All Fantasy Everything - Stand-up Specials (w/ Neal Brennan)

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is a HeadGum Podcast. This is All Fantasy Everything, the podcast where we fantasy draft anything and everything from the world of pop culture. On today's episode, we're drafting stand-up comedy specials. Our guest today is the stand-up comedian, writer, director, Neil Brennan. I'm your host, Ian Carmel, and with me as always are my friends and stand up comedian, Sean Jordan and David Borey. Let's get into it. Welcome to another brand new episode of All Fantasy Everything,
Starting point is 00:00:56 the podcast that's wearing glasses today. You do have shades on. I'm wearing glasses. That looks good, man. I had to do the audio book for T-Shirt Sw for the last three days and I've been doing nothing but looking at fucking screens and my eyes hurt so bad. Can I say what I texted you yesterday that you got a chuckle out of that you
Starting point is 00:01:14 read out loud in the last three days more than I've read to myself in the last probably three years, which is such a dumb thing to say, but that a dumb thing to say. It's probably true, though. It's a true thing to say. I don't dumb thing to say it's probably true though which is a true thing to say i don't know man you're not a reader neil i don't like i mean in america that's not you know you're in i don't live in america you're an incredible company i'm in ireland right now so is that true no it's not true i wish no i'm in portland that's one of those
Starting point is 00:01:40 overly believable lies yeah it was it's not really that fantastic yeah you're like I'm in a submarine you know you would have to make it a little more extravagant and it wasn't funny to boot it had everything you want from an interjection on a podcast I really blew it on that one
Starting point is 00:02:00 and now we're wasting like another five minutes kind of unpacking it it's everything can't wait to see this cut let's wrap it up uh i'm gonna get right to it because we have a fantastic topic sean jordan is here sean s jordan on twitter sean cougar bell and jordan on instagram sean where can people see you uh the afe tour man like you want me to rip off the dates go real quick i. I'll do them right now. AFE tour. So the AFE is hitting the East Coast and the Midwest.
Starting point is 00:02:29 June 11th, we're at the Bell House in Brooklyn. You know what? Why don't you do it? Because I only have the cities. June 11th, Bell House, Brooklyn. June 12th, Underground Arts in Philly. June 13th, Bell House, Brooklyn again. June 14th, Black Cat in DC.
Starting point is 00:02:42 June 15th, the Randolph in Toronto. Coming at six, baby. June 16th, Arts of the Armory in Somerville, Mass., basically Boston. Tuesday, June 18th, Bottle Rock at Social Hall in Pittsburgh, PA. Wednesday, June 19th, Roxy at Mahal's in Cleveland. Thursday, June 20th, Magic Bag in Detroit. Friday, the 21st, The Den Theater in Chicago. Closing out Saturday, June 22nd Parkway Theater in Minneapolis. Get those tickets. It's going to be dope. We're going back to Philly. I'm excited about it. That's all I got coming up.
Starting point is 00:03:12 I've got them all linked in my bio if anybody needs a place to find them all in one place. I will too by the time this comes out, I promise. Beautiful. David Borey is here. CoolGuyJokes87 on Instagram. No longer on Twitter. Never again, man. No, you ain't missing anything. Yeah, I don't care.
Starting point is 00:03:28 I don't give a shit. I, you know, come see me on the AFV Tour July. The first two weeks I'm going out with Jamel Johnson through the South. Those dates will be coming out, I guess, the week that this drops. Watch Royal Crackers on HBO. That's about it. David, do you rub your face
Starting point is 00:03:44 your whole act most of it most of it that's pretty cool that's a cool effect well you gotta be in a way people kind of can't hear it yeah it would be fun to do a whole special where you're putting on lotion like a concerned mother in a sitcom you know what i mean like before bed you're just putting on various lotion right on your elbows i've always wanted to eat like take a bite of a burger during stand-up i've never like eaten anything. What's stopping you? Nothing. I could.
Starting point is 00:04:07 I've never seen it. That'd be new. I've never, I've never seen it. I've seen a comedian named Hamburger, but I've never seen someone eat one.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Yeah. I've seen two comedians named Hamburger. Hamburger and Hamburger 2? Yeah. I would've gone with Cheeseburger for the second one. Oh,
Starting point is 00:04:24 they got, come on, but, Chicken Sandwich, Double Cheesecake. You would've gone with aburger for the second one chicken sandwich you would have gone with a double maybe rodeo burger double animal style something the riffs were better earlier
Starting point is 00:04:34 listeners you should have been here man oh man we were ripping is there anything else you want to tell people about David no not yet it's just so few let him earn it let him earn it David don't just give it to him up front
Starting point is 00:04:51 let him do some later I'm like 45 minutes in it'll come out we've been teasing another announcement for two episodes so this is actually pretty fun we're building a lot of suspense I think our guest today is Neil Brennan, at Neil Brennan on Instagram,
Starting point is 00:05:08 Twitter, I imagine TikTok as well. Do you want TikTok? I'm on TikTok. I bought the verification on Twitter. I went the other way from David. How do you like that? I got the double bonus. No, I didn't do that.
Starting point is 00:05:24 You do have a blue check now, though, right? Didn't they give them back? Did they? I don't know. I realize once I have a girlfriend, like, the social media is totally pointless. It does nothing for you. It's completely pointless.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Like, I guess promo, but I'm not. I have a guy. I got a guy. You got a guy? You got a digital guy? Yeah. I got a digital guy. That's luxury, dude. That's the only kind of luxury I'm really interested in. I got a guy. You got a guy? You got a digital guy? Yeah. I got a digital guy. That's luxury, dude.
Starting point is 00:05:46 That's the only kind of luxury I'm really interested in. That and private jets. Mm-hmm. That's about... Private jets, I've been told repeatedly, is the only real difference
Starting point is 00:05:56 money makes, which is pretty big, but you can still only eat a couple meals a day. You can only... Yeah. You know what I mean? But that, like,
Starting point is 00:06:04 park your car, be on a plane, and you're in the air like six minutes later. I can only, you know what I mean? But that, like park your car, be on a plane and you're in the air like six minutes later. I can't even imagine the stress. Yeah, I've heard you get, you park your car
Starting point is 00:06:11 and you get to punch the co-pilot in the face. You do. Yeah. Like, and keep moving. You just go like, and walk onto the plane. They actually said,
Starting point is 00:06:19 like if you pay a little extra, they said a 30 second clock and you can do anything to the co-pilot. But it takes a little in that 30 seconds. But you hurry clock, and you can do anything to the co-pilot. But it's 11 to 30 seconds. But you hurry up. Hurry up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:29 And you got to be done by the time the buzzer goes off. Right. You can't be still. It's not like, let me get one last punch in. It's like hard. It's like basketball rules. It's not soccer rules. I'm fully clothed.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah. It has to leave the hand. Zippers up, buttons down. It's pretty clear. Yes, sir. You must have been on a private jet by now? I've been on probably
Starting point is 00:06:52 15 private jets in my life. Here's the great human thing about private jets. I believe almost every time if not every time. You'll be in like a G4. I guess that's a kind of...
Starting point is 00:07:09 And then whenever you land... I've heard some songs about them, yes. Yeah. Whenever you land at the airport or... It's happened every time when I've landed at the airport. The person who got the private jet would point at the G5 and go, that was the one I wanted to get. So every
Starting point is 00:07:28 single time, it's not enough. It's never enough. Well, it'd be enough for me. I'd be bringing the captain coffee. You say that now. I'd be bringing him coffee.
Starting point is 00:07:43 I'd be sitting in the cockpit. I think it'd be so coffee. I'd be sitting in the cockpit. I think it'd be so fun. I want to sit in the cockpit. I'm terrified to fly. I don't think you would bring them. You wouldn't bring them coffee. You wouldn't. You'd be like, fuck them.
Starting point is 00:07:53 They work for me. Man, that would be a big G. If you're the kind of person who gets to the point where you have a G4, you're also only the kind of person who would rather have a G5. Of course, and you're also the most like, I should bring coffee for the staff. Just a box of Starbucks. How high do they go?
Starting point is 00:08:16 How high do the Gs go? Pretty high. I think they go, I mean, I didn't know I knew that much. I didn't realize how much I knew. I believe they go 45,000 feet because 35,000 feet, there's more turbulence. Then you go to 45,
Starting point is 00:08:32 there's less. I think. It's a more luxurious ride. Yeah, that's right. I'm going to go. Go. To me, it seems like the great equalizer because there's always turbulence. You can't pay to not have turbulence. I suppose if you go higher, but you still have to...
Starting point is 00:08:49 I've never been on a private jet. I gotta say, I don't like... Yeah, they still bump. Yeah, they bump. It's bumping. It's soul plane. Oh, I don't especially like private jets because what happens is it becomes like a cocktail party. Yes.
Starting point is 00:09:07 Like you can't really just, you can't get on a plane and like ignore people. Just sit there. You have to be like, so what have you been doing, fellow person? Um, which, you know, you guys know I don't like. Yeah. There's a lot of pressure, especially you've almost feel like you have to do whatever the person who got the plane it's like they're setting the tone and if they go and get a drink is that usually is that usually blow no i know it's far worse far worse i've been on a private jet i don't want
Starting point is 00:09:37 to say with who you can probably guess smoking smoking cigarettes on a private jet. Well, thank God they don't let me do that in 39B on United. That's why you gotta apply a spirit. They'll let you smoke in the back. Absolutely. I wonder if there's any movement to get a smoking flight.
Starting point is 00:09:59 They can do it. If there's like, hey, everyone in this flight is going to be smoking. That's a commercial flight. I don't know that they could. You don't think they could? No, you can't smoke indoors anywhere. It's not like... No, we're all cool, man.
Starting point is 00:10:14 You can't plead we're cool. It's performance art. No, man. Come on, man. What if I do stand up in the aisle? Is it a stage? Yeah, then you're all right. That whole thing?
Starting point is 00:10:23 Yeah, I guess you could make it a performance art thing, yeah. Now that I think about it. We're drafting stand-up comedy specials today. Neil, you have some fantastic comedy specials of your own. Three mics, blocks, available now. And also, as of April, three days. Crazy good on Netflix. Hell yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:10:44 I'm kind of abandoning my mental health advocacy. And I'm saying that anything good in life is from psychopaths and drug addicts. Hell yeah. Whoops. Every great athlete
Starting point is 00:11:00 is insane. Insane to a person. All of them. Name them. They're insane. Every single one we like. Even Anthony Edwards right now in the Minnesota Timberwolves. Insane person. I love it. Anthony Edwards.
Starting point is 00:11:12 He's the best. Anthony Edwards who just for no reason made a homophobic Instagram last summer. No one. It was like literally the meme of like, no one, colon, empty. Anthony Edwards, I don't like gays. Wait, what? But, you know, it's like a video game character where like, if you get 100 points in one area, you're going to have zero in another one.
Starting point is 00:11:41 Yeah. So that's kind of how life works. The joke, Woody Allen, 100 points for filmmaking and comedy. another one. Yeah. So that's kind of how life works. The joke, Woody Allen, 100 points for filmmaking and comedy. And the angels were like, but God, that's not going to live any
Starting point is 00:11:53 points for not fucking his family. Are the angels the ones who dole out the points? Well, in my logic, sure. A lot of people don't know that the angels
Starting point is 00:12:03 are on the show up there. Yeah. The angels are like, what are we going to do with this Ron Jeremy kid? He seems to be sure. The big dick angels. God bless. That's how it works. And then he
Starting point is 00:12:16 was a sexual assaulter. God had a stroke just eating spaghetti. God doesn't run the family anymore. It's all the captains running it. That's correct. Kippos. Kipp correct. Kippos. Kippos. Kappos.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Anything else you'd like to point people toward? You have your Blocks podcast as well? Oh, yeah. The Blocks podcast. Let's put it all toward Crazy Good on Netflix. We're going to put all our points toward Crazy Good on Netflix, everything else, or the other Netflix specials, but really Crazy Good I'd like to get into the top 10
Starting point is 00:12:44 and stay there for a week and a half. There it is. Is that the goal? Is that the internal goal? Is Robby Pryor hitting you up like, we gotta stay top 10? That's my internal goal. The metrics we're looking at internally are a week and a half
Starting point is 00:13:01 in the top 10. Fantastic. We hope you fucking get there, man. You're so funny. I hope so. Thank you. I think you will. My name is Ian Carmel,
Starting point is 00:13:11 at Ian Carmel on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, all those places. Pre-order my book, T-Shirt Swim Club, a memoir about being fat in 13 stories with my little sister, a doctor of psychology coming in after every chapter and sort of analyzing what I was talking about. I'd like to say now Ian has sent me the book
Starting point is 00:13:30 and I have not read it. Yeah. Pretty great. Must feel pretty good. This was kind of a gotcha moment. Yeah. I've pre-ordered the book and I imagine I will not read it for quite some time
Starting point is 00:13:42 as I haven't read a book in about three years. I came to you saying, hey, I know you're super busy. Can I send you this anyway? Like being like, if you got the time, fantastic. If not, what's sad is I. That's how you said it to me. I sold it on eBay for 99 cents. That's what I said.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Now that I not read it, I fucking sold it at a loss for you and me. It's not a bad price. And now it's on the streets. Now everybody knows about it. It's more than the author usually gets, so that's fantastic. That's pretty sweet. It's alright. We got quotes from Seth Meyers, Roxane Gay, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:15 Shea Serrano. We're doing alright. That's pretty good. We are missing one big space. The big NB. Was it for the quote? Puff Daddy. Oh, I didn't realize it was for the quote. I was trying to get that blurb, baby.
Starting point is 00:14:28 I was trying to get that NB blurb on the book. I didn't realize that. My fault. I didn't realize that. I still, I just made some shit up. Oh, cool.
Starting point is 00:14:34 You AI'd it? This makes my stand-up look like this. You AI Neil Brennan'd it? AI Neil Brennan. We had chat GPT. Write a blurb as Neil Brennan.
Starting point is 00:14:44 It's a, this book makes my stand-up look like shit. Neil Brennan. We had chat GPT. Write a blurb as Neil Brennan. It's a, this book makes my stand-up look like shit. Neil Brennan. This will be in the top ten for two weeks. For two weeks. Shout out Robbie Proff. What do I got coming? Oh, pre-order Super
Starting point is 00:14:59 Help. So if you're going to get the book, I would love if you pre-ordered it, and I appreciate you either way. Come see me on the road. I'll be at you pre-ordered it. And I appreciate you either way. Come see me on the road. I'll be at Moontower Comedy Festival, April 17th through the 20th. David Borey and I will be at, oh wait, even before that, I will be at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington, Vermont, May 2nd through the 4th. And then David and I will be at Comedy on State, May 9th through the 11th. Get yourself some of those hoodies.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Get some of those Comedy on State hoodies. So you got something to wear. So we can all be here like we're smoking cigarettes outside of the store. It's going to be great. And then come see the AFE tour. And I'm going to be opening
Starting point is 00:15:38 for Ellen DeGeneres on the road. So if you want to come see me and Ellen DeGeneres, get tickets to Ellen DeGeneres. Oh, go to Netflix as a joke. See me there. Go to the website. Oh yeah, go see David. Go to the website. Shout out to David. That's it.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Shout out, David. Now, we've danced around the topic all podcast so far, so let's get right into it. We are here to fantasy draft stand-up comedy specials. All of the stand-up comedy specials all of the stand-up comedy specials are in play except for neil's we're going to take neil's off the board right now and just assume that those are one two three three well those would have been the top
Starting point is 00:16:14 yeah those would end four i mean i'm just i'm just saying it's akim elijah one sam bowie akim elijah one sam bowie michael jordan neil you tell us which one is sam bowie i over my dead body Akeem Olajuwon, Sam Bowie, Michael Jordan. Neil, you tell us which one is Sam Bowie. I over my dead body. The way we determine the order of this draft is through a rollicking game of rock, paper, scissors. Play between the three of you and we throw on shoot. Here we go. Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
Starting point is 00:16:42 Oh, David wins in unnatural victory. Paper against two scissors. Doesn't scissors beat paper? Odd person out. We've devised a three-person game of rock, paper, scissors where the person who throws something unique wins. I'm going to get into it a little deeper, actually. Explain.
Starting point is 00:17:00 We were inspired by no exit by, uh, okay. David, as the winner of rock paper says this is incumbent upon you to determine the order of today's draft before you do that i will remind you it's a serpentine draft and what is that that's a great question like if you're trying to find a seat let's say you're going in to watch someone film a stand-up special and you're trying to find your seat and there's all those rows and so you go it's empty you're the first person in there so you just you go and you're like i'm just gonna walk down and see if I find it. You don't really look at,
Starting point is 00:17:26 so you walk down one whole row of seats. It's not there. Uh, you're like, oh man, it's J not K. So you go over to J. Then you walk all the way down that and you're like, I was reading K wrong. It's L. And then, you know, you go to L, walk all the way down. Then you decide it's M actually. And then you walk into like M15 and there you take a seat. So just kind of back and forth. Everyone just turned this podcast off. Everyone just turned this podcast off. Everyone just turned this podcast off and they were like, you know what? Let me focus on work. I think
Starting point is 00:17:51 they got a serpentine draft at least. At least they know what that is now. They turned it off because they're like, wow, he's so thoroughly explained what a serpentine draft is that I feel so satisfied. They don't need to know anymore. They're gonna go to the ocean and think about God. And she will appreciate it. Oh, very nice.
Starting point is 00:18:08 Ally. If you pick fourth in the first round, you pick first in the second round. David, with that in mind, what would the order of today's draft be? I'm going to mix it up. I'm going to go me, Ian, Neil, Sean. Holy shit. David, Ian. I don't know what to do.
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Starting point is 00:22:49 back to all fantasy everything the only podcast that has ever existed except of course for blocks with neil brennan but those are the two david boy we are drafting stand-up comedy specials what is your first pick uh i gotta take elephant in the room yeah Ah! Yeah. Come on, man. It came out. I had been doing comedy, like, I think a year when it came out. And I didn't, like, grow up particularly liking stand-up comedy. I didn't either. Something was lost on the delivery in me. I was always like, I always felt it sounded really corny. And that was the first special I saw.
Starting point is 00:23:19 I was like, oh, this guy's just talking. And it's amazing. He does crowd work up front, which is a wild move. And it was just like all those bits. I think it's the most polished work he put out. I don't, it's like, I have kind of specials of his that I watch more or whatever, but that one was just,
Starting point is 00:23:36 it was the first standup comedy special I ever saw. I was like, oh, it's like perfect. What specials of his do you watch more? The first one with the white trash can rapist where he buys a receipt for everything. Yeah, I think that one is so... Do the half hours count? I think the half hours count.
Starting point is 00:23:52 Yeah, yeah. Especially because so many premium blends and shit. But yeah, I watch that one more, but that is just like a perfect work. It's like him at the top of his game, I feel like. And yeah, I love that special, man. his game i feel like and uh yeah i love that special man and to wear that hat and not sweat and be that size and that jacket down in his knees leather that is pounds and pounds of leather it's a heavy leather i mean it's just so much leather
Starting point is 00:24:21 i want to see how heavy it is it's got got to be like 15, 20 pounds of leather. It had to be like a 40-pound jacket. Absolutely. It was big. It was a big, it was a 3X leather peacoat. But yeah, elephant in the room, man. Spell restaurant. I still, every time I can't spell it, which is every time.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Take his socks. I think spell restaurant's the worst bit in the hour. Oh, I love it so much. I love it. I don't think Restaurant's the worst bit in the hour. Oh, I love it so much. I love it. I don't think it's the best bit, but I love it. I love the Natalie Holloway bit. I think it's the worst bit in the hour. The Natalie Holloway.
Starting point is 00:24:53 I mean, is that saying something like it's the worst bit and it's still dope, but you don't like it at all? I don't like Chris Rock's Robitussin bit. I don't like that bit either, actually. That's funny you should say that. It's just kind of like, I don't know, it just doesn't feel as good as everything else in it.
Starting point is 00:25:10 It feels like a filler. Relative to the other shit. I have two Patrice stories. I probably have many Patrice stories, but one of them is... Patrice O'Neill. Patrice O'Neill.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Patrice O'Neill is the stand-up, in case anyone doesn't know. Go ahead. He's the only person to ever call, well, not the only person, but call me to say I was funny. I opened for him one time, and he just called me a couple days later. I was like, yo, man, you're funny. So that's incredibly nice, and I try to do that whenever I can. And the other thing, and then
Starting point is 00:25:50 another time... It's weird, we've worked together quite a few times. No, I remember. I specifically remember. No, but I feel like I did tell you. No, you did. You did. You did. I'm joking. You were very nice. That'll put gas in someone's tank, though. It's such a good move because that will get you through years, probably, of like struggling
Starting point is 00:26:07 and thinking it's not whatever, you know. Yeah. It's a good thing to get that tap. When you're bombing in front of six people. Yeah. You're like, fucking Neil said that was funny. Also, when the headliner reaches out to you and you open, that's a good feeling. I don't do it.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I more reach out like, you got chicken fingers last night and they're going to hit me for that. I'm trying to come back. I don't do it I more reach out like you got chicken fingers last night and they're gonna hit me for that did you enjoy it? I'm trying to come back that's why they made Venmo six bucks later it's cool it's not a big deal and then the other one is probably after
Starting point is 00:26:37 that I was doing a pilot and I wanted Patrice to be in it and I called him and was like, hey man, if we put you in this pilot, are you going to be an asshole? And then we argued for two and a half hours. And then at the end of which he goes,
Starting point is 00:26:56 you know what, Neil? I can't promise you I'm not going to be an asshole. Did you put him in it? No. And then it's like two months later, he called to apologize because he realized, because he had done a pilot, and there was somebody on set who was just being kind of an asshole.
Starting point is 00:27:15 And he, because my thing was like, Patrice, you know how fucking hard it is to do a TV show? Yeah. And I was like, if someone's around that has bad energy, you want to kill them. And then he realized that I was kind of right. He thought I was like, if someone's around that has bad energy, you want to kill them. And then he realized that I was kind of right. He thought I was a bitch at first. And then he realized I was kind of telling the truth.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Was it scripted or? Yeah, it was scripted. Scripted. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So pretty great. Pretty great. Yeah. Pretty great.
Starting point is 00:27:39 What was the role he would have played in the sitcom? Do you remember? I don't know. Whatever. Him, himself. Patrice O'Neill as teacher. He was a doctor. He was an archaeologist.
Starting point is 00:27:51 No, he's fucking an asshole. Dr. Patrice. What role? You've been fucking, I mean, you've been trying to do showbiz. What was the role? Who gives a shit, Ian? What was the role? I'm trying to find our breakout, man.
Starting point is 00:28:03 I'm trying to find the video that's going to travel on the internet. Oh, and that's how you do it? It's the island thing. Patrice was up for the role of blank, and then we all do a face like this that we put in the thumbnail? Well, no, he did a sketch on Chappelle's show and then just wouldn't do
Starting point is 00:28:20 it again, and I was basically like, what's wrong with you? And he just didn't like playing support. It's amazing when someone knows, even at an early point where they're just like, it would be, I can't even imagine. I can't turn shit down.
Starting point is 00:28:33 I mean, obviously I'd be like, yeah, of course. No, but he's like, he just didn't like, he didn't like not being the star.
Starting point is 00:28:41 I think. Yeah. Or that was my interpretation. That makes sense. Yeah. But also was my interpretation. That makes sense. Yeah. But also for someone to know that, like at an early age, when it's like,
Starting point is 00:28:49 it would help me to have like these little supporting roles that would build my career up. That's like both an interesting sort of self-respect and self-destruction at the same time. For sure. Yeah, that he couldn't
Starting point is 00:29:00 bring himself to do it. Yeah. That was first on the list too for me. I'll darn it. That was your, that was going to be your first pick? That was your first pick? Second. The first one, I don't know if it counts,
Starting point is 00:29:10 so we'll see. This is tough. I'm going to go with Bring the Pain by Chris Rock. That's a good pick. That's solid. Yeah, man. These are the RST and LE. These are the RST and LE ofle of uh yeah you gotta knock them out
Starting point is 00:29:27 in the first round it's almost like it's almost pointless to talk about but i used to did you watch it when it was new i watched it when it was new i used to be like i had no idea you could become a stand-up comedian but i used to be like kind of obsessed with stand-up comedy as a thing to put on like when I was falling asleep, like I couldn't fall asleep without listening to people talk. How old from like, from when I can remember it started with sports radio. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:29:56 And then it turned into like standup. You know what? I maybe did not see it in 1996. I probably didn't see it when I was 12, but around like 1999 and especially when like Napster and all that stuff came around where you could like download people's full specials and everything. Right. I, this was one of the ones I would listen to on loop coming out. It's just so fucking funny. That one has no bad bits in it. There's no bad bits. Yeah. It's amazing.
Starting point is 00:30:26 They're like the OJ stuff. Like, I don't know. Yeah. Mary and Barry stuff. It was just, I don't know. I really, really loved it. It was fantastic. I remember you as a kid being like, I love this Mary and Barry thing.
Starting point is 00:30:36 I love the one. I love it. I love it. I love a disgraced man. I was a little nerd. I was like a little nerd. So I did a comedy. First time I heard stand-up was a contest
Starting point is 00:30:46 and I did terrible, but I made it through because I brought so many people who voted for me and I hadn't written any actual jokes. You love that guy. Everybody loves that guy. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:54 So I rented that at Blockbuster and I watched it for like motivation before the next time I did stand-up. Did you take any bids? I can't remember. Is that is it the one with the I'll shake her? I won't hit a girl, but I'll shake the shit out of him. Is that in there?
Starting point is 00:31:10 Is that a different one? I don't remember. I don't remember. That's either that one or or bigger and bigger. Because I so I rented them both. I touched on that bit when I did my next stand up. I didn't. I was like, what's the Sioux Falls crowd going to do? I didn't have it. I was like. bit when I did my next stand-up set.
Starting point is 00:31:27 What's the Sioux Falls crowd going to really hear me say? Yeah, I hate admitting it. I'm getting nervous. And it was right before the infamous bit. That was his opener. Well, I was like, which one of these can I touch on?
Starting point is 00:31:46 No, but yeah, I'm sweating saying that out loud. It's just such an embarrassing thing. But I just didn't have any... I just was lost. I didn't know what to do. And so I didn't... But I tried to do a version of it and it was terrible. But I won the contest.
Starting point is 00:32:00 I love it when comedians do famous bits and think nobody is ever. I can't remember. I saw a guy do that Chris Rock bit in Oakland one time. He was bombing and he just did. There's two type of black people. I was like, you think nobody in here knows? What the fuck are you doing, bro? Well, I thought of it before I saw it.
Starting point is 00:32:22 But then I looked in his eyes. He was panicking. You could see that sometimes. Like when you see like nick cannon do stand up or something in his eyes he's like that's like what the guy is still a good comic though this guy's a good guy you he probably know him now but yeah among us yeah i i haven't done that just because it's such a famous bit bro yeah well you've you've all done the thing where you think you wrote it and then you, and then I, I thought I wrote a bit four years ago. That was a sign, just a Seinfeld bit. And I did it. I was like, huh? You know, you have that like nagging feeling.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Yeah. Like the worst. And you text all your friends and they're like, I don't know. The thing about business class and coach with the curtain. The thing about business class and coach with the curtain. And I did it once and I was like, I don't know. So then I just Googled it and was like, oh, this is not, this is a Jerry Seinfeld bit. The good thing is that shit's always in the pit of your stomach though. When you do it, there's always something where you're like, this is not, this isn't me for some reason. There's always something where you're like, this is not, this isn't me for some reason. I did a whole bit, some shit about the word like fiance versus wife that I did like for a while and like almost did on late night. And then like, I was like, I fucking know somebody did this.
Starting point is 00:33:34 And it was John Mulaney in a big special. I'm like, oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Like it made it past the late night guy. He was like, this is great. I love this. And I was like, this is great. I love this. And I was like, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:33:46 I guess nobody. Yeah. It made it past the stringent late night TV. The overworked producer who got moved to that. Yeah. They don't have an encyclopedic memory of everyone's bits. That's what I was going to say. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:06 memory of everyone's bits that's what i'm saying um yeah i have i i don't want i'm trying to figure out how to how to balance my presence on this podcast i don't want to be like do you want to hear some bring the pain stories of course we do yeah i know but i don't know i don't i will say an interesting thing was rock always thought bigger and blacker was better. And he's like, it sold more DVDs. And I was like, Rock, you're out of your mind. It's not even close. And he called me before he went on his last tour. So, I don't know, two years ago. And goes, I just watched Bring the Pain.
Starting point is 00:34:41 You were right. And he goes, I didn't realize I was NWA. He's like, I was NWA. The first one's the hit? Yeah. I'm trying to tell you it's
Starting point is 00:34:57 unbelievable. It's an unbelievable achievement. There's a thing like where you reach, you escape velocity, you know, like when a rocket, and like you have to get so fast you can get through the atmosphere.
Starting point is 00:35:14 Yeah. Bring the Pain did that for Chris. SNL did that for Eddie. Mm-hmm. Night Professor and bring the, Kellan Softley and Chappelle should do that for Dave. Like, there's certain things that are just
Starting point is 00:35:26 like... I showed Bring the Pain and Ray Romano's pilot to Dave in 1996 on the same day. And I remember walking out of my house literally like, cartoon.
Starting point is 00:35:44 That's so sick. And he was like i feel like i just got hit in the head with a two by four yeah because he was like they were all peers you know yeah so yeah fucking nuts like now your buddies are doing that was that would that was that for everybody loves raymond not 1996 was it would it have been? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Ray Romano's got a big house. Yeah, dude. Big house. I would put Ray Romano.
Starting point is 00:36:13 I mean, I'm not going to. I'm not going to. Look, it's not my turn. Is it my turn? It is your turn. I think it is your turn, in fact. Well, I'm going to do something pretty. I'm going to do something pretty controversial. I'm going to say,
Starting point is 00:36:26 since we're talking about Ray Romano, I'm going to say Ray Romano's Letterman followed by Ray Romano's Johnny Carson Tonight Show. He did it within like four or five months. They're both perfect. Wait, can we pick late night sets? Because I got to change my list then. Fuck it. Why not? I like it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:47 I got some late night sets. Fine with me. Anyway, keep going, Neil. He did the thing dangling the keys on Letterman. I mean, he just fucking crushes on both. And they're so close together
Starting point is 00:37:03 and he's not famous. I have to admit, I have not seen either of these. I haven't seen either. I imagine I've seen them, but I can't remember. He got the... I mean, it's weird that Ray Romano was on Johnny Carson.
Starting point is 00:37:20 You know what I mean? It's not Jay Leno. It's Johnny Carson. Right. The timelines don't feel like they should line up yeah like here's another one that's funny Chris Rock and Martin Luther King were both alive at the same time for three years they were
Starting point is 00:37:36 both alive I guess that makes sense you never think about that stuff though that's crazy to put in that timeline Jesus yeah Chris was born in you never think about that stuff though that's crazy to put in that timeline Jesus yeah Chris was born in 67 or so I don't remember
Starting point is 00:37:51 65 I don't really even know did they know each other? they actually worked at the same club I knew Chris started early who do you think gave him the idea for the bit? yeah exactly MLK was like no there's two types of people I'm marching for I knew Chris started early. Who do you think gave him the idea for the bit? Yeah, exactly. MLK was like, no, there's two types of people I'm marching for.
Starting point is 00:38:09 There's two types of black people. Two types of people I'm marching for. Yeah, so yeah, I'm going to put, I don't know why, I feel like I've opened it up, but I'm putting those two, those two mini, if we're doing a half hour. Sure, let's do it yeah did he have his kids at that point yeah so was that what he was joking about definitely the second one yeah jay and may romano yeah again i'm so neil how old are you i'm so old i remember when Ray Romano got fired from news radio and replaced by Joe Rogan.
Starting point is 00:38:47 That's crazy. Who's like Ray Romano that we could throw in here? Yeah. Neil, how old are you? I remember watching Ray Romano at a place called the Boston Comedy Club in 1992 or three crush and looking at somebody and being like, he's so funny, I wonder what's going to happen to him. He's going to get a big house. That's always a good
Starting point is 00:39:12 feeling when you see someone and you're like, that's not the last we're going to see of that guy. Well, yeah, but you don't know. You're never, you know, we've all seen people crush and have magical sets and then nothing happens. I was looking through all of the presents last. I looked through all 15 seasons of comedy central presents.
Starting point is 00:39:28 And there were a lot of people on there where I was like, Oh, I completely not sound harsh, but like, I just combined and heard the name and in 15 years, you know? Yeah. There's a lot of guys who had a year.
Starting point is 00:39:40 Yeah. You never saw me. There was this guy, Matt Fulcher on who's still out doing standup. But like, I remember his special. I'm like that dude, that dude's got it. It's on this. Fulcher on who's still out doing stand up but like I remember his special I'm like that dude that dude's got it
Starting point is 00:39:48 Fulcher on was hilarious Fulcher on was one of my said one of my favorite things ever about comedy he got off stage and he said doing stand up is like selling bags of shit that's all.
Starting point is 00:40:09 Yeah. Noodle that around, but yeah, he ain't. Yeah, he might have said, he might have said, it's so hard. It's like selling bags of shit. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:18 So, Full Charge was his name. He opened for Tosh for a long time. He might still. He was one of my, I love him so much. We brought him to Portland to do this show that we used to run.
Starting point is 00:40:28 And for some reason, like eight people showed up. And I was so bummed out because it was like a door deal. And I handed him, I think, 40 bucks or something. I was like, here you go, man. It's such a harsh feeling. Because at the time, I didn't have the means to make up for it even. I couldn't like sweeten the pot out of my pocket. It just didn't exist. And I was like, sorry. He was so cool about it. He's like, whatever.
Starting point is 00:40:48 It was fun. But he's great. That's special. We might talk about it. Hilarious person. Yep. Ray Romano's two first... Maybe first two. Ray Romano's Letterman. Ray Romano's Carson. John Jordan. Carson was first and Letterman is how we got the sitcom.
Starting point is 00:41:04 That's so cool. Phil Rosenthal. Such a, what's this? This is Everett Loves Raymond. This is a good show. So can I, can I do this? Can I say the Kings of Comedy? Yeah, I think so.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I just, I get so many people, but to me, that was just, it's just, it's the special I'm most familiar with. The one I've seen the most, I just cover to cover. It's just, I mean, it's just I mean it's just ridiculous to me that was the first comedy special I ever took in at the time like when it came out I remember seeing ads for it and people talking about it and having opinions and then like seeing
Starting point is 00:41:36 it is on the first DVDs I had I ran it at a bunch I mean like multiple times where it's like I you know it's just I just perfect it's still it's so fun so different you get four like really different styles you get to see a really good host like a really good job hosting something like that which usually doesn't really go that well I don't know you see the Ced bit did he say he stole it's like I mean Cedric's bit is so much bigger than what Kat's bit was with the spaceship
Starting point is 00:42:11 and backing it up and all that shit by the way I've been I'm not going to say who texted who but apparently it's a pig meat Markham joke from the 60s another guy had done it in the 60s like there's no original thoughts anymore right that whole thing where its. Another guy had done it in the 60s. There's no original thoughts anymore, right? That whole thing where it's like, someone's probably done it.
Starting point is 00:42:29 The whole seven stories kind of thing. I will say, I like Cedric's bit better than Cat's bit. Because Cat just did it on Comic View, right? And then I like the Cedric bit a lot. I think that bit's fun. He's so animated. I mean, all of it is just, especially Ced's part,
Starting point is 00:42:45 like, just so, like, looking for the light. I mean, it's just so funny. The running. It's just so animated. Bernie Mac goes crazy. Oh, yeah, dude. Bernie Mac goes crazy.
Starting point is 00:42:55 And just, like, Deanna had some hits. If we're taking, yeah, Deanna, if we're taking the whole special, like, behind the scenes, you get all that stuff, like, that's part of the special.
Starting point is 00:43:03 It's just so fun to see him just like... I don't know. It was sick. Bernie Mac asking for a TV show? Yep. Steve Harvey has that great bit about listening to hip-hop and the lyrics like, I'll wet ya.
Starting point is 00:43:18 And he's like, I don't wet. I don't even know what his reaction is, but I'll wet ya is such a funny thing to be like come on with the fucking Alwetcha I mean the whole interaction also the crowd work yeah yeah yeah and he said what do you do he said he said
Starting point is 00:43:34 I do computers computer school he goes computer school at first he says computers and technology and he was like what he was like I go to computer school and he goes Bo Boogie, ain't nothing technical. It's just, it's, yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:50 And also directed by Spike Lee, which could have been overly fussy or like sort of, not fussy, but like he could have made it more about him. Not like Spike would ever do that.
Starting point is 00:44:05 But the cutaways to people posing in front of the backdrop all that shit was like oh that's southern blackness right there there's a little fucking capture he's just captured a thing that most white people are completely unfamiliar
Starting point is 00:44:22 with and like made it didn't make a big deal of it. Just like, here's that and move to the next thing. Wait, who's your favorite set on it? Probably Bernie. Same. Yeah. I mean, sometimes it goes over to Cedric,
Starting point is 00:44:36 but Bernie, like just every single time, I'm like laughing, laughing, laughing. Like for real, you know, like every single time. So yeah. Have you guys ever met Cedric? No. God. He's the fastest bit person.
Starting point is 00:44:50 One of the fastest bit people I've ever been around. Like if you start doing a bit, he'll be there like in the outfit. Riff wise. He's like Fred Armisen and I swear to God, it doesn't shock me every time, but it's just not a thing I thought about him before I met him.
Starting point is 00:45:13 And then whenever I hang out with him, he'll have a really funny observation or he'll do a response that's fucking lightning fast. I can see that.. We did a ton of sketches and in-studio stuff on the Late Late Show, and we did one with him, and it was the least I'd have to explain
Starting point is 00:45:34 a bit to anyone the entire time, where you're just like, he'd read the script, and I was like, so it's like this, and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then went out and like, out of the park the first time. One time I was talking about, I was talking about stool fucking and I go, I go, Cedric,
Starting point is 00:45:49 you ever fucked the stool? And he goes, you know, goddamn right. I have Neil. Yeah. Yeah. You know,
Starting point is 00:45:56 goddamn well, I fucked the stool. You know that please fucking please don't insult me. Uh, Wyatt snack had wanted to make a short film about a guy who fucked the stool and fell in love. Ha!
Starting point is 00:46:11 That would have been dope. That's the one thing you can't do. Yeah, because all your friends also fuck too. I know, it's hard. It's not easy. That might be a short that's better in theory. Might be better in theory than, you know what I mean? It's not easy. That might be a short that's better in theory. Might be better in theory than, or you know what I mean? Like it's a perfect pitch.
Starting point is 00:46:29 Better story. I don't need to watch it. I don't need to watch it. I think that's the best version of it. It's the script that gets you the meeting for the thing that does get produced. Exactly. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:38 You can't turn a stool into a love seat. We've all learned that. Yeah. Love seat. All right. Take your time. The suit also just a special mention just for all of the outfits in that special. all right take a time the suit also just a special mention
Starting point is 00:46:46 just for all of the outfits in that special oh dude all the suit all the suits phenomenal work and the background two kinds of amazing material
Starting point is 00:46:54 in that special yes there are Seth had a sleeveless suit yeah which is like on paper sounds like some redneck shit but
Starting point is 00:47:02 yeah they all went full They all went full Dick Tracy. Yeah. Spike Lee and Warren Beatty produced it. Yeah. All right, Sean, time for your second pick. Brian Regan, I walked on the moon.
Starting point is 00:47:17 For me, it's, again, with the animation, it's just like when I watch Brian Regan. Is that the one that's at the improv? Yeah, it's the one where he, oh's just like when I watch that at the improv. Yeah. It's the one where he, um, Oh God,
Starting point is 00:47:28 he's got so many. And I was trying to, trying to get my ducks in a row last night, but it's obviously it ends with the, um, you know, I walked on it's Aaron Ralston, like at a party or no,
Starting point is 00:47:38 no, like Jesus, I'm mixing it up. It's at a party with the guy that walked on the moon. And then someone like explaining their day. And he's like, I walked on the moon, but it's got that bit about like you go to the,
Starting point is 00:47:46 get medication and they Lord over you or you get the doctor's office. Like you didn't do what I said, did you? And he's like, no, just all of that. Like my cholesterol, I went to the doctor,
Starting point is 00:47:54 my cholesterol is the same. Figured it was going to be the same. Cause it was high last year and I didn't do anything different. I just, everything. Watch that. I watched that special. Not long ago. He did my podcast and I basically just made him do
Starting point is 00:48:08 a bunch of his bits because because he I didn't want to have to clear them so I just made them do and he's like and I was like I own the bit now you idiot and he was like what he was great it was fantastic so Regan I've seen him I've seen him probably four times every time he does
Starting point is 00:48:24 an hour that I've never seen. And then he'll come out and he'll do 30, 45 minutes of requests, which is crazy. And also, he was in Portland and his tour manager, road manager lives here or something, texted. And he's like, hey, Brian wants to hang out with some comedians. So we went to Helium just to, because he just wanted some people there that were comedians. And he walked up to me and our buddy, Zach. And he was like, you guys comedians? You look like comedians. And we're like, yeah. And he goes, you want some tequila? I was like, yes. We just took a shot with Brian Regan. And then he just talked to us. The guy's like one of my favorite comedians that
Starting point is 00:48:58 will ever live. And he just, it just didn't matter. He was so nice, so cool. It was just such a fun experience. And yeah. He's just the absolute best. For me, I didn't know if Brian Regan Live was actually a visual special, so I would have picked that, but I don't think it was ever a visual thing. So I walked on the moon, Brian Regan, second pick. Yeah, I wish
Starting point is 00:49:17 he would do one of those I'm telling you for the last time type specials. Even that special from the improv, the, I walked on the moon, he is crushing within three and a half minutes.
Starting point is 00:49:31 I stopped it. And I was like, he's getting like shrieks in three and a half minutes. Yeah. That's wild. And then he does girth units. He does like, I showed it to my girlfriend who's British.
Starting point is 00:49:44 She was dying. And she's like, I have it to my girlfriend who's British. She was dying and she's like, I have to show my parents and they died. British old people. Squeaky clean. I mean like it's just something I can't do. It's my brain. I don't have that gear and that's a lot of these, that's what I look at where I'm like, oh man, you just look at it like
Starting point is 00:49:59 it's impossible for me to do. He's one of those, you know when people say like you need to be able to crush in any room? Uh-huh. Stand-up comedian. Brian Regan is a, you can crush in any room comedian. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:50:10 you can crush in any room. Live with those people. There's not, you know what I mean? You should be able to crush. Yeah, are you a real one? And it's like,
Starting point is 00:50:17 no one can crush that much. Nobody can fucking crush in like, every room. But like who, I mean, it's like Brian Regan. Burr can crush in every room. Dave can crush like every room. But like who, I mean, it's like Brian Regan. Burr can crush in every room. Dave can crush in every room.
Starting point is 00:50:29 Rock can crush in every room. It's funny thinking about Brian Regan hanging out with those other three. But I think Brian Regan gets after it a little bit. He gets in the bag a little bit. Rock put Brian in his special, in top five in his movie. Oh, that's right. He was in the trailer.
Starting point is 00:50:46 Say it again. Put a little stank on it. Yeah, that was funny. Put a little stank on it. Anyway, yeah, second choice, Brian Regan. Neil, your second pick. My second pick.
Starting point is 00:50:57 I almost feel like I shouldn't pick Dave or Chris just because it's like, you know, it feels a little close to home. You don't think they're funny? Although, you know what? I'll go with Killing Them Softly by Dave.
Starting point is 00:51:12 And I think I was at the taping. And... Oh, that's sick. The thing that he always says is it was the worst performance of that hour. Really? He goes, I was... And I know what he means because that happened to me recently, it was the worst performance of that hour. Really?
Starting point is 00:51:27 He goes, I was, and I know what he means because that happened to me recently, like where I was crushing her, and then the taping was like fine. And it's still good, whatever, whatever. But like, you're used to just crushing. And he was like, I was crushing. And then somebody else confirmed it. Was like, yeah, that wasn't even a good response to it.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Did he only tape one set? He did it twice, but like... But it's got like... What year is that? It's like 2000? Yeah, I think it's 2000. It's got like, gotcha, bitch. It's got...
Starting point is 00:52:01 It's just got a lot of good... I didn't know i couldn't do that i said chip sometimes you gotta race yeah it was too late this man was high as shit yeah um yeah there's just a lot of really good bits yeah dude every bit is a good bit yeah it's like that's one of the ones that if you do comedy everybody this is the general consensus right it's like it's hilarious just the first like you know
Starting point is 00:52:32 we've all had a dick out there that we wish we didn't suck and I bet it wasn't the president's dick shit like that I bet it was Kenny from Safeway Kenny from Safeway Shoes or whatever he says and you're like yeah it's just that stuff where it just like hits you like a two by four I two by four yesterday as like Bill Clinton. And like you get in here.
Starting point is 00:52:49 Like, it's like you're, you're a goddamn American hero. Like so many good bits. And like, yeah. Was he aroused? He goes full fucking bugs,
Starting point is 00:52:58 bunny on most of the punchlines. Yeah. All of them. That whole, like he finds the pepula pew, you know, the, like all the sesame
Starting point is 00:53:05 street stuff is so funny uh is bugs bunny like a conscious reference for him is he like no but i pointed it out to him at one point he was like fuck you're right yeah um he's bugs bunny he's bugs bunny full mel blank even like he is bugs bunny that's all in there too forgot about that Bunny. Full Mel Blank. Even like in a lanky like Bugs Bunny. He is Bugs Bunny. That's all in there too. Forgot about that. Yeah, like he just is Bugs Bunny. No, hell yeah. Perfect. Excellent. God bless.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Man, it's really breaking my heart that we are six picks deep and not a single Jewish person has been taken yet. Well, maybe look in the mirror, bud. I'm sorry. I don't have a special yet. And there aren't any other Jewish stand-up comedians. I want to pick me on Conan. I got to go, though.
Starting point is 00:53:55 Let's be honest. I'm sure Jews produce all of them. Oh, we had our fingers in every single one of these specials. You're getting a little taste, huh? Just a little taste. When you beak a little bit. We haven't been kept out completely, just in the shadows.
Starting point is 00:54:11 You got a chance, right? Isn't it your turn? I can't go full. How many rounds have we done? We're in the middle of two. We'll hurry up. We'll be done by now. I know it's hard. I keep going like, I have a story. I want to talk forever about this.
Starting point is 00:54:24 Who, me? Why I'm old. I know it's hard. I keep going like, I have a story. I want to talk forever about this. It's fantastic. Who, me? Why I'm old. I remember when Millard filmed. I'm going to take my favorite stand-up comedy special ever. I could probably get it later, but it's just so important to me. I'm taking Dressed to Kill by Eddie Izzard. Now Susie Izzard, but Susie doesn't mind going by Eddie Izzard. Now, now Susie Izzard, but Susie doesn't mind going by Eddie Izzard.
Starting point is 00:54:47 It is, I've told this story so many times, but it was like a, such an eye-opening special for me. I had food poisoning and a terrible sunburn, wrapped up like a mummy on a couch in Mexico when I was like 14 years old. I love it. And this came on HBO and it was like, what? Like I'd seen standup before, but I was such a little, I was such a little like nerdy book reading, like history obsessed kid. And none of the standup I'd ever seen, like really like touched on that kind of thing before. And then I saw this and I was like funny about all the kinds of things that I was like kind of interested in. And it was so stupid and so smart at the same time.
Starting point is 00:55:25 And I mean, I can recite so many of the bits just like verbatim. I still watch it all the time. But it was, it's just like change it, like threw a switch in my brain immediately. And then not one where I was like, I'm going to do that. But one where I was like,
Starting point is 00:55:37 that's the best you can be at this. I just fucking love it. It's so funny. I love when, first of all, you give him his ally points, guys. Give him his ally points. Here you go. Here you go.
Starting point is 00:55:53 Are you on? He's doing the money thing. I was clapping. I thought that's what ally points were. Can I tell a story? Sorry, can I tell a story and you guys cut this? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:10 Absolutely. So three weeks ago, I saw Sandler and somebody brought up his comedy albums and I've known Sandler since the 90s and so I was like, Sandler, did those comedy albums go platinum?
Starting point is 00:56:27 And Sandler, three weeks ago, goes... A billionaire. Yeah. You don't have to cut that. That's actually like... I just wanted to make sure you didn't sound like it. But it's funny when you've known someone long enough that like the money they may it's still like that's the money that counted now it's all just stupid right but that's money he needed that money paid old bills
Starting point is 00:56:58 like that's that kind of thing like i when am i getting the check for that thing? Yeah. He earned some of that money for somebody else. Now it's all like LLCs and offshores and all that shit. Oh, yeah. But this is like, fuck, yeah. The money he's making now won't be spent for four generations. Nope. Sure won't. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:57:20 His daughter was super... Both of his daughters were great. Yeah, they were both great. Oh, yeah. That movie was really good i liked it that movie was phenomenal um eddie izzard i just i mean like if you want to hear me talk about it listen to the entirety of this podcast uh going back 300 episodes it's so fucking good david time for your second and third picks uh second pick i gotta take pimp chronicles part one fuck oh damn that shit was amazing that special was so amazing because like the way it came out like i remember the first time i saw it i was getting my haircut
Starting point is 00:57:51 i was at rumors uh and then like i don't even know what that special came out on i don't know what the distribution i don't know if it was a showtime special or and i don't know what the fuck it was but it was everywhere. It was like that and Little Wayne was all I consumed for maybe a fucking year. And it was just like from the beginning, so funny. It was just like, yeah, I really love that special.
Starting point is 00:58:17 I think he's one of the few comics that still everything makes me laugh out loud. Like I can still hear. What? I don't think he said who it was. Oh, Cat Williams. Yeah, just so we have it. Yeah, Cat Williams. Saying the word everything cracks me up.
Starting point is 00:58:32 I still... I do it to so many people who don't get it. I do it all the time. So, like, my father-in-law doesn't get it all the time, though. We'll go to Home Depot and I'll be like, everything. And he just looks at me like I'm losing it. And he was the only person to actually say michael jackson was a pedophile like the only black man to say like yeah what do you he's a fucking pedophile yeah yeah what are
Starting point is 00:58:55 you talking about i don't like that mr jackson i quoted him in my book about stretch marks either way we fucking way, we fucking. Either way, we fucking. Either you were skinny and you got fat, or you were fat and you got skinny. Either way, we fucking. Perfect. Man, that is just amazing.
Starting point is 00:59:13 In eight words, or however many words, he fucking nailed it. He's the most... I tried to get Trevor Noah to do a joke at the Grammys of like, you know, we're all here, but let's be honest. The album of the year was Cat Williams
Starting point is 00:59:27 on Club Che Che. It was the song of the year. It was the album of the year. It should win an Oscar for Best Picture. It should win a Nobel Peace Prize. Like, he's the most, you know how they say the Kentucky Derby is the most exciting 90 seconds in sports?
Starting point is 00:59:43 Cat Williams is the most exciting. That was like, he is the most exciting 90 seconds in sports. Yeah. Cat Williams is the most exciting. That was like, he's the most riveting. Like, he walks into any room on earth and everyone goes, hey, shush, shush, shush, let's hear him out. Yeah. I don't know what he is. Let me, what, let me, huh? He's fantastic.
Starting point is 01:00:02 The most exciting four feet in entertainment. Yeah, he's the most exciting four feet in entertainment yeah he's the most exciting 90 seconds in entertainment like here's an old man you ready for an old man story I did an interview with like Vulture or something five or six years ago where they said like something that you like
Starting point is 01:00:20 and I said I liked Kat's special where he talked about Jacksonville for the first 13 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they left it in. Yeah, and then he left it in. So then I never met Kat.
Starting point is 01:00:36 And about a year later, I meet him and I go, you know, I mentioned you in an interview. And he goes, oh, I know, I printed it out. You printed it out? Yeah. And he goes, it's on my kitchen wall.
Starting point is 01:00:53 Kitchen wall. And he goes, yes, because how often does a comedian speak well of another comedian? Which I thought all the time. And then I watched his Club Shayshan. I was like, oh, that's the environment he's used to. Yes. He doesn't speak. He doesn't
Starting point is 01:01:10 know the comedians speak well of each other. No, but but a riveting you could make a case the most riveting stage persona in the history of the stage. Yeah, I mean, this episode of all fantasy everything
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Starting point is 01:05:49 There are people like quantity, quantity. He puts shit. He's cranking them out. Yeah. It's always amazing. Like he had that special. He did in Cleveland where he was like,
Starting point is 01:05:58 came on stage sweating. Yeah. There's one. He takes a shower in the middle of it. You want to, let's put that elephant in the room jacket on cat see how that goes i think i don't think we disappear well that's that's the lore is it was actually three cats standing on each other yeah oh excellent and your third uh well you know what let's take another break before we
Starting point is 01:06:23 get to your third pick, just in case. And we're back. Welcome back to All Fantasy Everything already in progress. David Borey, your third stand-up comedy special. All right. This one is really personal to me because it was like,
Starting point is 01:06:37 do you remember the first time you see one of your friends where you're like, oh, like, not like, that's not my, it's still my friend and we talk on the phone or whatever, but that's like, you're on this, you're like, oh, like, not like, that's not my, it's still my friend and we talk on the phone or whatever, but that's like, you're on this, you're a comedian.
Starting point is 01:06:50 What we started trying to do, you're doing it. And I was at the taping for this one. I'm taking Sam Jay's last one, Salute Me or Shoot Me. Oh, yeah. It was like, the material was amazing. And like, because me and her came from, we first met we were comedy central comics to watch together in like 2013 or something like that and we were the only people
Starting point is 01:07:11 from california and i was like oh thank god you know what and it's just like we've been together and i talked to her a lot and like watching her put it together and tour it and then being there and being like sham just saw a fucking HBO this fucking what we used to fuck you know what I mean I remember her from doing little like five minute sets at Bridgetown Comedy Festival and that was the person like when I was saying earlier about seeing someone and you're like that person
Starting point is 01:07:36 is going to do something even then I was like that person is going to do something I didn't even I always thought she was funnier than everybody but I didn't I don't know i don't think i had the like the wherewithal to be like she's about to go you know what i mean even when her first special came out because if you listen to her first album at the end when somebody's talking shit that's me we were all drunk at her house like yelling about comedy you know what i
Starting point is 01:08:00 mean being like oh if this shit works it's gonna be like this and then to watch that and to see she put so much work in it and the set is just tight and i love it when you watch somebody where you're like because a lot of a lot of times i feel like you watch specials especially haven't done this now you watch specials with people and you're like uh it feels like that's not exactly what they wanted to do yeah you know what I mean? Or like, uh, in somewhere it got lost in translation. And that's like, I know from knowing her, that was like,
Starting point is 01:08:31 she put the time out. She wanted to, and it was, it was a really great to see. So yeah, I haven't seen it. It was good. I don't have HBO.
Starting point is 01:08:41 Okay. I don't know. It was all right. It was all right. It was all right. No, I mean, there's so many stand-up specials right now. But yeah,
Starting point is 01:08:52 that one was a big one to see. And like, it was one of those things where like, so many people were at the taping that it was a lot of us
Starting point is 01:08:59 who would come up together at the same time. You know what I mean? You don't get like a ton of moments like that, I feel like, in comedy where everybody's like, we're still here. We're still alright. You get to be around for a big deal like that. Yeah, it's a big thing.
Starting point is 01:09:12 Yeah. With my third pick, fantastic pick, I'm going to take your pick was a fantastic pick. I'm not saying mine's about to be a fantastic pick. I'm going to take John Mulaney, New in Town. Yeah, yeah. It's my favorite John Mulaney.
Starting point is 01:09:28 The eponymous bit is so fucking funny. I don't know what that word means. The one that the title is derived from. From which the title is derived. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where he talks about running into a guy in New York who tried to hit him up for money.
Starting point is 01:09:44 Like, I'm gay. I have AIDS. I'm new in town. It's just one of those people where like the, just like the funniest dripping off of them, where it's just like every, I don't know. The voice is funny.
Starting point is 01:09:57 The bits are immaculate. There's the sense of the absurd that he can like take and spin to a, like a mass appeal audience. It's just really, really fantastic. And I love it. My favorite part. He goes,
Starting point is 01:10:11 I saw a wheelchair that was tipped over and you like to think it was a miracle. It's just that one little line. It's a, yeah, it's, he's fantastic. And that makes me want to put him in one of my five minute,
Starting point is 01:10:23 his Conan O'Brien from 2006. You know when you do a bit, when you do the first three weeks you're doing it, it works better than it settles. I was like, I want to trap a bit on TV in
Starting point is 01:10:40 that area. And he goes, I did it on Conan. His Law and Order bit, he did it in the first three weeks on Conan. And he goes, I did it on Conan. He, well, his law and order bit, the first, he did it in the first three weeks on Conan. And it's just like, like more exciting, crushing.
Starting point is 01:10:54 It's fantastic. I got a little list going of stuff to watch. Yeah. Right. As prime as it'll ever be. It's so funny. What do you think it is that happens to bits? Is it just,
Starting point is 01:11:03 you become less connected to them? You don't, you don you don't you're there's an energy when you're when it's a fresher point that you there's a fear and an excitement in your voice that human beings can sense yeah and there's nothing it's so fucking frustrating that it goes away but like oh no we can sense everything yeah they know everything right it Right. It's like new love. It's like when you first meet a girl, you know what I mean? Like that, that excitement is still there and everything is perfect.
Starting point is 01:11:31 Cause after a while you're like, I still love this shit. It was not like perfect anymore, but that first few weeks, man. Oof. That's a, that's the best feeling.
Starting point is 01:11:39 Yep. John Mulaney. Conan O'Brien. Yeah. Hell yeah. And on Netflix with New and Do. Neil, time for your third pick. I mean, this is impossible.
Starting point is 01:11:53 Yeah. But I'm going to go with Bill Hicks' Revelations. Oh, sure. It's shot in England in 1993, probably a year or less before he died. And I shouldn't say it's a little self-righteous. Hicks is very self-righteous. Is he wearing the cowboy hat?
Starting point is 01:12:19 Yeah, he's wearing the cowboy hat. That special's intense. Yeah. It's fucking... Yeah. I watched it after american came out yeah it's like really he's just he uh he's just leaning into it he doesn't do any like road energy he just does like he because he was popular in in England and he wasn't that popular here so it was like sort of a man in his in full flight
Starting point is 01:12:51 and it's great it's got a bit about the Iraq war and it's just got like American foreign policy and pick up the gun just like it's killer does it have the bit where he's like, it's just a ride? Is that the same special?
Starting point is 01:13:06 Not really. That's, no, I don't think it does. It might be in there. I don't know. He gets shot at the end. He gets fake shot. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:15 Yeah, yeah, that's right. And I don't remember if he says it's just a ride. I know he would say that, but I don't know if he says it in that one. It's so funny the way, like if you go play hyenas in Dallas or in Fort Worth, they have this massive mural of like Bill Hicks in the club, which is very nice,
Starting point is 01:13:34 right? Like it's very nice. It's like the crowd never sold the place out. He never would have. Yeah. He never sold the place out. I mean, he probably did,
Starting point is 01:13:43 but you know, I knew. Yeah, it is. Crowds who go there would fucking like the most of the people who go to that club would have fucking walked out of his shows. It's so funny what time does. Comedy wars. So there's like, there's a club up in Fort Collins that has a big mural of Patrice on it.
Starting point is 01:13:58 And it's like, he was never, this club's like three years old. Yeah. Even the owner, even if the owner of the club is not old enough to really, you know what I mean? It's like, had it mattered that much. Yeah. Sean,
Starting point is 01:14:11 we got to go quick, but you're next. I will. We'll back to back him. So, uh, third is Bill Burr. You people are all the same.
Starting point is 01:14:17 It's my favorite. The one with the shotgun spread, what, you know, it's got a nice spread. I think it's the one where he's talking about roofing when he's like his dad just fixing shit. And he's like his mom just being like, ah, it's just that way.
Starting point is 01:14:30 But it's another thing where you see somebody doing stuff like all these younger idiot dudes think they can do and then they... Because someone like Bill Burr makes it look so easy and effortless to do this crazy shit about his parents growing up and their rocky like Bill Burr makes it look so easy and effortless to do this like crazy
Starting point is 01:14:45 shit about like his, his parents growing up and like their, their like Rocky relationship and all this stuff. Just perfect. And I just love the confidence, the cadence, the voice, the squeaks,
Starting point is 01:14:56 the resting on the stand. I don't know. It just, does that have the Schwarzenegger bit in it? No, I don't think that's that one. I think that one. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:04 See, there's like, I mean, there's four of them so close together. Burr has the best. I would put... I don't know. I kind of think Burr has the most good specials. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to pick one, but to me that's my favorite.
Starting point is 01:15:17 It's not in this special, but him talking about Steve Jobs. Eat a pear. A pretentious fruit like a pear. Pretentious fruit like a pear. It's just such a funny little detail to me. Jeans with no belt. He did a joke about the WNBA, which was so,
Starting point is 01:15:34 which I'm like, you know, like you get, like you become sensitive about, like Twitter is like, you can't make fun of the WNBA. And then he came out and like, it's just, oh, it's so just, it's the exact right take. It's the exact right take it's the exact
Starting point is 01:15:45 right way to make fun of it where nobody can't laugh at it you know it's like a good lawyer he just like disarms you before you yeah and he makes all these younger comics think they can and they can't they can't do it they gotta try i've never really seen anybody i've never seen anybody try to be burr i've never seen anybody try to do it i don't feel like that in the same way that you see people try to be like Kyle you know what I mean I feel like there's always a comedian in general or like now you see a lot of people doing just Shane Gillis
Starting point is 01:16:12 speak of the devil what are you talking about fourth pick I'll go Kyle Kinane which one? Whiskey Icarus I just think Kyle sure really good friend but if you take that out of
Starting point is 01:16:25 there before any of us were friends with him to me anyways, he's just exactly what I would like to do. He makes it seem realistic. Like it's possible. He's so funny. He just cranks stuff out so much and it's all good. He's just, I don't know. I just, I love it. And that was like, that was probably the intro to him for me. That, uh, the big like pointy beard. I think that was probably the first one where like, right? I know he had a presents back in the day,
Starting point is 01:16:53 but anyway. I think that was the one he did in San Francisco, right? Yeah. He had like the pointy beard. I don't know. I mean, that was way, that was a little later
Starting point is 01:17:02 because I knew him when. Yeah, I did too. It was probably like 2017. Yeah maybe I did know him a little bit but I don't know I just I love it I just you know I had to put him on the list he's amazing I love him as a person Kyle with some hair on top yeah yeah so yeah Kyle Kinane, Whiskey Icarus. Beautiful. Neil, real quick. Oh, fuck. Me again? Yeah, dude. I will go with... Let's go Norm MacDonald, the one, Hitler's Dog.
Starting point is 01:17:40 I don't remember. Oh, fuck. It's so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it the one with the big leather jacket on? I don't know. It's the one. It's the second to last one.
Starting point is 01:17:50 It's not the it's not the Zoom one. It's not me doing stand up. I think it's called it's like Hitler's dog gossip and trickery. It's got Hitler's dog in the name. Yeah. OK. Is this the first thing that happens after you die is that you are found? Is that in this one?
Starting point is 01:18:04 I think so, yeah. Oh my god. It's so... Now in retrospect, knowing he knew he was dying doing that stuff, it's like, holy shit. Yeah. Makes it even more I don't remember any of the bits. I don't remember I don't remember anything
Starting point is 01:18:19 specific. I just know like, you gotta put him on there. He's someone that... And I don't say that know like, you gotta put him on there. He's someone that... And I don't say that as like, and now that he's... The death doesn't make a difference to me. Because he was so kind of like
Starting point is 01:18:35 not in the comedy community, or at least the one I'm in. So it was like, he was never that present. So his absence now isn't even that more significant. Interesting. Yeah, I only interacted with him through his specials. Sean O'Connor, ironically, worked with him all the time.
Starting point is 01:18:52 But I think he kept it tight circle. Yeah. I got to perform a couple times. I was sick. He told me the funniest. No, we don't have time. Never mind. Sean O'Connor told me a really great Norm MacDonald opening story.
Starting point is 01:19:03 Yeah. I'm going to take Zach Galifianakis live at the purple onion it's great totally yeah absolutely so fucking funny so silly just like the kind with the thing you watch it where you're like well i don't do that i could never do that but i'm so glad somebody's doing that it's so far away you're like oh this isn't even possible for me i can just enjoy it with no jealousy yeah it's just it's just like a full performance from start to finish like of a person inhabiting like that elevated character of themselves it's so fun and the interviews with himself as his brother so funny yeah uh david for your fourth and final picks uh fourth pick i'm gonna go oh this is just this is the first one that came to mind it's the last most recent special i watched that really made me
Starting point is 01:19:52 laugh and felt like another person where he's really hitting his i'm putting a dance odor on the road oh i didn't see it yet it's fucking amazing man he has this what i've been hearing a guatemalan wedding and they took they just, like, so many bits in it. I'm like, man, like, when you hear that, when you have that feeling where you're like, I wish I could have got to that first, or, like, he has a joke about how he wants to be dumber, just turn the lights down a little bit.
Starting point is 01:20:16 Just, like, from beginning to end, I watched it, and I laughed out loud. Like, no cynicism, no, like, oh, I see what he's doing there. You know what I mean? You kind of watch comedy specials shitty. Now, it was just, like, it was, no like, oh, I see what he's doing. You know what I mean? You kind of watch comedy specials shitty. Now it was just like, it was just like a guy on the road killing for 40 minutes. I really love it.
Starting point is 01:20:32 And then I guess to close out. Lightning round. Oh, Baby Cobra. Ali Wong. I really love that special. Oh, hell yeah. I just had a fun time from San Francisco having like, you know what I mean? Those people who started before you started
Starting point is 01:20:48 and you see them kind of like blow up and it's like she's pregnant and it didn't seem corny. It just was like this is where I'm at at the time. Fun, fun special. Excellent pick. My last one, I'm going Gary Goldman, The Great Depresh.
Starting point is 01:21:03 Just a phenomenal joke writer. And that one really, the way he, I mean, I could have taken his most recent special too, which was also so, so good. But this one I think hit me in like a big way. Just the things he was talking about, the way he made them so funny. He's somebody where like I will watch his specials
Starting point is 01:21:22 and my brain will start firing and I'll just start like texting myself. I'm not like taking, I'm not like being like, oh, he has a joke about this. Oh, that's funny. I'll have it. But there's, yeah,
Starting point is 01:21:30 but there's, I'll have that. But there's something about the way he writes and performs that like just gets my brain firing. Sure. To where I'm like, oh yeah, start sending myself ideas. He's like a kickstart myself
Starting point is 01:21:40 back into standup mode standup. Neil, your final pick. I'm just going to shotgun it. I'm going to go Sebastian. I don't remember which one. The one... Any of Sebastian's first one or two. No, that's Bill Burr.
Starting point is 01:22:01 Sebastian, why would you do that? What's wrong with people? Maybe that's something. Ha. He could have a special called Ha. Is it me? Yeah. Jim Jeffrey's
Starting point is 01:22:18 Freedom. It's got the gun bit in it. It's got a few bits in it that are excellent. Earthquake had one. Earthquake's last one on Netflix a year and a half ago was excellent. Like 32 minutes. He killed. He killed.
Starting point is 01:22:33 If you're sleeping on Earthquake, wake up. I mean, there's so many. I feel like there's... Maybe it's gone away, but there's people who are like, oh, I don't know. He's so... Everything out of his mouth is funny. He also did a special six years ago where he fucks a joke up, doesn't catch it, and then
Starting point is 01:22:49 they leave it in 40 seconds later. He's like, I fucked that joke up. And he's like, oh, fuck you. You never fuck up at work. It was just a great thing to leave in. That's charming. I love it. Yeah. And Mitch Hedberg's half hour comedy. That was going to leave in. Yeah. That's charming. I love it. Yeah. And Mitch Hedberg's half hour
Starting point is 01:23:06 comedy. I was going to be my last pick. Sorry. Sorry, I ate it. No, you're good. So, well, let's just count that. So, like, I heard,
Starting point is 01:23:14 and I swear I remember seeing this. Like, his, the whole thing, I used to have it on DVD. It's like an hour or something. But he goes, he leaves. Like, he comes out
Starting point is 01:23:22 and he starts. And he does 10 or 20. And then he's like, I'm going to start over. And he leaves. and he starts and he does 10 or 20. And then he's like, I'm going to start over and he leaves. He comes back and just does the whole set again. Is it, am I right? He did that. I was at the taping.
Starting point is 01:23:32 He, he, uh, you were there. Yeah. So he didn't, I don't remember him leaving. I remember him just being like, this is going bad. And then it's a, it's a thing that Chappelle says, which is like, you know how funny someone is by how they bomb? And it was like a prime example of that. Like, oh, I'm bombing,
Starting point is 01:23:52 but now we're all going to bomb. Yeah. And then he just sat down. Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the first things I remember seeing where I just, yeah, like that, where you're like, oh man, it's not always perfect.
Starting point is 01:24:06 Like whatever they present to you, but it was still perfect. It's amazing. Yeah, it was also like 11.30 on a Friday, Thursday or Friday. It like just was not, it was hot. It just was like, had zero attributes. Nobody helping them out.
Starting point is 01:24:22 Yeah, I also would like to put Tosh and Sarah Silverman on there. Just one of their specials. I helping them out. Yeah, I also would like to put Tosh and Sarah Silverman on there. Just one of their specials. I don't know. I think we gotta throw it. Ima Be Me, Wanda Sykes. Oh, yeah. As well. Yeah, if we're throwing it. I mean... If we can take a
Starting point is 01:24:37 late night set, I gotta take Tig pushing the stool around. Oh, God, that's good. It's crazy to me that that was on TV. That was so... And it's just perfect. So that, Tig pushing that stool around. I don't think I's good. It's crazy to me that that was on TV. And it's just perfect. So that, Tig pushing that stool around. I don't think I've seen that. Also, Rory's saying, do you like anal on Conan? Who's doing it?
Starting point is 01:24:54 There's shit everywhere. Rory and John Doerr doing their tandem set on Conan. That's amazing. Ron Funches is first Conan, just because that was the first guy from our entire scene. And you're like, oh, he's on TV. That's amazing. Ron Funches is first Conan, just because that was the first guy from our entire scene. And like, you're like, oh, he's on TV. That's the craziest.
Starting point is 01:25:09 That's the craziest feeling. What's going on? That was Alex Cole for us. Yeah. I feel bad for this generation right now where I'm like, what is that? The equivalent. Don't tell Sarah.
Starting point is 01:25:21 Don't tell. That's all they talk about is don't tell nobody shuts the fuck up about doing everybody's freaking out because so-and-so's on instagram like i mean that's wonderful that's also wonderful i hope they feel what i'm saying is i hope they feel that same way i hope they have that pressure of that race to conan you remember that yeah like when am i gonna fucking do code i'm gonna kill myself if i don't do i never got to do it i'm sorry sean i don't know what you want me to to do it. I'm sorry, Sean. I don't know what you want me to say to you right now.
Starting point is 01:25:48 Be my friend. Be there for me. You weren't funny, ugly, untoward. Oh, man. To be honest, I like honesty, so that's nice. Thank you. Ill-mannered. Yeah, I'm violent. I get violent. Well, that wraps us up. Let me go ahead and recap. But first, Super Producer Isaac,
Starting point is 01:26:03 do you have a special you'd like to take? Yeah, my favorite special ever is My Girlfriend's Boyfriend by Mike Birbiglia. Yeah. I love that storytelling type of comedy. Not my thing, but enjoy it. I'm kidding. Awful guy, too.
Starting point is 01:26:21 I do love Three Mikes, Neil. I love Three Mikes. Well, I should have said, I should have put Mike on my list because that's the reason I did three mics. Really? Yeah. I'm about to drop four. I'm about to drop four mics in about a month here.
Starting point is 01:26:36 I love it. Congratulations. Putting you in the fucking dirt, bro. I bet that's the first time you've heard that joke. Talk about synapses. Talk about synapses fire. I'm finally warming up. It's noon. To recap,
Starting point is 01:26:48 David went first. Took Elephant in the Room by Patrice O'Neill. Pimp Chronicles, Cat Williams. Salute Me or Shoot Me, Sam Jay. Dan Soder, On the Road, and Baby Cobra, Ali Wong. I went second. I took Bring the Pain, Chris Rock. Dressed to Kill, Suzy,
Starting point is 01:27:03 Eddie Izzard. New in Town, John Mulaney, Live at the Purple Onion, Zach Galifianakis, and The Great Depression, Gary Goldman. Neil went third. He took Ray Romano's Letterman and Johnny Carson Tonight show sets, Killing Them Softly, Dave Chappelle, Revelations, Bill Hicks, Hitler's Dog,
Starting point is 01:27:20 Norm MacDonald, and then a smattering, just a poo-poo platter of Sebastian Maniscalco Jim Jeffries Earthquake Sarah Silverman all these wonderful people Sean you went last you took the original Kings of Comedy I walked on the moon Brian Regan you people are all the same Bill Burr
Starting point is 01:27:36 Whiskey Icarus Kyle Kinane and Mitch Hedberg's half hour we're going to go ahead and slide onto yours just for balance we want to hear yours hit us up at all fantasy pod on Twitter all fantasy podcastantasyPodcast at gmail.com. Shout out to everyone on the A-F-E Patreon, the A-F-E
Starting point is 01:27:52 subreddit, the A-F-E sheslackity. The A-F-E Patreon, by the way, is where you'll be able to listen to all of our live episodes from the road. Once again, we'd like to thank our guest, Neil Brennan. Neil, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. I'mnan. Neil, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. I'm young.
Starting point is 01:28:07 No, you look young, dude. Watch my Don't Tell. Thanks for having me. He's got an extended Don't Tell coming out on Netflix. He's been drinking lean this whole time. Yeah. Are young people drinking lean still?
Starting point is 01:28:23 Am I that old that leans an old person? Damn it. I think they're doing the least drugs young are young people drinking lean am i that old that leans an old person damn it there's a brand doing like the least drugs these young people know yeah i think they're like i think they're like not having sex and not drinking lean right now i think they're mostly just watching don't tell us they're gonna try they're gonna die dry man that's that generation uh what else oh shout out to super producer Isaac on the ones and twos shout out to st. Sue Carmel shout out to Frankie Ocean shout
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