Jeremiah Watkins, a comedian and former stand-up performer, launches his new one-hour special, "Crazy Pizza," which blends heartfelt storytelling with humor centered on fatherhood and family life. The special, entirely written and not featuring audience shots, draws from his real-life experiences raising a five-year-old and a three-year-old, celebrating the chaos and joy of early parenting. The set design mimics a nostalgic 1990s pizza parlor, reinforcing the theme of retro nostalgia. Watkins also shares his passion for stand-up on the spot—a live, audience-driven format where comedians create jokes in real time—highlighting how spontaneous suggestions spark inventive material. He reflects on his career, including his early days at comedy clubs, collaborations with figures like Joe Rogan and Steve O, and his work in the stand-up community. The episode also includes personal anecdotes about growing up in Kansas, moving to LA, cultural differences in social interactions, and memories of 90s pop culture, such as MTV, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, and the iconic "Family Matters" versus "Full House" debate. These stories are interwoven with humor about childhood fears, music, and everyday quirks, demonstrating a deep connection to both personal history and comedic tradition. The conversation underscores the value of spontaneity, authenticity, and shared experiences in comedy.
- Oh, you can- (funky music) - What's up everybody, welcome back to the dopass usual podcast. My name is Thomas dopassiola, whatever you wanna call me. This is my coach, Marty O'Neil. - What's up, guys? - Sup, uh, today's gonna be real fun, guys. I wanna introduce, today's guest, this is a comedian, Jeremiah Watkins. - What's up? - They should be in here. - Get to be here, man, thanks for having me. - We both got our little good boy haircuts on today. - I know, dude. Nice and permit. - It's proper. - You got the high patrolman. - Dude, I auditioned to be a cop earlier today. - Oh, no shit! - So, freaking, I hope I freakin' book it. - Were you a jerk? - No, he's a good, he's a nice guy. - He's unrealistic. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Exactly, this is a nice cop. I've smoked with a few cops and it's shocking to me that they do drugs. - Yeah, right? - I know. - They can be people, too, it's great. - Yeah, it's great. But, like, you're a lot of these do drugs. - No, no, I think we all have that image of, like, law enforcement on our head, where they're like, no, like if it hits their lips or something, they explode or something like that. - Yeah, honestly, right now, if you're a cop, once you've been taken to it, I'd be confiscated. - Yeah, fuck that shit. - Probably, man. - Like, nice skimming a little off the top. - Oh, sure, I'd be in jail as a cop. I would 100%, I would go to jail, but I would make a lot of fucking money first. - Sure. - And sell the fuck. - Would you be worried about getting dirty money, though? And, like, those people come after it or anything like that? If there's a drop, let's say next to a lake or something like that, there is a suitcase full of money. You would take the money? - No. I don't ever want to be tied to a chair by Russians. - Oh, true. - Those guys scare the shit out of me. And for some reason, it always goes back to some Russian guy behind us. I've seen John Wick, dude, I'm good. - I know, I don't be scared. - He's the boogie, man. - Yeah, isn't it funny? They're like, yo, there's one guy. Can we just shoot him at once? I guarantee you won't dodge that shit. - You killed his dog? - I love that movie so much. - Is his wife die? But the dog was too much to put it over the top, dude. It put it over the top. - He was a little too much. Okay, good. I hope you get the fucking, the role, man, 'cause you do look like a cop, I like it. - Thanks, man. - Here we go. - Oh, and I see your shirt. Let's talk right about it. - Oh, yeah. - Are you special? - New special, crazy pizza. - And September 9th, 10th. - September 10th, day before 9/11. Don't forget. - Perfect, man. - Perfect for everybody celebrating. - Right? (laughing) - You know what I'm doing on 9/11 this year. - Millilights. Okay, what can you tell us about this? - Dude, it's, it's my third one hour special. I'm so excited for people to see it. I'm kind of known for my riffing and crowd work and that kind of stuff. And this material is very special to me and the special because it's 100% material. The whole special is written. So literally the camera doesn't even show the audience during the special. I intended it that way when I directed it. It's just focus on the jokes, focus on me. And I love this hour materials about me being a new dad, me being a husband. I have a five year old and a three year old. So I'm like, you know, the toddler age, like raising them and yeah, that kind of coming of age of me as a new dad. - Nice. How do you like it? - I love it. - Oh, you do? - They're at a fun age. They're a really fun age. - Oh yeah. - They just want to play. - They're nervous. - You're nervous how kids like, what if they're dicks? - I mean, what if I could think that's on you, bro? - It is, but it isn't. I've met some cool parents with that. You're a fucking kid. - You suck. - You can, I mean, they have behaviors and stuff but you got a freaking curb it. - For sure. No, yes, but some kids are fucking psychos and some kids are just weird, dude. - I think a lot of it is conditional and circumstantial of wear. - Yes, I think it's in the anomalies, right? That's your son, your sucks. - Yeah, yeah. And you're like, you're so cool, but what happened to him? Usually there's like, I don't know. I mean, I could be talking on my butt. I'm a newer dad, of course. So I still, I don't have it all figured out. I'm working. - You're right. - There's anomalies. Like, all your kids are cool. You're lucky. - All your kids are cool, man. I just dropped my daughter off of college this week. So it's like, I've been all the way through. - You do not look like you are old enough to drop the daughter off the college. That's crazy. - That's the most Mexican thing about you. - Yeah. - There we go. - Boys, girls, what one are you? - Two boys. - Oh, no, I have a little easier than that Marty has. - Yeah, two girls in the gang. - Two girls in the gang. - Two girls in the gang of easy plays. - Thank you. - Remember that Rob? - Come on, dude. - Come on. - I ever watched that on my grandma. You can just own a fucking pizza place. I would like to own a pizza place. - Dude, I made a freaking, I love pizza, I mean, it's part of the reason I call it crazy pizza. We transformed the set of my special into a 90s pizza parlor. - Really? - Black and white, checkered floor, pizza, display case, that's on stage with me. One of those old school booths, the stained glass shandoleers hangs. - Oh, they're always there. - Yeah. - Let's pizza have vibes. - Yeah, dude. - Yep. - Backwards. - Did you have a face? - They're bringing back the pizza off a face. - I heard that. - The aesthetics of America are gonna abuse the shit out of that. - Oh, dude. - It's big, don't let nobody in with big purses because it's gonna be lined with plastic and dimfledged. - Is that what they stopped at? - It was next to my high school. - Oh, yeah. - We're fucking done, dude. As soon as the Planned Parenthood guy heard like, "We're fucking outta here." - Oh, there wasn't Planned Parenthood next to the pizza. It was, they replaced it. - Really? - Next door, and then where I'm from in Merced, it's the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country and our school. - And they were next door? - A Planned Parenthood, and then the pizza hut. - You could drop some weight and gain some weight and they're right next to each other. - Exactly. Exactly, do all at 15. Peace place you ever work at one? - No, but my brother did work at pizza back in the day. - Nice. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He called back when, like, the phone, he screened the calls and he made the sales and tried to upcharge people and stuff like that. Hey, do you want a little, what about making a stuffed crust today? - Oh, yeah, you have to, you get in trouble. - Right, I used to work at a peace place for a long time. - Yeah. - And it was the most fun I've ever had. Just 'cause I was so weed and dropped pizza off. - It was so fun. - I worked in a talent restaurant, though. We did sell pizza at the Italian restaurant. - There it is. - It's close enough. It's a lot of cocaine at Italian restaurants. - Yeah, I did. - Oh, dude, my boss, probably on cocaine there. - Yeah, the place in my town got busted for selling cocaine. Where I used to buy it out the back from the, from the cooks when I was in high school. And I was like, oh man, I'm fucking buying drugs and back manually. I thought it was so crazy. Oh, like 16. So everything was cool when you were 16. - Yeah, yeah. It's not as cool buying coke in the bag of a booger de beppo. - Yeah, and now in the 30s, like I think it's from Coke, I have a problem. - 16, like dude, I have extra money. It's fun. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, cool. So special coming out on the 10th, and you had two more, was it called daddy? - Daddy and family reunion. - Family reunion. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And how have you been doing Santa for? - Dude, over 16 years now. - When you started very young or you're just like-- - I started at 21. - Oh, we're the same exact age. Okay. - Yeah, cool. - The original comedy store kind of cloth when Rogan was there and like Killtony first started, you were there, right? - Yeah, I was the original band of Killtony, yeah. Yeah, so, and then Joe Rogan, he would do, before he opened the mother ship in Austin, he would do my show standup on the spot all the time, and yeah, he's buddy. - Can you explain the standup on the spot? I see it fucking everywhere. - Yeah. - It's constantly. - Can you explain to anybody that doesn't know? So if you don't know about my show standup on the spot, first of all, check it out if you're a comedy fan or your fan of this podcast. I think you'll like it. Comedians go up with no prepared material as the audience for suggestions, they yell out stuff, and then you have to create standup on the spot based off of what the audience yells out. So, 100% just creating in the moment based off of like a nugget of an idea that you're giving the comedian, and then they're trying to make a joke about it. Or sometimes if they're a storyteller comedian, it triggers a story that they have never told onstage before. They're like, oh, this is like buried in my subconscious, because when it's heightened stakes like that, you kind of scramble like you're an animal back into a corner. So your brain kicks in the overdrive, and it's a fight or flight mentality for sure. So you see the new intro that we made is like, see who thrives, see who survives on the standup on the spot, 'cause it's very much like, and you'll see it even in my opening sense. Yeah, no, it's like, go, now, go. - I love it. - And you'll see it in my opening sense all the time, where some of my suggestions I now have at the park, and then the other ones, it'll be kind of like, okay, all right, what else we got? I did a little bit of something, but-- - Not that one. - Yeah, and remember, I told you, Rocky, I'm like, I just want to do stories. I've been doing a lot of standup. You know Jack Jr., didn't you do his special? - I directed his special. - Yeah, it comes out next month, I believe. - On September 17th, the week after mine. - Oh, my boy, Jack Jr. - Yeah, I've been to travel with him a lot, doing a lot of shows. I told Rocky, my brother, I'm like, when it'd be cool to stand there and be like, give me a topic, and then I saw your show, I'm like, oh, this has already been done. - Okay, nevermind, this is already a thing. - Come by and do the show sometime. - Do I just love telling a story? And they're never ending, so I'm like, yeah. - If you got a bunch of stories, then it might work out perfectly. Yeah, it might work out perfectly for it. Steve O was really good at doing the show because he is a storyteller, and he has something for every suggestion. - Yes. - He's like, oh yeah, that reminds me of the time, when I like, my balls are like exploding. - I like exploding. (laughing) I'm like, throw caught on fire, that was an Harley, dude. - Every time I bring him Steve, I have to do the voice. - You don't what the fuck you do. - I mean, come on, man. - It's fun. - It's great. - It's like a. - The Frogger kid from Little Rascals. - That kid. - That kid. (laughing) - That's Steve. - I'm not thought of that. - That kid. - That's so much of mullet. But yeah, I've been doing lots of with Jack, and I saw him make fun of. - How since Little Rascals? Is that what it was? - Yeah, remember the kid, the frog, right? - Right. - My kid. Well, I'm a little worried.
- Exactly. Did you watch the latest Jackass? - I haven't yet. And I'm kind of ashamed to say that because I've watched every other Jackass in theaters and I had just my schedule, I literally have not, I couldn't make the time to go to the theater to watch it yet. So I'll watch it, for the first time I'll watch it from home, but yeah, I didn't see the newest one yet. - Did you watch CKY? - Yeah, I watched the CKY. - Sorry, you were the same age as me. So when you were 11 Jackass came out. - Even the BAM, all that stuff, of course did, of course. - I didn't watch Wild Boys a lot. I watched, yeah, I didn't get quite as it to Wild Boys. But yeah, but Viva La BAM for sure, some CKY and Jackass were like more of the staples. - Is my brother, he's 15 years younger than me. So I've been trying to explain how fucking big BAM was at the time. It's kind of hard to put it and compare it to today. Maybe one of the big streamer kids. - Okay. - One of those guys, he could walk around and go, oh, there's 50,000 people chasing this guy. We went to the Mall of America and he just shed the whole mall down. I fucking love Viva La BAM. Anyway, yes, the new Jackass, all that stuff. - So you'll like this, then, if you're a Jagass fan and you like Viva La BAM that un-CKY Wild stuff. Rick Kosick from Jagass, he is, he helps me shoot standup on the spot every episode of the comedy. - No shit, he's a buddy. - He's not getting pissed on. - This is a great job for him. - Right, no, no. - He's not getting shocked. - He's not getting pranked. I just, I'm like, dude, I like your skills as a cameraman. Will you help me shoot this? And yeah, he's, he's, he's, don't do. - He's the only one I ever felt bad for. It's like, he's not even fucking paying attention guys. Keep shooting and pissing on him. - He's, I'm like, he's just trying to get a good shot. - That's it. - He's right, right, right. - Oh, that's awesome. Dude, good shit. Where do you film stand up on the spot? - At the comedy store every second Tuesday of the month. - See, I'll say this. I've never watched the Kill Tony before until January. - Oh no, a lot of people started way back. - Oh, for sure. - And I just saw you different characters. I'm like, that's the same motherfucker that I think it is. - Right, yeah, yeah. - So I'm brand new to it. I had no, I've never seen the show, never seen New Year's. My friends used to go at the comedy store when it was there a lot. So watching it and then you're not there. I'm like, what the fuck? It's a change. How long have you been gone? - I mean, it's been like five years now because since the pandemic. So we did some pandemic shows, but they moved to Austin, I think, around 2022. So it's been more like four years. So 21st day, 22. I stayed in LA, they moved to Austin, and yeah, they continue on the show. - I was wondering, I'm like, yo, what? - 'Cause Joel Jimenez, born and raised in LA, he stayed behind in LA, Jesse Johnson, who was on Trumpet. - Jesse Johnson, that's it? - Yeah, yeah. She stayed behind in LA and myself. So we stayed, the band stayed here, and then they have a very amazing professional band now, who like musically they're incredible. - Yeah, but I wanted the characters, man. - I just started watching. So I'm like, I am fucking brand new to this. I'm fucking entertained, dude. I went in January, that's why I was there with all those guys. I was like, you went to the county mothership? - Yeah, I performed with a little boy, it's called. - Oh yeah, yeah, I did that. And they're like, come watch the show. I'm like, never seen it. Fuck, I'm entertained, dude. - Sure, sure. - I was like, people moving around like, oh, you don't see any of that. This is a real show. - A lot of moving parts. - A lot of moving parts, yeah, full production. - So yeah, that's what I watched, 'cause I'll just put on a random one to go, there he is, I know, how come he's gone? That's what I wanted to ask, like, I'm here with you. There it is. But yeah, that's what I wanted to ask. I'm a such a new viewer to that shit. - Sure, sure, sure. Okay, I want to ask you one thing. It's a, usually wait a little bit, but you're the same damn agent. This is the thing called, we got called, who are you in the '90s? And it's not the damn viral meme of, "Dad, what did you look like in the '90s?" We're doing the shiver. Five years, and they stole it, dude. So this is the segment. - Okay, it's one or the other. And remember, it's the '90s. - You give me two options, as we go forward. - Okay, cool. - You today, because you'd be like, "Pee, did he's my favorite?" Like today, that'd be a odd thing to say. - Right. - But in the '90s, we didn't know our killers, - Oh, come on. - Pee, come on. - Maybe they did, but I didn't know you. - I don't see another one with a little bump in grind. - See? - Right. - A little bump in grind. Also, I would be, we'll talk about, I would extort the shit in our killing prison, make him sing for money on the phone at all times. Right? Call my girl right now, sing for her, right? - Yeah. - I give you a pitty. - Yo. - And Danny Masterson. - Yo, sing for me, y'all. Caddy, come on. - Or else, do it. - Go on, do it. - Yeah, exactly. - You're actually a pedophile, so you're lucky not dead now. - He just gets the pass. I believe I can fly God on the pedophile pass. I love it. - We'll extort two in a cell between our Kelly and Daddy. - Diddy gets all red on me? - Diddy is, diddy's D-Buff. - Are we doing celebrity deathmatch? He did he versus our Kelly? - That's a good start, 'cause that would be a fun one. That would be a fun Seth Green, get on it. Come on. - Fucking Seth Green. - I feel like our Kelly's like 65, but diddy's got the mentality. Diddy's, if you're willing to put your stuff, I'm good. He's a scary guy. All right, you ready? Who are you in the 90s? - Okay. McDonald's a Burger King as a kid. McDonald's had to be, 'cause the toys, flavor and toys. - Oh, I've never heard anybody say flavor. - Wow, yeah. - I was a kid, I just ate whatever the fuck they gave me. - Dude, the happy meals. And then, I mean, the toys also big and send it, but the fries, I always prefer the fries at McDonald's and I always prefer the Coca-Cola at McDonald's. - It's just cocaine in there, dude. - Extra charge. - There's something in there. - There's something special in there. - It's bright, like drinking brillo pad. - It's rough, but it's good. - It's incredible. - Yeah. - That extra pop in the back. - You remember, since we were the same age group, you remember they used to sell tapes at McDonald's? VHS's? - Yep. - Yes. - First person to remember, let's go. - Yep. - All right, then all Nickelodeon ones were orange. - Yes. - Yes. - Also, I heard later, 'cause I never had them, but somebody, like I had an orange tape, and they're like, oh, is that a porno? I go, no, it's Nickelodeon. What do you say, porno? - I guess they used to do colored VHS tapes for certain porns, too. And I didn't know about that until a friend, I was like, oh, you creepy. I don't know about that. - Well, what about the black ones? - All VHS's are black, what black porno do they use? - It's just extra long. - Big tape. - So stupid. - I have a Wayne's World still. - It's a two-partner. - There you go. - It's a double disc. - Okay, ready? - Yep. - Freddy Krueger or it? Shout out, RIP Tim Curry died this morning, dude. - I know. - Come on, man. - Dude, I have to go with it. It was a way bigger staple of my childhood than Freddy Krueger was. I mean, respect, I have to put respect on Freddy Krueger's name and I'm a huge horror fan. But it, for me, like, I, we watched that so much as a kid and my brother and I convinced my sister to watch it with us when she was little and convinced her it was a comedy. Right, it's a clown, it's a comedy. - She's still scared of it, probably. - Yeah, she's still scared of clowns. - Yeah, 'cause of that. - My dad did that to me with Chuckie. - Aww. - He said, "It's about a doll." - Yeah, well, my sister liked porcelain dolls and I was a kid and she didn't, they just gave 'em to her, she was a girl. - Yeah. - She just gave his hell, she didn't want that shit. And at night, we shared a room side about, oh my fucking god, they don't move. And I would put pillows or stuff on each doll 'cause I'm like, what do they wake up like Chuckie? - Right, you didn't want them looking at you. - Yeah, and I'm like, I'm sure that foot was the other way. I'm not sleeping tonight, I'm gonna die. - Yeah, there's something inherently creepy about those porcelain dolls. There's every single time. - I don't know what it is, but I don't fuck. - Especially like a room full of them? - Yeah, it was like five, we have root poor. It's just like this big, but still, I'm high level with these fucking things when I was a kid. It's just scary, dude. But yeah, I just think his Tim Curry was funny. It made it scarier. - He cracked the low down head, George. - And he turned into a monster like, you're drooling me and then shitting on me? - Oh yeah, the new one, how'd you feel? - I liked it, okay, but I mean, it's just a different, I like the Tim Curry version way better. - Is Tim Curry such a pot of fire? - No, why? Oh, he's talking about it. - Versus the new one. - The new, he wants to fuck those kids, dude. It's weird, dude. - And then he got bullied to death at the end, remember that? - Yeah. - Put your name on a bitch and he fucking shrieked away. - Did you imagine, my whole class would be gone, after they made fun of me, like, your mom's a hoe, you're illegal, and they're just shrieked. Best team in the class, dude. Okay, let's move on, sorry. Full house of family. - It was back then, an insult yelling at somebody you're illegal. - Did you ever say that? - I'm fucking in Mexican town and I don't see Spanish, so everybody make fun of me. And I'd be like, you're fucking famous. - They would say you're illegal? - No, no, I would say that to them, after about four years, they're getting made fun of. I just started being an asshole. - Got you. - But funny, and I laughed. - Sure. - And it never went away. - So I'm like, your mom's a hoe. You're on section eight, too. You're poor. We all are, but saying it out loud, just for some reason, just stings. - Of course. - They call me fat fucking piece of shit, I'm like, I'm not that fat, your mom's a hoe. - Cry. - It's great, I love it. Okay, full house of family matters. It's the race card. (laughing) - Man, as much as I love family matters, it's gotta go to full house. And why? Just. - And have uncles. - I mean, there's more characters on that show that I think are iconic compared to - Good answer. - Few in family matters that are. - There's only two. You know what I mean? - Or cool and Carl. - Where you literally have every cast member who's was so defined and funny that. - Even Comet. - Yeah, you're a Comet. - Oh yeah, I see, I actually don't drink Comet. It's been 30 years, right? - For sure. - Dude, yes. - No, that's a great way to put it. You're right, 'cause I see Virgil and Steph Arner-Kill. Same guy. So realistically, so yeah, you got Carl's one's low. - And he's not cool. - And he is just a hound, though. - Yeah, he's, he's all right. We got beat up. - Well, no, it was cool.
- Lotto's cool. - Oh, I take it back. Yeah. (laughs) - Sorry. - That's where it stops. - Laura's a bitch. - Lotto was like jazz. - Theme song. - Exactly. - Theme song. - Family matters crushes. - Family matters pretty dope. - Over the water. You know I was like 28. I went, oh family matters. - Yeah. - Like it matters. I thought you met like family matters. Like family problems. That's what I thought my whole life. - They meant for granted. - Both dude. - Maybe they did, right? - I know, right? - Yeah, that was growing against the great. You're in Chicago. Black dad cop. - Yeah. - 'Cause he cop. - 'Cause scientists next door. - Yeah. - This is unrealistic. - The theme is better for Family Matters though. ♪ History and condition this day and age ♪ - Y'all play at the end. ♪ Reading a good news on the newspaper page ♪ ♪ Loving tradition, a grand design ♪ ♪ Some people say it's even out on the line ♪ ♪ When your mug's gonna roll down and down ♪ ♪ 'Cause I have this to the world ♪ ♪ 'Cause all I see is fantasy ♪ ♪ We love us and now to every scene ♪ ♪ D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D ♪ We did it, did it, did it, did it, did it, did it ♪ - I mean rappers, we had no one done a song. - I got to sing that with Julio White one time. - Julio White, Adam Ray, the roast battle cast, I've had the luxury of singing it with Julio White in front of "Live Crowds" a couple times, so it's pretty awesome. - As you're in a child, we're like the same age, but thanks. - Oh, yeah. - This is amazing. - No, thank you for your body work. - I was smoking bowls. I named my pipe Stefan Erkel, 'cause it's cool. So I was smoking bowls and went, "Julyl, I'm not gonna start showing it, oh my fucking god, it's Stefan Erkel." And I told him and he lit up with, "I'm gonna leave now, and I left the party." I was like, "That's it, there's nothing else that's cool is gonna happen, I won't ride back to my car and left." I think, no, Rosie was with me. I was at a fucking weed party and I'm like, "Let's see, fuck it man, cool." - I mean, it's a life-changing moment, it's cool. - My friend FaceTime, he wants to tell you, he wants to talk to somebody, it's Eddie Windsor, "Shut the fuck up, why?" - Why? I'm taking dab, this is incredible. I don't know what it is, dude, nostalgia and me just go hand in hand. - No, dude, of course. - As you can see. - I mean, old school fun shit. - Dude, I did-- - Do you remember that? - Of course. I did a podcast with Tony Hawk and that was a cool moment because he obviously, for all of us, and he's so nice too. - Yeah, we had him on here, but he didn't smoke, but we boxed the room. - How fucking high was Tony Hawk when he went? - Incredible. - I conically high. - Who's the picture of him? - And just stuck and smoked, I'm gonna frame it. - But yeah, we got that, remember that one, your RC car? - Oh, dude. - I couldn't ever get it when I was a kid, but fucking sick. - Yeah, that's awesome. - I don't remember-- oh, family matters. Yeah, thank you for singing the song, nobody ever sings. How many rappers do you have? - It's a great part. - They don't do a song. - Every word. - That's every right word, by the way. - Yeah, no, I was. - Take sure to wonder. - I mean, if you want to transcribe that-- - Every word, every word was perfect on that. - Everyone, I don't remember the step-by-step song. - Step-by-step. - Thank you. - Day-by-day. - Day-by-day. - You want to talk about one character, I can't even remember the cast of a-- - Uncle Damner. - What was his name? - What was the title? - No, the tall, the tall brother. - Yeah. - What's his name? - J.T. - Is it? - I think so. - What was it? - No, that's home improvement, no? - That's J.T.T. - Oh, sure. - Yeah. - Yeah. - J.T.T.T. now looks like fucking kid from-- - Success. - Frog kid. - All the improvement. - Uh. - Uh. - Nah, nah. - Oh, the song? - There's no use, there's no words. - Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. - A bunch of flutters. - Yeah, this is the best episode. I'd love to be able to do a song with this shit. - Yeah, man. - Okay, let's make it more positive. Bigger or two-pot. (laughing) Let's go super wholesome, but it's the '90s. Bigger or two-buck? - I kind of like Bigger or more than two-buck. - I pick Bigger. - You grew up in LA? - Uh, I grew up in Kansas. - Oh, shit. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Technite or two-puck? (laughing) - I mean, I got to see Technite at a concert, so-- - He's awesome, man. - I've been to so many missions. - I was shocked how cool his concert was. So Cottonmouth Kings opened for Technite in Kansas City and he did his song, "Homoplaya, homoplaya." He literally brought up 30 women on stage and then he just went, "Titties!" - And it worked? - And then they're like, "Homoplaya, homoplaya." - Yeah, and I was like a teenager and I was like, "This is incredible." I hadn't seen many boobs before that and then like all these women just going for it. - First booze I ever saw are posh spice. - What? - My first concert ever? - Huh? - Yeah, I do this story on, I do a story on this. - During a concert? - They did a song called "Naked." It's a song called "Naked" and the lights go off and it comes back and they're all naked, ass naked behind these throne chairs, so you can't see nothing, but you can see this up. - And I'm fucking like, "What the fuck, I'm seven?" I'm like, "Oh my God." And then Pasha's doing this and her fucking pops right over. She has a pasty, but it went, and she went like that real quick. And I was like, "What the fuck just happened?" - What's happening to my body? - Yeah, I didn't know what happened. And that's the day we found out my sister's gay because she was still looking too. And I went, "What the fuck, your gay?" And that's what we found out. And yes. - And that was the day you became Jesus' spice. - Jesus' spice is exactly here. - Shit the fuck. - I'm all seven. - Yeah, but that's the first time I ever saw a boob. So I was like, "Wow, that's cool." - Yeah. - And yours is that techno concert. - Guys, I've been to so many techno shows. The first one I ever went to and every start chanting, go, "Oh, I'm late. "All you guys know the worst of the chance." - This is fucking scary. - Yeah, but it's a lot of white faces chanting. Am I okay here? Fuck, dude. Okay, big year two-pock. - I go big year two-pock. - I go big work. - I still go two-pock. - Still go two-pock, I know he does. Two-pock has great songs. - Biggie's fucking hard. - Yeah. - It's hard. - I just like, also just the way he sounds too. - His voice. - His sound. - His actual voice. - But I won album, right? - Biggie? - And then fucking died. - Yeah. - Fuck! - Start talking about the guy I'd say. I'd say he wins this one for me. Remember, it's the '90s. - VH 100 MTV. - I'll go MTV for sure. - Yeah. - I mean, yeah. That's pretty rare. - Unless you were 40 in the '90s, you're not going to pick VH 100. - Yeah. - That's it. - I did a show on VH 100 years ago called The Funny Dance Show. This was like one of my first years in Los Angeles in 2000 and nine or 10 I got on there. And it was like, I was like, it was called, oh no, sorry. The Funny Dance Show was a show that I did on E years later, shout out to Justin Marino, Justin Martindale, and crew. This was called webcam dance slam on VH 1. And it was literally people going head-to-head in different cities. And what we had to dance to was Jason DeRulo. ♪ Even if the sky is falling down ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ - I'm not sure if I heard it. - You running out? - I don't know. I know Jason DeRulo's like a meme. I don't know who he is. ♪ And you are no ♪ ♪ And I'm running ♪ ♪ And you are no, the song is good on a show ♪ - Okay, all right. Yeah, if I've saying nine lines already, and you're still, we're not gonna get that. - I don't know what he looks like. - You just know the name. - Okay, he's black out of the beard, I think. That doesn't help too much. Anyway. So we did a show webcam dance slam on VH 1. And I was so stoked because I was like, this is my first credit. This is like a making things happen out here. And I think we ended up getting like second place. And all we got as a consolation prize was, do you remember USB flip cams? - Yes. - The camcorders? - Of course. - That you plugged right into your PC or your Mac. That was the prize for doing the show. It was just like, you got to keep that. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Okay, I'm not mad at that. - 2009? - That was supposed to win. - Yeah, I mean, even the fools on the prices, right? Win some shit. - Yeah, like lose. - Yeah, like 500 bucks or something. - Anything. - Yeah. - You get a flip cam. - Pretty much. - Yeah. - Especially a new comic in LA. Thanks for the nothing. - Yeah. - I'm like, can I have food? So, Kansas, you came out here by yourself? - Yep. - The do comedy? - Yeah. - Took the whole leap. - Yeah, yeah. Big old leap. - What's the weirdest thing you saw right when you got here? What's the culture shock when you got here by this? Literally. Oh, I'm not kidding. - You know what the biggest thing was, honestly? Me saying hi to people and then being freaked out. - Not saying shit back. - Not saying anything back. Being freaked out, thinking that I had bad intentions and malicious intentions by just trying to make eye contact with them saying hi. And that one messed me up for a bit because that made me feel real lonely real quick because you're also trying to meet people and be friendly and it's just like the culture is so different between that. I was like the main first thing that I realized when I got here, I was like, oh, it's a little different out here. - Everyone's from everywhere else. Like, don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. Don't. Yeah. I went to Europe last year and realized I'm an asshole. People said, hello. Get the fuck away. What do you want? - I talked to you. - Because you built your, you built-- - Get off of me. - Yeah. - Yeah. Or people like sit next to you in the restaurant. I go, why did you pick this one? I'm an asshole, dude. Like, it's just so weird. I'm here. I'm from California. So when I went to Texas, hello. How you doing? Hi. It's refreshing. Have a good day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the weirdest thing when, and they don't go, let me talk to you for a minute.
- Fuck, you can try to buy something. - Right, right, right, right. - That's the number one thing. I'm like, you wait for me. - Yeah, they just wanna wish you a good day. - Yeah. - That's rare. - Or someone held the elevator for me and text me, oh my fucking god. - Oh, thank you, sir. The one thing in text I found out, they don't let you, they don't, the driving is different. Here, they'll let you merge. They don't let you merge in Texas. I just found out. My homies are from Houston, it's like, - I thought it was the opposite. - He's like, the only thing I love about California, they'll let me in. He's like, here, they won't let me in. Because they let me in, in Texas, they'll like screw my bitch ass. Get off. - What do we do to what he said? - We'll part in Texas. - Houston. - Okay. - Why is it different? - Houston is one of the worst traffic areas in the country. - Oh, that's what it is. - I think it's specifically Houston, because in LA, like driving around, like people don't let each other in. I never see it, like in Kansas, another big thing to the difference is, if you do a little tap of the horn out here in California, it's fine, right? - Oh, no, no, no. - Where I'm from, are you making a fight? - No, that's how it is in Kansas. It's very offensive if you honk at somebody at the Kansas. - Really? - Because it's like a traffic. - That's like a traffic. - Because it's like that's rude, like why are you, like, then road rage will, like, people will pull up next to you. - Maybe it's small town. - 'Cause where I'm from, if you honk, you will have to get the car. - Really? - Oh, yeah, you can't honk at me, but you're not the window. Look, you're like, it's all gangbing your town. And like, I see what you're saying. But here, I tried to road rage. - I had an Uber driver with road rage, and I was in the back, and I literally was, like, panicking. - I'm gonna report this motherfucker. - Oh, no, it was so bad. She literally pulled up next to the guy, she goes, "You gonna get yours!" And I'm just sitting in the back. I'm like, "I just want to get to LAX." - Where's a white woman accent to have for a Uber driver, that's crazy. - I know. (laughing) - Our Uber driver in the way, last week, the guy got in the middle lane, wrong way, drove on the wrong side to cut the girl out, and he went like that and started filming her. And the whole time, I was weird driving, like this fools on. - Oh, okay. - I could see it. - Yeah, yeah. - And he would drive, and he would touch his phone for some, like, "I've got a lot of coke, dude." That's cocaine. - Yeah. - And then, at the end, I apologize for my, my, what do you say? My behavior. Right, when we got out, he drove on the wrong side, the fucking freak, on the wrong side of the road, to cut a lady off, and we're all looking, and she's like, "Oh, my God." This is incredible. - There's some people that I'm like, maybe this shouldn't be-- - Not be for you. - Yeah. - But I'd rather have a scary Armenian than a fucking robot. I don't like Waymos. I don't want it. - Hey, I agree with you. - I don't like it, dude. - I agree. - I want cigarettes and foreign languages. - That's what I want, man. - I want mumblings on earpieces. (laughing) That's what I want. - And an Uber driver. - And a merry-go-to-save. - Mixes with Israeli Middle Eastern sounds over it from a DJ. I, that guy's popular. - Yeah, man. - I see him on the fucking, on the screen, for all these Uber drivers, dude. The same playlist. - Yeah. - Never a smile. - No. - A smile in their profile picture. - No. I don't think I've ever looked in a profile picture. Let's go. - All right, you're here, thanks. Don't kidnap me, dude. Honestly, though, if you kidnap me, it heads off, too, 'cause I'm gonna roll. And honestly, if somebody kidnaps you, they deserve it. - That's what I'm saying. Like, you can lift me? - Yeah. - Oh, you can hold me down. - It's like good for you, man. - Yeah. - You earned this. - I really wanted it. - I want a few people like that where I'm like, oh, I'm gonna die if you try to beat me. I'm gonna die. Like, when I went to the gym, there's some guys, and they're like, oh, you're a hulk. I didn't realize there was humans like that. It was fucking fly, chest flies with hundreds. I'm like, all right, fuck you, dude. Take my stuff. - Yeah. - He's gonna go like, crush my head. - Oh, yeah. - Hey, what's up, everybody? Thank you to Puffco for sponsoring this episode. As you know, Puffcon's coming up very soon. So go ahead and check out Puffco on Instagram. Check out their website if you want to get tickets. I suggest you get it now, because last year, they sold out fast. 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Look, this is what I look like in high school. Cool. You see people in high school, like you haven't changed, like, thanks. You're fucking old. Dude, yeah, every once in a while, a photo come up on Facebook. I'm like, oh, this person. That is dead? That's right. I was in my hometown two days ago, and I saw a guy come out and a piece of spiles waiting rows to come out. I'm like, look at that older man. I was in the phone with you. He's like, that old man. Oh, you're about to do it? I'm gonna try it, I think. Hey, man. They should give me money because I drink so many of them. It's sad. I know, it looks pretty good. And the thing is I can read every ingredient. So I'm like, all right, I'll drink it. I know. It looks, yeah. It contains 6% juice. It's all right, dude. Strawberry limit. Here we go. The juice was spelled differently before. They had to change it. They had a W in it. Oh, that's pretty nice. It's all right. No one has possibly loved poppies, dude. Poppies, come on. Come on, man. Get with it. Okay. You ready for the next one? And this is the toughest one, I think. Adam Sandler or Jim Carey in the '90s. But you did have, really mad as the happy killer water boy. What do you think you're back to back? But you also have the mass. Lier, liar, dumb and dumb. He's mature. It's hard. It's very hard, but Jim Carey, oh, the rare. You have to. The amount of times I, and I'm talking on rewatchability. Yes. And I've rewatched all of those movies that you've listed many, many times. But dumb and dumb are still the top of the list for me. And I actually, but Ace Ventura 2 holds a very special. Two is funnier to me. That. And a lot of people know it's like-- Oh, it's plastic. Right. They left him completely-- The first one's a leash. I was like, what is she doing? I didn't get it. Sure, sure. I was like, five. And my mom did this to me and go for-- Also, as an adult, when I watched that, I'm like, yeah, but where's the money. [LAUGHTER] Case this. How did you get to Africa? Yeah, yeah. How much money do you have? Yeah. But part two. I'm like, yeah, I get you get blown, but like, you need to pay rent, brother. So worth it. I know it's finkle. It's a good movie, man. All right. Good pick. I just-- I will watch-- But I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan, obviously, but-- And I love, you know, so many of his movies, but I think if we're talking 90s specifically-- 90s. Yeah. And the mask is in there. Yeah. Hard to beat. I always began to say that because I'm biased because I love that guy, but Jim Carrey was better in the 90s for sure. It has to be. The mask alone. It's the only at kiss. Ready? Pulp fiction or Forest Gump? Forest Gump. Let's go. What a quick-- I watch on every plane ride. Oh, it's good. Really? Yeah. If it's on, I put it on. It's about two hours and ten minutes. If I do it twice. Oh, fucking, I hate flying. Someone else do it. Yeah, God. Make me a bad. I'm on my way. Yeah. She's a whole, dude. She just gives him AIDS and dies. I've read many times that she is the greatest villain in movie history. Yeah. That's what-- There's a lot of articles out there that she is the greatest villain in movie history. Really? She's ruined that autistic man's life. Right. And she said, autism with money. Really cool. You build rockets with me. I mean, the scene, it's so, especially as a dad, and when I watch the scene where he sees a little forest at the end-- The first time? When he starts to almost cry? Yeah. And then he's all joking. And he's like, is he like me? Oh. And he fucking does this. Is he smart? The hands on the hips. That right there says Southern woman to me. I love that he does it constantly. Just like this. Yeah. I love my fuzzle. To do that. Do the shares, my friends. One of my favorite parts in Forest Gump is right after his mom bangs the principal to get him at the better school. And then as-- Yeah. He's just sitting there and he goes-- And the guys are-- Oh, I'm sure that's my education. Yeah. He's just wiping himself off. Oh. Oh. She turned out-- She did it quickly. In the office-- He's covered. He's covered. He has a suit on at the end. No. People in the 50s were just-- It's basically that Ken Flora's story. No way, see, baby. He's flipping around. It's basically the Ken Flora's story. If you're flipping around around. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For sure it's like Ken, dude. Ken Flora's the nassies motherfucker ever, too. Yeah. I was grateful I got to do a stand-alone spot with Ken. Oh, you did? Yeah, before the lunch? Yeah, it's all-- I want to split story and tell. I mean, he just did the suggestion. So he didn't necessarily tell stories or anything. I mean, he might have told some stories, but-- Yeah, he just took a bunch of different stories. And then he was just great to riff with. Of course, hilarious. Yeah. Nasty as hell. I gagged. The first person I almost drew up-- Yeah, yeah. --when we did our performance live podcast. I almost drew up while he was talking. She's like, oh, there's Coke stuck to my balls and digs. So I'm not going to waste it. [LAUGHTER] So sweaty. I was walking so the Uber would go down. There's Coke on my balls. And I'm like, fuck it. It's all pasty. [LAUGHTER] Fucking nasty. Oh, sorry. From the afterlife. [LAUGHTER] Nasty bitch. OK. Oh, sorry. Poor scum. Also, dude, if you think about it, 51st day-- Or, no, what do you sing her? What do you sing her? Julia Guglia's boyfriend, Glenn, does not-- She doesn't know he's cheating. Right. She starts falling.
with another guy behind his back while she's engaged and kisses him right before he walks in as he's like here's a thousand dollars CD player I take care of you she just knows he works all day you plan the wedding and he's nice she's a bitch and Bobby's a loser he lives with a sister and doesn't want to get a job he finally goes to the bank 30 but he's talented he's talented but in the movie Glenn is the good guy he gets assaulted on the plane by Billy Idol's Rodi and then stuck in a bathroom I'm suing everybody sorry every time I just get so pissed like you're the bad ones no I'm not the only one here you guys do oh that shit I'm right okay leave a comment below on that one I said it like 80 times they're tired of that I'm so upset with it all right last one and this is the this is the one I think is like it's kind of a toss up I just like the commercials next quick or 70d light skin rabbit or children drinking juice there's some good commercials that's a tough one I think if you were to say I think the sonny d was more memorable if you were to say oval teen over nesquick I don't think I've ever drank oval teen I'm not from the Midwest dude we don't have that kind of stuff all right you just have like in country time that gives you diabetes the power but nesquick had you know that I don't remember the mascot of sonny d though so maybe it does go nesquick there was no the kids the kids would come in through the commercials yeah what's that we got some shit to drink right that's it that's all that ever was yeah we have tampeco Mexicans that's our son oh yeah I've seen you guys drink that well I've seen you guys drink that oh like that never out of the zero looking for work out of the jug with 10 people the first time I've ever got high I chucked half the red 10 pico oh first time I tried it one time because when I moved out I was like oh what's this and then I tried I was like oh this is different that's why you're going to diabetes fuck right it is straight syrup yeah yeah yeah he's just chugging on ice like I was a healthy I thought I'm giving my daily supplement here no for for real right I thought it was healthy because it wasn't soda uh the American education system on health is just really bad as you can see I've been the same since fifth grade like you said that's me just the whole time I was I was four eight and ninth grade and then four eight and then tenth grade what the fuck happened I came like nine inches of height it just happened I don't know what that's crazy yeah I was under five fucking foot I was like four nine four I was so short but I played football I was like fuck you guys I guess I'll be the short guy were the tackle no center center yeah center I'm both but my answer six to my dads are six foot all my other uncles are six five fuck you guys man you caught up man kind of much we just get taller well I believe it I think with enough wool power I'm flexing I can get taller eventually shed this skin oh look at Marty I mean if it was just wool power and grounding a lot of dudes weeners would be bigger too it's working the weeners just just fine just just fine this is the healthy other parts you buy you just you just buy and get slow like the substance fuck that movie um the whole time it felt like when you have a when you're sick and you're having dreams hmm that's what that movie felt you watch the substance I see it now oh you like horror movies yeah you're like it it's very 1985 Gore over the top remember that movie witches yeah it's like when they start to turn into what the whole movie is to be more yeah it's like that the whole fucking movie dude I don't like horror movies at all really no hell no I don't want to feel scared I just so I had my home made me watch hell raise me the day fuck hell raise your dude oh like it they're just torturing people really you know I give you them I just don't like people getting unjustly murdered it's really hard for me to watch I can't watch people get stabbed or cut up it's fucking nasty dude uh you can't do it yeah good shot totally cool hell razor there is a there's a there's a I do this podcast on uh called trailer tales with Chelsea Lynn and Libby Higgins and we have this running joke uh that Chelsea Lynn as trailer trash Tammy was wearing these like kind of sunglasses uh in one of the episodes and I told her I hope anybody ever tell you look like a Cenobite and that's one of the monsters from hell razor and she goes and then so I show her yes yes scary yeah so I show her a photo of it and she goes do a side by side and that clip still is one of people's fair it went crazy viral online because it's such a specific niche reference and I nailed it as far as like what it is so like when we did do our live shows people will hold up cinnobite signs and stuff like it's a wrestling show like literally like her as a Cenobite her next to the Cenobite like people just love it awesome you know what is he look kind of like the creepy doctor from Nightmare for Christmas kind of that same it's the but it's the butterball character yeah the bald one right yeah the bald one with the with the black goggles yeah that's what you called it that's fucking horrible oh my god dude band band bigaloo you look like band band bigaloo fuck dude you look like a water bed is what you're saying Jesus Christ good shit good comparison stand on there there they're the they're the best if we have a rule on our podcasts if it's funny anything goes they they they light me up I light them up it's the best that's great the only time I can see when it gets bad it's like yo Dad died yesterday I don't like like I've been a part of the different roast battle shows and stuff for years I'm like I never like that I'm like do you know like the punchline has to be so good to bring up like a parent or a siblings like death or something like I'm just like there's other ways to be funny like it's pretty rare where I've like actually laughed at one of those situations it's always just more like oh you know I have to ride done died I can't remember who did it on the rose hand oh that hurt me dude yeah yeah I'm not even sensitive but that's fucked yeah it's my it's our best that's everyone's friend yeah it's America's friend yeah dick but see even right now making fun of it's like oh no don't do that dude it's yeah but then again like it's a pick and choose you can't be mad at it bucket okay stand up selects something else I want to talk about stand up selects ooh are we going head to head no no I saw the thing talk about comedy oh comedy such a stand up selects yeah we're going head to head yeah take your you have pants we do pants lists only do competitions here I didn't know if you're doing a big you two-pock thing with comedians where you're gonna give me two comedians oh I think it's too subjective to be like he's bad he's bad he's bad because every time I watch them this is the best comedian ever yeah and after go this is the best comedian I just rewatched Bo Burnham's what it's been a long time yeah it's shit so funny he's great man shit so funny to me man fucking 15 years later but no can you tell us about the comedy set I said it was dropping this month yeah drops this month we just did the taping literally last week it was cool um what's yeah can we expect there's 14 comics uh the Comedy Central picked as their selects and they're just featuring like shorter sets from 14 comics and oh god on their YouTube and different social media and different stuff like that and it's like a little kind of a showcase to kind of I think get Comedy Central's feet wet back with standup because like they haven't been posting stuff for a minute dude so this is kind of like they picked 14 comics it kind of helped bring back like the idea of like them like putting out sets again and stuff like that and I was you know I was honored to be one of the selects oh yeah we were kids do you remember that half an hour stand of course that's how I found dude of course yeah and since we're like this we're all the same age group like I was like 10 dude watching these guy like oh this is fucking fine and he has why I did so much stupid shit because there's like watching these grown men talk about wild shit oh dude it's amazing one of my favorite half-hours uh was uh I don't even know if it was a Comedy Central half-hour but it was just a half-hour material was Pablo Francisco dude I fucking he's I just I just I just I was on the set I did the laugh I perform I fucking he was performing and I was also but I remember watching like oh my fucking god his powerful yeah yeah yeah he sweats his ass off like me so it's okay he works he works on stage dude he goes for it you know like I'm trying to I'm I cut my hair off because of how much I'm sweating on stage it's just I just did Houston mm-hmm I just fall for and sweat or no like like someone's wording should do you have a towel I need to start doing that oh no you have I need to start doing that I don't every time I go you should it's what oh yeah it's why black comics use a towel is because they don't like like if they're working like like and not just like generalizing all black comics but a lot of black comics who are physical on stage they have the towel because if they know their sweaters they know it's gonna be distracting if it's drips and stuff like that and it's gonna be getting on their shirt and then people start focusing on the sweat you're clothing and not your jokes and different stuff like that so it's an easy like work work work work work work you know like that should be a staple on on right next to on your stool there's up there's I have this one bit where it's like the sweating adds so much to the story because it's opposed by you look like you did them like yeah and then I'm like and Houston's when I decided it I was dripping onto my shirt with this is no it's too much yeah I hated it yeah it was just yeah I could tell I can see people looking so you know they start staring at it's the same thing with a pratfall if like if I fall on stage and I don't get up real quick they think I've hurt they damn hurt and then they start growing concerned rather than like oh he's in a bit
Got a pop right back up. You do a fall. I mean over the years for sure. Absolutely. I mean yes. I'll do a fucking. No. I need to do it because I don't you're obviously not sitting there sweating your out no matter what I do. Like if I like if I'm I sweat usually like here. Oh, I'm just and not like and if I do sweat here, I quickly. do this and I'm good. So I usually don't do a towel, but like if you are it's ripping, then you should do a towel. All right, I'll start doing it. And nobody's gonna be like, that's weird as a towel. It's like, no, no, you're gonna sub up. I always see this full of fucking towel. Kept a towel on his ass. Non stop. Right, right, right. I get it. Just, I'm very new to this. So I'm like, it's been like a year. Okay. I've been really doing stand-up, like going every weekend. Yeah, yeah. It's a problem. Yeah. It's definitely a problem. Okay. Yeah, there's no, there's no, hey, I'm happy to be the one to nudge into the towel. I'll do it. Yep. You'll always see in my back pocket now. I just found it kind of weird. Like, you know, it'll take drinks of water because I do so much YouTube. There's no downtime in YouTube. So when I edit, I'm like, breath out out. It's the next part. Next part. Yeah, but you just, I'm trying to, like, convert to like, it's okay to have silence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Sitting in it. Different art for you. When it goes to YouTube, make all your cuts. Yes, I'm trying to get out of that. But live in the moment. It was scary, dude. Of course it is. Silence. Silence. Silence can be scary, but it can also be the most powerful thing in your tool build. Like when I'm the last one at the improv, I just sat in it went, oh, we're fine. I get it now. I understand, like, nah, fuck that. When I want to show someone silent, I'm like, what are you going to say? Oh, what the fuck's coming? So I get it. It's not just like blank stairs. They're just waiting. You know, you're judging every fucking face. Like, God, is this going? If it's talking the entire time during a standup show and somebody's just like, I'm fine with bits being like, like, but if it's that for the whole hour, nobody wants to see that. Same with the, nobody wants to see an exclusively explosion movie. That's a good way to put it. Nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to see gunfire for the whole time. It's, it's impossible. That's a great way to put it, man. I didn't think about it. Okay. So crazy pizza September 10th on YouTube on YouTube. Yep. Jeremiah walkin's YouTube YouTube. YouTube.com slash Jeremiah walkins. All right, working everybody find tickets. You can get tickets for me on tour at Jeremiahwalkins.com. Check out what we were mentioning YouTube.com slash at stand-up OTS. And then we were also mentioning trailer tales. That's. That's every Friday on YouTube. Every Friday. Yeah. And then you have the stand-up on the spot. You say, do you put the YouTube. We release that every other Monday. You got tickets and go to this. Yeah. Every second Tuesday of the month at the World Famous Comedy Store. I also take it on the road to places like New York. We used to do festival in Florida. We're doing one in London, Ontario, Canada. Damn. Okay. Fuck yeah. Yeah. Like we travel a lot. It's awesome. Yeah. So yeah, you should come by and do some time. I'm so down. Okay. I love that shit. Because Josh Wolfe is a mutual friend of ours and he is one of my favorites to do the show. So I think that that you know, we vibe well and be fun. He's the first guest we ever had on here. Oh, really? Yeah. The most. I directed his most recent special. The campfire special. Oh, no, shit. Yeah. That's the one that came after four four stories, right? Yes. Campfire. Yeah. Yeah. Where he's like surrounded by like with the stars in the background and everything. Yeah. So when did you start? I know, I know we had to wrap it, but yeah. Do it. Stan. How did you go? I'll direct it. What is this? How did you start? I've been directing just my own stuff for years with sketches, music videos and different shorts and stuff like that. And stand up on the spot. We recently have been filming at the last four years. And that really got me in a place where I was comfortable enough to after we kind of started nailing the look and the sound and everything and like what was in my head of like, Oh, I can do this not only for me, but I can do this for friends and people who I respect and admire and stuff like that. So I'm trying to and also doing directing like Joshua special jack juniors. And then there's a couple other comics that I'm talking to right now that we're going to work on putting their special together. So I'm excited. It really matters, man. That single camp is cool. It's great. But the more production I think goes into someone on live on stage, it makes me feel like, Oh, wow, this is legitimate. You guys are really fucking doing this. And it's not like, I made this shit up last week. You've been working on this. It's a real special. Stand up on the spot. We use that six or seven cameras now for shit. No, it's a full on. We used to six. And it was just overkill. We said, we said, hold on the wall. For a podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Holds in the wall so we can get that over the shoulder. Oh, wow. We it was. But then he's editing six, four cake. Yeah. I know that's way too much for weekly podcasts. That's insane, bro. Yeah. We never fight. We just stopped. That's why those holes are right there. You said the camera in the wall. Wow. I thought they're gunshots. That's outside the street, dude. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate this. I want to make sure you cover everything. And then the weekly podcast is on Friday. Yep. And it's what's called trailer tail trailer. That's a regular every day. Weekly podcast comes off Fridays. Okay. All right, guys. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Oh, oh, before we leave, this comes out Tuesday. When's your next shows? Uh, come to uh, stand up on the spot on September 8th. Tuesday, September and Los Angeles. That's the most local show. And then what I mentioned in Ontario for stand up on the spot. And then I'm in Lexington, Kentucky coming up and Phoenix, Arizona. And that's all at Jeremiah Watkins dot com. San Francisco coming on to. Yeah. Bunch of days. Uh, uh, cops coming club. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing that on January 2nd and 3rd. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. It's most popular here. I love there. Yeah. Fuck yeah. All right, Marty. Anything else? Appreciate your service. Thanks, bro. Thanks for having us. Well, I appreciate Jeremiah. Uh, Marty and I. This has been the double usual podcast. Have a dope as day. (upbeat music)
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Jeremiah Watkins, a comedian, shares his new one-hour special titled "Crazy Pizza," which is 100% original material and focuses on his experiences as a new dad with two young children.
The special features a retro 90s pizza parlor set design and highlights themes of parenting, childhood, and family dynamics, while also including humorous anecdotes about raising toddlers and working in a pizza restaurant.
Watkins discusses his deep connection to stand-up comedy, particularly stand-up on the spot, where comedians create jokes in real time based on audience suggestions, and shares his experience performing with fellow comedians like Steve O and Jack Jr., emphasizing the spontaneity and creativity of the format.
Summary:
Jeremiah Watkins, a comedian and former stand-up performer, launches his new one-hour special, "Crazy Pizza," which blends heartfelt storytelling with humor centered on fatherhood and family life. The special, entirely written and not featuring audience shots, draws from his real-life experiences raising a five-year-old and a three-year-old, celebrating the chaos and joy of early parenting. The set design mimics a nostalgic 1990s pizza parlor, reinforcing the theme of retro nostalgia.
Watkins also shares his passion for stand-up on the spot—a live, audience-driven format where comedians create jokes in real time—highlighting how spontaneous suggestions spark inventive material. He reflects on his career, including his early days at comedy clubs, collaborations with figures like Joe Rogan and Steve O, and his work in the stand-up community. The episode also includes personal anecdotes about growing up in Kansas, moving to LA, cultural differences in social interactions, and memories of 90s pop culture, such as MTV, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, and the iconic "Family Matters" versus "Full House" debate.
These stories are interwoven with humor about childhood fears, music, and everyday quirks, demonstrating a deep connection to both personal history and comedic tradition. The conversation underscores the value of spontaneity, authenticity, and shared experiences in comedy.
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It's a 100% original special focused on being a new dad with two young children. The material centers on parenting experiences, toddler behavior, and family life, with no audience footage shown during the performance.
It's filmed every second Tuesday of the month at the comedy store, which has been a regular venue since the pandemic.
He acknowledges the stereotype that cops don't use drugs, but notes that he's seen some cops use drugs and believes many are just regular people with human flaws, not perfect icons.
The segment asks viewers to imagine who they were in the '90s. Jeremiah jokes about childhood memories, like eating McDonald's fries and being scared of Freddy Krueger, and shares a humorous twist on the '90s culture through fictional scenarios.
He remembers McDonald's toys, VHS tapes, the song 'The Electric Slide,' and watching 'Freddy Krueger' with his brother, which he says was more influential than the movie itself.
He believes 'Family Matters' has more iconic characters and better-defined humor than 'Full House,' especially noting the impact of characters like Lotto and Carl.
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