[music] [applause]
Well, that's that time, question and answer,
and so who's got a question tonight?
[O.S.] I do.
Yes.
[O.S.] So when you're up on the stage, can you use
the microphone or a cup or a chair in your act?
Can you bring that in?
To create a joke of some kind?
[O.S.] Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yeah. Some people will go, prop comedy and stuff, but I'm okay with that.
To me, you know, I used to be a juggler, so comedy
and props and all... you get a lot of jokes.
I've seen so many great things done
with different things, making...
using what's onstage and around the stage to
find some kind of a joke. I think it's, you know.
I just think it's fun, me personally, that there's some
stuff around me that I can use in some way.
I mean, I always like it when the comedy,
you know, just it's simple as you know,
if you've got a friend sitting there and
everybody doesn't know you're friends,
and your talking and going through your show, you
reach over and grab and drink part of their drink
and then just keep going. You know?
[Laughter]
That's really funny to me. You know, that you're just drinking from somebody without asking permission.
There used to be real live candles, and I knew
a guy who had a certain way he would light his...
back when there was smoking in clubs, he would light...
I begged him, he finally told me puts a little bit of the
wax in the cigarette and then he'd light the cigarette
and put it down and sit there and talk to the audience
and there'd be this flame... [Laughter]
off of this cigarette. And he's sitting around being cool,
you know, everybody.
Yeah. You know, I pick up women all the time...
Woah!
You know, I'm seeing, oh let's see.
I've seen people... start to shave with it,
and things like that.
I've seen people take this... let's see here.
You know... Blow up something.
[Laughter]
You know, I've even done this myself.
Going, okay, that's it, that's the end of the time.
All right. I'm going to get a vein up here.
[Laughter]
You follow me? This is fun,
there's things around all the time.
You know, you're going to be playing some
kind of an old person on stage, and go,
yeah, they came up to me like, hey,
what are you doing there? [Laughter]
Right? So, you know, whatever is there.
I've seen so many jokes like that, and this part
of the environment you're in, why not use them?
I mean, crazies in the Comedy Store one time,
if you know the comedy store, the original room
there's a big window that's stage right over there.
And it looks out on Sunset Boulevard, and Robin Williams one night when a big group was walking by,
start pounding on the windows yelling,
they're keeping me hostage. [Laughter]
It's not just that, it's also like sounds.
I mean, Robin was just the best at it.
One time, I saw him on stage and in their room they were improvising in the main room and they were in a
like a fast food restaurant scene.
Right?
And there was some glitch in the P.A. system
and it went, "annh!"
and Robin just went, hey, fries are done!
[Laughter]
He used a sound that just came into
the environment to get that laugh.
So the answer's yes. And don't let these people bully you, oh, you're a prop comic.
You know, a good laugh is a good laugh.
I mean, and so, I know so many magicians and jugglers that can make you laugh as hard as any comedian can,
maybe more so. So I'm proud to be amongst
the variety of comedians when I was working.
So the answer is yes, and have a lot of fun with it,
because your job is to make people laugh.
[Applause]
