Name: Ep 150: Todd Barry
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 150: Todd Barry' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-23. Transcript available.

Ep 150: Todd Barry

Hey, here we are. We might be drunk. Todd had one drink last night, so we're
going to take it easy on him.
What, did you have a red wine?
Well, get a mic in front of you, Todd.
Oh, yeah. Good call.
I forgot about microphones.
I had a Lambrusco, man.
Yeah.
By myself.
You had one drink?
One little drink, yeah.
Oh, easy, Bert.
A Lambrusco, like it's a cold, bubbly red wine.
Oh.
Never heard of it.
It's really good.
Lambrusco.
Can we look that up?
Pull it up.
It's, I would call it easy drinking. I'm not a big drinker, but if I was.
Wow, Lambrusco. I'll check that out, because I like a bubbly wine.
Yeah, it's bubbly, it's red, it's cold.
It's kind of like everything.
Okay, I'm in. Lambrusco.
Yeah, it goes down easy.
Are you still in East Village?
Hey, don't worry about it.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
No, I'm in, I'm kind of a little, I'm on the cusp of the East Village.
I know what you're talking. Same building.
No, I moved in April 1st, I moved.
Ah.
We're neighbors.
Yeah, we're neighbors.
Oh, okay.
I went to his coffee. I mean, even if you live close in New York, though, you
have your own,
there's 900 coffee shops in there.
That's true.
So I tried at his coffee shop. It's solid.
It was good, right?
Good coffee shop taste, Todd.
Yeah, man. That's where I did Comedians in Cars.
Oh, wow.
That's the second coffee shop that I...
Nice.
Probably goes down as the worst dip.
You know, probably right.
I mean...
Why is it?
Well, just because...
I can't believe I just took that leg without it.
I've seen them all 900 times, but you guys, I feel like it just didn't click,
or he was
trying to make a joke out of how it didn't click.
That's what I think he was doing.
Yeah.
I mean, it's his thing with that.
I mean, I didn't know we're going to talk about this, but I...
That's the beauty of a pod.
Yeah, I mean, people...
The problem is that some people don't understand editing, so that's like, he
could have made
me look like I was the chatterbox.
True.
Shut the fuck up.
Good point.
Or that I didn't talk, and he just went for...
I know.
It's fine.
I guess he must have liked the episode, or else he would have scrapped it, but...
Yeah, yeah.
But, yeah, I mean...
I think there's worse episodes, by the way.
I mean, I definitely am.
I mean, I just feel like, with him, like, Leno's his guest.
Well, they've been to a diner 600 times together.
You know what I mean?
Maybe more.
Larry, David, and Jerry created a show.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's going to be like a rapport, a comfort, and with me, I'd known him
for decades just
to say hi to him, but I've never had like a long conversation.
I never hung out with him ever.
That's the tricky thing about podcasts, is like, Mark and I have this rapport
for so many
years, but sometimes we'll go on someone else's pod, and they just go down a
road that
were like, what the fuck?
Totally.
And you've never...
This is the first conversation you've ever had, and now it's public.
Yeah.
Into a microphone.
It is like...
It almost is like a first date that's broadcast.
Yes.
It's weird.
Yeah.
But you're trying to be really funny and plug dates.
Other dates.
Yeah.
How cool are you with Jerry?
Oh, I'm fine.
I'm all...
Yeah.
I mean, I don't...
Clearly, he's a big fan of yours.
Yeah.
I mean, I have the phone message somewhere where he called me, and it was
really...
Because he somehow got my number, and I was just like a frozen yogurt shop, and
this call
comes through, and I didn't take it.
And then I checked, and I said, hi, Todd, this is Jerry Seinfeld.
You know, Todd, when I was on The Tonight Show, this guy called me and said,
you want
to do the show?
And I said, yeah.
He goes, this is kind of like that call.
Something along that lines.
Oh, that's fun.
It was like a minute and a half message.
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean, I do wish that I was...
I wish I would have cut loose a little bit more, but also, you know, for 14
minutes out
of four hours, you could have showed me talking more.
I mean, that's...
Also, also...
But also, it's his show, so he's free to do it.
Sure.
It's also weird to compare your show to The Tonight Show in the 80s.
Oh, yeah.
It's like the peak of television ever.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a good point.
I mean, I love the show.
It's just a weird comp.
I don't know.
Yeah, and, you know, he took Gaff...
You see Gaffigan's?
Gaffigan's says, right, a bunch.
He goes, you say right a lot, and the rest of the episode is him going, right,
right, right.
It's a montage, so you're like, yeah, you can edit anything.
Yeah.
I mean, I think...
Whoa.
Whoa!
Hey, we got a cat fight and a dog fight here.
Back off, cat.
This has turned into a...
We might be a zoo.
Okay.
But we don't play that show.
I was in New Orleans, actually.
This made me feel good.
What was that place?
Cochon?
Cochon?
Cochon.
Cochon Bush.
Yeah, and I was eating by myself a few years ago, and this waitress from across
the restaurant
made a B-lunch.
She goes, your episode's my favorite episode.
There we go.
Oh!
I was like, okay, wow, that fucking made me feel good.
All right, it was a lot of drinking in that time.
Plus one for you.
Yeah.
There you go.
Yeah, I saw Nate Bregazzi had lunch with Seinfeld, and I wrote on there, I didn't
know
we were allowed to get a pic.
I had lunch with him, too, but I didn't want to ask for a photo.
Oh, you used to be hanging with him.
Yeah, I was trying to be cool.
We text.
Yeah?
It is tough to get a pic, because I've done it, it definitely ruins the vibe a
little
bit.
Totally.
To get a pic with, yeah.
Well, you want the pic for the memory.
Yes.
But then once you ask for the pic, of course, the show off and the memory, but
there is
something about just playing it cool and them looking to you as more of a peer
than...
Yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
I was at a restaurant in...
I went on a hinge date three years ago, and it was fine.
And then I went to eat by myself at Little Frankie's, you know that?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's a great spot.
It's open night, where you can eat at like 4:00 a.m., and I'm sitting there and
I kind
of look behind me and like, "Oh, it's Adam Sandler."
Whoa!
So, then he was eating, he'd just done an event with the movie, what was Uncut
Gems,
so he was like the whole cast, directors and everything was sitting there.
And I said, "Hey," and he goes, "Yeah, I don't remember, you hosted Letterman
once
when I was on it, like, he hosted Letterman once when I was on it."
So, Sandler was the guest host for Letterman.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
And he remembered, yeah, and he goes, "Oh, yeah, no, you know," but it was just,
but
it was a thing where like, part of me wanted to just get, "Oh, I should grab a
picture."
I know.
But then you're like, it's kind of, like you said, it's cool to just be like, "Hey,
you're a comic, I'm a comic, and nice seeing you, or let's talk shopper."
I got a good pic with Sandler.
Do you?
Yeah.
That was a good pic.
He does seem like he's pretty friendly about pics.
He's pretty cool.
He gets it.
He just was like, we were doing gigs together, I'm going back out with him this
week, and
I'm pretty pumped.
There you go.
But we, yeah, I definitely was like, "Can I snap a picture of us?"
And he goes, "Yeah, yeah."
He goes, "The reason I don't post is because I like people to think, like, to
not know who's
on the show, because it's like Sandler and Friends, so he likes it to be a
surprise, because
like, look, sometimes it's me, but then sometimes you get like, Chris Rock
popping, and sometimes
you get like, you know, Spade, or whoever, but I get that, but yeah, he was, he's
the nicest dude.
Yeah, he was really nice, and he came, like, he, at the restaurant, he, like,
we talked
for a while, and then later he came over and started talking, just asking me
about Atel
and stuff.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, yeah.
He loves Atel and Quinn, like, so much.
Really?
He loves New York comedy, and he, and he talked about, I remember because I did
the Letterman
thing, like, on Netflix, the Letterman sit-down thing, and he was like, Letterman,
he messaged
me, he's like, "Isn't he the king?"
Wow.
He loves comedy so much.
Yeah.
Love to hear, when I opened for Seinfeld, luckily his bodyguard guy is there,
and he snapped
a photo.
So, I got one of me and Jerry at a restaurant, but I would have loved that
lunch photo that
Nate got.
Can you pull that up, Matt?
It's a hell of a pick.
Nate Bargatze.
Nate Bargatze.
I saw it.
Ah!
We went to the same place.
I feel cheated off.
Where wasn't?
Brooklyn Diner in Midtown.
Oh, I used to go.
He's got his own booth.
I remember I walked in, and these two Mexican guys, I was like, "Hey, I'm here
to meet,"
and they're like, "We know.
Right here, sir."
I got there like a half hour early.
Matt, don't pull up Mia Khalifa videos.
What are you doing?
There we go.
Look at that!
Boom!
Oh, my God.
Same restaurant, same booth.
He wore the same outfit for me.
He's very happy to take that picture.
God!
It's nice when they look equally happy, because it's always weird when you have
a shit-eating
grin, and they're just like, they're like, you know?
Yeah.
Like, all right.
Totally.
Wow, Jimmy Fallon commented three times.
He, "Go relax, Jimbo.
Take a breather.
Go host your show."
I can text you my comment.
"Hey, look at that.
I didn't know we were allowed to get a pick."
All right, all right.
Now we're reading comments.
So you guys are tight still?
You and Seinfeld?
Yeah, we text, but I'd love to get to a nice, steady, consistent lunch.
Yeah.
I almost asked them to do a redo.
Oh, wow.
And I also almost texted them about my new special, like, just to see, like,
but I don't
want to be, like, exploiting it.
Were your new specials out now on YouTube, all things comedy?
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that.
Yeah, yeah.
Dude, I mean, you're one of the best joke writers.
Oh, thank you.
Killer.
Really, every joke is just, like...
Oh, thank you, man.
...so dry and hilarious and perfect.
Yes.
Yeah, the special was like, it's like pizza.
We were like, "I'll have one," and then he ate the whole pie.
Really?
Yeah.
It's so funny.
Couldn't turn it off.
Yeah, man.
Joe, what room was that?
Was that...
The den.
The den in Chicago?
Oh, the den.
The player over here did his special.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice.
Good room.
I'm glad you went the YouTube route, 'cause, like, people...
Sometimes people don't want to do it, but, like, you need people to see this.
It's hilarious, you know?
Yeah, I mean, I did try to go the Netflix route and the HBO route, and I can
name everyone
who passed, but...
But there is something where, like, you can sort of monitor.
Like, Netflix, at least at my level, that wouldn't give me any numbers.
Totally.
It's doing good.
On your way.
Yeah.
But...
You'll get more views on YouTube than HBO.
Yeah?
I'm calling it right now.
Oh, yeah, no question.
Yeah, I mean...
I don't think they push it on HBO.
No.
I kind of...
I mean, I miss the old days where you got a nice check for doing a special.
I mean, for me, anyway.
Sure.
But this is a different kind of...
It's like...
And also, I was kind of tired of most of those jokes anyway, so...
There you go.
Might as well get rid of them.
As Bill Burr said, a special is just a commercial for the road.
Yeah.
You know, come see me.
Buy a ticket.
Look what I can do.
Right.
How's the new stuff?
It's slow, man.
Slow going.
Same.
I just like...
You know the way it is.
You get something, you're like, "Oh, this works."
And you feel like, "I've got work done."
And you're like, "I have a new 22 seconds of material."
Yes, exactly.
You get one new line and I'm like taking a week off.
You know, like, "I'm good, man.
I'm on the roll."
That's what Gary Vieter said because we're on the road over the weekend and he's
like, "I
got three new bits this week."
And he's like, "And that'll total 52 seconds."
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's just...
But I mean, that's how it starts.
But I also want to try this thing like I don't always do where I just expand
every joke I
already have.
Like the ones that I think, "Oh, this is a really solid new joke.
Just how many other angles can I hit it at?"
Because if you a