Name: Jon Peters on Becoming Barbara Streisand's Hairdresser, Having a Bullet in His Chest
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jon Peters on Becoming Barbara Streisand's Hairdresser, Having a Bullet in His Chest' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-09-15. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience because my uncle's the Paganos the Italian twins they
did Marilyn Monroe
they did all the movie stars so when I was a little kid I was in their beauty
shop Wow and
I got the first time you saw like a movie star how old oh three so it wasn't
even weird you know
and then I did it heard their hair see you know on the magazine thing clients
come they tell their
friends I was doing 30 40 people a day so how did you go from it was a Barbra
Streisand you went from
here it was basically Barbara yeah I met her I put the word out that I wanted
to meet her and I'd go
anywhere anytime anyplace for free and I knew the free would get her and are
you a hustler yeah baby
I am motherfucker every sense of the goddamn word crazy question what a crazy
question to ask
someone such a strange question I don't know is Dana White a hustler are you a
hustler yeah okay so
you hustle right yeah even when your leg hurts you hustle me too the only
difference is that I had
to deal with overwhelming anxiety which I have now pretty much got under
control what start well
that's another thing just in judge just going into the fight because everything
was like a fight to me
right so you were constantly yeah so when I was a kid and we were at Van Nuys
junior high school and one of
the Chicanos told me off we'd I'd meet them in the back of the gym 500 kids
would show up and we'd go at
it I'd take them out I'd rest them down boom wrap up it was it really and it
happened the 30 times people
would challenge me the kids would come and I always had a sense of dramatic you
know one time I knew I
couldn't beat this kid there was the bleachers he was standing there I went up
on the beat bleachers and
did a superman punch I dove off the bleachers and hit him like that and knock
them out you know I went
this way that way and he went out yeah I didn't know it was a superman punch I
used the bleachers as
a as a launching pad for my punch that's a creative maneuver yeah I'm creative
guy I get it I never
gotten any street fights like that yeah I avoided them all one time yeah I was
smart but my dad died
I was in a lot of pain I didn't feel the punches I didn't feel nothing yeah I
got shot right in my
chest I didn't feel it you got shot in your chest yeah what caliber 22 so it
stayed why did somebody
shoot you yeah it was a gang fight and guy brought a couple of guns and this
guy shot the gun and the
bull hit me in the chest and then like many years later when I married Leslie
and Warren who was a big
Broadway star we went to the doctor and the guy took me in the room he said I
said what he said you know
you got a bullet in your chest I said don't tell anybody he was in the fatty
part of the thing and
it's still there right now I love doing here I don't get into hairdressing when
I got out of juvie my
mother the judge said you have to put them somewhere so she put me in beauty
school and I had shot five
guys and and you shot five guys yeah yeah how'd you shoot yeah um it was an axe
I never said this
before five people bags yeah yeah well no it was a gang fight it was a fight
and it's in San Fernando and
it was like 30 guys and uh um has a statute of limitations passed on this or
should we edit this
so yes yes you're out there shooting and and and and it was uh somebody else's
everybody in woodshop was
making a weapon I remember that from high school yeah I used to make nunchucks
and say they were
table yes yes exactly yeah when yeah that's what happened and these this guy
came with these guns and
these guys was good and I bang bang and then this guy was it was and then I was
like oh my god what the
that was the changing of my life that and when I was in juvie a guy that I met
from boys town which
was a in the middle of the country a place where a lot of fucked up kids would
go he came from boys
town he ran away he went to juvie and they they weren't supposed to they weren't
supposed to have
things and they covered it up but he tried to get away and they shot him on the
fence right in front of
me and 30 other guys oh and uh and and uh he was uh fuck you he was I said man
you're gonna get killed
you gotta shut your fucking mouth you gotta take it cool if you're gonna get
out of here you gotta work
your way out there's no escaping this strong big blonde haired guy farmer boy
years ago and then
i'm getting tired i gotta go but um uh years ago when i was with leslie and warren
i was had a beauty
shop and it was on the corner of rodeo and brighton way it was called the john
peter salon uh um oj would
come hunt the girls everybody's on the girls because i'd have like 40 or 50
beautiful girls getting their
out there and all day long this guy comes in my mother happened to be working
at the desk
and he comes in in big overalls big tall guy and he um says i'm here to see uh
cinderella
you know the leslie and warren and i i came out i said i'm her husband and he
was like a fan of
mission impossible whatever it was i don't remember was the time next thing i
know we went home that night
and he had been there in the colony he had come to the colony so i sent out a
bunch of my guys
because a lot of the hairdressers i had were guys like you there were tough
kids that were smart and
they were and they and they needed a chance they went to beauty school and they
got out and they
women were lined up around the block sounds like a movie it is my life is like
a crazy that does sound
like a movie a bunch of tough guy hairdressers yeah protecting you right out in
front with all the
motorcycles all lined up wow so tough guy hairdressers on motorcycles yes that's
a movie
they and then the when the thing was over the la times said they don't make
hairdressers like they
used to because the guy kate was coming into the house he had a little pistol
in his hand like this
he was walking in i had a mezzanine i looked at him i was naked i jumped on the
mezzanine off the
mezzanine jumped on him he went through the jumped on him with his pistol oh
yeah i don't right i didn't
see it until i was in the air oh jesus and he was like this and it was dark and
it was backlit
and you're naked and i was naked yeah i just woke up i could hear him walking
around i wasn't
thinking i just moved that's a surprise naked dude jumps on you from a mezzanine
and he ended up
ended up with 160 stitches because he came to rob he came to kidnap her jesus
christ so we fought out
into the into the colony naked me naked and him in the farmer outfit yeah good
thing i didn't get a
heart on right oh my god good thing you'd have questions it's a true story i
believe it you'd look
look it up in the la times