September 26, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Rick Tittle.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Please join me for the Comedy All Stars Podcast powered
by the Eight Side Network. In each episode, you'll hear
from great comedians, from the biggest names to those just
breaking out. They'll talk about how they got started, what's
coming up next for them, and everything in between. Their specials,
their albums, their films, their TV roles. Get ready to
(00:23):
laugh and cry and hear it all. It's the Comedy
All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle, powered by the Eighth Side.
All Right, Rick Todtle with you coast to coast around
the world on American Forces. You need to get down
to Cobbs on Friday night or Saturday night to check
out a couple shows from our good friend, comedian and
(00:43):
actor Michael Rappaport, who's good enough to join us once again.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Rap good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Did you know that when you're in town you got
the Yankees at the coliseum.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I am aware of that. I am excited that they're intent.
I'm excited that the NFL is gearing up. I'm excited
about the Yankees. I'm not so excited about the injuries
on your forty nine ers, And of course I'm super
excited about rocking and rolling the cobs this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So I don't know what time you're flying out, but
that Sunday Day game at the Coliseum, that'll be the
fourth only four games left in the history of the
Oakland A's at the Colisseum, and that'll be the last
time the Yankees ever play in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, if you can make.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It, that's crazy. That's that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That's that's a historic game. I mean, the Oakland A's,
it's how's everybody feeling about that?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, it's heartbreaking. I don't know if you remember when
the Vegas thing was announced. Was the day you were
on my show and I told you, and bless your heart,
you thought it was terrible. You said, the Oakland A's
can't move to Vegas, so you think it sucks. So
just then, you're not even A's fan and you think
it sucks. So just think about people like me from Oakland.
I mean, it's what's horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, what are they doing in Oakland? The Oakland Raiders
are in Vegas and now the A's are in Vegas,
and uh, you know, I I get that Vegas wants
to have franchises and make your own teams and stay
at Oakland.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Keep your noses at Oakland.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Keep your dirty, stilthy noses out of the Bay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Area, crooked noses, keep them out of the Bay Area exactly.
So for you, are you, I want to say, you're
Giants or are you Jets?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm a Giants fan.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm a Giants fan, but I'm also always happy to
see any New York team go like, I'm a Yankees fan,
but I like to see the Mets dwell. I'm I
you know, I'm also a fantasy football guru.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So when it comes to football, by.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My wishes, when I an wishes, I.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Spread them around the league.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It whatever has to do with helping my team rapports
to light out.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So what do you think about Daniel Jones getting booed?
I mean, is are you at the point where you're like, look,
it's been enough years the fans have had it. Or
do you think like, oh, take it easy on the
poor guy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, this is New York.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You're the quarterback of the New York Giants and you're
not improving and it's uh no, I.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Mean no, it's New York.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Man. Even the quarterback of the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You got to do well. We're paying you ridiculous amounts
of money, and uh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know, it's part of the it's part of the
it's part of the job, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was talking to Eli last week and I was
telling him about how I love New York all different
neighborhoods and if I had to pick a favorite, I
want stayed on Mark's in the East Village and I
really liked it. And I asked him if he had
a favorite part of New York and he goes, ah,
I like all of it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah. Well, see, Eli knew Eli's been through it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
We we booed him until he straightened up, but that
that man will never pay for a.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Meal in New York because he did.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He did it twice twice on the biggest stage. Two times.
He took down the evil regime of the New England
Patriots at their at their height. So Eli, he he
loves old New York and we loved him all.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Over New York.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I was telling him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I was at the Raider game when he got benched
by McAdoo. He had two hundred and ten straight starts
and they go, we'll go with Geno Smith and then
that coach got fired.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, That's that's the way it should be. Geno Smith, uh,
you know, although he's uh, you know, he's turned things around,
but Eli's our guy. I was watching this Patriots Patriots documentary,
and I was able to appreciate them for what they
did because I sleep well knowing that we buried them
(05:09):
at their height. Tom Brady, his skin, Bill Belichick and
his moods and attitude and his videotape and they're deflating balls.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
We ruined them twice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, two times, eighteen and one, baby, eighteen and one.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh goodness, it was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It was gorgeous what we did to them.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
By the way, you said fantasy football, didn't you play
on the stern staff one? Are you still on that one?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm still in there dominating and I am also, you know,
in my money league. But so far, so good. This
season has been good to me. You know, I dominated
my draft and I continue to, you know, look to
win this season. I need to win this season outright.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know what I was just looking.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
When I got out of college in eighty nine, I
visited my friend who is at UCLA, and we went
down to the improv because you know, I love comedy.
I loved an evening at the Improv, and I was thinking,
could I have possibly seen a teenage Michael Rapoport in
eighty nine at the Improv?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yet you did on that was me? Wow, you saw me,
You saw me there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I wasn't as refined as I am now, but death.
I started out as a stand up then I quickly
was fortunate to have some great breaks as an actor.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And then you know, I started doing stand up a
little bit before the pandemic, and I'm back doing it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I love it. It's unpredictable, it's it's like nothing else.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
But yet you definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Saw me in eighty nine, Rough, Rugged and Raw from uh,
you know, right out of New York City with all
my New York City of blemishes and bull crap.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And the next thing, you know, you're in quote unquote
Danang right, China beach boom.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then we went on to you know, other things
like to romance and higher learning and the rest is
just you know, fantastic rapp for history.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
All right, So, my man, what are people in store
for down at the Big Room down here on Columbus
Cobs Comedy Club.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
They're in store for a wacky, wonderful, fully disruptive, fully engaged,
high charge, high energy, back and forth between me and
the audience.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
There is so much to discuss going.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
There's so much going on in my life. There's so
many things to make you cry. And that's why I'll
be bringing the last and the humor and the good
time this week in at Cops Comedy. I love San Francisco.
I love performing San Francisco. I love the sports of
San Francisco. Question for you, if I was gonna have
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one Chinese meal in San Francisco, what do you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Got for me?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know, San Francisco isn't really known for its Chinese food.
It's all for tourists. It's kind of garbage. I would
go to the I would go to the East Bay.
I would go to like Uncle Wong's. I would go
to some places in Oakland. But then again, that's just me.
And by the way, if you go to that Yankee
game on Sunday, let me know. I'll take you behind
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the scenes.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Oh Joe, I might hit you up about that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, Everybody, get to Cobbs Comedy Club and Cobbscomedyclub
dot com for tickets. Michael Wrapaport Friday and Saturday. Thanks
for having being on again, my man, and we'll catch
up soon.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I always appreciate the support, and I'm looking forward to
a great weekend. I might take you up on that
behind the scenes of the last few days of the Yeah,
hit me up.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll go to the Yankee locker room.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Man.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Oh my gosh, this is crazy. All right, all right,
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Speaker 2 (10:17):
All right, we'll get back to that in a second,
but we are quite glad to have our guests with us.
At is stand up comedian Arnaz Jay. He is the
headliner at Cobbs Comedy Club coming up Friday and Saturday.
That is the big room here in San Francisco. Arnez,
what do you think of this?
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
This town as San Francisco because it's getting a bad rap.
There's Dodo in the streets, there's there's crime. If you
live here, I think it's better than it was. Uh,
but a lot of people around the country are down
on it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, first of all, people around the country, Uh, pad
have the influx that San Francisco has you know, San
Francisco has always been that place where you know, immigrants,
families that stay together and want to be together. You know,
it happens in a lot of places. I mean Baltimore,
you know, except that they haven't had transition in Houston, Texas.
(11:11):
I mean, it happens. So what we have to do
is just, i mean, get go to this homelessness problem.
That's probably the biggest, you know, one of the biggest
part of the problem. I mean, you can complain, but
when you don't help to help the complaint that you
complaining about, and why are you complaining?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, let's make this all about socioeconomic plights.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Let's do that it's my fault.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not your fault,
and saying but what I'm saying, and I was so
happy this morning, Rick, Yeah, what I'm saying is that
no one wants to live in that. I'm not stating that.
I'm stating as a as a nation or as a community.
(11:55):
When we complain, everybody can sit at the table and
complain grievances. If it ain't nobody making a move, then
it's gonna stay the same or get worse. That's all
I'm saying. Yeah, so, yeah, so I think it's all
of us, even outside of California. It's just man really
was supposed to be a strong nation and we need
to get there. And uh, it's just too much divisiveness
(12:18):
going on right now. Everybody wants to blame everybody. You know,
it's you know, if you're a kid, you change your
grade in school, you got it. You know you have
a D. But you put a line through it to
a B. Okay, well, first thing you're gonna say, well,
that's not me. I mean, let me know, because I've
had plenty of plenty of opportunities with that one, trust me.
(12:41):
But I'm gonna love coming there and maybe I can
be a little bit of sunshine coming in the San
Francisco area because I really do love the people of Fanrancisco.
And I'm not saying I love everybody, because I don't
know everybody, but the people that I have met and
my fans, I enjoyed them, and I truly mean that
from the bottom of mine.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I was born in sixty five and I'm gonna say
we're right around the same generation. And for me, growing
up like Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, those type of variety shows,
and you'd see Harvey Korman and Tim Conway break and
all that when you were growing up, and of course
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that was the only thing on TV. But what did
you get out of those like variety shows with Flip
Wilson playing Gerald Dean and all that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You know, I'm gonna be just straight up honest with you.
It was all about something being funny. No one was
thinking anything other than the show was funny, light hearted,
find I think personally think, but I guess it's the
change of the way the world is. We allowed the
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visual of what we see to get out of hand
on television, and I truly mean that. I think that.
You know, they tell sex sales, you know, controversy sales.
I get that, But at some point we got to
go back to being kind to one another and the
Caravan that show, Wilson shows, those were kind shows. Those
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shows that just made me laugh, made you want to
debrief from work and watch them, you know. Granted, we
didn't have as many television shows and streaming the way
we have now, but as the world evolved, this is
what we I guess we could have won a different route,
but I guess is the way it was supposed to be.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You tell me, yeah, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And I know you are an army brat too, and
you spent some time in Germany, and and just when
you when you think about as a young man, a
young kid really just getting to study human nature in
different cultures, you think that's helped you with your comedy,
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I really mine is on blind fate of where I
You ever hear a song, Rick, You hear a song
and it puts you exactly back in at one spot
when that that song was playing you and you think
about exactly where you were. Well, I heard a song
the other day put me right at Mayberry where the
god it did what.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You did?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It put me right there as I was watching the
show as a kid. And the thing that I remember
always most is Bonnie five with his one bullet and
once one gun. I remember every the beginning of the
show when they always came out with a string full
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of bass fish or whatever they caught in a fishing pole. Man,
you know, that took me back. So it took me
back so far, and I'm just people don't know me. Know,
I wear my feelings on my shoulders, but I don't
hide it. I sat in my car because I was
going to the gym. I cried for forty five minutes
and just sat there because I'm so hurt the route
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that we are going as a world. And I just
when I said I cried, dude, I literally cried and
I couldn't stop. I just couldn't stop crying. And I
saw some of my teachers as I grew up, I
saw my neighborhood, so some of my friends who I
know that are passed on now, and it just made
me cry.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the feel good segment
right now. But yeah, I mean I hear what you're
saying because I know you've been through a lot. I
know you might have been a baseball player and then
you reinvented yourself. And I remember talking about how you
when you were a flight attendant and you would just
(16:50):
make everybody laugh. And then was it you just said,
like I'm making everybody laugh, maybe I can make money
off this.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, sir, And as a first class passenger told me
I need to be on the stage, and if I
could find him today, I would just thank him. Because
I need my fans more than they need me. They
my fans that pulled me through a lot. So when
I when I do this, I want people to you know,
when you had a bad day work, you might have
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been arguing with somebody, whatever the case may be. You
might even be a little sick or tire. Come to me.
I'll throw all your pain on me. I'll take it,
you know. That's that's my job. My job is to
make you enjoy yourself for the day that money you spend.
My job is to make you either think it differently,
but you must leave happy. That's the way that I
truly feel when I perform, I feel that I am.
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I am the gesture. Give me all your pain, I'll
take it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And I admire the comedians like you are successful, being clean,
like you know Sindbad Brand Reagan. I remember Seinfeldt said
if you swear, they're usually laughing at the swear word.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
They're not laughing at the joke. So why I get
a cheap laugh?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And uh, you know, I'm not averse the comedians who
swear if it's if it's funny, but you just that's
just who you are. You're not doing it to be
more presentable. That's just who you are, right well, it is, but.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Don't don't let me. As i've gotten older, I do swear,
but I don't swear to make a joke. I don't
swear to make a joke because I truly believe that
swearing some people use it to make a joke funny,
and it's not necessary, especially if it's kind of the
meaning well, especially if it's real derogatory towards a female
(18:35):
or male. I don't believe in that. But sometimes you
know that, you know the pastors that say damn, you know, so,
it's not that they're not a good pastor. It's just
that they're in that moment for what they're saying. That's
all that is. I don't use call people the m
F word and all of that. That's not that's so
not necessary to me. That's just to me, that's my opinion.
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Other people may feel that's what they need, but that's
not how. You know, I grew up around all of that,
but I didn't have to do all of it. I
grew around. I grew up around everybody was in the drugs.
I never touched drugs. I never smoked, I never drank
in my entire life. It was because you're around. It
don't mean you got to do it now.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm I'm with you. I never smoked, I did drink.
I never smoked.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We just got about a minute and just with your
athletic prowess, I know that you were. Actually because I
have these guys in every year. I love my globe
trotter connection, my globes. When you were a globe trotter, Yes,
ladies and gentlemen, Arnz J was a globe trotter. What
was your performing name?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Believe it or not, my performing name was Arnaz J.
They kept my name or Sweet Potato alere it goes.
I didn't want to trek.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All right, everybody, everybody get down to Cobbs Comedy Club
Friday and Saturday, two shows. Check out Arnez Sweet Potato
Jay my man, Hey, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Have a good time when you're in town, buddy, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Rick, thanks for listening in to the Comedy All Stars
podcast with Rick Hittle on the eight Side Network.
Hi, this is Rick Tittle.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Please join me for the Comedy All Stars Podcast powered
by the Eight Side Network. In each episode, you'll hear
from great comedians, from the biggest names to those just
breaking out. They'll talk about how they got started, what's
coming up next for them, and everything in between. Their specials,
their albums, their films, their TV roles. Get ready to
(00:23):
laugh and cry and hear it all. It's the Comedy
All Stars Podcast with Rick Tittle, powered by the Eighth Side.
All Right, Rick Todtle with you coast to coast around
the world on American Forces. You need to get down
to Cobbs on Friday night or Saturday night to check
out a couple shows from our good friend, comedian and
(00:43):
actor Michael Rappaport, who's good enough to join us once again.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Rap good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Did you know that when you're in town you got
the Yankees at the coliseum.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I am aware of that. I am excited that they're intent.
I'm excited that the NFL is gearing up. I'm excited
about the Yankees. I'm not so excited about the injuries
on your forty nine ers, And of course I'm super
excited about rocking and rolling the cobs this weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So I don't know what time you're flying out, but
that Sunday Day game at the Coliseum, that'll be the
fourth only four games left in the history of the
Oakland A's at the Colisseum, and that'll be the last
time the Yankees ever play in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, if you can make.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It, that's crazy. That's that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
That's that's a historic game. I mean, the Oakland A's,
it's how's everybody feeling about that?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, it's heartbreaking. I don't know if you remember when
the Vegas thing was announced. Was the day you were
on my show and I told you, and bless your heart,
you thought it was terrible. You said, the Oakland A's
can't move to Vegas, so you think it sucks. So
just then, you're not even A's fan and you think
it sucks. So just think about people like me from Oakland.
I mean, it's what's horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, what are they doing in Oakland? The Oakland Raiders
are in Vegas and now the A's are in Vegas,
and uh, you know, I I get that Vegas wants
to have franchises and make your own teams and stay
at Oakland.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Keep your noses at Oakland.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Keep your dirty, stilthy noses out of the Bay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Area, crooked noses, keep them out of the Bay Area exactly.
So for you, are you, I want to say, you're
Giants or are you Jets?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm a Giants fan.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm a Giants fan, but I'm also always happy to
see any New York team go like, I'm a Yankees fan,
but I like to see the Mets dwell. I'm I
you know, I'm also a fantasy football guru.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So when it comes to football, by.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
My wishes, when I an wishes, I.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Spread them around the league.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
It whatever has to do with helping my team rapports
to light out.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
So what do you think about Daniel Jones getting booed?
I mean, is are you at the point where you're like, look,
it's been enough years the fans have had it. Or
do you think like, oh, take it easy on the
poor guy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, this is New York.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
You're the quarterback of the New York Giants and you're
not improving and it's uh no, I.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Mean no, it's New York.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Man. Even the quarterback of the New York Giants.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You got to do well. We're paying you ridiculous amounts
of money, and uh.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
You know, it's part of the it's part of the
it's part of the job, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was talking to Eli last week and I was
telling him about how I love New York all different
neighborhoods and if I had to pick a favorite, I
want stayed on Mark's in the East Village and I
really liked it. And I asked him if he had
a favorite part of New York and he goes, ah,
I like all of it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah. Well, see, Eli knew Eli's been through it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
We we booed him until he straightened up, but that
that man will never pay for a.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Meal in New York because he did.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He did it twice twice on the biggest stage. Two times.
He took down the evil regime of the New England
Patriots at their at their height. So Eli, he he
loves old New York and we loved him all.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Over New York.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I was telling him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I was at the Raider game when he got benched
by McAdoo. He had two hundred and ten straight starts
and they go, we'll go with Geno Smith and then
that coach got fired.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, That's that's the way it should be. Geno Smith, uh,
you know, although he's uh, you know, he's turned things around,
but Eli's our guy. I was watching this Patriots Patriots documentary,
and I was able to appreciate them for what they
did because I sleep well knowing that we buried them
(05:09):
at their height. Tom Brady, his skin, Bill Belichick and
his moods and attitude and his videotape and they're deflating balls.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
We ruined them twice.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, two times, eighteen and one, baby, eighteen and one.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Oh goodness, it was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
It was gorgeous what we did to them.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
By the way, you said fantasy football, didn't you play
on the stern staff one? Are you still on that one?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I'm still in there dominating and I am also, you know,
in my money league. But so far, so good. This
season has been good to me. You know, I dominated
my draft and I continue to, you know, look to
win this season. I need to win this season outright.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You know what I was just looking.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
When I got out of college in eighty nine, I
visited my friend who is at UCLA, and we went
down to the improv because you know, I love comedy.
I loved an evening at the Improv, and I was thinking,
could I have possibly seen a teenage Michael Rapoport in
eighty nine at the Improv?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yet you did on that was me? Wow, you saw me,
You saw me there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I wasn't as refined as I am now, but death.
I started out as a stand up then I quickly
was fortunate to have some great breaks as an actor.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And then you know, I started doing stand up a
little bit before the pandemic, and I'm back doing it.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I love it. It's unpredictable, it's it's like nothing else.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
But yet you definitely.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Saw me in eighty nine, Rough, Rugged and Raw from uh,
you know, right out of New York City with all
my New York City of blemishes and bull crap.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And the next thing, you know, you're in quote unquote
Danang right, China beach boom.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And then we went on to you know, other things
like to romance and higher learning and the rest is
just you know, fantastic rapp for history.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
All right, So, my man, what are people in store
for down at the Big Room down here on Columbus
Cobs Comedy Club.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
They're in store for a wacky, wonderful, fully disruptive, fully engaged,
high charge, high energy, back and forth between me and
the audience.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
There is so much to discuss going.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
On in the world.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
There's so much going on in my life. There's so
many things to make you cry. And that's why I'll
be bringing the last and the humor and the good
time this week in at Cops Comedy. I love San Francisco.
I love performing San Francisco. I love the sports of
San Francisco. Question for you, if I was gonna have
(08:07):
one Chinese meal in San Francisco, what do you.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Got for me?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
You know, San Francisco isn't really known for its Chinese food.
It's all for tourists. It's kind of garbage. I would
go to the I would go to the East Bay.
I would go to like Uncle Wong's. I would go
to some places in Oakland. But then again, that's just me.
And by the way, if you go to that Yankee
game on Sunday, let me know. I'll take you behind
(08:33):
the scenes.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Oh Joe, I might hit you up about that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
All right, Everybody, get to Cobbs Comedy Club and Cobbscomedyclub
dot com for tickets. Michael Wrapaport Friday and Saturday. Thanks
for having being on again, my man, and we'll catch
up soon.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I always appreciate the support, and I'm looking forward to
a great weekend. I might take you up on that
behind the scenes of the last few days of the Yeah,
hit me up.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll go to the Yankee locker room.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Man.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
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Speaker 1 (10:16):
Is pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All right, we'll get back to that in a second,
but we are quite glad to have our guests with us.
At is stand up comedian Arnaz Jay. He is the
headliner at Cobbs Comedy Club coming up Friday and Saturday.
That is the big room here in San Francisco. Arnez,
what do you think of this?
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
This town as San Francisco because it's getting a bad rap.
There's Dodo in the streets, there's there's crime. If you
live here, I think it's better than it was. Uh,
but a lot of people around the country are down
on it.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Well, first of all, people around the country, Uh, pad
have the influx that San Francisco has you know, San
Francisco has always been that place where you know, immigrants,
families that stay together and want to be together. You know,
it happens in a lot of places. I mean Baltimore,
you know, except that they haven't had transition in Houston, Texas.
(11:11):
I mean, it happens. So what we have to do
is just, i mean, get go to this homelessness problem.
That's probably the biggest, you know, one of the biggest
part of the problem. I mean, you can complain, but
when you don't help to help the complaint that you
complaining about, and why are you complaining?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, let's make this all about socioeconomic plights.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Let's do that it's my fault.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not your fault,
and saying but what I'm saying, and I was so
happy this morning, Rick, Yeah, what I'm saying is that
no one wants to live in that. I'm not stating that.
I'm stating as a as a nation or as a community.
(11:55):
When we complain, everybody can sit at the table and
complain grievances. If it ain't nobody making a move, then
it's gonna stay the same or get worse. That's all
I'm saying. Yeah, so, yeah, so I think it's all
of us, even outside of California. It's just man really
was supposed to be a strong nation and we need
to get there. And uh, it's just too much divisiveness
(12:18):
going on right now. Everybody wants to blame everybody. You know,
it's you know, if you're a kid, you change your
grade in school, you got it. You know you have
a D. But you put a line through it to
a B. Okay, well, first thing you're gonna say, well,
that's not me. I mean, let me know, because I've
had plenty of plenty of opportunities with that one, trust me.
(12:41):
But I'm gonna love coming there and maybe I can
be a little bit of sunshine coming in the San
Francisco area because I really do love the people of Fanrancisco.
And I'm not saying I love everybody, because I don't
know everybody, but the people that I have met and
my fans, I enjoyed them, and I truly mean that
from the bottom of mine.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I was born in sixty five and I'm gonna say
we're right around the same generation. And for me, growing
up like Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, those type of variety shows,
and you'd see Harvey Korman and Tim Conway break and
all that when you were growing up, and of course
(13:21):
that was the only thing on TV. But what did
you get out of those like variety shows with Flip
Wilson playing Gerald Dean and all that.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You know, I'm gonna be just straight up honest with you.
It was all about something being funny. No one was
thinking anything other than the show was funny, light hearted,
find I think personally think, but I guess it's the
change of the way the world is. We allowed the
(13:51):
visual of what we see to get out of hand
on television, and I truly mean that. I think that.
You know, they tell sex sales, you know, controversy sales.
I get that, But at some point we got to
go back to being kind to one another and the
Caravan that show, Wilson shows, those were kind shows. Those
(14:13):
shows that just made me laugh, made you want to
debrief from work and watch them, you know. Granted, we
didn't have as many television shows and streaming the way
we have now, but as the world evolved, this is
what we I guess we could have won a different route,
but I guess is the way it was supposed to be.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You tell me, yeah, no, that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
And I know you are an army brat too, and
you spent some time in Germany, and and just when
you when you think about as a young man, a
young kid really just getting to study human nature in
different cultures, you think that's helped you with your comedy,
I do.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I really mine is on blind fate of where I
You ever hear a song, Rick, You hear a song
and it puts you exactly back in at one spot
when that that song was playing you and you think
about exactly where you were. Well, I heard a song
the other day put me right at Mayberry where the
god it did what.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
You did?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
It put me right there as I was watching the
show as a kid. And the thing that I remember
always most is Bonnie five with his one bullet and
once one gun. I remember every the beginning of the
show when they always came out with a string full
(15:43):
of bass fish or whatever they caught in a fishing pole. Man,
you know, that took me back. So it took me
back so far, and I'm just people don't know me. Know,
I wear my feelings on my shoulders, but I don't
hide it. I sat in my car because I was
going to the gym. I cried for forty five minutes
and just sat there because I'm so hurt the route
(16:08):
that we are going as a world. And I just
when I said I cried, dude, I literally cried and
I couldn't stop. I just couldn't stop crying. And I
saw some of my teachers as I grew up, I
saw my neighborhood, so some of my friends who I
know that are passed on now, and it just made
me cry.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the feel good segment
right now. But yeah, I mean I hear what you're
saying because I know you've been through a lot. I
know you might have been a baseball player and then
you reinvented yourself. And I remember talking about how you
when you were a flight attendant and you would just
(16:50):
make everybody laugh. And then was it you just said,
like I'm making everybody laugh, maybe I can make money
off this.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yes, sir, And as a first class passenger told me
I need to be on the stage, and if I
could find him today, I would just thank him. Because
I need my fans more than they need me. They
my fans that pulled me through a lot. So when
I when I do this, I want people to you know,
when you had a bad day work, you might have
(17:18):
been arguing with somebody, whatever the case may be. You
might even be a little sick or tire. Come to me.
I'll throw all your pain on me. I'll take it,
you know. That's that's my job. My job is to
make you enjoy yourself for the day that money you spend.
My job is to make you either think it differently,
but you must leave happy. That's the way that I
truly feel when I perform, I feel that I am.
(17:39):
I am the gesture. Give me all your pain, I'll
take it.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And I admire the comedians like you are successful, being clean,
like you know Sindbad Brand Reagan. I remember Seinfeldt said
if you swear, they're usually laughing at the swear word.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
They're not laughing at the joke. So why I get
a cheap laugh?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And uh, you know, I'm not averse the comedians who
swear if it's if it's funny, but you just that's
just who you are. You're not doing it to be
more presentable. That's just who you are, right well, it is, but.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Don't don't let me. As i've gotten older, I do swear,
but I don't swear to make a joke. I don't
swear to make a joke because I truly believe that
swearing some people use it to make a joke funny,
and it's not necessary, especially if it's kind of the
meaning well, especially if it's real derogatory towards a female
(18:35):
or male. I don't believe in that. But sometimes you
know that, you know the pastors that say damn, you know, so,
it's not that they're not a good pastor. It's just
that they're in that moment for what they're saying. That's
all that is. I don't use call people the m
F word and all of that. That's not that's so
not necessary to me. That's just to me, that's my opinion.
(18:56):
Other people may feel that's what they need, but that's
not how. You know, I grew up around all of that,
but I didn't have to do all of it. I
grew around. I grew up around everybody was in the drugs.
I never touched drugs. I never smoked, I never drank
in my entire life. It was because you're around. It
don't mean you got to do it now.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I'm I'm with you. I never smoked, I did drink.
I never smoked.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We just got about a minute and just with your
athletic prowess, I know that you were. Actually because I
have these guys in every year. I love my globe
trotter connection, my globes. When you were a globe trotter, Yes,
ladies and gentlemen, Arnz J was a globe trotter. What
was your performing name?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Believe it or not, my performing name was Arnaz J.
They kept my name or Sweet Potato alere it goes.
I didn't want to trek.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
All right, everybody, everybody get down to Cobbs Comedy Club
Friday and Saturday, two shows. Check out Arnez Sweet Potato
Jay my man, Hey, thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Have a good time when you're in town, buddy, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Rick, thanks for listening in to the Comedy All Stars
podcast with Rick Hittle on the eight Side Network.
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