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I played the Hollywood Bowl, all right, with Nate Craig and Dean Del Rey, and
then special guest
was John Lovitz. He came out in the middle of my act and we shit on each other
for about a minute.
I pretended I was thirsty and he just came walking out. Place went fucking
crazy because
he's John Lovitz. And then they also, the people that actually saw that podcast
where we trashed
each other, which I had no idea people were going to like it that much. It was
one of the most
popular podcasts I've ever done, us just trashing each other. But anyway, I'll
take you through
the day. So Friday comes along and that was such a big gig for me that I was
literally
like paralyzed. Like I couldn't work out. I didn't go play drums. I couldn't go
fart around
the neighborhood, nothing. I was just like laying in bed, looking at Nia going,
ah, like, I know
it's going to be good, but I just want to get over there and do this. And then
I had,
you know, a zillion people on the guest list because I've, I've lived out here
for almost
20 years. I mean, it was like, I felt like I was getting married again. You
know what I
mean? When you're making out like the guest list and this person, they need to
add one
and this person can't make it. And who should sit with who? Where do we put
this? You know,
people last second hit me up and just wanted to make sure that everybody got in,
which happened thanks to Club Soda Kenny. And meanwhile, I ordered, I rented a
classic Cadillac to
drive over there. I got a 1965 gold on gold Cadillac Coupe de Ville convertible.
And
when I first got behind the wheel of it, I was like, I don't know if I like
this.
It's a little weird. You know, it's funny. Those cars look huge. And then you
get inside of them.
They're nowhere near as big as the cars today. Like a fucking SUV. Everybody
always like taught me
and that car was like fucking 90 feet long and weighed a fucking ton. It's not
like a 65 Cadillac
Coupe de Ville two door is a paperweight compared to something that a fucking
soccer mom is driving down
the street. And like, like those Teslas weigh like fucking 10,000 pounds, you
know, not that much,
but you know what I mean? So, um, I drove it like half a block. I was like, you
know, I don't know
if I like this. And half a block later, I was like, Oh, I can get into this and
had the armrest down
and I was leaning and I was like, this is fucking amazing. And, uh, I don't
know what it had. And I
know it had a V eight. Um, but the ignition was right in the center of the
dashboard. And, um,
you, you left it at 12 o'clock. If you went to the auxiliary, you could wear
down the battery,
which I did the night after the bowl, you know, cause I got out, it was dark
out and I'm just used
to turning it all the way to the left. And I came out the next day to take
everyone, all the family
out to breakfast. I had a dead battery, but I called AAA. We were fine. Um, but
anyway, so finally,
it's the moment of truth. I'm going over there. I get in the car to do sound
check at like four in
the afternoon. And then there's no point of me driving all the way, all the way,
all the way
fucking home. The time I got home, I, you know, fucking hour drive, I got to
come right back. So
I, um, I drive over there and I'm feeling pretty good, but I'm also, I just
like, I just want to get
on fucking stage, you know? So, um, I pull in, of course I go in the wrong way.
Then I got to get
out and then I pull in everybody's love in the car. And, uh, I get out and I'm
like, all right,
here we go. Fucking Hollywood bull. And I meet club soda Kenny there, everybody
else, and literally
just dropped my stuff and walked right out. I took video of it. I posted it on
Instagram of just
walking out and seeing the Hollywood bull empty from the stage. And, uh, like
just this, I don't,
I can't even explain it. It was just incredible, iconic adrenaline Russian. And
I knew in that moment,
I'm like, I'm going to fucking murder tonight. Not going to have a good set. I'm
going to fucking
murder. You know, I, I'd gone out to the comedy store Wednesday night and
Thursday night. I did
two sets a night, did different parts of my acts. So everything was all, you
know, stretched, you
know, no tight hammies on any of the jokes. I knew what the fuck I was going to
do for the most part.
I had a new joke that I I'd been opening with. And I was like, fuck this. I'm
opening at the ball
with it. Cause then it'll just make me feel like I'm doing a spot. So, um, we
do soundcheck. They got,
you know, they got a little coffee machine there. So I have a, uh, what did I
have? I had a, I had a
latte, I think. And then Dean got some sort of green thing that maca drink that
had a espresso shot.
I was like, you know, I might get one of those later. Right. So, you know,
everybody's coming in
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just sitting there, sitting there,
sitting there. I got
a ton of people in the green room. That's not some people like to be alone. I
like to just have
everybody in the green room talking, shooting the shit, busting balls, love it
shows up. And all we
do is just trash each other, having a great time. And, um, yeah. And then the
frigging show starts.
Nate goes out to open, absolutely kills. He brings out Dean. Dean crushes.
And then I go out there. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you know, a long time ago,
Richard Pryor
played there on one of the first, um, gay pride days. And he went out there and
he opened with,
he opened, his opening line was, you know, I sucked a dick once and the place
went nuts.
He was really talking about, he got molested by this guy. Um, but they didn't
know that. Right. So
he does that bit. He immediately gets the gay crowd totally on his side. And he
just was setting
them up to basically say, why should I give a fuck about you guys? Where the
hell were you when Watts
was burning? Um, you know, when they were having all the, uh, all the riots
after Martin Luther King
was assassinated, civil rights, all of that type of stuff. Where the fuck were
you guys? You guys
were in, in, in West Hollywood, not doing shit for me. Why the fuck should I
give a fuck about you?
90% of them didn't get it, started booing him and he didn't give a fuck. Told
them all to go fuck
themselves. And they, and, and then he left. And then I was thinking like, you
know,
as much as he was Richard Pryor, there was still, you know, that venue at that
point was already 50
years old and all these amazing people had played there and he still had the
balls to do that. So I was
thinking like, I can open with a new joke, right? So, um, I went out there and
the energy
was insane. And the feeling of being on that stage was just indescribable.
It landed somewhere. It was like a hybrid between doing Red Rocks and doing the
Acropolis
and Athens where both are like sort of these amphitheater things. Um, I mean,
nothing was quite like the Acropolis. Acropolis was like ridiculous. I felt
like
I was, I went in a time machine back a couple thousand years
with everybody dressed like it is now. I mean, it was,
that was something else. And then Red Rocks has like that
psychedelic vibe to it. So this one had like golden age Hollywood. Um, but also
that outdoor thing,
because there was a lot of like, you know, people not in show business that
were
in the crowd. So they would bring in that energy. And, um, I did the opening
joke. It's a pretty
fucked up one and, uh, it did well, but it was, it definitely made people be
like, Hey, you know,
well, what are we doing here? I felt, and, and I just laughed at the end of it
and I didn't give a
phone and I just freed me up and, um, yeah, I just caught a zone and I just
fucking,
I just, it was, it couldn't, it just could not have gone any better. And then,
you know,
Lovitz the whole time he's backstage, you go, so when are you going to bring me
out? Like 20, 30?
I was like, John, I don't know. Whenever it feels like the right time, I'll
bring you out.
And then I'm sitting there going in my head, but what I go, what if I'm killing
so fucking hard?
I don't want to bring them out and blah, blah. And then I was thinking like,
no, this is like a cool, really cool thing that all old school entertainers
used to do.
And as I've been telling you guys, I watched that Steve Martin documentary and
he goes out
with Martin short and they have such a good time together. And I recently did
Dave Chappelle's,
um, comedy club. And, uh, we were on stage together after every one of my sets.
So I was
like, no, this is you kind of being like, you know, you know, Billy, the loner,
isolated bill,
hurt as a child bill, fuck this shit, open yourself up, bring this guy out. So
I just felt,
you know, like the moment was right about like 20 minutes in.
And I was, you know, the bit was, you know, this, this is kind of room
temperature. I,
you know, I'd love to have a cold water out here. I don't want to be a diva.
And then all of a sudden he just comes walking out and like people down front,
cause they didn't have a spotlight on him, could see him. And they started
going nuts,
place what nuts. And, uh, you know, we just trashed each other. And if you saw
the podcast,
he walked off stage as I was making fun of him. He was singing that song, Bill
Burr likes it in the
butt. You know what I love about that song is, but is way funnier than ass.
Like ass, it kind of flows. It sounds like there's lube involved, but there's
something about,
but it just seems like it's, it's, it's a lot more violating and way more
insulting. So, um,
he was singing that song, which he used to sing to Bob Saget. Uh, I was giving
John
shit about that. I said, he just recycled all your Saget material. Now that he's
dead,
now you're going to fucking put it on me, you know? And then he's like, oh, I
got some new ones.
And then he did, he did have some new ones. And, uh, he said something, said I
had,
I had a camel toe or something. And he was like, your turn doing that stuff.
And then he walked off
and it, it didn't disrupt the set at all. It was just sort of this fun little
thing that, um,
you know, it was way out of character for me to do. You know, I, like I said,
like I, I grew up a
fucking loner, you know, my family was sort of not the most social family. We
lived on a busy street.
Everyone around us was sort of older or younger. They didn't have kids or they
were like empty nesters.
So there was really nobody to vibe with for a critical, like eight years of my
life. So,
um, anyway, and then I just,
you know, I was doing the rest. Oh, I forgot to mention Dean brought me one of
those
caffeine, the, the, the, the, the, the maca things with the green thing with
the
espresso shot. I had already had a latte. And when I went out there for the
first like 10 minutes,
I was like lightheaded and I'm like, what's going on? We're not at altitude. I'm
not nervous.
Am I freaking out somewhere? And I just remembered a long time ago, I used to
do the Aspen comedy
festival and that thing you'd get out of breath. So I just started doing
slowing down, taking bigger
breaths and it went away. And it wasn't until after my set, I was thinking like,
you know,
I hadn't drank coffee for like a week. And then I just had like three shots for
whatever reason on
kind of an empty stomach. Cause I didn't feel like eating. And I just think it
made my heart rate
already go up. And then I was so excited to be at the bowl that I was kind of
like, had to pace
myself. I was literally at one point going like, am I going to be the first
fucking asshole to faint
during his own set? But the lovely Nia was there. And, um, she said, you couldn't
even notice.
So I said, all right, good. I mean, I knew I, I know it enough to just, you
know,
just keep rolling with it. Nobody's noticing, just calm down. So I breathed my
way through that
shit. And like I said, it just, um, I went over my time a little bit. I really
didn't even want to
leave. It was fucking incredible. And I want to thank every single person that
came out that made
that possible. Um, thank Netflix for, you know, having the festival. And, um,
it was, uh,
it was, it was just fucking awesome. So then I get off stage
and, um, everybody's all smiles, but they're always looking at the poem. Like,
did you like it?
Did you like it? Cause so many times, you know, performer gets off stage, dude,
that was great.
And they're like, no, it wasn't. I missed a tag eight minutes in. And like, I'm
too old to do that
shit. I mean, I didn't give a fuck that I was a little lightheaded when I went
out there. Cause
I drank three shots of fucking espresso, like an idiot. Um, I didn't give a
shit. I, I, I loved it. And I love that even at that little lightheaded thing
happened and I was
able to get through it. I love that. I brought, you know, me and Lovitz did
that and that worked.
And, um, I did every fucking thing that I wanted to do and did like an extra 10
minutes just to
get as much out of it. Almost like I got a late checkout at a hotel, you know?
And, um,
I was just grinning ear to ear and everyone was telling me I did a great job.
And then
my wife comes in and I saw the look on her face and the, you know, and when she
told me I killed,
that's the big one, you know, cause that's the thing they don't, you know, not
too many people
talk about that, but comedians, wives, like, like when they come in with the,
when your wife comes in,
you know, she's seen your act a bunch of fucking times when she comes in with a
big smile,
it's like, all right, you know, I, I know I, uh, I know I got that one. And
then, um,
yeah. And then we just went over to the after party and it was just all my
friends
and family and all of that type of stuff. And we just hung out and, uh, you
know, it's funny.
Somebody was saying, you know, you've played all these places, you know,
what's next. Like, what is there left to do? Um,
which I get why people say that it's like, what, what's, what's next. I'll tell
you what's next.
The next fucking killer chunk of material that makes me excited that I could do
upstairs at the
belly room in the comedy store. And I would still feel like I'm floating when I'm
going home. Like,
not like whenever I start to feel a new chunk coming, I get like this high and
it's the exact
same high. I got the first time I ever did stand up when I didn't even do well.
I was supposed to do five minutes, only did three. I bailed. It was a
competition. I didn't come close
to winning it, but it was, wasn't about that. It was about having the balls to
go up there when
they called your name. And I remember driving home in my 83 Ford Ranger,
listening to Motley Crue
kickstart my heart. And I was fucking singing a song and screaming. I had the
window up there,
the window down and it was just fucking awesome. And it was, it's just kind of
been that,
you know, I'm not gonna lie to you. There's been some, I'll tell you, there's
been some rough ones,
but like overall that's kind of like what it's been. So, um, yeah, there you go,
man. That's,
that's, uh, yeah. And everybody held this great. Is that going to be your next
special? I'm like,
yeah, that's going to be my next special. But, um, I know better than to, uh,
you know,
I know what venues work for me. You know what I mean? Like, I know, like, I
know Chris did his
there and I thought his was awesome when he did his live one there, but it's
also like he did it.
He did it. He just did one there. So I kind of feel like that's Chris's room a
little bit, you know?
So, um, I'm going to do my next one. I'm going to do it in Seattle, which I
think is going to be a
fun vibe because they're like, uh, that's a fun city. Cause you like in the
city, they're super
liberal and then you get right outside it and it becomes like red hats really
quickly, which is what
LA is like, you know, it's like in here in like Hollywood, bunch of liberals,
you go on the other
side of the fucking hill, right through the valley and you get out there and
then there's like gun
stores and just, you know, regular shit like you see in most of the country. So,
um, I, that's like,
you know, the perfect crowd. I want liberals, conservatives and a nice mix of
people.
Um, hopefully then it just opens up. You can talk about anything. All right.
All right, so there we go.
That's my Hollywood Bowl experience.

What Its Like To Perform At A NETFLIX Special...

I played the Hollywood Bowl, all right, with Nate Craig and Dean Del Rey, and
then special guest
was John Lovitz. He came out in the middle of my act and we shit on each other
for about a minute.
I pretended I was thirsty and he just came walking out. Place went fucking
crazy because
he's John Lovitz. And then they also, the people that actually saw that podcast
where we trashed
each other, which I had no idea people were going to like it that much. It was
one of the most
popular podcasts I've ever done, us just trashing each other. But anyway, I'll
take you through
the day. So Friday comes along and that was such a big gig for me that I was
literally
like paralyzed. Like I couldn't work out. I didn't go play drums. I couldn't go
fart around
the neighborhood, nothing. I was just like laying in bed, looking at Nia going,
ah, like, I know
it's going to be good, but I just want to get over there and do this. And then
I had,
you know, a zillion people on the guest list because I've, I've lived out here
for almost
20 years. I mean, it was like, I felt like I was getting married again. You
know what I
mean? When you're making out like the guest list and this person, they need to
add one
and this person can't make it. And who should sit with who? Where do we put
this? You know,
people last second hit me up and just wanted to make sure that everybody got in,
which happened thanks to Club Soda Kenny. And meanwhile, I ordered, I rented a
classic Cadillac to
drive over there. I got a 1965 gold on gold Cadillac Coupe de Ville convertible.
And
when I first got behind the wheel of it, I was like, I don't know if I like
this.
It's a little weird. You know, it's funny. Those cars look huge. And then you
get inside of them.
They're nowhere near as big as the cars today. Like a fucking SUV. Everybody
always like taught me
and that car was like fucking 90 feet long and weighed a fucking ton. It's not
like a 65 Cadillac
Coupe de Ville two door is a paperweight compared to something that a fucking
soccer mom is driving down
the street. And like, like those Teslas weigh like fucking 10,000 pounds, you
know, not that much,
but you know what I mean? So, um, I drove it like half a block. I was like, you
know, I don't know
if I like this. And half a block later, I was like, Oh, I can get into this and
had the armrest down
and I was leaning and I was like, this is fucking amazing. And, uh, I don't
know what it had. And I
know it had a V eight. Um, but the ignition was right in the center of the
dashboard. And, um,
you, you left it at 12 o'clock. If you went to the auxiliary, you could wear
down the battery,
which I did the night after the bowl, you know, cause I got out, it was dark
out and I'm just used
to turning it all the way to the left. And I came out the next day to take
everyone, all the family
out to breakfast. I had a dead battery, but I called AAA. We were fine. Um, but
anyway, so finally,
it's the moment of truth. I'm going over there. I get in the car to do sound
check at like four in
the afternoon. And then there's no point of me driving all the way, all the way,
all the way
fucking home. The time I got home, I, you know, fucking hour drive, I got to
come right back. So
I, um, I drive over there and I'm feeling pretty good, but I'm also, I just
like, I just want to get
on fucking stage, you know? So, um, I pull in, of course I go in the wrong way.
Then I got to get
out and then I pull in everybody's love in the car. And, uh, I get out and I'm
like, all right,
here we go. Fucking Hollywood bull. And I meet club soda Kenny there, everybody
else, and literally
just dropped my stuff and walked right out. I took video of it. I posted it on
Instagram of just
walking out and seeing the Hollywood bull empty from the stage. And, uh, like
just this, I don't,
I can't even explain it. It was just incredible, iconic adrenaline Russian. And
I knew in that moment,
I'm like, I'm going to fucking murder tonight. Not going to have a good set. I'm
going to fucking
murder. You know, I, I'd gone out to the comedy store Wednesday night and
Thursday night. I did
two sets a night, did different parts of my acts. So everything was all, you
know, stretched, you
know, no tight hammies on any of the jokes. I knew what the fuck I was going to
do for the most part.
I had a new joke that I I'd been opening with. And I was like, fuck this. I'm
opening at the ball
with it. Cause then it'll just make me feel like I'm doing a spot. So, um, we
do soundcheck. They got,
you know, they got a little coffee machine there. So I have a, uh, what did I
have? I had a, I had a
latte, I think. And then Dean got some sort of green thing that maca drink that
had a espresso shot.
I was like, you know, I might get one of those later. Right. So, you know,
everybody's coming in
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just sitting there, sitting there,
sitting there. I got
a ton of people in the green room. That's not some people like to be alone. I
like to just have
everybody in the green room talking, shooting the shit, busting balls, love it
shows up. And all we
do is just trash each other, having a great time. And, um, yeah. And then the
frigging show starts.
Nate goes out to open, absolutely kills. He brings out Dean. Dean crushes.
And then I go out there. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you know, a long time ago,
Richard Pryor
played there on one of the first, um, gay pride days. And he went out there and
he opened with,
he opened, his opening line was, you know, I sucked a dick once and the place
went nuts.
He was really talking about, he got molested by this guy. Um, but they didn't
know that. Right. So
he does that bit. He immediately gets the gay crowd totally on his side. And he
just was setting
them up to basically say, why should I give a fuck about you guys? Where the
hell were you when Watts
was burning? Um, you know, when they were having all the, uh, all the riots
after Martin Luther King
was assassinated, civil rights, all of that type of stuff. Where the fuck were
you guys? You guys
were in, in, in West Hollywood, not doing shit for me. Why the fuck should I
give a fuck about you?
90% of them didn't get it, started booing him and he didn't give a fuck. Told
them all to go fuck
themselves. And they, and, and then he left. And then I was thinking like, you
know,
as much as he was Richard Pryor, there was still, you know, that venue at that
point was already 50
years old and all these amazing people had played there and he still had the
balls to do that. So I was
thinking like, I can open with a new joke, right? So, um, I went out there and
the energy
was insane. And the feeling of being on that stage was just indescribable.
It landed somewhere. It was like a hybrid between doing Red Rocks and doing the
Acropolis
and Athens where both are like sort of these amphitheater things. Um, I mean,
nothing was quite like the Acropolis. Acropolis was like ridiculous. I felt
like
I was, I went in a time machine back a couple thousand years
with everybody dressed like it is now. I mean, it was,
that was something else. And then Red Rocks has like that
psychedelic vibe to it. So this one had like golden age Hollywood. Um, but also
that outdoor thing,
because there was a lot of like, you know, people not in show business that
were
in the crowd. So they would bring in that energy. And, um, I did the opening
joke. It's a pretty
fucked up one and, uh, it did well, but it was, it definitely made people be
like, Hey, you know,
well, what are we doing here? I felt, and, and I just laughed at the end of it
and I didn't give a
phone and I just freed me up and, um, yeah, I just caught a zone and I just
fucking,
I just, it was, it couldn't, it just could not have gone any better. And then,
you know,
Lovitz the whole time he's backstage, you go, so when are you going to bring me
out? Like 20, 30?
I was like, John, I don't know. Whenever it feels like the right time, I'll
bring you out.
And then I'm sitting there going in my head, but what I go, what if I'm killing
so fucking hard?
I don't want to bring them out and blah, blah. And then I was thinking like,
no, this is like a cool, really cool thing that all old school entertainers
used to do.
And as I've been telling you guys, I watched that Steve Martin documentary and
he goes out
with Martin short and they have such a good time together. And I recently did
Dave Chappelle's,
um, comedy club. And, uh, we were on stage together after every one of my sets.
So I was
like, no, this is you kind of being like, you know, you know, Billy, the loner,
isolated bill,
hurt as a child bill, fuck this shit, open yourself up, bring this guy out. So
I just felt,
you know, like the moment was right about like 20 minutes in.
And I was, you know, the bit was, you know, this, this is kind of room
temperature. I,
you know, I'd love to have a cold water out here. I don't want to be a diva.
And then all of a sudden he just comes walking out and like people down front,
cause they didn't have a spotlight on him, could see him. And they started
going nuts,
place what nuts. And, uh, you know, we just trashed each other. And if you saw
the podcast,
he walked off stage as I was making fun of him. He was singing that song, Bill
Burr likes it in the
butt. You know what I love about that song is, but is way funnier than ass.
Like ass, it kind of flows. It sounds like there's lube involved, but there's
something about,
but it just seems like it's, it's, it's a lot more violating and way more
insulting. So, um,
he was singing that song, which he used to sing to Bob Saget. Uh, I was giving
John
shit about that. I said, he just recycled all your Saget material. Now that he's
dead,
now you're going to fucking put it on me, you know? And then he's like, oh, I
got some new ones.
And then he did, he did have some new ones. And, uh, he said something, said I
had,
I had a camel toe or something. And he was like, your turn doing that stuff.
And then he walked off
and it, it didn't disrupt the set at all. It was just sort of this fun little
thing that, um,
you know, it was way out of character for me to do. You know, I, like I said,
like I, I grew up a
fucking loner, you know, my family was sort of not the most social family. We
lived on a busy street.
Everyone around us was sort of older or younger. They didn't have kids or they
were like empty nesters.
So there was really nobody to vibe with for a critical, like eight years of my
life. So,
um, anyway, and then I just,
you know, I was doing the rest. Oh, I forgot to mention Dean brought me one of
those
caffeine, the, the, the, the, the, the maca things with the green thing with
the
espresso shot. I had already had a latte. And when I went out there for the
first like 10 minutes,
I was like lightheaded and I'm like, what's going on? We're not at altitude. I'm
not nervous.
Am I freaking out somewhere? And I just remembered a long time ago, I used to
do the Aspen comedy
festival and that thing you'd get out of breath. So I just started doing
slowing down, taking bigger
breaths and it went away. And it wasn't until after my set, I was thinking like,
you know,
I hadn't drank coffee for like a week. And then I just had like three shots for
whatever reason on
kind of an empty stomach. Cause I didn't feel like eating. And I just think it
made my heart rate
already go up. And then I was so excited to be at the bowl that I was kind of
like, had to pace
myself. I was literally at one point going like, am I going to be the first
fucking asshole to faint
during his own set? But the lovely Nia was there. And, um, she said, you couldn't
even notice.
So I said, all right, good. I mean, I knew I, I know it enough to just, you
know,
just keep rolling with it. Nobody's noticing, just calm down. So I breathed my
way through that
shit. And like I said, it just, um, I went over my time a little bit. I really
didn't even want to
leave. It was fucking incredible. And I want to thank every single person that
came o