David Cross & The Zamboni Lie

David Cross, comedian and actor, enters the chaos and immediately questions Bobby’s entire existence. We chat skipping funerals, classic Boston, comedy lies, bombing vs killing with silence, Banana hammock guy, Mitzi Shore lore, and weird sweaters. www.officialdavidcross.com http://www.officialdavidcross.com Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at www.shopify.com/tigerbelly http://www.shopify.com/tigerbelly Join the loyalty program for renters at www.joinbilt.com/BELLY http://www.joinbilt.com/BELLY For simple, online access to personalized and affordable care for Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit www. Hims.com/BELLY http://www. Hims.com/BELLY See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:59Bobby Lee?

  Hey everybody, Bobby Lee here. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hi, hi, hi, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Bobby Lee, the finally tour is up for sale 2026. You know, I'd shot a special for Hulu and I'm gonna go one strong tour before the special airs. I'll be in Detroit, Indianapolis, Montclair, Atlantic City, Medford, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, et cetera, et cetera. Go to bobbylee.live to get your tickets.

• 1:27Speaker 02

  I'll be there too.

• 1:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, oh yeah, CAT's opening and also Ramsey Badawi. No one cares, but anyway.

• 1:31Speaker 03

  Can I come to some?

• 1:32Bobby Lee?

  You can come to some.

• 2:00Bobby Lee?

  Do you really like the hat? Or is this just something that you got nervous and they were like?

• 2:03Speaker 04

  Nurtz getting complimented.

• 2:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 2:05Speaker 04

  Hat is getting complimented.

• 2:06Speaker 05

  They told us to compliment you.

• 2:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 2:09Speaker 03

  I'm weird.

• 2:09Bobby Lee?

  They were like, make sure he feels great about it. Do you do cans or do you not do cans?

• 2:13Speaker 03

  I do not.

• 2:13Bobby Lee?

  You don't, oh, you don't, you don't, you.

• 2:15Speaker 03

  Uh, I don't wanna.

• 2:16Bobby Lee?

  Unless you wanna hear a song at the beginning. No, no, I'm not gonna do a song. I haven't, I haven't been doing songs. There's a song for David.

• 2:23Bobby Lee?

  Do a song for him. Well, I mean, I mean, I didn't really write one.

• 2:27Speaker 03

  Oh, I need that.

• 2:28Bobby Lee?

  I didn't really write. Okay, let's listen.

• 2:35Bobby Lee?

  Oh, no.

• 2:36Speaker 05

  Let's skip the song. Let's skip the song. Let's skip the song. We gotta keep the hat on.

• 2:41Bobby Lee?

  Hat or song?

• 2:42Speaker 05

  Put the hat back on.

• 2:43Bobby Lee?

  Hat or song?

• 2:44Speaker 05

  It's PS 11.

• 2:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 2:46Speaker 03

  Let, let my hat hear the song.

• 2:49Bobby Lee?

  Okay, good, good.

• 2:50Speaker 05

  Zoom in on the hat, yeah.

• 2:59Bobby Lee?

  I just woke up, so, sorry, uh, can we start over?

• 3:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 3:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 3:05Speaker 03

  David Cross.

• 3:10Bobby Lee?

  David Cross is here.

• 3:17Bobby Lee?

  All right, David Cross, everybody. Put the hat back on.

• 3:20Speaker 03

  You, you couldn't rhyme something with?

• 3:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, all right, all right.

• 3:25Speaker 03

  Wait the fuck?

• 3:26Bobby Lee?

  David Cross is the boss. He's lost.

• 3:36Speaker 03

  He added a T.

• 3:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I added a T.

• 3:39Speaker 03

  You could say his loss, or at a loss.

• 3:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. I'm not much of a writer.

• 3:44Speaker 03

  Right.

• 3:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're more of a writer, I think.

• 3:46Speaker 03

  I'm more of a, like, I know logical rhyming.

• 3:50Bobby Lee?

  Oh, you know, logical rhyming?

• 3:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 3:51Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay. Um, so, I, I, oh, you just Googled it.

• 3:56Speaker 03

  Talk you out.

• 3:57Bobby Lee?

  It's a little too late, socks over.

• 4:00Speaker 03

  Wait, what is that one?

• 4:00Speaker 05

  Just in case you're trying to.

• 4:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 4:02Speaker 03

  Wait, cross with an E?

• 4:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, what's that mean?

• 4:04Speaker 03

  It's not even a thing.

• 4:04Bobby Lee?

  That's not, that's not a thing.

• 4:06Speaker 05

  That's cross if you're in London.

• 4:08Bobby Lee?

  Oh, oh, oh.

• 4:09Speaker 05

  Cross. Cross. Cross.

• 4:11Bobby Lee?

  Cross.

• 4:12Speaker 05

  Cross.

• 4:13Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Um, let's give him a proper intro, if, if I may.

• 4:18Bobby Lee?

  Huge fan. I'm comfortable. Are you good with compliments?

• 4:22Speaker 03

  Uh, I'm better now, yeah.

• 4:24Bobby Lee?

  You are?

• 4:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 4:25Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so, um, you know, I saw, um, when I was younger, I don't know what year, but, um, this is when I was doing Premium Blend, I saw, uh-

• 4:34Speaker 03

  Premium Blend, wow, that's going back. That's 1948.

• 4:37Bobby Lee?

  1948, I did Premium Blend, and I saw your HBO special, and I was like, and then I became obsessed with Mr. Shaw.

• 4:45Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 4:46Bobby Lee?

  Right, and, um, and then, um, your work on Arrested Development, amazing. Um, Waiting for Goffman, I remember that part.

• 4:53Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 4:54Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've done so many things, and, um, is that enough credits, or?

• 4:58Speaker 03

  That's fine, yeah.

• 4:59Speaker 05

  Can we add Scary Movie?

• 4:59Speaker 02

  Scary Movie.

• 5:00Bobby Lee?

  Scary Movie, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 5:01Speaker 03

  Two.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 5:02Bobby Lee?

  Scary Movie Two. Do you have other credits, Pete?

• 5:04Speaker 02

  Uh-huh.

• 5:05Speaker 05

  Other credits?

• 5:07Bobby Lee?

  That I haven't mentioned.

• 5:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:08Speaker 05

  Um, yeah.

• 5:09Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no, you go, Pete.

• 5:11Speaker 03

  No, now it's- Now you guys are on the spot. You guys are, I think-

• 5:15Speaker 05

  That's actually the only thing I've seen.

• 5:16Speaker 03

  Yeah. You're getting thrown under the bus.

• 5:19Speaker 05

  I was like, Scary Movie Two guy's coming.

• 5:20Bobby Lee?

  Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, okay.

• 5:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:23Bobby Lee?

  Kat, any?

• 5:23Speaker 02

  Yeah, just a big fan.

• 5:24Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 5:25Speaker 03

  No, just nothing specific, I mean, I mean, why, why narrow it down a handful of things?

• 5:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're a big fan, and, um, you know, I, you know, I rarely get guests, well, it's not that I'm nervous, but it's like, I get a little, I'm kind of excited, I'm very excited that you're here.

• 5:44Speaker 03

  I'm, I'm excited to be here.

• 5:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, um, this is a long time coming for me, and what, and what a great guest, and, um, I'd like to introduce everyone in the room, if I may.

• 5:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 5:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, um, we have a gay here, um-

• 5:54Speaker 05

  Hi.

• 5:54Speaker 03

  Hi.

• 5:57Speaker 03

  If I had a guest.

• 5:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 6:00Speaker 03

  I think I would have nailed it.

• 6:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:02Speaker 05

  I wish you would have let him guess.

• 6:03Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I really? Yeah, and he's, uh, a Korean flavor.

• 6:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:07Bobby Lee?

  Which is, is it a rarity, or no?

• 6:09Speaker 05

  Um, so far, I haven't found many.

• 6:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of unicorn-ish.

• 6:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 6:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:15Bobby Lee?

  So, we got gay Korean, and then, uh, this is our friend Kat Bird.

• 6:18Speaker 03

  I know plenty of gay Koreans.

• 6:20Bobby Lee?

  Do you?

• 6:20Speaker 05

  Do you really?

• 6:21Speaker 03

  What are their names? Not, not necessarily here.

• 6:23Speaker 05

  What are their names?

• 6:23Bobby Lee?

  Name five.

• 6:25Speaker 03

  Not necessarily here in LA, but, uh-

• 6:28Speaker 05

  In New York?

• 6:29Speaker 03

  Uh, certainly in New York, yeah, um, uh, I, what, I'll tell you what, know who to ask.

• 6:35Speaker 05

  This is like he's looking for his credit.

• 6:37Speaker 03

  You know who to ask? Kevin Spacey.

• 6:41Bobby Lee?

  He knows. Yeah, he likes the, yeah, he likes the gay.

• 6:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, he does.

• 6:47Bobby Lee?

  Maybe Brian Singer.

• 6:48Speaker 03

  The Twinks.

• 6:49Bobby Lee?

  The gay mafia is what I call it.

• 6:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, X-Men's coming back.

• 6:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's not.

• 6:55Speaker 03

  No.

• 6:57Bobby Lee?

  I don't know.

• 6:57Speaker 03

  Okay, so gay queen.

• 6:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and then we have a standard white is what I like to call her. Yeah, like a hometown, standard Midwest white.

• 7:07Speaker 03

  Lady, lady.

• 7:08Bobby Lee?

  A lady.

• 7:08Speaker 02

  Okay, thank you.

• 7:09Bobby Lee?

  A white lady.

• 7:10Speaker 03

  Where are you from?

• 7:10Speaker 02

  David Cross. I'm from LA, actually.

• 7:12Speaker 03

  So Midwest Midwest.

• 7:15Speaker 05

  You don't know. You were saying spiritually Midwest.

• 7:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, well, I just don't know much about her.

• 7:19Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 7:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that's, yeah. Well, I didn't know you, I didn't know you grew up in LA.

• 7:23Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 7:23Bobby Lee?

  What part?

• 7:24Speaker 02

  Altadena.

• 7:25Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that is.

• 7:26Speaker 03

  The Midwest of LA.

• 7:28Speaker 05

  That is the Midwest.

• 7:28Speaker 03

  Little, they consider it Little.

• 7:31Speaker 05

  They say pop.

• 7:31Speaker 03

  Little Ohio.

• 7:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, and, um, and then you, did you ever live in LA or no?

• 7:38Speaker 03

  I did, yeah, for, uh, nine and a half years.

• 7:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 7:42Speaker 03

  I was in Boston for nine years and then I came out to write on the Ben Stiller Show and stayed and did, Mr. Show and, uh, um, the aforementioned scary movie two.

• 7:53Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 7:55Speaker 03

  And then I tailed it on out of here.

• 7:57Bobby Lee?

  You did, you got out.

• 7:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, I always, my little quip was that I, I moved to LA to make enough money to move away from LA.

• 8:06Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 8:07Speaker 03

  Cause I, I don't, I'm not a

• 8:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 8:09Speaker 03

  Huge fan. I don't hate it, but I don't care for it.

• 8:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. I, I've been trying to get out too, but I, I'm stuck.

• 8:16Speaker 05

  You're here forever, dude.

• 8:17Speaker 03

  And where, where are you from originally?

• 8:18Bobby Lee?

  San Diego.

• 8:21Speaker 03

  I like San Diego.

• 8:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, so in

• 8:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the?

• 8:26Bobby Lee?

  What do you mean, what do you mean?

• 8:27Speaker 03

  What do you, what do you, what, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me.

• 8:32Bobby Lee?

  I, I know, but that's just the way I talk. Do I say, yeah, yeah? Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I say that a lot.

• 8:39Speaker 03

  It's the San Diego.

• 8:40Bobby Lee?

  It's condescending.

• 8:41Speaker 03

  Yeah. San Diego.

• 8:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, it's the San Diego type of, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just, again, yeah. You know, how about this, how about this? How about this? All right, I'm gonna try not to say it.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  Whole podcast.

• 8:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I say it a lot.

• 8:53Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:53Bobby Lee?

  I do say it a lot.

• 8:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 8:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:56Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 8:58Speaker 03

  Figure what?

• 9:00Bobby Lee?

  But when you were in Boston, was it in the late 90s?

• 9:03Speaker 03

  Uh, no, it was, I was here in LA, uh, late 90s. So I was in Boston from 80, uh, pretty much like the end of 83, 84 to, when did I move here? 93.

• 9:18Bobby Lee?

  93.

• 9:18Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:18Bobby Lee?

  But were you doing comedy in Boston?

• 9:20Speaker 03

  Oh, fuck, yeah.

• 9:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:21Bobby Lee?

  So Fitzsimmons, was he doing it then?

• 9:23Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 9:23Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Did you know Lauren Dombrovsky?

• 9:25Speaker 03

  Oh, he took a "yeah" off.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 9:29Speaker 03

  That's good. That's a, that's a good one.

• 9:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm growing.

• 9:32Speaker 03

  Making progress.

• 9:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  Oh, man, make this a-

• 9:38Speaker 05

  By the way, you're the first person that's ever called this out, I think.

• 9:41Bobby Lee?

  You're the first person to-

• 9:42Speaker 03

  This should be a shot where we got, yeah, everybody has to do a shot.

• 9:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, okay.

• 9:45Speaker 05

  We'd be done.

• 9:46Bobby Lee?

  Did you know Lauren Dombrovsky?

• 9:48Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, oh, my god, a dear, dear friend.

• 9:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 9:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:51Speaker 05

  Me too.

• 9:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, Lauren and I go, wait, Lauren is, was, uh, really, one of the, if you draw a line back to, you know, in the sense of like, well, my mother and father fucked and had me, like, what I, how I'm where I am. Lauren was good friends with Steven Wright.

• 10:12Bobby Lee?

  Yes.

• 10:12Speaker 03

  Who, uh, and I had this thing called Cross Comedy, the sketch group that, uh, it wasn't just a sketch group. We would do, uh, take over kind of open mic nights, that was our thing. And we would have fake characters as comics, you know, uh, and we would, uh, so that the audience would know, we would sort of take over the show in open mic night with, like, I'd host and then, or somebody else would host and I'd come up as a fake comic and we had plants in the audience.

• 10:42Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 10:43Speaker 03

  We would just start, it would just go and turn into a sketch show with videotaped stuff and all that.

• 10:47Bobby Lee?

  Wow, wow.

• 10:48Speaker 03

  Lauren was part of that and Lauren introduced, said, uh, told Steven, "You gotta come down at Catch a Rising Star in Cambridge, check this guy out." And Steven came down and I was like, "Whoa, the fuck, this is cool." And, and then I talked to him briefly afterwards and he was really complimentary. And then he told his manager, Tim Sarkis, who only managed like three people, I think, at the time, who was out of New York, to come up from New York, "Check me out." Tim did and said, "I want to manage you." And, uh, and then he was my manager for a long, long, long, long, long time and then went to Brillstein Gray.

• 11:30Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  Or Brillstein now, but, um, and then, so this whole, and I came out to LA via Tim getting me, you know, Ben Stiller and then, you know, hanging out with Bob and helping to get Mr. Show going. So Lauren was very directly and, and, and the most awesome person.

• 11:50Bobby Lee?

  She's the most awesome. I still, um, I saw, you know, she has a twin, Lane Lynn.

• 11:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, I know Lynn.

• 11:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you know, Linda Ross. Yeah, yeah. And, um, a couple of years ago, I was in, um, Boston. She came to see my show. You know what I mean? But, um, Lauren was, um, I was on a show on Mad TV.

• 12:04Speaker 03

  We should say Lauren passed. Uh, do you know what her last words were?

• 12:08Bobby Lee?

  No.

• 12:09Speaker 03

  Oh, my God. There was a, we had like a-

• 12:11Bobby Lee?

  It's a comedy podcast. It's getting so sad.

• 12:13Speaker 03

  It's good. It's good. We have-

• 12:15Bobby Lee?

  Why are we opening with sad?

• 12:16Speaker 03

  It's probably really funny.

• 12:17Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It better be funny.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  It's probably really funny.

• 12:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, very funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:21Speaker 03

  Okay, so her, uh, so we had this memorial, uh, after she died, you know, uh, and her last words. Bush was, uh, George Bush was on the TV.

• 12:33Bobby Lee?

  H W or?

• 12:34Speaker 03

  Uh, no, W.

• 12:35Bobby Lee?

  Okay, W.

• 12:36Speaker 03

  Regular. Thanks for the clarification. Stan's H. Regular W.

• 12:43Speaker 03

  All right, everyone. What just happened? Can you please explain?

• 12:47Speaker 02

  The Jews.

• 12:48Bobby Lee?

  No, no, no. Is, is it on now?

• 12:49Speaker 03

  Everything's-

• 12:50Bobby Lee?

  Everything's recording. Everything's good.

• 12:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:52Bobby Lee?

  Okay. I don't even know what the fuck we were talking about.

• 12:54Speaker 03

  It was about you not getting passed and then Mitzi got upset.

• 12:58Bobby Lee?

  It was Costa Mitzi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

• 13:00Speaker 03

  Um, yeah, but to explain, there was like a rolling brownout, which happens all the time in LA. Power like dims down, goes dips out and then these guys who fucking live here freaking out. Like, "What just happened? Oh, my God."

• 13:13Bobby Lee?

  Wait, I thought this neighborhood was too rich for that. I thought it was just like my neighborhood, Borough Heights.

• 13:19Speaker 03

  It would, it would have been, it would have been, it would have been great if I just left.

• 13:25Speaker 03

  He came back like, "What happened? Where did Cross go?"

• 13:28Bobby Lee?

  We don't know.

• 13:28Speaker 03

  It ate Cross.

• 13:30Bobby Lee?

  Wow, wow. All right. So we're, so, um-

• 13:32Speaker 02

  We're back.

• 13:33Bobby Lee?

  We're back and, uh, there was a brownout. That was kind of spooky. What, what is that? What is that?

• 13:38Speaker 03

  More noises.

• 13:40Speaker 05

  What did David Cross bring into this room, dude?

• 13:42Speaker 03

  Bad episode of Paranormal. Oh, my God. What was that?

• 13:46Speaker 05

  Get the meter up.

• 13:49Speaker 02

  Sage, sage, sage.

• 13:50Bobby Lee?

  Alright, okay. Get a couple of yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahs going, you know what I mean?

• 13:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:57Speaker 03

  Have you ever seen the yeah, yeah, yeahs?

• 13:59Bobby Lee?

  I love them.

• 13:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, they're great.

• 14:00Bobby Lee?

  I love that whole, um...

• 14:02Speaker 03

  How could you? I just gave you the opportunity to say yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:07Speaker 03

  Because I love them. You missed it completely.

• 14:09Speaker 02

  I love them.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  Because then we could have done like a who's on first.

• 14:13Bobby Lee?

  Oh, we could have done a bit. Well, I never took improv class. I'm not a Groundlings guy.

• 14:17Speaker 03

  I never took improv class.

• 14:19Bobby Lee?

  You never took improv, UCB, or anything like that?

• 14:20Speaker 03

  Nope.

• 14:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, just straight stand-up.

• 14:22Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 14:23Bobby Lee?

  Okay?

• 14:23Speaker 03

  Oh, wow. I mean, I did sketches. We had, you know, as the...

• 14:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I grew up in the 90s.

• 14:28Speaker 03

  Back in Boston and Mr. Show and stuff.

• 14:31Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I love the yeah.

• 14:34Bobby Lee?

  I love the yeah, yeah, yeahs.

• 14:38Speaker 03

  Alright, let me...

• 14:39Speaker 05

  Set him up again. Let's cut it. Set him up again.

• 14:43Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, I don't want it, okay? I don't want it. I missed the opportunity. I don't care.

• 14:48Speaker 05

  This is your podcast. You could cut this.

• 14:50Bobby Lee?

  I, I, I don't want to cut.

• 14:52Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 14:52Bobby Lee?

  I wanted to show the audience.

• 14:53Speaker 03

  You know what? I just realized.

• 14:54Bobby Lee?

  What? You want to go home?

• 14:57Speaker 03

  Eventually, yeah. But now, I think this is a great, uh, opportunity to tell everybody that my latest special, End of the Beginning of the End,

• 15:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 15:09Speaker 03

  is available now, early access, on my website, officialdavidcross.com. But, in about a month, it goes to the 800-pound gorilla.

• 15:19Bobby Lee?

  Mmm.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  Distribution.

• 15:21Bobby Lee?

  Distribution.

• 15:22Speaker 03

  Youtubes.

• 15:22Bobby Lee?

  So, so where can they see it?

• 15:24Speaker 03

  Uh, right now, officialdavidcross.com.

• 15:26Bobby Lee?

  Davidcross.com, officialdavidcross.com, watch the special.

• 15:31Speaker 03

  The End of the Beginning of the End.

• 15:32Bobby Lee?

  The End in the Beginning of the End.

• 15:35Speaker 03

  The End of.

• 15:36Bobby Lee?

  The End of the Beginning.

• 15:37Speaker 03

  Of the End.

• 15:38Bobby Lee?

  Of the End.

• 15:39Speaker 03

  Just read it. Say it all together.

• 15:40Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I read it?

• 15:42Speaker 02

  The End?

• 15:42Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:43Bobby Lee?

  David Cross, The End of the Beginning of the End.

• 15:46Speaker 03

  Watch now.

• 15:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, watch.

• 15:47Speaker 03

  That's my new logo up there. What do you think?

• 15:49Bobby Lee?

  I like it a lot.

• 15:50Speaker 03

  Brand new, brand new.

• 15:50Bobby Lee?

  Love it. We love it. We love that.

• 15:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 15:53Speaker 05

  Are you just tired to go no hat?

• 15:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Speaker 02

  I want that on a beer koozie.

• 16:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, that would be cool, too.

• 16:06Speaker 02

  That looks good.

• 16:06Speaker 03

  A t-shirt.

• 16:07Speaker 02

  Or like on my...

• 16:08Speaker 03

  Thong?

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 16:10Speaker 03

  Oh, a hip.

• 16:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:12Bobby Lee?

  Or maybe a tattoo across the chest?

• 16:13Speaker 03

  Ooh.

• 16:14Speaker 02

  Hair cross.

• 16:15Speaker 03

  On my hip?

• 16:16Speaker 02

  On my hip.

• 16:17Speaker 03

  Ooh, for the gays, a jockstrap?

• 16:18Speaker 02

  Ooh.

• 16:19Bobby Lee?

  Oh, for the, yeah.

• 16:21Speaker 03

  Oh, man.

• 16:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. And the faces where the, the faces where the penis is...

• 16:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:25Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 16:27Speaker 03

  Head of the penis?

• 16:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 16:28Speaker 03

  And depending on, uh, how well hung you are, the beard grows longer.

• 16:33Bobby Lee?

  Oh, it adjusts. Yeah, okay.

• 16:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, the beard stays for us.

• 16:38Bobby Lee?

  Oh, the beard stays for you, yeah.

• 16:39Speaker 02

  Hat, no hat, circumcised.

• 16:41Bobby Lee?

  For you.

• 16:41Speaker 03

  There you go.

• 16:43Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 16:43Speaker 03

  Uh, hat, no hat, either way, circumcised, yep. Um, I...

• 16:59Bobby Lee?

  Here at Tiger Belly, we use Shopify because we have a commerce, e-commerce business. We sell t-shirts online, man, and Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e-commerce in the US from household names like Allbirds or, um...

• 17:19Speaker 03

  Skims.

• 17:19Bobby Lee?

  Skims.

• 17:20Speaker 03

  Tiger Belly.

• 17:21Bobby Lee?

  Tiger Belly, two brands just getting started. Get started with your own design studio with hundreds of ready-to-use templates. Shopify helps you build a beautiful online store that matches your brand's style.

• 17:31Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 17:32Speaker 02

  Accelerate your efficiency whether you're uploading new products or trying to improve existing ones. Shopify is packed with helpful AI tools that write product descriptions, paid head, page headlines, and even enhance your product photography. What if people haven't heard about my brand?

• 17:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's a very good question, Catherine. Uh, Shopify helps you find customers with easy-to-run email and social media campaigns.

• 17:53Speaker 02

  But what if I get slapped?

• 17:54Bobby Lee?

  I'll, I'll tell you another thing, Catherine. Shopify is always around to share advice with their award-winning 24/7 customer support.

• 18:02Speaker 03

  And did I mention that iconic purple Shop Pay button?

• 18:06Bobby Lee?

  No, you didn't mention it, but I'm glad you said it because that's used by millions of businesses around the world. It's why Shopify has the best converting checkout on the planet. It helps, helps boost conversions, meaning less carts going abandoned and more sales for you.

• 18:20Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 18:21Speaker 03

  It's time to turn those what-ifs into...

• 18:24Speaker 00

  With Shopify today. Sign up for your $1 per month trial today at Shopify.com/tigerbelly. Go to Shopify.com/tigerbelly. That's Shopify.com/tigerbelly.

• 18:37Bobby Lee?

  B I L T, Bilt. It's 2026 and you're still paying rent without Bilt? That's cray cray.

• 18:43Speaker 00

  That's cray cray.

• 18:44Bobby Lee?

  It's time for a change. Bilt is the loyalty program for renters that rewards you for your biggest monthly expenses, which is?

• 18:51Speaker 00

  Rent.

• 18:51Bobby Lee?

  Rent. I don't like paying rent, do you?

• 18:53Speaker 02

  No, you don't.

• 18:54Bobby Lee?

  I bet you don't, Jaime. I bet you don't, Catherine. But Bilt makes it feel a little better, does it not?

• 18:59Speaker 02

  It totally does.

• 18:59Bobby Lee?

  Bilt is the loyalty program for renters that rewards you monthly with points and exclusive benefits in your neighborhood. Let me explain, or you explain. Why don't you explain, Catherine?

• 19:09Speaker 02

  All right. With Bilt, every rent payment earns you points that can be used towards flights, hotels, Lyft rides, Amazon.com purchases, and so much more.

• 19:17Speaker 06

  Now, Bilt members can earn points on mortgage payments for the first time. That means you can get rewarded whenever you live and unlock exclusive benefits from more than 45,000 restaurants.

• 19:29Bobby Lee?

  Fitness studios, pharmacies.

• 19:31Speaker 06

  And other neighborhood partners. Personally, I redeem my points for Lyft rides, gift cards at $120.

• 19:39Bobby Lee?

  What else do you like?

• 19:40Speaker 02

  Member-only experiences, down payment on a home, student loan balances, select restaurants in Bilt Home Collection.

• 19:46Bobby Lee?

  I built travel, built travel portal.

• 19:48Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 19:49Bobby Lee?

  I love portals.

• 19:50Speaker 00

  Join the loyalty program for renters at joinbilt.com/belly. That's J O I N B I L T.com/belly. Make sure you use our URL so they know we sent you.

• 20:06Speaker 03

  I, so my, uh, my daughter's school, they, uh, they do a, uh, they have swim lessons. Um, there's a big, massive, uh, sports complex and take a bus there and the kids go and, and I volunteer occasionally to help the kids. It's third grade. Um, you know, make them fucking shut the fuck up and get dressed. We gotta go. And, you know, for either for swimming or out of it. And.

• 20:38Speaker 03

  All these kids are there and there's like 10, 11, 12 boys and uh, and this guy comes in. He's swimming and it's, you know, it's, it's got a couple lanes that are open to the public and whatever. And he's got a uh, jock, like, oh, like banana hammock.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, like not even a speedo. No, this is like Brazilian. And uh, and he's got like uh, leather pants. I mean, this guy was like a very, such an LA type of, this is New York, but like uh, like uh, that frazzled dyed blonde, long hair, like rocker from the 90s.

• 21:23Bobby Lee?

  Like a Targaryen.

• 21:24Speaker 03

  Uh, what's that?

• 21:25Speaker 02

  Like Tarzan but plays guitar?

• 21:29Bobby Lee?

  No, you know what a Targaryen is?

• 21:31Speaker 03

  I clearly.

• 21:32Speaker 05

  Game of Thrones?

• 21:33Bobby Lee?

  Game of Thrones.

• 21:34Speaker 03

  Oh, I haven't seen it.

• 21:34Bobby Lee?

  Uh, they have all white hair, you know what I mean?

• 21:36Speaker 03

  This guy was, but also like acne and like, I think.

• 21:40Bobby Lee?

  They're not Targaryen because they didn't have acne.

• 21:42Speaker 03

  No, this is like, like a lot of meth, I'm guessing.

• 21:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see.

• 21:46Speaker 03

  And diluted kind of rock.

• 21:47Bobby Lee?

  How old?

• 21:48Speaker 02

  He's not hot.

• 21:49Speaker 03

  He probably, he's probably, he's trying to look, you know, like he's in his twenties, but I gotta guess like mid 40s, late 40s.

• 21:56Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see, I see.

• 21:57Speaker 03

  And one of those guys, uh, and, and, and just, I was so uncomfortable because he's just in this fucking weird gay, uh, like, uh, like 90s, like, like a different era, uh, and.

• 22:14Speaker 05

  Hardcore gay.

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Hardcore, yeah, yeah, with leather pants and.

• 22:18Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 22:19Speaker 03

  And, and the.

• 22:19Bobby Lee?

  You see why people are homophobic.

• 22:23Speaker 03

  I wasn't scared of him.

• 22:27Speaker 05

  It was just as tasteful.

• 22:29Speaker 03

  It was, it was just these, these kids, like these, you know, eight, nine year old boys, like just literally right next to him because all the, the lockers are like on top of each other and just, and I'm like, oh God, oh please don't, please don't, please don't turn to your left.

• 22:46Speaker 03

  I don't know why we got on that. Oh, the jock, uh, yeah.

• 22:48Bobby Lee?

  The jock drop, yeah, yeah. How many kids do you have?

• 22:51Speaker 03

  One.

• 22:51Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 22:53Speaker 03

  Well, okay.

• 22:53Speaker 05

  How old?

• 22:54Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 22:56Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, let me ask you something.

• 22:58Speaker 03

  Let me ask you something.

• 23:00Bobby Lee?

  Hold on though, hold on. Why, you don't, what?

• 23:03Speaker 02

  No, he's gonna ask you something.

• 23:04Bobby Lee?

  No, but I'm the host!

• 23:06Speaker 03

  You're the host, yeah.

• 23:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ask me something.

• 23:09Speaker 03

  Uh, why wow?

• 23:12Bobby Lee?

  Why wow?

• 23:13Speaker 03

  What about that information? When you s-

• 23:17Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, hold on, this guy-

• 23:19Speaker 03

  Are you not used to having a fucking conversation?

• 23:23Bobby Lee?

  This guy, this guy, right? Usually people just let it go. Right? Usually people just let it go.

• 23:30Speaker 03

  Not David Cross.

• 23:31Bobby Lee?

  But not David Cross, right? Why wow? So, like, let's, let's, let's analyze it.

• 23:36Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 23:37Bobby Lee?

  Okay? So, you had told a story.

• 23:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:39Bobby Lee?

  Right? And, uh, the last thing you said was, um, uh, "Please don't turn around, please don't turn around," right? And I was processing it.

• 23:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:48Bobby Lee?

  Right? And I thought, "Wow, I..."

• 23:54Speaker 03

  I think, I think you're making this up as you-

• 23:56Bobby Lee?

  No, I'm not making it up, I'm a slow talker!

• 23:59Speaker 03

  You're, that's absolutely not true. You are a rapid talker. You talk so rapidly-

• 24:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but when I'm being thoughtful and mindful, you know what I mean? And when I'm processing, I'm a slow talker.

• 24:09Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 24:09Bobby Lee?

  Okay?

• 24:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 24:10Bobby Lee?

  And I, and I was analyzing the situation and the story, right? And I found it to be intriguing, and I said, "Wow."

• 24:18Speaker 03

  No, you asked me-

• 24:21Speaker 03

  That's not what happened.

• 24:23Speaker 05

  You give the whole step. There's a whole step.

• 24:26Bobby Lee?

  What's the step that I said?

• 24:28Speaker 05

  You asked how many kids he had.

• 24:30Speaker 03

  And I said, "One." And you went, "Wow."

• 24:33Speaker 05

  I think what, can I, can I assert what happened? I think he asked a question, and he was responding to the earlier thing. Like, he's one step behind you.

• 24:43Speaker 03

  Right.

• 24:45Speaker 05

  Like, his mouth is one step ahead, but his brain is one step behind.

• 24:49Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, hold on.

• 24:50Speaker 05

  So he's saying wow to-

• 24:52Bobby Lee?

  I got nervous, I got nervous.

• 24:55Speaker 03

  Can I say this is the best day of my life?

• 24:59Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 24:59Speaker 03

  I'm enjoying this.

• 25:00Bobby Lee?

  No, um, now I know why. Now I know why I said wow. Okay, okay. And the reason why is because it's like, you know, whenever I hear a comic have children, I say, "Wow," because I don't have any children.

• 25:13Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 25:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:14Speaker 03

  Well, but it was specifically about how many. You asked me how many.

• 25:18Speaker 02

  Oh, that's true.

• 25:19Speaker 03

  That's true. It wasn't just, "Do you have a kid?" Yeah. Oh, wow, I get that, sure.

• 25:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:25Speaker 03

  You? It'd be like, "You have a kid?"

• 25:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 25:27Speaker 03

  But it was like, how many?

• 25:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 25:29Speaker 03

  One. And they went, "Wow."

• 25:31Speaker 02

  And then he went, "Wow."

• 25:32Speaker 03

  Wait, this actually, yeah, this makes no sense.

• 25:34Speaker 05

  It felt judgmental.

• 25:35Bobby Lee?

  It doesn't make any sense.

• 25:36Speaker 05

  It did feel judgmental.

• 25:37Bobby Lee?

  It made judgmental, yeah.

• 25:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, as if you expected him to have a whole gaggle of children.

• 25:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 25:42Speaker 05

  You wanted him to be like, prosperous with children.

• 25:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 25:45Speaker 03

  Just to be fair.

• 25:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 25:47Speaker 03

  I, I wasn't like, trying to poke at you. I was genuinely curious, like, what about me having one kid is a wow? Makes you go, "Wow."

• 25:56Speaker 02

  He thought at least three.

• 25:58Bobby Lee?

  Don't tell, no, no, no, don't tell. Wait, wait, don't tell me what I was thinking.

• 26:01Speaker 02

  Well, I thought at least three.

• 26:02Bobby Lee?

  I was thinking. Yeah, that's what I.

• 26:03Speaker 03

  Don't woman-splain to him. Don't Midwestern white woman-splain.

• 26:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Uh, I thought that you had more than one. I think that's what it was.

• 26:13Speaker 03

  And then when you learned that I didn't have more than one.

• 26:16Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I went, "Wow."

• 26:17Speaker 03

  Wow, well, there's a bit of inflection there. It was like, "Wow."

• 26:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, there was a little bit of inflection there.

• 26:22Speaker 03

  So what's the inflection? Where's that coming from?

• 26:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you know, I really don't, I really don't know.

• 26:28Bobby Lee?

  You know, let, let's get down to.

• 26:29Speaker 05

  Do you think it's okay that he only has one child?

• 26:32Speaker 03

  There we go.

• 26:33Bobby Lee?

  It, it would be okay if he had five or none.

• 26:36Speaker 05

  You don't care.

• 26:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I don't care one way or another. Yeah?

• 26:39Speaker 03

  I think, I think you, and I don't, we all do it. We all do it. I think you were just kind of lazily, mindlessly responding. We all do it. We all do it. It's not lies. We all, you know, we all go, "Oh, cool." You know, and then you're like, "Well, is that cool?" "Did I have a tuna fish sandwich?"

• 27:00Speaker 03

  Um, wow.

• 27:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, okay, so don't do that, all right. I think you're right. I think you're absolutely right. I just said it.

• 27:10Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 27:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, to move on.

• 27:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 27:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I said, I said it to move on.

• 27:14Speaker 03

  It had the opposite effect.

• 27:15Bobby Lee?

  It had the opposite effect, yeah, and I apologize.

• 27:18Speaker 03

  There's nothing to apologize for.

• 27:20Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 27:20Speaker 03

  Zero, there's no apologize.

• 27:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, one child.

• 27:23Speaker 03

  That feels nice. Yeah, I have one, I have one daughter.

• 27:25Bobby Lee?

  Did you ever think that you were gonna have any, or no, like?

• 27:28Speaker 03

  I want, yeah, I wanted kids, like, early on. I wasn't ready until recently, but, um, yeah, I always, I always knew I wanted kids.

• 27:38Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 27:38Speaker 02

  How old is your daughter?

• 27:40Speaker 03

  Uh, nine.

• 27:41Speaker 02

  Nine.

• 27:41Bobby Lee?

  Oh, wow.

• 27:43Speaker 05

  What happened? What happened?

• 27:44Speaker 03

  All right, wait, wait, he said, oh, wow.

• 27:47Speaker 05

  What does that mean? Is that bad? Is nine bad?

• 27:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, is it bad or good?

• 27:51Speaker 05

  I just need to know, if nine is good or bad. I need to know which side I'm on.

• 27:55Speaker 03

  I think he's just, it's like programmed to him to say, oh, wow. I was looking over.

• 28:00Speaker 05

  I need to know what side.

• 28:01Speaker 03

  I was looking over here.

• 28:05Speaker 03

  You were being sincere.

• 28:06Speaker 05

  You leaned into the mic.

• 28:08Bobby Lee?

  No, hold on, no, hold on, hold on.

• 28:12Speaker 03

  Dude.

• 28:12Speaker 05

  You absolutely leaned into the mic and said, wow.

• 28:15Bobby Lee?

  Hold on, hold on, yeah, I just.

• 28:19Bobby Lee?

  I just. For some reason, there's a couple of things, the yeah, yeah, yes, and the wows are things that are, are things that I say, right, that I have to, um, isn't it something that I say at, you know?

• 28:34Speaker 03

  It's like your confirmation of hearing something, I think.

• 28:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  It doesn't have any emotion.

• 28:38Bobby Lee?

  There's no emotion to it, right?

• 28:40Speaker 03

  But him going, oh, wow.

• 28:42Bobby Lee?

  It could, are there replacement words that I could use?

• 28:44Speaker 03

  None, zero. They don't exist in the English language.

• 28:48Bobby Lee?

  There's no replacement for wow.

• 28:50Speaker 03

  Of course there are.

• 28:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, stupendous.

• 28:54Speaker 03

  That's a little bit more specific.

• 28:55Bobby Lee?

  It's a little bit, wait, stupenduses?

• 28:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 28:59Speaker 02

  I've never heard that.

• 28:59Bobby Lee?

  Golly, golly.

• 29:01Speaker 03

  Um, golly.

• 29:02Speaker 02

  Golly.

• 29:02Bobby Lee?

  Golly?

• 29:03Speaker 03

  Oh, boy.

• 29:03Bobby Lee?

  Oh, boy.

• 29:04Speaker 02

  Where are you pulling these words from?

• 29:05Bobby Lee?

  From the 50s. From the 40s, 50s.

• 29:08Speaker 03

  You'd say 2030s.

• 29:09Speaker 05

  From the Korean War.

• 29:10Bobby Lee?

  What, during the Korean War?

• 29:11Speaker 03

  From the Korean War.

• 29:13Bobby Lee?

  Is that what you said?

• 29:14Speaker 05

  I mean, I guess the GIs.

• 29:16Bobby Lee?

  Oh, the GIs would say, golly a lot? Golly, I just killed a Korean?

• 29:20Speaker 03

  Golly, she golly.

• 29:23Bobby Lee?

  Golly, I just slaughtered a village.

• 29:26Speaker 05

  Hey, some married the woman and...

• 29:28Bobby Lee?

  Oh, right.

• 29:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 29:30Speaker 05

  I'm sorry, I don't mind.

• 29:31Speaker 03

  Golly sounds like it could be a slur for some, like a slur they would come up in the war for some...

• 29:36Bobby Lee?

  Mmm.

• 29:37Speaker 05

  Golly?

• 29:38Bobby Lee?

  Golly is a slur.

• 29:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, but a bunch of golly.

• 29:42Speaker 03

  I was out there, man. I can't, I go down to Home Depot. I get there and there's just a bunch of goddamn gollies. Running around.

• 29:50Bobby Lee?

  Ah, I see.

• 29:50Speaker 03

  Trying to, trying to clean my windshield and whatnot.

• 29:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:54Speaker 02

  Are you Mexican?

• 29:55Speaker 03

  No, no, this is a different Home Depot.

• 29:57Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

• 29:59Speaker 03

  It's in Alaska, it's in June, right outside...

• 30:02Speaker 05

  Where the gollies hang out.

• 30:04Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:04Speaker 03

  The golly community.

• 30:06Bobby Lee?

  They're like mong.

• 30:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, you ever meet a mong?

• 30:09Speaker 03

  Fish again, yeah.

• 30:10Bobby Lee?

  Where is that?

• 30:11Speaker 05

  Who are you?

• 30:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, who are you?

• 30:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're big too.

• 30:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, big heads.

• 30:15Speaker 05

  Big.

• 30:16Speaker 03

  Mongs, that'd be golly, that'd be, let's, can we try it?

• 30:20Bobby Lee?

  What?

• 30:20Speaker 05

  What?

• 30:20Speaker 03

  Can this show, we can apply the word golly to mongs.

• 30:25Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 30:26Speaker 03

  It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a slang.

• 30:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:29Speaker 05

  What's a mong? That's the most offensive thing I've ever heard.

• 30:31Bobby Lee?

  That's the most offensive thing I've ever heard.

• 30:32Speaker 05

  That's the craziest thing I've ever...

• 30:33Speaker 03

  That's crazy you said that, you're from the Midwest.

• 30:34Speaker 05

  That's so racist, you're gonna be cancelled for that.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  I don't know what it is.

• 30:37Speaker 05

  No, it's, it's a very little-known Asian...

• 30:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:43Speaker 05

  It's not even a country anymore.

• 30:44Speaker 03

  Community.

• 30:45Speaker 05

  Like, it's a community.

• 30:45Bobby Lee?

  A group of people.

• 30:46Speaker 05

  Ex-pat community.

• 30:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 30:48Speaker 05

  Culture.

• 30:48Speaker 03

  They're, uh...

• 30:49Bobby Lee?

  You're driven out.

• 30:50Speaker 03

  Clint Eastwood made a movie.

• 30:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:53Speaker 03

  Story, yeah. Get off my lawn.

• 30:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 30:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 30:55Speaker 02

  He said bad, is it a slur?

• 30:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm not gonna say that word.

• 30:58Speaker 02

  The one?

• 30:58Speaker 03

  No, no, mong is the name of the people.

• 31:01Speaker 05

  But it's H-M-O-N-G, so when you see it...

• 31:04Bobby Lee?

  It's a silent H.

• 31:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:06Bobby Lee?

  It's, it's, it's not homong.

• 31:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 31:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:08Speaker 02

  Homo?

• 31:10Speaker 05

  No homo.

• 31:11Bobby Lee?

  No homo. What are you doing? Is it your Midwestern comedy coming out?

• 31:18Speaker 03

  Altadena comedy?

• 31:21Bobby Lee?

  You went from HMO1G to homo.

• 31:24Speaker 03

  Wait, where's Altadena? Is that?

• 31:25Speaker 02

  It's God now.

• 31:28Speaker 03

  It's in heaven.

• 31:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 31:29Speaker 03

  Altadena's in heaven now. Oh, that's how I know it from the fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah. Sorry, I didn't mean it.

• 31:35Bobby Lee?

  Where is Altadena?

• 31:35Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 31:36Speaker 03

  Oh, that's terrible.

• 31:37Bobby Lee?

  Is it north from here or south?

• 31:38Speaker 03

  North.

• 31:39Speaker 02

  North.

• 31:39Bobby Lee?

  Oh, north.

• 31:39Speaker 03

  It's by, uh, uh, uh, it's like Pasadena? Yeah. Right at Glendale, above Pasadena.

• 31:45Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 31:45Speaker 02

  The Dirty D.

• 31:46Bobby Lee?

  How long did it take you to do an, get, get an hour?

• 31:50Speaker 03

  Uh...

• 31:50Bobby Lee?

  I just shot my special.

• 31:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 31:52Bobby Lee?

  A month ago. I'd never done one before.

• 31:53Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 31:54Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 31:54Speaker 03

  How was it?

• 31:55Bobby Lee?

  It was fine.

• 31:56Speaker 03

  Like, the experience?

• 31:57Bobby Lee?

  The experience was great.

• 31:58Speaker 03

  Where'd you shoot it?

• 31:59Bobby Lee?

  In San Diego, and it was a really great experience, but, um, I'm a really lazy writer.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 32:05Bobby Lee?

  And it took me 30 years to come up with it now. I'm not kidding you. It was like, it was like, it was like the best of...

• 32:11Speaker 03

  30 years.

• 32:11Bobby Lee?

  The 30 years of me doing comedy. Cause no one had ever asked me to do a special.

• 32:16Speaker 03

  Right.

• 32:17Bobby Lee?

  Right, so I was just like, I'll just keep doing stand-up, right? And then finally, you know, a company went, you know what I mean, would you like to do one? And I said, yeah, you know what I mean? So, um, and now, when it comes out in November, I have to start over, which I've never started over.

• 32:28Speaker 03

  November? Why so...

• 32:29Bobby Lee?

  I don't, I don't know why, but, yeah, but, um, yeah.

• 32:32Speaker 03

  Thanksgiving, yeah.

• 32:32Bobby Lee?

  Well, Hulu, you know, they're, yeah, it's a scheduling thing, and, um, cause they only put out one a month, and I think Glazer has one, and a couple people have had one.

• 32:39Speaker 03

  What's the name of it?

• 32:41Bobby Lee?

  It's called Finally, because I've never done one before.

• 32:43Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 32:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, and, um, how long does it take you to create an hour, do you think?

• 32:48Speaker 03

  Uh, I mean, the, the, so what I do is, uh, and I'm, I just started, literally have done two shows in this process, and I've done it for the last four tours, four specials, four tours. So, I do this thing, uh, starting in Brooklyn where I live, called Shooting the Shit, Seeing What Sticks. And I go, do you know Union Hall?

• 33:10Bobby Lee?

  Mm-mm.

• 33:11Speaker 03

  In, in Brooklyn, anybody? Okay, so you guys, um, we'll be vocal about it.

• 33:16Speaker 03

  You can't tell at home that you're not in it that way, so...

• 33:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 33:20Speaker 03

  Oh, wow!

• 33:21Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, wait, can you say the line again? Say the line again?

• 33:23Speaker 03

  Um, it's, uh...

• 33:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 33:25Speaker 03

  So I do, so I, uh, go to Union Hall in Brooklyn. Oh, Union Hall.

• 33:29Speaker 02

  I fucking love that place.

• 33:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, great. Ah. It's great, and, uh, it's small, 99-seat in a basement, and I do like...

• 33:37Bobby Lee?

  They can't add a seat?

• 33:43Speaker 03

  Just for roundness? They stop at nine?

• 33:46Bobby Lee?

  One seat.

• 33:48Speaker 03

  It's probably, I'm gonna guess, a tax thing?

• 33:50Bobby Lee?

  Oh, it's a tax thing.

• 33:51Speaker 03

  I'm guessing, but that's a very good question.

• 33:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, just one seat in the back, I don't know.

• 33:59Speaker 03

  No, it can't have three numbers! Two numbers, that's it!

• 34:06Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's it. Look at it, that's the room.

• 34:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's great.

• 34:10Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, is it advertised David Cross, or is it just like?

• 34:13Speaker 03

  They always have shows down there.

• 34:14Bobby Lee?

  Okay, so?

• 34:15Speaker 03

  So there's an upstairs bar, that's upstairs bar, and then they have this thing, it's been there for, I don't know, 10 years now?

• 34:22Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 34:22Speaker 03

  Longer, and, uh, it's great, it's great for what, and I'm sure you know, literally dozens, if not 100 people have done shows there.

• 34:32Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see.

• 34:32Speaker 03

  And it's, uh, so, I go there and I do, and I, and I, I think like yourself, I can't write, I can't sit down and write, I don't, it just doesn't work that way.

• 34:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 34:43Speaker 03

  Um, all my stuff comes from on stage, so, I go up with notes and I record every set and I go, you know, "Let's try this, is this funny, this thing happened, that's fucked up."

• 34:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  You know, whatever, and you just sort of build, uh, and you have ideas, definitely like, "I wanna talk about this," and then, the first two shows always are tough, you know? But then slowly but surely you start.

• 35:07Bobby Lee?

  But, but, uh, 'cause I wanna know as a comic, when it's, 'cause I have a problem with silence.

• 35:12Speaker 03

  Oh, I don't at all, and I, I, I've said to, to people that I really admire, uh, I think I said this to Steve too, like, good comics, I like, do not need-

• 35:22Bobby Lee?

  Steven Wright?

• 35:23Speaker 03

  Steve Fury.

• 35:24Bobby Lee?

  Oh, Steve Fury, okay, okay, okay.

• 35:26Speaker 03

  Sorry, uh, no, I wouldn't tell Steven Wright. Hey! Tell Steven Wright to go. Hey, uh, save this for me, alright, we'll give you a little tip.

• 35:33Bobby Lee?

  Steven Wright, Mort Saul, come over here!

• 35:36Speaker 03

  No, I think it's a, it's a real issue. Uh, I see it with a lot of comics and they're, as you said, afraid of silence and you should embrace the silence. You should use it. It's a tool. Use it. Do not be afraid of si- now, I'm obviously not 10 second gaps, but.

• 35:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 35:58Speaker 03

  Silence is your friend. Don't embrace it.

• 36:01Bobby Lee?

  I'm getting triggered.

• 36:02Speaker 05

  I know, cause you and I, yeah, you and I are the same in that way. Yeah, we don't like it.

• 36:06Speaker 03

  We don't like it.

• 36:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, we wanna kill.

• 36:08Speaker 03

  I understand. You can kill with, with si- I under-

• 36:11Speaker 05

  You can kill with silence.

• 36:12Speaker 03

  You can.

• 36:13Speaker 05

  Oh, I did not know that.

• 36:14Bobby Lee?

  I know you can.

• 36:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:16Speaker 03

  You know, uh, do you know Stuart Lee?

• 36:19Speaker 05

  No.

• 36:20Speaker 03

  British comedian? Genius.

• 36:22Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 36:24Speaker 03

  He's very soft spoken. He uses silence, you know, to get attention to, uh, not attention, but focus and make hi- the punchlines have even more gravity.

• 36:37Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 36:37Speaker 03

  And, um, and I've certainly used sta- uh, uh, silence to, you know, make you anticipate in a way that you wouldn't if I didn't take a two seconds.

• 36:53Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 36:54Speaker 03

  And it, and I'm telling you, I've seen so many really good comics just plow through that stuff and I can tell they're afraid of silence. Do not be afraid of silence.

• 37:03Speaker 05

  Yeah. I wish you, I wish, I talked to you before I filmed my YouTube special. Cause I saw, I edited it myself and I saw how much I do that and I fucking hated it.

• 37:15Speaker 03

  Okay, so lesson learned, you know, uh, uh.

• 37:18Speaker 05

  What, what do you mean? What, what did you hate about it? I hate it that I didn't just let it breathe.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:25Speaker 05

  Because I, like what we talked about, like, I want to like- Get in there and like get the quantity of laughs so bad that I don't care about the quality of the laugh.

• 37:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, right.

• 37:38Speaker 05

  Cause so I'm getting four small laughs whereas like if I waited I would have gotten one huge laugh.

• 37:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 37:44Speaker 05

  And I wish I knew that before I filmed myself.

• 37:48Speaker 03

  Well, you've got all this time to, to, you know, live and learn and, and.

• 37:53Speaker 05

  This is it for him, dude.

• 37:54Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 37:55Speaker 03

  No, that's. Are you done? Oh, you're not allowed to do it anymore.

• 37:57Speaker 05

  YouTube said no more.

• 37:59Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 38:00Speaker 05

  They say you can do it, but don't ever post anything.

• 38:03Bobby Lee?

  I, I see.

• 38:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:04Speaker 03

  But I mean, we're trained, we're like, I see people trained that way, like, um. It's like you gotta go out there, especially club comics too. You gotta go out there, you gotta fucking nail, you know. It's, and as you said it perfectly, it's quantity over quality.

• 38:20Speaker 05

  It's exactly that.

• 38:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  And I think I, I don't have the, I am now getting the, ten years in.

• 38:27Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 38:27Speaker 05

  The confidence to be like, maybe.

• 38:32Speaker 03

  Just own it, own that stage. That's your stage, that's your time.

• 38:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 38:36Speaker 03

  You're telling them, you're talking to them, you know, and everybody's on the ride together.

• 38:41Speaker 05

  Why can't we do that? Is it like an Asian thing?

• 38:43Bobby Lee?

  No, I think it has to do with trauma.

• 38:44Speaker 05

  I think it is trauma too.

• 38:45Bobby Lee?

  I think there's trauma.

• 38:47Speaker 05

  Because I'm like trying to, every time I go on stage, it's life or death.

• 38:51Bobby Lee?

  It's, it's not just life or death, I want them to like me so ma, but much.

• 38:54Speaker 05

  Me too.

• 38:55Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 38:55Speaker 05

  That's what I mean about like, I think I'm gonna die if you don't like.

• 38:58Bobby Lee?

  They need it, the neediness of their affirmation is what I crave.

• 39:02Speaker 05

  It's like an addict.

• 39:02Bobby Lee?

  Right, it's like an addict, right?

• 39:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's how I feel.

• 39:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, I accept that, I get that.

• 39:06Bobby Lee?

  This is another good point that you made is I think there is a difference between club comedy, right? And other sorts of, like, people that are do, doing other kind of venues like Largo or whatnot.

• 39:16Speaker 05

  Theater.

• 39:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, or, or there.

• 39:17Bobby Lee?

  Or, or here, right? When you're following, you know, I mean, have, like, like in situations that I'm in, you know what I mean, like, you know, the lineups are so.

• 39:25Speaker 02

  Stacked.

• 39:26Speaker 03

  And the audience is trained, the audience is trained to go like, I don't wanna, you know, especially if everybody is doing, has the same approach, they're like, what, why is this guy? He hasn't said anything for two seconds.

• 39:40Speaker 03

  What the fuck is this guy doing?

• 39:41Speaker 00

  No one's thinking that.

• 39:41Bobby Lee?

  Yes. No one's thinking that.

• 39:43Speaker 03

  I don't, I don't, I forget that.

• 39:45Bobby Lee?

  I forget that.

• 39:45Speaker 03

  I forget that.

• 39:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I forget that.

• 39:46Speaker 02

  But I think they might be thinking that, because I think that our attention spans are so quick now, that it's like,

• 39:51Speaker 03

  Oh, this has, this has been a thing for a while, I think.

• 39:54Speaker 02

  You think so?

• 39:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's just, it's a, it's an approach to, to stand up, and I think it,

• 39:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 40:00Speaker 03

  You, you're both right, it comes from this place, especially when you're starting out, and, uh, you know, it takes years to really start finding your voice and feeling and getting it, and it's, uh, you know, intuitive and innate, and, uh, it takes a while, and there's, there's that, that, like, I gotta get laughs, I gotta, or I'm not gonna move forward in my career, you know, I, I need time, and I gotta, so, you know, but, but you guys have all seen it, some different, like, open mic nights when you travel and stuff, and you've been on the road, and then that happens, and then there's a guy, like Stephen Wright, perfect example, gets up, I mean, that guy, talk about silence.

• 40:39Bobby Lee?

  Silence, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 40:40Speaker 03

  You know, and there are lots of, uh, uh, comics like that, and it, it works.

• 40:46Bobby Lee?

  Hmm, hmm.

• 40:48Speaker 03

  But I know why, I know where it comes from, I, I, I understand it, I'm just saying, as, as a old legendary stage of stand-up comedy, you know, I, it's, it's the number one thing I say to people when I see them doing that, 'cause I go like, you are, what is that?

• 41:09Speaker 00

  That's you.

• 41:10Speaker 03

  No, who's on the left?

• 41:11Speaker 00

  Isn't that you?

• 41:12Speaker 03

  No.

• 41:13Bobby Lee?

  That's not you on the left?

• 41:14Speaker 00

  People have it listed as you.

• 41:21Bobby Lee?

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• 41:49Speaker 02

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• 41:51Bobby Lee?

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• 42:06Bobby Lee?

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• 42:15Speaker 00

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• 42:27Speaker 07

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• 42:40Speaker 00

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• 43:23Speaker 00

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• 43:39Speaker 07

  Minoxidil and finasteride.

• 43:46Bobby Lee?

  Dude, what are you doing?

• 43:48Speaker 03

  What? I've never worn a tie.

• 43:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's this?

• 43:53Speaker 02

  That's a golly.

• 43:54Speaker 03

  Oh, that is...

• 43:55Speaker 05

  That's a golly.

• 43:55Speaker 02

  That's a golly, for sure.

• 43:56Speaker 03

  That is the after the bends... Oh, this is actually a good story.

• 43:59Speaker 05

  Is that you right there?

• 44:00Bobby Lee?

  Wait, wait, wait.

• 44:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's me in the robe.

• 44:01Bobby Lee?

  In the robe?

• 44:02Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 44:03Bobby Lee?

  Wow. There you are, there you are, wow!

• 44:07Speaker 03

  That's gotta, what, is that 93, 94?

• 44:10Speaker 02

  I like your... What is that part of the...

• 44:12Speaker 03

  Soul patch.

• 44:13Speaker 02

  Soul patch, I like that.

• 44:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 44:15Speaker 03

  Believe it.

• 44:15Speaker 05

  Do you have any Greek in you?

• 44:17Speaker 03

  No.

• 44:18Speaker 05

  Like, Mediterranean?

• 44:18Speaker 03

  No. Because of my skin color?

• 44:21Speaker 05

  You look really tan.

• 44:22Bobby Lee?

  It's olive.

• 44:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's olive.

• 44:23Bobby Lee?

  Very olive.

• 44:23Speaker 03

  I have, uh... And thankfully, my daughter got my skin, and my wife is like alabaster. You know, but burns and doesn't tan.

• 44:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 44:35Speaker 03

  And, uh, like, she would have been super hot in the 1800s.

• 44:42Speaker 02

  Porcelain.

• 44:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 44:43Speaker 03

  But I've, yeah, I've got like, uh...

• 44:45Bobby Lee?

  In olive.

• 44:46Speaker 03

  I mean, this is...

• 44:47Speaker 05

  Whoa, that's a good tan.

• 44:48Speaker 03

  It's not a tan, I've been in New York.

• 44:50Speaker 05

  That's your regular?

• 44:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's regular. Oh, I get super tan, I get dark, dark, dark.

• 44:54Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 44:55Speaker 03

  I get dark where I could pass.

• 44:57Speaker 02

  Where do you hail from?

• 44:57Speaker 05

  That's what?

• 44:58Bobby Lee?

  Rob Schneider.

• 45:01Bobby Lee?

  He can pass as Rob Schneider.

• 45:03Speaker 05

  So, Filipino?

• 45:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, half Filipino.

• 45:06Speaker 05

  David Cross is half Filipino?

• 45:08Bobby Lee?

  No, but if he gets tan, he can cross.

• 45:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 45:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, he passes as Rob Schneider. Without the politics.

• 45:13Speaker 05

  I've gotten politics before.

• 45:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Wow.

• 45:19Speaker 03

  That was my headshot, I needed to, um... I was living in LA. That's probably 86, I was here for a summer. And I wanted to get, uh, tried to get, uh, stand-up, uh, work. And I, uh, they were like, "You have to have a headshot." And I had no headshots, and I had no money, so I went to the Sears down on, uh, Santa Monica, and I don't know if it's still there, it's probably gone. It was like 4th and Santa Monica, somewhere like that. And they had this thing where you could, for baby pictures, you know, for like eighteen dollars, you can get a eight by ten and a, and some wallet size.

• 45:58Speaker 03

  So I, I took a little bit of money and I went down to the, that, cause that was the picture I could afford. And I, and that was my headshot for.

• 46:08Bobby Lee?

  Pull up the one that mine from the La Jolla. Yeah, that's, that's the same thing. That's the same thing for me.

• 46:14Speaker 00

  You know what's so funny?

• 46:16Bobby Lee?

  What? I didn't go to Sears, but I remember like my.

• 46:19Speaker 03

  Like Olin Mills?

• 46:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, there was like this mall and they had this like photography studio. And it was, you know, I had like forty bucks back then in the nineties.

• 46:27Speaker 03

  That's it, forty bucks is what it cost?

• 46:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, forty bucks, you know what I mean? And I, and I got it.

• 46:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's a good, my, my thing was, was, was nothing. It was like, uh, you know, baby photos. So it was like very cheap.

• 46:39Speaker 00

  Bro, headshots now are like five, four hundred bucks, the whole thing.

• 46:43Speaker 05

  Wait, I feel like the Gen Z boys are doing this hair now. This kinda like poofy mullety thing.

• 46:48Speaker 03

  God, you look so young. I mean, you really do.

• 46:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. I was twenty-three years old there. I'm fifty-four. That was a long, long time ago.

• 46:58Speaker 05

  Damn.

• 46:58Speaker 00

  How old, how old were you here?

• 46:59Speaker 02

  Are you holding a teddy bear in that?

• 47:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm in a kid, you know, they have a little kid's background.

• 47:05Speaker 00

  Defending himself.

• 47:06Speaker 03

  Whoa, whoa. I'm probably, uh, twenty-two.

• 47:13Bobby Lee?

  Twenty-two now. Wow.

• 47:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:15Bobby Lee?

  And did you think at that time, cause you're struggling, right? That everything was gonna work out or?

• 47:23Speaker 03

  Uh, yes and no. I mean, I didn't have any like, uh, uh, I didn't, I didn't think like, oh, it'll, any day now, it's gonna happen. And I, I had years, I mean, a decade plus where I was just, but I was also a fuck up and I was drinking heavily, taking drugs and just not, I had no responsibilities, except to myself. And I grew up poor, so it was like, okay, I'll sleep on the couch and eat, you know, you know, beans out of a can. I, it's not, I don't wanna do that, but I, I can do it. I know that, you know, and, uh.

• 48:03Speaker 03

  And I had fun. It was frustrating and it sucks having no money sometimes, but I laughed a lot and I had a lot of fun and I would, you know, hang out with my friends and do stand-up and then go see bands that were friends of mine and that was my life for a while. So it was-

• 48:22Bobby Lee?

  What bands?

• 48:23Speaker 03

  Uh, the Yeah Yeahs.

• 48:27Speaker 03

  This is pre Yeah Yeahs. But I, I had the feeling like, okay, I'm, I was never one of those people's like, I'm gonna give it three years and if it doesn't work, I'm gonna go back to, you know, doing data processing or whatever. I was, I was just going, I was in it. I was just gonna do it. I understood early, like, a lot of it is luck, you know, and I thought I-

• 48:54Bobby Lee?

  Do you, do you believe that?

• 48:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 48:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, okay.

• 48:57Speaker 03

  I mean, uh, yes. I know really, really, not, not to absolve people, uh, or myself of irresponsibility and why, you know, could things have been better? Sure. Could things have been worse? Sure. And some of that was up, you know, up to me. Um, but luck is, I know some really unlucky people and they're very talented, you know?

• 49:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 49:22Speaker 03

  And, and I think I've been lucky.

• 49:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but I know some people that-

• 49:26Speaker 03

  And you clearly have been lucky.

• 49:29Bobby Lee?

  I know, I, no. Whoa. Yeah. Wow, wow.

• 49:33Speaker 03

  Dupendous.

• 49:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a slam, that was, yeah, yeah. I wanna see if it hurt. It didn't hurt that bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 49:44Speaker 03

  It's a joke, guys.

• 49:45Bobby Lee?

  But, but sometimes-

• 49:46Speaker 03

  Can we have a can of water?

• 49:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, have a can of water. I'll have a sip, yeah. But I believe, though, sometimes you- That's good water. Yeah. But sometimes you see somebody with a lot of talents and you know why it didn't work out.

• 50:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:02Bobby Lee?

  Through, you know what I mean, choices like drug abuse.

• 50:04Speaker 03

  Personality, yeah.

• 50:05Bobby Lee?

  Personality, and there are certain factors that go into it.

• 50:08Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 50:08Bobby Lee?

  You know, laziness, or whatever it might be, fear. I'm not gonna, I'm not, I never get.

• 50:15Speaker 03

  Those are all legit.

• 50:15Bobby Lee?

  Those are all legit reasons, you know what I mean? I'm not gonna read because I never get it anyway.

• 50:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:19Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, there was, I had that time.

• 50:22Speaker 03

  And there's, there's a bit of the, you know, what's the, when you're sabotaging yourself. Fear, fear of success.

• 50:31Bobby Lee?

  Fear of success.

• 50:32Speaker 03

  I think that I've known people who, I think, unfortunately, had an idea of like, you know, that's, I don't wanna be a sellout, or I don't wanna do that thing. There's a classic story of a comic who was quite popular in Boston at the time, the 80s, when the whole scene was booming, and he was, you know, a mainstay, legit guy, and he, this is the story at least, he got an offer, or they wanted him for the Tom Hanks character in Bosom Buddies.

• 51:11Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 51:11Speaker 03

  And he wouldn't do it because he didn't wanna dress like a girl, and, you know, there's, Boston has that, you know, cult culture there, unfortunately, and.

• 51:26Speaker 03

  There it is.

• 51:27Bobby Lee?

  There it is.

• 51:28Speaker 03

  And.

• 51:29Speaker 02

  That looks like your headshot.

• 51:30Speaker 03

  A little. Yeah, Bobby, look at you.

• 51:34Bobby Lee?

  Well, the guy from Sears did that.

• 51:37Bobby Lee?

  He moved up, he moved up.

• 51:39Speaker 03

  But.

• 51:40Bobby Lee?

  Cat?

• 51:41Speaker 03

  You know.

• 51:41Bobby Lee?

  Cat?

• 51:42Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 51:42Speaker 03

  What?

• 51:43Bobby Lee?

  Special gas.

• 51:43Speaker 02

  I'm sorry.

• 51:44Bobby Lee?

  Oh, go.

• 51:46Speaker 03

  But he wouldn't do it. That's, that's a thing that, you know, because you thought people were gonna make fun of you? You didn't do this thing, then, you know, it's just crazy.

• 51:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 51:59Speaker 05

  People are calling it a humiliation ritual now.

• 52:03Speaker 03

  What?

• 52:03Speaker 05

  That like, Cat Williams talks about it, like how, like, black men are always getting to a point where they're like, "Okay, Hollywood has to put you in a dress," and that becomes like a thing, a ritual to, to like, get success in Hollywood. What do you, is that like a thing that's just kinda like?

• 52:21Bobby Lee?

  I don't think that's a thing.

• 52:22Speaker 03

  I don't, yeah, I mean, I think that there are some things where you're, I guess, black actors, there are probably a handful, where they have dresses that aren't Tyler Perry, you know?

• 52:37Speaker 05

  He's putting himself in that. Please let me play Madea.

• 52:41Bobby Lee?

  He wrote that. Did he write that?

• 52:43Speaker 05

  And produced and directed.

• 52:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He wrote himself in that situation. He's like, "Okay, Hollywood, I'll do it."

• 52:49Speaker 03

  All right, where's?

• 52:50Bobby Lee?

  Bye.

• 52:51Speaker 03

  Where's my billion dollars? Where's my entire industry?

• 52:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, that might be a thing for, but I mean, how many, I mean, you've seen TV shows and movies, how many black actors are cross-dressing? I mean, how many?

• 53:08Speaker 02

  Jawana Man?

• 53:10Speaker 03

  Okay, that's going, that's what, 20 years old?

• 53:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 53:13Speaker 03

  So there's one example.

• 53:15Speaker 05

  Wayans Brothers?

• 53:16Bobby Lee?

  When I did Mad TV, they're like, "You're playing Connie Chung, you're playing this, Lucy Liu, you're playing that." I don't care.

• 53:21Speaker 05

  Well, men dressing up as women is just like a comedy thing that's been so long.

• 53:25Speaker 03

  Fucking Python. Monty Python.

• 53:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 53:28Speaker 03

  Come on. Kids in the Hall.

• 53:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. And then after that, that guy probably didn't get any more offers. Is that what happened?

• 53:36Speaker 03

  Probably not, yeah. I don't know. This is a story that I, you know, was like legend there, but...

• 53:45Bobby Lee?

  That's me and Keegan.

• 53:46Speaker 03

  It's Connie Chung, right?

• 53:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and Keegan played-

• 53:49Speaker 03

  Why is she interviewing Barack naked?

• 53:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, and there's Barack.

• 53:53Speaker 05

  Wait, was it Christmas episode?

• 53:55Bobby Lee?

  I don't even remember that. Same body, though. Look at the scallop. Scallop shape.

• 54:01Bobby Lee?

  Same body.

• 54:02Speaker 02

  I've never seen you look so happy in your life.

• 54:04Speaker 03

  You look hot.

• 54:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I was pretty hot.

• 54:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 54:07Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 54:10Speaker 03

  We'll take it off.

• 54:11Bobby Lee?

  Please take it off because I think I have to shoot more Ozempic or something.

• 54:16Speaker 03

  Shoot more Ozempic?

• 54:18Bobby Lee?

  Because that's not good. That's not a good body.

• 54:19Speaker 03

  That's for you.

• 54:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 54:22Speaker 03

  It wasn't that bad.

• 54:23Bobby Lee?

  It's not bad. Yeah. You've lost weight.

• 54:26Speaker 05

  Did I?

• 54:27Bobby Lee?

  A little bit, yeah.

• 54:27Speaker 05

  Oh, thanks. You've never said that.

• 54:29Speaker 03

  Are you on Ozempic?

• 54:30Speaker 05

  No.

• 54:31Bobby Lee?

  Have you lost weight?

• 54:32Speaker 05

  I have.

• 54:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 54:33Speaker 05

  I've been working out. I have to take my clothes off in a movie.

• 54:38Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 54:39Speaker 03

  That will motivate you.

• 54:39Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 54:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, and I'm scared.

• 54:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 54:42Speaker 05

  I play like a gay best friend, so I'm like-

• 54:44Bobby Lee?

  Oh, I see.

• 54:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 54:46Bobby Lee?

  And when do you shoot?

• 54:47Speaker 05

  23rd.

• 54:48Bobby Lee?

  Of this month?

• 54:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 54:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 54:50Speaker 05

  It's a very low budget. You won't even hear about it.

• 54:54Bobby Lee?

  Negative?

• 54:55Speaker 03

  What's negative?

• 54:57Speaker 05

  It's an AFI student project.

• 55:01Speaker 03

  It's a PSA that's only gonna-

• 55:03Speaker 05

  No, it's so crazy to be like, oh, I'm shooting a movie, but I am shooting something and I have to be naked, so I feel-

• 55:09Speaker 02

  Full weener?

• 55:10Speaker 05

  No full weener, no, thank God. But like, in a Brazilian.

• 55:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 55:14Speaker 02

  A banana hammock.

• 55:16Speaker 03

  That's comedy.

• 55:17Bobby Lee?

  That's comedy.

• 55:18Speaker 05

  Especially when you have, you know-

• 55:20Speaker 02

  Children.

• 55:20Bobby Lee?

  Do you have lines?

• 55:23Speaker 03

  Oh, Bobby.

• 55:27Speaker 03

  Do you?

• 55:27Speaker 05

  No, I don't. You know I don't.

• 55:30Bobby Lee?

  You don't have any lines?

• 55:31Speaker 05

  You know I don't.

• 55:32Bobby Lee?

  Oh, are you just gonna lay in a bed?

• 55:33Speaker 05

  No, I'm taking my shirt off.

• 55:35Bobby Lee?

  I know.

• 55:35Speaker 05

  And dancing around.

• 55:36Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, but you have no lines.

• 55:38Speaker 03

  You have no lines? It's an industrial-

• 55:40Speaker 05

  I don't know. I don't-

• 55:41Speaker 03

  For Comcast. For Comcast.

• 55:43Speaker 05

  I might be able to improvise. I don't know. I looked up the director and her work feels like it's improv-

• 55:48Speaker 03

  It's an in-house, uh- It's an in-house video for Kroger employees.

• 55:54Speaker 05

  It's a vertical.

• 55:55Bobby Lee?

  You know how you're gonna know? The day you show up, they're gonna go, "We're not gonna put a lav on you."

• 56:01Speaker 05

  I'm like, are you sure you don't?

• 56:03Bobby Lee?

  They don't want to.

• 56:04Speaker 05

  There's no, there's no improvise.

• 56:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 56:05Speaker 05

  They're like, no, go ahead. We won't pick it up.

• 56:07Bobby Lee?

  No lock, no lock.

• 56:10Bobby Lee?

  So you're just getting naked for a movie?

• 56:13Speaker 05

  Well, sorry, some of us have to work for, for less, okay?

• 56:16Bobby Lee?

  I, I'm not, I'm not fighting with you about, you know, it's hard out there.

• 56:21Speaker 05

  I'm embarrassed.

• 56:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's hard out there.

• 56:23Speaker 05

  I feel embarrassed.

• 56:24Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's, it's not the same like when we grew up, you know, where there was a lot of projects.

• 56:27Speaker 05

  I know.

• 56:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 56:28Speaker 05

  I'm, my nipples, I'm, I'm self-conscious about my nipples.

• 56:32Speaker 02

  Don't be.

• 56:33Speaker 05

  What am I getting paid? I don't want to tell you that.

• 56:35Speaker 00

  We'll bleep it out, though.

• 56:36Speaker 05

  That's so sad.

• 56:36Bobby Lee?

  It is, well, yeah, we'll bleep it out. We'll bleep it out.

• 56:39Speaker 02

  Free?

• 56:39Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, we'll bleep it out.

• 56:40Speaker 00

  It's free, isn't it?

• 56:41Speaker 02

  Free.

• 56:41Speaker 05

  No, I'm getting paid [BLEEP] dollars.

• 56:44Speaker 03

  Oh, that's not bad.

• 56:45Speaker 02

  Oh, that's really good.

• 56:46Bobby Lee?

  David, David, that's bad.

• 56:47Speaker 02

  That's good.

• 56:48Speaker 03

  I mean, if it's like, uh, it's, it's just one scene?

• 56:52Speaker 02

  And you gotta show them.

• 56:53Speaker 03

  He's like, it's a one week shoot in Montana.

• 56:56Speaker 05

  This feels worse and worse. You have no lines? It's just one scene? Not bad, yeah. It's sag.

• 57:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 57:04Speaker 05

  It's sag.

• 57:05Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's good, that's good. It's sag. It's sag, it's sag.

• 57:08Speaker 03

  Wrong union?

• 57:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 57:09Speaker 05

  Wrong.

• 57:09Bobby Lee?

  Are they gonna Taft Hartley you?

• 57:13Speaker 00

  Oh, I remember Taft Hartley.

• 57:14Speaker 05

  I must, I must join.

• 57:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 57:16Speaker 05

  I must join.

• 57:16Bobby Lee?

  You must join the union. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 57:18Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, most of this check is going to Union D.

• 57:20Bobby Lee?

  Did you read for it?

• 57:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 57:22Speaker 03

  Did you, did you dance for it?

• 57:24Speaker 05

  I danced for it. I danced for it, okay? And yes, it was on Zoom.

• 57:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, okay.

• 57:30Speaker 00

  Do, do you guys remember early, like, projects like this? Like, where you're kind of like, oh, shoot, I can't believe I'm doing this right now? Not that you're saying that you can't believe you're not doing it.

• 57:37Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 57:38Speaker 00

  I'm getting dragged at this point.

• 57:41Speaker 03

  I think I had more self-esteem back then.

• 57:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 57:47Speaker 05

  That's why he holds through his silences.

• 57:48Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 57:50Speaker 05

  This is a, this is an actor that pushes through his punchline.

• 57:53Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but in the beginning, if they were like, okay, it's a Scorsese movie, right? And De Niro's playing a gay guy and you're, you know, and it's a scene with him.

• 58:02Speaker 03

  I'll suck his dick.

• 58:04Bobby Lee?

  All right. Sure.

• 58:05Speaker 05

  They're like, that's not in the script.

• 58:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. I could see myself in that situation going, no lines.

• 58:11Speaker 03

  Oh, fuck yeah.

• 58:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, fuck yeah. Scorsese movie, yeah, I'll do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 58:15Speaker 02

  Is this a Scorsese?

• 58:16Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  No, no, it's an indie.

• 58:19Bobby Lee?

  It's an indie.

• 58:20Speaker 05

  And, you know.

• 58:21Bobby Lee?

  There's a script.

• 58:22Speaker 03

  And who, you said you looked up the director's work?

• 58:25Speaker 05

  And they seem amenable to improv.

• 58:27Speaker 03

  So, so, I don't know.

• 58:28Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Let's just see what her work is like here.

• 58:31Speaker 03

  We're breaking down auditions.

• 58:33Speaker 02

  It sounds like a real estate.

• 58:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, she's a real estate agent from Compass.

• 58:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 58:40Speaker 05

  That, by the way, is a callback to his special for the deep fans.

• 58:45Speaker 03

  Oh, my god. That's right.

• 58:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 58:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 58:48Speaker 03

  I watched it. Oh, my lord, that's really good. I didn't even catch that.

• 58:52Speaker 05

  So, clip that.

• 58:53Speaker 03

  Oh, I didn't even catch that.

• 58:54Speaker 05

  Peter, redemption.

• 58:55Speaker 03

  That was a real, I mean, that was legit. Everything I do in all my specials are really happened, but, uh...

• 59:02Bobby Lee?

  It sounds like it.

• 59:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was, uh, that was, like...

• 59:07Speaker 05

  That inspired me to write back to those.

• 59:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:10Bobby Lee?

  Do you make up stories ever?

• 59:11Speaker 03

  No.

• 59:12Bobby Lee?

  Ever?

• 59:12Speaker 03

  Yep, never.

• 59:13Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 59:14Speaker 03

  I mean, well, you... The opposite, right? I should say that I do, I make things up.

• 59:23Speaker 03

  No, this is my, this is my hangup. It's my thing and I'm, I'm a, I'm, I admit that it's a weird thing, but I don't, I don't like people who even exaggerate, and I will call you on an exaggeration. My wife, I'm telling you, it's annoying. I know it. I know it. I got, I think it's all psychological shit because of my dad.

• 59:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 59:46Speaker 03

  Uh, who is just a pathological liar and, uh, uh...

• 59:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 59:50Speaker 03

  And, and I can't, I don't, I don't, when like, my wife, or any friends too, would be like, telling a story that I was a part of, and they're like... Whatever the thing is, like, oh, man, it's, it was like five miles away, or it was, and it was like, literally, it was 99 degrees, or whatever the thing is, I'll be like, it wasn't five miles away, it was like, two and a half miles. You know, like, that kind of thing, or I'll go, it wasn't 99 degrees.

• 1:00:15Bobby Lee?

  Details matter.

• 1:00:17Speaker 03

  I just-

• 1:00:17Bobby Lee?

  My partner's exactly like that.

• 1:00:19Speaker 03

  I have a- I'm exactly not like this. And my, and I understand why people are annoyed at it. I do, I get it, like, who cares, really? But, for some reason, I just can't let it go, and like, that's not true.

• 1:00:31Bobby Lee?

  You like to be exact.

• 1:00:33Speaker 03

  I just don't, not exact, I just don't, I don't know why you're exaggerating. The story is fine without you adding-

• 1:00:42Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but if somebody says, "Yeah, I saw Lord of the Rings, it's a thousand hours long," that, I mean-

• 1:00:46Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:00:47Bobby Lee?

  David's like, "Bobby, no, two hours." Two hours.

• 1:00:50Speaker 03

  No, I'm not that guy.

• 1:00:51Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay.

• 1:00:52Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:00:52Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:00:53Speaker 03

  I'm not that guy. I'm talking about, when you're telling a story that I'm supposed to empathize with, or sympathize with, or it's, it's like, you're being dramatic about this thing, and I know the story, and it was a crazy thing that happened, but you're, there is literally no need to-

• 1:01:14Bobby Lee?

  Embellish.

• 1:01:14Speaker 03

  Embellish, like that, and, and, and, or exaggerate, like, if it was, yes, it's hot, it was hot, it was not 99 degrees. And you don't need, you're not gonna gain any more sympathy, or-

• 1:01:27Bobby Lee?

  It's, does it feel manipulative?

• 1:01:29Speaker 03

  I, I just don't understand why people do it, and I don't, and, and like, like,

• 1:01:37Speaker 03

  I just don't get it, and it bothers, it's just, it's a pet peeve, and I get why people are irritated with me.

• 1:01:42Bobby Lee?

  But if a joke become, can become stronger by lying, why wouldn't you use it?

• 1:01:49Speaker 03

  I, I, there are times I've, I've-

• 1:01:53Speaker 03

  Exaggerated, but you know it. You're not ever questioning it. But this isn't like, like the Hasan Minhaj thing. I don't make shit up.

• 1:02:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that, that. Oh, that, yes, yes.

• 1:02:05Speaker 03

  And I don't.

• 1:02:06Bobby Lee?

  Bleep this up [BLEEP] thing.

• 1:02:08Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's obvious. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:10Speaker 03

  And I, but the stories that I tell, like, like the one about, you know, the major one in this last special. Every single word, every single thing happened.

• 1:02:21Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:02:22Speaker 03

  Uh, the, I have a, a story in a couple of specials ago about walking down the street in the East Village and a guy saying, "Hi Hitler," that I, I was like, wait, is he saying?

• 1:02:35Bobby Lee?

  Hi or hi-o?

• 1:02:36Speaker 03

  Hi. I thought I. Hi Hitler? So it's a whole bit.

• 1:02:39Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:40Speaker 03

  Where I'm, I'm walking down the street. It was late at night. It was, um, remember, uh, UCB used to have that room there? And I was.

• 1:02:47Bobby Lee?

  Great room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, huh? Great, great, great. Wow. Yeah, wow, wow.

• 1:02:51Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 1:02:52Bobby Lee?

  Great company.

• 1:02:52Speaker 03

  I lea- I was leaving there and I was walking back to the subway and this guy is coming down on the opposite side of the street and he's, uh, by himself and he's like, "Yeah, fucking, you know, whatever." And he, he's dressed like a businessman, right? He's not immediately visually crazy, right? Uh, which there are plenty of those guys. And he's like, uh, "You know, it's fucking bullshit." I'm like, you know, and I can't tell if he's on a phone and what's going on. He's got nothing. He's got like, um, uh, I think a computer in his hand or something and he's going, uh, "Yeah, it's fucking, it's fucking bullshit. Yeah, I mean, okay, okay. Hi Hitler. Hi Hitler." And, uh, and I'm, I'm listening and I kind of catch it.

• 1:03:34Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:35Speaker 03

  And, uh, and I slow down and I'm like, I start following him where he can't see me, but I'm like, cause I was like, is he saying, "Hi Hitler?" And.

• 1:03:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:47Speaker 03

  He's going on and he's like, "Yeah, okay, great. Yeah, okay. Hi Hitler. Hi Hitler." And then, and then, uh, and then I do this whole bit about how, so one of two things happened. Either.

• 1:03:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:59Speaker 03

  He.

• 1:04:01Speaker 03

  Doesn't realize that the phrase is Heil Hitler. Or he actually thinks he saw Hitler during this conversation. Anyway, it's a whole bit, but that is a real thing that happened.

• 1:04:13Bobby Lee?

  That real thing, okay.

• 1:04:14Speaker 03

  That's an easy thing to make up.

• 1:04:15Bobby Lee?

  Right.

• 1:04:16Speaker 03

  If I thought of that in a different context.

• 1:04:18Bobby Lee?

  Mmm.

• 1:04:20Speaker 03

  And I've never done that, ever.

• 1:04:21Bobby Lee?

  Wow.

• 1:04:22Speaker 03

  And if, if something's clearly made up, you know it. You, it's, I, I just don't lie or, and it's a, it's a, I wish I did.

• 1:04:30Speaker 00

  What are you thinking right now, Bobby?

• 1:04:32Bobby Lee?

  What, what am I thinking right now?

• 1:04:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, why?

• 1:04:34Bobby Lee?

  Cause I, I'm just thinking about my special and how many made up lies.

• 1:04:39Speaker 03

  And every story on this podcast.

• 1:04:40Bobby Lee?

  And every story that I've ever told on this podcast, right? So it's like, you know, I mean, I'm really doing a self-reflection here. You know, because I, I feel like it has to be embellished or made up for people to be, you know what I mean? Engaged in it, you know what I mean?

• 1:04:54Speaker 03

  Well, I don't necessarily think that's true. I think there's another way to find the humor in the thing that, that, I mean, unless you're making something up out of whole cloth.

• 1:05:05Speaker 00

  No, it starts from truth.

• 1:05:06Speaker 03

  Starts from the truth.

• 1:05:07Speaker 00

  Like you're getting molested by a guy with Down syndrome.

• 1:05:09Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:10Speaker 03

  Oh my God, why do you have to make anything up about the hat? It writes itself.

• 1:05:16Bobby Lee?

  There are pieces that are embellished, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:18Speaker 05

  And is it embellished to allow, uh, sorry to cut you off?

• 1:05:20Speaker 03

  No, no, I want to hear this.

• 1:05:21Speaker 05

  For allow, sometimes I make things down because like it's too traumatic. Like what we were talking about before with the chef stuff, like so that I can set up for the audience better for this payoff.

• 1:05:36Speaker 02

  To make it more like, um, like just.

• 1:05:38Speaker 05

  Palatable.

• 1:05:39Bobby Lee?

  Palatable.

• 1:05:40Speaker 05

  So they're not worrying about me.

• 1:05:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:42Speaker 05

  When I'm telling like a crazy story like that.

• 1:05:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, no, for me, it's like, um, I'm, I think it, it goes back to the stand-up where it's like, I'm just so needy, right? That I just, I'm constantly aware that people are listening and, and I feel like I have to overperform or, you know what I mean? To keep people engaged in a certain way, so I, I lie, I lie. I'm, I'm a liar.

• 1:06:05Speaker 03

  Wait, wait.

• 1:06:07Bobby Lee?

  I'm a liar.

• 1:06:07Speaker 00

  No nuance.

• 1:06:09Bobby Lee?

  I, I'm a liar, I, I just, I'm a liar. Yeah, yeah, and I'm a fraud.

• 1:06:16Speaker 03

  Well, ironically, I appreciate your honesty. I'm a fraud.

• 1:06:20Bobby Lee?

  I, I really am, I, you know what I mean?

• 1:06:22Speaker 03

  But Bobby, what, what, uh?

• 1:06:26Speaker 03

  What about, because when you say that you have a bit about, that's true, about being molested by somebody with Down syndrome, that, I, I, I'm not trying to be funny, that

• 1:06:37Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:37Speaker 03

  feels like, oh my god, there's so much material to mine there, why, what happens, I don't know what you added, I don't know the bit, but

• 1:06:46Bobby Lee?

  No, that's not really a bit that I do, I just send it on the pod, on the pod, but it's like, um, they're just, what's the question, finish the question?

• 1:06:53Speaker 03

  Well, I was just wondering why, because it's so ripe for, you can go any

• 1:07:00Bobby Lee?

  Direction.

• 1:07:01Speaker 03

  Any direction, yeah, like, why did you make up a lie when there's so

• 1:07:06Bobby Lee?

  Because there are gray areas that I don't know, because in that particular situation, right, it, I remember bits and pieces of it, and I fill in the gray areas with make believe.

• 1:07:18Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:07:18Bobby Lee?

  I think that's okay.

• 1:07:19Speaker 03

  That's not as egregious as just

• 1:07:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:22Speaker 03

  And do we know, as an audience, do we know you're making the

• 1:07:26Bobby Lee?

  I think people listening don't know, right, but sometimes I will fill in gray areas with things, because

• 1:07:32Speaker 03

  Are you saying maybe, or, you know, no, no, seriously?

• 1:07:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:07:36Speaker 03

  Because if you simply added like, you know, and I don't know, maybe something, and then did the, the lie, wouldn't that still, everybody would be with you, and it wouldn't feel like you're lying?

• 1:07:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'll give you an example of, of the, when I told the story, right, like, for instance, I said that he rode a Zamboni.

• 1:07:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:08:01Speaker 03

  He adds a lot of details where I'm Leave it in, I don't care if it's a lie, you leave that in. There was no Zamboni.

• 1:08:08Speaker 05

  It's white lies, it's white lies, it only enhances

• 1:08:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:13Speaker 05

  It's so funny.

• 1:08:14Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:14Speaker 05

  He didn't, he wasn't a cleaner, he wasn't a

• 1:08:17Bobby Lee?

  You know what a Zamboni is?

• 1:08:17Speaker 05

  He just rode it.

• 1:08:18Bobby Lee?

  You know what a Zamboni is?

• 1:08:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's like an ice cleaner.

• 1:08:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, it's an ice cleaner.

• 1:08:21Speaker 05

  That was just like big motivation.

• 1:08:24Speaker 03

  I mean, if I heard that, I'd go, oh, he's, that's a joke.

• 1:08:27Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 1:08:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly.

• 1:08:29Bobby Lee?

  No, but he did.

• 1:08:30Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 1:08:31Speaker 03

  Didn't he write a

• 1:08:31Bobby Lee?

  He did write a Zamboni.

• 1:08:32Speaker 05

  Oh, I thought that was true.

• 1:08:33Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, no, but so here's the

• 1:08:36Speaker 05

  I thought that was the lie.

• 1:08:37Bobby Lee?

  No, that wasn't the lie.

• 1:08:40Bobby Lee?

  No, no.

• 1:08:41Speaker 03

  Now even more, why do you feel the need to lie? You've got a guy with Down syndrome riding a Zamboni who's going to molest you and you gotta make something up?

• 1:08:52Bobby Lee?

  Yes, yes, I think I do.

• 1:08:55Speaker 03

  Call the hat on a hat.

• 1:08:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I know, so the lies are this, is that like, I remember there being like, it was like a brown building where the Zamboni was, and during the summers, he lived there, and it was, this is in Minnesota, so there was no snow or ice, obviously, right? And during, so in my mind, I make believe that he's the one, I've said that he's the one during the winters riding the Zamboni, right, when he could have just been there during the summers, you mean, just kinda taking care of the ground, that's what I'm saying.

• 1:09:31Speaker 03

  You're connecting.

• 1:09:32Bobby Lee?

  I connect things, I make assumptions, that's maybe.

• 1:09:35Speaker 05

  That's not lying.

• 1:09:35Speaker 03

  That's not lying.

• 1:09:36Bobby Lee?

  That's not lying.

• 1:09:37Speaker 03

  I don't think so, I'm not a fraud.

• 1:09:39Bobby Lee?

  I'm not a liar!

• 1:09:42Speaker 03

  I think if you, if you know something to not be true, and then say it's true, and that kinda thing is like a little white lie, but.

• 1:09:50Bobby Lee?

  Oh, so white lies are fine?

• 1:09:52Speaker 03

  Well, depending on the context in this, I'd say, you, yeah, you didn't go and, you know, hire a private eye to find out, hey, I'm doing this bit, uh, can you go down and see if he really does ride a Zamboni? It's fine.

• 1:10:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but I have done this.

• 1:10:08Speaker 03

  I'm talking about people who are comics who are like, um, have a whole bit that is predicated on something that never happened. I was flying in this, in this guy, people were so entitled to flying, and this person sat down next to me and they said this thing, and then, uh, somebody took a shit in the bathroom, you know, whatever the thing is, like, that's just, what, what are you doing?

• 1:10:29Speaker 02

  I think that's so difficult to do that, though, to like, come up with all those fake scenarios.

• 1:10:34Speaker 03

  How do you keep up with it?

• 1:10:35Speaker 02

  Like, how do you do that?

• 1:10:36Speaker 03

  Jesse Smollett.

• 1:10:36Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 1:10:37Bobby Lee?

  What do you mean?

• 1:10:38Speaker 02

  I just like, I've tried to lie, like, I once had a bit about how my cousin was a professional tap dancer from Oklahoma City College, but like.

• 1:10:46Speaker 05

  So unbelievable.

• 1:10:47Speaker 02

  I know, and then I just tried to come up with all these like, bits about it, but it was so hard to do it.

• 1:10:54Speaker 03

  So that you have a cousin who legitimately does that, and then you were trying to think of things?

• 1:10:58Speaker 02

  No, he didn't, he's just gay, so.

• 1:11:02Speaker 03

  You have enough to write this so much.

• 1:11:04Bobby Lee?

  You had so much to work with, why did you make that up?

• 1:11:07Speaker 03

  You guys don't have to.

• 1:11:08Bobby Lee?

  Bring more gay is enough.

• 1:11:09Speaker 03

  Just gay.

• 1:11:12Speaker 03

  No, he's so he's not a tap dancer at Oklahoma, whatever community college. Shows a gay profession.

• 1:11:19Speaker 03

  Go with that.

• 1:11:20Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, why can't you just go with that?

• 1:11:23Speaker 03

  They're like, they won't believe it. Not in Oklahoma.

• 1:11:25Speaker 02

  He also resides in Cambodia, so. The guy.

• 1:11:29Speaker 03

  I don't, I don't know this, but I bet you.

• 1:11:32Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:11:33Speaker 03

  I bet you, and I would challenge you.

• 1:11:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:35Speaker 03

  That you could tell the same story, get the same jokes, get the same laughs without making it seem like this thing happened that didn't happen.

• 1:11:45Bobby Lee?

  Oh.

• 1:11:46Speaker 03

  I guarantee it.

• 1:11:47Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Yeah, I.

• 1:11:49Speaker 03

  Or I'll give you your money back.

• 1:11:50Bobby Lee?

  Okay. I see what you're saying. It's just in like wording like maybe or, you know, I mean, yeah.

• 1:11:56Speaker 03

  What?

• 1:11:56Bobby Lee?

  Hypothetically.

• 1:11:57Speaker 03

  No one's gonna care.

• 1:11:58Bobby Lee?

  No one's gonna care.

• 1:11:59Speaker 03

  They will care if they find out you're making up all your shit, you know?

• 1:12:02Bobby Lee?

  Will, do they?

• 1:12:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, I think, I think some people would.

• 1:12:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, some people will care. Yeah.

• 1:12:06Speaker 03

  Um.

• 1:12:07Bobby Lee?

  Okay.

• 1:12:07Speaker 03

  That's a good point. Fair point.

• 1:12:09Bobby Lee?

  Well, I feel like lying to gain sympathy for people, you know what I mean, is what, you know, I mean, the problem is.

• 1:12:14Speaker 03

  Deceitful.

• 1:12:15Bobby Lee?

  Deceitful. You know what I mean?

• 1:12:17Speaker 03

  Or to, yeah, to, to make your point and to, you know, uh, thread this idea through your hour, you know, that so that you come back around to that thing that I said earlier, 10, you know, the first 10 minutes, like now you're thinking of it in a different way, aren't you?

• 1:12:34Bobby Lee?

  Hmm.

• 1:12:36Speaker 03

  And people, you know, and then you find out that that person made this whole story up and you're like, oh, fuck you.

• 1:12:44Speaker 03

  For the callback.

• 1:12:45Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:46Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:47Speaker 03

  To, to drive their point.

• 1:12:49Speaker 02

  Caesar salad.

• 1:12:50Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:51Speaker 03

  That's like, that was a comic like hamburger, but he said Caesar salad. Caesar salad.

• 1:12:58Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:58Speaker 03

  Damn, Caesar salad? You gotta stop. Don't lie to me, mass media. Don't lie to me, mass media Caesar salad.

• 1:13:11Bobby Lee?

  It's interesting, because back when, when you started-

• 1:13:13Speaker 03

  Curly fries.

• 1:13:17Speaker 03

  Curly sweet potato fries.

• 1:13:21Speaker 03

  Hater time.

• 1:13:22Speaker 02

  He's just hungry.

• 1:13:25Bobby Lee?

  Because I, I, back then, there was, I don't know, when you started, was there a thing where people were like, "You, you gotta get a hook."

• 1:13:31Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. No.

• 1:13:32Bobby Lee?

  You never got that? Back in the Comedy Store days, they're like, "You gotta get a hook."

• 1:13:36Speaker 03

  Really? Did you try any hooks?

• 1:13:38Bobby Lee?

  Well, yeah, you wore different outfits.

• 1:13:39Speaker 03

  No. Oh, fuck that.

• 1:13:41Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:42Speaker 03

  Oh, fuck that.

• 1:13:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:43Speaker 03

  What did Mitzi make that one guy wear?

• 1:13:45Bobby Lee?

  There's this old story about, I got, I got Jackie Graham.

• 1:13:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:13:49Bobby Lee?

  And he auditioned for Mitzi, probably in the early eighties. And he gets offstage, and she says, "You're great." He's like, "Oh, thank you." And she, he goes, "Your new name is Jackie Banana."

• 1:14:01Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:14:03Bobby Lee?

  And he goes, "Okay, and you, you have to wear a yellow suit."

• 1:14:08Speaker 03

  Oh, my.

• 1:14:09Bobby Lee?

  So, you know, like, that kind of thing, back then.

• 1:14:12Speaker 03

  I, there were a couple different things where people, gave me shit for not dressing nicer. Like, I would wear this, basically.

• 1:14:23Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:14:25Speaker 03

  And, uh, and, no. No, no, no, no.

• 1:14:29Bobby Lee?

  What is going on here?

• 1:14:29Speaker 03

  No! Stop it!

• 1:14:31Bobby Lee?

  Push pause. What is going on here, dude?

• 1:14:34Speaker 03

  I don't- I would, look, we all made mistakes.

• 1:14:39Speaker 03

  It's a cozy place.

• 1:14:40Bobby Lee?

  Wow, well, isn't it hot?

• 1:14:43Speaker 03

  This is Conan O'Brien.

• 1:14:43Bobby Lee?

  You're doing TV!

• 1:14:44Speaker 03

  Oh, my god, this is the first TV, like, chat show stand-up I did. I did a couple on the roads and-

• 1:14:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:51Speaker 03

  Evening at the Marabes, but-

• 1:14:53Bobby Lee?

  Did you choose that outfit?

• 1:14:53Speaker 02

  I love it.

• 1:14:54Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:14:57Speaker 03

  Is it a heart? He's an edgy comic. I don't, I don't know what I was thinking.

• 1:15:02Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:02Speaker 03

  It's terrible.

• 1:15:03Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:04Speaker 03

  Conan O'Brien, ninety-four.

• 1:15:07Bobby Lee?

  Ninety-four Conan O'Brien, wow.

• 1:15:09Speaker 03

  This really, yeah.

• 1:15:09Bobby Lee?

  And you bought that sweater.

• 1:15:12Bobby Lee?

  That's not for anything. No.

• 1:15:14Speaker 05

  Is that a stylist borrowed?

• 1:15:15Speaker 03

  And look how long the sleeves are. It's too long for me.

• 1:15:18Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15:18Speaker 03

  Look, it's like hanging off. Oh, God.

• 1:15:21Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:21Speaker 02

  It's cool, guy.

• 1:15:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:22Speaker 03

  Oh, I don't care.

• 1:15:24Bobby Lee?

  Probably at the time, they were like, oh, that's cool.

• 1:15:25Speaker 03

  That's cool in the nineties. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess, but, yeah, I mean, all right, enough.

• 1:15:30Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, turn it off, yeah.

• 1:15:32Speaker 02

  I like your earrings, too.

• 1:15:34Speaker 03

  Oh, thank you.

• 1:15:37Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 1:15:37Speaker 03

  My daughter, my daughter.

• 1:15:38Speaker 05

  Nineties are bad.

• 1:15:39Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Back then, were you, because I remember, um, you know, when I would be young and have no money, and you get a TV spot, right? The nervousness of it.

• 1:15:51Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:15:51Bobby Lee?

  Oh, my God. I used to pace, pace.

• 1:15:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:15:54Bobby Lee?

  And, you know, like, Premium Blend back then, they used to do, like, you know, 12 shows a night. And they're like, Bobby, you're on the last show. That was mine. Last show.

• 1:16:02Speaker 03

  Did you do the New York one?

• 1:16:03Bobby Lee?

  No, I did the LA one.

• 1:16:04Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:16:05Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. Last show, right, they already did 12, same audience, and you're the last comic of the last show. Oh, my, it was fucking brutal.

• 1:16:13Speaker 03

  Brutal.

• 1:16:13Speaker 05

  12 shows or 12 comics?

• 1:16:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, like, they shot all day long, you know, because, you know, it was, it was like, you know, we shoot these in three days, and we gotta get this many episodes out, you know what I mean?

• 1:16:24Speaker 05

  It was like six minutes?

• 1:16:26Bobby Lee?

  Five minutes.

• 1:16:26Speaker 05

  Five minutes.

• 1:16:27Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, but still, it was like, it, I bombed so hard.

• 1:16:30Speaker 05

  Oh, my.

• 1:16:30Bobby Lee?

  It was so rough.

• 1:16:31Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's not fair.

• 1:16:32Bobby Lee?

  It's not fair, yeah, yeah. But I used to get, like, Tonight Show, I was, you know, I had no future. Everything's relying on this set. In my mind, you build it up, right? So it's just this nervousness that you've never really felt before. It's like, do or die, hit the ball, or you're done.

• 1:16:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:16:49Speaker 02

  But you do so well in those situations. Haven't you said that before, like?

• 1:16:53Bobby Lee?

  What have I said?

• 1:16:55Speaker 05

  You're probably under pressure.

• 1:16:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, what lie did I say?

• 1:17:00Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, I might have been lying. Yeah, yeah, what is, what is the lie that I said?

• 1:17:06Speaker 05

  You perform under pressure.

• 1:17:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, because you were talking about how some comedians are talented but don't rise to the occasion. You're always someone that could rise to the occasion.

• 1:17:15Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, I'm, I'm, I've always been able to hit the ball when needed.

• 1:17:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:17:19Bobby Lee?

  You know, and I think that, um, that's, I think, I, I don't think that is a lie. I think that is a.

• 1:17:23Speaker 03

  Did they, do you know if they sweetened it? When you, did you see it back?

• 1:17:26Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, no, yeah, they did add laughs.

• 1:17:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:28Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:28Speaker 03

  Did you know they were gonna do that or that?

• 1:17:29Bobby Lee?

  I did not know.

• 1:17:30Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:17:30Bobby Lee?

  Right, and, and I learned a valuable lesson that night where it's like, just pretend you're killing.

• 1:17:34Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:17:35Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think when I was watching it, I, I could see.

• 1:17:40Speaker 05

  It's like, God, I'm done.

• 1:17:43Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, but I, I remember watching it, right, going, oh, I wish, I, cause I could see it in my eyes.

• 1:17:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:17:50Bobby Lee?

  Shake. And it's probably something that other people couldn't read, but I could see him, yeah, my eyes were like. Like that, you know what I mean? But I was still trying to smile, you know what I mean? You know what I mean?

• 1:17:59Speaker 02

  Oh, you're shaking.

• 1:18:01Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, you know, yeah, you learn to pretend that you're doing well, right? Cause sometimes, man, it can be brutal.

• 1:18:10Speaker 03

  I did a, uh, early, early on, uh, I think it was like, like, third TV thing. I'd done an Evening at the Improv, and a Comedy on the Road with John Boehner in San Diego. And then I got an offer to do, excuse me.

• 1:18:27Speaker 03

  An ad for open water.

• 1:18:31Speaker 03

  That's good.

• 1:18:31Bobby Lee?

  You want more open water?

• 1:18:32Speaker 03

  No, I'm good.

• 1:18:33Bobby Lee?

  Okay, okay.

• 1:18:35Speaker 03

  To do, uh, Comedy on the Road in London, and I'd never been abroad, and I was so excited to do it. And, uh, and it was, uh, it was shot at the Comedy Store, whatever's in, um.

• 1:18:51Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:51Speaker 03

  Piccadilly Circus or Leicester Square, one of those, and, um, it was. Afternoon.

• 1:18:58Bobby Lee?

  My god.

• 1:18:59Speaker 03

  Yes, so it was like 3 o'clock in the afternoon. And poorly run, poorly produced with too much downtime and resetting and stuff. And it was just everything that you could ask for to make a set suck.

• 1:19:17Bobby Lee?

  It's warm in there?

• 1:19:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, and it was, and I had one of those, you know, the old school before phones, the London maps, kind of like a Thomas Guide, but it was like, it's a London A to Z, London, whatever. And you have these things and it, because London is crazy complicated. So I had this map in my pocket, just from walking over there to the place. And I told this, this joke that you, like, there's no punchline until the end. And you gotta be with me for about a minute, minute and a half. And then you get to the, yeah, yeah.

• 1:20:01Speaker 03

  And I'm doing the thing and I, and I do this whole fucking setup. And I get to the punchline, which kills in other places, right? And it's worth it.

• 1:20:11Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:11Speaker 03

  And I get to it, and it wasn't also, it wasn't like a cultural thing. They didn't, they just were sitting there and nothing, nothing, zero, not even, nothing. And then I, I pulled out the map. And I went, and this is like spur, I just, you know, spur of the moment, I thought of it. And I pulled out the map and I go, and I read back my direction to the club. You know, efficiency flat I was staying in like this, Leicester, take a right at Berwick and a left at Warburton.

• 1:20:52Speaker 03

  I did this for a while, like, and then to the comedy, nope, that joke should have worked.

• 1:20:59Speaker 03

  Just nothing, nothing.

• 1:21:02Bobby Lee?

  Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:21:04Speaker 03

  Actually, if you want to try to put some, try Comedy on the Road with John Boehner London. This would have been 90.

• 1:21:15Speaker 03

  Ninety-four, ninety-ish, ninety-three, maybe?

• 1:21:21Speaker 05

  Brutal.

• 1:21:22Bobby Lee?

  Brutal.

• 1:21:23Speaker 03

  See if that's available. I don't even know if it's on the internet.

• 1:21:26Speaker 05

  Have you been back to London to do comedy since then?

• 1:21:29Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, I lived there for, I did a couple of shows there and, and I do,

• 1:21:35Speaker 03

  I have great shows in, in, actually, all of the UK is, is really good.

• 1:21:43Speaker 05

  I played for the first time last year.

• 1:21:45Speaker 03

  It's great. I love it. I love it and I was on tour last year doing the European leg and I had, I booked, or cleared a week around my London date and had, my family came over and, because I wanted my daughter to, because I have dual citizenship too, to the UK.

• 1:22:05Bobby Lee?

  You do too? To the UK?

• 1:22:06Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:22:07Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 1:22:09Bobby Lee?

  Korea or no?

• 1:22:10Speaker 05

  No, I'm just here.

• 1:22:11Bobby Lee?

  They hate me.

• 1:22:12Speaker 05

  I'm fucked.

• 1:22:12Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, we're fucked.

• 1:22:15Speaker 03

  But I, I mean, I can, if the shit gets really, really bad here, I can, you know, and I can work in London. I've worked before and, and my wife loves it and, you know, we, she was on this, I did a couple of shows there, but she was on one of them. And we have friends there and, and I can do stand-up easily.

• 1:22:34Speaker 02

  But you usually do well there?

• 1:22:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:22:37Bobby Lee?

  Yes, dude, that was one time!

• 1:22:40Speaker 03

  No, no, no, I, I mean, also, it's, look, I mean, I'm not going like, "You dumb motherfuckers." Like, if you don't like the joke, you're not gonna like the joke and you're not gonna like me. I'm not, that's what, and it's, what, five minutes, six, seven minutes, tops?

• 1:22:56Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:56Speaker 03

  And...

• 1:22:57Bobby Lee?

  So you weren't, after the show, you weren't devastated?

• 1:23:01Speaker 03

  I mean, I wasn't psyched.

• 1:23:04Speaker 03

  But I, no, I, I, I mean, I never get too high or too low, ever.

• 1:23:08Speaker 05

  Wow, what's that like?

• 1:23:10Bobby Lee?

  What's that like? What the fuck?

• 1:23:12Speaker 05

  What is going on?

• 1:23:12Bobby Lee?

  What are you taking?

• 1:23:13Speaker 03

  It's pretty awesome.

• 1:23:15Bobby Lee?

  Are you Lexapro?

• 1:23:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:23:17Bobby Lee?

  Wellbutrin?

• 1:23:18Speaker 03

  I, I mean, I really, that's, that's a conscious effort also to not get too high and too low.

• 1:23:24Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 1:23:25Speaker 03

  To keep, to keep grounded and to not be a dick. And also to not get too bummed out so that it affects me and my ability to work and just bounce back and, and like, okay, whatever, let's figure something else out.

• 1:23:39Speaker 05

  Do you have a lot of, like, just kind of self-contained self-worth?

• 1:23:43Speaker 03

  I mean, I don't have it on me. Back in New York, I have. I mean, in my office somewhere.

• 1:23:49Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:51Speaker 05

  I gotta find some, it feels.

• 1:23:52Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:53Speaker 03

  Well, don't take mine.

• 1:23:56Speaker 03

  It's in New York.

• 1:23:57Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:59Bobby Lee?

  Wow. So, um, do you have fun here or no? On the pod?

• 1:24:04Speaker 03

  Oh, fuck yeah. This is great. This was a treat. You know, I'm out here doing a bunch of press. I'm here for one week. You know, I flew in Sunday night. I'm leaving tomorrow, 8 a.m. flight back home. And, you know, you, you, there's a lot of stuff. Nothing is bad, but they're all kind of different flavors. And, uh, um, this is a great way to end. This is my last thing.

• 1:24:27Bobby Lee?

  Oh, cool, man.

• 1:24:28Speaker 03

  It was fucking awesome. And, and I, yeah, I had a great time. I laughed a lot. I laughed more in the last, you know, hour and a half, two hours, whatever it is. I've laughed more than probably have in the last week.

• 1:24:40Bobby Lee?

  Oh, that's. Wow. Yeah.

• 1:24:43Speaker 03

  I love you guys.

• 1:24:44Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, check out David Cross's, um, special. It's called.

• 1:24:49Speaker 03

  Trailer.

• 1:24:50Bobby Lee?

  There's a trailer there. Check it out on, and, uh, on his website. David Cross, the end of the beginning of the end. Watch it now.

• 1:24:57Speaker 03

  Pretty.

• 1:24:57Bobby Lee?

  Wow. Did you produce that yourself?

• 1:24:59Speaker 02

  This is unexpected.

• 1:25:00Speaker 03

  Oh, no, no. It's, uh, it's co-produced.

• 1:25:02Bobby Lee?

  It's co-produced.

• 1:25:03Speaker 03

  YMH.

• 1:25:04Bobby Lee?

  Okay. Wow, that's amazing.

• 1:25:07Speaker 02

  So, why did you pick that hat?

• 1:25:09Speaker 03

  Uh, I, because I'm from Atlanta and I, it's at the 40 watt.

• 1:25:13Speaker 00

  It's Alpharetta.

• 1:25:15Speaker 03

  Uh, Roswell. Holy shit, really.

• 1:25:17Speaker 00

  That's crazy.

• 1:25:18Speaker 03

  But now, when I was a kid, uh, both Roswell and Alpharetta, Roswell actually looked down on Alpharetta.

• 1:25:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:25:26Speaker 03

  And Roswell was.

• 1:25:27Speaker 00

  Not anymore.

• 1:25:29Speaker 03

  Roswell was, uh, rural suburban, uh, and Atlanta was not connected all the way like it is now, big sprawling, you know, LA-ified. But, um, but Alpharetta, which was across the river.

• 1:25:42Speaker 00

  Country.

• 1:25:43Speaker 03

  Uh, um, super country, uh, when I was growing up. So, like, what?

• 1:25:49Speaker 03

  Little kinda, you know, when people, it's just classic human, like, well, we may be in Roswell, but at least we're not in Alpharetta with those rednecks. Literally just across the river. Holcomb Bridge Road. Wow. Holcomb Bridge Road is where they separated. And if you going past Holcomb Bridge Road, it's like, fucking redneck. Yeah.

• 1:26:08Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, wow.

• 1:26:10Speaker 03

  But where we were was also that. Like, the high school hangout was at McDonald's. There was nothing around. But they had the audacity to make fun of Alpharetta. But, yeah.

• 1:26:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Give David a round of applause, everybody. Woo!

• 1:26:26Speaker 03

  And then, Peter, do you have a special?

• 1:26:29Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, Peter, you have a special.

• 1:26:30Speaker 02

  Not Bobby Lee.

• 1:26:31Bobby Lee?

  What is it called?

• 1:26:32Speaker 03

  Not Bobby Lee.

• 1:26:33Bobby Lee?

  Called Rice Piglet. Yeah, why'd you say not Bobby Lee there?

• 1:26:36Speaker 05

  Cause that's the number one comment I get on YouTube. Is what happened to Bobby Lee?

• 1:26:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:26:44Speaker 03

  Dude, you look so, so much older with your hair back. Older?

• 1:26:50Speaker 03

  Roasted! You got roasted by David Cross! No, no, no, no, no, that is not a negative comment at all. That is not negative or positive. It's just an observation.

• 1:27:02Speaker 05

  Check out my special, I look really old.

• 1:27:05Speaker 03

  I didn't say that. I did not say that. I said you look older.

• 1:27:10Bobby Lee?

  A little older, a little older. Yeah, you do look a little older.

• 1:27:13Speaker 05

  Hair down makes me feel young.

• 1:27:14Speaker 03

  Littlefield?

• 1:27:15Speaker 05

  No, this is Brooklyn Comedy Collective.

• 1:27:17Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:27:18Bobby Lee?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:18Speaker 05

  BCC.

• 1:27:19Speaker 02

  You look like you're doing work here. You're like, my hair's up, I'm doing work.

• 1:27:23Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah, I get hot on stage, so...

• 1:27:25Bobby Lee?

  How many did you shoot?

• 1:27:27Speaker 05

  Just one, which was the issue, was an issue.

• 1:27:29Bobby Lee?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:27:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, just one.

• 1:27:31Bobby Lee?

  How many did you shoot when you do yours?

• 1:27:32Speaker 05

  Two.

• 1:27:32Bobby Lee?

  Two, yeah.

• 1:27:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:27:33Bobby Lee?

  I did four, that was a mistake.

• 1:27:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, you don't do four.

• 1:27:36Speaker 05

  Whoa, wait.

• 1:27:37Speaker 03

  Two's good.

• 1:27:37Bobby Lee?

  Why a mistake? You burned out?

• 1:27:39Speaker 05

  No, I just, I got it in the one.

• 1:27:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:27:41Bobby Lee?

  You got it at the first one.

• 1:27:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, after the first one.

• 1:27:43Speaker 03

  But then you got the first one. The last, which is good.

• 1:27:45Bobby Lee?

  The last one was great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:27:46Speaker 03

  Oh, that's nice.

• 1:27:47Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, yeah. The fourth one was great, but which was the template of, you know what I mean?

• 1:27:51Speaker 03

  You're, you're most likely, because it's your audience going to see you, you're gonna, you're gonna do really well. You're gonna nail it. Do a second in case you do forget one little thing, or just there's a technical fuck up. But you don't need to do more than two.

• 1:28:05Bobby Lee?

  Well, from now on, I think two.

• 1:28:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:28:07Bobby Lee?

  Yeah, two or three, but anyway. David.

• 1:28:09Speaker 03

  Two or two or three. You brought it back up. I'd go four minimum.

• 1:28:15Bobby Lee?

  We'll try six.

• 1:28:16Speaker 03

  Start at four.

• 1:28:19Speaker 03

  Two or three. Yeah.

• 1:28:22Bobby Lee?

  Yeah. Hey, that was a pleasure. Thank you so much. Yay!

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