Transcripts For RT Dennis Miller One 20240713 : comparemela

A couple months and i want you to know i dont leave this chair in between shows just frozen air like ted williams head in a hangar near Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport joining us today is tom papa so hes a great standup i just finished his book and it is of the like it let me hold it up there tom papa youre doing great indeed hes got a brilliant conceit that he hangs these essays off abana dejas neukom coming special hes best known as a radio host for sirius x. M. Radio show and what a joke with. Pop and fortune i guess thats his partner tom has a new book out as i showed you youre doing great now there are reasons the say life currently available in Stores Online approach problem and this guys a killer stand up is going to special on netflix you got a lot shit tommy how are you my friend im doing well its good to see you. Yeah nice to see whose over your shoulder ogle you whos on that poster over your shoulder thats a George Carlin sure its not you now thats an harlan yeah and i like it. Because hes pointing at the door and this is my office i feel like hes saying if youre not workin just just get outta here. Periodic plea for inspiration you must touch your finger to his alibi vidic Sistine Chapel or something where george is the knowledge of you know exactly. I dont know if youve gone back to but theres a brilliant you know george for tells a lot of this crazy sees moster dahmus like a funny nose straight up missed. Exactly that whole that whole run about how big the planets going to be fine its the humans that are the problem. Very pressing it yeah yeah he was. Not sure he did god isnt it funny that theres so many platforms now and you inhabiting many of them then an awed way the thing that has least impinged upon its like a rise being high functioning alcoholic still less thing to go out sometimes as the or the last thing to go in is grown a virus thing is you can still have a pretty good stand up earlier or just a monologist career out of your own will yeah i know its kind of crazy its im still doing my radio shows and i do the n. P. R. Show i do the sirius x. M. Show i have this. Getting breaking bread pock podcast which i Just Launched before the pandemic was coming its yeah i feel like my office is like a studio now its like i wasnt planning on doing this but its its pretty great i mean i just to give me some kind of structure to be able to talk to comedians and stuff its been a blessing the only hitch of course is not being able to go out and tell the jokes at night and you know you its like i feel like im writing on vacation where you know youll jottings down and i get a certain point like whats the point of writing any more until i try this thats where thats where i feel like im at now well your partner in crime Jerry Seinfeld must be climbing the walls d tom and jerry good friends they go out a lot together maybe not as much but i know for a while they went out a lot together and i was thinking who with this is doing more because jerry loves the work that hes all about or well you know you talk to yak talk to them and its surprisingly hes been ok with it hes like its i think because hes special just came out and he just i dont know if i expected him to be like freaking out we got to get back on the road and hes just kind of enjoying is time at home getting some extra time with his kids and he was he seemed oddly ok with it it made me a little nervous i was surprised yeah i was surprised to see him teaching at jazzercise Course Online till i signed up. Very out of character. I didnt i didnt see that coming tom abyssinia folks i got to show it to you again youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive i love the promise of the song lay it on the blade on the viewers because i love what you work off of all the tributaries about life yeah yeah well i started i was working on the book over the last you know year and a half and i just got this overwhelming feeling that people felt like they werent doing enough like their life wasnt big enough or great enough and they were always chasing more and more and more and i had this kind of anxiety that seemed to be going through the culture and when i was on stage i started telling people you know youre doing pretty great if youre yeah if youre able to take in a comedy show and youve got your health youve got your kids that is what a life is supposed to be youve got to lower your expectations i think in social media we all started thinking that we had to do. Go get like some bigger private jet kind of a life this thing that was unattainable it was like take a breath and realize a simple life is what wins and youre doing great and people started coming up to me after the shows and thanking me like sincerely you know in a stand up show or coming up and saying thank you for saying that i i really needed to hear it and i was like well this is a good premise to kind of launch off of to just let people kind of open your eyes and realize lower your expectations in life and not to that not to like a that things are crappy but just lower your expectations and youll be a lot more content than aiming for the for the moon you know tom i am right now reading a book by a great author called scott i met about cary grant and in the book great leads i dont know that i think about i grant coopers a few guys the quintessential famous movie star life so pines for the regularity that youre talking of but you know he is taking yeah to set off the fastball and getting it over the plate he longs for it yeah its a weird thing like were built to just go and go and go and the more people ive met throughout my career i realize those lives are complicated not everybody so set up for those lives and its like if you can just you know it was actually the process of writing the books this is my 2nd one and i for the so for the like the last 4 years ive been writing a lot and that really just kind of put everything into perspective for me because when im writing i was off the road i was home i was making coffee i was seeing my kids i was walking the dog it was like and i started to just feel better i was like this is what life is supposed to be and its kind of funny now with this pandemic and were all sitting at home. This isnt like. I mean theres suffering and we have got to adjust and stuff but this is a very similar to what life used to be you cook your meals for your family you didnt go to restaurants every other day you had a lot of time to be around you werent planning these crazy vacations you knew the summer you were going to be this is closer to real life than what we were experiencing for like the last 10 years. Yeah but ok janelle a somewhere very soon were going to want to well out of the cave and whack a saber tooth tag are over they had to procure cutlets for the babies back in the cave its going to get going to get cave many pretty soon because i think lets lets put it this way gavin newsom just sent me a say the date card for next years quarantine and i dont know how im going on how. Im no man i had an offer to go to Salt Lake City and perform next weekend at Wiseguys Comedy Club and if i was a single man i would have been on that plane for sure i mean im ready to go ill come to your house and perform in your living room if you let me i am reading. Your talk going to top up on the book is youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive its so funny jerrys. Still remind me tom youre rhythms and the larrys rhythms of the great larry miller another Great Condition jerrys dustys with and you guys i can hear it in your voice theres a timbre you guys must jared just how when you back together i can hear simpatico rhythms there. Yeah absolutely it is really and you know larry i havent seen larry in a while and. We just in honor of Fred Willards passing we watched waiting for guffman and showed my daughters that movie for the 1st time and i forgot larry was in it. What a funny funny character it is the best. You know the thing about a tom is the the writing so chris i love your jokes so this works on 3 planes for me i love the writing i love the jokes i love your delivery and i can hear your delivery in my head i dont have that with everybody but the form of the book is so beautifully conceived i love that you came up with the core promise and then you worked off from it each chapter has a different anecdote in the book and. I dont know for manically you dont always find out as a comedian sometimes a little more scattershot youve got to pull these disparate elements together and turn them into a close but this forum on this is beautiful it mustve been easy to write too in a way right thanks yeah i mean it definitely gave me it definitely gave me a direction to go in and then it kind of just starts to form as you go as i went along on and just kept writing and then you start seeing you know it started off as something slightly different and then became what it is now i just i have to say i just really love the process of stretching out you know stand up is so much about getting rid of the fat and boiling it down to the fewest amount of words for the big most potent products you can get its like poetry you know you wanted to stay he hit me hard and really sink and here is like a kind of let it out a little bit more and go in these Different Directions and you know without people waiting for a laugh every 2 seconds so if i wanted to Say Something that was a little more meaningful you know i was able to do it but still like you said like having that core thing to kind of give you a little guidance i gotta say you know i have a lot of friends who comedians who went off and wrote a book and then are like i never want to do that again i come glad i got through it but that was how its had the opposite effect i mean i i really feel like. Writing is a very happy place for me. Now you seem like a contemplative man and a man in full it seems like you know youre where youre at life and i dont know who know exactly i think men who know exactly where theyre at in life feel comfortable sitting in like the inside pieces or just as between creativity they can sit there and not get off or and yet when you talk about it but when you talk about fine tuning these jokes theres no more vivid example that and i know you remember the great ronnie shakes i know jerry was a big fat of us and ronnie used to have that beautiful joke about how they always had that day in new york this is show you how you make they have to find it perfectly he wrote a great job they have that theyve all day but he said they should have they should reach stretch out a little have Something Like Something Different you dont expect like popes hat day at Yankee Stadium where a man steps into the batters box and he looks up at the crowd and theres 60000 people wearing popes hats and he steps out and he looks and he thinks wow i hope its popes hat day and i said. I said that such a brilliant little twist at the end he said regionally the joke was it must be pope sat day and he said that a rudimentary sense but i knew yet one more twist jokes and no mistake these niggas bums yeah doubt its amazing i never heard that before that so perfect but i love that i mean thats why it was always a huge fan of yours it was like you like the joke comes by and you would just say a line and you laugh and then you just you have to replay it in your head to see like wait a minute how did he how did he did have to be get there what was the stacking of those words and i mean you know nobody has that better than you well thank you but it is a fun thing each comedian finds is that yea and the guys who i find get them for this kind of the light in it and sit there and they will pick over syllable counts and stuff. Why did he end it if youre just going to throw it all away i used to do a footnote on the nick cage quarter blue glasses. On the joke and find out where the nuance was. On top of his book as youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive after the break well talk to well well talk all things papa and i know hes working on n. P. R. And i know he does a game show i dont even know that game shot ive never seen it or heard of it but i know people absolutely love it ill pick his brain about that right after this on Dennis Miller plus one more time. World is driven by. One person your. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. Were told were the new cold war with china it is not coherently explain to us why even worse is the strategy there is it was also the sad death of harms. Way folks welcome back to Dennis Miller plus one were joined by comedian tom papa also a great radio hes got a little garraway and him i find he works on many mediums and theres something about his contemplative nature that for me makes him very watchable very listenable and you know like its wise and it also doesnt great theres not a lot of staccato to it youre doing great as the book and other reasons to stay alive talk i have met you recently in life or weve talked i met you at cherry years ago to get we dont know each other well but im wondering when to just start where to just start to tell me about your birth as a comedian. I started on. June 12th 1903 in new york city i was i graduated college i always want to be a comic when i was a kid like 7th grade was when it i discovered that there was a such there was such a thing as comedians like grown ups who work comics you know willis and sue whos your lets get small lets get small but steve martin and in the same week then it was like with my friends older brother so it was like so cool i mean understand the jokes i just saw them laughing at this guy and then George Carlins class clown and my other friends house later that week and i was like oh man this is i was always funny but i didnt realize it was a job you know the actually being a comedian so i just had my sights set on it from that point on and then i went to school and started acting and when i got out of school i realized people have to hire you to be an actor and i looked in the Village Voice i was living in north jersey and the Village Voice said if you came to the new York Comedy Club and brought 3 of your friends to sit. Youll get some stage time and i loaded them up and i went drove in and it was like 5 in the afternoon the new York Comedy Club was on top of the western bar is still light out you know summer and i walked in there was a mc one stage and a young greg giraldo. Was waiting to go on and that was yeah a killer such a great guy and we struck up a friendship and i wouldnt on and did my 1st set and that was it i was just like ok this confirms that everything that i that i thought like the rush to the i actually you know had a couple jokes written out that were you know like in structure and and they worked and i was just hooked and that was it and then i just started pounding it out new york from that point on. God if it was that much fun at dusk imagine what it would be less to. Go on a night. Comedy dusk with your friends your friends he just drove in with staring at you couldnt have been more but ive never ive never been to a comedy club before that you know id never seen comedy in a club i saw it on tonight show and saturday night live and all that stuff but ive never actually been in a club to stand there and have a microphone in my hand it was like i was just so excited yeah i remember oddly enough when we were all starting in new york jerry going out to jersey and working the playboy club he worked in something called the laney samara home at the great gorge new jersey playboy club we all met up later to comic strip i remember we were all existing on burgers from but you know but doesnt monocle any striking out on a bench or put on a burger thats not broke we are very good like 175 bucks he said read it we lawyers we thought oh my god think you can think of. No money. Youre rich youve made it you made it oh my god it was so great i mean thats whats interesting now like people keep asking me like so when is comedy coming back whats going to be like him and i you know i got an offer like i said to go to utah and do this show its a 300 seat room with maybe 100 people theyll put in it so they can distance and someone said to me will what if theyre all Wearing Masks would that be weird im like you dont understand. Anyone thats a comedian thats has a career as a comedian has done far worse gigs than anything you can devise during the pandemic you know i mean we have fleet played ours where they didnt want comedy we played in front of Nursing Homes with one person and i mean please theres nothing you can serve up it will make me upset. Yeah oh i quits grow up who cares or folks you let. Men getting between men and primordial ringback urges. And some what they throw you up yeah. Reagan has access to the button i would trust my grandfather the t. V. Remote control you know theyre. Just for the next dude was. So grim but whats so funny and so amazing and you look back on all of that and it sounds like its it must have been horrible and it was the total opposite it was the best time of my life i just loved every minute of it i didnt even think it was strange to be getting 5. 00 at the comic strip and living on that to the next day i mean playing like the strip clubs are horrible places driving your car all the way to maine just for 10 minutes and then driving back it all sounds crazy but it was so great it was so great because you knew you were doing something that was just a part of you it was just you found yourself in a way and it was so natural and fun and a man i so grateful we got to go down that road. Down life in the bunker you look back on it you made fast friends and people were close enough that you would laugh when somebody was going belly up your fists. Like that somebody stuff. I remember. Right lord of the ground bahama island on a boat had to do to 2 hours i came to get new york i said jerry of pets i said hey you want to do this cruise i better on 7 dollars and he said you know ive never felt the need to vacation with my audience. Cherry was june before. Youre doing today. To stay alive you know took my i always like writing to the requirements at the beginning you know people say to me sometimes when youre on t. V. Or football for a couple years to always say and then there are other gigs i swear were pretty sure precisely and if you know people say is it hard to do that and you know when they talk about Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport<\/a> joining us today is tom papa so hes a great standup i just finished his book and it is of the like it let me hold it up there tom papa youre doing great indeed hes got a brilliant conceit that he hangs these essays off abana dejas neukom coming special hes best known as a radio host for sirius x. M. Radio show and what a joke with. Pop and fortune i guess thats his partner tom has a new book out as i showed you youre doing great now there are reasons the say life currently available in Stores Online<\/a> approach problem and this guys a killer stand up is going to special on netflix you got a lot shit tommy how are you my friend im doing well its good to see you. Yeah nice to see whose over your shoulder ogle you whos on that poster over your shoulder thats a George Carlin<\/a> sure its not you now thats an harlan yeah and i like it. Because hes pointing at the door and this is my office i feel like hes saying if youre not workin just just get outta here. Periodic plea for inspiration you must touch your finger to his alibi vidic Sistine Chapel<\/a> or something where george is the knowledge of you know exactly. I dont know if youve gone back to but theres a brilliant you know george for tells a lot of this crazy sees moster dahmus like a funny nose straight up missed. Exactly that whole that whole run about how big the planets going to be fine its the humans that are the problem. Very pressing it yeah yeah he was. Not sure he did god isnt it funny that theres so many platforms now and you inhabiting many of them then an awed way the thing that has least impinged upon its like a rise being high functioning alcoholic still less thing to go out sometimes as the or the last thing to go in is grown a virus thing is you can still have a pretty good stand up earlier or just a monologist career out of your own will yeah i know its kind of crazy its im still doing my radio shows and i do the n. P. R. Show i do the sirius x. M. Show i have this. Getting breaking bread pock podcast which i Just Launched<\/a> before the pandemic was coming its yeah i feel like my office is like a studio now its like i wasnt planning on doing this but its its pretty great i mean i just to give me some kind of structure to be able to talk to comedians and stuff its been a blessing the only hitch of course is not being able to go out and tell the jokes at night and you know you its like i feel like im writing on vacation where you know youll jottings down and i get a certain point like whats the point of writing any more until i try this thats where thats where i feel like im at now well your partner in crime Jerry Seinfeld<\/a> must be climbing the walls d tom and jerry good friends they go out a lot together maybe not as much but i know for a while they went out a lot together and i was thinking who with this is doing more because jerry loves the work that hes all about or well you know you talk to yak talk to them and its surprisingly hes been ok with it hes like its i think because hes special just came out and he just i dont know if i expected him to be like freaking out we got to get back on the road and hes just kind of enjoying is time at home getting some extra time with his kids and he was he seemed oddly ok with it it made me a little nervous i was surprised yeah i was surprised to see him teaching at jazzercise Course Online<\/a> till i signed up. Very out of character. I didnt i didnt see that coming tom abyssinia folks i got to show it to you again youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive i love the promise of the song lay it on the blade on the viewers because i love what you work off of all the tributaries about life yeah yeah well i started i was working on the book over the last you know year and a half and i just got this overwhelming feeling that people felt like they werent doing enough like their life wasnt big enough or great enough and they were always chasing more and more and more and i had this kind of anxiety that seemed to be going through the culture and when i was on stage i started telling people you know youre doing pretty great if youre yeah if youre able to take in a comedy show and youve got your health youve got your kids that is what a life is supposed to be youve got to lower your expectations i think in social media we all started thinking that we had to do. Go get like some bigger private jet kind of a life this thing that was unattainable it was like take a breath and realize a simple life is what wins and youre doing great and people started coming up to me after the shows and thanking me like sincerely you know in a stand up show or coming up and saying thank you for saying that i i really needed to hear it and i was like well this is a good premise to kind of launch off of to just let people kind of open your eyes and realize lower your expectations in life and not to that not to like a that things are crappy but just lower your expectations and youll be a lot more content than aiming for the for the moon you know tom i am right now reading a book by a great author called scott i met about cary grant and in the book great leads i dont know that i think about i grant coopers a few guys the quintessential famous movie star life so pines for the regularity that youre talking of but you know he is taking yeah to set off the fastball and getting it over the plate he longs for it yeah its a weird thing like were built to just go and go and go and the more people ive met throughout my career i realize those lives are complicated not everybody so set up for those lives and its like if you can just you know it was actually the process of writing the books this is my 2nd one and i for the so for the like the last 4 years ive been writing a lot and that really just kind of put everything into perspective for me because when im writing i was off the road i was home i was making coffee i was seeing my kids i was walking the dog it was like and i started to just feel better i was like this is what life is supposed to be and its kind of funny now with this pandemic and were all sitting at home. This isnt like. I mean theres suffering and we have got to adjust and stuff but this is a very similar to what life used to be you cook your meals for your family you didnt go to restaurants every other day you had a lot of time to be around you werent planning these crazy vacations you knew the summer you were going to be this is closer to real life than what we were experiencing for like the last 10 years. Yeah but ok janelle a somewhere very soon were going to want to well out of the cave and whack a saber tooth tag are over they had to procure cutlets for the babies back in the cave its going to get going to get cave many pretty soon because i think lets lets put it this way gavin newsom just sent me a say the date card for next years quarantine and i dont know how im going on how. Im no man i had an offer to go to Salt Lake City<\/a> and perform next weekend at Wiseguys Comedy Club<\/a> and if i was a single man i would have been on that plane for sure i mean im ready to go ill come to your house and perform in your living room if you let me i am reading. Your talk going to top up on the book is youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive its so funny jerrys. Still remind me tom youre rhythms and the larrys rhythms of the great larry miller another Great Condition<\/a> jerrys dustys with and you guys i can hear it in your voice theres a timbre you guys must jared just how when you back together i can hear simpatico rhythms there. Yeah absolutely it is really and you know larry i havent seen larry in a while and. We just in honor of Fred Willards<\/a> passing we watched waiting for guffman and showed my daughters that movie for the 1st time and i forgot larry was in it. What a funny funny character it is the best. You know the thing about a tom is the the writing so chris i love your jokes so this works on 3 planes for me i love the writing i love the jokes i love your delivery and i can hear your delivery in my head i dont have that with everybody but the form of the book is so beautifully conceived i love that you came up with the core promise and then you worked off from it each chapter has a different anecdote in the book and. I dont know for manically you dont always find out as a comedian sometimes a little more scattershot youve got to pull these disparate elements together and turn them into a close but this forum on this is beautiful it mustve been easy to write too in a way right thanks yeah i mean it definitely gave me it definitely gave me a direction to go in and then it kind of just starts to form as you go as i went along on and just kept writing and then you start seeing you know it started off as something slightly different and then became what it is now i just i have to say i just really love the process of stretching out you know stand up is so much about getting rid of the fat and boiling it down to the fewest amount of words for the big most potent products you can get its like poetry you know you wanted to stay he hit me hard and really sink and here is like a kind of let it out a little bit more and go in these Different Directions<\/a> and you know without people waiting for a laugh every 2 seconds so if i wanted to Say Something<\/a> that was a little more meaningful you know i was able to do it but still like you said like having that core thing to kind of give you a little guidance i gotta say you know i have a lot of friends who comedians who went off and wrote a book and then are like i never want to do that again i come glad i got through it but that was how its had the opposite effect i mean i i really feel like. Writing is a very happy place for me. Now you seem like a contemplative man and a man in full it seems like you know youre where youre at life and i dont know who know exactly i think men who know exactly where theyre at in life feel comfortable sitting in like the inside pieces or just as between creativity they can sit there and not get off or and yet when you talk about it but when you talk about fine tuning these jokes theres no more vivid example that and i know you remember the great ronnie shakes i know jerry was a big fat of us and ronnie used to have that beautiful joke about how they always had that day in new york this is show you how you make they have to find it perfectly he wrote a great job they have that theyve all day but he said they should have they should reach stretch out a little have Something Like<\/a> Something Different<\/a> you dont expect like popes hat day at Yankee Stadium<\/a> where a man steps into the batters box and he looks up at the crowd and theres 60000 people wearing popes hats and he steps out and he looks and he thinks wow i hope its popes hat day and i said. I said that such a brilliant little twist at the end he said regionally the joke was it must be pope sat day and he said that a rudimentary sense but i knew yet one more twist jokes and no mistake these niggas bums yeah doubt its amazing i never heard that before that so perfect but i love that i mean thats why it was always a huge fan of yours it was like you like the joke comes by and you would just say a line and you laugh and then you just you have to replay it in your head to see like wait a minute how did he how did he did have to be get there what was the stacking of those words and i mean you know nobody has that better than you well thank you but it is a fun thing each comedian finds is that yea and the guys who i find get them for this kind of the light in it and sit there and they will pick over syllable counts and stuff. Why did he end it if youre just going to throw it all away i used to do a footnote on the nick cage quarter blue glasses. On the joke and find out where the nuance was. On top of his book as youre doing great and other reasons to stay alive after the break well talk to well well talk all things papa and i know hes working on n. P. R. And i know he does a game show i dont even know that game shot ive never seen it or heard of it but i know people absolutely love it ill pick his brain about that right after this on Dennis Miller<\/a> plus one more time. World is driven by. One person your. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. Were told were the new cold war with china it is not coherently explain to us why even worse is the strategy there is it was also the sad death of harms. Way folks welcome back to Dennis Miller<\/a> plus one were joined by comedian tom papa also a great radio hes got a little garraway and him i find he works on many mediums and theres something about his contemplative nature that for me makes him very watchable very listenable and you know like its wise and it also doesnt great theres not a lot of staccato to it youre doing great as the book and other reasons to stay alive talk i have met you recently in life or weve talked i met you at cherry years ago to get we dont know each other well but im wondering when to just start where to just start to tell me about your birth as a comedian. I started on. June 12th 1903 in new york city i was i graduated college i always want to be a comic when i was a kid like 7th grade was when it i discovered that there was a such there was such a thing as comedians like grown ups who work comics you know willis and sue whos your lets get small lets get small but steve martin and in the same week then it was like with my friends older brother so it was like so cool i mean understand the jokes i just saw them laughing at this guy and then George Carlin<\/a>s class clown and my other friends house later that week and i was like oh man this is i was always funny but i didnt realize it was a job you know the actually being a comedian so i just had my sights set on it from that point on and then i went to school and started acting and when i got out of school i realized people have to hire you to be an actor and i looked in the Village Voice<\/a> i was living in north jersey and the Village Voice<\/a> said if you came to the new York Comedy Club<\/a> and brought 3 of your friends to sit. Youll get some stage time and i loaded them up and i went drove in and it was like 5 in the afternoon the new York Comedy Club<\/a> was on top of the western bar is still light out you know summer and i walked in there was a mc one stage and a young greg giraldo. Was waiting to go on and that was yeah a killer such a great guy and we struck up a friendship and i wouldnt on and did my 1st set and that was it i was just like ok this confirms that everything that i that i thought like the rush to the i actually you know had a couple jokes written out that were you know like in structure and and they worked and i was just hooked and that was it and then i just started pounding it out new york from that point on. God if it was that much fun at dusk imagine what it would be less to. Go on a night. Comedy dusk with your friends your friends he just drove in with staring at you couldnt have been more but ive never ive never been to a comedy club before that you know id never seen comedy in a club i saw it on tonight show and saturday night live and all that stuff but ive never actually been in a club to stand there and have a microphone in my hand it was like i was just so excited yeah i remember oddly enough when we were all starting in new york jerry going out to jersey and working the playboy club he worked in something called the laney samara home at the great gorge new jersey playboy club we all met up later to comic strip i remember we were all existing on burgers from but you know but doesnt monocle any striking out on a bench or put on a burger thats not broke we are very good like 175 bucks he said read it we lawyers we thought oh my god think you can think of. No money. Youre rich youve made it you made it oh my god it was so great i mean thats whats interesting now like people keep asking me like so when is comedy coming back whats going to be like him and i you know i got an offer like i said to go to utah and do this show its a 300 seat room with maybe 100 people theyll put in it so they can distance and someone said to me will what if theyre all Wearing Masks<\/a> would that be weird im like you dont understand. Anyone thats a comedian thats has a career as a comedian has done far worse gigs than anything you can devise during the pandemic you know i mean we have fleet played ours where they didnt want comedy we played in front of Nursing Homes<\/a> with one person and i mean please theres nothing you can serve up it will make me upset. Yeah oh i quits grow up who cares or folks you let. Men getting between men and primordial ringback urges. And some what they throw you up yeah. Reagan has access to the button i would trust my grandfather the t. V. Remote control you know theyre. Just for the next dude was. So grim but whats so funny and so amazing and you look back on all of that and it sounds like its it must have been horrible and it was the total opposite it was the best time of my life i just loved every minute of it i didnt even think it was strange to be getting 5. 00 at the comic strip and living on that to the next day i mean playing like the strip clubs are horrible places driving your car all the way to maine just for 10 minutes and then driving back it all sounds crazy but it was so great it was so great because you knew you were doing something that was just a part of you it was just you found yourself in a way and it was so natural and fun and a man i so grateful we got to go down that road. Down life in the bunker you look back on it you made fast friends and people were close enough that you would laugh when somebody was going belly up your fists. Like that somebody stuff. I remember. Right lord of the ground bahama island on a boat had to do to 2 hours i came to get new york i said jerry of pets i said hey you want to do this cruise i better on 7 dollars and he said you know ive never felt the need to vacation with my audience. Cherry was june before. Youre doing today. To stay alive you know took my i always like writing to the requirements at the beginning you know people say to me sometimes when youre on t. V. Or football for a couple years to always say and then there are other gigs i swear were pretty sure precisely and if you know people say is it hard to do that and you know when they talk about Political Correctness<\/a> today or that i always find it an interesting puzzle its like doing. Some doku or whatever those puzzles are called where i like to write to it times are yeah i dont find it all that hard to work right away do you yeah no now i agree with you i mean theres you know theres when you look back there was theres a reason why maybe we shouldnt be attacking certain groups of people and making them feel bad and you know its actually had a funny moment that yes as you age you know theres younger people come up and theyre seeing things differently in their changing at the same way we did when we were coming up and and thats good and thats we get a little set in our ways as we go along and you know we were here and stayed home with 2 teenage daughters and theyre telling me after having live with me for all this to all this time very closely. When they should be out at parties and doing other stuff theyre just watching me stumble around the kitchen and my daughter said to me last night she said you know i noticed that a lot of people meaning me. Talk with their with food in their mouths a lot. And my reaction was no i dont have you know this is the way and i was like no you know what be open minded enough to accept some criticism and change your behavior if thats what it takes shes probably right shes probably right i probably do and as the meal went on i went to talk and i had food in my mouth and i realized yeah i do do this all the time so my point being with the writing and the change of the culture. Be open minded and allow yourself to be corrected and i dont think theres anything wrong with that lets stay relevant is that i mean there couldnt be anything worse then somebody saying no im telling these jokes the way i used to tell them while the rest of the culture moves on if youre going to be become irrelevant very quickly. Yeah. You know i went from a hellion to the great santini overnight and some of my references are not so dated ill be sitting there like kid now do assimilate and my son will like continue reading it will say hey that reference a d. D. Or b. C. They keep. My older son time youll like this he got out of college and he was looking for a job in new york at a couple jobs in the Digital World<\/a> that were offered and he said im going to go bake bread. I said what do you mean son you graduated from n. Y. U. With like you know of killer grades which said yeah i feel like ive been in the serial world for a long time i want to do something is i want to be bred for a wise or not for a life. Is i want to take a year and do it and i know youre mazing that. Yeah thats amazing is he doing it now or he was doing it. Now hes a very hes doing well hes a writer now and he sold something that i i think that he thinks that that year informed his ability to write better because he felt like he had dealt in the kingdom of ideas so long and he was hot it was brutal that i love the sound as i would pull out the thing and make print its amazing yeah ive been doing it for a bike but for like the last 5 years i really got into it and got i know exactly what hes talking about and you know i did the show on the food network for like a season where i went and visited all these bakeries all around the country and the stories are very similar to that some of them it was passed down through the family but a lot of the stories where i was an i. T. I was a lawyer i was doing television and i just why i didnt feel completed didnt feel real and they go into baking and just getting their hands everything your son saying like it it centered them and gave them this great life its hard you work really really hard really long to early hours but they all they just glowed you could just see it they were living they felt alive and i you know i bake bread all the time a pretty serious home baker and every once in a while thing maybe ill maybe i could i do that could i go and do that and the answer is no at this point maybe 20 years ago but now that im not getting up at 2 in the morning to make other people christianes. A lot of times times got a new special called stranger walking in the woods talking about yeast and you can find it at netflix. But no. Great you can get it in the book for the stand up its a great special time and youre a good man and im glad everything seems to want it so well for you after this is out lets lets break bread appropriately enough ill see you down the road i think its about time that we do that down to i feel like weve talked enough through these kind of things i would love to do that. Now we should actually meet before we grow tired of each other. If you know lets do it lets get together so you get in this relationship. Folks a birth of a joke right there right. And right see if that a similar last one i buy to. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see that. Happen and im on the phone and i will spin my way through the food. Bank itself movie theater. Plus weve got to talk so hard not to think i dont have the discipline to see the work they follow and i dont miss the mark and i think. 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