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Deeper Meanings and Dopamine Rushes with Dovie Neuburger
Episode 150: Modi and Periel are joined by Dovie Neuburger for a candid exploration of Jewish comedy.
We unpack the unique dynamics of performing for Jewish audiences versus mainstream clubs. Neuberger's honesty about his comedic journey is refreshing -from craving attention to finding deeper purpose.
The conversation reveals fascinating insider knowledge about comedy craft, from Modi's veteran wisdom on audience management to Neuberger's evolving approach to material development. We dissect the paradoxical rules of performing for Orthodox audiences ("you can't curse, but you can be super offensive"), share war stories from Passover program gigs, and examine how cultural specificity can become universally relatable.
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Welcome to Andy's Modi Rolling. We are in the studio. I was about to ask our guest what he wants to be, what his introduction should be, but then I said to him, in the manner of the way he performs his comedy, I go to him. Where are you holding? What an amazing line. Where are you holding?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I came here for Modi's podcast and I hear where am I holding? I'm like back in 10th grade in my Rebbe's class.
Speaker 1:That's how Jews talk to each other. Where are you holding?
Speaker 3:What does that mean?
Speaker 1:It means a million things. It means like where are you Like sometimes, when you're in the middle of your prayer, where are you holding? Are you in the Shema? Are you by Avos? Are you about to go? Are you in a place where you can't talk so you go, hmm? Or where are you holding in general? Are you dating Exactly?
Speaker 2:I was going to say that when are you holding could just as easily mean like what are you up to? And davening, or did you break up with that girl? I really didn't like that's like either of those could be. Where are you holding? Sorry, okay.
Speaker 1:No, it's good, yeah, or in your career. Where are you holding in your career? What's going on? What are you doing? You're a comedian. You caught my eye. You caught my eye. Well, you had that one clip where you talked about me. Yeah, I thought it was the best thing ever.
Speaker 2:What was it? Wait, we are fully in.
Speaker 1:We are seriously like literally. We're by Shema right now. That's where we are. We're in the middle of the prayer right now.
Speaker 2:I actually didn't pronounce Phil in today. I just remembered you didn't pronounce Phil in today.
Speaker 1:No, do you have? No, I do in the morning.
Speaker 3:All right, you guys, and by morning 1 am, 1 pm Wait a minute.
Speaker 1:So you had a video when he was talking about being a comedian A Jewish comedian and he's at a Shabbat table and the conversation Always goes to.
Speaker 2:Every single Shabbat table I ate at Like for the past Like two years. It's always like Wait, so like, what do you like Charge for a show? First, they try to figure out how much money you have. Right, that's how they do it. It's only appropriate if you're like a performer for some reason Anytime I'm like and how much money do you make? Like, that's disgusting. How would you ask me that You're like a Nebuchadnezzar comedian, so I can ask you how much money you make? And then, the second, they find out that they always go like do you know Modi? You know he's gay, right, and I said, yeah, but I don't think he charges extra for that.
Speaker 1:And that was the funniest thing I heard. It was such a great line and you could just see him sitting on a Shabbat table with some balabos sitting there. You got to try my wife's challah and then he starts with the you're a comedian. I talk about that in my show now. I talk about coming up in comedy and how when you're Jewish it's different, because when you're not a Jewish comedian they're like oh, you're doing comedy, good for you good luck, take care of that she's like oh really, so is that all you do?
Speaker 1:is that all?
Speaker 2:you do. I wish I got that. Well, I got the. Uh, I get a lot more like. So what do you do? And I'll be like I'm a comedian and they're like no, no, like I'm saying like professionally, what do you do?
Speaker 1:right, right, they right, they can't handle that. You're making a living, you know.
Speaker 2:Doing something fun, not doing something fun, but doing something that they I've never met a Shabbos table dad. That isn't 100% positive that if they didn't have to pay Shiva tuition, they also could have been a comedian What'd you?
Speaker 1:call a Shabbos.
Speaker 2:A Shabbos table.
Speaker 1:dad a Shabbos table dad, a Shabbos table dad?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like an AIPAC dad, a Shabbos table dad.
Speaker 3:And for those of us who do not know what a Shabbos table dad is A Shabbos, I mean who doesn't?
Speaker 2:I mean a Shabbos table dad is your lawyer and your accountant. Like anyone, you don't have to be Jewish to know a Shabbos table dad.
Speaker 1:They're all in your life some way. Who's who's hosting a shabbat? His wife has a, they have a big table and his guests and people show up, and someone invited a comedian I. I do not go to shabbat table, I don't go.
Speaker 2:We don't do that anymore, okay we can't because you, you can relate to what I'm saying I can relate to anything you are going through.
Speaker 1:I've been through it 30 years ago and beyond oh my, my gosh. Whatever gig you think you've done, that's firmer than I've performed in audiences of Hasidim, where there was a wall down the middle and the guy in Yiddish says to me before I go on, don't look in the eyes of the women's shul Right Like, perform, even though you're in the middle, perform to the men. So so you, you've made a niche. A niche am I?
Speaker 1:saying that niche of performing for the yeshivish crowd. Yeah, it's more than just jewish. It's like, and it's more than just like, a young israel jewish.
Speaker 2:It's yeshivish, it's a little more and it's a little different in that I always say like when you play for like, the more modern or the less like, the more secular crowd, the more you could be like dirty, the more you can curse or whatever. But the more what he's saying yeshivish, religious the crowd, the less you can curse. But the more offensive, the more racist you could be. So you have to balance those two things, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:Look, I've seen you when you're talking about the different girls and different yeshivas, like some are better looking and some are not better looking, which is not a nice thing to say. But as long as you're not saying the S word or the F word, it's okay. You're completely okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So you can't curse, but you can be super offensive, totally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally, that's exactly what he's saying. You can be totally offensive. They love that, they love it. First of all, it shows that you know that, they know that, you know that, they know Right, there's that whole bit that you're in the know of them in the know, but it's super niche. You can't go up at the comedy cell cell and do this material. Do you have other? Do you have another? Act like this.
Speaker 3:Come closer to the mic.
Speaker 2:Sorry, so I actually disagree. Like I've been doing, like more recently, a couple of like club gigs and that's my favorite kind of show because I find that Jewish audience, especially Orthodox audiences they don't come to a show, meaning regular people just go to a comedy show to laugh and have fun and they're on the same team as the comedian. Orthodox Jews tend to go to comedy shows to find out if the comedian's funny, so like it's hard to get into a rhythm. I'm sure you had this with the Orthodox gigs, right, even if a joke's funny, they laugh, they take a break. Okay, let's see what you have next.
Speaker 3:It's like that kind of vibe and I love the club type shows where I'm assuming you do different material at the clubs than you're doing in front of, so I have like generic material, like about the subway new york city, that, but I also am able to adapt the jewish material and trey fit, meaning you could do making it not kosher making it, but but you're also doing these shows with other comedians that are like you.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm so happy that this is happening. You guys are taking like clubs and doing it a night of you and who are the other comedians?
Speaker 2:So like me, ami Kozak, eli Leibovitz, mikey Greenblatt, mikey.
Speaker 1:Greenblatt. These are all comedians that are super, niche-y and super, and I love it and I love yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's the like. There's two different models. Like one is I'm trying to make the comedy club experience for Orthodox Jews, where it's like it's not. I'm not a theater comedian type of person, like I would love to do that one day but I enjoy the authenticity of club comedy. I like a comedy club. So I've turned like I go to the five towns and I'll take a tiny little restaurant and I turn it into a 100-person comedy club venue and then I bring in four or five comedians and I feel like it's like I'm teaching Jews. This is what a comedy club is.
Speaker 3:And do you like to do it like it's Orthodox? Jews are coming to see this.
Speaker 2:And so these are like pop-ups, like clubs in Orthodox communities.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like, what my dream is is not that my dream is to make like like the r you should fear, like special jew, where, like, you take jewish concepts and you take jewish culture and you explain it to non-jews and the explanation itself is the comedy right. So like I could show you two different versions of the exact same joke. I have where once, for an orthodox audience, where, let's say, I have this joke about a mezuzah in my apartment and my dad comes into my apartment and he sees my mezuzah and he's very upset because my mezuzah is low and according to Jewish law, the mezuzah is supposed to be closer to the ceiling. And I'm like, okay, I'm going to move the mezuzah and I'm just like, by the way, there's an entire bag of explain what a mezuzah is yeah, I'll be like I have to explain something to you jews.
Speaker 2:We have something called the mezuzah. It's a little box, goes on the wall there's a dead goat with the holiest part of the old testament written inside, wrapped in a scroll provides protection into the entire jewish home. And then I'll like turn to a non-jew and be like you watch the news. It doesn't always work, something like that. That's funny.
Speaker 3:That's funny.
Speaker 2:The exact same joke. You trafe it up and that's what I'm trying to do with everything. I'm trying to do it with Jewish dating that's the term for Jewish dating. I'm trying to do it. My comedy is very focused on my point point of view. I mean, I grew up in like. My dad was a big rabbi. I grew up in his house and all the craziness that comes with being in like this big family, big rabbi's house. The house was always flying and I think I'm able to capture that culture and that narrative but really make it relatable to obviously Orthodox Jews, I think secular Jews for sure, but hopefully one day just the whole world.
Speaker 1:I love it Amazing. Let's get back to your dad. So your dad is a huge rabbi, right?
Speaker 2:He's a big rabbi, he's a very special guy.
Speaker 1:What was his.
Speaker 2:he's a YU, I mean he was a Rebbe in YU. He is a Rebbe in YU Still, yeah, and he has a big Orthodox shul in New Jersey. Which one it in New Jersey? Which one? It's called Beth Abraham. Shout out, beth Abraham, familiar with her? Oh, you did a show for us actually once. You did a Zoom show during COVID. Yeah, you have to understand. This is when I realized I was going to be a comedian, because every Orthodox Jew goes to a comedy show, looks at the comedian and goes I could do this Right, and none of them can. None of them can and none of them actually want to go through the 50 open mics you have to do to even get one show.
Speaker 1:Sure, I can't tell you how many people on WhatsApp, how many people on WhatsApp send me like, hey, I got to vent out. I could definitely be a comedian, but I have eight kids and four of them are in Yeshiva and I have to work. But eight kids and four of them are in yeshiva and I have to work, but here's I can't just send you concepts and premises. I have, and so they send them to me and they're horrible and they're, and they're. But I will tell you one thing I think, if you get, whenever someone has a joke for you or something, listen to it. Yeah, jews are funny people. I have done shows where people go. I have something for you. Always listen. You have no idea when it's going to be like a gem, like a gift from God, like God sent him as the messenger to give you this joke.
Speaker 2:The problem is that what happens is and I've seen this with you, actually I hear this from people Like a Jew will come up to you and be like I have a great bit for you. They'll be like mother-in-law's, I'll be like I have a great bit for you. They'll be like mother-in-laws. I'll be like what's the joke? They're like I'm not gonna do it, I'm not gonna do the whole thing for you. Like you have to figure it out, like right wait, wait now every, every joke I make about mother-in-laws the rest of my life.
Speaker 2:He's going around telling everyone his community I write all dopey stuff I've heard about. I know a guy once gave modi a joke. He tells me I write all Modi stuff. I write the whole thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's absolutely right. No, I have. There's a few guys that I call when I run my material. I have a few friends that I will call up and, like my friend Brian Gross, he's a flapperish guy. If I have a premise I'm working it out, I call him and I'll run it through him. If he's in a good headspace, we're back and forth. Problem is he. He always goes to holocaust.
Speaker 2:He always goes to holocaust, like how can he make this?
Speaker 1:holocaust, and then we reel that back and then we, we work, we work it out, um, and food, and like he makes it, he's good, I run off, I run it off of him. He doesn't call me with premises and stuff, but we I I'll call him and work things out with him, um, and there's other people who work like. But I'll tell you, one time I did a gig, it was for a uh, it was all chassidim. Okay, it was on a boat that was going to go around manhattan. Chassidim and boats, they love they love boats.
Speaker 1:Listen to what happened. The engine was broken so it never left the dock and no one cared and no one even realized that we never left the dock. So it's a boat full of chassidim. There was kosher catering meat like the Besan Medesh, like they were doing sacrifices it was so much meat and barbecuing on the decks and they were smoking weed too, and it was all guys Hasidim, full blown. And they had. Dovi Meisel was playing. You know who's the singer? No One of my favorites, so he was the act after me. Now, usually if you're on a boat, you're stuck, right, you're stuck, so you do your act and you go and you go around. You have to stay on the boat until they leave. I could have left, but I stayed and hung out with Dovi and we listened. I was having a great time. But I'm in the middle of my act and I see everybody's laughing. I had them all. It was an easy crowd. They were so good. They were like they were dying for this.
Speaker 1:They were so happy Modi's here. He's not Hasidic, he's going to be maybe dirty.
Speaker 2:And one guy, hasidim, love dirty comedy.
Speaker 1:One guy in the middle just stops laughing and looks at me like this. He's tense, he's like I don't know what happened. The show's over. I go to him and go what happened? He goes. I have a joke for you. I have to give you a joke. I have an amazing joke for you. It's in the special. It's that good of a joke. Oh yeah, it's so good. I talk about in the shiva what happened during a shiva and he said but he was holding this, he couldn't focus on the rest of the show, he was constipated with the joke. He was constipated with the joke and he says to me he goes, he goes. People always ask you where did she have cancer? I say in Brooklyn. It's such a great line I put it in. So always listen when people have jokes for you no, I definitely use jokes that I've gotten like.
Speaker 2:Either that I've the premise has been from something from someone else or I'll. I mean I definitely don't always listen because like it's a lot, yeah, but wait a second.
Speaker 3:so you grew up in this religious household and thank god that you really like paved this way, because before you to tell, like a big rabbi father person, I want to be a comedian. Right, it didn't exist.
Speaker 2:Orthodox comedy didn't exist because because it was just comedy at that point, like like there was Jackie Mason, but he wasn't a comedian for Orthodox Jews.
Speaker 1:Right, he was.
Speaker 2:Jewish. That was the whole Borscht Belt comedy scene it was. It was like it was formerly orthodox jews going up and talking about their upbringing to the rest of the world, and that was just comedy then.
Speaker 3:I mean, you really did create this niche where like you could point and be like no, no, this is a real thing this is a real thing.
Speaker 1:And when ultra orthodox audiences decided they wanted to have comedy, I was the only show in town. Right, there were some others. But to get more right to the line of jokes about davening praying Sephardic Ashkenazi, I did that and it was great and I wasn't out of the closet, but I wasn't in the closet.
Speaker 3:You just didn't talk about it in your act.
Speaker 1:I just didn't talk about it, it wasn't in my act and, thank God, even since it's publicly known that I'm gay and I'm married to a guy I can't even tell you how such religious audiences are still calling me. They don't care. Rccs, which is like this amazing Hasidic organization, Mashiach Energy organization in Brooklyn that is Hasidic and helps people with cancer. They tried to get me to do a show too. We gave them tickets to raffle and all that, but it's like they get it.
Speaker 2:They're like it's what it is Well, I think funny is funny.
Speaker 1:Funny is funny and they want a good show and they want a good comedian yeah, but it has to be in the right. You have to be in the right aspects of it. When you're doing a show in a Jewish, Jews need to know how you fit in their world. So now, when you're working in the synagogue, you're on their turf, I'm on their, I'm in your father's shul, there's an umbrella, I'm under bitknested, whatever you want to call it. And then when you're doing an organization right, I'm doing a show for RCCS or for UJA or for whatever I'm under their umbrella.
Speaker 2:So you got to make sure, but when you're doing but the opposite is like when you're doing a Modi tour the room can be full of Orthodox Jews. You don't have to play by their rules at all. No.
Speaker 3:Because, they're coming to him.
Speaker 1:Right, but I do. First of all, I don't curse. There's no need to ever have Nibelpe. I'm hoping you don't go there.
Speaker 2:Okay, I disagree.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 2:curse on stage. I mean I want to kill every show. So if it's not going to hit, no, but I do find certain jokes punch hard like I haven't done the club circuit in like a long time. I never really made the big club circuit. I was doing, like you know, the starter things, industry room, broadway, comedy club, greenwich village yeah and I did find certain jokes just punch harder with an effort before the punch, something like that or.
Speaker 1:But when you're deeper into your act, you can't start off with schmutz.
Speaker 2:Especially when you're young, you can't start off with dirty. No, I don't have schmutz, because I don't. I can't, unfortunately, like I don't have schmutz, schmutz for everybody.
Speaker 3:Who's listening, who's being dirty?
Speaker 1:You can't drop F and S bombs up front when you're young. Not at all, because then they think, oh, it's just all he has. Is he's going to go up here and just say F and S, no also?
Speaker 2:then your whole shtick is the guy in the yarmulke that uses the F word, and that's not real comedy. That's just like hacky, I also don't have schmutzy experiences to draw off of, unfortunately, you can schmutz everything up.
Speaker 1:I went to the effing synagogue. You don't need that. You don't need that. And especially if you want to drop an s-bomb, wait till you're 40 minutes in and all of a sudden hit them with it, with a, with an s, and they're like boom totally they haven't heard it from you, so they just thought you're clean and all of a sudden, oh wow, look, he did use that word and it was.
Speaker 2:You know it's it's oh, I don't curse a lot. I think the curse has more like it's more powerful when you don't, because then it's like oh, he it. It conveys, like, oh, you're actually mad about what you're ranting about right now, which is the whole performative energy I'm trying to convey. I also think that, like, there are certain things, there's definitely things I get away with later in an act that I would never get away with before. The crowd likes me, meaning like I have a joke about a sexual harassment training, a Jewish sexual harassment training. I won't say it now because, whatever, hopefully it will make my special one day, but if I started with it, it's my best joke. I end with it every time and everyone dies.
Speaker 1:It's called the closing, it's called the dismount. That's what you're closing with. It's yes, yes.
Speaker 2:But if I started with it I would lose the whole crowd. Like what are you coming here and like giving us dirty jokes?
Speaker 3:Once they're invested in my story, it's also like even a word can do that right, like if you're telling a joke.
Speaker 1:One word can like suddenly get like the whole audience like tight. The guest we had before you, uh, was david tell and he was telling us you know, he always says you know, you always start off with something You're your own. Even if you have an opening act, you're still your own opening act. So right now on this tour, I'm on Pause for Laughter. I'm doing this thing with languages up front. It's not where I want to be, but it is so just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. They're with me. Okay, here's the material I want to do. You're your own opening act. So you definitely don't. You definitely don't. Whatever your strong thing is to close with you, you save it for the end. It's your closing, it's your dismount, it's your it's. You know you can't open with that.
Speaker 2:If it's that strong, right, you can't so I wanted to ask you about this, actually because this is something as a younger comedian and I talk to younger comedians how old are you? I just turned 29 this week, 29. Okay, so I think something like when, let's say, I'll watch, like Chappelle or Louis or someone, the cadence and the structure of jokes or something like that, like there's buy-in from the audience, they will wait around for three minutes for an amazing punchline, right when you're, when there's no buy-in to you as a person. I mean, you have a following at this point, but I'm sure, like when you were doing sets, when you're 20s or 30s at the comedy cellar, who is this guy? Like there's no buy-in, you need to have a punchline, like basically like every 25 seconds in order to not lose this audience. 11., 11 seconds.
Speaker 3:That's what they say, so I get up there.
Speaker 2:I start with my absolute killer best joke, even if I'd want to close with it, because if I don't hit them with that right away, they won't listen to the next 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:So let me give you a piece of advice. First of all, if you are on a showcase type of a thing like that and you can be in the room when a comedian or two before you, the best way to begin anything is with something completely that just happened. Go off of some punchline that he just got off of, right. Whenever I do an organization, a synagogue, a charity, I make sure that there's a president speaking before me, the rabbi speaks before me, someone speaks before me and I go something clever off of what they said. So they know it's not something rehearsed or something hacky.
Speaker 2:Right, it's just boom, boom.
Speaker 1:He just said this and this blank, blank, blank and we're in the show. Start your act. When I follow a comedian on stage, I followed someone at the cell the other night. He was in sixth gear, I forgot that the comedian was. He was in sixth gear and the emcee just brought me right on and I go I, unlike your other comedian, am not on cocaine tonight. And then the whole room is like okay, he's you know, and so you're on that.
Speaker 2:I love that Because that also builds that like rapport with the audience. That like it's less performative. This isn't an act. I'm here with you enjoying this experience together.
Speaker 1:Comics call other comics hacks when they just go up and do the same jokes every night. So it's not if you're coming with something original, like right off the bat of what just happened at night, what just happened in the news that day, it's, it's very, it's great.
Speaker 2:That's a great way to begin always yeah so I just wanted to like we'll do the the trump weave, as they say. I just wanted to come back to that story that. So I I was going into this comedy show in my it was a Zoom comedy show during COVID for our shul and we're all in these boxes and Modi's talking and like it's very funny but there's no like laughter because everyone has to unmute to laugh and all these things. And you at one point called me out. You're like who's the comedian? Where is he? And you're like, oh, I'm Joseph Neuberger. At the top. You see the guy with all this hair. Oh, really, and you're making fun of me. And then my mom got on the Zoom. My mom's name is Pesci and apparently someone just reminded me of this the other week. You were like who the hell is Pesci? What kind of name is that? It was like the rebbiton of the shul right and like that's.
Speaker 2:When I decided I was like I could do this. I did that cliche like jewish thing, like I could do this, but like it actually forced me to sign up for the course, start doing the open mics in the city. I did the course through gotham comedy club, whatever. I forgot what it's called, um, and then I started producing my own jewish. Yeah, I sucked.
Speaker 1:No, building it up, it didn't suck. You're getting there. I'm watching videos. Now Leo's posting stuff for me from 30 years ago. I'm like oh my God what was I doing?
Speaker 2:Do you think that also Cause, like I'm hoping that, like, like I look at, like I'm only doing this two and a half years? I look at like my first show to now and I'm like I I'm embarrassed by that and I'm hoping, like 40 years from now I hope I'm embarrassed by like that's how good you can get, like I'll be embarrassed by what the stuff I put out now well, you're putting out stuff that's comedy too, but you're also putting up um you.
Speaker 1:You don't forget, I came up with comedy clubs without internet and without right, and I and I think content is killing real comedy I don don't know about that. It's packing your room and there's things you do that you don't even realize what you do when you're doing your shtick on your content shtick, not your. I really haven't seen your stand-up.
Speaker 1:I've seen only your stuff that you talk about different things. There's something you do that you probably don't even realize what you do. Comedians sometimes train an audience with different um pavlovian tricks. So back in the day they had cigars. So when you saw the comic taking the cigar and he's bringing it up and you know, bringing it closer and closer and punch line hits the cigar, the audience is trained. When that cigar comes in, it's the laugh. Oh wow.
Speaker 1:If you ever watch Ron White and if you tell me you haven't seen Ron White, just that's a part of your homework. Go see Ron White. Ron White has a drink, he drinks alcohol, he has a little bar and makes a little drink for himself and he brings that drink closer and closer and closer and closer for himself. And he brings that drink closer and closer and closer and closer and punchline to drink. The audience is shouting, screaming me, it's more, I'm just like action, it's more, it's like this. You know, but you have this thing with your hair that you probably don't even realize it when you, you, you get on up whatever rant you're on, whatever dvartori you're giving over, whatever, whatever chiddish you're showing us, whatever new thing you've discovered, and then you just like, and so that's why I told her don't do it. And then you do with your hair like that. If I had that kind of hair I would be doing hello right away. Right, you know you do that I didn't even realize that.
Speaker 2:I know the hair is like, the hair is like a thing, but it's a thing.
Speaker 1:Your hair is a live thing, it's a live thing. And so then, when you also come on videos like you know, um, and you have the whole hat covering it yeah everyone's upset, so so. So if you watch a good drag queen, they would do a reveal. So if you're wearing the hood, you're wearing the hood. You're wearing your hoodie up In the middle, just like on one of your punchlines.
Speaker 2:Take the hoodie off the thing is like I'm like very idiosyncratic with my yarmulke or whatever, yeah, and I could post the best joke in the world on my Instagram Like if I'm not wearing a yarmulke the not wearing a yarmulke.
Speaker 1:The only thing I'll hear from my mom is like where's your yarmulke? Give me the yarmulke, give me so. Like so a guy who's teaching torah, right, yeah. So one of the things you can do is like this you go so in this week's parasha, okay, the sedge just says like this, and they begin to just twist their yarmulkes. Yes, they begin to twist the yarmulke and that's why you know we were looking at at why did mahe speak to Aaron about this type of a Moshe I never met.
Speaker 2:I think that's why I picked it up, because I was growing up. Anyone who was ever publicly speaking would go like this Right and move their yarmulke a lot, so I would do that, but I have all this hair that's getting in the way. It's a tick, it's a tick, it's totally a tick.
Speaker 1:It's a tick there's, and the toss is always falling off, so they're like bringing it back up and bringing it back up, and bringing it back up and bringing it back up, and it's like it's a tick. It's literally like the comics with the cigar.
Speaker 3:Many comics now have their water bottle, so they're like but you want it to be intentional, right, like it's like when you tell me don't put your foot up on the back of the stage, like right. Like, if you're going to be moving around or touching your hair or doing the cigar or the yarmulke you want to be aware of-.
Speaker 1:No, that you have to be aware. That's happening naturally. That's happening innately inside your head the thing with the hair and you know. But it just I'm letting you know that it's a thing. It's a thing Standing against the wall with your foot on it is just. No one wants to see that. It's not a visually nice thing because you're working, don't forget. You're still up there working Right Now. Do you know why you're doing comedy? Are you on top of the? Do you know why God made you a comedian? Do you believe in God? First of all, I believe in God. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:You believe in. I think I'm still at the cynical part of my career where I haven't fully subscribed to Moshiach energy yet. Okay, as long as you know that, I think my reasons for doing comedy are just the most shallow, go ahead, go for it, go for it. I love attention. I've always loved attention. I grew up my dad was a big rabbi and my brain learned to be stimulated by people always paying attention to me. And I just haven't experienced. I don to me and there I just haven't experienced.
Speaker 2:I don't think there's a high in the world, like I always say comedy, highest highs, lowest lows. Like you bomb a set, like you contemplate suicide everyone. But like when you're just vibing and I've had those shows where it could be jewish, non-jewish. I did a don't tell comedy show, totally non-jewish. I was telling them all about judaism and the crowd is just obsessed with you and eating it up, like there's just no high like it in the world. The dopamine rush is like it's like every drug ever times 10. And I am not doing this because I'm passionate about making people laugh and bringing Simcha to Yiddish and all this Moshiach.
Speaker 1:Moshiach bullshit. I'm so happy, I'm so. This is the best podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm so happy I want people to look at me and then I want them to go home and I want them to talk about me at their Shabbos table, even if they hate me. Do you hear what he just said about Bais Yaakov girls? I just want to be talked about. It's even more than the money. I mean, there's no money in it yet, but like I could sign a deal with Netflix and make millions of dollars for this, to me it is. I just love the attention okay, that's amazing.
Speaker 3:He just loves the attention, wow wow, it's a good title for your special.
Speaker 2:I love the attention. It's so funny like, and I I obviously interface with very khashiv. How did you say khash in english? It's not really not really important, whatever yeah, it's people that matter people that matter.
Speaker 2:Like I just got off the pesach program, this rabbi that I really respect I won't say his name just in case he doesn't want me to, but I actually asked him, for I asked him for a bracha.
Speaker 2:I'm still like very in touch with that side of me and he was giving me this bracha. Like you know, you blessing, this blessing you bring, you bring happiness to Jews. It's such an important thing to do and like assuming that I go with this like cliche narrative which maybe at one point I hope at one point in my career, I will go with it, because I see older comedians who have almost become the monster they create on stage. They've like driven themselves so deep into the cynicism that's necessary to do comedy that I realized, oh, that person's like actually going to die a cynical old man because of his comedy shtick and I don't want to become that. But right now I'm just still so cynical about the whole thing because I'm so in touch with like what is motivating me and and I love, but keep in the back, keep in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1:so so what when I coming up, right, yeah, I was all over the place. I was at the comedy clubs. I was at the comedy cellar every night hosting sets every night.
Speaker 2:That's where I saw you.
Speaker 1:And that's it. And then doing the synagogue gigs and then doing super orthodox Yeshiva gigs. Why you, I did. Shows in why you for the graduating class, I'm like I was literally doing, why you, I did. Shows in why you for the graduating class, I'm like I was, I was literally doing, why you and um, yeshiva university and all of that and um, they always introduced me with the same gamora.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you know the gamora one the guys and the guys in olam haba right right, there's a gamora.
Speaker 1:We've talked about this on the podcast. I've talked about it on the 100th episode we did. There's a gamora that says there's two guys that are in the marketplace and what do they do?
Speaker 2:No, I think like someone asked Elio, I don't know who here is going to heaven, and they said those two guys, and they were like clowns or something like that.
Speaker 1:The next time you try to correct me on a Gamora. I don't care who your father is podcast.
Speaker 2:You let them get through to come on, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:No, basically it's two guys. They're asking who who here has uh, which means let me, it's so. And again they always said I'm like, oh god, this dumb introduction again. And then I get back on it's who here has the uh, a portion in the world to come, which is so insane. Do Do you understand what he's saying here? Who here's done with this lifetime not coming back here in a different giggle. They're not going to be coming back here to try to get it right again. Who here is like this is what's the job that we need to do to make sure that we don't have to come back and try it again.
Speaker 1:And it was the two guys over there. And so he goes the two guys over there. And so he goes. Who are the two guys over there? He goes, they are Anshe Bediche, people of laughter, right, and then. So that's all I heard when I was your age and I got it right. And then it hit me like how important that is. First of all, a I'm not coming back here, I'm done. There's no next lifetime. I've never seen Canal Street again.
Speaker 2:You're not interested in seeing it again this heat this weather.
Speaker 1:I'm never done having to have hair plugs. I'm done. I just know I'm doing this lifetime. I'm going to kill it. I'm going to make people happy and laugh and I'm done. But when I was you, believe me, when I was you, it's just a tension, it's a dopamine hit. Cocaine doesn't have this kind of in it.
Speaker 2:I love being recognized. I just started getting recognized, Wait wait for that.
Speaker 1:That changes too. Oh my God. We had a crazy incident on Passover, Anyway. But put that in the back of your mind, that you are here for a purpose. And let me tell you something else that's even more important about that. You, it says we are people of laughter, and now if the Gemara wants to say that comedians have the portion of the world to come, he'd say the guy over there, go ask him what he does. I'm a comedian, so why is it two people? Why is it two people? The Gomorrah doesn't just throw words in for no reason and people in for no reason. It's because don't answer me when you see I'm asking a question that I'm about to answer.
Speaker 1:What yeshiva did you go to?
Speaker 2:You see, I'm answering myself. Well, I went to a bunch and that's why I got kicked out. So the entrepedia.
Speaker 1:You can't do it alone. You cannot do it alone and it took me years to find that out. You cannot do it alone. You need to have a Leo like a producer, a manager, the right agent, the right people. You cannot do it alone. So one of them is a comedian. The other guy is the one paying for the comedy show. Is the guy paying for the comedy special? The other guy is Netflix. The other guy is Hulu. The other guy is Moshe Zuchmeir, who said to the rabbi whatever it takes to bring Mori in, I got it and there's a show. That's the answer BD case. So not only comedians get a portion of the world to come, it's people who make comedy happen, you know. So that's, keep that in the back of your head. Just keep that. Keep that in the back of your head.
Speaker 2:That's a good pitch when I'm looking for an investor for a special, though a hundred percent.
Speaker 1:You tell them you, you know, I you know we're going to shoot another special. But I said, all those clips you see on all the family chats, do you want to make those happen? Do you want to make those happen here? I need X amount of dollars for my special and then, or I want to do the show here, or now. We have promoters, we have, you know, live Nation, bokhashem and all of that kind of stuff happening, but it's, it's. You need to keep that in the back of your mind. Enjoy, enjoy every minute of your time now. Know that you it's going to hit you, it hit me more, it hit me later on. But covid, and obviously october 7th, when it's really everything, was just like solidified of what the reason of doing comedy is. There is, besides the ego, there is a real reason to do it. But in the meanwhile, you're making people happy and making people feel heard and making people feel good and enjoy it. Enjoy it.
Speaker 2:So I do get elements of that, Like when I get a DM from someone that's like, by the way, I just want you to know like you make my day every day, all these things, and like I feel like it a little bit and I have to check myself. I'm like Dovi, no, no, no, you're a cynic, Like don't, don't let it make you happy that you're making someone's day. But if you, I do feel a little bit of it like that, just like incredible, like feeling of euphoria, that like someone's day is made because of a stupid video you posted.
Speaker 1:Do you know how many times at a meet and greet, I'm standing there and a couple comes over to me and the wife says I go to bed with you every night and the husband goes yeah, she watches all of your videos every night before she goes to bed. Every single one of them, she watches all of them. I know the order she watches them and it's like it's an amazing feeling. Thank God, family groups, you know you get to see you'll also, because it's a Jewish audience you're hitting. You're going to see three generations in one in one show. You have the grandkids, the, the I. You have the grandkids, the, the I had like the grandkids, the, the mom and the, the grandma are all at the show. The grandma saw me when I was your age or younger at the catskills. Right, the mom sees me from whatever she, and the kid now is coming to see the show with, wherever it is, the beacon or in in florida. It's an amazing. It's an amazing. It's beyond comedy intergenerational.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unfortunately you have grandkids and grandparents at the Pesach program gigs I don't know if you remember this, but like are usually Holocaust survivors and babies. Yeah, those are like the key demographic.
Speaker 1:So what? So? Passover programs we've spoken about them on the program here you just did. Was this your first year?
Speaker 2:doing Pesach programs? No, I did one last year, but this was the first year.
Speaker 1:I had four nights, four shows, four different cities Felt amazing I did my biggest year was five shows.
Speaker 2:Really Because you did, I guess the night of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did one time. It was the most insane. It was five different locations. Now I would only do like everything's in one place, florida. I'm not flying anymore, right, and this year, I think, is the last year.
Speaker 3:You want to tell everybody what that looks like for those of us who have not been to Pesach programs.
Speaker 1:So I'll tell you the two that I did this year. I did one which was at the Fairmont in Mayakopa, which I can paint it to you with no problems. In Mayacopa, which I can paint it to you with no problems, Imagine White Lotus and the Pines, Fire Island meat. So it's White Lotus. Everybody has like their own villa. There are only 600 people, only 600 people.
Speaker 3:But all families.
Speaker 1:Each table is like 30 people of a family. I still don't understand. I don't know where in any farm it says you have to eat all eight days with your family. I don't know why people eat eight days or nine days with the whole family. It's insane so much time.
Speaker 2:I think it's just how the Jewish, like you, don't see your family for a year and then spend eight days with them. You hate them enough and then you need a whole year to forget how much you hate them.
Speaker 3:I don't know what. I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 1:So, Passover is. You know it's nine days, so you fly with your family.
Speaker 3:You fly with your entire family to a different location.
Speaker 1:No, no, no. Yes, there's a resort, has taken some kosher program, has taken a resort, Okay, and they are now. Everybody there is kosher. They made the kitchens kosher and some of them are huge and some of them are small. Some of them are 300, 600, 1300.
Speaker 1:So this year I did only two. I did this Fairmont Mayakopa, because I know the people there and I know they were great. And the other guy I did was the SLS, which is not like this very White Lotus vibey. It was just like it was a circus that he had six different restaurants and he brought six different chefs from all over the world and there were people just like just having a blast a thousand things for the kids, and it was like a different vibe from the other one. And the show is a show for the people that are there. And again, it's like a Catskill thing. I said it's a show they're watching, a show that they didn't pay for. It came with the room, so, a they might not come to the show. B they might pick themselves up in the middle and just leave the show. Oh, yeah, yeah, I just got familiar with this whole world.
Speaker 1:Yes, I talk about that in my special now. Yeah, the hour I'm working on. Now I talk about how you know, in the cat there's nothing harder than a Catskill audience. There's comedians walk around. Today. There's a rough crowd. It's a really tough room. They were kind of tight until I loosened them up with my crowd work. You don't know what a tough crowd is until you're performing for someone who didn't pay for the show. It came with the room Right. All of a sudden you hear that's enough, I've heard room Right. All of a sudden you hear.
Speaker 2:That's enough. I've heard enough. Okay, jewish gigs in general. Like it's not necessarily a comedy venue, it's someone came to something and now comedy is being forced on me. Sheva Brachos gig is the hardest gig. You don't do that right now, go ahead.
Speaker 1:She knows what a Sheva Brachos is. Sorry after it's Seven, sorry after it's seven days, the seven days of after parties after a wedding. So the seven days after a wedding there's a party, usually thrown by people, friends of the bride and groom, and you try to do some kind of entertainment. So they'll bring in a comedian. And now here we are. The wedding happened two or three days ago. Now we're all sitting at a table and they say, everybody, it's the thing, thank God that Malky and Yossi found each other. Now we're all sitting at a table and they say everybody, thank God that Malki and Yossi found each other. They should live a long life, they should have, they should build a home, that should be to be bringing Mashiach and all that, and we should also have joy. They should also have joy. So we brought a comedian and, as you all know, in Erlenhaba, the comedian has a place.
Speaker 1:And so please help me welcome. And then they like, instead of here's David Nolberg. You may know, his father's the big rabbi too, so he's here tonight and please give us your attention. And then they start dropping food. The waiters you show he's here tonight and please give us your attention. And then they start dropping food.
Speaker 2:The waiters, the second I get up there you'll eventually learn. I should send you some of my old like contracts, mixing drinks, making mojitos in a blender next to me in the middle of a joke. They wait, they wait, they.
Speaker 1:Let you say the premise when you hit the punch, yeah yeah, or even worse so, in my contract it says there's no wait staff allowed to be on the floor, because if you're like in the middle of a joke, all of a sudden some woman sees a waiter, waiter and the other guy said waiter, she's like you know, does anybody need anything? Just bring water, just some more water for us.
Speaker 3:You can't no, I'm lucky when I do private gigs. I don't have that because I have all of your my old contracts, all of your old contracts.
Speaker 1:I sent her all my old contracts. What to say? Absolutely not. This has to be this before this. The sound has to be that this has to be.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't realize all the technical aspects. Like I view myself, like I'm a comedian, like I bring in material, I'm going to give you a great show. I didn't realize that, like you get to some Jewish gigs and like not just Jewish gigs, any gig Did you? Bring a mic. Did you bring right?
Speaker 3:These are things. These are things that when you have somebody like him next to you, you learn that like you have to send a list right.
Speaker 1:Like right, like these are the things that you're required to know, this. So I did a shave of ruckus right, I performed in a shave of ruckus, yeah, I did all that like 20 years ago. And the guy said, um, and you're gonna come here? I go no, no, there's no, you have to bring sound. He goes we don't have sound. I go, I go. He goes what's, what's the budget for sound? I'm like it's like three, four thousand dollars and he's like, well, okay, can you arrange that I'll give you $4,000 in cash? I went and bought that speaker for like $600, with a mic. You just plug it in and I put it in the back of my car and just put it on the table.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm doing. The thing is….
Speaker 1:It was $600. I left it there. I left it in the restaurant. I told the maitre d' I have a gift for you. It's upstairs, it's the mic, a stand, and the whole thing cost me 600 bucks. And, by the way, those things are amazing, those little speakers.
Speaker 3:Well, now you can get them on Amazon for like a few hundred bucks.
Speaker 2:But it's not about the money. To me it's about the If I'm looking like a schlepper, if I'm showing up to a gig. I'm setting up a mic stand.
Speaker 1:No one's laughing at me anymore. It ruins the whole vibe, your whole image.
Speaker 3:They have to supply that. Listen, there's a whole thing. We can talk about it later.
Speaker 2:They also like someone asked me to do like a Shabbos gig, like on Shabbat, and I'm like sorry, I don't do without a mic. They're like, no, no, it's a small crowd, We'll be able to hear you. I'm like what do I do with my hands? I don't know, I need to hold something.
Speaker 3:No, but it's not even that.
Speaker 1:So I in my earlier days you did with no mic when the money was right, when it was crazy money For me, back then what the crazy money was, I would get them. You just have to bring them all really close where they're so that you have to leave their tables. Push the tables away, bring them all close. You're standing in the middle and just crazy energy, correct? You don't have that crazy no, so I you're a talker, right, you know?
Speaker 1:um, I'm like I'm. So. I'm looking at these clips of me from 30 years ago. I am literally like a yeah, I'm like a car salesman of jokes. And now, and you can three, and it's got five speeds and the windows are electronic and you can, yeah.
Speaker 3:And it was tickety-tickety-tickety-tickety-tickety-tickety-tickety Do you remember those Like are you watching these and you're like I'm in shock.
Speaker 1:And Leo's sitting there like this Every time he opens a new file that I'm like oh my God, please don't watch that. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:I love those vintage clips. Yeah, they're amazing. They're so good. If you should see them.
Speaker 1:They're like Polaroids, yeah, and they should see them and go. Oh my God, we can't post that. That's not how they like to be called anymore. We can't say that. Okay, so yes.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, I did a lot of those gigs too. So my energy on stage is like I almost model after like Nate Bargatze, like I'm an idiot and everything is in this voice always and the punchlines are great. I trust my material a lot, but I can't bring a room alive like it Right, so I can't do like without a microphone. Yeah, I don't have that energy that like you have, which it's incredible because, like I guess you, like I maybe I don't believe in myself that enough. That, like you, like, are bringing the room alive like this is so funny, like I could do this. I almost like don't trust my jokes enough to do that, I guess to put the energy into it.
Speaker 1:No, it's, it's a different, different, kate. He's your guy, my guy that I watched and his cadence was alan king. I just love jivajivasi his act. So google alan king, definitely google ron white, you need to watch ron.
Speaker 2:I do watch a lot of old comedy because I have, like I've once you, develop an appreciation for the writing, even though, like old comedy doesn't really punch the same way new comedy does, because the world is like so much faster, but like I can appreciate it for its time and you could almost see like the misora or the tradition of comedy who came from, who, like I'm a big Shane Gillis fan now, like you could see which of the older comics like he always talks about Richard Pryor and you're like, oh, he got that style and developed it into this and like it's a beautiful thing to me. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:But you find your style, like I think that's the thing, like even watching you back then, like you are all, you could already see who you are now. Right, Like you could see, like the core.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, you could see the voice coming through yeah, yeah, there's a cadence, there's a voice, there's uh, you know, it's just, it's. It takes years, it takes you, it's not overnight, it just takes years. Just keep getting on stage and keep doing it.
Speaker 3:Um, I do agree that I think that there's nothing more fun than doing stand-up, Although there's one thing you always say which I think is salient that when you go into an event, especially like when you've been hired to do something for, like, a private gig, and you say why am I here? There's a reason why you're there, that you usually don't know.
Speaker 1:Again, this is from Ruch realist point of view. Okay, you know, from a spiritual, spiritual point of view, there's somebody in every show you're doing there's somebody in the audience that needs something like. Someone there went through hell, someone there just lost somebody after every show. Now that there's internet and dms, you get that information right. I was at your show. We lost our daughter six years ago. This is the first time I ever saw my wife laughed in six years. There's a reason you're there. These two programs we were not going to do Pesach programs this year. We were not. No, because Leo can't Leo-.
Speaker 2:Because he doesn't eat gebrachs.
Speaker 1:Right, he doesn't eat gebrachs, but he doesn't. What is Kebrachs? It's when you mix even a liquidy type of thing with the matzah. Let that go. Leo can't watch the Jews eating in that room together. So when we were in Florida he would just check into the room, he'd do the work with all the promotion, people, live Nation, all that stuff, and he would order DoorDash to the hotel. Right, because he could not look at those buffets Miles and miles of food Legit, by the way.
Speaker 1:So now in Mexico. We had no options but we were again the Mexico shows we did this year. The reason we did them there were a lot of kids that were gay with their families Like you had a family of like 30 people aunts, uncles, cousins and they had like a gay kid and his partner or her partner and they said we are so happy you're here. You are such a great part of our lives and it was a really, really great, great experience. We had a horrible experience. One of the people was just there was an idiot at one of the programs but we posted a picture of him.
Speaker 2:I saw online that he said something homophobic yeah completely.
Speaker 1:We were done, we were at the end, we were leaving. It was. I wasn't going to talk about it, but we did the show in front of a thousand people at the SLS Hotel. That's in South Beach. No, no, no, there is one in South of a thousand people at the SLS Hotel that's in South Beach. No, no, no, there is one in South Beach. This was at the Mayakopa.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And there's a guy that runs a program. His name is Zvi Berg, a full-blown tzadik. He is a great guy, does these programs Also. Did like when you hear the barbecuing for the soldiers. He did all of that stuff. He's just a great, great guy and it was him and I love him and and he was just a great guy and so he did the program and he I said, if you find me another program, I'll come down, we'll do both. We did the program for his show. But he's the guy that doesn't understand that less is more. He thinks more is more and get more, more and more and more. Not only did I have a show that night, he decided let's put on a mentalist before modi for an and a half.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I thought that was every program, that was every program I did.
Speaker 1:It was too much. The audience was, the room was a thousand degrees. There's a thousand people in there. I had to work the audience. So the jokes that I usually get an eight or a nine. I was getting threes and fours of laughter, but I knew that.
Speaker 1:I was thinking in terms of girls when he said that I was like I was getting, so I was working. You can't break your pace. You keep going, Just knowing that you're about to hit them with a joke that usually gets a nine or an eight in laughter and you're going to get a three or four because the room is a thousand degrees and they've been in there for three hours watching a guy.
Speaker 3:Guess what number they're thinking right and the chairs are those chairs you can get comfortable.
Speaker 1:So they're all like this and their head is behind and there's nothing worse than a good, comfortable chair for comedy. I did the show. I can't explain to you. My entire suit drenched. Everything was drenched. Now we get out, there was some hellos, hellos I. I bring a bunch of yarmulkes. I give it to whoever says hi to me and thank you, my mom. Here's a cameo you did. We love you. This is my wife.
Speaker 1:We get upstairs, we're about to go and some guy starts heading towards us and I knew it was not a Mashiach energy moment. The guy looked like he was in his ninth trimester of pregnancy. He probably has been eating at that program nonstop. He had a cigar, a big fat, lit cigar, because they have a cigar bar too. That's in this thing. And he's heading towards us.
Speaker 1:I keep an eye on Leo. He gets Leo's in the car. Now, he didn't see this happening. I'm like, oh my God, I think Baruch Hashem, he didn't see this. Leo gets in the car. This guy's heading towards us and he's like hey, I just want to tell you something about your show. And I said well, this is definitely not Moshiach Hanaji. I got in, I go, we have to run. We're going and I tell the driver, go go. The guy opens the door, opens the door. Now I don't know if you've ever seen the videos of like when the canine unit comes and the cop opens the door and the dog just jumps out and runs around to the thing. Leo's door opened so fast and he ran around and Leo. Now you've seen Leo.
Speaker 1:Not in person, but he's a big guy, he's big, he has muscles and it's all this hair thicker than yours and his shirt was opened with a tattoo of an M right here, okay, and he's heading towards, he's heading towards this guy and the guy goes don't hit me, don't hit me Like this, oh my.
Speaker 3:God.
Speaker 1:Leo prompts himself in between the the door, me, and says to the guy step away from my husband and the door Right. And now I'm upset because Leo's upset.
Speaker 1:So now I get out of the car and start screaming at this guy Get away from the car. And he had what to tell me about his show, His big chachma. His big thing was that you know it's a chutzpah that you're performing in front of a firm crowd and talking about a colonoscopy Wow, when they all know you're gay, that was his big like. That was where he was going to teach me that I'm doing the wrong thing. He didn't mention that to my husband, but I'm talking about a colonoscopy.
Speaker 1:Fish days is where he went, anyway. But now it's like and I'm also making sure this doesn't escalate I grab Leo Scherkel, get back in the car. You're not. It was not going to go where you think it's going to go. I also know, like, keep in mind, there's cameras. We're not going to hit this guy, but we need to get out of this situation before people come with cameras and, um, I start screaming at him you're this, you're that. Anyway, we took, I took, I went, I got my, I took a picture of him. Next day we're driving to the uh, to the airport, and leo posts the picture and goes. We were harassed by this guy and he was just miserable. Within 39 seconds, everyone there were 12 to 20 in 39 seconds who he is, where he lives and that he's a big asshole. There was, it was, officially it was the poscan that this is here certificate this is
Speaker 2:a full-blown from the best asshole from the best in from everybody.
Speaker 1:This is an everybody confirmed it, confirmed it where he went. And then I mentioned his name. It's not worth it, um, and, by the way, it's on brand for him. It's on brand for him and so funny. So we're in the car now le Leo's raging, yeah, and I'm like there's no Xanax for this. There's no Xanax isn't going to calm this down, but this is the night where now he's raging. You know he's in there. We're never doing a Pace Life program again. This and that I go. What are we going to do? I should have punched him. I should have put him in a. Leo speaks Spanish fluently. I go, so Leo goes, I'll explain to the cops that he's an asshole. I go, yeah, and then you'd be in jail. And then what? And then he goes to me.
Speaker 2:I'd have called Arthur Luxenberg, that's what I would have done From Weitz and Luxenberg, from Weitz and Luxenberg there was asbestos in the jail.
Speaker 1:No Weitz and Luxenberg, which is the law firm that sponsors and collaborates on our podcast that you are sitting on.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. I know Arthur's my good friend's uncle.
Speaker 1:Who's your uncle?
Speaker 2:No, my good friend is his nephew. His name is Jesse Arbisfeld.
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Speaker 2:Oh, okay, you don't say like the Chabad thing after Alenu. Oh there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, that one no how do you say Chabad Like? Okay, so we are. We're going to wrap it up. I'm so happy you're able to come here. Thank you so much for having me With your big schedule. Tell everybody where your camera's there, Tell everybody where they can see you and hear you and come and support you and blank, blank, blank and go for it.
Speaker 2:Follow me on Dovi Neuberger on Instagram. Spell it out, who the hell knows? Dovi, d-o-v-i-n-e-u-b-u-r-g-e-r. I got a bunch of shows coming up in May in the five towns. I'm doing a show for the OU Golf Day. That's May 19th. I don't know if it dropped officially yet, but dropping now. I'll have a cheese store show in June, also in the five towns. I don't know if I could say there's a couple. There's things in the work. There's a couple mini tours with some jewish organizations very excited things coming to pay attention la and chicago and south florida for upcoming dates at dovi newberger on instagram dovi newberger instagram instagram.
Speaker 1:I love your instagram. Keep it up, it's so good. We are on tour too. Ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be airing before the tour. We're going to be in Warsaw on the 14th of May. We're going to be in Manchester on the 15th and we have Munich and Frankfurt on the 17th and 18th of May. We have in Geneva and Antwerp. The 21st and 22nd is the Antwerp shows. All of these shows are in May. Everything's on modilivecom. We also have a not sleep away, laugh away camp series and that's on the website as well.
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Speaker 3:That's right On your Instagram. Everything's there.
Speaker 1:Everything's on my Instagram modi underscore live dot com.
Speaker 3:And shout out to Art in Flowers, who's doing two beautiful, all yellow flower arrangements for us.
Speaker 1:We're paying for it.
Speaker 3:She's yes, but she's also.
Speaker 1:But we couldn't be happy to be paying for it.
Speaker 3:She deserves it, she has energy.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't be happy to be paying for it. She deserves it. It's Mashiach energy. Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't be happier to be paying for it. It's going to be a beautiful stage. It's going to be a gorgeous stage. It's going to be an amazing event. My mom will be there. Is that yellow for? Like, hold on, do you want to try that again?
Speaker 2:You can cut that if you want. No, it's fine.
Speaker 3:Thank you, marta, we love you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Marta. Your flowers were amazing. On the 100th episode we did it the 92nd Street Y and again everybody keep laughing. Create Mashiach energy. Bring your friends to a comedy show. Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show. That makes Mashiach energy, and soon we'll all be in a messianic era and laughing and having an amazing time. Thank you all very much.