Kevin James

See, we should tell people what it was.

So what it was during our time when we were young was the Montreal Comedy Festival was where young comedians would go up and you could kind of get a deal.

And that's where you got the deal to do the King Queens.

But once you get in, the thing about, people should know, like in the 90s, there was this thing that was happening where everybody looked at a comedian like, this could be the next Roseanne.

This could be the next Tim Allen.

This could be the next Seinfeld.

So every time they looked at you, they're like, what do you got?

What do you got for me?

And the agents would try to put it together as a sitcom.

And they had this showcase called the Montreal Comedy Festival, the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival.

And it was...

The most insane thing you would go there and it would change your life You could have one set one 15-minute set and all of a sudden you got a half a million dollars a hundred percent You have one thing one set that pops and people talking about there's a buzz Yeah, and it's like you're in your set and they have bidding wars Yes, like CBS would be Fox would be they were all be good throwing in and you know, there's guys who walk Do you remember chicken?

Chicken was the crazy guy.

Yes.

Yes.

Chicken got the deal that killed the deal.

Yes.

And I don't know how he did it.

And I wonder if he had a hype man, if you could have kept tricking people.

Maybe he just went off the rails with anxiety when success starts.