Name: James Blake | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #424
Uploaded: 2023-01-03T16:00:28.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'James Blake | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #424' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-03. Transcript available.

James Blake | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #424

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today's guest is a grammy award-winning musician and producer um he creates he's
one of the most
creative people i've ever met he's a friend of mine and um and he's someone i
really enjoy talking to and
having gotten to speak with him in a while so i'm grateful for our opportunity
today um he has
uh produced music and written music for and with some of the top artists in the
world uh i'm excited
today to catch up with him to learn a little bit more about his creative
process and to just spend some
time uh furthering our friendship today's guest is the one and only james blake
i'll sit and tell you
i'll sit and tell you
i don't know
what are they called lazy boys the things that i saw one in friends at one
point he did
well i don't know lazy boys are not a really big they're not a thing in england
bring your mic in
let's see okay there we go with the seat you mean yeah like what they call the
lazy boy doesn't exist
in england i don't think well i think because we got it once they got to america
people probably got
more lazy i would guess right and they're like do you think that's what it was
it was okay so this is
a self-fulfilling prophecy i feel like a little bit it's a circular situation
like i think the first
chairs didn't even have a seat on it it was just like a yeah just straight up
piece of and then
someone lazy sat on it yeah and then they had to create yeah they're like this
could be better
right yeah right that's interesting it's funny that we got to america and
created a lot of like
lazy stuff you know maybe i don't know where the i don't know where the lazy
stereotype came from i mean
i i mean it seems like a pretty industrious place yeah especially around the
time when they got it well
i think yeah because then they hit the industrial revolution you know i think a
couple i don't know
when people even got here i mean there's a lot of speculation but um but you're
from originally from
britain i'm from england yeah you're from england and so if somebody says england
is that
is that more top shelf than say in britain no no you know i'll be careful how i
say this uh no no no uh
there no it's it's not i mean everywhere in britain is you know it's just a
sort of it's a collection of
places when you say britain and i'm part of britain as well i'm part of the uk
uh yeah i'm also
probably a mix of of a lot of different things you know historically so i think
i'm a bit irish a bit
um a bit welsh oh the welsh i hear about sometimes yeah they travel is darren
is he welsh darren till do
you think is he welsh that ufc guy look that up zach can you look up if darren
till is welsh
i don't know you know what i've i've really lost track of ufc recently yeah i
don't know why yeah i
haven't watched it for a couple he's english can he be both he could be both he
could be both somewhere
i mean the welsh is it's a i think it's a dominant gene oh oh he's a liverpool
man yeah i gotta i i
wish i had a better okay i wish i had a better chart about the british i don't
have a good
you know i believe in it i've seen a lot of the you know i believe i just i i
mean i gotta see
i wish i knew more about the about the british yeah just kind of what it feels
like i feel like
you have better posture inside of your soul that's what i think it feels like
when you talk in the
british they have like i think this this uh this myth that we're sophisticated
is very pervasive right but
i honestly don't know where it comes from and i think i think it's just the way
we sound it's not
really i you know what i mean i think sometimes phonetics and like someone's
accent can make them
seem something and then it's just all can be complete bollocks i mean yeah
because the british
they sound when they're talking like there's perfectly set silverware on the
side of their
mouth that's what it feels like to me yes when i hear someone british talking
like even to that
little spoon and you're like what is that for you know yeah when they say it's
for shrimp you're like
how would you even use this on a shrimp you know without being a pervert the
little spin yeah you
know the little spin is for i mean for sugar in tea i guess i really don't know
i mean the spoon
differences in in size of teaspoons here it you know it it catches me out a lot
just when i'm making
if you want to make anything but yeah i think when i see british people i guess
there is like that yeah
i feel like i do feel a sophistication i feel like i i feel like i'm like they
came out of the library
and they're giving me a for i feel like there's something about it to to an
american person you
know i just again i don't know where it comes from because i think when i came
over here i noticed that
a lot of the smartest people i'd met were from over i mean i don't know you
know it's just you got smart
people everywhere dumb people everywhere and you also were getting into an age
where you were probably
going to start meeting more people you were in your field yes so yes and also
you know when it comes
to musicians we're not we don't tend to be the most kind of um articulate
people for some reason i think
we're not the best people to have conversations with hmm i find that with
musicians um so i had to branch
out not because i'm such a great conversationalist but because i just i noticed
that a lot of my
conversations with musicians tended to be more one-dimensional and then outside
of that there wasn't like a broad
and i myself didn't have like a broad knowledge of stuff and and because i
think music sort of funnels
you into like a you know it's a bit like it's kind of like pavlovian
conditioning right if you if you get
uh if you're rewarded for for kind of your your primary way of speaking which
is through music
probably if you're like a writer or a musician the likelihood is that you're
you're better at articulating
your emotions through music and then outside of that you can be kind of stumped
um which is i think you
find like a lot of like very sort of socially anxious musicians and stuff which
i've definitely
been myself and then yeah and then you then you're rewarded for for that one
expression
you know constantly right of course maybe become successful hopefully and then
then people pay you
for that expression like no one's paying you to talk yeah no one's no one's
paying you to express
yourself in any other way or be funny or whatever it is right so yeah you're
gonna have so much like
yeah you start to feel like that's where some of your reward is is at and so
that's where your most
your value is at and so then yeah it makes sense to me yeah and then i think
after that you just start to
all the other muscles atrophy right so so then chatting is not i mean when i
met my girlfriend i i
wasn't really finishing sentences
because i don't think anyone was sort of required me to yeah yeah they'd just
be like oh we know we know
what he means he's probably that was probably very funny wherever that was
going um it's funny well
this is great because this is how you and i met i met your girlfriend yeah and
um she was a comedy
fan she loves comedy yeah she loves to laugh and uh she introduced me to your
special oh she did yeah
and uh we came to see you the first one that's right you guys came to see me uh
where did we see you um
comedy store store what's the what's it called yeah comedy store comedy song
yeah well yeah because
i remember one time i saw her at the comedy store and uh she was like yeah i'm
gonna catch a uber
or something i was like i'll give you a ride home you know she's like i don't
live far and i'm just
thinking like i'm like beautiful girl oh i got my hopes up i got my hopes up
bro my hopes have been
you know i couldn't even my hopes have been lost i've been like i'm like i'm
like literally while
she's talking i'm like hopes hopes hopes get over here man i'm gonna pick you
up so i got my hopes up
and uh i drive her um you know i drive her it's it's in hollywood and it's kind
of in the hills not
not not it's it's in a nice place it was a couple of right yeah we've actually
moved since then not
far yeah yeah yeah not way out there you know yeah yeah but um and then i she's
like you have to meet
my boy well that's not a good impersonation but she's like you've got to meet
my boyfriend yes
and i was like oh god oh he sounds like a great guy um and she goes no he would
absolutely love you
or she might have already said that he's a fan of yours or yeah yeah and then
uh you guys came to
the comedy store yeah yeah yeah i was very nervous to meet you at the time yeah
yeah i was well yeah
because i think you know there's this um there's this mutual mutual
appreciation i think between comedians
and musicians i think a lot of musicians want to be comedians and a lot of
comedians want to be
musicians and you know that's that's like a general rule although i haven't
ever heard you express
interest in being a musician uh but and nor do i want to be a comedian but i
think i i think there's
i didn't really have any comedian friends at that point yeah and we'd been
watching a lot of stand-up
comedy and we've been going to the like comedy store and we've been going to
like different
shows and i just kind of felt intimidated by the idea that i needed to be funny
oh you know i thought like not only did i did i really respect what you did but
i don't get
i don't really get star struck particularly yeah because just through exposure
to you know the industry
and stuff but i also but in this one way i sort of felt insecure i was like
wait i think i told you
this before um i was like i'm you know do i have to like do i have to be on do
i have to like be funny
and be smart and whatever because your comedy was was smart and it was funny
and it was i was like what's
he and i didn't really understand the difference between the stage and the off
stage kind of person
really well i think it's interesting because yeah it's funny when i've talked
to you sometimes i'm
like dang do i need to know a lot about music or can i just share about music
how i think and feel
about it and that yeah i don't know that much do i have to pretend like i know
all of the names of
every one of your songs like right i think that happens a lot of times when you
meet somebody of a
certain thing right certain genre like what are they going to expect oh you do
you do that's so
interesting yeah yeah yeah um so you know i'll be quizzing you on that later
yeah if you know when
you're ready okay yeah there's a car i mean i do have some fa i do have some
favorites man it's funny
you say that you're not that like um word would you say that words weren't very
per like i uh articulate
yeah what i don't i'm not saying i'm not in any way articulate i'm just saying
that as a
general rule right musicians like i had to find my words really you know it was
a process like it i
think you if you'd met me maybe sort of seven eight years ago i probably would
have well i probably
wouldn't have sustained a friendship for a start because i think i would have
been intimidated or
not been socially kind of comfortable enough to be especially not to do this i
mean there's no way
i'd have co