Name: Joe DeRosa & Andrew Santino Wreak Havoc on The Comedy Store
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe DeRosa & Andrew Santino Wreak Havoc on The Comedy Store' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe DeRosa & Andrew Santino Wreak Havoc on The Comedy Store' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-08-27. Transcript available.

come on in joe ladies and gentlemen joe derosa derosa please sit in the blue
chair rough night
no i just did you do my uh oh derose oh that's good i thought you just spelled
my
name wrong with me just put the headphones on and shut up oh wow this guy was a
bad boy last
night bad boy off you're a little prank pranky you're a little prank yeah it's
the egyptian in
you and i don't like it i don't even know what that means but um i always
forget that you're
middle eastern yeah you brought it up last night yes i did you're doing you're
having a tough time
right i'm great i'm good no i could tell at the at the restaurant uh i'm good i'm
good i'm adjusting
to how far away i am from both of you i've seen the show i didn't realize it
was quite this far away
did you want to be closer um i don't know to be honest it does feel a little
interrogational at the
moment oh like we're judges yeah yeah well you guys are sitting up high well we
have a verdict yeah
and the verdict is you know i mean you went a little crazy last i think a
little crazy yeah
but so did he so did the kid yeah i heard you guys were wild together on stage
we had a good time yes
i think it was good i heard it was good no it was good we had fun mccone was it
good yeah it was the
audience liked it good news you know in this what we do news travels fast right
and there's like i have
little birds out there uh-huh you know i have birds at every club uh-huh and
what the little birdie said
was good time wild but good time wild time yeah wild time you did live here
right yeah yeah yeah for like
six years i stayed an extra year because of you you don't even remember why you
don't even remember
because i said i said i'm leaving three people talked me into staying you're
one of them okay
mark maron yeah and burr yeah me burr mark maron convinced you to stay an extra
year yeah why why
what'd i say i told oh i told burr first i said i'm leaving yeah he's like ah
you're hanging up your
cleats you're gonna go back to right right yeah then uh then i saw mark maron
same night i saw mark maron
randomly he walks up to me he goes heard your pussing out man and i was like he's
so like so funny
like right yeah and he goes why you want to leave dude and i go i miss new york
uh i don't think i
click with this place i don't the energy is weird and he goes yeah man yeah you
don't get that charge
when you go outside here man i get it man and i go i also don't think i'm going
to meet my wife here
you know what i mean yeah your wife look at you
how dare you that was like yeah you're right and how right he was yeah yeah it
was totally right and
then i saw you in in a third person it was one two three and you were like what's
this ship man
somebody said you're leaving it was crazy how the word traveling or it was nuts
yeah and um
for a guy that hadn't been working uh and i go bobby i've been very funny guy
always knew yeah thank
you that's all that matters to me no i appreciate that okay but i'm saying like
i couldn't believe
how many people were talking about me leaving when i hadn't had a job in like
three years it was brutal
i came out here the first three years week one book the lead on an fx animated
pilot
month two got better call saul month three comedy central is going to give you
your first hour and
they're going to let you direct it writing job wet hot america pete holmes show
then to wet out
american summer then to jeff and some aliens then to moshe kasher's show dude
it was one thing after the
fucking next i'm at my birthday party i look up rob mcelhaney is there i'm like
what's going on i i
i'm doing it this is this is it yeah this is la i love i love la yeah he gets
like he gets like we're
gonna get you on the wall man yeah store i'm like it's all happening baby and
and and then uh and then
the last thing was i booked a a multi-cam on cbs where i played the like lothario
like the office
perv and perfect casting yeah perfect fired me two weeks before the table read
oh oh we're cutting
the character it's too unlikable oh me too happens the following week less moon
visit cbs goes down
i'm like oh that's why they cut the character yeah and my hand to god i got the
job uh my friend pat
walsh my co-host of my podcast pat walsh he was the showrunner and i still had
to audition and uh
he goes uh uh they ran your tape up the ladder les moonvez said this guy's
hilarious hire him and then
he got me dude then he got fired yeah yeah for basically being the character i
was playing being
the character he's like this guy's awesome it's so funny dude anyway um so the
show i get booted off
the show i had two pilots in the pipeline both they were like they're not even
going to air you're
not getting a fucking dime nothing's happening with these the movie i was
working on and developing at
roosterteeth which was a production house i know them yeah they they were like
um we're not moving
forward sorry like it's just not whatever dude it was just my manager and i've
split up it was like
it was a it was a polar opposite of what the first three years it was a crash
fucking landing he gets like i'm trying i don't know if i'm gonna get you on
the wall buddy
at the store yeah wow because he was like i'm trying it's who's he adam adam
adam yeah yeah yeah
he's but he's but like he he's like he's like it's it's not you dudes there's a
lock there's
politics like i don't know if it's gonna happen you know you're a paid regular
no now i am yeah yeah
yeah and he gets one of my best friends like he's like i love the guy so much
it wasn't he's your
name on it now yeah great i forgot to look at it last night really yeah oh
never seen it in person oh
wow wow wow wow well go to go go now go after the show yeah i can't see yeah
who gives a yeah you can
see and go okay yeah um and then for three years nothing so three years nothing
so i saw you you
were the third person yeah in the same night and you were like i heard you're
leaving town i'm sorry
and i go yeah buddy i'm gonna go i think and you go why and i said bobby i
haven't worked in three years
and you went three years is nothing i didn't work for five years once yeah and
i was like which is
not true it is 100 true i was never gone five years without working as he was
saying i bet my
bank account on it you've got five years you haven't gone five years without
work oh okay yeah oh i got
one line in a nickelodeon show that's a win that's not a win better than him
getting booted off of
everything right and crash landing right okay five years you never went five
years man you're creeping
cruising since the beginning of time okay you know what's funny what are you
doing looking at my imdb
yeah to prove them yeah yeah see if there's a gap in my time i'm not gonna find
a five-year one
yeah are you in season three of and just like no no no why not she doesn't do
the podcast anymore yeah
okay yeah i don't ask i just you know i'm not seeing a five-year gap at all
okay
but you see things projects that are like this is okay this is insane what do
you mean it's constant
it looks like a receipt at the grocery store no no no jesus christ cvs receipt
of credits yeah like
yeah okay all right uh anyway i lied you i i know joe i lied i know i'm a liar
and i'm sorry i knew
i lied right for your face i knew you were lying yeah yeah yeah i apologize but
yeah you said you said
so what dude so you're not working what about stand-up and i said dude i there's
no stage time
i can't get in anywhere you're like that that's gonna turn around and i did it
you you go i want
you to give it another one more push and i called the laugh factory and i was
like it and they were
like yeah put your veils in and i put my veils in and because they had been
kind of cold prior to
that so i just i'll try it again and i they were like put your veils in and the
first night i had a
spot was a week later and you were on the show uh but you left before i got
there and when i walked
in the lady at the box office goes so i have something for you here we go this
is good yeah
and i said what and she handed me a note i was like what is going on yeah and
it was from you and
it said well well well look who's working it was a really sweet thing isn't
that sweet well i got a
little teary almost when i do you still have the note yeah good of course you
threw away that night
i wet my ass wet no i actually do have the note i have i have a box i have one
of those giant like
or maybe probably two now um you know those big clear like tupperware things
you get at target yeah
storage bin i have a couple of those of all memorabilia wow so like that i
would i i took
that home and threw it immediately into anytime i get something i found in the
tub did you get spots after
that i did i did uh two more spots yeah and the second one uh the early show
ran 90 minutes over
and let me guess why i have a guess go ahead was it chocolate sundays no no it
was a saturday night
okay why that huh why that chocolate sundays yeah because they run long okay
those shows run it was
a saturday night somebody dropped in maybe it was i don't know you know maybe
it was just they had
drop-ins i don't know but the show was 90 minutes too long that's why i don't
play that room right
yeah and then um my 11 30 was a 1 30. oh yeah yeah yeah and i got up and there
was six people in the
room brutal that were there from the earlier show oh they just stayed yeah yeah
and i was like i can't i'm
i'm moving back to new york yeah i have to go back and i'm not that's not me
knocking the laugh factory
in fact i saw the the booker last night and i want to do it again when i come
to town but like
it just it just wasn't the place wasn't for me anymore i was like okay this is
what it was
but then i went back to new york and started doing stand-up every fucking night
and i was like this
is what i'm supposed to be doing this is amazing and then they were like uh you
can't leave the house
ever again covid all right what have i done yeah yeah yeah wow i forgot you
moved like right before
right before dude i had my apartment had no windows in it oh my god you lived
in a cellar
it was no it was on the third floor but the windows were in the bedroom wow so
the main room had no
windows and it was the place was a dump but i was like where was it it was
avenue b and second street
yeah and it was two grand a month and everybody was like you better grab that
apartment dude like
that location is insane for that price and i was like it's not that nice but
you know what i'm never
going to be there i'll be doing stand-up all the time who cares it's just a
crash pad
lock how wrong you were yeah the hallway dude wow it was the grossest hall
remember when they
thought you could get it from a surface like my hallway i was i thought i was
like i'm gonna die in
this hall yeah that dude when so remember when tom hanks got it from flying
back from australia yeah
he was like one of the and i thought i thought we're all gonna die yeah do you
remember that yeah
and then the coach from um arsenal michael arteta got it i was like oh my god
there goes arsenal they're
gonna all die all die yeah yeah yeah you're gonna all die yeah yeah you're
gonna all die yeah you're gonna