you might remember him from The Comedy
Central Roast of Charlie Sheen Roseanne
Barr and Donald Trump Donald you’ve got
a great sense of humor you’ve been so
happy to embarrass yourself on Saturday
Night Live in the casino business hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’re at the Just
for Laughs festival
where we’re speaking with comedian
Anthony Jeselnik about the limits of
comedy first year I was here I was part
of varieties 10 comics to watch a huge
deal the next year I came back here I
did the nasty show and I co-headlined a
show with another friend of mine pretty
big deal now I’m here headlining my own
show that means next year I don’t come
at all I want to talk about how you
first got interested in comedy Saturday
Night Live was was huge for me because
it was when I was a kid like my parents
would watch it sometimes but it was kind
of forbidden you know you had to stay up
late I had to like sneak up to see it
and I didn’t understand what was going
on but I knew it was it was I hate using
this word but naughty you know I mean I
was like a bad thing but that’s that’s
what the comedy became for me was
something that was a little little kind
of off-limits
who were you crafting your stuff around
I liked comedy I liked everybody you
know I would watch a lame Boosler the
same way I would watch you know George
Carlin or something every day were all
comics but Steven Wright was so
different my birthday recently for my
birthday i got a humidifier and in
dehumidifier
put him in the same room let him fight
it out what was it about his act that
really
Gian just that it was like it was so
joke oriented like it was just these
like one or two sentences that were just
so hilarious and out of nowhere I I
think my friend Jeff is gay I don’t know
I’m so bad with names Comedy Central
roasts uh-huh are they as tough as they
look well tonight Anthony Jeselnik is
going to leave his stamp on the roast
and tomorrow he’s gonna use that stamp
to buy food think about it like this
like let’s say like if you asked me what
I did last night and I’m like oh I was
raining so I was gonna stay in but then
a supermodel called me and said please
come over to my hotel and make love to
me it’s three blocks away just walk over
here and you would look go well did you
get wet in the rain you know like who
cares about the rain like it doesn’t
matter I’m up there just to say these
like horrible mean jokes that everyone
can accept because it’s a roast you know
in these jokes I’ll only tell once that
I love I don’t even think of myself as
insulting people so much as just saying
an awful like an awful mean brutally
funny joke and since I don’t want to
tell you how to live your life man but
you spent half as much time reading
books as you do chasing skanks you
probably wouldn’t have AIDS
do you like mean humor is that like yeah
I think it adds another level of tension
to it you know like a lot of I talk a
lot about a lot of dark subjects in my
act because it just adds that tension
you know if you just think if you hear
cancer you’re just kind of like your
shoulders come up a little bit you know
and then you’ve got to release that
tension so being mean it’s just like oh
I can’t believe you said that to them to
their face on top of the actual joke
that is you can’t do it anywhere else
except on a roast and Donald I’m not
even sure if you’re aware of this but
the only difference between you and
Michael Douglas from the movie Wall
Street is that no one’s gonna be sad
when you get cancer
is anything off limits in roasts or in
comedy uh I don’t think anything is off
limits in comedy I mean you’ve got it
kind of you got to take your punishment
you know if I if I tell a joke about
rape then I’ve got a I’ve got to be also
be willing to deal with the consequences
of that during the show and afterwards
but I’ll never forget this date you know
we meet up we go to a bar we start
drinking were laughing together we’re
connecting it was great but then we left
the bar we go back to her place and as
soon as we walk in the front door she
passes out cold on her couch now I went
to college I knew I had a million
options
but I’m a gentleman I’m a gentleman so I
did the smart thing I just got a blanket
I tucked her in and I left her a note
that said you got raped I feel like any
time a subject is off-limits
it’s like my job to make a joke about it
or at least try but on a roast nothing
is off-limits but people will have rules
like Mike Tyson last year you weren’t
allowed to make a rape joke about him
even though he went to jail for years
for rape like and I thought that was
pretty annoying and was like a you know
Donald Trump said you can’t say I have
less money than I say I do ah
Charlie Sheen was I don’t talk about my
mom well I guess it’s your mom a joke
but I had I don’t know how to joke oh
did you know but he is I don’t even know
his mom is know yet no one does okay
that was kind of a joke
oh okay she’s not that she’s like trying
to be famous but that it was I was like
you know your brother is Emilio Estevez
like you read it I said you have a
fascinating family your brothers Emilio
Estevez your father was a Martin Sheen
and your mom is some dumb bitch and it
did well but they were like each other’s
like no that’s my mom what in your
opinion is the most controversial
controversial joke you’ve ever told I
got in a lot of hot water I think last
year here I was doing the nasty show and
I don’t really talk about sex that much
but I have like a lot of really dark
awful jokes and I had this joke about
that my mom used to be a Holocaust
denier but then we like we made her
watch Schindler’s List and we made a
like learn the history of the Jewish
people like and now she can’t believe it
didn’t happen twice and which is just
like it’s just like a you know it’s it’s
a terrible joke but people were really
people got really upset at the nasty
show and then and I was like people like
oh they’re gonna talk about in the
papers being anti-semitic I’m like not
anti-semitic at all I just made fun of
like every different kind of thing and
eventually kind of blew over people
would come to the nasty show just to boo
me for that joke okay I think one one
show I think I told it twice just just
to say I don’t care
this morning I was walking around I saw
a baby locked inside a hot car
so it’s been a good day is your onstage
persona a persona yeah I’m different I
mean if you’re talking to me you can
tell but I’m a different person than I
am on stage I just I think it’s more fun
to be that way I feel it almost like a
like a bad guy professional wrestler you
know he that was really funny when guys
would like walk into Madison Square
Garden and say like New York City’s the
worst city in the world and people would
like be screaming at him it’s like of
course that the worst that you could say
I thought it was hilarious that I just
thought just go with it and just be if
you’re just like a total jerk then you
can kind of get away with more that came
up with the guys I’m a nice guy but
here’s some mean jokes doesn’t work that
doesn’t work fair enough thank you very
much
absolutely thank you for uh thank you
for coming to my room
Central Roast of Charlie Sheen Roseanne
Barr and Donald Trump Donald you’ve got
a great sense of humor you’ve been so
happy to embarrass yourself on Saturday
Night Live in the casino business hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we’re at the Just
for Laughs festival
where we’re speaking with comedian
Anthony Jeselnik about the limits of
comedy first year I was here I was part
of varieties 10 comics to watch a huge
deal the next year I came back here I
did the nasty show and I co-headlined a
show with another friend of mine pretty
big deal now I’m here headlining my own
show that means next year I don’t come
at all I want to talk about how you
first got interested in comedy Saturday
Night Live was was huge for me because
it was when I was a kid like my parents
would watch it sometimes but it was kind
of forbidden you know you had to stay up
late I had to like sneak up to see it
and I didn’t understand what was going
on but I knew it was it was I hate using
this word but naughty you know I mean I
was like a bad thing but that’s that’s
what the comedy became for me was
something that was a little little kind
of off-limits
who were you crafting your stuff around
I liked comedy I liked everybody you
know I would watch a lame Boosler the
same way I would watch you know George
Carlin or something every day were all
comics but Steven Wright was so
different my birthday recently for my
birthday i got a humidifier and in
dehumidifier
put him in the same room let him fight
it out what was it about his act that
really
Gian just that it was like it was so
joke oriented like it was just these
like one or two sentences that were just
so hilarious and out of nowhere I I
think my friend Jeff is gay I don’t know
I’m so bad with names Comedy Central
roasts uh-huh are they as tough as they
look well tonight Anthony Jeselnik is
going to leave his stamp on the roast
and tomorrow he’s gonna use that stamp
to buy food think about it like this
like let’s say like if you asked me what
I did last night and I’m like oh I was
raining so I was gonna stay in but then
a supermodel called me and said please
come over to my hotel and make love to
me it’s three blocks away just walk over
here and you would look go well did you
get wet in the rain you know like who
cares about the rain like it doesn’t
matter I’m up there just to say these
like horrible mean jokes that everyone
can accept because it’s a roast you know
in these jokes I’ll only tell once that
I love I don’t even think of myself as
insulting people so much as just saying
an awful like an awful mean brutally
funny joke and since I don’t want to
tell you how to live your life man but
you spent half as much time reading
books as you do chasing skanks you
probably wouldn’t have AIDS
do you like mean humor is that like yeah
I think it adds another level of tension
to it you know like a lot of I talk a
lot about a lot of dark subjects in my
act because it just adds that tension
you know if you just think if you hear
cancer you’re just kind of like your
shoulders come up a little bit you know
and then you’ve got to release that
tension so being mean it’s just like oh
I can’t believe you said that to them to
their face on top of the actual joke
that is you can’t do it anywhere else
except on a roast and Donald I’m not
even sure if you’re aware of this but
the only difference between you and
Michael Douglas from the movie Wall
Street is that no one’s gonna be sad
when you get cancer
is anything off limits in roasts or in
comedy uh I don’t think anything is off
limits in comedy I mean you’ve got it
kind of you got to take your punishment
you know if I if I tell a joke about
rape then I’ve got a I’ve got to be also
be willing to deal with the consequences
of that during the show and afterwards
but I’ll never forget this date you know
we meet up we go to a bar we start
drinking were laughing together we’re
connecting it was great but then we left
the bar we go back to her place and as
soon as we walk in the front door she
passes out cold on her couch now I went
to college I knew I had a million
options
but I’m a gentleman I’m a gentleman so I
did the smart thing I just got a blanket
I tucked her in and I left her a note
that said you got raped I feel like any
time a subject is off-limits
it’s like my job to make a joke about it
or at least try but on a roast nothing
is off-limits but people will have rules
like Mike Tyson last year you weren’t
allowed to make a rape joke about him
even though he went to jail for years
for rape like and I thought that was
pretty annoying and was like a you know
Donald Trump said you can’t say I have
less money than I say I do ah
Charlie Sheen was I don’t talk about my
mom well I guess it’s your mom a joke
but I had I don’t know how to joke oh
did you know but he is I don’t even know
his mom is know yet no one does okay
that was kind of a joke
oh okay she’s not that she’s like trying
to be famous but that it was I was like
you know your brother is Emilio Estevez
like you read it I said you have a
fascinating family your brothers Emilio
Estevez your father was a Martin Sheen
and your mom is some dumb bitch and it
did well but they were like each other’s
like no that’s my mom what in your
opinion is the most controversial
controversial joke you’ve ever told I
got in a lot of hot water I think last
year here I was doing the nasty show and
I don’t really talk about sex that much
but I have like a lot of really dark
awful jokes and I had this joke about
that my mom used to be a Holocaust
denier but then we like we made her
watch Schindler’s List and we made a
like learn the history of the Jewish
people like and now she can’t believe it
didn’t happen twice and which is just
like it’s just like a you know it’s it’s
a terrible joke but people were really
people got really upset at the nasty
show and then and I was like people like
oh they’re gonna talk about in the
papers being anti-semitic I’m like not
anti-semitic at all I just made fun of
like every different kind of thing and
eventually kind of blew over people
would come to the nasty show just to boo
me for that joke okay I think one one
show I think I told it twice just just
to say I don’t care
this morning I was walking around I saw
a baby locked inside a hot car
so it’s been a good day is your onstage
persona a persona yeah I’m different I
mean if you’re talking to me you can
tell but I’m a different person than I
am on stage I just I think it’s more fun
to be that way I feel it almost like a
like a bad guy professional wrestler you
know he that was really funny when guys
would like walk into Madison Square
Garden and say like New York City’s the
worst city in the world and people would
like be screaming at him it’s like of
course that the worst that you could say
I thought it was hilarious that I just
thought just go with it and just be if
you’re just like a total jerk then you
can kind of get away with more that came
up with the guys I’m a nice guy but
here’s some mean jokes doesn’t work that
doesn’t work fair enough thank you very
much
absolutely thank you for uh thank you
for coming to my room
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