Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh dissect Stephen Colbert's cringey "VAC Scene" dance, arguing right-wing media misinterprets his meta-humor as incompetence. They critique Colbert's stonewalling of Bill Burr compared to Conan O'Brien's supportive style, debating whether Colbert prioritized money over artistic integrity. The hosts clash on improvisation philosophies, with Al rejecting structured "Yes, And" games as artificial while Sheltie defends them as collaborative socialism. Their failed live scene about Brad's birthday party highlights this divide, ultimately questioning if modern comedy has lost its spontaneous edge for formulaic safety. [Automatically generated summary]
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Making Vaccine Segments Cringe00:07:11
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Can somebody explain this video of Stephen Colbert doing this?
My God.
There has to be context to this that we don't understand.
We're only seeing a minute and four second clip of this video.
We can even play it right now.
Let's play it.
Let's play it.
But there has to be some more context to this.
There's no way that they just agreed to do it because there's nothing funny about it, right?
Oh, you think he's concerned about being funny?
That's a good point.
That's a great point.
But there's no even attempt at humor, right?
So it's like, what is going on here?
I don't even understand the purpose.
Are they just promoting getting the vaccine?
Are they making fun of the attempts that the government's going to be able to do?
I think we should watch and then talk.
Okay.
Let's watch for like 30 seconds.
We have to watch the full thing.
So let's find out the way the vaccine is changing the scene in our new recurring segment, the VAC scene.
He looks so bad.
Longer.
Stall.
Why the canned can, you ask?
I asked that myself.
The answer?
Public domain.
That's the answer to most things, really.
The vaccine.
So this is a compilation.
So if you scroll, you'll see the actual campaign.
That's where...
So I think this is like a recurring thing they do where they talk about the vaccine, but like instead of the vaccine.
Yeah, ah.
They talk about things related to the vaccine, and this is the segment.
Pause.
So this is happening over multiple nights.
Yes.
Over weeks.
They have a recurring segment called the vaccine, and they're being self-deprecating about this.
They're being a little meta.
They're like, okay, we have this stupid dance that we know is kind of dumb.
That has to be in the public domain because legally we can't use any other song.
Right.
That's what public domain is.
And then, but he was doing in the chair before.
He was like, let's just have the stupidest sounding song that leads into it.
The stupid sounding jingle, right?
And he says, even in the first one, okay, let's stretch it out.
And now they're doing this to make fun of their own jingle.
Okay.
The way we position.
Yeah, but they're making fun of themselves and how ridiculous it is that they have a vaccine jingle for their vaccine segment.
And then this piece was removed from the episode, posted on Twitter, and it looked like they're just trying to be funny with this piece instead of making fun of the fact that they have a jingle for their vaccine segment.
Completely reasonable to have a vaccine segment on a daily night show or whatever, because obviously there's going to be news and jokes about the vaccine every single day.
People refusing to get it, people wanting to get it, etc.
This isn't as bad now that I see it.
And so go back like 30 seconds, maybe just to see the intro for this specific segment.
Because I'm curious if he like sets it up any differently.
No, they just hop right into it.
The vaccine!
It's still so bad.
Yeah.
But.
It's less cringy.
The purpose of it is to be bad.
So it's still accomplishing the goal.
Yeah, yeah, there's no question.
There's ways to make this funnier, even if you're purposely being cringe about it.
But that is what they're trying to do.
Yeah.
And now that I know that that's the objective, it's not as bad.
Yeah, it's not as bad.
So I watched, I didn't watch this compilation, but I watched one pull before.
This woman died at Corona, by the way.
Completely dead.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
It was in a car crash, but they called it Corona because she had Corona.
You know how it means.
Vaccine.
Yeah, it's kind of fun.
So does he say anything at the end?
Like, all right, that's our segment.
Thank you.
And they said it couldn't get any longer.
Yeah, so they're playing into this thing that they did.
They're making fun of themselves.
They're purposely being cringy.
But of course, you know, right-wing Twitter is going to take it and go, look how stupid these late-night guys are.
And they are stupid.
And the shows aren't funny.
Yeah, and the jokes on the one that I saw were terrible.
Yeah, they already have the bad jokes, and it's just not entertaining to watch.
And you can even see by the crowd, I mean, there was a woman there that literally had, you know, six-degree fucking cancer, and she's there with her head wrapped up.
She's 200 years old.
Like, that's the audience, right?
But what's interesting is they're trying to be cringy, and then the right-wing media outlets are going, look how cringy they are.
That's the goal, stupid.
I wonder how many of their viewers are recurring.
Like, probably a big majority, right?
What is that?
Like, they watch every episode.
Like, the viewers of their show get the running gas.
Yeah, yeah.
Because they don't know how to change the channel.
A lot of these old people are just in the home and they're locked in the chair.
Yeah.
So they don't know how to do anything on the show.
Fully immobilized.
Yeah.
They're used to the same thing.
That's what happens.
They still got the TVs that you have to walk.
You have to spin it.
But then they got to get up and that's a lot of effort.
They're not getting up.
This is too much, okay?
Shitting in a fucking bag these days.
And they're watching their Colbert at night.
But I don't think that this is that bad.
And I think the media outrage is unfair.
Yeah.
They're trying to make it stupid.
They're going, hey, remember that jingle?
How long it was?
Let's make it longer.
And then they actually did.
They're just heightening the stupidity of their own gag.
Fine.
It doesn't make it not cringy, but it makes it less cringy.
It's not cringy because the goal is cringe.
Right.
How can we make this the cringiest, stupidest thing ever?
A choreographed dance, guys dressed up as vaccine needles dancing around the crowd.
This is the dumbest possible thing.
We've been doing this for a few weeks.
The audience already knows.
They're going to laugh at this because of how fucking ridiculous it is.
This is not, as it was positioned on Twitter, hey, this is how we'll get America to get vaccinated.
That's what it looked like as a vaccine promo.
Like the government, like Biden was hitting up Colbert, like, yo, do us a favor.
Can you do this little choreographed dance?
That's what it's going to get people to actually get vaccinated.
Which is not the goal.
They're making fun of themselves.
This is not as bad as people think.
Not as bad as people think.
Yeah, no, that's fair.
I'm okay with this.
I still hate Colbert.
Bill Burr's Stonewalled Promo00:03:33
I still think he sucks.
Oh, come on.
It's not as bad.
Come on.
The only reason why we're very critical of Colbert is because we know what he's capable of.
Yeah, I watched this Bill Burr interview where he just fucking stonewalled.
He just stonefaced Bill Burr the whole time.
And ever since then, I've hated him.
Oh, okay.
He just gave Bill Burr nothing.
And he just looked at Bill Burr in a way that makes Bill Burr look like an actual crazy person.
Yeah.
And it's like, bruh, he's on your talk show.
You know what you're doing.
Yeah.
And Bill Burr, when they shake hands at the end, they lean in and talk.
Bill Burr shook his hand and then just looked off the other way.
He's like, I'm not talking this motherfucker.
He was livid.
You could tell he was livid.
Now I'm curious about context with that.
I'm like, what if that was a bit?
What if that was Colbert?
No, Bill Burr didn't look happy at the end.
He was just like, yeah, okay.
Yeah, I remember watching it and he seemed frustrated.
Yeah, because Conan gets Bill Burr.
Say what you want to about Conan and sometimes he might try to be too funny, but he lets his guests fucking shine.
Conan does this.
He goes, he goes, That's Bill, that's crazy.
That's ridiculous.
Some people are going to think you're crazy.
Like he just, he acknowledges that what he's saying is wrong.
Yeah.
So that he's fine.
The audience actually can laugh now because it's been acknowledged, but then you let him roll and you smile and you laugh.
And Colbert was just looking at him straight on deadpan.
Deadpan when he was like, and that bothers you.
And it's like, how can I be funny without him?
I thought we were coming here to do jokes.
And you're an improv guy.
It's all yes and.
That's the whole point of your stupid fucking.
Dumbass, yeah.
And you just knowed him the whole time.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can straight man.
Just don't like stonewall me.
Yeah.
Straight man is actually fun.
Straight man.
That's what you want.
You want the host to play straight man and then just think you're the most ridiculous person ever.
Exactly.
Serve him up.
Softballs.
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But yeah, I think that's the most disappointing thing about Colbert.
And listen, I get it.
Like you said, you said you're going to sell out a certain amount of money.
He found the amount of money that he wants to sell out at, but you haven't sold out yet.
So you're like, fuck sellouts.
Yes, 100%.
But then once you're there, you're going to be like, I get it.
I get it.
You'll be staring at me during the podcast.
Like, no, that's ridiculous.
I don't see why you would take a rhinoceros from South Sudan.
No, I think that's interesting.
It was a reasonable woman.
Yeah, why would you say something like that?
You can see my sitcom on ABC.
I'm going to be replaced by that fucking outfit every week.
But I think that is the frustration with a guy like Colbert.
And maybe there's a lot of people listening right now that never got to see the Colbert show, never got to see his work on the daily show.
Breaking Improv Rules with Yes00:11:17
Like, truly, like, one of the funniest people in America.
There was probably, I don't know, maybe a five-year period where he was doing this every single night.
I don't know how long the show went on for, but he was hysterical.
Like, he was absolutely fucking hysterical.
Yeah.
And he was the straight man, kind of, in his own crazy way.
He would be like, he would play it in a very funny way.
Pretty muted character.
He played a character.
But he played the character.
When he would interview crazy people, he would straightman it perfectly.
Yeah.
And then you see this version of him and you're like, oh, you made that choice.
You made that choice to make the money and then sell out being funny for it.
Because you know what it takes to be funny because we've seen you be funny.
So you know it's not funny.
Right.
So you're making the choice to be not funny for the financial gain.
And maybe he's changed emotionally.
Maybe he's evolved.
Maybe his politics have even changed.
Maybe he truly, really believes in the stuff that he's doing now.
But when you see what somebody's capable of and then what they're doing, you're like, yeah, this ain't it, fam.
This ain't it.
You chose the bread over the art, which is okay.
I get it.
I get why people do that.
But you also have to understand the criticism that comes with it, especially from comics who love comedy.
Yeah.
We love it.
And we gave the what do they do with the improv guy a pass?
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like, none of us really respect improv guys.
We respect actors.
A lot of actors were improv guys.
They make way better actors than we do.
So we respect comedic actors, but like just improv.
I like the who's line, guys.
Nah.
Really?
Son, that guy that was in office.
Who's lying?
I don't know.
That guy knows it all.
Who's lying, is it?
I don't care.
No, the show is funny.
Give me a scenario.
Yeah, two.
No.
Talk about what you care about.
The idea of improv is like the exact opposite of everything that I care about with comedy.
It's like, I like improv.
Bring up something that none of us care about and we'll make it funny.
And I'm like, fuck that.
Hey, make this styrofoam thing funny.
All right.
I need to know something.
I am curious about you and why you dress that way, look that way, act that way, why you're in a bad mood, why you're in a good mood, why you smile on something.
I need to feel something.
Not plastic cups.
Yeah, but podcasting is...
There's some improv going on right now.
Of course, we're improving the whole time.
A comedian improving on stage is funny, but I used to watch Who's Line as a kid, and I'm not saying I would straight face it the whole time or anything, but I remember people really loved it, and I'd dead ass, I'd be like, I don't find this as funny as everybody else.
Is something wrong with me?
Like, do I not understand what funny is?
Let me say there's two different things.
There's improv, the structured form of comedy.
Yes.
And there's also just improv, improv, yeah, improvising, which is what we're doing on a podcast.
Okay, okay.
What, you know, I'll do on stage a lot.
A lot of people don't.
Exactly.
So I know people look at me like, bro, you're fucking ridiculous.
You improv on stage all the time.
I love it.
I love that live in the moment interaction.
But the structure of like, okay, take this line.
You have to say this word.
You're on a boat and you don't realize that your girlfriend's actually your brother.
Okay.
I get it now.
Right?
Like, that's what they do.
They just, here's the game.
Your girlfriend's really your brother.
Go.
Yeah.
You're like, hey, sis.
I just like the part.
They set up a scene, but then random things are going to be a bit different.
If you took an improv class and you have to like freestyle on yourself.
If you took an improv class, you'd be so much less impressed because you'd be like, oh, this is actually incredibly structured.
The mechanisms are extremely funny.
There's just rules you follow and then it's right there.
And the tools are great.
Just do them about things you care about.
My biggest issue is just the fact that we don't care about it at all.
Like, I don't want to talk about things I don't care about ever.
I don't like small talk.
I don't know how to do it really.
I can literally care about a fucking sneaker and talk to you about it for an hour if I care about it.
But I don't know how to just do the, okay, here's a hypothetical.
You know what I mean?
Like, remember we were in the green room with your boys?
You guys came in.
You guys were like doing like improv games and I just had to stop it.
And I was like, what's happening here?
You know what I mean?
Oh, my God.
We're going to do an improv games.
We were in like Orlando.
And like, I had a couple buddies.
Like, they were in the green room.
Yeah.
That's when it was all the little.
They were really sweet kids.
They were younger.
They were sweet kids.
And they were like, yeah, yeah, your shirts.
Yeah.
I'm going out here.
Yeah, the shirts.
You know what I mean?
I like, I have holes in my shirt.
It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I used to fight in the war, dude.
I got shot a lot.
And my shirts got holes.
And I was just like, yo, yo, yo, what's going on?
What is happening right now?
You just said that.
I didn't get it.
I didn't get it.
I just tuned them the fuck out.
I was just like, oh, why people talking?
I don't know what's going on.
I was truly confused as to what was happening.
I was like, are you guys having a real conversation?
Like, what the fuck is going on here?
No, no, it wasn't a real conversation.
What was it?
It's just ping pong.
Sometimes him and miles do that when they're by themselves.
They just keep going back.
I'm like, what are you doing?
And then they just like all giggly and chill.
I'm like, yo, shut the fuck up.
Yeah.
Watch a YouTube video that we could discuss today.
Something important, okay?
Something substantial.
I find points of view that are unique, funny, thoughts about specific shit that's funny.
That, like, that's unique.
That's funny to me.
This thing where you act out of a scenario that doesn't really exist.
Yeah, I get it.
Why are we doing this?
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, you got some big feet.
Yeah, pretty big.
Yeah.
Walk further in them.
What?
You know what I mean?
It's like, what's going on?
That was the worst improv.
This is the acting thing.
This is the acting thing.
Exactly.
I was just about to say it sucks.
So you just hate anything you're not good at.
Got it.
All right.
Yeah, of course.
No, dude, no.
Improv is pretty easy, dude.
Like, dead ass.
I took an easy thing.
I said jiu-jitsu.
Are you really, after seeing me on stage for the last year, you think that I would struggle improvising in a scene?
After seeing what I do for a living.
If you don't care about it, I'm literally seeing what I do for a living.
Calling you out.
Calling you out, bro.
Your defensiveness is making me believe Al, to be honest with you.
Come on, creative scene.
Let's do it.
I had one live improv thing.
I had one live improv thing.
I remember you talked to me after this.
What did I say about it?
You said improv is easy.
You just don't follow the rules.
You said, I just don't like yes and and shit like that.
Like, I just don't do that.
So you're not good at it.
I just be funny.
Them rules are for y'all.
Yeah.
Because y'all don't know how to be funny.
It's like the scene in the office and Michael Scott's got the gun and he just always pulls the gun out.
Funny.
Funny.
You can't pull a gun out.
He's like, okay, I have something in my pocket.
They're like, is it a gun?
He's like, yeah.
Hilarious.
That's all I'm saying, bro.
Improv is so trash.
And this is what I was doing.
I'm fucking throwing haymakers in this face, right?
And I'm just getting big pops.
And I'm like, why are all of you around me?
What are you offering?
I will say, that's what I don't like about improv is like when it has to be so goofy.
I don't think that someone else can control my level of goofiness.
Okay, let's do an improv scene.
Let's go.
All of us have taken improv classes.
Al, you took one.
No, never.
Yeah, you did.
You told me you took one.
UCB one time.
You fucking liar.
Fucking liar.
That's an improv class.
Yeah, but I like it.
So that means that didn't mean you don't.
I don't count it.
I don't count it.
What do you mean you don't count it?
He didn't do anything.
It was like the first day when you just like talking and shit like that.
And then they go over yes, the yes and you left after the first day.
You suck it once as a counter?
No.
No, even if you didn't like the two.
Okay, so you suck it once, you didn't like it.
That's crazy.
You remember that rule?
Yeah, gay motherfucking shit, right?
Hey, I'm still straight, though.
That's back.
Okay, go.
I only saw you guys dig once.
Set up a scene.
Set up a scene.
All right.
He's Googling scenes.
This guy can't even improv a scene.
I'm Googling a scene.
I want to get the structure of it.
He's an improv kid, too.
Yeah, I'm a big time improv kid.
All right.
Okay.
Two people with different ideas try to plan a birthday party for a friend.
Okay.
Go.
Okay.
And then the rules are you have to say yes and.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can't say no.
You're in it, too.
No, it's so easy why I say I can do it.
I said I like it because it's something I don't do.
Yo, can you just not be a pussy?
Nah, nah, nah, nah.
No, no, I want to see you flex because you're so nice.
All right, you ready?
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's play a birthday party.
We're planning a birthday party for what?
A friend.
Okay.
Yeah.
And yeah, but you have different ideas about how to plan it.
Different ideas about how to plan it.
Yeah.
Okay.
That didn't even make sense.
How can you yes and with different ideas?
Yeah, we have to say no.
That's the point of disagreeing.
Oh, but we have to agree, even though we're disagreeing.
I don't get it.
I mean, I swear to you, I don't get it.
Wow.
Yo, just write a joke.
These guys provide somebody.
So good, bro.
Exactly.
Whose line is it anyway?
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
These are fucking geniuses out here.
Okay.
Hey, dude.
Okay.
Do you want to add some?
Do you want to add some context to your characters?
No.
Context is gay.
Okay, okay, ready?
Okay, go.
Dude, we gotta do something for Brad's birthday.
Absolutely.
Yes, and yes, and it's gotta be great.
Yes, and I think that I should have an idea, and I think my idea should be way different than yours.
Yes, and yes, and yes, and I think I have an idea too.
Yeah, and it's gonna be really different than yours.
Yes, yes, and I don't know that we know that.
Yes, and yes, and yes, knock, Hey, what's up?
I'm your friend.
I'm your friend.
Oh, yes, you are my gay midget friend.
Yeah, you are a gay midget friend.
You're a gay midget friend that says the N-word all the time.
Wait, so how do you usually walk in the room, gay midget friend that says the N-word all the time?
What do you usually say?
The first thing, neighbors, what's up?
Yes, and we are neighbors.
We definitely are neighbors.
It's my gay midget birthday.
What are we doing?
Well, no, you're not Brad.
Fuck, yes, you are, Brad.
So, Brad, Brad, we have some great ideas for you for your birthday.
That's great.
And we do.
And we definitely do.
So, Akash, she had an idea.
And what was the idea that you were saying?
I was saying we should go to a strip club and then fuck you.
Yes.
Yes.
Improv king.
Yes.
Yes.
And I'll make your dick look bigger because I'm a midget.
That's great.
Yes, it totally will.
Yeah.
And yes, and I think we should do that.
And I also think that we should go to, I think we should go to church.
And I think that we should go to church.
And I think we should replace Jesus on the cross with you and see if anybody notices.
Yes.
And what do you think?
You think that's a good idea?
And it's his 32nd birthday, so it's the same age as Jesus.
Oh, there you go.
Oh, look at 33.
You know, I'm, you know.
But yes.
Yes, and that's why I need to go to church.
Yes, Don't you think they'll notice that Jesus isn't a midget?
Yeah, yes, I do think they will.
And I think that will be the fun thing about church.
Yeah, and I think you're breaking the rules of improv.
But no, yes, and no.
No, it's my birthday.
You said yes, but how about yes, yes?
Not yes, but it's yes, and okay.
You know what I mean?
Yes, and yes, and yes, this is this is what UCB just went out of business for.
I just want to let you know.
Yeah, but I didn't laugh once.
He got one pop.
I didn't get a laugh out of you.
You gave me a semi-one.
With the king.
Yeah.
You suck.
What did I say?
I was going to take him to a strip club and fuck him.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
That was good.
That was hilarious.
Yeah.
No, no, he had something.
Neighbor?
Neighbors thing.
The neighbors.
Yeah, neighbors.
That was a relief laugh.
Nah, it was good.
I didn't know that.
I know it was coming.
That's my setup.
The Neighbor Scene Ego00:02:52
Wow.
I gave the setup.
A sis should be two points.
I mean, they could have just said the N-word.
That would have been the biggest pop.
That would have been the biggest pig.
You know who loved improv?
Michael Richards loved improv.
That's the guy that gets it.
And he hits it.
That worked for some people that night.
A couple people laughed at that.
They were like, he went for it.
He's brave.
I don't think it's good at improv.
Princess Diana.
A lot of people looked at him like Princess Diana that night.
I don't think you're good at improv, bro.
Nah, you're right.
Not with other people.
That's my thing.
I don't like improv.
I don't like you can control me.
I did it in college.
I like took an improv class.
Of course, you did.
I'd be in a scene and the kid would be like, oh, man, aren't you so good at doing the worm?
I'm like, no, you got to fucking do the worm.
You're going to make me do the fucking worm right now.
Yes.
And then they'd be like, yeah, do it.
We're at the party.
Everyone would love it.
Yeah.
No, it's corny.
And then a group of like all my friends came out to the class.
It was like the graduation show.
So all my friends came out.
They were drunk.
And I'm doing the worm in front of them.
Could you do the worm?
No.
Oh, you suck.
I'm telling you, I thought every white person does the word.
Like an actual remotely funny stand-up, you will be good at it.
I took a UCB class once because I thought the industry wanted it.
The teacher pulled me aside at one class because you're really good at this.
And then I was like, all right, thanks.
She goes, no, no, I'm serious.
You're really good at this.
I deadass never took another class.
I was like, this shit sucks.
It is a formula.
It is the UCB thing.
Once you find the funny, you just keep, it's called the game.
Like, what we just keep going until we find out what's funny about the scene.
And then you just keep hitting it.
You literally do that until someone, the director, goes, stop.
Please enough.
And then if you've written a joke and you've tagged a joke, that's all it is.
It's take the funny thing and then just beat it to death.
And there's five you at once, so you can just keep hitting it.
Also, you're not really supposed to say things that are funny.
Yeah.
And that's my big issue with it.
You're not supposed to say clever things.
You're not supposed to say jokes.
If you're saying jokes, you're kind of fucking up the scene.
You're ruining the reality of this.
You're supposed to say things that are serious within this weird reality.
And that's why they make such good actors.
Because being an actor is not saying something that's funny.
It's saying something that's real and serious in an absurd situation.
Will Farrell believes everything he says.
Zach Alvanagas in the Hangover is a perfect improv, detached from reality, saying things completely serious.
Where's my meat love?
That's only funny if he really believes his mom, even though he's 40 years old, should come into the next room and make it.
Ricky Bobby has to be like, yo, I'm an actual race car driver.
Yes.
I'm being serious about race car drivers.
So the goal of it is to not be funny.
And let the structure in the game and the community be funny.
Yes.
So when I'm in the improv thing, I'm just thinking, like, oh, this would be a really clever thing.
Like, I laugh really hard.
The neighbor thing was really funny.
Yeah.
And the I'm going to fuck you, whatever, is funny because that's the funny thing to say.
That's the comic thing to say.
But in the scene, if it were an actual movie and he said that, it would be like, what are you doing?
Yeah, why are you trying to be funny?
Yeah, don't be funny.
Be serious.
And then the scene itself is funny.
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And your discomfort is funny.
Yeah.
I like saying the funny thing.
Yeah.
I don't want the scene to get together.
Get it, I get it.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Oh, okay.
It's cool.
And those guys are great actors in whose line?
The fucking.
They're the best.
They make us in office space.
I still laugh at it.
I'll tell you what I do, man.
Two chicks at the same time.
That shit still, I fucking laugh every time I watch that.
He's such a good, funny character.
Those guys are great characters.
Yeah, I would hire improv guys over stand-ups any day of the week.
But give me one stand-up to just finish the line.
Yeah.
So it's like all improv guys and then one stand-up that just says the final funny thing in the scene and then we're out of here.
But like when I was doing that, Here's Johnny show, it was all improv guys I did it with, and they're the best to work with.
No ego.
They're down to be like the support system.
They want to set you up.
Yo, you say this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They just want the funniest thing for the scene.
It's like socialism.
You know what I mean?
Like for comedy, if you will.
So it's the best environment to work with.
Whereas comics, it's like, who can have the funniest?
Like when we were doing Benders, everybody was just like, how do I get the line?