Episode Transcript: #1490 - Jimmy O. Yang
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Hey, what's up brother? How are you?
What's up Joe? It's great seeing you. It's great seeing a fellow comedian that I don't think I've been inside a comedy club
I've seen any comedian for two months now. It's weird. It's like they're trying to get it out of our system
Like they're trying to like like if we're junkies if we're comedy junkies. We've gone through a rehab
You have to live like a regular person. It's tough
I mean I've gotten past a phase of like because it's back in a day if I didn't do stand-up for a week
I'll get depressed. Yeah, there's nothing else going on in my life
But now I got other stuff going I can do writing whatever but I feel bad for like the road guys
Oh, yeah, and the open micers that's just coming up. Oh, yeah
And I'm sure you've gotten this are a lot of people inviting you to do virtual
Virtual stand-up comedy shows on zoom. Yeah, they can eat shit. Yeah, that is the worst idea on the fucking planet
Bro, even great comics look terrible on those and they can record you
Ever exactly and you record you looking terrible bombing. Just it's just not the right place
It's like let's play basketball underwater. Yeah, that doesn't work
But that shows you how desperate people are
They would put their whole material on the line
To do virtual no real people audience just to get their rocks off
Dave Chappelle's got a very unique solution. He's doing some shit in his backyard
He sent me well not his backyard his friend has a wedding pavilion
So he set up this thing at a wedding pavilion. All of it is