Name: Bobby Lee's HILARIOUS Advice From Louis CK!
Uploaded: 2025-11-12T20:00:56.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee's HILARIOUS Advice From Louis CK!' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-12. Transcript available.

can i ask you a question yeah you don't have to ask no i'm on your show i know
but can i ask you
one yeah okay um let me okay so um i want no this is the way because i want to
be real for a second
sure okay so um i've always been obsessed about killing uh-huh so i'm not as
prolific okay right
yeah i understand that yeah and i haven't changed my i mean right now i'm doing
a special for hulu so
i'm trying to come up with new stuff but my point is is that i'm so afraid of
not killing that i i've
been i'm in a rut i totally because of that fear yeah you're mean and it's like
i know that there's
more that i can do i know there's more that i can say and i just don't do it
because i hate bombing
you know i mean and it's like i just know that i'm not growing and i know that
you know i mean
you're so you're very prolific if i can say that yes i am yeah yeah i mean you're
one of those comics
that like if you're performing like all the comics will run into the room to
watch you when i perform
they can leave fire they don't leave they do they do the whole background none
of that matters okay
fuck the other comedians that's not your audience okay you're not doing this
for them yeah who am i
doing they're just their competition and their colleagues they're just people
that also do what
you do okay that's nothing to do with them yeah uh how do i get over this rut
though you know what
you're describing is a very important thing and it's a very vulnerable place to
be you know exactly
what you have to do your problem is your solution is right in front of you what
is it it's just you
got us you got to get over it no in other words you're you're i mean what i'm
saying is you're way
ahead of the game because a lot of people don't understand what their problem
is yeah i totally
understand and that is the basic problem for most comedians um because they are
afraid of that feeling
i'm not killing i was raised to kill as a comic i started in boston and in boston
it was like you
might get hurt if you don't kill because the room might get really nasty right
and someone might throw
shit at you they might wait for you outside like there's a feeling in boston of
like there's the bad
version of this is bad yeah and also there was this kind of like this biting
spirit there so i i liked
it i was 18 when i started so i was killing killing killing it took me a long
time to realize that this
is i still try to untrain myself there's bits where i'm like that crushes but
it's not making me better
i got to stop doing it so it's not only not wanting to bomb it's also like
backing away from
the obvious sometimes and just going like yeah that bit annihilates but yeah
what are we doing you know
better yeah yeah yeah it's not there's no quality to it there's nothing that's
it's not taking me anywhere
new i mean all the thing is uh the problem with comedians is they take
everything very personally
and it's a it's a scientific thing kind of comedy and it's an art so you should
think of the war like
privilege the work what's what matters is this bit right um like i was watching
this kid in uh new york
and he was doing bits about the election the last one and it had been over for
a while and uh and the
bits were strong yeah but people weren't really into it yeah and he made some
comment on stage
like oh i guess you guys don't like my politics or something and i pulled them
aside afterwards and i
said it's because it's an old topic no one wants to hear about it old elections
and he said i know but
this bits were killing and i don't want to let him go yeah and what i said to
him was because he was a very
young guy so i said if you took the two minutes of political material and
instead you stood there
and did nothing uh you'd grow more as a comic wow it'd be better for you as a
comedian yeah i think
every comedian should try to put especially in these workout sets in the clubs
yeah at some point have
like an alarm go off or some way that you go i'm gonna do 90 seconds i got no
act just 90 seconds of
just of just try to see what happens if you don't keep coming and coming and
coming with it
it's that panic moment of like i gotta kill right now if you can just get past
it it's like the sound
barrier you know with that big explosion yeah on the other side of the sound
barrier is like there's a
calm you go like oh i'm i got power now i'm not killing they're looking at me
this is weird yeah i'm
still here i'm alive i can do a bunch of things i couldn't do on the other side
of this yeah you could
only do one thing when you need it to be kill kill kill but if you get past
that you have like this
bunch of other options that you're like wow i could do this they're looking at
the room comes alive when
you stop getting laughs it does people yeah people start going what is going on
there's no because
there's a ha puts you to sleep yeah ha ha they're not even listening after a
while you know if you're
doing jokes ha ha joke ha you could one always do one joke where you go and
then i flap the jet black
laps it like where you literally make no sense and you'll get that's why a lot
of comics have like 15 tags
and they're getting jokes just because the the motor's in motion they're not
funny yeah but you
just get you know what i mean i mean you just have to you're 54 what are you
waiting for
it's time yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's never too late okay you need to start
going on stage and
having bad sets yeah you have to you have to yeah you have to that's it that's
you won't grow you have to
no no you you have no no no i do it all the time every time i go out to start
writing a show i i
struggle mightily for months and in nowhere in time on set you're like i'm i'm
i've lost the room
and i have to do a joke that i know it's proven or no you stay in the try not
to do that i do i'm
weak when i do that but i try to stay in it and just go like this is like when
i'm developing a new
hour i go to the cellar i go in i haven't been in for a while i do five minutes
maybe just a few
jokes i have and then i get off and next time i do 10. when i get to about 20.
yeah then it starts
filling in and it starts getting strong when i have a strong 20 i put it away i'm
like you can't do these
jokes anymore and i go back in with nothing and i start with another zero hard
and what's so funny
and then you get that brave hard joke well i'm gonna do it okay 1996
so i don't do it on the special he's got a brave heart joke yeah it's funny it's
fresh listen my last
special or one of the last ones i did a special a joke about good will hunting
and it was 20 yeah
well you did a whole thing about the bible that's old the bible
the bible's been out for a while yeah yeah so louie i'm gonna make a deal with
everyone in this room okay
yeah for my special i'm gonna because i've never done a special right right so
i have to do the things
that i've amassed no you don't for my special it's in two months okay well
i know but for the next you know main thing yes look do the special and clean
house i'm cleaning
house and then start over i'm never gonna do those jokes that's great right
yeah i love that he's gonna
clean house the way a hoarder does where they're like don't really don't really
get rid of that
put that right there yeah yeah i'll throw out one of the four kermits i'm
keeping the other three
kermits unboxed i'm gonna tell you what i'm gonna tell you why i'm doing it
sure yeah because when i
perform i don't feel good i feel pain yeah man every i've been there yeah i
feel
pain i feel disgusted when i drive home i don't feel good you got you totally
get what's going on i know
there's something going on yes and it's like when i was younger and i was like
bombing and i was like
trying new things and going what's my voice and all that more fun it was in
retrospect i mean back
then you were struggling there was no money and getting stage time and all the
fucking shit that
you have to go through but still in terms of performing it felt new it felt
fresh that kill are
are traps they're they are prisons yeah and they keep you from i mean you're
stuck in these bits
it's horrible yeah i had the same opening joke for like 10 years or more uh and
i every time i said
it it felt like i was pissing out of my my own mouth i hated it i hated it yeah
so much can you tell
me what is the yeah it's actually about piss i hate i hate saying please do it
yeah it's oh god it's so
horrible i mean it is what it is it's a joke but yeah but i live in new york it
was like uh new york
is the only city where you actually have to say things like hey that's mine don't
don't piss on it
yeah yeah i love that that's a great job like yeah i like i like yeah i've
heard you it's a fine joke
oh i do it for 10 years every night