Andy Blitz
Appearances
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It was either formerly Max Fish or Pink Pony or something like that, yeah. Really? I think, I feel like... Or maybe it was Max Fish.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
You would have like, right, at Luna you might have Reverend Jen followed by Roseanne or something like that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I don't know a lot about the podcasting world, but when these podcasts pop up, is it similar to how you would feel when new comics would show up at LUNA?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Aber wo bist du geboren? I grew up mostly in New Jersey. I was born in New York City. Yeah. And then lived in the East Village as a kid. You did? Yeah. Where? 4th Street and Avenue A. Really? Yeah. As a kid? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Mein Vater ist aus New York. Er ist aus Brooklyn. Und meine Mutter ist aus Argentinien. Oh, wirklich? Ja. Sie ist Argentinierin? Ja. Und sie ist ein Arzt. Und sie kam nach New York für eine Freundschaft.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Sie haben sich auf Roosevelt Island getroffen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
There were people, they were working in a hospital there. Oh, so that's what was there, a hospital. Yeah, my dad was a research psychologist, so he had a lab there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Maybe it was just a single scene where people would go.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Poorly. Yeah. Más o menos. Uh-huh. Well, her mother did not speak English. Right. My grandmother. Yeah. Und sie sprach mit uns auf Spanisch. Das war es? Ja. Es war in meinem Gehirn ein bisschen, aber wir haben nicht wirklich... Sie sprach mit uns auf Englisch, was nicht so ist, wie man es macht, wenn man properly bilingual ist. Und dein Vater ist jüdisch?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Argentina let, allowed Jews in. They had like a liberal Jewish immigration.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Her parents, yeah, were from Poland and Ukraine. Okay, I see. And then they... Yeah, I think my grandmother went there in the 20s and my grandfather, who I never knew, he went there as like a kid. But not to run away from Hitlers. He was like fleeing a pogrom. It was like Fiddler on the Roof style.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ukraine, yeah. Wow. And then, yeah, so she and her sister grew up in Argentina and
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, I mean, their roots were, they were Jewish immigrants to Latin America. But then I guess, yeah, my mother is... Sie ist schon in der dritten Generation, oder? Sie war in der ersten Generation Argentinianer. Also ihre Eltern... Oh, immigrierten. ...immigrierten von, ja. Wild. Ja. Und sie sprachen Argentinisch? Sie sprachen alle, sie sprachen ein Minimum von zehn Sprachen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Mein Großvater war, ich meine, er starb, als meine Mutter zwölf war, aber ich denke, er sprach viele Sprachen. Ist das nicht wild? Ja. Was ist mit uns falsch? I can barely get through English. I know. And the world all speaks English. So if you travel like... Sometimes you have to go slower. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It's so rude of them to not practice their English so that we... I wish I knew other language.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I got pretty, you know, I studied Spanish in school and then I went to Argentina during the writer's strike before this one. Oh, you did recently, a couple of years ago? No, no. Oh, like in 2000? Started in 2007. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I went down there. I mean, I was on the picket line and then it was getting cold. That one started in November.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And then I just said, I'm going to flee. I mean, as long as I observed the strike, I felt fine about it. Yeah, you're going to flee the writer's strike. Yeah. And then I went down there, and the strike was resolved. You know, there was a lot of posturing. Uh-huh. I think like Gavin Pallone, that guy, wrote like a thing. Like the studios are prepared for this to go on for a year or whatever.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Which I don't know if that was true. Something like that. And so I thought it would go on for a long time. And then I went down there and then it was resolved. Das war ziemlich schnell, ein Monat nachdem ich dort war, aber ich habe mich einfach gehalten zu bleiben. Oh, du warst da schon lange? Ich war da für fünf Monate. Wie war das? Ich liebte es. Ich liebte es.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich meine, ich dachte darüber, ich fantasierte darüber, einfach so zu bleiben. Und dann würden Leute sagen, was ist mit diesem Kerl passiert? Ja, ich denke, er ist nach Argentinien gegangen. Ja.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
They've elected a right-wing kind of nut who calls himself the Argentinian Trump.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, I mean, we're not ones to point fingers at this point. Ever. Again. Anywhere. My brother was down there for a while. Oh, he was? Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I had two older brothers. They're still around? Yeah. I saw one of them yesterday for Thanksgiving. Oh, he's out here, right? Yeah. He's in the business. He's the director. And the other one's in Oklahoma. I'll see him next month. Oklahoma? Yeah, he's a law professor. At the college? He's at Oklahoma City University.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Do you ever get calls like, oh my God, I love it here? He's fine. He's settled in there. I go out there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I perform there. He lives in, I think, a neighborhood where there's a lot of academics. Mosesland? Mosesland, yeah. Academics, quote, unquote. You know what I'm getting at.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
People who love to talk, you know what I mean.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, you've gone out there. I mean, there are like-minded people everywhere.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ja, ich versuche es. Wie rationalisierst du es? Ja, in einer ähnlichen Weise. Ich denke an Glass als halb nicht fucking Idiot.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I was six. What part of Jersey? So Bergen County, this town called Ridgewood. Yeah, my family, Pompton Lakes.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, I was... Did you go to college? I went to college. I went to Columbia. So I went back. That's fancy. Yeah. Smarty pants. What did you study there? Getting out of Columbia. That was my focus. My buddy teaches at Columbia. Oh really? Yeah. Teaches what?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
How bad? It was bad, I guess. I don't know if I'm depressed. No? No. That's good.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I think that one of the... It sort of is like... It messes with your whole perception of reality, and it's... Yeah. I think that you... Were you incapacitated? Um... Ja, ich hatte nie einen Inpatienten oder so etwas. Ich habe Therapie und Medikamente gemacht. Aber ich habe an der Schule einfach nur an der Sache gearbeitet. Hattest du Freunde?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ja, ja. Und das hat geholfen. Aber jetzt? Keine Medizin? Ich habe keine Medizin. Und ich denke, ich muss... Oder du hast dich wirklich investiert, oder? Mit dem Fußball, das muss das ganze Spiel durchgegangen haben, weil es viel Wettbewerb betrifft. Ich bin ein Metz-Fan, also wie geht das hier falsch? Wie hat sich das ausgedrückt?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ja, es war, ich war da mit, habe ich einen für dich getriggert jetzt?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It's cognitive. Yes. Cognitive stuff is very helpful.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ja, ich denke, dass das... Ich denke, dass das Aktivieren und das Arbeiten gut ist und... Also warte, was war der Panik-Attack? Ich habe ihn periodisch... Ich meine, das war so, als hätte ich eine Krankheit-Emergenz. Welche? Welche... Was dachte ich, dass ich hatte? Ich war nicht ganz sicher. Ich dachte, ich hätte eine Herzpalpitation und ich fühlte mich leuchtend und...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I could have used you there laughing about it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Right. I mean, maybe you have to have enough of them until you're just like, oh, I'm just having a panic attack.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I mean, I might do the, whatever, the fluoxetine. I've talked to a doctor. Oh, not just other panicky people?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
At that point I was just like you. I'm just going to ride it out. It's going to be fine. How was the earthquake for you? Good? Yeah, you get used to them. They're kind of fun, right?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I started in high school. In Jersey? In New Jersey. I got into, I would see like the... What's his name? Just Jim Abrahams. Jim who? The airplane guy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, Zuckers. Yeah. I met the Zucker guy. Yeah. Naked Gun, like, I love that stuff. You liked it? I did, yeah. That was really funny. All jokes. Yeah. Yeah. I loved Letterman and stuff. But then I met Andy Daly and I are high school friends. Does he live by me? Yeah, not far. He does, right? Yeah, we were just sort of, we had access to equipment. We had like an education on shooting and editing.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
You had some sort of a TV studio there? Exactly, yeah. And we even had public access cameras.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
You know? Yeah. Um... Als ich es gesehen habe, erwartete ich, mehr zu kringeln. Und ich dachte, okay, also... Das bin ich. Ja, oder wir haben das kaputt gemacht, aber das ist immer noch lustig. Ja, ja, ja. Ich habe Bob Ross gespielt. Der Schauspieler. Ja, ich glaube, ich habe das schon gemacht. Mit einem Wig?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ja, er hat es kaputt gemacht. Und dann hattest du es einfach mitgebracht. Und es war so kaputt gemacht. Ja. Also hat er es einfach so entschieden. Es wurde wie ein surreales Bild. Es war zu groß. Also hat er einfach einen riesigen Fenster über die Landschaft gesetzt. Das ist ziemlich lustig. Ja, weißt du, für Teenager in New Jersey.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. I started doing stand-up. So I think, weren't you performing at the show that became Luna Lounge when it was at Rebar? And how long was that, for a year or something like that?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
The least he could have done is warn Roseanne not to go.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I don't know, people would show up there, it was always kind of interesting. But it became a... When it moved to Luna Lounge, they kept doing an open mic at Rebar. Oh, really? And then I went in one day. This is the first time up? Ja. Und weißt du, wer Chris Regan ist? Ich weiß nicht, ob er das kennt. Chris Regan ist ein sehr lustiger TV-Werker. Er schreibt für Family Guy.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Und er hat mich einfach gesehen. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, ob wir uns kennengelernt haben. Wir haben uns vielleicht durch Freunde kennengelernt, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher. Aber ich denke, er hat mich einfach gesehen, wie es funktioniert. Und er hat gesagt, geh auf, wer will. Ja. That's a good one. Who cares? Yeah. Me?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe he was... Maybe he thought I would bomb. So maybe he was just trying to... We don't have to assume that.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It... I had a very short set, but I... I wasn't really prepared. I didn't have a lot of... I had thought about, like, oh, this is what I'll ever say if I stand up. And then I did it, and it... Es ging gut. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemand bin, der, wenn ich... Ich meine, es ist sehr üblich, einen Bomben zu machen, wenn man es zum ersten Mal macht.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich glaube, ich wäre vielleicht nur enttäuscht gewesen. Wenn du einen Bomben gemacht hättest? Ja. Aber du hast es gut gemacht. Ich habe es gut gemacht, ja. Und ich habe sofort entschieden, dass ich das tun kann. Und dann habe ich viele der Lower East Side Shows gemacht. Surf Reality, Face Boy. Face Boy, sure. Had the open mic on Sundays. And as you're saying, it would be like...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Du gehst hoch, und dann kommt jemand hoch und liest so ein sehr sinceres Lied.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Nein, nein. Ich ging in die Schule. Also ich habe die Sketche mit Daley in New Jersey gemacht. Dann bin ich nach Columbia gegangen. Ich glaube, es war Teil meines ... Nicht alles, aber Teil meines ... Ich konnte Comedy in der High School machen. Und dann bin ich nach Kolumbien gegangen. Ich weiß nicht, wie ich es jetzt machen soll.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Das war ein Teil meines Schmerzens, weil das Ding, das ich hatte, weg war. Das Outfit. Aber dann, als ich jünger war, habe ich für dieses Ding geschrieben, das Varsity-Show. Es ist eine Schul-Tradition. Es geht zurück zu Rodgers und Hammerstein. Oh, und ich habe das gemacht. Es ist wie ein Musikal. Es ist eine Musikal-Review. Ja.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich habe einige Sketche dafür geschrieben, aber ich dachte, der beste Teil davon war die Musik. Ich dachte, der Musikkomponist war brillant. Denn ich dachte, diese Songs sind für mich so gut wie alles, was ich jetzt auf Broadway höre. Ja. Und dann hörte ich, als ob er Politik studiert hätte. Und ich dachte mir, das ist zu schlimm. Du hast einen guten. Ja. Und das war Eric Garcetti, der L.A.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Er war ein toller Songwriter. Wow. Ja. But he's also like ambassador to India now. Your friend still? No, I'm not really in touch with him.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Well, I think for me, I was just like... I'm like, didn't you guys, I wasn't consciously feeling this, but I probably went there like, I just did this funny stuff in high school. Like, why aren't you guys, I should be recruited like an athlete or something. Where's the comedy program? And they're like, oh, we don't know what you're talking about. So you start doing all those open mics.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I was moving around a bit, sublet to sublet, sort of. But I was also in the... Meine Eltern waren in New Jersey, aber dann hatte ich eine Tochter, die dort ein Wohnzimmer hatte. In New York? Ja. Zuerst hat es angefangen, als sie ein Schneewald war. Oh ja, in ein paar Monaten. Ja. Und dann waren wir manchmal wie Ruhepartner. Oh. Also du hast den Comedy-Dream gefangen. Ja.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I think I always, yeah, I knew that I wanted to write. I mean, I wasn't making any money from comedy when I was performing at Luna at that point. And I was, like, new. Yeah. Yeah, one night at Luna, I mean, because I lived close to there, I would just, like, sometimes hang out. Wasn't the show on Monday nights or something? It was, yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It was, like, I kind of, that was my first aspiration, was just to, like... Just to do that show. To do the Loon Lounge show.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Well, you were on a lot. I did not know that you were doing any drugs.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich... Ja, er hat dort gesungen. Und dann, als er das Sojabomb-Ding machte... Auf dem Bob Dylan, bei den Grammys. Ja. Ich war... Das war ein Sonntagabend. Und dann war Luna Lounge am Montag. Und ich war in der... Ich bin in die öffentliche Bibliothek gestanden, um irgendeinen Grund. Und ich war einfach so... I think that's Bob Dylan in the public library.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And I had this idea that I was going to get him to, I knew Portnoy was booked on Luna. I wanted Bob Dylan to interrupt Mike Portnoy the next night as like a revenge. Like, how does it feel?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Or you would have let him write it, but. Yeah. Did you approach Bob? I did, and I started with the wrong question, which was, are you Bob Dylan? Yeah. And of course the answer was no. Right. And, yeah. That was the end of it? I just feel like, therefore, if you were not Bob Dylan ... And I asked you that you would just laugh and be like, come on. Right.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
You know, but just kind of, it was kind of like, no, I don't want to talk to you. But I'm not 100% sure that it was him. But you didn't follow through with the idea? I think I jumped on stage in my, I took out my, I repurposed my Bob Ross wig as a Bob Dylan wig. You did? Yeah, but it was like... No one cared? Yeah, it was just like... It should have been Bob Dylan.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
If I had to recast that bit, I would have said the real Bob Dylan.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think... I mean, I don't think Dylan would... I think Dylan hated... Ja, klar.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Sometimes I would do clubs, but I just preferred the audiences that... I mean, I felt like a lot of these people were hilarious people and like you get to see them... Well, I'll tell you what my thought was, I don't feel proud of, but I would just feel like the crowd at Luna is the crowd that's smart enough to figure out that you don't have to pay all this money to see these comedians, you know?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
So it was, I mean, it was... But also, they were forgiving.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Aber ich habe es genossen. Ich habe einige Clubs in der Stadt gemacht. Und dann war ich manchmal auf der Straße.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich habe mich eingeladen, an diesem Show zu schreiben, bevor ich Stand-Up gemacht habe. War das dein erstes Gig? Ja. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Da war ein Mann, Marsh McCall, der nicht mehr da ist. Der hat es schon ein paar Monate gemacht. War das also dein erster Schriftstück? Ja. Ich war im Lounge und habe ein paar Coen-Writter kennengelernt, die ich von dem Show kannte. Tommy Blacha war einer davon. Yeah, but that's sort of like...
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Es ist, wenn ich mich daran erinnere, es ist seltsam, dass ich herausgefunden habe, dass Conan mich verabschiedet hat. Ja. Ich bin einfach jemand, der den Job, den ich will, verabschiedet hat. Das ist so, was manchmal passiert. Ja. Also, ich, ich, richtig, ich habe ein Paket geschrieben und dann haben sie mich verabschiedet. Yeah. Who was on the staff then? So Mike Sweeney was on the staff then.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Brian Stack and John Glazer. Yeah. When I started at Brian McCann. John Glazer's funny.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Sein Instagram-Handle ist wie ein Phänomen, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, wie sagt man das, Do you know who Jason Kelsey is? No. Do you know who Travis Kelsey is? Yeah. Yeah. So Jason Kelsey is Travis Kelsey's brother. Oh yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
They're both football players. Jason Kelsey is retired. Yeah. And ESPN is doing a kind of a late night show, but it's all around football. So that's something. And he's hosting it? Jason Kelsey is hosting it, yeah. I mean, it's not gonna be like, it's not gonna be like he's gonna come out and do a monologue or anything like that, I think. It'll be like... So you guys are working on sketch ideas?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, I think I would have gotten booked there. Eventually? Yeah, I think so. But then I still had to audition for the show. Who was booking it then? Frank Smiley. Frank! He came out to see you?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Das ist lustig. Eine der schlimmsten Zeiten, die ich jemals gemacht habe, war mein erstes Set für Conan, die Nacht vorher, im Keller. Und du hast da nicht gearbeitet, normalerweise. Frank, who got you on. Yeah, he got me on just to run the set. And it just bombed. And then it's like, okay, well, good luck. That hurt pretty hard. That's what he said?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. I once, do you remember Peanut Butter? I did a character, Peanut Butter, who was like a deeply mentally ill comedian. What were some of his jokes?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I can't remember. They didn't make any sense. None of the jokes made sense. Was it insensitive, do you think? Do you think you could do peanut butter now? I do think so, yeah. I don't think... There was anything that, I mean, just by luck. But I auditioned once for the, I don't know how I arranged it. Like they did like a showcase. The club booked like all these comics on.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And I'd been working at Conan for like five years. And then I snuck onto the lineup. I had them book me as Peanut Butter. And I did it for Frank and Paula Davis as well was there. And they loved it. And I wanted to... I wanted them to book me and just have Conan not know it was me. I'd go out there and do a set as Peanut Butter and have Conan figure it out while I was out there.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
But I think they thought, no, we're not going to prank our boss. So you never did Peanut Butter publicly on the show? No, I never did. I have a self-sabotage streak. Unfortunately. But Comedy Central offered me a special... As peanut butter? No. And I said, I'll do it if I can do it as peanut butter. And they're like, well, not the whole show. And I go, well then, thank you anyway. Really?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And that was a mistake. But... Like what, a half hour? Yeah. You fucked that up. Yeah. I mean, among other things. Like what else? What else did I fuck up? Yeah. Coming off of Conan, I was pitching a show for my... I was on Conan a lot. You know, I was... Ich musste auf der Kamera sein und ich musste, glaube ich, viele lustige Sachen auf dem Show machen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Also, meine Managern sagten mir, lass uns rausgehen und ein Show für dich machen. Also, ich habe es gemacht und ich habe irgendwie, ich weiß nicht, ich habe nicht wirklich, ich denke, ich bin besser jetzt. Ich war nicht so viel ein Verkäufer im Raum. Ja, ja. Also, eine der Netzwerke war so, naja, es wird ein bisschen wie ein Sketch-Show für mich sein. Ja.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Und sie sagten, Chapelles Show geht um Rasse. Was ist dein Show? Ich sagte, nichts. Es ist nur lustig. Und sie sagten, nein, danke. Aber MTV war interessiert. Und dann habe ich versucht, ich habe ein paar, sie wollten, ich weiß nicht, sie wollten es so günstig wie möglich. Aber ich habe ein paar Sketche geschrieben und ich habe versucht, einen gemeinsamen Thread zu haben.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Und ich war wie ein Verschwörungstheorist. Das war ein Charakter, der dachte, Gerald Ford sei noch lebendig. Es gibt keinen Weg, dass Ford wirklich gestorben ist. Er hat seine eigene Todesgeschichte gefaket. Und sie sagten, unser Publikum weiß nicht, wer Bill Clinton ist. Wir werden nicht so viel auf Gerald Ford aufhalten. Und ich sagte, du musst. Sie werden lernen. Sie werden es lernen.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Sie werden es sehen. Ja. Und das war die Liste, die du gedreht hast? Na ja, dann kam der Streich. Aber ich denke, ich hätte ein bisschen mehr Ball gespielt. Was für andere Schriftstücke hattest du? Ich habe für Review mit Andy Daly zusammengearbeitet. Das war auf Comedy Central. Und mein Bruder Jeff hat das geschrieben und gedreht. Wie lange hat das gedreht? Wir haben drei Saisons davon gedreht.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Wow. Ja, das war wirklich Spaß. What was the angle on that show? I don't remember it.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
It was adapted from an Australian show. It was like Andy Daly played a life reviewer named Forrest McNeil. People would want him to have life experiences and then rate them from zero to five stars. That's pretty broad. So it would be like... So he would play kind of a buttoned up guy who would have to become an addict just so he could review the experience from half a star to five stars.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And then he had to get divorced from his wife because somebody was just like, I have a happy marriage, what's it like if I didn't? So he had to divorce his wife for no reason, just for the purposes of the show. That's pretty funny. It's a show that is beloved by... I would say it's beloved by everyone who has seen it, who is made up entirely of people who are professional comedy writers.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Whenever I meet a layperson who finds out that I work in TV, they don't recognize that show. But I always tell them to watch it because I'm very proud of it. Okay. And what other ones? Master of None. Oh, yeah. I worked on that. All the seasons? I worked on the first two seasons. Did you know Aziz? I knew Aziz, yeah. So I knew Aziz from New York, from Comedy. Yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
And then I wrote a little bit on that Human Giant MTV show. Was it him and Kroll? No, it was him and Rob Hubel and Paul Scheer. Oh, Paul Scheer, that's right.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Sie wollten mich zu diesem Show einladen, aber ich war an der Recherche. Ich habe mich dann in der Mitte der ersten Saison eingeladen. Wie lebst du jetzt? I'm hoping Jason Kelsey will pay me. No, just, yeah, I'm working in TV. Pick-up writing gigs? Yeah, that's what it is. I worked for Seth MacFarlane. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but it's been like show to show.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Have you pitched any of your own shows outside of the ones that you fucked up earlier? A couple of them, yeah. But I've got ones that I think are, I think they're going to knock America's socks off. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I've got pitches that I think are When are you going to pitch them? I don't know. Maybe New Year? Oh yeah. How about that? You've been working on it?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah, I've been preparing the pitches. That's good. It's weird. The industry is weird now.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich denke, es gibt einen Appetit für Garbage, glaube ich. Vielleicht.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich weiß nicht. Ich meine, ich hatte eine Konversation mit meinem Manager an einem Punkt nach dem Angriff. Ja. Und er scheint sich zu fühlen, dass... Ich weiß nicht. Panik.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Wo hast du Stand-Up gemacht? Ich werde... Ich habe keine Spezifikationen, aber ich arbeite an einem Show... Ich schreibe einen langen Show. Einen Hörer-Show. Ein Solo-Show? Ja. Ich hoffe, einen Ort für das zu finden. Ein Dynastie? Ja, ein Dynastie oder ein Elysium oder so etwas. Man muss es auf seine Füße holen. Genau. Was ist es um? Meine Eltern haben ein Haus in... In Jersey? In Jersey.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Mein Vater ist ein echter Hörer. Echt? Ja. Any good stuff? Well, that's the thing. There is some good stuff. I was encouraging him to throw out a lot. And then he would show me things and I'd be like, just throw it out, throw it out. And then if he showed me something I thought was cool, I would have to mask... meine Gefühle darüber zu halten, weil es ihn einfach ermutigen würde.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich meine, es gab einige coole Sachen. Ist deine Mutter noch da? Ja, sie sind beide da. Sie sind zusammen. Sie haben nur 60 Jahre gefeiert. Wie hat sie die Horde gehalten? Sie ist ein Arzt? Ja, sie ist ein verheirateter Physiotherapeut. Und er ist nur was? Ein Hörer? Er ist nur ein Hörer. Er ist nicht verheiratet. Und sie lebt damit? Ähm,
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
No, we are... We're gonna like set them... I mean, they've... They're staying with my brother right now and we're looking for a living situation for them. But it's not, I don't quite know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. And your dad wanted it all moved. Exactly. And they were tearing down the house and they were just like, you can leave whatever you want. Die neuen Leute? Ja, die werden es einfach in den Dumpster werfen. Und mein Vater sagt, absolut nicht. Und er... Sie sind in ihren 90ern, also hat er aufgehört zu fahren. Und sie waren an diesem Punkt in der Stadt. Sie waren zurück in der Stadt.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Und ich fahre ihn fast jeden Tag für vier Monate von New York nach New Jersey. Um durch den Garbage zu gehen? Ja. Ja. Hast du es gedreht? Ich habe ein paar Fotos davon, ja. And this is the show? Yeah, well, it's partly about that, yeah.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
A common mental illness. I mean, it's understandable to not, I think, to want to hold on to things. But it was a little level of illness, yeah. But are we talking like this plate? I can't throw out this plate? I can't write anything. It was, yeah, it was crazy. And it was sort of like, when I got in, I was sort of trying to focus on what might be valuable. Like, let's get that moved to storage.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Es ist Conan, der den Charakter im Ausdruck macht. Ich meine, schon vorher, jetzt, dass, ich meine, es ist die Storage Spaces in New Jersey, ist, wo die Sachen sind.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
No, I think he realizes like, well, that was a mistake to put all that in storage. Why isn't it here? Well, just like, you know, the expensive storage is not worth it. So now he's ready to throw it away? I mean, he says that, but like, if we start going through it, you know.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
He's never going back there. Right. Yeah, I think... Hopefully he's not listening. Hopefully he fell asleep already. I mean, my brother and I were talking about like, you know, we know a lot of good actors. Why don't we just hire someone to pretend, to play a guy who's really interested in buying all this stuff. Right. And then we'll just like, we'll give him... Das Geld. Oh, ich verstehe.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich denke, ja. Weil dann war es nicht verpasst. Oder so etwas.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Um, you know, there's some like, there's a lot of books. Oh yeah. There's a lot of his old clothes. Oh yeah. He's, you know, not gonna wear again. Yeah. Um, there was records. So there, there is, I mean, there's a lot of unlabeled VHS tapes.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Those go for a lot of money. Yeah. My Conan stuff. Maybe they record it. Bob Ross Sketch.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Oh my God, yeah. But we ended up walking away from like... Ich meine, da gab es auch Künstler. Und dann kam der Zeitpunkt, wo ich dachte, okay, ich glaube, wir haben alles. Er meinte, was ist mit dieser Ruhm-Maschine aus 1986? Ja. Also, das ist in der Klammer. Ja. Oh, das ist nur ein Verlust. Ja. Ein Verlust, wenn das Zeit geht. Ja. Ja. Na, das ist, okay.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Ich dachte, ich würde es jetzt sagen, wenn jemand das Show machen möchte. Okay, du schlägst jetzt einen? Aber das wäre ein Ein-Auf, um mitzukommen, weil ich die Trump-Inauguration nicht sehen möchte. Ich finde, viele Leute fühlen sich so.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Nur um ein Comedy-Show zu machen, das das Gegenteil ist. Yeah. On the same time broadcast. Sure. Just so people have something else to watch. On what network are we thinking? Wherever. Does Comedy Central still exist?
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I don't know. Otherwise, Peacock, let's be real. Yeah, what's the show? I mean, it would just be like a live stand-up show. It would just be nothing, but it would just be like so people can not watch the inauguration.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Vielleicht solltest du eine Parallelunivers-Auszeichnung haben.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Anything she says now, people are just going to get mad at her. It would be a good excuse for her to skip the real inauguration. Sure.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Nein, einige von ihnen sind... Es gab einen Leak. Ja, diese Rekorde sind nützlich. Diese sind Garbage. Ja. Was waren die Rekorde, erinnerst du dich? Ich glaube, eine Harry Belafonte-Rekorde. Tom Lehrer. Du hast beide dieser Rekorde? Ja. Ich denke, sie sind zusammengehalten. Weil der Leak. Das will ich nur als 2-für-1-Deal machen. I'll give you for the price of one and a half rack.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
This is, I think, a few months. Wow. Yeah. You're one of those guys. I had one that got, I think, about this big, and then I shaved it New Year's Day. So it's been a year, almost. Yeah, I guess so. And then I was going to, I was going to shave it, and then I decided to keep it as like a lucky thing for... For what? For Kamala.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I do feel that people silently assume I'm a... A what? A Trumpy, when I walk around.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I just want to counter the propaganda they're getting.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Yeah. That'll work. This climate change thing might be for real.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
Es war gut, es hat mich nicht bedroht. Es war... Ich habe mich über dich gewarnt. Was? Ernsthaft? Nein. Nein, du warst grumpel. Aber du hast es nie persönlich genommen. Ich habe es nie persönlich genommen. Ich war... Ich habe es nicht verstanden. Ich dachte, ich dachte, Showbusiness war alles großartig. Ja, an dem Zeitpunkt. Ja. Ja. Also habe ich es nicht verstanden.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Episode 1599 - Andy Blitz
I remember when I started doing the five-minute sets on late-night TV. And I was just like, oh, I can't possibly finish a joke in five minutes.