Name: Steven Wright | You Made It Weird!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steven Wright | You Made It Weird!' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-04. Transcript available.

Steven Wright | You Made It Weird!

You made it weird, you made it weird, yes you did, you made it weird, yeah.
You made it weird, you made it weird, you made it weird, yes you did, you made
it weird, yeah.
What's happening, weirdos? This is a very, very special episode.
Stephen Wright, a hero of mine, a hero of comedy, and just a delightful,
wonderful, warm, smart, brilliant, genius, comedian,
who I got the privilege of sitting down with, we talk about it in the episode,
but I just was flying out of Boston,
where we are both from, and I saw him at the airport, and I walked up to him,
and that's not entirely like me,
but I reminded him that we had done a show together, and we started talking and
laughing,
and we were on the same flight, going to LA, and talked a little bit more, and
I just took a shot.
We were really vibing, so I was like, would you want to, you want to do my
podcast?
And here we are, but we talk about that, that's unlike, in a way, both of us,
certainly for him.
He said that's not normal for him, but something about it, we were vibing and
enjoying each other,
and that's what you're about to hear, is us, again, vibing and enjoying, and I'm
so glad that you're here.
Such an interesting conversation, a little bit shorter than a normal episode
for us, but so much is packed into it,
and I'm thrilled, you know, as somebody, my brother-in-law, Derek, sent me how
AI can, like, make podcasts now,
which I think is very, very interesting, and they kind of mimic a classic style,
like there's one person who's kind of more colorful, and there's one person who's
kind of agreeing,
and a little more subdued, and it was a phenomenon, I'm not taking anything
away from that,
but when I did this episode that you're about to hear, I was like, look, say
what you want,
but AI will never make an episode like this. There's something new happening.
It's not a slick,
it's not two LA guys doing an LA podcast, and knowing what that sounds like,
and doing an impression
of it. It's something new. It was a different flavor, it was a different rhythm,
and a different
vibe, and I left just feeling really fed, and full, and happy, so I'm glad you're
here to check it out.
I don't think Stephen has anything to plug. I'm going to look up his website.
Well, I think you can
follow him on Twitter, formerly known as Twitter, Stephen Wright, S-T-E-V-E-N,
for his tour dates,
and at StephenWright.com. Look, I'll just click on it right now. Who cares? Who
even cares? Yeah. Oh,
that's right. He has a new book out that is wonderful. He's a fiction writer
called "Herald,"
and it is available now, wherever, or whomever, you get your books. So check
out "Herald." He is an
incredible writer, obviously of stand-up, but also of fiction, so check out the
novel "Herald,"
available at StephenWright.com or wherever you get your books. And if you'd
like, I am touring currently.
I saw Stephen is not touring currently. I think he's taking a little break, but
I am going to be in
Indianapolis this weekend. I think there's a few tickets left. December 11th, I'll
be here in Los
Angeles at Largo, always the highlight of my month. The last couple shows have
been amazing. Seattle on
December 19th. Portland, I'm happy to say both shows are sold out. Thank you to
everybody that's
coming out to that. Same for Eugene, Oregon, but then Salt Lake City just
announced in January, then
Phoenix, Arizona in February. Hope to see you at some of those guys. Go to PeteHolmes.com
for tickets.
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Stephen Wright. Get into it. Stephen Wright, I'm really honored. I'm not just
saying that to have
you on the show. Can we say how this came about? Oh, yeah. Isn't that weird?
Yes. It was only like two
days ago, right? Dude, I did an event that night and I was like, I was in
Boston this morning because I
was like, why am I so tired? So it's like six o'clock in Ohio in California. I'm
like, I'm so tired. I was
like, oh, right. I was in Boston this morning. I was like, for hundreds of
years, if you had said that,
that's witchcraft. You're in California at five o'clock and you're like, I was
in Boston this morning.
Yeah. They would have killed you for that. That would have been a death offense.
So it's very
unnatural and very strange that I saw you two days ago in Boston. Yeah, it is.
In fact,
I was telling a friend of mine just for amusement. I said, Frank, you know what?
I'm not going to travel
anymore. Why? It has nothing to do with that. I don't want to go to the next
place. I don't want
to go 500 miles an hour anymore. I don't think it's right. Somehow it's even
though it's safe and
everything, it's like basically wrong. Going 500 miles an hour is not right.
And saying, yes, can I have another Coke, please? Yeah. I'm not really saying
that,
that I'm not going to do that. But you just don't think of everything is
accepted. No.
I like to say we don't belong up there. Yeah. We're sitting in the sky. It's
like Greek gods.
And it's so calm. You know what I think is so funny? I almost said this to you
before our flight. So we
ran into each other at the airport and I was going to tell you this bit before
we got on the plane,
but I didn't want to like put it in our minds. But I was like, it's so funny
when there's a little
turbulence. We're so put out. Like our flight was a little bumpy. And I was
like aghast. I was like,
can't they find smooth air? Given what they're doing, the whole flight should
be like, you know
what I mean? It's insane that it's smooth and we expect it to be smooth. We
want to sleep. We want
to be fed. We want to be entertained. We don't want to even think about the
miracle that's happening.
And if there's a little bump, I'm a little annoyed. I'm like, what's up with
this pilot?
I'm not annoyed by the bumps. I just think, I just think it's gonna, as long as
it just stays as
bumps. Yeah, of course. You know, right. You said it took you a while to get
used to it. Yeah. Many
years. So you were like, cause every little thing was like, in my mind, it was
the beginning of a
disaster. Yeah. But like I, a friend of mine years ago told me she was in
central park and there
was a guy walking with his little boy. The boy was about four and the boy
pointed up to the sky.
There was a plane way, way up in it. So the plane's like this big and the boy
said, I'm not going up
there. And she told me this. Yeah. I know why she told me because I was like,
that is the real logic.
He's right. He was, he didn't have enough intellect to, or information to know
how it happens or anything.
That's the basic human gut. Yeah. We don't belong there. Yeah. You're
absolutely right.
If I woke you up in the middle of the night, like if you were as naked as you
could be in your mind,
you'd be like, of course I'm not going in the sky. It takes no thinking to
realize that that's wrong.
And when he sees it, when you're on the plane, you see it different, of course,
because you're in the
plane, but his perspective of it being that big, if you thought of his view of
it while you were on
the plane, you'd be freaking out because you're, you're a dot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's very strange,
but you know how I, what this sounds kind of like, I don't want to flatter
myself and say it sounds like
something you would think, but I had a bet where I was like, people say they're
afraid of flying.
We're all flying. The planet is flying. It's not tethered to anything. It's
flying.
Is this, it's unsettling, isn't it? It's one of those ones. I knew it when I
said it to you.
I was like, that's an unsettling thought. And we go gravity, you know, or, you
know,
orbit all these words that we don't really understand. Well, it's good that the
planet is in
a loop because I wrote this book. I wrote a book called Harold. It was about a
little boy in third
grade and what he thinks about in one day in third grade. And he can't, a third
grader wouldn't really
be thinking this, but, but he did point out that if it wasn't, if the planet
just, cause it's like in a
cul-de-sac, you know, but if it got out of that thing and just went straight, I
mean, yeah, that's
a whole other thing. I've never thought about that. We're lucky that it's in
this thing. I mean,
it's, it's like a merry-go-round, like a huge, it's very, imagine. We know
where we're going. We know,
we, we know the sun up in the year thing every day, like if it was just all of
a sudden broke out.
Yeah. Imagine it just, just the screams.
You're absolutely right. This is no day, no night,
it's all day. I don't know what it would be, but it wouldn't be. This is like a
pacifier.
We should be grateful that it's caught in t