October 8, 2025 • 28 mins
Hey guys back with another classic episode. 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 3 (00:22):
Let's get into it. Bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
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.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, I don't hear you.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I also, I've never seen you 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 4 (00:56):
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
(01:17):
Chris and he had the second time he hosted, And were.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You helping him?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, I was where they had a writing team and
I was on the writing team.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
That was my first writing job right way amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And so I had 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.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, because of how long were you doing comedy at
this point?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Seven years?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Seven years?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
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, right, and all political material
was hot shit right right, 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
(02:04):
weeks later, I get a text from our good friend
Ronny Yusuf Ya, Hey man, there's this Uh once Hillary
secured the nomination Bernie had lost. Hey man, there's this like,
uh kind of protests gathering for Bernie happening in Philadelphia
outside of Philadelphia Convention Center where Hillary was having her
victory party.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
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
in between. 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 in between
(02:48):
yes vers and like musicians. It was like there's no
momentum for any comedian. I had not a good not
conducive to comedy.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I had not.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
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 four hundred people dressed in black, like Bernie
died or some shit.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The mood was fucking dowur.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
A bunch of bunch of purple hair like and there's
a panel of five people seated, and then I don't
know who went before me, 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 (03:36):
Job was because I think I remember this.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
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,
(03:58):
and Bernie had just lost the nomination to Hillary, right
My opening line.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Was hello losers, damn.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
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 did. I said I've been booed
by worse people than you, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So now you're like fighting the audience.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And then I forget what my closing line, what are
you gonna say? That's the funniest thing I could say
in that situation. They had sense of the humor.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Then that was.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And uh. I was like, all right, boy, and I
remember you being like because you were supposed to go up,
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, I think they wanted me to go up.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You bomb.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I was like, no, I'm sorry, I said, what
can you say?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It was?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It was just like tense, it was.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I was like, all right, see y'all later. And
then Rommy walked me out. He took me in his
car and drop me to the He drove me to
the train station. But you know, Romy tells you you
did bad, but tells you by telling you did good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, He's like, man, you were na, man, yeah you
were good. That's all right man. I was like, man,
you sent me the I felt so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I saw you that night.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I saw you at the seller that night, I really
think so. I think it was that night or like
right afterwards.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Did I know you well?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
At that point we knew each other because you've done
matchless once or twice like.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The bus.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, no, no, no, I don't think would us. 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, and I was like, fuck,
I cannot believe that happened. Yeah, that was a bad one.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You were not set up for success at a show
like that, though. Who's gonna do well at that show?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Someone who who panders and says fuck Hillary?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Nobody? 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 gonna like
(06:24):
like unless you're like mega world famous, like it's kind
of like impossible. I would have tank. I think they
wanted me to go up and I was like, no, no,
did even go up? I don't even know if I
think everybody skipped after they you like fucking riddled with bullets,
glad I set the example.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That was a brutal one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
That was my that's the bomb that sticks out the
most brain of.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's hunting those Did they haunt you forever?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, hurt my feelings? But you know, all all that
ends well. Bernie is still alive, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Bernie is still the president.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
With a regardrey with a regardrey.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
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, bottles thrown or we.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Had well when I did Matchless, the show that you've
done before, Yeah, Eastern Run with the Chay and Mike Denny.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Are you still doing that show?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You don't do that?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That long done?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
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 people will
bomb every Monday. But I remember distinctly. I won't name
his name, but I was would say too generous, and
I would say Chay was too generous with people that
(07:59):
he let get up, and Becky was dep This is
all Becky's fault. Becky, our producer, would be too generous,
and Danny, we would all be too generous about some
of the comics that we'd let on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As in, people that were not great.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You put on such yeah, or people that we'd seen
once or whatever. Yeah, well I had asked more nice
and more friendly and been around there.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah. Yeah, you got to give some people a shot,
I guess, you know, and uh just got a sandwich
them between two people. You know, can like bring the
show back to the day.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
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 that person the first time they came to
New York, the first show they did was ours, and
now they're fucking yeah yea yeah, yeah yeah. 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
(08:46):
the successor anything, but like that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Was yeah, that was exciting to see your see your children.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Grow up, right, our peers become fucking stars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
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
(09:17):
like the first or second joke didn't work, and something in.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Him switched click, like I snapped.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And it was like he it was uncomfortable to the
point I thought he was going to like get like
angry violent. He's like, I'll set this fucking place on fire.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was saying like that. Do you know that.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
He came off stage, 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 Yeah, even that was.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yelling at It was a yelling at you guys too.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No, 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 comfortable, like going off and when he came
off stage, he was like and I was like, nah, man, no, no,
that's not okay. I don't know what the fuck you
(10:09):
just did, but that what the fuck was that?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And then I haven't seen him since, but that was like,
it's not well. I hope he's okay, but that seemed
like a mild psychotic.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Break to have, just like what the fuck you?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Like a pure 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, get this place
on fire, I guess, and work done. Punishment doesn't match
(10:46):
the crime. Bro, you just bombed.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I bomb here all the time. It's supposed to some
Monday is free. Look at these.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
People, you know, with a Condre, with aver Condre.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What was the most wasted you've ever been on stage?
Like sloppy, fucking hammered.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It was Beauty Bar two thousand and I would say thirteen,
you're doing drugs or you drinking? Drinking okay? And I
only remember it because I was in a suit, because
I was still working finance as an assistant.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh shit, And you'd show up at the comedy show
from work.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And this time we had a work party, and.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How long were you doing finance stuff?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I worked in finance until January twenty sixteen, from nine
two thousand and so.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You finished school and you went right into finance.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, so I well, I finished school in eight and
I graduated the finance agree in a terrible year to
do that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You picked the wrong year and the graduate finance.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yes, I did. And I didn't get a job. 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
(12:16):
I was like, oh shit, it's like eight orn o'clock.
Let me go to this fucking show beauty Bar and
on Fourteenth Street in the 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
(12:37):
it's like high. It's like maybe a four three platform.
So I feel like towering above these people. But eight
people in that room, three of them are talking. It's loud,
and they're not talking like Jesus, No, They're like, hey,
you want to get drinks. So You're like, what is
this guy? And I was just like, what the fuck
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're hammered.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I was drunk, I was annoyed, and they were loud,
and I was like, I need to know. I told
you to shut the fuck up it and then uh,
go over that will and I was like, 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,
(13:20):
I'm fucking leaving you run run your show properly.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Ship. So you were shots fired everywhere, and every man
get mad at me there yelling. You're like I'm going
to burn this place in the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That was me.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no, no, you ever do like acid or fucking
mushrooms and going stage.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I wanted to do. Uh, I chickened out from doing
shrooms and going on stage. Yeah, like I did. 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 on 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
(14:08):
in some other directions.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, I got more often.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I did shrooms on stage one time and I had
a blast it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
How many How much did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I didn't do that much. I just did like a gram.
Maybe I was tripping, but I wasn't, Like wow, I
was just tripping enough to still be social. And shoms
are the best.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You got any good ones right now?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Good shrooms?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Not here, but in California. I got a big ass
doctor SEUs mushrooms. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't have a
connect here. I got you, Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I get some good chocolate great yeah, yea, yeah, they're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, chocolates are the best. That's what I need to
You can dose them properly. Yeah, but I've yet to
do uh, I've yet to do shrooms on stage. I
wanted to yahuasca. No have you ever done that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
No? But I want to do it on stage. Oh yeah,
dominating and everywhere, crying about your dad, Miley have to
do on stage. I don't think I'll ever do that
on stage. It's too I did Molly on stage a
couple of times. Was it Gilbert Lawan show in Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was it amazing? Was Gilbert Lawan?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Gilbert is my favorite Catholic Iraqi comedian besides 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. I was like, I'm on four hits of
Ecstasy and four I was fucking high as ship. I
(15:33):
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. 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.
(15:57):
I probably bombed, but it felt great.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It fell great. Yeah that it scares me because it's
too uh, too truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Molly, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's like like like the guard once the guard is down. Yeah,
there's I still I feel that way about alcohol. Actually,
what I'm more truthful with alcohol. Interesting, not that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm lying without alcohol, but I mean, like the guards
come down with when the anxiety goes down.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
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 this at all.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
But with uh, I like being sharp on stage. Yes,
that's the best.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, like two coffees in Yeah, yeah, pulling my best
David to Tail impression.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
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 Afghanist orders 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
(17:09):
and I forgot whatever 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 two.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I was pretty animated, so I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh, I was fucking crazy. I was like Daffy Duck.
I was like brush, I crushed, I crossed. I was
like in the zone.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But I was like, also on 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.
(17:50):
Yeah yeah, but cocaut.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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 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 4 (18:05):
The Creek 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 (18:13):
I think there's a show that was like one of
each drug show.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That's possible. I m'd have been seen show I did.
But I did that one on weed and I was
so fucking high.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I can't do it eating chips on stage. No I did.
I did the whitest kids you know stoned one time.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
And here's here's the bomb that I forget all the time.
But the NC brought up weed and saying no to
doing weed on stage. Now I 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.
It was a summer of twenty nineteen. I remember that
(18:54):
because I was recording an album. My first album had
any mission charge.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Uh it's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Thank you. And the people that 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
(19:24):
this shit in the bag. Let me smoke a little
DC between the shows. I smoked way too much. 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, just crushed on this last one. Me just
fuck around. I went up and man, I listened to that.
(19:48):
If I ever want to think about how bad comedy
can be, how bad I can be a comedy, I
go back and listen to that, say like, what the like?
You know, you'll click through and be like, oh is
there a laugh at any point?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Just were you just like like drooling through your jokes?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
But I wasn't doing any jokes. I was talking and
just having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I thought, oh, you just ditched your material.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
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,
Indian family, and I could tell they were rich because
dad had like this platinum rolex On and the daughter
had come out.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is it Punjabi known for like being like a wealthy.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
No, it's just I could tell with this guy they
were there 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
(20:52):
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 (21:00):
Job through her, under the through the wolves.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It was bad. It was bad, and I remember just
I could talk myself out of it. Find something funny.
These people fucking like staring like leaving. I was like,
and I was up there for probably an out an
hour long and I should have been out there four hours.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Mine was July d C. And uh heat, Yeah, it's sweltering.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You're just stone stone.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I remember, like I had like hazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm assuming that divorce isn't like that cool for old school?
Is it just like you don't get divorced no matter what.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Exactly culturally yes, And he's sitting there with his wife
and they're just I just see the platinum rolex with
the diamonds blinking out on me. He's like, I do jewelry,
and like, I bet you do. A motherfucker. I'm sorry.
It was bad. That was I think about that from
time I got shut it thinking about that one. What
the fuck was I thinking? But at least the shows
(22:02):
after that, like Saturday, were informed, Like I'm informed of
myself that I'm not hot ship that can wave.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Those shows they bring you back to a state of big,
deliberate exactly, bring your ego back to the re orient your.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
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 DC 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 DC is. It's it's in DuPont Circle
(22:39):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Just it's stink because I was sweating. Somebody's like, what,
you went for a run?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I just shot on and
I was like, god, damn it, I needed it. It
was brutal, that fat that it hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
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 in the zeitgeist.
(23:41):
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
get 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, maybe
still work. But really, like they I don't know something
(24:04):
about do.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You hit a wall with I've done this joke too
many times.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You gotta still gotta nervous. You still got to be
kind of nervous about it working. That's the networks part,
you know, as you ask about the road, it's like
that's the toughest part. Yeah, keeping the ship fresh because
you like, you get burnt out on itaria.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Like I hate saying the same shit over and over
and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
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 4 (24:43):
And like the best way for me has been have
something new, somewhere in the middle or somewhere at all,
as many new things as you can, even if it's
a little tag and to like to keep me going, Yeah,
to reach for that goal. I look forward to something,
because if I don't, then it's just like you have.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Nothing to look forward to. Yeah, 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 I shot my
Netflix special right before Covid and I delivered it February
twenty twenty. Then a few weeks later, you know, Covid
(25:27):
hit and then like I just never since, like the
world has quasi opened back up. I haven't. I haven't
had any mote of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
All.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
My creativity goes to like television or film or like
other mediums.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
But would you come back to it if you want
to hop on anything, let me know I can.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
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 smell in the air again,
because then you start seeing stay 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 motive.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Just go hang at the cellar.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm always cramped at the cellar. I mean they
always stick me in that little corner and I'm like,
the waiters are squishing by.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I get like claustrophobic. But there's a billion cellar rooms.
There's you know, the Fat Black pussy Cat, that lounge like.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh no, see, I don't know. You got to take
me under your wing. You're going to show me the
new way, all happy. I lived here thirteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, we'll do the New York when I give me
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 (26:33):
I don't know, the flat, fat Black Lounge.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Oh it's the best. 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 like leaned on.
The lounge has like a window behind it, Yeah, a
brick wall window. And I was just like leaning on
(26:56):
that ship. Yeah, because it makes you feel so opium, Denny.
It's like chilling out. Shit, it's but that. That's a
fun place where if you just want to watch a show, Okay,
just hang out. It's fantastic, Okay, cool. Yeah, it's a
great time. Great But I bombed there so many times too.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Great nimesh, Yes, sir, we did it all.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Oh, thank you man, thanks brother, thank you for for
having me absolutely.
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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 3 (00:22):
Let's get into it. Bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
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.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, yeah, I don't hear you.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I also, I've never seen you 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 4 (00:56):
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
(01:17):
Chris and he had the second time he hosted, And were.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You helping him?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah, I was where they had a writing team and
I was on the writing team.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
That was my first writing job right way amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And so I had 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.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, because of how long were you doing comedy at
this point?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Seven years?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Seven years?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
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, right, and all political material
was hot shit right right, 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
(02:04):
weeks later, I get a text from our good friend
Ronny Yusuf Ya, Hey man, there's this Uh once Hillary
secured the nomination Bernie had lost. Hey man, there's this like,
uh kind of protests gathering for Bernie happening in Philadelphia
outside of Philadelphia Convention Center where Hillary was having her
victory party.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
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
in between. 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 in between
(02:48):
yes vers and like musicians. It was like there's no
momentum for any comedian. I had not a good not
conducive to comedy.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I had not.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
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 four hundred people dressed in black, like Bernie
died or some shit.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The mood was fucking dowur.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
A bunch of bunch of purple hair like and there's
a panel of five people seated, and then I don't
know who went before me, 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 (03:36):
Job was because I think I remember this.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
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,
(03:58):
and Bernie had just lost the nomination to Hillary, right
My opening line.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Was hello losers, damn.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
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 did. I said I've been booed
by worse people than you, or something like that.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So now you're like fighting the audience.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And then I forget what my closing line, what are
you gonna say? That's the funniest thing I could say
in that situation. They had sense of the humor.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Then that was.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And uh. I was like, all right, boy, and I
remember you being like because you were supposed to go up,
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, I think they wanted me to go up.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You bomb.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And I was like, no, I'm sorry, I said, what
can you say?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It was?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It was just like tense, it was.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And I was like, all right, see y'all later. And
then Rommy walked me out. He took me in his
car and drop me to the He drove me to
the train station. But you know, Romy tells you you
did bad, but tells you by telling you did good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, He's like, man, you were na, man, yeah you
were good. That's all right man. I was like, man,
you sent me the I felt so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I saw you that night.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I saw you at the seller that night, I really
think so. I think it was that night or like
right afterwards.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Did I know you well?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
At that point we knew each other because you've done
matchless once or twice like.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The bus.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, no, no, no, I don't think would us. 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, and I was like, fuck,
I cannot believe that happened. Yeah, that was a bad one.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You were not set up for success at a show
like that, though. Who's gonna do well at that show?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Someone who who panders and says fuck Hillary?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Nobody? 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 gonna like
(06:24):
like unless you're like mega world famous, like it's kind
of like impossible. I would have tank. I think they
wanted me to go up and I was like, no, no,
did even go up? I don't even know if I
think everybody skipped after they you like fucking riddled with bullets,
glad I set the example.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That was a brutal one.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
That was my that's the bomb that sticks out the
most brain of.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
It's hunting those Did they haunt you forever?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yes, hurt my feelings? But you know, all all that
ends well. Bernie is still alive, So that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Bernie is still the president.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
With a regardrey with a regardrey.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
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, bottles thrown or we.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Had well when I did Matchless, the show that you've
done before, Yeah, Eastern Run with the Chay and Mike Denny.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Are you still doing that show?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You don't do that?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
That long done?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
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 people will
bomb every Monday. But I remember distinctly. I won't name
his name, but I was would say too generous, and
I would say Chay was too generous with people that
(07:59):
he let get up, and Becky was dep This is
all Becky's fault. Becky, our producer, would be too generous,
and Danny, we would all be too generous about some
of the comics that we'd let on stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
As in, people that were not great.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
You put on such yeah, or people that we'd seen
once or whatever. Yeah, well I had asked more nice
and more friendly and been around there.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah. Yeah, you got to give some people a shot,
I guess, you know, and uh just got a sandwich
them between two people. You know, can like bring the
show back to the day.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
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 that person the first time they came to
New York, the first show they did was ours, and
now they're fucking yeah yea yeah, yeah yeah. 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
(08:46):
the successor anything, but like that.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Was yeah, that was exciting to see your see your children.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Grow up, right, our peers become fucking stars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
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
(09:17):
like the first or second joke didn't work, and something in.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Him switched click, like I snapped.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
And it was like he it was uncomfortable to the
point I thought he was going to like get like
angry violent. He's like, I'll set this fucking place on fire.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
He was saying like that. Do you know that.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
He came off stage, 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 Yeah, even that was.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yelling at It was a yelling at you guys too.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No, 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 comfortable, like going off and when he came
off stage, he was like and I was like, nah, man, no, no,
that's not okay. I don't know what the fuck you
(10:09):
just did, but that what the fuck was that?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
And then I haven't seen him since, but that was like,
it's not well. I hope he's okay, but that seemed
like a mild psychotic.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Break to have, just like what the fuck you?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Like a pure 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, get this place
on fire, I guess, and work done. Punishment doesn't match
(10:46):
the crime. Bro, you just bombed.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's fine, It's fine.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
I bomb here all the time. It's supposed to some
Monday is free. Look at these.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
People, you know, with a Condre, with aver Condre.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What was the most wasted you've ever been on stage?
Like sloppy, fucking hammered.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
It was Beauty Bar two thousand and I would say thirteen,
you're doing drugs or you drinking? Drinking okay? And I
only remember it because I was in a suit, because
I was still working finance as an assistant.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh shit, And you'd show up at the comedy show
from work.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
And this time we had a work party, and.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How long were you doing finance stuff?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I worked in finance until January twenty sixteen, from nine
two thousand and so.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You finished school and you went right into finance.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, so I well, I finished school in eight and
I graduated the finance agree in a terrible year to
do that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You picked the wrong year and the graduate finance.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yes, I did. And I didn't get a job. 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
(12:16):
I was like, oh shit, it's like eight orn o'clock.
Let me go to this fucking show beauty Bar and
on Fourteenth Street in the 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
(12:37):
it's like high. It's like maybe a four three platform.
So I feel like towering above these people. But eight
people in that room, three of them are talking. It's loud,
and they're not talking like Jesus, No, They're like, hey,
you want to get drinks. So You're like, what is
this guy? And I was just like, what the fuck
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
You're hammered.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I was drunk, I was annoyed, and they were loud,
and I was like, I need to know. I told
you to shut the fuck up it and then uh,
go over that will and I was like, 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,
(13:20):
I'm fucking leaving you run run your show properly.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Ship. So you were shots fired everywhere, and every man
get mad at me there yelling. You're like I'm going
to burn this place in the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That was me.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
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.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
No, no, no, no, you ever do like acid or fucking
mushrooms and going stage.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I wanted to do. Uh, I chickened out from doing
shrooms and going on stage. Yeah, like I did. 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 on 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
(14:08):
in some other directions.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, I got more often.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I did shrooms on stage one time and I had
a blast it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
How many How much did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I didn't do that much. I just did like a gram.
Maybe I was tripping, but I wasn't, Like wow, I
was just tripping enough to still be social. And shoms
are the best.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You got any good ones right now?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Good shrooms?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Not here, but in California. I got a big ass
doctor SEUs mushrooms. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't have a
connect here. I got you, Okay.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
I get some good chocolate great yeah, yea, yeah, they're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah, chocolates are the best. That's what I need to
You can dose them properly. Yeah, but I've yet to
do uh, I've yet to do shrooms on stage. I
wanted to yahuasca. No have you ever done that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
No? But I want to do it on stage. Oh yeah,
dominating and everywhere, crying about your dad, Miley have to
do on stage. I don't think I'll ever do that
on stage. It's too I did Molly on stage a
couple of times. Was it Gilbert Lawan show in Atlanta?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Was it amazing? Was Gilbert Lawan?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Gilbert is my favorite Catholic Iraqi comedian besides 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. I was like, I'm on four hits of
Ecstasy and four I was fucking high as ship. I
(15:33):
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. 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.
(15:57):
I probably bombed, but it felt great.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
It fell great. Yeah that it scares me because it's
too uh, too truthful.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Molly, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
It's like like like the guard once the guard is down. Yeah,
there's I still I feel that way about alcohol. Actually,
what I'm more truthful with alcohol. Interesting, not that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm lying without alcohol, but I mean, like the guards
come down with when the anxiety goes down.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
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 this at all.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
But with uh, I like being sharp on stage. Yes,
that's the best.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Yeah, like two coffees in Yeah, yeah, pulling my best
David to Tail impression.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
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 Afghanist orders 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
(17:09):
and I forgot whatever 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 two.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I was pretty animated, so I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh, I was fucking crazy. I was like Daffy Duck.
I was like brush, I crushed, I crossed. I was
like in the zone.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But I was like, also on 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.
(17:50):
Yeah yeah, but cocaut.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
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 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 4 (18:05):
The Creek 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 (18:13):
I think there's a show that was like one of
each drug show.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
That's possible. I m'd have been seen show I did.
But I did that one on weed and I was
so fucking high.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I can't do it eating chips on stage. No I did.
I did the whitest kids you know stoned one time.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
And here's here's the bomb that I forget all the time.
But the NC brought up weed and saying no to
doing weed on stage. Now I 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.
It was a summer of twenty nineteen. I remember that
(18:54):
because I was recording an album. My first album had
any mission charge.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Uh it's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Thank you. And the people that 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
(19:24):
this shit in the bag. Let me smoke a little
DC between the shows. I smoked way too much. 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, just crushed on this last one. Me just
fuck around. I went up and man, I listened to that.
(19:48):
If I ever want to think about how bad comedy
can be, how bad I can be a comedy, I
go back and listen to that, say like, what the like?
You know, you'll click through and be like, oh is
there a laugh at any point?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
You know?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Just were you just like like drooling through your jokes?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
But I wasn't doing any jokes. I was talking and
just having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I thought, oh, you just ditched your material.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
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,
Indian family, and I could tell they were rich because
dad had like this platinum rolex On and the daughter
had come out.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Is it Punjabi known for like being like a wealthy.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
No, it's just I could tell with this guy they
were there 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
(20:52):
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 (21:00):
Job through her, under the through the wolves.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It was bad. It was bad, and I remember just
I could talk myself out of it. Find something funny.
These people fucking like staring like leaving. I was like,
and I was up there for probably an out an
hour long and I should have been out there four hours.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, it was bad.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Mine was July d C. And uh heat, Yeah, it's sweltering.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You're just stone stone.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I remember, like I had like hazy eyes.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm assuming that divorce isn't like that cool for old school?
Is it just like you don't get divorced no matter what.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Exactly culturally yes, And he's sitting there with his wife
and they're just I just see the platinum rolex with
the diamonds blinking out on me. He's like, I do jewelry,
and like, I bet you do. A motherfucker. I'm sorry.
It was bad. That was I think about that from
time I got shut it thinking about that one. What
the fuck was I thinking? But at least the shows
(22:02):
after that, like Saturday, were informed, Like I'm informed of
myself that I'm not hot ship that can wave.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Those shows they bring you back to a state of big,
deliberate exactly, bring your ego back to the re orient your.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
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 DC 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 DC is. It's it's in DuPont Circle
(22:39):
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.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Just it's stink because I was sweating. Somebody's like, what,
you went for a run?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I was like, yeah, yeah, I just shot on and
I was like, god, damn it, I needed it. It
was brutal, that fat that it hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
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 in the zeitgeist.
(23:41):
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
get 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, maybe
still work. But really, like they I don't know something
(24:04):
about do.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You hit a wall with I've done this joke too
many times.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
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.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
You cannot.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
You gotta still gotta nervous. You still got to be
kind of nervous about it working. That's the networks part,
you know, as you ask about the road, it's like
that's the toughest part. Yeah, keeping the ship fresh because
you like, you get burnt out on itaria.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Like I hate saying the same shit over and over
and over and over again.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
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 4 (24:43):
And like the best way for me has been have
something new, somewhere in the middle or somewhere at all,
as many new things as you can, even if it's
a little tag and to like to keep me going, Yeah,
to reach for that goal. I look forward to something,
because if I don't, then it's just like you have.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Nothing to look forward to. Yeah, 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 I shot my
Netflix special right before Covid and I delivered it February
twenty twenty. Then a few weeks later, you know, Covid
(25:27):
hit and then like I just never since, like the
world has quasi opened back up. I haven't. I haven't
had any mote of it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
All.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
My creativity goes to like television or film or like
other mediums.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
But would you come back to it if you want
to hop on anything, let me know I can.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
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 smell in the air again,
because then you start seeing stay 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 motive.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Just go hang at the cellar.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm always cramped at the cellar. I mean they
always stick me in that little corner and I'm like,
the waiters are squishing by.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I get like claustrophobic. But there's a billion cellar rooms.
There's you know, the Fat Black pussy Cat, that lounge like.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh no, see, I don't know. You got to take
me under your wing. You're going to show me the
new way, all happy. I lived here thirteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, we'll do the New York when I give me
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 (26:33):
I don't know, the flat, fat Black Lounge.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Oh it's the best. 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 like leaned on.
The lounge has like a window behind it, Yeah, a
brick wall window. And I was just like leaning on
(26:56):
that ship. Yeah, because it makes you feel so opium, Denny.
It's like chilling out. Shit, it's but that. That's a
fun place where if you just want to watch a show, Okay,
just hang out. It's fantastic, Okay, cool. Yeah, it's a
great time. Great But I bombed there so many times too.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Great nimesh, Yes, sir, we did it all.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Oh, thank you man, thanks brother, thank you for for
having me absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
With a redre.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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Speaker 5 (27:25):
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