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- Well, why don't you end your podcast?
- Sorry about that, Mark.
- Oh, let's get back to what we started with.
- Yeah, let's go with the original stuff.
- I don't know what-
- Yeah, I drifted from it.
It's just like, John Prine, this and that, feeling.
I don't know about that.
- Well, we're just chatting.
- I don't like it.
Let's go back to-
- Fuck you.
- But the thing with Joe,
the thing with Joe-
- Yeah.
- Is I don't know that we have a lot to talk about
because of my idea of what he's done to comedy.
- Sure.
- And I don't think it's great.
I think that it's tribalized,
and I think that he's created a sort of army of people
that think they know comedy,
but they only know a specific thing,
and what they think is good is not necessarily good.
It may be what they're like, what they like,
but on the outside of that,
most of the sort of sensitive weirdos
that we all grew up with in comedy
have been sort of pushed aside,
and the space for them has become limited,
and it's a little-
- But there was a time, though,
that alt-comedy was the-
- Not all comedy.
I'm not even talking about the alt people.
- Okay.
- I'm talking about just like interesting stand-ups.
- Right.
- You know, weirdos.
- Yeah.
Like Brent Weinbach has a great special out.
- Sure.
- I think he's so weird.
- Joe Mandy.
- Yeah, Joe Mandy.
It's like kind of this, there's this cultural idea
of what comedy is.
- Is there a world, and I understand what you're,
I get your perspective.
- Yeah.
- Is there a world where both these things exist,
and it doesn't fucking matter?
- Well, they do, they do.
- So this is what I always say, like,
I get that you don't like that world.
That's part of why I love you,
'cause you're like, fuck that,
and you'll shit on it, and that's what's great about comedy.
- There's some good comics in there,
and there is a lot of middle section.
There's a lot, I believe that we all exist
in the same world.
- And it doesn't matter, is my point.
I get why you.
- It's not all on him.
- No, no, no.
- The culture has changed.
- Right.
- And I don't necessarily think for the better,
but it's changed in a lot of ways in that,
look, you know, there are comics that only drive clips,
and that, you know, only do crowd work,
and they don't care if they do other people's jokes,
because the traction is with the clip.
And what they don't realize, I think,
and what a lot of people don't realize,
is that you're just, you're the internet's bitch.
You're the platform's bitch.
So in the sense that if you're not able
to fucking confidently do an hour
without worrying about getting clips
so you can get people come see you to do crowd work,
what are you really?
What is your voice?
Who do you work for?
You'd like to think you're working for yourself,
but you're just a platform bitch
who doesn't really need to find who they are up there,
do anything interesting at all.
That's a problem.
So, and the bigger problem about what you're saying,
I think we all still do exist,
but the nature of the comedy business is fragmented,
and some of it's tribalized,
but there used to be a lot more weirdos around
who were kind of exciting and interesting,
and took it a different place.
I would argue, with just talky talk comedy,
there's not that many people bringing it
to a different place, dude.
Right.
Well, there is some good ones that like,
I think that kid, Casey Rockett's really entertaining
and fun and different and unique.
I think they're there, right?
I think the problem is, there's so much sludge,
there's so much shit,
there's way more noise than we've ever fucking seen,
so it's hard to appreciate or even care,
because all that's really being shown
is kind of the constant, like, give it to him,
give it to him, give it to him, give it to him,
so I get it.
I'm tired of the attitude.
I thought you were gonna say violence in this country.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm tired, they come up back to LA,
one guy, I wanna name his name, and go,
oh, you're pretty, you seem like you're thriving,
and he goes, I'm killing it.
Killing it, yeah.
You know what I mean?
And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude.
You moved out because you couldn't survive here.
Yeah.
This is a different.
It's an animal.
It's an animal.
Well, I think the weirdos you're referring to,
by the way, we're birthed, and I defend this
till I'm fucking blue in the face,
we're birthed at the comedy store.
A lot of them.
I think the biggest mistake that's made
whenever I go back east is, you know,
the New York guys that I have very close friends out there,
they all, you know, they make fun of the store
and blah, blah, blah, blah for all the years,
and I'm always like, dude, you'll never find
a bigger group of fucking lunatic all over the mappers.
When I started, when I moved here in '06,
it was Wackadoo Central.
Yeah, yeah.
The late nights were fucking insane.
Insane.
In fact, the front patio, you were like,
is this illegal, whatever this is?
I know.
Do these people live here?
Yeah, this is crazy, and I think I always push,
I was like, people don't know that about the store.
They think they hear this like corporate bro bro,
and that happens internally in LA a lot too,
where they're like, the store is a fucking, you know,
whatever, sellout factory of fucking bro comics,
because I think-
Not anymore.
There's a wash of it that came through, and I think-
Yeah, Joe, they moved to Austin.
No, but I think-
No, I think, I think, I think even, I think even,
even up to a few years, even when I was starting out,
and the Largo guys, or the Eastside guys,
if I go to Eastside shows, they would make fun of me going back,
'cause I had a lot of good friends that were Eastside guys.
Yeah.
And we started together.
That's because they couldn't cut it at the store.
I know, but they still would hate on me for going,
they'd go, they'd be like, why the fuck you going there, Santino?
It's all fucking loot, and I hate it, 'cause I was like,
you don't get it, that place is diverse and insane and weird.
Yeah, but the bottom line is, you gotta do the job.
You gotta do the job.
Eastside, you don't gotta do the job.
Right.
You got a bunch of like-minded people that'll sort of watch you
worm your way through a personal story that goes nowhere.
Right.
And find, you know, love.
The whole issue, whatever alternative comedy was,
it didn't deliver the goods because it ain't around anymore.
And that weird argument,
it wasn't that alternative comics were open micers,
they were just trying to do something different.
Right.
But if you're brought up with the working ethic of like,
you know, you open, you middle, you headline,
and then you fucking do the job,
that wasn't the same sense of purpose.
So when you do the store,
and the reason why I've never stopped doing it,
and I was always a club comic from the beginning, but-
But you're like Blade though.
You live in both worlds.
That's right.
I mean, they helped build the alternative world in New York.
But then-
But I'm just saying there's some comics like you that do both.
Sure.
I wonder why, I mean, there's you,
I think Zach lives in both, Gaffronakis,
Patton Oswalt lives in both.
Yeah.
But some of them don't live in both.
Well, some of them don't live anywhere anymore.
I'm not sure what they're doing.
They're back on that couch, baby.
But the truth is, is that like, in my mind,
it's like, you got to be able to do the job for whoever.
Right.
So like the idea, and sometimes at the store, it's hard.
It's not always easy at the store.
No, there's tough, tough, tough, tough, tough.
And there's a lot of times where most of the room doesn't know who the fuck I
am,
but that's the job.
Right.
I mean, you know, I do have my people and I go do theaters and stuff.
Of course.
But you want to go put yourself through the,
I still have that weird ethic.
It's like, because a lot of people are like,
why would you go to the store anymore?
I'm like, I don't know, because I got to do the job.
Yeah.
And it's a way to make, to know whether shit really works.
If you can make it work over there, it's going to work anywhere.
I think that's it.
I think everyone that got successful at the store,
that became a store person or store name.
Yeah.
They have that like unrelenting.
I have to be a comedian.
I have to do it.
Yeah.
Like even when wives and girlfriends and friends are like,
what are you going to do?
You're going to the fucking now.
Yeah, that's why I don't have any of those things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you want to transition to stick?
Real fast, yeah.
Well, just 'cause I-
I can even tell you what it is.
Go ahead.
He was a very masterful golf player.
I know.
You do?
I do, I know he's a good golf player.
He's also a great bowler.
He does, he's good at everything.
Yeah, he's like, he's got all those white guy sports down.
Right, right, right, he does, right.
I have some of the black ones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no.
He's also, I don't know if you know this.
Yeah.
Great actor.
Okay, that part's not-
I think you are.
No, I think you are.
We've talked about this far.
You're a great actor.
Yeah, yeah, but anyway.
He should have gotten something instead.
Yeah, but it has nothing to do with you.
I told them, I kept telling them.
You know, where's Andrew?
They kept saying, no thanks, no thanks, no thanks.
I was mad, we saw the show stick.
It's a great show, it's on Apple.
Of course, our good friend Marc Maron is on it with-
He wouldn't have played my part though.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You would have played Owen's part.
That was a tough sell.
Yeah.
I think it was attached early.
Yeah, it was either me or Owen, basically.
No.
There's no other, the joke is there's no other parts.
It's a young, it's Owen and a young child and him.
It's like a fucking, how was it?
There's no one-liner?
You could have easily done Timothy Olyphant's role.
Yeah, fuck you, Timothy.
And you could have done the kid's dad's role too.
Who's that?
What's his name?
I forget the actor, he's great, but I mean, I'm just thinking like you could
have done
those.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah.
Recommend.
I'm the only fucking comedian that, me and Nate Barganze, the only comedians
that golf.
It's so funny.
I sent Nate a picture of me and Owen.
Oh.
No, I don't even know the guy's name.
This is going to piss me the fuck off, I bet.
Yeah.
It'd be a guy that I like.
Well, I'm sure you like him.
The fact that I can't remember his name is not great, but hold on, let me see
if I can
find it.
Holy shit.
I didn't know him and I talked.
So Happy Gilmore 2, you should have gotten a real golf part in that too.
Yeah.
Why didn't you get a role in that?
I'm not going to say anything bad right now if Sandra was listening.
Okay.
Thank you, Adam.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for everything.
As if Adam would ever fucking hear this.
You think he was listening?
No.
You know what's so funny?
What?
He's got his finger on the pulse.
He's pretty, he's not listening to our show.
He's pretty good though.
Adam knows.
He's so good.
Adam knows.
He's smart.
That last special that Josh Safdie directed was the, one of the best things I've
ever seen.
Yeah.
Fact.
I'm serious.
And nobody watched it and it was so weird and it was so clear that, that he had
an agreement
with Adam to be like, I'm going to do some shit during the show.
Yeah.
He's just going to react to it.
Well, the, the special before that got a lot of love cause it was more.
Oh, that's Colin Morikawa.
Yeah.
So Colin, so I sent that picture to Nate and Nate says, this is my happiest day.
Oh, that's.
I never in a million years thought I would see this picture.
You with Colin Morikawa is so funny.
And Colin Morikawa of course is.
A human.
Asian.
Yeah.
Asian.
Okay.
He's like you, bud.
Damn it.
I got it.
Just like you big guy.
Yeah.
It's like, if you got a photo with Thierry Henry or something.
It would change your life.
It would, it would piss me off.
Yeah.
God.
I hope I do.
He's one of the greatest French soccer players of all time.
Yeah.
I'm not a sports guy in any way.
I'm just saying if you had.
I know that.
Well, golf is not a sport.
It's an activity.
But I mean, I'm athletic, but I don't do.
Yeah.
We get it.
Okay.
He has been working out a lot more than usual.
I know.
Look at our legs.
I thought we were cutting down on the zins though.
We're not.
No.

WTF w/ Marc Maron is Ending??!!

- Well, why don't you end your podcast?
- Sorry about that, Mark.
- Oh, let's get back to what we started with.
- Yeah, let's go with the original stuff.
- I don't know what-
- Yeah, I drifted from it.
It's just like, John Prine, this and that, feeling.
I don't know about that.
- Well, we're just chatting.
- I don't like it.
Let's go back to-
- Fuck you.
- But the thing with Joe,
the thing with Joe-
- Yeah.
- Is I don't know that we have a lot to talk about
because of my idea of what he's done to comedy.
- Sure.
- And I don't think it's great.
I think that it's tribalized,
and I think that he's created a sort of army of people
that think they know comedy,
but they only know a specific thing,
and what they think is good is not necessarily good.
It may be what they're like, what they like,
but on the outside of that,
most of the sort of sensitive weirdos
that we all grew up with in comedy
have been sort of pushed aside,
and the space for them has become limited,
and it's a little-
- But there was a time, though,
that alt-comedy was the-
- Not all comedy.
I'm not even talking about the alt people.
- Okay.
- I'm talking about just like interesting stand-ups.
- Right.
- You know, weirdos.
- Yeah.
Like Brent Weinbach has a great special out.
- Sure.
- I think he's so weird.
- Joe Mandy.
- Yeah, Joe Mandy.
It's like kind of this, there's this cultural idea
of what comedy is.
- Is there a world, and I understand what you're,
I get your perspective.
- Yeah.
- Is there a world where both these things exist,
and it doesn't fucking matter?
- Well, they do, they do.
- So this is what I always say, like,
I get that you don't like that world.
That's part of why I love you,
'cause you're like, fuck that,
and you'll shit on it, and that's what's great about comedy.
- There's some good comics in there,
and there is a lot of middle section.
There's a lot, I believe that we all exist
in the same world.
- And it doesn't matter, is my point.
I get why you.
- It's not all on him.
- No, no, no.
- The culture has changed.
- Right.
- And I don't necessarily think for the better,
but it's changed in a lot of ways in that,
look, you know, there are comics that only drive clips,
and that, you know, only do crowd work,
and they don't care if they do other people's jokes,
because the traction is with the clip.
And what they don't realize, I think,
and what a lot of people don't realize,
is that you're just, you're the internet's bitch.
You're the platform's bitch.
So in the sense that if you're not able
to fucking confidently do an hour
without worrying about getting clips
so you can get people come see you to do crowd work,
what are you really?
What is your voice?
Who do you work for?
You'd like to think you're working for yourself,
but you're just a platform bitch
who doesn't really need to find who they are up there,
do anything interesting at all.
That's a problem.
So, and the bigger problem about what you're saying,
I think we all still do exist,
but the nature of the comedy business is fragmented,
and some of it's tribalized,
but there used to be a lot more weirdos around
who were kind of exciting and interesting,
and took it a different place.
I would argue, with just talky talk comedy,
there's not that many people bringing it
to a different place, dude.
Right.
Well, there is some good ones that like,
I think that kid, Casey Rockett's really entertaining
and fun and different and unique.
I think they're there, right?
I think the problem is, there's so much sludge,
there's so much shit,
there's way more noise than we've ever fucking seen,
so it's hard to appreciate or even care,
because all that's really being shown
is kind of the constant, like, give it to him,
give it to him, give it to him, give it to him,
so I get it.
I'm tired of the attitude.
I thought you were gonna say violence in this country.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm tired, they come up back to LA,
one guy, I wanna name his name, and go,
oh, you're pretty, you seem like you're thriving,
and he goes, I'm killing it.
Killing it, yeah.
You know what I mean?
And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, dude.
You moved out because you couldn't survive here.
Yeah.
This is a different.
It's an animal.
It's an animal.
Well, I think the weirdos you're referring to,
by the way, we're birthed, and I defend this
till I'm fucking blue in the face,
we're birthed at the comedy store.
A lot of them.
I think the biggest mistake that's made
whenever I go back east is, you know,
the New York guys that I have very close friends out there,
they all, you know, they make fun of the store
and blah, blah, blah, blah for all the years,
and I'm always like, dude, you'll never find
a bigger group of fucking lunatic all over the mappers.
When I started, when I moved here in '06,
it was Wackadoo Central.
Yeah, yeah.
The late nights were fucking insane.
Insane.
In fact, the front patio, you were like,
is this illegal, whatever this is?
I know.
Do these people live here?
Yeah, this is crazy, and I think I always push,
I was like, people don't know that about the store.
They think they hear this like corporate bro bro,
and that happens internally in LA a lot too,
where they're like, the store is a fucking, you know,
whatever, sellout factory of fucking bro comics,
because I think-
Not anymore.
There's a wash of it that came through, and I think-
Yeah, Joe, they moved to Austin.
No, but I think-
No, I think, I think, I think even, I think even,
even up to a few years, even when I was starting out,
and the Largo guys, or the Eastside guys,
if I go to Eastside shows, they would make fun of me going back,
'cause I had a lot of good friends that were Eastside guys.
Yeah.
And we started together.
That's because they couldn't cut it at the store.
I know, but they still would hate on me for going,
they'd go, they'd be like, why the fuck you going there, Santino?
It's all fucking loot, and I hate it, 'cause I was like,
you don't get it, that place is diverse and insane and weird.
Yeah, but the bottom line is, you gotta do the job.
You gotta do the job.
Eastside, you don't gotta do the job.
Right.
You got a bunch of like-minded people that'll sort of watch you
worm your way through a personal story that goes nowhere.
Right.
And find, you know, love.
The whole issue, whatever alternative comedy was,
it didn't deliver the goods because it ain't around anymore.
And that weird argument,
it wasn't that alternative comics were open micers,
they were just trying to do something different.
Right.
But if you're brought up with the working ethic of like,
you know, you open, you middle, you headline,
and then you fucking do the job,
that wasn't the same sense of purpose.
So when you do the store,
and the reason why I've never stopped doing it,
and I was always a club comic from the beginning, but-
But you're like Blade though.
You live in both worlds.
That's right.
I mean, they helped build the alternative world in New York.
But then-
But I'm just saying there's some comics like you that do both.
Sure.
I wonder why, I mean, there's you,
I think Zach lives in both, Gaffronakis,
Patton Oswalt lives in both.
Yeah.
But some of them don't live in both.
Well, some of them don't live anywhere anymore.
I'm not sure what they're doing.
They're back on that couch, baby.
But the truth is, is that like, in my mind,
it's like, you got to be able to do the job for whoever.
Right.
So like the idea, and sometimes at the store, it's hard.
It's not always easy at the store.
No, there's tough, tough, tough, tough, tough.
And there's a lot of times where most of the room doesn't know who the fuck I
am,
but that's the job.
Right.
I mean, you know, I do have my people and I go do theaters and stuff.
Of course.
But you want to go put yourself through the,
I still have that weird ethic.
It's like, because a lot of people are like,
why would you go to the store anymore?
I'm like, I don't know, because I got to do the job.
Yeah.
And it's a way to make, to know whether shit really works.
If you can make it work over there, it's going to work anywhere.
I think that's it.
I think everyone that got successful at the store,
that became a store person or store name.
Yeah.
They have that like unrelenting.
I have to be a comedian.
I have to do it.
Yeah.
Like even when wives and girlfriends and friends are like,
what are you going to do?
You're going to the fucking now.
Yeah, that's why I don't have any of those things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you want to transition to stick?
Real fast, yeah.
Well, just 'cause I-
I can even tell you what it is.
Go ahead.
He was a very masterful golf player.
I know.
You do?
I do, I know he's a good golf player.
He's also a great bowler.
He does, he's good at everything.
Yeah, he's like, he's got all those white guy sports down.
Right, right, right, he does, right.
I have some of the black ones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no.
He's also, I don't know if you know this.
Yeah.
Great actor.
Okay, that part's not-
I think you are.
No, I think you are.
We've talked about this far.
You're a great actor.
Yeah, yeah, but anyway.
He should have gotten something instead.
Yeah, but it has nothing to do with you.
I told them, I kept telling them.
You know, where's Andrew?
They kept saying, no thanks, no thanks, no thanks.
I was mad, we saw the show stick.
It's a great show, it's on Apple.
Of course, our good friend Marc Maron is on it with-
He wouldn't have played my part though.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You would have played Owen's part.
That was a tough sell.
Yeah.
I think it was attached early.
Yeah, it was either me or Owen, basically.
No.
There's no other, the joke is there's no other parts.
It's a young, it's Owen and a young child and him.
It's like a fucking, how was it?
There's no one-liner?
You could have easily done Timothy Olyphant's role.
Yeah, fuck you, Timothy.
And you could have done the kid's dad's role too.
Who's that?
What's his name?
I forget the actor, he's great, but I mean, I'm just thinking like you could
have done
those.
Thanks a lot.
Yeah.
Recommend.
I'm the only fucking comedian that, me and Nate Barganze, the only comedians
that golf.
It's so funny.
I sent Nate a picture of me and Owen.
Oh.
No, I don't even know the guy's name.
This is going to piss me the fuck off, I bet.
Yeah.
It'd be a guy that I like.
Well, I'm sure you like him.
The fact that I can't remember his name is not great, but hold on, let me see
if I can
find it.
Holy shit.
I didn't know him and I talked.
So Happy Gilmore 2, you should have gotten a real golf part in that too.
Yeah.
Why didn't you get a role in that?
I'm not going to say anything bad right now if Sandra was listening.
Okay.
Thank you, Adam.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for everything.
As if Adam would ever fucking hear this.
You think he was listening?
No.
You know what's so funny?
What?
He's got his finger on the pulse.
He's pretty, he's not listening to our show.
He's pretty good though.
Adam knows.
He's so good.
Adam knows.
He's smart.
That last special that Josh Safdie directed was the, one of the best things I've
ever seen.
Yeah.
Fact.
I'm serious.
And nobody watched it and it was so weird and it was so clear that, that he had
an agreement
with Adam to be like, I'm going to do some shit during the show.
Yeah.
He's just going to react to it.
Well, the, the special before that got a lot of love cause it was more.
Oh, that's Colin Morikawa.
Yeah.
So Colin, so I sent that picture to Nate and Nate says, this is my happiest day.
Oh, that's.
I never in a million years thought I would see this picture.
You with Colin Morikawa is so funny.
And Colin Morikawa of course is.
A human.
Asian.
Yeah.
Asian.
Okay.
He's like you, bud.
Damn it.
I got it.
Just like you big guy.
Yeah.
It's like, if you got a photo with Thierry Henry or something.
It would change your life.
It would, it would piss me off.
Yeah.
God.
I hope I do.
He's one of the greatest French soccer players of all time.
Yeah.
I'm not a sports guy in any way.
I'm ju