Name: Theo Von and David Spade on Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno
Uploaded: 2020-08-17T16:00:28.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and David Spade on Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-08-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Von and David Spade on Norm Macdonald and Jay Leno' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-08-17. Transcript available.

- Was it nerve wracking having Norm and I felt,
I felt anxious for you having Norm and Leno?
Because Norm is such a, it's like throwing dynamite
in like a children's yard.
- I checked ahead that Norm likes Leno.
And Leno is a great guy.
I've done his show a million times in the old days
and he was a great comic.
He got on Letterman and was doing,
I don't know if you remember 'cause you're young,
but he was a guest on Letterman.
He was so funny and very edgy
that Letterman, you know, put him on so much
and then Carson put him on.
I think then he was guest hosting Carson.
- Oh, wow, I didn't know that.
- But when he had to be a full host on Carson or took over,
then he got a little bit of flack from comics for being,
not like sell out, you know, have a little jealousy,
but a little like people were like,
he had to tamper it down a bit, which you have to,
I mean, if he's on a network show.
- Yeah.
- So they gave him a little grief for that.
And then the whole Conan thing, which is hard, you know,
I didn't really take sides of that.
Leno's always been nice to me and I love Conan.
So I tried to stay out of that one.
Doesn't really affect me.
And then Leno called me after about, you know,
week on the air to say, I watch every show.
I love the jokes.
There's more jokes per minute, anything on TV.
The algorithm is great.
You don't talk about politics.
You don't get in that tense arguments.
You don't make people feel cringey watching like,
cause you're for this.
Now they suddenly hate you.
And I said, that's the idea.
I mean, ideally that's what we're trying to do.
And I'm too stupid for politics.
I don't really want to get into it.
Everyone else is, everyone's better at it.
I got Trevor right before me and better at it.
So I just want to fuck around and have fun.
Like it's almost a podcast.
It's like buddies hanging around and try to cram jokes in,
and make them look fluid.
And half of them are fluid,
cause you don't know what the other guy's gonna say.
So you just roll with it.
- Yeah.
- And then what we're getting to you is then,
Jay said, if you want me to come on, I'd love to.
And I said, of course, you know,
he's a guy that is just a joke machine.
That's what we need.
And then the idea of who do I put him with?
You almost don't need anyone.
- Right. That's what I was thinking.
I was like, wow, it was really nice of him also to go
and just be, I mean, he's always gonna be the top banana,
but to be just a, you know, a banana in the bunch.
- And when, you know, also, you know,
in the comedy world, like if I see a comic on the road,
when you're on the road, it's usually,
you talk to other comics, you're like,
oh, I know this guy.
Oh yeah, he middled for me here.
Oh, I used to open for Dennis Miller.
You know, we all talk shit, just talk comedians.
So comedy is something where I could even walk up
to Seinfeld in the old days.
And if you're a comic and you're on that list,
and you just tell someone your comic,
they sort of treat you equally.
They're pretty cool.
Most comics, you're in the club with them
and they're nice.
You know what I mean?
Like I try to be at the store.
There's guys that are doing better than me,
guys that are doing worse,
but you try to just treat everyone the same,
'cause you're all in the comedy world.
And we all know how hard it is.
We all know this guy could blow up fucking tomorrow
and you could work for this guy the next day.
'Cause it's just how it is.
- That's crazy.
- And now, and how tough the world is.
So I think Leno is old school saying,
hey, you tell me, you want me to sit on that panel?
With a bunch of comedians?
I'll sit with comedians and bullshit.
And I think he likes to be a comedian still.
- Yeah.
- And we-
- Yeah, make him feel part of the group.
- Yeah.
We have Martin Short coming up and I'm like,
maybe put Maya Rudolph with him
'cause she's funny and weird.
Maybe just have those two.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause they goof around.
I might wanna do a Q and A soon,
have people ask from the crowd.
- Oh, that'd be great.
- 'Cause it's just fun.
Me, Norm.
- I want it to be longer.
- I know, you know what?
I think it feels fast,
which is ultimately a compliment.
- Right, it's good.
Yeah, be good, be going.
Yeah, get it done, make people want more.
- I think what it is, is like, if I go on Ellen,
I'm probably doing 15 minutes out there, you know, at least.
Sometimes longer, like Shogo, just do the whole show.
'Cause I see why now it's relaxing for her.
She just goes, "That was your weekend."
Lights a cigarette that I'm like,
"I went to the Rolling Stones concert."
And I just go on and on and on.
And she's like, "Okay, let's go to commercial."
That's better for her, and I understand that.
And then, 'cause sometimes doing the show as a host,
which I've never hosted,
I don't wanna go interview people, really.
I just wanna shoot the shit with comics and laugh.
So like, the hard part is they only get a little bit of time,
you know, 'cause it's three people.
- And you have three egos.
There's always a little ego when you're sitting there.
- Sure, and Chelsea, you know, Handler did it.
And she did it well, but I think she made herself
sort of a traffic cop.
It's easier.
I mean, you just say, which I could see doing that.
You just go, "You guys are the funny ones."
Like, just go, "I'm gonna chirp in when I feel like it."
Basically, here's the question.
What do you think of this?
And then they go.
And it'll, I'm sure, turn into some form of that.
But I like to throw in jokes now.
So now it's like four people.
- Right, yeah, 'cause you're a comedian too.
It's not like you're sitting there.
It's like you're chopped liver.
- And so we don't need--
- That's an old term too. - That's the decision.
I like chopped liver.
That's a good one.
- Have you ever had it?
- It's still out there.
No, but I just picture it, it sounds gross.
- People, I guess, hate it because everybody's like,
it's always like the last thing people pick.
- It gets a bad rap.
- Yeah.
- It gets a bad rap.
Fish, when people go, "This smells fishy."
'Cause I feel like bad for the fish,
'cause he goes, "Yeah, I'm a fish."
And they're like, "Oh, fishy's, by the way,
the grossest thing you could smell."
And they're like, "I am a fish."
- Yeah.
- "Ah, why is that gross?
I'm just smelling like--"
- Yeah, I'm on fucking some of the best menus.
- To other fishes, it's cool, but to humans, they hate it.
- Sometimes I wonder if fish are male or female
when you're on my plate, you know?
That doesn't always cross my mind.
- Oh, you ask who?
The fish?
- I'll ask the waiter.
- Oh, okay.
- And they'll be like, "Let me check."
- And they never come back.
- And someone quit working there sometimes at that point.
- That's funny, they should leave the building
because they don't get that a lot, I'm sure.
- Good evening, good afternoon, and other times.
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