Ricky Velez Makes Trouble

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

For the last several years of his career, comedian Ricky Velez has been best known as Pete Davidson’s best friend, both in real life on on-screen in ‘The King of Staten Island.’ Now, he is grabbing the spotlight for himself in his new hour-long HBO special called ‘Here’s Everything.’ It’s his first time ever performing stand-up on TV and, as the title suggests, he holds nothing back. In this episode, Velez talks about how growing up half-Irish, half-Puerto Rican in Queens made racism a foreign concept, how his gig as a contributor on Larry Wilmore’s ‘Nightly Show’ led to beef with Bill Nye the Science Guy, and what he’s learned about fame and unwanted attention from SNL’s Davidson.

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0:00.0	My guest on today's show is a hilarious stand-up comedian in his own right, but you might know him as Pete Davidson's best friend, both in real life and on screen.
0:12.2	Yo, where did you get this? This shit does not taste very good.
0:15.8	What are you talking about this shit's fire, dog?
0:18.0	Do you guys even really get high anymore? I don't really think I get high anymore.
0:21.7	I think I just kind of am myself.
0:23.9	I haven't been high in a while, man, but I still do it.
0:27.6	I like the lifestyle.
0:33.3	This is the Last Laugh.
0:35.6	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was Ricky Veles with Pete Davidson in last summer's The King of Staten Island.
0:43.9	Just like with that movie, which ended up on demand instead of in theaters due to the COVID crisis,
0:50.2	Ricky was all set to tape his very first hour-long stand-up special in April 2020, when he had to delay it indefinitely.
0:59.9	Now, that special, titled Here's Everything, is finally set to premiere on HBO this weekend, and it is pretty fire.
1:09.3	It really feels like Ricky is on the verge of blowing up, so I am so
1:13.9	excited to welcome him on the podcast today to talk about how he got here and what comes next.
1:20.5	Here's me with Ricky Veles.
1:23.7	Want to laugh harder before we even get into it?
1:26.4	I am so bad at technology that i like left my house
1:30.6	like a half hour early to make sure i can get my AirPods connected to my apple computer and it was so
1:36.7	easy that i felt so dumb afterwards then you're just sitting around for 30 minutes like uh yeah exactly
1:43.2	well welcome to the show um i was looking back we And then you're just sitting around for 30 minutes like, yeah, exactly.
1:51.3	Well, welcome to the show. I was looking back, we talked right around when King of Staten Island came out, I guess, last summer. And you're talking about how you had delayed your,
1:56.4	taping of your special because it was supposed to be what April 2020 yeah and here we are I know it's
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