The best place to bomb.

Yeah, because I didn't even, or I maybe didn't even know that word yet, but where's the best place to just not, you know, to try this? And they said there was this loft, this comedy loft.

Yeah.

which sounded more professional than it was.

It was some dude's apartment is what it was.

And it was a loft, a very what we would call a hard loft.

What do you mean by that? I don't know if it was legally livable, if there were facilities available.

And I wonder, especially at this point in your career, do you feel a responsibility for how audiences interpret the jokes that you make, the remarks that you make?

And I am hoping we

we... can rent it for 10 more years.

We don't know if he's alive or what.

We don't know.

We haven't heard from him, and I try not to ask him for anything.

Yeah.

But this is a dream situation.

Right.

Have people not heard of slippers?

What do you mean? Well, it feels fresh to have bare feet.

That feels fresh.

Thank you.

Thank you, Robbie.

Thank you.

That feels fresh.

The ones you're born with are the ones you die

Yeah.

It's just, it to me is not a ch- it's, it just is.

Like, you know, I think rich people, I've talked to this to some extent, but I'm sure not to your audience, but I think that rich people, maybe they had their own room growing up.

So maybe two sisters or a brother and sister had a fight, and they disagree or whatever, and they don't wanna talk anymore, and they go into the room, and they close the door.

I shared a room with some of my sisters, so it's like, you know, whatever the bitch has to say, I gotta sleep with her [laughs] you know? It's like, at a certain point we're, we're, we're not, there's nowhere to go.

You know, my mother, you know, our, our phone was in the middle, like, hallway of the, of the house.

So it's like, we had one phone there, and if my mother was crying on the phone because, you know, I don't know, some, some horrible financial thing, we'd be like, "Ma, is it not going well?" Like, you know, it's like, we didn't get to not know anything.

[laughs]

Oh, shit.

And I know the suit.

How did you guess it from that? That's crazy.

That's the craziest thing I've ever seen.

How did you guess it from that? I got to shake your hand on that one.

Not only am I great with a face, I'm great with hands, arms.

Like, you know how people, they never forget a face? That's me.

Robbie.

... it's gonna skip, like... [whooshing] Like in the water.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and there I am, and it's like, I've done well for what it is, what I've been...

I don't think everybody could do me, you know? Like, I was given this, and I think I've, I've steered it pretty well.

I've done the best I could with what I was given, and I think I actually did better than people.

Like, we didn't, you know, such a particular one to have to guide and steer and drive, but the car works and drives, and I just kept updating it, and I kept repairing it, and I kept making it as good as it could be, and we got here.

I, I never knew of stand-up really or anything.

And they still look great.

Mm-hmm.

But for the most part, um, yeah, my parents had 10 kids by 30.

Um, I think it's extremely reckless, and I think, you know, I think it's, yeah, they're bound by, yeah, it's a, it's a very oppressive, it can be very oppressive.

Um, and I think particularly of women of course, and I would say that for most traditional religious, um, communities in Judaism and beyond to other religions.

Yeah

... that you, that you really are excited to get married.

Um, because I, I don't care, I didn't care otherwise.

You know, I wasn't sure if I would get married or not get married, but it wasn't, but now I, meeting Gabby, I needed to be married to Gabby, and I just love that.

... are you spending inside of, "I have to do this, but it sucks doing it because for now there's no money in doing it, and I have to support myself because all of this is for naught if I can't make a career of it"?

Well, I always did like both.

I never like left my day job for a very long time.

Um, I, I, I...

You know, in the beginning of doing it when I heard about stand-up, it was like a whisper.

Like I kind of, I was living in Montreal, I was in university, and they had the festival there.

And I was living kind of a keeping up with the Joneses.

You'd be really unhappy in that job if that's what you had chosen as a career.

Yeah

... my grades are good, whatever.

And she was like...

And I was starting to dress the way, um, again, think American Apparel.

I was starting to wear stuff maybe that I liked to wear.

I had one or two good shirts, or what I thought were, like, cool going-out shirts that I would wear.

And I don't know why she asked me, but I- it came up in the therapy that my sexuality, and I'm exploring it, I have a girlfriend or whatever.

Are there things that weren't, are surprising you?

How was it? Former bachelorette,

former winner of Traders, former Dancing with the Stars champion, former Denver Broncos cheerleader, former ICU nurse during COVID.

We got married in Vegas.

Greatest wedding I've ever been to.

Wow, there's so many formers.

I'm still stuck there.

You can't beat the Vegas package.

accounting?

It's not possible, right? It's never been done.

Me and my wife, we do, we're so honest with each other.

Like, I'll pitch, we do this thing, 'cause I used to be, I used to think I was very open with sex.

I thought, "I'm open, I'm sexual." But I don't ta-...

I won't, like, say, "Oh, should we hook up tonight?" Like, I, I don't speak such things.

In a weird way, I'm like, I guess that's what they mean when you're talking about it.

I guess I would, like, you know, do the moves, like, we're in bed, like, but I wouldn't, I would never, like, pitch to her, like, "Oh, we have the night off.

Whoa.