Vittorio Angelone Had The Best New York Week One Could Possibly Have - Full Episode

Summary

KFC Radio: "Vittorio Angelone Had The Best New York Week One Could Possibly Have"

Barstool Sports | November 11, 2025
Guests: Vittorio Angelone (UK/Ireland Comedian), KFC, Feitelberg (and occasional Big Cat appearance)

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the London-based, Belfast-raised comedian Vittorio Angelone, who joins KFC Radio hosts to recount what’s likely the wildest debut week in New York City any comedian could hope for. The conversation ranges from the surreal comic-book-luck of his Big Apple run, deep dives into comedy and internet culture (both US and UK), to unique career insights, cultural comparisons, accidental celebrity encounters, and hilarious moments from the host’s and Vittorio’s lives.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Vittorio’s Insane New York Week

Starts: [39:06]

• Getting Passed at The Comedy Cellar in 2 Days
  • Vittorio tells the story about how, through a handful of random connections, he was passed at NYC’s legendary Comedy Cellar after only 48 hours in New York.
  • "So he just emailed the owner and I did an audition on Friday. And then two days into being in New York, I'm passed at the Cellar." — Vittorio [01:05], [40:51]
  • The hosts marvel at how major and rare it is to get that opportunities so fast.
• Riding the NYC Celebrity Circuit
  • Vittorio gets invited pitch-side at a Jets game, finds himself featured on the Jets' Instagram, and winds up at a packed SNL after-party, rubbing elbows with superstars:
    • "The SNL after party... My agent in America was like, oh, I can get you on the guest list for that... as we're walking up to the door, James Cordon walks in before us…" [66:16]

2. Comedy, Culture & Internet: US vs UK

Consistent through 04:00 – 90:00

• Stand-Up Structure: American vs British/Irish
  • Vittorio dispels myths about UK stand-up being all “one-person-shows” but admits the Fringe structure invites more narrative arcs than US hour sets.
  • UK comics, he explains, usually build to the Edinburgh Fringe, a pressure-cooker experience for storytellers.
• Comedy Copycats & Originality
  • Deep chat about the “epidemic” of TikTok crowd-work clips, copycat comedians, and why so many end up mimicking hits instead of finding unique voices.
  • "It's almost like... we just start doing what someone else did and then it's like, well, I'm just doing their thing." — KFC [21:20]
  • The discussion highlights how “playing the game” can be detrimental, and why true stars find—and stick to—their real strengths.
• Internet Algorithms & Artistic Frustrations
  • The algorithm's chase for views shapes both online music and comedy into sameness, they agree. But both sides note the magic that happens when someone does successfully “break the mold.”
• Differences in Crowd Response and Cultural References
  • US audiences are more overtly enthusiastic:
    • “American audiences are very, like, unashamedly enthusiastic...they seem very ready to, like, on your side.” — Vittorio [32:02]
  • Vittorio shares he rarely has to change the “edginess” of material between UK/US, only the occasional local reference.

3. Comedic Influence, Authenticity, and Self-Image

Woven through — especially 70:00–93:00

• Finding and Owning Your Own Voice
  • Vittorio and hosts agree about the importance of steering away from direct imitation, but acknowledge that all comedians are, in part, mosaics of their heroes.
  • Multiple examples given (James Acaster, Shane Gillis, Daniel Kitson, etc.) about how mimicry is part of early stagecraft, but true development means leaving it behind.
• Self-Esteem and Comedy Cultures
  • The hosts compare New York’s classic self-deprecation to LA’s “genre-reinventing” attitude, a difference that echoes in the UK–with British comic humility (“it’s fine”) versus US-style confidence.

4. Podcasting as Comedy’s New Frontier

82:00 onwards

• Barstool, "Have A Word," and Indie Podcast Success
  • UK is “catching up” to the US podcast boom:
    • “I think we're sort of catching up to it. Like the Have A Word podcast in Liverpool...they were the first. They were sort of the pioneers of the independent...comedian produced podcast. And they're huge.” — Vittorio [83:15]
  • The episode delves into the blend of copying/inspiration, and how big UK podcasts are now seeding their own waves of imitators—but that authenticity still breaks through.

5. Notable NYC Moments & Observations

• Live Music Rarity
  • Vittorio spots Ed Sheeran singing to a bar of 60 people—further proof he's living a charmed New York week:
    • “And then Ed Sheeran comes out and sings like three folk songs to 60 people in a pub.” — Vittorio [51:21]
• Cultural "Failure to Launch" Moments
  • Hosts and Vittorio joke about America’s love for gigantic flags at football games, casino politics in Times Square, and Vittorio’s fleeting brush with memorial awkwardness at the Jets game.

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Notable Quotes

| Quote | Speaker | Timestamp | |-----------|-------------|---------------| | “Two days into being in New York, I'm passed at the Cellar.” | Vittorio | 01:05 / 40:51 | | “If you mix and match [the Italian and Irish] the right way, it's good. But if you...get the Italian when you need the Irish and you're the Irish…” | KFC | 02:44 | | "People saw the success of people like Schultz or Rife...so everybody was like, 'oh, well, I have to do that.'” | Vittorio | 14:14, 18:14 | | "You just need there to be enough [influences] that you become a mix of all of those things.” | Vittorio | 84:16 | | “I think we're sort of catching up...podcasting as a boom and platform.” | Vittorio | 83:15 | | "UK comedy is becoming more like music. We're about to get genres." | Vittorio | 13:57 | | “New York is not gonna...it's not that awesome. The next time you come, it's gonna suck, man.” | KFC | 55:52 | | “I'm such a chancer now. I think I've gotten cocky…” | Vittorio | 71:36 |

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Most Memorable Moments (With Timestamps)

• [01:05], [40:51]: Vittorio’s whirlwind Comedy Cellar story
• [51:21]: Ed Sheeran’s impromptu Irish bar set
• [66:16]: Vittorio at the SNL afterparty, name-dropping James Corden at the door
• [32:02]: "American audiences are very, like, unashamedly enthusiastic."
• [73:20]: The "moving to New York" discussion after getting passed at the Cellar
• [80:17]: Daniel Kitson story—UK comedy legend with no agent or social media, but a sold-out mailing list following.

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Cultural Contrasts & Comic Insight Highlights

• British vs. American Comedy:

  • Americans are more self-promoting, British/Irish comics more modest.
  • Most US comics throw together their hour, Brits build a narrative ending due to the Fringe format.
  • British culture’s reticence to push their own material on social media—unique compared to the American grind.

• On Crowd Work and Internet Clones

  • Both US and UK scenes are experiencing a rise of crowd work clips.
  • Many comics are copying successful social media patterns (“what do you do for a living?”), blurring originality.
  • Hosts and Vittorio agree: creativity is nuanced, and "copycat culture" is a double-edged sword—beneficial for progress and new forms, but can dull the industry.

• Podcast/Touring Industry in UK:

  • UK comedy catching up in terms of independent podcasting, with "Have A Word" as proof of concept.
  • Unique, close-knit podcast and live show circuit; Vittorio names names for American listeners to check out: Adam Rowe ("Juicy" and "Club Comic"), Kyla Cobbler, Ed Knight.

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Recommendations for Listeners/New York Visitors

• John’s of Bleecker for Pizza (avoid the long line by ordering online), skip the tourist traps, and if you’re looking for true New York, prioritize classic clubs ([58:17])
• For must-see UK comedians:
  • Adam Rowe (specials: "Club Comic" and "Juicy")
  • Kyla Cobbler
  • Ed Knight
  • Mike Rice
  • Raymond Mars (for wild Glaswegian humor)

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Tone and Delivery

The conversation is fast, irreverent, honest, self-deprecating, and wildly funny—classic KFC Radio style. The hosts and Vittorio riff seamlessly with genuine respect and curiosity for comedy’s craft, and share plenty of “barstool” camaraderie.

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Final Thought

Vittorio’s “jammy bastard” week in NYC is as much a celebration of luck as it is of hustle, charm, and timing. The episode provides sharp, informed opinions on the intersection of comedy, internet fame, and self-identity—poking fun at the culture while also serving up inspiration for anyone grinding in creative industries. A must-hear for fans of stand-up, podcast culture, and anyone curious about London-to-NYC culture shocks.

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Further Segments & Key Timestamps

• [10:05] – South Park's billion-dollar deal & cultural relevance
• [13:57] – The myth of a "dead" comedy scene (re: cancel culture)
• [17:32] – Crowd work vs. written material in modern comedy
• [32:02] – New York crowd energy and Vittorio’s opening-night bits
• [41:51] – Anatomy of the Comedy Cellar audition and the unique thrill of NYC clubs
• [51:21] – Ed Sheeran’s surprise set in tiny pub
• [66:16] – SNL afterparty gatecrash, UK version of SNL casting
• [73:20] – Will Vittorio move to NYC? Why most UK comics still stay put

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Bottom line: This is an unfiltered, wildly entertaining masterclass in modern comedy, New York/life, and cross-cultural hustle—driven by one comedian’s improbable week at the center of it all.

Transcript

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

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[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So he just emailed the owner and I did an audition on Friday. And then two days into being in New York, I'm passed at the Sally.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No way. All right, I'm sure this is. I hate to ask questions that are asked repeatedly, but like, what the going on with your name? How are you? He was like, you know, I got Vittorio coming in and then he's telling me about Ireland and Irish. I'm like, wait, is there a second person coming? Because I know he has a podcast. What the is that about?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm half Italian, half Irish. Surely this makes so much sense in New York.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That part definitely does.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I know. I know plenty. I actually think I have a long standing and maybe you'd be a great person to answer this. I think you got to cut the Irish with something.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

People who are 100% Irish, all the ones I know are.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I also think this about Italian.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, you got to cut it because.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

One way or the other sort of balance each other. Like, I'm confident, but I've got a lot of shame about being confident.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There you go.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's nice.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And it's like, I can talk to women a little bit, but I feel bad about it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's the way you should be. If you're totally shameful, your life's gonna suck.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Exactly.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

If you have no shame, you, you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Know, you got problems Exactly.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You gotta.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I. I have the confidence to do it, but I'm not. I'm not, you know, I'm not gonna brag about it. That's a great way to be, dude.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I feel confident to talk to him, but I feel bad about it. It's a perfect line, dude. That is. That's the way to live life right there.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The question becomes, when does your Italian side come out and when does your Irish side come out? Because if you mix and match the right way, it's good. But if you. If you get the Italian, when you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Need the Irish and you're the Irish. Yeah, yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You get into bed with a lady and suddenly you're very Irish.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Nobody wants that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I don't know. Sorry. Start saying like, hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with me. Let's go to church.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, yeah, Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And then you need to, like, you know, do any work ever. And the Italian side comes in.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

So. So your dad. Your. It's your dad's side that's Italian?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. My dad also grew up in Belfast, but like, that side of the family is all Italian. So I say I'm. I'm half Italian. Yeah. But I haven't. I don't feel very, like, culturally Italian. There's just like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I would say something. I think that comes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Sweater looks pretty Italian.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That seems to be that. Yeah, that sort.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Have you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Do you have family in Italy or.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Is everyone like a couple? Like, most of them moved during like the Second World War.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Got it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

So you're not like in Italy often or frequently?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

No, I've been like maybe three times.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Are you living in London now?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, I've lived in London for like 11 years.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, no shit. Okay. I didn't know that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I moved there to be a classical musician and it's going. So what.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

What instrument?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I was a percussionist.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So like the xylophone and the xylophone.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

What a waste of time. A professional xylophone. That's not a job. That's the Italian side. The one with all the colored keys.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

For three year olds.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, yeah, that's. I know. They made them for older people. Yeah. I thought it was just like. I thought it was like if you're.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Literally six months old, a bunch of colors.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Okay. I won't talk about doing an exam in the triangle then. That's fine.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No, but wait, I actually, I. With the xylophone?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I think it's a great instrument.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Have you ever seen like a. Like an adult play it?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Now that you're saying it you know what it is?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The True Romance theme.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Never seen it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Gonna play this music for you. You'll probably have to edit this out, I think. I think actually you'll be able to tell me, Mr. Xylophone. I'm pretty sure this is a xylophone. It's one of my favorite songs. Music from a movie ever.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Can I guess that it's not going to be a xylophone? Ah, that's a marimba. But very, very close. Very, very close.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Fucking asshole.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's a mar.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Guess that it's not going to be.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm being so rude about that because they're so nearly the same thing. And marimba just has slightly thinner bars on the.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You're whacking it with a mallet or whatever, right?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That sound though, is a. It's a great sound.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But like, what's crazy is they used to just have like xylophone, like a guy playing ragtime on the xylophone, like on TV at one point like that when, you know, when TV just started and they would just find people who could like, do stuff. I'm like, and next up it's this guy and he was like, like mad. And there's a guy called Teddy Brown who I think is American, but more importantly, he's the fattest man I've ever seen in my whole life. And he just like, his arms barely move, but he like, would play the xylophone and like spin round while he was doing it. And he was like, yeah, cuz you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Guys get like, like four things. Yeah. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So it's like, it's impressive to like eight people.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No, no, it actually it's one of those things that is impressive, but like, not enough that like, I don't know, it can be your career. If I saw you do it, I'd be like, wow, that's cool.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But it's almost like I don't know.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

If you're gonna have a, like make a living off it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Like being a magician where you're like, damn, that's sick. And then you just go on like, people pass you that. We get that too, man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I still, I don't know what it's going to take because when we started Barstool, you know, we were just blogging and I understood in 2009, asking me, that's, that's what you do for a job. That's how you make money. But. And same thing with podcasting. I still get that. And I'm like, dude, I know people who made $100 million doing this.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, I know. You know, like, the rise of fascism through podcasting.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's primarily what podcasts are now.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's funny. From. From overseas. I mean, I think you don't. As an American, I can still see how stupid it is, how political podcasting has gotten.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But from the outside looking in, is that glaringly apparent? Like. Or are you guys sitting over there going, like, why the. Are all these guys doing politics now?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, it is kind of mad to look at. I mean, I'm very conscious. I got a US Visa three weeks ago and I intend to keep it. It's sort of crazy that, like, what was nice about a lot of those podcasts is like, oh, yeah, that guy's like, roughly as stup as I am.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So he's likely to ask these people the exact same stupid questions that I would ask them. But now I think it's sort of become this. It's got like, dented or something. The idea of it has become just like. Everybody's just obsessed with clicks and likes. And I'm aware I'm at barstool, so it's not like. But we all are. And it's just drawing that line somewhere where you go, oh, no, this isn't worth it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

This isn't worth the algorithm. And therefore I'm not going to, yes, do that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't think people recognize that you can, like a lot of these guys even. You can be interested in politics. You can even be informed on it and all that. But the reason they're speaking about it is not to, like, talk about the principles. It's because they know there's an audience.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

To get the clicks and the views.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's why they do it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I actually just read a pretty interesting quote from. It wasn't Matt Stone, Trey Parker, who was talking about south park this year, and he was like, yeah, like, we talked a lot about woke four years ago because that was pop culture. He's like, now pop culture is politics. Yeah. Then he was like, we both consider ourselves speaking for him and Matt, he's like, we both consider ourselves pretty middle guys. But, you know, this is pop culture now. Right. And that's what south park should be.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

A pushback against whatever the dominant narrative is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And that's the, like, politics, and particularly sort of right wing politics has become the dominant narrative. So they're like taking shots at that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

What happened with that series of South Park? Because it like kind of stopped.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

They just stopped it because. Started a new one right away and.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was like, yeah, because that it all just got very like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But it's also. I thought they were gonna like take a break or something, but then they just resumed like the next week and called it the next season.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But they do that. South park does that a lot. They skip a week. They, they. And the only reason I know this is from Le Mascots, which is a show we did and we had to skip a week and we were looking for precedent and we were like, please God, tell us other shows before they make it on the fly too. Right? Because they make it on the flight and. And it was like, south park pretty, right? Not regularly, but like, it is not.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But they, but they declared at the end of a season they were like season 28 or whatever is done.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And then like the next week was season 29 and it was like, I just didn't understand why they did it. But. But yeah, they. I mean, they also. What a. What a ride those guys have been on. They signed for a billion dollars, right?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes, but like, not really. Like it was a billion going to them. But yeah, I think, I think it was a billion dollars for the catalog of South Park.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Right, right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I don't know how much of that Matt. So. And Trey Parker yet.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But I'm just saying when you, when you started out, you know, making shitty animation with some like Kill Kenny jokes and 20 years later we're talking about B. Like, that's crazy.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Just like next level stuff.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And just like they could always like. I remember the first time I went to see the Book of Mormon, I was like, oh, I need to like sing in my show because these cunts are getting away with everything.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But you guys, this. And tell me if I'm wrong on this because I've only ever heard it Stand Up Overseas is more of a one man show than it is in America.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

No, I think this is like the American perception of it. And that's mad for me to say because my stuff is sort of like thematic and narrative in a way of like, like Mike Birbeglia. Like the show is always. It's like storytelling and there's like. But it's quite like there's still like a lot of jokes in there and he still works the stuff out at the Comedy Cellar or whatever. But like it, it has like a forward momentum towards like an end point.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And I do that in my shows just because I think it's nice for an audience to be like, we're going towards here. And it all ties up in a bow and for sure, at the End. Whereas the American thing is like they've got a bunch of, they've got like 60 minutes of jokes and they just tell them in whatever order they sort of feel like telling them and they put, you know, the best one at the end, second best one at the start and blah, blah, blah. But I think it's because we have a thing called the Edinburgh Fringe.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was gonna ask you about that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Every August you go up and do like your hour long show for the whole month of August, every single night in the same venue. And that's a lot of what the UK industry and it is changing now to be more online and more podcasts and stuff. But the UK comedy industry sort of aims towards that. And all the TV come up and watch lots of shows at Edinburgh. So it's sort of that like in the way Montreal sort of was and all that stuff. But like the in vogue thing to do like in the last maybe 15 years has to like the meme of it is like, if you want to win an award at the Edinburgh Friends, like your dad has to have died. The show has to be about that. But I think there's a whole mix of stuff in the UK that the Americans get, like a false read of the UK comedy industry because those guys, Constantine and Francis, who do the trigonometry podcast, who are losers by the way, they go on Rogan and are like, we're not allowed to perform at any comedy clubs in the UK because they're all so woke and they canceled us. They suck. I actually don't even know, but they've had everybody on like Barr and Theo Vaughn and all these people and they go on Rogan like three times a year and say that the UK comedy industry is dying. And anytime I bump into the guy Francis, he lives near me in London, I'm like, why are you about talking, doing that?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Really?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm doing very well.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was actually going to say earlier in this podcast that you and Mike are basically my only knowledge of of UK comedy.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Oh, you've got a perfect rating with that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I borderline have a parasocial relationship with you. I've never had that before. And like, I, I, I, it's just.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You, you want to stop talking about you guys.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You guys are just constantly on my feed and I think you're both so, so funny.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The pansexual clip we watched the other.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Day with Raymond.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You said you'd wr anything. Oh, that was such a good line. That was hilarious.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I love the idea of having to prove your pansexuality it's so funny. Anything.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You said it, not me. But I think that's similar to it happened in America to the last like 10 or 15 years of cancel culture and all that shit. And it gets so exaggerated that people assume, you know, yeah, comedy's dead. You can't say anything, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you know, I'm sure the UK has their own version of that where it's like, that's not really what it's like.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, for sure. And I think maybe I have a theory that what we're moving towards is comedy becoming more like music in the sense that we're gonna have like genres of comedy and it's going to become slightly more fractured because at the minute you show up to like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Do you know what I mean? Like, why would like different types of comedy. How do you compare? I don't know, like. Like you just described like Anthony Jessel. Nick will just stand up there and hit you with like one liners. And then you have someone doing like a one man show. It's like, those should not be compared.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And they're women doing it as well.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh my God. I thought you guys were standing firm on that one.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But it's like you show up to a comedy club and you'll see those two things back to back and then like somebody doing a musical thing or somebody.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Which I think is cool. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And it is cool to get that sort of variety of stuff. But I just think it becomes very difficult to talk about stand up comedy in a meaningful way because it's like, well, what are you talking about? You talking about Hannah Gadsby?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah. Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Jasmine, like, are you talking about like totally different world? This sort of.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Would you say is a caster a good representative of like. Oh, God.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I was like, bro, do you got something to tell me right now?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Holy shit. We'll get to that in a second. You got to get my face.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Sorry. Keep going.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

The is. Is so one of my favorite specials I've seen in the last five years. Ten years. I forget when it came out. Is James acaster repertoire.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The 4:1 Netflix.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

So good. Same.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't think I would ever done any again. If I was him. I would have just been like, that's it for me.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'm riding on Those are. Those are like. They all. Those are pretty thematic.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yes. Well, they all started their life at the Edinburgh Fringe. So all four of those got nominated but did not win best show at the Edinburgh. Which is. And he really did that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'm sure he Does. Were they all in the same year? All separate years.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

All separate years. So consecutive years. He has these four shows.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Because I was always wondering that when watching Repertoire, I was like, does it. Did he do these all back to back to back?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then he did. He toured all of them at the same time? No, after the fourth one was done and he was building up to filming it. So he would go to, like one city and do like four nights. But it's four different.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Four different shows.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And apparently it nearly like snapped his brain in half.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I can imagine.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And it's all, like interwoven.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

How much of it. Do you know him?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I've met him like once, I think.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Okay.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But I don't.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I don't know his most recent special. He has one on. It's On Max came out a couple months ago. And he. He talks about how at the. At the start of it, he says, like, he had spent a year traveling where he's encouraging everyone to heckle him because he's so nervous and really doesn't like stand up comedy. And I'm just trying to see if that was real or not. I didn't know if that was part of it.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I think that is true of him especially because. And I suffer from this a little bit. Even though, like, I would say I'm somebody that's like, good at crowd interaction and a caster is as well. But when you've written like a show that is so, like woven together and you're painstakingly like that, that needs to happen for this to happen. And that sort of counterbalance is that tonally and like, it becomes a bit like ironclad. And I. I'm trying to get away from that a little bit in my performance of it. But, like, you do, like, get a bit nervous about being heckled because you're like, yeah, you can't fuck up the flow. It's a house of cards. And it just could all like fall down or whatever. So, I mean, I've like, similarly, I do. Because there's a worry. I think a lot of comedians put out a lot of crowd work because you don't want to burn.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was just about to ask you that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The crowd work, at least over here, became like an epidemic of.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And it was, like, good at first.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And then it became like, two things. One, that's not really crowd work. That's just you setting up a joke that you've written by saying, what do.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You do for a living?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And then, you know, whatever. Or it just became like, A crutch that, like, people leaned on. And it's for sure. I would like to hear your written material too. Yeah. I say all of this with no talent and I don't do it any of it myself, so I should just shut the up. But I think, like, good crowd work is like almost the pinnacle where you're thinking on your feet and like, well.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It'S so exciting and it's so alive.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But then, like, bad crowd work. I would rather hear good written material than bad crowd work. I think we got to a point where people were doing and also with it just.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But like, people saw the success of people like Schultz or like, right. Rife. And there's a couple examples in the uk, a guy called Paul Smith and a few other people who were doing hard work for you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Big Jay's always done that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah. And it's like people saw the success of the clips, so everybody was like, oh, well, I have to do that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

No.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And that's how you make it online. But I think that was like a misreading. I think that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I think the Internet does that as a whole. We were kind of just talking about this copy Cali once. Yeah. Once the Internet sees one thing being successful, literally hundreds of thousands of people will start doing it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Music too. It's like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And you get sick of it pretty fast.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I mean, like, every rapper sounds the same now and every. Everybody looks. I mean, yeah, girls, like, get the same plastic surgery. People sing the same way, they tell the same jokes. And I think it used to be more like, you know, I'm gonna stay over here doing my thing, rather than, you know, is it like that overseas?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Place to place. It's getting quite, like, globalized and a bit homogeneous of, like, used to be able to, like, oh, that. That comedian performs in like an LA way.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

New York way. And then even, like, you'd have comedians from like the north of England or Scotland. It would have a vibe. And I think Irish comedy had like a. A feeling to it of like, Tommy Taylor, Dylan Moran or all these people. And now it's just like everybody's sort of doing this Americanized. Yeah. Because Netflix is sort of, if you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Want to be like, successful or get the Netflix deal or whatever it is, you got to do it like this way.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But I think that's a mistake by.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Everybody because it's the worst.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's not. It's not that, like, it's not that Matt Rife was doing crowd work because, like, that didn't kick off for him because crowd work Works it kicks off because he's very good at it because.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

He does it well and he's hot. Play to your strengths.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But it's like there's other people who've had huge successes online from doing entirely different things. There's a guy, Milo McCabe, do you know Troy Hawk? He's this character guy, he wears a purple like velvet jacket and has a little drawn on mustache and slicked back hair and he stands outside like pharmacies and stores and like malls and stuff and just like works the door and like lets them in and like compliments everybody on the way in. And then people from the mall are like, sorry, do you work here? And he's like, yeah, I've been sent by the Greeters Guild. And he's like famous now and he's doing like big tour show. He filmed his special in America and he's like touring all around, massive shows. And I'm like, he says hello to people outside shops and he's famous. So it's about finding your thing that you're very, very good at and putting that online.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Find your thing and don't do someone else's thing, even if you are good at that. It's like same thing with the, we talk about the platforms all the time. It's like, I'm, I'm good at Instagram, but now I gotta do Tick Tock and if you do TikTok, then you gotta do YouTube or you could just be like, this is where you can find me on this thing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You know, stick to what you're good at.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I, I think that's like indicative of like a larger societal thing where like I, the other day I was talking to my friends who both have fake teeth, they both got like new teeth. And I was like, you both have the same exact smile. You guys look exactly the same now. Like you don't have a smile anymore.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I think that's what we do as like content creators a lot. Which is like we just start doing what someone else did and then it's like, well, I'm just doing their thing. It doesn't make any sense.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But I would also say that you almost need like a Netflix to give a special to other thing, you know?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't blame people who are like, I've, I've been doing this for years, I gotta make some money. Or I put in so much work that I want the financial success and the only ones getting it are like right wing politics, whatever it may be, you know, you gotta feel like you gotta conform because there's no one, you know, giving out the, the, the measurements of success, whether it's money or specials or whatever, for, for unique stuff. So I mean, it's, you know, kind of like chicken or the egg sort of thing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But yeah, absolutely. I just think it's really hard not to chase what seems to be working for.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Somebody else. Because you want to be like a.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Success and it seems like something. That's why you can all kind of.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

What's the users back from Mordor. What's going on?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I, I actually this morning I was doing an indie film where I am married and I have a kid. And it was very fun and all that. Let me tell you. I had an experience doing this movie, this short film. If you have a hundred thousand followers, stop hanging out with people who have followers.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

What do you mean?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Everyone on this set thought I was a celebrity. Like everyone I hang out with has more followers than me. I should start hanging out with people who have less followers. Dude, people, people are going nuts. Like, I have a daughter, so I had a lot of like, like younger girl, like young kids around, like the children. And so their parents were around and they were always asking me to follow my account. And all of their parents were like, you are famous. That's important too, though. Feels pretty good, honestly.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's kind of part of it too though is like, you know, the comparison game. That's how you end up conforming to all this is by comparing, you know, yourself and, and I guess it's always good to compare yourself to people who are ahead of you. So you stay like hungry and keep going. But also it's important to recognize what you do got.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. You know, it's like that's, it's like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

A big accomplishment to like 99.999 of the world is wildly impressed.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

In the land of the blind the man with one eye. Absolutely, dude. Hanging out with black people on indie film sets. Stop hanging out with Bert Kreischer. Hanging out on indie film sets. You feel a little better about yourself.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

A great.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It's so true.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It is so true, man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I, I, I also had my first sex scene yo. On, on the movie and it was, it was very normal and fine or whatever, but the they, they had like an intimacy coordinator and they just ask you so many times, like, can she touch you here? And then like we do a scene and like, all right, we're actually going to move your, her hand. Can she touch you here?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I was like, it's the same place.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It'S the same place. You can touch me there.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Sign off on Broad Ra.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I was going to say I'd be the type to be like. I walk in and say, you can do whatever you can me in the ass.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Like, whatever. Let's get this job done. I said that. Like, I was like. I was like, look, I know what. What the scene is. I know what role I am. Like, I was like, you can touch me. Like, I get.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I'm a prop. Like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And it was like, I wasn't the aggressor in the sex. I was the one laying down while I got back.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yes. Because sex always has an aggressor.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Great. Great for the barstool reputation.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Well, what's the phrase? Dominant. I wasn't the dominant in this accent.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Look at Octag.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I was the culprit in my sex scene.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

She was the victim. It was too law in order to svu. What was.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

There was somebody recently who did something with Robert Pattinson.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Jennifer Lawrence.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And she was like, I didn't need one.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I think that is, like, if I was Robert Pattinson, I would take offense to that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You don't think I'm a threat at all?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

At all.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes. Haven't you read the statistics?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Right?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Like, I'm a huge threat. You don't think.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You don't think I could rape you.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You right now?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I could.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I really could. I promise you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

She. The way she said. She was just like, he was so. You know, she said, like, he's not creepy. He's not weird. Like, that's all good, but just to be like, I don't even need the safety net for this guy at all.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I would.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I'd slap her on the ass the next day. Are you sure about that?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Truly? Might as well have called him gay.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. It's like, that's really what she said.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You know, it's like a girl talking about her gay best friend. Like, yeah. Like, I get naked in front of him. We hang out. Like, he's. You know, he doesn't think of me that way. It's like, that's.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You just said Robert Pattinson, man. That was the. When I did it, I did have. I. I was explaining it where I was like, I think I have a similar opinion to most people on intimacy coordinators, where it's like, if it was up to me, purely up to me, like. Like, as far as people touching me, I don't care. For all I know, the woman in the scene is like, thank God that coordinator was there. So in that case, that makes the job a necessity. Yeah, but, like, the whole time I was like, you can stop asking me. Just touch me. Like, yeah, yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like, there's a way to do that job where you go, okay, is this whole area okay? And is this whole area okay? And it's like, where would you feel not comfortable? Where would you. Like, just. But you don't have to. Every single time they move their hand, go.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But you know what, though? I mean, I agree with you, but I'm sure there's an example of, like, on a set where somebody said, I was cool with this leg and not this leg, and there's a lawsuit or whatever, and it's like, yeah, so they're checking all their boxes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But also, like, the opposite of that, of, like, there's been some. Almost definitely a guy, like, actor who's just taken absolute liberties when there hasn't been an intimacy course.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, totally. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So we just gotta mitigate for the worst people alive.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

These are the rules for, you know, like, the.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The Weinstein type people and everyone else. But I can imagine if you are really, you know, acting in, like, a. Talking like an Oscar movie or something, and you have your method, and there's someone just, like, over your shoulder being like, can't do this, can't do that. You know, it's probably got to be a kind of a buzzkill for the. The craft, if you will.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

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[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

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[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Wonder if it's I don't change and the only thing I change is like a Reference that people won't get. Like, none of it is a local thing. Like, the offensiveness of the darkness of the humor or anything. Like, I'm doing the jokes that I've written and that's what's happening. But it's like, you know. Well, what's interesting is, like, American comedians can come to the UK and go like, oh, I was at Walmart the other day, and we go. I can understand. I know what that is. But they go like, blah, blah, blah, Alabama. And we go, yeah, we pick up trucks.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Whereas I think the other way around, there's less of a sort of cultural awareness. If I'm like, oh, is it Tesco?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, I wouldn't know. That means you.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's not a Walmart.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I could guess that's what it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Sounded like, but I don't know for sure. Sorry, we don't know your stores, bro.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't know, man.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Well, I had one the other day where I changed the name. Like, I said, I referenced Pure Gym as, like, a specifically, like, type of gym, and I just, like, changed it to Jim because I was like, I don't know if they have Pure Gym. And then walked out of the venue and walked past the Pure Gym. Immediately I was like, so that's the only thing. I honestly don't think there's a. Especially when it's like your own show. Like, I did my own show at New York Comedy Festival at Union hall, and it was, like, sold out, like, pretty well in advance. So I'm like, oh, these people, they know what's going on. Like, this is going to be fine. But when I'm doing sets, I'll maybe, like, you know, I won't talk about, like, the conflict in Northern Ireland as much.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No one wants to hear an Italian guy talk about that anyway, so off, man.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, But I've been having fun. I just walk on stage. I've been here since Thursday, so I've been there for, like, four days. And I walk on and go. American audiences are very, like, unashamedly enthusiastic. Like. Like, they seem very ready to, like, on your side. Yeah, good job, buddy. Yeah. So I walk on and go. It's my very first time in New York. Thank you for having me. And, like, immediately they're like, that is so great.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You're so brave.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And then. And then I just, like, undercut the whole thing by going, it's great to be here for the rise of communism.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Dude. The dramatics over this. The mayoral race was, like, the greatest entertainment of all time.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was like, it was stuff.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, it really was.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, this is a storyline, man.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But I. I saw somebody. I wish I could remember his name, but he did a. He did a video being like, like the Fall of New York. Like, I'm in Mandami's New York, and it was like a girl walking her dog and it said, like, keep your dogs off the grass. But the dog was on the grass.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You know, dogs on the grass, purge.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's like, guess what? Nothing's really going to change.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And the next guy will come in.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And nothing will change there either.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I just love the idea. I've been doing a bit about, like, the people who think it's going to be an Islamic extremist, communist, like, state from now on. I'm like, what would that even. Yeah, those, like, they chop up a journalist, but everybody gets a bit. But it's fun as well because it's so funny in America. Like, your politics definitely skews further right than the stuff in the uk. So the people that get called communists in America, we're like, they would be.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

They're like right wing in your world.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Center, right. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I've been saying that lately, like, noticing, watching older movies that, like, the insults to conservatives or liberals doesn't change. It's always, you're a socialist or you're a communist versus you're a racist or a xenophobe.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I was like, that doesn't change. But the. The middle ground does change.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

A lot throughout time.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The Overton Window or whatever, you know.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, the Overton Window.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. Generally accepted. Like, that's what moves the.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

How did the show at Union hall go?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So sick. Super. Super fun.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Would it have been over the line for me to DM you and ask for tickets?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

No.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Good.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm back at Gramercy in May.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Okay.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I'm doing.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was trying to get tickets and.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I was always a fine dance.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

There are also times I have no.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Problem if someone were to do that to me. And then there are also times where I'm like, this is putting me in a weird spot. So you never know.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I. I'd ask, like, you, like most things in New York at bars, you can get into it. Like, you. Sometimes you have to pay, but, like, I can usually get a ticket to no matter anything. And I was trying to get a ticket to your fucking show. And I couldn't. I couldn't get. When I was asking jb, I was like, yo, can you reach out to managers? And I never heard back And I was like, Saturday afternoon, I was like, maybe I should just DM Vittorio.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And I think you absolutely should have. That would have been so easy. Like, even right before we opened doors, the venue staff were like, anybody else you want to.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, you could have just.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Damn.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I was like, may, I'm back, May. I'm doing, like, a whole tour of the US as long as my.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh, really? You got, like, a whole US Tour?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah. So I'm going around, like, all that. I think the plan is, like, Nashville, Chicago, Boston, Philly, New York, and then trying to go, like, do, like, Netflix is a joke. If not, I'll just do LA as like, a separate sort of like. Dude, that's awesome. Yeah. So exciting.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Have you done, like, a full US tour before?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

No. So this is my first time in, like, I went. I've been to America as, like, a kid or whatever, but I was exposed to, like, six months ago. But the visa got delayed because it was all like, just, like. Because they fired half of everybody.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

If you were trying to do anything administrative over the last year, I got backed up. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Completely.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Completely.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I had to, like, move on. So that all got, like, wiped out because the visa got delayed. So that moves to, like, the end.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

So you have to move that a full year.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, basically, because I have the UK and Ireland tours, like, January to April.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And, bro, why don't you just pay that, like, what is like a million bucks?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You get your gold card with his face.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Come on.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You didn't want to do that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

He's such a, like, cartoon character. And also, like, there definitely shouldn't be a million dollars, but he just likes the sound of it. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Million dollar gold card is great branding. I've always said it's like, it's a shame that he just became the leader of the free world, as we say here, because he's hilarious. I just don't want him, you know, Whether you like him or not like him, it's just like. Like, too much responsibility, too much pressure. I just want to watch him on reality TV because he's.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

This is the thing. Because he's, like, so funny when he says the craziest ever. Yeah, but no, he's saying the craziest ever about, like, such a changing global market. Serious things, bro. Like, oh, what do you think about Gaza? And he's like, what if it was a hotel? What are you doing?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't know if this made it, like, overseas, but when there was a big hurricane a few years ago and he asked about New Yeah. And I mean.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I mean that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That is something that, like sitting on the couch, like, smoking a joint, I would be like, do everything about blowing up a hurricane.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I don't know.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Maybe that would work.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't know.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And then someone says, no, it wouldn't. I go, okay, but it's a thought.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's just doing that at the.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I sort of know it wouldn't work, but I don't know why.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Why I.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

With that one in particular, I'm always like, I don't think we've gotten a hard answer.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, if we tried it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't think we really tried.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I think we.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't know. I'm not voting for it. But, like, I haven't heard a hard no. Like, I haven't heard that's a bad idea.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You know, that was like when, during COVID when he talked about, like, injecting bleach.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Can we just put the bleach in? Like, I can tell you that. Stupid. Blowing up a hurricane. I can't tell you.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I don't care enough about bombs or hurricanes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I leave the uranium out of it. Like, I'd fire a blank. But.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Shooting. Shooting at the wind. Unbelievable. That's the most American thing I've ever heard.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

The best man, the other day, he.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

He pardoned, I don't know, some terrible war criminal or some from China. And the guy on 60 Minutes is asking him about it and he goes like, why did you pardon Gpe Ling. Whatever his name is. And he goes, you ready for this one? I don't even know who he is. Literally like, are you ready for this?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't know. The guy felt like it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Amazing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Felt like it. That's right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Flip the coin.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Because I got a dope life, so I do dope.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Just go back to being enjoyable. God damn. He'd be a great. Like, could you. If he didn't. If he wasn't president during this comedy, like, golden era, he'd probably have a podcast and be doing a one man show or something.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Trump hosting Family Feud.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Terrible answer.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's a terrible answer.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Show me tits.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You. You were.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You're categories. Things you can gr.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You were your first jets game yesterday. First football game.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I can't explain how crazy of a time I've had in New York already. I feel like you probably don't have the phrase, like, jammy bastard. No, of just like, things just seem to have worked out for me for the past four days in a way that I'm like, how is. How's any of this happening.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Jammy Bastard.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, Jammy Bastard. Not to be confused with a fake jam, which is one of my favorite things to call somebody. So a fake jam is like an acronym, and it stands for fuck. I'm good. Just ask me. Yeah, somebody's a fake jam. It's good. But I've been. So. So I arrived on Thursday and I was like, I'm trying to make the most of my time in New York. Like, I'm here for a week doing the whole thing. So I. I was just saying yes to everything and applying to every gig I could find. So I ended up doing a show in Apollo Bagels.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, no shit. I didn't.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Super fun. And then ended up doing the second show after that because somebody was running late. So I did like five minutes on that and then got a ride with my buddy Andy Haynes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, yeah, he's great.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So he was on at the Cellar. He's like, jumping to show you all the rooms of the Cellar. And I was like, you mean my actual dream?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And then so we go to that, and I. I know a guy, Andrew Hankinson, who wrote a book about the Comedy Cellar. And the only reason I know him is because I, like, interviewed him on my podcast that nobody listened to, like, five, six years ago. Because I read the book. I was like, oh, I'd really like to talk to this guy. And I just sent him a picture of me and Daniel Sloss is in town, Scottish comedian. So we were hanging out at the Cellar, and we just sent him a picture of me like, oh, we're at the Cellar. Like, you wrote a book about this place? And then Hankinson replies like, oh, are you performing at the Cellar? And I was like, no. And then he was like, oh, would you want to?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And I was like, he got you up?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So he just emailed the owner, and I did an audition on Friday. And then two days into being in New York, I'm passed at the salad.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No way.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The stupidest.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Congratulations.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There are a handful of people probably watching this going, what should be.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's completely stupid. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I mean, talk about.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I mean, did you. Did you have a particularly good set?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Did you know it? Listen, it was a good five minutes, but it was mad because I found out 2pm on Friday, I got the email from Hankinson being like, do you want to do an audition tonight at 7:15? So I didn't have time to, like, run my five minutes or, like, get it ready or whatever. I was like, yep, here we go, Street. Like, the proper room. And then the owner, Esty is, like, sat on a stool at the back of the room. And then she, like, came off stage. She, like, took me by the hand, walked me upstairs. It was like, need your headshot email.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No way out, bro.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Here's the availability.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I mean, that's not. There's not a better cosign in, like, the world than being it's the best.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Comedy club in the world.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And, like, doing the five minutes was like, like, what a room that is. And it's one of those where nothing makes sense about what comedy rooms are the best comedy rooms. Because there's so many things wrong with that room. It's too wide. The half the chairs face the wrong direction. There's, like, servers walking through and there's like a door and there's like, maybe.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That'S why it work. So but this is the thing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's like, so. And then. But you're just on. And there's a mirror at the back of the room, so you're looking at yourself the whole time you're on stage. Maybe other people aren't staring directly into their own eyes the whole time, but I was. I was like, look at me. I'm doing it. But it's just such a crazy good atmosphere in there. It was unbelievable. So that was. Yeah, that was Friday. End up doing five sets that night. I'm not at the Cellar. I did like, Sash comedy, which is like, like, unbelievable rooms. Sort of more downtown. And then Sunday jets game, which was just two weeks ago. The jets is like uk, you know, the way, like, teams often have, like, a UK sort of fan page, but, yeah, run by the proper team. I got like an Instagram DM from them being like, oh, do you want to come to the jets while you're in town? And I was like, yeah, yeah. And I sort of thought it was like a fan club. I didn't realize it was the proper budget. And then I got asked to, like, go for a meeting with, like, because I'm meeting, like, some, like, American managers and stuff. Just, like, to see.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

What they do. And I was like, oh, I might have this meeting. Like, what time would I need to be there? And they were like, 11. And I was like, is this confirmed? They were like, yeah, yeah, we'll send you the tickets whenever. And I was like, so I can't or, like, move the meeting. And then the day before, I get an email from the New York Jets Celebrity Relations Corp. And I was like, who the am I? And it's like, here's Your pitch side pass. Here's your pass to like the, the 50 Club.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh, wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Which has like all free food, all free drinks like crazy. And I just show up with my mate Charlie who just works in like tech, and we show up and we're pitch side before the game and we're getting pictures and the jets posted a picture of me on their Instagram.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

No way.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Which is just my man. Charge. Just me and my man. Charlie was dumb. I like the, the celebrities that pitch said it was like me and Method Man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I, I, I don't need this in a disrespectful way, but boy, it's a bad season for the Jets.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Hey, we got.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Unfortunately, unfortunately we're out here trying to lose as much as we can. Now they're winning.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Did you enjoy the game?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I did. I, I enjoyed the game.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Punt return, kick return. Right, right. I mean he got a good game.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was end to end. You could sort of tell they both suck.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, like, like if I were to go watch European football. So yeah, I, I would not know, know enough about what's going on, but I think I could pick out the jets of that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

This feels a while like a Jets game.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Well, every touchdown it was like. It didn't feel like they worked super hard for that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Did you see Justin Fields Day?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I didn't see anything.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

His, his in for the whole game. 6 of 11 for 54 yards. They won.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He, he had negative yards last.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I know, I know. So that's actually a big step up. But I was like, that's, that was not a drive. That was not a series. That was the game.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And, but they had a kick return and a punt return. So they, and like nine points off field goals. So it was like. I don't. The Browns suck to lose to the way, the fact that they lost that game with the way the jets played is like.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Incomprehensible.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I did make a little bit of a dick out of myself. Early doors, like the, the warm up like pitch side thing. All the players were wearing like 74 and like running around. I was like, sort of turned to the lady who was like. And I was like, what the going on with this 74 thing? That's kind of stupid. And she was like, oh, this guy. Like this guy died. He was only 40 and he sort of was reaching out for a kidney transplant. And I was like, all right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He would have laughed at that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

No, I can say with certainty he would laugh at that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

So you're good then.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was hard because the guy giving like the biggest speech like the memorial speech because they were sort of honoring him that day. Like we're just not used to American athlete names and it like popped up on the big screen and me and Charlie were like like like try and like everybody's there like hand on heart like heads by like it's so sad. But the guy's name was de Bricashaw and I, I was like what looks sad?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Ferguson is an all time even even by American standards. That was always one we were.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

We got a kick out of. I like how you called it an American athlete name. We call it a black name.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There's some good ones man. There was God's gift was a great one if we were really to run down some of the best American. Yeah it was. It was God's gift. And then his son, his. His brother's name was like it was a whole family affair like everyone had a name that was related to God or whatever. God, sham God. We've had some great ones out there.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

God damn guy was a good one.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah because I have like a weird like I don't really know anything about NFL or American football or like football but my only like in on it how I vaguely know like slightly the rules or how it works is years and years ago on the Nintendo GameCube me and my brothers for some reason bought NFL Street Volume 2 and loved it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's the most those games are the most playable. You don't have to know the sport.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's just two lads on a tennis court.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Bomb dude. I got bizarrely obsessed with Matt like Light to the Patriots I was like he's the biggest ever Matt Light played.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

In the Super bowl on two torn ACLs once yeah lost that super bowl but.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Exhibit was in it like yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah Took a break from pit my.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Ride to go do the I I did a couple years ago now maybe three years ago something like that I went to. I flew to London with a buddy and went to Liverpool man city at Liverpool big and dude it was. It was a year like Liverpool had started out like oh and five Holland had just gotten on man city so.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It was like maybe like three years ago.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah yeah and it was a big game we went. It was awesome insane day and like I came home Liverpool or at man at man at Liverpool.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's much better.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah and so we come we. We got into the most impressive part of the whole day. Liverpool won one nothing Solana breakaway. It was great but the impressive part of the day was we Were at a bar across the street from Anfield. And I. From that bar, that bar seat, to my seat in the stadium took me five minutes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Which is insane. You can't hear of that in America.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Really.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Are you guys not trying to blow up the stadiums?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You guys. Are there no terrorists going into yours?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Because I. I got on the fly, I got on the flight. I come, I'm calling my parents coming home. I'm like, they got it figured out in London.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'm like, there's no. No guns, no nothing. They don't even have to check security. It's so easy. Yeah. That's how sports are supposed to be consumed. It's just about the purity of the sport. Like, it's not all ads and shit like that. And then I landed. Went to a Monday Night Football game of the jets, and there were. It was a full. The full field was an American flag. They were beat. Bombers flying over the field. And I was going, never mind. This is sports. Fuck those guys.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like, that enormous American flag is so.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Did you see to start the jets season, some guy. We still have not gotten to the bottom this. I don't even know. Maybe that video is AI. Because it doesn't make sense. He got stuck on top of it, not under it. Somehow he was on top.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's crawling.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, he wasn't, like, quite in the middle, but he was a good distance, so he had to crawl on the flag and, like, roll over. And it's like, oh, I. Fucking jets, man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Regularly talked about that video because the, like, the start of it, you know how, like, they all run out with the flag?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Right. And so, like, let's say you and I are standing to next. Next to each other, and I'm. I'm panicking before we run out. And you looked at me and you went, dude, what's wrong? And I was like, I'm scared I'm gonna get stuck on top of the flag. You'd be like, bro, not even.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's not even a possibility.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Ever done that in the world.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Like, you can worry about falling under it maybe, but you couldn't do that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

If you tried to do that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And then 30 seconds later, I'm stuck on top of the flag like a.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Turtle on your back.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Look at this guy just crawling his way.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Oh, no, I'm. What's so funny is, like, you guys, it's just less of a thing for us of, like, the flag thing. Like, he couldn't stand up because that would have been like, don't Tread on.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Take our flag very seriously.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's being very respectful. He was rolling off the fl.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. What's worse? Like, come on.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Sorry. We love our country, man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then my, my mad arrival in New York continued. Last night I went to see a like an Irish band called Bird, which my mate who like my mate books the music of the dead rabbit, like in like a really cool Irish bar. And it's like Bird, who's Mike's housemate, Lisa can, who recently had to take him to hospital cuz he had a sore tummy and he got an ambulance cuz he had a sore tummy. It's crazy. No, ambulances don't cost money where we're from.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I know you guys, you guys treat them like Ubers.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, we call those things willy nilly.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But yeah. So Lisa Can's band, Bird be Bird with two eyes. We're playing and we show up and I'm like hanging out. There's a few different Irish people I sort of know from like Instagram and all that and whatever. And then Ed Sheeran comes out and sings like three folk songs to 60 people in a pub.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Get the up. You're having the ultimate last night.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Cuz I was gonna say I like live, live New York. Think live music in New York is like really not a thing. Oh wow. There's very. I mean, how many bars would you say? Really?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I mean it's a thing. It's certainly not like Nashville or anything like that. But like it's usually like you got.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

To go to like a music.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like Terminal 5 or closet.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And there's a very stage. It's not just sort of happening.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's very. I mean. And like really, you know, I'm sure there's more than I realize, but like popular ones that people want to go to. It's really like a handful of them maybe.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's crazy.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, because like packed like like 60, 65 people in this bar.

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[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was crazy.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I think a Sheer. Ed Sheeran's the man. Some we. We remember we had a guy in here a couple. Couple years ago who was it? Can't remember his name, but he was like on Ed Sheeran saying that he was kind of like a. I don't remember that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I mean, it's completely like bubblegum pop. Like. It is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, but bubblegum pop's awesome.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But also, I mean, it is, but like, there's no doubt in my mind that Ed Sheeran can write and perform like any type of music. You know what I mean?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like, yeah, he's incredibly talented guy, obviously. And he's, you know, he's like got an album prepared for after he dies. Is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

No.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So he's like, like, I think he's still like sort of halfway through it, but he records something like every year to like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I would recommend putting that out when you're alive.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But yeah. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But he's got the post because, you know, his albums at the minute are like, play, pause, yeah, stop, whatever. And supposedly the dead one is going to be called Eject.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Brilliant.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So good.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You know what I would do? I would make a purposely shitty album.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. And be like, I know there's gonna.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Be die hard music fans. Be like, this is brilliant.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The most defensive, like, he's dropping the nword, like the whole way.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Rick Ross said I could say it. That guy's the man.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

So like, I. I hate to break it to you though. Like, New York is not gonna. It's not that awesome. Like, the next time you come, it's gonna suck, man.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm gonna bump into Bruce Springsteen later.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's my plan.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And I haven't even done, like, touristy stuff. I went to Times Square. No, don't do that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Don't do the touristy stuff.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's like Billboards. Times Square is like, do you know that sort of awful, like, anxious feeling you get in your chest when you like scroll on Tick Tock or Instagram for too long? Times Square is like that real life.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You're just like, jesus Christ. It's fucking capitalism, dude.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You use the exact word. I see when I'm in the center of New York, I. I am like, like, encouraged, inspired, I guess, where I'm like, this is the center of capitalism. Like, I actually. Money personified, I think, because I've been told for all the time I've been in New York, which is like close to 10 years. Like, it's the worst. It's the worst. It's the worst. And it's not good. I'm not arguing that. But when I'm there, I am, I am awestruck.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You like it.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You say I like it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I, I'm like, It is like. I'm like, wow, wow. This is like, this is where TRL was like. I just love that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's like the NASDAQ exchange and then like Red Lobster, like the, the naked cow. It's just like, there's like a fever.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

About it that I like. I don't like it. I'm not like saying Times Square is awesome. It's not. But there's something about it that kind of just gives me like, ah, this is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But you know what? I remember, I'm so, that's why I'm so stunned. They just tried to pass a casino here and it got, got, like shut down the vote, which is so crazy.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And it's like, that's where we draw the line.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's not like we tried to put a casino in some like, hipster part of Brooklyn where there's like culture. This is a casino. Lights and money. So just build another one.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, that actually. Yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

They drew the line.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I didn't know that. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That is surprising.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I wouldn't even notice if they put a casino.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's what I mean. It's like, what, what's the problem?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Spiritually assume there is one there.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, right. Totally.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

There should be somewhere you can go, like, gamble your life, life away there. You can spend money on other useless stuff. You'd probably be better putting it into a slot machine.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You got a shot of winning there.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You're gonna pay like, you know, like 50 bucks for shitty appetizer at Red Lobster. Put it on black. Whatever, dude.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there anything I should do? I've done like a, I went to Joe's Pizza and it's fine. Like, I don't like. It's good. Like, John's is better.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

John's a bleer.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh, I thought you said Joe's, not Jo.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, I walked past John's like tit on the way here.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

The line's crazy though.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. There was a line.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'll get a little secret off off air.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Okay.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You can order it online.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Okay. Okay.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The only thing, there's also a lot of places that are good to like. I, I, I don't think any of the really good spots are worth waiting on a line.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I agree.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Because you can get maybe one that's a little bit lower, but not a two hour wait or whatever, you know?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

All all those Tik Tok lines, you'll see them at, like, the Crumble.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, there's those in London as well. There's insane.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It's just not worth it.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's a breakfast.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I actually. I don't know if I like, have something I would, like, recommend.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh, yeah, I'm the worst. Like, I. I've lived here my whole life and people will be like, oh, I'm coming to town. Like, where should I go? I couldn't tell you, man. I don't know what bars are popular anymore. I don't know what restaurants are popping. I don't know. The only, Like, I lived in this neighborhood, I could. I know that. I don't know the other boroughs. I don't even know the other parts of Manhattan.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

So when I'm in, when. When I have guests come to New York or friends come to New York and I ask what to do, I always tell them, go to a conference comedy show. Yeah, you got that one.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Pretty, pretty. Well, I saw it. Well, this was the other thing, like, when I was going around the different rooms. Andy. I saw Nikki Glazer run her snl.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Dude.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So night one, I'm in New York. I'm watching the SNL monologue two days before it comes out.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Dude, that. When you get that, like a drop in like that, like, I saw Hassan Minhaj do his White. White House correspondence dinner.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I thought that was so fucking cool.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's so exciting. So exciting.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Nikki, that Nikki smashed that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That was great.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And it was funny. Andy had to go after, like, had to follow her doing the SNL model and he just walks on and goes. I thought I was hosting snl.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That is a great way to follow. Wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Crazy way to find out.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

How is Andy? We haven't seen Andy in a while.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

How'd you guys meet? We played like soccer together in London because he was in London for a bit and yeah, is really into soccer. So there's like a comedians, like five aside or seven aside soccer game that happens weekly.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Oh, that's cool.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's in London and he just, like, showed up a couple times, so we sort of knew each other.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's cool.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

From that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Hell, yeah. I forget what he was in London for, but I remember because he's a big Arsenal guy, right?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Is he a big Arsenal guy?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I think he is. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Maybe.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'm pretty sure.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And I remember.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

So who's your squad?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I'd be like, Glasgow Celtic, which is in the Scottish League and is more to do with sort of like Sectarian violence than football. But if I had to. If I had to pick, like an English team would be Liverpool.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

What is, what is the perception over there of the Ryan Reynolds team?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I heard a mad thing about that recently. So I think that was quite a wholesome story in and of itself. And then all of a sudden people have realized that may. They made a lot of money off, like, the documentary and stuff. And apparently the company that did that, and maybe it's like the management company as well, are going around, like, Latin America trying to find their. Finding, like celebrities in, like, Mexico and Chile and all these places and getting them to buy, like, a local sort of rundown soccer team. And then because they know they'll be able to make a documentary which will make them loads of money. So like, people are advising their, like, acting clients, this could be the next big football.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Instead of getting a new tequila, now you have a soccer team.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Exactly. So it's this new. It's exactly what we're talking about. Right. The sort of copycat thing of, like, it'll probably work. Yeah, that's the thing. Absolutely.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Well, and, like, it'll probably work. Like, like, same with tequila. Like, there was, there was Clooneys and then like a couple others, and now I feel like it's kind of run its course. Yeah, you probably get like two or three more football clubs and then that'll become old hat. And then tried it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Brady. Brady did it. It did not work.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, because he's a weirdo.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's a, he's a weirdo.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And I, I almost think if Ryan Reynolds did it now, I don't know if it would work. I think when he did it, he, it was like the perfect time. He was big enough, but he wasn't like a weirdo yet. That you gotta. It's got to become across, like, somewhat genuine. I think eventually they're just gonna start buying people.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I think Michael Hannity helped with that. Ryan Reynolds, because people see Rob McElhenney as a much more normal guy for sure than.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I don't know how much longer that's.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Gonna say Rob McClint was. Rob Mack, I think is on his way. Yeah, he's into the weird. Like, you know, Ryan Reynolds.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He also. I, I, and I like Rob Mack. I'm a humongous fan of Always Sunny. I've had a very nice time. We've met him. He came on the show. So when he came on the show, I know you're gonna say we, we were overcome with how good a celebrity he was. Like, he came in and he knew the podcast, but he only knew, like, the last two episodes, which, again, none of this. I mean, critical of Rob, like, this is all impressive.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah. Most people come on and don't know anything about us, but, yeah, he. You could tell. He watched the last two episodes. He knew that, like, Miller Light was our beer sponsor and was like, can we go to Miller Light? And I was like, oh, yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I thought it was like, wow.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Rob McElhenny knows us and loves us. Like, Rob McElhenny got, like, a cheat sheet on us.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. Classy celebrity stuff. And it is definitely, like, his publicist did the leg work and was like, here's this.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Absolutely. And I want to be very clear, like, I. I do not mean this negatively, because I think everyone should do that. Like, if you have a good manager, you should be doing that. That's how you should come into the show. But we walked away being like, we're best friends with Rob.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The absolute greatest of all time is Kevin Hart. Kevin. Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart. He could walk in the room and spit on me, and I'd be like, that's. Yeah, that checks out. He's that good. And he was like, we. I think we talked to him twice. And the second time, he was like, great to see you guys again. Like, how's that thing you're doing? What's going on with this? That and the other.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

After the podcast, he went. He went, man, you guys get funnier every time. And I, like, I remember that to this day, where I was like, kevin Hart thinks I've gotten funny. He has no idea.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I almost promise you, he says that to literally that exact phrase. You get funnier every time.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But that's again, like, I don't mean that negative. Like, that's impressive. Impressive.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Is it crazy? Kevin Hart, like, basically lived in Belfast for a while. Did he really kept showing up at Belfast comedy clubs when he was boy.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

When he was, like, superstar.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

This was two, maybe three years ago, shooting a film in, like, near Belfast. And then the first time he showed up to, like, dropped in at one of the comedy clubs, the whole city was like, what the. And then. So funny. The Belfast is so, like, protective of their own stars. This guy, Patty McDonald, who's a real, like, Belfast. Belfast comedian who got bumped off the lineup so that Kevin Hart could headline instead of him. And people complained to the club because Patty McDonald wasn't on. I bought tickets to say. But then he, like, Like. But what was mad as he kept trying to do it, like, unannounced so there would be, like, secret headline show happening here. And everyone was like, well, it's Kevin Hart.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's not Patty McDonald. We know that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was crazy. The guy who, like, run before him, like, he would just have to be on stage, and then eventually somebody would, like, flash a light. But you didn't know. You could be doing, like, 10 or you could be doing, like, 40. Oh, they're just like, go. Just keep.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Keep going.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And then he pulls up in, like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

A armored truck Bentley or something.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Comes in on stage, off stage. See you later.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I mean, he does. What was he doing in a movie?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Shoot a movie, and then was just, like, working on his new show, I guess. But that. That American thing, like, rock up. Like, I opened for Michael J In London a couple times. Haven't met him.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Him. No way.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I haven't met him. Walked on stage, shook hands. By the time I'd, like, closed up the show after his. He was.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

He was gone.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Really?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Did. Did, like, have you even, like, spoken to him or was, like, his team? No interaction with him at all?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Nope.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Not even a message or anything.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Wow.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Chase.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Chase. A weird one, because Che came on our. On this show and he had, like, never done a podcast before. Or, like. I forget if it was. He'd never done one or.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

What a privilege.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

What a blessed existence.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

When you're the head writer snl, you don't have to do. But he came on, and then he was so complimentary afterwards. It kind of, in a Kevin Hart sense, but where he was like. He's like, is this what podcasts are? This is fun.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. And then we've never seen him again on this podcast or any other.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I forgot that. That was like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I can't believe that happened. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Credit for that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That was the. I missed out a mad bit of my New York story. I went to the SNL after party.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Get out of here, bro.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Let me just tell you something real quick. If you have these stories to choose from, don't lead with the Jets. Go with the SNL after party with the superstars.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Great guy.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Tell me about the SNL after party, dude.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Crazy.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Was it wild?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Do they do that in the same.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Is it different? They, like, announced the value like. Like, after the show every. Every weekend. And it gets sort of, like, leaked or whatever.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But it was like. Like, a friend of mine said she'd be able to get me in. And then my night, my agent in America was like, oh, I can get you on the guest list for that. And then we, like, Our walk.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I think his agent's awesome.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You, dude, it's your age. Getting you in here, getting you in there. Keep going.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then walk up and the. As we're walking up to the door, James Cordon walks in before us. And I was like, all right, that's stupid. So we're walking up, and then my friend goes in front of. And they're like, what's your name? And they, like, scroll through the iPad and they're like, yeah, and a plus one. Yeah. And then I'm like, in the next sort of batch of people. And I woke up and I'm like, I'm Vittorio. And they went, yeah, yeah. And I went, who the am I? What the am I?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It sounds like a movie or something.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like, New York loves me. I don't know what to do.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I'm hosting this new mayor. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But it's funny because they're currently auditioning for the Square SNL uk, Like, the first ever series. Oh, no, I didn't. They're doing a UK version. So, like, Laur been in London and, like, watched showcases.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I'm actually surprised it took this long to do that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, it seems like they sort of missed the book.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I would think by now it would be in, like, every continent.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

All over the world's, like, there's funny people in England. What the. We let women do it now we gotta let the Brit.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

They got Jews over there. Yeah. So I've done, like, some of the audition process for, like, that stuff, and it's still, like, they haven't, like, made any decisions yet.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I wonder if it'll be as horrendously toxic as it is in here in America.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Oh, massively. And I was going. It was funny. I. And then, like, I walked in and a couple of, like, the UK producers were there, obviously, because they're, like, checking in and, like, doing whatever. And I walked in and, like, ended up, like, in their group conversation, they turn around and were like, what the fuck are you doing here? Because they've just been watching, like, my tips. And then one of the American producers came over and she's like, oh, yeah, I saw your tape. Blah, blah, blah. Very funny. And then I was telling them about the comedy seller and, like, how crazy of a time I was having in New York. And. And the American. One of the American producers of SNL was like, oh, what's the audition like? I was like, you just do, like, five minutes. And they were like, who's it in front of? And I was like, they do this crazy thing where they have an audience because you. Because they make Everybody going to 30 Rock to an empty, enormous.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It's got to be the hardest thing.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

In the world to do.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That we did, like, a version of In London, but it didn't have this, like, pressure of being on the SNL stage. It was just in some TV studio that didn't really feel like anything, but huge empty room, table of producers trying not to laugh over there. And you do it down a camera over here.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I remember watching. I always think of Will Ferrell's audition because that. I think that one kind of, like, is out there.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Is that, like, the briefcase one?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I think.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Or he's. Yeah, I think the one he's on the grill and I haven't seen. He was just like. He did it all, and he acted it all out. And with. You know, you can hear a pin drop in the room. And it still was funny and still was good.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It was like, there's a story of. Because aside from the, like, audition, there's a story of him going into maybe, like, a meeting where they, like, like, are gonna either offer it to him or, like, say that he hasn't made it. And he walked in with a briefcase filled with cash and, like, put it on the table and opened it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

What a legend.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The so good.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

The my favorite SNL audience story. Reminds me of what you said kind of to start the show when you. How comedy has so many different forms of it. Like music. And it was Bill Hader and Andy Samberg riding the elevator up together. And Hayter saw that Sandberg had a bunch of props. Yeah, yeah. And immediately started panicking, being like, oh, my God, I didn't bring any props. I'm an idiot. Like, I'm gonna look like a fool up there. Sandberg saw that hater didn't have any props, and started thinking, oh, my God, he doesn't need props. Yeah, I'm gonna look like a up here. They both got out there, both smoked it, both got the job. And the ultimate story is. Do your thing. Yeah, do your thing.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Right? Whatever you're good at, man.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Well, the whole time, I was like. Like, from the jump of applying for SNL uk, I was like, I want to do Weekend Update. I don't want to do anything else. I'd like to do Weekend Update. Thank you. I was just like. Because that's the gig I want, and that's the gig I'm suited to in that show. Like, I'm not a character guy. I'm not really a sketch guy. And I was like, I think I'd.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Be just like current event jokes. Kind of your jam. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that. That did. Did you get any time with Nikki at the party? Was she there?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

No, I didn't. Like there's just a million people there and you're sort of like bouncing around between all these people. And again like just my buddy Aaron McCan who's like from Tyrone and lives in New York and like he is a comic. But I was just like, got a plus one for the SNL after party. Do you want to come? So it's just us too walking around going, hello folks. Hi, bro.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Your weekend here could have been like a movie. Just like a quick TV episode or something.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I don't know. I don't know how. I'm not pro. I might book an earlier flight home.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The next thing is you're going to.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Get like hit by a cab.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

All it's got to balance out Subway.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'm such a chancer now. I think I've gotten cocky like cuz I emailed the woman like the celebrity relations coordinator at the New York jets and I was like, had such a fun time at the game the other day. Do you know anyone at the Knicks?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Garden's a little bit different. You're on a heater.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You are on a heater. They'll be like, let me see if we can bump Shalamet for you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's a little different.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I'll be stopped beside ban still. You win, you win.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't doubt it. I don't doubt the heater you're on. Anything's possible. Would you ever live here?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I don't think so. If you did, would you?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

New York, Louisiana.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I think I haven't been there. Austin. Sorry, I'm not quite transphobic enough. You mean Austin the. Say a slur, get an applause break.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I've been guilty of like saying that too. I bet that's getting a little bit blown out of proportion too though.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

For sure.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There's some great comics.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Comics. I met Cam Patterson.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

After party. Super chill, guys. And there's so many people coming through. Like, I think Kill Tony is like good for comedy and terrible for comedy. Sort of in like equal measure of like this is wrestling. It's the comedy version of wrestling. But some really legitimately brilliant comedians do get a big platform from this. And somebody like Cam getting on like that never happens without Kill Tony. And that's like a really.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Sure.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's a very exciting thing. So I think, look, I don't think I'll move to New York. It was right. As soon as I got past the seller and, like, told a couple comics, they were like, so you moving? And I was like, no, everybody moves after they get past the seller. And I was like, like, okay, yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But you know what?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's. As soon as you said it, I was like, oh, victorious. Moving.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I mean, you could obviously make the case of why you. Why you should do that, but it's kind of more of what we were just talking about, where it's, like, true. I know I'm in London. I'm from Ireland. I'm like, this is my world.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Well, Aaron does a crazy thing. So Aaron McCann, who I was at the SNL thing with, he lives in New York, but travels back to Belfast one week of every month. Month to batch record a weekly podcast. Because that's a really big podcast back home. Bomb Squad podcast. And that funds him to stay in here.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, I think it's kind of like what Bert and Tom do. Like, Burt will fly into Austin and do 10 episodes. Two Bears.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Exactly. But I think, like, I will come to New York semi regularly now because I know I've got that sort of like, it's.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It's gone.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So what if they passed?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You being like, he's not gonna be here.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, yeah, he showed up.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then, like, I was talking to a guy, Jamie Wolf, and, like, a couple other comics. Like, even Andy, I like, maybe I'll do, like, an apartment swap where it's like, I'm in New York for a month there. In London for a month. Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Let me tell you what, that would be a great content series if you guys were to, like, film that and put that out.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Comic swap would be unreal.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

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[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Do you feel like it's almost like a different. A different Internet that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like what. What, like, is it?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I mean, it's. You know, I. I feel like. I feel this way with different languages. Like when you speak a different language in a different country. There could be a podcast, a show. A what A, A person, whatever who's like mega famous over there. And we would have no idea.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, for sure.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Is that it's still like that even.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Though it's all Smith, the card work guys.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah. Like so he, he was like a icon over there.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Arenas everywhere really. Arenas everywhere. But he doesn't do any TV stuff. So it's just there's online thing. But my algorithm is very, very stand up comedy and very American comedy. So it's been actually quite nice, sort of like cheat code almost to like chat to people at comedy clubs here. Because I've seen clips of basically everybody, right. So like I just walk up and go, oh, that was a really funny joke.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And that. No better way to start talking to a comedian than being like, your joke's great. This joke's very funny. And the number of them that were like, yeah, I should repost that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was like, this industry's fuck, dude.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

If there's one thing I've learned, learned from, you know, getting, being blessed to be able to talk to everybody is like even, even the really successful ones are still like, I gotta post this.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Clip and I gotta get this, I gotta sell this ticket.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And I'm like, you know, I, I, Unless you've make it made it to like the tippy top. I feel like most comics are still worrying about the next gig, the next ticket, the next episode.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And so it takes when the does this stop. It's been good hanging out with Daniel Sloss because he's like, I don't get sales up dates. Like, he's just like, he just knows it's. They let me know if I need to post about a certain thing, but there's no point in me. And I think that's the, I'd like to get to that point. But I'm still so caught up in the like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But what, what's always funny is like you probably could get to that level at like this size room.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But you're going to keep going. You know what I mean? But it's like if you could get to a point. I just always think it's funny when you know, you're, you're, you're at one point in your career, you're like, if I could sell out a room with 300 people every time, I would be thrilled. Yeah. And then you get there and you're.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Like, I probably had three years.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's like, well, that theater's Nice.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It just never stops.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

There's a guy actually talking about, like, comedians who are big in the UK that no American will have heard of. There's a guy called Daniel Kitson, who is my favorite comedian by far. Like, he is unbelievable. He sort of does these, like, narrative shows. First time I ever saw my friend was like, I'm gonna take you to see this show. Didn't even tell me it was a comedy show. I hadn't. I had just started doing stand up. And he was like, I'm gonna take you to this show. And I was like, what is it? And he's like, don't worry. Like, just come to the show and experience it. We walk in. It's in a place called the Camden Roundhouse, which is, like, I think 800 or 900 people, like, in the round circular stage in the middle. And there's a microphone, like, sat on the, like, state, like, on the floor on the stage. And we all sort of come in and there's signs that say, like, oh, if you leave to go to the bathroom. Like, the show's two hours long. If you go to the bathroom, you'll be sat at the back when you come. When you come back in. Just so it's not, like, disrupting the thing.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, yeah, sure.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And this guy, Daniel Kitson, walks out in, like, a cool vintage suit. And then, like, Converse All Stars, picks up the microphone from the stage. Lights come up on one side. He tells, like, five minutes of a story into those lights. And then he turns around, lights go down over there. Lights up on the other side. Tells five minutes of a different story over that way. Lights go down, like, six different stories. And then he's like, five minutes, that one. Five minutes, that one. Five minutes, that one. Five minutes, that one. Like, nailing the story.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And then the portions get shorter and shorter and shorter. So it was like 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minute, 30 seconds, 20 seconds, 10 seconds, 10 seconds, 10 seconds. Like, 5 seconds. Like, and literally, like, by the end, it's like two seconds of this story story. But all the stories have, like, wow, become one story. Two hours long. No interval, no nothing. Finishes the last story. They all, like, tie up together. He goes, thanks very much. Puts the microphone back down, box.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Get out of here.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And it was some of the, like, punchiest, funniest. Stand up.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

What was this I've ever seen?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Daniel Kitson. Daniel doesn't have social media. Refuses to have an agent. Had an agent attack them. Refused to have a manager. Doesn't do posters like is just has.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

This word of mouth, like mailing list.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And word of mouth and he can sell out like big rooms all around the uk but he just like. And he keeps his ticket prices crazy low. Like if he's doing a new material like work in progress show, it's like the equivalent would be like $7.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Wow.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

For a ticket.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I feel like you either gotta play the game or not play the game. Like intentionally. Yeah. Because otherwise you're just, just kind of being an idiot.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Don't use these. You have all these tools at your disposal. You're not using. Whereas he's like, I'm not using them on purpose.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I tell you what I hate is like comedians going on Instagram being like, oh, I have to do a video about this show.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And as an audience member you're a bit like, like either living your dream, you know, you want people to come, you think this is. And it's difficult. And I think maybe like Americans culturally find it easier to be like, come see my show. It's really good. Whereas in the UK it's a bit like, it's fine.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Oh, that was always. It was fine. I worked hard on it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I used to be.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. I think it's pretty good. That, that is.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That feels like more of an LA thing. Is that like a decent read?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Well, I actually, I think it's also.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

A self esteem thing. It's not necessarily regional. It's like, do you like yourself or not?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

But there was some New York comic we've had on who came in and they were, they were saying that like every New York comedy crew needs one LA comedy guy. Because all the New York comedy guys are just like depressed and smoke cigarettes and they're like, it's fine, whatever, I don't care.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Whereas LA comedy guys come in. They're like, we reinvented the genre.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Was there. I've always, I've been saying that probably for the last. I guess it's like 10 years now, but I guess maybe more so like five. There was a real boom in comedy in general. Yes. Everyone's getting specials. Podcasts are making millions. Like icons are being made. Was. Is it the same vibe over there?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I think we're sort of catching up to it. Like the have A Word podcast in Liverpool. They're like, they were the first. They were sort of the pioneers of the independent come. Like comedian produced.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Podcast. And they're huge. They've got like 27, 000 Patreon subscribers and they're like big studio in Liverpool and like, have really built that thing, like Adam Rowan dad over there. And they had me on like super early and. But super, like generous to me. And then sort of again, there were sort of copycats of that podcast that look very similar to their setup and like, do that sort of thing. And then like, Mike and I wanted it to like, feel different to that big production. Like loads of cameras.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So we have like one camera, just us in my apartment.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, it's how it should be, bro.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Just those sort of around and that's sort like, look, I think part of the thing, what we were saying earlier of like being like, there's a difference between like a copycat thing and being like, inspired by other people. And we all have influences. We all have stuff that we enjoy consuming, whether it's for our stand up or for our podcasts. And you just need there to be enough of them that you become a mix of all of those things.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That you really, really.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You're just picking one.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

You know, there's people who'd be like, oh, your podcast looks like Matt and Shane's.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Podcast. I'm like, yeah, we're both fans of Matt Shane, but we're fans of Cometown and we're fans of have a Word. And we like, like, you know, Tom Segura and all these slightly different podcasts. And it's just like, oh, that's all your own voices, dude. Is a combination of everybody else's voices that you like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

It's funny you say that because we. We just did Something's Burning on Bird show and I was talking about literally exactly that where, like, I think Bert had brought up, like, commenters or something like that. And I was like, I was like, my biggest thing with getting away from them or one of my biggest things was like, I would. I hated. I hated being told I was copying somebody. Somebody.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

So I was like, I'm not being. I'm not copying. Yeah. I was inspired by them.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And I am trying to do something similar, but like the just the word copy, it's like, I'm not copying. Yeah. Anything. And like, it wouldn't be like, it wouldn't be a ton of people saying it. It would just be like a comment.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Saying, like, it just cuts through.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And that would bother me so much.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Just because, like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I like, because we were both right, you know, I mean, that's what pissed me off is like, they were right, but they were just. They were taking the negative of it. Whereas, like, you're right, like, I did see this there. And I did. I am trying to do something similar, but, like, the outright copy bothered me.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There's also so many. There's only so many ways that, like, a couple white guys on a podcast can look. We have black chairs, you have brown chairs type thing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It goes in waves. I find it with stand up. If I, like, get really into somebody stand up, I end up going, like. I mean, the number of people holding the mic with two hands and going the gillicisms is, like, hilarious.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's got to be such a feeling when. When you set the trend like that. Like, yeah, you know, it's like, that's me.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then there's been, like, a few in the. In the uk. I like, I've been guilty. I've been guilty of doing, like, the Gillis thing because I was like, when that Austin special came out, it was like, the biggest thing ever. Like, God, this is class. I saw. I went to see him in Glasgow in. I think I caught it just before. It went absolutely crazy for him. I saw him in Glasgow in a 200 seat.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And I was in the second row, and I laughed so hard. Do you know his joke from his Netflix special where he talks about, like, the way the Taliban, like, react when they blow something up, but then the Americans are, like, clear.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I laughed so much and, like, so much, like, more than the people around me that Gellis was like, like, you okay? I was like, that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That whole premise of, like, the ex boyfriend being a Navy SEAL and how he ends up rooting for the. It's one of the best.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's like, you doing. He's like, you want to talk about bravery out there in their pajamas throwing rocks?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that, like, get super into that. And then I sort of had a bit of that, and I was like, okay, I need to, like, you just need to consciously, like, remove those little ticks from your way of being. I've done sort of Daniel Kitson isms, which you'll get away with much easier than you will other stuff. But the number of. I think it probably is the same in America. Like, and you just have your own versions of it of, like, the number of people who were doing James Edcaster at, like, open mics when those four Netflix specials came out. If you went to any open mic, there was somebody going. And I was looking at the trees the other day, and I thought, those leaves are weird. And it's just like, okay, right, you're doing that. And then there's a guy, Frankie Boyle, who's Like maybe similar to Jessel Nick and he like quite dark and people were trying to do that thing. And that guy called Stuart Lee who like deconstructs every joke after he tells it, he goes, I know the reason that's funny is this, this, this, this, and does it like, it's sort of amazing, but open micros telling the worst joke you've ever heard, doing that going, well, the thing is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

We don't need that yet.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. And I've heard like, in New York, a lot of people you sort of hear doing like a tail or like people are wrong.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Well there, one of the Kill Tony.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Guys always doing Hedberg. Yes.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And that was weird.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And his entire social media is him saying why he's not doing Heb.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I've seen some of these clips and.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It'S like you, you know, like the way that you were willing to just admit, like, we're both right here.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I'm sure there are some differences. Is, but when the entire world looks at your hair and your movements and your voice and the jokes and say, that's Hedberg. You got to acknowledge that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But isn't it funny because he's not stealing material. He's like, stolen his, like, essence.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Sort of a hair.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I, I, I've only seen one clip, so I can't speak too much on it. But like, in that clip I saw, he had the hair, he had like the old leather jacket. I mean, it's, it's, I think glasses on too. It was, it was a whole, it's.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

A hard thing to like, call somebody on. To be like, you're doing your whole vibe is theft. Like, like, it's so weird.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But I think he would have been better off being like, not. Yes. Because in comedy, like, stealing is like, you're dead. But being like, I, I am so inspired by Mitch Edberg. Like, I, you know, I, I, none of it's good, but I think embracing it rather than just constantly denying it, it's like, dude, come on. You're telling me the sky is purple. It's like, come on.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

That's also like the, the, the part of the problem with Kill Tony is like, you get really new comics going up there, and I think that's a thing. Like when you start doing comedy, you are sort of doing an impression of your favorites.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But the fact that he's gone on this, like, millions of views, new comics.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Who get big fast.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

They don't even have the time to develop their own style yet because it's like, I, I Did two sets, but the one I did at Kill Tony went viral. So now, yeah, there's Cam Patterson, who is amazing and runs with it. And then there's.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah. And it's the same with, like, you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Said that it's good and bad for comedy and time.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

There's like, your amount of time in an industry, I think, lets you do more of that.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

If that makes sense. Like. Like, I think about it with sports where, like, in sports, it's a very common thing to teach another athlete how to do what you do. You know what I mean? Like, in baseball, like, Pedro would teach every pitcher how to throw his two seamer, Right? Like. Like, it's pretty regular. Like. And like, that's part of the.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The culture.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Kobe and MJ and like, extending your talent. Talent and showing the next generation how to do what it is, what you do. Like, I feel like in entertainment, it gets looked at too negatively where it is like, yeah, no, I saw Jordan make that play. Yeah, I'm trying to do a similar play. It was pretty goddamn good.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

The edits of Kobe and Jordan are almost eerie.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's like, work is identical. Yeah. Yes, that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But he went and won five rings himself. So it's like, yeah, I was. I'm. I am like, I am like, mj. I'm neck. You know, I'm in a category.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

If there's. If Drake met, he was the Patriots quarterback. If he started being like, yeah, I do what Brady did.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

As a Patriots fan, I would be.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Like, yeah, I think. I think the difference is there's a. There's a. An agreed upon point of sports to win. Like, if you. If you do something to score more points.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

The aim is being original and creative.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Creativity is very subjective where it's like, yeah, if Tom Brady is the best at this, everybody should be him. Whereas comedy is like, you're the best at this and you're the best at that, and you don't.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You know, but it's important to learn from different people. This is how I do the crowd work. This is how I do my stage time is like, I feel like putting all those pieces together is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

And I think acknowledging that is a big part of it too.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But I think that guy's probably just new. I mean, like, watch me be proven wrong in the comments, people. Like, he's been going for 15 years.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You've been saying the same thing the whole time.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

But I. I almost, almost.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I can't.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I don't know the answer myself, but I can't imagine because I think if you were around for 15 years, you would, you wouldn't be responding to everything and denying it. You would just be like, yeah, I'm used to this by now.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Well, this is the thing as well of like, I think comedians sort of lie to ourselves. But there's a common thing that comedians say where they're like, well, it's just about who gets the most laughs in the room. Like, that's the aim of comedy. And I'm like, well, that's not true. Because we could all get up, like in the UK particularly, you could get up and do like all of Patrice's material and nobody would have a clue.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Sure, yeah, that's a good point.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

And that's that version of like that the UK doesn't really know who Patrice o' Neil is.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And that's.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Right.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

A sort of travesty. But it's this thing of like. Yeah, but we don't state it. So it is about originality and it is about like interesting angles and it is about like all different things. And I think this sort of like, comedians are so averse to referring to themselves as like artists. They think it's like gross or whatever. And I have a whole bit in my show about her. Like, it is and we need to stop like pretending it isn't. I'm trying to make art and I want it to be perceived as art. And like this I think we just like, it is. It's quite new. Is it quite New York to be like, ah, I'm just telling dick jokes. I'm just.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah, downplay it. Very self deprecating.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was saying exactly what you're saying recently where I was like, we all call ourselves content creators now. And I was like, that's lamer than artists so much. You should just call yourself an artist. It's a better thing than a content.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Creator and it's a weird news form of art or whatever. But it is sort of what we're.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Doing is I, I think as I. I have no problem with the acknowledging of the creative aspect of it. I think it's when you cross into the like, we're the modern day philosophers.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yes.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Truth tellers.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. Oh my God.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That I hate because that I would rather be the. I'm just up here telling dick jokes than be the like, well, you can. You should hang on every word I say.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. Because then if you do the. You should hang on every word I say. Then there's a weird thing of like. I think that's different to saying that it's Art. And the point I make in my show is like, that arts, it being perceived as art is important to me because then people will like interrogate it for subtext and not just take it at face value. Because I say things I don't mean on stage to imply what I do mean.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah, novel concept. Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

But then this idea of like, that it's important and then on stage you're saying things you really, really do mean. I think that's where it gets blurry, where people have, have some comedians have the self importance of like, we're the truth tellers. And then they get in trouble and they're like, I'm just, I was gonna.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Say the worst is when you, when you, like when I can sell tickets by being an artist, I'll do that. But when I get in trouble, I'm just around, I think that's a little bit, that's the Rogan playbook right now. And I actually do think he kind of means it. Rogan's a weird one because I think he does do his show pretty much the same way he's always done it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And it just got so big that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

He has a responsibility. But I, I, I, I try to put myself in those shoes where I'm like, I, I would probably accept the fact that I'm now like, viewed as like a role model or an important person, but if I didn't want to be, I could be like, no, like, I'm just gonna talk about aliens tomorrow and that's it, you know, so it's a weird one when you get to that level.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

I saw a clip of him recently being like, do you like, think about how much better the country would be if everyone was on like half a million dollars a year? Like, like, why don't we just make that happen? And I'm like, I, I don't even know how to begin explaining.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

He's hitting it with a universal basic income of 500. He went from the Voice of the right to everyone gets a half a million dollars. But, but that is like, I think when you do a podcast like that.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

For as long as he's done, it's like, yeah, I don't know. Sometimes I say, let's blow up the hurricane. And people take me as this. Like, you know, like, I'm a politician myself. It's like, I'm just a podcaster man. But yeah, it's, it's, it's certainly an interesting time. And, and it's, it's cool to, to view it as, how you put it of like the, the UK is catching.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Up in that sense.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

There's almost a little bit of a playbook to look towards.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Right, Absolutely.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Or to, to avoid.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah, yeah. Sort of pitfalls and all that stuff. And just I like the feeling that comedians have a bit more control and I like the feeling that we can sort of cross pollinate a little bit more. Like Schultz and Gillis and Dan Sorter and been on. Have a word in the UK and like having people on, like I'm hanging out with, you know, Jeffrey Asmus.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Dude, he's so funny, hilarious.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I'm like hanging out with him tomorrow and he's been on Mike and my podcast and it's like, I like that it's becoming a bit more. Cuz for ages it felt like the only comedians you guys knew were like Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais. Yeah. I was like, that's not a good representation. Like us just sort of wanting to. Around like they're a bit self important. It is the way they talk about.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

That's. I, I hadn't considered that that like again, you and Mike are two UK comedians. I know I don't really know any local like smaller UK comedians, whereas here in New York I think they're all the funniest ones.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Like, I don't. I think the, the people who are bigger are not quite as funny. So not knowing.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. There's a whole scene that I think it's like. And this is. Anytime anybody in America lets me speak about anything, I'm like, the UK comedy scene's really exciting. The people that you haven't heard of are brilliant. There's all, all the same stuff that's happening here is happening in the uk. Yeah. And extra stuff as well.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You've definitely said some names, but can you give us three that we definitely have to know?

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Three. I mean Adam Rowe, if you haven't watched, it's like a proper killer. He has a great special called Club Comic and then one called Juicy. So he's sort of proven the point. Club comic is just two 20 minute set sets at the Comedy Store in London stitched together to make like a 40 minute special. And what's great about it is particularly American comedians, like they'll perform there, especially at a big theater to like a sycophantic audience and they'll get a standing ovation as they walk to the stage and you just like. I think the exciting thing about standup is the risk that it might go wrong. Like they might not laugh. But as soon as you see a Comedian get a standing ovation on the way to the stage. You're like, well, it's all going to work. Whereas Adam's special club comic is to an audience that don't know who he is whatsoever. They're just there for a lineup show. He does 20 minutes and then a different 20 minutes, and it like, you can feel them being unsure and then getting on his and doing all that stuff. And then the other one is one called Juicy, which is a story that I think legally he has to say is, like, fiction.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Stop right there. Want to know?

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I would go watch that with that in mind.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

It's about this fake girlfriend who stole money from him. Yeah. Juicy. And club comic, his ones. I'm trying to think. I mean, obviously, like, Mike, Kyla Cobbler is an amazing comedian, Irish comedian who's just about to move to London. She's from Cork. She's funny as Kyla Carver. Kyla Cobbler, like.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Mike. By the way, Mike's last name is Rice. Mike.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Mike Rice.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I've called him Mike a bunch of times. I never met the guy, but just Mikey.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Kyla's doing good for herself.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Yeah. Kyla's gone crazy. Crazy on Instagram. She's, like, about to be a superstar. And then, God, I. I feel like people are going to be so angry.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was going to say, yeah, you.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

You just made.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

You made Vittorio a few friends. Honestly, I didn't mean to do that at all. Obviously. I just, you know, you. You have said a few things.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Siblings in a row.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

List your favorite friends.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Oh, I have a good one. I'm helping Ed Knight film his special, like, this month.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Okay.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

So I can say, like, we're filming that he's really, really funny.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

Yeah. And there's a million more you've said on the show. Go follow them, too. Go listen to them.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Anybody who's been on our podcast, Raymond Mars, insane Glaswegian man who hates pansexuals. Doesn't hate them, just wants him to.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

I'm anything. Right.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

I was gonna say thank you for coming.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

It was great.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Thank you for having me.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

That's so cool. I hope we can even just crack the rotation of your crazy New York story. Like, we'll be at the bottom.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly Big Cat)]

And then I went on, told him all about it.

[Barstool Sports Host (Possibly KFC)]

Thank you, man. Thank you so much.

[Vittorio (UK/Ireland Comedian)]

Thanks, guys.