Name: Steve-O | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steve-O | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-13. Transcript available.

Steve-O | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes

You made it weird, you made it weird, you made it weird, oh yeah. You made it
weird, you made it weird, yes you did, you made it weird, oh yeah. You made it
weird, you made it weird, with Pete Holmes. Yes you did, you made it weird, oh
yeah.
What's happening weirdos? This is my incredible conversation with the
incredible Steve O, who has a new special out now called The Bucket List. You
can find out how to watch it on steveo.com. You can also come see me, I'm doing
some stand-up coming up. Tempe, Arizona for New Year's, and then I will be at
the Brea Improv in California. And we did find new dates for Chicago. Apologies
again for rescheduling that, guys, that was a hard one for me.
But all of those tickets are available on PeteHolmes.com. Also, my special is
on Netflix right now. Please watch that if you haven't already. It's called I
Am Not For Everyone, and that is streaming on Netflix right now.
What else? I guess we could talk about the Pete's Picks. Pete's Picks, as you
guys know, I only do ads for things that I actually use and actually love. And
obviously, Modern Mammals is a huge one for me. I never used to wash my hair.
I hated washing my hair because shampoo sucks. Shampoo sucks. So there's a real
problem with shampoo. You wash your hair. I guess it's clean, but it looks like
a bale of hay that you just took out of the dryer.
It's crisp. It's fried. It's fluffy. It looks like crap. So you end up putting
more crap in your hair just to make it look natural again. It was a disaster.
So for years, I just wasn't washing my hair. And then I found Modern Mammals.
Modern Mammals, in a nutshell, is shampoo, basically, that cleans your hair. So
it's clean. Comb goes right through it. It's amazing.
But it doesn't dry it out. It looks like it looked before you washed it in the
sense that it's still natural, still maintains some of that oil, some of that,
I don't know how to describe it.
It basically looks like you have a little product in it after you washed it and
you're ready to go.
I mean, I've been on red carpets and I washed my hair with Modern Mammals that
morning. I never used to do that.
But of course, you have to clean your hair. So this is a huge problem. And this
is the solution. Modern Mammals.
It's a game changer. It's got 40,000 guides have switched to it instead of
traditional shampoo. The reviews are mind-blowing.
Once you use it, you will be hooked for life. I am hooked for life. You can't
go back.
Get a guy in your life, Modern Mammals, maybe this holiday season. It's a
wonderful gift.
They might not even know they need it, but you know they need it.
It's a small grassroots punk rock company. I love these guys.
And they're saving our hair, making this new shampoo alternative specifically
for men.
They have bars for no plastic and no fragrance or bottles. It's like a magic
gray mud.
And I love the feeling of it. I love the smell of it.
And I love that it gets you hair perfect every single time in six seconds.
Go to ModernMammals.com slash weird where people can get a special combo deal
and try both the bottle and the bar for both for $44.
You get both and support the show. ModernMammals.com slash weird.
We're also brought to us by our friends at Open.
You guys know I struggle with sleep. I struggle with anxiety. I have a brain
that's very active.
It's very hard to turn it off. It's hard to calm down and settle my mind.
I got a lot going on up there.
Well, thankfully, I found a new solution that's been working wonders for me.
The Open app, which takes you through thoughtful and intentionally designed
classes for clarity.
You can hear Lila in the background.
Anxiety, focus, energy, and sleep.
The difference between before and after for me, like before the calming breath
work class, is night and day.
I'm a huge fan of breath work, but it's not always easy to do.
You need help. I need guidance.
And I want to make sure I'm doing it right.
And the Open app takes care of all that.
I actually like to do it before I go on stage to feel a little more centered
and clear and get rid of that anxiety and those jitters so I'm calm and present
while I'm performing.
And I do it before bed.
The PM body scan has me out like a light.
If that's all it did, it would be incredible.
It took me years to find a better way, and now I'm passing it on to you.
And you only need five minutes a day.
The Open method is simple, and it works.
It combines breath work, meditation, and fitness.
They have a badass community of people doing it all together, all committed to
personal growth to help support you.
My only regret is not starting it sooner.
The app changed my life.
It will change yours.
If you want to get on my daily routine, you can get 30 days free of Open by
visiting withopen.com slash weird.
Again, that is 30 days free by visiting withopen.com slash weird.
Support your body.
Support your mind.
Support your life.
Support the show.
All right, everybody.
Enjoy.
Steve O.
Get into it.
Could you use your real voice?
Not this persona.
Can the real Steve show up?
What if you just were like, afternoon?
I was trying to work with a vocal coach at one point.
Buddy, brutal, right?
No, we have the same thing.
I went to a Cedars?
Not Cedars.
Cedars?
Is it a Cedars person?
No.
It's somebody who was referred to me by...
Who cares?
Yeah, exactly.
No, not that I don't care, but I don't want you to strain to try to remember.
No, no, yeah, I don't mind.
I just know it's sort of embarrassing.
This, you massage and you have to like stretch your tongue and brrrr before
shows and all
that.
Right, right, right, right.
It really worked.
Did you see the Metallica documentary?
The Some Kind of Monster?
Yeah.
What if you were like, no?
A long time ago.
Well, what made me feel better about it was James Hetfield is in the stairwell,
the most
metal person of all time, and he's going, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
And I'm like, there's no cool way to do it.
Right.
You just have to go, it's okay.
So we're recording.
There we go.
Thank you.
Right on.
It's great to be here.
I'm really happy to, we've walked past one another many times.
I, not long ago, had a set at the comedy store.
Yeah.
Walked in, you were on stage, and it was just thunderous.
No.
Thunderous.
Like, I mean, there's just something about the comedy store, man.
It's special, isn't it?
It's unbelievable.
And the energy in there, I just thought, man, I'm swimming with sharks tonight.
That's part of it, though.
You know what I mean?
It's like, to me, following great people, I still feel it, too, you know,
obviously.
I'm like, I just followed Santino there.
I saw you there.
Yeah.
I think, on Monday?
No.
Before the holiday?
No.
It doesn't matter.
No, not in the last week or so.
But yeah, absolutely.
I remember, who else was there?
Eliza was there.
She did great.
Yeah, she murders.
I just remember thinking, God, I've just got to step it up tonight.
Isn't that funny?
Because one of the things I sincerely admire about you, I'm a spiritual person,
and I'm always
talking about, like, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
There's nothing.
We're innocent.
Like, it's okay.
Right.
All this, like, self-acceptance.
I'm excited to talk about spiritual concepts with you.
That's great.
Well, one of the things, and this might sound false, but I sincerely mean it,
is, like, I
just took a pee, right?
And I was like, isn't it funny that Steve can pee in front of people?
And I really, I don't like it.
I'd rather not pee at a ball game.
You know what I mean?
Right.
And what is going on there is, like, a latent shame, like a denial of my human,
and you don't
have that.
I know that sounds funny, but, like...
You know, I do.
I just have it in different ways.
Tell me.
With my stand-up, even though I've been doing it, like, just, I've been doing
it belligerently
and persistently and aggressively.
I've just not stopped for 13 years.
Just, you know, like, I've maintained a schedule of touring that's unhealthy.
You know, I do so many shows.
It's a little on-brand.
And yet, somehow, because I came into stand-up from something else, I've got
this built-in
insecurity that people don't want to accept me.
Oh, no, that's real.
That's real.
Yeah.
And so...
It doesn't matter.
If you come in, like, Ricky Gervais creates the funniest TV show of all time,
does stand-up.
I have to imagine he was also like, do you accept me?
Because you came, like, late, which is so silly.
But I get it.
I get it because it can be like a clubhouse and it's like, oh, these are the
real, these
are the real pirates.
Right.
And you're a guy wearing a hat that you got at Pirates of the Caribbean being
like, argh.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
And over the course of the 13 years of me doing stand-up...
Which, by the way, you're minted.
Past 10.
You're minted, like, by anyone's standard.
You know what I mean?
Because stand-ups are worried that you're not, that you're a tourist.
Right.
You know?
13 years, that's longer than...
Yeah.
I mean, the reality, if my, you know, if my logical thinking applies, it's very
democratic.
If people don't want you to be doing it, then there isn't an audience and it's
gonna not
continue.
Right.
But for me, I was able to keep making it around to the comedy club circuit year
after year
and business got better and better and...
It's like getting your passport stamped.
Right.
It's like, look, I was there.
Right.
Yeah.
And over the course of the time, my comedy became multimedia.
Yeah.
Where, in the beginning, it was just me and a microphone.
Then it was me and a microphone, and I would edit footage in after the fact so
that my second
special could be multimedia, like...
Yeah.
But not for the audience.
Correct.
For the viewing audience.
Yeah.
So I didn't have it to lean on when I was touring.
The show on tour was just stand-up in its own right, but then I added footage
in after
the fact.
Yeah.
And that worked so well that I really wanted to bring footage with me on tour
for my third
hour.
Let them enjoy it.
Yeah.
And, God, it worked so well.
That's the special I've just put out.
Yeah, yeah.
I was just watching it this morning.
Oh, man.
It's a crazy way to start your day.
For me, it's like 9 a.m.
I just dropped my daughter off, and I'm like, oh, but that's it.
There's like a...
We call it...
I call it the Borat Factor, like watching it in a theater.
Yeah.
I cry for people that watch jackass movies or Borat without a crowd.
It's so fun.
That is the show, in fact.
The show is obviously the show, but there's a second show that's watching...
For sure.
All sorts of people react in different ways.
And so, early on, not that early on, but certainly, you know, a year or more
before I taped this
special, I sent a reference cut, a recording of the show with all the
multimedia baked in
to my buddy Johnny Knoxville.
Yeah.
And he said, hey, man, this is great, but, you know, he said, if you could make
your delivery
more conversational, that would help.
That's a hard thing.
That's a hard note to give, too.
It's a hard note to get.
But it's good to have a friend that could be like...
Couldn't agree more.
I'm trying to help.
Yeah.
But most people will just go, it's great.
Yeah.
Avoid it.
Oh, no.
Knoxville's always been very thoughtful, very candid.
That's like me and Birbiglia.
Mike Birbiglia will be like, I don't like this joke.
And you're like, oh, God.
Like, I'm so...
What's the Hollywood cliche?
Your managers are all like, it's the best, Steve.
It's the best.
Yes, people.
Because they're...
I mean, that's self-preservational.
They want you to release it.
They want it to make money.
They don't really care as much as a friend, a real friend.
For sure.
And he's always been that way in Knoxville.
And so, I continued touring with the show.
And I was trying so hard to just be more natural and loose and conversational.
And I just couldn't feel it working.
And ultimately, what I did was I hired a speaking coach.
Not a vocal coach, but a speaking coach.
To, yeah.
It's because you still have the rasp, right?
Yeah.
That