I don’t know if I’d cast your voice in the role of a fat character. Maybe you need to meet some more fat people. Their voices aren’t dictated by their weight. I’m fat, I’m jolly, I’m a fat person. Is that how you imagine how fat people talk?
You tell a story onstage that you were sitting near 50 Cent at a restaurant, and he ordered a grapefruit soda and was confused when he was brought something that was not purple and grape-flavored, and the waiter had to explain that grapefruit is different from grape. Is that true? It’s always strange to me when people ask me in interviews, “Like, hey, is that story true?” Yeah, it’s all true.
Have there been moments when you’ve looked out and thought, Oh, no, I inherited Dane Cook’s audience? I don’t know what that means. What do you think that crowd would look like?
But there’s a bit in the beginning of your last special in which you note that with a crowd this big, there are a lot of people in the audience you would actually really hate. In the special I said, “There’s a few of you I probably hate.” There’s a big difference.
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