Name: Kevin Smith Remembers His Friend Stan Lee
Uploaded: 2024-09-19T14:00:09.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Smith Remembers His Friend Stan Lee' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Kevin Smith Remembers His Friend Stan Lee' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-19. Transcript available.

did you go to uh stan lee's funeral i did not go to stan lee's funeral did you
think about it right
i don't know if you guys were even close or anything very close i went to stan
lee's final
birthday party which was in december uh the few months before he passed away um
or right before
you know or he was 95 and he almost made it to 96. so it was his 95th birthday
party i still have
pictures on my phone um when they buried him uh i would i didn't get invited
and i'm not saying
like fuck them they'd invite me but there was no like hey you could come or
anything but we were
fucking close man like like in the last year of his life nobody was close to
him because the
situation people kept him away from people he was kind of there was an elder
abuse situation going on
yeah that party right there it was december 28 2017 happy birthday um and then
he died a few months
after that so but the last year of his life it was tough to be around him and i
don't mean tough to
be around him because like what an asshole i mean you couldn't get near him the
people who were
kind of in charge of him kept everyone away i couldn't text him anymore even
call him and
shit like that so i didn't have access uh toward the end it was a sad ending
for for stan but i realized
like toward the end we did a commercial an audi commercial when uh age of ultron
was coming out
and the premise of the commercial was like the stan lee school of cameo acting
so he would uh put on
like thor's helmet be like this is acting and then he put on like a random
general helmet he's like
this is cameo acting because stan did a lot of cameos and shit so the whole
spot is that and then
he gets in an audi and drives away and it's a class i'm in the class jason muse
is in the class
michael rookers in the class i've seen it yeah like years and years ago so we
shoot this spot and i was
hanging out with stan all day and then uh we're doing the last shot where car
goes past lou ferrigno
hitchhiking like at the end of the incredible hulk when i saw him with the post
office once
but lou ferrigno yeah awesome dude nice very nice to me um so stands like body
man is
business guy financial guy um came to set to like watch the end of the show and
he was hanging out by
monitor and we were chit-chatting and he was like oh i love this stuff i love
production he's going
staying so happy he always has a good time hanging out with you and i was like
oh i always like
being around stan just seemed like a nice thing to say and then the guy like
lethal is a heart attack
he goes you know he thinks of you like a son uh like i was like what like and
then it occurred to
me that like i always thought he was just being nice to me because we put him
in mall rats like he was
just being staying political which is like hey everybody yeah everybody's
grandpa and shit but he
legit actually like like liked me as a person and and um yeah when i see that
picture actually i thought of
that for a second kind of he taught me a lot he taught me a father-son vibe he
taught me how to
be me for a living he didn't sit me down and be like this i'd be but this is a
dude who like you
know it was one thing to be creative right like he co-created most of the
marvel universe and and yes
you know of course he worked great artists like steve ditko and um jack kirby
and whatnot but like
the imagination that went into it this was a man who wanted to write the great
american novel like i remember
talking to him interviewing at one point he was like well i really wanted to
write the great american
novel and i was like stan you did like you just didn't do it as a book you did
it with the marvel
universe it's it's our modern fucking mythology but he wasn't aiming for that
so true and it's just
something he did for money and backed into and then later on the culture
shifted like into into his favor
because people like comics but he was like banging the symbols for comics since
i was a kid i remember
my father like calling me out one morning i was getting ready for school he
goes get inside spider-man's dad is on
tv and it was on good morning america talking to like the one of the earliest
hosts of before even
joan london on good morning america about comic books and here was a grown-ass
adult man
on television talking about something i was passionate about something that i
knew very well and loved
so i respected the dude right away i knew his voice even before i saw him and
even before i heard his
voice and like spider-man's amazing friends in every episode because he would
write that stamps soapbox and
in it he was a salesman he he was an artist don't get me wrong and he co-created
all those characters
but that don't mean you could make a million books and characters and if you
don't know how to sell
yourself and you sell your work nobody gonna hear about it and that guy you
know a lot of people like
he took all the credit himself i'm not here to address that all i know is he
pushed the medium of comics
so far he was out there in the mainstream he would go to colleges before anyone
respected comic books
when colleges were like these books you know 10 20 years after stan wrote these
stories he would be
invited to come proselytize talk about the art form the emerging art form and
one of the only true
american art forms is the comic book the superhero comic book so this was a man
who was like out there
doing the work like building the rails upon which billion dollar steamships
move now i mean deadpool
doesn't happen if that doesn't happen exactly and he didn't create deadpool nor
did he create wolverine
but but he created the playground in which those two characters were created by
other other creators in
the marvel universe yeah comics and stuff so yeah i i yeah i miss him man i
learned a lot from him it's
like you can't expect other people to love your unless you love it first you
gotta love it the best
that's what i was saying like a long time ago they're the only audience you can
guarantee
to satisfy so if you keep your budget low real low and it don't matter go for
it and stuff but just
don't expect the whole world's gonna come modify your expectations like my wife
Thank you.