October 14, 2025 • 54 mins
Comedian extraordinaire Mal Hall joins us on the set to talk about his upcoming movie, "What Are We Doing Today," which drops on October 21st, exclusively on YouTube through the 800 Pound Gorilla Channel. Erik and Laura get to see the film a little early. You can also catch Mal's stand-up on October 30th and November 1st at the Comedy Store in La Jolla. Not only that, he has a residency at Lou Lou's at The Lafayette Hotel. Funny, charming, clean, family man, rising star. He's currently on tour with Angela Johnson, too. Phew. Mal's got a lot going on. Let's all show him our support and watch his movie as soon as it drops at 7 pm on the 21st. We have such a fun time. This is a great episode. Thank you, Mal! Love your podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Oh my gosh, already having a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane, Eric
Rimmer and my co host who usually sitting right here,
but we have met.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I have moved over. Oh yes, for the for the talent.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
For the true talent of the room. We call Eric
the talent because he rolls in like two minutes before
showtime with no prep and uh but this is the
true talent. And we have so much to talk about
with Melhall. I'm sure you've heard of him. He is,
uh his star had I don't even want to say
you're a rising star because it's already risen to a
(00:49):
huge level. We'll talk about all the things that he's
involved in. What you can go, what you can see. Uh, oh,
I have a couple Okay anyway, Brian, Hi, Brian, what's up? Okay?
A yeah, we all went to the La Fayette, which
is your residency, yes, on Friday night and spent the
(01:12):
night as a little podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh you guys all's got rooms there in stay? No,
you all stayed in one room.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We did, and Marie too.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, all four of you in one room.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so guess who slept with him?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh god, will you two and YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You two and YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yes? Really weird?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right? Why did you get one room?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because we're cheap, because we can afford like there was
he was like four hundred dollars eat, I mean four
for a room.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And now we both we both figured something out. What's
that night is that? Well, Laura and I have already
decided that when we grow old, we're going to live together.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, well, walk a style in a bed, in a
bed the.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Big TV so we can watch your special over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And but we both apparently snore like truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So Brian says, I'm an open male sleeper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I am sure, for sure. I tell people on planes
before the flight takes off. Hey, I apologize like in
advance for all the drool, and I will be out
before we take offs.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And have you heard of hostage tape?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
No? Oh, the tape you put over your mouth?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I would never it would be awfully weird. So you
breathe through your nose? You're not a mouth breather. I
need to wake up. Do you wake up with the
dry mouth? I do sometimes sometimes because I'm all so
apparently I'm just not the prettiest sleeper of the rocky Well.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I kept my my bunk made up all night long,
poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was a long night.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It was a long night. I had snow. I had
no problem.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, o fun, I didn't hear any Yeah, I didn't
hear anything.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay. So speaking, since we're talking about the La Fayette
and Luluse, when is the next time we can see
you at Luluse?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So the final show of the year at LULUs is
on November nineteenth. I believe we're generally the last Wednesday
every month, but for the holidays, like they're you know,
booked out for holiday parties and stuff, and then I'm
on tour. So the nineteenth, November nineteenth will be the
final show.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How do you get tickets to Luluse to see that show?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So you just go to Lulu's website and click on
events and we're just look for November nineteenth and we're there.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do it now because.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That show sells out like that. Don't look for tickets
a week before the show because thank gone. And it's
I am biased, but it's the best show in San Diego.
It's the best stand up show in San Diego. I'm
I host every show, and then I have three of
my super talented headliner comedian friends drive down from LA
(04:05):
or from here in San Diego, and so it's like
for thirty bucks. I think the ticket is thirty bucks.
So you get like a eighty dollars show and you're
at Alaphia on a Wednesday, and it's a vibe. It's
super cool.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
When you host comedians, do you start off with your
own set and then and then launch into yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah. The way I host my shows is different than
how it's generally done. Generally, the host will go up
and do like five minutes or something and then just
start the show. I do twenty to twenty five minutes
at the top of the show, so you get a
full set of mine and then a full show after.
So they'll be sort of an opener, middle and a
(04:44):
headliner after me and I sort of take the bullet
and do half an hour up front.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
My gosh, above and beyond. So I decided to google
mal Hall and see what comes up first. And the
very first thing was the time of San Diego. Don't
know about this publication, No, you were the first thing
on their website. Your show on November first, you're headlining
(05:10):
the comedy store La Joya.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They today you were the number one thing on their website.
That's awesome Times of San Diego. So I'm like, well,
that's awesome. November first, comedy Store La Joya always a
great place, that's always great now, and that's at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Not only November first, though, because I'm headlining there October
thirtieth and we're off for Halloween. Than November first and second.
Four shows, so it's oh wow, four headlining shows. And
it's my brand new hour that I'm working on because
my special comes out in eight days now.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, okay, let's get right into that. Because Eric and
I bought tickets to see your movie, your documentary, your
this is called what are We Doing Today?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What Are We Doing Today? It's my debut one hour special.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And it premieres October twenty first on YouTube July twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
First on YouTube with a company called eight hundred Pound
Gorilla that has you know, over half a million subscribers
on their channel, so it's going to go out to
over half a million people. But not only that. YouTube
allows you to collab post now, like how you can
do on Instagram, so it's not only going to go
out on their page, but it'll go out on Angela
Johnson's page and my page. So on October twenty first,
(06:34):
a special is going to go out to over a
million people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's very exciting and Eric and I are seeing it
tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I know this is okay, so all San Diego like
day one fans get to see it a week before
the world.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And then just to interject that, Angela Johnson and you
are on tour and it's called the Family Reunion Tour
and it's all over.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The plame right all over the country through this fall
run goes through the week of Thanksgiving, and then there's
like another three month run in twenty six in the spring.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, And if you don't you guys are both really
great on clean humor. I love you both, and for
that particular reason, like if you're not hard to do
it is, and if you're not familiar and it's none
of it's mean, which is really.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Really minus kind of mean. Mine is kind of mean
to you. If you're a millennial parent, you might find
my comedy a little bit mean.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh my god, it's so funny. Toddler, it is so funny.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'm not sure, but if the if the name Angela
Johnson doesn't ring a bell, she does the nail salon like.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
This, so oh.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, so she's she's hilarious and she was bonqueque on
mad TV TV.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So yeah, walk us through the inception of this film.
Cannot wait till tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, so this is tomorrow. I feel like, you know,
we're filming this at eight o' what time is it
seven o'clock? And the showing is tomorrow. It's twelve hours
from no, it's twenty four hours from now. Twenty four
hours from now is when it will hit play at
the movie theater. And I feel like I have, you know,
(08:28):
thirty hours of work left to do still, but for
I mean, the film is complete, the specials complete. This
represents like almost four years of work, like a year
and a half writing and touring the material, and then
searching for a venue for a very long time because
I'm very particular about everything and so I wanted the
(08:49):
venue to be right. And then we shot it last September,
and then a year of editing and not a year
of editing like seven months of editing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Who did it? Did you help with that or did
you I.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Sat in with the editor. Uh, cam Loui is the
name of the editor. He's from right here in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Editing is no joke.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's no joke. It's no joke. And editing yourself so
it's not like it's a movie, it's my special this
is these my material. Watching it in forty second increments
for an hour, it's like and just judging every forty seconds,
like I don't like that. Let's what do we have
on the other camera, and like watching it over and over,
like there's such a roller coaster of like I love
(09:31):
all of these jokes and I believe in this material,
but then you watch it with a hypercritical eye and
it's like I hate all of this, Like this all stinks.
And then you zoom out again you're like, oh, this
is pretty good. It's coming together, and then you zoom
back in you're like, this sucks. We did that for
like eight months, and then Angela Johnson Reyes is an
(09:54):
executive producer on the project, so we when the editing
was done, her her team took it out to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu,
Disney and uh, and we settled. Eight hundred pound Gorilla
had the best deal for us, and so we're you know,
this will be the first special that I do that's
like actually distributed on like a major level.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And that is so awesome. You know, Yeah, congratulations, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just had a psychic vision.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Get ready.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
This is a no brainer, psychic vision. This is going
to end up on Netflix within the year because they're
going to see it. They're always looking for content, new content,
new specials. They need to put stuff out every week, right,
(10:49):
and they're gonna go, this is good, let's just host
this too. How does that work? Can they take that
from eight inner pound Gorilla? Do they have to pay
them to get that?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think they might have to pay that, but they
seem like they have deep pockets.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Good net Flix, I think, just find twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Of a freaking things they passed the first time around.
But then they'll see how people respond to it and
they'll go, yeah, we'll take it now, Yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So how many cameramen did you have? How did you
find them? And you said you wrote this, yeah, So
is it is it like documentary style or is it
kind of just like a like comedy special, comedy see
you'd see.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Like as a comedy special, like you would see one.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, okay, and did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You except I shot at myself. My friend Og who
directed my first special that we shot gorilla style in
Texas three years ago, directed this one as well. The
difference between that first special, which is called the ice
Cream Snout ready, it's on YouTube right now and it's
I'm super proud of it. The difference between this special
(11:53):
and that special is that we shot that one gorilla style,
and this one we had all the uh, we had
control of the higher environment. We weren't running and gunning.
We were here intentionally. And how many cameras we had one, two, four, five,
six cameras. That six cameras. It was a lot of
(12:15):
lot of editing. We shot over two nights at the
at Lulu's at the Lafayette and it was like electric.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And that that environment is so beautiful. Yeah, and your suit,
let me just say, looked so good.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You looked great.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you. That's like another thing though, this this special represents,
you know, four years of almost four years of my work,
but also it's like a testament to like all of
my super talented friends that also wanted to pitch in
and put wind behind the sales, like you guys are
part of it right now, Like we're putting wind in
the sales so I can push forward. But my buddy
(12:54):
Jason Waters at Wolf and Wool, that's the name of
the company, Wolf and Wool. They do custom suiting, and
he found out I was shooting the special and he's like,
what are you wearing? And I was like, I don't know.
It's like a fancy place, so I'm not sure yet.
Maybe a suit, maybe not. He's like, well, if you're
going to do a suit, He's like, I would like
to make your suit for the special. And so that's
(13:16):
my first time ever having a custom made suit Italian
Materials customs.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Now you understand, why can't go back?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You cannot go back. I cannot go back. I'm spoiled.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, sure, I watched the trailer and I was like,
that is a nice suit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So also in the last three days, the following publications
have written up about you. The KPBS did a special
on you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The Coronado Eagle really did a special on you.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I need to do a Google alert on my name
the Times.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I just I mean, and this is all the recent stuff.
I was like, okay, Herald Times did a special, Cleveland
Jewish News did a specional on you, Corpus Christie Coller
Times did a special. Really yes you and Angela's show
you period. Like I said, the Times in San Diego,
you're number one on the list of that You're headlining
the comedy story.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And I was on Deadline Hollywood too, which I didn't.
That was like when we announced the date of the special,
Angela's manager was like, oh, You're going to be a
deadline on this day, and I was like, oh, yes, yes,
pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Keep it the ground growing. I can feel it now.
We I'm in the iHeart building. Still. We're going way
back to young mel Hall. I remember you when Jeff
and Jerr were at Star ninety four one at the time,
(15:02):
it was two thousand and five, six seven. Here's Mal
young Ott Mal bouncing around radio stations starting to try
out your stuff. Obviously he's likable, so you know, he
kind of hung around and I want to I'm like,
(15:24):
you know, that's the beginning. Is that the beginning? What's
the beginning of your funny, Like, how old were you
when you knew you were funny?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How old was I when I knew I was funny?
It was like five years after starting to do stand up.
I found that I wanted to do stand up from
the like like, I don't know, sophomore year in high school.
But I was definitely not funny. I'm pretty if you
don't know me, I'm pretty shy. I'm like an introvert.
I'm a I'm a I'm a social introvert. I like
(15:58):
to be out, but I can totally be out by myself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Introverted extroverts, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, but if I'm with the right people. I'm definitely extroverted.
But I'm a I've been an observer my entire life,
like I'm I just noticed things and that's sort of
my my superpower is, you know, for my comedy. And
when I was at the radio station. I was going
(16:24):
to junior college at Grossmont and discovered stand up after
having a conversation with AJ from AJ's playhouse. Oh really,
because he did stand up before he did radio and
I found that out and I was like, oh, I
want to try. I don't know how to start, Like
I come from a little town here. I don't know
how to start, and so he told me, get a notebook,
(16:44):
write down all your funny little ideas, and anywhere where
they have a microphone, all out you talk, figure out
if you're funny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
The comedy co Op in Sorrento Valley was this?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh my god, had you been there?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes? Yeah, this guy bought like a shipping container and
he turned it into like this little comedy club. It
was a little open mic five minutes and the audience
would vote on the open mic and whoever had the
best set would get to do a longer set the
next week. Okay, and my first time up was there,
(17:18):
and I came like one vote away from winning because
I had a lot of people that showed up. But
that was the first time I went on stage. Was there?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Did you do?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
December nine, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do you think you nailed it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It was good for a first time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, I can't imagine somebody who is a shy, kind
of introverted person like truly in real life, would want
to pursue this a profession where you do get a
lot of scrutiny. Oh yeah, and you get a lot
of praise and as well. But how do you take it,
(18:00):
how do you take the scrutiny of it?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Like I think it's.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The bombing, like everyone's why you're gonna bomb.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
For sure, for sure, But I think that this is
one of the it's the I tell people it's the
most fun job I've ever had, but it's the hardest
job I've ever had. But it's like an honest job
because at comedians we get evaluate it every thirty seconds
on our performance, like how it's going. So like I
know immediately if this joke is funny or not. I
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know immediately, like if a joke is going well, and
then I go, oh, I'm gonna try this. I know immediately, okay,
that those words do not need to be in here
because that changes the vibe of this thing. So it's
like it's like, uh, I don't know. I'm sort of
built for it. And I I grew up public speaking,
(18:50):
I guess, even though I am shy, I sort of
try to attack the things that I'm worse at, and
so public speaking was one of them. And in high
school I didn't play football. I announced football games and
so for three years I learned how to For four
years I learned how to public speak, and so the
first time I did stand up, I wasn't nervous about
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talking to people. I was more nervous about remembering the jokes.
But now I feel like I've been doing it long
enough where I could just sort of go up there
and talk and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'm being honest, and that is funny because a lot
of your honest life stories are funny.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I was watching a documentary about Eminem called stand and
they were showing some of his like his work when
he's like thinking about different lyrics and stuff, and he
has just scribblings here and there on like little papers
and you could barely see the writing. Is that what
you do?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Similar? I have a note on my phone, like you
could pin your notes on the iPhone, So on the
top note it is like joke ideas. And so as
I go through life, as you know, as yeah, Like,
as I walk through life, if something that I think
is funny happens, or I notice something where I'm like,
what is like what why? Why, I'll pull that thing
(20:15):
open and either straight audio record what I'm seeing and
sort of what the idea is, or type it out
really quick and then I'll go to the comedy store
on Thursday, or go to wherever don't tell show and
literally walk on stage and see if that if there's
a nugget in that observation that the crowd connects with
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and laughs at. And then once I know there's something
funny there, that's when I go and like intentionally write
and try to build a funny world around this nugget
of truth idea.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now, I know you can't like bust out any of
your new stuff because that's what's in the movie and
that's what's in your new stand up and your show's
coming up. Oh yeah, But like you said, you have
to kind of craft or you analyze, and then you
see if the audience thinks it's funny. Is there something
(21:09):
like that you can do that you would be comfortable
doing that You've done a million, maybe a joke, you've
done a lot, just so we can hear the process
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I won't do their joke. But there's like, uh so
on the special, on the.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Special, yet the most laughs about.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, so on the special coming out, there's a
story about I do a bit about east dropping. I
love east dropping. I've always loved eavesdropping, as I walk
through the world. It's like some of my favorite parts
about being at the airport or being out in public
in general. It's just sort of like catching pieces of
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conversations as you walk and go, like whoa, Like I
wonder how they got there, you know how, like what's
going on that they're talking about this specific thing or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When people get into fights, do you just like love it?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yes? Oh my gosh, yes, me too. Yes. Couples that
are fighting in public are my favorite.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
People arguing on the.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, couples, couples fighting in public, this is the story
on the on the this is what the joke is about.
It's like, I love eavesdropping, but I love couples that
are fighting because I'm in a couple. A lot of us,
like you've been in a couple or you know couples,
and it's like when it's your fight, when it's your friends,
it's no fun. But when you don't know people and
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you see two people together having a hard time in public,
it's like, I don't know, that feels like Christmas on
the inside of my boy. I feel like it's the
best reality show ever. And so I'm at Blue Ribbon
Pizzeri and Encinitas one day, like and I see this
(22:57):
couple just having the worst lunch of all time, and
I literally eat drop on their situation. And it's like
one of my favorite jokes in the My God, I
can't wait. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
One of the times I laughed out loud and like
tears are coming out of my eyes because it was
such a truth bomb and embarrassing for me was your
washcloth bit.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Was not only not only did you nail that, it
was true and it was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
She brings this up on the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Really was one of the things that I will never forget.
And every time I wash.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Cloth, I'm white Yuh, you're allowed to have a washcloth.
Do you have a wash cloth? Nope?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
What's the boundary for washcloth?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Or do you wash yourself with your hands?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, that feels ineffective.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
See that was his point.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That was the that's like what else do you in life?
Do you clean with just your hands?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
My mom didn't teach me to do that, how to
wash myself, not with a wash claw like a bar
soap too. I don't use a wash claw, you use
your hands, which I believe is effect.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I guess because like I'm going to have to shower
now when I get home because I'm sitting this close
to you, because.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That bit you make me feel like every.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Time shower, that time I'm gonna start judging people is
whether or not.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
The last time we saw him out in concert or
in his show, we talked. You made that a point
to ask the audience, like does anybody else use you
were so transfixed.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
People my coloring, my you know, are you sure.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Or is it just you? It's cultural, dude, it really
truly is.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
My mom still does it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
My sister doesn't someone he's a check.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And see when lufahs are invented because apparently they just
weren't around and does.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, you're using to actually clean yourself my hands. Yeah,
that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So I've never been with your hands.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
No, No, the bathroom, the shower. You don't clean anything
else your car, of course you want it to be clean,
but your body or like whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So basically you're telling me like I have never been
truly clean.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
No, you're filthy, just filthy born.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They cleaned you at the hospital because the cloth they
have standards there. It has to be clean. It's a hospital.
And then after that your parents are like, you're white,
it's fine, be dirty.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Maybe this is why you have no game because you
don't use the wash clock like you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Be an anomaly.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
They smell you coming.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Marie. Okay, Marie, my roommate is from France. Do you
use a washcloth? I mean, are you she started when
she Okay, so in France when you were growing up washing. Okay,
(26:43):
but do you use something.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Okay, okay, so yeah, or sunk.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But it's something between your skin and that your hand.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's a washlot. Not okay, that's fancy, it's frend.
She's just like, it's a it's a glove that we
clean ourselves with. Okay, all right, we get it. You're
better than us. Oh my god, Oh my god. Truly
(27:20):
I use a body poof in the shower because it
makes washing a lot faster. Okay, that's a first responder.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh that's that's Andrew Andrea.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Every once in a while, if I'm if I'm going
to self tan, I will use a loof because you
have to ex used a loofer for the rest of
the taf. My fake tan in the shower the next time.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, I don't you know, I knowd Fake Tan sort
of always had this one on. Come out. That's a problem.
Maybe just dur at that time you can use your hands.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
God, Okay, So let's before we're gonna we're gonna dive
into the bowl of questions. Okay, we want to play
this game with you. But let's run down because there's
so many things. Okay, where we can see where you
guys can see mal So this was on YouTube, This
(28:25):
is on YouTube, this is YouTube high okay, this is
Instagram set.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Okay, so on YouTube, on YouTube, you can after the
show is done, you can look, uh in the search bar,
just put Malhall TV and my channel will pop up
and you hit subscribe and then you hit the bell okay,
and then you're locked in number one and then and
then grab your phone. You can probably grab your phone
right now and go Hey, Google, Hey, Siri, whatever you
(28:52):
have and go set a reminder to watch mal Hall
Special on YouTube October twenty first, at seven pm Central time,
which is five o'clock here. And I need everybody to
watch this special on YouTube in the first forty eight hours,
especially because if I get a ton of people watching
in the first forty eight hours, the YouTube algorithm will
(29:14):
like boost this thing and push it out to a
ton more people. So the first forty eight, just like
a murder is this is important, the first forty eight.
So if you're on Instagram when this is done, you
just look for mal Hall at Malhall m A L
H A L L and my link in bio there's
an email list there. You click on that, and then
(29:36):
on Monday the twentieth, I'll be sending an email to everybody, Hey,
watch a special tomorrow. Here's the link. If you watch it.
When it drop drops like at seven o'clock Central time,
Angela Johnson Reyes and I will both be in the
chat interacting like live, how fun the special? So that's
super fun. But that's the twenty first Tomorrow. We're watching
(30:01):
it in a movie theater and there's no more tickets,
so unless you have a time machine, you're out on that.
But then if you live in San Diego October thirtieth,
November one and second, I'm headlined in the comedy store
in La Jolla, four shows, brand new hour. It's going
to be super fun.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh okay, And then do we have anything with Angela
coming up.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, Okay, I'm on all of the Family Reunion tour dates.
So if you're in the Midwest right now, we're all
over the Midwest. So this weekend is Ohio and Indianapolis.
Next weekend is Madison, Chicago, and one other like Wisconsin City,
and then the following weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We're all over.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We're all over the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Midwest city is the most fun. Chicago really like the
best audiences.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
It's just like the New York of the Midwest. It's
like you, it's a huge city. They got really good food,
really good art scene, and the people are nice. You know,
it's like a good it's a good big city.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What about small What's like a really what fun small city?
Did you recently?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
San Antonio is always a fun one. That's a fun
small city. I would say that's like you could say Austin,
but Austin is becoming a big kind of a big city.
But San Antonio is always fun. Denver's a big city,
Denver's fun. All the cities have been pretty fun, to
be honest, there haven't been any that were like I was.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Going to ask you up, but then I didn't think
you'd want to answer.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That. I mean, I'll say it, I'm not looking forward
to Sunday. Sunday we're in Indianapolis, and I've never had
a good time there. I don't think Indiana people are
I don't, I don't. They just don't get me, like
maybe we're just not because I've been to Evanston, Indiana
it was just whatever. I've been to Indianapolis a few
(31:59):
times now it's it's always whatever. Gary, Indiana is just
kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Really, it's just kind of like a dead audience a
little bit, just like people.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Oh my gosh, I bet they don't use wash clauses.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
It's really interesting that you say that, because I've seen
a couple comedians that have singled out Gary, Indiana and
they've said they've had horrible.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
It's not an experience. It's like a weird vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't think I've ever met anybody from Indiana. I
don't know nobody. I don't know anyway. Okay, so now
now the bull, the bullet questions some of them that
they're all.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Due respect if you live in Indiana, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Prove us wrong. We'll prove him, prove these wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, go to the show. Watch the special.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Hours October twenty and we're gonna we'll put it on.
We'll okay, so you can pick anything, any paper, blah
blah blah blah, read it out loud, and then answer away.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
This looks like it's a written one.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It is. If you read my chicken scratching, what's the
best worst.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Thing you've bought from an infomercial? I'm not an infomercial person.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
That question dates you, like the last I know.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I know, I was gonna say, maybe you know what Instagram?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Okay, Instagram, So I just bought some Instagram. Instagram is
like they know us so well, oh so well, and
they'll drop those ads in your feed. And and not
only do they drop the right ads in your feed,
but they will curate them. So it's like the esthetic
(33:38):
that you like as well, Like I like a good
cinematic story to my ad. And if you hook me
in the first whatever five to fifteen seconds, like I'm
I'll give it a watch and then I'll go, you know,
I'm sober right now, I don't need you, and I'll
swipe on through it. But then if you watch it
for long enough, they know they're like, M kind of
(34:00):
liked it. You kind of like throw it back at him,
throw it again, and throw it again, and then like
I'll watch again, like oh yeah, I remember this, and
then I'll save it. I'm like maybe later, and then
on the third or fourth time, I'm checking out the
website to see And so recently I got some insuls
because I golf a lot now, so I'm like, I
(34:20):
could use like a nice insul while I'm walking these
golf courses, and so I bought these, uh Move, I
think it's the company Move insuls, and they're awesome. Oh good,
I was thinking about buying another pair of the other.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh, you're gonna get a box of them probably now.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I really, yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
All I get is wrinkles. Wrinkle, remove a wrinkle, remove
a great thank you yeah, and said it's like it's
like women with like the long white hair you know
that are in there, Like have you purchased Yeah, I
did the lip wrinkle one.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Did it work?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh? Well? Did it?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't know. I just think your lips look like
lips to me. I don't know what your lips should have,
like little wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, because I used to smoke back in the day,
and I feel I feel like I ruined my lips,
so they must have. Okay, now I'm really gonna get
it because they're listening, listening. Okay, Eric, all right, we'll
do We'll do one more round and then we'll we'll stop.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
If you could only listen to one band for the
rest of your life, what would you pick.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That's a good question. One band I know? Oh my god,
you Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, but I am.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I think I might be profile.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
She doesn't look like it. She looks like she stinks.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I'm gonna say the Go Gos, the Go Gos.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, I was not expecting that.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I came out of left field.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
For the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
But yeah, really my age that probably when you got
into or something.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I love the Go Gos, like we got the beat.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
All right, yeah that's cool. That's not a bad one.
I don't know, like before he was a like a
legit Nazi, I'd probably say, like Kanye West would be
a pretty good catalog to listen to forever.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
It was a good time period.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah, it was pretty fun, pretty fun. Who else do
I listen to a lot of? I don't know, it'd
have to be something classic. I think, like I like
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
The Thriller album, Thriller Album, Pretty good, that'll never get old.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think that's the first band like I really got into.
I think I could listen to that forever.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh my gosh, mine is cold Play. I know, I know,
I know. I'm a cliche. I'm a cliche. They have
some good songs, Okay, they have Oh my god, all
of them.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Are speaking of like bands that like they smell kind
of bad.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh, don't you make fun of my Chris Martin.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
He looks kind of greasy.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay, Brian, I'm going to read yours. Okay, Okay, that
was your Okay, here we go. Now, before you die,
you're giving a chance to relive one memory that you cherish.
What memory would you choose starting with us here at
the podcast, at your first.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Date, The moment right before I walked the door, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I don't the day you did stand up on here.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Oh that I try, the one that killed that with
the dumbest joke ever. I'm really upset.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's still bitter about it.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
It was like it was good.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
That's such a hard one.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You're young. You haven't had that. Yeah, okay, pick one more.
I hope it's a really juicy one.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Most expense if thing that you've ever lost. Oh, the
most expensive thing I've ever lost, my virginity. I have
three babies. These things are so expensive. I wish that
virginity the most expensive material thing I had some meta
(38:20):
like the meta glasses.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Oh you did you left him in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I left him in a golf cart and I literally
went back, like you know, six hours later, and they
could have only been in this golf cart. And of
course the guys that the that clean the carts are like, no,
we didn't see anything he was wearing, recording me asking, okay, Eric,
(38:49):
you don't answer these questions. Well, did you write all
of them?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Kind of yeah, well no, some are are on cards,
so some I wrote some I didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh this is easy.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
List.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
The last TV show you binge watched the girlfriend haven't
seen it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
It's Prime okay, and it's with Robin Wright from House
of Cards?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Is it? What kind of show is it?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
It's about Uh, it's like seven episodes and it's about
a very wealthy family and their son starts dating this
girl that's.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
A total psycho.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Okay, yeah, I'm in great, I'm in as soon as
I finish Bosh. I'm like, uh, I have wo with
Kelsey Grammer. I don't think, no, it's not Kelsey Bosh
The Detective Show.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Oh yeah, I forget who's in.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I forget his name.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Why you choose out of all the programs.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
That's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Because because they I just watched this other uh police
show that they just put out this year on there,
and Bosh made like an appearance on this show and
I was like, I've it was like a Emmy Award
winning show, and I was like, maybe I should try
to get into this. It was kind of slowgo, but
(40:06):
now I'm like I'm all the way. Uh. And I
also like, if you're if you're into superhero kind of shows,
slash movies, the other one on Amazon, the uh gen
v Oh yeah, like the Boys? Is it the Boys?
(40:28):
The Boys? And then yeah, Jen like all of those shows.
That whole universe is pretty awesome. That's a pretty crazy show.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Oh my gosh, I just binged mind No, mind Hunter.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's a great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
They just talked to Charles Manson.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Oh yeah, that was it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
It's a good one that is into the I love
like me too all day long.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
All those creepy shows I love seeing, like when we're
in hotels, like we're always watching uh forensic files, Like
we love watching to see like how far humans will go.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And then they think they get away with it and
we don't. Don't watch the new ed like Monster on Netflix.
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I could I started watching it. I couldn't. I couldn't
watch it.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I couldn't even get through.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The It was about the guy whose psycho is based
on like I.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Get Texas Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Okay, some weird serial killer guy. I don't know, but
it's not that good, even though I love serial killer stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Okay, Oh, what is the sexiest and least sexy sport
someone can play?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
The sexiest sport?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Well, football is not sexy. Baseball is sexy, yes, because
of the uniforms and little their.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Little, but oil wrestling that's not.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
That's not sexiest sport.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Like Oh, okay, no, here's one. Okay, what piece of
advice would you give your younger self?
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Oh, don't be scared of failing.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Like because I'm Japanese. In the culture, it's like everything culturally,
Japanese people do not like to fail, Like if you fail,
you're an embarrassment to like your entire family and so
my entire life. Like you know, my mom raised us
to like strive for perfection every single time, and now
(42:49):
that I'm an adult, and especially in this career, it's
like you have to fail, you have to take big
swings and fail to find out what works. And not
only in comedy is that true, but in life as well.
It's like, you know, the worst day that you have
is just one day, like Tomorrow's going to happen, and
then you can try again, learn from your mistakes. Don't
(43:13):
make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
That's stupid. But definitely try fail, learn and try again.
And that's how I think that's how the smartest people
become the smartest people is by not being scared to
fail in pursuit of whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
That is excellent advice. And I also want to know,
like if you do a set, you do your show,
it's not it wasn't the greatest. You didn't get all
that many laughs. In fact, you're it wasn't wanting it
was not good.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
M h.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
How do you feel when you're coming down the stairs?
How do you feel that night? And how do you
shake it off?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Speaking of failing, so for comedians at my life level,
we can generally pinpoint what happened, what went wrong. Bombs
do not feel good. This is funny. Bombs are like
the most common question that people have for comedians. It's like,
when was the last time you bombed? What does it
(44:16):
feel like to bomb? What do you do? It's like,
but we're not scared. So it's scary for normal people. Yeah,
to stand in front of hundreds or thousands of people
and like get nothing back terrifying. But we sort of
have a plan when we're going up, so if it
doesn't go, we try to pivot and figure it out.
(44:36):
But the best cure for a bomb is to literally
get on stage again. So that's why the comedians in
New York are so good, is because they can go
bomb at this comedy club and then walk around the
corner to the next comedy club, do the same set,
make the changes that are necessary, maybe bomb again, walk
(44:58):
down the street. They could do three or four sets
in a night and bomb, bomb, bomb, and then Okay,
we're figuring something out by the end of the night.
And that's sort of like where I'm at with this tour.
So with Angela, it's like this is her tour. She's headlining,
so all the weights on her shoulders for the show
to be good. My job is to go set the
table and hopefully, you know, warm the crowd up before
(45:22):
she gets out there. But in order for the time
away from my family to be worth it, I have
to always be trying jokes. So when I go out there,
it's like I'm really I'll tell her before the show,
I'm like, all right, I'm opening with these two brand
new things and then I'm gonna do this new thing
in the middle, and I'll close. This thing is strong,
(45:42):
so I'll close with this. And like one of the
coolest parts for me about working with Angela said, she's
never like can you just do can you just do
these jokes at work? So like the show is good,
She's like fine with me going out there and doing
whatever I want to do, But it's like, you have
to you have to be willing to bomb every single
(46:03):
night to be good, and all of the jokes that
you're going to see tomorrow bombed at one point, really
all of them bombed, But there was something in there
that was like, all right, I believe in this sort
of part of the joke, and it's worth it to
me to keep trying. Some jokes take. You know, some
jokes you can write in Like some jokes you write
(46:25):
the first time you go on stage it works perfect,
and then some jokes it takes six months, seven months,
a year. But you really believe in this idea. This
is so funny to you. And it's all about just
like figuring out what are the words, what are the
words that you need to put together to put the
picture that's in your head in the audience's head. And
(46:47):
that's just literally trial and error every single night.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
And this is one thing that's always fascinated me was
did you ever see the documentary called Heckler?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:57):
And all that, because I came away from it thinking,
I would think is if if I were a comedian,
A lot of it might depend on the audience, like
the area, and people just either don't want to be
there or they're just like, oh, who cares and their
(47:17):
main goal is to.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Just Yeah, the audience is a big deal. And I
tell people after shows that all the time, because I'll go,
you know, you were great tonight, and I'll tell them
you were great too, Like it's a two way street.
And I think I think, like from that film in particular,
it's like comedians, we have to go to like all
(47:40):
kinds of weird places to do comedy, and not every
place is set up for it. So in places where
you know, comedy is forced upon people, that's always the
hardest craft. Because these people didn't know there was going
to be a comedy show they're here for. They're at
their favorite bar to watch this game, and then you know,
we turn all the TVs off so you could hear
(48:00):
us tell our stupid jokes. They don't want to, Oh boy,
be here for that. But it's like the crowd holds
like fifty percent of the power, you know, So if
they decide as a group that it's not going to
be your night, then it's not going to be your knife,
and you can't take it personally, and you just move
on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
If somebody screamed something from the audience, do you play
with that person? Are you good at that?
Speaker 2 (48:25):
It depends. It depends. My style, which you guys have
seen is not like I'm not so controversial that that, like,
my comedy doesn't fire people up to yell at me.
So generally people aren't talking. If people say anything, it's
in a part of the show where I'll open up
(48:45):
the floor sort of. But I've learned it's like, yeah,
but I have a very short leash with the crowd otherwise.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You know, discussion right now.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Yeah, I tell all new comedians what I was told, Like,
you don't ask the crowd questions like you could tell
the comedians new if they asked the crowd questions like
an earnestly wanted answer, like what do you think about this?
It's like, dude, you're what are you doing? Is like
this comedian told me one time I had a joke.
I don't remember the joke, but it involved every night
(49:15):
I had to ask this question and like get an
answer to get to wherever my punchline was. And he's like, dude,
you're going to be doing this for a while, so
I'm just going to tell you right now. He's like,
don't stop asking the crowd questions. You tell them the answers.
So you ask a question in a in a like
a declarative sentence, so it's not like are are is
(49:40):
anyone in here single? You go you guys are single?
So you know, like you just tell them the answer.
You don't need people to uh do you guys like
uh whatever? That you know you guys drink beer? Right,
it's like, do you guys drink beer? Are you guys
drinking beer here? It's like, no, you guys drink people.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
You'd spend half your set listening for fifty people.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
There's that one talker guy who will tell you an
entire story.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
They want to be where you are, so they will
use that as the as their sort of you know,
gateway to the stage. They want to go up there,
and so I, yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Oh my okay. Well we are going to Blood eight
hundred Gorilla on October twenty first, seven pm. This movie
that you've put your blood, sweat, tears, four years of
your life, all new material in a freaking awesome suit
in the one of the coolest venues, the coolest venue
(50:41):
in Sandiel.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
We get to see it tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
So excited.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I'm so we're thrilled, and I'm so happy for you
and thank you for having you are like I'm saying
you're there already, but you're like on a new trajectory.
You're like Ice your your rocket ship.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Man. I hope, So, I hope so and so I
hope we're doing this interview in a year and it's like, Oh,
I'm headlining my own thing now.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Like in Vegas, Vegas Residency, whatever.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah, would that be a dream for you?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
That would be cool?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
What's the ultimate dream?
Speaker 2 (51:18):
And then you'd be like ultimate dream.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
I've made it. I'm happy now, I'm content. I can
die now, like you know what I mean, Like this
has happened.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
I think being being known enough to like go to
go to all the major cities, you know, once every
two years, and when my name's on the Marquee, people
know and they're like, oh, he's back, let's go see
this show. Yeah, it doesn't have to be like stadiums,
(51:48):
but like theaters. You know, if you saw my name
at the Balboa Theater and you're shooting the Balboa, like,
let's we got to get tickets and go like that
sort of like where Angela is at seems like a
pretty like awesome life. You know, we're playing theaters that
are you know, fifteen hundred to seventy five hundred seats
(52:09):
and it's a great let's go that would be great.
Oh my gosh. I mean even just being able to
go to every comedy club in the country and sell
out five hundred seats, just like to have my name
on the marquee and people know me and want to
come see me. Is that's success, you know, And so
(52:30):
that's why I came here. It's like, you know, I
don't know these people. I don't know these people. But
like if you're intrigued by my boring ass interview and
you're like, oh, let's let's see if he's actually funny,
It's like I might get one or two people here,
one or two people here, and now you're in the community,
and then you can help put wind in these sales and.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
We'll go, oh my god, actually you are very funny, guys.
And the November first at the Comedy Store in La
Joya will for the thirtieth the first they're taking a
Halloween off, but you guys, let's do it. Let's get
him there. And you know what, Mel, thank you so
much for coming in. And you know what next year, Yeah, okay,
(53:11):
we'll see, let's see how fam sure, because I don't
be that guy who is like so big now that
we were like, we're like scared to ask him.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Sorry, guys, I only do podcasts with people that clean themselves.
I can't.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
You better go get a washed right now. Ross is open.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Until time, all right, anyway, Okay, thank you so much
for joining us so much. And uh, at the end
we say our little thing, so I'll say it then
you see it, and Ri says, then we're done, and uh,
I can't wait, So tomorrow night. Okay, love your podcast.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
Love your podcast.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Oh love your podcast.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Love you, my sweet babies. Thank you so much for watching,
guys is thank you Mal
Oh my gosh, already having a blast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane, Eric
Rimmer and my co host who usually sitting right here,
but we have met.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I have moved over. Oh yes, for the for the talent.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
For the true talent of the room. We call Eric
the talent because he rolls in like two minutes before
showtime with no prep and uh but this is the
true talent. And we have so much to talk about
with Melhall. I'm sure you've heard of him. He is,
uh his star had I don't even want to say
you're a rising star because it's already risen to a
(00:49):
huge level. We'll talk about all the things that he's
involved in. What you can go, what you can see. Uh, oh,
I have a couple Okay anyway, Brian, Hi, Brian, what's up? Okay?
A yeah, we all went to the La Fayette, which
is your residency, yes, on Friday night and spent the
(01:12):
night as a little podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh you guys all's got rooms there in stay? No,
you all stayed in one room.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We did, and Marie too.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, all four of you in one room.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Okay, so guess who slept with him?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh god, will you two and YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You two and YouTube?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yes? Really weird?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right? Why did you get one room?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Because we're cheap, because we can afford like there was
he was like four hundred dollars eat, I mean four
for a room.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
And now we both we both figured something out. What's
that night is that? Well, Laura and I have already
decided that when we grow old, we're going to live together.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, well, walk a style in a bed, in a
bed the.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Big TV so we can watch your special over and
over again.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And but we both apparently snore like truck drivers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So Brian says, I'm an open male sleeper.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I am sure, for sure. I tell people on planes
before the flight takes off. Hey, I apologize like in
advance for all the drool, and I will be out
before we take offs.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And have you heard of hostage tape?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
No? Oh, the tape you put over your mouth?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I would never it would be awfully weird. So you
breathe through your nose? You're not a mouth breather. I
need to wake up. Do you wake up with the
dry mouth? I do sometimes sometimes because I'm all so
apparently I'm just not the prettiest sleeper of the rocky Well.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I kept my my bunk made up all night long,
poor thing.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was a long night.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It was a long night. I had snow. I had
no problem.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, o fun, I didn't hear any Yeah, I didn't
hear anything.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay. So speaking, since we're talking about the La Fayette
and Luluse, when is the next time we can see
you at Luluse?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So the final show of the year at LULUs is
on November nineteenth. I believe we're generally the last Wednesday
every month, but for the holidays, like they're you know,
booked out for holiday parties and stuff, and then I'm
on tour. So the nineteenth, November nineteenth will be the
final show.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
How do you get tickets to Luluse to see that show?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So you just go to Lulu's website and click on
events and we're just look for November nineteenth and we're there.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do it now because.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That show sells out like that. Don't look for tickets
a week before the show because thank gone. And it's
I am biased, but it's the best show in San Diego.
It's the best stand up show in San Diego. I'm
I host every show, and then I have three of
my super talented headliner comedian friends drive down from LA
(04:05):
or from here in San Diego, and so it's like
for thirty bucks. I think the ticket is thirty bucks.
So you get like a eighty dollars show and you're
at Alaphia on a Wednesday, and it's a vibe. It's
super cool.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
When you host comedians, do you start off with your
own set and then and then launch into yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah. The way I host my shows is different than
how it's generally done. Generally, the host will go up
and do like five minutes or something and then just
start the show. I do twenty to twenty five minutes
at the top of the show, so you get a
full set of mine and then a full show after.
So they'll be sort of an opener, middle and a
(04:44):
headliner after me and I sort of take the bullet
and do half an hour up front.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
My gosh, above and beyond. So I decided to google
mal Hall and see what comes up first. And the
very first thing was the time of San Diego. Don't
know about this publication, No, you were the first thing
on their website. Your show on November first, you're headlining
(05:10):
the comedy store La Joya.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
They today you were the number one thing on their website.
That's awesome Times of San Diego. So I'm like, well,
that's awesome. November first, comedy Store La Joya always a
great place, that's always great now, and that's at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Not only November first, though, because I'm headlining there October
thirtieth and we're off for Halloween. Than November first and second.
Four shows, so it's oh wow, four headlining shows. And
it's my brand new hour that I'm working on because
my special comes out in eight days now.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yeah, okay, let's get right into that. Because Eric and
I bought tickets to see your movie, your documentary, your
this is called what are We Doing Today?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What Are We Doing Today? It's my debut one hour special.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And it premieres October twenty first on YouTube July twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
First on YouTube with a company called eight hundred Pound
Gorilla that has you know, over half a million subscribers
on their channel, so it's going to go out to
over half a million people. But not only that. YouTube
allows you to collab post now, like how you can
do on Instagram, so it's not only going to go
out on their page, but it'll go out on Angela
Johnson's page and my page. So on October twenty first,
(06:34):
a special is going to go out to over a
million people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's very exciting and Eric and I are seeing it
tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I know this is okay, so all San Diego like
day one fans get to see it a week before
the world.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And then just to interject that, Angela Johnson and you
are on tour and it's called the Family Reunion Tour
and it's all over.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The plame right all over the country through this fall
run goes through the week of Thanksgiving, and then there's
like another three month run in twenty six in the spring.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Okay, And if you don't you guys are both really
great on clean humor. I love you both, and for
that particular reason, like if you're not hard to do
it is, and if you're not familiar and it's none
of it's mean, which is really.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Really minus kind of mean. Mine is kind of mean
to you. If you're a millennial parent, you might find
my comedy a little bit mean.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh my god, it's so funny. Toddler, it is so funny.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I'm not sure, but if the if the name Angela
Johnson doesn't ring a bell, she does the nail salon like.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
This, so oh.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, so she's she's hilarious and she was bonqueque on
mad TV TV.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So yeah, walk us through the inception of this film.
Cannot wait till tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, so this is tomorrow. I feel like, you know,
we're filming this at eight o' what time is it
seven o'clock? And the showing is tomorrow. It's twelve hours
from no, it's twenty four hours from now. Twenty four
hours from now is when it will hit play at
the movie theater. And I feel like I have, you know,
(08:28):
thirty hours of work left to do still, but for
I mean, the film is complete, the specials complete. This
represents like almost four years of work, like a year
and a half writing and touring the material, and then
searching for a venue for a very long time because
I'm very particular about everything and so I wanted the
(08:49):
venue to be right. And then we shot it last September,
and then a year of editing and not a year
of editing like seven months of editing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Who did it? Did you help with that or did
you I.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Sat in with the editor. Uh, cam Loui is the
name of the editor. He's from right here in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Editing is no joke.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's no joke. It's no joke. And editing yourself so
it's not like it's a movie, it's my special this
is these my material. Watching it in forty second increments
for an hour, it's like and just judging every forty seconds,
like I don't like that. Let's what do we have
on the other camera, and like watching it over and over,
like there's such a roller coaster of like I love
(09:31):
all of these jokes and I believe in this material,
but then you watch it with a hypercritical eye and
it's like I hate all of this, Like this all stinks.
And then you zoom out again you're like, oh, this
is pretty good. It's coming together, and then you zoom
back in you're like, this sucks. We did that for
like eight months, and then Angela Johnson Reyes is an
(09:54):
executive producer on the project, so we when the editing
was done, her her team took it out to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu,
Disney and uh, and we settled. Eight hundred pound Gorilla
had the best deal for us, and so we're you know,
this will be the first special that I do that's
like actually distributed on like a major level.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And that is so awesome. You know, Yeah, congratulations, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I just had a psychic vision.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Get ready.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
This is a no brainer, psychic vision. This is going
to end up on Netflix within the year because they're
going to see it. They're always looking for content, new content,
new specials. They need to put stuff out every week, right,
(10:49):
and they're gonna go, this is good, let's just host
this too. How does that work? Can they take that
from eight inner pound Gorilla? Do they have to pay
them to get that?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I think they might have to pay that, but they
seem like they have deep pockets.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Good net Flix, I think, just find twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Of a freaking things they passed the first time around.
But then they'll see how people respond to it and
they'll go, yeah, we'll take it now, Yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So how many cameramen did you have? How did you
find them? And you said you wrote this, yeah, So
is it is it like documentary style or is it
kind of just like a like comedy special, comedy see
you'd see.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Like as a comedy special, like you would see one.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, okay, and did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You except I shot at myself. My friend Og who
directed my first special that we shot gorilla style in
Texas three years ago, directed this one as well. The
difference between that first special, which is called the ice
Cream Snout ready, it's on YouTube right now and it's
I'm super proud of it. The difference between this special
(11:53):
and that special is that we shot that one gorilla style,
and this one we had all the uh, we had
control of the higher environment. We weren't running and gunning.
We were here intentionally. And how many cameras we had one, two, four, five,
six cameras. That six cameras. It was a lot of
(12:15):
lot of editing. We shot over two nights at the
at Lulu's at the Lafayette and it was like electric.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And that that environment is so beautiful. Yeah, and your suit,
let me just say, looked so good.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You looked great.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Thank you. That's like another thing though, this this special represents,
you know, four years of almost four years of my work,
but also it's like a testament to like all of
my super talented friends that also wanted to pitch in
and put wind behind the sales, like you guys are
part of it right now, Like we're putting wind in
the sales so I can push forward. But my buddy
(12:54):
Jason Waters at Wolf and Wool, that's the name of
the company, Wolf and Wool. They do custom suiting, and
he found out I was shooting the special and he's like,
what are you wearing? And I was like, I don't know.
It's like a fancy place, so I'm not sure yet.
Maybe a suit, maybe not. He's like, well, if you're
going to do a suit, He's like, I would like
to make your suit for the special. And so that's
(13:16):
my first time ever having a custom made suit Italian
Materials customs.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Now you understand, why can't go back?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
You cannot go back. I cannot go back. I'm spoiled.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, sure, I watched the trailer and I was like,
that is a nice suit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So also in the last three days, the following publications
have written up about you. The KPBS did a special
on you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
The Coronado Eagle really did a special on you.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I need to do a Google alert on my name
the Times.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I just I mean, and this is all the recent stuff.
I was like, okay, Herald Times did a special, Cleveland
Jewish News did a specional on you, Corpus Christie Coller
Times did a special. Really yes you and Angela's show
you period. Like I said, the Times in San Diego,
you're number one on the list of that You're headlining
the comedy story.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So okay.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
And I was on Deadline Hollywood too, which I didn't.
That was like when we announced the date of the special,
Angela's manager was like, oh, You're going to be a
deadline on this day, and I was like, oh, yes, yes,
pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Keep it the ground growing. I can feel it now.
We I'm in the iHeart building. Still. We're going way
back to young mel Hall. I remember you when Jeff
and Jerr were at Star ninety four one at the time,
(15:02):
it was two thousand and five, six seven. Here's Mal
young Ott Mal bouncing around radio stations starting to try
out your stuff. Obviously he's likable, so you know, he
kind of hung around and I want to I'm like,
(15:24):
you know, that's the beginning. Is that the beginning? What's
the beginning of your funny, Like, how old were you
when you knew you were funny?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How old was I when I knew I was funny?
It was like five years after starting to do stand up.
I found that I wanted to do stand up from
the like like, I don't know, sophomore year in high school.
But I was definitely not funny. I'm pretty if you
don't know me, I'm pretty shy. I'm like an introvert.
I'm a I'm a I'm a social introvert. I like
(15:58):
to be out, but I can totally be out by myself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Introverted extroverts, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yes, but if I'm with the right people. I'm definitely extroverted.
But I'm a I've been an observer my entire life,
like I'm I just noticed things and that's sort of
my my superpower is, you know, for my comedy. And
when I was at the radio station. I was going
(16:24):
to junior college at Grossmont and discovered stand up after
having a conversation with AJ from AJ's playhouse. Oh really,
because he did stand up before he did radio and
I found that out and I was like, oh, I
want to try. I don't know how to start, Like
I come from a little town here. I don't know
how to start, and so he told me, get a notebook,
(16:44):
write down all your funny little ideas, and anywhere where
they have a microphone, all out you talk, figure out
if you're funny.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Where was that?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
The comedy co Op in Sorrento Valley was this?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh my god, had you been there?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes? Yeah, this guy bought like a shipping container and
he turned it into like this little comedy club. It
was a little open mic five minutes and the audience
would vote on the open mic and whoever had the
best set would get to do a longer set the
next week. Okay, and my first time up was there,
(17:18):
and I came like one vote away from winning because
I had a lot of people that showed up. But
that was the first time I went on stage. Was there?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Did you do?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
December nine, two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Do you think you nailed it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It was good for a first time.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, I can't imagine somebody who is a shy, kind
of introverted person like truly in real life, would want
to pursue this a profession where you do get a
lot of scrutiny. Oh yeah, and you get a lot
of praise and as well. But how do you take it,
(18:00):
how do you take the scrutiny of it?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Like I think it's.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The bombing, like everyone's why you're gonna bomb.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
For sure, for sure, But I think that this is
one of the it's the I tell people it's the
most fun job I've ever had, but it's the hardest
job I've ever had. But it's like an honest job
because at comedians we get evaluate it every thirty seconds
on our performance, like how it's going. So like I
know immediately if this joke is funny or not. I
(18:28):
know immediately, like if a joke is going well, and
then I go, oh, I'm gonna try this. I know immediately, okay,
that those words do not need to be in here
because that changes the vibe of this thing. So it's
like it's like, uh, I don't know. I'm sort of
built for it. And I I grew up public speaking,
(18:50):
I guess, even though I am shy, I sort of
try to attack the things that I'm worse at, and
so public speaking was one of them. And in high
school I didn't play football. I announced football games and
so for three years I learned how to For four
years I learned how to public speak, and so the
first time I did stand up, I wasn't nervous about
(19:13):
talking to people. I was more nervous about remembering the jokes.
But now I feel like I've been doing it long
enough where I could just sort of go up there
and talk and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'm being honest, and that is funny because a lot
of your honest life stories are funny.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I was watching a documentary about Eminem called stand and
they were showing some of his like his work when
he's like thinking about different lyrics and stuff, and he
has just scribblings here and there on like little papers
and you could barely see the writing. Is that what
you do?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Similar? I have a note on my phone, like you
could pin your notes on the iPhone, So on the
top note it is like joke ideas. And so as
I go through life, as you know, as yeah, Like,
as I walk through life, if something that I think
is funny happens, or I notice something where I'm like,
what is like what why? Why, I'll pull that thing
(20:15):
open and either straight audio record what I'm seeing and
sort of what the idea is, or type it out
really quick and then I'll go to the comedy store
on Thursday, or go to wherever don't tell show and
literally walk on stage and see if that if there's
a nugget in that observation that the crowd connects with
(20:35):
and laughs at. And then once I know there's something
funny there, that's when I go and like intentionally write
and try to build a funny world around this nugget
of truth idea.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now, I know you can't like bust out any of
your new stuff because that's what's in the movie and
that's what's in your new stand up and your show's
coming up. Oh yeah, But like you said, you have
to kind of craft or you analyze, and then you
see if the audience thinks it's funny. Is there something
(21:09):
like that you can do that you would be comfortable
doing that You've done a million, maybe a joke, you've
done a lot, just so we can hear the process
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I won't do their joke. But there's like, uh so
on the special, on the.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Special, yet the most laughs about.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, yeah, so on the special coming out, there's a
story about I do a bit about east dropping. I
love east dropping. I've always loved eavesdropping, as I walk
through the world. It's like some of my favorite parts
about being at the airport or being out in public
in general. It's just sort of like catching pieces of
(21:51):
conversations as you walk and go, like whoa, Like I
wonder how they got there, you know how, like what's
going on that they're talking about this specific thing or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When people get into fights, do you just like love it?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yes? Oh my gosh, yes, me too. Yes. Couples that
are fighting in public are my favorite.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
People arguing on the.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, couples, couples fighting in public, this is the story
on the on the this is what the joke is about.
It's like, I love eavesdropping, but I love couples that
are fighting because I'm in a couple. A lot of us,
like you've been in a couple or you know couples,
and it's like when it's your fight, when it's your friends,
it's no fun. But when you don't know people and
(22:36):
you see two people together having a hard time in public,
it's like, I don't know, that feels like Christmas on
the inside of my boy. I feel like it's the
best reality show ever. And so I'm at Blue Ribbon
Pizzeri and Encinitas one day, like and I see this
(22:57):
couple just having the worst lunch of all time, and
I literally eat drop on their situation. And it's like
one of my favorite jokes in the My God, I
can't wait. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
One of the times I laughed out loud and like
tears are coming out of my eyes because it was
such a truth bomb and embarrassing for me was your
washcloth bit.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought that was hilarious.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Was not only not only did you nail that, it
was true and it was hilarious.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
She brings this up on the show all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Really was one of the things that I will never forget.
And every time I wash.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Cloth, I'm white Yuh, you're allowed to have a washcloth.
Do you have a wash cloth? Nope?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
What's the boundary for washcloth?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Or do you wash yourself with your hands?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, that feels ineffective.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
See that was his point.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That was the that's like what else do you in life?
Do you clean with just your hands?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
My mom didn't teach me to do that, how to
wash myself, not with a wash claw like a bar
soap too. I don't use a wash claw, you use
your hands, which I believe is effect.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I guess because like I'm going to have to shower
now when I get home because I'm sitting this close
to you, because.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
That bit you make me feel like every.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Time shower, that time I'm gonna start judging people is
whether or not.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
The last time we saw him out in concert or
in his show, we talked. You made that a point
to ask the audience, like does anybody else use you
were so transfixed.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
People my coloring, my you know, are you sure.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Or is it just you? It's cultural, dude, it really
truly is.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
My mom still does it.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
My sister doesn't someone he's a check.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
And see when lufahs are invented because apparently they just
weren't around and does.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, you're using to actually clean yourself my hands. Yeah,
that's not a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
So I've never been with your hands.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
No, No, the bathroom, the shower. You don't clean anything
else your car, of course you want it to be clean,
but your body or like whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So basically you're telling me like I have never been
truly clean.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
No, you're filthy, just filthy born.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
They cleaned you at the hospital because the cloth they
have standards there. It has to be clean. It's a hospital.
And then after that your parents are like, you're white,
it's fine, be dirty.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Maybe this is why you have no game because you
don't use the wash clock like you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Be an anomaly.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
They smell you coming.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Marie. Okay, Marie, my roommate is from France. Do you
use a washcloth? I mean, are you she started when
she Okay, so in France when you were growing up washing. Okay,
(26:43):
but do you use something.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Okay, okay, so yeah, or sunk.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But it's something between your skin and that your hand.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's a washlot. Not okay, that's fancy, it's frend.
She's just like, it's a it's a glove that we
clean ourselves with. Okay, all right, we get it. You're
better than us. Oh my god, Oh my god. Truly
(27:20):
I use a body poof in the shower because it
makes washing a lot faster. Okay, that's a first responder.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh that's that's Andrew Andrea.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Every once in a while, if I'm if I'm going
to self tan, I will use a loof because you
have to ex used a loofer for the rest of
the taf. My fake tan in the shower the next time.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Okay, I don't you know, I knowd Fake Tan sort
of always had this one on. Come out. That's a problem.
Maybe just dur at that time you can use your hands.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
God, Okay, So let's before we're gonna we're gonna dive
into the bowl of questions. Okay, we want to play
this game with you. But let's run down because there's
so many things. Okay, where we can see where you
guys can see mal So this was on YouTube, This
(28:25):
is on YouTube, this is YouTube high okay, this is
Instagram set.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Okay, so on YouTube, on YouTube, you can after the
show is done, you can look, uh in the search bar,
just put Malhall TV and my channel will pop up
and you hit subscribe and then you hit the bell okay,
and then you're locked in number one and then and
then grab your phone. You can probably grab your phone
right now and go Hey, Google, Hey, Siri, whatever you
(28:52):
have and go set a reminder to watch mal Hall
Special on YouTube October twenty first, at seven pm Central time,
which is five o'clock here. And I need everybody to
watch this special on YouTube in the first forty eight hours,
especially because if I get a ton of people watching
in the first forty eight hours, the YouTube algorithm will
(29:14):
like boost this thing and push it out to a
ton more people. So the first forty eight, just like
a murder is this is important, the first forty eight.
So if you're on Instagram when this is done, you
just look for mal Hall at Malhall m A L
H A L L and my link in bio there's
an email list there. You click on that, and then
(29:36):
on Monday the twentieth, I'll be sending an email to everybody, Hey,
watch a special tomorrow. Here's the link. If you watch it.
When it drop drops like at seven o'clock Central time,
Angela Johnson Reyes and I will both be in the
chat interacting like live, how fun the special? So that's
super fun. But that's the twenty first Tomorrow. We're watching
(30:01):
it in a movie theater and there's no more tickets,
so unless you have a time machine, you're out on that.
But then if you live in San Diego October thirtieth,
November one and second, I'm headlined in the comedy store
in La Jolla, four shows, brand new hour. It's going
to be super fun.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh okay, And then do we have anything with Angela
coming up.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Yeah, Okay, I'm on all of the Family Reunion tour dates.
So if you're in the Midwest right now, we're all
over the Midwest. So this weekend is Ohio and Indianapolis.
Next weekend is Madison, Chicago, and one other like Wisconsin City,
and then the following weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
We're all over.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
We're all over the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Midwest city is the most fun. Chicago really like the
best audiences.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
It's just like the New York of the Midwest. It's
like you, it's a huge city. They got really good food,
really good art scene, and the people are nice. You know,
it's like a good it's a good big city.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
What about small What's like a really what fun small city?
Did you recently?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
San Antonio is always a fun one. That's a fun
small city. I would say that's like you could say Austin,
but Austin is becoming a big kind of a big city.
But San Antonio is always fun. Denver's a big city,
Denver's fun. All the cities have been pretty fun, to
be honest, there haven't been any that were like I was.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Going to ask you up, but then I didn't think
you'd want to answer.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That. I mean, I'll say it, I'm not looking forward
to Sunday. Sunday we're in Indianapolis, and I've never had
a good time there. I don't think Indiana people are
I don't, I don't. They just don't get me, like
maybe we're just not because I've been to Evanston, Indiana
it was just whatever. I've been to Indianapolis a few
(31:59):
times now it's it's always whatever. Gary, Indiana is just
kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Really, it's just kind of like a dead audience a
little bit, just like people.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Oh my gosh, I bet they don't use wash clauses.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
It's really interesting that you say that, because I've seen
a couple comedians that have singled out Gary, Indiana and
they've said they've had horrible.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
It's not an experience. It's like a weird vibe.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I don't think I've ever met anybody from Indiana. I
don't know nobody. I don't know anyway. Okay, so now
now the bull, the bullet questions some of them that
they're all.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Due respect if you live in Indiana, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Prove us wrong. We'll prove him, prove these wrong.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah, go to the show. Watch the special.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Hours October twenty and we're gonna we'll put it on.
We'll okay, so you can pick anything, any paper, blah
blah blah blah, read it out loud, and then answer away.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
This looks like it's a written one.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It is. If you read my chicken scratching, what's the
best worst.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Thing you've bought from an infomercial? I'm not an infomercial person.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
That question dates you, like the last I know.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I know, I was gonna say, maybe you know what Instagram?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Okay, Instagram, So I just bought some Instagram. Instagram is
like they know us so well, oh so well, and
they'll drop those ads in your feed. And and not
only do they drop the right ads in your feed,
but they will curate them. So it's like the esthetic
(33:38):
that you like as well, Like I like a good
cinematic story to my ad. And if you hook me
in the first whatever five to fifteen seconds, like I'm
I'll give it a watch and then I'll go, you know,
I'm sober right now, I don't need you, and I'll
swipe on through it. But then if you watch it
for long enough, they know they're like, M kind of
(34:00):
liked it. You kind of like throw it back at him,
throw it again, and throw it again, and then like
I'll watch again, like oh yeah, I remember this, and
then I'll save it. I'm like maybe later, and then
on the third or fourth time, I'm checking out the
website to see And so recently I got some insuls
because I golf a lot now, so I'm like, I
(34:20):
could use like a nice insul while I'm walking these
golf courses, and so I bought these, uh Move, I
think it's the company Move insuls, and they're awesome. Oh good,
I was thinking about buying another pair of the other.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Oh, you're gonna get a box of them probably now.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I really, yeah, they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
All I get is wrinkles. Wrinkle, remove a wrinkle, remove
a great thank you yeah, and said it's like it's
like women with like the long white hair you know
that are in there, Like have you purchased Yeah, I
did the lip wrinkle one.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Did it work?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh? Well? Did it?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't know. I just think your lips look like
lips to me. I don't know what your lips should have,
like little wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, because I used to smoke back in the day,
and I feel I feel like I ruined my lips,
so they must have. Okay, now I'm really gonna get
it because they're listening, listening. Okay, Eric, all right, we'll
do We'll do one more round and then we'll we'll stop.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
If you could only listen to one band for the
rest of your life, what would you pick.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That's a good question. One band I know? Oh my god,
you Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, but I am.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I think I might be profile.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
She doesn't.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
She doesn't look like it. She looks like she stinks.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
I'm gonna say the Go Gos, the Go Gos.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, I was not expecting that.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I came out of left field.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
For the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
But yeah, really my age that probably when you got
into or something.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I love the Go Gos, like we got the beat.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
All right, yeah that's cool. That's not a bad one.
I don't know, like before he was a like a
legit Nazi, I'd probably say, like Kanye West would be
a pretty good catalog to listen to forever.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
It was a good time period.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah, it was pretty fun, pretty fun. Who else do
I listen to a lot of? I don't know, it'd
have to be something classic. I think, like I like
Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
The Thriller album, Thriller Album, Pretty good, that'll never get old.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I think that's the first band like I really got into.
I think I could listen to that forever.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh my gosh, mine is cold Play. I know, I know,
I know. I'm a cliche. I'm a cliche. They have
some good songs, Okay, they have Oh my god, all
of them.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Are speaking of like bands that like they smell kind
of bad.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh, don't you make fun of my Chris Martin.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
He looks kind of greasy.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Okay, Brian, I'm going to read yours. Okay, Okay, that
was your Okay, here we go. Now, before you die,
you're giving a chance to relive one memory that you cherish.
What memory would you choose starting with us here at
the podcast, at your first.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Date, The moment right before I walked the door, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I don't the day you did stand up on here.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Oh that I try, the one that killed that with
the dumbest joke ever. I'm really upset.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's still bitter about it.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
It was like it was good.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
That's such a hard one.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You're young. You haven't had that. Yeah, okay, pick one more.
I hope it's a really juicy one.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Most expense if thing that you've ever lost. Oh, the
most expensive thing I've ever lost, my virginity. I have
three babies. These things are so expensive. I wish that
virginity the most expensive material thing I had some meta
(38:20):
like the meta glasses.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Oh you did you left him in a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I left him in a golf cart and I literally
went back, like you know, six hours later, and they
could have only been in this golf cart. And of
course the guys that the that clean the carts are like, no,
we didn't see anything he was wearing, recording me asking, okay, Eric,
(38:49):
you don't answer these questions. Well, did you write all
of them?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Kind of yeah, well no, some are are on cards,
so some I wrote some I didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Oh this is easy.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
List.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
The last TV show you binge watched the girlfriend haven't
seen it?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
It's Prime okay, and it's with Robin Wright from House
of Cards?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Is it? What kind of show is it?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
It's about Uh, it's like seven episodes and it's about
a very wealthy family and their son starts dating this
girl that's.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
A total psycho.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Okay, yeah, I'm in great, I'm in as soon as
I finish Bosh. I'm like, uh, I have wo with
Kelsey Grammer. I don't think, no, it's not Kelsey Bosh
The Detective Show.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Oh yeah, I forget who's in.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I forget his name.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Why you choose out of all the programs.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
That's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Because because they I just watched this other uh police
show that they just put out this year on there,
and Bosh made like an appearance on this show and
I was like, I've it was like a Emmy Award
winning show, and I was like, maybe I should try
to get into this. It was kind of slowgo, but
(40:06):
now I'm like I'm all the way. Uh. And I
also like, if you're if you're into superhero kind of shows,
slash movies, the other one on Amazon, the uh gen
v Oh yeah, like the Boys? Is it the Boys?
(40:28):
The Boys? And then yeah, Jen like all of those shows.
That whole universe is pretty awesome. That's a pretty crazy show.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Oh my gosh, I just binged mind No, mind Hunter.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
That's a great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
They just talked to Charles Manson.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Oh yeah, that was it's a good one.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
It's a good one that is into the I love
like me too all day long.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
All those creepy shows I love seeing, like when we're
in hotels, like we're always watching uh forensic files, Like
we love watching to see like how far humans will go.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And then they think they get away with it and
we don't. Don't watch the new ed like Monster on Netflix.
It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I could I started watching it. I couldn't. I couldn't
watch it.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I couldn't even get through.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The It was about the guy whose psycho is based
on like I.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Get Texas Chainsaw massacre.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Okay, some weird serial killer guy. I don't know, but
it's not that good, even though I love serial killer stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Okay, Oh, what is the sexiest and least sexy sport
someone can play?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
The sexiest sport?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Well, football is not sexy. Baseball is sexy, yes, because
of the uniforms and little their.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Little, but oil wrestling that's not.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
That's not sexiest sport.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Like Oh, okay, no, here's one. Okay, what piece of
advice would you give your younger self?
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Oh, don't be scared of failing.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Like because I'm Japanese. In the culture, it's like everything culturally,
Japanese people do not like to fail, Like if you fail,
you're an embarrassment to like your entire family and so
my entire life. Like you know, my mom raised us
to like strive for perfection every single time, and now
(42:49):
that I'm an adult, and especially in this career, it's
like you have to fail, you have to take big
swings and fail to find out what works. And not
only in comedy is that true, but in life as well.
It's like, you know, the worst day that you have
is just one day, like Tomorrow's going to happen, and
then you can try again, learn from your mistakes. Don't
(43:13):
make the same mistakes over and over and over again.
That's stupid. But definitely try fail, learn and try again.
And that's how I think that's how the smartest people
become the smartest people is by not being scared to
fail in pursuit of whatever.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
That is excellent advice. And I also want to know,
like if you do a set, you do your show,
it's not it wasn't the greatest. You didn't get all
that many laughs. In fact, you're it wasn't wanting it
was not good.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
M h.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
How do you feel when you're coming down the stairs?
How do you feel that night? And how do you
shake it off?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Speaking of failing, so for comedians at my life level,
we can generally pinpoint what happened, what went wrong. Bombs
do not feel good. This is funny. Bombs are like
the most common question that people have for comedians. It's like,
when was the last time you bombed? What does it
(44:16):
feel like to bomb? What do you do? It's like,
but we're not scared. So it's scary for normal people. Yeah,
to stand in front of hundreds or thousands of people
and like get nothing back terrifying. But we sort of
have a plan when we're going up, so if it
doesn't go, we try to pivot and figure it out.
(44:36):
But the best cure for a bomb is to literally
get on stage again. So that's why the comedians in
New York are so good, is because they can go
bomb at this comedy club and then walk around the
corner to the next comedy club, do the same set,
make the changes that are necessary, maybe bomb again, walk
(44:58):
down the street. They could do three or four sets
in a night and bomb, bomb, bomb, and then Okay,
we're figuring something out by the end of the night.
And that's sort of like where I'm at with this tour.
So with Angela, it's like this is her tour. She's headlining,
so all the weights on her shoulders for the show
to be good. My job is to go set the
table and hopefully, you know, warm the crowd up before
(45:22):
she gets out there. But in order for the time
away from my family to be worth it, I have
to always be trying jokes. So when I go out there,
it's like I'm really I'll tell her before the show,
I'm like, all right, I'm opening with these two brand
new things and then I'm gonna do this new thing
in the middle, and I'll close. This thing is strong,
(45:42):
so I'll close with this. And like one of the
coolest parts for me about working with Angela said, she's
never like can you just do can you just do
these jokes at work? So like the show is good,
She's like fine with me going out there and doing
whatever I want to do, But it's like, you have
to you have to be willing to bomb every single
(46:03):
night to be good, and all of the jokes that
you're going to see tomorrow bombed at one point, really
all of them bombed, But there was something in there
that was like, all right, I believe in this sort
of part of the joke, and it's worth it to
me to keep trying. Some jokes take. You know, some
jokes you can write in Like some jokes you write
(46:25):
the first time you go on stage it works perfect,
and then some jokes it takes six months, seven months,
a year. But you really believe in this idea. This
is so funny to you. And it's all about just
like figuring out what are the words, what are the
words that you need to put together to put the
picture that's in your head in the audience's head. And
(46:47):
that's just literally trial and error every single night.
Speaker 3 (46:50):
And this is one thing that's always fascinated me was
did you ever see the documentary called Heckler?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (46:57):
And all that, because I came away from it thinking,
I would think is if if I were a comedian,
A lot of it might depend on the audience, like
the area, and people just either don't want to be
there or they're just like, oh, who cares and their
(47:17):
main goal is to.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Just Yeah, the audience is a big deal. And I
tell people after shows that all the time, because I'll go,
you know, you were great tonight, and I'll tell them
you were great too, Like it's a two way street.
And I think I think, like from that film in particular,
it's like comedians, we have to go to like all
(47:40):
kinds of weird places to do comedy, and not every
place is set up for it. So in places where
you know, comedy is forced upon people, that's always the
hardest craft. Because these people didn't know there was going
to be a comedy show they're here for. They're at
their favorite bar to watch this game, and then you know,
we turn all the TVs off so you could hear
(48:00):
us tell our stupid jokes. They don't want to, Oh boy,
be here for that. But it's like the crowd holds
like fifty percent of the power, you know, So if
they decide as a group that it's not going to
be your night, then it's not going to be your knife,
and you can't take it personally, and you just move
on to the next one.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
If somebody screamed something from the audience, do you play
with that person? Are you good at that?
Speaker 2 (48:25):
It depends. It depends. My style, which you guys have
seen is not like I'm not so controversial that that, like,
my comedy doesn't fire people up to yell at me.
So generally people aren't talking. If people say anything, it's
in a part of the show where I'll open up
(48:45):
the floor sort of. But I've learned it's like, yeah,
but I have a very short leash with the crowd otherwise.
Speaker 3 (48:51):
You know, discussion right now.
Speaker 2 (48:54):
Yeah, I tell all new comedians what I was told, Like,
you don't ask the crowd questions like you could tell
the comedians new if they asked the crowd questions like
an earnestly wanted answer, like what do you think about this?
It's like, dude, you're what are you doing? Is like
this comedian told me one time I had a joke.
I don't remember the joke, but it involved every night
(49:15):
I had to ask this question and like get an
answer to get to wherever my punchline was. And he's like, dude,
you're going to be doing this for a while, so
I'm just going to tell you right now. He's like,
don't stop asking the crowd questions. You tell them the answers.
So you ask a question in a in a like
a declarative sentence, so it's not like are are is
(49:40):
anyone in here single? You go you guys are single?
So you know, like you just tell them the answer.
You don't need people to uh do you guys like
uh whatever? That you know you guys drink beer? Right,
it's like, do you guys drink beer? Are you guys
drinking beer here? It's like, no, you guys drink people.
Speaker 3 (50:00):
You'd spend half your set listening for fifty people.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
There's that one talker guy who will tell you an
entire story.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
They want to be where you are, so they will
use that as the as their sort of you know,
gateway to the stage. They want to go up there,
and so I, yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Oh my okay. Well we are going to Blood eight
hundred Gorilla on October twenty first, seven pm. This movie
that you've put your blood, sweat, tears, four years of
your life, all new material in a freaking awesome suit
in the one of the coolest venues, the coolest venue
(50:41):
in Sandiel.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
We get to see it tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
So excited.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I'm so we're thrilled, and I'm so happy for you
and thank you for having you are like I'm saying
you're there already, but you're like on a new trajectory.
You're like Ice your your rocket ship.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Man. I hope, So, I hope so and so I
hope we're doing this interview in a year and it's like, Oh,
I'm headlining my own thing now.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Like in Vegas, Vegas Residency, whatever.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Yeah, would that be a dream for you?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
That would be cool?
Speaker 1 (51:15):
What's the ultimate dream?
Speaker 2 (51:18):
And then you'd be like ultimate dream.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
I've made it. I'm happy now, I'm content. I can
die now, like you know what I mean, Like this
has happened.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
I think being being known enough to like go to
go to all the major cities, you know, once every
two years, and when my name's on the Marquee, people
know and they're like, oh, he's back, let's go see
this show. Yeah, it doesn't have to be like stadiums,
(51:48):
but like theaters. You know, if you saw my name
at the Balboa Theater and you're shooting the Balboa, like,
let's we got to get tickets and go like that
sort of like where Angela is at seems like a
pretty like awesome life. You know, we're playing theaters that
are you know, fifteen hundred to seventy five hundred seats
(52:09):
and it's a great let's go that would be great.
Oh my gosh. I mean even just being able to
go to every comedy club in the country and sell
out five hundred seats, just like to have my name
on the marquee and people know me and want to
come see me. Is that's success, you know, And so
(52:30):
that's why I came here. It's like, you know, I
don't know these people. I don't know these people. But
like if you're intrigued by my boring ass interview and
you're like, oh, let's let's see if he's actually funny,
It's like I might get one or two people here,
one or two people here, and now you're in the community,
and then you can help put wind in these sales and.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
We'll go, oh my god, actually you are very funny, guys.
And the November first at the Comedy Store in La
Joya will for the thirtieth the first they're taking a
Halloween off, but you guys, let's do it. Let's get
him there. And you know what, Mel, thank you so
much for coming in. And you know what next year, Yeah, okay,
(53:11):
we'll see, let's see how fam sure, because I don't
be that guy who is like so big now that
we were like, we're like scared to ask him.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Sorry, guys, I only do podcasts with people that clean themselves.
I can't.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
You better go get a washed right now. Ross is open.
Speaker 1 (53:32):
Until time, all right, anyway, Okay, thank you so much
for joining us so much. And uh, at the end
we say our little thing, so I'll say it then
you see it, and Ri says, then we're done, and uh,
I can't wait, So tomorrow night. Okay, love your podcast.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
Love your podcast.
Speaker 3 (53:55):
Oh love your podcast.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
Love you, my sweet babies. Thank you so much for watching,
guys is thank you Mal
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