JW Ep 79- Jeff Ross

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I hate that song. I love it. That was Mushroom, Salad, from Reagan and Watkins. Hope you enjoyed that track off the debut Reagan and Watkins album.

Thank you guys so much to everybody who has downloaded the album, or has purchased a hard copy or continues to download it. We will have vinyl very soon and some more hard copies for on the road of the CDs very soon. Thank you for all the support. I just want to say thank you to a lot of people who came out to the Reagan Watkins show in San Diego.

That was really cool. A lot of Kill Tony supporters, a lot of Jeremiah Wonder's listeners, as well as New York. People from me just throwing up on Instagram, my stand up on the spot, pop up show. It's been cool to actually tell people about shows and people who have been coming to them because, you know, or earlier years earlier on in my career, I, you know, as you're growing as a comic, you'll post shows.

And, you know, one person comes as a huge deal. And it's still a huge deal to me that you guys are coming out and larger and larger numbers. I appreciate you listening to this podcast and supporting me in general. I'm very grateful this holiday weekend.

I hope you had an awesome 4th of July, guys. What did you get yourselves into? Did you see any fireworks to shoot anything off? Hopefully you didn't shoot a bottle rocket into anybody's face or anything.

That's we used to do Roman candle fights back in Kansas. So dumb, but so fun, you know, it was a different time, guys. Yeah, I hope you spent with some friends or some family. And if not, connect with somebody this week.

And let's get this week off to a good start. You know what I mean? Jeff Ross is the guest today. I'm very excited to have him on the show.

This guy has done so much for me personally. And with my career, just been a good friend of me over the years. And we talked about how we become friends and we talk a lot about his new show on Netflix that we worked on together, Historical Rows. We talk about Rose Battle, different stuff like that, the Comedy Central Rows.

And we had a good time. Jeff is a good dude. And it was nice to have a longer conversation with them. Sometimes as friends, you know, with comedy clubs and comedy shows, you, you don't get to really interview your friend.

Everyone's all certain things come up, but it's cool to see them in a different light and to be able to introduce them to people in a different light. I want to get through this intro pretty quick because I'm trying to relax. It's the first time I've taken time off in a long time. We've been on the road so much I spent some time with my wife this weekend up in Santa Barbara.

It's very nice. So very excited. Some updates. Share with you guys soon.

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So get your tickets at TonyHinscliffe.com for that. And then I'll also be in Miami, Florida with Tony Hinscliffe at the beginning of August, that first weekend, excuse me, the August 8th through 10th. So there you go, guys. Let's get into this podcast.

The rose master is here on Jeremiah wonders without further ado. Welcome, my pal, Jeff Ross to the show. We're doing it. Yeah, let's do it.

Yeah, we're in it. This is it. This is it. It's staring at foreign seats.

So kind of audiences. I didn't I didn't I didn't haul people in for the show. This is a lot of fun. Jeff just knocked over three out of four ninjas turtles.

This is great. I never been an okay to hostage video before. Jeff was making fun of my setup is immediately. He's like, what is your wife thinking?

Oh, this setup. I'm like, yeah, you know, she's she lets me do it. This is she must love coming home to an electoral fire. You're like, she was like, you said that if you were with her, then she would have left you a long time ago having the setup.

Yeah. Yeah. Jeremiah, you might have to get no one. You got to haircut.

Just you have room for all this shit in the house. I know, right? I need I need extra room for that. My peripheral.

I've literally been able to see better since I got a haircut. I bet. Yeah. Imagine if you got a nose job.

I'd be too much too much too much space. I would know what to do with all my vision. Thanks for bringing me the pink microphone to bring out my feminine. Of course.

I know how into feminism, you are. So yeah, you just did the Netflix historical rose and Cleopatra and Frank. So you Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury, all the past queens. Great feminist icon.

Yeah. How you doing with that? Mike or everybody? You know, I didn't know they filled Mike's dance at 7-11, but this is good.

Right. You got it? Got to kill Tony for this Mike. No, you're here.

Screw the bottom. No, it's fine. Yeah, tighten the bottom. That way if you want to lean on it, you can't hear.

Right. You know, you know what Mike's dance work is tight. And how professional Mike stands for. Hey, these are boom stands.

I don't know how these legos. All right, they're Fisher-Prick Mike stands. And then now the fourth Ninja Turtle is down. Dude, it's always a it's always fun having a good buddy on the podcast, because at first I feel like I feel like the way I saw a podcast the closer of a friend.

I am with the person the more awkward it is getting into it. And then it's smooth sailing from that point on. Hey, I'm easy, bro. I know you ask me anything.

I know. Can I see anything? Are we going to do sex talk? I mean, that's at the end.

I know you're really excited about that. But yeah, we save that for the end. You got a story loaded up. I got more than a story loaded up.

I want it to burst. Fair. Way to go deep. Oh, yeah.

You're in a yoga frozen yoga. Strawberry. Froga. Froga.

Froga. Yoga is good for you, especially a guy like you on long flights and carrying equipment. You know, you need to stretch your back and and honor your body before and after important trips and trips. Yeah, you've been into yoga since I've known you.

You've even done like you told me you're one of the first people to tell me about hot yoga. How often do you sleep that? Not often, but I'm about to start going back again. Yeah.

I took a long time break and I've been doing regular yoga. You'll hear in there at my house, but there's something about going to that hot room and you just recharge, you sweat out all the toxins, take your shoes off, you take your phone off and you'll walk out of there half an inch taller with a smile on your face. Do you ever do like a steam room or a sauna? It's great.

That's what I try to do. I find the gym. You know, that's after the gym, it's good. But yoga is like, it's like giving yourself a massage.

It's more satisfying than a massage. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. What's the name of that place that we ate at that that has a that great rap named after you?

It's called the Mighty Jeff Ross. Oh, that's like, it's about Eva's health food on a street in New York City. Yeah, I love that. Mighty Jeff Ross.

The Mighty Jeff Ross. You can go get a custom. What is it, a rap? No, it's a there is a bowl.

It's chicken and rice and guacamole and nonfat moussarell cheese all mixed together. It's really good. It's really good. Yeah.

Yeah, we've had it a bunch with it. Tell them to tell them the Mighty Jeff Ross. Yeah, Eve's. Eve's.

Yeah. Every time I've gone to New York, almost every single time I've crashed at your place in your side room. And you've got this great thing that I really love that he has a on his wall. There's sharpies along the wall where all the comics who have stayed in that room sign the wall afterwards.

And there's a lot of talent that has has come and crashed like along the way. Yeah. It's pretty cool to see. Yeah.

Have you gone in there recently and just kind of like ever looked like, Oh, wow, there's there's a bunch of people who I've hosted here. I love that. I love. I love.

Yes. What people don't love house. Yes. I love when people stay with me and it's like, it's like fun.

Yeah. Have some funny memories of you waking up like half naked. Look at me. Oh, jet lagged.

Yeah. Ready to go. New York time. It's pretty impressive.

You're you're schedule on the East Coast. You you live the rocks that are life. Like I think you're up for it whenever because like the seller goes for so late. And then there's always like these after parties in New York.

Does you have to like kind of get used to that? Because you're pretty bi coastal. You're one of you're one of my few friends that truly lives a bi coastal life. So when I go out there, I have to like kind of psych myself up like, okay, you're my, you're not going to be sleeping too much.

You're going to be riffing a lot and parking lots. You're going to be going after parties. Yeah. No, New York is all night and I was always like that.

I love that. And I like late at night, you kind of have to say to yourself that comedians can take over. Me and Dave should probably use to drive my Jeep down the Fulton fish market back when it was Manhattan and it was lit up like daytime and everybody. We'd watch everybody working all night providing fish for the entire city, probably this tri state area, but it was daytime for us.

It was our prime time. So two, three, four, five in the morning. I love having the city to myself. It's cool.

Time squared in the middle of the night. Awesome. Yeah. One time it was like a hurricane or a tornado, a snowstorm.

I'll just walk through the city. I love it. It's great. Some of my favorite memories in New York have been when we've been doing the Rose battle out there or just just I happen to be visiting.

But like it's pretty fun to be in another city with a group of friends. Like whenever me, Jamar and Willie are out there with you, I just feel like we just are like owning the city, just walking through in the middle of the night, going through the parks and just kind of being as loud as we want. And nobody really cares. There's so many crazy people around.

So the best we're going to do that this weekend at San Francisco. Yeah. We're going to take over. We're going to take over San Fran.

San Fran. Take over Cluster Fest Friday night. Yeah. I was posting time for people to know that.

No, we'll have already happened because the episodes already have for this week. Oh, OK. Yeah. Well, we had a great time.

We had it. You were hilarious. Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

The first time we actually met was through kind of through a rose battle. We met multiple times through like Tony or Benji or different people and different friends at the Comedy Store. But that's kind of how we became close friends was working together on that show because we were doing our thing every week and then you started coming in and you kind of like set like kind of rules and stuff. You kind of help flush certain things out to make a little bit more organized and build it up to become a show and then, you know, and then it happened.

I had to reel it in. You had to reel it in. It was pretty. I mean, it's now it's a controlled chaos, but before it was like pure chaos, just pure chaos.

Well, the rules of rose battle original material only no physical contact at every battle ends with a hug. Those three commandments right there kept people from doing shitty stolen jokes or your mama. People were still touching each other and poking each other and which as you know, somebody who rose a lot of people, if you're if you're doing this, like while you're insulting somebody, those are those are like fighting words. That's what it becomes like when I'm like, and another thing.

I'd be like, what are you doing to me? Right. Yeah. I can take the insults, just stay away from me.

Yeah. Don't touch me. Yeah. Unless you put your arm around.

Yeah. And that was it, man. Rose battle gave me so many great friends and you're at the top of the list. So I owe a lot to Rose battle and that whole scene.

I love doing it. Yeah. It's great. Yeah.

We're going to be up in Montreal doing a tournament and and we do it every night, every Tuesday night here in Hollywood in the belly room. Yeah. And it's a worldwide movement. It is.

I mean, now it's I send multiple different countries now and it's kind of crazy. It was crazy. It was very surreal for me was when Julie Seabaugh wrote that book and I read it and I was reading it like, you know, it was like any other book where it's like, kind of documenting and like documenting and like putting down on history, kind of what happened and it's like, this is us. This is me and my friends.

This is so weird. It's beautiful, man. You're part of it. You're part of something.

What does she call it? The fourth pillar of comedy after stand up in province yet. Yeah. It's pretty cool, bud.

It's good times. And now dude, on to a historical roast. That was pretty pretty amazing experience. Thank you for being such a big part of it.

Yeah. It was a great time. I mean, I, you know, fans know that you're in the band and you do sketches on the show and you're in the writers room and you're a big part of it. I don't think I've really talked about so much.

I kind of wanted to wait until I had you on because like we were thinking about doing this episode a while ago and you said, why don't we wait till after a historical restaurant? I was like, yeah, and then we can actually talk about kind of the, some of the stuff that happened. Yeah. Push the views.

Yeah. You know, because this is our, our launch with Netflix, you know, stuff doesn't happen all at once once it comes out that first month where we're at right now is crucial. Yeah. Very important.

The numbers and yeah, you want people to know it so that it keeps going and we put a lot of comics and actors and musicians and rose battle fam to work on this show. Yeah. There's a lot of love that went into the series. And I obviously didn't want it to look like rose battle at all.

So shout out to the production design people and director Joel Galen and Michael Hatter who went to Great Lens to make sure it's, it's a nod to rose battle, but it's different. Yeah. Oh, I, it's so different. Even though like what's cool behind the scene wise, you, you walk into that writer's room and you're like, whoa, there's some heavy talent in here.

There's a lot of people who are really good at writing rose jokes. Right. And then you'll add in the idea of history and the rose jokes become charged. You know, now they're not just about some celebrity.

They're about slavery or the Holocaust or women's empowerment or coming out. Like they're, they're rich. The jokes are really pointed. Yeah.

That's what was kind of cool for me to, uh, because I would pitch some jokes here and there in the writer's room and stuff like that and try to come up with some ideas and what was kind of cool to see about because, you know, obviously some of these historical topics are pretty touchy and people kind of steer away from them. You kind of lean right into it and you're like, no, we're going to do, we're going to go there. Yeah. And it was kind of cool to see like, you know, there's stuff obviously there's Holocaust jokes made, there's slavery jokes made.

In case people don't know, we roast historical figures, right. You know, it's sort of in a classic roast style, but also you end up learning quite a bit about each person. Right. So, so there was the Russ Van Frank.

There's a lot to learn about. It was more just, I mean, I think, uh, I learned more about, uh, because I've never read the diary van Frank. So for somebody like me who's coming out, completely ignorant of that, like it's, like I learned, I didn't know how old she was even. I didn't, you know what I mean?

Like, so it creates a curiosity. It creates a curiosity where you're like, okay, well, let me look into this myself a little bit more even after I, the goal is not to educate you about these issues or Anne Frank or Abe Lincoln or slavery or whatever. The goal was to create curiosity where you might go, Google it or talk about it or party and learn something else. Yeah.

And you know, she was only 15 when all this happened. People don't realize it and people, did you even honestly, did you know who she was? Yeah. Yeah.

See, some people get confused with Helen Keller. Uh, Bert Crusher has an amazing bit about how he always confused them and he went. You got to see him do this bit. So he actually, he created it at a stand up on the spot, like somebody yelled out, he goes, Oh, I was not, I thought Anne Frank was Helen Keller and he just launches into the story about how he went with his fraternity brothers.

Like, like, yeah, it's, I don't want to mess it up, but it's so fun. Yeah. So I wanted to just sort of, you know, it's giving voice to the voiceless, which I always love with the roe shows I do and, and, and highlighting issues I care about that people wouldn't, wouldn't necessarily be thinking about when they watch a comedy show. Yeah.

It's kind of fun. It was a lot of fun. I, uh, so one of the things that I'm going to talk about, so every Pearson and I did not only the band and music for the show, but we did the crowd warm up every night. And it was, it's some of my favorite memories yet in comedy.

And honestly, it's some of the hardest war. It's one of the hardest shows I've ever had to do. Why? So it was mainly the first one.

And it was all the staging and it was, you, you learn as you go. We fixed it the second night on, but the way it was set up, uh, the audience is facing this way straight towards the stage. And meanwhile, Avery and I are wired in. We don't have wireless mics the first night.

So we're literally on the side where people are having to turn their heads to even look at us. So we are almost like elevator music. It's just like kind of like background noise. It's like, but we're trying to corral people and get people excited.

And we were out there the first night because we didn't everything wasn't set as far as schedules. Cause so they're like, oh, we'll definitely start a date. We didn't start a date. So we ended up doing 45 minutes of crowd warm up.

And it was one of the hardest shows I've ever had to do. What kind of, what were you saying or tell? We were singing. We were telling jokes or grabbing people interacting with them, trying to get any energy going to keep the ball up in the air.

So we are like, it's so funny. The first night, all the Netflix execs are there and Avery and I are bombing. Like so bad. So we start when we started commenting on how hard the situation, how hard the room was and how hard we were bombing, we started killing with the Netflix guys and the whole crowd because they're like, yeah, these guys actually are kind of in a hard tough spot.

They're off to the side where we can't, it's hard for us to even look at them. So when we acknowledged what was going on and that's all like kind of comedy store training is just being present and in the moment and finding a way to connect with the audience. So that was, that was one of my favorite memories on the show. Also, the, the, I remember the audience is also dressed up.

They're dressing period. They're part of the show. So they're even harder to sort of wrangle. Yeah.

Cause they're also feeling like, well, I'm part of this. And I'm not just some audience member, like I have a stake in this. Like I'm, I'm an actor. Like there was a lot of actors who came out to support the, the came out to the show.

So yeah, it was a, so it's not only difficult for that because everybody's dressed in the same era. So it's not, it's actually makes it harder to kind of riff off the crowd when everybody's dressed in a similar way. Right. So it's like, even, you know, when I riff, I roast people a little bit like with crowd work and stuff, you can only do that to a point because people are kind of looking at you like, yeah, man, we're all dressed up for the same reason.

Yeah. And you're like, Oh, okay. This is like when I try to do a speed roast, when I'm doing a show for the military, I'm not going to go to the same outfit. Same haircut, same outfit, same story.

It's tricky. Yeah. Do any tools like in your back pocket that you're like, okay, well, maybe I can do this. You got to go to the job.

You got to go. What's your job here and where you're from? You got to go to the stuff that they're ranking and stuff like that. It's always a little harder, but they all know each other.

So that part's the inside stuff. If you can dig it out of them, it's amplified. People will laugh like that. So you can't go for the obvious, you know, cosmetic, their appearance, the optics of it the way it roasts.

You love making fun of some guys, big ears or sure, you know, you can go there, but the outfit is always my go to and there's no outfit. Do you ever do a military roast and then somebody's like, you hit them with a zinger and then they're like, Oh, hell no. Yo, man, that's not cool. You just did to me, Jeff Ross.

Why you roasting me like this, dog? Volunteers only. I won't roast you unless you're a volunteer store. You came up on.

I know I came up. You're on stage, but damn, Jeff, you've become me bad. Well, you know, you shouldn't have worn sandals that don't fit. Oh, man, I just want to wear my flip flops with my fatigues.

Is that a problem? Why you roasting? I mean, I do have athletes for you. Is that an issue with you?

Come on, man. Give me so bad. Take it back. I'm sorry.

I don't know. You were so sensitive. Oh, man, you were pussy man. You're taking it back.

What you doing? That's why your toes were going in two different directions. Oh, maybe come here again. Just when I think the tiger is going to go back to the cage, you pass back on like a screen.

What's going on, man? All right. That's why I'll do what is that machine there? That's cool.

This is you have this at your disposal. So there's different filters and stuff on here. So here play around with it a little bit. This is what's fun about the show.

Obviously, you know, it's part interview, but it's part is hanging out in a riff and it's just a playground in here. So like these are so so oh, so Jeff Ross is calling the show. Hey, you were late, actually. Yeah.

Yeah. What's what's the hold up? I had really OK. OK, OK, now I'm really curious about the other two because the top one is a priority, of course.

My dog was your dog. Just does not feel and so you was it a look that it was given you or what? I promised to your dog's podcast ahead of mine. OK, that's cool.

Let's get to know. OK, well, when should I expect you here at the show? OK, well, I'll see you about three hours then. Only if you come.

Only if you come if you come if you promise to come a little bit late, then yes, I will dress like I'm in sixth grade. OK, perfect. I actually just got a haircut today. Is that right?

Yeah, yeah. Straight razor right across. By the way, for you, audio listeners, Jeff is literally dressed like a human giraffe right now. He has no room to come on how I look like a sixth grader.

Oh, wait, wait, so these are quick keys right here. So so Jeff, why are how do you get stuck at the bottom of that well? So long story. We'll tell you.

Hey, I love you. Hi, wouldn't it be nice if we were funnier? Tito. I love I love letting people just play.

One, two, ping pong. It's a little comedy. Looping, ping pong. Ping pong.

He's still out there. He's a little hacky though. That's a singing. That's like an auto tune one.

Oh, I like it. So like, sort of sing a little something. Is this the little girl I carry? Is this the little girl at play?

I don't remember growing older. You're the only person that auto doesn't work. Sunrise sunset. When sunrise sunrise and sunset.

Well, it's perfect for me. Oh, we got motherfipping pimp. I am building. I am what I am.

And that's what I am. Wow, you really fell off the wagon, bye bye. It's like a pimp I stopped being spinach and started drinking nacho cheese. Metaculate it before I pop you in the eye.

Oh, you got me in with that one, bye bye. This is really fun, Jeremiah, right? I'm glad I canceled my meeting with Martin Scorsese to be here. No, it's great.

What's the craziest director you've ever worked with? Because you've worked at some pretty cool people over the years. Crazy as director. Yeah.

I mean, like biggest or like really crazy. It can be either one. It might be the same one. I don't know.

I don't think I don't think I don't think about it like that. I have a lot of friends that are big directors. Did you do? Did you?

When was last time you were on a shoot and you're like, oh, this is a this is kind of crazy. I was on Sneaky Pete on Amazon. OK, and I did like two episodes in the beginning of the season. Yeah, they brought me back for three episodes at the end of the season.

OK, and in between. One of the main actors died, Ricky J. In real life. Yeah.

Oh, wow. And all the writers quit. Eight writers or nine writers quit because he passed away. No.

And then the star of the show, Giovanni Rippisi. Had twins right in the middle of a shoot day. And I was doing a scene with him. And his wife was going into labor and I had to like do everything on one take and nail it perfectly.

And this is an intense drama. So that was a really crazy shoot. How did you get there? That's a show came out great.

How did you get there for the scene whenever they're telling you all this stuff? Like, hey, we don't know if like what kind of turn inside of you. I'm always going under pressure used to performing live audiences and live television. You know, I'm not an actor in that way.

But you're able to rise at the occasion kind of thing. Right. Yeah. To Giovanni's character who really was in trouble.

So Giovanni wasn't in trouble, but he was really nervous and anxious. He's having, you know, twins in within hours. His wife's going into labor and uh. So it worked for the scene.

I was able to beat his power and he needed a power and he was able to work off me. And it ended up being a really good experience. I haven't actually watched the whole season yet I'm only halfway through. So I haven't seen those scenes yet, but sneaky Pete season three.

What do I got, so I haven't seen the show would you know how to like give me a synopsis? Oh, yeah. It's about sneaky Pete Giovanni Rippisi who's a great actor, Top Show Factor. and it's a great cast.

It's created by Bran Cranston, among other people. Oh, cool. And if you like Breaking Bad, you'll probably like this show. It's pretty dark, but it also has little tinges of comic relief here and there.

It's about con men. Giovanni Ribisi plays his own self plus Pete as a guy he meets in jail, and then adopts his persona. He steals his friend Pete from cellmates' identity. OK.

Comes out of jail and then becomes this guy Pete, so that he can run cons. He's a con man. So visually, Pete becomes sneaky. Yes.

OK. And I play one of the marks that they take advantage of. Was a mark like a guy that they skim. OK.

I walked out. Yeah. That's cool. That's a great part.

Yeah. That sounds like a lot of fun. I cannot tell you one of my favorite memories from being in between in the crowd for a historical roast. Of course.

All right. There is this moment where Bob Saget and John Stane most were on stage together right. And I look over at Avery Pearson. And it's time for us to play some music because they cut.

We're trying to keep the energy upright. And Avery starts to play. I know right away what it is. The first three notes of the full house theme song.

And I look at Avery and he looks back at me. And I'm like, are we doing this right now? And he's like, oh hell yeah. And then I'm like, are we?

And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, I don't know if we have like, yeah. And then we did it. And then we ended up singing the full house theme.

I don't remember the two John Stane most and Bob Saget. Wow. And the audience went nuts because obviously they're all fans of their work. And I told after we ended, I looked at John Stane most.

And I go, thanks for letting me do that, man. That's like a dream come true. I've always wanted to sing that song to you. And Bob Saget looks over and goes, what am I?

Chop, deliver? Well, why did you sing at the Stane most? Because he was giving me more like eye contact and whatever. And Bob was there too, obviously.

He was like, come on, what are you? I'm here too. Well, that's what Bob does. So then back just so he could pretend to be insulted.

Yeah. He's the best. Yeah. Yeah.

That's great. And you were great on historical roles. You also played Delilah. Delilah Freddie Mercury's cat.

Made famous in Bohemian Rhapsody. We wanted to humanize Freddie beyond all the obvious things that was his career and learn a little bit about his personal habits and his personal life back when he wasn't on tour. And he used to call his cat Delilah from the road. And he loved his cat.

So I love Jeremiah. So I asked Jeremiah if he would be Delilah. And you killed it. That was a pretty funny phone call.

I think, Jeff, I think you from the past is actually calling in to offer me the. You got a second. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

What's going on, Jeff? Oh, we have a port. Oh, great. OK.

Yeah. What's up? Freddie Mercury. OK, great.

A big fan of Queen. I love it. Yeah. Uh, sounds looking.

OK, what is it? You have the information? No, no, no, no. Jeff, whatever.

Jeff, honestly, whatever you need, buddy, I love you whatever's best for the show I'm here for you. I mean, so much, buddy. Yeah. Thank you.

Perfect. Rosebout. All right, I'll see you. All right, see you.

Some of that is how it went down. Of course. Yeah. Of course.

I had to do that all day. I had to call all my friends and offer them crazy roles. I know, right? Nikki Glaser talks about how I called her up and I offered her the role of Princess Diana.

Oh, really? Because I just thought, you know what? I mean, she would kind of upend Princess Diana who was so like a saint and Nikki could come up there and roast and talk shit and be a funny twist on Princess Diana. And then we decided that through the research, we saw that Kurt Cobain had mentioned Freddie Mercury in his suicide note.

I was like, oh, man, Kurt Cobain. That'd be a cool character to get there. And then I heard Nikki Glaser talking about depression, I think, on the Howard Stern Show and how she deals with depression. And I was like, oh, that's a theme in Kurt Cobain's speech.

And I told our casting director just send an offer to Nikki as Kurt Cobain and don't tell her I switched it from Princess Diana. So she, of course, got the offer, thought it was wrong. Her agent said, no, they're very clear it's Kurt Cobain and Nikki sort of laughing and said, OK, and she said she really got empowered by being a man. She really liked being a man.

Yeah. I saw some of her interviews, like on Conan's stuff. She said that she enjoyed not having to put on makeup or anything like that. Right.

It's a pretty fun show. And a fortune fiendster on a playing a really delicious Princess Diana. She's hilarious. So funny.

She was killing it. Yeah. Seth Green played as David Bowie in your episode. And a lot of really talented people on historical roast and our pal Avery who wrote the theme song and what a lot of the, you know, what we would do is the writers and we would write a roast and then we would hand it over to Avery who would then turn the roast jokes into a song.

So you'll see Freddie Mercury's rebuttal is a musical rebuttal. And you know, he wrote great songs for Brigitte Everett who plays the goddess Isis, the God of femininity on the Cleopatra episode. She kills it. Another highlight for me.

Avery wrote a song with some of the other writers for Josh Homie who played Elvis from Queens of the Stone Age. And I got to play guitar for Josh on that episode. And that was like such a huge highlight for me. I'm like, this is crazy.

And we happened to like on the king. On the king. Yeah. That's fun.

It was a great show. I hope people love it as much as we made love making it. So you see, so you've seen me and Jamar and Willie do some pretty insane things with a wave over the years. Has there ever been one that stuck out there like, Oh, I think they might have gone too far on Rose battle on Rose battle where the way well, you can never go too far at Rose battle, but I'm a control freak.

I like knowing what's going on ahead of time. Yeah. Because I always have some other agenda, you know, you're in your show. Jeff is like, well, you'll know about him after working with him.

Anybody like with the way your mind works, it's like a big chessboard. I feel like and you're always looking three or four moves ahead. And like if this happens, I'm gonna counter with this. And if that happens, like, I don't know, that's how I kind of see how you look at things like that.

Interesting. But yeah, can continue. So, you know, when you guys would rehearse without me or I would see it, you know, as it was happening and I'd go, you know, this is the one that gets us canceled. Is this the one that gets us sued?

Is this, you know, this Rose battle, you know, it's, it's sometimes it's physically dangerous. Jeremiah will leap on and off his other cast mates. Yeah. And you guys will have blind folds on and foam and water in your faces and, you know, you're have naked, you got no shoes on, you're tripping over wires and it's these fattel camera guys don't know what the fucks happening.

So, you know, there's a certain part of me as the son of a caterer who goes like, I'm liable for this, right? Like, Jeremiah, like, you know, you're, I've seen you fall really hard at real battle. And we've had injuries at Rose battle, you know, there's been a handful. So, yeah, there's comedy, but before we even get to the comedy, I'm like, is this safe and is this legal?

Because, you know, you shave your pubes one time without running it by anybody. And I'm not someone who tells somebody what to do with their body, but if you're going to do it, I'm going to do it on a seven cameras and a few hundred people on a premiere live show. Yeah. As the executive producer, I would like to know about it ahead of time.

So shaving your pubes was probably up there. What was your response when that happened right away? What were you laughing or were you worried right away whenever that was happening? If I'm if I'm caught off guard, it's very hard for me to laugh.

Oh, really? Yeah. So you're so what's going through your head? I'm playing chess going, what's my next move?

What do I say? What do I mean? Is there a disclaimer? I can say that will help their joke, not get cut.

You know, is there something I can do to yes and their crazy moment? Yeah. So I stay in it. I stay in it as a comedian than the producer in me tries to clean it up afterwards.

What was it? Do you remember any of the talks that were going on about that? Yeah. Hey, Jeff, did you know, Jeremiah was going to shave his pubes and I said, you know what, I figured he'd shave them years ago.

What do you mean? And, you know, I'm not a hairy person, so I can relate. But I just remember it's always, there were a lot of conversations and there still are always about the wave and sometimes they're controversial. Do they help the battlers?

Do they hurt the battlers? Is it a good experience for the audience at home? The way it is for the people in the room is the wave distracting. Are they going to do something so provocative that I can't use it?

You know, I've seen the Willy drop babies from the balcony, you know, dolls, but in the moment you don't know it's a doll. You know, so it's a lot happening. Yeah, we did a Michael Jackson bit where Willy was dressed as Michael Jackson and he had blanket and just dropped the baby. Yeah, so if you don't know what's coming, it's a lot to look at.