Joe Eszterhas

It never ends.

It never ends.

And I was laughing so hard that I couldn't wait to go out and get that videotape.

And I got that videotape, and I was only 19 at the time.

I had never even thought about doing stand-up yet.

But that was, like, one of the first times that I was like, oh, this is stand-up?

I didn't know that this was stand-up.

I thought stand-up was like, did you ever notice?

Like that kind of stuff that you'd see on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

I had no thought ever that this wild shit was stand-up.

And, you know, credit to HBO because...

Before then, you would never be able to see that kind of comedy.

The only way you'd be able to see it is in the movie theater.

It'd have to be like Richard Pryor, Live on the Sunset Strip, which predated that by a few years.

And no one had any understanding that there was this kind of stand-up comedy out there.

That this wild motherfucker who used to be a priest, he used to be a preacher.

Yeah, I know.

He comes to L.A.

and is this wild, coke-snorting, fucking demon comedian who's just different than anybody else before him and just changed comedy.

There's a few people, there's a few characters along the way that have just completely changed comedy.