-It's great to have you here.
I love you as a comedian,
and it's been so fantastic to see you in films recently.
You're such a great actor. And this is a film about,
you basically have a family, and you have a secret family.
-Yes. I'm a dad with two families.
And in the two families --
They don't know about each other,
so I'm a good guy... [ Laughter ]
...who has two secret families, two wives, and --
But I have like two kids in each of the families.
But in real life, I have more children.
-Yeah. With just one family, you have five kids.
-Yes. -How do your five kids feel
when they see you in a movie where you're like pulling off
with, like, very little difficulty having two families.
-Yes, well, you know, this film premiered at South by Southwest.
And they sent a link to my wife to watch.
And she watched it with my two older kids.
And my 13-year-old just, at one point,
walked out and goes, "Not watching this.
It might be true."
[ Laughter ]
So it's just -- I don't know what that says
about my relationship with my family.
-Well, I will say, touring stand-up comedian
is a good job for someone with multiple families.
-Well, you know, I just --
I can't pull off being a decent husband to one woman.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, I know.
-How would someone do it with two?
It just seems too hard. -But with this film,
and with showing this film at festivals, you have found out
this is more common than you think.
-Yes. There -- At every screening we've had,
there's been someone in the audience that says,
"We had a neighbor, or someone in our town, that,
at the funeral, it was revealed that there was two families."
-Wow. -And I heard there was one guy
who had 6 families and 30 children.
-Wow! -Which is -- I mean, like...
No one caught on.
Like, how would you even organize that?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Like, all the children must have the same name.
Like all the boys were Bob. -Right.
So you'd never screw it up.
-I don't know how you could do that.
-I got to say, if you can make it to the funeral,
your funeral till they find out, you tip your cap.
Like, you know, you really are like, "Wow.
Well, you made it the whole way."
-It's impressive. -Yeah.
You are always on the road,
and you talked about this beforehand...
-Yes. -...and you've since done it.
You actually did stand-up at a rodeo.
-I did. -Yeah.
-I performed at the San Antonio Rodeo.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It was my first rodeo.
[ Laughter ]
By the way, me wearing that hat is not cultural appropriation.
[ Laughter ]
But -- I -- So, yeah, it was insane.
It's insane. It's a huge event...
-Yeah. -...these rodeos.
You know, the San Antonio Spurs have to go on the road
during the time of the rodeo. It's a big deal.
It's in the arena.
They bring in mud and everything.
And there's a rodeo that occurs, and then there's entertainment.
Usually it's a country musician, or, you know, like,
some Mexican musician that's famous in the area.
And so they had comedy,
and it was just surreal, because you're in the round,
and they kind of -- there's some people seated in the area,
and there was just this guy yelling --
He's just going, "Whoo whoo!" the entire time.
And as comedians, you know like, "Oh, maybe this guy's drunk,"
but, like, you also instinctively know
that's just him. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -That's what he does.
But it was strange to go after these fantastic --
I mean, they're amazing athletes.
-Right. Yeah. -They literally have to
ride a bull or a horse for like 4 seconds.
[ Laughter ]
And you watch it, and you're like,
"I don't think I can do that. -Yeah.
-Like it's -- Like, I just --
The core strength that would be required...
But, like, sometimes they get thrown off immediately,
and that's their whole day of work.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-It's insane. -All that training.
-It's insane. -There's very little sports
where you just get, like -- it might be one second.
-Right? And then, if it reaches 4 seconds,
then someone with a horse comes by and grabs you off.
I'm like, "That's a good gig." -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-That's a good get.
-Then you did a show. So, you survived the rodeo.
-Yes, I survived it.
-And then you're here in New York, your hometown...
-Yes. -...doing stand-up just at,
like, a local club that you perform at all the time.
-Stand Up NY, which is a great club.
There's many great clubs in the city.
-And you fell down? -I fell.
I fell. [ Laughter ]
You know -- you and Fred --
you know this, because as a performer,
you go on stage, and you want to, you know,
communicate a certain authority. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-And falling on your face... [ Laughter ]
-This was on your way up.
-And by the way, it was like one step.
[ Laughter ]
And, like, I asked afterwards,
I'm like, "Has anyone else fallen?"
They're like, "No." [ Laughter ]
"No one has ever fallen." -And wait, Jim.
You're also telling me you don't think you'd be good at rodeo?
[ Laughter ]
-It's like this was my own personal rodeo, I guess.
But it was -- People were very nice.
Because there's nothing that communicates,
"This guy doesn't know what he's doing
when he can't walk on stage."
I didn't even reach the microphone.
And I was just like,
"I don't know how I'm gonna respond to this."
But I think I had worked out that day.
I work out like once every four months.
[ Laughter ]
And so, like, my leg just wasn't responding to me lifting.
[ Laughter ]
It was very embarrassing.
But luckily, we're showing it on national television.
-I want to finish by asking about your wife, Jeannie.
-Yes. -We've talked about her a lot
over the last couple of visits, because she had a brain tumor.
-Yes. -And she's recovered.
-Yes. -Thank goodness.
Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
And you have -- You've spoken about it
in a very hilarious way, in a very moving way on stage.
And now she has written a book.
-Yeah. I mean, it's amazing.
You know, this woman who is the mother of five children
with a husband that's just gone half the time.
And recovering from a brain tumor,
and she starts these two volunteer organizations.
And then she goes, "I'm gonna write a book about it."
I'm like, "Do you really want to do that?"
I mean, like, I don't want to do anything.
She wrote this incredible book,
'cause when she was going through the experience,
she would google, trying to find people
that had gone through a similar experience.
So that was the motivation behind it,
that she wanted to write this book, and it's an amazing book.
You know, she's been my writing partner for 20 years,
so she's very funny, and it's an amazing book.
-I can't wait to read it,
and it's always such a pleasure to have you here, Jim.