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00:01:00.000I mean, we knew he was crazy before he even ran for president.
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00:09:33.000It's one of the greatest shows of all time.
00:09:36.000And no matter who you are, I don't care how creative you are, when you're doing a crazy fucking show where people are allowed to travel back in time and do all kinds of nutty shit from this magical island that doesn't even exist, when you're doing something like that, after a while, man, you've got to run dry.
00:09:51.000It must be exhausting trying to think of nutty shit that you're going to do on this fucking island.
00:09:56.000Yeah, I mean, it's got to be amazing to also kind of tie it together with some semblance of logic.
00:10:04.000You're like, alright, so we're going to go back in time.
00:10:06.000What would happen if we went back in time?
00:10:08.000But we still want that one character in there, you know?
00:11:43.000If they can sell it, they would have it.
00:11:45.000It's a fun show to watch, though, because it's so stupid.
00:11:48.000I mean, first of all, everyone has a video that they want you to analyze that may have been a Sasquatch, so they have to recreate the scene in the video.
00:11:55.000It looks so silly, because the people knew exactly where the car was, and this is the tree, and so they line it up on the camera, and then they have this big guy named Bobo, who kind of looks like a Bigfoot, and he goes out there and he does exactly what, and he's always way bigger than the Bigfoot in the video, so it always proves that it wasn't really a Bigfoot boy dude.
00:13:59.000And they finally meet again at 60. You know, I sometimes feel like I just established consciousness when I was, like, 30. Because, like, romantic comedies, like...
00:14:10.000You know, I was so dumb, I think, in my 20s that, like, when...
00:15:54.000Is it getting to the point yet where you look at older married folks that are just barely into each other, barely can communicate with each other, and you look at it and you go, I can see how that can happen.
00:17:40.000It's like I was resigned to be like the weird old uncle.
00:17:44.000I didn't think that I... When you're constantly making people laugh like you are, even just we're having this conversation, all the three of us, there's that feeling that you get when you're laughing really hard at something where all of our brains are like...
00:17:55.000It's like a real energy that goes off when you're really laughing hard at something.
00:18:18.000Going on stage and being able to make a crowd laugh or just coming up with a new joke.
00:18:25.000And by the way, I feel like it's also a responsibility because there's Jim Gaffigan fans out there and you got them addicted to Jim Gaffigan humor and you got to keep coming.
00:19:03.000Some of my most inspirational moments in comedy have been from reading a review of someone who said, like, oh, I thought it was boring, or, oh, I didn't like it.
00:19:12.000And I've read those before, and even if you know it's just one douchebag, sometimes it just makes you like, just that anybody can think like that, I have to stop that.
00:19:21.000You might not like the subject matter, but if anybody thinks that it wasn't a good show, I need to fix whatever the fuck that is.
00:19:29.000It's interesting, because there's also...
00:19:32.000There's the new material police, which is kind of, it's painful, but it's also good.
00:19:40.000It's kind of like, you know, people are like, well, you know, like, 79% of the show was new, you know?
00:19:48.000And then there's some people, like, you could do, like, you know, 45 minutes new and do, like, 15 minutes old, and they're like, it was all old material.
00:19:56.000You're like, what about the first 45 minutes?
00:20:00.000And I like hearing, like, Joey Diaz has some jokes I can hear over and over and over again.
00:20:05.000I want to hear some, like, when I go to see a guy, and, you know, he's a guy that I've been seeing over the last year or two, I don't mind seeing those jokes over and over again.
00:20:14.000I certainly don't expect in a year that he's going to have a whole new act.
00:21:55.000Well, I think it's, you know, Louis is not the first person to sell something on the internet, but I think he figured it out a real simple thing.
00:22:51.000So that 45 minutes that he's written for his show, for his 8 or 10 episodes or whatever of that show, that 45 minutes isn't even going to be part of his next hour, which he'll do probably in two months.
00:26:17.000And Russell Peters came by with fucking ten people with him.
00:26:20.000It's always something crazy like that.
00:26:22.000So it's like it's like a fun it's a fun environment and the shows are amazing and to me it's like I'm just gonna concentrate on doing a lot of those shows like really small shows and I have a bunch of ideas that I haven't like fleshed out yet right right that's nice chuck them in there and see what's up little kernels do you feel like the podcast is influencing your act Oh yeah, for sure.
00:26:46.000My audience at one point was like a combination of Fear Factor people, which were fading away, and it was mostly like UFC fans that were kind of curious.
00:26:54.000And then, you know, it was still half of them knew what I was doing, but now it's 100%.
00:26:59.000Now it's like literally 90 to 100% of the audience is all podcast fans.
00:28:18.000Main Street Rosa Parks Avenue Right in the corner Compton We were in a Honey Honey music video Honey Honey is this band that we just found out about like a couple weeks ago and they're like one of my new favorite bands and I went to see them perform in LA. I got to meet them and then they came and did the podcast.
00:28:38.000They were fucking amazing and just really cool people and really really talented.
00:28:42.000And so Brian and I were in a music video today.
00:29:48.000It's so interesting, you know, like the actors that when we were kids, you know, like John Ritter was like, I don't know who to compare him.
00:29:57.000He was like the Jerry Seinfeld when we were like kids, wasn't he?
00:31:13.000They're like, sorry, you know what, Dennis France, come on in, you can get an Emmy.
00:31:16.000But like, the guy was a lead, and he, you know, Dennis France was just like a regular looking guy, but that guy, Jake and the Fat Man, the lead character was...
00:37:46.000It's cunty, but I wouldn't want to be a woman and have a cunty man either.
00:37:50.000The only reason why I feel this way is because I'm a man and I've seen so many guys get their lives ruined by women who probably can't even help what they're doing.
00:37:57.000The reason why I say this is because I had an ex-girlfriend and she was a very nice person.
00:38:25.000She goes, and when he lets me walk all over him, I just want to fucking, I want to scream loud enough so that he turns me around and tells me to stop.
00:38:33.000So that he brings me back to normal and tells me to stop.
00:38:35.000I'm like, you might be the craziest fucking person on the face of the earth.
00:38:39.000Like, imagine living your life like that.
00:39:03.000Pale Force was where it was an animated thing that actually my brother-in-law, Paul Noth, who's a cartoonist for The New Yorker, he came up with this idea of an animated series where Conan and I were superheroes that would fight crime with our paleness.
00:41:03.000You look for Bigfoot, and you saw comedy kind of...
00:41:12.000Well, I think for all of us, there's been a few instances in the past where there was a guy that was kind of like clearly plagiarizing another guy, and then one guy became famous with other people's shit.
00:41:24.000I mean, it's happened more than once, and we've all felt the real pain and frustration of watching someone do somebody else's material, where you know that they're stealing.
00:41:33.000They're not compensating on them, they're just stealing.
00:43:07.000I think something happens when you steal and that this...
00:43:13.000Being disingenuous, this pretending, this bullshit, knowing that you are not really doing what you're claiming to be doing, that you're pretending and that you're ripping people off and lying and projecting this false self-image, which is all ego, which is exactly what shuts you off from the ability to come up with new shit.
00:43:31.000When you come up with new shit, it's not like you, thinking about you, you see something and go, look at this right here, this This is ridiculous.
00:44:24.000But it's such a strange business and we're all very individual.
00:44:29.000But, you know, the irony also is that any comedian would tell you that The respect of their peers is way more important than whether you're selling out Saturday night.
00:44:44.000Yeah, that hurts guys bad when their peers turn on them.
00:44:48.000It's like, you know, it's like you always heard about comedians that like, you know, like African American communities, when they would, comedians, they would lose the black audience.
00:45:16.000I mean, I think, you know, what's important is, like, what we were talking about earlier when we were talking about Louis C.K., like, that...
00:45:21.000When you're doing it the right way, not just doing it the right way, but, like, fucking trailblazing, like, way faster than anybody else is being...
00:46:00.000You do it the right way, it's incredibly satisfying.
00:46:02.000But if you hack and chop your way and take other people's premises, man, boy, you're not just fucking yourself up, you're fucking him up, you're fucking the community up if it gets tolerated.
00:47:19.000When you know the guy's name is Dan Whitney and he's doing a thing called Larry the Cable Guy and this guy's supposed to be stupid as fuck and live in the South...
00:47:26.000I see Dave's argument that it might be encouraging racism, but I also like, really?
00:47:31.000Do you think Larry the Cable Guy is changing anybody's mind about whether or not arrows are bad?
00:47:36.000Censorship, it's a slippery slope, right?
00:47:53.000When I first got opening spots in New York, when I would tank, and then there would be a middle that would do okay, and then Otto and George would go up.
00:48:09.000I don't know the exact address, but if you Google it, just Google Otto and George The Pig Roast.
00:48:13.000Otto and George is a hilarious puppet act in New York, and he was always like the example of a guy who would just say, the dummy was evil as fuck.
00:48:22.000His dummy would say the meanest, nastiest shit.
00:48:24.000The quote is that people would leave, and they would say, that one guy was funny, but I thought the dummy was really rude.
00:51:09.000You know, especially if you're doing weird shit.
00:51:11.000You know, I mean, you're really clean, but really funny.
00:51:14.000But do you ever find yourself in a situation where, like, everyone in front of you, around you is just talking about anal fisting and loads and rape?
00:51:23.000And then you go up and you're like, okay.
00:51:26.000You're like, hey, who wants to talk about cake?
00:52:51.000LAUGHTER So I was 16, and I thought, you know, all you gotta do is show an ID, and they'll let you have a beer.
00:53:02.000And so I showed my ID. I got my driver's license that day.
00:53:07.000So I showed him the ID, and the guy took my ID. He goes, you're not 21. And he took the ID, so I didn't have an ID. So I got my driver's license that day.
00:53:17.000So then the next day, my dad in the morning was like, hey, let me see your driver's license.
00:53:24.000And so then a week later, my driver's license shows up in the mail with a letter from the guy who ran, I don't know, somewhere in Chicago, Alpine Valley or whatever.
00:54:04.000James Taylor's songs are like little back rubs.
00:54:06.000But that's also, you know, that's kind of, now some of those songs, it's like, I know those songs because of my brothers and sisters, right?
00:54:16.000I mean, it's not like I was sitting there like, alright, I gotta, you know.
00:54:20.000Well, somebody introduced you to it, but did you ever buy a James Taylor CD on your own?
00:59:22.000I think the lesson that other people can learn always from anyone's success is it might not be the same path, but if anybody can do it, you can do it.
01:00:01.000Because when you have these, when you do interviews, like when you're touring, doing stand-up, headlining in clubs, you'll get interviewed by the local paper.
01:00:10.000And they'll want to create some story.
01:01:05.000I mean, he's always funny in his own way.
01:01:06.000I think he's very different than those other guys.
01:01:09.000And I think one of the beautiful things about his show was all the things that people have grown accustomed to that they pulled from him that he can't even use now.
01:03:25.000That's one of the things that I used to love the most about driving to work and being stuck in traffic was that I was listening to Howard Stern.
01:06:00.000You know, there was a point, you know, when, about a year ago, well, I was doing something else, but I thought, you know, I was working out, I had more time, so I was working out more consistently and not eating horribly at three in the morning.
01:06:17.000And I was like, you know, it entered my mind.
01:06:19.000It's like, am I going to be too in shape for some of these jokes?
01:06:24.000But, I don't know, that's kind of, that's just me being neurotic, right?
01:06:28.000Am I going to be too in shape for these jokes?
01:07:51.000Who was the guy, there was a guy who was like a really funny fat guy, and then he lost a lot of weight, and then he kind of like stopped being around.
01:10:52.000And the idea being that, you know, I guess it's easy to fall into a pattern of just not having your shit together or not thinking right or, you know, letting yourself get jealous or letting yourself go down a negative way.
01:11:04.000You know, people like this, it's a big cliche, like, you know, I'm just trying to keep it positive.
01:11:09.000Sometimes what really keeping it positive means is addressing some shit that's not positive at all.
01:11:15.000And getting to know what the fuck is making you tick.
01:11:17.000And if you find out that you're getting angry for someone else's success for no reason, it's like your brain knows you're talented.
01:13:09.000It took a while before I figured that out, that that was holding me back, that I would work with people and if they were really good I would get nervous.
01:13:17.000Instead of the way I do it now, I bring really funny people on the road with me on purpose because I want to be laughing too.
01:13:25.000I work with Ari Shafir, I don't know if you know him, and Duncan Trussell, and Joey Diaz, and Tom Segura, all these really funny guys.
01:13:34.000When I'm sitting there waiting to go on stage, I'm laughing my ass off, and it puts me in the perfect state of mind.
01:15:21.000I mean, I've done things on Twitter, and I remember like a year ago, I did some jokes because we just had a kid, and I was driving to do a show, and the guy who was opening, he was like, you're going to put those in your act, aren't you?
01:15:35.000And I was like, I didn't even think of that.
01:17:42.000And so I would do that, but there's also something insane about that, because there is something social, and if your friend says something funny, it would be fun to respond.
01:17:54.000So I've just been doing that for the past two months.
01:18:13.000I was following some celebrities as a goof, and it's just moronic shit over and over again, and I'd get crazy, and I'd have to delete it.
01:18:20.000Well, I've done that, but I also feel like that's kind of like inviting someone to dinner and then saying, sorry, you can't come, isn't it?
01:18:41.000By the way, that all came from watching a woman yell and scream at a guy yesterday, pointing at his face in a ridiculous situation where I thought...
01:18:50.000It could escalate to violence and I might have to step in as kind of craziness.
01:19:47.000I used to have a Blackberry and I had an iPhone at the same time.
01:19:50.000And when I had my Blackberry, I would go and check a direct message on Twitter, and then I would go, I've got to respond to that eventually, but I don't have time right now.
01:19:59.000And then I would go check it online, and there'd be no direct message.
01:20:18.000If you go to somebody's page and it says that you're not following them, if you hit refresh, a lot of times then it will say you're following them.
01:20:26.000Like it just doesn't show up that you're following them.
01:20:29.000And so then you might click it thinking like, ah, I thought I was following this.
01:22:53.000Is that how you feel when you're out here?
01:22:55.000I think that there is a hierarchy here.
01:22:58.000Well, I think that if you came out here, just if I was saying it, I was going to say, Jim Gaffin, this is what you could do.
01:23:03.000If you came out here and started a fucking podcast and you'd have all the comics that are out here, or you could actually even do this in New York if you wanted to, but you would have a huge podcast.
01:23:11.000I think it would be enormous, and I think it would change everything.
01:23:13.000Change how you promote your club dates, your theater gigs, anything you're doing.
01:26:00.000Tomorrow, we have Jason Silva on Tuesday, Aubrey Marcus, and then on Wednesday, we got Matt from Hoarders, the guy who cleans up after those fucking crazy people.