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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sam Morrel. Hey, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, doing pretty good.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Nice to talk to you again. I assume you're all
ready to go. It's tour time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, no, we're going hard man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's a long run, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yeah, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's just what we do. You know, we go hard
on the road.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now. I did, uh, let me ask you this on
your on the bus right?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I saw you where did I see you talking about
being on the bus. I know, I saw you on
with Kelly Clarkson and you were talking about your bus
and being out on.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A bus tour.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And I think you said to her, which is, I
don't think what anybody would expect your bus to be like.
But you said, it's all like obviously you go do
your shows and you know that's the work. But then
it's like red wine and movies afterwards.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, sometimes Scotch. You know, you don't want to drink
the same liquor every night. I think you know you
want to, you know, it's that's my health tip. Mixed
up the liquor. It keeps, it keeps the young. Yeah. Yeah,
I like, uh, look, I mean Gary's married.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I'm in a relationship, like like there's only so what
are we gonna chase that you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Kind of just are like, let's find a movie, you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Know, and uh no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's almost like an adult sleepover.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, but Sam, I imagine that it would be like
get back on the bus unlessen whatever you're drinking, and
you're right, switch it up in the whole thing. I
just figured it would be non stop sports the entire time.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well we do that too, I mean yeah, I mean, look,
they're the next game. I'll watch the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But you know, uh yeah, they're not as into basketball
as I am, so like they will watch the James.
Are our videographers gotten into the Knicks because of me?
He's the Chicago kid who legitimately became a Knicks.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Fan because of my fandom. I'm I'm honored. But yeah,
I mean no, they're not as into.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But you'll still be on the road. You'll be on
the road when baseball season starts.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's true. Yeah, I mean are we Yeah? I guess yeah,
I guess we are. Yeah, April, right, ye.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
See, your tour goes on forever. I know you were like, no,
that's no big deal, that's what we do. This is
such a long tour. Which is great.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's awesome. But you may be on for the end
of baseball season.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, isn't that weird?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean we not may
we will be.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I think we'd go a little lighter in the summer,
but yeah, we will be on tour for that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hey, so let me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Ask you this, how long how long do you work
stuff out ahead of time before you know, Okay, I'm
ready to go out on tour.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think, you know, you kind of want to make
sure you have at least like a solid forty of
new which I think we're at. But it's, uh, it's confusing,
you know. It's it's sometimes you think you're ready and
then you're like, damn, I'm not ready. You really have
to take it to crowds that aren't exactly your crowd.
I'm really spoiled on the road, you know. I just
did six shows in Pittsburgh. They were all really fun shows, right,
(03:16):
But then sometimes you take that same material the comedy
seller and it's not hidden quite as hard. So I
want to make sure my material is doing well after
like some of these young killers at the cellar right now, Hey,
can I can.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I ask you this about the comedy seller, what is
I didn't?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, agree, when people praise questions, can I ask you this?
I don't know. Uh, you know you're gonna I don't
know what you're gonna ask. I mean he's gonna ask, but.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, okay, let me ask you this. Then New Joke
Night at the Comedy Cellar? Is that is that? Is
that a known thing? Was that open to the public?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
We're just performing for each other like a weird cul Yeah,
you got you got a crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But do people know that it's you were tall somewhere
and you said that you'll go do New Joke Night
at the Cellar and that it's a bunch of comedians
that go up there and they just try out new stuff.
And the part that stood out was you talking about, Oh,
I bomb all the time. I go to New Joke
Night where you're just trying stuff out and comedians bomb
(04:18):
all the time. But does the audience know that it
is like it is New Joke Night, that that's what
they're there for.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, that's how bad some of my new stuff is.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I guess they're aware of what the show is and
I'm still doing poorly, So.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it's impressive. Uh yeah, you know it annoys me.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Some comics will cheat and I'll be like, you know, hey,
I heard that comics you that joke on late night
or so you know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like, I've heard that bit before. Oh now you're watching. Yeah,
I screw you.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You're messing up the curve it's supposed to be. It's
usually stuff I've tried that day. Sometimes I'm tinkering with
a joke that has something working, but there needs to
be more and I need to figure it out. So
it's kind of a mix of brand new stuff I've
never said and stuff that's kind of like, uh, you know,
there's there's something here and I can't crack it, and uh.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean I will.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Bomb sometimes, sure, sometimes I kill. I mean, but you
know it's you leave.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
With one new joke, mission accomplished, right, So the cares
if you bomb.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The plan is to you know, it's like laying bricks.
These new hours. You need to keep at a line,
a line here, line there, and you feel productive.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean, when I'm doing twenty one shows in a month,
twenty one hours rather not your shows, but twenty one
long sets. You do get better a bit more quickly because.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You just are in the rhythm. You're in that comedic
rhythm when.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You're speaking that much in that you know, I think
about twenty one hours. That's like how much talking do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You even do in a regular day. Like the majority
of my talking that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Month, maybe not the majority, but a good portion of
it is going to be stand up.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, right, you're going to be on today.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That voice right exactly?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is that? Is that a common thing?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love the idea of that at comedy clubs, especially
if and listen. I don't know if all of the
comics are as famous as you are, Sam, but the
I love the idea of sitting there and watching like
known comics give birth if you will, to new material.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What a great night that's got to be.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean, look, if you're a big comedy fan,
it's pretty cool because it'll get like big comics will
drop in on that show because who doesn't want to
work on new stuff. I mean, it's a great, you
know thing. Shout out to Wilson Vince for starting that
show because it really I think, you know, I think
a knock on the cellar for many years is a
lot of comics. We're just going up and trying to
kill all the time, and you know, we're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
A lot for these sets.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
These I think somewhere along the line, you know, people
lost sight of the fact that this is a club.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You should be building an act, and if you're.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Servicing only the club and not yourself, you're not growing
as a comedians. So I think people got way.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Too comfortable going up and killing at the Seller.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And you know, it's cool for the show that people
are killing, but also like it's bad.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
For the culture, if that makes sense to me.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
You want to always be striving for more in your act.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And you know, the patriarchs of these clubs, these New.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
York legends like Colin Quinn, David Tel you know, all
these old school comics who's.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Still you know, go up there all the time. They
are always doing news.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So it made no sense that this was kind of
the vibe at the club.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But you know, then.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Colin Quinn started doing hours at the Fat like Pussycat,
which is one of their sister rooms, and I copied him.
I was like, well, if see he is doing, this
is what I'm gonna do. And it turned out to
be a great place to develop material. So you know
it's you know you mentioned I like sports, Well, you
(07:48):
know it's a lot like a locker.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Room where you look at the veterans. What are the
veterans do? And you kind of learn, well, this is
how I should carry myself.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Hey, So the other thing is it and this will
kind of get back to that.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I saw that you did well, you did Torching twenty
twenty four of the Roast on Netflix that Jeff Ross
kind of hosted and you and you and Norman went
out together and did that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
First of all, is that is that? Is that awkward?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Like doing a rose where two if you were out
there at the same time, Is that is that a
little bit weird to do?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I wasn't excited to do it, to be honest. I
mean they asked us separately. They didn't want us to
go up together. That was kind of our idea, right,
So I mean was it awkward? I mean we brought
it on ourselves. I think we were bored by the
idea of just roasting.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
A year. We think a conceptual roast is stupid. It
was not a good idea. It was.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I knew, I knew exactly what that show was going
to be. I knew it was not going to be
as good as the regular roast, and I think Mark
and I did well despite that because we worked hard
than the jokes. But we had like a week to
write those jokes at help obviously from the writer's room
and some writers that we got.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To help us. But like you know, ultimately we want
to do a lot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Of the jokes that we write. That's how we operate.
And you know, it was not a lot of time
to prepare. I think for a regular roast you get
like months. You know, we didn't really get that. And
also it felt fairly scraped together. You can't really roast
a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The purpose of a roast is for the people.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
To be in their room, and you know, I'm tracked,
and so I didn't like that in concept, and that's
why we kind of focused mostly on P Diddy and
Luigi because we're like, well, the reason they're not here
is because they're in prison, so.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We don't feel bad trashing then.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But you know, I just didn't think it was really
a good idea, and I knew it was going to
be a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
But.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Mark kind of agreed on it, thinking I was already
doing it, and then I felt like, all right, what
the hell, I'll do.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It with Mark, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But it was it was cool because again there was
another video of you and Mark kind of just running
through the jokes at a comedy club that was just
like it wasn't you guys weren't performing, you were just
telling the jokes. That was fun to watch because it
really is all right, let's just try it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Let's just try it. You guys thought the jay Z
joke would get cut that made it in.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, they told us it would get cut. That's why
we thought that, because we can't do any jay Z jokes.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And well, Mark was like, well that's a really good joke.
Mark was so proud of that joke. And I thought
it was a great joke. It was so simple. It's
funny to see what hits. You don't know really what's
going to hit. But yeah, you know, we ran the
hell out of it for you know, for the time.
We were able to like a week, and I mean,
(10:44):
we we love working together.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We have a lot of fun working together.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And I think Mark is a great year for jokes,
and I think we were really helpful tweaking not just
our own jokes, but each other's jokes and we're honest
with each other. So it was a cool experience to
work it into with a friend and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
A friend who you respect obviously.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know, like you say, having that time to
be able to go through it, and it was not
I don't want to say thrown together, but you didn't
have much time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No, you can say that it was thrown together. Ye.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think Hamas put more work into their operations.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And and the crowd and the crowd, their crowd felt
like less hostages than.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But I was listening to to your podcast with Mark
and you guys were talking about this was kind of
right after Nicki Glazer hosted the Golden Globes and like
obviously she worked with writers.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think it was before it was we did it
before the Golden Globes.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We paid it like towards the end of December.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh okay, but was it where where you guys were
talking about she had run that Golden Globe set like
one hundred and thirty times before getting to the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Right, that seems like a lot. It might be good for.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It sounds crazy, but like you know, it's these things evolve,
These these sets start one way and then are kind
of guided. People forget that this is a form of
entertainment that the audience is a big part of. So
they're part of the editing process, so they help us write.
(12:23):
We kind of feed off what's working, and we kind
of kind of go from there. So it makes total
sense that she ran into the ground. Also, it's a
live event. You want to make sure it's in your
muscle memory. You know, you don't have to sing, you know.
So I think she understood what the job was and
she did the work.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's kind of what it is.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So you know, think about how much we run as
special that's kind of like a mini special as she did.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Right, Yeah, that makes sense, That makes total sense.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You know Nicky. Nicky came up as a road comics.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
She started in the Midwest as like a feature act.
The way kind of all the road comic start and
you know how Mark and I started too, is you
you kind of do the road and it's all about.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Repetition, and that's what she came from. So it's no
surprise to me that she would have that work ethic.
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The other the other person that was on the podcast
you had, Blake Griffin on and admittedly, admittedly, Sam, I'm
not a basketball guy at all, but I do know
who Blake Griffin is.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Obviously he's He's a very big star, was a big star.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I had no idea his love of comedy though, and
the fact that he goes out and does it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That was that was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, like to hear him talk about like going to
like Montreal and do it just for laughs and trying
that out. But I did like how you turned it
and told him that you played a charity basketball game
and then got yelled at by former players that you
weren't picking up the pace enough.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Sorry, I'm not in a good shape as Jamal Crawford.
I mean, these guys are.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Like legitimately like still incredible athletes. Uh, And I'm just, yeah,
I'm not. I'm not a defensive stopper on former NBA players.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sorry, I really was.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I really had to close out on Steve Novak in
one play and I was so proud he didn't shoot it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was like, oh my god, he didn't. He didn't shoot.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
But yeah, Tim Thomas and Jerome Williams former Knicks. I mean,
first off, Jerome Williams' nickname was the Junkyard Dog. Is
it shocking that I don't have the same hustle as
a guy with that nickname?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So yeah, I had a hard time getting back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I was also coming down with a really nasty cold,
so it was like I didn't realize it, but I
was like, man, I was like extra winded. I'm normally
not even that winded, but I was coming down with
something and that I was like, wow, I'm like coughing
a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was sick. I didn't realize it, but I was sick.
You don't realize it sometimes, so you have to run
the full length of the court again and again.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Was it the junkyard dog though, who was like, come on,
you gotta really hurry and get back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got to get back on d Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
He was like he thought i'd be in better shape
or so. I don't know. I mean, he was like annoyed.
He was kind of like, you gotta like because their competitors.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And look, I don't want to lose either. I was
pissed we lost as well. I thought we should have won.
You know, I didn't think we were in great shape
when our defensive specialists was.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Rizzler, but who knows, you know. And then and
then we.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Had like Amari who was a great NBA player, but
he shows up in like Jordan high Toss and like
those are like leisure shoes.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Those aren't like game shoes.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There wasn't a lot of red flags that I was like,
I think we're gonna lose it. And then Alan Houston
still is incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh, yeah it was. It was a tough level to take.
But hopefully they have me back and I'll train for
this one.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So the The the Errors Tour will be in Richmond
on Wednesday and then at the Warner Theater in DC
on Friday. Hey, Sam, do you know like at that
at some point, I'm just mean the answer is yes,
this this gets taped and turned into a special correct.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
At the at the end of the tour, I was saying, so, yeah,
I don't know when, but I got a lot of
my play right now, so I want to make sure
this is good enough to tape. But yeah, I think
at some point.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It will be Yeah, Hey, will you will you go
back overseas?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like when the when the US run is done, god knows,
when will you go back overseas?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And make another run there.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's a good question, you know. I just did Europe.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I don't know, and Australia's quite the commitment, so I'm
not sure. I mean, there's places in Europe I didn't go.
So what I might do is maybe turn into like
a mini vacation because I didn't get to do you know,
Germany or Italy. So maybe I go back and hit
some of the places, you know like that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
So we'll see, dude, good for you, all right, Like
I said, the Error Store will be at the National
in Richmond Wednesday night, Friday night the Warner Theater in DC.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Hey, Sam, I appreciate the time. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I appreciate it as well, and I talking with you again.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You got it. Thanks Sam,
Sam Morrel. Hey, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, doing pretty good.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Nice to talk to you again. I assume you're all
ready to go. It's tour time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh yeah, no, we're going hard man.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's a long run, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Yeah, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's just what we do. You know, we go hard
on the road.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now. I did, uh, let me ask you this on
your on the bus right?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I saw you where did I see you talking about
being on the bus. I know, I saw you on
with Kelly Clarkson and you were talking about your bus
and being out on.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A bus tour.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And I think you said to her, which is, I
don't think what anybody would expect your bus to be like.
But you said, it's all like obviously you go do
your shows and you know that's the work. But then
it's like red wine and movies afterwards.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, sometimes Scotch. You know, you don't want to drink
the same liquor every night. I think you know you
want to, you know, it's that's my health tip. Mixed
up the liquor. It keeps, it keeps the young. Yeah. Yeah,
I like, uh, look, I mean Gary's married.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I'm in a relationship, like like there's only so what
are we gonna chase that you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Kind of just are like, let's find a movie, you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Know, and uh no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's almost like an adult sleepover.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, but Sam, I imagine that it would be like
get back on the bus unlessen whatever you're drinking, and
you're right, switch it up in the whole thing. I
just figured it would be non stop sports the entire time.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well we do that too, I mean yeah, I mean, look,
they're the next game. I'll watch the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But you know, uh yeah, they're not as into basketball
as I am, so like they will watch the James.
Are our videographers gotten into the Knicks because of me?
He's the Chicago kid who legitimately became a Knicks.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Fan because of my fandom. I'm I'm honored. But yeah,
I mean no, they're not as into.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But you'll still be on the road. You'll be on
the road when baseball season starts.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
That's true. Yeah, I mean are we Yeah? I guess yeah,
I guess we are. Yeah, April, right, ye.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
See, your tour goes on forever. I know you were like, no,
that's no big deal, that's what we do. This is
such a long tour. Which is great.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's awesome. But you may be on for the end
of baseball season.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, isn't that weird?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean we not may
we will be.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I think we'd go a little lighter in the summer,
but yeah, we will be on tour for that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hey, so let me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Ask you this, how long how long do you work
stuff out ahead of time before you know, Okay, I'm
ready to go out on tour.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's a good question.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think, you know, you kind of want to make
sure you have at least like a solid forty of
new which I think we're at. But it's, uh, it's confusing,
you know. It's it's sometimes you think you're ready and
then you're like, damn, I'm not ready. You really have
to take it to crowds that aren't exactly your crowd.
I'm really spoiled on the road, you know. I just
did six shows in Pittsburgh. They were all really fun shows, right,
(03:16):
But then sometimes you take that same material the comedy
seller and it's not hidden quite as hard. So I
want to make sure my material is doing well after
like some of these young killers at the cellar right now, Hey,
can I can.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I ask you this about the comedy seller, what is
I didn't?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, agree, when people praise questions, can I ask you this?
I don't know. Uh, you know you're gonna I don't
know what you're gonna ask. I mean he's gonna ask, but.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
No, okay, let me ask you this. Then New Joke
Night at the Comedy Cellar? Is that is that? Is
that a known thing? Was that open to the public?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
We're just performing for each other like a weird cul Yeah,
you got you got a crowd.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But do people know that it's you were tall somewhere
and you said that you'll go do New Joke Night
at the Cellar and that it's a bunch of comedians
that go up there and they just try out new stuff.
And the part that stood out was you talking about, Oh,
I bomb all the time. I go to New Joke
Night where you're just trying stuff out and comedians bomb
(04:18):
all the time. But does the audience know that it
is like it is New Joke Night, that that's what
they're there for.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, that's how bad some of my new stuff is.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I guess they're aware of what the show is and
I'm still doing poorly, So.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it's impressive. Uh yeah, you know it annoys me.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Some comics will cheat and I'll be like, you know, hey,
I heard that comics you that joke on late night
or so you know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like, I've heard that bit before. Oh now you're watching. Yeah,
I screw you.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You're messing up the curve it's supposed to be. It's
usually stuff I've tried that day. Sometimes I'm tinkering with
a joke that has something working, but there needs to
be more and I need to figure it out. So
it's kind of a mix of brand new stuff I've
never said and stuff that's kind of like, uh, you know,
there's there's something here and I can't crack it, and uh.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean I will.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Bomb sometimes, sure, sometimes I kill. I mean, but you
know it's you leave.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
With one new joke, mission accomplished, right, So the cares
if you bomb.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The plan is to you know, it's like laying bricks.
These new hours. You need to keep at a line,
a line here, line there, and you feel productive.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I mean, when I'm doing twenty one shows in a month,
twenty one hours rather not your shows, but twenty one
long sets. You do get better a bit more quickly because.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You just are in the rhythm. You're in that comedic
rhythm when.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
You're speaking that much in that you know, I think
about twenty one hours. That's like how much talking do.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You even do in a regular day. Like the majority
of my talking that.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Month, maybe not the majority, but a good portion of
it is going to be stand up.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, right, you're going to be on today.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That voice right exactly?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is that? Is that a common thing?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I love the idea of that at comedy clubs, especially
if and listen. I don't know if all of the
comics are as famous as you are, Sam, but the
I love the idea of sitting there and watching like
known comics give birth if you will, to new material.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What a great night that's got to be.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean, look, if you're a big comedy fan,
it's pretty cool because it'll get like big comics will
drop in on that show because who doesn't want to
work on new stuff. I mean, it's a great, you
know thing. Shout out to Wilson Vince for starting that
show because it really I think, you know, I think
a knock on the cellar for many years is a
lot of comics. We're just going up and trying to
kill all the time, and you know, we're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
A lot for these sets.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
These I think somewhere along the line, you know, people
lost sight of the fact that this is a club.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You should be building an act, and if you're.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Servicing only the club and not yourself, you're not growing
as a comedians. So I think people got way.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Too comfortable going up and killing at the Seller.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And you know, it's cool for the show that people
are killing, but also like it's bad.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
For the culture, if that makes sense to me.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
You want to always be striving for more in your act.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And you know, the patriarchs of these clubs, these New.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
York legends like Colin Quinn, David Tel you know, all
these old school comics who's.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Still you know, go up there all the time. They
are always doing news.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So it made no sense that this was kind of
the vibe at the club.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
But you know, then.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Colin Quinn started doing hours at the Fat like Pussycat,
which is one of their sister rooms, and I copied him.
I was like, well, if see he is doing, this
is what I'm gonna do. And it turned out to
be a great place to develop material. So you know
it's you know you mentioned I like sports, Well, you
(07:48):
know it's a lot like a locker.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Room where you look at the veterans. What are the
veterans do? And you kind of learn, well, this is
how I should carry myself.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Hey, So the other thing is it and this will
kind of get back to that.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I saw that you did well, you did Torching twenty
twenty four of the Roast on Netflix that Jeff Ross
kind of hosted and you and you and Norman went
out together and did that.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
First of all, is that is that? Is that awkward?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Like doing a rose where two if you were out
there at the same time, Is that is that a
little bit weird to do?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I wasn't excited to do it, to be honest. I
mean they asked us separately. They didn't want us to
go up together. That was kind of our idea, right,
So I mean was it awkward? I mean we brought
it on ourselves. I think we were bored by the
idea of just roasting.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
A year. We think a conceptual roast is stupid. It
was not a good idea. It was.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I knew, I knew exactly what that show was going
to be. I knew it was not going to be
as good as the regular roast, and I think Mark
and I did well despite that because we worked hard
than the jokes. But we had like a week to
write those jokes at help obviously from the writer's room
and some writers that we got.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
To help us. But like you know, ultimately we want
to do a lot.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Of the jokes that we write. That's how we operate.
And you know, it was not a lot of time
to prepare. I think for a regular roast you get
like months. You know, we didn't really get that. And
also it felt fairly scraped together. You can't really roast
a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
The purpose of a roast is for the people.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
To be in their room, and you know, I'm tracked,
and so I didn't like that in concept, and that's
why we kind of focused mostly on P Diddy and
Luigi because we're like, well, the reason they're not here
is because they're in prison, so.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
We don't feel bad trashing then.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But you know, I just didn't think it was really
a good idea, and I knew it was going to
be a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
But.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Mark kind of agreed on it, thinking I was already
doing it, and then I felt like, all right, what
the hell, I'll do.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It with Mark, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
But it was it was cool because again there was
another video of you and Mark kind of just running
through the jokes at a comedy club that was just
like it wasn't you guys weren't performing, you were just
telling the jokes. That was fun to watch because it
really is all right, let's just try it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Let's just try it. You guys thought the jay Z
joke would get cut that made it in.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, they told us it would get cut. That's why
we thought that, because we can't do any jay Z jokes.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
And well, Mark was like, well that's a really good joke.
Mark was so proud of that joke. And I thought
it was a great joke. It was so simple. It's
funny to see what hits. You don't know really what's
going to hit. But yeah, you know, we ran the
hell out of it for you know, for the time.
We were able to like a week, and I mean,
(10:44):
we we love working together.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We have a lot of fun working together.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
And I think Mark is a great year for jokes,
and I think we were really helpful tweaking not just
our own jokes, but each other's jokes and we're honest
with each other. So it was a cool experience to
work it into with a friend and.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
A friend who you respect obviously.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know, like you say, having that time to
be able to go through it, and it was not
I don't want to say thrown together, but you didn't
have much time.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No, you can say that it was thrown together. Ye.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
I think Hamas put more work into their operations.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And and the crowd and the crowd, their crowd felt
like less hostages than.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
But I was listening to to your podcast with Mark
and you guys were talking about this was kind of
right after Nicki Glazer hosted the Golden Globes and like
obviously she worked with writers.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think it was before it was we did it
before the Golden Globes.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We paid it like towards the end of December.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh okay, but was it where where you guys were
talking about she had run that Golden Globe set like
one hundred and thirty times before getting to the Golden Globes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Right, that seems like a lot. It might be good for.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
It sounds crazy, but like you know, it's these things evolve,
These these sets start one way and then are kind
of guided. People forget that this is a form of
entertainment that the audience is a big part of. So
they're part of the editing process, so they help us write.
(12:23):
We kind of feed off what's working, and we kind
of kind of go from there. So it makes total
sense that she ran into the ground. Also, it's a
live event. You want to make sure it's in your
muscle memory. You know, you don't have to sing, you know.
So I think she understood what the job was and
she did the work.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's kind of what it is.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So you know, think about how much we run as
special that's kind of like a mini special as she did.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Right, Yeah, that makes sense, That makes total sense.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You know Nicky. Nicky came up as a road comics.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
She started in the Midwest as like a feature act.
The way kind of all the road comic start and
you know how Mark and I started too, is you
you kind of do the road and it's all about.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Repetition, and that's what she came from. So it's no
surprise to me that she would have that work ethic.
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The other the other person that was on the podcast
you had, Blake Griffin on and admittedly, admittedly, Sam, I'm
not a basketball guy at all, but I do know
who Blake Griffin is.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Obviously he's He's a very big star, was a big star.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I had no idea his love of comedy though, and
the fact that he goes out and does it.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That was that was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, like to hear him talk about like going to
like Montreal and do it just for laughs and trying
that out. But I did like how you turned it
and told him that you played a charity basketball game
and then got yelled at by former players that you
weren't picking up the pace enough.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Sorry, I'm not in a good shape as Jamal Crawford.
I mean, these guys are.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Like legitimately like still incredible athletes. Uh, And I'm just, yeah,
I'm not. I'm not a defensive stopper on former NBA players.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm sorry, I really was.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I really had to close out on Steve Novak in
one play and I was so proud he didn't shoot it.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I was like, oh my god, he didn't. He didn't shoot.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
But yeah, Tim Thomas and Jerome Williams former Knicks. I mean,
first off, Jerome Williams' nickname was the Junkyard Dog. Is
it shocking that I don't have the same hustle as
a guy with that nickname?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So yeah, I had a hard time getting back.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I was also coming down with a really nasty cold,
so it was like I didn't realize it, but I
was like, man, I was like extra winded. I'm normally
not even that winded, but I was coming down with
something and that I was like, wow, I'm like coughing
a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was sick. I didn't realize it, but I was sick.
You don't realize it sometimes, so you have to run
the full length of the court again and again.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Was it the junkyard dog though, who was like, come on,
you gotta really hurry and get back.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got to get back on d Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
He was like he thought i'd be in better shape
or so. I don't know. I mean, he was like annoyed.
He was kind of like, you gotta like because their competitors.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And look, I don't want to lose either. I was
pissed we lost as well. I thought we should have won.
You know, I didn't think we were in great shape
when our defensive specialists was.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Rizzler, but who knows, you know. And then and
then we.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Had like Amari who was a great NBA player, but
he shows up in like Jordan high Toss and like
those are like leisure shoes.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Those aren't like game shoes.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
There wasn't a lot of red flags that I was like,
I think we're gonna lose it. And then Alan Houston
still is incredible.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Uh, yeah it was. It was a tough level to take.
But hopefully they have me back and I'll train for
this one.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All right.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
So the The the Errors Tour will be in Richmond
on Wednesday and then at the Warner Theater in DC
on Friday. Hey, Sam, do you know like at that
at some point, I'm just mean the answer is yes,
this this gets taped and turned into a special correct.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
At the at the end of the tour, I was saying, so, yeah,
I don't know when, but I got a lot of
my play right now, so I want to make sure
this is good enough to tape. But yeah, I think
at some point.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It will be Yeah, Hey, will you will you go
back overseas?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like when the when the US run is done, god knows,
when will you go back overseas?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And make another run there.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's a good question, you know. I just did Europe.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
I don't know, and Australia's quite the commitment, so I'm
not sure. I mean, there's places in Europe I didn't go.
So what I might do is maybe turn into like
a mini vacation because I didn't get to do you know,
Germany or Italy. So maybe I go back and hit
some of the places, you know like that.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
So we'll see, dude, good for you, all right, Like
I said, the Error Store will be at the National
in Richmond Wednesday night, Friday night the Warner Theater in DC.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Hey, Sam, I appreciate the time. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I appreciate it as well, and I talking with you again.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You got it. Thanks Sam,
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