Name: Pauly Shore Tells Stories From Growing Up at the Comedy Store
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pauly Shore Tells Stories From Growing Up at the Comedy Store' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-07-30. Transcript available.

when you were a kid like i mean you famously you grew up around the comedy
store your mother was
the owner and your father was the owner um and your family still owns it yes
yeah yes um and
did you guys ever go on family vacations well my dad sammy shore the late great
sammy shore give
it up for my father let's put a picture of my dad sammy shore a picture of him
up and i'll say this
i want to say this about him before we move sammy uh i got to meet him oh and
we would talk sometimes
about this is interesting he wanted to make like a show about dogs right yes
and so he would call
every now and then and we would talk about this show about dogs yeah and his
neighbor's dogs and
his friend's dogs and it was um that was my only it was called funny bones i
don't know yeah funny
bones yeah he did it he wound up doing it did he really yeah he did he did some
episodes yeah oh
because um it was just it was just interesting that was the only way that i
knew him um he was he was
you know i love my mom my mom was the best not only was she a great you know
developing the
comedians and and artistic and all that stuff but as a mom she was fucking yeah
but she was a real mom
was she really yeah dude she took care of me she was not like weird or like
just because she was
busy at the comedy store she went there for my birthdays and all that stuff you
know she did the
whole thing we had slip and slides we had um trampolines in the back i had a moped
all that
shit did she like being a mom you think yeah she was cool she was a natural
natural she was a natural
mom but my father um you know he started the store you know he started there it
is funny bones
yeah but he started the store because he needed a place to work out his stand-up
kind of like joe
at the mothership you know joe was like he's like i need a place to work out i
go out to the mothership
and i have a club so that was kind of his vibe do you see that when you go to
the mothership now
yeah if you do you feel some of that same energy almost in a weird way yeah i
definitely feel i
definitely feel my mom there i feel my parents there yeah for sure you know it's
great i mean he's got
bar mitzis and all that stuff and joe's you know it's weird when i see the guy
i start crying
i always fucking cry when i see him there's like an emotional connection that i
have with him
it's fucking weird you know it's funny you say that that happens to me
sometimes when i'm talking
with joey diaz sometimes that happens with me it's like it just like i don't
know i'll think
some things about his life or something and i'll i don't know what it is but my
my eyes will
well up you know yeah if your mom was pretty attentive and she was really kind
of there what
do you think kind of made you that may turn you into the comedian you think for
me i just
i don't know i mean i've always loved making people laugh you know what i mean
ever since i
was a kid i mean it started with richard prior and robin williams and all those
guys because back in
the day i talk about this on my one-man show i have a one-man show that your
dude told me he saw
it's called stick with the dancing it's about my childhood and um and it's
everything before i made
it it's all the shit that i have before i made it yeah it's all my childhood
shit but but when i was a
kid you know um my mom used to have a lot of parties at the house so she had
always
always be like let's go back to the fucking house from the store you know what
i mean yeah and
everyone would go to the house the doheny house where you know where i grew up
in and um you know
and it would be like a tuesday night and i'd be trying to sleep and i'd hear
the party going
downstairs i had to wake up for school in the morning because my mom's um my
mom's guardian who
was a thai lady by the name of suny and the bar manager name was ted and he
worked at the club
and suny would have to take me to school and i had to wake up in the morning
but they would be
parting downstairs so i had to go downstairs and um and i'd have to tell my mom
to shut up i mean but
for real because my mom was from wisconsin and her voice would go and it would
peer through the
laughter and there would be richard prior and there would be robin and fucking
argus and richard belzer
and and tim thomerson and biff maynard and all these fucking guys it was wild
dude like my shit like
when i like the fact that i'm still around and i'm okay is fucking weird yeah
you know what i mean oh
i can't imagine it's fucking weird because i've seen so much do you feel like
you had you felt like
you had to compete to be like you uh oh well the in order to be even seen i
have to be funny because
that's no i was just no because when i told them to shut up i had school in the
morning everyone laughed
so it was like that's of course yeah they would just laugh so it was like i was
i was you know i guess i
was funny without knowing i was funny when i was you know when i was just just
a kid dude i want to
know this who came by the store right who came by the store paulie over the
like i mean what about
when jim carrey came were you guys just like what like who came and it was just
something so novel
did you ever you ever see you ever see a popcorn machine um uh uh uh put
popcorn out you know where
that was like the store back in the you know in the 70s 80s and 90s yeah it
felt like that
you know my mom was the center she was the central colonel yeah you know what i
mean so yeah so boom
you got you got jim carrey boom you got dice boom you got fucking you know
arsenio boom you got uh
roseanne boom you got you know eddie murphy boom you got richard boom you got
robin boom it was just
like boom boom but everyone was doing drugs and everyone was drinking and it
was just like normal yeah you
know and sam kennison was the man it was part of society it was it was very
common that's why when tommy
lee was here you know he was here i guess uh earlier or whatever he was part of
that whole thing
because him and sam kennison were very close they were yeah very close yeah
what about the story with
uh kennison and labove did you know about all that very much so yeah that's a
wild story take me through
some of that story okay so basically there was a comedian for you young tiktokers
out there that are
obsessed with my friend theo von just so you know von is from it's a french uh
artic articulation that
comes from the south of france in an island called brindisi so just look that
up that's where his last
name is theo von von yeah and my family originally is from mogadishu actually
yes mogadishu which is in
the swiss alps yep swiss alps high as you can go up there yeah so it's just up
up up up up that's where
his mom popped you out come on up that's what mom would say yeah come on up
take a month
yep so just to to do the the quick version there's a comedian named sam kennison
he was on fire his best
friend name was named carl lebeau think about amir k you know and you guys are
doing drugs and getting
fucked up and blah blah blah and um um amir k amir k is is is married and amir
k has a wife and you
fuck his wife and then you get her pregnant and then you die and then uh amir k
has your baby
and then amir k winds up having to pay for your baby and he thinks it's his
baby his whole life
no because it looks like fucking you but he they never got a blood test i don't
think until later
right until kind of later yeah so for 15 16 years 18 years like he had to you
know you know what's
paying for the baby car was like supporting the china thinking it was his
daughter yeah but it was
it was up and and i still haven't met the kid wow and i really want to meet the
kid so um that'd be
pretty fascinating we should get her on this show oh we could zoom right now
with her how sick would
that be sam sam kennison's uh he's like what yeah oh oh carl got a carl carl
got the he he had a tough
one he had a tough run oh i gotta put my glasses back on thanks yeah yeah but
carl carl had a
tough run and he was genius he was a great carl was great i would see him down
in texas down at randy
butler's clubs down there and i would see him perform down there sometimes and
cross paths and nice guy
yeah people loved him yeah he was he was uh he was special there was another
guy named mitchell walters
who also died you know carl died right yeah yeah and mitchell walters died too
he was
fucking hilarious he had the fucking funniest 12 minutes of material really
bring him up this
guy was fucking hilarious wow we did we did shows in vegas this was in the late
80s and um
and we were at the dunes hotel and it was the out sam kennison and the outlaws
of comedy
mitchell what was this mitchell walters yeah this guy oh wow beautiful he was
fucking hilarious trans or no no he wasn't trans indiana no i don't know what
he was but he was
fucking hilarious oh see there's a picture with him and sam and billy idol on
the left
up there yeah there you go oh so so before one of the shows at the dunes this
was the late 80s this
one sam kennison was getting sued by united artists for not showing up on his
movie set
uh took so mitchell walters comes up to me before the show and i said mitchell
we're gonna hang out
after the show right and he goes yeah absolutely me and you we're gonna party
package package party
and then when the show started and then the show finished and i went to go hang
out with him and i'm
like yo let's fucking he's like get the away from me golden boy i don't go go
hang out with your
fucking mother i don't have time for this shit because what be in between the
show he went out
and did coke and he fucking gambled and he lost everything oh yeah yeah so damn
yeah yeah one show
lost it all yeah he lost a lot and how did he uh pass away um i think he had
some type of some type
of internal like you know i don't want to say it was cancer or something like
that but he wasn't he
wasn't too healthy yeah damn bro yeah so um but he was he was a really funny
funny cat as well though
you know either way you know i like you know at night you know i was i was with
you the other night
when we were texting each other i said i gotta go i'm going to sleep i'm
watching fox news you know
i just you know as a con i started watching fox news with my mom she loved it
really yeah she loved
it she just watched bill look at bill o'reilly and then she'd see the fox news
anchors which the
fuck is her whore teeth she's got fucking horse teeth polly you know with all
the fox news anchor
girls she'd always get angry what the fuck is she looking at you know she's got
she looks like a
horse face she would say that she was hilarious so i would watch i would always
watch um you know the
news with her oh we'd watch cnn we'd watch fox any other shows you would watch
together game shows
or anything um tommy would bring over comedians sometimes tommy the old talent
guy yeah he'd bring
over comedians what do you think of him you know like that i miss tommy kind of
yeah yeah i mean
kind of i miss him yeah he was right fun he was a great he was there when i got
there he was such a
character you know how he kind of like yeah you know well he was funny he said
you're doing it yeah
him and his him and his girl steph they stayed at the hyatt and he says he says
well it seems like
the comedy store's calling me it's right down there they want me they want me
to run the comedy store
don't you understand well that's how what it is that's how your mother wanted
it polly listen to
your mother she's the queen you know what i mean it's pretty cool he was what
do you think of his
relationship with your mom what do you think it was like it was good yeah it
was good i mean he used
to do with my mom that you're not supposed to do for someone that you're
working used to carry her up
the stairs i mean she would literally call him up help me up i can't get up you
know and it was um
you know she would be working the cover booth and then steve renazzisi would
have to come in and
that's when he stole the money but that was another conversation that was
supposed to be funny
anyways all right no i think it's yeah it's like well yeah because i never knew
exactly what happened
i just knew so so what happened was is my mom didn't trust a lot of people
right you know and
my mom loved tommy you know because um you know she she just you know she took
to certain people
you know my mom took to certain people and she really liked him and and she
trusted him so when
she couldn't get up the stairs you know because she would try to get up the
stairs you know she would
call the store and she'd say can you help me up the stairs and then he would be
like mitzi i can't
you know what i mean i'm i'm you know i'm here in the cover booth there's
people i need help up the
fucking stairs let's go and then and then that's when you know tommy would get
rid of zizi or someone
or someone to sit in benji or whoever and they'd sit in and he she would go and
i would be there and
i would like you know help yeah help bring her up the stairs and then you know
he would sit with her for a
long time and watch the tv and sometimes not even go back to work so he did
stuff that you weren't
supposed to do as an employee but that's what my mom was that's what the store
was the store was always
about you know helping people and if you stole you stole that's on you you know
yeah you know so
and was that ever proven that he did it i don't i don't know i wasn't involved
yeah i wasn't yeah i
just heard things and you're like well what even happened you know i don't know
and you never got to
really hear his side of it i feel like either you know but um yeah that's one
cool thing about the
store is just like it's just i don't know once you get in there and you make
your way through and
you've been there for a while and you know who's who and you kind of you
develop your own little
relationship with the space and the people you love to see and people come and
go and the people
that work there and it's like it is just such a universe you know we're lucky
to be able to have a
workplace that has a lot of joy and like different people at it and you it's
fun like imagine you
get to go to work and it's actually you can say what you want you're encouraged
there's no real
hr in fact hr is like hr is encouraging you to say crazy yeah i never thought
about that man
that's such a crazy blessing dude do you think your mother felt uh very
achieved with her with the
comedy club um yeah i mean she's you know and that's you know the way the way
that it's still
the way that it's left right now is exactly how she left it which is awesome
you know she just put
her stamp on it she's leave it alone don't fuck with it and you know and just
like you know the
rooms are set up the way there are and different than the laugh factor
different the improv different
vibes those are great clubs um but you know she she kind of created the black
and the red and all
that stuff and you know and created that space so you know it's pretty tight
yeah you wouldn't want
it to change was there ever a chance that it was going to be sold at some point
um i don't know i
don't think we would ever sell it you know what i mean i think just kind of
leave it it's you know
it's it's got to be a uh uh what's it called a hollywood or landmark or what's
it called grandfather
what's it called oh yeah it's like a um historical landmark yeah historical
landmark yeah at some
point huh yeah i think so so yeah it's a good point i remember somebody i don't
know if i saw
a drawing somewhere that a hotel had drawn around it they were going to build
and leave it intact as
is on the ground cool and build up and just you know it was like a 20-story
hotel and it would be
right under exactly the same remember seeing a somebody had put that together i
don't know if it was
an art yeah i think it was an architect drawing or if it was actually
considered at one point but i
thought i remembered seeing that somewhere

Pauly Shore Tells Stories From Growing Up at the Comedy Store

when you were a kid like i mean you famously you grew up around the comedy
store your mother was
the owner and your father was the owner um and your family still owns it yes
yeah yes um and
did you guys ever go on family vacations well my dad sammy shore the late great
sammy shore give
it up for my father let's put a picture of my dad sammy shore a picture of him
up and i'll say this
i want to say this about him before we move sammy uh i got to meet him oh and
we would talk sometimes
about this is interesting he wanted to make like a show about dogs right yes
and so he would call
every now and then and we would talk about this show about dogs yeah and his
neighbor's dogs and
his friend's dogs and it was um that was my only it was called funny bones i
don't know yeah funny
bones yeah he did it he wound up doing it did he really yeah he did he did some
episodes yeah oh
because um it was just it was just interesting that was the only way that i
knew him um he was he was
you know i love my mom my mom was the best not only was she a great you know
developing the
comedians and and artistic and all that stuff but as a mom she was fucking yeah
but she was a real mom
was she really yeah dude she took care of me she was not like weird or like
just because she was
busy at the comedy store she went there for my birthdays and all that stuff you
know she did the
whole thing we had slip and slides we had um trampolines in the back i had a moped
all that
shit did she like being a mom you think yeah she was cool she was a natural
natural she was a natural
mom but my father um you know he started the store you know he started there it
is funny bones
yeah but he started the store because he needed a place to work out his stand-up
kind of like joe
at the mothership you know joe was like he's like i need a place to work out i
go out to the mothership
and i have a club so that was kind of his vibe do you see that when you go to
the mothership now
yeah if you do you feel some of that same energy almost in a weird way yeah i
definitely feel i
definitely feel my mom there i feel my parents there yeah for sure you know it's
great i mean he's got
bar mitzis and all that stuff and joe's you know it's weird when i see the guy
i start crying
i always fucking cry when i see him there's like an emotional connection that i
have with him
it's fucking weird you know it's funny you say that that happens to me
sometimes when i'm talking
with joey diaz sometimes that happens with me it's like it just like i don't
know i'll think
some things about his life or something and i'll i don't know what it is but my
my eyes will
well up you know yeah if your mom was pretty attentive and she was really kind
of there what
do you think kind of made you that may turn you into the comedian you think for
me i just
i don't know i mean i've always loved making people laugh you know what i mean
ever since i
was a kid i mean it started with richard prior and robin williams and all those
guys because back in
the day i talk about this on my one-man show i have a one-man show that your
dude told me he saw
it's called stick with the dancing it's about my childhood and um and it's
everything before i made
it it's all the shit that i have before i made it yeah it's all my childhood
shit but but when i was a
kid you know um my mom used to have a lot of parties at the house so she had
always
always be like let's go back to the fucking house from the store you know what
i mean yeah and
everyone would go to the house the doheny house where you know where i grew up
in and um you know
and it would be like a tuesday night and i'd be trying to sleep and i'd hear
the party going
downstairs i had to wake up for school in the morning because my mom's um my
mom's guardian who
was a thai lady by the name of suny and the bar manager name was ted and he
worked at the club
and suny would have to take me to school and i had to wake up in the morning
but they would be
parting downstairs so i had to go downstairs and um and i'd have to tell my mom
to shut up i mean but
for real because my mom was from wisconsin and her voice would go and it would
peer through the
laughter and there would be richard prior and there would be robin and fucking
argus and richard belzer
and and tim thomerson and biff maynard and all these fucking guys it was wild
dude like my shit like
when i like the fact that i'm still around and i'm okay is fucking weird yeah
you know what i mean oh
i can't imagine it's fucking weird because i've seen so much do you feel like
you had you felt like
you had to compete to be like you uh oh well the in order to be even seen i
have to be funny because
that's no i was just no because when i told them to shut up i had school in the
morning everyone laughed
so it was like that's of course yeah they would just laugh so it was like i was
i was you know i guess i
was funny without knowing i was funny when i was you know when i was just just
a kid dude i want to
know this who came by the store right who came by the store paulie over the
like i mean what about
when jim carrey came were you guys just like what like who came and it was just
something so novel
did you ever you ever see you ever see a popcorn machine um uh uh uh put
popcorn out you know where
that was like the store back in the you know in the 70s 80s and 90s yeah it
felt like that
you know my mom was the center she was the central colonel yeah you know what i
mean so yeah so boom
you got you got jim carrey boom you got dice boom you got fucking you know
arsenio boom you got uh
roseanne boom you got you know eddie murphy boom you got richard boom you got
robin boom it was just
like boom boom but everyone was doing drugs and everyone was drinking and it
was just like normal yeah you
know and sam kennison was the man it was part of society it was it was very
common that's why when tommy
lee was here you know he was here i guess uh earlier or whatever he was part of
that whole thing
because him and sam kennison were very close they were yeah very close yeah
what about the story with
uh kennison and labove did you know about all that very much so yeah that's a
wild story take me through
some of that story okay so basically there was a comedian for you young tiktokers
out there that are
obsessed with my friend theo von just so you know von is from it's a french uh
artic articulation that
comes from the south of france in an island called brindisi so just look that
up that's where his last
name is theo von von yeah and my family originally is from mogadishu actually
yes mogadishu which is in
the swiss alps yep swiss alps high as you can go up there yeah so it's just up
up up up up that's where
his mom popped you out come on up that's what mom would say yeah come on up
take a month
yep so just to to do the the quick version there's a comedian named sam kennison
he was on fire his best
friend name was named carl lebeau think about amir k you know and you guys are
doing drugs and getting
fucked up and blah blah blah and um um amir k amir k is is is married and amir
k has a wife and you
fuck his wife and then you get her pregnant and then you die and then uh amir k
has your baby
and then amir k winds up having to pay for your baby and he thinks it's his
baby his whole life
no because it looks like fucking you but he they never got a blood test i don't
think until later
right until kind of later yeah so for 15 16 years 18 years like he had to you
know you know what's
paying for the baby car was like supporting the china thinking it was his
daughter yeah but it was
it was up and and i still haven't met the kid wow and i really want to meet the
kid so um that'd be
pretty fascinating we should get her on this show oh we could zoom right now
with her how sick would
that be sam sam kennison's uh he's like what yeah oh oh carl got a carl carl
got the he he had a tough
one he had a tough run oh i gotta put my glasses back on thanks yeah yeah but
carl carl had a
tough run and he was genius he was a great carl was great i would see him down
in texas down at randy
butler's clubs down there and i would see him perform down there sometimes and
cross paths and nice guy
yeah people loved him yeah he was he was uh he was special there was another
guy named mitchell walters
who also died you know carl died right yeah yeah and mitchell walters died too
he was
fucking hilarious he had the fucking funniest 12 minutes of material really
bring him up this
guy was fucking hilarious wow we did we did shows in vegas this was in the late
80s and um
and we were at the dunes hotel and it was the out sam kennison and the outlaws
of comedy
mitchell what was this mitchell walters yeah this guy oh wow beautiful he was
fucking hilarious trans or no no he wasn't trans indiana no i don't know what
he was but he was
fucking hilarious oh see there's a picture with him and sam and billy idol on
the left
up there yeah there you go oh so so before one of the shows at the dunes this
was the late 80s this
one sam kennison was getting sued by united artists for not showing up on his
movie set
uh took so mitchell walters comes up to me before the show and i said mitchell
we're gonna hang out
after the show right and he goes yeah absolutely me and you we're gonna party
package package party
and then when the show started and then the show finished and i went to go hang
out with him and i'm
like yo let's fucking he's like get the away from me golden boy i don't go go
hang out with your
fucking mother i don't have time for this shit because what be in between the
show he went out
and did coke and he fucking gambled and he lost everything oh yeah yeah so damn
yeah yeah one show
lost it all yeah he lost a lot and how did he uh pass away um i think he had
some type of some type
of internal like you know i don't want to say it was cancer or something like
that but he wasn't he
wasn't too healthy yeah damn bro yeah so um but he was he was a really funny
funny cat as well though
you know either way you know i like you know at night you know i was i was with
you the other night
when we were texting each other i said i gotta go i'm going to sleep i'm
watching fox news you know
i just you know as a con i started watching fox news with my mom she loved it
really yeah she loved
it she just watched bill look at bill o'reilly and then she'd see the fox news
anchors which the
fuck is her whore teeth she's got fucking horse teeth polly you know with all
the fox news anchor
girls she'd always get angry what the fuck is she looking at you know she's got
she looks like a
horse face she would say that she was hilarious so i would watch i would always
watch um you know the
news with her oh we'd watch cnn we'd watch fox any other shows you would watch
together game shows
or anything um tommy would bring over comedians sometimes tommy the old talent
guy yeah he'd bring
over comedians what do you think of him you know like that i miss tommy kind of
yeah yeah i mean
kind of i miss him yeah he was right fun he was a great he was there when i got
there he was such a
character you know how he kind of like yeah you know well he was funny he said
you're doing it yeah
him and his him and his girl steph they stayed at the hyatt and he says he says
well it seems like
the comedy store's calling me it's right down there they want me they want me
to run the comedy store
don't you understand well that's how what it is that's how your mother wanted
it polly listen to
your mother she's the queen you know what i mean it's pretty cool he was what
do you think of his
relationship with your mom what do you think it was like it was good yeah it
was good i mean he used
to do with my mom that you're not supposed to do for someone that you're
working used to carry her up
the stairs i mean she would literally call him up help me up i can't get up you
know and it was um
you know she would be working the cover booth and then steve renazzisi would
have to come in and
that's when he stole th