Really?

Yeah, I think so.

I think I was.

I had hair on my balls because a comb over when Carrie came out here.

This the first guy I ever saw get a standing ovation every single night.

And he did impressions was all impressions.

He could just say Clint Eastwood and make his face look like cleans with he would do like Bruce Dern.

I was going to be the man of 1000 faces and I could do James Dean.

Yeah, Henry Fonda was my big my big closer.

I'm not sure know how to peck.

Stroller themed comics would watch you get jealous because you're getting standing ovations.

Yeah, it's not earning it.

E.

Guess Jim thought of it as a very traditional, rich little type act.

It wasn't.

It was still super weird.

That stuff that started to go downhill at that time for Jim, he just made a decision to be a comic.

I'm just gonna be a comic from now.

That's how I work.

You know, I failed the first time out really miserably, and then I go, Okay, Don't give up here.

And he decided I'm gonna do no impressions and he would kind of die in the middle of the show that was just packed.

Instead of writing jokes and writing an act, he would come on stage and just improvise all of it.

How was Mitzi?

What?

What was Mitch's point of view?

She was a little resistant to that, but she didn't stop me one time.

She said, What are you doing?

You're the King of impressions.

What are you doing?

I don't get a second chance.

And I said, Well, you know, they got mad at Bob Dylan when he went electric.

I'm going electric, you know, And I'm gonna experiment.

And if I blow the whole thing, I blow the whole thing.

Mitzi believed in him gave him the time to fail because another act if she didn't like him, you go in and bomb like he was bombing the first.

He's out of here, and I would sweat in the back here in the hallway waiting to go on literally bleeding with sweat because I told myself I wasn't gonna repeat one thing that I had said the night before.

It would all be created in front of people.

As luck would have it Mitzi put him on stage every night, right next to Damon Waynes.

He'd wait till I got off stage on he come up Thio laughing like that and going like, you are the fucking angriest person I've ever seen in my life.

Jim and I were kind of like brothers in war.

We'd hang out just talking about the power we felt of not being afraid to bomb.

Remember one night, that table back there?

There were six guys that were drinking heavily, and they were heckling.

May.

I came off the stage and I walked up over this and onto the table and I grabbed a beer bottle that I smashed it on the side of the table and I did a whole from here to Eternity.

E went, Come on, they just recoiled.

And I said, I didn't think so.

Then I dropped the beer bottle.

Once I started bombing, I always felt well, at least I'm going to be remembered for being the worst thing they've ever seen in their lives.