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Unknown (00:00):
Ladies and gentleman comedy roundtable coming up on
this episode all these peoplehere because this guy had some
funny at one funny clip or oryou know his uncle in the balls
or something like that right,trying to set asleep and then
you wake up and you're like didI get it go
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look, I have a Guinness recordfor running marathons, but won't
believe this. I'm also a serialkiller. We have saved a chair
for you our listener and we'vealso saved the chair here at the
roundtable for our guest thisevening, Nick Griffin, we are
not at the landmark diner as wenormally are adjacent to the
punch line comedy club for thisepisode of the comedy roundtable
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with Jamie Jamie and Adam. Weare instead in studio but Nick
is at the club. He had a showlast night. I did it was great.
Yeah, it was good to be there.
And then are you someplace elsetomorrow? I am I'm at the comedy
cellar in New York City. Okay,awesome. Speaking of New York
comedy news, one of the thingsthat'll be happening it'll it
will have happened by the timethis episode airs. Caroline's on
Broadway is closed. Yeah, one ofthe one of the big comedy clubs
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opted not to renew their leasekind of an iconic Yeah. comedy
Club around for 100 years. Soyou're saying to me I can go
sign I will quick lease put upCaroline's with a K and just
like instant equity for my newbusiness? Possibly. Yeah, I
don't know how that works,necessarily. And I get the sense
that it's probably going to be aswatch store or something come
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January. Yeah. Well, the m&mstore is just up the street.
Maybe it'll be a payday storesomething like payday, like the
candy bar. Yeah, I was trying tomake a candy reference. Like
that's more off Broadway.
I just don't have a great candy,you know, knowledge. But yeah,
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you're right. It is offBroadway. I've noticed a little
bit of a transition this year,got some content clips and stuff
that you've got up of some sets?
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean,the business is changing so much
and trying to promote yourselfon Instagram and Twitter and,
and Facebook. It's just acompletely different game. I
mean, I been doing it 35 years.
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And it was, you know, you triedto get on some late night shows.
And then, you know, sort ofwaited around to somebody
plucked out of nowhere. And nowyou just try to post a lot of
clips and kind of get a lot offollowers and then goes from
there. It's a different it's anodd game. My perspective on it
is twofold. One, the crowd workclip, which is definitely a
thing, right. And it seems asthough many comics are coming
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not just to the punch line, butto clubs all around the country.
And they're filming what used tobe the thing that was avoided,
right? I don't want disruptionson this crowd. I'm not
necessarily going into thecrowd. And and if a comedian was
in the crowd for too long, itwas it became kind of high
stress. And it was it was alittle more confrontational.
And, you know, there's a varietyof reasons of why it wasn't
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necessarily the norm. But now Ithink it's become more prevalent
in the hopes that you'recatching something that then can
be turned into a driver offollowers and views and
awareness and whatnot. A lot ofthese stand up working the
audience clips, I hate to thinkthat they're kind of encouraging
the audience to get involvedmore well, it changes the
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expectation both ways and whatyou're saying that because you
want that crowd to be quietuntil you decide that they can
be the show. Yeah, I've justnever been a huge crowd work
guy. I mean, you know if itcomes down to it, sure, I can do
it. But I just I've my fun hasalways been writing good jokes
and seeing what happens withthat is changing stand up at
some level, right? There aresome people that are social
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media, comedians that are not aseffective on stage. All these
people are here because this guyhad some funny at one funny clip
or, or you know, hit his unclein the balls or something like
that, right? Think about howmany times there have been
conversations in which an unclehas said to his nephew, you need
to get a job. And the nephewjust kicked him in the balls and
says, I just got a job.
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No, I'm saying you need to get ajob because I'm tired of getting
kicked in the balls.
I understand you're making moneydoing this, but it's from the
fetal position.
Sounds more like the andselect we have three topics for
discussion from which we willpose questions that you will
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answer. So the three topicsright now of which you are
choosing one are as follows.
This town ain't big enough, theGuinness Book or knock knock,
I'll go with this town. Allright, This town ain't big
enough. Starting with Adam. Whatdo you think is the best thing
about small town comedy clubs?
Like is there anything that'supside to a small town comedy
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club as opposed to the large bigcity comedy Club? I love playing
the small towns. I mean, I wouldsay half my work is in the
Midwest. Yeah. Yeah. And I likeit and I feel comfortable there
and the people are really nice.
I mean, people are niceeverywhere. I haven't had that
big problem in my career what Imean? Is that a concern of yours
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at all that could get or evenmore so than usual? It's it's
definitely I don't know, if Iwere to say it's generational, I
don't mean it. Age of performer.
I mean it age of time inbusiness, that the longer
somebody's been doing comedy,the more they're likely to have
a different impression of whatthe crowd audience interaction
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should be. I would almost sayit's like of like, not like it's
a fashion trend, like we're inthe bell bottom jeans era of
stand up, but it's definitelydifferent wave driven by these
other dynamics. Yeah, you know,so All right, if Jamie put me in
charge of the punch line, here'sthe changes I would make every
seat would have an electricalcharge, and there'd be a board
up on stage with the seatdiagram that the comedian can
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control. So you decide, youknow, the way for security to
come and tell someone to bequiet you decide whether you zap
them put away your cell phone.
Problem is, you'd be like, Idon't know how to work this
thing. You'd be zapping the poorlittle lady who was just
the greatest audience members.
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All right, Jamie, This townain't big enough. Alright, so if
you haven't been able to tell sofar, in this podcast, we rely on
me to bring it back to like amore serious
question is meant to get deeperinto your psyche, right? So
you're approaching one of thesesmall towns where you're
performing at one of thesedelightful small town clubs with
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crowds that are perfectly wellbehaved. And as you get to the
outskirts of town, and you'reabout to come into the town,
there is a toddler there. Nowthe toddler is armed. Right? And
the toddler says to you, Thistown ain't big enough for the
two of us. What does thattoddler need to be armed with
for you to turn around and skipout on your performance?
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What if that's a crazy scenario?
Jeez, that's a great question.
No, it's not. No.
No, no. I mean, any sort of gunsgonna make me uncomfortable?
Especially it's a toddlerholding the gun. Like, is he
gonna fire that thing?
Accidentally? Yeah, Nerf gun.
No, no Norfolk gun, but yeah, Iwould say any sort of guns gonna
make me. I had one guy have agun at a show one time. I can't
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remember where it was, butshowed me as he was leaving.
Right, like an intimidating way.
You better be funny. You'reright. Is that kind of to steal
Adams favorite question? I'm nota follow up question. Yeah. So
now you come to that the toddlerwent away. Because it was just,
it was just another? Yes. Youhave to clarify.
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naptime. It takes them a whileto get that it's a small enough
town that patrol. He's atoddler. He's not becoming
Capone. He's like, God, I gotanother place. They're gonna
shake down the spot shows up.
Oh, you, you and you're choppingdown restaurants for protection
and toddler driving a batteryoperated monster truck.
Alright, so the nerve totingtoddler who you were not worried
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about leaves, but in his place?
Oh, no. Yes. Fifth graders startto appear. How many fifth
graders would have to be there?
They're unarmed. At this point,how many fifth graders
threatening you that this town abig enough? Would there need to
be before you didn't just sayI'm coming through you people I
would probably go through four.
But five is too many. Yeah, itjust because of their
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hyperactivity and their, youknow, energy, I would be freaked
out about I mean, even like, 21year olds in the audience when
they're in there. I get a littlejust because they're so
jacked. I don't know if you havekids, but God, I just, it's a
fifth graders are like 10 yearsold. 11. Yeah. So like, that's
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pretty intense. If you put fiveof those guys, you know, like,
and in their hyped up state,right. Like, that's a dangerous
combination. Like, it'ssomething that you'd be kind of
like, okay, so you guys couldtake out all my limbs and still
have a guy swinging. Right.
Right. And also, I think, like,at that age, and I can't
remember that age great. But Iwould imagine they just have no
respect for me whatsoever onjust a base level. Yeah, I
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didn't say this town a bigenough for the two of us, sir.
Right. They did not know. Allright. Many, many comedians have
some joke that includes areference to a smaller nearby
community. Oh, so how small doesa town have to be? Before it's
too small? To be an understoodreference by a comedian? No,
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you're just picking on a smalltown at that point. Every but
many comedians have a Joe Yeah,a very small town where there
are weirdos. And many comediansask what's the town nearby that
everybody makes fun of? Yeah,Tim Wilson always used to use
when he was in like Chattanoogaand Nashville. We would always
reference Soddy Daisyright. I don't know how to smile
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though to be in then you're justbeing abusive. Oh, I don't think
anybody views it as picking onthe town. Oh, I would. Like I'm
likeAre you seriously gonna be mean
to those guys? Like they seemlike a very nice Amish town.
Right yeah yeaheasy but yeah held stuff in
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Harrisburg. Yeah the first timeI worked with Tim Wilson just by
the way I remember we got backthey usually or sometimes have
certainly had more of them inthe 90s commonly condos instead
of pulling you up in a hotel andwe had just done one show on
like a Wednesday or Thursday andhe said, I don't like the way
you dress but you got somepretty good jokes.
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Like Tim Wilson Yeah, yeah. Allright. So for round one, this is
comedy roundtable. We will beback with more of our guest Nick
Griffin. This is Jamie Jamie andAdam comedy roundtable will be
back in just a moment. But notsuper poor, but I know exactly
how much money I have in thebank and all types
that's a bad place to be whenyou know exactly how much money
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you have. It's like an eightI have $44 that
my buddy said at least you gotyour health by Google I get to
be poor for a long time.
Are you thinking about whenyou're broke? I'm broke. Do your
job do your errands but allyou're thinking the whole time
that's I'm broke? I'm jogging.
I'm broke.
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doing paperwork I'm broke. Evenwhen you're having sex I'm
broke.
Thank God this is free.
I have a tiny apartment and andyou got to walk five flights of
stairs to get to it.
Yes, five flights of stairs toget to a tiny apartment so it's
exhausting than disappointing.
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Back with more of the comedyroundtable, Jamie, Jamie and
Adam, our guest is comedian NickGriffin. So we have two topics
left Nick. Oh, they are theGuinness Book or knock knock. I
am gonna go with the GuinnessBook just out of curiosity. All
right, the Guinness Bookstarting with Adam. All right.
So if you are sitting in anairport bar, and there's
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somebody who sits next to you,which which one is most likely
you want to actually have aconversation with, oh, a guy who
actually has a Guinness WorldRecord, it's something to a guy
who has a interesting like aforeign accent or three, a guy
who used to work for thegovernment who have those three,
who are you most likely want totalk to? I'm gonna have to say
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Guinness. Yeah, right. Yeah, Ithink so. I mean, I don't know
anything about government also.
And it seems horrible. So thegovernment guys out the more
he'll talk to me, the more I'llget confused, right? The
interesting accent guys may besecond place, right? Because
you're like, he's a foreigntraveler. So he must have some
good stories, right? But again,this guy, like what drove you to
do something, right? That's theguy who, you know, got kicked in
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the balls 20 times by the kidsstop or whatever. It's anyway,
what the hell? Let's go forlet's go for the
Hold on. Are you telling me thatthe record is only 20.
I can take 21 not thought of arecord I could break but I might
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be able to break out. So hold ona second. There. That might be
the kind of record where youfind out very quickly. That is a
hard record.
To take into your head wonderingI'm just gonna do this. This is
much harder than I thought.
Yeah, I have a great deal ofrespect for that guy. Actually,
the record may be one.
That's amazing, though. Thereactually has to be somebody has
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to have the record for that.
Yeah, it would be interesting tofind out what what did they
The best part is, I think, andI've looked a little bit into
Guinness record, because at onepoint in my life, I was like,
Wouldn't it be cool to actuallyhave your own, you know, to have
accomplished this and I wastrying to figure out one, that
would be easy, you usually haveto have an official from
Guinness present, or you have tovideotape it, and to the point
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where they, you know, undertheir certain circumstances, to
get that to Guinness, but theguy who flies in for the ball
kicking the Guinness guy, he'slike, he's like, Oh, that wasn't
an official kick. Because itreally
wasn't a good one. Yeah, thatwas all thought. He's like, I'm
pretty sure. Yeah, I gottadisallow or disallowing that
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last two years, you're back at20. Okay, so you're the Guinness
guy you're gonna talk. Justseems like a regular guy who
would do that. It sounds likeone of my friends who would try
to come up with the Guinnessrecord. Alright, so what
activity do you think is notdeserving of a Guinness Book
World Record? Because theypretty much seems like they will
do anything that you candocument? Could it be sleeping?
I don't know, biking, I mean,any of these things that are
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just like, you could just do itover and over and over and over
and over that? I don't know. Ilike I like the ones that have
to do with pain. I select theones that have to do with like,
large getting larger orjust thinking about the sleepy
guy. They're like, No, that's afucking coma
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this time, they're like, holyshit. He's not getting
get us guys like, Yup, you gotthe week.
One Bye.
Oh my god. So holding yourbreath to say like, I'm gonna go
underwater and hold my breath.
Yes, you can kind of count andbe like, Okay, I gotta get to
120 seconds. I gotta get to 125seconds. Yes, sir. Trying to set
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a sleep record. And then youwake up and you're like, Did I
get it go?
Like it was, it was too close. Iwas like, probably one minute
away.
No, you're like seven hours?
away. It's like, Are you fuckingkidding me? I slept for eight
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days.
Yeah, this is bullshit. So doyou think there's any serial
killers that as they were deepinto their serial killing, that
they were just recognized forthis, they were disappointed to
get the credit I deserve?
Yeah, I feel like I've killed 40People, I'm calling for 44 Hang
on a second, the worst way toget discovered you've done all
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this work. And now you'resubmitting it for recognition.
That's an undercover cop whoshows up the good guy will be
there, what's a good time. Butmake sure everything has to be
documented. You know, again, hiscorporate headquarters has
gottenwhat's the record for like, you
know, horrible thing. And thenlike, we're gonna send the
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police to the how many peoplehave you killed? 17. It's 17.
You can stop.
By the way you satisfied therecord, you don't need to.
Alright, so Guinness Book, ifyou're going to meet somebody
who is a Guinness Book WorldRecord holder. Would you rather
that be a person where the mostinteresting thing about them is
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the fact that they have aGuinness World Record? Or that
the least interesting thingabout them is that they have a
Guinness World Record. Oh, geez.
I'd pay say least right. Yeah,yeah, I would like me here what
else they've done with theirlife. So Jamie, can you wrote
this question down? Right. Idid. This was this was the good
question. Yeah, it's prettyobvious that it would be
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the most interesting person, theguy who just sat who says, Look,
I have a Guinness record forrunning marathons. But you won't
believe this. I'm also a serialkiller. They won't give me that
one. But actually, I have to, Ihave to. One is recognize the
others.
The reason why I asked thequestion is I would be
fascinated by a person who is sobrutally boring. Yes. And yet
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what I'd be more interested totalk to, you have done nothing
in your life. Except for 30days. Yes. Yeah. Right. Like
to that person. That personwants to talk about it or don't
want to talk about it. Be like,well, I've done a couple of
things. Like I jumped rope onetime for 30 days in a row, but I
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found Google.
Like he actually was incrediblyinteresting, but that's all he
wants to talk about. He's like,my daughter. The only thing he
had, it's like, I do nothingelse. I don't I don't like you
don't have a sports team thatyou follow. You don't. Is there
a book that you've read? That'sinteresting. You like ya know
your story about your childhood,a jump rope, man. That's what I
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do. I'm gonna try and break myown record. There may be nothing
maybe more tragic than to be aformer Guinness World Record
holder. Especially if it's theguy who has nothing else in his
life. Yeah, number two now.
Yeah, but could you imagineyou just took it you
But so so you you're now you'vebecome a public speaker. You do
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a whole Tech Talk go tocompanies to talk about
productivity, right? And you'relike, we've got it. We got a
treat for you guys today biointroducing world record holder.
He's now number two. A closefriend of mine had a an enormous
walnut tree in his backyard. Andhe was.
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And he was actually looking atdoing some renovations. And the
roots were all under his house,right everywhere under his
house. And he called theuniversity, the local university
to say like, what's the best wayto deal with like, I don't want
to kill the tree. Right. Solet's send an arborist and
they're like, Well, how big isthe tree? And he said, Well,
it's like this. And they'relike, no, no, you're measuring
it wrong. And they told him howto measure it. And they're like,
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well, that's the biggest walnuttree in the entire state. And so
they're like, You must bemeasured. We're gonna send an
arborist over to measure it. Andso they did and it turns out it
was the largest walnut tree inthe state and they gave him like
a little plaque that he can puton his house that says like this
is but the old largest walnuttree guy sent him actual hate.
Was there crushed walnuts in theenvelope?
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Yeah, it's Monday kicking theballs.
Let's take another break. Hereon the comedy round table with
our guests comedian NickGriffin. We will be back with
our final topic here on comedyround table gym. And you can't
compare yourself to otherpeople. That's another big trap
for not feeling good, you know,because you see other people
their lives and you go away.
thinkLeBron James White as he gets.
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Don't think about that. Youknow, Brad Pitt? Think about
Brad Pitt. Imagine that. BradPitt? Great looking rich, famous
Oscar sleeping with AngelinaJolie.
Holy moly.
What did this guy do pull athorn out of God's paw?
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Or his parents leprechauns.
Amazing life though Brad Pitt.
It's gonna be I don't know oneand a billion to have that kind
of resume life. Wow.
You think Brad Pitt praiseNo, I'm good.
final segment bonus segment, Iguess here with our guests on
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the comedy roundtable. Jamie,Jamie and Adam our guest this
week is comedian Nick Griffin.
We are down to our final topicyou can choose either knock
knock or knock knock. I'm gonnago with Knock knock. All right.
Knock Knock starting with Adam.
This one is not gonna go whereyou think it's gonna go? Which
is my my my kind of my callingcard on these misdirection.
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Yeah, so knock knock. Have youever been in any kind of fight?
Sure. Tell me about any kind ofphysical fight you've ever been
in? Well, I used to box when Iwas like 1516 Yeah. Okay, so you
did a lot of fight. Yeah, not alot. But like, I don't know. I
think I had five fights when youpunch people to do say literally
knock knock. You're asking isthere a dramatic fight story
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that you can remember? Notreally but I remember I that's
not because of the boxing thememory has been taken like
I just don't remember them. Oh,I know a funny thing about
boxing as I box when I was youngand then when I moved to LA I
started going to this boxing gymcalled Wild Card boxing gym
where the world trainer FreddieRoach, I don't know if you ever
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heard of Fred Roach but hetrained Pacquiao and a bunch of
other big fighters. If you wentin the morning it was mostly
like actors and stuff and that'swhen I went Mario Lopez used to
go to I think he still goes tothe gym. yeah that guy from
yeah kind of funny for a boxingring. Yeah, he asked me one day
do you want to you know kind ofmove around and throw some
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punches and I said sure. And andhe is trading in a tray and
Russia trader that just startedsome guy in the gym who you know
paid to show him the ropes andstuff and and the trader said
let's just go easy, you know?
And I said sure you know fineyou know, I don't want to get
hit or anything and then andthen within this 30 seconds of
the first round he's just WallyGod me coming at me with all
purines blazing and I dare towear your screech costume
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team Zachwith a bad call that day, I was
teamed Zach and I was also goinghalf assed
and I just got my head walked inand I just remember like looking
at go I thought we were gonna gohalfway to go. No, no, we were
we weren't going halfway. I waslike the trainers basically like
make my guy look, I guessbasically the story is I got
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beat up by Mario.
That is what the trainer does,right? He calls the guy that's
how he makesyour makes him a good trainer.
Yeah, he's like, don'tlet me go talk to your opponent.
Let me warn you about yourjacket.
Let me free from your style.
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This kid's gonna come witheverything. No he's not. He's
notcome half assed, please. I'll
throw you. I'll throw you avideo. I might get you a walk on
part. I mean, I can't make Ican't make promises. I can't
Yeah, I'm not gonna guaranteeanything but I'm thinking three
episodes as the pay sides newdrama teacher.
Knock Knock Jamie. What would bethe strangest item to sell door
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to door? Jeez, I think meatwould probably be a big one. I
don't wanna pressure you but youshould probably make a decision
pretty soon.
This won't be here tomorrow.
It's getting hot.
Bring a cow with you.
Knife super fresh. Yes, it'sgonna be the freshest steak
you've ever had toys would bedifficult Can I trust you and so
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awkwardhere's what's gonna happen I
have some items in this case youopen it I'll step back a few
feet Yeah, you go ahead and pickout what you anything you want
to point to some some brown bagsthat you can put this in the
worst. You always kind of startthose businesses with your
family first so you'd be like agrandma. This is gonna be
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awkward.
I grew up watching Showtimemovies and late night Showtime
movies was all about likeseduction and like kind of
almost like just above r ratedand there was always some
housewife who was seducing someyoung guy and I remember being a
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I did yard work in myneighborhood for years, you
know? And I remember thinkingevery time I swear to God every
day I started mowing the lawnand coach someone's gonna come
out at any point hit on me andhit on me. Yeah, I'm probably
gonna hook up with this lady.
Right? I'm 105 pounds. 14. Am Isomeone not? Am I mowing the
lawn the wrong way. I'm mowingthe story. Yes. Something. Is
(26:54):
there a is there a I gotta gorewatch that.
I don't know what this guy wasdoing. But it was like, do I
need to upgrade the pool? Boy?
Is that what I need to do? Whenyou were mowing the lawn? Did
you put that music soundtrack inthe background? That you know
those movies or orshe comes out the housewife
comes out to pay you and you'relike, No, you forgot your
(27:16):
wallet. Right? Like no, I canhave it right here. No.
Positive. Maybe we could figureout an alternative. You're like
yeah, and she's like, No, I meanlike credit card credit card.
Yeah, that was my big fantasy.
Yeah. Makes sense for going doorto door when I was Nico was
mowing the lawn at midnight.
(27:36):
What am I not to what am I mustbe missing something so and
you've got the rival across thestreet. He was getting all the
ladies right. Oh, boy. Oh boy.
Yeah, boys. walked by. winks.
A little. Nice job on boy.
We're always getting tail whenwe were kids like the young
lifeguards at the pool. Oh,yeah. Okay. All right. So Knock,
(27:59):
knock, knock, knock. All right.
Is there an opportunity thatcame knocking that you now look
back on and say it would havebeen a door to go through Keenan
Ivory Wayans had a late nighttalk show not in living color
was after that he had a latenight talk show for a minute
after it was I think it lasted ayear the money was so crazy. I
mean, I was 30. So I didn't knowany better. I didn't have much
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to compare it to but it wasreally good money. And I think I
could have been a writer onthose late night talk shows for
1012 years or maybe longer. Butit wasn't very fun. Many, many
hours. It's fun initially, butjust there forever a Yeah, I
just didn't I didn't lovewriting jokes about Bush or
Clinton or whatever it was. Itjust didn't it didn't make any
(28:46):
sense. Yeah, current affairs andyou're just motoring through of
like you get done with one sideand you got to do another set.
It's hard to write qualityjokes, so that I had a chance to
maybe pursue that a little boredand never I dove I decided I
wanted to doand I think we all enjoy a good
(29:08):
laugh over now abit small towns now instead of a
small town that this is a smalltown but I always thought the
idea of a writer room like thatwould be kind of fun. Like a
bunch of guys that are it isfunny, like, you know knocking
up jokes, like essentially kindof kicking off each other and
kind of saying, that's fun. Yes,fun. Ball busting is fun to go
(29:29):
around the office and that kindof stuff. But just the sheer
hours. You're there. It's notyour material. Yes, that's
designed to be perishable. Youwrite 10 jokes about Bush's trip
to Japan you write 10 jokesabout Bush's we. So we come up
with 40 jokes, right? And thenwe kind of kick around and go
Are any of these usable? Andit's just a it's a different
(29:51):
kind of grind process becauseit's not the development of
material that you would use onstage, right? You're just
churning, right? You're justchurn and burn.
Did ya? Everyone was nice thereand no you don't get it you
didn't get yelled at but itwould just be like produce more
and faster. Yeah, I bet allright, you should be making sure
that you get a chance to go seeNick wherever he is around the
(30:11):
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you go check out Nick put yourchair back where you found it
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Ladies and gentleman comedy roundtable coming up on
this episode all these peoplehere because this guy had some
funny at one funny clip or oryou know his uncle in the balls
or something like that right,trying to set asleep and then
you wake up and you're like didI get it go
(00:21):
look, I have a Guinness recordfor running marathons, but won't
believe this. I'm also a serialkiller. We have saved a chair
for you our listener and we'vealso saved the chair here at the
roundtable for our guest thisevening, Nick Griffin, we are
not at the landmark diner as wenormally are adjacent to the
punch line comedy club for thisepisode of the comedy roundtable
(00:43):
with Jamie Jamie and Adam. Weare instead in studio but Nick
is at the club. He had a showlast night. I did it was great.
Yeah, it was good to be there.
And then are you someplace elsetomorrow? I am I'm at the comedy
cellar in New York City. Okay,awesome. Speaking of New York
comedy news, one of the thingsthat'll be happening it'll it
will have happened by the timethis episode airs. Caroline's on
Broadway is closed. Yeah, one ofthe one of the big comedy clubs
(01:08):
opted not to renew their leasekind of an iconic Yeah. comedy
Club around for 100 years. Soyou're saying to me I can go
sign I will quick lease put upCaroline's with a K and just
like instant equity for my newbusiness? Possibly. Yeah, I
don't know how that works,necessarily. And I get the sense
that it's probably going to be aswatch store or something come
(01:28):
January. Yeah. Well, the m&mstore is just up the street.
Maybe it'll be a payday storesomething like payday, like the
candy bar. Yeah, I was trying tomake a candy reference. Like
that's more off Broadway.
I just don't have a great candy,you know, knowledge. But yeah,
(01:49):
you're right. It is offBroadway. I've noticed a little
bit of a transition this year,got some content clips and stuff
that you've got up of some sets?
Yeah. Yeah. You know, I mean,the business is changing so much
and trying to promote yourselfon Instagram and Twitter and,
and Facebook. It's just acompletely different game. I
mean, I been doing it 35 years.
(02:09):
And it was, you know, you triedto get on some late night shows.
And then, you know, sort ofwaited around to somebody
plucked out of nowhere. And nowyou just try to post a lot of
clips and kind of get a lot offollowers and then goes from
there. It's a different it's anodd game. My perspective on it
is twofold. One, the crowd workclip, which is definitely a
thing, right. And it seems asthough many comics are coming
(02:32):
not just to the punch line, butto clubs all around the country.
And they're filming what used tobe the thing that was avoided,
right? I don't want disruptionson this crowd. I'm not
necessarily going into thecrowd. And and if a comedian was
in the crowd for too long, itwas it became kind of high
stress. And it was it was alittle more confrontational.
And, you know, there's a varietyof reasons of why it wasn't
(02:53):
necessarily the norm. But now Ithink it's become more prevalent
in the hopes that you'recatching something that then can
be turned into a driver offollowers and views and
awareness and whatnot. A lot ofthese stand up working the
audience clips, I hate to thinkthat they're kind of encouraging
the audience to get involvedmore well, it changes the
(03:14):
expectation both ways and whatyou're saying that because you
want that crowd to be quietuntil you decide that they can
be the show. Yeah, I've justnever been a huge crowd work
guy. I mean, you know if itcomes down to it, sure, I can do
it. But I just I've my fun hasalways been writing good jokes
and seeing what happens withthat is changing stand up at
some level, right? There aresome people that are social
(03:37):
media, comedians that are not aseffective on stage. All these
people are here because this guyhad some funny at one funny clip
or, or you know, hit his unclein the balls or something like
that, right? Think about howmany times there have been
conversations in which an unclehas said to his nephew, you need
to get a job. And the nephewjust kicked him in the balls and
says, I just got a job.
(03:59):
No, I'm saying you need to get ajob because I'm tired of getting
kicked in the balls.
I understand you're making moneydoing this, but it's from the
fetal position.
Sounds more like the andselect we have three topics for
discussion from which we willpose questions that you will
(04:20):
answer. So the three topicsright now of which you are
choosing one are as follows.
This town ain't big enough, theGuinness Book or knock knock,
I'll go with this town. Allright, This town ain't big
enough. Starting with Adam. Whatdo you think is the best thing
about small town comedy clubs?
Like is there anything that'supside to a small town comedy
(04:42):
club as opposed to the large bigcity comedy Club? I love playing
the small towns. I mean, I wouldsay half my work is in the
Midwest. Yeah. Yeah. And I likeit and I feel comfortable there
and the people are really nice.
I mean, people are niceeverywhere. I haven't had that
big problem in my career what Imean? Is that a concern of yours
(05:02):
at all that could get or evenmore so than usual? It's it's
definitely I don't know, if Iwere to say it's generational, I
don't mean it. Age of performer.
I mean it age of time inbusiness, that the longer
somebody's been doing comedy,the more they're likely to have
a different impression of whatthe crowd audience interaction
(05:24):
should be. I would almost sayit's like of like, not like it's
a fashion trend, like we're inthe bell bottom jeans era of
stand up, but it's definitelydifferent wave driven by these
other dynamics. Yeah, you know,so All right, if Jamie put me in
charge of the punch line, here'sthe changes I would make every
seat would have an electricalcharge, and there'd be a board
up on stage with the seatdiagram that the comedian can
(05:45):
control. So you decide, youknow, the way for security to
come and tell someone to bequiet you decide whether you zap
them put away your cell phone.
Problem is, you'd be like, Idon't know how to work this
thing. You'd be zapping the poorlittle lady who was just
the greatest audience members.
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All right, Jamie, This townain't big enough. Alright, so if
you haven't been able to tell sofar, in this podcast, we rely on
me to bring it back to like amore serious
question is meant to get deeperinto your psyche, right? So
you're approaching one of thesesmall towns where you're
performing at one of thesedelightful small town clubs with
(06:27):
crowds that are perfectly wellbehaved. And as you get to the
outskirts of town, and you'reabout to come into the town,
there is a toddler there. Nowthe toddler is armed. Right? And
the toddler says to you, Thistown ain't big enough for the
two of us. What does thattoddler need to be armed with
for you to turn around and skipout on your performance?
(06:48):
What if that's a crazy scenario?
Jeez, that's a great question.
No, it's not. No.
No, no. I mean, any sort of gunsgonna make me uncomfortable?
Especially it's a toddlerholding the gun. Like, is he
gonna fire that thing?
Accidentally? Yeah, Nerf gun.
No, no Norfolk gun, but yeah, Iwould say any sort of guns gonna
make me. I had one guy have agun at a show one time. I can't
(07:10):
remember where it was, butshowed me as he was leaving.
Right, like an intimidating way.
You better be funny. You'reright. Is that kind of to steal
Adams favorite question? I'm nota follow up question. Yeah. So
now you come to that the toddlerwent away. Because it was just,
it was just another? Yes. Youhave to clarify.
(07:32):
naptime. It takes them a whileto get that it's a small enough
town that patrol. He's atoddler. He's not becoming
Capone. He's like, God, I gotanother place. They're gonna
shake down the spot shows up.
Oh, you, you and you're choppingdown restaurants for protection
and toddler driving a batteryoperated monster truck.
Alright, so the nerve totingtoddler who you were not worried
(07:53):
about leaves, but in his place?
Oh, no. Yes. Fifth graders startto appear. How many fifth
graders would have to be there?
They're unarmed. At this point,how many fifth graders
threatening you that this town abig enough? Would there need to
be before you didn't just sayI'm coming through you people I
would probably go through four.
But five is too many. Yeah, itjust because of their
(08:15):
hyperactivity and their, youknow, energy, I would be freaked
out about I mean, even like, 21year olds in the audience when
they're in there. I get a littlejust because they're so
jacked. I don't know if you havekids, but God, I just, it's a
fifth graders are like 10 yearsold. 11. Yeah. So like, that's
(08:36):
pretty intense. If you put fiveof those guys, you know, like,
and in their hyped up state,right. Like, that's a dangerous
combination. Like, it'ssomething that you'd be kind of
like, okay, so you guys couldtake out all my limbs and still
have a guy swinging. Right.
Right. And also, I think, like,at that age, and I can't
remember that age great. But Iwould imagine they just have no
respect for me whatsoever onjust a base level. Yeah, I
(08:58):
didn't say this town a bigenough for the two of us, sir.
Right. They did not know. Allright. Many, many comedians have
some joke that includes areference to a smaller nearby
community. Oh, so how small doesa town have to be? Before it's
too small? To be an understoodreference by a comedian? No,
(09:23):
you're just picking on a smalltown at that point. Every but
many comedians have a Joe Yeah,a very small town where there
are weirdos. And many comediansask what's the town nearby that
everybody makes fun of? Yeah,Tim Wilson always used to use
when he was in like Chattanoogaand Nashville. We would always
reference Soddy Daisyright. I don't know how to smile
(09:44):
though to be in then you're justbeing abusive. Oh, I don't think
anybody views it as picking onthe town. Oh, I would. Like I'm
likeAre you seriously gonna be mean
to those guys? Like they seemlike a very nice Amish town.
Right yeah yeaheasy but yeah held stuff in
(10:05):
Harrisburg. Yeah the first timeI worked with Tim Wilson just by
the way I remember we got backthey usually or sometimes have
certainly had more of them inthe 90s commonly condos instead
of pulling you up in a hotel andwe had just done one show on
like a Wednesday or Thursday andhe said, I don't like the way
you dress but you got somepretty good jokes.
(10:27):
Like Tim Wilson Yeah, yeah. Allright. So for round one, this is
comedy roundtable. We will beback with more of our guest Nick
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Are you thinking about whenyou're broke? I'm broke. Do your
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Thank God this is free.
I have a tiny apartment and andyou got to walk five flights of
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Yes, five flights of stairs toget to a tiny apartment so it's
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Back with more of the comedyroundtable, Jamie, Jamie and
Adam, our guest is comedian NickGriffin. So we have two topics
left Nick. Oh, they are theGuinness Book or knock knock. I
am gonna go with the GuinnessBook just out of curiosity. All
right, the Guinness Bookstarting with Adam. All right.
So if you are sitting in anairport bar, and there's
(13:29):
somebody who sits next to you,which which one is most likely
you want to actually have aconversation with, oh, a guy who
actually has a Guinness WorldRecord, it's something to a guy
who has a interesting like aforeign accent or three, a guy
who used to work for thegovernment who have those three,
who are you most likely want totalk to? I'm gonna have to say
(13:50):
Guinness. Yeah, right. Yeah, Ithink so. I mean, I don't know
anything about government also.
And it seems horrible. So thegovernment guys out the more
he'll talk to me, the more I'llget confused, right? The
interesting accent guys may besecond place, right? Because
you're like, he's a foreigntraveler. So he must have some
good stories, right? But again,this guy, like what drove you to
do something, right? That's theguy who, you know, got kicked in
(14:12):
the balls 20 times by the kidsstop or whatever. It's anyway,
what the hell? Let's go forlet's go for the
Hold on. Are you telling me thatthe record is only 20.
I can take 21 not thought of arecord I could break but I might
(14:33):
be able to break out. So hold ona second. There. That might be
the kind of record where youfind out very quickly. That is a
hard record.
To take into your head wonderingI'm just gonna do this. This is
much harder than I thought.
Yeah, I have a great deal ofrespect for that guy. Actually,
the record may be one.
That's amazing, though. Thereactually has to be somebody has
(14:54):
to have the record for that.
Yeah, it would be interesting tofind out what what did they
The best part is, I think, andI've looked a little bit into
Guinness record, because at onepoint in my life, I was like,
Wouldn't it be cool to actuallyhave your own, you know, to have
accomplished this and I wastrying to figure out one, that
would be easy, you usually haveto have an official from
Guinness present, or you have tovideotape it, and to the point
(15:16):
where they, you know, undertheir certain circumstances, to
get that to Guinness, but theguy who flies in for the ball
kicking the Guinness guy, he'slike, he's like, Oh, that wasn't
an official kick. Because itreally
wasn't a good one. Yeah, thatwas all thought. He's like, I'm
pretty sure. Yeah, I gottadisallow or disallowing that
(15:37):
last two years, you're back at20. Okay, so you're the Guinness
guy you're gonna talk. Justseems like a regular guy who
would do that. It sounds likeone of my friends who would try
to come up with the Guinnessrecord. Alright, so what
activity do you think is notdeserving of a Guinness Book
World Record? Because theypretty much seems like they will
do anything that you candocument? Could it be sleeping?
I don't know, biking, I mean,any of these things that are
(16:00):
just like, you could just do itover and over and over and over
and over that? I don't know. Ilike I like the ones that have
to do with pain. I select theones that have to do with like,
large getting larger orjust thinking about the sleepy
guy. They're like, No, that's afucking coma
(16:23):
this time, they're like, holyshit. He's not getting
get us guys like, Yup, you gotthe week.
One Bye.
Oh my god. So holding yourbreath to say like, I'm gonna go
underwater and hold my breath.
Yes, you can kind of count andbe like, Okay, I gotta get to
120 seconds. I gotta get to 125seconds. Yes, sir. Trying to set
(16:43):
a sleep record. And then youwake up and you're like, Did I
get it go?
Like it was, it was too close. Iwas like, probably one minute
away.
No, you're like seven hours?
away. It's like, Are you fuckingkidding me? I slept for eight
(17:05):
days.
Yeah, this is bullshit. So doyou think there's any serial
killers that as they were deepinto their serial killing, that
they were just recognized forthis, they were disappointed to
get the credit I deserve?
Yeah, I feel like I've killed 40People, I'm calling for 44 Hang
on a second, the worst way toget discovered you've done all
(17:26):
this work. And now you'resubmitting it for recognition.
That's an undercover cop whoshows up the good guy will be
there, what's a good time. Butmake sure everything has to be
documented. You know, again, hiscorporate headquarters has
gottenwhat's the record for like, you
know, horrible thing. And thenlike, we're gonna send the
(17:48):
police to the how many peoplehave you killed? 17. It's 17.
You can stop.
By the way you satisfied therecord, you don't need to.
Alright, so Guinness Book, ifyou're going to meet somebody
who is a Guinness Book WorldRecord holder. Would you rather
that be a person where the mostinteresting thing about them is
(18:12):
the fact that they have aGuinness World Record? Or that
the least interesting thingabout them is that they have a
Guinness World Record. Oh, geez.
I'd pay say least right. Yeah,yeah, I would like me here what
else they've done with theirlife. So Jamie, can you wrote
this question down? Right. Idid. This was this was the good
question. Yeah, it's prettyobvious that it would be
(18:35):
the most interesting person, theguy who just sat who says, Look,
I have a Guinness record forrunning marathons. But you won't
believe this. I'm also a serialkiller. They won't give me that
one. But actually, I have to, Ihave to. One is recognize the
others.
The reason why I asked thequestion is I would be
fascinated by a person who is sobrutally boring. Yes. And yet
(18:59):
what I'd be more interested totalk to, you have done nothing
in your life. Except for 30days. Yes. Yeah. Right. Like
to that person. That personwants to talk about it or don't
want to talk about it. Be like,well, I've done a couple of
things. Like I jumped rope onetime for 30 days in a row, but I
(19:21):
found Google.
Like he actually was incrediblyinteresting, but that's all he
wants to talk about. He's like,my daughter. The only thing he
had, it's like, I do nothingelse. I don't I don't like you
don't have a sports team thatyou follow. You don't. Is there
a book that you've read? That'sinteresting. You like ya know
your story about your childhood,a jump rope, man. That's what I
(19:42):
do. I'm gonna try and break myown record. There may be nothing
maybe more tragic than to be aformer Guinness World Record
holder. Especially if it's theguy who has nothing else in his
life. Yeah, number two now.
Yeah, but could you imagineyou just took it you
But so so you you're now you'vebecome a public speaker. You do
(20:04):
a whole Tech Talk go tocompanies to talk about
productivity, right? And you'relike, we've got it. We got a
treat for you guys today biointroducing world record holder.
He's now number two. A closefriend of mine had a an enormous
walnut tree in his backyard. Andhe was.
(20:26):
And he was actually looking atdoing some renovations. And the
roots were all under his house,right everywhere under his
house. And he called theuniversity, the local university
to say like, what's the best wayto deal with like, I don't want
to kill the tree. Right. Solet's send an arborist and
they're like, Well, how big isthe tree? And he said, Well,
it's like this. And they'relike, no, no, you're measuring
it wrong. And they told him howto measure it. And they're like,
(20:47):
well, that's the biggest walnuttree in the entire state. And so
they're like, You must bemeasured. We're gonna send an
arborist over to measure it. Andso they did and it turns out it
was the largest walnut tree inthe state and they gave him like
a little plaque that he can puton his house that says like this
is but the old largest walnuttree guy sent him actual hate.
Was there crushed walnuts in theenvelope?
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Yeah, it's Monday kicking theballs.
Let's take another break. Hereon the comedy round table with
our guests comedian NickGriffin. We will be back with
our final topic here on comedyround table gym. And you can't
compare yourself to otherpeople. That's another big trap
for not feeling good, you know,because you see other people
their lives and you go away.
thinkLeBron James White as he gets.
(21:38):
Don't think about that. Youknow, Brad Pitt? Think about
Brad Pitt. Imagine that. BradPitt? Great looking rich, famous
Oscar sleeping with AngelinaJolie.
Holy moly.
What did this guy do pull athorn out of God's paw?
(21:59):
Or his parents leprechauns.
Amazing life though Brad Pitt.
It's gonna be I don't know oneand a billion to have that kind
of resume life. Wow.
You think Brad Pitt praiseNo, I'm good.
final segment bonus segment, Iguess here with our guests on
(22:21):
the comedy roundtable. Jamie,Jamie and Adam our guest this
week is comedian Nick Griffin.
We are down to our final topicyou can choose either knock
knock or knock knock. I'm gonnago with Knock knock. All right.
Knock Knock starting with Adam.
This one is not gonna go whereyou think it's gonna go? Which
is my my my kind of my callingcard on these misdirection.
(22:45):
Yeah, so knock knock. Have youever been in any kind of fight?
Sure. Tell me about any kind ofphysical fight you've ever been
in? Well, I used to box when Iwas like 1516 Yeah. Okay, so you
did a lot of fight. Yeah, not alot. But like, I don't know. I
think I had five fights when youpunch people to do say literally
knock knock. You're asking isthere a dramatic fight story
(23:06):
that you can remember? Notreally but I remember I that's
not because of the boxing thememory has been taken like
I just don't remember them. Oh,I know a funny thing about
boxing as I box when I was youngand then when I moved to LA I
started going to this boxing gymcalled Wild Card boxing gym
where the world trainer FreddieRoach, I don't know if you ever
(23:29):
heard of Fred Roach but hetrained Pacquiao and a bunch of
other big fighters. If you wentin the morning it was mostly
like actors and stuff and that'swhen I went Mario Lopez used to
go to I think he still goes tothe gym. yeah that guy from
yeah kind of funny for a boxingring. Yeah, he asked me one day
do you want to you know kind ofmove around and throw some
(23:51):
punches and I said sure. And andhe is trading in a tray and
Russia trader that just startedsome guy in the gym who you know
paid to show him the ropes andstuff and and the trader said
let's just go easy, you know?
And I said sure you know fineyou know, I don't want to get
hit or anything and then andthen within this 30 seconds of
the first round he's just WallyGod me coming at me with all
purines blazing and I dare towear your screech costume
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team Zachwith a bad call that day, I was
teamed Zach and I was also goinghalf assed
and I just got my head walked inand I just remember like looking
at go I thought we were gonna gohalfway to go. No, no, we were
we weren't going halfway. I waslike the trainers basically like
make my guy look, I guessbasically the story is I got
(24:43):
beat up by Mario.
That is what the trainer does,right? He calls the guy that's
how he makesyour makes him a good trainer.
Yeah, he's like, don'tlet me go talk to your opponent.
Let me warn you about yourjacket.
Let me free from your style.
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This kid's gonna come witheverything. No he's not. He's
notcome half assed, please. I'll
throw you. I'll throw you avideo. I might get you a walk on
part. I mean, I can't make Ican't make promises. I can't
Yeah, I'm not gonna guaranteeanything but I'm thinking three
episodes as the pay sides newdrama teacher.
Knock Knock Jamie. What would bethe strangest item to sell door
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to door? Jeez, I think meatwould probably be a big one. I
don't wanna pressure you but youshould probably make a decision
pretty soon.
This won't be here tomorrow.
It's getting hot.
Bring a cow with you.
Knife super fresh. Yes, it'sgonna be the freshest steak
you've ever had toys would bedifficult Can I trust you and so
(25:48):
awkwardhere's what's gonna happen I
have some items in this case youopen it I'll step back a few
feet Yeah, you go ahead and pickout what you anything you want
to point to some some brown bagsthat you can put this in the
worst. You always kind of startthose businesses with your
family first so you'd be like agrandma. This is gonna be
(26:10):
awkward.
I grew up watching Showtimemovies and late night Showtime
movies was all about likeseduction and like kind of
almost like just above r ratedand there was always some
housewife who was seducing someyoung guy and I remember being a
(26:32):
I did yard work in myneighborhood for years, you
know? And I remember thinkingevery time I swear to God every
day I started mowing the lawnand coach someone's gonna come
out at any point hit on me andhit on me. Yeah, I'm probably
gonna hook up with this lady.
Right? I'm 105 pounds. 14. Am Isomeone not? Am I mowing the
lawn the wrong way. I'm mowingthe story. Yes. Something. Is
(26:54):
there a is there a I gotta gorewatch that.
I don't know what this guy wasdoing. But it was like, do I
need to upgrade the pool? Boy?
Is that what I need to do? Whenyou were mowing the lawn? Did
you put that music soundtrack inthe background? That you know
those movies or orshe comes out the housewife
comes out to pay you and you'relike, No, you forgot your
(27:16):
wallet. Right? Like no, I canhave it right here. No.
Positive. Maybe we could figureout an alternative. You're like
yeah, and she's like, No, I meanlike credit card credit card.
Yeah, that was my big fantasy.
Yeah. Makes sense for going doorto door when I was Nico was
mowing the lawn at midnight.
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What am I not to what am I mustbe missing something so and
you've got the rival across thestreet. He was getting all the
ladies right. Oh, boy. Oh boy.
Yeah, boys. walked by. winks.
A little. Nice job on boy.
We're always getting tail whenwe were kids like the young
lifeguards at the pool. Oh,yeah. Okay. All right. So Knock,
(27:59):
knock, knock, knock. All right.
Is there an opportunity thatcame knocking that you now look
back on and say it would havebeen a door to go through Keenan
Ivory Wayans had a late nighttalk show not in living color
was after that he had a latenight talk show for a minute
after it was I think it lasted ayear the money was so crazy. I
mean, I was 30. So I didn't knowany better. I didn't have much
(28:22):
to compare it to but it wasreally good money. And I think I
could have been a writer onthose late night talk shows for
1012 years or maybe longer. Butit wasn't very fun. Many, many
hours. It's fun initially, butjust there forever a Yeah, I
just didn't I didn't lovewriting jokes about Bush or
Clinton or whatever it was. Itjust didn't it didn't make any
(28:46):
sense. Yeah, current affairs andyou're just motoring through of
like you get done with one sideand you got to do another set.
It's hard to write qualityjokes, so that I had a chance to
maybe pursue that a little boredand never I dove I decided I
wanted to doand I think we all enjoy a good
(29:08):
laugh over now abit small towns now instead of a
small town that this is a smalltown but I always thought the
idea of a writer room like thatwould be kind of fun. Like a
bunch of guys that are it isfunny, like, you know knocking
up jokes, like essentially kindof kicking off each other and
kind of saying, that's fun. Yes,fun. Ball busting is fun to go
(29:29):
around the office and that kindof stuff. But just the sheer
hours. You're there. It's notyour material. Yes, that's
designed to be perishable. Youwrite 10 jokes about Bush's trip
to Japan you write 10 jokesabout Bush's we. So we come up
with 40 jokes, right? And thenwe kind of kick around and go
Are any of these usable? Andit's just a it's a different
(29:51):
kind of grind process becauseit's not the development of
material that you would use onstage, right? You're just
churning, right? You're justchurn and burn.
Did ya? Everyone was nice thereand no you don't get it you
didn't get yelled at but itwould just be like produce more
and faster. Yeah, I bet allright, you should be making sure
that you get a chance to go seeNick wherever he is around the
(30:11):
country follow like andsubscribe. Sure, comic Nick
Griffin on Instagram and theNick Griffin on Twitter and then
Nick Griffin dotnet do you dothat like the Ohio State
University you're like the NickGriffin for Jamie Jamie anatomy
that was always a treat to getto see you appreciate you being
here with us continued successin the coming year. Make sure
(30:31):
you go check out Nick put yourchair back where you found it
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