Name: Shane Gillis Talks About Why He Moved to Austin
Uploaded: 2024-01-18T15:00:46.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shane Gillis Talks About Why He Moved to Austin' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Shane Gillis Talks About Why He Moved to Austin' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-18. Transcript available.

you moved here i did yeah you moved here since we last talked to you yeah you
made a big move so like
um because you moved from new york yeah wow and was there part of you that was
kind of scared was
there like what were you thinking because i mean i've thought about it you know
and a lot of people
have done it you know no i'd come down here a lot because you know do rogan's
pocket do podcast down
here do comedy so i've been down here enough so i wasn't worried about like
living here i was worried
about uh comics being like a you left new york he's trying to suck rogan's dick
that that was like i was
like that's gonna happen i know that uh no i was excited matt was excited about
it so i knew i had
matt coming down with me and then we brought our other friends and it's good
yeah yeah yeah i uh
and tax taxes are oh yeah what new york dude yeah it's crazy it's great yeah
and uh
oh what's that in your daughter's bedroom what's that in the pillowcase oh that's
extra taxes that's
what taxes dude yeah that's taxes and a couple of somas bro a lot of taxes up
there oh it's crazy
it's an extra i think 14 what's the state tax rate in new york city right there
zachary i think
it's uh 10.9 oh he's guessing what is it no i'm not guessing i got it right
here
four percent to ten point nine percent you see here wow because los angeles is
13 i think i was
hovering around that four percent range for a while when i lived in new york
and then you probably
moved up into at least that six point eight five percent yes yeah yeah dude so
that's kind of crazy
so you moved yeah like yeah i think some people say that they're like oh do you
want to move there
because rogan's there because dylan's there it seems like the new thing and i
think yeah i kind of maybe
i don't know if i had some fear i i don't know i don't know if i had fear of
that you definitely
think oh people think you're just yeah you're just riding that guy's wiener you
know yeah somebody
yeah i mean um but also he's like i would say that if i was still in new york
yeah somebody else
moved here plus he couldn't take it i'd do the same thing so yeah come back and
pay these high taxes
pay these taxes live in a shithole in new york yeah um but no i just want to
move to a place where
you could do stand-up during the week and forever it was just new york and l.a
that's true now you can do it in nashville and austin does it feel well nashville
you cannot oh really
yeah you cannot it's not the same i will i'll say that 100 it is not the same
as what it feels like
here yeah like even just going over to um the mothership it's like you can do
three sets in a
night probably yeah you can do you can do four every single time there's
usually two shows in the
small room two in the wow main room i mean that's you do four sets a night yeah
four sets a night in
the same building you can go do i mean that's that's unprecedented it's
changing what's nice is
watching like like mccusker because he was in philly where you can't do that
and now he's been living
here just a few months and he's he's got he's gotten so good really just from
doing yeah you can do it
every night yeah i met him last night or i met him uh at your yeah i met him at
your podcast i met his
wife too yeah britney is her name yeah yeah yeah she got he got a beautiful
little wife yeah she's great
um yeah dude i think having that much ability to get up is it starts to change
you're like oh i just
practiced it he didn't go in there let me let me try to you're like right there
get the bomb four times
yeah take it on the road and be like i'm not gonna change anything it's still
not working
what has been like did you find a house immediately how'd you find a house down
here uh i just had a
lady a real estate lady i was like i just need a house that's furnished because
i don't have anything
yeah so she first house she picked out i was like that's it oh yeah and i didn't
see it until i moved
in no it was nice yeah i moved in i was like it's nice oh it's like that show
where you meet your wife
the first time yeah that's brave i was the thing i was most worried about was
the television
because i thought it was like they i thought they were gonna hit me with like
the airbnb pictures
like you get there and you're like oh this house sucks tv's big right so i'm
good oh that's good
thank god it's furnished i would have never i'd never furnish it really yeah i'd
have one folding
chair in front of the tv yeah yeah yeah my house was furnished when i got my
house thank god and uh and then
who told me oh tom segura told me in this room he said hey man you gotta start
getting some art for
yourself you have to get something you'll like because it really does start to
change the way
that you think about your own time's becoming like the jay-z of stand-up he's
like you gotta invest in art
yeah he's got art he's got sneakers he's got uh yamara uh what the car is
called the fastest one
mclaren mclaren is that it yeah that's wild to me i think i would be scared to
be like real rich
i wouldn't know how to do it i bet you're all right oh i think i'm okay having
more money for sure
but i think if i tried to be real rich i just don't know how i would i don't
know what i would spend
money on you know like would you get a super fast car um no i don't i'm afraid
to drive fast yeah yeah
i think yeah i just don't know what i would get probably guns probably a couple
you gotta get guns
yeah a couple for your neighbors couple for you give them out yeah you don't
want to shoot at your
neighbors and they don't have anything item in your kids room your neighbor's
kids room start
playing guns how's it have you felt good about moving here now once you moved
here was it kind
of like different or was it different than you thought like what are some
things that were kind
of cool about it i don't know it's i you know you know when you move i was sad
for like a week
oh really yeah i was by myself it was scary i was used to having i was used to
living in
apartments i lived in philly in new york the last decade so i was like there's
usually somebody
around now i was out there by myself i got scared for a while i was scared
really get scared at night
noises yeah yeah you think it's a noise and it's just you farted just waking
myself up with farts
uh yeah i mean i was scared for a while yeah i was emotional i would cry during
movies when i was
at night by myself oh yeah yeah uh so that's what you have to look forward to
it's scary and you cry
that's it oh that's just i think that's just part of the american condition
these days then oh you're
fine then yeah that was all um yeah because i think i thought i don't know if i
thought national
would be a busier comedy scene i i didn't think that um because they just have
one club it's like a
functioning club there right it's like they have a headliner flies in every
weekend so they help you
as much as they can but they just don't have as much space you know um and then
there's not a lot
as many other rooms around the area but here it's like yeah it feels like you
could go like we met a
guy last night he's done like five spots you know yeah you can do that here it's
like wow yeah
i mean that's crazy to think you could do that in a city i mean there was never
maybe chicago you
could do that in maybe i don't know in new york obviously you can yeah la la
definitely those are
the two yeah but that was yeah i don't know do you think about moving back from
here you think you're
settled in you're good i don't know i don't think i'll live here forever but
yeah i like it here yeah
what that's just a big i don't i yeah i'll i don't know i'll probably move home
to like outside of
philly wow yeah eventually yeah yeah i like it up there i don't know sometimes
i think about maybe
moving or getting a also living somewhere else i think it's fun to spend time
down here austin is
cool fun you can do stand up it's a beautiful city yeah it's just a nice city
it's a fun city yeah there's a
lot of neat stuff yeah there's a lot of neat stuff i think so that's been
pretty cool just thinking
about it you know even coming to see in like your house it's like oh okay this
is what it would be
like to live here this seems like i could do this you know
Thank you.