Greg Fitzsimmons

And then someone heckled and he like annihilated them and then got back into the material. I was like, fuck this guy. Yeah. This Is Him? Yeah.

So that was good. Make it look grainy.

Imagine that Robin Williams popping in. Nuts. Fuck. I hope he doesn't do my material. Yeah, he was in the crowd one night. I was at the Comedy Cellar, and he was in the crowd, just sitting, for some reason. He was drunk. He had had a lapse, and he started heckling me, but in a playful way. He wanted to improv and fuck around. Wanted to play. Yeah. So I did. I played with him. Wow.

I don't know where I got it in me, but I was shitting on him for being Mork from Ork, and he was laughing. He didn't jump up on the stage, which would have been fucking sweet.

I don't think he remembered he was doing it. I think it was just like, it was sticky. Jokes were sticky to him. And then they came up because it was improvising. And I read this article about it.

He used to steal so much from Rick Overton that he was getting, he would just call his manager and be like, he did it again. And they just cut him a check. But it was like, you know, money doesn't cover it. That's your tool belt.

where their career just just tanked you remember Larry Larry Miller's closing bit on the 10 stages or how many stages of being drunk he closed with that shit for years and people demanded it because it was just it was an act out so you didn't get sick of seeing it right right and he honed it over the I mean he's such a craftsman he's such an exacting performer and such a precise writer and then I saw some guy doing that

bit and I was like dude I mean I hate to bring up Mencia but like it was like that thing with Cosby with the football thing like yeah like dude that's like exact

Well, also when you get guys that aren't just taking – and not just guys, women obviously – who aren't just taking the jokes, but they're taking the persona. Like how many guys did we see being Bill Hicks back in the day?

That was a great club, Atlanta Punchline. Oh, perfect club. Perfect old wooden club. Perfect club. And it had, they must have done comedy 30 years there easily. They moved to a, it's funny because it's not as big of a place and it's connected to like a diner, but it's still kind of got the magic of the old Punchline. That's great. Atlanta crowds. We did a nice theater in Atlanta one time. Yeah.

Remember that?

I think it was literally crumbling by the end. Was it? Yeah. Oh, the building was falling apart? I think it was a teardown, yeah. And I just like, there's something about old clubs where you really can feel the history.

Zaney's in Nashville. Yeah. Yeah. And the Punchline in San Francisco. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you feel it in the walls. Denver Comedy Works. Oh, yeah.

And also, I think the staff, you can tell a great club because you go back year after year and it's the same staff. Yeah. You know, you got people that, you know, it's a waitress that she's been working there 20 years, but she's got a day job. But she's like, fuck that. I'm still coming in on Friday nights because these are my friends, you know.

And I get to see all the comics that I've loved over the years. Yeah. Yeah. All those clubs. And then you go to some of these bigger clubs where they're like a chain and the turnover is fast. Yeah.

yeah yeah she's got some good energy I know and it's also my niece moved out to San Diego and I got her a job as a waitress at the comedy store in La Jolla oh wow and so she hit the ground running because like you know you don't know people and all of a sudden she's working with a staff of people that are all fun as shit and they work together and then they all go out for drinks afterwards and now she's got a real job and she's yeah she's still working there one or two nights a week that comedy store in La Jolla is another one of those places it's a classic room

Well, I think the store is actually setting out to do a bunch of specials down there. They've got some good people that they've kind of hired to do a production wing of the store. It's a perfect room.

And it's also not LA.

Yeah.

Yeah.