Name: Jessica Kirson on Meeting Robert De Niro
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jessica Kirson on Meeting Robert De Niro' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-06. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience like I remember the first time I ever met Anthony Bourdain.
I
Said my wife says you're my boyfriend
Was he like what just like what the fuck because I my wife used to say oh you're
watching your boyfriend on TV
She always joke around because I love that no reservation show. Yeah, so I said
that to him it came out totally wrong
But that's a you know, he's a guy like really admired and here he is he's right
there and you you're all
Comfortable and weird and so people are gonna be like that with you. I bet he
was so down-to-earth. He's super normal
Yeah, he was great. So was De Niro like I really De Niro though. Yeah. What'd
you do with De Niro? Oh, Joe?
This is the best story. I was at the cellar late at night, and he was there
with Taylor Hackford
Looking he's a huge director married to Helen Mirren. He was the you know head
of the Directors Guild
Directed Ray and officer and a gentleman like a huge movies you wow and
De Niro was looking for comics to be in his movie and
I was doing a set and I do this thing in my act where I turn around and talk to
myself
My specials call talking to myself where I have an inner dialogue
And I'm like doesn't matter how this goes you'll never make it you know, like I
have a whole my back to the audience and
And and he loved it and I was I went to Florida to do an old-age community
fucking Jewish show
Oh boy. Yeah, and that Saturday I get a call and it's Taylor Hackford and he's
like this is Taylor Hackford and I'm like
Okay, I had no idea who the hell he was
He's like Bob would like to meet with you on Wednesday, and I'm like Bob who?
I know idea I'm like Bob the Builder. I had no idea right and he's like Bob De
Niro and I'm like, okay
So I'm like I can make it
so I walk into the the office and I walk in the room and he's sitting there and
I was not starstruck
It was the weirdest thing because he looked like a just a guy from off the
street like he had jeans on and I don't know
I just he was like a regular guy to me. Yeah
And I sat with him for three hours and I hit it off with him and to make a very
long story short
I ended up being his right-hand person in this movie. I be I got a producer
credit
I was in his ear the whole time on a microphone. I I taught him how to do stand-up
He played a comic who had been doing it for 36 years in a movie called the
comedian
I ended up directing some of the scenes
um
I mean it might have been like six years ago something like that. Why do I not
know about this?
Oh, you got it. Yeah, it's it's a yeah, that's he and I
We became very close. Wow
comedian gives tips to Robert De Niro. Yeah, he's he's an amazing person
He really is that's cool
So down-to-earth you would think he has the biggest ego. He has no ego. You can't
be that good
He doesn't I mean to be that as good as he is you got to have a pretty strong
mind
Yeah, he's not and he I think like that. I never
Was starstruck with him like I didn't care. Yeah, I just sat with him and was
like
And we're still very close and I
I love him. I really do like he just
He just doesn't give a shit. He's so he's so funny like he
He has all these kids. He's like, he's just really amazing. He's really amazing.
How many kids do you have?
He has six kids. Wow. Yeah, with one lady or a gang of chicks? No a couple
He's a couple of different different baby mom. Yeah, we like talking about
women together like he's fucking amazing. Yeah, he's just got divorced
I know when guys the second time that's the same woman. Yeah, same woman you
got divorced. Yeah
When guys are that old and they get divorced. I'm like, how bad must it be?
Yeah, for the second time when you're like you want to be alone and you're 78
or whatever
Well, the guy let me tell you something. He's hot
He works out every morning at five in the morning with a trainer. Yeah, he's
built. He has tattoos all over him
I mean, I just sit in his trail. Yeah, he's tatted up
He's got my Robert de Niro has tattoos all over the place. I know his chest.
Jamie find these well
His arms of them there might be I mean there might be photos
But I would sit with him in his trailer. He was getting his makeup done, but
I hung out with harvey kytel
They were all in the movie harvey kytel danny devito and I used to go out to
dinner with them and lunch with him every day and
I would be stars and harvey's like, you know harvey was like I want to take you
to lunch
I want you to teach me how to do stand-up. So I went to lunch with him
I'm like, I am not teaching every old actor now
But I said to harvey, why did you you know your jewish guy from new york? Why'd
you become a marine? He goes so I could kill people
That's what he said to me. Whoa. Yeah, he's a tough dude. He might not want you
to tell people that and he podcast
No, he doesn't give a shit. He's fucking amazing to harvey kytel is amazing
I'd love that. He's a tough he what an actor
One little bitch-ass tattoo. Yeah, but he has more than that. No, he has more
than me
He's a hundred years old in this movie. No
No, he has more than that on the other arm. He does he has more than that for
sure of them like me. No, not like you
think he doesn't have any tattoos
Wow, he must have got him after yeah, well that looks really recently click on
that robert de niro at the beach
No, he doesn't have them like you
That's three years ago. You crazy line, bitch. No, you son
First of all why are you lying about robert de niro? No, I'm not because they
might have put more on him for the movie
I'm an idiot
But he does have them
Okay, they're not real
No, he has one in that photo. Yeah, I got one little bitch-ass tattoo. Look at
that stupid little tiger crawling up his leg
No, but seriously, it was after he had makeup done. Maybe they put extra on him.
I don't know. I don't know if they did
Yeah, um, how weird though. Did they appear in the movie the tattoos?
Maybe he got them removed. No, he did have more tattoos in the movie
He did maybe he got them removed. He did because he was playing younger. They
they painted his beard black, you know
He had a black mustache and black
So they probably wasn't gray in the movie wanted to make him some yeah, he was
like in his 60s in the movie
Okay, um
But he was great and he has no he has no, uh
Like he's not stuck up or like he's not egotistical. He's not what you people
would think he is
Well, he's a real artist amazing
I mean if you want to do a film like taxi driver or cape fear or and you mean
any of the transformative movies raging bull
I mean, he was literally the first actor decided he's gonna gain weight for a
movie
Right, right? Yeah, no one did that before him. He transformed his literal body
I mean, he was fucking shredded and then he became like really overweight for
that movie raging bull. I know
Want to hear the best story the first day of filming was at a deli in brooklyn
And taylor hackford didn't even know that he like hired me to be his like right-hand
person
So de niro says just good calls me music. I want you to come to brooklyn come
to the to the filming today
I need you to punch up some jokes for me. I'm like, oh boy. Does taylor know i'm
coming. He's like, I don't care
Just want you to show up and help me out
So I show up he's in the middle I get there a little late because of traffic
He's in the middle of doing a scene with uh with
Danny devito and uh
Patti lapone who plays danny devito's wife
Right, so I walk in de niro runs up to me goes. I need a joke for this line. So
I give him a joke
So I go wait in the side and uh, he says the line and patty and danny start
hysterically laughing
So taylor starts yelling. What the fuck is going on here. We got to get through
this. Why are they laughing?
So he goes well, jessica came in and gave me a joke. So he comes over and he
starts yelling at me
This is the first day of filming because you can't just do this
You can't just come in here and screw up everything
De niro took his arm. He goes if you ever fucking talk to her like they start
screaming. I'm like what is happening?
Where am I?
I'm in the filming with
Robert didn't I was just at the cellar
Doing a set like what is happening. He goes don't you ever fucking talk to her
like that again?
I mean that's set the tone for the next six months
Because he knew not to talk to me and like he set the tone like don't ever talk
to her
And i'm just sitting there like eating a freaking ish like where am I?
What's happening?
It was amazing. Oh, he I was treated like gold after that
His temper is
Yeah, you don't I mean when he yelled my hair blew
like my hair blew back
Like a lion's roar. Oh, he was yeah, he's a he's you don't screw with him. What
was harvey keitel like?
So intense
So what you would think he is like and he would get enraged before a scene, you
know, like he was a real meisner actor like
totally what you would think
Charming attract. I mean the three of them together. Can you imagine going to
dinner with danny devito harvey keitel and
And de niro. I mean it was like unreal. That's incredible and leslie mann was
in it
So judd was around a lot. I mean it was fun. Wow. It was fun
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