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Take about 400 years to defrost that! Whoa! She's talking about my ring! What? She's talking about them now! You guys, that person laughing with me right now is not other than comedy great, comedy legend. And for a lot of you youngsters, you may have read her New York Times article. You didn't write it, but it's about you. It was about me. It was about you. Elaine Boosler, you guys. Yay! You know, I don't get a lot. I try not to do a lot of comics because so many parts of it are

comics or comics. But in my life, I don't get the privilege of being around women who have come before me. Well, because we're all passing each other on the road. And a lot of women are really shitty to other women. Really? You gave me a ride home. I did. And I didn't even charge you too much. I got to give you a close-up. I got to give you a close-up and I think it was like a 20, I asked you for a 20. He did. And you, I had never, honestly, no woman had ever taken the time. Because any woman I had ever taken the time.

Because usually my peer, you know, or someone might write you're both at the same kind of level of going where you're going. And no woman. No one's at your level now. You'd be to everybody out. Everybody for you. You'd hear that. But you were so nice. And you were so not what I'd come to expect from. Not just people, but just in comedy. And, you know, I'm nice to people whatever. But it was so cool. You have no idea how much it meant to me. I'm so glad that it happened then. Yeah, that you took the time. Well, of course. And you said to me, you gave me this piece of art.

I gave you this piece of advice. Now, part of it is that I happened to remember it. Because I'm not great at remembering things. But you, we sat in your car. It's a Mercedes. Outside of my house. It's a beemer. It's a beemer. And you just said something. We just talked about different comics and like that. But you just said, you never want to be first. I remember you said this to me. In terms of like, you don't ever want to be the, you don't want to be the one that people, I guess, get tired of first. It's not get tired of. You don't want to be first because you spend your entire life breaking the doors.

And then it's open. But you did it and you're dead because there were so much resentment that you dared to do it. So I mean, I was talking about yourself for sure. Right. So the whole world has tried over me. But I do have a satisfaction in knowing that I got to open that door. First comedy special, first hour special. I had to pay for it. I didn't have credit cards. And it was just ridiculous amount of rejection for three years. Until all the guys were on their second cable special. This is way back in 85 before most of you listening were born. And.

And you know, I was first and it did open the door. And that's what all the papers wrote about, you know, and it's great that everyone. But I mean, Medgar Evers was before Martin Luther King. And he got shot to. Right. But he was first. And you know, it takes the first one to kind of get it open. Get the consciousness out there. And then the people come next and do a good job. And it's interesting because you say you don't want to first, but you can't help it. Like at that time, that's what you were doing. And no one was going to stop you. It just happened to be that you just happen to be. And it's interesting because every couple of years we forget that there are women who have done this.

And then whoever whatever woman is being celebrated now, it's like, oh, I can't believe she's breaking down barriers. It was so funny. Someone tweeted the other day of this girl. I don't know her. I had to mean to be disrespectful in any way. But she just treat. She tweeted, well, last night I did it. I proved that you could be smoking hot sexy and funny too. At the comedy store. And I. And a guy wrote sorry, huh? Elaine Booster did that 40 years ago. Again. I didn't even know this guy. But I love that it is in the consciousness that you know, you didn't write that.

The first McDonald's joke. You didn't invent the wheel. You're not the first pretty girl to tell a joke. Exactly. You're not the first person to paint a woman with three eyes on the side of her head because you wanted her to divorce you. You know, because I was a bitch. But you know, I'm just saying everyone. Don't you think like his wife. So he's new when he was going to leave them because like he painted these gorgeous portraits. And then all of a sudden when he was getting tired of them, there be three eyes on one side suddenly. The nose was in the back. And she went, that's how you see me now. When my nose was when the nose was

in the back, I know it was over. It was over my nose was in the back. 14 year old. You know what that also the the lack of self awareness. Yeah, because when you're younger, you always think like I'm doing this. No. And I honestly, you have to think that you need that courage. And as you get older, you know, ignorance becomes a choice. But when you're younger, like I grow up watching stand up. So I kind of was like, I'm just doing this great sentence ignorance becomes a choice. It's absolutely true. We're so stupid when we're starting out because we would never go for

forward. Absolutely. No fear. So you know, God protects innocence. And you know, and that's the way. But then it's time to figure it out. And unfortunately, if you want to be an artist, you go to a museum, you go, oh my God, Picasso, Brock, Monet. That's how good you can be. That's how it got to where art is now. That's right. They did that. Yes. Someone did that before that. It's it's there to show you. Okay, I see all that. No, I know what to do in my way with comedy. There's nowhere to go. It's like, you know, they stop putting on the older comics. You don't see us on TV. And it's like people go, well, I think I'll write this bit and you go, that

bit's been, you know, been done. Right. And it's just unfortunate that there's no place to go celebrate that acting. You watch movies. But it's okay. I mean, you know, it also gives you a voice. If you take the time to find out what you're thinking, I'm sorry to hear that women in your, you know, your circle are nice to each other. Oh, no, no, let me, let me be clear. It was when you are headlining, as you know, it's a solo sport. Right. It's so. So it wasn't, you know, the I've come in contact with a couple of like big female comedians who were not that nice. But on

honestly, you know, it's out of fear. Well, you know, it's out of fear. That is absolutely an excuse. But also, I've come in contact with plenty of comics in general. Who are you know, J. K.

K. When someone's kind to you, I'm like, Oh, that means you're secure. When a woman is new to me, I'm like, Oh, you smell me coming. But yeah, they smell you coming. But the point is, you're not in competition with anyone. You're not in, I'm not in competition with anyone. Even someone who's doing exactly what I do, you know, when I was doing it, I mean, the only person you compete with is yourself for real. It's not like acting where there's one job.

Like we need a blonde to five 10 with a Russian accent and a thousand actresses come up and they have to get that part. And that's the end of the part. I mean, comedy is 52 weeks a year, a thousand comics and I eat across the country. Who the hell are you competing with? There's so much work.

They're especially now, which is interesting. We're going to get into this. This is a first question, especially now with all the outlets for comedy. If you could be a YouTube star with a billion followers, I've never heard of you.

You make a million. You're undancing with this. You make a million. I filled up my tank. Unlighted them. They threw a comic in my back seat. I couldn't read.

They're just every one. I'm letting. I'm letting.

The question for you. So here's the first question we have. There's questions. I didn't show my questions. Oh, no.

Well, I'm just going to ask this even though we already went over it, but I did save this question. But then I serotoniously stole this person's question and stuck it into what I was saying to you. At least you admitted your corny. Yeah, I played yours the same underscore Sid, underscore cat sat play. What was it like to be the first woman to get a one hour special. What kind of pressures were put on you. And this is a multi-pronged question where there's some kind of expectation about your comedy as a woman or because of your relationship with Andy. Do you want to take that in parts? I'll just I'll just you know, make it sure.

We're an interesting about you basically. Basically, I never think in terms of woman, woman, woman, woman, because if I did, I would just be talking to three people at a luncheon, you know, to raise money for you to run extraction. I never, you know, the more you isolate yourself. And I mean, I talked to men all day. Why would I stop talking to have the population at night at work. Right. So it's my I've always been 50 50 on the fans. I couldn't get a special. There were no expectations. They just kept saying no one wants to see a woman do an hour.

And those days and I have all the yellow reviews to prove it. I was doing two and a half hours every single night on the road. And the reviews would always say, this is the longest and best show we've ever had. And then I'd walk into HBO and show them they go, no, no one wants to see a woman do an hour. And I fought for three years. I couldn't get it. I met a filmmaker. And we started, you know, dating and living together. And he said, I can do this for you. But we'll have to get everybody to take their money after. So we did the most amazing special party of one. It really did, you know, burn up the joint. And and they still wouldn't buy it.

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