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Jay Leno

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

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How to Be a Successful Comedian

Jay Leno played Bob Johnson, director of sales for a product called freshen. He said he got like 50 grand investors and just try it before taking it to the list. Jay: "I'm not a laces, Arizona, you do this one night or 20 bucks if they gave you anything" Fly the Wall has been a presentation of cadence 13 since September 2013.

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Speaker 2
TV was always a just. I
Speaker 1
know. That was great. A thing about it that you just, you
Speaker 2
say. I mean, I can't imagine like people come out here. They got on a sitcom for 13 weeks. This is a common canceled. Then you're back to being a waiter again. Oh my God. I can't. You know, at least the stand up, you could always hustle a buck somewhere.
Speaker 1
It's its own lane.
Speaker 2
Yeah. I'm pulling myself in Boston. I would go to bars and they didn't do comedy. It was always like, stop you war machine man. It was us kind of, you know. And I would put 50 bucks on the bar and I'd say the bartender. Let me go on and tell Joe, say if I get a laugh, give me the 50 back. If I don't get a laugh, you keep the 50. And that crossing about
Speaker 1
$450. That's why you lived in the storage room. Yeah, but
Speaker 2
eventually, eventually they would go, that's okay. That's okay. Here's your money back. And then, okay, now I got comedy in there. Okay. Thank you. And then you go back and you MC employee
Speaker 1
introduced the. I play delegate lessons. Yeah. I'm not a laces, Arizona, you do this one night or 20 bucks if they gave you anything. You go, you do a set and then Thursdays with the NFL club, seekers, chuckles, you
Speaker 2
know. I did a corporate as Bob Johnson, director of sales. This is so stupid. This guy invented this product called freshen. They were called soft moist towel that you use after defecating to avoid embarrassing rectal odor. And it was a big, it was a wet roll of toilet paper that he stuck on the wall next to toilet paper. He swiped your ass with you. So he brings me and he sees me and goes, listen, I want you to be, you'll be Bob Johnson, my director of sales. I got like 50 Ligget Rexall distributors. So I'm going to talk about the product. I'll bring you on. Okay. So I go up there and this guy's selling them. He's talking about the product, you know, you see the Rexall deals like. They're all squirming. Then he goes, take, take some home, try it on your own family. Nobody's voluntary to take, you know.
Speaker 1
So they go, but first, wait, before you make it, my name's been on Bob, my director of sales, Bob, come out of
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here. So I go up there, I do my, I'm getting nothing, just nothing, you know. And then I end and he goes, that was not Bob Johnson, of course, but Jay Leno, a professional comedian.
Speaker 1
I mean, they're all really angry, right? So now people are starting to leave. He goes, don't
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leave, please take the sample home, please try it. And then he starts crying. And then he goes,
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look, I got like 50 grand investors and just try it. And then
Speaker 2
take it to the list. Nobody's taking it, you know. So I'm writing this and I said, can I get paid? No,
Speaker 1
no, you're being paid. And you want to get paid? And he takes, so I left with like 10 fresh and things. And the guy's crying. And the guy's crying. Yeah, because yeah, he lost his shirt on the steel, but I just remember they're going, that was not of course Bob Johnson, but Jay Leno, professional. Let's have a no, that's your business. The unfunny guy you just
Speaker 2
saw. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1
Oh, oh, God. Well, thank you, Jay. Thank you, Jay. Thank you, gentlemen. See you, Jay. Thank you. This has been a podcast presentation of cadence 13. Please listen, then rate, review, and follow all episodes available now for free wherever you get your podcast. No joke, folks. Fly on the Wall has been a presentation of cadence 13, executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Chris Corcoran of cadence 13, and Charlie Feynan of Brillstein Entertainment. The show's lead producers, Greg Holtman, with production and engineering support from Serena Regan and Chris Basel of cadence 13.

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