Ep 634 - Department of Jokes (feat. Yakov Smirnoff)

- Y'all cough.

Thank you very much for being here.

- Thanks for having me. - Yes.

“- And you're actually coming at a good time.”

That's become a bit of a rusefile. - Mm-hmm. - Okay. - Yeah. - Okay. - It should be a crane.

- I know, I heard, I was like, dang, that's not good. So, I'm reading Dostia's ski right now. He's made me a rusefile. - You're liking it then, I'm sure. I think I would do, yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah, I've heard of me, I'm just 100% russia right now. It's not that I can do about it. - Well, it is an interesting kind of side which side to you. - No, I don't think he's been doing this for a long time.

- He's called you. - He's not bringing his thoughts to you.

- He's not bringing his thoughts to you.

- He's not bringing his thoughts to you. - He's just a joke. I thought, I thought you were a crane and I'm like, oh, that's not, that's, you know. - Well, I grew up in Ukraine, but I speak Russian,

and my wife is from Ukraine. And we speak Russians to each other. And we have a one-year-old that we're teaching Russians. So all of this, we're just hoping that this thing will blow over at some point.

And so how does the name thing work? 'Cause I notice there's like three names for everybody. There's like, there's like a pet name. There's like a formal son of a father's name in the middle. So it would be my dad's name would be Voniewicz,

if your dad's Ivan, it would be like Yakovye Voniewicz and then the last name.

“So did you have like a pet name though, like a nickname too?”

- No, no, well, my mom would call me like Yasha. There is sort of Yakov, right? But yeah, that's not normal. - So I was reading that book and everybody has three names. There's like, oh, Vitch name, there's the Asha, like pet name,

and then there's like one more. - Yeah.

- Just like first name kind of thing.

- But most of the time, it's your name, your given name, in your father's name, and at Anson, itch, or whatever, that Ivanovich Petrovich, whatever. - And then your last name.

- That's normal. - And yeah, it's confusing. - Well, I came to America, I just chose not to have that. - Drop the Vitch, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - If you're reading this, the Vitch fell off.

(laughing) You like that, Nate? - Well, nice. - Well, as you saw, we're going through some struggles here, the guys are downbed, Nate flipped off Joe Rogan yesterday.

- Yeah, what happened? - He made a mistake. - Staking identity? - He gave the middle finger the boss last, right? - Which is, I might be cooked.

I thought it was Tony, I thought, I saw him come out from the back, I thought his car was Tony's car. So I just, what I thought was Tony, double middle finger, stand in front of the car.

- Oh, you're good in front of the vice president. (laughing) - I mean, the vice president of cool, so I could get away with that was the vice president. - I don't, I don't know the press, the press is the only spoken up.

- Yeah, double middle finger, it's crazy. - Double sh*t. - Double sh*t. He's probably about to get out the car, beat the shit out. - He was literally just showing us,

he could do round, round house care, still. He was just amped up. - I saw the cop, like once I noticed what was happening, I saw the cop that was like watching him leave,

“like he was like, had that alert, like what the fuck?”

- You look think it tackled. - Yeah, I just wanted to get shot. - Down the street. Dude, there was also hitting splits in the greener. But that's nice.

(laughing) - It was so funny. - The splits are wild. - Rogan, Rogan was like, I can still do the splits. - That's awesome.

- 'Cause there was a rumor that David Lucas could do splits. - Interesting. - And I said, I don't believe it. - Yeah. - And then Rogan immediately was like, I can't,

and did it. And then while he was on the ground doing the split, David Jolly walked in. I was like, don't fuck, it's going on in here. (laughing)

The wonderful night. - I used to be able to do this 'cause Azki Dan's, you know, with the kicks, yeah. And so now in the show, because I have a theater in Branson,

so there's more like a variety, so I do stand-up stuff, but I also do some fun stuff. So I have dancers in the show, and then I come out and I sit on a little stool

that they don't see. And people just love it, and then I get up and turn around, and then there's a stool back there. (laughing) - It's like, kind of rock.

- What's the name of that dance? - 'Cause Azki, 'cause Azki, yeah. 'Cause Azki, yeah. - That was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,

- I didn't know that.

“- Like if you're busted out of the 'cause Azki,”

could I go to a club and just fucking? - Well, when you're capable to do it, it's like doing splits, you know? It's like, really, yeah, it's not an easy thing to do, and you watch those guys that they can do spinning

and jumping up and doing splits, I can do that. - So you're like, sure, like, straight for the, I used my arm, I'm like, let me chill with that too. - I mean, I'd be in the hospital before, right? - Yeah.

- Before, no, I would be, yeah, but if you can do it,

break it out, it's like the worm, basically.

- Yeah. - Weddings. - It was normal. - No, it's not old. - Yeah, yeah.

- If you've got some vodka and... - You're the same thing. - Honestly, sounds awesome. - Yeah, it is awesome. - Getting hammered and just kicking like crazy.

- Yeah. - Yes, one thing I did enjoy about the red army. - Then, the dance. - It's a fun thing. (laughing)

- I feel like, if the Germans had had a fun dance,

“maybe, people would have had a fun dance.”

- Yeah, they would not. - But the Germans had no dance. - What's that? - They just, they had no dance. - Yeah, they weren't, they kind of crippled.

- They kind of crippled.

- They got the goose step.

- Yeah. - Some country still hold them. - No, they still rocked the goose step. - There you go. - Pretty sick.

- But everyone, the whole... - From military drill for sure. - Just from visual perspective. - For sure. - Military static.

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“- G'day, actually, I wanna run some by you.”

- Yeah. - This is for everybody. I saw this saying a couple days ago. And I think this is a new development in like ultra white behavior.

You know, when you're dog poops, you grab a dog poop bag and then poop. The guy was squatted down. Next to his dog holding the bag open while the dog shit into the bag.

And I just wanted to say right now, I hope that's not a new trend because that was so disturbing. It was so disturbing to watch this guy. - Look at this guy. - Look like, give me a description.

- It's like an ultra white, you know what I mean? Like someone who's old, probably like 60s. Like it's like a fleece vested kind of soft-handed waist. - I don't know, probably like some shit

of the carabiner on it, if I had a guess. - Like probably some cargo is made. - He was a Harris voter. - Undenial. (laughing)

- I gotta be honest. That it screams Harris voter. (laughing) - It was a Harris voter. They need to talk about that man.

It was an establishment Democrat for sure. - It was definitely, it's about as damn as it gets. (laughing) - It's like 10 pins on your back. Just holding a bag for your dog to shit in was like,

I'd rather you leave it there, just leave it and walk away. - I really did, I'd rather you leave that and me be like, mother fucker than watch that and be like, whoa dude, why are you doing that? What have been asked, what stock is diaries?

(laughing) - That's what that I've been thinking. - How did you catch that? - How did they catch that? - Yeah, yeah.

- Dude, it was, my older dogs would kind of scoot a little bit too, so it was, I couldn't believe what I saw. So I'm hoping that stops now. - Yeah. - Yeah.

- Was it a trash bag, it was a dog poop bag, the tiny little bag. - Yeah, okay. - He was just holding a tiny little dog bag - I ran into the room.

- Right next to the room. - Right, right on the crater. (laughing) Just, you know, down a little, here's the other drop. - It's green, down.

- Dude, I should've, I should've, I should've beaten them up. - It should've fallen. - So this is a good job for like a robot to go behind the dog. - Yeah.

- You exactly right. - In that way, nobody's upset. - Yeah, I don't think it's a dog shit robot.

You might be on a billion dollar idea.

I've been trying to make money off a dog shit for a while. I have 'cause like you had to think, it has to break down into something that's worth something, you know, I think they, off-gasses.

There's all this dog shit, I'm so serious. I mean, it was like, all this dog shit is getting just thrown in these bags and trapped in plastic and it's like, there's gotta be some quality within dog shit

that you can, like, it's like way protein ethanol. - Something, man. - You want the gas. I want to, I want to corner the dog shit market and turn into a million dollars.

- I mean, you might be. - I'm gonna think it about this a lot.

- Jewels. - I'll celebrate with a concept. - If you do this, I'll get enough shape. - Okay. - Seven cells of my knees, I'll hit it.

“- So this is why it's called secret podcasts.”

- No one can know about it. - Yeah. - No one can know about it. 'Cause if somebody gets wind of man's dog shit idea. - True.

- Yeah, man. - You don't ask my feelings right now. - Dude, please, could fuel his rockets. - I sure am. - So I'm just kidding.

(laughing) - 'Cause gotta be some use of all that dog shit. - Yeah, apparently it doesn't work as fertilizer

'cause that was my first line of thought.

- Really not worth it. - Well, the bag would not work. - Well, they say they're, they're compostable. Some of the bags. But I looked into the fertilizer

and like, I could be carrying some nasty, you know, I don't know. I don't know why a cow's shit would be-- - You would look into it. - I did it for sure.

- You would look into it. - You would look into it. - I've looked into it deeply.

“It's always me walking dog shit to my out of my garage,”

to my thing and I'm like, is there an industrial application that I forget it? Whatever a grock says, I forgot for get it. But yeah, say, "Tuned." - Yeah, what do you mean?

- The robot's picking it up. - The robot's growing. - Now you're sitting this cleaning it up for as a robot.

- That's just, that could just be a form of getting it to you.

- Yeah, you could use, you know those robots that carry like food orders. - Yeah. - When there's no order in between orders they could go and just-- - Oh, a vacuum dog shit.

- That was shit. - I can't even have it in a separate compartment that you're food. - Which would be a good turn for the people kicking those things over, too.

Every once in a while you go, I was actually carrying dog vomit. - Vomits gotta have stuff to be out of your vomit going, too. - Gotta be some stem stuff. - I'll come. Dog come will be--

- Dog come can be very valuable and lucrative. - There's gotta be like B-12 in it probably. - Do you have any dogs? - I had the dog for a while. I had them in the show.

It was part of the skit.

“And then I had them for about a year and a half.”

- It was a working dog. - It's a working dog.

- Yeah, it was kind of half and half.

He was supposedly a pet and part of the show. And it was a sheet suit in the poodle, so cold and shit pool. So it was a cute little dog. But I realized that I didn't have enough patience

for that. You didn't know. And then so when I was in the road, I felt guilty that he was alone and so I would put him into dog motel and I realized that I was spending

more money on dog than me staying in a nice motel. So the lady hole in the motel said, why don't we co-parent this dog and I said, great, so she took him and that was it. - That's great. - I visited him a couple of times.

He was running the motel, he's really cute, so he would sit on her desk and greet people. And he was really, so it worked out really nice. - Nice. - I just happy.

- Mayor got rid of his dog, the way him and his family got rid of their dog is they took the dog to the park and they threw the ball and then got in their car and drove away. - You serious? - And dead serious.

- And the dog is still with the balls. - It's probably no dog motel. - No, he was part of his duty. - What the hell? - Fucking hand on the chair, after I did check and finger.

- No, I just, I was getting it up. - Oh, you had already spilled. - Sorry about, I didn't mean to actually get upset with you, but that genuinely would have made me angry. That I liked to catch up on the fucking chair.

- Yeah, crazy. - Well, actually I would have been the true mad. I would have been like, there you gotta leave. - I just talked to a storm chaser. Read Timmer, I believe his name.

He had a, he has a guy who has a tank, who he goes to the tomatoes. He had a dog that would do storm chases with him. - That's what I said. - I was like, what's that dog's name, Toto?

(both laughing) - What was it about, as joke? (both laughing) - They're gonna get in Russia soon. - Yeah, sure.

(both laughing) - Well, they, (both laughing) yeah, I was like, well, that's gotta be crazy for a dog, they don't like like light thunder. I was like, a dog in that tornado must have been bugging.

He was like, yeah, he was actually pretty scared. (both laughing) You'd be, it was called a dominator. It's just like giant, it's an F350, dominator, awesome. It's an F350 that just anchors down into the ground

and it's like, it's like bulletproof glass. You can go inside of the swirl, not in F5, obviously. If you go down and just be inside of a tornado, then they launch rockets up into it to like, study the wind pattern or something.

- Damn, the guy solved the wister. - Yeah, pretty much. (both laughing) - I got solved the wister, I was like, I'll do that. - I'll do that.

- That's crazy. I mean, that was actually the, I think the name

- The wister was sick. (both laughing) (both laughing)

- Did you like the wister?

- The wister was good. - I guess, did you see water world? - Huh? - Did you see water world? - Water world. - Kevin Costner.

- I, I, I remember that vlog, yeah. - I loved it. - I thought it was sick, yeah, it's all smokers. - The what? - The smokers, that's who they were fighting.

- Is that the guy I don't remember? - The smokers, the bad guys. - What? - Yeah. I just remember some out when the old took us to saw it.

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if you win your first $5 lineup. Price picks. - Run your game. (both laughing) When you were growing up in Odessa,

how long did you live in Odessa? - I was 26 when I left the Soviet Union, so I lived all my life in communal apartments, but with my parents sharing the room.

So basically, that was my life, so I never,

- So when you hear people talk about how cool communism is, what are your thoughts? - Well, it's a good question. - 'Cause I'm curious 'cause I never lived under communism. - If you don't know any better,

it's, that's the way people live. So some people live just a little bit better than others, but you get used to it, you know, I grew up in no phone, no car, a nine families and one apartment,

“one bathroom, kitchen shared between all those nine families,”

one stove, and you have a schedule, like when you can cook, and God forbid, you cook longer, then other people get to relapse that, then you can have lead pipe in your soup, you know,

and just for flavor, you know? So, but you don't know any better, you just live out of that. And in my case, I was lucky that I kind of discovered comedy because I wasn't good in sports, so it wasn't good, you know, in studying,

and but I was good in making people laugh, getting in trouble, and still keep doing it. And so that's what got me. - Yeah, yeah, how did stand up start in the survey, you know, when were they doing that?

- Well, in my, normally there was like two stand-up comedians in the whole country that approved by the government. - So awesome. - So they can be on television, they can be on radio,

and so-- - We'll do that for a few years. - Yeah. (laughs) - We did that for a few years. - Yeah, for like eight years in the United States.

- I don't think there's anything close. Is that kind of like that? - No, no. - We all share an apartment with one bathroom. (laughs)

- No, I gotta tell you, this was like when I, when I came to America, and I was hoping that I can do comedy, but I didn't speak English. So I, but I remember going to-- - Right, I'm sorry to stop you.

In communist, in the Soviet Union, would any of the people in the communal apartment leave dishes in the communal sink? (laughs) 'Cause that would be a beating.

- Yeah. - There was a lot of challenges. This is, this is was not one of them. - This is not a challenge. - Thank you, you're saying they cleaned up and dried out.

- Even then, even Soviet Russia. - Wow, they would, they would. - Are you hinting on something? (laughs) - So if you had been really good at sports though,

would you get like a different apartment or would you still be locked in the bathroom?

You would probably have more opportunities

like going outside the country, like representing the Soviet Union,

“comedians were not sent out to represent the Soviet Union.”

So you would have like, if your belay dancers, you know, opera singers, those who were, they were pride of, - You got so proud of your commute, they weren't proud of the commutes?

- No, well, if you were approved by the communist party, then you were an asset to them. And then, so what would happen in each apartment in, there would be a speaker that was connected to like the whole.

So, and they were on all the time. So, on Sunday mornings, they would broadcast

a comedy skit that were approved by the government.

And so, I would record that like, pick recorder and I would record that thing. Now, it memorizes it because there was no rider, so, there was no, it wasn't like you were stealing, because there was nothing allowed.

So, but this was allowed. So, then I was able to memorize it very quickly and then, would tell my friends, and they would laugh. And there was kind of like an impression. They knew where I got it.

It was everybody heard it. It wasn't like I was, you know. And, but it gave me a chance to be popular with my friends. And that's what encouraged that. Damn, there's something kind of bleak about that, though.

You're just memorizing like state propaganda.

“Now, it was the only thing you're allowed to do,”

which is what I get it. That's the only thing that was there, but that's like pretty wild. And, you're conditioned so much. I remember seeing one of the comedians in New York and he said that Jimmy Carter had a hemorrhoi operation

and he will be perfect as whole. And I literally docked behind the table because I thought somebody's gonna shoot him. (laughing) I swear, I mean, this how conditioned you were,

don't say anything against the government. And literally, we had a department of jokes that each state, we had 15 state or 15 republics and each republic had a minister of culture that had a department of jokes.

So if to become a professional comedian, you had to submit your material in writing, all the jokes that you're gonna do.

“And it would be more like both of your comedy.”

So then you're not doing an hour special. You were doing hosting something, few jokes here, few jokes there. And then they would approve it with a stamp. - What type of jokes would they approve?

Do you like to make fun of your wife or something? - Yeah, I mean, I mean, modern law jokes. - Stuff? - Racism? - Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

- No kind, you can't do political jokes. You can't do sexual jokes, you can't do religious jokes, you can't do, you can talk about fish. (laughing) You know, I mean, stuff like that,

obscure, and those jokes were pretty much like all jokes that everybody was hatching them over. So you didn't have to deal with the Communist Party and the informers were everywhere. So you could not just sneak in a joke

because they were watching. So it was pretty bad, but backstage, you would tell jokes about, Kruschev Brezhnev, I mean, this was just okay. - Surprise it and catch on worldwide, like they thought.

- Do you want? - Surprise the Communist Dream, to catch on worldwide. - Well, you survived and that environment came here and the realized that you can do whatever.

- What was that like coming here

and when you first got here

and you were just kind of like existing? - Well, I didn't speak English, so for the interpreter, the guy was laughing at me and the immigration office, like he was saying, like what do you want to do in America?

And I said, I want to be a Russian comedian and he started laughing and I go, why is he laughing? He said, well, it sounds like Amish electrician. And so and then I see dogs are sniffing my luggage

and I said, what's going on there and the interpreter said they're looking for drugs

people are hooked on drugs but dogs.

“- And they started laughing again, I'm going kill it.”

I'm doing pretty good without even knowing the language. I'm doing good, you know? So that's how, but then I got a, I was really determined. I knew that I wanted to do it,

but I had no nobody to kind of, there was no sound. Robin Williams was doing suppression jokes and people kind of thought that he was Russian and then they were thinking, oh, you're faking that you're from Russia.

All of that stuff was happening for real and so I figured I got a learning mission and so I got a job as a, went to bartending school

'cause I figured we're just moved to New York.

So I went out of, oh, you know how to make was the Moscow meal before that? (laughing)

“That was that, that would have been a good one.”

Yes, I have no idea. I'm like, and I go to bartending school on Fifth Avenue and they won $200 for a week or two week course to become a mixologist. So I would have a diploma, but I don't speak English.

And so I bring that big tape recorder with me and record this, all the drinks that they're, you know, the grasshopper, dry martini, whatever and then I try it and I get the hammer and yeah. But eventually I got a job and it gave me a chance

to start talking to and trying my jokes on Americans. - What years? - That was 77. - Whoa. - When you came to America how, like they must have interviewed you a lot, right?

Like to come from the Soviet Union to the United States - No, the government was a lot. - The interview like, - Like the government being like, the government, yes, they did.

And we had to wait in Italy for three months to get passed, so they didn't want people with communist party records or, you know, like a criminal record and the Barry Manelore, I'm joke about that, but they didn't want any of that.

- So everyone else will just got right in. - Yeah, that's pretty much interesting. - So and then the interview comes and you think that CIA is going to like grill you and I walked into that and the guys in shorts

kind of relax kind of going, looking at me, going for my papers and going, are you a spy, I go, no, said okay, that's fine. So, well, I got in strict security. - Yeah, yeah, that's so funny.

Tell me, are you a spy? - Yeah, yeah, tell me. - No, I would be honest if I was a spy. (laughing) - That's pretty, so what was your impression though

when you came here and if you were so used to, that was so normal to be like nine families in an apartment and you got here

“and you had your own spread, like where did you move?”

- Well, you didn't, I mean, at first, at first,

it was like, I had a friend who immigrated before me and she had an apartment and we slept on the floor for a while, I came with my parents. So we didn't have any money, the funny part how we survived the three months in Italy,

they would allow only so many things to take out of Russia and there was a list, like a camera, a hat, something like that and $100 a person, the exchange, that's it, so we as kind of a part of this research was what do we need to take with us

so we can sell in Italy and one of the things was condoms and because in Soviet Union there were like a couple of pennies and there you could sell them for a dollar and we heard that and there was no restrictions on how many condoms you could get.

- So I would go to all different and you could, you gotta talk to the pharmacists because it wasn't like just picking it up and you gotta talk to them day. So I would go from one pharmacy to another

and just get as many condoms as I could get. So we got like a suitcase, full of condoms, I'm not making this up, full of condoms and we gave it to my mom. So figure, they won't ask her why, you know, whatever

and my job and their job was on Saturday and Sunday

“there was an open market and you go there”

and you open the suitcase and use condoms. - So condoms, right? - So, so it was funny because my parents who were very conservative, you know,

never seen capitalism, all the Sunday become

this capitalist, so my dad said, I'm gonna be in charge of advertising. So he starts blowing those off. - I'm gonna be in charge of advertising. (laughing)

Right, and mom's clever, I mean, and she's a straight, there's a good, she translates into Italian. If you don't wanna have a kid like this and points at me by a condom and people would laugh and they would buy it and that would give us money

to pay rent for this time and survive. - That's awesome. - Where's Trinobile compared to Odessa? - It's closer to Kea, yeah, so it's probably 60 miles from Kea, and what year was that?

Were you there?

- No, no, that blow up in right before the Soviet Union

“and the collapse, I believe that that was kind of the last straw”

that broke the Gamma's back because Gorbachev did not know. They literally tried to cover it up for a long time. And I talked to a, when I, when I visited, so, well, that point still, so we didn't know. No, it was after, so we didn't.

I visited, took my kids to St. Petersburg and we happened to, through some friends, knew a general who was in charge of covering up Chernobyl. And so, and he said, we tried. So we got all the heavy equipment from all over the country

to get there, to bury it, the whole city, the whole thing. But after, after, it's already been out and the news were out and that was kind of a Gorbachev's, you know, and all that. It seemed, I went and I visited there in Chernobyl.

- Aha, it's cool. - Yeah, it's, and they give you a Geiger counter and they're still, so if you walk on the pavement, no, no problem, just the same as in the city. But the moment you like, the year off,

just a little bit into a, like, a grass area? - Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, still there, still there. That was only like five, six years ago when I went. - She's.

- And, but you walk in and there's, it's kind of like a monument to a fallen vampire, because everything, our grown with trees and so, every this, the pictures are still of, you know, the Soviet politics, well, of that was still there,

but it's totally ruined. - How far around it is like, unusable,

basically, we're all livable now.

- I don't think the, the radiation level, if you compare it to just a regular city, it has already just from the sun and all of that. - So, I would say 20 kilometers may be around that. - And they build like a dome over it now?

- I don't grow. - Yeah, I think so. - As a museum or a museum? - No, no, like a protection. - Just a protect.

- Yeah. - Well, maybe I shouldn't have gone. (laughing) - But I had them, I have a one year old. Now, so I guess it's still okay, yeah.

- It's got three arms. - I'm great. (laughing) - It may be the real name. - Did you ever see the show, Chernobyl? - I did.

- It was great, right? - I did, it was great. - Yeah, I was like that. - Yeah, I was like, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- And the music shows, everything that sounds that it did. - But I liked the, my favorite part is the communist party. Like, when they have the meeting of all the towns people, and they're like, everything's fine. - Yeah.

“- And the one guy was like, why is the air glowing?”

And he's like, shut up. (laughing) Like, everything's fine and he throws up blood. (laughing) Get 'em out.

- Dude, that's totally. - That was good. - What year was that again? - I thought it was, no. - What's that?

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I don't know why growing man bent over and touched each other. - I mean, that, you know. - If you put it that way. (laughs) - Well, if you say it's gay, I can't, you know, - You know, it's hard, it's a really tight story.

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- No, not really. No, I never got into it, that wasn't good at it, but if I wasn't good, that wasn't. - It's got loves basketball, and I mean, you should see him. - Sure.

- I might be the worst person to ever touch a basketball, but it is my favorite thing. He likes to see the men, he likes to see the big men. - See what they can do? - He cheers for them.

- I cheer for them, I wear their shirts.

- He said he was a kiss a bunch of the players

for them to win a championship this year. - I said I look kissable. - And when you say he would mash butts with a bronge. - I said I would mash butts with a naked butts, and mash them together.

- I would mash butts with you. - You said you would mash butts back. (laughing)

“- I think you should be talking about basketball, yes.”

- I think you should be talking about basketball, yes. (laughing) - Well, it's also like, would you rather mash butts or kiss? That's a tough question. - Damn, mash butts is disgusting.

(laughing) - But it's almost like, you guys ever do a naked mash? - It's a little more quinnacle. - It's a little more quinnacle. Mashed butts quick, you're off, a kiss is pretty intimate.

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“- Just say Russians that a Soviet Union.”

- Nobody cares. Nobody. You know why? - You have to stop talking to you. - I realized later on, and this was something that took me years to figure out that

I was meeting the need that America had. America, the Soviet Union was a pain in the butt to America. I was like preparation H. I was like, you know, so when the need change. Yeah, yeah.

There you go. Now we're connecting. - Yes, yes.

- You're rushing America finally butt-mashed.

There was no more market. It tore down the wall, everyone. - There was one dream. - There was one dream. - There was one dream.

- There was one dream. - It was great. - So that sucks. - But when the itching and the swelling and the goes away, you don't need preparation H.

So that's kind of what happened. I was like put it aside and literally couldn't find even going back to clubs. We were not nobody. It was like your who cares. - Yeah.

- Soviet Union is not their who cares. - There was also was that around when the comedy bubble itself burst. - Well, it wasn't like it wasn't huge in the 80s. And then like 90s it kind of dipped or am I wrong about that? - I think you might be right.

I think might have been similar to that.

“And then I remember I was telling my agent, you know, what do I do?”

And he goes well. William Nelson is doing this concert in Ames, Iowa. And they won't pay anything, but he needs a co-host. Would you want to go to Ames, Iowa? And I go farmers would not know who I am.

Why would I, you know? But I had no choice or land. And it was, you know, I did my sad. And they gave me a standing ovation. I was like, hold this.

I got this is pretty cool. So, and then I want to say goodbye to William Nelson. This is where I opened the door at his tour bus. And this smoke comes out. And he and he goes through the smoke.

He goes, y'all go, you did great. You should go to brands that they'll love you there. And I go, what's brands? And so I went and in brands and they didn't know that the Soviet Union collapsed. So I got 33 years out of that.

I owned 2000 seat theater and entertained over 6 million people there.

So it in some ways being canceled worked for me. So that's getting the theater business.

“Well, I'm, I really, it's just my theater, right?”

When I got there, it was not easy. I rented it. And I first show and thinking, well, I'll do well. There are 17 people showed up. So it was started to, oh my goodness, do the little kids.

What am I going to do? I must, they must love you in brands. Now, well, it took a while, but they do, they do. And so it became, so I did 400 shows a year. I would just do show after show.

And that was it. You performed it your throwing place just you. Yeah. Yeah, you just first just walked. And then it became because they liked more variety.

So I added some dancers and sketches and things like that. But mostly it was me. That's awesome. Now I kind of, you know, I do only like 30 shows a year.

And this is where I, for the first time, really come back and kind of put my foot in the water.

Go, they still know who I am. And then, you know, kill Tony. You know, Tony says to me, sure, I'd love to have you as a celebrity judge.

Honestly, going, are they going to kill me? Or are they going to just accept me? Of course. Well, of course, in your mind, your mind plays tricks, it's like you go, I don't know. I'm sure when you went back, you know,

It's better than that live. It was like, what's going to happen here? You sure? Yeah. So.

Yeah. I still feel that way whenever I go any, any other club. I'll go back to the seller and be like, they hate me. Yeah. I'll go anywhere.

I go the store. I'm like fucking LA. Then you hang out with them for 10 minutes. I got it. Yeah.

Any club I go into, I'm like, I hate everyone here.

“Well, also luckily there's somebody says hi and you go, hey, how are you?”

Yeah. Thank you. A lot of your stuff. Yeah. Luckily, there's a plenty of political strife again with Russia.

What was that? There's a lot of political strife with Russia right now, too. Yeah. Could be another harvest season. Yeah.

Yeah. I try. I feel like after that whole thing happened 90s. I feel like I developed, like I had the like PTSD from going into a political direction. Yeah.

So I, I started and I, I was going through divorce and I realized that this a lot more

job security talking about men and women called war will never end.

Yeah. So I just, I doubled down on that. I got, I literally, while I was doing shows in, in brands and I got my masters degree. In psychology to you, Penn, because I wanted to research laughter and here's what triggered it.

It was like realization that, um, when the relationship starts, everybody laughs. And, and then when it's over, the only people laughing are their attorneys. And you're like crying literally. So I was like, I started asking my audience, I go, let me ask you, how many of you

“when you fell in love remember laughter being part of that?”

And they all, yeah. And I go, how many of you would go on the second date if you didn't have laughter? Silence. Oh, no. Oh, there's something here.

All those guys are lying by the way. Yeah. She's hilarious. God, she's funny. And you fucker you go, I don't get it.

I don't get them. What's the punchline? Well, but that was in brands. So it's different. What?

All right. So if you, you study, what were you saying laughing? Like just first of all. Psychology. What the fuck is laughter?

About that. The relief of psychic tension.

You never wise a comment like that.

I just remember hearing that somewhere. I had a feeling you know. It's perceived threat that gets. Well, yeah, I was going after deeper, you know, like there's a lot of understanding of laughter is an element of surprise.

All of those things are correct. That was going for root. My dad was a engineer and inventor. So my brain is like, what is it? What is it?

I want to understand why there's laughter in the beginning of the relationship and why there is and later on. And it's not just a relationship with your wife or it's the same with the children, the same with your co-workers, the same. So I was looking for what's it coming to nominate?

What is it? And so I did my dissertation. And then I went to Pepperdine and got my doctor degree. Because I wanted to continue figuring this out. The dissertation is online, you can 190 pages of no jokes all.

I mean, it's like serious research. And so the dissertation is called Law of laughter. L-O-L. That's the only joke they allowed me on the cover. That's it.

And so the what they boil down to.

“And it's starting and that's what explained to me my success in America, not just because”

you know, I had, I was hard working. I had talent, all of that.

But the main thing that got me on the level that I never imagined making movies and doing

was that there was a need. American needed to relieve from that crazy tension that the so Brezhnev and Krushchev with the shoe, we will bury you all of that.

And here I show up. And I'm like, we're afraid of this.

“And that's what got me together tonight.”

Show all of those things. And then I realized so the need. So I was meeting the need. And that's what happens in the beginning of the relationship. You do everything to meet her needs.

She's doing everything to meet your need. Whatever the needs are. And then the humor triggers though after that's it. So if the need is not met, you're screwed. And then the relationship.

Normally you're saying, I'm not meeting her need. I'm done or vice versa. Because I've noticed me in the mirror stopped sharing. Doctor smeared off. Could you?

Doctor smeared off. Can you please diagnose these two? They're lovely. They're lovely. They're lovely.

My my love with the mayor's physical. It's not as funny. At first I go, oh, Mary, he just wiped a catch up on the chair. After eating a chicken finger during the podcast. Now I go.

Now I go. What the fuck was that? Oh, you left the dishes.

“I'm having people from dinner who cares.”

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Now let's start your promo. Let's start. What about the relationship of like years? We're like maybe the laughter has died but then the wife falls on the floor and you go. Yeah.

Because that never gets old.

Then the need was mad. True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You can marry a clumsy bitch. Yeah. I think the last feather is chill. Yeah. That's cool.

You went back to school for psychology. So what do you do with that? You just sit on the doctor. Well, at first I kind of... Similar path.

True. I have a massive social work. Okay. So at first I thought that I'll go into that relationship arena. Do TED Talks, maybe I did a PBS special call, Happily Ever Laughter.

But then I realized I'm splitting myself that, you know, I believe that comedy is really what I want to do. But I was doing it to fit, to meet the need. And then I realized that most people don't want to change. There, whatever their pattern is in relationship.

You can spend all your life trying to help them. But they don't. So I use that in my show. I use a lot of material men, women differences. My wife telling stories about my wife, me.

And that's basically incorporated what I learned into my stand up.

Nice. So that was a Drexel by the way. I want the Drexel right next to Penn. We used to live. Did you go to Penn?

Yeah. We lived right there. We lived in the University city and Philadelphia. It's a beautiful campus. I love that.

Yeah. Yeah. Drexel is ugly. It was literally voted. I wanted Drexel right next to Penn.

It was voted one of the ugly as campuses in America.

“You should see Harris, Brigade, Community College.”

I went from like very nice schools at first. And then literally Harris, Brigade, Community College and Westchester. Both of them look like Soviet. That architecture is Soviet block. That's fine.

That's what you do. That's why I liked it. That's what you felt at home. I felt right there. Oh, there's only three windows.

Yeah. Watch your building. Yeah. They got some stuff. 18T building.

At least they have like grass. Drexel is no grass. It's just concrete. And it was run by Greeks for a while. So they got this idea to put like giant almost an amphitheater thing in the middle of

like a paper. Oh yeah. Horrible. Drexel was Greek run for a long time. Hack was right next to the farm show complex.

And a bunch of fucking train tracks.

I feel like it was always cloudy when I was there.

That was a dark period. Yeah, that's a tough one. Although you definitely probably felt like boy genius at there. I did. HAC.

Yeah. That's all. It's really not community college. You can go through it later. Second.

Smart. Smart as hell. Yeah. That's a good feeling. So I'm curious about your coming back.

To S&L. The set. You were pretty. I mean, you were pretty set on that set, right? Yeah.

I mean, it was.

No. It was because solid. It was great. Thank you. Yeah.

No. I mean, I was winging a little at the beginning.

“Just being like, I was like, how do I address getting fired?”

And I thought about it for a while of like what to say. And I was like, should I fucking tell him. Yeah. I thought about it. Yeah.

I thought about it. Yeah. Don't burn to the rogan. But I loved it. You're your family there.

Yeah. Yeah. That was great set up. Yeah. It was like, I'm going, oh man.

He thought it's true.

No, that was last second.

That was really. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I knew they were coming. But I was like, can we, because I didn't even think to ask if I could get him on camera. And then when we were doing rehearsals, I was like, can we get a camera? Like, because I was like, where are they going to be sitting? And they showed me.

Yeah. And I was like, can we put a camera on? Oh yeah. Perfect.

“Then I didn't tell them that they were going to be on camera.”

That's so funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was nice.

That was a nice moment. Mom and Dad held hands. That's really sweet. That was like, God damn. This is like this sweet moment of my life.

They're in need. They're in need. They were like, yeah. Kids not a loser. Yeah.

Look at that.

We, we didn't waste time.

Because there was a good 30 years before that, where they were like, oh. Yeah. God damn. That's good stuff. It's got to be so nice to be like, holy, fun.

Yeah. But then I'm up there like, my dad's fucking gay. Did a camera on him. We'll see. Still, it's nice.

Yeah. It's so fucking funny. Very bitch. Yeah. My dad's like, yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's great. Yeah.

But then at the, yeah. I remember at the after party. He was sitting at a table. He was just him. And my, like, my ears.

Yeah. That's all.

But just drinking fill was holding court.

That's like, yeah. This is good. Yeah. You can imagine what my parents thought when I wanted to do stand up in Soviet Union. You can imagine that.

You're probably like, don't tell them. I'm saying, yes. You are, are you, you crazy, totally crazy. Yeah. But here we are.

Yeah. You're well. I mean, yeah. How did they feel? Did they probably said no, right?

Oh. Are you kidding? No for years. Yeah. I started when I was 15.

In the community, it was community college or trade school. I was, they kind of forced me to go to become a refrigeration mechanic because comedy. Are you kidding? You know, so, and I was doing amateur comedy there.

And then I went to military and two years. And I was kind of doing amateur stuff there. And then I came back and, and I'm going, I want to do a kind of, they said, no. No, you got it. So I got my bachelor's in art.

And that's the another thing that I do. So they said, at least this is not so comedy. Yeah. Because again, going through the, they knew how difficult would be to pass those communist party people and all that.

And so in in college, I was just doing it again as an amateur. But. And then later on you do it as a amateur though. Where would you do it as a amateur? In the club, like in school, there would be a club.

And that would be every like me day or a revolution day that would do some kind of a concert. And I still working on that calendar that was like completely cut off from the regular calendar. Well, regular like what do you mean? Didn't they split the calendar?

“Didn't they take all the religious stuff out of the calendar?”

And I think that was France actually. Well, they changed like you mean Christmas like in two new years, right? Yeah, they, they, they saved the tree. But it was New Year's not Christmas. Got it.

And it was Santa Claus. It was in Santa Claus. It was Father Frost. Father Frost. Yeah.

And that's how. And you know, and yeah, it's not like it stopped the tree. Yeah, Christmas trees too. Because of tree rules. But they didn't, you know, that we didn't even know that there was no Christmas space.

It took the Christ out of Christmas. There you go. Absolutely. There was no religion was totally not allowed. You could not even say the word God in school.

You, you would be expelled. So at those days. Yeah. God. I didn't try.

Yeah. I didn't try. So that was my reality. And so we doing this comedy thing.

To do like stand or master of ceremonies, like a assistant or cruise director.

“They're like the Black Sea or the Black Sea.”

Yeah. So I was. And so they liked me. And this, this is a cool thing that happened there. So I go there.

And they don't, they said, well, won't pay you.

But you get to your cabin.

You get the cabin too. So that's pretty universal. Yeah. They did that here to everybody. Yeah.

Well, it was like, yeah, I'll be. I'll have my own room for like a week. Holy cow. That was amazing. And the bathroom for myself.

That's it. That's right. Right there on that little. Right. What's it called?

The peninsula. Oh, the. Well, it's. It's near. Crime.

Yeah. Yeah. But it's a little bit more south. So.

“But that's where the cruise ships go out of.”

out of and they go round. Submarines. I don't know why. I think I know about a death. No, that's a lot of stuff. That's right. That's the crèmeier. That's a little bit farther south from from that. So I thought he's saying the cruise ship was a summary. No, but that's all. Yeah, so so this is. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you can do comedy. There's the massive ceremonies. You're the MC of the show. I was MC. And this is and how because I didn't speak English or any other language, they had a lot of tourists from different countries.

So you would have Czechoslovakians, you would have Polish, you would have Germans, Americans, Australians, whatever. And my job was to do like games with them. You know, do some kind of miscrues or, you know, competition. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, boy, I was 24 years old. Yes, and they let me, they let me into anyone could enter into the running for miscrues. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty much up to me and they gave me an interpreter. So I could talk to them for the first time to those. Yeah, I have, yeah, it was really adventurous and fun. And and Russian women a lot more conservative. And, you know, they're not like they weren't like the hottest women.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But those days, oh, big burly, they were, they were all, no, they were nice, they were nice, beautiful women sturdy, but they were standing behind those big burly women. So you never saw them, right. But, but here all of a sudden I have women who are from the West.

And culture and they are like, they know things about sex and that we never even heard of, you know, even though it's universal, but boy, you were so far ahead.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was learning, I had to learn all of this really. So all of a sudden I'm in this environment and I'm getting to know.”

Got my own interpreter and you tell them about it. So that was exciting to be there. All this I was allowed something that I totally couldn't imagine. And, and so then the cruise comes to the end. And I, they said, would you like to go again, I said, well, would it be possible to get my parents a cabin as well, because they never been on the cruise and stuff. The communist party, you know, boss who controls that whole company or the whole Black Sea cruise line. And there's only one cruise line. He says, who do you think you are that you're going to request something? We have hundreds of people like you get out of here. And so I was like, oh shoot. Well, I tried, but didn't work out. So I go home and I tell my parents that it's not going to happen.

And it's like in the morning, we have no phone and all of a sudden this messenger comes an hour later and he has two sets of tickets for me and my parents.

And they said, oh, well, you see, these ships are rented by European cruise companies during like nine months out of the year. And we go, the captain and the crew goes to those to those places could be Britain could be whatever they need it.

And he said, we learned that if somebody is essential, then they should get more than an average person.

“And the captain, he said, like to you. And he said, even if you need to give him my cabin, I want him on the ship. And I went like, wait, wait, are you just told me that if you're more talented, you will get more stuff.”

And they go. And I was like, we're on some mom dad, we got to be in talented. What the fuck? So how did you know the captain, what was your, that's had the captain's blessings in honor, especially on the craft captain would just come to watch the shows. That's awesome. That's it. And I didn't speak those languages. So my mom was very conservative. She wanted to be watching the show and be like, no shit. Fuck, I got to be driving this thing. Yeah, no, I'm going off. Oh, shit.

It's got so fucking funny.

So my mom watched me perform in front of like people who didn't speak my, I didn't speak their language because she always thought that that wasn't very smart.

And I couldn't do well. I didn't do good well in school. So it was like, how is he going to go to another country and learn the language and he's so dumb that he thinks that he can, to comedy in that language. All of that stuff was in the back of her mind. And here she's watching me do it and watching those people laughing. And they don't understand even what I'm saying, but I guess my timing and facial expressions and then whatever their interpreters tell them whatever it is, it worked.

And then at that point, she said, you know, you, you may have an international comedy career. It was like, wow, really mom. And that's when we started. Oh, that's awesome. The mom told me to become a teacher. Yeah.

I had a club owner.

“I had a club owner. I bomb so bad. He sat me down. He was like, what do you go school for? And I was like, history teacher and he was like, you should do that.”

That was like that. So that's a few. Yeah, really.

That's what fueled the escape. Basically, that's when you got to give us a chance and Jimmy Carter was that time.

One, it to get some Russians were starving. There was no food and they needed some wheat. And so they made the deal. So if you show human rights in, in Soviet Union, then you can, and let some people out, we will give you some wheat. So we were basically exchange for some grain in the deal. Yeah.

I thought I, I salute every time I see a wonderbrush truck. Yeah. You never know. Yeah. So one hot commodity for another.

Is it one hot commodity for another? He's saying you and the wheat. Oh, yeah, hot commodities. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm very grateful for that. That's awesome.

“And that's what allowed you guys to just, that's what the law of well, it took still.”

They didn't want people to leave. Even though they, so they would put a lot of challenges in front of you. One of them was that if young person applies to leave, they have to take their parents with them. Most older people would not take that chance.

And my dad wanted to get out of there years before my mom ever imagined that. My dad knew it. He was like, he was telling my, I remember, I was like maybe like seven. And we're in this little apartment right in one room. And I wake up in the middle of the night.

And he's sitting there with his ear to a radio.

“And I go, dad, what are you listening to?”

And he goes, don't let neighbors hear us. This is Voice of America. Whoa. And they would jam the signal during the day. But at night time, they didn't think anybody was listening.

So they didn't jam it. And so he would get up. And he was like, so now I'm listening to it with him. And so, and, you know, it's like, the voice gives me your tired, your hungry and your poor and I'm like going, I'm qualified. Yeah.

And so that's how... What about, uh, how did you guys feel about JFK? We was used obviously as propaganda immediately. As look what they do in America. They killed their presidents.

You know, so they used everything as propaganda. They used Charlie Chaplin movies. We watched that's the only American we saw.

And so there was always that villain.

And this poor guy who's getting beat up by the police. And that's America, you know? Yeah. So they knew what was your dad in the military? During the Second World War.

Yes. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Geez.

“That's why he did he see like was he in battle?”

He, I think he was smarter than that. Yeah. I think he was in the chemical warfare. So it was smart enough because they never... It never...

You guys kind of stupid because you don't know which way the wind is going to go. Yeah. So if you... If you... If you...

If you... Bro, we're one, they found that out. Yeah. Yeah. So he went into and he got into that.

So he was in charge of like having all this, uh, gas masks and all of that. So he didn't get hurt. And... Yeah. So...

Damn. That's wild. Well, that would be too. I think we're... We did it.

Yeah. We did it. Any final thoughts? Oh, we did. We're talking.

I thought... Are you going to start rolling? [laughter] That was great. Any final thoughts?

Thank you for having me. Thank you. And, um, I... You know, I don't know. Um, do I... do I... can I plug stuff?

Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Okay. So I'm going on tour. Awesome.

I'm on tour. I'm starting September 6th in Oklahoma City at the breakdown comedy club. And then after that, you can go on yorkof.com. And all of my dates are there.

And I hope it's a first time I'm kind of getting out of Branson bubble.

So I'm hoping that people will come. I hope so. So we'll plug the thing too. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll be able to click your website. Oh. Yeah. Very cool. That was so.

Thanks for having me in. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

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