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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Matt McCarthy Is Back And Funnier Than Ever! | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-29. Transcript available.

Matt McCarthy Is Back And Funnier Than Ever! | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. Yeah.
You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made
it weird. Yeah.
What's happening, weirdos? This is Matt McCarthy Returns. It's October 2025. We
haven't had Matt on in a really long time, and he's one of my absolute favorite
people. He is hilarious.
You may know him as Commissioner Gordon in the Batman videos we've done
together. He was also Aquaman in the Batman videos that we've done together. He
was also in so much of the Pete Holmes show, I can't even begin to tell you.
And we toured together. Matt and I have been touring together for years. So if
you've seen me perform recently, you probably saw Matt. And he's so funny, as
you know.
So I'm so glad that he's here. I'm so glad that you guys are here. He's
brilliant. He's thoughtful. He's hilarious. I hope you enjoy.
You can even see him and me on the Pete Here Now tour. All of those tickets are
available at PeteHolmes.com.
November 1st is my next show. That's here in Los... Well, I'm not in Los
Angeles, but that'll be in Los Angeles.
November 1st, that's going to be an incredible show. Followed by November 6th,
I'm at the Chicago, the Riviera Theater in Chicago. Followed by Pittsburgh, New
York, New York, Town Hall on November 14th.
That's a really big one. Atlantic City is the next night. Then we have
Milwaukee. We have Brea. We have San Francisco.
We have North Carolina, South Carolina, Miami, Royal Oak, Michigan, Madison,
Wisconsin, and Denver, Colorado.
All of those are on PeteHolmes.com. Hope you can be there. In the meantime,
enjoy my chat with the wonderful, the incomparable Matt McCarthy.
Get into it.
Murderers don't scare me.
No?
Well...
Really?
Well, when I was a kid, I wasn't worried about getting murdered. I was scared
of ghosts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like demons and monsters and like...
It's kind of brilliant. Like as a kid, you feel pretty safe or ideally you feel
pretty safe with your family.
And then you have things that like can go through the walls and don't obey the
laws of physics.
Because it feels like... I mean, murderers are scary, but it feels like you can't
call the cops on Freddy Krueger.
I was thinking of Freddy Krueger.
Was it us that... It probably was.
Talking about how brilliant it was that there's a villain, there's a monster
that will show up, but only if you're asleep.
And you gotta sleep.
And you gotta sleep.
Yeah.
You're gonna sleep. It's like dying. You gotta die.
Because it's... There's no...
Because there's no way out.
It's the perfect...
Because the problem with the haunted house movie is just leave the house.
Yeah, that's right.
That's why like...
Everyone screams get out of there.
Just get out!
Yeah, don't go in the room.
But there's no opting out of snoozing.
In fact, it ruined one of the greatest things in life.
Just taking a snooze.
Just a nice little snooze.
Come on, Wes Craven.
That's why Alien was a perfect haunted house movie.
Because they're on a spaceship.
So like, you can't leave.
I thought you were also gonna say, you're the haunted house.
Because you're haunted with the alien.
How disturbing was that?
Bitch, you're the haunted house.
Bitch, you the house.
Is what I'm trying to say.
That's how they pitched it.
You ever see it?
Bitch, you're the haunted house.
So tell me a little bit about your movie.
Bitch, you're the haunted house.
You know what the problem with a haunted house movie is?
You can leave the house.
But what if you're the haunted house?
Sorry, I didn't say it right.
Bitch, you're the haunted house.
We'll buy it.
The working title is, bitch, you're the haunted house.
If you want to change it, you can.
I used to have an old bit where I was like,
people are afraid of flying because they could crash.
And then I'm like, but you're always in this airplane.
Oh, yeah.
You're always in a body.
You can't get away from it.
You could crash at any second.
It's like, what if the plane crashed?
What if you crash?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't want to make anybody paranoid.
Like, there's a safety in admitting that you're never safe.
So you're on a plane.
You know how you're not safe on a plane or in a car or something.
But, like, you're never safe.
No.
Constantly just like, I'm dead.
Yeah, what if the pilot up here?
Yeah, you're, and by the way,
you're the biggest threat to yourself in the world.
I had that one time I was very stoned and I was like, it's me.
Like, I'm doing weird psychedelics and going on all these weird trips and
taking all these risks.
I'm the greatest threat to myself.
Bitch, you the house.
Bitch, you the haunted house.
You the haunted house now.
Matthew, how are you?
I'm good, Peter.
How are you?
I'm so glad you're here.
Thank you for doing a nice little riff dump up top.
Riff dump.
Taking a big gold riff dump.
Have you ever taken a riff dump?
I feel, yeah.
Yeah, we do a lot of riff dumps.
Even, like, because on the We Watch Wrestling podcast.
Don't.
Don't promote another.
Somebody listening to this podcast is like, hey, that sounds good.
Click.
Click.
Welcome to We Watch Wrestling.
Like, the little, you made it weird, like, it goes into the little dot.
Like, it's a CRT TV.
Oh, my God.
What good pull.
Yes, on the We Watch Wrestling podcast, hosted by you, Vince Averill.
That's right.
We'll go into a riff dump, but it's like, because I know, because, like, there
are and were wrestling podcasts where they would do, like, a lot of, like,
voices and characters and recurring bits.
Yeah.
And I'm like, if it comes, if it comes, like, people would be like, oh, we'd
love to hear you do Stone Cold or you do, you know, Michael P.S. Hayes or Hulk
Hogan leaving voicemails.
And it's like, well, if it comes up, we'll do it.
But I can't.
The whole thing with comedy was to get into, to, who was it?
Mark Maron, I think he was, like, everyone was laughing at you anyway.
And comedy was to control how they laugh at you.
Oh, wow.
Like, to, like, seize the control back.
So I can be a finicky bitch in that way, too, where I'm, like, I'll dance, but
only when I feel like dancing.
Like, I sometimes, I'll be doing a set, like, we're here in Cleveland doing
shows.
Yeah.
And last night, I just happened to be doing a lot of voices and riffs and stuff.
And I was just so glad that that aspect of myself showed up.
But if it's not there, I don't, I got into this for authenticity.
Right.
And if you're doing an episode of We Watch Wrestling Podcast, which is
available now as a competitor to this show, you can, you can, you can do it.
But, like, if you start just selling your soul, I think that's what they mean.
Like, just doing it, because you got, don't, don't let down your public.
You know what I mean?
How about, you can relate to me however I'm being that day.
I think that's so much more compelling.
I think Willie Nelson was on, like, Larry King.
Old Braidhead?
The one guy that doesn't like Willie Nelson.
You mean that braid-headed hippie?
Dude, I just pulled a Betamax tape on my YouTube channel, at McCarthy Redhead.
That's fair.
On TikTok.
Because I don't have a VHS.
I don't know why I said YouTube.
I hate YouTube.
You do?
Well, it's just, it's just, I don't hate it, but I'm just like, it feels.
But you thrive on the TikTok.
I thrive on TikTok.
You, and it's you, it's fascinating.
I'm actually glad you brought it up.
Don't forget what you were going to say.
Yeah, yeah.
You have this channel where you go every, whenever we tour, so Matt and I tour
together, and whenever, wherever we go, including Cleveland right now, you go
to estate sales.
Yes.
Today, you told me you bought four VHS tapes for a dollar.
When I put them on the table, the guy looks at me and goes, oh, I don't know, a
dollar?
And I was like, woo-hoo-hoo.
Wow.
And you'll turn that dollar into muchos dollars.
I'll turn those dollars into tens of dollars.
Tens of dollars, but I mean, pretty good return on investment.
And you don't know what's going to hit.
There's actually one videotape that's like, I should have showed it to you.
It's some, I didn't know, it seemed like it was Crash Bandicoot, but it wasn't.
But it's some sort of N64 game.
If there was like a Crash Bandicoot, like sequel or spinoff, I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I didn't recognize it, but it seemed like it's like a, I don't know, like a
promo tape for it or something.
Crash Bandicoot is the Mormonism of like side-scroller, like platform games.
Mario is Judaism.
Wow.
And Sonic's Christianity.
Sonic is Christianity.
Crash Bandicoot is Mormonism.
Yeah.
It's like later.
Right.
It might even be Scientology.
It's like two new, like bonk for the TurboGrafx-16 is Scientology.
I'm just saying, and it has less respect just because it's not been around as
long.
And everyone's like, but Mario, just because he's the oldest.
And Cuphead is simulation theory.
Cuphead is simulation theory.
It's too hard, but the people who are into it are really into it.
It's so difficult.
I've never even been tempted to try.
It looks mean.
If you don't know the game Cuphead, it's just notoriously the most difficult.
And it's cell animated, so it looks like an old cartoon.
It's very satisfying.
But it's the closest I've ever come to that frustrating feeling as a kid
playing Metroid or whatever.
You're just like, ah!
I noticed that, sorry to derail, your TikTok is amazing.
We'll get to that and all the things that you find.
Willie Nelson.
Playing Mario with my daughter, I try to get her to play.
She wants to.
Yeah.
But I tried to get that habit.
So very different from the 80s and 90s, obviously, it was bad.
When our parents were trying to get us to read.
To read.
I get the same satisfaction.
Here's why.
If we play Mario and we're on a level, Mario Wonder is what we're playing.
And over and over and over, we just keep dying.
And then we have little meetings where we're like, you need to jump on him
while I worry about the star.
You know what I mean?
We strategize.
And the game, unlike me, because I'm a soft dad, I'm very like, just forget it.
I don't push her very much.
The game pushes her.
And it goes, you lose.
Just in plain English.
You're dead.
And we have to go again and again and again.
And the thing I say to her the most when we're playing is, what's the pattern?
What's the pattern?
Because there's platforms going.
And she just starts running.
And I'm like, you're dead.
You're dead, Luke.
It reminds me of going sailing with my dad.
He's just like, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
What's your plan?
What's your plan?
What are you going to do?
They say as parents, instead of saying, be careful, you should say, what's your
strategy?
And I think that's correct.
That's good.
What's your strategy?
Yeah, somebody told me, instead of saying, are you all right, say, what'd you
do?
And then somebody else was like, no, no, no, don't say that.
What'd you do?
Because the theory being, when a small kid falls down, if you ask, oh, are you
all right?
That's their cue to, oh, I'm not all right, I'm going to cry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I noticed that, I swear, as a kid.
Like, sure.
The response.
They go, oh, and then you'd be like, ah, like, get it where you can get it.
Some good old attention.
Couple of attention whores.
Yep.
Pouring it up.
So the theory was, if you say, oh, no, what'd you do?
Yes.
But then somebody else told me, they were like, no, no, no, you don't say that,
because
now you're putting it on them, that they've done something wrong.
Okay, what happened?
Yeah.
What did the sidewalk, what was wrong with the sidewalk?
Are we all destined to die?
Why don't you, are you going to die soon?
Is this a meaningless pursuit?
Yeah.
That's what you say.
They trip and you go, it's just one battle after another, isn't it?
That's right.
The kid falls down and you're like, it's just going to keep happening.
It's never going to stop.
Scream, get used to it.
Get used to it.
And blow smoke in their face.
This is the way of the 30s, and that's how we got Babe Ruth.
Uh-huh.
Guy's eating a pot roast 