WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:01.280 It's nice size. 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.880 Boston's news radio. Welcome back Tangwae filling it for Ray Tonight. 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:10.720 Thanks a lot, we appreciate it. 4 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.720 Six seven two thirty is a telephone number joining us 5 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.480 right now is one of the great guys. Uh Tony 6 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.480 V is our guest. He's hot off a huge gig. 7 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:22.600 What did you do? Just take the private plane back 8 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:24.280 back from Vegas. 9 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:31.679 Yes, that's exactly what happened. I'm on the ninety three 10 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:36.799 noise coming from the Sons of Italy and Quincy one 11 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:38.079 of the others, you know. 12 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.799 The Sons of Italy, Hall and Rumford, Maine where I 13 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.799 grew up, which you've probably played at one point. 14 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:48.880 Gary, you know, I know he said we weren't going 15 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.399 to do bits or anything, but I actually have a 16 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:58.079 bit about the Rumford, Maine Sons of Italy. We're here. 17 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:02.759 I get a call and someone says to me, don't 18 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.519 want to work the Sons of Italy and Rumford. 19 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:06.560 May you're kidding me? 20 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.040 And I go, no, no, And this is nearly a 21 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.480 true story. I mean it's ninety eight percent true, okay, 22 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.159 And and I go, no, that that'd be fine. I've 23 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.799 you know, those people need to be entertained, and so 24 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.439 that's not the weird price. Then they go, do you 25 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:29.760 need the address? And I go, no, I've been there 26 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:30.560 a bunch. 27 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:37.799 The Sons of Italy Hall, which I think my uncle, 28 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.560 my uncle Frank Geronda belonged to. Yeah, the son of it, 29 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:48.879 across the across the doorway, it was Sons of Italy. 30 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:51.200 It was like all one word. They didn't have any 31 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:53.640 spaces in between the words. That's what I just remember. 32 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.079 Yeah, and let's be honest, how many Sons of Italy 33 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:05.400 are there in and maybe your uncle and his buddies. 34 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:08.000 Well, no, here's the thing Tony is. It's not like 35 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.240 the North End. Okay, I'm not going to tell you that, 36 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.560 but I will say this. Rumford was a milltown where 37 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.319 a lot of immigrants came to work. So you had 38 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:20.319 an Italian section which was Smith Crossing, and of course 39 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.000 the baseball field at the time was called the Spaghetti Bowl. 40 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:26.039 And I was right across from the Suns of Italy. 41 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.800 And then so you had the I mean, it's crazy, 42 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.639 but my mother was Irish. The Irish lived in one section, 43 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.479 the Italians lived in another section, the French lived in 44 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:35.240 another section. 45 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:39.879 Hell Tony, I assume you're Catholic. Rumford was so get 46 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:40.360 a load of this. 47 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.599 Rumford had a French Catholic church on one side of 48 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.560 the street, and right across the other stride of the street, 49 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:48.960 I swear to God was an Irish Catholic church. 50 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:53.439 Sure of course we can't be mixing those two Catholics. 51 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:57.919 And when my uncle married who was Irish, married my 52 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:02.080 aunt who was French, his father said, oh my god, 53 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.199 it was blasphemy. Why don't you marry one of your own? 54 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:09.479 That's how crazy it was, aren't you glad we lived 55 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:09.879 through that? 56 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.439 Oh my god? I mean it was crazy. 57 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.879 Nuts Tony, I want to I want to talk about, 58 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.159 like why all you guys are great, Like, you know, 59 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:25.800 you're funny as hell, Lenny's funny as hell, Sweeney Rogerson, 60 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:28.960 you know, Donnie Gavin, and then of course Dennis Leary 61 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:34.120 he's Worcester, but will include him, Uh, we'll let him slide, 62 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:39.080 like Burr Leno, Stephen Wright. What is it about Boston 63 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.840 or this area that generates great comics? 64 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.360 Well, I think you know, for the very reasons we've 65 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:53.199 been hinting at. Is you know this Boston's like a 66 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.960 microcosm of the whole world. In a very condensed area, 67 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:03.400 you know what I mean, Like, like everything you just 68 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:07.840 said about Rumford, Maine is exactly the same as here 69 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:12.319 in Boston, where we have you know, and we're separated geographically, 70 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.439 so you can dump on any other part of the 71 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.360 city and have somebody laugh about it, you know. And 72 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:24.240 everyone you just mentioned, we all came from similar backgrounds, 73 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:31.399 you know, working class, probably the first generation of you know, 74 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.240 my mother was born in Italy, my dad was from Portugal, 75 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:41.680 and uh, you know, so I think we all grew 76 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:43.120 up with a crip on our shoulders. 77 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.959 What I'm trying to say, Gary, Yeah, but you but 78 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:53.000 it's but like, okay, it's very do you think let 79 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.279 me ask you this then, do you think you can 80 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:57.319 teach somebody to be funny. 81 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.639 Or do you just have to have the gene in 82 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:01.759 order to to move on and do what you did? 83 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.000 You know? It's it's a you know, I've I have 84 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:13.040 uh done stand up classes before, and I am uh 85 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.120 I say right up front, like, look, I can't make 86 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:20.879 you funny, but if it's in there, I can drag it. 87 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:23.480 Out of you, right, you know. 88 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:26.920 You know, so I think you just I think it 89 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.959 comes from you know, uh have an a skewed view 90 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.399 of the world and not taking it off too seriously. 91 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.560 Well, it also comes from as it also comes from pain. 92 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.360 I mean, we understand that, you know, Oh yeah, yeah, 93 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:42.399 So why. 94 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:43.000 Do you do it? 95 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:49.560 I listen when when I was on a completely different path. 96 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:54.480 I you know, I am college into the comedy connection 97 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.959 many many years ago, and I met the guys who 98 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:05.800 would you know started you know, I thought eons before me. 99 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.560 It was actually about six or eight months, you know, 100 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.399 I found I found my tribe. I said to myself, 101 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.800 I can't believe that I've met a bunch of people 102 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.879 who think like me. Because in the in the other 103 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:26.480 in my other world, it was like people would look 104 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.199 at me and go, what why would you joke about that? 105 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.680 And I go, because that's how I cope, you know, 106 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.519 And I think that a lot of it became a 107 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:37.639 coping mechanism. 108 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.879 That's how I's how that's how I. 109 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.519 Come, that's how I cope, That's how I try to 110 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.279 make sense of it by making fun of it. And 111 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.160 oftentimes we end up making fun of stuff that's very 112 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.040 data to us, you know, and people don't understand that. 113 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.720 That's why I get mad when people you know, try 114 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:02.040 to uh, you know, cancel people or whatever for saying 115 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:06.079 the wrong things. It's just our coping method. That's really 116 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:06.720 all it is. 117 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.600 You You sometimes you joke about the things that can 118 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:11.240 hurt you the. 119 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:15.160 Most, that can hurt you the most, therefore you take 120 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.480 the power away from it. 121 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.759 Wow, exactly, that's yeah. 122 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.240 Do you talk about that in your class or is 123 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:24.800 that just something that happens Yeah? 124 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.040 Yeah, No, I mean I try to point that out, 125 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:34.879 like it's funny. I've taught or mentored a couple of 126 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:43.079 people who are on the spectrum. 127 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:44.439 You know, yeah and yeah the man Yeah, And. 128 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.680 They come in and it's like, well, I'm doing this 129 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.519 you know too, you know, to try to show people that, 130 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:58.560 you know that I'm I'm regular, I'm normal, whatever phrase 131 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.680 they use. And I always say to them, no, no, no, 132 00:08:02.480 --> 00:08:06.360 lean into it. That's what makes you unique, that's what 133 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:10.399 that's what colors your world. That's what your point of 134 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:14.600 view is, and it's and it's needed and necessary from 135 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.040 people that understand it. 136 00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:19.600 Well, Amy Schumer, have you met her? 137 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:20.959 Yeah? 138 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:22.759 I did a movie with Amy Schumer. 139 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:23.879 Oh which one did you do? 140 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.519 I did? I feel pretty oh right? 141 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:28.959 Okay? 142 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.679 With Oh God, was what the guy from SNL and 143 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.159 at Bill who did Barry? 144 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:38.000 I can't remember anyways, I digressed, but but. 145 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.799 But but I played, I was I was the uh 146 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:43.200 dry cleaner in that. 147 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:48.159 Her husband is. She's talked about this. 148 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.399 I mean, it's part of the reality show, right, Her 149 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:53.720 husband is on the spectrum and. 150 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.039 Or on the spectrum. And he's a chef. 151 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.200 Yeah, he's a chef. He's a great chef. And she 152 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.120 says he's hilarious. 153 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:04.399 Yes, yeah, And I don't know why people want to 154 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:08.159 deny that. I don't understand, you know, coming from my perspective, 155 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:10.879 Why would you want to deny the thing that makes 156 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:11.879 you funny? Why? 157 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:12.799 Right? Right? 158 00:09:12.879 --> 00:09:16.320 Because she says he because he speaks the truth and 159 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.320 there's no filter and there's no filter and she goes 160 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.960 and he is just simply hilarious. So that's an interesting take. Tony, 161 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.559 we're just getting started. We got a lot of we 162 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.159 got a lot more to do. Tony v is with us. 163 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.960 We're talking about just comedy in general, talking about his life, economy. 164 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.759 I got a ton of stuff to talk to him about, 165 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.399 including his big appearance on Seinfeld when he looked like 166 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.399 he was like seventeen years old. That's all coming up 167 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.519 on wbz's night Side. Now back to Dan Ray live 168 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.960 from the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio, 169 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.279 Gary Tangway for Danton and I talking about his life 170 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:56.440 in comedy. Tony v is joining us, and I want 171 00:09:56.480 --> 00:10:00.840 to tell you my brief experience with stand up. 172 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:03.080 You get it. 173 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:08.840 I tried it because I did two open mics. Okay, 174 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:12.360 I did two open mics, and this is god. I 175 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.879 was in my twenties. I was doing some sports radio. 176 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.360 And what a lot of people don't know is when 177 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.200 I got out of college, I was doing sports. And 178 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:24.519 I love acting, as you know, because we've been actually 179 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.200 you've seen each other on the sets and stuff. I 180 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.639 love acting, but sports was always I got opportunities to 181 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:34.720 do it, and I made money and I was able 182 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:35.120 to live. 183 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.639 A very good life and it was easy. You know, 184 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.279 it was fun. Yeah, it was good at it. You know, 185 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.120 you came out, you did the show with us and stuff. 186 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.759 But you know, I've always written I love acting, and 187 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.159 so when I was trying to figure it out, I 188 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.120 bounced back and forth through New York. I went down 189 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.840 and took some classes in New York at HB Studios 190 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.799 and stuff in my twenties, you know, when they said 191 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.240 find your inner animal. Ever done that Tony in an 192 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:57.919 acting class? 193 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.960 Find your inner animal? Like roll around on a floor 194 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:01.679 like a wolf. 195 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:10.120 So I, oh, there you go, Okay, same deal. So 196 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:12.360 I said, you know, I'm going to just try to 197 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:16.519 stand up because I just wanted to try it. And I, 198 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.480 as they say, I did something at Remington's an open 199 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.120 mic at Remington's by the Alleys. 200 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:25.960 Yeah, yeah, did Darty's room, the Comedy Vault. 201 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:30.480 And I did like ten minutes and I killed Tony. 202 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:36.039 I killed, really I did. But and then I did 203 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:40.440 another one at the Conquered Inn in Conquered Mass, different 204 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:49.440 different crowd. I crashed and burned, hard bombed. And it 205 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:51.600 was one of those nights where you know they had 206 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:53.720 a guy playing the guitar. It was like it was 207 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.679 like it was like not just comedy. 208 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.320 Yeah, they were doing poetry, you know, any right of it. 209 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.200 But what it did teach me though, was I didn't 210 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:05.440 I didn't. I didn't want to put into work like 211 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:07.480 I was like, okay. Because I talked to some guys 212 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.080 that night. It was very I mean guys would like notebooks, 213 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:12.320 notebooks of material. 214 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:16.000 I mean just So how did you start? 215 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:23.639 It's listen, you you hit on a very important topic there, 216 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:28.200 which is its work. And that's where we usually lose people. 217 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.840 It's not just getting up and talking. It's getting up 218 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:37.039 and tugging with the desired effect, which is laughter. And 219 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:40.360 once people realize it's work, and you've got to sit 220 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.360 in clubs, and you got to hang around, and you've 221 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.519 got to be ready at a moment's notice in case 222 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:49.519 somebody candles and you get five minutes to while they 223 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.720 you know, they can find somebody else to do it. 224 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:58.639 You know, it's a dedication to stupidity that most people 225 00:12:58.720 --> 00:12:59.759 don't want to deal with. 226 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:01.679 How did. 227 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.039 Once they find out it's worked? That's where we lose people, 228 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:11.799 because it's it's not it's not just I get I 229 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:15.159 get up there and talking people laugh at me. It's 230 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:18.000 not I wish it were that easy, you know. And 231 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.600 you're all as good as your last set. Nobody cools 232 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:23.720 about what you did the night before. 233 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:29.039 Nobody, Well, uh, Norm McDonald's book. Did you ever work 234 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.480 with Norm? 235 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:34.440 I worked when I worked with Nor McDonald a lot 236 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:36.960 and had the utmost respect for him. 237 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:37.320 Yeah. 238 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:40.679 Well, my buddy and I we were close to put 239 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:43.080 as you know, we were trying to put together a 240 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.600 movie and it was about a TV It involved a 241 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.879 TV anchorman. It's not anchor man, folks, but it was 242 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:53.519 a TV sportscaster. 243 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:57.519 Who loses his job. Uh. 244 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.840 And anyway, so I met We met with Norm at 245 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:03.679 the at the casino up in Hampton, you know, and 246 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.879 we talked for like an hour and a half after 247 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:10.440 a show and he had like three red bulls at 248 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:11.200 like eleven. 249 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:11.720 O'clock at night. 250 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.320 I'm like Jesus, say you're gonna sleep, and you know, 251 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:17.919 and we were talking and I also read his book 252 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.399 and he and he said sometimes it would take six 253 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:25.759 months to figure out the best way to tell a joke. 254 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.519 Oh, easily, it can take that easily. 255 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:32.399 You know. 256 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:35.120 What's the process? What do you do? Tony? 257 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:41.600 Well, you know I tell people this all the time. 258 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:49.480 There's an old saying about someone was tigging to a sculptor. Yes, 259 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.919 And they say, how do you sculpt an elephant? And 260 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.600 he says, well, I look at a block of stone 261 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.559 and I take away everything that's not an elephant. 262 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.360 Okay, that makes sense, yes, And it's. 263 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.159 The same with with jokes or a bit. You start 264 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.399 out with like you know the thought, and you start 265 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.720 out with a story about that thought, and then as 266 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:19.639 you find the wording to it, you find out the 267 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.440 points that hit that get the laugh, that that make 268 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:29.200 the joke and the smallest amount of time so you 269 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:33.080 condense everything. And sometimes it takes work and work and 270 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.639 work to find the right wording. And sometimes a joke 271 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.159 can hinge on a you know, a word or a 272 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.440 phrase or a pause. You know, one thing I tell 273 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.600 my students all the time is, you know how you say. 274 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:52.840 What you say is important as what you say. 275 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:56.360 Have you ever given up on a joke? 276 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:07.639 Sometimes? I you know, I'm pretty stubborn. If I think 277 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.720 it's funny, I will work it until I uh find 278 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:17.080 a way to make it palatable for the audience. And uh, 279 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.480 it can it can be painful because you can be 280 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.159 having a good set then you go, I'll throw something 281 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:24.240 out and then it give high flat and you go, 282 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.120 oh boy, now I got to go try something else. 283 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:28.000 You know. 284 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:29.200 Uh. 285 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.840 I did a brand new piece tonight and it went 286 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.919 fairly well, you know, so so I'm now I'm jazzed 287 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:38.279 about that piece and I'll find it. I'll find a 288 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.159 way to make that work, you know. 289 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.879 Uh, how do you deal with bombing. 290 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.679 You gotta you know, uh, you gotta just realize it's 291 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:55.080 not it's not you. They're rejecting. It was this that 292 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:59.559 set that night. You know, you can't take it too 293 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:00.360 persons only. 294 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.960 Well, that's what I think makes you decide whether you 295 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.440 want to go on out like I Okay, so I 296 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.440 bombed at the Conquered In. 297 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:09.200 Like, so if we go back and we analyze that. 298 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:13.119 Okay, So I I was funny at Remington's for ten minutes, 299 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.079 for ten minutes, which how long is you're set? 300 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:16.519 An hour? 301 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:19.920 I did? I just did about fifty minutes. 302 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.000 Yeah, okay, so. 303 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.400 Like I'm doing ten minutes like to write, and I'll 304 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:25.640 ask you, I'll get to how long it takes to 305 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.319 do to come up with fifty minutes. But like so, 306 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.279 and then I go to the Conquered In and I bomb, 307 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:31.640 and I say, you know, I don't want to do this. 308 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.039 I just don't. I don't want to put in the work. 309 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.680 But if I was a comedian, I would go, well, okay, 310 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.680 it's the concored in. You know, they're drinking, they're you know, 311 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:44.640 it's a different crowd. It's them, not me. 312 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:47.160 Different crowd, right, right, so I would. 313 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.480 Go like Larry Miller, like, Larry, did you ever work 314 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:50.160 with Larry Miller? 315 00:17:50.839 --> 00:17:53.559 I did work as Larry Miller. Yeah, yes, with him 316 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:53.960 as well. 317 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:54.720 So Miller. 318 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:59.880 So he tells his story, right, he flies into some 319 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.960 place like des Moines, Iowa. And and I say this 320 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.680 with all respect, this is the story that he's dealing with. 321 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:10.640 But and it was a state police convention. So he 322 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.440 goes in and just before the police, just before they 323 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.440 announce him, they do a moment of silence for a 324 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:22.240 trooper who's for a trooper who's passed away. All due respect, 325 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.359 all due respect to law enforcement. I mean, that's not 326 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:29.079 that's not funny. But his point was, Okay, we just 327 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:31.319 did a moment of silence about a guy who passed 328 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.720 away that these guys know. Now I got to go. 329 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:34.559 Out and be funny. 330 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:36.160 Oh sure. 331 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:39.920 And he's like I'm screwed, like I got no shot, 332 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.440 you know what I mean. It's like, oh yeah, so 333 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.119 you know, to me, if. 334 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.319 You come back from that, you want to do it 335 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.519 like you you you know, you just that's that's that's 336 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:53.160 that's that's the test. 337 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.640 Yeah, you don't want we're hinting at here, Garry it's 338 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:58.400 a sickness more than anything else. 339 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:05.000 Yeah well no, yeahsted, Well you gotta be a little twisted. 340 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:06.880 But it's a lifestyle, not a job. 341 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.759 Yeah no, no, you have to buy into the lifestyle. 342 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.359 And if you if you can't, I won't a don't, 343 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:20.359 then your road's going to be long and windy. 344 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:20.839 Like. 345 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:23.519 But I also think go ahead to interrupted. 346 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:28.039 I was gonna say, I've had those moments. I've done 347 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:35.519 charity events for like you know, uh, I won't say 348 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:39.720 which children's hospital, but eight Children's hospital where I would 349 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.039 I would say, like, whatever you do, please don't bring 350 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:47.319 me up after the sick Kid video, right, you know, 351 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:49.319 I know there's going to be a sick kid video 352 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:51.480 because we had to raise buddy. But if we could 353 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.480 just do something after that, And sure enough they show 354 00:19:54.519 --> 00:20:00.359 the video. The screen's going up. Everybody's crying, including me, right, 355 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:05.079 and they go and now the comedy stylings of Tony 356 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.440 V and you know where you know what, And I 357 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:12.400 just remember getting up on stage and going, hey, anybody 358 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.039 want to strangle a puppy before I get started? 359 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:20.200 Oh my god, Oh yeah, you got it, Yeah, you 360 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:20.519 got it. 361 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:21.359 You gotta run with it. 362 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.000 You gotta do something. Yeah, you gotta do something, you know, 363 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:28.599 to let them know that, you know that you have 364 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:32.039 to you know, you have to break that spell because 365 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:34.720 it could be got awful. And I can't tell you 366 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:38.680 how many times that's happened. It happens more times than 367 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:39.599 I care to think. 368 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:40.039 About, you know. 369 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:42.960 And and the thing that people don't understand is everybody 370 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.559 bombs leto everybody. 371 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:48.119 Yeah, everybody. 372 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:54.480 Everybody bombs at Sweeney's movie when Sweeney did it. You 373 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.000 were funny as hell in that movie, by the. 374 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:58.200 Way, Sweeney killing Sweeney. 375 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:02.000 Yes funny. You guys are hilarious, you guys. And you 376 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.200 had a lot of ad libs in that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 377 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:09.319 you were funny as hell. So after there was like 378 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:10.920 a I don't know, I mean, but like I talked 379 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.759 to you and you you just I mean, you got 380 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:13.839 the line You're just funny. 381 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:14.799 You know. 382 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.079 I did a movie like I'm gonna really name drop here, 383 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.359 but this past spring, uh Ella McKay. 384 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.359 Which is coming out next spring. 385 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:23.799 Uh. 386 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:24.519 James L. 387 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.559 Brooks directed I Get to play a Senator. So for 388 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.880 a week, Yeah, for a week, I'm on the set 389 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:31.039 with Jamie Lee Curtis and Albert Brooks. 390 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:33.240 Oh Oh my god. 391 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:35.359 Dude, I got and this she's gonna be a star. 392 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.240 Her name is Emma Mackie. She was one of the barbies, 393 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.119 but she's a star of this. So and you know, 394 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.720 with with James L. Brooks, he shoots everything. I mean, 395 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:47.480 he takes forever. He takes for ever, but he can 396 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:51.480 because he's James L. Brooks. And and then of course 397 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:55.640 you know I have I have like two lines and 398 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:58.599 so but I'm there for the week because he just 399 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.519 you don't know what he's gonna do. So I we 400 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:04.079 get in the van and I got you gotta say, 401 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.599