Ever imagine doing comedy at a nudist colony in West Virginia? David Koechner & Rob Maher have all the weird details about it.
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00:00These next two guys are going to be performing at Helium Comedy Club.
00:05They'll be there tonight and tomorrow night, 7.30 and 10 p.m. show.
00:08We welcome back our friend David Koechner.
00:12And we also would like to welcome Rob Mayer.
00:15Thank you, gentlemen.
00:17We were told that Kathy would be here.
00:20Very planning.
00:21So, David, back in Philadelphia, you've been here a few times.
00:25Yes.
00:25It's always dangerous here.
00:27Is it dangerous to you particularly?
00:28This station.
00:30How so?
00:31Last time it was the BB gun.
00:34Oh, yeah.
00:35That's right.
00:35You're here for Crackshot.
00:36Yes.
00:37Well, now there's a construction all over the place.
00:40You could die at any second from a head wound from falling to bed.
00:43At any second.
00:44Yeah, absolutely.
00:46We're all wearing our hard hats right now.
00:48Yeah, yeah.
00:49But it's good to have you back.
00:50Now we also feel, because of the Goldbergs, you're an adopted Philadelphian anyway.
00:55Yes.
00:55And I wanted to ask you about the spinoff series, which is, is it going to be named Schooled?
01:00Do you know?
01:00I think so.
01:01Are you any part of that?
01:03I'm not sure.
01:03I know I'm doing a bunch of Goldbergs this fall.
01:06Okay.
01:06And there's talk of maybe me going to do that one too, because the gal that plays my daughter
01:11is on that one.
01:13Yes.
01:13And she's, yeah, so she's a continuing character.
01:16You should be.
01:17But they're 10 years apart.
01:19Well.
01:19Because I think Schooled's set in the 90s.
01:22Yes.
01:22And the other one's set in the 80s.
01:24So I don't know.
01:25You can play 90s.
01:26Okay, thank you.
01:29It's for us here, you know, and now we've sort of, you know, obviously struck up a bit
01:33of a friendship, though never having met Adam in person, and with Cullen and Callen, Brian
01:41Callen, and Tim Meadows.
01:42Tim Meadows, I think if we told you this, had no idea the series took place in Philadelphia.
01:47Oh my gosh.
01:47Yeah, he's here.
01:49We told him it was a revelation.
01:50In our studio, and we told him, he's like, I didn't know it took place.
01:54And then it was around here.
01:56He thought it was on Netflix.
01:57Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:58David, do you get asked or hired often to do characters?
02:01Like, do people say, I want, you know, I'll pay you however many dollars to come and do
02:05an event as champ or something like that?
02:06No, I've never had that.
02:07I wonder why.
02:08Are you offering?
02:09What do you want?
02:09I got to do.
02:10Well, it's my problem.
02:11Rob, do you have any characters you do, Rob?
02:13You know, I think I have been offered that once, but I was not interested.
02:17Because we've had comedians in who've done roles, and, you know, they'll do corporate gigs
02:22or whatever.
02:22Yes.
02:23And so sometimes you'll show up at this corporate gig and be expected to be a comedian that
02:27that corporation wants you to be at that particular show.
02:30Yeah, that would be awful.
02:31That would be tough.
02:34At this point in your career, I know, Rob, you're a seasoned comedian yourself.
02:39I mean, you know, but still, you know, you're, you know, I don't know if you're-
02:43I'll take worse gigs is what you're asking, yes.
02:45That's basically what I'm asking.
02:46You're paying me?
02:46I'll do whatever you say.
02:47Have you ever done, because for a few years I did stand-up and I was doing, the most bizarre
02:53gig I ever did was for the parent company that made Aramis Cologne.
02:57And it was very weird.
03:00But have you done anything like that?
03:02I did a nudist resort in West Virginia.
03:05A nudist resort in West Virginia.
03:08So just picture 60-year-old white people, fat and naked.
03:12That's the audience.
03:13So I love them.
03:15So that's interesting.
03:17Do they come naked to the show?
03:18Yeah.
03:19That's the whole thing.
03:20They're living naked.
03:21That's what you're there for.
03:22The hardest part was, well, that's a weird word, but it's, they have a buffet and you're
03:26like, I don't want, I can't eat around naked people.
03:29It's just, you're looking down the buffet line and that's, oh, I don't want that.
03:33So that, and it's really hot in there because they're naked and you're, and you're not.
03:37So you're, so you're hot.
03:38So it's very uncomfortable.
03:39It's, it's weird too with anything like that, whether it be a nude beach or, or, you know,
03:43you would see nudies as a, as a kid, you know, it'd be there, the classic playing volleyball
03:48and all that stuff.
03:49But that, that, those aren't the people that go to nudist colonies.
03:52No, it's not sexual.
03:53It's very, it's free.
03:55This is who they are.
03:57They're old school hippies or something.
03:59That's, that's the whole vibe.
04:00Yeah.
04:00Yeah.
04:00And it's, uh, and it's West Virginia.
04:03So it just adds another element, which I believe and beautiful country, but, uh, and I think
04:10maybe you guys will verify the dumbest place in the country by far.
04:14I don't know.
04:14I've been to Florida.
04:18Florida is our Germany.
04:20We call it because the amount of stories present doesn't feature 80% of the stories out of that
04:25feature are from Florida.
04:27We have a jingle called Florida, man.
04:29Oh yeah.
04:30Anytime there's a story that, that leads with a Florida man, you know, it's going to be
04:36a good one.
04:36And we, we have this jingle.
04:38Florida man.
04:41Florida man.
04:43It's just its own.
04:44I should have said that we're playing Florida at the end of August.
04:48Yeah.
04:49Yeah.
04:49Back to Orlando.
04:50We were in Tampa earlier.
04:51Yeah.
04:52So.
04:52Tampa's not bad.
04:53You, you two guys, um, you're, you're touring right now.
04:56Now, does your relationship go way back?
04:58Sexual.
04:59Sexual.
04:59Purely sexual.
05:00At a nudist.
05:01Right.
05:02You met at a nudist colony.
05:04He was naked.
05:05And I, I saw, I, I, yes, I want more of that.
05:07He was by the potatoes I'll grow up.
05:08Yes.
05:08You know, we met four or five years ago in, uh, DC where, yeah, that's your hometown.
05:13Yeah.
05:13We did, uh, this club outside DC.
05:15I just happened to work with them and then we hit it off and then we've, uh, probably
05:18done 10 weeks, you know.
05:20We'd stand up with comedians who, who, uh, are our season and travel around a lot.
05:24Uh, you know, you, uh, you have an opener that you, you, you, you sort of rely on it.
05:29And you're like, you know what you're getting, you know, you're going to set the crowd
05:32right.
05:33Yeah.
05:33The whole show is going to be great.
05:35You don't have to worry about digging out a hole.
05:36Plus Rob doesn't have any kid stuff that he does.
05:40Right.
05:40Yeah.
05:40So, pardon me.
05:41Sorry.
05:42I don't want to have to tell whoever my opener might be like, Hey, do you have kid stuff?
05:46You can't do it.
05:47Right.
05:47Right.
05:47Because mine's, I got five kids.
05:49Oh my God.
05:50If someone eats up your material.
05:52Yeah.
05:52And I have zero kids.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Age range of your kids?
05:55A-frames?
05:56No, age range.
05:57Oh, no, no.
05:58I do a lot of A-frame jokes.
06:02It's a big architecture act.
06:04Yes.
06:04Very niche.
06:05And I finish with the geodesic dome.
06:08Very niche.
06:08It's my closer.
06:09Come on.
06:10Our Buckminster Fuller is your, that's hilarious.
06:13Charlie is 19.
06:14Margo is 16.
06:15Sergeant and Audrey are 12.
06:17Sergeant is a great name.
06:18Yeah, he is, right?
06:19Yeah.
06:19And then Eve is seven.
06:21Okay.
06:22Wow.
06:22I sat by, on the way out here, I came to New York to do a thing for Misfits and Monsters,
06:28Bobcat, Galthwaite's new.
06:30The new series.
06:30Yeah, yeah.
06:31Our video guy, Nick was telling us about, telling me about it.
06:35It sounds really cool.
06:36It's like a Twilight Zone-ish, Black Mirror-ish sort of deal.
06:40Yeah, it's an anthology series.
06:41You play a werewolf politician?
06:42I play a politician that turns into a werewolf.
06:44It's an allegory story of the current clown that's in the White House.
06:49It's an evil guy, but he happens to be a werewolf.
06:52Right, right.
06:53And they're like, so do you have anything in your history?
06:55Yeah.
06:55Well, I'm a werewolf.
06:59Anything else?
07:00Ate a toddler once.
07:03I know it was a werewolf.
07:04Yes.
07:05And then people find out about him being a werewolf, and he still gets elected.
07:09There you go.
07:09Because then they got people going, I want a werewolf in the White House.
07:12Right.
07:13Who inspired you?
07:15Who got you going in your early days of comedy?
07:18Because I think everyone has, you know, one or two people that just, okay, this is it.
07:22Sure, I loved Sam Kinison.
07:24That was my first true comedian love.
07:26Kinison was unbelievable.
07:28And I've told these guys, it's a story.
07:30It's the Huntington Yacht Club.
07:31I'm from New York.
07:32And Kinison, you talk about bombing.
07:37Someone inappropriately booked him into this very hoity-toity, great-poupon sort of yacht club.
07:42And so he's up on stage, and he's his butt barrel-assing through the show.
07:47And at the end, he, ladies and gentlemen, I just want to let you know, I wipe my ass with a list of your sacred dead.
07:55Oh, that's awesome.
07:58Oh.
07:58But, uh, Kinison for you as well, or who?
08:01I was more of a sketch and improv background.
08:05So for me coming up, it's Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
08:09Oh, my God.
08:10Yeah, yeah.
08:10Great stuff.
08:11Monty Python.
08:12Were you a Laurel and Hardy fan as well?
08:14For sure.
08:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:15Not as much, like, Abbott and Costello was really my thing, because I'd watch it with my dad on Saturday afternoons.
08:21Yeah.
08:25Chick, chick.
08:26That's one of my favorites.
08:28But you know what?
08:28If you look at those movies, and movies that I love, like, you know, the pacing is so atypical of pacing in movies today.
08:36It's patient.
08:37Long, single takes that are just, and unless you've had a bit of experience with that, you're going to hate it.
08:43Yeah.
08:43Although my son, Charlie, has now decided to be an actor out of nowhere.
08:47Really?
08:47Yeah.
08:48Last year, he was going to go to college, and a week before, I was going to write that first check.
08:51He goes, yeah, Dad, um, yeah, um, and he's acting like he's playing basketball in the house.
08:55Um, yeah.
08:56He's got a great shocker hair.
08:57Good-looking kid.
08:58Yeah.
08:586'4".
08:59He goes, I think he'll be an actor, a successful actor.
09:01I'm like, okay, well, that's the good kind to be.
09:04But I assume it's kind of like a firefighter thing.
09:07Like, well, I'll just go do what Dad does.
09:09Yeah.
09:09And he just, because, I mean, I've been very fortunate.
09:12I've always worked.
09:12There's never been a time in the house where it's like, oh, what are we going to do?
09:16Yeah.
09:16So he thinks, well, I'm better looking than that guy.
09:20So this has got to be easy.
09:21Yeah.
09:22Yeah, I'm hot.
09:22So, you know, obviously people want to put me on camera.
09:25He's not entirely off base when it comes to that, but there's some other stuff involved, too.
09:30But you never know.
09:31It's one of those things, like, you've got that confidence, and you assume it's going to happen.
09:34Yeah.
09:35It can.
09:35It can, yeah.
09:36And he's good looking.
09:37He's got James Dean hair.
09:38Who's that guy?
09:39Craig Ferguson, right?
09:39Yes.
09:40He lived in the United States for a week before he got his first gig?
09:43Is that right?
09:44Something along those lines.
09:45Because, listen, if you had it.
09:46The Drew Carey Show?
09:46Yeah.
09:46You got it.
09:47You got it.
09:47And it's as simple as that.
09:49I just saw Paul Rudd on Colberry's promoting Ant-Man, and he was talking about a charity event
09:53that you were a part of, because you guys are both from Kansas City.
09:56Well, I'm from near there.
09:56My wife's from KC, but yeah.
09:58Okay.
09:58And it was to benefit a hospital?
10:00Children's Mercy Hospital.
10:01That's awesome.
10:02We raised $2.2 million this year.
10:03Wow.
10:04That's what grabbed my attention.
10:04Yeah, yeah.
10:05That is a staggering amount of money.
10:06It was nice, yeah.
10:07And so it's Rudd, myself, Riggle, Stone Street, and Sudeikis, all from Kansas City or the Kansas
10:12City area.
10:12And then we bring a bunch of our celebrity buddies in from all over the, you know, Kansas,
10:17from New York and California.
10:19And what's the event?
10:20Is it stand-up?
10:20Oh, what we do is we do, no, no, we do a softball game.
10:23We go visit the kids at Children's Mercy, and then we do a softball game at Coffin Stadium,
10:28which is Royals Park, and people get upset if they call it Royals Park, but it's Coffin
10:32Stadium, and on the field.
10:35And then we sit and watch that in the dugouts.
10:37We have all these sponsors that pay a lot of money to go hang out, and we sort of hang
10:41out with them for a little bit.
10:42The next day, we go visit the kids again.
10:44Then we have a big bowling event where people can pay to bowl with celebrities, so it's another
10:49level of fundraising.
10:50And then we have a big show auction that night.
10:53That's cool.
10:54That's awesome.
10:54Were you invited to that, Rob, or no?
10:56No, I was actually uninvited.
10:59The kids don't want you.
11:01There's just no kidding.
11:03The kids specifically requested you not show up.
11:05And for the kids, I didn't show up.
11:08That's the kind of caring person you are.
11:10I went to Florida with Marissa.
11:14I kept calling her Kathy.
11:15It was weird.
11:17I had mine, though, awkwardly.
11:19David Koechner and Rob Meyer.
11:20Here we go.
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