Chet Waterhouse

And so I had to work really hard to get past that stuff because it was, you know, somewhat traumatic to me, you know, that he would kick my door in at 3 in the morning and say, Lardass, get up and do some exercise.

Really?

Yeah.

And then I built a character out of being kind of a fat comic.

I had a lot of fat jokes in the early days.

And then there's a dichotomy there.

Do you lose weight?

And then when you lose weight, people always say, and I'm not feeling sorry for myself, but people always say, you know, if you lose all your weight, it won't be funny anymore.

You know, I feel the same way about that as I do about, you know, Eric Clapton getting off a heroin or whatever it is.

Like, I think he could still write some pretty good songs when he wasn't high out of his mind.

And I think you could tell some pretty good jokes.

I think when you get into that, yeah, I mean, I think you choose the place you're sitting in.

Well, if you stood up, the swamp's only up to your head.

to your ankles.

So, you know, I think it's about making a decision and working really hard at getting out of it and

He was saying it to everyone.

Was your dad drunk when he did that?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

That feels very drunken move.