Name: Rest In Peace Erik Myers
Uploaded: 2021-03-03T03:50:07.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rest In Peace Erik Myers' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rest In Peace Erik Myers' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

We lost a comedian about a week ago, and I don't want to talk out of school,
but he struggled.
Man, this guy struggled at a level that was, man, he struggled.
I think he was the, he was one of the two funniest people I'd ever seen on
stage kill a crowd.
Were him and Joey Diaz.
Kill a crowd.
Actually, I'll add in, I'll add in Crystallia, and I'll add in Earthquake.
Kill.
Really kill a crowd.
And his name is Eric Myers, and he, and I just say this because I want, I just
want his name to be said, and I want it to be heard.
And, uh, he died in Texas a week ago.
He, um, apparently relapsed and, uh, was walking on the freeway or the interstate
late at night and was hit by a vehicle.
A van, actually.
Jesus.
Oh.
I, I, I, getting hit by a car sounds way, actually, uh, or getting hit by a van.
Both sound bad.
Actually, car sounds worse, I think, than van.
Because van, like, it's all, you know, one point of kind of, um, but, uh.
You know, he was supposed to come on here a couple months ago.
He was in Memphis.
Five weeks ago, maybe.
He was in Memphis, and we were messaging, and he was going to come here to be a
guest on the podcast.
And I said, oh, don't come, man.
Like, it's just, I felt bad he was going to have to come, you know, four hours
or something.
I think he was taking the bus.
And I just said, we'll do it later.
We'll do it when I'm down near you in Florida, where he lived.
Um.
And it just bums me out.
Like, I just.
I, I don't know.
Maybe if I had been in a space where I was just more, like, yes, yes, saying
yes to things, you know.
Or just, you know, maybe if my spirits had been higher that day.
Not that I would have saved him or done anything, but we just would have had a
time, you know.
So, he just, maybe there would have been one extra moment of somebody saying,
yes.
I care, you know.
Welcome.
Come in.
You know.
Be a part of.
So.
Man, he struggled, man.
He has so many hilarious stories.
I hope to one day get someone in here who knows a lot of the stories of Eric
Myers.
Um.
He had a unique voice.
Hollywood missed him.
They.
They missed him.
He was just.
I mean, he was from another planet.
I would see him in Baton Rouge.
We would work together.
We worked together down in Florida.
Captain Brian's off the hook.
And you got to do comedy and they're doing crack and they're fucking oysters
and slaughtering an octopus.
Or octopi right next to you.
You fucking telling a joke and they're fucking telling an octopus his last
rights, you know.
They're over there electric chair and clams and you trying to rattle off a riddle,
you know.
And we had to switch each time.
And we had to.
One of us would go first.
One of us would go second.
And I did not want to go second.
I did not want to go second.
Because that means I had to go after him.
And he came down to Baton Rouge once.
And I would see him in Texas.
Anyway, he's just really talented.
Sorry, I'm just kind of rambling and just kind of lamenting at the same time.
But I hope you go check out his stuff.
He has a special on YouTube.
That was, I think, shot at the Laugh Factory or somewhere.
But man, he was so good.
But man, he battled with the devil.
I mean, he just had it inside of him.
So, anyway, sorry to be such a downer.
Look, I'm sorry to be the downer here.
But Brady, how do I state?
I just, the only thing that I know,
which hasn't always kept me sober, but it has kept me alive,
is that I try to communicate with others.
And contrary action.
When you don't feel like doing something, do it.
When you don't do it.
That's the thing.
You'll surprise yourself.
Then you'll realize how much you're capable of.
But I'm not trying to preach at you, man.
I love you, bro.
And keep your head up, dog.
And praise God, man.
Gang shit.
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 one option.
Not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.