Trascrizione completa di Mark Schiff & "The Funniest Men in the Universe" – New York Comedy at Its Best

every New Year's Day for the rest of our life. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:30.639 And uh yeah, sorry to say we're not doing it these days, but we did it for thirty years. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:41.520 And um that's it became what I called the twenty five hundred dollar breakfast because I was living in LA and we always had it in New York. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:48.000 So I would have to fly in, put myself up in a hotel for three days, pay my airfare. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.879 It was only like twenty five hundred dollars for uh lunch. 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:55.039 For breakfast and lunch with uh with uh your buddies from the days. 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:55.680 Right. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:04.400 But what happened was the person that made the most money for the year paid for lunch, and the uh person that made the second amount paid for the limousine for the day. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:09.599 So uh hence to say me and uh I never had to pay for lunch for the limousine. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.280 But uh well uh listen to this cool thing. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:24.560 One year Riser was in London uh shooting a movie and uh he was gonna be there over New Year's, so he couldn't come back to New York. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:30.240 So we decided we'll fly to London and we'll have lunch New Year's Day in London. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:30.960 No way. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:45.599 So we all flew to London, we met Riser, and we tried to rent a uh a Rolls Royce, but it was like three thousand dollars for the day to run to Rolls Royce, and we all decided rather than rent the Rolls Royce, let's fly to Paris and have lunch across from Notre Dame. 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:59.039 So five of us get on the plane and we fly to uh France and uh we take the subway into town and we have lunch across from Notre Dame, and uh that was our New Year's Day. 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:00.400 Man, oh man. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:04.000 Now get uh that's an amazing commitment story. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:06.080 By the way, that cost me $5,000 that lunch. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.520 That was a $5,000 lunch. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.120 Yeah, these are expensive meals. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:17.920 But what's interesting is not only that camaraderie and that long, long, deep-seated friendship, but aren't a lot of you working on New Year's Eve? 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.639 So didn't that make that a little bit more difficult? 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.600 Well, that that's true too. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:29.600 And one year, Jerry was working down in uh Fort Lauderdale at the Sunrise Theater. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:31.439 It's about 3,000 seats. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:34.000 We all flew down and opened for him. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.360 Oh, did you really? 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.959 Riser went on, Larry Miller went on, I went on, and uh he went on. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.680 That would have been a killer show. 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:44.800 Killer show. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.879 And that lunch cost me 4,000. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.360 So it was unbelievable. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.480 Wow, it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:58.399 And uh it's sad it ended, but for 30 years, that's quite uh an amazing feat. 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:03.759 And uh you're all very successful top-of-the-line comics, and I just think it's amazing. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:19.040 Yeah, we all we all end up working in in and doing stuff, and uh you know, interesting enough, with with that uh and then at the end of the day after the lunch there, we would go for a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:23.439 We started out in Brooklyn, we would we would take the limo to Brooklyn. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:36.000 The limo drive, we'd go across to Bridge Middleseu on the other side by uh City Hall, and the five of us or four of us would walk across the Brooklyn Bridge every year, no matter how cold it was, even if it was like fifteen below up there, we would do it. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.279 And we got to the other side, we really felt we started the new year. 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:40.639 That was very symbolic for us. 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:41.839 Oh, that is cool. 00:05:41.839 --> 00:05:42.959 And I bet it made you feel good. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:48.480 Yeah, and then we would go and have another lunch, usually at a kosher deli or a Jewish deli somewhere. 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:49.120 Wow. 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:58.639 That is and uh the whole thing was about friendship and chatting and talking, and uh when we first came to the uh club, we all had all these uh you know dating stories. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.360 And then as we got married, there were no more stories. 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.279 Well, uh yes, well, you know, so as it should be. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:07.839 I want to thank you personally for some of those stories. 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:11.519 Well, uh let's use that as a lead-in. 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.279 How did you end up uh working for uh with me at Laughs? 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.720 You know, i I don't I and I saw that th that was uh something you were interested in knowing. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.399 I can't put my finger on it, but when you you laugh started what year? 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:27.680 1980. 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:28.800 Okay. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:38.800 So in 1980, around 1980, eighty one I was part of the wave of these new comics coming out. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:46.959 We had been doing it a number of years, you know, through and we got pretty good, and we immediately went right to headliner. 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:52.800 Because there were no middle acts, and there was no, you know, your clubs, these clubs were new. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.600 There were no real comedy clubs like this across the country. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.639 Yeah, mine was the same. 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:08.240 So when you guys opened up,

when you opened your club, you said who's good in New York and who's this, and then they would send uh some of the top New York guys who never really headlined at these places. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.480 But we immediately went to that position, so we never had to do middle or opener. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:18.879 Well, and you guys did had already in New York built up enough material and enough funniness that it worked. 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:20.000 Absolutely. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:29.920 And I'm not sure who introduced me you to the club either, but I was very blessed to have worked with Paul Riser, uh Larry Miller many, many times, and Jerry Seinfeld several times. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:35.199 And I am sure that one of those introduced you to me, and and that's how we got you in. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.040 But regardless, we always felt blessed to have you on our stage. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.480 And like the other uh guys from New York, you were definitely always one of the funniest. 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.680 So thank you for being a part of that uh help make laughs a little bit. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:48.160 Thank you. 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.639 And you had that little backstage, you go up the ramp, right? 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:51.519 Yes. 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:52.480 Exactly. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:55.439 Yeah, a little curtain. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.959 You had a did you have a machine back there? 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.639 Was it a coke machine or something? 00:07:58.879 --> 00:07:59.759 Yes, we did. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:01.040 We did. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:02.319 You had a machine back there. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:05.360 I'll tell you a story about do you remember Jeannie McBride? 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.639 Yes, I do. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.600 Because I worked with her for you one year. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.079 It was a really interesting uh time. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:16.000 I you know, I had a uh a drinking thing going on. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:24.560 I was drinking too much and I decided to quit and I was booked to do your club for a week. 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.000 Yeah. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.839 So I just quit drinking and I haven't had a drink now in thirty five years, by the way. 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:34.480 And it all started with laughs, got it. 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.799 Well, let me tell you, th that was um that was when I quit that week. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:47.840 So um I I met Jeannie at the airport in LAX and she saw I was really chumpy and shaky and all that stuff, and she said, What's the matter? 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:56.240 I said, I can't quit drinking and um you know and luckily she knew about this stuff because her father had stopped and he had stopped for 17 years at that point. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:02.480 So she helped me that week get through well it was the weekend, it was a long weekend you did, right? 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.919 Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday? 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:04.559 Yes. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:05.759 Right. 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:14.480 So um she walked me through that week and I was kinda shaky, but for some reason I still was able to really perform at uh top speed. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.159 I don't know how I did it. 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:23.519 And uh it was funny because you had like did you keep like the boxes of beer back there too, like where we were? 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:29.200 Well, we would sometimes yeah, we would sometimes store beer for the bar back in the back. 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:34.320 Yeah, I remember sitting there, I quit drinking, and there I am surrounded by cases of beer. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:35.679 We're there to support. 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.480 It was unbelievable. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:39.679 Thank you for all the help. 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:46.879 So uh anyway, so I want to thank you because that was the weekend that I uh put the plug in the jug and have an A for 35 years. 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:57.600 Well, I I I know that laughs didn't have anything to do with it, but the fact that you were able to work the club and work with somebody good like Jeannie and and get you through it obviously made a difference, or you wouldn't have remembered it. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.039 And I didn't know the story. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.320 I probably just thought, oh great, here's Mark and he's all jittery. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:25.120 But uh making reference to how you said you still had great sets, I'm gonna sidetrack a little and say one of the interesting things about uh stand-up comedy that I wanted to share with the audience is that we get sick, we we have sometimes issues with uh drugs or alcohol or whatever might be going on, whether you're an entertainer or me, a club owner that would go on stage at the MC. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:45.200 And what I found is almost always, there's a few exceptions, but something about the magic and the energy and the adrenaline of being on stage in front of a fresh new crowd energizes you and allows you to perform and almost excel even though your body is crashing. 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.480 Yeah, I totally agree with you. 00:10:48.480 --> 00:11:09.600 You're you you know, there were some days on the road where I couldn't even talk in the morning, and I would sit in these hotel rooms and you get some honey and some tea and just stick my head over the you know hot showers and just get my throat back enough to get through the show and do a good job and then boom back again and then you just get through it. 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:14.480 Yeah, well, it was our job, but it was a job that really meant something to us. 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:31.679 And I I don't know, I don't want to speak for you, but I think a lot of entertainers um and me as an MC club owner, I felt a commitment to the audience that had paid to see what we were presenting, and I took that commitment seriously, that

responsibility. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:38.000 And I did too, and that's why uh as uh Jerry and I we talked sometimes, that's why we're still working. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:44.480 Because we didn't ever we never abused the audience and and treated them like uh they were less than. 00:11:45.120 --> 00:11:45.360 Right. 00:11:45.360 --> 00:12:00.799 And and I have a few examples that uh I've shared other stories that uh uh people that did abuse that trust and responsibility, but obviously uh people, the quality and nature of you and Jerry and Larry, even Paul Riser would would not do that. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:07.200 Um now you've done a lot of road work, uh starting in New York and now out of Los Angeles. 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:13.840 Uh do you have any great stories from uh The Road or anything that uh uh uh makes you laugh still or haunt you to this day? 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:17.039 Road stories, you know, I wrote the book on road stories. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:22.159 No, you haven't, uh, with Rich Scheidner. 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.320 It's the quintessential road stories book. 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:27.360 It's uh Random House published it. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:31.360 It's called I Killed True Stories of the Road by America's Great Comics. 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:33.279 I'm gonna have to pick that up. 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:34.159 I would love that. 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:35.840 You do you have any short ones you remember? 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.600 It's called uh I killed Mark Schiff, Rich Scheidner, and you'll uh you'll get it. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.960 You know, one thing I do remember, it's not a great story, but you had you had a condo. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:48.480 You didn't have a hotel for us. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.080 Yeah, you had it like a house. 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:50.720 Yes. 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:51.679 Right? 00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:52.799 Yeah, house and a car. 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.399 And for some reason, tell me if I'm right about this. 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:59.360 You had plastic sheets under the sheet. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:04.320 Well, uh, yes, but that was due to Do you remember that? 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:05.200 Yes. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:10.399 I never saw that in my entire life except in your place. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:13.519 It was the thing with crinkle all night. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.080 It was like this is it was like having sleeping on a raincoat. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:28.159 Well, I should apologize, but that was for some of the other less tried and true to entertainers that uh weren't were still drinking, if you know what I mean. 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.720 And they were bed wedding and stuff like that? 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.720 Bed wedding, throw up. 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.200 Our maids had a lot to deal with. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:36.960 I always wondered about that. 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.720 I I, you know, I said, what the hell is going on here? 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.519 Well, you know, is everybody being bed except for me? 00:13:43.840 --> 00:14:04.000 And uh Well, a lot of clubs provide hotel rooms or maybe an apartment or something, but uh we always had a a paid condo or house, and what that means is that we were responsible for cleaning it up every week and and keeping the various furniture livable, and it was not always easy. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:09.840 Yeah, no, no, I believe well, you know, in um Fort Lauderdale, the comic strip had a uh condo. 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:15.120 They had a uh cleaning lady there that used to like to do cocaine and have sex with all the comics. 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:15.679 No. 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:23.279 And um the comics sometimes would get so frunk or angry about their sets. 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:27.360 This was never my my issue, but they would do things to the condos. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:33.200 Like uh this one TV set, there was a big chunk of glass missing out of the screen. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:48.080 And uh the guy had thrown a like a brick and the TV still worked, but there was a big piece of glass with and then one guy they had a pool and one guy crapped in the pool 'cause he was so angry and uh nobody goes through him for like four months. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.240 But the story about me that people people a lot of people hated me. 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:57.360 Uh because what happened was, you know, these condos used to have phones in 'em. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:03.600 And sometimes the comics would take advantage sometimes of you know long distance calls or whatever. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.440 So um I used to be one of those people. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.360 And I remember I had some f friends in Germany. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:17.120 I called Germany during the week that I was there, maybe about forty, fifty times. 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.000 The guy got the bill, it was like five hundred dollars. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.799 And uh he ripped the phone out of the condo. 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.279 So when the the comics would come in, they go, where's the phone? 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:28.639 He would go, Mark Schiff. 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:30.320 Blame it on him. 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:32.960 So that made you very popular. 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.480 Very popular. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:42.799 Other people, if they knew I was coming in, they would take the phone out of the uh you had a reputation. 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:43.919 Yeah. 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:51.519 So all these comics are go they go, you know, some because of you, I couldn't call my family for an entire week. 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:58.799 This is before cell phones, so I was uh really hated for a long time there. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:15:59.840 Oh, that's funny. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:04.159 Well, I was not aware of that, and I don't remember any exceptional bills. 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:09.440 I mean, we certainly got them, but I would not have

been able to pinpoint uh which comics were involved. 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.200 But uh if if you did it at my condo, uh you're forgiven. 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:16.480 Uh your comedy on stage is worth whatever happened. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:17.759 You're very kind. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:23.679 But uh yeah, the the road was always uh I had fun with Jimmy Brogan on the road, I'll tell you what I did. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:24.000 Okay. 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.639 We well let's uh let's give everybody a little background. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:32.639 Jimmy Brogan is a great stand-up comic, but he was also one of the uh head writers for uh uh Leno. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.799 Jay Leno, yeah. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.000 Yeah, and the Tonight Show. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:36.799 So I just wanted to look at it. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.600 And he just passed working 28 years with Jay every Sunday night at the Comedy Magic Club. 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:43.919 Wow in Hermosa Beach, California. 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:47.679 They worked together practically every Sunday night that Jay was in town for 28 years. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:48.480 I saw a plant. 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.720 So Jimmy and I used to uh I used to pull pranks on Jimmy. 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:58.159 And one of the my favorite ones was Jimmy used to like to sleep late. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:03.360 So um he would go to sleep late and he would sleep to twelve one in the afternoon. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.319 So we put the do not disturb on his hotel door. 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:12.880 So I would remove the sign and then I would put a sign on his door that says, I am deaf. 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.440 Please knock as hard as you can. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:17.519 Yeah. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.799 And the maid would just pound on the door. 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.200 Boom, boom, boom. 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:27.039 Oh, I bet he loved that. 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:28.480 And he would come, what? 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:28.960 What? 00:17:28.960 --> 00:17:37.920 And uh she, you know, poor little Spanish lady, yeah, and then she would point to the sign there, I don't know, yeah, it says the sign there in death. 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:43.519 And uh I didn't know you were such a uh rambunctious guy. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:47.119 I mean, you're hilarious on stage, but you're a bit of a prankster off. 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:47.920 I was not aware of that. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:49.279 Yeah, we did a couple of those. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:57.680 I I put a sign on Jimmy's door, said also that if you have uh cleaning you want done today, leave it in front of room, you know, this room here. 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:02.400 And people who drop off their suits and shirts in front of Jimmy's door. 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:02.880 Oh, that's right. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:04.960 That's hilarious. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.000 So he comes out to be a whole violet dry cleaning, ready to go. 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.480 And uh Well, that's uh that's a great story, and Jimmy Brogan's a good comic. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:16.559 Now, you also, in fact, to this day, still do a lot of work with uh Jerry. 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:17.680 Um interesting. 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.039 I'm on the road to him for the with him the last 15 years. 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:22.559 I think that's incredible. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.279 And the two of you together would be a dynamite show. 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:33.119 I never could afford that in my club because to me you were both headliners, but I imagine on the tour you were doing very well together. 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:39.920 Just uh two weeks ago, we were in um in Port Lauderdale at the Seminole Indian Hard Rock Casino. 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.599 It was 13,000 people, two shows, 6,500 people each show. 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:44.240 Wow. 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.319 Three people came to see me. 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:52.480 Um 6,400, 997 came to see him each show. 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.160 It was uh an amazing yeah, and that's what the gigs are. 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.680 They're usually two, three thousand seats, and we go all over the world. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.440 We went to Israel twice together. 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:02.880 Man, that's amazing. 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:10.720 Well, I know that your friendship goes way, way back, and the fact that you're both uh tremendous clean and funny stand-ups. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:15.920 We were clean, we still do, and uh it's in our bones. 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.559 You know, I had a thing with Jerry when I, you know, very s uh scary thing for a uh comic. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:23.519 We were in um Davenport, Iowa. 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.200 We're in Davenport, Iowa. 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:30.240 So we have lunch and then we go back to the room, clean up. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.519 I go to my room, he goes to his room, I go to his room to pick him up to go to the show. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:39.440 We always made it his room, and he's got his head down on the table, he's sweating, he's shaking. 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:40.799 And I go, What's Matt? 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:42.319 He goes, I got food poisoning. 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:46.480 And he's he's and there's a producer on the show too. 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.480 So we're standing there, we go, What you know, he he can't even stand up. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.599 So he goes, uh they go, What do you want to do? 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:57.680 Because uh I want to do the show, I gotta do the show. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.880 And we take him down to the car and his legs collapse as we're walking down. 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.640 He can't even walk. 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.160 He's so sick. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:17.200 So we get to the theater, we get to the dressing room, and they say to me, Jerry and the producer say, Okay, you go out there and just stay out there

until he's ready. 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:26.400 Now, you gotta remember there's three thousand people and he's telling me to just I don't know if it's gonna be twenty minutes, forty minutes, an hour and twenty minutes. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.519 I have no idea. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:33.359 But that is a a a frightening uh thing for somebody to tell a comment. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:35.440 That puts a lot of pressure on you for sure. 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:39.680 Yeah, just just go out there and stay out there. 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:40.559 Oh, I was just saying. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.799 Anyway, after about 40 minutes, I got the sign and he went out and he actually did one of the best shows that ever. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:54.319 I was just gonna say it goes back to what we talked about earlier, is that I'm sure that for his set he was able to bounce back and nobody in the audience knew he was dying of food poisoning. 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:57.839 They had no idea, and uh it was really quite remarkable. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.799 But that's another great uh evening that we had there. 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:06.880 Well, that shows uh the quality of your comedy entertainment, so I want to share a little bit of that with you if it's okay, Mark. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:09.200 Ladies and gentlemen, uh sit back and relax. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.960 I got uh a great short uh comedy step from Mark Schiff. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:13.759 Enjoy this. 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:15.839 Thank you. 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:17.759 Nice to be hello, hi yeah. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.400 All right, good to be here. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.160 It's uh actually been a good day. 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.799 I did some uh shopping today with my favorite store, which is a 99 cent store. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.319 I love this place more than anything in the world. 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:41.039 If you read 20 things instead of 99 cents tour, that's if you have the card. 00:21:41.039 --> 00:22:00.640 I really do. 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:05.200 I walk around, I'm looking, I think, I can buy anything I want here. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.480 Man, I'm doing good in life. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.200 I can buy this whole row for $9. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.000 It's phenomenal. 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:19.759 And they always have stuff that sound like the original items. 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:21.279 I like Del Monte Peaches. 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:24.799 I'm looking at this can and says Del Monkey Peaches. 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:27.920 I bought some shaving cream. 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:29.680 99 cents is a pretty good deal, right? 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:34.640 I get home, I shake the can, I go, no shaving cream comes out. 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:36.079 Just the sound. 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:42.240 And I'm actually thinking, like an idiot, that's not a bad deal for 99 cents. 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:44.799 I love this little thing. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:50.400 You know, then that men's underwear. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:53.279 40 pair, 99 cents. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:58.559 I'm looking at some country that doesn't even exist, is making this stuff. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:00.799 And I'm thinking, don't buy this. 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:04.000 Somehow they've got to be ripping you off. 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.519 So I bought it. 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:10.000 I get home, I put a pair on, the fly is on the side. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:13.839 One hole for both legs. 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:15.359 I'm walking around. 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.720 Incredible. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:23.119 I went to Costco recently. 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:26.160 There's another fantastic place. 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:32.160 I go there, I think, all right, I'm just gonna spend like $80, $90, $1,100 later. 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:38.319 You should know because the shopping cart, there's families that live in these carts, they are so gigantic. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.880 It's like nine people sleeping in it. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:47.599 But you know, at certain times in your life, you need 200 years worth of mustard at the same time. 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:48.799 That's it. 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:50.079 I'm buying for life now. 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:50.799 That's it. 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:52.960 I'm never going out again. 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:55.200 Forty years of ketchup. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.200 Come on, just pile it in there. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.799 And they have these things, they sell everything. 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:02.640 They sell surfboards there. 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.720 They sell coffins. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:08.640 Is this some sort of impulse buy? 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:12.160 I said to my wife, honey, why don't you get a blender? 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:14.160 I'm gonna get a couple of coffins for us. 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.160 You're not looking great these days. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.640 And uh, you know, it's cheaper here, you know. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:23.119 Hey, Costco, you can return anything. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:25.359 Imagine returning a coffin. 00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:28.559 I I wouldn't open that if I were you. 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:34.000 It's uh my uncle is in there, but uh he doesn't seem to like it. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.799 So we give it back to you if I just keep that closed for a while. 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:40.880 It's crazy. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.079 I uh see her. 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.839 I think it's some I got uh three boys, three kids. 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:53.839 I got three boys, a uh 25-year-old, a 22-year-old, and a 19-year-old, and they all live with us. 00:24:53.839 --> 00:24:57.680 Because that's the type of parenting we've done. 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:01.839 These idiots aren't going anywhere, I'll tell you. 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:03.200 It's awful. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:04.720 Awful. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:13.599 You know what we

have essentially is we don't have three children living with us, we have three very poor people. 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:16.559 Incredibly poor people. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.359 It don't look like they're ever gonna get a job. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:22.480 Just sit around and go, bring me grapes. 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.359 It's sad. 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:29.039 And they're not nice people. 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:34.480 You know, most poor people, you know, you uh give them money, they say thank you. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.599 God bless you. 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:37.119 Not these three. 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.720 Give them twenty. 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:40.480 Come on, give me the whole wallet. 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.000 And they're food terrorists. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:48.880 When I buy something I like to eat, I have to eat the whole thing in one sitting. 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.480 The other day I ate an entire chocolate chip cheesecake in the car. 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:58.880 Because I know I would just be attacked the second I walk in the house. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:06.000 Actually, my oldest son is getting married. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.440 She's not working either. 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:09.039 This is a great deal. 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:12.799 I don't know what the hell is going to happen with these two. 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:22.559 But uh you know, people say, you know, you talk to people who have children, they go, you know, there's my kid's childhood just went like this, and a second went by. 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:23.599 Not mine. 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:26.559 Every day, an ordeal. 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:28.480 Unbelievable. 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:30.400 That's a good deal. 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:32.000 I'm married for 26 years. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.480 It went by like 10 minutes underwater. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:38.720 It was really uh day. 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:49.440 I'm gonna kill him. 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:52.240 I've got to choke him in the death money now. 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.440 I just can't I can't I can't have breakfast with this person anymore. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:57.519 I can't kill. 00:26:57.519 --> 00:27:00.559 I had a fight with my wife uh a couple months ago. 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.079 I don't know why I did this. 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:04.799 As she was walking away, I mumbled the word psycho. 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:09.440 Psycho. 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:14.880 And she's not, but when you call somebody a psycho, they actually turn into one. 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:19.279 She just turned around like psycho? 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.480 I'll show you psycho. 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:26.640 You learn a lot about yourself when you're married and live with someone. 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:28.559 I didn't know that I snored. 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:33.119 Do you know there's a law that if you snore, they have to wake you and tell you? 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:36.640 I don't need this information. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:40.880 I'm out cold roaming around having a fantastic time. 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:42.400 She's like, honey, get up. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.599 You're snoring. 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:47.440 You snoring, really? 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:53.599 And when you wake up, somebody tell them they're snoring, they're shocked. 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:59.680 I didn't hear anything. 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:06.559 How can a person actually sleep through themselves snoring? 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:11.119 How can you sleep through it's in the middle of your head? 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:17.359 And you wake up, hey, I don't know. 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.960 How likely you tell you when you're drooling, all right? 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:31.279 You know, being married is like living on the floor of the Senate. 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:35.920 Every day, a new speech and new law is being passed. 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:45.680 My wife walks around like some English barrister from now on. 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:49.920 Things will be different in this family. 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:54.400 There'd be no dinner for the rest of your life. 00:28:54.400 --> 00:29:00.079 I didn't know I had so many problems until I got married. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:06.960 But thank God, she's there to point those things out. 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.400 I thought I was doing well. 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.839 I was hanging by a fingernail. 00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:18.880 I got a name of the guy's been married 61 years. 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.680 I said to the guy, Erwin, what's the secret? 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.359 61 years. 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.000 He said, just keep your mouth shut. 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:32.480 Open your mouth, you're gonna start a fight. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.559 Just come out from work, wave your hand. 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:42.480 Sit on the couch, put the TV on. 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:44.880 One day you'll fall over dead, it'll all be over. 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:46.000 So hang in there. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.920 Just relax. 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.880 Keep your mouth shut and don't start any fights. 00:29:50.880 --> 00:29:55.599 Good. 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:56.960 Good. 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.000 It's crazy. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.359 But I do enjoy it. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:00.480 I do enjoy being married. 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:03.519 The dating thing for me was, you know, I was finished. 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:05.039 I couldn't talk to another human being. 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:14.720 I was just uh You know, you ever break up with somebody, now somebody always says something like this the last thing I want to do is hurt you. 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.519 Which means it's on the list. 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:21.839 But it's the last thing I want to do. 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.200 I got some other things to do first. 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.480 Figure this one out. 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:34.480

My parents were married a long time. 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:38.640 They've been married so long my mother's actually sucked the brain out of my father's head. 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.640 Poor guy just smokes around going, just do what she says. 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:46.079 God in heaven, I gotta lay down for a month. 00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:54.880 When I was a kid, you know, growing up, you could really threaten your kids. 00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:56.799 When my mother would threaten me, the threats were enormous. 00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:58.720 You got kids now, you cannot threaten them anymore. 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:01.920 They will get a lawyer and just sue you. 00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:07.920 When I was a kid, my mother would say things like, Go ahead, touch that door, I will break your hands off. 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.480 Open your mouth again, I'll rip the tongue right out of your head. 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.759 Get in here right now, break every bone in your body. 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.480 If I have to come in there, I will kill you. 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.680 That was love when I was growing up. 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:23.680 My mother threatened to strangle me. 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.359 I knew how much she cared. 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:30.720 See, the problem was my mother's a very confused woman, unbelievably confused. 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:34.640 She didn't think that I had any idea who she was. 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.480 Because she'd look at me and go, who do you think you're talking to? 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:42.079 Who the hell do you think you're talking to? 00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:43.759 Do you have any idea who I am? 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:46.319 I don't think you do. 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:49.200 And she didn't think I knew who I was. 00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:52.160 But she looked at me and go, who do you think you are? 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.440 You're not my child. 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:57.279 And then you guys mean great. 00:31:57.279 --> 00:31:58.079 Thank you very much. 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:02.079 Thank you. 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:03.039 Great time. 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:11.599 Well, Mark, uh, as usual, uh a stand-up funny guy. 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:13.759 Thanks so much for sharing that with us. 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.759 Thank you, Scott. 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.759 It's fantastic talking with you. 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:27.119 You know, I uh you not only are responsible for many of my wonderful evenings having that club, but you're responsible for my horrible curly mornings. 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:35.039 Because you had us do radio shows, and comedians hate doing radio shows more than having polio. 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.839 This is uh It's true. 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:39.599 It's to market the club. 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:47.440 We we we get these comics that would work until late in the evening, and then we'd have to be on the TV set or the radio set sometimes at 6-7 a.m. 00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:55.359 Yeah, I mean you would you go, I'll pick you up at 5 30, we'll go do the radio show, and then I'll take you out for 79 breakfast. 00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:57.119 Thank you very much for that. 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:58.559 Be very kind. 00:32:58.559 --> 00:32:59.759 Take us out. 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:07.359 I was always saying, you know, when you're really young, you can actually have breakfast, have like breakfast, three cups of coffee, and then go right back to sleep. 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.920 It's quite an extraordinary thing to be able to do. 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:18.160 Yeah, I've never been a coffee drinker, but I am an iced tea holic, and my wife is always amazed that I'll drink iced tea day and night, and it never affects me going to sleep. 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:18.799 It's crazy. 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:19.920 Yeah, it is amazing. 00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:20.960 I'm not like that. 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:29.599 But uh yeah, we used to do those radio shows and one of the things I used to like about your club world was it was an old fact. 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:30.480 That's right. 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:36.880 And I used to like walking on those wooden, you know, like historic wooden sidewalks, right? 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.720 Yeah, yeah, historic wooden sidewalks is really, really cool. 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:46.720 And you had that long walkway down to the club from the street. 00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:47.759 Exactly. 00:33:47.759 --> 00:34:00.640 That's when we were in Firehouse Alley, and um that location, which was our best and longest lasting location, uh, out of three, actually, in Old Sack, uh, was my favorite room, and I got to develop it. 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:12.480 What was nice about it, and I've mentioned this before, is it had a low ceiling, we were in a basement, it had the uh a ubiquitous brick wall, and it just had that kind of nightclub jazz club feel to it. 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.400 And I think that was perfect for stand-up. 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:15.920 It was perfect. 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:22.320 You had some really great crowds, and even on sometimes when they wasn't filled and stuff, they were great laughers. 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:28.960 I mean, I really I don't remember people laughing at a lot of the clubs sometimes, but at your club in particular, there were some really great ones. 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.960 Well, that's good to uh I appreciate you saying that, and we worked hard for that. 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:43.840 Now, it's been a while since we've had a chance to uh work together over 20 years, and you've been busy touring with Jerry, and you mentioned your book, I Killed, with you and Rich Scheidner. 00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:46.079 Uh, and you can get that on Amazon, everybody. 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:47.039 Go out and buy this book. 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.519 I'm gonna do that because Yeah, I killed True Stories of the Road by America's Comics. 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:52.079

Okay. 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:58.079 Well, that was too long for me to remember, but I will re uh I Killed True Stories by Mark Schiff and Rich Scheidner. 00:34:58.079 --> 00:34:58.400 Yeah. 00:34:58.400 --> 00:34:58.960 Got it. 00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.760 Okay, everybody make sure. 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:01.519 You'll know a lot of people in the book. 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.239 Oh, yeah. 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:03.920 No, I think it'd be perfect for me. 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:07.679 I hope the audience agrees and gets a chance to buy it, but I'm definitely going to. 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:08.800 I love books like that. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:20.320 I've read uh most of the books out there by uh comics that I worked with, and it's always great to uh reminisce about uh and hear their stories from other clubs, but also sometimes experiences at my club are in there. 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:24.079 What else have you uh been working on or anything that's exciting coming up for you? 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:24.960 Well, I write a lot. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:27.199 I write I I've been writing a lot of articles. 00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:33.519 I write uh reporting articles for a paper here called the Jewish Journal in uh LA. 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:38.800 And I write a lot of articles for them. 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:40.639 I'm writing a short story book. 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.280 Oh, cool. 00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:43.760 And uh I wrote uh two plays. 00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.360 No way that time. 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:46.320 Yeah. 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:50.239 One is called The Comic, it's called Larry Miller, two person play. 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:51.840 And he was unbelievable. 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:55.679 It went too Aspen actually to the uh comedy festival, HBO Comedy Festival. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:01.280 Well, you picked a great guy, he's one of the best guys out there, and if you give him the right material, there's no holding. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:02.719 He was unbelievable. 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:05.360 And then I wrote another play with a guy named Steve Shaper. 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:06.320 You remember Steve Shaper? 00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:08.480 I remember the name, he didn't work for me. 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:13.280 I knew what he was doing in the business, but uh uh you picked a couple good guys. 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:23.760 So, yeah, so we uh I wrote a couple plays and uh a lot of stories, and uh what you should do is I got a wife of thirty years and uh three kids that are out of the house. 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:26.639 Oh my son is an agent at CAA. 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:27.840 No way. 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:33.119 And I I know that he's a great agent because he won't even return my calls anymore. 00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:35.760 Just like a young agent. 00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:41.679 Oh, that's funny, and that's interesting that he's g get went into the business, but on that side of the fence. 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:43.599 Yeah, and I have no performers. 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:48.960 I have three kids in uh two in the business in uh production and uh one in finance. 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:49.599 Wow. 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:51.119 Well, congratulations. 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.320 You are certainly uh one of the funniest men in the universe. 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.039 You've had a great uh wealth of success in your life in comedy. 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:04.960 I know that you're one of the uh not only funniest performers out there, but you're also uh a great writer. 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:09.119 And I didn't know about the plays in the book, but we're gonna take advantage of that. 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.480 And I thank you so much for joining me today on the podcast. 00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:14.559 Thank you, Scott. 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:15.360 My pleasure. 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:16.800 Pleasure here at catching up with you. 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:19.840 A lot of good memories from uh working your club. 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.480 I really uh appreciate every uh time you hired me. 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.360 Well, you're welcome, and and it was a pleasure for us too. 00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:32.800 Ladies and gentlemen, uh make sure to check out Mark's book, and also um, we hope you enjoyed the set and the information today. 00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:35.360 We have another podcast coming out next Sunday. 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:38.719 In the meantime, be sure to listen, rate, and share. 00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.119 Thanks so much for joining us for this week's show. 00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:42.159 Thank you, Mark. 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:43.119 Thank you. 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.199 All right, everybody, have a great one. 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.079 Bye. 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:53.519 We hope you enjoyed this episode of Stand Up Comedy, your host and MC. 00:37:53.519 --> 00:38:04.480 For information on the show, merchandise, and our sponsors, or to send comments to Scott, visit our website at www.standupyourhost and mc dot com. 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:09.039 Look for more episodes soon and enjoy the world of stand up comedy. 00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:11.519 Visit a comedy showroom near you