Name: The Ego That Can Come With Fame
Uploaded: 2022-01-03T19:05:54.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Ego That Can Come With Fame' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Ego That Can Come With Fame' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-03. Transcript available.

Was there a part in your career where your ego started to get big, like you
felt that going on in your world?
Like I've noticed that in my own life at times where your ego, because it's
kind of like this plant that gets watered by, not even you watering it, you
know, it's this thing that grows sometimes.
Did you ever have any...
I would say more in the mid to late 80s when all of a sudden we were thrust
into stardom and in a thing that we never imagined we'd be famous at because no
one was famous at it.
And then all of a sudden we're traveling the world and there's crowds and then
that definitely gets to you when you're at such an impressionable formative age.
So when I'm like 18, 19, traveling the world, thousands of people, autographs,
you know, parties, girls, everything.
And it was just like at some point I think that I took it for granted and maybe
even expected it.
And then it was all taken away from me because skating died.
And now, now that I get to live through another wave of success, I don't take
any of it for granted.
And I'm just so thankful that I even get paid to do it at all.
So I'm glad I went through that.
Yeah.
When like, like with the ego, do you think it like, you think it's just
something that happens to people?
Because that's an interesting experience that you've had where you got to like,
you know, you just got to have, you know, popularity and stuff like that.
I feel like the people who have the worst egos are the ones that get into it
for those motivations.
They get into it for fame or fortune.
And then when they finally get it, they just expect it.
And maybe that'll last for a little bit.
But at some point, people are over you.
Yeah.
If you're walking around like you deserve all of it.
They had a plan.
It was a secret plan to be an asshole the whole time.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's what it looks like.
Yeah.
Because some people are just like, I knew you before you were that.
Right.
And now we're still on the same fucking planet, dude, with the same skin on.
And you're acting like all of a sudden you're made of fucking diamonds.
But you do see those same people lose their motivation and they don't keep
their skills up.
Because it was never there probably to begin with.
Or it was there, but the motivation was just to get to this point of celebrity.
And when they get to that point, they're not motivated to get better.
And that's when they fall off.
Wow.
And so in my case, I just want to keep getting better at skating.
Thank God that was there for you then.
Just because it's like that kind of stuff can happen.
You know, it's like sometimes I think it happens and people don't realize it
until years later.
You know, like what was even going on?
If you realize it at the time, you'd probably stop.
Like what do you mean?
Like if you're being an egotistical shithead and you're not appreciating where
you are and you realize it right there and then,
then hopefully you would stop or get on the right track or try to get on the
right track.
I've done it.
I did it with the radio.
Skateboarding, I was famous.
Not as famous as him, but famous enough to be an asshole and fly around the
world and be like,
ah, it was nothing.
I wasn't like on purpose mean, but I was definitely like not appreciative of
the people and all the life that I was living.
Just like no thank yous.
Just fucking give me the shit.
Give me the money.
Apple juice.
And then the radio, same thing.
Yeah.
I didn't, it was accidental.
Got real big.
All of a sudden people are all up my ass.
And then I'm straight back into that thing, running everybody.
I know what I'm doing.
Fucking nobody knows anything.
And then I had to, you know, go to, that's when I started going to therapy and
shit.
Cause I couldn't have a relationship.
Yeah.
Like I could be the boss of a show, but nobody would date me.
Oh dude, that's where I'm at.
Really?
Yeah.
I could be, yeah.
Nobody will date you because you, what do you snap on people or something?
No, people can date me.
I just have trouble like with commitment and stuff like that.
Like I've just been, and I've just been, I've just had so much anger and I don't
know what I'm angry at.
That, that is, I know exactly what that is.
Oh, it's fucking miserable.
Being super angry and not knowing why.
That was the thing that made me go.
Cause I was, I had everything.
I was like, I have everything that I'd ever want.
Like you're on fire and all you do is fucking talk about dicks and then you go
home and do whatever you want.
Like this is no.
And what was your other job?
I was a skateboarder.
Yeah.
Like, come on.
You can't get a better life.
And you're just, or, you know what I mean?
I really just want to listen to some dark metal by myself and think about
pulling things apart.
Like what's wrong with you, dude?
Oh, I'll, I'll go get those chickens at the store and just take them apart.
Wait, are they cooked?
Huh?
Oh yeah.
They're cooked.
They're pre-cooked.
Yeah.
Do you eat it when you pull it apart?
Oh, fuck it.
Or do you just leave it?
Creep, bro.
But I'll put on.
What do you mean?
You buy a chicken to pull it apart.
I'll put on some Elliot Smith or some sad music and just fucking carve that
bitch up.
Do you eat it as well?
Or are you just carving?
I'll have a little sometimes, but sometimes it's more for the sport of it.
Honestly, you know, it's like, yeah, sometimes I just got to let, it's just
like, I just want,
yeah, I don't know.
I just get, I've just been angry and man, it's been, it has been not fun, you
know?
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you a one option, not this guy, two options.
Watch one, this one or this one.
Thank you.