Raanan Hershberg

I did it for like, I got super, I was doing 90 milligrams a day. Is that a lot, Jamie? It's a lot.

It's crystal meth for nerds, but it's crystal meth. I mean, it's fucking, it's intense. I was so cocky. I wrote poetry. That's how high I was. I thought I could write poetry.

The whole thing was meth. They were all methed up. They were methed up when they fucking did the Blitzkrieg. I do a bit about that now, about Hitler being on speed. I'm obsessed with Hitler. Oh, man. I have, like, one of my bookshelves is just all Holocaust and Hitler books. Really? Yeah. But I'm dying to read that. I know Goring was... on everything. They were all on everything.

Gordon was on like huge painkillers the whole time. He was Hitler.

So they're just like hot. It's like when you get high and you run over someone. They were like, what the fuck did I do when I was high?

You know what?

No, that's insane. Yeah, it is. Like, the Nazis were just all on drugs, which is just like a crazy. I mean, the whole Third Reich is surreal. Look at this.

Also... I'd say that's not even the big problem at this point.

If she isn't medicated, she's a psycho. Right.

But also that's how cars get, they catch fire like that. No, that's insane. Yeah, no, I, uh... What is this guy saying?

Yeah. Your world is over. Or you're like, oh, shit, I fucked up. Let me say something to get out of it right now. You're a cynic. I am an optimist. I look for the good in people. I did a show once when I was younger. I guess I still have dark jokes, but I'm having some joke about SIDS, the sudden infant death. I was doing it. It was some pizza shop in my hometown in an audience.

One person in the audience looked really upset. I go, what? You don't like the joke? They were like, our kid died of SIDS. And I immediately like went into like, you know, like when you were starting out, I just went into the oldest, safest material. I'm like, so I'm broke. Anyone else overdraft? You know, just go right into it. And then at the end, I went up to him and her and I apologized.

And he was like, oh, we were just joking. I was like, that's the worst heckle ever. Oh, that's so mean. But I stopped doing that kind of joke afterwards because I was like, it's fine to do those kind of jokes, but you have to be prepared. Right. I was not prepared. I don't want to upset people like that, so I just stopped doing it. Especially someone who lost their kid.

Right, so I was like, I can't do those jokes.

No, no, no, of course.

It's a taste thing. Yeah, exactly. But when you start out, no one knew who I was at that pizza shop in Bloomington, Indiana.

Okay, that's great. That's great. I've said horrible shit, but it's not on film.

Of course, yeah. And you have to like, that's why when they Luke the Louie thing, it was any comic who criticized him should lose their comedian badge right away. They have to me, yeah. If you release something when they weren't planning for it, it doesn't matter what they said in it, you're at fault for releasing something.

You learn, Louis, people like Louis, the great comics are great at learning how to make a hard joke work. Yes. And he hadn't maybe developed the cushions yet on stage, but they would have come. He hadn't done any comedy at all in 10 months.

I think anyone who criticized him about that was the kind of comedian who doesn't take risks. Because if you take any risks, you wouldn't want stuff to be released.