Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould Used to Hate Each Other

The Last Laugh

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🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When they first started performing stand-up in the early 1980s, Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould could not have been more different. And as they reveal in their new documentary ‘Joy Ride,’ they “hated” each other’s comedy. But over the years, their styles converged and now they tour the country together, telling hilarious stories from their wild pasts and making each other laugh as hard as their audiences do. In this episode, Goldthwait and Gould open up about their contentious past and reveal how a harrowing car accident on tour nearly cut their lives and careers short. They also share the truth behind Goldthwait’s decades-long feud with Jerry Seinfeld, what Robin Williams was really like when the cameras weren’t rolling, Gould’s favorite jokes he wrote for ‘The Simpsons’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	The pair of comedians on today's show used to really hate each other.
0:04.3	Now, they spend most nights making each other laugh.
0:08.3	The biggest insult now, too, death threats, for some reason, they don't bother me,
0:13.1	but what makes me laugh is the people, like, in our culture now,
0:16.4	the worst thing you can say is unfollow.
0:19.5	Like, that's going to hurt me, like, unfollow.
0:21.6	It's like, I used to play arenas.
0:23.6	Millions of people have unfollowed me.
0:31.6	You're really late to this.
0:33.6	Todd Oakley Ware for Life Seven.
0:36.6	It's the, it's the, in fact, now is a great time.
0:40.5	We should say this right out of the gate.
0:42.6	We're going to go, we're going to talk for a while tonight.
0:44.7	And if anything Bob or I says, does sincerely offend you,
0:52.9	we don't want you to feel that it's incumbent upon you. We don't want you to feel
0:54.7	that it's incumbent upon you
0:57.5	to come up to us later
1:00.2	and explain it to us.
1:04.0	That's your secret.
1:08.7	This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Bobcat
1:18.5	Goldthwaite and Dana Gould in their new documentary slash comedy special Joyride. These two could
1:25.9	not have been more different when they first started performing
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