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Nick Swardson | Full Episode | Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

July 17, 2024 / 01:03:49

This episode features comedian Nick Swardson discussing his career, new special, and upcoming tour. Topics include his work in Happy Madison films, stand-up comedy experiences, and memorable moments with fellow comedians.

Nick Swardson, known for roles in films like Just Go With It and Grown-Ups 2, shares insights about his new special Make Joke From Face, which will be available on YouTube. He also talks about his upcoming tour titled Toilet Head.

The conversation touches on Swardson's experiences in stand-up, including the challenges of performing at high altitudes and the dynamics of touring with friends like Adam Sandler and David Spade. He recalls funny anecdotes from their time together.

Additionally, Swardson reflects on the evolution of his comedy style and the impact of various comedic influences throughout his career. He shares humorous stories about his early days in comedy and the importance of connecting with audiences.

Listeners will enjoy the light-hearted banter and camaraderie between Swardson, Carvey, and Spade, as they reminisce about their shared experiences in the comedy world.

TL;DR

Nick Swardson discusses his new special, upcoming tour, and funny stories from his comedy career with Dana Carvey and David Spade.

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all right this next little squid that is going to be on the show uh Nick swartson old buddy of
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mine you if you're in the Happy Madison Universe you would know him
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from Just Go With It Benchwarmers uh he was in Grown-Ups 2
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Bucky lson he was Bucky lson I'm trying to the other ones he's
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in pretty much all them peppered throughout also re Reno 911 he played Terry ice skating Crazy Character yeah
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no Terry the roller skating what' I say roller skating on Reno
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911 what a crack up he can go to ComiCon the rest of his life just over that one
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yeah so very lovable guy very funny he's got a new special out a new tour he loves starting it live grew up on all of
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us and wanted to talk to us and we like talking to him you had fun Dana uh he's
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a he's just one of those exceptionally likable real people he's been um just
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incredibly funny and everything he's in for the last 25 years so it's fun to
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catch up with him and talk to him and he's going to be out on a tour next year called toilet head Nick
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Larson not sorry Nick schwartzon I was thinking Bucky Larson Nick schwartzon in
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toilet head coming to a theater near you next year and a special is called tell
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joke from face I think so yeah on on YouTube and that's going to be out soon
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as well we hassle him about that very quick on his feet always has been um enjoy Nick
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[Music] schwartzon well I was just uh going over
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seriously who farted toilet head and certain other things I thought I want to get with the program I don't want to be
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left out look at him he he does all church lady and all that he's afraid of
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anal material bot some feces I'll let you guys talk I'm
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not I'm not I'm not allg you're gonna say the whole time I'm not allergic of diarrhea that was that a special or is
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that just what a bur that's that's gonna be on my
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Tombstone weird guy but definitely was allergic to diarrhea anyway we introduce
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you later we record your intro so that's why weie start talking some people go do we have a start Point yeah oh okay yeah
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that's fine yeah this is it and you've been doing great you're doing great sweetie David you look really good you
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look like a a muppet that was dipped in diarrhea good Lord welcome to it Dana
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this is my life I hang out with this guy I it's it's hysterical you guys let's
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get down to business and talk politics yeah let's make half country
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hate us my manager is Rob Schneider and he really cues me in on
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what's up to date they're poisoning poison or water I remember when we were
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on tour with uh I don't I don't know Spade if you remember this we were um I believe we were in Dallas and Sandler
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got sick and we had a big show in New Orleans the next day and uh he had like
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a really bad like sinus infection so I was like oh you should get a B12 and a cortisone shot and Rob goes no no green
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tea no he needs green tea and I'm like no he has an infection I go I've seen
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this before like he needs like science and Rob's like no no no yeah listen I
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went to the University of Tik Tok I know more than Rob I I remember yeah we were waiting like in the Dallas like Lobby
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for everyone to bring their bags down to go to the next city on this middle of like a n Day Tour and they're like
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Adam's still not feeling good he's not coming down we're like oh wait Rock's like I'm GNA walk around so uh we're all
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sitting there we not we don't know what to do and Nick suggests B12 like typically you know you get the doctor to
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come over and they give you a little Pink Floyd shot you know when no one's looking and you're like I'm John Benet
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now let's do this and they kind of Jack you up a little bit and you get through the show but we had that all set up and
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the doctor goes up and then Rob ran up there after him and we're like Rob do not and he goes that was a close one he
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almost fixed them he almost got the show going again no I said this is a process
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you squeeze a lemon you take some magnesium we like oh my God cancel the
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show I had a guy who was obsessed with pomegranat pomegranat man it's literally
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for everything it's a it's a miracle it's a miracle vegetable or whatever
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pomegranates I mean I I I subscribe to that stuff but it's like at at a certain
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point like Adam was really sick it's like yeah you know a cortisone 12 shot would have fixed him immediately or at
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least when he we could have done the show we had have canceled the show like green tea like if you if you get shot by
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a gun you're not gonna pour green tea on your wound well yeah he needed an IV he
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need water you need hydration you need a smear a pomeg something that can kill bacteria yeah you need a pomegranate
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butt or just there you go yeah funny word isn't
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it yeah Norm on that one Norm was not on the Dallas one no Norm was on an earlier
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one and uh Norm was actually the fun most fun in probably a group chat because we have a group chat of everyone
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just ragging on each other yeah no I'm always confused about everything yeah
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what what do you mean what is it was it breakfast like yeah it's called
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breakfast just everything confusing yeah intentionally always doing a bit like
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every moment it was just so funny like what are we doing here is this called Zoom is that what they call it
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Zoom yeah why do they call it Zoom where are we going I'm I'm still in my chair
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it's not going very fast why why are we calling zoom we're a show in
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space space what's going on here one time Nick
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we were on the same floor you know usually and uh Norm is the great and Norm I think I told this to Dana but
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after the show of course the show turns into like we all we get there early then
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we hang out in Adam's dressing room which is like a palace and then um we go
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uh we do the show and it ends late and then they find some restaurant that'll
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take us idiots to eat steak at midnight so we do that everyone's wondering why
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they feel sick and gain nine pounds in 4 days so then we eat like scalloped potatoes at 2:30 in the morning and then
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we and then we go back to room Norm goes he's walking me to my room and he goes what are you going to do now and I go um
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fall asleep within 14 seconds and he goes well you want to come hang out I go
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nor I actually sleep at night I'm going to probably take a tub and go to bed he goes why don't you just take a tub I
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have a tub I go I'm going to come in your room and take a bath he's like we can just talk I go no this the Optics
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aren't good Norm no no thank you why the next day he goes Spade wanted me to to
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take a bath with him that's what he says in the group chat and I'm like no no no that's not what
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happened that's amazing I love that I remember one time I think we were at moohan Sun in Connecticut casino and we
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were backstage and uh it was me and norm and then you guys David you and Rob were
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in Adam's dressing room and norm and I were in the hallway and there's this security guard walking down the hallway
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towards us and he had a gun and I go oh my God Norm that guy's got a gun and nor
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goes what a gun oh my God and he ran
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into Adam's dressing room do you remember this David and he goes no hey there's a guy with a gun and Adam goes
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what the [ __ ] and uh all you guys were like oh my God this guy with a gun and I
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was like oh no no it's a security guard was a joke I was just messing with norm and Norm goes now that the guy's got a
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gun and uh Adam Adam got mad at me and he goes he goes but what that's a joke
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that the guy's a gun I'm like I was just messing with Norm I didn't think he was gonna run in and scream at
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everybody I was just trying to mess with trouble yeah then I got reprimanded and
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like go ahead he works a word you know my favorite story which we've said
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before I tell it shortly but he's in he's playing with love it some casino
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and he's after the show where hey give me I need $800 you know and John's like now now you know finally wears it down
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all right all right here you go but pay me back tomorrow and then Norm comes in
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Jung where's my money he goes I don't have it and John gets really mad he goes what are you getting mad for I lost
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$88,000 you know why you you only lost $800 you lost
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800 what a what a battle of the most insane voices nor love it's a
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conversation just drive anybody insane I told I told John that Lauren was kidding
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and Lauren Norm was intentionally once John took a bite of
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the this was like well I'm a better stand up than you you know because I've been doing it longer so I'm better you're not a real standup he would say
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that to John and John would get super mad and excuse me what you know angry
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and then I said no the more you get react the Norm's gonna go work that it's just so funny oh going back to um diets
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and how we would eat late at night it was so brutal it's like David sub get these horrible meat sweats like I mean
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Adam would eat steak at midnight it was like insane but I remember one time we were doing the Zohan and I was at Adam's
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house yep I was at Adam's house and this is before he had his kids and uh he was
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like all stressed out because he wasn't losing weight he was like I keep gaining weight and I'm like really and and he's
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like yeah so I go to his refrigerator he had two huge refrigerators one had food
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the other one was just ice cream sandwiches and I go what is this for and
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he goes I like ice cream sandwiches and I go well when do you eat them and he goes well I wake up in the middle of the
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night and I'll have like four I'm like in the middle of the night you have four ice cream and you're wondering why
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you're not losing weight like what are you doing what are you in
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kindergarten what was the answer did he did he get rid of the ice cream sandwiches he he didn't put the math
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together yeah no those train him and punch him in fun Nick and I I've known
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Nick since um the very very old days when did I first see you Nick was it it
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wasn't I want to say Benchwarmers it was before Benchwarmers right the first time
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I ever met you Dana I don't know if you were there it was at the Aspen Comedy Festival and they had an SNL reunion in
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Aspen oh wow the HBO Comedy Festival Farley was there and that was the first
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time I met you David I don't think you remember it I remember we went out with Dave Becky okay I love Dave Becky yeah yeah
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and Dave didn't he used to book you at like the San Diego improv or something yeah yeah yeah so we went out and you
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had just booked just shoot me and you were talking about we were walking around Asen you and me and Dave
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Becky and you were like yeah I just booked a sitcom it's on NBC is that a good Network yeah yeah and you were
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super cocky was that good when it's the major main M best one and then I'd walk up to other people and go bye guys I go
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up to other two strangers and go yeah I guess I'm just going to do this new sitcom and they're like oh hi hello and
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you're like uh
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byebye oh yeah we should get into Nick that he uh has to be an SNL fan because
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he's a little twerp from Minnesota you're up there uh struggling along not fitting in I'm guessing and um no one
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likes you I'm guessing and um and then then you probably when did start on the
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old SNL train so I we all started standup young right I started when I was
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19 you were how old David I was 19 Dan a year
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old well uh little asteris here there were no comedy clubs when I started I
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mean literally uh so I I did do a set it was the old west uh when I was 20 but
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then month Char chaplain
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start there was not a comedy scene I mean it by the time 1980 came I got out
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of college they built a comedy club uh called the punchline but before
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that it was just the holy city zoo it was a bar so you just didn't give get a lot of sets the train tracks were laid
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by the time you guys got there so you you start doing it and you do five nights in a club in my day we didn't
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have c a Dixie cup with a string I played a
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delicatess and that's true I played a delicatess and I so you know while
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you're getting your yeah so you you real ham at the
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Del guys you're like what you're you're
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doing a special oh yeah you did a special right yeah I I got a special coming out July 18th and then I've got a
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whole new hour touring this fall toilet head good well we'll cut this part out but what's the wait a minute I have a
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question so you're you're going to record the special the special comes out and then you're going to tour so you
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have a whole sorry okay go ahead go ahead well can you tour with the the special you have to have new material
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right no I have a special coming out that's already recorded oh that was recorded last year and now I've got a
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whole new hour for the fall and I'll record that at the end of the year wow Prof we always talk about this
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how you get an hour it's hard to get an hour yeah the hardest thing ever so tough but to answer your question David
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so when I started standup I wasn't a big fan of standup so I was a huge fan of SNL so for me the my favorite years I
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don't know if it's because just my time but like or my age but like the late 80s early 90s like you guys's era I think is
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hands down the best ERA ever because that cast was such a banger between you
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guys Farley Rock Tim Meadows Kevin nean Phil Hartman I mean like it was just
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insane Mike Mike Myers Mike Myers I mean like there was a a CO there was like
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yeah I agree to that because you had the new the bad boys of Comedy coming in rock and Spade and everybody and then
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you still had Phil Harman myself Mike Myers Jan Hooks J Jan Hooks and so it
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was sort of uh I said when we interviewed Lauren I said didn't uh all the errors are good but I go but didn't
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you have a lot of weapons you had T's the cat or would sing a song Mike would do sprockets there was so many
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reoccurring characters but anyway just because I was doesn't mean it was the best whoops so many I mean it was crazy
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one of my favorites who wrote massive head wound Harry ah yeah that was it
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Jack Handy no no I you know different people worked on it but I believe Rob
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Schneider was the was the isn't that what Rob told us oh my
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God said Jo Biden wrote it Rob said Jo bid I asked Biden did you write massive
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heaven and herry yes Harry is a mass was VI I agree so you did write it s anyway
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how to get canceled who wrote the eminite heterosexual that's a great Lyle
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Lyall the eminite heterosexual that was me had a
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hairdresser who um was so feminite and and he was completely
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straight and so that Essence came from then Smigel did the song and then that was that and I gu I heard a rumor that
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it was Tim Burton's favorite sketch I don't know if that's true you hear weird things like Tim That's So
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Random I love sketches that have a little song up front he's Li you know I
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love that where the whole premise is completely right up front and then you go right in right here's the song that
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says the whole sketch you just act it out I don't think they do that as much
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anymore maybe they [Music]
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do so you're you're like a little kid you're like an eighth grader or something you're watching SNL and your
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your mind's blown whoops too many weapons and then um how fanciful is it
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for you to go I want to do that you know I want to be a funny guy on TV yeah I
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was like again I I I started doing improv and I did sketches and standup I
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just never thought anything about it so my improv company folded Comedy Sports and so I was like okay I'll just try
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standup so I went and I tried it and it went great it wasn't like my first time
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was awesome and then it went all downhill from there that's everyone says
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that first one works then you bomb then you start collecting bombs yeah one of my favorite stories is um when I first
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started I got successful really quick when I was really young I was 19 and I got the HBO Comedy Festival for people
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that don't know that was a huge deal so I was a new face at 19 years old I'd been doing stand up for six months and
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so long story short I go to the Bay Area and I had all this heat on me I'd signed
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with Dave Becky who's a manager and uh this guy John Fox do you remember that
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name Dana no I'm of course he booked all of us up and down the coast Seattle
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Underground yeah totally yeah absolutely a ton of clubs so I go to the Bay Area
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and he booked me in Santa Cruz I believe the club was the Crow's Nest if that's
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right yes so he I fly into the bay area and he drives me personally into the gig
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and he's like he goes you have a ton of heat on you everyone's talking about you I'm really excited for you to do this
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room I'm like okay he goes I'm gonna drive you personally so it's was like an hour and a half drive and we're talking
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comedy the whole time and every he's talking about you Dana and he was like you remind me of of a Dana Carvey he's
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like he was he came in hot young kid just smoked the room blah blah blah I'm
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like I love Dana Carvey one of my favorites so anyway long story short we drive in the gig I bomb so
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hard so hard like it was one one of my top bombs of all time and then we had
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then we had to drive home oh for an hour and a half and he didn't talk to me the whole ride oh my so we went from being
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like all excited and then I take it and it was just the most awkward and I just
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kept thinking if ah I am not Dana Carvey God he just kept holding me up to the
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bar of Dana and that was all an illusion I mean I I started I did some sets and
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then I happened to win a comedy competition but then I bombed opening for bands and bombed all the time I mean
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you just bomb until you but you're more experimental aren't you when you're until you oh this is how I'm supposed to
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do were you just like going up with your energy the way I would perceive you and if the crowd hooks it then you're in but
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if they don't get it yeah I had when I started out and I don't know if you guys were like this but like starting out and
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stand up I was terrified of Silence so I was so physical and energetic because I
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didn't want any silence like I didn't want any kind of dead air so I was just Manic and crazy just a crazy person so
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like that made it even worse when you're bombing so when you have like times a thousand and the crowd's like yeah no
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you know sometimes it's tough when you go up you guys know that if I'm doing a corporate or anything you know you can
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still bomb in this day and age and I go up and I and I sometimes catch myself going folks if you're not buying the
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first three jokes you're not going to buy the last I mean it's it's I don't have a big I don't change to Southpaw in
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the middle like this is my sense of humor if you're not really into it at the beginning first 10 minutes it's very
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rare to win them over but you can you you can trip into a bit that sort of clicks and then they start to go all
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right we'll give you a chance and then you do another one and then that's the best feeling if you can turn them around but it's it's kind of true like if
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they're not buying your whole vibe It's just tough they just like s Nick did you in the early days at some point have a
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bit or a joke that was what what I would call Surefire like one that you could lean on you know I had Jimmy Stewart as
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a waiter uh that never didn't get a laugh this you know and I don't know if at
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some point you do have like the one bit that never it's like Spade doing um Tom
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Petty at some point that always going to get a reaction he had the Hat he looked like cler yeah mhm hard to follow funny
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face yeah mine I would impersonate a cat vomiting that's already funny yeah so I
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would impersonate exactly like a cat vomiting and that would always kill that was one of my first go-tos you could
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actually say you're going to do that later in the EO you guys if you stick around I'm going to do a cat vomiting and it keeps getting a laugh and then
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just never do it cuz it's just funny anyway I love just stuff like that like
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abstract just with no no connection to reality or anything here's a cat vomiting the idea of someone doing that
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makes me laugh well also like the big thing too is when you have a closing bit
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like that's so key like trying to find a really good closer so God it's so
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stressful you know what fun is when you move a bit from the middle of the act and you go let me try to close with this it's such
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a victory you go oh my God I have a [ __ ] closer like a bit you're just working on you go oh my God it's so strong I can put it at the end and then
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you do a special and the grossest part is you got to rip it out of your [ __ ]
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Claws and go nope you don't have that crutch anymore you're like God dang I finally got that one to work yeah it's
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the worst I remember um I used to open for David Cross and we were doing the
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Houston Improv and uh or laugh stop sorry and I was going to the bathroom I
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was taking a pee in the bathroom and I and I thought of a joke where I was like at the unal or toilet or were you it was
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at the toilet Jimmy it was at the toilet no wonder it always killed it's funny
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when I hear anyone do it just why somebody talking like that like go ahead
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so I was like I thought of a premise where I was like God what if I came as much as I peed like I peed for like a
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minute I'm like what if I orgasmed came for a minute and I told David that and he was like oh
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you should tell that on stage and I go really so I told it on stage and it it did well and then I forgot about it and
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then a decade later I talked about it I like I found it in one of my notebooks
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and I was like oh and I did the whole it became my closer 10 years later I'd forgotten about it and I randomly it
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just said come pee in my notebook and then became my closer on my
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Netflix special that I did I have come and PM my notebook it is interesting when you keep I don't know about I keep
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massive pieces of paper around I I I'm incredibly lazy but I I'm terrified of
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forgetting a joke but you will go through once in a while I got big gobs over here and you go oh that one why' I
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stop doing that one it is fun when you go oh that bit will work I look at mine Dan it's it's like I put a joke like
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yeah last time I did that was when I was 12 and then in parenthesis it says cross eyes
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here that's the funny part yeah and I'm like oh right I gotta I can't forget that's the real killer part of that one
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like I give myself notes old J like oh
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boy so what's your what's your closer what's your closer on this special I don't want to give it away but you did
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it off you did it Off the Grid you did it yourself right sorry my computer does that it's a littley yeah I was like what
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is that um um it's on YouTube which is is all the rage release it direct to
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Consumer is that the idea or was it yeah because uh I had gotten I was talking to Hulu and Amazon all these places but
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they wanted to release it next year so I've got my fall tour so I was like I'll just throw it on YouTube like I don't
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you know what I mean I'm not making I'm not making any money I'm just like I want everyone to see it it's a it's a
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promo even Schneider said if I do another one I don't even want to try to sell it to Netflix I would just say
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could you put it on just take it for free and if not I'll put on YouTube because you really just need a calling
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card of like here's something and you generate a little money from that and then you push the tour like musicians
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you probably make more when you go on the road so you got to get people interested yeah everybody I mean you
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make money from touring we're not all you know Sandler and rock and Chappelle where it's like here's 8 billion dollar
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no no I mean the new Netflix deals are yeah it's it's it's more just for the
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platform but how did you film it then you're in charge is the thumbs up is so
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weird it's so [ __ ] funny there's people something I clicked and then balloons will come down sometimes I
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didn't do anything with the computer thumbs up pop up on the screen it's so funny and a balloon I don't know what makes it pop up whitne did this and
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balloons fall feel like I'm doing well yeah you get thumbs up you're like like the a look he
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gotor look how I got fireworks from doing that let's stop again people are
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hearing this oh you got it again your thumbs up no but then the fireworks came for some reason it's funnier than the whole thing it looks like jacking off
00:26:29
I'm going to stop close with that your orgasm is fireworks amazing so where did you I'm
00:26:35
just curious about that I did the San Jose Improv and these producers and they uh
00:26:41
offered to shoot it for me yeah they were great 450 seats giant balcony yeah
00:26:48
it's a great Club that's one of my favorites great Club yeah fill it up I might have been do my next one there
00:26:53
yeah it's great overes I do think like that's like a small theater it's a Club but it's like
00:26:59
450 so it's sort of like the perfect size to do comedy to record comedy yeah
00:27:04
it's great it was awesome and the Crowds Are Awesome I really loved it yeah um
00:27:09
David I don't know if you remember this one of my favorite tour moments speaking of Rob Schneider we did
00:27:15
Orlando and um he got all he was mad about something of course and um who who
00:27:21
stole my magnesium yeah and your intro do you remember this Rob goes on stage
00:27:27
and he was like before he introduced you he goes uh let me just talk about the shooting at the
00:27:34
Gay Night Club oh the Paul nightclub yeah he goes oh my God yeah he goes it was one year ago today that that
00:27:40
shooting happened and the people in the crowd go no it was six months ago it wasn't a year ago he goes half a year it
00:27:48
was six and they're like yeah no it was six months and he goes and he looks on the side of the stage and I'm standing
00:27:53
next to a crew member yeah and he goes that [ __ ] told me it was a year ago
00:27:58
go this guy this random guy this crew and I'm standing next to him the guy goes I've never talked to Rob in my life
00:28:06
I have no idea what he's talking about exent I remember that he goes anyway Joe
00:28:11
Dirt intro to The Angry Crowd and sad
00:28:16
crowd that was hey anyway there was a big gay shooting here's David Spade a
00:28:22
big gay comic yeah like what a weirdo I know
00:28:28
group shows do you like group shows Nick I because I mean David and I had talked
00:28:36
about this the Sandler T was amazing but it's hard doing 10 minutes it's really hard like I I don't
00:28:43
mind doing an hour I mean I love doing an hour but it's like it's a catch 22 because it's easy doing 10 minutes but
00:28:49
it's also hard if that makes sense but it's great being with my friends like you know the Sandler tour was amazing I
00:28:55
mean those were my best friends and norm and you know was great where was the show where you have that picture of meu
00:29:01
and Adam back behind the stage as an outdoor event it's huge event that was inota yeah that was that was like 20,000
00:29:08
or something but that was the one where I kept telling S I go we have to do Minnesota it's my home state my hometown
00:29:15
we have to do it he's like yeah yeah yeah and then finally like he didn't do it and then finally he did and it sold
00:29:21
out immediate they had to add like 5,000 seats it was like crazy you know I did
00:29:26
my last special and Minneapolis yeah you did the Pantages
00:29:32
right I don't look in the house Cracker Barrel no I don't know do you remember Heather what was it it was a Cracker
00:29:38
Barrel popup yeah it was cracker bar popup next to the freeway
00:29:44
storea let's do that what's a theater has three sides to it and goes straight up it's like an Amphitheater in
00:29:50
Minneapolis I play that a few times I don't remember the name remember was the state theat the Orum
00:29:58
[Music] now my next one is in but I remember the audience is being especially great in
00:30:05
Minneapolis yeah they're phenomenal they're fine that's why it was tricky because like when I started I did really
00:30:11
well like I said out of the gate i' never bombed in Minnesota like not even close and then you're doing great
00:30:19
sweetie oh yeah that was fun oh the cat's vomiting oh that's F oh he's
00:30:24
vomiting on his own penis yeah that's fun but then when I moved to New York is
00:30:31
when I really started bombing everybody told me it was the best advice I ever got Nan actually I
00:30:37
opened for Nan at the Mall of America and he told me I go I think I'm gonna move to LA and he was like no he's like
00:30:42
go to New York I remember him Judy Gold another comedian yeah told me go to New
00:30:48
York and I went to New York and I would eat the hottest [ __ ] on planet Earth I
00:30:54
got booed off stage it was was it just to toughen you up and and just go if you can make it there you can make it
00:30:59
anywhere kind of thing yeah basically it was like cut your teeth go go to the go to the Big Apple what would be a typical
00:31:06
here he is Nick wartson what would be a typical opener for you opening line or opening bit I'm just curious why look
00:31:14
like a high school J senior or whatever and why would they boo you off did you go super blue then or what was it no
00:31:21
because I was so clean and I would have I I would have to get you know you know
00:31:27
when you're starting out any stage time you just have to get whatever you can get so I would I would go on in the
00:31:32
village at like 1 in the morning oh and I'm following you know David tell and
00:31:38
you know rock and guys like that and I was just so clean like they don't want to hear about a cat
00:31:44
vomiting you know they I'm following like four hours of like [ __ ] jokes yeah
00:31:50
no pun intended and then then also a pussy's vomiting yeah see what I did there it's
00:31:56
hard to follow hyper confident East Coast comic just with almost like he's
00:32:03
going to beat up the audience if they don't laugh the [ __ ] up New York you know following one of those guys yeah
00:32:08
this [ __ ] guy look at this guy the front row this queen what are you
00:32:16
Que Now welcome Nick flon you know hey everybody I like hi you know hiy I had a
00:32:22
hot dog you know what's weird mayonnaise is yeah why never put
00:32:28
because you put it on your hot dog get it boo
00:32:34
boo get the [ __ ] out of here some people put ketchup but I'm kind of off kilter
00:32:40
right but I got mise I put mustard on my butt oh that's really the weird place I
00:32:46
remember one of my biggest tanks too was uh I was doing stand up on Conan O'Brien his head and I was doing Conan
00:32:53
and I was at the comedy Celler and I was doing Conan the next day and they were like do you want to go run your set and
00:33:00
I'm like no it's good it's tight and they're like no you should run your set all these Comics Mark Cohen was like no
00:33:05
you should run your set and I'm like no no it's fine and they're like no they're yelling at me so I'm like okay fine I'll
00:33:11
do it so when you run a TV set you can't really interact with the crowd you just have to like stick to your time so I go
00:33:19
up and it's dead I'm bombing horribly and I've got to do this set on TV the
00:33:24
next day all your confidence goes out the window yeah all of it goes out the window so I snap at the crowd and I go
00:33:30
none of this is funny none of this I'm doing this on TV tomorrow and they go
00:33:36
nope it's not funny I would this sucks and I was like [ __ ] you and I just
00:33:42
walked off stage and I went upstairs in the restaurant with all the comics they were all laughing and I was like oh real
00:33:48
funny guys and they're like that was amazing you just totally ate [ __ ] and I was like yeah great that's
00:33:55
their help yeah was like I know when you get your when you get your set to where
00:34:00
you like it it's almost like I don't even want to trifle with it I just want to I know it I just want to go do it they like go do it again you're like I I
00:34:06
can't I don't want any difference of what's going on right yeah I don't want to trifle with anything I don't want to
00:34:13
trifle with [ __ ] dude God I haven't heard oh thumbs up David you got a thumbs up for tri thanks Dana but isn't
00:34:18
it my Dana can you see that there you go well I'm just seeing fireworks behind
00:34:25
fireworks it's great yeah [Music]
00:34:31
oh I want to talk about Benchwarmers cuz everyone asks me about Benchwarmers all the time so you started writing you're
00:34:36
starting with Sandler you meet Sandler somehow you're writing Benchwarmers with was it you and covert or you and Sandler
00:34:42
who wrote that Sandler called me I remember I was in Nashville and I was doing a gig and he called me I was in my
00:34:48
hotel room and uh he was like Hey I thought I sold an idea to Sony and I'm
00:34:53
like what is it he goes It's called um or he didn't have a title yeah but he's like it's three little eagers whatever
00:35:00
and he gave me the premise he's like I want you to write it and I'm like okay so me and covert wrote it and then
00:35:06
Sandler jumped in and I remember I had a voicemail from you David and you said
00:35:13
I've read a ton of scripts I've bet a lot of people write roles for me we wrote it for you and mine and you said
00:35:19
I've rarely seen somebody write something this perfect for me oh great
00:35:24
yeah I remember loving bench wers and it's great well I I you know David's
00:35:31
voice that is that's perfect I mean it's a great way to write like okay dav's David's character is gonna talk like
00:35:37
this and say this because you kind of can just process yeah I me yeah I I just knew his
00:35:43
sarcasm just from watching him for years you know what I mean and you and de me and was it me and Robin mind we just
00:35:49
didn't know that third one I don't think it was you and Rob and then we couldn't Peg the third one and then we got John
00:35:56
heer which was great John was amazing John you know I just saw
00:36:01
Ann everybody yeah you know he did uh Dana we should have on because he he's a great dude and he also did a pretty
00:36:09
funny monologue when he I didn't know he hosted SNL and had a great monologue I saw yesterday on my TT I know he hosted
00:36:15
SNL yeah and that funny and uh everyone in the audience he goes a lot of people
00:36:21
say you know he wasn't doing Napoleon but he's like a lot of people say that you know I uh I I stole some of these
00:36:27
characters from back home but these are just original characters then he goes I have a question he goes oh hey Rick this
00:36:33
guy in the audience stands up dressed exactly like Napoleon he goes I think you stole it from me and he goes no it
00:36:39
has nothing to do with anyone I've ever met and then Bill hater not Bill hater
00:36:44
but uh God damn it the other one comes no uh Joe Biden was he a cast
00:36:52
member look get the pill the lady had to put the pill go ahead I everyone
00:36:58
everyone stands up as a cast member from Theo Dynamite anyway who gives a fat buck I saw it I laughed at it John
00:37:05
heater was fun I think there was a chance of using someone else I feel like
00:37:10
this sounds like a lie I saw him pulling Dynamite the first half and I alerted
00:37:16
Sandler and the squad and going I don't know who we have this guy's funny he might be weird but you know I have no
00:37:21
say in this I'm just saying I like them and then I think it's sort of everyone's sort of heard about the movie and it he
00:37:28
came in and remember we were trying to get him to do nepoleon Dynamite the whole goddamn movie which is so rude but
00:37:35
I was gonna say that so for people listening David and I nonstop would
00:37:41
would do Napoleon Dynamite to John heater and he' be like all right you guys I get it gosh all right let's go to
00:37:49
lunch like when people say like when I say you lost
00:37:54
your I mean these lines still make laugh I I didn't write probably any of them um
00:38:00
no you just lost your membership at video spot and he goes dang it just to
00:38:06
get him to say it like Napoleon Dynamite or a little bit we all would like go what so fny I can be a fan of someone uh
00:38:13
just based on one line and I I think I saw that movie six times because all the kids in the neighborhood wanted to see
00:38:19
it and yeah uh cousins and everybody but when they on the bus I think the little
00:38:25
girl girls what are you going to do today Napoleon he goes whatever I want
00:38:30
gosh so stupid the comedy like that where it's inexplicable there's no
00:38:35
actual joke yeah it's rhythmic and bizarre it it really just laugh I any
00:38:41
young person right now has not seen Napoleon Dynamite or old person just see it it grows on you first few minutes
00:38:49
you're like what am I watching I think it's perfect I've seen it probably a hundred times yeah I could probably
00:38:54
quote that entire movie and then back to Benchwarmers anyway so anyway
00:39:00
Benchwarmers go ahead no I was saying one of my other favorite moments David I don't know if you remember this we were
00:39:05
in Vegas you're doing the Mirage and John heer came with his wife and uh we
00:39:11
so John heer's Mormon so they don't drink alcohol so David and I were drinking we're at the bar and we're like
00:39:18
hey John why don't you have a drink and he goes I can't you guys know that we're
00:39:24
like yeah but you could have one get off my back no I can't you know I can I think he ordered a glass of milk or
00:39:29
something and we were like yeah you could do like one shot he's like no you guys and I remember his wife I remember
00:39:36
his wife goes his wife goes ah but John we could maybe have one right and he got so mad he was like no I can't you know
00:39:45
that you were going to get a little bit of soaking action tonight but not now what did he think you're were gonna get a funnel and hold him down with the I
00:39:53
know we're so we're such losers for doing that to him uh but I remember um
00:39:58
there's another funny joke that you gave me when the catcher goes you're still
00:40:04
out you're still fat God I can't remember oh I go you're a good catcher of donuts in your mouth great um one of
00:40:11
the catchers was Jack Nicholson's kid Ray who was a stud who is actively being
00:40:17
a stud right now looks Ray was great Patrick Schwarzenegger was in it Patrick Schwarzenegger was in it Dan Patrick was
00:40:23
probably in it right um I was he
00:40:28
Squadron and yeah he was super fun fun to shoot in the valley of La I wish we
00:40:35
could shoot another movie that was such a blast that summer I wanted to do bench swers too I told you that I I had
00:40:40
conceived a whole thing it was gonna be like Brad News Bears to where we go to Japan and I had a whole thing mapped out
00:40:47
I told you and Rob and John and everybody was on board and then we lost the rights to Benchwarmers they made a
00:40:53
Benchwarmers too I don't know some nonsense yeah so Happy Madison didn't own bench Wars someone else took it away
00:41:00
something happened they sold the name I can't remember what happened but um oh yeah but we lost it but yeah because
00:41:06
litz I still think was litz was very funny in that and uh litz is another one
00:41:11
where he doesn't want to do love itsz so it's like John heer or it's like just do like your voice and like when we were
00:41:18
doing Bench Warmers I remember love itsz would like fight about you know like
00:41:24
Sandler be like no just deliver it like John Lis he's like I don't want to do John LoveIt I don't want to do I'm gonna do a
00:41:32
whole another character s was like are you [ __ ] dumb no he wrote it for you in your
00:41:40
voice like just deliver the C the way you picture it yeah I am not John Lit
00:41:46
any he thinks he's bonio Del Toro doing like Daniel gay
00:41:53
Lewis what about Reno 911 another monster hit Reno I still see clips from
00:41:59
that you know the good thing about the internet I became a couple means David it's not easy listen I became a national
00:42:06
phenomenon but uh I'm a ter Dana you would never have seen this because no one really Dido 911 of course it was
00:42:15
another one one of those quirky funny hward on roller skates lot of AD
00:42:23
living I would guess people in it it was movie was ad lipped I remember they gave
00:42:28
me the script for the movie and it was like 15 pages and I go what is this and
00:42:34
it was all locations there was no dialogue you're in a bowling alley go that's like a
00:42:40
that's like a dream Terry a dream part right yeah it was amazing to not have to repeat lines all day you do three
00:42:46
Masters at 700 a.m. and by six o'clock that night it's your closeup and you if you miss a word the script supervisor
00:42:52
goes ah you said your elbow was out and you saidthe before so yeah if every take
00:42:58
is it's a real live take no wonder fun well that's like curb those kind of
00:43:03
things where you can it's hard for the editor but if you can pick the right [ __ ] out I saw some
00:43:08
bridesmaids uh you know bloopers and you're like God some of these are as
00:43:14
good you know you just don't know it's Sophie's Choice you go this is the one that's going in the movie for all of
00:43:20
time and there's one just as good that no one will ever see so you pick the take and you got to live with it and
00:43:26
that's hard cuz you sit and go that's good for this reason that's good for this reason what joke I mean you never
00:43:31
know well also we would try to make it I mean especially me I would try to say the most insane things to break the
00:43:38
other cast members and make them laugh so my character was so outlandish so I was just trying to come up with just
00:43:44
pure Insanity it's like wrong Missy where Lauren had such a great fun part
00:43:49
where I was straight man and then when you're insane like that you can really
00:43:54
say anything and when we're in a date and she's like quit trying to I [ __ ] me across the room to some tough guy and
00:44:01
I'm like what are you doing like so every take they'd be like do this one a little drunker you know what do this one
00:44:07
a little sexier no do this one a little more insane and it just turns out to where you that was another example of
00:44:14
there was a wrong Missy was such a fun movie that worked out for us all Nick
00:44:19
was in it with us and um but there's so did very well it David I did very you're
00:44:25
my buddy and it we're Bud he's from Portland we're pal yeah you always Nick
00:44:31
didn't want to shave his beard by the way Dana just you what did you say Dana I said Nick is always funny I don't
00:44:37
think I've ever seen you not funny I remember what was the one Sandler did with Jennifer Aniston is Just Go With It
00:44:44
yeah just go with it were you in that one too I mean or there was every time you come in you're like doing something
00:44:51
so insane I assume it's like your own little ecosystem you you sort of invent just crazy person yeah I was a guy that
00:44:58
was I played part German and I resuscitated the Sheep that's right and
00:45:04
I was like a sheep I remember s i remember Sandler called me I remember exactly where I was I was a Baby Blues
00:45:10
barbecue in Venice and Sandler calls me and he goes hey what are you doing and I
00:45:16
go I'm having dinner why what's up and he goes can you do a German accent and I go uh what like this like go to Z House
00:45:24
of food and he goes okay perfect call you tomorrow so H up the phone and he
00:45:30
calls me he goes we're doing a movie in Hawaii you me and Anderson you're playing a half German dude and I was like what the hell it was like the most
00:45:36
Sandler what a blast yeah it was amazing if there's a whisper that he might have
00:45:42
something going then it's always like confirmed basically hey I might need you for this uh would you want to do
00:45:48
something what did we first do together was it Jack and Jill yeah Jack and Jill was that when he
00:45:55
played like the puppeteer yeah and Regis Filman was in in that yes
00:46:01
that's right uh yeah I did a puppeteer weirdo or something it was like a cameo
00:46:06
I mean I don't know what did you play in Jack and chill I played like his coworker we're
00:46:14
all in Jack and chill everybody David were you in Jack and chill I was I was a girl in Jack and oh yeah that's right I
00:46:21
made out with alucino look I've only been in two Sandler movies trying to give an assist
00:46:28
and help out Sandy one was Little Nikki and one was Jack and Jill they were 10
00:46:33
years apart and they they underperformed and not not that they weren't funny and
00:46:39
so I I was a jinx to the tappy Madison I think Jack and Jill is so funny I I
00:46:46
remember I left the goddamn premiere of Jack and Jill and I was like I may be wrong this is going to make a $100
00:46:53
million and I I did the same thing with That's my boy I was like I laughed the whole time I'm like am I I don't know I
00:47:00
still think it's That's my boy is phenomenal it's [ __ ] hilarious it's so rough I like when he plays dirty
00:47:06
R-rated it's when the comedian when you get a sense that the person on screen is
00:47:11
having so much fun like Sandler's commitment to the Jill character and how
00:47:17
she enjoyed doing that it was just come bouncing off the screen so who knows why
00:47:22
things are hits fellas what was the biggest hit you were ever in Nick would it um grownup not Bucky
00:47:31
Larson God bless Bucky Larson that's one of my favorites god um I don't know
00:47:37
probably just go with it or maybe click what about Grown-Ups 2 dummy
00:47:44
Grown-Ups 2 yeah it's another one yeah come on fool but I would say the biggest one that didn't do well at all in the
00:47:50
theater but Grandma's Boy oh was huge that became just why talking about
00:47:55
Grandma's Boy just kept going and going and going right it just it made it like I knew when we were writing it I was
00:48:01
like oh this movie is so Bonkers weird it's not I don't know how they're going to Market it like I I knew it was not
00:48:08
going to do well but I knew when it hit DVD that it was going to be explosive and it was it like made like as much as
00:48:15
Titanic and like TVD was like insane yeah that's that's one I'd once seen it
00:48:21
Dana again and I heard about this to this day I mean Grandma's Boy if you get
00:48:27
a scene or you're just in a movie like that that just they used to grind that's what happened with Joe D Dicky Roberts
00:48:32
when they when you do them and they go to DVD they do pretty good in theater and then you hit DVD and it just
00:48:38
explodes and they make so much money off them and then they go to HBO then they go here so someone is making money it's
00:48:43
not us but in in a related story one time Little Nikki uh this Nikki and I
00:48:49
were at lunch I think Nick will remember this there's two things happen we're at lascala like two old women and we're
00:48:56
having lunch this is way back and because do you remember two things happened one you had a residual check
00:49:02
for writing Bench Warmers and it was so big I was like holy [ __ ] dude and you
00:49:08
had it in your hand I won't say how much and then and then I remember that 27,000
00:49:14
and then don't try to do this I know what you're doing and then and Heath Ledger died we heard it
00:49:21
at lunch do you remember this I vaguely do yeah look at your diary it it's in
00:49:28
there look at my diarrhea we we heard that we were both a little thrown because I think we both
00:49:35
knew of obviously knew of him but had seen him out and I remember I barely
00:49:41
knew him and I had his phone number in my phone but I didn't ever call him or talk to him but I remember just talking
00:49:48
to him one night and then I thought oh how weird and then I remember it it was even worse because you were there for
00:49:53
some reason and that made it worse I was very sad never knew Heath but I was a big fan I was sad and then you make me
00:50:01
sad and so it was all sad this is a little off topic but it's kind of interesting me that Heath Ledger his his
00:50:07
Joker kind of broke the whole form yeah oh yeah with the lip and everything and now walking Phoenix does it I don't know
00:50:14
where the next thing to do is have Joker back regular lipstick but lipsticks like
00:50:19
this then it's a weirdo but weird have regular really well-groomed lipstick he should look like The Bachelor just go
00:50:26
back to the normal joker I'm the normal cuz where's it going I think the next Incarnation is Rob Schneider as the
00:50:33
Joker as the poker he'll poke you until you get irritated on come on come in my
00:50:39
cave he comes into that would be that would be he comes up to Batman and throws [ __ ] magnesium pills at him
00:50:46
vaccinates everybody he vaccinates he doesn't
00:50:52
vaccination he doesn't like it he doesn't like it oh let me just say um I met this is a random segue but I
00:51:00
remember going back to the Aspen Comedy Festival it was the only time I met Chris Farley and I remember Dana you've been
00:51:07
to Aspen right yeah you were there yeah and I was there and I've been other times yeah and but the altitude is
00:51:13
really brutal so I was 19 years old and I remember I was having trouble breathing like even like walking up just
00:51:20
a couple stairs I was having trouble and I was 19 I was in good shape and I remember very vividly
00:51:27
walking home from a gig to the hotel and it was like 10 o'clock at night and I just heard like a roar screaming down
00:51:35
the street Bigfoot and I'm like what is that and I look down the street and it's Farley shirtless it's like 10 degrees
00:51:44
and he's got a cigarette in his mouth and he's doing cartwheels down the snow with his
00:51:49
Entourage I think Johnny was there his brother clown Tage of idiots total clown tourage but I'll never forget that
00:51:56
Farley was what 400 450 PBS and he's doing C wheels and Shain smoking very
00:52:03
agile down the street and I I just I'll never forget the roar that just echoed
00:52:09
asin's a small town it's pretty contained mhm so it just was thunderous like throughout the whole place it was
00:52:16
like [Music]
00:52:21
crazy Nick where was the gig you just did where you got Al you got altitude
00:52:28
poisoning and you got sick Dana this is sad what wasn't feeling well and he was
00:52:34
doing standup and he tried to push through his show it was 9,000 feet
00:52:40
altitude and I took an edible like I'm the first person to do that in Colorado
00:52:45
had a couple cocktails 9,000 seriously hold on 9,000 feet the people just live at 9,000 ft
00:52:51
they must all be distance runners or something yeah that's really high so yeah totally brain farted on stage and
00:52:58
then ended up on TMZ and they like took me off stage it was like it's total mess
00:53:03
but it wasn't bad I didn't like pull like some Michael Richard's thing where I started no it was more of a Biden no
00:53:10
easy on that Michael Richard you just
00:53:18
itic or fous so when you when you have that and you're you got the altitude you got the edible in you and it's not
00:53:25
happening what is the back your head what are you saying to yourself internally like abort Mission I am
00:53:30
having a trouble I should get off stage or is it just sort of a slow motion no I I I could have kept I could have figured
00:53:36
it out I was just space CET they weren't being very patient yeah it was just a
00:53:43
total non story but well it made national news like it made Yahoo again TMZ like CNN USA Today
00:53:52
called me for a comment I was like what Nick Nick we'll be back with more
00:53:58
stories about Ukraine but first out of Beaverton Colorado a comedian comes off
00:54:03
stage 20 minutes early we'll be right back it's the best quote is like Nick's
00:54:08
like I was uh in altitude I take uh gummies and shrooms guys what are you
00:54:13
worried about everyone's like yeah Nick I'm like they're applauding this Behavior yeah they were're applauding
00:54:20
this the next the next weekend he sells out this is the classic one things that happen oh then I just ripped it and then
00:54:26
I did I did ASP I did Aspen right after Bieber Creek and had two soldout shows and people threw Edibles at me on sa the
00:54:34
stage literally covered in Edibles the stage you're like guys scrape scrape I can't do all these tonight but I'll face
00:54:42
them out people love the but they you know it's a human story you know I mean
00:54:48
they do love the talk about authenticity and stuff and then you would you talk about it make jokes and they they throw
00:54:54
out aable I mean then it's like you know yeah I was very self-effacing about it I mean I talked about it on stage for a
00:55:00
while but it was there was a rumor that you ate a bowl of your own diarrhea and I was like no I don't maybe no I snorted
00:55:07
it that's where you're wrong snort the pee hang on Nick here you go let's look
00:55:13
first of all let me see what else I got I want I have a question for you like randomly at airports and stuff when
00:55:18
people come up to you and maybe some more obscure part of your career what makes you happy like people come up and
00:55:24
go Bucky Larson's one of my favorite films or just just random things from your specials or what do they say to you
00:55:31
when they approach you fans I love it my fans are so awesome and I'll like hang
00:55:37
with everybody David always gets annoyed by it but like I'll take photos with anybody I'll take I'll get a drink with
00:55:42
anybody like I just have a blast so if people like Bucky Larsson it Bucky
00:55:48
Larson got zero% on Rotten Tomatoes I think it's up I think it's up to
00:55:53
3% [ __ ] yeah it's a phal movie so that one I always love but like you know
00:55:59
obscure ones like my character and like that's my boy um like my random standup jokes if
00:56:04
somebody just pulls something from you know I've been doing stand up for 30 years so it's like if somebody throws
00:56:10
out like a joke from 30 years ago like I'll be like whoa like I get so fired up
00:56:16
I have a good one but it's on Zoom I can't do one of my favorite jokes here because it's Zoom it's very
00:56:21
physical I need to take off my clothes for it but Dan know what do you get approach for the most
00:56:27
oh uh the most it's either I have a joke for this one hey do georgeb senior and I
00:56:32
go not gonna do it you that's all one of those kill beginning middle end and
00:56:38
you're out of there Hans and fron church lady G all that stuff but once in a while people come up to me and goes oh
00:56:45
my friends every month we talk about skin heads from Maine which was a sketch that Steven colar and I did on the Dana
00:56:51
the ill- fated Dana Carvey Show where oh wow it was a flight of fancy why racist
00:56:56
always Southern guys couldn't they be from New Hampshire or something so I was like well you know I like what you doing
00:57:03
there I'm W whittling a hate stick for for beating Spaniards you know so it's all that petrid fom type guys but
00:57:09
they're complete racist right the specifity of that and the and the complete non sequer of someone bringing
00:57:15
that up to me is great I like that chop and broccoli I get a lot too oh yeah I was gonna say but I mean all time G is
00:57:23
one of my Wayne's World I can quote start to finish I still like will just randomly just pop into gar and be like I
00:57:29
love you dream woman and then when you're playing the drum set the guy goes that was amazing
00:57:36
dude and he just go I like to play that's right you got it so good see
00:57:42
that makes me happy any kind of line that doesn't really have a punchline that it just exists it can keep
00:57:48
continuing to be funny if someone says thanks I like to play those are the kind that don't
00:57:53
kill and then they kill in longevity of a movie where you say this is our these
00:57:59
are our three big jokes and then over time those get on the back bur weird
00:58:05
lines come out yeah throwaways come it's the throwaway the quirky ones you know if you're going to spew spew into this
00:58:12
yeah you know great one just a little spew but the rhythm of it sometimes I would lose it just I'd start sounding
00:58:18
more like a regular Stoner dude but the whole key is that guy talking like this those sort of rhythms yeah I could do it
00:58:25
I could do it you know that part is infectious to me but anyway thanks for
00:58:30
being my guest today let's talk more about me wait one thing side note is that I would get in arguments with
00:58:37
Sandler about it because he never did DVD extras or outtakes yeah and I was always like like we have so much fun
00:58:44
filming and I'm like dude there's so much great material here for a DVD every wants them at the end and he goes yeah
00:58:50
no nobody you know everybody else does that he's like I don't want to do it and I was just so Bumm because people would
00:58:55
love it I agree with you I crack up all the time yeah he doesn't really like you but
00:59:01
David so it's not true DAV he's my best friend oh that's funny because we were just laughing about you the other Peter
00:59:07
Sellers they'd have to shut down the set I mean they would literally he could not keep a straight face they just go home
00:59:14
at the end of being there they have outakes of Peter sers and he just can't hold it together yeah he was
00:59:21
Notorious hours and hours could not get one take that's amazing I didn't know
00:59:27
that yeah look at uh just go on YouTube being there Peter sers uh outakes it's
00:59:32
at the end of the movie but it's fascinating really a guy that brilliant you know I love that stuff I mean
00:59:37
recently on Saturday Night Live they had the beavers and Butthead sketch where everybody broke basically yeah I saw
00:59:43
that and Heidi Gardner which I talked to Lord about it and she wasn't ready for because Mikey day had escalated the the
00:59:51
makeup so she wasn't prepared for it so her looking and not even getting the the giggles and trying to stop look and then
00:59:59
just completely burst out laughing it was an irresistible laugh for me at home yeah I was like just losing it all
01:00:05
completely no pretense like trying to hold it just yeah that was really funny Mikey day is hilarious by the way I used
01:00:13
to watch him before when he was doing sketches on like funnier die and stuff he's such a talent really and a great
01:00:19
writer is too as well yeah really brilliant Nick say the name of your special again and say the tour so we get
01:00:26
it out there for everyone July 18th YouTube make joke from face is the
01:00:32
special and then in the fall is toilet head nick.net you have the best
01:00:39
namson just those two are the best names yeah make joke from
01:00:44
face well it's like seriously who farted I remember when I was meeting with Comedy Central and it was my first hour
01:00:50
special and they're like what do you want to call it and I go seriously who farted and they're like oh that's funny
01:00:56
um but seriously what do you want to call it they didn't believe me exactly and I was like seriously who farted and they're like oh you're serious that's
01:01:03
what you want to call the name of your special oh and I'm like I don't take myself seriously like when comedians
01:01:09
take themselves seriously or try to make like a cool name for a special or try to sound cool it's just like Get over
01:01:16
yourself you know what's interesting about names like that is that eventually at some production meeting maybe for the
01:01:22
some other thing they'll refer to toilet head casually well we were shooting toilet head in San Jose you know and
01:01:30
when we shot toilet head you know Nick wanted six cameras we had five I believe for toilet head was it five for toilet
01:01:36
head yeah so that that'll happen and that so that joke lives on as soon as people refer to it in a
01:01:43
Ser yeah totally well that's why when I when I thought of seriously who farted I was hoping so bad to get nominated for
01:01:50
Grammy for the album because I just wanted someone to say that on stage
01:01:56
Trevor Noah seriously who farted and next up the nominees are Nick swartson
01:02:02
seriously who farted and and then the and then the crowd would be like what what is it are
01:02:09
they asking somebody who farted du ala is like are you talking to me and eventually it'll be truncated you know
01:02:15
we were we was I was shooting farted I directed farted and uh yeah I was on seriously sisly who
01:02:22
farted I'm trying to what's the funniest accent to say that seriously who farted
01:02:28
maybe it's gar Nick SW seriously seriously who farted I feel like a lot of people
01:02:35
farted on Wayne's World seriously who during the shooting all right Dana I
01:02:40
mean what's your name Nick thank you Nick Nickson yes thanks Nickson miss you one of the funniest guys in America go
01:02:47
watch his show watch watch uh um make joke from face make joke from face
01:02:53
that's he andour toilet head coming to a town near you he
01:02:59
will not be at Beaver Creek Colorado on this particular tour but soon he'll be
01:03:04
at 12,000 he's playing the Swiss Alps at 14,000 ft my next special I want to do
01:03:11
990,000 feet and take and take a bunch of mushrooms from the space station all
01:03:18
right I love you guys bye my favorite people ever you're hilarious love you Nick thanks for coming on Namaste this
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Episode Highlights

  • Nick Swartzon's New Tour
    Nick Swartzon is hitting the road with his new tour 'Toilet Head'.
    “He's got a new special out and a tour called Toilet Head!”
    @ 01m 09s
    July 17, 2024
  • A Hilarious Misunderstanding
    Nick recalls a funny moment where he joked about a security guard with a gun.
    “I was just messing with Norm!”
    @ 08m 29s
    July 17, 2024
  • The Art of Bombing
    Nick shares a painful yet funny story about bombing on stage early in his career.
    “I bombed so hard!”
    @ 19m 13s
    July 17, 2024
  • Releasing Comedy Specials
    He decided to release his special on YouTube instead of waiting for a platform.
    “I want everyone to see it.”
    @ 25m 08s
    July 17, 2024
  • Memorable Comedy Moments
    He recalls a funny moment with Rob Schneider involving a crowd's reaction to a serious topic.
    “Oh my God, yeah, he goes it was one year ago today that shooting happened.”
    @ 27m 34s
    July 17, 2024
  • The Challenge of New York Comedy
    He shares his struggles of performing clean comedy in New York after starting out in Minnesota.
    “I never bombed in Minnesota, not even close.”
    @ 30m 11s
    July 17, 2024
  • The Impact of Napoleon Dynamite
    He expresses his love for the film and its lasting humor.
    “I think it's perfect. I've seen it probably a hundred times.”
    @ 38m 49s
    July 17, 2024
  • The Unexpected Hit of Grandma's Boy
    Despite a poor theatrical run, Grandma's Boy exploded in popularity on DVD, rivaling Titanic's sales.
    “I knew when it hit DVD that it was going to be explosive.”
    @ 48m 08s
    July 17, 2024
  • Heath Ledger's Impact
    Reflecting on the sadness felt after Heath Ledger's passing and the memories shared.
    “I was very sad... I was a big fan.”
    @ 49m 53s
    July 17, 2024
  • Chris Farley's Wild Side
    A hilarious memory of Chris Farley doing cartwheels in the snow, shirtless.
    “I just heard like a roar screaming down the street Bigfoot!”
    @ 51m 44s
    July 17, 2024
  • Fan Interactions
    Nick shares his love for meeting fans and their favorite obscure references.
    “I just have a blast with my fans!”
    @ 55m 31s
    July 17, 2024
  • Comedy Special Title
    Nick discusses the humorous title of his special and the reactions it received.
    “Seriously, who farted?”
    @ 01h 00m 50s
    July 17, 2024

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Key Moments

  • Tour Announcement01:09
  • Reliable Bits21:24
  • YouTube Release25:08
  • Rob Schneider Moment27:34
  • Napoleon Dynamite Love38:49
  • Heath Ledger Tribute49:53
  • Fan Love55:31
  • Comedy Special Title1:00:50

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