Name: Theo and Tony Hinchliffe on L.A. vs Austin Comedy Scenes
Uploaded: 2022-10-04T20:07:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Tony Hinchliffe on L.A. vs Austin Comedy Scenes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Tony Hinchliffe on L.A. vs Austin Comedy Scenes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-04. Transcript available.

so fast forward though now you live in austin now so you made that move to austin
yeah what
do you see that's different about that austin scene what do you think like with
joe's club
being built what do you think what do you think it can get to that place where
it is like
the third biggest city for comedy i think it'll be number one i really really
truly believe that
because i think that um i mean i already see it i see the amount of tickets
that we sell casually
like like it's nothing like people are just dying for it and waiting for it and
people are flying
into austin now when they used to fly into la and new york to have a comedy
weekend you know if they
wanted to see you know three nights of shows that's where they would go but now
words out syringes are
on the street port-a-potties on the crosswalks in la you know about that they
just started putting
port-a-potties at the big crosswalks no yeah so like you want to cross hollywood
and vine there's
a port-a-potty there right next to the button to cross the street and it ain't
clean here's my other
theory but is there enough comedians will there be enough this that's my
question we're already guys
like tim dillman have gone there and left yeah he's there tim's there he's just
waiting for joe's club
to be full-time tim has more property in austin than anybody he talks a lot of
shit but he's like
buying it up really oh yeah dude he gets it tim's out here killing it and segura
and christina and me
and joe and ron white and a whole bunch of the the youth the future danny brown
you know danny brown
yeah no doubt i'm very close with danny he's my homie oh my god i just ate
mushrooms with him a
couple weeks ago really oh god people are coming to visit those new yorkers are
that are real joke
gunslingers we just had a tell on the show on monday he just did a whole
weekend in austin and
he's looking at it with a twinkle in his eye like wait what are you guys doing
here this does
you guys do this every monday and then you do okay like and to any comedian you
know comedy store style
you know or comedy seller style they come to austin and they're looking at it
with like okay so maybe
i'll spend like a week out of every month here you know we get re shane and
norman there for i know
they love it four days a month and rogan's bringing good comics down to be on
his show yep i mean that's
what made me think about it was like i would like to go for a month and just
have an experience of it
what does it really feel like to be there go out get you a sandwich get you a
coffee get you a you
know you know find a wife or something or see it and you know and do comedy at
night while you're
trying to do that you know and and have a you know like a lifestyle of it i can't
believe how much i
love it wow you know spending the whole 15 first years of my career in la i
never would have guessed
that another option would work um i'm amazed at that too living here yeah
exactly you know and like
all of a sudden you're comfortable and you're a little bit better rested and
you have maybe a new
hobby or something something to you know because i think in la it's or new york
perhaps it's easy to
just be like oh i gotta work i gotta work it's only about the next joke you
know what i mean i gotta i
gotta but then you're not living you're not experiencing things you're not
taking note you're not having
great conversations where you say something that you realize might be good on
stage like living is a
huge part of what we do right i agree and i think one of the things that's
happened to hollywood over
the years is it used to be that people went people had these like wild like
people went there with
their energy and and like made their dreams happen wrote scripts and but now it's
been so much
like the children of children and nepotism and you know third generation screen
right that it's like
the people writing the things and creating the things they're not they don't
have as much life
experience anymore they're maybe their grandfather did maybe their mother did
but they're still kind of
riding off of those old stories and energies so they're not as tuned in to some
of the reality
right of uh of just like um of creativity really you know another thing that i
think is that it's much
easier for people to be jealous and competitive there's a lot of billboards
there i noticed that my
last trip there i'm like wow i just always didn't notice like i mean the billboards
were just part of
like the skyline it's just a tree it's like blends in with la and as i'm
looking up there i'm realizing
oh my god that show looks like crap that show looks like crap that movie i has
it looks it tells its
whole script right there in the billboard like and i'm judging these billboards
and i realize like
this whole place does that to people like all of a sudden i'm daydreaming about
why does that idiot have a
show that's not going to work wow comedy central is dead as hell you know you're
looking at the killed
itself yeah and i'm looking at these billboards and i realize i'm thinking
about this they have me
thinking about these things which in austin you can't there is no like oh oh i
wish i had that or
this person would be better for that or this is where that should be like right
so it takes a lot
of that business and the jealousy and the like oh look at the it takes a lot of
that glitz out of it
and stuff like that and also it's like these people you know in la and new york
it's the last stand
because we've learned now that the podcast is the way you can have your own
show and build your own
fans with people that are into what you're into and like the sound of your
voice and want to hear it
so that old model of like all right let's throw this to the people and see who
likes it like it's an
old school model and it takes away from the ability to build something and now
people are like well if i didn't
start a podcast now i can't start now i'm in too deep now but it's like who
knows it's like bitcoin
or nfts or whatever like who knows what the anything is yeah well there are
some things that
are great about la too though it's like the weather is absolutely unbeatable
you can't beat it and
there's no there's not even any question about it i don't know if there's
anywhere in the world you
can beat the weather there yeah there's barely any bugs there's no allergies in
the air no poisonous
animals yeah jesus man yeah a third of my childhood was filled with poisonous
animals dangerous animals
there are things that are great about it the access to people that are there is
also nice like you know
i have friends like my friend james blake lives there he's a musician and he's
like i would have never
got to meet him if i didn't live in la and it is kind of name dropping but he's
also like one of the
most unique people that i get to talk to like all of us and that would have
never met each other if
we had if it hadn't been for la oh yeah i'm grateful for it just like i'm
grateful for youngstown i think
that you know being from a place and living and having the experiences of being
in you know a
diabolical place gets you to appreciate everything that happens after that
right like you wouldn't be
quite as p at peace here in nashville if you didn't know that it takes an hour
and a half sometimes to
drive from one gig to another in la or from the airport to your house in la
those little things
like here you get up at the airport you're here in 10 15 minutes right yeah
same thing with me
in fact i try to set new records each time the airport's like a place that now
i have like great
pride and trying to get home in like seven minutes or eight minutes it's crazy
um yeah i guess there's
yeah there's definitely a lot of things and it's also like this is part of the
journey it's like
um you know uh communication like is more free on podcasts and so it would make
sense that maybe they
expand out to different areas over time it's been really interesting to be in a
different place and
have access to different guests and like unique people that um normally may not
have be able to
get on a certain platforms or weren't even able to get on like kind of podcasts
and stuff so that's
been uh really interesting and kind of seeing like well what's who's the next
person that i'm going to
get to meet that would be like really really really awesome to have come on
from here like we got mike
rowe is going to come on right so i'm really excited about that like i don't
know if i would
be able to have him on if i weren't in this area so um yeah there's different
things about it and
i can go back to l.a whenever it's always there it's still like you go back the
comedy store the
improv places that i love the laugh factories become um it's it's still great
uh it's gotten better
actually just busier over there so the stages are still there um and it's fun
and yeah man when i go
back to the store it is a party those are my people you know those people that
have worked there forever
um you know we're so close and we have so much fun and it's like a reunion it's
like a different vibe
instead of being there all the time it's like you know it's like going home and
visiting you know a
family yeah in a hometown yeah yeah it's interesting i just it's like and we
also have to be supportive
of the places we are it's like you you have to do that like you have to kind of
champion where you are
to an extent in order to be able to survive there right and um and have like a
nice perspective
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