Billy Bob Thornton

I drove it around the block.

Cop pulled me over and said, where do you live?

I said, right here.

You know, or he goes, he says, I bought some powdered water, only I don't know what to mix it with.

I mean, you know, that kind of stuff.

So this is very sort of like nobody ever did that before.

Right.

He did that.

And I'm like, what was it like in the beginning for that guy where people just going?

What the fuck are you talking about?

Wow, that's amazing.

It was like when Steve Martin first came out.

I worked as a roadie, you know, for a lot of bands when I was a kid.

And so, you know, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, those guys, they created a thing we hadn't seen before, you know, from anybody.

I mean, Richard Pryor doing his as like stories.

They weren't jokes.

They were just, he would just start talking about these people he knew and then, you know, go through the stories.

And Carlin, you know, coming up with all the

That witty stuff, you know, here's some partial baseball scores, one, three, seven, you know, like that.

And so I was privileged as a kid to watch new brands of humor come out on TV that we could see.