Oct. 16, 2024

Wait, is Nikki Glaser that crazy about Taylor Swift or is a bit?

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac highlights comedian Nikki Glaser's fascination with Taylor Swift, comparing it to her early stand-up inspiration, Sarah Silverman. Glaser's interest in Taylor Swift influences her plans for a cover band and reflects on her tour experiences. The episode also covers insights from Jim Jefferies on his career post-pandemic and his shift from alcohol to cannabis. Meanwhile, Mark Maron discusses the evolution of comedy, reflecting on audience influences and the role of followers in a comedian's success. Other topics include Chattanooga's Lookout Comedy Festival and Courtney Peruso's personal anecdotes from her comedy journey.

01:00 Nikki Glaser's Taylor Swift Obsession
02:44 Jim Jefferies on the Pandemic and Sobriety
04:25 Marc Maron on Comedy and Controversy
06:35 Jim Breuer's Metallica Experience
08:26 Lookout Comedy Festival and Courtney Peruso's Worst Show
10:23 Courtney Peruso's Comedy Journey

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Hunnie Mack with your

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daily comedy news. The laughter, the littlety hear in my

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voice is because Nicki Glazer did an interview and guess

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what they asked Nicki Glazer about. That's right, Taylor Swift.

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The question at hand, did Taylor at Swift influence your

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own sound? Hmmm? Intriguing? Kind of like asking Joe Piscopo

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if Bruce Springsteen influenced his comedy. But okay, Nicki said,

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without question, I think when I first started stand up,

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I sounded exactly like my favorite stand up who was

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Sarah Silverman. I was obsessed with Sarah Silverman in a

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way that I am with Taylor Swift right now. I'm sorry, Sarah,

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that's really terrifying. Did NICKI follow you around the country

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attending all your comedy shows and doing the jokes along

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with you? Sounds horrible. So when I first wrote my jokes,

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I was like, what would Sarah Silverman write? No matter

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how hard I tried not to think about Taylor Swift,

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there was no way I wasn't going to sound like

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Nikki's hoping to go to Taylor Swift's final show on

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December eighth, and says I hope she doesn't add more

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shows because I can't go to the dates that they're predicting.

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I have in fact checked if they added more dates,

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and doesn't really matter, does it. If she does, I'll

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probably shed some tears. I just want to be there

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to see her wave as she says good night for

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the final time, to thank her for all she's given us,

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because it's been so much work for her. I just

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want to be there to wave at her. She sinks

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down at the recesses of that stage one last time,

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let me jump in. I saw Taylor Swift last summer,

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played the heck out of her music, saw the concert

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that it was fantastic, But like Taylor shut up at

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the Chiefs game last week, and I was like, can

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you just go away? And the Kelsey Brothers guys tap

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the break? Well, maybe not tap the breaks, because I

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think the Kelsey Brothers have about ten minutes left before

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everybody's sick of them, So you might as well cash

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in now and be on every commercial and show up

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at every event. That train's about to stop. I feel

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for the Kelsey's John. You're making friends today, I know,

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I just I can't. I just turned it into Mark Marin.

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I just can't sit in the basement and not say

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what's popping into my brain. There's a microphone in front

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of me, you know, Nicki Glazer. What we do post

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here is listen to this. She's got to be doing

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a bit right. Listen to his answer. I'm going to

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fly to cities to go to Taylor Swift singalongs, which

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I'd done before the years tour. I'm going to potentially

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start a Taylor Swift cover band that would either open

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my own shows on the road, I would do it

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as an add on a little show when I'm on tour.

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I'm currently also getting really invested in football, or at

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least trying to. Yeah, because you got that gig with Amazon.

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I really find a lot of similarities between the way

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my boyfriend loves football and the way I love Taylor Swift.

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Maybe if I really find a way to love it,

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I can have this thing to look forward to every fall. Okay,

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moving on, review spoke to Jim Jeffries. Jim had a

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sitcom in the works that got canceled when the pandemic happens.

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To hear about the pandemic, Yeah, everybody had to stay

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home for like a year. It was a thing. Look

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it up. It's a pretty interesting story. Jim said. It's

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hard to put your finger on what happened after the

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pand I make. It's hard to know what would have

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been and what could have been. But then on the

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other hand, without COVID, I might not have married my wife,

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so you don't know. Also, I think a little of

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that time off actually made me a better writer, so

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I had more time to write jokes and do the

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behind the work scenes of stand up comedy rather than

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just the stuff people see. Jim gave up alcohol and

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switched over to weed and said, as soon as I

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walk off stage, I take an edible and then I

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get myself a little bit of something to eat, and

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I go to bed. That's as much parting as I

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do these days. The days of cocaine and women are

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long behind me. I always had a couple of drinks

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before I went on stage, and a drink could hit

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you differently. Sometimes you couldn't feel it, sometimes you felt

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it too much, and it was a bit of a

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bouncing act. Where now I don't drink at all before

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I go on stage, so I've got a clear mind.

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Maybe with the heckling. I was a little bit faster

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with the heckles when I was drunk, as you'd say

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the first thing that came to your mind. But I

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also said a lot of stupid stuff that could have

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gotten me in trouble. So I think I remember my

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shows a lot better. I think I'm a lot more

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polished than I've ever been. In Australia, he's hosting a

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game show called The One Percent Club and says hosting

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a game show for a blooke like me is a

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pretty easy gig. Not really lines to learn. You just

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got to talk to people. You've just got to read

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a few questions. You just got to keep smiling. A

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lot of people gave me guff for hosting a game show.

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But here's the deal, man, I love game shows. I

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watch at least one game show a day every day.

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I like the question and answered things. It keeps you engaged.

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where you're not looking at your phone because you have

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to focus. So, as a fan of game shows, I

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never thought i'd have the opportunity to host one, because

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no one would ever see me that way. But I've

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loved every minute of it. Mark Maron, who I just

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turned into a couple of minutes ago, spoke to the

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Phoenix New Times. They were curious if there's anything he

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won't talk about in his act. Maaron said, nothing is

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really off limits. I sort of moved through my material

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from my own point of view and my own struggles

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and my own ideas. Haven't understand things I've tell jokes

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in my life. There were wrong mind that I've told

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jokes in my life that could be seen as controversial

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if I was a bigger voice on the scene. But

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for me now, there's nothing off limits. You can talk

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about whatever you want. You have to decide for yourself

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whether you want to shoulder the repercussions of what you're

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saying and whether it's worth saying. So, really, whether or

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not there's anything I can or can't say or won't touch,

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it's not because videological principles. It's just about, like I

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want to deal with that crap. Mark Marin, where do

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you think comedy is headed in the next ten years?

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It seems female comics are on the rise, right said, Look,

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it's always going to be the same. Somebody can find

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an audience, they'll play for them, and if more people

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get on board, then you know they succeeded being in

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that level of comic. There's a lot of comics around,

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a lot of them are just okay and working their angle.

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It's a lot of different business than why I started in.

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There's a lot of weird crowd work going on. But

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you know, Nicki Glazer's a huge comic now and chearned it.

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You know, Maria Bamford's a genius, and there's Kate Martin. Look,

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comedy's not going to go anywhere. It's just like the

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dominant paradigm at any point in time. Since everything is content,

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everything is based on likes and followers, the justification for

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what success is really has nothing to do with the

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creativity of the art of comedy. It's not like that

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changed much, but it's changed in terms of how one

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gets seen in popular There's a lot of people that

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are terrible and extremely popular. But I don't know if

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that's ever been different. I think comedy will just keep

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lugging along. Like you said, there's a lot more women

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and a lot more diverse voices out there doing it

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where they make it on the large radar I don't know.

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Comedy's always been sort of a niche thing for a

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lot of people. Success is based on a number of

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followers and likes and CrowdWork one hundred million dollar deals.

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So that's just the way apples and works. And now

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everybody's just a cog and some sort of strange machines

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serving tech giants, which is the way the world's going.

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Interesting question here, will you ever have Matt Rife on

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the podcast? Nah, I'm not interested in talking to him, really,

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that's why not, Mark Marin, Have you ever thought about retiring?

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I think about all the time. I don't know. A

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lot of people say it's impossible to do, but look,

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doing more acting and trying to figure out how that

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works for me and standup keeps coming. It's still my

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primary source of creative enjoyment. But yeah, sure I think

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about retiring a lot. But I don't know what that

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looks like. I don't know. I fuppull out entirely because

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that's just a little weird. But I'm gonna be shooting

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a movie next month that'll kind of determine whether or

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not I'm come out for the acting game in any

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big way. So we'll see what happens. Jim Brewer talked

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about warming up the crowd for Metallica. Al dot Com

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said that takes a lot of guts to go out

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there in front of metal heads waiting to hear their

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favorite band. Had that happened now? Jim has been friends

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with Metallica for years. I was sitting at my desk

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one day, phone rings serious, this is John Hello, this

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is James Headfield, And it was actually James Headfield. He

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was down. Jim Brewer didn't tell me that Headfield was

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coming up to do the show, so I had to

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go down to the lobby and get mister Headfield. Who

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were said when they asked me to do it, and

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all the time I was like, this is amazing, and

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it was like, well, it's not really stand up, what

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do you mean? Sort of just entertain the crowd before

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we come up, you know, like maybe shoot off T

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shirts and stuff like that. So they had all these

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different ideas and when I say they, it was more

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of their team. But I huded Lars down. I said,

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what exactly do you visualize? And he put it on

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the line. He made it so simple. He said, Jim,

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you've been around us a long time. You're a huge fan.

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We had you on our thirty year anniversary shows. You

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interviewed us, you know us, You know the crowd better

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than anyone. Just give them a quote experience. And here's

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the most important thing is you don't have to be funny.

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Tell the stories. We've gone on vacations with us. Tell

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the stories, Oh you and James went to Disney World

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with your kids that actually happened. Tell the goofy stories.

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You know, I entirely leave that up to you. You're

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the creator. I'm not stepping on your art. You do

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what you gotta do. And the minute he said, dad

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changed my whole perspective on it. And I'm a diehard

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Metallica fan. What would I want to see start a

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show if I don't have a band? Laura said, you know,

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when we have someone, especially a band, open for us,

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we want them to be the next biggest thing. Because

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hour crowd is so die hard, they don't show up

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for the bands. It's a bummer for them, it's a

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bummer for us. So we're gonna try this. And it

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worked really well. If I remember, the first thing it

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did was kind of come out and let everyone know

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that the first time I saw Metallica was an eighty

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six and the fans were skeptical. But the more details

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that throughout and I start uniting the crowd, find me

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the oldest metal head in the arena. And the minute

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I came up with that concept, you realize everybody was

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in this together, Like, Hey, I'm like you guys. The

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quicker we've done with this, the quicker we can get

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labor of love for comedy in our local scene. Every

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comic at my level experience does stand up at night

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as often as they can, stringing small tours together and

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promoting small gigs while juggling the other jobs and commitments.

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This festival wouldn't exist without the everyday grind of jobs

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that have nothing to do with the arts. It's a

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rewarding process that it's an honor to bring these great

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performers to a city that's given me so much since

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I moved here in twenty twelve. You can get a

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festival pass as well. Lookout Comedy Festival dot com. Vulture

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has there comedians you should and will know. One of

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them is Courtney Peruso Worst show Ever. About ten years ago,

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my friend Casey put me on the lineup for his

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backyard show Super Tight in San Diego during Comic Con.

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I really hadn't figured out how to perform on a

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lineup after being a Groundlings performer, and I was super

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nervous because a lot of cool people were there and

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I was intimidated by stand ups. I went up after

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Brody Stevens, who crushed with a magician's assistant act where

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the premises the magician didn't show up, so I'm just

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dancing around and smiling and pointing enthusiastically at things that

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aren't happening, like an idiot. But for some reason, my

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music stopped about thirty seconds in, so the intentionally awkward

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bit turned into an actually awkward bit, and everybody was

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kind of staring at me in silence, like, okay, I

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wanted to puke and die. Brandon Wardell went on after

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me and lightly roasted me, and I did a pretty

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little grudge about it for a while, but in retrospect,

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he had no choice but to acknowledge my bomb to

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save the vibe of the show. We ended up working

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together a few years later, and we're actually good friends now.

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Love you, Brandon. What's your biggest financial hurdle? She says.

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What doesn't help is that my comedy involves self producing

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shows that are full of costumes and props, and during

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the workshopping process, I often try out ideas that I

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quickly abandoned, but in the moment, I'm like, I need

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to go buy five yards of blue fabric, twenty five

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toy guitars at a Marie answen at Wig, and a

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nine hundred dollars portable dance pole so I could try

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out my bad idea tonight, and then my bad idea

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doesn't work, and then I have all that stuff taking

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up space in my apartment. That's why I recommend becoming

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a stand up, not a prop comic. That's comedy advice.

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Worst comedy advice, the best. One time, years ago, I

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was feeling down about my prospects and was winding to

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my clown mentor about being old, old and broke and doomed,

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and he said, whatever, dude, you're a failed actress who

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gives a whot, Just don't it. It's cool. I cracked

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up and snapped out of it, and I'll never forget it.

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Worst advice was in two thousand and eight when an

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acting teacher told me to get side swept bangs. They

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weren't for me. And that is your comedy news for today.

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