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the jurgen experience the mat the amount of backlash and [ __ ] i got when i started and had a show out was brutal it was brutal i didn't know you then i met you at the laugh factory i remember i met you at the lab factory i had already been kicked out of the comedy store and that was it was during my time where i was doing other clubs so it was somewhere around like 2007-ish or something like that upstairs i met you so i don't remember where i met you but i'm like you're in the corner crying um yeah it's so weird to think that because i was at the comedy store when you were not and you were still such a big presence there in a way that it's because ari was there you know it just was i don't know i felt like i knew you maybe before i knew yeah that was a weird time it was a weird time for you too because like there was a lot of people hating on you because your show because it was so big like you had these giant billboards and your face was everywhere you know that's just one of those things where that [ __ ] green envy monster pops out of people and they get so mad but it's also i'm a comic i know what you're making fun of if there was a show called you know um you know rita with some girl holding a beach ball like like being sassy i would make fun of it too it was like you know i was young and and you know it's like as a comedian you get an offer like that how old were you when you got uh whitney 27 27 damn that's crazy you have your own show at 27. and i wanted to hire all my friends i fought really hard even though i had no power you know i wrote the part for crystalia you know and i said i don't want to do this without him not that i even had any of that power at the time you know of course they want to cast like these actors that have been on nine shows and that have been on a bunch of failed shows you're like why do i want someone that's the amer or people have voted they don't want to see was it that you started doing stand-up 2004 so you were only doing stand-up for a short period of time
how many years before you got your show six that's wild that's wild wild i was doing the roast i was a writer for the roasts and then i was on the roasts and i comedy central did not i never got premium blend or i never got gotham i never got new faces in montreal which really quick just a joke that you might appreciate that i wrote for joan rivers at the joan rivers roast but didn't tell this is kind of an inside comedy thing joan rivers has had so much work done on her face every year she books montreal new faces and so then i did the joan rivers roast and i did so well that comedy central offered me a half hour and then i just was like i wanted to do one to do an hour because you know they said no to me so many times right as soon as i had leverage i just was like right use it [ __ ] this yeah because also then on when when comedians complain about their clips being you know broken up on instagram or their stand-up being broken up i always try to go like remember when we were in comedy central and they would break up our specials seven minutes and then a four-minute commercial and then five minutes they would just arbitrarily break it up anywhere and you only actually had 42 minutes to actually do stand up yeah and your set was [ __ ] up because like sometimes those bits would continue after the commercial break and people would forget what the [ __ ] premise is and if people were just tuning in they had no idea they didn't give a [ __ ] they just shoved those commercials in there i remember my it's like adam and eve and you're like cool like i remember i used to my second comedy central special i remember trying to time it seven minutes punchline killer as and do like three mini sets with little closers instead of one big set yeah because of the way they would cut it up to be 27 and have your own show is so crazy crazy it's so it's so like so much pressure that must have been like really overwhelming and weird well
because i think at that point you think more is more in terms of press publicity that kind of stuff but keep doing it do it all but it's also i didn't realize how um you know it's interesting the way that you know whether it's our business or just people in general they look at comedians as kind of these children that need to be babysat instead of these mature adults that have gone all around the country and you know comported ourselves actually we act like silly gooses sometimes but we really have our [ __ ] together it's what we do is not easy so going in and and when they were making the billboards and stuff i was like you guys this is this looks like a cheesy sitcom from the this looks like uh veronica's closet like this looks like a fran drescher show from the 80s it was like because it was multicam it was like purple font and i don't know what i was doing they do those photo shoots with you and they're like you know make this face like do this and i'm like oh man i was like painted as like the finger wagging like annoying girlfriend i don't know but the show was like a role reversal it was about me someone who had come from three divorces and was actually commitment phobic but in love with someone and trying to figure out how to like you know like someone who's kind of feral trying to be domesticated to be in a normal relationship yeah you know and it was people loved it they couldn't get past the multi-cam of it um and which is weird because i feel like multicam is so respected in one in one way cheers and well explain what to people what that means it means you did it in front of a live audience sure like when you shoot show in front of live studio audience roseanne so who couldn't get passion what do you mean they couldn't get past that i think people would just were so mad that i like existed that they couldn't it was like well that's a laugh track they were mad that you existed maybe that's interesting so it's just who are these people i don't know like critics or other comics like what do you i don't know it was i think i also it was a multi i did two multicams that year shows in front of a live studio audience uh the whitney show and then two broke
girls two brook girls was on cbs it was beloved and ended up going for six seasons that was a show that had other multicams two and a half men big bang theory um mike and molly so that was so the network was already sort of set up for that and anyone watching that network is already queens yeah i followed the office and community on oh i see so they were used to single cam things being shot kind of like a movie i think the inside cool kids club was like what's this like i got news for you that club sucks and those people that are in that club are all [ __ ] the inside cool kid club those are [ __ ] pretending to not be [ __ ] well you know what they're they're douche bags pretending to be kind and considerate and the irony is like they all it's a lot it's a lot of harvard guys it's like harvard lampoon guys well some of the best writers yeah i've met a lot of great writers from harvard it's kind of amazing how many good like a lot of the guys from news radio where we're harvard guys oh interesting that lampoon thing right there you know really smart guys who became the you know that that you got sort of ushered into this group and it was a great way to like use that intellect and that love of comedy and comedy writing and it was already like a clearly established path you know like paul sims had come through there and all these different and when they came through it's like there was other ones that had already paved the path it was like oh i'll just go on to write for sitcoms right and then i you know hey this guy's really funny we'll hire him he was also in you know the lampoon but you're not better than me because he went to harvard we're both telling dick jokes we're both doing dick jokes here guys you know i mean that that is always a part of harvard right a part of ivy league education is that you know some people are going to feel like they're elite right which is fine if you're doing elite work but there's a lot of people that we're just not you know and but they had the attitude