Name: Kevin O'Leary's INSANE Marty Supreme Story
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin O'Leary's INSANE Marty Supreme Story' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-27. Transcript available.

I'm going to give you a 7.2 out of 10. I think that's reasonable. 7.2? You may
be able to increase your score depending on how today goes. Oh, I think I'm
going to be 9.9 after this. Really? I have a feeling we're going to be best
friends. I don't know why. Okay, that's good. And I need a lot of advice from
you. I'm ready to give it. Oh, first of all, I want to congratulate you on the
film on Marty. I was at the premiere at Lincoln Center. Were you there or no?
No, I have only seen the sequences that I did the voiceovers on. I
intentionally waited, and I'm going to talk to Josh every day almost. I'm going
to do the SAG screening for the first time on Sunday and then do the LA
premiere on Monday of next week, then come to New York. We're on a full
promotional swing on this movie. Obviously, 824 is excited about it. There's a
good Oscar buzz for
Timmy. I want to see him win it, obviously. That would be great. What about you?
I don't think they push us hard on the supporting actor role somehow, but we'll
see. I was seeing that, honestly, at least a nomination. I'd love it. I mean, I've
never acted before. I had no idea what I was getting into. And I have a theory
that you may want to consider, and here's what it is. I'm really primarily an
investor. That's what I do. I invest in a lot of businesses and people. And so
over the
years, you invest in a startup or a nascent company, half of them fail, but
five years later, maybe seven years later, the winning companies when you're
exiting and you're getting 10,000 X on your money, the men and women that run
those, do they have any common attributes? I started to ask myself, what do
they have that's common? Even though they don't know each other, even though
the businesses are different sectors, they're all different. And what
is common. Well, there is one thing, and this is kind of unique. If you look
and talk to them, because you get to know them after five years, and they say,
you know, you ask them, how do you spend your time? I mean, I know you're
working like hell, but what else do you do?
In every case, they spend 20%, 30% of their day doing something completely out
of their comfort zone. Crazy shit, like paragliding, going to Switzerland and
jumping off a cliff, and learning how to do that, which is, I think, nuts, but
they do it. Or they go to space.
They buy one of those things up in Virgin or whatever it is, or they learn how
to play the cello, or...
What's yours?
Well, I like to think that the things that really keep me passionate are my
black and white photography that I still do with Leica cameras and Hasselblads.
I've been doing that my whole life. I remain an editor. I cut at least one of
our social media posts every week on Premiere, because I used to cut film.
I practice my guitar as much as I can. I collect watches. Those are all
different than what I do as an investor. But my point is, when you get an
opportunity...
So here's what happened to Ronnie Supreme. I get a call from Josh and Ronnie,
and it actually came through my agent, and he said, listen, Kevin, great guy,
Jay Sears, I've known him forever.
Been all the way up through television for years with him. He said, you know,
look, I want you to think about this seriously.
You've built a big franchise here, but you don't know how to act, and you've
never done this. You could go out there and shit the bed and totally destroy
our franchise that we've built together.
And I said, Jay...
Fuck him.
Well, I said, how do you know I'm going to shit the bed? How do I know I'm
going to shit the bed? How do I know until I try it?
My whole point is, you've got to go do something that you, even though you may
think, shit, it may not work, why not give it a shot? Because 50% of the time
you have a great outcome.
Yeah.
Which I think, hopefully, will let the audience decide in the case of the
reviews look pretty good. But I didn't know how to act, and they told me after
we read the lines, and they came up to my lake house, they said, look, we're
looking for a real asshole, and you do that naturally.
Yeah.
So...
Okay.
The answer is you did know how to act, because you've been in show business.
You've been on television.
Yeah, but I wouldn't say that reality TV is the same as the cadence between
scripted lines, which is what I learned the first day of shooting.
Sure, yeah.
It's different.
But, I will say, and I'm just some guy, but in my opinion, as a first time
actor, and it's a sizable performance, I mean, it is natural.
I mean, you do not communicate as like, oh, this is a gimmick casting. You
communicate as a great actor. And I commend you on it.
Well, I'm very, I'm really flattered. I'm glad you feel that way. But when you're,
you know, what I learned, and what I saw, and when I saw the rushes, and I saw
the cuts, what those guys, the way those two work, and I hope I'm not giving
any industry secrets away here, is they wrote the script together.
So, they've been living this thing for seven years. But here's what actually
happens when you're shooting.
Ronnie goes into the production tent, downstairs, wherever the hell it is,
different sets in Tokyo, or in New York, or whatever.
But he's in Josh's ear with an IFB. And he's the editor that, well, they cut it
together, but he's kind of the lead editor guy. And you know, I'm not used to
being told what to do. So, obviously, I learned right away that a film set is
not a democracy.
Because I'd say to Josh, "What the fuck? I got it. We're done. We've shot it 10
times. I nailed it already."
He said, "You haven't nailed it until I say you've nailed it. Do it again."
And then after multiple takes of the script, he'd say, "Okay, let's improvise.
We've got a cadence going here with Timmy or with, you know, whoever, and let's
pick up on what you said on that last one."
Or what he said on that last one. But when you see the final edit, what they
did is they took some of the script, and some of the improvisation, and they
cut it together into what I think is masterful.
They captured a moment.
And sometimes those two dudes don't agree, and they take it outside, because
you don't want to be fighting in front of the cast. But, you know, they just
don't agree, and it's three in the morning, and they're going at each other,
and they come back with a solution.
It's an intense, like, environment.
It's a fucked up creative process that I think you can't emulate any other way
than just doing it, you know, shooting it.
In some ways, Josh was your first boss since Nabisco. Is that right? You haven't
had a boss since then.
That's a great analogy.
I've, listen, I've studied you.
No, I've never had a boss except back then. I've only been fired once, and I've
never worked for anybody.
Yeah.
But I did work for Josh Safdie. I actually was an employee.
Yeah.
That's how I felt, and he's a reasonable guy, but the hours we worked, the
hours, the immense hours, like 18, 20 hours.
You might get them in trouble with the union. I don't know if you're allowed to
say that.
Well, I don't, you know, it's...
They worked regular hours and...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, regular hours, but when we were shooting the...
Jimmy Hoffa might break your knees.
When we were shooting the spanking scene, that happened at about 4 a.m., and it
was intense, and it was really intense.
We didn't get it at the beginning. The cadence wasn't right, the vibe wasn't
right, the room wasn't right, whatever the hell it was.
We just kept going, and we had a stand-in ass, but...
A stunt ass.
A stunt ass.
A stunt ass.
Yeah, yeah.
But Timmy wouldn't... didn't want the stunt ass. He wanted to immortalize his
ass.
It's incredible.
And I said, "Look, I gotta hit your ass with this."
Uh-huh.
Because the fake ping pong paddle broke.
Yeah.
So now we're dealing with a real paddle, stiff wood.
Uh-huh.
And Josh is saying, "Look, I wanna hear that smackatino. I wanna hear an
explosion of ass here."
Yeah.
I mean, there are women all over the country very jealous of this.
And I'm telling you, I wound up like a baseball bat and hit him, and...
You fucked his ass up.
His ass had imprints of the paddle rubber on it.
Timothy's ass. That's a hot ass right now.
It's a hot ass, but it was very hot after that.
You're doing a little bit of a brag right now, I think.
I am.
But I'm telling you...
All 12 ladies watching this are gonna be very jealous.
I'm very proud of that scene, but when I got back...
Did he say anything about me the whole time you were working with him?
I don't recall.
Okay.
No, I don't recall.
But when I got back to Casa Tua, I was staying there down on South Street in
New York.
It was 7:00 a.m.
And I was fried.
I mean, I was just wired, you know?
Yeah.
And I said to the maitre d', "Look, I want some scrambled eggs and some smoked
salmon
and a bottle of 2022 Boulinet Montrachet."
He said, "It's breakfast."
"What are you, nuts?"
I said, "Well, it's not breakfast for me.
I've been awake for two days."
It's dinner.
So I want the bottle.
And I drank the whole...
I put a straw in it.
And I called my wife up and said, "You want some Montrachet?"
She said, "It's 7:30 in the morning."
So it's a guilty pleasure.
But that's how I unwound that day.
And I'll never forget it.
It was a great experience, the whole thing.
So you just played music for us.
You're a guitarist.
You're a photographer.
You're now an actor.
You are a documentarian.
You've made a documentary film before in your early years.
Yeah.
You are an entrepreneur.
You are kind of an elder statesman of business in North America, I'd say.
Would you consider yourself a modern-day Renaissance man?
Or like a Da Vinci of sorts.
You know, the journey of entrepreneurship is not a destination, it's a journey.
And the reason you would want to do that now, and I tell everybody this,
because I teach
entrepreneurship at places like MIT and Harvard now, it's not about the greed
of money.
Because you just listed off a bunch of things I couldn't do if I wasn't free to
do them.
And so...
That's what money buys you.
The time.
It's not about the greed of money.
I don't need more money.
I need more time to pursue the things that really interest me.