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Pretty big comedian out there. A guy I don't know really well. I do think he's very funny, though. And I've checked in with him here and there. He was on The Roast with Tom Brady. That's how a lot of people would maybe know him on a bigger scale, even though he does do theaters all over, of course. Big comic out there, has a podcast. Kind of a controversial guy, which is good. Shakes it up. Mm-hmm.
A lot of fun. We had a great chat with him. Mostly, we talked a lot about stand-up and a lot about...
How to film specials, how to sell them and what works out there these days. Yeah. Two interesting things. One is he is very much a powerhouse out there. He's very high energy and he, and he steps outside the lines. He's definitely edgy, extremely funny. Then we got him on our show and he's, he's kind of sweet and humble. It's sort of funny when you see this dichotomy of the performer and his real personality. Number two,
He says he plays arenas regionally, but he's huge in Dubai. Oh, yeah, he did Dubai. And huge in Australia. And so he films a lot of stuff even between his specials. So he's a one-man band. He's an ecosystem. He's a business. He's very savvy and smart about stand-up. And
Like David said, he, a minute ago, his special takes a turn and it's a story, a sweet story about him and his wife trying to make a baby. Have a baby, yeah. And all the stuff that happens. Life on Netflix. Right. And he's got good hair. Check out Life and here's Andrew Schultz.
thank you this is a huge this is honor guys i just want to let you know this is a huge honor i'm sure you guys get this all the time but uh i really appreciate it uh let's see when wayne's world came out you were eight or nine yeah so i get it yeah 41 so 41 but you but you read at a 44 year old level i understand i'm high i'm high yeah but uh your specials are awesome um they're powerful man and uh
I guess it's your generation, but the beginning of the one, the recent one on Netflix is so cool where you come out, you land two jokes, like a cold opening. The way it opens and your dad introduces you and then it's a shot behind and it just says the name of the special gigantic. I mean, it's like we would crawl out in the 90s. What's up? It's just like it's an event. How much control did you guys even have with like how specials looked?
When you guys were doing it? None. So HBO would just be like, hey, show up, do the material, and then we'll handle it.
You know, I remember backdrop. What do you want your backdrop? I had an old one called take the hit. And they said, you want to, I want to do, I want to do an Arizona. And they said, what do you want your backdrop to be? And I'm like, I mean, it's like so fucking stupid, but it was like a desert. Yeah. It was just like, I go maybe live coyotes, but what happened is no one actually looked at the back. And, uh, and, and also you just wanted to,
be enough to not take away from what you're doing or you disappear in the back what you're wearing so it's all complicated it's just is it any good what was it like like uh so so back then i love yes i'd ask questions i really don't back then no i love that you're curious okay okay okay because like i i was coming up at like the downfall of the comedy central special
Okay. Right. Like, yeah, there was a moment like when I was when I was young, young, I remember like the delirious is I remember watching like, yeah, Chris, like, I remember these like events. I remember going to watch a Martin Lawrence special in a movie theater.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were just these like insane spectacles, right? Yeah. And then like the Comedy Central like half hours, I think it was. Like, you know, you would try to get premium blend. I remember that. And then maybe you get a half hour, then maybe you get an hour. And I remember like those like impacting people's careers less.
When you guys were doing like your first specials, was it like the next week you couldn't walk down the street? Were you already so famous it didn't matter? Like, could you feel people watched it? Mine came out, I'll just answer this, in 96. I'd already been on SNL.
And, uh, it was an analog world. So as just to be pithy, I never, you know, I don't know how you name your specials. I just called it critics choice. Yeah. I saw that five stars. So for years, my sister would call me and then I was on cable TV, comedy central playing on a loop. She goes, you got critics choice again. So, uh, but it was pretty, it was a much bigger impact then. Yeah.
So you felt it. You felt like people were... It was appointment viewing. People were watching. Once it got off HBO, it was on Comedy Central a lot. Oh, Dana, was yours HBO? I believe it was. I think that was the only game in town really. When I got mine on, I was on maybe SNL or Just Shoot Me. And then it was...
It was a big deal because I didn't really know it was a big deal, but you got paid pretty well. And I remember HBO only did a couple. So yeah, it was very rare. And, uh, that it did have an impact on the standup. I didn't chase the standup as hard because I was working. And then I got more into standup later back into it, but they were, your question is yes, it had a little more impact and now standups everywhere. And it's on your phone and it's clips and it's,
People doing crowd work. So you go, is a special important? It's very hard to stand out still. Is it a game changer from this generation's point of view to whatever 2016, 2017 and people like yourself and Nate Bregazzi, um,
I don't know, Tom Segura, you know, name them. Matt Rife, whatever. Sebastian. There's this phenomenon of gigantic and you're super global and you're killing in Dubai and with these inside jokes and tagging them with your material, which is it's a nice thing to listen to because you don't feel like you're doing crowd work.
You feel like you're legitimately asking questions or making statements. Anyway, speak to this phenomenon of Andrew Schultz from compared to like 2016. I mean, I think, I think, okay. I think there's like, there's definitely levels where like, it's like, I think like Nate and Sebastian and like Shane, like I think they're doing a race in every city they go to. And I think I'm like a regional arena act.
Yeah. There's some that do. Joe Coy goes to different spaces. It's big or small. Where are you loved most? Fucking in the Middle East. I was joking around with Tim Dillon. I was like, listen, if you do like a decade of women are annoying jokes, like you'll sell a lot of tickets. Women are annoying. So, but, but yeah, so it's like, I'll have my markets, but it is kind of weird because usually that's,
Usually white guys aren't like that. You're right. Like usually it is like an Asian dude will crush in like San Francisco, Hawaii, Irvine. Right. So I'm kind of, I have, I have like, I'm like an Asian arena. That's kind of what I am. Like random international places. So yeah, it is, it is a,
Yeah, it is. It is cool. It's fucking awesome. I don't know what to tell. Like, well, yeah, well, you're owning it. I mean, you're not like nervous out there. You're not. I mean, you have, you have, when I get comfortable, you put the foot, one foot's on the monitor. Yeah.
And you're playing to 20,000 people. And this is what you would do at a little hole in the wall. One foot's on the thing and it denotes I'm relaxed, man. I am in total charge here. Would it be easier to request a step stool out there? It wouldn't look as cool, I guess. I just want the front of a boat. Put your foot up. I want to look like George Washington. Put the front of a boat up. I have a question about when you do these. I just talked, I think Segura went overseas.
Um, and overseas, I think when they told me once, do you want to go overseas? They go, what they do is they'll put you in a couple of small, you know, like clubs or maybe a small theater. Let's see how it goes. See how famous, see if anybody gives a fuck and come back. And then the next time you have a gauge, I'm like, wait, go twice. So like Dubai and stuff, I don't know, because you must have.
bigger themes i mean you can't mention ralph's you can't talk about sepalvita you can't and that's the hard part the bigger you get you have to go this has to work for everyone and i remember rock chris rock i used to say you're smart you go politics you go relationship marriage and those will last you 40 minutes and those at least everyone gets it yeah is that what you need over there
Listen, I got lucky that my sperm doesn't work and everybody wants to have a family or a lot of people like having families. So like that was a kind of relatable story that I ended up telling. But what I noticed about like Abu Dhabi specifically, like is that they're more connected with American culture than the English. Because they, a lot of them are all educated here and in like real America, like Tennessee state.
Not NYU or UCLA, like some rural American colleges. So they know all the references. But when you go to Amsterdam, like they are – those are some tough shows, but I'm not going to lie. Those are some tough shows. I'm sure they can. It's not even your fault. It's just you pop in and you're like, I think they were saying some of these cities were tough and some were like full crickets and some were great. And you're like, I just –
You don't even know. You don't know why. And probably someone does better. Full crickets. Full fucking crickets. Full crickets. Dude, I had full crickets to laugh back to the other night. I'm like, what's going on? Am I getting worse at this point? That's got to be a meme or something. But what you did in Australia is you backed into jokes about the Aboriginals there. Oh, yeah. I like doing that. I like going to places and writing some jokes there.
Like the day of and then seeing if it goes well. But I like talking to people when I'm in these places and I'm trying to get information and see like what they're proud of, what they're embarrassed of and like writing some stuff about them that they wouldn't maybe expect me to know. Yeah.
What I find is like, if I can, you know, sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. But if it does go well, the rest of the show goes really well. Because I think everybody there goes, oh, okay. Like he cares about us. He's not here to squeeze money. They like something local. For sure. Yeah, they're like, he's made an effort. And he's interested in this place. And, you know, so that tends to...
Yeah. Here's an oversized laugh I got just the other night. Sorry. I'm playing Sun Valley. We're flying into Ketchum. And I said, man, I go, Sun Valley, that's the place I'm playing. I mean, Ketchum, I just thought it'd be a complete shithole. So that got such a big laugh because it's out of the blue. In Sun Valley, Idaho? The clueless guy. I just thought Ketchum would be a shithole, man. It's great. But the laugh is so big when it's local. And I was doing that.
since the late seventies. I mean, and if I always a few jokes about the place and what's the shitty town that they'll laugh at. Yeah. Yeah. And also like, what is some like weird, but like every place has a big story, you know what I mean? Like they're not talking about Elon over there or fucking Trump or whatever the politics is, like whatever their local shit is, is fun. So, yeah.
You know, how can I pull that? Like there are all these, it was all the Israel Palestine protests when I was in Australia and there was all these Australians, like give them back their land or whatever. So the joke I had is like, there's some Aboriginal dude watching these white Australians, but give them back their land. So it's like, like the joke, that joke would work in New York, but in Australia, it's,
Crush. It really, it really goes. So I, yeah, I try to, I try to write a joke that I would use anywhere, but that is the epicenter of where it would get the best reaction. But you're also auditioning. Like I asked, or I was thinking if you were in Ireland, cause these guys just went to Ireland. I go, would Conor McGregor's just running for president. Do you say that? Is that something you don't even know what side they're on? You start something and they like it. They don't like it.
I mean, yeah, when I was in Ireland, the guy who's president now, he's almost like an Irish stereotype. Have you seen what he looks like? No. He's like 4'11". He looks like what you think an Irish president. Like literally. He's a leprechaun. So I was having some fun with that. And it's interesting because I was teasing him, but you could tell they really like him.
So they were like laughing, but they were also like, oh, he's good. Careful, careful. I have a lot of Irish relatives. They're underdogs. They're amazed how much we love their country, you know. But I would say that when you do ad-lib something that's new that day that you thought of that day and you get a laugh, then you're just kind of alive in the frame. I mean, I can tell by watching you like, because then you're going to go into your tried and trues because that's how you do stand up. But every time you do something that's,
Fresh.
just lights the whole show up, right? Oh, it lights yourself up too. You think you're good. Also like, like, like Australia was kind of almost like cheating because I got to do like four or five shows before I did that one where I, I put out the, the Australia material. Like usually I just got to think of it the day of, but this was, I got to work it out a few days and find the bits or whatever. So that's always fun when you're, you're away, but it's just rare that you can go to a place that,
Where you just go to a country and tour five places. And I just have to, because we didn't do this either, but you're taping, you have your specials, and then when you travel the world, you've got a five-camera crew or something? Is that, and then you use it?
Yeah, we do. We have I have my one guy shifty who like edit the special and he was like instrumental like directing it. And he's this kid he like came start working on when he was like 18 years old. It's like unbelievable. And he he brings five cameras. And then he just sets them up and then just hits record. So we don't have like this whole crew.
You just have one guy that's doing it. But it looks like a special. I go, did he have another special I wasn't aware of? That's the shit we can do now. It's kind of crazy, right? It's very, very smart. Well, it also takes away from the fear of, like I just did mine. It comes out soon. I wanted you to have you on so I could plug mine. But no, it comes out, but it's hard to do the two things.
in a row show that the typical sort of cookie cutter thing for comedians is get a, maybe a theater, two shows in one night, cut them together, do your best. And I didn't do any tricks really. I sort of regret it. I was just telling Dana before there was no like super tricky way to get in. And then you're getting algo briefings. Like it's gotta be the funniest thing.
In the first, and then all your bad material at the end. I'm like, what bad material? They're like, oh, you want us to tell you? And I'm like, no, no. No, they'll tell you. Hey, David, you're open with your closer. And I'm like, wait, what's going on? So you got to just try to get them and all that stupid shit. Yeah. I saw Bert talking about that a little bit, I think. And yeah, like, I don't know. I,
I guess it's like, I don't think any of us have ever opened with something bad. Yeah. You're supposed to open to get them going. That's the second hardest thing is a closer. Opener might be harder. You got to get them going. And if you don't get them going, you lost them. I went into the Intersect at Netflix and they do every minute. You made it to 12 minutes or 13 minutes. So it's like as if you're playing a theater where constantly people are leaving.
Like there's just, you start out and they're leaving. And by the end you've got like 12 people. So you have to do a special is if every minute they want to go try and watch something else, you know? But I think what you're doing is great. Just continue. If you do a, like with mine, it ended up being a story. Like I didn't want to do a one man show. I feel like, yeah, like I, it,
It kind of is almost like that because there's like a serious moment or whatever. But I feel like sometimes when you say one man show, you're almost like asking people to like reduce their comedic expectations. So like I hate it. Yeah, definitely. Or immediately fucking hate it. But if it really is a one man show, but don't call it. If you call it a one man show and they hate it is because they're not smart enough. Didn't you know that?
No, I did not. Oh, yeah. I mean, like, you must not be smart enough to understand this high art. Oh, yeah. It's got a one-man show. Yeah, yeah. It's so intelligent, you know? Yeah. Yeah, the guy who doesn't have jokes, he calls it a one-man show. Yeah, do jokes. That's all. I don't care what you're doing. But, yeah, Jay is a purist, and he understands that. So...
So I kind of wanted to almost trick people and I wanted just regular hard-hitting jokes and then eventually kind of get into it. And what we found, I guess Netflix told us, they're like, yeah, the retention, like the watch through to the end was insanely high. Because they're invested in this story. Oh, a story. It's like a long story. It's like a phone call.
Yeah. So like you pitch it. Yeah. I'm just going to, it's just like being on a phone call. Yeah. You ever call your mom? Yeah. It's like that. It's like that. So that's the first time you really at the, at the end, you're being sentimental, specifically seminal and you're getting Oz and stuff. You haven't tried that before, but it,
uh, it's interesting. I just, I thought my life was boring my whole career. I was like, I felt like my opinions on shit were better than like anything going on in my life. So I never talked about anything personal. And then like when it was hard to get my wife pregnant because my sperm sucks, I was, there was the only thing I could think about. So I started like writing jokes about it. And then, uh,
Yeah. It fucking, it ended up and it turned into this. So it was cool. I saw a video of your sperms at the finish line. They're like this. They're not quite making it. They just, they just kind of fall. It's a video that's going around now. You got to see it, dude. People are tagging my sperm and like pictures of the governor of Texas.
I like that it's called Life instead of like Jizz Patrol or something. You could have really ruined it with the title. They wouldn't be doing much patrolling. It's just more like a... It's just standing here checking in on a dream. Where's the egg? We got 10 minutes left. You know, David, each day is a chance to move forward.
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People will say, you should do this joke or this is a funny joke. And I do have some jokes in my act, but I do love telling stories because it's the only thing that's more of a fingerprint to you. Because I do do stuff about the airport. I do it about this and common denominators, but I'm trying to do my version of that. And longer stories are more fun for some reason, just...
Maybe because I'm older to go, let me just tell you this thing. And then that's more true to me than going, I don't think anyone else is going to tell this story like this. Also, also like we get a sense of you, like your personality shines through because it's how you acted in that moment. But also I think that like if somebody walks into a room and goes, guys, I got to tell you this story, we're going to give them 10 seconds.
If it's boring after 10 seconds, we'll probably go. But everybody likes a story. It's like our earliest form of digesting information. Like if you just give me a bunch of facts, I'm going to kind of look the other way. If you tell me some shit that happened, I'm kind of locked in. Like I'm rooting for you and your story. When you tell me something happens, I want it to be good.
I hear a TikTok story from someone I've never met and they started a story about a breakup with a guy and I just sit there and stare. I'm like, why am I even fucking listening to this? It's like 30 minutes of scrolling. It starts and everyone starts, I like it. I go, hmm? Yeah.
I've actually told young standups who've asked my opinion and little teeny clubs. I said, pretend you just saw something on the street and you just came in and talk to your friends. Cause usually when you tell a bit the first time you're urgent about it and you're very specific and then you start to lose it. And Jerry Seinfeld says, Oh, check the setup, check the setup, check it out, troubleshoot it. You got to check the setup. Yeah.
That is such a true statement. Like the first time you tell a joke, you think that you like and does well, you think it leveled the room. And then you go look at like the video audio and you're like, oh, like five people laughed, but it's just one loud guy. Yeah. And then it goes away. That's so true. Like the same joke, the same words, your excitement in it wanes a little. Yeah.
Also, when you say one and you say it off top of your head and if you didn't tape it, I mean, everyone's different, but I hopefully record it on my phone when I go to the comedy store or whatever because when I audition these turds and then I smash them in between two jokes that work, you know, and then I do one in the middle. But if it somehow works, I have to remember inflection, when it was in the set, how it worked.
What happened? Because sometimes I go, oh, I got that one. Next time I say it, nothing. And I go, what was the magic? What worked? What? And all that is so important. Yeah. Sometimes like, sometimes you'll, you'll work on a joke and then get it really good. And the joke in your set that follows it can no longer follow it. Oh, it gets hurt by it. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's not strong enough after,
How good this joke is. Yeah. It's stamp is the best. Sometimes you got to tell your joke. I'm moving you up to closer. That's a great feeling. You know, I'm going to try this. It seems to work enough. I'm putting it at the end and you go, fuck, I have a new closer. Oh, that's so great. Cause then the other one can do a little tent pole, heavy lifting in the middle. What's, what's the deal when you guys go to the store? Like, do you have to respect the light or, or are you just at a point where they, it's a suggestion?
Yeah, I go, I go, when I go, how long did you, they go 15. I go, great. They go, when do you want the light? I go at 30. But there's a lot of guys that get the light. I won't say names, but they literally get the light and then they start going names. Come on. What else is going on? I go, no, no, no. That's not what else that's wrap it up. Guy. Elbow is up on the mic stand. Yeah. They've already done 20. I'm like, no, we know where they're from. We don't care. It's over.
This is my favorite shit. Like this is the, this thing that's like, and this has always existed, but it's really popular now. Like the, the comics pretending to,
that they don't care. So they'll have like a notepad on stage and they're like, look like, all right, what else do I got in here? And then they'll look at the page and then do a joke they did in their last special. It's just like, you know, it's okay to care. We care. It's okay to try. We all try where we want to do well. You don't got to bring a prop on stage and take a leaf through it. By the way, it does better if you have a notebook because there's something about going,
guys, what do you think of this? And then you read and they're like, that's pretty good. And then you really, you realize they go, well, not good enough for your real act, but for this little thing, you just thought of it. Sure. This is a wispy idea. Do you guys lie? I mean, when you do a group show at the comedy store and there's like eight, nine people,
Doesn't it become like a de facto competition? Like people, you're not even thinking about, oh man, you were one of the best tonight. Or you were this like, I don't really like group shows. Yeah, it's gross. But Andrew, do you do the store a lot or not? When I'm out there, that's where I'll come through. Oh, right. You don't live. I don't see you there. No, I'm in New York, man. So you just do that run. You have way more choices. You can run all over, right?
Yeah, there's I usually just do the cellar and the New York comedy club.
So the cellar has, what is it? One, two, three, four rooms. 18 rooms. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, it's literally like I got a kid now, so I can go there for an hour and a half and do four shows or I can bounce around the whole city for four hours. Yeah. And now I'm like, okay, let's, let's get the work in. I didn't realize that. That's fantastic. You go to one place basically and have four audiences, boom, boom, boom, and then get out.
Yeah, you can. I don't know that. It's kind of like store has what, three rooms? You guys bounce around. Oh yeah, you're right.
Go upstairs, do the belly room. I don't know. I don't practice much, but anyway, I'm down to the nubs. I mean, I'm like the only thing worse than having hits is not having hits. So, you know what I've seen? Interesting. What I've seen now is that like, you know how like everything in comedy just goes through these like cycles and like people new to comedy don't get it because they haven't experienced like the last cycle. Like impressions are really popular now. Have you noticed that?
Well, for me, that's all. I do impressions and characters now. I'm not trying to tell anything, but just to nail those. No, no. What I'm saying is we've known that about you for decades. And then things go up and down in popularity. And I think with Trump and probably Shane's does this amazing version. He does a great version. And I think with the popularity of that, I've seen a lot of other people working in impressions. Yeah.
And there was times like when I was coming up where like people weren't doing impressions. Like crowd work is really popular. There's time. Now everybody's like annoyed with crowd work. And like all these things, it's just so funny. Like all these things go up and down. Because I remember early on impressions, like when I was coming up, like seeing like Eddie, your best friend, Eddie go like crazy. We are best friends. Crazy. I know, just teasing. I mean, it was amazing with the impressions.
It's amazing that he didn't lean on him, but he was, Daryl Hammond called him our best impressionist, but he was only, he was doing prior. If you weave them into something too, it doesn't look like a big setup. You know, you're just like, they're like, oh shit, that sounds like that person. It's a superpower. Yeah. Like it's amazing. Yeah. It's, we all love it. Like there's nobody, it's so funny, even watching comedians, like comedians, we can be like annoying with each other when like somebody's trying to be funny, like sneaking a bit.
But when somebody does an impression that's spot on, everybody shuts up and just listens and enjoys. Like, especially if you can do another comedian that we're friends with. Yeah. Yeah.
Do you have any, do you have anybody that we know? Someone's going to do Shane. Cause he grabs the mic funny. Yeah. He's got, he's. Shane has a great laugh. Like I, I told Seinfeld that everyone has like a, a little bit of a laugh with Richard Pryor. It was kind of a constant under Shane has a really good,
little giggly does after every bit and he holds it very much high like this. He's a big guy. But I didn't really realize that so I'm feeling better about myself right now. But do you have an impression you do or would like to do? Because maybe we can help you out with it now. God, I'm not. We can really coach. I'm bad too. If I can't do someone, I'm terrible. It's a very painful thing to try to learn. What do you mean? It's selective? Like you can't just mimic everything. Yeah.
At times, it takes me a long time. It took me a long time to get Biden. I would say like a year and a half. And then some are easy. I don't really have any methodology other than exposure. I have to hear something a lot or hang out with someone a lot. I'll do friends and stuff, but that's all. Do you tape it?
Um, I just started talking out loud to myself and it's terrible, you know, and then finally I'll, if it comes to me, it comes to you. I don't have any, I see an impression I can't do. And I'm, I'm incredibly entertained. You know what I've noticed is like, uh,
Sometimes I see people doing an impression of someone's impression. Yeah, for sure. Yes. That's the best way. Yes. Because you've distilled the four things about the person that he physically does. Get those little hooks. Exactly. So you did the work and then I see people do, oh, that's just a version of Dana's. Right. They cracked the code. Dana cracked the code and now you just crack the code. But you don't get any credit for it. You don't get any credit for it.
Which is kind of fucked up. The latest one I am doing, because it's kind of fun, is I've just extrapolated Jimmy Fallon into a thing that I like to, because I was hanging out with him at 8H1 in New York. Let me see, Jim. And I did Johnny Carson getting pulled over drunk driving. I've said this a lot, but in 1972. And it's where he, what he had to drink and where he was drinking at. Oh, sorry, officer. I didn't know I was swerving. I had two slippery monkeys at the hook and crook.
Okay, so that's the setup. And then Jimmy Fallon is like, oh my God, oh my God, sorry, officer. It's insane, it's insane. I can't believe it. So it's just this sound collage coming at me that was just pure distilled Jimmy Fallon. It was crazy. Yeah, he doesn't have to say much. Yeah, sometimes it's just the sound. Like you could do this one. Christopher Walken sees an amazing magic trick.
Just quick. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. What was that? Yeah. Didn't know where the rabbit went. It's like a language, you know, I mean, Kevin Pollak and others that wound down classic where when someone cracked walk and it was like, yeah, now it's on everybody has walk in now and it's so fun. And he's so what about gold bloom?
I feel like he talks in a unique way. Does anybody do him? Oh my God, yes. Elon Gold does a perfect version of him. Yeah. Oh, Elon Gold, Kyle Dunnigan, yeah. Who's doing Elon Musk? Has anybody done Elon good? Because he kind of... It's...
It's tricky. We're going to malls, malls, you know. I mean, Kyle Dunnegan. You have to have a little stutter. We're going to malls. I did it for 18 seconds on SNL. I just did him at a rally. You know, that kind of guy jumping around. But I'm still trying to learn it exactly because he is kind of soft-spoken and
mostly on podcasts, uh, sort of, uh, thinks a lot. Um, we, we, we've got to go to malls. Uh, we don't, we simply have to tell for malls and he's thinking and the way he looks around, but I'm still coming on to that because I, there's two things. I mean, one is you could do a perfect Biden the first month of his administration, but people wouldn't be assimilated to it. They need to kind of, you know, so we saw a lot of people saw Elon at the rallies first, uh,
I've seen him on a lot of podcasts. So it's a work in progress. Andrew, I'll get back to you.
They're tough to crack some of that shit because there's not like a, something to bite into. You know, my end was, I used him as a setup for Trump to get a laugh. You know, I did it on Bill Maher. It's just, you know, he's like, Elon's there and Trump's there with the red tie and said, we're going to go to malls over the set. We were sending too much money. We kind of sustained it, all that. And then they say, Mr. Trump and Trump says what he said, what he said.
He's a smart cookie. He's a tough cookie. He's a cookie crumble. So I just use him to set up Trump. That's it. That's it. It's word association with Trump. It's like every word's got to take you a little bit further away than the point that he's trying to make.
Even he just thinks of it as he goes on. He just, we're an association. He's a cookie monster. He's a lawn of dune. You remember the lawn of dunes? Everybody loves the lawn of dunes. Everybody loves them. Everybody loves them. But yeah, that's one way to use it as an
as someone who does impressions. That is so funny. That is how he talks, really. It's like every word reminds him. Everybody loves him. Love him. Gays. He throws in gays. Trump will never say so. So, you know, like anyone might run out of stream of thought. He never does. We're going to go with Lone of Dudes. It's like weak to him if you stop a thought.
So he just keeps going. His thinking is weak. Yeah. And repeating a phrase five or 10 or 15 times. Lone of Dune, Lone of Dune. Everyone loves Lone of Dune. You see the Lone of Dunes. You look at them and you got them and they're like, people like the Lone of Dunes. Take a bite. Yeah. And it works for him. I want to ask you because you interviewed him because his dialect is so infectious. It's so infectious. It's a singularity. And he knows it.
And he knows how to use it. Like, for example, when he does that little like rev up sound, like we're going to do it. He's like injecting energy. Maybe he's slowing down and he feels himself. He's got to get back in. He's like, I'm getting tired. I got to come back up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But like. The fries are wearing off.
He called it the weave on the show, like what you guys are describing. Oh, that he named it on your show? Okay. And he was like, he's like, he's like, he's like, yeah, I call it the weave. It's like, I'm in here. I go out there. I come back here. And then I come all the way back around to the point that I was trying to make. And he goes, people think that I'm stupid that I do that. You actually got to be really smart to go all the way back out here. He's saying he's not dumb.
it's so fun surprisingly it's a very smart maneuver yeah i know he is absolutely hilarious because you're just waiting for okay what is the point here where are we now he he like he's like keying into like thing like he said something without trying to be funny that i laughed at like he goes um
He goes, he goes, after he got shot, he goes, he goes, yeah, and it fixed me up. He goes, these country doctors, I'll tell you, you know, and I laughed because like,
It's funny. He thinks that there's regular doctors and country doctors, like the doctors in the country are like overall. Little house on the prairie. So I laughed at it and he clocks me laughing and I swear to God, he hits it in the next three sentences. He's like, yeah, he's country doctors. Yeah. Yeah. Country doctors. See if you'll nibble again. Yeah. He's like, yeah.
He doesn't know what the funny part is. He goes, I went to the general store also. Yeah. Oh, cause he got a laugh. He was kind of like wanting to understand what did I do right? Okay. I like when he goes, someone asked him a question. He goes, another dumb question from an idiot over here. It's just like, who says that? That's why comedians love. It's just so funny. You go, you almost wish that he was just like, uh,
just make him like a Royal figure. So he doesn't have to be politicized. So that we can just laugh without there being any scrutiny. Cause it's undeniably funny. Yeah.
Another dumb question from a lady woman. You're not a smart cookie. You're not a smart cookie. I'll tell you that much. You know, you're not, you're not a smart cookie. I can tell you, look at this. I know the guttural one is such a funny movie that I think is kind of new, but yeah,
Cookie, cookie. That's Magic Johnson's wife. How'd she not get it? It's just like, it's just what he's doing. Like, should we all just talk like that all day? He casually goes, Magic, having trouble with the blood work. But wife's cookie, and you're like, what was that middle part?
They got to take a lot of tests. They take them all the time and cookie comes out. He takes a lot of vitamins. He's back on his feet. There's a lot of that breathing thing too, but yeah, there's so many hooks and so many things to do with that guy. It's extraordinary. Oh, I have a special question too. Oh yeah. Ask him more.
He's back on his feet. He's back on his feet. And you're like, what, was he laying down for a while? No, he's back. Magic is fully back now. He's back. Now? He is. It's from 35 years ago. Yeah, I know. They worked out. Still got it. He got so wet. Very strong. They had to do a cocktail. They call it a cocktail of pills. It's a cocktail. Excuse me.
They had to get the right cocktail. They got the right cocktail of bills and that seems okay now. But anyway, you got a question? You know, Dana, I saw Mindy Kaling the other night at this little shindig and it made me think she does a masterclass. You know, that's one of our sponsors and it reminded me masterclass can really help you. Like they have great people on there.
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you had it and then you bought it back. And I think that, Oh yeah. That situation, it turned out to be, I heard different rumors, but highly successful. Oh yeah. It was, it ended up being the best. It ended up being the best thing for me. Situation. I don't have any animosity by the way, for Amazon. Like I get what they had to do. Like, you know, they, they made a business decision and they're like,
We don't want these jokes tarnishing the brand. And I get it. That's fine. I bet you would be different now. Like I bet just culture has kind of changed a bit, but, but, but yeah, I was able to put out and the people were like so supportive and it was, it was incredible. And then people made a bunch of lies online about how I, I, I told them to, I told them that it would never be available anywhere else. And even though I told everybody, if you can't afford it, just steal it on the internet.
And then eventually it would be on YouTube, but it is what it is. You know, you have some, you do something good and it's successful and people are going to find a way to be upset about it. And when you do something like that, it was great. Was it basically off your website? It's just a click and this is, and you pay. It was like, there's this company called moment house that was bought by Patreon. So essentially it's like, it looks like it's on my website, but they basically put their mask on my website.
So you go to my website and it just kind of like almost forwards it to theirs. And then it almost just looks like, um, it looks like a Netflix or something like that or, or any other place. And you just watch it. Cause Theo and I were talking about this for this, uh, this, uh, Indy we just did. And this is one of the things I brought up. I brought up your situation. I said, I mean, you guys could, I think you'd kill it with that. But I also think that there's an appetite. I think there's an appetite for you guys now. I think that like,
I think that there's going to be a lot of excitement about that. I think people would pay for it a hundred percent, but I think streaming is the way to go. I don't think movie theater is the way to go just yet. It's a tough decision because I've done movies and movie heydays when it was like big weekends, you're up against this movie or because this, yeah.
And now it's tougher. And I was, when we were going over all the processes of what could be, because we, you know, we sort of did it when we did do it without, we just paid for it and said, absolutely no plan. And it's kind of fun. And people think that's intriguing just because it's awesome. Someone's got to do it. It's like, okay, now what? And then just figure out what's surfacing is the best situation. But, you know, when you say, uh, theaters, uh,
I don't want any stink if something doesn't go perfectly right away because people back off and I go, guys, I've been in movies that don't do well. It's fucking a dagger. And nowadays when it's all these superhero movies and
Even if Snow White doesn't make $100 million the first weekend, they're pouncing on it. Obviously, it's a budgetary discrepancy with ours, but it's just optics. Do you want to look like it's a hit? It's very hard to figure out all that stuff. You're 100% right because you see the theater empty and the people take pictures. It's very easy for them to pan the film based on that. But dude, getting people to leave their house is almost impossible now.
That's the big trick. It's so easy not to leave your house. You don't have to leave your house. And also they don't even know if the movie is going to be good or not. Like at least with, at least with like a franchise like Batman, you're like, all right, I've seen a bunch of these movies. I'll get the babysitter. I'll take the risk. I'll go. But here's this movie where it's like, all right, well, I love all the people involved in it, but have I seen a movie where they're all in it together? I don't know.
But if you put that on streaming, like for me, if that movie is on Netflix, there's no brainer the first week you're top 10. No brainer. Because it's like the investment is so minimal. It's like if I'm a Spade fan, I'm watching. If I'm a Dio fan, I'm watching. I'm sure you guys have a bunch of other like cameos from people. And then if it is good,
The word will spread and you'll stay in the top 10 forever, but stream, extreme, extreme. But what do you, what do you recommend that they do? Do you actually audition it for all the streamers? So Netflix and Amazon and Hulu, they're all, they're all, they're all fighting for it. You need two offers. You don't have one offer unless you have enough. Like even with my, like even with my Netflix deal, I had one offer and then that offer changed significantly when we got another offer.
And I don't begrudge them for it, but like, they're not in the business of paying you what you're worth. It's just, yeah. Paying the minimum they can. There's nothing like another suitor. It's the same thing with single people or something. They want me to, you know. If I'm Amazon right now, like if I'm Amazon right now and I know that like Netflix is
I mean, Theo did his last one on Netflix, right? So Netflix is like invested in building that guy up. Sure. I'm buying the movie just off the strength of taking... Yeah. Yeah. I mean, brand war right there. So to me, that's just like a no-brainer. So I would... I'd talk to them. I'd talk to Hulu. I'd talk to Paramount. Every... Right. We've been asked about it from the streamers that have heard about it. Any chance we could hire you to be our manager? Is that... Well, we'll do it. Totally outside of...
No, it's fun to think about it out loud because we haven't seen it. We're going to see it this weekend. This is the first time it's been rough together. So we liked it. We shot it. We liked the scenes. And I said, I've done a lot of these. I think it's got a chance. So let's see it all in a row. If it's how I picture it, we're in good shape. So, but you know, directors got it. You know how it works and they get eight weeks. So then we'll go in there and start fiddling with it. But I was like, I have a good feeling.
And I've been asked about it from some streamers, like, can we look at it yet? And I'm like, we're not, we don't even know what we're doing. We're not there yet. Yeah. And it's good because there is interest just because it's a weirdo move. But the comedy works, it's huge. How many movies are made every year? I don't know. I mean, I kind of know why they don't, but I think they've slowed down. I mean, Sandler is responsible for most comedies out there. Like he has a deal. So he either produces them or he's in them.
And that's a big chunk out there. Yeah. And that's on streamers. I think we're basically one successful R-rated comedy away from having another decade of really funny R-rated comedies. Yeah. So whether it's you, somebody else, it's going to take one. I feel like culture is at the point now where we can be naughty again. Yeah, just give us one, man.
And if one goes, we're going to have some fun. Then people start ordering them. They have some edgy jokes in there, Spade has told me. I mean, funny, but definitely different than, you know. You guys have been entertainment for, especially Hollywood, for long enough. Like everybody, what is it they say? It's a race to be second or something? Like nobody wants to put their balls on the line to do the new thing. Oh, yeah, yeah. We'll make one thing happen, then follow.
Then you go, okay, that works. I was just going to ask the question or the observation that like looking at yourself, you coming up at this time, it's like you're the CEO of your career. You can either self-produce or not, or you're not asking for permission. You're not auditioning much. You're not trying to meet corporate entities to help you. You're the CEO of Andrew Schultz. And so that, that,
The freedom that people have with social media to pump everything. YouTube is extraordinary. And I think it's great. It's a different world than what we came up in. There's a lot more freedom, that's for sure. And now is the time if you just want to create shit to do it. Obviously, making films and TV shows is so expensive. You got to...
find a way to raise some money. You guys are able to do it, but you guys are all rich, successful dudes, you know? We put most of it ourselves. So, and that's a good way if you can to just say, you want to just green light this right now and go. And I think fortune favors the brave, whatever that cliche is. I think it's true. And I think that,
Basically, everybody's afraid to do cool shit, but once it's there, everybody wants to buy it. So I don't know what you guys spent on it, but you guys decide the price. Why is it not a $100 million movie? Who fucking knows? Right, if it's going to do... I remember when they were paying a lot for comedy specials out of the blue. Remember? I think...
The top was like- They've got like 20 million or something like that, 30 million a clip. It used to be like two, three million, whatever was the biggest. And then suddenly it jumped huge. And I asked someone at one of those streamers and they said, because if we do a movie with that person, it will cost us 20 to 30 million. So we're paying 20 and we're going to use four times the views on a special than a movie. So it's really saving us money in a weird way.
And I was like, well, I didn't look at it that way, but they could have gotten them everybody for cheaper. And I think they got back down to earth after a couple of those real quick. I think, I think it shifted. Yeah. I'm going to Amy got 11 and said, it was not enough. Why aren't I getting 20? And I'm like, wow. And she got, I think they kicked her some more. No way. Fucking. Yeah. Well, because it was, yeah.
Going out there and saying that would look bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's when you could kind of use the, yeah, you can use like sexism or racism for a little, a little extra scratch. I mean, it's hard to say with it's Rock and Chappelle. I mean, it's, it's ballsy to step forward and say, give me that. We're the same. I mean, I wouldn't,
I'm not there. It lets you know where you are in the ecosystem and show business when, you know, people are getting 20 or 30 and then you get your offer. It's all supply and demand. If they feel like worth it, they're going to give it to you. I got it. I know what they're doing. I understand. If somebody else is going to offer it to you, that's the thing. If somebody else is going to offer it to you, do you know where you're going with this one that you just filmed? Yeah. Or can you mention or? I don't think I can because we have a press release coming out this week.
Is it a done deal or is it just a possibility? I shot it already. Yeah, I shot it. It comes out in May. But I'll tell you after. Oh, your special. Yeah, yeah. But I will tell you that when I did the HBO one you were talking about earlier, the Take the Hit one, and it was noticeable for me. And then it took me all this time and I did a Comedy Central one.
And it was like, it didn't happen. Actually, I use Dana as an example because Dana was like, I keep trying to watch it, but I have to get on an app and then I have to sign up and then I have to go here. And I'm like, I can't even find it. Yeah. And I'm like, that's not easy. Like they air it once at midnight or something. And then they air it a month later. And it's not like you can just get it like on a stream. So yeah.
They got caught up. It almost burned my material because I'm like, can I just do this again? Because if I were you, I would, I would, unless it exists on YouTube or something like that, I would just use some of the stuff that you really like. I wasn't even doing clips. It was right before clips. So clips would have helped it like, Hey, here's at least I could clip it out and say, come to my next show. But I'm like, I didn't, I would, I would use some of that if you're not, I mean, you're
There's like, I think I'm pretty sure like Chappelle use a joke. He did an earlier thing in a later thing. I mean, it's like an amazing, just one of my favorite jokes that he's ever written, but it's the, and I think he even made it like better, but it's the joke about, you know, it's like a hard being successful in black. Like I remember my house got broken into, like these people came in, dropped my whole house, called the police. They showed up and they're like, he's still here.
How about you do a joke that's a little undercooked in a special and then you still do it for a while on the road before it comes out. And I'm like,
Sometimes I still do them because I go, this thing is six minutes long now. It's so much better. I agree. And people go, oh, I think you did that. I go, I actually didn't. I did 30 seconds of that. Yeah, you got some very early version. You got a three-month-old versus a full adult. Yeah, and I go, plus who cares? That's the thing is like, is everyone really going, thank God I got this all new mediocre material. Thank you. Yeah.
That's what you got to tell the audience when they complain. You think this is bad. Yeah. Let me do the whole hour of new. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. Here's some new shit for you, but it's hard to, they're like, just throw together another hour. I go relax with that casual throw together an hour. You're good. I go,
Fuck, you got to get out there and grind it out and practice. It's hard. Yeah, it takes time, man. You also got to have some shit you want to talk about. I take time off. I haven't gone on stage since I recorded. I went one time or something like that. And that's been months. I probably won't go on for a little bit. I'll live a little, experience shit, see what I want to talk about.
Do people yell out stuff to you in your act? Like if they go, Diddy, what do you think of Diddy? And you have to go, you have to have something. I'm not there yet. Oh, wait a minute. Actually, that's, they will do a topical thing. Yeah. But that's also like, that would only happen if I'm like just kind of meandering or not. Like if I'm doing well, usually there's not suggestions.
if you're, but if you're talking to the audience, do they feel like it's open season to talk from back here when you're talking to this person up here? Does that get hard to do? The last special I did, like the last one before this, I did a lot more like crowd work and stuff like that. And then people, and I was putting out these like clips that were crowd work. And it was just like, it was the only thing that I could generate
Like for me, when I write a bit, it takes like a while to make it a good joke and add tags and all these other things. I don't want to give it away. But they just would go viral and whatever. So people were coming out and kind of expecting that. So with this special, I purposely barely do that at all as like a way to just go, hey,
I don't, I get why you thought there would be a lot of crowd work. Cause I put out all these crowd work clips. Now you see this whole hour. Now I want you to potentially expect this with maybe some interactions, but it's not going to be just interactions the whole time. Cause it's, it's very easy where like, and I've seen this happen, like,
the algorithm can make you decide what kind of comedy you want to do instead of you deciding. I think sometimes people fall victim to that. Like something does really well. So they go, well, I guess this is what I do now. And it's like, no, that's good of you to switch it up because you it's, it's hard to go in there and write a whole hour and not have any crutches. Cause sometimes, you know, you could go in and,
And just with a few things, get things right back. But it's hard to go out there and practice long sets of nothing. It's just... Oh, and you're bombing and it's brutal. And if you're in the store here...
Or even when you're at the cellar, like when I went on last time, it was Nate was there and Chris Rock was there. And you just go, I'm not going to try new shit. Because there's always someone there watching and you go, do I want them to go, yeesh. And I go, it's a little undercooked, but there's something there. But they just go, yeah, I just remember you bombed. I think a lot of people liked it, man. I think a lot of people were liking what you were doing out there. Oh, when I did that night, it was fun. But what?
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When I followed, Dane and I just did a gig together. And when he come off after annihilating, I have to follow this fucking asshole. And they're like killing. And then he comes off all excited. And I go, hey, fuck that crowd. And he goes, huh?
I go, look it, it's not your crowd. Those jokes are funny, man. Don't second guess yourself. Why are they fucking standing? I'm trying to fuck with his head right before I get out there. Not all crowds are going to be smart. They don't get you.
Yeah, it's great. When did you have that turn where you're like, God, I'm getting really, really good at stand up? I think it's like... Was it gradual? I think you feel good and then you go up after Greer Barnes and you're like, am I good?
You know, like there's just, you see people do it that are just incredible. You're like, am I? Or like, even when I was editing the special, like watching your own comedy a thousand times. It's sickening. You're like, yeah. You're like, is any of this funny? Like, it's actually kind of nice. Cause then when it comes out and people go, wow, this was so funny. You're like, oh really? Like, yeah.
Editing is horrible. Editing, watching yourself do stand-up. Oh, gross. The worst thing in the world. You push in, I go, push out the door and burn this fucking thing. Push in. Come closer. Goddamn, what?
That's for a horror movie. That's not a comedy. That's for fucking Saw III. It's the cowboy shot, you know? Yeah, keep it loosey-goosey. That's how I edit comedy, though, by the way, like a horror movie.
What would you do? Go push in for drama and stuff. It's, it's like, yeah. Tension release, not as exaggerated, but like the same idea of like, I don't like, for example, like some people, the director on mine, like for the first day, he was doing like a line cut. I think it's called like where they cut it. Yeah. Kind of live. Yeah. Like,
buddy, there's no way you don't have my set memorized. There's no way you could guess the right angle to go to. You don't know which way my turn. Like, why are you wasting your time with this? Like, it makes no sense. What was that? We said, it's like catching a fart with chopsticks, like comedy. I don't know where my head's going to go. So it's like, we, what we do is make sure all the cameras are filming it. And then we get in the edit and then we make sure that,
I'm not jumping out in the middle of a setup. Setup, yeah. They can kill jokes. Go on your back all of a sudden. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are we doing? Have you seen that? You're watching somebody special and it's like in the middle of a punchline, they cut to the back of their head. Yeah. The start of the setup is on their back.
And you're like, why would I, has anybody ever told you a story and turned around? And you pay more attention. You're like, you know what it is? Sometimes you're watching it. Like someone is watching it on a sitting on a magic chair and they're watching the special. And all of a sudden they're flying way back up in the auditorium and then rain close. And then in the back of the head and like that, they get tired of just watching the standup. And so the amount of cuts you're like, fuck, I'm exhausted. Yeah.
Yeah, it's like build things. Also, I don't ever do a crane. Nothing has ever been funnier because the shot went like that. Yeah. Zoom by your joke. Drive-by joke. They're telling me the crane is $25,000. I'm like, what? For what? To ruin bits? Yeah, they like to show it's a big house. Because I said in mine, could I do a smaller place? They like to show that
They paid for you and it's a big theater. And I'm like, I think people would believe that I also do theaters, but it's fun to get into a smaller room. So I think down the line, I will switch it up. How big was the room for life? We did 3,000, but that was bigger than I would want to do. We were going to do this other venue and then they canceled my tapings after Trump was on the pod, which they say is unrelated. And I believe them 100%.
But we, we, uh, so, so we, we moved from that venue to the beacon and, um, and I w I would usually, I'd like the venue to be under 2000 seats for a, for a table. Sure. I think between a thousand and 2000 is the money spot. Cause you can like, you're, you can see every person in the room. You you're with them. I don't think an arena is right for it. I think it's a flex, but I don't think it like represents, uh,
I don't think it's a good representation of like how connected you are. Also, like the amount of time you have to wait in between laughs in an arena is a lot different than the person at home laughing. So now at home, they're going, ha ha ha. But on stage, you're still waiting for the arena. So now they're disconnected. I like these Shane ones. I'm like, how do you, it's so different to go out when it's,
all the lights for the tunnels are out there for like at the basketball game. And yeah, there's so many things going on. By the way, if I, if they want me to do an arena, I will do it and I'll film something as a flex. Yeah.
Even if I bomb or just do 10 minutes. But I think mine is about 1,700. It was about that pocket of a place I played I liked in Denver. Where was it? Where'd you do it? It was in Denver. Oh, which one? In Denver's, what's it called, Heather? Paramount. So great theater, great audience. Always when I played comedy works and stuff, it was always great audiences there. Yeah, they have good vibes out there. Good vibes. They look like a good comedy town.
They like it. I like 50 to 70 for myself. Because I'm doing little sketches, doing little people talking to each other and stuff. Doing his hand magic. And, you know, the last special, I worked it out in 50 seaters. And then I did it in a 1900. I just love the idea. Yeah.
Anyone use dental floss? But I like the small rods, all I'm saying. I think it's better for the audience. I think the people watching at home enjoy it more personally.
The 10 percenters like the big room, you know, to show people, look what you can draw and stuff. I get that. But creatively, you know, I think a tight, tight room. It's better for comedy in a small room, 100%. It's better for our bank accounts in a big room. Right. Oftentimes we will let our bank accounts win that war.
That's a question I have for you. Would you do any commercial that they offered you if the money was good enough or discerning? Have you been offered commercials? No, I mean, no, I don't get offered really commercials, but like there's like certain things. I just, I don't know if I could, I don't know if I want to do it. I don't have like a moral objection. Like I got gambling advertising on the pod. You know, I got a boner pill. I'll do all that kind of shit.
Listen, boners don't got a style. You're fine there. But like, I'm trying to think, I don't think I could do like a herpes medication commercial. Maybe an American Express commercial. But yeah, not bio. We're going to do a collab with you on that, but it's okay. That'd be great. All right. Anything else for this young man, Dana? Just live on Netflix now. Being well-received.
Yeah. Thank you guys so much, man. I really appreciate you having me. Good job, bud. Good to see you. It's fun hanging out with you. Take it. Yeah. Let's, uh, any, any way I can hang, uh, help with that film, man. Let me know. I'm really excited about that. I'll talk to you off cam. This has been a presentation of Odyssey. Please follow, subscribe, leave a like, a review, all this stuff, smash that button, whatever it is, wherever you get your podcasts.
Fly on the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.