Greg Fitzsimmons

Oh, yeah.

He did.

It's tough to play a comedian when you're not a comedian. There's something you can't put your finger on about the rhythm of it. Well, you know they're faking it. Well, you know who's not bad? Have you seen that show Hacks? No. Jean Smart? No. She's fucking good. Yeah? She's a great actress, but she pulls it off.

Oh, yeah, yeah. She pulled it off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She pulled it off. Yeah. That was Joan Rivers it's based on, basically, right? I don't know. It seems like it's the same time.

Because she has a whole QVC line and it's a lot of the same stuff. But then the woman that plays, she's got like this writer who's like her, she writes for her and goes on the road with her, played by Lorraine Newman's daughter. Oh, wow. I can't remember her name, but she's fucking great.

Yeah, she's so talented.

I bailed off in the third season also. You know what it got? It got very sticky. It got very Jewish sounding, almost like a Neil Simon play.

Right, right.

Yeah. You know who's great in that show is Kevin Pollack. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's really strong. He is great in that. He's one of those guys that just like – He could do anything. For a lot. You ever see his IMDB page? He's done hundreds of roles.

I think Seinfeld, too, did that. He got real audiences.

And you might have to swap out the crowds because you're doing multiple takes. So just bring in a new one after two hours.

Right, right.

Remember, what was it, Tom Hanks? The punchline, yeah. It was so bad. Terrible with Sally Fields. Oh, my God. They had lockers at the comedy club. Everybody had their own locker.

And he hadn't. And it's always that same storyline every time, which, you know, like there's an element of truth to it. But like they're starting out, they've got a shtick. And then somebody, an older person pulls back. Hey, man, you got to just be yourself. You got to use your own voice. And then all of a sudden they go up with no script, but they just are themselves. I mean, they did it Maisel.

But it's true. I mean, it is true to a certain extent, but they just hit it so hard.

She had stories, right.

Oh, my God. But although I heard a story. You remember Lucian Holt from the comic strip?

Wait there. Oh, that's Taylor. That's the locker room I was showing you. Taylor something. He was super talented.

But Lucian Holt brought me to his apartment. Lucian Holt, by the way, he had mixed feelings because anytime you're a club booker, you're going to have a certain number of people that just are not a fan because they didn't get passed. But Lucian was an amazing guy. He was a curator of... Eddie Murphy of Chris Rock. Like he was the guy that brought people through the strip. Adam Sandler. Yeah.

And he brought me to his apartment one time and he had wall to wall videos back when everything was half inch VHS tapes. walls of everybody's first times. Wow. And so he showed me when Tom Hanks came in for punchline, he only did stand up for like three nights and he came into this strip and he did it. And I gotta be honest, like he came in and he had some written material and he fucking did good.