Name: Theo and Mark Normand Think Back on Their Open Mic Days in New Orleans
Uploaded: 2025-04-09T12:30:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Mark Normand Think Back on Their Open Mic Days in New Orleans' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Mark Normand Think Back on Their Open Mic Days in New Orleans' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-09. Transcript available.

No, but yeah, I mean, Austin's fun because when you're working on new shit, you
got to be able
to bounce around. You can't just do one set every now and then. I agree. And it's
even a lot of
times when you're working on new stuff. For me, it's like that third time you
do it in a night,
even if you don't even want to do it and nothing comes out of it, but it's
still just burning that
like every time you cook it, you just cook it. And it's like, so the next time
will be good,
right? A hundred percent. You know, they say when you lift weights, the one
where you're like,
and you can't get it up, that's the one that matters the most. And it's the
same with comedy.
I think when you're working on that new one and you don't want to say it and it's
not really
working, that's when you find it. When you just push it. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I
have a buddy that
just started comedy last week. No way. Friend of mine from AA just started.
Aren't you glad those
days? I would hate to just start now. I mean, we're 20 years in or whatever the
fuck. I used to
watch you at open mics at fucking Lucy's Surfer Bar in New Orleans. You too,
dude. Yeah. You were the
guy. You had a hot girlfriend. You had some money. You had a cool haircut. I
didn't. Well, I had
a very cute girlfriend. Oh, I still remember her. God, she was pretty. Wasn't
she? I think about
her all the time. I'll be honest. I think about her a lot. Yeah. Yeah. That was,
that was really
something. No one had a hot girlfriend back then. We were all losers in
Louisiana. Armor walking by
like some of the Saints players and they're all said, we're going to steal your
girlfriend.
That sounds about right. That's what they do. And they did. That's the crazy
part. No,
I don't know. But yeah, dude, God, bro. When we went to Lucy's, that was fun,
dude. That
was not a care in the world. There was no phones. There was no, we got to get a
clip. There was
no video shit. It was just, just for the love of the game. And they had all
kinds of like
Dane Fauche. Remember him? Yeah, of course. Funny guy. And they made the, he
was in that
documentary. Did you see that? No. What doc? I don't know if he's okay with
talking about
this, but bring it up. Dane Fauche. I love those old Louisiana names. Fauche,
Thibodeau,
uh, Landry. Yeah. It was like, uh, remember Sean Patton was down there. Oh yeah.
There he
is. Good old Dane. I looked up to him too. When I started. Oh dude, same bro.
And also one of the
nicest guys. Oh yeah. Great guy. And, and he was really like, he welcomed
everybody. Hey,
we're doing comedy. Good to have you. And that was the first time I had like a
group,
like a click. Yeah. Felt like a cult. Dude. Yeah. Dane's an awesome guy. And
but they had a docu. He was part of a very important docu. Uh, no, uh, it's
called Our
Friend. What is it? Our Friend is a 2019 American biographical drama film
directed by Gabriela
Cal Perthwaite and written by Brad Inglesby based on Matthew Teague's 2015 Esquire
article. The
Friend. Love is not a big enough word. Jeez. Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson, Casey
Affleck. Oh,
how did I not know about it? This is huge. And it's based on one of the, I
think the main character
is based on him. Um, scroll some. Oh God. Are you going to tell me he's got
some disease?
In a flashback to 2000, Matt, a journalist in Nicola, theater performer, live
in New Orleans.
She introduces Matt to Dane, a friend from college working as a camera operator
who dreams
of becoming a standup comic. Oh, there you go. Um, yeah. Wow, dude. Yeah, dude.
This is a very,
this is a cool thing to watch. Good for him. Yeah. Comedy's so big right now. I
mean,
you're talking to presidents, vice brother, Bernie Sanders. It's, it's weird
how intertwined it all
is. Well, I think everything's getting kind of bizarre now, you know? A hundred
percent. Um,
everything is getting like turning into the WWE. Yes. No, dude. Remember the
other comics they had
wild bill. Remember wild bill? Oh, wild bill dykes, wild bill dykes. He was on
some TV show. I like bar
rescue some bullshit like that. And that was, I was like, he's been on TV and
same with you. I was
like, you've been on TV. I couldn't believe it. Wild fucking bill dykes, dude.
A legend, dude.
But that's the thing you had to wait to get tapped to get on TV and you got six
seconds on some weird
show. And now we got the internet so we can just put it all out there. Yeah.
Now you can just be like,
Hey, I'm an alcoholic. And just tell people straight up. Exactly. And a lot of
comedians in New Orleans
were just alcoholics that were trying to stay away from their families or wives
at night.
A hundred percent. Let's say that factually and no judgment. I didn't have a
wife or anything at
that time, but you'd see guys coming in, you know, have a couple in their car.
Yes, yes, exactly. We
were all, I was terrified. I had stage fright like a motherfucker. We all had
stage fright and salt
poisoning from living in Louisiana, the gout capital. Oh yeah. A lot of sodium.
Yeah. They had that
one comic, black gout or whatever his name was. He was just like kind of an
older black guy. Yeah.
Well, the black comics all had like chicken fry, cornbread, red bean, red bean.
Yep. Yep.
They all had cool names. Salami, Rob. Yeah. They were fun. Gumbo Jones. Spicy
child evasion.
Sickle cell. Sickle cell Wilson. Johnson. Yeah. Those were wild times that we
all got along.
Oh, it was so much fun. So much fun. T-Ray. Remember him? T-Ray.
Holy shit. Bro, he was a pro when we started. That dude was a legend in
Louisiana. He was
a legend, dude. First comic I ever saw, remember the funny bone in Baton Rouge?
Yes. They had
a funny bone. I saw Chris Porter there in like 2002 or something and he was
killing. I still
remember his act. He had a bit about, he's like smoking and drinking. They go
together. You
can drink without smoking, but you can't smoke without drinking. It's kind of
like you can take
a piss without shitting, but you can't shit without pissing. And I was like,
blew my fucking
mind. Where are we? Yeah. God, dude. Yeah. Chris Porter. And that's when he got
onto Last
Comic too. Yes. Yes. Remember? And that's when kind of the handicapped era
started on Last
Comic with Josh Blue, who was hilarious, who made, Josh Blue was one of the
best at having
a disability, but also being a comedian. Right. Yeah. But I think it definitely
launched a wave
of, you know, and it kind of ended with that guy who faked having cancer for
Ellen or whatever.
Oh yeah. Yeah. That was bad. That was bad. Chocolate cancer. What was that guy's
name?
The comedian? What was that guy's name?