Name: Bobby Lee Gets Real About His Sobriety | Bad Friends Clips
Uploaded: 2021-03-16T21:00:08.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee Gets Real About His Sobriety | Bad Friends Clips' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-16. Transcript available.

We're bad friends.
I do believe coincidence happens for a reason.
No, cut it out, will you?
No, I do believe that.
You believe in fate or you believe in coincidence?
Coincidence and fate are two different things.
For a reason.
So you believe in fate?
I do.
Can I tell you a story?
Yeah, I'm putting on my seatbelt.
No, no, it's not a funny story.
What?
What is it, though?
But can I just tell you my point?
Ask Rudy.
Rudy, may I?
Yeah.
Why?
Why are you so disappointed in it?
Why?
There's just no enthusiasm at all.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
I'm Rudy.
Ask me if you can tell the story.
Yeah, can I tell the story, please?
Yeah.
So unhappy.
So unhappy.
I'm not going to tell the story now.
That sucks.
No, please tell it.
All right.
So this is why I believe this is going to.
So when I when I was 17 years old, people know my story.
But when I was 17 years old, I got sober.
Yeah.
And I went to this place called the McDonald's Center, which is a rehab.
From from modern McDonald's.
I think Ronald McDonald's, the McDonald's.
McDonald's Foundation does.
Yeah.
They do.
So, right.
Yeah.
But I never saw a clown.
All right.
So they didn't serve fucking McDonald's.
I don't think anybody thinks that they do that.
I just wanted to throw that out there.
Get sober and have a Big Mac.
If you look at my Instagram, early on in my Instagram, there's a photo of me
when I the first day I was at the McDonald's.
They're wearing my fatigues.
Not fatigues.
What do they call them?
Fatigues is like an army.
No, not fatigues.
What do you call them?
The medical.
Like a gown?
Like a gown.
Oh, wow.
I was wearing like a medical gown.
Why do they put you in that?
You can't just do regular clothes, huh?
No, in the beginning, no, because it's a hospital.
It was a Scripps hospital, right?
Oh, Scripps.
Yeah, so I'm like in a gown and I'm really sick.
I'm detoxing.
Yeah.
Right.
That makes sense.
So there's a photo of me just, you know what I mean?
I'm here.
You know what I mean?
Dude, how funny.
You're detoxing, all like twerking out in the background around a McDonald's
like, hey!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
McDonald's wants to help you get sober!
Twerking out and drooling.
Yeah.
So you go to Scripps.
So I go there and I'm, you know,
I meet this Korean man.
Because when I was in rehab, I said,
I've been to AA meetings.
I lied.
And I said, you know, you never see Asians.
You never see Asians in recovery.
So what, you know what I mean?
I don't think that I am one.
What do you mean?
I don't think I'm a drug addict.
Right, you don't think you're an addict.
I was using all these, you know.
Right, excuses.
Yeah, defense mechanisms.
Correct.
And so one day this guy shows up and he's wearing, he has tattoos.
To his wrists.
Uh-huh.
And he had an accent.
Because he came here when he was 14 years old from Korea.
He goes, hi.
That's what I'm done.
That's his name, Dan.
I'm your sponsor.
And he saved my life.
You don't get to pick your sponsor?
This time I didn't.
He showed, I didn't, he didn't say, it was just like, I could have said no, but
I just said,
yeah, I think this is, that's not the coincidence part.
Was he scary though?
At first he was, yeah.
He had white hair.
Intimidated.
Yeah, but you know, he, he became, it looked like, yeah, like Mortal Kombat.
Yeah.
And he really became my father, you know.
Like a father figure.
He saved my life.
Like when I was 17, I had missed so much school, right, that my senior year, I
got sober and
I came back and they were like, you have to take a zero period, a lunch period
and night
classes for you to graduate.
There's no way you can do it.
So I called Dan, I'll do another year.
And Dan goes, no, you're doing it.
So I show up zero period, lunch period.
And I did all that.
Yeah.
And I graduated.
Yeah.
With my class.
Okay.
And then I got out of, I got out of high school and, you know, I would go to
meetings.
He was my sponsor, this and that.
And then what ended up happening was I started doing standup when I was 23
years old in La
Jolla, right?
At the store.
At the store.
And I stopped going to meetings.
So I slowly lost all their numbers.
You just stopped talking.
I stopped talking.
I stopped going to meetings.
Right.
And I just started, just show business was it.
All I did was hang out with the shores or, you know what I mean?
Did open mics, you know what I mean?
It was everything.
Yeah.
And I did that for many, many years.
It got to the point where I didn't even see myself.
I wasn't drinking or doing drugs, but I didn't even see myself as a drug addict
or alcoholic
anymore.
Okay.
Just a performer.
Yeah.
And I had nothing.
It was just like something I bypassed when I was a young guy.
Right.
Right.
So then when I got mad TV, I relapsed.
Okay.
For the, for the celebration.
Yeah.
What?
It's from the celebration.
No, from the, I hated it.
The stress and the pressure.
Because when I showed up at mad TV, the first thing one of the producers said
is, I just
don't think that you're funny.
Right.
He called me in his office and he goes, I don't think that you're funny.
What's his name?
I'm not going to say his name.
What's his name?
I'll talk to you later.
I'll buy it.
No, but he said he doesn't think you're funny.
Call him the fuck out.
Who is he?
Where the fuck is he now?
No, because he later became.
Where the fuck is he now?
He, he's a big producer.
Oh, he is?
Yeah.
On what?
What do you get so angry about?
I'm just telling you a fucking story.
I don't like him talking shit.
I know.
So he goes, I don't think you're funny.
I don't think you're right for the show.
And when he said that, I just, you know, it just, and I could see like his
group of writers
and whatever, not write me shit.
Right.
And there were many shows where I couldn't even get on.
Right.
It was just terrible.
So I just did drugs.
Right.
So two years on that show, I did drugs.
Right.
And then they fired me.
Okay.
And I ended up right in some detox back in San Diego.
Right.
Back where I started.
Okay.
I didn't have a car.
And also it was one of those hippie places where they only fed you like organic
foods,
no meat and wheatgrass, like a wheatgrass farm where they used to put wheatgrass
colonic
in your ass.
And I was detoxed off a Vicodin.
So I'd wake up like shaking with green fucking wheatgrass squirting out of my
asshole in a
bathroom, completely naked, shaking with no like medical, there was no medical,
it was
like hippie farm.
Yeah.
There was no medical facility.
Right.
And I just knew that I just needed something.
You know what I mean?
I needed a recovery, like a real recovery.
So one night I fucking escaped.
Right.
I had a little bit of money and it was two in the morning.
I had to climb a 50 foot wall, like, like a old school wall in a forest.
Right.
What's so funny?
It's just, what is it?
It's crazy.
It's facility with 50 foot wall.
Yeah.
It was like a 50 foot, it was in the forest.
Right.
Right.
And I climbed this wall and I ran down like three miles down the hill.
Right.
And I see like a freeway and then beyond the freeway, I see Vons, a grocery
store.
Yes.
24 hours.
For people that don't know.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So I run into this Vons and I'm dirty.
You know what I mean?
I'm wearing like hospital garb on, right?
Mm-hmm.
And I'm in the fruit section.
Of course.
Where else would you be?
Right.
To get an apple.
Right.
I pick up an apple.
I get a tap on my shoulder.
It's Dan.
No.
No.
But it's Dan's friend.
Sorry.
The perfect part of that story would be, it's Dan.
No.
It's Dan's friend.
Somebody that knows Dan.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
Let me finish.
Yes.
A green apple or a red apple, by the way?
A red one.
Yeah.
I like delicious.
Fuji, Fuji, Fuji.
Oh, delicious.
Yeah, I like red delicious.
So I turn around and he goes, hey, it's me, Will.
Hey, Will.
And I kind of vaguely remember him.
And I go, oh, shit.
You're Dan's friend.
You know?
Yeah, I'm sober.
That's how I knew him from sobriety.
Sure.
And he goes, it's so weird that you're here because this is what he said.
He goes, I was speaking at a meeting in Arizona, right?
And I was driving down the 8, right?
And something told me to pull over here.
Like at the grocery store.
Yeah.
There's no reason why I'm here.
I go, oh, that's weird.
He goes, and I see you.
And I go, oh.
And he goes, you want Dan's number?
So he gives me Dan's number, right?
The next day, Dan and all my old A people, right,
start picking me up from this place to take me to meetings.
Wow.
Okay?
So that's why I believe in coincidences.
Wow.
Yeah.
And it saved my life.
I stayed sober for 17 years after that.
Wow.
Do you want to get us?
Do you want to get us?