 Hi, boo. Hi, my mr. I rara Yes, just fell to the clown. Well. No, this is his producer cap Bentleman. I want to know nice I Want to do it. I'm rolling by the way There you are. Okay. This is cap Bentleman. I'm the Segment producer for the David Feldman show. Yeah. Yeah, I hear a lot of great things about it from David Yeah, and I just want to say I'm a little nervous talking to you because This is my first job in in podcasting Mm-hmm, and I'm a big fan of yours. I just so and I've never done a pre-interview With somebody of your stature before so well I want you to look at me as just a regular guy who happens to have more credits and talent than most people I'm just you know, I'm down the earth. I'm proud of being down there Okay, I was number 79 in the Comedy Central's list of a hundred greatest comedians of all time That includes the Byzantine era the Ming dynasty You know, I'm up there. I was number right after a subject the entertainer. You have any questions? Yeah, dude, what should we talk about you being the 79th greatest? No, I don't want to talk about it. Yeah It has a sore spot in my heart. I felt like I should have been 74 Who do you think didn't belong on the list? Genine Garofalo Do you ever get it's David Feldman, it's the I do I'm the master of disguise Dom I had you go David. Holy man. I had no idea. I Got you. I got you You did man, are you in New York, huh? I'm in I'm in New York. Are you in Philadelphia? I am I'm here to I did Well, I was at a wedding I do weddings now. No, I was with my family Imagine I'm at a comedian at a wedding with a drag that would be everybody wanted to talk And I'm doing something for the University of Pennsylvania. I don't know with Lou Schneider, you know, low I know yeah Is it a is it a show for the University of Pennsylvania or a benefit? I think it's like they show some film film clips My illustrious career and then they Lou interviews me and I guess is a question-answer period for those of you For those of you who don't know who Lou Schneider is Lou is a great comedy writer I think he's working on the Goldbergs But he was yeah, one of the top guys on everybody loves Raymond and very early on He was cute and adorable and his stand-up took off very early on but then he gave it up Well, I wouldn't say it took off. There must be another word it fizzled That's what the word is fizzle. I knew it was close to take it off I stayed on the launch pad and Puffed out and you're in Philadelphia. I'm actually in New Jersey. I'm at my sister's house for the holiday I meant to ask is your sister busty. Yeah, you remember Everybody remembers her, but I just was trying to get her straight. She's she's very busty But there's no cleavage. It's just like this this big thing Big ribs. Yeah. Yeah, and it's just it's everywhere. It knocks things over It's got a mind of its own How long did you go out with my sister I Wouldn't I never went out with I would go in you know like I'm to a closet or Boosts at the in those days they had telephone booths and I would spray my seed on her And it's how to go forward and multiply This is what when you say spray your seed you mean you were gardening and Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, okay, because that's my sister you're talking about. Oh, I know that I respect that She is busty. She's had difficulty. I'm trying to Fix her up with a guy if you know anybody, I mean you don't want to see her anymore. Do you? You know what I really don't because I'm still itching for the last time I saw her But tell her, you know, I enjoyed the time together and plus she looked too much like you look like you with long hair and Didn't work out for me. Yeah, by the way, thanks for that ride from flappers I think you got out of town right after that that's campaign. Uh-huh. I was playing flappers You were playing flappers and I said, I'll give you a ride to the comedy store and What happened I got pulled over by the cops, right? No, your car broke down in the park park a lot But didn't I get pulled over to the cops come You weren't you blowing me weren't you blowing me in the parking lot? Yeah with the cop remember they made me sit in the car The fuck was that about they made me sit in the cop cop car. I said, I got a spot at the store Why am I sitting here? Then they let me go. That was so fucking weird Yeah This interview make any sense to anybody. No, but some of it's true and some of it's not but we did was it the cops didn't the cops Pull me over They couldn't have pulled you over because you were in the parking lot Maybe they did put you know what? I think you made a U-turn and they pulled you over Right and you kept saying I'm Dom Marrera. I'm Italian not black. Let me go Sometimes they confuse my people with black people, but rest assured. I'm Italian not black I'm Sicilian Something happened I I think I've blocked it out and So you're in Philadelphia for a wedding and you had dinner with Dr. Katz and his wife I did I did he told me that the episode with you and David tell was terrific It was it really is and they're so funny You know, he was on my podcast and he said At the end of the podcast we're just like kind of wrapping up and we weren't on the air anymore I said, hey, I don't think you you realize how strong you are sometimes because Dom I hate my act, but most of all I hate myself. I said, you know what? I said, that's why you're still funny. Keep on hating I've never been funnier. I know you can't tell right now And that's not so you know what you do you hold back a lot You're you're the master of the whole back But I am miserable and I am I do feel I'm funnier that when I'm when I was happily married and went home to A loving house with kids and a dog and a white picket fence and three boys tied up in the basement Remember those boys It's all starting to come back to me like the hot kids at the end of a wet fist You divorced finally or I'm getting there. I'm it's like we're at the finish line and then somebody just Somebody just let off a pressure cooker Well, what happened you want to talk about it or you know talk about it off the air I'll talk about it. You know, this is my third wife and she met this road comic You're kidding, right? Yeah, very popular They love him in Montreal. They love him in Ireland whenever he's on the road His initials are D. I I don't know who it is D. I Yeah, and whenever I came home off the road, there was just little hints that this guy D. I was D. I rules carved into the blanket. Yeah. Yeah, and Sometimes when we were having sex You and him Not you and her. Yeah, she would scream out Big D big D number 79 number 79 numbers that's right. How did you know she would say you're you're you're the all-time greatest 79 David Yeah, I'm the one I didn't even realize it was your wife. I was fucking You D. How do you spell a rare? Is it Tom a rare with an eye? I Rr er You were doing my wife Well, I don't know what else she was to you, but I was doing her. Yeah, I have to but you She reminded me of a female version of your sister It was busty, but they really just protruded I don't know how to explain it to you What is the weirdest pick up after a show that What's the weirdest thing a woman do you remember the comedian John Fox? Yeah, huh? Do you remember him? Mm-hmm. Did you get along with him? Yeah, yeah, I didn't do coke or anything so they wouldn't we'd have a lot in common, but I got along with him. Yeah, did you Ever hear all the stories about him on the road most of the stories I heard were drug stories while you got like Like sexual stories. Yeah, but wasn't there a plan to collect all those stories and do a documentary? Or you don't you don't sound too thrilled about this I can tell No, no, I don't I don't know that much about him I know that he was like a really dirty road comic a lot of people liked him and they did a lot of coke and And he passed away, right? Yeah, he passed away He had the most amazing road stories that were just completely degenerate and You know the classic one is And it's almost like a joke But he he's in bed with this woman. She asks him to tie her up in a hotel room and then she says can you go get something at the drugstore some kind of lube and he leaves and She's tied up and then he can't remember where the hotel room is. Oh shit And then finally like 12 hours later. He remembers what this sounds like a joke Then he comes back to the room after 12 hours of her being tied up and she goes kinky That has to be a joke when he told that to me right that can't be true sounds like a joke joke. Yeah, yeah So you blew my cover with Jonathan Katz's wife. You told her the truth about me. I Can't believe you're doing some charity event. She had no idea that you were Shall we say blue? Well, you can work clean right I could I consider myself a clean act Well, I don't care what you could tell you You can live your delusions all you want Do you think of me as dirty? Yeah, but like more than dirty like repulsive That's why I love you Don't wait a second. Wait a second. Don't you think my act? Brings it to the edge, but doesn't go over. Don't you think the audience appreciates that I'm Skilled in making them think differently without pushing them away First of all what audience? Even your engineers not listening Don't you get hit that as you get hooked up with scroll man. I had to be like a political thing, right? Steve scroll van and I He started hanging out a KPF K The radio station, right? Yeah, I did that show with you. Yeah. Yeah, and then killed Yes, you did. Yes, you did. I took two days to find the proper burial for that person that killing that bloodfest I I Anyway, but Steve did the documentary about Ralph Nader and then Ralph Nader. There are two people in my life who I worship Thank you We're on the same wavelength And Ralph Nader so we decided to do a radio show together with Ralph Nader and it's been well, okay. Yeah, yeah Do you did you ever meet Ralph Nader? No, no, but I went to Steve scrub and his birthday and he was vegan, right? Mm-hmm And it was it was good and all but I mean his wife like it's it's got to be so annoying to be vegan and Annoying to have friends that are vegan Because you just can't go anywhere You know, I'm trying. I'm vegan sort of I'm vegetarian. You're kidding. Are you really? Well, that's a big difference This vegetarian mean that you don't eat fish either. I don't eat fish. That's pescatarian, right? Yeah And I don't I just I'll occasionally eat cheese and a headliner semen Mmm I'm hard as a rock Yeah, I mean, I'm I eat everything. So what does that make me a pig? I'll tell you what it makes me an American town Better America better American cheese, come on we can do it So there's a lot of political upheaval upset you I'm kind of tuning it out quite frankly at least right now because it's I was talking to Barry Crimmins on the last show about this and it's just dragging Well, he is I think there are two political satirists who I look up to Barry Crimmins and Don Marrera That's why I called you I need guidance on how to To deal with this this turmoil in America and I Spoke to Barry Crimmins and now I want to get some feedback from you about Trump and the last thing I remember My goddaughter was uh, you know very very, uh Worried about this election And I told her I said it's impossible That he gets elected. It's absolutely because are you sure I go? First of all, I know nothing about politics and I go with I'm I'm positive I said even if he wins a few states that'll be an upset I said deal nothing to worry about of course the next days and he's he wins a presidency with the electoral college votes and all that bullshit, but I was I was stunned man. I'll tell you I couldn't fucking believe it I couldn't believe it. Am I am I my youngest said to me daddy now that Trump's president are Are we gonna have to round up Muslims and Mexicans and I said no honey, they'll do that for us Well I can't believe the no, you know the Muslim thing You know, like especially now there's a lot of Muslim comedians So you get to know the culture and know the people more and For and if they were really Muslims and terrorists were the same thing. We'd all be dead You know what I mean? There's just plenty of them When we were starting out And Did you were there? Do you think we would make it not that You made it, but it sure seems like There We had it easy back then there wasn't that much copy like women didn't do stand-up comedy When we were especially pretty women You know, I mean now we got to see these beautiful young girls that are actually pretty good You know Kate Kate Quigley and Justin May Paluso and You know some of them Maybe There there are some really hot girls that are really good stand-ups now. Let's start over with Laura Kytlinger I was in I was in Ireland. We were doing a festival and Laura goes up. She she was living with Jack Black at the time, you know, and that was She goes up and she has a really terrible set and she's very funny She's what happened. I said, you're too good looking, you know, it was intimidating to the audience They don't go for it and they weren't ready for it yet. Now they can handle it more But she looked like a fashion model on stage and nobody's gonna, you know, get any pathos with that, you know Right not in those days Right it was very hard For women back then especially on the road. It was very hard for them Well, yeah, you know, they get the drunken middle actor drunken headliner wanting to fuck them and They had to barricade their door and I remember tanny pescatelli telling me how she lived in fear To him imagine living in fear of the other acts My fear was that they would do their act again Please no more. I can't take it I'll leave my bedroom door open. You can come in in the middle of the night and violate me. I just don't do your act I beg of you No, no, no, I didn't notice. I didn't notice it. I'm sure it's funny if I did Do you like a strong middle act? Let me answer this question because I'm curious what you think I like a middle act Who have to follow Who is working on his act? What I don't want is a filthy Act who kills And what I really don't want is maria bamford opening for me I brought maria bamford to san francisco. It was very patronizing. Oh, you're very funny. We have the same agent I'm going to take care of you maria. I'm going to bring you up to san francisco and they're going to fall in love with you With it was like remember the movie a star is born within Within one day The entire city of san francisco falls in love with maria bamford, but i'm headlining So now i'm i'm finally selling tickets. I never sold tickets all of a sudden. They're sell-out shows But when I get on stage The audience Isn't happy and it dawns on me. Were you were you headlining the road? Yeah, yeah, it dawned on me, but oh, I get it She's selling all these tickets Well, yeah, we were in a cartoon together. She uh She played the farmer's wife in a cartoon called back at the barnyard And she was fucking hilarious Beyond very can't beyond. I mean it's it's she's so good So I don't like an an act who's opening for me who is just brilliant and fantastic And just better on every level When you mentioned jonathan catz earlier, do you remember a guy named chris bliss? Yeah and he did like 15 minutes of Basically juggling to the beatles white Not the white album the abbey road album that one side where they have all those quick cuts I mean, I'm not her majesty Me and mr. Mustard she came through the bathroom window all those, you know Once there was a way to get back home one and anyway He does a drug juggling thing to this and jonathan called me up. He was in west palm beach. He goes dumb What do you do when you're When you're opening act Doesn't get just a standing ovation a leaping to their feet Of ovation how do you follow that? You know, I mean because it was like a remarkable moment and the guy It was the only thing that he could really That separate him from the pack, you know as a as a comedian. He was a regular comedian He's a nice guy pleasure to work behind because he's not too not too strong but but professional But as a juggler A funny juggler. He was just unbelievable Oh You got a call Yeah, this is probably this is the this is insight into show business. Who's the call from Uh, probably a talent scout who saw me recently He's gonna get me out of this drudgery I was oh at david. I hope I make it someday Is there anything that would make you nervous right now if you got a call Is there anything That would make you nervous when it comes to stand-up. Is there a gig you'd say if I laughed at a ventriloquist puppet I was feeling ashamed of myself I actually got mad at the puppet Uh, is there anything make me nervous? You know what I used to open for share I remember And I was on the road with her and I did Madison Square Garden and my sister Was there and she was nervous And it got me thinking maybe I should be nervous. It's not normal not to be nervous and that got me Oh, shit I don't want to look up because all the banners are up there with the nicks and rangers and all this stuff And so that that's like the most That most recently I was nervous that was probably like in uh, the early late 1990s, you know But that did make me nervous but not not anymore. I mean, what's the most so is that the most nervous you've ever been in your life as a stand-up No, no the most nervous I've ever been by far was the first tonight show Uh, the first time I did this night show carceral was still doing it And all I wanted to do I mean I was in the dressing room. I I was not having any fun I was fucking terrible. I never get headaches. I had a terrible headache I looked outside. I saw the hills in burbank and I thought I'll run out of here and I'll run into the I'll run into the hills and just started a new life You know in the hills somewhere. I'll just I just had to get the fuck out of there They ended up doing it doing okay and all that but uh, that was really nerve-wracking. It was not fun They go just have a good time. You have a good time You know, it's like try having a good time in front of all those people And those those tears those balconies so looking straight up into the sky and Johnny Carson and then McMahon are 15 feet away from you. That was that was really scary Scary boo. Were you enjoying it while you were doing it? No, I hated it I was acting like an act I just wanted to get through it, you know, it's I worked very hard and it was very polished act and all that shit and No, it was no fun. Like, you know, I had fun when I used to work with Craig Ferguson And He was just throw the cards away and just talk and that that was fun I mean we would one time it came out on stage and he introduced me is going to be in it at the Denver comedy works I said, Craig, you really got a crack staff here. I already did the Denver comedy works last week But you know, I'm hot. I'm so white hot in this business now They have to post plug my date to this riot Right. So he said, you know, he's like, look, this is we're just we're just Taping this you can we can stop and still you can start over. I said, no, I don't have time for that Man, I got a spot at the lab fuck So, you know, the audience knew we were fucking around but but it was real You know, I said because he came over to me during my set And he's so much bigger than me and which made it look funnier. And I said, look, why don't you go over there and you're in your high In your high seat Look down on people I'll David Letterman And I'll do my little joke monkey act and then we'll come over and act like we're friends All right, and that was that was like fun because it was you know, it was real and it was Maybe we were making each other laugh and all that But you know, but with Carson there was a time when one shot could Not make or break you but it would definitely Move you ahead or way back Right, if you well, it's certainly you know for roseanne and drew carry and a couple people like that It really helped. I mean, I know I was fortunate enough to be in a Rodney danger field special and that really Was incredible because that was like the soprano of its times In the sense that everybody watched that show Everybody watched the nuke, you know, danger fields young comedians, whatever it was, you know Do you mind if I ask you two questions about that because I was watching the Rodney danger field documentary And they showed you doing the young comedians special I could not believe How fully formed you were as both a comic and a man I was I was watching they showed a clip of you Was your first tv shot? I guess You were so I don't want to say polished but formed and brilliant and the language people always forget about you What a great writer Dama rarer is I remember there was a benefit for Ralph Nader's public citizen one of the first Oh, yeah, yeah At UCLA or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Steve said come out We have all these people from public citizen the people's lobbyists. They're raising money All these comics went out and did political humor their hearts were in the right place You went out in front of all these I don't want to say Intellectuals. I don't know just, you know liberals You just did your act the place it just destroyed and the language So litter all these literary references that You don't pass yourself off as a writer, but you're an amazing writer. Do you sit and write this stuff out? No, actually I try and um, remember what I said because I'm like you in the sense that I I'd rather be funny in the moment and I'd rather uh, I'm in my you know I just don't have the talent to Sit there and write like a real writer like Woody Allen sitting there from nine to five and I once asked Seinfeld how he does it And he said that he said he said it. This was years years ago way before his show I said what I do is I sit there for 25 minutes with a pad and a and a pen And if something something comes great, but if it doesn't that's too bad, but at least I tried You know, so he had the discipline to do that. I don't even have that. How about you? Me it's too Separate if I'm writing I'm writing For stand-up. It's got to be something I say in conversation Yeah, yeah, I have never been able To come up with a joke for my act by sitting and right because it's stand-up as a conversation with the audience Yeah, so Yeah That's interesting. You know what's interesting about I'll go ahead finish. You go ahead. You go ahead I was gonna say my the interesting thing about stand-up and I I could feel what happening Was when the audience is relaxed by your body language Because I I remember like thinking Jonathan for instance We used to do this place called nicks in boston And nicks was like a mixture of the mob and crooked police at the time, you know, it was really fun and you know, like I said something I had a ticket for backing up on the expressway in the snow And about five irish cops Offered to fix the ticket for me after the show I thought what a great place for the mob and the police can live in harmony together, you know But uh, I don't know what my point was on that but it was just uh Well, I'm gonna say why no Jonathan Jonathan I said I begged him to do the third show Friday night. Can you imagine like a second show Friday night? Isn't bad enough days to do a third show So I said, I said, John, you know, I'll look let's do the show and if you're not having a good time Just bring me up and I'll uh, I'll cover for you, you know As he walked to the stage he hadn't even he just been in the juice As he walked to the stage they booed and heckled his bald head He didn't even say you know, so he goes up on stage and they're booing him, right? He didn't even say anything For like about a minute, which is a long time in that you know in that kind of state And after about a minute he goes precisely And he walks off the stage He walked on the stage without saying anything Ah, he's so funny He is so I think funny. Are you ever in a situation that you can't handle or is it just you know, it's a horrible situation So you forgive yourself and just enjoy it You know, I don't think I get too high or too low. I just think that I figure that I'm at a certain level not to sound dickish about it, but figure at this point if Certain material is not doing well that I know works It's probably not me, but that doesn't mean it can't be me at times You know, so I don't I don't think I'm so wonderful or so terrible. It's kind of stay in the middle You know, I just I practice so much that Uh, I think I have an idea of of when I'm when I'm bonered it in and when I'm being real, you know I think the idea of fun at time is really interesting because I'll go to the commie store if you're doing like, you know an hour on the road and that 15 minutes seems so fucking long You know like it's so relative how time is I remember being on stage. What do you mean? What do you mean? Well, I don't know because you're in competition with all these great acts And when you're on the road, you're more relaxed, you know, you're opening act the middle act and you And it just doesn't you know the hour You know seems to be the same as 15 minutes to me At the left factor your comedy store in la, you know when you're up against the best the very best comedians around, you know That makes sense. Yeah, in fact it tell said something interesting because my fantasy has always been To live like a tell to stay in new york and only work The clubs just to commit a hundred percent to stand up I was never able to do that and he said he didn't really get good until he went on the road which destroyed what I thought about him. He said it wasn't so you thought of him as like a real new york act and You know Dan Vitale. I love Dan. Yeah Bill Hicks, you know bill Hicks is right. Yeah And Dave Dave was like the young comic and he'd come into this place called the west way And he goes, what's it like to make it? And I know, you know, Dave, it's really a relative term. I mean making it to some people To me making it was being able to do what I love doing and actually make a living I didn't have to be the star of you know The Don my rarer show with a special guest Don my rarer You know everything I always think that's the kiss of death of those other than science So when you name the show after years because I was on Damon And Damon Wayne's had a show and it was called Damon like oh, oh That's a bad sign when you call it after yourself, you know Although I guess Roseanne made it. What do you think? Yeah? Yeah, she made it. Yeah So it tell was young and hungry. Was he respectful? I'm very very it was he was very humble. He's you know, he was not the Dave we know today Who's fucking hilarious, you know, but not he wouldn't call him humble You know Was there anybody who worked harder than he did on the new york scene? I don't think so, right? He was writing is incredible His imagery, you know like the That jokie has about the he had a fear of traveling because his parents beat him with a globe You know, I mean just like jokes like that or there's there's so like hard to figure, you know I mean, there were certain guys like mitch headberg, right, you know, mitch. Yeah And he used to write jokes that were just come off, you know come out of nowhere I had to beg I just have this show called full frontal comedy. I don't know if you were on it I was on sure you did it. Yeah Yeah Yeah, because you'd be perfect for that show because you can be dirty as you want you can be politically Correct as you want you don't have to be I had one black comic come up with me goes down I don't say pussy in my act a motherfucker I said, you know, I said what just because you're black you think you just admit It's mandatory. I said just do what you do I want it to be a show that you're free to say whatever you want the lick just like being in the club That's all it was but anyway, mitch gets up and I had to beg to get him on the show And my producer and I are standing there in the lab factory We're standing in the back watching and he does this line. He says, uh, I realize when I practice tennis No matter how much I practice, I'll never be as good as the wall Right and it's just like what a fucking great image. You know, yeah Hey, I have a memory. Maybe it's incorrect. Did Otto and George do full frontal? They were hilarious. Did George was the dummy? Did George wear a sailor's outfit? I think so Yeah, I'm pretty sure and you know one time he was late It was late for the gig and they followed it from his point of view, you know So because he was so short, he was like looking up women's dresses and stuff. Hey, nice ass. Hey, it took He's welcome and then he comes in and Otto's almost upset. He goes, what are you doing in there? He goes, fuck you. Otto, you cock sucker. Fuck that cock Fuck that cock And he's you know, he's doing that whole Otto George bit and He goes, you're nothing without me. Yeah, motherfucker, you know, and uh, it's just so funny People what a torch what a tortured soul that poor guy was, you know, it was one of those things. I remember I worked for Dennis Miller for a long time on the HBO show and about three times a year He would say to the writers Put on some Otto and George and he would have this was before youtube and he would have tapes bootleg tapes of Otto and George and we would just go down laughing just the It was the funniest ventriloquist act Ever and I guess you could find it on youtube. I'm pretty sure That full frontal I remember Otto came out In the sailors outfit the little puppet And he goes nothing nothing but tits. I can't see a c word from up here. Where's the c I'm not gonna say I want to see somebody's c word and It was just did you know Otto? Oh very well. Yeah one time we were in Montreal And I was hosting this show, uh, kind of like a uh, it was kind of the precursor to the uh, the nasty show Right And it was it became like a very big hit up there But Otto was on and the strings to the puppet's mouth broke So it couldn't move his mouth And you know, there was a band there and Otto panics Right and he goes look I'm sorry he goes Uh, you know, I think bobby slayton was on next so there's bobby slayton here Kind of you know, and he just panics and rick machine Who was jude carrying tim alan's manager an old friend? He says good to talk to him in the back. He likes you about me So I go to the back was so bizarre The the puppet's mouth was completely wide open and it was like he was giving him surgery And he was tying the strings. I guess to so that he could connect it to the good ability again And he actually said that a puppy goes I can't believe of all times you're doing this to me now You know, you're embarrassing me you fucking You know, he's having like an argument and I said man Otto and I walked in, you know, like a guy Where that one who has a gun pointed at him, but he knows the guy's not going to shoot him He walks real slow as soon as I go Otto you did great. He goes yeah, don't I go Because I said Otto you don't have to worry He goes but I bombed the end. I said they think it was a joke You know, I said that you did great. You don't realize how you know, you did enough time And then you know, he kind of came down off the ledge because of that It was so funny rick miscena At one time was the most powerful guy in hollywood. He had tim alan He had drew carrot, right? It was yeah And but his favorite act was auto in george if you if you I know if you ask them Who's your favorite? Who do you wish you could do the most for he'd say auto in george? Yeah, there's some story one should go ahead No, once in a while, you know, I'll be up there on a sunday watching football And I'll just put auto in george on You know, we're in the middle of this the other all smoking weed and stuff and middle just you know Watching the games and putting music on and all and then auto in george just takes over the room for 20 minutes And then we go back to our regular lives, you know It was funny auto and to this day I can go on youtube and type in auto and george and I Because he's you know, it is so funny about it. He's not even trying There there's no effort. It's just it's it's just pure Remember steve scherripper used to run the riviera and i was on stage They did an x-rated show at midnight at the riviera and And steve steve is the guy who ended up in the sopranos and all that big, you know Amp Jewish hamphatai and kind of like tough guy from from brooklyn He goes it goes down. Not for nothing. Look at his mouth. His mouth is moving He's a ventriloquist his mouth moves more than mine does when I talk And he did it He just lost any fucking Caring about the be actually appearing to be a ventriloquist and he was just talk It's about to move Bobby bakalaw steve schripper became bobby bakalaw and the sopranos And I never got past that I just couldn't believe that They put him in the sopranos as I remember him as the entertainment director at the riviera You're from you're from philadelphia, right? And You go back there. You still have family there, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I saw them all saturday that wedding And we were talking to tom ryan last week. He's also from philadelphia. I love tom ryan. Yeah There is There's a character to people great guy bad complexion, by the way Just trying to keep the story moving There is a personality to philadelphia. Here's my theory about philadelphia The people are Very self-conscious that it's not new york So they lowered it over you that they're not jersey They're they're proud that they're not right, right, but they're intimidated by new york. Is that a fair statement? Yeah, it's very fair. So they don't know What their status is are you proud of philadelphia? Yeah, I mean because I love it so much. I can also be like embarrassed by the behavior sometime, you know the uh Some of the sports fans and all that stuff, but we've been, you know, they They they picked that apart. They've dissected every bit of that and what the reasons for it and all but They are tough. I mean, they're they're brutal the sports fans here. Excuse me Sorry david allergies I think I have and I know that this is riveting for a show Post nasal drip and I'm sure you want to hear more about it, but I don't want to talk about it No, tell me about what is post nasal? I always hear about post nasal drip. What is it? You know, it's it's amazing how people don't know When a subject should be let go. No, I'm serious The fact is nobody really I nobody really wants to know too much about your sinuses. I'm fast. How you doing? I got this allergy. Oh, yeah, and then there goes When you when you get to your post nasal drip, can we go into a dark corner? And you know, I just put a light blanket on myself and start quietly beating off as you talk about Particularly having your throat I have a friend who is an ent And he says your sinuses are this It's like the new york city subway system. It's very intricate and involved in Byzantine And there's dirty and dirty and there's a filigree smells of piss That's exactly what he said He said Your your sinuses if I went in there would smell like piss Uh, he says he says it just winds around and around and around and around it's and that They're fascinating. He says it's the most fascinating part of the head So post nasal drip. I've always heard that term Does that mean things from your nose are dripping to the back of your throat? Yeah Basically, but I don't think it's from your nose. I think it's from your sinuses I don't think it's in your nose and goes back that far And I can't believe I'm talking to answering you seriously on this by the way As if I really know It's my theory on the sinus cavity if I may what's your favorite cavity? Yes, I meant to ask you about your wife something I'll ask you later Did you do you ever think You know one slight adjustment in your life No stand-up A wife kids A day job. Do you ever think that that could have happened? You know, I think that I'm because of my Slight mental illness that I would probably not be here if I had to do that if I had to live like that I can't believe that I'm fortunate enough to have You know quote, you know as I said before making it is relative, but I consider that I made it You know, like I said You know a little while back that just if you make a living doing something you love you made it, you know I was but I can't imagine. No, I can't imagine that life like living in a row home in Philly and going to the Westinghouse and Working and you know wanting to retire when you're 39. I mean that kind of shit, you know Having the boat on the driveway the fishing boat Oh god. Well, that's really making it Living for the weekend living for the weekend. Yeah I was with Gilbert Godfried last week And this I was telling I guess I know guess I know who picked up the check in that that's an area So my sister and I had dinner Monday and Tuesday of this week And it was Passover and we're talking and I said, you know, I really don't want to do Passover with The a certain type of person You know, she's what she she knew what I meant. I said I was with Gilbert the other day this is a long way of telling you this but uh Somehow the Beverly Hills supper club fire came up. Do you remember the Beverly Hills supper club fire? John Davidson It sounds familiar. What happened? Well, I was sitting with Gilbert and his wife and I mentioned the Beverly. She was she said we want to get John Davidson On Gilbert's podcast and I said why don't you dedicate an hour to the Beverly Hills club supper fire And Gilbert loses it When I say that he starts laughing and if I make Gilbert laugh now, you know, my life has meaning And then she asked about the Beverly Hills supper club And I said well, it was a fire in 1977 John Davidson was playing there and the whole place went up went up in flames and his band leader died because he ran back into the The theater to get his charts charts are very expensive If you have an orchestra and you pay for charts, they're like at that time they were like $40,000 So the word is he ran back in to get the charts Not to save anybody to just get the charts right and he died and as I'm telling her this Gilbert is laughing hysterically And I'm I'm the happiest man in the world because I'm talking about the Beverly Hills supper club fire And Gilbert's laughing and his loving wife is laughing. She's young. She doesn't know about it I'm Some saying to my sister to me that's a Passover Seder You know, I can spend time with somebody and Gilbert has Passover with Paul Schaefer and that crew And I'm thinking I could do that. I could but I can't sit with normal people You know, like you described with the wet job at Westinghouse and the Yeah, I can't sit with normal people and I can smile and pretend That I can have a conversation with you But I want to talk about the Beverly Hills club supper fire And if you don't know about it, I want to tell you about it and I want Gilbert to be laughing hysterically At it. That's what I'm looking for. That's what I find relaxing. That's always been where I'm at So I I can't Sit back. Do you ever what I mean to me? You're famous But I would assume That you're in situations where people don't know who you are Of course, yeah, do you are you able to do you say I'm Dom Herrera. I'm a comedian or do you For just expediency say I work at Westinghouse uh, I I try never to talk about my act or I'm the fact that I'm in a comedian like like on a plane Like you know, I want to I never talk about it. I mean sometimes people I'll give you a good example, which was really funny. Oliver Stone was sitting next to me on a flight from From new york to la and we were in first class and He the couple of the flight attendants recognized me. They kept doing lines from Seinfeld Wow, you know and They would come and then you know, bring me a drink and laugh a little talking about something, you know Excuse me. Is that a post anyway? That sounds like post nasal drip. Do you have post nasal? Thank you? Yeah, yes, it is and I know it's it's funny how life works that we were kidding about it now I'm actually in a little discomfort But I don't want to hock one up, you know, because it's very Very unprofessional But uh, so you're sitting with Oliver Stone Still with Oliver Stone and during the flight How are your sinuses because the cabin pressure can be not bad, you know, you got to remember to chew gum to do something to your cud But anyway, we get We're like, uh He only got up one time. We didn't talk the whole flight And he didn't say you didn't talk or you did talk we didn't we did not talk at all But like he noticed that these people were like making a fuss over me and goofing with me Anyway, the end of the flight. He said, who are you? And I said, I'm I was flight attendant of the year And uh, I said, what do you see when we get to the to the jetway? I got my own parking space right next to the jetway And he just went like this. He went, oh And he just kept reading I wasn't going to tell him I'm a comedian you never heard of But yeah, it's interesting living a life of At the level I'm at where I could be like signing autographs at gate 10 Taking pictures at gate 11. I'm just some fucking fat old man You know I noticed it like as I'm getting older like Now I see women helping me with my bag Like to put it in the overhead and I think oh, that's what I look like now It is interesting because of the I guess they call it the long tail of the comet That anybody can be Incredibly famous and you have no idea who it is. I always love walking especially Especially now with youtube and all that. Yeah You were saying you were walking. Well, no, I was saying that when I used to live in LA We would always go to the farmers market I remember running into Jeff garland at the farmers market. I think he was having lunch. Is it bill Simmons the sports guy? I think so. Yeah, you're big sports guy. I'm not a big sports guy I just don't I'm not interested in sports. Don't get me wrong. I love sucking cock But well, I don't think that you know, that's not one of the same I mean Uh, anyway, so I sit down like a half an hour ago. So you didn't want to say a word And now you're doing it with certain cock. I didn't want to say What word? cunt What word again is that I didn't hear cunt. I'm sorry cunt. Listen to me. I said cunt Hang on. Are we are we losing him? I can't what was the word? Uh Yeah, bill Simmons. I guess it was bill Simmons. I had no idea that I was talking to bill Simmons And garland goes boy, you were sure relaxed around bill Simmons. God, I you're as cool as a cucumber I want to have no idea who you're talking about So you can be One of the things you can do is tell somebody you're really famous Well, that's pathetic. Yeah, I've I've done that You've told people that I'm famous. I tell people I'm don Marrera And they say really we remember being a lot funnier Let's plug some gigs sir Plug some gigs. I'm at the um Where am I next week? I'm at the austin moon tower uh fest comedy festival in austin, texas We're planning on killing In the following week. I'm at the black box theater. I believe it's cold in delray beach, florida or bokeh return florida three shows only Get your tickets now And don't fuck yourself And not in that order I'm in uh Then I'm in in may at the end of may. I'm at the kill Kenny cat labs festival kill Kenny Ireland That's magic Have you been there? Yeah, I was there with you and and Kathleen madigan. I thought you were there. Yeah You were like the mayor of kill Kenny God, that's funny. Yeah, how are they doing over there before you go? How good good? It's really, you know It's hanging in there. It's you know, I love going to that town. They They call me the godfather of kill Kenny. It's so funny after all these years. I mean I've been going there. It always kills me Dave when they go, uh, the press like this scoop I go they got it. It's so stupid. They go. Did they get you and kill Kenny? I go. No That's why I go back every year because they don't get me It's so nice to hear my acting peace and quiet or an eruptive laughter and applause Just an angry irish murmuring that you can't for fuck's sake Did they get you? What do you think if I go back every year? I'm telling you this year. They're gonna get me Well, I love you dom Thank you for doing this. I know how busy you are and Yeah, I know and I got I belated it comes in here to turn me over so I don't commit suicide I love you too, David. Take care. Thank you. Bye. Bye, brother