Full Transcript for Free Comedy Friday - Jay Chandrasekhar

guys are pumping these out because the fans are correct. They want it. And the fact that you guys are continuing to make them, I think is great. 00:02:30 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:02:31 Speaker 4: I mean, we were the, The target was to be like the American Monty Python. 00:02:36 Speaker 1: Oh, okay. 00:02:37 Speaker 4: And so those guys made four fantastic films. And so we were going, okay, we're going to be a comedy group that makes movies. 00:02:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. And... You know, there's. 00:02:49 Speaker 4: Something about that dynamic that seems to be appealing to people. 00:02:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, no. I mean, Skye is such a massive fan. She considers herself a producer. 00:02:59 Speaker 5: A part of the crew. 00:02:59 Speaker 1: Because she donated part of the Super Troopers 2 crowdfunding thing. Yeah. 00:03:06 Speaker 2: Well, and whenever because, you know, it'll come up like, oh, the best stoner movies of all time or whatever, like on 420. And we'll like go over the list and consistently. I don't care what new movies come out. Super Troopers, that first one. I've never laughed that hard in my life like that is always my number one. 00:03:24 Speaker 5: Number two, Grandma's Boy, just in case you're wondering. 00:03:26 Speaker 1: Nobody else. 00:03:29 Speaker 2: But that is my number one. And so I get it when Eddie says, like, the fans want this. The fans want more content from you guys as a group because you guys just together have something special. You know, you have that little that magic thing, you know, and it's awesome. 00:03:43 Speaker 3: Thank you. 00:03:44 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:03:45 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:03:45 Speaker 5: So funny. 00:03:46 Speaker 1: So speaking of, I have to tell you this, and I hate to bring this up. 00:03:51 Speaker 3: No, I don't. 00:03:52 Speaker 1: Jay, last time you were in, it was five years ago. 00:03:55 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:03:55 Speaker 1: You were part of a legendary moment on this show that you're probably, I know you're not aware of. 00:04:01 Speaker 3: You have no clue. 00:04:02 Speaker 1: You're not aware of. Why are you bringing this up? But we bring this up kind of often on this show. He's like, what? Yeah, I gotta tell you. 00:04:07 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Jay. 00:04:08 Speaker 1: It was one of our favorite moments that happened. It was off the air. The interview was done. We were all getting ready to take a picture over here on the side. Okay, it's usually what we do with comics that come in. Take a picture, no big deal. Sky is a very awkward person, especially off the air, on the air. She can make it awkward like she just did. She can't handle silence. Yeah. And so after the interview was done, we were getting ready to take the picture. And she says to you, she goes, where's home for you? And you said, well, you know, Los Angeles, but I don't really consider that home. And, you know, blah, blah, blah. You had like a pretty regular answer. And then Sky awkwardly goes, okay, not a fan of home. Not a fan of

the word home. 00:04:53 Speaker 3: Not a fan of the word home. 00:04:54 Speaker 1: Not a fan of the word home. And we all went. 00:04:57 Speaker 3: And then she kind of did a little jig. 00:04:59 Speaker 1: Like a shimmy? Like a shimmy. 00:05:01 Speaker 5: And we all were horrified that she just did that. 00:05:03 Speaker 2: And because they know me so well and how I make weird comments like that, I knew at that moment they were all banking that memory. 00:05:12 Speaker 5: And as soon as you walked. 00:05:13 Speaker 2: Out of the room, I was. 00:05:15 Speaker 5: Going to hear it. 00:05:16 Speaker 1: Yeah. So, Jay, randomly, five years ago, just a completely normal, great appearance by you on the show, everything went well. Off the air that moment. became legendary on this show. And we bring it up probably, I don't know, multiple times a year. It's now a quote. Not a fan of the word home. Our listeners know it. 00:05:35 Speaker 3: It's a whole thing. I wasn't enthusiastic enough about Los Angeles. 00:05:38 Speaker 1: I guess not. I don't know what the deal was. 00:05:40 Speaker 3: You weren't apparently. 00:05:41 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's kind of like, I don't know if you had just moved or you were living in two places at once. 00:05:46 Speaker 3: She really thought about this. 00:05:47 Speaker 1: Yeah. There was a. 00:05:50 Speaker 2: Pause to the point where I just got in there. 00:05:54 Speaker 5: Oh, not a fan of the word home. 00:05:57 Speaker 1: All of them just. 00:05:58 Speaker 5: Stared at me. 00:06:00 Speaker 1: Are you still in Los Angeles? 00:06:01 Speaker 3: I'm from Chicago. 00:06:02 Speaker 1: In Chicago.... 00:06:05 Speaker 4: You're taught to hate New York and hate LA. So when you go back to Chicago, they're like, how's LA? And you're supposed to go, oh, it's terrible. And so I never admit to really loving Los Angeles. 00:06:18 Speaker 3: And I love Los Angeles. I also lived in New York. 00:06:20 Speaker 1: I love that, too. 00:06:21 Speaker 3: I never admit that in Chicago. 00:06:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's why. 00:06:24 Speaker 2: I just picked up on that quick pause, and I had to fill the space. 00:06:27 Speaker 5: Like, you should hear me with an Uber driver. 00:06:29 Speaker 1: Oh, it's awful. 00:06:30 Speaker 3: It's a nightmare. 00:06:30 Speaker 5: It's a nightmare. 00:06:31 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be friendly. No, it is. So I just had to let you know that you are part of the iconic moment here on this show, which is ridiculous. 00:06:42 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:06:43 Speaker 1: Off air. 00:06:44 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:06:44 Speaker 1: Which is crazy enough. Which is crazy enough. So, Jay, tell me about this comedy special that you got out as well. Because, you know, people who are obviously excited about you coming to town and going to see you at the American Comedy Company tonight or tomorrow night. Tell me about this comedy special, too. I shot a special in Chicago. 00:07:01 Speaker 3: Oh, home? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 00:07:04 Speaker 1: So you're a fan of Chicago. 00:07:06 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:07:09 Speaker 4: And it's on a platform called veeps.com. 00:07:14 Speaker 3: And you can pay some pay-per-views, $ 5. 00:07:15 Speaker 2: 99. 00:07:15 Speaker 4: And it's, you know, it's my stand-up special. 00:07:19 Speaker 3: It's the first, like, solo stand-up special I've done. 00:07:21 Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. 00:07:23 Speaker 2: And. 00:07:23 Speaker 3: It's called Brown Supremacist. 00:07:26 Speaker 1: Oh, okay. 00:07:26 Speaker 3: That's amazing. 00:07:27 Speaker 1: That is amazing. 00:07:29 Speaker 3: I like it. 00:07:29 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:07:30 Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense. Oh, that's great. So for people that only know you from the movies or know you from the Broken Lizard crew, what is a stand-up show? What do you do? Do you talk about, you know, what kind of stuff do you get into? 00:07:43 Speaker 3: Most of comedy, in my opinion, is surprise, right? Yeah. 00:07:48 Speaker 4: So I basically tell stories that are, They're all real. Some of them are made up, so they're not all real. But they seem to be real. 00:07:58 Speaker 1: Sure. 00:07:59 Speaker 3: They seem to be real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:08:01 Speaker 4: And I'll write jokes all day long, and I'll just insert them into stories. 00:08:05 Speaker 1: Oh, that's great. 00:08:06 Speaker 3: So that they seem like this little kind of... Fluid. Like a little tiny film. 00:08:11 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:08:11 Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome. 00:08:12 Speaker 4: And so I tell show business stories, tell stories about Burt Reynolds, who, you know, I was pretty sure was going to punch me out. 00:08:18 Speaker 1: Oh, I feel like a lot of people have that story. Yeah. I feel like he kind of. 00:08:23 Speaker 5: Gave that vibe. 00:08:25 Speaker 4: Yeah. And, you know, getting high with Willie Nelson and him trying to knock me out. But, you know, like all sorts of Snoop Dogg, like all sorts of fun stories. 00:08:36 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 00:08:36 Speaker 3: And then my own kind of Drug and sex stories. 00:08:39 Speaker 1: Oh, all good things. All good times. Very good. Yeah. 00:08:43 Speaker 2: Now, Jay, you know, lots of people, like Eddie said, know you from the movies, but they don't, I don't think a lot of people know how much work you've done behind the scenes and how much directing work, you know, maybe your big movies like Dukes of Hazzard and, you know, all the super trooper stuff, but the TV, like I was looking at your TV list and it was blowing my mind. Like I loved Arrested Development, but what I'm loving right now is Reacher and And I saw that you were a part of multiple episodes of Blue Mountain State. 00:09:12 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:09:12 Speaker 5: Directing. 00:09:13 Speaker 2: And so. 00:09:14 Speaker 3: I was like, wait, you did Reacher? 00:09:16 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like, that's just a wild left turn. I was really, where are you going with this? 00:09:19 Speaker 5: Which is where Reacher, I don't even call him his real name. What is it? Alan Richson. 00:09:23 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:09:23 Speaker 5: Like, so did you. 00:09:24 Speaker 2: Know, just kind of with Chris Farley, when you were working with him at the time, did you have any inkling like this dude could. 00:09:31 Speaker 5: Really be a star? 00:09:32 Speaker 3: Alan Richson has immense charisma. Yeah. 00:09:36 Speaker 4: And the great, The ones we love are like charisma machines. 00:09:42 Speaker 1: And by charisma, you mean pecs? 00:09:43 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:09:44 Speaker 1: He's got huge. He also has massive charisma. 00:09:48 Speaker 3: Massive man. 00:09:50 Speaker 4: And he's a smart guy, and he gets every joke, and he has a real hunger for filthy R-rated material. 00:09:58 Speaker 5: Oh, Blue Mountain State was so funny. 00:10:00 Speaker 4: And so he and I periodically will text each other, like, what did you do with this movie? 00:10:04 Speaker 3: I have a feeling he and I are going to do a movie together. Oh, I would love that. It's a feeling. We've never quite landed on anything yet, but I'm a big fan of that guy. 00:10:13 Speaker 5: Are you watching Reacher? 00:10:14 Speaker 3: No. 00:10:15 Speaker 1: Oh, you're not? 00:10:16 Speaker 3: I mean, I haven't seen it. 00:10:17 Speaker 1: Oh, do yourself a favor. It's really good. It's really good. It is so good. 00:10:21 Speaker 3: You should have watched that before the meeting, right? 00:10:22 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:10:23 Speaker 1: Probably a good idea. I would. 00:10:25 Speaker 5: He kicks ass. 00:10:25 Speaker 1: It's amazing. Well, Jay, we're excited you're in town, man. Go see him at the American Comedy Company. It's been five years. 00:10:31 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:10:32 Speaker 1: So this is your shot. A couple shows tonight, a couple shows tomorrow night. Good catching up with you, Jay. 00:10:36 Speaker 3: Thank you. 00:10:36 Speaker 1: And sorry about Sky. 00:10:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. 00:10:39 Speaker 1: Awkwardness. 00:10:39 Speaker 5: I'm just being me. 00:10:41 Speaker 3: It's weird.