Jimmy Fallon
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
Welcome back to the show and congrats on getting married. This is a big deal.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
We're part of the same community. We're both apes. I love it. This is my ape. This is yours.
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The Kidnapping of Ape #8398
It reminded me of me a little bit because I wear striped shirts.
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"Howard Stern"
You kind of hit bucket. It was like it was not going great, and you was like, might as well throw it all against the wall.
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"Howard Stern"
But your audience is bigger today than it's ever been, and you're not doing all of those sort of shocking things. You're doing measured, deep... conversations, long-form interviews with very sophisticated people and like, so.
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"Howard Stern"
I would say that it would, in a compliment to you, that it was less deliberate or contrived or strategic for you to, oh, let's switch it up now and give the audience something they're not going to expect. I think it's, and I haven't known you for, you know, a thousand years, but...
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"Howard Stern"
it does seem pretty obvious that you have naturally just evolved into a more curious, serious, not as a pejorative, person who's interested in different kinds of questions and with different kinds of people.
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"Howard Stern"
But you weren't doing it as a ratings ploy. You were being sincere and genuine.
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"Howard Stern"
It doesn't matter whether it's comics or athletes or musicians or actors or whatever it is. You question them for us. as us, and it's a layman's point of view, and it's very curious, and you're listening, you have a bunch of fucking cards with questions on it, you're engaged in a conversation, and it was a true inspiration for us. It really was.
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"Howard Stern"
How old were you when you still didn't know whether your dad's eye was glass?
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"Howard Stern"
Here we go. That's us. You guys. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Thank you for being here. You guys aren't really fans. You're friends of ours. So that's very nice of you to show up. Thank you, everybody. Drive all the way out here to Long Island. Pay nothing. Really nice. Pay nothing. Right?
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"Howard Stern"
Did Jimmy and Molly somehow convince you and Beth that this is going to be great?
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"Howard Stern"
And he's in the theater with you. You just starred in something. He didn't stick around and say, what a treat.
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"Howard Stern"
But don't you also find that your agenda is no longer to provide a show for your listener, but instead perhaps you hope that the people remaining listening to you on that particular day happen to be as interested in the person you're talking to as you are. In other words, you're not... That's right. Yeah, and it's a more honest sort of, you're not pushing, you're not pressing, you're just sincere.
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"Howard Stern"
But when I'm in the mood for a long-form thing, it's like there's no one better.
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"Howard Stern"
I have to say, I tried to be a guest on your show for so many years. I kept asking my publicist every year, just hoping, like, are things good enough in my career where maybe I could be?
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"Howard Stern"
No, no, no. But my publicist said, listen, Jason, we got news back. It's good news, bad news. Good news is he says he's a fan. Bad news is he says he just genuinely really has nothing he would like to know. No, no, no. I'm paraphrasing. But it was absolutely true.
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"Howard Stern"
So Sean should be an axe murderer, right? I mean, but he's... Let's see how this goes.
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"Howard Stern"
No, no, but seriously, it's much more interesting talking to somebody who's got, like, a weird, fucked up... Here's the thing.
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"Howard Stern"
You did have some sense that you... I had no sense. I was an idiot. You had a sense that your personality might be halfway entertaining. I didn't know.
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"Howard Stern"
So you weren't always this charismatic? You weren't always this comfortable in talking?
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"Howard Stern"
But is that the group that would, if anyone was going to get you starstruck, that or athletes or musicians? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Who? Who's the one that you haven't met you'd be like, uh-oh, I can't talk?
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"Howard Stern"
We could do this all day long. This is going great. Speaking of... Now, wait. So, speaking of... What is happening?
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"Howard Stern"
First of all, I don't think we've said it yet. I can't thank you enough for doing this. You don't do this. I've seen you do it for Letterman. I've seen you do it for Kimmel. You don't do this, and I can't thank you enough.
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"Howard Stern"
Beth, back me up here. Like, what are you guys doing? I know you're not out there, like, running 10 miles on the beach every day. Is it just jeans? I mean, you look exactly the same.
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"Howard Stern"
You want to go turps off? You want to go turps off? No, no, no. But you don't look like you ache or you're sore. I can't fucking. I'm a mess. No, no.
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"Howard Stern"
You seem like you're in great shape. Are you doing anything that we need to know about?
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"Howard Stern"
It's incredible, the painting here. I don't know if you guys. Does people know? Okay. And the photography. It's like. Thank you. And the tiny sketching with the magnifying glass. I liked it.
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"Howard Stern"
Who's your favorite guitarist? Oh, Jesus. Just name one of them. A few of them.
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"Howard Stern"
Was there a fork in the road where had you stuck with that instead of radio, you wouldn't have been that?
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"Howard Stern"
Why do you think you're so well-adjusted? I'm not. I'm a mess. I'm still with the psychiatrist.
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"Howard Stern"
Do you think, do you, well, but like, I don't think that people know, like, if there was one misconception of you, do you have any idea what that might be? I mean, I don't know, but I will say that for me personally, given... your edge of humor, it was really exciting to get to know you a little bit and see how incredibly soft and chewy you are on the inside.
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I had a lot of anger. But there's a choice to, like, not be fucked up and just know how to manage that.
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You know, your observations were spot on. I was speaking my truth. But it was sometimes painful for folks, and that was the funny part.
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"Howard Stern"
At this time, was there a plan for you to play the part? And they wanted to actually go another direction?
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"Howard Stern"
Will, you have my phone number, right? Yeah. And my email address? Yeah, I got it all. I don't like clips of things. Do you know who this is? You're too grouchy. He sort of clued me into it. It's our smart list on Moose Boosh today, right?
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"Howard Stern"
Everybody take a nice break. We'll record in about 20 minutes. What do you mean?
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"Howard Stern"
Here's what you can do. Let's get better than that. While you're being quiet and pretending that you're not here when we're doing... No, I'm not going to do it. If I have to be completely quiet, I'm not doing it.
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"Howard Stern"
Howard Stern, keep it going. Keep it going. The one and the only. The king of all media. Radio, podcast, television, film.
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"Howard Stern"
But he was also incredibly generous and empathetic and probably knows that we're nervous and we're dumb and we have a new show and he's the king.
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Tremendous amount of candor. Immediately he took the reins and helped us and he started talking.
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"Howard Stern"
But it's too early to do it now. We're still doing wrap-up. We're wrapped up. Okay, we're wrapped up.
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"Howard Stern"
Sorry about that, guys. Sorry about that. But the interview was fun, was it not? It was really fun.
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"Howard Stern"
Okay, you're yelling at me. I'm fucking nervous that you're gonna guess it and I'm gonna be all freaked out. This is coming out at your time, Howard. Five letters, was it five letters?
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But if you get this, like, you're going to be in my life the rest of my life. That is what I do.
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"Howard Stern"
We're very excited to be doing, like, so we're going to do four live shows.
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"Howard Stern"
Every year. You know, we're going to do the... We're open to less, Scott, but that's fine. We'll do the regular sort of podcast on the computer thing, right? What do you watch it or listen to it on? Whatever it is. And then we're going to do four live shows. This is our first one. Very excited about it. On top of that... We've got our white whale.
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You've also made Howard the second guest. When's the last time you weren't the lead guest?
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"Howard Stern"
So we called it... What you did for it, though, because we had all sort of heard that satellite radio was coming, and I was a little circumspect.
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"Howard Stern"
I was like, well, I don't know if I want satellite. I got to get a different radio. When you went to satellite, I was like, oh, it's okay now. It was like when Fincher went to Netflix.
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People would ask me, who have you not interviewed that you want to? Howard Stern. Because he doesn't do this, and he's the man.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I was just breaking down mentally of, like, what have I done? I don't know what else to do with my life. And I think I wrote a letter to my best friend, like, I'm losing it, dude. What did it say? It's a deep one. Jesus.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I was just living there going like, I got to $7. I can buy some things, but you didn't really eat much.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Saturday they would feed you and I remember my first Saturday gig at the improv I go in it's a big deal and I'm brand new probably out in LA maybe six months or something and I worked my way you have to do any weeknight anytime they call you have to be up there and so I did that and I put my dues in for that and showed up I did pretty well I had a good ten minute act
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And Saturday night gig, and I get there, and I see Jerry Seinfeld in the restaurant. And I go out to the pay phone, and I call my parents, 1-800-COLLECT. Do you know what that is? At least just about. Yeah, it's like a way to make a collect call so that you don't pay for it if you have no money.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So you would call 1-800-COLLECT, and someone would have to pay for the – my parents would pay for the phone call from L.A. And I called my mom, 1-800-COLLECT, and she goes – Hi, Jimmy. I go, Mom, Jerry Seinfeld is at the club at the improv tonight.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
She goes, is he going to go do stand-up? And I go, I don't think so. I don't know. He's just eating at the restaurant. I know he's a fan of comedy. And the owner, his name is Bud Friedman. And so he was there with Bud. So I go in, and I'm getting ready to do my act, which was a lot of impressions. And I'm waiting there, and who goes on stage but Jerry Seinfeld. He just walks on stage.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They go, we have a surprise for you tonight. And he gets a standing ovation, before he even says anything. Comes out, does his greatest hits. I mean, crushing every joke. The famous ones, the sock missing from the dryer, the whole bit. He did everything, then says goodnight, standing ovation, and he leaves. And the guy goes, okay, who's on next? Mark.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And this guy, Mark, goes, I'm not following that. And he goes, how about you? And there's two other guys there, like Daryl. And he goes, I'm not following that. He's like, who's Jimmy Fallon? And he goes, that's me. He goes, yeah, you're up next, kid. I go, oh, my gosh. My first Saturday night, I have to follow the greatest comedian of all. I mean, he was the hottest comedian.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You do your research. Unless you just carry that around. Like that one. So I would have this doll. Oh, my gosh. This is my act. So I would have this, and I'd go, hello, I'm Jimmy Fallon, and welcome to the auditions for Troll Productions Incorporated. We're looking for a star or sponsor for our new line of Troll. I would do, like, a British accent. I don't know why.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I thought that was cool for me at the time. Probably sounds terrible to you. And I don't mean to be offensive. I go, we're looking for a star or celebrity to sponsor our new line of Troll dolls for our new line of commercials. First up, John Travolta.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, Sandy, you know, would do something like that. But this time I came out and I go, first up for the celebrities, Seinfeld.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And it worked. And I followed Jerry Seifel. And I was like, and that was cool. And then I went down the list and I finished my act and I pulled out a guitar and I played guitar with the troll doll. And that was my act for years.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I remember my grandfather and my parents being like, hey, don't be too full of yourself. They didn't like kids that were too full of themselves or cocky. I was pretty, but I was confident.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I ended up doing that. I replaced David Letterman.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, Saturday Night Live was my aim. I wanted to be a cast member on Saturday Night Live, which I ended up doing. But then Saturday Night Live is what got me Late Night, you know, which is Letterman's show. And then Late Night got me The Tonight Show.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I remember just being, I don't know what it is. I wasn't that well-read or anything like that, but I just knew that what I wanted to do I think from around 12 or 13. And maybe it's because people said I was good at it or I was making people laugh, you know. So I think when my peers and my friends said, like, you should do this.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Like, I think you're going to be famous one day or I think you're going to be a comedian. You know, I think you start believing it and you're like, oh, maybe I am good at this. Like, I don't even remember watching Late Night or David Letterman around that time. I knew Siren Live, and I probably did watch Letterman and Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But I think I started thinking, oh, yeah, Siren Live will be, that's what I want to do. That would be the ultimate dream, because that felt exciting and electric and show business, but also cool and edgy. And I was like, if that would be my goal, like, how would I do that? And I remember, like,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
secretly if i threw a coin in a fountain or if i made a wish on a birthday cake you know which i still do you know that's not my wish anymore but i remember i would blow out the candles and i'd say i want to be on saturday night live every year all my birthdays any wish that i could make that's what i wished that i could be on saturday night live and so maybe that
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Pressure that I put on myself drove me to figure it out and see what were the right steps. I think, you know, my big decision, you know, was going into stand-up and doing impressions. I knew the show could always use impressions and people doing impersonations of celebrities, you know. And so I thought that was one way in. And so I remember doing that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And then I remember reading that people that study at the Groundlings, which is an improv troupe, if they study there, some people go from the Groundlings to Siren Live. So I moved out to L.A. and started taking classes at the Groundlings just in case that could help me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I also knew that there was a management company named Brillstein Gray that managed a lot of the people that were on Saturday Night Live.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And if I could get seen by Brillstein Gray, maybe they would put me in touch with, you know, the Adam Sandlers of the world or the, you know, people that, you know, they had everyone from, I think, Belushi on to, you know, they probably have people on the show now. But I remember... getting a call from a manager who used to work at Burleson Gray, just left. Her name was Randy Siegel.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And she was great. And she was my manager. I moved out to LA with a manager. And so I thought she would know how to guide me to Saturday Night Live.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, he was working at IBM. He said to me, he said, look, just guarantee me two years of college. Just go to college for at least two years. I think we made a deal where he said, if you go for four years, I'll pay for two years. And you pay for two years. I go, okay. That was kind of a deal for us. And so I remember going to college for three and a half years.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
and on that half of that last semester i i got kind of an opportunity to go to la to meet with this manager and i said i called my parents and i said i think i'm gonna drop out and move and go to la and go for it and just try to take acting lessons and take class at the groundlings and try to get an audition for saturday night live and they were like all right well Really think about this.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, this is really what you did. Who is this person that you're going out to? And I go, her name is Randy Siegel. She's a manager. And I had met her through a guy that I used to work for in Troy, New York. I was a receptionist at a news weekly called Metroland. I used to answer the phones and I would also do the personal ads like, you know, men seeking women and blah, blah, blah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I typed those things out. And I remember he moved to LA to be a music manager. And so I gave him my tape on his way out, a videotape of me doing my troll act. And I said, if you see anybody, he goes, well, I'm not doing comedy. I'm doing music. I go, I know. But if you see anybody, maybe pass it along. And so he passed it along to this manager. So she talked to my parents.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And they got a phone call where she was like, I think Jimmy's got something. He's green, but I think if he goes to work and puts in the work, I think that he'll get something. I think he'll be successful. He's green? Amateur. He's not ready yet. You're not ripe. He's green. So if you're green, you're like a green banana.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
A bunch of times. It's tough when you're just not getting the, it's not working. And you want to tell everyone that it is working, but it's hard. It's a lot of rejection. And you end up like, you're just trying so hard and you go, I know what I want, but it takes so much time to get there. But in the meantime, you have to take auditions. You have to.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Gosh, that's a great question. That's going to be the whole show right here. Because I want to find out. You know, maybe entertaining or being funny is probably. Or you want to just satisfy people. I think, you know, in wanting to please people, I've always wanted to please people since I was a kid.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Because I was like, I didn't want to take acting lessons. Because I read somewhere that James Dean would go to acting class and just watch and never do the acting lessons. And I liked James Dean for some reason. So I would go and I'd just sit in the back and watch everybody. And finally the acting teacher came up to me and was like, are you sure you want to do this?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Because, I mean, you can get so much more out if you did this. and started working with other actors, I think you should because you're a stand-up comedian. You don't perform with anyone. You're by yourself on stage. I think you should learn how to act with other actors. And I was like, yeah, maybe he's right. Like, I'm not James Dean. So I started acting. And then you realize, oh,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Gosh, I'm really not good at this. I got to learn how to do this. It's a skill to play off of other people and to listen to other people. So then I started doing auditions because that's my manager would get me an audition for movies and stuff. And I think my first audition was to play a lifeguard in the Brady Bunch 2 movie or something. And I had to say like one line like, get out of the pool.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Something like that. And so I remember going and my line was printed on fax paper. They faxed it over. And when fax machines were a thing. And so I had, and they would tell you, bring in the paper when you do the audition, hold the lines so that they don't think that you're off book. So they think that you have a chance of getting better. I go, okay, great.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So I'd hold the paper and I go, and action. I go, get out of the, get out of the pool. You want to just do it one more time? I go, okay. It's quiet and it's just so awkward. And I go, get out of the pool or whatever it was. And she goes, okay, bye-bye. I actually said bye-bye. And I was like, my face got red. I got so embarrassed.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I got back to my apartment and my manager called me and I go, did you hear feedback? She goes, yeah, you didn't get it. They said that, weirdly, she goes, they said you're too green. And I go, okay. She goes, but we have to work on it, you know?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Just keep doing it and keep doing auditions and working on these lines and you should get an acting coach and go bring the lines to the acting class and go, here's, can you do Get Out of the Pool? You know, whatever better. So it just got over and over again. You get rejected and you wouldn't get parts. I got...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
no parts I probably auditioned for you know 30 shows and movies and stuff like that and you just kind of it's tough it's really tough say anyone going into the business or acting or any of that stuff the entertainment stuff you're going to get beat up it's going to be to the point where you're like I'm so depressed I can't do it but just know that if you can just get through it and keep working eventually whatever it is is going to happen in life will work out
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
maybe you won't even be an actor, but maybe you'll be a lighting director. Maybe you'll work on sets. Maybe it won't be acting, but it will get you to where you're supposed to be if you just keep going and keep doing it. And I just kept kind of telling myself that. You know, I ran out of money, and I was like, I'm going to have to go home.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
to live with my parents and probably go back to college if they can let me back in. I think I even might have looked into it, but I was just so bummed out because that's not what I wanted at all. I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live. And, you know, it's just... reality was like, oh, you almost didn't feel like living in this world because it's like people couldn't believe that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Like, I don't know if it was my parents or my grandparents or I wanted to make people feel good and give everyone. If I'm at a party, I want to make sure it's the best party, you know, and I'm giving everything. I want to make sure it's so... pleasing or appeasing, one of those words. But I think I've always wanted to do that. And that's kind of what I do now.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They're like, that's not reality. You can't just say I'm going to be on Saturday Night Live. I remember going to my Groundlings class. My first teacher was great. His name was Jim Wise. And he goes, what do you want to do? And he would go around the horn. And people were like, I want to be in movies. I want to be in a TV show. I want to be in a sitcom.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I said, I want to be on Saturday Night Live. That's very specific. That's like, yeah, it's one in a zillion. That's what I want. And he brought that up to me, brings it up. He's like, I'll never forget that. You said that that's what you wanted to do. And that was my ultimate, ultimate. I said, if I do nothing else in life, that's all I wanted to do.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And, like, even if that... If I got on for one season or one episode, then I could do whatever I could. I didn't care what I did after that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I think my parents loved it and their friends loved it, but that was what they would watch. And that was, like, the pinnacle of comedy. That was the best comedy show in America. And so that was the best. So it's like playing for the greatest... Team, you know, playing for the Yankees or, you know, whatever. I don't know soccer, but Arsenal? I have no idea.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Oh, Manchester United. You couldn't help yourself. Oh, my gosh. But yes, playing for that. You want to play? Play for the best. If you can make it there, that's the best team.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, it had to be that, because I think that's what we would watch, we would talk about. As a family. As kind of a family, yeah, as a family. They would tape it. We were one of the first families to have a VCR, which is anyone young listening to this podcast. a videocassette recorder. So it would tape, it's like a DVR, digital video recording.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So it's a videocassette and you would tape it on these giant tapes and they would record two hours on television. And so we would tape the show and then you could rewatch it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And then I would rewatch it and study it and watch the sketches over and over again and watch repeats and watch the greats and watch Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and people I want, Bill Murray and Steve Martin, people I wanted to be like. As it got into high school, I was taping it, watching the best sketches. And I would go to my friend's party and show the best sketch that week.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And go, oh, this is the best sketch. It's Chris Farley. And it's blah, blah, blah. Or I would be obsessed that way. I almost became so obsessed. in high school that I couldn't really hang out with anyone while I watched the show because I didn't like it if anyone didn't like the show. And my parents used to let me drink if I stayed home.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So if I didn't go out, they would buy me a six-pack of beer that I could drink at probably, you know, 16 or something or something like that. You know, I'm not the smartest, but they would, you know, I would hang out with my friends and they would say, yeah, they're going to have a couple of beers. And, you know, I would watch Siren Live with a six pack and watch it and study it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I ended up just stop watching it with anyone else. You know, I guess I still drank. That's sad that I drank by myself, but I became an alcoholic at 16. But it was a thing that I would do, and I would just study it. And every Saturday Night Live, and continuing into college, my friends would have parties, and they'd go, you've got to come, right? I'd go, I'll be there at 1 o'clock.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They'd go, no, the party's, you've got to come. I'd go, Saturday Night Live, you can't go. They'd go, just tape it. I'd go, I can't just tape it. I have to watch it live. Obsessed. Yeah, I was beyond obsessed. Obsessed, without a doubt. That was it. That was the pinnacle. Even I went on an NBC tour with my dad, like a bus trip to New York City and took me on a tour of NBC to see Siren Live.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I was older. I was just so nervous to go in the building. Oh my gosh, this is the building. This is what it looks like. This is the doorway and the revolving door. I know all this. I know everything. I know what the walls look like. I know what the ceiling is painted like. I know art deco, decoration. I knew everything. I geeked out, and I was like, this is the best day just going on tour there.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Now I've worked there for 20-something years. It's my home. I've been working in that building since 1998. I don't even think about it anymore. That's the door going to work. Every now and then I'll walk to, you know, I walk to work almost every day, but I'll get that feeling again, like, oh yeah, don't lose that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I'm a pretty positive guy in general. But I think that was probably my lowest looking back. I mean, I remember like,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
know trying to see what therapy was or if i could afford a therapist or what that meant or why because i was just breaking down mentally of like what what what have i what have i done like what have i done i've kind of made these decisions and i wasn't getting anywhere and it was like i mean i had Really kind of no friends and no social life.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Just obsessed with work and obsessed with stand-up and trying to make my act better and trying to see if I can get on Saturday Night Live and having no money and just going like, what is this all about? You know, I don't know if I can afford to keep failing. I can't live in an apartment if you don't make money. I can't afford gas to get to the audition. You can't eat.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You just go, oh yeah, I just got to keep doing gigs, but I'm running out of space. So maybe if I go home, I can go back to doing these little clubs and make some money, save up money, then go back out and try again in L.A., I remember there came a moment where I'm like, oof. I think I wrote a letter to my best friend like, I'm losing a dude.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And in fact, I know I did because he still has the letter. And he works for our show now. And he says, I have it, and I'll publish it one day. I'll give it to people if I need the money. I'll release your letter if you're emotionally broken. And I go... But that's what best friends do. They hold it over your head.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, which I thought, I think I'd be a pretty good priest. I think it would be funny and, you know, I could have good delivery, you know. Someone said to me once, they said, maybe you got your first taste of
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I go, gosh. I mean, it's one of those embarrassing things. I probably wish I didn't write that. What did it say? I don't even ask, but I think it was something to the point, like, I'm losing it. And I don't know if I can make it. And I don't know what else to do with my life. And, you know, something to that effect. Or, you know, I miss college. I miss you. I miss having friends.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I miss going out. I miss, you know, I think it was that. It was like maybe regretting my decision to move to L.A.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, I mean, of course, the advice would be like, it's going to be okay. You know, I think probably the best way to go back and be like, hey, I'm proud of you, dude. Like, you're doing exactly what you have to do. You're doing what you have to do to become me. So I'm so proud of you. So keep it up. You know? You know?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I mean, I would, all the things that like, I remember just in LA and like, I remember like finding cardboard boxes that were thrown out in this garage next to me and bringing that in, not dirty or anything, but new boxes. And I would put sheets over and they would become tables. So I would use that as like kind of an end table next to my bed and stuff like that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
wanted to be an entertainer from being an altar boy because you're up on stage kind of technically and there's an audience and you're up kind of performing I mean walking around and you're wearing an outfit kind of you know wearing costume and you know so it's kind of theater in a weird way but I remember just
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And you go, oh yeah, those are, it's creative. You know, it could, you could look at it so sad to talk about now and go, oh my God, you're by yourself and you had cardboard boxes as tables and you go, I didn't think about that. I was just trying to be, that would look nice if it had a sheet over it. And that looked kind of cool.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It was very kind of dormy, you know, but I think about, I don't know why it just made me think about it now. I'm just, so maybe, I mean, having cardboard furniture was depressing, but you know, you know, I think that's where you have to dig and see if you can make the, find the funny in it and go like, if you can perform now, then get ready if you step in the ring, you're an animal.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Well, I am proud of you. You didn't quit. You're really like against all odds. You're doing something that no one in the family has done, that none of your friends have done. You really don't know where this is going to end. And you're kind of adventuring into an odd place. You're discovering all new stuff that's never been done.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And it's great to do this because one day you'll get tested in a different way. And you'll be mentally stronger. And so I'm proud of you because this is all tough now, but it will pay off. when you need to show your strengths or, you know, it's almost like you're going to the gym, you know, it will pay off one day. Like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to run. I don't want to lift.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't want to do anything. I don't want to eat. I know, but the future me is telling you, this is great that you're doing this because you're going to have, it's just going to be when, when you need it, you'll be strong enough. And so I think I was becoming stronger as it was building it. And, uh, I look back and I wouldn't change anything. You know, at the time, you know, if anything,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, I would say I want it to happen faster, but not really. I think you have to live through all the stuff and go, oh, yeah, now I remember that. That was cringy. Oh, that was rough. Oh, I remember that. That was bad. But that was a good one. And then you go, oh, yeah, that was another great one.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And then, oh, yeah, and then you start thinking of all these stuff that you thought was depressing then. It's kind of charming now. And you go, kind of, I love those days. And I love the days where you bombed and that was the biggest problem. The biggest problem in your life was that you didn't do a great impression of Jerry Seinfeld. Like, that was the biggest problem in your life? Okay.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Then I think your life is pretty good. You look back and go, that was, it meant so much to me, though. You know, and I think about that now with my daughters. You know, they tell me stuff that's going on in school and stuff. And to me, I'm like, you won't even see these kids. This will mean nothing to you. These kids, maybe you'll be friends with them for life. I hope. That'd be great.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But I don't think so. I don't remember anyone. I don't talk to anyone from my grade school. But it's the biggest thing in their life now. So you can't say that. Because it's like, Dad, this is my life. What are you talking about? This is the biggest thing. Like, high school is so slow when you're in high school. Right now, four years is a joke. Four years is like a joke to me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
kind of wanting to do good for like be like make my parents proud or my grandparents proud or there was a kind of i mean it all happened so fast that i don't i don't i don't have problems with it or or go back to it and go like oh that was traumatic you know i just think that i was always like a people pleaser your parents were very strict
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I go, oh my God, I can do anything for four years. When you're in it, it's long. Four years feels like 25 years.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I would have found a way and done it. And even just walked on or something. I would have found a way to get on it. I would have found some way to either be an extra or walk in the background or do something. I would have. There's no way. There's no way. I'd have to. But you're saying if I didn't, what would happen? Or are you saying, I don't think it would ever happen? I had to be on it.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I was going to make it happen. And I had to do it. You know? I don't think there was an option. I don't think there... I would have done it. I don't think there's ever an option. I would never have been on that show.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But I mean, I think a lot of performers have done this where you interview yourself and you pretend you're on a radio show. And you go like, here I am. I'm counting down the top 10 songs and here's the vote. And I have cassettes of me doing that. You know, I think a lot of people do that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I had to, it was going to happen. I don't know. I don't know if I can tell you honestly that I could imagine another path. I don't even know if I could fake it because I would be lying. I know I would be on Saturday Night Live. I have to. I just, that was, I can't even, I can't lie and say, well, I guess I could have done it. I just know.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I think you get little things, little good things happen to you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I could use luck, but I'm just going to say good things. I mean, it probably is luck. I feel like I'm a lucky person, but I think they're just like, I think I got a holding deal at Warner Brothers Television to act for a sitcom or something, even though I didn't want a sitcom. I remember putting in the contract that if I get silent live while I'm doing the sitcom that I can contractually get out.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And they said, no, that's the whole reason. No, no one can, you can't. I go, well, that's, that's the only reason I could, I have to get this in this clause in my contract. And they said, no one's ever asked for that, but okay. And so they put it in my contract. So if I was on the show, the show didn't get picked up, but if the show got picked up and,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I got a chance to audition for Saturday Night Live, I could leave the show contractually because they were like, it's just not going to happen. So I ended up acting and getting a little money, which is great because I could stay at my apartment and actually still work on my goal of Saturday Night Live while not doing... I didn't want to act in sitcoms. But that helped me...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
yeah very catholic very strict no cursing no sex you know very catholic you know no no dirty words no i would listen to comedy albums you know and my dad would take a key and scratch the curse words out of the record he would find where the dirty word wasn't stopping and scratch it out of the record so i wouldn't hear it so i would hear rodney dangerfield and it would skip to the end of the joke i was like well i'll tell you and then cut to people clapping and laughing i go
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Take a breath and go like, okay, I got a couple more months of opportunity.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, my manager sent tapes and tapes and tapes to Saturday Night Live saying, you know, this is, he really wants it, blah, blah, blah. And so I got an audition for Saturday Night Live. This was my first of two auditions. My first one, I went to do stand-up, my troll bit, on stage at the Comic Strip here in New York. And I remember going in,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And having my one outfit that I owned that I thought was the best. And, you know, some shirt from The Gap or something. And Nike sneakers that were like, it was such a big deal. I only wore them on special occasions. And this was it. And I went on stage with my troll doll. And I saw Lorne was in the audience. He had his hat on. He's the founder.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, he's Creative Saturday Night Live. And now the late night on The Tonight Show. And I remember going on stage, and as soon as I did my first impression, I knew it just didn't work. I didn't have the audience. It was cut down from a 10-minute act to, I think, three minutes. And I had to catch the audience, hook them in three minutes, and leave. And I started the first 20 seconds.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I could tell, this is bad. And it was sweaty. It was a bad audition. And I left, and I go... We went to a diner next door to the club with my manager, and I had coffee. It was very depressing. Like, wow, that was it. That was my first Saturday Night Live. Lorne Michaels, who's the creator of the show, was there. That was my big opportunity, and I blew it. All right, so let me fix you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It'll be fine. Let's figure it out. Went back to LA. They said, you didn't get it. How did that feel? For some reason, at that point, I don't remember. I was a bit numb, I think, then. And I think I was on. I was starting to work on my act and really getting into stand-up. And I just kind of kept thinking in my head, I have to get another shot.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
another chance at auditioning or showing them what I could really do because that was just not the best that I could do. But it wasn't too long after that where I got another phone call from Sarah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
23.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Were you actually? Yeah, I wrote that in something, in some journal or something.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
If I don't get on Saturday Night Live by the age of 25, then I'll kill myself. Did you mean that? Yeah, I did. But again, I knew that I was going to be on Saturday Night Live, so I guess I didn't really mean it. Because I was going to be on Saturday Night Live before I was 25.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I just, I knew that I was going to be honest.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But did you think when you were typing?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, I think I typed it out, but again, I was into computers, so I think I typed it. I think it's on some file somewhere. I think I said I would kill myself. But I definitely said, you know, yeah, 25 was my thing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't even know what the joke was. And he kind of ruined it. I go, why are they laughing? But I didn't quite, but he would, my dad would tape music videos. You know, we'd have these shows in America, you know, called like USA Night Flight or Friday Night Videos. And he taped these music videos.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah. So then I said, do you want me to do the troll doll? And they go, no, we'd rather you not do the troll dolls because we've seen that already. Okay. Was that the end of the troll doll? Well, that was my whole act. I don't have much more. That's all I did was the troll doll act. So I'm like, what do I do?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So I just kind of did the troll doll act under a guise of a different thing where it's like a celebrity charity or, you know, so, you know, I think it was.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
That was my big moment. That was the biggest moment for me. That's crazy. That was the moment in the audition, too, that changed everything. Because I was doing a bunch of impressions, and before I did that, I'm so nervous, but now I'm on the actual stage, and you're there, and the... A producer comes over and says, Jimmy Fallon. They go, yeah, come with us.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They go, just to let you know, Lorne Michaels doesn't laugh, so don't let that throw you if you're doing your act. They go, great, thank you. And then they go, now go get hair and makeup. I go, wow, how cool, hair and makeup. I go get hair and makeup. They're doing my hair. They're putting makeup on me because they're broadcasting my audition to California so that the heads of NBC can see.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And the guy and girl doing my hair and makeup go, just so you know, Lorne doesn't really laugh in these auditions, so don't let that throw you. I go, okay, yeah, that's what I heard. Great, thank you. I go, get your microphone on.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
So they're putting a microphone on me and a mic pack, and the audio guy goes, just a little advice, Lorne doesn't really laugh, so if you do your thing, I go, what is this guy's problem? Why is he not laughing? He's in the wrong business. I mean, this isn't a comedy show. And so as I was doing that audition, I did an impression of Adam Sandler, which is what you just played.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I remember at the time it was kind of new because Adam just left Saturday Night Live and no one was really doing Adam Sandler. And I was doing, you know, like, whatever. And I remember Lauren started laughing. And I go, that's cool. That's a cool story. Even if I don't get Saturday Night Live, but I just knew that he started laughing. He put his head in his hand and he was laughing.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
He would watch them on Saturdays and go tape to tape of what videos we could see that wasn't offensive at all or sexually inappropriate or something too advanced for us or something.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I go, that's a good story. I'll tell my kids. I made Lorne Michaels laugh on Saturday Night Live, on the set of Saturday Night Live. I wasn't really on the show, but I was on the set. And I remember doing that and feeling good about the audition. Like I left that going, that went as good as it could go. You know, that was the best I can, that's the best I can give him. That was it.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I remember one of the producers, Marcy Klein, came up to me and said, grabbed my hand.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You got to feel good. And I was like, and I just felt like, okay, if they're saying it, I feel good. Then you didn't hear, I didn't hear back for a couple of weeks or whatever. It's like, it's crazy how long you wait. Cause you, and they go, look, we like Jimmy. We saw him at the comedy club and we were looking for a different direction, you know, for that audition.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I think they hired Tracy Morgan. So they were going in a different direction, the first audition. But this one, they called, they go, Lauren wants to meet you and talk to you. He's going to be out in LA. And he had an office on the Paramount lot. And so I drove into the Paramount lot. I get my name to the front gate. It's a great, it's a great studio. It feels like you're in the business.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't know if you've ever been to the Paramount lot, but the giant gates and it's a movie set and the gates open and you go to a parking spot and there's actors walking around. It just feels like you're in the business. And it's nerve wracking. I went to Lauren's office. He had like a, you know, some office on the, on the lot.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I remember going into his office and everything was white and it kind of felt heavenly almost. And you're just like, and I sat across the desk from him and he goes, Jimmy, do you wear wigs? And I was like, oh, no, I do this to my hair. I just spike it up. He's like, no, no, no, I'm saying for characters and stuff. Have you done characters where you wear wigs and stuff?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I go, no, because we want you for the show. And I just think, you know, with more practice and if you try to do different, as soon as he, whatever he was saying, I couldn't hear it. The rest was slow motion. I was like. He just said, I got Saturday Night Live. I did it. I got Saturday Night Live. It's happening. I couldn't believe it. And I go, okay. And I shook his hand.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Funny, life at the party, hardworking, very Brooklyn, very New York. He sang in a doo-wop group on the street corner. So he would go, not professionally, but just that was one of the things he did in high school. And then he also fought in gangs.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I go, I hope I make you proud. And I left, and I think I pulled over to the first payphone I could get to and called my mom. I'm like, I just got Saturday Night Live. And it was like, wah! You know, you know.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
you know it was just it's crazy the whole thing's crazy i'm coming back to new york because i'm going to be on the show that i tried to be on my whole life i did it it's happening and here we go and it was like wow and i said goodbye to la and my roommates and everyone's just so happy for me and And then I went to New York and got an apartment in Midtown. It was the greatest thing.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I took Siren Live and went from there. did a couple of movies. I met my wife. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. And then, uh, I didn't work for a while, uh, after the movies. And then Lauren asked me to be on, to host late night and replace Conan O'Brien. I did. I worked hard at that. And then I got asked to replace Jay Leno on the tonight show. And I did that. And here I am.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Uh, and I'm hosted the tonight show and, crazy life and crazy opportunities. And it's just so interesting and fun.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah. You know, again, like it's the end of Rocky, you know, it's the thing. It's like, I did it. You did it. That's insane. You've got to be kidding me. You did it. What we all said you were going to do, but you went and actually, it's crazy. Not many people do this. And I was like, yeah. And to talk to your mom, who's your biggest fan and always believed in you, You know, that's emotional.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It's like, it's just, this is, how can this be? It's just, I don't know. It was just, it's just the whole thing's kind of crazy. It's amazing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Everything was what I dreamt. It was crazy. Everything. The announcer, Jimmy Fallon, him saying my name. I was like, dreamt of it. He was really saying it. I could watch him. I enjoyed every second of it. Every bit. The internet was happening at the time. And then people started getting, sending me fan letters and then web pages. And it was just like, you started getting famous.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
like um not just beat each other up gangs like i don't think anyone killed each other but this was back in the 50s where they just would one street corner would fight another street corner and they get together and just have a fist fight or something tough guy he's a tough guy yeah emotional no not emotional uh i've never seen my dad cry or any of that stuff affectionate Yeah.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And here's the New York City street. I walked on not too long ago being kind of afraid and intimidated. Now I'm walking and people are going, Jimmy, you know, and, and it's, and it's cool. And you go, yeah. What weren't you prepared for? getting rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, being told you're not funny, you know, haters.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
This is before Twitter and all that stuff, which is a different ballgame that I wasn't ready for either. But you think that it's just going to be, oh, this is cool, everyone will be great. But then just people... Not everyone's rooting for you. Some people want you to fail. People's jobs are to take me down, you know, and to put bad press out and stuff. It's just, that's their job.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And you're just like, ooh, I didn't think it was... I don't live in that world. I don't believe that it's real, but it kind of is real. And you go, oh, people are just going to be mean. And you've got to, again, just toughen up and get through it and just keep your head down and keep being funny and just keep doing things and keep being creative.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And just if you move that out, you realize it's not even real. It's real, but it's noise. And it's just it doesn't affect you. You can only believe in yourself and know that you have to Keep going. And if you keep scoring, that will show. Your work will show. That stuff I wasn't prepared for of dealing with the overcoming that, you know.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah. Overcoming like hating on you or. you know, saying you're not good or something. It's like, you don't think that's going to happen, but it, you know, it will, if you're successful, because someone will be like, uh, You know, someone's not going to like you no matter what.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, it is the absolute worst. I hate it. I want everyone to like me. I can't stand it. I go, oh my gosh, what can I do to make you like me? I think the answer is you can't make everyone like you. You just have to do what you do and do the best at what you do and be happy with yourself.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, you quit or you change you to be, I guess, what the person who hates you likes. Someone else will just hate that. Yeah, the original people will hate that, that you changed and you go, oh, yeah. And then you'll hit yourself. Yeah. I mean, I love music, but I remember I loved the Beastie Boys growing up. And there's that one line Mike D says, be true to yourself and you will never fall.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And it's like, kind of is the move. Just be true to yourself. Then there's no, everyone can say whatever they want.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
No. No, I just kind of lived through it and go like, yeah. I think I'll figure it out. I think fame was fun. It's cooler. It's cooler than cool. It's like, wow, this is what I thought it would be. But it's also, at the end of the day, it's the work and the stuff that you do and the stuff that comes out of it where I'm most proud of, where I'm like, oh, I get to do this.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I think this bit could be fun. I remember we had Mick Jagger on the show And Lorne said, Mick will do a sketch if anyone has an idea. And I go, I could do an idea where I'm the reflection of Mick Jagger in the mirror. And I'm like, what? Don't shut up. And Lorne goes, please don't do that. Absolutely, please don't do that. He goes, it's been done. Mark's brothers have done it.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It's just Lucille Ball. It's been done. Please don't do that. I go, OK. He goes, but go pitch Mick ideas. I go, I don't want to pitch him ideas. You're the producer. I'm nervous. I don't even know Mick Jagger. He's like, just go in and pitch me ideas. So I wrote out like 10 ideas. I'm like, hey, Mick. He's like, he's very nice.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I mean, I got I love you's and hugs and stuff like that. Yeah. I mean, not overly, not the way I think I am. I'm hugging my kids every single day and telling them how proud I am of them and saying I love you. And they say I love you back. And, you know, I'm overly, you know, where I didn't have that. You know, I think it was just my mom was more than that.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I go, you know, I was thinking maybe me and you, I play, you play Keith and I'm you. And, you know, we work at a, you know, a sunglass hut or something like that. And he's like, yeah. Yeah. And I go, well, then I have this other idea, you know, where, you know, you and I work in an ice cream shop, but we're, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, nah, nah, don't really like that.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't want to do that. And I go, all right. And I'm going down the list and the ideas are getting worse and worse. And I'm just like, oh, my gosh. And then out of desperation, I go, or we could do something where you come in your dressing room and I'm your reflection in the mirror. And you're like, why am I doing this shot done in the 70s and done in the 80s? And why am I doing that?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Why am I doing that? And he goes, oh, I like that. And I go. So I go back to Lauren's office. I go, good news, bad news. Good news. Nick wants to do a sketch. Bad news is it's the mirror sketch. And so Lauren was like, okay. We'll do it. And we wrote it in a night, which had never been done.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Well, I was beyond obsessed. I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live. So I worked at the improv where I think the paycheck was $7.25. You didn't really eat much. I would turn cardboard boxes on the street into tables. It's tough. It's a lot of rejection. But the stage time was priceless.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't think, when I was on the show, we wrote it on a Thursday night, rehearsed it once on Friday, and did the show on Saturday. And it worked, and it really worked. It might be one of the best sketches I was ever in. And Mick was so happy that he was so giddy, and he kind of shook my hand through the mirror, which is funny, because I'm supposed to be his reflection.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And it was just kind of cool. And I remember one of those things where I'm like, the room was shaking. And I go, that's cool. Like, dude, that's beyond what I dreamt I could do. You know, being on Saturday Night Live is one dream. But now you're doing it sketched with one of your rock idols. And scoring, and it's great, and it's really funny, and everyone's having a good time.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But that's something, and it wasn't meant to be. It wasn't written. It all just kind of happened last minute. But those little moments all kind of add up, and you go, oh my gosh, this is so crazy that this is all happening.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I'm interested, you know, in people, whoever it may be, whether it's Bruce Springsteen or, you know, Angelina Jolie or something. You're talking to them. It's like, talk to me about this thing or what. I don't know. It's like also with my show, I got to jump right in. I have probably 10 minutes. Interview, you know, which is you got to get in there fast.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And you're like, I got to make them comfortable and know that I'm not going to make them look bad. I just want to talk to them and go like, hey, blah, blah, blah. Or I'll make a thing or I'll just say some joke or I don't know what I'll do. Yeah.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
really and then they'll be themselves and then you go now it's flowing and you go yeah yeah yeah and then you can get into the movie talk and you know you know and sell the product or whatever you know which is whatever but it's that first kind of five to seven minutes where you get in there and then you start playing with them and you start like if you can get a laugh out of floyd mayweather or something it's cool how do you make them feel comfortable
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't know. I don't have an exact recipe. I will tell you that I go in before the show to their dressing room to say hello before the show.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I think that was kind of put on my mom as you're the emotional, you know, you hug the kids and love them. And he was just more like, yep, I love you. You know, that's great. He was rooting for me always, you know, but, you know, a little harsh, but not, not crazy harsh. Like we, you know, yeah, nothing, nothing that crazy.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Just to say hi. How's it going? And then I'll just talk to them. Sometimes I talk to them longer than the interview because we'll get talking about something or life or some bit or, you know. you know, their parents or something, you know, just get into real life talk. And by the time they come out, they feel like we've already talked. So it's less pressure.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I think also after 16 years of talking to, I've seen everyone at their highest. I've seen everyone at their lowest. I've seen people date people they shouldn't date. I've seen people get married and have babies. And it's just really fun to watch. And it's fun to go back. And now, even if I see these people once a year, twice a year, I feel like I know them a little bit. And you're like, oh, yeah.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Floyd, good to see you. What's up? Or Mick, how's it going? How's your kids? We can just talk. And we're caught up. And you're like, oh, yeah. And it kind of feels like maybe it doesn't to them. But to me, it feels like I just saw them yesterday and that we're Even though it's probably I haven't seen them in a year, it feels like I just saw you. You go, oh, yeah.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I don't think you ever will. There's just so many interesting people.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
There's so many people in this world. And it doesn't end. I mean, four years, I'm trying to think of where that was. That was around the end of late night for me. I mean, you're just doing all the things. You're just expanding. I mean, but you're working hard. I mean, you're trying. I think just keep trying. If you stop trying, you get boring tomorrow. But here you are in New York with 10 cameras.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah. I mean, you're not in London. You're not in your kitchen. This is fake. Don't break the illusion. This is fake. This wall's not real. This is not... There's a light here. This is all fake. This is all a fake thing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
This is all a studio. But that's how you make it not get old. But this is, I think how you make it exciting is you got to put the work in. Don't get tired. You got to show up. And you always got to show up. You got to be there. And you got to be there for your audience. And you do that. You show up. You do all the stuff. I mean, you have to.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And that's, like you said, it's kind of a seven days a week thing, but it's every day you go, what can I do? What can I do? What can I do? It just becomes part of your life. It's brushing your teeth. It's like, oh, yeah, I guess brushing your teeth. Someone at one point told me I had to do that. But now I do it every day, so I don't think about it. I brush them three times, four times a day now.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Start putting more pressure on yourself for any little challenges or trying something. You go like, I've always wanted to put out a Christmas album, you know, and just come out with and write original songs, you know. Trying to write songs is hard enough. Trying to write 20 original Christmas songs? It's insane. And what hasn't been said?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I have an idea for a kid's book that I think could be funny. Yeah, Dada was the first one that was a big deal. It's really the same word on every page. It's just getting your kid to say Dada. I thought that no one's done this. So I go, basically, if you get to the end of the book, it's you saying the word dada so many times that I think your baby has to eventually just go dada. So it'll work.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And all my female fans were like, really? You have two daughters and you're not going to write Mama? Because this is the real truth. Everything is Mama. So that's kind of the same book, except I changed it to you want the kids to say Dada and they just keep saying Mama.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah. Gloria is my mom, yeah. Sadly passed away. I miss my mom. My mom's name is Gloria. My sister's name is Gloria. My dad's name is Jim, and I'm named Jim. A very unoriginal parent. Couldn't come up with any other name. Those are the perfect names for you. But yeah, my mom was my, she rooted for me. That was my number one fan. I was the golden child in her head.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Did I post these? Where would you find these? I went through your house. Oh, my God. This is my Catholic teacher, kindergarten teacher. That's Mrs. Fulling. That's Frank Gentile, we talked about earlier. Yeah. My friend Steve Teabout. These are my dorm room friends. I would just stand up with Frank, and Steve was kind of the artist in the group. Is that Gloria underneath? This is Gloria.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, that's my mom. That's my mom in our kitchen where we spent many a time. We partied many times in that kitchen.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, it's the toughest thing that I had to go through, I think. You know that it's going to come eventually, but it was just so sad because she was so much joy in my life. I just miss her, you know. But you don't stop thinking about the people.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, and you think about all these things and you look at all these other photos and you go, yeah, that was probably, she probably gave me the microphone. My mom was probably here giving me the microphone. And when you think about people dying, especially when it happens for the first week, you go, I'm going to forget about them. And I can't. And you go, oh, it's so sad.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And then the truth is, it's just you don't. You don't forget about them, ever. They will never. They're in your life. You think about them in the weirdest moments. And you'll hear a song, and I'll hear like Duran Duran or something. I don't even know if my mom liked Duran Duran, but something reminded me of me and my mom, you know, thinking of my mom.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm listening to Hungry Like the Wolf or Rio and I'm thinking about my mom and getting sad. But you do, you have those moments when it's like, but it's more happier moments and you don't get that emotional, you know.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
if i you know want to i can just start crying because i just miss her but i i i think of the best times and you know i think i wouldn't be who i am with without her you know when you say that you miss her you've said that a few times what what precisely is it that you miss she had a great sense of humor and she's always you know and i think there's so many things um
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
talking about probably talking about myself a lot like did you see the thing i did or the thing or i want her to bring it up like that thing you did was great and then it makes you feel good so i kind of missed the positive reinforcement the feedback positive feedback of something that i did that i kind of miss and her you know complaining about something or talking about something she doesn't like or i feel like that would kind of give me material and i miss like
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
you know? Yeah. Yeah. You kind of, yeah. I, I think I said everything. I think I said everything.
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I did. I said everything. She knew that I loved her and you know, it just, it kind of happened fast, which I kind of hope, uh, I think that was a good thing. I hope it doesn't happen slow for you. Cause I don't know if I could take that. This happened really quickly. And so I was like, Are you able to grieve?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Whatever I did, she was like, that's my kid.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, I went for it. My wife was really helpful with that. She was like, go for it. Just cry and just grieve because eventually you actually just have to stop crying. There's no way you can keep crying. There's no way. But you feel like there's a hole in your heart and a hole in your lungs. You feel unhealthy and you feel like you have to go to the hospital, that you're going to die.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, you just have to go through that and you go, and then you just get it out of your system. And then, you know, as time goes on, you just start being able to laugh at the things, kind of happy memories, you know, and sad she's not here anymore, but Glad for what she gave me and when all the memories, I mean, it's way outweighs the sad thing. I just wish she was around is the only thing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And she would always root me out. Whatever it is I did, she would laugh, you know. And I miss her not being around, you know, because I would talk to her every day, you know, sometimes multiple times a day and, you know, talk about Saturday Night Live. And she'd watch the show and she'd sketch me. She thought it was funny.
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Yeah. Yes. You still do it for them. In a weird way, I still do this for my mom. I think of her when I do things. I go, she would be psyched. She would be proud. That would make her laugh. I still think of her for most things I do. I go, she would love that. That would make her laugh. That would make her proud. She'd be like, oh, that's funny. Or that's good that you did that.
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Yeah. Maybe around, I mean, I'm 50 right now, but I think, you know, I think about my parents, they were never healthy. You know, they used to drink a lot. At the time they smoked, you know, when everyone smoked. I think there's a picture of my mom pregnant with me drinking and smoking, which is fantastic. I mean, gosh, terrible. But man, I turned out okay, right?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Great. Listen to this back. Yeah, maybe I didn't turn up. Maybe this is a lesson. But yeah, I think about being around for my kids and trying to be alive and kind of... financially stable for my kids too, because I don't think my parents thought about any of that stuff.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They just go, no, just have, it was a lot of fun and like a lot of support and like, that was a lot of the thing, you know, but they didn't really, they didn't work out. I think we bought a treadmill twice, you know, different times, just tried to make it something that we would all do and no one ever did it.
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Yeah, I'm definitely eating better. I work out when I can. You know, I walk every day. I love walking. But yeah, I try to, you know, I don't drink as much as I used to. And, you know, I get checkups. Not that I'm unhealthy, but I think, you know, I just want to be around for a long time. I don't even know how long I want to live, to be honest.
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I don't want to be that old that I'm older than everyone. I mean, I want to have people my age. I don't want to be 130 and no one else is like, dude, that guy won't die. I mean, eventually it should happen. I just want to be – I want it to all happen kind of in the right way. And then eventually as you get – you go on and I'll pass away. But I want to be –
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I mean, I would – she was part of my life and I think part of what built my confidence, you know. Even as an adult?
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Yeah. I would call her and just go, what's going on? You know, she loved to talk. That was her, she was great at that. She had one of those phones that had the phone cords that was so stretched out from walking all around the house and talking all day that the phone cord probably was two miles long. I mean, it was a pile of spaghetti on the floor.
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Not really. I feel like this is a good gig for that type of aging. I think the older you get, the better the talk show gets. Like, you know, Johnny Carson did it for 30 years, I want to say. And, you know...
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i think i can do it as long as there's an audience and i feel like there is always going to be an audience i feel like i know everyone's like tv is dying you know the ratings are dying but i don't think it is i think tv is just as powerful as it ever was i think they're making some of the best entertainment the best shows are on television if you call it something else if you call it netflix or if you call it
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you know, a live podcast or whatever it is, you're still watching. You need entertainment and thank God for entertainment because you just find yourself when you're, when you're needing some out, out letter creative or something, or even a break or, whatever you want to call it, meditation, television's there for you.
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You can turn on television and watch a movie, watch a show, and you're like, ah, this is great. For an hour of my life, I don't have to think about my problems. I'm thinking about their problems, or I'm watching a reality show. Whatever show it is you're watching, but your brain's moving. It's not like your brain's shut off. You're listening to this podcast. You're not just zoning out going.
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You're actually thinking while you're listening to this. And this is changing the way you think. You may not agree that I think you might think television is over. But that's interesting. Still, your brain's moving. And this is fun for people to listen to. And I think entertainment is always going to be there, has to be around.
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And I think it's moving this way and that way, but I still feel like eventually there's a screen in your house or wherever you're living that you're going to want to see things on, whether it's going to be through your eyeglasses or if it's going to be through your contact lenses or your phone or whatever it is. I don't think it's going to be the Apple goggles, but they have to try.
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Yeah, the last one was called Holiday Seasoning, which it's a Christmas album, but I wanted to create like a new verb. Like, hey, we're all holiday seasoning. Like, are you holiday seasoning? I'm celebrating Hanukkah. I'm celebrating Kwanzaa. We're all holiday seasoning. It didn't take off, but you know what?
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It's so, I go, gosh, you should get a cordless phone. You won't even believe how your life changes. You can go anywhere, Mom. But she loved to walk around and talk. So she could talk all day long. But then she would call me and say, I saw you on TV. If she saw, I go, I know, Mom. I'm on that show. She was like, you're on Ellen today. I go, I know, Mom. I was there. That was me. I was on it.
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Maybe in the future, maybe, you know, in 2050, people will all be saying, hey, are you holiday seasoning? You know, yeah, we're all, I don't know. I don't know if I created what I wanted to on that one. But you got the ice cream, the Tonight Dough. Tonight Dough ice cream. We've raised a lot of money for Serious Fun, which is a great charity.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It's a great ice cream, by the way, but it actually goes to a great cause, so it's a win-win. I was reading about it before. It's really cool, yeah.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yes, gobstompers were a sneaker that... We came up with that the more you wear them, the more the leather wears down and they become different colors. So eventually every pair of shoes become unique to that person. There's no two pairs of the same shoe.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I like that.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Yeah, I do. I like that. I like making people happy. It makes me happy. And now you've got two beautiful children. It's the greatest thing. You're a dad. It's the greatest thing. I'm a dad. Can you believe that? This guy would be a dad. This guy would be a dad. This is the silliest. And I think I'm a good dad. They're the best kids. I love them so much. They're so fun. They're funny.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
They make jokes. They're interesting.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I'll tell you one thing that surprised me. I don't want to tell you about your own kids because no spoilers. You're just going to figure it all out. And when they get to a certain age, we'll talk. And you'll be like, dude. And they go, yeah, of course. I don't want to ruin it for you. It's great. It's a lot. It's great. But the one thing I didn't think would happen to me is I like other kids more.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I actually appreciate other kids. And they go, hey, are you not sharing with that? Or that kid's got no friends. Go talk to that kid. Because you go, that could happen to me, my kid. So you start thinking about other kids. Hey, no, no, no, be nice to him.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Or he's, you know, it's like, and then the screaming baby in the restaurant that once when you were younger, you go like, will you shut that baby up? Now you go like, dude, give me the kid. I'll take the kid for a walk. I understand what it's like to get out and be a parent and you don't want the kid to cry. I get all that now. And you go, oh, I'm much more patient with that.
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Be nice to people. Give when you can. Make people smile.
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Then go do what you want to do. I think that will make you successful. Do what you want to do. If you do what you want to do, you'll be successful.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But she was my number one fan and loved bits that I would do. And she was amazing. One of the most interesting people ever. Both of them together are kind of cartoon characters. And by the end, they both kind of couldn't really hear each other. It was a lot of like, what? And my dad would go, huh?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You know, maybe someone that laughs at everything. I don't really laugh at everything. I do have a good time, but I don't laugh at everything. I think one way I'm misunderstood is maybe people don't think that I know what I'm doing or that I'm just living through life like I don't know what's going on, but I do know what's going on. And I do care. And I put a lot of work into what I do.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I really put a lot of thought and care into things that I put out.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I would say he had a good time.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Keep doing what you're doing. You're great.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I had the greatest time. It was so fun. I want to say thank you to every camera. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
It's a deep one. Jesus. I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be shocked. I go, wow. I probably would take credit for it. I'd probably say I knew that. And then you go, wait, what? You knew that? Yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if all of this was just based on what I'm doing. It's fascinating. If that's the real truth, how fascinating. What a great experiment this was. And I hope I passed.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Huh? What? Huh? And they just say, what? Huh? Until I interrupt and go, stop. Just stop talking. Because let's just move on. You can't hear each other. This is insane. But I wish I could give you the best story of kind of what my mom was like. I mean, I remember going home to the house where I grew up in Saugerties, New York, after I was on Saturday Night Live. Or maybe even during.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Again, I'm a people pleaser. Whoever is playing this game, I hope they're enjoying the game they're playing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And someone's playing us.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But don't you think whoever's playing us is enjoying themselves? We're good characters.
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And they'll, oh no, it's like Toy Story. They don't play us anymore. Yeah. They just like, they're off doing some things and they're like, forgot. And we're like fucking around. Yeah. And then they go, oh, I didn't play that in so long. Yeah. Jimmy Fallon game. Oh God. No, we don't. I don't play that game anymore.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
I got an audition for Saturday Night Live. This was my big opportunity. I remember going on stage, did my first impression, and I blew it. That was probably my lowest moment. It was very depressing.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
No, I had him create a business. But they forgot to turn it off. Oh my gosh. But yeah. Well, hopefully that you don't have to use, you don't have to play me anymore. I'm going to get to the next level.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
You're the best. This was so fun. Thank you so much.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Thank you.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
And I came home and my mom's like, let's go out to dinner. And I go, okay. I go, I don't really need to. I live in Manhattan. It's some of the best restaurants. I come home because I want home-cooked, you know, meals, you know. But I was, I go, sure. I go, but just don't make a big deal. Don't embarrass me. She's like, I'm not going to embarrass you. I'm not. I go, okay, let's go.
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So we go into this restaurant, and we sit in, and we sit down, and she goes, I'm kind of getting a draft. And I go, no, no, no, we're not moving. We're not making a big deal. Remember, that's the deal. We're just not making a scene. We're having dinner. Like you said, we're going to go. Okay, fine. So we're sitting there, and she goes, let's order. I go, great. And she goes, I'll have this.
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My dad's like, I'll have steak. And I go, she goes, I'll have the lamb chops or something. I go, great. So we're waiting, and they come over with my dad and my meal, but they forget my mom's meal. They go, you know, we didn't put in the lamb. She's like, okay. So we can't really eat. So she goes, thank you. As they leave, she goes, I'm not going to eat.
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I go, well, you can't do that because you're going to make a scene. You have to eat. She goes, no, I'm fine. I don't care. I go, please don't make a big deal. She goes, I'm not making a big deal. Just where's my thing? I ordered it. I go, don't make a big deal. Finally, they bring over this lamb thing. After this whole thing, I go, great, just eat it. She's like, okay.
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So she's eating out of spite and she takes the first bite and she goes, and I go, oh my God, she's not joking. And she's like pointing at her throat. And I go, oh my God. So my dad sticks his finger down my mom's throat and he's like, and she's like, making these noises. And I go, oh, this is a nightmare. And then some woman runs over. She goes, I'm a nurse. I'm a nurse.
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And knocking over tables and knocking everything over and grabs my mom and picks up my mom and gives her the Heimlich. And my mom is making a noise that I've never heard anyone ever. She was making. I've never heard my mom make this. She was going like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. And then she pulled it and then a lamb ball flew out of my mom's mouth and hit the wall.
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And the whole restaurant is just looking at us. And they sit down and she's crying, you know, and she's, you know, alive. And my dad goes, all right, let's just finish dinner. And I go, finish dinner. It's over. We're going home. We're buying a bottle of wine for that lady. And we're getting out of here. My dad was like, that lady should have been in her own business.
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Maybe it was mom's time to go, you know? You know, but they were that weird and funny where they're like odd people, but always making jokes. But that was so and it was embarrassing. But, you know, I remember telling that story, you know, and she at a party and she would love to hear it because that was just very her.
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
Did you mean that?
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Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But I just knew that I would be on Sarah Lynn. It was going to happen. And against all odds, I did it.
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And, you know, she she just did stuff like that where just like, oh, this can't be real.
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That's a great question. I would say probably my mom. I think I would like to make her laugh because she had a great laugh. They both did. But I think of both of them, I think my mom would be the one because she was a fan of mine. So it's almost like going like, do you like my new song? Do you like the second record? Yeah. If you're a fan of the Beatles, you know, you're like, do you like Sgt.
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Pepper? You know, and she'd be like, I like it, I like this, you know, because I could tell that she's a fan of mine. So she's like, oh, I like this new thing you're doing, or I like the song you did. I think that was great because I could get feedback from someone I could tell was kind of studying what I was doing.
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Say it. Crazy. Crazy. Mental, yeah. Crazy about it. You know, I never... And I still, to this day, I don't care about money. I never cared about money. I never did anything for... I don't... I just don't do it. I never did it for money. And I always just... I worked because I liked working. You know, I liked... I worked since I was 13 because I enjoyed...
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i guess getting a paycheck but you know and paying for things but i don't know what things i was paying for i was 13 years old but i mean i liked the idea of going into work and working nine to five day and you know doing overtime and i i looked forward to working wherever it was and like maybe it was because i was trying to be my dad because he would go to work in the mornings and then i would see him at night you know when he came home but
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I remember just not caring about money, and my mom, I would always put our laundry in the laundry basket or whatever, and my mom would do the laundry. She'd be like, Jimmy, I found $5 in your jeans. And I go, okay, yeah, yeah. She goes, thanks. She goes, next time I'm going to keep it. And I go, do it. I could care less. What am I going to do?
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She's like, you know, and my dad's like, you got to start caring about money. I go, I don't. I don't think I ever will. I just don't. It never was a thing for me. I never cared about, oh, I got the most. Or I got paid, blah, blah, blah. I just loved the experience of it all. The experience of... Any work. Any work. It led to comedy as well as when I did comedy shows.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
When you worked at the Improv in LA, it was a great comedy club in Los Angeles on Melrose Avenue. You would go up and I think the paycheck was $7.25. That's what you get paid total. There's no way you could do that for the money because, I mean, it's worthless. What's $7 going to do for you?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Jimmy Fallon: I Wasn’t Prepared For The Hate… It Was Brutal. I Was Starving, Living on $7.25!
But it was the getting on stage, the stage time that was priceless and building an act and trying to get a persona and build a brand and build a character and work in your act that could lead to a bigger act or a Saturday night gig. A Saturday night gig paid maybe $20 a gig, and that was kind of okay money. And they would also feed you on a Saturday, which is great because I had no food.
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The Five 05-28-2025
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