The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast - Aaron Chen - Episode 87
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Adam Friedland Show podcast. Special guest Aaron Chen. Thanks for joining us. Hello, thanks for having me. Nick is ill. He's left.
Sorry.
It's not your fault.
No, I mean... I mean like...
i mean it's not you don't have to you know how australians are always apologizing yeah yeah they're not i'm sad to hear notice the women of the international community famously yeah just you know we're both sad that nick's not here i saw him on the way out yeah he looked like horrible yeah yeah what did he say to you he said i'm so sick i gotta get out of here it's great to meet you it's one of the most polite hellos i've ever heard yeah he's very gentle yeah no not with most people
think because he's sick he's him saying i'm very yeah he's but he's tender he's tender you got him in a vulnerable moment you should have tried to kit uh so you live here now aaron i live here brooklyn heights we should get we should exchange addresses not numbers yeah yeah um so you of course you were like you were the biggest comedian in australia before you came here
Not the biggest, but one year I did do the most sales at Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Really? Yeah. And you also were saying before the show, you go to Hannah Gadsby's tailor too.
We get the same suits. You get the same suits. Gadsby does, we get the same stuff.
do you you do like uh does gaspy go to hong kong to that like molester guy do you know that guy i don't know this guy um so so yeah i mean like i i met you here yeah but back when we were in australia you saw us uh in sydney yes the three of you guys at the comedy store it was a triumph what a beautiful night you guys kind of stand up afterwards
yeah yeah i had my cousins that live in sydney i hadn't met them and they came to the show yes and nick said you know some really good stuff about the holocaust and it was did they they didn't like it i said nice to meet you afterwards did they know about the pod uh no they were they did not came in but they were like they said your boy was popping off yeah he was he was go off season on the holocaust it wasn't always a jay friendly podcast
I believe it always was. I think there was always a love that was underneath. It was kind of like South Park, kind of the way Cartman talks to Kyle. Where secretly he respects Jewish people. He likes them a lot. Yeah, every single one.
Cartman's funded by the community, by Israel.
Really? That would be a great episode. If he met Netanyahu and he started respecting Jews. if carbon was like how about cartman yahoo oh that would be good how would that go You respect my authority, Gaza. Okay, let's cut that. Let's cut that. No, the Lord's making it. When we were in Melbourne... No, this is all staying in, dude. This has to. We were going to stop the recorder at one hour.
Exactly, on the dot. We used to do that with Comptown. We literally put a timer and mid-sentence we'd stop the recorder. It was the laziest job in the world.
It's good. It's efficient.
Yeah, and it was, I don't know.
It forces you to be better in that hour.
It was magic. Yeah. And the rest is history. No, yeah, in Melbourne, everyone was like, yeah, good luck over there. It's like the woke city. And at that time, we were like the cheeky white boy podcast. We were like a little bit, it was before, you know,
skank fest before skank fest before we shane you know yeah shane hosted snl yeah now white boys are back up but like at that time it was really maybe come town will host trump elected for the second time yeah come down right before come down host snl it'd be so funny if they've never had three hosts if they book come town as the host of snl and they they just have nick and stoff
I'm like watching it on TV. I'm like, what the fuck, dude?
You could go on Weekend Update.
They can tell me. Yeah. No, no. They don't even tell me. I'm just seeing it at home. I get a call from my dad. He's like yelling at me. I'm like, I didn't know.
he would want you to be like what the fuck yeah um no yeah but they're like good looking melbourne it's like the woke city and so i was on stage and i just incoherent australian and i said i was like i was like shut up dude you'll never be on comtown huge ovation right and then i got home this is a heckler
some heckler right i got home in melbourne yeah and back to the hotel and then it was like i saw like twitter like good on adam for shutting down those racists tonight at the melbourne show but i didn't realize that they were shouting out like terrible slurs apparently oh really like it was incoherent to me so i accidentally was that's a perfect i accidentally became a hero it was like yeah
it was very like uh i didn't i guess now i'm saying it but it was not on purpose but had i known what they were saying i would have also i don't know if i would say you'll never be on come down yeah i don't know if that's the right thing just like yeah you see like a like someone being racially abusing someone on the street saying you'll never be on come down brother
This is not our values.
Cut it out, bro. Stop it. You've listened to way too many podcasts. It's kind of a high-minded kind of satire. You don't understand. You're taking it too far.
Did Comptown have like a charter, like ethics, mission statement, that type of thing?
We never talked to the press. Seriously. Is that true? Yeah. We rejected every interview. Like the New York Times said this stuff like three times. Yeah. But that was Nick's policy. Well, it was always on like...
the dirt bag they always make it seem like it's like we want to profile this cool thing that you're doing and then like the third paragraph is but yeah but they're fucking gay racist or you know that's what it's like yeah it was like whatever so that was pretty smart at the time but now i'm i'm open to any press inquiry if anyone's watching at this point yeah yeah i'm i'm happy you might go to australia i could hook you up with australian press
On like what, the morning zoo radio?
There's one called The Project, which is right in between comedy and the news. They'll love to have you on.
Like the daily show?
It's like a news show. It's genuinely the news, but they got three comedians on the panel. So it's like they're saying, oh, there's a war.
Making jokes about Gaza? Yeah, yeah. Seems a little bit in bad taste. I don't know.
That's what some people think.
I don't know. Do you guys have like drive time radio? Do you have like wacky... We got everything. Yeah, we got drive time radio. Pete and the retard.
It's close. We got one called Fitzy and Whipper. That's our guys. That's your Prime Minister.
Oh, no. Prime Minister Whipper. What you guys are kind of I've always felt like in my mind I said that you guys are like the America to New Zealand's Canada. Yeah that's like they're like doing the hack in like in the way that in Canada they do the land acknowledgement.
Yeah, we do the land acknowledgement now as well. Oh, you copy? Yeah, we copy.
That's so cowardly. You're trying to be like them?
We're trying to be like New Zealand. But you don't have a dance. Not a unifying one.
No.
We get taught dances, but they're to like Tina Turner songs and stuff.
Yeah, we had square dancing in gym class in fifth grade. We did Achy Breaky Heart. Do you remember that song? Yeah. Billy Ray?
well yeah it's like yeah good yeah we do to the nut bush that's what we do who's that tina crowded house nah tina your girl you know her
Hmm. She from New Zealand?
She's from America.
No, I know her. I know her. Yes. Victim of domestic abuse. Ike Turner. I still haven't. You don't know about that?
We just know the song. We know the dance.
So you guys do the land acknowledgement now? What do you say in an Australian land acknowledgement?
We acknowledge the traditional owners, that type of thing. It's kind of rude.
yeah yeah go on it's like we beat you we just want to admit that we just like want to yeah out of respect for the losers yeah we just want to admit that we won i don't know they're not going to give it back to the indigenous
I don't think they will, yeah.
It's not looking like that. Yeah, it's like, no, we're here. This is ours now.
Because they're building more apartments and stuff. Last time I checked, they're actually building more stuff.
Yeah, it's still ours. Yeah.
the hong kong uh mainland boys yeah yeah china's getting hong kong are there are they got it they got it they got it yeah they're gonna secure taiwan next like that's the last yeah that's the last frontier i'm not paying enough but i kind of have to start paying attention yeah our pivot we've said for a long time that we're gonna go ccp you have to predict with the winners you know
Well, I go CCP. Will you go Russia or Ukraine?
Russia. They don't have shit. They're like stupid. Like, yeah, I mean, it's like kind of, that's not done yet.
Right. That's still kind of going.
Oh, Russia and Ukraine, I'm staying out of completely.
You're not putting odds on.
You're putting a draw. It's white on white. Not my problem. It sounds about white to me. The caucasity. Pete, don't get me started on the caucasity of that conflict.
Butch caucasity.
Yeah, butch caucasity in the white.
That's what they're going to remake it to, you know?
Okay, let's leave it to the professionals. Thank you. He said the Oaxaca dance. You know that's a part of Mexico.
I know, Oaxaca, yeah.
Why did you say that?
They got cheese.
No, you said the Oaxaca dance, kids. Shut up. Shut up. They pay me millions for this, okay?
That's pretty good. That's a professional broadcaster.
If everyone realizes that they could do this...
this low effort thing that i do i'm screwed i'm gonna have to move back to israel and i would have to move back to the beaches of tel aviv yeah oh man um yeah so you but like did you see like in con the the congress in uh new zealand recently they were doing the yeah i i saw tiktoks of it because my wife she's on tiktok and she'll she'll be like yeah yeah
But that's all the context.
And is she graduating soon from high school? Just kidding. Everyone's on that crap now. What? Has her mental health suffered from TikTok?
From TikTok? Oh, yeah. I don't know. I think she likes it. She really likes it. It kind of enriches her life a lot. Come on, dude. It's really good. I like the CCP. TikTok should not be banned, you know?
No, I mean, like, you have to say that for your wife now? Yeah. That her life is better from TikTok? I mean, it depends on what your algorithm is.
No, I don't like TikTok. I don't have TikTok.
I do Instagram Reels, but all my algorithm is, like, people, like, mispronouncing things. Oh, yeah.
I do YouTube Shorts. That's, like, the most right-wing one.
Is it? I think so.
who's on it mine are always like shane gillis epics like it's just like him on matt like a clip from them on the show i get shane sometimes yeah shane's on rogan sometimes you know stuff like that how do you book that how do you book that yeah do you know i think you got to get get to the guy himself how do you get there yeah maybe you should move to austin do the mics for a little while
i gotta start all over again just waiting for kill tony in an alleyway that's your name down in kill tony when i open when guys open for me on the road they're like that's the plan for them yeah they're like i had a they're like if you get it i didn't even know what the system was if you get it then you get a golden ticket and then you get the secret show he's one or you get the other mic that's like a less than the golden ticket yeah
and then they go back to like denver and they're like what's the golden ticket you get like two minutes there's like another show at the mothership at like 4 a.m and it's filled with like i don't know just elon musk or something or like it's just like free speech and stuff he's invented a program to see i don't know what happens in austin i don't want to know yeah you know because but it doesn't sound good you ever done the mothership
I wouldn't, if they even asked, I wouldn't do it because of what they did.
Yeah, what they did.
Yeah, the free speech. It would have been so funny if Tony Hinchcliffe lost Trump the election. Yeah. It didn't happen, but it would have been just the best thing ever.
It'd be crazy.
Because the way he won the first time was... Do you know about Anthony Weiner? No.
So, yeah. I know Matty Weiner.
Similar. He was this congressman who kept getting caught sending his penis in DMs. Yeah. And he got caught for like the fourth time. Yeah. Right before the election. And I guess...
as a result of his wife his wife worked for hillary clinton and as a result of that the fbi reopened the hillary clinton email investigation 10 days before the election yeah so literally like a man's penis like broke the internet it kind of shifted the course of history That's crazy. But if that culminated in Tony Hinchcliffe undoing that, it would have been kind of perfect.
But unfortunately, you know, he's back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm one of the biggest victims of this whole thing. Of this whole thing? How so? I don't know. I don't know. You can't get on Kill Tony. No, I would love to be on the mothership. Joe Rogan, it would be an honor. If you ever say anything about illegals cutting the penises off the kids, I'm going to nod. And smile.
And I'll be like, Omaha Funny Bone. This weekend. That's right, Joe. It's just an honor to be here.
What was your favorite city in Australia?
Hmm.
I mean, I thought, you know, they're nice.
I mean, you like, you'll go back.
I mean, if I'm getting paid, baby, it's so fucking far.
It's a big flight. It's so far. 22 hours. It's horrible. Yeah.
It's really just like, and your body feels terrible for a week after when you're back.
Yeah.
We went to Japan before. Did you? With me and Nick and Sav and my ex-girlfriend.
no before the the australia tours all right to get our circadian rhythms yeah it was my stroke of genius and then but like after we got back i was just we were like texting each other at like 4 a.m being like i just like uh i'm not tired yet like yeah you're just fucked up how do you deal with it this is a great podcast talk how do you deal with the jet lag erin
i like it i think this will be a real we'll do a real back here is nice or one way is like really nice like you don't feel it at all i think australia going back to australia it's good yeah you're the good there but you come back and you're destroyed i don't know you you have to be disciplined
So Michael, this is our social media guy. I want you to clip that. How to deal with jet lag. Put some of that music that Andrew Tate style videos are on about business and mindset. How do you deal with the jet lag?
Andrew Tate would say what you want, but he'd be good at dealing with jet lag. I imagine if you ranked everyone.
Well, I feel like he's only awake at night or something. I feel like he's a little fan. He lives in Transylvania or something.
He just never dealt with the jet lag.
Have you ever watched Andrew Tate's stuff? No, no. Oh, no. Because typically, you'll find yourself agreeing with 95% to 98% of it. He's a top G, I know that.
oh i didn't know that part yeah maybe i'll watch someone you gotta get to that no i don't understand i mean i think that there's like um there was a guy tucker max who i think was like kind of the progenitor of all that andrew tate stuff he was he he used to read like a he used to write a blog that like when i was in middle school and high school we'd read yeah about how fucked up he got and how much pussy he got do you remember him
I didn't know Zero Hedge. What was Tucker Max's book called? But I just... It literally is for 11-year-old boys. Yeah. It's sowing the seed so they'll grow into... It's like dreaming of like, I'm going to be James Bond. I hope they serve beer in hell. As well as finish first. So these... Yeah. So I used to read that when I was 13 and I thought that... Did you really? Well, it was books.
Yeah, I thought it was smart. It's like an adult writing it.
Was that out when you were 13?
You would have... Maybe like, yeah, middle school, early high school.
That's crazy that you knew that stuff. I didn't know anything.
When we were in middle school, we used to say... The most misogynistic you ever are is like in sixth grade before you've even touched a girl. We'd say stuff like, I would fuck that bitch in the ass. But you're so scared. I never even kissed.
Yeah.
I'd say about... But also, I didn't even have a single pube and that girl was a head and shoulders taller than me. I'd be like, I'd fuck that bitch in the ass. In retrospect... Pretty cool. Pretty pimp.
But you've leveled out since then. You've finished puberty, your hormones.
Yeah, yeah. I hit it about 29 to 32. I had my growth spurt. What are you at now? My voice broke.
what age are you on uh 37 37 yeah that's nice that's a good age you think so i'm excited to be 40 what oh because that's when the goats get like yeah big and comedy that's when you start that's when you really start i hope to get past at the cellar by the time i'm 45
I just hope to get on a golden ticket to the mothership.
Yeah.
Get on Kill Tony. There have to be 55-year-olds, like, waiting for the... Putting their names in the bucket at Kill Tony.
That's really sad.
I kind of... Did you... You had mics and stuff in Australia?
We started to have mics, like, four years into me doing comedy. But, like, the thing that we would do is, like, we had, like, open mic competitions. So, I would enter all these, like, different competitions. Wow.
They'd have, like, a regular... Just comedy or, like, acoustic guitar and stuff? Just comedy.
But it was, like, kind of a scam. Not a scam, but it's, like, at the first half, they'd have a pro show and then an open mic competition where everyone would bring their friends to, like, vote.
Classic. Yeah. That kind of thing. Yeah. No, I mean, like, I guess, like, back, you know, Stav and Nick and I were all at open mics, like, years ago. Yeah.
the just the the the school shooters that you meet that have like it's tough honestly it has saved lives there are like there are lone wolf active shooters that like found open mic comedy yeah and we're like a kind of trying to do louis at the time where they were like my body sucks and you know like who do you think is the best comic that was on track to be a school shooter but now they're successful
I wonder if those guys ever make it.
No, I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Who would have been a school shooter? I don't know. Probably Amy Schumer. There was a girl shooter yesterday. Really? Yeah. The first one? Yeah. Well, it's gone crazy. I'm not even going to. Yeah. When I see stuff like that, I'm like. I'm not going to say anything.
That's crazy. That is nuts. I didn't know that.
it's bizarre that it's like everyone on the internet now like i don't know we have careers so we have to like be posting stuff and it's like kind of humiliating still yeah but like people are like everyone else most 99.9 percent of the people are doing that for zero dollars they post for free They're yelling at the president all day for zero dollars. Yeah. It's bizarre.
And they have to make a statement. When there's a girl shooter, they have to be, they have to. Yeah. They're like the press secretary for Aaron Chan or like for themselves. Yeah. It's bizarre at this point.
yeah it's kind of kind of brand world that type of thing yeah i'm i i yell at peter dutton that's who i yell at that's good yeah that was who the prime minister was when we were there at the time i think so maybe he kind of looked like a penis he's like bald he's like completely like yeah yeah yeah he looked he looks kind of evil but i don't i don't know what he's got going on you know i'm kind of he was a cop
He was a cop. Kamala. He's an Aussie cop.
He was Kamala. Yeah. He was an Indian cop. Yeah. He was a South Asian cop. Yeah. No, we all liked Peter Dunn.
You like it? It's a good name.
Not Peter Dunn. Tony Abbott. That's who we like.
Tony Abbott. He was like loose.
He bit the... He bit the onion. The onion.
He wore Speed Dealers.
Was he mentally retarded? Or did he just kind of... Not officially.
He just had a lot of... If he did comedy in Brooklyn, he would talk about autism.
You think so? Yeah. He was a kind of identity style guy?
Definitely not. You couldn't call him identity style, but...
He would be in Bushwick doing like new clown.
Yeah, he'd be a clown.
Apparently like in LA there's a scene of like alt clowns.
Yeah, I heard about this at like the Lyric Hyperion or something.
People's parents should fucking stop paying for that.
Yeah, clown school. Can you cut that? You would send them to clown school before they did that.
Clown school?
I reckon clown school saved a lot of lives.
From what? Getting a wife? From getting married? From having a family? Yeah. It's just, I mean, it's really sad. Uh-huh. Have you encountered the clown scene?
I mean, like, when you're Australian, you go to Edinburgh Fringe a lot and Melbourne Comedy Festival and the clowns are there, you know. I think in the years of, like, 2019, that kind of era, that was big clown world.
And then COVID.
These guys... And then COVID. Then COVID, yeah.
Yeah, and the clown was devastated.
It's crazy. There was, like, 20 to 30 clowns at the festival, you know. They'd all share one car.
Yeah. run that again pete let's get a laugh pete why didn't you give him anything on that you've been laughing at like girl mass shootings but you're not laughing at this come on it's pretty good from the top so uh what 20 i'm talking 20 to 30 clowns at one festival how did they get around one car that was good yeah yeah yeah thanks for saying that okay so you're married
I'm a married man, yeah.
Where did you meet your wife? In art school?
Not art school. Well, regular school. Sydney University.
Okay, nice. But I did a liberal arts degree. SU. Yeah.
Go SU. Were you in a frat? I was not in a frat. The difference is in Australia, we go to the school that is in your town. So you don't move.
Really? Yeah. So you stay with your mommy forever. Yeah. Yeah. It is kind of a mommy's boy country. It is. Everyone is saying that about Australia. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. You guys have very specific racisms there.
How do you mean?
Like, we were in Sydney and the Uber driver was like, you don't want to go down there. It's a bunch of Lebos. And I thought he meant lesbians. And I was like, like lesbian ladies? And he's like, no, Lebanese. Yeah, we... And I was like, there's like 4 million Lebanese people in the world. Yeah.
i love australian lebanese guys that's like the best subculture oh that's a type of guy well there's like kind of lebanese it used to be the greek guys like they were that type of guys now it's kind of everyone like even vietnamese people are lebanese what style is the lebanese australian guy lebanese metrosexual
not a man oh some sometimes but like the I guess the stereotype is that like you know they they're in a specific area of Sydney they um they like um a certain type of Aussie drill music they got an accent you know Nick Kyrgios the tennis player he's the man
he's the man he's like he's the man he's like kind of that style a guy and he's like the best guy in the world he's the coolest but he's he's the best he's greek no or something he's greek see so it's like kind of a vibe of a person i like how he has a bad attitude he's got a naughty attitude on the court he's the most talented guy in the world as an analyst he's amazing he was doing the u.s open this year yeah he's funny and he loves kobe
I really wish he won a Grand Slam. I mean, like just even one open, you know. Yeah, yeah. Because I support him wholeheartedly.
I support everyone from my country as well.
Do you really?
Yeah, every American pretty much, yeah. In sports? In anything. Yeah. Yeah. In wars? Absolutely everything. You're watching the feed. I kind of like, war is I'm going to wait and see. Yeah, you like the underdogs. No, I go with the winners. You go with the winners. They write history, of course. I don't know if you went to college. One and a half years. One and a half years. Really? Yeah.
That's kind of a comedy track. SU. I'm going to drop out.
Did you finish?
Oh, yeah. In three years. I finished early.
What's your degree say? Politics.
Politics.
politics international politics wow yeah middle eastern so you found the right vehicle for your skill set yeah absolutely he got the mindset yeah yeah destiny didn't know what he was up against he was up against a fucking genius well yeah i did one and a half years of art history which is like what you said like gadsby's gadsby did that as well yeah why didn't you do a show about uh i don't know so yeah monet was a fucking pervert or something yeah
Because I only did it one hour. If I stuck with it, I would be able to say like the levels of stuff that Gadsby says, but I just didn't want to get to that.
Yeah, yeah.
I was still getting to paint, like what is a paintbrush and stuff like that.
Really? Yeah. The different styles. You start with finger.
You know Snowpiercer, the movie?
Yeah.
She's like at the front of the train and I'm the guy at the back of the train.
But you're working your way up to kill her. Yeah, yeah. Through the mics. You're working your way up.
have you met Nanette she's nice to you Nanette the year Melbourne Comedy Festival she won like Hannah won the the best show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and I I won best newcomer so I was at the back of the train you know Yeah, but you were at the awards.
Really? Yeah. And what did that feel like? She was like, same suit.
Hong Kong.
Molester guy? Who is that molester guy? I don't know. I made him feel weird by explaining there's a guy who rubs Chinese guys' asses.
Is he good at tailoring, though?
The suits are all terrible. I don't like the style that he tailors, but he's like perfect lapel.
well you can get his ass oh is he like a viral guy he's like viral yeah yeah in hong kong you can get suits and make like amazing suits tailored to you for very cheap yeah you'd used to fly out to do that if you were chinese and in australia you'd fly to hong kong should we go shopping it'd be fun yeah you want to go to hong kong right now you want waiting for the private jet like era of my career i think when you get like 500 million dollars you can have your own plane
That's crazy. That comes up on my YouTube shorts, this guy who sells private jets to people.
Yeah.
It's like, this is how you sell a private jet.
Really? Yeah. And how do you do it? You insult the guy?
So, these guys, they'd come to him and they'd be like, oh, I'm... So, it's like, where are you flying to? And they'll be like, I'm flying from Louisiana to Los Angeles five times a week. And he's like, how many people? And then he's like, what you want is a Learjet, you know, that's comfortable.
that's the size of yeah yeah yeah and that's that's all it's it's really easy but he wears like he's got this ipad you know and he's like just plugs it in yeah it's pretty good you could do it online yeah yeah i mean i could do it no problem yeah i mean i think that it'd be cool i mean i it's probably bad for the what what do they say the environment or whatever but yeah if i like hit you up i was like you want to get dinner in tokyo
yeah get on the pj on our plane yeah that'd be sick it'd be awesome yeah yeah and then we could like be up in the air and be like you ever been in a private jet no have you no you're you're you're close you're getting close really far away from that i wonder which comedians we know oh tim dylan does it yeah yeah yeah really he does it yeah i heard that shane did it he does yeah
oh he did uh does uh it's you gotta get on with him james mccann yeah yeah maybe he's kind of uh he's kind of uh like his opener right shane's open yeah he's he's australian you know him from from sydney
I knew him from way back, but he's from Adelaide.
Oh, it's trash.
Adelaide's crazy.
You beef with Adelaide?
It's a satellite city. I don't have a beef with them, but that's probably more offensive, you know? Like you just don't even think about Adelaide that much.
Oh, they don't exist.
But I like it. It's a beautiful, beautiful city. I'm going to be there in the new year.
what what date is that maybe valentine's day i'm not sure oh the city of love do you want to get dinner in paris i would love to let's go go how sick would that be do you think they do that because what i hear is like the fuel costs a lot if you want to yeah but we have 500 million dollars we're shane we can do anything we want you reckon he's on that i could be on the mothership 8 p.m slot back in my bed
mothership to paris back in my bed in the marais in paris dude i could be based in paris yeah i could do a spot in at the at side splitters in tampa back back to paris you ever done comedy in paris no i'm not a clown bro yeah yeah that's true do clowns beef with mimes you think
I think clowns are like, we're not mimes, but they don't also... They're like, we're not fucking mimes.
Yeah, yeah. They get pissed about it.
And mimes can't say anything about that.
Yeah, they can't say shit.
That's not bad, huh?
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They're like those guards at Buckingham Palace, you know?
Yeah. Are you still doing your weekly comedy show in Brooklyn?
Yeah, yeah.
I bombed so hard that time.
Did you?
That's what I felt.
why but then you're very funny this guy's one of the funniest comedians that's so nice to say in australia well because like i feel like the vibe was like i was scared i wasn't like saying enough crazy stuff you know that's what people think yeah people think i think you go into it thinking that and then yeah and you're about to pop off and then you hold back and you're like lauren michaels could be here
Yeah. Lorne goes. Because he's scouting you guys to host SNL.
Yeah. And Simon Nicker on next week. With musical guest Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj. Yeah. And they know that I'm the biggest Nicki Minaj fan. Yeah. They didn't even tell me. I didn't even know that Comptown was still a thing. It'd be so funny if they were still doing it. I just had no idea.
Yeah. They said that the show ended because it ended to me.
It's really funny. It's a conspiracy of silence. Like all of America has been lying to me. My girlfriend knows that Comptown still exists.
You're on a different internet.
Yeah, yeah.
They put blockers.
They've hacked my phone. Yeah. they're hosting snl that's when you'll find out yeah they made the set no like no one the talk show doesn't even go on the internet no they asked chris cuomo to come sit next to me and they're like they've convinced me i'm a talk show host just to get me off the pod it's pretty good I would be flattered, honestly. The effort, I would be flattered.
Yeah. It's a lot of effort for Comptown.
If you could watch your own funeral, would you do it?
How would that work?
I just want to hear how much everyone really loves me. Because they're not saying it to me nowadays. To your face. But if they think I'm dead... But they'll be so mad when I walk out of the back and I'm like...
i reckon you'll get yeah they'll be like they'll then they'll they'll be even meaner who do you think will do speeches i'm gonna get a radical muslim cleric i'm gonna get one of these guys yeah yeah like you know that in the bodega yeah they're watching like this guy
Did you hear about in Australia, it wasn't a Muslim cleric, but it was like maybe some type of Orthodox from the Middle East, and he was blowing up on TikTok, and then he got stabbed.
Oh, Christian Orthodox? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what do you mean?
He represents kind of the Middle Eastern Australian community, a section of the Middle Eastern Australian community.
Oh, yeah, yeah. He was sick. I went to a funeral once at an Armenian Orthodox. I feel like it's...
yeah i could maybe but it's clear the guy the wizard guy they because they dress real sick huh i think it was wasted i think he was wasted and i don't think he like did enough prep it was like you must remember he was like you must remember him like if maybe you go fishing and he fall off the boat yeah remember this story i don't know if this happened but remember
Yeah. That's funny. And he's like wearing black. He's like, as you can see, I'm wearing black, but I wish I could say the Kibbutz Shalom. But instead we must say.
And it was just like meandering and stuff. And like, I mean, it was a very sad. Yeah. I wasn't, I didn't. Did you know that? In retrospect, it was pretty fun. Yeah. I knew the person. It was sad. It was very sad. But like in retrospect, I'm like, Jesus Christ, that guy was. That guy was gold. That guy gave me a story for the pad.
Is that your first telling of the story?
Yes. I've never actually had a story.
You're close to overcoming the grief of the moment.
Maybe I mentioned it the next week on the podcast. Guys, there was a tragedy, but guess what? I saw a wizard.
Yes.
No, but yeah, I'd never been to an Orthodox church before, and it's very theatrical. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did they put the smoke on and stuff like that?
Yeah, the bells, the smells, full nine. The smells are nice. Yeah, it was like... Yeah. Yeah, it smells good.
Did you grow up going to a synagogue or anything like that?
Black church. Black church? Are you serious? Yep. Yeah. Whereabouts? Deep South. Deep South. Pete, did you hear that? Why do you laugh at that? You've been laughing at everything on this shit except for the clown car bit and that I was going to Alabama black church. No. Don't condescend me. What would you have said, Pete? No, let's hear your bit about what church I went to. Mad at Pete.
Thank you, Pete.
So, Pete, what church, you, Adam Friedland, Pete, what church did you go to growing up, huh?
Pretty good. I think he's got it.
That was fucking terrible. That was good, dude. It was pretty good. Yeah, I went to black church.
Not bad.
It was pretty much exactly like the International Players Anthem music video.
What's that?
I don't know. It's the UGK Outkast. Do you know that song?
I don't know it, no. I choose you, babe.
What are you listening to? Crowded fucking house?
Yeah, I listen to Crowded House.
What are you listening to? Land for the Down Under? Land Down Under. Yeah, yeah. I was coming... Vegemite Sandwich? Yeah, fucking idiot.
Sometimes in America when I do a set, they'll play Land Down Under. It's so offensive. Yeah, it's offensive. I'm coming in from the back, you know, I have to box my way out of the corner.
Yeah, yeah. so people do that to me too or they like stereotype me what will they play um you know that yg song
which one plenty don't come to la my brother my brother my motherfucking brother you know that one yeah yeah yeah but they play they play the edited they play the edited version of that song that's my walkout music it's kind of like you know i want a theme song like a new theme song for the show though something like to license something very expensive
Is your car one licensed? I thought it was.
It was licensed and we had to stop using it because they demonetized all our videos. We were using Michael Mann, Miami Vice Tubbs theme. But Tubbs got word of it and shut us down.
Comptown used the home improvement theme song.
Demonetized. Yeah, Tim Allen fucking... Yeah. Yeah, he fucking was like, come out here and fight me.
Yeah, he's like that.
You know that, you know?
I don't know. I never met him. Be excited to.
He's one of my favorite comedians, actually. It was an homage, but he didn't understand it. You know, he got arrested with the most boring, over-told story on podcasts.
Yeah, do you run any podcast? Do you listen to any podcast?
Sports. Soccer. Soccer? You're an Arsenal guy? I listen to Arsenal podcasts.
That's crazy. I'm a Tottenham guy.
Fucking piece of shit.
What do you think of Tottenham?
We're the Jewish club. The Yids? We have a lot of... Unfortunately, we have a lot of shoes.
Well, I love the coaches in Aussie.
I know. But he got booed by you guys recently.
I think it's unfounded.
Yeah.
Yeah. We got to back end.
Cheer up, Pasta Coglue. Is that what they say? What does it mean for a fat Aussie bastard and a shit football team? Can you guys... Can you cut that too? Being an American...
like soccer fan is the lamest thing it can be kind of cringe when it is the lamest kind of guy you can be yeah it's like the things that get me is like because in um in a like in america a penalty kick they'll call it a pk like yeah but in the uk they'll just call it a pen you know
They'll call a counterattack like a fast break.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which is like, I don't even care about that terminology. But like what it is, is like, it's just like, I don't know, like it's not BCC, like on an office like email thread.
Yeah.
Like they will just send the most like annoying reply alls, like with a gif from like, of like Dwight and like, and Michael Scott, like going like this or something.
thing it's those guys yeah yeah it's like these ted lasso ass motherfuckers yeah they're new on it they just don't know they don't have as much as high of a ball iq as me they're not getting it i've tried i've tried going to the pub to watch like to the like arsenal pubs in in nyc and i can't be around these people yeah there's one by my house that spike lee goes to that's crazy but he's like he's an arsenal fan
Yeah, but he's cursed. We're fucked.
Every team he supports is... Arsenal does pretty nice at the moment. Stop it.
No, stop it.
Well, last season you were kind of hotter a bit. We should have won the league last season.
Sorry? We should have won the league.
You should have, yeah. But we lost, so you couldn't win.
Yeah, I know. Okay, no one cares about this, right? But I will say, so I've tried to go to the pub, and these guys are just so cringe that I have to watch alone. And so I have this experience of this team that literally just shits the bed every single year, and they've hurt me.
every year they hurt me worse and worse but i watch it's a it's a solitary i'm like a monk yeah and like because we get the games in the mornings by like 9 a.m my entire weekend is ruined and i'm like a little bit hungover from the night before and i'm like i feel terrible and i'm like alone and my girlfriend's like oh your team lost and i'm like what do you mean what do you mean oh your team i feel terrible yeah just like oh your team like shut up
Shut up!
It does affect everything.
Don't... Like, it's just like... Just go read about a fucking fucking true crime, horrific murder. Sorry, I watch sports and you have to read about like just brutal murder.
But it doesn't affect them. You know, the murders don't affect them as much.
They're just reading this terrifying crap and they're like, oh, my God. No, they're really reading that crap because they want to know about women whose lives are worse than theirs. Yeah. That's really why they like true crime.
Their lives are some of the worst lives.
Women. Yeah, it's true. Don't get me started on this. Don't get me started on this. No, but yeah, it is really horrible. But when I was in London, they were playing Manchester City away, but I watched it. Did you go?
no i could not get tickets yeah yeah but like um i watched in like a pub with like all of these just absolute loser arsenal fans i was like finally really this is embarrassing and cringe to say but i finally was like with my people like they were just like and the fact that they they blew it at the end yeah you know and stoppage
Yeah.
And just like these guys were like, again, this, you know, like, yeah, like that, like they were like, I swear to God, there were like six or seven like ancient men who were My friend was like, look, they keep going to the bathroom. And I was like, they're doing cocaine. They were like 85-year-old cab drivers who were just doing bumps and just saying, you fucking cunt, Pep Guardiola.
And I was like, these are the coolest people I've ever been around.
What happens on game day stays on game day.
I thought you were supposed to die. Are you supposed to die from drugs?
They kind of need it to sustain themselves.
They probably are being kept alive by cheeky coke. Cheeky coke. Cheeky bumps. Just during the day, too. It was like a 3 p.m. kickoff. They're coming back and they're like,
that's the vibe of it yeah they're like ordering a corona they love this kind of thing i took a picture with one of the guys and i was like i was like proud of my club yeah yeah i went to american los angeles uh tottenham bar and one of these old blokes he starts singing like all the tottenham songs as soon as he stopped singing an american the opponents score a goal That's pathetic.
That's so you.
So funny. So you guys. That's so funny. What a shit team. Won nothing. Yeah. What do you think of Tottenham? Shit. What do you think of shit?
Well, next couple of years it's going to be good.
I like nothing about you guys. You know what's amazing? People are going to hate this. Harry Kane went to Germany. He joined the club that wins every single year. And he didn't win. And then he won the Golden Boot in Germany. Did you see what the trophy was? What is it? It was a cannon. That's so funny. I hate him so much. Is he literate? He's not literate.
He can struggle. He struggles with reading. But he can read.
I was at a party during COVID, actually. It was a super spreader. You know who Freddie Gibbs is?
yeah the rapper yeah he like walked in and i was like wow like i'm a big like fan of his and also his instagram stories he's like the funniest person on instagram yeah and he walked in with two other guys and they were just on their phones in a circle like this and i was like it's really pathetic to see rappers acting like stand-up comics at a party yeah yeah they were just like they're probably trying out bits on each other and then going back on their phones like
maybe he has social anxiety they were acting exactly like like comedians and it was like you're supposed to be cooler that's probably awesome for you for me to find that out you know No, I was disappointed. You wanted to be rappers. These are the people I look up to. These are the people I model my entire life after. They got iPhones too, you know? Yeah, they're just looking at their phones.
There were girls there. I mean, what else we got, dude? It's the holiday season, you know? You're on the other side of the country. You probably miss your family. Oh, yeah. Is it hard being so far away from home?
It's really difficult. Every day is kind of a struggle. It's painful. Yeah, but I'm going to see the Rockettes.
For Christmas.
Yeah.
Do they wear underpants or no?
I don't know.
Was that, like, hot to guys back in the day? A can-can line? Were, like, guys like, ooh, yeah. The kicking, hell yeah. It's kind of got to be. Was that sexy to guys?
Otherwise, why would they do it, you know?
I mean, in this day and age, you can...
I guess the choreography is impeccable.
I have a computer, dude. I don't have to see that. That's why you're not going to the Rockettes. It was supposed to be cheeky. You get a peek of the underpants, vagina area.
Oh, yeah. Maybe it was the combination of humor and sex appeal.
Was it funny?
because you know the cheekiness yeah yeah it'd be like oh my gosh you know yeah but it's like you get like a 0.5 seconds of uh that's hilarious and guys are like awoo god you know how that's most most of comedy back then is like pretending like yeah to stalk a woman but then it's actually like a fat guy yeah yeah yeah that's funny yeah also like the they used to do this with their
dresses oh yeah yeah i don't know but it's sexy as fuck you like that guys in old pair in paris times they were like watching that they were like i'm gonna go home and beat off to this yeah yeah to this to address i didn't know that was the origin dude we're so lucky we have like sydney sweeney and it's just so much better these days yeah yeah you can see boobs now
You could if you went on NoFap.
I used to think that as a kid. Now we're fucking, but back then, no one ever was approved. My dad told me that his grandmother had dementia and she was a very old woman and he went to go see her in the hospital and you return to a childhood when you're in dementia and she was like, I went to the forest with the boys in Russia and I pulled my dress up for them.
And I was like, people really did be fucking for a long time now.
I hope I don't get dementia and spill, you know?
What are you going to say?
Same kind of thing about Russia.
You went to the forest and pulled your skirt up? yeah i can't i came up with that so sexy oh yeah i don't know you know what's really do they have a burlesque and comedy like in the same kind of zone in uh australia like burlesque comedy there used to be burlesque like like when i was in dc there used to be like a burlesque and comedy show yeah and it's the biggest bullshit in the entire world
It's crazy, huh? We don't really have that. We have Empire Strips back. What is that, Mike? It's a Star Wars burlesque comedy type of thing and Shrek-lesque.
That's a nightmare. Yeah. Is that real or no? It's real.
You're doing a bit. Parody theme.
It's true.
Yeah. It was in LA as well.
Yeah.
Empire Strips Back.
Don't you think Princess Fiona looked better at the beginning of that movie? Before Ogre. She looked like shit at the end.
Yeah. Cut that.
All right. All right. Let's do your big closer.
My big closer?
Yeah.
Um... Do you ever think about your future? No. Thank you so much. You say that to an audience? You ever think about your future? Yeah. Yeah. I say it when people like, you know, when they go out for a cigarette and stuff. You're kind of like, what's going on?
Oh, you say it to like women. Yeah. We should do that as like a street interview series.
I'd love to do that, yeah.
Yeah, like what the fuck are you?
Yeah.
What are you doing here?
Yeah, what do you hope to get out of this?
Yeah, what's the fucking point of this? Yeah. You know?
Yeah.
What the fuck is going, like, you ever think about dying?
Yeah.
Yeah, me too. You do? It's kind of the worst thing ever, right?
Dying? I don't know.
Really? Yeah.
It's got to end at some point.
No, it doesn't.
You want it to keep going.
No. Of course. Forever. Yeah. People are like, I would never take a pill to live forever. I'm like, what are you, a fucking idiot?
That could be tough, you know?
Why? Yeah. Then you die. People say, my biggest fear is public speaking. I'm like, what about fucking dying?
You're really scared of it.
I'm Mark Maron. Thanks for joining us. All right. Thanks a lot, Aaron Chet. You want to plug some dates?
I will be in the new year. I will be in Spokane, Honolulu, and Sacramento.
Wow. So go see him on the Spokane, Honolulu, Sacramento tour. You have a name for the tour? That's it, yeah. What are you doing tour?
We the crazy guys tour.
We the crazy guys. And then you're going to be back in Australia in February.
Yeah, do a few regional dates.
You're going to be in Balunga.
I'll say the actual names.
Yeah, say the dates.
Nary Warren. Shut up. Geelong. Toowoomba.
Toowoomba.
Toowoomba, yeah.
Yeah. They got some beer girls down there in Toowoomba. You know they got some big.
There was like a sewage problem in Toowoomba one year. It smelled like poo-poo? All the headlines were Poo-woomba.
Poo-woomba.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's pretty good.
All right. Thanks a lot, Aaron Chen.
Thank you, Adam.