00:00That's generally how some of these jokes start.
00:03I don't go into a room, take out a pencil, and go, Amazon.
00:09Oh, they deliver.
00:10That's not how it happens.
00:11It's kind of happening through life experience.
00:14Who's packing these boxes?
00:17You ever get...
00:18Because no one even knows what they're ordering anymore.
00:21Stuff just comes.
00:22This was my second special filmed in Chicago.
00:31I always like, how do I make an entrance?
00:33Because I just don't want to come out and, hey, how you doing?
00:38You know, it's just like this kind of generic way sometimes comedians come on stage.
00:43I'm on a Vespa.
00:44I think that was kind of just a unique way, kind of a goofy way to start.
00:47It's not a Harley.
00:48That's what we would have seen Motley Crue do.
00:50No, this is me and an Italian scooter.
00:54And believe me, rock stars aren't driving Vespas.
00:56That's not rock star at all.
00:58That's like a clown.
01:02I think Amazon is just sending us shit just to see if we send it back.
01:10My bits generally happen over the course of a long period of time,
01:17especially the ones that are long in length.
01:20So this seed might have been planted, I was trying to think back, possibly eight years ago
01:26when Amazon was coming to my house quite frequently
01:31and me kind of thinking about how Amazon works as a company.
01:36Everybody sees the van pull up, guy gets out, and then generally speaking, you open up the box
01:45and maybe sometimes you're surprised that an item has come this quickly
01:50or how many items come in different boxes.
01:56So let's say you order eight items at once and then they come periodically throughout the week
02:03where generally speaking, you would think, okay, there's a warehouse, somebody's picking out these products.
02:11So I think that's where the seed of kind of like, how does Amazon work as a company?
02:16Because I don't think a lot of people are aware of where these items are coming from
02:20and how the whole process seems to end up on your doorstep.
02:25And this is all happening kind of in the subconscious, just thinking.
02:29I'm not thinking of a bit right now.
02:30I'm just thinking about how things work.
02:33I heard a big bang in the house.
02:36My wife never hears anything in the house.
02:38It was a big bang.
02:39It was like, boom, boom, right?
02:41I go, you hear that?
02:42She goes, no, you think it was the TV?
02:45I said, no, it's on pause.
02:50I actually remember now that we're talking about this.
02:52It happened at the comedy store and the joke was I was watching a movie at 11 o'clock at night
02:59and I got a ring at the doorbell and it was Amazon.
03:03And do they have hours?
03:05Like, I just think it's a little aggressive to be showing up at somebody's house at 11 o'clock.
03:10So I just did that just to open up the show.
03:13And I forgot about it.
03:14And then maybe a month later, I record all my sets and maybe I then listen back to that
03:20and I'm like, okay, that's a cool idea.
03:22Let me see if I could maybe develop that more.
03:25And as time goes on and as life happens, different things start to come into your ecosystem in
03:32regards to Amazon.
03:33Sometimes a beautiful Amazon truck pulls up, says Amazon on this side.
03:38Guy gets out, he's fully decorated in Amazon paraphernalia.
03:43It's generally a guy who's, of course, in the joke, I make him look like he's disheveled or has maybe some mental issues or what have you.
04:01Guy gets out with a yellow traffic vest.
04:04I asked him, I go, you work for Amazon?
04:17He's like, no, I'm a, I'm a, yeah.
04:19As time goes on, you just start to develop the joke in more of a specific way.
04:30So in this particular joke, my wife and I are watching a movie and I hear a loud noise outside.
04:36Now that didn't happen.
04:37I just thought of how do we get into Amazon and do they have hours and it's aggressive?
04:45Oh, okay.
04:45Maybe it's me and my wife watching a movie and then Amazon comes to the door during that.
04:50That's generally how some of these jokes start.
04:54I don't go into a room, take out a pencil and go, Amazon.
04:59Oh, they deliver.
05:01And then that's not how it happens.
05:02It's kind of happening through life experience.
05:04So it's not like you have to remember that in a way you lived it.
05:09So you're just recalling the, the experience.
05:12It would be difficult to remember.
05:13And I do have difficulty remembering, for example, uh, lines in a movie or a TV show where I have
05:20to like memorize the line that I have a problem with, but living in experience and then regurgitating
05:26it on stage in a humorous way with a point of view is, I don't want to say easy, but it's
05:33very natural for me to, to do.
05:35And I record all my sets.
05:37I mean, I got sets from eight years ago that I'll replay before a show to see if there was
05:43something in there that would ignite a memory.
05:46I think a lot of, uh, standup comedy has to do with what you are saying and how confident
05:53you are when you're saying it.
05:55Sometimes a big box shows up.
05:58You open it up.
06:00One dental floss with airbags.
06:04Who packed it?
06:05Audience reaction definitely is a gauge of how well your jokes are doing.
06:13I never do a joke that, that, oh, that's just for me.
06:19You're not laughing, but I think that's funny.
06:22I'm there to make people laugh.
06:23And if they ain't laughing, I ain't doing my job.
06:25That's kind of the way I think about it.
06:26If you do the joke, the way the joke is supposed to be said, and you do it three different times
06:33in three different locations on tour in a different city, you'll just know intuitively
06:38if this joke is something that should be captured or let go.
06:46I got an aquarium the other day.
06:49I'm like, all right.
06:50Somebody must have ordered an aquarium.
06:52I brought it in.
06:54I set it up.
06:55I set it up in the basement.
06:59We had bought a fish tank.
07:00We actually bought it because we have kids.
07:02We actually bought it.
07:03We went and populated it with fish.
07:05I just thought a fish tank would be something so random that you would get.
07:09Yet, did my wife order this?
07:12Sometimes there's a miscommunication in what's coming to the house because I generally don't
07:19tell my wife I ordered eucalyptus spray for the steam shower so I could spray.
07:27If that comes, she would just assume, oh, my husband probably ordered this.
07:33I think it goes vice versa.
07:34When the fish tank supposedly came, I just thought my wife ordered it for our kids, so
07:39I set it up.
07:41The rest of that joke is not true.
07:45I just kind of exaggerated the truth.
07:48My wife comes home.
07:49She's like, why is there an aquarium in the basement?
07:53I go, you didn't order that?
07:56She's like, no.
07:56I said, fuck it.
07:57We'll leave it.
07:58Looks good.
07:58I like it.
08:00Get on Amazon.
08:01Get some fish.
08:02They got fish, right?
08:04We do have a fish tank, but we bought it at Petco, not Amazon.
08:08You ever look at Bezos 30 years ago when this guy came on the scene for the first time?
08:15The guy was a complete nerd.
08:18A nerd.
08:19I think I started calling him Bezos, which was funnier.
08:24I don't know what did I refer to him in the special, Bezos or Bezos.
08:28Actually, I remember saying, this Bezos is amazing, and some of the people didn't even
08:33know who I was talking about.
08:35I saw a video of him.
08:36He was taking people around the office.
08:38He was laughing at this weird laugh he had.
08:47Now, he's like a beautiful man.
08:51He's bald and ripped, and he's in shape.
08:54He's hip now.
08:54So, I just thought the difference in when someone first starts out, and then $400 billion later,
09:03he's basically a new guy, aesthetically.
09:05I thought it was a funny, you know, I'm basically kind of ripping the guy to shreds, and then
09:11I'm giving him a compliment.
09:12So, I've not met Jeff Bezos, but I did a bit on Andrea Bucelli, and he got wind of it
09:21and ended up inviting me to his concert at Madison Square Garden.
09:25So, I don't know.
09:25Who knows?
09:26Once this airs, you know, Jeff might give me a call and yell at me or invite me to his
09:33next birthday party.
09:34I don't know.
09:35Ripped to shreds.
09:37Tanned designer clothes on his super yacht in the Mediterranean, and the boxes keep coming.
09:46What is this guy doing?
09:51The boxes keep coming is said with such arm thrust that I think the first time I did it
10:00was the boxes keep coming.
10:02It was more of a rhythm of the voice.
10:05But then as I started to add my hand in there, I also visualize where this is happening in
10:17my head.
10:18In this particular case, I'm actually visiting, I used to work at UPS.
10:21My job was to roll these boxes out of the semi truck.
10:26When I'm doing that bit, I'm actually visualizing in the truck and seeing the boxes.
10:34You have to be careful about body movement on stage, at least in my opinion, because if
10:38you do it too much, it becomes not as special as if you do it every once in a while.
10:43So I try to pepper it in and I try to be mindful of the way I'm moving my body, how much I'm
10:49moving my body.
10:50It's like if you went out for, if you love oysters and you went out for oysters every
10:53night of the week, you would eventually become sick of it because it's not a treat, you know?
10:57Same thing with the comedy.
10:58I believe if you give them like a head movement or whatnot every once in a while.
11:02If I was doing that throughout the whole interview, you wouldn't laugh.
11:05So every once in a while, if I did that, then you would laugh at it.
11:10So the movement is intended, but it's never really planned.
11:15You know, there's joke writers out there that write clever jokes and they'll, they'll just
11:20say the jokes and in the content in itself, it's just funny.
11:25I don't generally work that way.
11:27I work with, there's a story.
11:29There's a way to tell the story, uh, with body movement and silence.
11:34Also, that's another key, key component to my act is, uh, silence.
11:45Just letting the audience think a little bit, letting them rest.
11:52Sometimes there's a lot of, uh, humor and just silence timing.
11:57These are all things I learned kind of growing up, watching comedians as a young kid, particularly
12:02Johnny Carson, the way he would just make a facial expression and you would kind of know
12:06what he was thinking without even saying anything.
12:08He's eating pasta off the Amalfi coast and I'm getting aquariums.
12:15It's like, no one's talking about the, the, the, the world surrounding delivery.
12:23I haven't even gotten to like the, the food delivery thing yet, but it's like food delivery
12:28comes to your house and the food smells like three different things that were in the car.
12:34So it's like, should all these smells be incorporated with your pizza?
12:38I mean, like, shouldn't there be a, a, a, a standard for delivery drivers?
12:47Like, I don't want to have a slice of pepperoni pizza and smell socks that were in the backseat.
12:57No, I mean, no one's talking about this.
13:01No, everybody's just, okay, yeah, we're eating, but like, where is this coming from?
13:05I go to like, um, Air One, right?
13:08And there is like a cabal of, of Uber Eats drivers, nine guys smoking around tables, waiting
13:19for someone to order wonton soup.
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