Name: Bobby Lee's Shane Gillis Problem
Uploaded: 2024-09-20T16:00:32.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee's Shane Gillis Problem' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee's Shane Gillis Problem' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-20. Transcript available.

- Can I tell you, I have a Shane Gillis problem here.
- What, oh, he didn't like you?
- No, no, no, no, no, he loves me.
- Yeah, I get it.
- But can I, let me go to his text here.
- Yeah.
- All right, so there's a Shane Gillis problem.
I love him.
- Yeah.
- You know what I mean? And he's a great guy.
So I have this thing now where I just refuse to do,
'cause I just did a movie in Montana.
I play a regular guy.
- Like a white dude?
- Yeah, I'm just like a white guy.
Like there's no racial references.
- For real?
- Yeah, never.
- You're not Asian at all in this?
- Dude, in all the roles I've had in the last five years,
reservation dogs, sex in the city, all these Magnum P.I.,
there's no real Asian references.
I don't have an accent, it's not an issue.
- You were in new, what was the new movie that just came out?
Badlands.
- Borderlands.
- Borderlands, you were just a regular dude.
- A regular dude, okay.
So all the things I do is a regular dude, right?
And I kind of refuse to kind of do Asian ones, right?
- Yeah.
- So then he goes--
- Oh, I saw you in, you know what movie I just saw?
- What?
- The movie you just did about getting sober.
- It's a variety, yeah, Sweet Dreams.
- Sweet Dreams.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right, keep going.
- Anyway.
Okay.
- You were great in that.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- I think you played gay and not Asian.
- Yeah, I was a little gay.
- Yeah, okay.
- All right, so this is what he writes.
He goes, "We wrote a role for you in Tires."
Which is great, I fucking would love to do that show.
Right?
- Yeah.
- Then he goes, "If you're interested, please be interested."
And I go, "Fuck it, I'll do it."
Then he goes, "Yes."
Then I go, "I always say this, no accent, please."
- And he's like too--
- He goes, "Dude, I swear it's all accent."
No English at all.
Right?
Then I go, "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha."
Right?
Then he goes--
- "That's one of the lines."
He goes, "I'm not joking.
I'll explain that, but I'm not joking."
And he goes, "Can you send me the script?"
You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- So what do I do?
If I have this moral thing of like,
'cause I desperately, I love those guys.
O'Connell and all those guys where I loved,
I would love to do it,
but it's like, do I do the,
do I show up and go, "Okay guy, I do it."
You know what I mean?
- You can also love those guys and just love their show
and just be like, "I love those guys.
I love their show.
I don't need to be in it."
- Yeah, yeah.
- But here's the problem is you do get,
like people do, it's not a shitty thing,
but they just go, "I'm looking for like a fat drunk who,
oh, let's get Bert."
And then you go, "I'm like a fat drunk."
And they go, "Yeah, but that's okay."
And then you're just sitting there going,
well, I guess that is what I put out.
- Yeah, I put out a thick Asian accent?
- No, no, but no, but--
- I mean, I do, I really do.
No, be real, do I do?
- In this show all the time.
- Do I do?
- On this show?
- Come on.
- Yes, I do, I do.
- I know, 'cause I talk so fast.
- No, but here's the thing, they trust you.
They trust you.
- They trust me.
- So that if they're gonna do an accent,
if they're gonna do a role like that,
they wanna go to someone who they know is funny,
and they know also can tell them that's not cool.
Like, you know, like they wrote it.
It's a bunch of dudes from Philly
that wrote something fucking wildly funny.
- Yeah.
- They trust only funny people to do it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So they're going to you because you're a friend.
- I know, but I know, but--
- I guarantee you that whatever they wrote is funny as fuck.
- I bet it is, yeah.
- And it overwhelms the whatever Asian accent thing
you're thinking.
- I'm probably gonna do it.
- I guarantee you it's--
- I would do it, I would do it.
- I'll put the buck teeth in, I don't care.
I'll fucking do it.
- But you can also just love those guys
and root for them and go, I can't wait to watch it.
- Well, I wanna read it first.
Let me read it first.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, okay.
I can't wait to see nine Philly guys
write an Asian character's accent.
- I know.
- That's the challenge.
- No, that's the viral moment
is you do the show in the day it airs,
you post the script where it's like, whatever the--
- Yeah, yeah, I should.
And since I talked about this, then I talked about it here.
We're not gonna edit this out, right?
- No, don't.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me ask you another thing
that I'm going through right now.
- Okay.
- And it's something I hate about myself.
And I can't talk to Andrew about it
because he doesn't really wanna listen to me.
- Okay.
- But I have a thing where I get so,
when I was in Winnipeg with your friend Tom.
- Yeah.
- We're doing a show.
Backstage, I don't know if we talked about this,
but have we talked about this?
There was a guy backstage.
He's a club owner in Winnipeg.
- I know the club.
- You do?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, nice guy.
Seems like a very nice guy.
- That's the club that Tom bombed in horribly, correct?
- I don't know.
- Yeah, keep going.
- So anyway, Tom goes, "Hey, this is a guy."
You know, he's owned the club for years.
- Yeah.
- And immediately I go,
"How come you never booked me?"
- Why would you say that?
- What?
That's the thing.
- Yeah, you can't say that.
- Why?
- 'Cause it doesn't matter.
- It does matter.
- Why?
- I'll tell you why.
- Okay, keep going.
Clubs in America that I remember calling my agent.
'Cause I had, even before podcasting,
I did pretty good numbers, right?
So I go--
- Good numbers.
You've always done good numbers.
- Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm doing way better now, but, you know,
but, and they would go,
they just don't want you, right?
It would make me mad because it's like,
I want to play it.
I want to go to that city and play it.
And then I look at their lineups and go,
I have more credits, whatever.
It would just, I would build a resentment, right?
So then now that I see these club owners now,
I'm kind of like, weird.
- Yeah.
- And I don't want to be like that,
but it's like, am I the one that's in the wrong?
- Yeah, you are.
I'll tell you why.
- Why?
Tell me why, teach me.
- What happens when you get famous,
or when you get success in comedy?
- Yeah.
- Is you, all those little fucking thorns in your side
that wouldn't work with you and didn't want to fuck with you
and didn't want to talk to you,
and maybe sometimes didn't even know you,
didn't even know you existed.
You, when you first get famous in comedy,
or not famous, but get some success,
there's an impulse.
I've seen so many people do it.
to light those people up and let them know,
now you couldn't get me, or something like that.
- Right, it's ugly.
- What you should say to that guy,
I'll give you a perfect example of someone I love to death,
that I wanted to say that to, okay?
- Who?
- I wanted, I wanted to work comedy works so bad.
- Denver.
- Denver so badly.
I wanted to, I can name a hundred of these clubs,
'cause I didn't have your career.
I had like a bullshit career.
Like I had one where like, no one, no,
I worked on travel channel.
No one ever thought I'd ever make money.
No one ever thought I was ever going to become successful,
or get a special on Netflix.
So like there were a bunch of clubs that just,
the cool clubs would never work me,
would never fucking work me.
- That's interesting.
- And so I wanted to work comedy works so bad,
but I always worked at Denver Improv,
which is predominantly a black room.
- One of the worst rooms.
- And it's one of the worst rooms in the world.
- I know.
- So I fucking, I languished in the Denver Improv doing,
I never selling a ticket and I wanted to work comedy work so bad.
And then I met Wendy and there was a part of me that wanted to say,
why didn't you ever work me?
And then Wendy just was like, you're fucking hilarious.
Where have you been?
And I was like, oh my God, I didn't say anything.
- Yeah.
- And then she's, anytime I ever stopped by Denver,
she always, it was all in your head.
Dude, I remember, I remember.
- It's not in your head.
He didn't, she didn't book you.
- No, how about this?
I'll give you a better one.
I'll give you a better one.
Okay?
- Okay, sorry.
- Ann Harris and Joanne Grigioni.
- Love them.
- Okay.
They were the, I would say the king makers at Comedy Central.
They gave you half hours.
- Yep.
- They gave you hours.
- Yeah.
- And I remember going like,
I remember sending like audition tapes to them
and I didn't get a reply, no feedback, nothing.
And then I was like, fuck man.
I got so in my head that I was like,
I thank God I never ran into them drunk and said something.
Cause I would have said my emotions
and I would have said all my feelings.
And then one day, one day I get a phone call
from both of them and they're like,
you're fucking so goddamn funny.
Where have you been this whole time?
And then I was like-
- Yeah, I get it.
- Thank God I never said anything.
- I understand.
- But it's a natural instinct.
I watched a guy, I watched a guy light up a fucking club owner
who all he said was, hey, congrats on all the success.
And he's like, yeah, I bet you wish
you would fucking book me now.
And then I was like, why are you doing this?
He just said congratulations.
- I would never do that.
- Yeah, but here's the deal.
He's at an arena and he's watching you perform murder,
murder with Tom Segura.
- Yeah.
- He knows how big your podcast is.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are you guys doing?
What are you, Asian?
- We got a call.
- From who?
- From Andrew.
- Okay.
- Santino.
- Hi, Bert.
- What's up?
Happy Labor Day.
- Happy Labor Day.
I'm in Chicago with my family.
I'm drunk on my patio.
I feel like doing you justice.
- I'm having a glass of vodka with your best friend.
We're breaking each other down.
- Yeah, it's pretty good.
- What's wrong with us.
- Is he pissing you off or is it good?
- No, it's good.
- It's good.
It's very healthy.
- It's awesome.
- Well, tell him I miss him so much.
I love you so much.
- I'm right here.
I can hear you.
- I'll share all this with you going.
- I miss, and honestly, between you and me, Bert,
'cause I know it's just a private conversation
that I'm ready to get rid of this guy.
I wanna come be a part of the Poros.
- Bert, Bert, can you tell him to tell him?
- We got a signing.
Hey, we got a signing.
Hey, are you coming out for Skanks Fest in Vegas?
- I'm not gonna be, I'm gonna be on tour.
I already got shit for it three other times.
- I'm doing the Resorts World Theater September 27th, 28th.
It's the same week in a Skanks Fest.
- I'm bummed.
- Yeah, but if you're, I was gonna say,
I was gonna say, Bobby wants to come out.
- Where, where, where?
- Resorts World, September 27th, 28th, it's in Vegas.
- I wanna do it.
- All right, you're in.
All right, I'm gonna have Bobby come.
- I'm stuck.
- Well, I can do standup?
- Yeah.
- Oh, I wanna go.
- I love you guys.
- I love you to death, brother.
- And I'll talk to you guys soon.
- All right, I'll talk to you later.
Bye.
- He keeps calling me noodle, I don't like it.