 My guest today is a guy who, I used to go to tapings of his TV show. Is that true? That's totally true. I never knew that. Yep. I used to go to tapings of Mr. Show with Bob and David. Excuse me, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh. Hey everybody, I'm David Cross. I know, no, no. Wait, you'd come with us to the taping? I would go. I would have remembered. No, I wouldn't. Was he your brother? No, no, no, no. I would go and sit in the audience 1994. Yeah. Yep. First one. See? All right. See, I told you. Yes, I used to go to tapings. I didn't go to like a ton of them, but I went to a few of them. No, I don't. It was to explain to someone what like alternative comedy was at the beginning. Yeah. Now seems, I mean it was 27 years ago or whatever. Or 30 years ago. 30 years ago. I mean, that label came out a little later. I think it was somebody from the LA Weekly did a article. I'm young. What is the LA Weekly? Again, that's one of those things. Are you serious? No, I know the LA Weekly. But you know what I mean? Like, what is it, mister? A CD. All right. Yeah. Clean air. What? Tap water. It was, well, New York tap water is great. No, get it. Tap water is fantastic. It, I mean, there is no alternative anymore. It's all pretty much that, but yeah, back in the early, early, early days, 80s, I guess, I put the whole thing on Janine Garofalo, the professional darted, what we now consider alternative comedy. Somebody else gave her, squarely gave her credit as well. Oh, I think she was it. She, I mean- Oh, Bob did, Bob and his book. Yeah, I think she pretty much, you know, I was with her in Boston and there was just, nobody was just doing that at all. Do you have a notebook? Notebook, scraps, paper. Not nice clothes, not presentation on the hall. And not doing, not doing like, you know, set up punchline tag type stuff. I would like to quickly say, in terms of like, if you're not familiar with Mr. Show, there's a sketch called The Audition that crosses the star up, whatever. Stars of it, whatever, whatever. Well, the script is actually the star of that one, but like- Yeah, exactly. It's maybe the best comedy sketch I've ever seen and I don't say that. I say that pretty well in form. The monologue that I'll be performing now is from the play entitled The Audition by Gavin Hollerwood. Can I use this chair? Sure. Oh, no, I started it. That's, that's part of the monologue. And- That's a good one, it's up there. It's fucking so good. There's just so, that show is so great and so layered and there's things, just sitting here with you where I'm like hearing shit, like scammy, flammy, mammy. Like, meanwhile you say scammy, flammy, mammy, constant fucking, constantly. Like, and God and the Bible. The one of some mother? Tamara. Yeah. You are, you need to respect the baby cause life is precious and God and the Bible. There's just so many things. There's so many small lines. Oh, my scammy, flammy, mammy. From that, my scammy, flammy, mammy. Oh, my scammy, flammy, mammy. I forgot all about that. It's so fucking funny and it's nonsense. It's just the tag on a sketch, you break in and sing my scammy, flammy, mammy. And it's, and there's 70 of those. That was such a fun sketch and character to do. I always liked doing those really earnest guys who were clueless, you know? There's a little, like, You're very good at that. Was that, there was another guy, yeah, there was always a guy that wore a scarf who was like an inventor, wrote a recombent bicycle. Yeah, yeah, the, right, Dylan, I think it was. Yeah, I don't even know. Oh, that guy's like the pretentious, just, you know. He didn't have TV, he didn't. I don't watch television. Yeah. Yeah, I don't eat raisins. What, why? Cause it's not a true great, you know, whatever the thing is. I don't eat donuts or hamburgers or any other food that has a approval of the masses. Yeah, like Fart and Gary was a character like that, just earnest, trying to be nice and just clueless. You also yelled at, and I think about it every time the weather's cold in LA where you're like, there was something when maybe the first season we were filming in like a weird restaurant or something. And you were like, we fucking moved out here and we're shooting in a fucking rude or fucking, broke down as restaurant. And I think that every time it's raining, like I fucking moved out here and this is what we get. It was, yeah, it was some weird place on Las Palmas, I think, just off of Hollywood and it was all we could afford. And it was a bar, it was weird. And they still had the menu up there, like wingdings and things and whatever. And you could literally hear crickets. There were crickets in the walls and our audience was bused in, we had an audience service at that point, you know, it was a lot of kids from El Segundo who didn't quite- Who didn't really care for comedy in general or your comedy in particular, Brian didn't like your comedy. No, I remember asking some, there was a table, we were, you know, stopped down. It was a restaurant. And I was like, hey, so what do you guys think? And this guy's like, you could use a little more color in it, all right? Legitimate. It's just, you know, old white guys. Yeah, legitimate criticism, looking back. Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah, did you like it though? You want more, don't wanna work, would rather watch videos of me grab assing with people. First of all, go up here to subscribe and then go up here to watch more clips. This is like when the weatherman says there's a high pressure system coming in. Although I'm not really used to the green screen.