Ben Schwartz
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260 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Ben Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you ever share a joke? Someone sets it up and they'll run punches? Or no, it's always I do my bit, then you do your bit. I do my bit, you do your bit. We tag each other, but we didn't.
Love the Sklar brothers. Also, huge Knicks fans or huge basketball fans. Huge sports fans. Did you like... Would you want to do it again? Or no, you hate it?
I'm doing it with you right now. Try it. Try looking me in the eyes. I'll kiss you. No, you won't. Talk to me for two seconds. Just saying. Kiss him. All right. What does it feel?
I hate when I see the audience. I love when it's totally dark.
I love when I hear the, for me, if it's like a big show, you know, I come out, after all these shows, I've probably done 2,000 shows by now, but it's like after all these shows, like I'm not nervous anymore unless it's like a big one, like unless a biggie is coming up. But I'm always, whenever I get my first laugh, I'm fine. I'm so comfortable.
I just, just to know like, oh, okay, we're all, we're here, we're going to have fun. And I feel like a part of what I do, I remember Jim Carrey used to say this also, is trying to make the audience feel comfortable. Yeah. So it was like at the beginning when I come out there, because for improv, they're like, they're going to make it all up on the spot. It could bomb.
Oh my God, I'm nervous for these guys. I come out, I talk to the audience for five minutes, just talk to them. And then I invite the people I bring on my show, which is three people who I change up per show. And then we all talk to the audience. And then I do the interview. And now everybody's fucking calm. The audience knows what's going to happen. They're relaxed. We're relaxed.
And then we do the show. And it always helps. Is there a version of that for you guys? Or you have to go out blasting with like a great joke?
You got to go out blank. It's scary. I think, so for me, when I started doing stand-up, I was way more nervous for stand-up than I was for improv. Really? Way more, because you have to work. And then you're saying, this is what I found funny. I find this so funny that I've been working on it for weeks. And now I'm going to show it to you. Let's see what you think.
For me, it's like I listen to something. Now on the spot and everybody in the audience knows on the spot, I'm going to try to make a beautiful scene that makes you laugh. But it's like we all know what's happening on the spot and we're trying to find it. You guys are like, I've been working on this. This is the funniest thing I can think of right now. I'm like, let's see what you think.
And if they say no, it almost feels like. But again, anytime I talk to a stand-up, it's the same thing. They're like, I'm not going to go on stage with nothing. That's crazy. By the way, you're looking so much more. This is amazing. Do you feel yourself doing it? It's all nose. You're looking at my nose. You can't look at my eyes. No.
Well, a little, but you can never know as good as the audience. But no, I'm saying for you guys, who's the person you go to to be like, is this funny? Is it each other? We text each other sometimes. Not just is this funny, but like.
Yes. Although when you go tour, people are seeing you for you guys. Yeah. So you can do your style whenever. That's why it's interesting when you did that roast. That's not your audience. No. People there may like you guys, but they're not there just to see you. That probably is more nerve-wracking.
Sure. Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey's in it is that not crazy classic insanely crazy he's so good in it too I don't know if you've seen him but he like he like feels like you know those movies in the 90s obviously you do like where he just crushes she is crushing in these movies he's so funny and playing like a big character and then in this one he plays uh himself which is Ivar Robotnik then he plays his grandfather
Oh, wow. So he's playing two characters who play with each other. So he would do scenes where he would do one side and someone else would be the other guy. And then he'd have to respond to what he did the day before as the other character. Wow. So he had scenes where it was just him two. And would he watch the scene? So he'd kind of nail it?
You'd pick which ones, which takes that I think he wanted. I'm never on set. I'm in a booth the whole time. Sure, sure. Is that weird that you're just not, he's in this movie. So I only get to see him for like press.
uh well at least you get to see them it's amazing keanu reeves is in this one too so we did dude yeah we did press and the line was uh idris elba's in it keanu reeves is in it jim carrey's in it james marzen is in it and i'm just looking down the line and it's like fucking oceans 11 it's like crazy that's like all these huge actors in a video game movie sonic the hedgehog yeah that's crazy all these pictures are fucking bananas that's incredible you made it
It's crazy. And do you have any cool Jim Carrey stories? Or Keanu? Keanu, so Keanu, the thing is, like, I shook Keanu's hand beforehand, and he seemed really nice, and then we were doing this, the UK red carpet, and we closed down Leicester Square. Would you guys ever been to London? It's like...
huge deal it's like our time square kind of and so they close it down there's an enormous thing i've only said hello to keanu and said hey man i'm a big fan sugar saying he was very nice and then they come to me they go hey you're gonna go live on television with keanu in 20 seconds and then they go i go what and they bring me to the end and uh there's a woman from itv a local news station there a big one and she has a microphone and she's like nice to meet you and i go and keanu looks at me and then i was like i
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