Rory Scovel
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How did Rory Scovel describe bombing onstage and its creative value?
My guest today is, he's very funny. You know what I was thinking about you? What? I don't think I've ever seen you bomb. Now, I haven't seen that many of your sets, but I can't, and I'm sure you bomb plenty. I do. But, you don't bomb without a fight. Meaning, you're not, you don't get smaller. Yeah. You don't feel defeated. You just...
i'm doing this well to me that just means that's the show that's like that you're bombing yes but it's just hard sometimes but i think it gets turned into or perceived as oh the show oh he's not doing well and so he's he's bombing but the reality is it's yeah the show isn't going the way everyone wanted but it still is the show and so you can make the bombing show it's a whole different premise and i gotta say when you're bombing and there's comics in the back and you play for them You sometimes leave going, I thought of two new jokes. I got more out of it than if I crushed. 100% do.
Right. His name's Roy Scoville, but you knew that. You clicked on it. Idiot. But what he does is he'll quit comedy He'll focus on his acting. He likes acting. Are you still talking to me? He's great at it, but dogs can do it. And dogs and children can do it. So why are we giving it awards? But dogs don't know they're doing it. So what? If you're good at acting, you shouldn't.
You shouldn't know you're doing it.
That's the most zen. Yes, Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't know. He thinks he's in a movie right now. He's lived those lives. I've abandoned my child! and he said but then he tore and then he'll say he's quitting then i'll next time i see he's on tour and he's talking about how much he loves the audience yeah so i don't know what's going on but he's uh he also has one of my funniest things that i can think of in terms of what you did one time in montreal He was doing fine, and he started flicking coins at the audience and saying, here, Canadians, take some of your stupid fake money. Which was so great and hostile. I look back and I realize that could have hurt a lot of people.
Into the dark, they can't see it. No, it's not good.
You're lucky there wasn't a class action lawsuit. It's Rory Scovel. You were on, what was the name of the physical?
I was on physical.
Can you believe I pulled that?
I remember that. I'm actually really impressed by that.
We're all going to do our part. Apple TV, which is a practice for being on other networks. No one will see the thing you're on. If you're on Ted Lasso and Shrink, if Brett Goldstein is involved, who's a listener to the pod, people are going to see it. Yeah. Or Bill Lawrence.
Yeah.
Otherwise?
They don't push it.
I mean, who, what are they gonna do?
It's so funny, now that Rose was nominated for an Oscar, I saw these, like, Rose Byrne, they saw these articles coming out of, like, Rose was on this show called Physical You Probably Missed. The best show you're not watching. This show you probably missed was very nice. Definitely Missed was more accurate. Um, but... Yeah, they don't push it, I guess, but I love that show.
But you get paid. They pay it. You get paid. It's a drill. Yeah. It's a drill for if showbiz actually ever comes back.
For me, it was incredible, because I got to work with Rose Byrne. And so for me, it was like during COVID and no job, finally I landed that, got a job, had money, and got to learn acting watching Rose Byrne do it. And so I was like, oh, man, during COVID, I got to kind of go through this, which was amazing.
Other people made bread. and really got into their conspiracies. Really found their groove. A lot of people. That was their flourishing. Yeah, that's right. There was a coronavirus in their spirit, and it was a spike protein of paranoia and podcasting.
Yeah. I'm actually more impressed you pulled spike protein. I was like, oh yeah, spike protein.
Remember the level of fucking useless things that we all were like arguing? All the science we started to really learn. Oh, man. Yeah. Man. Okay, here's what else I know about you. Married. I'm not going to say you married young. Yeah, no, I don't think so. Well, you married L.A.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Rory Scovel describe bombing onstage and its creative value?
0:00–5:19
2
What role did ADHD and medication play in Rory’s learning and performance?
5:19–24:04
3
How did Rory teach himself to read at 44 and rediscover books?
24:04–38:21
4
Why does Rory improvise entire shows and how does his process work?
38:21–1:34:27