Name: Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-29. Transcript available.

Michael Showalter | You Made It Weird

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.
What's happening weirdos? This is my conversation with the incredible Michael
Showalter. I have been a fan of Mike's for a very, very long time. From the
state, obviously. From Stella. From his comedy work. Also his work as a
director. One of my favorite films of this past year. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Baker. Incredible, incredible movie. He's done so many movies that I am such a
huge fan of.
I was very, very excited to sit here on the sleepover couch with him. And I
want to get it, get to it as soon as possible. Katie, what is the, it's July 12th?
July 12th. I do a live standup show at Largo here in Los Angeles. So whenever
you watch this, just go to largo-la.com and you'll find Pete Holmes living at
Largo. That is always the highlight of my month. It's my favorite place to do
standup. We've been having Amy Schumer did it recently.
Dimitri Martin, Judd Apatow, Zach Galifianakis, Adam Sandler has come by the
show. But regardless of who comes by as a special guest, I'm always there. I do
about 45 minutes. New material, old material, mixing it up. It's always, always,
always super, super fun. So hope you can be there. Largo-la.com. The next one
is July 12th.
And if you like the show, why not try a Pete's pick? I'm actually, this episode
is brought to us by our friends at Apollo Neuro. This is my Apollo Neuro. I'm
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All right, everybody, hope to see you at Largo this month. In the meantime,
enjoy my chat with the incredible Michael Showalter. Get into it.
Hello. You know, how's this? Can I do this? Can I do this? Oh my God. It's so
good.
Wait, we're not being filmed, though. We are, aren't we?
We are. The first thing, if that's okay, the first thing I say to guests is...
Get comfortable?
Go ahead and cross your feet on the couch. Like, put your shoes on the couch.
Oh, no, no, I can't. I wouldn't do that.
You can. Or you can...
I'm sure I can. I just don't want to.
Okay.
It's not because I'm a... Like, because it just wouldn't be comfortable for me.
Oh, okay. Well, here, take this second pillow.
Oh, that's good. Yeah.
And there's actually more pillows behind you. Here's another one.
Does this air? Does this air?
We just started doing it on the YouTubes because, guess what?
You get a lot of views that way.
That's how people consume podcasts now.
The Showalter, Showalter, way ahead of its side.
Interesting. So they go...
So it's back into... It's, like, back to that.
No, but it used to be that in the beginning.
It was that. Then it went to, like, radio.
When it was, like, Adam Carolla and, like, Joe Rogan.
But it's, like, become popularized now that you do both, right?
Yeah, I resisted for a long time, but I'm happy to say it's not.
Yeah.
I thought it would change it.
We've been doing a bunch of episodes and it feels completely the same.
Sure.
In fact, it feels better because, frankly, like, sometimes you go, like...
You make, like, a face or something.
Like, now you know.
You don't have to go, like, I'm making a face.
You know, like, you don't have to explain it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or it's, like, what you can't see right now is that this person is making a
funny,
very funny face.
You have to explain it.
There have been many times where I've said, I wish this was a video podcast,
but I worried that it would ruin the intimacy because, you know,
I want it to feel just like a chat, not, like, press or whatever.
Sure, sure.
And so far, it hasn't been a problem.
No, I remember many, many years ago going on Tom Green,
who was literally, like, the first person to do the, like, DIY...
Oh, yeah, in his basement.
It was in his house in the Hollywood Hills.
It had a basement feel.
I won't be wrong.
It had a basement feel.
And, oh, man, that was one of the worst experiences of my whole life.
Really?
Yeah.
Tell me every single detail.
Well, they blindfolded me.
First of all, they met me in some...
I was in L.A. for just, like, auditioning for pilots or something.
I mean, this was a long time ago.
Yeah.
And they blindfolded me.
I was met at my hotel or somewhere down in Hollywood or wherever I was staying.
And his, like, underlings met me and blindfolded me because I couldn't know
where he lived.
As a bit?
Not as a bit.
As a bit?
Not as a bit.
Again, I say?
It was a very, like...
It was very, like, he was Colonel Kurtz and this was Apocalypse Now and I was
being taken to the, like, the, you know, to the, like, to the, you know, to the
king or whatever.
Freddy got fingered.
Yeah, Freddy got fingered.
Yeah.
That is...
So I was blindfolded and driven to his house in the hills.
Not joking.
Not a bit.
Not a bit.
Not even remotely a bit.
And it was, like, I'm sorry, we have to do this.
It was very much, like, sorry, this, I know this is weird.
But even that could have been a bit.
Like, you know a bit.
God.
You know a bit.
I swear to God it was not a bit.
Like, you were thinking at the beginning.
No.
I was thinking...
Maybe a bit.
Nope.
I was thinking, this is weird.
I feel weird.
I don't think I want to do this.
The whole thing was weird.
I was afraid of Tom Green.
Because at this time, he was in this kind of...
And I'll tell a little bit more of the story.
He was in his, like, very unpredictable phase.
Yes.
Like...
The bit is, I might slap you or bite you.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
The joke is that I had diarrhea on your seat.
Yeah.
And then the big punchline is you being, like...
Yes, it was very, like, gonzo.
It was very gonzo.
Yeah.
And I didn't like that.
I hate that.
Yeah.
I'm not a prank person.
Even Hunter S. Thompson, I'm kind of, like...
Oh.
Take it easy.
A hundred percent.
Right?
A hundred percent.
I was...
Just be a normal person.
Just be a normal person.
When people are, like, they go out and shoot his TV.
I'm, like, I'm his neighbor being, like...
Don't do that.
It scared us.
Yes.
It scared us so bad.
Yes.
Yes.
A hundred percent.
Be a normal person.
We're going for a society here.
Yes.
It's not that...
Yeah, barely.
But it's not that hard.
The whole point of a society is it's sort of hard to stay in the society, but
it's nice.
Yeah.
Like, people that say, I have no filter.
It's like, you should have a filter.
You should have a filter.
We all build filters.
Yes.
Do not humiliate, embarrass, offend other living, loving people.
Yes.
Be like, sorry.
It's not that hard.
It's not that hard.
Oh, so you got stupid shoes.
Sorry, I have no filter.
Build one.
You fucking idiot.
Build a filter.
You think I was born with a filter?
I'm sorry, I'm a child.
Great.
Grow up.
So, I agree.
First of all, I totally agree.
So, I go to this place.
My blindfold is taken off.
Of course, I don't know where I am.
I know I'm up in the hills somewhere.
Yeah.
No landmarks?
None that I would recognize.
What if you're like, I take it off, I'm right by the arc light?
Yeah, no.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm next to Pink's.
See, that's a bit.
He lives next to Pink's, that hot dog stand on Fairfax Road.
That would make it a bit if I blindfolded you and took you to Pink's.
Yes.
And you were like, this is a landmark.
It's Pink's.
There's only one of it.
So, he, it's called Pink's, right?
That hot dog stand?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
On Melrose, I believe.
So, because there also was like Pink Dot.
Is that a thing too?
Pink Dot is a grocery store that will bring you cigarettes and pornography.
And licorice.
It's presumably where Phil Hoffman is calling in Magnolia.
He's calling a Pink Dot.
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember Pink Dot.
I mean, I remember, yeah, it's like there's one on Sunset.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, and then he interviewed me, but he was definitely, there was a whole thing
going on.
There was like, oh, he has this whole entourage of young men that were like
very, you know,
he has a real, he, this is again, this may have been as many as 20 years ago.
And he had a huge, but, but I remember that it was the first like DIY interview
show made
in his basement, you know, with like where the, all the cameras were like that,
you know,
the, like the, just the, you know, like video, no, and, but he had 10 guys
working for him
and it had a very weird vibe, very agro, macho male, like a very agro male vibe.
Well, there's something, there's a paradox to Tee Green, which is that he's
like, I'm
a skinny dork, I'm a skinny dork.
But as soon as his, his number came in, he was like, fuck you.
And I'm just like, it's sort of not, not necessarily fuck you, but agro.
It was frat boyish.
Fratty.
It was fratty.
Yeah.
Freddy got fratty.
Freddy got fratty.
Freddy got fratty.
So he interviews me.
He has no clue who I am.
Literally.
Zero re.
I mean, barely.
Yeah.
I'm just the guy that's one of his lovely underlings.
The guy that was apologizing to me about the, the blindfold was very nice and
was a fan.
Yeah.
And it was like, they often are the people with the blindfold that work for the
overlord.
The apologizing blindfolder was like, I'm really sorry, but like, I loved wet
hot or something.
You know, and it was like, Hey, Tom, you should have Michael Showalter from wet
hot on your show.
Who's that?
I don't know, but he's 