Roaming the Streets of Hollywood

Went out last night on a Tuesday

Episode Transcript

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What's up everyone, Good morning.I hope you guys are doing well.
It's a beautiful Wednesday morning here inLos Angeles. Life of a comedian.
Everyone, this is what it is. You wake up and try to hustle.
Tell you I've only been in LAlike three days, and I already

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feel the difference between Florida and LosAngeles. As I said before, Florida,
it's a small market, and Ijust want to trash Florida, but
it's just smaller comedy market. Florida, San fran Boston, those are great
places to hang out and develop.But the big dogs are running in New

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York LA. But I'll tell youwhat I'm learning from being in LA is
the smart guys are building their ownfollowing, like they're not even messing around
with the traditional roots. Everything's changing. There's always changed. There's always changed
in the entertainment. And I sawit. I saw it back in ninety

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ninety seven. When I started,it was like kind of like a traditional
comedy thing. And then this alternativecomedy scene came the early two thousands,
where like people weren't telling jokes likeclassic structured jokes. It's more like the
Janine Garoffalos and Patton Oswalds and whoever'sjust it was a whole alternative comedy scene

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New York anyways, That's where Iwas. But I saw these guys getting
on TV, and then that's changed. Now I don't think people are really
doing alternative comedy into this. Idon't know what it is, TikTok comedy.
Like the market's changing, it's alwayschanging, and I've been privy to

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be a witness to all of it, and it's I have the most piece
win. I just say, hey, you know what, I don't have
to participate in any of this nonsense, but you do have to participate.
That's the thing. You have toparticipate to some extent. I mean,
that's the thing about being an actoror an actress, Like you wake up

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and you wait for an audition.But who wants to live that life just
waiting for an audition. Give mean audition, somebody writes something for me.
I mean, how frustrating is that. Similarly, as a comedian,
I mean people say, oh,you know, I read stand up.
I'm a better We're better than actors. Really we're not. You have to

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still perform somewhere, someone has thatput you on their stage. And right
now they're only booking people who areinfluencers pretty much, so it's like,
well, what are you gonna do? You got to become an influencer now,
which is I think that's even harderthan writing your own short film.
I mean, so that's the acomedy right now. To last night,

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I went to I went to acomedian dinner. I didn't even know these
guys, these loop me in oneof my friends was there. And I
went to a birthday party, whichwas a lot of fun thanks to Kevin
Alderman who got me you know thisparty. It's really fun hanging out with
other comedians. Even though I didn'tknow them, I got along really well.

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I mean, there's something to besaid about just hanging out with fellow
comics. You just kind of relateto them on some weird level because you've
gone through a lot of shit.Even though I had been doing comedy a
lot longer, I think it didn'teven matter, because the frustration is the
frustration, and the joys the joys. So I went to this place called

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the Smoke House in Burbank. Neverbeen there. It's pretty good. I
got a burger because places called theSmoke cause you have to get some kind
of meat or something. I don'tknow, maybe it's required, and I
try not to talk too much,but I couldn't help it. Like like

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I think they were kind of gaugingwho the hell I was, because then
nobody really knew knew me, AndI wasn't trying to impress anybody, but
I could. I had information abouteverything they were saying, Like I think
Patrise O'Neil came up at some pointin the conversation. They were like,
oh, I love Patrise. AndI didn't know patrese as best friend,

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but I knew him like he knewwho I was only because I was a
doorguy at the Boston Comedy Club.So I shared a story about Patrice.
I wasn't trying to impress anybody either. I'm just trying to just add some
benefits to the conversation. And that'sreally what company's about, right people just

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and so one guy there didn't evensay anything. He didn't anything the entire
time, and I was like,that guy's doing it right, like just
sitting there and observing and listening,taking it all in. So we hung
out there for about an hour andthen and then we went to the improv
in Hollywood. This is supposedly themecca of comedy clubs, one of the

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big four comedy clubs in Los Angeles, which, by the way, I
haven't performed there any years. Imean, I've sent my veils. I
don't. I don't even know ifI'm passed there, I really don't.
But I did perform there on producedshows back in the day. And and
it's a lot of fun the improv. Something about the history of the improv.

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It's fun. It's fun to goup there. And man, it's
a guy, a friend of mine, Sam Tripley, performed in the Improv
Lab, which is this smaller room. Man, this guy is phenomenal,
phenomenal on stage. Just it's thething. You know, I've been living

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in a small market the past twoyears. You don't really get to see
these guys, you know, whenthey do come out there, like they're
headliners who come out. But eventhe headliners, some of them aren't even
that good. But man, tripleis one of the best, just an
authentic voice. Go check them outif you haven't seen him. And I
got to catch up with Sam Tripolioutside and just talk about the business and
stuff and it's really inspiring. ThanksSam Tripoli. Those are the people you

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want to be around, people whoinspire and push you. I noticed this
in comedy in general, people whokind of quit. We were like,
f this. They're the guys thatjust don't even try anymore, Like they've
just gotten beaten down so much thatthey don't even try to do anything.
And I don't blame them. Ican't blame that. And sometimes I think,

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man, is that me? Imean, I'm only like writing now,
not even shooting stuff anymore. AndI used to shoot all the time,
to shoot like a madman, likejust short films and a web series
and whatever. Travel luck now I'mwas like, eh, I've done it
all. But that's when you haveto keep pushing. Unfortunately for me,

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like my energy, I have finiteenergy. So like when I write in
the mornings, I'm so tired andI write, try to write stand up,
I'm like, God, I'm supposedto write. I'm supposed to go
shoot a video now, a film, Like Jesus, how many things have
they got to do here in Hollywood? So I decided, you know,

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I just got to think about what'snext. What's next? There's always something
next. I talked about this bookThe Alchemist in my last video vlog or
whatever that is video. And Ido believe in synchronicity. I do think
things happen, and when I gotto La, I did think things were

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magically falling into place. It's weird, right, And then somehow things magically
fell well not in the place,like everything is like a nuclear bomb went
off of my life and everything justexploded. And now it's just I'm looking
around at like I don't know,like a nuclear bomb just fell and I'm

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just looking at the carnage around me, and I'm like, man, how
the hell do I even get outof this? And I don't know what
the answer is. I just tryto get through the days and try to
do some work and hopefully maybe I'llstart shooting again something. I don't know
what that is, but I gotto start shooting something soon. But it

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was nice to go out. Everytime I go outside at night, I
do run into people, and Irealize people do energize me in some capacity.
Even though I'm kind of a loaner, I do like being around people,
good people. A lot of peopleI don't trust, but I do
enjoy the company of comics, especiallyguys who are above me and who I

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know, because those guys gonna helpyou. Never know who's gonna throw a
bone your way because man Amy Pushgonna help you. I hope you guys
have a great day. We'll talksoon. Take care,