Name: Norm Macdonald & Sean O'Connor on Down With Joe DeRosa 2014 The future of comedy is now!
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Norm Macdonald & Sean O'Connor on Down With Joe DeRosa 2014 The future of comedy is now!

welcome to a very special episode of down with joe de rosa ladies and gentlemen
do i have a
christmas present for you and i'm only saying christmas because that's the way
i was raised
i don't mean to alienate jewish folks this could be one of the eight hanukkah
presents if you like
all right any other religion that i'm unfamiliar with and that i don't know any
of the customs of
maybe you don't give gifts in your religion but you're still celebrating right
now i don't know
the point is is it's a holiday gift for the holiday season who shows up on the
podcast today not one but
two great people the first of which is a dear dear friend of mine sean o'connor
very very dear friend
of mine i've known him for a very long time and he's a hilarious guy and i was
excited to finally
get him on the show where we were able to talk about stress and our mutual anxieties
that we share
uh who else is on the podcast well one norm mcdonald very exciting very
exciting he's not on the whole
thing he's only on part of it why is he only on part of it because we recorded
the podcast in his hotel
room sean and i did and norm was in the one part of the room and he would drift
in here and there
and eventually he jumped in and started to to got on mic and started to talk
and became part of it
which we were both very thrilled about sean and i i mean i don't i mean i didn't
mean me and norm
oh boy i bet norm norm was thrilled to be a part of it um but sean and i were
excited man that he was
coming in and and becoming a part of this whole thing um here's the bad news
sound quality sucks sound
quality on the whole episode uh sucks uh here's why usually you know when i
have guests they're here as i do
this intro uh if you haven't gathered yet so far today uh the guests aren't
here with me
i don't know if that was evident or not but they're not here with me i am alone
i'm recording
a special intro and why joe are you recording a special intro well because as i
said the sound
quality on what you're about to hear sucks and why does it suck because the
whole thing was recorded
through a laptop microphone and why was it recorded through a laptop microphone
because we only had 35
minutes to get this done because sean and norm had to leave to go to their show
and i had to leave to
go to my show why did we only have 35 minutes to get this done why didn't we
allow ourselves more time
because we uh needed to drive from a barbecue restaurant to their hotel and it
took us 90 minutes
to get three miles why were we at a barbecue restaurant because i'm in atlanta
which means i am
on the road which means even this intro is being recorded from the back of the
club i'm performing at
right now why am i on the road because i need to make money what else does
being on the road mean
being on the road also means that i'm not working with my standard equipment i'm
working with my
travel equipment so when i plugged it in in the hotel room because i was
nervous because we only had 35
minutes and i was in the hotel room of a guy that i really love and look up to
and i couldn't get the
damn thing to work correctly i i panicked and i just started recording and i
thought i had it all
working correctly and i didn't have it working correctly so all of our voices
are recorded through
the goddamn fucking laptop mic and i thought all our voices were going into the
actual mics and they
weren't i wasn't thinking clearly i i failed you i know i failed you okay fine
and i know what you're
thinking joe you did fail us i know i did you don't have to say it i'm aware i'm
very aware but
as they say every dark cloud has a silver lining and the silver lining of this
dark cloud which is
a shitty recording quality is the fact that uh we have two wonderful guests and
i'm really
enjoyed this conversation sean and i talked about stress as you will hear and
then norm comes in and
he's hilarious what more do you need to know sound quality is good enough that
you can enjoy this
just not good enough for you to respect me as a podcaster enjoy folks i hope
you like it it's
about 35 minute conversation take it all in and uh i'll talk to you afterwards
welcome to down with
joe de rosa one topic one guest one hour quick plugs mistakes were made the b-sides
double album it's out
now you can get it on itunes or amazon also i will be at the lizard lounge at
the chameleon club in
lancaster pa january 4th and then the following weekend i'll be at the cap city
comedy club in
austin texas uh today we are talking about stress if you've listened to this
podcast you know that i
have it terribly uh i'm on medicine for it i want prozac for it and i'm in
therapy for it i'm trying
to deal with it because it's a tough thing to deal with and my most fascinating
the thing i find most
fascinating about sex or about stress is that it prevents me from having sex uh
is the thing i find
fascinating about stress is the people that don't suffer from it have no idea
how it works um so
that's kind of what we're going to talk about today and my guest fortunately
does know how it works he's
been on conan he's had a half hour comedy central special he wrote for the
sports show on comedy
central with norm mcdonald uh he's doing all types of stuff the the lucas
brothers movie company for fox
sean o'connor awesome it's good to be here it's gonna be really fun i think it'll
be fun i hope it'll be
fun i mean we've we had a great conversation uh in the three hour car ride it
took we got back to the
hotel so i feel like we're i'm dude how long was that fucking car ride i got a
headache during the car
ride yeah yeah it was it was it took us it took us 90 minutes to get from matt
fat matt's ribs it was
2.3 miles away we could have walked that we could have just left the car there
and got him back it took
90 minutes yeah that's crazy so here we are we're both in atlanta right now
performing uh you're at
the improv yeah and you're at star bar yeah which i think is better we're fun
why don't you guys come
do your show at star bar tonight yeah we'll come we'll come for the late show
it'll be like have you
ever been to punchline in atlanta no hey on saturday night it's a six o'clock
show an eight o'clock show a
10 o'clock show on a midnight show what that's your saturday night at the punchline
you do four shows
why uh because they don't understand it like they don't understand comedy even
though they've been
a club for 40 years and they think it's great and you bomb so hard on a saturday
at six o'clock that
sounds terrible it's not fun so what uh i mean what's the point how could
anybody unless you're
like you know chris rock get a turnout for four shows like that yeah it's one
thursday three friday
four saturday one sunday it's a very long week jesus i've never done that have
you done it i've done it
twice was it stressful they canceled the saturday at six o'clock show 12 both
times but they're like
we usually do it all the time but it's been canceled all times but it's
stressful just stressful doing
stand-up three times a night now you're out here currently you're not headlining
these shows oh no
you're i'm doing it down you're with no mcdonald opening which is that's a very
fun gig oh it's the
best gig in the whole world yeah that's awesome now when you're not with norm
because i've been in that
position where you tour with somebody else yeah i've gone down the road a lot
with burr and
pat and oswald and you know with chapelle for a while so you go with people and
it's nice because
when you're first of all you only have to do like 20 minutes 20 minutes it's
the best and you go on in
between like the host and then the person everyone wants to see and it's right
no one expects anything
out of you and then you're like fairly okay at it yeah and then the hard part
is though when
so you're in this situation with with a beloved comedian uh their fans now are
becoming your fans and
and you're feeling that's sort of the the residual love yeah you know from from
somebody else's fans
but then you leave that person and you go do your own headlining show and then
that's back to reality
oh my god there's just nothing worse than like going from like the wilbur
theater then to go to
foxwoods casino and be like i'm gonna do 45 minutes in front of people who are
are basically being paid
to be here it's like they got free tickets oh it's the fucking worse and then
everyone is like oh we
loved you we think you're fantastic then you headline and then you don't even
want to say you just want
to say sorry to people like i'm so sorry yeah i'm sorry i ruined your night
with my opinions
i i ruined a lot of nights with opinions yeah uh i made a man cry once at a
show oh my god well
that's awesome man how how did that happen uh he kept heckling me the whole
time and i was like
you know i kept being like shut up dude shut up and like and he kept doing it
and then i got really mad
and i wasn't right for doing this but i got really mad and i go and i just i
did the like get the
fuck out of here you get the fuck out of here you know and uh he stood up and
then uh when he was
walking to the doors i go get the fuck out of here and the audience was booing
him and i go hear that
that's because you're an asshole oh they're booing you because you're an
asshole and he was fat and when
they got to the double doors i go open both doors so that fat bucks can squeeze
through and then he went to
the bar and cried oh and started crying to the manager and said my wife is
dying in a hospital
i just want to have fun tonight oh that wasn't my fault no it wasn't he was
just having shitty fun
that's not the way to have fun what club was that carolyn's oh that's perfect
it was carolyn's yeah i
like that yeah that's in new york he's a piece of his wife's dying in a
hospital and he's going to see
stand-up at carolyn's yeah i know it is kind of like what are you doing at the
comedy club if your
wife is you know is sick you might want to spend these final moments with her
also how are you fat
in new york like it's so hard to be fat in new york i was my fattest in new york
i was my fattest
at the same time you know when you're at your fattest you notice that not
everyone like no one
else is bad in new york yeah i mean i was fat in new york because i would just
uh you know you're
always like on the run you know yeah you know because you got to take the
subway everywhere and
everything and it's always so crowded and like you just be like i don't have
time to eat
you just get like pizza pizza yeah because it's all cheap too like you're only
spending like four
dollars on a meal and it's just yeah two hamburgers yeah exactly you're like
well i spent six grand on
my rent this month so uh i guess i'll just need uh dollar fries for the room
till january yeah the uh
yeah i was i was my i got thinner when i went to l.a because every every in l.a
it's the worst
everybody there is well you also have to make an effort because you're in a car
all the time so like when you know that that's how you can just like you just
start walking more
or like running or exercising you have to now did that give you anxiety when
you got there and you
felt like you were out of shape and everybody else was oh i've had yeah my
anxiety my anxiety started
at 21 which i felt like i had a really good run right i'm not having anxiety
and then i when i moved
to new york that's when it started full blast really that was like a nightmare
really yeah i didn't was the
what give me give me your worst your worst ailment when it comes to anxiety
what's the worst part
of it for you it's just i am certain i i think now i know more than most
doctors in terms of like
diet like diagnosing stuff right so i'm like obsessed with getting a disease me
too uh i was
certain i had throat cancer the week before i moved to new york i swear to god
i thought this whole week
i thought i've had throat cancer the whole week it's a terrifying one have you
ever gone to the hospital and got a barium swallow no it's the
wor