Name: Theo and Bobby Open Up About Their Childhoods
Uploaded: 2022-08-30T22:39:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Bobby Open Up About Their Childhoods' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo and Bobby Open Up About Their Childhoods' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-30. Transcript available.

When I was 8 years old, we lived in Minnesota.
Really?
Yeah, Edina, Minnesota.
Really?
Because you know what else happened up there.
Yeah, Highway to Heaven, bro.
I get it, dude.
And I lived in Edina, Minnesota.
Dover Drive was my street.
And I remember I didn't have a lot of friends.
So one day I went.
I was like 8 years old.
And I go, Mommy, Daddy, could I have a pet?
And they go, what kind?
You know, I go, a cat?
So they got my cat, a kitten.
And I remember that summer, I kind of get emotional even thinking about it.
I named him Tom because it's like I didn't know anything else.
Tom and Jerry was a thing back then.
It was good?
Yeah, so I named him Tom.
And I remember being in the garage because he wouldn't be letting the house.
We kind of had like a little pen in the garage.
And I would play with him all day long for weeks.
And then one day I left.
I came home.
And Tom was gone.
I was freaking out.
Where's Tom?
Where's Tom?
And my dad looks at me and goes, he no longer here.
And I go, what happened?
I put in a pound.
No.
And I go, why?
Mommy, allergic.
And then I started crying.
And they go, stop crying.
And then they left the garage.
And I remember sitting there, tears.
There's no voice like, you know, no compromise.
No, how do you feel?
You know what I mean?
No reason why.
No reason why.
There's no voice, right?
And I just had to take it.
I was powerless, right?
And I just, that's like my upbringing in a nutshell.
Like I just felt like no one heard me.
And so that's why I learned to act out.
I learned to like, you know, be funny and do shit.
But it's like, that's why I have seven animals now.
Wow.
You know what I mean?
Because it's like, I love, you know, I love animals so much.
And it's like, I don't know.
I just, I'm just compensating for that.
You know what I mean?
I don't know what happened to that kid, that cat.
But it's just like, it just sums up like why I am the way I am, I think.
You know?
I get so angry even thinking about it.
Oh, dude.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
And when he died two years ago.
Fuck, how long did he live for?
Until he was 80.
What?
And I loved the man.
I do.
I love him.
Oh, your father.
My dad.
Oh, you mean you were thinking about the cat?
I thought Tom.
I'm sorry.
That's really funny, dude.
I'm sorry, man.
Yeah.
My dad.
You know what I mean?
When he died, I remember like, just look at my brother and my mom.
They're just bawling.
You know what I mean?
They're just on the ground rolling around, you know what I mean?
In tears, you know what I mean?
And I literally was just looking at not a tear in my eye.
I was numb.
I was like, this is fucking weird.
What do I do?
So I put sunglasses on because I knew my uncles and aunts were coming in, right?
Because I wanted to pretend like I was like emotional about it.
But it's like, I didn't feel anything.
And it's like, I love him and I miss him.
But it's like, I know I just have all these unresolved feelings toward him, you
know?
And that's, you know, it's like, I would never do that to my own child.
You know what I mean?
Never.
And he also beat us and all that stuff.
But it's just like, I don't know, man.
It's weird.
I haven't really fully worked it out.
But I mean, there's reasons why I'm so fucked up, I think.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, man.
I'm sorry that that happened to you.
It's all right, man.
I really am.
No.
Yeah, it's all right.
That kind of shit's heartbreaking, man.
That like stuff like that happens to kids.
Do you think, because I have things like that too, man.
Sometimes there's like so much anger built up inside.
Some days I'm, a lot of times I'm okay.
And then sometimes I'm so angry.
You know what I got?
I finally realized the other day while I was angry, I realized, because I've
always had
like a lot of like anger against, I think against my mother.
I didn't really know my dad that good.
So my mother's the only parent left.
And I get angry sometimes because she missed out on me.
That's what I feel like.
Yeah.
Like she missed out on like whoever I was or whatever was unique about me or
not unique
or whatever my feelings were.
Like she missed out on all of it, you know?
Yeah.
It just, she's still alive, right?
Yeah.
She's still alive.
I think I've seen photos with her.
Yeah.
Do you help her?
Like if she needs help and stuff?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I help her out, you know, like with, I help support and stuff like that.
You know, I'm grateful that my mom, I think she did the best she could.
And I think it's like, it makes me sad also that my mom probably got treated
that, you
know, she only knew what she knew.
It's a cyclical thing.
It's so fucking crazy.
It's a cyclical thing.
Yeah.
Cause my parents, my parents had it worse when they grew up.
Oh.
Way fucking worse.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I could tell you fucking crazy stories that they told me, but it's like,
you know,
but here's the thing, Theo.
I literally still wouldn't change it for the world.
Because without all those past experiences, right?
I wouldn't be who I am now.
And I think I'm pretty cool.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I'm a fucked up guy, but it's like, you know, I honestly look in the
mirror and
I go, you know what, dude, you, I'm so proud of myself for some of the things
that I persevered
through.
You know, I mean, this business is hard.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot of rejection and a lot of like, am I going to make it?
And this is years of, you know, now, you know, you have the internet and, you
know, people
do TikTok videos and they do different ways to make money.
But when I was coming up, right, you had one way you do the clubs, you become
an opener,
feature, headliner, you get TV spots, hopefully you get a sitcom.
And that's pretty much it.
Yeah.
Right.
And it's like, I was just so proud that I was like, I came to LA with no money.
I didn't know, I didn't know anybody from show business and I crawled my way to
where
I am now.
And there's, you know, there's a resilience to that.
I think, you know what I mean?
I always downplay it and I, you know, and I have low self-esteem, but it's like,
um, but
at the end of the day, I'm a fucking warrior in a weird way, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, I did something because a lot of, you know, people that have had my
kind of
upbringing, they turn to drugs, they don't get sober, they perpetuate their
behavior and
they become shitty dads themselves or whatever it might be, you know what I
mean?
But it's like, I chose to, you know, get sober frequently during my life and
try to read
books to help better myself, to be a good guy, you know what I mean?
You haven't given up.
I'm not going to give up.
You never give up on yourself.
Yeah, no, no.
And, um, the resilience of it, but it's like, it's a tough business.
And, um, so I wouldn't change anything for the world.
Would you, um, let's be real because you're Theo Vaughn.
Yeah.
I think it's, well, I think it would just goes back to that one thing that it's
like, uh,
if I didn't need attention, if I didn't need, like, I remember a lot of my high
school
girlfriends and stuff, I kept, I'm still keep in touch with their mothers, you
know?
What do you mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I'm still friends with their mothers.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, friends with them.
Yeah.
Like, even more than I talked to the girls, it's like, there was just such a
pattern,
you know?
It's like, I just wonder, like, if I would have been, yeah, I would have been
different.
But, so sometimes I think that makes me sad, but, uh, no, I don't think so, man.
And I think it's probably the same for you.
It's like, I chose, like, if something in the world isn't going to see me, then
I'm going
to take the hardest thing the world has, supposedly, which is stand-up comedy,
and I'm going to
fucking make you see me, you know?
Yeah.
I'm going to make you see me.
It's almost, sometimes I think I needed everybody in the world to love me just
because I wanted
to get my mother to love me.
It's like, I just figured eventually, it will get back to her, and then I'll
feel some type
of way, you know?
And I'm not trying to get into self-pity either.
I got to be aware of that because I get into self-pity.
No, yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
But I think, man, you're a, dude, there are times people come up and take a
picture, like,
can I get a picture with you?
And then they're like, can you try and look more like Bobby Lee in the picture?
They will literally want me to be like, they're like, can you squint a little?
Can you, uh, can you fucking, yeah.
Can you look more fat?
Can you, uh.
Can you dress like you sell timeshares at a carnival?
They're like, can you help me out here, you know?
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