Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Erik Griffin

Episode Date: April 1, 2022

Santino sits down with the mocha monster Erik Griffin to chat about THE SLAP, navigating the Netflix standup comedy landscape, our failed TV shows and if you stay to the end you can see our Only Fans COME SEE ME ON TOUR!!! https://www.andrewsantino.com ORDER SOME MERCH!!! https://www.andrewsantinostore.com Join our Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/whiskeygingerpodcast SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! SUNDAY Get that custom lawn care that is safe for kids and pets https://getsunday.com/whiskey20 PIA VPN Don't let big brother bully you around Stay private online https://privateinternetaccess.com/whiskeyginger 83% OFF AND 4 MONTHS FREE!!!! RHOBACK Get the most comfy clothes that you can wear on and off the course https://rhoback.com USE CODE GINGER for 20% OFF EVERYTHING!!! BETTER HELP Get professional counseling done securely online 10% off your first month https://betterhelp.com/whiskey Follow Santino on Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino Whiskey Ginger Insta and Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast/ & https://twitter.com/whiskeyginger_ Whiskey Ginger Clips: http://www.youtube.com/c/WhiskeyGingerPodcastClips Produced and edited by Joe Faria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What up, Whiskey Ginger fans? Welcome back to the show. If it's your first time joining the show, welcome to the show. Like and subscribe it on the YouTubes. Leave a comment below for the Al Go Rhythm. We got a good one for you today, like my man Steve Harvey say. It's Eric Griffin, my boy, the Griff. I love him so much. I'm so happy that he's back. I'm on tour, by the way. I'm running around the country.

Go to andrewsantino.com for those tickets. andrewsantino.com for the tickets. andrewsantino.com for the tickets. We had to cancel Hawaii. We have a scheduling conflict, unfortunately, but I'm still going to Austin and Dallas. Austin's with Bobby Lee and the Bad Friends crew. Dallas, then I go to Vancouver. I do Lake Tahoe.

I'm doing Niagara Falls and Montclair, New Jersey. Jersey, come on out. Go to andrewsantino.com. andrewsantino.com. Enough rambling from me. Let's go to the episode. In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You're that creature in the ginger beard.

Sturdy and ginger. Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse. Gingers are beautiful. You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse. Gingers are hell no. This whiskey is excellent. Ginger. I like gingers.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger. My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth. I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today. It's the return of the sexy, the busy shirt-havin'. What? Shoes I can't recognize. Don't hate. Are these pre-dirty shoes? Eric Griffin, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, Shoes I can't recognize. Don't hate.

Are these pre-dirty shoes? Eric Griffin, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, these are pre- You know how people buy these? You know, Bobby buys Golden Goose shoes, and they're pre- You know, they're like pre-worn shoes or whatever. You don't even know what these shoes are. But Rachel's like, that'll look good with that shirt. So I put it on.

You just take directions from Rachel now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't pick up your own shit? No, I let her buy stuff. She bought this shirt. All right. You don't like shit? No, I let her buy stuff. She bought this shirt. All right. You don't like it? No, I like it, bro.

Relax. What kind of shirt is it? What does it say at the bottom? I don't know, man. It says at the bottom right there. Oh, oh, because we go to, I go to the, she gets my stuff at the big man store.

The other, on the right, on the right-hand side. I saw it on the front of it down there. Right where you're, look, look, look down on the right. Oh, oh, oh, oh. What does that say? This is Island Zone.

Ooh. You know, it's like a Tommy Bahama, oh, oh, oh. What does that say? This is Island Zone. Ooh. You know, it's like a Tommy Bahama, but like. Mm-hmm. For bigger dudes? For his cheap cousin. Tommy Bahama? Johnny Bahama? Johnny Bahama, yeah.

But it would be Bahama. The Canal Street version, Johnny Bahama? Johnny Cancun or something. We're catching you before you go to the clip show, huh? You're going to the Clipper game tonight? Yeah, I'm going to the Clipper game. So who are they playing? I think they're playing Utah.

It's this dude, man. This guy Chris, man. What's his last name? Wait, let me get his last name because you might know who this is. He's a ball player? No, Chris Marquise. You know who that is? White dude?

It sounds familiar for some reason. The guy hits me up all the time, man. And he's like, come? He hits me up all the time. Hey, last year's like, come? He hits me up all the time. Hey, last year, during football season, dude, I got tickets to the Rams. Come to the game. I'm like, ah, you know, because I know him,

but I don't know him. And he's like, come to the, he's always got these, like, great seats, right? So then he hits me up like, yo, man, I got a great group going to the NFL, going to the NFC Championship game. And I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, game. And I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, come.

And I was like, all right, get there, VIP ticket. Okay. I get in, escalator down, escalator down, escalator down, escalator down. You're on the floor. Dude, we on the end zone, homie. Who is this dude? That's what I'm saying. Well, wait a minute, but he's going with you tonight?

Because you have season tickets to the Clippers game, don't you? No, I don't go. I stopped. You stopped having them. Yeah, yeah. Because you know what? I didn't care anymore. And it was like the pandemic hit.

And I was like, I don't even really watch the NBA as much as I used to. So that's just a waste of money. You know? Especially where we were sitting. Say how it was. I want to know how much it was. What, the Clippers tickets? How much were the tickets?

Oh, like the last time I got them, I got a couple with Tony Rock, and they were $15,000 each. So $15,000 for the whole season? For the rest of the season when we got them. Oh, okay. And that's when – see, that doesn't sound terrible, right? Now they're ridiculous. Now they're like they think they're the Lakers type of thing.

See, but why would you – if you hold on to them, can't you just sell them? No, you can't sell Clipper tickets. Why? Because you can't get the face value. You could buy the whole season, you could sell packages, but people don't buy the Clipper tickets. Let's say they're playing this game, Utah.

Nobody cares. What do you mean? Utah's great. Yeah, but the ticket's $500. Right? No one's paying $500. Thank you. Yeah. You lose the money every time, dude. Yeah, so you ticket's $500, right? No one's paying $500. Thank you. Yeah. You lose the money every time, dude. Yeah, so you'll get $300. So I had him with Adam, him and I going, and then he's doing shows and movies.

He never shows up. And then there was one season where I missed like 30 games, and then I'm just giving the tickets away. Yeah. It's just a good gift you're giving your friends. But this dude, man, I'm sitting in the end zone at the NFC Championship game. The end zone. And then all the man, I'm sitting in the end zone at the NFC Championship game. The end zone.

And then all the players' families were sitting right above us. So they kept coming over. This one dude comes over. He's just literally like, he's standing right here. I'm like, good luck today, man. He's like, thanks, bro. And then I was like, can we take a picture? He was like, yeah. And it was just like, so I'm looking at this dude and I'm like, oh, I get it. And then it's like, okay, Tommy Lee

was there. Jeremy. So what does this guy do? I don't know what they and I'm like, oh, I get it. And then it's like, okay, Tommy Lee was there. Jeremy. So what does this guy do? I don't know what they do, man. They're just rich white guys. Yeah, but rich white guys, like what, is it blood money? Are we thinking it's like. No, no, they own like, one guy owns like 17 restaurants. The other guy like owns like, this other guy owned like, he makes instruments for all the stars.

It was those type of guys, man. I know. I hate these white dudes. Can I tell you something though? The cool kind though. Yeah, I know. I know. I get it. They're self-made. Self-made is legit. This is how white they are. So

in one of the other... How white are they? Let me tell you how white they are. Ty Dolla Sign was there. I love Ty Dolla Sign. The white guy, Chris comes over and he goes, yo dude, Tyler Dolla Sign's here. Shut the fuck up. Tyler Dolla Sign! I was clowning him for the rest of the game. You know we made a joke on season one of dave about that oh really yeah i i said i said his name was uh uh ty

ty dillerson that's what it was ty dillerson and even he retweeted it i think but they wrote a joke in there that that dave i think someone had said that to dave and i said it like i on the show like in a clip got pushed around a bunch but it was me going i met this guy todd dillerson last night at the party and he's like ty dolla sign i'm like okay i thought that was it was a great joke when i read it i was like that's such a funny joke yeah and i was like this had to have been from a real life experience. And he was like, yeah, 100%. And that's with this guy. Todd Dillerson. That's what it was.

Yeah. Todd Dillerson. So now the guy's cool. I think him and his buddies opened a comedy club. I think they just opened a comedy club in downtown. LA? Yeah. They're like big comedy fans.

Yeah. But you remember how many times they tried to open clubs downtown? I know. What was his name? Not Lovitz. Garrett Morris had a club downtown? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. Remember downtown? I know. What was his name? Not Lovitz. Garrett Morris had a club downtown? Oh, yeah, yeah. Remember that? Yeah, but this was pre... That was pre

gentrification. Yeah, you needed some whites in there to make it safe. Homeless people were like a block away. A block. They were outside. Homeless guy was taking tickets. Just chewing his own teeth, taking tickets. Oh, my God. Yo, let me get... So, I called you. Well, you called me, I called you back,

I need to get your assessment just because it's still fresh on the slap, the slap heard around the world. Okay, first of all, I didn't watch the Oscars live. Neither did I. Okay, so today is the first time that I actually listened

to this joke. Did you watch it? Did you watch the unedited? You know, they got the Japanese version or whatever? Dude, Chris Rock is making fun of Will Smith in a very polite, like it's very vanilla way. Yeah. He casually, I realize now, just on the fly, looks at Jada, who's bald, and says,

I can't wait to see you in G.I. Jane 2. Yeah. Andrew. It's a throwaway joke G.I. Jane 2. Yeah. Andrew. It's a throwaway joke. Andrew, that's it. Yeah. These motherfuckers are acting like, they're acting like,

Chris Rock was like, ain't yo ball bitch wife. Dude, I am more outraged today than I was before. Because you never even saw it. You just heard about it. Because I didn't realize how vanilla,

he did a dad joke. Well, here's what's funny. A lot of people are saying it's a bad joke, which is also true. It is a bad joke. It's a corny dad joke. But like... How do you even get mad at a bad joke? It's a bad joke. You know what? Usually you get mad if a joke is so

good because it's so hurtful and real. Right. Like Ricky G and real. Right. Like Ricky Gervais. Right. He would go for the throat, which I also love. Me too. That's what I love. When Ricky would go for the throat, it was great.

But you could tell that sometimes people were like, come on, man. That's a little. I get when people get upset about when they're too sensitive to it because it's too close to home. But this was so innocuous, it could have been about anybody. Dude, he said it, and then the crowd went, oh. And he went like this, come on. That's an easy one. He did it like a dad.

He was like, come on, y'all. It really was a bad easy dad, yeah. It was just a bad, and so the fact. But Will laughed, which was the creepiest thing. No, it's not creepy. That's creepy to me. No. Because he went like this, he went, oh.

And then you see him kind of look over at her, and she's rolling her eyes. That's when the moment. And then like the dragon. No, but they dealing with something. Chris Rock just was in the way 100 i know it wasn't that was it wasn't about the joke he was like you know he did something or well you know there's all those rumors that she was you know fucking one of jayden's friends or some bullshit like all their business is in the street well that's but here but let me tell you this whenever somebody goes that's what you get for being famous i disagree with any of those statements no one famous deserves to get anything.

That's a silly idea. That's like saying coal miners deserve to die. Some of them deserve to die. It's like, no, that's a byproduct of the job, but that's not what you sign up for. When somebody goes, you signed up for it, you're like, I didn't sign up to get fucking peeled to shreds. I signed up to give you entertainment,

and you can either like it or not like it. But the problem with them is they've lived their whole life in the media which is tough so you're like this comes along with a little bit of the territory volunteering this information though that's my point they've they've done this they've given them whole they've given their whole self to the game so like if you don't want to be seen or there's parts of my life i still want to keep some privacy and they go for that stuff, you're like, come on, man. I need something to myself. If you live in the media and you live in the eye, it's tough for people to not tease you about it.

Well, listen, I talked about this today live on Riffin' with Griffin, so check that out. Riffin' with Griffin. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Anyway, I talked about it live because I just like doing it live. I just get passionate about it, whatever. And one of the things I talked about today is the fact that, like, look, I acknowledge that these people, they just want to get their award. Yeah.

So there's a part, like, I use the analogy of, like, let's say we graduate, you know, and I'm the valedictorian. And I look out on my speech and I'm like, check's say we graduate, you know, and I'm the valedictorian and I look out on my speech and I'm like, check out Santino. You know, he failed like three classes. You know, his dad, y'all know how his dad paid to get it. You know, it's like, can I just get my diploma, bitch? I know.

You know what I mean? Can I just get my diploma? That would make graduation more fun. If you got to shit on somebody. What I'm saying is I get the idea that like, the idea that Bradley Cooper's crying because he's like, oh, poor Will. It's like, fuck off, dude. I totally get why these guys are like, hey, I kind of don't want to get roasted.

All right? Sure. Okay, I get that. No, no, but sure. Fine. So I acknowledge that that's fair. But then that's up to the Academy to figure out this is what they should do. They write down the roast jokes.

They hand them to the people. You like this? What you like, you don't like because we'll take it out. Then they go, I don't really want you to talk about my kids. Done. Fine. Okay, that one's out. And then we just move on from there.

Then we do it like that or just don't have that. To me, comedy died with that slap. At the Oscars. At the Oscars. Yeah. Yeah, but you know what? Fine. It died.

They want to make that show. They want to make it prestigious and all that. You want me to do it? Do it good? It's because you went to a B-flat. Go fuck yourself. I went to mouth trumpet school for three years. Worth every dime.

In memoriam for his comedy. Yeah, it'll be Chris Rock comedy in the in memoriam. Look, it was, you know. The other thing was, I did see people online that were like, you know, she's been very vocal about alopecia, and then people are struggling with this disease or whatever they've used terms like. Dude, zero people are dying from alopecia.

You just lose a little bit of hair. Check it out. Check it out. I don't care. Yeah, my hair is orange, and it's thinning. So do I get? Who do you get to slap? Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Who do you get to slap if somebody's like, oh, look at this ginger? It's like a lot of people are suffering with ginger yeah gingeritis is a serious disease again to me that's not the issue stop talking about alopecia can we be 100 yeah chris rock made a dumb dad joke in the moment not thinking about nothing else other than here's a glamorous black woman dressed to the nines with her rich ass husband and they're both successful and he just making fun that's all it was yeah fucking stop talking about alopecia fuck off by the way the alopecia foundation is

like yes they're getting so much attention right well actually you know sandler retweeted chris rock's tour he was like love you, Sandler retweeted Chris Rock's tour. He was like, love you, buddy. And he retweeted the tickets for it. And the tour... Oh, it's already sold out. Yeah, I saw this thing that was like, it sold out in like seconds. People were so excited to go see it now. The only person, because now they want to see him clown. He should name the shit Jada.

You know what I'm saying? Dude, you know he's because he's got to do time. So when he, there was a moment, there was a moment that only comedians saw. Well, not only comedians, but comics specifically. And I know this,

I've said this to a few guys. When he goes, all right, dude. And after he says, keep my wife's name out of your mouth the second time, Chris goes,

all right, what he just did was, and I watched it, I've done it as a comic. Your brain was about to go, I could light you up way more than what I just did. I watched him physically go, I don't know what he was going to say, but he did that thing where he goes, The dude's a pro.

Dude, kudos to Chris Rock. The dude's a pro because, hey, hey, he a better man than me. 100%, because that wouldn't have been the case. He a better man than me, bro. Me and this dude would have tussled. Okay? Will Smith is a giant. He's a big man in shape.

He would have killed me. Doesn't matter. But we would have tussled. We would have gone down swimming. Bradley Cooper would have had to be like, Eric! Which you would have loved. You're like, cut it out, Coop.

Get off of me, Bradley. Get off me, Coop get off of me Bradley get off me Coop in the shell I'm telling you Lady Gaga would have had to come out and shit you know what I mean we would have been

singing a duet fuck him you know what I'm saying listen dude I'm telling you I know exactly what you're talking about Chris Rock was just like

it was a G.I.J. okay because he got in mind he was like we could talk about your kid. He's like, don't let me unstrap all this bullshit. Because the biggest

weapon that a comic has always is going to be their words. That's the funniest thing. You know Chris mentally was like, do you know how many other fucking jokes I didn't say? Now I could just unload on you. You hit me in live television. Let's go in on you Yeah, so the tour is gonna be fucking oh my

Today man, I would have called the cops. Oh really? Oh dude. Yeah, I'm not a fighter See I would settle it now. I would sell via the internet now. I'm gonna fucking light you up now I'm gonna make videos and sketches about it. Fuck him. I would have called the police There he is The one next to the bald lady. Get him. While the deaf dude is getting his award for CODA. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Excuse me. And he's still going. He doesn't see anything that's going on. Excuse me. I would have been like, there he is right there. He don't get to get an award. Are they going to take it back? No, I don't want them to take it back,

but he needs to be banned for life like Pete Rose. See, I don't think they should take it back either, but yeah, there should be some bullshit like that. No, no, no, listen, you can't. Andrew, it was the fucking Oscars. Yeah. And America's sweetheart, a dude that's transcended race and all of this stuff to be one of the most popular, famous, beloved men in the world, slap the dude on live television. His ass needs to be gone. Yeah, gone, yeah.

The Academy should be like, I'm sorry, but you can never be nominated again, and you can never come to the Oscars again ever. Damn. That's what I would do. Yeah, but I mean, look. Hope you enjoy your award, but you're done. Because you have to, here's the thing. It's a deterrent.

Well, they do this to athletes all the time. They set a precedent, right? They'll fuck someone over so bad, and you're like, man, that seems aggressive. But they do that first so that nobody else even thinks about doing it again. Listen, all the people that talk about Pete Rose and all this, Pete Rose should never, ever go into the Hall of Fame until he's dead. When he's dead, then you can go. You put him in.

I'll tell you why. He should never enjoy it. And the reason is because then active players can be like, well, if I do something wrong, eventually they'll let me in. Right. No, no, it's a deterrent. The point is you did something so egregious to the integrity of our sport, you got to go forever.

Right. Will Smith, bye. Bye. He got to go. He got to go, man. He's got to go. He's just got to go. You got your award.

You had your moment that's been tarnished forever. Yeah. The Williams family, I feel bad for them. Well, that was a bummer for them. And I feel bad for Jada Smith, too, because, like, first of all, all these people who are like, you know, like, it's women, too. Like, I want a man to protect me like that. Oh, so you want a man to embarrass himself on his biggest moment in his life.

Yeah. You want a man to go to jail for you. So you want a man to look like a fucking idiot on national television for you. Who's that for? Huh? Who's that for? All these women out here like, I need a man like that. No, you don't. You need a man that knows how to control his fucking temper. Right. Protect you

when you need to be protected. When someone's physically assaulting you or trying to physically threaten you, that's not the same thing. He easily could have stepped to Chris afterwards at the Variety Fair party. 100%. Homie, come here for a second. Can we talk? Yeah.

See, I feel like you've got an issue with my family. Can we talk about this? That's how you do it. Yeah. Even if backstage you would have been like, yo, man, if they would have been like, Will Smith got into a shouting match with Chris Rock backstage, we would have been like, oh, maybe he took offense to that. You probably would have taken Will's side.

You know what? If he went backstage and you heard Will Smith got in his face And was like Don't ever talk about My fucking family ever again You'd have probably gone Damn I keep saying

This ain't about No protecting my wife No no it's not This is about Some bullshit they got going on Time and place Right It's about

Have some decorum man Yeah Have some class motherfucker Have some class Like this I'm so enraged by this. You know why? Because they left this motherfucker out on his own. Chris Rock is standing up there slapped, and he's up here 57, 5'11", 140 pounds tops.

Yeah. With a rotator cuff injury that he's just recovering from, and he's being slapped on national TV in front of, like like one million people because nobody watches the fucking Oscars. And then, you know what I mean? And then like, and he, and nobody comes out. Where the fuck was Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes and these people? To go give some. Where they at? Where they at?

Coming out and be like, damn, one of our people got slapped. Imagine if Will Smith, he wouldn't have slapped Amy Schumer. No, he wouldn't have. He ain't crazy. Right. But what if he would have, in the middle of her doing that same joke or anything about them, went,

keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth. If he would have done that. Oh, oh, today he be done. Yeah, they would have cooked him. He would have been done. They would have cooked him on site. What's that smell? Is that Will?

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I like gingers. It would have been fucking over. That is a very good point if you said it to one of them. My whole brain went to the truck, you know, the production truck with the director and the switcher, and the producers are all sitting there. You know all these dudes were like, oh, my fucking, what the fuck?

I mean, you had frozen in time. The first thought was they're looking on the script. I didn't see that in the script. Did they send over a punch him script? Yeah. Some PA's like, like fuck did i miss an email yeah they're losing their minds when they the moment that they had to stop is because like if will smith hadn't accursed yeah that they would have really had a it really would have been weird

you're right because the feed wouldn't have stopped if he didn't say fuck like if he slapped him and then he went and sat down it would have been a moment where we would have like well everyone would have done what we did which was in, in my mind, legitimately, I thought it was a bit because I thought the slap was fake. It really looked oddly fake. I was like, that was not real. That's because he made a choice. I'm not going to punch this guy. Yeah, slap is so weird.

I'm going to slap him. And he also, like, it was a sucker move. Like, I wish Will Smith would have got up and said you if he would have been he should have let him know i'm coming for you prepare yourself bitch you know i'm saying he should yeah he should have been like knock up knock up prepare yourself because i'm coming you're talking about my wife i'm coming for you because then it would have been different but this motherfucker walked up like he was gonna do a bit like he's done it many times it looked like a bit yeah and then he he just sucker punched Chris Rock.

Let's give more props to Chris, by the way, taking the hit. It was such a mediocre shot, he didn't even move. I was like, that was great. He couldn't even believe it. He was just like, what? I love how he just stayed Chris Rock. He was like, Will Smith just slapped the shit out of me. Because you know what's great about

him that's such a comic like in his brain he was already writing yeah like it clicked like the comedian in him kicked in like this oh shit this is great will smith just slapped me i got a new tour i got a new you know it's like all the things that he must have been going through but i'm sure he was like afterwards after the adrenaline wore off and the shock, I'm sure he was furious. I'm sure he was just like, wow. Well, embarrassed too. I'm sure that's the one thing.

You've got to be so embarrassed, man. It's a bummer. I'm so mad because I just saw that motherfucker. I just saw him at the store. I was sitting next to him. I was talking to him about this book. We both – anyway, it pisses me off. Yeah.

Because it's like – and how about this, man? One of our Hall of Fame, arguably Mount Rushmore comic. Yeah, yeah. Chris Rock is definitely on Mount Rushmore. Is up here no respect? Yeah. Like no respect? It was real sad.

You know what I mean? Like reversive. Chris Rock would have walked up to Will Smith in the middle and slapped him. Right. Like, what would we, like, what? Can you, like, just thinking about that, doesn't that sound crazy? Yeah. Like, Will Smith is up there, and he says some shit about Chris Rock.

Chris Rock goes, oh, okay, and walks up. And fucking slaps Will Smith. Like, it would just be, it's just, the whole thing is bananas. It's bananas. It's bullshit. It's really bananas. Let me say this. You would defend your lady.

No. I'm kidding. Not like that. No. Like, if somebody was like, you know how many times I get all this bullshit about Rachel online? Messages people send me all the time. Does she eat?

You know what I mean? She's so skinny. Oh, is that your daughter? Or clowning me. I get so much shit. Hey, look at me. I don't give a fuck. I don't know you bitches.

You can't hurt me. I don't know you. And the point that really bugs me about this, the people that bring up the alopecia shit, like, what are comics supposed to do now we go to shows? Are we supposed to pass out a questionnaire?

Survey, yeah. Tell me all the things that we're not supposed to talk about that you're secretly, that's going on in your life so we can figure out what kind of show we're going to do. Well, let me tell you what happened to me at the store. It don't work like that. Just so we get off of the Will Smith shit, because I know. But let me tell you what happened to me at the store

that you're going to think is so funny. Is this table of women were enjoying my show and loving it. I was looking at them. And the moment I did a joke that they didn't like, in the middle of the set, people at the store were laughing. This woman gets up and is like,

I'm leaving. And I was like, I'm sorry. I didn't hear her the first time. Yeah. And her in a group, she goes, I'm leaving. And I was like, I'm sorry. I didn't hear her the first time. Yeah. And her in a group, she goes, I'm leaving. And I was like, bye? And then people started booing her. Because you know the store is like.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not getting away with that. The crowd is going to. But I'm saying they're there for this. Right. The crowd's going to fuck you up. Like, I don't have to do anything anymore. When somebody says some dumb shit at the store,

you just like turn to the crowd, give them the eyes, and everyone's like, shut the fuck up. Like up like you're fucked if you go there thinking it's gonna be about you it's you're fucked and she gets up and she starts walking out and uh and she i can tell i i can tell what she was clipped by it was not even that big of a deal but then i said gotta be a white lady gotta be a white lady and then one of the girls goes she's black one of us is black so the crowd's laughing and then she goes yeah i'm black and i'm out and they all left and everyone's like kind of cracking up and i'm staying quiet and i did say i gotta tell you even as bummed as i was this whole interaction to happen at the end of my set the woman that goes i'm black and i'm out even i was like yeah fuck this white

dude like i was like yeah tell him tell him because just they got up in such a huff and they made such a deal about nothing. But nowadays, look, people are going to get offended at stuff and I think it's because they're listening for offensive shit. Yeah, yeah, for sure. More than they ever were. But nowadays,

if that is your action, just get up and leave instead of, you don't need to fucking make a show. That's what's the most selfish about it when someone's like, I'm leaving. It's like, what?

Here's the thing that gets me. It's not about you. Here's the thing that gets me in that situation they're mad at the wrong people yeah so they're mad at you right yeah who they should be mad at is the other 300 people laughing 399 yeah like that's the thing that pisses me off like if somebody got up and went why are you laughing at this what are you guys enjoying yourselves for right there's nothing in there's nothing in people to be like to me it should just be like get up and quietly leave because this isn't your crowd but i'm down for that if you don't like it you can easily quietly and you know what even go to the even go to the the server go we we want to tab out early

we're not and we're not we don't want to be in the show anymore. I'm fine with that. But don't act like you're right and this room of people is wrong. What am I, a hypnotist? Well, that's what's funny. What am I, Jim Crow over here? What am I, David Koresh up in here? I'm like with my comedy and everybody's like.

Everyone's just zoned in. Zombies? No. One of us. One of us. People have different levels of, you know, what the humor they can deal with. But here's the thing. You know me.

You're similar in this regard. We say things that are like a little slight. I'm on the line. But you and I have never, I never purposefully do, you know, say fucked up shit just to get a rise. No, I don't say to get a rise,

but I say it to accentuate my point. Yeah, but you never go, the difference is, I know when a shock comic or something, they go out of their way to say the thing that they know people are going to go,

oh, you don't do that. Yours is like I do. It's a joke on purpose to go, ah, just to make them feel it. I know, but if I'm just being 100 about it as I think about it, there still is an element of it that it's like, not that it's, I don't want to say it's supposed to be shocking, but I do go for it. Well, it's supposed to make them think. Look, I have a clip up right now on Instagram from my first special.

And the thing is, when the guy put the clips together and I saw it, I was like, man, I said, I don't know if I want to put this up because it just looks like a fat joke. Because the setup in my special is I'm talking about, I have a whole thing about if you're fat, sometimes it makes the accomplishments that you try to do more difficult. You know what I mean? So it's like if you're, like Kobe Bryant couldn't be fat because he was an athlete. But it would make other things difficult too. Like could Helen Keller be fat? You know what I mean?

That's how, that's how. And I have a Could Helen Keller be fat? You know what I mean? So I do pick someone like that. My one I love the most is like, what if Anne Frank was fat? They would have found her. Creaking upstairs. That's my whole joke. I'm up there going and the family's

like, Anne, would you shut the fuck up? upstairs that's my whole joke i'm up there going you know and i'm like the family's like man would you shut the fuck up you know anyway i use something like that so it is a little bit in the realm of shocking but it's just it's just like i don't know i just i like that visual that it creates yeah i don't think it's shock i think it's shock. I think that's a clever pick. You just know someone's going to go, oh my God, Anne Frank. Right, they take the reference to the thing. You know what I like?

You know what it is? A shock comic tries to shock you. I want you to laugh at something that is shocking. Yes, that you would never laugh at before. There's nothing better than when I can make someone laugh at something that you would have. Is shocking? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. That you would never laugh at before. There's nothing better than when I can make someone laugh at Fat and Frank. Like, I live for that. To look out at somebody who is like, I can tell, and they're just kind of like. Yeah, they can't believe it.

They can't believe I'm laughing at this. I love that. That's why I do it. I'm being honest with myself. I had one that I used to tell that I don't really I'm laughing at this. I love that. That's why I do it, if I'm being honest with myself. I had one that I used to tell that I don't really tell about 9-11 that I said. Because every time you say 9-11, people are like, I don't know. Yeah. But this is just more of a question of reality.

I said there were tens of thousands of people in those buildings. There's so many people in those buildings. Everyone coming from different backgrounds and social structures and socioeconomic classes. And I mean, seriously, from top to bottom, races and genders. I said, all these people live different lives uniquely. They're not all the same. So you can't tell me out of all those people, there wasn't one dude whose wife was leaving him, whose kids don't like him, whose house is upside down. His bills are fucking just piling up. You can't tell me there wasn't one dude that didn't see the plane out the

window and wasn't like, yes. I give them the visual of like, imagine, imagine there's this. So it's like removes them from the growth, the grossness of nine-11 into some dude's personal shit whole life there's still people who are just like you know what it is like this okay

this is equivalent to like the alopecia it would be like if somebody it'd be like if pete davidson was in the crowd you know and pete's like my dad died in 9-11 like a lot of dads died in 9-11 but you know i mean it'd be like But like so So now Oh So now Am I in the wrong? Yeah

You know what I mean Am I in the wrong? The irony is Joking about 9-11 Is because you take something horrible And try to make it light Joking about What Chris Rock did

Was taking something innocuous And And And it getting twisted Into being about something else Yes But it wasn't about alopecia Exactly

It was about some other bullshit. Like, I was listening to the radio, and some girl was like, it was a vile joke. Like, bitch, look up the word vile. Yeah. Yeah, no. You need to learn what the word. If you think that's vile, what he did, this dad joke, you saw. Yeah, that's insane.

Anyways. But you're right. It's all over. That shit's all done. Yeah. And by the way're right. It's all over. That shit's all done. And by the way, fine. It's just award shows are... We just need to... What are we doing?

You know what I was saying today, too. It should be done from your house, by the way. You should be Zoomed in. No, no. You won. They're like, hey. You know what I said? This is the thing I feel about the Oscars.

The reason why the Oscars are just kind of like, nobody cares anymore, is because we used to watch the Oscars to see famous people that we never got to see them. I can follow Will Smith's life right here. I know more about Will Smith on my phone than watching him in a suit with his wife. He was also on TikTok doing videos before it.

So you're like, I already saw it. I already saw what I wanted to see before the Oscars. So now it's like it became about the show stuff. It became about the comic that was on there. Right. It became about, because you're not an enigma anymore. You're just like, oh, you're the dude that has 45 million followers. And we know everything about you.

This is interesting. This is interesting. To me, the freaking Oscars is like a graduation ceremony at Harvard. It's super prestigious. Elon Musk might be the fucking keynote speaker. The valedictorian. But the shit don't need to be on TV. Yeah, it's just for inside baseball anyway. This is for them.

But here, this is interesting. You said to me something on the phone that i thought you said and this is a good transition from that of like you said what do you like i was we were talking about where i would want to do my next special because the people i want to do whatever and then you said well what do you really want then like what are you looking for which is interesting because i had said well i just want to continue to grow my fan base organically so they want to come see us live and you grow over time with them and and then you said but we're doing that and i said i know but for some reason our brains still think the machine is what we need yeah but that makes me think what you were saying on the phone when i hung up with you i thought about how galifianakis is one of

those dudes where when he got famous he kind of more. Like, it's almost like he's like, okay, I got famous. I can access my fans when I need them. So, like, he's not on Twitter or Instagram every day. So there was something about that that I'm like, what do I want from the social growth line? But there's an age group of people that we're familiar with that they luckily got famous before. They got grandfathered into the fame.

But I'm saying, what does that do for our generation now? Do you think we, now do we have to be on TikTok before you go to the fucking Oscars? If you want to. Or can we change that? Well, I don't know. But what I'm saying is, what I'm saying is,

recognize that fame comes in different ways now. And it doesn't need to be the old guard. It doesn't need, like, we don't need these gatekeepers to access fan base anymore. You know, you just, you don't need them for that. You know, it's like your fan base can still, you know, the 300,000 people that watch Bad Friends, you ask those people to share your stuff. Right.

If 300,000 people that watch your guys' podcast. It's like eight, but yeah. Whatever it is. Well, give me a real number, Griff. It is. I'm looking at your... No, I'm saying on Bad Friends, if I look at one of your YouTube episodes. Yeah, it's like half a million to 600,000. Whatever. Okay. Well, show me my love. Give me respect.

Oh my God. Good grief. I just saw one and it only had 300,000. Okay, so 600,000. Because it came out yesterday. So if you have 600,000 people watching the podcast, and you told those 600,000 people in the beginning of the podcast, hey, can you share this to 10 of your friends? How much is that now? You know what I mean?

I'm bad with math. 60 million? Yeah, it's 6 million people now. 60? Six. Six. Just six. And you get my point? Yeah.

So, like, if you want to grow your fan base, grow it within your fan base. Yeah. But it is also hard to do because the attention span, which is something I read this great article about. Somebody, who posted it? Maybe Nikki Glazer? About people's attention spans

don't exist anymore. So, and that's not to discredit what's happening inside. Not like when I was young, my attention span that's not true. We were all, we all have bad attention spans, particularly now that we have just more access. But that's why the Oscars or things like that don't really matter as much because you're like, yeah, I don't know if I I'll see the clips tomorrow. It's kind of how people feel

about sports. A lot of people are like, I watch the highlights on ESPN. I have YouTube TV. That's why Red Zone exists. You're like, give me, give me, give me, give give me give me give me give me dude i i have youtube tv and so i'll record like a game and then when you go look at the game it has highlights of the game and it's like 28 plays i'm like this is all i need yeah that me too i feel the same way you know it's like i felt like i saw the game you did because they cut all the fat off. Yeah. So I just feel like with this situation with you trying to do a special, it's so easy just to be like, here's three 20-minute sections

or however you want to do it. Yeah. There's so many different ways to reach like, to reach people like that. But the machine feels like it still is the standard in our mind. It's a habit. I know, but name me somebody. Like, there's, you could, on one hand, you could tell me people that have blown up from Netflix special.

Well, Ali, for sure. Okay, keep going. Nate Bargatze. Okay, two. A hundred percent. Sells out fucking huge theaters now. Yeah, right, that's two. Well, keep going. Nate Bargatze. Okay, two. 100% sells out fucking huge theaters now. Yeah, right, that's two. Well, I mean...

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No, no, see, see. You're saying the more recent guys or like, or because I can tell you that. I'm talking about the recent guys. Well, I would say Joe Coy I don't think Joe Coy Blew up from Netflix I think that helped a lot I think Joe Coy He knows his audience

What about Segura And what about Burt You think the special or the podcast I think those things in conjunction I think they were parallel as fuck. Nope. It wasn't his special for Burt. Nope.

Well, it was... Okay. But for Segura, Segura has specials that were popping. His podcast went up. Rogan went... It was a title win. Again, so then it wasn't Netflix. Netflix was another notch.

But it wasn't Netflix. Well. Because you're saying I need to put my special on Netflix so I can blow up like. Not blow up. You only mentioned two people. I don't want to blow up. I just want their reach. No, I just want the reach of a digital.

That reach is blowing up. Yeah, well. Ali Wong, Nate Bargassi. I'm still waiting for you to name me some more people. I said Joe Coy. And you said note of. I poo-pooed that one on Joe some more people. I said Joe Coy. And you said note of... I poo-pooed that one on Joe Coy because I feel like Joe Coy... All right, so Allie and you don't include...

No, I don't include Tom or Bert because Bert blew up because of Facebook clips. Just like Russell Peters. Right. I don't know. And the older generation was already there. Like Burr was already making his moves, but it did help grow Burr significantly. I know, but he was already significantly grown. From? From... He was already there. Burr was already making his moves, but it did help grow Burr significantly. I know, but he was already significantly grown. From?

From, he was already He blew up from, again he's another one that went viral because of that Philly thing. I know. What I'm trying to tell you is, you keep searching for the Netflix thing, like Netflix is going to do the thing. Or where to put it out. You can't tell me, other than two

people, who it's done it for. Well, maybe I want to be an Asian girl like Ali Wong. Maybe that's it. Make me Chinese. All I'm saying is you may not get the thing that you wanted. Yeah. There's plenty of specials of people. You know Dwayne Perkins?

He got a special on Netflix. I don't think it's blowing him up or making him sell out arenas. No, no. No. I mean, there's a bunch of people who got Netflix specials. Theo's first special. Theo's got two on there, right? I know, but his first special, it didn't do the thing for him.

Yeah. I think Rogan did more for Theo than his first special. Oh, I agree. You know? So all I'm saying is, like, what's the example where you could be like, you go into your agents and managers and you're going, hey, I want to blow up like boom. Yeah.

It's just one guy that you can really point to because you can't blow up like Allie. Well, why not? Because of what she, you know what I'm saying? I'm kidding. I'm playing. Taylor Thomason. There's another one. Is she blown up?

A hundred percent, bro. She's selling out everywhere. Okay. Well, then, okay. Well, then, I'm saying this. So two girls and a guy. Yeah. You're right.

And you still haven't got five yet. I know. So. All right. Well, still haven't got five yet. I know. So... All right, well, then I'll put it out. The Whiskey Ginger listeners will watch it on YouTube. I'll put it on YouTube. Yeah, put it on YouTube. You know, have...

Sell it on your site like Louie does. That's, I think, the smart... If you had an audience that big... That's just for looking... That's just if you're looking for money. No, but I also think it's because he doesn't want to be... I think he just wants the... I just think he wants his own little platform.

I don't think he wants to associate with the thing anymore. Even before that, he was doing that. I know, but that's what I'm saying. He's like, I don't need to be a part of a machine. I have enough of an audience. I can sell it on my own. That's my point. I think that's...

I know, but that's an example of all you need is 500 to... A million. A million fans. Yeah, sure. No, no. Yeah, sure. No, no. Yeah, sure, nothing. If a million fans were responsible for you getting a dollar a month from them, dude. I know.

I mean, that's all you need. Yeah, but they get so much for free that it's hard to tell people to go buy shit. No, but it's not all for free. There's the Patreon. I know, but I'm saying if you do give them free material. They're responsible for a lot of stuff. They get merged.

They come buy tickets on the road. That amount of fans can make you wealthy beyond your dreams. Yeah, no, it's true. You're true. It is true. Well, then I'll just put it out. Yeah, man. You guys have already grown something.

You've grown something even just with this. So it's like then with the combination of the other thing it's like you don't need and your fans are watching being like what do you need what do you need more people for man we right here it's easy from the outside but when you know you're on the inside it's different you know about i mean you know like dude all you do is create content right you've got riffing with griffin you're on king the sting you do that kitchen shit are you doing that kitchen shit still? No, because I moved, and I haven't started doing it in a new one yet.

I got to start cooking again. This motherfucker moved to a real fancy place. Because I got other shit going on. So it's like, you know. And then I got my other podcast, Gen to Gen, which is coming back in April. You went away with this, and now you're back. Yeah, yeah. Who's the kid?

What's the kid's name? His name is Matthew Espinoza. And he's real good looking, right? He's like a fucking male model, a YouTube male model. No, he's not like that. He thinks he's good a YouTube male model. No, he's not like that. He's just like, he thinks he's good looking, but I don't think he's, he's not like that. You know what I mean? He ain't all that.

He thinks he's good looking. He thinks he's that. But he's just a fun, you know, kid. He's got, from a great family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love his family. So, you know, we just talk about things. I'm 50, he's 25.

Isn't that wild that you're 50 now? I know. What birthday did I make you have a drink at? Was it 45 or 40? I forgot. No, I went on a date. Oh, right, right, right. That was like, but I just had a little sip of that.

That wasn't even a drink. I know, but still. Where were we? We were downtown. It was at that steakhouse. How old were you? You were 45? 40-something.

It was a birthday. It was a number. It wasn't like a 42. Yeah, yeah. It was probably. 45 maybe? It's got to be 45 because we were still doing Dumbass I'm Dying up here.

We needed one more season, dude. We, well, it would have been, somebody else just said to me, somebody online said, oh,

I won't say the person's name, I'll tell you later, but someone that I couldn't believe was a fan of ours was a fan of that show and I was like, wow, really?

And, and I kind of made a slight, I always make a slight, I'm always like, well, the critics didn't feel that way you know or whatever and then yeah people always ask me about the show and i just go i go it's two twofold not enough people watched it and not enough critics liked it it's just simple you gotta have one or the other you gotta have one or the other yeah or like a good enough number of both you Yeah, you got to be somewhere in the middle or you got to have... Actually, I don't even think...

I think you really got to have one or the other or both. No, it is. No, you have to have one or the other because I look at like Girls, the number for the Girls show wasn't huge, but it was so acclaimed. It didn't matter, right?

It's like Shy. I don't know one person that watches Shy. Never, never, ever. Not... Never, ever. One person I know talks about that show, has told me, hey man, have you seen the great episode of like...

And how many seasons are they? And they're on their like three, I think they're on their fifth season, man. Holy shit. Yeah, they're going strong. And every time I look at that, I go, man, that could have been us. But what would you rather? Be on a show that no one talks about

or be on a show that everybody talks about, but it's not the show that everybody watches. That's the thing. I don't even know, man, because I feel like like i'd rather be on something that's so fucking fun i'd rather be on something fun i was on something fun but i didn't make any money on it right well so fucking you want to give a shout out right now to viacom and tell them what you tell them your two cents just this is what i'm saying though this is what i'm talking about it's like like i was on an iconic show yeah Yeah. All right? An iconic show. Like a show that people still talk about.

It's up there with people go, this is my favorite show of all time. That's Workaholics for a lot of people. A hundred percent. I agree. I think it is. For a lot of people. I will be Montez forever. All right?

Yeah. So I was on a show like that. It was great. People were all talking about it. You don't make money on it. I don't make money on that. I made money on that shit. That's true. So it's like, what is that really?

So it all depends on what you want to do. What do we say? What do you say when I was acting as a hobby? Yeah, it's a fucking hobby. I realize it's been a hobby. It's been a hobby for 20 years now, apparently. You're still getting your hobby on. It's fine.

Yeah. I'm just trying to get on a show. I know. You didn't book one of these network things. I didn't book one of these stupid pilots this year. You really care? Do you still want to do those? I love that.

I love the chase. But like, then you get on a network show and are you going to be upset when it's not what you want? No. Or the money's so good you don't care? Yeah, I don't care. I'm 50. It's like, you know, multicam.

I want to be a dad on something that goes like eight years and then I'm out. You'll never see me again. That's like, you know what I saw? I saw, I leave the TV on for the dog and Netflix, there's a setting called Play Me Something.

Have you ever seen that? No. You literally open it up and just click Play Me Something. It'll just, out of its computer, give you something. Oh, based off your algorithm?

Well, I think it's just, I think it's completely at random because you don't even sign in to the, your thing yet. You literally go, play me something. And it put on Gilmore Girls.

I've never seen the show. Oh, I love Gilmore Girls. Oh, you really? Yeah, Gilmore Girls was great. Oh, well, I know what it was. I knew what it was. I'd never seen it. But right as it came on, Melissa McCarthy was on there. And I was like, Melissa McCarthy was on that show? I mean, I knew nothing about it. I had no frame of reference.

But I thought, there's a chick that hit so many fucking home runs. It's stunning. And people didn't even know. Yeah. They were like, up to bat. 5'4", 185 pounds. Dude, I couldn't believe. Melissa McCarthy.

How many shows has she been on where you're like, huge hits? Killing it. Like huge, huge hits. And then like. Mike and Molly was like. Then like a huge movie star and you felt like no one was even watching Mike and Molly. Right. But it was massive.

Yeah. But it was massive. She did it. That's what you want. You want like that second one. And good for Billy Gardell to get another one. He was already done. Billy Gardell was already chilling like, I did it.

I'm stoked for him. And he was making good money in the last few seasons. You know that good shit. Seven, eight figures. And so then he's like, and I got another one? I'm looking for one of those. That network show money is so good.

We're friends with a guy. We're friends with a dude that did one of these big network shows and i just i did a run in vegas and you know in vegas when you do they give you a nice hotel room yeah yeah you know what i mean they give you like and you're like whoa this is dope and then my buddy was like do you see those villas and i was like yeah yeah that's like a they're like a it's like a fucking house a literal house three bedroom three bath yeah he yeah, that's like a, they're like a, it's like a fucking house, a literal house, three bedroom, three bath. Yeah. He's like, that's where we stayed with so-and-so because the casino goes, give this dude a house. I was like, I got an extra room. These two got a house. You know what I mean? Like that's how much money that those people are worth to the business that they're like, this motherfucker a house. I did a Ray Romano movie, you know? That dude has,

so like Ray is like, he take, you know, know He's such a He's such a down to earth dude I fucking love that dude Got a Casio watch on You know what I mean Yeah Takes me to dinner With him and his writing partner And one of the other actors

We're chilling at this pizza place Just walking around New York With fucking Ray Romano People see him And they're just kind of like Is that Ray You know They kind of can't believe it

They can't He's just Cause he's just like You know Just walking Normal ass dude So he's telling me about like How he

When he does He says Yeah I do stand up Like four times a year You. He's just like, you know, just walking. Normal ass dude. So he's telling me about like how he, when he does, he says, yeah, I do stand up like four times a year. You know? He's like, I go, he goes, I go to Mirage. Is that the Mirage? You know? He's, you know, he goes, I get there on Friday. And then he says, I do the show.

And then he's trying to be humble. He's like, I get on the jet. You know what I mean? He's trying to be like, I mean, I get on the jet. You know what I mean? He's trying to be like, I say, bro, don't apologize. Yeah.

Yeah. I say, you made it, man. Get on the jet. You, you made it. Like throw that down.

Me and you were on Southwest. Yeah, dude. I'm waving to him. I'm on a United connection flight. Like you made it, bro. When it says at the bottom,

DBA, uh, operated by some other fucking airline. This dude is like, I'm like, that's the, the, the made it, bro. When it says at the bottom, DBA operated by some other fucking airline. This dude is like, I'm like, that was always our dream. Was to do comedy and fly around the country. Yeah. No, it's to like be on a show like it's like your own show. When I was coming up, it was like you wanted to do your Beverly Hills Cop movie.

Unbelievable. You wanted to do like, I wanted to be in the because Chris Tucker did that. Chris Tucker got to do that. Yeah, he did. He did all the things. He touched all the bases. You know what I mean? He touched all those things and then like you know, I don't know what happened with it. It was taxes and everything. But I think at some point you do

probably get to a place where A, the business stops fucking with you as much and B, you already kind of had it so you're you probably want to chill a little bit i don't know maybe some people do some people like rick moranis his wife got sick and he fucking disappeared and i think he did it right he was like i made 50 million dollars in the 90s yeah i'm fucking gone yeah man that's what you want i mean that's just the dream where would you disappear to if you could disappear probably the pacific northwest really yeah

seattle portland vancouver yeah i love all those places wow i didn't pick i wouldn't have picked it yeah oregon just because you're just because you're born and raised in this bullshit yeah i love la and all that but you know but i mean this you want something that's much different than down here yeah that's what i'm saying i'm kind of i don't know i'm i'm island life go put me on an island somewhere oh i mean yeah well that's what I'm saying. Where? But you're going to have kids. Don't give a fuck, man.

Let the island raise these kids. Just throw them in the jungle until they're six. Yeah, yeah. They come out of the jungle like 300. They got to come out with the bear on their- Son! Yeah, they got to come out. Now you are now king.

Yeah, exactly. So I don't know. I mean, I just- Again, I love the chase. I love going on auditions and getting the test. You'll never stop. You'll never retire. Yeah, I love all that don't know. I mean, I just, again, I love the chase. I love, like, going on auditions and getting to test. You'll never stop. You'll never retire. Yeah, I love all that stuff.

You'll never retire. You don't stand up until you die? I don't know if I'll probably always want to do stand-up. And I like, like, the challenge of, like, now and just trying to stay relevant and, like, you know, being at the club and letting people know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm still hilarious. Yeah. That is why the big dogs still come by.

Oh, you young pups. Oh, you're funny. Ah, that's cute. You're funny. Let me go up here. I'm going to wreck this bitch. That's why Rock and those guys still come by, I know. You know because they want to go, watch.

Watch. I can do it. Yeah, he was there the other night, man. So funny. Yeah, he's so funny. He was so funny. He was working on this set, bumping everybody. It's funny.

I made this. Did I send it to you? No, but I think you said that where you're like, that's what he gets for. No, because I made a little thing with the slap, with his face and Will Smith and at the bottom I wrote, call in for spots. Don't bump people. He was sent by the store. Yeah, you know what I mean?

It is funny, though, that that was like a moment where you're like, I just saw him, and I just was watching him, and then he got slapped. You feel like it's inside baseball. That's why I'm thinking so personal. Yeah, because I was sitting right next to him in the OR as he was about to go up. I was talking with him. I sent him an Instagram message like, yo, bro, that set was fire, and he responds to me. You know what I mean?

So I'm like, you know, I ain't saying we bosom buddies, but I'm just saying I feel like the guy knows who I am and you know what I mean? It's cool. So it's like, I don't want to see somebody like that, a dignitary of our freaking One of our professors? Yeah, man. He's the one that's going to be at the

Entertainment United Nations. It's like the delegation is Chris Rock's in the delegation. You know what I mean? He's looking over at the ballerinas, and he's looking at the actors. He's there, man. Yeah, I can't imagine what the stage is now for him, though. It's got to be so great. I mean, the amount of stuff that he's thinking about.

It's like he's got all the power now. He's allowed to move freely. Oh, and the thing, too is like, the only person that can end this and make it better for Will Smith is Chris Rock. That's what I mean, he has all the power. Chris Rock, he wins this.

It's nuts. He wins this, dude. Two things can help Will Smith. One, do a Comedy Central roast. And just get annihilated yeah do a Comedy Central roast which they don't even do anymore

because Comedy Central is not even around yeah but it's like that would be the one okay or two Chris Rock comes out with a special

okay and like as he comes out he starts his act Will Smith comes on the stage right you know and like he's gonna hit him

I can see that. And then they just like, and Chris lets him off the hook. Right. He had to be the bigger man. By the way, that is kind of the expectation. Now you have to be the bigger man, as weird as that is.

Because anything else would be. No, no, apparently you don't. Because you cannot be the bigger man, sit back down, get an Oscar, and have everybody in the crowd clap for you. No, no, apparently you don't, because you cannot be the bigger man, sit back down, get an Oscar, and have everybody in the crowd clap for you. No, no, no. I'm saying Chris almost is forced to be the bigger man now, no matter what. Yeah. He don't have to.

Well, he doesn't have to, but it's just- Good for him. It's a free win. Yeah, I know. I know. It's like they handed it to you. But I'm saying there's still some pettiness to be had. Come on, man.

He's a comic. Yeah, but you've got to. Dude, dude. He a comic. I know. At the end of the day. There's no way that he's not going to let. He going to get some hits in.

And those hits are going to be more powerful than that slap. Slap was bullshit. You know, he going to get some hits in. Yeah, he will. Are you touring right now? I'm just. What's touring? I'm not doing like you, but I'm going out.

I'm going to be in, when is this coming out? Friday. Well, then I'm in San Antonio right now. LOL? Yeah, at LOL. I did it one time. Friday Saturday. I haven't been back.

I haven't been back. No, but I just haven't been back. It never worked out. When I do Texas, I'm doing Austin, Dallas, but that's all I can do. I couldn't. We had no time to bounce around. So LOL, and then I'm also doing a Houston improv also in, let me see, when is that?

Plug it. Plug it. Let me find out when the hell that is. Find out when the hell that is. Oh, April 14th. So April 14th through the 16th, I'll be in Houston. And, yeah. And then I'm also going to go do –

Chris is doing his Delia and Friends. Yeah. He's going to do that at Irvine, 7th, 8th, and 9th. So I said I'd do it with him. What are you going to – How much time do you do? I do like 20. And then just you and him?

No, no. He'll have like – Brendan will come and he'll have – He does like an hour before and then an you and him? No no he'll have like Brendan will come And like he'll have He does like an hour before And then an hour himself? No no he'll do He only does like 40

He's working on a set Yeah they'll have like Four people on the show You know doing like 20 minutes each 15, 20 minutes each Is there someone super young That you guys take to host?

I don't No he just has like his You know The Nochi Yeah yeah yeah Brittany Schmidt Yeah yeah yeah yeah Brittany Schmidt Yeah yeah yeah

Those people so So I'll be doing that too so Go to Eric Griffin Comedy What is it Ericgriffin.com Ericgriffin.com

And I got all my stuff there Watch this dude I love you Forever Montez How big are your feet bro Twelve Same Yeah

Or twelve and a half Maybe sometimes You're twelve and a half yeah sometimes i'm a little i'm like 11 and a half 12 depending on so you're creeping up over to my side on stay on your side of the fence pal don't fuck around oh whatever dude go see redheads and twins yeah yeah the devil's work whatever you racially ambiguous fucking Jenny's ice cream flavor. Keep my waist out your motherfucking mouth. All right, Griff, I love you. You got to go to the clip show.

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