Comedian Steven Wright Reveals Which of His Jokes Is His All-Time Favorite | The Rich Eisen Show

what is I I guess uh this may be a ridiculous question but I'll ask you anyway what's your favorite joke that you came up with did you Allen out of your vast career one when you're like I have a favorite joke but it's not the audience's favorite joke okay it's I say I went to uh my grandfather when he died I went to the funeral and I was kneeling down at the casket looking at him inside the casket and I started to think about my flashlight I was thinking about the batteries inside my flashlight and then I thought maybe maybe he's not dead maybe he's just in the wrong way like in the casket the room yeah you know how battery yeah maybe if he was the other way he'd be alive he's gone over there I mean you said it may not be the audience's favorite joke but it's Chris is gone well the joke is based of years you take batteries out that are dead and you put them on the table then you take the new ones out of the pack and you put them on the table and then you go in and do something else for something you come back you can't tell a dead battery life battery just from looking at it this is what you're saying thinking that your grandfather's funeral that getting just flipped him over he'd be alive yeah like the batteries no no no no as I'm saying this to you guys as I'm saying this to you I don't know how or why my mind assembles you're not connected it I don't know that part out at that moment but my subconscious is like a insane Factory that somehow oh this could be this [Music] in this equation is your is your grandfather AAA double A D I mean that's hilarious oh my God I would say it's nine voltage is your degree I mean oh that's so funny it's so funny I never even thought of that that's great oh there you go he's trying to leave you in a better spot than I found you wow did you tell that to somebody on the spot like at the funeral you just you no that wasn't real oh it's not real oh oh I'm sorry and I said okay so I'm at my father's funeral oh you guys thought that was it yeah at that moment you were like I gotta think of a joke right now oh my god oh that's unbelievable to think that really yeah I think that's a whole other perception this is a great experience no one's ever thought it really happened and no one said is he AAA well it's a first for everything first for everything you have a question over there TJ no questions it's just like this is really surreal for me Stephen because you know I think I discovered you way back when I was in elementary school and I was trying to you know listen to Eddie Murphy and Pryor and Carlin but they and you could just talk to me through your monitor there but of course they curse so much that I would get yelled at but my mom I could get away with listening to you because you were clean but what I would do is I would write your jokes down in a book and I would go to like fifth sixth grade and I would do stand up based on jokes that you told so this is really surreal to me man to to see you and I just like your style like you were just describing when did you decide that that was the way that you were going to tell your jokes yeah because I imagine people would be like you're not energetic enough you're you're really low energy or anything by the way I still have four that I tell to this day almost you do yeah um can I see him growing up growing up my parents had a quick sandbox in the back backyard I was an only child eventually I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone your friend Dennis he had I want to be PC here he had smaller parents but he wasn't small he was a dwarf and he would pose for trophies yeah he was the guy that's amazing like so I would tell these in elementary school that's how much so like I said this is a trip for me right now because I literally had a notebook and I would rate these down because I couldn't tell Eddie Murphy jokes at school because you know I got sent to the principal's office fantastic it's real for me to hear you say that because when you're performing writing and everything you're not thinking about a little kid in elementary school like it's so too for you to tell me all that it's a whole other it's very touching story from my point of view well that's wonderful I'm glad that you told it then TJ and and and I never thought it would be touching that story to be told when it involves uh apparently somebody who is a model for a small little trophy Stephen like you look at a small Trophy and say that must be like two size an actual model yeah yeah yeah oh man he I'll say it the way you said it he said a major these are midgets yeah he was this big he was the guy trophy I'm really flattered that's great that you that you love it like that yeah you asked me how my style I mean I just wrote jokes I went to The Comedy Club to it uh opened Mike and then I thought I'm gonna come back in two weeks so I wrote Things in that two weeks and for some reason they came out like little jokes yeah and then I just said them you know this is how I talk so accidentally that type of joke was always be merged and it was just an ad there was no like oh it was no plan like I'll do it like this and then I'll do this and it was in Boston there was no show business in Boston so there was nobody to say you gotta talk louder and you gotta make sell stories we were all left on our own and we just very distinct Comedians and Dennis Leary and Bobcat Goldthwait and call it Poundstone and Kevin Meaney and uh Steve Sweeney and Lenny Clark and when I got Bill Burr who is his New England yes yes I mean I love that he's he's brilliant that guy for sure catch the Rich Eisen show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free

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Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 12 2023