Charley Crockett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Everybody wanted to go get a fucking sitcom.
They all wanted to be Jerry Seinfeld.
And New York, which was like the club comics.
That was like the Dave Attels and these guys that would like, you know, the...
The guys would do the clubs, and they were thought of as like the real pure comics.
And then there was this new scene, this new scene out of Houston, this new scene out of the Laugh Stop in River Oaks.
And I remember the first time I ever worked there, man, you could feel it in the building.
You could feel that they had been there.
By the time I had worked there, they were both dead.
But you could feel it in the building, man.
You could feel it in the comics, the open mic scene.
You could feel they were pure.
There was a Texas quality to the way they were doing comedy.
It was a fuck you, fuck you.
No one knew what he was.
They didn't know what he was.