Mike Young
Appearances
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Susan also didn't get the prep email today. No, it's not on your stuff. At least I didn't see it on your stuff. Yeah, we're in the Zoom world. It's nobody's fault. But Who the F is Mike Young is a half hour. Yeah. It's a half-hour show. It stars myself, Chelsea Kane, Marlon Young. It was directed by Kevin Connolly from Entourage.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
It's a fun sitcom idea, and I wove my comedy performing at the Beacon Theater. I sort of wove it in with narrative sketches, and so it just turned out to be a really fun special. Yeah, it's on Netflix. It's on YouTube, Who the F is Mike Young. And it's me navigating single life in Hollywood pre-COVID.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. It was a lot of fun to shoot.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
I don't know if the – listen, some comics are political comics. They get frustrated at the news, at what they see, and that's their act, right? Like comedians are all different, right? You got people who do personal comedy. So I just think they're freed up now a few years post-COVID to just understand –
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
the freedom is back like the woke stuff is kind of done no one's afraid to say what they want to feel anymore give it up to like anyone who you know the the bill burrs of the world who kind of cracked it open for a lot of people but i think
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
That's right.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
At least personally, myself, I'm just going out there and saying whatever I feel with no fear because at this point, what's the point of doing the art if you got to be afraid of saying something? You know what I mean?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And Dave is kind of a mad genius. And if you watch the punchline, your mother was a great man. I mean, when he delivered that, all the knee-jerk reactors, they didn't understand the bit. Dave doesn't have hate in his heart for any group of people. He's a pure artist. He's kind of... might be a genius.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So like if you did, like you said, if you didn't get it, you're mad at Chappelle, you're going at Chappelle hard. But if you have an open brain and you're smart, you're just like a little smarter and you understand like the human condition, you get that Dave Chappelle is like, Pretty damn brilliant. Now, that doesn't mean I agree with every bit that Dave does. You know what I mean?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Like, I don't have to agree with every single thing he does. But when it comes to that and that whole attack on him, I'm with Dave 100%. You know what I mean?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Right. And it's almost like, remember when you're a kid, and I don't know if you played on sports teams as a kid, but like, you'd be on a team, you get, yeah, and you got 12 guys on a team, you got Christian dudes, you got a Jewish kid, you got a Middle Eastern kid, you got people that just, you know what I mean? You got every type of kid, and you already learn.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Hey, we could be friends, but we might not agree on a lot of stuff. And I feel like I just, I learned that as a young kid, I already saw that, that, you know, the teams were kind of a representation of what the bigger world looked like. So, you know, people need to kind of open up. It's okay to, you know, not be okay with your friend's opinion.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
You don't need to go to war with your buddy or your belief system all the time. That's too much.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
He's the number one. I had his 15 CD box set from Warner Brothers. As a kid, I would play that all day long, and you're 100% right. He would hit on every subject, you know what I mean? No fear, take pain and just rewire it into comedy. He was the guy. It's funny because I just watched the Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder documentary. Did you watch that?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So you're talking about kind of like the poets back in the day and comedians. And you don't want to give us too much credit because some comedians, their philosophies are just off. But yes, you can think you're a philosopher, but your philosophy just might be off. But yes, the good comedians, I think, are spitting proper philosophy and deep thinkers. I think Dave's one of them.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
I think Bill is one of them.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Are you kidding? Every, yeah. And he could stretch out one bit for like five minutes. He would do his mud bone or he would do, you know, his friend who got in fights with cops, you know, and he would stretch the whole thing out. He'd go to the jungle and tell you about Africa would last six minutes. Comics struggle to get a one minute bit. You know, he would just mine it.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So the crazy thing is, I do know that because when we shot My Man is a Loser, which was my first movie he starred in, we went on the Howard Stern show together. Again, I didn't get a single word in. And he had not been on that show forever. And he went in and he started going off on those guys.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
He was that deep. Even his bit about when he went to jail, he went to visit the jail, he went to jail and he goes, thank God they got penitentiaries. You know what I mean? You would expect him to go the other way and be like, man, there's too many people in jail. He's like, oh man, we need jail.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Yes. Yes. Prior's the goat.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
It's funny, Craig Ferguson, I think he kind of did his thing over here in America. And I think, I'm not sure where he's from, London, England. Where's he from? Scotland?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
I don't know. I forgot where he's from. He lives in a castle. He's more than fine. He was kind enough to put me on his show. And I did a few shows with him and I saw what a comic he was. Because it's funny, as a talk show host, I actually didn't know His legacy as a stand-up. And then I went and worked with him in stand-up and saw how good he was, how smart he was, how he was on point.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And next thing you know, the whole marathon took off and he just started bashing people, getting banned left and right.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So you work with a lot of people in recovery. And I always wondered, do you think that more creatives are addicts? Or do you believe that there's just as many plumbers, engineers, doctors that are addicts as there are in the entertainment game that are creative heads? Because there's always that illusion that like, oh, yeah, the alcohol and the drugs make you funnier. But I don't believe it.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
I don't even know if he's been asked back in like two years, but we shot that movie almost eight years ago. So eight years ago, he was in the good graces of Howard. They let him in. He went crazy on everybody. Probably since this recent run, he won't be going back unless fantasy football takes over for him. I have no idea.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Yep, and you can go to Rock Comedy Tour as well. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. Perfect.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So Stealing Jokes is the story of four comedians that go on the road and they rob the comedy club because every comic has been robbed by a club at some point in their career. And this was kind of my ode to every comic who's ever played the road. And so four comedians, they hit the road. They get stiffed. They get their money from the club owner. Rappaport owns the club.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
We did Stealing Jokes about a year and a half ago. We started it, finished it about 10 months ago. But I talk to Michael all the time. You want me to send him a message? About 18...
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
They got to get him his money back because he's a gangster. And they end up taking down one of these YouTubes. You know, sort of based on like how a comedian can blow up in a year off a YouTube clip. And so they take him down. So it's really my ode to comedy, to comedians, to any comic that's ever been stiffed while playing the road.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And, you know, everybody from Chris Rock to Bill Burr, they all have stories about, you know, some random club in a small town. you know, said they had their money and they didn't. And so I always thought it was always in my mind, like, why do we go on the road and like risk our lives? You know what I mean? But it's okay to not pay us in full.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And so I was like, you know, we need to make a movie about this. And so I got lucky and, uh, and made stealing jokes. And I think it's fun. I like it. It's Amazon, Apple TV, and then it hits theaters February 11th.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So Rock Comedy Tour is from the Rock family of companies. It's a sponsored tour. It's a 25 city tour. It's myself, Andy Letterman, Brett Ernst, Ian Edwards. To me, it's all the best comedians, basically the best comics in the country are coming along on this thing. And it's a sponsored tour by Rock, who they also own Rocket Mortgage out of Detroit. I'm a Detroit guy.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And they understood that comedy was powerful. They got behind the tour. Yeah, we can't afford Burt Kreischer or Sebastian right now, but everybody in the Annie, in the Eric Griffin, in the Paul Verzi, all those guys that are, to me, the funniest, best comics are coming in and out of different cities with us. So we're in Richmond, Virginia Saturday.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
We're in Cincinnati next week, and we've got about 13 more dates. Yeah. Just go to Rock Comedy Tour. You'll find the spot. It's a fun group. Travel with your friends.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
You're lucky.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
You're in Connecticut. Thanks. I am in Connecticut. Thanks for having me, man. I appreciate it.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Well, you know, it's crazy. I feel like right now you're about to see the wave of comedians speak in their mind fully again. I honestly think COVID hit the comedy community so crazy because it just cut off our money in one day. It just cut off our way of earning a living at one.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And so it was kind of traumatic in not so much in the fear factor of COVID, but more in like, oh, man, how are we ever going to like figure this out? You know, we were all on tour. I was on tour, rest in peace, Bob Saget. I was on tour with Bob when the world shut down. So I think it just had a psychological hit that we weren't ready for.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
But I think you're going to see in the very near future, everybody speak in their mind, really being okay with saying what they feel, you know, is the truth in their own, you know, anti-woke, I mean, if you want to call it that, like... I don't know. It's time to just get back to the core truth of what you feel and be free.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
But I think there was a minute we were so scared we weren't going to make a living. And nobody knew what to talk about. And they didn't want to... A lot of comics didn't even want to admit COVID happened. You know what I mean? It's interesting. Even in the movie world, they're like... You'll hear, like, come bring us a pitch, but nothing about COVID.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
It's almost like let that go as if it didn't happen and move on. There's a weird psychology. I can only speak to the comedians, and I know right now is going to be a good time moving forward because the comics are getting their truth back, and they're not afraid anymore.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
But let me ask you something, though. Like how, you know, we were only getting information that we were allowed to get. You're a doctor, so, like, you knew five times what the average person knew. You knew what a lot of people maybe didn't know. So, like, you know, what were people supposed to think or how were they to know?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
I say, I mean, Rappaport's so passionate that he just, if he does enough studying and finds out he might've been wrong, he's got no problem feeling like he was wrong and just going the other way. He literally has no problem. It's, you know, I know him for years as an actor before this whole, you know, before the whole wild social media thing took off, right?
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Anybody that saw that, though, if you thought she was faking, you got a problem, right? Like if you thought somebody took a dog, banged her head, fell awkwardly, then you got a real problem.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
But who tells her not to talk about it? Like, who's the they? You know what I mean? Like, they told me not to talk about it. Who says that? Even as a comedian, agents.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Well, listen, Bob, listen, Bob also, Bob also had, you know, he had a lot going on. You know what I mean? Bob had, he had some other health issues. You know what I mean? It wasn't just, maybe the shot, I don't know enough to even say it, but like Bob had some things going on. I toured with him for 10 years. You know what I mean? For him to slip and fall isn't out of the question.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
And he hit his head on the back so hard that it gave him a black eye in the front.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
So I brought him in because of his talent as an actor, but I watched this social media thing take off And he just says what he feels, and he's 100% honest about it. He can't be fake. He doesn't have that fake ability. And he believes what he believes. And when he saw what was going on with Israel, he jumped over and he moved into Mar-a-Lago. So if you want to find him, he's at the pool.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
She's lucky she got out of that. You know, Bob wasn't so lucky. He bled from the inside, but you know. Exactly.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My special.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Yeah, yeah, it's on YouTube. It's called Who the F is Mike Young. It's fun. I think you'll like it.
Ask Dr. Drew
Woke Culture Is OUT, Comedy & Journalism Are BACK w/ Mike Young & Curtis Houck (NewsBusters) – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 452
Can't believe I got to send Caleb all my info while I'm on the air.