Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store

You know what I mean ? My mom had Jim Carrey and Damon Waynes and all these guys and they were from the store And um you know , so uh uh I wonder if your mom was concerned that if someone like Seinfeld got on that people who would want to see sitcom style stand up , like very sterile stand up would start coming to the clubs like , and then you would start getting people going to see people just because they're famous and not really because they're good . I mean , she probably had a method to her approach .

Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store

She just fucking new man she knew and it's all things that people talk about now . But I think in , in her own way , she sort of devised uh like a modern strategy for getting better at stand up having the environment which she created , having one person who's like ruthlessly critical that watches over everybody's material and everybody's sets and then everybody aspires for the approval of your mom and she had had it set up so perfectly . And because she wasn't a comic either and because she was you know , she's royalty in the stand up comedy world .

Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store

It was more , it was more like Sam was , I was 14 years old . I was a short order cook at the comedy store in Westwood . My mom would put Sam on last because all he would do is scream and then he would literally , you know , there'd be six people left in the room in Westwood and he'd throw the stools , he'd throw the , his stool at the audience members , they'd scamper off , he'd smoke weed in the parking lot and then he would um you know , I'd feed him hamburgers .

Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store

I was a short order cook at the comedy store in Westwood . My mom would put Sam on last because all he would do is scream and then he would literally , you know , there'd be six people left in the room in Westwood and he'd throw the stools , he'd throw the , his stool at the audience members , they'd scamper off , he'd smoke weed in the parking lot and then he would um you know , I'd feed him hamburgers . So I kind of just , I was always taking care of comedians .

Pauly Shore on Growing Up Around Stand-Up Legends at the Comedy Store

Like , what a crazy thing your mom did . She left you as a little child was one of the most maniacal comedians that's ever existed . Well , it wasn't , it wasn't exactly like that .