Name: Bobby Lee was BOOED Off Stage?!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee was BOOED Off Stage?!' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-31. Transcript available.

- So I got booed off a stage in front of 16, 17,000 people.
- Oosh. - Where?
- In San Jose.
Not during your show last night, but.
- Yeah. - What are the chances?
- I don't remember that at all.
- Like, why is that even a real thing?
- It was probably like 15 years ago.
It was Chappelle. - Big Asian community.
- What? - Big Asian community there too.
- Yeah, but this show was called
The Doghouse Comedy Jam. - That's all Asians.
- No, and it was Chappelle, Cat Williams.
- It was a food thing? - Carlos Mencia.
And I, so Leslie Jones,
when she was young was before me.
And she jumped off the stage
and she dry out of like a 16 year old white kid
in the audience. - That's your bit.
- What?
- Not with her .
And you can hear, you can hear the walls shaking.
- Oh, she's crushing. - She was crushing that hard.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- And I looked at. - When someone's hard to follow, yeah.
- Yeah, I looked at Jeff Wills, you know what I mean?
The guy, you know what I mean?
At Live Nation. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And I go, you think it's gonna go well for me?
'Cause I don't think so, right?
And then he goes, "You'll be fine."
Two minutes in, they just booed me off stage.
I, and then I started doing gibberish.
I started going,
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta,
right, and then I literally just turned around.
- I started to cry. - Like starting a Honda.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I walked off stage and still to this day,
I don't know what I did wrong.
- You didn't do anything.
- I think it was just doomed from the beginning.
- Well, some things can only get so high
and then they must drop off the cliff.
- That's right.
- We played a, what's it called?
Neil Young had this thing, Bridge School Benefit.
And the request is everyone must play acoustic.
That's fine, happy with that.
Two nights, it's two nights in a row.
Played the first night, killed it, had a blast.
And then the second night, the lineup changed
and the person playing in front of us
directly asked for that slot
because they wanted to play and leave,
but they wanted it to be dark.
They wanted it to be nighttime, right?
- Can you name this person?
- The person was Tom fucking Waits.
Wow. - Whoa.
- So, and I said, okay, that sucks.
- Yeah.
- And I love it when people try to reassure you
that don't know what they're talking about.
- Oh, it's gonna be fine, man.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That sounds like you on the .
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- What's coming up, what's coming up?
- And I was like, I foolishly watched him play as well.
And he's going, he starts a song
and then he'll be like, what?
You know, I'm only, he'd stop.
I'm only doing this 'cause I owe Neil money, you know?
It's like a comedy routine, show, vaudeville,
all wrapped up into one fucking enormous dill don't.
Because I don't want to follow that.
- Yeah.
- How long did you have to do it for, the set?
- Too long.
It was probably like 40 minutes, but I think we-
- Wow.
- You closed it?
We kept, no, we were, you know, there was,
we were like second from the top
or third from the top or something.
And after us was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
- Holy shit.
- Where it was like, we were the cream filling
and a terrible cream filling.
- Right, yeah.
- And a double stuff from hell that was just not,
yeah, what am I supposed to do?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You know, I just, you know.
- Oh, so even you guys have bad nights.
- We're playing deep cuts.
- Oh, right.
- I gotta play something different every night.
I can't fucking, I can't, I can't, I'll fucking lose it.
And so we can't play what killed the night before.
- Oh, that's tough.
- 'Cause that's the night, in case there's repeat,
there could be five repeat people and I'm like,
well, they need to see something else.
- Yeah, and I, I actually, I love insurmountable odds,
you know, I, so that's why we're not really a metal band.
We're not really an alternative band,
but I'll play any, I'll play anywhere,
especially if I'm not supposed to be there.
- Do you even, even more, even more titillating
to be where you're not supposed to be?
- A little bit.
- Yeah, or doing something, you know,
like last night, Chris O'Connor, you know,
my fucking, my boy.
- Yeah. - He, you know, he knows
that when he does this joke and I'm not doing,
I'll never, I don't wanna do somebody else's joke,
but he knows when he does it, they're gonna be pissed off
because of the core of it.
He says it's very brilliantly written,
but he says in some way or another that like,
it's a fuck Trump, a little bit of a fuck Trump thing,
but he knows that that audience is going to boo him.
- Right. - And 19,000 people did.
But he's smiling and it's fucking unreal.
- Wow. - It was the funniest.
- I think it's powerful.
- Oh, it was so rad.
- Yeah. - 'Cause he's cracking up.
He's laughing audibly as they're booing.
And then it in turn made them laugh after the boo.
- Right, because he's enjoying it?
- No, it was perfect. - Wow.
- I told him, I was like, dude,
that's the fucking coolest shit.
'Cause he was like, yeah, you're gonna be mad at this.
And then he goes into it and I'm thinking,
oh, he's just gonna tell this, you know,
tell this, this joke, this good joke.
But then when he starts taking the shots,
'cause he just wants the, he wants to feel the thing.
- Yeah. - Right.
- It was fucking rad. - I think this is why,
I'm to your original question.
I think this is why I love comedy so much.
And I look at it as it's really, it's the, you know,
the gallows humor about the philosophy
and difficulties of life, right?
And so I see this value.
I love the sort of comedy renaissance
that's been happening where all you guys have done so well,
you know, because I think it's important that this is big
and is a feature and is, it's such a different night out too.
Just going out to something like that.
I like to be a fan of things.
I like to love the things I love and just enjoy them.
And I always would go to Largo 'cause I was doing,
I'd be the only musician doing benefits
with a bunch of comedians, you know?
- Yeah. - You know?
- Because I don't, I don't take myself that seriously.
I take what I do seriously, but I don't really,
that means I don't need to take myself seriously, you know?
And so I just think, and I think a lot of, you know,
so I've known a lot of comedians for a lot of years,
you know, and I think there's a little overlap.
I know a bunch of comedians that want to be musicians,
you know?
- Oh my God. - Yeah.
- Some of them are good.
- Well, how about this, every, this is a bad theory,
I'm not gonna articulate it well,
but every comic wishes they were a rock star
and every rock star kind of has a little comic in them.
- Yeah, yeah. - It's like,
you have this weird crossover
and you see it when you go to Largo
'cause a lot of times there is pairing
with comedians, musicians. - Yeah, well you,
I've been in bands, you've never been in a band.
- I was, I played with friends,
but we were never in a band. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- When I played when we were young, but I was,
we were so bad, we were like,
we can't show anybody this.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm not kidding.
We literally, shout out Adam Nicholas.
We should go to his mom's house and I was like,
we were so fucking bad.
We just didn't care. - Yeah.
- Because we weren't doing,
we didn't wanna make music
because we were gonna go show it to someone.
- But isn't that the key though?
I think, you know, music is interesting
'cause it's a bit like bowling.
It's like, you don't need to be good to enjoy it.
- Yeah, just doing it. - Yeah.
- It was just fun, we thought it was fun,
but we were very self-aware
because my mom sometimes would be like,
are you guys still practicing?
I was like, yeah, we're jamming.
- That's 'cause she wanted you to stop.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, she was very honest.
- Did you stop practicing?
- What if we didn't have drums here anymore?
- Yeah, my dad was, my dad was actually very rad.
They were both rad about it,
but my dad didn't give a fuck.
He was like, whatever dude, fucking smack the shit out.
He didn't, he couldn't care less.
- I think when you're doing that,
you're not doing something else.
- Well, we weren't doing drugs and getting in trouble.
- Yeah. - Well, we were doing drugs
and playing music, but we weren't getting arrested.
- I think because I was doing all those things
until a couple of years ago.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That it is certainly like a healthy exit strategy.
And honestly, you know, in my family,
it's like when something difficult will happen,
it would be like, we'll cry and be upset later,
but we don't have time for that now.
There's things to do.
And I respect that and I appreciate that.
- That's Irish, by the way.
That's Irish in a nutshell.
- That's Irish.
- We'll cry about that when everybody's dead and gone.
- Yeah, first we gotta bury this body.
There's no time for that shit.
- There's no time to cry.
- Right, and so I turn out the lights
so everyone can conspire, make out, fuck,
party, hang, do whatever.
And because I think escapism is a devalued commodity.
So these things where they're under the guise of escapism,
but you're really getting these lyrics
that are vulnerable and real,
or you're getting comedy that's about something real
that you should be thinking about.
This is the way to the spoonful of sugar
that makes the medicine go down to me.
And so I think escapism should be elevated, you know?
- Yeah.
- That escapism is pretty powerful.
I mean, you say it so profoundly,
but like I do love the biggest pet peeve for me.
I mean, we talk about it is when there's a lot,
when there's light in the room,
I really get a little shaky.
- Yeah.
- And so, like I just shot a special
and one of the biggest things that we had to deal with
was the lighting. - TV lighting.
- It was lighting, and so...
- But is it the same on the 19,000?
'Cause it's the spots of the thing.
- Oh, we pitched, I mean, again, that's Shane's show.
So like his lighting package was whatever he wanted,
but it's what I would have done too.
It's like, it was, are you okay?
- No, you guys, you know, I've never done,
I'm doing a special too, for Hulu.
- Why have you not...
- This is his first one?
- My first one.
- Why?
- 'Cause I'm doing it now.
- Okay.
- I'm doing it now.
- Yeah, okay, that's fine.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, Josh, I'm doing it now.
- It was just a why.
- Yeah, and it's called Finally.
- I didn't mean to...
- My special's gonna be called Finally.
- Yeah, that makes sense.
- Okay. - Great name.
- Right.
- I can't believe you're announcing this.
- So I'm now, 'cause I'm now, textures and lighting.
- There goes my album, Ty.
- That's it.
- You know, I shouldn't have fucking told you.
- I know.
- I did it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
- It's like baby names.
- So I'm learning now about what I want.
I think I want it dark,
but I also want the audience around me.
- You wanna be surrounded.
- I kinda want them there.
- Sure.
- You know what I mean?
Where I'm kinda, in a theater, can you do that?
- Yeah, of course, you can do whatever you want.
- You can set up in the middle.
- They'll build it.
- There's places you could...
- Yeah, yeah, where I can just have them
stacked around me as well.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.