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everybody. I like that you

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mentioned me before. Was it all good? It

0:52

was. After you worried you, right? Yeah, no, no,

0:54

no. I've been talking about it all the time. It was. But

0:57

I will say, some

1:00

people's entry point to you was your

1:02

wardrobe malfunction on TikTok. Do you remember

1:04

this? Oh, God. Oh,

1:06

God. Was it like my wiener?

1:08

Yes. Yeah, it was

1:10

like bouncing around. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, that's a

1:12

good introduction. Yeah, yeah. That introduction. Now they know

1:15

you're working. Yeah, I can add work. I mean,

1:17

right. It's kind of hard to tune away now. Yeah. Capture

1:20

them at that moment. They have to buy

1:22

a ticket. Yeah, and I'm an idiot. I don't even know. I'm

1:25

going to dance around my house and my friend's side.

1:27

Did you see what you posted? I'm like, what? Your

1:30

dick is like... And I went back and looked.

1:33

I'm like, oh, man, it is. Wow. Oh,

1:36

I respect you for just looking at that and then carrying on.

1:38

Yeah, I just... Yeah, I know it. Yeah. Well,

1:43

hell yeah, man. Thank God I have a big one. Yeah. Yeah.

1:48

Thank God. Is it right? Then they'd be like, oh, you see

1:50

them? Yeah. It's like this

1:52

little... Yeah. Yeah. So,

1:55

yeah. So, how many times do you watch it a

1:57

day? I mean... form

2:12

a a

2:57

a a a

3:02

a a

3:06

a a

3:11

a a a

3:17

a a

3:24

a a

3:28

a a

3:36

a a

3:44

a a

3:53

a a a

3:59

a 20

4:02

something, 20 20s. Yeah.

4:04

So I didn't know what I was doing. I had

4:06

no clue. I haven't told them that.

4:08

Yeah. I didn't. You know, ready, set and I'm

4:11

like, you know, I don't know what I'm doing.

4:13

And they're like, yeah, you're good. And action.

4:15

I don't know what I'm doing. And

4:18

they just say this, you know, well, it turned out

4:20

okay, because we, you know, the more we got into

4:22

the more you took, you know, I could I do

4:24

stand up. So stand up is way different than movies

4:27

and every aspect of it. And, you know,

4:29

Larry Miller was a brilliant comic that was on the

4:31

one of the cast members. And he, he took me

4:33

aside one day, we were watching the dailies and he

4:35

says, you want to see, can I give you

4:37

a little tip? And I said, please give

4:39

me anything. And he brought me in and

4:42

he said, you see how you're when you're doing this? Let

4:44

me show you this scene we did today. So he did

4:46

something with his, his eyebrow,

4:48

just he just by moving his eyebrow, got

4:51

the got the laugh, it was the punch line,

4:54

watching that little one move as opposed to me,

4:56

you know, jumping around and trying to but but

4:58

then again, it was always props. And so I

5:00

was part of it, I had to be kind

5:02

of bigger than life, jilly, because I'm jumping around

5:05

with big props and surfboards and all this stuff.

5:07

But the actual scenes where you

5:09

had to be serious, he learned, I learned a

5:11

lot, like this scene with Jack Warden. I mean,

5:13

it was a cool kind of a cool scene.

5:16

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, for all the, you

5:18

know, whatever shit people used to give you, you

5:20

did a lot of crazy. Yeah.

5:23

I mean, it's awesome. Actually,

5:25

the the scene where the

5:28

woman flushes the toilet. Yes.

5:30

So it's funny, because my

5:32

cousins, they show like they showed me this movie, I

5:34

think I was maybe like six or seven, we were

5:36

all about the same age. And they like they love

5:39

the movie. They're like, you gotta watch Chairman of the

5:41

Board. So we watched Chairman of the Board. And that

5:44

scene, for some reason, was like

5:46

stamped in my mind. And I'm

5:49

not exaggerating for the rest of my life. I've

5:51

always had this thought that while

5:53

I'm taking a shower, someone's gonna storm the

5:55

bathroom and flush the toilet and turn the

5:57

water cold. So In a weird way. That's

6:00

the impact. Know you're a fan. Got

6:02

my life you live from in fear

6:04

in the soured it will soon movie

6:06

making a meme there you know I

6:08

go back and look x get some

6:10

a run in a Civil Props a

6:12

team of the then of is it

6:14

was suicide yeah now. So.

6:16

You've been in the game a long

6:18

time. Yeah, yeah as it over thirty

6:21

years at this point. Oh yeah, yeah

6:23

yeah. I'm I'm Thirty Nine Thirty nine.

6:25

Oh my God. And vote on Forty.

6:28

That's M Adamant for your next year.

6:30

The Forty years. Yeah, Forty Years He

6:32

remembered. I'm. On the veteran

6:34

now yeah of bench an old guy which

6:36

is cool it yeah i like as the

6:38

reality is it is i guess me think

6:41

about when you meet when you're not his

6:43

school of be young kid that once to

6:45

ask. The. Will guide slam that they

6:47

will get that a young people in

6:49

a real kids wanna say what's your

6:52

take on this isn't this fun Their

6:54

be son visit diverse roles yeah I

6:56

still do a child yeah but as

6:58

we're on whether don't do memory like

7:01

just for the people as thing that

7:03

aren't familiar like with your entire career

7:05

do member like one of your first

7:07

performances ever like a jovial that absolutely

7:10

This is of the rent skill or

7:12

in the in the cause I'm. A

7:15

librarian had so room office sinuses and

7:17

that they serve beer at night. And

7:20

know there's a stage us to do what

7:22

he calls I go there and do have

7:24

been a comedy innocence great indian added as

7:26

and on our do a buddy of mine

7:29

doing so I went up there has to

7:31

start telling job yes I mean like George

7:33

Carlin jokes and a Richard Pryor jokes and

7:35

you know jokes and had been set for

7:37

not my stuff cs and it was just

7:39

said to come from wind up doing it

7:41

and and be laughing that i i sorry

7:43

like this and than a couple more times

7:46

came by the said. They

7:48

would ask me actually, hey, duel in

7:50

Wednesday's you animate dead like comedy night

7:52

so I said sure. So every Wednesday

7:54

I would have convinced thirty becoming more

7:56

popular than the kids would come and

7:58

drink beers and. In an a

8:01

little show and they would start

8:03

slowly progress in to them my

8:05

own material years as after doing.

8:08

Others jokes and so I

8:10

started thinking of birth awaited.

8:13

To. Come up my own jokes.

8:15

In my first proper was a a

8:17

a neighborhood crime much sign for guess

8:20

and them made stolen it. It

8:22

was on my dorm xy I just rip them off

8:24

my dorm I walked in, i said sorry I'm late,

8:26

knows the neighborhood and held up signs and I said

8:29

how good is or grandma she's in I'm watching the

8:31

sign or. And

8:33

have a laugh. Namesake was clever and funny

8:35

and new. He has kind of rice, told

8:37

the size of his ally, elements of a

8:39

to find year and was smart you know

8:41

is explicitly who go Get or Kremlin sense

8:43

of. And then I started again. I need

8:45

to have more were signs may be like

8:48

think it's so went through the city boca

8:50

and I literally said that's a funny sign.

8:52

Tubes was on a train or is it know

8:54

the train horn. Between these hours and my deaths,

8:56

the hours you need to train Horn geek Hint:

8:58

see the trees here. It is like hold that

9:00

one down. And then I did.

9:03

There is a main. The main road they went

9:05

through Boca Raton was Com Butts Road. yeah so

9:07

I said the ah to get that when he

9:09

does Israel. The ass holes left the as slow

9:11

it was just started become a little I'm. A

9:14

sign bet you know and I had always

9:16

like fifteen different signs that slow children at

9:18

play. If you look at the signed is

9:20

this day them a stick figure with no

9:22

feet as one of the slow the internet

9:24

me see this as a so it was

9:26

also people seen in oh no I go

9:28

that's funny I see the Sunday dinner and

9:30

put this into the ah yes so it's

9:32

gonna come up with the things that were

9:34

M. M people that

9:36

influenced me comedy were like people that wrote

9:39

like George Carlin began to come up with

9:41

that were or gallagher like act and as

9:43

a gag where he we'd see. But.

9:45

Was also clever like you can make itself know like not

9:48

like just holding it does coffee cup he would have to

9:50

be something that would be. In yeah

9:52

that would have do something. I was

9:54

it. You know I'm A, I'm

9:56

sure. That was a pretty

9:58

crazy moment to. be

10:01

acknowledged by Carlin because didn't

10:03

you know like if you're

10:05

saying in college you say his material is

10:07

like right you know right just to give

10:10

it a shot and then you

10:12

eventually you know his name

10:14

comes out of his face I mean

10:16

that must have been insane for you I show it my show overnight

10:18

I do I think about been influenced in my

10:21

life and it was a tradition my friends but

10:23

I was sitting on a couch just like this

10:25

yeah and we watch the HBO special every time

10:27

it aired and so my

10:29

buddies when I'll sit down and we hit play

10:31

and we watch the George Carlin special and then

10:33

sure enough we're just watching it and he says

10:35

you know who packed your bags he says you

10:37

didn't pack your bags he says no carrot top

10:39

pack my bags and I'm

10:42

sitting on my friends like what

10:44

the right the only moment the

10:46

boner you know so like

10:48

sorry fellas I had no idea that big boner back huge

10:52

back that's right everyone's knows about

10:54

now so I can't lie what

10:56

it was everywhere yeah so

10:59

that was it's still my still watch it my watch

11:01

it nightly I still it's still exciting because I think

11:03

George Carlin you know saying your name yeah you first

11:05

get in the business you know you you're

11:07

watching them and thinking about people like that that are

11:10

mentors and you get the he says your name

11:12

it's yeah that's a cool moment because and everyone you

11:14

know would lie if they said they didn't get excited

11:17

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12:23

and then when into comedy which is

12:25

the normal thing Radio? yeah but damn

12:27

near as and is my marketing degree

12:29

noom and never. Pursued

12:32

the comedy thing and then I

12:34

got out of exec couldn't Good

12:36

gig you know, gonna gigs together

12:38

so sorry shucking oysters and doing

12:40

mean I'm. Guessing

12:42

peoples' weights, fair and and businesses

12:44

gigs and then one day. Which

12:47

I find to be really kind of

12:49

cool. Story was a second oysters and

12:51

this this couple came in his to

12:53

compulsively and I was do minute my

12:55

normal me know. I would has

12:57

a jukebox on his own. On him as

12:59

jukebox the plays music, plays music. his assistant

13:02

and I'm. I would dance

13:04

around the bar you know, like Mick Jagger

13:06

seem Tigers dummies was on its while second

13:08

oysters and is kind of making people laugh

13:10

and. Discover.

13:13

Just like. Stamina God you looks

13:15

like this. this comedian you must have a

13:17

twin like of hims A I see of

13:19

God forbid I have a twin and I

13:21

said no it is a guy. Swear to

13:23

God you have a twin and he's He

13:25

lives and he does Zebra You go by

13:28

Carrot Top and. And. That the

13:30

as I get carrot Top are some

13:32

guys like Awesome! We disarm in Tampa.

13:35

And I'm thinking oh well really they go

13:37

the main. he looked like mom is weird.

13:40

like the mannerisms and everything. As a yeah,

13:42

never been a look him up. And

13:44

then. now and try to

13:46

pursue to and have those people med kind of

13:48

come in said that i probably would never be

13:50

while so they came in and they they made

13:52

seen me and said there was great so yeah

13:54

some their says went back and started to get

13:57

some gigs together in the night then of course

13:59

i didn't stop him back for yeah

14:01

till now now am I did

14:03

is Wikipedia lying to me or like your

14:05

parents were NASA my father was your dad

14:07

worked for NASA my father worked in NASA

14:09

yeah that's all when you hear Houston we

14:12

have a problem you hear Larry right after

14:14

that yeah yeah yeah I worked at NASA

14:16

and I trained astronauts you know

14:20

I didn't even think anything of it when your kid

14:23

you didn't think your dad's a nerd means he's gonna go to

14:25

work of course and I mean he said you want to go

14:27

to you know a launch I'm like no I don't want to

14:29

go to a launch I'm gonna watch Brady Bunch so

14:33

you drag me down to the Space Center and you

14:35

know watch launches all the time and one

14:38

in particular was I think it was four

14:40

thirteen and my dad says we're

14:42

going to launch I was like man so I go

14:45

down there I'm you're gonna meet Bob Crippen and

14:47

John Young I mean these are the these are going up in

14:49

the space shuttle is a big deal and

14:51

so I said you don't care and

14:53

there's it was they had two tents and they had

14:56

a tent for like like

14:58

hot dogs and cokes and sodas and whatnot they

15:00

had a beer tent so

15:02

my dad says what do you want what do you

15:04

want I said I don't know just a coke and

15:06

a hot dog and my dad says looked at the

15:08

line a beer line was so long

15:10

and the coke line was three

15:13

times his line so my dad

15:15

says you're drinking a fucking beer I am

15:17

he's like yeah I'm like all right don't

15:22

tell your mom but I'm not waiting that fucking coke

15:25

beer you're gonna get a beer here drink it it's

15:27

fine so I remember he gave

15:29

me the beer and I remember watching the launch

15:31

and I think I think I saw three launches

15:33

yeah yeah that was so loopy and

15:36

I did I kept you know are you okay I'm saying I

15:38

don't like this stuff it's not very good and I get home

15:40

and I my mom's like how was the launch I'm like I

15:42

think it was great I got drunk my dad what did you

15:44

think it drug you know now you know I threw

15:47

my dad on the bus you're not supposed to tell your mom you had

15:49

beer so yeah so that's my first

15:51

beer didn't at a launch at NASA I

15:54

do that's one of one yeah yeah pretty incredible

15:56

it was a it was a cool you know

15:58

growing up with my dad working I

16:01

think that's why maybe probably got some of

16:03

my creative side

16:06

of me from my father

16:08

being an engineer and being

16:10

creative. He made things at

16:12

NASA that were instrumental

16:15

too that still work

16:17

today, the clamps that hold the 747

16:19

onto the shuttle so

16:21

they could transport it from California. He made

16:24

the little clamp to hold it that released

16:26

it too. I remember him stressing over that

16:28

one day at work at home. I said,

16:30

what are you making? I got a goddamn

16:33

clamp or it's going to

16:35

be heavy enough to hold the shuttle

16:37

and it's got the shuttle off the

16:39

747. I'm like, I'm just making

16:42

spaghetti if you want to come help me. I'm

16:44

making some doodles. That's

16:47

awesome. So you grow up with

16:49

a space engineer. Yeah. And then

16:51

my mom was the fun one. She had a tennis

16:53

shop and so I played tennis and she

16:56

had more free spirit and

16:59

so it's fun. So

17:01

then fast forward again to

17:03

the oyster shucking couple. So

17:06

they give you the spark. You get back in.

17:09

Was it like you're obviously

17:11

performing? I'm assuming you're touring. Was it

17:13

like a TV spot that really kind

17:16

of blew everything up or did it

17:18

kind of… Well, I

17:20

mean I had a weird… I have an interesting kind

17:23

of study story with my career because a

17:25

lot of people get like a show and

17:27

they become that way. I

17:32

always did it… They call it grassroots in a sense

17:34

where there's a lot of bands that

17:37

do this. They're touring bands and they're

17:39

grassroots marketing and they just hit

17:41

the country worldwide and they didn't particularly

17:43

do a TV show or even have

17:46

a hit on the radio. But

17:48

they're popular so I was kind of in

17:50

the sense part that, part not. I was

17:52

hitting so many college campuses and doing all

17:54

these colleges, I'd do like two a day.

17:56

Two a day? Yeah, two

17:58

a day. One in the morning. at their cafeteria

18:00

and then one at their evening at their night

18:02

at their like arena. Wow.

18:05

And then the next morning go to the next college and I'm like Notre Dame

18:07

and UCLA and Ohio State and you

18:09

name every college I probably hit

18:11

twice. So I had this kind of cult

18:16

following in a sense with the college

18:19

peep kids and I mean we'd go to a town at

18:21

their college and it would be like jam. And

18:24

then I would get a call and say hey you want

18:26

to do Regis and Kathie Lee or

18:29

the Sonicshia. So I would go on Regis and Kathie Lee

18:31

which is like 90 year old ladies.

18:34

I would do my show and then they loved it

18:36

and then the people at college would be like well

18:38

we saw him at our college and then I'd do

18:40

the Sonicshia and that'd be more like middle America. So

18:43

I was kind of hitting and then I had a show

18:45

on the Cartoon Network. So I was kind of hitting every

18:47

demographic almost at the same time where people

18:49

were like oh I saw him on my college show.

18:51

Oh I saw him on the Sonicshia. I saw him

18:53

on an AT&T commercial. So

18:56

it became just kind

18:58

of everywhere. One

19:02

particular show I think really made

19:04

me go. It

19:07

was all of the combination of all those shows. Yeah. It

19:10

was just that momentum that you were doing.

19:12

Right. It wasn't a particular sitcom

19:14

or show. I mean doing the tight shows and

19:16

all those other shows were very helpful

19:18

because they were late night shows and back then they

19:21

had a lot of the greatings. I

19:24

would argue that's essentially what people

19:26

are doing the same thing now. It's just like

19:28

the internet exposes you to a lot of young

19:31

people. Sure. Absolutely.

19:33

It's funny because I was just

19:36

watching some interviews you had

19:38

done and I pulled

19:40

up two comments that I

19:42

thought were funny and some

19:44

were cool. But this

19:47

one, this guy came to my college canvas

19:49

back in 1994 and was the funniest comic

19:51

I've ever seen. He blew everyone away. When I

19:53

would go through the comments, this

19:55

was that Rogan clip. 4,000

20:00

comments there and a lot of them are

20:03

recounting like you Coming

20:05

to their college. No cool. Yeah, and I thought

20:07

it was pretty like amazing how many people remembered

20:09

you and they had very like detailed Stories like

20:11

oh, I was here and oh, yeah. Yeah, and

20:14

there's usually just they're all plastered drunk I don't

20:16

know if they remember that yeah, yeah, I remember

20:18

anything This

20:21

one I thought was kind of interesting. I'm

20:23

on my fifth caretop video And

20:26

I'm starting to really like this guy. So it took five videos

20:31

All right, yeah He

20:34

really got the shit of it his whole

20:36

career and he's still in there there's ever

20:38

going to be an advocate for Bull

20:40

for bullies for victims of bullying. It

20:42

will be carrot top. Yeah, okay.

20:45

This is the part I thought was super interesting if

20:48

he was ever put into war he'd be the guy

20:50

you want in your platoon He

20:52

would have many skills to think of ways to

20:54

fool the enemy and he'd be so loyal to

20:56

those who had his back All

20:59

right. I thought those are roundabout way of

21:02

just trying to pay you a compliment. Yeah, I guess yeah I

21:04

guess they're thinking that I would have some some

21:06

maneuvers some way with some proper something to protect

21:08

us and go at the enemy

21:11

Yeah, yeah, hopefully that would happen I

21:14

would be Love

21:16

me. Yeah, I would probably protect you if you

21:18

like me the first time around. Yeah, it took

21:20

five times Yeah, yeah, you're

21:23

not in my platoon. Yeah, I guess five battles

21:25

then it would take yeah Yeah, yeah for you

21:27

to be on his you

21:29

know his favorite list But yeah, man, you

21:32

know, I thought it was interesting how you kind of called out

21:34

in your career You know when people would give you flack or

21:36

whatever, you know You

21:38

would finish doing a big show and then

21:40

you'd see someone giving you shit and you'd

21:42

like wrestling with that juxtaposition I think I

21:45

would say a lot of people I

21:48

think in entertainment now Like

21:51

I don't know it may maybe feel differently But when

21:53

I hear you speak about these things, I almost feel

21:55

that you were charting a lot of

21:57

waters that I think people experience now Or

22:00

when someone gets kind of well known on the

22:02

internet, not for a huge dong but maybe

22:04

for something else, you know, they

22:08

get this weird like imposter syndrome. And I'll talk

22:10

to people and they'll be like, oh, I put

22:12

something out. A lot of people like it but

22:15

I see people making fun of it or I see people, you know,

22:18

in disagreement with it. I

22:21

guess like as a young guy

22:23

going through that, did

22:25

you – what were those moments like

22:27

where you kind of had to block that out and keep doing your

22:29

thing? Yeah, that's exactly kind of what

22:31

I did. I would

22:33

just – I would like go back

22:36

as something as silly as to consider

22:38

the source, you know. Yeah, yeah, I

22:40

remember saying that. But I would

22:42

just think, wait a minute, I was talking

22:44

to George Carlin yesterday and he was

22:46

telling me how funny I am and then

22:49

I got this Yahoo and some

22:51

internet site saying that I'm

22:54

a piece of junk and worthless and

22:56

a hack and whatever and

22:58

not funny and just whatever.

23:00

And I'd say, oh,

23:03

you had to wait and find to block that out

23:05

and just go think of the George Carlin and that's

23:08

kind of what you did, you know. Thank God I

23:10

had so many positive people over

23:14

the negatives because you know what, that's usually another thing

23:16

too. I mean, I've got a lot

23:18

of love. I mean, that's why I've been doing this so long.

23:21

I have the show and we're still jamming out the

23:23

show so if no one was coming to

23:25

the shows anymore and it was not – then I

23:27

would start thinking, oh, maybe they're right. But

23:30

it's still jamming and you're still doing it and so

23:32

you just – I've always kind of just kept to

23:35

my own thing. I always thought even way, way back

23:37

when I was young, I would say,

23:39

I'm not going to worry about other

23:41

comics, you know, what they're doing because I

23:43

have to do my act anyhow. So everything

23:45

I did in my

23:47

act was something I thought of and

23:49

I never even stopped once to think what the

23:51

other guy was doing. I barely ever watched other

23:53

comics because I was preparing to do mine. And

23:56

if I did see a comic that was funny, I would say, God, in

23:59

fact, that was funny. And I

24:01

had many, many friends. There were thousands of

24:03

friends that are comics that we were like best

24:05

of friends and we all dig

24:07

each other's act and everyone's different styles

24:09

and that's what makes it funny. I

24:11

mean sitting in a room with a

24:13

lunch table with all comics is priceless.

24:17

I mean everyone's got their own little shtick and

24:19

their mood and their thing and everyone

24:21

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24:23

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24:25

work. You filter out the other. You've got

24:27

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24:29

there's always going to be that. If

24:32

everyone loved Caratop it wouldn't be any fun. You've

24:34

got to have a little bit of... But

24:37

there's more love than there's hate. Yeah I was going to say. If

24:39

I have a joke where a joke doesn't do well and it's kind

24:42

of meant to be just

24:44

so I can do the Carson-ish

24:46

kind of thing. Just so the

24:48

joke bombs I can do this kind of look and

24:50

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24:52

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24:54

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24:56

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24:58

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Yeah, I was going to say I think at a point it's probably

26:16

not, I

26:20

wouldn't say easy, but it's reasonable that

26:22

if you're continuously getting a lot of

26:24

love, you can... ...you

26:27

can convince yourself, I can trust this and

26:30

I don't have to listen to this other stuff. And

26:32

I mean if people keep showing up to see you,

26:35

how right can the people be who are always

26:37

trying to take the chunk out of you? They

26:40

almost need you there. Yeah, I

26:42

just think it's, I mean the length of

26:45

your career is like, it's fucking awesome man,

26:47

it's just super impressive. The length of my

26:49

penis too. Yeah, let's not forget. Don't

26:51

go back to that again, but I'm sorry, I had to. I

26:55

have it on loop, so it's hard for me to get it out of my mind. We all do. Yeah.

27:01

Yeah, dude. It

27:04

seems like you still love it though. My penis? Yeah.

27:08

I love, I love, absolutely, I love this job more

27:10

than anything in the world and I find it to

27:13

be, because everyone says to me like, dude, when are

27:15

you going to retire and when are you going to

27:17

get... Like you still have fun

27:20

and I don't know how, yeah, I have more fun

27:22

now than I, and I don't know

27:24

the exact, one that I maybe just wonder you

27:26

realize you, you, you just

27:28

kind of got into a rhythm and you kind of know what you're

27:30

doing so you feel a little better. Yeah. Because

27:33

I did tell George Carlin that one time. I asked

27:35

him as an idiot, I didn't know what

27:37

he, I just said, what's it like to

27:39

be you where you got it all, like you got it.

27:41

Yeah. And he said,

27:44

what are you talking about? And I said, you know,

27:46

you're like, you're George Carlin, you don't go up there and

27:48

like, you're like, you, you, you kill it every night because

27:50

you're, you're, you're a polished pro. It must be nice to

27:52

have that feeling when you go up there that you're just

27:54

going to nail it again. And he said, I ain't like,

27:56

shit, I don't know, I'm still learning every day, I don't,

27:58

I even know what you're talking about. talking about. So pardon

28:01

me, I think he meant, you know, he's

28:03

just a perfectionist but I think it probably is nice to

28:05

have a, I mean I do go up

28:07

there now with a pretty good, I know of my

28:09

flow and my outline of where I'm gonna go and

28:12

what's gonna, you kind of, I mean

28:14

you don't bomb anymore, you can't,

28:17

it's kind of bound proof. So

28:19

you know how to do the show, you know, how

28:22

to take every crowd in beginning to end. You might have

28:24

one that just, you know, last week we had one that

28:26

the crowd wouldn't so hot but we've made fun of the

28:28

fact that the crowd wasn't so hot. Then

28:31

the crowd was great, like you just had to

28:33

work them around. You got to take a two

28:35

to a ten. Yeah. You just don't take a

28:37

ten to a two. Yes. That's what

28:39

you don't want to do. Yeah. They were so good and

28:41

then I fucked it up. Yeah. I was gonna do it

28:43

again. I'm like very familiar

28:46

taking a two to a ten. Yeah, you

28:48

can do it. Yeah. Yeah. So how many

28:52

days a week do you perform now?

28:55

Six. Yeah. My manager has a car payment

28:57

so I have to work. Yeah, we got to make sure. Yeah,

28:59

Ferraris man, they don't pay themselves.

29:03

I'm not a Ferrari guy. No, no. I'm

29:06

a pickup truck guy. Yeah, I mean I'm a

29:08

trucker hat and this is me dressed up by

29:10

the way. Yeah. You make your clothes. I like

29:12

to look homeless so people don't ask me for

29:14

money. That

29:16

guy's broke. He's a good strategist. Yeah. They never

29:18

asked me. That guy doesn't have a fucking dime.

29:20

No. Yeah. No strangers and no family. They want

29:23

to come after you. Yeah. You dress broke, no

29:25

one ask you for anything. Yeah. But

29:27

you make your clothes. Is that right? I do. I mean

29:29

I'm almost everything I kind of if I don't

29:31

make full of it, I will add two or

29:33

yeah or do something like I've added the patch

29:36

on the front or I'll add this or add

29:38

something some paint and do something to it. Yeah.

29:40

Kind of make it mine. Yeah. That thing

29:43

is cool man. So you're doing six nights a

29:45

week and I'm sure this you

29:47

know I'm partially digging into this because again

29:49

I want everyone

29:51

listening to this to kind of get the full scope

29:53

of you and you've

29:56

been doing that how many years now roughly? Sure

30:00

in Vegas and yeah about 30 something

30:02

years. Okay, okay, so 30 some and

30:06

Just done them still performing out there. No, I

30:08

think he comes in and out in and out He

30:10

does it but got it. He's not there full-time. I

30:12

don't believe Miss somebody

30:14

shows that you know, that's nothing that's changed with

30:16

Vegas You know when I first started doing that's

30:19

what I wanted to ask you is how is

30:21

like I guess because I would imagine in the

30:23

crowds you would see a change or like yeah

30:25

You know what I guess what was

30:27

it like when you first started and what do they feel

30:29

like now? It's it's it's

30:32

completely different. I'll tell you I mean them

30:34

still There's still awesome

30:36

audiences, but yeah The

30:38

times have changed and the things in the number of shows

30:40

and playing it sounds weird though Like

30:42

when I started it was before MGM Grand was built. So

30:44

there was like There's

30:46

no New York New York with a Bellagio. There's

30:48

no wind. There's no encore. Yeah, so there was you

30:51

know, Caesar's Bally's a

30:53

few other ones and that was it so there on

30:56

any given night. There's probably a

30:58

dozen shows doesn't showrooms and

31:01

now there's 100

31:03

showrooms. Yeah, maybe yeah, so

31:06

all everything in that aspect has changed

31:08

you just the growth and the and the number of Shows

31:12

that are there and the kind of shows are there, you

31:14

know when I was there too when I first started They're

31:16

like Vegas and like then that's where you go to like,

31:19

you know retire, right? No, I

31:22

said no, that's Branson bitch And

31:28

here Branson's were you but Not

31:32

off by Vegas, you know So

31:34

I said Vegas is not that are you talking about

31:37

this? Yeah, Vegas is like, you know, Wayne Newton and

31:39

I kept thinking I know but I still thought it

31:41

was a cool aspect to it And then all of

31:43

a sudden I mean within the last ten years It

31:47

was like Elton John. Well Celine was probably the first one

31:49

that made a big Celine Dion came and That

31:52

was huge. Yeah, I mean and we had a joke

31:54

when she's working. She's Celine Dion and she's not she

31:57

Celine D off Yeah, but um, she

31:59

had She had this big

32:01

thing and then they got Elton

32:03

John and they got Rod Stewart and they got

32:06

the Rolling Stones and the Eagles and

32:08

Kiss and then all of a sudden Everyone

32:11

wants to play Vegas. Yeah, and so, you

32:14

know, you go there. I'll be back there

32:16

today You go be flying and then you

32:18

got everyone from Usher to you

32:20

know, carry Katy Perry to I mean everybody Yeah,

32:22

so it went from you know, no one wanted

32:24

to play Vegas to being in kind of a

32:26

no, I need I need to play Vegas Did

32:29

you did you have feelings about that like because you were one

32:31

of the same for I stayed through thick and thin Yeah, yeah,

32:33

well, I always had a feeling like from the beginning. I thought

32:35

I was a great gig. I mean You're

32:38

in Vegas and you're not just a aspect

32:40

of idea of not traveling Was

32:43

also nice as well, you know, you'd stay in your

32:45

instead of getting on a bus in a hotel you

32:47

stay in your own room Yeah, do

32:49

a show and you go home. Yeah, that's very

32:52

rare in the show business Some

32:54

oh You know, how many bus

32:57

tours do you think you've done in your career? Oh my god,

32:59

we Thousands

33:01

I mean that's all I did. I turned

33:03

down the Vegas gig in the

33:05

beginning because I was a bus guy Yeah, and

33:08

they kept asking me if I did the residency and I said

33:10

no and the guy finally came back and

33:12

said, you know It was the rethink this year. I said no

33:14

I don't want it And

33:17

then my guy says I think we should do it. I'm

33:19

like, well, I'll give it like a year I'll give a

33:21

year and then I'll try it. Yeah, I hated it. Yeah

33:24

Like despised it and like

33:26

I'm definitely not signing up again So it was the

33:28

years over and then all sudden I found a little

33:30

click and it was like

33:32

kind of getting good and

33:35

then I said, yeah, let's sign

33:37

again and Now

33:39

it's like of course I did we just signed again

33:41

for six years. So now it's you know, it's it

33:43

now it's a please Let me sign again. Yeah, I

33:45

think you know, I don't want to go back on

33:47

the road. Yeah. Well, yeah I

33:49

definitely cannot hold a candle to the amount of bus towards you

33:51

have done but They were fun and but

33:54

you know So you putting your life in danger to every night.

33:56

When you get you know, you don't even think about it You

33:58

know, you're on a tour bus. That on.

34:00

The. Mountain? Yes No. And you're letting some

34:03

guy you barely know drive you around and

34:05

will hurt me. Did we a bus drivers?

34:07

Don't? I don't have a neon rest. The

34:09

guys are all sleep is unknown when it's

34:11

you. I. Just as

34:13

shows always overlying lounge only the different

34:16

lines with while the drywall as bad

34:18

as everyday basis that every night and

34:20

with James over Yeah woman at my

34:23

little crown the rocks Yeah yes. But.

34:26

Not not any rule as we get too

34:28

crazy as those are you know those gonna

34:30

have a drink but that's but that that

34:32

yen on the unless someone put some the

34:34

in my during this am. I

34:36

disturb scam a drink and I said the

34:38

medicine like country music in does whatever and

34:41

drive down the road. Yeah and now I'm

34:43

talking to the driver. He says you know.

34:46

As he drove everybody right So he said

34:48

you know nice drug Johnny Cash I said

34:50

oh my God had to give my Johnny

34:53

cast it Fucking Fss Rock! I'm driving driving

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34:57

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34:59

your career ending and he said no this

35:01

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35:04

some advice but I was Draven Johnny We

35:06

do rails off the fucking stairwell and ups

35:08

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35:10

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35:13

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35:15

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37:43

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37:45

have any kinda my show lot of times

37:47

he was big fan. I was going to

37:49

say when now that are like so you're

37:52

in vegas you sign. Up. Now. suddenly

37:54

everyone wants to be there i have

37:56

to imagine you've met some very like

37:58

impress supposed crazy here It's funny to

38:00

you fun for me like I people say you know

38:03

been in show business whatever you call it I think

38:05

I'm in show business. You're definitely a show. I would

38:07

say I'm in some I'm close to it If I'm

38:09

not in it, you're definitely in it You

38:12

get to meet people. That's probably the coolest thing. You

38:15

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38:17

to sting, and you're you know yeah

38:19

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38:21

Queen yeah You know that was

38:23

probably the one of the pinch me moments with

38:25

it was would you ever? Like

38:29

do you have any rules like if someone like that is

38:31

in the crowd do you want to know or do you

38:33

just let it? That's funny you ask I used to I

38:35

used to not want to know okay And

38:37

and then I now and I want to

38:39

know because I don't get as nervous and worked up

38:41

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38:43

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38:45

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38:47

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38:49

told me you know I said Thank you because I wanted

38:51

a one I wanted to kind of

38:53

miss what because I might have

38:55

a bit Yeah, so usually if

38:58

someone comes they're in the show regardless and

39:00

until they know it And

39:02

they usually are happy with it But you know

39:04

I twames in I and I did this bit before she

39:07

I'd ever met her and there's a

39:09

it's a whole It's all these songs. She sings

39:11

and I said every song is like a cheerleader

39:13

and you play there's like five six songs you

39:15

play it Don't don't don't don't don't don't let's

39:17

go girls and then the next song is it's

39:19

all all right Let's go, so it's

39:22

so funny in the show So I said I'm sitting in

39:24

my crew's like you know what he ended up the shine.

39:26

I think she's there I'm like fucking doing it. Don't you

39:28

mean what are you gonna do? Yeah? That's why we do

39:31

this yeah, so she's sitting right there, and I do

39:33

it all she just and the first line out is

39:35

a shine I 25 I'd hit that again and so

39:39

I hit this like kind of weird laugh from the crowd and then

39:42

And then her husband's kind of like after show that

39:44

she comes back, and she's like you hit that again

39:47

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39:50

it again. I did yeah, and friends like you

39:52

can hit it again. I said yeah, so she

39:55

we became With that big

39:57

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39:59

the show and she just, I didn't call

40:01

her out either. I didn't tell her anybody she

40:03

was there. I just did the bit, not told

40:05

her, because she said, you could have said it.

40:07

I said, no one to let you enjoy your

40:09

night. But then it comes, we had Tony Orlando

40:12

last night. And he does

40:14

the tie yellow ribbon around the old. So,

40:16

you know, the whole, when I go into the audience to

40:18

do a little crowd work, I go through and I'm like,

40:20

what the fuck, Tony Orlando's here. And I play the song

40:23

and we have a little piece of yellow ribbon and I

40:25

fuck with the, I

40:27

fuck with the crowd.

40:30

So it becomes part of the whole show. So

40:32

you embrace it now. Queen was probably the coolest though,

40:34

because Queen came back there and they were

40:36

just like, you know, fuck, it's Queen,

40:38

right? Yeah. I was a little nervous, I

40:40

was not gonna lie, I was a little nervous. And

40:43

I have some Queen in my shows, a lot of Queen

40:45

songs, there's even a clip of one phrase, he says, fuck

40:47

you, to the crowd. I do this whole

40:50

show and then afterwards, you know, they come back and

40:52

I'm like, oh my God, Queen's in my dressing room.

40:55

And the

40:57

drummer Roger says, Scott, that was just, God

41:00

damn, that was funny, right? I

41:02

said, oh, thanks, Jesus, no, no, no, no, how do you

41:04

fucking do that? He says, great. And

41:06

Brian May stand there and he's like, they both just

41:08

are like in awe, right? And it was very sweet

41:10

of them though, they were just like, they wouldn't stop

41:13

talking. And Brian is really, he knew

41:15

like every little, he said, and that thing, the part that

41:17

you did with the thing, the video came in, how did

41:19

that, how did you do that? And I'm

41:21

like, wow. And they go to leave and

41:23

he says, I

41:26

hate to do this to you, but is it okay if

41:28

I come back tomorrow? Wow. And I

41:30

said to my show, I said, you

41:33

don't have to come back to my show anymore. He was

41:35

going to, my son is flying in tonight and if it's

41:37

okay, I wanna bring him back, I

41:39

wanna bring him tomorrow. And I thought, absolutely,

41:42

but I mean, you know, are you sure you

41:44

wanna do that? Yeah. And he

41:47

said to my assistant on the

41:49

way out, he says, We'll

41:51

get y'all hooked up. And I Overheard him say, I guess

41:53

I gotta come back and make sure this wasn't for, this

41:55

was for real. Wow. He Didn't believe it. I mean, the

41:58

show was so good and so tight. He's like. See

42:00

this again. wow then he could then he told

42:02

me the next day's as yeah I actually wanted

42:04

to see exec and i didn't believe it was

42:07

a really this yeah I'm used to good so

42:09

like okay then he came back since spoken bloody

42:11

mais year. But. He added

42:13

a good no one little you know I had

42:15

of one little one like trump thing one thing like

42:17

in does he knew exactly they go The trump thing

42:20

was new some. Just.

42:22

To that you didn't and will this affect. Society

42:26

also be like is Hillary did. to do

42:28

to do to trump is gotta lean up.

42:31

Like that right is be

42:33

mad sis. My is madness.

42:35

This and most things scout.

42:38

Know you hate me right? Yeah and it is

42:40

Does decide to say a thing as I guess

42:43

they don't have carved. No one had car bidding.

42:45

I made carpeting a good and make them. did

42:47

it ever carpet. There is never chairs. Before I

42:49

was president was only person would tables. Dylan had

42:52

tables. remember they did news today but there's no

42:54

glasses. And you like know

42:56

their newest but no no one said no and set.

43:00

Up Up Up Up Up Up Up Up Up.

43:02

I did it off as. You're

43:05

not the first. What? you hadn't first,

43:07

why. And I am the greatest. Ever is

43:09

he seen care? Top deck is better than

43:11

as d Always talk like this because I

43:13

feel I know it seems like a mean

43:15

came over here for yeah like I have

43:17

a cat a big to serve again picture

43:19

of your luggage or started out that way

43:21

to as erase it assorted grown as is

43:24

leavers dissenters longer like is it was a

43:26

zoom as a guy didn't know he he

43:28

he honed in on his performance is the

43:30

answer Will people were young age gonna make

43:32

caricature of himself he'll probably I think probably

43:34

will as the i don't go back to

43:36

look at my clubs and me do I

43:38

probably. Have

43:40

evolved that well. We won't go

43:42

back. A good change. The magazines

43:45

idealism that fingernails on a chalk

43:47

more listening to myself and know

43:49

not everybody And in I'm on

43:51

Arsenio Hall's show Him. As

43:54

a tablet. nothing on it in. As.

43:56

He gets. You know, I think the coolest

43:58

thing that. I guess

44:00

that I hear just in the forty minutes.

44:03

who is taught So far as. It

44:05

doesn't seem like. At. Any.

44:08

Level. Of career like. Anyone

44:10

ever feels like. I'm.

44:13

Or. Yeah I'm on set as insert a

44:15

like you always still have a party or

44:17

brain it's like is as good. And

44:19

do people like this? I think that's

44:21

probably the kiss of death for every

44:24

every every artist I think Cs and.

44:26

Because. You never know what's the next. The Lg

44:28

can't live off the next. The for the last

44:30

thing you did is that it's like the shows.

44:32

it's like you know this the other night we

44:35

had a week on the road show so ago

44:37

and it was the means is erode. shows are

44:39

using. Really route rowdy

44:41

and loud. and Sundays view like a

44:43

rock star. Yeah, and Vegas shows can

44:45

be but you can also be, you

44:47

know, They. Could is

44:50

be a show for the lot of tourists

44:52

a right there's been some amazing says bed

44:54

that amazingness am shows wouldn't as a real

44:56

but the other night we had our own

44:58

two three and a road that we just

45:00

we can massive second Raymond said of was

45:03

us and we need roadshow yeah they make

45:05

him oven for the ambitious with Did Rojo

45:07

I said i need can't predict down why

45:09

does happens it is The crowd was just.

45:12

Over a year electric and that which makes you'd

45:14

dance or more years we're like is is a

45:17

dance that you get up there with. When you're

45:19

good, near good it is. It's like. It's

45:22

golden. Yeah, every comic know that any in

45:24

any profession. Actually you sound you get an

45:26

erroneous on girls. Yeah damn. I'm selling Ten

45:28

Guards League that has had a rhythm. Yeah

45:31

so it was runs in jail and comedy

45:33

book. but it's But when you get those

45:35

moments and then insert southeast of the gun

45:37

at him, I'm I'm really. I. I think

45:40

I finally got some really good. I feel

45:42

like that dance his word escapes people when

45:44

they watch Stand Up. And. I.

45:47

Feel that. Tells. You all

45:49

the others feel on or Rcp will

45:51

say online like alec stand up around

45:53

on Canada thing stance kind of this

45:55

and I think. People. Especially

45:58

young people. Now they cause see standup. The.

46:00

Weird. Way worse. As like. Being. A

46:02

little clips of crowd work and they are. Why do

46:04

people like this and I feel like people they don't

46:07

know and people tell me that by the whale time

46:09

am a comic, the measure hates them with them. Yeah,

46:12

I. Always find that funny but them and I

46:14

my oh geez hims of you don't like

46:16

the I do i hate what you do

46:18

and I go like what need me personally

46:20

or just noticed com and in general is

46:22

mike of the day or deathly know come

46:24

to my show here here here but you

46:26

have evolved on like a can or the

46:28

or you know that be does brilliancy of

46:30

a know incomes it means as they will

46:32

like me but what they'll say is. I.

46:35

Never. Liked. You. But.

46:37

Now I love you like thousand. Seriously

46:40

they they do I guess not as many times

46:42

now these but I a lot of your life

46:44

you the just they just didn't know they did

46:46

doubted that they just use a carrot top B

46:49

C meets the image the name in law they

46:51

go know yes and then they come the show

46:53

or they meet you know like oh my god

46:55

this is really this is like know I know

46:57

nothing that I thought it would be like wasn't

47:00

what he does a good the they go nothing

47:02

like this year that the shell is. Move.

47:04

A different than what anything. Bravo that

47:06

you have a course. it's it's. Macys

47:09

sit the shown Vegas, his family. Seventy

47:12

percent stand up. Yes, And

47:14

most people think that it's one hundred

47:16

percent or up. Yes! So it started

47:19

out in the beginning it was all

47:21

props and a little bit of sand

47:23

them but now it's I tell stories

47:25

from my half hour ride on Pick

47:27

Up. One thing clear the whole story

47:29

but my father work at Nasa he

47:31

goes on for about thirty minutes. Yes,

47:33

Devolution of Comedy Remote and George Carlin

47:35

In and Gallagher Emily's People That is

47:37

a backshall story That and people even

47:39

let us know your as the early

47:41

last night in the Came Back say

47:43

said I love all the Dead storytelling.

47:45

yeah and it is kind of evolved into

47:47

that because i've been doing this for so

47:49

long i finally got i got comfortable finally

47:51

does telling a story yes i was also

47:53

nervous as tell a story gives you one

47:56

that the last every second course so now

47:58

it's fun to do like and eight-minute

48:00

story and then get a big laugh, but you

48:02

got to wait eight minutes for it. Yeah. So

48:05

you're like, fucking better get, I better, I better not

48:07

mess this up because they're waiting for this big thing.

48:09

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Terms apply. In the beginning when people

49:48

kind of hit you with this like, ah, I

49:50

thought you were this, but it was amazing. Did

49:53

you appreciate that honesty or would it mess

49:56

with you a little bit? Well, it always messed with me.

49:59

I told Albert Brooks one time and

50:01

and his genius he

50:04

was on the Tonight Show and he

50:07

came out and he said he did something with some like

50:10

something on the desk it was like a little trick

50:13

or did something and Carson laughed and

50:16

he says thank God that's not your whole act because

50:19

something happened at the guard and

50:22

now what Brooks says to Johnny Carson he

50:24

says God just imagine imagine booking Caratop and

50:28

American Airlines loses his luggage he

50:30

hasn't he doesn't have shit right

50:33

so I'm watching this on and

50:35

I remember exactly where I was I was on a tour we

50:37

just did doing this big like arena yeah

50:39

at a college and he just killed and we were

50:42

watching it on TV on the bus and I

50:44

was like what the fuck and I was so mad

50:46

I was

50:49

so mad because what he

50:51

said was true yeah so

50:54

I'm like if the

50:56

Rolling Stones luggage was lost they wouldn't have a

50:58

fucking act yeah of course so it made

51:00

no sense that he's ripping on me even

51:02

Caratop lost his luggage he was fucked well

51:04

so if the Rolling Stones or Nirvana or

51:07

anyone else yeah anybody if the

51:10

airlines loses your shit you're probably fucked too but

51:12

he just singled me out so like

51:15

that that was bullshit so then

51:17

I get to meet him at Gary

51:19

Shandling's funeral and all places there he is

51:21

and I walked up to him I said

51:24

I got a beef with you and you know Al Brooks is

51:26

like oh my god I got to get a video of this

51:28

Caratop has a beef with me I can't

51:31

wait to hear and I said no it's just you you

51:33

I said I tell him the story he goes oh my

51:35

god I am the I am the worst

51:37

person in the plan I did do that I did say that and

51:40

you are correct and I said I know I'm correct that's

51:42

what I'm telling you like everyone could you know if you

51:44

lost your luggage you wouldn't have anything and he says I'm

51:46

sorry can I can we hug it out and he hate

51:48

me he says I'm saying you know

51:50

we're best friends yeah he says how well did

51:53

you know Gary I said

51:55

you know well enough that I got invited he

51:57

says yeah He

52:00

didn't like people very much and I said no he didn't. He

52:02

says, is it kind of shocking that so many people here,

52:04

he would hate this. I said he's

52:07

funny again but

52:09

I just had to set that straight with him. I'm

52:11

like yeah, you know, of course, why

52:13

pick on me? You took

52:16

the words out of my mouth because I was going to ask if you

52:18

ever had like an awkward run in

52:21

hashing it out with someone. Oh, I had a couple. You

52:23

know, that one was, yeah, that one

52:25

it was just, there's been a comment too that

52:30

people said that don't know the

52:32

truth of it. Like

52:35

when our buddy,

52:37

a very, very funny comedian

52:39

passed away, does

52:43

the clip of me and chairman of the board, he was on Conan.

52:46

Norm McDonald, thank you. And Norm

52:49

and I were great friends. And I know when I say great

52:51

friends, I said we were friends. We weren't great. I

52:53

said we weren't best of friends but we were great

52:55

friends. Like if I ever see him or saw him,

52:57

we always say, Gary, and Tom, and you say hi

53:00

but we didn't hang out. We did have

53:02

coffee once in a while actually. He

53:06

said, he said on Conan O'Brien one night and

53:08

it's such a famous clip because he sets him

53:10

up for it and he's picking on the poor

53:12

Courtney Thorne Smith who's on the movie. And it

53:15

was a good movie, chairman of the board. He's

53:19

like, God, he's going on and on about

53:21

it. So you quit friends

53:23

or what is it, Melrose Place? You

53:25

quit Melrose Place to go into movies

53:28

with Carrot Top? She goes, no, it was one

53:30

movie. And he's the nicest guy in the world

53:33

and he's actually a great actor. He's like, no,

53:35

but go back to this. So why would you

53:37

go do a movie with Carrot Top? She

53:42

kept trying to defend me. She's like, it was great fun.

53:44

It was a great movie. And he's a sweet guy. And

53:49

then he's just like, I just don't get it. And he wouldn't

53:51

let it go. And then Norma Donaldson,

53:53

he says, what was the name of the movie again?

53:56

And she says chairman of the board. And he

53:58

goes, oh, like B-O-R-E-D? Yeah. Conan

54:00

is losing his mind laughing and again. I'm

54:02

thinking bitch. We did that on the set. Yeah,

54:04

that's like We did when we were making

54:07

the movie we called it chairman of the board. Yeah

54:09

Yeah, but he thought that was the most today ever

54:11

I go people say oh my god Were you in

54:13

norm enemies cuz he really ripped

54:15

on you? I'm like no we weren't one more

54:17

comics and who's fucking joke Yeah, and it was

54:19

funny. We thought it was funny enough that we

54:21

wrote it, too Yeah So I've

54:24

only had a couple riffs with and it's

54:26

usually things that like like that one reason

54:28

people heard of heard Not the

54:31

source. Yeah, I had another comic one time that I

54:33

opened firm at a College

54:37

and they wanted me to do 20

54:40

minutes and this is at the time my career

54:42

where I had about eight minutes.

54:44

Yeah So I said and I'm

54:46

not kidding. I said I got I got about eight and

54:48

eight minutes I said about seven's good, but I can stretch

54:50

it to eight But you know don't know you're gonna be

54:52

honest with you and they said okay They were fine with

54:54

it because they didn't need to have that much time Right,

54:57

I said do even if you just do five I said five I

54:59

can do I can nail five so

55:01

I Get up there and

55:03

I'm I'm I do two Proper

55:06

maybe three do my crime watch thing. I opened

55:09

but the crime watched and that I was killed

55:12

And then I go grab this car It was like a car

55:15

that was in the shape of a ramp So

55:17

if you had a head on collision you jump it, right?

55:20

And and and I and everyone killed and I

55:23

put it in there This is thirty years ago.

55:25

I put it down and then I might I

55:27

look over the guys going like, you know wrap it up And

55:31

I'm thinking I'm like like wrap it

55:33

up like clothes because I only had done less than

55:35

a minute Yeah, and he's like no

55:37

no like rap so I I you fuck so I

55:39

I go to my closer Which

55:42

was this paper cups and string

55:44

phone? Yeah, and

55:46

it was a you know, hello, what's going

55:48

on? You fit, you know the cups and string phone. I

55:50

said I made it I made a new one for today's

55:52

kids that had a call waiting in it So I say

55:54

hold on have another call. Hello, and another cup would come

55:56

out and then I'd have three

55:59

cups and coffee calling and I had

56:01

a clear cut for caller ID and I can see you

56:03

but that was my big closure

56:05

and it killed and

56:07

so that's when George Carlin country and

56:09

said that's funny shit right there so

56:12

I do I do I do that

56:14

and then the comedian comes out and

56:16

he whispers leave your shit because

56:19

I was gonna move it because I didn't want him to stand it

56:21

was you know he's leave your shit

56:23

so I'm alright so I go into

56:25

the arena and I watched the whole the whole

56:27

set and he wasn't doing well and he

56:29

was just he was in a bad mood and he

56:32

kept he kept kind of looking

56:34

down at my props and

56:37

kind of kind of wanting to move them and scoot him

56:39

and fuck with him he's kind of just doing with his

56:41

foot like fuck and finally he picks

56:43

up this car and that had the ramp on

56:45

it and

56:47

he holds it up like no one's

56:49

laughing just holds it up and looks at the audience

56:52

like yeah this I came

56:56

all the way down like for this and I

56:58

he he one

57:00

makes that fun of it which is where could the killed

57:03

yeah and then he's like threw it down he didn't like

57:05

lay it down he can't do it down and the crowd

57:07

was like whoo they really

57:09

love me yeah young I was probably 19

57:11

yeah and I just done

57:13

three jokes and then he

57:15

went to paper cups and string and that was really

57:18

killer and he kind of went I

57:21

don't get it babe or ever and then the next

57:23

thing I know they

57:26

start to boo him like like oh

57:28

and he was like yeah because he's kicking my

57:30

props in the crowd like no

57:33

no no no the topper he

57:35

gonna be the topper is fine the topper

57:38

so I I come off and

57:40

I'm like well I was the pro so I came off

57:42

to say hi he wouldn't say hi he left and

57:45

about ten years goodbye of him ripping on me

57:47

in every show every show and

57:49

finally I'm here in LA and and and

57:52

I was staying at this hotel in the

57:54

elevator doors open and off

57:56

walk and I is this guy no

57:58

and I said Oh my god,

58:01

hey. And he was like, hey

58:03

Topper. And I said, no, we have to have a

58:05

talk. And he's like,

58:07

we do? No, this will be good. I said, no,

58:09

really. If you have just five minutes of your time,

58:11

I need to talk to you. And he's like, you

58:14

got about five. Okay, Topper, what is it? I said,

58:16

I want to set the record straight. What

58:18

happened? He says, I'll tell you before you tell me.

58:21

We were at University of Georgia. I said, nope. We

58:23

were at Wake Forest. So

58:25

you're already wrong. It was Wake Forest University. He

58:27

says, all right. Now what happened?

58:29

You went up and did 30 minutes. I said, there

58:31

you go. I did not. I did three props because

58:33

I didn't even have 30 minutes. I did three props.

58:36

I was supposed to do 20, 18 or something like

58:38

that, but I did three. And

58:41

he says, nope, you went long

58:43

and the guy that booked, he was so

58:45

mad. I said, no, that's not what happened. I

58:48

wasn't capable of going long. And

58:50

I wouldn't do that to you. I'm scared to death

58:52

to have the gig. I wouldn't have gone over my

58:54

time. I was scared even I could get to the

58:56

time. And then

58:59

you started kicking everything. He says, I

59:02

didn't kick it. He remembered, I didn't kick it,

59:04

babe. I said, whatever you did, you

59:06

made it bad for everybody. So

59:09

you owe me an apology. And

59:12

he said, I think

59:14

he said, let me think on it, babe. Okay.

59:18

And I sort of got it. And then I left

59:20

and I was like, really? Okay. And

59:23

it was David Spade one day and David

59:25

Spade knows this person real well. And he

59:27

comes walking in the corner and he says,

59:29

hey, I said, how do you know David?

59:32

I said, well, David and I

59:34

are friends. I said, David and I, you and I

59:36

should be friends too. And I said, David, he's not

59:38

my friend because he thinks that I went too long

59:40

at a, he got the college wrong and

59:42

the amount of time wrong that I did. And

59:45

he thinks like that. And David says, like, Carrot

59:48

Top doesn't have five minutes. How could you think

59:50

he would have, and he didn't know me. He

59:52

just said, Carrot Top doesn't have five minutes. And

59:54

I said, right. Not even now

59:56

do I have five minutes. So finally

59:58

it was like a trampoline. I think he said

1:00:01

all right truce and then I end up going

1:00:03

to a basketball game NBA basketball

1:00:05

all-star game in Vegas and they

1:00:08

put me in these seats and and I

1:00:10

had the like the best seats in them

1:00:13

in the arena I'm

1:00:15

a little ESPN people were behind me. I kept oh

1:00:17

god is like it's like It's

1:00:19

like ESPN guys. I go sorry

1:00:21

I got and then who comes

1:00:24

in sits right behind me my

1:00:26

friend and I said I I

1:00:29

Said this sucks, huh? And he said

1:00:32

he said it's okay, babe I said, you know I gotta

1:00:35

be I gotta I gotta know is it is it

1:00:37

that I'm sitting in front of you make you more

1:00:39

angry or my hair you can't see behind around it

1:00:41

and He

1:00:43

said no, it's that my son is your

1:00:45

biggest fan. Would you mind taking a picture with

1:00:47

him? And I said your son

1:00:50

is and he goes yeah, I said oh my god

1:00:53

Now that gotta be the worst part right? Let's just

1:00:55

take the picture I

1:00:57

gotta make your blood boy that your son loves me.

1:01:00

He says my son loves Carrot Tom So

1:01:02

I said, okay now I think my arm around him. I said,

1:01:04

you know, your dad hated me for years And

1:01:08

he think if this son is you know, funny, he's my

1:01:10

dad hates everybody That

1:01:13

hates me too. Don't you know get over it? But

1:01:16

we finally made up well, yeah, but it

1:01:18

was one of those things misunderstandings, you know

1:01:20

carrot I agree Psyche

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