretty much improv his improbable spy, on. If you want to really go rabbit, hole, go, find jacon, amir with ben schwartz and watch the. Why by the way I got. This is how about I watched the one the song where they talk about. He suck my dick it's the fuck. I listen to the goddamn song either get the song stuck in my head. It's his fucking amazing you're, going to love him. I hope you enjoy this by gas check out him and thomas knowledge is a special either improv special middle ditches schwartz. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado bench schwartz, I gotta start this opposite. You are the funniest motherfucker alive
I don't know I'm in a fucking around man. You have in making me laugh. I first off I I went on a bit. He's today of a view on mine even making me laughed so hard. I have so much. I want to talk to you about your someone. You you're someone who I like so curious but your process about, but bourgeois congratulations on the netflix special, an humor. I want to delete it I want to do with either last night, my youngest how old is your youngest? My youngest is thirteen. Oh, how was it am always wondering how people are really be younger, added added she added united. She doesn't understand the concept. Could she lives in my world really? So I didn't really owners and the concept of improper. like we. Why looking at me, she thought it was crowd. Work is like She is legitimate, stand up kid. You know where, at those crowd work, she did first each one that knows how they have, audio on those people choosing
because she wanted all the technical aspects of hours worked, I was like I was like god damn it. You are my child, because I am. I am obsessed with a I did have before us, but not before, but during in my career. At one point I worked for traveled. For a while so used to pick apart. Shitty reality shows like bar rescue, where they got as would come in and they, My dad loves by rescue explained no more anything. That's our model is reality shows my dad's obsessed with like at any time you like, build a sword is spoken in any trend, you think he loves that stop building nuclear powers and sword. My favorite show right now is by the way is shifted me I was not. I was I met Aziz a long time ago. well when he was younger and doing just stand up. I don't even know if he was on parks and rec yet, and he wasn't this. He wasn't the sweetest sky me it's time for a friend of mine times, grumet m and he was just very stand. Offish, and so was he shy. I am sure he was in retro
back them certain. He was of an ivy. You forget how loud you are as a human. When you're my like someone like me and said how sometimes that's it, people are like. I have no interest in competing for air time, and so this guy's, all over the fuckin place any drunk. So. But the I'm obsessed with this fucking show ugly delicious, establishing I seen the ads fantastic, lovely. It's great. They met aziz, his family they brought they did what were they went into his family? I'm like I'm fuckin, fell in love disease, unlike sitting there going, did they go to south carolina north carolina and his his mom pat moser name? making a food for her her him his brother, his brother's name is AL, are a nice unease and he is right and and eating with their fingers in David Chang had never really even such a fucking rachel I came in there. if the show also called the chef showers of my bed, and he just like makes food. In his friends and whatever, and I remember
when it came out, I was, I was ever worked out. Some take us has a story, but I was working out somewhere in a hotel and I was watching a show that people leading leg delicious food, and it made me so happy for some reason that tempest up just like on your brain for a second you just get like enjoys, because I something nice about you because you seem like you're about to go on a beautiful little rant, which is great blues. I love that. We ve only probably met in person once or twice. Is that correct either at the time I remember until he we did a doug loves movies together and I had known you a little bit, not as a human being just known whatever, and you were- and this must be this much be just true who you are you're, so nice to me and so kind, and so on. I wanted to like, involve each other bits and it was like some, times when you when you one can improvise or hangs out will stand up. You could see the stand up and was just look out for themselves or whatever and whatever, but like this. This was it was shown. You were just so kind.
loving and like wanted to do bits and wanted to be a poor. I, like I fucking love. And then I remember being like I'll, discuss great and then men now we're doing this and with netflix I looked at like we want to see, like you know, pieces from an athlete shows the sea like how we can learn and everybody enough was again. Try everybody loves you there and you just blown up in the chocolate. I just made me so happy because you came up, you came. To me, read and really no, and I can't help you with anything you're, just a nice person being like up very kind and loving and supportive of me. Just now, and enemies so happy to see how well you're going. And then I looked at this fucking podcasting. How well it's and I just made me very happy that you're a clap, my dad always Madeira, has it in where he wants to know the people that I work with if they're nice, not because he wants to root for them and not find out later that he shouldn't drink, he does it all. The time I did movie Billy crystal is like come on. This is a big one. Man, if he's not nice on like him for a long time- and I, like you ve, been amazing- is like okay, good, good good, going to keep rooting for, but
that's why I want to talk about that movie with billy crystal, because I m fascinated by that I mean I want to start I'm going to start. I want to talk about improv cause. I do love improv and I think I think naturally that would have been my fit. If had I not I didn't say I didn't I didn't come at it. I didn't come at this business would like any game plan. I just was I I know you can be a stand, a comedian and so then that was it. I didn't know you. I didn't know that you will you. I didn't even know people who become act I like. I knew that their actors, I that was for theatre, kids. I didn't know that standards will be actors. I no standards, I'm just you stand up and then this guy bryce share, wouldn't he explained improv to me and I was like oh, I think I would have liked improbable la more than I would have liked stand did you? When did you start doing improv? I did so I started. Improvin junior college should have been two thousand too, and I was too nervous tradition for the team. as I was like the guy that my friends say, you're funny, but then
tradition for people who were like considered funny and like any impromptu, I was too afraid to do it and then then, find out that I wasn't like what the people that were really when he told me that I will. I would be terrified by it, so I never audition a girlfriend at the time that pushed me to do it. Auditioned, it was most nervous had ever been and I got on the team and slowly started making people laugh and started gaining confidence, which you know, and age for any of this is half a game and you can be encouraged me confident get your boys across its like half of it, so they started. In truth and went to u c b in chelsea in new york. Men came here. Did you see here, but it cannot started there, but I started as so used to freelance jokes for letterman's monologue. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I want to talk, we held our governments are usually going to be great. I have a kid my afternoon for this bird there's like nine different. I like from an artistic viewpoint. I want to talk about, but like this, so many things about how you work. I I only also get to like, like I'm just like eight setting
how your day looks because I know you're one of the busiest mother fuckers in the world, but so so then what was it that drew you in it into probably you! Naturally Why I'm here I was always pretty quick and I could play those images short form at the beginning. which, by the growing up I loved whose lines it anyway, but we do know was very different than up and I'm sure those guys can do as well, but we should wait what it was. It was that back in a little games- and I really love me and people ask, but by the way, I graduated college, I tried stand up and I tried in private same time to see them because I I came out of college I a psychology anthropology degree which I dunno Nor do I talk to my parents who are fighting with from it I'll bring someone enough money. We move to the top the bronx in there it's very, very hard to you know help I was always in public schools and then like they will the child know. I had a sister who's, a therapist now and like saving the world. While I go often make fucking alien jokes on stage,
but I did both at the same time, and I asked my parents, I'm very fortunate, we're middle class and asked parents are like a really wanna try to comedy My mom and dad alike will give you two years will help. We will run for rent for a year or so and will give it to you so I don't work. I think that you're talking about a knee started- and I was like I will try everything to be in this, so I wrote artist was for magazines. I did everything I could to make money and also to try to get. Sounds like I'm getting a mess of two years to try to do this on end and you know and see what happens to do so then wait. When did you start your because you're you're instagram rejected, jokes yeah, so that started because I did so. I became a page for letterman and it's a fun story. But I'll make a really short too long, but now you can make it you make it as long as one and if you trash this dangles, it's even better deal.
it the dangles. I love this singles. We had a meeting with me once and I remember just in in a soul. It started with a graduate of college. Apparently had these two years darling, you see be right. I was taken classes or just to get disgracing. I did stand up and improved and I did well enough instead of the first few times where they let me come without bringing people, and I thought in My and it was aging bomb like when you're an improv you bob from year irena dwell for years, but when you an improper, I can look at all the people around me. We ve got all my god man when you bomb and stand up. It is like, saw it like her? I apologise to the ADI stirring. This is like two thousand three. I had no sir. I don't know what I was doing and stated just wrote, jokes, and so, when I was happening during improv as really care, two weeks. I love sketch calmly, love improv, so, like isaac aren't gonna get the pic which want to want to do so. I picked in private
I sketch, because I loved you see being a our best of and and when I failed that when I fell then stand up, it felt like man I mean at the beginning, especially because every It feels like a hundred times the amount of what it is now that I'm older, when you are habitable, not as good it's part of the game I mean yeah yeah. So that's why I chose an improv instead of stand up, but at the same time so I was. I went from a college, those that improv group- and I did one played- never acted in my life, but to try to raise my gps Zola. Football players raise their gps. They would take an acting class, So I took the same acting class to try to get coombe loud exotic. I want that fucking thing around back when I graduated I'm a little bit of dirt, so I took it in class. They they watch him about there. I got an a in it cause, everybody gets an a in it, you just whatever, and then they made me audition for the play. I want to audition for the play I got one of the rules, and that was the first time I memorized of different. So I read many college and tell me interjected anytime. It's just boring. Ok! Now I gotta,
I was like. Alright, I gotta find a job and, in my tiny little head I was like what entertainment places hire kids. So, as I said, mtv so I went with my friend addressing to shorten the time a definite I and my dad. I don't have a film embryos had this, but, like my dad, who like fancy paper for ransom, is like the normal shitty paper, but like a little bit more brown and likes you learn of thieves? Got he's got nice ink dense. Where that's exactly correct, though I got one problem, I have right here, I have one literally my dad got producers jokes all over it, but my dad got me these these bucklers, says at the bottom. This is his reminder for me in this business, don't be an asshole ink love it incredible? So I didn't. I took twenty those and I brought my printed up my resume, which at the time was I worked at a summer camp. I worked at athlete if it were just a sneaker store ya. You know what I mean and I did improv whatever, and so I had that in back here, but my dad made it sound like it was. I was
whatever I note item twenty in there I knew my friend I was nick gibbons. We went to mtv an eye. Fuckin snuck my way in by going to the security guard and saying I had an in an internship interview with fire com and I'm late, and I dont know how to get. There is via come on them and has a floor there and they bigger beyond the elevator, and then there is a janitor there who spoke spanish. I spoke spanish with him and said in spanish, I'm on the run floor. I'm supposed to be an empty b which floor. Mtv on and he unlocked the stairway really. my friend go to again were bring suit, so we look like we're supposed to be there and shirts and ties relieved by the one off. So we go down there and in in the back of this woman was a dollar bill with george Washington go like so that our I can mtv renowned it and I go to her and I'm like hey, I'm here to drop off a resume for the for the internship.
because your other on floor and I go, this is mtv right. She was this is the president's office But I got was surely he can get me a job, he laughs, you're gonna be ok, want to go to the basement are gone. She tells me what Florida go to me, my friend nick. We we see that unlocks the elevators, we legally can get down. So it's like it's like. We belong now, you're gonna get us down there. I am I right. May two up personated desk, which you told me to use the person takes. Farmers may opens up a big fire cabinet and you could see a thousand. Erasmus and made us through it. On top of it may never call me, or ever saw me my friend or fuckin phone often down. We pass by letterman a letter in your show, and because we redress nice half an hour later sometimes when their light, an audience they try to find people are addressed. I should put them in the audience matter, so they Would you want to come to that? You want to come to the shop as economic got? Yes somewhere a line to get tickets. Name of her neck and one where their privilege
bring up the audience like in the line way just telling people the bathroom is man. I would love to do it. You do cause, I might My family was a letterman family. You know what I mean. Oh my. I was a a by the way by the way, a hold on my Ah, back. There's my let him in appearance I am I'm up Letterman's, my guy letterman's, my guy gabbert, got keeps wakens out. I'm gonna get that. I cannot wait to show you. I never saw anybody. I save except oh yeah, I'm a hard core, letterman guy like without fucking doubt filling his ear of pieces earth. I sat at attire. I got your debts so literally the signal same exactly when I got to be on letterman, I kept the fucker yeah and, and I kept the cuban from my first joke. I ever got on letterman. I got tony mendez gimme. Give me the for it on its blocking greed
and by the way I noticed in the background of this, that they covered up a joke. This is you know like yeah twenty you're running around europe, its there's a goddamn donald trump job binders easier. Yeah, I'm rhetoric that we want a rip off the tarun nay I ruined yours as one of the best compliment I've ever gotten in my career- and I am I'm going to play this at my funeral. It's gonna play if binder and bill borrower are sweet enough to get this to me, letterman missed is there in a documentary about comedy store, and lead. They were interviewing letterman. He said you know comedy has gotten so much bigger than just carson, because the hours I shall is so important because I was watching this guy everyday, any repetition, Often might finer goes for crisis, yet bert in any goes What's amazingly rifts assured often any does it really mention it, and then thirty,
Listen, you realize this is a an amazing comedian and he is an anomaly show, but unlike only part. I haven't. phone? I play it for myself, I it's they send me. I said it's my dad within within. Thirty seconds of its starting in an complimented me. I said it's my dad. My dad called me immediately goes here. If you don't if not you go. He says my name that and he goes over howard letterman. I mean why. How would he know- and I know I have no idea- is that the great yeah weak, designing a random environment, though that's that's a great story, that so I go there and I would love to do you guys do and he goes and those people are like yeah. You would have talked to this guy and I go to that guy and, of course, probably billion people ask him and he goes yeah. I can't really help you. Unless you have a reason so. I call on my back haggling over twenty erasmus. and I go about and he laughed ngos- ok
I will have an interview with you next week, whatever's and so I an interview and that's how I became a page and that page after I worked there for like a year. I asked if I could, freelance jokes they. Let me influence two or three and then I started to get jokes on the nose to prevent many sorrow, twenty jokes a day every day at six, a m for a year and a half every morning, and then- That's how I got my like joke writer brain going and that's kind of like I and that work ethic started. Then before it's like, I think, was fifteen jokes. I would fill up the page, no matter what, even if the were terrible. I forced myself. You'll go align fine set up because it you'll find it so tat. You may want to find a way to make them. In a way that you think let him away forum I did at every. for a year now happen again. If we cannot pay for your, does it really is you know you remind me of- and I hope you take this the carbon which I think is a real, brilliant mine, Adolf hitler. wow. It's the you're right out of rice, dmitri Martin, yeah he's brilliant, but Dmitri is
a lot like you, unlike in like I would say I'm I would say I'm probably now these I was actually begging abyss today, like I'm ninety seven percent artist, three percent businessman. people argue that the other way round- it's about you. I am deeply concerned about business, for the most part I got into this good. I like partying, I like have a good time and dimitri in yourself. It's like it's not that much of a shift, its probably Ninety five percent, an artist fibres and visit, but men at three percent. When you wait when you're in the business that three percent makes a fucking difference, but I so think that you're, probably not you can't see it is you're too close to it. You have a podcast, you have a series of different specials you knew can do. I always look at you see, be I'm surrounded by very funny. People always utopia. funnier than me.
it's a matter of. Maybe I worked a little harder, maybe I just did. Maybe I pushed like that business up the same with you, man, you're, fucking hilarious, but there's no way you get specials, there's no way you tour the way you do. There's no way you have your own burt cast, if you will, unless you hustle self. Nobody die not for you in Cyprus must be that way, but I, but I just look like I look at some. Like you and I go, can I wish I had more of that right. Look into me trying to go. I wish I had more of that, like a real, like is that even business is just like a like a work ethic. We go no like. Let like a private example. Jacon you right now. Things. You don't go anywhere. I do like the personal we're going to do. Good humor, was I remember being aware of it when it was when it was I'd like to know what the internet was it what it is today in two thousand thirteen economy like just in time
thousand thirteen it wasn't where we are today, like I really like popcorn, things, only been popular for nine years so like I, I had seeing Jacon a mere that fucking, guy, I don't buy the morbid names, but the guy who plays a mere animal, when sell them. I've seen that guy so much yes, he's gonna very recognisable base shirt, and so I went on today and just like refreshing myself and I was packing dying laughing their brilliant man, they're brilliant. you in that are so like. I was wondering how much you prepare when you go into do something like that of something like like like the character you on parks and rec, like almost you prepare? How much you like. Are you in the shower doing the character in your head? Are you like glowing like the the the fighter? white is what gets me there or what for for gay so for jake and Amir, because that is,
we're talking at the beginning, increased up, which I think is always good for people who were listened accompanied by so interesting because allowed you? U, I believe, in a better way, please correct me but allowed due to really develop a voice in front of the camera and find out how to be funny in front of interrupts exactly are in one of the biggest things when we were doing shows with hot sauce, which is an appalling gilad airy clothes are being the funniest person. I've ever met. My life, Adam pally, was incredibly funny as well. We were new shows, and I started to realize that, no matter what I did the most be anyway, would see me was a hundred people used to be chelsea and nobody was finding out about us and or me you know, that's why started rejected yolksac com just are making videos, and also you know just a kind of like start out. I'm freelancing Joe and almost none of them get on what? If I took the ones directed, and maybe that's, how reject the jobs that come started yom so for me I was making short films and I loved college humor at the time and I was friends- sarah schneider- we don't want us up there,
We ended up being a had writer for us now and now writes the other two she's brilliant, I'm budge the she injuries major kong people. We did a couple sketches and your right in improbably get your voice penalised onstage learning same with the stand up and kind of you have to fail. The thing I always tell people is like you have to take a risk. You have to fail. You have to learn yet the repeat, and you just keep trying to and you're gonna start learned, learn where you live in this world and find up. It feels good we'd like doing that at all. So for jake and Amir, I would prepare almost nothing. Sometimes we would barely have a script it. The three of us would write it beforehand. We'd write it. The our before we filmed- and I just improvise a little bit, but my heart at a total office. There was a script and I just you just learning what this As you know, the improv, how I can kind of great characters in that world so Kashmir was literally alike, and it's funny bring about parks could
Althea is the same way when I used to do genre alfio it was like playtime, it didn't feel I never like. It was just fucking playtime, all your friends were there it's time to go. Nuts have fun just be funny trying to be funny and then added more you do it the more roles you do that you know you have to be dramatic in the lead up, but that stuff was like man. It was once it has been very little preparation, general field We should be measuring lines because there are so many funding people. You know one be the reason why a scene stops. I never you did when you did the sick. The cause you accordingly, if among you had a part in helping create the character. No, so what happened is? Do you know how remember hospitals, yeah, okay guy who's, a who's going to one of my favorite jokes ever? What is it the joke about goddamn it about it. I think it's about anal sex it was the same company by men called. I think, Harris's form corner that he had all these reports.
books. He had an is on like on his phone and he would read them and be so funny, but he was a writer for snl. I'm sorry, writer for I had a meeting with our remember bundle. I remember the hairs job by the way I would love ass, thou be great so at the bank, I got a call from make sure who created apart generic, he had seen. I did the things for e S, p, n, where I I did sunday conversations, which was this group, I dunno how much does sports you're but yeah. So, yes, I think asana conversations where people would seriously talk to athletes and baseball some stuff. I didn't want to be a part of it myself, but if I did like a joke, you barrage of sunday conversations but I'm kind of a mess and am, and so make sure saw those MAO's interviewing shown Merriman nastier lookin, like all these people and he loved it and he's like he invited me and when there is a role were any poor? Has a boyfriend was a cop, and so the like we're interested to see. Maybe, and so they taught me about that role, but I was way too young for it, and I left my shirt
and so the meeting was with harris, katy and him, and when I left my shirt like is the spaces like the simpsons, even This one is a right for you like. If something comes along the way right, you maybe you know like milhouse, is over here and a comic book. I suggest you never know the world is like expanding as a great and then they call me and general fuel is just a paragraph that was all was and after we once I did the rehearsal my came down and then came to my ear and goes can become the back and it gave me all this common. and I was happy that now as like. I know not his nervous and goes right great. That's how the motives are, how much of your success on camera. depends on the approval of say, directorate producers, writers cat, like I have found that when I first started acting, I was not comfortable in what was network sitcom where it reside and moving on. Are we gonna get? We got that ends and I was always like. I need someone to be like goddamn. You amazing, like you, I wasn't-
all. You need the validation. I need the validation I it was really tough. When me, you start to learn. I I've learned from that that enters the director like there's a grating wished right. Where I worked with that. Just didn't just doesn't compliment. I talked about as I do know, right and he'll be like I moved on you too great the only reason appeared. If you don't do that mean that I haven't moved up, he was anomaly unless they got exactly what I want so If he goes, I'm very british. I don't. I don't do that, sorry as the great, but then there are people that will stop the scene like cause they'll, let the directors laughing so hard, I'm like Ben come on an enormous embarrassed because he sing it in front of other people. So you like a funny little mixture of a book. I say like any time I hear the crew laughing or like see someone about. Alas, it is like you ought to me. It is lighter superman at the sun. It like makes me feel powerful symbol on stage. I would say that when are we going big chosen. I come out on stage, I'm always. little bit anxious unless until we get my first last and then I'm fine
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like you, walking and he's your fans. You live with that. This is an art form. These are even more like a like lunch, pellets they're, not the it's, not us. I believe for them. It's about the work like it is very and I was like whoa what the fuck. Why am I not running out because it was such an interesting. You are going to love. Why I run this is going to make you so happy. There's two things. One is that it like it brings energy like comes out so like when we come out like that, applaud that energy that I'm bringing out their customs come just like. that's fine, usually- and I get so like the energy that brings out the second is because letterman did it every single show for his shop, at the time. I would watch him before he comes out watch any letterman episode very few people notice before he comes out. He runs from the left side. First of all, runs from the bat. He runs any alleys to get to the stage, because I was the pages. make sure that nobody's gonna bathrooms region comparable, so some and she ran to, but you walk before, every single shall be ever did he ran from one side of the state the other and in the thing comes up, and then he walks out. So it's like. I love that
keeps your logo amazing. I doubt it keeps her energy up and like it makes it feel like it gets me pumped a little bit. It's like almost like sports coming out in magazine sport whatever, so I started doing it and I really liked it and it it started out. It started to come because when I was doing hot sauce and stuff like that, I never get it. And until we get bigger and bigger venue that I did that has many. Do you see it's like a small little ninety percent menu so running out kind of hills, almost weird but like we have room largo, we have room to fucking bow sunset of dislike, slowly, trotting out my roof. I love that you brought it up. It was really. It was fascinating to what measures really she really enjoy that she was laughing fuckin. Hard is shared by the party feel what some one what was he should be like I've? Never, I am no
I had never been used to be on. Where do you come up, needs new company arc and yellow out? I started the boss in harmony club. I did what I thought. A standard that were abandoned. Fucking wonder, tell us what knight monday night of Christian, again as a monday night, a lot of integrated been again. I don't know what you're was that two thousand and three or four okay yeah. I started there in like ninety eight ninety eight yeah and I worked the door and then started getting stage time at the end I do there and then and then we've got a t v. She she t v, show moved out to l a and then kind of just lid to like the rob in the road and says wait. So how long did it take for you to start and then get passed at those places? Oh I I I'm a different. You know I'm! I I'm still miss some of the other day, Everyone's path is very different in person now saying you know, despite the fact that we all
We are in the same business. We can talk very easily. a litany of different topics, subjects of adjust creativity, processes on business where we see things going all this had really really different beginning and mine was more in the way a burden and geraldo in that I got past very quickly at the club. Then got recognising and move the hollywood and got a tv show you, d visa and an cuban. That's you live animal here. I was a six month, my first six month, I got discovered by will smith- and I moved out here and welcome history, on with them the best the best I wanted to be the nicest guy world. He really is there's. No let down. I boys When I was told a story about the pack, my dad under my fucking microsoft is curiously new, sound incredible. The mia gonna make sure up better now, albania thumbs up it's better.
gay, but a wilderness- absolutely amazing. He really is absolutely amazing, but an I got in tv, and I I I think because of that I was never. someone who I never could make my friends go, do growlings separate into two in or do you see me or do those things- and I was already a I for an acting class, an ice, and it said on the thing occupation and I wrote what a silly question and they were like, what's your job and some like an actor and there were no legs you do to make money. I said ass by the fact you think I'm here and there like, No like how do you pay rent? I said development deals and there like called on you, been in something, and I was like yeah. I wait. No one's booked anything here and there were like
and I was like I'm fucking out. Okay, I was like. Maybe I want an acting coach, my bad so, but but but but but I got into television very quickly and then I had to get back into stand up in like kind of start from scratch, and I started the improv laugh factory and then the road for me and then I got married knife had kids, and If I rolled him, did you find the same short time span from starting santa fidelity getting past it, those clubs or no? No, I bride. I didn't really get. I was making money, so I didn't care about getting past is I I'd get spots are getting it. The store of. I was like forty three forty flower, but I did but it, but it was important to me until then I wasn't something that I needed to those like care and use. c b is somewhere, where I've only been to do shows. Like I'm not an area like you see be, gets a bad rap from traditional stand up. like but new yorkers it didn't pay or what or what? For whatever reason, because it was the alt seen burst,
is that no way? But every time I was there, the staff was fucking through the roof. Nice like this shows were amazed. Sing, like everyone was closed like everyone had a cold beer or a joint, and it was like I've net something very special? They usually were once the years that I was there. I was there from two thousand and three to two thousand. In and nine and then move to allay yeah I never was in the one I never went to the one in new york the one in chelsea was, I mean that's where I I started doing stop there. Came an intern there, so I can pay for classes right because I wasn't it. the money. So I beg in turn there, so they were, they would take her my classes and I was in turning a so called ass tat, which was at the time any polar region roberts map, besser, matt walls than like you know, Alex when did what do man lives and jack? My prayers, improvising, tina favoured come by racial drat ratio sands, and it's just like that.
wheel, drive, is so fucking funny so funny and ballet so fucking funny that you remember, because I was an intern. First of all, I was an intern there and I was a bartender. Then I was the person who cold called colleges to try to book the touring when that I wasn't even I wasn't gonna be on, but to stay or to make some money into saying that theatre programme I would they would put me in the box office during the day when the that I had keys to the to the theatre airport the box office. As by myself, I use your phone and cold call. A list of cod is to try to book the improv, a team which I wasn't even a part of that you should be doing company so at the beginning is incredible: the funniest people there met my life like rob, wriggle, reputable and all anything stupid, fucking grocery store, where, like bags with legal stage- and it smells weird and the cool people in the world with sharp. I was blown away, blown away that it exists in that country, those around it. I know it recently. Some things have happened since having done that, I don't I don't know much about, but I know they're not the best, but when we were there, it was very much like
is. He shows everybody goes everybody's, like onstage, trying new shirin ebadi trying different types of problem We just saw it was so finding out what my idols like every asked Kennedy well I'll, just be like MIKE myers, I would also have looked up to now. The kids are being granted. That's got be an amazing kind of incubators. The un is an artist, is to watch no half of half of everything I Think I've ever done is watching someone. I really really admire and then going. I wish I could do that and then fight. Emily creatively finding my way to figure that out, you know like gum like our I like I'll, tell you the big thing I've been working on and I'm I just can't. I have a really hard time doing it. His act outs like I watch. What's an act out like a like is you would just call it being on stage but like, but like not just standing about it until it and holding the might like this, like include your body in some sort of small. Why don't you do that? Aren't you know tat I mean. Maybe I'd do it, but I dont do it to a level are too ugly?
a perfect example right now. I have no bits right now because of this, but I have a bit: that was in my new our that I was touring with it's a really great story about. I went to a wrathful, I want your wine pacing, the wrathful, and I bought all the rapidly it by an tell anyone. I just bought em all then, when they did, the raft lie one them all by intelligent one. I owned all the tickets, so it just looks like I was winning, and people got really upset An end to the bit is as true story. The bid is is very true as I went and I stood at the furthest table from where they caught up in Of course I could make. The walk, adds amazing and an eye one eye, one dead, twelve rises. I want to lebanon and so to go back to the end. Every time come every time and so, but on age. I know that this Well, I'm sure you already have figured on your head, so batman Oh god knows how this works immediately, but for me the bidders
True I walked over and I stood at the table births and might stand represents where their picking the numbers well the first number and really real simply a little low act out for me as they can't. I got. That's me I pop my toes. That's me and I walk, and I do the walk and talk to people in the world. but it was so crazy is that I have the hardest time. In that moment, I through very uncomfortable, don't feel comfortable in explaining this part is tat. No, no. What I'm acting it out as opposed to just talking about like now, finally I would just go and then I walked and I will tell the story but to act it out. If you like it or not. The bonn that learning new things stand about moving backwards, so to learn to be uncomfortable, onstage and learn. Find the silent moments that get laughs and an act out and get into the bit, and let people see more that's what I'm trying to do with this bet.
It's so interesting and I believe that that will be like eddie murphy, richard prior, very good, at acting as a correct, the eddie murphy richer prior could, his act out could be super super small one of the best acta comics avarice about two months ago, like when he takes a bit sebastian. I gotta see him. Oh Ok, I'm not really he can take. He did a bit we're we're berlin meaning that our house at one point then sebastian able to be running betting his and there was something I notice that when I was living in my house that we are living through the renovation is that you'd, sometimes you walk in the other room and we're doing any work that were just sweeping in your like some paying forgot to sweep up today, like fuckin waste money. Now I didn't see that as a bit sebastian just how I just summer stage: only minha, whose figuring out news, like I walk in the guy swimming. Does the guy sweeping and it was so funny Has he really owned the character, doing
And I was like I'm just like men, I Not only that, I must say that I don't know if I could have gotten their so my boy, thing without. Yes, precisely with this thing I want to. I want to try to challenge myself to do something that makes me uncomfortable and so right now, just that lack of walking from this place to this place and talking to like three different people and figuring out that bit for me as a member from, but for me the them this and that such a fund bit anything that you can just keep. So we called whenever there No, no, no, no tell me what you call it does so the game in the scene. Basically my we call the game of the scene. The game in the scene is basically You know, you know you want everything and you give yourself such a long distance to walk, in my head. The fun of that would be not only doing that right and then literally, why you have your microphone right cause also the fucking physicality of that fucking cord going back and forth you're going there. You take it. Thank you so much restart your slow walk back and while you're starting to slough off after the chocolate. The same people, this is so embarrassing anyway,
then right before right when you get to the end, they say bar, you like, Ah, my dear you do it again and the length of how long that will take you to me. So funny because it's it's like there's a scene that John Glaser did once in an improv scene. John glazes is great writer for a conan, and I know who John Glaser is great and I did not know who he was. He did a great bit. Eugene mermands new movie, and I did not realise that him doing it, reactors, that was real, oh yeah uranium characters, but so am I had you doing that and coming back and forth and then having to talk to the same people understand in time around there a little bit annoyed and then we could show that with your acting and you can show that you pick it up, it's not is not the first time you get it the birthday, you like thank you second under not as into it and then the time like I'll fuck you nor, then you like a bit that, whatever I think good funded glaser handed
that where he was playing an old woman, onstage and walsh, or someone made a pretend phone ring on so it was the length of the chelsea stage, is pretty long. we shall support was so glaser was very old woman and he would walk and the phone rang and it took him for fucking ever to get there and by the time he got there, the form would stop ringing and he never broke out like all well any starts going very, very slowly back there. We want to see this happening and right when he's about to leave the phone rings again and the audience was dying because he took his time was so patient remit, it so uncomfortable The crowd went crazy for it, but like that that the the anticipation of I know that your get everybody in that audience, those that you want again whether you spend the story and you're waiting to hear a negative. The whole fuckin walk again that so funny to me, though, I mean what happened in real life was and and and this is another you know sent a bitter is I won-
I have the end and I know that I know number eleven right about the thing is which ones highlight the first one in the second one. Then it's gotta be jumped to five, and then you have in your. And I just became more more of because it was just pissing people. Often I thought it was, but an larry's. I do not agree. This is the thing that, like I feel like, I feel like there's a sincere division between comics, an improv guys because comics, I think, all comics feel like oh yeah. I do crowd work. It's the same thing: it's not because with crowd were I know I have a pair of shoes like I can just job out and go and immaterial set an arrogant back in the crowd were with improv. You two are: you are pot, mitted ilo said to me last night. How many of these did they tape like there had to be bad?
ones and I go. I have no idea, we felt like four, and we had there in your three and whatever happens in m is what happens because we can't like stand up to the big, and I think you like this So how do we do in this doubt, one of the big pitches that we had? Four, only everybody pessimists every single place, fastness real, the netflix, came back and we got them in the end, because one it is that we had was written with you, give us the opportune and like how many, when you did your when you did secret time, how many times did you film it two or three times twice: hey big boy that afford a tape before so you tailed four times over course of tonight's nights. Ok, so we sent to them. You give us two nights. For a man for people who may not know one of the reasons why, but does it is because he can hold the venue We can hold the crew and that because he's using the same cronyism venue, everything causeway less so like if, if bert, want to do three over here than in boss,
I didn't do another three. It would be way too expensive. We never even if it's just for his same show or whatever but odds are it's so so we do it. We're like give us the same venue same exact thing, and we won't we'll give you like three separate specials. A stand up would then have to take about five to six months. To create new material at least and tore it together, but were able to. Every show is its own totally different show. So will change the backdrop to make it what do you need? Some people, other watching different show, will put on different clothes, but we shut all for those in twenty seven hours, and we just pick the best three out of four and whatever happens decided upon us making is in there but that doesn't go great from what I've heard from standard system is the wrong you're just cut off from the special. Don't forget that job in both the time you did, it really needed this one under we working. If you plan on different special, we can't cut a section because it's a story and if we take away a part of the section, then the story makes no sense. yeah, we can cut tiny little pieces and the crowd were part of the beginning was way. Long was twenty minutes and we gotta to five minutes so like
once we start improper, we can only cut tiny slices. We can't really do anything so that was, part of that, very nerve racking for us, because the site We did all this shows that we have a real good ones. None of that shit matters whatever happens in the next twenty seven hours is how millions of people will be introduced. It long form improv and it was terrifying, but I think we're really happy with the three that we got they're, not our best shows by any means, but they're good representation of how different every single show can be. I think at all, I feel like that. In the end, by the way my I was, I was curious how nervous you guys we're going out on a first show, because I for a fact. I'm nervous and I have the material prepared, and I know it works, and I know that it like I've. I've read in this hour now for, for me I've run that exact our for probably three months. That's crazy and then in countries like there are also making tiny changes throughout right. Oh yeah, like for me right. What it is is I've
very lazy writer, in that I I consider it like plate spinning you get an hour up and you just want to get the whole our and have the nine plate spinning in those nine plates. Your bet he's one of going at men. You like I ever they spend same I, must go, and then, when you work at you just looking, you go down super wobbly and then you go into that plate and you're like oh, I there's a bunch of placeholders in here where I should have jokes, and so it's interesting and that's where for Ben then that I think that's what makes a great special is when you take a great bit ly gum like I'm trying. I think I don't have a oh tell I'll, tell you a perfect sample and it's not a great bet, but it's a joke that I had. This is a really good example. I jumped at the payment rachel ray, and I had a bit about it in in the machine that my second special and end the bit was united, I think I was sitting in the guy's lap and the guy, the guy catch me up to the door and he's like ready to go and I had
three times I said I didn't want to go, but as a lazy no greater. I go suck my dick fuck. Do you my ass or whatever, like those are? My three applies when you look at that bit use when you record it, you look at it. You go okay, those are three opportunities for jokes, where I can to call back like yeah, I'm not ready, my dicks, not heart, like you know and call back. You are only now that joke is a more a texture joke with with good punchline through yeah that metaphor, it almost seems like using that moment to keep three different plate spinning. So people dont forget one the big things for us everything. Make up on the spot, but I'll remember shit, We, like I gotta, remember like it just comes in moment words like all the other things and improve is everything happens for a reason. There are no mistakes, there are no mistakes so, like it something happens or like there's a there's, an episode you saw thomas walked by as a ghost for no reason just to fuck me literally just to fuck me.
And so in my head out like I, if I can find a way to call back that, go somewhere in here where it feels like this is where our goal should be, then I can pay and the audience will because the audience saw the same exact. Second, I saw it so we're on the same page if I can find a way to call the actual impromptu, so callback heavy it's to take characters bits It is an for us. Half of that is like remind you of this character exists like, although a physical thing with a woman like this, like I'm one of the shows- so any time on light touch my hair like this, you know it's bad character. I suppose you have, like this I'm but with jokes. We call back it's all the calling back as the whole idea, you're tryin alike, culminate this thing where it looks like you, ve, planned everything at the end, you had this big fuckin explosion, just like with you. Your last joke is oftentimes wanna, just crushes and brings every be like you know all these plates. Now, I'm going to fucking crash them together and just make you remember everything that happened. Baba bach so callbacks have is huge for us to now, and I want to talk to you about your writing- cause you've written a ton
and and you and are you in that position now, in hollywood, where they'll send you a script and go hey, can you fix this for us, or will you take a pass that yes, older, there's different their different examples which retained pretend pretend this is one of the most fast the naming things in hollywood. My opinion, the first person that ever told me about this in passing was thomas. and imo. He is a brilliant writer and he is getting paid a lot of money to do what I'm about to say what I get paid for for nothing for by the way. By the way, to put it in perspective and by the way, I have a not held. This is not his truth. This is my recollect a story that I'm certain I punched up a million times in my head is, I forget, the fuckin movie and I I'm afraid I'm not friends atomism, for, I would say, I'm friends with Michael Ian black, although he would definitely same or not just to be a deck but my colleague tarzan was like. Oh yes, I am
ass he was, I guess I turn fifty thousand two ideas. Had to sit with it for a weekend, and I was like her like in it exists. I don't I don't know they like as a movie like stars. Skin hutch Yes, someone wrote it, but they may send it to you order, or even just for like if you can and I'll fill in blanks ride. I may know something anything tell anyone about that says how you get into that that that port areas and what it at its there's, a bunch of things, thomas, is on a different level. Cause he's cheese, he's proven himself. time and time again, that equal rights groups that sell and make a lot of one I've sold five movies to find different studios. written I've written many more black sold five and I've showed that can create a world that people like enough to pay me to make it, but maybe you're right it, but it's it becomes its becomes. A harder thing.
especially now they're not make intently, not accommodate any more meds alike. So does that mean to someone who doesn't know anything so like I grew up washing steam in a hundred movies and we also watching, will ferrell and and like all these people in a building, will reject lacquer. Now, if you look, Studio like universal are paramount. They may be make one or two companies a year like last year, I was in nights war, which was one of three comedies, that universal may for a whole year, and now I drivers, hours, favorite movie, night? All yeah I love it. She's dyslexic so amazing as perfect yea. I may be so happy, The island knows me from my specials, a nice for two things. Someone under sixteen should never be checked by the way I gotta tell you like. I felt very safe in that her senses.
study of comedy was leaning your direction and not mine, know I'm I'm sure you'd have a leg and the guy's like, and then she farted during oral sex. I mean what are you gonna shit, my mouth like? No, they keep going so go at zero million dollar movies. Yes, nominal really make those as much so often times when this is this? The way that I learned at the beginning, I would take a personal one. My movies wouldn't get made, but to invite to me is not a huge investment. Some writers are a million dollars on that. I am not that I'm very much not that I'm but say they love an idea. Mine and I write the script in a gimme notes, and they get and always alyosha prepared with a prussian company like I've done one. The chef inhabit. I've done one without. Ok, I don't you would imagine a mile or so you'll get notes from all these different people. I even got on the black list, which is fun little less than like scripts, that people like but didn't get made, and so then selected invest very little amount of money as recalled ten dollars just make it easy
they want to make that a movie. They have to then invest fifteen twin, million dollars, so them ass, a writer is such a small percentage at the beginning. Until like If you want to go and production, not only are they thinking about how much the movie costs get made to have to think of a piano, afterwards, which is another you know. Sometimes it's forty percent of the budget is a the thing show on oh related, so I ran a bunch of those and got real close you getting made, but sometimes in have a star power enough, like I've been stiller in it or welfare like those, but what they say. Yes, your movie, it puts it in a green light zone, but it's very hard define you know one of the five bankable stars to say. Yes, regardless I the beginning, when nobody, even those who I am or above up so I get so from that getting on the black list, which is something the franklin letter, but the other which is brilliant, which kind of show these trips I didn't, I didn't get made, but shows love them so that they, like somebody Best whatever's tat got me a little bit of love in the writing world. So then companies would then ask if I would come to an end.
Table. So this is an evil you're talking about you're talking at it, and this is like oftentimes. Is w g minimum for me no whatever to get there but you're in a room with sometimes some before we never met your life. Sometimes fuckin appetite is there are sometimes you know Lord miller. Is there and because I had a joke running background, oftentimes, wilt thou. Don't ask me to help punch up stuff or they'll, see of the story whatever, so we'll all be around a room will go through. The script will go to a table read somewhere that people will leave, we'll talk about how to make it funnier page my page or will talk about like what the story feel, I was confused. Your data and you get paid very little for it right or you know, I'm sure there are people that get paid a lot and deservedly so on. But get paid a little. You know some mountain it and then you'll just have sometimes zero jobs, yet in I didn't one for a big movie that fifty of my jokes got in the person was like the personal. it has. No, it needs to be funnier in this image. Pick me, I was the only right there and I went to the producers house. It was crazy, was
Amazing, as even the miami he was lovely to me, and then I just wrote jumped out your job major issues and a baby being a fun experience, but for me- movies- that use every when they dont there's another thing: you're not supposed to really talkin bout. It really that's interesting, isn't it weird, like I've done it for cop, although sometimes you're like I did just as a favor just for fun. I punch up some jokes reciprocally. epps or nine about star wars. So, like of or like J J who helped me beat. I was able to be helped, make the voice of baby eight in seven and then I was a storm. Temperance ever engaged. Put me my first, pilot that like went to do anything he wants ever, I think is one was payment. So he's Okay, we need to make we're seat repeal bit funnier cost like this parliament. We doesn't have as many jobs so I would want. I watched the movie for everybody else and I would write jokes and I would pitch to him and then I would ah with his they found group is one of the editors. I will go with the microphone
and do my voice doing an impression of c three p on putting him in there. So judea can hear if it made sense and if he liked him he would pick the ones he liked and then he would call Anthony edwards you know, see through the ever. Doesn't right, you did see. Rubio we got from the earth from and elsewhere, crap, if crap. If I get this right, I'm general no bald guy, no he's a beautiful british man, Who does the voice of reason tat? It might be. It might be. I'm thinking, I'm I'm thinking by way of something of this can't be. Oh, my goodness decision. I didn't just be fair. I would first I thought you said Anthony Anderson and those like yeah avalanches, and I see the ratio if you didn't know that by the way then that's what his name is: Christ, Anthony Edwards, no anthony ever do that, for me are right. No, he was from santa or no st elsewhere, every day goes. Thank you very much. I apologize. Thank you. I saw heed the ones it did. It would like. He would ask Anthony
angels to do it in a real microphone and then he would like getting to seep repeal once they film you, kids, his mouth moving, so they could make him say whatever whenever same sonic, when I did sonic, I did punch. I didn't different versions of jokes that every day to the last day, because till the animated sonnets lips I can make. We can make sonic say anything everything else. They can't regime does it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars rolling Anna Jim, carrying everything to get. But for me, if I go into a tiny booth with just feller, until the answer the director in the reserve, and I try a hundred jokes out and I try some that patent like the the writers right and they picked the funniest ones. They put it in their saw society that gets off. but maybe it up. So I would argue that for movies, but you know that the pay wasn't, you know it was more like a sometimes it was like. Oh I get to be in the room. Is self evident judd how cool to learn, I love learnt exactly what you said. I love learning computer smarter than me. Being in a room with those guys watching judd tackle like watch out in tackling
watching nor the miller one time for a thing tat like how they would go about things. I did it for a couple other things I really really like it but so one of the things you're talking about is there's two different versions of a rewrite where you're talking about is a punch up, they will come to thompson and Ben to vacate. A script needs to be They just give it to them like to go and pay a bunch of money to do that. I am not in that sometimes they'll come to me and be like. We want someone, call the page one they go. Are you interested in rewriting this movie and I'll be like nor from writing on spent. So many months writing a movie again, rather just so, from the beginning. We want a mine and then What are the page one we right where you start from the beginning, with our characters that you were doing the bird movie and it's about you with your kid, it's you and Ila, and it's a store where you guys are going cross country and you're. Trying to you know, find validation for your dad or whatever it is so there'll be, We love the idea that bert neither are going cross country That is the idea we don't like all they do along this one we're gonna throw out that swept but keep the idea. Would you be interested
in doing a paid when we write same idea all different story, you can make for different. If you want you'd make islet if in character What will we all this idea? We want to do it and oftentimes. Will almost had never said yes, because if I'm starting from page one, I want to start with a whole new thing like I want to know yeah you're right a script? I would want to be my own idea anyway, yeah and some that twice. I got offered a big one and I guess I got scared a little bit or I will. I just didn't think I was the right writer for I do, like I know someone who do this better than me and I would I would say that I was like this is great. I'm? Not the guy like it would take me so much research and as opposed to blank person who should pay about? This will always know more than I do about it, I'm, but so asked, how that works. There's the way, different versions of all that, but the way that I've always so my scripts his eyes. I go into room, I pitch it too loose, usually a mean should go to the we'd better. There we see who's interested oftentimes. Those producers ever first look deal so you have to
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I haven't that's exactly what sepia was the only one that, when the characters war getting out of the room is on these bitches. I had done It promotes had done that exact job, five or six, that I think that so cool and I no. How that's not like a podcast aura were Competition show like adjusting its so neat began its is it's so funny the different worlds, because people sounds like a math equation to a lot of studios. We need more last year. We need this person be more likeable. I dont know that. Also, this person has been more like Was there anything when they're on their back on the fallen, that we can make them say while the walking other room like a funny singer them that way is the mood a bit so that that I mean it's crayfish, like one of those movies and how its really gets made by the time it gets tested by audiences this one doesn't work this audience and laughed at this line does work and made they tracked everything. It's crazy idea.
I'm writing a script for me and tom right now to segura a great that a great year in justa and it's I but I it's so funny. I I've every time I've written a script with other people. I've done it the way you're supposed to do. You know putting out a line figure out the plot, but with the one with cigarettes. Just such a ridiculous idea that I was like I'm just gonna start writing it and then, if I lose interest I'll stop and if I continue interest I'll finish it and numb how's it going it's good. It's it's good! I think it's an amazing script. If you're a fan of me and Tom's is the fucking greatest movie you'll ever see I don't know I, depending on how many people, why starts vessels, maybe we'll do maybe we'll see if we just south and networks and sea alone right now I think I place, could be that ground where people like you and I are like hey, I got a crazy movie. You might have a drink. crazy, fuckin movie, you look at alley long in its, I mean not to say that alley couldn't what Alan
dead by the way. I should not speak about anus, I really don't know, but what I do, what I can say from the outside, but I saw us alley long, it's kind of isolated, said? Listen, I have a fan base that has come to this medium, to see me and a double quadrupled have not got ten times bigger from my first pessimism special. Can I write a movie for these people back call somebody. Might she certainly the grandparents were but saying we all. I heard that when you're not was your last, but one before that and tell me if I'm wrong but this is from touring agents like I'm. We don't have any torment Therefore we have our agents from our agency, but they would talk about how one of your specials came out. A new fucking shit. You were able to play rooms twice the size that you were able to play before him, who there was probably even bigger than that it happened it happened. It happened it.
Is that miss my machine story went viral and I think when that went viral, I started selling out clubs and then once I started selling out clubs, yeah, there's kind of a there's. It's a real big jump to go from twelve hundred tickets or fifteen hundred tickets in a weekend to three thousand it's a night on another day but yeah I was, I mean I've. I've I've been very, very, very lucky, but the thing I want to the thing I want to work on, and you know the very lucky in so many respects. Is that I run into people like you know like a Joe rogan, who kind of puts, puts his glasses on you and goes hey man. You should look at the business this way a little bit and then you go that's right. I should get a podcast and I should focus on it and care about it and and then I shall have another one so like right now I have three podcasts. I have a cooking show I can tell you talked about. Are you wish? You were
besides, was that when you said that smells like bite, bert you're talking so much shit, you're fucking so much. What is it like? I think, on this free spirit and artists, he just wants to smoke weedin drink, but you are, you can be both by the way. You might wanna, you wanna be able to keep growing. So you need this part to keep this programme on building a fucking studio right now. So I wonder what the fuck I'm talking about you, I may add an I literally and billy, were building a studio like a mile from here to should be issued. Cookie show shoot the pod gas shoot at so, but my my thing is There was a guy one, ARI send our things. His name, you one short film like maybe eight years ago, and he used word remiss I'd, never heard the word remiss, I didn't run soup, I run in circles. It did you use the word remiss ever for the, of things, I said I asked my wife she goes. It means you would really really regret. If he didn't do that- and I went I like that word- and I
said to my sub. One point be remiss: why didn't make a movie in hollywood? And so so we I sold the machine as a movie and so were wrong. or developing there right now and then and then like, but I want to write once I believe I could it's so hard to it's so easy to do. Tell a joke on stage and get a room. People laugh. It is so hard to take a pan and write down a scene and then go this'll be funny and then shoot it and get people to popular, but it also willing we have instant gratification when we're run stage. The second we say something we find out. If people find it funny or not the I remember that at the beginning, especially man, the most terrifying thing personal, I don't know if you learn this mere sperience here is my favorite more but ever a writing is when you're done. You had the script. I wrote something I created and nobody's fucking shit on it. Yet it's just mine and don't like I created this world these characters. I think it's funny I really like
yes and you give it to someone and you're done for like a week while they read it and its heaven its work in Heaven. A man and then the like. We love it so you're, not the campaigners and you're like and then make it becomes like like it hurts little bit. I had to get good at being able to separate myself and understanding they're paying for this now they on It's an indian, it's mind like there's an indie I was supposed to direct, but then this happened that I wrote that I'm really happy with, but it's like for a studio movie they need they bought it. They wanted to fit their brand, so they're, giving you notes to make it fit their bread they're paying you. It is a job. Now is no longer your vision or passion, it starts like that and then it turns into you know the for the business person, about it. So, but that beginning when I handed him is my favorite, I used to print it out and like go through with a pen cause. I hate, look at the screen for so long and then
I would habit and hold it and be so proud sent it to my send it to my parents, so someone would read it and then fuckin or whatever, but then then you get no and then it becomes like all. How do I do this and then it's you know it's sometimes fund, but it's a lot of like it becomes a different type of job after that moment. What were the womb the gems you could share. I'm sure you have like personal gems that you kind of want to hold on for yourself of moments. You have a billy crystal, but what were some gems that you can share? Who you are like he's the best? is literally the best right here, having matter mona him or no, no, no! No! I'm getting compared to em right now, because we have the same hair like mild. Beautiful is roma city suckers, He was in gravity, he was she's just like in a letter the strategy we came on a rather than robin millions and by the way, talking about two people love letter. and you see him a robin on a talk, show you watch. It was he's fucking
using- and I just saw him on kimmel before this happened, and he was so prepare like it made me- feel foolish I've done. structures by now and when I get on their it's just like I try to be in the moment and try to be funny, but he can on a camel men and he had jokes and he had bits and he rushed. I just feel like an old. carson way of doing it, and I loved watching him still getting so fucking funny, but he just I get it we walk round anywhere, but he's like Everybody knows who he is in the eyes of animal. Go like I went to one dinner of his once was a birthday dinner. We because we become close cause he's just we just lot of similarities between us and our the dinner at the dinner. It's fuckin rob reiner. Martin short Billy crystal Am I like you so nervous, but he just he's around legends. He is allegedly he's he's a director writer, an actor he's done, broadway he's written songs,
somehow got comic relief raised millions before that was even a fucking thing. So he's he's a brilliant brilliant me. He really. He really is a fascinating. I had the story. I watched his latest the last thing he did, which was a semi. I I don't even know how far long ago was, but he talked about losing his father with a seven hundred sundays. Was it a broadway thing or no, it might is that where he talks, I think so yeah. I think it was in front of the house and he's kind of doing a show. Yeah yeah yeah me his he's just he's. Just so good he's he's pretty incredible it's pretty it's incredible storytelling and it's gonna be what he said is I want to launch? He told me he has never let them see you working and I was like. Oh that's so interesting is like get you. it's like when you're, when you're on stage, when you're acting, don't let them see the fucking wheels. Turning and you try to figure shit out like when you're on stage or anything get your work done work so hard in the ten thousand hours before that when you're on stage that people can see, you like
with the same when your stand up in order me when you get on stage, you worked on it for months. So when you there Now, it's time to fucking show no enemy was really interesting. I liked that a lot like dolan c working, although I guess in our improv, show there's no choice but to see us working know it's a it's a. Are you guys going to take that out and tour with that? And after This clears up when Alison schwartz yeah. We were talking with it before so we did we need a continent mean now now I think it would. It would even be so much bigger. I want are we to beyond. We were afraid that nobody would care about it because in prague sometimes and what people know it stand up, his people can get eddie murphy richer? Prior they look at specials. They could see you start off in clubs, and then you can bet you gotta cooking, show were you? Don't I mean like this? It's like fucking people not whatever before improv there's been very few specials, I did what a while ago, with a gesture of not really it's like. I was half allies. So's I cheat on Christian were really improvising, grew very funny people.
and like there's a t J, a documentary who are two incredible improvisers from Chicago and there's one more that asked hat which was used to be, but in terms of like a special and there's there's very few of them. So this that we're hoping that this could be the thing that people point to do. And it shows that, if you start often small by when we didn't get paid for improv suffer you see beetle On two years ago, or three years ago I saw do some largo, that's the first time ever got paid for improved so like watching. So that you can't or with another we can you tore with it. You can fuckin. we did Chicago better, we did carnegie hall, we did the met and then you can get a special there's, a chance. You can get us like these aren't bring before I stand up once asked why? Why do you explain it? While you explain it, You gonna stay within province problems because nobody knows what knows what didn't I mean. I was just island I last night and she idle then she was a woman should also thirteen, but the idea of
it's all in the moment. I think she kept going hold on any time. She laughs. go, did they write that and I go no baby? All of this is improper. Like ex that word, improv, like now comes from you, others so fast. He remembered you remember the first time that do you remember? the first time that you took up his shirt and he felt like that would be a stamp of how like one, most like that's almost like I'm fucking. That moment do remember, Duma. Why remember the feeling what wasn't why you continue to be like this is how I can this is how at the beginning of the show, whatever this is, how I can show people who I am and I'm sure you've explained that for no no, no! No, I I heard this. This is this. Is the. Closest I'll ever I've, I'm not answered this properly ever It is great. Then this is the episode dear. I, when I first started stand up. I remember growing up
weird, I never had a beard. My life and someone said: hey, you know, you're, not gonna, be funny with a beard. Beards aren't funny and I was like what and they're like beards are funny, and I said I was talking to patrice nice of produce annual yeah. I used to buy small time his bread and he was bright and he said patrice is a very, very interesting guy really but with tat, and he said you know oh yeah man, white guys, can't have beards. He would in the conversation we were having, he said, white guys can have as of civil. What's the difference, why can black as a beard he has like, has can't have beards that guys moustaches and they. So why can black eyes had moustaches use of your What are you gonna must as major gay and I put up a slave. really it is like. Oh yeah, and he goes. He goes as a matter of fact, and he said this to me. He said prior in order to get ready for a special he grow beard same carlin could you're not funny.
the beards. They knew that they grew the beard and their jokes work. Wouldn't it be. I heard that They just shave, it off do the special and it was going to murder. I don't want it really For a year and one of his specials, so china with fucking is patrice anyway, so this was This was something that was told me the bag in in nineteen. Ninety eight that I registered in it stuck with me forever cause those little tricks: I've always loved tricks and things. So I go up in a I used to rip my shirt off and then kill a beer and then throw my shirt back on? It would get a laugh or whatever why don't they will tell us at the beginning what it so it's the first time you did it and they do it on purpose. Unless came out, it's amazing I just rifted, often ripped off plate was pleasant. Nuts. I killed a beer, the plain black betty, bye, bye rammed jam, and I put it back, one I'd go on and do my show right. I just do that and it will be like a a moment where I do it, and sometimes I wouldn't, but sometimes I would and then one night I met the columbus funny bone and I ripped off a killer beer.
And something happens in the audience where it's in the moment- and we start fucking around with that- I forget what my shirt on, unlike fifteen minutes, By an eye I start interacting, and I go oh shit, I want my shirt off and I want to grab this woman goes came off and I went. You keep it off. They laughed so did my whole show my shirt off and then a comic are respected, said you didn't whole, showed your shirt off and no one noticed like no one gave a fuck. You think Imagine how good that show it have been, if you just have your shirt on that would emerge I mean you add like a hindrance in my stupid, fucking brain. All I heard was that, like richard pryor and george carlin grown a beard, I thought if I do stand up on the road at these funny bones. the shirt off then, when I go to a special article on the screen and I'm going to be ten times funnier cause. I will work this material with a handicap. being shortlist What was the beard yeah yeah, and medical issued a special like I'm a guy.
Super uncomfortable shirt avenues, and apparently years. My sort of I I can't do can't deal with desert is like that's the biggest mistake you you never make it. Literally giving a reason be bored be able to change the channel, and I was like really in there like I feeling the people was see that you're gonna go. No thanks, engage a gentle and they were one hundred percent right. I, the lowest raided showtime spicebush ever had now adversely adverts. Finally, when the machine story went viral, my shirt off for no fucking, and like it. No one sees me rip off is just a thirty minute clip of me shoreless telling a story about getting above the russian mafia people love the story and we need an explanation for why my search up they just go. Others, a sky they all that all the math that you'd do in watching someone represent up was now removed. major said. Guy with a shirt, ah tells the good story, that's what we like and then also I became branded as the shortest.
I hope you will come up, maybe like Are you sure this guy in Bulgaria, what is your reaction to that, because that essentially was not something you were trying to do. Man was not my intention and you've embraced it. So all right. So what was your reaction to it? Why did you embrace it because you're like fuck it now at least I have a little stamp as it was it wasn't until I started doing theaters? I think, and I would take my shirt off and you'd hear you know fuckin thousands of people cheer like screens, where it and and and now the effect, the reason I would really aware no I don't I don't want that. I dont I'd be dead. I would therefore reason I took my show in a very very very very first time, just as it as I rip off. Put it back on was the cheer myself.
The way that you would run or letterman will run. It was the cheer myself up kissed, sometimes you'd, miss your family would be a thursday night. An early friday show and you'll be like. I don't have it in a night it. But if I read my shirt off I would feel silly and I would feel like. Oh my god fuckin lie. Nope, you just tell jokes, you have the greatest job in the world, and now, when I take my the last time, I took my shirt opposite. The constitution hall two shows lay so sunday read my start off. Four thousand people lose their fight and it makes me giggle the way I intended the first time I just go. This is so silly man like I'm getting paid to tell jokes fucking have a good time. It's it's such a a light. Like it really just makes me giggle the thing that I love also about. That is that I did a shower, show TAT my lord David Evans. He let me do this Analyze live thing, but it didn't turn into a show, but he did. Let me try to satellite is that
you were told not to do it, you did it for showtime any fucking bomb, they were right and then you somehow proved then we're all, and that is now the thing that people that's like that have lobby in response when they see community assured, thereby fuck you bert does that it's like it, that's amazing. I remember there's a woman from showtime lineaments helen and she was she is awesome man. She thought a lot of showtime has been so kind to me. Man they've been great. I I got. I have no bad words that Gary garfinkle was a very, very sweet man he's since passed, and he used that he was. I loved him and Helen, was backstage at my taping for the machine, as she said so now are you gonna do both with your shirt off and I said, you're coming to I'd have we are probably shows why what have you done with our shirt on and then moment, shirt off, and I thought with I think, between the shows people are not gonna be able to edit between these shows, because I know, but they will have options and I went. I went
Am I doing my shirt off? She goes okay, I'm just going to put this out there. She wasn't being a dick or anything just. I was going to put this out there like it. It may be a reason. People change the channel because they're going to see you and be like that's not normally attracted to that like and I was like, the deal, we're gonna back into a corner, a love story. What's so whilst quarantine for you I get anxious every now and then sleeping very poorly. Ever since I got hot here, I'm severe worth yeah I'm because we ve been duped. Four militants works and I always script. I wish grip someplace. All my time is kind of like every day. I kind of work for the majority of the day and that's great until I fuckin members, something I watched their wives look I'll be nautical about that counts are currently no that's oftener and bombs. Me man I am. I am proud to belong. if something out there to make me anxious I'll jump on that. So just like, if someone
saying great things about our special up, I'm the one person back our box, but it's like, and although we ve been so lucky, everybody's been so kind of others better, but so for this it's been it's been like Debbie times or just forget. Your brain has to. I deal with this. You kind of have to not think about it all day or you'll. Just that's all you'll do is a beautiful time to have for both of us. I think both are specials came out at a great time because I know for a fact I will. I am looking for distractions and ass an right now. Nighttime is rough for me because I'm good with wake up coffee, treadmill, podcast, radio pike, ass jump in the pool get snack. I'm still go with everything. The man come like four o clock, five o clock. I am now drinking I'm in been drinking this just because I'm I am, I gonna, think that's conducive to being healthy. the council's new in your kids. Why did they appointed
we're gonna Bala jack, no one can arise in improv honey, though so, like the night time have been taught me like I've been silva. What is when something is tough for you. What does that mean? That is what is nighttime duty or scrolling. I get it. We call it scrolling in my house where I feel like every five minutes, I'm doing this again. Yes, yes, we're going to the closet to see like old women in nature. are granola bars and Don't and my daughter's make fun of me as I literally walk in. The living room. Unlike what sort of we watch him tonight underlying as soon as I see that colleagues skipper fingers, they grow as soon as we cease gave her fingers. scrolling. I agree. I find myself on twitter too much I'm off twitter right now, I'm I'm not stop it well right now I had a fuckin little. I had a joke of sideways on me and I was- and I by the way did was not. It was now
There is no ill intentioned, nor do I think it shouldn't a bad l intention. We just got, I think, there's a lot of naked heavily right now in the world and its finding its way on the internet, and so am I gave no it I'm gonna fuckin hopped out for them and a lot of people who cannot left twitter, are you on instagram and also some big instagram guy as what it is. I feel like. That's a big one right now. A lot of my friends are like doing insta stories all the time yeah I just it's about push content for me. I don't need to pull out exactly what is push contact. Both content like I'll off. I can to cheer me up to like record myself edge scam put in an outdoor shower. He would go guys, you know, like em, the treadmill there's gonna megabit enter this demand the girls but pulling on roma? Let's see what they're up to that fuckin as it was gonna need that that's interesting, you got it all. You forgot, I serve a surfboard burner. I've! Never, but you surf now. Never it's either. You love that. Are you just want a teen choice, a word and you d shown it off.
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the idea yeah yeah. I hit up Jillian she's. The best she's brought back by the way Gillian is the greatest the greatest gilliam yeah she's amazing. I hope she's watching as I hit up. I hit them up, trying to get her. copy. So when spaceport comes out and there are allowed to release copies, I love the watch. It have you wanna talk about it again and promote the fuck out of it. I can't I'm very happy for you doing so well, and it seems, like everybody loves you and I can tell you and your family and everything it makes me very proud. I can't tell you man how I know you know this, but if you ever are caught up region. of comments or or your question, I think I know from my point You when I need be shows this. You are fucking so funny you make me laugh so hard. You really do I it. I think I have so much material on youtube for anyone. Listening that can go. Just all you have to do is type in fucking bastard,
why I shall know: what's it was those city, oh come on. Our view genre general feels the put the funniest cocking character just type in that. So Thank you for doing this. Can guidelines on the celebrated as it is like a second third? However, talking makes me so happy that we did human. I appreciate it congrats continued success and, like I said please, please please anything if you want to promote I'm an open avenue. Thank you, but I appreciate it best of luck with everything take care stay safe. Tell I say thank you for watching, so you excited hearing them the
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