ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ “I know when I'm being lied to”： Kyle Lucey on how lockdowns almost ruined comedy
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Summary
Kyle Lucy is a stand-up comedian from Toronto. He's been in the comedy game for 7 years and is one of the funniest people I've ever met. On this episode of Andrew Says, Kyle talks about the recent lockdown and how he dealt with it.
Transcript
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But whatever, that's why we have a girls' night.
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Yeah, but the library is actually closed right now.
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How many reps could I do with this hand sanitizer?
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Welcome back to another episode of Andrew Says.
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My guest this week was the hilarious and constantly moving and fidgeting comedian Kyle Lucy.
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You've seen him doing stand-up in Toronto at Yuck Yucks, The Bovine, and other places like the first post-lockdown shows with comedian Ben Bankus.
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He was happy just to be given a French vanilla to drink.
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I'm feeling delicious and also nutritious if I'm going to be completely honest with you, Andrew.
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And thank you for also giving me a delicious cup of French vanilla to start off my day.
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This has really excited you to an unknown degree.
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Dude, if it wasn't for Rebel News, I'd be in my apartment right now, in my bed, mowing, and screaming at the stucco ceiling like I do.
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Then you roll over, write a few things on the old iPhone, get a call from your landlord saying the rent's due.
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You guys are going to CGI better muscles on me, I hope.
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Yeah, we're going to do that synthol stuff where you inject oil into your arms.
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I want to talk about first thing is the lockdowns.
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I've lived like all over Ontario, southern Ontario.
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But yeah, like I've been living in Toronto for the past seven years now.
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So when this all started, were you just like, were you like everybody, you and your peers,
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How did that, what did that first look like for somebody in your position?
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I mean, for me, like, I remember, like, so I produced, like, my Renegade show or whatever,
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And before it was at the Bovine, it was at the Corner Comedy Club.
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And I remember a comment coming in going like, oh, yeah, like, we're going to have to stop
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I actually just got back from a Western Canada tour.
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I was like, bro, this guy doesn't love stand-up.
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You know, he wants to, he's got quit already in him.
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But, you know, I was lucky enough to live with some really red pill cool people that
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just were like, you know what, you know, this is all BS.
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And then I just started seeing the writing on the wall.
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I mean, like, something that really bugged me, too, is like, I don't know, I don't know
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But, like, you know, Bill C-10 was passing, Bill C-36 was passing, and then everything
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that was in the news was native genocide, which I know is an atrocious thing.
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Conveniently, at the same time, we're about to lose our internet.
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Comedians are like, truth, truth, truth, right?
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So anytime the absence of truth is present, we could, I don't know, it's weird.
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You know, a lot of my, you know, my comedian family, they lost their businesses.
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You know, clubs went down, which are, comedy clubs are like our homes.
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We, and live comedy, you know, it's not like art, like, like painting, where we could doodle
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It's not like music where I could play, I could jam in my garage with my homies.
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Or like, you could produce an album, you know, like a DJ would or like a rap artist would.
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So, you know, I don't know any comedian, left, right, whatever you are politically, that was
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Every, live entertainment, especially stand-up comedy, we were decimated during this.
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And, which is why, like, we had to figure some stuff out, right?
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And once all this stuff started to seem at least semi-permanent, or it was lasting for
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six, eight, 12 months, what was the next move for you guys?
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Did you get together with some people and say, we have to start doing shows again, or
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Was there support for many people who ran big clubs?
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What was it like when you guys started to say, we need to start putting on shows again?
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Ben Bankis, and he will never get the credit he deserves.
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He started comedy again, I think not just in Canada.
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He inspired, like, people in America were sharing his show.
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Big comics in New York and, you know, L.A., and they were like, oh, my God, there's this
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And he was getting close to a thousand people, a thousand people out in the park.