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-[Eugene] Ollie, do you want to turn around? -[Ollie babbles]
And get your motor humming!
We're gonna! We're gonna! Ah wow, are you ready? Ollie, you ready?
And I set you free.
Are you ready, Ollie, for an egg?
My wife and I had a baby, yeah.
His name is Oliver, we had him about a year ago, little more than a year ago.
And we had him through a surrogate, through this very kind woman that we met on Skype.
So to create him, I had to go to a sperm bank here in New York, and when I got there,
the guy at the front desk right away was like, "Oh my God, we love Bob's Burgers."
And I was like, "This is not the anonymous medical experience I was hoping to have."
People are always like, "Hey, you ever get recognized in the street?"
And I'm like, "Sometimes in the street, but always at the sperm bank!"
Whoops.
Aaaaaa, I don't see him.
I don't know-- I don't know what you're looking at.
Ah.
That? That's a cameraman, he's filming you for a documentary.
About a comedy festival, that started as a joke, one decade ago tomorrow!
[Eugene] Not impressed?
[Chris] Hi, hello Brooklyn, how are you? How is everyone doing?
This is the final ever Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival.
And I think we should be making a lot of noise
for our friend, Eugene Mirman.
My name's Chris Gethard.
I think there's a lot of energy in this room, and I could tell ya, I was backstage,
and it was a murderer's row of people who had had an impact on Brooklyn comedy over the years.
[woman] Alright, show's about to start.
Show's about to start, so I should really-- I should change my outfit.
More noise than that!
[Reggie] I think what makes this festival different from other comedy festivals...
It's a comedy festival for comedians.
And we're comedians.
People that, you know, do their own thing.
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival is one of the last festivals of its kind,
and that's because we haven't-- we haven't made good choices.
I got this velvet painting of Eugene.
This says, um, "I'm gonna kick you so hard in the dick, you're gonna cum fear."
'Cause money's no-- no obstacle for me
when it comes to getting my hands on Eugene's stuff.
Kind of feel weird now when it's all together.
[Eugene] Michelle! Hello.
It's weird because, like, the people that started with this festival, like, they kept
getting more and more famous, but it still seems very down to earth.
[Kumail] I knew that when I would come back here,
I'd like run into people I love, that I don't see that often.
Look, there's John Hodgman, see? I was just talking about you.
People I love that I don't see often.
Eugene's the captain of this goofy ship and it's just really fun to do.
[Bobcat] It's really just a collection of oddballs and wackos.
He's the drain in the sink that catches all the weirdos.
Let's do it! Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Hey, thanks for agreeing to do this interview.
No problem.
You know, what's your comedy like? ls it, like, I mean I saw a little clip of it online
and it was like, oh boy, this guy fuckin'-- wow.
I mean if I had to compare your comedy to a war, I'd pick the beginning of the Vietnam War,
where people were like, "Oh, maybe this makes sense," but then you're like, "No.
No, it doesn't."
[Interviewer] What are the-- what are the, like, three words that come to mind
when you're describing Eugene?
-I mean, is this meant to be a quicker answer to this? -[woman] No, no.
Okay.
I mean, you can't sum up anyone, any person in three words, even an asshole,
and he's not an asshole, I'll say that for him.
You can put that on the record; not an asshole.
[Interviewer] Three words.
Not an asshole! There you go!
It's-- Not an asshole.
♪♪♪
[Mike] Spin the wheel, people! Spin the wheel!
And you can even get a little selfie with Mike Hot-Pence.
Ooh, you remember the pig head.
-Mike Birbiglia has arrived! -[woman] Hey!
[woman] Okay everyone, we're about to start the show.
[Michael] Hello everybody, how are you?
I just want to say, uh, tonight's a very, very special night.
This is the-- the last live performance of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
and so it's a really special night that we could all be here together.
And that's it! Just, uh, enjoy the show!
[crowd cheering]
And-- and now coming to the stage,
your host, Eugene Mirman!
Thank you.
Feels excessive, but very kind of you.
A friend of mine recently told me that when we were in elementary school,
our teacher told her to not be my friend because I was a loser.
That's the '80s for you.
And then to prove it, she showed her my test scores.
I know. What.
I get that you could show a test that proves that someone is bad at math,
but what's the test that proves someone is a loser?
Like, was the question like, "What's your favorite food?" And I was like, "Sour cream."
"Who's your favorite band?" "My rabbi."
Well, that--
that kid is.
First time I met Eugene, he interviewed me.
He said Hampshire College, but that's not the first time we met;
that's the first time I remember meeting him.
The first time we met, he tagged along while I did an interview at a radio station,
but it was pretty uneventful. I don't remember him that time.
I first met him as just this, uh,
This is going back years.
Would be very drunk, and he would come up and just touch your hair
and then not say anything.
Think I first met Eugene when he was in the, um-- like he went through a phase
of slapping people in bars, right?
The first time I saw Eugene perform was at the Luna Lounge, and I'd just moved to New York.
He went on stage and he had some device.
it was something where he could-- was just translating in alien or something,
and then he-- and then he left, and I was like,
"Guess he's the cool, like, one of the cool guys."
[H. Jon] Actually, it was pretty momentous when I met Eugene.
I was working with Loren Bouchard, who now does Bob's Burgers with us.
We had befriended a local Cambridge chef,
who owned kind of a fancy restaurant called Chez Henri.
And Eugene came in, and he just sort of bounded in.
I didn't know him.
He just walked up, then he grabbed my pork chop;
it was on my plate, like half-eaten, and sauce dripping off.
And he-- he just shoved it in his face.
And ate it and then threw it on the ground.
And said, "This is unacceptable food. This preparation is..."
And then he was like, "I am leav-I am leaving.
I'm leaving this establishment." And he stormed out.
And he left and I was like, "Who the fuck was that?" Like, "What happened?"
"I wanna meet that guy."
[crowd cheering and applauding]
Hello, everybody.
-[all] Hi. -How are you?
I first met Eugene at a comedy show called Tinkle,
that was hosted by David Cross, Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin.
The hosts are David, Jon, and Todd, with Jessi Klein,
Al Lubel, and, uh, Fred Armisen and Will Forte.
Over the years, we've just worked together on stuff
ranging from TV pilots to small, weird shows.
Are you aware that you have what appears to be penises jutting out of you?
These aren't penises at all.
These are actually, uh, my sensory organ.
-What's that one? -This one here, uh, measures, uh, the barometer.
it measures different barometers?
Mm-hm, which barometer's heavier than another one.
Interesting.
Then what about, uh, the old, uh, big shoulder dong?
Oh, well this one just tells me that I'm pretty.
Oh, thank you.
Huh.
[Eugene] After a show that Julie and I did at Union Hall, me, her, and Mike BirbigIia
were hanging out and joking around.
We were drinking and Eugene said, "I have this idea.
What if we made a festival that's just making fun of other festivals?"
And Julie and I go, "Yeah! That sounds great."
And then they did it, and they cut me out,
and literally made billions of dollars.
When it began, the joke was sort of like, "I'm just a guy who does comedy
and I'm doing this festival near me." And-- and in fact, we thought it would be a one-off,
and over the years, we kept doing it.
And then at some point, around year 4, 5, or 6, we were like, "I guess we have to do 10."
But what's amazing about the festival is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I never told you this story, Eugene, but a few years ago,
I'm on a tour bus with Chris Gethard.
We're doing shows and it's late at night and we're-
we're complaining about all the people we hate.
And Chris Gethard goes, "Fucking Eugene Mirman, man.
He won't book me on his festival."
I go, "Gethard, the whole thing's made up!
It's not even real!"
[Eugene] We have such a wonderful show for you tonight
and so many of my favorite people have come and I'm just very excited.
Ladies and gentlemen, KumaiI Nanjiani!
Michael Che! John Hodgman!
Caroline Rhea, everybody!
Reggie Watts! Bridget Everett!
Bobcat Goldthwait!
Aparna Nancherla!
John GIaser!
Jim Gaffigan, everybody!
Janeane Garofalo!
There's a type of comic I'd guess that thrives in venues that are not comedy clubs.
There's other comics that thrive more in proper comedy clubs,
especially on a Friday, Saturday night.
And then there's a type of comic, myself included,
who does not do so great on Friday and Saturday.
I don't do so bad Sunday through Thursday at comedy clubs, that's a different vibe,
a different audience, lower ticket price, which changes the air.
I'm not a strong joke writer.
I never have been, and I-- and I will, I say that to all who will listen.
I've never pretended to be.
I just don't have that discipline, and I tend to try and talk about different things.
Not every single time, but when I can.
And, uh, I'm chatty, as you can tell.
And I go tangential.
I'm not a good comic, but I'd be great at a filibuster.
I would.
I would 'cause I will talk and talk and talk.
And, uh, I can filibuster anything, so maybe I'm more of a filibuster
er, rer, than a comic.
I can't tell you how much it irks me this, uh, "ay, oh, ey, fuhgeddaboudit." That.
Affectation of the Italian-American experience.
You know who doesn't say "muzzarelI?" People from Italy.
You'll never hear Giada de Laurentiis or anyone worth their salt from Italy say,
"prosciutto," "muzzarell," "expresso." it drives me insane.
My last name's Garofalo, you know this to be true, it's not a joke.
Clearly I haven't told one joke yet, that's the fact.
My-- my father's name is Carmine Garofalo.
Now he-- he-- his parents came from Italy as-- as babies.
You know, this is value-neutral, I am not trying to build an identity
like the "bada bing" people.
I'm just telling you, and I was born and raised in New Jersey.
Do you hear that I could do the news? I have a non-regional accent.
This is-- this is-- this is, and I never played that card. I can't stand it.
I-- and I don't.
Shh, he's such an angel when he's sleeping. Sshhh, don't wake, sshh.
Actually, you know what, you do what you want.
And, you know, comedy is subjective.
it isn't.
But I say that to appear broad-minded.
I'm not mad at any of you. I'm not mad at any of you.
Ah, honestly, I'm just speaking in strident tones and I have no wish to be aggressive.
ln fact, I prefer to be well-liked.
Validation from people I have not met defines me.
it defines me.
I need it. I need it.
How do I feel about me? I don't know.
How does she feel about me? Sleeping and that's all I will know.
[Melena] When you think about that first festival, it was in 2008.
We're in an era which was, in a way, primed for absurdity, and it was before social media.
it was before real-- really memes.
it was before YouTube took off in the way that we experience it now, so
all of that stuff was like ready to happen, and Eugene made a stage version of it,
and put it on in Brooklyn.
[Eugene] We wanted to celebrate this sort of Brooklyn and New York comedy community
and didn't really want, like, Doritos to sponsor it.
Unless, I guess they gave me so much money.
And so for us, we just wanted the shows to be silly, but they also, we wanted them to be good.
ou know, we had a show called ne of Each, that had different ethnicities and, you know,
genders and sexual orientations on it, but it was all wonderful comics that we loved, you know.
We were making fun of the idea of ghettoizing comics.
These are the titles of shows that actually have happened:
"Comics We Hope Won't Move to LA (Though We Understand There ls Much More Work There)."
"Comics We Think Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Enjoy."
"Comedians You'll See in a Cell Phone Commercial or Cream Cheese Commercial
in Two to Three Years."
"An Evening of Entertainment from People with Black Glasses."
"I'll Be Famous in 5 Years (Or a Copywriter/ Or an Audience Coordinator)."
That was a show that happened.
These shows happened.
And for me, that came from talking to somebody who'd been in a comedy festival,
where I asked him how his shows went, and he was like,
"I was on a show called Good Jewish Boys and I was 4th and it didn't go well,
'cause all my jokes had been done."
[Wyatt] He's always appreciated that platform that he has.
What he was able to do at the festival
was recognize that an audience will show up,
so why not put more people in front of that audience
that they'd never seen before.
Eugene always seems to get great joy in comedy
and seems to be both comedian and comedy fan.
That is, in my opinion, the sign of a really good comedian. A really great comedian.
I'm a big Jew, but-- but I think I was like this weird Jewish experiment, where God was like,
"How 'bout this? What if we make a Jew 6-foot-6, 220 pounds.
Do you think it'll still be fucked up, insecure, neurotic, and fearful?"
I don't know who told men that singing to women is, like, this is what you do.
Like that shit is-- like what are you supposed to do with your face?
That shit is creepy. Don't do that.
I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.
Like I had a body language expert analyze me recently for a friend's project.
And she literally said, "I don't usually like to give negative feedback,
so I'm not sure what to say to you."
And I don't know what to do, you know.
So I just crab-walked out of the room.
No, but seriously, Philadelphia, uh,
great place. lf you ever go there, we got that bell with the crack in it, check it out.
lf you guys love, like, bells that are, like, kinda imperfect or injured,
um,
Philadelphia is your city.
The thing about raisins is the factories don't even want them.
You know how full they stuff those boxes? The raisins are practically opening themselves.
Like, have you ever opened a box of raisins and then like, "This isn't enough raisins?"
Even the tiny boxes are like, "Jesus, is this for a family?"
I'm sorry guys. That's a little segment from my hour on raisins.
I loved stand-up as a kid.
Want some powdered water but I don't know what to add.
I had Bobcat Goldthwait.
Hi! Thank you very much! Thank you very much! it feels great!
Robin Williams. Emo Philips. I just loved him.
I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body.
Then I realized, "Look what's telling me that."
I just thought the jokes were so well-crafted, and you know, also his, like, delivery was
really, like, unique.
Thank you very much!
[Eugene] I just adored it.
I do remember my first joke.
it was...
What profession do you all think has the highest suicide rate?
[man] Dentist.
Some people think it's dentists, but it's actually kamikaze pilots.
That's what they-
They do.
One of my breaks was when I was on Conan.
My next guest, a very funny comedian whose new CD,
The Absurd Nightclub Comedy of Eugene Mirman, is in stores now. Please welcome, Eugene Mirman.
You know, um, how sometimes when people sneeze, you can say, uh, you know, "Gesundheit!"
or "Bless you!" But when people cough, there's nothing that you can really say.
And so I have a thing that I say when people cough. I'll go, uh, "Stop it.
Stop." Like that, very polite.
I remember being like, "Why did you fly me in to do this set?"
And the producer was like, "You know we're looking for-
for comics like you as much as you're looking to be on TV.
" And I always remember being like, "Oh that-- that makes sense."
I'm not just trying to get on TV.
There are people whose job it is to find people to put on TV.
And-- and it was an interesting realization.
Eugene Mirman, everybody! Let's have a break. We'll be right back.
That's why, sort of, when people talk about, like, comedy being competitive or any of that,
I think it's-- that's all, like, sort of nonsense that I think that you come up with a show
and you make your show and you bring in people either you know or don't, to make it.
Thank you very much. Have a good night.
But a lot of it is, you make a thing.
You-- you make the festival. You make a TV show. You write a book.
Someone else isn't beating you to your book.
You know? Somebody else isn't beating you to your stand-up.
[Melena] ln the early 2000s, New York was experiencing kind of a dual comedy boom.
it came out of the '90s and Seinfeld and that was the traditional comedy club
that kind of brick walled two-drink-minimum.
That'll happen in uptown, midtown Manhattan.
What Eugene and his friends were doing was something different.
it was downtown.
And it kind of burst the alternative comedy world that we're all living in now.
I don't think it's good for girls to be told
that they can be anything they want when they grow up,
because it wouldn't occur to them that they couldn't.
You're planting that in their head from your generation, which was a whole other world.
it's like saying, "Hey, uh, when you go take a shower, I'm not gonna read your diary."
Wait, are you gonna read my diary? "What? No!
I just said I'm not gonna read your diary, spazz. Take a shower."
it was kind of D.I.Y.
You know? Like found space and bring comedy there.
The back of a bar, music clubs, anywhere where you can kind of
make your own space and post facto, make your own comedy show.
One, two, one, two, three! Oh, Kristen Schaal is a host! Kristen Schaal is a host!
She can dance like a host. Kristen Schaal is a host!
[Melena] ls it a place like Rififi, which at the rest of the time would host like a-
like a burlesque show.
Or a place like Luna Lounge, where Marc Maron famously started
and had a series where his friends would come up and do bits.
And that became the staple of the downtown comedy scene.
[H. Jon] There were countless others, you know? Like, Tim & Eric. Cross Comedy.
You know, knowing Eugene, that's kind of how he's laid his path.
I feel like he already had that like, sort of, gene to be able to-
sorry, Gene is a-- that's terrible, uh,
to do that.
[Eugene] So that's when we started Invite Them Up.
He and Bobby had this night Invite Them Up, which was really the punching platform
for so many of the people that we see in all forms of amazing media.
He was a huge, if not I would say, the biggest influencer, of all.
He was-- he was a huge influencer.
I moved to New York in 2007 from Chicago and I knew the show called Invite Them Up.
That was like the best, like, alt show in New York.
I want to go, like, to an Amish village with a DVD player,
like, portable one, and show them Star Wars,
and go, "This is happening!"
There was this cool show for these alternative performers
that didn't do traditional stand-up at the traditional stand-up clubs around the city.
His tastes has more to do with the friends that gravitated towards that night.
Sorry, holding for brakes.
Okay, and-
[breaking]
And so I was a big fan of Eugene's and a month and a half after I moved,
Eugene had me on Invite Them Up.
lf it wasn't for you, I would have not made it in New York
and I would have moved back to Chicago.
-[Eugene] No! -That's true! it's true.
You really, really helped me.
My-- my wife and I, Emily, used to like, pay for our meals
and our drinks and you had me open for you.
Okay, you remember like the first time you tasted a grape?
You probably don't remember, but imagine what it'd have been like.
it's, like, squishy and soft.
it's, like, jelly and it's got a skin, but it's not like an animal or a person.
That was like my best credit for years.
it was... I wanna thank you. That was so awesome.
-it really helped. Thank you. -Thank you very, very much.
He just was so dedicated to whatever that was that we were all doing.
Eugene sort of, like, just championed it.
For everyone else, I think it was like a side gig that we were doing while we were trying to
get cast on sitcoms and stuff like that.
For Eugene, it was something that he was pursuing in a much bigger way.
Here's my report card from 9th grade. ln, uh, English, I got a D.
Social Studies, D+.
Nailed it.
I remember Eugene doing things with slides and phone calls.
The idea that-- that-- that you could incorporate elements into your work.
Reading, its own thing, D-. Worse than regular English.
They were like, "You write very badly and you read a little worse than that.
You somehow write a little bit better than you read."
He was one of the early adopters of videos and he was finding different ways
to get into jokes and that was all new to me.
And they were incredibly funny and I couldn't tell you what any of them were about.
[Interviewer] We'll cut to some now.
I know you're gonna-- I know you're gonna cut to one right now
with him making some stupid joke.
[Interviewer] But then you'll watch the movie and remember it.
Oh, I'm never gonna watch this movie.
I haven't been here for long, but the time I spent, I really enjoyed the internet.
What we found was the Brooklyn audiences were really interested in all these different areas
that wasn't just stand-up comedy.
I wondered, how do we know that Mars isn't some sort of crucial cog in a machinery
-of an interplanetary ecology? -Aw, Allen, don't be a Mars hippie.
[Showalter] The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival was like the Super Bowl of all these-
these things that we had been doing and I think Eugene is-
is really trying to see how far this crazy thing can go.
People never believe that I'm single, Eugene, and, um,
I tell them I'm a regionally recognized cabaret singer,
but have I ever made love to a comedy hero? No.
[Eugene] I find that unlikely!
Anyway, my dream-
Don't turn around!
For me, my dream has always been to play Madison Square Garden, but you know what?
-Hm? -That may never happen.
And do you want to know why that doesn't matter?
Sure.
Because I am gonna sit on your face.
♪ Yeah ♪
We would just do a lot of silly things.
When Kristen Schaal was moving to Los Angeles, we got Jon Hamm to dress up as the "Big Apple."
And then we brought out this big cake of my face as the Statue of Liberty,
and it was well done.
I mean, it was-- it didn't taste good, but it was beautiful.
And Jon Hamm said, he was like, "You know, this morning I got nominated for an Emmy.
I was thinking about that as I put on my apple costume."
I think it was my 39th birthday.
At the end of the show Eugene presented me with a Batman cake,
then someone threw that on stage and I've kinda hung onto it.
One, uh, because I wanted to figure out which door it actually works at, but two,
um, it does remind me of that night and that show.
That's the joy of the-- the-- the festival.
You know, a clown giving tax advice.
One year, I think we had a party full of Law & Order extras.
I made probably less money from the festival than I would if I'd-
I'd probably have made half the money if I had just done one show at Bell House myself,
which is fine and it was really fun and it's just doing funny,
silly things and trying to make your friends laugh.
This month's theme actually was actually Glass's idea.
This is The Drunk Show.
-Was it-- was it in the fest that we did The Drunk Show? -Yes. Yes it was.
And I remember being like, "Oh, let's not call The Drunk Show, like... We gotta call it...
Let's think of a way, and then it was like... no, this was The Drunk Show."
We'd like to now just get the show started, bring out our drinkers.
The Drunk Show started out kind of proper.
it was Rachel Maddow and John Hodgman
and they were having like a cocktail hour interview.
A stinger is, um, is just cognac and creme de menthe.
Uh huh.
Which sounds awful but it will change your life.
Well, awful things can change your life.
And then it went off the rail.
You're going to arm wrestle three people.
lf they beat you, you take two shots, alright?
Partly why the drinking game went so poorly is that,
I organized it and I had just started drinking.
Take two shots, 'cause you'll-
And I didn't understand increments, so each penalty
was like, "Take four shots!"
So, very quickly, the performers started to get totally shitfaced.
Kevin, you have the breathalyzer.
0.26.
Needs assistance in walking.
Total mental confusion.
Dysphoria, with nausea and some vomiting.
Stand back!
I feel great!
You were, I think, blacked out within 20 minutes, so I don't know what caused it.
I was nervous being on the show with a bunch of comedians.
And so I better like have a glass of whiskey before I go on,
but like, you know, like, that much whiskey.
-That much. -To be like tipsy though.
-Yeah. -it's enough to be very drunk.
I actually don't remember much from that night.
'Cause Eugene, I am a master storyteller.
You know what I'm saying? Like-- like I had a vision that this should all happen,
but I didn't think that I was gonna be on stage with you drunk!
Do you guys remember when we were arm wrestling?
[Eugene] Yeah!
[Glass] We're just blurring the lines of art and funerals.
This is like the nerd altima.
That was worth everything.
[Glass] The two big growth experiences because of the festival.
One was I blacked-out for the first time and the other was I did stand-up for the first time.
Both things I have not repeated since.
[Sarah] I always loved
this crowd of people because they-- they really were so devoted to one another.
All they wanted to do is support each other and make each other laugh and you know,
I just have such a special place in my heart for Eugene;
he'll always live there.
Like, there's a part of my heart where the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
will always live, you know. He's just that lovable.
Don't tell him that.
Hi, how are you guys? Very good to see you all.
This is, um, this is, I love playing here.
No, I do. I get nervous playing here because it's such a fun crowd
and I don't know if I bummed-- I bummed.
I haven't been doing a lot of stand-up and so, but I gotta do the show.
We got SNL coming up. A lot of people know that I do Weekend Updates,
but some people don't know that I also write sketches
and you don't know that because none of my sketches make it to air.
So I've been writing sketches, like, premises out.
it usually is just shit that makes me, like, I wrote a sketch about the richest black guy
in New York, Dwayne Reade, and-
nobody thought that was funny but me.
There's-- there's no white Dwaynes. That's just not a thing.
So that's what I'll do, like, I'll just, like, write down an idea like that
and you know, try to bring it to other SNL writers and they-
and they come up with creative reasons why they won't write it with me.
Like this just says, "Law & Order UTI." I don't know.
Something.
it's something.
Might not be fleshed out, but something.
Elmer Fudd
calls Daffy Duck the N-word.
Alright, that-
that I get why you wouldn't wanna.
And the weird thing, like, I never know where I am when I write this stuff, so like,
sometimes it could just be, like, the context I just completely forgot.
Like this just says, "There's no Chinese food commercials."
That's just a fact.
Or like, this says, "Uncircumcised dildos." I don't know.
You would think there'd be more of those.
No?
I don't know.
So yeah, they make me talk about the news and-
[Eugene] Michael Che!
[Michael] There're certain things in life that make Eugene very happy,
and one of them is to sort of curate an idea.
He knows what he wants.
He knows what he wants his life to look like.
So I think there's something so pure about it.
This Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, there's something so pure about it as like,
it's really a-- it's really this, like, it's a-- it's-- it's art! it's his-- it's his art.
And there's no one else like that that's interested in that-- that way.
Um, I, uh, so I live on-- I live on Cape Cod now in Massachusetts.
it's nice! And, um, there's a lot of, like, sort of tourist shops
that sell kind of like local art and, like, calendars of, like-
like seaside things and I was like, "I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna make my own Cape Cod seaside calendar and I'm gonna sell it in stores."
And then I was like, "You know what, I'm not gonna tell the stores,
I'm just gonna put it in the stores, to blend in." And so, I did that.
I put a few, I put a price on it and who's gonna-- Like if you just go to the counter
and be like, "it says it's $40." I'm like, "Okay."
So I wanted to share my Cape Cod calendar.
Each painting has a title and then of course, a little wisdom that comes with it,
just like a calendar would, I think.
So here's-- This is, uh-- this is called, uh, "Lighthouse Maintenance Very Expensive
For Town, Also Two Murders Happened Here."
Later, I found it was like a little true.
The quote is about patience, "Never yell at your parents,
but also, try to live at least two hours away from them."
Thank you guys.
You know, people used to always say to me, "Do you think you'll move to L.A.?"
And I was always like, "I think I'd sooner move to Cape Cod." And I did.
I did, in fact, move to Cape Cod.
This calendar it's funny, 'cause it's like, you know, one sense it's all jokes,
but it's also like, I do love the Cape.
So-- so there is-- I think in everything I do, including the festival,
there is a sense of, like, joking, but also a sense of warmth
and sort of love and a sincerity, but also like a silliness.
Um, and I think that sort of permeates a lot of-- a lot of my stuff.
Ollie.
Good night, sweetie.
Give me a kiss.
[Katie] We moved up here to be near family.
Cape Cod was a place that Eugene always wanted to live.
I always wanted a house in Southern Maine. It was sort of a battle for a while.
He won. We got a house in Cape Cod.
Also, a lot of people had left New York. New York was changing.
We felt like we could be on the Cape, where we love, and Eugene would still be able to travel.
I'd be near family.
I met Katie at Invite Them Up, at Rififi, in the East Village.
Don't let this night go to waste.
Get a little pregnant.
[Katie] I think it happened to be their four-year anniversary?
Um, the show was, like, you know, extra special night.
And I started chatting with her and she was from Amherst, which is the town I went to college.
[Katie] Then we went to The Boat, which is a bar in Carroll Gardens.
[Eugene] And I also had-- So I did, I think at the time, I did a bit
that was extreme impressions.
This is President Abraham Lincoln delivering a pizza in a hurricane.
And I put on an Abraham Lincoln mask, and then something, I think it was Darth Vader
enjoying Belle and Sebastian.
Then I had like a Darth Vader outfit and this, like, light saber.
And I was like, "Just let me get all my weird stuff and then we can go have a drink."
And I'm very smitten by Katie, and her friends leave, and then-
[Katie] Immediately, like, within seconds of them leaving the bar, like,
we started making out.
At that moment, they took a picture through the window of our first kiss.
But yeah, we have a picture of our first kiss.
Trying to remember the first time I heard about the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival.
I think it was literally just Eugene coming home.
He was talking about how he wanted to have some fun elements to it.
I think I was excited about the idea of being involved, maybe helping
build whatever weird things they needed for it.
I was at the inaugural Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival and departing from the traditional
comedy festivals, it started with the awards ceremony.
The prizes only arrived midway through the ceremony
'cause his girlfriend was still finishing them at home.
So, you know, shout outs to her.
She was kind of the other MVP of this event.
She was back home crafting all this stuff.
I created this giant cardboard room that had listening stations and caviar in it.
It was a VIP room that I put inside a video of a bouncer.
Maybe like threatening people...
What's up shit face? Okay, how many dicks you got?
Two dicks? Four dicks? How many dicks?
it was really fun. I got to bring to life a lot of his crazy ideas.
[Kristen] Katie is incredibly talented at making things.
it was one of those things, I remember, I was like: who is this Katie?
Thought like holy cow! And then-- and then she started dating Eugene,
and we're like "Wow!" He is a lucky--
S-O-B.
What a crazy year! I mean it's been crazy for many reasons.
For me it's been crazy. ln April, it was discovered my wife had a brain tumor
and I'm not even making this up, it was removed.
She's fine, everything's great.
-[man] Whoo! -Thank you.
Somebody, or-- somebody was like, "So?"
No, my wife had this brain tumor and,
the tumor is gone along with my ability to ever win another argument.
Luckily, my wife is not the type to bring it up.
Well, once she did, she was like, "You know, I did have brain surgery."
And I couldn't be like, "Yeah, that was like a month ago."
it's time to move on.
What about my seasonal allergies?
We all have our cross to bear.
it was crazy, this surgeon told me the tumor was this size of a pear,
which was frightening but also confusing. I was like,
"Did he go to med school or a farmer's market?"
But tumors. they're often compared to fruit.
A pear, a lemon, a grapefruit - interesting fact, worst tumor: grapefruit.
Worst fruit: grapefruit.
Well, if you think about it, a grapefruit looks more like a tumor than a fruit.
it's kind of unfortunate that there's another fruit named grape.
'cause you know, there are people in doctor's office going, "Well, we found a tumor,
it's the size of a grape." "Oh, that's not bad." "I didn't finish..."
"Grapefruit."
"Oh...."
What I learned coming to New York and watching people like Eugene and John
was that comedy wasn't like any sort of a specific thing.
There was no like cadence to it, there were no like types of things you talk about.
You can kind of do anything, you can talk about your day, you can talk about-
you can kind of do anything and as long as it was
interesting or entertaining.
I think it has to be at least entertaining.
it has to be-- it has to be entertaining.
-it has to be funny. -Yes.
-it has to be engaging, then that's comedy, you know? -But it's-- you know, it's-
it's better to make people laugh at a thing that they don't expect to laugh at.
-Right, right, right, right! -And they might not ever-- not ever thought about
than to tell a joke that you know is going to raise a laugh...
-Yeah. -No matter what.
My favorite laughs are when I'm laughing and I couldn't ever articulate
-why I think it's funny. -Yes.
That's alternative comedy.
My favorite laughs are when I'm not laughing at all.
See?
-Got a name? -David.
-David. What do you do, David? -I work in IT.
You work in IT.
-What do you do in IT specifically, David? -Reports.
Reports!
Best of luck with it, David. Alright, name, mate?
-Tim! -Tim.
What do you do, Tim? Get the camera on Tim.
Fuck me.
They are literally like vibe vacuums just sucking all the fucking joy out of the moment.
Get it on Tim.
Get it right on his face.
Don't stand off him, get it right up on his face.
He's got a nerve coming into this room not expecting his soul to be sucked into a vortex.
He won't pass a sign surrendering his rights.
-What do you do, Tim? -I'm a programmer.
Programmer! Eh... oh!
This is what I do. I find links, I build bridges.
What do you report on?
Financials.
Oh, fucking pen-pusher Tim.
-What do you program? -I work on a website that makes websites.
Work on a website that makes websites.
What's it called? Www.
a...a... - oh that's a shame!
Now you-- you won't know about-- this about me because you aren't aware of my--
my phenomenal back catalogue, but I got a speech impediment.
I'm actually had a very funny quip there, but-- that's a shame!
I-- I think a lot of you-- I think that would have won a lot of you around.
I think a lot of you would of have been like-- this feels like let-- let...
Are you still filming Tim?
For fuck's sake, just let the man live his life!
What the fuck are you doing?
You're obsessed with Tim, you fucking loon.
Who's making you do that? Make your own-- make your own decisions.
Exist in model universe!
Stop persecuting Timothy!
Thank you, finally, getting on this cunt!
Fuck me! Jesus Fucking Christ!
What a-- what a-- no offense anyone involved in the organizing event.
What a horrific evening.
You have my permission to use that in the documentary
out of context.
[Michael] I do think that comedy has the power to do more than just make people laugh.
Comedians take life and throw it back at you in a way that you maybe didn't see it.
Or they-- or they pull out of it a inherent absurdity of the situation or the inherent,
you know, irony of a situation or the inherent contradiction of a situation.
And so, I think there's good comedy is cathartic.
it's funny, but there's a deep catharsis there.
We had our son in Maryland, and then we had to drive him to Massachusetts.
So it's like pretty long drive with a four-day-old, and,
we stopped at like a fast food place to get like hot water to like heat a bottle
and I went in and I was like, "Oh could I have a couple hot water?"
And the guy was like, "Uh, we don't-- we don't have hot water."
I was like, "Oh, can I have a cup of tea?" And he's like, sure!
"Okay, don't put the tea bag in it," and he's like, "Okay."
He had no idea what was going on.
He's like, "This guy doesn't know how tea's made."
The reason-- so the reason that my wife and I had to go through a surrogate
is actually 'cause she has cancer and-- and people-- you know,
I don't tell people a lot and often when I do,
it's like, if they're like, "Hey, do you want to come see my play?"
And then I'm like, "I would love to but my wife has cancer."
"What's your play about?" "Oh, it's about food addiction from the point of view of a ghost."
"Still can't go! Would Iove to!"
We're only allowed to do stuff that's necessary or enjoyable.
But at some point, she was like, you know, I found a lump, I'm gonna go to the doctor.
it's like it's very unlikely that it's cancer, but there's just, you know, checking.
And I was working on a project with my friend, Larry Murphy, we're writing a script
called The Whoopsie-Daisy Time Travel Boys.
And I got a call from Katie that she had gotten the news and in fact it was cancer.
And, you know, I
think I was like, you know, we're gonna-
we'll figure out what has to be done to fight it.
'Cause I was so young and they threw the big guns at me, they gave me chemo and radiation.
And, I felt like I was going to be okay
and I wanted to just never have to think about it again.
And we had actually went to begin the surrogacy process
'cause there was a chance that when you get on chemo, you can't have children after.
So, we all of a sudden went from like, well, we don't know if we'll-
You know, 'cause I used to be like," I don't know if I believe in marriage"
As that guy, it's a pretty annoying hindsight.
But we went through the fertility process,
and one of those embryos is now Oliver,
he's a little person that we have because of that process
that started now six, seven, years ago.
Whatever it was that we would get through it,
you know, and we did and, you know, we-- you fight on.
With that said, what I'm working on now is a bit about, you know, cancer.
Let's maybe make it over a pretty ocean.
Eugene has never really talked about his personal life in his comedy ever.
And so, it's almost just helpful for people to know, like it's-- you know,
like I'm comfortable with it now, so like, as much as I can be, so
it's just sort of nice for people to know what I'm going through and to not feel alone
and if it's something that he wants to talk about and explore,
like, that's, you know, that's great!
[man] Alright, so what's going on? Why are we here?
We are here 'cause I'm gonna do practice set for the festival.
I'm gonna try out new material.
A lot of times when you tell somebody, you know, that someone has cancer, they don't-
they are in general like, if you're the person with cancer, you-
you know, people don't know what to say to you.
So one thing I thought I'd do to make it easier is I thought I'd make greeting cards.
Cancer greeting cards.
That people-- that I get mass produced and people could give people with cancer,
you know, to feel good.
So, anyway, here's a-- here's my cancer greeting cards.
We'll see-- we'll see if they're funny together.
it's like one of the more personal things that I'm doing standup about.
Do you want to talk about death? I know people avoid it, but it's probably on your mind!
I mean, I think it's in line with everything I do, like in terms of
a thing will happen to me and then I'll do some sort of bit about it, it's just a thing that
is happening to me is-- is-- and, not to me, to my wife, it's hard.
So.
Hey! We can all get hit by a bus, right? Sorry that is very unhelpful
and conflates the unlikely possibility of a tragedy
with the actual illness you already have.
Okay, a little too sad. That one is a little too sad.
Put it-- put it earlier in the thing where it's like, "Yeah! We're having fun!"
I was-- I was a little worried that people would be like, hey,
wrap it up with the cancer chats.
Let's hear more of like, how like, maybe like a moose would be at a, like,
a dealing with social anxiety.
I'm too tall for this party!
No one likes my paella.
One thing about doing comedy and sort of starting to gain a relationship with your audience
is that you start to trust that your process will include that you will bomb sometimes.
And that in order for you to develop as a comedian
or as a writer or whatever, you have to, like,
workshop your material and that that will inevitably involve not being good.
Sorry about your cancer!
it sounds worse than joining ISIS because you feel misunderstood at home.
No?
You think it would be worse? Alright.
Bunch of tough guys.
it's not fair that Keith Richards is 118 years old. You already knew life's not fair.
Well, it's inherently believed.
Hey! We can all get hit by a bus, right? Sorry, that is very unhelpful and conflates
the unlikely possibility of a tragedy with the actual illness you already have.
See, I told you it was sad.
Well, I thought you guys would be like a little bit, like yeah, you know, cancer down a little.
Like well, maybe-
like more-- like do-- like-- like maybe like what would it be like if a moose
was at a party? Instead, like, more like moose had social anxiety.
And then he was at a party, and he'd be like...
I'm too tall for this party! No one likes my paella.
That's like what a moose with social anxiety would be like.
Anyway, thank you very, very much!
[crowd cheering and applauding]
I mean, I-- you know, he-- he's going though it just as intensely in a different way
as I am and so, you know, and comedy is his-- one of his major outlets.
-What did you think? -Yeah.
it's okay. Yeah.
-They went... -The spirit's there.
it's just a little too cancery.
I know.
I don't really know what will happen with it.
So, we'll see, I guess. Yeah.
You know, despite all of those challenges when you're doing something that's personal,
you keep pushing because you want people to understand you.
You want people to connect with you in a way that's different than a silly raccoon joke.
Yeah, I don't know how to help you.
Oh no, no, no you, I mean, you don't have to solve it.
God, Eugene, I'm already having enough problems.
[Eugene laughs]
Yeah.
Being married to a comedian and having cancer, I think is probably overall helpful.
Like, I think it's helpful to have humor in your life
and to be able to see the good and the bad all at once.
And Eugene really helps me do that.
Like, we help each other do that.
I can't believe this fest was ending.
I'm very-
this is legitimately sad.
I think we're talking at backstage and they were saying that I-
I might be the-- the grand champ.
I think I've done everyone of these, which is crazy to think about.
And you know, it's not about winning.
it's not about being number one.
Feels good though.
But it really did mean a lot to me.
I'm genuinely emotional.
And I'm keeping in check.
And now I'll transition to my cancer story.
it seems to be the theme of the night.
Thought I'd go for it.
My dad, uh,
had brain cancer and I had this-- it was a really horrible thing,
but when I went to see him in the hospital, you know, he's laying in this bed,
I don't even-- this is probably a terrible idea to tell the story.
I think it's funny, but listen, I started it and I'm gonna have to finish it now.
So if it's horrible and it ruins the show, so be it.
So he's laying in this bed, he's got all these wires attached to his head
'cause they had to do 24-hour monitoring to make sure he didn't have any more seizures.
And he's basically sleeping the whole time and I'm just sitting there in the room
just to be with him and I'm just on my, just, laptop 'cause he's asleep.
And one of the attendants, you know, this guy just kept coming in to check my dad,
but there was something just a little weird, like, just the way he kept-
he was being super friendly, which I guess is great if you're the nurse
and you're checking on a patient and, great!
But something just seemed a little weird about this guy.
So this guy's coming maybe five, six, seven times throughout the course of the-
the morning that I was there.
And my dad's here - I'm the guy-- my dad's here, I'm sitting over here
talking to my dad, "You good, David, you need anything? Alright just let me know!
How do I know you?"
And I just felt like I can't be rude 'cause he's taking care of my dad
who's all hooked up to these wires with a tumor that we don't even know what it is yet.
And I just tried to be very polite and I was like, oh,
I played dumb, I'm like, "Oh, I don't know. I don't know."
And my dad, who's got a fucking tumor in his goddamn brain laying there all wired up,
he just goes, "You watch TV?"
Oh!
Now I'm crying for real.
He's-- he's, you know, he was just diagnosed, we didn't even know it was brain cancer.
We didn't know what happened.
And he's so proud it was so funny.
And it was so-- I wasn't even planning on telling the story.
I just heard like all of Jim's stories were so funny. And Eugene's were so terrible.
I just for whatever you thought, I'm gonna tell that story night.
Oh, that's kind.
[Eugene] Yeah.
[Katie] Good job! You want me to turn it around for you?
[Eugene] The truth is when she first got cancer, there was a real process
for fighting it where we genuinely thought that
in all likelihood it would never return.
That she would be one of the many people who have cancer
it goes away and it never comes back.
And then a year and a half or so after, it did come back.
When it returned and it was stage 4, and it had metastasized into my bones and my lungs.
Emotionally that was like there's cancer and then there's like [deeper voice] cancer.
And it's not curable.
it's sort of a death sentence, but you've no idea when you're gonna die.
And so now I'm just, you know, I'm living with a terminal disease.
[Eugene] Typically, people with what she has live
two to five years and she has had this almost for three years.
And so, you know-
you know, it's sort of impossible, but you also,
do what you can day to day.
There was a while ago where I wouldn't dwell to her on the fact that she's going to die.
You know, there's a taboo of sorts.
But for her, I remember her at some point friends were visiting and she was like,
nobody ever wants to talk to me about cancer.
You know, talking about it isn't the thing that's going to kill her.
You know, it's going to be the cancer.
ln the first time, actually, that it was like hurting physically
Katie was right before our wedding.
And she had to get radiation.
And-- and we didn't know how Katie would feel for the wedding itself.
And Katie had been organizing so much for the wedding.
She was like, "This wedding my vision." And I remember at some point
being on the phone and they were like, "We're gonna need trash cans to throw stuff out,"
and I'm like, yeah, just get whatever, and then Katie lying after radiation in the bed,
goes, "Wine barrel trash cans from New England canopy rental."
And it was like all the energy she can muster, but she had either already chosen them
or ordered them, but then like it all worked out.
And that sort of-- I guess that's like one of the things that I love about Katie, she-
you know, she's just like a, I don't know, a tenacious fighter and-
and always,
I guess,
like, gets things done.
[MC] Mr. and Mrs. Katie and Eugene!
I made an album not long ago that was nine volumes.
The first volume was stand-up because I'm not a monster
and then there was like a lot of other stuff.
So there's like sound effects and a variety things
that I kind of wanted to talk about this album.
There's an entire volume where I teach Russian,
and keep in mind, I came here when I was four.
it's not all wrong.
Here's-- here's a just a short of excerpt of me teaching Russian.
You smell like trash!
Your husband smells like trash!
Your whole family smells like trash.
Your band, The Black Crowes, smells like trash.
You honestly never know the situation you'll find yourself in.
We made this album together when like, you know,
Katie, you know, was diagnosed for the second time with cancer and like,
I was like, "I'm gonna make this like really silly thing that's like sort of joyful and dumb"
And you know, so as I toured, like, started doing a live version
where I would kind of talk about the album a little bit
and then I bring people on stage to do an interpretation of the fuckscape,
which is a soundscape to fuck to.
And then at the same time, I'm doing this bit, I'm also doing another bit which is where I,
you know, talk about my wife has cancer and here's, like, what I hope is a funny bit about it.
And then people are like not a funny bit.
And then you're like, oh, eh, sorry, sorry for the-- Yeah.
You know, so yes, there is a stake in it.
Like meaning, like, I am trying to entertain people admittedly with this like earnest
and sad thing, but I also think comedy is
relating and connecting and you hope you do this sort of silly thing and-
and you connect to an audience and it's both emotional and silly and funny.
it's like here's this really weird thing and I think you understand how it's actually
quite sincere and how it actually is quite what life is.
I've never shared personal stories with my audience.
Anyways, hello, my name is Kristen Schaal.
I always keep that guarded and if it's not funny, and you just shared like something really,
like, your darkest wound and it's not funny, it's almost like you made it even deeper.
Like, at one point, 'cause I was having trouble getting pregnant and I had a lot of miscarriages
and things and I sort of, like, one of the next topic, pregnancy,
where it just blew out my fallopian tube
and I was like, "Oh, it was like a murder suicide."
A failed murder suicide 'cause I lived.
'cause I almost died 'cause it was like, I'm diagnosed and I sort of like-
it was very scary to say that because I didn't want the audience.
I guess I do keep the audience a bit at arm's length from my personal life.
Like, I can-- I know that I-- I look funny and I talk funny and it's-- and I'm-- I'm skating on
that a little bit, those fumes, but I, like, letting them inside to what's really painful to me
is hard.
But Eugene is living that every single day.
So if he can find a way to make that funny, that's all got to be healing for him.
As soon as you say a problem out loud anyways, you feel better.
But if you can say it out loud and then add something that-- that shows that it's funny
and that we're all human and this sucks, but look at this side of it,
we never thought about it, then that's kind of--
that's like one tiny blessing in-- in that shit show.
What a shit show.
At least I didn't have to get introduced by Eugene after he did the cancer chunk.
So I was happy about that.
Nothing warms up a crowd more.
So I'm gonna talk about my best friend Robin Williams.
No, no.
No, I'm not.
But he was my best friend.
I will talk about him, I did not plan on this.
He had Lewy body dementia which is misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's.
So he suffered dementia.
lf you have depression, it's a valid thing, it's a real thing and I respect it and-
and I-- I-- but he didn't die from being sad, he died 'cause he's
getting misinformation from his brain.
I only say that because people are like, "Whoa,
you guys were friends for 33 years, did he ever talk to you about suicide?"
I'm like, "We're-- we're comics.
We talked about suicide every day, like, sometimes we'd talk about other shit," like,
"Hey congratulations on the Oscar."
"Oh, thank you, how would you do it?" "I don't know, I think a car.
I think I'll do it in a car."
He fucking hated people doing impressions of him.
But I think, I don't know, I don't do the impression people do.
I knew he was my best friend.
We would-- I knew because I would be bored out of my mind hanging out with him
and I don't think many of you can even imagine that, but
he was always on and we would-- he was the first person shooter game-
Call of Duty, he would play that for hours on end
and I would just be sitting there, and he would be playing
people that are on the internet with him and they don't know, you know, I mean,
and he's like-- I'm like, "How old are these people you are playing against?"
He goes, "Oh, I don't know, 12, 13." You know, I just love the idea there's some kid going,
"I think the genie from Aladdin just called me a cocksucker."
I think that-
I think that it will definitely be missed
and I think that there's a lot of festivals, but this is-
I know it started as a joke, but it's-- it's like a pretty-- it's a pretty good joke.
You know? It's got a-- it's got a lot of heart behind the joke.
♪ The ghost ship Haunts the sea ♪
♪ She'll come back And marry me ♪
♪ The rust is where her Heart should be tonight ♪
♪ Her face is where... ♪
[Eugene] I think in general in life, comedy helps cope, yes.
I don't-- I don't think like-
Well-- I think comedy is about connecting with people.
it's about conveying what you think is funny and having this connection
even if that thing is weird.
And then the more idiosyncratic the thing you have that you can connect with,
in a sense the closer you are, because I think that there's this like probably
profound loneliness in general, in people and then if you're just like, here's an idea
that's super weird and specific, and if you both like it,
I think that there's something, I think, wonderful about that.
I-- so one thing I was thinking 'cause often like it's hard to talk about like, you know,
often it's-- it's-- and it's hard for people to talk to my wife and-
and so I was thinking that what I would do is I would make like cards
that are kind of like icebreakers.
And so I made some, I made some kind of like cancer icebreaker cards
because I hold up things and I say jokes but this one's about cancer.
Yeah, isn't that the guy who holds stuff up and says a thing? Yep! That's the guy.
Alright, here are my ice-- here're my ice-breakery cancer cards.
I can't imagine being too tired to get dressed, that's messed up!
Here's a drawing of an anthropomorphic rhombus to cheer you up!
And then the rhombus is saying, "I hate metastasized breast cancer!"
Terminal illness, more like bus terminal!
Sorry that doesn't make any sense, I just did a couple weight loss
and very, very sad!
And then the last one.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit,
shit, shit!
Fuck!
I love you.
Thank you very, very much!
Thank you guys so much! Thank you to Bell House! Julie Smith, everyone!
To all the performers! Thanks everybody! Bye-bye!
-Oh, that was-- that was great! -[woman] Now you're off.
Oh my god! Oh my god we did it.
it's done.
ln the end the festival was a success in my mind.
[Wyatt] The joke was funny.
Even though it's the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, it's not all about Eugene.
I think just in general, the comedy scene in Brooklyn that has grown to me,
Eugene is one of those people that I would put as a cornerstone in it.
Wherever there is silly, there will be Eugene.
I'm just a normal guy wearing his glasses normal.
To me, the festival is a presentation of the community and I feel like the community
spans beyond a place and a time.
What was once a bunch of half struggling, half successful comedians
who could hop on a cab, can't.
Okay, ready?
[Eugene] The generation of people that we knew who would do the festival
are eighty percent of them are now in LA.
We are in Massachusetts. it all, you know, spreads out,
but you still know each other and you work on things together.
Oh no, no, no, don't eat it! What are you doing?
[Eugene] I have a family and my wife has cancer
and I can't, you know, spend months on an unprofitable, but really enjoyable festival.
So,
does it have to end? Not really, but for me it does.
♪ But I can never Make you stay ♪
[Sarah] I think, you know, 10 years is a good run.
it doesn't matter how long something lasts.
it just-- it just, matters, you know, whether it meant something.
[Katie] Pick it up, okay, hold on to it. Hold on to it.
Good job! Now let's water dada.
-[Eugene] No! -[Ollie] Water dada.
I will try.
Oh you'll try. Okay.
[Katie] Despite cancer, which is a big thing to despite, but like,
I'm actually the happiest I've ever been in life
now.
And, you know, just like,
you know, one day I'm gonna die, and that's-- that's okay.
Like now I'm living more for the life that I have right now.
And not thinking about the future.
You know, it's like when I spend time with Ollie now, I know he's not going to remember me,
probably, like, which is a really weird thing 'cause I spend so much time
thinking about him and so much time caring for him.
Like we're giving him this foundation through the way that we interact with him
and the love that we give him that, like, will never go away
and it's gonna be there and...
[Eugene] There will also be this movie.
I think it's a thing for all of us, for me, but also for Ollie, that like...
I really want him to know about comedy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
lf he doesn't know about the drug show,
he'll be like, there's always been something missing in my life.
And is it-- is it about the time I wear glass,
got blackout drunk, but remained an absolute sweetheart?
I don't care if he doesn't know who I am.
He has got to know I wear glasses.
Yeah, I think it's likely that he will.
I mean, we mostly drive around listening to different NPR shows.
He certainly knows who Terry Gross is.
Yeah.
He loves the Comey interview.
♪♪♪
♪ I'm not afraid of ghosts I'm not afraid of sharks ♪
♪ I'm not afraid of cancer I'm just afraid of snakes ♪
♪ They really creep me out ♪
♪ Where are their arms and legs? It's not okay! ♪
♪ I'm not afraid of ghosts I'm not afraid of sharks ♪
♪ I'm not afraid of cancer ♪
♪ I'm just afraid of snakes They really creep me out ♪
♪ Where are their arms and legs? It's not okay! ♪
♪ Are you afraid of spiders? ♪
No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid of heights? ♪
[Eugene] No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid of ISIS? ♪
[Eugene] No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid of intimacy? ♪
No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid Of Kim Jong-un? ♪
[Eugene] No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid of arthritis? ♪
No! I'm just afraid of snakes.
♪ Are you afraid of snakes? ♪
Oh yes.
No, actually I'm very afraid of snakes.
♪ I'm not afraid of ghosts I'm not afraid of sharks ♪
♪ I'm not afraid of cancer ♪
♪ I'm just afraid of snakes They really creep me out ♪
♪ Where are their arms and legs? It's not okay! ♪
Key change.
♪ It's not okay! ♪
No!
Thank you. Good night!
There will be karaoke out there! Come celebrate.
Thank you!
[crowd cheering and applauding]
[Eugene] We did it! I love that half of you guys are already standing.
So, thank you.
Thank you so much! Thank you.