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Why do bats have eyes?
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Aw shit, man...
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[Laughing]
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We got to look at the bright side of things.
This is going to be a really good year for comedy.
You guys remember the Bush administration?
That shit was hilarious!
What an awesome thing to study is comedy What got me into comedy is I have no other
marketable skills whatsoever.
I lost the whole front table the second I called Jar Jar Binx a Jamaican retard.
I have wanted to do comedy my entire life.
Alright, I'm here at Legend's Sports Bar and Grille.
If you wanna be a great comedian, you gotta work hard.
It's something that I have to get really good at.
I just don't want to get a day job.
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My man right here, he travels all up and down the strip.
I want ya'll to put your hands together right now, dude, for Strangling mother fucking Jack!
The name Strangling Jack, I have no idea where it came from.
It's a uh, it's one of the mysteries of our time.
Strangling Jack, I mean is that a name for a comedian?
I love the Strangling Jack What idiot would name themselves Strangling
Jack?
Sometimes behind his back we call him Struggling Jack
Strangling is the name for a comedian He's just fucking goofy
Ah, Strangling Jack is one of the most talented comedians I've ever had the pleasure to work
with.
Um, if he just would stop being such a douche bag, I'd...
I think.
I think he's a terrorist.
I don't care what terrorist he is.
I don't care what his cause is, I just want to contribute to Strangling Jack.
Turns out he's a fucking comic.
Her name was Lola and she's a transvestite.
I'm trying to give to a terror organization, and this bastard took my money
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My buddy Ryan told me that I was named after
a wrestler It was just a made up wrestler name.
I asked him years later, like what's this wrestler?
Cause I could never find the guy.
He was like, you weren't named after a wrestler, I'm like well what, you fucking told me that.
It was just an easy pun.
What actually happened was, he got high as shit, and doesn't remember how the fuck the
name came up.
[Music] This is my third set.
The first night though, I did...
The fucking Dive bar.
Who has done the Dive Bar?
Holy shit with that place!
Oh my god!
My first night was at the Dive Bar.
The Dive Bar is a special place.
That was like the bar from Deadpool [Chaotic sounds]
It was the bar from Gremlins.
Remember that shit?
People hanging from the chandeliers and shit.
Some people were multiplying in the corner with water.
There was a Russian guy with tattoos upfront, there were hecklers
Actually, that guy [Indiscernible]
I think he's actually part weed.
[Indiscernible] He's like a-
Shut the fuck up!
Most people's first time doing stand-up happens at an open mic
My first night went kind of crazy.
I had about 17 minutes of cool stuff.
You start thinking of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, and you know, John Witherspoon.
You think of all these people, Steven Wright, who you admire, who do stand-up comedy-
I'm gonna be one of these guys And the first four jokes I told were had to
be there kind of stories.
And then you get up on stage, and like, I'm not gonna be one of those guys.
Nobody really laughed at them, because they weren't there.
I forgot half of the shit that I was going to say
[Nervous laugh] Uh, let's see.
I just couldn't think of what I was going to say next.
I forgot all my fucking jokes, yeah!
[Laughter] I fucking knew this would happen
I froze up And that's a good thing to see is me freezing
up in the first fucking video.
I bombed really really bad when I first did this,
and uh, it actually was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Not only did I bomb, but we actually were made fun of by the MC.
The Dive Bar, while it's a crazy place, it's actually the kind of bar that you really need
as a comedian, because it's the one that's going to toughen
your skin up, and get you to deal with hecklers, get you to deal with bombing
I did my first mic you know, six years ago or something like that.
I watched the open mics probably twenty times, and then one day I got hammered and was like,
I want to sign up!
And then just, I don't even remember what the fuck I talked about.
I was terrible, you know.
So the first night over at the Dive Bar, uh, it went really bad, but I did get one
good laugh in.
Few people know that apart from being a powerful force in Hollywood,
actor Keanu Reeves considers himself to be a bit of a philosopher.
I'm Morgan Freeman I'm a seventy year old black man with chocolate
chips on his face [Laughter]
It was a great first night, because that's the kind of like extreme situation that is
going to make all the others a little easier.
Even on my worst day if I think I have a bad show, I always think to myself, it's never
like that one show.
So, it's kind of like I always have that.
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My comedy background is fairly extensive ha,
hm, goodness Strangling Jack is like one of my dearest
friends.
We were both improv brothers with the Swinging Johnson Brothers back in southern California
They can barely afford sub-standard health care.
The Johnson Brothers were originally birthed out of this really crappy theater in Colton.
In High School, I started getting into improv, which was, which is fucking terrifying.
I went up there and I made a fool out of myself, and so I was frightened of it.
I didn't go back for two years.
That looks great Oh, thank you, I worked very hard on it for
like two and a half hours.
Really?
Yeah- no.
No.
I actually only worked for like twelve minutes, I have ADD.
[Laughter] I continued with improv all the way through
college, uh abd then we ended up forming the Swinging Johnson Brothers
at a theater in Colton, California.
[Music - Johnson Brothers Theme by Hobo Jazz] We also performed out of, I mean, like, almost
every venue in Riverside that would accept an improv group.
The Swinging Johnson Brothers lasted for about twelve years.
Ah, from 2002 to... twelve years after 2002.
2014 is that it?
Is it 2014?
Is that math?
It was the origin of Big Sexy.
After the third performance with the Swinging Johnson Brothers, you have to choose a Johnson
name.
I landed on Big Sexy Johnson.
It's always just been Big Sexy Johnson.
People think they call me Big Sexy, because I have a big fat penis...
but that's wrong.
[Laughter] If you do comedy, even bad stand up, they'll
give you stage time.
We came at it a different way.
We did good stand-up style improv that was fast paced and crowd centric, and hig energy.
It's about to get funky in here.
That's right, it's gonna get hot, 'cause we're the Johnsons.
It's gonna get so hot, that I'm gonna make eggs in the small of your back.
Then I'm gonna take jam and I'm gonna rub it all over my hands.
I'm gonna put my hands on ya, and I'm gonna... or uh...
Or we're gonna do a comedy show for ya Because we were so big and we had such a,
a weird internet following that the other stand-up guys didn't have,
we were immediately accepted into the Improv.
Big hand everybody for the Swinging Johnson Brothers, right here, let 'em know!
We were knocking it out of the park doing live shows.
We were funny over and over to the point where I mean some people just called to hang out.
You wanted to be a part of them because they had so much fun.
People just wanted to be a part of it.
It was a weird energy, man.
It was like, just awesome.
It's how I met my wife.
That led to us making sketch comedy.
One thing we figured out is that if we recorded this stuff, it lasts forever.
And digital media had just broken into the houses.
People could just then buy enough equipment with just a regular salary in order to technically
produce a movie.
We started doing these sketches immediately.
They're not going to give you anything if it's in Spanish.
Yeah, that's better, okay.
No parent should ever have to outlive their child.
We can rebuild your child or loved one in one of three classic positions:
Playing catch in the front yard...
Listening to one of dad's stories...
And of course, praying.
Do you like doughnuts?
Oh, I love doughnuts, are you kidding me, I'm a cop.
Doughnuts, I love 'em [Music - Psycho Christmas theme]
We did a lot of productions!
They were doing video productions, and movies, and skits
That ended up leading us to making a movie.
A full motion picture called Driving Bill Crazy.
Still bankrupt from that mother fucking thing.
[Laughter] The Swinging Johnson Brothers were also screenwriters,
and they eventually wrote this movie.
A full feature movie called Driving Bill Crazy.
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That's Bill.
He's our next project.
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The first thing they had me do was this little
skit.
I was the big bad wolf in a dream sequence that the main character Driving Bill Crazy
had.
And it's probably one of the most fun things I ever had filming.
Our movie had 200 actors, 73 locations...
We, we didn't go small on anything.
We didn't pay anybody.
We nobody had any money to pay 'em.
We spent all of our money on the equipment to make the movie to begin with.
If you only knew how many times I've killed you in my mind.
Time came to film the actual full length movie, and I was playing a detective.
I got to interrogate Juanathin Johnson, and I got to slap him around and...
Probably one of the best shot scenes in the movie in my opinion.
We have confirmed reports of you making terrorist threats.
Confirmed.
We found experimental medication on your person.
All of our costuming we had to borrow from this costume store.
We worked out a deal with a local costume house.
To where they'd give us all the costumes we'd need to make the movie,
but we had to make a DVD for them.
We ended up producing an entire exercise video for... belly dancers.
...that are... belly dancers.
Come on Okay.
They're morbidly obese belly dancers and this is a... this is a disability situation thing
for them, and I can't do this...
[Laughter] I sat through so much footage of these belly
dancing ladies.
They're so nice, but man, it was a long project.
Fuck it.
Best years of my life.
Johnson Brothers, making the movie.
My son is in my movie because of the Johnson Brothers.
He was like an improver and did all this other crazy shit for all these years.
Then he just decided to quit doing that, and then just jump feet first into stand-up, which
is fucking nuts.
Last night I did the Baja Grille, anybody do the Baja Grille?
Baja really helped me open up because it's such a supportive atmosphere.
This is much more what I'm used to; it's the usual comic crowd.
You got about half white, half black.
Alright, we got the- I thought we had the token Asian, but we don't, he's just another
funny Mexican.
The problem with it is, I- we forgot the camera.
They shouldn't give me the Matrix, cause uh; I would've made it a comedy.
Like the first thing I'd do is give him like a comedy side kick.
Like someone else from the drug culture, like Owen Wilson.
It'd be, be like, I know kung fu.
Hey I know Kung Fu too, man.
Asian guy, lives down the street from me.
Real nice guy, he's teaching me karate!
[Laughter] No one does an Owen Wilson impression.
Because of that, I've tried to force him into all kinds of sketches.
He was in Hollywood Knights where he plays a witness.
The guy was like, hey, can I have your autograph, and he was like, no, but you can have a bullet.
He didn't actually say that, he just shot him.
And the Pedi-file.
I got him being a foot fetishist as Owen Wilson.
And it's great for me especially, because I've got a foot fetish.
Pedi-file, a file for the feet!
The best one... was his suicide press conference.
So about a decade ago, he slit his wrists; you know he was hanging out with Courtney
Love's people.
He was in a bad way.
I've got a small box with a lot of different prescriptions,
this way I don't have to inconvenience myself by having to go to a doctor.
You know what, there's some that are actually test drugs that my buddy over at UCLA, he
gives to me.
He just says, hey, I don't even know what this is, it's got a number on it.
It's really weird.
And I take it!
It was horrible.
I mean it was the, like the meanest thing ever.
Alright, I'm gonna get the fuck out of here.
We forgot the camera, so we just have shitty, grainy, standard definition cellphone footage.
Which is a shame, because I had a good time over there.
Strangling Jack!
Slash Keanu, slash Morgan, slash... that was funny.
[Music] The type of comedy that I'm probably most
famous for is impressions.
Strangling Jack, he's an impressionist.
He does anybody.
Hollywood's my town, bought and paid for.
I just don't get it.
Imagine my surprise.
Are you high right now?
I love impressionists, man.
I have a lisp.
Every time I do an impression, the character has to have a fucking lisp okay.
Scooby-Doo with a lisp, Sylvester Stallone with a lisp.
That's my name, don't wear it out, you know what I mean.
The weirdest people have got to be impressionists, man.
They're fucking bazaar.
One of my first Halloweens that I can remember, I was eight years old, and I played Jim from
Taxi.
So Christopher Lloyd, like, "Wooah!"
So, a little eight year old boy, they're like, "oh, nice little hobo", and I'm like "I'm
Christopher Lloyd!"
And they're like, "What the fuck just happened?"
[Scary music]
[Scream]
We're all gonna die!
[Scary music] Strangling Jack played Ash in Evil Dead the
Musical.
And uh, I got him the job.
He headlined that Evil Dead thing, right?
I heard good things.
Yeah.
[Music] Cabin in the woods ooh ooh.
Die Die.
Die die.
The fact that he played Ash is one of my proudest moments.
Since I came to Vegas, uh I haven't done, I don't think any improv, because I got cast
in Evil Dead the Musical.
[Music} What the fuck was that?
It's the Evil Dead!
[Music] You need to audition for this role, so get
your headshot, get your song together, come sing and do this shit.
Cause I need you to be in the show.
My buddy said, uh, I know a guy who'll make a great Ash.
I'm like nah, I'm not gonna get it.
And they actually really liked me for some reason.
Weird.
Playing Ash, putting a chainsaw on my hand, killing demons, and singing songs about it.
It is the greatest gig I've ever had.
I love it, I buy all the shirts.
I've been watching it since I was a kid.
I saw Army of Darkness in the theater You know what you're about to see tonight?
Yes.
I've seen the movie, but I've never seen- That doesn't mean anything
[Laughter] You know nothing of the horrors that you are
about to experience.
Fucker looks like Bruce Campbell.
Can I cuss in this thing?
Yes.
Okay.
This mother fucker looks like Bruce Campbell I typically don't do a lot of like uh theater.
As far as I knew it was the first time he had played a big major principle role that
wasn't on film.
But I had to do this.
But I knew he'd be perfect, and I knew it, so you know, I'm a genius like that.
Groovy [Music]
The Stateside Lounge, that was my favorite of these last three nights.
I like the ambiance here [Laughter]
Like the uh, the lighting, I mean what the...
[Laughter] This is the only bar where like I can tell
jokes and retain my anonymity.
I feel like I'm in the witness protection program
The host of the Stateside Lounge is Melvin Washington, and that guy's hilarious
Now I'm gonna do some jokes for you.
If ya'll want Melvin to do some jokes, make some noise in this bitch.
He did a lot of physicality Ya'll ain't never played T-ball before when
a nigga hit this.
[Laughter] People were comparing him to LeBron James
I'm getting tired of people calling me LeBron James.
LeBron James, really mother fucker?
Have ya'll seen LeBron James' hairline mother fucker?
He did like a dribbling thing Ya'll ain't never been in Walmart, mother
fucker come up to you, just...
Not a lot of the comics there were like really using the stage and he used it.
Fellas, who in here got that salt and pepper head before?
Who know what that is?
Oh, ya'll some little dick bastards.
That's when a girl grab your dick with both hands and chicka chicka chicka chicka chicka
Melvin what, what was this with the uh, the salt and pepper shaker?
I call that the Indian burn.
Was that shit pleasant?
That.
That would not feel pleasant to me.
I want ya'll to put your hands together right now for Alex Just Alex.
Alex Just Alex was the headliner.
I've seen him a couple of times now.
He's the host of the Dive Bar.
Alex, have you ever had sex with a big girl before?
Yeah, of course.
What was her name?
Which one?
[Laughter] Sadly, we didn't get a lot of footage of Alex,
but he's a funny bastard too.
I'm Morgan Freeman.
I'm a seventy year old black man with chocolate chips on his face.
[Laughter] Way to destroy my Morgan Freeman
I apologize, Mr. Alex Just Alex.
[Laughter] Just Trying to be Ale- no Just, Just being
Alex Just Being Alex
Alright.
He's just being Alex, ladies and gentlemen.
I like that Melvin brought it back up.
At the end, I had chocolate chips on my face.
You got chocolate chips on your face!
Thirty more years, you'll get the chocolate chips.
[Laughter] Morgan Freeman and the chocolate chips.
Sounds like a Harry Potter title.
Morgan Freeman and the Chocolate Chips.
By the end of the third night, I was feeling really comfortable.
I ended up hanging out with Alex Just Alex and Melvin.
We took some pictures, and then I did some like dancing with Melvin.
[Music] Melvin's a cool cat.
I have a feeling I'm going to see him uh, a lot more, and it's going to be pretty fun.
In '87, Leno said if you want to be a comic, you gotta go on the road, quit the cushy job,
and I did.
And I've, I've been on the road ever since.
In the comedy world in general, there's a lot of tips and tricks, some kind of rules.
When I come across those, I'd like to be able to share 'em on here and it might be able
to help somebody out.
Prepare to work.
If you're gonna be a good comic, you actually work harder.
I would say just always be a student of comedy.
It's hard.
Stop!
Nah, just kidding.
I'm up usually eight, nine AM, working, making phone calls, sending out my avails.
But I don't consider it work, because I love what I do.
This is not going to be glamourous.
You're not gonna go from Joe Shmoe off the streets telling jokes in an open mic to Kevin
Hart overnight.
Just work hard.
Just keep working those lines over and over and over again, and just walk up and down
the street, you know, don't worry what people think.
You know, well maybe your neighbors, worry about 'em a little bit.
But just, just work hard.
Really it comes down to stage time.
Get on stage.
It's a lot of rejection, it's a lot of tough nights, but if you're really talented, stick
with it.
For me it's about the art.
Find your niche.
Find what it is about you that makes you funny.
Take every class you possibly can.
Take improv classes, take acting classes, learn how to perform, use space work.
Learn to write a fucking joke.
The more crazy you are, the better comedy you have.
Get on stage with a professional crowd.
Get on stage everywhere you can.
Go to a rock club, go to a jazz club, go to a urban night.
Just get on stage, cause that's where you're gonna work it out.
I encourage all comedians to get out there and try to fricken do something.
Anything Even if it's a movie that won't make any money
and will bankrupt you and your family.
If you're good and you're putting yourself through the meat grinder of comedy,
I just wish you the best, man.
Just be original, be yourself.
Tell the truth.
truth is comedy, comedy is truth.
and if you're true, it should be funny.
Get on stage, work it out, and and get good.
I gained so much just by being around people that, you know have been doing it for twenty
thirty years, so.
That's been uh I think the most helpful thing I've done.
I want to hire the best comics I can for the cheapest price.
So get good.
If somebody doesn't hire you, go out there and get so good that they have to hire you.
What you actually really want to say, but you're not saying, that's when you got something.
That's the strongest thing, you know, that's the strongest thing.
Next show is gonna be at Motor City Cafe.
We'll see how that goes, then I'll be doing stand-up all week.
And I'm just going to keep doing it until I get decent at it.
Til I stop saying "um" Until I stop wandering around the stage or
pacing.
I'm just going to keep doing it until I feel comfortable, and until I start having fun.
My name is Brandon James, and I am a stand-up comedian.
Was there anything else that you wanted to say?
Uh, porn, I do porn as well.
What's your porn name?
Uh, Brandon James.
[Laughter] Yeah.
Too obvious?
Mine's not Strangling Jack.
It's, it's not It's Sledge Manhammer
It's Sledge Manhammer.
That's good.
That was going to be my first guess.
Of course.
I'm glad we covered that.
[Laughter] [Music]
Is the axe in the shot?
[Music] Yeah, it's required in my contra- I wrote
it down.
It's in my contract.
If you don't...
You know what, it's fine.
We'll deal with this later.
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