Chris Rock's writing advice PLUS Gabriel Iglesias' cool Volkswagen collection

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mack with
Your Daily Comedy News. Thom Segura spoke

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with a Rolling Stone and they were
like, hey, one of your first

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jobs was logging transcripts for reality shows. How bad was that? So Goura

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said, horrible. It's such a
mind numbing thing to do, and you

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would see would break people. The
logging of reality show is such an important

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part of the show because those moments
and conversations are a lot of times very

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manufactured. No way you have to
log everything that is said, so they

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could do Franken bites where they cut
lines together and make them appear to be

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one sentence. Wow. I worked
on My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss and Trading

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Spouses, and there was this thing
that when Viral called God Warrior, and

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I remember hearing that from one of
the edit bays, it exploded. It

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was very hard to stomach logging reality
shows. I really hated doing it.

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Golf dot Com spoke to George Lopez
and asked him to complete the sentence and

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a headshead match between George Lopez and
his good friend Lee Trevino. George Lopez

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would Lopez's answer was remove the clubs
from Lee's golf bag and appropriate them as

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my own. To the loser,
go the spoils, right. I take

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Louis Trevino's stuff all the time.
He has a wood that says super mechs

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on it, and he saw me
looking at it like it was a new

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car, and he said, I'll
get you one, baby, all right.

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George Lopez, what's your go to
golf joke? And he said,

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an old guy's on the thirteen tea
And on a nearby street, a funeral

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procession is going by, black limousine
line of cars flowers the old thing,

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and the golfer takes off his hat
and puts it over his heart, and

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the guys in his group are like, wow, that's really respectful, and

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he goes, hey. We were
married for fifty five years. Jay Farrell

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was asked to name his top comics. He said Easy number one, Eddie

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Murphy number two, Robin Harris,
number three, Bernie Meck four, Chris

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Rock, five, Dave Chappelle,
A bad Ball of Them, Richard Pryor,

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The Rob Report. And spoke to
Gabriel Iglesias about his Volkswagon collection.

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Gabe said, my first bus was
a nineteen sixty eight Bay Window. I

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was seventeen years old and was my
first car. You're always attached to the

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memories of your first car, whatever
it is. That's where it started.

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My brother was the one that got
me into it. The engine was so

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simple. I remember my brother always
saying, it's just four bolts. It's

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just four bolts. I could take
that out with a skateboard and a pair

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of plyers. His first time behind
the wheel was terrifying. It was a

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nineteen sixty eight Volkswagon. The amount
of play in the wheel, I tell

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people, was like sailing a boat. As for the buses, I started

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this collection ten years ago when I
got the building and had the space for

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it. I'd gotten my girlfriend at
the time, her first car through Jay

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Leno's guys. He's got an incredible
team over there. I then asked them

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if they could help me. Now, granted, I wish I could actually

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track down the car I had when
I was seventeen, but they got me

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something to look just like it.
They said, if you want anything else,

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let us know, and I said, if you guys come across anything

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else, cool, let me know. We played that game for many years

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until this building was filled up.
The collection grew so fast I did the

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bulk of the damage in the first
five years. What's his Holy Grail bus.

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I'd like to get my hands on
a nineteen fifty Volkswagon bus, which

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is the first year they came out. There are a few people that have

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some, but I'm not willing to
pay what they want. I do have

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some cars and the works that aren't
necessarily buses. I have a Carmengia being

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worked on right now, a thing, a fastback, and a bug.

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There are about ten cars that are
currently being restored. As for the collection,

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I don't get to dry them all
as much as i'd like to.

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I'm always working. I'm on the
road forty six weeks of the year.

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So what I do? You get
to take them out? It's pretty cool.

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Some fun facts from sports Kidia the
headline she and Gillis's high school and

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college football career. All right,
fun facts, You're ready. Gillis played

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offensive tackle for Trinity High School in
camp Hill, Pennsylvania. He got scholarship

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offers from institutions that wanted him to
join their football programs. As the sports

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Kidia. Initially, he enrolled in
the US Military Academy, but didn't complete

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his first year before quitting. His
next stop was at Elon University, where

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he played college football, but not
for long. Then he went to Westchester

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University, where he eventually graduated.
Then he moved to Spain, where he

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taught English started performing comedy in twenty
twelve. Nimesh Pateel told High Times,

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my first writing job was with the
Oscars and Chris Rock, being in that

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writer's room with about twenty people,
and I was relatively new in comedy.

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He was intimidating, but I learned
from that experience that there was no need

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to be timid. You're in the
room for a reason, so to throw

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a bunch of stuff out and see
what happens. I had a similar approach

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when I was at SNL as for
how it impacted my writing on stage,

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that it's a numbers game. Just
keep throwing stuff out there, and even

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if I bombed in front of Chris
Rock and other funny people, bombing in

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front of non comedians shouldn't bother me
as much. It's about being comfortable with

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throwing things out there and experimenting.
Working with Chris Rock, I remember we

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were working on a joke about acting
being brave, and that was during the

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Oscars when there were no black nominees. I pitched a joke about acting not

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being brave and instead said, drinking
a glass of water in Flint, Michigan

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is brave. Considering the water crisis. Chris tweaked it to say drinking a

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glass of kool aid in Flint,
Michigan, and it hit even harder.

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Came up to me afterward and emphasized
the importance of speciicivity. The lesson stuck

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with me, and I tried to
apply it to my writing whenever possible.

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The more specific you can be with
a reference that people still get, the

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better it's going to be. That's
a great note. I don't know if

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you know this. Chris Rock pretty
good at comedy, Jeff fox Worthy said

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for my whole career because I'm not
mean spirited. I just wrote with the

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idea of making people laugh because I
always do Why do women do this and

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men do that? When I started
getting email from people, well I'm a

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woman and I don't do that,
and I'm man, I don't do that,

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I was like, all right,
I'll change it to I do this

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and my wife does that. And
it just got kind of the point where

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I was like, what are you
doing when a comic has to edit yourself

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all the time. A comic supposed
to be a truth tailer. We're supposed

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to look at things we do in
society and kind of hold it up to

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people and go, why do we
say this or why do we do that?

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Just kind of reach a point where
I'm not out to hurt anybody's feelings,

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but I don't care. I'm just
gonna try and be funny and not

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worry about it. Comedian John Ozele
dresses his characters for his driver's license.

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Recently, when he went to update
his license, he decided that instead of

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combing his hair and wearing a nice
shirt, he'd show up at the DMV

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dressed as an eighties punk rocker,
something he is not. He said,

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my family has a tradition of being
officially documented by the government as characters because

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the government doesn't know we're not those
people. My dad started this tradition of

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the seventies. He showed his brother
his most recent ID picture, which shows

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a man with a bushy beard,
long unkempt hair, and wild eyes that

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is not his normal look. JOHNA
is unrecognizable and nearly every photo have been

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taking on a new looking persona in
each one. In one, he has

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a chin strap in cornrows and has
ranged his face in a menacing glare,

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and another he has spiked hair and
a fum man chew mustache, and third

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he wears a mullet and a tank
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