Eric André

It might have been like 60 people on a Thursday night, but you were going on.

Then I moved here and I went...

to like the pit open mic yeah or something i think stand up new york was the first open mic i went to oh yeah and i was like i want a lot too i was like this is this is rough this is rough and then also the amount of mentally ill people in new york city that you stand oh yeah oh it's like tenfold more than anywhere else maybe la it's close oh i don't know new york they literally come in off the street yeah they just want to rant yeah so you watch people yeah

By being in a New York open mic, you're just like, well, this person's clearly out of their fucking mind.

That's always why the Brooklyn scene intimidated me because when I would go to like Union Hall or one of those venues, everyone, even if they were faking it, seemed so comfortable on stage.

That's why I was like, part of that shit always...

Blue... Rafifi was a place you'd go and watch people and be like, they're all so comfortable doing this.

I feel like a fucking fraud.

Was it the shit that clicked for you where you were like, the first time you heard Bad Brains?

I think I heard that and I was like, these guys are fucking

nuts back to the nude thing yeah these guys are nuts i was like these guys are fucking what were you listening to phil collins dude i'm not gonna lie when you're a child jacket required when you're a child of an alcoholic this is what i'm talking about were your parents divorced yeah but they both drank so your mom drank yeah but she was listening to bonnie right and then i was a bunny and then i was going out to california with my dad in the bay area and he was getting fucked up to buffett and like wow like where did your parents meet san francisco

What were they doing?

My mom worked in insurance.

My dad was a bartender.

And he just, they had me, they broke up.

My dad went back to the bay.

My mom was in Colorado.

So you split up your time.

Yeah.

I picked the nuggets cause they traded Tim Hardaway to the heat.