October 18, 2023 • 28 mins
Eric and good friend/comedian Nimesh Patel talk about doing stand-up at a Bernie Sanders political rally in Philadelphia. Let's just say it was not well received. Nimesh talks about witnessing a comedian whose anger came out in the form of threatening to light a theater on fire, witnessing a meltdown that can really change the mood of the show, and under the influence stories. Eric talks about his mushroom and molly trip while performing, and how maybe someday an ayahuasca set will happen! Also, Nimesh makes a whole family retaliate against him while he's on stage in D.C.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, this is Bombing with Eric Andre, the podcast where
I talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people
about their worst moments on stage and getting gutted by
a live audience. We're back and we got a chance
to talk one of my favorite comedians namesh Patel. He
talks about his life experiences and releasing a special on
YouTube and doing stand up in front of a bunch
of Bernie Sanders donors and how they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Murder it.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's get into it. Bombing with Aeric Andre.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Okay, so tell us the worst you've ever bombed or
you have a bombing story. Oh, we can kick off
with the one that you have locked and loaded. Yeah, yeah,
I'm excited. I want to hear you. I also, I
have never seen bomb so I don't know if I've
never seen you like just completely deterior on stage unless
I'm like have like a fucking complete, well false memory.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know what you saw at that the show
we're going to talk about, but that one felt like
there was no recovering from it. So for the context,
and you're probably not even aware this was that. That
was the summer of twenty sixteen when that happened. Okay,
you have to understand where my ego was at when
I was doing that show, because that was four months
before that. I had just been at the Oscars with
(01:30):
Chris and he had the second time he hosted, And.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Were you helping him rite? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
They had a writing team and I was on the
writing team. That was my first writing job at way amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And so I had my my finance job had ended,
my day job had it ended, and my first writing
job ever was working with Chris on the Oscars Amazing,
and I'm like, I felt like hot shit, yeah, yeah, right.
Four months later, I get passed at the Cellar. Yeah
because of how long were you doing comedy at this point?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Seven years? Seven years?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I get passed at the Cellar And I did
political material because that was the summer that everyone thought
Trump was going to lose election, and all political material
was hot shit, and I thought I was doing like
like some of the best I had passed at the
cellar with it, and I'm like, oh, I'm fucking good money.
And uh a few months, a few weeks later, I
(02:17):
get a text from our good friend Rommi Yusuf hey Man,
there's this, Uh, once Hillary secured the nomination, Bernie had lost.
Hey Man, there's this like a kind of protests gathering
for Bernie happening in Philadelphia outside of Philadelphia Convention Center
where Hillary was having her victory party.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So like to paint the picture, it was like a
political rally in a museum where people, like political people
were coming up and ranting and raving and trying to
do like grassroots campaigning. But they would have comedians on
it in between it. But there's no flow to the show.
And it wasn't a comedy show. It was like a
variety show with like heated political debate as the between
(03:00):
yes versus and like musicians. It was like, there's no
momentum for any comedian. I had not not conducive to
comme I had. And it's like three o'clock in the
afternoon summer. Yeah, and mind you, I came off the
train and came to the venue. I hadn't seen any
of the things that had happened thus far, and all
I knew that there was foreigner people dressed in black
(03:23):
like Barnie Dyed or some shit. The mood was fucking dour,
a bunch of bunch of purple hair like.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And there's a panel of five people seated, and then
I don't know who went before me. It doesn't matter
who went after. I don't know whoever went before. I
got brought up, and I just remember that, like the
reason I got the Rock.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Job was because I think I remember this.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The reason I got the Chris Rock job was because
I told a joke that I had just written, and
I was so excited about it when I when I
got the when Chris was watching the show that I
was at that that instinct to tell the first joke
that that the newest joke, like that fiery inside, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And here's a room full of four hundred Bernie fans,
and Bernie had just lost the nomination to Hillary, right,
(04:14):
My opening line was hello, losers, damn fucking bro I
really thought I was gonna level, but it was not
that at all. And they wanted eight minutes, and I
think I said I've been booed by worse people than
you or something like that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So now you're like fighting the audience.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And then I forget what my closing line. I mean,
what are you gonna say? That's the funniest thing I
could say in that situation. They had sense of the
humor then, and I was like, all right, boy, And
I remember you being like because you were supposed to
go up, I think, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I think they wanted me to go up you bob.
And I was like, no, sorry, I said, like you
saying that wasn't It was just like tense it was.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And I was like, all right, see y'all later.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And then Rommy walked me out. He took me in
his car and dropped me to the He drove me
to the train station. But you know, Rommy tells you
you did bad, but tells you by telling you did good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah. Yeah, He's like, man, you were na, man, Yeah
you were good.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's all right, man. I was like, man, you sent
me the I felt so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I saw you that night.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I saw you have the sell it that night, really
think so I think it was that night or like
right afterwards.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Did I know you?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
At that point we knew each other because you've done
Matchless once or twice, Like I went the bus. No, no, no, no,
I don't think, but I distinctly remember that like as
one of my worst bombs because the ego with which
I went into the situation was so cut down, you know,
(06:01):
and I was like, fuck, I cannot believe that happened.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, that was a bad one. You were not set
up for success at a show like that, though. Who's
gonna do well at that show?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Someone I mean, who panders and says.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Hillary somebody, Yeah, somebody who either panders or already is
like mega famous for being a political Look like like
John Stewart walks into that room, he'd probably like would
get somewhere, have a great time, but but shy of
that level of fame as a political comic specifically, like
if you have to start from, like I swear, I'm
(06:36):
gon like like unless you're like mega world famous, like
it's kind of like impossible. I would have. I think
they wanted me to go up and I was like, no, no,
gea pig did not even go up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I don't even know if I think everybody skipped after this,
you like fucking riddled with bullets, glad I set the example.
That was a brutal one. That was my that's the
bub that sticks out the most brain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of it's hunting those Did they haunt you forever?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes, they hurt my feelings. But you know as well
that ends well. Bernie is still alive, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Bernie is still the president.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
With Ari Condrey. With Ari Condrey.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Has there ever been a bomb that you've seen in person?
Maybe you weren't on stage, just a bomb that you
witnessed that was like horrendous, or like any fights on
stage or oh yattels thrown or.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We had well when I did Matchless, the show that
you've done before, Yeah, used to run with the Chay
and Mike Denny.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Are you still doing that show? You don't do that?
That long done?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That then you got sold in January twenty eighteen. Yeah yeah, yeah,
it fucking sucks. But they just knocked it down like
it was standing there. It could have been a show
for all this time, that show we would have people
will bomb every Monday. But I remember distinctly, I won't
name his name, uh, but I was would say too generous,
and I would say Chay was too generous with people
(08:10):
that he let get up, and Becky was death.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
This is all Becky's fault.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Becky, our producer would be too generous, and Danny, we
would all be too generous about some of the comics
that we let on stage, as in people that were
not great you put on such yeah, or people that
we'd seen once or whatever. Well I had asked more
nice and more friendly and been around there.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, you got to give some people a shot,
I guess, you know, and uh, I just got a
sandwich them between two people, you know, can like bring.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The show back to the death and you know, to
our credit, we definitely gave a lot of people when
they like Chicago Comics, La Comics, Like we still talk
about like, oh man, can you believe that person the
first time they came to New York, the first show
they did was ours and now they're fucking.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah yeh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Lisa Matteo like some of these people like when they
came to New York, they're like, this is the fucking
show and put them up and not that take any
credit for the success or anything, but like that was.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, We're exciting to see your see your children.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Grow up right, our peers become fucking stars.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This one guy was from New York, New York improv scene.
I had met him a few times and we've done
shows together, but I never like really paid attention to
his set. But it was enough like yeah, go up,
I'll give you a shot. You know, your friend go.
He went up, and I guess he was suffering through
some kind of anger management. He went up and like
(09:29):
like the first or second joke didn't work, and something
in him switched click, like I snapped, and it was
like he it was uncomfortable to the point I thought
he was gonna like get like angry violent. It's like
I'll set this fucking place on fire like that, you
know that?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And he came off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And that was the one time I remember being like
like it was a bomb. And normally you do like
ten to fifteen minutes of the show. I think we
were like, yo, get the fuck off at like six.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, even that was yelling at It was a yelling
at you guys too.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, I mean he was yelling at I think the host.
I don't forget who was hosting at the time. It
might have been me, but he was definitely yelling at
everybody and definitely like one person in front row where
it felt so.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Uncomfortable, like going off.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And when he came off stage, he was like and
I was like, nah, man, no, no, that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know what the fuck you just did, but
that what the fuck was that? Yeah? And then I
haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Him since, but that was like, not, well, I hope
he's okay. That seemed like a mild psychotic.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Break to have, just like what the fuck you? Like
a pure.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Meltdown of comedy, and there's not a single funny moment
in it where even like I'm gonna like this place
on fire, like that seemed like a legitimate threat, felony threat. Yeah,
we're like, all right, bro, I'm sorry man, you look
go home, take this place on fire, I guess, and
worked one punishment doesn't match the crime.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Bro, you just bombed. It's fine. I bomb here all
the time. It's just supposed to. Fuck. It's some Monday
is free. Look at these people, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
With a recondre.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
With are conre What was the most wasted you've ever
been on stage? Like sloppy, fucking hammered.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It was beauty Bar two thousand, and I would say, thirteen,
you're doing drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Are you drinking? Drinking? Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I only remember it because I was in a suit,
because I was still working in finance as an assistant.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh shit, And you'd show up at the comedy show
from work.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And this time we had a work party and.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
How long were you doing finance stuff?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I worked in finance until January twenty sixteen, from nine.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Two thousand. So you finished school and you went right
into finance.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, so I well, I finished school in eight and
I graduated the finance agree in a terrible year to
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He picked the.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Wrong year in the graduate financial I did, and I
didn't get a job.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Thankfully, you know, it all worked out because if I hadn't,
had I become a banker or something, who knows, I
might not be here. Oh nine, I finally got a job,
moved to the city, was working at an investment bank
as an assistant. It's like, I would say, twenty twelve,
twenty thirteen, and we had a work after hours, a
work a happy hour. So I got lit up and
(12:27):
I was like, oh shit, it's like eight or an o'clock.
Let me go to this fucking show beauty bar and
on Fourteenth Street in a suit walking to the show.
Eight people there, three drunk white ladies up front talking
and I done Beauty Bull before. But yeah, the stage
is the stage is very close to the audience, but
(12:48):
it's like high. It's like maybe a three platform, so
I feel like towering above these people. But eight people
in that room, three of them are talking. It's loud, right,
and they're not talking.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Like jays No.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They're like, hey, you want to get drinks?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And what is this guy?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And I was just like, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Your hammered?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was drunk and I was annoyed and they were loud,
and I was like I need to shut No, I
told you to shut the fuck it was and then uh,
go over not well and I was like, hey, I'm
getting the funk out of here. Man, run your show right,
and uh, what's it called? The host took me off
the stage and was like all right, man. I was like, yeah,
(13:30):
I'm fucking leaving you run run your show properly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But ship so you were shots fired everywhere and this man,
how you're gonna get mad at me? They're yelling. You're like,
I'm going to burn this place in the ground. That
was me.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It was me the whole time. But no, that was uh,
that was my slot. And then I was definitely at
the cellar on Molly or anything like that. No, no, no, no,
you ever do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like acid or fucking mushrooms and go on stage.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I wanted to do a I chickened out from doing
shrooms and going on stage.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, like I did.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I did a bunch of shrooms during the day and
then like when the after, when I was in the
after glow of the shrooms, I went out stage and
that was like I remember that being some of the
best shows ever. Like that was like the time my life. Yeah,
felt fucking confident. Yeah, just my brain was clicking in
some other directions.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, yeah, I got more often.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I did shrooms on stage one time and I had
a blast. How many How much did you do? I
didn't do that much. I just did like a gram.
Maybe I was tripping, but I wasn't, like waw, I
was just tripping enough to still be social. And U
shoms are the best? You got any good ones right now?
Good shrooms not here, but in California I got big
ast Doctor SEUs bushrooms oh yeah, yeah, I don't have
(14:44):
a connect here.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I got you, okay, I got I get some good
chocolates great, yeah, yeah, yeah they're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, that's what I need. Chocolates are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's what I need.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You can dose them properly.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But I've yet to do I've yet to do shrooms
on stage. I wanted to about yahuasca. No have you
ever done that? No, but I want to do it
on stage.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, everywhere, crying about your Dadley yet to do on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I don't think I'll ever do that on stage. It's
too did Molly on stage a couple of times? Was
it Gilbert Lawan show in Atlanta? Was it amazing? It
was Gilbert Lawan?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Gilbert is my favorite Catholic Iraqi comedian. So it's Crystal
and we went to see Fish and I don't like
jam bands that much, so I was just a wolfing
down Molly to make the music sound better and it
wasn't working. And then he was like, you want to
do a comedy show.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was like, I'm on.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Four hits of Ecstasy and four I was fucking high
as ship. I didn't eat them all four It once,
but I took four over the night and I went
up on stage and I had a fantastic set. I
don't think it was actually a fantastic set. I think
I just felt fantastic. But and I don't. I don't.
(15:57):
I probably didn't do that well and my eyes were
probably like this the whole time. Yeah, yeah, but I
felt him. Man, I did a whole set like this
and I felt amazing. I probably bombed, but it felt great.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It felt great. Yeah. That it scares me because it's
too uh, too truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, all of it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's like like like the guard once the guard is down.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I still I feel that way about alcohol. Actually,
what I'm more truthful with alcohol. Interesting, not that I'm
lying without alcohol, but I mean, like the guards come
down with when the anxiety goes down.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, I see, Like I'm conscious of how much I
dislike alcohol on stage. So now that if I were
to drink on stage, if it's more than one drink,
I'm just like, I don't like doing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
This at all. Yeah, but with I like being sharp
on stage. Yes, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, like two coffees in yeah, yeah, pulling my best
David to Tail impression.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't you know I did cot on stage. K
H A T. It's like the cocaine of Yemen. It's
a stimulant and Afghans oldiers will like chew a bunch
of it because it makes you high. It's like the
cocaine of North Africa. In the Middle East, and I
played a show in Israel and they gave me cost
tea and I drank like three quarters of a cup
(17:19):
and I forgot what I thought. I was just drinking
iced tea. I wasn't paying attention, and by the end
of the show I was on stage. I was like,
I was like Robin Williams circa nineteen seventy, pretty animated,
so I can't imagine. Oh, I was fucking crazy. I
was like Daffy doc. I was like, I crushed, I crossed.
I was like in the zone.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
But I was like, maybe I don't fuck with any
of those those plants. Yeah, stimulant, no coke, none of
that ship. Yeah, but like no up no uppers. I
mean Molly's anupper, right, yeah, I won't. I won't do
that on stage, but I will do it recreationally.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, but coconut, no, I don't think I do it
on stage. Now, I was just like in my twenties
doing like random chicken shit open mics, and I'm was
like fuck it, like there's no stakes to this show,
Like I might as well get high, yeah, because like
it's not like it's fucking it's industry night man.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The Creak in the Cave back when it existed in
Longland City, like they would do high nights, or like
they would do like a high show.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I think there's a show that was like one of
each drug show. That's possible.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I might have been the same show I did, but
I did that one on weed and I was so
fucking high.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I can't do we eating chips on stage?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No I did.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I did the whitest kids you know stoned one time.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And here's here's the bomb that I forget all the time.
But then he brought up weed and saying no to
doing weed on stage. Now remember yeah, and it's a bomb.
Like I want to apologize to the the Washington d C.
Community that came to see me that evening was a
(19:00):
summer of twenty nineteen. I remember that because I was
recording an album. My first album Hadney Mission Charge.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It's pretty good, Thank.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You, and the people that are recording the album were
there right, and they had papered the room because I
wasn't selling tickets at that point, but still had a
few people come out, Like still had fans that purchase tickets.
And the first show went so well. Was the second
show on a Friday night, I believe, And the first
show went so well that I was like, I got.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This shit in the bag.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Let me smoke a little DC between the shows. I
smoked way too much. Oh no, And I get on
stage and I again like, this is just my stupid
belief in myself. Sometimes I was like I could fucking
talk to people and wing it for an hour. I
just fucking crushed on this last one. Me just fucking around.
I went up and man, I listened to that. If
(19:58):
I ever want to think of how bad comedy can be,
how bad I can be a comedy. I go back
and listen to that, like what the like? You know
you'll click through and be like is there a laugh
at any point?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You know? Just how are you just like like drooling
through your jokes?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But I wasn't doing any jokes. I was talking and
just having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I thought, oh, you just ditched your material.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I would try to go in and out, but
it was just like and then like I got fixated
on like this super rich Punjabi family that was sitting
up front is Indian family, and I could tell that they
were rich because dad had like this platinum rex on
and and the daughter had come out.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is it Punjabi known for like being like a wealthy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, it's just I could tell with this guy they
their Punjabi because that's how I remember them in my
brain as being. It's crazy to see a Punjabi family
out at that age group. Like it was like a
sixty year old Punjabi dad and his wife, I think
the daughter, daughter in law, son and and another daughter.
And I'd asked the daughter about like while she was
(21:03):
single whatever she I just got divorced. And I was like, okay,
well let me talk to your parents about how they
feel about this divorce.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh my god, through her under the through the wolves
was bad. It was bad.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And I remember just I could talk myself out of
buying something funny. These people fucking like staring like leaving.
I was like and I was up there for probably
an hour an hour long, and I should have been
up there four hours.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Mine was July d C and uh heat, Yeah, it's sweltering.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're just stone.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Stone, I remember, like I had like hazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I'm assuming that divorce isn't like that cool for old
school Indian dad. Is it just like you don't get
divorced no matter what exactly culturally?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yes, And he's sitting there with his wife and they're
just I just see the platinum roles with the diamond
blinking out on me like I do jewelry, and like
I bet you do a motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It was bad.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
That was I think about that from the time I
got shuttered thinking about that one, Like what the fuck
was I thinking? But at least the shows after that,
like Saturday, were informed, Like I'm informed of myself that
I'm not hot ship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Those shows they bring you back to a state of big,
deliberate exactly, bring your ego back to the re orient your.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I needed it, Yeah, I needed that was Yeah, that's
just rough. I remember I was sweating so much because
it was a hot and d C and all that,
and because I was bombing. I leave the club after
everyone clears out. I'm not sure if you know where
the comedy Loft in d C is. It's it's in
(22:49):
DuPont Circle and it's around the corner from a gay bar.
And on the way to the hotel is this gay bar.
Like I'm staying right around the corner from comedy loft,
I'm drenched in sweat. I leave the fucking club and
I'm going back to my hotel and these three gay
dudes are outside gay bar and one of them goes,
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it's stink because I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Somebody's like, what, you went for a run?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I just shot on. I
was like, my god, damn it. I needed it. It
was brutal, that fat. That hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I have an issue with my stand up where a
joke will be red hot for a while, or like
not the very first time I do it, but I'll
get it on his feet and then it'll be red
hot and then just all of a sudden, it doesn't
work anymore, like and I can't, And then I'll listen
to old tapes. I'm like, what do I do? Sometimes
I think it's just topical, and it's like no longer
(23:50):
in the geist. It is it is doesn't seem politically
political on the surface, but it actually kind of is
or something like that. But I have this like issue
where your jokes just like they just expire. Yeah, and
it fucks with my mind. It makes me so angry.
There are some evergreen jokes probably that I've written fifteen
years ago that maybe still work, but really like they
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I don't know something about.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Do you hit a wall with I've done this joke
too many times.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think so. I think as soon as you get
bored of it, even if the writing is there, they
just know, they smell that you're bored with it. And
you can't resurrect the dead. You cannot. You gotta that's
still got nervous. You still got to be kind of
nervous about it. Working the networks.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Part, you know, as you ask about the road, it's
like that's the toughest part.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, keeping a ship fresh because you like, you get
burnt out on itearia.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Like, I hate saying the same shit over and over
and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You can try doing like little like variety tags or something,
or just at least changing the order or that's what
It's hard to keep it exciting and fresh.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's fu and like the best way for me has
been have something new, some where in the middle or
somewhere at all. As many new things as you can, yeah,
even if it's a little tag and to like to
keep me going. Yeah, to reach for that goal, right,
look forward to something, because if I don't, then it's
just like.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You have nothing to look forward too.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, you're so sick of the jokes. Yeah, yeah, I
guess some people can do that. But I have a heart.
That's my toughest. That's why I kind of gave up.
I don't just stand up anymore. I'm going to a
stand up show. I just got burnt out on that.
I did like a massive tour right before COVID, and
then I shot my Netflix special right before COVID and
I delivered it February twenty twenty. Then a few weeks later,
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you know, COVID hit and then like I just never since,
like the world has quasi opened back up, But I haven't.
I haven't had any motive it all. My creativity goes
to like television or film or like other mediums.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But would you come back to it if you want
to hop on anything, let me know I can.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, yes, help help me get my sea legs. I
want to like kind of try. I kind of want
to just start going to shows. Just smell in the
air again, because then you start seeing staying. You get
inspired by seeing like what your friends are doing, what
people are talking about, and then you're like, oh, yeah,
I should do that joke about this because that joke working.
You kind of got to be in the environment to
get to get pretty motives. Go hang at the cellar. Yeah,
I'm always cramped at the cellar. They always stick me
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in that little corner and I'm like, the waiters are
squishing by. I get like claustrophobic.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But there's a billion cellar rooms. There's you know, the
Fat Black pussy Cat, that lounge like.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh no, see, I don't know. You got to take
me under your wing. You got to show me the
new way. All happen is I lived here thirteen years ago. Yeah,
we'll do the New York when I give me.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
A little tour the Fat Black Lounge. I've had some
pretty bad bombs there because that lounge is just like
that when you walk into that spot, you're like, well,
I just want chill, man.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't know. The flat, fat black Lounge. Oh it's
the best.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I love that room. I love all the cellar rooms.
The cellar proper, the original one is my favorite. But
the lounge just got a different vibe to it. And
it's like, like st will get mad at me because
I definitely like just I leaned on the lounge has
like a window behind it, yeah, a brick wall window,
And I was just like leaning on that ship. Yeah,
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because it makes you feel so opium, Denny.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's like chilling out ships.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
But that that's a fun place where if you just
want to watch a show, Okay, just hang out.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's fantastic. Okay, cool. Yeah, it's a great time. Great
But I bombed there so many times too, great nimesh, Yes, sir,
we did it all.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Oh, thank you man, thanks brother, thank you for having
me absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
With Aery Condrey.
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Let's get into it. Bombing with Aeric Andre.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Okay, so tell us the worst you've ever bombed or
you have a bombing story. Oh, we can kick off
with the one that you have locked and loaded. Yeah, yeah,
I'm excited. I want to hear you. I also, I
have never seen bomb so I don't know if I've
never seen you like just completely deterior on stage unless
I'm like have like a fucking complete, well false memory.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know what you saw at that the show
we're going to talk about, but that one felt like
there was no recovering from it. So for the context,
and you're probably not even aware this was that. That
was the summer of twenty sixteen when that happened. Okay,
you have to understand where my ego was at when
I was doing that show, because that was four months
before that. I had just been at the Oscars with
(01:30):
Chris and he had the second time he hosted, And.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Were you helping him rite? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I was.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
They had a writing team and I was on the
writing team. That was my first writing job at way amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And so I had my my finance job had ended,
my day job had it ended, and my first writing
job ever was working with Chris on the Oscars Amazing,
and I'm like, I felt like hot shit, yeah, yeah, right.
Four months later, I get passed at the Cellar. Yeah
because of how long were you doing comedy at this point?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Seven years? Seven years?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And I get passed at the Cellar And I did
political material because that was the summer that everyone thought
Trump was going to lose election, and all political material
was hot shit, and I thought I was doing like
like some of the best I had passed at the
cellar with it, and I'm like, oh, I'm fucking good money.
And uh a few months, a few weeks later, I
(02:17):
get a text from our good friend Rommi Yusuf hey Man,
there's this, Uh, once Hillary secured the nomination, Bernie had lost.
Hey Man, there's this like a kind of protests gathering
for Bernie happening in Philadelphia outside of Philadelphia Convention Center
where Hillary was having her victory party.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So like to paint the picture, it was like a
political rally in a museum where people, like political people
were coming up and ranting and raving and trying to
do like grassroots campaigning. But they would have comedians on
it in between it. But there's no flow to the show.
And it wasn't a comedy show. It was like a
variety show with like heated political debate as the between
(03:00):
yes versus and like musicians. It was like, there's no
momentum for any comedian. I had not not conducive to
comme I had. And it's like three o'clock in the
afternoon summer. Yeah, and mind you, I came off the
train and came to the venue. I hadn't seen any
of the things that had happened thus far, and all
I knew that there was foreigner people dressed in black
(03:23):
like Barnie Dyed or some shit. The mood was fucking dour,
a bunch of bunch of purple hair like.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And there's a panel of five people seated, and then
I don't know who went before me. It doesn't matter
who went after. I don't know whoever went before. I
got brought up, and I just remember that, like the
reason I got the Rock.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Job was because I think I remember this.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
The reason I got the Chris Rock job was because
I told a joke that I had just written, and
I was so excited about it when I when I
got the when Chris was watching the show that I
was at that that instinct to tell the first joke
that that the newest joke, like that fiery inside, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And here's a room full of four hundred Bernie fans,
and Bernie had just lost the nomination to Hillary, right,
(04:14):
My opening line was hello, losers, damn fucking bro I
really thought I was gonna level, but it was not
that at all. And they wanted eight minutes, and I
think I said I've been booed by worse people than
you or something like that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So now you're like fighting the audience.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And then I forget what my closing line. I mean,
what are you gonna say? That's the funniest thing I
could say in that situation. They had sense of the
humor then, and I was like, all right, boy, And
I remember you being like because you were supposed to
go up, I think, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, I think they wanted me to go up you bob.
And I was like, no, sorry, I said, like you
saying that wasn't It was just like tense it was.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And I was like, all right, see y'all later.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And then Rommy walked me out. He took me in
his car and dropped me to the He drove me
to the train station. But you know, Rommy tells you
you did bad, but tells you by telling you did good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah. Yeah, He's like, man, you were na, man, Yeah
you were good.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
That's all right, man. I was like, man, you sent
me the I felt so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I saw you that night.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I saw you have the sell it that night, really
think so I think it was that night or like
right afterwards.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Did I know you?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
At that point we knew each other because you've done
Matchless once or twice, Like I went the bus. No, no, no, no,
I don't think, but I distinctly remember that like as
one of my worst bombs because the ego with which
I went into the situation was so cut down, you know,
(06:01):
and I was like, fuck, I cannot believe that happened.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, that was a bad one. You were not set
up for success at a show like that, though. Who's
gonna do well at that show?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Someone I mean, who panders and says.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Hillary somebody, Yeah, somebody who either panders or already is
like mega famous for being a political Look like like
John Stewart walks into that room, he'd probably like would
get somewhere, have a great time, but but shy of
that level of fame as a political comic specifically, like
if you have to start from, like I swear, I'm
(06:36):
gon like like unless you're like mega world famous, like
it's kind of like impossible. I would have. I think
they wanted me to go up and I was like, no, no,
gea pig did not even go up.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I don't even know if I think everybody skipped after this,
you like fucking riddled with bullets, glad I set the example.
That was a brutal one. That was my that's the
bub that sticks out the most brain.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of it's hunting those Did they haunt you forever?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes, they hurt my feelings. But you know as well
that ends well. Bernie is still alive, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Bernie is still the president.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
With Ari Condrey. With Ari Condrey.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Has there ever been a bomb that you've seen in person?
Maybe you weren't on stage, just a bomb that you
witnessed that was like horrendous, or like any fights on
stage or oh yattels thrown or.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
We had well when I did Matchless, the show that
you've done before, Yeah, used to run with the Chay
and Mike Denny.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Are you still doing that show? You don't do that?
That long done?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That then you got sold in January twenty eighteen. Yeah yeah, yeah,
it fucking sucks. But they just knocked it down like
it was standing there. It could have been a show
for all this time, that show we would have people
will bomb every Monday. But I remember distinctly, I won't
name his name, uh, but I was would say too generous,
and I would say Chay was too generous with people
(08:10):
that he let get up, and Becky was death.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
This is all Becky's fault.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Becky, our producer would be too generous, and Danny, we
would all be too generous about some of the comics
that we let on stage, as in people that were
not great you put on such yeah, or people that
we'd seen once or whatever. Well I had asked more
nice and more friendly and been around there.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, you got to give some people a shot,
I guess, you know, and uh, I just got a
sandwich them between two people, you know, can like bring.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
The show back to the death and you know, to
our credit, we definitely gave a lot of people when
they like Chicago Comics, La Comics, Like we still talk
about like, oh man, can you believe that person the
first time they came to New York, the first show
they did was ours and now they're fucking.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah yeh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Lisa Matteo like some of these people like when they
came to New York, they're like, this is the fucking
show and put them up and not that take any
credit for the success or anything, but like that was.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, We're exciting to see your see your children.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Grow up right, our peers become fucking stars.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
This one guy was from New York, New York improv scene.
I had met him a few times and we've done
shows together, but I never like really paid attention to
his set. But it was enough like yeah, go up,
I'll give you a shot. You know, your friend go.
He went up, and I guess he was suffering through
some kind of anger management. He went up and like
(09:29):
like the first or second joke didn't work, and something
in him switched click, like I snapped, and it was
like he it was uncomfortable to the point I thought
he was gonna like get like angry violent. It's like
I'll set this fucking place on fire like that, you
know that?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
And he came off stage.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And that was the one time I remember being like
like it was a bomb. And normally you do like
ten to fifteen minutes of the show. I think we
were like, yo, get the fuck off at like six.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, even that was yelling at It was a yelling
at you guys too.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, I mean he was yelling at I think the host.
I don't forget who was hosting at the time. It
might have been me, but he was definitely yelling at
everybody and definitely like one person in front row where
it felt so.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Uncomfortable, like going off.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
And when he came off stage, he was like and
I was like, nah, man, no, no, that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I don't know what the fuck you just did, but
that what the fuck was that? Yeah? And then I
haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Him since, but that was like, not, well, I hope
he's okay. That seemed like a mild psychotic.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Break to have, just like what the fuck you? Like
a pure.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Meltdown of comedy, and there's not a single funny moment
in it where even like I'm gonna like this place
on fire, like that seemed like a legitimate threat, felony threat. Yeah,
we're like, all right, bro, I'm sorry man, you look
go home, take this place on fire, I guess, and
worked one punishment doesn't match the crime.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Bro, you just bombed. It's fine. I bomb here all
the time. It's just supposed to. Fuck. It's some Monday
is free. Look at these people, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
With a recondre.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
With are conre What was the most wasted you've ever
been on stage? Like sloppy, fucking hammered.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
It was beauty Bar two thousand, and I would say, thirteen,
you're doing drugs?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Are you drinking? Drinking? Okay?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And I only remember it because I was in a suit,
because I was still working in finance as an assistant.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Oh shit, And you'd show up at the comedy show
from work.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And this time we had a work party and.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
How long were you doing finance stuff?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I worked in finance until January twenty sixteen, from nine.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Two thousand. So you finished school and you went right
into finance.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, so I well, I finished school in eight and
I graduated the finance agree in a terrible year to
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
He picked the.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Wrong year in the graduate financial I did, and I
didn't get a job.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Thankfully, you know, it all worked out because if I hadn't,
had I become a banker or something, who knows, I
might not be here. Oh nine, I finally got a job,
moved to the city, was working at an investment bank
as an assistant. It's like, I would say, twenty twelve,
twenty thirteen, and we had a work after hours, a
work a happy hour. So I got lit up and
(12:27):
I was like, oh shit, it's like eight or an o'clock.
Let me go to this fucking show beauty bar and
on Fourteenth Street in a suit walking to the show.
Eight people there, three drunk white ladies up front talking
and I done Beauty Bull before. But yeah, the stage
is the stage is very close to the audience, but
(12:48):
it's like high. It's like maybe a three platform, so
I feel like towering above these people. But eight people
in that room, three of them are talking. It's loud, right,
and they're not talking.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Like jays No.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
They're like, hey, you want to get drinks?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And what is this guy?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And I was just like, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Your hammered?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I was drunk and I was annoyed and they were loud,
and I was like I need to shut No, I
told you to shut the fuck it was and then uh,
go over not well and I was like, hey, I'm
getting the funk out of here. Man, run your show right,
and uh, what's it called? The host took me off
the stage and was like all right, man. I was like, yeah,
(13:30):
I'm fucking leaving you run run your show properly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
But ship so you were shots fired everywhere and this man,
how you're gonna get mad at me? They're yelling. You're like,
I'm going to burn this place in the ground. That
was me.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
It was me the whole time. But no, that was uh,
that was my slot. And then I was definitely at
the cellar on Molly or anything like that. No, no, no, no,
you ever do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Like acid or fucking mushrooms and go on stage.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I wanted to do a I chickened out from doing
shrooms and going on stage.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, like I did.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I did a bunch of shrooms during the day and
then like when the after, when I was in the
after glow of the shrooms, I went out stage and
that was like I remember that being some of the
best shows ever. Like that was like the time my life. Yeah,
felt fucking confident. Yeah, just my brain was clicking in
some other directions.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, yeah, I got more often.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I did shrooms on stage one time and I had
a blast. How many How much did you do? I
didn't do that much. I just did like a gram.
Maybe I was tripping, but I wasn't, like waw, I
was just tripping enough to still be social. And U
shoms are the best? You got any good ones right now?
Good shrooms not here, but in California I got big
ast Doctor SEUs bushrooms oh yeah, yeah, I don't have
(14:44):
a connect here.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I got you, okay, I got I get some good
chocolates great, yeah, yeah, yeah they're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, that's what I need. Chocolates are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's what I need.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
You can dose them properly.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
But I've yet to do I've yet to do shrooms
on stage. I wanted to about yahuasca. No have you
ever done that? No, but I want to do it
on stage.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, everywhere, crying about your Dadley yet to do on stage.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I don't think I'll ever do that on stage. It's
too did Molly on stage a couple of times? Was
it Gilbert Lawan show in Atlanta? Was it amazing? It
was Gilbert Lawan?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Gilbert is my favorite Catholic Iraqi comedian. So it's Crystal
and we went to see Fish and I don't like
jam bands that much, so I was just a wolfing
down Molly to make the music sound better and it
wasn't working. And then he was like, you want to
do a comedy show.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I was like, I'm on.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Four hits of Ecstasy and four I was fucking high
as ship. I didn't eat them all four It once,
but I took four over the night and I went
up on stage and I had a fantastic set. I
don't think it was actually a fantastic set. I think
I just felt fantastic. But and I don't. I don't.
(15:57):
I probably didn't do that well and my eyes were
probably like this the whole time. Yeah, yeah, but I
felt him. Man, I did a whole set like this
and I felt amazing. I probably bombed, but it felt great.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It felt great. Yeah. That it scares me because it's
too uh, too truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, all of it.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's like like like the guard once the guard is down.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I still I feel that way about alcohol. Actually,
what I'm more truthful with alcohol. Interesting, not that I'm
lying without alcohol, but I mean, like the guards come
down with when the anxiety goes down.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, I see, Like I'm conscious of how much I
dislike alcohol on stage. So now that if I were
to drink on stage, if it's more than one drink,
I'm just like, I don't like doing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
This at all. Yeah, but with I like being sharp
on stage. Yes, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, like two coffees in yeah, yeah, pulling my best
David to Tail impression.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I didn't you know I did cot on stage. K
H A T. It's like the cocaine of Yemen. It's
a stimulant and Afghans oldiers will like chew a bunch
of it because it makes you high. It's like the
cocaine of North Africa. In the Middle East, and I
played a show in Israel and they gave me cost
tea and I drank like three quarters of a cup
(17:19):
and I forgot what I thought. I was just drinking
iced tea. I wasn't paying attention, and by the end
of the show I was on stage. I was like,
I was like Robin Williams circa nineteen seventy, pretty animated,
so I can't imagine. Oh, I was fucking crazy. I
was like Daffy doc. I was like, I crushed, I crossed.
I was like in the zone.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
But I was like, maybe I don't fuck with any
of those those plants. Yeah, stimulant, no coke, none of
that ship. Yeah, but like no up no uppers. I
mean Molly's anupper, right, yeah, I won't. I won't do
that on stage, but I will do it recreationally.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, but coconut, no, I don't think I do it
on stage. Now, I was just like in my twenties
doing like random chicken shit open mics, and I'm was
like fuck it, like there's no stakes to this show,
Like I might as well get high, yeah, because like
it's not like it's fucking it's industry night man.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
The Creak in the Cave back when it existed in
Longland City, like they would do high nights, or like
they would do like a high show.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I think there's a show that was like one of
each drug show. That's possible.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I might have been the same show I did, but
I did that one on weed and I was so
fucking high.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I can't do we eating chips on stage?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
No I did.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I did the whitest kids you know stoned one time.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And here's here's the bomb that I forget all the time.
But then he brought up weed and saying no to
doing weed on stage. Now remember yeah, and it's a bomb.
Like I want to apologize to the the Washington d C.
Community that came to see me that evening was a
(19:00):
summer of twenty nineteen. I remember that because I was
recording an album. My first album Hadney Mission Charge.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
It's pretty good, Thank.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
You, and the people that are recording the album were
there right, and they had papered the room because I
wasn't selling tickets at that point, but still had a
few people come out, Like still had fans that purchase tickets.
And the first show went so well. Was the second
show on a Friday night, I believe, And the first
show went so well that I was like, I got.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This shit in the bag.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Let me smoke a little DC between the shows. I
smoked way too much. Oh no, And I get on
stage and I again like, this is just my stupid
belief in myself. Sometimes I was like I could fucking
talk to people and wing it for an hour. I
just fucking crushed on this last one. Me just fucking around.
I went up and man, I listened to that. If
(19:58):
I ever want to think of how bad comedy can be,
how bad I can be a comedy. I go back
and listen to that, like what the like? You know
you'll click through and be like is there a laugh
at any point?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You know? Just how are you just like like drooling
through your jokes?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
But I wasn't doing any jokes. I was talking and
just having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I thought, oh, you just ditched your material.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I would try to go in and out, but
it was just like and then like I got fixated
on like this super rich Punjabi family that was sitting
up front is Indian family, and I could tell that they
were rich because dad had like this platinum rex on
and and the daughter had come out.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is it Punjabi known for like being like a wealthy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, it's just I could tell with this guy they
their Punjabi because that's how I remember them in my
brain as being. It's crazy to see a Punjabi family
out at that age group. Like it was like a
sixty year old Punjabi dad and his wife, I think
the daughter, daughter in law, son and and another daughter.
And I'd asked the daughter about like while she was
(21:03):
single whatever she I just got divorced. And I was like, okay,
well let me talk to your parents about how they
feel about this divorce.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh my god, through her under the through the wolves
was bad. It was bad.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And I remember just I could talk myself out of
buying something funny. These people fucking like staring like leaving.
I was like and I was up there for probably
an hour an hour long, and I should have been
up there four hours.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Mine was July d C and uh heat, Yeah, it's sweltering.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You're just stone.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Stone, I remember, like I had like hazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I'm assuming that divorce isn't like that cool for old
school Indian dad. Is it just like you don't get
divorced no matter what exactly culturally?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yes, And he's sitting there with his wife and they're
just I just see the platinum roles with the diamond
blinking out on me like I do jewelry, and like
I bet you do a motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It was bad.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
That was I think about that from the time I
got shuttered thinking about that one, Like what the fuck
was I thinking? But at least the shows after that,
like Saturday, were informed, Like I'm informed of myself that
I'm not hot ship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Those shows they bring you back to a state of big,
deliberate exactly, bring your ego back to the re orient your.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I needed it, Yeah, I needed that was Yeah, that's
just rough. I remember I was sweating so much because
it was a hot and d C and all that,
and because I was bombing. I leave the club after
everyone clears out. I'm not sure if you know where
the comedy Loft in d C is. It's it's in
(22:49):
DuPont Circle and it's around the corner from a gay bar.
And on the way to the hotel is this gay bar.
Like I'm staying right around the corner from comedy loft,
I'm drenched in sweat. I leave the fucking club and
I'm going back to my hotel and these three gay
dudes are outside gay bar and one of them goes,
(23:10):
it's stink because I was sweating.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Somebody's like, what, you went for a run?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I just shot on. I
was like, my god, damn it. I needed it. It
was brutal, that fat. That hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I have an issue with my stand up where a
joke will be red hot for a while, or like
not the very first time I do it, but I'll
get it on his feet and then it'll be red
hot and then just all of a sudden, it doesn't
work anymore, like and I can't, And then I'll listen
to old tapes. I'm like, what do I do? Sometimes
I think it's just topical, and it's like no longer
(23:50):
in the geist. It is it is doesn't seem politically
political on the surface, but it actually kind of is
or something like that. But I have this like issue
where your jokes just like they just expire. Yeah, and
it fucks with my mind. It makes me so angry.
There are some evergreen jokes probably that I've written fifteen
years ago that maybe still work, but really like they
(24:13):
I don't know something about.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Do you hit a wall with I've done this joke
too many times.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I think so. I think as soon as you get
bored of it, even if the writing is there, they
just know, they smell that you're bored with it. And
you can't resurrect the dead. You cannot. You gotta that's
still got nervous. You still got to be kind of
nervous about it. Working the networks.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Part, you know, as you ask about the road, it's
like that's the toughest part.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, keeping a ship fresh because you like, you get
burnt out on itearia.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Like, I hate saying the same shit over and over
and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You can try doing like little like variety tags or something,
or just at least changing the order or that's what
It's hard to keep it exciting and fresh.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's fu and like the best way for me has
been have something new, some where in the middle or
somewhere at all. As many new things as you can, yeah,
even if it's a little tag and to like to
keep me going. Yeah, to reach for that goal, right,
look forward to something, because if I don't, then it's
just like.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You have nothing to look forward too.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, you're so sick of the jokes. Yeah, yeah, I
guess some people can do that. But I have a heart.
That's my toughest. That's why I kind of gave up.
I don't just stand up anymore. I'm going to a
stand up show. I just got burnt out on that.
I did like a massive tour right before COVID, and
then I shot my Netflix special right before COVID and
I delivered it February twenty twenty. Then a few weeks later,
(25:36):
you know, COVID hit and then like I just never since,
like the world has quasi opened back up, But I haven't.
I haven't had any motive it all. My creativity goes
to like television or film or like other mediums.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But would you come back to it if you want
to hop on anything, let me know I can.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yeah, yes, help help me get my sea legs. I
want to like kind of try. I kind of want
to just start going to shows. Just smell in the
air again, because then you start seeing staying. You get
inspired by seeing like what your friends are doing, what
people are talking about, and then you're like, oh, yeah,
I should do that joke about this because that joke working.
You kind of got to be in the environment to
get to get pretty motives. Go hang at the cellar. Yeah,
I'm always cramped at the cellar. They always stick me
(26:15):
in that little corner and I'm like, the waiters are
squishing by. I get like claustrophobic.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
But there's a billion cellar rooms. There's you know, the
Fat Black pussy Cat, that lounge like.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh no, see, I don't know. You got to take
me under your wing. You got to show me the
new way. All happen is I lived here thirteen years ago. Yeah,
we'll do the New York when I give me.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
A little tour the Fat Black Lounge. I've had some
pretty bad bombs there because that lounge is just like
that when you walk into that spot, you're like, well,
I just want chill, man.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't know. The flat, fat black Lounge. Oh it's
the best.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I love that room. I love all the cellar rooms.
The cellar proper, the original one is my favorite. But
the lounge just got a different vibe to it. And
it's like, like st will get mad at me because
I definitely like just I leaned on the lounge has
like a window behind it, yeah, a brick wall window,
And I was just like leaning on that ship. Yeah,
(27:07):
because it makes you feel so opium, Denny.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
It's like chilling out ships.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
But that that's a fun place where if you just
want to watch a show, Okay, just hang out.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's fantastic. Okay, cool. Yeah, it's a great time. Great
But I bombed there so many times too, great nimesh, Yes, sir,
we did it all.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Oh, thank you man, thanks brother, thank you for having
me absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
With Aery Condrey.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
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