- So, I was thinking we could do a bar crawl.
- My knees are bad!
You could fully murder me.
- Oh yeah, that's what sailings for.
(laughing)
This drink was definitely one of my favorites.
- Nailed it! Nailed it!
Mudslides are chocolate.
- I'm listening to her.
Wow, this is pretty good.
Welcome to drinks of my life, I'm your host Beth Stelling
and we've got a super fun show for you,
with actor and comedian Nicole Byer.
But first, a toast.
Thank you, I'd like to raise my glass
to all the couples out there that look alike.
I envy your ability to love yourself so loudly.
This is Drinks of my Life.
(upbeat pop music)
With me today is the co-host of Nailed It!
on Netflix, Nicole Byer.
We really have the bar all to ourselves,
it's technically Yanni's bar.
- Oh, hello.
- Did you meet Yanni?
- I did. - Yanni,
did you hear yanny or laurel?
- I heard yanny, yes I heard yanny.
- I think it's yanny or laurel.
- That's funny.
- Thank you.
- I forgot about that.
- Yanny or laurel, yeah thank you I just pulled that out.
Okay, what'd you decide to order?
- This is a vodka soda.
- I went with dirty martini.
Okay, before we take a little sip,
we like to start each chat with an icebreaker.
- Okay.
- So, I was thinking we could do a bar crawl,
we don't have a ton of time, but...
- Okay, a bar crawl?
- A very small bar crawl.
- We just walk?
- We can walk.
- Okay.
- I might crawl, but also my knees,
they sound like plastic bags.
- My knees are bad.
(upbeat music)
- When we say mini bar crawl, like, we're gonna go down here
and--
- Wow.
Is that real beer?
- Yeah, absolutely!
- Smells like real beer.
- That's tangy.
- It did have a tang to it.
Okay, bye.
- Goodbye.
- Next stop.
- Oh!
- [Nicole] I love flames cause I love Guy Fieri.
I ate at his restaurant in the Cancun airport
and then I went on a date to the Burbank airport
to eat at his burger joint.
- A date?
- Yes, so I bought two refundable plane tickets
to get inside so, we could eat burgers.
- That's amazing.
Okay, so this is a shot.
- Oh (beep)!
Oh (beep)!
(laughing)
- What is this?
- It's bourbon.
- I feel like I've ruined this bar.
- No, you haven't.
You've made it better.
Cheers.
Whoa!
- Oh wow, you've ruined this one.
- I got it, I got it.
- I feel like this has got to be someones fetish.
- Little bars?
- I don't know.
Isn't there--
- Probably, there's probably so man out there who like,
"Do you want to come over and play with my tiny bars?"
(laughing)
An you know there's gonna be a woman that's like,
"Yeah, I'm just getting older, I better head over."
- Okay, what do we have here?
- Got a little Bahama Mama.
- Okay, to Nicole.
- What a treat.
To Beth.
- Okay, that had a bit of a tart-ness to it.
Well, thanks for doing that mini pub crawl with me.
- Thank you for having me, it was fun.
- I haven't been on my knees in a while,
down there like that.
(gasp)
Okay, so anyway I'd like to make a toast.
- Yay!
- I guess to how we met.
How did we meet?
I feel like it was a show that we did together.
- Yes, it was a show at UCB Sunset.
- And I remember being so impressed cause' you had fans.
(laughing)
That was cool!
This was like years ago.
- It's very nice.
- And I feel like if I'm not mistaken was it Girl Code?
- Yes, it was Girl Code.
Girl Code, yeah my first job where people
would like stop me on the street and be like,
'I like what you say!'
and I was like 'Okay, thank you!'
- It's cool.
- Yeah, it's very cool.
- So, do you credit that as your entry into stand-up?
- Absolutely, because I hadn't been doing stand-up ever
and my manager was like colleges want
you to come out and perform
and I was like 'Whoa, well I don't do stand-up.'
And he's like 'Well you want money right?'
and I was like 'Oh, I do love money.'
- We have no boss when it comes to stand-up,
it's just supposed to be you.
- Yeah, it's just you and you go,
'Is it funny?'
- I know!
- And you like text a friend and your like, 'Is it?'
and they're like 'Very funny!' And then you do it on stage
and the crowds like, 'It's not funny!'
- Do you get heckled a lot?
- I have, I've had some pretty, I've gotten
some pretty crazy ones.
One time, early, it was still after my half hour,
then we had a set list.
Which I actually now almost always do.
- Why not?
It's helpful.
Yes, and it's not like it's all written out.
Anyway, he was like , 'Stop reading your jokes!'
and it was just some guy in the audience kind
of came to my defense and I did need it.
He was like, 'That's standard, for a lot of comics,
they have a set list.'
and I was kinda like, 'Thank you.'
- I get heckled every single show.
Every single one, people like to scream 'Nailed it!' At me.
So, I start the shows by saying,
like I host a show on Netflix called Nailed it,
people love to yell it at me and usually before I finish
the sentence some man is like, 'Nailed it! Nailed it!'
- And your like?
- And I'm like 'You sociopath!'
- I have to get out of here, but you don't wanna
kick people out cause then they'll think your really mean.
- And that's why I do it up top.
And the last time that happened was in Seattle,
I fully laid down on the stage and I was like, 'I can't.'
- I've had those moments.
- And people don't realize that I hear it.
So, if I do five shows in a weekend,
I'm gonna hear it at least ten times.
- Dang!
- And for these it's like,
'This is the first time I'm hearing it, why is she so mad?'
- Right.
- 'This is the first time this has happened to me,
why is she so mad?'
- What films did you watch growing up?
I can name like at least three of mine.
- Well, my favorite were Ghost, My Cousin Vinny,
Hearts and souls.
- I loved Hearts and souls.
- It's such a good movie!
- It still holds up.
- It does!
Ghost truly is like the movie that like changed me.
- Really?
- I love it.
Whoppi Goldberg is so funny in it.
- Yeah.
- And then I like just loved Whoppi Goldberg in Sister act,
it was a perfect movie.
- Sister act was definitely one of my favorites of all time.
- Sister act 2 was a terrible movie.
- I think I still liked it.
- No, why?
- I don't know.
- It's a different movie.
- Your right, it was a disappointment.
- How did the nuns become teachers?
- They should have never been teachers.
- How are they just, how are they, how?
- They weren't qualified.
Like did they go to teaching school?
No.
- No, you're right.
- Here's the thing, who's this new Lion King for?
- Who watched the Lion King and said,
'I get that they're lions but, I'm not really buying it.'
- I know!
- Like who is it for?
- Because it looks a little scary.
- It looks terrifying.
Scar, seems to be suffering from global warming.
Scar, looks terrible.
He's like shriveled, like he doesn't look okay!
He was already scary in the film or the cartoon.
- Yes!
And then I was like do we need Beyonce playing Nala?
- That one was kinda like the only one where
maybe I was like that seems like a good match.
- But, like think about her voice and Nala, like,
'Simba, do you wanna go to the watering hole?'
- Yeah, yeah that's true.
- Like, do we need that?
And I love Beyonce but, do we need it?
- Yeah, I hear you actually.
- Right? 'Simba why you doing this?'
- I also love 'be-yon-c'
- Did you just hear me?
I said 'be-yon-c'.
- Look at that Jib.
- I know, pretty intense.
- I like Jibs.
(laughing)
- Oh okay, two things I know, I wanna just say.
- It's just a funny word.
- Yeah, I know, the Jib.
- Like, who was like, 'I'll now call it a Jib.'
- Right?
I don't know.
Do you guys know the history of it? Camera people?
- Or do you think it was like Carl Jib invented the Jib?
- Does anyone know the history of the Jib?
- [Camera Person] It comes from sailing.
- It comes from what?
- Sailing.
A thing I know nothing about.
- Yeah, I don't know anything about sailing.
- Or skiing, these two things I know nothing about.
- Like, if I got a white boyfriend who was like,
'Let me take you sailing.'
I'd be like you could fully murder me.
- Oh yeah! That's what sailings for.
- I wouldn't know what to do.
Skiing?
You gonna put me on a (beep) lift up to
the mountain and then say,
'Strap these sticks to your feet, and then good luck.'
- I know, no way!
I agree with you.
- I ain't going skiing, you could murder me that way too,
push me off the mountain.
- It's always important to think someones gonna murder you.
Okay, every episode I like to challenge my guest
to a little mixology competition,
I like to call it bar wars.
- Bar wars!
(upbeat piano music)
- You and I are gonna have sixty second
to make one perfect mixed drink.
These drinks are not gonna be good,
but the one that's the least not good wins.
- Perfect.
- We basically just ripped off your show
but it's with liquid and for 21 and older people.
- I like it!
'Cause I like drinking responsibly.
- What are we making?
- It's gonna be a classic, blended mudslide.
Some of the ingredients that you have on your station
are what your gonna need for that drink,
some of which you might not need.
It's totally up to you, your gonna have sixty seconds.
I'm gonna count you down, okay.
Are we ready?
Its all part of the game.
You can do that.
- I think I'm ready.
- Well now you've got five, four, three, two, one.
- Okay, so two ounces of Bailey's.
- Oh give me the Bailey's.
On wait, sixty seconds it gonna fly by.
- Yeah, yeah I think so, could we get an extension?
I think that was fine.
One marshmallow, two marshmallows.
- Okay, and the mudslides are chocolate.
- I'm listening to her.
- mudslides have chocolate.
- You gonna throw those brownies in there huh?
- Okay, I did those things.
- Ten seconds, nine, eight , seven, six , five, four,
three, two, one.
Done!
- Okay.
- We can give you a little bit of extra time to pour,
you can poor it out.
- Cup it.
- Uh oh. (laughing)
There's a very big chunk in mine.
- A bit of a... (slaps)
- Nice, expressing the mint.
That very important.
Marshmallow?
- It's a garnish.
- Great.
- These are our mudslides.
I think we did good.
- You did a good job.
- That wasn't sabotage!
- Okay, ready?
- Yeah, it's--
- How's that?
- Some ice in there, tasty, sweet, the winner is Nicole!
(celebratory shouting)
- I win!
- Well, congratulations Nicole.
- Thank you.
- Thank you for coming on the show.
- Thank you for having me.
- Thank you guys for watching,
make sure you check out Nicole on?
- Comedians of the world on Netflix,
it's the third episode you have to be in the US section.
I have a podcast called 'Why won't you date me?'
it's on the HeadGum network.
Instagram, twitter, I'm on tour.
you can see my dates at nicolebyerwastaken.com, yes.
- Follow her on Instagram especially, Nichole Byer.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
Cheers.
- I didn't hate this.
- I wanna taste yours.
Wanna taste mine?
- Yes.
- Yours has less ice I think that's better.
Is it bad?
- Beth it's wild.
(laughing)
- Bye!
- Wait, which camera am I looking at?
(laughing)
(upbeat music)