Name: Stavros Halkias | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #545
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Stavros Halkias | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #545' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-18. Transcript available.

Stavros Halkias | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #545

today's guest is a stand-up comedian uh he's a podcaster he's an actor he has a
new film
called let's start a cult that he both co-wrote and starred in uh he's got his
own podcast
stavi's world and he's one of the hottest young comics in america i'm grateful
for his time today
i'm grateful for his honesty always uh no one else i'd rather be sitting down
with than mr stavros
hell yes
hey hey whoa
slick huh thanks man yeah going with a slick back wow
you like it bro yeah a little aerodynamic looks very i'm trying to think of
what it even makes me
feel like i love it explore that bro like a principal maybe yeah maybe
principal at a very unique school
we don't give grades man yeah yeah yeah you don't give grades there's um shit i
need some
socks dude i think it's a good look no
you can't throw ankles out dude you can't sorry i mean i feel homeless i just i
just felt some wind
hit them
and my first thought was i've worked too hard yeah yeah yeah sure sure sure i
got the thighs out i give
out the whole leg for free yeah but you have good legs man thank you bro i
appreciate that yeah and do a
lot of um people from where you or your culture have good legs huh i think so
yeah i think so it's a leg because even the pillars um yeah it's like that's a
part of it huh there's a lot of hills greece is very hilly
i think people are the hills have thighs dude
over there they really do i think that helps yeah um because you see a man like
that it's like this is a structural man
sound sound i am structurally sound the you're not shaking me yeah you're not
shaking me bro
no you won't you're not like that building 47 or whatever no no no no no no or
whatever that is seven was a building seven which one is it that keeps falling
down
seven tower seven tower seven yeah yeah the one that we can't exactly explain
or something yeah some guys
like oh it's a great time to just three blocks over just to drop this one
all right all right i'll see what you're doing man wouldn't have happened if it
was made out of
hellenic marble yeah out of some strong baklava some baklava you can't shake
baklava either
oh as far as desserts go very structurally structurally sound you're right you're
right
um stavros halkios dude you have a new uh movie the movie is uh uh let's start
let's start a cult
yes sir and is it kind of your new movie is it kind of like um is it like what's
the is it a 12
years a slave type of thing is it a like a lincoln lawyer like what's the those
are your two references
or what's the arc of it you know 12 years a slave which is like a serious
slavery drama
that won oscars for the lincoln lawyer just a middle of the road matthew mcconaughey
entertaining movie
i think it's which are they're both good movies by the way they can learn
pretty good it was a little
long they could have done it maybe could have done in eight years nine years
seven minute slaves
we didn't need to see all 12 of the years yeah dude come on the last two years
it's like we kind
of get how we get it we get it um but yeah what's the story arc you know like
what yeah what do we
expect it yeah dude so it's it's way less um way way smaller for budget than
those two honestly the
movie is i just love dumb ass comedies like the stuff we grew up on like the
sandler you know
spade farley you know to will farrell to all that stuff that was just like
silly as good you know like
the first movie i was obsessed with was billy madison right and just like goofy
technically a premise
but it's like would this ever happen in real life no but we just need it's
there to just as like a
skeleton for jokes yeah and let's get goofy let's get silly let's get a bunch
of funny people in it
and that's what this movie is dude it was like i just wanted you know i wanted
the opportunity to
make something that i loved and like i i don't consider myself an actor i'm a
comic and comedy
movies i think are an extension of just like i'm not trying to make a good ass
movie i'm trying to make
a fun time 90 minutes and you know i'm proud of it don't get me wrong it's not
dog shit like it's
still yeah yeah but it's not like amistad or like um trying to get something
else i've seen
recently no slavery i don't know what's going on with your references no sorry
amadeus maybe
no bridges over madison county or whatever like that sure i didn't see that one
um the bridge to
terabithia oh you saw that one that's a child's movie i saw that as a kid it's
about a it's uh
something happens to somebody i remember i haven't seen i haven't seen it since
i was a child
i is it like a allegory for something wrong well someone's handicapped
something i remember somebody
was trying to do um the life of jesse bridges to terabithia and adolescent
changes when he befriends
leslie the class outside of the children create imaginary world called terabithia
which is inhabited by
all manner of right so basically no it's not like that either it's not like the
priest of terabithia
yeah so okay so it's not like that it's just fun dude and i think like funny
movie good comedy
funny you turn your brain off no lessons you're not going to be a better you're
not going to be a
better or worse person yeah yeah you know what i mean you're just gonna have a
good time yeah you're
just you can get high as you know what i mean like yeah you can you can make
some popcorn yeah you
won't miss plot points you might want to go back and miss and see if you missed
a joke but you
get the movie right you know what i mean the whole point is like the basically
the like bullet point
is what if a guy was so annoying his cult committed suicide without him like
they left him out of the
left him out of the final ritual and then he tries to start up his new his own
cult and that's the like
and so i'm just i'm that guy i'm the annoying idiot who's just like you know
with a heart of gold
classics classic comedy yeah and i just like you know we meet a bunch of funny
people we have
really funny comics in it bobby kelly is in it for a little bit oh yeah pop is
in it for a little
bit um you know a lot of really funny uh just like wes haney who is the who co-wrote
it with me and
ben kitnick it's basically like me and my friends got a chance to make a movie
and i was like yeah
fuck it what the fuck like no one no one lets him no one lets uh no one lets me
star in a movie
you know what i mean you just gotta do it so yeah it's nice to have a movie
where it sounds like you
just can just go look at a movie go look at a movie and the jokes are like i'm
not i'm not trying to
make any commentary on anything yeah i'm just trying to make you laugh yeah and
it's like that it has been
even some of my favorite movies like towards the end they all kind of had weird
lessons
or they just kind of got like even 40 year old virgin it's weirdly like an
allegory for virginity
and like saving yourself from you can read into a lot of those movies you
cannot read into this movie
there is nothing there is no there is no subtext there is no it's a fat it's a
lovable fat guy getting
into hijinks for 89 minutes not even 90. you'll be out you'll be out and if you
fast forward through
the credits we get that to 87 and a half nothing like a thick guy coming in
short you know yeah
absolutely absolutely okay so i get the movie and they we they need good comedy
it's like yeah yeah
it's like you go to a thing now it's like yeah some stuff it doesn't even make
you laugh like what
is this about or whatever and then like everybody at the end is kind of like
handicapped or
something like what is this right you know it's like elliot gets a rainbow or
something yeah yeah
what is this it's not you know and it's like the guy always has a heart
transplant sure but his new
heart is um right like it's yeah it's like a libertarian or so yeah so now he's
like i'm gonna kill
myself yeah because i would rather i would rather die than have a heart that's
against public school
systems or something you know no one will be committing seppuku at the end of
this movie for their
political points it's called it's called homeschool heart that movie it's a
movie where somebody gets
our transplant and that heart right was a homeschool teacher was a homeschool
yeah that would be fun
yeah yeah it's either it's either it's like both it's like and even independent
movies it's like
i don't know because i and you know i'd love to talk about just more comedy
stuff too but yeah but
this is interesting because it's a new time where someone is making their own
film well that's that's the
thing dude is like i don't know how you feel but i feel like i hit the jackpot
of all jackpots right
like i never thought i'd be podcasting you know what i mean like i wanted to
just do comedy i never
thought i would have to like build my own fan base to just like make a living
and then like got really
lucky and and like so when you get lucky what do you do with it and it's like i've
never been the kind
of person that just wants to chase i don't want to get super famous i don't get
super rich i want to
be able to make the stuff i love and like that's what this was it's like i
think you know there's
some people who like we have a chance like building our own fan bases where it's
like we can make what
we like yeah and instead of trying to desperately get into like a mainstream
studio system or you know not
that i won't make a you know so you know studio wants to make a movie i'd love
to do it but instead
of like waiting for years like i think i don't know i think a bunch of like a
generation of comics found
out you can go through the internet make up a fan base and then it's like what
do you want to do with
it and for me it's like let me just do make a movie like yeah no the way no one
the way no one it's
stupid that i get to like sell out theaters it's stupid i get to make movies
but that's what i want
to do and instead of just like being broke and trying to be an actor and all
this other
it was like i know at least some people will see it my fans will see it
hopefully you know some of
your fans will see it like that's the cool thing about building like a network
where it's like you just
hit up your friends it's like i'm not on i got on npr because the lady liked my
mood what like a lady on
the weekend thing like my movie but it's like we don't even have a mainstream
way to to put it out
there so i don't know man i just think it's cool and it would be sick if people
just started doing
that if you started doing whatever you're passionate about because you have
this fan base and you've
built your own thing and yeah tires is like that that was really inspired you
know that was the best
thing yeah it was that was one something amazing about tires it was like you
heard jokes on there
for the first time there was jokes about everybody yeah and it was just normal
stuff you would probably
hear yeah at a very alarming rubber shop yeah yeah it's a bad time yeah this
place exactly and it's
like no one's saying that that's the only comedy that has to exist you know
what i mean i want to see
shit from everybody but it's like go make your own shit everybody gets to make
their own shit so
that's why my version of that is just like a goofy ass uh let's start a cult
let's start a cult and
it's on vod you can rent it uh rent it or buy it right you can do that right
now by the time this
is out it'll be you can go rent it you can go right now they can get it yeah
and it's like and
it's like it's a vod like what is that so i know it means video on the main but
where like what does
that apple amazon just wherever you rent you can go to amazon yeah yeah put in
let's start a cult
and you can watch a movie exactly and now what's that price point how do y'all
figure that i don't
actually know but hopefully low i'm trying to get it out there i was sure i was
i'm trying to get
there and what do you mean low no you're talking 9.99 yeah probably maybe lower
even than that well
that's yeah i just want people to see it yeah but you don't want ye