- Welcome to Set List Live,
at NerdMelt in Los Angeles.
(cheering)
Tonight's comedians are coming up without a set list,
we are going to give them a set list
and they are going to improvise the routine
that goes along with it out of complete and total thin air
with nothing to protect them but their fragile ego's.
Right here before your very eyes ladies and gentlemen,
leaping into the comedy abyss.
- Hi, welcome to My Red Couch with Todd Glass.
Where each week I sit down a red couch.
It's my show but each week I have a guest host,
then I'm the guest.
So it's my show,
it's call Todd's Red Couch
but I let someone else interview me every week
and every week you learn a little bit more about me
from different people interviewing me.
Tonight's host of the show, who will be interviewing me
is the very funny Andy Haynes.
- Hi, welcome to Todd Glass.
How'd you get started in comedy?
- Well, alright, I got nothing else.
(laughing)
- Well, that's Todd's Red Couch with Mike,
today's special anything.
- Uh, folks, we got a special guest just dropped in.
He loves this show so much he begged to get on this show.
Ladies and gentlemen, Todd Glass.
(clapping)
- I didn't even say, I swear to god I came,
I said I just wanna watch and then they were like
oh do you wanna go up.
I'm like no, no, no I'm just here to watch.
They're like no if you wanna go up, go ahead up.
I'm like I really don't have to,
I just love coming and hanging out.
(laughing)
Oh.
Aye.
This is hard, it's hard.
No, I have nothing.
(laughing)
I wanna do a good job at it,
they think is he really trying.
Not 100 percent but it's still hard to do
and I'm a good comic, I think I'm a good comic
but they're like World War Two.
Ugh. We thought hey, yeah, he could do something,
it ain't gonna be great.
(laughing)
Same thing.
I have prepared material, that I have done, not 100 years.
You don't wanna see this guy,
oh I've did this act the last 50 years.
No but I have jokes that I've done for three months,
they'd be new to you but no they want this, yeah move it.
(laughing)
Did ya think something was gonna come to me?
Let me at least try.
Mmm.
(laughing)
No.
(laughing)
No, that's even worse.
What're you going backwards?
No it just, uh, come on already,
Let's stop with the show, right?
(laughing)
No, I sit in the back of the room
and I watch people do it that are good,
I'm like fuck, I get it.
See you were all nervous there for a little while.
Was that-- was that rude?
No, watching this, that's why I came here tonight.
I love-- I've seen comedians, I've known them for 20 years
then I see them do this, I'm like fuck
it's a whole different thing.
I get the show but fuck-- fuck it, fuck it.
(laughing)
(clapping)
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- When I started in comedy,
I start the interview even before I ever write it out.
The funny thing about comedy is,
what did I just do in there,
you go the fucking nerve to ask me what I did in there,
who the fuck are you?
I'm talking to not the camera,
the camera didn't do anything wrong,
this disrespectful fuck, running this--
I don't even like doing bits when I'm angry,
it's not-- it was mean or that it was funny
or I wouldn't have stopped it.
- Could you act like you give a shit at least?
(laughing)
- No I actually do like this show,
I really genuinely like this show.
It's fun, it's a completely different thing
and it is fun to watch.
I don't like doing it, it's too much work.
So that's what I did up there.
It's too much.
- Hey dude, we have to keep it a little bit quieter.
- Did you ever think that
maybe I'm trying to do an interview,
that they should be quiet.
- What I'm saying is that there's a editor
going through this and he's like
what can I chop out of there, don't.
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