 You and John are partners and I wonder how you Navigate you and John Mulaney did oh hello together. Mm-hmm. Well, I don't think we're in similar positions, but like They're both very funny people. Mm-hmm Dave and John are both very very funny people. I mean look Are you which camera are you looking at that one? I'm gonna look at this one Yes, yeah, I just want to make sure yeah, yeah, how do you That's who we're talking about I got to say I'm not very competitive with Dave comedically. I'm competitive with him Ideologically. Mm-hmm. How do you navigate your relationship with John? Well when John left for Africa? After oh, hello, that's the name of the rehab Told me that you said Mulaney's not you said Because curl one time was on a podcast and he said Mulaney's not a drug addict He's more a suicidal alcoholic I would never say that He earned in Dolby I would never say suicidal alcoholic those were never the issues. Okay Okay, but what did you find by the way if you want to hear about John and how you know how I talked to him You can listen to his stand-up act to find out how About ladies and gentlemen, you can't wait till he goes after Kroll for trying to save his life The mistake of trying to save his life. Oh, yeah, or the early by the way the early pre edited versions of the the hour When it was the two-hour fresh out of rehab. Oh, I think that's the only one I've heard Oh, yeah, Mulaney goes through in his new hour goes through his Intervention and he it's kind of a roast of everyone who saved his life and it's It's it's very funny One of the people there or one of the people who then had to listen to the act Yep, it was very but you kid you audience members you have fun. You have a great time. Yeah, go check out John on tour from scratch from scratch Um, I don't know if this is how your relationship with Dave is or was but like, you know, I'm a few years older than John He was a freshman when I was a senior I cast him in the improv group Yeah, but I immediately knew he was a fucking genius and We got along famously right away and have always gotten along both as friends and as Yeah, partners or collaborators. Yeah, I've never heard either of you shit on the other one in either Well, you should go watch That will be on that flakes very soon watch or rewatch what I just did about John We I think have tremendous respect for each other comedically and true and genuine like love for each other as as human beings as Friends and frankly almost and this is where I'm getting to almost as brothers Mm-hmm, and once you become like brothers or family things get a little trickier Mm-hmm. It's not and I don't know how this was for you and Dave But it's like it's different than just like another friend in common Yeah, like when you especially when you do something like you make a show together or you do like oh, hello on Broadway together like whatever it is It brings you closer than just friendship and all of a sudden you can start to treat each other more like family in Which means that the gloves are off in a little bit and and the competition or whatever it is that you're feeling I mean, I have always felt to be honest Competitive with John because I've never been in a room where anybody got bigger laughs than John I've only been in like three rooms. No, but they were he crushed every time. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, you know I don't you know. Yes. He is the arguably we're talking about Dave and John both in the top 510 to 40 comedians whatever top 40 comedians Comedians on the road right now. Yeah top 40 vultures top 40 comedians of 2008 doing dates on the East Coast Yeah, this weekend, but you know, I mean it is like John is uncontra on like un Unrelentingly funny. Yes, and writes a perfect joke. Yeah, and Delivered not only writes a perfect joke, but is a delivers a joke. Yeah perfectly And has a almost what's called a photographic memory so can write a joke and then deliver if he does have a yeah And like remember what he wrote perfectly on stage the next day. Whereas I am Fumbling my way through something I improvised a week ago and hoping I can catch whatever that was so I have feelings of competition with John But I also think like when we were doing oh, hello that also made me be better every night and part of the joy I saw once was so fucking funny and as so many jokes in it that I still like are still with me and There were so many moments that were so impressive You guys laying on the stage Trying to make each other laugh is like the night I saw it I'm sure it was around as good that or you know, it was very good the night I saw it actually I believe I saw a matinee, but but I often wonder Do you worry it did like overshot like I get overshadowed by David? It's like it's not close like he fucking plucked me out of obscurity to work with them And then I've slowly like built up a career of my own whereas you and John were like together and he's of fucking doing arenas and Not like you handle it. Well you were you seem genuinely proud of him I am genuinely proud of him and I think if you talk to him There are elements to the career that I have that he would be like oh man He's been able to do this and this like that he it has not been you've had three TV shows that yeah, so I think like but I think that successfully there are those elements to When it when it's your friend or your brother or whatever however you feel or think about that person that you can be I can hold those things simultaneously first and foremost. I have an incredible amount of pride In in what he's accomplished and the fact that I'm like friends of him that he's friends with me that he considers me Someone he wants to work with all those things like bring me a lot of joy Yeah, and and I'm proud of him and I'm proud to be associated with yeah And then there are times where I'm like man that fucking guy kills and he's playing arenas and and also like man like Steve Martin thinks he's the funniest or whatever those things are and then also, you know, I think like I have incredible amount of You know pride and what I've accomplished on my own, you know And I think something that you might identify with too is like that feeling of like Is anything I do on my own going to be as good as what we did together? Yeah, and I don't have that That's never been a problem never never thought of it So I think there's that element to that that you have to sort of take into account and But also like I think about oh, hello specifically as like a pinnacle in like Both of artistic and life The crux of of those things coming together. Yeah, where it was like we're on Broadway together every night We are having incredible guests come and watch the show come be on the show And it started you guys did a show. That's where we met 20 years ago Yeah in the Eastville's place called Rafifi where you guys would do it. So that's also like part of the story Yeah, it's like that's really cute. It's sweet. Yeah, it's like starts when we're we have nothing neither us of anything going on It was just the most fun thing it's a thing. I'll mention the at Rafifi. This is 2004 I did it. I was on the show And I Rashida Jones came with me and we taught we told stories You brought your bet award. I brought that's correct. I brought my bet award I don't remember why but I did I did you were you both brought things to talk about right, right, right? So I brought my bet award. I was bringing I was carrying it everywhere at that point My bet comedy award they canceled it because the white man won three of them Let's be honest bt and they didn't like it. No one's happy And uh, or two of them and I remember who's counting Rashida brought A stuffed animal with a voice like a cassette tape message from Teddy Roxman Yeah, no from who was the message from dad from dad. Yeah, that's right. And he if I remember correctly Go ahead, but he said it's Quincy Jones saying to Rashida May you get all the angel pussy in the world? I believe he said keep your dreams as high as giraffe pussy Okay, I believe that's the exact way. Okay. Hey, baby. Thank you. It's Quincy Jones That's a horrible impression. Anyhow Rashida mentioned that she was single Afterward you texted her something like hey, you or you maybe asked her like Would you want to go on a date and the idea of Rashida dating you was so absurd? He was like, what are you talking about? And this before she was on the office was just like a beautiful young woman and you were a I consider a beautiful young man And it was absurd. So that's how much time has passed anyhow So you and Mulaney are doing Rafi you're doing basically oh, hello at Rafifi 20 years ago And then so you do this tiny thing and then it's on Broadway every night Crushing for 2,000 people or whatever so fun and it was and I really felt like this perfect symbiosis of like working with your friend doing Very silly shit But in on Broadway and it was like what a life what a lifestyle that was to like not be on the road But be on stage every night for like yeah, like 2,000 people For four or five months and it was the best it was the most fun and What's hard with friendship as time goes on and life changes is like you're like he's on the road I'm on the road. He's got a kid I've got like you all of a sudden time gets away from you and space gets away from you and it's harder to just be Physically in the same spaces and men are not great at Maintaining those relationships in a certain way Would you hear that saying everywhere? At part of the reason why I like doing this because like now I don't have to see it for a couple years We're done knock this thing out. It's fucking nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a fun time It's you will never spend that much time with malaney again. Hmm. I mean, I don't think so I bad news no, he told me but he literally texts me on the way over here I will never spend time with him like that again and you can take that to the grave. He said Um, no, but you know what I mean like hot That's the fun of doing a thing like it. Well, and it makes you be like, how can I appreciate and I did feel by the end of that run I was like this might be the best it gets like Every the the combination of things around this moment in time might be might make this the like and I was sort of aware of it Near the end and that's the nice thing about your Just going back to the beginning of like the older you get the more Perspective you have on things so that like, you know, when you have a show in your 23 or you're in a good relationship when you're 25 Or whatever You don't know you don't have enough life experience to know that this is as good as it gets. Yeah Except when you're watching the movie as good as it gets and then you know It's as good as it gets because it's in the title It's as good as it gets watch jack Nicholson handle bacon out of a plastic bag Somebody's pretty well versed in right as it gets Yeah, and I would like to say that I am My competitiveness with dad because I shouldn't say I'm not competitive comedically He said I'm the most competitive person he's ever met and I said that's because you can't meet yourself But I would want to get shit on because I wanted to contribute Do you know what I mean? I didn't want to be dead weight So if I would I also wanted to impress him That's the part of a partnership that I think no one is like it It's people aren't aware of it. It's like you want to impress malaney Yeah, he wants if he makes you laugh It's funny if I make Dave Chappelle laugh. It's probably fucking pretty funny. Yeah for sure or or mean Right. Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? 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