Hollywood Handbook - Blake Anderson, Our Close Friend

Episode Date: October 14, 2013

Sean and Hayes respond to all of the recent criticism they've received from the haters by opening up the "Celebrity Burn Journal." They'll let us know which TV shows are the funniest of the funny during the "Survival of The Funniest" and explain the VOD revolution in a segment called "OMG VOD." Then, BLAKE ANDERSON of Workofholics drops by to answer some questions about the writing process behind his show, tells us how he likes to relax, and shares why he never turns the funny off.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. I'm worthless so much, you drive the damn thing. And I threw the keys, they hit them in the chest. Here comes Hayes and Shawn. Did he do it? No. Hollywood Handbook. Hey, what up, what up? Welcome back to Hollywood Handbook. What up, y'all? What up, y'all?

Y'all feel me? Y'all feel me today? I'm Hayes Davenport. This is Shawn Clements. This is an insider's guide to kicking butt and dropping names in the red carpet line back hallways of this industry we call showbiz. This is our second episode. It's our second episode.

I know what you're thinking. Are they going to talk about it? Are they going to not talk about it? Yeah, we're going to talk about it. We took a little bit of a drubbing in media circles from our first episode, which honestly we expected a little bit of because- We did know. We did know that people are going to take their pot shots.

When you swim against a stream, you're going to get wet, is what people say. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we have always done things our own way. We've always carved our own path. And so that a lot of times will result in having to take some licks, having to get bruised up. First one through the wall always gets bloody. So we took all this criticism, and we do want to respond to it. We're not the writer-performers.

Normally, I don't like to feed the trolls. Certainly, I'm motivated by my haters, and they do inspire me. They drive me. I think it was drake um one of my favorite rappers who said um uh haters going on parade while i beat chugging lemonade uh i think that was drake yeah and so i think that's so glug glug sums up what we're doing we're sitting here while haters going on parade i'm quenching my thirst with delicious lemonade and the, and the haters are having their parade and we're just going to, we are going to let them go by, but we're going to say

to them while they walk by, yes, we heard what you said. Right. And it wasn't fair. People, if anyone lives under a rock, the people who misunderstood us felt like this podcast was some big frigging celebrity circle jerk where we bring on our famous buddies, we help them launch their project, and everybody gets... Everyone gets a piece. Everyone gets a piece, right? We share in the profits with them for whatever they want to plug,

and we don't say anything negative. Now, me, I'm a positive guy. I'm so used to living in that positive mental space where I tend to focus on what works in this town, which is the best town in the world to live and work in. Right. And they feel like we're not willing to ever get our hands dirty. We're not willing to rake any muck. Right. Now, that's not true.

willing to ever get our hands dirty we're not willing to rake any muck right that's not true before we open up yes the burn journal yes the first thing i think we'd like to say to respond is we don't have to be doing this not at all give us a reason to stop and we'll stop you don't think i walk away from this lightest push you know I mean? We do this as a favor. Babe. Okay. Let me tell you. There are a lot, a lot more lucrative things I could be doing with my time. And not to say I'm not making a buttload of cash making this podcast.

Because let's be honest. I earned that. But I could walk away tomorrow and be right now shooting a movie while writing my book while selling my Hayes new popsicle line that I came out with. Yep. Warm popsicles. Nobody's done it except me. Anyway, what we're saying is

give us a reason give us a reason to walk away and we're out we'd love to you want to keep coming at us you'll see just how fast we disappear and you don't know what you got till it's gone and Adam Derwitz said that

anyway let's give them what they want us to it's not like we don't have some people in this industry that we don't like and it's also not like we're scared to talk about them. Unfortunately, that's true. And I'm going to open up the Celebrity Burn Journal right now. Creak! Blow on it.

Okay, it landed on just a random page. Well, this feels like an easy one in a way. Because everybody thinks these guys movies is trash um but uh but they make money and that's why they're still working well that's why they've still been able to keep if you're making money hanging around it's all honey barnacles on the side of showbiz and uh you guys i guess have guessed who I'm talking about. It's the Coen brothers. Well, let's clarify that because Ethan is actually a very nice guy. I like Ethan, and I've had really long talks with him,

and he is a total sweetheart. And what it really made me realize is Joel is the one calling the shots. Joel controls everything. Ethan is terrified of Joel. Well, you can see if he hears Joel's voice over his shoulder, he shudders all of a sudden. Right. We were having a conversation at the premiere for Premium Rush where he was saying, Hey, maybe we should get breakfast sometime.

I was like, why are you whispering, man? You want to get breakfast sometime? He's like, shut up, shut up. And then Joel hears somebody talking about breakfast. I love breakfast. Let's all have breakfast. So all of a sudden, we're roped into a two and a half hour monologue over cold eggs.

Joel made us cold eggs. He insists they're better that way. And it's just one of his things. And he just kept going, they're better this way, right, Ethan? And Ethan would have to go, mmm, yum. But you know he didn't like them as much. And I don't want to say,

I don't want to accuse Joel of hitting Ethan, but he does. He does hit him. We've seen him do it. And here's what makes it such a great lesson, and I wish this wasn't true, but Ethan's such a pleaser. And unfortunately, to really make a mark in this town, sometimes you have to be a little bit of a B word. Right. And Hayes has had to do it. Sure. And I've had bit of a B word. And Hayes has had to do it.

Sure. And I've had to be a B word. And I hate doing it. I hate doing it. It makes me sick to my stomach. That's not why I got into this. When I have to pull out a PA and fire him in front of everyone and embarrass him and pull his pants down and give him a spanking, you know, verbally.

Yeah. In front of, you know, the whole cast and all of his friends. I hate it. It's not why I got into this business, but it is why I'm going to get out of it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's why I am. Which, say the word, AB Club. You know?

Yeah. One more comment. One more. That's all it's going to take. Try us. We should talk about TV a little bit. Some people were saying last week that we didn't talk about TV enough. Yeah.

Maybe it felt like it was too close, you know. It's so obvious to us. It's so close to us that we don't. Yeah. TV is an interesting animal in the way that people discuss it. I think that one thing that's been curious to me is a lot of people are asking, hey, which pilots should I watch? Yeah.

Which of all these new shows is the good one that I should watch? Sure. And it's so funny to me that when you're not inside, you don't just already know. Right. Well, maybe the ones that made it to television are the good ones. Yeah, if something gets on, this is what people don't understand. If something gets on TV, it's been vetted at all these different levels.

It was written by a talented writer. It goes through the studio. A bunch of executives there who are paid for their good judgment have to sign off on it. From there, it goes to the television network. That's another layer of talented people who can recognize a good show. So the shows are all good. They're good if they're on. But we could sort of talk about what are what some of the best

ones are okay um this is a segment we like to do sometimes called survival of the funniest uh which is of all the funny shows on tv uh which ones are are the funniest of the funny uh because tv it's just like let's sometimes say tv's just small movies you know what i mean yeah let's start with The Crazy Guys. The Crazy Guys. Starring Robert Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. I have a clip, actually, from the trailer. Oh, wonderful.

You ready to get serious? This is going to get serious. I could have been somebody. I got him on the road because he not look ass. Come on, bring it, Gumby. Boom! You got knocked out by a girl. Now, what did you think of this show, Sean?

Well, I laughed my whole butt off. And then I thought, let's think about it more and go further in because I also found a decent amount of heart. Yes. And so sometimes it's not just the funniness that gets it on because there might have been another funny show with Robert Williams that didn't get made,

but it didn't have as much heart. Now, in that clip, I believe he's boxing with a robot? Yep. So right there, it's both things. Yes. It escalates to that because for the first few minutes uh he's just

being the crazy guy like in the title like you he gives the people what they want uh he's making your life he's making you laugh your whole butt off uh but then there was that scene in the middle of the second act where he fucked that jar of pennies uh that really made you circle back and say like oh this is like a human being. Yeah, this is a guy who has challenges. There's that relatability. It's like how you and your friends interact, and you think of some of the conversations you've had with your dad in the past.

And as he was fucking that jar of pennies, I thought he sort of, right? I really knew this character better than when he's just like doing his funny stuff. Also, it's about an old guy who's trying to be, like he's trying to keep doing his job, but he's being pushed out. So younger people can take his place. Which happens. Which happens. It's very sad when that happens.

Even in this industry, sometimes they factor in your age and making a decision about whether you're right for a job. Which is sad because the truth is you should be able to keep doing your job for as long as you want forever. Once you've gotten a job, now that's your job. Yes. And so whether your performance has fallen off or whether you're less competent or whether the nature of the job has sort of left you behind, you should be allowed to keep doing it. And the young people should get a different job. Yeah, or make one up. It was sort of like that movie, Trouble with the Curb,

where Clint Eastwood was a baseball scout and he was going blind. And other people were saying, like, you shouldn't do that job anymore. You can't see. You can't be a baseball scout. But he proved. He already was a baseball scout. Yeah, he already was a baseball scout, and he proved that. Yeah, so that same sort of message, but again, TV is small movies.

This is a little shorter, bite-sized, easier to digest. And I loved it. And stick around for the penny jar fucking scene and all the rest of it. Let's talk about the Michael J. Forks show. Yes, please. I know you had a personal relationship to that that you wanted to get out there. Yeah, well, I mean, one thing is this show is at last... Brave.

Yes, it's very brave, and it's showing us Parkinson's, which is a real... It's an actual disease. It's an actual disease. Yep, look it up. And it's showing us Parkinson's for what it really is, which is pretty funny. Yeah, it's actually... It is funny. Pretty funny.

And I was saying, yes, I had a personal connection because in real life, my grandfather had Parkinson's and came to live with us for the last few years of his life. And I would always get home from school first and I would sort of look after him. And he was really deteriorating and sort of also had Alzheimer's. And he'd be drawing these schematics. He had been an engineer and he would be drawing these schematics with protractors and rulers for just nothing. I mean, you look at these things.

He would ask for graph paper. You look at these things. They don't make any sense. You can't build Jack's squad out of them. And I was like, this guy's a cut-up. And I thought, oh, good, a funny show about Parkinson's. This will be good and the criticism that I've seen levied against it is that perhaps every joke is something Michael J Fox has said

to put people at ease yeah that's gotten a polite chuckle sure and he thought that made it because a joke because he's getting laughs basically with everything he says. Well, because he's on a bumpy car ride. Yeah. And he goes like, yeah, it feels normal to me. Right. And I bet there's a point where somebody complained about airplane turbulence or something. Sure.

And he went like, yeah, I can't really tell the difference. And people went, oh. Right. difference and people oh right and uh he's getting a lot more laughs now than he ever did when he was like a mainstream actor that's right and so now he thinks oh maybe it's time to make the transition into comedy because i'm getting funnier and funnier uh as my condition worsens let's talk about the goldbergs um this was a show about the wrestler goldberg as a kid uh when when he was growing up in the 80s um yeah that was very funny it was also very real and uh familiar i thought it was well and you see the seeds of how goldberg will be born like you

you see where he's going to come from because there's one scene where he is going to school and he's having trouble with his backpack. And then he just body slams his backpack into the ground, does a pile driver and sort of flexes and you go like, oh, they're hinting that he will become Goldberg the wrestler. Yeah. I thought it was an interesting choice to end the episode where Goldberg kills everyone. It's interesting to see where they're going to go from there. Like, he gets really mad and he kills everyone.

Yeah, yes. I thought that was a neat sort of twist, and I wonder what's next. Stupid Fun Night. Stupid Fun Night, yes. Rebel Winslow. What was your reaction to that show? Well, I thought it was bold. I thought it was brave.

And I thought that casting Rebel was a no-brainer. But when they also decided to make her best friend a talking dinosaur, I thought, okay, now I'm listening. You've got my attention. Right. And he wound up having some of the best lines. Good. Same thing.

It's brave to see a dinosaur on TV. Well, because people want to. That's real life. Yeah, people want to act like they're never coming back. And you can do that all you want. You can turn a blind eye. Plug your ears and shut your eyes and say, la, la, la, you know, like...

But if you want to crack a book once in a while, you're going to see that history is cyclical. And so if they were here before, and I think you'll agree they were, they're coming back. Trophy Wife was too scary. Trophy Wife too scary for me. So those are the funniest shows. We're going to be right back. We're going to talk a little about something called the VOD revolution.

We will explain what that is in the next segment. And we also have a guest, Blake Anderson from Work of Holics, who's going to talk with us about his acting and what's next for him and the process that goes into his show. So we're going to be right back on Hollywood Handbook. Hollywood Handbook. Hollywood Handbook. So I just turned on him and I thought, Troy?

Aikman? Karaoke's supposed to be fun, buddy. It's all, everything is a, it's the Super Bowl with him. You know what I mean? Exactly, and that's what I said. Right. He was embarrassed.

What up, what up? What up, yo? Welcome back to Hollywood Handbook. This is a segment where we like to look at sort of what's next. It's not all about what's now on this show. Sometimes we like to look at big changes coming in the industry. The technology is always evolving. Things are changing. Yeah, the industry is evolving. You've got to be

ahead of it. We like to stay up in these things and read the blogs and stuff. We've been reading about something that we think is pretty interesting called Video On Demand. It's VOD for short. This is a segment we like to do called OMG It's VOD where we. So this is a segment that we like to do called OMG, It's VOD, where we sort of will explain

to you kind of what it is. We'll explain what it is, how it works. And I think traditionally everyone thinks of, oh, if I'm going to see a movie, that means I buy a ticket. I go to the theater. I, you know, I sit down in the seat. Watch teasers i watch i watch the teasers you know and then hopefully i stay and i watch the movie but they're starting to have a technology in place

where you can watch the movie in your house yeah through your tv yeah you have a tv and you're used to just watching tv on it tvs for tv movie theaters for movies but imagine picking up your remote hitting the movie button imagine and we're not talking about getting thousands of dollars worth of projection equipment like hayes and i have in our homes to watch movies yes when we're screening our latest. Previously, when you've watched movies in a home, it's been like you've had to go over to your rich neighbor's house and had him rub it in your face as he spools the film onto the projector and you hear the clicking and clacking of the sort of film moving. And this is none of that. This is literally through your television.

Yes. And it's also not, this is what I thought at first, it's not a bunch of TV shows put together. It's like a whole movie. It's an entire movie. It's not three or four TV shows strung together. And I'd like to say, why are we talking about this? It's not happening yet. Well, no, not today and not tomorrow.

But in 15, 20 years, I think you're going to find that a lot of homes are going to be using VOD once or twice a year. And it'll change movies too. Movies now are for the big movie houses but like in the future they're gonna have to be designed to be watched in somebody's house uh so they'll have to change they can't put a big transformer or whatever on they can't put a robot that size on a little screen like that on that tv yeah's going to have to be more shows about small guys. Yeah, it's going to be more shows about gnomes. Bugs. Yeah, and there will be more bug movies, which was a hot thing for a little while

and I think died out because they didn't play on movie screens. You kind of couldn't see them. But now I think we're going to see more of those. Now let's talk about some of the movies. We actually have gotten advanced copies of some of these VOD projects and we've gotten these special smart TVs that are in beta testing. And this is some of the stuff that we've been enjoying on there that you can look forward to when you get your VOD in the future. There's a movie that I really enjoyed last night

called Good Neighbors, Neighbors spelled with B-O-U-R-S because it was made in Canada and it's a horror movie starring Jay Baruchel and here's a little clip that I pulled from it last night. Here's a little clip that I pulled from it last night. I'm so sorry. It's pitch black outside.

You're coming home by yourself and I just leap out. I saw him walking outside that night. Very scary movie from the king of screams, Jay Baruchel. That sounds too scary to me. But what I do like about it is to see him really stretch. And even in that clip, you can hear, I was like, is that really Jay? Yeah. Because I'm used to seeing him be sort of... Nebishy.

Yes, nebishy and apologetic. Kind of like a shrinking violet, milk toast type. Yeah, and in this, he's kind of a badass. Yeah. So I can't recommend it because too scary, but, you know, if you're a crazy person and you like that kind of stuff, when is Hollywood going to learn we don't want to be scared?

That's so crazy to me. They just keep losing money giving these pervert, freak directors cash to make these movies. Yeah. They're designed not to entertain, but to scare. What are some of the other movies on the VOD system? The movie that jumped out to me as, ooh, I got to check this out, and I'm going to actually sing the title of this because I think it's a very clever title. And I think it's Born in the USB.

Oh. Born in the USB, starring Chow Yun-fat and Nancy Kerrigan as two unlikely lovers who get shrunk down and stuck inside a computer. So they get shoved in through the USB port into a computer and they have to get along. They're bickering at the beginning and navigate because he's kind of a prissy you know chow yun fat sort of a prissy aristocratic uh rich um spoiled brat and then uh nancy carrigan's playing kind of a hippie kind of like a wild hippie he's like hey man just go with the flow man and he's like i can't go with the flow the gd microchip is stuck in the logic board just almost took my noggin off and it's so it's fun and funny uh and it also is sort of um you get

very invested in their romance and you wind up really rooting for them to get out of the computer and wanting them to be together and they they ultimately don't, spoiler alert, if you haven't seen it and are going to watch it, they don't get out of the computer, but they do have a baby. And then you realize that's where the title actually comes from because that baby is born in the USB? The B is for baby. Well, it's a USB port.

Like a United States baby. I guess it's both. I saw something I thought was a really nice movie. It's called Three Pointers. David Alan Greer, he's the star point guard of the San Diego Sandmen basketball team. And he's a stud on the court, but he's sort of a dud in the dating game. Until he is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission. And he starts to feel sort of torn between following his orders and protecting this new world that he sort of

is starting to feel like is his home uh and i don't want to give too much of it away but um danica patrick plays the big alien and um to see somebody like david allen greer uh who I have actually heard from somebody who made it did not know that he was in this movie go through this experience of going to this new land and like seeing it all for the first time and really genuinely thinking

it's real you know it got me honestly I cried a lot oh yeah you were busting up a little bit. Yeah, I did. I did bust up in a sad way. In a sad way, yeah.

So that's OMG, it's VOD. That's OMG, it's VOD. Look forward to that in the future. Yeah. We're going to be right back. We have a great guest. Blake Henderson from Workaholics is here. He's going to be taking your questions.

He's going to talk about how he likes to relax, sort of get out of the hustle and bustle of Hollywood. It's a really nice conversation, I think. I'm really happy with it. And I actually found myself taking more away from it than I thought I would. So that's coming up very soon on Hollywood Handbook. Hollywood Handbook. wood uh so that's coming up very soon on hollywood handbook you know bobby uh mcferrin he did a he did a good job on this yeah i mean the guy's got a gift for sound and we didn't even ask him. We asked him not to do it.

What up, what up? What up, what up? Welcome back to Hollywood Handbook. We're here with our guest, Blake Henderson. How are ya? From Workaholics. Of course, hey. And other titles.

We don't gotta go into the whole list. The list goes on and on and on, doesn't it, boys? And this is an exciting guest for us to have because, Sean, you have a relationship with Blake. Yeah, I got a personal connection to this one. I mean, I have a personal connection to basically everybody in this friggin' town. It goes beyond friendship. Looks like a big city, feels like a small town. Doesn't it?

When you're in here. Small town. Doesn't it? Yes. My goodness. People talk. People talk. But Blake, I actually probably see more than most.

I see him more than my friggin' family. More than your own mom. Yeah, right? More than my mommy. Yeah, he's my guy over here. My guy. But we work for Workaholics. We sure do.

That's kind of my DJ right now, my day job. And it's more than that. Oh, it's like a family almost. It does feel like a family, and everyone has their sort of family role. Yeah, that's something I've always wondered about. Speaking as an outsider to the writer's room, I come in to do ADR and stuff, but from a writing perspective,

I always wonder, because each writer's room has their roles separated out. So for you guys, what does each writer do on the show? Well, Sean and myself, we kind of are the room daddies, we call it. Yeah, we're fathers of the room for sure. You know, it's just a commanding role. I think people look towards us for the answers almost. Not always fun, I'm sure. Well, you know, being a dad comes with its perks and its setbacks.

You know, you've got to be able comes with its perks and its setbacks. You know, you've got to be able to take the belt off and spank your babies every once in a while. Yeah. That's a fact, yeah. I mean, you know, you get first choice on the lunch menu because you're the daddy, but at the same time when back's against the wall and production needs the script yesterday. Who do you think has to take their belt off and spank their babies? That's right.

That's right. And, you know, the other thing that can be tough is as much as you get in a little bit over your head, you don't ever want to be able to, you can't cry. Right. You know, whereas, you know, other writers in the room are are shedding tears you kind of got to be the strong guy yeah i think we've seen every other writer in the room cry uh maybe once a week yeah at least wow uh and that's just the detention of making uh hit tv show it ain't easy what What about story stuff?

I'm sorry. Fanboy. Yeah, literally. Yeah, no, go ahead. I get this all the time. Go ahead. It is a story-driven show, I think, and stuff like when

like Durs gets stuck in the tub and stuff like that. Yeah, sure. Like who comes up with that stuff? You know, the good ones, probably Sean and myself. The bad ones, that's more of the other guys. Not to name names,

but Adam and Durs. They come up with some pretty dumb stuff. And Dom Dierkus is on the show too, right? He is, right? Yeah, he technically does still work there and he has an interesting role that he's carved out for himself. Primarily, he, I guess, knows Donald Glover.

Right. Yes, actually. That's kind of why we've been, I mean, he's been on the show for how long? I think we've kept him around about two or three seasons. I don't know. We tried to cut him loose, one of them, but I guess he comes with Sean. They're like a package. But yeah, he has an in with Donald Glover.

The rapper. The rapper, yeah. Child Gambino. He's something else. But yeah, we're just kind of trying to, you know. He says he can get Donald on the show. Right. And he said, oh, I'll talk to him.

We'll do a guest star. can get Donald on the show. Right. And he said, oh, I'll talk to him. We'll do a guest star. And normally, I think twice now, you guys have walked into a room to fire Dom. Yes. And he will go, oh, Donald just left.

Right. Hang on. I'm going to go get him. I didn't realize you guys were coming in. And it sort of buys him another week. Yeah. And he has these voice recordings and things of Donald, like saying he's on his way and all that, and they sound real. Yeah, they sound potentially like they've been spliced together from just a series of community episodes

where he's just gotten the rights and assembled them. Yeah. But, yeah, it's enough to keep him going. And the kid brings bagels. He does. Somebody's got to bring the bagels. How are you going to do the show? Without bagels?

I don't know. I wouldn't suggest it. But in terms of roles, and I actually have a question. When you were interviewing writers for the show show how many joke beasts did you meet versus how many story hounds well see that's the thing is is we kind of got the show because we're just adam durrs and myself we're we're a pack of joke beasts it's like you know you see us i'll vouch for that yeah you see us coming uh a'll vouch for that. Yeah. You see us coming a mile away. We're just a, we're a rabid little pack.

And if anything, we can just, those are jokes firing back and forth. And I think Comedy Central saw that and they said, whoa, how do we string these together into a story? We need a story hound, of course. And that's where we kind of set out and, you know, we were given our showrunner, Kevin Etten. And he's, yeah, he's more of a story hound. And then, you know, of course, we got our daddy, Sean, and then Dom came with him. And, you know, the rest is his story.

Not her story. We don't make show for chicks. Sorry. But. It's Mimby's job. We do really understand them. Yes, that's for Mimby. Mimby makes the chick show.

She sure does. And then you flip back over. Mm-hmm. And you can watch Workaholics. And if you're a guy. You can get some giggles. As long as you're watching Ders, right? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. He's on both shows he is he yeah oh he used to be wow um i always sort of wonder about you know you got a

show on tv it's a lot of work you have to work on it every day sucks i know when you get that chance to uh to have some time off how do you how do you do you like to get some time off, do you like to get out of the city? Do you like to... I do. I do. We all have our destination spots. I'm a huge fan of a small island right off the coast of Long Beach, Catalina. And boy, is it a getaway.

You know, during my time, I spent some time at CSULB. I didn't graduate, but I did take walks from the campus. And I would just kind of look out on the horizon, and there it was, Catalina. And I said, someday I'm going to make it in this city, and I'm going to escape this hustle and bustle, and I'm going to get out there. And boy, if I haven't been there once, and wow. Wow. It is just extreme relaxation.

And you were saying you love the food there. The food is great. The fish, the chips, wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. They have, are you, you know Blue Bunny ice cream? Yeah, I've heard of it. I haven't been able to. My goodness, it is something else.

Yeah. It is delicious. But I'm telling you, it is quite an island, and it is not far away from Long Beach. A lot of us, we say it's just a cum shot away, isn't it? Oh, yeah, that's a fun expression. And it paints a picture for you of how close it is. Yeah, not only is it close, but you know you're going to have a good time out there. Oh, yeah.

And the boat ride's fun, too. Yeah, quite the Bloody Mary. Oh, you're doing the boat again? Because I know you were doing the chopper for a little while. Yeah, you know, the chopper got to be a little, I felt pretentious. And, you know, I like to be down with the people. And I like the boat ride. I like to take a little time to get over there.

Because the boat ride is part of the unwinding experience. You know, when you're out on the waves, you go on the back of the bow, you look out there and you're like, wow, this I think is part of our ocean. You know? And it lets you prep because I think it's a culture shock to take the helicopter.

A little bit. Where the second you step off, you go, okay, people are too relaxed around here. I'm not used to this. Right. I'm jumping right out of the the fucking zoo that is long beach and hopping right into you know a jimmy buffett song and it can be a it can be a culture shock for sure what do you do about my issue sometimes i like to go up to wine country when

i get that time off but i find sometimes like i've just gotten there and i'm picking that first grape getting ready to settle into my vacation. And just as it's about to hit my lips, I hear that bzzz, bzzz. Uh-oh. Bzzz, bzzz. Uh-oh. You know that sound. Okay.

You know what that is. It sounds like your agent. That's a call saying, emergency, direct the Hobbit, stuff like that. Oh, Jesus. And it feels like as soon as i'm there i'm on my on my way back what do you do about what do you do with your phone i guess uh the phone stays home okay wow the laptop doesn't okay and that's where we have technology now where I can direct, command my soldiers from a Skype situation. Yeah.

People are doing that more and more these days. I've heard about that. Yeah. I heard that, who's the gentleman, Wes Anderson, directed that whole little Fox movie from a laptop. And I'm like, well, I think I could do that with Workaholics. And you just train your workers to respect the screen. You know?

Oh, okay. And just you have carved out times. Once a day you're going to go and hit it. And I do the same thing. You guys know when I have a chance to get away, I go to Altadena. Of course. It's gorgeous. Yeah.

Where just I can just shut it all off and just pretend that I'm not being relied upon. Right. You know, that hundreds of people's jobs isn't dependent upon me showing up and delivering every GD day. Ain't that fun to pretend. Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice little fantasy.

Nowhere near the truth, but. Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice little fantasy. Nowhere near the truth, but. Yeah. Let's, should we reach back into the popcorn gallery? We'd love to reach into the popcorn gallery. Oh, that sounds like fun. I'm actually a big fan of this. Okay. Yeah, this is our segment where we take questions from our listeners and we ask our guests.

And, you know, that's part of the reasons I love your guys' show is you are so open to reaching out to the fans and listening to them. It's very fresh. It's very new. It's cool. We're the fans, buddy. All right? Save it.

Let us do that. Absolutely. So let's reach into the popcorn bag. Thank you. Okay. Another question. This is actually the same question from last week We didn't get a lot of questions from the popcorn gallery This week and that's okay

Because we had such a good one last week That I think we might just use it from now on And so This question comes again from Bird Rules And he wants to know Blake, how do you get into The funny zone? Wow.

That's a great question. You know, I don't know if this is, every comedian is not this way. But I know for me, I never leave it. Okay? The whole thing is I don't want to ever not be on my toes. Okay? I'm always ready to be joking. I always was that.

For my family growing up, I was the guy you look towards for a little relief. You know? That's interesting to hear because I sometimes find, like, if I stay too long in the funny zone, things start getting a little hairy. You know what I mean? Hey, speaking of hair. Blake has unusual hair. Yeah.

Yeah. Google image that. You're going to get a kick out of it if you're unaware of what I look like. But, yeah, so would you say that you suffer at all for being in the funny zone too long, or do you need to, are you sort of throwing yourself up against the walls of the funny zone sometimes, trying to go, I need a break, you know, because... Tapping a tin cup on the bars. Somebody at home, maybe they get to turn workaholics off after a half an hour. But for you, it keeps playing in your head all day.

It does, and it does get tiresome. I find that I can't enjoy serious movies or books or anything like that. If I'm not giggling, it's tough to be that guy all the time. You know, it's just, it's tough to be that guy all the time. Right. You know, and that's kind of why when I go to Catalina, you know, to bring it back to there, the people aren't, hey, let me hear a joke. They respect you out there. You know, everybody's there for the same reason. To drive around in golf carts.

To drive around in golf carts. I said courts. Hey, well, you were thinking of the tennis courts. I wasn't. But just to drive around in golf carts, absorb the air, and just, you know, let's turn our funny buttons off. Does it affect your relationships at all sometimes being the funny zone that much uh you don't have to talk about this if you don't want to by the way we no i'm an i'm an open book and i'm willing to talk about anything but yeah uh initially i was

losing a lot of relationships to the fact of you know it came down to this a lot of nights me saying i'm joking i'm joking it's a joke it's a joke you idiot and then them crying crying crying crying and it's like i'm joking at all times never take what i say seriously unless i say like you know there's obvious things if i'm telling you i love you it's probably not a bit okay unless it would be funny for you to love this particular person. If it's funny, then yes. I don't actually love you. It's a joke, love.

Then he's being funny. And it's so easy to see the difference if you just have a brain in your head and then here's the second step. You've got to use it. Right. But if I'm there and you're dating me and I start making fun of your sloppy titties, it's a joke. It's to make us both laugh at each other.

Yeah, why don't you enjoy that? Yeah, your food tastes like shit. I'm joking. Sure, there's truth in all comedy. Oh, there's got to be a kernel of truth. Why would you be saying it tastes like shit if it were really good? Right. That's what's funny about it. But something about it made me think, well, this tastes like shit if it were really good right that's what's funny about it but

something about it made me think well this tastes like shit but i'm just joking right and she knows it's not good food right and why'd you start dating me if you weren't ready to fucking laugh your ass off 24 7 baby And to get your world rocked by my world-famous Hard-On. And that's what I tell them. I say, that's usually my introduction line. Pardon the Hard-On.

Come and get it. Right? You fellas know. I have heard you say that. Yeah. Yeah. And usually if you hear it, you're getting it. I don heard you say that. Yeah. Yeah. And usually if you hear it, you're getting it. I don't take no for an answer.

That's a great lesson for our listeners that you shouldn't be willing to take no for an answer. No. Now, I had another... How do you think I got what I got? I didn't take no for an answer. Well, yeah. If the frigging door was locked, you went in through the window. Thank you. And that's

just that. And I had another question about what sort of inspires you, because I know a lot of, I know you've talked a lot about, in the room, sorry to bring this up, but sort of

latter-day Tim Allen projects being your ideal. Yes, yes. I think just following his career path is one of the wisest choices you can make. I mean, look at the guy. He started as a stand-up comedian, right? So, you know, you've got your core fans. You're always going to have that. And then, you know, he took the role of what he was a bad boy.

And then you throw him in the role of a dad. Okay, I'm already watching, you know. I'm already interested. How's this guy going to be a dad? Turns out, he's pretty good at it. Yeah. Isn't he? And you start to love this guy.

Next thing he gets, Santa Claus? What? Come on. You've gone from a bad boy to a dad to Santa. Well, okay. Now I'm really interested. How is the most lovable character in all of American society going to be basically this bad boy? And you're laughing all the way, you know?

And you're laughing all the way. All the way to the bank, too. My goodness, the man is probably rich as all get out. And I've never met him, but I bet he'd like me. I can hear the scoop troop drooling over some hot scoops. Oh, yeah. We always like to have our guests plug the projects that are maybe not the mainstream projects. We all know Workaholics is going to come back.

That's going to be in January, whatever. It's Workaholics, by the way. Okay. And what I think we really want to know is what else you got on your plate there? Boy, well, some things in development. I've been going out a lot to comedy shows. I'm not getting on stage, but I've had my eyes open. And I'm watching these shows.

There's a lot of college-themed ones. There's African-American nights. shows there's a lot of college themed ones there's African American nights but what I'm seeing is lacking in what I think I bring to table the table is that

X Games factor okay and I'm like you know maybe and I have the goofy hair okay for a reason what about and hear me out Nardogs of Comedy Tour? Okay, I think I've heard you talking to your manager about this before. The original Nardogs of Comedy Tour.

Yes, yes, yes, you've heard right. I can see it working, but I think it would depend, obviously, on who you get. Of course, of course, and I've reached out to a few people. I mean, I definitely want to get Sean White in there. The X-Gamer. He can do comedy if he wants. He can also just kind of tell

stories of his experiences on the road. I tell him, as long as you have a story, you've got a routine. It doesn't have to be knock-knock jokes up there. I'm sure your life is funny. Just talk about it. And he doesn't have to write knock knock jokes up there just i'm sure your life is funny just talk about it right and he doesn't have to write his stuff because if you sort of put him on a snowboard on wheels and you have him roll out and like be puffing a little reefer and then have somebody safely and not like the real stuff like you know no but actually not actually doing

a candy cigarette but have him going like this this is reefer. Right. And then somebody comes in, like, snatches his gold medal off or whatever. He goes, hey, whoops, wait a minute. It's like, that is enough. Sure. Yeah. Even just that would be enough. Yeah, that's pretty gnar. Also, I've been, you know, I've reached out a couple of the jackass dudes, of course,

Natural Fit, Party Boy, Chris Pontius, I believe is how you pronounce his last name. I'm not sure how to spell it, but that's, I'm pretty sure how you say it. Very funny. I'd love to get him.

I can talk to, I know, like Preston Lacey. Oh, yeah, yeah. I can talk to him. He's the heavyweight gentleman? Yes, yes. Yeah, he's very funny.

Very, very funny. I love to watch him run and wear underwear and stuff. That's always a good time. And, yeah, no, I've been talking to all sorts. Nick Schwartzen, I would love to have him on there. The college kids just eat him up, don't they? Pretty gnar.

Yeah, he's a gnar dude. He's a gnar dude. I've spent time with him, and he's quite the gnar guy. Does he ever go into Bucky Larson around you? He doesn't. And I ask him't and i ask him and i ask him and i beg for it but he does not well uh that's how you that's that's how you keep them paying for it yeah is the good stuff you gotta pay to see yeah definitely you've got to get yeah i mean nobody wants to just be doing anything for free in this town anymore i remember when it

wasn't like that but but it is now. Yeah, and I think it's good. I think it's good for the... It is better. Good for the industry. Yeah, it makes more sense. Put some value on it. Sure. Otherwise, everything's just fucking bullshit. Oh, absolutely. Internet bullshit. Free internet bullshit.

I'm done with it. Give me the paychecks. I worked hard for this. I was making YouTube videos for upwards of two years. And I'm cashing it. Give me the paychecks. I worked hard for this. I was making YouTube videos for upwards of two years, and I'm cashing out. And people got to put in that kind of work. Kids out there who've only been making YouTube videos for a month or two, be patient. It might take two years.

Yeah, all of a sudden everybody thinks they're Fred Friggle Rock or whatever. It must have been tough. You're watching all your other YouTube friends just get scooped up one by one while you're still working away on these things. You're thinking, is it ever going to happen? Sure. Which brings us back to Dom and Donald. And we're like, excuse me, hello.

There's mail order comedy over here. We appreciate what Derek's doing. But come on, we've got the wizards. Fuck. What do we need? What else can we do? And ultimately, you didn't have to do anything else. We didn't.

Luckily, you know, just got lucky, you know? Didn't really do anything to get what we got. I always like to say, luck is just a four-letter word. Yeah, sure is, amongst other things. It's a cliche for a reason. Sure is. Well, Blake, thanks so much for coming. We know you're busy, and we really appreciate you coming out.

You're running off to do an appearance right after this. Yeah, Amoeba Music. I like doing a little DJ set I think Or something Probably you know Figure it out when you get there right I mean that's kind of my thing That's how I came into this Seat of your pants

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