Catch a Rising Star

Oh, okay.

And Catch a Rising Star was the comedy club.

That's how I got into the, you know, it was, New York was so happening.

that you would get into these scenes at the time.

Yeah

But I remember, uh, you, you were always a little older and definitely more, uh, high up in the show business tree than us youngsters at Catch a Rising Star, and The Improv, and the Comedy...

Not the Comedy Store.

That was out here.

It could have been Montreal.

It could have been the Catch a Rising Star days.

Yeah.

I'm going to tell you something that you may or may not remember.

course,

you're

doing Catch a Rising Star.

That was before Louis Ferranda.

on – of course.

It was in 19 – I passed audition at Catch a Rising Star in June of 1981, which means I was allowed to hang out until 3 in the morning and not go on.

And – And I saw and Gilbert was was going on late at night and it was just a revelation to see.

And, you know, and I remember a lot of the bits and I would just hold a bit that used to do that.

So I had lunch with Adrian, my wife, Adrian Tull.

She's a comic who knows you longer than she knows me.

And then let me just tell you this story about one night at Catch a Rising Star with Gilbert and Adrian.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Richard Belzer is the MC at Catch a Rising Star.

That's very funny.

And Mira, like, you know, I was kind of questioning, like, if you had an illiterate student in your English class, would you embarrass them in front of everybody? And Dave's like, well, maybe in 1980 you would.

I, I went to, I went to California.

I, I d- I went to couple of places in New York, Catch a Rising Star.

I thought you went to Catch a Rising Star-

I did.

I did

Oh.

So in, in, in fist, Fist A, I've got the Catch a Rising Star's 10th anniversary special with, get this lineup, Joe Piscopo-

Ooh

...

at

Catch a Rising Star or

something and Seinfeld gave him

nothing.