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Episode 149: Modi and Periel are joined by the ultimate comedian's comedian, Dave Attell.
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Welcome to, and here's Mody. Welcome to, and here's Mody. Welcome to, and here's Mody. I can't believe this guest that we have today, dave Attell. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for having me. Everyone, he's. It's a legend. We have a legend.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, you know I'm not a big compliment guy. I knew he was going to be upset if we said something like that.
Speaker 1:I know, not in front of the rented plants.
Speaker 2:This is like a sting operation. That's how they pull down. Delorean Modi, it's great to see you and, of course, always again, I love how busy you are, how forward-thinking you are and how you really go for it. And, um, I remember doing the uh, the Brooklyn festival with you and Long Gold and like uh, just seeing it grow and grow and grow. It was packed. I said to Jeff Ross, I'm like, look at this man, look at this crowd, and we were both very impressed.
Speaker 1:Thank you and we were so happy you were there and, uh, I, I, I, I know you. You don't like being complimented.
Speaker 3:Complimented.
Speaker 1:You don't, yeah, but people you know, comedians those of you in the world who do not know who David Tell is, just so you know it's the utmost comics. Comic Comedians look up to him and are in shock. When he's on stage, they run down to go see it and you learn so much from him. And comics that go on tour with you that are your opening acts. When they come back, they all speak with your cadence.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's so amazing to see that you spend enough time with someone. You're going to end up talking Like look at a marriage At the end of the day, like it's like one person talking so.
Speaker 1:I, I. I will say I never toured with David Tell, I never opened for David Tell.
Speaker 2:Well cause, I worked Friday nights. Oh wait, that's why.
Speaker 1:Sorry, no, no. But I will tell you one thing when coming up in comedy you know I began in 1994 at the Cellar, but every time you were at caroline's, oh yeah, I would always come in to watch. Oh, and I never forget when I saw, sometimes you did two shows in a night and you get bored, so you would kind of like lose the audience a little bit and then get them back again and kind of like lose them a little bit and then get is. Is that a thing you you did on purpose or no?
Speaker 2:I I think for like years. I I'm glad you brought up Caroline's because that is definitely an icon club of the comedy world that is no longer with us. It was very sad when that went down but I was always there the weekend between Christmas and New Year's. It was supposedly the best weekend to have the club because there's a lot of tourists in town and, like you get the traffic because it's in Times Square. So you get like that kind of energy, that traffic and people come in and they want to see the show. So I would sell it out. You know, I'm not going to say I wouldn't, but I would sell it out.
Speaker 2:But it was like not the best comedy crowd. They were like families, you know. They just were walking past Rockefeller Center. You know, lighting a tree, I don't't know. They got an idea we want to get in. It's cold. They'd be sitting there. So it'd be like three generations of, like you know, connecticut people sitting there wearing their sweaters and you're like this is my crowd. This is not a rough and ready crowd, so I would get them, lose them, but I would say that the uh, the the thing about what I do if you want to get into comedy.
Speaker 2:Comedy is that like I'm always like you know a joke away from figuring it out. So that's why I try a lot of things Like I like jokes. I like really kind of you know fast in and out kind of jokes, but like at the end of the day, like I never have enough, and that's the problem. It's like if I was a storyteller, if I was uh, you know a different kind of comic, then like I could really kind of lock them in for the whole show. But with me it's always like start, stop, you know. It's kind of like you know, uh, like a web connection like it's working, it's not. You know a bad, you know bad service.
Speaker 1:So so you're more joke, joke, it's yeah, I'm a joke guy, that's my thing, and they're amazing. No, but like, and you go okay, let's get, let's start some, let's do something I know work and then you just start to do oh, yeah, then I I always feel, like you know, you should be able to bend the joke, like you know, really test it out in different situations.
Speaker 2:You know, and back then this was before the TikTok crowd work situation, like you know, you never know like a drunk holiday crowd when you're going to have to interject with the crowd or you want to dive into the crowd. So there was a lot of that there and I really have a lot of great like memories of that club. I mean, it really was like it was a very big deal, as you know, to headline Caroline's. I was like you were like, wow, this is pretty amazing, I'm headlining Caroline's now. So I had been, you know, in the comedy scene for a long time and it was like you finally get to headline there and, like you know, you feel like I've hit another level of this.
Speaker 1:So well, you, you also had an. You also had a television show that was unbelievable.
Speaker 2:Well, thank you um insomnia, which was, which was, which was it's really pretty much my only credit, so I might as well just talk get it out. It's like, yeah, it was great, it was a travel show, it was a drinking show, but you know, the years afterwards were really tough, you know. You know, going shot for shot, you know, like with pounding it with the crowd and like it really like kind of you know a lot of dark places there and I would say that the people who watched it, you know, were too young to come see me live. So when I would go on tour I was like where are these people? And they would never be there.
Speaker 2:So there was a lot of like pluses and minuses to that experience. In a way. I feel like it kind of it really I don't even know what to say. It's like I'm good on my feet and it say it's like I'm good on my feet and that it was my idea to do a kind of show like that. But in today's world I really feel like there's so many things like that. Now everybody is a travel log. Yes, you know you, you see it too, like generationally I mean, I'm older than you, for sure but generally say, everybody has that skill set now of just like going to a place and like turning it into something.
Speaker 1:So no one. No one did it like you and and no one did crowd work like you, and you'd almost think that everything that you did was like almost set up the Insomnia Show. He would go around everywhere that was at night and he would speak to like the garbage.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I love the late night jobs. That was really the point, the late night jobs.
Speaker 3:Well, you, still famously only like to go on late at night, right? Yes?
Speaker 2:thanks for interjecting. Finally, this love fest was kind of dragging me down, Thanks Modi.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do a little more love. I'm just going to tell you. So again, I didn't tour with you, but I got to help you decorate your apartment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, well, what happened? She was going to say something, but, yeah, all right, we can get back to it. Okay. But, um, yes, modi, and who was your friend there? Who's like now so big? We could never, ever imagine chris ben's. Yeah, like I lucked out and I got like, um, I don't know, it'd be like getting picasso before he's picasso exactly when was this?
Speaker 2:10 years ago, because I just repainted and um, it's so funny because you remember modi gave, modi gave it a great touch you know to the point where, like I remember sitting there alone, you know, I was like wow, this really is built for like conversation and friends and parties and all the dishware I got and everything. I still have all that stuff. But it was just funny. The only thing out of place there is me. Modi set it up like a nice, warm, loving home and I come, I move in and it's just like you know I'm squatting in my own house.
Speaker 1:Sometimes he calls me up. He says to me hey, I bought an apartment and I just need, like, maybe you tell me to show me where the sofa should go and the tv should go. I walk and I go dave. We have to gut this entire place out.
Speaker 3:Oh my god it was insane.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you something about my place that the the my guy, the guy. He goes, you know, somebody saw your apartment and they did it too with the floor, because I have a stone floor, you know which is great. I picked it out, coming out of a shower, you know.
Speaker 1:I picked it out and we did it with Tile Bar. They gave you an amazing discount because they loved you. The guys Orthodox Jewish guys loved it.
Speaker 3:I just went to Tile Bar.
Speaker 2:I wanted to put my head through a pane of glass.
Speaker 3:Wait, is this a sponsor? No, he's not. You gotta get.
Speaker 2:Tile Bar. We gotta. No one wants to get Tile Bar. If you want tile, you gotta get Tile Bar. It was such a great thing we did.
Speaker 1:We did these huge slots of, and it so fits him. It's so great, and beautiful rugs on top of it.
Speaker 3:And do you love it, or are you just like oh?
Speaker 2:that was like I haven't even I, anything that we decorated I took down already. I like the walls, like I guess it's from living in hotels. It's just like there's something calming about nothing on the walls, like institutionalized, like there's just something about that. But I have no taste, I really don't care. I mean like it's great that he like at least came in and gave it some, you know some. It's a great place. I mean like. I mean like I'm totally I'm not moving. You know I don't have the money anymore to move, but I would just say that, you know, thanks to Modi and his friend, it really has a cool look.
Speaker 1:It's his cool painting and everything like that and so, and so the people talk about comedians that are nocturnal. It's like they think, oh, we go to bed at 2 pm, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm still on Coke time. No, I'm still on. Like I have a terrible clock. I drink coffee all night long, like that was like my drink. I remember one of the other comics, louis Katz, who's also a member of the tribe, very funny guy. Yeah, Louis Katz. He said, you know, you got to start drinking water and I'm like what? And then I just started and I was like wow, it really does make a difference. But how about you?
Speaker 1:Coffee, coffee, a cafe probably Coffee, but only until like 2 or 3 pm.
Speaker 2:You always take good care of yourself.
Speaker 1:What was great about you was whenever we were looking for stuff like sofas or tables, whatever I realized, you only had a 17-minute attention span to be in a store.
Speaker 3:So I would go.
Speaker 1:I would go earlier, yeah, all the options out Right. And told him, dave, here's, here's, here's what I think we should do for the chair, the table, the bed in the and he was like fine. No he was yeah.
Speaker 2:I was always like I'd like to see more choices.
Speaker 3:I'm so indecisive, I'm so indecisive. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God, and it wouldn't have mattered.
Speaker 2:Everything he picked was classy and good, and I would say that it's like you know, restoration hardware is really like. That's where I fell apart, because I was like not only is it expensive, but it's just like things you can never imagine, like you know. Know, like I'm used to like yeah, you got, you got some room over there, put a sea chest. Why not throw some pillows in there? It looks kind of cool, you know, you don't know, maybe it's a treasure, you know. But turn, there's like everything, there is like way out of my league no but dave at at uh room and board.
Speaker 1:We went to pick a bed and he turned to the sales but I picked out all these fabrics I thought would be amazing that would match, and also the floor and the rug that I was going to pick out for him. And he turns to the salesperson, says to her which leather for a headboard is the least creepy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really that's what he said. I'm like a 70s feel there. Luckily she knew who he was.
Speaker 1:She knew who dave was it was.
Speaker 2:It was a great all right room and board. I give a shout out to those guys easy returns, easy returns talk to me.
Speaker 3:Your family comedy today, yes, um, what do I see going? All right, room and board. I give a shout out to those guys Easy returns, easy returns, talk to me.
Speaker 2:Your fan base, comedy Today. Yes, what do I see going on? I see that you know there's the live shows and then there's all this web stuff, this content and podcasting and content and podcasting and like that seems to be the real job of it. In the past, like for me at least, it was the travel, like getting there, checking in a hotel. You know you might have to do morning radio all day, okay, but now it's like consistently connecting, connecting, connecting, basically eyeballs, eyeballs, eyeballs. And I really don't know how these young kids do it. I guess they're used to doing it because they grew up that way. What do you think of that? They grew up that way.
Speaker 3:What do you think of that? I think that it's just part of the game. Now, like, you have to be online, you have to be doing social media but I don't know. I feel like, for somebody like you, somebody else should be doing that. I have a great person that works for me.
Speaker 2:But I'm a private person, Like I really don't like to put myself out there. I mean, I do the show. I'm not a. I'm not like wanting to be any higher in this business than I am, I'm just holding ground. But, like for somebody like Modi, I think it's awesome because you've connected to a group, to, to a fan base that really wasn't being represented. So I think that's awesome how that worked that way. But for me, personally, I would say that, like you know, if I had my, if I had my my, uh, if I could, if I could just let it happen, I would say that, like you know, if I had my, if I had my my, if I could, if I could just let it happen, I would be like, okay, well, I'll go there and I'll play to a half full room. I mean, if people are so into me, they should know I'm going to go. You know, I posted it on my site. What more am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1:You know. But that's the old school thinking, you know, it's selfish. So I, you know, I say to everybody be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show, just because you see a comedy show is going to be in town. Ladies and gentlemen, I can't even tell you. If you see david, tell I'm going to go through your dates. Yeah, get tickets to this show. You are going to plots. He's so funny, he's so amazing. The comics you travel with are great.
Speaker 2:Ian and uh, ian fidance and lou Katz, alex Price, I mean a lot of great ones, ryan Reese but that's why I'm hitting some of the cultural heartland for our people. Yeah, louisville, kentucky. No, I'm kidding. No, I'm going to the south, I'm going north, I'm going all over the place. Give some of the dates so people get a feel.
Speaker 3:April 25th, Cincinnati.
Speaker 2:You're saying it like it's a question I'm going.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm handing you oh yeah. I mean.
Speaker 2:I'll just put it down Cincinnati, louisville, raleigh, all of them, they're all out there. What's up? Oh then I'm going to Denver, colorado, which is a cool story, because Colorado is an awesome. When am I going to be there?
Speaker 3:You're going to be in Denver on June 19th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Comedy Works downtown is probably one of the best clubs in America. That place rocks all the time. The crowds are hot, the acoustics are amazing. That's where I shot my album there, and you know, never, I think. The only thing I'm up against is it's summer, and summer in Colorado. People are out. You know, there's a music fest, there's a jam band, you know there's something going on there.
Speaker 1:There's Dave Attell at a comedy club which is nothing gets better than that.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think that's true. I would go to the free stuff and then maybe come to the show.
Speaker 3:That's not a great pitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, but I don't you know, at the end of the day I'm like maybe you know it's time of year, I don't know. Moving tickets has never been harder and I do not blame it people. The economy is rough out there. It is scary, but when I come down I give it my all and I think you'll have a good time.
Speaker 3:And where can people buy tickets? I?
Speaker 2:would just go to my site and you could see all the links David's L dot com and you know. But we've talked a lot about me. I want to talk about us for a second. Okay, how this situation is working, and when do I get to sit on the couch? Now, Modi.
Speaker 3:You want to switch seats?
Speaker 2:You brought up a lot of stuff here tonight, caroline's, all that kind of stuff. What's the next step? Talk show, a sitcom, a movie what are you thinking For me, or you, I? A movie what are you thinking For me or you, I'm done? Dude, you're talking to a ghost, I'm out. I'm just trying to get out. Let's hear it. You, you, you, you, you're the guest, you're the guest. Yeah, but I want to hear what you're thinking, where things are going, what's happening.
Speaker 1:We're going to keep touring, just keep touring.
Speaker 2:So let me tell you what's your life on the road Tori.
Speaker 1:I'm very blessed I have a husband that comes with me, leo, leo, great man, great man, and he everything that has to that a young comic is. I'm living in the world of a young comedian because he handles all of the everything. Yeah, we've just signed with a new management company.
Speaker 2:But is it in and out? Like you do the gig, you fly out kind of like Vegas style yes, unless it's in and out. So you don't like stay and like enjoy the scenery or anything. Like you know, you go to Europe right.
Speaker 1:Are you going to take a tour? When we do that? When we go to Europe, we stay an extra few days. He loves London, and so we will spend an extra few days in London. We're going to Paris and we spend an extra few days in Paris, and you know that kind of. But if I'm doing a show in Omaha, nebraska, which I am, we're not making a thing of it. I don't want to see the whatever museum they have, we come and we do the show and we leave.
Speaker 1:If it's in the winter, we come the day before, so we don't have any problems with travel, but that you know the travel.
Speaker 2:You're a better flyer than me. I really can't do more than six hours at this point. My colon, my everything, it's really like the paranoia of being in a thing. It just shut me down. I mean, I traveled a lot on that show. I've traveled for the last 30 plus years. But the fact that you international travel the way you do, I'm pretty like I thought by now you'd be going private. But let's face it, things are.
Speaker 1:We're getting there. Yeah, no, that's what I see, that's what I'm thinking. We're trying to work on it, and television stuff too. We're looking at different options coming up. I taught you. I think it would be awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, but back to Europe and you were just there. I haven't been there in years. Like I remember playing England. This is how long ago I played England. It was George Bush Jrr, the second bush. Yes, they were heckling me about him, you know the first gulf war so uh, they were nice little hecklers there.
Speaker 2:But I played um london. Oh wait, I played that. And then I played ireland and I played uh, holland, which was probably that. That to me is like the classic european. This was before like comedy became cool, so like it was. Tom Rose was the only guy who really did this. He was like the Marco Polo of comedy. He was everywhere all over the world Vietnam, everything, yeah, but uh, you know, in um in in these countries. So you know, they really didn't. They knew it was entertainment, but it wasn't the kind of entertainment they were used to. But they still were so polite they would give you like a little applause and I was like it was like this was like weird, you know. And then I did like a lot of us. I've done a lot of us tours, so I've done like all these different things of like in the middle east, but it's like you know the troops, so no, but I feel like, I feel like if you don't like to fly, you could like fly into europe and then do like a bunch of europe, cities.
Speaker 3:Yeah, take a train. That's not bad. It's all about economics.
Speaker 2:I can't really leave the country because of my mom. My mom has dementia. There's a lot of people out there who are the primary care people for someone in that condition and it is very, very emotionally, financially and physically exhausting. So God bless my sister, who's a real angel for doing the nuts and bolts I'm the finance guy and it really is like anytime you leave, even being on the road for two days, I'm calling what's going on there, what's happening, and God bless, we have good round the clock care. I have that she's not in a facility or anything like that. And Modi, who also is a angel can I tell your story or no? What's my story? The neighbor you took care of this old man for like how long was that?
Speaker 1:You took care of him like 15 years when we were doing your apartment, we were-.
Speaker 2:It was heartbreaking.
Speaker 1:I was taking care of. Down the hall there was a Holocaust survivor, hirsch Huber. I was taking care of him, I was telling you the stories, what was going on with him, and you were telling me stories about going with you, with your mom, and we were like sharing stories of being health givers and and health care providers.
Speaker 2:There is, there is something up there, is something up high that like let you let him live next to you, cause not everybody would do that. Not everybody would do that, you know, especially in New York, where it's like you know who's like living next to me? What are they doing?
Speaker 3:What are they saying? That you jumped in and he had no family.
Speaker 2:You know slow down, just so everybody who's listening can catch up. Okay, I'm trying to give Modi some serious props. He had a neighbor. He was a Holocaust survivor. Okay, he had meant. What was it? Cognitive? Did he have dementia, alzheimer's, whatever it was?
Speaker 1:So he had a little bit of dementia probably ptsd he got uh but that he had the holocaust survivor, but he was down the hall for me, so for me it was so easy. I we arranged through um, this jewish uh alliance thing, that for him to have health care. Something went wrong, a miracle happened that they made a mistake and then, because of that mistake, he had around the clock health care, which I was in charge of them.
Speaker 1:So I was the call guy, I was the. I took him to the hospitals. I took him, I was the healthcare proxy. It was a full-time job.
Speaker 2:My sister does this, but it was down the hall.
Speaker 1:It wasn't you. When you drive to see your mom, you're driving in Long Island traffic. Three hours on Easter to get there. It's insane Wow.
Speaker 2:To walk in the room and who are you? So it's really like one of those kinds of situations, but my mom deserves the best. She's the best person I ever met, so I'm there until they pull me away. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so we shared that. We always had the stories of what's going on with the person that we were taking care of and, um, he passed away um 92, 93, he really yeah. We got him to israel and we buried him in the middle of covid. God bless man.
Speaker 3:Wow, what an crazy experience and then leo came and leo started helping to take care of him too, right, he loved leo, oh that, oh, that's great.
Speaker 1:When he saw Leo, automatically there was a huge smile on his face. It was the best thing in the world. We would set him up outside his apartment to eat alfresco. We bought a little table and a chair and just so he'd get out of his apartment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, something to do.
Speaker 1:And he'd sit outside. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:I knew all the cookies and all the food he loved and he'd sit outside and eat them and you were the amount you gave him a life. You know that was great. I always, I always. Like you know, there's a lot of comics out there like who are dealing with this? Like older, you know, and there's. You know I don't have a family, I don't have children, I don't have a wife or anything, but, like you know, you got to be good to what you got and like you know, that I guess you could say is my purpose for why I'm still out there right now is to keep her in a safe, loving environment. I believe if I put her in a facility during COVID she would have died.
Speaker 2:I'm sure, and I think also, she just would have withered, which is, you know, at least now. She's not good, but she's maintaining. And I don't mind talking about this because I'm I. You know it took me a long time to post a picture of my mother on the web, cause it's like my family. You know, the one thing I don't want to do is bring shame on my family, and I've, you know, I had a rough life, so posting a picture of my mother was just like. She has a great day. We all want to share it and her 90th birthday is coming up and I hope I'm here to see it. It's coming in like a month or so and she is holding on, and God bless.
Speaker 2:And really, to the people out there who basically had to move cross country to live with a relative, this is happening all the time. And it's happening to younger people too, where it's like, you know, people in their thirties like, well, I moved out to San Diego, but now I got to move back because I have to go back to wherever you know, missouri, because my parents are sick and I and there's no one else can take care of them and it really what, and all kinds of stuff. So it's very dramatic situation, you know right, and I don't think any of the political people really get it. You know it's very exhausting and there should be some kind of some kind of way people can like do this with like a little grace, you know, maybe some benefits or whatnot that can help. So anyway, I don't want to get on a uh, you know, podcast and start pounding that how about you?
Speaker 2:like I. I really feel like I only see you either at a Modi, like opening or function, but like, how about you?
Speaker 3:The last time I saw you was at the Nova exhibit, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you remember we all said outside, I was like man, I don't know. You know, like, with the protests in full swing, I was like wow, do they even know about this place? And I think the next day it was like boom.
Speaker 3:No, it was right when we left. Oh was it. It was right after we left that it was exploded. Yeah, it really did.
Speaker 2:I invited all the survivors who were like working the exhibit, like how amazingly like are these people that they can pretty much like 180 to go? Like you know, I need to like be a part of this probably the most horrible thing that's ever happened you know so we, so we have you know when?
Speaker 1:that, when we did the 100th episode of this, of this podcast, yeah, at the 92nd street, why, yes? And she asked me who's your dream guest? It was you, but the one that above you was omar shemtov, one of the hostages. Oh, and now he's coming. He was, oh, great, and we're doing an event with him at the striker center and he's um, you know, we had his cousin on and we had um family of his aunt. Yes, and I did an event in my synagogue for for the hostages and, uh, on the past october 7th the year after, and you know, she always kept saying to me it's so funny that you, kind of like, connected with him because he has an amazing sense of humor yeah, that's what the people working there I said, because it was a lot of comedy selling people, which is our, like my home club.
Speaker 2:You know there's a lot of great clubs, that's my home club, I guess, and I said we have to get them to a show like they they want to come and they really really they had like this really kind of dark sense of humor and I was like, yeah, why wouldn't they? You know, like that's like trial, you know combat, so why wouldn't they? So I don't know if they came or not. I know that it was a traveling exhibit, so it was a traveling exhibit.
Speaker 2:I don't know what they did, comedy wise, but I mean I, I you stepped up, brother, and you also went there like pretty much you were there and then you were there during the war, and then we went back twice since then and we're going back again.
Speaker 1:We're going back again. I can't, I can't wait.
Speaker 2:You have so many miles on me now with this, so many miles, like, in the world. You've traveled throughout the world, so what would you say is like, you know, like, let's rate the world in terms of comedy. Like where do they, where do they step up the most? Like where's the crowd pumping?
Speaker 1:You know, I am in love always with Canada.
Speaker 2:Oh, damn it Canada, both Toronto oh yeah, I mean they have great, yeah, Great on. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say like Luxembourg you know, it's the hidden gem of the London's Well, florida's Florida. Florida is coming. It's like London's well Florida's Florida. Florida is coming. It's like Jesus walking into Jerusalem. You know, it's Florida's Florida I can't explain.
Speaker 2:That's your thing, man.
Speaker 1:That's Florida's Florida.
Speaker 3:Better than.
Speaker 1:New York. I'm going to say it's right there with New York.
Speaker 3:Wow, florida's.
Speaker 1:Florida.
Speaker 3:Florida's Florida. That's my audience.
Speaker 1:Don't forget, I was also a Catskill comic, oh.
Speaker 2:I did forget.
Speaker 1:That whole audience moved down to Florida and they're kids and all that. So they, you know they and all three generations are sitting at my show. There's the kids, their parents and the grandparents who saw me in the Catskills, yeah, and so it's an amazing, amazing situation.
Speaker 2:That's like another comedy skill set that no longer is with us, is that you know the Catskill comic where he can go up there, he can do it clean, he could do it blue, Like you said. There's like little kids there, there's, you know, the whole family. And then there's the late night show, which is the singles you know, and they, they would have to do that and they'd be there for like a month, Right, they would be there like the whole summer.
Speaker 1:You know the whole summer, cause they had all that work. Yeah, there was one hotel that housed all the comedians. Yeah, so there's comedians would do three shows a night. That's done any of those. Yet I don't think I can. I'm so dirty. A cruise ship, doesn't Bert Bergreiser? Yeah, doesn't he do those comedy cruises and all that stuff, bert?
Speaker 2:is amazing man, this guy. He never stops. He just launched a special on Netflix, so you guys should check it out. I feel like he is definitely when it comes to content and connecting with an audience. He could teach a course on it, you know, he's so good at it. And he also, like, every day he gets up and he's like you know, what can I do with this day? Like he makes the most of a day Like I've never. I went on the little tours with him and like I've been on a tour bus, you know, but he's got it down to like a science man. It's like a on a certain diet. So, you know, god bless him, man. I loved being a part of his things.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad to hear that I'm dying to ask you because I see you on that Kill Tony show. Yeah, how? So? My favorite comedy to watch is comedy that I don't do. So obviously, you, I and besides, and please let me just give you the current and besides, and you, and please let me just give you the, the current, how current you are with what's happening in the world. And then when I tell you, I remember that when we're doing his apartment, he said to me Modi, I found something that's amazing. I go what? I'm like, please, god, he found something that we don't have to pick anymore A clipboard. I go what? Oh, yeah, he discovered a clipboard to hold his notes for his comedy. Yeah, okay, but hold on, but let me finish here. So you, you, you, so I, I don't. One of my favorite comics to watch is to take two hits of a joint and watch cat Williams.
Speaker 3:I can't breathe.
Speaker 1:I can't breathe. I'm on the sofa, curled up.
Speaker 3:We can't catch my breath.
Speaker 1:Leo's looking at me like like I Like I have a problem. I can't believe that. Two hits of a joint. I watch Cat Williams. I can't catch my breath.
Speaker 3:Cat Williams saved my life after a horrible breakup. For like six months straight I would just get stoned and watch videos of Cat and I would just sit there and cry laughing.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. And now I see you on Kill Tony.
Speaker 2:What is that vibe? Oh well, I was going to give some props to Cat too. I was going to give some props to Cat too. I was going to say, like you know, being comfortable in an arena, like that's like. You know, some people are like Chappelle, like he could do the smallest of clubs, he could do the biggest of things, but he's always, you know, he owns the space. I love that. Cat's another guy where it's like he has that long table, you know, and it's just him like basically going.
Speaker 2:You know, and like tony cat, cat williams, no, but the kill tony thing and and you know, like, uh, there's a lot of like, you know, uh, talk about the show. I feel like this is the, this is the, definitely this is this generation's like. I don't even know what to compare it to, but like I guess, uh, this is, this is the show that they're going to be. Like I get the most, I get the most. Hey, I saw you on kill Tony and unless you've been on kill Tony, they don't know you're a comic. So kill Tony is the touch, is the, is the new, like gateway to comedy for a lot of the young audience. They love it. I think what they like about it is the gladiatorial feel to it and how, like you know, tony, and he, he's a cool dude, like I know he comes there it's like an ice man, you know, like he's shutting them down but he's a cool dude and like he takes care of his only like that, that group of comics, you know he takes care of them and takes them out and, like you know, they built careers off of this platform. So but for me, like, when, like keep them going. But these, you know, there it's like you know you're basically up there tough loving them, you know, and a lot of them aren't new anymore, like I think you know, like the gong show kind of feel, where they're like recurring characters. So God bless them. They're selling tickets, they're on the road. They never would have had that career if it wasn't for Tony.
Speaker 2:And if you've been to Austin to a live kill Tony show or the Madison Square Garden, there is an energy there. It's like a prize fight, there's like this crazy energy. And you see, you look at the crowd, like my crowd's older 30s, 40s, 50s, you know and his crowd they're young, they're, you know, like tech people, you know, whatever they do and they love it and it's like everybody you know, women, men, just like everybody just loves the whole thing of it and he puts on a great show. The one thing I could say about tony is that, you know, he's got the band, he's got the style and like it fits out of madison square garden. It's not like one of those like, oh, we're gonna run out of show here. No, he fit, he fit, you know. So, uh, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I mean, I 30s, 40s and 50s is not old for an audience by the way?
Speaker 2:Well, that's your Florida audience. Is the next step? Right 18 to 88 is Florida what 18 to 88.
Speaker 2:I'll say one thing about audiences that the younger the audience, the less connection you have with them. But also they bring in the. They bring in the. They bring in the. You look at the guy laughing in the back, the older guy who's lived a life, who's failed, who's made horrible choices. He gets you. But these young people who are basically connected to a device, who've never actually made a choice, they just clicked and liked and all that stuff. And they never had to make like should I move? Should I move to St Louis? Or what should I do? Am I going to join the Air Force? They haven't done that yet. So to do, am I going to join the Air Force? Like they haven't done that yet. So they kind of have a clean slate. They kind of look at you like whoa, you're not allowed to do that. You know why would you do that? Why would you put yourself in that position?
Speaker 1:You know, like that, kind of thing that's interesting. But they're also so jaded now with that crowd work they just think everything.
Speaker 2:Are they or are they not their crowd work? The crowd clips that they've been watching, you know debatable, like you know, some are better than others. I think Jay Oakerson just put out a second part crowd work special. That's crowd work. That's like really like go for the throat, you know. But also like get to know them and the people, his crowd, the Legion of Skank, the you know all of his shows, they get him and they're there Like they get him. Like Jay brings a lot of like people, like from all different walks of life, and they get them. So that's the kind of crowd work that I know that I grew up on and like the other kind that you see is kind of this gentle, like you know, whoa, look who wore a sweater, you know I don't get that you know.
Speaker 1:Right. No, yours was with alcohol.
Speaker 2:It was so layered, it was so good. You always had something to bam right back. Well, it was a knife fight back then, like in the, you know, you know why. You know why it was like that. Because there was a lot of people came with the attitude I'm from long island, which is, like, you know, you better be funny. You've gotten this as well many a time. Well, you better be funny, or you know, I can get up there and do what you do. So you have to kind of prove yourself every night. Now, there's nothing like that. It's basically you're here to tell your truth. You know, this is my point of view in the world and like, if you doubt that, or like have a strong opinion against it, there's something wrong with you. But back in the day, like I always bring this up like pips on, you know, in Brooklyn, like, if that I forget even who ran the club at this point, but it was just like I remember him just telling people like you're not funny, get them.
Speaker 2:You know like that kind of thing. Like you know, get that. Well, what is that? Get off of my. You know, like they really. You know they were little Kings, they ran like these little kingdoms, so now they would be like you know, basically, you know, uh, on the web canceled all that kind of stuff. So you know, I don't know. I mean I used to think like it was a cool thing to be a comic. Now I'm not so sure. You know, oh, come on, it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1:I mean, I love doing it, but I think it's really not special or anything. You've made so many people happy.
Speaker 2:All throughout the years, hundreds and hundreds. But no, I would. I'm glad I got to meet the people, I did and I got to go places, I did and all that stuff. But you know there's a, you know there's a lot of comics now, you know and like, uh, there's some really good ones too, and I'm not going to like look down on anybody but like I go in at the end that's what we started this with just to see if I can follow them. Now, at the end, which usually, like you know you had to, you had to like really bring it. Now it's like can I follow this person who just did 15 minutes of great energy material that connected with this young crowd? So it's really kind of like, my kind of like, I guess you could say, like the movie the Wrestler, I'm still do, I still got it.
Speaker 1:As someone who's watching you, as someone who's watching you when you do go on. After five comedians are just killed with 15 minutes of just crazy energy, the audience five comedians are just killed with 15 minutes of just crazy energy the audience goes oh wow, here's the real thing.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know about that. Yes, yes, I think there's a lot of really, really really good new comics out there.
Speaker 1:There's great new comics and they're great and they're doing great and they taught themselves from YouTube videos and from all and they're great. But there's also an audience now for it. There's a bigger, huger audience for comedy.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's mutually exclusive too. I think nobody's doing what you do, I don't know about that. No, I'm saying like I think so, like I think that like there are there are so many more comics, and like it's easier to try to be a comedian now because people are using their phones and all this social media, but but that's not what you're doing are we?
Speaker 2:are we the? Are we the problem, or are they?
Speaker 3:maybe that's what I don't know their generation. That's what comedy is.
Speaker 2:You know like, uh, you know like that's what it is for them, and you know we don't kind of measure. You know it's it's kind of like. You know like you know, just like the changing of the guard know it's it's kind of like. You know like you know, just like the changing of the guard, like that's their, the, what they find funny, and the people who put that out are comedians, whereas in our generation it's like you had to go to a place you had to commit to a night being there, and but a really really old, wise club owner said to me I believe it was in nashville he goes.
Speaker 2:You know the days of just like going to a comedy show, no matter who's there over, no one will ever just go. Like I feel like a laugh. What do you want to do? Let's just go to a show and have a good time. And that usually was like the worst crowd. By the way, it was always like the bachelor party that wandered in. But still, he's so right, because everybody is too informed they can watch. I've got this a million times, like I've been watching you on YouTube all day. You know like that kind of thing, like like they're going to check my plays or something. So I'm like, no, everybody knows what they're getting into. And yet there still is this kind of like sense of oh, so this is what it is, and it's really hard for a crowd to disconnect from the phone to pay attention, especially when it's, like you know, there's things going on drinking food and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I'm going to get. So just to get back to you with that, I'm a little disagreeing with you. I have, at my meet and greets, people telling me I go to bed with you every night. My husband knows I go to bed with you every night because I watch all your clips before I go to bed. It helps me calm down, sleep, whatever, and and you are working at a comedy club and you don't understand how people don't understand how hard that is. I recently was in, I did the Pittsburgh Improv.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great club.
Speaker 1:Top of the line, improv Top of the line places, really, and great crowds too. So I've been working theaters and I forgot about the food. Yeah, it's been like two, three years since I've been in that situation, whoa. Yeah, first of all, they ordered everything food, not only that, so the order coming, and then they packaged it up to go, all right. So that was now there's boxes on the table and the check, and I had no opening act. I just I had an hour and 20 minutes I needed wow.
Speaker 2:So I just can't barely do 45 minutes, I know I know you never.
Speaker 1:You never do it for an hour.
Speaker 2:It's like the new material. Like you know, I get rid of the old. I tried a joke from my last special of Hot Cross Buns on stage and like I even forgot like how it went. I was like whoa Same.
Speaker 1:Same. I taped my Know your Audience. I forgot the bits. I've been so busy with this new show and I just forgot the bits. And Leo knows them by heart.
Speaker 2:Oh, so you whispered in your earpiece.
Speaker 1:And people are like well, people are very happy that I'm not doing those old bits because they've seen them nonstop, but I'm doing the Pause for Laughter tour now. That I'm doing now it's an hour and 20 minutes of new material Awesome. And now I'm going to the cellar, uh, this sunday and next week to work on some new stuff. Wow, to, to, to, to. Yeah. All all inspiration of you spending time with you when you built your apartment and being with you and just watching like I would get to you and again. So I had gone to sleep and woke up to meet him at 11, but he had already been up. Yeah, yeah, I don't sleep. He doesn't sleep At all At all Wanted Wanted.
Speaker 1:So he'd hit me with like his three jokes I just wrote and I'm like I'm the worst comic in the world.
Speaker 2:No, no, I like to check jokes with other people. We call it joke checking, where I'll call up somebody and I'll go have you heard anything like this? Does somebody do anything like that? And then you do the joke and then you feel like you know, like a year later or whatever, three months later it's like uh, one of the um you know, like, uh, I'm trying to think of, like you know it.
Speaker 2:Now, I think with all of this web, everything is a joke and a meme and a this that, like it's so impossible to check something, a new idea it takes out. I feel like it takes hours. I mean, maybe AI could help. You know joke checking. But uh, you know, I have no idea. But it's really like you know you do it because you don't want to do anybody's stuff. And you also, like you know, you realize, like I do now that I realize that, like um, you know jokes are disposable, even though you kind of like you know they're like your little, like child, you know you grow them and then you like toss them out to the world and all that kind of stuff. But yeah, jokes are jokes and like after every special, I'm sure you feel the same way.
Speaker 2:You're like what do I do now? I have to go on stage at this club. I really have no new material. I don't know if they all saw it or not, but I want to start doing the new material and that is the beginning of the build. I feel like that's the most frightening time for comedy when the guy starts building the hour, the person has to start building a new hour. So I just and we all do it on stage in front of people, instead of like it's not like an art piece. Like you know, I'm working on a sculpture and then I'm going to bring it out, so everybody gets to see the process 100%. So there's definitely balls to this job, you know, I think so. But you know, at the end of the day, there's a lot of voices out there, there's a lot of noise and there's a lot of. You know there's a lot of. You know ways to entertain yourself, not by not going, but I think that that's true of every single art form?
Speaker 2:Oh, for sure.
Speaker 3:And I still think that the great voices of comedy. I don't think I'm great.
Speaker 2:I'm barely good sometimes. I would say it's a craft and like, the more you put into it like you know, master craftsman, like, the more you'll get out of it Some people are gifted. They're actually great and they know what they're doing the whole way through.
Speaker 1:And that's you, and that's me.
Speaker 2:But I had my moment and I also, you know, like, get it. And I also, like you know, I have nothing against where comedy is going, because it's not my role. You know it's like let it go, like me, and the older guys will, like you know, be and moan about it, but at the end of the day it's like it's going to go this way, then it'll push back, that way, and then it's going to go that way and it's going to go this way. And you know, it's like, as long as it keeps moving, it's alive. That's all I can say.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. I think that the great voices, whoever they are, whether they're young or they of the social media and the noise it's what you like.
Speaker 1:You know, like some people, like jazz is like this purist George Carlin kept his audiences throughout his to the 70s, 70 year old Well here's my thing about George Carlin.
Speaker 2:If we're going to go into this comedy in-depth conversation, is that like, yeah, george Carlin did the bravest thing of Braves, which is like he had a. He had a like sweet contract in Vegas doing an act that he no longer wanted to do and he walked. He said you know what, I'm not that guy anymore, I can't live being that guy, so I'm walking and you know that's cool. And then he developed this new perspective. His intellect, his wisdom started shining through these things where it's no longer kind of what I do, the jokey, joke stuff but like, he really like had a point of view and, like you know, with his skillset from being a comic, he was able to get that across in a funny way. Each special had a different point of view, but it also was all packed with info and jokes and stuff like that. Then, as he got older, I think it became more of a of preaching and then at that point, that's what we see today, which is a lot of like people with a perspective, but not few, very few laughs. And my niece who, uh, by the way, is in the uh, you know she's a joke writer for, uh, you know, she's working her way up through the system in the late night world. You know we were talking about, like you know, her generation, my generation, about jokes and how, like you know, some people have totally turned off by jokes in her, in her world, in my world.
Speaker 2:I was like that was like currency jokes, you know, like you need jokes. You got to learn how to write a joke, you got to learn how to fix a joke. It was like jokes, you know, like you need jokes. But back then, now it's like, you know, whatever Quirkiness, all that kind of stuff is equally as important as like material. So it's weird, you know, and when we used to do the late night, you've done Letterman. I have never done any of those. Or Leno, none of it, really None. Oh, my God, you got to do it, you got to do one, and how stressful that is. It's like six and a half minutes, whatever it is one and a half, yeah yeah, and it was like three punch lines a minute.
Speaker 2:You know that kind of thing and they would. They would rework your set the way it was working in the club.
Speaker 2:They never would let you do it right so this is like eight weeks of your life, performing for six and a half minutes, and you have no idea like what's going to happen. The crowd what's going to happen, what you're going to do. You know, my, my whole thing was like I just don't want to implode. You know, like well, I'm up to just like start babbling. So when you do it and then you're like the feedback, then you're hoping to be asked back to do it again. Then you do it again and again, and again. And I was like, you know, like nick griffin, who's one of the greatest comics, who deserves way more props than he's gotten out of this business. He's done this consistently for years and years and years and I give him. I give him that because I couldn't do one of those anymore, like you know, fine-tuning each joke and I like to be free. You know I want to do it the way, like whatever hits me, that's what I'm going to talk about but like having to do it like that and make it so tight you can't go over. They would always say that to you. You cannot go over. Right, when you see this light, you got two seconds. When you see this, when you got four minutes, something, so they would say that all. So it's like they're launching a rocket as you're talking, basically. So I said what if we went over, couldn't you edit it? They're like no, listen, everybody wants to go home. I thought it was like some kind of thing, like we have to call the president of nbc and like he has to call the Pope and he'll get back to us and we can edit. He's like, listen, people want to go home. You know, they don't want to have to sit here re-editing. I was like that's it, I'll bring the guy a sandwich, you can edit out all my you know booze. So that was my story, but you would have killed it on it.
Speaker 2:And like getting able to sit next to Letterman or Leno or any of them, conan was my favorite. They really were the ones who let me go like crazy. So I said that to Conan at Norm Macdonald's Memorial. I said, conan, I love doing your show. I always felt most comfortable with you when we were going back and forth. Kimmel, all these guys are real great, but are these shows going to like? You grew up watching them? Our sound guy, our editor, our engineer over here? I bet you he didn't. Why would he?
Speaker 1:There was better things to do at 11 30, you know at that point you know, but uh, this next generation, I don't think they're gonna have that connection. They're gonna have that four minute clip on uh, on uh, right up into.
Speaker 2:So I have a whole show, then like that's what I'm thinking as a network, like rerun some game shows or whatever an old episode of something you know they do and no, that's depressing I know, but it's just like the world is changing. You know, like, um, I had trouble, like well, I have trouble watching a whole special now for my attention span it's so, so 15 minutes in, I'm like it's don't young kids, don't they?
Speaker 1:I, I had I had dinner.
Speaker 2:Well then, you have a great fan base, because I think everybody has a problem I, I, I, I, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Young kids really don't. Some of them don't know that there is a whole special. They think it's-.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they just don't know that you can go see an hour special. They go yeah, I love your clips and I go. Yeah, did you see the special? Did you see Know your Orange? He goes? No, I go, it's on YouTube. Just go and sit and watch it. It's an hour and eight minutes. They had no idea that was even an option and this wasn't like a stupid kid, it was like a smart kid in college, a good college, and they don't know the comedy world, that there is specials and it's hard to sit through somebody's hour.
Speaker 2:I think so. I think it really is. That's why my last one you know, not to that's my current credit I guess I wanted to make it really short. I wanted to make it just enough so that people would get me and get what I was doing at that point and then get out, because I have trouble sitting there for an hour. I really like a special for me is like a two day affair. Like I got to this part and I always know at the 30 minute mark in anybody's special, this is when it gets really serious. This is the stuff that they wanted to put up front, but they put it in the back. They edited it in the back. This is what they really wanted to. They put all this stuff on the front to keep the eyeballs, like the first 15 minutes or something like that. And then this is the stuff that like it's like it's either filler or it's what they really want to talk about and then at the end you know they try and build up again.
Speaker 1:So so you know that's what I know about specials. Editing is very important. You know currently the hour I'm the, the hour I'm working now post full after. It's exactly what you're saying up front.
Speaker 2:I do all these over the top accents yeah, you gotta just lock them in, lock them, in lock them in, then I go into.
Speaker 1:You know I'm a little bit older now. I talk about how I'm the last Catskill comedian and like all of that kind of stuff. But you're right, you know that stuff should be up front.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's what you really want to talk about, because that's what I want to talk about. But you have to do the job and you're doing the job, whereas if you go to like a room somewhere, like maybe I guess you know like an offbeat room, where you'll see people like not doing the job, but they're talking about what they want to talk about. So you know, in a way, that's brave and in other ways, like you know, like our job is to get more laughs than it would if we were, like you know, just hanging out on a, on a bench, you know. So that's that's what I think.
Speaker 3:So have to talk about what you want to talk about, because otherwise it's not funny, like the best thing is is to see comics cracking themselves up. Like you can tell when somebody is talking about something, that's bullshit or something that, like, they actually care about or or they think is funny themselves, right, true?
Speaker 2:Well, nate Bergazzi, who is a great comic, he also represents, I guess you could say, the king of clean comedy, right?
Speaker 1:now.
Speaker 2:He, he's a guy who I've seen just level up, level up, level up and, like you know, he's a good comic. He's a great comic and he also represents a group that likes clean comedy. So I don't know, like you can't really, you can't really put a finger on it, but it's like he's like the double, the double, you know, the double punch, like he gives both, you know and I. I think he represents kind of like something that I've always known that like the cleaner comics usually always had the better jokes, because that you could always dirty up a clean joke but you never could clean up a dirty joke. And like we've all tried it when they had to do like a network where they have standards and everything, but like I give it up to like the Brian Regans of the world, you know, um there's so many Hamilton.
Speaker 2:Ryan Hamilton's, like you know, it's like that's their thing, you know that's the perspective they have. And I also, like Seinfeld, had a big influence on me in terms of, like you know, small things, you know, can generate big laughs. You know the way, like when you said, like you want to talk about what you want to talk about, like I want to talk about why my washing machine is so quiet, you know, like is there something wrong with it? You know, but that's like old school, generic People don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 3:They want to talk about, you know, global warming. I don't know if that's true. I, you know, I think everybody has, like you know what, the things that they like. I don't personally gravitate so much towards clean comedy no, you don't I like stuff that you know like.
Speaker 2:I love alga, oh yeah, like she hits hard, she does, she's amazing, she's um yeah, the governor's, which is another place where you played it. But I that was kind of like where I kind of started in a way, like once I got out of the open mic scene. Governors was where it was like another big step of like playing governors on Long Island to the people I, you know, grew up around you know like these kinds of things. So that was that was like a big deal too.
Speaker 3:I guess it's like the authenticity is the thing that like to me really speaks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you're like a really, you know you're a super fan, like you know comedy, whereas, like I think, most people come in with very high expectations, like you said, you know, like somebody saw a clip, so they drag someone else there. And I get a lot of people like I've never been to a comedy show, I've only seen it online, and like they're like any other person who just kind of walked in. They're like it was good and then it was bad, and like at these showcase clubs there was like I liked the first guy and I hated the third guy and whatever, and the last guy just I fell asleep. So they get to judge, you know it's their right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it's like at the end of the day, it's like it's either funny or it's not funny.
Speaker 2:Right right.
Speaker 3:And I think that, like, the more real it is, the more funny it is. Daniel Simonson is another great example.
Speaker 2:He's another guy who I think is like there's so many levels to what he does and when you see a crowd, get it you're like wow, this, that's brave See, I would immediately jump on the crowd. He's brave.
Speaker 1:So are you, and I think anybody coming to see your show is going to have an amazing time and it's just, it's so good to go out and really laugh. And people say to me you know, we just haven't laughed, we just haven't laughed, we just haven't Go see a live comedy show Laugh already everybody.
Speaker 3:No, laugh it up I have to say that I saw you and Jeff do Bumping Bikes at the Cellar.
Speaker 2:I can't believe I didn't bring that up, that Jeff is, like you know, almost a time traveling comedian. He would do great in vaudeville. Yes, he would have done great. Like I mean, like you know, like he just has that ability. You know, he really just he loves as much as I shy away from it, he loves the attention, he thrives with the crowd, he loves being on stage that way and like, god bless him.
Speaker 2:You know, the guy just um had a serious health issue. You know it's, it's, you know, and he's back out there right away Like he could not most people would. We kept saying rest, just hang out and rest, but for him he has to be out. You know he has to do stuff. So you know, god bless him, he's out there. He's doing a one man show, yeah, and I think that's awesome. It's going to be on Broadway and you know he to me is like what, what? Like comedy used to be but still kind of is, and he kill Tony's and all this kind of stuff. The roast battles that Jeff did is really the, the George Washington of all that stuff. Absolutely, you know, the good George. Anyway, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1:No, thank you, and just give me the dates again. We're going to give me the sheet. Just go to my site. Go to David.
Speaker 2:Tell with two T's. Yeah, david Tellcom, and you can sell it. I'll set you out a few if you want.
Speaker 1:Louisville, Raleigh, Denver what's this Greenwald?
Speaker 2:I think it said rehab.
Speaker 3:Colorado, it's Colorado.
Speaker 1:Colorado, I'll be out St Louis and Pittsburgh the improv team yeah.
Speaker 2:Pittsburgh, I'll tell you, pittsburgh, that's a great club, portland Oregon, that Helium fantastic, best crowds, I think. And of course, dc Improv. I love that club.
Speaker 3:And it's fun.
Speaker 2:So many. Oh, I'm sorry Cobbs, where I shot my special Always two thumbs up.
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