Name: Mike Lawrence and Mike Vecchione w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast
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Mike Lawrence and Mike Vecchione w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast

we're back we're joined by a very old and good friend the hilarious Mike
Lawrence hey what's up
this is great hey how are you my oldest comedy well Vieter is the first guy I
met in comedy you
might have been second or third yeah Vieter's up there for me oldest too oh
yeah he was around
Mo Pitkins Mo Pitkins the pit I walked by Otto's shrunken head the other night
I was just going
I was going to bars with Todd Barry which I don't know which is sadder we
walked by and I was like
fuck that was a bad room what's what I gotta do to get booked around here yeah
I remember I remember
you coming with Zach Sims and I've told people the story of he was funnier at
first he was great you
just worked so hard and found your voice oh thanks yeah well he's he's still
around he's still yeah but
Zach had that funny joke about uh how he's always the one when he goes out with
his friends put the
goat down yeah I love that yeah it's funny shit yeah man joke about his stepdad
had a gun on his hip
and he's like he also had an extra clip yeah you know for all the gunplay yeah
I'm butchering it but
it was yeah yeah and you know well we didn't do him justice there but no no no
everyone in the comments
like fuck that guy he's also alive yeah he is alive yes yes he started before
me so he knew how to do
comedy and I was uh trying to you guys lived together and you traveled together
well Sean Patton came
first yeah he was the mecca hey go go follow Sean Patton he's there he's the
beacon of hope he's the yeah
he's the the best ever I think in I love Sean of like not not of all time but
of like guys that I
came up with and worked with unbelievable great story I think like you know
those cabin sets and stuff
like I don't I don't think anyone else where I was like I don't think I'll ever
be that good like
like Sean was that guy yeah new stuff every week he would command that room we'd
all stand back there
and it was a judgy room of comedians yeah he's still killed yeah yeah beast I've
got like whatever
people say about Kinison at the store right that was Patton at cabin for me
well he's one of those guys
two kind of like a Rory Scoville where you can't capture him with a camera no
you kind of have to
be there which is yeah a problem for a comedian because you want to blow up and
get exposure I
remember they did that article on him like how late night sets didn't capture
him and no you can't
you can't put a he doesn't have any bits that are five minutes yeah that's true
well his whole thing
is he loses you and then he gets you yes but he loses you for a long time and
in five minutes you just
lose you can't get yeah good point this whole thing would be you know it was
amazing to watch
the hole he would dig for himself even in front of people who knew and liked
him he would still find
a way to alienate them just to win them back yeah which is which is a skill I
mean oh it's a masterful
it's such a skill it's like yeah the keeping people at a distance and then the
fucking the hook and it's
especially a skill when you're coming up where you just want to be like so
badly right and you're
like he doesn't care if they don't like him he has that great story about uh
getting thrown out of
the strip club after he had the breakup and it's this long bill but the turn is
how the guy threw
him out he's like why are you throwing me out he goes I just can't have you
crying in here
but that turn is like oh you're just waiting for like yeah what did he do yeah
yeah he had that
eight minute bit about falling in love and finding the woman of his dream oh
yeah now they're living
together and he's gonna propose to her and then at the end he's like I don't
have a girlfriend
I made it all up I think what would be funny is you would you would see a bit
and then you'd want
to see it again and then he just wouldn't because he's doing something
completely brand new I know
yeah and you're just like oh man which is almost like a a bad thing I mean you
like yeah you want
to see someone hone but that was hard in the early days if you're around the
same comics it's hard
it's hard to tweak a bit oh yeah totally because you're in your head you're
like fuck they're judging
me for doing this bit again and me and mark would see each other 10 times a
week yeah sometimes and
just and then you would then you would like just perform for him you know even
for me because we
were the only people that would be the consistency right yeah and I wanted you
to like me and these
new queefs they have it so easy because they can just put shit online we had to
build it in front
of each other I think there's good and bad to that I agree I agree I think it's
better to build
but they don't have to go through that pain that awkwardness yeah but you have
to know who you are
more quickly now that sucks like the wilderness years are gone of just being
able to take risk and
find yourself I love that I was at like you know Broadway in the comic strip
because no one saw me
yeah no one who mattered so I was like I don't want comics it's important I
remember Mike DiStefano
RIP Mike hilarious guy one of my favorite jokes ever when he had uh remember
that bid he had was
his agents like fax me a bio he's like bio I scream at strangers in a bar for a
living what did you do
before that I was a drug counselor what did you do before that I was a drug
addict what did you do
before that I was 12 that's a great joke but he was like just hide just hide as
long as you can you
don't want comics to see you and then you come out of nowhere they'll be like
oh who's this guy as
opposed to like you know that's the one issue with starting in a in a big pond
like New York where
you just like people like does that guy still suck like no sometimes they get
better yeah you'll talk
about somebody and not realize that like you last saw them like during Obama's
first term
like oh he always does that thing and I'm like I don't know if he does yes do
remember remember the night that
oh Obama got inaugurated in 2009 and we we went up to Harlem oh you and me and
you made fun of this comic
you he was doing sound the guy was doing sound effects so then Norman called
him police academy
yeah Michael Winslow and the guy he pulled me to the side oh it was hilarious I
remember he had a
green colored suit like a yellowish it wasn't by the it was the very yellowish
by the end
and brownish and did it was so and he was gonna kick your ass he was like I'll
kill you motherfucker like you don't talk shit about me
he's doing act out he's like I'll fucking stab you yeah and then I'll shoot you
yeah because the white
confidence we had that night because it was like the happiest that audience had
ever been and we're like we can get away with it because I remember I went up I
had a great set and
Norman was doing great but then he made fun of the guy and though you know
those guys it's it's not the same no
like camaraderie it's like no you're taking money out of my pocket yeah
yes but I thought hey I would say this to a white guy I'll say it to him and it
was
not we went up there together once right was a mocha's lounge yeah yeah yeah
smoky smoky smoky smoky suarez yeah I remember one time I was bombing so bad
that the odor just
stands up looks me in the eyes and goes you done
damn dude I would have loved if he beat you up and as he's doing punching
yeah
like the old bad man
pow sam clap
I'm gonna automatically your ass
yeah that mocha's lounge was wild cause they would let you on
yeah and there was no rhyme or reason to it
it was no line up or anything you're on now
oh yeah you go up and you do your thing and then if you bombed he would shit on
you and your whole look and your whole act
yeah
but he let anyone up
that was funny was we were used to the alternative places in Brooklyn and stuff
where they do the first part but not the second part
right they judge you and make fun of your act but they don't put you on stage
yeah he was basically
white and black people
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
they'll give you a chance
it was like quiet versus like fuck you
it was inclusive but insensitive
yeah
and it was always funny going with different white comics
seeing who would code switch
and if I went with someone who could I could never look at them the same way
again
yeah well he would you would either go blacker or you go whiter
yeah those are your options
yeah oh good gee willikers
what am I doing up north
oh boy you know
this motherfucker knows what I'm talking about
she up top
you know where the magical Johnson theater is
oh boss
oh shit boss
play this
get the car closer so I can cut him
he's going blacker for sure
he did crack so I'll give him a couple black moments
I mean some of the guys in the audience would become Israelites just not the
kind he is
he had the fat farm shirt on
oh my god
even the shirt is code switching
and let's be real doing crack is kind of code switching as well
yeah sure sure
yeah
I got cross colors
damn
it was that show right white boys in the hood
oh yeah
that was like a whole thing that was just that
yeah
Kurt Metzger
Big J
they all did it
Joey Gay did it
yeah
damn
then there was Apollo too
you could do the Apollo new talent night
you imagine if you were like a white comic that that did well in those rooms
all the time and you didn't get booked on that show and you're like what what
is there for me if I don't have this I can't get white boys in the hood
well dude did he had that one too remember
yeah
what
did he had his own it was like bad boys of comedy
oh yeah
pull that up
wow
I mean you're I guess you're not using that credit anymore
yeah
I guess not
maybe you are he is innocent
I would change it
innocent of trafficking
you don't do a setup you just lube the punchline
thank you
thank you
how y'all doing Brooklyn
uh oh this guy looks nervous already
you know what I'm glad to be here y'all
but uh
I had to go to the dentist right
and get my portions and shit hooked up
cause
one day all my teeth just start falling the fuck out
I ain't bullshitting
I was
I was talking to a motherfucker one day
and I say
this the sound effects guy
no no
he was dressed better
and one of them flew out
this guy is great cause he could be on a corner in New York
just getting chained
that guy has the same smile Mark would have had
if that guy punched him
that's true
that's true
yeah
yeah dude
he would zing you
he was basically kill Tony
he was kill Smokey
yeah
just trash your whole act
yeah dude
Mike and I were
we're like in the process of waiting to see if we
sold a show
I feel weird even talking about it
since it hasn't gone through yet
but like
we've been working on the show for 18 months
wow
yeah
and we got Brian Cox attached
woo
I mean come on
and we're still having trouble
yeah
the industry
it's that hard
you stick
it has been so fun working with Sam
because I feel like such like a L.A. sellout Sherpa
because I have I've had to like explain to him
how lazy the industry truly is
oh hey
cause you are like the most proactive guy I've ever seen
I've ever seen
it'll be like you know Monday
and he's like they haven't called back
I'm like they're not gonna call back for three weeks
yeah
yeah
you do get impatient
yeah
that's Hollywood man
I love a meeting about a meeting
he's Jewish and he's found out there's other holidays they celebrate
you know what's crazy is like they're just insanely lazy
and you can't if you follow these people on Instagram you're gonna want to kill
yourself
cause you're like Turks and Caicos again it's a fucking work week
I know it's crazy
that's my show money
the