# She Stole My Mic & Started Freestylin' w/ DJ Douggpound

An episode of [Bombing with Eric Andre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1700594299), 27 Sep 2023, 29 min.

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Eric and his illustrious friend DJ Douggpound (Doug Lussenhop) exchange stories of striking out at the club together and adventures in an abandoned bodega in Williamsburg. Doug tells his story of bombing in the middle of New Zealand. A fan hops on stage and steals his mic as chaos ensues. The nightmares of performing comedy outdoors in the daytime. They talk about comedians releasing bombing albums and what it means to elevate art. Eric shares his story of bombing when opening for Chris Rock and what Anthony Mackie had to say about it the next day, bombing at a corporate event, and the collapse of a beach festival. You can see DJ Douggpound opening up for The Eric Andre Explosion Tour in a city near you! Get Your Tickets to the Eric Andre Explosion Tour here! Rate and Review Bombing with Eric Andre here Do you like listening to Bombing and want extended conversations with more bombing stories every week? Then check out Big Money Players Diamond, a new subscription available exclusively on Apple Podcasts, where you can get exclusive material from all my interviews for the show, plus 100% ad-free episodes every week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Welcome to Bombing with Air Condry podcast where I Lose
[0:09] Speaker 1: my mind.
[0:11] Speaker 2: I'm talking with friends, comedians, musicians, and other creative people
[0:14] Speaker 2: about their worst moments on stage and getting.
[0:16] Speaker 1: Absolutely ravaged by a live audience. I'm Eric Andre.
[0:20] Speaker 2: This week we're graced by the presence of the King
[0:22] Speaker 2: of Music Drops, DJ Doug Bound aka Doug Lesson Hop.
[0:26] Speaker 2: He's got a podcast himself called Office Hours with Tim
[0:29] Speaker 2: Heidecker and Vick Berger tells us about his touring across
[0:31] Speaker 2: music festivals around the world, plus an amazing bombing story
[0:34] Speaker 2: from New Zealand. As always, please subscribe to the podcast
[0:37] Speaker 2: to get new episodes every week, rated five stars and
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[0:41] Speaker 2: get exclusive clips plus ad free episodes weekly.
[0:44] Speaker 3: Let's do it Bombing with Eric Andre.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Okay, the theme is podcast is bombing. I'm with my illustrious, sexy, divine, beautiful,
[1:05] Speaker 2: vanilla Eurocentric brother, Doug Lusson Hop DJ Doug Pound in
[1:11] Speaker 2: the mix.
[1:12] Speaker 1: What's up, Doug?
[1:13] Speaker 3: What'saw?
[1:13] Speaker 1: Eric gras A be here, Grates of Bomb.
[1:15] Speaker 2: I'm feasting my eyes on your beautiful lily white vanilla
[1:20] Speaker 2: skin and I'm thinking of you like a little creamsickle.
[1:23] Speaker 4: That makes me comforted. Should you talk about bombing? Like
[1:27] Speaker 4: not just like as a comedian, but like in life,
[1:30] Speaker 4: you know, never like bomb hard, Like, yeah, what's your
[1:33] Speaker 4: biggest bomb?
[1:34] Speaker 1: Growing up? Like, did you ever ask a girl out? Yeah?
[1:37] Speaker 2: Remember I was with you when I first moved. I
[1:40] Speaker 2: had that a drop.
[1:41] Speaker 4: Oh talk about talk about the drop.
[1:45] Speaker 1: Never this is anymore. So I wanked these two attractive
[1:58] Speaker 1: women at the bar you're.
[2:00] Speaker 2: At, and I was like trying to like strike up
[2:03] Speaker 2: a conversation, but striking out there's like not interesting. So
[2:07] Speaker 2: I just like had my little whiskey in my hand
[2:09] Speaker 2: and I just like acid dropped.
[2:11] Speaker 4: He just let it go and shattered, and then he
[2:13] Speaker 4: just did a full walk out of the bar.
[2:15] Speaker 1: I just like looked at themically. It's like psychonic, looked
[2:19] Speaker 1: at them catatonically, like.
[2:20] Speaker 4: Six whiskeys in You're like, Hi, should I have your
[2:23] Speaker 4: never to like, so you just let go of your
[2:26] Speaker 4: glass drop full of shatter.
[2:28] Speaker 1: I just left. People are like, what, it's such a flower.
[2:34] Speaker 4: Those days are funny because you were working on your
[2:37] Speaker 4: your pilot.
[2:38] Speaker 1: I'd be like, hey, Eric, let's go out to the
[2:40] Speaker 1: bar tonight and strike out and you'd be like, yeah,
[2:44] Speaker 1: come scoop me up. And then I'm like all right,
[2:47] Speaker 1: I'm on front. You're like, no, come in.
[2:52] Speaker 4: And then you like show me your laptop with like
[2:55] Speaker 4: five thousand things on the desktop and like all this
[2:58] Speaker 4: onlinked media and final cut for You're like you're like,
[3:03] Speaker 4: help me edit. You're like, help me hit my pilot.
[3:06] Speaker 4: I'm like okay, And then I ended up just sitting
[3:09] Speaker 4: there for like an hour.
[3:10] Speaker 1: It was not true.
[3:11] Speaker 4: Yeah, every single time we were gonna go out, you're like,
[3:13] Speaker 4: how come I lured you? You're like, what is this?
[3:17] Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, well, you got to render that. I'm like, okay,
[3:20] Speaker 4: hold on, let me relink this media. Then we finally
[3:25] Speaker 4: go out, you're just dropping wis like, okay, that was
[3:29] Speaker 4: a fun night.
[3:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, I lured you into my trap and we'll get
[3:32] Speaker 2: to bombing soon. But for the Eric Andre Show, I
[3:36] Speaker 2: knew I had to make it myself, like the first
[3:38] Speaker 2: version of it, because I knew I want to like
[3:40] Speaker 2: translate on a script.
[3:41] Speaker 1: It had to be what you had in your mind,
[3:43] Speaker 1: had to be what I had.
[3:44] Speaker 3: In my mind.
[3:44] Speaker 2: So I didn't know, and I didn't have any money.
[3:47] Speaker 2: So I didn't have any money to like hire any editors.
[3:50] Speaker 2: So I like, well, you made it, you must have
[3:52] Speaker 2: had some Was that all free? That first thing you
[3:55] Speaker 2: shot in like Brooklyn? That was like all out of
[3:58] Speaker 2: my pocket and I was like working jobs to pay
[4:01] Speaker 2: for it. And where did you shoot that? I had
[4:03] Speaker 2: an abandoned bodega in Brooklyn for like the three hundred bucks.
[4:07] Speaker 1: You saw like an abandoned bodega, and you're like, he
[4:09] Speaker 1: knows cow.
[4:10] Speaker 2: And Andrew found that bodega and they would have like
[4:13] Speaker 2: punk shows there, Oh okay, and there was a few
[4:16] Speaker 2: rounds of it. There'd be like ratchet nasty. It was
[4:18] Speaker 2: a rats nust and there's always like broken glass there.
[4:22] Speaker 2: I was doing stunts where there was like broken glass everywhere.
[4:24] Speaker 2: There's a bunch of people like competing. They like we
[4:27] Speaker 2: were filming in there, and there'd be like some hipster
[4:28] Speaker 2: guy would come in and be.
[4:29] Speaker 1: Like what do you what do you guys do? What
[4:30] Speaker 1: the fuck are you guys? Get the fuck out of here.
[4:32] Speaker 2: Would be like, what we talked to so and so
[4:34] Speaker 2: he said he said we could film in here, and.
[4:36] Speaker 1: They'd be like, oh, you talked to so and so.
[4:38] Speaker 1: We'll tell that motherfucker he owes me three grand and then.
[4:41] Speaker 2: That guy would storm out, and then some other dude
[4:44] Speaker 2: would walk in, like a Jamaican dude from the neighborhood to.
[4:46] Speaker 1: Walk in and be like, what the fuck are you guys
[4:48] Speaker 1: doing in here?
[4:48] Speaker 2: It would be like what we talked to so and so,
[4:50] Speaker 2: like he said we could film in here. He'd be like,
[4:52] Speaker 2: oh really he said that. Huh, Well, I'm gonna have
[4:55] Speaker 2: a fucking chat with him. I hope you're giving him
[4:57] Speaker 2: good money because the Boddy there was like all these
[5:00] Speaker 2: competing people kept interrupting like on cue, like it was insane.
[5:04] Speaker 2: One after another that was behind the scenes is crazier
[5:06] Speaker 2: than most for the camera. So I was like really struggling,
[5:10] Speaker 2: Like I read Final Cut for dummies. I would watch tutorials,
[5:14] Speaker 2: but I would bug you and another editor I.
[5:17] Speaker 1: Knew to like help me as much as possible because
[5:20] Speaker 1: I was struggling. I was like I have to. I
[5:22] Speaker 1: hope this works.
[5:23] Speaker 4: Because I know I'm very bro I remember looking at
[5:26] Speaker 4: it thinking like what the hell is this show? You?
[5:29] Speaker 2: This is a mess. I was like, this is a
[5:32] Speaker 2: this is a mess. Segments like McDonald you were like
[5:37] Speaker 2: in McDonald's.
[5:38] Speaker 4: Just as Ronald McDonald, like drinking whiskey and crying. And
[5:47] Speaker 4: then there was the when you're like an escape slave man.
[5:59] Speaker 1: It was that Williamsburg. Yeah, it wasn't like the.
[6:02] Speaker 2: Official colonias, but it was one of those like knockoff
[6:05] Speaker 2: civil war, like a fake like the Civil War.
[6:08] Speaker 4: Reaactly right. They're all over the country. So what happened
[6:11] Speaker 4: when you did that? Did anyone care? Where They're just
[6:14] Speaker 4: like okay, no, they were like in are they kicking
[6:16] Speaker 4: you out? No, they were in shock.
[6:17] Speaker 2: And then they were like pumped really yeah yeah they
[6:20] Speaker 2: were like what they were Actually this adds a layer
[6:22] Speaker 2: of reality. Yeah yeah, they were like jaw dropped. And
[6:26] Speaker 2: then they were like, oh shit, that's tight.
[6:28] Speaker 5: Nice with aridre with are okay? What's the worst you
[6:43] Speaker 5: ever bopped?
[6:44] Speaker 3: All right?
[6:44] Speaker 1: They for us. All right.
[6:46] Speaker 4: There's this festival in New Zealand. It doesn't exist anymore,
[6:50] Speaker 4: but it was called a Low Hum and people would
[6:53] Speaker 4: go to it and they don't know who's on the
[6:56] Speaker 4: bill until you get there. So I thought that was
[6:58] Speaker 4: that's kind of a cool and my friend, oh Vice Cooler,
[7:01] Speaker 4: who is who's a musician, was like, oh, that's the
[7:03] Speaker 4: coolest festival in the world of all the festivals they've
[7:07] Speaker 4: ever done.
[7:07] Speaker 1: That's the coolest one.
[7:08] Speaker 4: And I think Dan Deacon even said like that's his
[7:10] Speaker 4: favorite festival.
[7:11] Speaker 2: Oh so your boys are like hyping it up and
[7:14] Speaker 2: there's no lineup, it's just a surprise everything.
[7:17] Speaker 4: He every guesses he's hyping it up. And he said
[7:19] Speaker 4: it was awesome. And you're out in the jungle like somewhere,
[7:23] Speaker 4: like it's not in it's not in the city, you're not. Yeah,
[7:26] Speaker 4: you're camping and you're out like far I don't know,
[7:29] Speaker 4: like an hour from Wellington right right, and you're in
[7:32] Speaker 4: the mountains exactly.
[7:34] Speaker 1: So somebody contacted me is like, hey, we'll flay you
[7:36] Speaker 1: out like for this festival.
[7:38] Speaker 4: Oh cool. So I fly like fifteen hours to do
[7:41] Speaker 4: this one show. I'm at this everyone is like together
[7:46] Speaker 4: at this like it looks like mash or something looks
[7:48] Speaker 4: like so they put you know, it's a music festival
[7:52] Speaker 4: and they put me on.
[7:53] Speaker 1: At one am. Yeah. I think to like kind of
[7:56] Speaker 1: punk the crowd.
[7:57] Speaker 4: I think the guy who ran it kind of likes
[7:59] Speaker 4: to you know, kind of like mess with people's expectations, right,
[8:04] Speaker 4: and everyone is like on mally and like right, and
[8:07] Speaker 4: it's a music festival out in the woods, right, and
[8:10] Speaker 4: they put me on at one am, and you know,
[8:11] Speaker 4: my act is like DJ Doug cons, so people think, oh,
[8:14] Speaker 4: there's a DJ on right now, my acid is kicking in.
[8:18] Speaker 1: This is perfect.
[8:20] Speaker 4: And I like hard cut to like some knock knot
[8:23] Speaker 4: joke or something, and everyone's just like screaming at me,
[8:27] Speaker 4: throwing shit, oh shit, And it was bad.
[8:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like they were not having it. It
[8:33] Speaker 2: vatile absolutely enraged. I'm on the main stage too. There's
[8:37] Speaker 2: like different stages. They could have put me on the
[8:38] Speaker 2: weird I'm on the big one in front of like
[8:42] Speaker 2: the big crowd of people and there was like twenty
[8:46] Speaker 2: people who knew who I was in front, like this
[8:48] Speaker 2: is the best thing I've ever seen. And then like
[8:51] Speaker 2: there's just hundreds of people just like super pissed.
[8:54] Speaker 1: They were chucking something. I would like tell a joke
[8:56] Speaker 1: and play a beat for a.
[8:57] Speaker 2: Little bit as like you know, part of the remix
[9:00] Speaker 2: of it, and they started thinking.
[9:02] Speaker 4: That its like hard cut be like so I'm dating
[9:04] Speaker 4: again or whatever, you know, like and.
[9:07] Speaker 1: They're likeing, hey to me. Some girl got off.
[9:09] Speaker 2: On stage and stole my mic oh and she was
[9:11] Speaker 2: like freestyle rapping and I'm like, there's no security.
[9:14] Speaker 4: This is kind of like a mom and pop festival.
[9:17] Speaker 4: And the guy who, the booker, who he's just like
[9:19] Speaker 4: this is the greatest. He's like, this is what I wanted.
[9:22] Speaker 4: He set it up to be like chaos, you know,
[9:24] Speaker 4: it was like funny for him, just him and I
[9:27] Speaker 4: just like powered through. And then I like I was
[9:29] Speaker 4: just bombing so hard that I tried to like plug
[9:32] Speaker 4: in my laptop up, like plugging.
[9:35] Speaker 1: It into like play music. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[9:37] Speaker 2: So I like played a few songs at the end
[9:39] Speaker 2: of it, and people sort of were like, Okay, it
[9:42] Speaker 2: was just like and then she was just gone already
[9:44] Speaker 2: for the remix and just did a thirty minute remix,
[9:47] Speaker 2: like li.
[9:48] Speaker 4: I just I just kind of like that was a
[9:51] Speaker 4: good lesson or whatever, because I've been in situations like
[9:56] Speaker 4: that where I'm booked at the wrong thing and I
[9:58] Speaker 4: just power through.
[9:58] Speaker 2: I just pretend like it's not how I never do
[10:01] Speaker 2: comedy at a outdoor festival anymore. Daytime outdoor festival. You
[10:06] Speaker 2: could get away with it at this point. Uh.
[10:09] Speaker 1: And I've talked to a lot of people about it.
[10:13] Speaker 2: I go, have you ever had a good set a
[10:15] Speaker 2: good comedy set at an hour door daytime I've done
[10:19] Speaker 2: one of those, people are like, you could see everyone unanimously.
[10:23] Speaker 2: Everyone's like it, that's the worst venue for comedy in
[10:28] Speaker 2: the fucking world.
[10:29] Speaker 1: It's not even that great of a venue for music.
[10:30] Speaker 1: Best part of the story is coming up.
[10:32] Speaker 2: Sorry sorry, sorry, So the girls the microphone dude, that
[10:35] Speaker 2: was okay. Some people like absolutely loved it. They like,
[10:39] Speaker 2: can I have your shirt? They like they wanted my
[10:42] Speaker 2: Like I wear like a shirt with.
[10:44] Speaker 1: My name on it.
[10:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, It's like, hey, you just were begging me for
[10:47] Speaker 4: the shirt. I gave it to him. I was like, oh,
[10:48] Speaker 4: who cares? You know, like that was like a terrifying experience.
[10:52] Speaker 4: And then, you know, most of the crowd hated it,
[10:55] Speaker 4: but they were just like we want to fucking dance.
[10:57] Speaker 4: This is a nightmare or whatever.
[10:59] Speaker 6: This sucks.
[11:00] Speaker 4: So then I'm stuck at this camp for like there
[11:03] Speaker 4: was night one.
[11:04] Speaker 2: Of like three nights. So then I'm like I was
[11:09] Speaker 2: the paria of Oh no. So I'm walking around just
[11:13] Speaker 2: like trudging through this camp like people are you know,
[11:16] Speaker 2: I'm like cool, I can't even like have.
[11:18] Speaker 1: A friend here. Like I made a couple of I
[11:22] Speaker 1: made a couple of.
[11:22] Speaker 2: Friends that were like, they were like that was awesome.
[11:25] Speaker 2: May I was legendary, you know, like you we're all
[11:28] Speaker 2: talking about it. So I go to this My friend
[11:30] Speaker 2: was like, there's an open mic tent, right, let's go
[11:33] Speaker 2: check it out.
[11:34] Speaker 4: The next day at noon, we go there. I'm standing
[11:38] Speaker 4: like five feet from this guy. He was doing stand up.
[11:41] Speaker 4: He's like, did anyone see DJ Doug Pound? And I
[11:46] Speaker 4: was like, oh no, they weren't all they were just silent.
[11:48] Speaker 1: This guy.
[11:49] Speaker 4: This guy bombed, but his whole act here's my impression
[11:53] Speaker 4: of DJ Doug Pound. And then he like tried to
[11:56] Speaker 4: mimic like the drops I do and the DJ voice guy.
[12:00] Speaker 4: And I'm looking around, like, what the hell is going
[12:04] Speaker 4: on that twilight zone? Yeah, I'm like, hello, nobody even
[12:10] Speaker 4: knew I was standing there or something, and he's just
[12:12] Speaker 4: shitting on my set and he was just making fun
[12:15] Speaker 4: of how how hard I bombed, and I was like,
[12:18] Speaker 4: brutal the fuck?
[12:19] Speaker 1: And this is my friend who invited me, her friend,
[12:22] Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah.
[12:23] Speaker 4: Yeah, So that was just very surreal. I had to
[12:26] Speaker 4: just laugh it off. I almost was like mad. I
[12:29] Speaker 4: was gonna say, what the fuck I'm standing right here? Yeah,
[12:31] Speaker 4: But then I was like, now I'm gonna let this
[12:32] Speaker 4: guy roll because he's bombing.
[12:34] Speaker 2: He was actually bombed. People are like, what you're doing
[12:37] Speaker 2: an impression? The guy that bomb last night's Cosmic Justice.
[12:40] Speaker 2: That's your acting, that's cosmic justice.
[12:42] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[12:42] Speaker 4: So then I was just sort of like stuck at
[12:44] Speaker 4: this camp for a few days. That's brutal. That was
[12:47] Speaker 4: pretty brutal. Yeah, but back to what you were saying.
[12:49] Speaker 4: Another thing I do do. I still say yes is
[12:53] Speaker 4: open for a band. Don't do it unless it's weird.
[12:57] Speaker 4: Now yankovicher Tenacious D. I'm less it's a comedy band.
[13:01] Speaker 4: I'm opening for Tenacious D. So yes, that that made
[13:05] Speaker 4: you might work?
[13:05] Speaker 1: That might work.
[13:06] Speaker 2: Remember, I know it's still a Hamburger. Got like bottles
[13:11] Speaker 2: chucked out him opening up for Todah's Day.
[13:12] Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you got to check out his live album
[13:14] Speaker 4: Hot Tuesday Night. I think it's called He released a
[13:18] Speaker 4: live album of him bombing hardcore and the crowd is
[13:22] Speaker 4: just changing like he's the best.
[13:25] Speaker 1: He is fearless. He is fearless. That's like gonzo ship.
[13:30] Speaker 1: I love that didn't wait? Did uh? Didn't release?
[13:35] Speaker 2: Ah the height of his career, which is like so insane,
[13:40] Speaker 2: it's so weird and he's purposely bombing right in like
[13:43] Speaker 2: a little club. It doesn't make any sense. It's like abstract.
[13:48] Speaker 2: He's the greatest artist of us. We've over Van Go.
[13:55] Speaker 2: I told you about when I bombed opening up for
[13:57] Speaker 2: Chris Rock. He did, so I'll do I'll do the
[14:00] Speaker 2: quick just give me the cliff. No, I'll give you
[14:01] Speaker 2: the cliff does not that interesting story. I'm just like,
[14:04] Speaker 2: my audience is not his audience. Event diagram is slim. Really,
[14:08] Speaker 2: I mean, stand up you. It made me questions and
[14:16] Speaker 2: you're talking about you. We're talking about three eleven and
[14:19] Speaker 2: then yeah, exactly, it's like my references forget it. It's
[14:22] Speaker 2: like very I'm very generational. I guess gotcha.
[14:27] Speaker 1: So uh.
[14:28] Speaker 2: I always did like mediocre opening up for him, but
[14:31] Speaker 2: this night, I just like I was phoning it in
[14:34] Speaker 2: and I didn't realize it until halfway through. This guy
[14:36] Speaker 2: goes next and I go and I snapped, I should have.
[14:39] Speaker 1: Played cool or how to joke about it, but I was, now,
[14:42] Speaker 1: you come up to the stage and say that to
[14:44] Speaker 1: my face like it was a bar show. I was like,
[14:46] Speaker 1: come up on stage. I got out. It's like big
[14:49] Speaker 1: ass theater of four thousand people. He's like, I'm not
[14:51] Speaker 1: going up to the stage. I just fucking roast to you.
[14:53] Speaker 1: And then I'm like and I just crumble.
[14:55] Speaker 2: But what haunts me is like celebrities come to see
[14:59] Speaker 2: Chris Rock and especially in New Orleans and Atlanta where
[15:02] Speaker 2: all like the Marvel movies shoot and ship, like celebrities
[15:05] Speaker 2: are always the honest.
[15:06] Speaker 1: So my agent called me a few weeks later.
[15:07] Speaker 2: Anything, Hey, we just had Anti Mackie in the office.
[15:11] Speaker 1: He said you were the worst comedian he's ever seen this.
[15:14] Speaker 2: So I was just like, this delayed, like haunting, you
[15:17] Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like when your bombs so hard
[15:19] Speaker 2: to just move on, you can't move on just you.
[15:23] Speaker 2: It's like it's like when you try to fart in
[15:25] Speaker 2: the other room and then you like walk into the
[15:27] Speaker 2: next room and it like comes with you. You're like, God, no,
[15:29] Speaker 2: I parted it in that room.
[15:32] Speaker 1: I left so that the girl doesn't sell the farm.
[15:36] Speaker 1: But you can't with me. Yeah.
[15:39] Speaker 4: I did this podcast, like the first podcast ever did
[15:42] Speaker 4: like ten years ago or something with Neil Brennan, and.
[15:46] Speaker 2: You told me about this, but I love this story.
[15:48] Speaker 2: You were doing your podcast.
[15:50] Speaker 4: It was the pod first episode, No it was it
[15:52] Speaker 4: was my last episode.
[15:54] Speaker 1: No, so it ended on a fucking turn.
[15:58] Speaker 4: I kind of quit after this, but we did a
[16:00] Speaker 4: few more, but the show kept going. I was like
[16:02] Speaker 4: the sound effects guy. Now, I would have like a
[16:04] Speaker 4: laptop full of like a sample pads. Yeah, just like
[16:07] Speaker 4: a thousand drops. And I don't think Neil briefed Chris
[16:11] Speaker 4: Rock what I'm doing. He just thought I was some
[16:14] Speaker 4: engineer guy or something. So I sat on my laptop
[16:18] Speaker 4: and we start going and he mentions Eddie Murphy and
[16:20] Speaker 4: then I hit the Eddie Murphy lap.
[16:23] Speaker 1: And Chris Rock's like, what are you doing?
[16:25] Speaker 4: Man?
[16:25] Speaker 2: He's looking at me, l man. I'm like, uh, I
[16:27] Speaker 2: just I do. He's like it's not funny, and I'm
[16:30] Speaker 2: like what And.
[16:31] Speaker 4: I just kind of sat there, humiliated, like silently like what.
[16:35] Speaker 4: He was like pissed off that I did a sound effect.
[16:37] Speaker 4: He's like, I'm trying to talk and you're doing a
[16:39] Speaker 4: sound effect. I'm like, okay, well that's kind of what
[16:41] Speaker 4: the show is.
[16:42] Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the show.
[16:44] Speaker 4: So I just so I bombed in front of Christopher
[16:46] Speaker 4: oh No, and then uh yeah he didn't think that
[16:49] Speaker 4: was funny, I guess, but.
[16:51] Speaker 1: He didn't get it.
[16:51] Speaker 2: He should have been debriefed, and Neil and in Motion
[16:54] Speaker 2: didn't come to your rescue.
[16:55] Speaker 1: They just stayed silent. I think they did a little bit.
[16:58] Speaker 4: They were like, oh, he does the sounds, but it's
[17:00] Speaker 4: kind of like the damage was done that.
[17:04] Speaker 2: I did Anthony Jeselnex show with TJ Miller, you know,
[17:07] Speaker 2: years ago, and the second brodusher could be like, be crazy,
[17:10] Speaker 2: be crazy, man, I know you're crazy.
[17:12] Speaker 1: Be crazy at me, and I was like, what, all right?
[17:15] Speaker 1: His Comedy Central show. Yeah, so what's it called. It
[17:18] Speaker 1: was called offensive, So I'm like all right, and.
[17:22] Speaker 2: I'm like out uh Appso trying to I was like editing,
[17:26] Speaker 2: and I had a bunch of firecrackers that we weren't
[17:28] Speaker 2: allowed to use on the show because they were illegal
[17:32] Speaker 2: or something whatever or you had to get special perma
[17:34] Speaker 2: to use them or something.
[17:36] Speaker 1: So I was like I'll just like, I'll just light fireworks.
[17:38] Speaker 1: I don't light.
[17:39] Speaker 2: Fires under the TJ's seat while he's talking Keith Moon.
[17:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like yeah. I was like, they want
[17:46] Speaker 1: me to be crazy, I'll be crazy. So I threw
[17:49] Speaker 1: the fire.
[17:49] Speaker 2: So teachers that were like ten minutes into our segment
[17:53] Speaker 2: whatever and like TJ's talking teachers like I thought you
[17:56] Speaker 2: were lighting like a joint or something.
[17:57] Speaker 1: I just started lighting these black cats.
[18:00] Speaker 2: I chuck him under his seat and I just look
[18:02] Speaker 2: at Jeszelneck like I'm like, like, I didn't do it.
[18:04] Speaker 2: You know, It's like the crowd goes silent, the crew
[18:09] Speaker 2: goes silent, everybody's terrified.
[18:12] Speaker 1: The ad comes out like, oh, what the heck is
[18:14] Speaker 1: going on here? Like some old school dude like pulling
[18:18] Speaker 1: his hair out. And then uh, you said she said
[18:21] Speaker 1: to be crazy.
[18:22] Speaker 2: And then the fire marshal came and he's like I
[18:24] Speaker 2: have to arrest someone. And then I had to like apologize,
[18:28] Speaker 2: and then like my manager didn't.
[18:30] Speaker 1: My old manager didn't even take my side.
[18:32] Speaker 6: She was like, you got apologize.
[18:33] Speaker 2: I'm like I didn't. It was a federal offense. There
[18:36] Speaker 2: were a little like little kid firecrackers or whatever, the
[18:38] Speaker 2: little black cats. No, nobody's heard. Nothing's her like, gets fine.
[18:43] Speaker 2: You wanted me to be crazy? I was crazy, and
[18:45] Speaker 2: now I'm in trouble for it. Highest rated episode of
[18:48] Speaker 2: the series. There you go, highest rated episode series. Look
[18:51] Speaker 2: at that. See that kind of stuff is good radio.
[18:54] Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying with aericdre with are all right,
[19:09] Speaker 6: so you got three bombs? He only told us one.
[19:11] Speaker 6: Oh yeah, oh you told us too if you got
[19:13] Speaker 6: the podcast.
[19:14] Speaker 4: Uh. The first, the first ever major bomb was you
[19:17] Speaker 4: remember the upfronts for Adult Swims.
[19:19] Speaker 1: Yeah, they flew.
[19:22] Speaker 4: Us out, Tim and Eric and me and Tim and
[19:25] Speaker 4: Eric were gonna it's like this party, right.
[19:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, And so for people that don't know, people still
[19:30] Speaker 2: have yet they don't do it. Adult Swim doesn't do
[19:33] Speaker 2: it anymore, but COVID kind of shut it down for
[19:34] Speaker 2: a little bit. So you know, television is brought to
[19:38] Speaker 2: you by sponsors. Everything's paid for with advertising, so like
[19:42] Speaker 2: to to butter up the like corporations literally like the
[19:47] Speaker 2: guys from like Dorito's and Colgate and stuff like that.
[19:50] Speaker 1: Networks every network used to have.
[19:52] Speaker 2: I don't know if they're still having this party called
[19:54] Speaker 2: upfronts around like May where they would fly not only
[19:59] Speaker 2: the they would like Kanye performing. Yeah, they would drop
[20:02] Speaker 2: a lot of money. This was like the special it's
[20:05] Speaker 2: just for their ever just like a tiny party. These
[20:07] Speaker 2: are big. This is when they would splurge the majority
[20:10] Speaker 2: of their money because this is how they make their money.
[20:12] Speaker 2: They would like bring all the artists out from all
[20:14] Speaker 2: the TV shows to do like Q and A panels
[20:17] Speaker 2: and live events, and then they would like they would
[20:19] Speaker 2: pay like Kanye or jay Z somebody like a million
[20:22] Speaker 2: bucks to perform.
[20:23] Speaker 1: They were fun.
[20:23] Speaker 2: They were super like wild and crazy open bar performing.
[20:28] Speaker 1: It's great. Yeah.
[20:29] Speaker 2: I was never performing. It was just like a weekend
[20:31] Speaker 2: of debauchery.
[20:32] Speaker 1: They flew me out. People just want to drink and raide.
[20:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like they want to throw like a Coachella
[20:38] Speaker 2: for like the suits.
[20:39] Speaker 1: Yeah, so that the suits go. Man, that was so fun.
[20:43] Speaker 1: I had such a blast. Yes, Colgate wants to sponsor
[20:47] Speaker 1: the Brack Show or whatever, Harvey Birdman or.
[20:49] Speaker 4: You know exactly, so somebody had Colgate executives at an
[20:55] Speaker 4: open bar.
[20:56] Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
[20:58] Speaker 4: Anyway, this this was a long time, I want to say,
[21:00] Speaker 4: like two thousand and seven or eight or something, and
[21:04] Speaker 4: Tim and Eric were going to perform and I was
[21:07] Speaker 4: the first act and it was like six pm or whatever.
[21:12] Speaker 1: And as soon as I started, that's when like the
[21:14] Speaker 1: bar opened.
[21:15] Speaker 2: It was just like raging, like herds of people just
[21:19] Speaker 2: drinking and going to the bar and I'm trying to
[21:22] Speaker 2: like tell jokes and it's just like, you know, that
[21:25] Speaker 2: that sound of like I.
[21:28] Speaker 1: Like that just to crazy.
[21:29] Speaker 2: It was like just people talking full blast everywhere. Yeah,
[21:33] Speaker 2: and I'm just basically performing to nobody.
[21:36] Speaker 1: It was crazy.
[21:37] Speaker 4: I thought I was nuts, but you know what, I
[21:39] Speaker 4: wasn't performing to nobody because Seth Green actually was kind
[21:43] Speaker 4: of paying attention. He was standing there watching me like
[21:46] Speaker 4: trying to laugh along, and Chelsea Pretti because they both
[21:49] Speaker 4: get it, like they were like, I'm going to check
[21:53] Speaker 4: out this act. So it was cool of them to
[21:55] Speaker 4: at least have the yeah, you know, what do you
[21:59] Speaker 4: call it? Know, they were just being respectful of like
[22:01] Speaker 4: a performer. Yeah, but after a while, I was just
[22:04] Speaker 4: pressing a button of like a fart, just like like.
[22:09] Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It's like I felt like
[22:10] Speaker 1: a ghost, you know.
[22:12] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[22:13] Speaker 1: I was just like.
[22:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, like nobody sees me. I had like you know,
[22:19] Speaker 2: I was like going through the PIA system. Nobody gave
[22:22] Speaker 2: a ship. It was crazy.
[22:24] Speaker 4: You were like background, You're like Tim and Eric, you know,
[22:28] Speaker 4: they did this crazy thing where they were like singing
[22:30] Speaker 4: a song and you know, just disrupting the crowd and
[22:34] Speaker 4: like dancing through the crowd and stuff. So like my act,
[22:37] Speaker 4: which you had to kind of like listen to set
[22:39] Speaker 4: up joke set ups and stuff like.
[22:43] Speaker 2: That.
[22:43] Speaker 4: Was that was like quite a bomb, but it kind
[22:46] Speaker 4: of didn't really matter. But I still just you know
[22:49] Speaker 4: that feeling you get you're yeah no, it's just that
[22:51] Speaker 4: feeling of like also like it's not you. It's like
[22:54] Speaker 4: the situation.
[22:55] Speaker 1: It wasn't me.
[22:56] Speaker 2: It was just a situation. The situation like live comedy,
[22:58] Speaker 2: it's sensitive. You need like the atmosphere to be right.
[23:02] Speaker 2: What's the best you've ever done. Let's say, let's palette cleanse.
[23:08] Speaker 2: I told all my jokes, every duke worked the crowd.
[23:13] Speaker 2: The crowd erupted into a basket. Ope, all the pets
[23:17] Speaker 2: are good.
[23:20] Speaker 1: I fucked every single person in the audience.
[23:24] Speaker 4: Three years.
[23:26] Speaker 1: They're still hit me up. You're still remember your set
[23:30] Speaker 1: three years ago. Get a clue, girl, girl, I still
[23:36] Speaker 1: got to get your drawers. I'm still being paid. Laura
[23:40] Speaker 1: residualsiitials from.
[23:42] Speaker 4: One one like backyard set in like Echo Park, that
[23:48] Speaker 4: story set you did.
[23:49] Speaker 2: I did this show in Orange County Beach Goth Festival.
[23:54] Speaker 2: It was like a bunch of cool bands that like
[23:57] Speaker 2: you don't normally see on a festival lineup, and they
[23:58] Speaker 2: were like we just want you to host, And I
[24:00] Speaker 2: was like, great, whatever, and it was like it was
[24:03] Speaker 2: a good payday at the time. And I was by
[24:08] Speaker 2: where the artist trailers are, and I was trying to
[24:10] Speaker 2: go backstage, not like backstage area, but like physically behind
[24:14] Speaker 2: the stage to walk up on stage and start hosting.
[24:17] Speaker 2: And there's no stage manager anywhere, and nobody tells me
[24:19] Speaker 2: when to go on. There's no contact person. So I'm
[24:23] Speaker 2: like looking around and I'm texting my agent. I'm like,
[24:25] Speaker 2: do I go? Do you know when I start? Do
[24:27] Speaker 2: you know when my set should start? And he's like
[24:30] Speaker 2: and it was like a Saturday. He's like taking this
[24:31] Speaker 2: time to getting back to me. He's like, I don't know,
[24:33] Speaker 2: Like what does the stage manager say. I was like,
[24:34] Speaker 2: there's no stage manager, there's no person like corraling any
[24:37] Speaker 2: of the artists.
[24:38] Speaker 1: I know, I have no information.
[24:40] Speaker 2: So and then I'm trying to get backstage and the
[24:42] Speaker 2: security goes can't come back here, and I'm like, I'm hosting.
[24:45] Speaker 2: I'm I'm on the poster. I'm like I have all access.
[24:48] Speaker 2: I'm talking to my wristband.
[24:50] Speaker 1: I'm like, are you're not allowed back? Then?
[24:52] Speaker 2: He's not allowed back here. I don't care bro. I'm like,
[24:54] Speaker 2: what are you talking about. I'm one of the fucking festival,
[24:57] Speaker 2: Like I need to get up there to I did
[25:00] Speaker 2: get paid, He's like, tell somebody who cares.
[25:03] Speaker 6: I kind of.
[25:04] Speaker 1: I was like what, So, like, I.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Don't know what I'm supposed to go up, but the
[25:08] Speaker 2: money was so good I wanted like proof that I
[25:11] Speaker 2: was on stage so that I would get paid. So
[25:14] Speaker 2: I like, then I got another security guard who vouched
[25:16] Speaker 2: for me. Then I finally got on stage. Nobody brought
[25:19] Speaker 2: me up. It wasn't like ladies and gentlemen Eric andre.
[25:21] Speaker 2: I just walked up like like creeped up on.
[25:25] Speaker 1: Stage with no announcement.
[25:28] Speaker 2: So I go on stage and I start trying to
[25:31] Speaker 2: do my regular stand up and it's miserable.
[25:33] Speaker 1: I'm like, not, it's not going great.
[25:34] Speaker 2: Like the crowd is on my side, they're not torn
[25:36] Speaker 2: against me, but like they're not paying attention. It's like
[25:39] Speaker 2: hod as fuck, they're stone, they're drunk, like, so I
[25:42] Speaker 2: just start like doing crowd work and bringing people up
[25:45] Speaker 2: on stage.
[25:46] Speaker 1: It starts goofing.
[25:47] Speaker 2: Off and I did like ten minutes maybe I was
[25:50] Speaker 2: like you know, at fifteen minutes, I was like this
[25:53] Speaker 2: as much and like no one's giving me the light.
[25:57] Speaker 2: There's no structure, and I don't even know what band
[26:00] Speaker 2: to bring on next. They're not like the bands already
[26:03] Speaker 2: even there. So I was like all right later, and
[26:05] Speaker 2: I just like I think I took a picture of
[26:07] Speaker 2: myself on stage and send it to my agent, like
[26:09] Speaker 2: proof I.
[26:09] Speaker 1: Was on stage if anybody else, because this is a
[26:12] Speaker 1: shit show.
[26:13] Speaker 2: Then there was some like crazy issue. I think people
[26:18] Speaker 2: that bought tickets couldn't get in. And then the porta
[26:21] Speaker 2: potty started overflowing, and like there was like rain and
[26:25] Speaker 2: like mud slides. There was some like people are like
[26:27] Speaker 2: vendors were running out of food. It was like a
[26:29] Speaker 2: miniature Woodstock ninety nine like where like it's like Firefest.
[26:32] Speaker 2: The infrastructure, Yeah, the infrastructure of the festival started breaking
[26:35] Speaker 2: down as the festival continued, and I didn't realize.
[26:38] Speaker 1: I just started partying backstage. Somebody gave me molly.
[26:40] Speaker 2: I was like rolling backstage and like listen, like just
[26:43] Speaker 2: like hanging with friends and stuff like that. And then
[26:45] Speaker 2: the sunset and then I'm like, I'm like I'll pop
[26:48] Speaker 2: around the festival. So I popped around the festival and
[26:50] Speaker 2: then I try to go backstage again, I have an
[26:53] Speaker 2: all access wristband and I'm like out with the crowd,
[26:58] Speaker 2: rolling on ecstasy and I I didn't go backstage and
[27:01] Speaker 2: another security different security guards like, ain't coming back here, bro,
[27:04] Speaker 2: I'm like.
[27:05] Speaker 1: What what does the all access mean?
[27:07] Speaker 3: Like?
[27:07] Speaker 1: Who is it for? I performed? I was on that
[27:09] Speaker 1: seed It's fine. Alle I was like, I.
[27:12] Speaker 2: Was on that stage, I'm on the festival poster, I'm
[27:15] Speaker 2: on the fire that's my name.
[27:17] Speaker 1: And I was like, don ok. And I was like,
[27:19] Speaker 1: what the fuck is wrong? And I'm like snapping and
[27:21] Speaker 1: I'm rolling, which is crazy. I'm like, what the.
[27:23] Speaker 2: Fuck is wrong with this festival? What the fuck is
[27:25] Speaker 2: wrong with security? And then the security is like, oh,
[27:28] Speaker 2: you think you're funny? Huh you think you're funny? And
[27:30] Speaker 2: I go, yes, I do, and he goes, well, well
[27:34] Speaker 2: guess what you're not. And I go, well, guess what
[27:36] Speaker 2: comedy subjective? And I can tell you to know what
[27:39] Speaker 2: subjection meant. So he was just like, all right, you
[27:42] Speaker 2: can go in, Doug, thank you so much for coming
[27:49] Speaker 2: on my pleasure experiment.
[27:53] Speaker 1: And see it the stress Factory. I'll see it this stuff.
[27:56] Speaker 1: See it's fucking end of time.
[27:59] Speaker 2: I see it all right, Thanks buddy, Peace Peace, I'll
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