Ray Romano | Club Random with Bill Maher

my book is out now it's called what this comedian said will shock you and it's available now anywhere you get your books the one thing I miss is going up in a room full of strangers and winning that audience over that's the thing I hated the most I would get a student loan I would register and my parents thought I was going to college and I would leave the house and never go is this a gift already well you know it's like when the the husband gives a wife lingerie who's the gift really for exactly it's my book yes yes I know I know the book I I want to show you what I wrote to you because I feel like it's so appropo for what is a gift Oh I thought I thought you were using it to plug to Ray the lifelong friend I'm just getting to know I feel like that's where we are right appreciate it yeah in another alternative Universe we've actually spent thousands hours together we enjoyed every minute of it but there just wasn't time on this Earth but how did we we we just missed each other coming up I guess cuz you were at The Improv right we were like Captain Tuttle on MH do you remember that episode where the captain he just left there never really they kept they made Frank Burns go mad thinking he constantly just missed them but were you did you was your first place The Improv improv la oh oh I was I mean I I did work the Improv in New York oh so you didn't start you you started out here no what New York so so the Improv was your home Club was your place where you really was catcher Rising Star improv but you know when you got what years once you got to be a big act yeah you got to work all three clubs the comic strip improv you know yeah and then and then the seller too and then the seller yeah but what years what years were 79 to 1982 that's exactly I started in ' 83 like Captain Tuttle yeah I'm telling you I started 83 and then I I quit for a while and then started again yeah you quit I I had two tries at it you know I started once the first time ever on stage was The Improv ever uh and I did well did you do well the first time that kind of tends to be the of course not how could you do well the first time because it's audition night and and the crowd is very generous and I don't know it was that seemed to be the way it went that's not my memory my memory was said it was terrible I was you know gasping for the oxygen of laughter rudely awakened to the fact that making my friends laugh was a whole different animal than making a room full of strangers laugh um I did obviously get enough laughs to get asked back but I had the the horrible experience the second time I went on stage so I had the false hope that oh this is easy and then I was rudely awakened right well you must have been if you actually quit I mean when you quit quit yeah I I quit it scared me so much and then I tried again and I I I qu again and then the third time is when I said I got to give it a shot so you you quit and did what I was uh I mean I did a lot of Everything But at the time that I started working as a standup I was delivering futons in New York from my friend and you went back to that I don't even think I was doing it then when I was 23 I wasn't doing anything I was going going College dropping out of college was that's how painful standup can be when you're not good at it it can make you go back to delivering food johs right it could make you quit yeah as as as exhilarating as the first night was that's how equally horrible the second night was right and yeah it scared me into know it's it's an amazing phenomenon that people well first of all just that a human being would want to like take the mood of of a whole room of people or a thousand people or sometimes 25,000 people in music 50,000 people and put that on your one back that that alone is a little weird to want to do and then to like endure that kind of apprenticeship I mean every industry has a type of apprenticeship if you're a computer program you're working you're learning the computer it's not humiliating learning the computer it can be frustrating or you know you wish you were going faster or slower or something uh but it's not but we like rank humiliation I mean real yeah that's the hardest part ego crushing that's what I tell there's always young guys who kind of ask me about what's the best PA path or whatever sure right you're a big star you're worth hundreds of millions in your big shows and movies and acting career and for stand up royalty what give us your advice Ray can I call you Ray or should I Mr Romano hold forth who are you are you mocking me or them I'm mocking that whole syndrome that we've all lived through a billion times where there was like I remember not to blame him for it he was good at it but Lena when we started was a little older than us Comics who had started and was doing better and he would he had smoked a pipe back then and he would occasionally hold forth but I've seen Rodney do it and you know it's do what like hold Court well yes the young Comics gather around and they want wisdom from the elders and by the way I'm not saying I ever offered it I'm talking about when kids when guys ask me I don't say I don't say they ask me too I'm just saying it's it's how you handle it just something about the whole syndrome just creeps me out I heard Seinfeld give um one of the best pieces of advice to I I I know what it was but he said someone was asking him how do you make money in comedy and standup and he said the way to make money and stand up is to not care about making money and yeah but it's like Elaine May's famous dictum the only safe thing is to take chances right that's that's chub buiness yeah but I think also what he was saying was just do it you got to do it and get better at it that's you feel like you lived up to that the only safe thing is to take Jen in in some things in other things I'm I'm the I'm the but like you you could have done a reboot of Raymond for12 trillion do or something I'm sure and you didn't you didn't you didn't you didn't bite it that fat piece of bait no because I knew it wouldn't be good it wouldn't be okay but that's that's that's Taking Chances instead of just playing it safe and playing it safe would be doing it yes yeah yeah yeah but but to be fair uh the money wasn't going to entice me anyway I mean yes the money's good but I'm I'm well off I don't make I don't make choices right now for financial reasons because it all came out in the wash for us didn't it we very we're like so lucky because when you think about the old days and and how many people you started with um I always compare it to to the Army like a lot of guys got shot I know and you know a few guys and guys you thought there's so many guys I thought right this this guy's going to be a star and did did better than me certainly I can't speak it for you but in the the clubs yeah the guys I didn't want to follow right yes but see that's the thing TV is a cool medium this was the advice I learned almost as a CH not a child but certainly as a teenager when I was thinking about going into comedy I was very attuned to this [ __ ] and I remember knowing that message it was Marshall mclen who I guess my mother was interested and I think he was also on TV he's famously in the wood in Annie Hall when Woody Woody Allen is online for a movie remember and and he's with the girl and he wishes that somebody could come along and straighten out whoever he's arguing with then Marshall mclen who was like because he was thought of as like a very smart guy at the time and that was his big message you know uh cool medium and TV is a cool Medium you're you're people are watching you in a different setting than they are in a nightclub that energy that blows people away in a small room does not permeate the screen so people like us dull plotting we do much better no but we're not like and that's no you're right cuz there are there are car their standup acts that would tear the house down I mean and and to try to find them a p you know a sitcom or whatever they never panned out uh I I I probably have told this but there was a guy uh it's not that I won't say his name I just can't remember at the moment but uh he did this thing with puppets but I I mean he would yes I no one could follow him I certainly couldn't he did close the shows I remember certain clubs were open and he would was getting like the topest dollar that they were pay 2,000 a week you know yeah and uh the closing was he was put hand puppets and then they would pipe in the Rolling Stone Start Me Up and the puppet would I guess it was a MC Jagger puppet and I was in the back of the room thinking man I got to get glasses there's something in this I must be missing the people are going [ __ ] AP [ __ ] for this and then you know no it wasn't the glasses I just I didn't understand and do you do you think that act would work now like I I look at the guys who were character standups and I wonder if they would go over it in today's audience well MC Jagger's 80 now well what's the best premise to like energize the crowd with although I hear that I've heard from number of people the Rolling Stones he is 80 and they say the show is fantastic and he especially is just like as he ever was it's never I've never seen him live uh my wife wants to go too yeah yeah uh you should definitely go I've seen them like four or five times I'm not a concert going guy uh the first concert I went to I'll tell you it was um John Denver and opening for him was the Starland Vocal Band do you remember that I certainly know that Afternoon Delight yes from from Anchor Man yes the when they sing in Anchor Man yeah yeah Afternoon Delight yeah uh but then I saw Chicago once Chicago was like my favorite band growing up what a band they're still one of my favorite bands right but you know they they changed from the 70s and in the 80s and 90s they got more softer and pop you know yeah a little yes that's true that's true but they had you know I don't know much you know about Terry Kath their their lead guitarist who who Hendrick said was better than him wow and he he but he tragically accidentally shot himself when he was like yeah 29 maybe oh oh he's he was unbeliev you should watch there's a YouTube video 25 or 624 of them live in the 70s that's unbelievable that sure doesn't make me smile yeah terrible and the Beatles that we have that in common yes yeah but Chicago like man there ear you're right when there were a rock band with a horn section yes and as a kid well you know 13 or whatever I was horns were sort of like something from my father's era more so you like it had to be really hot for me to like it right and they hit it there was another band Blood Sweat and tear BL swe and te yeah that also had a horn section they certainly didn't go to where Chicago there're still playing kind of Chicago I mean some of their guys are still there remember when they were inaugurated into the rock and roll of Fame and my friend uh Rob Thomas did it yeah from match Fox 20 and this great solo stuff yeah and you know he kind of acknowledged that they said something about like you know oh they're your mom's band and he you know he was just like hey if that's that's your mom's band I want to hang out with your mom he wasn't saying he was when he inducted them you know he was he was putting down people who said that they were you know soft or well yeah because they don't remember they don't know their early stuff where it was so soul I mean that's their most famous stuff I mean Saturday in the Park Saturday in the Park it's in my movie I put it in my movie stronger every day was the song that got me through my high school breakup really I'm not kidding you you only had one high school breakup and they had one girl yeah I mean that I mean it was amazing I got one and then you know she broke my heart in a million pieces which I was deserved I'm not going to say it wasn't but um being young is so much harder than being old yeah if if you have your health if not then it sucks even more being old but you you you put yourself in such pain with your stupidity and you're and you're just if you know the old if I only knew then what I know now you could spare yourself but I went through that that was at least a year where every day was a knot in my stomach from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep because of the girl yeah because it was just like how do I get her back and I can't because you know once you turn off the pilot light I always say it cannot be reignited in a woman you can make it go low but if you turn the pilot light off it will never go back on again and then you just you are less attractive as a beggar what is want you become a supplicant it's you're you're like Oliver Twist a little more please how long did you date her for like a year and a half years from sophomore was she a I was a junior she was a sophomore was my first date taking a bus to the mall in January in freezing cold weather to see a movie yeah and like being 177 like we all like get a little complacent but we as we mature we you know become self-aware of it and and fight like letting on that we're maybe not as thrilled as we used to be you were complacent with what your relationship oh you know after was gone on for a year and a half or whatever it was yeah you know I just was kind of I don't know I think I was dickish about something I I I remember you still were into her big big you know I yes I was the interest was waning but once she dumped me it was just about my ego and you know then it's just you realize that it's not really about the person so much when you really go through that kind of heart it's a it's a lot about your ego like or your your sense of survival like oh yeah it's a it's a it's a blow it's just an it's just a blow to a emotional part of you yeah so then I was just beside myself and that song feeling stronger every day when that came on it was the summer I guess of 74 and it had been a year or so and it really helped me that was kind of the beginning of their more poppy kind of period but it still had that Great Horn no that's a good rock song yeah please don't ever say anything bad about feeling it's a good song they had great songs in there just you and me you know uh um yeah my world was was my prom song which I didn't go to but that was the song they played at the prom that was earlier that was earlier that was on the early albums what's important is that I was feeling stronger every day Ray who is that so who is your number is your number one group The Beatles I remember yes I feel like they're always the premise inter paries on the Mount Olympus of of musicians and rock and roll and I mean you you everything everything they did first everything like music videos like things you don't even think of yeah certain instrument sound whatever stadiums did you cuz you played The Mirage too when I was playing it did you go to the go to love absolutely I would go I I've been there like 12 times 12 times well because I would I've played The Mirage for over know maybe 20 years so every once they change it up so if if I was but aren't you performing when that show no my show was at 10: isn't wasn't your show at 10 mine is now at the MGM Grand it's know that N9 but at the Mirage when it was at the you were at the Mirage right it was it was late yes yeah it was at 10: so you could go see the other show we walk in the back and it's oh right same building yeah it's in the Mirage yeah oh I should have done that but I did see it oh yeah I would I would tear up sometimes just sitting there I used to like look sitting there and just I used to like looking at the people and just seeing like when a song would come on they just they just had to had to get into it and move you know how it would affect them oh yeah and it was just nostalgic well the sound system in is amazing and then you have like midgets on tricycles and stuff what isn't that what my recollection that's for for strawberry fields or or Lucy in the Sky okay I mean I was it was love Cirus cir you know what the best one was O see I never that's the one that it's on water yeah and there's you know there's little people flying all around there they're over your head they're just it's amazing and they do amazing stunts and but the water and the it's it's those shows Vegas you know I was just in Atlantic City I'm sure you play Atlantic City and you're a big I hav I I I did play but I haven't played there in a long time really why where well where do you play I don't it was at the borata well I mean I live here now so I mean Road gig yeah but a road gig for me is Vegas I don't I don't do oh look you well I don't I I I I yeah you let them come to see you right let them come to you I just did my first corporate gig in like 15 years oh I can't do corporate yeah I I've I know learned but it was it was in Vegas that's why I did it it was in they all think the C and I get offered crazy money I know and it's not worth it because see they think oh we're hip we're going to love him because the person in in charge of the entertainment committee is a big fan but it's 2,000 lawyers or some [ __ ] you know very often they're not that also a crapshoot to the setup what's it look like how big is it but I mean I think I feel like you could do this easily you're not you're not going to you canot offend a corporation I cannot yeah yeah I'm going to I mean I'm an atheist and all this stuff yeah but you just do you do uh you do Mr salty you do ah Mr salty that's from like oh my God I [ __ ] Mr salty I hadn't thought of that I remember that Mr you're right that was one of my big jokes I can't remember that would that that that's timely that's still that's still timely today in this in this in this age of low sodium you got to give them credit they're like a few years of my life where that was very important to me that Mr salty joke it one of my biggest and now I can't 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random to save 20% off your entire order that's 20% off your entire order when you had to find your corner office Comfort I did a corporate gig at the Bellagio just a month ago yeah you did yeah first time in in 20 years and I got out alive you know they they alive come on you're no no no but you know the conditions can be crazy they can be what are they are they eating now are they this is it in a Convention Center that's that's true I mean those kind of crowds can be rough I mean uh I was at a charity event about 10 years ago and the Eagles um out of the goodness of their heart it's a charity event we're playing it and the they go on stage and they had just put out an album it was it it's a awesome album it was their album they hadn't put out one one in 28 years and I think this is like two I guess this is like 2008 maybe seven so they opened with a song new song from the album so new they didn't open with Hotel California and the crowd just I mean it was just like like it was a garage Restless just Restless just completely ignoring it and talking and Henley was pissed you could tell after and I don't blame him I very nearly stood up and just shouted [ __ ] shut up it's the Eagles really well who were they who were the people lawyers what you no it was a charity for charity it was a charity for you know yeah that's why they were there I was you know that's the thing she get one of the worst gigs I ever had and I'm not I don't want to trash the gig because it wasn't it was uh the gator growl you ever do the the the gator growl is this I think I know what you're talking I heard about this gig yes it's in the stadium the uh where where Jacksonville no uh I think so what it's the gator it's see I don't know college football yeah I don't know that it's very big it's very big and in Florida it must it must be like I have heard of this G I avoided it like the play yeah well I was it was the second year of Everybody Loves Raymond and so I was one of and Chappelle was on it Larry cable guy was on it a couple and when I went up there's there's I guess 20 or 30,000 people you know it's homecoming so there's some some parents but mostly students and my stuff I I never did I didn't do the college circuit a lot no me neither yeah and now it's Unthinkable oh yeah yeah now it's just I mean you would be even you well you could you would have you would have half this way and half this way maybe I would be I first of all they would protest before even got on the campus half if some of them I was uninvited when I was a uh invited to be the uh keynote speaker at the Berkeley graduation and then reinvites but today are you kidding yeah these kids that would be the first thing they would do is try to get me thrown or they they don't want to hear anything they don't already agree with they don't want their minds Pride open and you know what let somebody else do it yeah okay I'll do I'll do it from my perch here in La I'll be a little uh White Tower about this one no I could see where you because you do speak about them uh a lot on your show which is you know I mean I didn't do I don't do it because I have anything against you know people in in their 20s I probably spend more time with people in their 20s than most people My AG do but but uh I love kids I mean there's a exuberance that you cannot quench there's a a love of life and of possibility and it's all the things we we know about youth but I'm not going to hold my tongue when they Embrace stupid ideas and of course then they'll just say you know the the tritest easiest most erroneous thing lobbed at People Like Us is you're old uh now it's about just get off my lawn it's like okay so you put zero amount of thinking into the actual point I'm making you didn't engage with the actual idea if you did that I would respect you but when it's just like you're old get off my lawn oh wow you learned a cliche about age and you noticed I'm a lot older than you but what about the idea am I right should we bring communism back because I think it's a bad idea maybe because I remember what happened the first time and you don't and you don't care to learn but somehow I'm the [ __ ] yeah yeah I don't I don't have that issue when when I do my standup um but do you ever why what do you mean because I don't talk about the things that you talk about yeah no but your stuff obviously look your stuff is universal oh would I I still don't think I'd go over with a college crowd I don't think that's why I didn't go over at the gator growl I don't think you know oh so you didn't no what what I I'll never this was 30 years ago and I remember 30,000 people and I remember if about five 3 or 4 minutes hearing a girl from about 10,000 people over and I heard her voice go you better start being funny oh and oh yeah that kind of [ __ ] it was rough that's rough and that's not early in your career that's after you're a big success well I wasn't it was the second year of the TV show to most people having your own show is a big success I mean it wasn't the but it was a success you know it was like when I was on Politically Incorrect it wasn't a giant you know but it was you know that's a success for for for when for when we started that's our goal yeah well that's why they had me there yeah but whatever uh it I remembered um we were supposed to spend the night there and I told my man my manager was there and I said let's just go to the airport and the airport was like 40 minutes away so it must have been somewhere but do you have I just go let's just get out of here I yeah I didn't want to sleep in the town I wanted to get we slept at the airport I once got I once did horribly on a gig I was not ready to do yet in 1980 in Cleveland in a restaurant in a restaurant did terribly like almost to the point of you know asked to leave almost asked to leave love bad you know like in the middle of your just like it did did not work it was a tough room I was a real rookie and it's just and then the next day wouldn't you know I get snowed in and I'm at the airport for 12 hours watching them like plow the runway just wanting to get this city off me get not it's the city's fault but just I wanted to get Cleveland off me get home and take a shower and I have to live with it for 12 hour did you ever do cruises cruise ships oh no there there's I paid my dues I I can prove it but that is a I've had beer can thrown out me opening for rock stars but I will not do it yes well then cuz then you're you're with the audience for the next five days and I only did it twice and the second first time went okay second time they had uh they said we're going to have late night comedy and me and the other comedian were like we did a we did a regular show and then they said now it's late night comedy the next night and it was still us it was still us and and so it yes right it of course it didn't go well and I remember walking in you know in a cruise ship you're you walk I was walking to my room and I'm you know this way this way and I hear the people a couple well where do they get these guys from where and they and they they turn the corner and as I'm walking towards them it's not wide enough to just walk by we have to we have to shimmy this way like our faces and I have and he just he just insulted me and I got him like was he aware that it was it oh yeah it was me yeah it was only two Comics H wow now that and then you're living on the boat with them for the next couple days it's kind of like you do a show at a club or somewhere and right you're just the club is with you for the next two days that's how ridiculous it is yeah you so and so like when you you're at the buffet you would see people and did anybody yeah did anybody like come up to you at the buffet no I don't think hey you were good last night or I don't think anyone I don't I don't I I probably stayed in the room for and stay laid low for a while people think they're doing you a big favor when they say I laughed i s like [ __ ] you you know like so did lots of people you know what's funny is you think you're immune into that now at this point in your career and basically well you're kind of for the most part you are because they're coming to see you now yes but people can still damn with faint praise yes and you we work so hard yeah at what we do stand up especially I've talked about with Jerry you know why I might stop doing it uh at least for a while just just like it's playing the cello you have to practice two hours every day or whatever it is with the jello and it's that kind of thing and I love that and I have loved it I will miss it if I don't do it but yeah you got to be on it or I mean doesn't matter who to do on to do a to do a show to do a one- hour show yes you can't just pop up do the more popular you are and the more the audience loves you and yes when you've been around as long as us the people will come to see you really do love you you just don't want to disappoint no you just want to give them what they want you to give them and give them the best version of it but you know what the thing that I miss CU I I still like to when I go to New York I go to the seller any night I can go I go really you still play the old clubs there just the seller I do the seller but still that's amazing I live 11 I have an apartment 11 minut I can walk there and it's I get I still get charged up yeah and I you know nobody knows you're there and I do 20 minutes you do 20 but um what you like you go up with a yellow legal pad and just from because the because they're new stuff I do a couple new I try a couple new things but otherwise oh you just do your regular act well if I'm doing 20 minutes I'll I'll have a I'll yes I will have a piece of paper with thoughts and ideas let's try this try this try this try this I don't have 20 minutes of it I all right don't these people are getting you for a Bargain Basement price the least you could do try out new material on them but they don't but they don't but some of them don't most of them don't know the stuff even the older stuff you know not old but you know no but I'm just saying I don't do anything I did on my the one special I did a couple years ago I retired that material that audience is there for you to use that's a showcase Club that's different than a real club or a real theater they but they're only paying what $5 to get in well it's a little more than that yeah well it was when I was there when's did you do the seller yes I was talking to I think it was Sandra Bernhard was recently here and I mentioned the funny night where I was so bad that when I left the MC Bill gruntfest said bad man went away oh yeah I remember hearing that yeah that was that wasn't Sandra because I listened to yesterday it it might have been Seinfeld that's yeah yeah that's another yeah oh so you didn't you didn't go there frequent it a lot I did there was a time when I remember because you were a big act which is like okay my like third year in comedy um okay you can work all the clubs and then you do because you're greedy first of all you want the stage time but but you also want the money you know which was just basically like glorified cab Fair we're talking about 15 20 bucks but if you worked on the weekends where there was early show and a late show if you worked all the clubs that would be six sets I did that frequently and of course the the sets were fine it was like you were getting into cabs and I drove I drove I drove from Queens and I I would pop here all the different gr and where would you park if I had to park by a hydren I'd Park and run in right and but I okay well see that's better than what I did because you were always sweating getting to the next set because you booked three sets in a 2our time yes yes and you just made it and I I did my record was seven I did seven I remember running often from the cab to the stage like you walk you come into the club and they're like they're waiting for you come and they push you on yeah and what what and your clubs were the strip this catch and and improv strip catch and then newor and then I remember doing comedy seller but that was like so far downtown that it was hard to get to the you know what it's like now the seller it's it's cuz when I started they were lucky to have an audience on a Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday you know that they would have the staff sit there and you would have to go you would have to go up for the staff so people walking down would see that they were they thought they were customers and they yeah but now now do you you know it's like the hottest it's Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday three shows a night three shows three shows Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday four Friday for Saturday and a waiting list only oh God yeah yeah and now he's buying good for he's buying another and yeah they opened the one around the corner where the village underground was that's all comedy now and then he just bought the McDonald's the McDonald's went out of business and he bought it no one bought it and he's going to open up there so they so the the what we did where we had to go uptown downtown this time that you could stay on one corner on that Friday and do seven shows and never leave that never leave that one block radius yeah yeah but it didn't teach them grit right they did they came out a bunch of [ __ ] okay that's what you get when you put all the comedy clubs on one corner we had to I mean I I do look back and shudder but I also look back and I'm in a way so grateful that I had to we were talking about this in my office today because we have Abigail shrier on this week and her book is about this that kids just are not uh ask to go through things anymore like if you're U you know if the math test stresses you out we don't don't take it it's okay you know and so they don't have the memory uh of like accomplishing something when they're young of of overcoming something even shyness you know I mean no one was more shy than I was there was no suggestion that this was some sort of defect uh of humanity and and and and so you know just um yeah it's a it's a you're a marginalized victim of something you were just shy yeah and get over it it's not the world's problem it's your problem all right all right it's to and again this is where they go get off my lawn it's like engage with the idea is the idea wrong argue with me on that level I will respect you hey I'll be at the David Copperfield theater at the MGM Grand hotel in Casino June 21st and 22nd in Las Vegas the Orum in Minneapolis Minnesota July 13th and the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on July 14th July 26th the MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park Boston Massachusetts and July 27 in Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford Connecticut I I learned so much about Jerry Seinfeld This last month because of all the promotion he did and all the shows he did and I've known this guy for a very long time and and look up to him not a not a phrase I use with very many people yeah uh and also just deeply deep friendship with him but I didn't know a lot of these things I saw him say to Howard Stern um like the secrets of life is getting comfortable or something like that with your torture because he was saying to Howard all day long all I'm doing all the time is looking for bits and Howard said that sounds like torture and Jerry said it is the secret of life is to just embra to find the torture that you're coming able with something like that and he said he mentioned that and then marriage kids it's all that and are you that is not my life philosophy do you look for bits all the time because I don't no I I even when I was young uh and didn't have three kids yeah and was just crazy mad about like finding bits everywhere because it's like this new thing and you're actually getting paid for it even if it's $35 I remember literally in bed like in the middle of cus writing something down on the nightstand without taking my dick out of the punani I mean that is a love of Comedy ladies and gentlemen but I'm the same way I the bits would especially with kids because that's I started talking about that and it would happen and I would say hold on and I would write it down and then go to it later that's the thing I was never a a purpose fill Creator that's Jerry and Bill Cosby same thing you have to write every day get in front of the yellow legal pad what I could never do that I was more the I'll get stoned funny things will fall out of my mouth just be vigilant about writing them down now over the course of my lifetime this is one of my big bugaboos that lots of gold I let fall to the ground with because I didn't write it down at the time because I said I'm remember and I'm like oh [ __ ] what was that bit it was going to work perfectly like but I would say over the course of my lifetime I probably guesstimating got 67.2% of what I thought of I did record when you were when you were high well all my life all my life restaurants I mean I have yeah same for me same for me I'm I wasn't one who said time to write I didn't set my clock and say time to write but when I had when I had premises and bits oh [ __ ] that's something funny oh that's I would put it in the the book then at some point I had to stretch it out and make it into something right so and it's it's work it's like homework a little bit but then when you get on stage and when you get a last from something new playing the cello it takes a lot of practice but it's worth it when you're up there with the orchestra and and you get the big laughs and but do you miss cuz the one thing I miss is as hard as it was you know back then but when you were good when you got better and you you were a standup is going on in front of a crowd that had never seen you before CU that's never going to happen again the that's what I miss is going up in a room full of strangers and they paid their cover charge and now here comes this guy and now it's your job and they there's a little bit of a you know you got to prove yourself to them and and winning that audience over that's the thing I hated the most I swear to God now that probably wa but I'm talking about when it worked when it when it worked it was great that's I'm sure it was but but you like it and it doesn't speak highly for my character in this sense because it is it does come off as a little hoty I would rather have been like you that's the that's the preferable way to be that you know no I'm going to win you over but I was like more hoty about it I think well you're talking about if they if if they gave you attitude during your set right then you would you would be like kind of like Larry David was like that where Larry would turn on the audience right first of all guy I wasn't yes when you're starting you're not great that's part of the equation but the another part is that you know when I when I play now and for God knows how long I'm attracting the people who know what they're getting so it's my audience so the stuff works because they're my people yes when I when you're in the club it's not that it's it's pot luck audience and and a lot of times I did have great jokes that went over their head see I could see where you it there's a difference mine stuff is more mainstream right so I know I know you're not talking about just specifically political humor but but you do have stuff but mine's neither whoever you are you could probably identify with something I'm saying I was never meant to be like the this Mass act that was going to play stadiums um I'm more like HBO HBO is you know Netflix has thousands more movies and it's great but n HBO is a boutique place that has a great audience a nice sized audience but it's it's not the biggest thing and that's as best as I can do or want to do with the kind of crowd I'd much rather have that smaller audience that's more sophisticated yes I mean that's what I'm selling is sophistication I mean I owe it to my New Jersey upbringing but there a lot of entertainment is just not sophisticated when I was a kid and I'm sure there are people go you vulgar potty mouth you think you're sophisticated well you know in in this Arena that we're in where everything is like very unsophisticated you know like I'm I like this Lane yeah you know but it is always going to be somewhat smaller do you think it's gotten smaller has it has it gotten small no no it's gotten bigger but it but it it has a ceiling because it's it's you know not your audience but a general in general no my specifically my audience has a ceiling much more uh yours has a much bigger Arc I feel right I mean not that yeah we're not competing I I love you as you are have to and it's it's just different you it's just different and that's what's good is that you know yours is different from mine mine's different from Seinfeld Seinfeld it's like it's like in The Godfather when Don carlyon says to bini you know like and good luck with your business I'm not going to invest but since inflict yeah interest don't conflict with mine you know yeah we don't we don't walk the same we we would be good on on the same show because we both we could we cohab yeah we'd be great because we both appeal to a sophisticated audience but it's just two sides of the thing right so do you want to yeah I would I would love it I've I've been you know I used to I did the Mirage with Spade spade and I did the Mirage we would go headline I was like I could do it myself and I have been doing it myself now I but now the Mirage is closing you know so I went to the Venetian I went to the Venetian but but I was like it's more fun doing 30 minutes you know what that's a great you know that's a great compromise I should think about for instead of just not doing it at all like do a little Co and well maybe yeah do something and then how and then we did a instead of 90 minutes you do one hour is that right we had an opener and then David would do 25 minutes I would do 35 minutes and then we'd both come out and do a little Q Q&A thing for 10 minutes yeah yeah and it was it was like so you know when you got to do do you do an hour and a half yeah wow well you got to because it's just you in Vegas though don't you have an opener don't you have an open no oh no I have an opener yeah I don't want I don't I can't do it I don't want to do an AR here no I don't I I never want get tired of myself after 45 minutes well it goes fast but yeah I mean that's one reason I'm thinking about you know hanging it up for this it's it's uh well you want to do your editorials right that I want to do forever yeah that I want because that's but they're different different every week you know I mean an act is something you build and it's I always love that I'm a builder by nature but it is like building a ship inside of a bottle it's just a more elegant way to do it or maybe less elegant I don't know some people like a ship in a bottle I like an act one but you're constantly tinkering and making and is that good or bad that's the I love it I love tinkering but you can't but with your editorials you can only Tinker up to the point where where you say it the first time and then you don't week right but you know with your act you get feedback from the audience of course and then you and then you Tinker a little more and I know yeah of course it's all that it's that they're the director I'm the actor and they're the director and it's it's great um no I love I like I know what you're the I understand the kick you're getting out of doing your thing because that's why I'm doing that's why I write I wrote the movie yeah you always got like a million [ __ ] things going no no it really yeah as far as like actual projects I read more about your [ __ ] yeah but you read about they announce stuff and yeah and sometimes what's the what's the next one you have I bet you have one supposed to do a bio pick on Jim volano you know Jim volvano no who's that you shouldn't know him he was college basketball he's I don't follow college but this was Sports really take it take it easy I have a no I have a very this is a sore point because people like are on your case now if you don't follow women's basketball yeah and my answer is I don't follow women's basketball for the same reason I don't follow college basketball uh I only want to watch athletes at their very best that's not a knock on any of them I don't watch golf I don't watch hockey I don't watch soccer uh Sports is a waste of time I enjoy it you need a waste of time but I'd like to limit that so I'm only going to watch baseball foot and basketball and mostly only in the playoffs football that's every week they're at their very best in the other sports you just you just aren't into those sports but then that's the same sport it's the same sport Oh you mean the the best in that sport yeah oh yeah I mean even even and I I'll watch uh big tennis matches too um of course they're great the women athletes are great but women and men are different yeah okay and even Serena Williams said she kind of backed up mackenro when he said you know the oh yeah that's ridiculous that's the number 300 player could could beat her yeah something like that and she said yeah I mean it's just when you when you play against a man that just comes in Faster right right you know because of nature because of biology which I'm sure the kids are very angry about me even mentioning how dare you bring up biology in a discussion about biology but yeah biology matters kids again engage with the idea engage with the idea don't just say get off my lawn well where where where is uh everybody on that on on uh male males who become females participating in female sports where is that now are are they allowing it uh I I it's a great question I don't think it's settled people have different ideas one is a third division yeah the division where they compete with each other right the lgbtq division like males females and he everybody else whatever what whatever stripe I never understand why the lgbtq community wants to be lumped in like that why it just it's so uh yeah you know remember Gilligan's Island theme and and the rest and the rest it was only two for crying out loud just say and then they did the amount it takes to say the rest you could fit in Maryann and whatever the professor and maryan it oh then they then they did they they did because their agent got on the phone yeah and said yeah come on yeah that what was their credit well you may have seen her as the rest and yeah she played one of the rest on Gilligan's Island anyway that's my analogy to the LGBT I I the there's so many different um but we were talking about sport you oh yes what were you going to say there before I well Jim volano was a was Jim V he was he's the coach who the Jimmy V you know the Jimmy ve with the SP Awards you have to educate me on col I know nothing Jimmy ve he coached uh NC State in the 80 when they they beat that's Duke no North Carolina North Carolina state that's Duke no it's North Carolina State Duke Duke is Duke North Carolina yeah Duke is they're they're both in North Carolina yeah I thought one was that no Duke is I thought North Carol state was at Duke or something Duke Duke University that's Coach K and North Carolina state was Jim volano he was Italian guy from Queens he and they he was this fish out of water that became this uh coach who you play him he yeah the one of the biggest upsets was when they beat usid in the NCA champion I don't know even know this but I think you're perfect for it no really just listening to this it does sound like you are you you know who if you see him you know he because he gave a famous ESB speech the first year of the esbs he gave the speech about don't give up don't give up when he was dying he died two months after that he died like 10 years after he won the championship anyway whatever can I tell you a college sports story about Mr T yes so it's 1983 I'm on the set of DC cab yes Mr T yes and you know a lot of time in between shots as you all know all your acting work and I'm doing the New York Times Crossroad puzzle because that's what 27y old actor Billy Mah did what day what day of the week was it I don't good question one I could hand I do to Monday and Tuesday I yeah okay so um I say uh and that's the theme was college sports teams and I and I'm I'm trying I'm struggling and I said hey Mr T do you know what the name of the Penn State team is n lies my like oh my God it does fit NY said I said hey why did they call them nitty Lions he go I sh know was some super white man remember it to this day how should I don't want to stupid white man did it was just he was either yeah you know that was his character was Surly so were you a rocky guy I was Rocky was big in my childhood of course well the movie you mean yeah the movie well I was 20 when Rocky came I I was 18 yeah so I mean it was a big movie but I had much bigger problems like when I was 20 I mean that's that's right in that age where you're just you're an adults but you're I always call it the infancy of adulthood because just like an infant when you're an infant adult adult which is 18 1920 you're powerless in the same way you were when you were an infant like everyone is more powerful than you about everything you know you don't really get to control your own life whether it's what you can afford and like what you have to do to survive and were you home still no I was in college you know again by living in places I didn't want to live with people I didn't want to live with you're not controlling your life just like an infant I don't think I liked childhood because I wasn't in control you know yeah I'm smaller people can boss me around tell me what to do it all just graded against me yeah but you you you there's also something special about being a child and not having all the the [ __ ] that you have now as an adult the the knowledge of it everything is Magic kind of isn't it as a child um there is a magic still um um there's an s for me the magic came later you know there is Magic in life there absolutely stripper pole you're sitting by a stripper pole um there yeah I mean some people are just you know you're not molded into different personality types and and I know from talking to parents they always tell me like you can tell at the age of two what they're like going to be like like oh that's a wild one you know uh I wouldn't know this but um is that where you found I don't know if that's true my my my 26 my youngest was a lot of him and my wife just boom and punched each other no no no no just just just buted heads so much it was that's odd for the a boy to butt heads with the mom usually the boy butts heads with the dad well yeah I mean he did he did he he he was not easy he was not an easy kid you know he was rebellious he's the youngest and is there a syndrome and he got out of it he grew he grew out of it I mean he was a kid I I I laugh sometimes he would uh I remember see when he was eight and he was trying to go outside and I was like Joe you can't go out without your shoes on and he just looked at me and went my shoes are on and he was in bare feet standing there in bare feet that's what something Trump would do really my shoes on yes I've made that relation yeah but but he's he's mellowed out and yeah I i' I've heard that story I hear I hear a lot about kids in their 20s and teens because the PE my friends are always talking about their kids or if if I close with them I asked him about them and I've heard this story also the kid who is a just not getting his [ __ ] together and it's almost always a boy not a girl it's the boys who are in crisis more than the girl girls at that age well well girls are too with suicide and that's my experience when my daughter is the first was the oldest and and she was the a student hard worker go work get a job do this and and the boys were more like me I was not that I flunked I went to three high schools I flunked out of two high schools flunked out yeah but but from not from just being irresponsible from just cutting school not going uh not caring just just want to have that was the exact opposite you exact opposite I was I was number seven in my class which is as high as I I mean that's about right I'm not I think the smartest that tracks though that tracks yeah no I was definitely afraid of not doing well in school yeah I didn't know what there were it's not like my parents were going to beat me I mean they weren't they you know that's not who I finally gra I graduated high school I went to college I went to Queen's college but I I would register I would get here's what I would do this this you want to talk about stupidity I would get a student loan I would register there'd be money left over on that student loan and I would have money all of a sudden and my parents thought I was going to college and I would leave the house and never go really yeah and so after like two years probably I had 20 credits you know and then as I got a little older I I got a little more serious and I went back I started I studied accounting and I got about a 100 credits and I never graduated but I actually graduated I got a two-year degree but I never got the fouryear degree yeah but when did you where where in your childhood did you have the idea that you wanted to be a comedian or was it not in childhood at all uh in my teenage years it was yeah yeah I was always a fan of Comedy stand up to you know I knew before I was 10 yeah like I always wanted to do that I was probably the you know the class clown I guess class comedian different than the clown the clown threw spitballs the comedian said things that even the teacher sometimes laughed at did you ever make the teacher laugh I don't remember that that's when I knew I was [ __ ] sophisticated I had nuns but nuns didn't laugh yeah yeah but I used to work in the theater I used to in a movie theater I was an usher and I remember it was a Neil Simon movie oh and I remember I would know exactly every moment in that movie and I'd be out in the lobby you know sweeping up the popcorn whatever and I knew when a funny part was coming up and I wanted to go in there and listen to the audience I wanted to have the audience experience and I wanted yeah to feel that this was I didn't know that I wanted to do standup yet but I knew I was a that's what I was drawn on to that you know and then standup um was just I had heard about an audition night at The Improv someone told me about once a month they do audition I and I got five minutes up and that was the first time and then when I do think about those years what mostly stands out is um being able to just survive on fumes like what was I actually surviving on it wasn't money it wasn't any women it wasn't uh the promise of a better tomorrow cuz that was certainly was in doubt like whether you were going to make it as a comic it seemed very far away it was the one thing it kind of had was the respect of some of those people who were a little ahead of you the ones who said yes you passed the audition you're a funny guy you know that is really what I was surviving on in those years but also the the audience right you likeed being you that feeling no because that wasn't that either you go you the first year you would bomb you would bomb but first year I don't think I even get on stage first of all you have to hang out at the club for a long time okay then you get on last right no the listen that's what I tell we talked about this sooner earlier but I never got to it the first few years is the hardest thing in I think in any business I always say it because two years yes you go on like you say you hang out you go on last so now you're the comic who's up in front of three drunks and two people and you're the guy who can't handle that exactly you don't have the experience for that I like what they do in medical school when they make you go to a residency and work 80 hours a week cuz that's who you want looking at you is some blur eyed I know what it's like to be over tired to think that they do that in hospitals yeah but you go on last David say yeah God bless him loved him still love him if he's around once brought me on with the words here's the last guy I forget his name and then walked off the other side of the stage into the bathroom at catch Rising that's funny I love those memories I really do because they're memories I want to relive them like people say would you like to go back not if I done relived that no yeah well no but I don't I look fondly back that when I was a comic and I was a working comic in the city and my kids were little so that was hard too but I I kind of I'm nostalgic about that you know of course yeah what did your kids think when they were little and daddy was a celebrity did they I I'm always fascinated about that moment kid Paul McCartney tells that story about his kid when he was little and he said he was riding by on a pony and the little kid goes hey you're Paul McCartney H you know the moment it Dawns on the kid that the parent is yeah also this personage I mean well I remember when I was a a working comic and my daughter was the only when my daughter was born we didn't have any she was like three and I had a gig in Delaware I had to drive to a gig in Delaware and my wife decided to with my daughter so she's in the back of the room with my daughter and she's three she doesn't know what I do she right and she's coloring in the room I'm on stage now in the room you know my wife's with her and I'm on stage and after about five minutes I'm getting laughs I'm getting laughs this is my wife told me and my daughter just looked up and went Daddy's funny that's funny so she didn't know what I was doing but she realized I was making people laugh I guess she said Daddy's bombing Daddy's doing that same [ __ ] he does yeah Daddy's a hack Jesus Christ Daddy needs to change the the tag on that oh yeah the Gilligan's Island routine Dad yeah boy but you know my kids my kids um came to the when I got the show so my twins were like three uh four when the show started and the show was on for N9 years so uh we moved to LA you know we were in New York when I got the show and the first year I I went back and forth we didn't move out because I didn't know if it was going to get cancelled or not you know so my wife and kids stay Stayed in New York second year we moved out all right so now I'm on a show my kids are three when the show goes off the air they're 12 so that's basically daddy that's how they know Daddy's Universe you know and now it ends right and they took it harder than I did my my twins are 12 years old now it was it was not an easy they because they couldn't get a good table anymore they knew we were going to fly private but um the transition was hard man I mean it was I don't want to get into details but it was rough for them yeah and I realized yeah all of a sudden that world that they saw daddy in ends and do you remember that of course you do you did it do you remember that show you did uh after I loved that show it was like a dramedy man of a certain yes yeah yeah with back Scott beachill right and Andre brow R Brower that really spoke to me I mean it at the time of my life that was a very uh I mean that's on the list of things I'm most proud of oh really yeah I don't blame you that's a really yeah it was a really I mean it was just two seasons and we won a peab buy award which means you're in danger of getting cancelled it means people think there there's quality there but nobody's watching really and we a month after we won the peab buy award we got cancelled yeah what is the PE budy award I don't know the guy PE Budd guy I've certainly heard of it he was a guy some smart guy from some College University City and they named an award after I I have zero respect for any awards I it used to be you know a stone in my shoe and now I I like I love it like I don't want them to give me anything because they've they're almost like the media they've like exposed themselves to be just not something people respect for good reason like the like an Oscar any of them Emy is my category yeah but also Peabody I mean Larry King every time I on you he would say you are more like Mark Twain than anybody that we've had in a long time and take it as a great compliment now I don't know if that's gospel or if it's true but it always amused me that the Mark Twain award did give out the award to like 20 people who might have been I'm sure there many of them all of them probably are fine Comics but are not like Mark TW there's one guy who's actually like Mark DNE much more than the people again great actors Comics are that kind of stuff is very funny to me did you you never did the the Washington press correspondence the right I did you did yes I did it in '95 I did it too yeah what year Clinton yes yeah Clinton and I did it for that's the reason they had me because that was during uh what's her name um what's her name oh the woman who had the affair with Clinton Monica Linsky mon Lewinsky yeah it was during Monica Lewinsky and so they hired the the innocuous yeah yeah yeah well they didn't make that kg calculation with me and I remember I I said one bad word I did say the word [ __ ] in front of the president United States and the next year People magazine wrote about whoever was hosting and they said they wrote um last year Bill Maher delivered an obscenity laced monologue I love in one year one [ __ ] became an obscenity LA monologue oh that's a uh for them one one [ __ ] one [ __ ] is all it takes how did it go over with you know it's a it's a [ __ ] room because first of all like nobody wants to be seen laughing at what they're not supposed to be laughing at right so you do need a juggler or somebody like who is not political at all the the mistake they make is going oh this is a political event we'll get the political comedian that's the last person you should get but that's I look back at mine and think I shouldn't have done it because no I wish I hadn't well but you for that reason me for the reason of it you you should speak to what's going on you should make jokes about I I didn't I wasn't even aware the one person and and he and I are not really friendly I don't know why I don't hate him at all and I hope he doesn't hate me Steven coar we just some people just don't Vibe but I got to give it the one he did in front of Bush when he was in character yeah was genius and was the best one anybody ever did and was ballsy yeah uh it was everything that to to me marks Excellence it was truly funny it was original and it was courageous um and it and it spoke to what was going at the time right Colin did you see this year Colin Jones I thought he did a good job no yeah you know you know he of course Al yeah I'm sure he did he's a brilliant joke writer yeah um but I I remember uh I just did my act and I said I don't do political I just do my act and they said yeah that's good they said we we'll pay you double yeah no that's what they need to do but but then you know Ariana Huffington's looking at you like why is he up there you know exactly yeah um but you never did anything to your great credit that like embarrassed your kids your family I mean so many stars have to walk some sort of walk of shame because well I've done movie I've done stuff that hasn't that's not you've had bombs everybody has bombs that's not the same thing I'm talking about you know getting out of your car and you could see your ball w wow W you know just anything that brings like where people I always say it this way whenever you if you can get through Show Business life without ever doing ever doing anything where made people go yeah but you you've never done it only only you said things you've said right let's not go there with me but things you've said but you're the guy but you're you're that's your job your job is to part yes and I've also done stupid things but yes um it's much more likely if you're mixing dangerous chemicals yes that there's going to be a something blow up you know or you know to use another analogy you you are going to make more errors at third base than second base yes there just more sharply hit grounders your way right but you're the guy yeah you're the guy in the arena the Hot Corner yeah they don't call it the Hot Corner for nothing so you even drink or you do drink I don't drink why you know I have vices I have my vices what I gamble too much really you gamble like like heavy money no not heavy money but um I was in Vegas yesterday we went for a poker tournament oh I drove I drove home this morning at I got home at 1:30 poker tournament there's you mean you're that serious about poker it's yeah but it's nothing it's it's the stakes are low well how's how much is low or do you not want to stay because this was it's a World Series of Poker they have tournaments every day for three months this was a $1,000 buying you you you put $1,000 in then so how much can you lose it at that's it ,000 balls it's that's how much the entry is for each hand or no no no no oh it's a $1,000 entry there's 3,000 people who are in the tournament you they play and when you get knocked out you're eliminated they play until there's one winner but they like the top 400 cash in you know I never understood gambling why it was so amusing to people it just made me nervous like I'm losing money slowly I realize that even if I'm up I won't be in five minutes you know it's just I'm just going to slowly lose this money which is okay if you know you're going to lose it to begin with but to like really go there thinking and then be so disappointed because of course you know you're not supposed to win in a casino well you know what uh they say psychologically The Gambler uh really wants to lose is that I don't get it I don't get that but they say subcons yeah they want to punish themselves well you know I think it was like one of those Jimmy De Greek maybe somebody said his most the most favorite thing for him to do in his life is to gamble and win and his second most favorite thing is is to gamble and lose yeah is that right yeah it's it's just the the thrill yeah you know but you know I I mean I've never got a throw it I also think it's amazing what they get away with um I don't know if you saw recently but the Supreme Court heard this ruling about affirmative action at colleges it was brought mostly by Asians who said they were being discriminated at Harvard and a number of other schools because you know if you admit it if you just did it by blind admittance like 50% of Harvard would be Asian they just do well on when I'm saying anything about anybody the agans they can [ __ ] do it uh so they were kind of penalized for like winning at the game and I feel like the same thing goes on in a casino like a card counter that's not that's not cheating I know that's what I cheating is if I have a a piece in my ear and there's a guy across the way you can see the card that's cheating card counting is just being good at it I agree with you being good he's not breaking any rules no he's just good at it and you throw him out for being good yeah yeah no it's I'm running as a one isue candidate on this and only this this is my one issue I can't take it anymore this country I agree I agree that yeah what is he doing he's just be being smart that's all he's just all right do you have any to plug I got to p uh I have a movie that I'm in coming out July 11th that I I'm wow look this is the worst plug I've ever seen in my yeah got like an old Jewish man on the porch I'm not the Le oh I don't want to bother anybody with my movie I it'll be just it'll be a nuisance to you if you're there if you're there I'm fine here on the porch I don't need to come in if it's raining and you got nowhere to go anyway the movie is called Fly Me to the Moon oh okay fly to the moon it's with Channing Tatum and Scarlet Johansson July 11th comes out yeah and it's scl Johansson and chenning Tatum that's I got a nice well it's not not it's not super big but it's so I'm guessing you're the love interest for Scarlet Johansson and Channing Tatum is just like the the butt boy that you're both it's about Apollo 11 it's about the moonland it's like a historical fiction takes place in' 69 yeah yeah we went to we went to NAS we went to Cape Kennedy it was cool yeah oh but anyway yeah that's it July 11th and then this well Fly Me to the Moon is also one of the great songs of all time not just done by Sinatra but there was a very funny movie that was done in 1997 I'm guessing uh called Down With Love if you never saw it I recommend it highly it's with Rene zwagger and uh from 97 yeah yes it's a parody of the Rock Hudson darus Day movies yeah so if you don't know the rock hearts and DARS Day movies it's not as funny still it's genius the writing what's the name of it they have a it's called Down With Love All right but refresh yourself with the Doris Day Rock huton movies first and then uh this they play Fly Me to the Moon it's done by estra drto who was married I think to the guy who wrote uh Antonio Carlos Jobim who wrote all those great brought samb to America they all from EPA tall and tan and young and lovely and she does a rendition of flying to the moon so now I I have you saying I kind of have to watch a Rock Hudson No but you don't remember those rock yeah kind of know it they were they were really funny I mean they were of their time I and the one the big one they did the plot is they they're on a party phone a party phone where you people kids have no idea what I'm talking about it's even before our time but you'd get on the phone and it'd be you have to share the line with other people would you please get off this line I have to make a call I mean it's yeah I saw I I watched Marty a little while while back it came on somewhere Mar yeah talking about things that are dated and the mother was talking to her sister and you know she had Italian accident and she go I want Mar to get married come I need I wanted to see him get my look at me how long am I going to be here I'm a 57 years old I said what right I said oh no well I know we still have the future for us right all right we're up all right you didn't have to take a break no I was having too much fun I couldn't tear myself away from you pregamed it right yes