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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paul Riser.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
That's correct, that is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Wait, so this is Vinnie Penn. I'm the one who
answered the phone. You call yourself. You don't have someone
who calls for you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh, I have them, but I didn't want to wake him.
I have sixteen people downstairs that do that, but I'm
giving them the morning. No, I call my somebody. Yeah?
How many people? Yeah? How many people does it take
to dial ten numbers? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You are Paul rising I could literally, literally I could
do an hour with you. I don't know how long
I have with you. I could talk to you for
I could talk to you for hours.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Take an hour. Let's go. You don't cut you off
the minute it gets though.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You do know the word legend is applicable. You do
know that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's very kind of you. I'm gonna if you don't mind,
I'm gonna get my wife on the phone and you
walk her through that, would you?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But I mean I can now, I could do ten
I could do ten minutes on my two dads and
how I want I know that was my crash court Well,
that and diner. They're probably around the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Same time, right, six six years, five six years?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So so then Diner was my crash. Course, what a classic.
I'm glad Hollywood has decided not to do a remake
there where we're high in there. But look, look who
I'm talking to.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Reboot that's a fun show it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh my god, listener, you're you may might be doing
You're on the best shows on television. Reboot, The Boys,
Stranger Things, the Kaminsky Method. You're you're peaking now?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh man, hurry up before it all goes bad.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Be sad if on the air with you it suddenly
went you know what, It just all fell apart right there.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, make no mistake. I have killed careers before.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I read your book couple I think it's a couplehood. Yeah,
because uh it was a couplehood and that goes back
quite a few years. Because I know there's a few books.
I mean, you've just from Beverly Hills, Condom whiplashed, so
many great credits.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got to tell you when our liaison came to you,
do you want to talk to Paul Reiser? And I respond,
is that rhetorical? I have to be honest with you.
What do you want to even promote You're on five
of the best shows on television right now? Is it reboot?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, see, that's not even the fun part. The fun
part is where I get to do stand up and
when I have some free weekends. So I just want
to make sure that anybody who wants to come will
come to that because it's easy to turn on the TV,
but they get somebody to, you know, get in the
car and drive to a show takes it a little
more convincing. So I'm going That's why I'm going door
to door Vins and I'm just making sure everybody comes
(02:42):
to the show.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know, all right, so I've never done I've been
in radio for twenty five years, have never done this before.
I want to say right to you on I want
to come. I want to meet you there. I want
to come to the show with my daughter, who loves
you and stranger things done. I want to take a
picture of the three of us, Paul and I want
to name it her two dads.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh he'sn't that special. Let's do That's to God, say,
come to the show, come to the show, bring your daughter,
definitely do.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That, you know, I recall reading at one point are
you still part of like the Seinfeld the New Year's
Day Brunch Club. I remember that from back in the
day too.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Is that still happening I was back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, we haven't done that for a while for about
ten years. It made sense when we were when we
were single and we all had nothing to do, and
then we all had family and kids who were like, yeah,
I don't know, we're going to run to New York,
especially since a lot of us don't live in the
New York area anywhere. We used to do it, but
that started when we were all single and just had
nothing to do on New Year's Day. We all want
(03:41):
when they said let's go out to lunch and we
had such a funny time, and then let's do it
every year.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Who was part of the club? So is Paul?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I remember Jerry, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Larry Miller and a very funny comic friend who.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Has named Mark schiff yep. Sure and yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And in the beginning there was another guy, Michael Hampton
Kane who was a friend of ours who's no longer
with us, but he was in the original five and
that was it, and then it became four and now
it's zero.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, and now it's zero and we get Paul Riser
here and we're really looking forward to that. Are you
finding that the thanks to you know, stand up comedy
a lot of scrutiny these days. Does that scare you off?
Does that make you tweak your set? Or is comedy
maybe stand up comedy more exciting than that? I mean,
let's be honest, Paul, if you don't mind my calling
you Paul. Like the Boys, that's one of the most
(04:32):
like as you can tell. I'm an over the top
nothing offends me guy. I've come away from some episodes
of the Boys feeling really dirty.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh yeah, So here's here's the truth. Here's the truth.
So they offered me this role in The Boys. Excuse me?
And I had not heard of the show. I hadn't
seen it, but I hadn't even heard of it. So
I asked my twenty two year old, who is sort
of my cultural Fishonado. He knows everything, and I said, hey,
want me to be on the show if you've heard
of The Boys? And he said, quote, oh, Dad, it's
(05:04):
great comma and you'll hate it. I went, oh, that's interesting.
So I watched it and I went, oh my god. Yeah,
but once I realized that's what they were doing, you know,
it was very much deliberately over the top and graphic
and funny in that way. But yeah, but my so
it was a lot of fun. That was a really
fun role to do.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And your character, ironically enough in the Boys the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Legend, right, I figure, that's not a bad thing. Who
do you play the legend?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like I said in the beginning, the word legend is applicable.
And I didn't even know that. I'm looking at it
on the bio right now, But that's such an edgy show.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And it is, and Reboot.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kind of has a and I mean, of course it
would be remiss if I don't, you know, you don't
mention mad about you all those years there must see TV.
Reboot has that kind of doesn't it feel like the
sitcom of Days gone by? It's over on Hula. Well,
I highly recommend it. I love Michael Keegan, I just
everybody on a career. It did a great cast, but
(06:06):
it does.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, it's a great that could have been right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
After Matt about you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It has that well it started.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, it's it's a show, it's it's it's easier
to watch than it is to explain. Some people get
a little confused, But it's about a silly family sitcom
that reboots twenty years later. Yeah, and it doesn't go
well because the actors have changed. They don't get along
and they all got problems and it's kind of funny.
So it's not at all about the silly family sitcom.
There's very little of that, and when there is, it's
(06:33):
only to you know, to show you what they're doing.
But it was the idea Steve Levington, who created co
created Modern Family. He came up with this idea a
couple of years earlier and he's saying, why isn't anybody
else doing this? The COVID that happened and nobody was there,
weren't a lot of new shows coming out, and then
nobody had done it, so he said, well, I'm doing it.
(06:55):
So I got invited to join and everybody was already
in it. So Michael Keing and Michael Key and Judy
Greer and Johnny Knoxville and Rachel Bloom. Yeah, they're all
all funny and great. And it's an interesting thing because
it's in Mormon sense, it's a love letter to sitcoms
(07:16):
that we all grew up on and all Create had
success with, we all worked in these shows. But it's
also somewhat satirical of this moment where your network is
trying to be new and edgy, and they say, let's
do a show from thirty years ago and be edgy.
So it's it's really great for them, But what's fun
now when I get to go out and do stand
up on these you know, every other weekend, I'll go
(07:38):
out somewhere and the audience has grown, and so it
used to be I could safely look at my audience
and go, okay, that's a man about you crowd, And
now I go, well, there's a lot of younger people
who are coming because of stranger things, and there's a
lot of older people just from Cominski method that I
see a lot of tattoos are people who were watching
the boys. I went, okay, I can see I can
(07:59):
look at the demo just from watching the crowd come in,
and it's well.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Then they're all just such decidedly different characters. I mean,
the hippie you play on the commins, but what a
laugh out loud show that was, And I mean it's
just some of the best out there. Arkin made me
laugh my entire life. Yeah, you know, Michael Douglas shining there,
and when your character came along, I did not expect
what I got there. That must have been. That's kind
(08:23):
of a departure for you in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, yeah, yeah, that was a really fun You know,
that show was created by Chuck Laurie, who I knew
for legend. He has like forty seven shows, and so
I know him for a long time and I called
him just to tell him how great I thought the
first season was of Cominsky. And then I jokingly said,
you know, let's let's see, let me make another show
(08:47):
like that. And he said, well you want to do
you want to be on this one? I went all right,
yes please. So he had this, he had this character
in mind that I would there'd be a friend of
Michael Douglas's, you know. So they wanted to age me up.
So to do that, there's a lot of prosthetics and
makeup and bald and a bald wig and a ponytail
and extra patting and a gun. So a lot of
(09:09):
people say, god, it sounds like Paul Reiser, but wow,
if it is, he looks terrible. He is let himself go.
So the great piece about that is now when I
take all that crap off and I just look like
my regular self, like, oh, you look fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You do this again? Yeah, I'm readle. You know, it's like,
why does he look like it's still nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You do.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I'll tell you what. On the Kaminsky method, you
play every father's nightmare. This is who you're dating like this,
and you love the guy like you trying to exact
a relationship with Michael, Like it's every I would describe
your character as every father's fear. Who has a daughter anyway,
you know, so you would.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You would be not happy if your daughter went out
with my.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Guy, my character, because it's it's so possible, you know
what I mean, It's just like possible. And yet you're
a lovable character too, which is why I find who
you're playing even to a degree on Reboot, like in
recent years, these these detestable characters, usually you're playing somebody
(10:15):
so lovable. You must have fun doing that, playing that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, I don't think they're testified. I mean
I think the guy on Reboot, the joke of it
is he's sort of the old school guy, and he's
a little more old school even than I am in
real life, and so he's sort of clinging to, hey,
let's do it. Just don't have to make it politically correct,
you don't have to make it socially conscious. Just make
it funny. And of course the young writers are going, no, man,
(10:40):
it's that we got to update it. So it's but
it's really fun because those conversations feel so real. I've
been in those rooms where writers are you're talking to
younger writers and they go, you can't say that anymore,
and they go, well why not? And on this show
you get to actually have the conversation. It's really it's
a great job.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That writing room. That writing room is fantastic. Who's the
woman in the right. Yeah, she's destroying me, but she's
so funny.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Her name is Rose Abdue. She's also on Hacks. She
plays Yeah, she plays Jean Smart's house manager House. She's
crazy funny and she has all these lines that are
just so proul and rude. It's a great it's a
great guest.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And that circles round to my question to you about
doing stand up in a climate like this, because that's
what that writing room is it's the old school where
nothing is sacred and the new school of what we
can't go there? Are you crazy? And that's right, you know.
I asked the question, what do you struggle with that
coming up with your.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, you know, I never, I never. I've never enjoyed.
There never been one to like poke the bears like
my stuff. It's like and I always tell people and
they said, what do you talk about? And I said,
the truth is, I'm not smart enough to make anything up.
So I just tell everybody what happened to me. And
then when people people are laughing because they go, oh, man,
is it sounds like me. It sounds like my wife
(11:59):
and my kids in my life. So you know, I
don't do paul. I never did political stuff. I never did,
so I don't have to work too hard to you know,
dance between the rain drops. But the truth is, you know,
I don't think that's such a terrible fame. It's so
much sorry, there's so much talk about that, But the
truth is, I don't think it's a terrible thing to say.
(12:20):
You know, if you say this it might be offensive,
you can still go there. Just know what you're walking
into it. And if it's if it's really worth it
to you, you know, write something clever. I mean, you
don't want to just say something offensive for the sake
and be an offensive That was never cool. But if
you have something controversial or a new way of looking.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
At it, go for it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's why those writing room scenes I think play as
well as true because of those collisions. I can't wait
to see this show. And if you think I'm gushing,
now wait until.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You're actually Oh man, in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Person, it's going to be grotesque.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh, it's going to be grotesque. I may I may
have you open for me. Just come up and burn
off some steam, do fifteen minutes before I come on.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I do stand up. I mean, I don't that the
crowd wants me. But I've been doing stand up for
years myself. Yeah, I was a regular on the Howard
Stern Show, so I've done stand up for years.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I love that sentence. I don't know if the crowd
wants me. That's the name of my career, that is
that's that's that's always a given. I don't know if
anybody wants Well, anyway, thank you so much, thanks for
the time, Thanks to the enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Paul listen, Thank you,
Paul Riser.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
That's correct, that is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Wait, so this is Vinnie Penn. I'm the one who
answered the phone. You call yourself. You don't have someone
who calls for you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh, I have them, but I didn't want to wake him.
I have sixteen people downstairs that do that, but I'm
giving them the morning. No, I call my somebody. Yeah?
How many people? Yeah? How many people does it take
to dial ten numbers? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You are Paul rising I could literally, literally I could
do an hour with you. I don't know how long
I have with you. I could talk to you for
I could talk to you for hours.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Take an hour. Let's go. You don't cut you off
the minute it gets though.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You do know the word legend is applicable. You do
know that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
That's very kind of you. I'm gonna if you don't mind,
I'm gonna get my wife on the phone and you
walk her through that, would you?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But I mean I can now, I could do ten
I could do ten minutes on my two dads and
how I want I know that was my crash court Well,
that and diner. They're probably around the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Same time, right, six six years, five six years?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
So so then Diner was my crash. Course, what a classic.
I'm glad Hollywood has decided not to do a remake
there where we're high in there. But look, look who
I'm talking to.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Reboot that's a fun show it.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh my god, listener, you're you may might be doing
You're on the best shows on television. Reboot, The Boys,
Stranger Things, the Kaminsky Method. You're you're peaking now?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh man, hurry up before it all goes bad.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Be sad if on the air with you it suddenly
went you know what, It just all fell apart right there.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, make no mistake. I have killed careers before.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I read your book couple I think it's a couplehood. Yeah,
because uh it was a couplehood and that goes back
quite a few years. Because I know there's a few books.
I mean, you've just from Beverly Hills, Condom whiplashed, so
many great credits.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got to tell you when our liaison came to you,
do you want to talk to Paul Reiser? And I respond,
is that rhetorical? I have to be honest with you.
What do you want to even promote You're on five
of the best shows on television right now? Is it reboot?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
No, see, that's not even the fun part. The fun
part is where I get to do stand up and
when I have some free weekends. So I just want
to make sure that anybody who wants to come will
come to that because it's easy to turn on the TV,
but they get somebody to, you know, get in the
car and drive to a show takes it a little
more convincing. So I'm going That's why I'm going door
to door Vins and I'm just making sure everybody comes
(02:42):
to the show.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know, all right, so I've never done I've been
in radio for twenty five years, have never done this before.
I want to say right to you on I want
to come. I want to meet you there. I want
to come to the show with my daughter, who loves
you and stranger things done. I want to take a
picture of the three of us, Paul and I want
to name it her two dads.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh he'sn't that special. Let's do That's to God, say,
come to the show, come to the show, bring your daughter,
definitely do.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That, you know, I recall reading at one point are
you still part of like the Seinfeld the New Year's
Day Brunch Club. I remember that from back in the
day too.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Is that still happening I was back in the day.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, we haven't done that for a while for about
ten years. It made sense when we were when we
were single and we all had nothing to do, and
then we all had family and kids who were like, yeah,
I don't know, we're going to run to New York,
especially since a lot of us don't live in the
New York area anywhere. We used to do it, but
that started when we were all single and just had
nothing to do on New Year's Day. We all want
(03:41):
when they said let's go out to lunch and we
had such a funny time, and then let's do it
every year.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Who was part of the club? So is Paul?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I remember Jerry, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Larry Miller and a very funny comic friend who.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Has named Mark schiff yep. Sure and yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And in the beginning there was another guy, Michael Hampton
Kane who was a friend of ours who's no longer
with us, but he was in the original five and
that was it, and then it became four and now
it's zero.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, and now it's zero and we get Paul Riser
here and we're really looking forward to that. Are you
finding that the thanks to you know, stand up comedy
a lot of scrutiny these days. Does that scare you off?
Does that make you tweak your set? Or is comedy
maybe stand up comedy more exciting than that? I mean,
let's be honest, Paul, if you don't mind my calling
you Paul. Like the Boys, that's one of the most
(04:32):
like as you can tell. I'm an over the top
nothing offends me guy. I've come away from some episodes
of the Boys feeling really dirty.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh yeah, So here's here's the truth. Here's the truth.
So they offered me this role in The Boys. Excuse me?
And I had not heard of the show. I hadn't
seen it, but I hadn't even heard of it. So
I asked my twenty two year old, who is sort
of my cultural Fishonado. He knows everything, and I said, hey,
want me to be on the show if you've heard
of The Boys? And he said, quote, oh, Dad, it's
(05:04):
great comma and you'll hate it. I went, oh, that's interesting.
So I watched it and I went, oh my god. Yeah,
but once I realized that's what they were doing, you know,
it was very much deliberately over the top and graphic
and funny in that way. But yeah, but my so
it was a lot of fun. That was a really
fun role to do.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And your character, ironically enough in the Boys the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Legend, right, I figure, that's not a bad thing. Who
do you play the legend?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like I said in the beginning, the word legend is applicable.
And I didn't even know that. I'm looking at it
on the bio right now, But that's such an edgy show.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And it is, and Reboot.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Kind of has a and I mean, of course it
would be remiss if I don't, you know, you don't
mention mad about you all those years there must see TV.
Reboot has that kind of doesn't it feel like the
sitcom of Days gone by? It's over on Hula. Well,
I highly recommend it. I love Michael Keegan, I just
everybody on a career. It did a great cast, but
(06:06):
it does.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, it's a great that could have been right.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
After Matt about you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It has that well it started.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, it's it's a show, it's it's it's easier
to watch than it is to explain. Some people get
a little confused, But it's about a silly family sitcom
that reboots twenty years later. Yeah, and it doesn't go
well because the actors have changed. They don't get along
and they all got problems and it's kind of funny.
So it's not at all about the silly family sitcom.
There's very little of that, and when there is, it's
(06:33):
only to you know, to show you what they're doing.
But it was the idea Steve Levington, who created co
created Modern Family. He came up with this idea a
couple of years earlier and he's saying, why isn't anybody
else doing this? The COVID that happened and nobody was there,
weren't a lot of new shows coming out, and then
nobody had done it, so he said, well, I'm doing it.
(06:55):
So I got invited to join and everybody was already
in it. So Michael Keing and Michael Key and Judy
Greer and Johnny Knoxville and Rachel Bloom. Yeah, they're all
all funny and great. And it's an interesting thing because
it's in Mormon sense, it's a love letter to sitcoms
(07:16):
that we all grew up on and all Create had
success with, we all worked in these shows. But it's
also somewhat satirical of this moment where your network is
trying to be new and edgy, and they say, let's
do a show from thirty years ago and be edgy.
So it's it's really great for them, But what's fun
now when I get to go out and do stand
up on these you know, every other weekend, I'll go
(07:38):
out somewhere and the audience has grown, and so it
used to be I could safely look at my audience
and go, okay, that's a man about you crowd, And
now I go, well, there's a lot of younger people
who are coming because of stranger things, and there's a
lot of older people just from Cominski method that I
see a lot of tattoos are people who were watching
the boys. I went, okay, I can see I can
(07:59):
look at the demo just from watching the crowd come in,
and it's well.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Then they're all just such decidedly different characters. I mean,
the hippie you play on the commins, but what a
laugh out loud show that was, And I mean it's
just some of the best out there. Arkin made me
laugh my entire life. Yeah, you know, Michael Douglas shining there,
and when your character came along, I did not expect
what I got there. That must have been. That's kind
(08:23):
of a departure for you in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, yeah, yeah, that was a really fun You know,
that show was created by Chuck Laurie, who I knew
for legend. He has like forty seven shows, and so
I know him for a long time and I called
him just to tell him how great I thought the
first season was of Cominsky. And then I jokingly said,
you know, let's let's see, let me make another show
(08:47):
like that. And he said, well you want to do
you want to be on this one? I went all right,
yes please. So he had this, he had this character
in mind that I would there'd be a friend of
Michael Douglas's, you know. So they wanted to age me up.
So to do that, there's a lot of prosthetics and
makeup and bald and a bald wig and a ponytail
and extra patting and a gun. So a lot of
(09:09):
people say, god, it sounds like Paul Reiser, but wow,
if it is, he looks terrible. He is let himself go.
So the great piece about that is now when I
take all that crap off and I just look like
my regular self, like, oh, you look fantastic.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You do this again? Yeah, I'm readle. You know, it's like,
why does he look like it's still nineteen eighty seven?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You do.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
But I'll tell you what. On the Kaminsky method, you
play every father's nightmare. This is who you're dating like this,
and you love the guy like you trying to exact
a relationship with Michael, Like it's every I would describe
your character as every father's fear. Who has a daughter anyway,
you know, so you would.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You would be not happy if your daughter went out
with my.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Guy, my character, because it's it's so possible, you know
what I mean, It's just like possible. And yet you're
a lovable character too, which is why I find who
you're playing even to a degree on Reboot, like in
recent years, these these detestable characters, usually you're playing somebody
(10:15):
so lovable. You must have fun doing that, playing that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, you know, I don't think they're testified. I mean
I think the guy on Reboot, the joke of it
is he's sort of the old school guy, and he's
a little more old school even than I am in
real life, and so he's sort of clinging to, hey,
let's do it. Just don't have to make it politically correct,
you don't have to make it socially conscious. Just make
it funny. And of course the young writers are going, no, man,
(10:40):
it's that we got to update it. So it's but
it's really fun because those conversations feel so real. I've
been in those rooms where writers are you're talking to
younger writers and they go, you can't say that anymore,
and they go, well why not? And on this show
you get to actually have the conversation. It's really it's
a great job.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That writing room. That writing room is fantastic. Who's the
woman in the right. Yeah, she's destroying me, but she's
so funny.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Her name is Rose Abdue. She's also on Hacks. She
plays Yeah, she plays Jean Smart's house manager House. She's
crazy funny and she has all these lines that are
just so proul and rude. It's a great it's a
great guest.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
And that circles round to my question to you about
doing stand up in a climate like this, because that's
what that writing room is it's the old school where
nothing is sacred and the new school of what we
can't go there? Are you crazy? And that's right, you know.
I asked the question, what do you struggle with that
coming up with your.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, you know, I never, I never. I've never enjoyed.
There never been one to like poke the bears like
my stuff. It's like and I always tell people and
they said, what do you talk about? And I said,
the truth is, I'm not smart enough to make anything up.
So I just tell everybody what happened to me. And
then when people people are laughing because they go, oh, man,
is it sounds like me. It sounds like my wife
(11:59):
and my kids in my life. So you know, I
don't do paul. I never did political stuff. I never did,
so I don't have to work too hard to you know,
dance between the rain drops. But the truth is, you know,
I don't think that's such a terrible fame. It's so
much sorry, there's so much talk about that, But the
truth is, I don't think it's a terrible thing to say.
(12:20):
You know, if you say this it might be offensive,
you can still go there. Just know what you're walking
into it. And if it's if it's really worth it
to you, you know, write something clever. I mean, you
don't want to just say something offensive for the sake
and be an offensive That was never cool. But if
you have something controversial or a new way of looking.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
At it, go for it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's why those writing room scenes I think play as
well as true because of those collisions. I can't wait
to see this show. And if you think I'm gushing,
now wait until.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You're actually Oh man, in.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Person, it's going to be grotesque.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Oh, it's going to be grotesque. I may I may
have you open for me. Just come up and burn
off some steam, do fifteen minutes before I come on.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I do stand up. I mean, I don't that the
crowd wants me. But I've been doing stand up for
years myself. Yeah, I was a regular on the Howard
Stern Show, so I've done stand up for years.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I love that sentence. I don't know if the crowd
wants me. That's the name of my career, that is
that's that's that's always a given. I don't know if
anybody wants Well, anyway, thank you so much, thanks for
the time, Thanks to the enthusiasm.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Paul listen, Thank you,
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