Denis Leary
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so somebody said, and he was the shyest fucking guy in the world.
And somebody, a mutual friend said, hey, Steve went up at a fucking Chinese restaurant last night and did stand up.
And he lived around the corner from me.
So I went around the corner to his apartment.
I was like, what the fuck?
He's like, yeah, I'm doing.
He goes, I didn't face the audience.
I faced the wall.
But I did pretty well.
So I went and I saw it and I couldn't do what he did, but I could do what Lenny Clark did.
Because Lenny was like a regular guy off the street.
Regular boss.
And I fucking bombed.
I must have bombed for fucking 10 weeks.
And every time I bombed, there'd be like a tiny little laugh.
I'd go, oh, that was a pretty good thing.
And then Lenny would go, hey, come back next week.
He would just keep telling me to come back.
And I would fucking bomb.
But then there'd be like two bits.