Milk & Honeys
Milk & Honeys" is the perfect blend of raw industry insights and unfiltered realness. Like the ingredients that sweeten and smooth out a cup of tea, hosts Kayla Becker (TV host of 10 years) and Vanessa Curry (model and actress of 10 years) bring their own flavors to the conversation— Together, they spill the tea on what it really takes to live and thrive in LA’s entertainment scene.
So, grab a mug and sip on some Milk & Honeys—because we’re serving the tea with all the right ingredients.
Milk & Honeys
Episode 4: Puking on HBO: Danny Jolles Spills the Tea w/Kayla Becker and Vanessa Curry
Danny Jolles takes Kayla Becker and Vanessa Curry on a hilarious journey through the intersections of comedy and acting, revealing how witnessing Kevin Hart's first-ever comedy special completely redirected his career path. "I went to NYU to be a dramatic actor, studying the Method where Robert De Niro and Al Pacino studied. Then I saw Kevin Hart perform, and the next day, I quit everything else to focus entirely on stand-up."
Currently appearing on HBO's "Hacks" as writer Nate opposite Jean Smart, Danny shares behind-the-scenes insights about his time on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and the surprisingly elaborate preparation behind his small but memorable role in Damien Chazelle's "Babylon." His five-month commitment to mastering an antique typewriter for a brief scene showcases the dedication that's made him a director's favorite.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as Danny discusses his innovative stand-up special "You Choose" – a choose-your-own-adventure comedy experience where viewers select which opinions they want to hear him express. "I'm so proud of it as an artistic piece. Career-wise, we could call it a failure, but artistically, I stand by it as one of the coolest pieces ever made." This experimental approach to comedy highlights Danny's willingness to push boundaries while honoring comedy traditions, from Jerry Lewis to Dane Cook.
Throughout our chat, Danny demonstrates the quick wit and thoughtful perspective that's earned him spots on the nation's biggest comedy stages. Whether discussing the unexpected kindness of comedy legends like Bill Burr or revealing what it's really like working with difficult co-stars, his insights are both entertaining and illuminating.
Don't miss Danny on tour across the country, and remember his parting wisdom: "Stand-up comedy is like hockey – it's great to watch on TV, but it's so much better in person." Find your local comedy club, look up the next few comics, and experience the magic live.
welcome back everyone to milk and honey, the two ingredients you need for the perfect tea where you're.
Speaker 2:I'm vanessa curry and today's episode is giving punchlines. Prestige TV and you know, maybe a little petty, petty TBD what's that about?
Speaker 1:We will see. We are joined for the second time in two weeks and we'll explain that in a minute by actor and comedian Danny Jollett. You've seen him in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and now in the new season of HBO's Hacks, where he plays one of Debra Vance's new writers, nate. Now, when Danny isn't stealing scenes or puking in them, he is taking the nation's biggest comedy stages. Danny, welcome back to Milk and Honeys.
Speaker 3:It's so exciting to be here for a second time. I feel like a better time. I'm so excited, even though the first time was wonderful.
Speaker 1:Wonderful it was. It was only like what seven days ago. So what happened was we were shooting the episode and unfortunately, technical difficulties do happen.
Speaker 3:Not going to blame anybody for that but we absolutely could blame somebody, but we're not going to and we lost all of the footage.
Speaker 1:But that's okay, that was a trial run, it was practice. Not that we need practice for one hit wonders, but or no one one take wonder, oh no. But we are really excited to have you back.
Speaker 3:I'm so excited. I'm so excited to mix up my stories. I'm excited I've never done a second one.
Speaker 2:It's going to be great. Don't worry, we have some new questions for you, okay.
Speaker 1:How's your week been since we saw you? I know you were traveling for some shows.
Speaker 3:I went to Burlington Co-f some shows. I went to Burlington Coat Factory.
Speaker 2:Love that place. I was just going to say that Home of it, I believe.
Speaker 3:I do believe that was one of the tourist destinations I heard about. They were like you can go to the original Coat Factory and I said no. But I was in Burlington, vermont, and then did some shows at the Vermont Comedy Club, great club, and then came back to beautiful LA Been running around town and then I fly out again tomorrow night.
Speaker 1:I saw that to New York right.
Speaker 3:No, tomorrow I fly out to Des Moines Iowa. Oh, that is fancy.
Speaker 1:What do you do in Des Moines? Is that like? That's like what happens in Des Moines? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like what are you excited to do there? Besides, you're going there for work.
Speaker 3:I am, I am going to be performing comedy, but I will. What will I do in Des Moines? You know, it looks like there's a Dave and Buster's within walking distance?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know they're different in every city. I hear.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was real.
Speaker 3:So I'm a regular. I will say on the road, because you're alone on the road, yeah, but Dave Buster's is a good place to be alone. There's a lot of places that are sad to be alone.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 3:And Dave Buster's is a good alone place.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't necessarily think that, but I'm glad that you feel that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I like it.
Speaker 2:There's lots of also games that you can play by yourself no-transcript.
Speaker 3:No-transcript get away with. They had one of the. I think it's one of the funniest relationships all the time rachel and aline's relationship with the, with the fcc. Like whoever was in charge of what's it called, something in practice stands to practice okay they had a genuine great. They had such a smart thing going where they would just be. Like it's a game.
Speaker 3:Let's play this game together and they would go with what can we say? And how can we say and, and. They would work around everything. I love that they got off such wild stuff. I will always say and I don't in a brag way I will say that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will go down as many things and one of them is the most unattractive cast in the history of CW by a bullet, but sexy at the same time.
Speaker 3:Probably ever, I feel, they make it so sexy Everybody's like CW actors, like literally revered as like the sexiest in Hollywood. And then somehow it was also us.
Speaker 1:Well, we're excited to see what other shows you end up popping up on in the near future. But we want to talk about what you do most of the time and that is your comedy, and I want to talk about some of your specials. You have two, so far six parts and you Choose Both totally different, but I want to talk about you Choose. We totally different, but I want to talk about you choose. We talked about that last time. How innovative I've never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 3:Thank you, can you tell us again, uh, how you came up with this idea and how what the response has been? It was a uh, you choose is a choose your own adventure stand-up special where you get to choose my opinions. So you get to choose if you like, uh. If you like dave blaine, if you hate dav Blaine, if you love veterinarians, if you hate veterinarians, you pick that, and then you hear that version of the joke.
Speaker 1:So cool.
Speaker 3:I'm so proud of it as an artistic piece, so proud of it, and it lives on YouTube, which is crazy. The fact that we figured out a way to do it on.
Speaker 3:YouTube is bananas. I'm so proud of it and I love it. You know, career wise, we could call it a failure. I'm so proud of it and I love it. You know, career wise, we could call it a failure. But I would say, artistically, I stand by it as like one of the coolest pieces like ever made and I'm like, so proud of it. And the ending is get to the ending comedy watchers.
Speaker 1:You said you were told by someone that people don't ever make it to the end of comedy specials, a comedy streamer?
Speaker 3:as a matter of fact, people don't make it to the end of specials anymore.
Speaker 1:I make it to the end typically, but I make it to the end.
Speaker 3:Somebody who curates comedy said people don't make it to the end and in their defense, somewhat accurate, but also bananas, that they said it to my face. I'll never get over that, and by to my face I mean to my reps, who then relate it to me.
Speaker 1:But you went and did it on your own. You outwork anybody in the room, Danny.
Speaker 3:I outwork people, baby. That's all I got. All I got is I'll work you.
Speaker 1:And you're working on. You have a current special that you're working on now, so there's one in the can, okay.
Speaker 3:I won think it's really cool the thing I've said about this special, what I will say about this special is the ending of this next one.
Speaker 1:We're doing it again. Uh, I think very. I would say almost nobody has made it through without crying at the end.
Speaker 3:Oh, like out of laughter.
Speaker 1:No, oh out of emotions oh, there's a real emotional quarter. I love that sad comedy emotional emotional comedy.
Speaker 3:The goal of this was I'm an observational comedian. I want to observe myself. Oh I can't wait, and that was the idea.
Speaker 2:Okay. So when did you realize that being funny could be your job? When was that moment for you?
Speaker 3:I don't even know it's so interesting, I mean, I mean I I go wait. All right, this is one we will repeat because I think it's worth repeating, because it is the answer.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's what we're trying to get at. I'm trying to make that like hey there's one answer.
Speaker 2:It's not broken. Don't make it, no, it's because it is the story.
Speaker 3:It is like I was doing. I went to NYU to be a dramatic actor. I was a serious actor, not here to tell jokes Studied the Method Strasburg where Robert De N, the method strasburg, where robert de niro studied al pacino, and that's what I was gonna do. And I learned it and I'm good, serious actor. I took a lot of pride in it and as I was graduating, I was like oh yeah, it's not a fair industry. Like I'm an idiot, like you know, I can't audition, nothing works, uh, and I was sort of doing stand-up but I was like what are we even doing? What's the point? And then, um, right as I was right as I, as I was hitting the oh yeah, I'll never get an agent, I'm fucked.
Speaker 3:My friend was like this guy is filming a special at the NYU theater called Skirball. They need people to fill seats, they don't. So we just say she's giving away tickets. Like can you go? I think she worked for the theater and she was like we need a favor, can you sit and watch this guy do a special? And I was like, and he was in 40 year old, virgin. I was like I was like sure, I'm free that night and it was Kevin Hart and it was Kevin Hart's first special. I was third row you can kind of see me at one point but I just was like this is the funniest human on earth and it was like, and I was like this guy might not have a connection in the world, nothing but like that's what it looks like to be great. And I just literally the next day like quit even. I was doing pay-to-play auditions. I don't know if you ever did those pay-to-play auditions where they like charge you to audition for casting directors and stuff oh, I remember those.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah yeah, actors access yes absolute scams.
Speaker 3:And so, uh, and I was doing all that and I was because I was like that's just the only way. And then it was like I quit doing that, quit doing like improv, like everything stopped trying to do like equity auditions.
Speaker 3:I was like fuck that I was like I'm just gonna do stand-up every night, and that was it all because, all because of kevin hart little did I know he would be as big as he became In my mind. I was like this guy's going to be like a really great star. I didn't realize he'd be like literally the most famous person. I feel like now it sounds cartoonish when I say his name, but that is the person.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at the time was he like, like, if you look back now, like Little Danny who, like watched comedians before him, who would have been some names that you watch I was raised on jerry lewis.
Speaker 3:I'll always say raised on jerry lewis. When we filmed hacks at the fontainebleau, I was geeking out because he did the bellboy at the miami one, which is where he it's the greatest movie. In my opinion it's one of the greatest comedies ever made um. The main character doesn't speak until the last line of the movie. Whole movie.
Speaker 3:He's just miming it's great, great film he plays too. He also plays a version of himself in the movie to himself he's like, plays two different characters and he directed it and he did, and he, because he was doing all that. Jerry lewis invented the playback monitor while directing that.
Speaker 3:That is the reason we have playback monitors in hollywood is because of jerry we love a playback monitor uh, I mean like look, carlin made his way to me, obviously like I remember, ironically, like because now I know him, but Gary Goldman was somehow got me in high school really hard. I loved him. Brian Regan, huge, and I'll always give credit to Dane Cook. Dane Cook reached me and like I'll always be like Dane got to high school me yeah it was.
Speaker 1:He was great we all know the whole saying where you never meet your heroes. But have there been any comedians that you've seen as like heroes that you've met and we're like a little bit like let down, like I bet we think we talked about this last time, uh, where I met bill burr and I was so nervous because he's kind of intimidating and then he let me come backstage and talk to him and we connected.
Speaker 1:He was so nice, took a picture with me, sent me about along my way. I'm like that's gonna be a core memory that he was so kind, because that doesn't always happen he's done it multiple times for me.
Speaker 3:Now I'm up to probably five times meeting Bill Burr. He remembers me. Oh, that's so nice. He's nice, it's yes, he's the best in every element of comedy. I think Bill is like the one who I'm like. Meet your hero. Meet your hero of your heroes, bill Burr. Other people caution, bill Burr meet him.
Speaker 2:Is there someone that you have met where you were like?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not going to say that that might be in our game.
Speaker 1:We'll get to that, never mind. Yes.
Speaker 3:I was like that wasn't quite what I wanted you to be.
Speaker 2:Do you feel like people are just now finding out more that you are a comedian and an actor, or do you find them Even around forever?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you've done so much, I feel like people still are very like I don't know. I feel like I live in a very weird place where, like people know me but they don't, like I don't think people always connect the dots with me because, like I, I don't know, I I'm still like fascinated by how people. I was saying because my friend, I was walking my friend down the street and while we were walking in new york, at one point somebody recognized him and then one point somebody recognized me. Cool, but when he gets really cool yeah, you're in new york so cool.
Speaker 3:but when he got recognized he was like instagram you know me from stand up, you know me from my own Instagram. And when I got recognized I was like it could be about five different things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And they're all viable. And all of them are small little pie like crazy x, like ted is one of the bros if it's a bro, I tend to guess that and someone growing with stand-up now hacks like these are all things that you could recognize me.
Speaker 3:I think that's a bigger deal, to be honest well, but then it's also, they're smaller, whereas like he because he's he's super viral, right like he was, like no, I know what it is but if you have a fan from what you've done, I feel like that to me just seems like oh yeah, but it's also so hard to convert like crazy x, like getting a crazy x fans and being like come to my stand-up, yeah like right but that's not the thing right, yeah same with ted, same with that, it's like.
Speaker 3:And then the stand-up people when I'm stand-up, people actually convert over really nicely.
Speaker 1:They're very nice yeah, like if I'm on a show, like I find that they well, I think people who pay to come see somebody live are very easy to convert to do whatever it is.
Speaker 3:And they're the best. It also cannot be overstated.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 3:If you come and see me live. How much I love you.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, do you have like older, new friends that try and just you know?
Speaker 1:we now. They see that you're. They want to connect Now they want to connect.
Speaker 2:Or do you think?
Speaker 3:your group is pretty much, you know. I mean no new friends. No, we're in the new friends era only if you uplift one another.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's right, that's it. Is this a new?
Speaker 3:era for you? Yes, I think so. I was in my no new friend.
Speaker 2:It is a personal thing, I feel like the people in my life currently, right now yeah they're just yeah, they're all newer, new ish, and it's just like we're all thriving together. It's great. So I'm here for new friends, but not if you're just trying to like. You know, I don't think I'm successful enough, I don't think I'm successful enough, and that's really the case. So no, I think it's fine.
Speaker 3:Uh, I think that maybe someday I'll be that I think on, I have a lot of famous. I have a lot of very, very famous friends.
Speaker 1:I definitely got some of those where it's like they want to get. They want there the tickets.
Speaker 3:Can I get the tickets to this person? Can I get the? You know, the one that'll really get me is if somebody's like I've got an idea for a show, would you pass it on to Boba? No-transcript.
Speaker 1:You know, though, closed mouths don't get fed, so I guess you got to give people credit in some way, that's true.
Speaker 2:You got to try Speaking of mouths and getting fed.
Speaker 1:I think it's time for our little segment. Danny, you've played it before. It's called Sip or Spill. You know the rules. You answer honestly or you sip that whatever's in the cup. I'm going to tell you what it is, because they do not sponsor us. It's water it's tea, agua it's tea. That's what it should be.
Speaker 3:It should be, but then it's got to be alcohol.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're actually working on something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, okay. We'll have to have you back for a third time. That's when we're going to hit our spot.
Speaker 1:All right, here we go. Let's kick things off. Sip or spill Danny. Name the actor you've worked with who you'd never want to work with again.
Speaker 3:No, okay.
Speaker 2:I'll take a sip with you, sip in solidarity, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:No, yeah, everybody's been very, very. Most people have been very nice. There's always yeah, you know, but what's what? What's interesting is the amount of people who you were like, who you're like oh, this person's gonna be tough and it's like they're great, yeah, and then it's, it's the people you'd least expect of course it's the people tends to be the people who are the loudest about how great they are. Yep, that you show up on set and you're like really, you're the one that's a tough Yep. Yep.
Speaker 1:I've seen that firsthand.
Speaker 3:Versus a Bill Burr who's like he seems rough but it's like no, it's exactly who he is.
Speaker 1:And he's like the light.
Speaker 3:And then there's people who are like I'm one of the good ones, and then you meet them and you're like you're, like boo, you're horrible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay. Next question Ever thought I'm funnier than this guy and he's getting Netflix specials? Name him.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll never name him, but we know the answer, we know the answer yeah, you were making these a little bit spicy, all right.
Speaker 3:Yeah of course it's funny.
Speaker 1:On the way here I saw a big billboard of Jimmy Kimmel and I was like oh, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, are they buddies, I don't know and talking about how long they've been in the business, and blah, blah, blah, blah. Which late night show do you think gives the worst interviews?
Speaker 3:Gives the worst interviews. Well, I'll say this People forget, so I'm not really answering the question.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, we really got what I will say.
Speaker 3:What I will say is this People forget about Carson Daly's old show. Yeah, that was a spectacular time In Late Night Host, because he was Really that was a wild show. People forget about the Carson Daly one.
Speaker 1:Would you ever want to be A Late Night Host? That used to be a dream of mine Was to be a Late Night Host.
Speaker 3:Right, That'd be so much. I would do almost anything if I got to do it.
Speaker 1:My way, your way.
Speaker 3:There's very few things I would say no to.
Speaker 1:Like Debra Vance. That's basically what the whole thing is about.
Speaker 3:I would do anything if I got to do it my way.
Speaker 2:What is one joke? You've told that you knew would piss someone off and you did it anyway.
Speaker 3:Now that's a solid let's see. I mean, I'm going after david copperfield pretty hard right now on stage. Okay, so that one, so david's getting david copperfield, won't love it uh is it a long joke?
Speaker 3:okay, pretty long joke uh, but yeah, I don't david copperfield. David copperfield isn't going to be my best friend. This, uh, when he sees this, when he sees that joke who else have I said something about that? I'm like, because I've definitely said things about people on stage where I'm like. Yeah, I said that. I said something about Tony Hinchcliffe at a. I hosted a Hollywood event and I said something about him that was a little harsh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did he.
Speaker 3:No, he never saw it, but I was like and I was like, but I also. It was a good joke.
Speaker 1:It's all right when comedians you know talk about other comedians, maybe in an insulting or jesting way. The comedians still get hurt about it, which is funny, because I feel like Absolutely a joke, but we take it.
Speaker 3:But we take it when we're friends. I think the issue is is like if tony did get mad at that joke, I'd be like he has some value, he has some validity, because tony and I are not friends. We're acquaintances but we're not friends.
Speaker 3:So I would understand why he'd be like, yeah, right now I'd have an answer to that, but I would say that, um, yeah, like that was definitely one where I'm like man, I didn't need to do that. So yeah, but no, I don't go after too many people too harshly. I would say that the choose your own special, though that's one that constantly gets me in trouble, because people will just see a clip of one side and they'll be like like, like Kreischer, right, like Kreischer, but also like yeah like Kreischer, but also like but even, like you know, I'll have like the veterinarian sides Right, so, like sometimes, I'll post the like anti-veterinarian people will just be like you piece of shit.
Speaker 3:You don't even understand how hard their jobs are. You stupid piece of dumb, and I'm like you would love if you watch the full special and you knew even how dumb you sound.
Speaker 1:That's social media. That's people who don't go read articles.
Speaker 3:They read headlines, the whole point of the special was that this is the problem, right, and then people would take it this way and then most people would watch the special and collapse.
Speaker 1:Guys, go watch the whole special damn it, From the beginning to the end Stay to the end Okay.
Speaker 3:Have you ever had a fake laugh at a co-star's terrible improv? Just to keep the scene going. So who was it? No, but yes tons.
Speaker 2:All the time you gotta give us Okay. And which co-star needed the most takes to get through a simple scene and it drove you nuts.
Speaker 1:I think we're making this too, we're about to get drunk.
Speaker 3:Why are you saying names? Why do you need names so badly? We won't say names anymore.
Speaker 1:We'll say drunk, why do you need?
Speaker 2:names. So bad did it happen absolutely?
Speaker 3:as a dancer.
Speaker 2:For some reason the easiest moves are the hardest to remember. Sometimes most intricate ones are the easier ones, so sometimes the easiest lines, I'm sure well, crazy x, crazy x was like a nightmare in that.
Speaker 3:But then, uh, yes, I've had a couple where, like someone couldn't get a line out in a thing. I've had a couple where, like someone couldn't get a line out in a thing. I've had a couple where like yeah, people just like yeah. I had one show where this girl couldn't get a line out. I've had another where, like the dancing on crazy x, like there were just times, they would just be like you know yeah, they'd just be like danny you're killing us yes, you simply must.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we would do group numbers on crazy x and that was that might lead to this next question. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:The next question Ever, silently celebrated when someone else got cut from a project.
Speaker 1:Have you seen someone get cut because I couldn't cut it, you know.
Speaker 3:Ooh.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:We all have a little hate in us. Here's a fun story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this isn't, I wouldn't say this is, I wouldn't say this is entirely. But so when I did babylon book, babylon big movie, damien giselle, brad pitt oh my god and danny jollis, so excited. Five months before I get this email from this guy and he's like I'm in charge of props, you have to type in this scene, can I bring you a typewriter to practice on? And I was like sure, dude, okay, yeah, this guy brought me a typewriter.
Speaker 2:For five months I have this typewriter to practice on, and I was like sure dude this guy brought me a typewriter.
Speaker 3:For five months. I have this typewriter in our house, this old typewriter. I practiced quite a bit. I was very good at it. You learn it. It's easy. You actually have to poke and like you learn. You have to poke and stuff. You learn to put a thing Easy. I show up to set and it's like I'm so nervous. I'm like just trying to like please everyone, and olivia is damien's uh, is one of the producers and damien's uh wife and she's been so and she comes up to me. It's like the first person who talks to me because I'm just like sort of trying to like stay out of the way. And she's like hi, we have a hand double here who can type, but if there's any way you could type on this typewriter, oh my goodness, and I was like what if?
Speaker 3:I told you I've had a typewriter for five months and she was like what? And she's like, damien, get over here. And then him and all the producers were like she's like, say that again. I was like I know how to type on the typewriter and they were like, oh, amazing. And so this hand double did get fired because I could do it, but it was the best way to start my experience on that set, which was everyone thinking I was this hero, even though this prop guy is the king. He's the one who set me up for success because he gave it to me yeah.
Speaker 3:But yeah, they all thought I was like the greatest actor on earth because I knew how to type on a typewriter. And he was like no, this other guy is a hero, we hope that you're. I think even Brad was around.
Speaker 2:Brad was like nice, that dude that is hilarious.
Speaker 1:We'll do a couple more, Okay, Okay Okay. She didn't want us to ask names, Although this is like you know we can. All this is no one that you maybe worked with.
Speaker 3:An A-lister that you think has no real talent, just great.
Speaker 2:PR.
Speaker 3:Someone who could hurt your career? Would that?
Speaker 2:be someone you could attack publicly.
Speaker 3:Here we go.
Speaker 1:We'll have to rephrase these. I'm not getting him to bite. Has there been a recent comedy special that you had to turn off halfway through?
Speaker 3:Like a big one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Some of them are terrible. Ever bombed an audition and blamed the material when it was clearly 100% your fault?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I mean I would say that, yeah, I would say that I mean, obviously, like, commercial auditions are famously like. You're just like what do you want me to do here? But yeah, I bombed, I did one audition. I did one audition. I did one audition maybe like a year ago and it was for a project I was really excited to audition for.
Speaker 3:I was so excited about this one. It was a Zoom audition we dream, of course and it was like five different characters and she was like which one do you feel the best about? And I was like one of these I feel very good about. I was like this one. She was like let's do that one first and I do it. And I had a practice, I had a really good take, and we say, do it and I do it and I finish. And I was like I feel good about it too, I go and she goes. Well, that was a choice.
Speaker 3:And I went, oh no, the worst thing, you could say she was like that was a big choice and I was like I thought that was it.
Speaker 1:Did you like it?
Speaker 3:So I guess you hated it, sorry, yeah. Yeah, that one was bad. That was definitely a bad one. I remember there's a casting director she's the best so I'll even say her name, nicola Vieira. I think she changed her last name, but I used to audition for her all the time. She used to work with Jeannie McCarthy and she I went in for. I would go in for her all the time. I'm kind of famous for big choices.
Speaker 1:That's kind of my thing and I think at some point, and so I went in.
Speaker 3:At one point I did an audition for her. I don't remember what the audition was. I thought it was pretty good and she was like and she was like that was great, that was's like. She's like, let's do it again, like just a little bit smaller, just a little bit smaller. And I go, uh, oh, that's crazy. Nobody's ever said that to me before and I thought that was a little funny.
Speaker 2:She like fell over laughing after you made it smaller, and no, no, just that.
Speaker 3:I was like no one's ever said that before. She was just like. And then I was like oh well, I guess I do really overact. It was so yeah, she like fell over. And then I was like oh well, I guess I do really overact. It was so yeah, she like fell over.
Speaker 1:Oh well, I don't think we're going to ask any more of the sip or spill questions, because I think it's not going to get us anywhere. But you did survive this round.
Speaker 3:I thought I did everything but name a specific name.
Speaker 1:You actually did a great job, thank you so much, we would never put you in that position. But next time we're just going to hook you up to a lie detector.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be it I answered, though I was like yeah there's tons of specials.
Speaker 3:There's tons of specials that are terrible.
Speaker 1:Off camera. We'll talk about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you off camera.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for being a good sport and thanks for coming on. We know you got some traveling coming up. Anything you want to say to your fans where they can catch you next, where they can find all the information out?
Speaker 3:So you can catch me in. Where am I going next? I'll be in, so I'm going to do a show. So New York City I got Union Hall, I got Portsmouth, beverly, massachusetts we got ourselves a bunch of Texas dates. We got ourselves San Francisco. We're going to do a big LA one.
Speaker 2:We'll be there.
Speaker 3:We're going to do a bunch of really nice dates. And then the other thing I say is watch my specials on YouTube you Choose. In particular, I really stand by. It's like such a cool piece, find it, you'll love it. Watch the end. And then the last thing I'll say uh, stand-up comedy is like hockey it is great to watch on tv, but it is so much better in person. So if I did not say your town and you do not, uh, you do not think I'm coming to your city. Just find your local comedy club. Look up the next four comics. Make sure you can find 10 minutes uninterrupted of one of them doing stand up, not crowd work, actual stand up. If you can find 10 minutes, then buy a ticket and just go see them live. You'll never stop going. Sam, comedy is the best art form life.
Speaker 1:Yes, all of that. So you heard him. Make sure you follow Danny, support his shows, support other comedian shows. If he's touring, get your tickets. And that's a great message and I know your fellow comedians are going to really appreciate that Absolutely and it is really important.
Speaker 3:Yep, it's huge.
Speaker 2:And we'll be back next week with more Unfiltered Takes and uninvited opinions.
Speaker 1:That's right. And until then, stay bold, stay curious and keep sipping that tea. Yes, see you guys next time. Thanks, dani, thank you.
