Name: Jason Momoa Thinks Back on His Days as a Busboy
Uploaded: 2026-01-27T00:55:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jason Momoa Thinks Back on His Days as a Busboy' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jason Momoa Thinks Back on His Days as a Busboy' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-27. Transcript available.

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
street
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 movie is the exact way of the book so
not that that
matters 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 that's 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 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 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 for 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
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 i was
just surfing with my family and uh a big a 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 aunt 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 a surf shop
i bus 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 restaurant yeah and we were all my
buddies
that lived together just 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 at 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 fucking booze yeah right milk never
saw it again you live
mom's out on the fuck 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 just save enough bus and
tables yeah or i could work
just thursday friday saturday i 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 there 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 um so you went to you went from des moines community college dmacc
yep and then you ended
up over in colorado yep and then went to hawaii to get to just 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 you know 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
what are you doing are you doing something with satan i know he's like you're
on baywatch
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 yeah i know
i mean the hassle-off 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 yeah
cheers to that and here we are now me and david spade just made a movie
actually that's going to
come out in like two months shut up yeah we wrote it funded it everything i
love david spade oh he's
the best dude yeah so i'm excited about that um tommy boy one of my favorites
oh that was one of the
best ever um was there uh that's just an old-time buddy or you just like yeah
he and i became friends
like four years ago five years ago and we became really close friends and then
we uh we started
we had kind of an idea and when he started writing and it took like a year and
then we decided to just
self-fund it and it's like a four million dollar budget i think and then we got
i think we got one
investor and um yeah and we made it we shot in like 23 days wonderful what's
this called it was exciting
it's called bus boys it's about two guys who aren't doing that good and uh one
of them loses his
girlfriend to a waiter at a restaurant and so we figure if we can become waiters
then everything will be
great that's why you're still gonna be in a bus boy you're talking about like
what we were talking
about like oh i channeled bus boys yeah yeah yeah i channeled this wasn't yeah
people like this is just
whimsical what are you guys doing know that this is in me bitch you feel me so
yeah i definitely
channeled that and david was a busboy too in arizona as well when he was
growing up i they wouldn't make
me a waiter that was my last job yeah i was busboy at two places i could see
that i think they wouldn't
let me they were they're trying to hold me down yeah oh yeah yeah dude there's
a glass ceiling yeah
never i never made waiter yeah it's everywhere fuck waiters bus boys are dope
dude bus boys are dope
boys are dope they're always the coolest they're gonna have the drugs they're
gonna have all they're
gonna know where the shit's at they're gonna have the drugs they're gonna have
the bread waitresses
you know what i mean like bus boys are dope yeah who's gonna get extra with the
dishwasher and
like you know what i mean yeah who's got extra butter but the bus boys yeah for
sure i love salt and
pepper guess who's got that yeah let's go see your waiter do that no they're
all fucking making more
money than you yeah they're off counting they're usually counting their money
not sharing their
tips is what they're not tight shit homie that's what they're doing dude and
who's got the extra
salt that you know what i'm gonna tip my waitress less and i'm gonna slip my
busboy more i haven't
been doing that i said where's the fucking busboy at i'm gonna throw him i'm
gonna throw the homies
or homettes some fucking loot started at the bottom it's all happened because
of reagan because
of trickle-down economics who started trickle-down economics bring that up it
was reagan wasn't it
give it to the waiters they'll give it to the busboys that's not helping i was
just at the nurses strike
Thank you.