Name: We Might Be Drunk 58: Jim Gaffigan & Lagavulin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'We Might Be Drunk 58: Jim Gaffigan & Lagavulin' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-17. Transcript available.

We Might Be Drunk 58: Jim Gaffigan & Lagavulin

we might be drunk we might be drunk as long as we are hanging out you know we
might be drunk
raise a glass let's talk shit pep heaps wrecks and a bit maybe drunk we might
be drunk
welcome to the comedians inspired by uh jerry seinfeld and david tell i'm your
co-host wait
which one's which jim gaffigan i don't know comedy anyway
the more robotic is more like uh is more like seinfeld and then the the self-loathing
that is uh
you know it's gonna be really interesting to see what you guys look like when
you grow up
because it's gonna there's gonna be you're at this point jim should i let you
guys talk we're up 38 so
like you don't look a day over 37. i'll take it no but like there is gonna be a
point where
in your comedy generation take it i'm 74 and there's gonna be a point where you
don't look a day over
the rails yeah you know what i mean maybe it's not youtube but like maybe it's
someone where you're
like that guy or that gal was completely normal and now they're bonkers oh yeah
right a lot of that now
covid covid covid revealed a lot of that as you said in your special right yeah
yeah
it's a lot of crazy out there yeah yeah then it's getting wackier i think the
social media
that's staying at home and just reading horrible all day it changes a person
yeah
it's crazy anyway that's the episode
all right well we should introduce the show one of our favorite comics uh thank
you for coming
it's coming straight from the view jim gaffigan i'm coming well i went to the
view then i got my
booster wow which i mean obviously it's all you know uh fake anyway but no i
got my booster so
they they're like can you hang here for 15 minutes and i'm like yeah and so
then i just
left because you know why that's because i don't pay attention to rules hell
yeah you're a rebel
fainted in the cab and i was raped which was really bad so i gotta go uber so
what are you guys
drinking and what are you trying to make up for uh so much uh drinking lagavulin
pd nice scotch it's
it's a special scotch the seinfeld is a special car for a special guest we do
the same thing with
alcohol oh you do a different a different drink oh we've got my thai eggnog
bourbon you name it
every week so how how do you decide like do you guys know about booze you know
about different
boozes we know a little and how much to have there's a little bit of an old
soul in both of you guys
you do i think yeah he's just old even when i am old no when you were young too
when you were young
i mean you're like yeah i was an old joke guy i mean i remember your first half
hour on comedy
central and i was like this is a joke guy huge yeah now i heard something weird
about you and
tell me if i'm wrong um you wanted to be love it you wanted to be a tellish and
then you end up being
reganish and then gerald wanted to be reagan you wanted to tell us you and you
know like how you guys
are lovers gerald and i were lovers ah and uh no the you have these comedy kind
of and i know that
there's other people in your group so i don't want to alienate them but but uh
gerald really wanted to be
like regan and i really wanted to be like a tell and uh there was kind of this
shift that occurred
and uh you know he ended up doing the roasts and um and you know some of it is
like it's you find
different levels of authenticity right and it depends how it changes and how
your heart's broken
yeah i mean i think bill burr was clean as a whistle in the beginning was he
billy burr yeah he was well i
know him as billy burr which is really interesting like there was something of
like i don't know if
you've known anyone that's kind of like had a gender change like where you're
like now they're
they yeah and so like like bill billy was a little bit of that oh really it was
like i had to catch
myself out of respect you know what i mean right now he's this massive powerhouse
huge yeah he totally
found himself yeah but now he's going through all this therapy and he's taking
shrooms it's everybody's
finding themselves and changing every every comic seems to be in therapy right
now oh yeah but haven't
they all you know what's weird it's like you guys are drinking i feel as though
this is therapy there
were there was less drinkers i mean there was always like a tell you always
hear about the coke and
the hotels and the hook yeah i mean but i'm talking about like i'm not talking
about like way back i'm
talking about you know because in my generation or whatever uh you know like
like giraldo and i would
get wasted but like and a tell would drink but like louis didn't drink todd
berry you know like i'm not
saying they didn't drink at all kevin brennan mark marin and it was or it just
wasn't in the open like
the weird thing is is like uh in this what we do you're like you're performing
in a bar yeah essentially
whether it's a club or not and you're like this is a sweet setup for after the
show i don't know
if it's still like that in clubs where you're like show's over you got free booze
here let's hang out
right yeah i think that's why i became a comic i was like 18 i was like free
free bar yeah no one's
id in me we got paid in drink tickets yeah it was just pushing the addiction
but now every comic's like
yoga-ing therapy-ing kailing you know it's all about like neil brennan goes on
these retreats where he
finds him his dad or whatever it's crazy stuff wow yeah that's that's pretty
interesting well it's this
journey right we're always it's like but for comedians we're just looking for
material
do you know what i mean it's like uh maybe i should maybe that inner child has
some jokes i could use
yeah do you know what i mean that's why i'm having kids you're like i mean we're
obviously inspired by
you say like seinfeld natel but we're inspired by guys like you too because you're
so observational
like you you'll put i i just watched your new special it's hilarious oh thanks
but i'm like how
many minutes did he have on bikers that was untouched like how the did he hit
that i know you're gonna
run out of stuff you milk the shit out of everything oh well thank you i you
know it's like but as you
guys know you feel like you're like well that might be it yes and then there is
you know uh necessity is
the mother of invention right right is that even the quote did i i think i kind
of sounded smart who's
the smartest here is it or one of you is like a closet smart person not me not
you maybe wait a minute you
grew up in new york city you're a reader you're well-read you're jewish but i
but i say we always
defer to the jewish person he's jewish he's smart it's like it's like the gay
person being creative
all right we're just gonna have to say yeah the black guy's athletic the jews
are uh you got an
accounting degree i assume no oh that was that was by the way that you sounded
more anti-semitic yeah
he said i thought you were jewish you're not jewish i wish i think that like
all comedians because it
has such a rich history yeah borscht belt i think all gentile comedians
secretly want to be jewish i
think so too yeah and you know us honkies you're you at least have a little
flavor a little culture
you know you're on a farm you just think like it's my eyebrows i don't just
look like i'm on a farm
but your your family owns slaves that's true still yeah still own slave i know
so your family you're
from new orleans oh yeah born and raised you your family manufactured confederate
statues which i think
is really weird yeah yeah you guys suppressed a poor white people too big time
yeah and is your family
from new orleans or you guys carpetbaggers they're scallywags uh and turncoats
no they're from there
they're from there wow and katrina came and they won't leave they just won't go
away so there's
and are you cajun are you like theo vaughn are you related to theo are you theo
vaughn's dad he's my
brother no dad was 80 that's true yeah maybe material about that yeah but new
orleans is not that weird
i mean if you go it's like a little city but then you go 10 minutes outside of
it and you're in
the hootenanny it's crazy it's toothless it's camo it's it's but that's new york
too go 20 minutes
outside the city and you're like what the hell but you grew sam you grew up in
the city in the city
yeah the rough and tumble city did you go to bronx science or something no we've
talked about the
brownie really yeah oh yeah browning that's see come on that's smart that's
smart rough and tumble you
grew up in chelsea and then and then upper east yeah isn't that amazing it's
like i think it's amazing how
like you have conversations have you ever had this with comedians where you're
like
you're like yeah we drove to pittsburgh do you remember that and you're like
yeah
like you should remember an eight hour drive all right and you had a great
conversation you did a
show you had a meal you got drunk drove back and you don't remember any of it
all right what's your
favorite city to perform in i mean i love it's it also depends on the club yeah
i mean i love i was
going to say comedy on state because of that that club is and you love the the
owner's daughters
you're very inappropriate you wanted to get all chris noth on them
chris is a friend of mine i don't know what to say ah peloton yeah
what uh so that's a great club yeah i performed there that's a great club that's
a classic i mean
great little town too madison's underrated and city is big chicago is just
always awesome yeah
acme in minneapolis is good yeah yeah how's the dc improv the dc improv was my
favorite i've never
done a weekend there yeah great room low ceiling tight i love a club in the
heart of the city like
philly helium right there in the city i hate when you gotta i just did the milwaukee
improv shout out
great club milwaukee has an improv just open oh in august and it's a good club
staff was great in the
third ward or where is it oh you wish it is in the 15th ward it is out by uh
you know i was in kenosha
i was open for rittenhouse it's wild he killed it's way out there what you did
those clubs are like
you've been a road guy for like how many years yeah you're 40 50 years me and
joy diaz were out there
um no i did a lot of uh road stuff actually initially when uh people were doing
road gigs around i only stayed in the city but i didn't really get set so it
was kind of a
i would do gladys's comedy club whoa i would do that that was at hamburger harry's
where's that
that was on 45th street wow damn and then um where else did i perform gotham
was the place that
really let me go on the 21st street gotham yes that was a cool room that was a
cool room that felt like
comedy in there but i didn't really start touring until uh like i middled for a
tell
like when he would do the dc improv and i met like the dc improv and i'm sure
it's still the great club
was a great club it was like the wait staff was cool and um it was just you
know like i feel like dc
is one of those cities where people are over educated right and underpaid so
they're like we can't do
anything but go to a comedy show right i mean totally yeah yeah great town uh
opening for a tell
yeah that he was drinking i assume he was but you know like the weird thing is
i used to
i used to you know like the atel this is kind of goes back to what i said it's
like there's these
these aspects of these comedians that is it more mystique than anything do you
want to hear my larger
theory is that comedians are all an identity crisis every single one of us so
in other words some of
it is who we're we're told who we are yes by the audience and by other comedians
it's just how we come
across like i come across as very handsome no i come across as very white bread
right very midwestern
but the reality is i you know i grew up middle class uh you know i went to
college but that's not to say
that i'm not you know like the the white trash stuff it isn't far from me you
know i mean it's like it is
part of who i am you know i did collect beer cans as a kid right so but the
thing about a tell is that
the the atel i