Club Random with Bill Maher - Bobby Lee | Club Random with Bill Maher
Episode Date: August 4, 2024Bobby Lee and Bill Maher on comedic process, being terrified of repeating jokes in the same show, Bobby being shocked at the barbershop, the Hawk Tuah girl has zero idea of who Bill and Bobby are, Bo...bby’s youthful experimentation, Bobby’s favorite director and how Bill has seen none of his movies, Bobby’s past addictions, Bobby’s anxiety about trying new material, Bobby begs Bill to try video games, and much, much more. Sponsor Club Random: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/clubrandom Check out Bill's tour dates here: https://www.billmaher.com/schedule/ We have Merch! Get it here: https://clubrandom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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When I did Jay Leno in the year 2000,
no one called me the next day.
Not even my parents. That's my point.
I remember the date it happened and where it was.
No, you remember it.
December 8th, 1983 in Sacramento.
Wow.
You look so good.
Ozempic?
How are you?
I'm looking so good.
Good to see you, buddy.
Good to see you.
Thanks for having me on.
Thanks for being had.
Okay, thank you.
You're welcome.
Wow.
So I have to say, Bill, the first time I met you, you don't remember. May I say it?
Was it on MADtv?
No. I was never on the show when you did the show.
What year is it we're talking about?
The last eight.
for seven. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I remember they used to also do me. Who did that? They did a version of Politically Incorrect. Was it Michael McDonald? I don't remember. Okay.
So I met you. They used to have the Maui Film Festival. Yes. What? I remember I got the
Maverick Award. Right. And I briefly met you. I think you were high. Of course. Yeah. Yeah.
You were high. But you were so kind to me. Really? Yeah were high. Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were high.
But you were so kind to me.
Really?
Yeah, it was really quick.
Oh, good.
And so, um, and then I branded you one more time at the comments.
You're super sweet.
But this is my only third encounter with you.
I'm a huge fan.
Thank you.
I'm a fan of you too.
You're, you're...
I love you so much.
Politically incorrect and religious, all that stuff, man.
So, um, no, I'm so, I was a little nervous coming here, but I'm fine now.
I'm totally fine.
I'm really fine.
I'm fine.
I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm no, I'm so, I was a little nervous coming here,
but I'm fine now.
I'm totally fine, I'm totally fine.
It's so funny, all the people who come here
and they say, you know, for a guy who has a reputation,
a big, such a hard ass, everybody comes on here,
I met you, you were so nice.
It's like, why did I get to be known?
I guess because I do a debate show,
and I have to sometimes say things to Ted Cruz
or somebody that's not particularly nice.
Or people from the left too.
Yeah, but when we see you, we're like,
oh, that's who he is.
I mean, obviously you have a personal life,
and you're just a kind human being.
I'm the exact same person, like, on real time.
It's just that I'm doing a different thing
with different kinds of people.
But if they were sitting here, I would be no different.
Well, of course, I actually am higher here.
But that doesn't really affect me that much.
I mean, I've been smoking so long, I can only get so high.
People sometimes say to me, oh, Bill, I got this stove for you.
It's going to kick your ass.
I'm like, I would blow you if it could.
I know you all think you can kick my ass,
and you don't, but I appreciate the effort.
But isn't there a strand or something new that comes out
and you're like, oh, this is even heavier now?
No, it's not COVID.
I mean, it doesn't mutate into, like, I mean, can they,
what they can do.
But they engineer stronger.
Well, what they do is just pack it.
I mean, I may have explained this before,
so forgive me of the people who listen every word,
but like pot moves from the leaf,
that can be strong, but only so strong.
If you then crush it down further, you get hash.
That's what hash is.
That's what hash is.
Yeah, squeezed it.
Yeah. And then you get. That's my masturbate, I squeeze it. You get hash. That's what hash is. We just squeezed it. Yeah.
And then you get hash oil.
Yeah.
And then something called keif.
Oh, yeah, I've heard of keif, yeah.
That's the strongest version.
So I guess if you just did pure keif or something, you would be like crazy.
But you know, I mean, let's keep it in control.
That's ice.
Okay.
I'm making a drink. You's ice. Okay. Um.
I'm making a drink.
You don't tongs or nothing?
No, Bobby, you-
I'm gonna tongs here, no?
Those are tongs.
Okay.
Tongs, also your relative.
I love it, I love it.
The tongs.
And by the way, you're the earliest guest.
I've never, is this like Asian time?
Is that a thing?
I live right next to you.
You do?
I mean, not next to you,
but I live in like eight minutes away.
Really?
Yeah, like I live on the hillside of Studio City almost.
Well, I'm gonna have to speak to someone about that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, great.
Yeah, I bought a house from Joe Gallin.
I don't know if you know him.
You know Joe Gallin? Joe Gallin, no.
He's a producer anyway, let's move on.
I also wanna say this, dude,
and I wanna say something that happened to me today, okay?
Bill, if you don't mind.
Yes?
I was at Floyd's Barbershop.
In Mayberry?
No, I think it's a chain.
Oh, of course.
Yeah, it's a chain barbershop.
I never knew that, that's hysterical.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Floyd's Barbershop.
Yes.
Explain to the young kids where that comes from.
Right, which is interesting that you say that,
because I was getting a haircut, and on the TV,
Timothee Chalamet's ad came on for the Bob Dylan movie night.
Yeah.
And I made a comment like, oh, shit,
Chalamet kind of looks like Bob Dylan, you know what I mean?
And the dude next to me goes, who's Bob Dylan?
And then I stood up, and I went around the fucking barbershop
and I asked every single person,
do you guys know who Bob Dylan,
no one who the fucking Bob Dylan is?
So I don't know why I'm getting,
am I getting too emotional?
No.
I'll lean back.
No, no.
I think I'm getting too much.
Let me calm down, calm myself down.
No, wait, Bobby, be yourself.
If you're passionate about something, then fucking bleed.
Thank you, Bill.
So what I wanna say is that,
oh, God's green earth.
I mean, are we out of touch?
Maybe I'm out of touch.
No, no, no, no.
That's just the nature of the world.
I mean, nothing lasts.
What is that?
We gotta make a reel of every single person on this show
ask me what it is, and me always saying,
I'm roofing myself.
I can't explain it.
It's just to make soda.
It's non-chemical diet soda.
You know, because I'm such a health nut.
I'm smoking a giant pot, snogging.
Thanks, well, you know.
The chiron for your age.
I always say when people say you look great, they should have The chiron for your age. I always say when people say you look great,
they should have a chiron for your age.
How old are you?
68.
How old are you?
Yeah, I'm like 52, man.
Like 52?
Well, my penis gets half hard now, it doesn't get full.
I might have to get on like, I don't know, something.
Wow, that's...
I think maybe it's because I'm jaded, I don't know.
No, that's a lot of very personal information.
I'm sorry, but I told you a little bit about that.
No, no, that's why we're...
Well, let's talk about Dylan then.
Oh yeah, see, that interests me
because I've certainly heard other stories like that.
I mean, I probably told this before,
but Leno told me once he was in Vegas
and they were taking down a big picture
of Elvis
or something.
And he said to the guy, why are you taking it down?
Isn't he one of the big attractions in this show?
Or they go, it's like, you know, people who
imitate other people's show.
And the guy said, yeah, the kids don't know who he is anymore.
I mean, nothing.
I mean, this is, did you ever see like footage
from like an excavation where they find civilizations that are buried in the sand?
And it's like you realize that not that much time goes by.
They don't need to forget who these people are,
but it's buried.
I always think, how does the whole city gets buried?
It must just be like a little film of sand every year. Yeah. That's how it happens.
Right.
What the fuck?
Obviously.
OK.
A sandstorm is out of nowhere.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Right.
I'm just saying, it's amazingly quick how things recede in,
like you think, oh, it's only a couple of thousand years ago.
They can't tell you what people were doing.
Not really.
We have like these clues,
and like everything from the Stone Age.
That's not really what the Stone Age was about.
It's just that stone is the only thing that lasted.
They made most of this shit out of wood,
but it's gone.
It's gone.
So we don't really know what they were doing.
Exactly.
So what are you saying then?
What I'm saying is, in that large context,
it's not that weird that kids would not know
who Bob Dylan is.
I'm glad you said that because now it makes me feel better
about myself because it's like now I don't have to worry
about what people think of me and whatnot.
I'm going to die soon.
And all remnants of Bobby Lee will disappear.
And I can just be free.
Well, some of that is true. But at a certain point, all remnants of Bobby Lee will disappear, and I can just be free. Well, some of that is true.
But can I, but here's the...
At a certain point, all remnants of all of us
will disappear, but why do you think you're gonna die soon?
I mean, I have probably another 30 years left, right?
You think that's soon?
Well, I mean, I have no idea.
I mean, you see, like, you know...
First of all, I mean, I have no idea. I mean, you see, like, you know. First of all, I mean, 30 years, it's,
especially with AI now, it is really impossible
to predict what three years from now will be like.
Let alone 30. You couldn't even...
Are you saying singularity is gonna happen?
Are they gonna have war with robots?
Well, things like that.
I mean, we are moving to an era of, I mean...
Scary, yeah.
The change has been exponential.
But when you get to that topper reaches
of the exponential curve, you're just
going at a dizzying pace of change.
And I mean, it could all be gone by Christmas.
I mean, really, I mean, the fucking robots
could take over.
You fears, man, what the fuck?
Well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But can I go back to the Bob Dylan thing?
Absolutely.
When these kids have these arguments like,
well dude, that's not my generation.
Yeah, when I went to high school,
Mozart wasn't my generation, but I know who he is.
I've done lots of shit on this.
I think it's in my book.
Oh damn, I didn't bring my book for you.
I wanted to bring my book.
I'll get it later.
It's one back on then, now number 10 on the,
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What is the senior book though?
This phenomenon that you're talking about.
There's a piece about it where when you say to kids
something from the past, they go,
I wasn't born yet.
Like, yeah, I know, but things happened before you were born.
You spoiled fucking entitled brat.
It's just so indicative of how they're raised wrong.
Raised wrong by, and now I'm doing it, by parents
who blow smoke up their ass
and make them feel like way more special
than they deserve to feel.
Like it just doesn't matter if I wasn't around for it.
And there was an episode on real time
about oh no, 10 years ago,
Meghan McCain, you know who that is, right?
Was on-
John's McCain's daughter.
Right, she was on The View for years.
I love her.
She's very nice, I like her too.
But she was on with Paul Buggala,
and he just devastated her with,
she said something about, like,
I didn't know, I wasn't around,
the same line about, I forget what we were talking about,
but something from the, I don't know,
maybe the 70s or something.
I wasn't around.
And he said, yeah, I wasn't around
for the French Revolution, but I know about it.
Yeah, wow.
Did he big laugh?
I believe she began crying.
No, she's...
She did not cry, but she, no, she's a tough girl.
But I think she wanted. I mean, it was just...
And of course, especially back then,
the crowd was, was like rabidly woke liberal.
I used to fucking fight with them every week. And so they, of course, relish,
because they're all about just who's on the right team.
So she's on the wrong team, Paul's on the right team,
he gets a shot in, and it's like,
you know, let's go fucking to get the Wizard of Oz.
And you know, we just killed the witch of the east or whatever.
But can I ask you another question?
Maybe kids are more, some kids are more curious.
Like when I was in high school, right?
We had no internet, this is the late 80s.
Bill, late 80s, where do we get movies?
We had to go to Blockbuster.
I ride my bike to Blockbuster, right? I remember.
There was a little section called Criterion Collection, right?
Criterion.
Did I not say that?
Meaning?
It's a collection of movies. Is that the right thing?
It's a word.
There's a...
Oh, wait, wait. Okay, so it's something. There's a collection of films. I don't know who Criterion
is, but they buy like really, I guess they get the rights
of really cool movies.
Sounds like a pretentious film company.
Exactly. But then they had all the Kurosawa films.
Right? So I would go there and I go...
I mean, obviously, there's no internet or anything,
so I don't know who Kurosawa is,
but obviously, you know, Seven Samurai,
I just had this curiosity, right?
And I was like, you know, I mean, I could watch Gremlins. And I was like, you know, I could watch Gremlins.
But I'm like, you know what, let me check this out.
And I liked it.
My point is, maybe some kids aren't curious
and wanna like learn things.
Maybe people just learn things
that are shoved down their throat.
Now, Kurosawa is one of the most important directors
that you need to pretend you care about.
I've always said that.
Wait, you don't like Kurosawa? I have no idea. I've never seen the movies. I should, maybe I've always said that. Wait, you don't like Rosara.
I have no idea.
I've never seen the movies.
I should, maybe I'll get to it.
I certainly know.
Bill, I don't want to yell at you.
OK.
I'm sorry, sorry.
I know it's your show.
But what the fuck, man?
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
This is annoying.
It's always annoying when people go,
oh, I can't believe you don't know this, or you're not into this.
I had this just at dinner the other night.
You know, like they were saying to me,
they were bringing up, I sent a friend of mine
something from, I know she's a big fan of Patti Smith.
Okay, that's not my kind of music.
I recognize she's a great artist,
whatever she is. I don't know. I'm sure a million years ago I gave it a try. I was like,
this is not pop music, which is great for some people. And so then there was like, you
don't like, no, I don't. And then it went to Leonard Cohen. You don't, not what I've
heard. Again, I sampled it.
It didn't make me want to go deeper.
You know, Tom Waits.
I mean, all these kind of like, and it's like,
how can you not?
I'm like, well, apparently the thing I cannot get into
is what like 98% of people cannot get into.
You know, when I listen to music,
I just want to hear what I want to hear,
what makes me happy.
Kurosawa, will I watch him someday?
Yeah, I probably will.
It hasn't happened.
That's it.
I apologize.
No, no.
I'm just telling you.
No, no, no, no.
Because I could do it to you about things.
I'd be like, you're not into...
Well, they do one.
No, no, but it kind of reminds me of the way, like...
I'm sorry. No, no, but it kind of reminds me of the way, like...
I'm sorry. No, listen.
It just reminds me of the way people politically
do the same thing.
Like, you know, I can't believe that you don't love,
or I can't believe you don't hate Donald Trump.
Like, I happen to, but I get it why other people don't love or I can't believe you don't hate Donald Trump.
Like I happen to, but I get it why other people don't
and why they find the threat more coming from the left.
I don't agree with them, I'd like to talk them out of it,
but I wouldn't be there going like,
what, you don't see Trump's an asshole?
It's like saying to a...
I already apologized, man.
Let go of the Kurosawa thing, man.
It's like saying to a gay man, what?
You don't like pussy?
No, that's not the same.
That's not the same thing.
What?
Pussy's the boss?
No, no, no, that's not the same thing.
How could you not like pussy?
No, that's not...
Like, they just don't.
No, but just...
You have to accept people.
Okay, Bill, let me just say this, okay?
All right?
But what I'm saying is that, yeah, I like pussy, okay?
But I've tried dick.
Oh, really?
Yes, so what I'm saying, I don't like.
I didn't mean to say, oh, really?
Yeah, yeah, and guess what, Bill?
Wait.
Don't like it.
Oh, you don't?
Don't like the dick, but I'll try it,
and that's why I'm asking you,
did you try watching a Persello film?
Just the fact that you would try it
separates you from me by a lot.
That doesn't mean either one of us is better.
You're probably better because you're more adventurous.
But like, even just, you know, the idea of,
I just try something, that never appealed to me.
Okay.
But how old were you and why did you wanna try it?
Oh my God, here we go.
All right, let's go.
Well, it's interesting.
Well, I was in middle school. Oh, that young. Middle school?
Yeah.
Wow. I didn't even got in...
Eighth grade, maybe eighth grade.
I hadn't even seen a vagina yet.
Yeah. I'd seen it, but through, you know,
hustler and stuff, whatever.
Oh.
But anyway, we knew what it looked like.
Was your first sexual experience gay?
Yeah.
Oh, I see. So you started gay and then went...
I'm not gay.
No, but you started... I never even started gay.
But you said the first sexual experience.
You know.
So it was just like a camp thing.
Yeah.
And when I say camp, like campy.
Well, no, here's... Okay, I'll just tell you.
No, you were away at camp.
So I know. Here's what happened.
So as a kid, you know, I had a real violent upbringing, okay?
Anyway... What do you want me to do? So as a kid, you know, I had a real violent upbringing, okay?
Anyway, um...
What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? Start weeping?
I don't really... My dad was like this rage-a-holic, alcoholic, right?
So then when I was like 10 or 11, I started drinking and doing drugs at that young.
He wasn't one of those Japanese soldiers that was in the cave.
I know. I'm just...
Just give me some poetic license on the agent, Joe.
I'm just saying, he wasn't one of the ones in the cave
at the end of the war.
And they didn't tell him the war was over.
You know those guys.
Like Iwo Jima or whatever.
Who?
Iwo Jima, what's that?
Iwo Jima.
Did I just say that?
You said Ijo.
Iwo Jima.
Iwo Jima, it was in an island, one of the big battles
of the Pacific.
Was there a guy in the cave there?
After the war, they found a number of Japanese soldiers
in Iwo Jima and also Guam who were,
they did not know the war had ended,
and of course the Japanese fought to the last man
to say the least.
Sure.
So, you know, was it a lot of them?
No, but I mean it was quite a bit after the war ended.
Well, to answer your question, no, my dad wasn't one of those.
And boy, was that salesman upset when he knocked on that gate.
Yeah.
So anyway, so yeah, my dad wasn't, but he was a rage-aholic.
You know, then I started using early, right?
And then-
Using dick. No, no, no, no.
Drinking.
Drinking.
Oh, drinking.
Yeah, yeah.
Dick wasn't available, like, just at a store.
Did they call it using back then?
You mean drugs, you mean?
Well, I never heard the term.
When we were, you know, the drinker.
Used drugs.
I never heard it for liquor.
Anyway...
Yeah, but I did drugs, too. You know, I did meth early.
Meth?
Yeah, yeah.
I was like a wild kid.
I sold meth.
All right, so the...
Possible.
So then like in seventh, eighth,
I would go to high parties.
Possible to you.
I would get drunk and I don't know,
this one guy just goes,
hey, just suck.
And I just did it.
For drugs?
No.
Like we were behind a bush or something,
and I tried it.
Right.
So you were the sucky.
Yeah, he sucked mine too a little bit.
I'm not gonna do like a one-way, you know, come on.
Is that what gay guys do?
What?
They switch you off like that?
Well, I mean, I'm getting sucked, like, with a woman,
you know what I mean?
If I'm going down on a girl, I don't know
if we're talking about this.
Yeah, yeah.
And afterwards, I mean, I will go, you want to? Right. You know what I mean? It's a two-way. I mean, I say, I mean, if I'm going down on a... I don't know why I'm talking about this. And afterwards, I mean, I will go, you want to?
You know what I mean? It's a two-way.
I mean, I say right, like, something I...
I wouldn't do it.
Let's move on. Let's not talk about that.
I don't know why we even got into it.
Oh, yeah, like, Kurosawa. Let's go back to Kurosawa.
Was he gay?
No, no.
He's autistic.
That's why you're so mad.
Yeah, I love old Japanese.
That's why you're so mad I don't know him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, you've never seen Kurosawa and find out why you were... You're right, I was too Japanese. That's why you're so mad I don't know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So listen, so you've never seen Kurosawa and Fine.
You know what, you're right, I was too aggressive.
Wait, wait, wait.
Oh my God. Are they really great?
Is that why you got upset?
What?
The Kurosawa films, are they really great?
I think he was the greatest director of all time.
No, that's like Seven Samurai.
Seven Samurai, High and Low, you did Rashomon,
Hidden Fortress, I mean, the list goes on. Godzilla?
No.
No.
Although, Godzilla minus one was great.
Do you see it?
No, I can't watch any movie where animals get hurt.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
That's right.
No, really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you have dogs?
Yes, of course.
How many?
Two.
Cats?
No, I believe cats only make sense
as pets in a world where dogs do not exist.
Interesting.
Other than that...
I have three cats.
Pfft.
Okay, so let's go back to, you're gay.
I'm not gay.
No, I'm kidding.
No, like, but you first tried the dick,
and so that was the...
I don't know why we even got...
Was that the first and last time you ever did dick?
Yeah, man. It was the first and last time you ever did dick? Yeah, man.
It was the first and last time?
Maybe a couple more times.
A couple more times.
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My point is that I'll try something once.
That's the point.
Well apparently it was more than once.
Yeah, five times.
Okay, five times.
But that was all before I was 16 or whatever.
No play in the year of strapping heterosexual men.
What? Yeah.
That's right. That's right.
Are you currently, have you ever been married?
No. No, me neither.
I know. Right.
No children, right? Not to my knowledge. Yeah, me neither. I know. Right. You know children, right?
Not to my knowledge.
Yeah, me either.
Yeah.
I think, you know, I call it the David Spade path.
And, you know, I look to him
and I do what he does, pretty much.
Well, I think my path is even better than Dave's.
What's yours?
Well, he got somebody pregnant and
That's right.
And had to like deal with that.
And it was, I feel like if we're gonna name this after anybody,
I should get the title because I think I've done it better.
And you'd like pull out King or something? I don't know.
What? You pull out good or what?
Do I pull out good? No, it's not rocket science to prevent pregnancy.
Okay, let's move on. Yeah.
And I mean, it depends on what, some people are into sex for various reasons.
I mean, and a lot of it includes like,
not really the sex itself.
Whereas I've always been like,
I'm really into it for the sex,
it's just like with the drugs.
Like my drug of choice is drugs.
Like I like drugs.
Like I don't do any heavy drugs anymore, I'm too old. But I did all along the way. I did whatever my body would tolerate.
I drank heavy for years, and then my body wouldn't tolerate it
and I throttled back.
That's all you can do.
Your body will tell you what you can take.
Well, I'm sober.
I mean, did you ever think, like, you know,
I do the traditional 12-step group thing,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, sure I do. I mean, I'm sober. I mean, did you ever think, like, you know, I do the traditional 12-step group thing,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, sure I do.
I mean, I've read about it.
Yeah, do you understand what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Have you ever thought about taking that path or no?
Of course not, because I'm not addicted to things.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm just saying.
I'm just telling you.
I'm being honest.
What?
Why are you so jumpy about everything?
Just talk to me?
No, I'm just telling you there are people who are addictive
Personalities I am NOT I am a situational user I use it when I want to I it does the only thing I ever got addicted to was fucking cigarettes
Mmm, which was stupid because it's the worst drug in the world because it didn't do anything for you
Yeah, except make you want to do more cigarettes.
Cocaine has the same thing, just makes you want to do more.
But at least there were moments on it.
I mean, I did finish my novel on it.
I don't think it would have happened without the cocaine.
It didn't make me smarter, it just made me stay at the desk.
Like, it was really great for that.
But, you know, cigarettes just... Yeah, how long did you smoke?
I quit for a while and then I just went back
and it's fucking terrible.
20 stupid years, although it was a bell curve.
I started with just a few, worked up to a pack a day
and then the last eight years was always trying to quit.
So, you know, but look, what's done is done.
Hopefully, AI will fix that too.
I'm really counting on AI, Bobby.
I found that, because when I relapsed the last time,
I smoked a lot of weed, I felt like it did a lot of damage.
Because when you smoke weed
and you smoke cigarettes at the same time,
it's really bad.
Well, it's the cigarette.
I mean, I was just talked to a doctor who said,
yeah, it's not health food, but what we see
isn't really a lot of cancer from cigarette smoke.
It's bronchitis and stuff like that.
So, you know, and I try to be circumspect.
I'll tell you what is not a good sign.
I have a little device in my office
and it's to tell you the air quality.
And it has pictures of two men, but they're human.
I mean, I assume this is for all humans.
And one is the air quality inside the house.
One is air quality outside.
And like if they're green, it gives you a number.
Green's good, air quality good.
Oh, maybe not so good outside, but it's better inside.
And then yellow is, you know,
whenever I light up a joint in the office,
the fucking head is red.
And it has a look on its face like this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm guessing that's not great, a great sign.
Do you mind if I dip?
No, please, dip.
Oh, I haven't seen one of those you mind if I dip? No, please. Dip?
Oh, I haven't seen one of those in ever.
So now that's chewing tobacco.
It's just a pouch.
A pouch.
Yeah, it's a pouch filled with chewing tobacco.
Wow.
Yeah.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that.
But then again, I didn't grow up in Kentucky.
Yeah, yeah.
No, that's such a ball player or Hick thing to do.
I'm so surprised you're doing it.
Yeah, I mean...
You're neither.
I did a movie once and I can't tell you who did it,
but there was an actor that I really admire,
started doing it and I was like, let me try one,
and I just, I've been hooked since.
What does it do for you?
It gives you a buzz.
It does?
Yeah, and I don't need to smoke a cigarette.
What kind of buzz? Like a coffee buzz?
You know how when you used to wake up in the morning and you needed a cigarette?
Vaguely.
Yeah, you would get a kind of a light buzz.
It's like that.
It also calms the nerves.
I feel so good right now.
Thank you so much for having me.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, good.
Me too.
Namaste, dude.
I love doing this podcast once a week because it's a great excuse to fucking get high,
which I probably would do anyway.
But you know, I get to do it with somebody like you
who I love to talk to.
It's...
And also Bill, I love your show,
but I just would never be able to do
Politically Incorrect because I just don't know much.
Well that show hasn't been on since 2002.
I mean, I'm real time with Bill Maher on my bad.
It's all right.
You definitely couldn't do Politically Incorrect. I feel, I'm real time with Bill Maher. My bad. It's all right. You definitely couldn't do it
politically incorrect. I feel like we had a time. She will grow
right now. Yeah. Yeah. She was on Whitney and she didn't know
who I was. Right. She was here last week. I know. And I found
that she didn't know who you were either. Right. Anybody
but she's loves Dylan. It's so weird. Yeah, she loves Dylan.
Incredible Dylan fan, a freak.
He got blonde, blonde, blonde, she loves blonde, blonde, blonde.
Like knows all the bootleg stuff. It's amazing.
Wow, wow.
No, she didn't know what he had.
I'm gonna spit in here, I'll clean it out later.
Oh, you got one, sure. Absolutely.
Can I spit in here?
Yeah.
Alright, I'll clean it out later.
Yeah.
Okay.
I didn't know. No, this is perfect. We've rarely. Can I spit in here? Yeah. I'll clean it out later. Yeah.
I didn't know.
This is perfect.
We've rarely gotten the request for a spittoon here
on the podcast, but in the future.
You know what?
I have a fucking spittoon.
It's really, this is great.
No, no, no.
Oh my fucking god, man.
We've never used this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a, you know what it is?
Yeah, yeah.
It's for champagne.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You fucking spit in it, Bobby.
I can spit in this? Absolutely. All right, all right. Doesn't it look good for, doesn't it?? It's for champagne. You fucking spit in it, Bobby. I can spit in this?
Absolutely.
Doesn't it look good for?
Yeah, it looks great.
You don't want to spit in a little thing like that.
OK, you're right.
You'll miss.
You'll get it on your...
There you go, Bobby.
See?
This is a friendly show.
Thank you so much.
A friendly podcast.
We want people to be happy.
Let me ask you something, Bill.
May I ask you a question? No, we're so formal here. Bill, so, you know, I'm coming out in a movie.
I have a couple scenes in it.
You're coming out?
In a movie. I'm in a movie.
Oh, in a movie.
I'm in a fucking movie coming out.
I thought it was the dick thing.
No, no, no.
Can we let go of the dick thing?
Yeah, you bet. Yeah, yeah.
I hate it.
It's not my thing.
But...
That's all you say. No, go ahead. back. Yeah, yeah. I hate it. It's not my thing. But...
That's all you say.
No, go ahead.
Okay.
I'm just fucking with you.
I know. I love you.
So, you know, you're doing promo for this movie,
and then you kind of think to yourself, it's like,
I just feel like...
You know, because that was my dream, right?
As a young guy coming to LA, it's like,
I'm going to do movies and TV.
And you have.
I have done it. You've got your dream. But then you kind of realize that it's kind of, like, not coming to LA, it's like, I'm going to do movies and TV. And you have, you've got your dream.
But then you kind of realize that it's kind of like
not relevant anymore almost.
It's like, I feel like what I'm doing with my two podcasts,
you know what I mean?
And going on the road, I mean, it just,
it's kind of reinvented, you know what I mean?
Me, and it's also easier to do, it's up my wheelhouse,
you know what I mean, I have muscles for that.
And I just feel like when I'm promoting other things now,
it just doesn't seem as relevant or,
oh, it's almost as if it's a dead,
you know what I mean, platform almost.
I get your feeling on this.
Yeah.
First I have the Hawk Tua girl,
now I just got the Tua guy.
So interesting, this show. I get the feeling of that.
I think you're exaggerating.
It's not dead.
I feel similar about this podcast.
Like, if you had told me 10 years ago,
podcast, I'd be like, what the fuck?
I've got a show on HBO.
Why would I want to do a fucking podcast?
It became a phenomenon.
And it became a venue where I wanna do a fucking podcast? It became a phenomenon and it became a venue
where I can do something I could never do on political,
no, you've got me calling on real time.
Because we're not gonna talk about your dick on real time,
but this is also me.
Talking about your dick, we do it often.
And so it is great and it's just more available to people.
I mean, Real Time Does Great always has,
but it will always be a niche,
because not that many people know
what the fuck is going on.
So they're just like not going to watch the show.
We're speaking in Chinese to them.
But this anybody can, this is available to everybody.
Everybody knows about your dick.
It's something everyone can relate to
because they've all sucked it.
I'm talking about the guys.
Anyway.
Did you ever get close to getting married?
Well, it's interesting that you asked that,
because, you know, one of my podcasts, Tiger Belly,
you know, I started it with my girlfriend of ten years.
Ten years?
Then we broke up, and we're still doing the podcast together still.
Oh, like Sonny and Cher.
Like Sonny and Cher, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's going okay?
It's going okay, but it's like...
Weird?
I don't think it's weird.
No, I think that people's response to it is weird.
Which is?
They... I think they followed the podcast because of the...
It was like a sitcom and they were together.
And now that we're not, you know what I mean?
They want that. And if it's not gonna happen,
then it's going to move on. It's weird, you know what I mean?
Well, people's investment in characters is weird.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, soap stars have talked over the years,
tales of fans, like if they're on the show,
their character in the show has a baby,
and then the fans send them baby presents and things.
It's like, no, I didn't really have a baby.
You fucking nut.
And that's just, yeah, I didn't really have a baby. You fucking nut. And that's, it's just, yeah, it is weird.
And also, people have a problem with,
and I don't know if you're like this,
but with women that I've dated,
I don't really have a problem with them if we break up.
I mean, in fact, a lot of them are still in my life.
Exactly. I mean...
Are you like that or no?
Of course. I mean, I said it on the show recently.
I'm gonna say it again.
A sex life is like a dog.
You love it when you first get it, it gives you so much pleasure, but it's not meant to
live forever.
And at a certain point, it's gonna die.
And it's gonna break your heart.
But unlike the dog, it's still around. And you can have, and the love is not gone.
So you just have to accept that the one facet does die.
Now people handle different ways.
People stay married, of course, and God bless them.
I mean, it's just a different way of handling it.
And the relationship moves into a kind of more of a friendship
or whatever.
I've heard lots of married couples talk about,
I'll have to ask my roommate,
meaning their husband or wife.
It's sort of like a winking funny way of saying,
maybe there's a little bitterness behind it,
like he doesn't fuck me anymore.
And it's like, if that's the way you wanna handle it,
I get it, sometimes people have kids, you wanna,
whatever, that's fine.
It's not the way I would handle it. And, you know, don't blame me
for the way the world is created.
I didn't make this thing
where people just get bored of each other,
especially with the fucking.
I didn't make that up.
I didn't give that to hum- to mankind.
I'm just dealing with it the only way I think
is sanely to deal with it,
and you're not gonna know how that is.
I'm not gonna tell you.
I do have a formula, but I'm not gonna give it.
Would you tell me like off camera?
Oh, absolutely.
Okay, good, I wanna know.
After this you're gonna tell me.
But is there a way to keep it alive is the question.
Yes.
To keep the sex, and sex appeal?
Well the problem is that sex is in opposition to security.
And in a way, lust is in opposition to love.
Wow.
And especially in a man's mind, which is sort of fucked up.
I mean, over time, you love someone more,
but you lust for them less.
How do you change this balance?
So the one keeps going up and the other one
keeps going down.
The women would say, no, the more I love them,
the more I wanna fuck them sometimes.
Yeah, that's more a women's thing
because they're deeper and better.
What do you want me to say?
We're different.
You know, again, I didn't bequeath this.
This is just what I'm playing the hand that I'm dealt.
So that's the tension between security and excitement.
And I think there is a way, but again, you know,
fuck the public for making fun of me all these years.
When I am, I'm not going to give you my formula.
Okay.
I can't wait.
I'm gonna know, guys, after the show.
It's gonna be great.
Yeah, so I mean, but we love each other. We're like family, and I don't know when I'm gonna know guys after the show, it's gonna be great. Yeah, so I mean, but we love each other,
we're like family, and I don't know when I'm gonna end it.
And it's not threesomes, by the way, for those guessing.
That does not work.
That never works. It never works.
It's fun though.
It's a great, it's what you try when you're like,
late 20s, 30s, you just have just enough in the world
to be dangerous and you think you're gonna be James Bond.
And you know, first of all, it's just,
one person's always gonna be a little jealous.
And it's just always, it's just never as cool
as it should be, unless, you know,
maybe there are some people who can pull it off,
I think they're faking.
I think there are women who like, love the guy and trying to make the guy love them so much
that they pretend that they love this,
but they really don't.
And I never want anyone, that's a rule,
no one can ever, do not ever fake anything with me
because it insults my intelligence,
it makes me very angry.
Well, I recently faked orgasm.
Have you done that?
No, but I remember Gilbert telling me
a joke about that, which blah-da-yada-yada-yada-yada
ended with, and spit on her back.
OK?
I'm not going to go through the whole thing.
I did the whole thing where I was like, it was in the dark.
And I go, I'm going to go.
And then I pulled away, and I went
to the other side of the room.
But why are you? I went to the other side of the room. But why are you?
I went to the other side of the room,
and then I quickly went to the bathroom
as if I was swashing some stuff off.
But why did you feel the need to fake or fake on Oris?
Because I felt like it was never going to happen.
I see.
I smelled something.
You what?
Smelled?
Smelled?
Yeah.
I smelled something.
Smelled what?
I don't know what.
And it made you not want to come? I don't know Smelled what? I don't know what.
And it made you not want to come?
I don't know what that is.
I don't like it.
But what, I mean, what was it, ass?
No, it wasn't even ass.
It was like curdled blood maybe.
Curdled blood?
Who were you fucking, Dracula?
What the fuck?
What do you mean curdled?
I don't know.
It smelled like something.
Was she having a period?
I don't know.
It was in the dark.
Why were you in the dark?
Well there was a little dim light, but you know what I mean,
I'm Asian, anyway, I'm like, what?
No, but yeah, but I pulled out and it worked.
And the acting was great, I wouldn't wanna ask her now.
I went, ah, I did the whole thing, you know what I mean?
The body trembled, I did the whole thing.
That's interesting, because you don't usually hear
about men faking an orgasm.
I mean, they make sex robots now that they say
are so realistic that they can fake an orgasm,
just like a real woman.
Yeah.
Well, have you ever thought about doing that?
A sex robot?
Oh, a sex robot?
Oh, a sex robot? No.
I would try it once.
But...
Let's go back. Can we go back to...
Yeah.
You don't think that the television movies are dead?
Right.
No, I don't think they're dead. They're certainly not dead.
Let me tell you, I can prove it with money,
which is the bottom line for everything.
Oh.
Even commercial broadcast TV, which you think
is the most anachronistic, and it is, like,
still people sitting there waiting through commercials
for fucking headache medicine and fucking beans.
Yeah.
They, every year, have the up-fronts fronts in the spring where the networks sell their shitty shows to advertisers.
They kick in like nine billion dollars.
That's not dead.
That's not dead, right.
It's not what it used to be,
but there's still a lot of people watching Tim Allen.
That's true, I mean, I've gotten a lot,
because I used to do, I did like 15 episodes of Magnum PI.
Wow, the one in Hawaii, of course.
Yeah, yeah, the new one.
I say of course because you're aging.
Yeah, yeah.
But what I'm saying about television and movies, Bill,
is that, do you remember a day when they would, they would.
Bill is my dad, call me... Call me Mr. Martin.
Yeah, yeah.
When they said, when you did like Carson, right,
as a stand-up, and then you were an overnight,
you know what I mean, household name.
No, I wasn't. That's so wrong.
I know, but you know, but it would do...
It would do way more than it did
if you did a late-night experience now.
Can I disabuse you? Oh my God, what?
I mean, you have to admit, let me just finish.
Calm down.
This is how I talk.
But this is about something I actually know firsthand.
So there's no reason to argue.
OK.
Because I lived it.
OK, let's go.
I always say to people, you can argue with me
about anything except me. OK, go ahead. I know me. That's why's go. I always say to people, you can argue with me about anything except me.
Okay, go ahead.
Like I know me,
like that's why I would never go to a psychiatrist.
Like really?
I've been living with me all these years
and you just met me and you're good.
Okay, I lived it.
I did 30 tonight shows.
Was not anything close to a household name.
It just wasn't like that.
That was the 80s.
That era that you're talking about. That was the 80s. That era that
you're talking about was more like the 60s, maybe the 70s. David Brenner was maybe the
last guy who became a household name just from standup on late night shows. Then that
went away and you had to have the sitcom. Anyone after that, Roseanne, Freddie Prinze, Robin Williams, all got sitcoms from the
late night shows. But the late night show itself did not make you a star. There you go.
Can I ask you something?
Yes, please.
Right. But it still puts you on the map when it comes to maybe Hollywood.
You were legitimate.
Right.
You could do...
When I did Jay Leno in the year 2000,
no one called me the next day.
Not even my parents.
That's my point.
It just had a bigger bite to it if you
did it with Carson in the 80s.
Yes, yes.
OK.
But still not a star maker.
Sure.
But I think that the same thing has happened to maybe television
and film. It just doesn't that the same thing has happened to maybe television and film.
It just doesn't have the same impact.
Well, certainly where you're talking about, the late, the comic who comes on at the end of the late night talk show, yeah.
That is nothing. What came along and blew everything out of the water was the Netflix special.
That made legitimate comic stars.
Yeah, Ali Wong, aka, yeah.
Yeah.
Uh...
You name one.
I'm trying to remember the joke.
Shane Gellis's.
Sebastian Maniscalco.
Maniscalco, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, but there's a number of them.
Um, Chris DiStefano.
Chris DiStefano, yeah.
Stan was here. Same thing.
Like, you do a Netflix special, a lot of people see it.
Mm.
A lot of people see it.
Yeah.
I want to ask you another question.
Yes.
Are you, and don't get angry.
I'm not, I'm never angry.
And I'm so calm right now, dude.
Look at me right now.
I'm so namaste, dude.
I'm not combative at all.
It's this bidding.
It helps you.
Why do... Would you do club spots again or no?
Club spots.
Like when I'm at the... Like tonight I have two shows
with the improv, right?
Oh, God, no.
And you would never do that again?
Well, I'm on the road all the time,
but I do the theaters and the cities I play.
No, I know. I know. You're a big draw there.
No, I'm not a giant draw. I mean, I don't...
I'm stopping at the end of this year.
I may... Stand up entirely. Yeah, I may go back to it, but certainly in 2025, I will not a giant draw. I mean, I'm stopping at the end of this year.
I may go back to it, but certainly in 2025,
I will not be on the road.
I just wanna see, I've not done that in 40 years.
I wanna see what it's like.
But one reason is like, I'm just better than ever
and I sell half the tickets to guys
who I don't think are half as good as me.
And that's not why I'm quitting,
but it's like, you know, and I understand
there's certain reasons for that.
I'm sort of like typecast as a political comic,
even though everyone can enjoy my show
and would laugh at it, and a lot of it is not political.
But I get it.
And when you're 70 almost,
a lot of people just wanna see people their generation.
I get it.
And they just think,
oh, it's gonna be too smart for me or something.
And for some people that's true,
but you have to be a pretty big idiot
for my show to be too.
Anyway, yeah, it'll be an interesting change.
And I think, especially when you get into the years I'm in,
it's important to like,
keep putting yourself out of your comfort station, try out new things,
or stop doing things, see, you know, you can always...
So here's my fear right now.
I'm having a really difficult time trying new stuff
because, you know, a lot of times now when I perform,
you know, they're pretty much all there to see me,
they're generally always packed,
and I'm feeling like this pressure to kill, right?
And so, and I'm, and now I'm like,
I didn't try that because it's a longer pin
and I don't wanna eat it.
You know what I mean?
So how, do you still push through or?
Well, first of all, I never go to the clubs anymore.
I do try out new stuff, but I do it in my regular shows.
And after doing it 40 years, I'm almost never wrong.
I don't remember the last time I tried out a new bit,
and it just got nothing.
It's like, I've just been doing it too long.
I can tell if it's gonna work or not.
Now, do I keep everything in the act
after one or two times? No, because, but it didn't die.
It just didn't get as great as, you know,
it's like, okay, they like it, they don't love it, goodbye.
I'm only gonna put what they love.
But it doesn't, like, upset the show.
It doesn't look weird in the show.
It just looks like a joke that wasn't a 10,
it was a five, and it's fine.
Um, but, like, when was the last, I did something, It just looks like a joke that wasn't a ten. It was a five. And it's fine.
But like, when was the last... I did something... Oh, I did a whole thing about being about to be 69.
A whole routine, which I'd never done before.
I did it this weekend in Boston and then Connecticut.
It killed. I just knew it would.
Yeah.
You know?
It was the first time you tried it.
Ever. Wow. You know? It was the first time you tried it. Ever.
Wow.
It's, you know, 40 years?
Yeah.
It's a long time, dude.
Yeah, I got to, I think I have, I'm stuck.
And I got to figure it out.
Because it's like, like tonight, like I know I'm going to kill.
No, you haven't figured out.
You've analyzed exactly what it is, and I get it.
You don't want to disappoint your fans.
When I go up on stage, I mean, as, and again,
going on for a long time, if you ask me,
what mostly do I want to be tonight,
I would say their hero.
I want to be their hero.
Well, yeah, they don't want to see the hero,
like, fumpfering and doing things that may not work.
Yeah.
So, well, first of all, if you do a set of,
I don't know how long you're doing, a half hour?
Yeah.
Okay, if you do a half hour, three bits,
if you do one every 10 minutes and it doesn't work,
you're fine.
Right.
You're fine.
I'm fine, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's what you have to do.
You just have to be disciplined about it and just slip it in.
Yeah.
That's it.
I'm slipping in tonight.
Or you could use the method that a lot of comics we did.
I did it.
Lots of comics did it in their first five years, maybe even more.
Strong openings, strong ending, and put the shit in the middle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you have plenty of great shit.
I mean, I'm sure you do a killer half hour.
I do.
Yeah, so just, you know, they probably,
they judge you so much more just by how you end.
Mmm.
It's amazing.
It's funny because I feel like my growth spurt in comedy
was, I could see it, it was higher when earlier on in my career,
when I had... I just, you know, I mean, there was no name to me,
and so I could just experiment.
You know what I mean? And I'll try this and that.
And as I get older and the more famous I become,
it just be... I just get bogged down with, like, you know what I mean?
What people expect, you know what I mean? And it's just like, I just feel bogged down with what people expect.
And it's just like, I just feel like it, I'm at a point where it's like,
I either have to change or I have to get out,
because it's driving me crazy.
Wow, that's heavy.
It's pretty heavy, yeah, yeah.
Like I can't even, I'm on stage killing it,
I don't even want to be up there.
And it's not why I did comedy.
Yeah, and I'm stuck.
It's crazy.
It's funny.
I only do two days in a row ever.
Like I do Friday, or usually not Friday
because I take real time on Friday.
Saturday morning goes to a place,
like went to Boston this past weekend,
did the show Saturday.
Wilbur Theater? No, the Fenway Park.
I had a bucket list night.
I've always wanted to see Fenway Park,
all the baseball stadiums.
And the MGM Theater is connected to...
We just played it, the Fenway.
Yeah, it's a great theater.
So, you know, I used to be a minority owner
of the New York Mets.
So I have connections among the owners in baseball.
And I said, I'm gonna be at Fenway.
So they were super nice, let me,
I said, my show is going on mostly
when the game is going on, but it was the Yankees.
I got there, went to the owner's box,
they had me in, super nice, John Henry and Tom Warner.
And they, I saw the first inning, went, did my show,
ran back over and saw the end of a super exciting
nine to seven game.
Wow.
They were like, they were behind, they tied it up.
And of course Fenway was going nuts,
and I don't give a shit about the fucking Yankees.
I'm a Mets guy, so I mean, I was thrilled for the fans.
It was amazing.
But anyway, the point is, I was,
so I fly to the first city,
do the second city and then fly home.
And so I'm only ever gone over one night,
because I'm just a real baby about being on the road. But it's amazing, even just those two nights, the first night, I'm only ever gone over one night because I'm just a real baby about being on the road.
But it's amazing, even just those two nights,
the first night I'm frustrated
because I haven't done my act probably in two weeks.
I'm not on the road every weekend.
So it's not quite in my head enough.
So like some things I'm not hitting as great as I could
if it was like really fresh in my mind.
So I'm like, oh, I got about 80% out of that joke.
And I feel bad.
They laugh, but I know that could have been better.
The second night, because I just did it the night before,
I'm a little bored with it.
Oh, really? Wow.
Some things it's like, oh yeah,
I remember exactly how to do that,
so I feel like a hack.
If I go, da-da-da- da da da da da, they laugh a lot.
And if I go, da da da da da da, they don't.
You know, it's like, that's stupid, but yeah.
I mean, you get into ruts in how you say a joke sometimes.
Because it works.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you haven't probably have dealt with
hecklers in a long time then.
Not hecklers, I wouldn't define them as that.
Because hecklers are antagonistic.
I get lots of people who are just too enthusiastic
and they think they're helping
or they just wanna say something.
Right.
And they just, they don't get it that,
comedy's timing and the fact that you just yelled out
when you did, you deprived the entire audience here,
like a few thousand people of that punchline,
and there's no going back.
There's no going back, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You cannot go back.
So they were about to have this,
I mean, this is what they're paying for,
to have their gut exercised by laughter,
and you took that one away from them.
You just one, you took that one.
I get so mad when they do that, though.
Especially it's one of your favorite jokes.
Right? And then...
But again, it's probably the same thing,
because they like you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
You know.
But still there's a little bit of a...
It's terrible. And then you have to like yell at them.
And it's like, I said it the other night, I said,
I just hate it when my own fans are assholes.
Mm. Because they did it again other night, I said, I just hate it when my own fans are assholes.
Because they did it again. Like they did it twice.
I was like, I just told you, you deprived these people
and you did it again.
You're my fan and you're an asshole.
That's so hard for me to compute.
It just bugs me.
When's the last time you did a weekend at a club?
Probably thousands of years.
A club?
Yeah, hundreds, hundreds of years. I club? Yeah, hundreds of years. Good.
I don't know.
It certainly wasn't in this century.
I mean, what?
It wasn't.
I know.
I mean, Politically Incorrect went on in 93.
Yeah, yeah.
So I certainly was doing theaters
by the end of the century.
Wow.
But what?
Wow.
I mean, because you forgot what it was like Friday night, second show, and a
glove.
I haven't forgotten at all.
It's fucking a nightmare.
I can be a billion years old.
I couldn't forget that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course.
I did it so many times.
Yeah.
I did three shows.
Wow.
There were three shows.
When comedy was really peaking in the 80s, it was like the thing.
They could sell three shows.
Saturday night, you could probably sell five,
but of course, so there was 7.30, 9.30, and 11.30.
Now I hated doing two.
Three, I mean, you don't even know
what you're saying after the...
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And of course, you have to do the show in exact order
because the last thing you wanna do...
Repeat jokes.
Right.
This is the greatest fear I ever had.
I did it once my whole life.
Yeah.
Once.
And it was enough.
I didn't want to have it happen even then, but it did.
But if people don't know what we're talking about,
like in the second show, you're not aware sometimes,
if you don't do it in an exact order,
of what you said in which show.
So you say the joke you already said in this show,
thinking you hadn't said it, oh my God.
And of course the people just look at you
like you fucking fraud.
Yeah, yeah.
You fucking fraud.
I had an Oprah at Phoenix Live,
and she was new at comedy, and she was on stage.
And you know, you're in the green room,
you see the screen and you're watching her. And she's... at comedy, and she was on stage. And you know, you're in the green room, you see the screen and you're watching her.
And she's...
Who is this?
Some local emcee that they hired, right?
I forgot her name.
And she said she was going into the same joke the second time.
Halfway through the joke, she goes,
have I said this joke already?
And the whole audience goes, yeah.
And then she burst into tears on stage.
I wanted to.
I know, I know.
I remember the date it happened and where it was.
No, you remember it.
Yeah.
It was searing.
It was just horrible.
I don't remember the joke, but I remember
it was December 8, 1983 in Sacramento.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow, you remember.
I do.
It was just seared in my mind.
So three shows, I mean, you just, and by the way, even when you do that, you're trepidatious
when you get to the, for some reason, the end of your show, because that's the last
thing you said in the last show was that last routine.
And half of your mind is telling you, fuck, I think I said this in this show.
And the other half of your mind is going, no, no, I know it seems that way, but you didn't.
Just stick to it.
So you can't really concentrate on making it great performance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow.
You're just like sticking your toe in the water.
Did I say this?
I think it's horrible.
So I haven't done two shows in this, again, in this century.
I will... There is no amount of money that could get me to do two shows.
Wow, you're so lucky. Have you ever had...
Because I've had... I mean, I've been booed off the stage before.
Have you ever heard about it?
Oh, I opened for Rock Acts and had things thrown at me.
Wow.
I mean, they're booing when you walk out.
They don't want to see you. They want to see the band.
Yeah. The worst is, like, I've been doing these shows
called The Great Outdoors in Canada.
And it's all, it's during the day,
it's thousands of people,
but they're out on picnic benches eating, you know?
And it's hard, man.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like to get, because it it's outside so the laughs dissipate for first of all
Yeah outside
Nightmare I tap out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah outside is just horrible nightmare and I've done it even recently
I the last show I did in Hawaii. I did to Hawaii for 12 years on a
New Year's show and
The last year for some reason they changed the venue in Honolulu when it was outside
I couldn't know anything about it. Did you look at the Hawaii theater?
Maybe I don't remember. I don't remember. Yeah
We did used to one show in Maui and that was on the 30th and on the 31st
It was always Honolulu. Yeah was magical, that 12 year run.
But the last year, it was one of the reasons I was like,
okay, I'm out, this is.
You can't do it.
Well, you know, I mean, everything comes to an end.
But outside, it just, well, I just hated outside.
Because.
It's a nightmare.
Well, people have to know, uh, the acoustics
are so important for comedy.
When you're in a Ratskeller, when you're in a closed
environment with hard wood or this kind of thing,
it's great because the laughs bounce off
and it sounds awesome.
And if you're outside, the laughs
just go up into the atmosphere.
Just dissipate, yeah.
Even a Vegas showroom, very often the ceilings are high,
the furniture is plush, it's terrible for comedy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it's like, you think you're bombing.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, and...
You're not, right.
You're not.
Segura told me, because I just did it with Winnipeg,
with Tom Segura last Friday, and he said,
I was like, dude, I hate outside.
He's like, just play to one table.
So I just looked at one table that really liked me.
You know what I mean? And I kept looking at them
and like referring to them, you know what I mean?
And it seemed to help, man. But it was like, you know...
Because sometimes I do, I did a show once outside
where in two minutes I got booed off a stage.
It was a rock, It was a comedy show.
Leslie Jones.
Why didn't they like you right away?
Because it was more, it wasn't my audience.
It was more, I don't even know how to say this,
it was more.
White people.
More black people, more black people.
White or black people.
Yeah, it was more black people.
And Leslie Jones.
Black people don't like you?
No, they love me. I love black people. And Leslie Jones. Black people don't like you?
No, they love me.
I love black people.
But Leslie Jones had hopped off the stage,
kinda dry humped this white guy in the,
you know, he destroyed.
And I was back there and I was like,
oh shit, this is gonna be tough.
Right. Right?
And as soon as I went up there,
it just, they just didn't like,
as soon as I opened my mouth and I drowned,
I did two, three minutes, I got off stage,
I was supposed to do 20 minutes.
It was so, I burst into tears at backstage.
I mean, audiences can just be,
it's almost like the way a mob becomes something different
than the individual does something worse
because they don't feel, they feel no individual responsibility for it.
I mean, I've certainly seen it in the Catskills
with Jewish audiences.
You used to play the Catskills?
I played, well, we all did when we first came up.
Wow.
There was something called the Raleigh Showcase.
Wow.
I did it, Seinfeld did it, we all did it.
It was at one in the morning.
That was horrible.
But I did, I played New Year's Day,
I think New Year's Night, New Year's Night,
not New Year's Eve, at Grossingers,
which was the archetypal Catskills, in 1984.
I opened, I was 28, I opened for Roberta Flack,
who at the time was one of the biggest recording stars.
The first time ever I saw your face was a huge hit.
And what's the other one, Killing Me Softly,
isn't that Roberta Flack?
Those are classics.
So, okay, the show is,
the show is 20 minutes late.
The audience, 20 minutes, which is not a really long time,
but again, this is the Catskills,
Jewish audience, very demanding.
Mrs. Grossinger-Eddis, the matron of the hotel,
walks out and is booed unmercifully
because the show's 20 minutes late.
Yeah, yeah.
I go out, I'm the opening champ.
Wow. Okay, so I do okay.
I remember.
Are you nervous or no?
Yeah, I'm 28.
It's like I did three Carson's or whatever
and I was, you know, this is,
look, I'm working grossing years.
To me, this was like big.
This is not the clubs.
I'm not in the clubs anymore.
I'm, you know, doing, I'm opening for somebody,
but it's still, that's what I,
that was the next step on the ladder.
That was big.
I mean, Roberta Flack was huge.
I'm working with a huge star that's not working
with Peter Schmoll-Nagant at the comedy barrel.
Okay, so I do okay.
Roberta Flack walks out there,
and before she is finished with the first song,
half the audience gets up and leaves.
Wow.
They're just like, this is not for us,
this is not our kind of music.
Did she open with Killing Me Softly?
I don't remember.
Okay, good. Open with that.
I think it didn't matter.
This is 1984, we're talking about elderly Jews.
Right. We're talking about, and I'm not saying
that they were racist, but it just wasn't their thing.
But instead of being polite, and at least waiting,
you know, for the show to, I don't know, half,
not even the first song, just like, no.
I'm just saying audiences of all stripes, all ethnicities, they can all be just like, no, I'm just saying audiences of all stripes,
all ethnicities, they can all be just horrible.
Their view collectively is like, you're there for us
and if you're not doing the job, I'm sorry.
You know, we're paying you or whatever it is.
Whatever their rationalization is,
they're not there for yours.
Was she visibly upset?
I don't remember.
I guess she went on with her show, I'm sure.
She got paid.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't remember what happened after.
I think I was gone by then.
I don't know.
I do remember being brought into the prayer circle
with the Roberta Flack band and her before the show.
They was like, we're doing that, and I'm like, what?
Okay, all right, sure, okay, sure, whatever.
You know, I mean, bring atheist me into the prayer circle.
Sure, I'm down, whatever.
I mean, I acquitted myself that night,
but she, that was, yeah.
So I'm just saying, I don't know what I'm saying.
I'm saying if it doesn't feel right to keep doing stand-up,
I'd be the last one to tell you to keep doing it
because I'm also not doing it after this year.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna keep doing it.
I just have to figure it out
because I gotta take some risks here
because it's either that or I'm out.
You know what I mean?
Well, aren't there places you can go
where they don't, where it's specifically
for the experimental?
What's that place on-
Typewriter?
No. Largo?
Largo.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Isn't that something like that?
Yeah, I mean, that's a little too alternative for me.
Too alternative.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
You know, I don't know if you, I mean, I don't, did you guys have back, like, club comics
and alternative comics back in the day?
Well, I mean, alternative to me sounds like a fancy way
of saying not that funny, but I could be wrong.
No, there's so many funny alternatives.
I mean, there's something great there.
But how do you define alternative?
I mean, to me, it's such a pretentious term, like,
oh, I'm alternative.
Like, are they laughing or are they not?
Yeah, I think it's the approach of, like, in terms of, like, oh, I'm alternative. Like, are they laughing or are they not? Yeah, I think it's the approach of, like, in terms of, like,
you know, I rely on switches and getting a laugh
every 15 seconds and those kind of things.
Let me put it this way.
OK.
If you're getting laughs, it can't be that alternative.
Right.
Because the audience.
It's a label.
But like, show me an alternative joke versus a real one
or an old school one.
Yeah, I can't really.
Oh, right. I'm telling you, the audience isn't that him.
If you're making them laugh, it's not really alternative.
It's just working or it's not.
I don't... And there are many ways to do it.
I think it's... I think... I'm gonna say this.
Their jokes are smarter.
Yeah, I get that. And it's more Ivy League, I'm gonna say this, their jokes are smarter.
Yeah, I get that. And you know what I mean, and it's more Ivy League,
and it's more like, they're more of a club.
It's that club, and I'm more, you know.
Well, I sure don't think of Ivy League as smarter.
Okay.
I think of, these are the assholes,
and I went to an Ivy League college,
who are protesting for Hamas. Yeah.
They're morons.
They're ahistorical, American.
Yeah.
I mean, ahistorical, America-hating hysterics.
Yeah.
That's who they are.
They're not smart.
Yeah.
I mean, I've always been about, like, just meat and potatoes.
And I talk about sex.
I don't give a shit.
Exactly.
You're funny.
You're a funny comedian. Yeah,, I don't give a shit. Exactly, you're funny.
You're a funny comedian.
Don't apologize for it.
But you have to admit though,
that there is a section of comedy,
they're a little bit more arrogant,
they look down on you, and it's like.
Are they the most successful?
Some of them are very successful.
Like who, who's alternative?
I can't name one, because I want to start a war.
My whole career has been me starting wars.
I'm not starting any more wars.
And I'm not doing Largo.
I don't need to.
I get paid when I do it.
Yeah, I mean, what I've been doing is doing
Bobby Lee new joke night.
I'll do that.
I do the most, if you really want
to talk about what's alternative,
I do the most alternative comedy out there, by my definition, and I think some people
would agree with me, because I do a show
that, yes, has a lot of political stuff in it.
Certainly most of it is about stuff that are issues
and not just trivia.
I do a lot of personal stuff at the end,
stuff about sex that isn't political at all,
but a lot of it, and I play to a ideologically mixed audience.
In other words, it's not just a bunch of fucking liberals.
There are conservatives in the audience,
and I go after both sides.
I let them know for sure that I think the right
is much more dangerous,
but I don't hold my tongue for the left.
That's alternative.
I don't think a lot of people are doing that. Or could.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's well received by a lot of people
who like really feel the same way.
Like, we're just the normies in the middle.
We're tired of the assholes on both sides of the extremes.
That's, to me, the most alternative kind of comedy
you could do.
Now, that sounds self-aggrandizing,
but, you know, prove me wrong.
I'm glad you said that because there is, like, politically,
I mean, I have my views that I don't express,
and I think there's just such fear there, too,
that it's like I'm so afraid to say anything...
Yeah.
...because of just the trolls and...
It's not your thing. Don't. You're great at your thing.
I know. But I do have opinions.
Yeah, but I have opinions about things I don't't express. Oh you do. No, not really
Oh, okay, so you do you have stuff I do you lock in a fucking box
No, just the thing about the sex and that thing. Yeah, then you'll tell me later
Just the secret just between us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what is the greatest?
What movie should I start with? The Seven Samurai?
Mm.
No, really.
Would you ever see The Magnificent Seven?
Yes, of course.
Well, that was based on Seven Samurai.
That I know.
Right.
So I mean, let me start with that.
The original or The Magnificent Seven?
Magnificent Seven.
Really?
Yeah, you're not a Star Wars fan.
Hate it.
I know you don't.
I've heard you say it. Yeah. Why? Why not? I mean, you're not a Star Wars fan. Hate it. I know you don't. I've heard you say it.
Yeah.
Why?
Why not?
I mean, you know why?
Because I'm an alternative movie watcher.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just not my thing.
And you know.
Like, if you saw R2-D2 walk in here, you'd be offended?
Not offended.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There he is right there.
Would you talk to him?
There he is right there.
See?
Isn't that R2?
Oh, no.
That's a space meter.
No, I just, look, to the credit of George Lucas
and the people who work on that movie,
I always give props to success.
Obviously, it is successful beyond
almost anyone's ability to compete.
So good for you.
But in 1977 when that movie came out, what were you fucking doing? almost anyone's ability to compete. So good for you. And I...
But in 1977 when that movie came out,
what were you fucking doing?
You were like fuck Star Wars?
I would not, I still am not fuck Star Wars.
I'm just like, just leave me alone
and I'm not interested in it.
But you never saw it, the first one.
I tried.
You saw the first 15 minutes.
I'm getting more too aggressive again.
Like?
You saw the first 15 minutes.
Like, look, I love to try things.
Not dick sucking.
OK, good.
But I mean, you know, within reason.
Yeah, yeah.
I do.
I will try anything.
Any music, any, and I will absolutely
putting on my list now.
I've got to see Kurosawa.
And I want to see the original.
Yeah.
But I tried a couple of times.
I found it to be just wooden and obvious
and not sophisticated.
And it just wasn't for me.
I found nothing to recommend it.
And then in later years, like when they made sequels,
I sometimes would be in the kitchen
where I'd watch some of my TV while I'm making food. like when they made sequels. I sometimes would be in the kitchen
where I'd watch some of my TV while I'm making food,
and there was some Star Wars stuff.
Oh, I see it. Okay, let me try it.
Maybe I was wrong.
No, just same reaction, like, what is this?
You know, they're in the desert,
and there's like the billowy flowing clothes,
and they're just having this dialogue
that isn't not interesting.
I just...
It just did not...
Yeah.
You know, something...
So if I ask you, you know who Legolas is,
would you know who that is?
No, never heard of that.
You never heard of Legolas?
No, but to the credit of Star Wars,
and again, its success, I know that...
Oh, I wouldn't want that either.
R2-T2, I know that, oh, I wouldn't want that either. R2-T2, I know that.
What does R2-T2 look like?
I don't know, but...
What does he look like?
I don't know.
But I know his sexual harassment lawyer,
R2-Me2.
That's good, clip that, that's really funny.
Clip that.
No, but I know that there's the Star Wars bar,
and I know Jabba Wacky, no.
Jabba Wacky, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Something like that, something, Jabba the Hutt.
Jabba the Hutt, yeah, yeah.
Is fat, I know that.
I mean, when things get into my conscious,
by the way, I have a term for that, mind rape,
is when something gets in my mind that I didn't ask for,
that's mind rape.
I mean, they are so successful.
They have mind raped me about lots of,
I know who Princess Leia is,
or I know that she's the character,
and I know Han Solo.
Yes.
Good!
Very good.
It's working.
Wait.
Yeah, but I don't really, but I don't follow them Yeah. Very good. No, I mean.
It's working.
Wait, yeah, but I don't really,
but I don't follow them or care about them.
So you never saw any Lord of the Rings movie?
No.
It's also for you.
You like fantasy?
I do not.
Yeah.
I mean, what do you watch then?
Right.
Ken Burns documentaries all day?
I mean.
Like really, there's nothing between Ken Burns
and Lord of the Rings?
Yeah, yeah. No, there's just. What does Bill Barr watch? I'm curious. Oh, there's nothing between Ken Burns and Lord of the Rings? No, there's just.
What does Dilbar watch?
I'm curious.
Oh, a million things.
I mean, generally, first of all,
I have TVs in four different rooms.
So it really depends on what room I'm in.
Like in bed, I watch stuff that I really just watch.
I'm not doing anything else.
But I have TVs in my office, in the bathroom,
and in the kitchen. And in those places, I'm doing anything else. But I have TVs in my office, in the bathroom, and in the kitchen.
And in those places, I'm doing something else,
like I'm in the bathtub, I'm making food,
I'm in my office unpacking my briefcase.
It doesn't have to be like, in those rooms,
I usually watch-
So boring.
I watch movies that I hadn't seen in years.
I'm like, oh, I like this one.
I recently watched one I had seen years ago,
and I remember not liking it too much. It was called The Box. in years, I'm like, oh, I like this one. I recently watched one I had seen years ago
and I remember not liking it too much.
It was called The Box.
Just for example.
Okay, it was with Cameron Diaz and James Morrison,
I like them.
I think it's a horror movie.
It's certainly a horrible movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I would kill myself if I had to watch it
just sitting in bed, but it's just,
it's sort of like I was in the kitchen,
I was like, oh yeah, I remember this.
It's about this couple and they get a box
from an unknown person and it says,
if you push this button, you'll become rich,
but you'll kill this anonymous person somewhere else.
And I just thought, oh yeah, I remember that part of it.
It couldn't have been that bad after that.
It was.
I was right all those years ago.
It was just.
So if I called you, Bill, and I go,
hey Bill, what's up, it's me, Bob.
And I go, hey, let's go watch Long Legs.
Would you go do a movie theater and watch Long Legs?
What's Long Legs?
It's a horror movie that just came out with Nick Cage.
No, I don't watch horror movies.
Okay, any movie.
Is there any movie that I could call you and go,
what's up Bill, do You want to check out Avengers?
A million. Not Avengers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't watch movies for children.
Okay, I'm an adult.
But when's the last time, Bill?
I went to a movie.
A movie theater.
In the theater? I think the last movie I went to
was Bridge of Spies.
Oh.
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg directed.
An adult movie
about something, but also that was very entertaining.
That's good.
Can I plug a movie that I'm in?
Please.
You're here to absolutely.
Oh, I have two podcasts.
Yes, we know that very successful.
Tiger Belly, Bad Friends, check that out.
They're very, very successful.
And then I'm in a movie called Borderlands coming out
August 9th.
Borderlands?
Yes.
This is between North and South Korea?
No, no, no.
I play Kim Jong-un and Il.
It's a, there's flashbacks.
No, I, no, it's a, it's a, like a sci-
You're not gonna see it.
It's based on a video game called Borderlands.
And it's got, why are you leaning?
Why not?
Okay, good, it's your show.
It's a little aggressive, but it's your show.
Yeah.
Okay, anyway, it's got me, Kevin Hart, Jack Black,
Wow.
Cate Blanchett, Jimmy Lee Curtis.
That's a lot of funny people.
Cate Blanchett is a riot. Yeah. Cate Blanchett, that Lee Curtis. That's a lot of funny people. Cate Blanchett is a riot.
Yeah.
Cate Blanchett, that's an A-lister.
I love her.
It's a nice person.
A-lister.
Yeah, A-lister.
And we shot it during COVID.
And who else did you say after her?
What?
Cate Blanchett and who?
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Sweetheart.
And they're A-lister.
Yeah, A-lister.
And it's based on a video game and it comes out in a couple of weeks, I think.
Well, I mean...
I'm not gonna watch it, but I'm in it.
I have two scenes.
You know, once you say based on a video game,
you've got me hooked.
Oh, my God, Bill, seriously.
I mean, you don't play Warzone?
I've never played a video game.
I never even...
Dude, Bill Maher playing Warzone.
You'd be so good, I think.
Warzone. Why do I want to be in a Warzone? playing Warzone. You'd be so good, I think.
Warzone?
Yeah.
Why do I want to be in a Warzone?
It's great, so what you do.
Yeah.
Just hear me out.
I'm listening.
All right, so get an Xbox.
No.
Yes, I'll buy it for you.
Okay.
If I sent you up an Xbox, would you play Warzone?
No.
Please.
We'll play with yours one day.
That's not how it works.
Just, no, I don't.
You play from your house, and I will link up from my house,
and we'll talk on the thing.
Just hear me out.
Can you just hear me out?
I'm hearing.
Correct.
Just because I don't know.
So does it, you're a soldier.
You'll be a soldier.
You and I, we dropped into like, you know what I mean,
a country or a piece of land, and we fight
against other people.
It's happening in real time.
And we get the converse back and forth,
like, Bill, get on the hill.
Snipe, snipe.
You know?
It sounds awful.
It's so fun.
It sounds awful and unhealthy.
I mean, why do I want to be sniping people in my fantasies?
That's sick.
Yeah, OK, OK.
I don't want to be in a war zone.
OK, well, then let's play Stardew Valley.
What's that?
Can I pitch it to you?
Sure. All right. So we's play Stardew Valley. What's that? Can I pitch it to you?
Sure.
All right, so we're farmers.
We're farmers.
Okay, we're farmers.
Okay.
And I'm planting.
So, you know, there's four seasons where you have spring,
summer, fall, and winter.
And you can only plant certain things in certain areas,
but you can visit my farm.
We can also get married.
I know we don't have to suck each other's dicks,
but like, yeah, yeah.
You could, yeah.
I knew it was always gonna come back to that.
No, it's not gonna go back to that.
I'm just saying.
I knew it was always gonna come back to that.
Yeah, you don't have to do that.
There's no mechanism that you can do that.
I'm just saying that we can be married
and have kids in the game.
So we have a farmhouse.
Let me just finish.
I guess two men, we can have kids? Yeah, we can adopt them in the game. Oh, have a farmhouse. Let me just finish. I guess two men, we can have kids?
Yeah, we can adopt them in the game.
Oh, that's right.
Men can get pregnant now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For God's sake.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course.
So anyway, we start a farm, right?
And then, I mean, there's adventures as well.
We can go to the mines and mine for like copper and stuff like that to build stuff.
Yeah, I think I'd rather be a sniper than be a fucking farmer.
Oh, no, let's go back to war zone.
Yeah.
Okay, I live in reality, I like my reality,
and I'm gonna stay in reality.
You never heard of escapism?
Yeah, there is escapism.
How about this then, Bill, check it out.
I mean, we'll go to an escape room.
Would you do that with me?
And what happens there?
We're in a room, and there's puzzles we have to solve
to get out of the room.
It's a real place that we go.
I do crossword puzzles.
I know, but that's not the same, man.
Oh, I know.
Okay.
It's what I like.
Okay.
But you haven't, bro, you haven't even tried any of these things.
How do you know you're not gonna like it?
You made a decision before you even tried.
Yeah, you're right.
I mean, that's kind of true.
If I send an Xbox, will he get it?
Yeah, it's like, don't talk to the wall.
OK, sorry.
It's like asking me if I want to like chew something
and spit in a bucket.
Sometimes you just know you don't.
See, the difference between our generations I never liked empanadas.
Our generations is showing.
These are like things of your generation that you've
What are you talking about?
It is.
That's insane, I'm 52 years old.
I understand that's a different generation.
You're 16 years different.
You're into video games and that kind of stuff.
They're alien to me.
Another indication of our different generations is this.
When you get a little older, you're approaching it.
You'll understand that the most important attributes
in any other human beings, I think,
I think a lot of people my age come to this are,
well, comfort, you like your comfort,
but more than that, above all, acceptance.
You just have to accept people for what they are.
You can't nag them.
You can't just try to browbeat them
into being who they're not.
You can suggest things.
If they spark to it, great.
But the hard sell on you're not like me.
I didn't do that.
Well, I'm just saying. I literally didn't do that. I was just saying, maybe try this. It came off that way to me. Yeah, yeah. Like how, it's, it's, we're back to how can you not like pussy? Okay.
How can you not be in-
I love pussy, I love pussy.
How can you, no, I'm just saying that, that my analogy to the-
What I'm saying is that there was a time I never had an empanada, I refused to do it,
I don't like the name of it, right?
And then I tried it and I loved it.
That's my point.
I understand.
Okay?
And I'm like, I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not is that there was a time I never had an empanada, I refused to do it, I don't like the name of it, right?
And then I tried it and I loved it, that's my point.
I understand. Okay?
So all I'm asking you to do is maybe create a username,
log on, get a gamertag, and let's play one day,
maybe six hours of Warzone.
Yes.
It will stream it, it'll get millions of views. It'll be great.
Stream it? Yeah.
You know what we should do? What's the sport, the e-sports, where they watch other people
playing video games?
I've seen that. I've been there.
What is that called?
E-sports.
E-sports, right. so you're watching other people
Do something virtual. Yeah, right and you don't see why your generation is fucked up. We're not fucked now. That's so fucked up
When you're watching a soccer match, we're watching two people play soccer. They're actually teams. They're actually playing
They're actually playing a video you're watching people type basically,. No, that's not the same, no. I get it.
No, no, you don't get it.
I'm sorry. I don't wanna get it.
No, can I just?
How about this?
Okay. One-on-one basketball.
I'm 5'2", man.
I'm not gonna play basketball.
What, you think I'm Yao Ming?
Yeah, yeah.
I've never made a basket in my life.
I don't get how many try.
I don't know how to do that.
Ping pong.
But you could learn, see, you could get good.
There have been short, good short basketball.
But see, it's the same thing.
No, it's not, Bill, Bill, Bill, I'll tell you what.
And I wouldn't, and I wouldn't.
Bill, I've tried basketball, that's the thing.
You haven't tried warzone.
That's true.
You're right?
It's like, I'm willing to go, okay, this is a ball,
that's a basket, and I've tried.
Okay.
Under it.
Were you leaving now? Yes. Why Okay. Andre, were you leaving now?
Yes.
Why are you leaving now?
Because they told me you have to get to a set
at the Comedy Store.
Yeah, just give me three more minutes to convince you here.
Just give me, right, I'm just saying,
I want you to be willing to like,
you know, you're 68 years old, right?
All right, I agree.
Okay, and so I will pay for your Xbox.
I'll even pay for the internet, whatever it costs.
I'll do it.
Great.
That's the easiest way out.
What did we learn today?
We learned why I'm not married.
Because if I ever got nagged like that,
I'd be out so fast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember way back in the day, being in a couple of relationships where it was just like that, where they go at you until you just go,
yes, and then they keep going, yeah, I agree.
Done.
I, yeah, it still goes on.
So that's what I'm saying to you.
I cannot wait till we play.
On the comments or direct message,
make them play the game, I'll give them the console.
Anyway, let's move on.
Right, like I said, I'm not gonna be playing the game. I'm not gonna be playing the game. I'm not gonna be playing the game. I'm not to you. I cannot wait till we play.
On the comments or direct message,
make them play the game.
I'll give them the console.
Anyway, let's move on.
Right, like I'd ever see them.
No.
Okay.
All right, Bobby, you gotta get to the comedy store.
Improv.
The Improv, that was my club.
I do both, bud.