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Stavvy's World #90 - Tom Papa | Full Episode

Oppa! Welcome everybody to Stavi's World, 904-800-STOP.
Call in, we'll solve your problems.
I'm thrilled to have on the pod one of my comedy fathers, Tom Papa.
Thank you, Tommy.
Hello, son.
Between you, we really should have Bobby on here.
Yeah, that would be funny.
My two gay comedy dads.
You were definitely the dad, honestly.
The functional one.
Yeah, you were like the dick, because you lived on the other, you're in L.A.,
so it felt like if you and Bobby are a couple, you guys got a divorce, you
moved to L.A.,
you're the functional, kind of distant father figure, and Bobby was here
constantly.
He was like my overly emotional mother, who I see all the time.
Lashing out.
I'm always threatening, I'm going to go live with Dad if you don't stop yelling
at me.
And I was very measured.
Yeah, yeah.
Very, give me some sound advice.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah, exactly.
I remember we were somewhere, and something happened where someone, like,
canceled, like,
something in our travel went wrong, or something went wrong on the little tour
we were on.
Yeah.
And I was on the phone with the rep, and I was just like, oh, all right, okay,
we'll take care of it.
And then I hung up, and you were like.
Oh, yeah.
I remember this exactly.
I was like, what's the matter?
And you're like, that is not how Bobby would have reacted.
Yeah, I remember your manager fucked up the hotel.
Is that what it was?
And then, yes, that's what it was.
And then, and then you were like, ah.
And you were really annoyed for one second.
And then you were, you were even like, you know what, I'll take care of it.
And you just, like, booked.
You just, like, found the hotel that was nicest and nearest, and you called
them back.
You're like, book this, and that was that.
And then you were, like, back at it.
And I was like, oh, my God, Bobby.
Bobby would have been yelling at that man for 90 minutes.
We wouldn't have gotten a hotel.
We would have still had to stay at the shitty one because he would not have
taken care of it.
He would have just kind of, like, challenged the assistant, the manager's manhood.
And then the guy would have, like, taken it out on us.
And then Bobby would have felt guilty for how bad he yelled at him, so he
wouldn't have yelled again.
Yeah, but then he would have just kind of, like, said shitty comments to you.
Yeah, then he would have taken it out on me.
You were literally, like, holding the armrest, like, waiting for the onslaught.
I was like, what's the matter, dude?
He was like, oh, my other dad's an alcoholic.
Oh, yeah.
No, I have a, I literally remember exactly where we were.
Right.
Like, I have the image of, I don't remember what the city was, but I remember
driving from the airport.
Driving, yeah.
And, like, it just not, the hotel not being booked or it was just, like, a
really shitty hotel.
Whatever, something, it was something like that.
Yeah, I forget what it was.
And then you just doing it yourself and the whole thing being done and us
getting lunch, and I'm still just, like, reeling.
I'm like, wow.
That was a really normal way to handle that.
Yeah.
And, you know, you don't think of yourself, really, as normal, so, like, to
hear that perspective, I still carry it to this day, like, it's like, what
would Bobby do?
Yeah.
And just don't do that.
I love it.
And then I'm from a, you know, there's a long lineage of people who have opened
for Bobby, and, like, I'm talking to Sodor and, like, Joe List, and they're
like, you got him when he was chilled out.
They're like, you got Bobby after, like, ten consecutive years of therapy.
Right.
Like, we got him fresh, dude.
We got him with the little goatee and the Kangol hat when he was still, you
know.
Going nuts.
He was still going nuts, but he's the man.
Yeah, he's the best.
Yeah, that was the best for the listeners.
It's like, that was the moment where I kind of felt like I could actually do
comedies.
I just fell into opening for both you and Bobby separately, and you were
friends, and it was just.
Did I meet you first in Maryland when we did that?
I remember you did Ram's Head in Annapolis, and I remember that gig.
That was awesome because I, you know, I was a fan of yours because I was a big
comedy nerd, but you don't realize that you are just a fuck.
Like, comedians, what I love about it is even the most manicured, because you,
you know, at the time you were doing, like, you know, you're a married dad.
You were doing, you were wearing a suit on stage.
The marriage, we got the marriage ref here.
I'll just show some fucking respect, by the way.
That's right.
You didn't roll out the red carpet for the marriage ref.
You didn't bring your whistle to get signed by Tom.
But I was like, yeah, this is like a great comic, and he's, and then you
realize the best comics, even when they've grown up, are all dirtbags in their
hearts.
You know what I mean?
As we got to know each other, it's like, yeah, you were just, you were, you
were me 20 years ago.
And it's like, that was, and you love, because I was, dude, when we met, I'm 22,
23.
Right.
And it's just, oh, I mean, if I had four minutes that didn't say pussy or cock
or, you know what I mean?
Like, I was filthy, or it was like fat, like fat jokes were clean, and then it
was all just pussy and jokes.
I don't remember you being super dirty.
I remember you being very, like I saw you on, they sent me a YouTube clip.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I immediately was like, oh, funny guy.
That's awesome, yeah.
You know, you know, when you see someone, you're just like, okay, that's good.
Yeah.
And I was just like, oh, yeah, that's perfect.
Yeah.
And I think it was as we worked together longer.
Right.
I don't know how long we did it.
A couple years, yeah, a few years for sure, four or five years probably.
I feel like you got dirtier later.
Yeah, maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think maybe you were like on best behavior in the beginning.
Oh, for sure.
And then when we were friends, you're like, all right.
I'm just going to be me.
Yeah, what you saw was me being as clean as humanly possible.
And it was still probably 12 of my 20 minutes were disgusting.
But like, I was like, Jesus, I can't do that one.
I can't do this one.
And then, and then as we, yeah, as we were like, I was like, oh, I'm good here.
I can really let it rip.
And then as I became even more of a, I don't know, you, you know, you have
ambition early
on.
You're like, I'm going to be a, I'm going to write clean jokes.
And I'm just like, all I care about is comedy.
And then you'd like, you moved to New York.
Your life sucks, dick.
You're like, you want to kill yourself.
All I know is like pain and misery, you know?
You're welcome.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks for giving me false hope.
It was going to be easy and easy.
But yeah, we, that was, so we met in Annapolis and then.
And it's great because we did one, we did one show in New York, in New York
state.
Mm-hmm.
And levity.
Levity.
And then, and then you came to Father's Day.
I did go to Father's Day brunch.
Father's Day brunch with my family.
With my father and all those people.
And it was so cool because they all love you.
Yeah.
Because like, you were like family.
Like, it's a very, there's a very familial thing.
Yes, yes, yes.
Greeks and Italians and the whole thing.
And you just fit right in.
It was great.
I had a great time.
And it was the price you had to pay to get a ride back to the city.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
But they're all very happy for your success.
Oh, that's awesome.
No, they were great.
They were, that was a, that was a great time.
And yes, my parents definitely still, my mom still doesn't understand that you're
not Greek.
Like, that's part of it.
It's like, Papa, she just thinks it's Pappas.
Yeah.
And it's like, there's no S.
There's no S on his name.
It's been Papa for the 10 years, Ma.
But she's still in her head is like, oh, that's cool.
But old Greeks say, when I tell them, no, I'm Italian and I'm from Sicily, they're
like,
well, we had it first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you are Greek.
Greek people love claiming shit that happened literally 4,000 years ago.
It's really true.
But there is more, I have to say, there's more joy in the Greeks feeling that
you're one
of them.
Oh, yeah.
I guess because there's fewer.
Sure.
Like, the Italians are like, yeah, we're all Italian.
Right, right, right.
And the Greeks are like, no, you're ours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is a cool thing.
Sometimes I feel like Greeks are like Italians, like, from concentrate, like,
concentrated.
You know what I mean?
It's like, it's been diffused in American culture, being Italian.
And there's so many people who claim it, and it's like mob movies and
everything.
But Greek people, it still is, it feels a little bit like a secret club.
Yeah.
Where everybody's aware of it.
It's like the Masons, where it's like, you see a Masonic.
But it's like, what the fuck's going on in there?
Right, exactly.
And it's like, that's how, everyone knows a Greek person, but they've never
really like,
you know, been, you know, you see the Greek wedding and the breaking plates and
stuff.
I know.
You have a fun thing about it.
There's a thing in LA, there's like, the head of Paramount, I think is Greek.
And he has this Greek, like, party every year.
I don't know if it's Greek Easter or what it is.
Yeah.
And there's like, all of a sudden, like, these Greeks, like, pop up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was doing a charity event, and he was there, and a couple of the other
Greeks, and
they were, it was, it looked so cool that I, I'll be honest, I didn't fight
them calling
me Pappas.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, this might lead to a movie or something.
Yeah, dude.
That's when you betray your roots.
I didn't know the Greeks controlled Hollywood.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're, yeah, we're putting a little, that's, that's why Greeks are so
anti-Semitic,
it's a smoke screen.
They're like, no, it's them.
And then we're, we're actually, it's actually us.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm trying to sneak into that little, that little Greek cabal.
So, you know, it's, it's, yeah.
Because I, so we were at the, we went to the Netflix brunch, and the CEO of
Netflix is
Greek, and Dimitri Martin was there, and I heard them, I heard them, they're
like, see,
because Greek Easter was right before that Netflix brunch.
Right.
And I heard them being like, see you tomorrow, and I was just kind of lingering,
like.
What's tomorrow?
It was, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, where is it again?
And I just met these, like, you know, Dimitri Martin, the guy I loved as a kid,
and like
this powerful CEO who loves stand-up comedy.
You can't really be like, can I come, guys?
But a boy did I want to.
That would have been, they would have been so happy.
I mean, Ted really loves, Desereto loves comedy like nobody else.
He really does.
That's so, we got so lucky.
All you had to do is drop that.
Can you imagine, the fact that the biggest streamer in the world, the CEO, just
loves
stand-up.
That's so awesome.
Changed everything.
But the way I found out about this, about this Greek meetup is because my mom
has gone
from, you know, kind of like modesty and do your best to now, she's like, well,
come on.
Let's fuck it.
She's like, what?
She literally was like, you didn't get to, she pulled it up on Instagram.
She was like, look at this.
And it was like, Neo for Dallas, John Stamos, Dimitri Martin.
She's like, hmm, you weren't here, were you?
Like, it was like, what are you doing, man?
Like, you're slacking.
I was like, she knew about it.
I was going to tell her like, Ma, apparently there's this Greek get-together.
And I was going to tell her like, maybe someday.
And then she's like, oh, I know about it.
And she's like, and you weren't there.
And I was like, how do you know about it?
How do you know about this?
She had it pulled up on Instagram.
It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to break that, to crack that.
Next year, you know, hopefully.
Tires did well, you know.
We've been trending for, we