Name: Bobby Lee's Early Days on MADtv
Uploaded: 2024-12-05T17:00:40.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee's Early Days on MADtv' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee's Early Days on MADtv' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-05. Transcript available.

well i guess if you when you're cleaning and you saw like a random dollar bill
you would in your
head go oh that's a test of deception yeah yeah right you would have this test
recently i'm proud
to say what happened i was at mercedes and there was a five dollar bill on the
bench and i just
took a picture of it and i didn't take it okay this is not the same scenario
you're an idiot you
should have taken the five dollar bill really what the wild the wild is fine in
the wild yes
money in the wild i thought i was being filmed or something for what yeah
streamer playing oh yeah
sometimes they do that right i know but what would be that you picked up a
random was there
anybody around you no one that's your money i left okay have you seen these carlos
have you seen these
okay where they like they'll have like um a little girl like on a bench oh yeah
okay so whatever they're
tests of trust i hate that right where it's like you know um like a woman will
be sitting there right
who's like a you know a a plant right and then some guy will hit on her right
and some stranger
strangers hey whoa whoa whoa i'm so grateful i'm not in that yeah because i don't
think you'd i don't
know i think i would fail you'd walk away i would just be like oh that's weird
you know and i walk
away or if a little girl comes in excuse me sir i don't have any water and i'd
be like oh you do
get the fuck away yeah they catch me doing that i'm fucked dude yeah you're
done yeah yeah yeah no
those tests what would you do that's the name of the show yeah it's called john
john john quinones
what would you do right isn't that what it's called what would you do yeah oh
what would you do if i saw
that yeah that's what it's called what would you do yeah that's what it is
literally the show we're
talking about what would you do i i honestly i'm so aloof in public i'm me too
i'm probably just
walking by oh yeah i don't know i'm not gonna stay there and take care of it is
there anything that
you a a punk that you did that was like that aired that went crazy uh is there
a punk that i did that
went i mean you mean like what like it did well i don't yeah but that was like
they were mad like super
mad or i mean no i don't think there was anything that we did that uh like
everything that aired kind
of went uh i will say oh there were no that's not true there's so many lives
you've lived there's one
there's one that we did in the hills and i don't remember who it was and it was
a bad idea i don't
remember the girl i don't remember we were in the hills and um i was pretending
like uh i was lost
and they were house sitting and i pretended like i was a guy who's just like
lost in the hills and my car
died and somehow we figured out a way to get me inside of the home and this
woman thought she was
like trapped with a the hitchhike killer or something like that wow it was it
was such a bad bit it was
so stupid and so overblown this woman was on the phone with her mother like
just bawling crying and
they never aired that either no did not i don't think we heard that one no no
no no no i mean the the
the arab ones are you know like efron hitting an old woman we hit an old woman
with a car a stunt
one oh you knew zach efron then that's the first time i met him wow yeah yeah
that was the first
time i met that guy anyway deep holly connections well first of all i was first
of all i was a kid
i was an actor on punk that no one knew and people still didn't know that i did
that i remember you
then and i got paid like 40 yeah but i was remember this guy's on the rise you
know what's so funny
here i am shooting punked no no listen how funny this is here i am shooting
punked shooting a tv show
writing it and being an actor in it yeah working at the studio and i was
worried about rent every
month that's insane i was so worried yeah there was a month that i almost didn't
pay rent yeah because
i got paid so little money from the show could you make a week it wasn't a week
it was an episode you
got paid an episode how much you get an episode i think it was i think it was
fifteen hundred dollars
something like that an episode yeah but then with taxes and all that stuff yeah
to pay my agent my
lawyer seven hundred dollars yeah eight hundred bucks seven hundred bucks yeah
so how many episodes
you do a month oh no it's not a month in total we only did 10 or 11. i don't
even know what we
and that was your only income i was forced to work for the studio full-time
like like i got i got put
in that system and i was working for the studio wow yeah like i was writing for
them and all that stuff
and i was yeah you got ripped off yeah we got cooked those guys were making
millions of dollars we
were fucking i mean that's hollywood and jet that's that's what they do they my
mad tv was
forty five hundred dollars a week that's great yeah that's really good money
but um you only got
four the first year what do you mean oh four episodes okay you can't do
anything else
yeah and they hold you so then you're like what am i gonna that's what am i
gonna it's weird to
be on tv yeah and people from home being like dude you're on tv i know you get
there's and you're like
i can't i can't pay rent do anything it's the business is that's why you're
still eating at arby's
and like arby's what are you rich i know i know i was eating exactly maybe out
of the trash can
behind the arby's yeah we will at the comedy have you guys got any beef you're
throwing away
beans on toast is pretty hungry yeah but now at the comedy store they're like
dude congratulations
you're like yeah i'm making less money than i than i was before before no dude
are you kidding me
free meals at comedy clubs oh my god when they were like uh uh when i would go
and play those clubs
i'd be like hey can we get lunch and dinner here yeah and they were like what
why i'm like
pay for that i played it right i remember the first year i went i got on it
with i can't say her name
but a hispanic girl we all know her i think right and so there was like um a
couple of weeks where
we weren't in anything didn't make a sketch not a single sketch right right and
all the white new dudes
people were getting everything white new dudes yeah and then so i remember her
coming into my
dressing room crying she goes this is up i go what is it she's like well i mean
you're asian
and hispanic and we're not gay right i'm gonna go to the president of the you
know of the company
fox oh no of the show the guy that owns the show oh right it was like this old
hollywood mogul right
i can say his name he's a great guy david salzman okay there's just oh he did dallas
and judge judy
i mean this is an old guy right and i grabbed her by the wrist i go please don't
i know i go and if you do leave my name out of it we will be fired yeah yeah
yeah and she's like
no i'm making a stink this is she goes knocks on his door and just went into a
cry fest
right two weeks later i never saw her again you got fired yeah yeah that's what
happens and i was in
nothing and i just my fingers on the dressing room wall yeah just hanging bobby
yes they're taking my
ankle trying to get me out i'm like i'm not leaving right and that's that's i
think that was the right
right move it took years for me to get anything really legitimate but i just i
could barely made
every you know what i mean but you didn't get fired you got to play it smart
you didn't get fired yeah
and you got you got to play it smart yeah something that you don't you she
doesn't have to with her
generation she can do whatever she wants can i tell you another story about i
have to tell you this so
i'm not gonna name any names but i um there was another female comic from the
store right that was
gonna test for mad tv whitney no i can't tell you okay right and so we were um
i remember seeing her
and i go oh so um are you nervous about the test yeah and she goes i ain't
doing it and i go why she
goes i need 10 grand to test i need 10 because you know you negotiate yeah i
know was she famous
already no oh she was just uh the same comic guy i was sure nobody right and i
go you're asking for
10 000 an episode because the initial thing is 4500 right and she goes yeah and
i go oh i'm testing i
don't care they could give me peanuts yeah i'm testing air one peanuts though
right yeah and then
so five years after that i was at a restaurant she served you yeah oh and you
know what she said to
me she goes i should have taken the 4500. oh my god that hurts my heart and it
and i swear to god and
i was like my heart cracked you stiffed her on the tip i go yeah but hey dude
um can i get the
fucking um ketchup you know what i mean i asked you for the hot sauce you know
what i mean yeah oh that's
awful and we and she never worked again never saw her again my god she should
have taken it
yeah she would have killed it on that show oh we need we need to figure out a
way to have rudy
get her act together so we don't have a a failure on our hands oh that's the
that's a lesson did you
hear the lessons today yeah i'm scared no no you don't have to be scared well
you have to make the
right decision no you should be scared but how do you know that you're making
the right decisions
that's a good question that is a very good question i actually don't know well
i mean you
the opportunities that you get seize them you seize them yeah you don't go
against them
because i really honestly believe that one day and don't give me that face don't
give him that
face yeah one day you're gonna look back at certain times in your life you're
gonna go oh i i didn't
see it for what it was and say that to all of our fans too sometimes it's like
if it's right there
in front of you the worst you the worst that can happen is that it just doesn't
work the way you
think but you got to keep trying it like for instance if you if seven eckies
wanted to do a
podcast with you individually and you know i mean and they go you want to try
it right i think your
instinct would be no i don't want to do it right yeah yeah well then don't but
i think you'd regret
it because because because it's hot now right yeah if you it won't be 10 years
from now if you try
it and it doesn't work all that all that happened was it didn't work it doesn't
matter you don't lose
you know it just didn't work because in this moment in your life you can make
as much money as you can
and then you know later you know have a little savings or whatever but i i
honestly believe that
you know um life is hard and it's hard out there to make a living and i've we've
seen people struggle
and it's like you know i feel like i've and me andrew both have made decisions
that were like at the end
of the day you know beneficial well and i made some failures i did a lot of
failure to me too i mean most of
the things i did was a was not a failure most of the things i did didn't work
out the way i thought they
might have worked out bad sitcoms bad bad bad scripts and testing and it doesn't
work it just didn't
work and then you go go go until it works but not seizing the opportunity is
tough and we want you
to win all we care about is you winning i i think i am more open though i know
you are i think i think
you've grown so much on this show it is crazy so much well end the show tell
them goodbye thank you for
being a bad friend fantastic