Name: Kevin James on Finding Love Later in Life
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin James on Finding Love Later in Life' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin James on Finding Love Later in Life' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-10. Transcript available.

I don't want to, you know, everybody like you, I want people to see it, to, you
know, to see what they think, what they can change.
Oh, yeah.
But now we're here.
We felt the magic of it yesterday, man.
It felt good.
It was a love.
It's a, I don't want to give anything away.
I mean, it's a love story.
Yeah.
It's got some sweet moments that were surprises, I thought.
Good.
You know, it definitely made me think like, dang, I got to get, you got to get
into love, man.
That's what it makes you feel hopeful that people are getting into love out
there.
In Italy.
And in Italy.
Yes.
That it's, honestly, that it's never too late.
That it's like, it really, I mean, I really, I found my wife later in life, too.
And it was, it's one of those things where it's like, it's possible for all.
You know, like, people, when they get older, they start gripping the bat too
tight, getting worried that I'm not with anybody.
And so they don't know whether to make that decision, jump, or I'm just going
to be alone.
And I think when you loosen up and kind of relax and just give yourself up to,
you know, give it a shot, you do better.
And, you know.
Did you feel that ever?
Oh, yeah.
I was definitely, you know.
Did I feel that sometimes?
I got married at like 39, I think.
Yeah.
And I had my first kid at 40.
But.
Do you still have your wife?
Yeah.
I met her last night.
Yeah.
She was there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, good.
I kept her.
I hope that was her.
Otherwise, she wouldn't be happy hearing about this.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
That's her.
Yeah, it looked like.
I mean.
21 and change now.
21 years.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's great.
Four kids.
It's fun.
And is your wife from another country?
Her parents might be?
Well, she's Filipino and a little bit Alaskan Indian.
Dude, I love Filipinos.
Yeah.
You do?
Dude, are you kidding me?
How could you not?
Right?
Dude, they're the smiling people.
Yes.
Very happy people.
Oh.
Very fun people.
And they make lumpia.
And they make what?
Lumpia.
Oh, I've never even heard of it.
Can you look up lumpia?
Lumpia is just.
What is it, like a dip or something?
It's like an egg roll from heaven.
Mmm.
And you put it in the dip.
Oh.
And it's nothing like the horseradish one.
It's a beautiful, sweetie.
It can be a little spicy if you want, but it's a fun one.
It's a good, it's a good, it wowed me.
Like, you know.
Yeah.
I would mule one of those in my ass, I think, but those things look good,
brother.
I'll tell you that, you know what I'm saying?
But you brought one of those into prison, you could sell it for a lot.
I don't know what was going in.
A lot went out in my ass, but, yeah.
Oh, dude.
Sorry.
God, no, those look that good.
Yeah, they're good.
They're very good.
There's not a lot of food you'd put in, you know what I'm saying?
Yes.
Because that's a total reverse route.
Yes.
That's like when you see somebody's driving up the interstate the wrong way,
and you're like,
what are they doing here, you know?
How'd you get on this road?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's real good.
But, yeah, Filipinos, dude.
Ah, I wish we were all Filipino.
Yeah.
Sure.
Because I think it would be great.
It would be great.
Name 60 bad Filipinos.
I can't name one.
Do you ever try one of those matchmaking services or no?
No.
Because I get approached by those all the time now.
I was before them, I think.
Maybe they existed, but, I mean, I was before the, I think, the internet and
all that crap.
You know, I got married in 2000, what is it, three or four?
Is it what was going on?
In 2004, I got married.
Was that, what was around then?
I don't even know if anything was around, but I never used them anyway.
Yeah.
How would you even meet people?
Just loitering or whatever?
Yeah.
It was, you know, we tried, I mean, I met my wife on a blind date.
I went, someone set me up because Leah Remini, who was on my show with me, the
King of Queens.
King of Queens, yeah.
She saw that I had nobody and she set me up with.
No, so it was one of her good friends, huh?
No, it wasn't her.
She, she set me up, she, she didn't set me up with a girl.
She did over the years, she tried to, but she set me up with a house decorator
because she came to my, when we had the King of Queens, I got my first place in,
and she saw how it was decorated and it was terrible.
I had like prong lamps and posters, like I was living with my brother and it
was like, she's like, no, you can't do this.
You can't decorate a way forward.
So she got a decorator for me, which I never knew about or anything like that
and wasn't me.
And this decorator came into my life and she was a horrible decorator, but she
set me up.
She really was, she wasn't great either.
I didn't like it, but she, she saw that I was lonely and like I had nobody and
she, she set me up with somebody she knew.
And, and it was like, uh, it was amazing.
Did it change like that for you when you kind of realize like this is something?
Cause it's funny how you people go from a moment.
I have a friend, she's a comedian.
She was like, I don't know what's going to happen.
You know, I'm going to sell my eggs or I'm going to bury them over here.
Whatever, you know, and, uh, and then out of the blue, one day I called her.
She's like, yep, I'm moving to Florida.
We're getting married.
And it's just like, it can turn on a dime.
That's the thing.
It can.
That's the thing you got to remember.
And by the way, I think it, most of the time it does when, when you're not
trying, right?
I mean, the thing where you're not looking, right?
I don't know.
I think for me, it did.
I was just kind of long and she was like, try.
And I was like, ah, I'll give it a shot.
Never thinking anything would come of it.
And then I never left her.
That was it.
Did you, were you kind of a romantic guy?
Are you kind of like that guy or?
No, I don't think so.
I, uh, I had to fake, uh, like she, she wanted to go out and, uh, we went to a
sushi restaurant
the first night and I didn't, I never ate sushi.
I was, so I, she's like, do you eat sushi?
I go, yeah.
I lied right out of the gate just for, because, you know, I wanted to make
things smooth and
we got there and it was, it was just a rough, it was, everything you don't want
to eat at
a sushi restaurant made an appearance, you know, it was, it was rough and I had
to fake it
and get through it, but I was drinking a lot of beer to get through it and kind
of taking,
I was taking it like a pill, you know, like I would take the sushi like a pill.
Yes.
And, uh, yeah, and I got through that night, but I was lying about everything.
She's like, do you jog in the morning?
I go, I jog every morning.
I never jogged.
We started jogging and I was like, what the, I got to keep it up.
And finally we were close enough where I go, I got to, I got to tell you some
things here.
I don't do a lot of the stuff we've been doing.
You know, I sit a lot more than we have been sitting.
And, uh, that was, that was it.
I was like, and she, you know, I was in enough of the relationship though there
where she was
like good with it.
You know what I'm saying?
Like we knew each other.
So she's like, okay.
And then the active things kind of fell off and it was fun.
That's cool, man.
Yeah.
Was it hard for you to adapt to married life once you got married?
No, no.
Once I, once I found her, like, it was like, I remember I went away.
Uh, I was with her for a while.
You know, it's like, this is it.
I knew this was it.
And it wasn't because, oh, I got to get married or anything like that.
I could tell cause I just didn't want to be away from her.
And I had to do, uh, uh, I think a couple of gigs or whatever.
I was on the road for a while and she couldn't go.
And I, I just hated being away from her.
I was calling her every night and I was like, wow, I got to get back there, you
know?
And, uh.
Had you had that feeling in a long time?
I hadn't, you know, not, not with who I, you know, was dating and, and, uh,
going out
with.
So no, it, it wasn't there.
It was, it was totally different.
And you just click on so many different levels and it's like, it just becomes
apparent.
Like, I mean, I got, I need this person in my life.
This is, you know, they make me better too.
You know, they're, you know what I'm saying?
They were like, yeah, that's it.
So it's, she's, she's amazing that way.
So that was it.
And I was like, I'm done.
I'm happy.
Gosh.
Oh, that's a great thing to say.
Yeah.
No, I am.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
When you get excited, when you see your wife, you get excited, you give her a
hug.
It's yeah, I'll give her a hug.
Uh, I love, but sometimes, you know, it's also, it's not, you know, all the
time, it's
not crazy romantic all the time, you know, it's life, you know, you're tired.
It's like, uh, you know, you just pass each other.
Sometimes it's, you know, it's a fist bump.
It's like, all right, get out of here, whatever it is.
But, uh, but I miss her this morning.
She left this morning, you know, we were out last night and then, uh, I was
like, wow,
you know, I, it's, it's, it's, you know, you're going to have all those
feelings.
It's, you know, all, all the, the, uh, the, the, the emotions and, and
everything and all
the cooking or this, that, the, the things that you love them so much about it.
It's, it's, it's a balance of them all.
It's everything.
It's the good, it's the bad.
And you just realize overall, it's like, I never want to be without them, you
know, even
in the, in the worst moments.
It's like, so you, you know that and it's, it's real.
You think you can fall on like a different type of love when you're like, like
in your
late thirties or as you get older than you came when you're younger, you think?
First for me, I, I, I think I matured.
I'm still not that mature.
You know, I'm 69.
It's like, so I still think like a kid, like an idiot.
So for me, I'm glad it happened later.
You know, some people are.
Uh, able to, to know what they want when they're younger and much more mature.
I was not there, you know?
Yeah.
I think, and your career might not have happened the same.
Yeah, that's for sure.
I needed to be kind of by myself and get it going.
And I don't know.
Left your family all the time to go.
It would have just been really different.
It would have been rough for sure.
Yeah.
So I'm glad I got the grind out.
Now I take them with me.
If I'm, you know, doing a movie, you know, I'm never away from them for that
long, which
is good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.