Name: Blair Carlyle is Uncle Pappy! | You Made It Weird
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Blair Carlyle is Uncle Pappy! | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-21. Transcript available.

Blair Carlyle is Uncle Pappy! | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made
it weird. With Pete Holmes.
You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird.
What's happening, weirdos? This is Blair Carlisle. Who's Blair Carlisle, you
say?
Well, this is kind of a scoop. Blair Carlisle is Uncle Pappy, who I love.
He is a dose, a daily dose of sunshine on social media.
He's the shirtless old man in glasses with the mustache who's usually floating
in a lagoon
and tells us all to have a great day or look at the positive, like wisdom.
Real, I made it sound trite. I can't quite do it.
But he does it and he does it brilliantly.
And Blair reached out to me and he's like, you're not going to believe this,
but I'm 30 years old and I'm an improviser and a real person who made this
character
a little bit like Pee Wee Herman. And I started posting it.
He'll tell you the whole story here. That's why you're here.
The story of Uncle Pappy, the story of Blair Carlisle. I'm glad you're here.
If you don't follow Uncle Pappy on social, if you follow Blair, do it.
It's a dose of sunshine and we need that.
And I'm so glad that he took the time to come in and make it weird.
It's a delight. I'm so glad y'all, y'all, y'all are here.
So thank you for joining us.
Not too much to plug. As I always say on my end, I am going to be,
well, let's see, this comes out next week.
So that means North Carolina.
Well, actually, January 21st, I'm in Largo.
I'm at Largo in Los Angeles, North Carolina, South Carolina, Miami, Michigan,
Irving, Texas, Madison, Wisconsin, Denver, Colorado.
Those are my tour dates. They're all on PeteHolmes.com.
And regardless of when you hear this episode,
my tour dates are always on PeteHolmes.com.
So I hope to see you out on the road.
And thank you to everybody who's been coming out.
The shows have been awesome.
In the meantime, enjoy my chat with the incredible Blair, Uncle Pappy, Carlisle.
Get into it.
I was hoping for some magic minds.
Here it is.
There it is. I already had mine.
I just took it.
Wow.
This is wild. This is awesome.
I'm glad you're here, man. I really am.
Have your shot.
I'm very happy to be here.
I'm glad.
I watched it.
I think I mentioned this all the time,
but there was an interview that Charlie Rose did with David Letterman
in the whole interview.
David Letterman's trying to light a cigar.
Yeah.
And it really bugs me.
I'm like, just let him.
So please have your drink and relax.
Oh, yeah, this is my cigar.
That's your cigar.
This is my cigar.
It is. It is.
So here you are, man.
Wow.
What's funny is, like, the episode will be called Uncle Pappy, right?
I mean, we'll say Uncle Pappy makes it weird.
Yeah, you're Blair.
It could be, like, Blair parentheses Uncle Pappy.
It could be Uncle Pappy parentheses, Blair, either.
Oh, what's your last name?
Carlisle.
Carlisle.
I didn't even know that.
Not that I would.
I mean, why would I?
I know you as Uncle Pappy.
Yeah.
And here you are, Blair, a real person.
I know.
It's weird.
I forget I'm real.
I forget I'm a real person, too.
Well, how do you feel today?
Before we get into the whole start of it, we don't need to jump in.
It's not a job.
I feel like you.
You have this effect on me and a lot of people, like, watching your stuff,
obviously, and just,
again, this morning to just prepare in a light way.
It's like, what are we so stressed about?
You know what I mean?
I know.
We are just kind of in a lagoon.
We're in a lagoon.
I mean, it's true.
It's so funny you say that, because, honestly, I was watching Uncle Pappy
videos this morning
to not be stressed.
Because I was like, not that I'm stressed, or like...
No, I know what you mean.
Tense.
I'm a little...
Alert.
Alert, you know?
Tell me.
You use your word.
Don't use my word.
I would say tense.
That's how I feel when I'm about to do something.
I don't know if it's tense.
It's kind of like I've been in bands my whole life and done shows and improv
and stuff, and
it's always like beforehand, even when you know it's going to be good, you're
just like, beforehand,
you're like, it doesn't matter how much you convince yourself it's going to be
fine.
And when you step on stage, you're just fine.
Yeah.
But the lead-up, you're like, oh, God, this is crazy.
And I was telling you, I have the most vivid memory of being on a family
vacation in high
school and listening to You Made It Weird and thinking, I have to figure out
how to be
on You Made It Weird before Pete Holmes stops doing this.
Oh, wow.
And it's always been my fear, you would ever announce that you didn't do it.
And now, I think that's why I'm nervous, too, because I wake up going to bed
last night
and I'm like, wow, I can't, like, you know, it's just one of those...
I'm so honored.
That's so sweet.
Yeah.
One of those weird moments in life where you're just like, wow.
I know what you mean.
I know what you mean.
And I really want to say how hard I relate to what you just said, because I was
in San
Francisco this weekend.
And that's a very friendly city for me.
It always has been.
I've been going there for 15 years and, like, as a headliner, just loving it.
And still, the Saturday, so I had already done three shows, and then Saturday's
the last
two.
Saturday, I couldn't do anything.
I was just sitting.
I always joke with my comic friends.
I'm like, you just sit in the room like a cop.
Like, you're on a stinkout.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, you just sit there.
I can't...
I tried to watch a movie, and there's nothing rational about it.
Meaning, I had already done the show three times.
It works.
It's not like...
I would understand nerves if I was like, oh, it's a new hour.
I don't know if this is going to work.
Like, what order am I going to go in?
What's the room like?
What's the city like?
What's the...
I know all of those things, and still, the body doesn't listen.
Yeah.
The brain says, we got this.
And the body goes, I don't know.
I think we should be kind of like, hurt your shoulders a little bit.
We're going to fuck up your sleep a little bit.
We're going to make it so you can't focus on one battle after another.
I had already seen it, but I'm watching it, and I'm like, I know this movie's
amazing.
And I'm like, drifting off, just thinking about like, every once in a while,
writing down
a little note.
But it's not really productive.
It's just like, hyper, hyper-vigilant, we call it coyote mode.
Yeah, yeah.
So you might be in coyote mode.
No, exactly.
It's like your body, it's like, evolutionarily, your body's like, a predator
might come and
get us right now.
That's exactly what it is.
And it's like, no, I'm just going to go on a podcast.
A tiger isn't going to kill me right now.
Maybe I'm super papped out right now.
That's what the fans say.
I might be super papped out, but I'm just sort of like, all suffering comes
from some sort
of a magic.
It's all made by thought.
It's like, oh, maybe this will go badly.
And then maybe people will think less of me or think less of you.
I'm speaking as you and myself.
Like, they'll think less of us.
It'll be bad.
They'll know I'm a fraud.
All of this is just sort of like a self-tortured, none of it is real.
What I'm saying is like, Pappy helps me remember to lighten up.
And that's helpful to remember as we're doing this.
Did any of that make sense?
It makes perfect sense.
Yeah.
He helps me to remember to lighten up, too.
Like, you know, I don't know.
He's become like my best friend almost.
Oh, really?
Where he's just my, like, it's like in my life, I'm like, if everything goes
right, if everything,
if I'm the person that I just really want to be, it's that guy.
And so then he's kind of like the version of me, I can like ask for advice for
different things.
You know, I don't find that to be strange at all.
I relate really hard to that.
I think a lot of people when they do therapy or to be a little bit stranger,
maybe hypnosis therapy, hypnotherapy, welcome to L.A. Blair, welcome.
I'm just saying like a lot of inner work stuff involves conjuring, meaning you're
making it up, materializing in your mind, the image of some sort of higher self.
And that's been the standard of therapy for decades.
And it's like for a reason, you think of this avatar or this like symbol who is
you, but is like what you want to be.
And for some reason, that's more useful than just thinking of, you know, a
sports hero or like a superhero like Batman or something like that.
I find it better to think of a version of myself that's talking to me.
Well, it's kind of like what I think like you said, like I think I got this
from you and you said like if it's mentionable, it's manageable.
Yeah, that's Mr. Rogers.
But yes, I do.
Yes, yes.
And like this kind of the mentionable version of yourself where you're like, if
you think of all these esoteric things, you can think of like a million reasons
why you're not like Batman.
Yeah.
But like it's you can kind of I think it also started.
I don't drink.
Yeah.
And like I have February 1st will be six years.
And one of the things, too, with like the higher power is I've talked to like a
lot of different people who are kind of turned off from.
Well, I also don't go to AA or anything, but like just from, you know, the 12
steps are different things about the higher power.
And a lot of like atheists or people get turned off from the higher power.
Yeah.
And I'm like, just make your higher power the best version of you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like that should be the person that you're like go to for advice.
Be like, you know, they always say like do as I say, not as I do.
And I'm like, well, you could be that for yourself, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's kind of happy how it kind of became that for me.
You mean there's a version of you, even if you are tripping up in your own life,
there's a version that knows what you want and lean on that.
Yeah.
Like that's what you mean?
Like what I say as opposed to where you are.
Because like most people like, you know, I always say people like it's so hard
to know what the right thing to do is all the time.
Like you have a lot of hard decisions in life and stuff.
And it's like 99% you know what the right thing to do is.
Yeah.
It's like the hard part is like either doing it or convincing yourself to not
do the right thing.
Right, right, right.
You know?
And so like we all have, you know, the like witness who's in the back of your
mind going like, dude, you don't like this is not good.
Right.
And so it is kind of just like, I think everybody has the capacity to have that
voice in their head.
And you do know it.
And you know, you know, where it reveals itself is like, for me, it's like,
what is making you cry?
And I don't just mean like sad tears.
I mean, like if you watch a movie and you're like, you're really stirred by
something and you're, and you're tearing up.
It's like, that's your compass that knows, oh, maybe I'm not in the right
relationship.
Maybe I don't have the right friends.
Maybe I'm not pursuing the right thing creatively or professionally or whatever
it is.
And you might not know because, no shade, I've been in times like this in my
life.
Maybe the people around you aren't really helping you wake up to that highest
self, but the things that make you emotional, that's that like, that's that
thing pulling you towards it.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's like a gravitational pull to your higher self and you know it when you
start feeling like intense emotion.
Yeah.
It's almost like the emotional version of like deja vu almost where it's kind
of like, yeah, like a, like primal part of your brain is like, Hey, pay
attention to this.
That's right.
You know, like there's like a little thread.
That's why you go like, why did that mean so much to me?
I think about that when I, uh, in my own therapy, I, my favorite movie is there
will be blood and, and my friend Joe, man, you kind of look like I'm right now.
Oh my God.
Just a little bit.
This is my son.
HW.
It's very sing songy.
He goes up and my son and business partner, HW Plainview.
Yes, that movie, 