Name: Julian Casablancas can't with Yoko but can with Lou Reed
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Julian Casablancas can't with Yoko but can with Lou Reed' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-13. Transcript available.

When you guys play that thing for Bernie, did you meet him?
You met the man?
Briefly.
He was pretty, didn't seem like he really knew or cared, which is fine.
What do you think he listens to?
Whoa.
Wooly bully, probably.
He seems like the kind of guy who doesn't listen to music.
It's too much noise.
What's this noise with the, I don't know.
Yeah.
No, he probably likes like, he went to college in the 60s.
He probably likes like just finger popping style doo-wop.
No?
Finger popping?
Sorry.
You know, like you go to lover's lane and try to finger pop to it.
Oh.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
Still what you're saying.
And then he kissed me.
Fingering music.
I don't know what that is.
I finger pop to the stroke.
Finger pop.
Jewish summer camp.
Okay.
Wow.
Well, what's, it's better than let the bodies hit the floor in Afghanistan.
Is it?
Yes.
Yes, that's love.
That's arguable.
Between two ugly teenagers, that's love.
Okay.
It's arguable.
What are you talking about?
Well.
Clearing out a village in fucking Tora Bora or whatever?
One made me nauseous and one didn't.
When did you swipe your V?
Like a 12 probably.
Jesus.
You're probably one of those cool NYC kids.
No, I'm not.
You guys grow up quick, you know?
I was a late bloomer, I think.
Everyone I know that grows up in the city is like, oh, I had my coke phase at
11.
I'm over it.
No, no.
It was later.
Yeah, me too.
You liked punk as a kid?
I mean, sure, still.
Still?
Yeah.
What's your favorite?
My favorite punk band?
Mm-hmm.
I mean, that's, like, I mean.
TV party tonight.
We're going to have a TV party tonight.
All right.
Yeah, I think, uh, probably, I would say, I mean, in a way, oh, man, just the
evolution
of punk is actually pretty strange.
Yoko.
Yeah, Yoko.
She kind of invented low-key.
She's kind of the first punk, no?
I don't know about that, man.
Why not?
I can't with Yoko.
You don't like her?
Kind of that, when she was going, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's a problem.
It was kind of bad attitude punk style, no?
Okay, maybe.
Wah, wah, wah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Yeah, my favorite punk artist, Yoko.
I think a lot of people used to think that we were trying to do 70s punk, but I
think
it was just a coincidence that, like, 70s bands and me were trying to copy
Velvet Underground.
You were a Velvet's kid?
Uh, yeah.
That was your band?
That was maybe, well, that was probably one of the first bands that I kind of
got into.
Really?
Did you meet Lou?
I did, yeah.
Did he say you were cool?
It's funny, because I met him before we were, you know, did anything, and, ah,
and I, there
was a book signing, and we met him, and he was super kind of weird and cryptic
and cool,
I thought.
And then we met him years later, we did, like, an interview thing, we did a
song with him,
we did, like, Walk on the Wild Side and stuff.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, he said, he was nice.
There's a bad word in that song.
There's a what?
There's a bad word.
The Colored Girls?
It's funny that you bring that up, because, well, it's funny, because, okay, so
we were
doing the song, and then he was like, oh, he, like, didn't say it, and I was
like, no one
cares, it's fine.
It was, you know, it was before Trump, I guess, you know what I mean?
It was kind of.
It was when it was cool.
It was just, no, it was just not, like, I think we've kind of gone back on the
sensitivity
meter.
Sure, there was, like, a moral crisis.
There was just a time when, no, I was just like, it's fine, it's like, who
cares, it's
a legendary song, like, no one cares, and he was just like, I think I said it
when we did
it or something, and then years, fast forward to years later, they asked me to
do this thing
with, like, Q-Tip, and they literally had, like, black vocalists doing the
background
for Wild Side, and so I had to kind of, like, face the music thing.
I was like, do you guys, like, should I not say this line?
And you learned an important lesson that day.
They said, no, definitely sing it.
Nice.
Nice, brother.
So you got the pass.
I mean, they, I don't know, I was just, I was definitely, like, it was, like, a
pretty
much, like, majority black audience, too, so it was, like, I was, like, they
told me
to do it.
Yeah, yeah.
Lou Reed's song, I'm just hired to be here.
- Yeah, I didn't write this crap.
- Yeah.