July 2, 2025 • 29 mins
Eric and Yonkers' own Nore Davis talk about bombing at a Polish biker club thanks to getting the booking from a family member, where the audience was full of boomers and no one was connecting to the jokes. So much for making dad proud! Nore speaks on when audience members threw pies at him as well as falling asleep during a set, plus being heckled by his ex-girlfriend. Lastly, Nore talks about almost being beaten up by the Ruff Ryders and witnessing a drive-by at a comedy club near Yankee Stadium. Plus, some sage about performing comedy...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of Bombing with Eric Andrey,
(00:02):
the podcast where I talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and
others about their worst bombing moments on stage at Life
in the Club, wherever, I talked to the hilarious Nori
Davis about the time he literally experienced a drive by
shooting while he was telling jokes on stage. He had
to dodge bullets while doing stand up right by Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Tell me your worst bomb.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That you ever?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, worst bomb, bro, give me a few whatever?
Oh he has a couple man, had ever seen Tom?
All right? So worst bomb ever? We have to be
where I don't know if you ever had this with
your parents. Here you're doing comedy now they want to
be an agent. Oh my god, yeah, me too, horrible.
Here we go bombing.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That's kind of the worst. Oh god, the like you're
doing what you're doing comedy?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I got a gig for you. And my son does
this so I can bring him into this. So my dad,
he's a retired cop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ship, so you get off if you get pulled over,
do you just go? My dad's a cop?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the PBA car. Yeah, I got
to give me one of those cards. Man tired and
he retired. I can't even doing that. He's got to
know somebody, he says them young bucks man don't do
nothing because they don't like me. I'm like a so
so now now I'm a citizen, I'm a regular cards.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'll copy it or go to Kinks after this.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I know, man, but even to that ship really works.
It works.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
So you get pulled over, You're like.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, here, my dad's a cop. They're like, oh, all right,
even don't they don't like up North cops so New
York City. They be like, I don't give a fuck.
Then they go to their car and then he chilled.
Then they come back and be like, all right, man,
just be careful. So it's still they like, is that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Gang ships from Yonkers?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Up North DMNX murder.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Young okay man? Yeah, what is Youngers is like nayak
or some ship.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Define more South. But it's it's like Middle of America
saying uh. They saying Lady Gaga, the locks Lady Gaga.
They're saying that from she from Central Avenue. But that's
not that's locks locks Yes, downs p g Loops kiss
those guys, drag on all them. So uh yeah, man,
(02:22):
so that's whe I'm from only comedy guy out.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay, and so the worst bomb. Yes, So my dad
so he keep us both on track.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, no, it's fine, it's fine. I like this. I'm
like this till I'm sporadic. So my dad right, so
he has this gig at the Polish Centers right there.
So that's where Youngkers is. It's a bunch of streets
where like Polish people live here, Black people live here,
White people live there, like there's literally a town called
White Plains. That's where they're at. And Spanish people on
South Broadway main streets, the Mexican people, like, everybody got
their own streets. So Polish Center, Polish people. But it's
(02:54):
a bie, it's a motorcycle gang event. So my dad's like, yeah, man,
coma do stand up here? And then a guy called
me like yeah, man, want you to Yes, my dad
booked me for this ship. And this is like when
I'm bridout bushy tail, I have to be like, wait,
two years in the standard better you know what I'm saying,
And me, I don't know about you. I think we
came up through the Bringer show aspect of like you know,
(03:15):
doing Bringer shows, think of you the ship, but it's
really your family and the audience that's pumping you up.
So you think you're doing great, but nahigging like you
have not actually made audience. People laugh.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You're the Polish biker exact Polish biker event. They all
got their leather vest, they got their leather pants. The
girls a shirtless, you know what I'm saying, but like
not sleeveless. Excuse me, leaveless. And I'm just and I
just feel the vibe and it's just like baby booming
ship bro like nobody. My age music was playing what
(03:47):
was a song like like electric Slide, some song like that,
like some song like that, like a black family song
like everything like that, Yeah, but more like a feeling
can't think about it man, fuck anyway something like that,
and the DJ just abruptly stops, stops, and then the
DJ's like, all right, man, we got Nory David doing comedy.
(04:09):
Come on. That's the intro, like like come on, And
at this time my material is like, yeah, college is crazy,
I've been dead, make that crazy. Gas is hort like
and these people First of all, they drive motorcycles and
they don't even go They went to college win the
tuition was like what four dollars? You know what I mean? Like,
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but they're standing together like they would just finished dancing.
So it's just like and I'm up there and I
just see my dad in the middle just looking up
at me, and then all the bikers just looking over
their shoulder, like, what the fuck is happening? I do
my life? Yeah, college is.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
No opener, right, No, just you just raw into.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Them, bro, no vacline, no vacline, just straight. Oh my god,
I mean that's why. How how long you know how
it is?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You up there? It was probably like a minute, but
it felt like two hours. It felt like two hours,
but I was really up there, probably maybe like even
three minutes. I did the first joke. Nothing. You can
just hear people getting drinks all the way to the right.
Give me a drink, and then people just looking and
I'm just like, yeah, man, you know, just just bring
the music back. I just walked off and I went
(05:22):
right to my car. I put the ball. He was
just like, well, why you perform? I don't know. My
dad said to come through it. I did it, and
it was probably like some deep in the child trauma
ship where I'm thinking, like, all I do this? He
could see he could be proud of me. Well, Bro, yeah,
(05:51):
I don't know. Maybe the comic ship live. One time
his lady brought him and it was after like my
first album recording, okay, But even that he was just like,
you know, like I'm here with my woman.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Other than that, I don't go for about this. Get
a job.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think my dad see it, saw me do well
like one time okay. And it wasn't even like I
can't do well in front of my parents. It's too
nerve wrackings.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh god. Yeah, you know where they're at. You feel
that energy and you just like you remember where was that?
Where was that you did?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
What did okay? In Miami?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Is that where they're living now or no?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My dad just passed away, thanks, but my mom she
lives in Delray Beach, was just like an hour north.
But yeah, he got to see me do okay once definitely.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Stinking Oh god, did even throw bottles at you or anything?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh my god? No, yeah, no, I had a guy
throw I had a guy put my face in a
pie one time. Bro, what in Long Island? What do
you mean them fucking fundraisers? Like, what do you mean
them firefirefucking fund raises?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What is a firefighter fundraiser?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
What are you with them getting money from the community.
And they like do a comedy show and this is
again and without. He was like after seeing the show
of all the comics, he was just like, oh man,
you know, I'm funny too. I'm like, what do you
mean how you funny? And he put my face in
a cream pie like I was just like I was,
(07:20):
I was so heated, and I remember I think the
comedy MafA Joe MafA something like that. He was like
he grabbed me, come on, Nor let's go. Let's go,
like and then he cleaned me up by the car,
so let's get out. Yeah, it was a fire. They
were drunk too many. Yeah, they all ganged up and
it's deep along Island man saying, you know that's like
(07:40):
trumpet that was that was in the middle of the
show or at the end at the end. Yeah, you
know what people think, like, I'm funny too, Like we
make it look like it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Was conveniently on the stage.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It was just like a like because they had desserts
and ship they had like a whole buffet out there. Yo,
Long Island away up and there was a buffet of
desserts on the right side. Yes, yeah, in his hand.
He went and got it, yep. And it's just like
he put will cream and you know where you bought,
like the supermarkets, just the crust ship, yeah, exact, and
(08:15):
he put mad will cream like it was. I remember
that ship, bro. That's I don't even talk about it. No, yeah,
you see him mad, I'm like, I'm like reliving it, like, yeah, man,
I hope that motherfucker didn't make it out that fire house.
I hope it did burn and I hope I hope
he's the one that burned. The person that left. They
(08:38):
they stumbled out, but the fire took him. And there
you go. Johnny's gone because him. I remember that ship
deep along Island, bro, when I was doing them dumb
ass Long Island gives, you know the fund raisers where
you get.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yet six Governor's once and just like to get to
Long Island.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm like the little shitty twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dollars I was gonna make exactly, I won't even yeah,
won't even go towards whatever The technic issue with.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
My manager was from there, so he was booking me
all that. I'm thinking, like, I'm gonna workout, workout material.
Things are sucking them people ruthless man. Some white people
don't care. Man, they don't care. Bro. I was like,
I'm good, never again again. Been out there. Yeah, No,
there's nothing out there.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
They got black people out there. They got black Eddy mur.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Exactly like that area. But other than that, that's not
the Hampton. There's all the trumpets, trumpets, man, like all them,
but they don't care. They do it because they bored,
like there's nothing to do out there. Once you don't
be on there's nothing going on. You have dinner and
he's like, what were we gonna do? Dru go to
a comedy show and fun their life your era. I'm like,
(09:52):
I'm not doing.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That with Eric Codre, Withdre.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You know my last album, I had my fifth stand
up comedy album, right coult Nori. I did the Kanji
type on it. I record a New York comedy club
and you know, you do the first show, the second show,
and you know what show is always worse? Then you're
recording it's that second show.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, why is that because you just because then.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And the audience is just drunker, like you remember, you
get a new you get a new you get a
new audience in and and I taped on the fucking
Friday like an idiot too drunk or what wast yes
fucking wasted bro And like I sold half of it
out and then the other half. It was just people
that are like, let's just go this club. I forget
(10:47):
that New York City is still touristy, just like those
tickets are, like, hey, tickets for nothing, come in. And
I really wish I told the club, like, hey man,
if they're not for my show, don't bring them. Yeah,
I ain't do that. So anyway, doing the show, and
I remember a group of girls pull up and not
even a bashl Red part, but just a group of girls.
And he's sitting on the right side. And during my
(11:09):
whole set, Shorty in the middle of a sleep just sleep,
just nodding off and then she way back and then
go right back to sleep. Why did y'all bring on here?
Why why are y'all even here? Understand the public? What
makes you go after a party, get drunk and say
let's go fucking comedy?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I also, I don't drunk that drunk, but I've never
been so drunk that I'm like nodding up, that's like crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Or so exactly. Or I stay at the fucking bar.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a comedy club safe is there something about like
it's this lounge where like, hey, I get drunks. What
we don't have, there's no pressure.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's where the clubs bark people in there, drunk people,
And I guess I.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't really know. I don't know either get like.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
The people the dudes passing out flyers in Times Square, I.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Get that party or whatever, yeahs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But like people themselves, like why the fuck? I don't like,
why are you doing anyway? But yeah, so she's not
on enough and she gets up, she comes back, and
then like towards the end of my album, I'm just
like ranting and raving with them because they just could
not be quiet and like and sure he just goes
like yeah. And then towards the middle she leaves, which
(12:25):
is good. They get up and leave. I'm like, yeah, leave,
like this ain't for y'all. I'm like really trying to
like put my material down. And then I get another
heckler and guess who this is my ex? No at
the time taping, she got too saucy. Eric, Man, I
(12:46):
dated pimples bro, like I did. I dated pimples Bro.
You know, you bring them into your world and you're
like you're gonna be all right, right, and they're like, yeah,
I be right. They start tearing ship up.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh my, she heckled you did she knows you're taping. Yeah,
so she came to fuck with you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She came to support me, and then like she came
to support me the first show. She was great.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
She was at both shows.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, she's at shows. Well, she was my girl at
the time. I'm saying she's my ex now, but she.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Was, oh courage but she was your current girlfriend exactly.
And then your current girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Was heck with me on the seconding you yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, your girlfriend that you your ex now, but at
the time was your girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Ye was heckling you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yep, during your day too saucy and brought her friend
in and then they I remember they sitting in the
top balcony. Just like the loud, the loud, you know
you heard like that the loud positive I'm like girl,
come on that end the relationship?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Is that what ended the relationships? Didn't that was didn't help.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That had to be like maybe the second or third
red flag like this this might not last long. That
was like the second or third red flag of like
all right, all right, look at this, but it's still
just I'm not done with this, so like heckling me
the loud positive ship and then it's over people leaving
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and then she gets into an argument fight with the
bartend about the bill no, like going like rant in loud,
like you know what, like I ain't fucking why you
think I ain't pay? You think I ain't want pay?
I'm like, not my job, shorty, like not my job? Please?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's the girl I love. That's her.
She's biting everybody in the lobby. That's yo, you got
your pitbull story. I'm gonna go get it. I'm gonna
go get her. You did you address it or you're
just bro? Like it was after the show, after the
show is done, and I get off and like saying
by everybody, YO did that, no doubt? And then I
(14:59):
just hear that commotion and then my boy comes back, YO,
get your leave. And then I remember the bartend because
you know, we know the club, we know the bar.
I remember her look at me and I was like, no,
you know the same me.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, like what a position to be in.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That sucks, that's eric what the fun yrette? And because
she called her like because she's like she lying that,
like I didn't pay I did pay it, she'll be
costing that much. And then the bartend looking at me
like no she didn't, but it doesn't matter, like, and
(15:35):
I'm so yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Hey, that's she's your girlfriend on confident.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, you just taped your special and it was something.
But yeah, but I don't have to do that situation exactly.
I didn't know what to do it either. I was
just like, but it was. It was something I can't
really remember right now because my brain it little. The
stuff charum away. It's like, look, man, that happened. Let's
let's keep moving forward.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The firefighter story came back. You were like getting me angry.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
War reliving in fucking miser ass out here like manna
a minute, but bro, yeah, I can't remember. But all
I'm saying is, yes, it was a type of argument
where I'm stuck in the middle. I don't even know
what to do because if I defend the bartender that
I'm going against my lady going against I'm going against
the venue where I fucking work at a good position.
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So and then then the whole time she denies it
like I ain't never had, you know, I don't know
why the fuck you ain't helped me defend me all
that other bullshit. I'm like, but anyway and so so,
but that was wild, that fucking I remember that. My
boy reminded me that I was, like, right, I buried that.
I buried that. Remember that. That's all coming out.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
With a recoddre.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
With aricod did see somebody bomb? Yes, bro Back in
the day when I used to perform in the Bronx
and it was the old Yankee Stadium, it was a
spot called a dugout, and man, this comic went up
there and I think this. I got two stories, two
separate ones, same same venue. I don't know why I
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kept going back here, but I kept going back. The
first one was the comic in front of me, like
it was. It was a rough Riders event. Another fuck raiser.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That's the theme of this show. Don't need to stop
doing stop doing fund raise, stop acting for the stand up,
just do karaoke or something. Leave comics alone. But anyway, yeah,
fund raising rough rides at night and they had like
a many little roast thing and the comic goes up
there and he's trying to roast and they booty shit
out of him. So you see somebody getting boolled, You're like,
all right. And I was up next. I was like fuck,
(17:52):
he was like, nothing was hitting it. And they was like,
you know, the that was a rough fry of black people.
You know, they're just sitting up there the bronx like judging,
like the fuck out it was that. I got it
so and I know how to attack that. It's just
like you got make it about them, just talk about them, right.
I remember this is when they're a leader. I think
he was in the wheelchair. I think he was like
in the wheelchair at the time or something.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
And motorcycle accident.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I don't know. I don't know the accident, but I
just remember he was in a wheelchair, and like I
just started roasting everybody but playfully roasting him too, and
everybody's dying, laughing and ship. And I remember the next
day my boy told me like, yo, nah, like he
really liked you because the dudes was gonna fuck you
up after but they told him, like nah, I like him.
(18:34):
He's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I was just like, saved your life.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was just close to getting my ass beat. Oh
ship by the rough Riders. Shout to the leader of
the rough Rider, enjoying my standover my roasting. That was
the one dugout, and then the next time at the Dugout,
did another show and it was okay, but then once
we left it got shot up. Somebody shout up the value.
I remember me, my boy James go off James Golf
(19:00):
the glow he call him up the glow out. Yeah
remember him? Yeah, I think he's like he performs out
there on Long Island an you guys family chilling him.
But yes, man, it was me and him. And then
remember we just walking just duck him down there We
were there they were, but this was a rough Friday.
It was just like niggas just shooting bro. It was wild.
(19:22):
So that was like maybe one of those one of
the craziest shits I ever experienced. A drive by shoot
at the Dugout in Yankee State, the Old Yankee stadium niggas. No, yo,
they'll comment, they'll tell you that old dugout that was.
It was lived, It was live, and it was one
of those lounges where it's like, you know, comedy on
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the Thursday, which does not need to happen, but you
know we were down to perform anywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Bros with us and shot and killed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
To tell jokes, the silliest, fucking silliest life choice you
could make.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, somebody love us was throwing herself in the dangerous
wayction and love. That's all it's for. Bro.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
No, what was the worst bomb you've ever seen? That
wasn't you bombing?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I see many bombs and but there's one that doesn't
like particularly stand out. But when you watch it, though,
I just know the feeling of just.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Like you ever seen any fights at the comedy club.
I mean, shooting is probably the most high stakes.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, that's shooting. Shooting.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I don't know why I'm trying to top that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, no, the shooting was Yeah, what was the shooting about?
What do you think they were pinpoint targeting somebody? Yeah? No,
I don't I don't know what it was about. I
just know it was bullets and you can hear it
and that she was crazy. But yeah, man, I say,
I wish my boys I'd be like, yo, did I
see a fight? I probably did. I'm telling you man,
the way my trauma works is buried. Yeah. Yeah, I
(20:53):
just go to the cemetery yard like, oh, it's over there.
It's twenty one as that tombstone that the motherfucker was
fighting on stage. Somebody rushed me on stage in Pennsylvania
and my boy was there. What did I don't know
what I said, but he rushed the stage as you
can see. That's why I'm not looking at you, because
I'm living it. I'm there. Here we go. Yeah, it was. Yeah,
(21:22):
it was a show in the back of a hotel,
a banquet boom, banquet hall, probably comedy or something like that,
one of them fuck you know comedy works where they
do hotel in the banquet but it's like it's the
holiday in anyway. So I'm on stage and I'm doing
like my race material. There's grumblings and this dude rushes
to stage. But no, what happened was one of the
(21:46):
fuck all these members put his phone by my stool
as a prank, and so he went up there to
go get it, and I was just like, what the
fuck did My boy rushed to my to save me,
to be like, yo, what the fuck, and he was like, no, no,
I'm just trying to get my phone, trying her my phone.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Well, he walked out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He walked up fast, and I'm like, what is this,
Like I've never had that before, Like are you coming
up here? This is before the whole like you know,
Chappelle and everybody like rushing beat everybody getting they or
somebody coming to beat your ass. So this was like
shocking to me. And my boy pulled up and he
big Jamaican dude, but you know he's he's a teddy
bear like me. We're like, yo, we're all about to
(22:24):
love man. But he did look at Tim and they
was just good that all the white people.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm sorry, wait, hold on, this prank was like somebody stole.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Because he kept pointing like no, I'm just here from
my phone. My boy was holding the bat, like what
the fuck are you doing? He said, no, my phone,
my phone, and then the boy was in the bed
like a look, I put his phone up there and
then I saw it was under the stool, like under
one of the legs. I didn't even realize it. It
was like a fucking flip phone and he was going
for that ship. I was like, the fuck was this about.
I'm just like, let's go in the middle of my set.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
No, he had no awareness of you.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Know, we're just trying to create jokes. We're trying to
create a theme. We're trying to live out dreams on Eric.
People don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No one gives a.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Living in the fucking sticks of Pennsylvania, and they ran
there's no movies, there's no TV. They don't even know
how to use their nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
People.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Why did people move out there? What is out there?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean that's when the rent was low, I guess
I mean baby boomers they got all the landwind was
four dollars. Yeah, he bought it all up and their
own deeds. This is mine, that's it. And now we
can't ford ship, you feel me? So that's why they
live out there. And then they have kids, and now
their kids are like, I mean, why you I'm in
New Yorkers like, yeah, but your parents and them sticks man,
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and they're going to shows and they hate everything. Go
get your fucking dad and go get your fucking mom.
Oh god, yeah, I know all the stories Rob bomb.
I don't know what other motherfucker's bomb.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I mean, this is like the most action packed episode we.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Have because I got more. Let me see what's my
final finale? Uh? And closing, Oh yeah, I remember when
this comedian I bombed at a black show and this
was a black show where they had it at one
of those like it's a nightclub. I know why we
do this. Let's have a night club. And on the Thursday, like, yeah,
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we'll do you know, yeah do death Jai a night
or something like that, and Rob Stapleton was hosting. I
remember that my boyfriend Atlanta was visiting me. He's like
one of my best friends. He's visiting me, and I'm
on this. I'm their black room. The Rob Staple has
a busting and again I'm still young in the game
at this time, so I get nervous. And when you
get nervous, that's when your brain starts like, you don't
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need this joke. Let's let's erase everything and let's race.
Let's race a couple of words with this, and then
so you're like, wait, what is that joke? So I
remember he brought me all right, get off from Norrid Davis,
and I'm up there like and I just see everybody
just looking at me, and I just felt that heat,
like what you're gonna say?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
What up?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Like that aggression, And man, my brain was like, yeah,
I don't got it, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
And but all I know I remember me went blankets.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And you have and you feel the time and standards
just like you bet hurry up, especially the black It's
like you bet hurry up, like hurry And man, I
remember just result the now, you wasted my motherucking time. Bro,
let's go right now. You you should have been Steve
Harby right now. You ain't right now, you know, I
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gotta I gotta figure it out. Ain't got no time
for no goddamn less his nigga. You should be Steve
Harby right down. Wait a minute, I got the built it.
So I just remember just stuttering saying gas gas, gas
is high, nos, real high because you know what the
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gas because it's high and you know that. And then
you just hear people like what the yeah, because you know,
when I went to college, a lot of debt, a
lot of debt. Your mouths closing up, people think bolling
and heckling is the worst. It's silence.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
It's so loud.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Eric, I even hear it right now. I even feel
it right now. You just feel that ship like it's
your chest just some and caves in. It's just silence
and you hear nothing. Even the fucking bartender stops, like
the ice machine stops. Everything stops. And then I was saying,
I said, like gass in college college crazy, and I said,
all right, man, all Davis, and nobody claps like and
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then Rob gets on like, man, where the hell that
gas joke goes?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I know he's he's like, save the room from like
everything collaps.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Why you have to, like back in the day shop
the off like it's already like like the source through
the neck, right, But did you have to like and
then I guess that's part of the culture standup. It
just feels like, hey, I gotta use you to bring
this back up. Yeah, fucked up.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah he all felt that. So here go.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Bro straight red wedding.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And I did show the laugh factory back then Capone
was those thing bombed harder than ever. And then Capone
spent like the next twenty minutes making fun of my
three minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And was like was like yeah, get out, bring them
back out left at him. It's like, guys, I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Oh my god, I still remember it. It's still it's
still in my.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Risted as the last still in my body. Yes, that's
why I'm re living it now like horrible. I think
I recently forgave rops with that, but I hated that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Kick you while you're down, kicked you you were to
look like yeah, shit, that's the way it goes. Thank you, Ben,
thanks for doing the show.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Thank you know with Avery Codre.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
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Welcome back to another episode of Bombing with Eric Andrey,
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the podcast where I talk with friends, comedians, musicians, and
others about their worst bombing moments on stage at Life
in the Club, wherever, I talked to the hilarious Nori
Davis about the time he literally experienced a drive by
shooting while he was telling jokes on stage. He had
to dodge bullets while doing stand up right by Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Bombing with Eric Andre.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Tell me your worst bomb.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
That you ever?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, worst bomb, bro, give me a few whatever?
Oh he has a couple man, had ever seen Tom?
All right? So worst bomb ever? We have to be
where I don't know if you ever had this with
your parents. Here you're doing comedy now they want to
be an agent. Oh my god, yeah, me too, horrible.
Here we go bombing.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That's kind of the worst. Oh god, the like you're
doing what you're doing comedy?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I got a gig for you. And my son does
this so I can bring him into this. So my dad,
he's a retired cop.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ship, so you get off if you get pulled over,
do you just go? My dad's a cop?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the PBA car. Yeah, I got
to give me one of those cards. Man tired and
he retired. I can't even doing that. He's got to
know somebody, he says them young bucks man don't do
nothing because they don't like me. I'm like a so
so now now I'm a citizen, I'm a regular cards.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I'll copy it or go to Kinks after this.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I know, man, but even to that ship really works.
It works.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
So you get pulled over, You're like.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, here, my dad's a cop. They're like, oh, all right,
even don't they don't like up North cops so New
York City. They be like, I don't give a fuck.
Then they go to their car and then he chilled.
Then they come back and be like, all right, man,
just be careful. So it's still they like, is that.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Gang ships from Yonkers?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Up North DMNX murder.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Young okay man? Yeah, what is Youngers is like nayak
or some ship.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Define more South. But it's it's like Middle of America
saying uh. They saying Lady Gaga, the locks Lady Gaga.
They're saying that from she from Central Avenue. But that's
not that's locks locks Yes, downs p g Loops kiss
those guys, drag on all them. So uh yeah, man,
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so that's whe I'm from only comedy guy out.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay, and so the worst bomb. Yes, So my dad
so he keep us both on track.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, no, it's fine, it's fine. I like this. I'm
like this till I'm sporadic. So my dad right, so
he has this gig at the Polish Centers right there.
So that's where Youngkers is. It's a bunch of streets
where like Polish people live here, Black people live here,
White people live there, like there's literally a town called
White Plains. That's where they're at. And Spanish people on
South Broadway main streets, the Mexican people, like, everybody got
their own streets. So Polish Center, Polish people. But it's
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a bie, it's a motorcycle gang event. So my dad's like, yeah, man,
coma do stand up here? And then a guy called
me like yeah, man, want you to Yes, my dad
booked me for this ship. And this is like when
I'm bridout bushy tail, I have to be like, wait,
two years in the standard better you know what I'm saying,
And me, I don't know about you. I think we
came up through the Bringer show aspect of like you know,
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doing Bringer shows, think of you the ship, but it's
really your family and the audience that's pumping you up.
So you think you're doing great, but nahigging like you
have not actually made audience. People laugh.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You're the Polish biker exact Polish biker event. They all
got their leather vest, they got their leather pants. The
girls a shirtless, you know what I'm saying, but like
not sleeveless. Excuse me, leaveless. And I'm just and I
just feel the vibe and it's just like baby booming
ship bro like nobody. My age music was playing what
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was a song like like electric Slide, some song like that,
like some song like that, like a black family song
like everything like that, Yeah, but more like a feeling
can't think about it man, fuck anyway something like that,
and the DJ just abruptly stops, stops, and then the
DJ's like, all right, man, we got Nory David doing comedy.
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Come on. That's the intro, like like come on, And
at this time my material is like, yeah, college is crazy,
I've been dead, make that crazy. Gas is hort like
and these people First of all, they drive motorcycles and
they don't even go They went to college win the
tuition was like what four dollars? You know what I mean? Like,
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but they're standing together like they would just finished dancing.
So it's just like and I'm up there and I
just see my dad in the middle just looking up
at me, and then all the bikers just looking over
their shoulder, like, what the fuck is happening? I do
my life? Yeah, college is.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
No opener, right, No, just you just raw into.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Them, bro, no vacline, no vacline, just straight. Oh my god,
I mean that's why. How how long you know how
it is?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You up there? It was probably like a minute, but
it felt like two hours. It felt like two hours,
but I was really up there, probably maybe like even
three minutes. I did the first joke. Nothing. You can
just hear people getting drinks all the way to the right.
Give me a drink, and then people just looking and
I'm just like, yeah, man, you know, just just bring
the music back. I just walked off and I went
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right to my car. I put the ball. He was
just like, well, why you perform? I don't know. My
dad said to come through it. I did it, and
it was probably like some deep in the child trauma
ship where I'm thinking, like, all I do this? He
could see he could be proud of me. Well, Bro, yeah,
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I don't know. Maybe the comic ship live. One time
his lady brought him and it was after like my
first album recording, okay, But even that he was just like,
you know, like I'm here with my woman.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Other than that, I don't go for about this. Get
a job.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I think my dad see it, saw me do well
like one time okay. And it wasn't even like I
can't do well in front of my parents. It's too
nerve wrackings.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh god. Yeah, you know where they're at. You feel
that energy and you just like you remember where was that?
Where was that you did?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
What did okay? In Miami?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Is that where they're living now or no?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My dad just passed away, thanks, but my mom she
lives in Delray Beach, was just like an hour north.
But yeah, he got to see me do okay once definitely.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Stinking Oh god, did even throw bottles at you or anything?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh my god? No, yeah, no, I had a guy
throw I had a guy put my face in a
pie one time. Bro, what in Long Island? What do
you mean them fucking fundraisers? Like, what do you mean
them firefirefucking fund raises?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
What is a firefighter fundraiser?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
What are you with them getting money from the community.
And they like do a comedy show and this is
again and without. He was like after seeing the show
of all the comics, he was just like, oh man,
you know, I'm funny too. I'm like, what do you
mean how you funny? And he put my face in
a cream pie like I was just like I was,
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I was so heated, and I remember I think the
comedy MafA Joe MafA something like that. He was like
he grabbed me, come on, Nor let's go. Let's go,
like and then he cleaned me up by the car,
so let's get out. Yeah, it was a fire. They
were drunk too many. Yeah, they all ganged up and
it's deep along Island man saying, you know that's like
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trumpet that was that was in the middle of the
show or at the end at the end. Yeah, you
know what people think, like, I'm funny too, Like we
make it look like it.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Was conveniently on the stage.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It was just like a like because they had desserts
and ship they had like a whole buffet out there. Yo,
Long Island away up and there was a buffet of
desserts on the right side. Yes, yeah, in his hand.
He went and got it, yep. And it's just like
he put will cream and you know where you bought,
like the supermarkets, just the crust ship, yeah, exact, and
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he put mad will cream like it was. I remember
that ship, bro. That's I don't even talk about it. No, yeah,
you see him mad, I'm like, I'm like reliving it, like, yeah, man,
I hope that motherfucker didn't make it out that fire house.
I hope it did burn and I hope I hope
he's the one that burned. The person that left. They
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they stumbled out, but the fire took him. And there
you go. Johnny's gone because him. I remember that ship
deep along Island, bro, when I was doing them dumb
ass Long Island gives, you know the fund raisers where
you get.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yet six Governor's once and just like to get to
Long Island.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I'm like the little shitty twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dollars I was gonna make exactly, I won't even yeah,
won't even go towards whatever The technic issue with.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
My manager was from there, so he was booking me
all that. I'm thinking, like, I'm gonna workout, workout material.
Things are sucking them people ruthless man. Some white people
don't care. Man, they don't care. Bro. I was like,
I'm good, never again again. Been out there. Yeah, No,
there's nothing out there.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
They got black people out there. They got black Eddy mur.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Exactly like that area. But other than that, that's not
the Hampton. There's all the trumpets, trumpets, man, like all them,
but they don't care. They do it because they bored,
like there's nothing to do out there. Once you don't
be on there's nothing going on. You have dinner and
he's like, what were we gonna do? Dru go to
a comedy show and fun their life your era. I'm like,
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I'm not doing.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That with Eric Codre, Withdre.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
You know my last album, I had my fifth stand
up comedy album, right coult Nori. I did the Kanji
type on it. I record a New York comedy club
and you know, you do the first show, the second show,
and you know what show is always worse? Then you're
recording it's that second show.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, why is that because you just because then.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And the audience is just drunker, like you remember, you
get a new you get a new you get a
new audience in and and I taped on the fucking
Friday like an idiot too drunk or what wast yes
fucking wasted bro And like I sold half of it
out and then the other half. It was just people
that are like, let's just go this club. I forget
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that New York City is still touristy, just like those
tickets are, like, hey, tickets for nothing, come in. And
I really wish I told the club, like, hey man,
if they're not for my show, don't bring them. Yeah,
I ain't do that. So anyway, doing the show, and
I remember a group of girls pull up and not
even a bashl Red part, but just a group of girls.
And he's sitting on the right side. And during my
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whole set, Shorty in the middle of a sleep just sleep,
just nodding off and then she way back and then
go right back to sleep. Why did y'all bring on here?
Why why are y'all even here? Understand the public? What
makes you go after a party, get drunk and say
let's go fucking comedy?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I also, I don't drunk that drunk, but I've never
been so drunk that I'm like nodding up, that's like crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Or so exactly. Or I stay at the fucking bar.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's a comedy club safe is there something about like
it's this lounge where like, hey, I get drunks. What
we don't have, there's no pressure.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It's where the clubs bark people in there, drunk people,
And I guess I.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Don't really know. I don't know either get like.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
The people the dudes passing out flyers in Times Square, I.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Get that party or whatever, yeahs or whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But like people themselves, like why the fuck? I don't like,
why are you doing anyway? But yeah, so she's not
on enough and she gets up, she comes back, and
then like towards the end of my album, I'm just
like ranting and raving with them because they just could
not be quiet and like and sure he just goes
like yeah. And then towards the middle she leaves, which
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is good. They get up and leave. I'm like, yeah, leave,
like this ain't for y'all. I'm like really trying to
like put my material down. And then I get another
heckler and guess who this is my ex? No at
the time taping, she got too saucy. Eric, Man, I
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dated pimples bro, like I did. I dated pimples Bro.
You know, you bring them into your world and you're
like you're gonna be all right, right, and they're like, yeah,
I be right. They start tearing ship up.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Oh my, she heckled you did she knows you're taping. Yeah,
so she came to fuck with you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She came to support me, and then like she came
to support me the first show. She was great.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
She was at both shows.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Yeah, she's at shows. Well, she was my girl at
the time. I'm saying she's my ex now, but she.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Was, oh courage but she was your current girlfriend exactly.
And then your current girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Was heck with me on the seconding you yeah, man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, your girlfriend that you your ex now, but at
the time was your girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Ye was heckling you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yep, during your day too saucy and brought her friend
in and then they I remember they sitting in the
top balcony. Just like the loud, the loud, you know
you heard like that the loud positive I'm like girl,
come on that end the relationship?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Is that what ended the relationships? Didn't that was didn't help.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
That had to be like maybe the second or third
red flag like this this might not last long. That
was like the second or third red flag of like
all right, all right, look at this, but it's still
just I'm not done with this, so like heckling me
the loud positive ship and then it's over people leaving
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and then she gets into an argument fight with the
bartend about the bill no, like going like rant in loud,
like you know what, like I ain't fucking why you
think I ain't pay? You think I ain't want pay?
I'm like, not my job, shorty, like not my job? Please?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's the girl I love. That's her.
She's biting everybody in the lobby. That's yo, you got
your pitbull story. I'm gonna go get it. I'm gonna
go get her. You did you address it or you're
just bro? Like it was after the show, after the
show is done, and I get off and like saying
by everybody, YO did that, no doubt? And then I
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just hear that commotion and then my boy comes back, YO,
get your leave. And then I remember the bartend because
you know, we know the club, we know the bar.
I remember her look at me and I was like, no,
you know the same me.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yeah, like what a position to be in.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That sucks, that's eric what the fun yrette? And because
she called her like because she's like she lying that,
like I didn't pay I did pay it, she'll be
costing that much. And then the bartend looking at me
like no she didn't, but it doesn't matter, like, and
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I'm so yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Hey, that's she's your girlfriend on confident.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, you just taped your special and it was something.
But yeah, but I don't have to do that situation exactly.
I didn't know what to do it either. I was
just like, but it was. It was something I can't
really remember right now because my brain it little. The
stuff charum away. It's like, look, man, that happened. Let's
let's keep moving forward.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The firefighter story came back. You were like getting me angry.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
War reliving in fucking miser ass out here like manna
a minute, but bro, yeah, I can't remember. But all
I'm saying is, yes, it was a type of argument
where I'm stuck in the middle. I don't even know
what to do because if I defend the bartender that
I'm going against my lady going against I'm going against
the venue where I fucking work at a good position.
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So and then then the whole time she denies it
like I ain't never had, you know, I don't know
why the fuck you ain't helped me defend me all
that other bullshit. I'm like, but anyway and so so,
but that was wild, that fucking I remember that. My
boy reminded me that I was, like, right, I buried that.
I buried that. Remember that. That's all coming out.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
With a recoddre.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
With aricod did see somebody bomb? Yes, bro Back in
the day when I used to perform in the Bronx
and it was the old Yankee Stadium, it was a
spot called a dugout, and man, this comic went up
there and I think this. I got two stories, two
separate ones, same same venue. I don't know why I
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kept going back here, but I kept going back. The
first one was the comic in front of me, like
it was. It was a rough Riders event. Another fuck raiser.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
That's the theme of this show. Don't need to stop
doing stop doing fund raise, stop acting for the stand up,
just do karaoke or something. Leave comics alone. But anyway, yeah,
fund raising rough rides at night and they had like
a many little roast thing and the comic goes up
there and he's trying to roast and they booty shit
out of him. So you see somebody getting boolled, You're like,
all right. And I was up next. I was like fuck,
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he was like, nothing was hitting it. And they was like,
you know, the that was a rough fry of black people.
You know, they're just sitting up there the bronx like judging,
like the fuck out it was that. I got it
so and I know how to attack that. It's just
like you got make it about them, just talk about them, right.
I remember this is when they're a leader. I think
he was in the wheelchair. I think he was like
in the wheelchair at the time or something.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
And motorcycle accident.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I don't know. I don't know the accident, but I
just remember he was in a wheelchair, and like I
just started roasting everybody but playfully roasting him too, and
everybody's dying, laughing and ship. And I remember the next
day my boy told me like, yo, nah, like he
really liked you because the dudes was gonna fuck you
up after but they told him, like nah, I like him.
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He's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I was just like, saved your life.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was just close to getting my ass beat. Oh
ship by the rough Riders. Shout to the leader of
the rough Rider, enjoying my standover my roasting. That was
the one dugout, and then the next time at the Dugout,
did another show and it was okay, but then once
we left it got shot up. Somebody shout up the value.
I remember me, my boy James go off James Golf
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the glow he call him up the glow out. Yeah
remember him? Yeah, I think he's like he performs out
there on Long Island an you guys family chilling him.
But yes, man, it was me and him. And then
remember we just walking just duck him down there We
were there they were, but this was a rough Friday.
It was just like niggas just shooting bro. It was wild.
(19:22):
So that was like maybe one of those one of
the craziest shits I ever experienced. A drive by shoot
at the Dugout in Yankee State, the Old Yankee stadium niggas. No, yo,
they'll comment, they'll tell you that old dugout that was.
It was lived, It was live, and it was one
of those lounges where it's like, you know, comedy on
(19:43):
the Thursday, which does not need to happen, but you
know we were down to perform anywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Bros with us and shot and killed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
To tell jokes, the silliest, fucking silliest life choice you
could make.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, somebody love us was throwing herself in the dangerous
wayction and love. That's all it's for. Bro.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
No, what was the worst bomb you've ever seen? That
wasn't you bombing?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I see many bombs and but there's one that doesn't
like particularly stand out. But when you watch it, though,
I just know the feeling of just.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Like you ever seen any fights at the comedy club.
I mean, shooting is probably the most high stakes.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, that's shooting. Shooting.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I don't know why I'm trying to top that.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, no, the shooting was Yeah, what was the shooting about?
What do you think they were pinpoint targeting somebody? Yeah? No,
I don't I don't know what it was about. I
just know it was bullets and you can hear it
and that she was crazy. But yeah, man, I say,
I wish my boys I'd be like, yo, did I
see a fight? I probably did. I'm telling you man,
the way my trauma works is buried. Yeah. Yeah, I
(20:53):
just go to the cemetery yard like, oh, it's over there.
It's twenty one as that tombstone that the motherfucker was
fighting on stage. Somebody rushed me on stage in Pennsylvania
and my boy was there. What did I don't know
what I said, but he rushed the stage as you
can see. That's why I'm not looking at you, because
I'm living it. I'm there. Here we go. Yeah, it was. Yeah,
(21:22):
it was a show in the back of a hotel,
a banquet boom, banquet hall, probably comedy or something like that,
one of them fuck you know comedy works where they
do hotel in the banquet but it's like it's the
holiday in anyway. So I'm on stage and I'm doing
like my race material. There's grumblings and this dude rushes
to stage. But no, what happened was one of the
(21:46):
fuck all these members put his phone by my stool
as a prank, and so he went up there to
go get it, and I was just like, what the
fuck did My boy rushed to my to save me,
to be like, yo, what the fuck, and he was like, no, no,
I'm just trying to get my phone, trying her my phone.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Well, he walked out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
He walked up fast, and I'm like, what is this,
Like I've never had that before, Like are you coming
up here? This is before the whole like you know,
Chappelle and everybody like rushing beat everybody getting they or
somebody coming to beat your ass. So this was like
shocking to me. And my boy pulled up and he
big Jamaican dude, but you know he's he's a teddy
bear like me. We're like, yo, we're all about to
(22:24):
love man. But he did look at Tim and they
was just good that all the white people.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm sorry, wait, hold on, this prank was like somebody stole.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Because he kept pointing like no, I'm just here from
my phone. My boy was holding the bat, like what
the fuck are you doing? He said, no, my phone,
my phone, and then the boy was in the bed
like a look, I put his phone up there and
then I saw it was under the stool, like under
one of the legs. I didn't even realize it. It
was like a fucking flip phone and he was going
for that ship. I was like, the fuck was this about.
I'm just like, let's go in the middle of my set.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
No, he had no awareness of you.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Know, we're just trying to create jokes. We're trying to
create a theme. We're trying to live out dreams on Eric.
People don't care.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No one gives a.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Living in the fucking sticks of Pennsylvania, and they ran
there's no movies, there's no TV. They don't even know
how to use their nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
People.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Why did people move out there? What is out there?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I mean that's when the rent was low, I guess
I mean baby boomers they got all the landwind was
four dollars. Yeah, he bought it all up and their
own deeds. This is mine, that's it. And now we
can't ford ship, you feel me? So that's why they
live out there. And then they have kids, and now
their kids are like, I mean, why you I'm in
New Yorkers like, yeah, but your parents and them sticks man,
(23:46):
and they're going to shows and they hate everything. Go
get your fucking dad and go get your fucking mom.
Oh god, yeah, I know all the stories Rob bomb.
I don't know what other motherfucker's bomb.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
I mean, this is like the most action packed episode we.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Have because I got more. Let me see what's my
final finale? Uh? And closing, Oh yeah, I remember when
this comedian I bombed at a black show and this
was a black show where they had it at one
of those like it's a nightclub. I know why we
do this. Let's have a night club. And on the Thursday, like, yeah,
(24:22):
we'll do you know, yeah do death Jai a night
or something like that, and Rob Stapleton was hosting. I
remember that my boyfriend Atlanta was visiting me. He's like
one of my best friends. He's visiting me, and I'm
on this. I'm their black room. The Rob Staple has
a busting and again I'm still young in the game
at this time, so I get nervous. And when you
get nervous, that's when your brain starts like, you don't
(24:44):
need this joke. Let's let's erase everything and let's race.
Let's race a couple of words with this, and then
so you're like, wait, what is that joke? So I
remember he brought me all right, get off from Norrid Davis,
and I'm up there like and I just see everybody
just looking at me, and I just felt that heat,
like what you're gonna say?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
What up?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Like that aggression, And man, my brain was like, yeah,
I don't got it, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
And but all I know I remember me went blankets.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
And you have and you feel the time and standards
just like you bet hurry up, especially the black It's
like you bet hurry up, like hurry And man, I
remember just result the now, you wasted my motherucking time. Bro,
let's go right now. You you should have been Steve
Harby right now. You ain't right now, you know, I
(25:35):
gotta I gotta figure it out. Ain't got no time
for no goddamn less his nigga. You should be Steve
Harby right down. Wait a minute, I got the built it.
So I just remember just stuttering saying gas gas, gas
is high, nos, real high because you know what the
(25:55):
gas because it's high and you know that. And then
you just hear people like what the yeah, because you know,
when I went to college, a lot of debt, a
lot of debt. Your mouths closing up, people think bolling
and heckling is the worst. It's silence.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
It's so loud.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Eric, I even hear it right now. I even feel
it right now. You just feel that ship like it's
your chest just some and caves in. It's just silence
and you hear nothing. Even the fucking bartender stops, like
the ice machine stops. Everything stops. And then I was saying,
I said, like gass in college college crazy, and I said,
all right, man, all Davis, and nobody claps like and
(26:41):
then Rob gets on like, man, where the hell that
gas joke goes?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
I know he's he's like, save the room from like
everything collaps.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Why you have to, like back in the day shop
the off like it's already like like the source through
the neck, right, But did you have to like and
then I guess that's part of the culture standup. It
just feels like, hey, I gotta use you to bring
this back up. Yeah, fucked up.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Yeah he all felt that. So here go.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Bro straight red wedding.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And I did show the laugh factory back then Capone
was those thing bombed harder than ever. And then Capone
spent like the next twenty minutes making fun of my
three minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
And was like was like yeah, get out, bring them
back out left at him. It's like, guys, I'm trying.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Oh my god, I still remember it. It's still it's
still in my.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Risted as the last still in my body. Yes, that's
why I'm re living it now like horrible. I think
I recently forgave rops with that, but I hated that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Kick you while you're down, kicked you you were to
look like yeah, shit, that's the way it goes. Thank you, Ben,
thanks for doing the show.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Thank you know with Avery Codre.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
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Speaker 5 (28:28):
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when you bombed or absolutely failed in life.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
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Speaker 5 (28:36):
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Speaker 1 (29:02):
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