Name: The Bear Is Representation for Workers | Nick Mullen on The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Bear Is Representation for Workers | Nick Mullen on The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-25. Transcript available.

We're at day 50 now with the writer's strike.
It's crazy.
What do you think is going to happen?
I don't know.
SAG is already saying that they're going to have to go past the deadline.
They're not going to call a strike on July 1st.
They're going to go past the deadline negotiating.
Dude, I hope this goes on forever.
People are acting like the Chris Cuomo episode is the greatest episode of
television of all time.
We can't let them know.
I just think that it's the only episode of television.
It is.
Yeah.
We have to make more television.
It's sort of a tortoise and the hare sort of situation.
Before the bear comes back or whatever shows people are missing.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the tortoise and the hare story.
I was like, well, who the hell is the bear?
Oh, yeah.
He's in Aesop's family.
Yeah.
What the fuck is the bear about?
It's about working in a restaurant.
Yeah, they work in a restaurant.
And then people love it because they work in restaurants.
Yeah, they work in restaurants and they're like,
they really do be like that.
People really are.
That's the thing.
That's what it struck me.
I look at the way people talk about it and I'm like,
this just seems like just more of this representation bullshit.
But now it's about a job instead of like.
Yeah, that's what it is now.
The spicy world of being a Chicana Latina or whatever the fuck every other show
is.
Yeah, yeah.
And then it's just somebody like buying tacos and that's like the whole.
Yeah, yeah.
The very representation thing for a job.
For people, yeah.
People that work in a restaurant.
But I do remember like I used to live with three like service industry
restaurant people
and they'd come back from a shift at like 11 and then they'd all just be bitching.
And I'd be like, I don't care.
Right.
You know, and they'd all be like, oh, and then we were in the we were in the
shit.
We're in the weeds.
And then we had to push.
And it was like, and I'm just like, okay, dude, you weren't in fucking Vietnam.
You were like giving someone a fucking plate of spaghetti.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
They're like, but the bear really speaks to those people.
I think they were like, this sucks.
And then I think it's also the whole like the foodie thing about like TikTok
and the Internet,
like people like watching people.
But does that nice food?
I don't understand why that works.
Because like basically, so we have two jobs.
We're comedians and podcasters.
Yeah.
And you do comedy.
And what a podcast is, 90% of the time is like comedians complaining about
being comedians.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then there's a-
Oh, the Saturday Late Show is wild.
But there's apparently an audience for that, right?
There's people that consume that.
Yeah.
None of whom are comedians.
No comedian is like, oh, I want to watch fucking-
Yeah.
I want to watch another comedian complain about being a comedian.
I would rather shoot myself in the dick than listening to a comment, complain
about comedy.
I mean, they get good for that.
You know, do it.
Yeah, yeah.
Go ahead.
But that's because somebody's listening.
That's the easiest job in the world.
It's even better than being a comedian is being a comedian that complains about
being a comedian.
Oh, totally.
You just do that for a living?
I guess.
And then you get home and the fucking- there's now, what, three days worth of
mail to go through?
Yeah.
Half of the shit's fucking credit card offers anyways.
Yeah.
But like people like- yeah, my sister's always worked in restaurants and stuff
and like people-
it is like a kind of a- people- I don't know.
That is a world that people are like really- you know, they act like it's- like
it's crazy.
I mean, I guess it is shitty.
You have to- especially if you're serving tables, I don't think- I think the
bear is
more about the kitchen, more about like, fuck you, I need these tomatoes.
Yeah.
Just doing fucking Benihana.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why I don't believe it.
That should be-
That's why I don't believe it because restaurant people complain about it all
the fucking time.
But there's restaurants you can go to where they bring those motherfuckers out
to the
front, like Benihana, for example, and they're having the time of their life.
They are the coolest guys.
They're having the fucking time.
That was another thing about being a little kid.
I wanted to go to Benihana so bad.
I saw like commercials for it.
I was like, that is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
Right.
These guys flick sushi into your mouth.
Yeah.
That is the- they flick shrimps into your mouth.
And if they're working in restaurants, if it sucks that much, why?
The only time the public has actual exposure to the work, they seem to be
fucking loving it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's true.
Where's the bear about a Benihana guy?
I want to see that.
The Chinese bear.
I want to see the Chinese- well, typically it's like a Mexican guy.
Oh, okay.
When you go to- anytime I've been to a hibashi place, there's been a Mexican
guy.
Yes, but I would like to see that.
The first guy to think of a bocce is Mr. Benihana himself.
The panda, and it's about a cook at Panda Express.
Yeah.
He's like, 86 cats.
Yeah, yeah.
He's 86 the tabbies.