Name: What It Feels Like to Bomb in Front of Chris Rock | Bad Friends Clips
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What It Feels Like to Bomb in Front of Chris Rock | Bad Friends Clips' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-12. Transcript available.

Chris Rock watched me go up in the OR.
Yeah.
Have you ever been there when Rock is there late?
Like sometimes Rock stays at the hotel next door and he'll just walk in late
and he'll
just watch late sets.
I saw this car get towed once.
From the club?
Yeah.
He parked right in front of the club.
And while he was on stage.
They towed?
They towed him.
Oh my god.
And then when he got off, I'm the one that had to tell him.
Oh no.
Yeah.
And he did not look good.
Was this recently or when you were working there?
Way back in the day.
When you were working there?
This is way back.
This is before Bring Your Pain.
Bring The Pain.
Bring Your Pain.
Whatever.
That's actually a good title.
Bring Your Pain to my show.
Bring Your Pain.
Anyway.
Rock was in the bucket seats and he showed up late and I had pushed my set
because I had
done the improv changed their time and the factory changed their time and then
I told
Adam, "I'm gonna be late."
So I was late so then my spot, you know, your spot slides down and I slid down
and I said,
"I'll still do it."
And it was a late spot.
There was barely anybody in the room.
I'm like, "I guess I'll just try some new shit."
I get up there.
You know those nights when you're like, "Whatever.
There's nobody here."
It's like a Tuesday.
So I get up there.
I'm trying a bunch of new shit.
It's going like mediocre but it's fine.
In my head I'm like, "This is fine.
This is exactly what I wanted."
It's a bunch of new stuff.
I get off stage.
Rock is...
I go to sit down to look at my phone to turn off my recorder.
Rock is sitting next to me.
And I was like, "Fuck."
Yeah.
"Fuck."
And I turn and he goes, "Hey."
And I was like, "Hey, what's up?"
Yeah.
And I just sat there on my phone and then before he gets up, he kind of is like,
you know,
looking to get up and leave without it being weird because I just sat right
next to him.
And he kind of turns to me and he just goes, "A good set, man."
And then he walks away.
And I was like, "No, he knows."
He knows.
He knows.
He knows.
He knows how bad it was.
And when you say, "Good set, man."
And walk away.
It's not good.
So now he'll remember that.
"Who, that kid?"
Yeah, yeah.
Nah.
Did I tell you what happened to me with him at Caroline's?
Uh-uh.
Oh my God.
This is the reason why I don't play Caroline's.
They've asked.
I'll just say no because of this one experience.
Did you used to play it all the time?
All the time.
I've only played it once.
So this is before Tiger Belly or Bad Friends or anything.
I just didn't have an audience.
Yeah, you did.
I had mad TV audiences, but they were dwindling.
Sure.
Right?
So I would like sell okay tickets, one show.
Right.
And then there'd be some shows that would be completely not good.
Right.
Like 20, 30 people.
Right.
This one particular night, it was a Saturday night, second show, and just no
tickets were sold.
Zero.
I mean, I had maybe 12 people.
Saturday night in New York is so hard.
It's so hard.
And then also, I remember this night because my friend, Bess Hanley, came from
Long Island
because she had moved to Long Island.
Yeah.
I mean, I knew her from San Diego.
And she brought her husband and she had this, you know, because I could see her.
She was like up to the left.
Right.
And this is her face through my whole set.
She's trying to read something from far away.
Yeah.
Just like confused and like also like very concerned.
Yeah.
Like he might need to get a job.
Were you bombing?
It was not good.
It was just you.
Yeah.
And it got to the, because I, you know, you know, I do this thing at the end of
my set.
Where you show your penis.
Where I get completely naked.
Yeah.
And I, and I run around.
It's the closer.
It's my closer.
It's very humiliating.
They call it the career closer.
So, this is so humiliating.
So, I had 15 minutes on my set.
I just decided to do it in the middle.
I just said, I got to do it now.
In the middle of the show?
Yeah.
I was bombing so bad.
Right?
I don't know what the fuck to do.
You're like, I'll just, I'll just.
And also, I knew it was okay because at the time, Paul Mooney did a third show.
What?
I don't understand.
So, on Saturday nights, Paul Mooney had like a, kind of a, he was a.
He was at like 7:10 midnight or something?
Yeah.
He was like the midnight show, but he came early and they're like, you can go
short because
Paul's here.
Oh, right.
And there's a big crowd outside to see Paul.
Of course.
Of course.
Yeah.
And also, you have, people have to realize that when Paul Mooney performs, you
know,
everyone shows up no matter what city you're in.
Like, if you're in LA, Paul Mooney performed Eddie Murphy and everyone would
show up.
100%.
Right?
So, I knew Paul Mooney, so I go, I should just do it now and get out.
And just say, oh, Paul's performing or whatever.
Right?
And I'm on stage.
I'm sweating.
Right?
It's cold as fuck.
I'm sweating.
Yeah.
And I'm naked and no one's laughing.
Right?
People are kind of getting up.
Right?
My friend Bess's face is even getting down here like this.
Like anger almost.
And I remember just picking up my clothes.
Good night!
No cheer.
Right?
Walking off.
I just remember sweat and tears welling up.
Right?
And it was just terrible.
And you sat in that tiny little green room they have?
Yeah.
So, there's a scream off to the left.
Yeah.
So, I see a guy leaning against the wall in the corner.
Oh.
I don't know who it is.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know who it is.
I have my clothes.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
I'm walking.
Completely naked by the way.
Right?
And I realize as I get closer, I go, if that's Chris Rock, I swear to fucking
God.
Oh, no.
I'm gonna quit.
So, I see it's Chris.
Oh.
So, I go.
I don't know what else to say.
So, I go.
Hey.
I go.
I go.
Hey.
What up, man?
Right?
I'm shaking.
Hey.
What up, man?
What up, man?
And what he said to me, right, has been ingrained into my psyche.
Right?
It's what I wake up to.
It's what I sleep with.
Yeah.
Right?
What are you doing, man?
Oh, my God.
You should get that tattooed on you.
What are you doing, man?
What are you doing, man?
And here's my response.
I don't know.
And I remember being in that green room dressing, right?
And I remember thinking to myself, I'm gonna stay for Paul Moon.
No, no.
No.
I got my clothes on.
Leave.
And I just wandered into the city.
Gone.
Yeah.
Gone.
Those nights you deserve to disappear.
I have...
There's ten shows in my life.
That almost ruined you?
That...
There was...
Oh, I had a fucking show at Cobbs.
Al Magical saw it.
Where I went to the kitchen and I literally got on my hands and knees and I
looked up in
the sky and just cried.
It was that terrible.
Natasha Leggera was there.
And I just went going...
I mean, there's ten of them in my life that stays with me.
Shows.
Forever.
That were so bad.
Yeah.
And there are always situations where it could have ruined me.
Like, that show at Cobbs was Zuckerberg.
It was for Facebook.
What?
Yeah.
So, Facebook was rented out Cobbs.
And they get us the best comics.
It was me, Ian Edwards, Natasha Leggero, Al Magical.
I thought they said the best comics.
Back in the...
All right.
Come on.
But at the time.
Yeah.
No, no.
Great.
Yeah.
And I had to close.
Right?
But by that time, they were drunk.
Yeah.
And I just remember, like, people were dancing.
There's music playing for some reason.
I'm on stage.
And people are just...
Like, the party had started.
People were just...
Zuckerberg, everyone was just dancing, right?
And I'm telling my jokes, right?
People were just dancing, not even paying attention, right?
And I remember just putting the mic back in, going...
Getting on my knees and just screaming, crying.
Crying in the kitchen.
Oh, my God.
It was terrible.
I never played there again.
Madrigal, loved it.
You never played Cobbs again after that?
No, that's the reason.
So, I played the punchline, which is like 150 seats.
Well, they're owned by the same person.
Yeah, I don't know.
So, Cobbs is like, you know, I could make so much more money.
425, I think.
And every year, they go, Bobby, you're different now.
You can sell it out.
You can make so much money.
And I go, I won't enter that.
Because I was...
At Cobbs is where Dr. Ken Jeong physically assaulted me.
When he...
When you guys...
Yeah, so Cobbs has...
There's always like these events in my life.
Yeah.
That are granted in my memory that I just can't...
So, whenever I walk in, I get like this PTSD kind of like...
Oh, that's where I had the broke...
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