Sam Tripoli

And this is kind of a great example of how much the industry hates me.

So Comedy Central back in the day did something called Pitch Pilot, where they gave you five grand and you showed them the show you would like to do.

So we do this big show.

My girlfriends did like Michael Jackson videos, did that famous Russian concert like 30 years ago in Russia.

I'm in a Britney Spears video.

I'm in a Michael Jackson video.

She was doing all these high budget stuff and she helped me create this live show.

So we do the live show.

It's the first time they've sold out this theater, which is weird because it's only 100 seats, but they're like, we've never sold out these.

All these people that are huge now, they were unknowns then, they were all in the crowd.

We do the show, it blows up.

Week later, my manager calls Comedy Central.

They're like, what'd you think?

They go, we love the show.

We hate Sam Tripoli.

Yeah.

And that is the story of me in Hollywood, right?

They love my ideas.

They just hate me.

So they try to do my ideas without me.