Name: Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-05-03. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- You got babysitted by Sam Kinison.
It's one of the funniest fucking stories of all time.
Like what a crazy thing your mom did.
She left you as a little child
as one of the most maniacal comedians that's ever existed.
- Well, it wasn't exactly like that.
It was more like Sam was, I was 14 years old.
I was a shorter cook at the Comedy Store in Westwood.
My mom would put Sam on last
'cause all he would do is scream.
And then he would literally, you know,
there'd be six people left in the room in Westwood
and he'd throw the stools.
He'd throw his stool at the audience members.
They'd scamper off.
He'd smoke weed in the parking lot.
And then he would, you know, I'd feed him hamburgers.
So I kind of just, I was always taking care of comedians.
- What year was this?
- This was probably 84, 84, 85.
I was in high school, yeah.
- So he really hit in 86.
- Yes. - That's when he really hit.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Did I ever tell you my story, how I found out
him?
- It was probably Boston with Parenteau or something.
- No, a girl that I worked with at the Boston Athletic Club.
- Mm.
- Still to this day, I can't remember her fucking name.
She was really cool though.
She was this big volleyball player girl.
Like, big athletic girl.
And she goes to me, she goes, have you seen Sam Kennison, whatever his name was?
Um, I go, no, I haven't.
And so she acts out in the parking lot, the whole bit about him like being, no,
no, no, no.
The, uh, homosexual necrophiliac.
- Homosexual necrophiliac.
Oh God.
Yeah.
She acted it out in the parking lot.
Oh, oh, life keeps fucking in the ass even after you're dead.
It never ends.
It never ends.
Me laughing at her acting it out in the parking lot made me go get the VHS tape.
So I got a VHS tape of his, his HBO special and I was like, holy shit.
So I found out about it from a girl acting out the bit.
She was on her stomach in the parking lot going, oh, oh, feels like something's
in my ass.
I know.
You can't believe it.
That angle was genius.
It's such a fucking genius, genius point of view that, that night was, that was
1987.
And that was at the Roxy on sunset.
And my mom had an after party for him at the house, at the Doheny house.
So that night afterwards, Sam came to the house with everyone and, um, and I
was so excited
because I wanted to show him my, my saltwater fish tank because as a kid I had
a saltwater
fish tank and I brought him up to my room and I said, Sam, look at my tank.
And he wasn't impressed at all.
He's like, but he told me to take the top off the saltwater fish tank was a big
black top.
And I took it down.
He dumped all this Coke on it and he started chopping up lines and he says,
have fun.
And me and my friend Dave, we snorted Sam's Coke that night and I felt like so
cool.
I felt like no, for real, I was like, fuck this guy, you know, and then I just
followed
him around.
So as far as him, him babysitting me, it was, it was no, I was just the way it
would describe.
Yeah.
I mean, Lois Bromfield babysitting me, Jackson Purdue babysat me, Mike Binder,
Argus Hamilton,
all those guys.
So you were essentially just like his young protege.
Yeah.
I would fall.
It was like the Mike, Michael Jordan commercial.
Like, you know, the kid want to be like Mike, I want to be like, or I want to
be like Sam.
Right.
So yeah.
Look at you.
Yeah.
So yeah.
What year is that?
I was probably 11.
Wow.
It was probably 11.
What a fucking crazy place to grow up.
Yeah.
Back then.
Oh my God.
Back then.
Back.
I mean, yeah.
I mean, there's so many stories, dude.
I mean, I'm there now and it's, it's great.
Obviously it's the store.
But when mom was there, it was just like, you never know what the fuck was
going to happen.
You never knew who was going to pull in the fucking lot.
Right.
Right.
You never knew who was going to come up.
It was just like, it was like, it was like someone shooting guns.
Yeah.
Not literally, but just as far as the energy.
Boom, boom, boom.
I mean, Eddie Murphy used to show up with like six Rolls Royces, like for real,
dude.
And then Richard would show up and, you know, and all these guys would just
roll.
And this is, this is around when you got there.
It was kind of towards, right.
You got there.
94.
94.
That was probably before when I got there.
Yeah.
I saw the, um, the calendar you had for my mom where she put your name.
I thought that was really cool.
Yeah.
It's very cool.
Yeah.
So, um, yeah.
So that was, that was that time, you know?
You know, you know, I'm really proud of this.
Argus.
Look at this right here.
Yeah.
What is that?
What year is that?
That was last year.
No, I'm just kidding.
Pauly Shore bringing up Eddie Murphy.
Yeah.
When did Eddie retire?
So he retired in what year?
He stopped doing standup when?
Um, I don't know.
It was a while ago.
I was at, I was at his house probably five years ago and I was just like, dude,
what are
you doing?
Like you're fucking, you're the best dude.
Like, let's go.
Your mother had amazing taste though.
The funniest was, is I'd sit next to her as well and I would see people.
Do go on stage and if she called you over, you did good.
And if she didn't call you over, she wasn't interested.
And I would, I just, they do their set and they just walk by her and they're
like looking
at her and she's just like, just going through her papers and shit.
Yeah.
But yeah.
But if she liked you, you know, she, she brought you in, you know.
Yeah.
But having something like that, uh, like some gold standard bear keeper at the
top was very
valuable for the comedians.
Mm.
It was very valuable.
And she also would do, when she thought you were funny, she'd put you on after
killers.
Mm.
To follow like whoever was famous that was going to go down there.
Mm-hmm.
She wanted to make sure that you were tested, throw you into the fire.
And that's how you get better.
Mm-hmm.
She just fucking knew, man.
She knew.
And it's all things that people talk about now, but I think in, in her own way,
she sort
of devised, uh, like a modern strategy for getting better at standup.
Mm.
Having the environment, which she created, having one person who's like ruthlessly
critical
that watches over everybody's material and everybody's sets.
And then everybody aspires for the approval of your mom.
Mm-hmm.
And she had it set up so perfectly and because she wasn't a comic either and
because she was,
you know, she's royalty in the standup comedy world, she had everyone's respect.
Mm-hmm.
And she was right.
Mm-hmm.
She was right.
She knew.
She knew what the fuck to tell you.
She didn't like Seinfeld.
Which was hilarious.
Which is hilarious.
He lived up the street from me and my mom.
So me and my mom would walk the dog, Kelly, her dog, and we would walk by his
house.
You know what I mean?
Oh, there he is.
Not happening.
You know, rat tat tat, New York.
That's so weird.
Keep it, keep it going.
Let's keep moving.
I'm like, mom, be nice to him.
He's going, no, let's go.
And she just didn't buy into it.
That's so funny.
You know what I mean?
She didn't buy into it.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
Maybe because he didn't need her.
I don't know.
Cause he had already made it and he had a sitcom.
He was Seinfeld.
Oh, so he was already on Seinfeld when he auditioned for you?
I mean, he'd been on that show for a while.
It was around that time.
It was the early nineties, right?
Yeah.
I don't know what the exact date was.
Or Seinfeld.
She didn't like it when you were too developed.
Correct.
Yeah.
She liked getting people that had talent that were on the up.
Yeah.
And she didn't really like a lot of New York comics for some reason.
Interesting.
You know what I mean?
There was also a rift between obviously her and Bud Friedman and her and Lorne
Michaels.
People ask me like, hey, when you were doing all your movies, did you ever do
Saturday Night Live?
Did you ever host Saturday Night Live?
I never did.
And I think a lot of it has to do with Lorne Michaels and my mom.
I'm sure it can't help.
No.
It can't help.
Because she was harsh.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I was like, hey, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was like, you know, Mark Carey and Damon Waynes and all these guys.
And they were from the store.
Yeah.
And, um, you know, so, uh, uh, you know.
I wonder if your mom was concerned that if someone like Seinfeld got on, that
people who
would want to see sitcom style stand up, like very sterile stand up, would
start coming to the
clubs.
Like, and then you would start getting people going to see people just because
they're famous.
Mm.
And not really because they're good.
Mm.
I mean, she probably had a method to her approach.
I wonder what she was thinking.
Or I wonder if she just didn't want it because he was already developed and she
couldn't work
with him.
I don't think she just liked him.
I just don't think that.
She just wasn't into it.
I just don't think she liked that style.
But then she was driving by his house.
She was still talking shit.
No, we're walking.
Oh, walking by the house.
And then he said some shit.
He said, and that's another thing.
He never asked me on his fucking car show.
I got all my friends on his car show.
I'm like, dude.
And it's again, I think, like, it's always awkward.
And Leno, too.
Whenever I see Leno, it's fucking weird.
Yeah.
Letterman's cool.
I love Letterman.
But Leno's always been weird because these guys, like, Leno striked against my
mom.
Oh.
And there was this weird thing.
And, you know, and...
My relationship with Leno is very different.
He's always been very nice to me.
And we both love cars.
So I have great conversations with him about cars.
I don't know the history of that.
I mean, I do know it, but I wasn't aware of it.
But my point is, is that he never did anything to me.
I'm just talking about my mom's relationship with Jay.
And I think it has to do with the strike.
But when I did see Jay at the Palm restaurant in Beverly Hills years ago, when
my mom was there, he came up and gave her a kiss.
But then, of course, she mumbled.
Yeah.
The fuck is going on with him?
Tell me to get the fuck out of here.
That's just the way...
She was so funny, dude.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Oh, that's hilarious.