- Cheers. - Cheers.
- To us.
- What if I get right in the center, in that black?
- Then we have to kiss.
I'll get a pic of it too just so we have it for the record.
- The first time you see my face
I'm like standing next to a giant portrait of my ass.
(laughing)
- I freaking put this in my mouth.
- I smelled it and I said no go.
- Welcome to Drinks of my Life.
I'm your host Beth Stelling.
We've got an incredible show for you with
comedian Joel Kim Booster but first a toast.
Thank you.
I'd like to make a toast to Instagram accounts
that are set to private.
Just so you know I read your bio like a tombstone.
This is Drinks of my Life.
(upbeat music)
With me today is the co-host of Comedy Central's
Unsend who has 7% body fat, 6% tops.
- Do you really want me to tell you?
Either way you're gonna be mad.
- Joel Kim Booster.
Tell me.
- It is nine.
- Oh my godness.
- I'm trying to keep it 10 or below.
- Wow!
On the show Joel we like to start
with a little ice breaker.
How do you feel about playing
a classic bar game with a twist?
- I feel like I'm contractually obligated to do it.
(laughing)
- Okay so in this game the only way to avoid
sharing a dark truth or doing a stupid dare is accuracy.
Because this is Truth or Darts.
(upbeat music)
- Truth is blue and a dare is purple.
- What if I get right in the center in that black?
- Then we have to kiss.
- So I'm gonna give you some space
and really let her rip.
- Wow, okay, okay so do I.
That was purple. - It's purple.
- So I have to give you a dare.
- Oh can I swear?
- Yeah, I don't know.
I'm gonna dare you, you have to record a promotion
on my phone for shows that I have coming up
in a British accent.
- Okay.
- Hello it's Joel Kim Booster here with Beth Stelling.
She has shows coming up in Arkansas, Dallas, and Oklahoma.
You can check it out.
Go to her website, bethstelling.com for all the details.
I, once again, am Joel Kim Booster.
Thank you so much, Beth, thank you.
- You got dared!
- You have a couple more darts.
- [Joel] What, was that good or bad?
- That was really good, honestly.
- Thank you, I thought so too.
With no prep.
- Notting Hill two.
- Whoa!
Okay, that's a truth. - Come on!
- That's a truth. That's a truth
but we almost had to kiss. - Almost kissed.
We almost kissed.
- Name the most recent person whose text you didn't return.
- Oh, let me see actually.
I'm pretty good at responding to, oh.
It was my mom.
- Aw, I'm sorry mom.
- I'm a bad person.
- [Beth] No you're not.
- But. - At least she was in the top.
- They're getting a hot tub.
- After you leave?
- 70-some year old parents are getting
a god damn hot tub and I don't know who it's for.
I don't actually wanna think about who it's for.
- No, we don't wanna know.
Okay last dart.
- I guess the dare is go lick something weird.
- I see you guys.
What's the weirdest thing in here?
I think maybe this is the weirdest thing.
- [Beth] Yeah that's weird to lick.
- Can you guys?
- I'll get a pic of it too just so we
have it for the record.
That was special, that was really.
I think the ice has been sufficiently broken Joel.
- I can stop?
- Yeah I'm gonna get you back in the hot seat.
- [Both] Cheers!
- To us.
We met a long time ago--
- In Chicago baby.
- Doing a play that is called,
I think we should say it on three.
One, two, three.
- [Both] Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche.
- It was an incredible play though.
- We were doing theater
and you hadn't started doing stand-up.
- No and you told me you were.
- I made you come to a show of mine.
- You made me come to a bar show, in the bar.
- I'm sorry.
- It just sort of opened my eyes to the possibilities
of what stand-up could be.
And I didn't even really start to,
it wasn't like and immediate thing, I was like,
oh let me go home and try it right away.
But it was like when I was a kid it was like Dane Cook.
- Same, I mean I had his album and I listened to it.
- Same, I mean I think he came to my school.
I think we went wild, you know?
And everybody did but that to me, I was like
oh that's not for me, though.
- And I also didn't feel like I could do that.
- Yes exactly.
- And then you saw me and you were like I can do that.
- I was like this shit's easy.
- I was so glad you started doing it.
And I don't know, it's pretty incredible how
quickly I think that you have found your voice
and become so strong.
- I moved on from talking about so much of my background
in many ways but it still is such important context
to have about some of my jokes.
Like when I write a joke that even vaguely
references my parents, sometimes I'll get blank
and I'll be like, oh by the way my parents are white.
That's why that is a joke.
- Right.
And with your first Conans and stuff
like, how did your family feel?
- They, I don't think they've seen it.
- Do they watch any of your stand-up?
- I don't think they've seen any of it.
- Interesting.
- And I don't need them to.
I know I'm not gonna get the kind of support,
they're going to be like we're so proud of you.
And at this point I don't need that from them.
They're very happy that I'm paying my own bills
and have health insurance.
- Yeah.
- But they are very uncurious in a healthy way.
- So you were just in Melbourne.
- Melbourne.
- =I can't say it right anymore.
- Is it Melbourne?
- Well Melbourne is what it looks like in American
but they call it Melbourne.
- Melbourne.
- [Both] Yeah.
- So we got to do the Melbourne Comedy Festival together.
- We were there last year.
- And you got an invite back, I did not.
- She was too busy.
- Yeah. - She was too busy.
- I have to be careful cause I have an inclination
to isolate myself.
- I am a bad tourist.
- Same.
- I'm not a good tourist.
When I'm by myself on the road, it does not matter
what city I'm in, I'm staying in my hotel,
I'm ordering room service, I'm watching all three
Oceans movies all in a row on TNT
because they're airing every Sunday.
(Beth laughing)
- That's what I wanna do.
- Sometimes I have these wild ideas
where like, they won't like me there.
And I don't know if you can relate to that.
- Oh constantly.
- Like there's places I do avoid.
- I had recently two guys in Vancouver,
two biker guys and their wives.
And they were just clearly mad.
- Were they just, everyone kind of in shock?
- [Joel] Oh yeah, 'cause they kept going.
I was very gentle with them.
I kept going back over and was like hey guys what's
going on, are you struggling?
And the wives were very embarrassed at first
and then I said this,
and they they went over for the second or third time
and I was guys I can't tell are you racist or homophobic?
I don't know what your problem is with me.
And the audience was like, ah.
And the wives furious.
This is where I lost the wives cause they're like
they are not racist.
They didn't say anything about the homophobic.
- Right, right, right.
- So I don't know. - They are just homophobic.
- Exactly!
So then all four of them were mad.
I'm like I'm not going to do material
while this is happening.
So I made the other side of the audience get up
and I picked four women and made them do a fashion show
and I did commentary on that.
- I love it, so fun.
- I was like, I should do this every show.
- Yeah it kills ten minutes or something!
(laughing)
- Oh I guess we could talk a little bit
about Shrill if you wanted.
- Yeah I mean I'm such a small part of that show.
- Where there are huge photos of you nude.
- Yeah I guess that's why it feels like my part
is slightly bigger because in that episode I am
featured so much in that episode.
Because there's just these giant naked photos of me
which is the first nudity clause I'd ever had to sign.
- Wow.
The first time you see my face, like me as an actor
of my face on screen I am standing next to a giant
portrait of my ass.
It's like obnoxious poses imaginable.
It wiped away the fear of looking stupid.
- Well news flash they look not stupid and hot.
- Thank you.
I don't know where any of those photos went.
If you worked on Shrill enjoy.
- Oh no, physical copies.
I love this show.
Patti Harrison is on it, she's your friend
and you're also co-host of Unsend.
- Yes.
- What was the idea behind it?
You pitched together or you guys just decided to start?
- No we didn't pitch together, it's a funny story.
They a little bit tricked us into doing it.
They told Patti, Joel's doing it.
And so Patti was like oh I'll do it.
They told me, Patti's doing it.
And so I was like okay then yeah I definitely want to do it.
- Like a parent trap situation.
- Fully that.
- Did you do like text messages you accidentally
sent to people?
- Yes, that is a part of it.
- Okay so I accidentally sent a text to my mom
and my sister that was meant for the last guy
that I was dating that you knew.
- Oh wow.
- And it says.
(laughing)
Then my sister goes, does this face.
- And your response is so chill, so Beth Stelling.
My phone was messed up, could've been worse.
(laughing)
- You know what it could've been worse.
My phone was messed up, could've been worse
I could actually just hear you say it.
I love that response.
- Okay now before I let you go,
I always like to end the show by challenging
my guest to a little mixology contest.
- Well I was a bartender, so watch out.
- Oh no!
Watch out everyone, this is bar wars.
(upbeat music)
- Okay Joel, with only 60 seconds on the clock
We're gonna compete to make the perfect mixed drink.
These drinks are not going to be good
but the one that's the least not good wins.
- We're gonna make a pina colada.
You got all the ingredients in front of you
needed to make this cocktail.
Some ingredients I don't know, might not be
what you typically find in a pina colada.
But you're free to use whatever you'd like,
the best tasting cocktail wins.
You've got 60 seconds, starting in five, four, go!
- [Beth] Ah!
Okay.
- [Yanni] Skills point over here.
- [Beth] Oh my god, oh no.
- [Yanni] Oh he's tasting the product.
Joel is tasting the product
before he puts it into the blender.
- What's happening?
- [Yanni] Got about 30 seconds.
- Oh no!
- I can't put the whole thing in there, oh well.
- What's that?
Ew!
No!
- That's salt.
- [Yanni] You got about 10 seconds left.
- We need more time! - No, extension.
- Now you have 10 seconds.
- I ate some bad stuff.
- Five, four, you got to get it into the glass.
Three, get it in that glass, two, and a half.
Get it in there, beautiful, one.
Oh the garnish, he's got that on point.
Don't forget the garnish.
There you go, and the umbrella look at that.
One, zero, done.
- I freaking put this in my mouth.
- What is that?
- Paprika.
- I smelled it and I said no go.
- I'm upset.
- All right time for the taste test.
Lets see how we did.
That's pretty good.
It's a little thick, can't get to it.
Joel's the winner!
- Oh no!
Thanks for coming on Joel.
- Thanks for having me.
- [Beth] Yeah of course.
Make sure you follow Joel Kim Booster
on Twitter for his tour dates @ihatejoelkim.
Thanks for watching, this has been Drinks of my Life.
Ah I got a brain freeze.