July 9, 2025 • 28 mins
Here's another classic Bombing episode! Eric and his illustrious friend DJ Douggpound (Doug Lussenhop) exchange stories of striking out at the club together and adventures in an abandoned bodega in Williamsburg. Doug tells his story of bombing in the middle of New Zealand. A fan hops on stage and steals his mic as chaos ensues. The nightmares of performing comedy outdoors in the daytime. They talk about comedians releasing bombing albums and what it means to elevate art. Eric shares his story of bombing when opening for Chris Rock and what Anthony Mackie had to say about it the next day, bombing at a corporate event, and the collapse of a beach festival.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Bombing with Aircondry podcast where I lose my mind.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm talking with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people
about their worst moments on stage and getting.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Absolutely ravaged by live audience. I'm Eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This week we're graced by the presidence of the King
of Music Drops. DJ Doug Bound aka Doug Lesson Hop.
He's got a podcast himself called Office Hours with Tim
Heidecker and Vick Berger tells us about his touring across
music festivals around the world. Plus an amazing bombing story
from New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Bombing with ericdre Okay. The theme is podcast is palming.
I'm with my illustrious, sexy, divine, beautiful, vanilla Eurocentric brother,
(01:00):
Doug Lusson Hop DJ Doug Pound in the mix.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
What's up, Doug?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What's up? Eric?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Grats a be here, grats of bomb.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I'm feasting my eyes on your beautiful lily white vanilla
skin and I'm thinking of you like a little creamsickle.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That makes me comforted.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Should you talk about bombing like, not just like as
a comedian, but like in life, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Never like bomb hard?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Like, Yeah, what's your biggest bomb growing up, Like, did
you ever ask a girl out?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I remember I was with you when I first I
had that drop.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh talk about talk about the drop never this is
I don't anymore.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So I walked up to these two attractive women at
the bar we were at, and I was like trying
to like strike up a conversation, but striking out there's
not interested. So I just like had my little whiskey
in my hand and it just like acid dropped.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
He just let it go and it's just shattered, and
then you just did a full walk out of the bar.
I just like looked at them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's like psychonic looked at them catatonically, like.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Six whiskeys in You're like, Hi, should I have your number?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
To like?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
So you just let go of your glass drop full shatter.
I just left.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
People are like what, it's such a Those.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Days are funny because you were working on your your pilot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'd be like, hey, Eric, let's go out to the
bar tonight and strike out, and you'd be like yeah,
come scoop me up. And then I'm like all right,
I'm on front. You're like no, come in, and.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Then you like show me your laptop with like five
thousand things on the desktop and like all this unlinked
media and like final cut four, you're like you're like,
help me edit. You're like, help me hit my pilot.
I'm like okay, and then I end up just sitting
there for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was not true.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yeah, every single time we were gonna go out, you're
like I lured you.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You're like, what is this? I'm like, oh, well, you
got to render that.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm like, okay, hold on, let me relink this media.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Due.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Then we finally go out, you're just dropping with like, okay,
that was a fun night.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I lured you in my trap and we'll get
to bombing soon.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
But for the Eric Andre Show, I knew I had
to make it myself, like the first version of it,
because I knew I want to like translate on a script.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It had to be what you had in your mind,
had to be what I had in my mind.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So I didn't know, and I didn't have any money,
so I didn't have any money to like hire any editors,
So I like.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Well, you made it. You must have had some Was
that all free? That first thing you shot in like Brooklyn,
that was like all out of my pocket?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
And I was like working temp jobs to pay for it,
And where did you shoot that? I had an abandoned
bodega in Brooklyn for like the three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You saw like an abandon bodega and you're like, no cow.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And Andrew found that bodega and they would have like
punk shows there. Oh okay, there was a few rounds
of it. There'd be like ratchet nasty. It was a
rats nust and there's almost like broken glass there. I
was doing stunts where there was like broken glass everywhere.
There's a bunch of people like competing, like like we
were filming in there, and there'd be like some hipster
guy would come in and be like what do you what.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Do you guys do?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What the fuck are you guys? Get the fuck out
of here.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
We'd be like, what we talked to so and so
he said he said we could film in here. And
they'd be like, oh, you talked to so and so.
We'll tell that motherfucker he owes me three grand. And
then that guy would storm out, and then some other
dude would walk in, like a Jamaican dude from the
neighborhood to walk in and be like, what the fuck are
you guys doing in here would be like what we
talked to so and so, like he said we could
film in here. He'd be like, oh really he said that. Huh, well,
(04:45):
I'm gonna have a fucking chat with him. I hope
you're giving him good money because the buddy there was
like all these competing people kept interrupteds like on cue,
like it was insane, one after another that was behind
the scenes, just crazier than most in front of the camera.
So I was like really struggling, Like I read Final
Cut for dummies. I would watch tutorials, but I would
(05:06):
bug you and another editor I.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Knew to help me as much as possible because I
was struggling.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was like, I have to.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I hope this.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Works because I know I'm very I remember looking at
it thinking like, what the hell is this show?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This is a mess. I was like, this is a
this is a mess.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Segments like McDonald you were like in McDonald's Justice Ronald
McDonald like drinking whiskey and crying.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then there was the when you're like an escape slave.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Man.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was that colonial Williamsburg.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
It wasn't like the official Colonial Williams, but it was
one of those like knockoff civil war, like a fake
like the Civil War?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Right, they're all over the country. So what happened when
you did that? Did anyone care? Or they're just like okay, No,
they were like in are they're kicking you out? No,
they were in shock. And then they were like pumped.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Really yeah, yeah, they were like what they were Actually
this adds a layer of reality.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, they were like jaw dropped. And then they were like,
oh shit, that's tight.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Nice with a recdre with a recdre.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, what's the worst you ever bopped?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
All right?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
They all right, there's this festival in New Zealand. It
doesn't exist anymore, but it was called a Low Hum
and people would go to it and they don't know
who's on the bill until you get there. So I
thought that was that's kind of a cool and my friend,
Oh Vice Cooler, who is who's a musician, was like, Oh,
that's the coolest festival in the world. Of all the
(06:58):
festivals they've ever done, that's the cool one. And I
think Dan Deacon even said like that's his favorite festival.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Oh so your boys are like hyping it up and
there's no lineup, it's just a surprise. Every I don't
know everything he ever guesses a soprity. He's hyping it up,
and he said it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
And you're out in the jungle like somewhere, like it's
not in it's not in the city. You're not Yeah,
you're camping and you're out like far I don't know,
like an hour from Wellington right right, and in the
mountains exactly. So somebody contacted me is like, hey, we'll.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Flay you out like for this festival. Oh cool, So
I fly like fifteen hours to do this one show.
I'm at this.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Everyone is like together at this like it looks like
mash or something, looks like so they put you know,
it's a music festivals. They put me on at one am. Yeah,
I think to like kind of punk the crowd. I
think the guy who ran it kind of likes to punk,
you know, kind of like mess with people's expectations. Right,
and everyone is like on mally and like right, and
(07:59):
it's a music festival out in the woods, right and
they put me on at one am. And you know,
my act is like DJ Doug Console. People think, oh
there's a DJ on right now. My acid is kicking
in this is perfect my extasy and I like hard
Cut to like some knock knot joke or something, and
everyone's just like screaming at me, throwing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Shit oh shit. And it was bad. Yeah, it was
like they were not having it. Oh no, absolutely enraged.
I'm on the main stage too. There's like different stages.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
They could have put me on the weird I'm on
the big one in front of like the big crowd
of people and there was like twenty people who knew
who I was in front, like this is the best
thing I've ever seen. And then like there's just hundreds
of people just like super pissed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They were chucking something.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I would like tell a joke and play a beat
for a little bit as like you know, part of
the remix of it, and.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They they started dance thinking that as like hard Cut.
You're like, so I'm dating again or whatever, you know,
like and they're like a hey to me. Some girl
got off on stage and stole my mind.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Oh and she was like freestyle rapping and I'm like,
there's no security.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is kind of like a mom and pop festival.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
And the guy who the booker, who He's just like,
this is the greatest He's like, this is what I wanted.
He set it up to be like chaos. You know,
it was like funny for him, just him and I
just like powered through. And then I like I was
just bombing so hard that I tried to like plug
in my laptop up, like plugging it into like play music.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So I like played a few songs at the end
of it, and people sort of were like, Okay, it
was just like and then.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
She was just gone, you already for the remix and
just did a thirty minute remix.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Like I just I just kind of like that was
a good lesson or whatever, because I've been in situations
like that where I'm booked at the wrong thing and
I just power through.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I just pretend like it's not happening. I never do.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Comedy at a outdoor festival anymore. Daytime, outdoor festival. You
could get away with it at this point. Uh. And
I've talked to a lot of people about it. I go,
have you ever had a good set, a good comedy
set a door daytime? I've done one of those. People
(10:13):
are like you can see everyone unanimously, everyone's like it.
That's the worst venue for comedy. In the fucking world.
It's not even that great of a venue for music.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Best part of the story is coming Oh sorry, sorry, sorry,
so girl the microphone dude, that was okay. Some people
like absolutely loved it. They like, can I have your shirt?
They like they wanted my Like I wear like a
shirt with my name on it. Yeah, It's like, hey,
you just were begging me for the shirt. I gave
it to him. I was like, all who cares, you know,
like that was like a terrifying experience. And then, you know,
(10:45):
most of the crowd hated it, but they were just like,
we want to fucking dance.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This is a nightmare or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So then I'm stuck at this camp for like there
was night one.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Oh no, of like three nights. So then I'm wanted
a leper. I was the pariah of oh no.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
So I'm walking around just like trudging through this camp
like people are you know, I'm like cool, I can't
even like have a friend here, Like I made a
couple of I made a couple of friends that were like,
they were like that was awesome. May I was legendary,
you know, like you we're all talking about it. So
I go to this. My friend was like, there's an
open mic tent, right, let's go check it out. The
(11:26):
next day at noon, we go there. I'm standing like
five feet from this guy was doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He's like, did anyone see DJ Dug Pound? And I
was like, oh no, they weren't all they were just silent.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
This guy, this guy bombed, but his whole act here's
my impression of DJ Dug Pound. And then he like
tried to mimic like the drops I do and the
DJ voice guy yeah, And I'm looking around like, what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Twilight sound? Yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Nobody even knew I was standing there or something, and
he's just shitting on my my set. He was just
making fun of how how hard I bombed, and I
was like, brutal the fuck?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And this is my friend who invited me, her friend
this guy.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Yeah, So that was just very surreal. I had to
just laugh it off. I almost was like mad, I
was gonna say, what the fuck I'm standing right here? Yeah,
But then I was like, now I'm gonna let this
guy roll because he's bombing. He was actually bombed.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
LA.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
People are like, what you're doing an impression the guy
that bombed last night is cosmic justice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's your act, that's cosmic justice. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
So then I was just sort of like stuck at
this camp for a few days. That's brutal. That was
pretty brutal. Yeah, but back to what you were saying.
Another thing I do do. I still say yes is
open for a band.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Don't do it unless it's weird how yankovicher Tenacious D,
unless it's a comedy band. I'm opening for Tenacious D.
So yes, that that made you might work? That might work,
Remember what.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I know. It's still the Hamburger got like bottles chucked
out him opening up for Today's Day.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, yeah, you got to check out his live album
Hot Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think it's called He.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Released a live album of him bombing hardcore and the
crowd is just chanting.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
He's the best. He is fearless man, he is fearless.
That's like Gonzo ship. I love that didn't wait? Did
uh didn't release? Ah the height of his career, which
is like so insane, it's so weird, and he's purposely
bombing right in like a little club. It doesn't make
(13:37):
any sense. It's like abstract. He's the greatest artist of us.
We've over Van Go.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I told you about when I bombed opening up for
Chris Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He did, so I'll do I'll do the quick give
me the cliff. I'll give you the cliff does not
that interesting story. I'm just like, my audience is not
his audience. The vent diagram is slim. Really, I mean,
stand up you. It made me questions and you're talking
about we're talking about three eleven and then yeah, exactly,
(14:11):
it's like my references forget it. It's like very I'm
very generational. I guess gotcha.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
So uh.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I always did like mediocre opening up for him, but
this night, I just like I was phoning it in
and I didn't realize it until halfway through. This guy
goes next, oh, and I go and I snapped, I should.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Have played cool or how to joke about it.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But I was like, now you come up to the
stage and say that to my face like it was
a bar show.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was like, come up on.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Stage and I got it's like big ass theater of
four thousand people.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
He's like, I'm not going up to the stage. I
just fucking roast you. And then I'm like and I
just crumble.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But what haunts me is like celebrities come to see
Chris Rock and especially in New Orleans and Atlanta where
all like the Marvel movies shoot and shit, like celebrities
are always in the odest So my agent calls me
a few weeks later.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Anything, Hey, we just had Anti Mackie in the office.
He said you were the worst comedian he's ever seen it.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So I was just like this delayed like haunting, you
know what I mean, Like when your bombs so hard
to just move on, you can't move. It's like it's
like when you try to fart in the other room
and then you like walk into the next room.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it like comes with you. You're like, God, no,
I parted it in that room.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
That room I left so that the girl doesn't sell
the farm.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you can't with me. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I did this podcast, like the first podcast ever did
like ten years ago or something with Neil Brennan, and.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You told me about this, but I love this story
you were doing. Your podcast was the podcast episode? No,
it was.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It was my last episode, so it ended on a
fucking turn.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I kind of quit after this, but we did a
few more, but the show kept going. I was like
the sound effects guy. Now I would have like a
laptop full of like a sample pads. Yeah, just like
a thought and drops. And I don't think Neil briefed
Chris Rock definitely what I'm doing. He just thought I
was some engineer guy or something. So I sat on
my laptop and we start going and he mentions Eddie
(16:12):
Murphy and then I hit the Eddie Murphy left and.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Chris Rock's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He's looking at me l man. I'm like, uh, I
just I do.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
He's like it's not funny, and I'm like what And
I just kind of sat there, humiliated, like silently like what.
He's like pissed off that I did a sound effect.
He's liked, I'm trying to talk and you're doing a
sound effect. I'm like, okay, well that's kind of what
the show is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But yeah, that's the show. So I just so I
bombed in front of.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Christopher oh no, and then uh yeah he didn't think
that was funny, I guess.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But he didn't get it. He should have been debriefed.
And Neil and in Motion didn't come to your rescue.
They just stayed silent. I think they did a little bit.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
They were like, oh, he does the sounds, but it
was kind of like the damage was done.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I did Anthony Jelnex show with TJ Miller, you know,
years ago, and the segment producer.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Could be like, be crazy, be crazy, man, I know
you're crazy. Be crazy with me, and I was like,
what all right? His Comedy Central show. Yeah, so what's
it called?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It was called offensive, So I'm like all right, and
I'm like out, uh Appso trying to.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I was like editing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And I had a bunch of firecrackers that we weren't
allowed to use on the show because they were illegal
or something whatever, or you had to get special perma
to use them or something.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So I was like I'll just like, I'll just light fireworks.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I'll just light fire was under the TJ's seat while
he's talking Keith Moon.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I was like yeah. I was like, they want me
to be crazy, I'll be crazy. So I threw the
fire so tejers that.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Were like ten minutes into our segment whatever and like
TJ's talking teachers, like, I thought you were lighting like
a joint or something. I just started lighting these black cats.
I chuck them under his seat and I just look
at Jeszelneck like I'm like, like, I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You know, it's.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Like the crowd, it was silent, The crew goes silent.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Everybody's terrified. The ad comes out like, oh, what the
heck is going on here? Like some old school dude
like pulling his hair out. And then uh, he said,
she said to be crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
And then the fire marshal came and he's like, I
have to arrest someone. And then I had to like apologize,
and then like my manager didn't My old manager didn't
even take my side.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
She was like, you gotta apologize.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I'm like, I didn't know it was a federal offense.
There were a little like little kid firecrackers or whatever,
the little black cats. No, nobody's heard. Nothing's e from her,
Like gets fine, you wanted me to be crazy. I
was crazy, and now I'm in trouble for it. Highest
rated episode of the series. There you go, highs rated
episode series. Look at that. See that kind of stuff
is good radio.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's what I'm saying, with a regardre with the recdre.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
All right, so you got three bombs, you only told
us one? Oh yeah, oh you told us too. If
you got on the podcast.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Uh, the first the first ever major bomb was you
remember the upfronts for Adult Swims. Yeah, they flew us out,
Tim and Eric and me and Tim and Eric were
gonna it's like this party, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And so for people that don't know, people still have Yeah,
they don't do it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Adult Swim doesn't do it anymore, but Covid kind of
shut it down for a little bit. So you know,
television is brought to you by sponsors. Everything's paid for
with advertising, so like to to butter up the like
corporations literally, like the guys from like Dorito's and Colgate
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Networks every network used to have.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I don't know if they're still having this party called
upfronts around like May where they would fly not only
the they.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Would have like Kanye performing. Yeah, they would drop a
lot of money. This was like the special just for
their average just like a tiny party.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
These are big.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
This is when they would splurge the majority of their
money because this is how they make their money. They
would like bring all the artists out from all the
TV shows to do like Q and A panels and
live events. And then they would like they would pay
like Kanye or jay Z somebody like a million bucks
to perform.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
They were fun.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
They were super like wild and crazy open bar performing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I was never performing. It was just like a weekend
of debauchery. They flew me out. People just want to
drink and rage. Yeah, it's like they want to throw
like a Coachella for like the suits.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, so that the suits go. Man, that was so fun.
I had such a blast.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, Colgate wants to sponsor the Brack Show or whatever,
Harvey Birdman or you know film and.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Exactly, so so like Colgate executives at an open bar.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Anyway, this this was a long time, I want to say,
like two thousand and seven or eight or something, and uh,
Tim and Eric were going to perform and I was
the first act and it was like six pm or whatever.
And as soon as I started, that's when like the
bar opened. It was just like raging, like herds of
(21:11):
people just drinking and going to the bar. And I'm
trying to like tell jokes and it's just like you
know that that sound of like I like that just
to crazy. It was like just people talking full blast everywhere. Yeah,
and I'm just basically performing to nobody, right.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I thought I was nuts, But you know what, I
wasn't performing to nobody because Seth Green actually was kind
of paying attention. He was standing there watching me like
trying to laugh along, and Chelsea Peretti because they both
get it, like they were like, I'm gonna check out
this act. So it was cool of them to at
least have the yeah, you know, what do you call it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
They were just being respectful of like a performer. Yeah,
but after a while, I was just pressing a button
of like a fart, just like like.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It's like I felt like a ghost, you know. Yeah,
I was just like, yeah, like nobody sees me. I
had like you know, I was like going through the
PIA system. Nobody gave a ship. It was crazy. You
were like background, you're like Tim and Eric, you know,
they did this crazy thing where they were like singing
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a song and you know, just disrupting the crowd and
like dancing through the crowd and stuff. So like my act,
which you had to kind of like listen to set
up joke setups and stuff like that was that was
like quite a bomb, but it kind of didn't really matter.
But I still just you know that feeling you get
you're yeah, no, it's just that feeling of like.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Also like it's not you. It's like the situation. It
wasn't me. It was just a situation. The situation.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Like live comedy, it's so sensitive you need like the
atmosphere to be right.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What's the best you've ever done? Let's pa.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I told all my jokes, every dug work the crowd.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The crowd erupted into a basket. Ope, all your pants
are I fucked every single person in the audience.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Three years.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They're still hit me up. You're still hit me Remember
your set three years ago.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Get a clue, girl, girl, I still got to get
your drawers. I'm still being paid for it. I get
residuals from one one like backyard set in like Echo Park,
that story set you did.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I did this show in Orange County Beach Goth Festival.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It was like a bunch of cool bands that like
you don't normally see on a festival lineup, and they
were like, we just want you to host, and I
was like great, whatever, and it was like it was
a good payday at the time, and I was by
where the artist trailers are, and I was trying to
go backstage, not like backstage area, but like physically behind
the stage to walk up on stage and start hosting.
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And there's no stage manager anywhere, and nobody tells me
when to go on. There's no contact person. So I'm
like looking around and I'm texting my agent. I'm like,
do I go? Do you know when I start? Do
you know when my set should start? And he's like
and it was like a Saturday. He's like taking this
time to getting back to me. He's like, I don't know,
Like what does the stage manager say? I was like,
there's no stage manager, there's no person like corraling any
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of the artists.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I know, I have no information.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So and then I'm trying to get backstage and the
security goes can't come back here, and I'm like, I'm hosting.
I'm on the I'm on the poster, like I have
all access. I'm talking in my wristband.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm like, are you're not allowed back?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Then He's like, not allowed back there. I don't care, bro,
I'm like, what are you talking about. I'm one of
the fucking festival Like I need to get up there
to perform.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Did you get maade? He's like, tell somebody who cares.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I was like what, So, like I don't know, oh
when I'm supposed to go up, But the money was
so good I wanted like proof that I was on
stage so that I would get paid. So I like,
then I got another security guard who vouched for me.
Then I finally got on stage. Nobody brought me up.
It wasn't like ladies and gentlemen Eric Andre. I just
walked up, like like creeped up on stage with no announcement.
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So I go on stage and I start trying to
do my regular stand up and it's miserable.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I'm like, not, it's not going great.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Like the crowd is on my side, they're not totally
against me, but like they're not paying attention. It's like
hod as fuck, they're stone, they're drunk, like, so I
just start like doing crowd work and bringing people up
on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It starts goofing off and I did like ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Maybe I was like, you know, at fifteen minutes, I
was like this as much and like no one's giving
me the light. There's no structure and I don't even
know what band to bring on next.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They're not like the bands aren't even there.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
So I was like all right later, and I just
like I think I took a picture of myself on
stage and send it to my agent, like proof I
was on stage if anybody else, because this is a
shit show. Then there was some like crazy issue. I
think people that bought tickets couldn't get in. And then
the porta potty started overflowing, and like there was like
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rain and like mud slides.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
There was some like people are like vendors were running
out of food.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
It was like a miniature Woodstock ninety nine like where
like it's like Firefest. The infrastructure, Yeah, the infrastructure of
the festival started breaking down as the festival continued, and
I didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I just started partying backstage. Somebody gave me molly.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I was like rolling backstage and like listen, like just
like hanging with friends and stuff like that. And then
the sunset and then I'm like I'm like I'll pop
around the festival. So I popped around the festival and
then I try to go backstage again. I have an
all access wristband and I'm like out with the crowd,
rolling on ecstasy. And I tried to go backstage and
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another security different security guards like, ain't coming back.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Here, bro, I'm like, what what is the all access?
Be like, who is it for? I performed? I was
on that It's fine all.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I was like, I was on that stage, I'm on
the festival poster, I'm on the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Fire that's my name. And he's like daughter, OK. And
I was like, what the fuck is wrong?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
And I'm like snapping and I'm rolling, which is crazy.
I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with this festival?
What the fuck is wrong with Zecurdi? And then the
security is like, oh, you think you're funny? Huh you
think you're funny? And I go, yes, I do, and
he goes, well, well guess what you're not. And I go, well,
guess what comedy subjective? And I can tell you didn't
know what subjective meant. So he was just like, yeah,
(27:34):
all right, you can go in, Doug, thank you so
much for coming on my pleasure experiment and see it
the stress factor.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'll see it this stuff. See it's fucking end of
time to see it Pachella. All right, thanks buddy, peace peace.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
With aeric cod.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All right, listen up.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
We got something sposial for You got a burning story
that you're itching to tell about when you bombed or
absolutely failed in life.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now's your chance to tell me all about it. Babe.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
I want to hear your worst, most cringe worthy what
the fuck was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What just happened? Moment?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
So pick up your phone and dial seven one six bombing.
That's seven one six two six six twenty four sixty
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Welcome to Bombing with Aircondry podcast where I lose my mind.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm talking with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people
about their worst moments on stage and getting.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Absolutely ravaged by live audience. I'm Eric Andre.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This week we're graced by the presidence of the King
of Music Drops. DJ Doug Bound aka Doug Lesson Hop.
He's got a podcast himself called Office Hours with Tim
Heidecker and Vick Berger tells us about his touring across
music festivals around the world. Plus an amazing bombing story
from New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Bombing with ericdre Okay. The theme is podcast is palming.
I'm with my illustrious, sexy, divine, beautiful, vanilla Eurocentric brother,
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Doug Lusson Hop DJ Doug Pound in the mix.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
What's up, Doug?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What's up? Eric?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Grats a be here, grats of bomb.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
I'm feasting my eyes on your beautiful lily white vanilla
skin and I'm thinking of you like a little creamsickle.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That makes me comforted.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
Should you talk about bombing like, not just like as
a comedian, but like in life, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Never like bomb hard?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Like, Yeah, what's your biggest bomb growing up, Like, did
you ever ask a girl out?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
I remember I was with you when I first I
had that drop.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Oh talk about talk about the drop never this is
I don't anymore.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
So I walked up to these two attractive women at
the bar we were at, and I was like trying
to like strike up a conversation, but striking out there's
not interested. So I just like had my little whiskey
in my hand and it just like acid dropped.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
He just let it go and it's just shattered, and
then you just did a full walk out of the bar.
I just like looked at them.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's like psychonic looked at them catatonically, like.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Six whiskeys in You're like, Hi, should I have your number?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
To like?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
So you just let go of your glass drop full shatter.
I just left.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
People are like what, it's such a Those.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Days are funny because you were working on your your pilot.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'd be like, hey, Eric, let's go out to the
bar tonight and strike out, and you'd be like yeah,
come scoop me up. And then I'm like all right,
I'm on front. You're like no, come in, and.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Then you like show me your laptop with like five
thousand things on the desktop and like all this unlinked
media and like final cut four, you're like you're like,
help me edit. You're like, help me hit my pilot.
I'm like okay, and then I end up just sitting
there for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It was not true.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yeah, every single time we were gonna go out, you're
like I lured you.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You're like, what is this? I'm like, oh, well, you
got to render that.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm like, okay, hold on, let me relink this media.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Due.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Then we finally go out, you're just dropping with like, okay,
that was a fun night.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, I lured you in my trap and we'll get
to bombing soon.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
But for the Eric Andre Show, I knew I had
to make it myself, like the first version of it,
because I knew I want to like translate on a script.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It had to be what you had in your mind,
had to be what I had in my mind.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So I didn't know, and I didn't have any money,
so I didn't have any money to like hire any editors,
So I like.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Well, you made it. You must have had some Was
that all free? That first thing you shot in like Brooklyn,
that was like all out of my pocket?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
And I was like working temp jobs to pay for it,
And where did you shoot that? I had an abandoned
bodega in Brooklyn for like the three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
You saw like an abandon bodega and you're like, no cow.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And Andrew found that bodega and they would have like
punk shows there. Oh okay, there was a few rounds
of it. There'd be like ratchet nasty. It was a
rats nust and there's almost like broken glass there. I
was doing stunts where there was like broken glass everywhere.
There's a bunch of people like competing, like like we
were filming in there, and there'd be like some hipster
guy would come in and be like what do you what.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Do you guys do?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What the fuck are you guys? Get the fuck out
of here.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
We'd be like, what we talked to so and so
he said he said we could film in here. And
they'd be like, oh, you talked to so and so.
We'll tell that motherfucker he owes me three grand. And
then that guy would storm out, and then some other
dude would walk in, like a Jamaican dude from the
neighborhood to walk in and be like, what the fuck are
you guys doing in here would be like what we
talked to so and so, like he said we could
film in here. He'd be like, oh really he said that. Huh, well,
(04:45):
I'm gonna have a fucking chat with him. I hope
you're giving him good money because the buddy there was
like all these competing people kept interrupteds like on cue,
like it was insane, one after another that was behind
the scenes, just crazier than most in front of the camera.
So I was like really struggling, Like I read Final
Cut for dummies. I would watch tutorials, but I would
(05:06):
bug you and another editor I.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Knew to help me as much as possible because I
was struggling.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was like, I have to.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I hope this.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Works because I know I'm very I remember looking at
it thinking like, what the hell is this show?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This is a mess. I was like, this is a
this is a mess.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Segments like McDonald you were like in McDonald's Justice Ronald
McDonald like drinking whiskey and crying.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And then there was the when you're like an escape slave.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Man.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It was that colonial Williamsburg.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
It wasn't like the official Colonial Williams, but it was
one of those like knockoff civil war, like a fake
like the Civil War?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Right, they're all over the country. So what happened when
you did that? Did anyone care? Or they're just like okay, No,
they were like in are they're kicking you out? No,
they were in shock. And then they were like pumped.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Really yeah, yeah, they were like what they were Actually
this adds a layer of reality.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, they were like jaw dropped. And then they were like,
oh shit, that's tight.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Nice with a recdre with a recdre.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, what's the worst you ever bopped?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
All right?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
They all right, there's this festival in New Zealand. It
doesn't exist anymore, but it was called a Low Hum
and people would go to it and they don't know
who's on the bill until you get there. So I
thought that was that's kind of a cool and my friend,
Oh Vice Cooler, who is who's a musician, was like, Oh,
that's the coolest festival in the world. Of all the
(06:58):
festivals they've ever done, that's the cool one. And I
think Dan Deacon even said like that's his favorite festival.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Oh so your boys are like hyping it up and
there's no lineup, it's just a surprise. Every I don't
know everything he ever guesses a soprity. He's hyping it up,
and he said it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
And you're out in the jungle like somewhere, like it's
not in it's not in the city. You're not Yeah,
you're camping and you're out like far I don't know,
like an hour from Wellington right right, and in the
mountains exactly. So somebody contacted me is like, hey, we'll.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Flay you out like for this festival. Oh cool, So
I fly like fifteen hours to do this one show.
I'm at this.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Everyone is like together at this like it looks like
mash or something, looks like so they put you know,
it's a music festivals. They put me on at one am. Yeah,
I think to like kind of punk the crowd. I
think the guy who ran it kind of likes to punk,
you know, kind of like mess with people's expectations. Right,
and everyone is like on mally and like right, and
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it's a music festival out in the woods, right and
they put me on at one am. And you know,
my act is like DJ Doug Console. People think, oh
there's a DJ on right now. My acid is kicking
in this is perfect my extasy and I like hard
Cut to like some knock knot joke or something, and
everyone's just like screaming at me, throwing.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Shit oh shit. And it was bad. Yeah, it was
like they were not having it. Oh no, absolutely enraged.
I'm on the main stage too. There's like different stages.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
They could have put me on the weird I'm on
the big one in front of like the big crowd
of people and there was like twenty people who knew
who I was in front, like this is the best
thing I've ever seen. And then like there's just hundreds
of people just like super pissed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
They were chucking something.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I would like tell a joke and play a beat
for a little bit as like you know, part of
the remix of it, and.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
They they started dance thinking that as like hard Cut.
You're like, so I'm dating again or whatever, you know,
like and they're like a hey to me. Some girl
got off on stage and stole my mind.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Oh and she was like freestyle rapping and I'm like,
there's no security.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
This is kind of like a mom and pop festival.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
And the guy who the booker, who He's just like,
this is the greatest He's like, this is what I wanted.
He set it up to be like chaos. You know,
it was like funny for him, just him and I
just like powered through. And then I like I was
just bombing so hard that I tried to like plug
in my laptop up, like plugging it into like play music.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
So I like played a few songs at the end
of it, and people sort of were like, Okay, it
was just like and then.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
She was just gone, you already for the remix and
just did a thirty minute remix.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Like I just I just kind of like that was
a good lesson or whatever, because I've been in situations
like that where I'm booked at the wrong thing and
I just power through.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I just pretend like it's not happening. I never do.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Comedy at a outdoor festival anymore. Daytime, outdoor festival. You
could get away with it at this point. Uh. And
I've talked to a lot of people about it. I go,
have you ever had a good set, a good comedy
set a door daytime? I've done one of those. People
(10:13):
are like you can see everyone unanimously, everyone's like it.
That's the worst venue for comedy. In the fucking world.
It's not even that great of a venue for music.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Best part of the story is coming Oh sorry, sorry, sorry,
so girl the microphone dude, that was okay. Some people
like absolutely loved it. They like, can I have your shirt?
They like they wanted my Like I wear like a
shirt with my name on it. Yeah, It's like, hey,
you just were begging me for the shirt. I gave
it to him. I was like, all who cares, you know,
like that was like a terrifying experience. And then, you know,
(10:45):
most of the crowd hated it, but they were just like,
we want to fucking dance.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This is a nightmare or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So then I'm stuck at this camp for like there
was night one.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Oh no, of like three nights. So then I'm wanted
a leper. I was the pariah of oh no.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
So I'm walking around just like trudging through this camp
like people are you know, I'm like cool, I can't
even like have a friend here, Like I made a
couple of I made a couple of friends that were like,
they were like that was awesome. May I was legendary,
you know, like you we're all talking about it. So
I go to this. My friend was like, there's an
open mic tent, right, let's go check it out. The
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next day at noon, we go there. I'm standing like
five feet from this guy was doing stand up.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
He's like, did anyone see DJ Dug Pound? And I
was like, oh no, they weren't all they were just silent.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
This guy, this guy bombed, but his whole act here's
my impression of DJ Dug Pound. And then he like
tried to mimic like the drops I do and the
DJ voice guy yeah, And I'm looking around like, what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Twilight sound? Yeah, I'm like.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Nobody even knew I was standing there or something, and
he's just shitting on my my set. He was just
making fun of how how hard I bombed, and I
was like, brutal the fuck?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And this is my friend who invited me, her friend
this guy.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Yeah, So that was just very surreal. I had to
just laugh it off. I almost was like mad, I
was gonna say, what the fuck I'm standing right here? Yeah,
But then I was like, now I'm gonna let this
guy roll because he's bombing. He was actually bombed.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
LA.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
People are like, what you're doing an impression the guy
that bombed last night is cosmic justice.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's your act, that's cosmic justice. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
So then I was just sort of like stuck at
this camp for a few days. That's brutal. That was
pretty brutal. Yeah, but back to what you were saying.
Another thing I do do. I still say yes is
open for a band.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Don't do it unless it's weird how yankovicher Tenacious D,
unless it's a comedy band. I'm opening for Tenacious D.
So yes, that that made you might work? That might work,
Remember what.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I know. It's still the Hamburger got like bottles chucked
out him opening up for Today's Day.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Well, yeah, you got to check out his live album
Hot Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I think it's called He.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Released a live album of him bombing hardcore and the
crowd is just chanting.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
He's the best. He is fearless man, he is fearless.
That's like Gonzo ship. I love that didn't wait? Did
uh didn't release? Ah the height of his career, which
is like so insane, it's so weird, and he's purposely
bombing right in like a little club. It doesn't make
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any sense. It's like abstract. He's the greatest artist of us.
We've over Van Go.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I told you about when I bombed opening up for
Chris Rock.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
He did, so I'll do I'll do the quick give
me the cliff. I'll give you the cliff does not
that interesting story. I'm just like, my audience is not
his audience. The vent diagram is slim. Really, I mean,
stand up you. It made me questions and you're talking
about we're talking about three eleven and then yeah, exactly,
(14:11):
it's like my references forget it. It's like very I'm
very generational. I guess gotcha.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
So uh.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I always did like mediocre opening up for him, but
this night, I just like I was phoning it in
and I didn't realize it until halfway through. This guy
goes next, oh, and I go and I snapped, I should.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Have played cool or how to joke about it.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But I was like, now you come up to the
stage and say that to my face like it was
a bar show.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I was like, come up on.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Stage and I got it's like big ass theater of
four thousand people.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
He's like, I'm not going up to the stage. I
just fucking roast you. And then I'm like and I
just crumble.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But what haunts me is like celebrities come to see
Chris Rock and especially in New Orleans and Atlanta where
all like the Marvel movies shoot and shit, like celebrities
are always in the odest So my agent calls me
a few weeks later.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Anything, Hey, we just had Anti Mackie in the office.
He said you were the worst comedian he's ever seen it.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So I was just like this delayed like haunting, you
know what I mean, Like when your bombs so hard
to just move on, you can't move. It's like it's
like when you try to fart in the other room
and then you like walk into the next room.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it like comes with you. You're like, God, no,
I parted it in that room.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
That room I left so that the girl doesn't sell
the farm.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But you can't with me. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I did this podcast, like the first podcast ever did
like ten years ago or something with Neil Brennan, and.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
You told me about this, but I love this story
you were doing. Your podcast was the podcast episode? No,
it was.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It was my last episode, so it ended on a
fucking turn.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I kind of quit after this, but we did a
few more, but the show kept going. I was like
the sound effects guy. Now I would have like a
laptop full of like a sample pads. Yeah, just like
a thought and drops. And I don't think Neil briefed
Chris Rock definitely what I'm doing. He just thought I
was some engineer guy or something. So I sat on
my laptop and we start going and he mentions Eddie
(16:12):
Murphy and then I hit the Eddie Murphy left and.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Chris Rock's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He's looking at me l man. I'm like, uh, I
just I do.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
He's like it's not funny, and I'm like what And
I just kind of sat there, humiliated, like silently like what.
He's like pissed off that I did a sound effect.
He's liked, I'm trying to talk and you're doing a
sound effect. I'm like, okay, well that's kind of what
the show is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But yeah, that's the show. So I just so I
bombed in front of.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Christopher oh no, and then uh yeah he didn't think
that was funny, I guess.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
But he didn't get it. He should have been debriefed.
And Neil and in Motion didn't come to your rescue.
They just stayed silent. I think they did a little bit.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
They were like, oh, he does the sounds, but it
was kind of like the damage was done.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I did Anthony Jelnex show with TJ Miller, you know,
years ago, and the segment producer.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Could be like, be crazy, be crazy, man, I know
you're crazy. Be crazy with me, and I was like,
what all right? His Comedy Central show. Yeah, so what's
it called?
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It was called offensive, So I'm like all right, and
I'm like out, uh Appso trying to.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I was like editing.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
And I had a bunch of firecrackers that we weren't
allowed to use on the show because they were illegal
or something whatever, or you had to get special perma
to use them or something.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
So I was like I'll just like, I'll just light fireworks.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
I'll just light fire was under the TJ's seat while
he's talking Keith Moon.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I was like yeah. I was like, they want me
to be crazy, I'll be crazy. So I threw the
fire so tejers that.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Were like ten minutes into our segment whatever and like
TJ's talking teachers, like, I thought you were lighting like
a joint or something. I just started lighting these black cats.
I chuck them under his seat and I just look
at Jeszelneck like I'm like, like, I didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
You know, it's.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Like the crowd, it was silent, The crew goes silent.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Everybody's terrified. The ad comes out like, oh, what the
heck is going on here? Like some old school dude
like pulling his hair out. And then uh, he said,
she said to be crazy.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
And then the fire marshal came and he's like, I
have to arrest someone. And then I had to like apologize,
and then like my manager didn't My old manager didn't
even take my side.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
She was like, you gotta apologize.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I'm like, I didn't know it was a federal offense.
There were a little like little kid firecrackers or whatever,
the little black cats. No, nobody's heard. Nothing's e from her,
Like gets fine, you wanted me to be crazy. I
was crazy, and now I'm in trouble for it. Highest
rated episode of the series. There you go, highs rated
episode series. Look at that. See that kind of stuff
is good radio.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's what I'm saying, with a regardre with the recdre.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
All right, so you got three bombs, you only told
us one? Oh yeah, oh you told us too. If
you got on the podcast.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Uh, the first the first ever major bomb was you
remember the upfronts for Adult Swims. Yeah, they flew us out,
Tim and Eric and me and Tim and Eric were
gonna it's like this party, right yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And so for people that don't know, people still have Yeah,
they don't do it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Adult Swim doesn't do it anymore, but Covid kind of
shut it down for a little bit. So you know,
television is brought to you by sponsors. Everything's paid for
with advertising, so like to to butter up the like
corporations literally, like the guys from like Dorito's and Colgate
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Networks every network used to have.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
I don't know if they're still having this party called
upfronts around like May where they would fly not only
the they.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Would have like Kanye performing. Yeah, they would drop a
lot of money. This was like the special just for
their average just like a tiny party.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
These are big.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
This is when they would splurge the majority of their
money because this is how they make their money. They
would like bring all the artists out from all the
TV shows to do like Q and A panels and
live events. And then they would like they would pay
like Kanye or jay Z somebody like a million bucks
to perform.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
They were fun.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
They were super like wild and crazy open bar performing.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I was never performing. It was just like a weekend
of debauchery. They flew me out. People just want to
drink and rage. Yeah, it's like they want to throw
like a Coachella for like the suits.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, so that the suits go. Man, that was so fun.
I had such a blast.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yes, Colgate wants to sponsor the Brack Show or whatever,
Harvey Birdman or you know film and.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Exactly, so so like Colgate executives at an open bar.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Anyway, this this was a long time, I want to say,
like two thousand and seven or eight or something, and uh,
Tim and Eric were going to perform and I was
the first act and it was like six pm or whatever.
And as soon as I started, that's when like the
bar opened. It was just like raging, like herds of
(21:11):
people just drinking and going to the bar. And I'm
trying to like tell jokes and it's just like you
know that that sound of like I like that just
to crazy. It was like just people talking full blast everywhere. Yeah,
and I'm just basically performing to nobody, right.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I thought I was nuts, But you know what, I
wasn't performing to nobody because Seth Green actually was kind
of paying attention. He was standing there watching me like
trying to laugh along, and Chelsea Peretti because they both
get it, like they were like, I'm gonna check out
this act. So it was cool of them to at
least have the yeah, you know, what do you call it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
They were just being respectful of like a performer. Yeah,
but after a while, I was just pressing a button
of like a fart, just like like.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
It's like I felt like a ghost, you know. Yeah,
I was just like, yeah, like nobody sees me. I
had like you know, I was like going through the
PIA system. Nobody gave a ship. It was crazy. You
were like background, you're like Tim and Eric, you know,
they did this crazy thing where they were like singing
(22:23):
a song and you know, just disrupting the crowd and
like dancing through the crowd and stuff. So like my act,
which you had to kind of like listen to set
up joke setups and stuff like that was that was
like quite a bomb, but it kind of didn't really matter.
But I still just you know that feeling you get
you're yeah, no, it's just that feeling of like.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Also like it's not you. It's like the situation. It
wasn't me. It was just a situation. The situation.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Like live comedy, it's so sensitive you need like the
atmosphere to be right.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
What's the best you've ever done? Let's pa.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
I told all my jokes, every dug work the crowd.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
The crowd erupted into a basket. Ope, all your pants
are I fucked every single person in the audience.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Three years.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
They're still hit me up. You're still hit me Remember
your set three years ago.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Get a clue, girl, girl, I still got to get
your drawers. I'm still being paid for it. I get
residuals from one one like backyard set in like Echo Park,
that story set you did.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I did this show in Orange County Beach Goth Festival.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It was like a bunch of cool bands that like
you don't normally see on a festival lineup, and they
were like, we just want you to host, and I
was like great, whatever, and it was like it was
a good payday at the time, and I was by
where the artist trailers are, and I was trying to
go backstage, not like backstage area, but like physically behind
the stage to walk up on stage and start hosting.
(24:10):
And there's no stage manager anywhere, and nobody tells me
when to go on. There's no contact person. So I'm
like looking around and I'm texting my agent. I'm like,
do I go? Do you know when I start? Do
you know when my set should start? And he's like
and it was like a Saturday. He's like taking this
time to getting back to me. He's like, I don't know,
Like what does the stage manager say? I was like,
there's no stage manager, there's no person like corraling any
(24:30):
of the artists.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I know, I have no information.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So and then I'm trying to get backstage and the
security goes can't come back here, and I'm like, I'm hosting.
I'm on the I'm on the poster, like I have
all access. I'm talking in my wristband.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm like, are you're not allowed back?
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Then He's like, not allowed back there. I don't care, bro,
I'm like, what are you talking about. I'm one of
the fucking festival Like I need to get up there
to perform.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Did you get maade? He's like, tell somebody who cares.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I was like what, So, like I don't know, oh
when I'm supposed to go up, But the money was
so good I wanted like proof that I was on
stage so that I would get paid. So I like,
then I got another security guard who vouched for me.
Then I finally got on stage. Nobody brought me up.
It wasn't like ladies and gentlemen Eric Andre. I just
walked up, like like creeped up on stage with no announcement.
(25:21):
So I go on stage and I start trying to
do my regular stand up and it's miserable.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I'm like, not, it's not going great.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Like the crowd is on my side, they're not totally
against me, but like they're not paying attention. It's like
hod as fuck, they're stone, they're drunk, like, so I
just start like doing crowd work and bringing people up
on stage.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
It starts goofing off and I did like ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Maybe I was like, you know, at fifteen minutes, I
was like this as much and like no one's giving
me the light. There's no structure and I don't even
know what band to bring on next.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They're not like the bands aren't even there.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
So I was like all right later, and I just
like I think I took a picture of myself on
stage and send it to my agent, like proof I
was on stage if anybody else, because this is a
shit show. Then there was some like crazy issue. I
think people that bought tickets couldn't get in. And then
the porta potty started overflowing, and like there was like
(26:17):
rain and like mud slides.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
There was some like people are like vendors were running
out of food.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
It was like a miniature Woodstock ninety nine like where
like it's like Firefest. The infrastructure, Yeah, the infrastructure of
the festival started breaking down as the festival continued, and
I didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I just started partying backstage. Somebody gave me molly.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I was like rolling backstage and like listen, like just
like hanging with friends and stuff like that. And then
the sunset and then I'm like I'm like I'll pop
around the festival. So I popped around the festival and
then I try to go backstage again. I have an
all access wristband and I'm like out with the crowd,
rolling on ecstasy. And I tried to go backstage and
(26:54):
another security different security guards like, ain't coming back.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Here, bro, I'm like, what what is the all access?
Be like, who is it for? I performed? I was
on that It's fine all.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I was like, I was on that stage, I'm on
the festival poster, I'm on the.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Fire that's my name. And he's like daughter, OK. And
I was like, what the fuck is wrong?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
And I'm like snapping and I'm rolling, which is crazy.
I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with this festival?
What the fuck is wrong with Zecurdi? And then the
security is like, oh, you think you're funny? Huh you
think you're funny? And I go, yes, I do, and
he goes, well, well guess what you're not. And I go, well,
guess what comedy subjective? And I can tell you didn't
know what subjective meant. So he was just like, yeah,
(27:34):
all right, you can go in, Doug, thank you so
much for coming on my pleasure experiment and see it
the stress factor.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I'll see it this stuff. See it's fucking end of
time to see it Pachella. All right, thanks buddy, peace peace.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
With aeric cod.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All right, listen up.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
We got something sposial for You got a burning story
that you're itching to tell about when you bombed or
absolutely failed in life.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now's your chance to tell me all about it. Babe.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
I want to hear your worst, most cringe worthy what
the fuck was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What just happened? Moment?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
So pick up your phone and dial seven one six bombing.
That's seven one six two six six twenty four sixty
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