on this

because young Bill would have been tougher that anger I get what you mean I still there's a bit in this new special and it's I fucking hated a woman on my flight and it's a long story about how much I hated this woman and I didn't The second it was over, I thought it was like it all washed away and it was funny to me.

But in the moment, you're like, this fucking woman just took my seat on the flight.

And she did.

That's the name of the specials.

Incorrect.

I said, you took my seat.

It was the worst

I felt no, dude, we lost three games.

It was, but it wasn't, because once you make it to the finals, You know how hard it is to get back there.

It's been 20, what, 26 years? 27 years since we made it to the finals.

So you know how hard it is to get there, so you don't want to blow that opportunity.

You know we match up well with the Spurs, so you're like, I don't want to get here and then blow it.

So that's when I got really tense.

In game one, when I'm like, fuck, they're good.

1976.

land the same way.

I really resent the faux outrage from all these people who are on social media like, here's my take on it.

It's like no one gives a fuck.

It's from the same types of people that would sell out their friends in a fucking heartbeat.

No, I mean, we all understand that they're writing this way.

It's so insincere, the outrage.

Whereas Shane, you just look at the type of person he is and how he took all his friends with him on this fucking ride from Philly, and you know he's a great dude.

There's

And would you drive if you went to visit Massachusetts? Would you guys drive?

The one time we didn't drive, I got salmonella from Midway Airlines.

It was the one time my dad's like, we should fly.

And it's now a dead airline, but it was called Midway.

And I think it was chicken or something.

I got salmonella in second grade.

And oh my God, that stuff's bad.

I mean, what's some of the hijinks that you've gotten up to that you're able to share?

Based on rushing, meaning during the set or rushing like you filmed it too soon?

I think sometimes you film it a little earlier than you need to.

And I was kind of glad none of the venues I wanted were available until February because I was like, all right, that's longer than I wanted.

But then I was kind of like, as long as you don't really overcook it, it's good.

Why did you pick Florida? Cause it's just very different.

I've never done one.

I've never done one.

Well, not with the vaccine mandate or lack of that our government is saying.

I like it.

It is cringe as fuck how he just, like, sits there with them.

I, I can't...

I guess 'cause we, like, imagine seeing a p-...

Like, what the fuck? And now they're, it's, like, unleashed all these vigilante versions of him, so you'll see him on TikTok and just, like, it'll be guys walking up to a guy like, "You like, uh, you like playing around with little kids?" And they're filming him, and some guy's like, "No," and they just start wailing on him.

Your dad left, like, straight up?

Oh, yeah.

He, my mom ran into him on the street.

uh you're like easy it

was it was on me it was on me to do i i think because you know it's it's on whoever's visiting right and like if she were in new york it'd be on her kind of you know so i was here and i'd been here for most of february promoting my special and then uh which is i think when i saw you at the comedy store yeah and then march i was i came back here you know because she had been traveling so much and she started promoting her special and uh It just kind of it was like the day I was supposed to leave for the Tempe Improv and I had to decide and my agents were going to cancel that weekend.

But then I'm kind of like this is like this feels weird.

This feels end of the world.

So I'm kind of stuck.

And I just said, you know, I said, you got to cancel whatever thing because we have to figure it.

She had a podcast later that day.

what is the mindset of, first of all, you know, building up an hour like that and then, you know, feeling confident? Because didn't you do an hour with Comedy Central before?

[laughs]

I was like, "You bitch." You have to in those situations, though.

Yeah, yeah.

I really, I, I was, it, it's at this point in my career, it took 30 years to realize those kind of crowds with accomplished people, they don't care about your life.

Totally.

Totally.

[laughs] They don't care about your apartment.

Yeah, yeah.

This is like, uh-

I've seen some loons on that fucking...

I almost got killed by a dude on one, on, no, it was New Jersey Transit, actually.

A crazy guy just fucking with me, and, uh, I'm very lucky [laughs] he didn't do anything.

I was hammered.

I was a young comic, and I was coming back from a shitty gig, like, to catch a St- rising star or whatever in, uh, Princeton.

This horrible room.

Yeah

Oh, man.

So she's never seen me in that light.

So I'm, you know, I go on stage.

It's like 60 people at this beautiful.

And before me, there's a guy doing like Pavarotti.

So I'm like, oh, I'm going to bomb so hard.

This is crazy.

Like

I know, but it's just like-

I talked to the city.

He goes, "The only people that travel as well as the Eagles fans are the Packers fans." But I, this is how well the Eagles fans travel.

I have a joke where I say, um, I was, I was about to sleep with a girl.

She takes her top off, and there's an eagle tattooed in her chest, and I, I say, "Oh, boy." And she's like, "What?"

Yeah

... that's decent.

Everyone's face is different, but for whatever reason, that blue Tempur-Pedic one just mushes...

[laughs] For no reason.

The special, it really came and went.

I, I couldn't talk about it on any show I went on.

Uh, yeah, no, it's on Netflix September 29th.

Uh, it's called Incorrect.

Filmed it in Florida at, at Tampa Theatre.

Fun, fun special.

Really?

I-

'Cause then you get LeBron with Steph Curry.

You know, I, I don't...

The Warriors front office, talk about letting down Steph Curry in these last few years, I think.

When that guy does that, what he's done in the Olympics, like, you know he's got a little left in the tank.

So, uh, the Sixers look tough for sure.

Edgecomb's really good.

Okay.

Like, I never seen anything like that before.

Yeah, I'm with you, man.

It was, uh, it was pretty cool, and it wasn't, you know, just him.

It was Bernard King.

It was, uh, all these old Knicks.

I mean, Walt Clyde Frazier, who's, you know, kind of the face of MSG, and i- all the guys, you could see it meant a lot to them.

And, and Ewing and Houston and Sprewell and all these guys, like Starks.

Your thoughts, Sam, on that and Stephen A. Smith saying it's the greatest feeling he's ever had in his life.

if he didn't like that movie because there's some definite, like, similar stuff about it.

I've asked him about it because I know, like, the, his, the pace of his movies are so intense, and I was, I remember I asked him once, "Do you ever see the movie California Split?" Because it rem- And he's like, "I fucking love California Split."

Athens, Lisbon, all over.

Doesn't it kinda, like, ruin it now that everybody goes all the time? Like, it's, that's what they say in Italy.

Like, it's packed.

You have to, you know, it's like you can't walk anywhere.

What is your honest prediction for the series?

Honestly, I think they're really tough.

I think they're gonna be...

I think they're our toughest test yet, but I'm not shocked that Vegas is against the Knicks.

Like, th- they've been...

I, uh, I don't know what the Vegas odds against Philly were, but I felt like every ana- analyst was like, "The Knicks are gonna lose to Philly.

They just took down the, the Celtics, the best team in the East." So I like that Vegas is against us.

How are y'all gonna seek to kinda not panic since it's been well over a month since you've been on that side of the equation?

[laughs]

The rich get richer.

Fuck 'em.

It's ridiculous.

But is he incredible? Of course.

And it's not just him.

Cassell's a hell of a player.

"... and over the last five years, we built a team that passed your organization."

Yeah.

You ever, you ever hear the Johnny Bench story that he, uh, he [laughs] Mickey Mantle, his hero, comes up to him.

He's like, "Hey, we should go across the street and drink at the Marriott." And he's like, "Oh my God, my hero, Mickey Mantle, wants to drink with me." And they go across the street, they get to the Marriott, the, uh, the bouncer goes, "I'm not letting you back in, Mick."

Yeah.

They went too alt-y.

Yeah.

'Cause I had a p- a meeting with Comedy Central, and you walk in the room, and you see the types of people there, and you go like, "Okay, this is a very specific niche of comedy." Not that it's wrong, but globally might not be the standard fit of what-

Or just ever.

Or ever.

Any David Tell joke.

David Tell is the funniest dude I've ever, you know, Chris Rock, David Tell, like always kind of.

Oh, I love, I love Greg Giraldo, RIP.

I thought he was so great.

So he had a joke I love about the Civil War letters, about how he read a book and all the Civil War letters written, the kids in war, they're like 15.

done five times, I think.

Yeah.

"I'm curious." And, uh, gives me all these movies.

So then we were talking, like, we al- every time I see him we're talking, like, old New York movies.

And he goes, uh-Give me all these great recs.

Then I say, "Have you seen Mikey and Nicky?" The, uh, you know, Cassavetes and Peter Falk.

And he goes, "I've never seen that one." I go, "Elaine May directed it." You know, from Nichols and May, the comedy troupe.

He got fired three weeks ago.

Well, it, it, it, it was only, the only article I read was in The Sun.

That's, you know, remember Javaris Crintenton?

He played for D.C., and he murdered a guy, and I think he's having a better time in prison right now.

Oh, my God.

D.C.'s sucks.

I was so worried Trey was going to be a problem when he cooked us in that series.

It's like a bully you worry about when you're, like, in third grade, and then he just never grows, and you're like, oh, good.

suffer in D.C.

They had a great coda to their career with the Brooklyn Nets, though.

Yeah, you are.

(laughs) Thank you, man.

I love standup, man.

I, I love jokes, so I mean, I probably spend too much time at The Cellar.

Like, I've definitely had tho- those, those moments where I'm like, "I gotta do other stuff." I remember Chris Rock once said to me, he's like, "You gotta go out and live.

Your audience is living.

You have to have stuff (laughs) to talk about." And I was like, "Oh, yeah, you can't just be like ..." So I was, "I got off stage the other night." That can't be like the setup to jokes.

Yeah.

you think those people are slightly broken anyway? I mean, no offense to any newscasters who are watching, but seriously, you guys need to take a look at yourselves in the mirror.

Yeah, I think they're just so scared.

I think they're just living it.

They have to walk such a tightrope and we just, that started because I was forced to do that at like improvs and stuff.

Like you have to, you don't, if you miss that, you can't do the weekend.

So I'd be like, all right, so I'd go, but I'd be on like two hours sleep hungover and in a bad mood.

And it started, the one that started it was in Pittsburgh where someone was like, so have you always been funny? And you're just sitting there like, and I said, no, but when I was young, my uncle, he was funny and he molested me and I got his powers like in Spider-Man.

I like serving it up for those people.

As an opener.

Oh yeah, you got to.

But I remember doing gigs with Dave Attell, and he was the most fun ever.

I mean, he...

We were, we were driving back from a gig at Tarrytown Music Hall once, and he does that thing where he'll bring you on stage and you're like, "Dude, you're the quickest guy in the world.

I'm not gonna keep up with you." But he's, you know, he's super supportive.

Then, of course, he murders.

Look what I have."

(laughs)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

"Time for your pill, sir." "I'll tell you who is a pill, Joe List!"

Right.

She's like, she was like, "I'm getting the paycheck, I'm obligated to do 45." And sometimes mid-joke he'd see the light would come on at 45, and he'd go, "And then, oh, thank you very much, guys."