
Jail was too full, so we’re recording a podcast instead. It's live from Disgraceful with Chris Klemens! Chris sits down to discuss his 10+ year career in comedy - from online to the stage - and why it's so important to enjoy what you're creating. Chris and Grace dive into the magic of weed (Chris’s dream blunt rotation is one for the books), unpack whether the bleach has finally fried his brain, and go head-to-head in a brand new segment, Who’s More Disgraceful? - where deception is the name of the game. Follow the show wherever you're listening, and feel free to leave a review. Have a day, much love!
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Chris Clemens
Coming at you live from a shady Manhattan studio. It's Disgraceful. Featuring your gracious ginger host.
Grace O'Malley
Hey, watch yourself. Only I can say that.
Chris Clemens
Okay, boss. Whatever you say. You pay my bills. Give it up for Grace O'Malley.
Grace O'Malley
Welcome back to Disgraceful Show. I'm here with comedian, YouTuber and house man on the street, Chris Clemens.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. I wasn't expecting that third one.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, right. That was kind of like a. Like a teetering joke that could go either way.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, and I'm just gonna stop talking because I usually end up picking the wrong route.
Grace O'Malley
Yes, I'll be the bad guy, don't you worry. Welcome in.
Chris Clemens
Thanks for having me.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for making the trip from delaw.
Chris Clemens
You're one of my, like, legit favorite people.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God.
Chris Clemens
I've, like, ever met in this, like, Internet, like, I don't know what to call it in showbiz.
Grace O'Malley
Come on now, Barbara. So it's speaking of the la di di, la di da of it all, we've really only hung out at events and this will be our first time, like, actually chilling. I know, but there had to be cameras involved because two narcissists. Really?
Chris Clemens
No, it's like, let's just, like, have this be like the. Not finger play.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, finger play. Foreplay.
Chris Clemens
Foreplay, yes.
Grace O'Malley
Finger play, foreplay. It's all the same. Really.
Chris Clemens
No, I'm like, editor. Cut that one out. That's not ideal. The finger play. Well, no shit.
Grace O'Malley
Now is your time to get into.
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Grace O'Malley
So let's, let's start with our first segment here. So basically what I've been doing is I've been auditioning each guest to be my new co host. And would you like to give yourself a whirl here?
Chris Clemens
Absolutely. I would have prepared something.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, well, don't worry, I've got you covered. That's why we got the cards.
Chris Clemens
That usually leads to great things.
Grace O'Malley
All right, so, Chris, you're known for your man on the street style interviews, so you're very familiar with interviewing. But, but can you share a mic like at once? Like, if you were to be the co host, would you give me time to talk?
Chris Clemens
Well, have I not been. Well, no offense.
Grace O'Malley
Like, so far, so good. Get.
Chris Clemens
It's your gig. But I think I've been doing a pretty good job.
Grace O'Malley
I thought that was a mean question. A mean question for me to ask.
Chris Clemens
Oh, no. I have two brothers. I'm the middle child. It's that I was like, that's hence your company.
Grace O'Malley
And how are you with sharing being a middle child and all?
Chris Clemens
Ooh. Well, if it's food, it's like survival of the fittest. It's like you get that food while you can. You get that box, Kraft Mac and cheese while you can.
Grace O'Malley
You have to.
Chris Clemens
You have to. It's like you. Like, even yesterday, I like, at dinner, I was eating dessert and my friend was like, can I have a bite? And I was like, totally. And she was so busy during dessert that I was, I was like, quickly eating. And I was like, chris, this is psychotic. But I am good at sharing like, other shit.
Grace O'Malley
Okay, good. All right. That was the next question. When you go to a restaurant, do you prefer. Prefer sharing entrees or do you like to get your own?
Chris Clemens
I do prefer sharing entrees because you get more food to try.
Grace O'Malley
Yes, I know. I always, I always try to.
Chris Clemens
If you can't tell. Food has been very strategic for me.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, well, I have a whole thing with food. It's, you know, it's. Some would say a problem.
Chris Clemens
Some, yeah, most of them Being experts.
Grace O'Malley
I found out Ozempic just stops the thoughts. I'm like, oh, well, it sounds real good now, you know. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
I don't care about losing weight. I just would like the brain to shut the fuck up.
Grace O'Malley
I would like to. For them to stop saying hungry. You are hungry. Hungry, hungry.
Chris Clemens
No, literally. That's why I drug myself every night.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Keeps them real quiet.
Grace O'Malley
It does it.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Wow.
Chris Clemens
I don't know if this is the kind of info should be sharing in.
Grace O'Malley
An audition, but, you know, I want you to be authentic. I want you to be honest and. And that's what we're doing here.
Chris Clemens
Fortunately, it's like the only gift I have.
Grace O'Malley
Truly. Same here. My next question is, would you share my secrets?
Chris Clemens
No.
Grace O'Malley
No.
Chris Clemens
Only if you were like, no, I. No.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. That was probably where you should have started.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. No, I'm a very trustworthy, like, I want the same courtesy.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. Yes.
Chris Clemens
But if it's stuff that, like, you tell me and you're like, it's not that big of a deal. And my mom asks, like, how is so and so. It's like, I do share that.
Grace O'Malley
You have to assume that my mother.
Chris Clemens
Knows everything, but not even the stuff. Like, I don't share secrets because she is a talker.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, she is.
Chris Clemens
Love you to death if you're not watching this. But she will talk.
Grace O'Malley
Your mother's not a fan of the show?
Chris Clemens
My mom barely know how to watch, like, my YouTube videos.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Chris Clemens
Oh, yeah. No, she like, loves it low key.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's awesome.
Chris Clemens
She's in it sometimes, but yeah, you.
Grace O'Malley
Keep it in the fame.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. People are like, where's your mom? We miss her. And I'm like, guys, but what about me?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, come on.
Chris Clemens
Keeping this ship afloat for over 12 years, that bitches pops in and out.
Grace O'Malley
She's merely just a supporting lead.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. But no, I would never share your secrets.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. Thank you.
Chris Clemens
That was like a really. Like, that only seemed suspicious.
Grace O'Malley
This first half is all about sharing.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And I got my mind just kind of wandered and I was like, well, trustworthy person. Well, don't trust me too much because now I'm going to ask you to share one of your secrets. Only if you oblige.
Chris Clemens
One of my secrets? See, I'm really bad on the spot with, like, historical events in my life or when people are like, what's your favorite food? And I'm like, what's a food? What's a food? What's a food? What's a food?
Grace O'Malley
My mind goes blank on those questions.
Chris Clemens
That's why I'm like, I need to know questions ahead of time for those, like I need to do like the research on myself. And now that I've stalled, I literally haven't even thought of a secret.
Grace O'Malley
Still, it's quite all right. Don't worry about it. You don't have to share your secrets. That was a test.
Chris Clemens
Okay.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I would.
Chris Clemens
I'm down.
Grace O'Malley
And I think I failed.
Chris Clemens
I did too. We have so much in common, it's crazy.
Grace O'Malley
Next question. You occasionally create fashion review videos, so I thought I'd just ask. What do you think of my outfit today?
Chris Clemens
Well, considering that we're wearing pretty much the same thing, which I don't know if that helps in my audition tape or not, I think you look fucking phenomenal. I want this jacket.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you very much. Oh, and describe for the audio listeners what I have on.
Chris Clemens
She's got this like tan, like a warmy green beige knee length jacket with this gorgeous like denim patchwork edging on it. She's wearing a denim button down shirt, which I don't live for because I love the denim on the jacket more. And then I don't remember your pants.
Grace O'Malley
It's a jeans.
Chris Clemens
Oh, great. Jeans.
Grace O'Malley
It's a jumpsuit.
Chris Clemens
Oh, it's a jumpsuit.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Period.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And then you have got like white like Nikes on or something.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, you're too good. All right, so your memory is good.
Chris Clemens
It's actually not though, which is crazy.
Grace O'Malley
Well, I was gonna say I don't have a great memory, so that would have been great.
Chris Clemens
I think I'd be either the best co host or like the absolute nightmare.
Grace O'Malley
Truly. I think, I think we would either match each other too good or bounce off each other.
Chris Clemens
Well, I'll get a wig. I'll match.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay. And I'll buzz it right off. I'll pull, I'll pull a Brit.
Chris Clemens
Oh, yeah. Oh, well, if you're willing to, that's fine. I already have enough wigs, which is not great.
Grace O'Malley
Next question. If we work together, will we finally hang out in a normal setting when the cameras are cute?
Chris Clemens
That's all I've wanted. It's like literally all I wanted. I was like, please.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so after this we're definitely going to go.
Chris Clemens
That's why I'm like, yeah, I will absolutely drink. Are you kidding?
Grace O'Malley
And what kind of vibe do you bring to a hang?
Chris Clemens
Ooh, what happened that day?
Grace O'Malley
So let's say we are straight up chilling in an apartment. About 5:30pm's a good day.
Chris Clemens
It's been a good day.
Grace O'Malley
The day is good. There's a breeze. We're at about 64 degrees.
Chris Clemens
I meant more so, like, my life extension experience. It's like a positive.
Grace O'Malley
Your day, it's positive.
Chris Clemens
Oh, I bring a good vibe.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
I bring, like, a nice good vibe. And a bad day, there's like, a hot chant. I don't have a poker face to save my life. So when people know I'm upset, it's pretty obvious.
Grace O'Malley
And that's the old saying of wearing your heart on your sleeve.
Chris Clemens
Being an artist is a blessing and a curse.
Grace O'Malley
That was another question I have for you somewhere down the line.
Chris Clemens
But I hate how, like, in sync we are with this. And I've done this, like, six times now.
Grace O'Malley
We're just still on it.
Chris Clemens
Wait, we're like twin flames. Did you ever think that?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I wrote that in my journal.
Chris Clemens
You wrote that in another question.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so the question was, where did you get your positive outlook on life?
Chris Clemens
Is this a real question?
Grace O'Malley
Well.
Chris Clemens
Oh, that is so nice. Thank you. Because I feel like the biggest bitch in the world.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so that was the joke. Oh.
Chris Clemens
I'm so glad that was recorded in 4K times three. Oh, no, no, it's okay. I'm so glad I didn't actually answer it, seriously. Because I was about to.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's my fault. All right. That one went.
Chris Clemens
Lucky I haven't bought my shotgun yet.
Grace O'Malley
I think we need vodka. Okay, this one is a bit of a game. All right. You've had num. Numerous hair colors, patterns, and I got to ask. Has the bleach gotten to your head?
Chris Clemens
A hundred percent. I thought you were gonna ask if I bleach my pubes, and I was like, no, but I have thought about it.
Grace O'Malley
But my garbage mask, That's a secret.
Chris Clemens
I thought about bleaching my pews.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's good. Okay.
Chris Clemens
I just don't know, like, what I would do with bleach on my pubes for 45 minutes.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I think that would start to burn.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. I guess I was thinking more logistically, like, am I just walking around my house butt ass naked?
Grace O'Malley
I have other questions for you to prove if the bleach has gotten to your head. What color is the sky.
Chris Clemens
Blue?
Grace O'Malley
How many states are there?
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. I just had Instagram reel that someone said 55. So confidently, and I was like, oh, my God, it was in Times Square, so that should say everything 50.
Grace O'Malley
Everything 50. I used to think it was 52.
Chris Clemens
Well, because. Territories and shit, right?
Grace O'Malley
Well, no, because I. I Was giving.
Chris Clemens
You an out there babe.
Grace O'Malley
I. Well, yeah. No, this is dumb. This is really stupid. I thought Alaska and Hawaii made it for 11 and 2. That makes it 52. I also just found out last year that Alaska is not an island.
Chris Clemens
Totally. And the matter. That's why we need the Department of Education now more than ever.
Grace O'Malley
More than ever. I'm not gonna question you on these. On these?
Chris Clemens
No, you can. Well, I'll just question you back to see if you know the answers.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I guess this is really just on me.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Like you just thought Alaska was an island.
Grace O'Malley
So this is where we're gonna be good. You know you can bring me back down to earth. You have good general knowledge. Like this. Next question. Bill Nye, the Science guy. Thank you. Nine plus ten equals.
Chris Clemens
Fuck. I always get so on the spot when I'm doing math and it's always so simple. 10 plus 9?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
19.
Grace O'Malley
How many holes are in a straw?
Chris Clemens
That one made me think. One, two.
Grace O'Malley
I don't think there's a right an answer.
Chris Clemens
One or two. How you look at it.
Grace O'Malley
I forgot to put answers.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I'm like kind of waiting to see what my grade's going to be. Teacher. I'm like, so is that right or wrong?
Grace O'Malley
You know, it's free will and it' forever. Whatever you want.
Chris Clemens
You know what? I'll be fine. A straw is two holes and what.
Grace O'Malley
Came first, the chicken or the egg?
Chris Clemens
I feel like if you're gonna like. Like if I were God. Right? Like that's the route taking on that you're.
Grace O'Malley
My God. Oh my God.
Chris Clemens
Oh my Chris. If I were like making shit, I think I'd start like with like from the start. Like I think I'd do an egg. So.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And also it's like the egg could become food, but then I guess the chicken could too. Anyways, I don't know where that even comes into play.
Grace O'Malley
Well, the price of eggs are too damn high. What are you gonna do to stop that?
Chris Clemens
The opposite of whatever's happening right now.
Grace O'Malley
Standing there doing nothing.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, Just kind of like something. Well, first I give my billionaire besties like a tax break.
Grace O'Malley
Who do you have for billionaire besties?
Chris Clemens
Oh, like literally not one.
Grace O'Malley
Oh. Oh, you're talking about.
Chris Clemens
You think I'd be working still? You think I'd be trying to have a career? I'd be like, I'd take a check.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I would do just about anything, you know, to even have a billionaire bestie. Nevermind. Make it myself.
Chris Clemens
No, literally.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Although I feel like it Would be not as fun as you think.
Grace O'Malley
No, it really wouldn't. The grass is always greener. I actually take that all back. I want my own money.
Chris Clemens
I go back and forth on that.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Like, yeah, everyone shits on nipple babies. But, like, I'm straight up jealous. Like, I don't.
Grace O'Malley
I've got a hot take on Nepo babies. If their parents is talented, don't you think they would also have the talent as well?
Chris Clemens
But also, like, if they're growing up around that, wouldn't they want to naturally get into it? And if they had those connections, like, if I had those, I would still make my kid, like, work and, like, maybe go to a class or something.
Grace O'Malley
Yes.
Chris Clemens
But, like, I don't know. I. I get the anger towards it.
Grace O'Malley
I get the anger.
Chris Clemens
Context of everything else is one thing.
Grace O'Malley
If they suck ass, and I can think of a few Nepo babies that.
Chris Clemens
Suck ass, I could too.
Grace O'Malley
But, you know, if the town's there, you know, it is what it is.
Chris Clemens
Like, northwest on the Lion King. I mean, that girl's got a voice.
Grace O'Malley
Does she? I don't watch children online. Moving right along.
Chris Clemens
You making me feel like James Charles right now.
Grace O'Malley
All right, this next segment's called in the Green Room. All right? And we're gonna get to know you. All right, so you make incredible food content, including a controversial Mac and cheese.
Chris Clemens
All right, Someone read the titles of my videos.
Grace O'Malley
Absolutely. Hard work and research over here. Now, you love food, but you also love to complain about food. And I've gotta ask, what's the worst meal you've ever had?
Chris Clemens
It's not the worst meal I've ever had, but it's one that just stands out and was pretty recent. I went to a sushi place down the street from me, and I was on mushrooms.
Grace O'Malley
Now, was this a microdose or a macro?
Chris Clemens
That's a great question, girl. Cause, I mean, I makes everything. Before, I would have said it was a micro. Afterwards, girl, that might have been gargantuan. I was sitting there and I needed a fifth little order. So I was like, what do you like? And the lady's like, I love the fried oyster one. And I was like, fuck, yeah, let's try the fried oyster. Because I like trying things occasionally. You know? Like, I like.
Grace O'Malley
Yes, of course.
Chris Clemens
And I'm like, if it's prepared in a good restaurant, like, obviously has to be edible, and it won't kill me.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's important, bro.
Chris Clemens
Oysters are so fucking disgusting. And so I'm so high on mushrooms and I take a bite and I'm like, getting myself into it because it was fried, so it, like, had some crunch there. And like, I can't do, like, raw oysters to begin with, so I bit into it and I just like, between the mouth feel and like, the look of it jiggling within the temper, I just. Ooh. I'm like, kind of haven't recovered still. We're still working through it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, wow. Were you by yourself?
Chris Clemens
No, I was with a friend.
Grace O'Malley
So were they also freaking out or were they helping you out?
Chris Clemens
No, she told me not to get it.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
No, she was like, why did you do that? And I was like, I truly don't know.
Grace O'Malley
That's probably. Yeah. One of the worst things I would ever pick if I were on mushrooms.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. I think it was too much to look at. It's too much to look at. It's too much story. It's just too much to experience.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
You know?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's fair.
Chris Clemens
It feels like doing like anal with the Kardashians. I'm like, there's a lot moving here.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And I like, earthquake. I'm supposed to get into it, but, like, I just can't. Like what's happening here.
Grace O'Malley
That's totally fair. Yeah. Yeah, that was a. You know, you would. You were willing to be open, you know, open to new ideas.
Chris Clemens
Still hate oysters.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's fair.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, that's fair.
Grace O'Malley
That's the one thing where I'm like, I totally get when people don't like oysters.
Chris Clemens
It's the mouth thing. And like scat. Not scallions. Scallops. Like, those are two.
Grace O'Malley
Like anything else.
Chris Clemens
You don't like mushrooms?
Grace O'Malley
I don't.
Chris Clemens
Ironic either.
Grace O'Malley
But I love the other ones, you know?
Chris Clemens
Exactly.
Grace O'Malley
And I don't think they taste as bad as everybody says they do when it comes to eating the fun ones.
Chris Clemens
But in chocolates or raw?
Grace O'Malley
Raw.
Chris Clemens
That's crazy.
Grace O'Malley
I could do raw.
Chris Clemens
My first experience ever, I did it raw.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. That's always how the goals.
Chris Clemens
Right.
Grace O'Malley
You don't have a voba?
Chris Clemens
No, I just did a Raw.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And it took me a while to get that down. It's just the idea that I'm eating dried out mushrooms, like, freaked me out.
Grace O'Malley
It is a little freaky. And then. Then you're like. Especially when you have it in mushroom form. I like the chocolates because it's dosed.
Chris Clemens
And it's fruity Pebbles flavored.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God, they're so yummy.
Chris Clemens
It is.
Grace O'Malley
You know, this city used to be A. A beautiful place where you could just go to your local bodega and go pick up a thing of shrooms anywhere you looked. It was the best summer I've ever had.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. And now I've got to get them imported.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, now you got to know a guy, and that feels wrong.
Chris Clemens
No, I'm like, what is this? Marijuana in 2014?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. It's so stupid and illegal.
Chris Clemens
Oh, it's illegal.
Grace O'Malley
Mushrooms.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
One time I thought I was a white rabbit on shrooms. I looked at myself in the mirror and I said, I am a white rabbit.
Chris Clemens
Silly rabbit.
Grace O'Malley
I didn't see a rabbit, but I felt it in my being.
Chris Clemens
Did you take it out?
Grace O'Malley
No, I was a rabbit.
Chris Clemens
Oh.
Grace O'Malley
I was the white.
Chris Clemens
Oh, I thought you felt a rabbit inside, and so.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no, that would have been terrible. No, I was. My brain.
Chris Clemens
That was a vibrator joke. It just wasn't landing. But what is landing these days?
Grace O'Malley
Listen, you went to nyu, all right? And we're in the city where your campus was. You know, the city is your campus. All right?
Chris Clemens
You took the words out of NYU's mouth.
Grace O'Malley
What were you, like, in college? And did any of your friends catch the chalamet? Chlamydia.
Chris Clemens
Did he go to nyu?
Grace O'Malley
Of course. And he gave. This is how I find out women. I do know about the media, apparently.
Chris Clemens
I didn't know that that was an NYU thing.
Grace O'Malley
I wonder if he. Well, I thought that was, like, a.
Chris Clemens
High school on the Upper east side kind of thing or, like, in Queens or wherever the he went.
Grace O'Malley
Well, okay, I don't want to talk about children getting chlamydia. So let's move on to the question of what were you like in college?
Chris Clemens
Where I was an adult?
Grace O'Malley
Yes.
Steve Buscemi
I don't know.
Chris Clemens
I think, like, looking back on my life, I think I had, like, such a weird, warped perspective on myself because I was insecure. So, like, I'm like, was I a loser? Or, like, did I just think I was?
Grace O'Malley
Did you have friends?
Chris Clemens
Like, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Okay, so, like, yeah usually means no.
Chris Clemens
No. Like, I did. I had. Like, I wasn't. But see, then I'm like, did I have a lot of friends? And I just.
Grace O'Malley
You don't need a lot of friends.
Chris Clemens
No, no, no, no. But, like, I don't want to be like, I. Because I remember having, like, a small.
Grace O'Malley
Group, which is perfect.
Chris Clemens
Which is my favorite.
Grace O'Malley
What you need.
Chris Clemens
But then I'm like, saying that. I'm like, oh, my God, was I the prom king?
Grace O'Malley
Listen, I don't want to double think anything here.
Chris Clemens
Oh, this isn't you.
Grace O'Malley
Your personality, maybe.
Chris Clemens
Don't you hate that you have to have talent to like. Like, why couldn't I just be an insane person who documents their life and doesn't give a. What people think?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God. You know, it would be. It would be that simple, right? Like, because once you're that person, you're uncancelable. It's perfect.
Chris Clemens
You know, once you show, you give an iota of a. People are like, wait, you kind of have a moral compass. You should do better. And I'm like, yeah, but I don't want to. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Through the Internet, I've learned a lot, you know, And I think it made me a better person, but then it also made me a little too scared all the time. And there are times where we should be joking.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And that is what I've found. I. I prefer joking than showing my wristwatch or my new sunglasses.
Chris Clemens
100%, whatever. Which that is 100%, you know, I do.
Grace O'Malley
And you. Like I said, you've gotten into stand up. Fuck the cards. You've gotten into standup. And so is this. Have you done stand up before? How long have you been doing it?
Chris Clemens
I did stand up a little bit in, like, 2016, 2017. Curtis Connor, he would do shows in New York, and I would open for him when he would come.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, fuck.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. And then the pandemic hit, like, as I was, like, wanting to kind of pivot.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And so I was, like, doing open mics and the pandemic hit. And then after it was over, I started a podcast. And then that sort of made me feel like I could do standup a lot more because I guess just talking for so long was, like, intimidating. But the fact that I was doing it so much. So. Yeah. But I've really intensely been doing it for, like, the last two, three years.
Grace O'Malley
Two, three years.
Chris Clemens
But, like, then I'm like, maybe only one.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No, I mean, I'm kind of like the same.
Chris Clemens
I don't know what time is at this point.
Grace O'Malley
It's a mirage. It's a hoozy.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. I just know I have a folder on my computer where I like, put, like, you know, like, when they film it and shit.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
I like, keep that all logged. And so I have a folder from 2023 and I'm like, was I doing something then?
Grace O'Malley
But say you have a clip from 2023. Do you think that was like an open mic kind of deal or was that.
Chris Clemens
It wouldn't have been an open mic, Mike. I wouldn't have like filmed that. Yeah, I feel like that was maybe like opening for a friend or something.
Grace O'Malley
So you would pick up, like, when friends would ask.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, totally. I would, like, figure it out.
Grace O'Malley
That's kind of what I was doing too. Like, if a friend had a show and they were like, hey, do you still do stand up? And I'm like, yeah, sure. I would just write something new bomb and be like, oh, yeah, hope to.
Chris Clemens
Get booked again 100 intensely about it. Otherwise you'll like, disappear.
Grace O'Malley
That's what I kind of did. I stopped doing it for a little bit because I was like, this is not my thing. But what I forgot or what I didn't know was you, you have to keep working at the same jokes and not write new ones a day. The day of.
Chris Clemens
This feels so validating. I'm not even fucking kidding. I'm not even fucking kidding.
Grace O'Malley
This feels good. This is good.
Chris Clemens
So validating.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Because I look at all of these. Like, oh, I could like dive in. We're in the pool.
Grace O'Malley
Let's do it.
Chris Clemens
Woo. With my T shirt on.
Grace O'Malley
I have a tankini on.
Chris Clemens
I wanted to wear my tankini. Fuck no. But like, I always just like, look at the greats. And I'm like, I feel like behind. I feel slow. And like, even when you're comparing people's chapter ones to your chapter one, it's gonna be different.
Grace O'Malley
You can't compare because different people do different things. And like the way, like, you've already had a successful career in one. Like, like, you have a. Sorry. Have a successful career. And I'm just sitting here and like, dissociating. I'm like, you, you were great.
Chris Clemens
Thank you, girl. I know. People tell me all the time, I'm like, what the fuck? Oh, yeah. They're like, chris, you've fallen off. And I'm like, okay, first of all, fuck you. Second of all, you grow your career for 10 years. Growing every year, literally. I bought a house, moved to Delaware and took two years off to enjoy my life.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you so much.
Chris Clemens
Like, more people should be doing that. I will be working forever if I want to be.
Grace O'Malley
Yes. And you need that time off or else you'll go crazy.
Chris Clemens
But also it's like, if I'm not enjoying any of the shit that I'm crying over and like, busting my ass over, or as Jojo Siwa says, busting a nut over, like, she got big balls. Such a mental image I didn't need. But thank you so much.
Grace O'Malley
Not a steal, really, but I just.
Chris Clemens
Think if you're not enjoying it, then what are you doing all of it for? And so.
Grace O'Malley
And then you're lying to yourself. You're lying to everybody.
Chris Clemens
And I'm not gonna lie. Honestly, like, to this day is, like, embarrassing or cringy when I, like, look at my thing and I'm like, oh, wow, this TikTok got like 6K views. But it's, like, not my. This isn't my time. And that's fine.
Grace O'Malley
Well, that's not true.
Chris Clemens
I don't want to be on and popping all the time.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, well, you get put on a pedestal, they're gonna bring you down.
Chris Clemens
Exactly. And so I'm just, like, trying to enjoy life where it is right now.
Grace O'Malley
And you are crushing. Because you are one little. Because you are crushing. You just had sold out shows in Boston.
Chris Clemens
Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
Right. And where else were you? Sorry.
Chris Clemens
Philly.
Grace O'Malley
Philly. And you said you loved Boston, although, you know, you didn't love it before. Really?
Chris Clemens
Boston and Philly, to me are very, like, historical. They're, like, too SM for me. They're, like, too colonial.
Grace O'Malley
Okay. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
You know, like, I just. That's.
Grace O'Malley
The cobblestone. Fucks you up.
Chris Clemens
Red brick. You can't do it.
Grace O'Malley
No townhouses.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, it just. It feels, like, too, like, important or something. Or it's like in a museum I don't want to be in.
Grace O'Malley
And then you meet the people and they're down to earth, so.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. In Boston. The people in Boston are fucked up. Which explains so much.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No, I. I stand by my people, and we are a good time.
Chris Clemens
I stand by them, too, because, like, what a fun. What a fun group of people.
Grace O'Malley
That's awesome. Oh, my God, it was so fun at your shows. You were doing. You did City Winery, right?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Have you been?
Grace O'Malley
I. I opened for Zachariah Porter.
Chris Clemens
Love.
Grace O'Malley
Love. And I bombed. I bombed really bad. And I was up there and this was the last time. Or I tried for it to be the last time, but I was up there and I was saying, I'm bombing. I'm bombing. And you're not supposed to say that. You're never supposed to acknowledge.
Chris Clemens
Did you.
Grace O'Malley
It was like. Well, like, I don't know what it was. I was, like, super nervous.
Chris Clemens
Did you take anything pre show, like.
Grace O'Malley
No.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, yeah. Raw Dog did.
Grace O'Malley
Raw Dog did. Well, I'm always on Adderall.
Chris Clemens
Oh.
Grace O'Malley
Because.
Chris Clemens
Have you done beta blockers?
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
I say as if it's like.
Grace O'Malley
But this is like one of those Hollywood secret things.
Chris Clemens
No, it's literally the secret Yeah, I have some in my bag I don't go anywhere with.
Grace O'Malley
Really? So what?
Chris Clemens
Anytime you have, like, a fucking. They just slow your heart rate down, which, like, I say that out loud, and I'm like, okay, that does sound insane. But, like, I still get, like, a little nervous, like in Boston and Philly, also in Boston. Philly. I, like, actually prepared, and I was like, whoa.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. The world of a difference, huh?
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. So I see why people enjoy this. It is fun when you know what you're gonna fucking talk about.
Grace O'Malley
But isn't that crazy that those other instances where you. You were trying your best. You're trying new jokes, and you don't. You didn't have a rhythm, and you're like, oh, no, no, I don't think this is.
Chris Clemens
I don't have the right prescription.
Grace O'Malley
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Chris Clemens
Highly recommend. The only problem is you can't really drink on them.
Grace O'Malley
So, like, I won't be doing that.
Chris Clemens
No. But I have, like, one or two drinks on them.
Grace O'Malley
Mama needs her juice.
Chris Clemens
No, I get that.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, oh. In 2024, your standup special.
Chris Clemens
Oh, God. We can gloss right over that one. Speaking of bombing. Oh, my God. In four, fucking K. Me going, oh, my God, I'm forgetting. I forgot everything. I went fucking blank.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, shit. Did you keep it in?
Chris Clemens
No. Me being a fucking doing YouTube videos for so long, I knew I left stage. I was like, do you guys mind if I go off stage really quick? I went upstage and I'm going, fuck, fuck, fuck. The mic is on.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my goodness.
Chris Clemens
And then they start doing the. Chris. Chris. And I was like. And then I got back on stage, and I'm like, okay, guys, we're not gonna fucking do that. Okay. And then I remember where I was. So I picked back up from where I was standing. So you. I can't even notice. But, like, natural. Oh, my God, Kill me.
Grace O'Malley
Wait, Maybe they thought it was part.
Chris Clemens
Of the bit and then that. No, they. They definitely don't, but love the optimism. No, they definitely don't.
Grace O'Malley
Wait, so then, was that your worst bomb, you think?
Chris Clemens
100%. And then, like, that whole standup social. I have, like, imposter syndrome with.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay.
Chris Clemens
Just like. I was like, I want to put something of me doing standup online. And then I'm like, ugh, Chris, that was crazy. Why did we choose that?
Grace O'Malley
But you learn, you know.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I don't regret anything. I just. Just get cringed out by a few things.
Grace O'Malley
Well, that's fair.
Chris Clemens
It's like, you know, and I don't even want to.
Grace O'Malley
Well, we record these videos of us doing stand up. I've never posted any of them.
Chris Clemens
Really?
Grace O'Malley
Really? Yeah. Can you watch yourself back, like, doing stand up? I know you can, like, because you edit your own.
Chris Clemens
I think, like, I've really, like, been through the trenches in terms of, like, nothing will top, bottom, or verse. What? The first few years of YouTube were like, there's really cringy shit on there. So, like, like, everything now is. I mean, yeah, I guess the first couple ones I watched, I was like, yeah. But, like, now I'm like, let's get down to business.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, you gotta get over that hump.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I guess so. I feel kind of good about that.
Grace O'Malley
People always say that you should be so worried about your. Your digital footprint, not you, but just, like, everybody. And I, I. I'm here to say fuck you.
Chris Clemens
I'm like, let's talk about our carbon footprint, girls.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Unless you definitely go on a PJ if invited, right?
Chris Clemens
100%. Yeah. Like, I'm sorry. Like, I got invited to the White House twice last year for war. The first time. The first time is crazy. I was invited to speak to, like, senior administration officials about mental health.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no shit.
Chris Clemens
I know.
Grace O'Malley
It's really cool.
Chris Clemens
Totally forgot my meds that day, which is like, no, no, not even the beta block. Because I was like, can I bring this in? And then I didn't realize that my weed pen was in my bag. So turns out, yeah, you can.
Grace O'Malley
Did they throw that out?
Chris Clemens
No.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no.
Chris Clemens
I vaped in the bathroom.
Grace O'Malley
Weed legal in D.C. yeah, for sure.
Chris Clemens
But I want to live as many opportunities as I can in life.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, 1,000%.
Chris Clemens
So, like, I would go on a PJ once.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, of course. And also, like, you were there to do a mental health thing, and so.
Chris Clemens
You know, the second one was a holiday party that I was invited.
Grace O'Malley
Really tricky parties.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Because they spoke at the thing, like, two months earlier, so they're like, we'd love to have you. The whole staff were like, fans. And I was like, oh, that's raw. Fuck, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
That's really sick.
Chris Clemens
Everyone I went to was like, oh, my God, Gris, we're so excited that you're here. And I was like, why, thank you.
Grace O'Malley
So what's like, a. What's a holiday party at the White House?
Chris Clemens
Like, it was, like, weird and random and short.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Chris Clemens
It was, like, an hour long.
Grace O'Malley
Any performances?
Chris Clemens
No, but Ali and AJ were there on Flavor Flav.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, rock. Flavor Flav. I'll tell you right now. You say his name Three times. He will be here.
Chris Clemens
All right, well, we'll be twice, so we can't say it a third time.
Grace O'Malley
I went to school last year or. Yeah, last year. And I had fun. Oh, I like it.
Chris Clemens
That's amazing.
Grace O'Malley
I like. I like watching the boys tackle. I do. I have fun. And I like every team. I think it's really fun.
Chris Clemens
That's how I feel about, like, basketball and shit. I'm like, I don't care about the teams. It's just fun to watch.
Grace O'Malley
It really is.
Chris Clemens
I hate watching football, though.
Grace O'Malley
I like football, but.
Chris Clemens
And I love that for you, Tito.
Grace O'Malley
To each their own. But I will say. Yeah, don't. Don't quote me on that.
Chris Clemens
No, no, that's great, Tito. I was thinking, like, Tito, like the vodka.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I was. That's what I was saying when I first started saying this, and I was like, like, T, I, T. No. T, E. Yeah, T, E, Tito.
Chris Clemens
Still Tito.
Grace O'Malley
Still Tito. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
You should have just taken it.
Grace O'Malley
I'm taking it. I'm taking title, but. All right. But if I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what I was gonna say, so. That's good.
Chris Clemens
That's amazing.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, that's really good stuff, because I.
Chris Clemens
Didn'T know what to say either.
Grace O'Malley
What's your biggest fear?
Chris Clemens
That'll be immortal.
Grace O'Malley
That you'll be immortal?
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, God.
Chris Clemens
You know, like, I think, like, they were onto something in the 1700s where it's like, we made it to, like, 50.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah.
Chris Clemens
That feels like a nice.
Grace O'Malley
That seems like prime time.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. That, like, someone's already wiped my ass once. I don't need it again.
Grace O'Malley
It's not till death do us part. I still wipe ass. Do us part.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. No, I won't wipe your ass. I'll hire someone to wipe your ass.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah.
Chris Clemens
I won't wipe the.
Grace O'Malley
Wiping up the ass is crazy.
Chris Clemens
No, it's crazy. So many people in my life have babies now, and I'm like, oh, I want to. Like, if you need help, like, if you want to sleep, I'll come over and hang. And then they like. And I'm like, yeah, I guess, like, I will wake you up.
Grace O'Malley
They'll take. They'll take you up on it and you.
Chris Clemens
No, but I haven't done it yet. Okay, but I keep throwing out the offer, and I'm like, chris, shut the fuck up.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No, you don't mean it.
Chris Clemens
No, I don't. I couldn't even look, like, my brother was like, chris, you should, like, watch this happen. And he, like, took off the diaper. And I saw just, like, the diaper lined, and I was like.
Grace O'Malley
My mom one time came home from work where I used to babysit my sisters, and my mom came home from work one time, and I was wearing oven mitts and a literal, like a chip pen love. And I was using tongs to try to change the diaper.
Chris Clemens
That's like a movie innovation.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, it sounds like. Like a Disney Channel.
Chris Clemens
Women in stem right there.
Grace O'Malley
Quite literally.
Chris Clemens
I'm not even lying. That's genius.
Grace O'Malley
I was. I was trying my best because that was. I. I don't have a motherly bone in my body.
Chris Clemens
That's interesting.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Like, I don't know.
Grace O'Malley
I, like, Kids aren't my thing.
Chris Clemens
Oh. I mean, like, Yeah, I guess not being an actual mother, but, like, I feel like you have, like, a motherly. Never. You feel like a mother to me. Like, you look like a Susan.
Grace O'Malley
That's fair. Moving right along. You have mastered a Karen impression.
Chris Clemens
Have I?
Grace O'Malley
I think you have. And if your food is wrong at a restaurant, do you speak up?
Chris Clemens
No.
Grace O'Malley
No, I don't. I wouldn't either.
Chris Clemens
I've worked at a restaurant. I know how fucking brutal it is. I'm just gonna sit there and take it every time. And I know people are like, well, you're paying for it. Yeah, I am. You know what? And I'm technically. Didn't cook it and. And neither did the chef.
Grace O'Malley
No. Seem to care.
Chris Clemens
But you know what? I end up still tipping, like, 50%.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. That's the thing. It's the service could. They could slap me in the face, and I'm still going at least 30%.
Chris Clemens
They could literally kick me in the dick.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And I would be like, here, in fact, is my entire banking information.
Grace O'Malley
Like, oh, can I get your social. Just wire it all to you.
Chris Clemens
No, literally.
Grace O'Malley
Listen, I wish I could read better.
Chris Clemens
Literally. On my old show, I had to stop doing reading because I, like, literally, it was like, became a thing where it's like, maybe Chris shouldn't be reading. Like, we're comments. And I was like, no, you kind of ate that one up.
Grace O'Malley
No, that's fair.
Chris Clemens
Like, same.
Grace O'Malley
You know, a lot of the times I just want to say the cards. So I'm going to say the cards. All right. We're at the cards. Moment in time. All right. Hands up to God. All right. Don't believe. But it's all right.
Chris Clemens
We're always up there.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Always in my heart. I have a little bit of a game here, and I forgot to come up with the celebrities that I wanted to choose, so I'm just gonna wing it. All right.
Chris Clemens
What could go wrong?
Grace O'Malley
So this game is called quote me on that. And here I'm gonna tell you a celebrity and then you tell me what you think their senior quote was.
Chris Clemens
Okay.
Grace O'Malley
All right, John Mulaney, you're doing stand up. You shouldn't have.
Chris Clemens
Who that is? Was he on the office? No, he just stand up. He just stand up. Yeah, totally.
Grace O'Malley
It's okay.
Chris Clemens
I love asmr.
Grace O'Malley
I hope no one can hear that. You know, games aren't great. Listen, it's a new show. Thanks for bearing with me.
Chris Clemens
I. No, thanks for being with me. I feel like the worst guest ever.
Grace O'Malley
No, you're best guest.
Chris Clemens
You hear that, Whitney Cummings?
Grace O'Malley
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Chris Clemens
Don't do that to me.
Grace O'Malley
Don't do that to me.
Chris Clemens
I'm coming for the co host position.
Grace O'Malley
One of the best guess we've ever had.
Chris Clemens
What floor are we on? How far of a fall?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you just break your ankle, hon, do you ever get high and write your jokes?
Chris Clemens
I like, have to.
Grace O'Malley
You have to?
Chris Clemens
That's like, I don't have to. I prefer to.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, okay.
Chris Clemens
I just. I feel like it takes a lot of the overthinking out.
Grace O'Malley
You ever look at a joke you wrote when you were high? Absolutely. And say, what the hell does that mean?
Chris Clemens
Most times, yeah. In fact, most times.
Grace O'Malley
Do you have any examples on your phone?
Chris Clemens
I do, absolutely.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, rock on. This is going to be good stuff.
Chris Clemens
When I roll in my grave. I hope it's on Molly.
Grace O'Malley
Ooh, yes. I like this.
Chris Clemens
Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
There's something good there.
Chris Clemens
Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
Or I just love Molly. Or did they told me to say.
Chris Clemens
It stopped and now I'm like, wow. All I had to do was mention drugs and we got the party going.
Grace O'Malley
We're back.
Chris Clemens
When people say they like movie more than book, it's like, no shit, it's not reading, it's an audiobook. But like with pictures. I want whatever that gummy was right now. That's the kind of lobotomy I'm looking for.
Grace O'Malley
There's a fine line between I'm vibing and I need to call my mom. When you're high and what's the highest you've ever been? And how did you get there?
Chris Clemens
Oh, it was on a flight home from when I used to live in la. I. This is also on the Internet. Jesus Christ. I brought a 500 milligram brownie through TSA. Like in an open bag. Not even Hidden. Not even just in the wrapper in a bag. I get to my gate and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna eat it. I ate the entire fucking brownie. Not thinking, like. Because this was, like, still pretty early on when I moved to la. So, like, I was just smoking eighths that I would buy from my dealer in New York. So, like, I wasn't. I didn't know anything about, like, amounts. Like, measurements. Yeah, I still don't.
Grace O'Malley
I have no idea.
Chris Clemens
But I ate 500 milligrams and I just remember that one left. That one left a crater on the cheese.
Grace O'Malley
Ooh.
Chris Clemens
You know that one? We went to the one, did a number. I laughed and I was still high. And I get my mom's car, and I'm like, it's like seven. It was a red eye too, because I was like, I need to see it.
Grace O'Malley
I bet you did.
Chris Clemens
The eyes were red as hell. Yeah. I just remember being in my mom's front seat. It's like seven in the morning. It's on camera because I know that some GIF company was like, we'd love to turn you into Joseph back in the day. And I was like, sure. And it's. One of it is I have to, like, fart so bad, I could, like, go through the roof or something. And I'm like, that's. That's so cool. And I'm just high as hell in it. Yeah. See, I've given up on the digital footprint. It's just pretty deep. It's dark.
Grace O'Malley
The whole GIF of it all.
Chris Clemens
No, it's so tricky.
Grace O'Malley
It doesn't make any sense.
Chris Clemens
Girl, nothing makes sense.
Grace O'Malley
So they needed you to record yourself?
Chris Clemens
No, they just were like, we would love to go through your videos and make gifs. And I was like, go for it.
Grace O'Malley
I'm like, so that makes more sense. I thought. What I thought was you were making videos to make them happy.
Chris Clemens
If I get to a point where I am making content for GIFs gifts, that's when you can say that I've fallen off.
Grace O'Malley
Nobody's saying that. All right?
Chris Clemens
They are. I'm not, like, trying to, like. I'm not, like, feel bad for. I'm just, like, it's factually happening.
Grace O'Malley
Well, let's kill them.
Chris Clemens
Don't tell me with a good time.
Grace O'Malley
Kill them with kindness.
Chris Clemens
I'm buying a gun this year.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Chocolate brown. And why?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, no reason.
Chris Clemens
Oh, totally.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Wait, maybe I won't. I'm like, I gotta delete some content from the Internet real quick. Oh, Wait, they don't do background?
Grace O'Malley
No, this is America. Who is your dream Blunt Rotation?
Chris Clemens
Well, Seth Rogen. I would love for him to be in there. Weirdly enough, Kris Jenner I think would be. I think she would just lose her mind. And like, that seems like I kind of want to just sit there and like, the show is happening.
Grace O'Malley
Observe. And like, once she's like.
Chris Clemens
I could see her doing like, cartwheels.
Grace O'Malley
She's doing cartwheels. She's laughing. We've seen it on the show where she took one hit once and she was just. She couldn't stop laughing.
Chris Clemens
I remember back in the day, she did it with her grandma when Caitlyn was still living with her. And Caitlin's obviously a Republican and she was like, I don't want these drugs in my house. And she is just high as hell. They're just laughing.
Grace O'Malley
She's doing the richest of rich laughs.
Chris Clemens
Like, like, the grandma's so high. And the grandma has like the funniest one liner comeback. And it's just like she's a high out of her mind. And I'm like, I kind of. Maybe I want to get out with the grandma. Yeah, she seems funny.
Grace O'Malley
Here's the thing. Music hits differently when you're hitting a Benjamin. All right, What's a song that has sent you into another dimension? Well, stoned. I don't know why I keep saying stoned.
Chris Clemens
I don't. I don't think I have one.
Grace O'Malley
No song.
Chris Clemens
No, I get like, I get like into playlists. Like, I'll like, get really high and think I'm like the world's greatest music curator.
Grace O'Malley
How do you do your playlist there?
Chris Clemens
It's like by vibes, which sounds awful to say.
Grace O'Malley
No, that's so honest, though. I think a lot of people do it by vibes.
Chris Clemens
Like, my playlists are called, like, there's one called Highness. There's one called Indica.
Grace O'Malley
That one is.
Chris Clemens
There's one called Nicki Minaj smash my pussy.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah.
Chris Clemens
So it's just like the ones that are like her big, like, pussy pop songs. Oh, that's the breakup one. Rainy day, night drives. Day drive. Wake up. Sound bath.
Grace O'Malley
Sound bath.
Chris Clemens
Sometimes I just drive in the car with a sound bath playing.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you're crazy.
Chris Clemens
I'm insane.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. No gun. Okay, that's. That's it. Okay, well, driving around Walmart. Stop watching on the way to get a gun.
Chris Clemens
No, I hear that.
Grace O'Malley
I hear that for sure. That's crazy.
Chris Clemens
That's.
Grace O'Malley
See, that's.
Chris Clemens
It's so peaceful. Or like classical music. I get the classical music thing now. At the age of 31.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
There's, like, no opinion to have. It's like. Like having stock art on your wall.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. It's like, you know, it's like.
Chris Clemens
It's there, and I don't have an opinion.
Grace O'Malley
What's your, like. What kind of music will you listen to if you do when you're getting ready for a show?
Chris Clemens
I don't listen to music when I get ready for a show.
Grace O'Malley
No.
Chris Clemens
I'm, like, going over all of my shit like a bitch with an Adderall prescription whose bottle's empty.
Grace O'Malley
That's fair. That's fair. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And, like, reading over everything. I'm like, you stupid bitch. You stupid bitch. Why do we like this? Why do I fucking like this? And then I got on stage and I'm like, this was everything. Every time.
Grace O'Malley
The webs and the flows, baby. It's good stuff. We put ourselves through the webs.
Chris Clemens
It's ebbs.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, I've been saying that for, like, two weeks. You know when you get stuck on a phrase?
Chris Clemens
No. That's why I'm like. I would love to be the person to tell you because.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you. Nobody stopped me.
Chris Clemens
No. I do it on stage and people are like, it's this. And I'm like, you. We have an intruder in the crowd. Please remove them. Security.
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Chris Clemens
Usa.
Grace O'Malley
What'S your, like, worst heckle story?
Chris Clemens
I did a tour over the summer, and I was in Philadelphia, and there was this drunk woman. I would say, like, mom age, because she was my mom and my mom was the heckler.
Grace O'Malley
You know what?
Chris Clemens
And then. No. And then Mom. I don't. I literally. This is so funny to me. Like, my mom is, like, one of my favorite people on earth, if not my favorite. I get back to my green room after the show. She is passed out in a chair. I have a picture. I'm not gonna give you that, Mom. I'm not gonna do you dirty like that.
Grace O'Malley
Come on.
Chris Clemens
It's tempting. Trust and believe. But then we went to dinner, and I had to walk her to dinner. She's asleep on a wall at dinner the next morning. I think I was drugged. I go, mom, you need to be for real right now. Okay. You got to my green room before the show. I gave you a full glass of wine because I was like, I can't drink it. Do you want it? And then she got a Long island ice. No, she got two. She got two beers. Not beers, like, the double ones.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah, of course.
Chris Clemens
It's like, four.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And then she got a Long island iced tea.
Grace O'Malley
That'll do with a floater.
Chris Clemens
I go, mom, yeah, you got drugged. By you, gal.
Grace O'Malley
You did the floating.
Chris Clemens
So that is, like, one of my. So when I went to Philly last week, my mom was like, I'd love to go out. And I was like, no, you're not going. Like, I was joking. Like, she can come, obviously, if she wants, but, like, it's so funny giving her a hard time about it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God.
Chris Clemens
It is, like, one of my favorite stories. Like, she's like, all right. Like, this story feels, like, summed up, and, like, I can, like, hear.
Grace O'Malley
That's what she said.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Like, hear her. No, not, like, loudly, but, like, I can hear talking. And she's, like, obviously enjoying herself. So, like, she's not whispering.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And so she's like, okay. Like, we got it. And I'm like, oh, God.
Grace O'Malley
I will say, like, one of the only clips I've posted from my standup is my mom heckling me. Is my. My mother also heckled me?
Chris Clemens
The shit we have in common is honestly alarming. I, like, you give me, like, me in a woman's body.
Grace O'Malley
I love that. That's a huge compliment. Thank you very much.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. I was just about to say. And, like, I mean that truly in the best way.
Grace O'Malley
Like, yeah, thank you.
Chris Clemens
I feel very seen and, like, understood.
Grace O'Malley
We're just, you know, we're one of the same.
Chris Clemens
The writing stand up night before, same day will like, literally get me through some days like that.
Grace O'Malley
And that's how I was doing things.
Chris Clemens
Did you, like, do, like, college assignments and, like, high school assignments, like, the night before they were due? The day before they were. The day they were done. Yeah. See, I think that's, like, what I. All I learned from college was, like, how to. And it's like, I can create great shit in a matter of two hours when I really had, like, two months.
Grace O'Malley
And then what I've learned is going Back and working on stuff makes it even better. And that is what I'm learning.
Chris Clemens
That realization, it's crazy.
Grace O'Malley
That was crazy because, like, I would get, like, a B in college for, like, writing it right before. Oh, no drafts.
Chris Clemens
I would get a C. And I was stoked.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, like, it was. It was good stuff.
Chris Clemens
C stands for celebrate.
Grace O'Malley
Let's celebrate, baby. I graduated high school with a 1.59. So anything I did in college, I.
Chris Clemens
Don'T even know out of four. Oh.
Grace O'Malley
Which is like, I shouldn't have graduated. Oh, yeah.
Chris Clemens
Well, look at YouTube beating the odds.
Grace O'Malley
I dropped out of college with a 4.0. I don't want to brag or nothing.
Chris Clemens
But wait, that's major. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
No, it was really huge for my family, but I was the first one to ever go to college.
Chris Clemens
Well, you're the first to ever drop out.
Grace O'Malley
I was. No. I guess my parents. My parents also went to college. I was going to be the first one to graduate, but I handed off the torch to my little sister.
Chris Clemens
It's really kind of you.
Grace O'Malley
I know. So she got to be the first one. First gen. Did she do it? She did it.
Chris Clemens
Good for her.
Grace O'Malley
She did it. I know. We're all really proud.
Chris Clemens
Wow. Oh, wait, she just graduated, right?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Oh, yeah. I remember seeing that.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I'm really proud of her.
Chris Clemens
Like a random flash of, like, your Instagram. I'm like, oh, I do remember that.
Grace O'Malley
Calculating. Yes, of course. No. But my mom, she heckled me in the funniest way. And she was. She was barred from my shows for a little bit, but she. I was telling this story about the way I'm built, like, my, like my physique. And I. I was talking about it and my mom yells out, yeah, it's a bad trait on your father's side. I'm like, all right, Okie dokie. And then we had a lot of back and forth, and at one point, I told my mother to shut the.
Chris Clemens
Shut the up. Yeah. No, absolutely.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, God, it killed me. I've never talked to my mother like that, ever. Shut the up. To my mother on stage in front of people. That was.
Chris Clemens
No, I mean, yeah, that's fair, but, like, do you talk like that, like, in your day to day life with her?
Grace O'Malley
I don't tell her to shut the up. I mean, that was a crazy one. That was. That was. But I will cuss.
Chris Clemens
Okay. Like, yeah, I guess I won't seriously be like, mom, shut the.
Grace O'Malley
Like, shut the up. I'm like, oh, shut the up.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I would say like, yeah, but.
Grace O'Malley
Like, I was like, mom, shut the up. And it killed me. It killed her. It was brutal.
Chris Clemens
And then the worst part is everyone else is laughing.
Grace O'Malley
Oh my God.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, they can't get enough of it. And you're like, guys, there's a real rift in our family now, and it's not funny.
Grace O'Malley
I felt terrible. And then.
Chris Clemens
Does your mom enjoy being like, a private person? I mean, based off that story.
Grace O'Malley
No, no, no, no. She, she loves it all.
Chris Clemens
She thinks, like, does she like, keeping like, her personal information private?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I'd say so.
Chris Clemens
Like, she loves being a part of, like, the joke and stuff, but, like, she doesn't, like, like, put too much out there. It's fine if she does.
Grace O'Malley
I don't know. I can't really. I, I, she is like a private person. Like, she doesn't like to go out and like, go to parties unless, like, she's here or something kind of thing. Does your mom like to keep things private?
Chris Clemens
Yeah, she, like, very much has like, a normal job and like.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, yeah. I try and respect it because, like, I chose to do all of this and like, be an open book. Do you find writing standup about your family is hard because, like, they won't, they'll take it seriously when, like, to you, it's just a joke?
Grace O'Malley
Yes, 100%.
Chris Clemens
It's like my, I trying to figure out how to do this, but, like.
Grace O'Malley
There'S so much good stuff. But I want to do it the right way. So it's taken me a really long time to try to write stuff about it.
Chris Clemens
I want to talk about things that have happened in my family, but like, my, my family doesn't want to talk about them. And so I'm like, oh my God. Me talking about it puts like, it.
Grace O'Malley
Is a slippery slope.
Chris Clemens
It's just like, for, haha, nothing matters. And it's like I've come to that realization.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. And nobody in the audience thinks twice of it, but this is their life as well, so. And they didn't, they didn't want to share all these induendos about themselves. But guys, why.
Chris Clemens
We could have a funny reality show.
Grace O'Malley
That's what I'm saying.
Chris Clemens
We could be getting paid to do nothing. Guys, come on, get on board.
Grace O'Malley
Seriously. I sucks. I try to. I've been trying to go home and like, make videos with my, with my family when I'm home.
Chris Clemens
Oh, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
And that's always fun. But you know, when it comes to the standup jokes, they're not, they're not interested.
Chris Clemens
No. That's why I just prefer they don't come, because I'm like, if you don't know what's happening. Perfect. And if I end up filming it and putting it out, I will ask for forgiveness. Well, I'll tell you about it, and then I'm just gonna say it's gonna go in, and then we'll work through that one.
Grace O'Malley
Well, so how did. How did your mom feel about when you first started making videos?
Chris Clemens
I didn't tell people.
Grace O'Malley
You didn't tell anyone?
Chris Clemens
No, because it was, like, the word YouTuber wasn't a word.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Yeah, that's true.
Chris Clemens
I wanted to start, like, when I was in middle school, but I was like, I will get bullied. And, like, I can't take that right now.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
So I started when I was my freshman year in college, and I didn't tell anybody except, like, my. A few of my friends.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Would you ever edit a video and be like, I really want you to see this, and, like, show it to them?
Chris Clemens
No, no, no. In the beginning or. No, no, no. There's times now where I'm like, oh, mom, did you see, like, this video, like, where I just cleaned up my childhood bedroom? So, like, that, like, ones that, like, I know that my mom would like. I'm like, oh, you should watch that one or something. But no, I don't even do that. No, I just did that for the first time, like, two days ago.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, really?
Chris Clemens
Yeah, the cleaning out my childhood bedroom one. I'm like, you should watch that.
Grace O'Malley
That's sweet.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, that's really nice.
Grace O'Malley
Did you find anything, like, silly while you. While you were doing that?
Chris Clemens
Really not. Well, I, like, I'm a hoarder.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
Like, I found a frozen yogurt cup from, like, 2009 or something.
Grace O'Malley
That's not good. Was it at least.
Chris Clemens
No, I cleaned it out. Like, I made sure to preserve it when I. Like, I knew I was keeping it, and I knew that, like, dairy was in it.
Grace O'Malley
What was the sentimental value? Was it the Dylan and Cole Sprouse sweep a thon?
Chris Clemens
No. What is that?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, they. They apparently had a big contest to see who could. Could eat the most. Daniel Danimals or. Or somebody. Somebody was going to win a cruise with them at one point. No one knows who won it.
Chris Clemens
I would prefer a different prize, honestly.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, right.
Chris Clemens
I wouldn't even eat animals for something better.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know. The Jonas Brothers, maybe, perhaps. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
But if we can replace Kevin with the youngest one, and I'm on board the bonus Jonas. Yeah, the bonus Jonas, he rocks. I love Joe. He's like so funny.
Grace O'Malley
He seems like a sweetheart.
Chris Clemens
He's is great.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Love him.
Grace O'Malley
He's a good guy. I saw recently there was a. I don't know what the debacle of it all was. There was this coffee shop owner that was threatened.
Chris Clemens
Buddy's Coffee in Williamsburg.
Grace O'Malley
Is that what that is?
Chris Clemens
Oh my God. I just went there.
Grace O'Malley
You did?
Chris Clemens
Okay, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
So what's the whole stuff to do?
Chris Clemens
There was this woman who was like crying in her car and she was talking about like how she owns a coffee company with her partner and they raised the rent. It was just like I could so see like the pain. Like I recognized it so deeply of like having to just be in charge of your own business. And like, it's like that breaking point. I just so saw that and like, oh my God, it crushed me. But basically the landlord was raising the rent to where they wouldn't be able to sustain. And then they were putting in a coffee shop next door.
Grace O'Malley
Oh yeah, that's what that was. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
And so she was just having like a breakdown, I guess some people were saying that like I keep saying, like, it drives me insane.
Grace O'Malley
It's okay.
Chris Clemens
No, it's so annoying.
Grace O'Malley
It's like fun.
Chris Clemens
So annoying.
Grace O'Malley
I say I do both. My um, is the like kills me.
Chris Clemens
That's how I feel with like, I'm like, shut. Anyways, that's our time. They're giving me the lights.
Grace O'Malley
It's fine.
Chris Clemens
No, but she was just venting and so everybody. I guess it became a thing cuz there was a huge line when I went.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I. I know. Everyone like really rallied around her.
Chris Clemens
It was super close to my apartment. So I was woke up, saw that Tik tok.
Grace O'Malley
Oh sure.
Chris Clemens
I was like, wait, I need coffee. And so I literally was like, I'll vlog this on Tik Tok. And oh my God, the coquito latte. I think about it every day.
Grace O'Malley
I'm gonna have to head over there.
Chris Clemens
I need like, the line isn't as long because I'm like, I can't wait an hour for coffee every day. Maybe it's great for them though. Yeah, I really like stoked to see. I don't know. The bar is so low for joy.
Grace O'Malley
I know, right? And just any scenario where everyone can come together. It's a really nice thing.
Chris Clemens
I just think, you know, that's restoring any faith 100%.
Grace O'Malley
Oh God. This world's. This world sure is something. Wanna play a game?
Chris Clemens
Sure.
Grace O'Malley
All right. So this is.
Chris Clemens
I Hope it's.
Grace O'Malley
So here we have a bold. Inside the bowl is a bunch of scenarios, right? And you pull from one of these cards, and then you try to come up. Either come up with a fake story, an elaborated story, or a true story. And I have to guess if it's fake, elaborated, or true.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. This is like my traitor's audition tape. I'm so fucking excited. Yeah, that's right. My God. Normally I'd be like, I prefer different bowls, but this one I'm down for girl. Is there any reason for the color? It's just, like, fun colors.
Grace O'Malley
I have fun colors.
Chris Clemens
Okay. Most ridiculous thing I've ever done for a dare. One summer, I was young, but, like, still old enough to know better, and someone offered me $50 if I laid in the road and had a car, like, vertically. So a car, like, basically, would you lay under a moving car?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, wow.
Chris Clemens
Like, it was our friend's car, my friend's brother's car.
Grace O'Malley
She know this person?
Chris Clemens
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't like, just lay out in the road and pray like a sardine. Yeah. The brother was like, I. And so I was like, 50 bucks. Oh, my God. Yeah, I'll absolutely do that. So that's what I did.
Grace O'Malley
I am gonna say that's an elaborated story. You did it for free.
Chris Clemens
No, that's. I just made that whole thing up.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, wow. That's good.
Chris Clemens
You got me good. Oh, my God.
Grace O'Malley
Thank you. Oh, summer got me.
Chris Clemens
I know.
Grace O'Malley
That was good. Are you. You're an actor?
Chris Clemens
No, but. Oh, my God, you're an actor. Book me somewhat. Oh, you play now?
Grace O'Malley
I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play.
Chris Clemens
Oh, I thought this was just me on the offense. Damn.
Grace O'Malley
Worst thing I've ever done in someone else's house.
Chris Clemens
I hate this game now. I'm so competitive.
Grace O'Malley
So I was babysitting three towns over, and while the mom was gone, they had, like, one of these closets, like, open, like. Like, one of those, like, walk in closets.
Chris Clemens
Okay.
Grace O'Malley
And I tried on all of her lingerie. Okay.
Chris Clemens
The mothers, I'm gonna say that's elaborated. And you tried on, like, her high heels or something.
Grace O'Malley
I would never go in someone's closet.
Chris Clemens
Really?
Grace O'Malley
No.
Chris Clemens
I almost said it was a totally fabricated story. And then I was like, no, I could see you, like, doing dress up or something.
Grace O'Malley
Trying to, like, make a video.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, like, trying to, like, be funny. Like, I would do the same. That's why I'm like, I should have gone with my gut. This is why I hated Multiple choice questions in school. Because I'm like, like, what's the most disgraceful thing you've done that you can't even believe? It probably won't be the most. Because, like, I will sit here all day, guys, if I try and think that hard.
Grace O'Malley
That's true.
Chris Clemens
One of the most disgraceful things I've done that I can't even believe. There was a kid in middle school who would pick his nose and eat it, and I slipped a note into his locker and said, stop picking your fucking nose. But didn't sign it. So then he was like low key, making people write things down and then match the thing and found out it was my handwriting.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's so true. That's so true.
Chris Clemens
No, made up.
Grace O'Malley
What the fuck? And the pants of the camera. Fucked. That's diabolical.
Chris Clemens
Listen, okay, Like, I'm competitive. I will. I will make it to the end of Traitors. Literally my entire life is just my campaign to get on the fucking show at this point. I treat every day like it's.
Grace O'Malley
You can put this in the real.
Chris Clemens
This is the real babe.
Grace O'Malley
I'm like, worst way I've ever reacted to bad news. I punched a hole through a door.
Chris Clemens
And that's the story.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. I mean, causing damage.
Chris Clemens
I don't know why I can see you doing that. But then I'm like, also been in.
Grace O'Malley
A fist fight about bad news.
Chris Clemens
I'm gonna say it's real.
Grace O'Malley
That's real.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
It's honest.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. No, that feels believable. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
1,000%. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Why did you punch a door?
Grace O'Malley
Just arguing.
Chris Clemens
Oh, yeah. Just arguing, upset. Love this game.
Grace O'Malley
It's a good game.
Chris Clemens
I really love this game. Oh, my God. I'm like, are we even still recording the weirdest thing I've ever taken home from a night out? I stole a dinner plate from the White House.
Grace O'Malley
No, you didn't.
Chris Clemens
You think it's fabricated.
Grace O'Malley
I think it's fabricated. No, I think it's false. Oh, I think it's just full false.
Chris Clemens
Oh, no, I stole.
Grace O'Malley
You did. That's fucking awesome.
Chris Clemens
I took two forks. I took two jingle bells from like garland, and then I took another bell from a tree.
Grace O'Malley
You are a hoarder.
Chris Clemens
And then I think I took a napkin too.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that's where you draw the line. A fucking napkin.
Chris Clemens
But I didn't take a plate because the plate was dirty. I'm just like a memory hoarder. Like I need to have the object with me. Cuz like, oh my God, I have three bells from the white House Christmas decorations.
Grace O'Malley
That is really nice. And that was before my mom, so.
Chris Clemens
I gave her some, too.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, wow.
Chris Clemens
So she's now indicted with me.
Grace O'Malley
Well, truly and honestly, those are the American people's bells.
Chris Clemens
I paid for those, in my opinion.
Grace O'Malley
I think that's how it works.
Chris Clemens
Thank you. Me, too.
Grace O'Malley
All right, I'll do one more.
Chris Clemens
I love that you think I wouldn't steal from the White House.
Grace O'Malley
I know. That is awesome.
Chris Clemens
When I vaped in the bathroom, of course.
Grace O'Malley
Well, I would. I would just vape in vapes.
Chris Clemens
Well, duh.
Grace O'Malley
I. I have no respect.
Chris Clemens
I might have also taken the champagne glass.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, well, you have to.
Chris Clemens
I think I took the champagne glass.
Grace O'Malley
Absolutely.
Chris Clemens
I just. Everything I could fit in my bag, I put in that bag.
Grace O'Malley
What did you bring? Fucking Santa's suitcase?
Chris Clemens
No, I brought, like, a big, black leather bag.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay.
Chris Clemens
She had space.
Grace O'Malley
A lot of space.
Chris Clemens
I don't think I went into it. I don't know why I'm talking this much about this. Thank you. I hear it. Is there a red dot on my forehead?
Grace O'Malley
We got him.
Chris Clemens
I know. I'm like, take me. Just put me in the prison with Jen Shaw and Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes, please. Or Luigi, I'll keep you warm at night.
Grace O'Malley
Have you ever lied to get into a club or bar? What was the lie?
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God, yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, of course.
Chris Clemens
Oh, wait, Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
I mean, who's the lie?
Chris Clemens
I don't know.
Grace O'Malley
Because you already know. I have.
Chris Clemens
Well, yeah, we all. You had a fake ID, right?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, of course.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
100.
Chris Clemens
I could play this game literally for the rest of the day.
Grace O'Malley
I know. I feel like we're at a slumber party. It's awesome.
Chris Clemens
I'm like, bring this game over to my apartment.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, okay. So, yeah. On the subject, since you said fake id. On the subject of fake id, I was in Martis Vineyard once. Me and my buddy.
Chris Clemens
You were in what?
Grace O'Malley
Martha's Vineyard.
Chris Clemens
Oh, okay.
Grace O'Malley
Me and my friend, we. We had our fake IDs. She had a real ID, but it wasn't her. And I had a fake ID, but it was me and her scan. She got in, and then mine wasn't scanning. And I said, why don't you do that again? They said, okay, but I said, no, no, no, do it again. They're like, it's not working. We're taking it. And I said, okay, well, I'd like to talk to a manager, please. And this is before Karen days. This was like, pre Covid.
Chris Clemens
You were the blueprint.
Grace O'Malley
And I said, I'd like to talk to your manager, please. And the manager came out, and he was like, hey, I'm sorry for all this. I was gonna go check with my buddies up the street and make sure we're good up here. And his buddies up the street were the police, because they were on every corner because it was the fourth of July. And the police, they started walking towards me. And the first police officer I saw, I said, oh, how we doing, fellas? And it was a lady cop, and she didn't love that. And so for that, I got slapped on the wrist.
Chris Clemens
Physically?
Grace O'Malley
No, metaphorically. It was like. Metaphorically, like, they wouldn't even put me in jail. I don't even have a mugshot. But they did take my license away. I couldn't drive, and I was going to community college.
Chris Clemens
That feels far too extensive to be fake. I feel like you would have gotten arrested or something. I feel like that's a cop's wet dream. I feel like it's exaggerated.
Grace O'Malley
It is not.
Chris Clemens
It's real.
Grace O'Malley
The jail was too full. It's a tiny little island jail, and it was too full, so they didn't take me.
Chris Clemens
That really happened.
Grace O'Malley
That really happened. Then I had to go back in the off season and go to court. Court by myself, because my parents were, like, guilty. It was just. Just to say sorry. And then they. They took my license away, and I couldn't.
Chris Clemens
I went to court once and doubled down. I lost a stupid parking ticket. I was like that.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, you ever do jury duty?
Chris Clemens
I get out of it every time.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, because you say you hate the police? That's a trick. That's a trick people use.
Chris Clemens
Amazing. No, I just say that I'm a business owner, and the business can't function without me.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, well, there you go. Classic.
Chris Clemens
I know someone at a show is like, you should just lie and say you're a frontline worker. And I'm like, I think that would.
Grace O'Malley
Get you in trouble.
Chris Clemens
I'm okay.
Grace O'Malley
I think. I think they would definitely double check on that.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Especially if you're in your own community. They'd be like, oh, do you know Bill? I don't know.
Chris Clemens
No, literally. And especially in Delaware, where I get called jury duty. I mean, it would be like, oh, I know you. You. You're not. I'm like, have you ever been in.
Grace O'Malley
A physical fight with my brothers. With your brothers? Who won?
Chris Clemens
None of us.
Grace O'Malley
No, not that.
Chris Clemens
Family vacation. No one won.
Grace O'Malley
Ooh. Nothing like a good brawl on a family vacay.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. It was my mom, my little brother, and me, and we were In Costa Rica, my mom had, like, a work trip and we stayed like, a couple extra days. And that shit was gnarly.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, God.
Chris Clemens
My mom's, like, crying. Oh, My little brother and I are crying and screaming and then, like, physically beating the shit out of each other.
Grace O'Malley
In the room or in public?
Chris Clemens
In our room.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
So like, we had, like a. Like an apartment kind of thing.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
And so it was, like, in the room we were sharing.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Not our best sibling fights, but we're, like, close now and, like, it's really nice. It needed to happen.
Grace O'Malley
My sister and I used to look at each other because we wouldn't get along so much. We used to look at each other on an off day and say, good sister day. And we'd agree to have a good sister day.
Chris Clemens
That feels really healthy.
Grace O'Malley
It was. Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Or unhealthy, depending on how you look at it.
Grace O'Malley
I don't know which one was good or not, but I said it to her recently and we couldn't stop laughing. That's so really sweet.
Chris Clemens
Oh, that's so cute. That's really. I love that. I wish I had that when I was younger. Good brother day.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, are we gonna be bros today or what?
Chris Clemens
No, Literally, now my brother is a kid and he can't say.
Grace O'Malley
All right, so now we have this segment. I've asked the live studio audience.
Chris Clemens
So lively.
Grace O'Malley
It was on Instagram. I asked listeners to submit their wildest things they've done or seen while high. I'm sorry. Hi.
Chris Clemens
I really thought it was you guys.
Grace O'Malley
Well, thank you for having us on that guest.
Chris Clemens
Okay. Well, the craziest thing I've seen. Hi. Was that.
Grace O'Malley
Well, sorry. You really got. I really, like, narrowed in on you smoking weed.
Chris Clemens
But that's okay.
Grace O'Malley
As somebody, as an uppers only gal.
Chris Clemens
I like to hear stories.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, of course.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. You don't have, like, normal anxiety.
Grace O'Malley
I. More of a depressive thing. Yeah. I don't want to make up the fact that I have anxiety when I don't, you know?
Chris Clemens
No, I. Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Everybody says they have it when sometimes they do not. And.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I have enough panic going through my body that I don't need uppers anymore. I used to love them.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah, I know.
Chris Clemens
And then I realized that the feeling I get on them is literally just a panic attack.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yes, that makes sense.
Chris Clemens
I'm good. Why is my heart about to stop on this cocaine? Oh, it's making my heart. Heart do that. Got it.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, gotcha.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, I'm a downers kind of girl.
Grace O'Malley
Fair you know, and that's our ying and yang.
Chris Clemens
That's why I should be co host, your honor.
Grace O'Malley
Absolutely.
Chris Clemens
And I could lie to our guests.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
Fake stories to relate to them.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You're really good at that.
Chris Clemens
Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. Chameleon, if you will.
Chris Clemens
I just. That's easy for me because it's like, how do I get. Nobody gets hurt at school. Yeah. And nobody gets hurt.
Grace O'Malley
Nobody gets hurt.
Chris Clemens
It's just like, I was like, afraid of my parents growing up. So, like, anything at school was like, okay, we've gotta spin this. I really should have worked in pr.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, see, I could. Yes. That's where I was heading was pr. Because were you spin a story. I wanted to make super bowl commercials. So, like, I was. I was like, I'll go pr. I'll go marketing. I'll go advertisement. One of those. That was my plan. What was. Did you have a plan? What were you. What was yours?
Chris Clemens
A photography major.
Grace O'Malley
Okay.
Chris Clemens
And a communications minor.
Grace O'Malley
Hell yeah. Does that really helps you out?
Chris Clemens
Did it?
Grace O'Malley
Yeah. You know how to work a camera?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. I was doing that all before I even got the degree.
Grace O'Malley
Oh.
Chris Clemens
I'm then, you know, in one of my classes, they, like, asked me to, like, talk about social media.
Grace O'Malley
Really?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. One of my teachers, who is a giant, she came in and she's like, I went to the Instagram offices. And I was like, well, no, babe, me too. And she comes in thinking she's like, hot, carrying like a bomb. She goes, oh. She pulls up Instagram, like, on the computer. Maybe she mirrored the phone to it, I don't know. But she's like, oh, see this blue check? That means that they're trending right now. And me with a blue check was like, no, it actually means that they're verified.
Grace O'Malley
Did you listen at all, you dumb.
Chris Clemens
She goes, no, they told me it means that you're trending. And I was like, I don't care to fight this battle.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
No, it's like.
Grace O'Malley
And how. How funny of you to be like, actually, you dumb whore.
Chris Clemens
No, like, look, literally, I hated this woman. She was just the worst. But, yeah, so it didn't really do much for me. It just allowed me to be in the city, which.
Grace O'Malley
No, that's fair. You know what?
Chris Clemens
And gotta find the silver lining anywhere.
Grace O'Malley
Absolutely. You would, you know, wouldn't have been doing it out here.
Chris Clemens
So anyways, I don't know where we are.
Grace O'Malley
Truly, I have no idea. So I asked everybody what the wildest thing they have done or seen while high. And here are our answers. Answers. Smashed a spider on my leg that happened to be pregnant, and hundreds of babies spread.
Chris Clemens
That feels like an exaggeration of a story.
Grace O'Malley
That does.
Chris Clemens
Oh, wait, that's a different game.
Grace O'Malley
Lying cheese.
Chris Clemens
I'm like, I don't think that many. Is that a real thing that spiders come out like that? I thought they were in eggs. That sounds like a nightmare.
Grace O'Malley
Like. Like a literal, like, pretend thing in a movie. When you're, like, on Shroom.
Chris Clemens
Like in a Harry Potter movie. Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
A stripper dressed up as a ketchup bottle lit a firecracker out of her pussy at my local strip club. That sounds right. That one sounds accurate.
Chris Clemens
Did it?
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God. In college, I was rolling in Austin, Texas, and saw a man get stabbed.
Chris Clemens
That I believe. I believe that it's Texas. I feel like anything can happen.
Grace O'Malley
Got so high, I thought I was at my own funeral. And all my friends stood around my bed, and I thought I was looking up at them from my buried casket. That's classic.
Chris Clemens
That's real as hell. That's so real. That's real as hel. That we're just guessing now if these are made up or not.
Grace O'Malley
I know.
Chris Clemens
So sorry.
Grace O'Malley
You know? No, I'm not sorry. You guys got creative, and I appreciate that.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. See? But I will call it out.
Grace O'Malley
I thought I was invisible for an hour. I get that. I think that's real.
Chris Clemens
That's so real.
Grace O'Malley
I think that's real.
Chris Clemens
That's the dream.
Grace O'Malley
I thought my hands fell off, so I attempted to do everything with my wrists only.
Chris Clemens
What's happened to me before? I carried everything around like this. That happened to me before.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, my God. That's mental illness.
Chris Clemens
No, it's straight up mental illness. Like, picture perfect mental. Well, not picture perfect, but.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, that was a good laugh.
Chris Clemens
Definition is what I was trying to say.
Grace O'Malley
You know, I. I think we should end on a good laugh, you know? I know it's sad. It's sad. But what you guys don't see is that we're gonna go have a blast without you. All right? And I just wanted to ask, what is your walkout song?
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God. I made, like, a custom one.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah. Wait, did you really?
Chris Clemens
Yeah. Do you want to hear it?
Grace O'Malley
Yes, of course.
Chris Clemens
It's like my. It's honestly one of my. This is where I'm like, I'm such a creative.
Grace O'Malley
I'm not even gonna lie. I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, how sick would it be to come out to your own song?
Chris Clemens
It's not. It's not like my song, but, like.
Grace O'Malley
Or like, something that's, like, unique to you.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Nikki Glazer comes out to her own song.
Chris Clemens
This one.
Grace O'Malley
Oh. How do you mix this?
Chris Clemens
Ladies and gentlemen, Final Cut Pro. And this is AI Chris Clemens.
Grace O'Malley
This is awesome.
Chris Clemens
Oh, my God.
Grace O'Malley
I comedian, YouTuber, producer, DJ. Are you shitting me?
Chris Clemens
Finding the right song, that was, like, hard because people have to know it and it has to get them going. But it can't be, like, too basic.
Grace O'Malley
No, I know. It's, like, it's a real niche thing.
Chris Clemens
Even that one feels like it's writing a line of, like.
Grace O'Malley
Of course. Classic. That's great. Party all the Time by Eddie Murphy.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
That's amazing.
Grace O'Malley
Remixed. So it's by Dark Ski.
Chris Clemens
Not familiar with their work, but I'm so excited to find out.
Grace O'Malley
You should put that on Spotify, because I'm gonna make a Spotify playlist of everybody's walkout songs.
Chris Clemens
I will, and I would love to put you on Spotify. I will have to clear not only Wendy Williams, but also Beyonce.
Grace O'Malley
I think you can go over Wendy's head on that one. Beyonce, please, please, please, please give me the Wendy.
Chris Clemens
I just won't put on Spotify for the bit. Girl, please.
Grace O'Malley
Wait. That's the best answer I've gotten so far. Is that you? You've made your own song?
Chris Clemens
I'm gonna. Thank you. That's great.
Grace O'Malley
That blew me away.
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Chris Clemens
Well, who steals bees?
Grace O'Malley
I was duped. I shoot you in the leg.
Steve Buscemi
This is big time. Follow and listen on Apple podcasts.
Chris Clemens
I'm, like, a big, like, weird production nerd in a way. I sound so pick me right now. But, like, the idea of, like, high quality, like, three cameras, good lighting, like that all really, like, gets me, like, wet. Because, like, when I would grow up, I would film shitty things on, like, a digital camera.
Grace O'Malley
Oh, yeah.
Chris Clemens
And then I would see, like, commercials, and I'm like, wow, that's so high quality. Like, how do they even begin to make that? And so, like, now that I, like, understand it more, I'm like, oh, my God, I want that every time.
Grace O'Malley
Yeah.
Chris Clemens
So I try and, like, make it fun and, like, stupid.
Grace O'Malley
No, of course.
Chris Clemens
Like, the Wendy Williams, like, had to be on it. Like Wendy Williams on the masked singer singing.
Grace O'Malley
That brings me right back to 2020. It's like a nostalgic, but also, like a time I don't really know if I want to go back to all at the same time. Because when that's. That sound was trending on TikTok.
Chris Clemens
Yeah.
Grace O'Malley
Was when I first moved here. Really, like, and I'm walking around New York just like. I'm like, what. What is that song? Stuck in my head? And I was like, it's a TikTok song.
Chris Clemens
Yeah. No. 100%. My goal was to have. When she say, this is for New York is like, find a Wendy Williams, AI, and, like, change the city for, like, where I am. But it's just sticking for New York. Guys.
Grace O'Malley
Why don't you just call her up?
Chris Clemens
Wendy, if there's a good Wendy impersonator, honestly, I'm down for you to just send me a list of cities that you've read.
Grace O'Malley
I like that.
Chris Clemens
Like, really? I'm like, fuck, AI, let's turn to the people.
Grace O'Malley
Literally. Come on now.
Chris Clemens
Have you ever gotten, like, the automatic, like, Robot DoorDash or UberEats thing?
Grace O'Malley
No, I didn't.
Chris Clemens
It asked for a tip.
Grace O'Malley
Are you serious? Does it really?
Chris Clemens
Yes. For who?
Grace O'Malley
For who?
Chris Clemens
Here's a tip. No, here's a tip.
Grace O'Malley
Stay away from that puddle.
Chris Clemens
Like, yeah, water might not be your strong suit, girl. Like, what the fuck?
Grace O'Malley
That's fucking insane. This world's gone to shit. Thank you so much for coming on.
Chris Clemens
Thank you.
Grace O'Malley
Do you have any dates you want to promote or.
Chris Clemens
I have some shit coming up in May. I just started an email list. I feel like a fucking boomer. But, like, I'm so tired of these algorithms.
Grace O'Malley
Yes, of course.
Chris Clemens
Plug it all up. You can just search my name, Chris Clemens. You can find my link tree. I don't even know what to say for this anymore because it's like, I have YouTube. I got TikTok. It's like, okay, I'm everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Get into it. That.
Grace O'Malley
That's right, folks. Thank you so much for watching.
Chris Clemens
What am I supposed to say? Like. Like, subscribe.
Grace O'Malley
Smash that, like, button.
Chris Clemens
Yeah, like, I've. Oh, my God. I've done that for too long to see. Come see me live. It's fun.
Grace O'Malley
Perfect.
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Chris Clemens
Well, who steals bees?
Grace O'Malley
I was duped.
Chris Clemens
I shoot you in the leg.
Steve Buscemi
This is Big Time. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.
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Podcast Title: Disgraceful with Grace O’Malley
Host/Author: Grace O’Malley
Episode: Chris Klemens Stole From The White House
Release Date: April 3, 2025
In this episode of Disgraceful with Grace O’Malley, Grace welcomes her guest, comedian and YouTuber Chris Clemens, as he auditions to become her new co-host. The duo immediately establish a playful and comedic rapport, setting the tone for an engaging and humorous conversation.
Notable Quote:
Grace O’Malley [00:56]: "Only I can say that."
Chris Clemens [00:56]: "Okay, boss. Whatever you say. You pay my bills. Give it up for Grace O’Malley."
Grace begins the audition process by asking Chris a series of questions designed to evaluate his compatibility as a co-host. The focus is on trust, sharing secrets, and their ability to work together without overshadowing each other.
Notable Quotes:
Grace O’Malley [03:15]: "Would you like to give yourself a whirl here?"
Chris Clemens [03:20]: "That usually leads to great things."
Grace O’Malley [05:05]: "I want you to be authentic. I want you to be honest."
Chris demonstrates honesty and openness, crucial traits for a potential co-host, though he humorously struggles with questions about sharing secrets and personal anecdotes.
The conversation shifts to more personal anecdotes, with Chris sharing a vivid story about a recent uncomfortable meal at a sushi restaurant while under the influence of mushrooms. This leads to a humorous exchange about the sensory overload experienced during such trips.
Notable Quotes:
Chris Clemens [14:43]: "Oysters are so fucking disgusting."
Grace O’Malley [14:51]: "That's probably one of the worst things I would ever pick if I were on mushrooms."
The segment highlights their candidness and ability to find humor in uncomfortable situations, enhancing their chemistry.
Grace and Chris delve into their experiences with stand-up comedy. Chris recounts his initial forays into stand-up, the impact of the pandemic on his career, and his ongoing efforts to refine his craft. Grace shares her own challenges and learning experiences, emphasizing the importance of persistence and continuous improvement.
Notable Quotes:
Chris Clemens [20:24]: "I have a folder on my computer where I like to put all of my performances."
Grace O’Malley [21:03]: "This feels so validating."
Their mutual understanding of the ups and downs of a stand-up career fosters a deeper connection and mutual respect.
A substantial portion of the episode explores their familial relationships, particularly interactions with their parents. Both Grace and Chris share humorous yet heartfelt stories about their mothers heckling them during performances, illustrating how family dynamics influence their comedy.
Notable Quotes:
Grace O’Malley [45:00]: "How far of a fall?"
Chris Clemens [42:17]: "My mom is one of my favorite people on earth."
These stories not only provide laughs but also offer insights into how their personal lives shape their comedic styles.
To further entertain and engage, Grace introduces interactive games such as "Quote Me on That," where they challenge each other to distinguish between true, fake, or elaborated stories. This segment showcases their quick wit and improvisational skills, keeping listeners thoroughly entertained.
Notable Quotes:
Grace O’Malley [52:09]: "This game is called 'Quote Me on That'."
Chris Clemens [55:05]: "I will make it to the end of Traitors. Literally my entire life is just my campaign to get on the fucking show."
Their competitive yet friendly banter adds a dynamic layer to the episode, highlighting their chemistry.
As the episode nears its conclusion, Grace and Chris discuss their walkout songs—a light-hearted segment that reveals their personalities and preferences. Chris even unveils a custom walkout song he created using technology, illustrating his creative side.
Notable Quotes:
Grace O’Malley [67:18]: "What is a song that has sent you into another dimension?"
Chris Clemens [68:11]: "Ladies and gentlemen, Final Cut Pro. And this is AI Chris Clemens."
This exchange underscores their innovative approaches to comedy and performance, blending technology with traditional stand-up elements.
In the final moments, Grace wraps up with more audience-interactive games and a reflection on the shared experiences throughout the episode. Their ability to seamlessly transition between deep conversations and playful antics solidifies the episode's engaging nature.
Notable Quotes:
Grace O’Malley [73:35]: "This is awesome."
Chris Clemens [72:43]: "Come see me live. It's fun."
The episode concludes on a high note, leaving listeners eager for future episodes and the potential addition of Chris as a co-host.
"Chris Klemens Stole From The White House" is a testament to the dynamic interplay between Grace O’Malley and Chris Clemens. Their blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive segments creates a rich and engaging listening experience. This episode not only entertains but also offers a glimpse into the potential synergy of their collaboration as co-hosts.
Note: Timestamps correspond to the podcast's transcript timing and serve to highlight key moments and quotes within the episode.