Name: Jason Momoa | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #636
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jason Momoa | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #636' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-26. Transcript available.

Jason Momoa | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #636

today's guest is an actor a producer an entrepreneur he's a real do-it-all type
brother he has a new film out with dave bautista called the wrecking crew
highly recommend it great action film uh he's out the mud and the water
it's aquaman today's guest is mr jason mamoa
we'll be fine we'll be fine i'm here to do the greatest deal on interview ever
actually it could be it i'm trying to think we've had the greatest one
we had an amish kid that was pretty great oh wow he's pure amish too he's like
every now and then
i'll sneak off to the creek and we hide a cell phone down there and we'll
listen a little bit
of deaf leopard that was one of the best things i ever heard a little bit pour
some sugar on me
yeah fuck yeah and i don't even think they have sugar which is the craziest
part so
just down there listening to songs about illegal ingredients that's all
jason thanks for hanging out man thanks for having me buddy um we met at the at
the 50th i think it
was the 50th snl yep i just remember i was walking and then this big like kind
of i would say semi
beautiful hand just grabbed me this thing that definitely and immediately i
felt like i hadn't
been in the gym that was like my immediate feeling and then it just like pulled
me into like this orbit
and it was like hey man nice to see you here and that was it dude it was
awesome this is great to see
you man yeah it made my day you make people smile you make me smile so i'm like
when you see that
like it was a bit of an overload there it was a lot and i feel like once you're
talking yeah like when
you're with meryl streep and robert de niro's and one thing and then you know i
freaked out when i saw
this guy like this grand this older lady's like come here darlin you're you're
the aquaman i was like
yeah and she's like chevy get over here chevy get over here i'm like oh my god
this is chevy chase's
wife and then she's like bill get over here and i'm who's bill murray oh god
chevy chase and bill
i'm sandwiched between them and i'm just going like this this beautiful one
brought this together
bill's like who the fuck is this guy it's just like and and so was uh so is chevy
and he's like
that's that's the aquaman our grandchildren love him oh yeah but you just go
like it was there it is
oh that's cool see in my mind i was sandwiched yeah right there i'm a little
bit more of the bun
yeah you seem like more of a bun yeah you know or like a nice rye or something
a pumpernickel
so but we were uh that was it was just a it was a crazy night huh yeah that was
a lot man i met
hanson hanson was there yeah they look like adult hanson kids or whatever yeah
because what do you
want what year are you born i'm born in 1980 i'm 79 there we go so we know what
hansons look like
when they were bopping it out yeah we know the real hanson you know what i'm
saying yeah i just gave
my son a crisscross you know cross colors that you remember that brand it's
like it was just this
brand that i had when like crisscross came out and my son didn't know who that
was and it was a year
it was the end uh was it the year you were born baby when it came out 82 yeah i
think 92 i get
crisscross cross colors anyways i just gave it to my son and i was just dating
myself man but it was it
it was a it was a moment i've been unpacking my uh my old stuff and giving it
to my son and he loves
it because all that stuff's cool again yeah oh that's a good point yeah things
come back around
yeah uh you grew up in hawaii i was born in hawaii yeah and my parents got
divorced when i was little
and i moved to iowa but like you know bridges in madison county iowa like dude
meryl streep bridges
in madison county boom one of my favorite books the book and the movie it's
identical it's like word for
word um yeah every the the the movie's the exact way of the book so not that
that matters so i'm
like graduated you know did you go to university of iowa no no i actually went
to we like to make
fun of it university of southern ankeny i went to dmacc des moines area
community college
and then went to is that still open it is dmacc and then i went off to get in-state
tuition in
colorado and i went i was living out in colorado state and i was working with a
trail crew out there
and working at lee's cyclery and bizetti's and all these different bus and
tables and shit trying
to get in-state tuition trying to postpone college as much as possible and then
trying to postpone it or
stay in it well just trying to get in-state tuition so i could do wildlife
biology there but i want i went to
school it's weird because when i was in iowa i did marine biology they have a
place called central
campus where all these different schools would go into des moines and you would
learn marine biology
and i'd have like a shark tank said i had my own eel and you'd learn about all
these different things
and i always wanted to be a marine biologist and we'd spend our spring breaks
down in the keys
so we'd get in the yellow bus go all the way down to from fucking iowa all the
way down to the keys
that's so far yeah and uh and we'd study with scientists but i did that two
years
get credit for college but i and then i was gonna go like over summertime i was
like i'll go to hawaii
since i'm hawaiian maybe i'll get a better deal going to college
and uh tv show came that was it that was just surfing with my family and uh a
big big pretty
big surf family so we um and then a show came and i ended up getting it changed
everything
i was 19. and you were working so that but they had the ant oh my god that's
him yeah dude
don't don't don't don't don't what get some lotion out
to rub on the picture uh have some respect guys
dude that's wild that you got to live i was 19 man that was crazy my job before
that was busting
tables yeah working in the surf shop i bust tables bro i was for one of the
first busters to ever use
creatine in arizona south of phoenix i was one of the best bus boys there was i
think
for probably about a two and a half year period is that where you went to arizona
i went to university
arizona for one year and then i went to some other schools but um dude i was oh
i was so good
at busting tables man yeah well i would take all the food because i worked at a
really nice nice
restaurant yeah and we were all my buddies that lived together was a bunch of
climbing dirt bags
and i'd bring this nice pasta home because you know if the if the if the the
couple didn't look
too sus and they left their stuff yes you know you just box that in and bring
it home and so i
always had like the best restaurants pasta dude i worked at a place called dakota's
wine and feed
and the guy there was to talk like this is perverted manager who would kind of
teach us how to do like
he would like kind of like oral sex on women but just like in conversation
anyway that guy was a
complete pervert but i will not in person not with a real woman just he would
like tell us young kids
like how to do it and stuff and we didn't know what was going on dude like i
remember when he would
talk about it all the pimples on my face would like explode at once um but um
anyway that was
beside the point but they had very nice food there and i remember if i'd see a
couple if they use their
knife that to me was like oh they're fancy i can eat off of their plate yes so
if the knife was dirty
i would definitely take a little bit of that like some cured ham or some
specialty meats on there
and i'd get a stack of like some like special sandwich that was made of all
types of stuff yeah man
it was nice that's back um feeding the homies yeah and back then it's like when
you're out of your
mom's house your first time out you're like orange juice was like champagne if
someone had orange i was
like oh my god i haven't had orange juice and fucking because i don't want to
beer and booze
yeah right milk never saw it again you left mom's out on milk and then it's
basically water beer
my dad still kind of had to pay child support so that was like that paid rent
and i could i could just
save enough bus and tables yeah where i could work just thursday friday saturday
i'd go rock climbing
and snowboarding so it'd be sunday monday tuesday wednesday and thursday come
back so i had like four
i had a little plan you know and uh were you with like a certain group of
friends from growing up or
was it just is like it's still like a core group or was it just guys there's
one guy i didn't have
too many friends growing up and uh i i mean i had friends but like the like
true buddies they're
they're in my neighborhood but they stayed there there's one guy he is uh my
best friend of this day
godfather my kids he went out to colorado first so he was one year older and
then i went out there
to be with him and he's my best yeah he's my best bud so it was just us running
running amok
so much fun colorado is so awesome it is it was good god i love being out there
is that the altitude
always gets me so much dude i get affected pretty easily by the environment um
it's got to be hard
for you to go from nashville to here because it gets dry like i just came from
new zealand right now
and last night i'm like i felt sorry for my lady because i'm just like up wheezing
just right out like
just shedding a skin in the bed i mean it's summer down there yeah you know
what i mean
yeah yeah dude new zealand is a dude i met people like i'm like what are you
talking about you're not
using any letters they have people there it's like i think that's australians
but yeah oh we went to
new zealand we had some shows down in auckland and we met pete is just like i
mean i we met guys who
like it was like they had a sentence stuck in them they just couldn't get it
out of them no matter what
like the people there that talked to us anyway it was just some of the craziest
lingo i've ever heard
but one of the most beautiful places we went to um we got to meet israel adesanya
down there because
he lives there yep style bender yep and they were super nice to us whenever we
went over there but we
went to the beach one day and they said you can only be outside at the beach
for a certain amount of
time because they don't have that much um marine layer they don't have the
ozone ozone layer you're fried
dude i was like it's so beautiful but you got to go back inside i know it never
told me to go back
inside but i mean yeah if you're sitting out there you're gonna feel it like
you just feel yourself
cooking yeah like yeah yeah well at a certain point you should go in i think
yeah you definitely
should or just stay out there and grill maybe um so you went to you went from
des moines community
college dmacc yep and then you ended up over in colorado yep i went to colorado
and then went to
hawaii to get to just to kind of be with my father get to know him better and
was he cool my dad's great my
dad's he's he's he's awesome but just um i'd go there when i was young like
eight nine ten like
basically when i was young enough to comprehend it right enough to be with my
mom and then i'd i'd go
until like high school years we had probably a bit of a falling out so i didn't
go too much and maybe
my sophomore junior senior year so once i i was like i'm gonna go back be with
dad bury the hatchet
and uh see if i can get into college over there and um and then like i said
show came and changed
my life and then kind of tried to you know tell my mom like i'm on this show
and she's like what are
you talking about you know like my mom's in the same house i was raised in wow
she's like what are you
doing are you doing something with satan i know she's like oh you're on bay
which why i was like mom
i'm like it's it's not what you think it's like a whole different spin on it
they're in hawaii it's not
and she's like what it's a whole different spin they're in hawaii yeah i know i
mean hasselhoff
wasn't really on anymore but they're trying to change it up so anyways dang and
then i spent the
you know the next 30 years digging myself out of that hole yea