Name: Bobby's Role Model | Bad Friends Clips
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby's Role Model | Bad Friends Clips' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-30. Transcript available.

I'll tell you my role model.
Danny.
You making this up?
It looks like you made it up.
You sound like you found it.
No, I'll tell you why I paused on the last name.
You might have forgot it.
No, it's because you'll see when I tell the story.
Oh, okay.
So when I was a junior in high school, I went to this rehab.
It was my third one.
It was called the McDonald's Center.
It was in La Jolla.
Like McDonald's the company, the corporation.
I think so.
Yeah, well.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
And during one of the sessions, like counseling sessions, I go, I've been to AA
meetings.
I never see Asians in AA.
Because at the time, you didn't.
Yeah, they just kill them.
Yeah, their parents kill them.
Their parents are like.
Yeah, if their parents.
Droga?
Or gay.
Yeah.
You're gay?
You're droga or gay?
Right?
They kill you.
It's terrible.
So I go, there are no Asians in AA.
I don't think there's alcoholics that are Asian.
So the next day, I get a knock on my, I was in a hospital.
And one of the counselors says, we have somebody in the lobby that wants to
meet you.
And I go in the lobby and there's this man standing there.
Korean.
Full Korean.
Full Korean.
Full, full, full long.
Just all the way.
Full long.
Yeah.
Wearing the flag.
All long, white hair.
Wow.
Right?
Down to the back of his back.
Yeah.
Middle of his back.
Tattoos to his wrists.
Whoa.
Right?
He looked like Mortal Kombat.
I can't wait.
Yeah, Liu Kang.
And he walks up to me and he goes, hey, I'm Dan and I'm your sponsor.
Yeah.
And I go, and he spoke, he was adopted when he was 12, came from Korea.
So he knew Korean.
So he can communicate with my parents.
Wow.
Right.
And then Dan, my senior, the Poway High School said that I had to do an extra
year.
They go, because you missed your whole career.
We know why.
Yeah.
It's not rehab.
And Dan goes, no, no.
He went to the school, this guy, and goes, what can we do to get him to
graduate with his friends?
They go, it's hard.
He has to do a zero period, a lunch period, and night school.
And he looks at me and he goes, you're doing all that.
So I did all that.
And I graduated with my friends.
Damn.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, I mean, he took me to this monastery.
And for two weeks, we lived in this monastery.
I swear to God.
No, I know, but I didn't.
This part is weird for me.
Why?
You fucked me.
How close did you get?
Now you pay me back.
No, because in the steps, they talk about meditation and stuff.
So in this monastery, you're not allowed to talk.
You can't talk at all.
You can't talk at all?
No one talked.
For how many days?
For like a couple of weeks.
I think Rudy's going to go there.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I remember not talking, meditating.
It was like a Buddhist monastery, but it wasn't like a Catholic.
You know what I mean?
And I just learned all this stuff from him, you know?
Well, the reason why I don't want to see his last name is because of the A
thing.
We'll blank it out.
No, you can say Dan and then blank out the last name.
That's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah, we can do that.
That's revolutionary.
What?
That he changed your life like that.
Have you ever changed somebody's life, you think?
Oh, yeah.
Brian.
Your sponsor?
Yeah, Brian did say that.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people that I have brought to my meeting.
I have a meeting on Wednesdays, and I've brought a lot of comics that are
struggling there.
If I showed up, would you be mad?
Yeah.
Why?
You're not an alcoholic.
Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
He is.
See the difference?
You can't diagnose me.
Do you see the difference?
What?
You can't diagnose me an alcoholic.
Are you an alcoholic?
Yes.
That's terrible.
Yeah, and how do I know that?
Because we met in alcoholics.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's why I can say it.
No, not a lot of anonymity going on.
Who was your role model?
I think in the sense of somebody who you aspire to be like, and I'm not just
kissing ass, but
you guys.
No, stop it.
And so it's not so like, ooh, you know, Anthony Jeselnik, Annie Letterman, like
these
people who have taken interest in me and kind of grown me as a comic, like I
want to be
like that for someone else.
I, yeah.
Sweet.
And I also think your sobriety is like motivated me to try to like be a better
person.
And it's kind of inspiring that you strive to be better and she's getting a
little, she's
not getting sober, but she's, she's changing her life.
I see it a little bit.
Yeah.
I'm pacing myself.
Yeah.
Changing a little bit.
Yeah.
In a good way.
When we, we had a conversation about it and I said, if you think you need to
clean out,
clean out.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And you, can I say something about you?
I love it.
Is your handling.
I mean, I've been watching it from afar and you know, there was one show we did
where
they were still seating people.
That was really tough.
In the room.
Oh yeah.
But you still handle it, you know, in the most mature way.
You're becoming a professional and, um, every night you're just doing so well.
It is impressive.
It's impressive.
And I get to live through you because Andrew and I are jaded.
Yeah.
Let's be honest.
That's true.
You know what I mean?
Like sometimes I don't feel anything.
Yeah.
You know?
Well, the first part of the tour was so like party party and it was so fun, but
this like
second and third leg of the tour, it's like, I just feel really focused.
I'm just like eating, breathing, sleeping, like getting better at stand up.
It's the best way to do it.
Coming home, doing spots at the store.
I'm like training new door guys.
Oh, it's great.
We don't feel nothing, but what we feel is we love the fans and we love the-
No, we love it.
Yeah.
I was being exaggerating.
I was exaggerating.
I know, I know.
But here's, but let me, let's be honest.
Do you want to be honest?
I want to be honest with you.
We've been doing it for a while.
The moment when you're on stage connecting with the fans, it's the greatest
thing on planet
earth.
Yeah.
And the second you step off, it's like, I want to go back on.
Yeah.
And then the second it's over or the second we're the morning, we're
the morning we're traveling to and all that stuff.
It's, you know, I will never be able to explain to people at home that listen
to the show
that whether they care or not, what the, the reason that people have such highs
and lows
in our business is because the highs are so high.
It's unexplainable.
The way you feel, it's crazy.
It feels fake.
It feels like you're kind of, you're riding the biggest wave ever.
And it feels like it's never going to end.
Yeah.
And it's, it's a little creepy.
And what it does to your psyche is something very unique.
What, what I think is, is that, you know, I used to have the business try to
fix me.
So it feels like spiritual because, you know, you feel like, you know, these
dopamine hits
and people, you know what I mean, going, oh, you're killing it.
And, you know, you're around cool people, this and that.
But you, what you realize is that it's just fake God.
Fake God?
Yeah.
It's fake spirituality.
It doesn't feel like the real thing.
You know what I mean?
And so what I've, what I've had to do is, you know, look at my life and go,
this is what
I do for a living and find spirituality and find self-esteem and all these
other things that
I need outside of that.
Find, find your God.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And to really, and to think that like, you know, cause you know, a lot of my
fears are
like, if I lose, you know, you know, like when people try to cancel you and
stuff, right?
You feel like you're going to lose all these things.
Right.
But then it's like, you, I got to a point where it's like, if those things
leave, I'm still
going to be good.
And that's where I want to be.
Because of investments.
What do you mean?
Because of other.
I see money.
I see my money.
I see some money.
I'm kidding.
Yeah.
No, I'm kidding.
You understand what I'm saying is that, um, you're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
I don't know.
I maybe, you know, if I didn't have that, maybe I don't know.
The point is you, you, you, you got comfortable, you got comfortable with
yourself enough to
know that you're, you're, you're always going to be okay, regardless of what
life throws
at you.
Well, I know who I am and I know, you know, how I feel about myself and the
world and,