October 28, 2024 • 34 mins
In this conversation, Allen Covert shares his journey from growing up in Florida to becoming a prominent figure in comedy and film, particularly through his collaborations with Adam Sandler. He discusses the evolution of comedy, the challenges of making R-rated films today, and the current state of Hollywood, emphasizing the need for a return to genuine humor in cinema. Covert reflects on the cultural shifts in comedy and the importance of creating relatable content for younger generations. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, and welcome to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's hard to avoid the election.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm super in it like many of you, and I
try to keep politics out of this show, but obviously
it seeps in from time to time, and a few
days before major presidential election is just that kind of time.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm already hearing.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
From people who are saying that their relationships, their friendships,
their family connections are getting strained.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Because of the election.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
On News Nation the other night, jd Vance said, if
you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody is voting for
the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake
and you should do something different. Don't cast aside family
members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. I
love that he said that, especially because he's on the
ticket obviously and should want people to care more about
(00:56):
voting for him than their friendships. It was nice of
him to say that. But I'm not going where you
think I'm going with all this. Yes, I think you
should keep politics separate from your friends and family. People
who love you can disagree with you have different values
than you all of it. I'm very kombayah about the
whole thing. Really, I have friends who I love who
(01:17):
are firmly on the left. I don't have any leftist family,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Really just sheer luck.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Ha ha. What I want to say, though, is that we've
been talking on the show about making friends in adulthood,
and I actually think it's completely okay to not pursue
friendship with people on the opposite political side. I know
it doesn't make sense that I would say that, because
I just said I have lots of friends on the left,
(01:45):
So why am I dissuading you from friend making.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Across political lines?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And look, if you meet someone, you're playing tennis with them,
you meet them at work, whatever, you hit it off,
and they have opposite politics but you like each other.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Of course, go for it friends.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But friendships in adulthood usually take more work than this.
So if you meet someone and before you really know
if they're funny, or if you have things in common
or any of that, you find out you're not politically aligned,
I think it's fine to say, eh, not going to
pursue this friendship, especially if your political ideals do really
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matter to you. Plenty of people are mostly apolitical, so
if that's you, great but if your politics do matter
to you, I say keep the old friends with whom
you're not politically aligned, But no need to be in
any big rush to make more of these. As you
get older, it's hard to maintain friendships. And I said
(02:43):
in a previous episode that things like hobbies might not
actually matter in new friendships as much as we think,
but values and outlook they might matter a lot more. Again,
to me, I find humor to be top of the list,
like our are we laughing at the same stuff? Can
we make each other laugh? That matters to me. So
(03:05):
if I meet a super leftist, I find them really
funny and we have amazing banter like that's to me
as a friend, But a relationship that I have to
work at and we don't have ideals in common. Tougher Again,
you meet somebody at work, you crack up all through
lunch and then she's voting for Kamala and you're voting
for Trump. But doesn't mean you can't be friends. You're
(03:29):
already pick her in grown up friendships. Give yourself permission
to sort by politics too. That's all I'm saying. Don't
discard people like JD Van said, but having similar lifestyles
to new friends that you make as a grown up
will go a long way into turning them into old friends.
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If you've got thoughts on this, drop me an email
Carol Markowitz Show at gmail dot com. K A R
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gmail dot com. Coming up next and interview with Alan Covert.
Join us after the break. Welcome back to the Carol
(04:11):
Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Alan Covert.
Alan is an actor producer. You've seen him in all
the Adam Sandler movies, Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer, Little Nikki,
all of them. And he's also the star of the
cult classic where I first saw him, Grandma's Boy.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Hi, Alan, So nice to have you on.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Hey, Carol, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was thinking about this this is I've had a
lot of well known guests on the show, but you
are the guest.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That I cannot wait for like my group of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like non political, non twitter nerd friends, like my real
crew of friends.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
To see this, and they're gonna be like you had
Grandma's Boy on. It's going to be a very exciting moment.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, thank you. I mean, you know at cult. Look,
I'll take the cult.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't need to be that famous. It's too much
of an infringement on your life.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I like, are we not supposed to drink the kool
aid during the movie? Because I thought that's what?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh no, no, no. I'm like the cult thing because
you know, it's small enough and rabid enough that I can, like,
you know, get a good seat at a restaurant if
there's a big line in the hosts, but not enough
to where like people bother me non stop. I've been
around people like that. Yeah right, I've spent a good
(05:27):
chunk of my life around people who can't go to
the mall. And I like going to the mall. But yeah,
but it's I'm glad people like it, and it's always
fun to have people mention it to me.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So I did some research on you before the show.
Learned a lot of things I didn't know. You were
born in Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, sported rays. Actually I didn't grow up on pum
Beach where Mark Lago is. I grew up where the
people who had jobs live. As if my dad had
a job.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Most poor people yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I knew a lot of people who lived on Palm Beach.
You know, it's it's a funny town. Uh so, But
I remember when Marlago was empty. That kid was an
abandoned mansion and no one lived there. And then Trump
bought it. He bought it after I had moved and stuff.
But yeah, I grew up in South Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I love Palm Beach.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I you know a lot of people compared to like
other rich you know enclaves like the Hampton's or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But Palm Beach is so colorful and unusual. I just
I love it there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, if if funny were no object, I'd live
on the island.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
A friend of mine from high school had hit it
big and he's got a house a block off the
beach about Worth End.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I didn't even mind, like three blocks off the beach.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'll take it. But it's like he bought that not
because he cares about living on Palm Beach, but because
the there is it's a public beach. But to actually
get there, you'd have to walk like five miles and
there's nowhere to park, and yeah, they know what they're
doing over there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, so how did you get into acting. What's your
path here?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It was something I always wanted to do. As a kid,
I did plays, and it's just always fascinated by movies.
I mean, I was telling someone yesterday, we were talking
about old movies that we saw in the theaters, because
that's part of my home thing I'm trying to do,
which we'll get to eventually, gotta. I remember like just
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riding my bike to the movie theater alone to see
a matinee of Young Frank and stuff. You know, I
remember running home to get home in time to watch.
I loved Lucy. I was just I loved comedy. I
loved stand up comedy. I love cartoons that were funny.
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I loved anything that made me laugh. And you know,
Jerry Lewis, buddy it just whoever was funny. I was
just obsessed with and I don't know, but it was
sunning because then when it came to like me doing it,
I never thought I was funny. So I just wanted
to be in movies. I wanted to be an actor,
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but then I was funny.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do people still try to be funny? I feel like
a lot of funniness has been lost. Do you see
that or do you still find funny around.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
There's so much funny a round. Yeah, but right now
it's pretty right now, it's pretty much in the stand
up realm and in the podcast and independent realm. Look,
some of the funniest people I've read are on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right, so you enjoy the Twitter?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Any of them? Three year Wetterman, Oh nobody.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love three year Letterman so good.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I just go, wow, you're a great writer. Yeah,
they're iowaha.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh yeah, so's the.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know, autism of the cars where he can literally
see a fender and be like nineteen twelve Henry Ford's
personal you know, I mean I knew the guy free Twitter. Yeah,
I don't know him, but I mean, h and I
remember I think he was the one who did Zark
(09:30):
Carwe's Mom's letter or letter to the press or something.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, there's a lot of funny on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Actually, went so many funny people out there, and people
are dying to be funny. And one of the reasons.
One of my big things in life right now at
this moment. Look, I worked at Happy Madison before it
was Happy Matts.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's Adam Sandler's that's.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Adam Sales coming production company. Basically the people who there
from the beginning. We were all in college together, and
then after the movie started it and then Happy Madison
got formed. But I mean we were involved all the
way through.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, and they were okay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They're all okay with like you being an outspoken conservative
on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's well.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You know, there was a period of my life where
I didn't go as nuts on Twitter because I knew
that I that I represented Adam in the company, and
so I tried to be as respectful to him in
the company as I could. Uh, you know, at the
end of the day, I'm an adult, but I also
understand that I'm associated with a brand that you know,
(10:43):
it's not my position to go out there, so I
would try to keep things, you know, look like what sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Right, arguments are fun?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I have now that because what happened was just
not to but to kind of get to what I'm
trying to explain to you is that three years ago
I had to take time off to deal with some
family issues. I thought it was only gonna be a
little bit and we here are. We were here three
years later, and I think it's time for me to
(11:15):
get back to work. I think I'm Kate, I think
that the situation I was dealing with is almost done
and I'd like to get back to work. Earlier, about
a year ago, I thought I was getting ready and
I let Adam know that that I was going to
be leaving the company just because I'm I turned sixty
(11:35):
the other day, and so I was just like.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
While you really you do not look sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I feel like I'm look eighty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But the people watching this on video will know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh yeah, but we'll get it. I know I have
like two overnight bags. I take my own luggage with me.
But so I I said to him, my go look,
I said, I just I want to do something. I
just want to do something. I was like, I did
everything that was on my list of things. I said,
So now I got a new list of things, and
(12:10):
that involves I want to I just want to make
R rated comedies and bring them back to theaters. Yes,
that's it, that's amazing. And here's why this to me,
this is important. It thought, just he I want to
be dub and make money.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Making money?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I have no fublem, But yes, I wouldn't think if.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
It comes with money, why not you know.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Money, I wouldn't have been able to be in the
position to take three years off to care for my family, right,
I'm very eager to prop it off of my work, sure, sir.
And so that's my whole goal. And it's because my
daughter graduated high school this year. She's a film nerd.
(12:53):
Her friends are film nerds. They do not have a
single movie to call their own from her. I had ten, Yeah,
I had.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So that's really what I was asking was that nothing
seems like the funny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Kind of our radar.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Actors are riddy, Yeah, directors already. The studios are stupid.
I are.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm clear that hurdle.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's why I'm here talking to you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, all right, I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Any billionaires listening, Yes, we have, Holly would. There's always
money and disruption, guys, Hollywood's broken distribution is broken. I
know a lot of Look, I've been out here for
thirty five forty years making movies, thankfully and luckily I
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know a lot of the people who run the studios,
just because I've been out here so damn long. Right,
you know the guy like one of the you know,
you meet a guy who's someone's assistant. Twenty five years later.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They Haney Wall Show yeah, and you know, and these.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Are people who came out here to make movies and
they get it. But there's this whole generation under them
that's making the decisions of what scripts get through the filter. Right,
have a clue, what's fun? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That filter is holding up everything.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Well, it's sad because look, I'll tell you this, This
isn't me. Everyone knows how I feel about things. My
daughter's friends are very artsy high school. They're begging for
already comedies. Right, These are not maga kids.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, let me think it's funny.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
A lot more conservative than people would think they are,
because the things they are conservative about are the things
that they're pushing back against that they feel are being
shoved out in their throats. Because these kids, who all
want to be filmmakers, they all watched Granmar's Boy a
few Oh yeah, it was the first time my daughter
had seen it. Oh wow, she's on the state team.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I thought it like played on like on loop in
your house.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh god, my son is like, why do I watch
any of your movies?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
He told your son?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Okay, so I'm just getting them through the Happy gil Mores. Yes,
with water boys. I would't even let them watch Billy Madison.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh yeah, I mean I think, yeah, I'm almost ready
for my kids to see Billy Madison. I remember laughing
my face off at Billy Madison. That was in college
when it came out, and just like my best friend
and I just doubled over in pain.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Laughing in the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And I just that's what I mean when I say
I don't think things are funny, because I can't imagine
that seeing a movie that I would find that funny today.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I just I can't even remember the last movie I
saw like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
May look and I but I've seen I've seen stand.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Up guys, Yeah, stand up in a good place.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Script I have scripts.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Right, Well, stand up is I think harder, harder to
cancel because it's one guy and it's like or girl,
and you're either laughing or you're not.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Like movies, I'm gonna I'll go do an arena to weeks.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But movies you have the gatekeeper and you have the
people who put it through the filter. So I just
and none of it's and not just movies, but TV
shows or late night shows, like my god, these late
night hosts are.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not just not funny but like unfunny, deeply, deeply unfunny.
They're angry and they're not at all humor at his
And yeah, I've known the Jimmies, both of them, huh.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've known both of them for thirty five years. Tweet.
I met Jimmy Fallon when we were shooting The Wedding Singer,
and he was a stand up comic who had been
in town about two weeks. These guys are funny guys.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So what happened to them? Why are they not funny anymore?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It depends on what you watch. I mean they're we're
both I mean they both still do things that make
me laugh.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel completely to me funny, come to.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And it's part of the problem with Hollywood. Look, I
love Jimmy Kimmel. If I called Jimmy Kimmel and said
I need you to come be in this movie today,
he'd probably do it. He's always like friendly and sweet
and so nice. And you know, I don't agree with
his politics. Look, his old partner Adam Carolla doesn't really
(17:32):
with his right. Yeah, I just think that like when
when you're supposed to appeal to everyone and you make
a concerted effort to go after one person insess me relentlessly. Well,
a lot of people obviously a lot of people still watch.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But I wouldn't even care.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I would not even care if it was going after
one side, if it was funny, if he made me laugh,
I wouldn't care if you attacking my politics, like it's
just it's so, it's just political ranting.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Like I said, Look, I love those two guys. I've
known Val since he was a kid. I remember talking
to him when he was nervous doing Saturday a lot.
You know, he's a great impressionist, he's a great writer.
He's really Look, you don't get to be that job
unless you actually are charming and can appeal to people. Yeah,
(18:28):
and uh, I just yeah, I think Jimmy was nice
to Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right, and then he had to apologize for that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just got destroyed, Yeah, he cried in his apology.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We a lot of people they look at their life
getting destroyed and they get scared.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So when they ask you if you're not scared.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Because I don't care, I mean I really just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I've had that not caring a little far, but a
great life, you know, said, I've lit a great light.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, your first question was what do you worry about?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, we go and get to that. What do you
worry about?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Alan only thing I worry about my kids, that's it. Yeah,
that's it. But that involves so much, right, involves everything? Yeah,
you know, but that's it. I don't care about my job.
I'll go get another job. I'll find us to do.
I'll be your co host.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yes, you'd be my co you know, I really.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Don't care all those autographs that conventions every weekend to
put over my kids head. All I care about is
my kids, right, that's it. That's all I worry. I
worry about their future. I worry about what they're being taught.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
My oldest daughter forced me to let her get vaccinated
so she could go see Harry Styles at Madison's Square
Garden and gets sick.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I feel guilty. No, really, it's because I get vaccinated
and I worry about or constantly because of that. Yeah,
because the other three.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was just like, no, right, if it makes you
feel better, I think that the you know the time
period has been long enough that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You know the problems would have potentially developed by now.
So now, don't beat yourself up over it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But I also I vaccinated my oldest two with the
pediatric vaccine to send them to sleep Away Cam And
I you know, I'm like, why didn't I just spake
a vaccine card like everybody else, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, yeah, that's all I'm worried about. That's it my kids,
their future, their health and you know, And but also
this relates, like me wanting to do these R rated
movies relates to that because here's my theory, mind, my
theory in my stupid head of why I think this
is important. These kids, I mean, all they do, all
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they hear all day is how horrible everything is. Yeah,
and how they need to save the world because their
parents let them down. I mean, pressure on these kids
is insane. And I would really say, you're a kid,
go out with your friends and do something stupid, Go
go hike and find a dead body. I can stand
(21:30):
by me. Yeah, I have a movie that I'm trying
to get made in connection with Bill Burr's company called
All Things Comedy. Look look at the Guy. Like Bill
Burr is a lot of conservative, right, but if you
heard left wing liberal you know, white women talk about it, right,
(21:52):
Bill Burr's tromp. Yes, Bill Burr's not voting for Troup, right, and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He has some of the better jokes about the right.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I think he's the reason Ilbur's jokes are funny about
Trump is because they're funny, right, and he doesn't use
them to try to make people hate m But I
personally think I have a movie called Scavenger Hunt. It's
the most simple movie there is. It's Scavenger Hunt, Senior Night,
(22:23):
Scavenger Hunt, Lady School. That's it. Cars full of kids,
you got the jocks, you got the nerds, you got
the arts sees, you know, and all the chorus have titles.
It's like, you know, great writers. I don't have their
names in front of me, and I'm just clueless. But
I mean, I let my daughter read this script and
(22:45):
she goes, Wow, the dialogue's really good. It's not cringe.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's just for me, not cringe. That's the best complimented
teenager could give you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Here. Here's what one of her friends, who I know
for a fact is probably voting for Kablas, said to me.
A guy, He's like, you need to make more funny movies.
He said, uh, he said, all we ever get is
literally he said this to me. He said, all we
ever get is gender in suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's all so dark. It's like they're supposed to
be worried all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
And it's just like I tell my son every day,
I go, who cares you ten? Go play baseball as
a google, plant the tree in the backyard and pretend
you're a pirate. That's all I tell them all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, but they get They just get this kind of
pushed on them their whole lives. I mean, just the
fact that we, for example, teach climate change starting in kindergarten, Like, why,
even if you're a super pro climate change, you know,
pro telling everybody about it, why start telling them in
kindergarten that the world is in trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
What is the kindergartener going to do for you? How
are they going to help to solve this problem?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I have one of these crazy memories, not like I'm
a photographic, but I just like to no, trust me,
if you had me read something, gave me quiz on it,
I'd probably answer, well, but I just remember stuff for
my life, and I know for a fact that one
night I was watching All in the Family, which was
(24:18):
one of my favorite shows ever. Well, I was I
think nine, maybe my son's age ten, and it was
the first time I'd ever heard about the ozone hole.
Meathead was going off about how we were killing ourselves
and that the ozone hole was going to kill us
all right, like ten years. What year was that, Probably
(24:39):
seventy seven, seventy six, maybe I don't know. I'd remember
where we were. My dad was in law school, so
I was definitely ten and under. But I just remember
literally getting to knock in my stomach and getting scared.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, it didn't help anything, right, You've being scared did
not prove little in the O zone.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I was watching an adult show, but I remember that fear. Yeah,
I remember sitting here at sixty going, what happened with.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
We fixed it? We like patched it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Right? Oh, look at ares movie. Yeah, not one prediction
in that movie came.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Trip And you know it's not true because al Gore
continued living however he wanted and didn't change any of
your Yeah, right, So how concerned is he really?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It's by the way, I wonder about that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Look I fly regular back in the day when I
was going around with sailor a lot. I will tell
you right now that there is no greater luxury on
earth than flying.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I've only done it twice in my life and it
was magical. Magical. Yeah, Oh, it's so good. The car
just meets you on the tarmac. I mean unfeatable.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Today, Okay, I mean it's literally like the most like
like the Pharaoh of Egypt did not live as well
as that, not even close.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I'm not going to sit here and tell other people
you can't go on vacation.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right, I know we'll go on vacation.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Just don't lecture me while you're flying on your private
jet alone.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Leonardo DiCaprio like a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Of others that I'm yeah right, and I mock them.
By the way. Look, mostly a lot of people are friends.
There's people out here that do horrible things that I'm
not friends with. There's Hollywood is not It appears evil
because the people who are evil seem to be the loudest.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right now, there's almost true for every everything.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So many good people out here. But the but the
problem is not so much evil. Is did he evil? Apparently?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, sounds like it Yeah, sounds like it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yes, evidence pointing to it. Yes, is bob Iger evil?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Is Bob Iger arrogant and deluded? Completely Wabiger thinks it's
his job to mold the brains of America's youth to
agree with what he agrees. That's right. I thinks that's
the right thing, and.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
So is that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You know, well, that's ship up. I agree, and to
mock it ruthlessly. But you know what's great right now
is uh uh Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey on SNL. Yeah,
Oh my god. He's doing the Biden they should have
been doing for three and a half years, and she's
(27:34):
doing the Kamla that they.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Have to watch.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It clicks, they get a couple of cold openings, and
the reason they're good is because they're not doing it
out of hate. Yeah, cure to you. Maya does not
hate Kamila. Great. Of course, I don't know what Dana thinks,
(27:58):
but his impression is not about a man he hates, right,
He's doing an impression about a man he observes. And
that's why guys like Shane Gillis and Bill Bill Burr
and these guys can make jokes. People love Shane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Gillis, Yeah, I love Shane Gilloss Trump ruthless all the time. Yeah,
but he does it in a.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Way that you're that's like, not like this, matthe receival
Man on Earth. It's like, listen funny this.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So what would you what advice would you give your
sixteen year old self coming.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Up in this avon TI. Honestly, like I said before,
I've my life since sy from the time I was ten.
I mean I've I've I'm a lucky man. I ended
up in crazy places that I had no business being long.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And some business no no, long.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Before I was ever in a movie. I mean, I
just was never afraid to go on adventures. I was
never I don't know, I really was dumb and had
no fear and I looked, you know, I don't want
to be like some Oh, but I you know, look,
(29:20):
I've been in and out of rehab. I was in
a mental institution of a rehab where they blocked the
doors every night. Uh. I hitchhiked across the country when
I was eighteen. Wow, I mean I just was like,
I did crazy stuff. I ended up and I just
weaseled my way into some amazing adventures.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
And I think you're not giving yourself enough credit.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, maybe you've had some some setbacks in your life.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But when I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Didn't weasel your way in you you watching.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Talented your way in my way in you charmed.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Every every mistake, I'm ended with the lesson nothing killed me.
People were like, do you wish you'd never done drugs? No,
because I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday
who I've been friends with forty years, that I met
in rehab, you know, and there's no time in my
life when that's the only guy who understood what I
was going through. He's amazing. I love him, and I
(30:20):
would have. I have at least fifteen people in my
life like that that. If I hadn't gone to a
mental institution, I wouldn't know them. And we all laugh.
We're like, we made it through. We were talking about
that yesterday. He was like, you turned sixty. He goes
a lot of people didn't think you'd make it to thirty.
(30:40):
And so my advice to my sixteen year old self
would just be, don't stray, just keep going, Just push
on through. It's always going to have you know anything.
I swear to God, I told my son this yesterday
because he was upset about something, and I says, like, dude,
anything that doesn't kill you is a funny story. Your
(31:01):
leg hurts right now, I go next week you'll be
telling it and it's a funny story, right, It's like,
so just keep going. But yeah, that on to myself,
you know, to my son, I'm like, he sure.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Don't hurt your leg, it's not that funny.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I always forget to give him his bike helmet though,
Oh no really, people are like, he needs a bike helmet.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm like, yeah, well, I've loved this conversation. I just
think you are hilarious, one of the best people ever.
I will absolutely send this to all the billionaires I know,
hopefully get.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You some funding for that. What in our movie? That
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I dollars, that's like, and I know how to market
it where you don't have to spend money on TV.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I feel like that that is an easy proposal for
somebody to have.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
The gate keepers, let's get around them. Like, right, but
podcasting didn't exist ten years ago, yeah, and now it's
literally the biggest thing driving media today.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I think it's going to make it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Let's find a way to do it. Yeah, thank you
so much. I've always been and I I mean we've
been mutuals on Twitter for how long?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I mean a long time. Yeah. I have always loved
following you. You're always again. I love the funny. Funny
is most important to me.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Oh, I get violet when I here's the listen. If
you see me on Twitter going after someone, just remember this.
I'm laughing because I quote from it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I know they're laughing, but you're laughing.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm laughing. I live from a stand up point of view.
If you're going to hackle me, I'm going to destroy it. Right.
It's like I'm not over here, a you're over here
going look at this idiot? What else can I?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well? And here with your best tip for my listeners
on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Don't listen to the haters. I know it's hard and
you don't have to be like supremely self confident, but
they don't. They're jealous, they're they're full of hate, They're
sad about their own lives. Don't don't let people look.
I would equit. I would equit the movie business thirty
five years ago. Because every movie I've ever made is
(33:20):
one of the lowest rated movies of all time.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'm not joking, is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh yeah, how's that talk about?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Find somebody hits?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
People are like got the rare zero and rotten tomatoes?
I think I have three zero Grandma's Boys, I can eight?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
No really?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Don't listen to the haters. They're stupid.
Just enjoy your life, find find the things that makes
you happy, and that's it. That's the only thing I
can do.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Thank you so much for coming on, Ellen Alan Colbert,
check him out.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Give him funding for a funny movie. We really really
need it.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Awesome, Carol, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Marcowitch Show.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Hi, and welcome to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's hard to avoid the election.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm super in it like many of you, and I
try to keep politics out of this show, but obviously
it seeps in from time to time, and a few
days before major presidential election is just that kind of time.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm already hearing.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
From people who are saying that their relationships, their friendships,
their family connections are getting strained.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Because of the election.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
On News Nation the other night, jd Vance said, if
you're discarding a lifelong friendship because somebody is voting for
the other team, then you've made a terrible, terrible mistake
and you should do something different. Don't cast aside family
members and lifelong friendships. Politics is not worth it. I
love that he said that, especially because he's on the
ticket obviously and should want people to care more about
(00:56):
voting for him than their friendships. It was nice of
him to say that. But I'm not going where you
think I'm going with all this. Yes, I think you
should keep politics separate from your friends and family. People
who love you can disagree with you have different values
than you all of it. I'm very kombayah about the
whole thing. Really, I have friends who I love who
(01:17):
are firmly on the left. I don't have any leftist family,
but that's.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Really just sheer luck.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Ha ha. What I want to say, though, is that we've
been talking on the show about making friends in adulthood,
and I actually think it's completely okay to not pursue
friendship with people on the opposite political side. I know
it doesn't make sense that I would say that, because
I just said I have lots of friends on the left,
(01:45):
So why am I dissuading you from friend making.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Across political lines?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
And look, if you meet someone, you're playing tennis with them,
you meet them at work, whatever, you hit it off,
and they have opposite politics but you like each other.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Of course, go for it friends.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But friendships in adulthood usually take more work than this.
So if you meet someone and before you really know
if they're funny, or if you have things in common
or any of that, you find out you're not politically aligned,
I think it's fine to say, eh, not going to
pursue this friendship, especially if your political ideals do really
(02:22):
matter to you. Plenty of people are mostly apolitical, so
if that's you, great but if your politics do matter
to you, I say keep the old friends with whom
you're not politically aligned, But no need to be in
any big rush to make more of these. As you
get older, it's hard to maintain friendships. And I said
(02:43):
in a previous episode that things like hobbies might not
actually matter in new friendships as much as we think,
but values and outlook they might matter a lot more. Again,
to me, I find humor to be top of the list,
like our are we laughing at the same stuff? Can
we make each other laugh? That matters to me. So
(03:05):
if I meet a super leftist, I find them really
funny and we have amazing banter like that's to me
as a friend, But a relationship that I have to
work at and we don't have ideals in common. Tougher Again,
you meet somebody at work, you crack up all through
lunch and then she's voting for Kamala and you're voting
for Trump. But doesn't mean you can't be friends. You're
(03:29):
already pick her in grown up friendships. Give yourself permission
to sort by politics too. That's all I'm saying. Don't
discard people like JD Van said, but having similar lifestyles
to new friends that you make as a grown up
will go a long way into turning them into old friends.
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If you've got thoughts on this, drop me an email
Carol Markowitz Show at gmail dot com. K A R
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gmail dot com. Coming up next and interview with Alan Covert.
Join us after the break. Welcome back to the Carol
(04:11):
Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Alan Covert.
Alan is an actor producer. You've seen him in all
the Adam Sandler movies, Happy Gilmore, the wedding singer, Little Nikki,
all of them. And he's also the star of the
cult classic where I first saw him, Grandma's Boy.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Hi, Alan, So nice to have you on.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Hey, Carol, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was thinking about this this is I've had a
lot of well known guests on the show, but you
are the guest.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That I cannot wait for like my group of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Like non political, non twitter nerd friends, like my real
crew of friends.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
To see this, and they're gonna be like you had
Grandma's Boy on. It's going to be a very exciting moment.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, thank you. I mean, you know at cult. Look,
I'll take the cult.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't need to be that famous. It's too much
of an infringement on your life.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I like, are we not supposed to drink the kool
aid during the movie? Because I thought that's what?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Oh no, no, no. I'm like the cult thing because
you know, it's small enough and rabid enough that I can, like,
you know, get a good seat at a restaurant if
there's a big line in the hosts, but not enough
to where like people bother me non stop. I've been
around people like that. Yeah right, I've spent a good
(05:27):
chunk of my life around people who can't go to
the mall. And I like going to the mall. But yeah,
but it's I'm glad people like it, and it's always
fun to have people mention it to me.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So I did some research on you before the show.
Learned a lot of things I didn't know. You were
born in Florida.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, sported rays. Actually I didn't grow up on pum
Beach where Mark Lago is. I grew up where the
people who had jobs live. As if my dad had
a job.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Most poor people yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I knew a lot of people who lived on Palm Beach.
You know, it's it's a funny town. Uh so, But
I remember when Marlago was empty. That kid was an
abandoned mansion and no one lived there. And then Trump
bought it. He bought it after I had moved and stuff.
But yeah, I grew up in South Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I love Palm Beach.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I you know a lot of people compared to like
other rich you know enclaves like the Hampton's or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But Palm Beach is so colorful and unusual. I just
I love it there.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, if if funny were no object, I'd live
on the island.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
A friend of mine from high school had hit it
big and he's got a house a block off the
beach about Worth End.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I didn't even mind, like three blocks off the beach.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I'll take it. But it's like he bought that not
because he cares about living on Palm Beach, but because
the there is it's a public beach. But to actually
get there, you'd have to walk like five miles and
there's nowhere to park, and yeah, they know what they're
doing over there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, so how did you get into acting. What's your
path here?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It was something I always wanted to do. As a kid,
I did plays, and it's just always fascinated by movies.
I mean, I was telling someone yesterday, we were talking
about old movies that we saw in the theaters, because
that's part of my home thing I'm trying to do,
which we'll get to eventually, gotta. I remember like just
(07:39):
riding my bike to the movie theater alone to see
a matinee of Young Frank and stuff. You know, I
remember running home to get home in time to watch.
I loved Lucy. I was just I loved comedy. I
loved stand up comedy. I love cartoons that were funny.
(08:00):
I loved anything that made me laugh. And you know,
Jerry Lewis, buddy it just whoever was funny. I was
just obsessed with and I don't know, but it was
sunning because then when it came to like me doing it,
I never thought I was funny. So I just wanted
to be in movies. I wanted to be an actor,
(08:22):
but then I was funny.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Do people still try to be funny? I feel like
a lot of funniness has been lost. Do you see
that or do you still find funny around.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
There's so much funny a round. Yeah, but right now
it's pretty right now, it's pretty much in the stand
up realm and in the podcast and independent realm. Look,
some of the funniest people I've read are on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Right, so you enjoy the Twitter?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Any of them? Three year Wetterman, Oh nobody.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love three year Letterman so good.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I just go, wow, you're a great writer. Yeah,
they're iowaha.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh yeah, so's the.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know, autism of the cars where he can literally
see a fender and be like nineteen twelve Henry Ford's
personal you know, I mean I knew the guy free Twitter. Yeah,
I don't know him, but I mean, h and I
remember I think he was the one who did Zark
(09:30):
Carwe's Mom's letter or letter to the press or something.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, there's a lot of funny on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Actually, went so many funny people out there, and people
are dying to be funny. And one of the reasons.
One of my big things in life right now at
this moment. Look, I worked at Happy Madison before it
was Happy Matts.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's Adam Sandler's that's.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Adam Sales coming production company. Basically the people who there
from the beginning. We were all in college together, and
then after the movie started it and then Happy Madison
got formed. But I mean we were involved all the
way through.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, and they were okay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They're all okay with like you being an outspoken conservative
on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's well.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You know, there was a period of my life where
I didn't go as nuts on Twitter because I knew
that I that I represented Adam in the company, and
so I tried to be as respectful to him in
the company as I could. Uh, you know, at the
end of the day, I'm an adult, but I also
understand that I'm associated with a brand that you know,
(10:43):
it's not my position to go out there, so I
would try to keep things, you know, look like what sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Right, arguments are fun?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, I have now that because what happened was just
not to but to kind of get to what I'm
trying to explain to you is that three years ago
I had to take time off to deal with some
family issues. I thought it was only gonna be a
little bit and we here are. We were here three
years later, and I think it's time for me to
(11:15):
get back to work. I think I'm Kate, I think
that the situation I was dealing with is almost done
and I'd like to get back to work. Earlier, about
a year ago, I thought I was getting ready and
I let Adam know that that I was going to
be leaving the company just because I'm I turned sixty
(11:35):
the other day, and so I was just like.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
While you really you do not look sixty.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I feel like I'm look eighty.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But the people watching this on video will know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh yeah, but we'll get it. I know I have
like two overnight bags. I take my own luggage with me.
But so I I said to him, my go look,
I said, I just I want to do something. I
just want to do something. I was like, I did
everything that was on my list of things. I said,
So now I got a new list of things, and
(12:10):
that involves I want to I just want to make
R rated comedies and bring them back to theaters. Yes,
that's it, that's amazing. And here's why this to me,
this is important. It thought, just he I want to
be dub and make money.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Making money?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Is that bad?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I have no fublem, But yes, I wouldn't think if.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
It comes with money, why not you know.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Money, I wouldn't have been able to be in the
position to take three years off to care for my family, right,
I'm very eager to prop it off of my work, sure, sir.
And so that's my whole goal. And it's because my
daughter graduated high school this year. She's a film nerd.
(12:53):
Her friends are film nerds. They do not have a
single movie to call their own from her. I had ten, Yeah,
I had.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So that's really what I was asking was that nothing
seems like the funny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Kind of our radar.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Actors are riddy, Yeah, directors already. The studios are stupid.
I are.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm clear that hurdle.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's why I'm here talking to you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, all right, I love it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Any billionaires listening, Yes, we have, Holly would. There's always
money and disruption, guys, Hollywood's broken distribution is broken. I
know a lot of Look, I've been out here for
thirty five forty years making movies, thankfully and luckily I
(13:47):
know a lot of the people who run the studios,
just because I've been out here so damn long. Right,
you know the guy like one of the you know,
you meet a guy who's someone's assistant. Twenty five years later.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They Haney Wall Show yeah, and you know, and these.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Are people who came out here to make movies and
they get it. But there's this whole generation under them
that's making the decisions of what scripts get through the filter. Right,
have a clue, what's fun? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That filter is holding up everything.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Well, it's sad because look, I'll tell you this, This
isn't me. Everyone knows how I feel about things. My
daughter's friends are very artsy high school. They're begging for
already comedies. Right, These are not maga kids.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, let me think it's funny.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
A lot more conservative than people would think they are,
because the things they are conservative about are the things
that they're pushing back against that they feel are being
shoved out in their throats. Because these kids, who all
want to be filmmakers, they all watched Granmar's Boy a
few Oh yeah, it was the first time my daughter
had seen it. Oh wow, she's on the state team.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I thought it like played on like on loop in
your house.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh god, my son is like, why do I watch
any of your movies?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
He told your son?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Okay, so I'm just getting them through the Happy gil Mores. Yes,
with water boys. I would't even let them watch Billy Madison.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh yeah, I mean I think, yeah, I'm almost ready
for my kids to see Billy Madison. I remember laughing
my face off at Billy Madison. That was in college
when it came out, and just like my best friend
and I just doubled over in pain.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Laughing in the movie theater.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
And I just that's what I mean when I say
I don't think things are funny, because I can't imagine
that seeing a movie that I would find that funny today.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I just I can't even remember the last movie I
saw like that.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
May look and I but I've seen I've seen stand.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Up guys, Yeah, stand up in a good place.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Script I have scripts.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Right, Well, stand up is I think harder, harder to
cancel because it's one guy and it's like or girl,
and you're either laughing or you're not.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Like movies, I'm gonna I'll go do an arena to weeks.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
But movies you have the gatekeeper and you have the
people who put it through the filter. So I just
and none of it's and not just movies, but TV
shows or late night shows, like my god, these late
night hosts are.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not just not funny but like unfunny, deeply, deeply unfunny.
They're angry and they're not at all humor at his
And yeah, I've known the Jimmies, both of them, huh.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I've known both of them for thirty five years. Tweet.
I met Jimmy Fallon when we were shooting The Wedding Singer,
and he was a stand up comic who had been
in town about two weeks. These guys are funny guys.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
So what happened to them? Why are they not funny anymore?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It depends on what you watch. I mean they're we're
both I mean they both still do things that make
me laugh.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel completely to me funny, come to.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And it's part of the problem with Hollywood. Look, I
love Jimmy Kimmel. If I called Jimmy Kimmel and said
I need you to come be in this movie today,
he'd probably do it. He's always like friendly and sweet
and so nice. And you know, I don't agree with
his politics. Look, his old partner Adam Carolla doesn't really
(17:32):
with his right. Yeah, I just think that like when
when you're supposed to appeal to everyone and you make
a concerted effort to go after one person insess me relentlessly. Well,
a lot of people obviously a lot of people still watch.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
But I wouldn't even care.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I would not even care if it was going after
one side, if it was funny, if he made me laugh,
I wouldn't care if you attacking my politics, like it's
just it's so, it's just political ranting.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Like I said, Look, I love those two guys. I've
known Val since he was a kid. I remember talking
to him when he was nervous doing Saturday a lot.
You know, he's a great impressionist, he's a great writer.
He's really Look, you don't get to be that job
unless you actually are charming and can appeal to people. Yeah,
(18:28):
and uh, I just yeah, I think Jimmy was nice
to Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Right, and then he had to apologize for that.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just got destroyed, Yeah, he cried in his apology.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We a lot of people they look at their life
getting destroyed and they get scared.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So when they ask you if you're not scared.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Because I don't care, I mean I really just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I've had that not caring a little far, but a
great life, you know, said, I've lit a great light.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marcowitch Show.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, your first question was what do you worry about?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, we go and get to that. What do you
worry about?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Alan only thing I worry about my kids, that's it. Yeah,
that's it. But that involves so much, right, involves everything? Yeah,
you know, but that's it. I don't care about my job.
I'll go get another job. I'll find us to do.
I'll be your co host.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yes, you'd be my co you know, I really.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Don't care all those autographs that conventions every weekend to
put over my kids head. All I care about is
my kids, right, that's it. That's all I worry. I
worry about their future. I worry about what they're being taught.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
My oldest daughter forced me to let her get vaccinated
so she could go see Harry Styles at Madison's Square
Garden and gets sick.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I feel guilty. No, really, it's because I get vaccinated
and I worry about or constantly because of that. Yeah,
because the other three.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was just like, no, right, if it makes you
feel better, I think that the you know the time
period has been long enough that.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You know the problems would have potentially developed by now.
So now, don't beat yourself up over it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But I also I vaccinated my oldest two with the
pediatric vaccine to send them to sleep Away Cam And
I you know, I'm like, why didn't I just spake
a vaccine card like everybody else, what are they doing?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Well, yeah, that's all I'm worried about. That's it my kids,
their future, their health and you know, And but also
this relates, like me wanting to do these R rated
movies relates to that because here's my theory, mind, my
theory in my stupid head of why I think this
is important. These kids, I mean, all they do, all
(21:07):
they hear all day is how horrible everything is. Yeah,
and how they need to save the world because their
parents let them down. I mean, pressure on these kids
is insane. And I would really say, you're a kid,
go out with your friends and do something stupid, Go
go hike and find a dead body. I can stand
(21:30):
by me. Yeah, I have a movie that I'm trying
to get made in connection with Bill Burr's company called
All Things Comedy. Look look at the Guy. Like Bill
Burr is a lot of conservative, right, but if you
heard left wing liberal you know, white women talk about it, right,
(21:52):
Bill Burr's tromp. Yes, Bill Burr's not voting for Troup, right, and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He has some of the better jokes about the right.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I think he's the reason Ilbur's jokes are funny about
Trump is because they're funny, right, and he doesn't use
them to try to make people hate m But I
personally think I have a movie called Scavenger Hunt. It's
the most simple movie there is. It's Scavenger Hunt, Senior Night,
(22:23):
Scavenger Hunt, Lady School. That's it. Cars full of kids,
you got the jocks, you got the nerds, you got
the arts sees, you know, and all the chorus have titles.
It's like, you know, great writers. I don't have their
names in front of me, and I'm just clueless. But
I mean, I let my daughter read this script and
(22:45):
she goes, Wow, the dialogue's really good. It's not cringe.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's just for me, not cringe. That's the best complimented
teenager could give you.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Here. Here's what one of her friends, who I know
for a fact is probably voting for Kablas, said to me.
A guy, He's like, you need to make more funny movies.
He said, uh, he said, all we ever get is
literally he said this to me. He said, all we
ever get is gender in suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's all so dark. It's like they're supposed to
be worried all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
And it's just like I tell my son every day,
I go, who cares you ten? Go play baseball as
a google, plant the tree in the backyard and pretend
you're a pirate. That's all I tell them all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, but they get They just get this kind of
pushed on them their whole lives. I mean, just the
fact that we, for example, teach climate change starting in kindergarten, Like, why,
even if you're a super pro climate change, you know,
pro telling everybody about it, why start telling them in
kindergarten that the world is in trouble.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
What is the kindergartener going to do for you? How
are they going to help to solve this problem?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I have one of these crazy memories, not like I'm
a photographic, but I just like to no, trust me,
if you had me read something, gave me quiz on it,
I'd probably answer, well, but I just remember stuff for
my life, and I know for a fact that one
night I was watching All in the Family, which was
(24:18):
one of my favorite shows ever. Well, I was I
think nine, maybe my son's age ten, and it was
the first time I'd ever heard about the ozone hole.
Meathead was going off about how we were killing ourselves
and that the ozone hole was going to kill us
all right, like ten years. What year was that, Probably
(24:39):
seventy seven, seventy six, maybe I don't know. I'd remember
where we were. My dad was in law school, so
I was definitely ten and under. But I just remember
literally getting to knock in my stomach and getting scared.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, it didn't help anything, right, You've being scared did
not prove little in the O zone.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I was watching an adult show, but I remember that fear. Yeah,
I remember sitting here at sixty going, what happened with.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
We fixed it? We like patched it?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Right? Oh, look at ares movie. Yeah, not one prediction
in that movie came.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Trip And you know it's not true because al Gore
continued living however he wanted and didn't change any of
your Yeah, right, So how concerned is he really?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It's by the way, I wonder about that.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Look I fly regular back in the day when I
was going around with sailor a lot. I will tell
you right now that there is no greater luxury on
earth than flying.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I've only done it twice in my life and it
was magical. Magical. Yeah, Oh, it's so good. The car
just meets you on the tarmac. I mean unfeatable.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Today, Okay, I mean it's literally like the most like
like the Pharaoh of Egypt did not live as well
as that, not even close.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
I'm not going to sit here and tell other people
you can't go on vacation.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Right, I know we'll go on vacation.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Just don't lecture me while you're flying on your private
jet alone.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Leonardo DiCaprio like a lot.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Of others that I'm yeah right, and I mock them.
By the way. Look, mostly a lot of people are friends.
There's people out here that do horrible things that I'm
not friends with. There's Hollywood is not It appears evil
because the people who are evil seem to be the loudest.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Right now, there's almost true for every everything.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
So many good people out here. But the but the
problem is not so much evil. Is did he evil? Apparently?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, sounds like it Yeah, sounds like it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yes, evidence pointing to it. Yes, is bob Iger evil?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Is Bob Iger arrogant and deluded? Completely Wabiger thinks it's
his job to mold the brains of America's youth to
agree with what he agrees. That's right. I thinks that's
the right thing, and.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
So is that. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You know, well, that's ship up. I agree, and to
mock it ruthlessly. But you know what's great right now
is uh uh Maya Rudolph and Dana Carvey on SNL. Yeah,
Oh my god. He's doing the Biden they should have
been doing for three and a half years, and she's
(27:34):
doing the Kamla that they.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Have to watch.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It clicks, they get a couple of cold openings, and
the reason they're good is because they're not doing it
out of hate. Yeah, cure to you. Maya does not
hate Kamila. Great. Of course, I don't know what Dana thinks,
(27:58):
but his impression is not about a man he hates, right,
He's doing an impression about a man he observes. And
that's why guys like Shane Gillis and Bill Bill Burr
and these guys can make jokes. People love Shane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Gillis, Yeah, I love Shane Gilloss Trump ruthless all the time. Yeah,
but he does it in a.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Way that you're that's like, not like this, matthe receival
Man on Earth. It's like, listen funny this.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So what would you what advice would you give your
sixteen year old self coming.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Up in this avon TI. Honestly, like I said before,
I've my life since sy from the time I was ten.
I mean I've I've I'm a lucky man. I ended
up in crazy places that I had no business being long.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
And some business no no, long.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Before I was ever in a movie. I mean, I
just was never afraid to go on adventures. I was
never I don't know, I really was dumb and had
no fear and I looked, you know, I don't want
to be like some Oh, but I you know, look,
(29:20):
I've been in and out of rehab. I was in
a mental institution of a rehab where they blocked the
doors every night. Uh. I hitchhiked across the country when
I was eighteen. Wow, I mean I just was like,
I did crazy stuff. I ended up and I just
weaseled my way into some amazing adventures.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
And I think you're not giving yourself enough credit.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, maybe you've had some some setbacks in your life.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
But when I.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Didn't weasel your way in you you watching.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Talented your way in my way in you charmed.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Every every mistake, I'm ended with the lesson nothing killed me.
People were like, do you wish you'd never done drugs? No,
because I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday
who I've been friends with forty years, that I met
in rehab, you know, and there's no time in my
life when that's the only guy who understood what I
was going through. He's amazing. I love him, and I
(30:20):
would have. I have at least fifteen people in my
life like that that. If I hadn't gone to a
mental institution, I wouldn't know them. And we all laugh.
We're like, we made it through. We were talking about
that yesterday. He was like, you turned sixty. He goes
a lot of people didn't think you'd make it to thirty.
(30:40):
And so my advice to my sixteen year old self
would just be, don't stray, just keep going, Just push
on through. It's always going to have you know anything.
I swear to God, I told my son this yesterday
because he was upset about something, and I says, like, dude,
anything that doesn't kill you is a funny story. Your
(31:01):
leg hurts right now, I go next week you'll be
telling it and it's a funny story, right, It's like,
so just keep going. But yeah, that on to myself,
you know, to my son, I'm like, he sure.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Don't hurt your leg, it's not that funny.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I always forget to give him his bike helmet though,
Oh no really, people are like, he needs a bike helmet.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'm like, yeah, well, I've loved this conversation. I just
think you are hilarious, one of the best people ever.
I will absolutely send this to all the billionaires I know,
hopefully get.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You some funding for that. What in our movie? That
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I dollars, that's like, and I know how to market
it where you don't have to spend money on TV.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I feel like that that is an easy proposal for
somebody to have.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
The gate keepers, let's get around them. Like, right, but
podcasting didn't exist ten years ago, yeah, and now it's
literally the biggest thing driving media today.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I think it's going to make it.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Let's find a way to do it. Yeah, thank you
so much. I've always been and I I mean we've
been mutuals on Twitter for how long?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I mean a long time. Yeah. I have always loved
following you. You're always again. I love the funny. Funny
is most important to me.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Oh, I get violet when I here's the listen. If
you see me on Twitter going after someone, just remember this.
I'm laughing because I quote from it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I know they're laughing, but you're laughing.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I'm laughing. I live from a stand up point of view.
If you're going to hackle me, I'm going to destroy it. Right.
It's like I'm not over here, a you're over here
going look at this idiot? What else can I?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well? And here with your best tip for my listeners
on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Don't listen to the haters. I know it's hard and
you don't have to be like supremely self confident, but
they don't. They're jealous, they're they're full of hate, They're
sad about their own lives. Don't don't let people look.
I would equit. I would equit the movie business thirty
five years ago. Because every movie I've ever made is
(33:20):
one of the lowest rated movies of all time.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'm not joking, is that true?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh yeah, how's that talk about?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Find somebody hits?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
People are like got the rare zero and rotten tomatoes?
I think I have three zero Grandma's Boys, I can eight?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
No really?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Don't listen to the haters. They're stupid.
Just enjoy your life, find find the things that makes
you happy, and that's it. That's the only thing I
can do.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Thank you so much for coming on, Ellen Alan Colbert,
check him out.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Give him funding for a funny movie. We really really
need it.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Awesome, Carol, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Marcowitch Show.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
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