#997 - Pauly Shore

[0] Boom, and we're live.

[1] Dude, you survived.

[2] What's up, buddy?

[3] How are I?

[4] He survived.

[5] He survived the Joey Diaz experience.

[6] You know, I got a, I got a text from Tom, Tom Segura.

[7] Tom, right?

[8] Yeah.

[9] And I said, because he asked me, we were backstage about to go on stage at the main room.

[10] And he's like, I want you to do my podcast, blah, blah, blah.

[11] And I'm like, awesome.

[12] And then we were texting just about my schedule with him.

[13] And then he's, and then I'm like, okay, I'm going to go see Joey Diaz, da, da, da.

[14] And he's like, dude.

[15] Dude, fucking gummy bears, watch out.

[16] And I'm like, what are you talking about?

[17] I didn't, like, I didn't understand what he was talking about.

[18] Like, I didn't, you know what I mean?

[19] I honestly didn't, like, I was like, whatever, I don't know what you're talking about.

[20] And then once I got there, you know, I smoke weed sometimes.

[21] You know, I don't smoke all the time, but I like to smoke weed sometimes.

[22] But as far as the edibles, like, Dean Gelber is, like, giving me some, like, pot stuff, but, like, cookies and shit.

[23] But then, like, he was eating these gummy bears, and they're in a bag.

[24] and I was like going fuck okay and he gave me just like he gave me just like an ear or some shit and that was it and then I was just like talking him and then like literally I couldn't talk anymore I couldn't talk so you only ate a part of it right I had to leave well he's got some that I had to leave he's got some that are like 500 milligrams which is just insane so you probably had half of that which is like 250 which is fucking insane That's an insane amount of weed Unless you're an OG Yeah, I had done mushrooms once before When I was younger and it felt like that Yeah, well that's The risk of repeating myself over and over again Which I do all the time But when you eat marijuana It's processed by your liver And it produces something called 11 hydroxy metabolite It's a totally different psychoactive substance That's four to five times more psychoactive than THC So that's why it hits you like that and that's why people think they got dosed because when you smunk pot the the 11 it's not psychoactive but when you eat it it's processed by your liver it's something called a one pass and that's how it produces that yeah and i can't believe he let me drive home like seriously i mean i could like because when i was driving home it's like dude i got to go like i stopped i go i can't answer your questions and i said let's i have to go and i left and i drove out and he like he let me drive like you got understand joey dia's fast his mother dead on the kitchen floor when he was on acid when he was 13 he would let you fly a fucking plane on those things he doesn't give a shit he's just like you'll figure it out cocksucker anyways so when did it hit you like you did a podcast like how how deep into it probably 15 minutes into it and I couldn't speak I had to stop like I couldn't speak did you ever release the podcast I don't know I think he did the audio but not the video I told him not to do the video because I couldn't answer any questions.

[25] Yeah, but wouldn't that be funny?

[26] Yeah, I guess.

[27] I don't know.

[28] I don't know.

[29] I would like to see myself that fucked up where I can't even talk.

[30] Yeah, those edibles are fucking terrifying.

[31] They're goddamn terrifying.

[32] He was eating them like, they're like, you know, skittles or some shit.

[33] He's a different type of human.

[34] Well, there's a lot of those people now because edibles and marijuana has been legal for so long.

[35] There's so many medical patients in California that you get.

[36] These people that have insane tolerances, and they're just doing dabs and eating cookies and just like, Jesus.

[37] It's just like, they go down a hole.

[38] You know, the whole marijuana movement, and that whole thing is so much different, different when I was growing up.

[39] You know, when I grew up, we used to like, you know, smoke it.

[40] We'd go to the beach, and we'd put a towel over us, and we'd hide it.

[41] Now, like last night I was at the funnier die party, and it was the 10th anniversary, and I was just walking around.

[42] just smells like wheat everywhere yeah it's just very normal now like you know that like i don't know that's just the way well i think it's good because it's just like drinking is normal you know you walk by the bar the comedy store you see a bunch of people having a couple of drinks isn't wrong with that yeah it's all good yeah but thanks for having me my pleasure yeah yeah so how did you this this uh impression you're doing this white house character what's his name again uh stephen miller yeah that's first of all everyone's doing sean spicer they weren't until they got fired or all these different people.

[43] No, they did.

[44] Oh, is it?

[45] Scaramucci.

[46] Yeah, well, that too.

[47] And Sean Spicey.

[48] Yeah.

[49] She killed it.

[50] Yeah.

[51] She killed it.

[52] Yeah.

[53] It's hilarious.

[54] You know what's funny?

[55] Trump thought that it made him look weak that a woman was doing an impression of him.

[56] A woman should go and do an impression of Trump now.

[57] Yeah.

[58] Yeah.

[59] Yeah.

[60] Yeah.

[61] No, I mean, I don't know.

[62] I mean, I think that, you know, I did a special.

[63] What was it?

[64] I don't know, like, I think it was like, I think it was like, 2012 for a showtime called Politics where I went to D .C. And I did stand -up in D .C. And I interviewed all...

[65] I love politicians.

[66] Like, that's all I watch when I come home at night.

[67] All I watch is CNN, MSN, and Fox.

[68] Just because...

[69] That's it.

[70] Because I'm in shock.

[71] And I can't believe it.

[72] No, I just go back and forth.

[73] That there's so many fucked up things that are going on the world.

[74] The whole North Korea thing is insane.

[75] It's scary.

[76] It's fucking insane.

[77] Well, what's scary is that Donald Trump is saying shit like fire and fury that the world is never known like Jesus dude like this isn't a movie this is real life yeah but I mean this North Korean guy's fucking nuts he is fucking nuts he's fucking nuts it's like it's like dude stop shooting fucking missiles in the fucking this isn't like a playpin thing you just keep shooting missiles in the ocean all the time like it's like he's like a kid or some shit and he can't it's just I don't know it's just uh well I think Guam is only like 2 ,000 miles away from North Korea or something like real close so they're talking about him possibly bombing Guam and that's what they're saying now and yeah no I've been watching but that would be a death sentence I mean if if we decided to attack North Korea it would be a death sentence to them and then also I heard because I know I know Dennis Robben you know Dennis Robben you know did you talk to him when he went over there I know I don't want to get too too into it but I know that he goes over there a lot and he meets with Kim Jong -un because they just fucking get drunk and I don't know they go on jet skis or some shit.

[78] Really?

[79] He like he likes Dennis Robben so he brings him out but from what I heard is that Kim Jong -un really loves Donald Trump like you know what I mean?

[80] Like his he loves America but he's like kind of acting like he doesn't love America like he loves the American way Look at that picture.

[81] Yeah So my point is, is I think, I really think that if Donald Trump went over there to meet with a guy, I think that would appease him and just chill him the fuck out.

[82] I think.

[83] That's just my opinion.

[84] Maybe you should be like a liaison.

[85] Yeah, see, there you go.

[86] But he gets, you know, he goes over there and hangs out with him because the Kim Jong -un kid loves, loves, um, He loves America, yeah, he loves America and that's just kind of like a weird, you know, there's no, what's the word, there's no, I don't know, communication, communication, they're not communicating right, you know.

[87] Yeah, well, there's language barrier, obviously, but isn't he young?

[88] Isn't Kim Jong -un like in his 30s?

[89] How old is he?

[90] Yeah, he's pretty young.

[91] It's, I mean, imagine running a military dictatorship in your 30s, and he's already murdered a gang of people.

[92] Yeah, he already...

[93] And the thing that's so crazy about the whole thing is that, like, you think of ISIS and you think of that whole, you know, how those people, like, they don't care to die and they don't care if they're going to die.

[94] And I think that he's trained his people.

[95] All this, you know, you see all these on CNN, all these marching soldiers, I think those guys are ready to die.

[96] Well, if you lived in a shithole like North Korea, where every day you're under the oppressive boot of a military dictatorship, maybe you'd be ready to die too.

[97] You're like, it's either escape to South Korea or die.

[98] Yeah.

[99] I think what should happen is I think Trump should hire Dennis Rodman and put like a tracking device on them and they're jet skiing out and fucking the ocean and drinking and shit and then SEAL Team 6 comes in and fucking takes Kim Jong -un and flies into America and then gives all the North Korean internet and like sets them free.

[100] This is like a movie dude.

[101] Don't you think together with Stephen Baldwin?

[102] You guys can do an amazing movie.

[103] I just think that there's probably a way to chill everything out.

[104] There probably is a way to chill everything out.

[105] This is not the way.

[106] Like launching test missiles and saying fire and fury and all that shit.

[107] That's not not chilling anything out.

[108] But, you know, I don't understand what the conflict is about in the first place.

[109] I'm not exactly sure what everybody's angry about.

[110] I think because they think that we're going to bomb them.

[111] Why are we going to bomb them?

[112] Because I think that we did years ago, right?

[113] The Hiroshima shit.

[114] Well, North Korea.

[115] No, Hiroshima was Japan.

[116] Well, the Asians, I think.

[117] I don't know the details, but I know that there's a different part of the world, but that's cool.

[118] They'll be super psyched that you conflate the two of them.

[119] Yeah.

[120] No, it's, I mean, we did horrible things during the Korean War to the North Koreans.

[121] I mean, that's literally the cause of all of this, all the anger and all the, you know.

[122] But that's when North Korea and South Korea were split, and North Korea went communists.

[123] And, you know, it's all a byproduct of that.

[124] But, you know, there's, it's a really good book called Dear Reader from Michael Malice.

[125] He's a guy who was on my podcast.

[126] And the history of that part of the world is really fucked up.

[127] But it's interesting because you have North Korea and then below you have South Korea.

[128] South Korea, you have a thriving economy, amazing electronics, Samsung.

[129] They make all kinds of great shit over there.

[130] Nice spas probably.

[131] Yeah.

[132] A lot of plastic surgery.

[133] A lot of cream.

[134] Yeah.

[135] And then North Korea is just right next door to them.

[136] terrible dictatorship it's fucked up man well no president has been able to to deal with it so no yeah and probably won't be able to mean how do you resolve that one of the things that malice was telling me that makes it so fucked up is that everybody has to rat on everybody else like say if you and i were working together we would have to go somewhere and tell someone what each one of us did wrong during the day like maybe you didn't cry hard enough when somebody died or maybe you weren't excited enough when something good happened and cheer loud enough and they'll rat you out for that and then you know you have to be accountable and then so every they have like a culture of rats everybody's ratting everybody out sounds fun we don't realize how lucky we are you know to live in america we do it's one of the reasons why people complain so much about stuff because we're so soft any slight little thing that's wrong have you ever been to prison before no never well went to alcatraz but just to visit yeah never been arrested because i always think like spending time in prison would make you appreciate just the simple things because you always see you know people that are incarcerated and they get out and they like see the sunlight and they're like oh my god this is fucking awesome and part of me is like i think everyone should maybe go to prison for like a month just to like kind of get that get their normal freedoms taken away from them you know i'm actually doing a benefit and I was going to ask you if you want to do it.

[137] I don't know if you're in town at the comedy store for the Innocence Project.

[138] Are you familiar with them?

[139] Yeah, I am.

[140] Yeah, so I'm doing it.

[141] I'm doing it on August 27th.

[142] These DNA to release people that are incarcerated that are innocent.

[143] Yeah.

[144] Yeah.

[145] So if you want to do it, I got everyone's doing it already.

[146] It's August 27th.

[147] And it's for, you know, Barry Sheck and that whole team of people that that exonerate, you know, people that go to prison for crimes they didn't commit.

[148] You know that whole thing, right?

[149] Yeah.

[150] Well, I'm playing.

[151] in from DC.

[152] Oh, that's on Sunday.

[153] Yeah.

[154] Yeah.

[155] Yeah, I could do that.

[156] Yeah, that'd be great.

[157] Yeah, I'll do it.

[158] Yeah, that'd be great.

[159] I got a great lineup.

[160] I got, um, everyone's on it already, but I was going to ask you, and I'm sure you'd be into that.

[161] Yeah, I'm in, I'm in D .C. the night before.

[162] Oh, cool.

[163] I'm flying in.

[164] But, yeah, so I want to raise money for them.

[165] Yeah, because I want to give, I want to give money back to these guys, because when they get out of the jail, they don't have anything.

[166] Yeah.

[167] And they're not given anything.

[168] Right.

[169] They're given, like, a dollar.

[170] You know what I mean?

[171] I know.

[172] And then they have to.

[173] somehow or another figure out how to sue to get some compensation for the fact they were wrongly in prison.

[174] How'd you like to be in prison for 20 years, knowing you had nothing to do with it?

[175] And there's people that are in prison for, like, killing their mom and stuff like that.

[176] Imagine someone kills your mom, it's not you, and then you get arrested and go to jail for it.

[177] Yeah, that's terrible.

[178] But the fruit person at the end of the bar is pretty cool.

[179] You're going to eat here?

[180] Just out of a small thing of fruit.

[181] Okay, you're okay?

[182] Did you see...

[183] Your blood sugar's so low, you're like, I can't wait 15 minutes.

[184] No, but did you see the fruit man at the corner?

[185] No, I did not.

[186] There's a fruit man?

[187] There's like a little Mexican fruit guy.

[188] He chops up the fruit.

[189] Don't tell I -C -E.

[190] Sorry, yeah.

[191] He'll pull that guy across the border.

[192] Bring him back.

[193] Yeah.

[194] So how did you, what was the thought process behind doing the impression of this dude?

[195] It's become viral.

[196] It's over a million hits now, right?

[197] Yeah, yeah.

[198] It's like at a million seven.

[199] Wow.

[200] Around that, yeah.

[201] And it's caught on.

[202] It's just, I don't know.

[203] You've been doing this.

[204] You've been doing this a long time.

[205] Who did the makeup for you?

[206] How'd they do up your hair?

[207] You know the business.

[208] Statue of Liberty Facts.

[209] Yeah, you just do these things and certain things catch on.

[210] Certain things don't get John and this thing caught on.

[211] So I don't know.

[212] I was pretty stoked.

[213] Is that him back in the day?

[214] That's him now?

[215] Yeah.

[216] He doesn't look like that now, though.

[217] He's way more bald than that, no?

[218] Yeah.

[219] He's, um...

[220] Um, but yeah, no, it was cool.

[221] It was, uh, I, I've done stuff with them before.

[222] I actually did an Anthony Weiner sketch, too.

[223] I don't know if you saw that one.

[224] No, I didn't.

[225] Yeah, it's pretty cool.

[226] I did that way I play Anthony Weiner.

[227] I did that about four, five, six months ago.

[228] And then this thing came up.

[229] They just hit me up and then, you know, I do stuff for funny or die sometimes.

[230] And, and this thing caught on, and it went everywhere.

[231] I don't know.

[232] I was on CNN and in, you know, every, you know, even political, political, um, sites picked it up the hill and all these different places picked it up.

[233] So I, I don't know.

[234] I just did it.

[235] And they don't mean.

[236] You just do shit and like, you don't know what the fuck happened.

[237] So it was, yeah, the wiener thing is funny.

[238] I saw the Wiener thing too.

[239] Wiener, I think Wiener's a comic.

[240] He's hilarious.

[241] I think he's a comic.

[242] He just doesn't, he doesn't know it.

[243] I mean, he's still committed to being the, I mean, he tried to be the mayor, and he can't, if it wasn't for the latest scandal, he would have come close.

[244] 100%.

[245] Yeah.

[246] And did you see his, uh, his documentary?

[247] Yes.

[248] Great.

[249] It's so good.

[250] It's amazing.

[251] It's so fucked up.

[252] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[253] So you see, I'm lasting okay.

[254] So you didn't give me any, you didn't give me any edibles.

[255] I'm not going to give me any edibles.

[256] At this point in the Joe Diaz, I was like, dude, I got to go.

[257] He kept asking me questions.

[258] I couldn't answer anything.

[259] No, I wasn't going to do that to you.

[260] Imagine if everybody that I know, did that to you?

[261] Every time Ciguri did it to you, I did it to you, Red Band does it too.

[262] Everyone, but I've heard everyone kind of can't handle it.

[263] Most people.

[264] Well, the numbers that Joey puts up, no, very few humans can handle it.

[265] But don't you think, like, it was back to Anthony Wiener, I think that guy should have been a comic.

[266] Like, he's got this idea about what's good and what's bad, but he's also a pervert.

[267] And I'm like, the guy's a comic.

[268] Yeah.

[269] He's a great speaker.

[270] He's hilarious.

[271] He's hilarious.

[272] He's hilarious.

[273] He obviously loves pussy.

[274] Obviously.

[275] He loves pussy.

[276] Yeah.

[277] I mean, he's, He's a fucking character.

[278] I mean, I just think that he's trapped in that suppressed world of being a politician where he obviously doesn't fit those standards.

[279] There's those standards of behavior that they demand of you that are all bullshit anyway.

[280] But he's just, he's too fucked up.

[281] He's too crazy.

[282] I think the more fucked up things that people find out about the politicians, the more popular they become.

[283] Some of them.

[284] I mean, right?

[285] Yeah.

[286] I mean, in a way.

[287] If he could be clean about it, if he could come clean about all of it.

[288] And tell like the, but still, well, in the day of Trump, things are way different, right?

[289] Because Trump got elected a month after that grabbed them by the pussy thing came out.

[290] Everybody thought that was going to sink his boat.

[291] Like, that's it.

[292] And he still wins.

[293] So I think the world is different.

[294] But I don't think Wiener has the constitution that Trump has.

[295] Trump say what you want about him, but the motherfucker has teflon for skin.

[296] Insane.

[297] It just bounce right off him.

[298] He doesn't give a shit.

[299] It just like.

[300] Yeah, insane.

[301] Yeah.

[302] Yeah, yeah.

[303] I know him from back in the day.

[304] Yeah?

[305] I mean, you have to understand.

[306] I've been doing this.

[307] How long have you been doing it 30 years?

[308] 29.

[309] Yeah, so I've been doing it 30 years.

[310] When did you come to the store?

[311] What year?

[312] 94.

[313] 94.

[314] Yeah, so you were there.

[315] Is that when you came to the store?

[316] Yeah.

[317] 94.

[318] I became a paid regular.

[319] Wow.

[320] Yeah, so I was doing spring break for MTV.

[321] When was it?

[322] It was like 89, 90.

[323] 91, 92, and it was, you know, obviously the biggest thing in the world because it was live and there was hundreds of thousands.

[324] Oh, yeah, it was giant.

[325] I did spring break in 2000 for an MTV.

[326] Okay.

[327] Right when it was sort of like, I don't know, way out.

[328] Right.

[329] Yeah.

[330] And we did it and it was Hawaiian Tropics were the biggest thing in the world, all the girls.

[331] And Fabio was there.

[332] Oh.

[333] And John Lovitz was there.

[334] Vince Neal was there.

[335] Kenison was there.

[336] Rodney Dangerfield was there.

[337] And Donald Trump was there.

[338] And because Donald Trump used to go to the Hawaiian tropic parties that Ron Rice used to throw after, you know, the spring break things.

[339] And Donald Trump was, so I knew him back then.

[340] So, and then I saw him probably about a couple times at the Playboy Mansion.

[341] The last time I saw him at the Playboy Mansion, I think was about four years ago.

[342] And he was just there.

[343] Just hanging.

[344] Just hanging like Bill Maher, you know what I mean?

[345] Like Bill Marr?

[346] You know what I mean?

[347] Just fucking hang it was actually in the afternoon And I think it was like A Sunday fun day thing Or it was like some like Easter egg night day Or some shit And he was just buzzing around And in his suit And just talking to girls And you know And yeah Him and OJ you know OJ OJ will be out too I know isn't that bizarre So what is Donald Trump like When you're hanging around with him he just likes vagina you know what i mean like he just like us you know like you know he's look at those babes or you know it was always like right i mean that's why anyone go to the playboy mansions because they like vagina right and we were lucky to get into the playboy mansion we were very fortunate you know i mean to get in there and um but it was but so you know and i was actually talking to kelly ann conway about um right before trump got elected on email and i was supposed to have dinner with her and some of her friends, but I had to go do some shows in West Palm at the improv, so I had to cancel out.

[348] Who were you going to talk to Kellyanne Conway about?

[349] Who cares?

[350] Just to be there?

[351] Of course.

[352] How weird.

[353] It would have been hilarious.

[354] I wanted to, you know what I mean?

[355] For sure.

[356] But she was cool.

[357] We were on, I have her email.

[358] I have her information and stuff.

[359] Wow.

[360] Yeah.

[361] You should get her on your show.

[362] Well, you put her on your show.

[363] Oh, yeah.

[364] We definitely talk to her.

[365] Yeah.

[366] Does it feel weird, though, to be connected to them now?

[367] I haven't reached.

[368] Actually in.

[369] Yeah.

[370] Yeah, once she got, once they got in, and I started to see all that stuff that was going on, I kind of, like, backed off.

[371] And I was like, you know, you know, I didn't want to really be, you know.

[372] Yeah.

[373] But I wanted to be the vagina coordinator for him.

[374] That was my like Emma.

[375] You want to be the guy that, like, hooks it up.

[376] Yeah, they get some vagina.

[377] You can't be public about that.

[378] You can't talk about it.

[379] So if you talk about it, you're going to fuck it up for him.

[380] Oh, that's true.

[381] Right now, you're fucking it up for him.

[382] Okay.

[383] This is just a bit, folks.

[384] Yeah, we're just playing.

[385] It's not real.

[386] Paul is just playing.

[387] But how.

[388] great would that be the idea is is that he's got the trump plane right you know the trump plane it's sitting there it was he right where's it sitting somewhere hmm right where is that plane it's got to be sitting in like in a tarmac somewhere right so i want him to let me borrow it so i can pick up vagina for him in the midwest the girl midwest is the move well yeah the people that voted for him oh they're happy for him yeah that hot the flyover states bring some you know one -tooth wonders you know bring him bring him to the because dude he hasn't gotten a anything think about it right he's been like cut off strange 100 % do you think so 100 % there's like a basement that they have in the white house there's no way he's getting vagina but so none of them do do you think none of the presidents like with modern presidents like i guess like bush on right bush obama now trump there's no way they can right i don't think so clinton kind of fucked it up for everybody yeah that who is it linda tripp is that the lady who ratted that Monica Lewinsky girl out, that poor girl.

[389] I feel more bad for her than anybody.

[390] Like she did some article about her where she said the shame sticks to you like tar.

[391] Ugh.

[392] I was like, can you imagine.

[393] Poor girl's 20 years old.

[394] At this point.

[395] I guess she's got it, right?

[396] You know what I mean?

[397] Yeah.

[398] But.

[399] So what does Trump like though?

[400] Is he a good guy to talk to?

[401] Like, what does he like?

[402] Obviously he hadn't, he didn't want to run for president back then.

[403] I think he had been wanting to, I mean, if you look at clips now, you see a lot of clips where he was, where they interview him and now about, like, you find clips in the 90s where they always say, who is it the guy from, I forgot that one show on MSN, but Tim's something, I don't know, he died, but he said, well, if you were present, da -da -da -da -da.

[404] Oh, yeah, meet the press.

[405] Yeah, I've seen that.

[406] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[407] Actually, I was watching that today where he was talking about North Korea.

[408] It was a whole clip where he was talking about North Korea from 1999.

[409] I never really engaged in like heavy conversation with him.

[410] It was always kind of just, you know, he smiled at each other.

[411] It was just that, you know, so I never like went out to dinner with him or anything.

[412] Right.

[413] Yeah, I was supposed to do Celebrity Apprentice.

[414] They asked me to do Celebrity Apprentice when they had the second iteration of Fear Factor, when Fear Factor came back in like, what is it, 2011 or 12 or whatever it was.

[415] And I just was like, I don't want to do it.

[416] I just want to be in New York for something.

[417] three months.

[418] I don't want to work on this show.

[419] It just seems kind of gross.

[420] And now that I think about I'm like, it's probably a good move.

[421] Because like, what if I did it and then I like got in an argument with him?

[422] Like, what if he hated me?

[423] Right, right, right.

[424] And now I have this fucking feud like Rosie does.

[425] Because Rosie O'Donnell, it seems like it consumes her.

[426] Like her fucking Twitter feed.

[427] Is it still?

[428] Oh my God.

[429] It's all about Trump.

[430] She's always tweeting about Trump.

[431] Being a piece of shit and a loser.

[432] And he tweets about her.

[433] That's hilarious They're grown people Yeah There's more right there Look at that O'Donald looking bad honey Wow Take time to take care of you It's only Wednesday Golf sweetie golf That's hilarious Oh my god But how can she say anything About anybody looking bad That's what's even more dumb Wow there she is I mean she's crazy I don't know It's just like feuds like that They're not healthy They consume you not good not good not good at all so are you going to continue doing this dude what's his name again stephen miller um i guess if he keeps messing up and they want me to do it yeah you could do a whole bunch of things with him right him explaining things to different people i think it's more if he messes up yeah you know what i mean i think it's more if he goes on the you know i just wanted to get back on that press stage because once he's on there then they start you know what i mean right And that's when he becomes, you know, it was weird is when George Bush was president, you know, I was doing some shows in D .C. And me and Dean Gelber, we went to, we went to the White House, and we actually went into that room, the press room.

[434] And it's actually, like, fucking small.

[435] Yeah, it's pretty little.

[436] Have you been in it?

[437] No, but I've seen it on TV when they show it from the back of the room.

[438] Yeah, but it's almost like this big.

[439] It's pretty small.

[440] I was like, whoa.

[441] You know what I mean?

[442] It's weird.

[443] You expected to be grand.

[444] Yeah.

[445] Yeah, yeah.

[446] But the White House, have you been to the White House before?

[447] No. Just the tourists walk through?

[448] No. It's fucking weird.

[449] I'm sure.

[450] It's so weird.

[451] You know what's weird is how close it is to the street?

[452] I was by it.

[453] I drove by it, but that was back when people had like muskets, you know?

[454] Like they really, you couldn't, when they built that stupid fucking thing, they didn't give their self enough space.

[455] Yeah.

[456] If somebody just pulled up with a high -powered rifle, it's right there.

[457] It's just weird that people, like, you watch House of Cards?

[458] It's a great show.

[459] But it's weird because they're engaging in all sorts of illicit activity And there's windows everywhere It's probably unrealistic, but how many people have lived in that fucking house That's what's even weirder, you know, 45 different presidents all living in this one spot I know, it's crazy I mean they have to be saying that shit to each other I mean Bill Clinton or Trump's got to be saying There it is Trump's got to be saying like this is the place that Bill Clinton got blown This is the area Look how close it is Like look on the left side and the right side Look how close it is to the street I guarantee you I could hit that with an arrow You're going to D .C. Right?

[460] And you've been there August 26th Do you like D .C.?

[461] I like working there Yeah Because they feel like they need to blow some steam off Like they're kind of wild They're kind of fun You know Hey as far as your stand -up and stuff Like you know Obviously you know We're peers You know, and I see you and watch you and stuff like that.

[462] At what point did your stuff, like, just really start to blow up?

[463] Do you know what I mean?

[464] Like, really go from clubs?

[465] Because you're working clubs like I'm working clubs.

[466] And then all of a sudden, you know, you're working, like, bigger places.

[467] Like, at what point was it about five years ago, four years ago?

[468] Well, longer than that ago, I did, I did theaters in some places.

[469] But it's probably my, it all started changing in 2009.

[470] that's when I did a Comedy Central special special on Spike TV first and then it aired on Spike TV and then Comedy Central yeah I started doing bigger places then I started selling out theaters of like 2 ,000 seats in some some markets but you know it would take me like a few months and then then there was the next Comedy Central special special that was another big bump and then I was selling out places like the Belko in Denver which is like 5 ,000 but it would take a little longer to sell out but now with the Netflix special, it changed everything.

[471] Netflix is just a completely different thing.

[472] Wow.

[473] So many people have Netflix, man. I know.

[474] And if you work on it on a special, you know, and you really put together something good, they can say, oh, you know, this guy, he actually is a real comic.

[475] He really actually is funny, you know, and then they want to come see you, and then it's your responsibility to not fuck them.

[476] Yeah, do a good job.

[477] And keep writing new shit.

[478] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[479] Constantly keep producing new shit.

[480] Right, but what does it feel like to be out of the clubs?

[481] I still do clubs, though I know that I did wise guys I get it You're playing bigger things Yeah What does that feel like to you Is it dope?

[482] It's great I mean it's fun And everything It's a different kind of show though It's like there's more pausing Yeah It's more theatrical It's a bigger stage You're moving around more There's really good to it But I wouldn't say it's better It's just different It's better financially Yeah But it's just different you know but it must make you feel good yeah yeah that's awesome because i i played i play big places and i've also played clubs but now i'm mostly playing i play clubs yeah yeah so you know play all the same clubs yeah yeah i like playing clubs though yeah yeah yeah yeah you're connected to the people it's intimate you know yeah yeah how often he turn um i don't know i kind of go in spurts you know i'm working a lot i mean i don't work a lot at the store during the week because I'm like so exhausted from editing and I edit and edit all day long what are you editing I'm editing well I finished the show on crackle and that was took a long time that's your interview show yeah that's on now that's on crackle and I was editing that and that you know I spent a lot of time on those videos and then from there I did the documentary Polly Shore Stans Alone which was on showtime and now it's on Amazon that's just the straight doc that came out a couple years ago I had such a good time filming that that I kept shooting and the whole thing is about me moving with my mom out of the house you know out of the big you know house because when I did the original doc it was just kind of like kind of skimming the concept of that and then I go fuck I got to start doing that so I cut into it's a six part series almost like my version of making the murder but I don't kill anyone obviously you know but it's a six part kind of series based off the original dock so we've been putting that together and that's fucking dope dude people might not know so I think we probably should say it's fucking dope your mom's probably one of the most important if not the most important characters ever in the history of stand -up comedy like her running and owning the comedy store in the glory days of Kinnison and prior and now today even you know like she she set the stage you know I mean at all the people that helped me and like we're important to me and my career your mom was pretty uniquely significant, you know, she, like, she just, yeah, she, she, um, she created, you know, my dad and mom started the place in 72, you know, I was four.

[483] And then, and then, uh, they got divorced.

[484] She won the comedy store in the divorce.

[485] He says he gave it to her.

[486] You know, there's still like a friction there with that concept.

[487] I wasn't, you know, I don't remember.

[488] I was a fucking four years old.

[489] And then my mom became who she really.

[490] really was.

[491] You know, you're a comic, I'm a comic.

[492] That's who we are.

[493] She became a creative kind of force.

[494] And she came into the limelight at a time where everyone needed someone like that.

[495] Yeah.

[496] You know what I mean?

[497] Like, instead of just like a club owner, you know, she was creative.

[498] You know, that's why I think part of the reason why she's sick now is because she's not, she was never like a real business business person, you know, she's, she was a woman.

[499] So it was really hard.

[500] So, but she was so good at fucking like, Roseanne, where suspenders, you know, You know, Gary Shanley, put his sweater on.

[501] You know what I mean?

[502] Just different things that she would help develop.

[503] And that, to me, is what the store is missing now.

[504] Do you understand?

[505] Like, there's no Mitsy Shore there to really garnish these comments.

[506] I love Adam to death.

[507] He's fucking doing an awesome job.

[508] He is.

[509] Yeah, but it's not Mitsy Shore.

[510] Right.

[511] And that, to me, is something that I think we have to do.

[512] I think it's our responsibility, you know, to kind of give back to the younger guys and maybe spend a little more time there on a Monday night or something and really kind of help these kids out and give them some direction because there is no direction.

[513] There's no Mitzie Shore there.

[514] So that's who she was.

[515] That's who she is.

[516] And that to me is what her best quality was.

[517] When she first met my dad, it was in the 50s.

[518] And my dad was a touring comic.

[519] And my dad did a show or a summer in a place called El Cart Lake, Wisconsin.

[520] And he was doing all summers.

[521] Like, that's what you did in the 50s.

[522] You'd play there the whole.

[523] it was a camp and my mom worked for the boss of the camp and my mom used to type my dad's jokes in the back yeah she would type the jokes in the back oh this is good that's not good you know and she would write it down wow and then she would say this stunk this was good that was good that's not good and then she just developed my helped develop my dad's act they started dating they had sex and then my dad took off and then he was in Toledo Ohio and then got a call from my mom saying I'm pregnant with Scott.

[524] And Scott's, you know, just turned 64, 65 years old.

[525] So back then, you have a kid, whether you want to or you don't.

[526] You know what I mean?

[527] The abortion thing didn't really exist.

[528] I mean, it did, I'm sure, but he never wanted a kid, and he never wanted to get married, and he never wanted all of his kids.

[529] He didn't want us.

[530] He just wanted to do what I was doing, what I do, which was just bang, vagina, and go on the road, have a good time.

[531] You know, which was my M .O. when I first started, you know what I mean?

[532] Right.

[533] And that got taken from him.

[534] So in his day, do you ever talk to him about what it was like to tour back then?

[535] Because it wasn't really comedy clubs back then, right?

[536] No, it was more like, you know, strip clubs.

[537] Strip clubs, bars, bowling alleys.

[538] You know, places that I play now.

[539] But it had to be a real trip to go from that to being a part of the original comedy club.

[540] I mean, other than, like, the Ice House right now is the oldest comedy club in the country.

[541] But, because that's because it started in, like, like, 1960.

[542] But the store, was it, 72?

[543] Is that what you said?

[544] 72, yeah.

[545] That's incredible.

[546] You really stop and think about that, how long ago that was.

[547] Before that, there wasn't really, I mean, there was, like, the improv was actually, New York.

[548] Yeah, the improv in New York.

[549] Yeah.

[550] There was catch rising star in New York.

[551] What was that?

[552] That was sort of around that time.

[553] Yeah.

[554] I mean, it was a new thing.

[555] Yeah.

[556] So, like, your mom and your dad.

[557] Well, my dad, the way it, the way it happened was Frank Sennis, who owns the building, who owned the building, said to my dad and his friend Rudy DeLuca said, hey, Sammy, you want to start a comedy room because he owned the building with Ceros is and that whole, that whole building there, the room right there, the original room actually, which was, which was it, which was what it was originally.

[558] And my dad said, okay.

[559] And then Rudy, my dad's writing partner, Rudy DeLuca, said, well, what do we call it?

[560] You know, let's do it.

[561] And then my dad was like, let's call it the Sammy Shore Room, right?

[562] And then Rudy's like, that's fucking stupid.

[563] You know what I mean?

[564] We're not going to do that.

[565] And then they asked my mom, and my mom's the one that said, let's call it the comedy store.

[566] Wow.

[567] So she's the one who came up with the name.

[568] So they started the comedy store.

[569] My dad was like the alcoholic MC.

[570] you know, and he was parting.

[571] He was a fucking alcoholic, dude, big time.

[572] Like, he loved J .M .B. It was his favorite drink.

[573] And he would go on stage, and he'd bring up Red Fox, Pat McCormick, you know, Murray Langston, you know, all these older guys, yeah.

[574] And my mom would work the cover booth, you know, where Tommy used to work in that little area right there.

[575] And she used to give out, like, like little peppermints and stuff, you know, to the guests that would come in.

[576] And then my dad would go on the road and open for Elvis and open for Englebert Humperdink and Sammy Davis and Sinatra and all these people.

[577] And my mom still always started to take over the club while he was gone, like her heart.

[578] You know what I mean?

[579] She put her heart into the club.

[580] And that's kind of where it started.

[581] And they were never happy to begin with.

[582] They were never happy.

[583] So it was time for the divorce.

[584] And then my dad just gave her the club, gave her the house, and took off.

[585] So he just wanted to be back on the road.

[586] Yeah, but he's, to this day, he's fucking pissed about it because he never got a piece of the comedy store.

[587] Wow.

[588] He never got a piece of the comedy store, and I think that's terrible because he's the one that fucking started it.

[589] Right.

[590] If it wasn't for him, there would be no comedy store.

[591] If he never had sex with my mom in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, there would never be no comedy store, period.

[592] That's deep.

[593] Period.

[594] So that's why my dad needs to get more, in my opinion, needs to get more credit.

[595] He never gets any credit.

[596] It's always about her.

[597] Yeah.

[598] I never met him.

[599] I never met your dad.

[600] He's the fucking man. He's the man. I believe you.

[601] He's fucking awesome.

[602] 90 years old.

[603] When you were like growing up, did Kinnison really babysit you?

[604] Did that ever really happen?

[605] Because that was always like that.

[606] I'll tell you who the babysitters were.

[607] Kenison never babysat me. The babysitters were like Lois Bromfield, Jack Purdue, Mike Binder, Argus Hamilton, Mitchell, Walters.

[608] Mike Binder from Bazaar?

[609] Yeah, Mike Binder was fucking.

[610] fucking awesome dude he was awesome he they used to take me in a little league you know really yeah yeah at the beverly hills park yeah and uh but mike binder mike binder is fucking he was like the one him and albersky were like the youngest guys they came on the scene but mike binder um he used to take me to skate parks and all that shit because my mom was busy at the club so she always gave me the comedians as far as kennyson i was uh a shorter to cook at the comedy store in westwood i used to cook for everyone there's 200 people there's 200 people they there because I was a good cook because my parents divorced and I took care of the whole I make not I had there's like a menu in my mom's office polly's menu notchos hamburgers everything I would cook really good and that's where I first met Sam I was 14 because he was like the dormant there you were working there as a cook at 14 yeah because I wanted to save up for a saltwater fish tank because my mom wouldn't buy me a saltwater fish tank wow I wanted to get a hundred gallon saltwater fish tank see when I came around in 94 I don't think the weather Westwood Club was around no when did it die I think 84 oh wow yeah that's too bad I heard that place was wild it was like the bastard club it was like where everyone you know like you know I mean Arsenio Paul Rodriguez Andrew Dice Clay they would like go there and it was like off the beat yeah yeah and then like the Howie Mendel's would be in the main room at the store and all that stuff yeah yeah howie Mandel even back then isn't that crazy he was fucking awesome he was huge yeah huge it's weird, you know, seeing him on all these game shows and stuff like that.

[611] He went up at a comedy story the other night and I heard someone say, he does comedy?

[612] And I was like, wow, it's so weird.

[613] Like people, they don't even think about it.

[614] You see him on television as a host of a game show.

[615] You kind of forget that he was this huge stand -up.

[616] Before I ever even did it.

[617] Yeah, huge.

[618] Before I did open mic lights.

[619] Yeah, he put a glove over his head and blow it up with his nose.

[620] He would play that little kid, that little Bobby.

[621] Oh, yeah, Bobby was great.

[622] Yeah, he did that.

[623] He actually did a cartoon.

[624] I remember Bobby's world, right?

[625] I know it's a weird, it's a weird, like, I was at the Funnier Die thing last night, and I was with Will Ferrell, not to drop names, but I'm a huge fan of him, and he owns the site, and we were talking, and he just gave it up to me. He's like, dude, you started it all.

[626] You know, and he goes, I used to watch you on MTV, and Encino Manita.

[627] This generation doesn't know what I did, most of the kids, the 25 and younger.

[628] They don't know that I started MTV.

[629] They don't know all the films.

[630] They don't know.

[631] They think Sandler.

[632] They think.

[633] all these other guys But they don't know that I was the first I was, you know, at the time Because MTV was so big Yeah, you were the first celebrity You and like Dennis Leary Like Dennis Leary became a big celebrity Off MTV too And then it was like remote control Some movies, but I was starting in a lot of movies Yeah And I was doing albums Albums all that stuff And I was in my 20s and I was having an awesome time That had to be weird It was awesome But growing up like in the store like from the time you were as old as you could remember being a part of the comedy store and then all of a sudden being 20 and being famous yeah on MTV it was the best when MTV was gigantic look at I had my own billboard it was sick it was like I was a kid and look I had I had sold out all the shows at the Roxy you know I had an album and I was doing all of it at once was it weird it was so much fun It was so much fun.

[634] That's why now, when I look back on my films, I get kind of sad.

[635] Why?

[636] Because that time of my life was my happiest time.

[637] But why does it make you sad?

[638] Because it was really amazing.

[639] And now life is still good, but it's not like it was.

[640] So what changed?

[641] Well, I think for a lot of people in their 20s, at least my opinion, when you're in your 20s, if you fuck up, it doesn't really matter.

[642] And life is, like, one big, like, whatever, and that's kind of what I miss. Now, like, when you get older, like, things are, like, you know, mom's sick or this.

[643] You know, there's all these, like, life things, you know, or, like, I'm going to be 50 next year.

[644] You know what I mean?

[645] Just, like, things, like, when you're younger, dude, I used to have, like, me and my friends, we used to go to the beach and smoke pot.

[646] You know, we used to go to the Roxy.

[647] We used to go to the rainbow.

[648] It was like.

[649] Why can't you still do that?

[650] Because I don't feel like it.

[651] Well, then why does it make you sad that you don't feel like it?

[652] feel like doing those things what do you feel like doing going to the korean bathhouse and watching the news and chilling and drinking juice well then do that's what i do so why's that sad that's what's confusing i wouldn't say it's sad i know i talk of no not the movies that watching the movies make me sad because i miss starring in films so what happened like why did that dry up um i think it's several reasons you know number one i was so big and i think the bigger you are and the fast you make it the harder you fall i think that's just like normal because it was like you can only you know what i mean that was one thing and also i think the whole weasel thing was like it was cool for a while and then like after a while it's not cool just like a lot of things and i also think i didn't listen to my age and some managers they told me not to do um in the army now remember i did that was a good movie No, I know, but here's the story behind it.

[653] What happened was, is I had a three -album deal at Disney.

[654] I had Encinemann's son -in -law, these big hits for me did really well.

[655] And then it came time to do my third movie, and it was in the Army now.

[656] And my managers and agents were like, we don't know.

[657] You know, you have to cut all your hair off and all that shit.

[658] And the script's kind of like, okay.

[659] And New Line approached us with this other film called Totally London, which is me being an au pair in London, which I thought was actually a really funny idea and Jeffrey Katzenberg who used to run Disney wouldn't let me do that movie at New Line being an opair in London so he bought the script and shelved it so I did in the Army now in the Army now didn't do as good as the other films and then after that Disney didn't sign me a nut to do more movies and then after that I did jury duty and jury duty didn't do so good you know what I mean?

[660] Right so it was financially so it was when the movie started to draw it maybe Portrait voices do you think yeah yeah yeah exactly like not listening to my agents and managers and stuff at the time but i didn't come at it like fuck you i came at it like i want to work i love acting i love going to the set that's another thing is like i did an adam sandler film i don't know the the uh the last one he did the um sandy wexler and you know you go up on the set you know and adam starring this film and i'm not you know what i mean and i used to star in films and it's it's a it's a weird feeling for me like i'm happy to be on the set and i love adam and he's an old dear friend and I'm super happy for him but I was starring in films right you know what I mean and everywhere I go people say why aren't you starring in films like what what's up and like I can't answer it you know what I mean?

[661] Poor choices the weasel shit dried up you know the movies didn't perform as well I didn't listen to my agents I wasn't like doing drugs it wasn't like I got all fucked up it's just one movie didn't do so good then the next movie didn't do so good and then the eventually just stopped coming.

[662] Because you think about it like it's a business.

[663] Yeah, Biodome didn't do as good as jury duty.

[664] Even though now, like, it's a big hit.

[665] It's a cult hit for me. But at the time, you know what I mean?

[666] Yeah.

[667] Yeah.

[668] And then I got a sitcom on Fox and that didn't go.

[669] So things were like, and then I was also turning 30 and I was, my 30th birthday was very emotional for me. I cried a lot on my 30th birthday.

[670] Because I was going from like a boy to a man and I didn't know how to do it.

[671] You know what I mean?

[672] I was just like, I didn't know.

[673] Like, I didn't know how to, I didn't know how to deal.

[674] My 40th birthday was awesome.

[675] It was great.

[676] You know, I was happy, you know what I mean?

[677] Yeah.

[678] My 50th birthday, I'll probably cry again.

[679] It's a every 20 -year thing.

[680] Exactly.

[681] But, um, so I miss starring in films, you know?

[682] I miss it.

[683] I miss it.

[684] I love acting.

[685] That's my first love, I think, you know?

[686] I mean, you were on fucking TV.

[687] I didn't really like acting.

[688] Really?

[689] Yeah.

[690] I mean, it's okay Because you were great on that show Yeah, well, I loved that show I loved working with those people But I've done some other acting It was like, it's okay It's not my thing Like stand -up comedy to me is more fun And then hosting, you love hosting I don't, I mean I like doing the UFC Like working for the UFC And doing stand -up comedy And doing commentary for the UFC Those things are fun Doing this is fun But acting to me was like long hours Waiting around And then also, a lot of actors are cool, but there's like 10 % that are just fake.

[691] They're just weird sociopaths.

[692] They care with themselves.

[693] They're complete narcissists.

[694] They don't have, I just can't connect with them, you know?

[695] So there was a lot of that.

[696] Because I think you're a good actor, and I think that if you maybe developed a show or a film, you know, for you, you know, I think would be awesome.

[697] That sounds like torture.

[698] Really?

[699] Yeah.

[700] You're saying that.

[701] I'm like, oh.

[702] Really?

[703] Stuck on a set.

[704] So you just don't enjoy it.

[705] You just don't enjoy acting.

[706] One of the, yeah, one of the things that was appealing about Fear Factor was no actors.

[707] And so it was like, oh, I don't have to act, but I could still be on TV and make some money.

[708] Okay, let's do it.

[709] You know, and I felt like it was going to get canceled.

[710] I was like, this is just to be some horrible disaster.

[711] And then I'll go have some jokes about it.

[712] And I'm like, I'll definitely get like at least 10 minutes of material at this fucking show.

[713] You know?

[714] Huge hit.

[715] Yeah, I wound up doing 154 episodes or something.

[716] You get, I mean, do you get, like, what is it called?

[717] You get something.

[718] You don't get the same residuals that you would get for a sitcom, though.

[719] But is it called, what's it called when there's over 100 episodes?

[720] Syndication.

[721] Syndication.

[722] It's in syndication.

[723] You got syndication money?

[724] Well, syndication money is not what everybody thinks it is.

[725] Syndication money, like news radio went to syndication.

[726] So I got syndication money from that.

[727] But it's not like Jerry Seinfeld's syndication money.

[728] See, he owns a piece of the show.

[729] Then you get the real money.

[730] But you get, I mean, you can't complain.

[731] It's a lot of money.

[732] Yeah, my friend Peter Lankoff, he owns Hawaii 5 -0, which is on CBS.

[733] The original one?

[734] No, this one that's on right now.

[735] But he went over, he went over 100 episodes.

[736] That's the big payday.

[737] So he's fucking, he's got like a fucking $7 million house in Malibu.

[738] And he's like, oh, my God.

[739] Having a big old party.

[740] Oh, my God.

[741] I would imagine, as soon as it goes over 100, you just go, yes.

[742] Oh, my God, right?

[743] Yeah.

[744] Yeah.

[745] Well, you know, Kevin D. James, a buddy of mine, he, uh, King of Queens went over a hundred.

[746] Oh, wow.

[747] And when it goes over a hundred, you, as long as you don't fuck up, you're pretty much set.

[748] Long you don't go crazy.

[749] You don't start doing meth and buying yachts.

[750] Yeah.

[751] Yeah, so maybe stuff like this will bring you back to films, you know?

[752] I miss it, you know what I mean?

[753] Yeah.

[754] You know, and that's like that I was happy that the Stephen Miller thing, you know, worked out for me, you know?

[755] I wonder how, what would be the strategy to get back to it?

[756] I guess, like, to kick ass at a comedy special would be a good way to do it, to put together, like, a really good comedy special.

[757] That'd be cool.

[758] You've thought about doing that?

[759] Yeah, you know what I mean?

[760] They have, Robbie at Netflix has to hit me up.

[761] You know, he's like the guy.

[762] Yeah.

[763] Yeah.

[764] So, I mean, you know.

[765] But you're still doing a lot of stand -up.

[766] Yeah, I still do a lot of stand -up.

[767] Or I was talking about editing earlier.

[768] So another thing that I'm editing, I'm editing that documentary series, which I'm happy about.

[769] But I'm also editing a documentary in my life, and I've been doing that for three years.

[770] Really?

[771] It's fucking sick.

[772] Yeah?

[773] 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.

[774] And I've got over 50 interviews.

[775] I got like Jeffrey Katzenberg and...

[776] Oh, wow.

[777] And Rotenberg and Doug Herzog and Chris Rock, Mark Maren.

[778] I mean, everyone.

[779] Saget.

[780] Everyone has done it from ex -girlfriends to, you know, comics from the 70s.

[781] Lenny Schultz did it.

[782] Crazy Lenny.

[783] Crazy Lenny.

[784] I saw Lenny Schultz in Montreal in like 1992.

[785] Like way back in the day.

[786] I saw him at the Comedy Works, the Montreal Comedy Festival.

[787] Yeah, he was hilarious.

[788] Yeah, he was great.

[789] He was the original Gallagher.

[790] Yeah, in a lot of ways.

[791] He was one of the original guys.

[792] Is he still around?

[793] Yeah, he lives in Florida.

[794] What does he do these days?

[795] I think he's just retired.

[796] He doesn't have stayed up anymore at all.

[797] He used to work the main room.

[798] He was, as a comic growing up, he was, that's Billy Braver.

[799] Oh, my God.

[800] As a comic.

[801] Lenny is the one right above Billy.

[802] Click on the one, yeah, right there.

[803] That's Lenny, yeah.

[804] So he used, you know his joke, right?

[805] Which one?

[806] Where he used to do the, he used to do the Lenny Schultz diet.

[807] No. Do you know about that?

[808] No. Where he would take all his clothes off and he, he would do this in the main room.

[809] He would take all his clothes off and he would strip down to a speedo, right?

[810] To his speedo.

[811] And he would say a lot, there's a lot of diets out there and people don't eat the food they're supposed to eat or da -da -da.

[812] He goes, on the Lenny Schultz diet, I put the food on my body of the places that I want to lose weight, right?

[813] So he'd have these fucking pigs and these ducks behind him and he'd play the music and he'd have all this food over there and he'd have spaghetti and he'd be like, Nanyo, nanio dun da da da da da.

[814] And it would just like turn into this fucking crazy thing and he'd pour he caught his cheese in his balls and then he'd have like great fruits.

[815] He goes, if you want to lose some weight in your elbow, the motherfucking grape fruits and then you'd throw the great fruits.

[816] People have like you're hearing this they're not getting the, you have to, you have to to see how manic and, like, psycho he was on stage.

[817] He got into it, you know?

[818] I mean, I mean, I would hate to be that type of comic, especially traveling.

[819] You know, that's like Karatop is stoked because he's just stuck in Vegas.

[820] Yeah.

[821] I mean, imagine if you had to bring a case of stuff around, you know.

[822] Well, I was just talking to somebody about that recently.

[823] Those guys don't exist anymore.

[824] Like, it used to be a genre.

[825] It used to be prop comics.

[826] But, like, Karatop is.

[827] Oh, there he is.

[828] He goes, num, num, num, num, num, num, no. Yeah, he was my favorite comic growing up as a kid.

[829] Well, he was the original, yeah.

[830] Huge in Long Island.

[831] All the guys from Long Island loved him.

[832] Yeah.

[833] They loved him.

[834] Yeah.

[835] He was like, when I first moved there, I was like, who's Lenny Schultz?

[836] And, like, you never seen Crazy Lenny?

[837] Like, he would hold up a bear, you know, that only you, the fucking smoky the bear.

[838] And he would hold it up, and he would go, only you can prevent forest fires.

[839] Right.

[840] And he would go, fuck you.

[841] Right.

[842] Punch the bear.

[843] It didn't make any sense, but you would laugh your ass off.

[844] You'd be like, why am I laughing at this?

[845] I'm not sure why.

[846] But he was so funny.

[847] There's a lot of comics out there that never made it that are really funny.

[848] I'm sure you heard of Ollie Joe Prater?

[849] Yeah, sure.

[850] No one knows who he is.

[851] Right.

[852] He had the best, to me, he had the best strongest 45 minutes I've ever seen.

[853] Wow.

[854] But he never changed it.

[855] Oh, yeah.

[856] You know what I mean?

[857] That happened with a lot of those guys that never, you know, really got mainsts.

[858] extreme exposure like you know like I remember I went to see Kinnison after his HBO special and he hadn't quite figured out that you had to have all new material because the HBO special had come out and people were yelling out bits like while he was doing the bits you know and it's like it was that transitionary period because when the guys would do HBO specials there was nothing like that before then where someone had did an hour on television usually would do a tonight show you do like seven minutes and then you would go perform and people actually probably wanted to hear those seven minutes again you know who is the most to me the most prolific comic that always change it up was george carlin sure every year yeah a new hour every year yeah every year he i think he had 14 right 14 HBO specials yeah yeah i mean that's fucking insane insane you know who else did it richard jenny richard jenny worked at uh east side comedy club in long island and he did a different show Friday 8 o 'clock show a different show Friday 10 o 'clock show different show Saturday 8 o 'clock show and a different show Saturday 10 o 'clock show all the comics were sitting around scratching their head I remember I was backstage with I was so good I was an opener back then you know I was just starting out but I was backstage with all these guys who were like local headliners and they were just like fuck we're terrible they were like it was just confronted by how good he was yeah he was a fucking jean I still to this day I think that he's one of the most underrated comedians 100 % ever yeah yeah ever yeah did you ever the thing that I noticed so because we had the same manager at Michael Rotenberg was was my manager and Jenny's manager at the time the one thing that I noticed about him though if you I don't know if you experienced this with him is that his stand -up in the clubs was fucking insane but for some reason when he was on TV doing it it didn't translate as much for some reason I think the you know how sometimes the camera just doesn't favor you Yeah, it doesn't pick up you as funny as you are.

[859] That was kind of my experience with him because he was, you know, he killed himself and I don't know if that was part of the reason because he was frustrated, you know what I mean?

[860] A lot of people, I guess, they kill themselves if, you know, things don't work out for them, right?

[861] Yeah.

[862] I mean, like, in their career, I guess.

[863] I don't know.

[864] Well, he always wanted to be Jim Carrey.

[865] That was his thing.

[866] You know, he wanted to be Jim Carrey.

[867] He wanted to be the comic that transitioned from doing stand -up to doing these gigantic movies.

[868] And he had a show for a while on UPN.

[869] Yeah, the platypus man. Yeah.

[870] And he actually did the mask with Jim Carrey.

[871] He was in that movie.

[872] And he was great.

[873] Yeah, it just didn't get a lot of roles, didn't get a lot of parts.

[874] But I still maintain that a steaming pile of me, if you're listening to this and you're thinking, like, let me go watch some of it.

[875] You can get it on iTunes.

[876] A steaming pile of me is one of my all -time favorite stand -up specials.

[877] It's fucking great.

[878] Wow.

[879] A lot of it's relevant today.

[880] Wow.

[881] Because it's 2007, but he does this thing about the difference between people on the left and people on the right and people in the middle.

[882] And it's fucking brilliant.

[883] It's brilliant.

[884] I got to hear that.

[885] And he was like a guy that I saw when I was starting out where I really realized watching him how important it is to really go in depth on a subject.

[886] Because he didn't just scratch the surface.

[887] Like when I was an open micer, one of the thing you see about open micers is they'll touch a subject.

[888] subject and then they move on to a next subject but they basically just scratched the surface of it jenny would dig a trench he would go deep and he would like get everything there was to get out of that bit and then he would move on to another subject and by the time he did you were fucking howling and laughter and holding your sides and yeah he was he was amazing yeah he was he was he was so good he was yeah he and i agree with you though when you see him in the clubs you really got to see what he's really all about yeah that's really the problem that's really the problem problem with like specials right it's like trying to figure out how to translate what you do when it's a Friday night in the OR how do you get someone to experience that magic of like a perfect club set in you know a special I think it's people's faces I think it's comedian's faces some just pop off of screen and some don't that's my opinion there's a little bit of that because Richard had a weird face and he did it he had plastic surgery and there's a bunch of shit going on yeah Yeah, but I don't know.

[889] I like clubs, too, in terms of, like, filming, because I filmed.

[890] There's a connection.

[891] There's a vibe.

[892] Because when you do your stuff, you're here, and the audience is back there.

[893] It's a little disconnect.

[894] If you're in a big theater, yeah.

[895] There's good things about a big theater.

[896] It's like, you hear a huge roar.

[897] You get to see the place, and everybody's like, wow, Polly Shore must be gigantic.

[898] Look at all these fucking people in the audience.

[899] But when you're at home, you're on a couch, and you're in front of the TV.

[900] It's very intimate.

[901] So you don't feel connected to this big, giant place.

[902] So that's why my Comedy Central special from 2014, Rocky Mountain High, I did in Denver at the Comedy Works.

[903] And the reason why I did it there, I was like, this is an intimate room.

[904] I want to have an intimate show.

[905] And if I'm here, this is the place to do it.

[906] It's like, it's nice and tight.

[907] Let me ask you something.

[908] At what point as a stand -up did you feel that you got really funny?

[909] Like you?

[910] Like, you felt like, oh, shit.

[911] Like, I feel like I'm really funny.

[912] You can't say at the beginning No, it was more than 10 years in Probably 10 years in I felt like I was competent But I feel like I'm better now than I've ever been before But it's just work It's just constantly working at it Like I feel like stand -up is one of the unique things That require you It requires like rigorous attention And detail And you have to be paying And you have to be enthusiastic And you have to be disciplined And it's almost contrary to what lot of us are like a lot of us aren't disciplined people which is why we're funny in the first place because we're silly and we're impulsive and we laugh about things joke around about things and think about things in a fucked up way that's outside the box of normal thinking you know so I think that's a lot of times that sort of mindset is contrary to the mindset that's required to be disciplined to write but but as a kid as a kid growing up tell me about I was not funny yeah that's what I was going to say so do you have brothers and sisters Yeah, I was a sister.

[913] And how old is she compared to you?

[914] She's a year younger.

[915] And then your parents, you grew up in the house altogether?

[916] Yeah.

[917] Like all, not divorced?

[918] Not my dad.

[919] No, no, we were divorced.

[920] My mom got divorced when I was like five.

[921] Okay, so that was like me, right?

[922] Did she have a lot of boyfriends?

[923] No, no. She hooked up my stepdad, and they've been together ever since.

[924] My mom had a lot of boyfriends.

[925] Yeah, that's different.

[926] Yeah.

[927] Yeah, but anyways, you would walk in a room, Joe Rogan would walk in a room, and you'd say something, would they laugh?

[928] Nobody thought it was funny.

[929] But, oh, so no one's on.

[930] I wasn't a funny person.

[931] So you weren't funny, right?

[932] You know how I got into comment?

[933] It was making people laugh when we were doing martial arts because we were, like, going to fight in tournaments.

[934] So we'd all be nervous.

[935] And it was like, I would be the one that made everybody laugh.

[936] Like, when we'd be on a bus to go to a tournament to fight.

[937] For real.

[938] Do you talk about this?

[939] Not really.

[940] I mean, maybe I've brought it up before.

[941] Yeah, I think it's funny.

[942] It's funny, but it's weird.

[943] Just the scene of you on a bus with a bunch of kids fucking shooting the shit.

[944] Well, one of them to this day, I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to my friend Steve Graham and my other friend, Ed Schorter.

[945] They're the guys who talked me into it if it wasn't for them.

[946] And Steve Graham is still a dear friend to this day.

[947] So you were on the bus, you're going to your wrestling tournaments in Boston?

[948] It was kickboxing or Taekwondo back then.

[949] In Boston?

[950] Yeah, in Boston.

[951] But you grew up right in Boston.

[952] I grew up in Newton, Newton Upper Falls, which is like a suburb of Boston.

[953] Is that like by Springfield Mass?

[954] No, Newton is like, it's right off of Route 9, so it's like Natick, neat, like in that area.

[955] It's pretty close to Boston, you know, it's like not a far drive at all.

[956] And I would drive into town to train.

[957] My Taekwendo school was in Boston.

[958] And we would travel around the country.

[959] We'd fly to places and compete.

[960] You know, it was like a giant part of my life.

[961] Like karate chop shit?

[962] Like fucking.

[963] Taekwondo tournaments.

[964] Yeah.

[965] That's insane.

[966] Yeah.

[967] So we were always nervous because, you know, guys get knocked out.

[968] Guys get kicked in the face.

[969] It's terrible.

[970] How old were you?

[971] I started when I was 15.

[972] That's when I started.

[973] So this was in high school?

[974] Yeah.

[975] Yeah.

[976] So you're driving to the things.

[977] Yeah.

[978] So by the time I was 21, like, I was, like, very successful at it.

[979] I was a four -time state champion, and I was competing constantly.

[980] I won the U .S. Open.

[981] I won a bunch of these, like, big tournaments, like the Bay State games.

[982] Did you ever go against black guys?

[983] Yeah.

[984] Was it scary time?

[985] The first time I did, I was nervous.

[986] I know.

[987] That's what I'm saying.

[988] Fuck, right?

[989] Did you beat him?

[990] But the first black eye fought I knocked out.

[991] That was a huge alleviation of my worries.

[992] I assume, right?

[993] Yeah.

[994] After I watch the UFC stuff and I watch you out there and I'm like, when you first were doing it, there was no black guys.

[995] You know what I mean?

[996] I'm thinking, I'm just a guy watching at home like, where's the fucking black guys?

[997] Because they would kill everyone.

[998] And now all of a sudden there's black guys and they're like, oh, shit.

[999] You know what I mean?

[1000] Well, what's interesting in.

[1001] boxing that was always the case, right?

[1002] But now you're seeing Russians, like Garnati Golovkin, you know, and like, it's, I mean, it's really just a matter of the economic situation.

[1003] Because in the early days of the 1900s, it was a lot of Jews because, like, Slapsy Maxi Rosenbaum.

[1004] There's a bunch of Jewish fighters because, you know, there were Jewish immigrants and they faced a lot of hostility and poverty, and this was a way out.

[1005] And then it became Italians, like Rocky Marciano, Rocky Grazzi.

[1006] There's a lot of Italian boxers, and then it became, like, Puerto Ricans and blacks.

[1007] And it's mostly, it's a lot of it is disenfranchised people that are looking for some sort of an escape from it.

[1008] And it's also a financial thing as well.

[1009] It's like, you know, it's like Kevin Durant in a way, I mean, you know, playing hoop and like, you know, right?

[1010] Yeah.

[1011] I mean, that's their way out.

[1012] It's their ticket out of poverty, you know, so you're seeing out with Russians now a lot, you know.

[1013] So you're on the bus, you're with your friends, you're joking around.

[1014] I would do impressions of people.

[1015] like do impressions of our friends having sex.

[1016] Oh, that's hilarious.

[1017] Just different things.

[1018] So then one day they said you go to connection, go to comedy connection in Boston?

[1019] No, my friend Steve said, you know, you're funny.

[1020] Like, you're really funny.

[1021] And I was like, look, I make you laugh because you're my friend.

[1022] I'm like, other people are going to think I'm an asshole.

[1023] Because especially in Boston, which is like a really conservative place, my sense of humor was very fucked up because I would, these people were fighters, you know.

[1024] So there was all these black belts who were competing on a national.

[1025] level traveling all around the country like they were very intense people so you could say fucked up things to them to make them laugh like they there's their their borders their their boundaries were very different than the average person because they were experiencing such a like I assumed cops would be a lot like that too and maybe even soldiers cops I talked to like a lot of cops that I would train with too they had the most fucked up sense of humor hilarious they would be seeing gunshot wounds all the time and you know and there was you know a lot of jokes they would tell like As the guy was dead, you know, they would, like, be over the guy's body making jokes when no one was around.

[1026] And, you know, people would think it's disrespectful, but a lot of it is, like, the human brain is not supposed to experience that kind of stress that a cop or a soldier experiences.

[1027] And gallows humor, as it were, you know, that's what a lot of them turn to for some sort of a relief.

[1028] So what I did is I went to an open mic night, and I watched.

[1029] And this is actually a Richard Jenny quote.

[1030] It's a great quote.

[1031] And he's right.

[1032] He said one of the great things about terrible comedians is they inspire other people to try it Because you watch them And you go, well this guy's fucking terrible At least if I suck, I won't suck that bad So my idea of stand -up is I would go to some place And I would see like Robin Williams and Richard Pryor And all these people that were just like gods And I would be like, there's no way I'm going to be able to go up there and do that But when I went to an open mic night, I realized like Oh no, these people was just like being a white belt In martial arts Like they're starting from the beginning And so that's why I signed it up for And this was at which club was it?

[1033] Stitches, yeah, in the 80s, right?

[1034] 88, yeah, August 27th, 1988.

[1035] That's funny, I started, and my first one was September 25th, 1985.

[1036] That was my first time.

[1037] Man, you're crazy, just think back?

[1038] Time just keeps moving on, Polly.

[1039] It's not cool.

[1040] It's weird, right?

[1041] It's definitely weird.

[1042] Yeah, yeah.

[1043] It never ends.

[1044] It's not going to.

[1045] It keeps going.

[1046] You have a family now.

[1047] How many kids?

[1048] Three.

[1049] Wow.

[1050] I know.

[1051] Is it nuts?

[1052] How come you have no desire, none whatsoever?

[1053] Yes.

[1054] Yes.

[1055] But you've got to find the right gal.

[1056] Or guy.

[1057] You never know, right?

[1058] In this day and age, I saw an article the other day.

[1059] It said, transgender man gave birth to baby.

[1060] And then Ben, and then Ben, and then Ben, and then Ben, and then Ben, and then, Chapiro retweeted it, Wilman gave birth.

[1061] Right.

[1062] Just.

[1063] Yeah.

[1064] I'm feeling it more now that I'm getting older because at the bottom line is, you know, I don't want to, well, you know, Larry King, Michael Douglas, Laderman, these guys have their kids in their late 60s.

[1065] Yeah, that's not cool.

[1066] Yeah.

[1067] You know what I mean?

[1068] So.

[1069] Now you can still do it.

[1070] You can do it like, if you get in, like right now.

[1071] Right.

[1072] So you got to find a gal.

[1073] There's anyone listening.

[1074] Just tweet their, tweet their phone.

[1075] photos at Joe Rogan at Joe Rogan.

[1076] Freeze your jizz.

[1077] It's time to start freezing jiz.

[1078] I should get Whitney Cummings pregnant.

[1079] What do you think about that?

[1080] You'd have to talk to her and see if that's something she'd be interested in.

[1081] I would imagine she would not be interested in it.

[1082] Right.

[1083] She wouldn't want my semen.

[1084] You'd have to talk to her.

[1085] To be clear, I wouldn't want to decide for her.

[1086] Or it could be Eliza.

[1087] I think she's getting married.

[1088] Yeah, but I could sneak in it before.

[1089] Ooh, I don't know.

[1090] Why would you want to get married to a comedian?

[1091] I know you are.

[1092] But why would you want to get married?

[1093] No, I wouldn't.

[1094] I wouldn't.

[1095] I was kidding.

[1096] Yeah.

[1097] I don't know, man. It's like there's pros and cons.

[1098] You know, like, Ari's one of my best friends, and Ari travels the world.

[1099] And he experiences a life that's very, I mean, he did.

[1100] You know what Ari just did?

[1101] Where he took three months off, actually four months, and just vanished.

[1102] Didn't talk to anybody.

[1103] Didn't bring a laptop.

[1104] Yeah, he did the Chappelle thing.

[1105] More than that.

[1106] Yeah.

[1107] He went to Vietnam and Cambodia.

[1108] I don't know of Cambodia.

[1109] Thailand.

[1110] He went all over the place.

[1111] But he did it by himself, like with no one and just met people, experienced things.

[1112] And no one knew who he was.

[1113] No one.

[1114] I mean, a few people recognized him and they took pictures with him and put him on Facebook.

[1115] And that's how we found out he was still alive.

[1116] Yeah.

[1117] But it was weird.

[1118] But he just decided like, hey, I'm just going to just have an adventure.

[1119] That's something obviously is out of the question when you have children.

[1120] You can't do that.

[1121] So there's, there's pros.

[1122] I wouldn't want to.

[1123] That's not me. I wouldn't want to disappear for four months.

[1124] No kids.

[1125] kids it's just like I don't have that desire but for him you know but the desire to do an adventure to just go someplace for a couple of weeks is cool but when you have kids especially if you have little girls that wait for you and they you know you talk to them on the phone they can't wait to see you it's it's a different world you know how old do you know I'm almost 50 I'll 50 tomorrow oh my god happy birthday Joe thank you that's amazing thank you very much fucking yeah are you doing a big 50th thing really no no no no I think birthday parties are bullshit.

[1126] It's like, look at me. I went to a friend of mine's birthday party.

[1127] It was his 50th birthday party.

[1128] It was so annoying.

[1129] They played a video.

[1130] We had to watch a video, and it was like 20 minutes.

[1131] And I was like, Jesus Christ, when is it over?

[1132] And then when it was over, his fucking family members and his friends got up and told stories with a microphone, and they held everybody captive with their shitty stories.

[1133] It was death.

[1134] It was death.

[1135] I couldn't wait to get out of there.

[1136] You know what it was funny?

[1137] I shouldn't play this video I have here?

[1138] That's hilarious.

[1139] You know, it was weird Do you ever like sometimes like dream about things Like when you think things and you like you have dreams?

[1140] Yeah I knew I was coming in here today and I had a dream about you Yeah and it was interesting I had a dream that we know we were doing our thing And it was cool and I said congratulations on your new show Your show's been on the air and it was like it was called the Rogans And it was you and a camper with your wife and your kids Going across America It was like a family like almost like you know almost like the griswolds right but the rogans like like a reality like but i know that that's something you would never do but it was funny it was hilarious it was like on the travel channel and it was like you guys fishing and eating and just how hilarious would it would be kind of hilarious but it's kind of gross too because like whenever i see people that have their kids on these reality shows i'm like you're not even letting that kid choose right you don't even give that kid a choice to be famous like honey boo boo boo or any of those fucking people you're You're just putting your kid on TV before your kid even understands the consequences of it.

[1141] I mean, at least when you got on television, you were in your 20s.

[1142] Like, you kind of were an adult.

[1143] You kind of got it.

[1144] I mean, it was young, and I'm sure it was weird to grow up in the spotlight like that.

[1145] But at least you were a grown up.

[1146] Yeah, I understand.

[1147] You know, when you see people that have their babies on TV and children on TV, like, what the fuck are you doing?

[1148] Do you not know as a person who's on TV?

[1149] Yeah.

[1150] That this could be, like, emotionally devastating.

[1151] Just if they read the comments.

[1152] Just if they went to, you know, Instagram or YouTube and read the comments, like, Jesus Christ, you know.

[1153] Yeah, well, look at child actors.

[1154] You know what I mean?

[1155] They're all nuts, dude.

[1156] You know what I did recently is a Comic -Con?

[1157] You know what that is?

[1158] Yeah, sure.

[1159] But, you know that, like, you sign things?

[1160] It's hilarious.

[1161] You did it?

[1162] Yeah.

[1163] So you sat down one of those booths?

[1164] Yeah, it was like, I never done it.

[1165] A friend of mine, my friend of mine in San Antonio hooked me up with this agent, and he just, you know, they give you, you know, they pay you obviously, and you fly in.

[1166] And there's basically comic cons, as you know, it's all like, you know, people are dressed as Superman and Batman and, you know, all these, but then there's the section with celebrities.

[1167] So there's a lot of, like, people from Breaking Bad.

[1168] There was a lot of people from Walking Dead.

[1169] But then there was, like, Rob Schneider was in a booth.

[1170] You know what I mean?

[1171] Val Kilmer was in a booth.

[1172] And he's got, like, throat camels.

[1173] Val Kilmer has throat cancer?

[1174] Yeah, dude.

[1175] It's fucking, yeah, it's not cool.

[1176] And then you got like Dolph Lundgren there.

[1177] I didn't know Val Kilmer had throat cancer.

[1178] That sucks.

[1179] Oh, yeah.

[1180] He's not old.

[1181] I mean, he's like 45 or something like that, isn't he?

[1182] Yeah.

[1183] Fuck, man. Yeah.

[1184] So it was just, it was a weird kind of experience.

[1185] It was like awesome and it was also not awesome.

[1186] Dude, Val Kilmer is the shit in Tombstone, what was it say, spotted with a breathing aid?

[1187] Oh, wow.

[1188] Yeah, it's terrible.

[1189] Fuck, man. Yeah, it's a fucking, it's terrible.

[1190] Well, he's had some crazy ups and downs with his weight to the point where he got to go, like, look at those pictures of him on the far right.

[1191] Look at those pictures.

[1192] Wow.

[1193] Like, that was in the massive alcoholic days.

[1194] I mean, there's nothing that does that to you like that other than massive eating and alcoholism.

[1195] That's so sad.

[1196] It's weird.

[1197] man people just abuse that shit out of their body like that what about size drug cancer what happened to him he was yeah look let's look at him where's he he was he's a friend of mine and I don't you know he's he had some drug issues yeah some serious drug issues yeah he was like he was a great actor right fuck yeah puttoon amazing yeah I mean and also like so many movies he's a savage yeah oh and I saw Michael Matt's in there too oh yeah yeah God, man. It's a bummer.

[1198] It was like, oh my God.

[1199] It's a bummer.

[1200] Well, you have a good sense of humor about the demise of your film career.

[1201] I've seen you joke around about it on stage about like, you know, trying to get TMZ like, hey, pay attention to me, man, I'm over here.

[1202] Yeah.

[1203] You have to.

[1204] Yes.

[1205] Yeah, I think you have to.

[1206] Yeah.

[1207] And the fact is I still have all my money.

[1208] Yeah.

[1209] So I didn't like.

[1210] Right.

[1211] You didn't go crazy.

[1212] No. No. I mean, I still on my house, I don't live in it.

[1213] I live in Silver Lake.

[1214] I have an apartment out there, which I enjoy.

[1215] I like Silver Lake.

[1216] But would I like to live in my big mansion up in the hill?

[1217] I don't know.

[1218] When you rent it out?

[1219] Yeah, at least it out.

[1220] That's smart.

[1221] Yeah, it's a good way to do it.

[1222] Yeah, and I'm one person.

[1223] Right.

[1224] So, yeah, that was the one thing.

[1225] You like living in Silver Lake?

[1226] I like it.

[1227] What do you like about Silver Lake?

[1228] I never understood Silver Lake.

[1229] It's no one bugs you there.

[1230] There's no tour buses.

[1231] There's no billboards.

[1232] There's no Starbucks.

[1233] There's none of that stuff.

[1234] It's different than the Valley.

[1235] It's like all like really cool restaurants, really cool bars.

[1236] It's all like crap stuff.

[1237] People are very quiet.

[1238] You know, you sit, you can write.

[1239] It's very creative.

[1240] It reminds you the East Village in New York.

[1241] That's the vibe.

[1242] Yeah.

[1243] So if you ever go out to the East, so it's like Los Felas.

[1244] I know Bill Burr lives in Los Felis.

[1245] And like that whole area, it's pretty cool.

[1246] And the thing that I really like about it is the architecture there is still old Hollywood.

[1247] Yeah.

[1248] You know, I love the old buildings.

[1249] Like, the building that I live in is, like, in the 1920s.

[1250] Oh, wow.

[1251] So it's got that history.

[1252] And I love that.

[1253] You know, I love that kind of, that history.

[1254] Like, I don't like sunset now.

[1255] You know what I mean?

[1256] Like, the store and, what, the Roxy and the Rainbow are the only places left.

[1257] I know, right?

[1258] Isn't it weird when they, like, when they chop down the house of blues?

[1259] Yeah, it's weird.

[1260] The cool thing is the view now.

[1261] The view from the store is sick.

[1262] Yeah, but what they're probably going to do is build something bigger, though.

[1263] They are.

[1264] They are.

[1265] build a high rise what do you think about the store in the future of the store you're i mean you're thought about it it's never been doing better than it is now it's amazing how packed it is i mean it's sold out every night it's constant but what do you think about the building itself in what way keeping it or not keeping it to do what else would you do well i mean i wouldn't do it but i'm just saying if someone came in and offered a whole bunch of money to knock it down and build a hotel dude i mean what would you think well it would suck for comedy for sure but the laugh actor's probably not doing so hot you can probably take that motherfucker over take the laugh factory over yeah it's like a move down the street but the room's not that that that great of a room no but you might be able to do something else well the thing is the comedy store is perfect that's part of the problem it mean it literally is perfect yeah you have three different like wednesday night i did the hat trick I started out in the belly room or Tuesday night I started out in the belly room I did a set in the main room and I did a set in the OR you know there's not a place in the country where you could do that where you can perform in front of 90 people 400 people and then 150 people I mean and every show was sold out too on a fucking Tuesday night man Tuesday night three sold out shows in Hollywood you know and for me to work out my material like it's so invaluable you know I like to do the Ice House.

[1266] I did the Ice House last night, did like 35 minutes, and I did it with Andrew Santino and Tom Seguera and Tom Papa and Frank Castillo.

[1267] And, you know, it's just these killer lineups.

[1268] And you get awesome shows that people get to have a great time.

[1269] You get to work out and fuck around.

[1270] And like, these clubs around here are so critical.

[1271] They're so important.

[1272] If someone came along and bought the comedy store, I mean, it would be the end of a giant era.

[1273] It would be devastating.

[1274] what do you think about it I think what my mom thinks is leave it alone yeah I wouldn't I wouldn't knock it down well who would be responsible who who who is in charge now well I'm not in charge right so is it Peter Peter yeah yeah yeah well the good thing is that the company starts making money now and a lot of money it's doing really well you know hopefully that's gonna keep getting oh my pleasure man my pleasure I hope it keeps keeps coming and I keep you I hope it, I mean, look, it's the most iconic comedy club in the history of the known universe.

[1275] I agree.

[1276] I agree.

[1277] You know, it's my heart.

[1278] You know what I mean?

[1279] It's where I've been my whole life.

[1280] I walk into that place every day.

[1281] And I feel like I'm walking inside of my mom.

[1282] You know what I mean?

[1283] Like, I really feel like when I'm there, I feel her.

[1284] Don't you?

[1285] Oh, yeah.

[1286] Oh, yeah.

[1287] And it's like, you know, the bar in the, in the back, the back room, that bar, I took it from the Doheny house.

[1288] Oh, that's right.

[1289] Yeah.

[1290] Yeah, because that bar was, was, uh, it was in my mom's house.

[1291] And that's the bar that Kenneson and Pryor and everyone got fucked up on.

[1292] Yeah.

[1293] And we were, we sold the house and I was cleaning it out.

[1294] You know, that's one of the things in the Doc series is I'm like, keep this bar.

[1295] Yeah.

[1296] You know, because it's great.

[1297] And then I had Juan Carlos pick it up and we brought it over to, you know, to Eric in the back, back room.

[1298] And we saved it for you guys.

[1299] That's amazing.

[1300] I did that, you know, so the comics can have that feeling.

[1301] You know, of like Because that bar, the Doheny house Is as iconic as the comedy store Yeah You know, because that's the house That was like the comedy mansion Well, you know, that's Crest Hill, right?

[1302] No, no, the Doherny House from my mom See, I never went to that But I almost bought Crestill Okay You know, when Crestill was for sale A few years back I went to look at it I was going to buy it That would have been perfect for you Yeah, but The vibe It was just I lived there for a while I couldn't commit to living right there Yeah I was like this is just Too derelict.

[1303] Like, I've always been the guy who likes to live away from stuff and then, like, come in and then get some quiet and peace.

[1304] Like, this might be too much to be, like, right above the comedy store and just like, ugh.

[1305] It might be like, I might burn out.

[1306] You know what I mean?

[1307] You know what I'm saying?

[1308] But, like, that room, it's interesting because that back bar is a new place, but it doesn't feel like a new place.

[1309] It feels, like, probably because of that bar and also because it's in the store.

[1310] Right.

[1311] But it's also the old video.

[1312] room.

[1313] Right.

[1314] That's where my mom did.

[1315] It was like the comedy channel.

[1316] That's where she kept all her old videos.

[1317] So it feels like, you know, that.

[1318] That bar's amazing.

[1319] That vibe.

[1320] Yeah.

[1321] It's the coolest place.

[1322] You go back there, Ron Whiteley.

[1323] Except when Delia's there throwing his hair around.

[1324] That doesn't work for me, bro.

[1325] You know what I mean?

[1326] That's not cool, bro.

[1327] Dalia's hilarious.

[1328] Hey man. Hey man. What's going on, man?

[1329] It's hilarious.

[1330] He is hilarious.

[1331] I mean, it's a great crew there now.

[1332] I mean, there's so many funny comics there.

[1333] It's really an amazing time.

[1334] Yeah.

[1335] It's also like a lot of people like, you know, for me, because I've seen the decades of it, there's still nothing like the Kenneson and the prior days.

[1336] You know, like I watch everyone in the back and I'm like they're killing.

[1337] But for some reason, it just doesn't feel like I felt when I watched Sand.

[1338] Well, one of the reasons why, because back then, there had never been anything like that.

[1339] You know, I mean, you think about prior.

[1340] Before Prior came around, who the fuck was like prior?

[1341] No one, you know?

[1342] And Kenison, Kenison was a completely unique kind of talent.

[1343] There'd never been anybody like him before.

[1344] And so now you've seen so much since then.

[1345] They'll never be that uniquely innocent time where people are like, Jesus.

[1346] Yeah, but, but, you know, to respond to the prior thing, when he would, because I saw him for years develop his show there at the store, when he would walk on stage and they would say, ladies and gentlemen, Richard Pryor, it was like, fucking Jesus.

[1347] It was like, people like literally, like, would stand up.

[1348] People were like, no way, fuck, huh, what, huh?

[1349] It was like that type of shit.

[1350] Like Elvis.

[1351] Yeah, like that type of shit.

[1352] So I saw that.

[1353] And there was something so obviously, well, he was just so funny, dude.

[1354] You know what I mean?

[1355] Like, even if his material wasn't funny that night, he was just funny.

[1356] He's a genius.

[1357] Like a real comedy genius.

[1358] And, you know, probably one of the most influential stand -up comedians ever.

[1359] Him and Kinnison.

[1360] I think Kinnison, I mean, I think, obviously, Prior was before him, and Kinnison learned a lot from prior.

[1361] Yeah.

[1362] But Kenison was very groundbreaking in a lot of way.

[1363] Like, there never been anybody like him before.

[1364] Well, yeah, and it's also before Sam got into the, you know, too much of the drugs.

[1365] Like, he had that five -year run, which was fucking insane.

[1366] And I know I was on that run, too, with him.

[1367] I was, like, opening for him for a while on the road.

[1368] And then, like, he started getting, you know what I mean?

[1369] He started going off the deep end.

[1370] Yeah, nobody can sustain that, especially, I mean, did you ever read his brother's book, Brother Sam?

[1371] I didn't read, no, I didn't read.

[1372] It's a great book.

[1373] Yeah.

[1374] And in it, his brother sort of talks about how, Sam just kind of stopped writing because he was partying all the time and his material suffered and you could really feel the difference and nobody could live that rock and roll crazy drug life and still be an awesome creative force like creativity demands your attention.

[1375] Yeah his um I mean I got so many stories with this.

[1376] I'm sure.

[1377] And insane but the um his Rodney Dangerfield young comedian specials were like fucking yeah the second one was just as good as the first one you know the first spot yeah He was a fucking genius.

[1378] Dude, I got to get out of here, unfortunately.

[1379] I ought to squeeze this in today to get you on, but I wanted everybody to know about it.

[1380] And so tell people where they could see this on Funny or Die.

[1381] Yeah, just go to Funny or Die.

[1382] Check out the Stephen Miller clip.

[1383] Also, Crackle, my show on Crackle.

[1384] And I'll be coming out with some documentary stuff.

[1385] And Pauly Shore stands alone is on Amazon right now, if you haven't seen that.

[1386] And Pauly Shore on Twitter.

[1387] Which is Pauly Shore.

[1388] Instagram, Polly Shore, Snap, Pauly Shore.

[1389] And Myspace.

[1390] Corey Feldman.

[1391] All right, brother.

[1392] I'll see you at the store.

[1393] Thank you.

[1394] Thank you.

[1395] Polly Shore, ladies and gentlemen.