Name: The Origins of The Undertaker Character
Uploaded: 2021-01-21T00:40:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Origins of The Undertaker Character' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Origins of The Undertaker Character' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience how did you become the undertaker so so that's that's
Vince's brainchild so I went to another company WCW where I was mean mark
callus and right there check that young stud out right there that's terrifying
is Hobbit yeah that's yeah we can take that down anytime so so so I go there
and I was about I was
there about eight or nine months and my contract was coming up and I go I go in
to renegotiate my
contract and they were like look you're great athlete kid but no one's ever
gonna pay money
to watch you Russell like I'm just looking for a little bit of bump right a
little bump in my
paycheck I'm not looking for the mega deal I'm just looking for a little bit of
bump now we're
gonna give you the same deal for a year I mean you're just you know you do
great things in the
ring but no one's ever gonna pay money to see you Russell did they give you
advice on how to get
someone to pay no wow yeah that was it that was it so I'm like okay I've my
ceiling I know where my
ceiling is here right so just through you know a few different people I get
connected with some
people in the in the W that which was WWF at the times WWE now and I had a
match coming up my hip was
already bad at that point even back then yeah it got much worse but I was
already limping and uh
and I just heard it when we'd got Vince you know they had said all right you
know they've got a
pay-per-view just watching work you know so Vince watches me work and I'm calm
like I'm you know
talking to my buddy Bruce I'm like Bruce my hip is jacked he goes just go out
there Vince is going to be
watching right so I'm working with a guy by the name Lex Luger went out there
and did what I could
I sucked I mean I was you know I was I was physically you know I was physically
not able really to to go
the way I could go and Vince wasn't impressed you know he's like okay he's you
know he's running the
mill fortunately guys like uh you know Paul Heyman and and uh and Bruce Pritchard
you know they believed
in me and they kind of kept pushing for me to get this meeting with Vince and
finally I did I and he
calls me I got to go to his house right so I go to his house Vince's house like
fuck he could it's nice
it's fucking nice he's in Connecticut man he's so you're in Greenwich yeah so I'm
up in call to the
castle oh dude yeah and that's what I'm thinking right because most people go
to you know the office
to the towers there in Stanford right and I'm thinking fuck I'm going to the
house I got this
shit right so I go in and have the meeting meeting goes for about an hour and a
half and you know and
this is you know there's a lot of does he have a butler but he I don't know if
he I know he had a
housekeeper I would imagine there'd be a dude with a British accent answering
the door I never saw him
no sleeves just ripped yeah right you had to be everybody everybody's jacked
that works for Vince
but uh so I go I go there and uh you know granted we do some hokey shit it is
what it is and they
really at that point had some really really fucking goofy characters and uh you
know so that we're
having this we're sitting in his living room and he goes well Mark you got any
hidden talents you know
other than you know wrestling do you do anything you know and I'm trying to be
funny and not nervous
and uh well you know I sing in the shower pretty good and as soon as I said it
right I'm like oh
fuck I shouldn't have said that I'm gonna be fucking I'm gonna be fucking
shower guy or you know
something something silly right shower guy yeah I'm gonna have to say you know
and I'm thinking
it is and I'm like oh shit I should not have said that right and then I'm like
I'm kidding you
know I'm trying to clear the air right away I'm like I'm just kidding I can't
sing not you know
and you know he's got the look right and he knows how you know he can read
people and he's like
really oh no I can't I can't so I got this long meeting and I at the end of the
meeting he goes well
we don't have anything for you right now I'm thinking oh fuck I guess uh I
guess I overplayed
my hand here because I'd already give WCW my notice that I was leaving I like
fuck I kind of
I mean this is what I'm thinking in my head right I was like he invited me to
the house he's
gonna hire me right so all right you guys I'll see you guys down the road so
now I'm sitting there
like fuck I got no job and uh anyway so one day uh it's getting it's getting
close to Thanksgiving
and uh they start doing this promotion where they've got this giant fucking egg
have you heard
this story oh yeah the gobbledygook the gobbledygooker right so we do a pay-per-view
around uh
around Thanksgiving it's called Survivor Series so this year this particular
year is 1990
they're gonna yeah there it is uh they've got this giant egg on the set on the
tv every week
and I'm sitting there thinking to myself holy fuck I'm gonna be I'm now now I've
gone from shower guy
now I think I'm gonna be egg man right fuck I'm gonna have to you know I'm
trying to grow my hair
out and I said fuck he's gonna make me shave my head I'm gonna shave my
eyebrows I'm gonna be
fucking egg man oh and I'm a nervous wreck right so one day I'm sitting at home
phone rings
I get up and go answer it because we didn't have cell phones back then right so
hello and he goes is uh is this the Undertaker I was like Undertaker Undertaker
Undertaker
Undertaker in Eggman fuck Undertaker that's pretty fucking cool yeah yeah this
is Undertaker yeah
and it was Vince and that was how he introduced the character to me
he called you up and asked you if you're the Undertaker yeah and I had no clue
to what it was
and wow and uh I said yeah yeah I'm the Undertaker because I knew it wasn't Eggman
and
everything had to be better than Eggman wasn't singing the shower yeah he wasn't
singing the shower
guy it wasn't Eggman flew me up to Connecticut the next day showed me the storyboards
and the character
the original character is based on an old western Undertaker you know the two
guys in Main Street
they had the fucking shootout one guy loses Undertaker comes out and measures
him does the box
well that was the original likeness and and the name the Undertaker and uh he
just never found the
guy he had had it for years I guess so why did he send you away the first time
when you went well
he didn't have he at the time he didn't have a spot for me but he was thinking
but he was thinking
and then it kind of dawned on him that he had that character and he just needed
a big guy with no
personality he needed a guy you know there was void of personality to do the
deal and
wow and he gave it to me and uh there's my debut right there wow 19 that's
November of 1990
and I was six years old and I was shitting my pants
were you this was the scariest thing you can imagine for a six-year-old you
know you're watching
all these you know it was some guy in a chicken suit that came out of that egg
to show you how silly
things were back then so it had our attention and then all of a sudden this guy
comes out and he's
like half dead and you don't know what's going on and he's scary and dominant
but anything yeah the
the thing was was dominant but this is the era of everything I mean you could
tell this guy's in bright
pink and so that's coco beware yeah he's wearing some hot yoga pants yes you
know I mean you know that
guy had a parrot on his shoulder when he came to the ring did he yeah right was
it a parrot yeah yeah
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