Raanan Hershberg

You're not supposed to use your own supply. That's like a biggie. Well, he didn't follow the rules. He's not following the Coke protocol.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I did a lot of coke back in the day, too. I mean, you see a lot of sunrises, which is pretty. That's a good way to look at it. I've seen way more sunrises now than I would have if I didn't do cocaine.

Yeah, but as a kid, I didn't appreciate it. When you're a kid, you're never like, oh, look at a beautiful sunrise.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good point. Very good point.

That sounds like a profound line in a song. Yeah. Like a Dylan line.

Oh, yeah? It is. It's my favorite thing. It's a sacred time. I have this comedian friend of mine, great comic, Ben Moore. He had an awful sleeping schedule where he would literally go to bed at 9 in the morning. and woke up at 5 p.m. and just started his day when everyone was ending their day. Was he a comic? Yeah, he was a comic. That's comic life. Yeah, that's a little too much. That's a lot.

You need sunlight.

But I like sunlight. Yeah, I like to, you know.

Not on cocaine. It's very impressive. Just high on life?

Oh, you're a big pool guy?

I'm impressed that you could do that without cocaine. I feel like that's very impressive.

That's great. They always talk about the moment where you start making it and you can quit your day job. Yeah. That never happened. I would have day jobs and make a little money on comedy, and then the day job would want to fire me because I wasn't there enough. But I'd like, no, I need this job. I don't make enough in comedy. And then they'd fire me. I'd be forced to focus on comedy.

I think like 11. Oh, wow.

No, no. I only had like shitty like kind of like part-time job. Right. I think around not – I started opening for Kathleen Madigan on the road and that's when I first started having money. And she was great and it was great working with her. She's hilarious. She's amazing. I really learned a lot from her and she's one of the best people.

And that's where I first kind of had money, where I could actually move to New York. I think I had part-time jobs, and then I was just living with my parents and doing comedy on the road, going to the loony bins and shit, taking greyhounds. I took greyhounds everywhere. Nice. I paid my dues.

I would take an 18-hour greyhound.

It's insane.

It's like the DMV on wheels. It's just the most depressing people.

You're like, yeah, how did you even get on a bus? Oh, I've heard, like, the craziest shit. Like, the Greyhound is just, like, insane.

I used to have a bit about it because other comics have the observational airplane material, but I wasn't doing well enough to airplane. I'd open all my bits with Greyhound material. Oh, wow. Just got here from the Greyhound. I had a bit about how I was surprised the bus even stopped after that. Usually they just keep on going, hope the shit works itself out.