it's probably 19. really yeah i think so
i think i was i had hair on my balls but
he was a comb-over
when carrie came out here there's the
first guy i ever saw get a standing
ovation
every single night and he did
impressions it was all impressions
he could just say clint eastwood and
make his face look like clinton's
he would do like bruce dern i was going
to be the man of a thousand faces and i
could do james dean
henry fonda was my big my big closer i'm
not sure
how to pick strawberries the comics
would watch you
and get jealous because you're getting
standing ovations
yeah and they go it's not earning it
it's like dude
i guess jim thought of it as a very
traditional rich little type act
it wasn't it was still super weird that
stuff that started to go downhill
at that time for jim he just made a
decision to be a comic
i'm just gonna be a comic from now on
that's how i work
you know i failed the first time out
really miserably and then i go
okay i'll give up here and he decided
i'm gonna do
no impressions and he would kind of die
in the middle of the show that was just
packed
instead of writing jokes and writing an
act he would come on stage and
just improvise all of it how was mitzi
what was mitch's point of view she was a
little resistant to that but she didn't
stop me
one time she said what are you doing
you're the king of
impressions what are you doing you don't
get a second
chance i said well you know they got mad
at bob dylan when he went electric
you know i'm going electric you know and
i'm going to experiment and if i blow
the whole thing i blow the whole thing
mitzy believed in him gave him the time
to fail
because another act if she didn't like
him okay you go on a bomb like he was
bombing at first
he's out of here and i would sweat in
the back here in the hallway waiting to
go on
literally bleeding with sweat because i
just told myself i wasn't going to
repeat
one thing that i had said the night
before it would all be created in front
of people as luck would have it
mitzi put him on stage every night right
next to damon wayne's he'd wait till i
got off stage and he come up to me
laughing like that and going like you
are the angriest person i've
ever seen in my life
jim and i were kind of like brothers in
war we'd hang out just talking about
the power we felt of not being afraid
to bomb i remember one night that table
back there there were
six guys that were drinking heavily and
they were heckling me
i came off the stage and i walked
up over this and onto the table
and i grabbed a beer bottle and i
smashed it on the side of the table
and i did a whole from here to eternity
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they just recoiled and i said i didn't
think so
and i dropped the beer bottle once i
started bombing i always felt well
at least i'm going to be remembered for
being the worst thing they've ever seen
in their lives
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