Name: Lewis Black | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Lewis Black | You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-18. Transcript available.

Lewis Black | 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. With Pete Holmes.
Yes, you did. You made it weird. Oh, yeah.
What's happening, weirdos? This is the return.
The return of Louis Black, who I... I don't know.
I told Val when I got home after this one.
I was like, I have a weird connection with Louis Black.
Whenever we're together, we have a great time.
We always go deep. We always have big laughs.
He's just... He's a solid, sweet, kind, funny, deeply interesting person.
And I'm so glad he's here, back on the show.
He has a special, a full special that's available on YouTube right now,
which is called Tragically, I Need You.
You got to check that out.
And not much else to say.
We're going to get right into it.
I just want to plug... What do I want to plug?
I have my monthly Largo show.
The last one was incredible.
It was sold out.
Sarah Silverman was there.
It was so fun.
Incredible show.
The next one is in November.
Go to largo-la.com for tickets to that.
If you would like to come see Pete Holmes living at Largo.
The rest of my tour dates are at PeteHolmes.com.
I'm going to be in Bloomington, Indiana, Washington, D.C., and in Chicago,
Illinois.
If you saw me in Chicago or D.C. recently, this is a new hour.
And I'm thrilled with it.
And I hope you like it.
So it'll be a different hour than the one you saw last time I was in town.
So go to PeteHolmes.com for those and all of the tour dates on the Feelin' It
tour.
We're calling this one the Feelin' It tour.
I also have a Netflix special coming out on October 24th.
Gosh, that's very, very soon.
So please, please, please.
I love it.
I worked hard on it.
I think it's my best one yet.
Go on Netflix and watch I Am Not For Everybody on October 24th.
And from that point on.
So check that out, please.
This special.
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All right, everybody, enjoy the return of the one and only Louis Black.
Get into it.
Here, grab that microphone and let out a concerning cough.
It's concerning.
That's really, I've had that since the fires.
Really?
Can I tell you something?
I dated a lady for about a year and she smoked and I, at the time, I was so codependent.
I'm still, you know, I have to keep an eye on it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, no, I get it.
It's not my strongest suit.
Codependence?
Yeah, I'm not a big codependent.
No, I know.
I'm a super, well, it depends.
You're self-reliant.
It depends on the day of the week.
Is that true?
Yeah.
You fluctuate?
Sip that coffee.
I'll finish this boring anecdote.
Anyway, I was so codependent, I would bum cigarettes from her.
I swear to God, I felt bad that she was the only one smoking.
Have you ever heard of such a thing?
No, that's crazy.
No, I've grown.
This was before therapy.
I'm just turning this off.
Let me turn mine off.
Do it.
Wow, I really enjoy talking to you.
You are so out of your fucking mind.
Well, I mean, you know, as I'm saying this, I'm like, I'm sort of having a
romantic feeling
for that version of myself.
He was so good for material.
Now I'm out there being healthy, being like reasonably balanced.
But she would smoke, and I would smoke.
So I wasn't smoking more than a couple, certainly not even every day, but only
a couple.
And speaking of coughs and the fires, when I laugh really hard now, which I
will, I'm
going to predict in this hour, I'll cough.
And it's just because I smoked a couple cigarettes for a year, off and on.
We're so fragile.
I've not smoked since 2000.
I haven't smoked since 2017.
Oh, I forgot you were a smoker.
I was a smoker.
So part of it is, but I didn't, it didn't really, you know, I had a cough.
Yeah.
And they said that would go away, and it didn't go away.
But we...
When you quit.
Yeah.
They were like, I'm here to tell you it's never going to go.
I know, really.
And you have no degrees in medicine.
I don't even need one.
You can frame as many pieces of paper, this guy.
Frame as many pieces of paper as you want.
Well, that represents a lot of time in school.
It's not just a piece of paper.
But yes, I don't have any degrees.
Yeah.
No, and, but I really, but it kicked in.
We were in Wisconsin.
And the day afterwards, you know, you turn the TV on in whatever, you know,
town you're in.
And they're going, well, you know, those fires in Canada really destroyed our
air quality yesterday.
It was, yeah, really dangerous for you to be.
Well, now you're telling me you fucking assholes.
Now we're talking.
We are so fragile.
Does that ever occur to you?
We were, we moved outside of the city.
We're up in Ojai and rain almost took us out.
Rain.
Like we're so...
Are you living outside the city?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is just...
We rented this place to our friend, Kate.
Is that right?
And every, every week, Kate doesn't know who the guest is.
And this week I said, oh boy, oh boy, Kate's a Jew.
Kate's a Jew.
Kate is Jewish.
And she gets very excited for the Jewish guests.
And I was like, well, I have the King Jewish guest.
I couldn't wait.
And I go, Louis Black.
And she gives me the most vacant look.
And I go, Jesus Christ, Kate.
I go, Jesus Christ.
And close the door on her.
As I was closing the door, she went, but I was like, how big do you have to be,
baby?
Well, that's the story.
That's the way things are.
No.
You go away for, you know, they lock you up for a few years with COVID, you
know, with the pandemic.
And then you come back out.
Even if you come up with your podcast, even with my fucking podcast.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In which I don't talk to anybody except myself.
Just you.
Just me.
We call that Burr style where you're just ranting.
Yes.
Yeah.
But what I do is read the rants of other people.
Oh, other rants.
I read, I read, when I start, about 2016 or something, I started on stage after
the show would end, I'd come back out and I would read rants from people.
You'd yell, wait, wait, don't leave.
There's more for 10 minutes.
Please sit back down.
And then we would broadcast it throughout the world.
It was sent throughout the world for free so somebody could watch.
It was my version.
Okay, you're not going to give me a TV show, you fucks.
I'm going to do this.
I'm going way back to the beginning.
Yeah.
To where I'm standing there with a script in my hands.
Yeah.
In front of a microphone.
Yeah.
You know, I'm, and I'm, that's it.
And doing other people's rants and then ranting about their rants?
And then contributing at times or sometimes you don't have to disagreeing.
Or sometimes you're just doing it.
Sometimes, but most of the, a lot of the times they got so good.
Yeah.
These rants, when it was finally, once they got the hang of it, once,
these, these folks were like, oh, I can write in his voice, which is,
I'm not a tough voice to write it.
No.
And once you've found that.
That's a great compliment.
Oh.
I think, you know, I'm agreeing.
And I think there's a great compliment in there that we should take a minute
to smell because it's so fragrant and delicious.
If you're easy to, all the greats are easy to impersonate, actors and comedians.
I never thought of it.
I just thought of it as kind of like simple-minded, you know, like.
I agree.
But I remember even in New York, when I was coming up, there was a guy that
would go,
and I was like, I'd, you know, call foul on the play.
Which is fine.
Maybe he was just trying you on for a week.
Well, that's what happens.
And that's what you gotta do.
I understand.
Well, and also is that other thing that happens when, which you know, as a
comic,
you, you leave, you come back, you know, two days later, you're working with an
opening
act.
And then you, like three days after that, just something says stuck in your
head and you do something.
That they did.
That they did.
Yeah.
I've seen that.
Not, not, not specifically the words, but just, you know, something that you
pick up.
My, okay, the guy, the man that I'm touring with right now, Matt McCarthy, I'm
watching
both of us bleed into each other.
You know what I mean?
And we just talk about it like it's a completely normal phenomenon, like
married partners that
look like each other.
Or you ever see two married people and they're both wearing Apple watches, but
they're like
a little too old or maybe they're new or something.
You're like, you bought that together.
You fucking sick fucks.
You know what I mean?
There's something kind of gross about it.
They're both wearing hokas.
Oh, you both went out and got hokas shoes.
Yeah.
Who shot first?
And then the husband's like, oh, I'll wear hokas.
I'll wear a peach colored shoe.
And now they're doing it.
See, you are fun.
I'm just enjoying.
You're like this permission for me to be like, you goddamn fucks.
It's good though.
No, it's healthy.
Well, it is healthy.
But what's so funny to me is you're like the, you're, you're very sweet to me.
I appreciate it.
And you're a very sweet person.
Yes, I took a compliment just from a fact.
I appreciate that, Louis.
I am very sweet to you.
And then you snap.
Yes, and then I snap.
And to watch you, someone like you snap or Ray Romano snap.
Yeah.
You know, it was way, he's way further as a presentational.
Yeah.
Sweet guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I saw him do this, you'll just as a sidebar.
Yeah, yeah.
This is a sidebar.
Whatever the fuck that means.
We can install one.
So I don't know what that means.
I don't, but some