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Joe Rogan Experience #1270 - Lenny Clarke

Lenny Clarke is a legendary Boston comic and actor.

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Mar 26, 20192h 9mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:02 – 2:02

    Boston stand-up reunion: early gigs, chaotic rooms, and the “cash” era

    1. JR

      Five, four, three, two, one. Fucking yeehaw. (clapping) Lenny Clarke, ladies and gentlemen-

    2. LC

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      ... and his brother, Mike. Mike Clarke, the second man to ever give me paid work ever in my entire professional career-

    4. LC

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      ... opening up for Lenny at Jay's in Pittsfield.

    6. LC

      (laughs) Yeah.

    7. JR

      Right?

    8. LC

      Right, yeah.

    9. JR

      Shit, yeah.

    10. LC

      Yeah, I remember that place, yeah.

    11. JR

      Norm the Foe gig.

    12. LC

      For... And I don't even know if Norm's around anymore, but I remember that gig like it was yesterday.

    13. JR

      That guy paid my rent many times, many times.

    14. LC

      Mm-hmm. Good guy.

    15. JR

      And you did too.

    16. LC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Working for you paid my rent ma-... I worked for- (laughs)

    18. LC

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      I worked for Mike one of the craziest gigs I ever did. Yeah, I think it was a one-and-done. You never did it again. It was a restaurant. And I was in the seating area. And the microphone for the people when they announce their table was tied-

    20. LC

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      ... to the PA system.

    22. LC

      (laughs)

    23. JR

      So you'd be in the middle of this punchline. You'd be like, "So I said to the guy, 'Clarke, party of two.'"

    24. LC

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      "Party of two, Clarke, your table's ready."

    26. LC

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      Like, oh, no.

    28. LC

      Was that... That was at the Mexican place down at the Cape, wasn't it?

    29. JR

      Down at the Cape? No, it wasn't a Mexican place.

    30. LC

      (clears throat)

  2. 2:02 – 3:00

    Showbiz updates: SMILF cancellation, Rosie O’Donnell, and what gets projects killed

    1. JR

      You wind up paying it for the rest of your life. It's like student loans or something, you know? What are you doing out here? What's going on?

    2. LC

      Uh, I, well, I came out to do this.

    3. JR

      (laughs)

    4. LC

      And-

    5. JR

      Justice? No, you're doing something else.

    6. LC

      Well, no, a little bit more. Uh, uh, w- I was gonna do, uh, Kimmel, but, uh, SMILF got canceled. (laughs)

    7. JR

      What is SMILF?

    8. LC

      Single Mother I'd Like to Fuck. It was on Showtime.

    9. JR

      It was a show on Showtime?

    10. LC

      It was a show you were doing? It's coming to this, yeah. Uh-

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. LC

      ... and, and, and, and, and I played Rosie O'Donnell's love interest.

    13. JR

      Wow.

    14. LC

      And I love, I love Rosie. You know-

    15. JR

      I do too.

    16. LC

      ... I gave Rosie a break 35 years ago. She never forgot it, you know? And she's-

    17. JR

      Oh, that's great.

    18. LC

      ... always been great to me. So we were gonna do that and then that didn't pan out and then the show got canceled, so... For sexual impropriety or something. It had nothing to do with me.

    19. JR

      Oh, really?

    20. LC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      That's why it got canceled?

    22. LC

      Yeah, evidently. I don't know. I, you know-

    23. JR

      Someone behind the scenes?

    24. LC

      Yeah, yeah, I don't know what happened.

    25. JR

      Used to be that was the norm, you know?

    26. LC

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      And now shows get canceled for that.

    28. LC

      I... (laughs)

    29. JR

      It's crazy.

    30. LC

      Uh, and now w-... Oh, thank God they didn't have cameras. Cellphones weren't-

  3. 3:00 – 5:13

    Navy SEAL fundraiser trips: Coronado, obstacle courses, and Pentagon stories

    1. LC

      I'd be in forever. Are you kidding me? Uh, then we're going down to, uh, to do the Navy SEALS Family Foundation, a big fundraiser we do every year. Uh, gr-

    2. JR

      Is that in San Diego?

    3. LC

      Yes.

    4. JR

      Oh, cool.

    5. LC

      Yeah, yeah, down in Coronado with a good buddy of ours, Kerry Jackson. He's a Navy SEAL that we golfed with one day and we've been in touch with ever since. He's, he's a- They're the real badassess.

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. LC

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    8. JR

      Coronado's that island, right?

    9. LC

      Yeah. Yes.

    10. JR

      I've never been.

    11. LC

      Oh, yeah, it's, it's-

    12. JR

      Supposed to be beautiful.

    13. LC

      I went down and, and Mike said, uh, "Do the obstacle course." I said, "All right." So I climbed the rope, that was a... Then there's these logs and I got on the logs. I figure I'd run ac-... They were spinning logs. No one told... I nearly broke my back. That was it, I was out.

    14. JR

      You had to step on them?

    15. LC

      Y- yeah, step... Run across them.

    16. JR

      On spinning logs?

    17. LC

      But they're rolling as you're running across. But they're rolling as you run it across. Yeah, it's not easy. Not easy.

    18. JR

      Did you have a mouthpiece?

    19. LC

      No, I had noth-... Uh-

    20. JR

      (laughs) 'Cause it seems like (mouthing word) .

    21. LC

      Oh, yeah. (laughs) Well, thank God we were the only ones out there. Yeah.

    22. JR

      Yeah. Well, that Coronado Island, I think that's where Dick Cheney lives.

    23. LC

      Oh. Is that right?

    24. JR

      Yeah, a lot of... Or Donald Rumsfeld, one of them rich warmonger type dudes.

    25. LC

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      There's a lot of, uh, a lot of money out there.

    27. LC

      Yeah. I was in Rumsfeld's office.

    28. JR

      Uh-oh.

    29. LC

      At, at the Pentagon.

    30. JR

      Did you have the cross on you?

  4. 5:13 – 7:00

    Health scares and survival: extreme heart rate, defibrillation record, and ablation

    1. LC

      Wow. I had a... I had the opposite problem. I had... I w- I was doing a show and they made... You know, years ago when you did a network show, they made you, uh, um, have a-

    2. JR

      Physical.

    3. LC

      ... physical. Yeah, right. So I went in and the guy goes, "Oh my God." He goes, what? He goes, "Are you feeling okay?" "I feel great." He goes, "Your heart is beating 283 beats a minute." And I go, "Isn't that like a, a professional..." He goes, "That's like a dead man, you moron." So he said, uh, "This is horrible." And I s-

    4. JR

      283 beats a minute?

    5. LC

      Yeah, yeah, like your pu... Like, like crazy beat, like-

    6. JR

      It would go up and down?

    7. LC

      Yeah. Wh- what... Yeah.

    8. JR

      Oh.

    9. LC

      Yeah, yeah, like-

    10. JR

      That's a lot.

    11. LC

      Oh, uh, they, they rushed me to a hospital. But before they did, I said, "Hey man, I really need this job." He said, you know, "Uh, if I give you some money." He goes, "Are you trying to bribe me?" I go, "Yeah."

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. LC

      He goes, (laughs) he goes, "We g- you're gonna be dead." And I go, "If I don't have this job, I don't wanna live. I, I need the job." You know?

    14. JR

      Jesus.

    15. LC

      And they, yeah, yeah... So they rushed me in and then they, uh, I had trivial fibrillation and then it was both sides. And I hold the record for being jumpstarted, you know, when they... Defibrillations, yeah.

    16. JR

      Yeah?

    17. LC

      At Mass General. Oh, yeah, it's like a phone book.

    18. JR

      How many times did they do you?

    19. LC

      Over 100.

    20. JR

      They restarted you 100 times?

    21. LC

      Yeah, yeah.

    22. JR

      Whoa.

    23. LC

      And-

    24. JR

      Can you see the future?

    25. LC

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. MC

      (laughs)

    28. LC

      There is no future, Joe.

    29. JR

      Oh, Jesus.

    30. LC

      This, this... Yeah. Well, they finally-

  5. 7:00 – 10:44

    Cocaine-era Boston: Colombia “source tourism,” quitting, and the AA turning point

    1. LC

      But I didn't know. I was... It was asymptomatic, you know? And I said to the doctor, I said, "Well, what do you think it is?" He goes, "Well, you know, your weight probably has something to do." I said, "Well, I did a lot of blow." He goes, "You have to do incredible amounts of blow." I goes, "Well, there's a small mountain in Peru missing."

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. LC

      And, uh... He goes, "That much, Lenny?" I go, "That much, yeah."

    4. JR

      Oh, that fucking whole crew. I mean, Sweeney and I talked about it when, uh, he did a show. That whole crew, that Nick Comedy Stop crew was a cocaine-

    5. LC

      Oh.

    6. JR

      ... fucking extravaganza.

    7. LC

      Oh, yeah.

    8. JR

      I was very fortunate that I didn't... I didn't... Still haven't, never did coke.

    9. LC

      Oh, no.

    10. JR

      It was not my thing.

    11. LC

      Joe, Joe, I went to-

    12. JR

      I won't.

    13. LC

      I went to Colombia to see where it was made.

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. LC

      I, I really did. I went-

    16. JR

      Really? (laughs)

    17. LC

      Yeah, yeah. I was going...

    18. JR

      It's 'cause you're a connoisseur.

    19. LC

      Oh, oh my God.

    20. JR

      Like doing a wine tour?

    21. LC

      I went there. It took me two days to score because... I said, "Wait, no."

    22. JR

      Really? (laughs)

    23. LC

      They said, "Where you going to blow?" Yeah, they said, "We sent it all to America, Mr. Lenny." I go-

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. LC

      ... "Well, hold on. There's gotta be a new shipment." And then I got an ounce of blow for $200. You know, I had...

    26. JR

      Is that a lot?

    27. LC

      I go, I couldn't even finish it in a week, you know, but I tried.

    28. JR

      How much is an ounce of blow? What does it look like?

    29. LC

      You know the Scarface thing?

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  6. 10:44 – 17:15

    Boston comedy’s speed and violence: drug energy, ruthless crowds, and legendary rooms

    1. JR

      It's... That was... The thing about that whole Boston crew is that it was all kinda tied to drugs.

    2. LC

      Oh.

    3. JR

      And the comedy had that feel to it.

    4. LC

      Oh.

    5. JR

      Because the comedy was frantic, you know. And there was a thing...

    6. MC

      Bang, bang, bang.

    7. JR

      Yeah, bang, bang, bang. There was a thing about the guys who came out of Boston, like still to this day, they had like the fastest pace, the most punchlines.

    8. LC

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      And the audiences there were used to that.

    10. LC

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      So they didn't want any bullshit.

    12. LC

      Well, and they would tell you.

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. LC

      They would tell... If you weren't good, they go, "You suck tonight. Get off."

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. LC

      And, and, and we would have... There were, there were times when I'd say, "This is gonna be new material tonight. Anyone who doesn't do new material. The minute you do anything you've done before, get off the stage." So Rog would be sitting at the back and some... "You've done that thing." And he'd throw a shot glass, it would shatter on the wall. He'd go, "Next." You know, it was just...

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. LC

      And it made you come... And the, the people, like you said, the audiences that came in there would come every week.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. LC

      So you'd have to... And they would not settle for any bullshit, you know. "That, that blows." "That's no good."... stuff down.

    21. JR

      Yeah, there was a, there was a whole scene there. It wasn't just the comics, it was like comedy connoisseurs. There were so many people that came to those clubs.

    22. LC

      But the shows... (clears throat)

    23. JR

      Pull it up, Mike. Pull it-

    24. LC

      The shows that were legendary were the Ding Ho on Wednesday night.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. LC

      Lenny would put, like, 32 acts on.

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. LC

      And, and, and of all di- I'd go, "Len, you know, we gotta get this show over."

    29. JR

      We got to close.

    30. LC

      "Hey, hey, shut up, I got a couple more guys I wanna give a break too."

  7. 17:15 – 22:41

    Fame vs. money and dealing with crowds: hecklers, DePaulo stories, and what success buys

    1. LC

      Of course. You know, I have, I have five billionaire friends. Billionaire, not millionaire, billionaire friends.

    2. JR

      Really?

    3. LC

      Yeah. And I, I think I'm like their, you know, their pet, (laughs) pet, pet project. You know? But, I mean, it's unbelievable. I mean, the, to, to live like that. You know that show Billions? Have you ever seen that?

    4. JR

      No, I've never seen it.

    5. LC

      It's... These guys are just like that. More money than you could spend. More than you could spend.

    6. JR

      Yeah, that's a weird life.

    7. LC

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      A weird life where everybody else is struggling and scratching-

    9. LC

      But no one knows them. No, you know, these people-

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. LC

      Well, some of them, people know, you know. But-... these people are like anonymous, and if more money, then you could have jets-

    12. MC

      That's very clever.

    13. LC

      ... yachts. Oh, yeah. That's... Oh, that's what I... I would like that.

    14. JR

      Yeah, that's the way to go.

    15. LC

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      And e- even if you were a comic, you'd rather just do clubs, just show up and do clubs and just do a set. Once you're on stage telling jokes, either they laugh or they don't laugh. If you're funny, you'll kill. It doesn't matter if you're famous.

    17. LC

      You know, I would like to... (clears throat) I would like to be... I like doing theaters now because it's a different crowd. You know, I, I, I still do a lot of clubs. I work Mike's club all the time. Thank God for him, but-

    18. MC

      And thank God for me.

    19. LC

      Yeah, yeah.

    20. MC

      He keeps me open (laughs) .

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. LC

      There's some, there's some people... You know how when you work a club you get some drunk a- a- all it takes is one person.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. LC

      You, you... 'Cause I still go with the flow.

    25. JR

      Sure.

    26. LC

      I mean, I really don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go, and I try to keep it, you know, with what's happening in the news today. And someone will just (babbling) and you go, "Oh, man." They break the rhythm, you know what I mean?

    27. JR

      Yep.

    28. LC

      And I, and I want to stab them, you know, but you can't.

    29. JR

      Well, it doesn't always happen though. That's the thing. It does happen, but it doesn't always happen.

    30. LC

      No, you're right. He-

  8. 22:41 – 32:58

    Career breaks and career landmines: hosting ‘Sunday Comics’ and the agent who stole millions

    1. LC

      You know, I, I enjoy when you hear stories about people remembering where they came from and they help people out. And when I was doing, uh, I was doing the Sunday comics at Fox, and, uh, it wasn't... It didn't start out well. I, I always wanted to go in Entertain the Troops, but when I got Lenny with CBS, they said, "No, you're a million-dollar prop, you're not going anywhere." So when the troops came home, my show, it got canceled. That's a whole nother different story.

    2. JR

      I want to talk about that story though.

    3. LC

      Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

    4. MC

      (laughs)

    5. LC

      Oh, it's, it's interesting.

    6. JR

      It's a great story.

    7. LC

      So I, uh, I go to the, to 29 pounds Marine base. We pull up in a limo. We blow anything up, down and anything down, up. And I said, "I'm gonna like this place." So we go in and George Lopez there and George Miller, a couple of comics, nice guy. So I go up to Jeff Altman and he's the host, and I go to shake his hand and he blows me away. He gives me the high hat, walks away and I go, "Oh, you know, what's this?" So they say, um... Uh, later in the show, they said, "Listen, Jeff, we have this kid who got a Purple Heart. He's back now, and we want to unite him with his mother." And he goes, "That's kind of corny." And he walks off. I go, "I'll do it." And so I go, "Hey, how you doing? Uh, uh, Corporal?" He goes, "Well, you know, I miss my family." "Well, that's great 'cause we brought your mother in to be like..." Yeah!... and the crowd goes crazy. And they said, uh, "Do you want his job?" I said, "Yeah, give me a dollar more than him." And I took over the Sunday comics that night.

    8. JR

      Wow.

    9. LC

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean-

    10. JR

      Wow.

    11. LC

      And th- so then they say, (clears throat) we go from, like, 100 to 70 in the ratings. And they said, "What do you want?" I said, "I want you to hire this kid, Kenny Rogers in as my head writer." And they go, "What's he written?" I said, "Well, he wrote me a couple pr- uh, letters from prison and one from the nunnery."

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. LC

      I said, "And he w-" "No, I'm serious." I went, "You told me what I want. This is what I want." So, they hire him, and they fly him out. I pick him up at the airport and we drive to my place in Marina Del Rey. And he goes, "Which floor was yours?" I go, "All of 'em." You know, I was living in, like, a $3 million place at the time. And he goes, "This is incredible." So, we get jammed up for three days with coke and drinking.

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. LC

      And the third day, he comes down, he's all banged up, he goes, "Lenny," he goes, "I love you, man," but he goes, "I got a wife and kid now, I can't fuck this up. I- I really need the job." I said, "Okay, all right, we'll go to work."

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. LC

      So, we drive, we drive down to Fox and we p- I've got my parking space at the top of the roof, it's great. And we're going by A Current Affair, which used to be Murray Polvirch's used to be.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. LC

      I said, "You people suck. You shouldn't even have all these officers."

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. LC

      And Kenny goes, "Which ones?" I said, "We're killing them in the ratings." They get all the spen- So, we go down and, uh, I said to my secretary, "Hold all my calls." We go in my office and there's three couches. He said, "Why three couches?" I said, "When people come over, they might want to nap," right? So, they said, "Okay, Mr. Clarke, they're ready for Kenny." So, I bring Kenny in to meet the producers and I said, "Just come by the office when you're done." So, 20 minutes later, he comes bursting into my office, he goes, "You're not gonna believe it. You're the fucking boss! You know what they told me? My job is to make you happy." (laughs)

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. LC

      Oh, God, he was great.

    24. JR

      Well, that show was a great show. But there was a crazy thing attached to that with your agent that wound up fucking over, not just you, but a slew of people. One guy-

    25. LC

      Oh, Bob Williams.

    26. JR

      Bob Williams.

    27. LC

      Bob Williams.

    28. JR

      What was the star agency? Is that what it- What the fuck was the name of it?

    29. LC

      Spotlight.

    30. JR

      Spotlight.

  9. 32:58 – 43:53

    MeToo, backlash, and redemption: Louie CK at the club and the new comedy climate

    1. MC

      Well, recently, Joe, I gave Louie a shot at the club, you know, after his little-

    2. JR

      Yeah, I heard about that.

    3. MC

      And, you know, Louie called me up and said, "Hey, do you mind if I do a spot?" And I thought about it and I said, "Yeah, sure, no problem." You know, I like Louie. He wasn't-

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. MC

      ... arrested or convicted of anything and-

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. MC

      ... so I put him in. He did fantastic and-

    8. LC

      He goes, "Amazing. What do you think?" I said, "Yeah! Put him on."

    9. MC

      And a- after that evening, the backlash was just unbelievable.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. MC

      You know, just, I go, "How long is enough?" What does this guy have to do to try to get his career back up?

    12. JR

      Right, but what is the backlash though? Because the backlash is not your, your, the actual customers, right?

    13. MC

      No, it, it-

    14. JR

      They're not, they're not complaining.

    15. MC

      ... it was, they grabbed some female comics that-

    16. JR

      Who aren't working.

    17. MC

      ... that aren't working for me.

    18. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    19. MC

      And that s- said that Mike locked the doors and put a sexual predator on stage. And you know, it was like-

    20. JR

      (clears throat)

    21. MC

      Everyone there enjoyed Louie and, you know, I'm just trying-

    22. JR

      Coughs ] .

    23. MC

      ... to help a friend get his life back.

    24. LC

      He, he ca- he came in (clears throat) and he walked over to me. I give him a big hug and he goes, "We got, we got no problem?" I go, "No, you nitwit." I said, "I would have called you if that prick Wright had given me your number. He didn't give me a number."

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. LC

      He goes, "That's not Wright." I go, "I know! That's what I told him." They said... So I bring him on stage, I said, "Ladies and gentlemen, you know, this Me Too thing and everything. Here's a guy who, who didn't touch any women." Matter of fact, he touched himself, that was the problem. They just happened to be in the room. And I said, "You could have jerked off in front of me as long as you didn't get on my shirt."

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. LC

      "My shirts are pretty expensive." I said, "But these are people you gave a job to!"

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. LC

      The people that, that turned on him, he gave jobs to! And yeah, that's not right.

  10. 43:53 – 56:36

    How comedy gets built: YouTube fame, Seinfeld’s ‘30 seconds,’ Charlie Murphy’s grit, and joke theft

    1. JR

      The most courageous guy I ever saw was Charlie Murphy.

    2. LC

      Yep.

    3. JR

      'Cause Charlie Murphy was essentially a famous open mic-er.

    4. LC

      Mm. Mm-hmm. Right.

    5. JR

      And that fucking guy would... He started out hosting. It would be him and Donnell and Bill Burr, and they would do these shows together. And Charlie had never done standup.

    6. LC

      Mm.

    7. JR

      But he had the most famous brother ever.

    8. LC

      Right.

    9. JR

      I mean, his brother was fucking Eddie Murphy.

    10. LC

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    11. JR

      And people had saw him on The Chappelle Show, and they-

    12. LC

      Chappelle Show really set him up.

    13. JR

      ... they loved him from that. So he became famous. And then the guy had balls of fucking steel, man.

    14. LC

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      I did a 22-show tour with him, and he had only been doing comedy for two years.

    16. LC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      And I had been doing comedy for more than 20.

    18. LC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And we were co-headlining.

    20. LC

      Mm.

    21. JR

      So I would headline one night, he would headline the other night. And, uh, I mean, to, to, to be able to go on after a guy has been doing comedy 24 years-

    22. LC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... whatever the fuck it was-

    24. LC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      ... and go on after him and do 40 minutes-

    26. LC

      Never listen.

    27. JR

      ... when you've only been doing... Yeah.

    28. LC

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      And th- just the balls that guy had.

    30. LC

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And he was just- Malice. ... going out there like he owned the place. Yeah. He passed away, right? Yeah. Geez, yeah. Wow. He passed away, uh, (sighs) yeah, about a little over a year ago, I think it was. Wow. I think all the people that we worked with th- that, they're not here anymore. A lot of them gone. Mm.

  11. 56:36 – 1:04:19

    Boston vs. New York ecosystems: club geography, crowd distance, and Joe’s move into TV

    1. JR

      We know it works. Well, we were very lucky that in those days in Boston, I mean, I started in '88, but in, in those days there was... Remember in Warrington Street?

    2. LC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      You had, you had the Comedy at the Charles up the theater, uh, above.

    4. LC

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Downstairs was The Connection.

    6. LC

      Right.

    7. JR

      Over here was Nick's.

    8. LC

      Right.

    9. JR

      And over there was Duck Soup.

    10. LC

      Right, right.

    11. JR

      It was fucking crazy. It was crazy.

    12. LC

      Oh, my God, he opened one club. What was that club in the... In the Bradford?

    13. MC

      Oh, that was at the Hotel Bradford.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. MC

      With the-

    16. JR

      What was in the basement?

    17. LC

      Jokers.

    18. JR

      Okay. This place would hold over 350 people.

    19. LC

      Oh, it was a beautiful room.

    20. JR

      And one night, I had Mike Binder come on. You know Mike.

    21. LC

      Sure.

    22. JR

      And Mike Binder... I says, "Do some...

    23. MC

      He's doing a documentary right now on The Storm.

    24. JR

      I said, "Do some time." I'm in the back, at backstage, doing lines.

    25. MC

      (laughs)

    26. JR

      And he brought the entire audience up on stage-

    27. LC

      Through the, through the dressing room.

    28. JR

      ... through the dressing rooms. And this is how the comedians are hard at work while the other comedians are on. I'm chopping up like, "Hey, how you doing?" (laughs)

    29. MC

      (laughs) Jesus Christ.

    30. JR

      I used to do blow on stage and people go, "Relax, relax. It's just stunt coke. It's not real." You know?

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