Name: John Travolta Helped Chris DiStefano with His Letterman Appearance
Uploaded: 2022-05-24T17:04:11.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Travolta Helped Chris DiStefano with His Letterman Appearance' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Travolta Helped Chris DiStefano with His Letterman Appearance' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-24. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
Jimmy, you kind of look like John Travolta.
Did anyone ever tell you that?
Do people tell him that all the time?
Not recently, but uh, yeah.
You do have a, cause I've never seen you, I've heard of you,
but there's really no pictures of you online.
While I was watching Owen Gray last night, I tried to
incorporate you, and I never,
but you do have a John, but not,
but I mean like a in shape, good looking,
Thank you. What did Gads say?
You said you looked like Alec Baldwin? No, it was Bill Maher.
Bill Maher said it. Because John Travolta
now looks like if you and Joe had
a baby. That's what John Travolta looks like right now.
If you just put John's face on
Joe's head. There you go. I met John Travolta
once. You guys ever meet him? Yeah, I met him.
Yeah. Yeah, I met him at Fear Factor. His wife,
Kelly Preston,
since passed,
she was on the show. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Yeah, I did David Letterman
in 2013, and
it was first time on
television doing anything, and it was a big
deal for me, not only get stand-up
on Letterman, but John Travolta was the other
guest. So I remember like that
week, like my mother was just telling all her friends,
she was like, I'm gonna go see John Travolta
on Letterman. And I was like, also like your son
is doing stand-up, but she never, she
just cared about Travolta. She was like,
I can't believe, like she was kept picking out different dresses.
She was like, what do I wear? And
so I did,
and my mom and dad who were divorced,
it was one of the first times, because before I had my
kid, my first child, so
before I had my first child, my mom and dad
never talked. They had like a divorce, and they
just, you know, especially as I got over 18,
they were just like, we don't talk anymore.
So it was one of these things where like, it was the first time
where like my mom and dad were gonna be in the same room.
And
I'm, so it's like all nerve-wracking,
and I'm about to go do the show.
I bought a suit the night before
from this place, Joseph A. Bank.
It was in like a strip mall in Syosset, Long Island,
and it was like three sizes too big. So I just
had this over-sized suit on.
I was like really nervous, and
I go down, and John Travolta's
on the couch, you know,
crushing it. He's John Travolta.
And then I'm about to go up next to do
stand-up, and he
you know, the commercial break happens,
and he's walking out,
and I'm standing there like nervous
with my 3X suit, and he stops, and he looks
at me, and he goes, you have on a beautiful suit.
I was like, thank you. I was like, I feel like it's too
big. And he was like, no, it's beautiful.
I was like, oh, yeah. And my mom's sitting
right there fucking dying. That Travolta's
like looking at me. She's like trying to smell his breath.
And so, Travolta
says to me, he goes, what do you
do? What's your talent? I'll never forget.
He goes, what's your talent? I was like, oh,
I'm a stand-up comic. And he was like, oh, very
nice. And then he was like, you seem
a little nervous. And I was like, yeah,
yeah. And then he puts his
hand on
my chest, like just puts his hand
right on my chest. Like Jesus.
Right in the, right, right in the middle.
Right in the heart. Right on the heart. No, seriously, like
right in the middle. And, and, and I was in my
head because I was like, you know, I got fat nipples. So I was like, I hope
he doesn't think like, you know, I'm not jacked.
And then, and then he, and then he
goes, why is your heart beating so fast? And I was
like, cause you're, you're John Travolta, you're massaging my nipple.
And he goes, don't, it was, he goes, don't be nervous about what you're about
to do. And he goes, you've done it already. And I said, no, I'm actually going
on after you. I haven't done it yet. He goes, no, you've done it already. It's
over. And I was like, are you stupid? I know. Are you dumb fuck? I was like, I
was like, I'm going on next. And he was like, the work is done. And I was like,
I'm going on next. And he was like, the work is done.
And then I was just like, what do you mean? And then the whole time his hand is
on my chest. He goes, I'm sure that Mr. Letterman had to vet you personally. I'm
sure that you've had to practice this set a thousand times before you got to
this moment. So the work is over. So now you just have to go be in the present.
That's your only job is to be in the present because the, the set that you're
about to do is done. You've completed the work already. Now it's just living
the moment, which is the fun part of the hard part of the journey.
The hard part is over all these words. And my heart is like slowly going down.
Like I swear, I was getting like very, very calm. And he goes, I'm going to
stand right here. And I want to watch you live this moment. He goes, this is
rare that I get to see this at the level I'm at in my career to see someone get
to begin their journey in entertainment. He goes, I'm going to see her. I want
to watch every second of this. I'm going to be here for you. And I, and with
that, the Letterman people are like, Chris, you're on next. And give me that
little push. David Letterman this whole time. I hadn't even listened. David
Letterman was already being like, and our next guest, you know, standup comic,
you know, making his appearance, making his national television debut on the
David Letterman show. I didn't even hear any part. I just hear, please welcome
Chris DiStefano. And with that, I'm going out. Yeah. Look at how big my fucking
suit is.
Hold on. Play it out. Play it out. Oh, go, go from the beginning.
So you, you had just been touched by John Travolta. He is in that back corner.
Literally, if you look closely, I almost have a boner. And look at how big that
suit is.
Oh, it's good.
Thank you. How you guys doing? I'm from New York. You can tell.
I put on the New York accent. That was dumb.
I don't pronounce our R's. It's not New York. It's New York. Just skip the R
always.
We don't need to, I don't want to do this to you.
Yeah. It's, it's all good. And, um, it's the worst thing ever. Do you want me
to finish the Travolta story?
Oh, sure. I didn't know there was more to it.
Well, yeah. Well, the reason why there's more to it is because Travolta, I told
you, he goes, he kept telling me, you know, I'm going to watch this moment and
all that. And it was the most, um, calm I ever was still to this day doing TV.
Like I was more calm the first time doing that five minute Letterman set than I
was doing a whole Netflix special or whatever. I was so calm because of his
words.
And then when you came backstage, was he naked?
When I came backstage, I was looking to see him and he was gone. And I said to
my mom, I was like, mom, where's John Travolta?
She goes, he left immediately. As soon as you said, hi, my name's Chris. He
walked away, left, went on. He, so he just did that for you, for me, which at
first I was angry. I was like, where's John? And then as time went on, I was
like, oh, that's the nicest thing anyone could have ever done for me.