Hey, what's going on is Bill Burr and it's time for a very special edition of the Thursday afternoon just before Friday Monday morning

Podcast. I am here with one of my oldest friends, one of the comedians I've been doing stand up with the longest and

one of the I would say I consider you my generation. So I would say yeah, one of the top yari yardie known with this voice top comics of my generation

and absolute I don't know how many fuck it wasn't specials you're on but the the great Jim Gaffigan. I know what thanks for having me. That's it. That's all I got is an amazing interview.

Intro, no interview, no nothing great to have you on here. It's great. It's great to it's great to chat, you know, it's with headphones on a microphone.

As opposed to what we've been doing for the last 20 how long I know you 95 24 I've known you from was a quarter of a century we both moved to New York. I think roughly the same time around 95 I just you know I was well I was failing in New York for years before that but you know for like I started in 1991. So but yeah now it's I remember I remember I remember when you were Billy. Yeah and I was young Billy and I had hair. Oh yeah.

Long time ago. Remember the first time I met you. First of all before we get it out of the way here is Jim has a new special called quality time on Amazon. You can get it on Amazon Prime if you don't have it. You can subscribe and they'll give you 30 days for free and the first thing you should watch is this master comics new special.

And a renegade I love that you know everybody's you know going in Netflix and you're doing your own thing. Yeah, well you know there's going to be a lot more. I mean we know every five years I think so I think it's going to be interesting to see where this.

I think this going to be the way there was NBC CBS and ABC there's going to be global NBC CBS and as far as like streaming networks. Yeah, there's just and they're just going to be banging into each other like like behemoths.

Oh, sorry, that's my and well, I think yeah, there's going to be at least three but maybe five. I don't know because you know, you know Disney's not going to fail.

Right. I mean it's like it's that's impossible and then Netflix has a you know they've got how many 150 million subscribers in the US. Yeah, I'd say they're pretty established. Yeah, so they're fine. And then Amazon, which is larger than most Western countries.

I know you so it's like I think that I think they're still kind of like, do we want to do this or do we want to like sell cars. Do you know what I mean it's like there's going to have been drones deliver these cars. Yeah.

Yeah, no, it's a yeah.

But it is since I met you how much this business forget about the world has chit it's incredible. But I guess you know what was that 95. So if you went back, they'd be like going back to 1970. I guess yeah, I guess it's sort of normal. But the first time I met Jim, I wanted to tell the story was we were at the improv.

What was left of the improv the club owner and his wife unfortunately went their separate ways and in the divorce, she got the improv name.

Now, she got the improv New York, that's right. And and that club because it was like the end of the 80s. Yeah, and it all just dipped down in that legendary room went away. Yeah, but she still had the name. So I had a spot at the air quote improv and I went and it was a restaurant.

Back room at a restaurant 34 straight right is that where I can't remember I just went in there in this woman was just coming up to me being like telling me okay, this is the light. She had a pen light.

Yeah, and there was still a piano on stage and this little three foot stage is somehow put a piano up there because that was the improv brand is just like when I flick this twice, that means you have two minutes.

And I like it once that's one minute when I leave it on that means you get off the stage she was talking me like a drill sergeant I was just like this lady is out of her fucking mind.

Well, it is and that's where I met you. We were both standing there waiting to go on in front of like I don't know eight people. Yeah, if we're lucky eight. Yeah.

I mean, think about how dramatically it's changed from just people understanding stand up like now like 13 year olds no more about stand up. It took us like 10 years to figure out like you know what's going on, but like the audience is used to walk in there like I don't know do I even need to know English for this.

It was just there was a certain level of combat. Do you know, I mean there was like you're not going to be embraced with warmth, you know, whereas today people like I mean I feel like we're in this golden period where people love and appreciate stand up and that was not.

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