Name: Ep 95: Lewis Black
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 95: Lewis Black' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-03. Transcript available.

Ep 95: Lewis Black

all right thanks for joining us lewis well i'm right down the block so this was
really
oh great yeah we worked out on all levels no thanks good thank you well thanks
you do you look
good that's weird that's why did it look like on other things you look better
than you used to look
that's what people say that's uh that's one of the things that that thing where
people come
up and go god you lost weight right thanks so i was what a beast yeah you know
i thought it was okay
and if i really needed to lose a lot of weight and obviously it was in danger
but why didn't you say
something oh wow i didn't know you then but todd glass has that great joke
about uh he's like you
ever have somebody tell you look like somebody that's super insulting like you
look like john
goodman but a thin john goodman you look like a good-looking pig that's a good
one yeah it is
todd todd is good the uh yeah no but thank you i've been uh the uh the only
thing about the
pandemic that was good to me was anxiety really kind of helped oh yeah how did
it help you because i
lost weight it's the best dieting i mean i really did but you know and what
really irks is your doctor
my doctor said you know it'd be really good if you lost you know 15 to 20
pounds and i lost more yeah
okay and then i uh and then the thing is is you're supposed to one would think
you you know because
he said one of the great things that he said about it was is that you know it's
you know when
you're when you have 20 pounds extra on your but you're wandering around it's
like carrying 20 pounds
on you sure it's like carrying a belise with 20 pounds all day well i lost the
weight yeah and
then i lost even more and then i go back to see him and i go yeah well that's a
great concept i still feel
like i'm 30 pounds i've still feel like i'm carrying it yeah it didn't go away
don't it went away and i
still feel it so well that's plain that that's just the stress on your
shoulders you're you got the
anxiety what what do you think is the key to your anxiety what causes it well
no that was it was the
pandemic oh it was i had never had it really i'd never had anxiety i thought
every comic had anxiety
no really no no not every there's some comics no there's some i go in the la
green rooms there's some
comics yeah but i don't do tai chi yeah and i'm certainly not happy but there
are a lot of happy
go lucky comics yeah cosby was happy yeah he had a good time wasn't lucky yeah
exactly but uh now that
guy uh that guy ripped a lot of women yeah yeah apparently no that's a big no-no
that and stealing
jokes are the two things i do i did realize that like you know sometimes i'll
get really pissed
about a comic stealing jokes and then you're like well now i definitely got to
speak out if they rape
you know i can't be the guy who's only tweeting about that you stole a joke
yeah
be like rape is bad too yeah i guess because no one's gonna rape us so the joke
you could steal my
joke but you're not gonna rape me so it's just selfish well i'm pumped to have
you here because i've
followed your career forever i mean like i i used to open for david tell a lot
he told me about touring
with you oh yes i mean the tour was you and david tell were co-headlining and
the opening act was
mitch headberg wow yeah it was pretty remarkable that's insane it was really
insane and it was also
insane because david and i had for some reason become the the the faces of
comedy central yes even even
with the daily show being on david david dave and i would do these interstitials
at the end of the
week they would have a show like you know some bogus show where they'd have six
different comics yeah
sort of sketches whatever the and they'd have dave and i introduce this stuff
so that we were always kind of on yeah you know and he was doing insomnia and i
was doing the daily a
lot and all of a sudden they said you want to do this tour yeah hell yeah and
did he tell you about
the the great david tell story oh i can't wait it was one of the great ones was
uh we had we had a
lot of fun and uh he was still drinking oh god he did one thing that was the
most the most brilliant
thing i've ever seen in terms of dealing with we'd have we'd want to go out
afterwards so uh he would
uh he would in our in the rider he had him give him a bottle of jaeger yeah of
course jaeger and i said
jesus you're gonna get a bottle every night it's crag you can't drink it that
much he said watch
so we go to the we go to the whatever we're going to the bar and he walks up to
the bar and puts that
bottle of jaeger down slams it down in the bar and goes drink up drinks are on
us and then we would
walk to the back of the bar and they like minnows would go right all you know
scatter and get up to the
to the bar and he and i could go in the back and just basically not be bothered
wow that's brilliant
it was really smart but he one night we were i guess i can't for the life of me
remember what
town we were in yeah but we he gets he uh we go we i left the bar uh before him
and got back and he
apparently walked back to the hotel and then got a cab he's at his own we're at
the he's at his hotel
yeah gets a cab to go to his hotel oh he was that fucked up that's great oh my
god how good is that
i've done it before where you're a shit face and you use your credit card to
try to get on the subway
i've done that which now you can do yeah right but back in the day you would
try to swipe like a visa
yeah yeah you're ahead of your time hammered yeah but this was really something
because he he sent them
to the uh to he said i think it's a this and then he would name the hotels and
eventually he named the
hotel he was at and they drove back to the hotel it was really splendid it made
me feel so good about
my blind you know face drink right right i thought wow i've been up but i didn't
do that yeah
i mean i'm almost scared to ask but how was mitch mitch was just mitch was mitch
yeah here's mitch mitch is
um uh we uh the first day we're going to austin we're in a van we go get out we
hop out in one of
these places we're picking up some gas and uh and it's and there's a whole
bunch of these red solo cups
there and uh he goes up with about 12 of them to the guy and he says how much
can i buy these and the
guy goes well yeah how much are they and he gives him some money and he he
comes out beaming with these
12 red solo cups going he said you know god you know you you know you're never
gonna you know you
never and you never know when you're gonna you need one of these and i just
went wow we are in that i
i thought this is going to be one of the strangest that was it you think he was
up
he must have been well if he's not it's then it's just dementia yeah then
something for boyish
excitement yeah i mean it's like well i mean those red solo cups i thought you
know you live in
minneapolis all right sake you were born and raised there i know they have reds
you know you can't be
trying to impress dave and i no we've seen those cups right right i guess those
cups equal a good
time it's like a party or a barbecue beer pong yeah yeah but he was he was very
funny and he and he was
there for but we had said at the beginning that uh you know that we were not dave
and i both made it
very clear you are not expecting us to um be in charge of him oh wow you know
yeah you cannot ask dave
and i who are going who are going to go to the bar right and gonna be up right
to be in charge of the
other this is like a hangover movie right here totally i just throw in heroin
that's the only difference
but was he was he soberish on the on the road with you guys or no well i mean
the first day
it was one of those things where you get your um you know you have your rider
and you know and we'd
never had none of us you know we'd all work clubs never had a rider so it was
like i'll get a i got a
i got a vodka dave got the the uh jaeger and mitch got a bottle of vodka and it
was like
um and he was supposed to be in a sobriety thing oh boy so it was kind of like
dave and i looked at
each other and went oh okay well okay well that's that yeah you know this is
not this is not but we're
gonna have to call the guys again and say you know we're not and he he got a
bottle of vodka each
night damn for a while i and then i don't remember because i mean i literally
okay a bottle of vodka
each night what happens is by the third night you go i got two and a half
bottles of vodka right yeah
exactly exactly stupid yeah well you got those solo cups yeah fill them up uh
can i can i ask though
like back in the day i feel like in comedy central they used to air all these
tours i remember seeing
your tour with david tell and headberg then i saw the giraldo one then you have
tour guys they used to
put these on tv i don't feel like we do that anymore do we no i don't see
comedy tours no no what they do
now is is then they get what which goes back to before that when they get four
people and they go
tonight is you know here's the the best of the the best of the scooters yeah
here come the scooters and
they're these these are these are every comic who talks about scooters where i
have them on tonight
and they'll be four you know they just do it you know package it they package
it's not a long yeah
it's yeah it's not the uh the way that you know they did they and they only
really did some of that
yeah you know i feel like being a comic at that time was so rock and roll like
so much of comedy
a lot of comics seem to be going through a health phase but you're in this time
when it was like
you're drink you're drinking it tells drinking headberg's doing god knows what
yeah you know and i think of
those stories i remember i don't know if it was in your book or in jim norton's
book i read about you
guys getting arrested oh yeah it was norton and i let's hear it oh yeah well
that's the one it's the
the uh that's um it was the naked party bus i can't remember what they called
it god damn it there was
a name for it and it was we were doing um opian anthem oh right jim was
starting to become part of that
group but hadn't reached that you know hadn't been brought on right as a
regular i was on there at least
once every 10 days yeah wow uh and it was great they were on in the afternoons
and uh and i was
really comfortable and anthony and i would just scream at each other yeah it's
just great he was
so full of and he thought i was so full of and we just bellowed each other and
there
was no and it's this whole thing of now we live in a great divide he and i were
on a great divide
but neither of us took it seriously right both of us knew that we were he you
know that we're full of
yeah so you know i'm yelling at him he's yelling at me then they say we've got
these uh we got a bus
coming today and uh there's going to be uh these we've gotten these girls are
supposed to be these
uh these these girls are going to be uh naked on the bus and uh did jim and i
want to go on the bus
well you're yeah you know and it was and it never crossed my mind if they go
teenage and this still
is not registering until later uh when um but we we get on the bus and uh the
boyer bus they called it
that was it there you go it was called the boyer bus and the deal was is they
were driving around the
country and there was one girl who was in it at that point i think there may
have been two of them but
one at that who had come to new york and they drove around the whole idea is
you drove around a city in
order to um to express our the our first amendment rights okay good on you
really isn't that like
something you think the first thing you think of is take naked girls around and
that's our first
amendment now are they attractive because sometimes these first amendment gals
can be a little rough
around the edges no i know i know i know what you're thinking but no oh right
no it was really uh um but
but it's also way to express your freedom of speech i think is tits yeah
exactly well it's also the
same i i said at the time that we were doin