is reggie watts right up to this and then a smaller plus one. folks welcome to dennis miller plus one i like it when we have an improvisational artist on an expression the out of iraq because you can't so let's start the cusp of a program when you get that free associate of joy see unwrapped reggie watts on the show internationally renowned musician comedian writer actor currently stars as a bandleader on c.b.s. as the late late late late a year you show with james corden and he now has his own app boy this was there waiting for him. not. to be in it. and i hope he is drop of course this is that he's not in that good of. a grudge

with sick. of the go i'm in. so good or good it's you know i'm telling you brother i had a blind spot here sorry but i'm 67. i watched the venator on flag and i'm telling you that it's scratched my brain you know like the 1st 10 seconds i was saying oh no we got it here and then the discordant nature of it was also like bitches brew or something and it would hurt the jerk godrej and it would and i thought oh this is this is engaging me like a montra and i'm thinking i'm not thinking about anything else except following it i think that might be the intent right. i think something like that yeah i mean you know the good thing is there's multiple endings to the story so it's easier than adventure. well i obviously saw a funny one in the word benadryl wanted to say it wasn't word play it was more sonic but it did lend itself to a couple things and i'm wondering when you go up and i don't know your act all that

much can you take it out people play freeze tag and i go i'm a 10 jell-o. gimme a film genre can you go up and cut something off the audience and just go with that i mean yeah sometimes of i may hear something but what my favorite thing to do is to do with the improv you know train comedians do where they listen like can you give me a you know give me a place that you really like in the thing that you enjoy or whatever i'll do that and then people tell me and i'll repeat it on stage and then i never use an. observer is very good i'm proud of what. i wrote i 1st got saturday night live lord michael to talk to because it is rehearsal studio and he wanted us all improv i was just a comedian there to write the news and do the news but i thought i got to be a team player here next thing i don't like studs and they're completely into the affirmation thing classic del close out her beige. cave out of an improv so

fast reggie that it was funny and so i'm like oh mike oh mike so amazing to hear that because that's me i was you in that situation i cannot i can't compete against this competition but i can't remember what was a place in new york at the pit and as at the pit and they invited me they were like and you want to try and improv thing during a show and i was like oh i'm an improviser this should be pretty fun and easy i guess and then i went up on stage and just was the most on funniest i've ever been in my entire life it was terrible i couldn't i couldn't do it. it's me i said beloveds i can't compete with you job and he said listen you're dead in the water improvisational you just might tell him you can't compete with me. gary you've gone as far from the essence of. canned

dog new tricks brother against the. listen i'm fascinated genet up a bad leader because as i watch this stuff i think ok this cat's out there and he's got his own stream of consciousness and it looks like so much fun it looks so liberating it's some music lee oriented but in a in a different sort of way i remember i had it shock show once and andy summers from the police was the band leader they gave me near present owner is going to hit commercials and he looked at me like what you think me i just played 200 something people in rio de janeiro i kid get 5 kids and it was it was it hard for you to take in the big 8 did you have 2nd thoughts about doing it before you did it you know i did have 2nd thoughts i did i you know i was in the show comedy bang bang with scott aukerman. and so i was a fake bandleader so you know i would play people on and off on that show even

though it was it was wasn't an actual talk show so i had a a little bit of experience you know before going in and i had done some things kind like that for like benefits and charities and or you know people shows and stuff like that so when i heard about the gig at the late late show it was a little bit surprised because i just quit. comedy bang bang and i did so because you know i wanted i wanted to kind of pursue my own thing and it was taken out of amount of time and i wanted to do things different things and then i got this i was like what is going on like i was trying to like leave this one so now i'm getting offered a real to be a real band leader on a real talk show on the real you know t.v. network and so i was in that mode where i was ready to like to go out and get it you know go to berlin and live there for a few months and then you know and then i got this gig. and all of my friends were

just like you know i mean i'm social in news ition friends well i thought that was like the most amazing thing and i understood that for sure but because i was in that mode it took me. wow to kind of go is this what i want to do because it's a big commitment and i call it finally i called everybody and then i finally called talk to sarah silverman and she was like listen just ask for what you want and if you get it consider taken it and so then i was like that's great advice and so i did i think sat down about stuff i wanted and then i asked her and they were like no problem so i was like ok i'm going to do this and it was a great decision hey listen the great breakdown the band for me we're talking about these older shows like the price is right or the tonight show had big bed very jimmy right with roots that given the composition tell me some of the key players tell me about the earlier look at far oh well thanks for asking nobody ever asked about the band but so it's great. yeah. you know i wanted when i was like of the

landscape of all the different bands and you know one idea i wanted improvisers i want people who could improvise really well and then too. i was looking i've the formation i wanted to be more like a rock band than any other and you know big band or have horns and stuff like that and so just like a traditional 5 piece and so so i looked so i couldn't do the members and immediately who i wanted to myung i went to school with in seattle are called cornish college of the arts in the ninety's and he is a genius he's one of the most brilliant musicians i know he can play and i think tim young yeah he has a rich history you know he's played with a right bill frenzel and all kinds of crazy jazz projects and on guard stuff and calm composers things at that and he remembers every piece of music that he learns he just he has this photographic or whatever you call it memory and he's got

perfect pitch and his theory is off the chain and so i knew that he would be a great number one essentially and then then. steve's got fod he was another guy from seattle a producer sax from player but player plays a lot of keys and i knew he'd be a great keyboard player because he's great he worked where we used to improvise together bands all the time in seattle and he he's has a company where he does sound alikes and one of those called the audio logos so he knows how to reverse engineer or if he hears a song you know how to reverse engineer it sounds like that will be handy and then . gar the bass player was recommended by christine popper is jack white's bass player because she was unavailable yeah so she she was like oh check check our out and so i had to send her in new york and she was it was such a quick decision like she had to sit and then i was like ok you want to be in the next day and she had them through the floor they were that moved from new york to

l.a. was i just i just love that she did that and then finally kermode brown was friends of friends in this in the l.a. music scene and i'd try to bunch of drummers and but i wanted diversity because that's like a realistic thing i didn't want to you know i wanted the band to be really kind of balanced and so gemma came along he was friends of friends really cool super goofy funny guy an amazing drummer and i got him so that's just so it's like a rock band and we improvise almost everything. you know what 2 things 2 things right reggie it must be so cool to get a gig and brings 4 other people that you've had fun with are got their chops upon 1st glimpse or 1st audio and to bring them in and then they've got same thing you do where they now have a little bit of solidity and they can reflect off that especially for the bass

player now she's got is it's ironic the bottom house it's bottom knowledge she can go up under of that and yeah there anything will or whatever i've got to see jessica. is there something when a cat goes off and he is like out there like that he's broken free of the bonds but yes and then when they bring it back around. and everybody syncopate say yeah yeah that's where like we moment so groovy i know they were being out there is the thing but yeah i watch it yeah we're back in greek and jew it's so cool for a neophyte like me oh man at sea you're yeah you're saying all the right things i know i love it too i mean when i was you know especially around jazz a lot and i would you know sometimes sit in but sometimes as we watched my friends doing their thing. and they were or i'd go to jazz alley and see a jazz show and in seattle and i'd be sitting there and they would just go out they would go so out so far there's barely any structure and i'm trying to still keep the form in my head you know the length of everything and they they can still feel

it and then within a millisecond like you're saying boom but it would have been edited out of a bad but that's about it and you're like whoa i just have there's a magic trick it was it blows me away i love it. when your talk words you watch probably more about comedy after the break he's got a distinct groove man and i guess that i did not i was not privy to it till last night but i found it pretty intoxicating as i said a scratch my brain reggie watts is the band leader on the late late show with james corden he's also a renowned musician comedian writer actor any now has his own app and i like this idea he'll explain it to himself what's app and i'll tell you how it's different than all the rest of the crap out there right after this war was reggie watts on dennis miller plus one. join me everything on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the

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a lot of improvisation beatboxing like i said you worked up bennett joe i found a very hip i'm wondering. if i go to see you for an hour and 20 minutes moment is that 'd how much of a component is that do you ever do any strip narrative stuff you do set up joker or tell me about your hour and a half. you know it's it's kind of a view it in a structurally like i have 3 places on stage i have set up so i have like front and center which is just straight my you know the straight stand mike and then on to my right is my looping stuff with the many liberals on this as a thing and then to my left is a piano so i'm like you're gonna and so whether come at my 3 stations that i have and i kind of do a combination it's all improvised but it's a it's a combination of. those 3 stations so if i'm like on the straight mike generally i'm telling the story i'm doing like an impression of stand comedy is all do you

jokes but not really jokes and i walk around stage like a stand up comedian some kind of doing that's my here's me doing so comedy or i'll tell stories and sometimes it's a mixture it's a mixture of genuine stuff and complete mostly complete kind of like nonsense silly stuff and then. yes serious things kind of in there and then the music is the music i'll do like a funny song or sometimes i'll do kind of a serious song of a serious moment and same thing with the piano and i kind of just try to use all of those 3 things plus the room the you know what the nature of the room the audience where i'm at in that city you know i learn about where i'm at that time as much as possible and i use that in the act and. it's really it's just kind of like a bunch of ingredients in a kitchen that i know i am and i'm just like improvising mixing all these different

elements and then yeah sort of so shows are like anywhere from an hour at 20 there i've definitely done like 2 hour and 15 minute shows and i didn't mean to i don't know how much that much time goes by the audiences are ok. no that's like fish right there you don't fish coveney ph i say what sea fish night or song was or encore it was so long. and he's the bandleader who record rain down musician comedian writer actor you know i tried to call carby last night after i watched the clip because i saw swear to god something about it gave me the same pleasure that chop and broccoli does dana does that. he said i love this mimics the sounds of a rock guy in the seventy's got you know like he. liked charlie brown's parents level where you don't hear the words you just hear them and the kids are

like well or you had so much that mixed in there that road that i find it very funny that you would come out of that like cause i trance and go into a couple quarter word plays on benadryl little music i found that i found it really groovy i really liked oh thanks man yeah well you know it came it came from you know since may i was doing then high school actually riches kind of funny to me because i was i would do comedy in high school because we had drama we had competitive drama in montana and we so i would go the 1st year i competed in humorous solo and you know i had to have like a 10 minute p.c. compete and go to different schools different weekends you know to compete against other schools and i just started implement it was just all improvised most in like bill cosby impressions of us doing. you know pat benatar our you know covers and whatever i was just like changing morphing every. most of it in high

school invited to add a brother because you know they're used they're used in a massacres club once a year do it or knock off of a renter suppling and here you come you know. you habits of the other weird. you know it's cool to go people are very cool about it but you know we did well but that's what's so funny to me it's like i'm not really doing that much of a different thing than i was doing in high school which is kind of kind of fun for me i'm just kind of it's a return to roots i mean i've definitely there's evolutions and i'm using a loop but the spirit of it is exactly the same words and i was greatly influenced by money python as well so that non sequitur kind of kind of psychedelic. you know disconnected like many reality smashing together like that idea was something that kind of freed my mind and then michael showalter michael ian black and david wayne had a comedy troupe called stella out in new york and they went on tour estelle and

then they made a movie called the on american summer and then i jeanine garofalo and then bradley cooper and all sorts of like huge stars because they're all friends sam rockwell they're all friends back in the day but they they came through and i they their comedy blew me away it was so absurd and so yeah and those the guys a energize me back into comedy in 2003. god i always wish janine would have stayed but listening into it you want light but it got a little serious or maybe when i 1st sight janine she did that bit about the jousting club where you go to dinner down in orange county i had never seen her before she was opening for me somewhere down there this young girl i've got i haven't seen a mind like that and steven wright got a lot more conscientious about things over the years but it was that was a singular comedy voice joining her up below when i 1st saw our lesson i love

summer sidebars man you take little tributaries i look at the whatsapp and a 2nd but drone verse ations made me laugh. and it must've made other people laugh out loud too i see that yes listen i wish jack white armisen thundercat tell me but tell the crowd about drone or visions and drone precise and subs yarra and words are the. german systems came from. you know it is this this dumb idea you know when drones were 1st came on the scene people are using them to film you know and i would be you know i would see it and be in the presence of a drone they were so loud and annoying and. i think up to myself like when that be funny if there was an interview style thing walking interview thing in this shop by drones as many drones as possible and the drones are so loud you can barely hear the audio larry as. i have that my mind for

many years and then and then finally was like him you know i got the resources let's just let's just do this and so i called up my friend feist and leslie and she was like sure i'll do the 1st one and i did it and everybody i asked was it was cool with it it's super fast and super easy you know i wanted something that by and by the death sun it's going to be a no brainer it's like less than you know an hour and you're out. type of deal and high concept easy execution and yet it totally you know i remember seeing the 1st episode was like yes it works in stereo it's an. sos of the head in my head for a while and then i finally went to make it and made one and it kind of affirmed my suspicions pretty far on this very stupid isn't that funny that we we have different approaches to comedy but i can tell we're completely simpatico it makes me laugh the 2 layered appreciation you had for those things are awkward in

a painting and then juxtaposing it sitting in an around they into a square hole of what if you didn't do scenic shots of the grand canyon but if you'd rather do. an interview that's predicated on. you know conversation. that way. yeah i gotta get on the what's up now i do know the name for all flights but i also like the ethos behind it because i do feel that i might as well be under arthur conan doyle's microscope any time i look and see something up on the web but i guess you you saw yeah you should be able to free form free range and not be an in 1904 novel while you're doing it so explain to the people yeah 100 percent yes so i you know i've been using i guess when i 1st started using the internet in the social aspect you

know season early stuff like tumblr and you know just posting pictures and i just wanted a place where a post picture post makes best picture and this is a chronological like a picture book or i can go back and scroll through all my pictures and see kind of a timeline of you know how evolved over time so i thought that was cool and the fact that other people could see it was cool too and. then instagram came along and you know that was a part of the new kind of the next version of those social apps and i really liked it because it was photography oriented and you know you could also post video it was very simple just photographs video and people could like stuff in common stuff and i thought that was great and so i kind of switched from tumblr to instagram then instagram got up by facebook and i had already hated facebook because i just a have the worst aesthetics in the world their user interface is garbage and and they just it's just a static and looks like a pilot and so i have

a startup do you think it is a good base book for aesthetic reasons and then then the tracking reasons on top of that using all the data target as it. so i stopped using facebook probably about 89 years ago something like 8 years ago and then when i heard facebook what i g i was like no. and i was just well you're going to go i know as it were as a going to go with the facebook and start to creep in and then surely soon enough like you'd start to see an ad appear and then you'd start to see these new features and they started trying to buy their competitors and incorporating those features into i-g. and making id the everything up so if it's you know i still use it because i have a lot of users on there but. it really bummed me out i was like man what if i made my own app but then and and i was just blown away by those costs and so i didn't think i could do it and then my friend of mine who's a genius ad exact person and she turned me on to

a woman who knew this programmer in vancouver that could maybe do the whole app just by himself without having to hire a team of developers so i got in contact with them and i did it for like a fraction of the price and he totally rocked it out oliver thomas klein and he knocked out so it was that's how it kind of came about but the purpose of it was. i wanted a place where my fancy go and they would be tracked there's no targeted advertising . and it's free and the only cost is i have a store and so if you want to buy some merger you want to buy some you know electronics that i'm selling you can just buy it and then and so it's what i like to call the direct economy i like people getting something for what they're paying for no subscription none of that stuff it's all cheesy so so i just want a safe place for my friends my fans to come and then the last thing is to use that template for other artists if they want to create an app for cheaper and then

initially have a distributed network of artist apps that can all communicate with one another. you know folks it's interesting it's great to watch somebody a platform and think about all these alternative platforms who has a groovy artistic mind because sometimes you're talking to people but won't put it here and put it here and put it here listen i don't frown on anybody's approach with the sometimes they're just stone fiscal killers and it's nice to see somebody who's thinking that way but also has the artist of mind you know when just explaining it ready i said cool over the name of the kid is the person who did the app so can we have that again yeah oliver thomas klein yeah. yeah. me boehm it's. listen it's good to meet you to get what's up and if we ever get the bluebonnet played behind us here i'm going to come out and catch you somewhere but the whole

clay court it works for a man you're a good cat it's nice to meet you thanks man sana to hang with you matt. reggie watts band leader on corden show as an app called what's app when it sounds like it comes from the right place in the heart and it's comedy well been a joke like r e g g i e w a t t s get a taste of that i'm sure you'll go out from that there must be other good to things but it's a very eclectic interesting line mr watts possesses thanks tragic that spent dennis miller plus one. prism of metabolife small molecule in our bodies make of food and medicine make less of it as we get older this is one of the things i work on it's called an 80. because we have less of it we become more prone to infection and the crazy

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