There's my friend Craig Gas. I haven't seen him in forever. Bro,
great to see you. It's so weird. I'm in town and I'm listening
to you guys promoting the twenty year anniversary of the show. And I was
part of the ten year anniversary and you and I took this ridiculous picture with
the guys from Bush and I just someone held my camera phone and I said,
let's all do a new band photo. And you instantly like everyone,
Well, you directed us. You're like everybody look at different direction. You
always do a good job of like your social media is good, and I
feel like you're very you know what you want, what you want a picture
with people, and you kind of directed all of us a little bit.
Yeah. I like to post stuff without saying what it is so that it
doesn't Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of a situation that if you say
this is what my situation as, people go, oh, what an asshole.
But if you don't say what it is, people can figure it out
and go what the fuck. Like I remember being at the few. I
go to the super Bowl every year and I interview the players at the super
Bowl every year, and I posted a live video that I streamed, and
it said local San Francisco band rehearsing a song about puppets hashtag not bad,
and people were commenting like, what the fuck? Like they just I didn't
say what it was. I just posted it as this vague description and people,
Yeah, I love doing shit like that, dude. So much as
happened since the last time I saw you, man, I know, well,
wait a minute, let me hang on a second. Let me hang
on a second. You're in town, you're here in Houston. Yeah,
I'm doing shows at the Secret Group. It's a in downtown Houston. They
do comedy, they also do music, and they're having me do two shows
on Saturday night at the Secret Group. And and it's where can people get
tickets? So we get that out of the way and then we'll circle back
to it. You can go to my website getgas dot com, Get Gas
with two s's dot com, or you can go to the Secret Group HTx
dot com. I think it's easier to remember getgas dot com. Get Gas.
Okay, we'll send people over to your website. So tickets are still
available to see you this Saturday. Right now, the first show is filling
up the second show. There's still more tickets available for the second show,
but yeah, first show looks like it's going to sell out quicker. All
right, so this is my friend Craig Gas. Okay, I gotta set
it up a little bit. Okay, now, immediately right off the bat,
people are going to know that your involvement with the Howard Stern Show.
Okay, you've been doing Howard for a long long time, but man like,
things really escalated in the last couple of years for you and Howard.
After not being on the show for twenty years, he reached out to me
and said, would you be interested in doing work on the show again?
And he has me. I do celebrity voices on the show, and I've
always been able to do for anyone in your audience who doesn't know. I've
always been able to do any voice that I hear because of how I grew
up. And this is not a joke. This is a true story.
Everyone in my family is deaf. My mom, dad, and my sister
are all completely deaf. Uh. People always kind of get serious on me
when I when I say that, but well, because we're waiting for a
punchline or something, we're waiting because it's it's the setup of a joke that
is not a joke. Yeah, it's. I mean, there's been moments
that are like, you know that I did a show once opening for Metallica.
Yeah, I did stand up comedy as an opening act for Metallica.
The drummer of Metallica was the guy who got me the gig, Lars Ulrich.
He introduced me to his band by saying, hey, mom, this
is Craig. This is the guy does all the voices, and check it
out. His whole family is retarded. I go, they're not retarded.
Death the ducking my story up, Like, yeah, so there's there's funny
moments that that have happened, but yeah, like my sister. I threw
a surprise birthday party from my sister a few years ago, and you can
argue that anything for deaf people is a surprise. But with a surprised birthday
party for my sister. And afterwards, at dinner, my sister, who's
deaf, sitting across the table from me, She's signing to me and she
goes, do you want to hear a good joke? And I said sure,
and then she said me too, What the fuck? Yeah, but
it's uh yeah, growing up in a deaf family, couldn't learn how to
talk from my family, learn how to talk by watching TV and copying all
the voices I heard on TV. So to this there is there one show
because we're kind of from the same era, is there one show that was
like or a couple of shows like what were the most influential shows for you?
Because we've got we got Chile on the show Who's from Guatemala and he
learned to speak English originally from watching reruns of American television in Guatemala. So
what wasn't for you? Was there a couple of shows that you really you
leaned into that you feel like influency the most? It was always the voices
that would stand doubt that would influence my voice at the time. Howard Cosell
had a unique voice, The Fonds had a unique voice. Yeah, ru
Al Lee had a unique voice. So I always mimic that and then to
this day, like, your voice is very normal sounding, like you have
a great radio voice, but it still has an there's nothing quirky, there's
nothing to like, I feel like to latch onto like except for your rhythm.
I think, might I could probably figure out your rhythm. But guys
like Christopher Walking. Christopher Walking has a real stop and go kind of voice
where he'll talk. Every once in a while he'll stop and then I'll keep
going. You know, it's like that. It's easier to figure out that
or Adam's saying there. It's easier to find like a weird sound than it
is to hit a normal one like yours. You know. But let me
ask you about like, Okay, so now we're talking about like dissecting a
specific voice. Does it take one person? And I don't know if it
goes back to Jmore. I don't know if anybody was really doing walkin before
that. But I look at a guy like Jmore and it takes and tell
me if this is true for a voice, it takes somebody to crack the
code. Somebody has to unlock it to say, okay, we're gonna try
this. Even if you go back to I think Andy Kaufman may be down
in the history books as the first Elvis impersonator. I don't know if there
were. I don't know that there were Elvis impersonators. He didn't look like
Elvis, he didn't really necessarily sound like him, but he did it.
So it takes somebody to crack the code. So is there is there people
that Okay, let's talk about Christopher Walken. Is there somebody that cracked the
code? And then everybody is basing it off of how that was done?
I never The first person I ever heard do it and it was flawless was
Kevin Spacey. Okay, Kevin Spacey did a Christopher walkin on SNL that was
so good the crowd exploded and what sounded like a standing ovation in the middle
of the impression was so spot on, which makes me embarrassed to even try
to do that impression. But I remember hearing a guy do an al Pacino
impression. And I've talked about this with other comedians who do impressions. When
someone does a half assed impression, it's almost like they're laying down the groundwork
for like you just put one hand here and put one foot here. It's
like, oh, and then I can finish it. When I see someone
do a half assed impression. So this guy saw doing an Alpacino impression,
it sounded like it sounded like Archie Bunker. It was like geezh, this
guy right here, huh And then I just realized if you head towards Archie
Bunker and just get a little bit lower, my guy, who I found
gold. It's it's there's something about laying out that groundwork that other people who
do impressions can finish it. You know. Yeah, now, because okay,
we're gonna get into it, because you know, I mean, I
got the shirt on and everything. This was not planned at all. This
just happens to be a Wednesday shirt for me. But like al Pacino,
I call Craig like the Forest Gump of comedy. Okay, if you go
to Craig's Instagram, it's Craig Gas Comedy. You'll see him. Like he
said at the Super Bowl asking Tom Brady a question. Then he's hanging out
with the Stanley Cup. Then he's at a World Series and he's just he's
watching the game and Bill Murray's in front of him, and Eddie Vetters to
his left and smashing pumpkins or to the right, and John Cusack is right
in front of him. He's in the right place at the right time.
I'm talking about you. You're in the right place at the right time.
It's amazing to me that you're living at one point in your life, you're
living at Eddie van Halen's guesthouse, like you're Eddie van Halen's Cato Klin and
then you're you know, you got Mike McCready on speed dial from Pearl Jam.
This guy is everywhere. He's everywhere at the same time, and that's
amazing to me. So when you do something like al Pacino, have you
come in contact with him? I'm just assuming that you guys like eat at
Nobu together or something. No. I go was contacted by what was the
name of that. Vivendi Entertainment is a video game company and they were making
a Scarface video game and they contacted me about doing the voice of Scarface of
al Pacino for Scarface and that we had a couple of discussions and they said,
you know, we're having a lot of creative meetings at this point,
but Al recommended that we go to you to do the voice. And I
said, oh, that's great, And who is Al? What does Al
do? And he said al Pacino And I said, al Al that Al
al Pacino knows who I am. And the guy said, you know what,
I wouldn't get that excited about it. The way it came up is.
He said, here's a guy, what's his name? He's got a
funny mole on his face. David find him. He can do the voice
the way it was meant to be. And that was like when I heard
that, I was like, well, that's not the story. I'm gonna
tell people. I'm gonna tell people that Alpucina's my biggest fan, and like,
you know, we've never met. He knows who I am, but
we've never met in person. Almost everyone I do an impression of has tried
to meet me at some point. Dude, there's a guy I do an
impression of that, Tom Arnold. Believe it or not, It's one of
my favorites that you do because you seamlessly go in and out of it so
easily. And there's some that you do that are easier than others I can
tell, and Tom Arnold the way that you slip into it and slip out
of it, like your Gene Simmons and like there's some of your like Marquee
ones, but the Tom Arnold one is just nails. Tom Arnold is as
a guy who I met on the phone. I prank called him. Once
he picked up the phone, I found out a comedian friend of mine.
This is when I was still an open micer. There was a comedian I
knew who worked at a hotel in Seattle, and he said, dude,
all the stars for the planet Hollywood are staying at my hotel, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Sylvester Stallone, Tom Marnold. And I went, Tom Arnold was staying
at your hotel and he goes, yeah, he said, And at the
time, Tom Marnold had just killed it in true lies and nine months.
So I went, Tom Martold was a big, big star man, huge
funny dude, a great comic actor. And so I called the hotel and
I said, hey, Tom Arnold please, and they said, okay,
just one moment, and they put me through Tom Arnold taking the phone and
he goes hello, and I said, Tom, it's Sam Kennison. Sam
Kennison had been dead for eight years at this point. And Tom Marland goes,
heybody, how you been. You fucking just started talking about I was
Sam. I said, I said, Tom, I need some help.
I need you to help me here in the afterlife, and he goes,
whatever you need, but he just tell me what you eat, And I
said, well, what I need is I need you to get me some
cocaine. So this is kind of tricky. First of all, I need
need you to front me the cash, and then I want you to purchase
some cocaine that I want you to get on a plane and go back to
Los Angeles. And when you go to Los Angeles, I want you to
drive to Jerry Lewis's house. And when you drive his house, I want
you to take the cocaine and I want you to put it in the small
pocket of his pants and I'll have it when he gets here in three weeks.
And then I stopped and said, Tom, I'm sorry. My name's
Craig Gass. I'm a stand up comedian. I'm a huge fan of hers.
And he said, man, that impression is so good that I need
to call my sponsor. That's how good that is. That's a good impression.
And so repeating that story over and over again, I started getting the
impression down, and which is how I get most of my voices down as
I tell stories about those people. And I just like I, if I
tell a story about you later on today, I will end up doing some
half assed impression of you in the middle of that story. I do want
to point out one crazy thing when you point out my social media Dude,
this is a story I've been dying to tell you. At the top of
my Instagram page is a story that is insane. There is a prank being
played right now on our guy, Gavin from Bush Okay that is fucking nuts.
The backstory is the guy playing the prank on him is a guy who
loves my stand up comedy and was inspired by a terrible, terrible story that
I tell on stage that I'm not supposed to tell the story because the guy
who told me the story, he said, dude, don't don't tell people
about this. So I've just eliminated all the names from the story. But
it's a friend of mine who's in one of the biggest hard rock bands of
all time, and he was doing a festival tour. His band was doing
a festival tour of Europe. The headliner of the tour was ACDC. The
singer of ac DC, Brian Johnson, walks in the band's dressing room to
say hello. The band naked. They're getting ready to go on stage,
so they want to put on their cool stage clothes. Brian Johnson apparently a
really warm guy. He's standing at the entrance to the dressing room and he's
and he's socializing with everybody, and he's making eye contact and working the room.
And then at one point he looks over at the drummer and he starts
staring at the drummer before he finally walks over and goes, hey, man,
did you know you've got a giant penis on your fucking bach man?
So we know who this band is, now, right the drummer, big
wiener. Come on, nobody knows who the drummer is. Nobody knows.
You know, I just heard this story for the first time. I'm telling
you who it is, dude. Disc The singer Brian Johnson says, big
penis on your back, and the drummer looks at him goes, what are
you talking about? He goes, you fucking tattoo. It's a giant paenist
and the drummer goes, it's a dragon. It's an angry dragon. He
goes, I know it's and dragon, but look, you've got two balls
on the bottom and you go to big deckhead on top. Now the whole
band is looking at the drummer going holy shit, dude, hold on,
hold on, wait, hold on, come here, and they're all taking
pictures and they're showing him like, see how if you zoom in, it
looks like a big penis and you got two balls on the bottom. Now
he's looking at the tattoo for the first time, going what the fuck,
when his singer looks at him and goes, dude, I'm not I'm not
trying to be an asshole. Okay, I'm just I'm really looking at your
tattoo for the first time, and i gotta be honest. It does not
look like your dragon is breathing fire. It's it looks like it's shooting all
over your back. Ah. Now he's he thinks they're fucking with him,
and he goes, shut up, come on, it's time to go on
stage. Let's go rock. I'm gonna put my shirt on. Let me
just and then. But he knows what he saw. So he's on stage
in front of sixty thousand people just freaking out about what happened. The next
day, he cooked and when he calls the tattoo, he goes, hey,
we got a lot of complaints about that guy, all right. Apparently
he was putting dicks on everybody and and we actually sat him down. We
sat him down and said, hey, be honest, be honest, are
you putting penises on people? What are you doing? And he said,
can I make a phone call? And we said go ahead, and he
fled. He just this is my favorite line of the story. This fucking
guy looked at trail, at dicks everywhere. But listen, next time you
come back in no dummage. So he's got to go back to his band.
The next day, walks in the band is like asking him questions,
dude, how did you end up with that tattoo? And he goes,
dude, I don't know. He was my boy. That guy was my
friend. Like he did a couple of my tattoos. But we used to
party together and someone who was paying attention said, a couple of your tattoos
and he goes, yeah, I thought he just did the dragon. And
he goes, no, he did my dragon, but he also did Jesus
on my leg. He did, and the whole room just froze and he
goes, so, without getting too graphic, I'll just say it turns out
he had a tattoo of Jesus and Jesus was very happy. Come on,
so and By the way, if you come out to the secret group this
weekend, I'll tell you who the band is and I'll give you a more
uncensored version of the store if you come out to this right because that you
sucked me in on that, I'm thinking, okay band, huge rock band.
I'm like big Wiener drummer. I'm like, Okay, it's Motley Crue,
it's Tommy Lee. But Tommy Lee does not have a dragon tattoo.
No. So that's the story that inspired a man who makes guitars for all
these famous artists. That guy uh makes guitars for Adam Levine. And I
get a call from him saying, dude, the most fucked up thing just
happened. I Adam Levine had some specs for a new guitar. He wanted
me to make it for him. Make the guitar, and I have fun
with the guitar and I send it over and I don't hear from them.
Two months goes by, I don't hear from them, and I call the
guitar tech and I go, hey, man, you get that guitar.
And the guy said, oh yeah, dude, Adam loves it. It's
his favorite guitar. He plays it every night on stage, and I went,
did you look at the guitar? And he goes, it's got the
flowers and he goes, dude, I feel really bad. Those are not
flowers. But you know that comedian Craig Gas that has that story, Like,
I just dude, it's on my Instagram. It's Dick, I do.
The guitar is covered in Dick's. There are dicks all over. So
here's the guitar. Okay, I'm looking at it. Okay, he's playing
the guitar. Then the next thing over is I have a picture of what
the guitar looks like from the guitar tech or not. That's the back of
the guitar and it's pink with some flowers on it. Now you start zooming
in and you realize, Dick, there's it's supposed to be sunflowers. The
sunflowers are hairy balls, and it's just dicks. It's covered in Dick's at
Craig Gas Comedy. On my Instagram at Craig Gas Comedy with two s's.
That's awesome, Oh dude, it's it's covered in Dick's. I love that
we can have a conversation like this where I don't have to worry about censoring
myself, so I could just try a story like that, and uh yeah,
dude, that's that's what these kind of interviews are. That's awesome.
I'm looking at it right now on your Instagram. You know, they would
cover or the comic guys would do this. Apparently there's some hidden dicks in
some of those old VHS covers of some Disney movies. Yes, Lion King,
there's a dick and Lion King apparently. I mean, if you look
for this stuff, you could find it. I had a buddy that used
to carve leather and he used to make belts. He was doing it out
in la He would make these beautiful belts and he made like a bunch of
guitar straps for monkey from corn and stuff. And he would always put you
know, because when you start getting all these crazy designs, he would put
dix in there. I'm like, can I have a belt, but no
dicks please? And then so I made him promise that there'd be no dicks
on the belt. And then when you look at it, it's like there's
a couple of titties in there, I'm like, Okay, you didn't say
no titties. So I got titties on my belt, but no, but
no dicks at least. Craig Gas is the man right here. He's in
Houston. The Secret Group. You go to Craig Gas's website and that's where
you're going to get tickets to go see him this Saturday. He's got two
shows coming up with the Secret Group. I saw Jane Simmons, you put
a clip up speaking of your Instagram. Jeene was on with Steve Oh.
Steve O does a pretty good podcast these days, and it's a really good
one, really good. He's really good interviewer, and he's got Gene Simmons
on. Your name comes up, obviously and Jeane says, you know,
I tolerate the prick. That's a pretty that's a pretty great compliment. I
know you're friendly with those guys now is Paul Jean seems to be cool with
you and you're impression of him because you were at the Gene Simmons roast.
The Paul one is a little brutal, which it's funny though, it's like
when we go back, like you, I believe cracked the code on that
for sure. There's nobody doing a Paul Stanley. There might be a few
people doing a Gene Simmons, none like yours, but you absolutely are ground
zero for Paul is cool with it. No, we did. It's not
flattering. We did a charity event in Detroit last December and he he had
me do my impression for this charity event. He goes, do Gene,
and I go, oh, this is Gene Simmons, and he goes,
all right, now do me And I go, hey, everybody, this
is Paul Stanley and he goes, you make me sound like I own a
hair salon on Long Island, you know, like whoa, And even that's
a great premise. Come on in, I'll give you a blowout, sit
out, Welcome to Paul Stanley's hair salon. Like that was such a great
premise that he handed me. But yeah, I think there are two.
There's off stage Paul Stanley, who's really soft and answered a question once by
saying, you know a lot of bands are envious of Kiss. I'm even
envious of Kiss, and I was like, god, damn, that is
some confidence I wish I had. And then there's on stage Paul Stanley,
where I actually heard him say in Las Vegas, all right, people now
live in you know, I know this town, Las Vegas is known for
US buffets, and I could tell you right now after this show, I
see a lot of people in the front row that I really want to eat.
And then he started fixing his hair, and what the fuck? Same
tour four weeks later, New York City, and I bring a bunch of
comedians with me, Jeff Ross, Jim Norton, and Steve Burne. We
all go backstage to the show at Madison Square Garden and I'm introducing them to
all the people that work for Kiss and anybody who works for Kiss, I
go, hey, were you listening in Las Vegas? When Paul said he
was going to eat the front row? Three different guys worked for Kiss,
said jere what he said in Omaha? No ask about Omar, And apparently
on stage in Omaha, Paul Stanley went in the middle of a stage rap
said all right, people, now listen, I know this town, oh
Maha, Nebraska is knowing for us angus beef, and I can tell you
right now, after this show, I'm gonna want to sink my teeth into
some meat. And the whole crowd went what And apparently Paul grabbed the microphone
and I went, now, wait a minute, hold on, hold on,
you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a thigh or rump
roast. And the crowd went, what And you're not helping yourself exactly.
The guitar text me having stage were going, the fuck's going on up there?
Like yeah. So there is a wonderful relationship that started when Gene Simmons
confronted me about my impression of him on the Howard Stern Show. The next
day, I got a phone call from their management company, which is McGee
Entertainment, and they said, hey, we just wanted to call you.
We represent Kiss and we wanted to let you know that our singer Paul Stanley
is your biggest fan. And I said, get the fuck out, and
they said, no, he loves you. In fact, don't don't tell
anybody this, but Paul Stanley loves when anybody makes fun of Geene sement.
I said, are you serious and I said, yeah, he's actually going
to call you today. He called me that day and offered me a gig
to perform with Kiss on an event called the Kiss Cruise, which when he
asked me to do the gig. I was like, yeah, do you
want me to do stand up? You want me to introduce the band?
And he said, well, let me ask you a question. How many
jokes do you have about Gene? And I said literally hours? And he
went you got the gig? And I ended up on a boat with Kiss
Rod. Do you know that the kiss fans are actually mad at me because
of what I did on the boat? Do you know that story is this
way? Wait? Wait if it involves you make an announcement mm hmm into
everybody's cabin, tell it it's funny. I've sam the ship. I meet
this girl who's the cruise director. She goes, wait a minute, are
you Craig. You're the comedian you got You're the one that does all the
voices with the family guy and the Do you want to do a funny announcement
on the ship tomorrow morning? And I went, oh, fuck yeah.
Let me ask you a question. If I make an announcement on the ship,
who's going to hear it? And she said, if you want,
we can flip a switch and it'll get piped into every cabin. And I
said, flip that switch. I know exactly what I want everyone to wake
up to tomorrow morning. The next morning, three thousand of the biggest Kiss
fans in the world woke up to bing bong. Hey everybody, this is
Paul Stanley and this is Gene Simmons from Kiss and we have a very important
announcement. Do not panic. We have a very important announcement about the Kiss
Cruise. At that moment, my friends on this ship said that all the
fans had stopped and we're looking at the speakers and smiling until the next words
that came out of my mouth, We've just hit an iceberg. Which keep
in mind when I say we just hit an iceberg, we're in the middle
of the fucking Bahamas. There's no reason for you, as an intelligent person
to go this ship going down this ship. We're in the Bahamas. But
do not panic because Kiss is going to take care of everybody. We actually
have three packages to get you off the ship. First, we have the
Platinum package Jean's gonna charge, so Jean's going to try to monetize getting people
off the ship to save your life. You can actually spend money on them
on tears and it was so ridiculous. There was like a diamond package where
we throw you in the ocean, and then Kiss flots by on a raft
we do a private acoustic show. Everything was just but not so ridiculous that
a couple of Kiss fans didn't stop the employees and go, so, Kiss
is going to charge us to get off the boat. They actually believed that
Kiss was actually capable of charging people to get off of a sinking ship.
It's like Kiss War the worlds you had going on like you filled everyone absolutely
was. I'm putting out two comedy specials later this year. The first one
no bullshit, It's just me making fun of Kiss for an hour. That's
the whole show. And then at the end of the year, I'm putting
out a more traditional comedy special talking about my mom and some good stories there.
So where what kind of platform? Because geez, I mean, stuff
is everywhere now, and it's just you know, you got to go searching
for these things. There's so many different apps and platforms and everything. Where
will these things? I mean, are you are you shopping these things right
now? Or do you know where they're going to land. There's a couple
of production companies that want to help me shop it. I already have an
offer from Mark Cuban's access channel for the camp and we're still editing and then
we're gonna take it out and shop it and try to get it in the
best place. And you're right, it's like there's so many places to find.
I mean, you know, I have friends who just put stuff on
YouTube and just have their other friends just announce, hey, my buddies comedy
specials on YouTube and they'll get like a million views within a couple of weeks,
you know. So yeah, it's a wild West out there for you
guys. It's a good time though, too, right. I mean with
all those different avenues, you know, I mean for the hustlers out there,
you know, people up and coming. Jeez, it's never been better,
dude. I just did my first arena tour last year with Russell Peters.
We did an arena tour across Australia and New Zealand, and comedy has
never been bigger. It's insane. There are more comedians, just one loan
comedian who can fill an arena more than there are a single music act than
can fill an arena. There's more comedians right now. There's dozens of comedians
that can sell out an arena and any music act needs multiple support groups to
be able to do it. It's like, yeah, we're gonna go see
this band, but it's this band with this band. But you know it's
interesting, and you know this because you came up in this era. Are
not in that era where they're just passing out sitcoms anymore. To comedians,
that was the way for about ten almost fifteen years. You know, go
back to Seinfeld and then all the different shows. Every everybody was a stand
up comedian where it's getting a TV show. They don't need that anymore.
Okay, they don't need it anymore because all you got to do is go
out and self promote. Now it's still hard. You gotta hustle. You
still got to work, but you know, the grassroots of what you guys
can do now. I guess it's the same with musicians too. I mean,
so many kids that I talked to, even in these young bands,
they're not trying. Like when you and I were young, you know,
you were thinking that they got to get a contract, and you got to
you know, you gotta get signed by a label. And most of these
bands they don't care about that. They're like, no, we'll do it
on our own. We want all the money. We don't want to owe
anybody money and sign with someone. These are our songs, we believe in
them, and we're gonna make it on our own. Say. Probably the
same thing with Canadian comedians, Yes, same thing with stand up comedy,
where there were gatekeepers that would allow you into networks to have deals, and
Dane Cook was the first one to break that mold. He just put his
own thing together on the social media and just started building this new business model
that other comedians have taken and just ran with. And now comedians make way
more money, way more money than any sitcom star ever did. It's it's
bananas. I mean, look at Saturday Night Live, and I'm sure there's
gonna be a lot of people watching this. They're gonna say, Okay,
well, Nate Bargatz, I don't know if I'm saying it right. Okay,
he's huge. That guy could walk down the street and not one person
mentioned him. He hosted Saturday Night Live, which is still a big deal,
which is still the Wheaties Box, which is still a marquee event in
any actor comedian's life and musicians still to this day. Some of these unknown
guys that they're known, because like you said, they're playing these big,
huge arena shows now and now they're working their way up. Shane Gillis you
know, oh, I mean there's a lot of people that didn't know who
these people were when they hosted SNL. It's crazy how many people are able
to sell out a big room that still a lot of people don't know about.
And it's and that's exactly it. It's it's crazy, but it's also
it's exciting. And uh yeah, Saturday Night Live is still the goal,
you know. I uh, I used to write that is that? Is
that your wheaties box? Still? I mean? Is that it SNL?
I wrote for a Weekend Update for a couple of years when Colin Quinn was
still doing Weekend Update ninety eight till two thousand and Yeah, I think that's
still That's still a thing. But I also got great stories out of just
being around it. You know. That's where all my Tracy Morgan stories were
from. And there's one Tracy Morgan story I tried to tell on your show
once that you dumped and you had to because it was too bad, And
can I just retell that story for you? It's a show you probably wanted
to make a butt baby with somebody and it probably went too far. If
I know you there, because Tracy Morgan, you portray him as the horniest
guy in the planet. It's so funny, dude, And it's because of
all my run ins with him. Like the story was, this agent runs
up to me. I'm getting ready to go on stage. I'm gonna open
for Dave Chappelle at Caroline's and this agent runs up and goes, hey,
you you're about that party last weekn And I go, did I hear about
what? And he goes, You're about the fucking party last week? And
I go, no, what party? He goes, Tracy Morgan had a
party turned into a fucking orgin, And I go what. He goes,
We're standing around their suits on and there's naked people. Just I remember looking
at him going fu fucking like like that. He goes, no, no,
like and then Tracy Morgan comes around, takes off all those clothes and
he jumps in and I go, what when was this? And he said
last Saturday night. Right at that moment, Tracy Morgan walks around the corner.
I haven't seen Tracy in probably a year. At this point, it
looked over and I went, Tracy, I heard your party was fucked up.
Man. Tracy Morgan just looks at me and just eyeballs me before he
finally says it was crazy. It was crazy, crag. You know what's
crazy about it? When you get off on my floor, you don't even
need nothing. You don't hear nothing at all, and you start walking towards
my apartment, but you still don't hear nothing. Then you knock on my
door, but you still don't hear nothing. Right, And when I opened
the door, there's buttoles and toes everywhere, and I went, what the
fuck? And just because I've never heard that phrase before, I said,
did you just say buttoles and toes? And Tracy Morgan said yeah, before
he added thumb and m toes. We're in the buttholes and he walked out
of the room. I try to tell that story on your show, and
you were like, are you fucking crazy? And I was like, all
right, sorry, I thought I could. I thought I could censor that.
I thought I could censor that. But yeah, listen, tell me
just give me a click update on what you're doing with Stern right now.
How often are you on is it a regular thing. Does that guy work
during the summer. I don't know anything about his schedule. I want it,
but I don't have I don't know how he gets it done. He's
in the middle of a ten week vacation right now, and he has me
on every other month where I sit in for a week and his weeks,
by the way, or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, that's a week for
Howard And my last time that I was on with him though, he brought
me in to talk as myself for a little while and we actually it was
just like old times. It felt great, And so I've been doing pre
interviews with his team to come on as a guest. So it seems to
be pointing in the direction that I'm gonna continue to celebrity voices on the show,
but also do stuff as myself on the show as well. I'll find
out when we get back from vacation. Okay, September and two comedy specials
coming out. The first one's about just me making fun of kiss the other
ones more traditional one later at the end of the year, and then I
am gonna be performing this weekend in Houston. It's the whole reason I'm here
is at the Secret Group this weekend on Saturday night, we're gonna do two
shows and all the tickets all at getgas dot com. It's get Gas with
two Wes's dot com. And Dude, you've always been incredibly nice to me.
And from the very first time we ever hung out in Houston, I
remember one time being in New Orleans and I think I thought you were in
New Orleans and you wrote me this long email like, dude, oh man,
I don't live there. I love this stuff. This is great.
I love you know, but I don't live there. And then when I
finally got to see you in person, you invited me out, you invited
me to your home, and you've always been incredibly hospitable and I really I
can't tell you enough. When you travel and you feel a disconnect as you're
traveling because you don't know people in these cities you go to, it really
means a lot when someone is that kind to you that they invite you into
your home. And I've always been appreciative of that, and I want to
say thank you for that. Well, man, thank you. Man.
You've always been awesome and uh, yeah, you've been a great friend over
the years and I continued success. It's great having you on. I'm so
glad you're back here in Houston. We'll send people over to the website.
And dude, don't put so much time in between coming to see us in
Houston, you know, I know, I can't wait to come back.
There's so many more stories that they have for you. But yeah, I'm
looking forward to coming back Getgas dot com. Hopefully it'll it won't be a
couple of years before I come back again. But we got two shows this
weekend, Secret Group, and you can go to the Secret Group's website,
the Secret Group HTx dot com or I think it's easier to remember Getgas dot
com, Get Gas with two s dot com and look at all that weird
shit on my Instagram. There's so many weird things on there. It's just
Easter ex everywhere, and Dix, there's lots of dicks for that's me and
that's Craig Gascomedy at Craig Gascomedy with two S's Thank you, Rod, I
love you all right, man, Thank you my brother man. Take care