July 15, 2025 • 51 mins
Meet Keith Robinson, stand-up comedian and actor. You may recognize him from The Wanda Sykes Show, the podcast 3 Girls 1 Keith, as well as a wide variety of comedy and late night shows. For more from Keith, watch his special Different Strokes on Netflix.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come
and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually
it's about an hour and a half and I don't
have an opener because these guys cost money. But what
I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway,
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we'll be adding more as the tour continues throughout twenty
(00:23):
twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates,
go to the Craig Ferguson show dot com. See you
on the road, My DearS. My name is Craig Ferguson.
The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to
interest in people about what brings them happiness. Hello, my
(00:46):
name is Craig Ferguson. Welcome to the tent here in
the Kids Super Studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where we record
the Joy Podcast today. My guest on the podcast is
one of the stallwarts of the New York slash Philly
bit more really New York I think of one of
his New York He's from Philly, but well you hear
all about it. He's a great comedian and as you
(01:07):
were about to see, if you don'tlready know, he's got
a stand up special on Netflix. It's called Different Strokes
about his Strokes, which he folded into his comedy in
a way which I have nothing but admiration for. He's
a great comic and very funny man. Keith Robinson, everybody,
(01:31):
I think you still still see Wonder. I haven't seen
Wonder forever all the time. She she's she's a good
stand up and she Wonder.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Whereat on one of the best.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She kind of is she The last time I saw her,
it wasn't long after Chris had done that joke about
her at the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
She was like, what the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Fuck is that he'd done some joke about her the Oscars. Remember, Yeah,
I can't remember what it was, but she was like,
what the fuck? But she You worked with her when
we were at CBS, right, Yes, you were doing the
one was the one to sc show. Yes, And you
(02:16):
had the big studio and we had the little studio.
I remember, because we had the little studio. Because that's
what we're saying. Just before the comedians used to be
on We're on my late night show. Because the studio
was so small. We had to move my desk to
the side and I had to get out of the
way to put the comedians on wo and the A
(02:36):
lot of comedians thought I was like being a dick
because I wouldn't meet them. It's not I just didn't
meet them. I was going home and you yeah, yeah,
I kind of was. Yeah, I got was. I was
kind of fuck it. Yeah, jobs on great down my
(02:59):
laughter left. I tell you something about Carrot Top though
this is true. Have you ever seen him perform.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He's a great performance.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
He's not believable, right, he gets a bad name, but
I've never watched it. I've seen him live a couple
of times, and I've I've hung out with him and he's.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He's you know what, as we call his comics. We
stick to, you know, well running.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Packs, right, you ain't a part of that pack.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're out, yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All that's right when you do the Puppets. I did
the Puppets on late Night. I was like, you're gone,
you know, But that's that's why I was like, I
saw you do a set at the Village Underground, the
comedy Sailor place. Ye last week I was like, fuck,
that's as good as it as ever I've seen. Given
(03:55):
the fight to you. You've had a stroke, two strokes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, you don't just have one stroke, so you got
to compare it to something.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I don't know. I mean I feel like you could
you can get one stroke?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, no, no, like, man, this one didn't feel right right,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It is the sequel then? Never, the sequel is never
as good as the first one.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh man, the sequel was a doozy.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I remember you said, did you know? Do you
know when the second one was happening? You're like, is
happening again?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Did you? Did you fess then the first one was
happening on the second one?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, do you know if it's a stroke?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm a man crag, I'm I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A man man too.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But if I was no, no, you're not a real man.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No that's true. I'm foreign I'm foreign born, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I was a loyal man would take a stroke on
just as he was like.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But but did you was like, did it come on gradually?
It was just like I don't stroke.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Like one morning for the first stroke, I woke up
and I was leaning walk into my apartment leaning.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You woke up, walk into your apartment. Now woke up
and oh, you've been walking through your apartment and walking
through my apartment and I'm leaning. Something's going on. My
right side was going down. So I'm like, oh, man,
had you got a big night the night before? I
had you been like doing like being wild?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Adn't. I don't really drink that much. A couple of
wines and all that. But I woke up, I was leaning,
and I was I'm like, okay, let me go to
phild up here. And drove from Jersey to philadelf here
till I get my pass for it. So something's going
(05:56):
on behind. Brought some ask for with me. A couple
of answerings. Okay, all right, I'm drawing filling.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You feel better? You were driving?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, well I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah you're a man. Yeah, I got it. You're driving.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
A dumb man. But no, I got no.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I've been I've been with the same room for twenty years.
She's driven me twice. She's like white, she's perfectly decent driver.
I'm like, yeah, but I'll drive.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I got it. I like that. Yeah, you are
a man.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I am a man now. If I have a stroke
now I'll be like, Okay, I said, yeah, maybe it
will be recompense for using the puppets and late night
because I get allowed back into the pack. He did
the puppets, but he also had the stroke. So yeah,
(06:52):
were you on your own when you drove to Phillio?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yes, Jesus, I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well yeah, but so did you go to the hospital
when you go to Philly?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Would a man go to a hospital?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I feel like maybe I wanted a Social Security place
to get my pass for it.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Okay, where were you going? And he needed a passport?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Scotland?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Shut the fuck up?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, I was going, you know, on Broad right,
but I ain't going to a broad because the stroke.
So I had a stroke for like it 'mu been
a twenty four hour stroke right cause one thing?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And now I wanted to see my son. He was
forming at the place and I wanted to see him.
The plane slop playing right, but I was going down.
I can feel myself going down.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It was getting worse, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But I you know, I'm vinuine blurry and all that.
But I took a couple of more ass fors and
again vision clear it up. There you go. I drove
back home.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You are a man to Jersey damn right, yeah, yeah
you are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I drove back to Jersey. Yeah, man, I wanted to cellar.
Then a radio show.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Really, yes you still you still haven't seen a medical
professional because you're a man. Yeah, I got it. Yeah,
so you haven't seen a medical profession. We're now twenty
four hours under the stroke. But and you're taking the
aspirin for a stroke.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, okay, but it's working cause I guess the blood blood.
So you know, after that, I drave back home. Wow.
After that, right after that, then the radio show.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm opposed to do a spot, but everything is dropped
energy everything. I'm like, oh ship. So I went down
the alleyway Menana Lane, straight down ally and walked down there,
got my car.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And drove home.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Again with the driving, drove home. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Just Jersey? That's like a half hour forty minutes way.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You take a bridge of the tunnel, I mean, just
because you know, everybody, just.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
To make it longer. Yeah, I want to ride a
little longer. I want him Holland tunnels.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, I think the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I think the tunnel this way. People are always like,
now you can't take the tunnel. I'm like, I don't
know the way you can get off the breadge either, you.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Know, right, I took that tunnel one home and then
it really had call my girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She was in the house, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
She came out and I can barely walk, okay, but
I still like, just make sure I did ten push ups.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You're fucking well.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
She would took me into and I'm taking it to
the hospital and the like he's having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
To were you were? Were you scared at this point? No,
I understand that was probably the wrong question.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
What the hell is going on? I clearly explaining you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I felt like I felt like I brought a little
bit of myself there. I got scared for you, but
but I'm less manly.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know. I think I got a little friends.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sometimes sometimes I would worry about worry.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thing while they said, you know, like I was still samorright,
because I boxed a little bit, you know what I mean,
And I was throwing jams.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I went the hospital and woke up and it's all
went down. I'm like, I'm trying to throw jabs and
all that and nothing. There's all the way down and
langua was down. I was in the hospital for like
a month and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
A month and a half were you in a bed
for us? No mean, let you walk around.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, well, in the hospital, they try to restrict you
as much as possible, so like and when you try
to get up, alarm, like when you're in the brain
injuring unit, if you get out on the band, turn
your feet touch the floor, alarm goes off. So it's
like almost being in the pen, you know, penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, I understand. I've been in this country for a while.
I can speak to lingo.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And seeing your foot at the ground, all the marsves
come running in and all that. So it took them
a while. And trust me to do what I do.
And then I want to know we have and then
we have to do all the tricks and taying this
and taining that and for your content to make sure
(11:51):
you're as smart as Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And that's that's the baseline.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Because.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Depends on what hospital when you go to, I mean
the fancy hospitals might be it's gonna be a little more.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You gotta do a little more.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
But they but I think that you know, did they
test you, like with jokes and stuff like that because.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
They take you with like squares circles. They think that something,
you know, they actual em me, dad, what's today's day?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Was stairs? Was that? Why?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I don't know if I could answer that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, I mean funk wing them sometimes. Yeah, you would
you go to yout your name? What is your name?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Reverend doctor Martin Luther King? They almost had a heart
at time. He's really messed up. Oh my god, God's
messed up. So what coust Did they know what caused it? No,
it wasn't like ice coffee around.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Combine eating hammonds and cholestral cholesterol one damn damn caffeine
and all that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Gotta watch my cholesterol. Went for a thing. I know
you had a stroke, but I had a medical recently
and they told me I have to bring my cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now. I think they're scarce whateverything.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, Hello, this is Craig Ferguson and I want to
let you know I have a brand new stand up
comedy special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So
Happy and I would be so happy if you checked
it out. To watch the special, just go to my
YouTube channel at the Craig Ferguson show and is this
(13:44):
right there? Just click it and play it and it's free.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I can't look.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm not going to come around your house and show
you how to do it. If you can't do it,
then you can't have it. But if you can figure
it out, it's yours. You're about the same age as me,
or yeah, you're like a couple of years younger.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Mean what age you know? I'm seventy eighth. The fuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Like, are you sixty yet?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sixty three now, Oh you know old man? I
got I pee more than I do Anthon else so
do I.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Man. I'm like, I can't stop paying. I don't like I.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Didn't even drink it. Mean, why there's nothing here. I'm
like the fucking Sahara desert and I'm still peak coming out.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm almost scared to drink water. I'm like, I don't
want to pee. I know why you up again?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was walking over the Williamsburg Bridge today because I
was trying to go stay healthy, and I started to
walk over the bridges of the I don't know if
I can get over here. Don't be like, I'll give
it a go. But by the time I go over,
I was like, like, I have to find a hipster
coffee shop.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But that's why it's important, man, It's important for man
like else to find women and understand man, I want
peel himself.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, I drank a little when I was younger, so
I met that was kind of the way I would
always find a woman. Did you think as well? Here's
the trick, by the way, if you wake up and
there's pee in the bed, don't assume responsibility right away.
Try and say, is there something wrong? Do you feel sick?
Lay off the you know, I like it? Yeah, just
(15:18):
blame the p on someone else exactly. It doesn't work
that well with vomit, but it works.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I think so. But did you were there no
signs of this, the signs of the stroke coming to you?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Sign the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Like before you had that me they had, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, And now I was going Vegas for like me,
Cavin Horton, come on on Vegas one. I don't want
to that's my yellow fella, right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I Also you probably want to see carrot Top as well, because.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, you know what, like Karen do I That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm going to have him on the show. I do
like Carry. I'm not fucking around. I do like him.
I think he's a much maligned character.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But I watched it happen. Man. Comics they're just they
chased out of comics, out of the business. Yeah, I know.
They're like they are like like hyenas.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Man. I never really hung with comics. No, And then
when and when I was a young comic because I
was just like drunk and I would hang out with bands.
And then when I got late Night because I had
worked on the Drew Carrey Show and it's it was
seen like I had stolen the job from a comic
in some way because it's and I was like, but
(16:40):
I was a fucking comic for years before I did
the Drew Carry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And they're like, you knew comedy in Scotland.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, and in London too. I did stand up.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I came in there Scotland and in London in ninety two.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's the year I got sober. Really yeah, that's probably why,
because you were there. I was like, fuck, man, yeah,
there's a real man here. Now I can't drink anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm bomb so bad in Scotland did you really then?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Festival?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No? That we had something called Latinum Comedy. Okay, and
when we wore jackets and all that, the girls one
phonas and were in Scotland and I love Scotland. And
but you guys like to fight.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Man, Well that's why I left because I you know,
a real man situation.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, that's a real.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Man Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
No, they did.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
There's a little bit of fighting.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah. They were like, I don't have you what you
don't have me? What does that mean? Yeah? Do you
know what?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Some of the things that the way they say things
like you know, when people say in America they say
you've got followed through. He's like, it's real follows through.
It's like, yeah, it follows through. And Breton means you
shut yourself. So if you say somebody he followed through,
you go he fed like he chefs out. Really it
(18:08):
makes sense. It kind of feels. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Man, you had a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But that's my first time on brow like that, you know,
so I'm like, oh wow, I had a wonderful time there.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
For like a month, we're in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glasgow, and yeah, yeah,
Glasgow is That's where I'm from. Glasgow.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's why I'm saying who the guy always on the piano.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Comenian Liberacci?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No comedian comedian?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Uh, Scottish guy. Yes, I know, I bet yeah, but
if he's got a piano, that's kind of like having
one of.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The biggest comings out with Billy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh Billy Connley. Yes, oh that he was like he
was like fucking Jackie Robinson's to me Conley because until Belly,
Billy's twenty years older than me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And he was like my hero because he was from
in Britain, you know, the class system thing. I'm from,
like the lower classes, and he is. He was a
working class comedian. I had never seen anybody from my
background when I was like ten years old, and he
was like thirty years old. So he's just coming up happened.
(19:28):
And we would listen to his albums the way American
kids would listen to like Cosby albums and stuff. I
would be listening to the Belly stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, yeah, I'd seen them all and he was when
one staying at a hotel in Glasgow, right, you know,
you know he was playing in piano.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I didn't even know Belly could play the beyond. Yeah, well,
you know, I'd never associate him with the piano, is
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I see them Mellane County.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You know what I well, you know it's that thing.
You know, you suck one sheep, you know that's all
everybody remembers.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You know you had a good time. Why did you
never go back?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Well you told Bob.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, but everybody bums everywhere, even you gotta get I
want to really did was it like bood and stuff?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, it wasn't bowing gotta count like we want to
in London, right like in America when like we try
the energy. Yeah, but the crowds were laid back. Yeah,
you don't need to or no slow down. Yeah, but
I'm like I was gonna watch this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know they got mad.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, we had that on him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
The You ever heard musicians talk about when they go
to Japan and play tours in Japan, they'll be like
broken out on stage in the end of the to
the audience will be like, yeah's coaturally different, that's all
you have to Yet.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I had a stroke. That's the difference. A stroke helped me. Me.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Like, when out a stroke, I was, you know, packed
from my home. I scramble all on. When a stroke,
Tom Rainey in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You know what I mean, moved to the left for
a little bit. Yeah, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Like that is the thing though, learning how it stays
still on stage and do your thing. It's actually it
is better for it's much better for Like the best
comics don't run around. I used to run like a fucking.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Idiot all the time. I'll fall down and back up.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'd be like trying to every individual thing. And now
I'm like if I woke out and then I'll talk
and then I woke back, that's it. That's all I'm
going to do.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, you learn that though through the year.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It takes time. It takes time as well. When did
you first get back up after after the stroke?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Was this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It took me like maybe come a few weeks and
now I'm back on stage.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Man, that is fucking stones there, I mean you are man.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's second one. Yeah, two years.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The same one was much worse than huh yeah you
didn't drive.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, because my voice came back weren't good when the
first stroke. Now with this one and like you're not
gonna be able to talk again, and you want to
get me to talk again, tell me I'm not going
to talk.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, you know, I did it take a while. I
mean it took two years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, well that's we're going to scan. Don't know the
war is gonna come out? Oh what happened if the
War I get on stage all of a sudden?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Nothing? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well, it's funny. When I saw you do this set
the other night, it was like I watched it and
I was like, how is this going to go? Because
I you know, I hadn't seen the special at that point.
I since watched it and went okay, okay, find fucking
nailed it, but I hadn't seen it. I was like,
I'd heard that you'd had a stroke, right, And.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I was like, I don't know how this is going
to work when that's what my thing was.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But what was amazing, Like after about thirty seconds just
to comic on stage, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You gotta make it though, Why I do my best?
I means such an assholey.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But it was kind of interesting way
it becomes because you make it like it's it's like
it's part of the thing, you know, It's just like
it's this is who I am, this is what I'm doing,
and yeah, and it kind of yeah, I hate that.
All that would freak me out.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Get out that. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Did you get better that when you first went up?
Did you feel it with the first Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But I say something so fucked up? Fuck him? Yeah,
that's why I want you. Yeah, and that's exactly where
I want you to fuck him?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Fuck have dare It's an interesting thing. Tell me about
the second one?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Then?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That was how long I'm between the first and the
second one?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I had the second one and twenty sixteen, oh right,
the next one came twenty twenty, and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Did you get COVID or something?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Did that? Did that? Dude? I got no?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And just what happened? And I'm trying my best. It's
a real story, this girl, what I mean I mean?
And we're imposed to going to.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Vegas together then right? Wo man? Yeah, sent up, everything's good.
While COVID came right no Vegas.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Around Thanksgiving in twenty twenty, she's saying, won't when you
come see me in my house and not going on?
You know, you can't have things given on your family
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Say I'll go to Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They get some right, So this is a romantic assignation. Yeah, Okay,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I brought flowers with me now now so you should do.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You should bring flowers so gas station flowers are fighting.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But you know, so I tell everybody my son, his
mom and all, I'm going to perform with Louis King.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So you want to be too much. And I'm going
there before and looking for Louis all the stuff he
wanted them. Now me I had more.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So I get this stroke. And I was on my
way out, flying there like its real ship flying up.
It was only I'm first fians some cournos y.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, it goes with that. Man. Man, it's another running playing.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I got it. So I'm drinking. You know, they give
you all.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm plastic, but they, you know, want to make the
announcement twenty minutes away. And when I so, I'm and
I know I'm not gonna get twenty minutes, ten minutes
to our house, thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm fopping the viavon because I want to be ready.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You took fai Igra twenty minutes before landing, Yeah, because
you figured it would be thirty minutes to rest, knowing
you'd already had a fucking stroke. That's why it kids
out fucking just this is the greatest fucking story I've
ever heard.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So, you know, get in the car. Yeah, once I
get off the plane now and got off the plane,
I sat.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Do you have an erection at this point?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right? Good? Okay, So that's what kept me walking.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So I'm i'm I'm like, oh ship man. At getting
in the car, I'm like, oh fuck, shout, I go
to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Or getting Oh yeah, it's a it's a real, it's
a real.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Get laid, get laid.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's a dead level.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
No one, I'm not going on the door, right, she
got in there, open the door. We started doing on
something and uh that is just count what. I still
spend the night and.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I woke up. I can't even moved. The ambulance came in. Wow. Yeah,
the ambulance left me up out out of the pussy.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
So so again there was you spend the whole night there, Yes, stupid,
just that. But this is amazing to me. So there's
you take the fright access. So the vakara wears off
or it doesn't wear off.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I doesn't wear off. Yes, my you know, my body
is like, but he's about to die. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You're about to die? But your but your phoenix is
still going.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
To try my best friend.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Jesus. So you were like you were in the hospital
in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Then, yes, I was in the hospital of the Phoenix,
and I'm like, I can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That's Phoenix. You cant stay there. You can go for
a weekend, but you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Stay I need to go back. Yeah, I said, no,
you're not supposed to flying back on the stroke, flying back,
I'm gone, And I flew back.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
First class. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just wanted to make
sure that you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Think I'm gonna have a stroke and a coach thirty
four b.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, you don't want to have a stroken coat. No,
that's about That's like the kid behind you with at
the back of your chair.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I was been dead. Yeah, yeah to the front. Yeah, no,
you have to have it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So but you didn't have one of them. You flew back.
How long until you flew back?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, I stayed there at night, and I don't you're
kidding me why I keep telling you?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
No, I know, but I mean, Jesus Christy, he did it.
That's nuts. And so you went.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And it's nuts when I think about, like, what the
hell was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And also the fact they let you on the plane,
you know, I mean, you could have followed that play
like that. I've seen I've seen people on planes like
that though, but they figured out was drunk. They just
thought you were drunk in to this because you were
first class. They let you on because he's in first class.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You can't in them first class, You can't come back.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, he's not gonna die, he's first class.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He's setting there. Man. Yeah. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So what happens after you have a stroke though, when
you're your way back, do you have to like go
to like the physical rehabit?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Wanna sent me in a driver one? Damn?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, that's fucking great.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well you know, I mean want more roommates? Yeah, you
back away?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, so, but she sent me in room, my man
Robert and my son's mom and all them came and
picked me up. And when you drove, you know, to
the hospital in Jersey.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Jam K from JFK, Well, no, w SIRT hospital was yet.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh JFK hospel. We didn't like the JFK airport to
JFK hospital. One never cared for. I don't suppose that's
an important part of the story, but it's worth knowing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
No, it's not that important. It's not important from Norington
during the hospital as long is that? Do you what?
What do you? What do you take?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The bridge is a tunnel? You know it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think it was pelaskious.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But so how long are you like totally incapacitated when
they're saying to you, he's not going to speak again,
he's not going to do all that.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I was never incapacitated. All right, I'm always fighting, right,
you know what I mean? Because when you can go
to the hospital, they treat every patient. All strokes ain't
the same, but they treat you like yanny of mine
and you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And that was the case for you though.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's weird, but they you know, one woman now on
like you move like no, no, no, you can't hold
and I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
To the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You can't hold yourself up, and the bitch you look
at me, I start doing you know, shut ups. I
just looked like I can't pull myself up. Yah nah,
you bitch.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well I got jumped by a pack of nurses. You
could jump, Yeah, they jump me.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What did you what did they do? They take your
stuff the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
When you you know, you got a stroke or whatever.
You lane shoots up because you're getting spasmed, right, and
then you shut up and a woman like, oh, he's
fight me, he's fighting me, and so yeah, they jump
on me. You were kicking him, Yeah, like bitch spasms thing.
(33:01):
Get I want to bring us up because you talked
the viagura early on. Did you get specims in your No,
I wish I did every it would be great and
just pop up. I don't know. I was like, sorry,
that be great. I would have loved that.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, that's uh so you were in there. How long
were you were? Like two years before you go on stage,
but you're in the hospital for like a long months
two months, and then you have to like go to
learn Well you could always walk though, right.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, you got to learn how to walk again.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh it's like it's all mental and confidence, right you know,
so you starting to slowly learn how to walk again,
and uh man, you walk and walk and walk. But
I can tell this what was different behind this lane fount?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
You know? Yeah, this is a loosy right there.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, you're talking about boxing, like Bolks the people I
know who and I did a little bit years and
years ago as well. Like the kind of shape that
you get in by Balks is great shape. I mean
(34:27):
the best shape I've been in my life is when
I'm exactienth my god. And do you think that because
you were in that kind of shape, that's what go
you through the Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Well yeah, what life as you prepared? Yeah? Well everything
you know on the stroke and all that, you have
that fighting spirit. Yeah, and you're just going I'm not
going down now, not now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, No, is it going to improve? Do you think
they think the doctor's thing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Is go ahead for wow? Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You know you just I don't think about it becausen't
even think about it and getting but yeah, it's improving anyway,
you know, going, I'm gonna understand.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I was going to say, once you go. My thing,
you know, stand up is stand up is actually even
if you're just standing up doing it, I mean for
any length of time, it's standing tiring.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
But that's what I'm saying. During an hour, I was
scared when I did my hour, you know, back to
back hours.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, because you do it special, you gotta when it worked, Yeah,
that where did you shoot.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
That Sony Music Hall?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Where's that?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Four in town?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So when you're getting there from Jersey, you take the
tunnel or no?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
When I do, I take the long waye cheap, no
toe unless toll.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Right, So you're gonna go up and around? Yes, all right, okay?
Or maybe get a boat or get a boat fair? Yeah,
I got fair. I don't take the fair take the fairies.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I hate any place you gotta catch a fairy to
go to. I okay, all those what's that?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Uh holland?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
No, and it's in Boston somewhere.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh, Martha's Vineyard.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, I can't stand now, I ain't Martha's venue.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
No, have you ever been to Martha's Vineyard?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yes? Why I hate it?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Why? I just I didn't see much to hte about it.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
They got a nice cream parlor, and Barack Obama is there.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I think I know, but it still bugs me. And yeah,
the faerry to get to us.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, you know what I don't like. I lived in
a place once where you had to take a ferry,
and they always the ferries are always breaking down. That's
why you know, when I'm going to Jersey, I take
the tunnel. I mean a lot of people say don't,
but I do. I do take the tunnel, which especially
if you're going to New York, take the tunnel. I've
(37:21):
moved back to New York after being away for a
long time, and I fucking love this study.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I love. Yeah, I'm from Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah that's right, But you moved up here a while ago.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Right ninety two on til one. And when moving to
New York.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Right, that's the year ago. So you went up to
New York. But Philly where you grew up in Philly?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Was it was it rough? Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yeah, yeah, it was a rough stop, you know what
I mean, Like you know when when were well, we
can leave my doors on whatever because of my one
that woman you know, yeah she shot and all that
and that gun. Yeah, she shot a guy in a
car game?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
And is this a Western? What's she shot a guy
in a fucking card game? Your mom shot a guy
in a car?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What is like?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Was he was he cheating? What?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I don't know what?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know, I was young man, but I was like
nine ten, right, And next thing I know, we're on
a bus, Greyhound bus, on a.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Run because your mom's on the run, because she showed
a guy didn't die shot.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, you know that's that his story. That's no juice story, and.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
That nothing to do with me.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
No, but we would, we wanted. We moved to Feathereralsburg,
Maryland for about one.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Year until the heat comes off.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And then and I never.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Forget when parent and teacher day and then T was like,
your Sonny, he's not focused. We need him to focus.
And Mom like, why can't you focus?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Mom? Because you're on and run now how you want
me to focus?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
It's be very difficult though, its a parent, I think
to discipline your kids because you can always say, mom,
you shot a guy in a car. Yeah, like if
my mother had said it was tight for bed. Oh
is it you shot a guy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Let me make this call real bad were in f bird.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, come and get us. So did your mom still
play cards? She passed away, pass away, but she still
playing cards after that?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, probably for the best.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Everybody back in the seventies had a lot of car games.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know, actually I kind of remember that too. People
used to come run there and play cards. Yeah, and
little bit but it's just for like a little bits
of money. It wasn't like what we went for potatoes.
It was really for actually potatoes, Like I'll bet you
one potato.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
What they had what they call rent parties so on
to get your rent that you had an old game
soul dinners and all that playing the card games. Everybody
was cheating, you know, But yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Quite a spectacular. Now, my wife has this idea that
all comedians have the same mother, because she and my
mother had uh you know, they had a relationship. It
was she says, I don't know if it applies to
your mom, but she says that all comedians also, she says,
only good stand up comedians have the same good starting
(40:51):
comedians of the same mode, cold with bad boundaries.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's what she said.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Now, my mom was just like she showed a guy
in a card game. There's nowhere you can go with this, Keith.
It's not like you're gonna sell this, like my moment
is a great mom.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
She was a sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Oh my god, how did you end up then getting
a stand up from that background?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
I mean, you know, I would always tell stories right
now when living in uh Let's passion projects, and I
always tell a story about the lecture man behind the
TV and they had them all laughing and all that.
And then when I got old and older, I got
and I kept here and win your and uh and
(41:38):
from listening to Richard and I'm like, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Now she and some comedies that was awful. I'm like,
I can do that. You can do that? Yeah, yeah,
I can. I can do that.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
It's funny. I mean that when you talk about and
I've heard other comedians say that's about Richard Bryan is
that's the way I think about Billy. We were talking
about that. I didn't know if I could do that,
but I thought it doesn't look like a good way
to live.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
It's not thinking it comes to think of it is
not it's not really.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I was a kid, you know, it looked like everybody's
your friend. And you get up, Yes, then you get
further round and everybody's know your friend, not your friend.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
But comedy probably saming from Alana the Bullship. Yeah, well
you know on these streets and all that. Yeah, I
ain't new comedy.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Where did you start doing stand up?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Man? Was in Philadelphia? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Whereabout? It was the club there or.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Something comedy in Factory Island, right third and banc streets
is still there.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No, all right, clubs are gone. It seems to me
like the law of that coming back.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Coming back again.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
But it feels like I don't know if I'm right
on this. But I did a couple of drop ends
at the Saillar last week and it is fine.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I like doing it.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
But it was fun, it was great, it was fun.
It's a good room and it was funny and it
was funny. But I'm so used to doing an hour
ninety minutes. Like doing that fifty minutes long kind of
like you have to sharpen your.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Shit little a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, well then you go back and tell them you
want to do an hour in one in the room
and they'll give me an hour.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Right, I don't know if I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
You're sad you usually doing an hour?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, But I don't know if I want to do
it there, because I don't know. Am I going to
take the bridge, I'm going to take the tunnel? Am
I going to get there?
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I don't know. I don't know if I want to
do that. Also, I feel like it might be cover helicopter.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
A helicopter, fucking taking a helicopter, man, No, I actually
I don't think I'll ever get a helico again.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
The same. Yeah, I don't forget those holocopters.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, it's not for me.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm not safe.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
They're not safe. They're not safe. I don't care what
anybody says. I don't want to get in a helicopter.
He used to do you know what, Bill burfly a helicopter.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, I will never get in a damn hell County No, Bill, No.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You know it's just a no again. I'm sure he's
a great pilot.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Bullshit.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
You know I've got a pilot's license. Yeah, I got it,
not for helicopters. But I used to be terrified of flying,
so I thought if I learned a fly to fly
the plane, I won't be scared. Well, here's what happens.
I learned how to fly the plane, and I'm about
twenty minutes from landon in Phoenix one time, and a
(44:47):
guy at the bell no mention. A guy at the
back who takes a viagraa because he's going to meet
his girlfriend and he's start and I'm traumatized.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
I haven't flown ste No every time, I have faith
in my heart.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Just oh, I know, really, Chris wrote one minute, one minute,
come rain for right, And I was so scared to
get all flights.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
I'm like, do you get you get on the air place?
Now you're okay? Yeah, I mean when I first I'm like, yeah,
where would you have to go to write out to
l A. No, he was working on and oh not
the Live Earth thing. Yes, yeah, that's fine. I ran
into him when he was doing that. I was I
(45:34):
was doing We were in the same hotel in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yeah, and the only time Chris what I was.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Going to go Charlotte. Unny, they have a great comedy club.
It was the Comedy Zoom. That's a great club.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Amazing, Yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
And I like the W's in Denver.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
They have these really good questions.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
With David All. Did that Skanks for the Memories? Yeah, yeah,
that I love that. I guess I was an album
really when it wasn't really even a special.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Well his own he's just like, you know, does his
own things. I love them.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
I had to when I heard Skanks for the Memories.
I was driving from uh somewhere in central California to
LA and I had to pull over its side of
the road, but he did that thing. I was laughing
so hard I couldn't I couldn't actually drive. I had
to pull over. It was when he was doing that
thing about having his friend who was a midget. Yeah,
(46:43):
and OK, my god, it just got worse and worse,
funnier and funnier. Fun Is there any time you think
I I think I already know the answer to this anyway,
But is there anything you think I can't really do
(47:06):
a joke about that. It's not really anything that. No,
it's not really any I mean when I saw you
go up and do this stuff about even with the
stroke and some of the material you were doing, it's
so fucking dark, but so fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's what we do.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
We so you process it.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Right, Yeah, we dare to do whatever.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, in school and everything is quiet, you know, coming up,
I'm like, how can I start some trouble?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
And that's a common thinking, all right, I mean quiet,
I'm saying, not assembly. Finally I'll starting to call and
call and I'm like, god, damn, then get out of it,
hang out and I would you know.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
You know, Cicero in ancient Rome said a great thing
I think can anyone in true business should remember. He said,
if you want to know who your friends are start
a fight. That's a great fucking thing. And I feel
that's like a comedian's mind a little bit, you know
what I mean. It's like, all right, let's fucking say,
(48:15):
oh we got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a little bit.
Sometimes I think there's a little bit of sometimes you
maybe shouldn't start a fight because you're gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Hey man, sometimes you can't, you know.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Also, though I do, I think to the day I die,
I'll be full of admiration for the idea of I've
already had one stroke. But it's twenty minutes to landing,
and I'm happy at our house and I'm going to
take a fucking VI. I like, that's the maddest, most
one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard about.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
It's still it's what I think about romantic.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
It's so romantic. And the fact that they had to, like,
you know, lift you out there, it's just fabulous. Thanks
so much for coming in, Manly. Yeah, I can't tell
you how impressed I am with well, first of all,
(49:16):
the fact that the you know, you're the comic that
you are, but also that you processed this and still
turned it into comedy. It's just funny, outstanding. It's outstanding,
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
It was on Netflix, man, Netflix.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I know, I really think that was quite a wonderful title.
I met him, by the way, you know who was
the little guy again Gary? What was his name.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Was that low guys? I met him. I met him.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
He was on the Drew Carry Show when I was on.
Oh wow, Yeah, he came on.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
He was.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I mean, we had an afternoon chatting.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
I think it's his folks took all the money.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
I think I think that came up. Actually, I think
you mentioned that. Yeah, and that's a man.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
Mom. He shoots in a car game. That's a good mom.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Well, pistol whips one of the other ladies in the
drive for me? Yeah, well, I know, yeah, for me.
For you, yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
It's so different mom, A different different mom.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
You know what, though, I think if my mom, if
she had had access to a pistol, she made a
pistol whip.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah. A lot of moms in the seventies Lee's had
a twenty two, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Where I grew up, But they had there was more,
you know, clubs and knives and stuff clubs, and there
was still isn't a lot of guns over there, you know,
that's right. Yeah, it's not a lot of guns. Nobody
has that.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
I'm blaming the government, Well mom for my mom shooting somebody.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Wait what wait?
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Why is the government access to gods?
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Access to gods? That's right. If she didn't have a gun,
she would have had.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
To use a gloves What is the difference?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Get the fuck out
This is me, Craig Ferguson. I'm inviting you to come
and see my brand new comedy hour. Well it's actually
it's about an hour and a half and I don't
have an opener because these guys cost money. But what
I'm saying is I'll be on stage for a while. Anyway,
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twenty five and beyond. For a full list of dates,
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on the road, My DearS. My name is Craig Ferguson.
The name of this podcast is Joy. I talk to
interest in people about what brings them happiness. Hello, my
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name is Craig Ferguson. Welcome to the tent here in
the Kids Super Studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where we record
the Joy Podcast today. My guest on the podcast is
one of the stallwarts of the New York slash Philly
bit more really New York I think of one of
his New York He's from Philly, but well you hear
all about it. He's a great comedian and as you
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were about to see, if you don'tlready know, he's got
a stand up special on Netflix. It's called Different Strokes
about his Strokes, which he folded into his comedy in
a way which I have nothing but admiration for. He's
a great comic and very funny man. Keith Robinson, everybody,
(01:31):
I think you still still see Wonder. I haven't seen
Wonder forever all the time. She she's she's a good
stand up and she Wonder.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Whereat on one of the best.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She kind of is she The last time I saw her,
it wasn't long after Chris had done that joke about
her at the Oscars.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
She was like, what the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Fuck is that he'd done some joke about her the Oscars. Remember, Yeah,
I can't remember what it was, but she was like,
what the fuck? But she You worked with her when
we were at CBS, right, Yes, you were doing the
one was the one to sc show. Yes, And you
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had the big studio and we had the little studio.
I remember, because we had the little studio. Because that's
what we're saying. Just before the comedians used to be
on We're on my late night show. Because the studio
was so small. We had to move my desk to
the side and I had to get out of the
way to put the comedians on wo and the A
(02:36):
lot of comedians thought I was like being a dick
because I wouldn't meet them. It's not I just didn't
meet them. I was going home and you yeah, yeah,
I kind of was. Yeah, I got was. I was
kind of fuck it. Yeah, jobs on great down my
(02:59):
laughter left. I tell you something about Carrot Top though
this is true. Have you ever seen him perform.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
He's a great performance.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
He's not believable, right, he gets a bad name, but
I've never watched it. I've seen him live a couple
of times, and I've I've hung out with him and he's.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
He's you know what, as we call his comics. We
stick to, you know, well running.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Packs, right, you ain't a part of that pack.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
You're out, yeah, and you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All that's right when you do the Puppets. I did
the Puppets on late Night. I was like, you're gone,
you know, But that's that's why I was like, I
saw you do a set at the Village Underground, the
comedy Sailor place. Ye last week I was like, fuck,
that's as good as it as ever I've seen. Given
(03:55):
the fight to you. You've had a stroke, two strokes.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, you don't just have one stroke, so you got
to compare it to something.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I don't know. I mean I feel like you could
you can get one stroke?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, no, no, like, man, this one didn't feel right right,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It is the sequel then? Never, the sequel is never
as good as the first one.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh man, the sequel was a doozy.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, I remember you said, did you know? Do you
know when the second one was happening? You're like, is
happening again?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Did you? Did you fess then the first one was
happening on the second one?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, do you know if it's a stroke?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm a man crag, I'm I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
A man man too.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
But if I was no, no, you're not a real man.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No that's true. I'm foreign I'm foreign born, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I was a loyal man would take a stroke on
just as he was like.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But but did you was like, did it come on gradually?
It was just like I don't stroke.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Like one morning for the first stroke, I woke up
and I was leaning walk into my apartment leaning.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You woke up, walk into your apartment. Now woke up
and oh, you've been walking through your apartment and walking
through my apartment and I'm leaning. Something's going on. My
right side was going down. So I'm like, oh, man,
had you got a big night the night before? I
had you been like doing like being wild?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Adn't. I don't really drink that much. A couple of
wines and all that. But I woke up, I was leaning,
and I was I'm like, okay, let me go to
phild up here. And drove from Jersey to philadelf here
till I get my pass for it. So something's going
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on behind. Brought some ask for with me. A couple
of answerings. Okay, all right, I'm drawing filling.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You feel better? You were driving?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, well I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah you're a man. Yeah, I got it. You're driving.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
A dumb man. But no, I got no.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I've been I've been with the same room for twenty years.
She's driven me twice. She's like white, she's perfectly decent driver.
I'm like, yeah, but I'll drive.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I got it. I like that. Yeah, you are
a man.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I am a man now. If I have a stroke
now I'll be like, Okay, I said, yeah, maybe it
will be recompense for using the puppets and late night
because I get allowed back into the pack. He did
the puppets, but he also had the stroke. So yeah,
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were you on your own when you drove to Phillio?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yes, Jesus, I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well yeah, but so did you go to the hospital
when you go to Philly?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Would a man go to a hospital?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I feel like maybe I wanted a Social Security place
to get my pass for it.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Okay, where were you going? And he needed a passport?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Scotland?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Shut the fuck up?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, I was going, you know, on Broad right,
but I ain't going to a broad because the stroke.
So I had a stroke for like it 'mu been
a twenty four hour stroke right cause one thing?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And now I wanted to see my son. He was
forming at the place and I wanted to see him.
The plane slop playing right, but I was going down.
I can feel myself going down.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It was getting worse, yes, right.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
But I you know, I'm vinuine blurry and all that.
But I took a couple of more ass fors and
again vision clear it up. There you go. I drove
back home.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You are a man to Jersey damn right, yeah, yeah
you are.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I drove back to Jersey. Yeah, man, I wanted to cellar.
Then a radio show.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Really, yes you still you still haven't seen a medical
professional because you're a man. Yeah, I got it. Yeah,
so you haven't seen a medical profession. We're now twenty
four hours under the stroke. But and you're taking the
aspirin for a stroke.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes, okay, but it's working cause I guess the blood blood.
So you know, after that, I drave back home. Wow.
After that, right after that, then the radio show.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm opposed to do a spot, but everything is dropped
energy everything. I'm like, oh ship. So I went down
the alleyway Menana Lane, straight down ally and walked down there,
got my car.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And drove home.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Again with the driving, drove home. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Just Jersey? That's like a half hour forty minutes way.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You take a bridge of the tunnel, I mean, just
because you know, everybody, just.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
To make it longer. Yeah, I want to ride a
little longer. I want him Holland tunnels.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, I think the tunnel.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I think the tunnel this way. People are always like,
now you can't take the tunnel. I'm like, I don't
know the way you can get off the breadge either, you.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Know, right, I took that tunnel one home and then
it really had call my girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She was in the house, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
She came out and I can barely walk, okay, but
I still like, just make sure I did ten push ups.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You're fucking well.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
She would took me into and I'm taking it to
the hospital and the like he's having a stroke.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
To were you were? Were you scared at this point? No,
I understand that was probably the wrong question.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
What the hell is going on? I clearly explaining you.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I felt like I felt like I brought a little
bit of myself there. I got scared for you, but
but I'm less manly.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know. I think I got a little friends.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sometimes sometimes I would worry about worry.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Thing while they said, you know, like I was still samorright,
because I boxed a little bit, you know what I mean,
And I was throwing jams.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I went the hospital and woke up and it's all
went down. I'm like, I'm trying to throw jabs and
all that and nothing. There's all the way down and
langua was down. I was in the hospital for like
a month and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
A month and a half were you in a bed
for us? No mean, let you walk around.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, well, in the hospital, they try to restrict you
as much as possible, so like and when you try
to get up, alarm, like when you're in the brain
injuring unit, if you get out on the band, turn
your feet touch the floor, alarm goes off. So it's
like almost being in the pen, you know, penitentiary.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, I understand. I've been in this country for a while.
I can speak to lingo.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
And seeing your foot at the ground, all the marsves
come running in and all that. So it took them
a while. And trust me to do what I do.
And then I want to know we have and then
we have to do all the tricks and taying this
and taining that and for your content to make sure
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you're as smart as Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And that's that's the baseline.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Because.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Depends on what hospital when you go to, I mean
the fancy hospitals might be it's gonna be a little more.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You gotta do a little more.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
But they but I think that you know, did they
test you, like with jokes and stuff like that because.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
They take you with like squares circles. They think that something,
you know, they actual em me, dad, what's today's day?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Was stairs? Was that? Why?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I don't know if I could answer that.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, I mean funk wing them sometimes. Yeah, you would
you go to yout your name? What is your name?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Reverend doctor Martin Luther King? They almost had a heart
at time. He's really messed up. Oh my god, God's
messed up. So what coust Did they know what caused it? No,
it wasn't like ice coffee around.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Combine eating hammonds and cholestral cholesterol one damn damn caffeine
and all that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Gotta watch my cholesterol. Went for a thing. I know
you had a stroke, but I had a medical recently
and they told me I have to bring my cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now. I think they're scarce whateverything.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, Hello, this is Craig Ferguson and I want to
let you know I have a brand new stand up
comedy special out now on YouTube. It's called I'm So
Happy and I would be so happy if you checked
it out. To watch the special, just go to my
YouTube channel at the Craig Ferguson show and is this
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right there? Just click it and play it and it's free.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I can't look.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I'm not going to come around your house and show
you how to do it. If you can't do it,
then you can't have it. But if you can figure
it out, it's yours. You're about the same age as me,
or yeah, you're like a couple of years younger.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Mean what age you know? I'm seventy eighth. The fuck.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Like, are you sixty yet?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sixty three now, Oh you know old man? I
got I pee more than I do Anthon else so
do I.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Man. I'm like, I can't stop paying. I don't like I.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Didn't even drink it. Mean, why there's nothing here. I'm
like the fucking Sahara desert and I'm still peak coming out.
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm almost scared to drink water. I'm like, I don't
want to pee. I know why you up again?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I was walking over the Williamsburg Bridge today because I
was trying to go stay healthy, and I started to
walk over the bridges of the I don't know if
I can get over here. Don't be like, I'll give
it a go. But by the time I go over,
I was like, like, I have to find a hipster
coffee shop.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But that's why it's important, man, It's important for man
like else to find women and understand man, I want
peel himself.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, I drank a little when I was younger, so
I met that was kind of the way I would
always find a woman. Did you think as well? Here's
the trick, by the way, if you wake up and
there's pee in the bed, don't assume responsibility right away.
Try and say, is there something wrong? Do you feel sick?
Lay off the you know, I like it? Yeah, just
(15:18):
blame the p on someone else exactly. It doesn't work
that well with vomit, but it works.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, I think so. But did you were there no
signs of this, the signs of the stroke coming to you?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Sign the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Like before you had that me they had, oh.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Right, And now I was going Vegas for like me,
Cavin Horton, come on on Vegas one. I don't want
to that's my yellow fella, right.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I Also you probably want to see carrot Top as well, because.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, you know what, like Karen do I That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I'm going to have him on the show. I do
like Carry. I'm not fucking around. I do like him.
I think he's a much maligned character.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But I watched it happen. Man. Comics they're just they
chased out of comics, out of the business. Yeah, I know.
They're like they are like like hyenas.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Man. I never really hung with comics. No, And then
when and when I was a young comic because I
was just like drunk and I would hang out with bands.
And then when I got late Night because I had
worked on the Drew Carrey Show and it's it was
seen like I had stolen the job from a comic
in some way because it's and I was like, but
(16:40):
I was a fucking comic for years before I did
the Drew Carry Show.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
And they're like, you knew comedy in Scotland.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, and in London too. I did stand up.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I came in there Scotland and in London in ninety two.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's the year I got sober. Really yeah, that's probably why,
because you were there. I was like, fuck, man, yeah,
there's a real man here. Now I can't drink anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm bomb so bad in Scotland did you really then?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Festival?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
No? That we had something called Latinum Comedy. Okay, and
when we wore jackets and all that, the girls one
phonas and were in Scotland and I love Scotland. And
but you guys like to fight.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Man, Well that's why I left because I you know,
a real man situation.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, that's a real.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Man Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
No, they did.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
There's a little bit of fighting.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah. They were like, I don't have you what you
don't have me? What does that mean? Yeah? Do you
know what?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Some of the things that the way they say things
like you know, when people say in America they say
you've got followed through. He's like, it's real follows through.
It's like, yeah, it follows through. And Breton means you
shut yourself. So if you say somebody he followed through,
you go he fed like he chefs out. Really it
(18:08):
makes sense. It kind of feels. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Man, you had a good time.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But that's my first time on brow like that, you know,
so I'm like, oh wow, I had a wonderful time there.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
For like a month, we're in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glasgow, and yeah, yeah,
Glasgow is That's where I'm from. Glasgow.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's why I'm saying who the guy always on the piano.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Comenian Liberacci?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
No comedian comedian?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Uh, Scottish guy. Yes, I know, I bet yeah, but
if he's got a piano, that's kind of like having
one of.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The biggest comings out with Billy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Oh Billy Connley. Yes, oh that he was like he
was like fucking Jackie Robinson's to me Conley because until Belly,
Billy's twenty years older than me.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And he was like my hero because he was from
in Britain, you know, the class system thing. I'm from,
like the lower classes, and he is. He was a
working class comedian. I had never seen anybody from my
background when I was like ten years old, and he
was like thirty years old. So he's just coming up happened.
(19:28):
And we would listen to his albums the way American
kids would listen to like Cosby albums and stuff. I
would be listening to the Belly stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, yeah, I'd seen them all and he was when
one staying at a hotel in Glasgow, right, you know,
you know he was playing in piano.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I didn't even know Belly could play the beyond. Yeah, well,
you know, I'd never associate him with the piano, is
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I see them Mellane County.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
You know what I well, you know it's that thing.
You know, you suck one sheep, you know that's all
everybody remembers.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
You know you had a good time. Why did you
never go back?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Well you told Bob.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, but everybody bums everywhere, even you gotta get I
want to really did was it like bood and stuff?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, it wasn't bowing gotta count like we want to
in London, right like in America when like we try
the energy. Yeah, but the crowds were laid back. Yeah,
you don't need to or no slow down. Yeah, but
I'm like I was gonna watch this.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You know they got mad.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, we had that on him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
The You ever heard musicians talk about when they go
to Japan and play tours in Japan, they'll be like
broken out on stage in the end of the to
the audience will be like, yeah's coaturally different, that's all
you have to Yet.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I had a stroke. That's the difference. A stroke helped me. Me.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Like, when out a stroke, I was, you know, packed
from my home. I scramble all on. When a stroke,
Tom Rainey in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You know what I mean, moved to the left for
a little bit. Yeah, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Like that is the thing though, learning how it stays
still on stage and do your thing. It's actually it
is better for it's much better for Like the best
comics don't run around. I used to run like a fucking.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Idiot all the time. I'll fall down and back up.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'd be like trying to every individual thing. And now
I'm like if I woke out and then I'll talk
and then I woke back, that's it. That's all I'm
going to do.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, you learn that though through the year.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It takes time. It takes time as well. When did
you first get back up after after the stroke?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Was this?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It took me like maybe come a few weeks and
now I'm back on stage.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Man, that is fucking stones there, I mean you are man.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That's second one. Yeah, two years.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The same one was much worse than huh yeah you
didn't drive.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, because my voice came back weren't good when the
first stroke. Now with this one and like you're not
gonna be able to talk again, and you want to
get me to talk again, tell me I'm not going
to talk.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, you know, I did it take a while. I
mean it took two years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, well that's we're going to scan. Don't know the
war is gonna come out? Oh what happened if the
War I get on stage all of a sudden?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Nothing? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Well, it's funny. When I saw you do this set
the other night, it was like I watched it and
I was like, how is this going to go? Because
I you know, I hadn't seen the special at that point.
I since watched it and went okay, okay, find fucking
nailed it, but I hadn't seen it. I was like,
I'd heard that you'd had a stroke, right, And.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I was like, I don't know how this is going
to work when that's what my thing was.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
But what was amazing, Like after about thirty seconds just
to comic on stage, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You gotta make it though, Why I do my best?
I means such an assholey.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But it was kind of interesting way
it becomes because you make it like it's it's like
it's part of the thing, you know, It's just like
it's this is who I am, this is what I'm doing,
and yeah, and it kind of yeah, I hate that.
All that would freak me out.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Get out that. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Did you get better that when you first went up?
Did you feel it with the first Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But I say something so fucked up? Fuck him? Yeah,
that's why I want you. Yeah, and that's exactly where
I want you to fuck him?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Fuck have dare It's an interesting thing. Tell me about
the second one?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Then?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That was how long I'm between the first and the
second one?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I had the second one and twenty sixteen, oh right,
the next one came twenty twenty, and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Did you get COVID or something?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Did that? Did that? Dude? I got no?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
And just what happened? And I'm trying my best. It's
a real story, this girl, what I mean I mean?
And we're imposed to going to.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Vegas together then right? Wo man? Yeah, sent up, everything's good.
While COVID came right no Vegas.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Around Thanksgiving in twenty twenty, she's saying, won't when you
come see me in my house and not going on?
You know, you can't have things given on your family
or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Say I'll go to Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They get some right, So this is a romantic assignation. Yeah, Okay,
I got it.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I brought flowers with me now now so you should do.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You should bring flowers so gas station flowers are fighting.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
But you know, so I tell everybody my son, his
mom and all, I'm going to perform with Louis King.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
So you want to be too much. And I'm going
there before and looking for Louis all the stuff he
wanted them. Now me I had more.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
So I get this stroke. And I was on my
way out, flying there like its real ship flying up.
It was only I'm first fians some cournos y.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, it goes with that. Man. Man, it's another running playing.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I got it. So I'm drinking. You know, they give
you all.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I'm plastic, but they, you know, want to make the
announcement twenty minutes away. And when I so, I'm and
I know I'm not gonna get twenty minutes, ten minutes
to our house, thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I'm fopping the viavon because I want to be ready.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You took fai Igra twenty minutes before landing, Yeah, because
you figured it would be thirty minutes to rest, knowing
you'd already had a fucking stroke. That's why it kids
out fucking just this is the greatest fucking story I've
ever heard.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
So, you know, get in the car. Yeah, once I
get off the plane now and got off the plane,
I sat.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Do you have an erection at this point?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right? Good? Okay, So that's what kept me walking.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
So I'm i'm I'm like, oh ship man. At getting
in the car, I'm like, oh fuck, shout, I go
to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Or getting Oh yeah, it's a it's a real, it's
a real.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Get laid, get laid.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It's a dead level.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
No one, I'm not going on the door, right, she
got in there, open the door. We started doing on
something and uh that is just count what. I still
spend the night and.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I woke up. I can't even moved. The ambulance came in. Wow. Yeah,
the ambulance left me up out out of the pussy.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
So so again there was you spend the whole night there, Yes, stupid,
just that. But this is amazing to me. So there's
you take the fright access. So the vakara wears off
or it doesn't wear off.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I doesn't wear off. Yes, my you know, my body
is like, but he's about to die. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
You're about to die? But your but your phoenix is
still going.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
To try my best friend.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Jesus. So you were like you were in the hospital
in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Then, yes, I was in the hospital of the Phoenix,
and I'm like, I can't stay here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That's Phoenix. You cant stay there. You can go for
a weekend, but you guys.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Stay I need to go back. Yeah, I said, no,
you're not supposed to flying back on the stroke, flying back,
I'm gone, And I flew back.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
First class. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just wanted to make
sure that you.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Think I'm gonna have a stroke and a coach thirty
four b.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, you don't want to have a stroken coat. No,
that's about That's like the kid behind you with at
the back of your chair.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I was been dead. Yeah, yeah to the front. Yeah, no,
you have to have it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
So but you didn't have one of them. You flew back.
How long until you flew back?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, I stayed there at night, and I don't you're
kidding me why I keep telling you?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
No, I know, but I mean, Jesus Christy, he did it.
That's nuts. And so you went.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And it's nuts when I think about, like, what the
hell was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
And also the fact they let you on the plane,
you know, I mean, you could have followed that play
like that. I've seen I've seen people on planes like
that though, but they figured out was drunk. They just
thought you were drunk in to this because you were
first class. They let you on because he's in first class.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You can't in them first class, You can't come back.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, he's not gonna die, he's first class.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
He's setting there. Man. Yeah. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So what happens after you have a stroke though, when
you're your way back, do you have to like go
to like the physical rehabit?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Wanna sent me in a driver one? Damn?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, that's fucking great.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well you know, I mean want more roommates? Yeah, you
back away?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, so, but she sent me in room, my man
Robert and my son's mom and all them came and
picked me up. And when you drove, you know, to
the hospital in Jersey.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Jam K from JFK, Well, no, w SIRT hospital was yet.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh JFK hospel. We didn't like the JFK airport to
JFK hospital. One never cared for. I don't suppose that's
an important part of the story, but it's worth knowing.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
No, it's not that important. It's not important from Norington
during the hospital as long is that? Do you what?
What do you? What do you take?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The bridge is a tunnel? You know it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think it was pelaskious.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But so how long are you like totally incapacitated when
they're saying to you, he's not going to speak again,
he's not going to do all that.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I was never incapacitated. All right, I'm always fighting, right,
you know what I mean? Because when you can go
to the hospital, they treat every patient. All strokes ain't
the same, but they treat you like yanny of mine
and you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And that was the case for you though.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
No, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's weird, but they you know, one woman now on
like you move like no, no, no, you can't hold
and I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
To the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
You can't hold yourself up, and the bitch you look
at me, I start doing you know, shut ups. I
just looked like I can't pull myself up. Yah nah,
you bitch.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well I got jumped by a pack of nurses. You
could jump, Yeah, they jump me.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
What did you what did they do? They take your
stuff the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
When you you know, you got a stroke or whatever.
You lane shoots up because you're getting spasmed, right, and
then you shut up and a woman like, oh, he's
fight me, he's fighting me, and so yeah, they jump
on me. You were kicking him, Yeah, like bitch spasms thing.
(33:01):
Get I want to bring us up because you talked
the viagura early on. Did you get specims in your No,
I wish I did every it would be great and
just pop up. I don't know. I was like, sorry,
that be great. I would have loved that.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, that's uh so you were in there. How long
were you were? Like two years before you go on stage,
but you're in the hospital for like a long months
two months, and then you have to like go to
learn Well you could always walk though, right.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, you got to learn how to walk again.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh it's like it's all mental and confidence, right you know,
so you starting to slowly learn how to walk again,
and uh man, you walk and walk and walk. But
I can tell this what was different behind this lane fount?
Speaker 2 (33:59):
You know? Yeah, this is a loosy right there.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, you're talking about boxing, like Bolks the people I
know who and I did a little bit years and
years ago as well. Like the kind of shape that
you get in by Balks is great shape. I mean
(34:27):
the best shape I've been in my life is when
I'm exactienth my god. And do you think that because
you were in that kind of shape, that's what go
you through the Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Well yeah, what life as you prepared? Yeah? Well everything
you know on the stroke and all that, you have
that fighting spirit. Yeah, and you're just going I'm not
going down now, not now?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, No, is it going to improve? Do you think
they think the doctor's thing.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Is go ahead for wow? Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You know you just I don't think about it becausen't
even think about it and getting but yeah, it's improving anyway,
you know, going, I'm gonna understand.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I was going to say, once you go. My thing,
you know, stand up is stand up is actually even
if you're just standing up doing it, I mean for
any length of time, it's standing tiring.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
But that's what I'm saying. During an hour, I was
scared when I did my hour, you know, back to
back hours.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yeah, because you do it special, you gotta when it worked, Yeah,
that where did you shoot.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
That Sony Music Hall?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Where's that?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Well?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Four in town?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So when you're getting there from Jersey, you take the
tunnel or no?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
When I do, I take the long waye cheap, no
toe unless toll.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Right, So you're gonna go up and around? Yes, all right, okay?
Or maybe get a boat or get a boat fair? Yeah,
I got fair. I don't take the fair take the fairies.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I hate any place you gotta catch a fairy to
go to. I okay, all those what's that?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Uh holland?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
No, and it's in Boston somewhere.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh, Martha's Vineyard.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, I can't stand now, I ain't Martha's venue.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
No, have you ever been to Martha's Vineyard?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yes? Why I hate it?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Why? I just I didn't see much to hte about it.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
They got a nice cream parlor, and Barack Obama is there.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I think I know, but it still bugs me. And yeah,
the faerry to get to us.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, you know what I don't like. I lived in
a place once where you had to take a ferry,
and they always the ferries are always breaking down. That's
why you know, when I'm going to Jersey, I take
the tunnel. I mean a lot of people say don't,
but I do. I do take the tunnel, which especially
if you're going to New York, take the tunnel. I've
(37:21):
moved back to New York after being away for a
long time, and I fucking love this study.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I love. Yeah, I'm from Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah that's right, But you moved up here a while ago.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Right ninety two on til one. And when moving to
New York.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Right, that's the year ago. So you went up to
New York. But Philly where you grew up in Philly?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Was it was it rough? Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Yeah, yeah, it was a rough stop, you know what
I mean, Like you know when when were well, we
can leave my doors on whatever because of my one
that woman you know, yeah she shot and all that
and that gun. Yeah, she shot a guy in a
car game?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
And is this a Western? What's she shot a guy
in a fucking card game? Your mom shot a guy
in a car?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What is like?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Was he was he cheating? What?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I don't know what?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
You know, I was young man, but I was like
nine ten, right, And next thing I know, we're on
a bus, Greyhound bus, on a.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Run because your mom's on the run, because she showed
a guy didn't die shot.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Well, you know that's that his story. That's no juice story, and.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
That nothing to do with me.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
No, but we would, we wanted. We moved to Feathereralsburg,
Maryland for about one.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Year until the heat comes off.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And then and I never.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Forget when parent and teacher day and then T was like,
your Sonny, he's not focused. We need him to focus.
And Mom like, why can't you focus?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Mom? Because you're on and run now how you want
me to focus?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
It's be very difficult though, its a parent, I think
to discipline your kids because you can always say, mom,
you shot a guy in a car. Yeah, like if
my mother had said it was tight for bed. Oh
is it you shot a guy? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Let me make this call real bad were in f bird.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, come and get us. So did your mom still
play cards? She passed away, pass away, but she still
playing cards after that?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, probably for the best.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Everybody back in the seventies had a lot of car games.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
You know, actually I kind of remember that too. People
used to come run there and play cards. Yeah, and
little bit but it's just for like a little bits
of money. It wasn't like what we went for potatoes.
It was really for actually potatoes, Like I'll bet you
one potato.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
What they had what they call rent parties so on
to get your rent that you had an old game
soul dinners and all that playing the card games. Everybody
was cheating, you know, But yeah, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Quite a spectacular. Now, my wife has this idea that
all comedians have the same mother, because she and my
mother had uh you know, they had a relationship. It
was she says, I don't know if it applies to
your mom, but she says that all comedians also, she says,
only good stand up comedians have the same good starting
(40:51):
comedians of the same mode, cold with bad boundaries.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That's what she said.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Now, my mom was just like she showed a guy
in a card game. There's nowhere you can go with this, Keith.
It's not like you're gonna sell this, like my moment
is a great mom.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
She was a sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Oh my god, how did you end up then getting
a stand up from that background?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
I mean, you know, I would always tell stories right
now when living in uh Let's passion projects, and I
always tell a story about the lecture man behind the
TV and they had them all laughing and all that.
And then when I got old and older, I got
and I kept here and win your and uh and
(41:38):
from listening to Richard and I'm like, I can't do that.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Now she and some comedies that was awful. I'm like,
I can do that. You can do that? Yeah, yeah,
I can. I can do that.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
It's funny. I mean that when you talk about and
I've heard other comedians say that's about Richard Bryan is
that's the way I think about Billy. We were talking
about that. I didn't know if I could do that,
but I thought it doesn't look like a good way
to live.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
It's not thinking it comes to think of it is
not it's not really.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I was a kid, you know, it looked like everybody's
your friend. And you get up, Yes, then you get
further round and everybody's know your friend, not your friend.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
But comedy probably saming from Alana the Bullship. Yeah, well
you know on these streets and all that. Yeah, I
ain't new comedy.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Where did you start doing stand up?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Man? Was in Philadelphia? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Whereabout? It was the club there or.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Something comedy in Factory Island, right third and banc streets
is still there.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No, all right, clubs are gone. It seems to me
like the law of that coming back.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Coming back again.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
But it feels like I don't know if I'm right
on this. But I did a couple of drop ends
at the Saillar last week and it is fine.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
I like doing it.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
But it was fun, it was great, it was fun.
It's a good room and it was funny and it
was funny. But I'm so used to doing an hour
ninety minutes. Like doing that fifty minutes long kind of
like you have to sharpen your.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Shit little a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, well then you go back and tell them you
want to do an hour in one in the room
and they'll give me an hour.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Right, I don't know if I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
You're sad you usually doing an hour?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, But I don't know if I want to do
it there, because I don't know. Am I going to
take the bridge, I'm going to take the tunnel? Am
I going to get there?
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I don't know. I don't know if I want to
do that. Also, I feel like it might be cover helicopter.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
A helicopter, fucking taking a helicopter, man, No, I actually
I don't think I'll ever get a helico again.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
The same. Yeah, I don't forget those holocopters.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, it's not for me.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
I'm not safe.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
They're not safe. They're not safe. I don't care what
anybody says. I don't want to get in a helicopter.
He used to do you know what, Bill burfly a helicopter.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, I will never get in a damn hell County No, Bill, No.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You know it's just a no again. I'm sure he's
a great pilot.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Bullshit.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
You know I've got a pilot's license. Yeah, I got it,
not for helicopters. But I used to be terrified of flying,
so I thought if I learned a fly to fly
the plane, I won't be scared. Well, here's what happens.
I learned how to fly the plane, and I'm about
twenty minutes from landon in Phoenix one time, and a
(44:47):
guy at the bell no mention. A guy at the
back who takes a viagraa because he's going to meet
his girlfriend and he's start and I'm traumatized.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
I haven't flown ste No every time, I have faith
in my heart.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Just oh, I know, really, Chris wrote one minute, one minute,
come rain for right, And I was so scared to
get all flights.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
I'm like, do you get you get on the air place?
Now you're okay? Yeah, I mean when I first I'm like, yeah,
where would you have to go to write out to
l A. No, he was working on and oh not
the Live Earth thing. Yes, yeah, that's fine. I ran
into him when he was doing that. I was I
(45:34):
was doing We were in the same hotel in Charlotte.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yeah, and the only time Chris what I was.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Going to go Charlotte. Unny, they have a great comedy club.
It was the Comedy Zoom. That's a great club.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Amazing, Yeah, that one.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
And I like the W's in Denver.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
They have these really good questions.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
With David All. Did that Skanks for the Memories? Yeah, yeah,
that I love that. I guess I was an album
really when it wasn't really even a special.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Well his own he's just like, you know, does his
own things. I love them.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
I had to when I heard Skanks for the Memories.
I was driving from uh somewhere in central California to
LA and I had to pull over its side of
the road, but he did that thing. I was laughing
so hard I couldn't I couldn't actually drive. I had
to pull over. It was when he was doing that
thing about having his friend who was a midget. Yeah,
(46:43):
and OK, my god, it just got worse and worse,
funnier and funnier. Fun Is there any time you think
I I think I already know the answer to this anyway,
But is there anything you think I can't really do
(47:06):
a joke about that. It's not really anything that. No,
it's not really any I mean when I saw you
go up and do this stuff about even with the
stroke and some of the material you were doing, it's
so fucking dark, but so fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's what we do.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
We so you process it.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Right, Yeah, we dare to do whatever.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, in school and everything is quiet, you know, coming up,
I'm like, how can I start some trouble?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
And that's a common thinking, all right, I mean quiet,
I'm saying, not assembly. Finally I'll starting to call and
call and I'm like, god, damn, then get out of it,
hang out and I would you know.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
You know, Cicero in ancient Rome said a great thing
I think can anyone in true business should remember. He said,
if you want to know who your friends are start
a fight. That's a great fucking thing. And I feel
that's like a comedian's mind a little bit, you know
what I mean. It's like, all right, let's fucking say,
(48:15):
oh we got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a little bit.
Sometimes I think there's a little bit of sometimes you
maybe shouldn't start a fight because you're gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
Hey man, sometimes you can't, you know.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Also, though I do, I think to the day I die,
I'll be full of admiration for the idea of I've
already had one stroke. But it's twenty minutes to landing,
and I'm happy at our house and I'm going to
take a fucking VI. I like, that's the maddest, most
one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard about.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
It's still it's what I think about romantic.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
It's so romantic. And the fact that they had to, like,
you know, lift you out there, it's just fabulous. Thanks
so much for coming in, Manly. Yeah, I can't tell
you how impressed I am with well, first of all,
(49:16):
the fact that the you know, you're the comic that
you are, but also that you processed this and still
turned it into comedy. It's just funny, outstanding. It's outstanding,
that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
It was on Netflix, man, Netflix.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
I know, I really think that was quite a wonderful title.
I met him, by the way, you know who was
the little guy again Gary? What was his name.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
Was that low guys? I met him. I met him.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
He was on the Drew Carry Show when I was on.
Oh wow, Yeah, he came on.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
He was.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I mean, we had an afternoon chatting.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
I think it's his folks took all the money.
Speaker 1 (50:04):
I think I think that came up. Actually, I think
you mentioned that. Yeah, and that's a man.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
Mom. He shoots in a car game. That's a good mom.
Speaker 1 (50:13):
Well, pistol whips one of the other ladies in the
drive for me? Yeah, well, I know, yeah, for me.
For you, yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
It's so different mom, A different different mom.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
You know what, though, I think if my mom, if
she had had access to a pistol, she made a
pistol whip.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah. A lot of moms in the seventies Lee's had
a twenty two, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Where I grew up, But they had there was more,
you know, clubs and knives and stuff clubs, and there
was still isn't a lot of guns over there, you know,
that's right. Yeah, it's not a lot of guns. Nobody
has that.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
I'm blaming the government, Well mom for my mom shooting somebody.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Wait what wait?
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Why is the government access to gods?
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Access to gods? That's right. If she didn't have a gun,
she would have had.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
To use a gloves What is the difference?
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Get the fuck out
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