Name: Get to know Clayton Farris | You Made It Weird
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Get to know Clayton Farris | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Get to know Clayton Farris | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-12. Transcript available.

Get to know Clayton Farris | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made it weird. With
Pete Holmes. Yes, you did. You made it weird.
What's happening, weirdos? This is the delightful, hilarious, funny,
interesting Clayton Ferris, who you may know from social media because he's
delightful, hilarious, and interesting all over your social media.
At Clayton Ferris on all your medias with one S. F-A-R-R-I-S. Get into it.
But you also may have seen him, and we talked quite a bit about it, in the
movie Weapons and all sorts of other things.
House of Glass, American Meltdown. He's in a new movie called Roadhead, which
is the funniest name for a movie ever.
I'm sorry, that already came out. 2020. Roadhead. I thought it was 2025. Roadhead.
So check him out. He's so funny. He's such a delight. I was just blown away.
I had such a fun time, and I'm so glad you guys are here to check him out.
Not too much to plug, as I always say up top, and then I go unplugging stuff,
but I am on the road.
I'm on tour, and if you listen to this, the day it comes out, I'm about to be
in New York, New York,
at Town Hall on November 14th, followed by New Jersey, Milwaukee, Brea, San
Francisco, North Carolina, South Carolina.
Say it with me. You know these by now. Miami, Michigan, Madison, Wisconsin, and
Denver, Colorado.
I'm absolutely loving this tour that I'm on right now. Matt McCarthy is part of
the show.
It's my favorite hour that I've ever done, and it always means so much when
weirdos come out.
So please, if you can, come to a show. Go to PeteHolmes.com for tickets to all
of those.
And in the meantime, enjoy my chat with my new friend, the wonderful, hilarious
Clayton Ferris.
Get into it.
Is an audience okay to it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't want to cause any pressure.
No. It does change the dynamic.
Does it?
Oh, yeah, yeah. Not in a bad way.
Oh, yeah?
That would be shitty if I was like, oh, it sucks. It doesn't suck.
You'll see me. I'll be looking at you to see. Yeah, just know.
I'll say something. I look at Katie, too, but I just go like, so you've burdened
yourself, my friend.
You're now a burdened person.
Lovely.
What is your tattoo? A little scary baby?
She's a little doll.
Is it like Bioshock? What is that from?
No, it's just...
Just a scary little baby.
It's a scary little baby.
I didn't remember Natasha, and I have my cat here.
I get a really good sense of you. I feel like I know you because of these
tattoos and everything.
Yeah. Are you Spanish?
I'm from Brazil.
Brazil.
My God.
I gave you the compliment, too. I went to Spain.
Nothing wrong with Brazil, but to me, what's better than Barcelona?
I don't think it gets any better.
That's what I mean. So you're like a Brazilian with a Spanish flair.
Oh, I'll take that.
There you are.
Can we turn the cameras this way?
I know, I'm like...
I'm like, you guys are doing great.
Okay, Clayton.
Not from Brazil.
No, decidedly not.
I'm mad.
Yeah.
I'm so happy to meet you.
I'm just going to laugh the whole time that we do this.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm glad you're here, man.
I'm so glad to be here.
Let's shift gears.
I was just talking to Andy, and now I have to...
Now I have to.
I keep saying the wrong things.
I know, like you were...
Of course, like when I'd get here, it's...
Construction?
Construction happens.
Can we close it, Katie?
How do you feel?
Just because we can hear it.
Yeah, I put the air on there.
Yeah?
If you don't hear it, it's fine by me.
I just feel like that follows me.
I can hear it.
It follows me.
I can hear it.
That's going to bother me.
There's actually...
The people that own this house before we moved here, I think he was a music
producer,
and I think this room is pretty well insulated.
Yeah, so feel good.
Feel comfortable.
Let's talk about these shoes.
What are we doing here?
We got brunch.
I just wanted to be comfortable.
These are called brunch shoes.
Are they called brunch?
They're called brunch.
Brunch?
Yeah.
It's not quite dinner.
It's not great breakfast, and it's not quite lunch, but it comes with a slice
of melon at
the end?
Yeah.
Blunch.
Blunch.
Why not blunch?
Why not blunch?
Why didn't they call it blunch?
Lunch's agent was pushing for blunch, and breakfast was like...
And it did not go through.
No.
Because let's be real, brunch is so much more breakfast than it is lunch.
A hundred percent.
It should just be called breakfast.
Late breakfast.
Late breakfast.
Do you want to go?
And you know what you can call that?
Breakfast.
Right.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's 11 a.m., so it's a new meal.
Unless there's like a...
Can I get a turkey sandwich and chips?
No.
No.
No, you can get eggs and pancakes.
Let me ask you this.
Are you bringing me Coke or...
No.
Coffee and orange juice.
Coffee and orange juice.
Yes.
They just wanted alcohol, so they were like, it's kind of like lunch.
Right.
Shut up.
Yeah.
They're like, no.
They're like, it's okay to get fucked up in the morning if it's champagne.
Dude, I used to get lit.
That's actually where I started.
Do you booze it still?
No judge.
Oh.
Not like a guy's in weapons.
All of a sudden, he's...
Well, I'm...
Big hit movie.
I will say I'm fresh off a year and a half of complete...
Oh, a year and a half.
Yeah, sobriety.
That totally counts.
I misread your...
You were just saying like you're new to the club.
But what I will say is I don't want to say that I'm completely sober
because if I do drink here and there, I'm not going to like...
You're the flexitarian of alcohol.
I think so.
You're a flalcoholic.
While fully knowing it does not work for me.
You're not alone.
We're very similar age.
This is how we talk, by the way.
If anyone's ever seen two guys of this age in a park,
we're talking about like, I know alcohol doesn't work for me.
I should quit at some point.
But I don't want to say I'm completely off it.
But you've been off it for a year and a half.
Well, and I went to...
I dabbled in like, you know, the rooms and I...
But I don't...
Oh, you went to some programs?
Yeah, I did.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
Yeah.
So now I don't want to say I'm completely sober
because if someone sees me out and I'm like, have a drink,
I don't want to like lie.
You know, I'm not trying to lie.
I never went to the program.
And I love...
I have friends that are in it and I think they're annoyed
because I sort of use them as like my sponsor.
Like they get a lot of their inspiration and their talks and stuff.
And I love it, but I never went for a lot of reasons.
One was I didn't...
I felt false claiming it.
I was so much more of a habitual...
Not that you need to be, as Robin Williams said,
waking up with your car keys in your house,
like to go to a program.
Yeah.
But I did feel kind of like, I just want to do this.
I'm the same.
Because I feel false claiming anything.
I don't like claiming anything.
Like 100% like that?
It's like the Marcho Groucho Marx.
Marcho Grouchs.
You don't want to be in there.
Marcho Grouchs.
I don't want any club that would allow me to be the treasurer.
Marcho Grouchs.
I believe Marcho Grouch.
Say that.
Marcho Grouchs was like Gallagher too.
It was his brother, Marcho Grouchs.
I'm already having a great time.
I was just going to say.
I didn't want to call it out.
No.
But brunch.
Brunch.
Wait, what was it?
Blunch.
Blunch, solid riff.
I just wanted to come here and...
No, Marcho Grouch.
Be on the opposite side of your riff and just like experience it.
No.
That's so fun.
I just had a younger person say,
wow, what it must be like in that mind.
And I was like, oh, I'm the guy.
I know.
It was weird.
That was the right face.
That's a read.
That was the right face.
It was a swing.
As they say.
Oh, you think there was a judge.
What's it like in that mind of yours?
I took it as like, I don't think anyone said that to me
because I'm so established.
I have my friends.
I have my family.
Right.
I don't meet a lot of outside people that are just like...
And the reason I pointed out that she was young
is that's a young thing to say
is you're still developing your brain
and you're like, wow.
To get lost with a candelabra
in that hall of mirrors.
Yeah, but you also have an intimidating brain in a way.
Well, I like this very much.
I don't.
I shouldn't.
I do.
I think because like...
Is this the podcast?
We're recording.
Okay, great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that hasn't happened in a while.
No, I just meant like...
I loved it.
I meant like...
The whole thing with Andy.
That's all going in.
Me shifting gears.
Don't you see that I've shifted gears to you?
I do.
I saw that.
I'm so glad you did.
I know.
Imagine if I was still like...
Talking to Andy.
But I feel...
Or her, who I didn't even meet.
Blanca.
No, see, that's the great...
Katie and I...
Go way back.
...long friends.
We're like, if we ever did go to lunch, it would be very comfortable not
talking.
That's a great friendship.
And I mean that as a very...
Of course, I would talk with Katie, but I'm just saying like, we're very
comfortable with
each other.
Yeah, that's great.
Because I'm an uncomfortable person regarding energies.
So anyway, go on.
The mind...
Well, I was saying you...
I understand that that is a young thing to say, but also it's like, I think you
could
have an intimidating mind to some people because it's really quick and fast.
And I think that that's like...
I know what you mean.
You know what I mean?
Because it's weird to agree with that, but the times when I've had like a
little car accident
and I've had a concussion and I get really slow, like I went through like an
almost six month
period where I didn't feel like myself.
And then I would meet people that talk like me or their brains work at this
pace.
Right.
And I'd be like, ah.
Yeah, you're like, I'm dying.
Get out of here.
But I didn't like it.
It's a lesson to me.
You know, just because you have that gear doesn't mean you need to.
You know what I mean?
You like slow down as normal people's speed, you know?
That's it.
I hate to say it, but that's it.
So no one was like, what's going on with him?
No, no, no.
They were like, who's this charming young man?
And I'm like, I'm in quicksand.
This is very self-serving and I like it.
Yeah.
But you're a quick'em.
I'm a quick'em.
Yeah.
Are you?
I think I am.
I like to surround myself with people that are...
It's fun to be around people that riff and bit and all that stuff.
Yeah.
Me too.
And if I don't find myself in that place, I feel like I'm like, I'm dying.
What's wrong with me?
I agree.
It's like you're just like...
And yet I'll do so many things that inhibit my ability to live fully because
life is overwhelming.
Yes.
So I'll catch myself smoking weed.
Another reason I don't claim full sobriety, but like I'll occasionally smoke
weed.
Yeah.
And then like the next day I'll be...
Slower.
3% slower.
Right.
But then I'll be like, it's not so bad.
And then I'll smoke again.
Then I'm 6% slower.
Yes.
And then when I creep into like 27% lower, I'm like, I literally just forgot my
daughter's
friend's name.
And that's like, this didn't really happen.
But that's like, would be a core memory for her.
Like she'd be like, I'm unimportant.
You know what I mean?
Like I worry about that.
Right.
So I'm like, why am I, and I'm saying this as I've been under control for a
while, there
are other times of the year where I might not be so disciplined, but I go like,
why am
I negotiating with memory and functionality to kind of feel occasionally like I'm
in a hot
tub, but I'm on my couch?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
But that's your like tell, you know, that something's like off.
When I want to smoke.
No, when you're like, when you're like, wait, I'm like having trouble
remembering something
or like, that's your kind of like, okay, I need to like get sober or I need to
like clean
up.
I'm, are you that way?
Because I do go up and then I go down and then I go, and it's not even when I
say that
it's like, sounds like manic depression or something.
It's not that it's what I see life to be.
It's like phases where you're exercising, phases where you're not, phases where
you're
healthy, phases where you're