Name: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-28-20 w/ Pete Davidson and Ricky Velez
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-28-20 w/ Pete Davidson and Ricky Velez' from Bill Burr on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-29. Transcript available.

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-28-20   w/ Pete Davidson and Ricky Velez

Hello, everybody. It's Bill Byrd. It's time for another episode of the Thursday
afternoon
just before Friday, Monday morning podcast, and I am just checking in on you,
seeing how
your week's going and whatnot. I have some special guests this week from an
upcoming
Hollywood motion picture entitled The King of Staten Island. We have the great
Ricky
Velez, who I met while working on the film, and then the star of the film, the
golden boy
who hates compliments, Pete Davidson. What's up, guys? Hey, man. How are you?
Thank you so much
for coming on, and we're basically, we're going to be the box office boys today.
We're
going to promote the film. Peter, when does it come out? June 12th. It comes
out June 12th
on video on demand. All right. Well, I got to tell you, I've been getting, you
know, anytime
I've had one of these come out, you know, there's always, you know, I've been
fortunate enough
that most of them have gotten positive reviews, but then there's always some
people being like,
well, shouldn't it have done this? I don't understand that, but this thing has
been overwhelmingly
positive, and I've gone on a couple of podcasts, too, where they kind of love
to shit on stuff,
and even they were saying that they loved it. So, I don't know, guys. I'm kind
of excited.
That really wasn't a question. I just was stating my emotions. I've never done,
by the way,
I've never done the Zoom thing with more than one interviewee, so I guess I
have to just sit
here and go back and forth. So, Pete, I think people know who you are at this
point. So, Ricky,
I got to tell you, dude, I watched a cut of that, man. I was fucking blown away
by your acting chops,
man. I thought you did a great action. Thank you, man. You stood out in a very
strong,
strong cast. It was fun, man. I was actually mad I never got to act with you.
That was probably
like the goal going into all of it. So, just getting to work with you with
writing was pretty
sick, but I wanted to act alongside with Bill Burr. Yeah, you were with Pete's
whole Staten Island
crew of, yeah, those guys. So, you guys, I didn't even like, I saw you because
you were writing on
the thing, so I would see you then, but I only, I ran into you guys at like the
fitting, and I feel
like one other day, and then that was kind of it. But, I don't know. I think
the whole thing kind
of came together. So, I don't know. You guys bummed out that it's not going to
be, didn't get to do
a premiere and all of that shit? Yeah, I'm bummed out because I wanted to hang
with everybody. I
wanted to hang with Elswit. We were just talking about, all right. I miss Elswit
so bad, man. Yeah,
for those listening, Robert Elswit was the direct, the DP on it. Is that the
right thing?
The second. Cinematographer? Cinematographer. There we go. And he's done
everything from
There Will Be Blood to that scene where Tom Cruise is like on the outside of
the airplane. He shot all
of that stuff, and kind of became one of the, I did that for months. His shit
was this. All right.
All right. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. You stand over there. He's
going to do this,
and then the plane comes in, and we're going to shoot it. All right. How
casually Bob would hang
off a car as they were driving was always hilarious to me. Like, he was just so
okay with hanging off the
side of a car and filming something. Yeah. He was a, I don't know. I hope I get
to work with that guy
again. But I have to ask you guys about Staten Island, because I was just there
obviously doing
the acting gig, and I left. So everybody's been asking me, you know, how I like
Staten Island.
I was saying I loved it, and it reminded me sort of like greater Boston and a
lot of the places where
I used to hang out when I was younger. And I was saying it seemed like a great
place.
And all I could hear was you guys sort of laughing, and I, you know, it seemed
like a nice
suburb and stuff. And then I was thinking in my head sort of the storyline of
what you guys were
involved in. I'm probably need to spend some more time there, or am I a little,
am I kind of right?
Staten Island's like a beautiful piece of shit. It's like...
Oh, come on. What are you talking about? It's gorgeous.
It is. No, it's a beautiful, like, it has all the views of, like, everything
beautiful.
But it itself is like, it's just, I don't know, Ricky, like, compared to, like,
you grew up in Queens.
Yeah, I grew up in Queens, so I've only seen the part of Staten Island that...
I thought you were the Staten Island bad boy. That's what I was calling you the
whole film.
Oh, Queen! Sorry.
All right.
I only saw the parts that Pete had shown me. And then, like, the people I knew
out of it were all,
like, cops and whatnot. It's never, like... Before knowing Pete, I probably had
been to the island,
like, ten times. You just don't go there.
Yeah, I drove through it. One time I was playing the Stress Factory, and my
flight was out of JFK.
So I just sort of shot over the bridge, drove through it, over the Verrazano,
and then that was it.
But I was surprised. I thought it was going to look like Brooklyn.
Like, I didn't realize it was going to have such a suburb vibe. I thought it
was beautiful.
My nuts?
There are... No, there are parts of it that are stunning.
Like, some of the houses that we're... I mean, were you in the graduate... No,
you weren't.
No. But, um, there's a part in the film where we filmed in one of the nicest
houses I've ever been in.
Oh, the what? The graduation scene when you could see the whole entire New York
City skyline?
All of the island of Manhattan. It was stunning. It was nuts.
I mean, that seems like the move, though. If you're going to live there, you
can get a great house.
You can... Like, living in Manhattan is cool, but it sucks because you're
paying so much,
and then you can't see the city. You're just in it.
It's, like, right up against your face, but if you're in Staten Island, you can
have a yard.
You're just a couple of bridges away. If you drive, you can jump on the little
ferry.
Am I overly simplifying this? I thought it was great.
No, yeah. I think growing up there, and I... Like, you love where you grew up,
Bill?
Yes.
Oh, well, yeah. I guess it's just...
Yeah, but there was also, like... I grew up in Massachusetts, so it was all
connected,
so there was no sort of, uh... The way you guys are broken off there as an
island that I think that,
you know, they used to send the trash out there, I guess, from the, uh,
Manhattan,
so I guess there is sort of a, uh, a stigma.
But it's also all cops and firefighters. Like, it's... It has to be a good
percentage of the FDNY and NYPD.
Oh, so it's like cop land.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's very, very blue collar over here. The only thing is, is, like,
people from Staten Island,
I was explaining, they don't go to the city. Like, it's like living in Jersey.
So, like, anytime you would go to the city, it would be, like, this big,
ridiculous thing, you know?
Yeah. And I would think, uh, nowadays, there's probably less reason to go in
there,
considering they just, like, they scrubbed it clean. It's just, there's no vibe.
It's very, uh...
I'm surprised COVID survived in Manhattan. How, how...
Once all those glass towers, the Bed Bath & Beyonds came in, I was kind of like,
am I walking around New York not worried about getting punched in the head for
no reason?
I mean, when I first moved down there, I was, it was a, uh...
I mean, it wasn't the crack 80s, but there was somewhere along the line, there
was a tipping point where...
Yeah, it was fun in the beginning of the 90s.
And then it kind of just took that turn of Disney World.
I love it. I love being able to skip and hold hands through New York City.
But I'm from, like, I'm from the part of Queens that, like, as far as, far away
as Pete is from...
So, like, it was always, like, anybody that went to Manhattan went in a limo.
Oh, yeah, it was, like, the big...
Well, how did you guys end up meeting each other?
Uh, I was 20, 21. Pete was 16.
Yeah, we were doing, uh, we were doing prom shows at New York Comedy Club.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
In the comedy club or were you on the boat?
No, no, no. In the comedy club.
And we were doing prom shows for our schools.
And I would just eat it in front of, like, people that I would...
You had the balls to go in front of your own classmates?
Yeah, it was a nightmare.
And then I realized that I should just make fun of, like, the principals and
just be like,
yeah, you know, study hard.
And then all of a sudden, it became easier.
But I would just eat my dick in front of everybody I grew up with.
Those are some of the worst shows I ever had.
I would like to talk about, oh, you know, that Philly show you got booed by 10,000.
That's not, that's nothing.
Those, those fucking prom gigs.
Dude, I did one.
Stand Up New York had the ones where they, you were on a boat.
It was actually a really cool prom for the kids until I started doing my comedy.
But, like, they were on this boat going around Manhattan.
I mean, it was, it was gorgeous.
I mean, the, the, what the school did to increase those kids' chances of
getting laid was, was incredible.
And then I came in, like, the big, you know, the big cock block.
Hey, we got a comedy show.
They just cut off the music, have you walk out onto the dance floor.
And it was just, it was just a fucking nightmare.
Nightmare.
Yeah, I felt like, I felt like they never enjoyed the shows.
I felt like they just were like, ah, another hour until I get home and try and,
like, finger bang.
Yeah, that was part of the overprotecting of kids when that began, when they
started having comedy shows and knowing where they were all at.
I did one where the freshmen from when I was seniors were, it was their
graduation.
And they, and I was hosting, and they booed me every time I went up and even
introduced somebody.
So they just booed me back and forth the whole entire show.
Before you even had a chance?
No shot.
No shot.
I remember going up to watch it happen.
Like, the comics were coming by to be like, I have to see this.
And I was getting booed up and down each way.
20 acts that night.
Your next act.
Yeah, we've all fucking been there.
So, and can you guys let my listeners know?
Because I'm going to fuck this up.
Where can we go to see this movie?
What is it going to be on?
It'll be on Apple.
It'll be on your cable.
It'll be on Amazon, I believe.
It'll, anywhere that you can, you know, rent or buy a movie.
It'll be like when they release Trolls.
We're trying to follow the Trolls World Tour format.
I know, because that crushed.
I watched a movie the other night with my kid about this old guy and his wife
dies.
You know, it's Disney.
Somebody always has to die, right?
Is it up?
Yes.
Yeah.
Sad.
It's a sad movie.
It's like, what are they trying to do to you?
Like the fucking, you know, he finds love.
He finds his way.
And then just, they're the cutest couple ever.
And then all of a sudden they show her, they're painting like stuff on the wall.
Like they're going to have a kid.
And then they just show her at the doctor crying.
And I'm like, did she have a miscarriage?
Is this like, is this a storyline in a fucking Disney movie?
A miscarriage?
I got to explain this.
My daughter's like going, she's sad.
And then I had to have my, Nia had to explain to me what happened.
I go, did she have a miscarriage?
Like, no, no.
They just said she's barren.
She can't have any kids.
How come they don't have that ride at Disney?
They don't have that one?
They don't have, they don't have Remember the Titans.
That was a, that was a Disney movie.
They need to make those rides and I'll go.
Yeah.
So, yes, we watched that thing and yeah, it got pretty intense, man.
And all of a sudden that guy just, he started to try to kill him.
And there was the, uh, the Asian kid there who was sort of a kidnapping that he
maybe should
have turned the house around, but he kind of kept going with this, that little
Cub Scout
kid.
It was, I was, it was still a good movie, 