Jimmy O. Yang w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast

Jimmy O. Yang joins Mark Normand and Sam Morril to talk about his unexpected past as a strip club DJ and used car salesman, his breakout on Silicon Valley, and returning to Hong Kong for his stand-up special Finally Home. Plus, dating in New York, getting turned away at the Comedy Cellar, Vegas gambling, and why Jimmy is ready to give up on the Clippers. Jimmy O. Yang:Tour dates: https://www.jimmycomedy.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimmyoyang/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/lowballjim Sponsored by: Make your picks with UnderdogDownload the Underdog app and play Keep Your Million. Get personalized treatment options from Himshttps://www.hims.com/drunk Get your free life insurance quote from Ethoshttps://www.ethos.com/drunk Subscribe to We Might Be Drunk: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToWMBDMerch: https://wemightbedrunkpod.com/Clips Channel: https://bit.ly/WMBDClips Sam Morril: https://punchup.live/sammorril/ticketsMark Normand: https://punchup.live/marknormand/tickets Produced by Gotham Production Studios: https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com@GothamProductionStudios | Producer: https://www.instagram.com/mrmatthewpeters #WeMightBeDrunk #JimmyOYang #MarkNormand #SamMorril #ComedyPodcast #StandUpComedy #SiliconValley #BodegaCatWhiskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:06Sam Morril?

  We're rockin'.

• 0:07Speaker 01

  Yeah, let's do it. Let me put my phone on silent.

• 0:09Mark Normand?

  Hey, what a pro.

• 0:10Speaker 01

  You know, I gotta stay professional here, man.

• 0:12Mark Normand?

  Hey, you got rid of the glasses.

• 0:14Speaker 01

  No, it's gone. I got this, uh, it's better than LASIK. They put a permanent contact lens in your eye.

• 0:19Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 0:20Speaker 01

  And now it's fully fixed.

• 0:21Sam Morril?

  Holy shit. You got the hair thing, you got the eyes. No one's gonna have ailments anymore.

• 0:24Mark Normand?

  That's true.

• 0:25Speaker 01

  I know.

• 0:25Mark Normand?

  Although, uh, they can tell when a kid has Down syndrome, and now they're, they're gonna be extinct. That's happening.

• 0:33Speaker 01

  Oh, 'cause they can check his DNA before the fetus.

• 0:36Mark Normand?

  Yeah, when it's, when it's cooking, they're like, oh, this one's...

• 0:39Sam Morril?

  Nah, they won't be, because they're still pro-life people out there.

• 0:41Mark Normand?

  Oh, that's true. Well, there'll be less.

• 0:48Mark Normand?

  Which is sad, you know, they might like see it, uh, you know what? Just saying.

• 0:54Sam Morril?

  In the first three minutes, Mark? God damn it.

• 0:56Mark Normand?

  It's funny you can't say the word, but you can, you can get rid of one.

• 1:01Mark Normand?

  Good to have you. Welcome to New York, baby.

• 1:02Speaker 01

  Dude, thanks for having me, man. This is very exciting. I'm a big fan of both of yous and the, and the podcast. Yeah, I, I guess we've never met. We've met.

• 1:09Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:10Speaker 01

  I'm sure.

• 1:10Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 1:11Speaker 01

  Somewhere.

• 1:11Sam Morril?

  When I, when I heard you were coming, I was like, oh, cool. I don't think I, I really don't think we've met. Maybe we, at the Improv or something.

• 1:17Speaker 01

  It feels like we've met.

• 1:18Sam Morril?

  It feels like it.

• 1:19Speaker 01

  But I love how honestly we are. We're like, nah, nah, actually never seen you in real life.

• 1:22Sam Morril?

  I don't think so, dude.

• 1:23Mark Normand?

  You called the Shang last year.

• 1:28Speaker 01

  Better than Bobby Lee, I guess, you know?

• 1:29Sam Morril?

  It's true.

• 1:30Speaker 01

  I'll, I'll take either.

• 1:31Mark Normand?

  Yeah, sure.

• 1:32Speaker 01

  I'll take either.

• 1:33Mark Normand?

  Is that a Grand Seiko?

• 1:34Speaker 01

  No, this is, well, that's racist. This is, it's just a Rolex, you know?

• 1:39Mark Normand?

  Oh, sorry. I'm trying to get into watches.

• 1:41Speaker 01

  It's an old Rolex, yeah.

• 1:43Sam Morril?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:43Mark Normand?

  It's a good-looking watch.

• 1:44Speaker 01

  Thanks, man.

• 1:45Mark Normand?

  It's got no Omega.

• 1:45Speaker 01

  No, that's, that's dope.

• 1:46Mark Normand?

  Thanks, thanks.

• 1:48Sam Morril?

  What, uh, what are you doing in New York?

• 1:50Speaker 01

  This is my first time spending any real time in New York. I've, I've been here, done shows, couple days here in New York City, a hotel. I'm actually shooting a TV show for Netflix here for six months.

• 1:59Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:59Speaker 01

  So I'm here until December. Loving it, man.

• 2:01Sam Morril?

  What, what show is it?

• 2:02Speaker 01

  It's called The Roman. Um, it's, uh, you know Martin Scorsese's casino?

• 2:06Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:07Speaker 01

  So he's a producer on this, although I've never seen him.

• 2:09Mark Normand?

  Oh, cool.

• 2:09Speaker 01

  Uh, and it's about us running a casino in Vegas.

• 2:13Sam Morril?

  And they're shooting in New York City?

• 2:14Speaker 01

  We built a whole casino, uh, in our studios here in Brooklyn, yeah.

• 2:18Sam Morril?

  Whoa.

• 2:19Speaker 01

  I guess it's cheaper to shoot in New York now than in Vegas that doesn't have, um, uh, the tax break.

• 2:24Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 2:25Sam Morril?

  Who else is in the show?

• 2:26Speaker 01

  It's Oscar Isaac.

• 2:27Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's dope. Super dope. Alec Baldwin.

• 2:31Mark Normand?

  Damn.

• 2:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, he, he's dope.

• 2:32Mark Normand?

  He's always shooting.

• 2:34Speaker 01

  Hey, hey, oh, yeah, hey, yo. I find it sad that he was such a movie star. I mean, he still is, right? But then any young people I tell, anybody like under the age of 30.

• 2:44Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  All they know is that incident.

• 2:46Sam Morril?

  It did happen recently.

• 2:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, which is sad. I'm like, the guy's a movie star. Have you seen Hunt for Rat October?

• 2:51Mark Normand?

  Yeah, it's Beetlejuice, uh...

• 2:52Speaker 01

  Glenn, Glenn Ross. Come on.

• 2:54Mark Normand?

  Dirty Rock, Wolf of...

• 2:56Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, here you go. Here's all of us. Kate Mara, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jason Schwartzman.

• 3:01Mark Normand?

  Jesus.

• 3:02Speaker 01

  It's a great cast, and everybody's an adult. Everyone's lovely, and it's just, it's just a dope shoot, yeah.

• 3:07Mark Normand?

  Good mix and match of people. You don't really see, uh, Schwartzman and Baldwin together.

• 3:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, Coppelman and Levine wrote it. They were...

• 3:14Sam Morril?

  Oh, I've heard this is awesome.

• 3:16Speaker 01

  Rounders, Billions, you know, real, real bros, man.

• 3:19Mark Normand?

  Is he a gambling addict? He loves gambling shit.

• 3:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 3:23Sam Morril?

  He plays in a poker game, I tell you.

• 3:24Speaker 01

  He's a big poker guy.

• 3:26Mark Normand?

  His IMDb picture is...

• 3:28Sam Morril?

  A poker game.

• 3:28Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, there you go. Nah, he's a man.

• 3:31Speaker 01

  Is that even, is that even the right, is that even him?

• 3:33Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 3:35Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 3:36Sam Morril?

  That's him, dude.

• 3:37Speaker 01

  He changed, I mean, he doesn't look like that no more.

• 3:39Mark Normand?

  Is that a Grand Seiko in the dog?

• 3:41Speaker 01

  That's a Daytona. That's, uh... Oh, wow. He looked a lot different back then. But yeah, I'm having a great time on the show.

• 3:48Sam Morril?

  That's sick, dude.

• 3:49Mark Normand?

  And good New York weather.

• 3:50Speaker 01

  And I, I know. And I think it's the best place to be on a show, you know, uh, number like five to 10. I'm like number six on the show. I show up twice a week.

• 3:59Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 3:59Speaker 01

  You know, I can do stand-up, I can do this, I can focus on other stuff as well as like just having fun on the show.

• 4:04Mark Normand?

  What, are you doing sets around town?

• 4:07Speaker 01

  Not quite yet. Um, I popped in at the New York Comedy Club. Um, last time I was here, I popped into The Cellar, and then this time I went back to The Cellar. The motherfucker didn't even let me in the door. It was hilarious. You guys know the vibe there.

• 4:19Mark Normand?

  We had that at the Comedy Store.

• 4:20Sam Morril?

  LA's worse.

• 4:21Speaker 01

  Is that right?

• 4:22Sam Morril?

  I think LA's worse.

• 4:23Speaker 01

  It's still, like, I've done comedy for 18 years now. It's still my worst fear to show up at a comedy club.

• 4:28Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 4:28Speaker 01

  And the guy does, it just takes one guy who not know who you are. Like, when I'm like, hey, man, I just wanna go watch the show, and he's like, huh, you have to be invited down here. And I'm like...

• 4:38Mark Normand?

  Gee, you just wanna show up, hey, Netflix, uh, Silicon Valley, you know, you just wanna show up with a resume.

• 4:43Speaker 01

  Like, do I have to wear IMDb resume on my shirt? He let me in, he was like, wait, wait, aren't you on Crazy Rich Asians? I'm like, yeah, yeah. He's like, yeah, yeah, just come hang out. And I talked to him later. He's like, yeah, so some other comics are telling me, so you really, you sell out like clubs, huh? I was like, arena sometimes, but you know, fuck off, you know? So sometimes, it depends the city.

• 5:03Mark Normand?

  In his defense, I feel like any Asian guy go, I'm in Crazy Rich Asians.

• 5:06Speaker 01

  No, no, no, his, his next question was like, you friends with Ronnie Cheng? I'm like, ah, yes, I, I, yes, I don't wanna admit, yes, yes.

• 5:12Mark Normand?

  Yeah, we love Ronnie.

• 5:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, I love Ronnie, yeah.

• 5:14Sam Morril?

  Yeah, he's a man.

• 5:15Mark Normand?

  Damn.

• 5:16Speaker 01

  I got checked, I got checked at the, at The Cellar, man.

• 5:19Sam Morril?

  That happens. I feel like every time, for years, The Comedy Store just, they gave us no love.

• 5:23Speaker 01

  Really?

• 5:24Mark Normand?

  It's like immigration over there. You gotta show them papers.

• 5:26Speaker 01

  You're right, you know?

• 5:27Sam Morril?

  Put me in the detention center. It was fucking...

• 5:29Speaker 01

  It's humbling. I have no ego anymore. I, I used to get like super butt hurt. I'm like, let me go back and fucking show them, you know? Like, now I'm like, who cares? Just one guy.

• 5:37Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 5:38Sam Morril?

  Yeah, it's weird when you, you can't take it personally. Who cares? Yeah, look at that. You're playing these venues. Who gives a shit?

• 5:43Speaker 01

  No, that was in Hawaii with my dad. Yeah, on the bigger shows, I, I bring my dad on stage.

• 5:47Mark Normand?

  You gotta show them you made it.

• 5:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know, he loves it.

• 5:50Sam Morril?

  But your dad's an actor now, right?

• 5:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, I put him in a couple things. He was in, uh, Space Force that, uh, on an episode I wrote. Great actor. He was opposite John Malkovich. Not nervous at all.

• 5:59Mark Normand?

  Whoa, crazy.

• 6:01Sam Morril?

  Why was he not nervous?

• 6:02Speaker 01

  I don't know. He just, he's a narcissist, probably. And he just, he just got the right amount of ego to be an actor.

• 6:10Mark Normand?

  Right, and, you know, to, I think to older people, acting isn't work. They're like, this is not a job.

• 6:15Sam Morril?

  Well, Nick Griffin used to have that great bit about it. It's like, it's not a real job, 'cause children do it.

• 6:19Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 6:20Sam Morril?

  You never get a child mechanic.

• 6:21Mark Normand?

  Great point.

• 6:22Sam Morril?

  It's a great bit.

• 6:22Mark Normand?

  Great point.

• 6:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, that was in Macau. It was in an arena in Macau.

• 6:26Mark Normand?

  Wow, look at that.

• 6:28Sam Morril?

  Wow, that's massive, dude. Look at you.

• 6:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was my first time, um, playing Asia last year on my tour. I'm like, why did I not do this five years ago?

• 6:35Sam Morril?

  Are you bigger in Asia than here?

• 6:37Speaker 01

  And, I mean, I grew up in Hong Kong, right? So that was like my homecoming. It was the perfect storm, 'cause I still speak a little Cantonese. I ended up shooting my last special in Hong Kong, and the whole crowd speaks English, you know, but I mixed in some Cantonese, and, and I just thought it was something interesting.

• 6:51Mark Normand?

  Definitely.

• 6:52Speaker 01

  Something different, you know?

• 6:53Mark Normand?

  Do they get the references? You know, if you do an Uber joke, do they have Uber? Like, how's that work?

• 6:56Speaker 01

  Yeah, certain things I have to like change it up, and then certain things I'll say in Hong Kong, like the horse racing culture, certain days you don't go to restaurants because the chefs are betting on horses. That might not translate here, but I think it's like when enough people laugh.

• 7:09Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 7:09Speaker 01

  You get it. You, you almost wanna research it more, like, when I, back in the day when I used to watch George Lopez's stand-up, and some of it, his punchlines are in Spanish. I'm like, I don't understand that, but I get it.

• 7:20Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah. Remember, you, you opened for Jim Jeffries years ago, and he would be extra Australian, and he was like, I think that sets me apart.

• 7:28Speaker 01

  Oh, really?

• 7:29Mark Normand?

  I remember he said that. He's like, I do Australian references, 'cause then the audience is like, wow, this guy, we're seeing something different.

• 7:34Sam Morril?

  Yeah, like a novelty in a way.

• 7:35Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 7:36Speaker 01

  Jim is great. So prolific.

• 7:38Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 7:38Speaker 01

  Always, and a new hour every six months or whatever. I don't know how he does it.

• 7:42Mark Normand?

  Enough's enough.

• 7:43Sam Morril?

  He can talk. He writes differently than us. Like, he'll just like talk in a bar, and people, and I could see him like taking note where people are laughing. And I'm like, oh, that's gonna be in the A.

• 7:51Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Morally, is that cool? To like just tell a story on, like, to your friends, but you're actually testing material?

• 7:58Mark Normand?

  Only if it's entertaining.

• 7:59Speaker 01

  That, yeah, that's true.

• 8:00Mark Normand?

  If it's not entertaining, then you're just an asshole.

• 8:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, no. Yeah, I realized that's much more effective than, you know, writing stuff down. I, I kinda can't, I can't sit and write for like hours anymore.

• 8:10Sam Morril?

  Really?

• 8:10Mark Normand?

  You're prolific. You got multiple specials, what, three now?

• 8:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, three. I'm working on the fourth one.

• 8:16Mark Normand?

  Look at that. So it's coming from somewhere.

• 8:19Sam Morril?

  Do you already know where you're gonna shoot the fourth?

• 8:21Speaker 01

  Um, I think, yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm planning my tour for 2027. It's gonna start in like end of January, and I saved a couple cities that I really like towards the end of the tour. Um, I think Seattle probably gonna be it, but...

• 8:33Mark Normand?

  It's a good one.

• 8:34Sam Morril?

  Where's theater?

• 8:35Speaker 01

  We're getting quotes. Uh, I think, I think the Paramount? Does that sound right?

• 8:39Mark Normand?

  I know they got the Moore and the Neptune.

• 8:42Sam Morril?

  The Moore is great.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  I did my first special at the Neptune. Amazing. I couldn't believe, like, the reactions.

• 8:46Sam Morril?

  Seattle's a great comedy city.

• 8:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, dude. Like, and it's the perfect, it's the right amount of Asian for me.

• 8:51Mark Normand?

  Hmm, I think it's a little much.

• 8:55Mark Normand?

  But no, no, it's true.

• 8:56Sam Morril?

  You factor in like, I don't want this to be like an Asian takeover, but I want, I want a lot of Asians.

• 9:01Speaker 01

  It's both. So, so the last special I shot in Hong Kong, I didn't plan to shoot it in Hong Kong. But it was my love letter. It was called Finally Home, it's me going back home for the first time after 25 years. So it's just, I, I just told them to add cameras and I went home, took the whole hard drive home, edited with my guy. For like six months, shout out Marcus Ray Boy.

• 9:20Sam Morril?

  Oh, I know Marcus, cool.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's the best, right? And Michael, my editor. But this one, I wanted to be more, um. I mean, that was universal too, this last special, which is on Hulu now. Cause it's about going home. You don't have to be from Hong Kong to understand the feeling of coming home or losing touch with your hometown.

• 9:37Sam Morril?

  Sure.

• 9:37Speaker 01

  And the people and the language. But the next special, uh, I'm gonna put on Netflix and it's gonna be more, um, universal, I think. I'm still obviously gonna talk about my family, but intentionally, I'm gonna make it broader.

• 9:50Mark Normand?

  Nice. Okay, yeah. I went to China, did a whole run there, couldn't sell a ticket.

• 9:54Speaker 01

  Really?

• 9:55Mark Normand?

  But I did okay in Beijing, weirdly enough.

• 9:57Sam Morril?

  I just did like all over Europe. It's great to just, places you never would have gone.

• 10:01Speaker 01

  Right.

• 10:02Sam Morril?

  Learned so much. Everywhere you go, you're like, I didn't fucking know this. It's nice.

• 10:05Mark Normand?

  Grabreb, what is it?

• 10:06Sam Morril?

  Zagreb.

• 10:07Mark Normand?

  Zagreb, I didn't even hear.

• 10:08Sam Morril?

  You didn't learn that, I guess. But, uh, yeah, no, Croatia, awesome, yeah. You just, even just strolling around a city, hitting a few museums, like what, you're just like, holy shit. I, you know, it's, it's good. It's good for your brain.

• 10:19Speaker 01

  It's a real vacation.

• 10:20Sam Morril?

  You write a lot in mo, like you talk about sitting down and writing.

• 10:22Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 10:23Sam Morril?

  Movement is like good for.

• 10:24Mark Normand?

  Hundred percent. Bourdain always said that. Keep moving.

• 10:26Sam Morril?

  Yeah, totally.

• 10:27Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 10:28Speaker 01

  Like the absorption of it. I, I feel like you need to absorb, absorb, and then it comes. Like, if, if I'm sitting down at a park, like I'm sitting down in my office, I'm trying to write, it never comes. Like, but when you absorb enough, I think then it starts to permeate a little bit.

• 10:43Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 10:44Sam Morril?

  Do you feel sometimes like with stresses, once you just like let go, cause I feel like we have to manage so much now as comedians, like new business, social media, all this shit. That sometimes when I just forget, I'm like, I don't give a fuck. Sometimes the floodgates just open.

• 10:56Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 10:56Sam Morril?

  When I have to think about like a flight, or this, or that, like when I have to manage all these things, like, oh fuck, did this, did they add this thing in the special? Did they do this? Once I just let go, sometimes shit just comes out.

• 11:06Speaker 01

  A hundred percent.

• 11:06Sam Morril?

  I think we're just holding on to so much.

• 11:08Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:08Mark Normand?

  Yeah, and like, it's almost like making a friend. You know when you try really hard, like, I like this guy, I'm gonna make a friend with this guy. He's like, alright, alright. But then if you just let it happen, it's natural. I think it's the same with jokes.

• 11:17Speaker 01

  I totally agree. Like with this last special, I edited it myself with my guys, you know, the subtitles have to be done in English, Chinese. And then, you know, once we put on Hulu, there was a technical issue because of the subtitles was in there. It was a whole, I, I was so stressed every step of the way about the release of this.

• 11:35Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 11:35Speaker 01

  I released it in theaters in Hong Kong and a limited release here. Even getting that going, there's no money in it, by the way.

• 11:40Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 11:40Speaker 01

  You know.

• 11:41Sam Morril?

  Was it just like a prestige thing?

• 11:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I just thought it would be cool and I wanna like really like put Hong Kong on the map, you know what I mean? Like, and it did really well in Hong Kong movie theaters. It did pretty good here.

• 11:51Mark Normand?

  Movie theaters.

• 11:52Speaker 01

  But it just such a like pain in the ass, like is it gonna show well at IMAX?

• 11:56Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 11:57Speaker 01

  Is the subtitle.

• 11:57Sam Morril?

  You put it in IMAX?

• 11:58Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:59Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 11:59Speaker 01

  I had a premiere in Hong Kong at the Empire Theater, shout out to them, in IMAX. But it was nerve wracking. I'm like, this wasn't shot in IMAX, it was shot in 4K, but is it gonna look soft in some areas? But it looked great. But the whole time I was so stressed during that premiere, it was a theater full of my families, friends, you know, and, and just fans, right? But the subtitles was giving away the joke. Cause it was, it was going too long. And then the next day, I have to go to this dude who's the subtitle guy in Hong Kong, just his apartment, right? I spent like three hours with this guy, I'm like, cut here. Okay, this next, like subtitle has to be the next line.

• 12:33Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 12:33Speaker 01

  And then all of that, and then, and then worry about the social media clips. Okay, now, now it's coming on Hulu. How many, how much social media clips should I put on? How much, how many minutes should I put on YouTube without giving it away?

• 12:43Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 12:43Speaker 01

  And then what's the next step? It's just, it's a pain in the ass, man.

• 12:47Mark Normand?

  And these networks, they put out a promo, and you're like, that's the bit you picked? That's got no context, it, it's got a callback, so they're not gonna get that. That's a horrible bit.

• 12:55Sam Morril?

  Add in like a, a you know, like why do you add a you know?

• 12:57Mark Normand?

  Yes, cut at the last, beauty.

• 12:59Sam Morril?

  End of the joke, yeah. There's so much little things that, that drive me crazy.

• 13:03Mark Normand?

  And the blurb is so cringy, you know.

• 13:05Speaker 01

  Oh, I get super anal, sorry, sorry, go ahead.

• 13:06Mark Normand?

  Well, Jimmy Oh Yang tackles the, you know, noodle situation. You're like, what? Noodle? What are you talking about?

• 13:13Speaker 01

  Yeah. And then I get super anal about all of these little things. Like even the trailer, you know, goes to approval, usually people, their team just approves it. I look at every single thing and I have them go through, I'm sure it drives people crazy, but I think it's comics who work so hard on these jokes.

• 13:28Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 13:29Speaker 01

  And now it's finally out, like you, you need it to be perfect.

• 13:33Sam Morril?

  It's different stuff. Like back in the day, Mark and I talked about this, our first hour special was on Comedy Central. You'd have to do a, a 55 minute version, a 48 minute version, a 40 minute version, cause we're editing for like limited commercial breaks.

• 13:45Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 13:45Sam Morril?

  And you're just like, which tag of my joke do I kill?

• 13:48Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 13:49Sam Morril?

  It was so painful. You're like, I guess I cut this joke, this, I don't.

• 13:52Speaker 01

  And do you guys edit? Are you, like, are you super hands on?

• 13:55Mark Normand?

  I edit mine now with the guy, yeah.

• 13:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, you have.

• 13:57Sam Morril?

  I should have done it more. I, I kinda was like, this is the set, this is the one I want, and then just this joke, this joke, I didn't like in this one, for the most part, I let a guy do it. You know, I hate watching myself.

• 14:06Speaker 01

  No, I hate it. It's the most painful thing, but I have to like, even the angles, the cut, I, I'm, I'm involved in every single cut, otherwise I just know I'm gonna regret it later.

• 14:15Mark Normand?

  You should be involved. It's your vision, it's your set. You know the set better than anybody.

• 14:18Sam Morril?

  At least with standup, you at least already kinda hate most of these jokes at this point, if you're taping a special.

• 14:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, bro.

• 14:24Sam Morril?

  I'm editing a movie right now, and it's like becoming less and less funny to me.

• 14:28Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 14:28Sam Morril?

  Because I'm just like, I'm, I can't, I'm, I've seen it now a hundred, I can't, you know.

• 14:32Speaker 01

  Right. You need to test it. You need to test it with like friends and family, even five, 10 people.

• 14:36Sam Morril?

  I'm going, I'm taking it to Hong Kong, IMAX.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, test it in Hong Kong. There you go.

• 14:41Sam Morril?

  Yeah, yeah, no, I'm, I'm gonna test it for sure.

• 14:42Mark Normand?

  You know what the all time worst is? You ever do a Tonight Show?

• 14:45Speaker 01

  Uh huh.

• 14:46Mark Normand?

  You have to send a transcript, and you're writing out word for word your jokes, and you're like, this sucks, there's nothing funny about this. But you know, you need to get it in timing.

• 14:54Speaker 01

  You have to do that. Uh, I'm sure China today, like you have to send in the transcript.

• 14:58Sam Morril?

  You have to write out your whole set.

• 15:00Speaker 01

  Your whole set, word by word. And Singapore too, and then I don't, I don't do it. I'm like, just, here's my set I recorded 60 Minutes in Milwaukee, just translate and send it to them. And I'm not gonna say a word perfect, like, sorry.

• 15:11Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 15:12Sam Morril?

  And they're okay with that.

• 15:13Speaker 01

  They're pretty. I mean, I don't say anything crazy controversial or anything, you know? So I think it's fine.

• 15:18Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you got an Asian voice, it's a little hurtful.

• 15:21Speaker 01

  You, in particular.

• 15:23Mark Normand?

  I'm bothered by it.

• 15:23Speaker 01

  You and your family really take offense to that.

• 15:26Mark Normand?

  But you got the coolest story, man. Your story, your life is a movie.

• 15:29Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 15:30Mark Normand?

  I mean, moved here from Hong Kong to LA.

• 15:32Sam Morril?

  At 13, right?

• 15:33Speaker 01

  At 13 years old.

• 15:34Mark Normand?

  Uh, you know, you got LA.

• 15:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:36Mark Normand?

  And what a, what a culture shock.

• 15:37Sam Morril?

  Yeah, how did that, how did your folks, uh, set in LA?

• 15:39Speaker 01

  Eh, man, it was, it was, um, cause my grandparents was already here, cause my aunt married an Chinese American guy.

• 15:47Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay.

• 15:48Speaker 01

  So it's like that chain migration stuff, right? Little by little, the whole family started coming here. So my family was like the second wave. But when I was 13, I, I could barely speak English.

• 15:57Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 15:58Speaker 01

  I learned English on the books, how kids here would learn Spanish.

• 16:02Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 16:02Speaker 01

  But then when I got to school, people were talking way too fast. I'm like, what, what, I thought I knew English, but.

• 16:07Sam Morril?

  I mean, that must have been so hard.

• 16:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, it was tough.

• 16:10Sam Morril?

  Not just to learn, but to make friends, right?

• 16:11Speaker 01

  Oh, it was super hard. Um, at my school, I went to John Burroughs Middle School, there were Asian kids, but they were Korean.

• 16:17Mark Normand?

  Ew.

• 16:17Speaker 01

  Like, American born Koreans, and they didn't even really wanna be associated with me, cause I was like so foreign.

• 16:24Mark Normand?

  We forget about the, uh, Asian racism.

• 16:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, we, we don't speak the same language, and by hanging out with me, they look more foreign, so why would they want that? So I get it.

• 16:33Mark Normand?

  Oh, interesting.

• 16:33Speaker 01

  And I, I, I made friends with a lot of Mexican kids, cause I grew up playing soccer, and, um, you know, just sports was a big thing, you know? I, I was like really small, but I could like shoot a basketball. Um, so, and then they threw me in, uh, ESL classes.

• 16:47Mark Normand?

  Oh, sure.

• 16:48Speaker 01

  ESL classes, all foreign kids. I made friends with this Nigerian dude, uh, this Mexican guy, this Sri Lankan guy, so that was like my first friend group.

• 16:55Mark Normand?

  This is a movie. This is gold.

• 16:57Speaker 03

  How do you have zero accent? Cause I have friends who were born here, Korean, and they have an accent.

• 17:02Speaker 01

  I tried really hard. I never had like a full on Chinese accent, cause I grew up speaking three different Chinese dialects. So it's like Shanghai dialect with my parents, Cantonese, which is a different accent than Mandarin. So I think between that, I, I got a pretty good ear.

• 17:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 17:16Speaker 01

  And then, when I got to America, like I was American maxing, right? Like I was trying to listen to as much hip hop as I could. So by the time I was like a sophomore, junior, I kinda had like a hip hop, like black scent almost.

• 17:29Mark Normand?

  Sure, sure.

• 17:29Speaker 01

  And I didn't know that was like not okay. I was just trying to not be foreign.

• 17:33Sam Morril?

  Like, don't say that word, dude, stop.

• 17:35Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 17:36Speaker 01

  And then, um, by the time I got to college, I started watching a lot of Sopranos. So I almost had like an East Coast accent, like a Jersey accent, but I never lived in Jersey, obviously. So it was just like trying to mask, you know, a foreign accent.

• 17:50Sam Morril?

  Are there any verses you have memorized to this day?

• 17:52Speaker 01

  No, no, no.

• 17:53Sam Morril?

  Don't make him fucking rap. What are you doing?

• 17:56Speaker 01

  But I was a big fan of like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, like all of that stuff.

• 17:59Sam Morril?

  Yeah, the West Coast stuff. Well, I guess Jay-Z's not.

• 18:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, Jay-Z's not, but.

• 18:02Sam Morril?

  But, uh, yeah, so you, American culture, just like, that's amazing when you take like a little bit of everything, you just lose an accent.

• 18:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, and then this time when I went back to Hong Kong, I forgot how to speak Cantonese.

• 18:14Mark Normand?

  Oh, geez.

• 18:15Speaker 01

  And I forgot how to read and write Chinese. There's, uh, one of the jokes in my special, uh, is I found my diary that I wrote when I was nine years old. All written perfectly in Chinese, and I couldn't read a single word of it.

• 18:27Mark Normand?

  Damn, that's crazy.

• 18:29Speaker 01

  My own handwriting. I have to give it to my dad to like translate it, you know, which is a nightmare.

• 18:33Mark Normand?

  Oh, God. I got my first boner, your dad's reading that. Geez.

• 18:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:38Mark Normand?

  Wow, that's crazy. What happened to Ronnie Chang? He sounds like a cartoon character.

• 18:41Speaker 01

  He has an accent in any language that he speaks. I would speak Chinese to him, and he still has a Ronnie Chang accent.

• 18:48Mark Normand?

  Okay.

• 18:48Speaker 01

  So he stays consistent.

• 18:49Mark Normand?

  All right.

• 18:50Speaker 01

  No.

• 18:50Sam Morril?

  Well, you watch old movies and people are from different places. You watch an old like French movie and you're like, that's like a German French accent.

• 18:56Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 18:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:56Sam Morril?

  People have different accents, you know?

• 18:58Mark Normand?

  Even in the 40s, we had that, what are they called? The, uh?

• 19:00Speaker 03

  Mid-Atlantic.

• 19:01Mark Normand?

  Mid-Atlantic. Yeah, they're like, ah, see, I told the broad to come back at midnight. Nobody sounds like that now.

• 19:07Sam Morril?

  Dude, there's, there's an old clip of young children talking about Babe Ruth. I don't know if you've ever seen this.

• 19:12Mark Normand?

  Oh, pull it up.

• 19:13Sam Morril?

  The way they're talking, you're like, that voice doesn't fucking exist anymore.

• 19:16Mark Normand?

  I know, and it's adorable.

• 19:17Sam Morril?

  They're like, ah, Babe Ruth was a, he was a real man, like, and you're like, oh, that voice is gone.

• 19:22Mark Normand?

  You don't even hear the New Yorkers much anymore, like, yo, hey, I'm walking here. That's kinda over.

• 19:26Sam Morril?

  Now, now it feels like you're like, you're trying to do that.

• 19:28Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 19:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 19:30Mark Normand?

  Boston might be going away too.

• 19:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's all pretty homogenous.

• 19:33Sam Morril?

  Now, Boston's not going away.

• 19:34Mark Normand?

  All right.

• 19:35Sam Morril?

  Now, Boston's here to stay, I think.

• 19:36Mark Normand?

  I hope so.

• 19:38Speaker 01

  British people.

• 19:38Sam Morril?

  Oh, listen to this shit. Listen to these kids. This is crazy.

• 19:40Mark Normand?

  I'm crazy with these kids.

• 19:42Speaker 04

  And I, and I wish they'd come back to the Yankees.

• 19:47Speaker 04

  They broke the sides of break like that and I think it'll make good in Boston because he's been such a great character and I think he'll

• 19:54Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 19:54Speaker 01

  It's like very New York but old timey.

• 19:56Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 19:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, I wish he was still with the Yankees. He wants to go to the Yankees.

• 20:01Speaker 01

  You also don't see a kid looking like this anymore.

• 20:03Mark Normand?

  She's gonna have a rough life.

• 20:05Sam Morril?

  Oh, they had hard fucking lives.

• 20:06Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. She's getting beaten by her husband. She's 11.

• 20:10Speaker 01

  Was that a girl?

• 20:13Sam Morril?

  The fact that we don't know ain't a great sign.

• 20:14Mark Normand?

  Yeah, look at the hats. They're hilarious.

• 20:16Speaker 01

  They're like a Peaky Blinders.

• 20:17Mark Normand?

  I know, right?

• 20:18Speaker 01

  They're like pushing dope.

• 20:19Mark Normand?

  And they're dressed like to the nines on a Tuesday.

• 20:22Sam Morril?

  Yeah, they're 12 years old, but you know they're handing someone this fat stack of cash.

• 20:25Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah. They smoke cigars. Damn, that's hilarious. Where does it all go? It just, it just shifts.

• 20:33Sam Morril?

  People change. I mean, you know, maybe old people are gonna talk like, I was talking and I went to this. Like, maybe that's gonna be a voice when I'm like 80 and you're gonna be like, ugh.

• 20:41Mark Normand?

  That's true, yeah. I mean, Valley Girls, you don't hear, Valley Girls were big in LA in like the 90s.

• 20:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 20:47Mark Normand?

  Oh, my God. Yeah.

• 20:48Speaker 01

  What happened to the Valley Girls?

• 20:50Mark Normand?

  They, they shifted.

• 20:51Sam Morril?

  I think it became that voice fry.

• 20:52Mark Normand?

  Vocal fry.

• 20:53Sam Morril?

  That you were doing.

• 20:54Speaker 01

  Like the Paris Hilton, like.

• 20:56Sam Morril?

  Yeah, like not sure of yourself as a cadence.

• 21:00Speaker 01

  Hmm.

• 21:01Mark Normand?

  Everything goes up at the end.

• 21:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 21:03Mark Normand?

  I mean, actually?

• 21:05Sam Morril?

  Are you mugging me?

• 21:06Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 21:08Speaker 01

  I think it's polite. It's inviting you to more conversation.

• 21:11Mark Normand?

  I guess so, but do you wanna have one?

• 21:12Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly.

• 21:14Mark Normand?

  That's the question. Uh, when I heard a strip club DJ, is that, is that real?

• 21:18Speaker 01

  How does that come together? Uh, this is years after my immigration. Uh, but, but I guess a part of me still wanted American Max. I wanted to be like a, not rapper, but like a music producer, like making beats for hip hop, right? So that was always my dream to like DJ and like do whatever. So after I graduated college with an economics degree, I just knew I didn't wanna do that. So I had odd jobs. I DJed at a strip club. I worked at a comedy club. That's in San Diego. This is on San Diego. That's why I learned everything. It's, it used to be called a comedy palace. Now it's the mic drop comedy.

• 21:52Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, I know.

• 21:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I heard it's a good club. Um, but back in the day, it used to be Greek restaurant during the day. And then my buddy Sean Kelly went to the Greek restaurant and was like, hey, you guys don't have a lot of business. At night, let me turn into comedy club. So they switched the sign from Greek Palace to Comedy Palace. And I worked the door there and I sold used cars during the day. And then at night, I'll go put in a shift as a strip club DJ.

• 22:13Mark Normand?

  That's the most American day of all time, right?

• 22:16Speaker 01

  It's like, I'm American maxing.

• 22:17Mark Normand?

  You are.

• 22:18Sam Morril?

  How was the strip club?

• 22:19Speaker 01

  It was a really shitty strip club called Fantasy Showgirls. And it was owned by this biker gang, like Hells Angels type guy named Gunner. So it's like really gangster, but I was just like a nice, you know, college kid.

• 22:31Sam Morril?

  Were they nice to you, though?

• 22:32Speaker 01

  They were so nice to me. Everybody had nicknames like Monster, Irish, Gunner, you know?

• 22:37Sam Morril?

  I'd stay away from Gunner.

• 22:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, from, from like prison nicknames and I'm just Jimmy, you know? So they, they were all really nice to me and I always, you know, look at things in a very innocent lens, you know, although I understand the situation. But I was like really good at it because I, I wasn't like, look, there was hot strippers, but I was like falling in love with them. Like I crush these strippers, like I'm a college kid, you know?

• 23:00Mark Normand?

  That's adorable.

• 23:00Speaker 01

  Uh, so I wasn't like being a scumbag or anything, just like, like, like the other DJ. So like sales was good when I was there. Gunner was telling me sales went up like 44%, you know?

• 23:11Sam Morril?

  What are you doing to get sales up? You just playing good tunes?

• 23:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, I was, because part of the job-

• 23:15Sam Morril?

  Did the dancers say play this song for me? How much is creative?

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. So, great question. Uh, so I think it, it's all about building a rapport because the strippers, they're independent contractors. They can just not show up or not come dance and you can't force them. So part of the job of a strip club DJ is like you're managing everything, everyone.

• 23:32Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 23:32Speaker 01

  You're making sure the customer's getting a good, good flow going, like what DJ would do. But you also gotta make sure the girls show up. So you gotta be like, hey, Saucy, you know, like what songs do you like? Let me make sure I play that song for you. Any lighting you want, you know, and-

• 23:47Sam Morril?

  Hey, Saucy, here's Rain Dogs by Tom Waits.

• 23:49Speaker 01

  Yeah. Try this one out. I think this will be good for you, you know? So you're kinda being like a Somali too.

• 23:55Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 23:56Speaker 01

  You know, I think this song will be great. Have you tried this? Um, and then you're just trying to be like really friendly and cool. So all the girls are like in line. But then there's some fights that happens between the girls.

• 24:05Sam Morril?

  Between the strippers.

• 24:06Speaker 01

  And, yeah, yeah, sometimes the bouncer's gotta break it up.

• 24:09Mark Normand?

  Damn.

• 24:10Speaker 01

  But it's an interesting interpersonal dynamic that's happening in there.

• 24:13Mark Normand?

  Of course, of course. And you gotta do stage four, Saucy, stage four.

• 24:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, exactly. Well, like coming up, like coming up next, like, like, uh, we got, uh, wait, wait, let me, let me-

• 24:22Mark Normand?

  You're soy sauce.

• 24:24Speaker 01

  Let me get back into, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, coming to the stage, we got Jade. And let's get ready, Saucy. Saucy, you're up next. And 241 Laugh Dance is coming up right now. All the girls get ready for the showcase.

• 24:35Sam Morril?

  It's kinda like, it's kinda like baseball. You're like, someone's on deck, you know?

• 24:38Speaker 01

  Yes, yes. You gotta, you gotta be, you gotta be the manager. You gotta be ready, you know?

• 24:42Mark Normand?

  I love it. I'm hard just from the, uh, like the contact high.

• 24:46Sam Morril?

  You're also just not who I pictured doing it.

• 24:48Speaker 01

  I was the most innocent. I was probably the only, because you hear other people that were strip club DJs. They're like, man, I hooked up with this girl. Oh, my God. It's like fucking shooting fish in barrels. Fucking hot, man. I was the only strip club DJ that didn't get laid.

• 25:01Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 25:02Sam Morril?

  That's why they liked you.

• 25:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, probably. Like, because I wasn't creepy, you know?

• 25:06Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 25:06Speaker 01

  I wanted to, don't get me wrong, but I was like trying to like ask a girl out on a date and shit, you know? And then, oh, you got a boyfriend, but then turns out she's fucking the owner.

• 25:13Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 25:14Speaker 01

  You know?

• 25:14Mark Normand?

  Seems like one would do it just for the novelty. Like, I'm gonna bang, uh, Jimmy.

• 25:19Speaker 01

  Yeah, right? You know, the nice kid. Come on.

• 25:21Mark Normand?

  Just bang the nice kid.

• 25:22Sam Morril?

  That's a sitcom right there.

• 25:24Speaker 01

  The nice DJ.

• 25:25Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 25:26Speaker 01

  That would be a fun, that would be a fun sitcom movie or something like that. Yeah.

• 25:29Mark Normand?

  Damn. DJ Hong Dong. All right, I'm working on it.

• 25:33Speaker 01

  We're working on it.

• 25:34Sam Morril?

  And then how long after that did you start? So you, you've been doing standup 18 years, you said?

• 25:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, since I, I'm 39, so since I was like 21. So I was already, I started doing open mics then. My first open mic was during the summer when I went back home to LA, uh, at the Haha Comedy Club.

• 25:50Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, you guys remember that? North Hollywood. It's still around.

• 25:53Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:53Speaker 01

  Jack, uh, Terry, Jack Jr. now, you know, runs it. Uh, great club. Um, you have to pay, I think they had open mics every night. And that was the open mic I could get on, you know, because you gotta pay, I think, five bucks.

• 26:06Mark Normand?

  Remember those days?

• 26:07Speaker 01

  Or a drink ticket.

• 26:08Mark Normand?

  Pay to do an open mic and you're, you're telling your parents, you're paying?

• 26:11Sam Morril?

  But those are the good ones usually.

• 26:12Mark Normand?

  They were the best ones.

• 26:13Sam Morril?

  That's what's annoying. The free ones, you're like, I get two minutes.

• 26:16Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 26:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, and you gotta bring people sometimes. Fucking open mic.

• 26:20Mark Normand?

  Yeah. You probably brought the Sri Lankan kids.

• 26:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, man, you run out of friends.

• 26:25Sam Morril?

  Bringing a bunch of strippers, like, book this guy again next week.

• 26:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 26:28Mark Normand?

  So get in there.

• 26:29Speaker 01

  What about, uh?

• 26:30Mark Normand?

  What about the used cars? I mean, that's like, uh, that's, that's a crazy gig. That feels like a lot of pressure.

• 26:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, that was fun, though. Um, I, I was a decent salesman. I think, I think all of these things, the strip club DJ and like selling used cars, all help the standup.

• 26:44Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 26:45Speaker 01

  It's interpersonal. It's like doing crowd work.

• 26:47Sam Morril?

  And you're not, you don't seem like a pushy guy.

• 26:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's the thing. I could, I could be a good salesman, but I look fairly trustworthy.

• 26:53Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 26:54Speaker 01

  Although I might not be. Um, and, and this car lot, it, it kinda sells itself because it, it specialized for people with bad credit in Ocean Side, San Diego. So our slogan amongst ourselves is like, either you, you buy this Dodge Neon at 24%, or you ride the bus. We're your last resort. So you come here, you don't have a choice.

• 27:13Mark Normand?

  Good gig.

• 27:14Speaker 01

  So it's pretty, pretty easy.

• 27:15Mark Normand?

  Yeah. Wow, you must see some characters coming in there.

• 27:18Speaker 01

  Oh, for sure. Or even the other car salesman. I'm sure this guy is doing math. He's been there, like, he's like 60 years old. Stu Gilbert and our, uh, our manager.

• 27:26Sam Morril?

  Did you ever hear from any of these people?

• 27:28Speaker 01

  Oh, man. I used, from Gunner, the, the owner of the strip club.

• 27:33Mark Normand?

  Hey.

• 27:33Speaker 01

  He used to be like a son. Like, when I moved back to LA, he would call me from an unmarked, unknown 619 number once a year. And he would just like, hey, this Jimmy? And I'm like, yeah, hey, what is this? He's like, yeah, this Gunner. I just wanna make sure everything's okay with you up in LA. I'm like, yeah, everything's all right, Gunner. I'm just doing my standups. Like, nobody's fucking with you up there. I'm like, no, it's, everything's all right. All right, just checking in on you. And then he'll hang up.

• 27:56Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  But he, he died.

• 27:58Sam Morril?

  Oh, but he was, that's nice. He was protective of you.

• 28:01Speaker 01

  He was, he was like a father to me. Yeah.

• 28:03Mark Normand?

  There you go, Hells Angel.

• 28:05Sam Morril?

  When you were starting out in the clubs in LA, who were the guys that you saw that you were like, oh, shit, this guy's a killer? I gotta, I gotta level up, like?

• 28:11Speaker 01

  Ooh, um, I was, I was like so scared to even like go into the improv at the Comedy Store because I know I probably couldn't get in. Because there was probably one time at the Comedy Store. Like, now we're older, we're established. We don't care if the guy doesn't recognize us, right? Uh, but when I was younger, like that one rejection at the door at the Comedy Store.

• 28:29Mark Normand?

  Totally.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  Crushes you, you know?

• 28:31Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 28:31Speaker 01

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, this is for comics only. Like, well, I, I am a comic.

• 28:34Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 28:35Sam Morril?

  You feel like you don't belong. Now you're like, eh, I got, things are all right, but that feeling when you're young, yeah.

• 28:39Speaker 01

  Oh, it's terrible.

• 28:41Sam Morril?

  Why am I even doing this?

• 28:42Speaker 01

  I think, I think people should be nicer to, to the younger comics these days, you know? Um, but, um, I think when I was coming up, it was, uh, Gerard Carmichael.

• 28:51Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 28:51Speaker 01

  They were calling it the future.

• 28:52Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I remember that.

• 28:53Speaker 01

  You know?

• 28:54Mark Normand?

  He was a darling.

• 28:55Speaker 01

  I'm trying to think, uh, Santino, Adam Ray, those guys.

• 28:58Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 28:59Speaker 01

  When I was starting to come up, like second, third year, trying to get into the improv or whatnot, they were like regular rotation at the improv. Um, and I was like, man, one day, you know, this would be so cool.

• 29:10Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 29:11Speaker 01

  Um, and of course, you know, like somebody like Bobby Lee, who I grew up watching.

• 29:14Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 29:15Speaker 01

  Um, that whole Comedy Store lineup, yeah.

• 29:17Mark Normand?

  Man, there must have been a lot, not to go back, but there must have been a lot of strip club, uh, car lot crossover. I feel like you'd see the same people. I guess they were in different places.

• 29:27Speaker 01

  How I got the strip club job was actually my car lot manager.

• 29:30Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 29:31Speaker 01

  He's an older guy, uh, alcoholic. He would disappear like three, four days on a bender sometimes, you know? Um, but he was roommates. Like, you know, you know your life ain't right when you're like 65 and you have a roommate?

• 29:43Mark Normand?

  Yeah, sure.

• 29:43Speaker 01

  And he was roommates with Gunner. And I was like, dude, I always wanted to like DJ. Like, you think Gunner let me DJ? He was like, Gunner likes you, it seems like, you know? Next time he comes in, just ask him.

• 29:52Sam Morril?

  Do you have to audition a DJ?

• 29:53Speaker 01

  No, I just showed up one day and he let me do it. But it wasn't, it wasn't on the ones and twos.

• 29:58Sam Morril?

  There's no training?

• 29:58Speaker 01

  It was literally like a, a Dell computer.

• 30:02Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 30:02Speaker 01

  And then you just click on whatever that's on Winapp, you know?

• 30:05Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 30:05Speaker 01

  Free songs before Spotify and you have your folders and you just play your songs and you, you work the lighting a little bit. That's it.

• 30:12Mark Normand?

  Damn.

• 30:13Speaker 01

  Yeah. Super, super simple stuff.

• 30:15Mark Normand?

  I love it. Boy, you've lived. Did you ever have any, uh, any scares with, with danger? Anybody come in with a gun or try to steal your car?

• 30:24Speaker 01

  Couple college kids. Couple college kids came in on like Christmas Eve. I was working at a strip club then. And it was just super sad because there's no customers and then we're closing early. And then drunk college kids, probably my age, got into an argument with Monster, the bouncer. And the monster was like, dude, get the fuck out of here. And then they're like, fuck you, man. On Yelp, it says you open till two. It's like, get the fuck out, man. It's Christmas Eve. Get out of here. And then they wouldn't get out and they're like talking shit outside the club.

• 30:51Sam Morril?

  And they're big kids?

• 30:52Speaker 01

  Uh, they're like regular size, you know, college 21-year-old kids, you know, just like me. You know, but now I'm on the other side of this world. Um, and then Monster went up to the bartender Chief and was like, hey, these kids are talking shit. Grab your shit. Let's go fuck them up. And then.

• 31:07Sam Morril?

  I got my money on Monster and Chief.

• 31:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They grabbed the two by four and went out there and started beating the shit out of these kids.

• 31:15Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 31:16Speaker 01

  On the floor. And then I went out there. I thought it was cool. I think I kicked one of them like, like, you know, and.

• 31:21Sam Morril?

  You're like, and stay out.

• 31:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I just thought it was the coolest thing, right? Like now I'm on the, I went from the college kid that was like, nobody getting kicked out of a strip club to now on the other side with these gangsters.

• 31:34Sam Morril?

  You're like Liotta in Goodfellas when he shows up in the suit.

• 31:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. And then, and then I went back to the comedy club the next day. I was bragging about it. I thought it was super cool. But good thing my mentor, Sean Kelly, uh, he's an older comic. Um, he was like, dude. Like pulled me aside. He's like, dude, I know you think this is super cool, but when you work with these kind of like darker characters, not, not skin tone, they're all, all like white Aryan Brotherhood guys, but like in a dark world, you know, like you, you start to think these things are normal.

• 32:03Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 32:03Speaker 01

  And that's actually really dangerous. He was like, dude, you're funny. You know, you're coming up, you know, just tell your story. Go to LA, you know?

• 32:09Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 32:10Speaker 01

  And that's when I decided.

• 32:11Sam Morril?

  It can be too Aryan Brotherhood if they hired you, though.

• 32:13Mark Normand?

  Interesting.

• 32:14Speaker 01

  I was the only not white guy.

• 32:16Mark Normand?

  Good point.

• 32:17Speaker 01

  In there. Yeah.

• 32:18Sam Morril?

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• 32:18Mark Normand?

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• 32:59Mark Normand?

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• 33:26Sam Morril?

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• 33:33Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 33:33Sam Morril?

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• 35:29Sam Morril?

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• 35:50Mark Normand?

  That's the best wool.

• 35:51Sam Morril?

  That's that wool keeps your feet nice and warm in the winter.

• 35:54Mark Normand?

  Very nice.

• 35:55Sam Morril?

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• 36:22Mark Normand?

  Very good.

• 36:22Sam Morril?

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• 36:24Mark Normand?

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• 36:25Sam Morril?

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• 36:32Mark Normand?

  Yeah, true, true.

• 36:33Sam Morril?

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• 36:54Mark Normand?

  Thank you.

• 36:55Speaker 01

  Yeah. For all they know, I could be an FBI informant, you know?

• 36:58Mark Normand?

  That's true.

• 36:59Sam Morril?

  That's the other show.

• 37:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's the, I'm wearing a wire within this, uh, Aryan strip club.

• 37:04Mark Normand?

  Just a life, like, I remember the first time, I'm from Louisiana. First time I saw San Diego, I was like, what the fuck is this place? Holy shit. You go to La Jolla, the seals on the beach and the women and the palm trees and everything.

• 37:16Sam Morril?

  There's just a lot going on.

• 37:17Mark Normand?

  Yes, yes.

• 37:18Sam Morril?

  In a cool way. I love San Diego.

• 37:19Speaker 01

  And it's fun.

• 37:20Mark Normand?

  It's fun.

• 37:21Speaker 01

  Way better than LA, I think.

• 37:22Mark Normand?

  I agree. Even Santa Barbara, I love too. You ever been there?

• 37:25Speaker 01

  My dream, my dream is to just, uh, you know, retire or like whatever, when I retire, like just own a farm, like a winery in, in, in Santa Barbara. That's it.

• 37:34Sam Morril?

  Are you a whiny?

• 37:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, a little bit.

• 37:36Sam Morril?

  A whiner, whiny?

• 37:37Speaker 01

  Yeah, alcoholic, sure. Yeah.

• 37:39Sam Morril?

  Yeah?

• 37:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:40Sam Morril?

  Why'd you drink?

• 37:41Speaker 01

  Uh, beer and wine, yeah. I try to stay away.

• 37:43Mark Normand?

  Get me a Coors Light. Well, yeah, I'm, I'm jonesing here. Uh, you don't have to have one.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  I'll take one.

• 37:47Sam Morril?

  All right, if everyone's drinking.

• 37:49Speaker 01

  You know?

• 37:50Sam Morril?

  I mean, why? Should we do wine or should we do Coors Light? If he's a whiner.

• 37:53Mark Normand?

  Good shit, yeah. I'm having a Coors.

• 37:54Sam Morril?

  All right, all right. If you're doing beer, I'll sip a beer.

• 37:56Mark Normand?

  You guys do whatever you want.

• 37:57Sam Morril?

  Is it cold or no?

• 37:59Mark Normand?

  I don't know. It's been sitting there for a minute.

• 38:01Sam Morril?

  I'll do a warm beer.

• 38:02Mark Normand?

  That might be the ugliest Bill's hat I've ever seen in my life.

• 38:08Mark Normand?

  So that's a great looking hat right there. Holy shit. All right.

• 38:12Speaker 01

  Crack it.

• 38:13Mark Normand?

  Hold on, that could be a little foamy.

• 38:15Speaker 01

  Like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

• 38:17Mark Normand?

  You are American maxing.

• 38:18Speaker 01

  Oh, hey, oh, sorry, guys. It's your studio.

• 38:22Mark Normand?

  Hey, let it fly.

• 38:23Speaker 01

  Your guy tossed it to me.

• 38:24Mark Normand?

  You're a squirter.

• 38:26Sam Morril?

  Cheers to, to the next special.

• 38:28Mark Normand?

  Yes, here, here. All right, take that. There you go.

• 38:33Sam Morril?

  Coors Light, pretty solid.

• 38:34Speaker 01

  You know, usually when you pour beers out, uh, you pour sideways and then foam up.

• 38:37Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 38:38Speaker 01

  And that red is somewhere. You're supposed to pour straight so all the foam comes out. Otherwise that foam's gonna be in your stomach. You're gonna be bloated, you know, you're gonna let the foam dissipate.

• 38:46Sam Morril?

  Know that. Holy shit.

• 38:47Speaker 01

  That's real nice.

• 38:48Mark Normand?

  They also told you bread was good for you. Now it's bad for you. You know, meat was bad.

• 38:51Sam Morril?

  Coffee's good, coffee's bad. I mean, is coffee bad now?

• 38:54Mark Normand?

  I don't know. It all changes.

• 38:57Sam Morril?

  I feel like every, yeah, milk.

• 38:58Mark Normand?

  Milk was big.

• 38:59Sam Morril?

  What is milk?

• 39:00Mark Normand?

  Now milk is out.

• 39:01Sam Morril?

  People used to drink a glass of milk.

• 39:02Mark Normand?

  Oh, all the time.

• 39:03Sam Morril?

  That was like a big thing. I loved the glass of milk.

• 39:05Speaker 01

  Campaign, those are the best commercials.

• 39:07Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah. Remember Gary Gulman's joke? Got milk? He's like, do we need to advertise milk? Did everyone forget about milk? You know, like, oh, Jesus, I forgot. I was pouring Pepsi in my cereal. It's just, it's too effervescent.

• 39:21Sam Morril?

  That's good.

• 39:21Mark Normand?

  All right.

• 39:22Sam Morril?

  He's good.

• 39:23Mark Normand?

  He does it better.

• 39:25Speaker 01

  He was super nice, I think. When he was, whenever he like really blew up at this certain moment, I forgot what it was. And then my first special came out during the pandemic, he like wrote me the nicest note. Yeah, I love that one, like, you know, even people you haven't met or whatever, he just writes me a note.

• 39:43Mark Normand?

  That's huge.

• 39:44Speaker 01

  Or I.

• 39:45Sam Morril?

  When it's a comic you respect, it feels nice.

• 39:47Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know, man, like, and I respect, like, any comic with a special, that's, that's already, you know.

• 39:53Mark Normand?

  Don't cast that wide a neck, come on.

• 39:55Sam Morril?

  That's great, any comic with a special.

• 39:57Speaker 01

  Any comic with an hour special, I think that's, that's respect right there, because when I started, I didn't think, you know, I mean, like, this is way beyond any, I just want to do college gigs.

• 40:08Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 40:08Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 40:09Speaker 01

  So, you know.

• 40:10Sam Morril?

  What do you think gave you your first big pop? Was it Silicon Valley?

• 40:13Speaker 01

  Silicon Valley for sure.

• 40:15Sam Morril?

  What a gift to be on a show that funny, I mean.

• 40:18Mark Normand?

  Like Judge.

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, I don't think that's ever gonna.

• 40:20Sam Morril?

  And you came in season two, right?

• 40:22Speaker 01

  I, I was, season one, I made nine hundred dollars an episode, like, as a guest star, I had two lines, you know how you audition is guest stars, there's co-stars, co-stars, the two line parts, I was a co-star, I wasn't even a guest star.

• 40:33Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 40:34Speaker 01

  And then season two, I became a series regular, and then my.

• 40:37Sam Morril?

  That must have felt incredible, how did that call?

• 40:39Speaker 01

  I cried at the Grove when I got the phone call.

• 40:42Mark Normand?

  I don't blame you.

• 40:42Speaker 01

  Like, it was in the morning, you know, I had to be on the phone with my agent, it was, it was very.

• 40:46Sam Morril?

  Was there any inkling that this was coming?

• 40:48Speaker 01

  Not at all, man, like, I was just like, trying to, I was just so happy I would be on Two Broke Girls with two lines, that I got my SAG card, this is unbelievable, it's an open mic, you know, a guy that's, three years ago, just doing open mics. And then, I booked this show, Yahoo had an original series, two original series, one is about space, one is about a basketball team called Sin City Saints. I think Santino's in it, Baron Davis was a series regular, and I got that part, right, I was so excited, I was like, oh my god, I want to be a series regular.

• 41:19Mark Normand?

  Yeah, there he is, Santino, he's the head guy.

• 41:21Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's the head guy, man.

• 41:23Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 41:24Speaker 01

  So you see that Asian dude, that's Justin Chong, yeah, Rick Fox is in it.

• 41:28Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 41:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, Tom, yeah, and then, so Silicon Valley was like a hit, you know, after season one, but I only had three lines in like three episodes.

• 41:39Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 41:39Speaker 01

  So my agent had the wherewithal, I'm like, hey, let us call Silicon Valley, see if they can match this series regular offer, because Yahoo probably don't want you to do an HBO show, you know? So, I got back, all these pictures are terrible.

• 41:52Sam Morril?

  That's a really hard pick, should we do Yahoo or HBO?

• 41:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, right, right. So, and then, I guess.

• 41:58Mark Normand?

  See, I thought that was Sun Yee.

• 41:59Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:00Mark Normand?

  Holy shit, look how little you are.

• 42:02Speaker 01

  Hey, man, that picture got me a lot of jobs, dude, I gotta update my EPK, this is on my official website.

• 42:08Sam Morril?

  This is like Urkel and Stefan right here.

• 42:10Speaker 01

  Oh, this is Lord, Jesus, what a cute kid, huh?

• 42:13Mark Normand?

  Man, that's a clean shave.

• 42:15Speaker 01

  Man.

• 42:15Sam Morril?

  That kid was a strip club DJ.

• 42:17Speaker 01

  He was, man, with those glasses too, bro. Man, that's crazy.

• 42:23Mark Normand?

  That is hilarious.

• 42:24Speaker 01

  Anyway.

• 42:25Sam Morril?

  The Arab nation's like, look, we're racist, but he's adorable, come on.

• 42:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, come on, he can't, he can't be with the CIA.

• 42:32Mark Normand?

  Yeah, and you're not gonna fuck with the strip, you're not gonna do blow, I mean, it's a perfect height.

• 42:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:36Sam Morril?

  This is a hilarious show that a kid that looks like that is in the strip club.

• 42:39Speaker 01

  I need to recast myself, I don't think, I aged out.

• 42:42Sam Morril?

  You've gotten too cool for it.

• 42:43Speaker 01

  Find like a cute, like, eighteen year old kid.

• 42:45Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 42:46Speaker 01

  But anyway, so Mike Judge and them, they like liked me enough, and yeah, they kept me on as a series regular, and I never did that Yahoo show, and they replaced me with Justin Chong. Yeah.

• 42:57Mark Normand?

  Oh, okay, on the other show.

• 42:58Sam Morril?

  That show, I mean, when you're reading those scripts, you're probably just like, this is gonna be fucking fun.

• 43:03Speaker 01

  Man, the scripts are already so fucking good, and then they let us have free rein, we're on set, the producers were there, and we can just improv, you know, TJ, Zach Woods, Middle Ditch, it's just the best, the best people who mail.

• 43:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 43:16Speaker 01

  Unbelievable, we had so much fun on that show, and everybody was an incredible improviser, actor, and writer, yeah, yeah, that's right.

• 43:24Mark Normand?

  Yeah, great show, and Mike Judge, that guy, has he had a miss? I mean, it's like Office Space, King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead.

• 43:31Sam Morril?

  Idiocracy.

• 43:32Mark Normand?

  Idiocracy, Silicon Valley, unreal, and he's doing a new thing apparently coming up.

• 43:36Speaker 01

  The coolest guy, he was my commencement speaker.

• 43:38Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 43:39Speaker 01

  At UCSD.

• 43:40Sam Morril?

  Wow.

• 43:41Speaker 01

  Small world, huh?

• 43:42Mark Normand?

  Wow, full circle.

• 43:43Sam Morril?

  Wow, yeah, he's got a pretty insane resume.

• 43:45Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's dope, he's super cool guy.

• 43:48Sam Morril?

  Did we even say King of the Hill?

• 43:49Mark Normand?

  I did, yeah.

• 43:50Sam Morril?

  Okay, I mean, yeah.

• 43:50Mark Normand?

  I say rebooted.

• 43:51Speaker 01

  And King of the Hill was him and Greg Daniels.

• 43:53Sam Morril?

  Wow.

• 43:54Speaker 01

  Created The Office, you know, amazing.

• 43:56Sam Morril?

  Greg Daniels is his resume, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Office.

• 44:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 44:02Mark Normand?

  Wow, unbelievable.

• 44:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 44:04Mark Normand?

  Damn, so you, you, see, the cool thing about HBO is you get to show your parents, that's something they can understand.

• 44:10Speaker 01

  You're so right, bro, because before that, like, a couple of episodes on like Two Broke Girls, my dad knew I had no money, he was just worried, he was like, come on, I got a finance job for you, he was sending me like career builder emails, you know? But then, once the HBO came, he understood HBO, there's a contract now, year to year, there's a contract, you know, so at least I'm not starving.

• 44:29Sam Morril?

  Did he like the show?

• 44:31Speaker 01

  Did he like, oh yeah, he loved the show, he loved the show, the other stuff he didn't quite get, but I think after that, he, he started watching my work, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:42Mark Normand?

  And then the movies, you know, the movies are great, you worked with Wahlberg, like.

• 44:46Sam Morril?

  Yeah, Patriots.

• 44:46Speaker 01

  Patriots Day, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did two things with Wahlberg, I did Patriots Day, which is great, it was a very dramatic film, and it was my first thing, and it was based on like a real life.

• 44:57Sam Morril?

  The Boston Bomb.

• 44:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, the Boston Bomber, and the part I played was like a Chinese hero, immigrant, that like escaped his SUV in Watertown, and called the cops, that's how they hunted those two guys down. So he was a pivotal hero, he still speaks to the cops every year, the Boston PD, you know, as like a charity thing, or like, you know.

• 45:15Mark Normand?

  Oh, I see.

• 45:16Speaker 01

  A rah rah thing, great guy.

• 45:18Sam Morril?

  I think my buddy Alex Wolf played the bomber character, right?

• 45:20Speaker 01

  Yes, that's your boy?

• 45:21Sam Morril?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 45:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, man, he was so cool.

• 45:23Sam Morril?

  Great actor for me.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  Great actor.

• 45:25Sam Morril?

  He's in Pig, remember?

• 45:27Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, he is good.

• 45:29Sam Morril?

  Great actor, he's in A Quiet Place, the new Quiet Place, he's amazing in it.

• 45:32Speaker 01

  Great actor, he doesn't stop working.

• 45:34Sam Morril?

  Yeah, he's, he's.

• 45:35Speaker 01

  Man, he's only twenty eight still.

• 45:37Sam Morril?

  He's got the skills, man, he's, he's good.

• 45:40Mark Normand?

  Yeah, he's got a look.

• 45:41Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:41Mark Normand?

  Good look, he looks like a hotter me.

• 45:46Speaker 01

  Is that?

• 45:46Sam Morril?

  He could have played Normandy in the.

• 45:48Speaker 01

  For yourself, like, is it like, self-deprecating joke?

• 45:51Mark Normand?

  Self-deprecating, that's a comment to him.

• 45:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 45:54Sam Morril?

  You look like both Hanson Brothers.

• 45:55Mark Normand?

  All right.

• 45:56Speaker 01

  Look at that, look at that beauty mole.

• 45:58Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 45:58Speaker 01

  I mean, come on, it's in the perfect place.

• 46:00Mark Normand?

  See, you want a look, because he's, he's interesting looking, too, that's, that goes a long way with, with casting.

• 46:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, and the camera, just, I, I was asking John Malkovich, what, love and respect so much, and so cool, right? I was like, what, what makes an actor like a great actor? He was like, I directed, you know, live stage plays, some of the best actors I've ever met, but they would never be on TV or film, because the camera just doesn't like them, the first rule, the camera has to like you.

• 46:26Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 46:27Speaker 01

  And sometimes having a big head, I think, helps.

• 46:29Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I can see that.

• 46:30Speaker 01

  Like a big face, big head.

• 46:32Mark Normand?

  I, I forgot what I was gonna say, you threw me off with big head, oh, I think there's comics out there, we don't have to say any names, who are unbelievable live, unbelievable on stage in the room, then they do a special, and you're like, it doesn't capture it.

• 46:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 46:45Sam Morril?

  I think sometimes it's guys who aren't great writers, though.

• 46:47Mark Normand?

  Is that what it is?

• 46:48Sam Morril?

  I think it's energy guys sometimes, where they can kind of capture an energy, but the writing is maybe flawed, so it's, they're able to get away with it live, because they have such great performance skills. But then, yeah, it doesn't always translate.

• 47:01Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's gotta suck, because that's how you show the world, hey, come see me.

• 47:06Sam Morril?

  Yeah, but then if they crush live all the time, people come back too.

• 47:09Mark Normand?

  I guess so, I guess so.

• 47:10Speaker 01

  Or could it be a performance anxiety, like, some people, you know, they perform in game six, when you shoot a special, you know, I was nervous as shit, but like, somehow that made me even, like, that was one of the better shows, when I shot my special. But then some people, I think, I can totally see me or anyone choking on a special, and you only get one night.

• 47:29Mark Normand?

  I know, I know.

• 47:30Sam Morril?

  That's why you gotta tape a couple.

• 47:32Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 47:33Mark Normand?

  I remember when I did my first big TV thing, it was John Oliver's show, he had a show on Comedy Sensible for like ten minutes, and it was me and Che, and I was sweating, I was walking up and down the, the green room, I was nervous, and I look over at Che, and he's sitting in a chair drinking a beer, and I was like, damn, and he killed it.

• 47:50Speaker 01

  Really?

• 47:50Mark Normand?

  And I was.

• 47:51Sam Morril?

  He's been an alcoholic ever since.

• 47:53Speaker 01

  Did you crush it?

• 47:55Mark Normand?

  I did well, but I was like, I was so nervous.

• 47:58Sam Morril?

  You did very well.

• 47:58Mark Normand?

  But Che was just loose and riffing.

• 48:01Sam Morril?

  Yeah, but I remember both of your sets, you both had great sets.

• 48:03Mark Normand?

  Yeah, it was fun.

• 48:04Sam Morril?

  I remember that.

• 48:04Mark Normand?

  Skirball Center, that was, that was a very exciting thing.

• 48:07Sam Morril?

  Good stand-up.

• 48:08Mark Normand?

  Good stand-up, yeah.

• 48:09Sam Morril?

  Like, people don't think of him as a stand-up, but he's got the fucking skills, man.

• 48:13Speaker 01

  He doesn't do it anymore, right?

• 48:15Sam Morril?

  I'm sure, I think he does live, he and Seth Meyers did some residency thing at the.

• 48:19Mark Normand?

  That's what I saw, yeah, he closed and annihilated.

• 48:21Sam Morril?

  Yeah, Seth is a really good stand-up too, I mean, it's like two guys you just don't think of as stand-ups.

• 48:25Speaker 01

  Seth Meyers?

• 48:26Sam Morril?

  Yeah, but they're.

• 48:26Speaker 01

  Really?

• 48:27Mark Normand?

  Good joke writer.

• 48:27Sam Morril?

  I mean, it makes sense, he's a great joke writer, right?

• 48:29Speaker 01

  Oh, I would say stand-up is the greatest thing, because I see actor friends, when they need to go get a bag, money, not cocaine, like, in a live scenario, like a corporate gig or whatever, they gotta go, maybe sign some autographs at a Comic Con, or do a fireside chat, you know, we can just bring this anywhere, you know?

• 48:50Mark Normand?

  It's portable, baby.

• 48:51Speaker 01

  It's great, yeah.

• 48:51Mark Normand?

  It is, yeah.

• 48:52Speaker 01

  It's a good moneymaker.

• 48:53Mark Normand?

  But the problem is, the reverse of that, is you get the Stormy Daniels, the Chris Catan's, these guys go, I can go get some money.

• 49:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:00Mark Normand?

  Doing this, it's, to them, it's the gutter, to us, it's the street.

• 49:03Sam Morril?

  Don't go Chris Catan in with Stormy Daniels.

• 49:05Speaker 01

  More like Charlie Sheen, yeah, yeah.

• 49:07Sam Morril?

  Don't, he was on Saturday Night Live.

• 49:09Mark Normand?

  Much better of a cop. My bad, Stormy.

• 49:13Sam Morril?

  I love that that was her last stop, it's like, she went, she went from porn to, like, she's like, she's like, I've tried sucking dick, let's go one step lower. And play Spokane Comedy Club this weekend.

• 49:23Speaker 01

  She did that, like, she did a.

• 49:24Sam Morril?

  Oh, I was, I remember seeing her at Spokane, I was like, she's like, the weekend after, she'd do a weekend, she's like a night.

• 49:29Speaker 01

  But those guys, like, those people, like, they flame out pretty quick, like, even an audience, if you've never seen stand-up, you'll be like, I don't, I don't, I don't want to watch this anymore.

• 49:39Mark Normand?

  That's true, that's true, you're never gonna go again.

• 49:41Sam Morril?

  Yeah, do you think it's like that? Because if you see a bad stand-up show, for some people, they're like, I'm done, I'm done with this as an art form, or a form of entertainment, whatever.

• 49:48Speaker 01

  We gotta understand, people that come to, especially to like a showcase night on a Tuesday at a Comedy Store or a Cellar.

• 49:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 49:56Speaker 01

  Eighty percent of people, seventy percent of people, it's their first time watching stand-up, you gotta give it to them, man, or else they might not come back, they're like, this fucking sucks.

• 50:03Mark Normand?

  I agree, you gotta bring the heat on a showcase.

• 50:05Sam Morril?

  It feels good when someone, you talk to someone after a show, and they're like, that was, overseas, I just had a few people say, they're like, that's my first comedy show.

• 50:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 50:12Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 50:12Sam Morril?

  And it feels good, you're like, oh, that's cool.

• 50:14Speaker 01

  But you gotta be the ambassador of comedy.

• 50:16Mark Normand?

  You took the hymen.

• 50:17Speaker 01

  Oh, Stormy Daniel, she's still doing it?

• 50:20Mark Normand?

  I'm telling you, we're promoting this lady.

• 50:22Speaker 01

  Ford Myers, huh?

• 50:24Sam Morril?

  Seattle, Washington, you called it.

• 50:25Mark Normand?

  I mean, you want to hear about.

• 50:26Sam Morril?

  I said Spokane.

• 50:27Mark Normand?

  Fucking, you want to hear about fucking the president.

• 50:29Sam Morril?

  Emerald City Comedy Club.

• 50:30Speaker 01

  Wait, wait, look at, are you on StubHub or the actual?

• 50:33Sam Morril?

  What's your, yeah.

• 50:34Speaker 01

  Is there the actual, can we go to the actual ticket site, I want to see if she sold out.

• 50:38Mark Normand?

  Go to her website.

• 50:38Speaker 01

  See, this is how much of a hater I am, sometimes I see people do like bigger venues, smaller venues, I'm like, is this sold out?

• 50:44Sam Morril?

  Wait a second, dude, what if she has a special, you have to respect her.

• 50:46Speaker 01

  I gotta, hey, if she has an hour special, I'll respect it, okay?

• 50:50Sam Morril?

  She does, it's on Pornhub, though.

• 50:54Speaker 03

  Is this what you want? Stormy Dan's website here?

• 50:56Mark Normand?

  I'm not, I'm not trying to

• 50:57Speaker 03

  No, no, fuck it, fuck it.

• 50:58Mark Normand?

  She's a hardworking lady. She blew the president. I get it. But oh, this website looks better than mine.

• 51:04Sam Morril?

  She didn't, by the way, she didn't blow the president. She blew Donald Trump. And then he became president.

• 51:08Mark Normand?

  Oh, good point, good point.

• 51:10Speaker 01

  She invested early.

• 51:11Mark Normand?

  That's true. Yeah, it's like dating a fat chick.

• 51:14Speaker 01

  Events, go to events and then I need to see some ticket sales.

• 51:17Speaker 03

  So hit.

• 51:17Speaker 01

  Yeah, go to, go to tickets. Let me see if it's sold out.

• 51:21Speaker 03

  I love this.

• 51:21Speaker 01

  I'm such a hater. Like, I need to see.

• 51:23Mark Normand?

  Well, she's doing Hong Kong.

• 51:27Mark Normand?

  Look at the prices.

• 51:28Speaker 01

  Yeah, Hong Kong, Tijuana.

• 51:29Mark Normand?

  VIP, 127 bucks.

• 51:30Sam Morril?

  Well, that comes with a handjob, that's why.

• 51:33Speaker 01

  Damn, that's a really, that's a hundred dollar premium than a regular mission.

• 51:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:37Speaker 01

  I can, do you guys do meet and greets? I can't do it.

• 51:39Mark Normand?

  I used to, I had to stop.

• 51:40Speaker 01

  It's so exhausting.

• 51:42Sam Morril?

  I think I got sick a lot when I did it too, because I was just talking to so many people, shaking so many hands. But like, yeah, I did it for a long time. And then I, honestly, it tired me out more than the set.

• 51:50Mark Normand?

  Totally.

• 51:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:51Sam Morril?

  I would rather do a third show in a night.

• 51:53Mark Normand?

  Hundred percent.

• 51:54Speaker 01

  Totally agree.

• 51:54Mark Normand?

  And we love the fans.

• 51:55Sam Morril?

  And I know, I love meeting people when it's like a line and it's, when I meet people on the street, I'm happy to talk for a long time. But when it's that, it would stress me out a little, especially because I should be looking at notes and adjusting from the previous set for the next show.

• 52:07Speaker 01

  Totally. Yeah, you're so right. It's more exhausting than the hour you do.

• 52:10Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 52:11Speaker 01

  It's, it's.

• 52:11Sam Morril?

  But I am so pumped when I meet people who like what I do. It's like a great feeling.

• 52:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, true.

• 52:16Mark Normand?

  Just don't tell me how far you drove. For some reason that, I feel guilty. They're like, hey, we drove three hours to see you. I'm like, that's very flattering. But I'm like, now I feel bad. Like, what do I do here?

• 52:25Sam Morril?

  No, they're just, they're showing how much they like you. That's not a bad thing.

• 52:28Mark Normand?

  I know. I just feel guilty that they drove. That I'm like, ah, was I said okay? Did, was it worth it?

• 52:33Speaker 01

  I'm with you though. Like, it's, it's, it's nice, but I think it's a subconscious power dynamic. They, they want to be like, hey, man, I came here, you better perform for me. And now I knocked you down a peg. We're about the same level.

• 52:47Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 52:48Speaker 01

  I think people do this subconsciously.

• 52:49Mark Normand?

  They do. There is that, for sure.

• 52:51Speaker 01

  You know?

• 52:51Sam Morril?

  Well, if I go to a Knicks road game, I'm like, Brunson, I drove eight hours. You better hit this jump shot, you know?

• 52:56Speaker 01

  But you wouldn't do that. As, as a sane person, I don't think we do that. I would just.

• 53:00Sam Morril?

  Nah, I think it's, I think it's, I'm fine with it.

• 53:03Mark Normand?

  All right. I just feel guilty personally.

• 53:04Sam Morril?

  I got a peeve though for you.

• 53:05Mark Normand?

  Okay, please.

• 53:06Sam Morril?

  I go to the sandwich, the coffee shop place today. I've done how I like a punch card. I love a, something about that free.

• 53:13Speaker 01

  Old school.

• 53:13Sam Morril?

  The free sandwich or the free coffee makes me happy. I don't know why.

• 53:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah, you earned it.

• 53:17Sam Morril?

  I earned it, yeah. So.

• 53:19Mark Normand?

  And there's proof.

• 53:19Sam Morril?

  I get the new punch card today. I pick up a coffee myself and one for my lady. She's at home. And they, they only gave me one, they would only give me one punch.

• 53:27Speaker 01

  What?

• 53:28Mark Normand?

  That's crazy.

• 53:29Sam Morril?

  It's per trip. I go, per trip? How about I go at the door and come back in?

• 53:32Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 53:32Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:33Mark Normand?

  To curb your.

• 53:34Sam Morril?

  But they, but they said, no, it's per trip. And I was like, I hate that.

• 53:37Speaker 01

  What is the margin on these punch, punches?

• 53:39Sam Morril?

  I was, I was bothered by it.

• 53:41Speaker 01

  That is, that is bothersome.

• 53:43Sam Morril?

  That's a fair peeve, right?

• 53:44Mark Normand?

  That's highway robbery. Yeah, that's crazy.

• 53:45Speaker 01

  That's no good.

• 53:46Mark Normand?

  That's a ruse, is what that is.

• 53:48Sam Morril?

  It was.

• 53:48Speaker 01

  I had a peeve on my way here. I took the subway.

• 53:50Mark Normand?

  Fresh peeve.

• 53:51Speaker 01

  And maybe this is, you guys are used to this in New York, okay? But there was two seats and, and one lady was sitting there and her bag was on the seat.

• 54:00Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 54:01Speaker 01

  And there's no other seats.

• 54:03Sam Morril?

  By the way, not just at a, on the subway, at the airport, when you're waiting to board the flight, people do that with their bags.

• 54:09Mark Normand?

  The luggage.

• 54:10Sam Morril?

  Fucking rude.

• 54:11Speaker 01

  I'm sure their argument would be like, if you ask, I'll move it. But now you have created a barrier.

• 54:16Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 54:17Speaker 01

  For me to ask, because most people don't want that interaction.

• 54:19Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 54:20Speaker 01

  Excuse me, can I? No, now, like, now you already have some power over me. I don't like it, you know?

• 54:25Mark Normand?

  I'm with you, I'm with you.

• 54:26Speaker 01

  Just, just, just put it on your lap.

• 54:28Sam Morril?

  People that, people that do something rude, knowing you have to ask, that's rude.

• 54:33Mark Normand?

  They know.

• 54:33Sam Morril?

  That's another level of rude.

• 54:34Mark Normand?

  Exactly. Exactly. They know what you have to ask and that's a whole other.

• 54:37Speaker 01

  I know they have a technical, it's like, oh, no, no, no, I'm not taking it in, please.

• 54:41Mark Normand?

  They have an out.

• 54:41Speaker 01

  And then when you ask, they, they actually, no, no, no, please. It's like, I don't want to ask. You're creating a social barrier for me, asshole.

• 54:48Mark Normand?

  They know that. It's like when the guy sits on the outside seat of, like, on a train, like a Amtrak. Now I gotta go, hey, can I get in there? Or can you move over? They know what they're doing.

• 54:57Sam Morril?

  But that person might want the aisle. That's different, I think.

• 54:59Mark Normand?

  All right.

• 55:00Sam Morril?

  I want, I'm a tall guy. I want the aisle.

• 55:02Mark Normand?

  But if somebody walks by and they go, can I get in there? You go, oh, sure.

• 55:07Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 55:07Mark Normand?

  All right, all right.

• 55:08Sam Morril?

  Of course. What, if I say no, I got both seats?

• 55:10Mark Normand?

  What if, what if it's a short guy? If a short guy's on the outside, I think he wants, he's, he's subconsciously going, keep walking, dickless.

• 55:19Sam Morril?

  He called me dickless? And he won't give me the seat? That guy's an asshole.

• 55:23Mark Normand?

  I got a peeve for you. You guys are gonna hate this one.

• 55:26Sam Morril?

  All right.

• 55:26Mark Normand?

  Um, how about this guy? The guy, you, you meet, you meet a guy, I'm not gonna give the whole situation, but you meet a guy and he goes, come on. And you go, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go over here. And he goes, I don't bite. Like, I don't bite.

• 55:37Speaker 01

  That's weird, man.

• 55:38Mark Normand?

  Yeah, like, I know you don't bite. I'm not sitting next to you because I was like, oh, he's gonna bite me. I'm not sitting next to you because I want to sit over there.

• 55:43Speaker 01

  That's gross.

• 55:44Mark Normand?

  I don't like the, I don't bite.

• 55:45Sam Morril?

  I don't like this.

• 55:46Speaker 01

  Yeah, who does that to a grown man?

• 55:47Sam Morril?

  What am I, a fucking Yorkshire terrier?

• 55:50Mark Normand?

  They bite.

• 55:51Speaker 01

  And I bet you that guy does it. That guy does the same thing to women, which is super gross.

• 55:55Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 55:56Sam Morril?

  No, you know what it does to women?

• 55:58Mark Normand?

  Oh, I don't bite. Yeah, you probably saw that at the club.

• 56:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, probably, yeah.

• 56:03Mark Normand?

  Come on, saucy.

• 56:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's no good.

• 56:07Mark Normand?

  Yeah, I don't bite. Yeah, we got it. I, I never thought you bit.

• 56:10Sam Morril?

  But that's your way of being like, I'm not a creep. But by acknowledging, you are kind of a creep.

• 56:14Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah. And bite, it's like trying to be cute too. I hate it. I hate all of it.

• 56:19Speaker 03

  Yeah. I got a small peeve.

• 56:21Mark Normand?

  Please.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  When people say, oh, you gotta hear this song. I gotta play the song for you. And then they play it on their phone.

• 56:26Mark Normand?

  Hmm. Yeah, because now you gotta react.

• 56:28Speaker 03

  No, it's not optimal. I can't hear the fucking song.

• 56:30Sam Morril?

  I don't do that. I do this with Vida on the road. We sometimes, but we always share it through text, so you can listen on your own time.

• 56:35Mark Normand?

  That's the way to do it.

• 56:36Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 56:37Sam Morril?

  You should listen, Mark and I, I mean, look, all of us, we send each other videos all the time. We don't just say, here, watch this video.

• 56:43Speaker 01

  Yeah, don't put me on the spot.

• 56:44Sam Morril?

  I like the sending of the, it's like, I think a video is like a favor. Put it in writing.

• 56:49Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 56:50Sam Morril?

  Give me a set, you know what I mean?

• 56:51Mark Normand?

  Some people just do this. There you go. Check that out.

• 56:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I can't even hear it. I gotta do this. I gotta, you know?

• 56:56Mark Normand?

  And they're like, you don't like it? You don't like it? I'm like, ah, I just, I need some time. Let me process it.

• 57:01Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 57:02Mark Normand?

  I hate it. Hate the forced, let me show you.

• 57:05Speaker 01

  Let me ask the, let me ask the tall guy a question. I was in the middle, I was stuck in a middle seat. Usually I fly business, okay? But, but this, I, I, I know, no, no seats. I was stuck in a middle seat. And the guy next to me, his leg was encroaching into my middle seat.

• 57:20Mark Normand?

  Oh, crazy.

• 57:21Speaker 01

  Now, he pretends to be passed out. I don't think he's passed out. But then I realized, this guy is like 6'5". He's massive.

• 57:28Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 57:29Speaker 01

  Now, he could put his leg together, but it's very uncomfortable, I'm sure. So me as a short guy, like, like, you know, this is a, a regular seat. It's very nice for me.

• 57:36Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 57:37Speaker 01

  So I kind of understood, like, so, so should that be, should I be pissed off?

• 57:40Sam Morril?

  Yeah, you should, because your seat is your seat.

• 57:43Speaker 01

  Right.

• 57:43Sam Morril?

  I, I had a situation, I was flying in Europe and I booked a business thing just for the fast track, not even for, because the seats on these European airlines suck anyway. Your business is like a regular seat and there's no one sitting next to you. That's the perk. But I booked it for fast tracks just so I wouldn't have to go through, you could cruise through security. But I'm sitting there and they go, hey, some people are running late for their next flight. Would you mind moving to the middle seat? And then he sits here so we can run off. And I was like, yeah, that's fine. That's, you know, but I'm a little annoyed because I paid for a business seat and I have to now sit in the middle.

• 58:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that sucks.

• 58:17Sam Morril?

  And not only does he sit next to me, he's fucking enormous. And he does, and he does this shit where he's, he's just mushing me. And I was just like, it was only like 25 minutes, but I was like, that was pretty annoying.

• 58:29Mark Normand?

  That's bad. Because you did the favor and still got fucked.

• 58:32Sam Morril?

  And, and he, and he did the thing, so I did the thing where I was like, I kind of pushed his arm back.

• 58:36Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 58:36Sam Morril?

  And he, and he accepted.

• 58:37Mark Normand?

  Okay.

• 58:38Sam Morril?

  Oh, okay, good. He pushed, but, but he came in, he came in hot.

• 58:41Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's gonna be the worst time. Being fat is hard. Being obese has got to be hard.

• 58:46Sam Morril?

  He was a muscle guy.

• 58:47Mark Normand?

  Oh, he's a muscle guy. That's different. But being fat on a flight has got to be like, damn, I kind of regret all those costs.

• 58:56Speaker 01

  I had an older.

• 58:57Sam Morril?

  It's a French fat guy. He's a classy fat guy.

• 59:00Mark Normand?

  Uh huh, I'm French as shit.

• 59:02Speaker 01

  I had an older lady. She probably had the worst flight of her life. She got upgraded to first class.

• 59:07Mark Normand?

  Hey.

• 59:07Speaker 01

  But not like the lay down, just like the wider seats. But she had a whole panic, full on panic episode, because this is her first time in first class. And she's not huge. She's just kind of big. And she needed an extender. Because the seats are wider and the seatbelts are shorter, right? So you have less seatbelt to go around. She's like, this has never happened to me. So it's the worst upgrade of her life. I was like, oh, no, lady, the seats are just wider. You're fine.

• 59:31Mark Normand?

  She upgraded to shame.

• 59:33Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 59:34Sam Morril?

  Was she, uh?

• 59:35Mark Normand?

  Shame air.

• 59:36Sam Morril?

  Was she really big?

• 59:37Speaker 01

  She wasn't, she was just like a bigger, older lady, like not massive by any means, yeah.

• 59:42Mark Normand?

  I had a bit, this is gonna sound bad, but I had a lady on a flight. She was huge. And she was wearing like a skimpy outfit while being huge. So there's a lot of skin and stuff showing. Which is fine. Do what you gotta do. You, go, girl. But she smelled horrific, like crazy body odor. And I, and it was that weird, soury, kind of milky scent. So you're like, and then you look at her and it all just adds together. And I had, I had to ask the, the flight attendant for a mask. I was like, I'd had to get a mask.

• 1:00:12Sam Morril?

  Yeah, it's like a COVID nut.

• 1:00:13Mark Normand?

  I'm like the COVID nut, like.

• 1:00:15Sam Morril?

  Well, you gotta ask for it, it's like, like coffee beans. That's what you need.

• 1:00:18Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 1:00:19Speaker 03

  Is that right?

• 1:00:20Sam Morril?

  Because it's, you know, I remember there was a real, I was on a flight with Phil Hanley once and we were both flying to LA. And I was next to someone who smelled so fucking bad. And I just, I just was like, what do I do? This is unbearable. So I just walked over to someone. I pulled a dick move. I said, I'm sorry, would you mind switching with me? It's one of my really good friends. And they go, yeah, sure. And they switched with me. And the second they switched, they just looked at me like,

• 1:00:43Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 1:00:45Sam Morril?

  And I was like, I got you. No backseats. Fuck. And it was, it was a dick move, but.

• 1:00:51Mark Normand?

  Well.

• 1:00:52Sam Morril?

  I can't really defend it. I was gonna say, but, but there's no defense. I pulled a dick move.

• 1:00:55Speaker 01

  Now, if it's someone working the service industry, I had a driver once, like an Uber driver.

• 1:00:59Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:00Speaker 01

  That just smelled horrific.

• 1:01:01Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Speaker 01

  Like, I understand a regular stranger customer.

• 1:01:05Sam Morril?

  This long hours too.

• 1:01:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:07Sam Morril?

  You gotta bring a deodorant if you're a driver.

• 1:01:08Speaker 01

  The Uber driver, like, say the waiter, do you say something? Like, is it, is it because nobody has told them? Like, is it now up to me?

• 1:01:17Sam Morril?

  I wouldn't say it to a waiter. That's what, it feels weird.

• 1:01:18Speaker 01

  Okay, okay. An Uber driver. You're in the same small spot. You're like, hey, man, uh, maybe just a little deodorant. Just, just for your future customers.

• 1:01:25Sam Morril?

  I don't think I would say.

• 1:01:26Mark Normand?

  I don't, I wouldn't either. That's the problem. No one will say it.

• 1:01:28Speaker 01

  No one says it. That's the issue.

• 1:01:30Mark Normand?

  And it's an Uber, so how long, you're not gonna be with this guy forever.

• 1:01:32Speaker 01

  Does he know?

• 1:01:33Mark Normand?

  I don't think so.

• 1:01:34Sam Morril?

  The worst is when you get one and it's like, you're like, you're going to JFK airport and it's gonna be like an hour and a half.

• 1:01:38Speaker 01

  Fuck.

• 1:01:39Sam Morril?

  And you're just like, fuck, let's pop that window.

• 1:01:41Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, try to give them signs. I'd start rolling down the window.

• 1:01:44Sam Morril?

  I just pull up to another car. I'm like, hey, do you want to switch Uber?

• 1:01:48Mark Normand?

  I'll do this one every now and then. But then they think you farted.

• 1:01:53Speaker 01

  I thi- I think we gotta say something.

• 1:01:55Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 1:01:55Speaker 01

  Somebody's gotta say something.

• 1:01:57Mark Normand?

  Smell something, say something.

• 1:01:58Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:58Speaker 01

  Cause they don't know, ma- maybe they don't know.

• 1:02:00Mark Normand?

  You're never gonna see them again.

• 1:02:01Sam Morril?

  Taxi driver is a hard one, cause those guys would fucking bang out like eighteen hour shifts. So that's why they smell, it's cause they don't, they don't go home.

• 1:02:07Mark Normand?

  But some people just smell, like it's a cultural thing. I flew back from Africa and

• 1:02:11Sam Morril?

  Oh, fucking boy.

• 1:02:12Mark Normand?

  it was the worst plane flight, like everyone had BO. The whole plane, I was the only, I was the minority without BO.

• 1:02:18Sam Morril?

  You're the minority, alright.

• 1:02:20Mark Normand?

  Yeah, and it was wild. It was, you know, it was like a nineteen hour flight and I was just like, huh, eyes were watering, my ears were bleeding.

• 1:02:27Speaker 01

  By the way, that was his honeymoon and he flew coach?

• 1:02:31Mark Normand?

  No, no, that was a different time I went to Africa.

• 1:02:33Speaker 01

  Oh, wow.

• 1:02:34Mark Normand?

  Sorry, but I did fly coach. But yeah, I was in the back with this kid and the kid smelled great, but uh.

• 1:02:41Speaker 01

  This has gone so many bad directions.

• 1:02:42Mark Normand?

  Yeah, the kid was cute.

• 1:02:45Speaker 01

  Are these breast implants?

• 1:02:46Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:02:47Speaker 01

  Hey. Huh, used?

• 1:02:51Mark Normand?

  No, fresh, but they've been squeezed many, by many persons.

• 1:02:54Sam Morril?

  I don't know, what are these?

• 1:02:56Mark Normand?

  It's like a C where I come from.

• 1:02:57Sam Morril?

  They're pretty big. Is this a C?

• 1:02:59Mark Normand?

  Yeah, it's a C.

• 1:02:59Sam Morril?

  Yeah, this is nice. You get a nice little handful, yeah.

• 1:03:01Mark Normand?

  That's all you need.

• 1:03:02Speaker 01

  It's nice.

• 1:03:03Sam Morril?

  Yeah, not bad. How do you feel? What's your, what's your type of woman?

• 1:03:06Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:06Sam Morril?

  Cause you're, you're clearly single, you're here for six months, right?

• 1:03:09Speaker 01

  Yeah, um, I would say, man, dating in New York has been so much better in LA.

• 1:03:13Mark Normand?

  You're single, wow.

• 1:03:14Speaker 01

  You know, uh, LA, it seems like, you know, I'm, I'm scraping by, I'm like, i- i- if there's a chick that's like semi-attractive, I'm like, yeah, please, you know, uh, but then once you come to New York, like, I, I think there's a ratio, you know?

• 1:03:29Mark Normand?

  Yeah, for sure.

• 1:03:30Speaker 01

  More women than men and, and the girls actually appreciate you if you're a decent guy.

• 1:03:34Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:03:35Speaker 01

  And they appreciate, you know, anyways, um, so for a long time, because I was American maxing, I, I, I was into white girls.

• 1:03:43Mark Normand?

  Fetish.

• 1:03:44Speaker 01

  That seems like, yeah, a white fetish.

• 1:03:46Sam Morril?

  Was it like a very classic, like blonde hair, that type of white?

• 1:03:49Speaker 01

  Totally, you know, uh, one of my ex-girlfriends was very blonde, that didn't work out.

• 1:03:53Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 1:03:53Speaker 01

  Um, but now.

• 1:03:54Mark Normand?

  Why didn't it work out?

• 1:03:56Speaker 01

  Well, for various reasons. I think I had a lot of blind spots and, uh, we just say, we dated for like two and a half years, I should've broke up with her.

• 1:04:03Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 1:04:03Speaker 01

  Maybe a year in, you know, uh, but.

• 1:04:05Mark Normand?

  But I feel like, uh, look, correct, I said the same thing to Ronnie, I think Asian guys are having a moment.

• 1:04:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, oh, for sure.

• 1:04:11Mark Normand?

  When I was younger, Asian guys couldn't get laid by white chicks and now white women like Asian guys.

• 1:04:15Speaker 01

  There are girls that are like, oh my God, I love K-pop, I love this, like this is my thing.

• 1:04:19Mark Normand?

  That's what I'm saying.

• 1:04:20Speaker 01

  Back in the day, we didn't really have a reference.

• 1:04:22Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:04:22Speaker 01

  When I was in school, like, oh, Asian, nah, nah, that's too foreign for me, that's too weird for me, whatever.

• 1:04:27Mark Normand?

  Even Ronnie's kid was a white guy.

• 1:04:28Speaker 01

  People go out of their way to date like Asian, let's not pull up my ex-girlfriend, you know, that's just like, Jesus Christ.

• 1:04:33Mark Normand?

  One.

• 1:04:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, anyways.

• 1:04:35Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:04:35Speaker 01

  One, Jesus Christ.

• 1:04:36Mark Normand?

  Good lord.

• 1:04:38Speaker 01

  But anyways, um, I, I am, uh.

• 1:04:40Mark Normand?

  Hong Konger, is that how you say it?

• 1:04:42Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:43Mark Normand?

  You're a Hong Konger?

• 1:04:43Speaker 01

  You can say Hong Kong.

• 1:04:44Mark Normand?

  Oh, I didn't know that. Alright, good to know.

• 1:04:46Speaker 01

  Um, what site is this?

• 1:04:48Mark Normand?

  Uh, Who Dates Who? He, he, he put this together.

• 1:04:51Speaker 01

  And so what do you, what type of, what type of woman are you looking for now? So now, um, so I had my slow transition. I started dating half Asian women.

• 1:04:58Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 1:04:59Speaker 01

  And then, and then now I'm like, I think I'm, I'm more dating four Asian women.

• 1:05:03Sam Morril?

  Wow.

• 1:05:03Speaker 01

  You know?

• 1:05:04Sam Morril?

  It's like cocktails, you start like, oh, let's do a mixer.

• 1:05:06Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:05:06Sam Morril?

  Now do on the rocks, now you're just going neat.

• 1:05:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's right, that's exactly what it is. I, I, I think the cultural similarity, like, like if it's a casual dating, who cares, right? But if you're dating to be serious, maybe, you know, I do wanna get married.

• 1:05:19Sam Morril?

  Is it important to your family that you're with an Asian person?

• 1:05:22Speaker 01

  Yeah, I, I don't think they say it, you know?

• 1:05:24Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:25Speaker 01

  Um, they would like it, like, I, I, I've been seeing this girl, I'm like, one, one thought that keep permeating, she's a great girl. But then, I'm like, my mom would love this girl.

• 1:05:33Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 1:05:33Speaker 01

  And I think that's important to me.

• 1:05:35Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 1:05:35Speaker 01

  And, and there's cultural similarities. I've dated, uh, girls of all different ethnicity and I can't say they're rude, but they just didn't grow up with the same cultural respect that I had.

• 1:05:46Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:46Speaker 01

  You know, um, like say an older person come in, whether a family friend or whatever, not related, you call them uncle, auntie, whatever, right? A lot of people don't have that, right? And, and, um, to me, instead of like, oh, what the fuck, you're so rude. It's like, you know, we grew up differently.

• 1:06:01Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:06:02Speaker 01

  There is really some stock to dating someone that grew up with similar manners.

• 1:06:08Mark Normand?

  A hundred percent.

• 1:06:08Speaker 01

  You don't have to get mad about it, you don't have to teach them your culture, they, they don't, it's, it's not, that chasm is smaller.

• 1:06:14Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you, do you have that with you as a, with the mom?

• 1:06:19Sam Morril?

  She's never like put pressure on me, but I think, yeah, I think she would like it for sure.

• 1:06:23Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:24Speaker 01

  It's your girl?

• 1:06:25Sam Morril?

  She's Jewish, yeah.

• 1:06:26Mark Normand?

  Oh.

• 1:06:26Sam Morril?

  First Jew I've ever dated.

• 1:06:27Mark Normand?

  Whoa.

• 1:06:28Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 1:06:29Sam Morril?

  I'm like, I'm like you, dude.

• 1:06:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, there you go.

• 1:06:32Mark Normand?

  Full Jew.

• 1:06:33Sam Morril?

  I started with Asians, I went to Jews.

• 1:06:34Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's true.

• 1:06:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, there, there is a thing about Jewish guys and an Asian girl, that's a real thing.

• 1:06:39Mark Normand?

  That's true.

• 1:06:40Speaker 01

  Cause culturally, we are very similar.

• 1:06:41Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:42Speaker 01

  Very family oriented, you know?

• 1:06:44Sam Morril?

  But every, every, every group is family oriented though, don't you think?

• 1:06:47Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 1:06:48Sam Morril?

  When you break it down, Italians.

• 1:06:49Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 1:06:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:50Sam Morril?

  They're all kind of, you know?

• 1:06:52Speaker 01

  But like, average Greeks, an average white in America doesn't care about family as much.

• 1:06:56Mark Normand?

  I don't care. I don't give a shit.

• 1:06:59Speaker 01

  I'm looking at you, but, you know?

• 1:07:00Mark Normand?

  I, I don't even think about it.

• 1:07:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:07:02Mark Normand?

  Like, you're like, I want a lady for my mom, I'm like, my mom is not entering my mind.

• 1:07:05Sam Morril?

  Mark's wife calls, he just presses ignore, goes back to this.

• 1:07:09Mark Normand?

  Mike is in a Waymo right now.

• 1:07:12Mark Normand?

  Uh, but yeah, no, that's nice. It'll happen and I think, uh, is it stupid to go? I mean, this is the stupidest question I've ever asked, so don't hold it against me. Could you go to, do you go to Chinatown and go, hey? This is pretty good.

• 1:07:26Speaker 01

  Well, I would say I went back.

• 1:07:28Mark Normand?

  If I went to Little Nola, I would love it.

• 1:07:30Sam Morril?

  That's literally like me going into Katz's Deli like, alright.

• 1:07:33Mark Normand?

  I'm sure you do, you see the rabbi, the, the moil.

• 1:07:37Speaker 01

  I would say, that's why I think it was important for me to go back to Hong Kong.

• 1:07:41Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:07:41Speaker 01

  To go back home, to see the culture. I got back in touch with my elementary school friends, you know, went on a couple of dates and stuff, but it's, I am also at the same time very American now, so I need someone that's like, as, as, like the right amount of Asian for me, if that makes sense. Like if somebody from Hong Kong has never left Hong Kong, that doesn't, I'm too American for them, probably.

• 1:08:01Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:08:02Speaker 01

  You know, uh, and, and, and also, I don't know, like, like, I, in Hong Kong and if I go to Chinatown, I was looking at apartments at my real estate agent, took me to Chinatown, I'm like, I can't, I can't live here. She was like, why?

• 1:08:12Mark Normand?

  It's too Chinese.

• 1:08:13Speaker 01

  I was like, you see why. And then we left the apartment, like, ten kids were like waiting for me, like to take a picture, like, I'm like, this is not,

• 1:08:20Mark Normand?

  Good point, good point.

• 1:08:20Speaker 01

  not a real human interaction anymore.

• 1:08:22Mark Normand?

  I didn't even think about that. Damn, the fans are all there.

• 1:08:24Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 1:08:25Sam Morril?

  So, yeah, so, but you, you find an area you like?

• 1:08:28Speaker 01

  Um, I am in Soho now. I wasn't in Greenwich. I loved Greenwich, I was in this Airbnb, but then, uh, three weeks in, the location was great, um, but, uh, starting getting mice.

• 1:08:39Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 1:08:40Speaker 01

  It's the quintessential New York experience.

• 1:08:41Mark Normand?

  Yep, yep.

• 1:08:42Speaker 01

  Got some money back, moved out. Now I'm at my friend's house, she's never here, so I'm at her house in, uh, Soho. It's great.

• 1:08:46Sam Morril?

  Nice.

• 1:08:47Mark Normand?

  Beautiful.

• 1:08:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:08:48Mark Normand?

  Alright.

• 1:08:49Speaker 01

  Really nice.

• 1:08:49Mark Normand?

  I mean, and there's the, the women in Soho, unreal.

• 1:08:52Speaker 01

  Oh my God, you walk out, it's like legitimate, like LA, you have Instagram models, here there's legitimate runway models every block you go.

• 1:08:59Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 1:09:00Sam Morril?

  Especially in that area.

• 1:09:01Speaker 01

  And they have substance, they can have a conversation.

• 1:09:03Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:09:04Speaker 01

  It's unbelievable. I would say things are incredibly expensive here. You go on a date in Soho, it's like forty dollars for an appetizer.

• 1:09:10Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 1:09:11Sam Morril?

  It's crazy.

• 1:09:11Mark Normand?

  Banana, cocktails twenty-two now, it's bananas.

• 1:09:14Speaker 01

  Yeah, a part of me was like, man, so good, so fun here. I love the big city, Hong Kong is a big city. I'm like, why didn't I move to New York like earlier, ten years ago? But then I'm like, ten years ago, I would've been struggling.

• 1:09:25Sam Morril?

  Do you think you would stay here after all this?

• 1:09:28Speaker 01

  Um, I would spend some time here, but actually, last year I moved to Vegas.

• 1:09:32Mark Normand?

  Hmm.

• 1:09:33Speaker 01

  And I'm really enjoying that.

• 1:09:34Sam Morril?

  So, oh, so Vegas is home, not LA?

• 1:09:36Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:09:37Sam Morril?

  How'd you land on Vegas?

• 1:09:38Speaker 01

  At first, a bunch of my friends are moving there.

• 1:09:40Sam Morril?

  Was it taxes?

• 1:09:41Speaker 01

  And then they were telling me, dude, you're saying, cause I tore so much, I'm like, you know, why am I paying? And then at first I started tax, um, but then I bought this old ranch house in like old Vegas.

• 1:09:49Mark Normand?

  Oh, hell yeah.

• 1:09:50Speaker 01

  Where all the boxers used to live.

• 1:09:51Mark Normand?

  Hell yeah.

• 1:09:52Speaker 01

  Not expensive and I don't even see my neighbors and it's so peaceful.

• 1:09:55Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:09:56Speaker 01

  People don't understand me when I say Vegas is peaceful and the food is great, I can go gamble and have fun if I want to, but I can also drive around without no traffic, without no frustration.

• 1:10:06Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:06Speaker 01

  I just don't get LA.

• 1:10:08Mark Normand?

  Alright, we, we get you on that.

• 1:10:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:10:11Mark Normand?

  LA's cool to visit, it's awesome, a lot of history, a lot of culture, but living there, the traffic, the homeless, the, the fires.

• 1:10:18Speaker 01

  And, and, and, uh, it's basically a suburb.

• 1:10:20Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:10:21Speaker 01

  Pretending to be a city.

• 1:10:22Mark Normand?

  Right, it's a bunch of suburbs.

• 1:10:23Speaker 01

  But you get the worst part of a suburb and a city, the traffic, the, the, the, the location, and people just, they don't hang out.

• 1:10:30Mark Normand?

  Yes, yes.

• 1:10:31Speaker 01

  You gotta make plans and all my friends in LA either moved out of LA after the pandemic, cause they gave up on acting and wanna have kids or whatever.

• 1:10:37Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:10:37Speaker 01

  Or, uh, they had kids and got married in LA and now I'm the only, like, left behind.

• 1:10:42Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:10:43Speaker 01

  I got nobody to hang out with anyways.

• 1:10:45Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:45Speaker 01

  And also culturally, art-wise, like even the Comedy Store, it's so dead now in LA.

• 1:10:50Mark Normand?

  Interesting.

• 1:10:51Speaker 01

  Sunset Strip is dead, there's so many stores, Melrose, you walk down, it's closed, so many stores closed, Santa Monica, Third Street.

• 1:10:57Sam Morril?

  Is this post-COVID, you think?

• 1:10:59Mark Normand?

  That's sad.

• 1:11:00Speaker 01

  Post-COVID and then post-strike, I think.

• 1:11:01Mark Normand?

  Ah, the strike.

• 1:11:03Speaker 01

  I have honeys who, amazing cameraman, great crew people, couldn't get a job.

• 1:11:08Mark Normand?

  That's awful.

• 1:11:08Speaker 01

  In LA to save their, couldn't pay their mortgage. And, but in New York, it's the opposite. I got makeup artists, like, oh yeah, if I take a day off, I can call five friends and they'll be like, come day play on this thing.

• 1:11:17Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:11:18Speaker 01

  Cause the tax credit in New Jersey and New York is crazy good.

• 1:11:20Mark Normand?

  Mm-hmm, damn.

• 1:11:21Sam Morril?

  They gotta get California back on track for that.

• 1:11:23Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 1:11:24Speaker 01

  I don't know if it's ever going to. Um, Vegas is trying to, they were one vote away from some tax credit and Sony and Mark Wahlberg's there and they're ready to build some studios. I think, I, I think Vegas will be popping. And they got all the sports teams going.

• 1:11:38Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:11:39Speaker 01

  You know, so.

• 1:11:40Sam Morril?

  Football and they got, yeah.

• 1:11:41Speaker 01

  It is, yeah.

• 1:11:42Mark Normand?

  Crazy hot, sorry, what were you saying?

• 1:11:43Sam Morril?

  Oh no, I said football and they got, uh, hockey and everything now, it's.

• 1:11:46Speaker 01

  Basketball's coming.

• 1:11:48Sam Morril?

  Are they definitely getting a basketball team?

• 1:11:49Speaker 01

  They got an expansion team coming.

• 1:11:50Sam Morril?

  Them and, uh, Seattle, huh? Seattle deserves it too, they got fucking robbed.

• 1:11:55Speaker 01

  Seattle's a great fan.

• 1:11:55Sam Morril?

  They got, they had the Sonics in the nineties, they were so cool, Kemp and Payden and everything and.

• 1:12:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:12:00Mark Normand?

  And what happened?

• 1:12:01Sam Morril?

  They, the owner moved him to Oklahoma City.

• 1:12:03Mark Normand?

  Oh, right.

• 1:12:04Speaker 01

  Which is, I mean, worked out for them.

• 1:12:05Mark Normand?

  Sure.

• 1:12:05Sam Morril?

  Yeah, the team's good, but it's, it's fucked up. That was a cool franchise.

• 1:12:09Speaker 01

  Same thing I feel about the San Diego Chargers. LA doesn't need another team.

• 1:12:12Sam Morril?

  I agree.

• 1:12:13Speaker 01

  Also SoFi Stadium is the worst sports experience you can have, okay?

• 1:12:18Mark Normand?

  Here we go, hot take.

• 1:12:19Speaker 01

  I went to the World Cup, uh, fortunately enough, I went to three or four games. I went to MetLife, I went to Vancouver, it was so fun in Vancouver.

• 1:12:27Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:28Sam Morril?

  Vancouver's a great city.

• 1:12:29Speaker 01

  Oh, one of my absolute favorite cities.

• 1:12:31Mark Normand?

  But the heroin's out of control, but it's a great town.

• 1:12:33Speaker 01

  Oh, on that Hastings Street, and the girls are nice.

• 1:12:35Sam Morril?

  A lot of hot, Hunkouver.

• 1:12:36Speaker 01

  Hunkouver, they call Hunkouver, great food, the girls are nice and they don't even know how hot they are in Hunkouver.

• 1:12:42Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:12:43Sam Morril?

  I love a low self-esteem, it's great.

• 1:12:45Speaker 01

  No, it's just their peers are so hot, they're like, I'm average, I'm like, you're the hottest chick I've ever seen.

• 1:12:49Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:12:49Speaker 01

  Um, but the, the stadium was.

• 1:12:53Speaker 01

  Two blocks away from my friend's house in downtown and downtown is not like cracked out downtown LA. After that, you have like a whole pedestrian walk, like it's just so fun, like a beer crawl, whatever. And then LA, it's an hour and a half to get to SoFi. Once you get to SoFi, it's another hour to find your goddamn entrance.

• 1:13:09Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:13:10Speaker 01

  And then you, there's no vibe inside SoFi. I know it's state of art or whatever. It's all escalators going up and down. They have no food. The food is just hot dogs, okay?

• 1:13:18Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:19Speaker 01

  You know how every stadium has like, you know, New York's best food.

• 1:13:22Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:13:22Speaker 01

  San Francisco's best food at Levi's Stadium. SoFi has nothing. It's just emptiness and, and, and I get it.

• 1:13:28Sam Morril?

  I do feel like they're overdoing the food at these sporting events. Like I don't need a fucking ribeye at a, at a game, you know?

• 1:13:33Speaker 01

  But give me something.

• 1:13:34Mark Normand?

  Tacos.

• 1:13:35Speaker 01

  Give me some.

• 1:13:36Sam Morril?

  A good hoagie.

• 1:13:37Speaker 01

  Like MetLife had a hoagie, had a pasta station. Not saying I'm gonna, not saying I'm gonna get it, but I feel like I'm in New York. There's some history here.

• 1:13:45Sam Morril?

  But there's something special about going to a baseball game and having a hot dog and peanuts.

• 1:13:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:13:50Sam Morril?

  There is something cool about that. Yeah.

• 1:13:52Speaker 01

  I'm a big hot dog guy, but SoFi just.

• 1:13:54Sam Morril?

  Me neither, but at a game, it's kind of fun. I don't know.

• 1:13:56Speaker 01

  Once they say, uh, state of the art, anything, stadium, whatever, it, it just takes the enjoyment of it away.

• 1:14:02Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:14:02Speaker 01

  Have you guys been to the Intuit Dome?

• 1:14:04Sam Morril?

  I haven't. It looks insane.

• 1:14:05Speaker 01

  Equally as bad.

• 1:14:06Sam Morril?

  Really?

• 1:14:07Speaker 01

  Because, uh, well, first of all.

• 1:14:09Sam Morril?

  Clippers, right?

• 1:14:09Speaker 01

  The Intuit Dome, SoFi Stadium and the Forum is on Inglewood. So sometimes all three guys I'm going and Inglewood is an hour and a half from everyone.

• 1:14:18Mark Normand?

  Of course.

• 1:14:18Sam Morril?

  Wow.

• 1:14:19Speaker 01

  And then you go down there. Uh, I love the Forum. It's one of my favorite venues to go to.

• 1:14:23Mark Normand?

  Great, great spot.

• 1:14:24Speaker 01

  I did a show at the Forum. It was a dream come true. Amazing, right? And the audio is great because it's old school and it's easy to get in and out. And Intuit Dome, they do this thing where you can't pay with your credit card. They scan your face.

• 1:14:35Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:14:35Speaker 01

  And then the first night, Bruno Mars concert, it didn't work. That concert was like an hour late.

• 1:14:40Sam Morril?

  How do they scan your face?

• 1:14:42Speaker 01

  I don't know. It's, it's a weird facial recognition. You, you hook it up to the Intuit app and the credit. I, I hate stadiums. You have to download its own app.

• 1:14:51Mark Normand?

  Too many apps.

• 1:14:52Speaker 01

  To get into the goddamn stadium.

• 1:14:53Sam Morril?

  Apps. I'm sick of apps.

• 1:14:54Speaker 01

  No more apps.

• 1:14:55Sam Morril?

  I have so many apps that to use some apps that I actually like, I have to re-download them.

• 1:14:58Speaker 01

  I went to the US Open. Okay. I got a ticket from Ticketmaster, right? Now you gotta download US Open Ticketmaster. It's like, oh my God. Now I'm gonna use this once every three years. Are you kidding me?

• 1:15:09Mark Normand?

  Enough.

• 1:15:10Speaker 01

  And then into it though, uh, it's the weirdest thing. They have these suites. They have these suites that have no windows and you can't see outside.

• 1:15:16Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:15:17Speaker 01

  It's for like businesses. They say state of the art. There's a fucking touchscreen. You're gonna order chicken tenders.

• 1:15:22Mark Normand?

  Man, this is the most animated you've been.

• 1:15:24Speaker 01

  It's like, it, it looks like a goddamn prison.

• 1:15:26Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:26Speaker 01

  I'm, I'm a Clippers fan, so I'm like really mad about everything.

• 1:15:30Sam Morril?

  You're really mad.

• 1:15:30Speaker 01

  Oh my God.

• 1:15:31Sam Morril?

  Holy shit.

• 1:15:32Speaker 01

  We got hosed.

• 1:15:33Sam Morril?

  Ten years of just, Jim Jeffries actually texted me the other day. He's like, we got fucked.

• 1:15:37Mark Normand?

  Really?

• 1:15:37Sam Morril?

  Jim's a Clippers fan.

• 1:15:38Speaker 01

  Yeah. Okay. A few comics were all Clippers. A terrible.

• 1:15:41Sam Morril?

  My boy Brian Cullen, who, who does all my video stuff in LA and is helping on my movies, the biggest Clipper fan I ever knew. He, he, he worked for the team. He is crushed. That Kawhi trade destroyed your fucking franchise.

• 1:15:55Speaker 01

  That's already five picks. You gave, okay, see the championship from that one trade, right?

• 1:15:59Sam Morril?

  They gave away Shay Gilgus Alexander. You know who that is? He's, he's the MVP. They traded him for Paul George and they gave five picks. So he, this guy turns out to be the MVP of the league. They traded him when he was young. So they already gave up five picks. Now because they did some meddling with Kawhi to circumvent the salary cap, they lose another five first round picks as a penalty.

• 1:16:20Speaker 01

  We're done.

• 1:16:20Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:16:21Speaker 01

  We're done.

• 1:16:21Sam Morril?

  Ten years.

• 1:16:22Mark Normand?

  Wow.

• 1:16:23Sam Morril?

  In ten years.

• 1:16:24Mark Normand?

  That's crazy.

• 1:16:25Speaker 01

  I, I, I've never, sports fans are usually pretty, I don't care if you're a Jets fan or whatever. You stay with it. You're a Jets fan for life. Clippers fan. I, I can no longer.

• 1:16:32Sam Morril?

  How long have you been a Clippers fan?

• 1:16:33Speaker 01

  I used to have season tickets, the Blake Griffin era, and right when I came to America, because Clippers tickets was way cheaper than Lakers tickets.

• 1:16:39Mark Normand?

  Ah.

• 1:16:40Speaker 01

  So we'll go, third quarter, get blown out, we sneak down.

• 1:16:43Sam Morril?

  Who was your star back then? Poo Richardson?

• 1:16:44Speaker 01

  Uh, it was Darius Miles.

• 1:16:46Sam Morril?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:16:47Speaker 01

  Uh, Corey Maggette, that crew.

• 1:16:49Sam Morril?

  He was ripped.

• 1:16:49Speaker 01

  Yeah, he was ripped. We couldn't win a game, but it was exciting.

• 1:16:52Sam Morril?

  Lamar Odom?

• 1:16:53Speaker 01

  Yeah. I liked it. I like to root for a losing team. And if they win anything, you, you feel like a sense of pride.

• 1:17:00Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:17:00Speaker 01

  Like the Jets win a game, you're like, fucking celebration.

• 1:17:03Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:17:04Sam Morril?

  I like dating mentally a woman because it's awful, but if it's one good day, you're like, pretty good.

• 1:17:09Speaker 01

  It's abusive. It's an abusive relationship you, you learn to be used to. But now I am exiting. I am no longer, I can no longer be.

• 1:17:17Sam Morril?

  So who's your, we got a lot of room for you, uh, here in New York.

• 1:17:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, I feel like Knicks. I love the Knicks, but they already championship. Maybe I have to root for, uh, the Brooklyn Nets.

• 1:17:25Sam Morril?

  No, fuck that dude.

• 1:17:26Speaker 01

  No, no, why, why? What's wrong with the Nets? You know, I gotta root for the underdog.

• 1:17:30Sam Morril?

  I think you can, you can start fresh after what the Clippers have done to you.

• 1:17:33Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:17:34Sam Morril?

  But you can't be a Nets fan.

• 1:17:36Speaker 01

  I'm a.

• 1:17:36Sam Morril?

  They're the Clippers in New York.

• 1:17:38Speaker 01

  I know, and I'm okay with that. As long as they don't give away 10 picks and MVP, I think I'm fine.

• 1:17:44Sam Morril?

  Although, although shout out Julius Randall, who we, we'll always have a sauce spot for Julius Randall for the Knicks years coming, coming to the Nets, but.

• 1:17:50Speaker 01

  I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a Raiders fan. I'm a Raiders, Vegas Raiders.

• 1:17:53Mark Normand?

  Okay.

• 1:17:54Speaker 01

  Maybe on the Vegas expansion team. I'm a, because Vegas, I would say, there's not a lot of.

• 1:17:58Sam Morril?

  They can be a basketball team.

• 1:17:59Speaker 01

  Yeah, there's not a lot of locals in Vegas. Once people find out you're in Vegas, they like, I went to two like, uh, Golden Knights games and it's just a vibe, man. It's a great vibe.

• 1:18:08Mark Normand?

  That's a, the hockey live is the best.

• 1:18:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:11Mark Normand?

  But wait, if there's no locals, who's filling up these stadiums?

• 1:18:14Sam Morril?

  There's locals.

• 1:18:15Speaker 01

  There are locals. I'm just saying it's like compared to New York and LA.

• 1:18:18Sam Morril?

  When you play Vegas, you have people who live in Vegas. It's not just trainees doing that.

• 1:18:22Mark Normand?

  That's true. That's why I was confused.

• 1:18:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, but people show you love. Like, you know, if you say you're in New York, okay, everyone's in New York. Like who cares, right? Like there's a lot of New Yorkers cooler than me. But if you go to like Vegas, man, I like, like, uh, I became friends with like one of the guys at the UFC.

• 1:18:38Mark Normand?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:18:39Speaker 01

  Casino, like the Knights people reached out, the Raiders people reached out. Like come hang out in our facility.

• 1:18:44Mark Normand?

  It's a smaller pond.

• 1:18:45Speaker 01

  Oh man, this is so fun.

• 1:18:46Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:46Sam Morril?

  It's like joining a frat or something. They're, they're greasing you up.

• 1:18:49Speaker 01

  It's one of the biggest cities in the world because of tourism, but for locals, it's still, like you said, a, a smaller pond.

• 1:18:55Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:55Mark Normand?

  Yeah, that's awesome, man.

• 1:18:56Speaker 01

  It's a really cool city. Yeah.

• 1:18:57Mark Normand?

  Now I heard Vegas is, is having a tough go.

• 1:19:01Speaker 01

  With tourism.

• 1:19:01Mark Normand?

  With tourism, yeah. Having it got too pricey.

• 1:19:04Sam Morril?

  Well, I don't gamble on your phone.

• 1:19:05Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:19:06Sam Morril?

  That'll do it.

• 1:19:06Speaker 01

  Well, that's the new epidemic, they say for young men.

• 1:19:09Mark Normand?

  I know.

• 1:19:10Speaker 01

  Losing millions and billions, these, these young guys.

• 1:19:13Mark Normand?

  I know. It's a problem. They're all gambling at home. They're not going out. I have a theory. Guys aren't talking to women. We should gamble on that. You know, like, hey, uh, I bet you can't fuck Sally. I'll take that bet.

• 1:19:23Sam Morril?

  Plus 1,200 on FanDuel.

• 1:19:25Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:19:26Mark Normand?

  Put the whole thing on DraftKings, polymarkets.

• 1:19:28Sam Morril?

  Well, that's what polymarkets doing, right? You can kind of gamble on weird shit.

• 1:19:30Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:19:31Sam Morril?

  Yeah, Vegas was like, you're right. It's, it was a destination and it's.

• 1:19:36Mark Normand?

  Well, you get a $60 ticket on whatever, you know, Spirit and you get over there.

• 1:19:40Sam Morril?

  Spirit's dead, dude.

• 1:19:41Mark Normand?

  Spirit's dead. And now the hotel, you get a shitty hotel for cheap and just go gamble all day and hit the pool. That, that shit's over.

• 1:19:48Sam Morril?

  I'll tell you what bugs me about Vegas though. When you're in that hotel room and it's an $18 bottle of water.

• 1:19:53Mark Normand?

  That's what I'm saying.

• 1:19:54Sam Morril?

  You're already killing me at the tables.

• 1:19:56Mark Normand?

  Yes.

• 1:19:56Sam Morril?

  I'm in a desert. You can't charge $18 for water.

• 1:19:59Speaker 01

  Private equity took over. It's $40 for parking everywhere. Yeah. So it's no longer, because back in the day, it's like, we're gonna give you free shit. Even if you're like.

• 1:20:07Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:08Speaker 01

  Even if you only got 300 bucks to spend, we give you all this free shit. Just spend, just gamble.

• 1:20:12Mark Normand?

  Right, right.

• 1:20:12Speaker 01

  But now, man, like, I think, um, I study this because our show is about casinos. So, uh, the Vegas revenue is 50% from gambling and then 50% from entertainment. Going to clubs and everything. So they focus a lot on that. Whereas Macau is still like 80% gambling.

• 1:20:29Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:20:29Speaker 01

  And like 20% gaming, like back in the day in Vegas, before all these shows, or that they try to fuck you on parking and water. It's just, hey, come gamble. We'll take, we'll take the 0.6% margin on a three to two blackjack on a double deck. Now, like, most people don't know the math, but every blackjack table that's under a hundred dollars minimum, it's six to five. Your odds are terrible.

• 1:20:51Mark Normand?

  Terrible.

• 1:20:51Speaker 01

  As a tourist.

• 1:20:51Mark Normand?

  The house is gonna win.

• 1:20:52Speaker 01

  Zero roulette.

• 1:20:53Mark Normand?

  Right. Wow, you know gambling.

• 1:20:55Sam Morril?

  But the higher, the higher you gamble, the better your odds are?

• 1:20:58Speaker 01

  Yes. So if you gamble a hundred bucks a hand, um, you, you, you get the better, like, regular blackjack odds. If you play perfectly, the house edge is only about 0.6%, but nobody plays it perfectly.

• 1:21:10Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:10Speaker 01

  Um, and, uh, I, I usually, and, and all Vegas locals I know go to the local casinos.

• 1:21:16Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:16Speaker 01

  You go to Circa, you go to Red Rocks, and they have good $25 minimum, but they give you like good odds. They know, the locals know what's up. They don't try to fuck you. Whereas the strip is bad. I, I gamble, but I have like an ATM limit. Like I don't gamble tens of thousands. Like I can lose a thousand dollars max a day.

• 1:21:34Mark Normand?

  Okay.

• 1:21:35Speaker 01

  But I don't gamble every day, obviously, you know? But I have a good time. I'm about to go hit that casino in Queens.

• 1:21:40Mark Normand?

  Oh, hell yeah. That's new, right? That's opening up.

• 1:21:42Speaker 01

  Have you guys been?

• 1:21:43Mark Normand?

  No, no.

• 1:21:44Sam Morril?

  We're not big gamblers.

• 1:21:45Speaker 01

  I love gambling.

• 1:21:45Sam Morril?

  I mean, I'll, I'll do it if I'm at a casino, but I also like, man, when I start playing casinos, you're making so little money. You're like, I don't want to lose the shit that I'm making.

• 1:21:53Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:53Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:21:53Sam Morril?

  So I think it was just kind of instilled to me to not do it because I'm not a good enough gambler.

• 1:21:57Mark Normand?

  You know, Norm MacDonald couldn't, he, you have to give the check to the agent because he would just gamble all the way.

• 1:22:01Speaker 01

  Ah, yeah, I'm, I'm like, it's like going to Disneyland. I know I'm gonna lose. Let me just pay this $300 entrance fee. I, I'm having, it's like Dave and Buster's. Let me get whatever coins.

• 1:22:12Mark Normand?

  I'll have fun.

• 1:22:12Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:13Mark Normand?

  They, they say an Asian dealer is bad luck. Have you heard that?

• 1:22:15Speaker 01

  I know. I have a whole bit about it. Yeah. I, I don't play against Asian dealers.

• 1:22:19Mark Normand?

  What?

• 1:22:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:22:21Mark Normand?

  Come on.

• 1:22:21Speaker 01

  I don't, I don't, it's, well, it depends on the vibe. A lot of them, they just don't care, right?

• 1:22:26Mark Normand?

  Right.

• 1:22:26Speaker 01

  You lose, they just go super fast. You lose, fuck you, whatever. Sometimes you get, you have a nice like, especially these like Eastern European white guys.

• 1:22:33Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:33Speaker 01

  White ladies or like, uh, a, a black woman.

• 1:22:36Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:36Speaker 01

  So nice. It's like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I got 20. Like they're on your side.

• 1:22:40Mark Normand?

  Yeah, yeah, that goes a long way.

• 1:22:42Sam Morril?

  Yeah, it'll keep you there longer too.

• 1:22:43Mark Normand?

  Exactly.

• 1:22:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, I like those. And the local casinos, you get that a little more.

• 1:22:47Sam Morril?

  Remember that movie, The Cooler with William H. Macy?

• 1:22:50Mark Normand?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:22:50Sam Morril?

  Where he's just bad luck? So he, his whole, the casino hires him and he just sits at the table. If someone's on a heater, they just start losing if he shows up. It's fun.

• 1:22:57Speaker 01

  It's great.

• 1:22:58Speaker 03

  Do you want to hear something really sinister? Those online gambling sites are targeting their ads to losers.

• 1:23:04Speaker 01

  I saw this on Instagram.

• 1:23:05Speaker 03

  People who have lost before, they flood them with ads to be like, get back.

• 1:23:09Sam Morril?

  Oh, I thought you meant just not cool people.

• 1:23:12Sam Morril?

  I have been getting a lot of those ads pop up lately.

• 1:23:14Speaker 01

  People that live in their parents' basements.

• 1:23:17Mark Normand?

  I thought the same thing. Uh, damn, I didn't know you, you, you know you're gambling.

• 1:23:21Speaker 01

  Well, I have to study because my role in the show, I'm a casino president. So I need to know, it was the coolest thing, me and Oscar Isaac were, and our director were in Vegas, researching. And people were like so stoked to show us around, you know, I know the owner of Circa, he showed us like the back of his sports book, where they make the odds, you know, I was a Caesar's Palace guy, shout out to my guy, Michael, who was like a casino executive, was just like showing me the ins and outs of like how he runs, you know, the high roller section or whatever. And then went to the win. Everyone was like so open and willing. I'm sure there's some secret areas they don't let us in, but they were all very excited to share and I learned a ton, you know?

• 1:23:59Mark Normand?

  Yeah. Wow, that is really cool.

• 1:24:01Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:24:02Mark Normand?

  I can't gamble, I'm just, the pressure is too much. Like the guy next to you going, hey, don't, don't bet on that, you idiot. Oh, fuck, I'm sorry.

• 1:24:10Sam Morril?

  I do a little bit of the sports stuff on my phone, just, but you know, I don't get carried away with it.

• 1:24:14Mark Normand?

  Sports book I like, you got the couch, you got the TV, you got the lady with the beer, it's great.

• 1:24:18Speaker 01

  Yeah, sports is great. It makes it more exciting. You don't care about every football game. Tonight if I put 50 bucks on somebody, then I'm invested.

• 1:24:26Sam Morril?

  Remember Artie Lange's old bit about, he's like, you want to make a Giants game exciting, bet a thousand dollars on it when you have 500 in your checking account?

• 1:24:35Sam Morril?

  Great bit.

• 1:24:37Mark Normand?

  How about Dick DiPaolo's bit? Oh, you never said the N-word? I guess you haven't put 500 bucks on a Clippers game.

• 1:24:44Mark Normand?

  His bit, not mine. Something like that. What time is football? Seven?

• 1:24:50Speaker 01

  Eight, eight twenty.

• 1:24:52Sam Morril?

  Yeah, we'll plug some dates, dude. Where are you gonna be coming up?

• 1:24:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, when is this episode coming out?

• 1:24:57Speaker 03

  The 4th of October.

• 1:24:58Speaker 01

  Okay, cool. I will announce, be announcing my tour next week.

• 1:25:02Mark Normand?

  Nice.

• 1:25:04Speaker 01

  On, I think, yeah, that next week, like October 13th or something, so keep an eye out on jimmycomedy.com. All that shows will be all populated. So, next January to like May of 2027, I'll be doing my American tour and then international dates will be added. That picture is great.

• 1:25:23Sam Morril?

  He looks like he's mad at you for not purchasing tickets immediately, so do it.

• 1:25:26Mark Normand?

  Uh, is there, are we doing theaters? Are we doing clubs? Were you working on a new hour? What are you?

• 1:25:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm working on a new hour. I think I'm doing like two arenas, but everything else I want to do, uh,

• 1:25:37Mark Normand?

  How do you work out in an arena?

• 1:25:38Speaker 01

  No, no, this is not work out, it's like a later, but like I want to do like the Beacon, like the perfect sized theater. I think it's like 2,000 seats, I think that's the perfect theater.

• 1:25:47Sam Morril?

  2,600, I think.

• 1:25:48Mark Normand?

  I think it's 32.

• 1:25:49Speaker 01

  Really?

• 1:25:49Mark Normand?

  Is it? I believe so.

• 1:25:51Speaker 01

  I think anything bigger, like I didn't like Chicago theaters, 3,500, but it was very cavernous. Radio City, uh, it was an honor to do, it's beautiful. Then like the acoustics, way too big.

• 1:26:01Mark Normand?

  5,000 seats.

• 1:26:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, so, uh, I'm kind of grinding it out.

• 1:26:05Speaker 03

  Can I ask a quick question? Has like the New York energy affected the way you write bits or like inspired you in any different way than normal?

• 1:26:12Speaker 01

  Um, I hope it will. I haven't written anything new since I've been here, so I don't know, but I think I'm gonna probably pop in to say New York Comedy Club, uh, or something, um, somewhere where they let me in. And do like some like Jimmy trying new material nights.

• 1:26:27Sam Morril?

  Come hang with us at the Cellar one night.

• 1:26:29Mark Normand?

  Yeah.

• 1:26:30Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, dope.

• 1:26:30Mark Normand?

  I got three shows in the city, you're always welcome. Two at New York, one at the Cellar.

• 1:26:33Speaker 01

  Oh, awesome. Yeah, that'd be great.

• 1:26:35Mark Normand?

  Hit me up. All right, I'm gonna be at the Comedy on State in Madison, working on the new hour, we added a show. Portland Helium, Charlton Music Hall in South Carolina.

• 1:26:44Speaker 01

  I love Helium.

• 1:26:45Mark Normand?

  Oh yeah, San Jose Improv, uh, Cap City, Tropicana, back at the casino, the Palazzo in Vegas, hey, do a guess at, if you're around.

• 1:26:54Sam Morril?

  Yeah.

• 1:26:55Mark Normand?

  Uh, Charlotte Comedy Zone, Foxwoods, and that's next year, so we're good.

• 1:27:01Sam Morril?

  All right, I got a Netflix special out, just, just came out, uh, Sam Morril Incorrect.

• 1:27:06Mark Normand?

  Very exciting.

• 1:27:07Sam Morril?

  Just came out on Netflix, please give it a watch, hopefully it's doing well right now. Yeah, I'm gonna be in, uh, Phoenix, Arizona, Stand Up Live, November 13th through 15th, great club. Then the following weekend, the Pittsburgh Improv. Then I'll be at, uh, Hilarities, love that club, uh, December 3rd through 5th, Madison, Wisconsin, December 10th through 12th, and, uh, Timoni, Maryland and Magoobie's, December 17th through 19th, and, uh, yeah, you get the gist. Uh, samorrell.com or just find us on Punch Up, but, uh, dude, it's great to meet you and chat with you.

• 1:27:36Mark Normand?

  Calling it right now, so we're in the top 10. I'm putting out good juju.

• 1:27:39Sam Morril?

  I hope so.

• 1:27:39Mark Normand?

  Yeah. Juju, into the world.

• 1:27:41Sam Morril?

  Uh, and buy some Bodega Cat Whiskey, folks. And, uh, we'll see you very soon.

• 1:27:46Mark Normand?

  All right, thank you, Jimmy.

• 1:27:47Speaker 01

  Appreciate it, guys. Thank you.

• 1:27:48Speaker 05

  Sunday's the day for my next offender. A bit of Pivo Rec, you know the future's close. I've had a little too much bourbon and Norman's talking shit about the fucking Pope. And I get down in the same way. Up on the roof like a cop's coming and naked Samuel is feeling dangerous. I'm out to lunch here in New Orleans. This woman doesn't look like I've remembered her. And I get down in the same way. We might be true.

• 1:28:34Speaker 06

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